-1n some instances, dlaallowance wII the result of the undagging attempt, in the defence of imperial interests and imperial treaty obliga- tions, to minimize the attempts of British Columbians to reduce their Asiatic fellow-citizens to the status of helots in their modern Athens. The remainder of the western dis- Illowances were defensive meas- ures to protect the commercial and financial interests from attack ir- . the western provinces. The West was, after all, Canada's empire."

Almost half the British Colum- bia disallowances were of substan- tially the same discriminatory anti- Oriental statute, which was enacted provincially, and disallowed by the Dominion, a score of times. Mani- toba railway legislation, which ran counter to federal policy by at- tempting ”to modify the monopoly hold of the Canadian Pacific", was responsible for scxeral Manitoba disallowances.

The Alberta cases all involved Social Credit acts which not mere- ly alarmed financial houses of all kinds, but in the Dominioni-' view violated the BNA Act. and in any event were opposed to federal fiscal policies.

In addition to the steady rise in provincial powers which accom- panied economic growth and the trend of judicial decisions, the Do- minion has for several decades shown an increasing inclination to let the courts alone decide on the constitutional validity of provin- cial acts. And "with the increasing respectabilit.y of democracy and the growing political maturity of the country. it is now assumed that I government which passes unfair or foolish legislation will suffer a loss of support at the polls . . . Ac- cordingly it is now unlikely, though not impossible, that provincial leg- islation which is merely discrimin-

atory, vindictive, or foolish will be disallowed if some other effective constitutional remedy exists."

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WEDNESDAY. DEC. 7. 1955

Misleading

It-is easy to understand the hes- itant manner in which members of the Russian Orthodox Church dele- gation, now visiting this country as guests of the United Church of Can- Ida, answered questions concern- ing the state of organized religion in the Soviet Union. After all, they have to be careful what they say, for it can be taken for granted that every word they utter will be duly reported to Communist Party lead- ! ers in Moscow; and an indiscreet word could very well get them into serious trouble when they arrive back home. No one will blame them fbr keeping a watch on their lips. There was one statement, how- ever, made by Archbishop Boris. leader of the delegation, that was i misleading, though perhaps not in- tentionally so. It had to do with freedom of religion and worship, against which, in Dr. Borisi words,' "there is no ban". That may be true, in the sense that civil auth- orities do not imprison church- goers or persecute them for carry- ing out the normal practices of wor- dhip. But, surely, there is more to religious freedom than that. By the Archbishop's own admission. mem- bership in the Communist Party- which is considered by Soviet auth- orities to be the greatest honour that can be bestowed on any citizen -is barred to anyone who believes in God. If this is not I denial of re- ligious freedom, what is it? , Then. again, it is well known-

and. indeed. admitted openly by .- ' Soviet leaders-that the public Ichools are under obligation to ridi- cule all religious belief and to teach lthelslh 83 R regular Sllbiect On the by any means--about SE22 billion curriculum. Moreover. youth orgar.- worth, lzations are atheistic in both - 0 - theory ma practice. The officm Now that the Russians have ex- department of ymhh, hke its pa,-. ploded a hydrogen bomb which they ent organization, lays special stress Claim l5 the biggest and "10-Si P0Wr on the "need" for eradicating all ("H11 t0 be 8XDl0d0d thus far, the vestiges of religious influence Ameflcam Can be expected 10 E0 which, Q11-rgptitjousjyy may have ahead with something bigger still. been gt work in the horn? of my And so it will continue, now one member, Eooks and mmion picmres side and then the other, unt.il-and Slntended for the young follow the unless-some agreement can be ' ame general theme. reached on the whole problem of ' These are not specuhmons. -I-hey disarmament. - are simple facts. about which lead- ' ' ' ers of Soviet Communism, and of the Soviet Government,- brag con- sistently. In View of all this, the lj . lPPliT9nt R H9 m pt of Russian Church leaders, when they go abroad, to give the impression that separation of Church and State was the only important change made by post-Czarist Russia in the field of religion is misleadingeto put the best possible construction on it.,

EDITORIAL NOTES

A late report says that United States gold reserves are at the low- est levei since i946, down some ”27 million from the same date last year. Even so, the amount at pre- sent available is not small change

Streptomycin is proving its al- most miraculous worth in still an- other way. Used on apple trees at the Ohio Agricultural Station, it cut infection of blossoms to 275 as ('-Omllared with 83'; infection on untreated trees. Another drug, that 8065 by the simple name "sodium 4, 5-dimethyl - 2 - thiamlymercapto- acetate", is being used successfully on Dutch elm beetles which have made serious inroads on the cele- brated shade trees of New Eng-

Power Of Disallowance Wid-

Uf the hundred-odd disallowan- ces of provincial legislation since Confederation, a round dozen have been of Alberta Social Credit legis- lation, nearly thirty were of Man- itoba acts, and over forty were sus- tained by British Columbia. These Ind other facts are cited in In im- D0:-tant new book., "Social Credit and the Federal Power in Canada," by J. R. Mallory, University of Tor- onto Press. The book set-veg u . reminder that the Dominion's Power to disallow any provincial other; and with good reason, since statute within a year of its passing there is none other quite as good. .. is explicitly given in the British ' 0 0 North America Act, and does not The head of the Soviet Commun- dwindle or die merely because it let Party, Nikita Khrushchev, is may lie unused for I decade or Io. quoted as telling Indian crowds: "1 W The frequency of its use In the love India with all my heart". That .- Pill llllhst Smaller provinces, and may or may not please the Indians. the infrequency of its apputpuon to but it is likely to meet with 8 mix- OMINO l1Nl.Qll9b90. lltxesta that ed response at the forthcoming ope antomary limit on the power Is meeting of the Supreme Soviet, at ,-the comparatively large 310- which, it is expected, Mr. Khrush- llltnpl risk Involved in Itrlkinulown chev will make I bid for absolute 3 lll'l0 Pl'0Vh'IcC- But Wen power in law as well as in practice. fl? He will have to make up something H "-33 NW been 0118- by wIy.of explanation between now .. r t ' -' 1 -i . Ind then. How can I man be pas- ' Jtltllllir to his own coun- ' llhflliter with all his

I O Q

A British marketing official has hinted that Britain, once this coun- try's leading customer in bacon, may start buying again in quantity as soon as the British Government "gets out of the importing busi- ness". If the man is right in that view, the quickenthe business goes back to private hands the better it will be for Canadian producers who need the extra outlet, and for the people of the United Kingdom who prefer Canadian bacon to I n y

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FITTINGLY HONOURED

Sir,-Last week many of us were delighted to see the spot- light on one of our Island's vet- eran and outstanding teachers. who had the honour of officially opening the beautiful new High School in Kensington.

One of our major projects in "Home and School" is to pro- mote "Teacher recruitment and retention". II the teacher short- age is one of our most critical problems today. According to of- fictial figures today two-thirds of our P. E. l. teachers are not properly qualified and experi- enced.

Slowly we are beginning to

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realize that we II I public have not been putting I him enough value on education. As I public we have not pNVlded proper working and Living conditions to attract and maintain sufficient numbers of high calibre teacher! in our schools. - At the new animal opening in K using-ton we were shown one very fine way of honouring and recognizing the services of an outstanding teacher. in this and many other ways we should work to build up I proper status for the teacher who truly is "the shaper of citizens." lam. Sir. ctc.. I HELEN Ma('D()NALD Chairman Public Relations. P.E.i. Federation of Home and

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THE LAST WORD

Creep into thy narrnw bed. creep, Ind let no more he said! Vain thy onset! Ill stands fast. Thou thyself must break at last.

Let the long contention cease!

Geese Ire swans, and swans are geese.

Let them have It how they will!

Thou Irt tired; best be still.

They out:-talked thee. hissed thee, tore thee?

Fired their ringing shot and pass- Cd. Hotly chargmand sank at last.

ChIrge'once more. then, and be

dumb Let the victors, when they cnme. When the fort; of folly fall, Find thy body by the wall

-Matthew Arnold.

The Ultimatoa Crime

(Edmonton Journall

There seems to be no limit to the depths of human depravity in the Twentieth Cuitury. A new low -If least in funlnine eyes-was raeentl reached by I fashion salon inP ,IceoI-dtngtoareportln the swlu magazine Pour Toux.

Police. who raided the place, found that the fitting rooms were lined with distorting mirror-I of the kind sometimes seen If. exhibition rnldwaya. The type employed in this one mode persons who look- ed in them appear much taller and Ilenderer tl:In they Itcuall,

firm was Ible to unload expensive dmm designed for the young Ind IHm on what ll tactfully called "the larger womIn.".

We draw I well over the painful menu that must have occurred

the IflIIIItoI.If Parlsfnpwotnouhvethdrway, we .ltwtllbIIotbfIgleu &DI .

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Mr. Sinclair's Background

By Patric

()'l"fAWA: It was a Scotsmans cupidity for 100 cents of value for his dollar that gave British Co- lumbia its colorful minister of fish- eries in the federal cabinet. I

Hon. Jimmy Sinclair, resting his injured spine in bed. chatted to me today about the mere chance which led the Sinclair family in homestead in Vancouver. Listening to his story. I learned what makes him the ideal man to be heading our drive to use brains as well Is nets to increase our rich harvest from the sea.

Jimmy's father, James George Sinclair, was I schoolteacher in the Highlands of Scotland: the only landlubber in I family of fisher- folk. In 1910 the sweetest highway in Scotland-as in many other European countries-led to Can- ada. Our Ill - time immigration boom was rolling enthusiastically to its peak.

in that one year, when our pop- ulation was less than half its pres- Int size. we were comfortably able to absorb three times II many im- migrants II have managed to wrig- gle through our immigration bar- riers this year.

The Sinclair family. including two-year-old Jimmy, joined the 1910 rush. Being I Scot, Papa Sin- clair determined to get the max- imum travel out of his immigra-it's ticket. So he aimed for the most distant section of Canada. the Pac- ific coast. He laid plans with I fellow-Scot Ind fellow-immigrant named Mitchell. Studying In atlas together. they noticed two equally large data on the map of the B.C- coast: these lepresent-ed two towns called Prince Rupert and Van- couver. Chance led Mitchell to pick Prince Rupert; that left Vancouver for the Sinclairs.

FAMED TEACHER

James Senior taught at the Van- couver high school, and later be- came principal of the technical school. When he retired in 1945. he was promptly elected chair an of the school board. A great - liaver in the need for fuller and technical education, he was instru- mental in founding what is re- gardod as the best vocational school in Canada.

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' James Junior shares his father's fervor for higher education. He specialised in mathematics, science and engineering. On his recent visit to Russia. he found a widespread hunger for learning, which in- spired his admiration.

The reason for this appetite was not hard to find, he told me. First. the Russians have-to the full- the European desire to make the maximum use of the only attribute which distinguishes Man from ape. . Second. the classless society of the

New Russia offers distinction and gracious living above the lowly norm to only two privileged groups party bosses and scientists. Those Russians who have neither the de- sire nor the savvy to become the former are striving for the fuller life by qualifying as engineers. Be- sides, Russia has I great need for men and women trained in en- gineering Ind allied sciences. So technical training is I patriotic gesture.

EDUCATION AND FISHING

The fate of Jimmy Sinclair has been closely intertwined with both fishing and education. His family, apart from his father. were fisher- folk living on the shores of the stormy Peniland firth in the north of Scotland He himself is our min- lster of fisheries. where he has earned the unprecedented distinc- tion of being fisherman first. and cabinet minister second.

His father was a teacher. Jimmy himself was I teacher once, for a short while. but long enough to spot I promising wife when he saw

her among his mathematics pupils. i This combination of hi. ntercsl.-. and his backgroundwfi. ng and education-is now making itself felt by his official encouragement to! education in our important fishing industry.

it was in Hun. .limmy Sinclair's new home town in the New World -Vancouver-that Canada's first university course for fishermen was recently launched. It is dur- ing Hon. Jimmy Sinclair's tenure of the fisheries portfolio that I wholesale exchange of scientific in- formation with Russia will add ap- preciably to our knowledge of that huge protein factory called the North Pacific ocean.

in I thoughtful Ind perceptive editorial The Guardian recently gave its attention to In utterance

Mr. Pearson, fresh from his visit to Russia. has given his opinion that the Soviet Union is not plan- ning aggressive war. since the Russians are no more Iuxioua to

” suicide than Inyoue else. As The Guardian rightly observel. this argument has been used for I long, long time without effect in the tendency of nation: to WI! one upon the other.

For some time Ifter the explosion

of the firatafomlc bomb, there were many people convinced that. with so horrible I weapon It hand. no nation would ever contemplate resort to war (When dynnmite was dlacovered the some plain hope was held). But It wu not very long before the horror Ieemed to piss. and the bomb wII regarded II another piece of military ordin- ance.

The United Statea Secretary of State, Mr. Dulles, begon to Ipenk of "muive retaliation by mean of our own c ". And even

of our External Affairs Secretary. '

A Word Of; Caution

By Heath Macquantile

onslderatinn in their overall duv- lomacy. To many shrewd obser- vers the new atmosphere of good- will was the outcome nf military llld Iclentic developments which yrofoundl, stireed the leaders of the free world and doubtless had I powerful effect upon the men of the Kremlin. The fact that the New Look followed closely the great test explosion of hydrogen bombs which blasted the Pacific Ocean should not be overlooked. Once Ig- ain Iober men asked if we were not nearing the rim of In awful Ibyss destruction. in the face of such dread possibilities, attempts to find llreement with the Communists were made by western leaders. who. I few months earlier, might have denounced Iuch activity an dangerously leftish. if not outright traltoroun, For instance. who, I you Igo, would have predfq-ted that Mr. Pearson would visit Rm- Ill with the good wishes of Ill Iectlons of the Canadian pIrliI-

meat? FADING SPIRIT The Geneva Ipirlt seems to ho fading now. Ind the meat meet- ing of East-West foreign minlst . VIII I dlnmal fnilure. we an my convinced. that while Soviet tIctloI ll!" Cllllllfetl. the strategy hll not; Ind. In the furtherin

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that few persona co seven signal: Ind many could not name one.

Now these signals do not nem- sarily mean that you have cancer. But any one of them doea mean an ' ediate trip to your doctor

for I checkup. Memorlu these silgnals now. It may IIve your lfe. -

l.- any gore that does not heal. particularly about the mouth.

2-A lump or thickening in the breast or anywhere.

3-Unusual bleeding or discharge from any body openlnl.

4-Any change in nwart or mole.

5-Persistent indigeillon or dif- ficulty in swallowing. '

V4-Persistent ltoarseneu or I cough that hangs on.

7-Any change in normal bowel habits (constipation, or diarrhea in I person who has been more or less chronically constipated).

DANGER SIGNALS

Don't get panicky if you dis- cover one of these danger Ilznall. The odds are greatly in your favor. You probably do not have cancer. but it is best to find out for sure.

Even more important than watch- ing for these danger signals is I tlioroug-r physical examination every year. This should include

a digital and proctoscoplc examin-.

atiou for rectal cancer for men. Women should insist on I pelvic examination and that I vaginal smear be taken.

More than 50 per cent of can- cers ocur in sites which can eas- ily be dctected in such I phys- ical examination.

A second pelvic examinatiun should be given all women six months after the first check-up. That means two pelvic examina- tiins I year.

Men over 45 should have I chest X-ray taken every Ilx months. Even though you do not have I cough-one of the seven danger signal there might be something wrong with your lungs. .

Do not rely on the chest X-rays you have taken for tuberculosis checks. Generally, it is difficult to find In early lung cancer on I plate that small.

QUESTION AND ANSWER

H.K.: What ls meant by essen- tial vascular hypertension? II there I cure for it?

Answer: By vascular hypertension lI meant high blood pressure the exact cIuII of which has not been determined.

No cure for this diwrder is known. Ilthough it an be kept under control In many inalancea by the use of various drugs. such II rauwolfla Ierpentlnl.

Of course, the condition should be treated under the direction of I physician.

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the victim of one of our present- day delusions. in the olden days diplomacy was In Irt. Ilow. tedi- ous, exacting, symbolized by. the man with the despatcli case. In our day we have tended to rely great- ly on personal contacts. The idea of "talking it over" Isaumea an importance far out of line with realitlea. We can recall the high hopes raised when personal con- tacts between Stalin Ind the West- crn leaders were first arranged. President Roosevelt entertained most optomlstis. feelings about the good results likely to follow if he and the Russian leader could sit dowrf together It the conference table.

TRAGIC INADEQUACY The Yalta Itory has since reveal- ed the tragic inadequacy of Inch I view. Nor can we ever forget that ill-advised and totally unfortu- nate era of personal diplomacy. for ever associated with Neville Cham- berlain. It in too easy to oven-rate the importance Ind value of con- vcrsations between ItIteImIn on the ocaslou of official vhits. It ll perhaps I lunnan tendency to re- gard with favor on'o'I own Iblllty in influencing Inothex-'I point of pp:-Ilolol Ind Judg-

pollution of the Ii, it now find: it lIuIingl.5tonIleIIcoIlperdoY-

rtrlon of the waste materials wed to Mellie ll! the air. or deliberately dumped in- to the river. could be economic- ally used. it is Just that Iufflcient time and thought hIII't yet been given the problem.-Windsor, Daily Star.