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TUESDAY. NOV. 16, 1849

CHARLOTTETOWN.

Questionable Tactics

Parliamentary rules are meant to facili- tate debate and divisions, but they can also be used to choke off discussion or prevent a vote. It was for the latter questionable purpose, ziccortiing to the Globe and Mail, that 'l‘rade Minister C. D. Howe went into action in the Commons one night last week, for the purpose of preventing the House from registering any opinion on the Govern- mom's malfeasance in the matter of the lilcGregoi' report alleging a flour milling combine.

This is how the stunt was worked. On a motion to go into committee of supply, where the business is voting money for the public services, private members are entitled to voice grievz-inces and one amendment may be offered. This rule dates from the anci- ent tradition that the King had to listen to complaints before he got a penny to run the Government. On a supply motion a few days earlier Mr. Stanley Knowles, a CCF member. exercised this privilege by moving an amendment calling for the exemption of trade union dues from income tax. After he and many others had argued this proposi- tion and received an answer to it from Fin- ance Minister Abbott, the amendment was voted down in the usual manner.

Then, when the supply motion was still the business before the House, Mr. Howe rose and gave a lengthy defense of the Gov- ernments withholding of the McGregor re- port, in defiance of the law, for ten months. Mr. Howe should have been refused a hear- ing. lf he was not technically out of order,

he was certainly breaking all precedent. To introduce this subject at the juncture he chose was thoroughly irregular and the Speaker should have been asked at once to rule on the question whether he ought to be allowed to go on. This was not done. Mr. Howe completed his statement.

By this dodge he flummoxed and, as the Ottawa report puts it, "outmanoeuvred” the Opposition parties. They could rise and criticize what he had said, which they did, but they could not propose a vote of cen- sure. They could not bring forward any motion at all because the Knowles amend- ment had exhausted the rights of the House. They were hamstrung by their own rules as manipulated by an expert manipulator. When the supply motion was eventually passed. as it had to be if business was to proceed, Mr. Howe could claim that the matter of the McGregor report was disposed of; for, under another rule, the same ques- tion cannot be debated twice.

Bampalgn Medals

Anxiety to avoid further delay in dis- tribution is given by the Government as its reason for not engraving names and regi- mental numbers on campaign medals of the last war. Commenting on the omission, the Minister of Veterans‘ Affairs said that to have rectified it would have required an- other two years.

hiost men who served, argues the Port Eric 'l‘imes-Revie\v. will agree that the extra two years would be well worth it; and would mean the difference between mass-produced irinltets and personal souvenirs of \var ser- vicc. Two more years of waiting, after the four that. have already passed, would be of no consequence.

With the exception of a very small min- ority. ex-servicemen do not parade their ser- vice or thei! medals in public. Yet even though the medals will likely be admired once. then stowed away in a bureau drawer, their owner would like to feel that- they would be in alien territory in anyone else's bureau drawer.

Pullman Acrobats

fir. Donald Gordon, soon to become C. l\'. R. president, has expressed sympathy for people who have to twist themselves into odd shapes to get into railway berths. Six foot-four Mr. Gordon said he doesn't like "curling up" his frame either. He said he might be able “to do something about it” when he became head of the line.

Commenting on Mr. Gordon’s statement, the Vancouver News-Herald remarks: “Our Canadian railway berths, of course, are

‘ long outmoded. We have become a nation

of acrobats. Getting to bed in a railway berth is an uncomfortable gymnastic per- formance. In the United States there is a move to throw out the old beﬂhs entire- ly and substitute bedrooms. It seems ex- traordinary that we should still be going to bed on trains in the manner of the 90's. Very little progress in Canada has been made in this record _

.~i "It; is d) ' to cost a great deal of money,

must face the fact people are not going to turn themselves into double jointed circus freaks in order to get to bed when they tra- vel. Many people feel a snooze in a tilted bus chair preferable to a night in a train berth. Until modern equipment is added to our railways, they are going to lose more and more to other forms of transportation."

Defence Policy

Defence Minister Claxtons view that the only potential aggressor is Russia cer- tainly appears correct as things now stand. It should not be forgotten, however, that the axis once occupied that position, and that in the face of aggression. differences even between Communist and Capitalist seemed relatively minor. If the Russian threat is somehow removed there are plenty of points of difference between other na- tions and groups of nations which could lead to war if effective means are not found for preventing it.

EDITORIAL NOTES

Soviet claims that atomic energy is being used to blast a new channel for two Siberian rivers seems to be more generally credited to the ingenuity of her journalists than her engineers.

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Charlottetowns high position in average income of its taxpayers is satisfactory up to a point. In so far as it represents a scarcity of steadily employed industrial wage earners the picture is not so bright.

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The Government of Israel, through its Consulate General in Montreal, has issued an announcement that the State of Israel will do everything in its power to facilitate the visit of pilgrims to holy places in Jer- usalem during the Holy Year, 1950.

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With the approach of winter many driv- ing hazards make their appearance, most of them obvious enough to induce drivers to take the necessary precautions. The habit of keeping windows closed, however, adds the danger of death by carbon monoxide to the usual traffic risks.

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The combines report scandal reveals a

certain hard headedness as well as callous- ness on the part of Mr. Howe. Its presenta-

.tion to Parliament after the only permiss-

able amendment to the motion to go into committee of supply. effectively prevented any motion of want of confidence.

Prime Minister Si. Latirenfs motive in creating the new portfolio of Citizenship and Immigration may be merely to enable him to reshuffle cabinet posts, but in justi- fying its existence the new department should prove stimulating to the development ol’ this country.

Dalhousie University, which is now hold- ing its first Alumni Homecoming, has many distinguished graduates exercising an in- fluence far and wide greatly disproportion- ate to its size. The “college by the sea” has a tradition which may well be the envy of larger and wealthier tiniversities.

The mayor of Toronto is taking steps to see that cab drivers in that city are pro- perly dressed for their duties. Taximen are not subject to such organized discipline as are employees of railways or bus companies, but for that very reason it is important that their dress should indicate that they are qualified and licensed as public carriers.

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Lord Herschell, lst Baron, born this date 1837; English Lord Chancellor from 1886 to i899; was raised to

the peerage in 1886, and appointed Lord High Chancellor the same year. He went to Washington on the Anglo-Venezuelan Arbi- tration Commission in 1898 and met with an accident which caused his death the follow- ing year. caused war between Britain and Venezuela, due to Germany sending a man-o-war to assist the latter in asserting what she con- sidered her rights on the question of the boundary line between British Guinea and Venezuela. O The harvesting of Irish Moss, which will be subject to regulation under the new Fish and Marine Plants Bill, is of recent origin here but has proved an important factor in maintaining the standard of living in fishing communities along the North Shore. Little equipment ls needed for the purpose and, in fact, much of,the earlier supply was gather- ed by boys until fishermen began to realize that the youngsters were doing better fin- ancially than their parents. Today the form- er sources of supply in Northern Europe are again available and the maintenance of markets depends very largely on the de- pendability of quality and cleanliness of the Island product. If the regulations under the new act enable that uniformity to be maln- tained the moss should prove a steady

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The Venezuelan incident almost‘

THE GUARDIAN. CHARLOTTETOWN ' Telling Us

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THE SYMPHONY

The ‘cellos, seizing forth apart. Grumbled and sang, and so the clay. From the low beaches of my heart, Zrumcd in tranquility mway.

And over woarlness and doubt Rose up the horns like bellied sails. Like canvas of the soul flung out To rising and orchestral gates;

Passed on and left. in-esolute

The eibony. the silver throat . . . Low over clarinet and flut-e Hung heaven upon a single note.

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LIGHT HOUSES

Reply of the Commissioners of Light Houses for the Province of Nova Scctia, 30th June, 185i, to l communication from the Lieuten- ant Governor of Prince Edward Islandto ascertain what sum the adlﬂimm; Colonies would be dis- posed to contribute towards the erection and support of Light Houses at the North Cape and East Point, PE.I.:

"We be! 10 state that thii Gov- ernment tof Nova Scotiai has al- ready erected several Light Houses, from which the trade of Prince Edward Island receives al- most equal benefit with this Pro- vince; but the Island has not con- tributed either towards the build- ing 0r support of such Lights. The Light Houses to which we re- fer are as follows: one on Cran- berry Island, at the southern en- trance oif the Gut of Canso; one at the northern entrance of Pic- tou Harbour; one at Louisbourg; one at Beaver Island; and one now building at Sand Point, at the southern entrance of the Gut of Canso.

"It may not be out of place here to stale that the Govern- ment of Prince Edward Island agreed. thirty years ago. to pay to this Province an annual sum of about £70 or £80 towards the support of Cranberry Island Light, at the entrance of Canso, which was about that time erected by this Province, under this agree- ment, but we believe that no part of this sum has been paid. Light money was, however, actually levied with this intention on all vessels arriving in the Island. and a large sum collected. These col- lections were made during a per- iod of more than twenty years be- fore there was a single Light House erected on the Island.

"The Light Houses proposed to be erected will be of great bene- fit to the trade of Prince Edward Island, this Province, and the other adjacent Colonies; butunder the circumstances a-bovc detailed, we do not think we should be justified in recommending any contribution. on the part of Nova Scotia. towards them. This Pro- vince has now twenty-three Light Houses in operation. and four in the course of construction; and it is likely that others will be erect- ed before long, in which Prince Edward Island will benefit."

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gto/Q/cw-Qw-uu ~. CITY HIGH SCHOOL NEEDED

Sir, -- May I, through your columns, express a wish that. the citizens of‘ Charlottetown will build a City High School’! I sup- pose the proposed schcol will in- clude technical and possi-bly com- mercial training, but since my ex- perience has been with schools and colleges, I would like to sug- gest a couple of ways in which the academic courses in such a high school would benefit the boys and girls who leave Char- lottetown to find work outside.

Both of these benefits grow out of the fact that. compared with other Canadian cities, far too few Charlottetown boys and girls are able to get a High School certi- ficate. Surely, some one in Gor- iottetown must have gathered fig- ures on this-but would I be far out in eslimatlng that in propor- tion to population, from three to five times as many boys and girls of Halifax and Saint John are able to pass Junior Matriculation (second year P.W.C.l'! This is un- fortunate even if the boys and girls stay at home, but often a much more serious handicap to those who leave "The Island".

Educational standards for who want to enter skilled trades, better office positions, and the Civil or Armed Services. have been stepped up greatly in the past- ten years. This i: also true. though perhaps not to the same degree. for girls who want to train as nurses or gel the bellcr office jobs. Today it is very dif- ficult lo get a start in any job except unskilled labor or routine machine tending, without a high school certificate. The Army, for example. set their standard for privates at the equivalent of sec- ond yenr l?.W.C. P. E. Island boys and girls are as bright as can be found anywhere, and it is a pitv to hﬂV‘. them =0 bandi- panned in getting into the better paid occupations, simply because P.W.C. has not space and staff to give enough of them the courses

they need. Th: some: situation holds for university entrance, though per-

boys ‘

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haps not in oo serious a form be- cause of the smaller numbers in- volved. P.W.C. standards have al- ways been high. and its students have an enviable record in Cann- dian universities. Naturally, you only yvani to send those to Col- lege who will benefit by university training, and there is some sense in setting high standards for uni- versity’ entrance. But I am far from convinced that you can pick the best by failing larger and larger numbers at the Grade 9-10 level.

For since the amount covered by the courses is fixed by agree- ment with Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, what must happen is that you “raise“ standards by stressing memory of details. So many brilliant pupils are discour- aged by the type of instruction and the kind of ivork necessary to pass such cxaminations. Later. when they discover that lhcy are really suited to university work (which stresses intelligent organ- ization of large amounts of sub- icct matteri. they are blocked by the nccd of getting up from one to three years of high school.

I am, Sir. ctc.

Saskatoon, Sask.

(The writer ol’ the above letter. Dr. Cook. is a son of the late T. L. Cook and Mrs. Cook of Murray River, P.E.I., and received his preparatory education at Prince of Wales College. going from lihere to Acadia University, where he graduated with honors as a gold medalist. He continued his post graduate study at Yale. re- ceiving his PhD. from that in- stilution. Dr. Cook was a mem- ber of the faculty of Acadia Uni- versity for l2 years and will be remembered as an outstanding in- structor by many formcr pu-pils. For four years, during the war. he was on the staff of the Uni- versitv of Toronto and served on the Advisory Board of the Na- tional Selective Service and as Rc- search Psychologist with the Can- adian Army. He has recently rc- siszncd as head of the Department of Psychology at the University of Saskatchewan and accented a position as Director of Research with the Department of National

mmil9iThe Western Tradition

tSir Oliver Franks, British Am- bassador ai. Washington, in the Virginia Quarterly Review)

Men can have hope for the fu- lure and confidence in their activ- ities in ihc world only if they also believe that the universe is not indifferent to man and his ef- forts. It must have a character such that what he does can make a difference and is not ameaning- less scribble on the sands of time. l: must be posible for his activ- ities to have significance in the sum of things. But if this is the case, the world in which he lives‘ and acts is so constituted that it does not frustrate the use of his iactillics.

What is involved in such a be- lief about mans relation to his en- vironment? When he tries to ac- quire knowledge of it, he is not stopped short by its sheer unin- iclligibiliiy. When he tries to create beauty, he is not frustrated by the irredeeinable chaos and dis- order of what he encounters. When he pursues happiness and goodness. he is not prevented from the rcalization of his ideals by the intractable indifference of his sur- rotmdings.

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We have hope because we be- lieve that in this world it is pos- sible through human effort to pain knowledge, create beauty, and realize the good. It is a con- dition of the hope and confidence which characterize Western civili- zation that the constitution of the universe includes those values by which men think. create, and act. Belief in progress ultimately de- pends on the religious view of the Christian tradition.

It is therefore completely ex- cluded by that other philosophy so dramatically expressed by Ber- trand Russell. of man alone in an alien and inhuman world. alone among hostile forces: "That man is the product of causes which had no provision of the end they were achieving: that his origin, his growth. his hopes and fears, his loves and beliefs. are but the out- come of accidental collqcations of atoms: that no fire. no heroism, no intensity of thought or feeling, can preserve an individual beyond lhc stave: that all the labors of the ages. all the devotion, all the inspiration, rill the noon-day brightnrs of human genius, are destined to extinction in the vasl. death of the solar system. and that the whole temple of man's achievement must inevitably be buried beneath the debris of a uni- verse in ruins-all these things. if

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pfqpuied by the American opera- tors, then, in view of our national shortage of U.S. dollars. we may be forced inio restricting U. S. oil imports in Ontario. Either way, the U. S. industry is going to lose part of its market, and it makes very little difference whether the loss occurs in Canada or the U.S.

itself. Restrictions will simply make things worse. - Calgary Herald.

Australia has long disputed with California and British Columbia the honor of having the worlds tallest trees. When the matter was raised recently in the Australian geographical magawne, Walkabout. A. G. Campbell quoted a letter written on January 18. 1889, by David Boyle of Forest Hill, 25 miles from Melbourne, Victoria. Mr. Boyle slates that he and Mr. N. J. Claire had just measured a eucalypt tree in the ranges nearby and had found it to be 4'73 feet

high. It was I14 feet in circum- ference at the case and 81 feet at four feet from the ground. — Aus- tralia News.

There‘; nothing utilitarian about pockets this year. Not pockets like the worlds top designers are giving us. They are used to give hip emphasis in a sculptured line as in the black satin gown. or full- ness in a peplum-like affair. The line of the silhouette. which is gradually becoming the most im- portant, is the slim one. This is often softened by some sort of drape. or as they say "emphasis," at the hipline to give a rounded look there. Slashed, draped and folded pockets work in vvry smartly here to give the desired

so nearly certain. that no philo- sophy which rejects them can hope to stand.“ That is the re- ligion of hopelessness, a religion to which Western civilization with its hope for the future and its belief in the possibility of progress can never give its allegiance.

lt is now our turn to carry for- ward the tradition and build fur- ther on what we have inherited. I-f we are to do this effectively we must understand the tradition and appreciate the inheritance. Western civilization was created and has progressed through intel- ligent effort. This in turn is now required of us. I

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