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MONDAY, MAkUIl l1, 133D

Prohibition Enforcement

The Campbell Government is unique in many respects, but probably no more extraordinary occurrence will be associated with its memory than the speech which the Premier delivered last Friday with regard to his administration of the Prohibition .-\ct. He took occasion to re- view matters iii dispute between himself and a prominent legal colleague outside the House, with regard to which a lawsuit is pending, Mr. Campbell being the plaintiff in the action which is for damages for an alleged defamatory libel. Not only did he review the facts in issue froin his standpoint, but he undertook to pass judg- ment on the defendant as well.

The case lit-in; at present Sill) fitdire, it is 0f course highly improper to continent on the merits in any way as to prejudice a fair trial. It would not only be improper but illegal for anyone to attempt to do so, without the special privilege l\Ir. Campbell enjoys as a member of the Legislature. .'\s a King's Counsel learned in the la\v, no one knows better than the Premier and Attorney General that he has taken an un- due advantage of his position in the House to set himself above the law which he has invoked, thereby placing his defending co-King's Cotiii- selor at a serious disadvantage should the case conic to trial. One must draw the conclus- ion that Premier Campbell has no intention of proceeding to trial or he would never have placed himself in the position of drawing the reprimand of the trial judge upon his head for his unethical conduct in the matter.

With regard to the so-called facts the Prem- ier submitted to the Legislature concerning the administration, past and present, of the Prohibi- tion law, the public will take them with more or less of the proverbial grain of salt. If there be a gap of several years in the records of a past administration, whose fault is it? The Premier went out of his way to commend the wholesale vendor as being in control for the past tweiity-one years. Commissions and politi- cal officials may have changed but the whole- sale vendor has continued uninterruptedly in of- fice. Surely he has not withheld records bear- ing upon his particular office.

\Vitli regard to the number of prosecutions under what the Premier calls his “systematic method of under-cover investigations," it may be pointerl out that the prosecutions under the late Conservative Ciovernnient were considerably more than under the preceding Liberal admin- istration, and that Mr. Campbell, when in Op- position, was the first to insist that the figures, either of convictions or seizures, can “talk both ways.” They do not necessarily mean that the law is better enforced, he said; they may mean simply that “more liquor is being consumed.”

It is undeniable that since the abolition of the Prohibition Commission the sale of liquor through government stores under the Premier's administration of the Act has steadily increas- ed. Under the MacMillan Government the greatest revenue years were I933 and I934, when an annual profit of $30,000 was shown. In i936 thc profit was $40,000. in i937 $55,000, and in i938, $58,079. These figures are taken from the comparative statistics tabled by the Premier on Friday On the other hand, there is not the slightest evidence to substantiate his claim that these increased sales are due to cur- tailment of bootleg liquor, which the activities of his “iiiiilcr-cover" men show to be at least as easily obtainable as at anv other time in the history of the Province. \\"e have the sworn testimony of one of them, at an investigation, held by the Premier himself, that he had seen as much drunkenness in Charlottetown in one dav as he would see in the city of Montreal in a week.

We note a tendency in Mr. Campbell's apologia to shift the onus of law enforcement upon the general public. whose lax attitude he deplored. Let him recall in this connection the statement he made when in Opposition, that ‘fenforcement of the Prohibition law can only be obtained from a Government which has a sincerity that is born of conviction.” Let him also recall that the reason given for abolishing the Prohibition Commission was that in the past there was a tendency to "pass the buck" from the Goverament to the Commission. and that henceforth the entire responsibility was to be placed. where it belonged, upon the Attorney General.

Bren Plant Joy-Ride

c“Two-score llllfllglllcfi of the Public Accounts ommittec of tie ouse of Commons have now concluded their ludicrous joy-ride to the John Inglis plant in Toronto," says the Financial Post. “They might as well have visited The MlcLean Publishing Co. plant where the, orig- inal Bren article was pu fished.‘ 'w ‘Id hive secured just as much information at tie ' hem in their probe." I ~ a . ' ‘V A_ suggestion was rdeveqriy fiijthe I iii- mtigatipn into the‘. the g _ g lmlilnlttliig|~ln~ or

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What the plant looks like after a consider

cauce. Accounts Committee have begun their probe,’ l ise that their findings in this vital Bren contract, will be of much

Parliament by Commissioner Davis.

"The Only Hope"

“The only hope of the vegetable-growers in

servative and commission merchant. “is for the Minister of Finance to have the biggest heart possible to help these poor devils, because these vegetabk people will absolutely starve year." Mr. Spence was one of those who urged not only a seasonal bu‘. also a regional tariff for fruits and vegetables. The latter was de- clared ‘iy Mr. Dunning to be obviously impos- sible. Still another prolilcm of Canadian vege- tsihle-grnivers was presented by Mr. Frank Len- nard (Conservative, \\'entworth), who declared fresh vegetables from Texas were being sub- sidized by the American railroads in ‘that they were granting an unusually low package rate. But in addition, the Ginarlirm National System was also party to this subsidy, he said, in that the Canadian road was carrying these into Ontario and Quebec from Chicago.

1' Editorial Notes 1 North \Vest Rebellion broke out this date, 1885. i I i U Gathered together on the Plains of Abraham 25.000 of the City of Quebec children will sing “God Save the King," and "O Canada," when Their Majesties visit there in May. i I I if

No wonder Premier Campbell made Mr. Le- Page chairman of the Public Accounts Corn- mittee. Prime Minister Mackenzie King would have been equally justified in appointing De- fence Minister Ian Mackenzie in charge of the investigation into the Bren Gun scandal. s iv 0

concerns the Public Accounts Committee is the condition of the plant at the time the contract experience and facilities which Major Hahn had at that time for getting‘

able volume of government machinery and money have been put into it, is of no signifi- '°1 d "The circumstances under which the Publicl says the Toronto paper, “holds no great prom-' governmental purchasing, as exemplified by the

clearing up the questions put squarely beforel

Ontario," said Mr_ David Spence, Toronto Con-

this this

“sill? ,°_1*AR_L._‘ZI;=ET£L" GUDW?’ e- -

tlon that Amer-tau, which does not like Hitler's leadership, extends dislike to the wnole German people. -St. Louis Globe-Dispatch

l One of the first shipg of the new "Frans-Canada air mail service tau frhureday brought in a lovely greet.- tng of spring daffodils picked in Victoria he day before. They were sent. from Mayor MeGavin, of Vic- ria. to Mayor Lewis, of Ottawa, The flowers were received in per- ifect condition. There are great fields of spring flowsrs in the vl- cinity of Victoria. It Ls a Ciuiu- rlian home industry w be encour- aged. Local greenhouse gardeners are. of course, well e nipped to supply the home tnarket n Ottawa, but. the advent of spring flowers from Victoria ts something to be welcomed. —0t.tawa. Citizen.

If the greatest problem of the WEN-TY 15 Unemollflrnent and tak- ing people off the dole. lit is ob- viously necessary to increase em- ployment in the natural way by enzouragiruz and promoting the expansion of business. Special re- lief workersuare only Justified sift/er everything powible has been done to create employment in the nor- mal way. The Govemment was fol- lowing this policy in stimulating tmde, in exemptin bitilding ma- terlale from the s es tax, in pro- vidin facilities for financing iilie build n3 of hurries, in giving sortie encouragement to the mining in- dustry and in helping the tourist trade by highway improvements. The general encouragement of economic recovery nerds to be pressed by every possible means. It would be clearly contrary to 5111311 l! policy to place new tix burdens on industry. because these would tend to dtscoum e new en-

Premier Campbell boasts he has published the Prohibition financial report. He has done nothing of the sort.. He has published the barest summary conveying no detailed information at all, except that there was a surplus of some $54,- 00o.

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ii- u n- Last year's Public Accounts showed the Hon. B. W. LePage received $t,ooo as expenses for attending the Coronation This year's Accounts contain the following additional item: Hon. B. W. LePage-lialance of expenses attending Coronation, $657.40. a 0

terprlse and the expiin on of pres- ent industries. It‘ increased em- ployment is the rent. all-lrrPoort- ant Objective. as t should be, nn impediments that can be avoided should be placed in the way. That is something to consider in con- nection with any decision about the time for adopting new measur- es of social insurance. tnvowtng increased public expenditure and, 1n the case of unemployment 1n- surunoe. involving a direct charge upon industry. --Wlnnipeg Free

A correspondent of the examiner who said he was not writing for publication, argued by pen that.

Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret Rose will make the first speeches of their careers-in’ French—wlien they formally address Madanie' Lebrun during her visit with President Albert. Lebrun of France to the King and Queen. The Princesses will thank Madame Lebrun for elaborately-gowned dolls the people of Frzince' gave them after their parents’ visit to Paris last summer. Both Princesses speak French fluently and Elizabeth wrote most of her speech herself. Princess Elizabeth, I2, is heiress presumptive to the thr0ne_ Priticess Margaret Rose is eight. ii- m v

Aren't the Liberals kind and generous to their own? Prime Minister Mackenzie King appointed Mr. F. G. Sanderson, the Deputy speaker and Chairman of committees of the Whole, to re- present him at the 150th anniversary of the founding of Australia. He got all his expenses paid and was not even asked to forgo part of his salary while absent from the House. Instead, the Government appointed Mr. J. F. Johnston to act for him and passed an order-in-council providing him with an allowance of $1,000. N0- body would have known anything about the transaction had not an inquisitive member puta question to the Minister of Finance on the mat- ter. i

I l i I! The late Mrs. Andrew MacNair reminded one of Mrs. Magdalen Herbert, mother of

George the poet and theologian, It will be re- called when Georgc was only three his father died leaving his widow with ten children, but Magdalen refused to be daunted. _She went to Oxford for the education of her sons; and there she met John Donne, poet and theologian to whom in contrast to the painted emptiness of the Court, ‘Mrs. Herbert's rugged beauty camc as a revelation of the divine. The hard years had left their marks upon her face, but its ex- pression was of one who could rely upon a strength beyond her own, and of her he wrote two of his ‘loveliest lines:

No Spring, nor Summer beauty hath such

grace _ As I have seen in one autumnal face. l 1 i i e

mines at i: and rose to become the King's Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, has just died in Ayr at the age of 76. The onetime miner and’ his mill-girl wife left a tiny cottage, which" rented for ito ($47) a year to take up residence at Holyrodd Palace as direct representatives oi‘ the King and. Queen. Mrs, Brown became “Her Grace" yvith titled women as Attendants auditor

sembly with an escort of cavalry. , described the palace we "em 011d llld lie did not sleep mu

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the freedom of’ Air.‘

,Most. of the people who

Rt. Hon. James Brown, who started work in the '-

iiuaiierid, ‘with peers as aides, (IIVVQJQQIG u». _ l

tihere was not much chance of people in this country extending the range of settlement by making homes in new territory. He put it this way: "Often encu h I r:ad about the pioneers and e picneer

, but we have none of 1t to- day. We have not tihe knowledge which t/he pioneer . We would know poi/hing of cut-ting trém and build ng houses out of logs. The pioneers had such know- ledge and used it. They were train- ed for their ence by what they had been otng before." And just where wan the triiirii done? tiled in Ontario came from the Old Ooun- tzy. where they do not build 1:3 houses. Many of them came from the cities. We dare say few of them had ever cut down n. tree and there would be only a small number who had any knowledge of building a 1oz house. looking up some notes secured several years ago front a gentleman of B2 who was telling of the experience of his father 1n taking up new land we found reference to this question of what the early settler 0w about cutting down trees, ft was this: "Fiiiither and his nearest neighbor decided they would work together in clearing their land so they started on a plot where their future farms WOWG Join. Neither of them had ever cut down 0 large tree and were working at it when a rnen farther up the oountiry was through with a team of oxen

and made his way to where the two men were workina. He looked 0t what they were doing and naked if tihey were trying to ill themselves. They had beizun by cutting all the way around the tree which show-

theyhadnoideaatalloftitie direction in which it would topple over. "Hie strainer at for 0

‘took place ln the homes and more

enlightening views on hygiene and u,

fare could be taught tn schools, inanv of the pit- ls in the rising generat-

uld easily avoided. uld appreciate reading the views of some of the younger-jen- eration.

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E 0F THE RISING GENERATION. Slr.-—~I was greatly interested in

a letter in t-he Guardian of March 23 written by a. " Country Mother" condemning the country stores for selling trashy magazi - . f wonder if this 800d lady thinks all the country stores sell those magazines, because a. few might. Why condemn them all? I would like for this "Country Mother" to c011 at my store any time it is ooiwen- fen-t for her to do so. and I could show her a very different book from those magazines; it is on my shelf and I read it in mv spare time. namely the Book of Books.

I am, Sir. etc.

\‘. N. TUCKER.

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History Repeats

‘thumbing the pages of Volume ‘rwo of the History of The Times cf London. Just published, an Am- erican reader may wonder a Allilfl about, history's tendency to repeat. herself. says tlhe Times of New York, In 1851 Louis Napoleon had seized the Government of France by a. coup dbtat. The Times of London viewed the episode with distaste. Louis Napoleon. resent- ing this attitude, "made every en- deavor to secure" the dfaccnttnu- ance of The Times’; editorial criticisms, "both by means of his own undernound machinery and by remonstretlng with the Brit- ish Government." He was success- ful in amusing some lpprehension in cert-Bin high British circles. lord Granville, the Pbcetgn Secretary, warned the paper that it might good Napoleon to "acts of viol- enoe which may be seriously in- convenient to us." The Earl of Clarendon, a. former Foreign Sec. rotary, was quit-e u explicit, Na- poleon he thought, "is probably meditating revenge an Bigluid for what he believes to be the expres- sion of the contempt and abhor- renoe in which he is held by the English nation." He went on: "If we were invitlnerable, 0nd had 0a army and navy and " ’ ' ’ ed shores, we mhht thunder away to anyextent; but in our present helpless state it seems to me that. to persist in n-ritating France is u ‘liuxury for which we may pay euy."

coals for its maintain l. tone of mod- eration and respect" in discussing foreign affairs. Phree days later the paper replied. mutt“; a clear dl-f-ihdlllfl bet-wen the respective obligation! of stdaennen and of newcomers 0nd redeffnin the function of the press. Th edi- torial in still pertttmit 0nd s‘l1 worth quoting. "The statesmen collects his information secret]; 0nd by ' kw!!! back even the current intelligence of the dey with ludicrous precau- tions, until diplomacy i; bent- en in the nee with publicity. ‘The press lives by disclosures; whatever puns into its keep- inc becomes n part. o! knowletho and history of our ilmfl; it fa daily 0nd forever eppenilm to the enlightened fcru of ptlaiic futon-entici- po/tttil. i.f pose 0. the march of event-standing breech between the present and the fut/tire. and extendl its some" to the horizon of the world. "'°Of0l1lmtrne1e,0ndof I-ll writers, thoee will obtiein

wtiiln and lent 0 ban and gave than I few mtmh-needed lemons inhowtnnotich atreeand than] cut. so they wculd not mt cauizht, when it fei.'. ‘me settler also

ecedtooomebaoklamoniind show them how to use in for the buildina in; to been tn

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ew little enouizh 0nd its ways 0nd I have heard father my he would have quit several time! could not. ‘mere was n

During the ‘p001 ‘few yeerl, the will‘ i“;3..."°"',..b’§;l“’~ ’“-“’““‘ 0 . on rum in imematiotw‘. Agit- tihlt they now m . .' 0 fiaitidiiigiiniuu tn ‘new AIIIMINIOT f0 the 001M

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the ierleet measure of public siminort who fine told the tnith most constantly uid

most fearlessly."

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an hereditary honour but after that time it lost this distinction. In fact. there were no Dukes of York for a. long time but in 1605 it wu once more bestowed by King James the First. There were many occa- sions in history after this event when once again there was no Duke of York i.n British Royalty, with the longest lapse being from 1027 to 1892 when the late King George the Fifth became the Duke of Oomwiill and York. Then for nineteen years it did not exist since _t_he late King George the Fifth re- finished thl; title and it was only ved when he conferred it again on the present King in L900. There is an extremely interesting story behind this Dukedom and its eplsoda recount some of the most exciting and tragic chm/piers in Uie history of British Royalty, surpass- ing in romance and notion the reo- orde of the men who held the title of the Prince of Wale: or Heir Ap- parent, though the popular mtion contrary to this idea. Neverthe- less. hlstcry snows that six Dukes of York became Kings. one was murdered. one was executed. two d-ied in exile, two were killed on battle flfeds, 0nd two were record- ed as the greatest lover: who ever sat on the throne. But the most ‘“ chapter relate that this title was very popular with the old Pretender. "King James the Third of England". who opposed the real KLnig of llitigland, George the First. and time and again he conferred this title on some favourite. Pur- thermore. the old Pretender be- stowed the subsidiary titles of the Dukedun of Yank, namely. the Bari of Inverness and the Baron of Kil- larney. upon tiwo of his friends. John Hay and the Hon. Alex Mur- ray. be conferred the title of the mrl Tiwerness. Both men served the Pretender tn his efforts at rebellion. with John Hey eecap- ing from Emrliuid altar the unsuc- cessful rebellion of the Jeoolvtea tn 1716 and the Hon. Alex Murray fol ~ thin example lifter the election of 1750. (continued next week) (Reproduction Prohibited; 1939, Educational Features Syndicate)