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ciiiiadian National Highway

The Trans-Canada Highway seems to be ill example of a practical solution anticipat- ing a legal theory. It was planned and be- zun when no one in this counti'y imagined that highways could be under any jurisdicg lion hut Provincial. Before it was half coni- plcted. liowever. a Privy Council decision enunciated the principle that intei'provincial and international bus and truck operations are a matter for Federal regulation rather" than Provincial. -

The plain implication is that their Lord- thlps envisioned a system of trunk high-I ways built and maintained at Federal ex-i pcnsc as well as being subject to Federall control.

Although Ottawa activcly fought the legal battle. the l"edcral Government seems to he afraid to face the consequences ofi winning. The Federal-Provincial conference now meeting at Ottawa is reportedly for the purpose of amicably placing back in Pro- vincinl hands the responsibilities which were. declared by the courts to be essentially Fed- eral.

\\'hat the courts seem to contemplate is a division of responsibility for Canadian roads. There are many streets and second-. ary roads ‘which obviously serve only a local purpose. The Privy Council, it is not unfair to deduct. secs also a great national sys-_ tom of trunk highways, binding the country together. as the railways have done fronii an earlier day.

There is no reason wh_v there should? not be such a division. A motorist has no particular difficulty in progressing from a municipal street to it Provincial highway and from there to a private driveway, all having their own rules as to use and their several responsible authorities. The present conference may not act on this conception of the nations roads but there is nothing in- herently impossible or even difficult about’ it. Whether adopted now or not it will come through the combination of constitu- tional responsibility and practical necessity.

A candidate And His llelatives

Down in Ripley, 'l‘enii., Dr. J. Freeman, who lost out in ii mayoralty election, is planning to contest the election of his op- ponent. Ordinarily, this would not be news; it goes on all the time. In this in- stance, however, there is more involved than a mere counting of votes. The suc- cessful candidate, Dr. Scott, polled 760 votes against Dr. Freeman's 57, but the latter says he has more than 57 relatives who he is “sure" voted in his favour. In that case, of course, there was obviously something wrong with the tabulation.

Since the matter is still sub judice it would he improper for anyone, even at this distance, to express an opinion regarding its legal merit. but one cannot help feeling that Dr. 1-‘rccman‘s simple faith in the in- tczrity of his relatives is hardly enough to warrant an assumption of wrong-doing on the part of election officials. It is just possible that some of those who promised their kinsnian electoral support thought hotter of it in the secrecy of the voting lvooth whcrc. supposedly, civic conscious- ness takes precedence over family loyalty.

in any case, while court action might ;-onccivably uncover certain irregularities, there is no way for it to vindicate Dr. Free- nian‘s particular brand of idealism; should the official count remain as vit is, the disil- lusioncd man still will have no way of tel- ling which of his kinsmcn failed to keep his promise. All in all, it might have been better to have left well enough alone.

scathing Indictment

A strong indictment of McCarthyism has been made by the Most Rev. Bernard J.‘ Shell. Senior Auxiliary Bishop of Chicago.' In a talk to an audience of trade unionists. The following excerpts are from his ad- firess. now being widely quoted in the Unl- ‘ed States:

"Antl-Conimunism is a serious business. it is not a game to he played so publicity- mid politicians can build fame for them- selves. If someone were to tell me that

’whose citizens have lost faith in each other l_—such an America

anti-Communists. I hate to see anti-Com- munism identified with this kind of play- ing to the grandstand.

“Are we any safer because General Marshall was branded a traitor? No, we are not. But we are it little less honorable.

“Are we any safer because the line be- tween a liberal or a non-conformist and it Communist or subversive is hopelessly blurred? I doubt it.

“Are we any safer because non-conform- ity has- been practically identified with treason? I think not. Do we have any- thing less to fear because people have been

bullied by the chairman of an investigating.

committee and his counsel? I doubt it. ,

“is America a safer place for ourselves and our children because the morale of our State Department has been blitzkrieged? Or because political controversy has sunk to a new low of name-calling? . . .

“An America which has lost faith in the integrity of the Government, the Army, the schools, the churches, the labor unions, the press, and most of all an America

would not need In being anti-Communist; it nothing to lose. Such an

bother about would have

America would have nothing to recommend '

it to freedom-loving men—nothing at all, not even the shining image of the junior Senator from Wisconsin."

Bishop Shell, now 66, was the founder

of the large Catholic Youth Organization, which devotes itself to helping under- privileged children and combatting juvenile delinquency. He inaugurated the famous “Golden Gloves" boxing tournaments in which he attempted to channel the energies of young boys away from street-fighting and into the clean sportsmanship of the ring. He has devoted most of his life to trying to improve the lives of children in

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this column in open to the discussion by cui-respondents. of questions of interest. The Guardian does not necessar- Iiy endorse this opinion of

the squalid slums of his city. He stands above suspicion as to his motives and his patriotism, and his \vords cannot fail to have a profound effect on public opinion.

EDITORIAL N0_TEs

U. S. - Canadian Good Will Week.

I W I Good luck to the flight leaving for the North Pole this morning from the Central Navigation School, R.C.A.F. Station, Sum. merside. . - 0 O O “The Mississippi Legislature,” notes an exchange. “is considering a bill to make it unlawful to issue a high school diploma to any student who can't read or write. We have yet to hear a more logical law." 0 I I ' _ The drop in farm income in this Prov- ince last year was a hard blow. One fav- orable aspect, however, is the perishable quality of the potato. There will be no C3-I‘I‘.Vover to plague future marketing pros- pects. I O I The affair Valdmanis seems likely to rock Newfoundland economically and polit- ically. Whatever other blame may be in- volved, however, there can only be fidmil‘. ati‘on‘for Premier Smallwood's courage in bringing things out in the open. 0 O 9 Currency deflation will soon come to this country, at least in the dimensions of paper money. It is reported that a new ser-

correspondents. FAITH AND THE H BOMB

Sir,- “God is our refuge and strength, A very present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear though the earth should change, Though the mountains shake in the heart of the sea.“

The writer of this psalni might. well have lived in this H bomb age, this age of universal fear that the whole human race may be destroy-, ed. The H bomb was probably ex- ploded to scare the Russians, but it. has scared everyone, most likely even the people who set. it off. The centres of population like Lon- don and New York are thoroughly scared. They now know that one bomb can destroy a whole big city_ In England among many there 18 hysteria. The Japanese fishermen are still ailing. Snow falling in Montana was impregnated. Wind- shields on the Pacific coast. have been pitted and even in Halifax. If many bombs inc set. off we may all find our lungs worse pitted.

There can be no protection against the H bomb. New York City had devised protectioii against. the A bomb. and now they find that. is obsolete. They are turning to the idea of evacuation which has grave difficulties, e.g., in their hospitals there are 3600 patients that should be removed and they have means for only 60.

Man has made the bomb. and no one can be blamed for that. The business of the scientist is to pry into the secrets of nature. but we are not big enough for the re- responsibility, and now the world is up against it.

It is said man‘s extremity is God’: opportunity. He is calling us to repent truly and be able to say with the psalmist:

“God is our i'€IllfIt‘ and strength A very present help in trouble.“ I am, Sir, etc..

iioorn 5. Robertson in

Thirty seven years ago a young man knell; before the altar in st. Mary’: Cathedral In Winnipeg and felt upon his shoulders for the first time the almost. imperceptible weight of the pailium, the narrow circlet. of pure white wool which signifies that its wearer is an Arch- bishop of the Church of Rome. The young man was the Most Re- verend Alfred A. Slnnott and he had just been elevated to the throne of the newly created Arch- iepiaoopal See of Winnipeg. But though the pailium rested so light.- ly across the young man} should- ers, he did not accept. it lightly and in the years which lay ahead the once strong back was to bend beneath its weight.

Archbishop Sinnott was ii gentle man; gentle of voice and manner, but to those who knew him and worked with him he was ‘'1 giant." It was his brilliant scholastic ro- cord that first attracted the lit.- tention of the Church authorities. He was only 19 when, “surpassing all- competition in philosophy and theology," he took a. double degree in theology and canon law. He was then sent. to Rome where he studied at. the seminary of St. Ap- polinarls, and it. was in Rome, on February 18, 1900, that he was or- dained priest. ’

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Back in Canada young Father Sinnott was appointed to ii pro- fessorship at st. Dun.stan'.s in Charlottetown. but within two years he was transferred to Ottawa and the brilliant career '.vhich lay be- fore him was foreshadowed by his appointment as private secretary to Cardinal Bbarretti, the apostolic delegate to Canada.

By 1916, when the Church had decided upon the creation of the Archlepiscopal see of Winnipeg, it. was Father Blnnott, now I. mon- signor, who wa.a'cl-ioaen to be its archbishop; and, with Canada in the midst. of a world war, the young man the was still only 39; came west to pioneer his new

ies of Bank of ‘Canada notes to be issued in September will be one-eighth of an inch less deep than those now in use. 0 0 O I

The Canadian delegate, Mr. David John-.1 son. has been chosen first presidcntlof the! five-nation U.N. disarmament sub-commit- tee. The sessions will be private but it is I0 be hftped that he. or a succeeding chair- man. will be able to report agreement on some plan that will make the world it lit- tle less of an armed camp.

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David Hume, Scottish philosopher and historian, was born this date 1711. The value of his philosophical writings has never been questioned. although at one time his scepticism made him notorious among the orthodox. His history suffers from inade- quatc research. Hume denied the neces- sity of cause and effect. regarding it as merely a habit of thought.

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A child health expert states that only about one of every five children receives the daily amount of vigorous exercise re- quired for normal growth. It may be so but those that grow up and have children of their own will make up for the lack by trying to keep up with them in their inade- quate activity.

0 I 0 In th& latest life of Lord Palmerston by Arthur enderson published in the United

the masters of the Kremlin inspired this burlesque to distract us from our real dangers and keep us from taking effective anti-Communist measures, I'd have half-a- mind to I‘leIi"\'c pim . . . . - "As you can see. I take in pretty dim view of some noisy anti-Communists—one In particular, the junior Senator from Wis- consin. I do not take a dim view of them because they are anti-Communists, but be- caiioc they are such pitifully ineffective

Kingdom there is reproduced ii statement by "Old Pam" on Russia which has a fa- miliar ring today. Speaking in 1834 Lord Palmerston acid: "Russia does not, I be- lleve, wish to go to war with us, but is al- ways trying to push on just to the extreme point of encroachment and aggression to

which she may be allowed to go without war. She then halts to take breath and waits till people are looking another way to make another step or two fgry_vud,’’_,.

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W. I. GREEN Stanley Bridge ”

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Old Charlottetown

and P. I. 1.

FIRST TENNIS ('Ll’lI "The forerunner of thr

_ prin- ripal Tennis Club of Charlotte- town wns known as tlin Micmn:

Tennis Club. and was formed on the 2nd of May, 1883, at the resi- dence of Dr. J. 'l‘. Jenkins. Mr. i. B. Warburton and Miss Alice Jen- kins being elected president and‘ secretary respectively. Meetings

for play were arranged to he held’

0" the izrounds of Government House. Beaconsfield (C u n d an fiiomel. Brlxhton. spring Park, Sidmount and Victoria Park. The latter was later stile:-ted M; the permanent. home of the club. On Mal/‘I4. 1889. the club was amal- lnmsted with nnother, and since known as the Charlottetown Lawn Tennis Club.

—-I-‘rom An Island Sic-rap hook, by the late Mr. Benjamin Brem. ner.

Books llocolyiil

CLOWN by Emmett KI-lley with 1’. Beverly Kelley 4New York, Prentice-Hail Inc., 271 pp, 3.95), This is the story of "Willie", the and faced and generally unfortun- ate tramp-clown. His creator or alter ego was more interested In cartooning or aerial work but Wlllle grew lilmont. unintentional- ly In the atmosphere of circuses of every description. Willie’: bio- graphy, for that ix really what this in. is full of the strange and eventful life under the big top. This, however, is the view of the circus obtained by the small boys who carry winter for the animals rather than the glittering show seen by the cash customers.

THE l-‘AITHS MEN LIVE BY by Charles I-‘rancit Potter (New York, Prentice-Hell Inc., 323 pp.. 3.95). Comparative religion is a theolog- ical subject for intensive’ and thoughtful study. Without pur- porting to go into these important matter: so deeply, the nuthor has sketched more than thirty roll]-

charge and to organize the far- flung territory of his See.

Much of his time In those early ‘days was devoted to visiting the ‘outposts of his parlsh—-the Indian reserves, the northern missions and the scattered hamlets and villages of Manitoba. Traveling was not always easy, but over the years the frequency of his visit: (often by dcgsleigh or cutter) earned him the endearing title of Peregrinus ...; t.nr.s.o, Wanderer for Christ. And during the tenure of his of- iici: he was to see more than 80 new churches lift their apirea to- wards the sky along his road of travel. \

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Archbishop Sinnott was never one to be oveiuawed by difficulties. (or impoasibllitlea as some would ......- preferred to call them at the time). when for example he com- mit.t.ed his parishioners in Winni- peg to the erection of a new St. Paul's college on the present. Ellicc Avenue site there were shrewd businessmen who considered the project thoroughly unsound and .ve.i foolhardy. To His Grace, however, it was obvious that Win- nipeg needed an adequate college: that. was all that mattered. with complete faith he could assure his fellow workers: "The Lord will provide." And the shrewd business- men found that. almost. in spite of themselves. they were involved in I thoroughly sound enterprise.

It. seemed good to the Archbishop that. I summer camp should be built. where both children and adults could renew their aplrltii and rocrenta they strength in the friendly atmosphere of their own faith. He discussed his idea with the scholarly llonaigrior Morton, and camp Morton. with its fu- clnatlng forest vistas and its echoes of children‘: laughter, was ti” result.

The world was at war when

ions or Iecta in I decidedly sym- pathetic manner. For those who would understand their fellow men of different religions lhlx book is most valuable. Many, indeed. will through it, gain a clearer under- atandln of felt own religion. The oil’: Vluc is comide -bly increased by an index. although most people will probably read

Archbishop Sinnott‘

Hie Winnipeg Free Press

Archbishop Sinnott took up his charge in Winnipeg. It. was again at war when the illneaa which was to end his career seized upon his strong body and troubled his splendid mind. In the years be- tween, through prosperity and stark depression. he spent, to the point. of exhaustion, his physical and intellectual power in the ser- vice of the cause to which he had dedicated his life. With him klndliness knew no bounds of race or creed. Life was It journey lead- ing home and there was no one to whom he could deny a helping hand along the way. It is thus as he was l.n- the days of his great. intellectual and spiritual strength. that he will be remembered by the thousands of those whose love and respect he so richly deserv-

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. f v ~ oefi (Ema: SPELLBOUNI)

Witched am I with April wiles. April tears and April smiles. April warmth and April coldness, April shyness, .\pi'll boldness; April joy and April sadness.

April goodness. April badneas: Apri‘. inconsistency

captivates the likes of me:

With such wllm, since time began, Api'il‘s won the heart. of man. -——Avery Giles in the New York

Herald Tribune .

I The Age Old Story I,

But. he that liu-keth tlieiie things in blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he wus.purged from his old sins. Wherefore the rather. brethren. [Ive diligence to make your cat- ling and election sure: for If ye ilo these things, ye shall never fall: for so an entrance iihnll be niinistt-red unto you nhundantly Into the everlasting‘ kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jetuiii Christ.

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psychiatrist, is not. ii sign of in- unity. These days. that ought to relieve all of us. — Sudbury Star.

Make friends and avoid argu- ments as you go along and you'll end up with a happy life but no- body interested in publishing your memoirs. -— Winnipeg Tribune.

An old Indian summed up the world situation thus: "Trouble is nations smoke peacepipe but no- body inhalcs." -— Guelph Mer- cury.

A June bride writes that she wants an “ideal family" of six children. Yes. and in what denom- inations. miss? They come in ones. in twos and occasionally in threes. —Peterborough Examiner.

The best part of spring for poor old Dad is that he can get out the hammock again. You can figure so much floricultural strategy from a hammock. — London Free Press.

We wish unit some people would spend about one-tenth as much energy striving to make ‘free enter- prise and free competition a real- ity as they do in in talking pious- ly about it. Too man)’ 03 Niel“ seem to operate on the Principle that all-out competition is a wond- erful. wonderful thing . - ~ ~11‘ any other business but theirs. — Calgary Herald.

We used to hciir I ("II 5”” about “nerves." People who were exasperated, or discouraged or un- able to concentrate. We” POW" larly said to be victims of their nerves. Perhaps they were so. but could not their nerves have been the victims of what they ate-

_I:s_go 4M___»'.'l'lie BIon_day._AprlIV26;_ ),g:’;.; NOTES BY THE WAY'_ Talking to one‘: cell. says I come the Edinburgh Scottie up

followed his master's body 1.. th. grave, remaining there until h died. A current case was report ' in the London Times last we, Joseph Tau. ; shepherd. aged 5., had been missing since Decemb ' 12 on the moors above Dame’ valley in the Peak district. He Wu. found dead on March 29 with ha.’ l2-year-old Collie “'i‘ip" beside hi I “alive and guarding his body}. T. had remained on guard dun‘ severe weather including hug‘ snowfalls, apparently keeping h y- self alive by catching rabbits '1?“ has been adopted by . hide 1 her beloved master and is h;, 0 once m0re.——WiInipeg Fm, P33‘