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FRIDAY. JULY 1!. 1955

?l' Our New Senator

Congratulations are due to Mrs. I (1, S. Inman, of Montague, on her i appointment to the Senate of Can- I I I

ads. The seat, made vacant by the

death of the Hon. J. Walter Jones,

has remained unfilled for a long

time. There have been man)' aSDlI"

ants with political claims, and per-

haps this is one of the reasons wh,V

the appointment has been held I"

1 abeyance. It has not been a satis- factory situation so far as this Prov-

ince is concerned. Our parliament-

ary representation is small enough

at best. and we should not be de-

prived of even one seat beyond the

normal time required for filling it.

Mrs. lnman will be the first lady

Senator to represent Prince Edward

island, and the honour is a great

one indeed. She has been promin-

cntlv associated with the Wonicn's

! Liberal Association, in this Provincc I and as a member of the national or- ganization. She is an able spcahcr.

with a wide knowledge of political af-

fairs, and we have no doubt that she

will give a good account of herself

I in the Upper House. We' wish her every success, and we are sure that

all our readers will join in this sehti-

ment most sincerely.

Parliament Prorogues

Parliament's longest session in recent years has come to an end, and the members who have worked con- scientiotlsly through the heat and tedium of the sittings can feel l'aiI'l.V satisfied that they have earned their indemnities. Government hopes of an earlier prorogation were upset by

', Opposition insistence on full discus- sion of the concluding items of the estimates. Too frequently in the past. have important expenditures I been rushed through committee in a mad scramble to prorogue, and it' the Opposition attitude on this oc- casion leads to a discontinuance of the practice it will be fully indorsed by the taxpayers.

Perhaps the most important event. of the session was the Con- servative filibuster agninst the Gov- , ornment's bill to extend indefinitely ” ,' the extraordinary powers of Defense Production Minister Howe. A month of speech-making succeeded in ef- fecting a compromise arrangement, imposing a three-year limit on the legislation. The bill had dangerous implications and the results fully justified the extreme action taken by Opposition leader Drew and his col- leagues. With its overall majority. of course, the. Government could have forced the issue, but it evi- dently was one about which many Liberals as well as Conservatives had grave misgivings. The principle of Parliamentary supremacy over the executive power, which has tend- ed to be ignored or forgotten in re- cent. years, was vindicated in this in- cident. and it is unlikely that any measure of this kind will again be introduced by a government, how- ever strong numerically. It is fair to add that a number of outstand- ing Liberal newspapers, such as the WIYWIPPII Free Press, came out strongly against Mr. Howe's pro- posal. While not going so far as Mr. Drew in condemning the bill. their criticism no doubt had its ef- fect in obtaining a satisfactory amendment.

Earliest Air Mail

The current issue of the Cana- dian Geographical Journal, which features an excellent article by Dr. Frank MacKinnon on Charlotte- tUWn's Centennial, also carries an interesting story by Frank H. Ellis on early air mail delivery in Canada, from 1918 to the outbreak of World War II. The stamped envelopes con-

tainlng this early air mail are valu- able colIectors' items today. Here is .1 quotation from the article of spec- ial interest locally:

"On September 24, 1919, an in- tin; air mail night took place

the jflrltlnu. Pilots Laurie -KI and flew

mptano, which was wheel-equipped, it was a dangerous undertaking. Two hundred 'letters were carried, marked lVia' Aeroplane' or 'Via. Aerial Post'. On the 29th the men returned, bringing only 30 letters with them. Outbound covers now are priced at .f150 each, inbound ones at 0200. The total value of these envelopes amounts to d36,000 today, but ironically the two pilots possess not even a single one between them."

The most valuable airmail envel- opes listed in the article are those comprised in the first load of air mail sent across the Atlantic from Newfoundland on May 18, 1919. The pilot llarry Hawker and his navi- gator attempted to fly non-stop across the ocean, but their endeav- our ended half way across-and in it. They were rescued by the crew of a Danish ship. The mail that they carried (twenty-five letters in all) u as saved and duly found its way to its addresses. Each envelope is worth S300 today.

The date that stands out most prominently in Canadian airmail his- tory is June 24, 1918, when mail was carried for the first time in the Dominion from Montreal to Toronto l in a Royal Air Force Curtiss biplane

by ('uptain Brian A. Peck. When Pcck left Montreal's Bots Franc Polo Grounds. his passenger was a t'orporal Mathers, who held the mail sack containing l20 letters on his lap. while sitting on a case of whis- I key which a friend had asked Peck to carry back for use at a wedding. Qut-licc was "wet" at the time, On- tario very "dry". In stamp cata- logttcs today. each envelope is pric- ed at 3'.300.

Dental Schools Inadequate

A strong case for federal aid to do-ntal schools was made in the House of Commons recently by Mr. George Hces, Progressive Conserva- tive member for Broadview. Quot- ing lie:-in Roy G. Ellis of the dental faculty at thelllniversity of Toronto. Mr. Hoes stated that in 1947 the ratio of dentists to population in Canada was 1 to 2.510. At the be- ginning of 1954, it was i to 2,790, while in the United States it was 1 to 1,700. "During the last 10 years four times the number of applicants have applied to study dentistry as could be admitted to the existing schools." Far from wanting to main- tain a ”closed shop", Dean Ellis emphasized. dental associations throughout (Tanada have for years been urging action to remedy this worsening state of affairs.

A proposed new dental school at the University of Toronto will cost Si4,tt0t).000, of which Ontario is pro- viding 31,000,000. Some time ago Premier Frost promised to match any federal grant dollar for dollar. 'The national interest is especially great in this project, for a third or more of the students at the new col- lcge can be expected to come from other provinces, as they do now in Toronto. The college will increase by 30 pct" cent the number of den- tists being graduated annually, and by 300 per cent the number of den- tal hygienists, personnel who can rclicve dentists of inuch routine work. The research to be carried on, morcmcr, will benefit all (Ian- atla.

EDITORIAL NOTES

A number of United States Rail- way systems are going in the credit business. Passengers will be able to clmrge everything from rail tickets to alcoholic beverages. Bills will be rcndcrcd monthly. and no cash de- posit or balance will he required.

0 C I if good wishes can do it. Senator l.ynrIon Johnson, Democratic leader in the United States Senate, who is now in hospital, ought to be up and around soon. During the first week of his illness he received more than 4000 messages. I-lis wife.-whose Christian names. incidentally, are Lady Birt-is answering them all personally. . O I I

Something unique in the way of postage stamps is to be issued by the Post Office Department at Ot- tawa next month. The new design 5 cent stamp will commemorate the p 8th World Boy Scout Jamboree that will is held at Niagara-on-the Lake, Ontario, and will be printed in two colours, green and gold, "as a tri- bute to the International Boy Scout movement which imnaking a splen- did-contribution - to world under- standing." The dash: h an attrac- , . onmandthesttfltpshouldmeoi . th sew,-I -wrovlt .,,-

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Bernard Shaw Centenary Winnipeg Free Press

On; hundred years ago, on 26 ' in the English a speaking world,"

July 1855. ill thc early promise of also

the Victorian Age. George Bern- ard Shaw was born in Ireland. His centenary has come at an unfort- unate hour for his rcpu.:'liun. The inevitable rcactiun which greets any writer sire acclaim in his life has now

set in, and the delayed venom of the critics has begun its insidious work of re-assessment.

They can carry it forward with- out being disturbed by the restless and versatile genius of Shaw who, during the crowded decades of his strenuous career, delighted in no- thing so much as in disturbing the sanctified judgments of en- Ihronc-d mediocrity

An eclipse has fallen not only on Shaw but on the group of writers who sustained the Eng- lish prose tradition at the turn of the has dwindled into a querulous prophet whose wisdom has been derided by events.

Arnold Bennett survives the author of Tale" and a few stray stories, with a thin trail of anecdote smudging that heroic figure. G. K. Chesterton, the prince of paradox, has been humiliated by the paradox of finding his most indignant convictions and stubborn judgments treated as no more than the routine gleams of iridescent wit.

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Bellor. snmirous master of all the rhythms of English prose, has a secure claim on immor- tality in his poems; but that vast, revcrberating, incomparable le- gacy of his prose works is either forgotten ot' else is reserved for the final indignity of being treated as a bugle call to religious contro- versy instcad of being a brave man's confessional under the whips and scams of time.

James Barrie has into an oblivion so deep and im- penetrable that even his .onsum- mate gifts of style may never avail to give him a second spring. Kipling has become the hero of a. few: Hardy is a neglected clas- sic: Meredith wears the shroud of greatness rather than its living emblem: and John Morley, trsigic waste, moulders on the top shelf While busy vulgarity spreads an all encompassing wind. and faint. like echoes in a dream. The songs of lioylinod seem."

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Of all these stars, once so luminous. only two have last ngng of their lustre. One is Max Beer-

?IFii.V and yet has become a classl Ill his own time. The other is Somerset Maugham who has been elevated by the dignity of age and the art of story-telling to I distinction in English letters once reserved for greater writers.

In such a slack season,,lt is hard to recapture the audacious advent of Shaw or the long. continued echoes of his imperious logic. Yet it is the very definition of ingiatittide to forget his no. blest and most enduring achieve- ment: he transformed and en- nobled the llnglish stage. He found it a paradise of trivia; be ten it the home of ideas.

As a critic, his was the most energetic and unsparing influ. ence against a tradition which had corrupted the text of Shakes- Pearels plays. which allowed the actor to become the trumpery tyrant of the stage. and which re. sistett with petulant fury the clean. sing challenge of Ibsen um um new dramatists. As a playwright, Shaw proved that Ideas could be lnlerestlns and that the stage could be pmnlod with the social Problems of an age,

Shaw said he wanted the theatre

he "a factory of thought, 1 Drompter of conscience, M07 M social conduct, an annonr Mains! delplir and dullness, and I temple of the Ascent of Men."

Everyone who respects the.theotre-

as something more than an idle amusement for a careless hour has a debt to Shaw that he should be swift to acknowledge. '

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The worst thing that can be said of Shaw as a guide in the

Ice -- and It, is a grievous indie!-

menf -- In that be will persist- Intlv wrong about the dlcukn and obsflnutely blind about Eng- land's mill in freedom. Churchill, who spplwvv-Ierl "saw "as:

' us. looks subdue

century. H. G. Wellsg

as I ”The Old Wives,

anished ,

"Far off .

scold J him because the British people has received pre- cious little help in all their ordeals from this Puck posing as the

, Sphinx. "The titter ill accords with

who received exces- I

the tocsin." In a later edition Churchill regretted this rebuke and removed it. His magnanimity con- quered his justice. He should have let the criticism stand. Shaw had giant faults but he had a giant's strength to bear them and survive them.

"Persons influence us," Cardinal Newman.

cried

"voices melt us. deeds In- flame us." Tlfere must be many who think of Shaw not as a writer

I of dead books but as living in-

fluence from whom they gained light and compassion and a thou- sand blessings.

For us who are enrolled of his incomparable company we care not a straw for the changes in the literary weather, nor for the vag- aries and hazards of fame. His books, that mntcliless inheritance, are open to us and with them we can build a rampart against the intrusions of I rough and in- hospitable world; and occasion-

ally, taking courage from Shaw's example, leave the library to champion an oppressed truth or overwhelm in pent-up anger an its

error grown insolent in longed tenure of power.

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The brook came down h sliver ' stairs

Ad caught us wnlldng unawaru,

Saying the things that people say

when one is nine and one is gray.

It sliced the hillside like a knife, This obstacle of roisterlng life

That we encountered, undlsmayul; only you jumped it, and I stayed.

Though stars and sun cannot atone

For the lost spark that fires the bone, .

Time's reason in intaglio

Briefly is set. here, heel to

And who would think that ground could hold So firm, so delicate a mold?

bohm, who never coveted popul- Your singleifootpdnh "get u”

free, I In dubious immortality.

-Sarah Lltsey in the New York Times. '

Easier On Farmers

(Exchange)

There is to be a special census of Canada next year, and Mr. Howe mention: it as something greatly to somebody'I credit that farmers will be asked only 75 questions about their business in- stead of the 200 questions which tried their souls (and their mem- ories) tn the census of 1951.

Modern trends in government, in taxes and welfare services and the broad pursuit of miscellaneous information, authorizes (and al- most compels) officialdom to snoop and pry and enquire into what used to be onsidered strictly the affair of the citizen. The busi- ness man spends time and money with returns and questionaires under the threat of jails and pen- allies for a false answer. The in- come tax officers instruct us to reveal the last secret of what we earned and what became of it-is Aunt Martha a dependent, an how much did we give (with a receipt as proof) to the society for the Restoration of Elegance and De- corum to Social Life. And as if the curiosity of governments were not enough we have unoffficlal snoopers wanting to know if we are listening to the radio and if so why, or for a so-called public opinion poll, are we for or again: Mr. Einstein's famous theory?

In these circumstances perhaps Mr. Howe has some justification for patting himself on the back ov- or the moderation of this farm census-only 75 questions in the place of 200 a few years backl Seventy five questions the modern farmer can take in his stride.

The Age Old Story

lent the right, 9 Lord. attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer. that goetb not out of feign- ed lips ... Hold up my goings In thy pubs, that my footsteps slip not ... As for me. I will behold thy face in righteousness: I Iball be satisfied. when I awoke. with tiny llkenou.

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TORONTO (CP) - Police said 1 40-year-old Montreal accountant, sought on a warrant charging theft of 312,000 from his employ- ers, walked into beadquarma on Wednesda night and told them of a six-year spending spree be ecldcd to end. They said George Mortimer Haynes loft later for Montreal accompanied by Lleut. William Philips of the Montreal police to face a charge of stealing the money from the Royal Trust

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Medically Speaking

By Herman N. Bandeau. ill. I).

Many I vacation gets off to a bad start when one of the vaca- tioners falls vlctlmfto motion sickness.

This illness. which might be merely an uncomfortable feeling or complete nausea and vomiting, Isn't confined to those who travel by boat or plane, however. Many of you probably suffer from mo- tion sickness in autos, even though you may be unaware of it.

MEDICAL ADVANCES

But with medical advances made since the outbreak of World War II, and by using a little com- mon sense. you don't have to suf- fer any more.

A The first symptom of motion

sickness usually is an uneasy feel- ing which causes you to lose in- terest in whatever you may be do- ing, even reading or talking with someone. Even though there may be no visible signs of distress, this is motion sickness. Since you might not actually become ill. you are likely to pass off the experi- ence without another thought.

LOSE INTERE ST

Co in tin u e d motion, however, probably will lead to even less in- terest in your surroundings and frequent yawning. You will begin to perspire, salivation will in- crease and you will become pale, dizzy and weak.

You are more likely to be both- ered by motion sickness if you have migraine headaches or du- odenal ulcers. Constipation may produce the condition in some cases. And women are more sus- ceptible during menstruation.

SEVERAL DRUGS

There are many drugs on the market, most of them antihista- mines, which are effective against motion sickness: D r a m a m i ne, Bonamine. Marezine and Phener- gan, to name only a few. Unfor- tunately,some of the drugs also have side effects, such as, sedation.

Some require only one dose be- fore starting on a long drive or trip. Others require additional doses during the trip.

EAT LIGHTLY

Besides taking drugs, there are other things you can do to combat motion sickness. If you have rea- son to believe you may be suscep- tible to this ailment. eat only small amounts of food before starting.

Lack of fresh air often is a con- tributing facior, so be sure there In adequate ventilation. This also helps eliminate any unpleasant odors, another factor in motion sickness.

TIY To RELAX Don't read when you are being

jostled about. Instead, keep look- ing off into the distance. Dark

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Next time your wife tolls you about some 111': husband who has made a fortune by clover in- vutmenf. just remind but about that Akron bouuwifo who cum up to Canada and found uranium. -Hamilton spectator.

The National Foundation for In- fantile Paralysis in the United States bu made I new grant of more than 31,500,000 for polio ro- searcb and the support of respir- ator centres. Tbe latest grant underscores the fact that polio: while the Salk vaccine has cut its dangers, in still not conque ad. Further research, improvement: to the vaccine and its effective- ness, and above all, continued can for those who contact the disease, are still necessary. -Windsor Daily Star.

Ships entering or leaving the mouth of the Elm river on Ger- many's northwest coast will in future be greeted by a loudspeaker message from Borkum, the wee- ternmost of the East-Frisian ls- lands. Welcome and farewell will be called in the language of the ship's home country and will be followed by the respective ” ' anthem. The bf adcast' station for this purpose is to be erected on the south shore of Borkum. alongside a casino called "Sec!!! Love." -Bonn Bulletin.

More power to the little town of Whitby! The town held its centennial parade and selected, as queen of the centennial, a womar of 92. She rode, crowned, in an open car at the head of a bi; parade. Her two attendants were aged 91 and 90. Far be it from us to avert our eyes from a beauty contest or a beauty quoc-i. -rt th

thing seems to be getting over- I 100 I

done. Whitby, celebrating years of life, broke away from modern custom which demands that a young,pretty, curvaceous and (not too necessaryt talented girl be named queen. The town chose one of its elder citizens for this honor, and relegated the teen- age queen to a float farther back in the parade.

glasses are sometimes effective. Maybe it will help to close your eyes.

In general, try to maintain I relaxed mental attitude. You'll probably feel a lot better if you do.

QUESTION AND ANSWER.

Mrs. B. 13.: Would diet relief to arthritis? wer: No diet except the usual well-balanced one is sug- guested in treating arthritis. Most patients are benefited by rest, both physical and mental, and also by various heat-produc- ing methods such as hot baths and diathermy. The use of such drugs as cortisone. hydrocortisone and other pain-relieving prepara- atlon: may be of value. The treatment should be car- ried out under the direction of your physician.

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.2: door after the horse is stain um. to I0 on year If"? you-. In the kind of repetition of him;-, which. it seems to II. tells only that some people never learn, -Ottawa Journal.

A high school building projad In Ottawa is being delayed by . controversy over "frills." This in a word that ha: many convenient appllcatio in respect to educa- tional matters. In this instance it in being applied to I gymnasium auditorium, and cafeteria. At one time or a tt most municipal- ities become centres of similar arguments. But when the llluo is faced fairly, are such supple- mentary comodations really "frills?" Costly they assuredly are, but nothing to be abandoned can- usually as deluxe nonsense. Gym- nasiums have a useful role in physical recreation; so have au- ditorium: as places of studentar sembly. a need not met by class. -Windsor Daily star.

Few craftsmen suffer from u grave an occupational hazard as the journalist who must always face the danger that his copy will contain I typographical error that will alter his whole meaning. At best, the public will mako sport of it; at worst, it may be action- able in law. Down in Los Angeles where Sam Schulman, a candid- ate for city council, is suing a newspaper. the editors of the paper must now recognize with special sharpness the perils that lurk be hind tbe printed word. Mr. Schul- man had placed an advertisement in the newspaper which was sup- posed to read, "You need a friend in the city council." it came out "You need a fiend in the city council.” Mr. Schulmau's irritat- ion is understandable. However, the editors also deserve sympathy. -Quebec chronicle-Telegrapll

In Britain the antique business is policed by a body called the Antique Dealer's Association, which decides what is and what is not truly antique, and puts its stamp on all antiques which are exported. One of their rules is that nothing is an antique until it is at least a century old. Young- or articles must not be advertised as antiques; they are usually called by the pleasant nameiot "bygones". If the century ruin were to be applied to our Canad Ian wayside antique places. about two-thirds of them would go on of business altogether, and the re mainder would find their stoclt sharply reduced. For what they offer is not a collection of ant- iques, but a collection of junk a choice junk, perhaps, but still junk. -Peterborougb Examiner.

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