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THURSDAY, JULY 25, 1946

Nearing The Limit

An arriclc on Prince lkhvflrd l5lf1l1<l aPPF-llh in [he 1,11,. 55...; of 111(- Jloitcfary Yiiiics. lt is unsigned, but the facts given are authentic and tip-to-tlzitc, and llfCSlllllllhly‘ were obtaiped through one or other department‘ of the lro- vincinl (iovcrnment. After explaining that W6 had iio new \\Zll'lllllC iiidtisttics, the article goes on to rcviciv production iigurcs in agriculture and fisheries, as wcll as our problems of un- employment, trttnsportatioii and fiscal need- ll says in the latter connection:

“Prince liilivard l5lllll(l has iiist about reach- ed its limit in rcgitrtl to rcvciiiic tlia't is avail- able‘ from taxation, with existing resources in industry and population, and considering its increasing social obligations is confronted with [he pgggibilitv of being unable to achieve and maintain the iiiiiiiiniirii standartls 0f government service rccogiiizctl in other tiroviucesas 955cm- tial 1t can thcrcforc be readily under- stood ivliv thc pi"<>viu_ci:il delegation to_Ottawz1 maintained iii lllClF bricf that the subsidies paid in the past null tho amount iiow offered ($3.- QQQQQO) afQ totally inadequate to provide a sufficiency of revenue to enable the Covent- ment to dcal satisfactorily with the varied in- terests entrusted to their charfle and l0 meet the steadily increasing obligations necessary t0 maintain efficiently the Government services which modern requirements have enlarged ‘.0 a degree not anticipated at Confederation or even fiftccn years agti." I _ _ l

All we have to do now is sell this idea to tie

King Government. '

One For The Record

Prime lfinister Ki")! h“ dfme 5° much Doasting about Canada’s independent status that some people are under the imPYCSSiOB that he achieved this result himsclf,—-with some 5112i" help of course from the half-million Cana-

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dians who served in \Vorld \Var I. The Mun- hml 51,-”; a IGng Government organ, is under no such misapprehension. On the occasion of the Prime Ministers departure for the P3115 peace conference it reminds him that if today he repfggcnts a Dominion come to nationhood. h. ha, st. Robert Borden to thank for it It recalls that when Borden sailed for Europe in I919 to attend the ‘Vfirifiillfi Cmlfefence the situation was otherwise. .

“Until si. Robert insisted upon it." says the Star, "no one had given a thought to indevend‘ ent Dominion representation at the I9}? hpeacle. conference. Lloyd George and his Britisldco leagues took it forgranted that theyt yyou ‘vgteh prggent the Dominions after consu_aio_ri them. Borden initiated the change in his fam- ous cable, which read:

“Th l; eedi of serious consideration as to re-pregshiitatldh of the Dominion in the P93“ nefitltlatlons. The Dre“ 511d PW?“ °f mtbmun- try take lt for granted that Canada will e13; Dresented at the Peace ocnfmnce- I WW" m possible difficulties as to representation <1‘ ° Dominion but I hope you wlll KEEP in‘ mind '33‘: certainly a very unfortunate impression W0 be created and possibly a. dangerous feeling might be aroused lf these difficulties are not overcome by 50"“ 5°l“ll°“ which will meet "he national splrlt of the Canadian 1190919 — I" a word they m] that new conditions must be lnet by new precedents."

The Star continues: , "The new conditions to‘ Whid’! Sh’ R059" referred arose from the awakening of the Can- ' Edgar, people to a realization of their strength ._not their strength in nunfbers, but the Stfeufith derived from a national will devoted to right purpose. Canada had sent to fight in Eurov¢ more men than it was thought DQ551516 if“: a country of less than ten million people to raise- On European battlefields they had won renown, . had made the name of Canlda honored. These m“, 5i,- Roberg knew, were returning to Cati- sda with heightened awareness of Mint 1t meant to be a Canadian, [0.Wl“llCl‘l was added a i determination-to endow,this country with an international status it had not formerly enioyed- "Smuts and Botha of South Africa, Hutlhe5 gf Australia, MHSSQY 0f New zcalalld’ lmd ‘ Lord Sinha of India supported Borden's view i‘ and won for their countries the right t0 the 5am“ igign, Opposition. to Dominion represen- ‘qentred in the United States and, as a tor of the time PhYBRd if “had mt ihGovei-timeutbeeii‘ united with its Do- ’ a prwinz the matter through, con- jeelotnsieis and rivalries‘ would have- United. States all powerful. _ flfl beginning, not of Canadian in?‘ _we already had that, but of ' ion in world councils." I

Sidlth, Progressive Conserva- lClylgery West, suggested a {committee to investigate Mr. Smith had hardly taken ‘ "King was on his feet tn

the ever-lucky Mr. King would not misl than,

A news per report says that Mr. King's move was “entirely unexpected", and that “per- haps the most surprised person in the House was his own Labor Minister, Humphrey Mit- chell."

Mr. hlitCllElPS surprise is understandable. He had appointed a controller to take over the steel mills, had the Cabinet pass an order-in- couiicil saying that if the workers refused to work for this controller they would be fined $20 a day. \\'liat more natural than that with the ivorkcrs striking and telling Mr. Mitchell to take a jump iii the Rideau Canal Mr. Mitchell \VOLll(l CXpCCt his Prime Zyliuister to tell him to go 0n with his firms-to enforce the law. .\Ir. Mitchell. in his innocence, and despite his years in the Cabinet, hadn't fathomcd the depth of the quick opportunism, the tactical shrcwdness, of the Prime hfiiister; never sensed his uncanny ability to take advantage of an opening loft him by OpPOlIClIlS. Ha he studied Mr. King's record more closely, had he been more of a. realist. he would have known that his agile leader, incomparable in his genius- and his hick-in getting other people to take ovcr his troubles, would never muff an oppor- tunity like this!

.- EDITORIAL NOTES -_-_

‘lnc Ptfilrt of St. James. Ill i‘ ll‘ It!

Lotus lllcriot was the first to fly the English

Channel on a monoplane, in 38 minutes, this

date I909.

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“Beer for Brcatl" is now the British S0- cialist formula, instead of the “Bullets for But- ter", the German Fascist propaganda.

1K it‘ ll‘ $1

Standard or Atlantic‘ time is the same; and 12 noon, Standard or Atlantic, is cqtiivalciit to l p.iii, Daylight Saving Time.

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Dr. Dollfus, Chancellor of Austria, assassin- ated at the hands of the Nazis, this date 193:1" the beginning of llitlci-‘s offensive against hur-

opeaii peace.

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Members of Parliament and Senators, who boosted their own salaries, are not now in a position to oppose similar increases to Federal and Dominion Jutlges;

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Notwithstanding anything that may be 5_3ld to the contrary, thcrc is going to be a hard time this coming winter importing the 100.000 mils of coal necessary to carry iis over.

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A proclamation was published in the Canada Gazette this week bringing the Canadian Citizen- ship Act into operation on January i, i947. Tlicnccfortli wc may he Brillfill SUM-NB bl" Canadian citizens as nationals.

Ill 1K 1F A‘

This from the ividcly-read Qttaiva Jvllrflllli "A correspondent of the Charlottetown Guardian says that the (jovcriimcnt of Prince Edward Island, our only province tinder prohibition, last year sold some $800,000 worth of liquor to its 100,000 pcOple (tinder doctors‘ certificates.) That seems not far from the rate of Sale”!!! other provinces iuiktli ‘iliqgflfflftlllfol 5Y5fem5-

The trial in Paris of Pierre-Etienne Flanditi. former French Premier and Vichy Foreign Minister of \\'ar, is of more than ordinary inter- est locally. M. Flandin headed the French dele- gation licre in August 1934. U" ti“? Qccaslon “l the Jacques Cartier quadriccntennial.

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Prime Minister King is en route to Paris, and is to be followed immediately by Final!“ Minister Ilslcy, en route to Geneva. Veterans Minister Mackenzie having been replaced as actiiig_ Pfllllg Minister by JuSIiCC MllliSlflf 5t- Laurent, everything must be going merry as a marriage bell at qttapta ‘Rthcje dog days.

The Canadian-American League of Boston is continuing work on the fund for Charles A. MacGillivaryi, of Charlottetown, the recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honour. Prime Minister Mackenzie King has accepted an in- vitation to be guest of honor and speaker at the annual banquet of the League, it is announced by Mr. Hugh McPhee, club president. The banquet is scheduled forilate in October, the date to be set within a few weeks.

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Mr. William Irving, M.P., who is a Pres- byterian minister by profession, a politican by choice, thinks others thanlawyers should have an opportunity of being appointed to the judges bench. Undoubtedly, so far as facts are con- cerned, a layman's opinion is as good as a law- yer's, but it is another story when it comes to interpreting the levy canon-hing the alleged ilCtl.

Perhaps one of the minor reasons why Mr. Ian Mackenzie, i\I.P., has been superseded by Mr. St. Laurent as acting prime minister is his alleged inability to make himself understood when addressing the House. Rev. E. G. Hansell (SC-MacLcod), took a well-aimed stab at the Veterans Minister's Gaelic accent. Ncttled by occasional interruptions from the big, bluff minister during a speech, Mr. Hansell observ- ed: “The minister of Veterans Affairs seems to have a habit ‘of interrupting me. I don't mind that so much as long as he will speak English so I ‘ban understand him."

Ii I! i C

Mr. Gladstone W. Peri-y, M.L.A., N. B dry hot spell strikes the country this year the same as it did last, it is hard to say what the outcome will he. It must have been general all over the fly! eastern provinces last year

dging from (he number of cars of potatoes

nada imported from the United States a to une" 3o, 19464-6530 cars-and the subs dies paid on UniteiflyyyStatcs potatoes, $891,643.58. Some of the: Wilt the New Brunswick potato growers’ money that we paid the potato grow- ers of the Uii Siatesso they could have

the Ottawa Journal. tiieffiger by the tail, talw over the tiger-

more nipney t ‘our ceiling price for their potetoesfand Jim x5"

lYotetrBy The W“?

A hen-peeked husband is the one who is given the blue sky pieces to work out in jig-sow puzzles. -

A ftve-yeor-old

ltondon-Free Prose.

was lnjnazd by s drunken driver e driver g ts 30 days in 1-111, the maximum allow- ed by law. The boy is crippled for life. Three cheers for ustfocl Phooneyl —Wlndsor Star.

The Toronto Telegram sounds rather a mournful note that. the great inflow of Americans make Canadians shortages more short. It seems to be like relatives coming on an unexpected visit; there is nothing that can be done about it. -St. Catharlnes Stamford.

Parents can teach their children the Golden Rulc. They can have the child memorize it. But they must also give gcod example that. the rule works. A child's mind needs proof. Prove at the Golden Rule, n few ethos and standards of behavior can work to the child's advantage. And he won't have ti. supreme court justice lecture hlni. Timmins Press.

A college In United States re- ports that. glrls’ grades top those of men. Another bit of evidence that, chivalry ls not dead~ the men simply tv-ani the women to he first. . Or it could be that their minds are an the women more than on their work, and ln that case lt might. be a feminine con- spiracy to discredit the male sex. You never know where "ou are with that kind of stat stlos. Kingston Whlg-Etandnrd).

Only five years hence, in the final stages of the minister's hign- way rogram— which ls made public slm taneously With a. long-terzrt scheme for the reconstruction of London's railway terminal and their approaches- are we likely to be oble to afford die real replanntrig of the principal national roads. By a curious historical paradox, we have suffered in the motor age by the possession of excellent main roads built for the stage coach and inhibited by subsequent. urban da~ velopment. Something has been done to mitigate their inadequacy for building lay-passes here and there. What. is required is the con- struction, as l! were, of new full- length lay-passes skirting not merr- ly towns but, villages- a cross- country system comparable to the great German Autobahn tiighways. —London Dally Telegraph nnd Morning Post.

The wise virgin will fill hoi- lamp with oll and be ready when the bridegroom cometn, exactly as her great, great, very great. gra ndmothcr did almost 2,000 years ago, The chances are that a husband will lost considerably longer than e Job, acoordlng to statistics gathered ln a recent survey of employment agencies and industries which eni- ploy Women lll the United States. —Chatham News.

Rzoenflly the new columns of The Tribune reported that a Winnipeg landlady had decided to refuse to rent rooms to childless couples. She said such tenants were too apt to throw parties in their rooms, as a rule were Iiotsicr and less stable. 0n Monday fie Emergency Hous- lng Registry announced that three other landladles had joined the movement to ici. remlses only‘ to parents with children. Nor ls this change of heart amen landlords confined to Winnipeg, ne Victoria Colonist recently carried u “rooms to let." advertisement for tenants with n child about two years old. The advertiser stated he haJ i; little glrl about that age and he would like e. little playmate for her in the house, -Winnlpeg Tribune.

We were in a women's shop the other day and found a ood slzed plle of articles made o shlrtlngs and bearing the rame of a manu- facturing zlrzn which has always concentra on the production of men's shirts. The saleslrdy said her shop could buy all it. wanted of these articles, made of the some ghlrtlng that goes into the manu- acture of men's shirts, but that man of them vtere left on its hart s because women, whose tastes change rapidly. r0 longer wanted to buy them. Tn other words, while men cry out for shirts they can- 30C buy the firms normally pro- uc want. ties of slilrtlng in the manu- iwture of iitllrt-llke gamicnts for women that. they do not want iind that, cannot be sold. -—Brockvllle Recorder and Tunes.

He ,wse e Cinsillan citizen, sit- tlng in a large metio lltan branch of one of Canada's restaurant ChBlIIS, lunchlnz from a typically uninspired Canadian menu- Can- adian only in so far as it was not geographically located outside the Dominion. He was being served by a waitress, presumably Canadian, but with a courtesy that. we h , cannot be iii-Id typical of Oan a. She clumsily ti od a cup of coffee into his Iii-p an uttered no‘. a. word ot apology. The second cup coffee she brought to replace what. was lost soareey pacified the u!- fended diner. In fact it only fright- ened him. Now what's the use of talking about out billion dollar tourist buslneu, investing in lux- ury resorts and planes and boat-s, about ballyhmlng for the best bus- iness ever, lf Canada's w are to be fretted with d tesy? One thing our tourist industry needs is a oam_ on how no; to spill s cu o coffee, or on how to apologize f r. guest. should hap- ggntw get lt in the lap. —Flnanclol

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within s short time around Ottawa.

were within a short distance of the vlettme. rho eight of the men going under, and the cries of s

nlon tn one instance, -wsnt

horse?‘ a loel on a bathing beac es‘ on‘

them seem to be using large Ed

Three‘ people have been drowned ' while hundreds d’ fellow swiimners o;

will?! unneeded. Apparently those ncsiby- writes to Saint john Talegraph-Journal: "If a of 1h

MIJSIC FOB. UCIIDOLS-

Sln- The lylhnrd music which whihumwufmlfratag ltrutrhfl u ‘tut , e simple sol-fa systqu 1n y u“ notes are written sllrply by the first letters of the sol-fa syllable, namely, d, r. nr. .' s. , , 810118 with the proper time math ‘yltihich so clpseltyo reaeuflilo (:10 or- nary punc its n infill o h1g- llah oompositlonqAnd thin system ls to my mind so simple that; a bright boy or girl 0L9 or l0 ears of age can 1n a veer or two earn by lt to read and tunes of ordlnaigy soups and hymns. and to sing em luently too. The system is especially suited to the rural schools from the feet that a teacher can so readily by it write e tune on the blac.&oard without the old o; ctsft lines, and so readily rub lt off and write s new one. The chief objection raised against the system la that the sol-fa nobatlon is not generally used tcr lnstrtanental music, nor ls lt gen- erally used in the settings of our ordinary song and hymn- where the staff ls used instead. But as Agricola has stated, it ls o really easy matte! to apply the sol-fa tones to the lines and spaces at the staff, especially for a boy or girl who has taken s quarter oi- two 0n the organ qr piano. in this way it would be possible for the more adult pupil to sing by either method and to sin not only the ialr but all the pars of four part music. I may soy that I came in con- tact with the simple sol-fa tem tn British Columbia where l was taught ln my time there in the Normal Schools along with the staff method also. The intent of Education provided one year a course of training at the Teachers‘ Summer School. l took advantage of this course which was ln charge c-f an English lady. Miss ‘Ethel Coney, teacher of music ln the Vancouver Norma. School She taught both systems, but she was more enthusiastic for the simple sol-fa. system, and tried hard to get lt, established as the main system in the publlrrschools of British Columbia but the supervisors of music in the scnools o! Vancouver and other leading cities insisted on the use of the stuff combined with the sol-ft. notnlon. I learned ‘mm her instruction, however. how readily one can learn to s-lng fluently by the sol-fa Both systems ere good of course, depending on the manner in which they are used and as Agricola has already advised tlie Women's Ir.- stlt/ute an attempt to team music ln the pu llc schools of our prov- ince without some definite method ls bound to be very unsatisfactory: if not. entirely so To establish a method generally throughout -our province it ls of course necessary to begin with the teachers in train- ing at Prince of Wales College, and in this connection I was pleas-- ed to observe that this year a prize tins given to th: prospective teach- er there who showed the highest attainment. in the course provided. Music of course ls already being taught to a considerable extent in the schools of our cities; and while I do not. think lt advisable to mat-Le ft too compulsory ln our rural schools, I think it nevertheless highly desirable that lt should be generally taught in these, and taught. too by some definite and uniform system.

Retired Teacher.

Royal Society Empire Scientific Conference

Professor J. H L. Johnstone. Head of the Department. of Physics at Dalhousle University has re- cently returned from London after attending the Royal society Em- pire Scientific Conference.

e United Kingdom, the Dom- lnlons, Indira and the Colonies were each represented by delegations which included such famous scient- ists as Si: Henry lizard. Lord Chat-well, Professor Codrcroft, Bli-

ward ‘.- ' ‘ . Professor Burnt-t and other Jlitl-Ilfllllflled niunes. The Canadian delegation led by Dr. J. lvliaokeniiile, President. of the National Research Council. con- sisted of representatives of tne Dominion Government, end seven Canadian . Unlversi representa- tlves. Delegates to Conference. while in England were the official guestsfloft the British Gizvernilaiept. Nq e or was roared n pscng every facility et their disposal and entertaining than with s hospital- ity that wan unatinted.

Two of the interesting events were the IDOlI-tll C0 Cambridge and Oxford when hon- orary degrees of Doctor of Science were conferred on a nixnher of’ the

n! delegates including m. OJ. Mac-

Kensfe, Dr. CJl Best and Dr. J.B. Oollip of the Canadian dele- "Mu' "o o e

Th highlight at the marl-es when Ills King, na patron of - iety. accompanied the Queen, formally opened the Conference on o : .. ;'.‘.“‘°.>J.li......“° m...“ "‘...fi°°“i';"fi in: flrlt Conference of its time, wit mhokpedt is destiaedlia be the ~ mi an eoeei- eon- tect ln acientifli: siffein within the

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