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UlA.BLOTTE1'0WN WEDNESDAY. JUNE 2.8. 1950
The conservii-lie convention
Of far-reaching importance to this Prov- ince, politically and otherwise, may be the results of the Progressive Conservative Con- vention to be held here tomorrow for the adoption of a new constitution and the selec tion of a new Provincial leader. In our democratic system it is necessary that there should be at least two parties competing for election to the Legislature as a repre- sentative institution. The members elected sre not delegates, but chosen with the right ind duty to express their own convictions. The relation between a member and his con- itituents was never better expressed than by Edmund Burke in the following passage. .vhich might well be made compulsory read- 'ng for every aspiring politician, every con- vention delegate. and indeed every party supporter in this country:
"Certainly. gentlemen. it ought in he the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strict:-sq union. the closest. correspond- ence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents. Their wishes ought to have great weight with him; their opinions high respect: their business unremltyd atten- tion. It is his duty to sacrifice his repose, his pleasures. his satisfaction to theirs: and above Ill. ever and In all cases. to prefer their inter- ut. to his own. But his unbiased opinion. his nature Judgment. his enlightened conscience, he ought not to sacrifice no you: in any man, or to any set of men living. These he does not cierlve from your pleasure: no, nor from the law "III the constitution. They are a trust from Providence. for the abuse of which he is deeply answerable. Your representative owes you. not his industry only. but his judgment; and he betrays. instead oi serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion."
This golden passage applies with even greater force to the relation between a leader and his party. If he is to discharge his duties at all he must be capable of giv- ing firm and enlightened guidance. his gen- eral policies being circumscribed. ot course, by the policies and platfonn of his party.
The constitution of the party starts with the poll committees, selected in democratic fashion by the supporters of each party from among the leading party workers. The poll committees then select five of their number as representatives to the district or Provincial convention, as the case may be, for the transaction of business in con- nection with the party's interests. In the present instance. the lack of interest evinced in the important convention scheduled for tomorrow may be due in part at least to the fact that no public notices have been given of meetings at which to select poll bommittees. There has been no indication that these committees have nominated five of their respective numbers to attend the convention. Perhaps this has been accom- plished in some way other than by notices in the newspapers. but we doubt it. At any rate. this is a case where formalities should be scrupulously observed.
So far as is known, the list of active candidates for the leadership is confined to Mr. R. R. Bell, K.C., Mr. D. L. Mathieson, K.C.-both members of the Legislature- and Mr. J. Angus MacLean, although it may be that the retiring leader, Hon. Dr. MacMillan, will allow his name to go on the ballot. There may also be a dark horse or two in the race, which would add zest to the contest and be quite in keeping with our democratic tradition.
Having chosen a leader and settled the question of a new constitution, it is for the party members as a whole to get solidly behind the choice of the majority, and make the influence of the party felt, not only at the next election, but in the in- terlm, when the real groundwork for suc- cess at the polls is laid by hard and un-
remitting work.
Boom In Auto Purchases
A rise in the dollar-volume of auto- mobile purchases accounted entirely for the increase in Canadian retail sales in the first quarter of 1950, according to the Bank of Montrealls Business Review for June. This is the highlight of the analysis of consumer spending contained in the review.
Beginning with background data. the B. of M. stresses that the mass demand of some 13,700,000 Canadians for consumer goods and services is considerably larger than export trade and new capital ex- pansion combined.
"In 1949", the statement notes. "con- sumer spending amounted to no less than 310,750 millions as compared with export demand for Canadian goods and services of about 34.000 millions and domestic invest- meat in plant, equipment and housing total- ling approximately 63.400 millions." Elim- lasting the effect of the rise in both popu- lotion and living costs, it would appear that Qnlllans an consuming. in real terms.
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about 50 per cent more goods and service per capita than immediately prior to the war.
Official estimates indicate an increase of 5.9 per cent in dollar value of aggregate re- tail sales for the first quarter of the year, compared with the corresponding months of 1949. Advances were recorded all over the country, with-little regional disparity. "Looking further into the published date, however, it becomes apparent that the increase in retail sales in the first quarter of 1950'has been wholly attribut- able to additional purchases of automobiles, sales of new passenger cars having more than doubled in value," the review says. "It is significant also that whereas new cars sold were higher in aggregate dollar value by 105 per cent in the quarterly com- parison, the increase in the amount of new financing involved was 122 per cent."
EDITORIAL N01 ES
This is the busiest and most important theoretical agricultural Province in Canada today.
0 The amended Citizenship Act now gives ”Commonwealth Citizen" the same meaning as ”British subject."
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A child born on a Canadian airplane in any part of the world will now be recognized
officially as a Canadian. 0 O I
The Government's policy of supplying calcium chloride for municipal streets as well as country roads will be blessed by
motorist and villager alike. 9 I O 0
Parliament is nearing the end of an- other term having been in session since February 16. Whatever one may say about the wisdom of its debates and de- cisions there will be few who criticize it for perfunctory performance of its duties.
0 I I The Senate Finance Committee reports there are now 127,000 Federal Government officials against 46,000 in 1939. The Com- mittee points out that 156,000 persons actu- ally are on the Government payrolls. but these include casual employees and revenue postmasters.
0 Queen Victoria married to Prince Albert Francis Charles Augustus of Saxe-Coburg, this date 1838. The title of Prince Consort was conferred upon him by Order-in-Coun- cil. He died of typhoid in 1861, mourned by a nation which had learned to appreci- ate his elevated character and heneficient influence.
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None of the eight Liberal members of the Quebec Legislature has offered to re- sign to provide a seat for the new Pro- vincial Leader. Mr. Georges E. Lapalme, formerly M. P. for Joliette-M0ntreal-l'As- somption. Premier Duplessis promised the Government would not oppose the election of the new leader provided one of the pre- sent eight members resigned in his favour. None has.
Winnipeg, which so recently was seek- ing everywhere for sandbags, now has a surplus on its hands. The city is trying to dispose of some 600,000 bags in various conditions before they become unusable. A little better timing with the British Colum- bia freshets would have solved the pro- blem at once, or transferred it farther West. . .
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At. Halifax Monday, the new chairman of the C. N. R. was largely non-committal on the part the railway would play in the development of the Maritimes. He said it was already buying all its coal and steel from the Maritime area, and providing a four service time table between the Marl- times and Montreal, but beyond that he could not commit the C. N. R. He was na- turally reticent on the question of lower freight rates.
Egg prices on June 23 this year and previous years. The prices quoted below are for Grade A Large. At Montreal and Toronto the prices are those at which graded shipments are selling to wholesalers. At other points quotations are prices to shippers for ifngraded eggs.
- 1950 1949 1948 Montreal . .. . . . . 51-53 51-52V,- 49-50 Toronto . . . . . . . . . 50 51-52 49 Winnipeg . . . . . . .. 33 41 38-44 Vancouver . . . . . . . 43 46 42 Edmonton . . . .. . . 37 42 37 Reglna.......... 34 40 43 Charlottetown 37 49-50 40m
Weight of Liv". and Dressed Poultry at Registered Stations week ending June3 May 27 May 21
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NEW POTATOES
l A ”At a meeting of the committee ' of the Royal Agricultural Society, held lhis day, George Coles. Ebqq laid on the table a sample of new potatoes. which were produced in the following singular manner. Having about 200 bushels of small diseased potatoes last fall. which he did not consider worth hous- ing. he ordered them to be put into a pit on the field. and covered with straw and clay; the stalks which were gathered to prepare the ground for ploughing were also thrown on top of the heap. The pit was opened on Tuesday last. and to every old potato there was found attached a new one. without a sprout from any other cyc in the old, except where the new one was found. The new potatoes thus produced vary in size, and are. in some instances. larger than the old ones from which they sprung; and on being cooked, found to be perfectly dry. From the ap- pearance of the eyes in the new potatoes. there is little doubt but they will vegetate on being plani- ed. They are also free from disease."
- The Islander, March 28. 1346.
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The rabbit. in his burrow keeps
No guarded watch. in peace be slee 5: The wolf that howls in challenging
night. Cowers to her lsir at morning light; The simplest bird ontwlr.-es a nest
Where she may lean her lovely breast,
Couched in the silence nf the, bough.
But thou. 0 man, what not host thou?
Thy emptiest solitude can bring Only a swbtler questioning Ln thy divided heart. Thy bed
Recalls at dawn what. midnight said.
Seek how thou will to feign con. tent
Thy flaming Ardour spent;
Soon thy last company is gone,
And leaves thee-with thyself - alone.
is quickly
Pomp and great friends may hem thee round. A thousand busy tasks be found; Earth's thronging beauties may be- lie
811 Thy longing loveslok heart awhile; And pride. like clouds of sunset. spread r A changing glory round thy head: But fade will all; and thou must come. Hating thy journey, homeless. home.
Rave how thou wilt: unmoved. re-
Thai. inward presence slurnbe . not. Frets out each secret. from thv breast. Gives thee no rally. pause. nor rut. leansncllose thy very thoughts, last. 03' Should am his patient powsr may Answers thy wrath with pssze. thy
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Province lb. lb. lb.
B. C. 234,972 206,008 221,680 Alta. . . . . . . . . . .. 73,277 85,637 47,834 Sask. ..... 4,596 9,804 4,940 Man. . . . . . . . . . 64,322 110,941 95,908 Ont. 642,153 555,986 652,(ff8 Que. 370,355 326,978 265,553 N. B. . .. .. 3,376 7.124- 5,045 N. S. 25,839 8,996 12,653 P. E. I. . . . . . .. . . 6.171 3.579 3.256
The U. S. and Canada I
ifiixcerpts from an address by" Hon Douglas Abbott at Chicago)
"We co-operated in setting up the International Monetary Fund and the International Bank. We joined many other countries in making a broad attack on exces- sive trade barriers through the Geneva and Annecy Agreements
and the lnternattonal Trade Organization We knew then that international organizations. no
matter how excellent, could not in tremselves do the entire job in the circumstances thaL..pr.evalled, for we went. to work. each in our own way. on the more immediate task of European reconstruction.
"You made in S3”. billion loan to Britain and followed this loan up with that magnificent and unselfish act of statesmanship, the Marshall Plan, which has meant so much to the economic recovery and politic- ial security of the West. European democracies.
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"We. in our returmmadca loan of sl-if billion to Britain on the same terms and conditions as yours and then We embarked on a very ex- tensive programme of export credits to other countries whose economies had been seriously dis- rupted by the war.
"All in all, our "foreign aid” contribution in loans and gifts since the end of the war has as- gregated just over :2 billion. On a relative basis that aggregate still compares very favorable with the total foreign aid made available by this country, even including as- sistance given and to be given under the Marshall Plan.
"The extensive financing which has been done by North America. has accomplished a great deal in the last few years . . .
"More important. the encroach- ment of Communism which a short
while ago threatened to engulf them. trnuntrics of Western Europel has been successfully halted.
"It is only recently that we have become fully aware of the magni- tudc of the changes that have taken place in the world economy and of the profound shift in the balapce of economic power from Europe to North America. I beleve that if we measure the Dmsress achieved against the real problems that confronted us, as-
camps engaged in fighting a cold war, we should have cause for pride and confidence rather than for dlsappointxnent.
"Much, however, remains to be done and we shall need all the resources of patience and wisdom and ststesmanshlp that we can muster. Until the serious lack of balance in world trade is overcome, we cannot expect to get rid of the host. of discriminating restrictions and devices which today impede a freer flow of world trade.
"A contribution to a better balance must. be made from both sides-frcm the side of the deficit or debtor countries as welllhas from the side of the surplus or creditor countries. ,
"Thus, the couritries of Western Europe will have to produce and
offer for sale to dollar markets more goods of the right kind at prices which are competitive. At.
the same time we in North Amer- ica must be prepared to take more imports-Iunless of course. we are prepared to lend abroad the amount of our export. surpluses. "Tariffs must be scaled down, Customs procedures must. be sim- plified and made more flexible and
more reasonable. We must, recog--
nlze clearly and tell our' people that high tariffs and other pro- tcctlve devices are inconsistent with the position of North America in world trade today. It is my firm conviction that there is no other solution to the problem of how to restore a sound and sane trading world."
LONDON. June 22 - 4Reuters)- Sir Gllmour Jenkins. permanent under-secretary of the Ministry of Transport. will preside over next Monday's inaugural session in Lon- don of the North Atlantic Ship- ping Control Board, it was an- nounced today.
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In some than it has been ap- parent. that Winnipeg is passing out of the "infant industry" since. The period in which Winnipeg consumers were urged to buy loc- ally manufactured products out of loyalty to their own community has been gs period of healthy growth, but the story today is that in line after line Winnipeg-made products are selling in other Cans- dian and export markets on their own merits in competition with the best lines made anywhere. High quality and aggressive sell- ing efforts are basic elements in
There will always be a salt cod industry in Newfoundland. of course, but it should no longer. be the main branch of the fisheries here. The time has come for is change. To bring about the transi- tion from present. methods of fish- ing and development of new branches of the fishery is going to require a lot of energy. a lot of drive. a lot of imagination and I lot of capital. It will probably cost not less than 81,000,000 but it will be money well spent. In the meantime. other --industries must not be forgotten. Mineral resour- ces must be fully investigated. and any worthwhile deposits de- veloped. -St. John's Telegram. I
It may have happemd beforel but. we haven't noticed it. a com-l psny and union both admlttlngl officially they "lost. is strike." But this is exactly what occurred af- ter workers at the Hawthorne Paper Company. Kalamazoo. Michigan, returned to their jobs, having been out three weeks, A joint statement by company and. union reported: "Neither side won and, as is true in all labor dis- putes, both management and lab- or lost." We believe there has been an increasing awareness of this fact during the past few years. As managements and unions become more experienced in dealing with one another - and peclally af- ter experiencing a few strikes - they come to understand they both can save money by coming to agreements before s. strike rather than after a strike.-From wind- sor star.
COMPLETE VISUAL REFRALTION and
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Dist can change black .5”, white ones. a scientist says. Th"-5 a valuable hint for 3 Jun. 5,”. who is thinking of marrying one to reform him. - London in”, Press.
O:.Iadil.n and Bridal: mmg", law have a regulation that drunk. enness is no excuse for other mg, demeanors. our civilian couru would do well to stick to the sum rule. Tto condone a crime or ex. culpate a criminal because of drinking discredits the prong”, of law, affronts society and pi", into the hands of llllberal prohibi- tlonlsts who would again strain. jacket this country. - Peterbor. oush Examiner.
Trees are good citizens. 111., rarely disturb the peace of city streets. They offer shade and (1,. cency against the violence of 1 great town. At best a modern citv is harsh, unbalanced. crazy, 0,”; the trees reclaim it. from jg, alienation and make it llvesbxg, The llt e grassy yards and trees that p ple plant. before their houses are a part. of their lives,
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People care for things like free; and grass, where they cannot find them naturally they set them out
to remind them of the sereng realities beyond the city's 1,0,. ders. They muggle nature in,
The rows of maples and elrns an green beside the surge and drive of motor cars and men along 11,. are nood citizens along with those who plant them -Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph.
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