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inn A Burnett. Walker.

President and Auoclnin Editor. Anoollto Editor, Frank

CIRCULATION "Coven Prince Edward island

like the dew"

f'TIIe Strongest Mummy is Weaker Hunt the Weakest ink".

; , CHABJDTTETOWN. THURSDAY. AUG."lL Plea llf Guilty In Murder

In ordinary criminal proceedings a plea of guilty makes it unnecessary to go ahead with 9. trial. No further evidence is neces- sary to convict the accuwd than his own full confession of every element of the crime expressed in the plea of guilty.

It has commonly been said that in case of murder, however, the trial must go on after a plea of guilty, precisely as though

AN

in Ottawa.

the present 10 provinces, including Alberta

ernment.

governments, while the full cost of office work-calling for tenders, etc.-and main- tenance work will be undertaken solely by

solely by the Federal Government. During the

and shoulders. 24 feet.

for bridges has been divided into

it were the opposite. There is some pre- cedent for this view in the English cases and not without reason. numerous confessions times involving ”accomplices", in which the supposed victim has later turned up safe and sound. The police, perhaps more espec- ially.American police, are familiar with the, frequency of murder confessions by persons; who obviously could not have committed the crime. l Not long ago the question came before: a court at Prince Rupert, B. C. One Cun-j ningham pleaded guilty to the robbery slay-1 ing of a 70-year-old farmer. The learned: judge, terming it "very extraordinary", at, first refused to accept the plea. But afterg three hours of evidence and ascertainingl that the accused understood his action, the: judge recorded a verdict of guilty on the basis of the plea and imposed sentence of death. A i it seems obvious, in so serious a matter as a capital offence, that it is desirable fort agjury to rule on the question of guilt or innocence. To relieve future judges of the embarrassment, to put it mildly, of having to rule the confessing one guilty, it should he required by statute that the trial be proceeded with. '

Legal history records.

to murder, some- i .

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-iloronatlon Worries

Among the minor worries of the British authorities in connection with the forth- coming Coronation is the accommodation of foreign guests. Invitations are sent on be- half of the Queen by the Earl Marshal and the Lord Chamberlain. At the last Coronation over 40 countries were invited, but the world has changed since then and the list needs very careful revision. Until official plans are made known, the prin- cipal hotels must hold back enough accom- modation for each country's delegation. In one luxury hotel over 60 suites are being kept in reserve, while others are making no bookings at all.i

Prccedents must be carefully checked by the Coronation Commission in consider- ing claims for recognition. One of interest is the claim of the Lord Great Chamber- lain, who on the last omasion made a claim of 40 ells, or 45 inch lengths, of crimson velvet and to the prior right of 73 seats within the .Abbey to view the procession. He was granted the ells of cloth but not the seats. The Barons of the Cinque Ports, of whom Mr. Churchill is the senior, will pre- sent their claim to carry the canopy over the Queen and if precedent is followed they will succeed. The scholars of Westminster School are also interested, for they will present their claim to be present in the Abbey to acclaim the Queen when she pre- sents herself to the people.

According to a London correspondent in the Ottawa Journal, the Commission will probably follow precedent in the matter of Coronation banquets. These were abandon- ed at the last Coronation, and with food regulations as they are today any claim for their restitution will not be welcomed on this occasion.

Trans-Canada lllglmy

The first proposal for a Trans-Canada Highway, notes Alberta's "Within Our Borders", was made in 1916, when a recon- naissance survey was made to determine the best route across the nation. ing the First Great war, an engineering re- port was made to the Federal Government on the possibility of construction of the Trans-Canada Highway as a post war pro- ject.

In that year the Canada Highways Act was passed, allowing the Federal Govem- mcnt to make a. total contribution of s20,- 000,000 to provincial governments for road

The best routes for the high- way were defined between 1936 and 1941 but the outbreak of the Second Great War

ipgtponed onydnunediate development of 1M8',.o,.Domlnlon-Provincial confer-

M Highway: with held

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lborn this date 1863.

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be at least 24 feet wide.

and will cross 4,856 miles of Canadian ter- rain. '

EDITORIAL NOIQES

Now it's an uranium rush in Saskalch- '

cwan as the lfederal Government throws open concessions for public staking. O I I

”Sydney is destined to become the larg- est producer of steel of any city in the world,” is the confident prediction of one of that city's businessmen. It is to be hoped that it will come true for there are few things Islanders would welcome more than a great steel city at our door.

0 I O

Canada reached a five year peak for the number'of immigrants admitted the first six months of this year. They bring money and increased markets as well as a greater demand for every kind of goods

and services. 0 I 0

Alfred Sutro, English dramatist, was After a successful business career he, turned to writing plays.

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county celebrate their joint birthday. Situated north of

industriously brought to the light of news print and printers' ink, To managing ed itor, Mr. Thomas Keith and to his associ ates we extend congratulations.

liament.

promises in last fall's general election, tha

he got it he retorted unrepentedly:

red meat down your (Laborites) throats." O O I

freight and inland carriage to the point 0 distribution.

recipients.

Through this meeting, agree- ments were made for the actual construc- tion of the highway. In the following year, 9. second conference considered the tech- nical aspects'of the highway and eight of

signed an agreement with the Federal Gov- The agreement states that the actual

cost of construction will be shared on a 50- 50 basis between the Federal and Provincial

rm: GUARDIAN, CI-IARLOTTETOWN

Wishing And w....:..igf

the provinces. In sections where the Trans- Canada Highway passes through National Parks, the cost of construction will be borne

conferences, specifications were set for the size of the highway, bridges The minimum width for the pavement is 22 feet while the maximum is Shoulders must be between five and 10 feet wide, while the minimum sizes three categories. Bridges 30 feet or less must al- low foi' the full width of the highway and shoulders; bridges between 30 and 100 feet i must allow at least 27 feet between curbs: and bridges over 100 feet in length must,

The whole highway from Atlantic to," cific is expected to be completed by 1956

During the First World War he served with of brawn and Army Intelligence and was awarded the O. In addition to some thirty plays, he wrote his autobiography "Celebrities and Simple Souls” and translated some books of

Scarlet on uniform and accouirements may, in future, indicate the U. S. Navy dress for Her Majestyis soldiery. A group of United N States Navy researchers have reported that lbright scarlet seems better for painting sea lrescue equipment than the life-raft yellow now used. Khaki drab became a favourite with soldiers for having the opposite quality

, The centennial edition of the St. Thomas Times-Journal, all 136 pages of it. is pub- lished as the city of St. Thomas and Elgin

hundredth Lake Erie, about midway between Buffalo and Detroit the town, and the county, have an int.er- esting history which the Times-.lournal has

The derisive cry, "Red Meat", is a fre- quent Opposition retort in the British Par- It. stems from the Conservative Party's failure to implement one of its

if returned to office there would be a more plentiful supply of this commodity. Having endured a bout of heckling on this point in the House of Commons on July 8, Mr. Churchill stolidly waited for silence.' When "We (the Conservatives) all look forward to the moment when we shall be able to ram

The Commonwealth Gift. Centre, set up in 1942 to distribute with the help of local authorities, schools and many national or- ganizatlons. the large quantity of food which was being sent in bulk by generous sdonors all over the world, will close on 31st October, 1952, it has been announced. After that date the iiritish Ministry of Food will notlonger be able to receive bulk gifts for general distribution or pay the charges which it has hitherto borne, viz.. cost of sea

This does not, of course, of- fect: individual parcels sent to particular

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PUBLIC FORUM

This column is upon In the discussion by correspondents of questions of interest. The Guardian does not necessar- ily endorse the opinion of correspondents.

FR UITFUL I)I SCU SSION THEME

Sir,-Your sage-but also vivaci-

ous-correspondent. W. l. G., made a homer for our rural-urban study group in his recent picture of "The Working Man," which was read as a text. theme for 9. hot session. 1 was instructed to thank Mr. Green for the general picture, but specifically for the following democratic paragraph: "We have a doctor in our family and we are proud of him and we have also a lumberman who has been in the woods for fifteen years, peeling pulpwood and fighting black flies, and in spite of my better judgment I think the doctor the better man. It is not so. What would become of our society if we did not have men brain to do the world's hard and dirty work? is this where our greatest sin lies: the sin of the corporations? Take any big, rich and powerful com- pany like Kltimat, how long would they last without the mucker and ground hog?" In this brief letter I cannot hope to bring more than a point or two in the resulting "talk" on, around and over the above message. It was indicated. for example, that ”the farmer feeds every Canadian and every industry-and it seems hard- ly necessary to stress the fact that today's farmer is keenly aware of his dependence upo his urban customers: without w om we would all swiftly move back to the prim- itive level of peasant or subsist- ence farming."

Another told an interesting story of the late Sir Henry Thornton ordering to have his train stopped at a specific mile-post in the Northern Ontario bush. The train officials were unaware of the pur- pose, but the order was duly car- ried out. As the train ground to a stop a group of five men were ob- served stnnding on the rlghl.-of- way; a section foreman and his helpers were led in to the presi- dent's car. Sir Henry stood up and congratulated t.hc five on a speci- fic piece of good iwork-which need not be gone into here-but the point is. that the internationally known rail executive shook each -'man's hand heartily, and directed these great words to section fore- man Jake Kakanovlch: "Our lives depend upon you! lood work!"

And these lines tom the Bran- don sun (The Piccolo. bv Vaun Arnold) colored our discussion: "Over the crashing brass,

booming drum, The blaring trumpet and the organ

the

song, One little piccolo could not be t heard. Then he who held it. dwarfed by best and thrum Of the gigantic orchestra. athrong oblivious to him, minute, absurd. Sat awed in the vast. symphony of

tone.

I-lo stilied his little voice and. witn the thought,

'.No one will miss mel' bowed in oil-

ont woe.

Precisely at that moment, from His throne,

The Master fixed His gun on on distraught,

And laid. 'I do not hear the pic- colo."'

I am. Sir. etc GREEN LIGHT. Toronto. Aug. 5. l

ilhe Age-Old Story

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"lie I Joyful noise unto the Lord. all ya lands. serve the Ixml with glulneu: come before his presence with singing. Know ya that the Lord he In God: if f is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people. Illd the sheep of his pasture. lnur into his gates with thanks-

ial Building Provincial Building) 1843 and when it was first opened in 1841 it provided accommodation I the Legislative As- sembly and Council meetings and administrative offices, but also for the Supreme Court as well. Here the Tenant League held,in 1866. and the Dowie mur- der case was tried in 1869 result- ing in the last public execution in the Province. posal for the construction of the building, however, was on a much more modest scale. It is contained in the Speech from the Throne 24, 1837,

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delivered

Lieutenant Harvey, and it referred simply to the need of erecting well-constructed the deposit and safe custody of all public records.”

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and bless Lord is good; his mercy in ever- lasting; and his to III generations.

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THE. COLONIAL BUILDING

The corner stone of the Golan- lnow known as the was laid in

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lowing: "Your petitioners observe with satisfaction that His EXCDiiCl'lLy

the Lieutenant. Governor, in his speech at. the opening of the pre- sent. session, erection of a solid edifice for the safe keeping of the public records of the Colony, and also the con- currence of the House of Assem- yet. they view with no inconslderable degree address of the House to His Excellency on the 23rd February, praying that he would cause plans and estimates to be procured for a building on a. more extensive scale than ap- pears to have been originally con- and with reference to the limited resources of the Col-

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day promptly seized on this suggestion. A special committee. ,-headed by Mr. Pope, was appointed to inquire into the matter, and they brought in the following recommendation: "The House of Assembly being fully impressed with necessity there exists of having a Colonial Building erected in Chur- lottetown, suitable for the keeping of the public records of the Col- ony (as particularly recommende" by Your Excellency). and for the accommodation of the Houses Legislature, and also for oiiiccs-beg leave to request that Your Excellency will be pleased to cause a plan and estimate of the probable expense building to be prepared and laid before the House." This proposal met with a cool reception from the taxpayers. The following inhabitants of Prlncetown Royalty and places adjacent", was present- ed by Mr. Clarke on March 26 fol-

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DAWN

A thrush is tapping a stone

With a snail-shell in its beak.

A small bird hangs from a cherry Until the stem shall break.

No waking song has begun,

And yet; birds chatter and hurry And throng in the elm's gloom Because an owl goes home.

-Gordon Bottomley.

End Of An Era

tWii1nlpeg.F;ee Press)

Looking beyond the present is- sues of the party candidates and -the party platform, one can dis- cern the larger pattern of nation- al affairs in the United States.

An era in national politics is drawing to a close. momentum of its years in office should give the Democrats an- other victory, it now is apparent that the impetus of the New Deal and the Fair Deal is spent.

The Republicans, on the one hand, have no intention of chal- lenging many of the' essential reforms of the past. 20 years. Many Democrats, on the other hand. agree with the Republicans and independent critics who or- gue that the Federal Government has assumed far too much auth- ority and spent far too much money in its quest. of the ever vanishing frontiers of social secur-

ty.

Responsible moderate opinion which in the end settle: the fate of all national parties seems to be inclining strongly now to the 5 view that. the time for consolida- tion has arrived.

The Democrats will forfeit their instinct. for reality if they ignore this public mood and decide It their Chicago convention be pre- sent. the nation with a dramatic but misleading choice between ad- venturous reform and callous re- action.

any they humbly submit to the House the propriety of erecting a building of no greater extent: than that recommended in His Excel- lency's speech, with the addition of an office for the 'n-essurer.”

There was C0I1SIdeI'nuII: debate on the subject, pro and con, and it was not until the year 1842 that an act was passed appointing commissioners to superintand the erection of the proposed building. Before proceeding with the exca- vation it was necess y to remove the old Round Market House that stood on the site. to a position where the present Market Build- ing now stands.

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The Passing Scene

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' I DREAMS AND VISIONS A writer in in certain periodical says that the main trouble with old people is that they have I tendency to live in the past. He goes on to any that they seem un- able to reconcile themselves to the new world that is emerging. '

knew when they were yuung d,, not come readily to their lips now and the songs of the new world Which they are constantly being told is Just around the orner they do not knbw. They nag men

it is surely a very venlal one.

I thought as I read the criticism that if living in the past he n-sin, A

one thing they can do is dream, and incur. ally their dreams are of the good

Even if the Z10n'

wise ancient looked upon it as the natural right of the aged Just as looking hopefully to the future is the prerogative of youth. "Your old men shall dream dreams.” he said, "your young men shall see visions”. And I believe that hu- man experience generally will agree with him. Dreams of the past for the old; visions of the future for the young. That seems to ,const.itut.e something akin to the ideal.

old days.

For myself I like to hear abgu. those days that were so wonder. ful. Perhaps, if the truth 3...; known. they were no better than the present ones. but I do not be. have they could havetbeen much worse. Be that as it may, em-y generation needs the stuff that dreams are made of.

I O O A5 ii 15 N-U118 that the old should dream dreams so it 1, Those who have left their nm- right and proper that: the young bltions, aspirations. hopes, Iuc- should see visions. That, primu- cesm. failures. and illusions, be- fly, is what. youth is for. There in hind them have a right to dream. nothing more interesting than to 13 13 Ibollt the Only P19381116 they Watch young men and women as can really call their own. and with they try to hitch their little earthy which none. except perhaps the wagons to the stars above. W5 ultra modern psychologists. will who are older know that many or interfere. -- the bright visions they now see

' f ' will later on turn out to be dnb, What do old people dream about, colourless imaglnlngs. Just the anyway? Of the clays when they same, if we are wise, we shall not too were young and bold and ad- do anything to dlslllusicn the venturous. f the hopes they fancies of the young. The world cherished, t. e plan: they made, has need of them. the startling things they were 30- There is no such thing as math- 1118 i0 1'10. the he3d"nB8 U191? were emstlcal exsctitude in the buslneu going to make. Memory is not of living, just as there are no always a comfortable companion, straight lines in nature, to be 3'-””9- T1139 BYE mam! thinks It is 1 common pastime of the which all of us who have reached middle-aged to frown on the 1m. middle age would like to forget. mature outlooks and trrcsponslbll But, in the main. an alert, robust attitudes of youth. And yet it. is memory is one of the richest a fact. of history that the young t. of the spirit of man. have always borne their share, The poet's ”dewy dawn of mem- often more than their share, of Dry" has bcen' responsible for I the burdens of mankind. when 10?: Of happiness. the trumpets sound it is they who It is true that the dreams of must march of?! to the front line the aged do not always bring joy. of battle, Sometimes they bring a sense of In the annals of religion and loneliness and disappointment. Life prophecy their visions-sometimes is like that. A classic example is apparently hopeless ones-have found in the Bible where you can given them honored places among find classic examples of almost the immortals. The best biblical everything that can happen to scholars any that Isaiah. the great men and women. ' Hebrew seer. was not much more The man is an exile in a strange than twenty when his lips were land. The people's habits and cus- touched by the fire of phophetic toms are quite different from his zeal. The first known Christin: own. Their religion is not at all to surrender his life for the new the same. No wonder he feels very faith was little more than a boy much alone as he dreams of the Christ Himself finished the work past glories of his native land. he had been given to do while he now only a nostalgic memory. The was yet in his early thirties. dream makes him weep. He. or We all know what. youth hu more likely someone in his behalf, done for the cleansing of the expresses his feelings in one of world.ln two prodigious efforts in the finest pieces of poetic prose our time. It is a temptation now- ever penned; aduys to any that they tolled and "By the waters of Babylon, there died in vain, but that would be I we sat. down, yea, we wept when grave mistake. No sacrifice is ever we remembered Zion, in vain. No good vision is ever we hanged our harps upon the wasted. Whether or not their willows in the midst thereof: heroism and high purpose will ever They that carried us away cap- achieve the desired goal-s world tivc required of us a song, And where men will be content to live they that wasted us required or together as bx-others-only t.lme.or us mirth, saying perhaps great. eras of time, will 'sing us one of the songs of tall. Meanwhile we should be pro- foundly thonkful for the vision, and for those who saw it, loved it, and followed it to the end. There is no doubt that if in the fullness of time there is to be I. new heaven and a new earth wherein will dwell righteousness, the visions of youth will have much to do with the creation. Conversely, if cynicism should ever get the upper hand and lay law with which modern psychology the visions of the young, all that seeks to clothe our insufficlencies is good in human life would be in confuses them. The songs they Jeopardy.

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How shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land?"

It is indeed a difficult thing for anyone to do. I always think of this man and his fellow exiles when the very old hark back to the "good old days". ,'rhe world is not the kind of world they knew when they were young or even middle-aged. All the jargon

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