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CIABLOITETOWN MONDAY. OCTOBER 2. 1950

The Late Mr. llolxles

The death of Mr. J. Lester Douglas, M.P., on Saturday afternoon will be learn- ed with deep regret throughout the Prov- ince and many other parts of the Domin- ion. The news came'quite unexpectedly, as he appeared to be recovering satisfact- orily from a recent operation.

Mr. Douglas was known personally to most of our citizens, and in Queen's County, which he represented continuously in the House of Commons since 1938, his name was a household word. As a farmer and produce exporter he had long been in touch with community affairs, his experience in these occupations, and as a former railway man, serving him in good stead in discharg- ing his parliamentary duties.

While supporting the Liberal Party ably and conscientiously at all times, he was by no means a strong partisan and was iustly proud of the fact that he placed the interests of his County and Province before other considerations. He was al- ways accessible when at home to those seeking his assistance or advice, and was indefatigable while in Ottawa in attend- ing to his responsibilities. He made it a point to place himself at the service of all his constituents, never asking what their party affiliations were if their claims ap- pared to him to merit his support or in- tercession. This has been true, of course, of many of our parliamentarians. but Mr. Douglas achieved an outstanding reputa- tion in this regard. This was not ll virtue which he laboured sedulously to acquire, but came naturally to one whose leading characteristics were kindliness and court- esy

Men do not achieve continued success in public life without hard and conscien- tinls work. Mr. Douglas may be said to have died in harness, for the hours he spent in Parliament were but a small frac- tion of the time he devoted to his duties as a representative. He also took an active part in local church and community affairs. Everywhere he was known and made wel- come. He liked mixing with people, and his -warm handciasp, smiling countenance and hearty laughter were a'tonin in them- selves when one felt in the blues. It is hard to believe that he is with us no more, he was so virile and full of the joy of life.

In tendering sympathy to the bereaved widow and family, The Guardian joins with a host of friends at home and abroad to whom Mr. Douglas” passing has come as a very personal 1655. I

Free Trade

"The most outspoken demand for world- wide free trade I have ever heard", is how a writer for the London Daily Express de- scribed a speech delivered by Mr. L. Dana Wilgress, chairman of the 38-country trade conference now being held at T-Jrquay.

Canada has always been in favor of Free Trade as an ideal but pressure of ex- ternal colzditions has long made its prac- tice a political and economic impossibility. No one country since the hey-day of Brit- ish industrial power has been strong enough to adopt Free Trade while the root of the world continued to be highly protectionist. The only hope for its establishment, with all its attendant advantages. is that some day the countries of the world will get to- gether and open the channels of trade in every direction simultaneously.

That day is not yet. The war-devastat- ed economies of Europe and the fledgling industrial development of the Far East are much too shaky for the strong medicine of tariff abolition.

Problem In Nottingham

Britain's socialist government is once more confronted with the thorny issue of profits. Nottinghamshire miners have ac-

cused the National Coal Board of making

too much money! This will surprise I lot of armchair economic planners of the left.

C:-who fondly imagined that nationalization . or the British coal industry would dispose ' ,once and for all of the matter of profits.

The Nottinghamshire mincworkers' s,o::-- Aretery, according to I report in the London

Economist, told fellow workers at I recent

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keep some of the poorer fields ill business.

Such reasoning shows ' that Notting- ham miners, really are not such good socialists after all. For they don't like sacrificing the profits of their labours to help fellow miners in other parts of the country keep theirjobs.

EDIIORIAL NUIES

The Church of Scotland re-united this date 1929. --

0 0 Open. season on Hungarian partridge, ducks and woodcock. 0 Turkey declared war with Russia this date 1853, starting the Crimean War in which Britain was involved. I I 0 October will be featured by great na- tional and international activities affecting the life and work of united and uniting nations.

Schools in Canada's ten provinces are supposed to be featuring naval readings and lessons on naval history and Canada's world trade.

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It appears 42,000,000 lbs. of bacon are still required to complete Canada's contract with Britain, and an additional subsidy is promised by the Federal Government for that purpose.

The campaign for funds for the Pro- testant Orphanage opens today. t is not so highly organized as international cam- paigns but the claims of children nearby are the more pressing.

Today a memorial tablet is being un- veiled at St. Andre-sur-Orne, France. to the memory of members of the- Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Can- ada. gTheir brothers-in-arms, former mem- bers of the P. E. I. Highlanders (also the Black Watch) will feel at one with them as will their common parent regiment.

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Jhe disadvantage of closed sessions is evidenced by what is leaking out from the Federal-Provincial Conference at Ottawa. It was not all peace and harmony as indi- cated by the closing "hand-out" by Prime Minister St. Laurent. There were serious differences of opinions, especially between the representatives of this Province over the transportation issue, but not a word of this was mentioned by the official press report.

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Air France will inaugurate tra:ls-Atlan- tic service between Montreal and Paris today, October 2nd, linking the Canadian metropolis with other points in 76 coun- tries on six continents served by the French International Airline. The initial flight from Paris will arrive on October 3rd, and the first flight from Montreal to Paris will be October 5th. In announcing the new service Henri J. Lesieur, General Manager for the North American and Caribbean Division, said that Air France planned regular scheduled flights from Montreal on Thursdays with arrivals on Tuesdays in Montreal from Paris. It is estimated that the flying time from Mont- real to Paris will be 12 hours on r-on-stop flights.

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Navy Week opens today. In 2060 days of war, under Canadian escort, 25.343 mer- chant ships carried 181 million tons of car- go from North American ports to the United Kingdom. Over this bridge 90,000 tons of war supplies passed daily to the battlefields of Europe. Over 90 per cent of the men who manned our fighting ships were citizen sailors who had joined only for the duration. Many had never seen the sea before. Backed by enormous produc- tion from Canadian farms, factories and shipyards our combined naval operation helped win the Battle of the Atlantic, re- peatlng in history what Napoleon's Ad- miral Mahon said of Nelson's ships: "Those far distant, storm-beaten ships, upon which the Grand Army never looked, stood be- tween lt and the dominion of the world."

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Charlottetown has lost one of its most esteemed citizens in the passing of Lieut. Colonel C. L. MacKay. As general man- ager of the firm of Bruce'Ste-vllrt and Company, Ltd., and secretary of Northum- berland Ferries, Ltd., he played an import- ant role, in our industrial and transporta- tion activities, in -both capacities quietly and unostentatiously, but with outstanding success. He was It all times courteous, conscientious and efficient. The same quai- itleslbrought him to this front in military Iffeire Ind in'th9 ieeiilng offices which he Ilololnremroalorgtlnlatloilu. 1-loeeto

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Future Of CBC Is Held Bleak

(Arthur Blakeiy ill the Montreal Gazette)

The Canadian Broadcasting cor- poration is in the throes of the worst financial crisis of its nlstoryi

Unless the Dominion Govern- ment-and Parliament-agree to a 100 per cent increase in radio licence fees or to make available roughly the same amount in pub- lic funds, the CBC expects to en- counter a deficit of not less than 525,000,000 over the next six years.

These deficits would, of course. be met ultimately by the tax- payer.

The only alternative, and it is not being considered very serious- ly at the moment, is to pare CBC expenditures to a point where they are equivalent to anticipated revenues. To effect the saving re- quired would. however. involve a drastic curtailment of existing CBC service.

In the CD05 own words, this .would mean "the cutting down of some program services. dropping of the quality of the programs, less use of Canadian talent and the elimination of network cover- age of some areas."

For the time being. the corpora- tion ls not attempting to cut down its operations on this scale. It is contending itself with adminis- trative econcmies- much -too small to affect the issues sub- stantially-and proceeding in the hope that the Government and Parliament will eventually re- spond to the appeal for an altered revenue basis.

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So far, the Government has done nothing in this respect, and the expectation here is that no policy decision will be .resched until the Massey Commission on the "national development in the arts. letters and sciences" has turned in its report.

This report will probably be sub- mitted in time for consideration at the next session of Parliament. if the session is not called before the intended date of Feb. 14.

But unless and until "some change is made. the CBC's finan- cial future looks anything but bright.

"- h0We'Ve!'. the Government and Parliament refuse to provide the .CBC with means to increase its income. and insist that the Coljporation must live within its existing means-without I deficit .-lt would mean drastic changes in the operations of the nation's radio monopoly.

These chanses would be felt swiftly by every Canadian who litens to his radio.

How drastic would these chang- es be?

This is the estimate of Mr. A. 9- Dunning of the CBC who thinks the time is ripe for the wholesale subsidizing of radio, or lts complete overhaul including the cutting out of such program items as Prairie Schooner, pop- ular orchestrul and song sex-iu, children's programs. religious pro- grams and dramatic series.

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The CDC French network would lose four equally popular programs entirely, and would suf- fer corresponding reductions in children's programs Ind other live broadcasts.

The CBC news department would be dropped entirely. II would the farm Ind school broad- cast departments. The public If- falrs broadcast department would be reduced to I skeleton staff. Actuality broadcasts. including Iporto events would be killed.

There would be I 25 per co t reduction in live programs orig- nating It regional points lush ll Vancouver. Edqlonton. Winnipeg, Halifax Ind St. John's. Nild. Radio relay troneinltters in

and Onterlo would be eliminated. ”

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This column is open to the discussion by correspondent! of quutione of Interest. The Guardian doeenot neceueh tly endorse the opinion of correepondento.

'Hu'uS".'. CENTENABY CELEBRATION

Sir,-In your budget of news for Saturday subscribers of Sept. 16th is an account of aniaddress made at a Rotary luncheon by Briga- dier W. W. Reid. who is director of the P. E. I. Travel Bureau, in which he outlined the many vaca- tion edvantages to tourists which the island had to offer, and sug- gested the celebration of some In- niverssry that might draw visit- ors for a week or ten days to the Province. In this connection I ven- ture to suggest that as 1951 isthe centenary of the granting of Re- sponsible Government in 1851 to the Colony by the Imperial Gov- ernment. this auspicious event would be thoroughly worthy of the biggest celebration you could plan. A celebration of this event should lead to a major revival of the study of the early political history of the Island. A start should soon be made on this feature through the schools. A series of celebrations at dif- ferent points on the Island should heighten the local interest and assure success. I am, Sir. etc..

A. J. McCORMACK. Vancouver. 3. C.

REIL BEBELLION VOLUNTEERS Sir.-Your article on the passing of Mr. Wm. W. Alexander, and reference to the Rell Rebellion of 1885 brought to my mind a bit of history of that period. On the evening of May 13th, 10 men of the North Tryon Militia Com- pany then known as No. 8 Co., 82nd Battalion left for Charlotte- town on, the steamer from Vic- toria under command of Lleut. Isaac Ives. The Lieutenant re- turned after Ieelng his men en- listed in the Company then form- ed. The men remnlned 12 days. if I remember rightly. The evening before they were to start for the West word came that Reil was captured and the rebellion ended. Next day they returned home in- stead with many regrets.

Their names were George Wood, W. C. Wood. D. J. Thompson, I-I Thompson. A. Mscwllllamg of North Tryon, George Bynon, H. Bynon. J. Quigley of Mount Try- on: Spurgeon Clark of Augustine Cove, Kidson, Lady Fans. Of this number the first two are Illll living and are among the lest survivors who volunteered for service. George Wood, after re- tiring from farming moved to Try- on Corner where he purchased I grocery store where he still cer- ries on though in his 54th year. W. C. Wood having learned the blacksmith trade with his father,

his neighbour-'I daughter. They lived in North Carleton for some years. then moved to Winthrop, MIII. where he carried large business in hiI trade Inlet- cd leter by his brother. He Ind wife have made many visits to the homes of their birthplace un- til four yeIrI ago when Mn. Wood passed Iway.

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I Was Just Thinking

(Sandy Todd in The Scotsman)

Wi the lost few days we have n given In insight into the methods and lndiosynorosies of well-known writers. As I humble columnist. I have read. marked. and inwerdly digested these revelations.

Mr. Moray McLaren has told us of one author who can write only in green ink. or Inother who prefers I pencil, of one who composes to the psnirnent of gramophone music. and of others who are stimulated by the steady noise of the outside world. Others, he informs us. Ire incapable of good work except in silence. From another source. we learn of I novelist who paces the sands, notebook in hand. jot;

ting down ideas Is inspiration comes to him. All these writers. of course.

are engaged in whet is known as creative work, but I was just wondering to what extent their methods could be copied by those who dabble in the small change of journalism. Right away, I dixnissed the idea of putting I green ribbon in my typewriter. I could think of no occasion that would justify that, unless ll were in typing the report of I Celtic football match. but then it would savour of pertiaiity.

There may be something to be said for an Iecompaniment of gramophone music in the privacy of the library or the study. It is definitely not recommended in the best-regulated newspaper offices. It might suit the music critics-they are I re apart.-but ils effect on the average ioum- aiist would be neither soothing ,nor inspirational.

Absolute silence is unattainable in the workaday world. "Nearly all writers." says Mr. McLal-en. "find themselves hopelesly put out by the alternation of sound and silence It irregular intervals."

That is where the newspaper- msn has I big advantage. He has not to contend with the alter- nation of sound Ind silence. The infernal din goes on all the time. A great deal of my own scribbling was done in I room that was very the vibrations of there were

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on me. . It just showed how little they knew about "induced inspiration.

The New York Times front- paged the arrival in Korea of I bottnlion of the Arryll Ind Si"-75' el-land Highlanders. The fit?! pu-urapil of the diqaetch from Korea reId:- '

--rs. first British zround troops Irrived in Korea -today. weloomedin solemn but festive ceremony with the wild tunes 0: mud bag-pipes end the mertlol muzlc of military bonds. TM! mgde I picture more. like I re- cruiting poster thIn the Ictuel gn'lv:l of soldier-I in I comb!

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long before Meters. Coon Ooh thought of appropriating the word "coke" Is I registered trade mark. the word was being used in ling- iend to describe - of all things. I hIt. I bowie! hat. in feet. And. if you here ever wondered Ibout the origin of this popular type of head- gear. here is the story. It. seems that William coke. I. member of the family of the Earl of T ' t was In e tiluriostio rider to hounds. Now. bI in those days. the well- bunstmen wouldn't dream of riding without his top hat. But Willie's hat was always being blocked off his head by ova-heed branches. which irked him no end. So. being I logical lad, Willie, took his problem to his hatter, Mr. Bowl- er. This gentleman very ingeniously rose to the occasion with I low- crowned. streamlined version of the top hat, which. in honor of the bus- tomer who had inspired it, be promptly christened the f'Coko". All this heppened'1oo years ago, but Mr. Bowler! firm. which is still in business. continues to refer to I bowler Is I "coke".