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CHABLOTTIZTOWPL SATURDAY, AUGUST ‘l, 196B

An Unforgettable Finals

Yesterday the curtain rang down on the pub- lic life of one of Canada's greatest parliament- arians when Prime Minister Mackenzie King took farewell as leader of the Liberal Party which he has led, directed and) dominated for twenty-nine years of the greatest period in the history, not only of Canada but of the world. it was a mag- nificent effort, punctuated with applause loud and long, showing that notwithstanding differ- ences which might prevail as regards details of the Prime Minister's policies and procedure, the back-bone, the rank and file of the party; stands now, as never before, four-square behind his lead- ership.

The speech, long and analytic, was a justif- ication of his endeavours to successfully main- tain the unity of Canada,- to build up the coun- try to a higher pitch of prosperity, wellbeing and world responsibility than ever hitherto enjoyed. The Prime Minister proudly claimed thatthrough two of the greatest conflicts experienced in a generation in the history of the world, Canada had not only survived but came out in the last and most disastrous to other nations in the world, stronger, more vigorous, more prosperous and coherent than ever. Today, he claimed, as the result of his policies and direction, the Lib- eral Party ‘was not only the strongest and most potent in the country, but the only one out of which a new Government could be formed, it not being practicable for the other parties, individ- ually or by coalition, to supplant it.

lt was a great occasion, and naturally one which justified the retiflng leader to exert him- self to the utmost to convince his supporters and, if possible, the world at large, that never before, and possibly never again, will the Eng- lish-speaking world experience in leadership, acumen and diplomacy, such another statesman as the Liberals are losing by the voluntary—and he strongly insisted upon the war-d voluntary- retirement of Prime Minister King.

lt may or may not be that the speaker who followed him, Premier Angus Macdonald of Nova Scotia, made an equally marked impression on the audience; but he gave credit, not so much to Mr. King but to Sir Wilfrid Laurier, for laying ‘the foundation of the unity of all the races in Canada-English, Irish, French and Scotch- which had stood the test of time and conflict.

The Big Fair

Once more the big event of the summslf season-the Provincial Exhibition and Old Home Week—is drawing near and with the formal opening by His Excellency _tho Governor- General on Tuesday will see what is predicted to be a record-breaking crowd in attendance. Al- reqdy the number of visitors, both returning islanders and newcomers, is in excess of other years and fresh arrivals are pouring In dflll)’ and nightly.

The chief drawing card, of course. l5 ll" magnificent racing programme with over 250 entries in the fourteen separate events. The fastest trotters and pacers from all parts of the Maritimes will be on the track, and in ad- dition there will be spectacular feats and vaude- ville performances equal to anything seen in any part of Eastern Canada. Added to these attractions will be the customary iivestockcx- hibition, with keen competition in the various classes, and the hilarious old-time Midway which is as indispensable to Exhibition Week as hot dogs and ice cream cones.

President Kennedy and his fellow directors _of the Exhibition and Driving Park Association have left nothing to chance in planning next ‘week's programme, and they are looking for-

_ward confidently to the co-operation of all our citizens and visitors in making it an unpreced- ented success.

Soiioolliacatlons

Britain's educationists have been carrying

out a scientific investigation into vacation needs jof school children which may, in time change the whole idea of holidays. The investigation, which was carried out by a committee of edu- cation officers and teachers, army at planning --a refon-ned vacation program to give the great- ‘ est benefit to children. From their recommend- ations it seems that Britain's school children may soon have shorter vacations-but more of them.

under ii years of age should have not less » than a week's break after six to eight weeks ' school, but should never be away for more than l four to five weeks. Six weeks’ vacation, they . think, is too long for children in infant schools, gwho get bored. Children in grade schools are dinding that modern methods demand more work on their part and they need a rest after ieight, weeks in school.

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Four more days tjll .0111. Horne Week. The Governor-General in residence here; I I I I

Tomorrow Ilth Siindoy after Trinity. I I I I

‘ i. Choice of new Liberal Leader this after-

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A representative of the Conservative Party hes lied the privilege of officially "spying" the

i Convention proceedings this week et Ottawa to

The committee recommends tliot children‘

cobble‘ hirn_the_be_tte_r “tTdifect-arrangements when his own Party meets there next month. l Q

Our fisheries show a gratifying increase In quality and _volue, for which thanks-be.

The Canadian Press describes the big Lib- eral Convention at Ottawa as being "dull". That, of course, is in comparison with the "show business" at similar conventions in Philadelphia.

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The Hon. Cyrus MacMillan was honoured by a seat on the platform at the opening of the Liberal Convention by virtue of being both a Privy Councillor and an ex-Portfolio-holder.

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The Montreal Star has jumped its price from 3c to 5c due to "vastly increased costs in all phases of newspaper production." And the

increase has been terrific.

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Tomorrow's d-ate i945, Soviet Foreign Min- ister announced that the Allies had requested Russia to join in the war against Japan and that Russia had agreed. Prime Minister Attlee welcomed "the great decision."

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World shipping has been increasing rapid- ly during the past year with Great Britain and Ireland leading in new construction. Canada's tonnage is today five times what it was before the war and carries one-half of our imports. The fact, however, that only eighteen per cent of our exports are carried in Canadian bottoms indicates that there is still room for expansion.

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lt is interesting to note that Washington is not the only Capitol wishful of getting rid of its Communists. A bulletin from Bucharest declares the Communist party in Czechoslo- vakia will be purged between Oct. 1 and Dec. 3i. The Cominform Bulletin printed a com- munique issued by the Czech Communist cen- tral committee saying the purge is intended to clean the party of "accidental and strange"

elements.

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At eighty-eight, the "Gloomy Dean" of St. Paul's fDr. lnge) is as pessimistic as hereto- fore. Addressing the Conference of Modern Churchmen he said he is convinced after a lifetime in the pulpit that preaching is an un- satisfactory business. "lt is like throwing a bucketful of water over a row of harrow-necked vessels," he said. "A drop or two may find its way in here and there." But he still believes in the printed Word on which preaching is based.

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Their Excellencies the Governor-General and Lady Alexander of Tunis and family may have to leave earlier than anticipated in order to be at home at Rideau Hall, Ottawa, when Rear Admiral the Earl of Mountbatten visits Canada to open the Toronto Exhibition. Lord Mountbatten's appointment as Flag Officer Commanding the First Cruiser Squadron in succession to Rear Admiral R. V. Syimonds- Taylor will take effect towards the end of Oct- ober. The Earl will visit Edinburgh in the aut- umn, to open a maritime exhibition which is being held on October 14 in aid of the Edin- burgh branch of King George's Fund for Sail- ors. _ ,-

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Napoleon sailed for St. Helena this date 1815, where in i821 he died. His body was con- veyed to France in 1840 and laid in the lnvalides in Paris. The episode of Napoleon is perhaps the masts-remarkable and fascinating in Nine- teenth century history. His elemental genius plunged into the complicated and chaotic con- ditions created by the French revolution, and acted with almost magical effect. Un- hampered by tradition, unmoved by moral or religious influences, he was, as nearly as it is possible to, be, sheer intellect stalking through the world, bringing all problems straight to the touchstone of his ardent brain. Endowed with a simplicity which rejected all but essen- tiiils, he was not only a supreme logician but a supreme idealist, and it was excess of idealism that ruined him in the end.

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Messrs. Bracken and MacDonnell, in their closing speeches in the Debate on the Prices Committee Report, (says The Letter-Review), expressed broad, general economic theories which should command admiration. Even with their excessive caution, they d-id lay down the broad principle that the present problem is an automatic result of policies of war finance. Mr. Bracken inquired how, if everyone who has in- creased prices is a profiteer, anyone in Canada can be regarded as innocent. He even pointed out that there is every certainty that, as a result of all this fussing with butter prices, there will be far less than enough butter stor- ed this Summer to provide for next Winter. Mr. MacDonnell pointed out that rolling back prices makes a good story for CCF politicians-but that the Saskatchewan Government carefully avoided imposing price control after taking power to do that.

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A move ls on foot in Saint John, N. B., to organize an alert, live-wire City and District Amateur Athletic Association, working side by side with a Women's Amateur Athletic Associa- tion. The obiect of these associations is not

to displace the present leagues and clubs, but to co-ordinatn and strengthen their efforts by rallying public support behind thorn. The oirii is to help provide the playing facilities, the skilled coaching, the financing, the leadership that many existing organizations need. Also, the new associations would strive to revive pub: lic interest in sports that have waned-such as senior rugby-in the lost decode or two. It would be a wonderful thing for amateur oth- letics in the Maritimes, says the Telegraph- Journal, it there were "going" organize ns of that type in every community. Their primary purpose would be to build healthy bodies and sound minds and cultivate good sportsmanship,

rather than to produce Olympic timber-but they would do that, too. ‘ g

THE GUARDIAN.

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VETERAN’! COMPLAINT

Sir, - I would enk for space in your paper to make public the fact. that. after serving three yenrs in the armed forces during the war and applying for a job at Falcon- wood Hospital in a position I could fill, I was turned down be- cause I was told I was not physic- ally lit.

It 1 am not phySlCBlly (it to hold n harboring 10b. why did 1 not get n pension? It I am not. eligible for

pension, I should be able to hold

Now that peace has come back to the world we ex-servlce men are of no account. If we have the pull. and are of the right. political 6010M. we get a job; if not we have to fend for ourselves, and sometimes that. means the differ- ence between three square meals a day and starvation.

I —, sir, etc, BJII‘. Charlottetown.

i>——i~—- . A CRITIC CRITICISED

Slr,—It would keep one buoy indeed 1f he replied to every im- pertinent and wrath-provoking letter that. appears from Lime 1,0 time lrr the press, but. there are times when s reply is urgently demanded in the name of fair- Dluy- Take. for instance, the let.- ter that appeared tn your Forum a feiw days ago written by one Who describes himself no "Dis- gusted Tourist", and who 1n mm may be untly described no cis- Zllstlng tourist. This tourist, or at least. self-styled tourist, actually calls upon the citizens of prince

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A LETTER FROM LONDON Ta have seen Queen Victoria's emanation procession and the young Queen herself driving fri her gilded coach from Westmin- lster Abbey was something to write home about; and this was the ex. perlerice of e Charlottetown youth 110 years ago. whose letter to his father of the some name. Hon. Thomas Heath HBNUBXMLTIBS been preserved and is published here through the courtesy of Mr. Ira. M. Brown, Cumberland Street, who treasures it. among his family possessions.’ Mr. Havilond. who later became Colonial Secretory, Solicitor General and Lint/orient. Governor of this Province. rmd subsequently Mayor of Charlotte- town frc-rn 1886 to 1893, was born here Nov. 13. 1822. and educated in Brussels. It was while on e holiday in London an a youth of sixteen that he witnessed the spectacle described below, to which he adds touching expressions of his flllnl feelings:

"London. 3rd July 1036 ‘My deer Pope: "I am now ln London for the holidays. Uncle Bob left. London for Turkey the same week as we arrived here for the holidays; he was vcry sorry to leave us, no the Coronation was so near. Oh how I wish that you had been ln London with me, dear Papa, on the day of the Coronation! I nvlll en- deavour to describe trhe events of that. day to you u well iis-I am able

"I had s. beautiful seat. fn n. booth rented in the Westminster Abbey yard. So anxious were people to have n sight. of our youthful Queen an that day, that. even the house taps were crowded with people from Piccadilly to West- minster Abbey. The procession was the most. beautiful that. I ever saw 1n imy life. Tlhe Queen's carriage seemed nslf it was massive gold,arid the Queen looked so beautiful with tier crown upon her head and her scoptrc in her hand.

“In the evening I went to nee the Illuminations and Fire Works. which were magnificent and grand beyond rllscrlptlan. ff you had been transported into London on that. day you would have fancied yourself in some Fairy Lend.

"Give my love to dear Mairirnn 5nd tell tier that. f would give all that I have to see her and have one single kiss from her; ell my past happiness oftm comes to my mind. I hope 1’ shall see f‘ __' ’

“This barberlng job at. the Hospital. -

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Edward Island to fire their Prem- ler and. his party and thus secure n Government that would make this beautiful Province what it ought b0 be. I suppose he mearis among other things an ideal re- sort. for easily disgusted tourists. Now. Slr, there ls no doubt a considerable-section of the citiz- ens 0f Prince Edward Island who think our Premier and his party ought to give place to new ones. and 1t is their legitimate and consistent privilege to say so. pub- licly and privately. But that. n disgruntled tourist should pre- sume upon the privilege of pub- llcly doing so goes beyond this writer's conxpreherislon of fitness or courtesy. Imagine 1f you can n. P. E. Island tourist going over to England and writing a. letter to the London Times calling upon the people of England to fire Mr. Attlee and his whole party, and get s really decent Government that wouldn't disgust. tourists. Of course Disgusted Tourist does not. give his mime, and the public in general cannot know who tio or she is or to whst. brand of tourist he belongs. Is he a "full- fledged tourist, or just s. former potato and herring-fed native now living on the hospitality of his friends, and going about the farm calling n horse n "hoes". and ln-

frame?

FROM: ATLANTA IN CALYDON

Before the beginning of yearn There came to the making of man Time, with n gift of tears;

Grief. with a glessthat. ran; Pleasure, with pain for leaven; Summer, with flowers that. fell; Remembrance, fallen from heaven; And madness, risen from hell; Strength, without bands to smite; Love that endures for n breath; Night, the shadow of light;

And Life, the shadow of Death.

And the high gods took in hnnd Fire. and the falling of tears. Arid a measure of allditig sand From under the feet. of the years. And froth and drift. of the sea. And dust of the labouring earth, Arid bodies of things that. be

In the houses of death and of

birth: And wrought with weeping and laughter. And fashioned with loathing and

ve. Wit-h life before and after. And Death beneath and above; For a day and e night and a mor-

raw. ‘mot his strength might endure for n span. with travail and heavy sorrow The lioly spirit of Mnn. '

—A.' C. Swinburne. Quickies

Davies before my holfdnyo are ended. Give my love to Grund- mammn and, all my (holes nnd Aunts. I suppose you will coon be settled in your new house. I hnvo heard since I have been in Lindon that. James 11nd left. you and that he had been hero to see me. l should have been pleased to have seen him it l had been fri London.

"I om afraid youwlll not find me improved in my writing. l.’ do» not think I shall ever be able to write s gentle-manly hand. In Latin I nrn reading Ballast. and the 2rd Aeneid of Virgil. I cm ln Square Root In Arithmetic and f have fintnhed the 3rd Book of Euclid. 1 have nl- most denpafred of ever receiving another letter from you u ft. in no long since I linvo had one. I hope thstin twomoreyenrstnhnllneo you nll Again. 1’ will you oould spare tLme to come to Enllnnd. deer Papa, how happy it. would make mo! Give my love and nklcc tonllmysfntoro. Ihnve riotlnent- loned Bob's acme u f Ill wrlttnl tohlm. wiohmybentlontoyou and deer Mums-no. -

The letter.- folded and, cooled with wnir (without envelope) en written tn n hand no legible no copper-piste, in addressed on th outer side be "The Hoflsl T. H. I-lnvtlnnd. Charlotte ‘N18. Prhoe Edrrlnfn Inland. man -

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quiring the names of ell sorts of

agricultural implements? In n week or two of his "well-earned holiday" he will perhaps be bid- ding his hospitable friends good- bye, exhortlng them to "cheer for he will not. forget to come soon again. I em, Sir, etc, ISLANDER.

Queer Arithmetic

(Halifax Chronicle)

The current issue of the gov- ernmental publication Health and Welfare contains several verywell- Pwduced pages of laudiatory com- ment. on the benefits that have aoerucd to Canadian children an a. result of the passing of the Family Allowance Act. It is an admirable piece oif pmpagnndg, edmlrably Produced. justifying with every device of letter-press, roto- grovure and graph the Govern. mantis greatest adventure into so- cfallsrtlc territory.

1'!- Presents the odd difficulty, nevertheless. There are statistics, as is inevitable in such a produc- tion. Like other statistics, these are not always quite clear. It is not obvious. for instance. how 1.679.480 families. each receiving on the average $13.30 per month. can be satisfied by the issue of 1.683396 cheques. h! ls alleged to be the case.

It is explained how the Family Allowance has mode it. possible through governmental benevolence for law-income families to iri- crease the allowance of such foods ris milk to their children, It falls, however, to speak or! milk products, essaeciiilly butter. which ls equally necessary for the child, but which, again through gov- ernmental action. or inaction, is likely to become n rare luxury during the coming fall and winter months.

Undoubtedly the Fatally Allow- ance has proved popular. since it suggests to many people that. they are getting something for noth- ing. It is. perhaps. proper that. tho Government should publicize the facts concerning t.he opeg-gt. lon of the Act. ‘Phat. however, is no excuse for apparent. discrepan- cies in the account. nor. perhaps. ls lt. quite justifiable to paint. the picture in such clear-cut black- nrid-iwhlte fashion. all positive and no negative. as this publication seems to do.

IIBEITNIANS MEET

MONTREAL. Aug. b—-fOP)— The Ancient. Order of Hibernian: tonight. selected Boston as site of its next convention ln 1950. Earl- ier in the day 500 delegates from Canada and the United States elected Michael A. McGrath of Cleveland as president, while JJ. smith of Sydney, N5. was named Consdlsn vice-president. and John W. Lawless of Dover, N. B., be- come U. s. vice-president.

By Ken Reynolds

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Thomnlies-ofanewnnce any! ll. "takes the taste of beans out. of beans." But. as n connoisseur of tho resteurnnt been. we favor crie that. would put. the taste o1 beans into beans. -Ottowo Cit-i- zen.