MR. GEORGE BARTER tlefti Veierans' Association of Canada, I
president of the Charlottetown Bl'Rllt'I'I of the Main Brace Naval
Mr. Dave Miller. D.S.C, of Sum- merside. a naval veteran. and
Main Brace Holds Annual Banquet& Dance
Wednesday evening, May 29th, rim ttlover Club took on a nautical touch for the occasion of the first Anttttal Banquet and Dance held in the Charlottetown Branch of the Main Brace Naval Veterann' ,.t..ot-iation of Canada.
l'v'o uniformed sea cadets. Lynn Gallant and Blair Mat.-Donald, c.ip:tbly ushered the distinguished gtltwis to the T.V. room where they owe received by members of the ext-t-tittve and their ladies. "Bands in liitiner" was piped at 7:00 p.m.
rim evening opened with the llllliflll of "0! Canada-" Following (itztcc. which was asked by the Main Brace Protestant Chaplain. Rev. Carton J.T. lbbott. approxi- mzttely 178 members and guests ptuoycd a delicious dinner served by the Ladies Auxiliary of the Canadian Legion. Master of Cere- monies. President George Barter. proposed the Toast to the Queen.
in proposing a toast to the Navy. the Premier the Hon. A.W. Tltithcsnn. remarked briefly on tl1t' rapid changes being made in the Navy and urged members oi the Brace to impress upon their children the opportunities and fu-I
ture which lies in the Royal Can- adian Navy. Mr. "Brud" Pridham very ably responded to the toast.
Deputy Mayor. Mr. A. Waltben Gaudet. proposed a toast to the Main Brace and in so doing said the City Council has been wall pleased with the Club and they hoped that in the near future the Brace would take on some pro- ject of welfare or community work with which they could be identi- fied. 'Mr. Jack Morris responded on behalf of the Brace.
Mr. Walter Wheeler proposed it very fitting toast to the ladies which was capably responded to by Mrs George Barter.
Guest speaker for the occasion was Mr. Dave Miller of Summer- side, a navy veteran and holder of the D.S.C. in a most moving address. Mr. Miller stated that memories and morals were the things by which we live and gave vivid and stirring descriptions of men he remembe ed who faced duly without counting the cost. The same attitude to duty should be a guide to the Club. They should stand as a tinlt for what they thought was right no matter
Prnmler A.W. Matheson at the l"""",l blmtuet and dance of the OPIIDIZIIIDD.
what the issue. In closing he re- minded all present they had four faiths they must maintain; faith in God: our country: the flag and gbove all faith in oneself. PRESENTATION
A surprise iiighiigiit of the even- lns was Provided by Mr. A. Walth- en Gsudet when. on behalf of the City of Charlottetown, be present- ed the President with a life pre- server from the original H.M.C.S. "Charlottetown." The President Iveainnit for the Branch. express- ed his thanks for sttch an appro. priate gift and assured Mr. Gsudot it would be treasured by the members.
One of the main items on the agenda was the installation of the new Executive. The number for lhe commit years was increased by two with the election of two chaplins. namely. Rev. Canon .I.T. lbbott and Rev. Fr. C. Mor- eau. Installing officer was the National Recording Secretary. Florence Roper who was in turn installed by the President. It is regretted that Fr. Moreau was un- able to be present.
The President also read a tele- gram from the National Founder who expressed his regrets at not being able to attend and wished the Branch every success.
The balance of the evening was spent in dancing to the enjoyable music of Art Cantwell and his orchestra.
Trade Board Activities Reviewed By President
"Pct-Innis one of the greatest rontrilntttons eier made by your Hoard to our community is that of the lcztdcrship given over many years, bttt particularly during this past year. to the subject of the future of Metropolitan Charlott- lnun." stated President R.F.. Tay- ior in his report at the annual nwt-ting Friday night of the Char- xoliclnwn Board of Trade.
llcviewlng some of the major pittjt'('IS carried on by the Board throughout the year, Mr. Taylor until in port:
"Formed by our instance. activ- sled by ottr enthusiasm. and sup- ported throughout by our whole- hcttrted faith and confidcnce in this Cominunity which for most of ilk is our Birthplace and Home. the (harlnltclnwn Metropolitan Com- mittee this ucck filed at City Hall and with the adjacent Villages of Parktlale and Spring Park a most coninrehensivt, report giving full details for study to all parties in-
Time tonight does not permit me I to dwell in detail on all of the vari- ious projects on which your Board I has been active this past year-in ;addition to those enumerated above, may I merely record for the record the following additional ones at this time: investigation of the delay in distribution of Airmail through Post Office Boxes here: U.S. Potato Tariffs: United Ap- peal: Springhili Disaster Relief Fund: Canadian National Railway Nova Scotla Short Line; Opening and Naming of ew Federal Build- ing here: Bor en Tormcntine Causeway: Proposed Group In- surancs Plan for the Board: Sup- port to the Charlottetown Little Theatre Brief urging Civic Audi- torium for our City; Establishment of ottr Provincial Building here as a National Historic Shrine; Char- lottetown Waterfront Problems;
upport to Junior Board of Trade
il'l'!'slN'I in this all-important mat- lcr. To Board Representatives- (thtnrman F..l. storey and B.E- Roizcrs.-not forgetting onr Secre- tary as one of the City Represent- atives. as well as acting as Secre- tary of that committee, we owe a: tremendous vote of thanks for their tremendous labours and efforts on our behalf and on behalf of all our citizens. Instead of a Guest Speakerl tonight. we are going to hear a Panel discussion on this subject v of Amalgamation of Charlottetown and the suburban areas of Psrlt-. dale and Spring Park and we trust; you will find the same of muchl IIIIPFPCI. AIR ANNIVERSARY In September last. and in Com- ntrmnrntion of the 15th Annlvew an of the ist continuous lnterpro. tint-ial Dally Airmail and Psssen-' gcr Service in Canada, namely that between here and Moncton. N.B..t In.-tngtirsted on October 0. l93l.l .l'otir Board sponsored a Ceremony: to honour is those early flyers who. pioneered the age of Aviation in "win Provinces down by the Seal Ind in honour of this Province's Father of the Air Age Dr. .!.S. Jenkins The Plaque donated by this Board and unveiled in the lltrrnrw-n at City Hall by W.W.l lvwlcr vthu flew the first schedul-. 04 run of this Service. the very: it I r s s a n t Reception following lhrntiith the courteay.of our oidl lrlendit Maritime Central Airways; Limited lid II! IINIIHC l humor is the evening hooourisgt "'0 din visitors will log live is' 0"? metnorbl as a (min tribute ztmtn !liI:Itlnrf.?':IlIOsttQ is start- e g pm."u' l0l.lt'I1AnI"7l0NI For some years pststoneob the more common complaints re- '''"'d by your Council from the:
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Rome Products Week Exhibit: Can- adian Chamber of Commerce refer-
endum re holding of Dominion Day; Establishment here of a Shlnpera Association; Daylight
Saving Time; Provision for more modern Pullman for C.N.R. Service out of Charlottetown: Paving of jBorden Pier; Progress on promis- ed new Naval Barracks for our City; and Study of Workmen's Compensation Act here in relation to other Provinces.
TRANSPORTATION
"Among the outstanding gener- i al meetings "Mr. Taylor reported" 'wcre those of February 5th a nd .Aprii ioth, 1957, the former being 1 a joint one with the Atlantic Prov- i inces Economic Cottncil with Guest
Speaker R..l. Rankin of Halifax, newly elected A.P.E.C. President. while the latter gave us the op- portunity of entertaining and hear- ing from i956-57 Canadian Cham- ber of Commerce National Presi- dent Raymond Dupuis. Q.C., of Montreal. ..
Of interest too was the special Council Luncheon of March 23. 1957 in honour of Mr. Howard Mann. newly appointed Executive Man-
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one of th'e men who has
g the meeting of the Na- baal Employment Committee. Mr. Moshe: is a fifth generation Cludlln. born in Nova Scotia. Has be! identified With the labour movement for over fifty years. was eloctgd Grand President of Cana- dian Irutherhood of Railway Em- ployees in II)! and in 1927 her took a leading part in organizing the Canadian Congress of Labour of which he was elected Presi- dent. Be retained that office until the merger of the two major la- bour organizations in Canada in April 1956
He is how Honorary President J the Canadian Labour Congress and represents Canadian labour on the National Employment Com- mittee. An Honorary Doctor of Laws was conferred on him in July 1953. and he was awarded C.B.E. for special services during the war. He is a member of the Canada Labour Relations Board.
Will VISIT
Ross C. Brown. of Vancouver. newly elected president of the Can- adian Restaurant Association. will visit Charlottetown June 3 and 4. He began his cross-Canada tour in Saint John. accompanied by Mrs- Brown and Mrs. F. G. Mont- gomery of C.R.A. national office.
ager of the Maritime Transport- ation Commlssion who brought us up to data on more recent develop- ments in this all important subject to all Maritimers - Transportation. including the 1957 decision of the Federal Government, following the recommendations of the Gordon Royal Commission on Canada's Economic Prospects, to launch immediately a general review of our Maritime Transportation Pro- blems as well as render immedi- ate action on the subject of Freight rates from our Atlantic Provinces to Central Canadian points by way of increased subventions running to as high as 20 and 30 per cent and at a cost of 32 millions of dollars annually to the Federal Treasury. The importance of these events during our year is illustrated by the fact that with freight rates now 119.0 per cent higher then they were 10 years ago. that his action this year on the part of the Fed- eral Government constitutes the first time since 1927 that that Gov- ernment will attempt to bring our Marlttms Freight Rates Act up to- date.
ACCUSED OF MURDER.
WATERL00. Ont. tCPi - A charge of murder was laid Satur- day agalnst Richard Beam. 30. following the fatal shooting of Mrs. Augusta Taylor. 47. widowed mother of a seven-year-old daugh- ter. She was shot in a two-room apartment occupied by Beam and his father. Frank Beam. Police said they believed the shooting was the result of an argument over a lawn mower.
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70 A""l'l N-5-C Joint Political Meetings W Enioy Some Slight Revival
most closely connected with the labour movement in Canada for
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Yeirl. Hit A. R. Masher. 01-1-Aw; (cpl - Western pol-lueorge Drew. has elected onlyl in Charlottetown next week. menu "9 uyiyiu . (gnu,-e of L-0men.am,es
t election campaigns that was all but abandoned years ago.
It is the contradictory meeting.. hm; mung; or pdllicll forum. in which rival candidates or their supporters meet in debate to de- rag ugly party and attack their
ponants'.
pgxupg 15 rue instances. how- gvg-, old time. no-hulds- barred color and oratory that nut-turd contrsdwtnrv meetings of n guserltlan or more ago ate The tneetlnzl Ire more peaceful. too. THEY'RE tuvau Now
on; guch was held May 20 at Mossbank. Sask. it featured Premier '1'. C. Douglas of Sin- katchewan and Ross Thatciicr. former CCF member of the Com- mons for Moose Jaw-Lake Centre. who now is Liberal candidate in Aasinlboia against his former CCF deskmate, Hares Armle-
The meeting, called to debate the CCF provincial administra- tion and its crown companies. at- tracted an estimated 2.000 per- sons to a villale of about 600.
Tbatls small stuff compared with a contradictory meeting in st: Hyacinthe. Que.. in the 1911 election. It was attended by 35.- 000 from all over Quebec and parts of Eastun Ontario.
Sen. Charles L. Bishop. H. a long-time parliamentary corres- pondent who covered the meet- ing. said it was the biggest he ever saw.
"The big issue that year was trade reciprocity with the United States." he recalls. "But in Our- bee the main issue was the Navy
Bill. POLITICAL GREAT!
"Henri Boursssa. the old out-. boc nationalist and a great orator and Rodolphe Lemleux. a Liberal got together to debate the navy ilsue.
”The meeting started at two o'- clock and when the train left for Ottawa at seven it was still go- ing on. The big guns had had their say, but the local boy: were still speaking."
(The Navy Bill proposed an ear- penditure of 335,000,000 to stren- ghten British naval forces. It was passed in 19l:i.i
The origin of joint meetintzs is not clear. The practice probably was brought to Canada from Bri- tain and flourished from at least the time of Confederation in H157 until about the middle of the First World War. Then. its pop- ularity declined.
Probably the only constituency 'in which contradictory meetings have been held at every federal election since Confederation is Carleton. near Ottawa. The his-
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turic seat once held by Sir John. A. Macdonald, and later by Hon ' since Confedera- tion.
IN (IURRENT CAMPAIGN I, A few joint meetings have been held in British Columbia to thin and in other election campaigns and in Alberta the Junior Cham- .ber of Commerce and the Farm- 'ers' Union of Alberta are soon- t,50TlniZ it number of rnulti-party 1 forums. I Tvto are scheduled for Peace River constituency where Socisl y('redtt leader Solon Low is s can- ldidate. Mr. Low believes such Imeetines bring out more people than single-party gatherings. I The Saskatchewan Farmer-s' 'Union has arranged 24 joint moot- ings in the province for the first !week of June. Farmers will be 'pernntted to question andidatcs on the agricultural policies oil .ea(-ii party and on their views on; ISFU policies. SFU district DHIO-l -ers will ureside. t I Multi-speaker meetings are he-l ing held in Manitoba in this cam-. lpaign for the first time. A crowd lin Beauseiour recently mixed yboos and cheers at a joint meet- ing oi four candidates contesting Springfield. Four candidates in. Brandon Souris will address; nueclutgs at Boissevairi June 1 and at filcitta on June 6. . Little has been done about ljtnnt forums in Ontario. and in .Quebec, challenges by CCF can- jdidzttes for contradictory meet- lings have not been accepted. The llasi big meeting of this type wanl held in Bellechasse constituency in 1949.
Contradictory meetings were popular in the Maritimes on non- ination day some years ago. the last one in Prince Edward Island in 1947. They have never been held in Newfoundland.
OLD DAYS IN QUEBEC
Dr. Arthur Beauchasne. M. M- tired clerk of the House of Com mons. saw many Quebec contra dictory meetings in the 1396-19i3 period. This is how he recalled them"
"The parish priest would an nouttre the meeting from tli pul- pit and after Sunday high mass the village population would gather at the church steps.
"The mayor would introduce the debaters. usually the local candidates. Each had a 30-min- uts time limit. the first speaker getting a 10-minute rebuttal per- od
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"The more biting the attacks the better the crowd liked it, "The political parties had their giants among platform debaters who went around the province
Among the best van Chades Thi heault, Augusta Corneilllett Charles Langtnller. Armand Ls- vorgne and Bourassa"
Dr. Besucheane said the pup- ularity of contradictory meet- ings began to decline in 1916-17 at the time of the Borden union government.
"In those war years." he said.
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CAIN. hasss (C!) - rwuduvasvmm 110 U sf can founded in ms and
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"the question of osaurirtin was the big issue and it was IFOOI by tha (Conservative and Liberal) parties that the Issue should not be debated on Quebec church steps. From then on the Pflcl-K9 fell out of use."
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