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Amending Tho Constitution
"You will also be asked to approve ad- dresses praying the parliament of the Uni- ted Kingdom to vest in the parliament of Canada the right to amend the constitution of Canada in relation to matters not com- ing within the jurisdiction of the legisla- tures of the provinces nor affecting the con- stitutional rights and privileges of the pro- vinces or existing rights and privileges with respect to education or the use of the Eng- lish and French languages.
“My ministers will seek to arrange for early consultation with the provincial gov- ernments with a view to agreeing upon an appropriate procedure for making within Canada such other amendments to the con- stitution as may from time to time be re- quired."
These paragraphs in the speech fr'om the Throne have given rise to debate in Parlia- ment and in the press. The greater part or‘ the controversy is on the question of who is to decide what matters are “not coming within the jurisdiction of the legislatures of the provinces, etc." With the abolition of appeals to the Privy Council the immedi- ate answer is, the Supreme Court of Can- ada. That court, unlike the United States Supreme Court, is the creature of Dominion legislation and can at any time be altered, perhaps beyond recognition, by a majority in the Commons and Senate. It is small wonder that the upholders of Provincial rights are anxious that the constitution of that court be regarded as a cornerstone of the national constitution.
An editorial in Toronto's "Saturday Night" deals vigorously with the subject, and it is unfortunate that its force was un- necessarily increased by misquoting the Thronespeech by leaving out reference to saving “the constitutional rights and privil- eges of the Provinces.” The announced pol- Icy of the Government is serious threat enough to Provincial rights without attri- buting to it a desire to abrogate everything that does not come strictly within Provincial jurisdiction.
A iiruolai Appointment
A hint that the Canadian National Rail- way structure may be refinanced is seen by the Windsor Star in the appointment of Mr. Donald Gordon to the position of C.N.R. chairman and president. The system is load- ed down with a capital debt, built up by the old private lines which were taken over when the C. N. R. was set up, and which caused bankruptcy in 1919 of two of these private systems, the Grand Trunk, with its western subsidiary the Grand Trunk Pacific, and the Canadian Northern. To these lines which the Government of the day took over and maintained in operation, were added two government roads, the In- tercolonial and the Transcontinental.
Mr. Gordon, at forty-seven, is-a young man to shoulder the responsibilities of man- aging the largest rail transportation system in the world. He differs from his predeces- sors, Sir Henry Thornton, Mr. l-lungerford and Mr. Vaughan in that he has no experi- ence in the railway industry. Thirty years ago such a deficiency would probably have barred him. But today the problem is one not of operation of the physical property- of skill in making trains run—so much as the ability to fit rail transport efficiently into the broad pattern of transportation services generally. There are great pro- blems here, as the Turgeon Royal Commis- sion is discovering, and sohitions cannot be indefinitely postponed. As deputy governor of the Bank of Canada, and chairman of our Foreign Exchange Control Board and Prices Board, Mr. Gordon has acquired a unique knowledge of the Canadian economy and its world-wide contracts. Undoubtedly this is the kind of experience which influenced the Government in naming him to the presi- dency of the country's national railway sys- tem at this time.
EDITORIAL NOTES
TUESDAY, OCT. 18, 1849
Bible Week.
The Feast of St. Luke the Evangelist. O I I
The last English State lotteryhwas held this date 1826.
Teaching teachers how to read is a good project, which might be repeated at least
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Both City and Province are engaged in i _ public works programmes in con- Wlih now streets and roads, prepar- {fis wsy for house building: Before long suburbs will bsrdLv bs repos-
nizable by older citizens and returning Is- landers on holiday bent. ‘ O O O It is reported from Washington that one out of five government employees is a wo- man. Soon it may be government there by bureauskirts. I I O This is Navy Week, when the silent. ser- vice permits itself a leeway in the matter of publicity and the public has a chance to show its interest in and appreciation of the Royal Canadian Navy. O I Montreal R. C. M. P. have put under de- tention-seizure some 75 smuggled refriger- ators—right in the owners’ homes. It seems poetic justice that the culprits- should have to provide their own “coolers? O l I Any idea that our present civilization is drab and colourless compared with earlier times is greatly in error as can be seen by comparing the rainbow-hired umbrellas sported today with those of any previous period.
Veterans of the Second World War are now rushing to get their medals. Some 30,- 000 veterans of the First World War didn't bother to apply for their medals hut so far, veterans affairs officials said, 122,531 per- sons have applied for service medals for the Second World War. Approximately 250,000 medals have been mailed so far.
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The “Magnificent" is back in service again after being more than four r-“nths a cripple as a result of grounding. In peace time its being out of action meant cancella- tion of training cruises. In war it would have meant the fleet air arm stranded for that period unless Canada could borrow a substitute.
There is plenty trouble ahead for the Canadian Steamship Lines Ltd., as the re- sult of the recent Toronto disaster. A suit has already been entered , against it for $100,000 by Alfred Metzger, who lost his wife in the Noronic fire September 17. Mrs. Metzger, 29, was drowned when she leaped overboard as the vessel burned at its docks in Toronto. Metzger charged negligence.
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The Royal Commission on transporta- tion, ils trans-Canada tour completed, will begin final hearings in Ottawa Nov. 1. At the final sittings, several of the provincial governments, (including P. E. L's), the Can- adian Pacific, the Canadian National Rail- way , and the Railway Association of Can- ada vill present their submissions for con- sideration by the commission.
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The Federal Government is not losing any time in keeping the electorate “sweet". In view no doubt of the coming small gen- eral election, it is announced about 500,000 Canadians will be getting an extra cheque for Christmas. They are the ones entitled to tax refunds under Finance Minister Ab- bott's tax-cutting budget introduced in the Commons last spring. The budget is being reintroduced next Thursday but is expected to carry no major changes.
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A drop in student enrolment at McGill University was forecast with release of cur- rent registration figures by Dr. F. Cyril James, principal and vice-chancellor. Regis- tration is still continuing but comparative figures show that enrolment is do\vn 576 from last October as war veterans gradu- ally drop from the student body. It is esti- mated that when registration is complete, total enrolment this year will be about 7,- 700. Last year it was 8,240.
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An all-out fight to win all eight by-elec- tions Oct. 24 will be waged by the Liberal Party, Defence Minister Brooke Claxton tolri the Young Liberal Federation of Canada at their convention in Montreal. Suggestions had been made that some of the by-elec- tions should go by default, he said, but this would not be a wise policy for any party. “There is only one way to work in politics and that is all-out," he advised. “Liberals should put up a fight in every constituency. We must fight every election in order to
stay vigorous.” '
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Viscount Palmerston, Prime Minister of Great Britain, died this date 1865. He was not a great statesman, but he succeeded where more distinguished statesmen failed. He, for instance, ended the long enmity of England and France by making an alliance with the new constitutional ruler there, Louis Philippe, and straightened out Can- ning's blunder in Greece, by helping to put down the revolt of Turkish Pasha Mehemet All in 1840. He was a member of Gaming's Tory Government, of Greys Whig Govern- ment, as well as Aberdeens Tory Govern- ment. He himself was Prime Minister from 1855 to 1858, and again from 1859 to his death in 1865. The last few years were marked by temporizing in all great ques- tions being agitated at home and abroad. He was not an impressive personality but was skliful and very popular, though Queen Vlc--
torts did not like him.
THE GUARDIAN,
TOIL AWAY
Toll away and set the stone
That shall stand when you are gone
Ask not that another see
The meaning of your masonry.
Grind the gem and dig the well For what? for whcm'.'-—I cannot tell
The stone msy msri: s boundary IIII
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Be it wage enough for you
To shape them well and set them true.
Of the future who can tell?
Work. my friend, and so farewell.
-John Jay Chapman. FAMOUS PEAK
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GOVERNOR READYS TOUR.
On Wednesday morning. the 27th ult, Lieutenant Governor Ready lefi Charlotte-Town accompanied by the Adjutant General of Militia. Colonel Holland, on a lour to the Eastward. At 2 o'clock that day he inspected the 8th Bait. of Militia at St. Peters, spent the night at Mr. Worrell’: and proceeded next morning towards Neufrage, where it was his inten-iion to have in- spected the 10th Battalion, but the Smslg-pox being in that quar- ter he ispensed with their as- sembling snd continued his journey by way of the Capes; the road here for upwards of thirty miles along the coast up to East Point is thickly settled and studded with thriving farms.
His Excellency remained that night at Mr. Anderson's. Surveyors Inlet, and in the morning rode out to view the entrance of that ro- mantic Lake. and expressed him- self highly pleased with the beauty of the scenery and the fertile ap- pearance of the fields on its bor- ders waving with corn and grass.
On Friday, having returned as far as St. Margaret's Church, he crossed the country to the French settlement on Rollo Bay. and con- tinued his route to Colville Bay, where he was met by Mr. Cam- bridge and conducted to his ship- building establishment at New Bristol. The sight which here presented itself was one of a very pleasing description; two ships of large dimensions. and a brig of 200 tons on the stocks at one place, and another ship at a short dis- tance. The workmen at the yard greeted his Excellencys entrance with three hearty cheers; flags were displayed from the differ- ent vessels and on the stern of one of them, a ship 'of 600 tons, was painted in large characters her name, "Governor Ready", a com- pliment which his Excellency evi- dently felt.
Having spent some time in viewing this scene of bustle and ‘activity. he embarked on Satur- day morning in a boat provided by Mr. Cambridge, who accom- panied him round the headlands to Fortune Bay- setilemeni; hero hc inspected several companies of hliiitia, and afterwards resumed his journey by the road leading to the head of St. Peter's Bay, on which various parties were busily at work. employed by the road contractors.
On Saturday night he was again entertained at the house of Mr. Worrell, and next day arrived in town. apparently gratified in no small degree with his journey, during the \vhole of which he en- joyed the finest weather. The face of the country, though evidently suffering from the longcontinued drought, exhibited everywhere the prospect of a luxuriant and abun- dant crop: the country round the hcad of the l-Iillsborough attract- cd much of his Excellencyb no- '.icc.
He was received everywhere with marks of the highest respect; his urbanity to the different per- sons with whom hc was led to converse, and the pointed and well directed enquiries which he made on all subjects connected with the advancement and good- of tho country, as manifested in the live- ly interest he takes in all that relates to their happiness and prosperity. was to all a source of peculiar gratification.
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RADIO BROADCASTING
Sir, — We hear and read violent criticism of the Canadian Broad- casting Corporation. In fact, a bar- rage of propaganda is being car- ried on in favor of private own- ership in the brosdpastlng field. ‘It seems strange that any pub- lic man would advocate such a vicious policy. The discovery of radio should have been a mile- stone in human history. As an in- strument of mass education and the spread o! culture its possibil- ities would be lncalculablo if used as it might and should be. What. the little red school house did to fight. illiteracy and ignorance could be surpassed by radio properly employed. Instead its use has been prostituted to vulgar commercial exploitation and greedy money making. '
Our Governments can spend bli- lions for war or armaments or al- most anything. but if a. few dol- lars are asked for public broad- casting. a howl goes up from thick-skinned piofiteers when| millions should be spent to give the people what they might and should be getting. i
If anyone were to advocate the private ownership of our school houses, so they could be used for profit and extolling soap pow- ders, he would be put away some place. I consider advocating priv- ate ownership of radio broadcast- lng an exact parallel.
A recent Government survey showed that. the fire largest chains of privately owned broud- casting in the USA. made a clear profit of 25 millions of dollars in nine months on a. capital invest- ment of 15 millions. It. also show- ed that. the public spent twenty- one dollars on their receivers for every dollar spent by those sta- tions.
I have stopped turning on our radio as so per cent oi what. 1 must listen to is cheap. rude ad- vertizing. And this from a station which surpasses all others in op- posing public broadcasting.
I am, Sir. etc. PAUL McLAUGHIJN Peaks‘: Station.
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Sir,——I am not writing these let- ters against liquor and tobacco just for fun but to convince smok- crs and drinkers that they are injuring their health and squan- dcrmg their money. An insurance agent told me a few days ago about a man who would like to have some insurance on his life for his wife and family, but he can't afford it for his cigarettes cost hlm $140. n year. That is his
when cigarettes were far cheaper than they are now. I was telling this to a minister and he said "I knew a man in Nova Scotia in an office who spent 90 cents s day. That would be $328.50 for the year when cigarettes were cheap. Now these two poor fellows who were spending so much twenty years ago are likely dead before this. for the nicotine poison in the cigarettes knocks them out in time. The poor fellow who is spending so much in cigarettes that he can't afford to insure his life is trying to break off from smoking but. hasn't much success; he is trying to taper off, and that is no good. I-Ie will have to stop short and stand on his resolution and then he'll succeed. That is the experi- cnce of those who break off from smoking and I guess from drink- ing too. and it is well worth the effort and the time to do it is now before it is too late.
Many a poor family is suffer- ing want because of smoking. A reliable man told me that he was brought up in great poverty be- cause his father spent more money in tobacco than his mother had to feed the family with. What s sad reality! Then concerning li- quor here is the testimony of a halfbrced Indian. He said: "I was a heavy drinker and I was always in trouble and saving nothing. and I gave up drinking and now I have a happy home with money in the bank and a car."
These testimonies should make smokersand drinkers think of what they are making of their lives. They have only one life to live; they will never get another chance. but they have a chance now if they will act upon it.
/ I am, Sir. etc. OBSERVER.
FOUR-FEAR SENTENCE
OTTAWA, Oct. 13-—(CP)-—James 0‘Shea, 22-year-old immigrant who earlier this week was found guilty of being the father of a child by his 13-year-old niece, today was sentenced to four years in peni- ieniiary by County Judge John P. Mnddcn. In earlier testimony O'Shen was alleged by his niece in have committed the offence when she was only 12. The baby was born lust July.
DONATE HISTORICAL BELICS
NEW DELHI - (OP) — Sevlfnl thousand fragments of moulds. re- voallng the technique of casting coins of ancient India and discov- ered by the late Dr. Birbal Bflhnl. distinguished botanist. will be pre- sentcd to the National Museum of India here, by his widow.
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About 20 years ago a reliablel person told me of a principal in a certain school who was spending ' 75 cents a dav in cigarettes which l
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A Nigerian lsd, writing for pen pals, points oufihst collection of American dollars is his hobby. This puts him in the same cate- gory as those other noted hobby- ists, I-Ion. Douglas Abbott and Sir Stafford Cripps-Vicloria Times.
Christ-ho Church is never more successful in its great mission than when it has to endure pover- ty, persecution and martyrdom. It is when religious leaders are mos‘. ready .to give their lives for the faith that is in them that the masses are mos} prone to follow them. A church that is safe. pros- perous and privileged is always in danger of losing its vitality. -- Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph.
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There isn't s fruit harvested lny- where that doesn't run the gaunt- let, more or less successfully, of ingenious and exotic desserts con- cocted year after year with the facility of soap operas. From pies to preserves, plums come off ra- ther well. As a prune, it's s break- fast standby. Stewed and canned the old-fashioned way, it is a kitchen classic. Most any wsy. in fact, it hits the taste plum’ centre. —-New York Times.
The opposing Hews of Deon Walter Russell Bowie and Father Murray remind one of a story current in the '20's. A Model T and s mule met on s narrow road and neither would give way. "What are you?" ssld the mule to the Model T. "I'm an auto- mobile," replied the Model 'l‘. “an-l what are you?" To which ihc mule replied: "I'm u horse." Then they both laughed and shared the road-A Letter in Time Magazine.
Relations between Indls and Pakistan have never been worse. with India stubbornly» refusing to discuss a truce unless the Azad Kashmir forces are first dlsarmed and disbanded and Northern Kash- mir is given over to India's oc- cupation. Obviously Pakistan will never agree to truce conditions which would pull all Kashmir under India's military control be- fore any plebiscite was held. One result, on which India certainly
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When New Jersey instituted um pulsory inspection of 311 mmJ vehicles, loud was the howl wh l 50 out of every 100 drivers w u warned to have their automobiejl: impaired within s week o, “m: ‘the consequence. Today ingpec! lion is taken as a matter of coun- whe" inspection was first institute 9d many o! them were drivin’ comparatively new cars and, w": highly insulted when told that their machines were faulty. 3“; Poorly focusscd lights and defec- tive brakcs or tires are dentin dealers. whether on shiny new w clans or ancient jalopies-Chathsm News. '
Bleak House, domlnati Irons stairs from its position high the cliffs above the Henry v11] harbor. and for long tho mac“ of Dickens pilgrims, is shortly u be sold by ‘auction. Contrary u lleneral belief, Bleak House 1| not the one mentioned in the hoop of that name, which was written at St. Albans, but it is inumgm, connected with the author, w)“ wrote many of his works |i Broadstairs. It was hers, sittim in the big bow window, with m clear sweep of the Chunngl u“ three sides "and the sea rolling and dashing under our windows." that Dickens wrote much oi "David Copperfield." In 1847 IIOIIQ] other than the dashing wgvu could be heard. "Vagrant muglg is getting to that height here, and is so impossible to be escaped from, that I fear Broadstsirl and I must part company," tho Quthqf wrote in s letter to s. friend. After leaving Fort House-u Bleak House was known during Dickens‘ tenancy-Jae commenced his new story, "Bleak House", and the next occupier renamed ths house in honor of the book. -. London Mail.
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