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"The Strongest MemoIy'is Weaker Than the Weakest Ink".

TCHAARI-07t'Fi5T0WN. rmonr. hi?Cv"ii,-ib.s1- lieclartion or Human Rights

A brief presented to Prime Minister St. Laurent supports the recommendation made by the Senate last year that a Bill of Rights be written into the constitution. and that in the meantime, the Gov- ernment should adopt a declaration model- led on the United Nations' universal de- claration of human rights.

The merits of the latter proposal are to say the least questionable. For Ottawa to lay down rules for subjects which are near- ly all matters within Provincial jurisdict- ion would be itself a violation of the prime right of free men, the rule of law.

There has been a steady transfer of real power from the Provinces to the central Government and there is little doubt but that Ottawa could go a long way in imposing its ideasof human rights on the various legislatures. The better course. however, is to avoid any such interference and adopt a Bill of Rights as a constitu- tional amendment at an early date after working out an appropriate procedure.

ilustralia Remembers

Like the Battle of Britain, whose tenth anniversary was observed in the United Kingdom and Canada last year, the Bat- tle of the Coral Sea was a turning point of World War II. Its anniversary, notes an exchange, was observed throughout Australia all last week, with commemor- ative balls in'Melbourne. Sydney and Can- berra, parades, lectures to school children, and a visit from Admiral Thomas C. Kin- cald. of the United States Navy. This celebration is an annual event.

The battle was fought from May 4-0. 1942, after months of retreat before the Japanese. It made naval history, since the Japanese and Allied forces covered 400,000 miles of sea. but kept about 100 miles apart. The fighting was all done by car- rier-borne aircraft. When the battle end- ed, 15 Japanese ships, including one car- rier, had been sunk, and at least 20 more vessels, including another carrier, had been damaged. The United States lost three ships, including the aircraft carrier Lexing- ton. Despite their heavy losses, the Jap- anese later made landings at Port Mores- by, New Guinea. But much of their strength had been drained. After the Bat- tle of Midway on June 3-6, when 20 Jap- anesc.ships were sunk or damaged, includ- ing four aircraft carriers, and at least 275 planes were lost, the Allies were able to counter-attack. The reversal of the tide in the Pacific came on August 7, 1942, in the Allied amphibious landing at Guadal- canal.

The Budget ln Retrospec-

'l'hc Business Review. monthly bulletin of the Bank of Montreal, describes the Federal Budget as one which, "while fiscally adequate, modestly refrains from over-preoccupation with its economic ef- fects.” This wry bit of humor is direct- ed mainly towards the new sales and ex- cise taxes which are described as "in an economic sense, designed as a penalty on spending." '

That Bank of Montreal economists be- lieve the Budget to be inflationary is ap- parent from The Business Reviews ob- servation that the sales and excise tax im- posts will emerge as increases in the prices of the articles affected. Ensuing high- er prices, it is pointed out, will in due course be incorporated into' the cost-oli living index, which is not only the refer- ence point to which basic rwage rates are contractually tied in some industries, but which is also a significant symbol indicat- ing, in the eyes of the public at large, the degree to which demands for higher pay are automatically justified.

That. taxes, and especially sales taxes. are a penalty on spending is a truism that at once becomes apparent when one seeks to purchase any of those commodities to which the new taxes have been made to apply. Such a penalty may be properly imposed on those goods which are consid- ered in the luxury class. It is question- able, however. whether the increased tax on motor vehicles, affecting as it does trucks essential to the farmer in the pur- suit of his business, may be 80 regarded.

If we accept the premise that sales

V MIC ltd I penalty on spending, and it is

amount importance that the penalty be confined to non-essentials. It would, for example, be grossly unfair and discrimin- atory to impose a turnover tax on retail sales, for retail sales are made to rich and poor alike and include such essentials as food, clothing and household supplies, things which can in no sense be regarded as luxuries.

fl)! IURIAI. NUIES

While Charlottetown was squabbling over a site for its new Federal building, Summerside was pushing on with erection plans, with the result that their new build- ing is completed and almost ready for oc- cupation, while ours has not yet reached the first base.

A minor general election is slated for June 25, when voters in Queen's, Win- nipeg South Centre, Waterloo South (Ont) and Brandon go to the polls for the purpose of filling vacancies--two caused by the deaths of Islanders, Mr. Douglas and Mr. Matthews.

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Unlike the situation in Provincial elect- ions, it is quite in order for people from off the Island to assist in the Federal by- election campaigning. Those who visit us for that purpose should be peisuaded to stop over for the Festive Week.

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Madame Recamier, French politician. died this date 1849. She married a Paris- ian banker and her salon became the re- sort of the leading men of the day. Com- pclled by Napoleon to leave Paris in 1811, she wrote the charming "Souvenirs et Correspondence".

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It's an ill wind that blows no good. The light lobster catch at the start of the season may well have helped to prevent a disastrous break in the market, and with good weather setting in as the first over-supply is used up the prospects are brighter than seemed possible.

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A Festival of Sacred Music will be held from May 13 to May 20 in Londonls Roman Catholic Cathedral at Westminster. Works of the great composers from the 13th Cent- ury to the present will be played and sung daily. The emphasis will be on English music, but Palestrina. Mozart and Soriano will also be heard.

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The Torquay trade agreements repre- sent a compromise between a. wholesale lowering of trade' barriers with the United States and the gradually declining principle of Empire Preference. So far as this country went in. cutting tariffs it means that we must to that extent look to Amer-

ican markets.

Rt. Hon. Vincent Massey is being sug- gested as successor to'Viscount Alexander when his term of office as Governor-Gen- eral expires. Possessed of an outstanding record of public service, culminating at the moment in heading the Royal Commission on the Arts, Mr. Massey also has another qualification for the post, the private means without which an incumbent cannot main- tain the standards expected

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An Ottawa correspondent writing to the Gazette says Progressive Conservative, M.P.ls were concerned over the reverse which the party suffered when Prince Ed- ward Island went to the polls recently. It wasn't that the P.C.'s fared much worse than in the last provincial contest. They lost only one more seat to Premier Walter Jones' Liberal forces. The discouraging thing was that there seemed to be no sign of a change. '

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Seven years ago. on May 11, 1944, the Allies launched a terrific offensive in Cen- tral Italy to break the Gustav and Hitler Lines. Canadian troops participated and, with British troops, carried out below the shell-torn town of Cassino a thrust across the Rapido River toward the Liri Valley. Pignatoro fell on the night of May 15 and with its fall the Gustav Line, already over- run farther south, virtuallyccased to ex- ist. The Allies continued to pound Cas- sino, pivot of the whole offensive, and by May 18 the ruins of the town were in our hands. An Allied drive on the much touted Hitler Line appeared imminent.

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A serious situation has arisen over our Nova Scotia ferry service which demands the urgent attention of the powers-that-be, both Provincial and Federal. Our com- mercial truck and tourist trade develop- ment are being held up for want of co- operation by the Canadian Maritime Com- mission. We lrequire a greatly improved time-table service, and a new ferry steam- er. The Commissioners admit this, but for reasons best known to themselves, after agreeing to both projcts, they block the way wlth,no better excuse than "economy" and ."iack of steel"-subterfuge: which can- not hold water on investigation. This Province must no longer be retarded in its

dtfflcolt'- to "come to any other conclusion or-"tile-"matter, then it becomes of par-

progrecs by a "hidden hand”, no matte whose it may be. .

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HOCKEY AND-'1”-H-I-l comwmnr st-mgr

Sir,-I grew up on skates, but not until the winter of 1950 had I seen a game of hockey. In that closed-in rink I saw nearly all the games, and enjoyed them im- mensely. This past winter 1 saw most. of the games played here. and in neither rink did I see any intentional violence or hear any bad language.

Hockey is one of the finest sports we have. It lends itself to the cultivation of the best in men, physical and moral. Its con- tacts are more frequent than in foobball and it can be just as violent. It is I wonderful game for the cultivation of self-control and the true sportsman spirit.

Another fine asset in hockey, it can, rub off the rough edges of prejudice and cultivate a broad- er fellowship. Teams and spec- tators meet on a.common level of fun and good-will. Creed, class and race are out. All that counts are strength and skill; and yet, these may rate too high-ly. Some one must lose. and to take defeat gracefully. may be a greater

victory than to win the game.j

Jesus was the Great Failure, so

they said. but His spirit triumph- -

ed, magnificently. Greed of goals, lending itself to violence and ill- will destroys fellowship which should be the high purposc of sport. Hitler never better re- vealed his spirit than in the marathon in Germany before the war. When a German contestant. was defeated he would writhe and fume. Surely in this age of war and hate we need every ounce of

good-will we can get! it is pos-,

ltlvely foolish for teams and rooters to speak and act as en- emies.

We want clean good men on our . Uriited States. i

teams. In the sport has been greatly damaged by men of low character. Dcce:-rt people are becoming disgusted and are leaving sport to the rift"- rnlf. We don't want that to hap- pon here. I am, Sir, eic..

W. I. GREEN

Stanley Bridge.

The Land Of Green Gables Today

(J. L. in Ottawa. Citizen)

Too few Canadians have seen with their own .eycs Prince Ecl- ward Islnnd. The rest. of us have used the eyes of Lucy Maude

Montgomery's Anne. Perhaps wci

have all seen the some island.

If it were not the some island.-

Lhe Canadian Geographical Jour- nal's pictorial trip there ought to be I discnchanting experience for one who is more familiar with the Babbling Brook. the Lake of the Shining Waters and the Haunted Wood of Anne's island than with the domain of Premier Walter Jones. But. it is not. '1'he"plcture of the island which the Geographical Jouma.l's cam-

era: saw in April. 1951. is the same I

one that L. M. Montgomery drew with words long ago. True, there is I golf course now on the prop- erty of Anne's uncle. And there are tourists in the parlor of Green Gnblu. The golfers may not look at the Babbling Brook or the Haunted Wood with Annals. en-. chanted eyes. And the tourists probably pay for the hospitality thit Green Gables supplies. 0

But the setting is the some. The birchea are painted silver by tho- ume magician whose work Anna: sanired. The turf in on thick anal green as when only I few.. feeto, walked uponiit. inside the house. the rug was which were e by,

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the r unorotlon. and the wall paper, of:

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pleased a Hole: people than we"

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The ilge-Old Story?

i'&555H55 'f&i Pulse ya the Lord. Prnile yo 1 the Lord from the heavens: praise Ihlm in the heights. Pi-nine yo him, all his angels: praise ye ,hIm, III his hosts. Praise yo him, inun and moon: pulse him. all ye 'stnrI of ii ht. Pulse him. ye Iheavens of eavem, and ye waters ithni: be above the heavens. Let .them praise the name of tho 'Lord: for he commanded, and ithey were created.

- are as bright as if their owner still were caring for them.

The government of the island -cares for them. Cleverly catering to the sentimentality of tourists. the government is scrupulous to lkeep the setting of L. M. Mont- gomery's story the some as it was when she wrote it.

Yes beyond the bounds of Green Gables, where the government - cannot legislate on matters of set- ting and atmosphere, the island still is Anne's. If the pictures (which the Geographical Journal , took this year were used to illus- .trate L.M. Montgomery's book, lthere would be few anachronisms ! in them.

i As the Canadian Geographical ;Journal continents. the world of lthe Islanders is "removed from ,-the bustling exhaustion of mod- ern industry and mechanization." ,The main street of Summer-side, l the Island's second city in size, is wide, the buildings on low, and none of the telephone pole: has been removed. In the little vii- ilages, where the houses fit snug- ly into the hillside, and cattle pas- ture by a stream, the atmosphere is only a little more peaceful than I that of Summerside or Charlotte- town.

Nature was in I smile mood when it planted a garden in the gulf. Throughout the island, the landscape is undramatically beau- tiful. There are no wildly rush- ing rivers. No raw grey clillfs rise steeply from the water. The streams are the quiet kind that trout. like to inhabit, and Iran und trees creep into them from both sides. '

j From the land to theses is only V the width of a beach. So the sound of the surf is lhellulloby of most

Islanders. None of the beaches i ever is crowded. For they stretch ' mile upon mile, smooth and sun- I

warmed.

O 0 I But although the sen is always close, most of the Islanders, like

Anne's ancestors, are farmers, for

the red soil in fertile. The farms

are not large and spectacular, like i prairie forms: they are as tidy Is the parlor It Green Gables. A pic- j ture in the Joumal shows rows of potatoes or regular Is the pattern

on a rut nil. . -0'1

Even the lobster trope piled high on 5 fishing wharf are neat.

For the people. as if conscious of ; the fact that the charm of their island lies in its manners and small size, are careful to avoid clutter. As Anne was taught. that n:atnc-ss is n virtue. so her child- rm must have been taught. They keep their island in the some way that I good housewife keeps her house. -

Like 1 houuwtfe, they ignore many of tho dtatunblng event: that go on beyond their own garden. Much has happened to the world since Anne lofl Green Goblet. But it. has left no mrrlu on her home that are apparent .

The land of P.E.!. in

it is the some for than who know only the Babbling Brook. the Lake of the shining Wlilrl, and the Haunted Wood and thou who have seen it with their own era is the wonder of everyone but the lnlandeu. l

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From an address to His Majesty King William IV. from the Legis- lative Assembly, relative to the Globe Lands. or Clergy Reserves, in Prince Edward Island. April 23. 1830:

"By the terms and conditions of the original grants from the Crown, one hundred acres of land in each Township in this Island was reserved for the support of a Minister of the Gospel; and al- though no particular denoxrli - tion is specified or referred to, the Episcopal Church claims an ex- plicit right to the lands so reserv- ed, to the prejudice of every other denomination. ' "We would humbly. beg leave to represent to your Majesty that when the British Government first resolved on the settlement of the Colony, it appears to have been then contemplated to settle the Island with German Protes- tants. This measure. however. was eventually abandoned. Circum- stances occurred which entirely changed the situation of the coun- try. The original proprietors, or grantees, disposed of their pos- sessions indlscriminately to persons of various duct-iptions.

"The first British emigrants who arrived consisted chiefly of R0- man Catholicapfrom the Hill)- lsnds, and Presbyteriann from other parts of Scotland. At the close of the Revolutionary War in America. numbers of Iaoyolista, ex- pelled from their native country for their attachment to the cause of their legitimate Sovereign, were encouraged, by various induce- ments held out by Government, to settle in this colony. The families and descendants of these per- sons form a considerable portion of the present , pulotiun. There are also several large settlements of Acadian French. the descend- am; of those who remained on the Island at the time of its con- quest. These, lines the passing of the Catholic Relief Bill, are now placed on the some footing, with respect to civil and P0"”W1 D!'lV' uegcs. with your Majesty! PIO- testant subjects.

"The adherents of the church of England compose 5 very small proportion of the population. and have only two small churches in the whole colony, to one of which the members of the Church of Scotland possess I iolht rllht (hi the other hand, there are mum)- orous pieces of ” g J titrouzhout the . J. . and maintained for the accom- modation of the various persua- sion of Christians who no un- connected with the Btablished Church.

"nmough, we humbly , presume. hos been shown to make it obvious to your Majesty that, from the present lists of society in this Is- land. the Ironting of the, lands in question exclusively to any one particular denomination of Chris- tian: could not fail to be viewed on g very pu-uni inouure, and one which would inevitably pro- duce o-very general feeling of dil- oontent throughout the colony. It must be equally evident that any attempt at n subdivision of the lllidl among the vorloul and till- cordnnt claimants. for the our-

(And P. B. l.) GLEBE LANDS

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I Notes By

look from an extended tour of

. tho United States. Mr. Clarence H.

Smith says that ever so many person: do not know where Ont- ario is. They did not. realize that

' Ontario ..is A Canadian province.

Thnt ma? seem absurd to most. people in Ontario. but anyone who has motored to the more dis- tant allies appreciates how true Mr. Smith's observation is. Ont- ario-Cannda would look nliright on the licence plates. The same goes for the plate: of other prov- inces. The different provinces are making plans now for their 1952 licences. They could help advert- ise the Dominion by adding Can- ada to the plates. -- From Wind- sor Star.

Canadians must arouse them- selves to fight the proposed con- stitutional amendment. which would allow the provinces to levy an indirect 3 percent sales tax, or "tumover tax" on retail sales. At. any time such a' tax should be re- sisted as a. bad tax, a hidden tax, I tax that is open be abuse. But after Mr. Abbott's budget in which the federal sales tax went up from 8 to 10 percent, and special excise taxes were hoisted sub- stantially, a hidden turnover could drive some small retailers out of business and boost the na-

ly reserved, would prove abortive and impracticable.

"We. therefore, humbly submit the expediency and propriety of appropriating those reserves for the encouragement and support of elementary schools - an object which the Legislature has much at heart. but which the revenue of the Island, from the many claim upon it. is inadequate to accom- pliah.