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TUESDAY. APRIL 14. 1936.

Liberalism Anid Freedom

Timely in view of the re-opening of the all- Liberal Legislature this afternoon is an editorial wliichappeared in Saturday's issue of the Tar- onto Globe, leading Liberal newspaper. The article is entitled “The Right to Bolt.” It deals with the action of three Liberal members of the

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to vote with their party on_ an important govern- dnent measure. On the principle enunciated by Premier CA.\ll’lll-ILL to the Liberal electors of Fourth Prince during the recent by-election con- test, these men by their action would most as- suredly be “reading themselves out of the Liberal party” and should expect to receive “no further recognition" politically. But the Globe, strange to say, takes a quite different attitude. It com- mends them and says their action in bolting was to their credit “as individuals and as Liberals, for they remained true to their own principles and adhered to the right of free expression for which the party is supposed to stand." Furthermore, says the Globe, “it has never been considered sound Liberal doctrine that ‘your leader is your policy,’ and.it is important in there dayx of dictatorship that this point be kept before the people. The convention provides an opportunity for public representatives to formulate policies, and the caucus a chance for members of Parliament to consider how best these can be carried out. But if the caucus be- came: the medium of applying stern rule con- trary to the wirhcr of the majority, it fr not Liberalism as generally rceogn1':.-ed. Dictatorship is not far off." I

Under the CAMPBELL Government the can- cus has not only become the medium of enforc- ing party discipline, but it threatens to take the place of. the floor of the Assembly as the forum for discussion of important legislation. Questions of paramount public interest, instead of being placed on the Order Paper as in other Legislatures, are being asked in caucus and ans- wered in caucus—behind closed doors. Meinbers may thus be able to satisfy their personal curios- ity, but the public remains unenlightened. No such approximatiaon to Star Chamber proceed- ings has been known in modern times under British democracy.

The Globe would surely have still greater reason to fear that “dictatorship is not far off” if it could see the transformation taking place today in Liberal parliamentary practice in this Provincel

Y.M.C.A. Appeal

Starting~ tomorrow and continuing until Friday, the local Y.M.C..’\. will make its an- nual public appeal for the necessary funds to carry on'its work for the coming year. Under the general chairmanship of His Worship Mayor TURNER a strong campaign committee has been fanned, and it is hoped and expected that the objective of $5,300 will be fully realized.

In his appeal on behalf of.the campaign committee, Mayor TURNER says in part:

“The disturbing social and economic condi- tions which our youth are called upon to face only emphasize the urgent necessity and oblige.- tiononthepartofsllgoodcftlaenstogive generous financial aid to thc Y.M.C.A. as a dis- tinctive auxiliary of the Church and a leading factor in building up I. wholesome Christian society.

"The increased appeal at this time, I believe to be we:-ranted—ha.ving in mind the important and much needed programme service on behalf ‘of women and girls which the Association plans to make a. permanent feature of its work. while at the sum; time aiming to further extend its activities among boys and young men—l1mibed not to the membership within the Y.M.C.A. but in so far as funds and leadership will permit, to extend its services for the benefit of the com- munity at large." «

During the past year, there has been defin- lte expansion in the Association’s activities, in- cluding a substantial increase in the membership of the boys’ division, organization of classes for women and girls, additional activity in organ- ized games for Yhung men, a widening social programme, development of the weekly Com- munity Night features and of specific education- al‘features. The increased expenditures estim- ated for the Assbciation year ahead provide for giving permanence to work for women and girls, meeting expenses of unforseen building repairs, and improving the general financial position.

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From all concerned, this appeal should meet with the sympathetic response which its object-

In the last election, recalls the London Free

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ments to the B. N. A. Act to

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budget this evening. it it ‘K

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including an amendment to the B. N. A. Act. At the same conference revision of the B. N. A. Act was discussed. United Liberalism again agreed there should be general revision of the act and most important of all, that {here should be a. radical change in the measure. In future there would be no need of going to the Imperial Parliament for amendments to the act. Ottawa would be the court of last resort. Even Premier TASCHEREAU, of Quebec, who might have been expected to protest, as Quebec has always been jealous of the B. N. A. Act, assent- ed. But something happened as soon as the pro- vincial Liberal lcaders left for home. It was soon evident that Premier Hcrnunn was cool to- wards any idea of working with Ottawa. The Loan Council evidently did not appeal to him. Premier PATTULO started to object. In the Mari- times the New Brunswick government announc- ‘ed its determined opposition to leaving amend-

Ottawa.

United Liberalism is proving a delusion and a snare. The Loan Council plan is going into the discard and the revision of the B. N. A. Act along the original lines proposed, will likely be

Editorial Notes

We expect to hear details of the balanced

Road work, which was never begun, is held up owing to the weather and other mishaps. 9K

\Vhat became of the other brewery stallio Two were to be loaned. Did Queen's County kick, and was the Government forced to buy the

Evidently in St. Johns, Que, they. are burd- ened with election frauds in civic elections for they have petitioned the legislature to have iden- lity cards for all voters as well as the right of "V°n“°5 °f the s“”'€' m5 ““‘‘’m' proprietors to vote whether taxes are paid or not. BK

One of the best spring tonics for a woman is a new hat, even if she cannot afford it. Noth- ing makes a woman ftel better and more con- povexlshment cf the people of the-.10 lhls lidcnt in the spring than a smart new bonnet. rural classes has tended to be:ome=,P9~TS¢¢l with the flnnllly cl-Mm de- Thc best kind to buy for raising the spirits is an audacious little something markedly different from _what has been worn through the winter. Pxesg, The shops have just the thing. And sometimes a few dollars spent for a hat will save a doctor

Foiu>’s advertising agents are to be congrat- measures are . ulated on the following story which has come to us all the way from. Potsdam. There are many accents in the English language, of which the business to attempt some pfeven. Oxford is well known, but it now appears that tion scheme. The matter. however. a new one has developed—the Form accent. Prince WILHELM, eldest son of the former “nay, both “om the humane and Kaiser is a noted linguist. In fact, his excellent economic stands:/.>int.s."—'I‘he Tele-l|l’“"l’°5° ln mam“ m° ‘l‘"‘m°m' English has given rise to a bon mot by ope of his |“Ph'-7°“m31- Saint J01“!- own sons, Prince LOUIS FERDINAND. Prince Louis had,worked {gr 9. year at the Form works in Dearborn, Mich. eturning on the same ocean liner with Frurz Kniilrsnen, the famltlnug ‘yiollivrfiist mm; mm“; 0, M, demh and the and Mrs. KREISLER, e was reproac e y rs. second, if possible, even worse. The Kruzistsn for his English. "Why do you use such terrible Middle Western slang?" Mrs. Ksuzisnias asked him. “Why. don't you speak English lllée 1-gtiren'Il‘;ni. after a long term of Aer‘- Lours FERDINAND answere : vice. ,9 veteran and some of hi! “You see, madam, my father speaks with an Oxford accent. I 8pCal(*wllC*ll a Form accent." If

to an Ottawa correspondent the final reading in the Senate to the bill for estab- lishment of a National Employment Commission was featured by the warmest debate of the.Ses- sion. For a time as the discussion became more

Notes by the

“Atlhotcrccn setshlamcrkhigh.'i'hereiIsomc-

ation to find great l‘8;etll'¢h€l'B who are also great teachers. Hisdefence of ‘useless’ knowledge; his‘ desire to thin out the Jungle of the ‘courses’; his resolve to avoid the man of routine and find, the sup- erior and uncommim man; his re- sentment at any restriction upon the liberty of instruction. are but a few of the strong points in a speech of notable distinction, full of stim- ulating ideas in an old field from which it is hard to bring new corn." -—'1‘hc New York Times. '

You Ice. in Cllllih. to know the Klru--(the Prince as he was——ls nothing. We all know him. All the soldiers know him because they re- member him in France. All the rest of us know him because he has been up and down over Canada more than we have ourselves. And wherever he has gone he has mingled with us a.1l—-high and low. even professors-—-in that simple and effortless way which he commands by instinct. In Canada we get on with kings and princes because we understand them, better in a way than they do in England. In the Old Country there are always forms and observanoes-—people walking backwards and that sort of thing. We can't; we'd fall over. so we

The March sown wheat will be all the bet- mve l‘° “act "“l““l" Wm‘ “"35 ter for its warm blanket of snow. 9|? it

and prlncm; and it seems to work. In any case, King Edward VIII is specially one of us because he owns

The Fashion Parade has still to take place: land here: he has I farm out in it is ill-weather that does not benefit somebody. 9K 9K 5l<’

Alberta, which of course hooks him up with Social Credit and makes feel sorry for him. We may

. . . . . us After all the indications of early Spring it have to help him out.——stephen has taken ,to mid-April to open the St. Lawrence Leacock.

France, which was reluctant to

It will take a lot of arguing to convince po- Dome lo the aid of Britain in im-, tato growers that it is to their advantage to have American potatoes enter our market free of d .

Dosing sanctions on Italy, complains that Britain has serted" her in the argument over Germany's rearming of the Rhine- land. It makes a difference who;e

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my chestnuts are to be pulled from

the flre.—Windsor star.

Behind the murder of Mr. Tak- ahashi, the Japanese Minister of

then resentment of a’ military cli-

plus by further

Takaliashi had taken his stand per cent gold and 40 per

must be a. larger export induced by fur-

employment. they "liquidated" him

reason. Since 1930 the intsrnal debt of Japan has nearly doubled, living costs are higher and the im-

unbes.rcbte.'This is the other side tc the "glcrious" record of Japan- ese expansl-an.-——Wlnnipeg Free

“Among the public works drs'gn- ed in South Australia are high- ways, but they do not. aspire to be mere roads-—plain ribgnds from

From all accounts'the legislature members place to D1&Ce- Adelaide '1: making (lid not have an altogether cordial welcome when they returned home for Easter. Some consti- 1 tuents “who wanted to know” about particular part 0; me An,“ Highway things were demanding an explanation why their nine out 0-‘ Adelaide t»°WH1'd Mel- questions were not put on the order paper. The fact is, questions are being put in privacy in caucus and answered in the _same way, the ans- garden section 1;, the centre and wers being conveyed privately to the particular Canada could do with more such parties interested. Under a Dictatorship we are gfmc to expect such hole-and-corner proceedings. 9! ll! 9lE

a driveway of twenty miles around the harbor bays overlook- some twenty beaches. Another run-

boume will cost over half 11 mil- lion dollars. This one will have two lanes of one-way traffic, with a

hlghwaya."—Daily sun,

sndon. “If it is found that preventive “‘ . and that the

annual cost would not. exceed the total of the damage done, it would appear to the layman to be good

is one for the provincial engineers to decide, and it is certainly worth

A company mu: had two uvero ocks one evening not long ago- the first of 3 radio news am

announcement, of death was made when the news broadcaster misread an item concerning the gentleman’:

friends asked that a correction be' made. Later in the evening he got his second shock when he heard the bfoldclawr ' “I am sorry ti. any I made a mistake in the death of Mr.—-." _—Cnnndlnn Pacific Bulletin.

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lcnlry of the University,-'Presidont Conant thin; heartening in his deterinin-.

PUBLIC sonuni

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ma: nmrrsirrnuanxxr OUR CONSTITUTION

si.r.——-is to the method by which the B.N.A. Act'h|s been ’ ‘ in the past. Premle Ocmpbcll states:

"The Canadian Constitution as at present constituted ',can be amended solely by an Act of the Imper1a.l Parliament of Great Britain." '

Mr. Campbell adds;

“The Constitution of Canada. has been directly amended by the Im- perial Parliament on several oc- casions since the passing or thg British North America Act." g

This frank admission by Mr, Campbell obviates the necessity of any detailed reference to certain alterations in the subsidy payments which took place since 1887 without TSONIIHB to the British Harlin.- mcnt. The B.N.A. Act itself fixed the amounts which were to be payable by Canada to the Provm- lees in the way of annual aubsidiu. |Although the Act itself had de- 'clared that the amounts fixed in the Act were to be in full settle- ment of all future demand; on Canada. it is well known that within two years the amount of Nova scotia's subsidy" was altered, not by statute of the BritLih Piirlia. meat but by it Canadian Act. Ob- jections were made at the time on the ground of constitutionality, but on the advice of the Law Officers of the Crown in London the Can. adian Act. was passed and without even waiting for the - consent of the Provinces. Since then the sub- sldy grants have been increased

--de.‘many times. Three of these have "“¢"dl'1¢l|l

{been general revisions increasing the grants to all the Provinces and l.\venl.y or more have been special revisions affecting one or some only of the Provinces. only once was application made to the British Parliament to amend the B.N.A. Act with regard to subsidies. That

Finance, there was something morelwas in 1907, and was the occasion Vm°<|' We‘!!! never consulted before lto which the Premier que which was‘ resent ul because refers when he says he understands Tlflhts Were disregarded. let him he held down the military budgetthe amendment was made not.with- Wm “D the Prince Edward Island to only 54 per cent of the total standing the protest of one Province 14°81-llfitlve -l0l1I'n&1 O1 1914. Where

no doubt

‘whose rights were affected. Mr.

lngness to increase the export sur-;Caml!bell does not stale that DI'l°l' °°"‘"9“°e °-i 0°l°b9l'- 1913. “Don

depr-3-elation or to that amendment. a. conference the representation question i: re- Japanee currency Wils part of the‘had taken place with all the Pro- ‘erred 10- All the Province: Montreal City Council are jubilant over the 9355 °l l-he "5915 Blfllnfil him Mr- $150,ooo,ooo unemployment relief scheme pro- pounded by Prime Minister KrNC.%75,ooo,o00 by the Federal Government and $75,000,000 by sterling; and because the“ currencylrne (British Columbia) wits dls- made? the Provincial Governments. The City Council l'°1°Tm€FS" held that there has already launched $6,900,000 public work relief schemes, only 25% of which they no\v cal- culate they will be held responsible for. ’

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vlnccs with a view to L ‘ _ a gen- eral increase all round. The Prev-

against 8. depreciation beyond 7o:inces presented their claims, a gen- Pl'°Vl"Cl8l rights were disregarded- ccnt oral agreement was made, although when Imperial amendments were

srtisflcd as not receiving enough. 5An Irnpcrlnl Act. was drafted to

ther depreciation, thus incrsasingicarry out the terms of bile arrange-

ment. it contained, however, a fin-

as they did his predecessor, Mr.l9.llly clause (the settlement was Parliament. for a year. The term Inouye. in 1932 for much the szmelsald to be "final and unnltcr-nble".) "5 extended to 7th October. 1917.

to which B.C. objected. No objec- tion however was made by EC. to» having the Act passed except as one clause. The Act was

feted from the Act and appearing in the schedule only where it was ineffective. Mr. Campbell wu hard- ly frank, therefore, If he knew the facts, when he gave the Impression that the British Psrllnment made that amendment “upon the sole request of the Dominion of Cm- ada" and when he stalled that the Act so passed was “at vlrllnce with the interests of 1 Provincial Gov- ernment of Canada.”

Whether Mr. Campbell knew it or not his presentation of what. wok place is quite at variance with the facts. This can readily be vexi- fled by any one who takes the trouble to look up the Journal of the P.E.I. l..eglslB.tlii'e of 190'! where the report 0. the Oonfuenoe of October 1906 is referred to. and where the resol ‘ion appears which was passed by the Legislature in accordance with the settlement made at Ottawa when all the Pro- vinces wexe consulted. It seems rather strange that a person oc- cupying the responsible‘ position of Premier and Attorney-General should, in 3. House where there was no opposition to correct him, make such a statement. The Premier's

is quite clear. He soon to Iiww that we have now no lifeguard ct. III in the matter of amending the B.N.A. Act; that undu the present method of amendment the -British Pnrlliunent will pan an Act unend- ing the B.N.A. Act. “upon the solo request of the Dominion Govern- ment" and "at variance with the interest of 5 Provincial Govern- ment." Possibly the British Parlia- ment may survive the stricture if it heirs of it; or perhaps Mr. Campbell himself may be the only one to suffer from his own state- nrcnt.

Besides the alteration; in Provin- cial subsidy grants made by the Canadian Parliament‘ without‘ the aid or enactment. of the British Parliament, other amendments of the B.N.A. Act have been effected

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¢o<>rmt'°"..“°‘'° - - ‘ ’.‘Dl fhcomm ' din or ‘ A .h‘PP3’ ““‘."ly ‘hey could ‘it dc-Mn W“: “fl” fl'i:u‘1‘tmoste iirliqibrtiincf piece gilslelgismon Tat ‘trlie , ' 7 ' "H" 3"‘? ‘“w‘°"“"‘ l” 3: feet under the’ same table and bring blue or s- msionn brought mm, mm“_ .1,-mimy. i. Wm mlshndc 3: Ac: ‘ms "I: h “ —‘fi.'?.‘.-.= . ~ «rm -1", ,, MAC. ten ‘across eveiy line 0 'tl1lI‘leties'of 119'"-'|'I't° launched. Fifteen hundrcd nine of Intercctltit to no ;rv.tMt «ml . 5'“ “ho” ° ' -0 -'1 n. be given the commission," Right Hon. Aftruux roads will be im ed and 083.000: Ch! vrofiltdlflfil ' "#0 filialcavnato summon a provincll °° Msrcnen char d The bill contained the 'lang- W’ .'’l“ ll‘ '9'”--"W WW‘-W 3*“ "‘ 4"“ - . '“{’°“ 9 , , . . . Liberals met at Ottawa "5: ' v .‘ - .. - BI built. dwsex-our corner; straight in. N the ‘_ pg‘ . ,..,aécflofi...,6fiyR_ mge_o"f folly and wnfilled with statutory mu _,m_ ‘ad m mm“, ‘ p _ .u_¢,..,¢,¢ Q“ . ‘* . ., ;, m. hot-air the Conservative leader said. I-le,be- ngyprosdrwmbeuid. up ._ ma _ filming Ind that