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THE GUARDIAN

Morning Dally (Founded ll H181) Authorised as net-and Clan Mall. Pool 011100 Department, Ottawa.

The laland Guardian Publishing Co. Editor and Managing Director. J. B. Burnett- Auoalnta Editor, Frank Walker.

"The Strongest Memory is Weaker Than the Weakest Ink."

CIIAIILOTTETOWN. SATURDAY. DEC. ll. I948

The Tenth Province

After two months of conference and nego- tiations, it is announced that the terms of union between Newfoundland and the Dominion of Canada will be signed today, between the hours of l2 noon and 2 o'clock. This important cele- mony is to take place in the Senate Chamber. The date chosen is the anniversary of the West- minster Statute of l93l which recognized Can- ada as a free and independent member of the British Commonwealth of Nations.

While the specific terms of union will not be made public until shortly before the signing ceremony, it is understood that they will mean a charge on the Federal Government of some $15,000,000 a year.

As a Province of Canada Newfoundland will be entitled to six seats in the Senate and seven seats in the House of Canada. All Canada's major political parties are likely to enter the field, but, as ln this Province, the traditional line-up of Liberal and Conservative will pre- dominate.

ln no Province is Newfoundland's entry into Confederation more heartily welcomed than in Prince Edward island. The fact that we are both islands gives us a common ground of under- standing, but we have also had very close com- mercial and other ties with the Ancient Colony, and it is hoped these will be further cemented by today's ceremony.

Into matters of Maritime importance, New- foundland will also be able to throw its weight effectively—for after the ratification of today's agreement there will be four, not three, Mari- time Provinces. ln such matters particularly as transportation and decentralization of indus- trial and monetary control we should accustom ourselves from now on to speak with one united voice in Parliament.

Federal By-Electlons

Polling takes place an Monday in Digby- Annapolis-Kings, N. S., to fill the vacancy created, in the House of Commons, by the resig- nation of Rt. Hon. J. L. llsley, who has held the constituency for the Lib- erals by large maiorities ever since its crea- tion by statute l5 years ago. The contenders are George C. Nowlan, K. C., Progressive Con- servative, J. D. MacKenzie, Liberal, and Lloyd Shaw, C.C.F. nominee. Ordinarily a win for the Liberal candidate in a constituency consisting of three traditionally Liberal counties could be predicted with reasonable certainty, but a three- cornered contest always has its doubtful fea- ures. ln the last election the vote show- ed the following results‘ llsley, L., 14,685, Thomas, P. C., l0,lO8; Hansford, C. C. F.. l,255; Fillmore, Farmer-Labor, 362. As the C. C. F. vote in i945 was less than 5 per cent of the total, it may be reasonably assumed that the real contest in the by-election lies between Mr. Nowlan and Mr. MacKenzie.

Three other constituencies in which by-el- ection battles are being waged are Carleton, Ontario, where Mr. Drew is being opposed by a C.C.F.-er and aSocialCrediter; Marquette, Mani- toba, where the newly appointed Minister of Justice, Hon. Mr. Garson, has a C.C.F. oppon- ent in the person of Mrs. Earle Keating; and Laval-Two Mountains, Quebec, where the Lib- eral nominee, Leopold Dcmers, is fighting it out with a Nationalist, Honarc Desy, who calls hun- self the "Republican-Far-Peace" candidate. The Progressive Conservatives are not contesting Marquette or Laval-Two Mountains. There is one other vacancy, for which thc wril has not been issued for the holding of the by-electlon, Nicalet-Yamaska, vacated quite recently by the death of the Liberal member. Polling is scheduled for December 20 in Carleton, Mar- quette and Laval-Two Mountains.

Summing up the prospects in these four contests, an exchange predicts that Mr. Garson should win with little difficulty in Marquette. Mr. Drew with less difficulty in Carleton and the Liberal candidate with perhaps consider- able difficulty in Laval-Two Mountains. The An- napolis Valley fight looks like anyone's win, as between the Progressive Conservative and Liberal nominees.

In refraining from the Manitoba contest the Progressive Conservatives are following an old tradition, which makes it a rule to allow Ministers of the Crown to be returned unopposed in by-elections. For a similar reason the Liber- ols are abstaining from the contest in Carleton, where the lead-er of one of the national political parties is appealing for a seat in the House of Commons. The Quebec constituency of Laval- Two Mountains is to disappear under the re- cent Redistribution Act and will be merged for the greater part "with Argenteuil, now repre- rented by on Independent Progressive Conser- vative member, Georges Heon.

With respect to the Laval-Two Mountain by-election a staff writer of the Montreal Daily Star (Liberal) says the Liberal leaders are aware of their vulnerable position in a contest which turns upon the question of Canada's participa- tion in external wars, and adds: "Whatever the result, both groups will pursue and extend their operations until after the general Federal elec- tions. The battle promises to be bne of the hot- test ever held in the Province of Quebec and will no doubt be followed with interest by the ab; Errmw’ ' v---

EDITORIAL NOTES

Tomorrow, 3rd. Sunday in Advent. I I i I

His Majesty the King's accession this date I936.

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Statute of Westminister passed this date l93l, giving equal rig-his and privileges to the Dominions with the Mother Country —- one for all, all for one.

i I The Winnipeg Free Press notes with approv- al that Swedenk railway stations are beautified by some 3,000 acres of gardens. This country. and city, could do much to improve the first and last impressions made upon travellers.

I Q i fi Still another vitamin has been discovered in New York. Called BlZ, first detected in liver, it is now produced cheaply from mold. The red crystalline compound has been used effectively

in the treatment of pernicious anemia. i

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If there eve-r was a time when it was pos- sible ta farm without capila-l it has now gone en- tirely. Today fa-rmers are using more equipment than ever before and it goes hard with those who cannot afford to make use of modern meth- ads.

I I The statistics of the Bureau of that name would be more reliable in the matter of liquor offences were it to give details. For instance here, the bulk of convictions are repeaters, the same drunks appearing again and again in the same category of drunk.

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On one question the Progressive Conser- vative and C.C.F. are of one mind—-that the present Federal Government is to blame for boost in railway rates. This is, of course due to the Railway running the Government instead of

vice-verso.

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Ottawa seems to be taking no steps to protect dairymell should the Supreme Court of Canada rule out the present ban on margarine. Farmers. have enough to worry about without being kept in the dark about whether or not the cow will have to go into competition with the ersatz product.

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The teaching of languages in our schools has undergone a revolutionary change. Not very long ago children spent years learning the grammar of the language they were studying and rarely learned to use it. The modern meth- od, of course, is to learn by using, as the child learns his native tongue. Theory can come later if desired.

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Quebec is priding itself on having avoided the pitfalls of hydro-electric production which have landed her sister province, Ontario, in such a crisis. lt maintains that the Ontario govern- ment policy, since Hepburn's regime, has been defeotist rather than healthily beneficial averselling power and neglecting to develop it. l‘

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Probably the best argument against price control is the adnlission by chairman of the Prices Board, Wishart Spence, that not merely is the public pretty confused about the present scope of con-trols, but that it would be "absolute- ly impossible for the ordinary person" to find out how some controls applied.

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An Ontario Hyd-ro statement to the effect that there is a deplorable tendency to establish little power plants in Ontario, which threatens the whole system of public power development, is challenged by The Letter-Review. This is not the question, Public power development has fail- ed in Ontario. If the Ontario Government were now to announce’ that anyone who wan ed to do so could set up a power plant, wherever he wanted, selling his power at any price which he could get, the power shortage would vanish in one-tenth of the time which will be required by the ponderous machinery of a Socialist powcr monopoly. Another year of the present situation would reduce Ontario to economic chaos.

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It seems, Boxing Day, and if on Sunday, the following day is u Provincial public holi- day. The interpretation Act, P. E. l., of I939 c. 3 sec. 24(7) reads: "Holiday" includes Sunday, New Year's Day, Good Friday, Easter Monday, Dominion Day, Chrisinizls Day, Boxing Day (i948 c. l9), the birthday or the day appointed for the celebration of the birth of the reign- ing Sovereign, Victoria Day, Labour Day, Re- membrance Day, and any day appointed by any statute in force in the Province or by Pro- clamation of the Governor-General or of the Lieutenant-Governor as a general holiday, and whenever a holiday other than Remembrance Day falls on a Sunday, the expression ‘holiday’ includes the following day." Boxing Day was in- cluded only at the last session of the Legis-

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Scientists in Britain working under the di- reciion of Professor Blackett (who has just been awarded the Nobel Prize for his work on atomic energy) believe that they have discovered on important new law of nature. Tests have been conducted underground both in South Africa and in Britain. The object has been to ascertain whether the magnetism of the earth increases or decreases at lower levels. A team of students from Manchester University, where Blackett is Professor of Physics, have been working in Brit- ain’s deepest coalmine. Experiments in South African gold mines have suggested that the magnetism may come from the earth's crust and not from its centre. Those carried out in Britain some 4000 feet below ground also indi- cote that the magnetism decreases in proportion

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CHARLOTTETOWN

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CHARLOTTETOWN KENNEL CLUB nsvsscs srnev oocs m REJ. oo nor nave Pnorecrlou THE nonunion AFFOROS rum.

Old Charlottetown (And r. n. u i 1m. aonnorvs susFonTUNEs

On July 30. 1790. was rccorrln-l the registration of grants of lands

Gordon, 42nd Reglfi’) by Lieut- Governor Fanning on May 5, 1789, and April 26, 1790. One of these lots is the same as that on which St. James Presbyterian Church now stands. For the next ten yours Gordon's home was to be in Char-- lottetown. On March, 1791, a lic- ense was issued for his marriage to Miss Margaret Patterson. daughter of Prince Edward Islands first Governor, who was at. that. lime in London. Four children were barn of this union, the youngest, Mar- garet (the original of Blumine in Carlyle! “Sorter Resartus") on Aug. 24, 1796. The records of all four buptisms may be found in the registers of St. Paul's Church, Charlottetown.

During those years of his married life Gordon's income from his mili- tax-y appointment must at limes have been very small, since we find that between March 25 and August 24, 1800, he drew only £8 pay us "ucilng garrison surgeon." His lef- ters to the War Office requesting promotion to a Nova Scotia Regi- ment seem to have had final ef- fect. as, on llfarch 7, 1800, he was ccmmissioned "Apothecary ta the Forces" ln Nova Scotia. On Aug.

lots of land which had been granted him, and early ln September he and his family left Charlottetown for Halifax.

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For a time things seemed to be going better with him. but evil days were in store. left Charlottetown owing some money, since at the instance of John Cambridge, merchant, n writ of execution was issued, June 20, 1801. for n debt of £81 lTs. 6d. Gor- don's house nncl land ill Char-lotte- town were thus attached. Follow- lng fast upon this he was court- martialled at Halifax for some mis- rlemennnui" rrnrl, on Doc. l4. 1801, was "lllljllrlgrrl lo he suspr-ndvil from rank flllfl prly for six n-lrmllis." ln hilly. 1802. llf‘ was living llunnell for ropnylncill of £108 Zls. which lic drew upon one Mr. \’l'ln.s.la\v, n1:- cnl for rozimrrnlnl lil-spilllls, u" iluvnunl irf his pzry us Hrrspillll hfulv in PI‘lIl"I‘ lfirhvnrrl lSlllhil fr.|' ll poi-- lml -‘~Ul‘-*"'llI<'"l l0 ills llnlifux lip- II(lll]ll1l"l\l. Than lllf“ lmspilul furor-s wore reduced in Halifax, anrl Gordon was put an half-pay nn Sept. l4. Just lwo years nftc-r lcnv- lllll (‘hnrlollotrnvrr in the llapc of hollering his fortune.

‘Fradllion in the family has ill that Gordon left Halifax for his Scotland Ironic uvhich he had not seen for more than seventeen your-s) ln order lo look nfler some small properly. l-Ioivc-vr-r this may be. li ls lruv that he left Halifax for England early in I803 9H5] rlled on shipboard. leaving his widow and four children in “very distressing circumstances."

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Ii. has been noticed that. as Gor- rlon was leaving Charlottetown h»: sold one of the three lots of lnnrl urunlerl him: how the “lot on which ‘St. James Church now stands" pas- sed from his hands cannot be dis- covered. Concerning the third lot, “Common Lot No. 3 ln the Royalty of Charlottetown," we have defin- lle information. For, on May 26. 1796, Alexander Gordon "for and in consideration of the natural love nnrl affection" he bore towards his beloved son, llenry Gordon. and "also in consideration of the sum of five shillings" made assignment to his son of this 12-ucro properly. Records show that John Robbins (one of the Jersey Loyallsts) "for and ln consideration of the friend- ship and rolznrd" he bore toward "Edward Gordon, son of Alexander Gordon." made over on Nov. 25, 1795. Common Lot No. 2 (12 acres). Henry and Edward Gordon would not have been more than four yeerl and one year old respectively when the lend was assigned them: but it was no unusual thing on Prince Edward Island at that. time for parents to convey and secure grants of land to their chil- dren when quite young.

Ii. “'3! on Lat No. 3, which Gor-

made to Alexander Gordon (“Dacia ‘

6 PUBLIC FORUM

This column is open to the dlsoueafon by correspondents of queltions of lumen. The Guardian does not "Y en’ the opinion of correspondents.

WOOD ISLANDS FERRY SERVICE

Sun-Your timely editorial 1n yesterday‘: Guardian gives us en- wfl-Yflltement. and we are enclos- ing copy of a statement being Ll- sued today to many persons and vrsanizatlons that have contacted us, as the result of the insertion m our ads. to which we refer.

The time is opportune for press- ing this matter. We have n. boat. in sight. that we believe would be

'a decided improvement for next

year, but by no means, an answer lo the problem ahead of us, be-

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cause one has to be familiar with n-hal; ls going on mere to visual-

l ize the possibilities ahead.

We are. Slr, eta, NURTTIUMBEnRhLAND FERRIEB LINIITEQ

;R. E. Mutch, President. ‘Dec. 10. 1948.

THE SENATE VACANCY

Sin-The people of this locality have been following with pleasure and enlightenment the letters

11 he sold, for £12, one of the three g “q-iyten by Blackstone and Euclid ‘zegarding the vacancy in the Sen- , ale, and we all admit that. Black- stone enlightened the people of lihis Province as t0 the legal “a. Mus of the Senators and how they

are appointed.

Eruclld at no time answered Blackstone's arguments, and What appears to be his final letter of Illa 7th instant, proves it. in fact he says s0 himself.

I take exception to t-he latter purl. of Eurlldsletter and I know .11 will not meet with the approval of the Liberals of Klflgs County, when he states: "In case Black- svne may have political aspirat- ‘ m. the present time, unis maul b0 his chance and lf so he sitould be more careful not to fall into the old rul, for whoever get-s lhe next Liberal nomination for Klllgs County will need the help of lhe present Federal member for Kings Ho whcm he refers) aurl his numerous friend's." Will the Prime Minister consider tlilsslabe- menl. as a good recommendation on behalf of the applicant when lie ls ready to make the appoint- ment? The Liberals of Kings will

that he built his house and lived. It was this property which was at- tached by a writ of execution for rlobt. It was sold by the sheriff on July 26, 1803, to Thomas Dee- brlsny for the sum of ninety pounds, The extent of the sacrifice of this property by its forced sale may be gathered from the fact that Des- brlsay sold the property a few yenrs later for. £230. O O

Almost. exactly forty-eight years later, Dr. Gordon's youngest. dangli- ter returned to Charlottetown as the Governor's lady? and a friend still living tells how Lady Banner- man went to vlllt the I10“!!! 0f h" birth. It was a brick house“ and hes long since been torn down, el- though its site may still be pointed out. It stood about half a mile from Government House on n tract of land which stretched down to the York or North River. Look- lng from the windows of her house across the river and harbour Mrs. Gordon could easily have seen the house on the "Fort bot" (Rocky Pplnt) where she was born. and where her father Governor Patter- son had resided.

According to tradition, Dr. Gar- den's widow was a drenmaker in Halifax for some time. Whatever the truth of this may be. lhe was married there. at St. Paul's Church. on July 22, 18M, to George James Guthrie. surgeon of the 29th or

'-° Worcestershire Regiment of Foot.

which was stationed at Halifax from Aug. 29. 1802, to June 19, 1M1.

——From "Carlylei First Lave: Margaret Gordon Lady Banner- man." by Raymond Clare Archi- bald, 19W.

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OLD AGE

The aeu are quiet. when the wind gives o'er;

So oalm are we when passions are no more;

For then we know how vain it was to boast

0f fleeting things so certain to be

lost.

Clouds of affection from our young- 01‘ 0Y9!

Conceal the ecnpbinsl! which use deserted.

The Mail's dark oobf-IIO. battered and decayed. Lets 1n new light through chinks that. time hath made; Stronger by weakness, wiser men become

As they draw near to their eternal home:

Leaving the 01d. both worlds at once they view

who stand upon the threshold of the New.

—Edmund Waller (1605-1686).

also consider it in the light. it in intended for. No Liberal the‘. I know of up here will follow the Federal member for Kings to ln- jure any person's character or political aspirations, an we do our own thinking, as he knows from experience.

Does the Federal member for Kings intend to retiurn to the Tory party’)

I em, Sir, ole, LIBERAL ELIEIOR Sourln, P. l. I.‘

TRUCK DRIVER'S COMPLAINT

Shy-I suppose I am only one of the many that received a let- ter the other day from the High- ways Department stating that. I had registered my truck at. too low n rain, which was on; hun- dred and thirty-four forty. The lolal 1n all was one hundred and eighty-five forty which 1s no small sum to get. a. three-ton truck on the road, especially the road we have to travel over from Tryon to Borden these last few years. They didn't mention anything about the money they kept oul of us for balding dome an the Cape 'I‘raverse road because of being under-registered.

Now what. I Want. to ask ls how co they expect a person to pay one hundred and eighty-five dol- lars to register, one hundred and fifty dollars for insurance. besides the small sum of four thousand dollars for the truck; also try and make a living, when they ask you to haul a load of gravel from Fredericton to Carleton Siding. fifty-six miles return trlp,-for six dollars and footy-eight cents, over a. road that is not. flt to travel an’!

It might have been better if we had stayed home dining the war years and made a 1.1m, money, irlslead of spending the best. years of our liven on the battlefield.

If I have one hundred and thirty-four dollars to pay on my licence this fall. I had better try Ind find myself another Job be- sides hauling gravel to the roads

I em, Sir, eta,

A DIBGUSTIZD VIYIIRAN. Albany. P. n. r.

The Age-Old Story

Riches and ‘onour are with mo, yea durable rlebea and righteous- ness. My fruit is better stun gold, yea, than fine geld, and my revenue than ebeiee diver,

BIWAID POI. IMVOI-l

Thomas Paine. English-born author of "The Crisis" and "Oom- mon Sense". was given an estate at New Rochelle by the State of New York 1n recognition of hi:

favors to the United Stet-u.

‘DECEMBER 11, 1948