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"The Sfronges‘ Memory is Weaker Than ‘ the Weakest Ink."

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~ Advice To Mr. St. Laurent

Rt. Hon. Mr. St. Laurent repeated recently in Ottawa a statement he had mode in Winni- peg, namely: That if his candidacy for the lead- ership of tlle Liberal party should be the occas- ion for e "racial or religious split" he would withdraw from the running.

This prdmpts the Ottawa Journal to offer Mr. King's prospective successor the following advice: , _

Why such emphasis on race and religion? Surely no grown-up person in this country thinks of Mr. St. Laurent in terms of his racial origin er religion. Why should he himself be stress- ing it? if Mr. St. Laurent diould become the leader of the Liberal party, or the Prime Min- ister of Canada, no civilized person will think o.f..him,..or..have..right to think of him, as a "French Canadian." They will, if they have adultminds, simply regard him as a Canadian.

This country has no English trade policies nor Frgngh nude policies, no English foreign is- sues nor French foreiu issues, no English taxes nor French taxes. lts problems and issues are Canadian. That being true, Mr. St. Laurent‘: seeming fear that his religion and racial origin

‘may in some way interfere with his becoming

leader of the'Li>eral party isn't complimentary to Canadian intelligence.

Mr. St. Laurent's attitude, too, is capable of being twisted into unfairness. The unfairness of those who may legitimately ppose him for the Liberal party's leadership being possibly held suspect of racial or religious bias—or of these who would oppose him for the Pri-mc Min- istership being accused of the same thing. Con- cludes the Journal:

"lf Mr. St. Laurent becomes leader of the Liberal party he will find himself opposed by many. It would be a pitiful thing to have such opposition put down to racial or religious pre- iudice—-a dangerously and dastardly unfair thing. _ ' "We think Mr. St. Laurent would be well ad- vised to chuck his references to his race and religion, give Canadians credit for having adult minds, and stand for the leadership of his party simply as a Canadian."

Village Found

There appears to be no end to discoveries of Nazi plunder, ransacked from Norway and transported to various parts of Germany during the war, says The Norwegian News. The latest find is e complete Norwegian village of 20 old- style timber buildings, miraculously preserved in a welter of surrounding ruins a. short distance from Hamburg.

The houses had been shipped to Germany in 1943-4 gift to Hamburg from the late Reichs- ltomissar Teihoven, ih_en Nazi chief of Norway. At the time of their discovery by a representa- tive of the Norwegian Directorate for Enemy Property, several of the houses were still occu pied by wealthy Germans. All were surrounded by beautiful gardens and furnis-hed with the finest of hand-mad: Norwegian furnishings, rugs and household ware. t

Experts place the value of some of the larger buildings at over 100,000 Kr. ($20,000). In view of the high cost of dismantling the buildings and returning them to Norway, it is planned to sell them to the Al-lied authorities and pirchdse pre- fabricated German houses which are now selling for $3,000 each.

Mr. King 0n Price iintrrils

in addressing the National Liberal Fcdcru- tion at Ottawa, Prime Minister Mackenzie _Kin9 gave an~unqualified statement that overall price control will not work in peacetime. Price con- trol, he said, can only succeed if all rhc pro- cesses of production and distribution are con trolled. The prices in the stores can be lielfl‘ down only if the prices of farmers and manu- facturers are rigidly controlled. During the war phi; wgg t-rue neither of wages or farm prices. Both rose steadily and the cost of the increases was tolsen up by the Dominion Government in subsidies. Mr. King pointed out that the cost of these subsidies steadily increased until they were abandoned. "

If peacetime controls were to be attempt- ed, he maintained, the subsidies, which would be inevitable, would grow and grow until they be- come "huge and uttimuteiy uncontrollable." As a

test case he cited the Labor government in the

United“ Kingdom which has been applying this very policy and has now reocilied the oint where najiddltlonal subsidies can be prov’ ed. .. Mr. King declared that the essential faun- n of aoontroi policy is the control of wages e fann prices. it will be noted, however, that s ' Jeentrolever wages as did exist in Canada ‘ worend early post-war years veniviied

mg “mo” moptlie ego. Only the control of

, fe ' ulcer-remains Illd this control is exer-

weeii mean! ll the Wheat Board’ and wiieet egrlement, the embargoee against i of fenn products to the United States

' _‘ fgojdeoatroetepat low prices, with the s, peak h interested in , i cten eve put prices u . it'll.- removal ef s - lee amounting towscxspel werewithdrown 0' narrows-um reduction‘ hi tern end. time

fore, there is e credit as well as a debit item so far as the consumer, who also is e taxpayer, is concerned.

The second factor is the rapid rise in world prices, ‘especially prices in the U. 5. As Mr. King pointed out, we draw. a large part of what we consume in Canada from the U. S. and of course must pay the going U. S. price, which is an important factor in the cost of living. Also, with respect to the large list of uncontrolled Canadian exports to the U. $., the United States price level prevails in Canada. This list, how- ever, although it is extensive and important too in the cost of living, does not include farm pro- ducts.

- tDITORIAL NOTES -

ln London, as we-ll as Montreal, fur prices are up. i I i i Fouraclock today is the deadline for Civic nominations. I Ir I O The Navy League keeps up its tradition of backing the Navy, Merchant Navy and the men and boys who "keep them sailing."

A big city has its disadvantages. In New York so far this_winter the council has spent $7,808,907 clearing away the snow.

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At the last moment intending civic candi- dates find therc are a lot of vital matters requir- ing hand-ling in the next two years.

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The admirable civic reports for i947 would have looked even better if they had been able to show, say, I00 housing units completed.

Surely Mr. MacNaught, M.-P., has taken long to find out that the second Prince County airport was misnamed Mount Pleasant! But why? ls there suspicion that in the disposal at material there has been something maIodar- nus?

A recent study by a Russian economist of the effect of the war on the financial state of capitalist countries concedes that the Marxist- predicted crisis in Western capitalism will not occur until the decade following I955. The great man is now in disgrace.

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lt seems that there will be no national farmer's holiday this year. A resolution to name June Zlst for that purpose was defeated at the convention of the Canadian Federation of‘ Agri- culture last week. The farmer delegates glumly declared that everyone would be paid for the holiday except the farmer.

Origin of the term "wetting your whistle" was explained to the Salisbury (Eng) council when a 233-year-old whistling tankard was pre- sented to Mr. Frank Stevens, the local curator. Set into the handle of the tankard was a whistle, "placed there so that the drinker could call the attention of a servant to the fact that the tank- ond had become d-ry."

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The Provincial Government is now revoking by degrees its guarantee of theindebtedness of the P. E. l. Potato Growers Association. That guarantee courageously given at a critical time in the Association's affairs enabled it to pull through and remain solvent. Now the govern- ment can withdraw iis support without having last a cent. A.less decisive policy would have been for more costly in the long run.

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Hon. Dr. MacMillan has performed a pub- lic service by calling attention to the menace of bad water and ‘sanitary conditions in con- gested areas adjoining Charlottetown. He is indorsed I00 per cent by Dr. Harold Shaw. lt is now up to our provincial and civic authorities to get together and remedy this situation before it is too late. What have our candidates for civic office to say an this vital question?

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Premier Drew maintains if Canada devalu- aied the dollar to 90 cents in relation to the United States dollar, "Canada would be getting 3500000000 more in American dollars than is coming in now. This is $200,000,000 mgrg than we borrowed from the U. 5., so we could wrap shackles around our import-export trade," he said in an address to the Canadian Fruit Whole- salers Association convention. Deyqluqtion of the Canadian dollar means an increase in gold Pmfllliflqll 0f $00,000,000 and even more an nuolly, he said.

Robert Blair, Scottish poet and divine, died this date i746. His best known work is The Grave. illustrated by-Wiiliom Blake, himself e lief, artist and mystic, is ane of the most quot- ed poems ln the English language:

"Visits, like those of Angels," short and far be- ” tween." .

"When it draws near to witching time of nights.“ Here are the mighty troublers of the earth, . Who swam to sov'reign rule through seas of

I blood,‘ i" ' Th oppressi , sturdy, man-destroying villains, Who ravaged kingdoms, and laid empires waste . . . Now, like a storm that's spent Lie liush’d." I Q Q U

_ New Brunswick is going ahead developing its hospital accommodations, one of tlie results of the OXPGIISIOII/Of the Iliie Cross plan. The Westmorland Municipal Council will seek leg- islative- permission to issue bonds totalling $1,- 200,000 for hospital construction urposes in the municipality. 0f this total/N .000 would be to assist in the construction of a new Moncion Hospital, with this amount representing approx- iinately 3i per cent or riie estimated total cost of such o project of flfiflpfifl. Tlie remainder

of the bonds would be issued at e later date with , $50,000 earmarked fortlie future extension of ‘A $200M» _’

the Sacliville Memorial Hospital end _ for the construction of envoiieriiospisois iii -'tiie

“villages of tort Ilgln, Petltcediee andvilyediec

Somewhere in the eolth n eldest llwvcl aux I hole em‘ then fell lrilo it. This seems" thejboet ‘lurri- mei-y of men's recent hleflry that we have yet. encountered -- Edmon- ton Journal. ‘ ‘

A pollen aisle! nuggeete music as n cure for crhneJKe may be right; e couple of hours listening ta e juke-box might breck down the hardest criminal. But .. " ‘i; the treatment come under- the ban against cruel end unusual punish- meats’) ~ Ecrraontpn Journal.

s fa moan. teacher. with mom than 5 yea-re service in this province, now lives in ebirernent. in Victoria. Bach month he receives a pension cheque of $40. H: next ilood neighbor ls also retired on pension. He worked as e. la-bor- er for the city of Victoria. His pen- sion cheque Ls $66 e. motith - Cei- gar-y Herald.

A use of manslaughter wee heard in ‘Ivsronto Last. week. The jury found the accused men not guilty. virereupon, the report. stated, counsel for the -‘ ' ' shook hands with the foreman of the jury and thanked them for their verdict. This sort of thing is frequently done in American courts but. we regret toflnd ii. done 0c- caelonally in Canadian courts. -- St. Thomas Times-Journal

Nut only hiss Navn 8collab mod- lcinnl rad liver oll industry surviv- ed post-war rrmpetltion but also more capital is being spent. on it. When Norwegian supplies were shut off during the vim- ~the Atlantic Fisheries Experimental Station at Halifax had already completed euc- cessful experiments. Centring at Yarmouth. the industry ‘now makes up to 170.000 gallons of medicinal oil n year, worth come $500,000 wholesale. Fishermen have si- good market. for cod livers. - Stratinrd Beacon-Herald.

This, we think, is carrying im- migration and the adverse balance of trade is bit too far. Edmonton's 19th Armored Car. Regiment hm adopted "Llli Marlene." Arid Lil‘ the tune that crossed the battle- Iines from Rommel‘: Afriku Korp: has replaced. “A Hundred Pi-pers" ass the regimental song to be placer: on all Pflfflflfifllal occasions. Iiow ilio sticky sentimentality of "Lll. liieflene" fits into the martial pic- turo of inspections and parades and marchjsustc. we cannot help but wonder. What a contrast to the swing of the stirring and robust “Hundred Pipers." t; which the red-blooded men of the 19th, formerly time Edmonton Fus 11ers, were wont to march — London Free Press.

-l{lglicr-|iower sound waves. some so shrill you can't hear them. have provided a new kind of tool for industry. The familbr. work- a-day sound wave that. brings you anything from a whisper to e whistle is being inter-sifted and blasted forth in help manufacture carbon black. recover last chemicals purify "sour" gas. banish dan- gerous flue dust i.nrl hurry the drying of drugs and soap. Power- ful sound waves are expected to speed paper-making by 20% and eventually shatter airport fog from the sir. Ths doesn't count achievements vshfch gre- teamed possible but are-apparently unecon- omlc——such as lighting m" wigh. out. matches. The work is bone by sound-making machines — new strong-lunged generators that chop compressed air into powerful sound waves. These husky gadgets have moved the science cfJ-iigh-porvrer sound out 0,! the test tube and put it to work in the factory.‘ - Well Street. Journal. ‘ .

It lies long been evident tlsul. our post-sver level would stabilize on a plane considerably higher than that prevailing before the Writ. A higher price level causes the burden of carrying our immense new loud of national debt. And because of the immense interdependence of tho Canadian and American econ- omics, it is practically impossible for Canada to maintain a price level far out of line with the Am- crlcisn. Provided nex-t year's crops are passable, and provided we don't go ln for n broad new regime of price control, the prospect for early stabilization is good. A considerable body of private and official opinion in Washington holds that the peek a! the upward price movement hue already been substantially reached. Canadians will serve themselves best by keeping their heads on this matter. PNdllctlon is the sole end certain cure for the situation. and present prices in many lines can be depended upon to put product- lon-and price-where the public want them fer better than any gov- ernment plan can dew-financial Post.

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ill! column in anon so ID Gill by “fli- lpeudlsll of gas-queue .al llfilli The, OIercM-etieau Onrlinn learns iieee—r-

Sir,-l_ have rend a greet many reports in tbetlelifex paves of en- tum meetings of ottiee. tmrris end municipalities in hbve Bcotin and in not e single instance tseve I reed of a debt redtiotion except. by the

usual ordinary. method which a transference of e. oertefin amount few: revenud oolleoted metres poe- slrle. If there is e debt reduction ecoarnpltetied by eny other method it apparently ls not considered wwtfiy of special mention es it. en- tailed no apeciei financing or abil- ity onthe ‘RH/O! any of those chosen to mi-ryon the municipal business. Why is it dLtfes-esitinChar- lottetiown? I-Iuve we in this City e. system of nominating and exiditlng that is different fmn any town or city in Nova Boot-is? If so is tihere iuiy neniefm- euclh a system? It

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Notwithstanding the above critic- ism I think the present Council ocrrniperes very favorably with any of itsypradeeessors. They have been careful end have given generously at their time in the City's interest wi-tisout reward e0 I em inclined to agree with the sentiment expressed in Mrs. Avast-Fa letter which W85 read at the lust Council meeting arid to sey ihsnk you.

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lNDlANg AT LENNOX ISLAND

Sin-I read with interest, in your Monday's issue, Dr. Mctleill’! letter with reference to Lennon Island. '

.I .heve the greatest regard for my good friend, Dr. McNelil, whom I have known foi- many years, "but I must take exception to the state- ment that "Mr. Justice Arsensults Brief. presented to the Department of Indian Affairs some years ego, makes ample provision for the spiritual welfare of the Indians;- lmportant in itself, but in his pro- gram. very little provision is made for their physical ivellurc." ' ' ‘

Ldo not. know the particular Brief the good‘ Doctor has refer- ence to, for I- may say that. the correspondence I have had ivitli that" Department during the past nine years, when Iftrst broached the subject, maybe found in some four or five briefs, besides the fact that I fully discussed the sub- ject with Dr. Camsell, Dr; McGfll, Mr. Huey, Mr. Jackson, Dr. Moore, Mr. Pratt. and several other offi- cials on four or five occasions when I was in Ottawa. I also pre- sented u brief to the Indian Com- mission which visited Prince Ed- ward Island, and W85 given the privilege of speaking more than an hour on the brief. and answer- ing many questions put. to me by the chairman and members of the Commission.

My notes for argument which I have before me, covered sixteen different; palate, and covered both religious and physical welfare of the Indians. The briefs. hundreds of letters end interviews with the officials of the Department, fully covered all the points raised in Dr. Mctietlrs letter and many ecl- ditionai ones. Just. to name e few. I may say that our twenty new houses have been built on Liermox Island. A two-department. school will be built. with two additional 'i-ooms tor munuul training for the boys end home handicraft work for the girls, such home handicraft. to include dressmaking and sewing in e.ll its branches, knitting, dinning and mending. la well es all branches of household science.

The plan else contemplates drainage, the planting of uh. Wh-ll-l maple, rind willow for basket mek- ing, end s. good deal of this he! already been done. Gardening. to supply vegetables for the commun- lt._v, o. sufficient number of cows to supply the milk. even it some feed has to be bought and brought in from the outside. Fisiun: 1M oyster culture will also be en- couraged, and ash end white maple will be purchased and shipped by 'boet to the Island for basket-mak- ing end fai- exe-heridlee. It is also entieipsted that. willow growing will provide additional materiel for basket-making.

Firewood ties been provided by the purchase of Hog Island where there is e stead o! some foil hundred ecree of good firewood.

Provisions ere also being r_ld0 for the en-iployrnent. of e irr ed nurse who will do eocinl" service work. '

On the religious end, there wui be e. rlldent peetor, e youne m!!! I time, who besides looking after the ‘more! endfirellglbus welfare of the “dime. will eneourelt, ports. organise Boy ecouii end

euoe of those orgenlfltloal‘ In luirnnehlde end oiieriotmown; m oiiunsii '01s uaoos- ni

should be patented and knovm ea t "Chas" ‘ ‘ ‘f

lie-life: earner-as eyelids. "

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Trier-ii. in-lwne was.“ m... BM lone-lone rests In is beyond WI Elwin the silences m edi. Allviofmlddle ‘etee deserves e

800d - y , Rees between each lack of dry bfrehwooth- ' " . - r But this-bowie ell nets manor,» The claim airings the kit- dsen door."

The lonely muddle boy who lives for house ., . _

with waves coming in, with clouds w flowers. . '

And is not‘ there. eiti-iouds he speeh the wosde

lln answer. any ‘more than dlokey-

Is still bent at. iihe lewfaorse law ‘ ell rlflit; " " And grips the buaksefe keyed-tsp bundle tight, ' The sew is in the btaah under his

bee, But the boy h s, dry diell fin- from eee. '