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Preoideui lJeut. Col. W. Chester S. Mclmro Vice-President: .1. a. Burnett, 1-21.13» Secretary: Lieut. Col. D. A. Alflcliinnou, 0.8.0. Editor uni Managing Director: J. B. Burnett, FJJ. Associate Editors: Frank iValker and Holt. h: A. Burnett, R.C.N.V.R. (On Active Service)

“The Strongcylfiemory is Weaker the "Weakest Ink."

Monn-advfaiidiidsmftti, 1945 A Maritime Ballad

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Some time ago it was our pleasure to re; view a stirring narrative poem by the Maritimfl stiperintentletit of The Canadian Press, Mr. Andrew Mcrltol. It dealt with the earliest ef- forts of the French to found a uew state in the Americas, zuul crcatcd much favorable in- terest, Flr. .\iL‘l'i\L'i lllls since been delving into another purim] 111' 1111:‘ '<t;11'v_ and has completed a \v11r|<, >ll11l'll_\' 111 l_ jmblf-ln-il b_v the Imperial Ptiblishing k111i 11111; llilitztx, which bids fair to rank as :1 c‘. -'~ 111 hind. lt is entitled "']‘11!!11,’1.11 - 1/ 11f .\'11-:'11 $001111 in 1/1: Silvlirs", .. cuges comparison with 501119 111' "we-i \\1\rl( 11f the present Poet l.aurc.'1; "-11: mitt-r“ days The verse form 11111111‘ 1 - '1 u-t-d by Maseficld in "[)1,~11[1,~1»" ffil-tftlit’ :11 1111* live Street"; a fnriu 11inch 11:1- zilso a favorite with old-er [inc-ts and w ' uniiiiiltcrl possibilities ill capable 1111111!» ilcrlnl uses it with rc- frcshing gusto, with .1 fine feeling for rhythm, tuirrative and :1‘u111~pl1rre, 11nd with such aptness of word and 1. ~t~ that one guts the very tang of the sea i1: E- description 11f old-time ships and tht- nw-n 11E» sailed Illa-ill.

Th1- '1'11111:1’.1.1_1:v1-1' “'11s :1 Confederate cruis- er tinder 111111111111111 11f b11111. fohn 'l'zi_vlor \Vood, which plzrvcrl llriYlKI with U S. Federal shipping (luring the Civil \\‘:11". Forced to take shelter in llalifxix, shc Illiillt‘ :1 sensational escape by sailing through tho lint-tern Passage, avoiding the Federal blockade and returning safely to “Thninuton, .\'1'\rth Carcliiia.‘ After the War shc was sold t1» rlzc _l.'lll(ill<‘s€. Captain Wood, who was a Qrlitnlsun 111' 7 Earv 'l'z1_vlor, twelfth President of the Lhitcd . ates and a nephew of Jefferson llavis. President of the Confed- eracy, came back to livc in Halifax.

interspersed with this and other naval episodes are descriptions of Ilalifax and the North Atlantic seaboard in the years im- mediatelv preceding the Union of the British Provinces in North America. which give the poem its special interest to Maritime readers. Those were vcars, as the author says in his Foreword, "bedeclcerl with spacious days." The ballad is “an zineuipt to picture, in broad out- line, this period from the vantage ground of Nova Scotia." .-\ud there are some fine touches: “The spirit of re-birth was everywhere

And everywhere the Joyousness of life.

The builders‘ yards rang ever with the clear

Staccato of the adze and whine of knife

On hard and whirring stone 1n raucous strife. The wharvos ivcre jn-mntcd with ships and strange

produce And over all the smell of tar and spruce.

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Broad Bedford Basin rmcl the Dartmouth Lakes, The North West Arm and Melville Island Cove. Resplendent in the beauty that remakes Man on his Journey to the bourne of love, Bedecked with lengthening days. Ami high above The Citadel's green scarf and faring forth The measured beat of pinious bearing North."

There are lines which for beauty ivould be hard to surpass:

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"The beach lav like a sickle. east and west, Fronting 1hr grey Mlantic At one en-d, A gaping headland thrust its barren crest Against the blue of sky and strove to fend The land from inroadsof the sea, and send His ranks of cohorts, shattered, gnashing, lame Back to thr- tireless ocean, whence they came."

Tilt-u, 21.1 1111w, in martial trim:

llilifazc harbour appeared

"The roadstcad tccmed with shipping and the docks Topped by a grove cf ntrists and tangled spars Bustlsd with . while mounting flocks . and planed above the cars . Shmc vc-"scls showed the scars Of blistering .1..l<.=. off some Southern cape With rlvcn rails and skysails all agape.

The panoply of war showed everywhere

Among the arfrosics of commerce tied Up to thc whnrvrs. Grcn.‘ lumbering arks with gear

And guns cirniqh t r1170 a township vied

With swrcl llzi-sti 1111p z towering in their pride. The Duncan wifli ‘ - Admiral Hope aboard Swung off 111:» Dc bxzinrlishing a sword.” 11112:) 1-:-f1"1'('t11‘cs to the

1H1; .\i.'ll'l.llllCS then enjoyed, lo-t .11 Confederation. Mr. Merkel nee/l no; have gone far for his basic facts. lie could ltavc 1hr; them out of thc Sirois (pitinrk-ioii l'1']111l‘[ itself. as in the fol- lowing quotation which \\c‘ hope the delegates to this week's l)11111inion-Proviiicial Conference will duly read and digest: “A! the middle of i111.’ 111.1"! f‘(‘1'l1l1!'_\' Ilia .l/11r1'l1111v.r rcrrr one of i111! world's _r/1'1'11/ 1"11:111111‘1"1"1111 1111111171111‘ flmorrr, 110111- 1111] four/h /*1111"1' 1'11 1'1‘_1/1'.1"11‘1'1"11 11111111100 of ship- ping. '1'/11",v 111111 1111111111 11v 111111111111] r/ri/t: to c111'r_v I/irir 1111-11 fv-nrlurr 111111 I111: r1111 provided the Imckbnuc 11f I111» 1111.11'11r.1.r. In addition, 110w- ezirr, 111v :'1‘.v.rrl.r 11f .\'11:'1i Slwfin 11nd New Brims- ‘wick torn: 1'11_1/11_1/1"1I 111 1/11.‘ 1111111‘ from Eilroflc I0 the (Iuilnl 51111121, I11 Sun/Ii rhnrrirn, the Earl 1111111‘: and .'l11.v11'11/111. T7101 curried coal from England In 1111' Fast, 1111111111 from Ilia Chine/m I.r11v111.r 1o 1i111/1111111 111111 lfruurr, firlrolzmn from the Gulf 111111.: rn lfiu-n/w 111111 $011111 America and wool from .»111.1'I1'111i11 11> 1Z11r11/1r. T111- ‘Blue- nosc’ enamels 11w.‘ In 111' rrrn 1'11 curry grcat port 1'11 1111' 211111-111." (Sin-is Report. Vol. I, page 22. It arltls that "Prince Edward Island was neatly itilcrjratcil in this hhiritime econ- om_v.")

This rcmls rihno-"t lilm a prose transcript of Mr. Rlcrkclis opvniuu verses, proving the authcnticilv 11f hi- bzivlrgrouurl. llut such proof is irrelevant to the t'l1j(I\'lll(‘11f of a very fine poem. It is lil(‘i'.'lllll‘(‘. not 11 text-book. In the v"<d| of Sir Philip Sidney. its author "ht-

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' _THE GCAIADIAN

ginneth not with obscure definitions, which must blur the margent with interpretations, and load the memory with doubtfulncss; but he cometh to you with words set in delightful pro- portion, either accompanied with, or prepared for, the well enchanting skill of Musick; and

l with a tale forsooth heycomcth uhto you; with

a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner.”

The book runs to over a hundred pages, is attractively printed and bound, and is illus- trated with black and white drawings by Mr. Robert Chambers.

“How Druhi: ls Drunk?"

The following editorial iS from the Ottawa Journal. The coincidence of’: similar case to the one noted having occurred in a magistratcb court in Charlottetown gives it added local in- terest:

"The decision of a Toronto magistrate that a man in a drunken sleep over the wheel of his stationary automobile could not be convicted of drunken driving and sent to jail under the Crim- inal Code, for the reason that the accused "was so intoxicated that he was incapable of having control of the motor car" within the meaning of the act, raises some interesting speculation.

“Apparently this means that a driver can be convicted of drunken driving if, at the wheel of a parked motor car, he can keep his eyes open and retains some capacity for the motions necessary to operate a car. But, if he takes that last drink, parks the car and goes into peaceful sleep over the wheel, he is not in "care and control’ of the vehicle and liable to seven days in jail—he is just taking a nap in the open air, and could anybody ob- ject to that?

"There does come a time, of course, when the alcoholic haze begins to lift, and the drunken sleeper stirs. Once able to ivigglc a finger but presumably still far from sobriety, our driver forthwith loses the legal benefit of his unconsciousness and the police can nab him and make a charge stick. Once more he is in “care and control" of his vehicle, and the jail

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The old don-y mug 1.*:.°.=1.=: "1" n o cc o l - ably Hfrohito. — Billlwa Talia. Herald.

The architect oovm hi: mistaken with 1W. the physician with sod and the bride with n number of UIIIIBB-Drinclpllly malyonnlise. - Struliord Beacon-Hera d.

Boy Sooilll of Inngn, India, Silent two weeks cobra snakes prior to 11111810115 ertlval. An result only one person was killed by snake-bite at the festival, as compared with an average of mprc than 100 at previous festivals. — Amherst News.

Moonshine hold u evidence in on Alabama cue ate from through u metal can. and flooded he sheriff's office. That stuff may not be a bev- erage. but. it. gouldmbtc a sopreil: weapon, or per up: n super- ue we've been hearing about. — Wind- sor ar.

As the the Queen Mary and Queen Eliza- beth, through the war becomes known it is apparent that, during the years of their construction when Britain thought it was build- lng for peace 1t was, actually, buildin for wbr. — Port Arthur News-C ronicle.

The Duchess of Windlor In foi- lowing closely all accounts of the troubles of King Deopold, whose marriage to n commoner is at least partially responsible for the Bel- gian Parliament's op sition to his return from exile. S e sees a nar- allel to her own marriage, which cost her husband the British throne. -Newsweek.

"Weekly Ne wcpnper Editor Reaches Age of 85." And is doubt.- less as spry as one on a daily at 45. But we'll say this for the dairy fellows, that they have to shoul- der the world's woes six times as often. And that kind of a load is no armful of sofa-stuffing. It's moire of a hod of brick-Ottawa

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It may be that with the return of the automobile it will be pos- slble for people who work in town

door yawns for him.

“It is clear that this section of the Cod: should be clarified if the law is not to be made ridiculous. One judge has held that an iii- toxicated and sleeping man can be in charge cf a car within the definition of the law. and that seems reasonable to us, but other judges have agreed with the magistratds ruling. It is ab- surd that before the potential menace of such a situation the police should be helpless-that they should have to wait quietly for the sleeper to awaken so that they will have legal grounds for gathering him in."

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Welcome to the delegates to the C. W. L. holding their annual convention in our midst this week.

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This will be a more-or-less fateful weel: for both Provinces and the Dominion, when the future of each will be at stake at the Conference

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at Ottawa. Anything is liable to happen, eith- er to lead to further consolidation and progress, or separation and disaster to the smaller prov-

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When the British election was announced, within four days over fortytons of ballot paper and miniature copies of appropriate election ad- dresses for voters in the British forces and tire Merchant Navy throughout the world were dispatched from the United Kingdom to areas ranging from Iceland, the Channel Islands and Western Europe, to India, Burma, Ceylon, Can- ada, U.S.A. and South Africa.

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Boy Scouts from all over the Province rc- turned from their annual outing Saturday hav- ing thoroughly enjoyed the experience of four- teen days Scout training under canvas at Camp Buchan, that ideal rendezvous provided by the generosity of the Hon. George D DcBlois a number of years ago. The \V0lf Cubs will now have their chance and it is to be hoped they will be favoured with as finc weather and profit- able experience as their seniors.

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Mrs. William Shakespeare, Anne Hath- way, died this date r623; he was nineteen and she sixteen when they married; there were three children, Susanna, married Dr. john Hall, twins, Judith, married Thomas Quincey, and Plamnet, their only son, who died at the age of eleven;

wife my second best bed with the furniture"; buried at Stafford, a brass plate on her grave- stone reads: "Ncerc lyeth interred the body of Anne, wife of William Shakespears, who de- parted this life the 6th day of August, 1623, being of the age of 67 years."

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Quebec election rumour probed. At Ot- tawa, Mr. Godbout, leader of Quebec Opposi- tion declared: “I don't think Mr. Duplessis will want to face the House again with the small majority he has." At Quebec, Premier Duples- sis replied: "It is ridiculous for a public man, former premier, to launch rumors like this one. I think he was sick when he made that declara- tion, and I hope he regains health as soon as possible."

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A novel process marking a new departure in high-speed welding has been developed by a United Kingdom. Its outstanding advantages are rapidity and simplicity of operation com- bined with one hundred per cent efficiency. The process constitutes a method of attaching studs or rods to steel structures by means of a gun. which shoots the studs into the molten metal formed in the steelwork. The apparatus is fully automatic and has the important advantage that the drilling and tapping needed in other welding operations are eliminated. It also dispenses

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with sealing for ivatertightness since holes are not required in the plating.

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to live in the country. This will help, but until transportation is improved it ls hardly feasible to ex- pect; people who work in town to live outside. However we must re- member that about the only empty houses now available for occupa- tion are outside the cities. Could Fifty years ago R. Coihmoro of- fered his services to the people 0f Arkansas as "architect and under- taker," says The Arkansas Gazette. But "undertaker" was "contractor" much later than when an old English volume re- corded two worthies as having be- come undertakes for a drainage project, and when Diarist Evelyn mentioned in 1666 that a Sir and a Lord had “signed deputations for undertakers’ to furnish their pro- portions of some needed saltpetre.

Unquestionably there is u hous- ing problem in Cmada which makes it difficult for returned per- sonnel to become uickly and com- fortably re-establis ed. This hous- ing difficulty ls creating serious problems for governments on all levels. All are agreed that homes must. be provided but no one yet has been bold enough to say that the towns and cities are over- crowded, and the suddenly swollen urban population should not be thus maintained. - Farmer's Ad- vocate.

it, not be possible to induce fam- ilies which had no actual financial ties in the cities to move out to the available houses, at, least. until others are provided? Or could some of the barracks now standing empty be used. transferring them if necessary. ‘This would not be 11 final solution, any more than Mr. Ilsleyis freezing order. We must have new houses and must have them soon. A start must be made immediately on building them-London Free Press.

The restless spirit of G. G. Mc- Geer has seemingly not been af- fected by his elevation to the Senate. Back in Vancouver, of which city he was once may". he has again been devotinlj hlf thoughts to the betterment o thit- metropolis of the Pacific coast. senator McGeex-‘a latest ambition is to make Vancouver "the W011i" city of _the world." All he would need to perform this miracle i: $50,000,000. But. it would be wort

it. he says. for spread over a numi ber of years the expenditure o $50,000,000 would give steady em- ployment to largo numbers of men and transform the city into a dream place that itself would pa! dividends-Ottawa Oif-lwfl-

1| I taking the jo 50:50:: ilfe. ‘ Tgytlardinflrv m0!’- tas the pea ch00“? l5 a deadly enough weapon PENN‘! l" ‘he mouth of a lusty lunsed hov but; ea shooter with a. sizhl! We 1 hat L; something else aBBlYL when the kids get the ranse with that ll be a miniature machine gun and will njnginif the tar- et/s tem er ion Y-O - bloom, 2 , o In: An eles, a. dil- ohm-god marine, la t e inventor. Unfortunately for the victims A1- vin 111 not far enouan away from his kid days to fomet the devastat- ing effects of a a shooter ex- ertly handled an _ while in m9 illiarine Corps he got a few ideal about sights thatbodo ill for many of us. At any rate he has added a 1111, pggp 915m to the pea shooter and a front sight with crocsbara 111; various levels not unlike Craw- hairs in a rifle telescopic sight.- Kitchener Record.

It |l to reduce the burden of the tanker fleets that Allied forces are struggling to win the oil fields of Borneo. The fields are closer to recent scenes of act than an! other source of supply, nd the in- vosion of Borneo crowd has pro- duced some of the ne ed resui . High-quality oil suitable for ship fuel without refining, is being ob- tained at Tarakan, and there soon should be production at Balikpupan. Netherlands oil experts waded through the surf at. Ballkpapan close behind the Dutch and Aus- tralian aoidlera who made the landing. ‘They were assigned not only to restore production but to try to repair the Balikpapun re- fineries which once made every- thin rom grease m high-octane gasoine. ‘Phe experts have en- thusiastic co-operatlon from the natives in the oil regions. Mic- treatment convinced the Indones-

ian; in Borneo n: elswhere. that no worse masters cou be found in the world than the aoidien of

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OTTAWA DELEGATION ,__. Pg: lylgur editoLIBnI column elf‘ s ue your ea

of the P. 15.1’. delegation rwwp on their way to attend the Dom

Provincial conference at Ottawa as "Punk", Mty dictionary gives the meaning o the word puny 11s; “Inferior in size or strength; weak;

i u‘; "sill-ilk 1. b in on, , canno e a u: ted with all the persons 111311111 up that delegation. looking over the names of some of the delegates probably your assertion is bordering upon the correct. I do know each and every one of the delegates person- ally over g, period of ears and I wish to state that I be] eve that one an is head and shoulders above I refer to Mr. JP. Connol- ly. the ‘Deputy Minister of Recon- struction.

Here is a young man worth wat- ching. as in my humble opinion he is destined to go far. He has ability in abundance, a razor-edged mind which can grasp detail 1n a split second, a desire to be of service. g remarkable memory, a sense of fall‘ Play, coupled with aggressive- ness, determination and youth which has received a tempering in the school of hard knocks 11nd practical experience.

Again in my humble opinion he is the only one of those attending who has an over-all grasp of the situation. In fact if this mission is successful-and let us hope it will-then to this man Connolly should go the credit of carrying the burden of preparation and co- ordination of ul efforts which are to be put. forth at Ottawa.

If the word "puny" can be prop- erly laid to the members of this delegation, then I ask you do not include amongst those so labelled, Mr. Connolly, as his intellect, de- termination, and ability to present and accomplish that which he undertakes is surpassed by none and equalled by few within our Province.

I am, Sir, etc,

the rest.

OBSERVER. Grand Trundle, P. E. I.

Brave New World

(Vancouver Province)

In recent months there has been increasing use of the term “brave new world" to indicate the post- war promised land towards which we all can look if we build enough houses, radios. automobiles and washing machines.

While it was never satisfactor- ily explained why the new world

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--this Utopia of electricity and scientific achievement should be “brave", the public is now slow- ly beginning to realize why inhabi- tants of this new world will have to be supremely courageous.

Mothers who fondle their little sons read with horror of develop- ment of giant flying bombs which can travel across the oceans to reduce unsuspecting cities rubble. Censors are permitted tn disclose that the Germans were trying to break the atom and. if they had been successful, the re- sulting exploson might have de- stroyed the globe.

Communication companies glee- fully announce they have per- fected telephone-radio systems which will confiscate all privacy. When a tired executive tries to sneak away Ior a few days rest at. some backwoods resort the radio- telenhone will follow him with in- ijstent demands from home or of-

ce.

With only a portion of this scien- tific chamber of horrors disclosed most adults heave a sigh of relief that they will not ace full devel- opment of tht- new world's terrors. They look back gladly on the “good old days"—that. era of outside plumbing and tho horse and bums’.

The younger generation, which will travel by jet-propelled planes and be shot at. by super buzz- bombs. should ‘swiftly and real- istically adjust its thinking with regard to ready acceptance of the products of the laboratory. The San Francisco charter is the be- ginning of an attempt to shackle the use of force as a means of arbitrating international differ- ences.