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President. l.i~.iil.—Cob-,W. Chduer S. Mebun Vice President, .I. B. Burnett. ll‘. 1. l,

Secretary. Lieu! -Col. 0. A. Mncllinnon, D. S. 0. Editor and Managing Director J. 3. men. P. J. I f Associate Editor. Print W . I

SUBSCRIPTION BATES 85.00 per year (in advance.) delivered to‘-City l 34.00 per year (In advance) mailed to P. E. lchnd 35.00 per year (in advance) mailed to Cnnldnlnd III A Member: Audit. Bureau of Circulation:

“The Strongest Memory is Weaker than the lVeakest_fnf.”_

THURSDAY, JULY 27. 1939 1;: '

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Thc currcnt issiic of The Lc{IiuiiaV_\', Contains a spiriicd plea for the lifting of the bait on the 50-towal oi lionoiirs on Caiiadinn citizcnslby His Mztjcsty the King. The resolutiozi adopting this ban was put ilirnugli the House of Commons in roll), lll’lt'flllSlllllll()ll"lli_)', the \\'1‘llPf 51lKf1e5l5v following the cxposiire of scandalous exploit- ation of lionuur ziwzirds by the Lloyd George liriieriiiiicnt in Great Britain.

Smnr: y*.'flrs ;i_gn~._ thn article recalls, Rt. Hon. l\'. 11, li(‘llllt‘ll igiiurcrl this 20-year old resolu- tion of thc ll|)ll.\'L‘ of Coiiinions €Il!ll"‘l."; He made r(_*[t)llllllL‘llil(!lltlllS for royal rt-cogiiilitm Tlit-sc were zipplautlctl throughoiit Cillliltlél. f0-' ':iis St‘lt‘CllOll< were judicious .’lll(l impartial.

.\lr. llmiiictt tool; the poslllltll that the l"-‘50ll|" tiou had l)<i\‘ill-l only the l‘:irliaiiient which pass pd it_ and that it (lill not bind subsequent Par- liurm-nts, It h:ul not lI(‘t.‘ll £ltlUp‘.(‘(l by the Senate null it llllll nut. llllllt‘l‘ any circuiiistanccs, thc force or cit’:-gt of Law.

11.,“-(>\-pi-, for the p'.i.<t four years the royal pl‘t.‘i‘()_:f1ll\'L‘ has again been in an eclipse. If the 1}.-nut-it pt)-‘ililin wzis wrong, as it has _becn arguctl, then it w:‘ iiiicoiistitiitioiial of him i0 mzike the I‘t‘CUllllllt'llllflll\)llS. All the honours and rewards coiifcrrcd during his regime ought to bc rcscintlctl. Tlicy have not been rescinded bo- cmise no gi)\’€‘l'lll‘ll(‘ll( dare rescind them, and principally because they were properly and con- stitiitiorially awarded.

“If no ixruiig has been done,'.’ say The Leg- ionary writcr, “if it was constitutional during . the five years between 1930 mid 1033 to make 1 reconimeiidations for royal recognition, then if

tion to what extent the Caprice of men tempor- arily in office should dominate the relationship between a people and their sovereign."

\Vith that is the other question, to what ex- tent should the King of Canada be denied the I ext-rci<e of his prerogative. while the executive heads of forcimi states continue to confer hon-

()n the matter of the royal prerogative. in this sense, our Constitution is resolutely silent. Nothing in the British North America Act deals with it in any way. The advice given by the Prime Miriistcr to the King in that matter of llUll(Jllr‘S has just developed as a constilutionfll usage out of the practice in the United King- dom. It is governed by no law, no decree, noth- ing but custom and usage.

Notliiiig in the British North America Act. for example, prohibits a Provincial Prime Miri-

quantity. MacKay and was himself slain, this date, 1689. at It

sonahle and allow Queens and Kings Counties a short cut on hard-surfaced roads to Borden.

ing arrangements to nominate a candidate in op- position to the veteran Mr. A. E. MacI.eaii.

f rom.

priest, has takcn over the management of the Parson Cross Hotel in Sheffield, England. says he dislikes pcople who think drinking is ricccssarily evil.

cording to Mr. john Anderson the work of City Clerk is more than one man can handle, work-

parcntly now a stenographer is sufficient to run is still constitutional. That brings up the qucs- the Whole Show.

bec, well known for his poetry, has received a

adian clergyman as a tribute to the memory of the late Pope Pius XI. ours on Candtiians. Archdeacon of the “prayerful good wishes of

appointed at seeing them on foot. tics have become one of Canada's best tourist advertisements.

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Gregg returned alone under terrific fire and collected a further supply. Then. rejoining his party which by this time was much reduced in numbers, and in spite of a second wound, he

reorganized his men and led them with the greatest determination against the enemy trenches, which he finally cleared. Remain- ‘“E with his C0nllI‘.ily in spite of wounds, he again, on the 30th of September, led his men ill attack until severely wounded. “The oiit- standing valour of this officer,” concludes the official record, “saved many casualties and en- abled the advance to continue." Prince Edward Island is proud to welcome Major Gregg on this occasion, not only on ccount of his war record but for his peace-time services, particularly in connection with the laudable objectima of the Canadian Legion, of which he is Dominion Honorary Treasurer.

The Legion will have other distinguished guests today, including Hon. Dr, Cyrus iVIac.\'Iillari. of McGill University, and Mr.

Alistair .\IacKinnon, Halifax, Provincial Sec- retary of the Nova Scotia Command. ____....._._1:_.

I Editorial Nola: I

Another good half-holiday to add tolthe record. at in in :- Hay is being saved in good shape but small

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Killiecrankic, where Claverhonse, defeated

at xi: Hope the Government will for once be rea-

It ‘ll 8! it

The Conservatives of Prince County are mak-

fhey have several desirable prospects to choose

at an 4 :- Rev. Richard Rosevcar, an athletic Anglican

He

xix i it :- One just wonders how the city is run. Ac-

ng night and day, including Sundays; yet, ap- iu it no-

Arclidcacon Frederick George Scott, of Que-

cttcr from the Papal Secretary of State express- ng appreciation for a poem written by the Car.-

The letter assured the

His Holiness.” at n- it-

IIOTES BY THE WAY

An enlightened no has put many manifestations of sup:-mtltlon to flight. but faith in S0Ohl'l8&yu. prevails to an astonishing extent. Usually it is merely I harmless tn- dulxence. a. form of escape. and self-deception, but it may have are gravest consequences. An instance is the case of the Chicago man. who informed ten months ago by an astrologer that his destiny was suicide, the other life by hanging. A city psychiatrist sums up tha tragedy: "It is a.

dangerous thing for an emotionally

the future." The laws

of charlatanlsm cannot. be curbed

of education that will open all

was hnvln an ideal time on the highway 3 French River on Satur- day morning. He was. well loaded with “bug Juice" of some sort ashe trudged his weary way New Glas- gow wards. The way was long and many miles divided him and his goal‘: when he sought diversion. A true approaching, he threw him- self upon the highway and nearly ditched the big machine

effort; to avoid him. He repeated the performance with lighter vehi- cles, but found it. lacked the fatal results. It was easier to sit. on the bank and stone the passing cars. A

‘tls said That. was more than the peo le of the quiet netghbcrhood cou a stand for. The good name of the community was at stake. They ' seized him,

guw. Yesterday morning he parad- ed among the naughty cries. and received $5 or 20 days. He took the time, and for the two-thirds of 3 month will not annoy motor- ists. — Eastern Chronicle.

R. Luce, editor of‘

the Legion of Honor and rezelved ultra-courteous attention French colleagues. Arriving the different: and as a climax the was undertaking The cause 0 ment was t-h paragraph in Time. “The Parts press has long bern the sewer of world Journalism. Few

legal action.

"The way some prominent news- papers have handled their German ‘news’ recently suggests that slush funds from the Third Reich are

havlng been seized by the fore- lock. as it were, Henry R. Luce dlsclalmed personal responsibility for the article which, he said, he had not read before it appeared apologized to the president of the

So there is still beneficial use for the vmr horse. Even the Royal Canadian Mounted Police at the Parliament building, Ottawa, are hence- forth to be mounted, visitors having been dis- The moun-

:u at it nu Dalvay is one of the great attractions this

ister from iii.~;ti‘iictiiig his Lieuetcnant-Governor _ summer. At present there are twenty-one guests

to forward through the Governor—(icnerzil, British North Anicrica Act vests the Domlnloi‘ Government with any power whatever to in- validate any such action, and nothing in the Act restricts the right to make recommendations ‘to the Prime Minister of the Dominion adminis- tration. _

The fact tha tthe Provinces, in common with the Dominion, create King's Counsel adds strength to the position that in the matter of the royal prerogative the authority of -the Provin- cial Prime Ministers is not one bit inferior to that of the Prime Minister of the Dominion. And that autliority is not affected just because the Provincial Prime Ministers have not hither- to exercised it outside the sphere of the legal profession.

The Legionary writer recalls that it is only a few weeks since Canadians welcomed their King and Queen with an acclaim that rever- berated throughout the whole British Empire. Prime Ministers read Addresses assuring His Majesty of the undying devotion of Canadians to his throne and person. They renewed the allegiance of the people on whose behalf they spoke. And they paid their homage with the greatest dignity and sincerity. In the thunder- ous grceting which the millions of Candians ex- tended to their Sovereigns there was reflected the real soul of this nation. Canada's true self was mirrored in the smiles, the applause, the songs and the fervent cheers of her people-—not in finicky little phrases tucked away in political resolutions.

Editorially The Legionary says it is not tak- ing sides on this issue, but is desirous of further- ing a full discussion.

An Honoured Guest

Attending the annual convention today at Summersitle of the Provincial Command of the Canadian Legion will be one of Canada's most distinguished war heroes in the person of Major Milton F. Gregg, V. C., M. C., and Bar. Major Gregg’s appointment a few years ago to the position of Sergeant at Arms in the Home of Commons met with widespread approval, It

“ was as :1 Lieutenant in the Regiment duriing the operations near Cambrai, Sept. 27 to Oct. 1, i918, that his bravery and-

,' initiative won for him the coveted Victoria.

I Cross.

' The official’ record states that on that occas-

ion, when the advance of the Brigade was held upiby fire from both flanks and liy thick un- cut wire, Lieutenant Gregg crawled forward

B.lone,and explol‘cd‘the wire until he found a

small gap, ‘ ht wlilctiv lie subsequently led‘

’ .air»eii‘try ,lnt'o-tlie.enemy

rccnmniendzitioiis to the Kitigniin residence, all front Ontario. On Sundays and Nothing in the‘liolidays it is popular with citizens and others

for midday luncheons and evening dinners. But

in these days it would be well were the author- ities to salt the newly ploughed roadway to lay

the dust caused by the innumerable cars passing in front of the balcony. an it it it Mrs. Alfred Watt, president of the Associat- ed Country Women of the World, sailed on Sat- urday from Liverpool for Canada in the liner Montclare. Mrs. VVatt will visit Ottawa the first week in August for private business_ with the Government and will then go to, Toronto where she will be a guest of honor at the Canadian Na- tional Exhibition during the last week in August. She will attend the \Vomcn’s Institute meeting at Edmonton the first week in October.- - no: t It

Truth is still stranger than fiction, as we learn from Milwaukee. Otto Bach, 40, of Baraboo, V\’is., appeared before Municipal Judge Max Nohl on a cheque forging charge. “What is your occupation?" asked the Judge. “I manu- facture cheque protectors to prevent forgeries,” replied Bach slieepishly. “Business is slack and I ran out of funds.” The judge placed him on probation for three years, with the caution that prevention is better than cure even in the case of cheques.

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In a report on the administration of justice in the Supreme Court of Ontario, Mr. F. H. Barlow, K.C., Master of the Supreme Court, among other things recommends the abolition of the Grand Jury system. A suggestion of this nature was made here a number of years ago but got its quietus when the Chief Justice pollut- ed out that to do so would be striking at one of our bulwarks of freedom, the Grand Jury hav- ing many duties to discharge apart altogether from its hearing the evidence on which an ac- cused was committed for trial. Abolish the Grand Jury and the first step is taken to lose that freedom for which we are indebted to the Magna Charla.

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_ The ‘U.S.A. Senate's refusal to revise neutral- ity legislation at the present session of Con-

R_oyal Canadian‘ gross has been described by President Roosevelt

as a definite blow to business recovery and as increasing the probability of war. He prefaced his remark with the statement that neutrality legislation was a dead issue until Congress met again in January. Leaving no doubt of his in- tention to abandon the fight until next year rather than take the issue to the country in hopes of an affirmative mandate, Mr. Roosevelt indicated he would forego his plans of I swing around the circle this summer. He pmbiibly will not go to Alaska and return through the northwestern states as he planned. the President said, but would limit his trip to the-Sm‘ Fitm-

~ c ,tli'r6u§lt’-"luck 0fi.l>s1lllbli,iitlle situation be- Altboiigli wounded, Lieutenant

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Syndicate, promised that nothing more would appear in Time about the French ress unless he saw it Instead of Ti words of Browning, "Time's wheel runs back and stops," appeared more appropriate. The curious finale came last. weck, with widely printed stories in the Paris papers that employees of Right/est: news- papers had been arrested and had confessed to accepting huge bribes, and the Communist L'Humanlte recalls that Bullitt, the American ambusador, had reported that Hitler was lavishly feeding the French preess. —— Monet-on Trans- crlpt.

Mr. George C. Mccullagh, who rode out some months ago’ like 3 modern St. George to stay all the modern dragons has gone and done what older and wiser heads than his knew he must. do. He has sheathed his sword and buried gracefully and decently his one»:- usctg "Leadership League." Mr. M ullagh, for whom life will always be a cherry adventure, and who will ride again against other dragons, can charge his Leader- ship League to experience. To "profit: and loss." There will be those no doubt who will deride him, who will charge betrayal in the bitter spirit of Browning's “Lost Leader." It. is always thus. Yet those who know George Mc- Culliigh, whose valor far exceeds hi; experience, but whose sincer- ity amnol be questioned, will not Join in the clamor. Thcv know ‘

that his Leadership League. for all its tmpracticablllty and folly, told me enerous instincts of one who. e by years, may yet serve Canada usefully. -Mccullagh, in his Lead- ership League, was partly the vic- tim of people with a. passion for delusions. Always there are those who falling to grasp the realities‘ of life, and carried away by catch-i words and slogans, are eternally. demanding somebody to lead theml away from the world's harsh facts .

and from human nature's limita-

tions to some Promised Land of plenty Mccullagh, young, lmpetu-t on; and lncx rlenoed, mistook tine '

!audits of t ese for the sense or 0 nation, set. out, as so manv had set out. before him. to give , them what, they craved. It was knight.-errimtry doomed to failure. But fnllure will not break per- rnanently the spirit of George Mc- Oullagh. When he lemma us learn he must, that life is B. hard cam- paign with some lost battles, he will march to other wars with a better equipment for victory. Mzanwhlle he can console himself with the thought that the good fortune which once breathed upon him has made this reverse far from fatal: that, ties no its loss nf his gub- atanoe, h Globe and Mail has not been injured. may have, in- n helped. Its circulation hl. may have had a heii

fli prlce, _ bu Mr. Mocull )1 will no regret! it. He is made o sterner metal.-

Ottswu Journal.

captain OILS. Pitmnn, the nine warden of Uganda, in his latest. report. states that less dum- nn in now being done by elephants to cultivation, and he hopes thattt will be unnecessary again on in- crem the rate of killing. Tint. elephants can retaliate upon their en own by two stories.

0 of the guard; was freed for haul of

ttlve obscuruntlsm. — St. Lo 5 Dispatch. It M of Antigunisla. §{,

‘Florida car had a window broken °’

THE CHARLUITETOWN GUARDIAN

PUBLIC FORUM

Thin column in on: In the dluun-In by urns”-Conn or _quu¢lcn or factual. .'l‘ho Ulurloflctown Ourdin ion: In Ioocuuily undone the opinion- ol correspondents.

THE O.’.l'Y MUDDLB

Sh-,—In tihc nut - lfln o the e c day wok ms gems‘ ‘named tet of tax as K0 5: 1- areas voked the reductlozis. emcee :‘l'.l0l'l5mi§ rate bookhvietc unstable person ‘to consult anyone g°al,€udyW:¢ei: who who pretends to predict events of --m,mdagm-y-- jeg13wuo},, go gmme origin, we incline to mg 3831"“ them to declare with any degree commerc’ llzed fortune-telling are of mmuty me ammcy 01 for the protection of such unstable flndm ' persons. and to prevent: the mulct- , 3 of the gullible. Yet this type U,“ one_ apnea“

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mind to understand, yet its tie

the asaesor, or aaoesars,-_an auth- lty. amd command, after making lgent. enquiry, by every avail- tlie value of all taxable property. and to record such, under oath of office, as th actual taxable value of the prop- emt-y in question. when been done ac ins there is no mandatory or dilrecwry power given to any one to alter or amend except by appeal. Not. even the Amessor dn.:e alter his own assessments. and mandates of every section of the Act, that vu1ua.f.lo'n is not for the year‘ only. but for years tinuity until altered by "Appea.l”, "decrease" as by statute provided. To make this more emphatic, I quote verb- atim the Act. of Incorrporatlon:—~ Cap. 23, 5,b((el932)—sec. ,6—(3l, “It. not necessary tied and bound him. he to make up each