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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 19M

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Lost Opportunity

Published (lst'\\llL‘l‘C in tudilyb issue ll Senator hlclntyrck atldrcss in Parliament On our fishery and transportation problems. Like Mr. Blclmres in the House of Commons, it is an excellent apt-cull,‘ but utifortunatcly Senator McIntyre was not quick enough 0n the trigger when interrupted in the closing part of his re- marks. H: was asked by Senator Patterson, ef Ontario, why it was, if we had the smallest per aapita revenue, that we were the first province to reach our quota in the Ninth Victory Loan campaign. Senator McIntyre insisted that he was right in his reference to our per capita in- come, but left the question tmanswcred.

This is a lamentable illustration of the lack of co-ordination between the efforts pf our Federal and Provincial Liberal representatives. Had Senator McIntyre been familiar with the brief presented by Premier Jones at the open- ing of the Dominion-Provincial Conference, he could have emphasized his argument by point- ing out that for individual subscriptions our last two Victory Loans were on the basis of $70 per capita for Prince Edward Island as against $172 per capita for Ontario. For all Victory Loans our individual sales were $102 per cap- ita, as against $509 for Otitario, $432 for Brit- ish Columbia, and $337 for Nova Scotia. Total individual sales and special names gave Prince Edward Island $366, Ontario $1,198 per cap- ita. The fact that we were the first to pass our quota was highly to our credit; but the basis of our allotment plainly indicated recognition by the central authorities that we were a poor Province. That was the point which Senator McIntyre was trying to make, and he could have turned the scales neatly on the Ontario Senator had he studied our Provincial brief.

Again, he was interrupted by Senator ,1 Euler,‘ one-time ll/linister of National Revenue’ " in theKing Government, who asked if it was

not true that for a good many years now the freight rates to the lllaritimcs have been “tre- mendously reduced," and that the railways have been reimbursed out of the Federal treasury to the extent of itiariy million dollars. It is only a. few months since Mr. Rand Mathcson, manager of the Maritime Transportation Com- mission, issued a comprehensive pamphlet 0n thc Maritime Freight Rates Act in which the argument that we are enjoying any privilege in ploded. With this information at his finger-

special freigltt tariffs is completely ex-

hom- At niobium of highest ordna- tion, Prince Illanders think, “Gosh, if the folks could only m; now l" I . Exporlis .Are Essential l

The Ffldfli‘ Department of Trade and Commflw advises Canadians that "One-third of every duller ‘you get comes from Canada's trade abro ." . , \ The fact that our present standard of liv- ing, the wagespaid ill this country, and the size and variety of our" manufacturing and agricul- tural industries, are largely the result of our export trade is not generally understood. Can- ada's trade in dollar value, says the Ottawa Journal, may be less than that of some other na- tions but no country in the world today de- pends on foreign trade so much as our Own. A larger share of our total production goes abroad than is the case, of any other country —nearly one-third to be exact.

Without this trade Canadian industry couldtnot survive on anything like the scale achieved in the past or hoped for in the future. It is doubtful if we would have any automo- bile industry, or farm machinery plants, if these firms had to depend solely on what Canadians would buy. Our farm production would shrink if only the domestic market had to be sup- plied. Every Canadian benefits from this trade, not just those who happen to be prO- ducing exportable goods.

. Stories come back from foreign lauds that Canadian-made shirts, 0r washing machines,

chased there and people at home wonder why these goods should go to foreign markets while Canadians go short. The fact is that other countries besides Canada are competing for the world markets now available and that Canada must get in on the ground floor, and keep up shipments, if she is to continue to keep her world trade. Britain makes no bones about keeping her own people short while she builds up foreign trade; Canada is likely doing the same thing but is not talking much about it.

—EDITURIAL NOlES-.

" Bishop Haber, hymnologist, writer From Greenland’: Icy Motmlainr", and other well-known favourites, died this date r325; “When Spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil."

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The Australian Newspaper Proprietors‘ Assflclaflo" PYODoses to hold a conference in Australia towards the end of this year to dis- cuss the freedom of the Press. It is hoped to tnake it representative of the English-speaking world- Hpfflpflsals will be discussed to define the position of a free Press in a free society, how conditions of freedoms are to be rccov. cred where war has compromised them and the danger of propaganda as an instrument of ad- ministration. The final object will be to draw up a charter which it is hoped will be incorp- orated in the Peace Treaty binding signatories l0 remove all barriers to free reporting of news within their frontiers. The American Society of Newspaper Editors has passed a resolution of support for the World Press Freedom con- ference proposed by the Australian N. P. A. In his Presidential address to the Institute of Journalists in I944 Mr. William Rcdfem said the Press had earned the right to be regarded as an integral factor in the maintenance of peace, and urged the incorporation within the frame- work of the international security plan of a convention guaranteeing the freedom of the Press throughout the world, with free access

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Ganedhn: can hardly be :0 loll- l:h as to malnteln hard and fut immigration law: that rem-let the population of the northern half of thl: continent to o comparative handful of people. ‘Ihere are hun- dreds of thouund: of people In Europe who would make excellent citizens and who, If given the op- portunity, would be glad to come to this country to nor-t tlfe anew. —-0nlg:ry Herald.

More than 106,000 pooh; weighing approximately 5,800 ton: recently arrived at the West In- dia Docks from Oeylon in the BB Empim Allenby. ‘This cargo, im- ported by the Ministry of Food, represents name 2,152 million cups of tea, sufficient to rive eveiz person in this country about cups. It will be stored in varlou: dock and riverside warehouses un- tll required. —Port of London Monthly,

The experience oi the lest S0 years ls sufficient proof of the law that every increase ln the cost of labor ls inevitably followed by l proportionate increase in the cost of living; and that where the coat of living ls highest there is more liability to depression rlods. The insistence of organlz labor in demandng higher wage rates as n share in higher profits, without accepting lower wage rates as a share in higher profits, without accepting lower wage rates as a share tn losses, will finally raise the cos-Ls of production and of liv- ing to a point. where our industries cannot compete in the world mar- ets. In wnicn event there would be no profits to share. - Calgary Albertan

This curious auleida by the lwonl, called hare-kirl, h; what might be called a fake. It ls pretty much phony, says The Pittsburgh Post- Gazetto. The tradition is hold up to the rank and file as a grand old Japanese custom in which great leaders show their complete devo- tion to the emperor. The fact ls that hara-klrl was rarely commit- ted by top ranking leaders and only occasionally by second raters. It was something for lenders to preach about, but they didn't often pro- duce the bodies. You will notice that Tojo used a gun and made n botch of it, and Prince Konoye took poison. Most of the “so sorry" lead- ers Just go to jail and in due time will pay an extremely formnl visit to the hangman. In short, hara- kiri ls more of an idea than a prac- oe.

Sugar supplies soon will increase, so much so that u writer for Bar- ron's believes there mhzht be a liberal increase in the rationing rate in the second quartero! the year and that rationing for house- hold use might be ended tn the last quarter. Conditions toward the end of the year will depend heavily upon the domestic sugar beet crop, therefore upon the weather. But those for the early future depend largely upon island production, about which the major facts are known. Cuba's planters are preparing for a big 1947 de- livery. hoping to harvest about 700,000 tons more than this year. If they can do that they will make up the world defleit to which their great drought of two years alto contributed and should be able to sell this country enough to re-es- tabllsh a comfortable worklntz sur- plus. -Cleveland Plain Dealer.

Colnplnlntn of mllltnry tailors that they have difficulty in obtain- lng supplies o! suitable material for tartan trews and for the kllt for officers of Scottish regiments have been brought before the president of the Board of Trade, but evldent- iy the deputation received little satisfaction. It is to be feared that the military and other nuthorltles concerned, both here and in Cen- adn, do not appreciate the strength

of Scottish attachment to the tor- tan and the kllt. In Canada a pro- self

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Royal Visit‘ to ' South, Africa’

(United llngggélnformation 1m ‘iaoonneement tlut

K George n Ilxebeth nil?‘ ‘um Frinceua: Qugth and Margaret have accepted General Smuts’ aux- tion that they should vlslt South‘

.y of In: the Bridal: m‘ London tinny ver was t are o time when he people: of the Bow‘, P were more connvluu: of m, ther common denlny. ‘I'M: first m “em vlalt to the youngest of the ' inlou: eitmene: for the peo- ple of Britain the deep sense of unity they feel with their klnsmen d] overaetu." Now that the self-gov- erning Dominion: have the‘ status of equality with the Mother Coun- try the person of the King is the only tangible bond between them. The Importance of this link is stressed by the London Dally Tele- graph which writes "The very f:\~.t that the Royal hmlly are unwed on South African troll will symbolise more clearly than ever the fact that the King is the King of every one of H]: Domlnlons in no other sense than he is King of England." . ' .

The history of Royal visits to the uvt-tseas Empire as yet covers less than n :entury. Although Queen Victoria dld so much for the development of "Britain over- seas" she was opposed to the =den of her self going far from Britain, and lt was only with reluctance that she eventually consented to allow the Prince of Wales- later Edward VII~to make a vtstt to Oa- nada in 1860, to he followed fifteen yearv later by m Indian mur. Meanwhtle, Australia and New Zea- lantt were ‘naktnrt great strides towards independent nationhood and when Queen Victoria tiled nr- rangements were already well in hand for the extended tour nf the British Empire which King George V and Queen Mary -t.hen Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York _made In 1901 the converted liner Ophlr The Duke and Duchess were away from England 231 days, during which they covered forty- five thousand miles-nearly twice the earth's circumference - by sea and land. The highlight of the tour was the Duke's opening the first Australian federal parliament at Melbourne in the presence of fifteen thousand people. But the tour also took the Duke andpurh- es: to Gibraltar, Malta, Aden, 81n- gapore and several cities in \us- trolls and New Zealand, Maurit- ius, South Africa, Canada and New- foundland. It was on their return from this tour that the Duke made his famous "Wake Up, Fin-timid" speech at the London Guildhall, stresslnz the lessons that Britain could learn from the youneer countries of the Empire and the necessity for strengthenln: the bonds between them and the Mother Country. As Prince and Princess of Wales George and Mary visited India during the winter of 19M-6—a four that gives the fut- ure Emperor of that great subcon- tinent much insight Into the prob- lems and needs of its peoples. slx years later the royal pair returned to India for coronation as Kim: Emperor and Queen Empress and to inaugurate India's new capital at Delhi. At the famous Delhi dur- bar a vast concourse of Inrlltms gathered to demonstrate their loy- alty to the new ‘ruler.

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and rul

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would

view was was then

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have, of years of o posed

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Between two tzreet wars the Duke of Windsor then Prince of Wales, make a series of tours commenc- ing with his visit to Canada in 1919 In the Renown. His travels took him not only to the great Dominicans-India, Canada, South Africa but also to other parts of the Empire such as East Africa, and to foreign lands ln South America

declaratl

and Japan. Meanwhile, the pres- °f 1°C“

ent King and Queen as Duke and Duchess of York visited East Africa in the winter of 1924 and Australia and New Zealond in 1927. The lat- ter tour was the occasion for 1n- nuguratlng the new capital of the

‘lb: t f ca! n53, ‘L? ti. l: without parallel the, emergence of Brtthh

in all cue: of stock or or! tlon and

ment» were dee Ln India t:

untry- an of entirely different race, d tradition.

deopotlcall The "British despotism But for over a hundred Brltleh ruler: in India had ion that sooner or later under the .3" zlanrirect of British ideas and tlnh guidance the Indian people: come to demand self-govern- ment. And when they did, when they were read blllty the his British Raj would be completed The classical

the famous historian, ln 1838.

of ControlW-the member of the , responsible aharp conflict between

There was at the time not the stirring of a notional movement n: or any aaplretlon to even local self- government. The process of educa-

may he," by good Government we may edu-

elty for better Government: having become instructed ln epean knowledze they may some future a

institutions.

will ever come I k

never will I attemp

. Whenever

will be the llsh history. people sunk in slavery and superstition, e' so ruled them o: to have made them desirous and capable of all the privileges of citizens would No indeed be a title to

de nden

British rulers in

rations, who “thought. lm who have

rule over a great subject empire a "title to glory." There others who have been urgl tlon in each new step.

may have been too slow: caution may at time: have been too great. But each new step has" been vol- untary and deliberate. The

eat in Entzllsh history." The first embryonic beginning:

International

Commentary l .

:11 ." - . " "dtomplete politi- e Indien ' ill lull-BIT.‘ _ ,

mm Oolonlai 5m -

“nationhood-though all‘: w, i eled-w:: nomathing- '

In their cue: the evolu- one of people: largely hmpean 1n whom the tra- ~

p. he Brltlah conquered re - ‘ l w ltglon It was l countoy Ari _ d never been united and , -

d always been Ioverned ‘I110 ‘ by its varl u: rulen.

a vi:-

y for the reaponsl- torlcal task of the

element of tho M:

made y Lord c: ' , e

“Secretary of the Board Etnplre. a trou Government administration of

even the

not begun. said Macaulay, that

subjects into the copa- Eur-

pruudest day ln ling- To have found a great the lowest depths it i0 Prime

glory all our It. l: a

nationality and Indian in- have not been uume- t

ested from unwilling “lm- glemen

in , h nu z u- - or my: ~

a o 0e govern 1\ I n’ I _ d people: Aeeortlngzsitimfmithezfoot- .

Th d vel anti; bled gong. India. patience end-Britten Cdilllog. ,

proce l: e. far ll Brita!

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Illd not be -of the Oom-

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t view to the proiruilve mediation

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1'. U! AM

If” part in the O mrnonweslth t: decltfreefrd to be a niodtter for Indie’: mm choice. It co that wl:e, For the Bteiee

other-

"lliiolffll N?"

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are-ao by

Jifherecanb:

pzocea: l: complete:

that remain: l: agreement on method: and the moment transfer of authority and rtmt to note that the

of

later’: declaration had

national decllton.

t doe: not, unit:

th full val f the whole House ofedomhilltpri: lrrgepectlve of Party. voice we: raised in opposition.

Y, Ill i: now e ear for im-

tlng thll

ut the great difficulty ll between Britain and India. 1t l: between the Indiana: between ri

,, among the India. ‘There course, during the long so evolution been many who the growing Indian aa- wile); l;

t : been unabe

the ending of the Brit

Y1K Chil-

betng taken.

of events, It is the cul- tmd completion of e pro- evolutlon. The evolution

Attica

place. on marked not the sur-

self-government

l! reasons, be MW? lwfl! until it l:

val conception: of a ulnte and of an Indie divided into two parate ltatea-"Hl a Hindu melority

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i homing over

h. , Mssttvtcs -.

vactical

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, ’ ' catas- trophe to abollnh. t e Government of India. lenvlnz nothing in lie

nan the chances of .- ment. At time: the leader: ‘of h onlem Lelkile seem

ty int ensllennt: even hlntina at

ongren and

entire-

the pulbllity of civil-war. other time: they are Inclined to some sort of compromise-J! one

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