I ad "sauna V PAGE FOUR THE GUARDIAN Morning Dolly (Founded In mfl) Aulhorlnd II Second Clnn Mull. Polo Office DQDIPCIIIIIII, Ottawa. ‘Ibo hlnnrl fluurdlnn Publlnhlug Co. Editor nml Managing Dlrrrlnr, .l. R. Burnett. Lunar-into Editor, Frank Walker. "The Strongest Memory is Weaker Than the Weakest Ink" CHARLOTTETOWN. SATURDAY. JAN. 7. 1950. The Constitutional Conference Some confusion appears to exist in the public mind with regard to the purpose of the Dominion-Provincial Conference which will meet next week at Ottawa. It is a conference on constitutional amendments, liut it" does not mean that any revision of the B. N. A. Act is t0 be undertaken now. The purpose is merely to work out a for- mula or method for making changes, if and when they are necessary. The Federal Par- liament has already assumed the final pow- er t0 alter the Act in respect to purely Federal matters. Next week's conference will look for an amending procedure with regard to the transference back and forth of powers between Ottawa and the Prov- inces. According to Prime Minister St. Laurent in a pro-Christmas press statement, the conference will have to be unanimous to get results. This means that unless all ten Provinces agree on a new method of amend- ment the Federal Government will leave matters as they stand. This, in the opinion of the Globe and lvfail, is a decision which will strongly suggest that the status quo is likely? t0 remain. Unanimity may be hard to achieve. Our Toronto contemporary argues that a formula resembling those in effect in the United States and Australia should be adopted, requiring, say, a two- thirds vote in both Houses of Parliament plus the agreement: of at least two-thirds 0f the Provinces with two-thirds of the population. To some such terms, it main- tains, the conference must come if it is to lead anywhere at all. This is in direct opposition to the Que- bec attitude, which holds that the Federal Ilnion is a “compact” or treaty and is thus not alterable without the consent of all the parties, meaning all the Provinces. This Province has always supported the Quebec stand in this matter. Our rights under the British North America Act are something which we do not want to see tampered with. They include our representation of four members in the House of Commons, based not on populat-iodbut on our present num- ber of Senators. They involve a Dominion obligation to provide efficient and continu- ous communication between this Province and the mainland, winter and summer, as well as specific recognition of our right to special consideration in lieu of Crown lands. We don’t want to be left to the mercy of a majority decision in Parliament or among the other Provinces, as to wheth- er these commitments shall remain in the B. N. A. Act. We regard them as essential to our Provincial status. It is to be hoped that our Maritime rep- rcsentntives generally will stand firmly by the “compact” theory, and not be mis- led by specious arguments emanating from Ontario and the Western Provinces, as to the futility of seeking unanimous agree- ment on constitutional amendments. The Prime Minister's statement indicates that he does not share this pessimistic view. At any rate he is evidently concerned. and quite properly so, about maintaining the vctoing power of each Province against any invas- ion of its particular rights tinder the Con- stitution. ' "Cabinet Secrecy"- Apropos Premier Macdonalds vigorous challenge of certain statements in Mr. Regi- nald Hardy's volume on Mr. Mackenzie King dealing with the conscription crisis of 1944, the editor of the London Free Press writes: “The pity is that Cabinet secrecy does not permit Mr. Macdonald to present a fuller story." In amendment to this the Ottawa Jour- nal submits that if Cabinet “secrecy" per- mits anybody to misrepresent or distort history, with danger of the misrepresenta- tion or distortion growing into a legend, and with the legend unjust to the memory of a great minister, then Mr. Macdonald or any other former Cabinet minister has a per- fect right to throw Cabinet “secrecy" out of the window and present the truth. It recalls that Mr. Lloyd George in his memoirs gave all but detailed descriptions of what took place in his War Cabinet. Mr. Churchill in his "World Crisis" revealed many things which went on in the War Cabinet. A member of the British Con- servative party recently produced a highly secret statement which Mr. Churchill made to the Cabinet in 1942 respecting Rgssia. And Mr. Churchill's current memoirs are shot through with descriptions of what went on in the Cabinet. "In such circumstances," says The Jour- nal, “the idea that those who were members ofihe Cabinet at ihe time of Col. Balaton’: 1 going from it must have their lips sealed forever regarding the circumstances of his going, with possibility in the meantime of some inaccurate or unjust version of the cir- cumstances passing into accepted fact, is en- tirely wrong. Certainly no theory of Cabinet ‘secrecy’ can ever be as important as our seeing to it that history is not twisted into propaganda for somebody or that injustice be not done to the memory of a great pub- lic man." ' Concert Pitch It is not only over trade and currency, weapons and armies or race and living standards that international differences can arise. Musicians in the Boston Symphony Hall have stirred, if not a hornets’ nest, at least the odd hornet by raising their pitch for the note A in the treble clef to a fre- quency of 444 cycles per second instead of 440 c/s as adopted at an international cori- fcrcnce in London in May, 1939. The high- er pitch is supposed to give a “brilliance" to the performance, but musicians elsewhere are understandably annoyed that the long delayed standardization of pitch should so soon be disregarded. EDI TURIAL NOTES Jack Frost seems to be the only hard surfacing agent available here from our own natural resources. O O O This Province hopes again to have cab- inet representation after a lapse of about five years since Col. Ralston “resigned" the portfolio of Minister of National Defence in October, 1944. O O O The New York World-Telegram, the day before absorbing The Sun, turned its at- tention to this country, declaringjhat Can- ada holds the world's leading claim as a land of promise. As both a cause and ef- feet it predicted greatly expanding Ameri- can investment here during the next five years. O O O It is possible the Island vacancy in the Senate will not be filled for some time, Both Mr. Lester Douglas, M.P., and Premier Jones are strong favourites, and have many sup- porters backing their claims at Ottawa. Should the latter be appointed the probabil- ity is that a convention of the Liberal Party will be summoned to select and appoint a Provincial leader. O O O The constitutional conference opening on 'l‘uesday has a heavy responsibility. Today Canada can amend her constitution by sim- ply requesting the desired legislation of the Parliament at Westminister. When once a definite amending procedure is adopted, any necessary modifications must succeed in "a" s THE GUARDIAN. CHARLOTTETOWN lIlrtue's Surprising Reward PbbLlt. HJRUM l Thin column ls open lo the . discussion by correspondents l of questions of inter-ell. The Guardian docs not neccmar- . ily endorse the opinion of HIIIQSPOIITTCIIII- ~fi\_ ridb/Qk/céres-w .- "- l-IISTORIC HOME T0 BE SOLD Sin-Residents of New London North and South were a good deal surprised, I might say shocked, to lenrn that the house nnd lot at Clifton Corner which was the birthplace of the late IA. M. Mont- gomery who was the Island's most noted writer, is to he sci up nnd sold in front of the lnw courts building in Charlottetown, on meeting those requirements, be they simple or elaborate. O O O A great Indian scientist and Nobel Prize winner has been presented by the United States with a tube of rare mercury con- taining zi single isotope. To the layman, perhaps the most interesting thing about the metal is that it was evolved from gold bombarded in a cyclotron, thus reversing the ancient dream of alchemists of making gold from mercury. O O O Admiral Viscount Cunningham of Kirk- hope, born this date 1883; educated at Edinburgh and entered the Navy in 1898. Appointed Naval A.D.C. to the King in 1932; was Rear Admiral commanding Flotillas in the Mediterranean Fleet 1934-6; Vice-Ad- miral commanding battle-cruiser fleet in 1937-8; Commander-in-Chief of the Mediter- ranean 1839-42; was head of the British delegation to Washington 1942; Commander- in-Chief of British and U. S. joint Mediter- ranean Fleet, 1942-3. 1st Sea Lord in 1943. Rector of University of Edinburgh in 1945. O I O ’ Mr. Jesse H. Jones, publisher of the “Houston Chronicle" and former United States Secretary of Commerce, has estab- lished a scholarship fund which will send from one to seven Texas students to the University of Oslo American Summer School each year for the next five years. Docu- merits formalizing the first scholarships of their kind to be established in the United States were signed at ceremonies in Hous- ton, Texas, on November 4th by Mr. Jones and Norwegian Ambassador Wilhelm MOI‘ genstierne. With the establishment of th Jones scholarships, student and cultural er: change between Norway and the United, States is seen to be entering a. new phase. The program~already the most extensive to be developed between the United States and a single European country—involves the yearly exchange of over 1,000 persons. With some 600 Norwegian students pre- sently studying at 222 colleges and universi- ties in every part of the United States, Nor- way has more students than any other European land. Under the Oslo Summer Monday next. It is safe to say the like would not be allowed or toler- ated in any other Province in Canada. It is always the birth- plnces of noted people that are preserved and honored, not some place where they sojourned for a time, or where some fictitious character that their genius as ll writer created, had dwelt. When the Government boughtor tool: over the property at. Clifton Corner some few years ago every one was much pleased. thinking that the place would be cured for an it should be; but beyond some repairs to the house very lllllfi was done. It. was here that the memorial stone erected by the Historic Sites rind Monuments Board of Canada should have been placed, instead of in Cavendish facing the chib house of a golf COUTSC‘. I wonder what the i-cncticn of the people of Novn SCOIiu would be if the Government then- od- vertlsed for sale the old Hnlibur- ton home where Judge I-lallburton. who wrote under the pen name of Sam Slick, had lived and Where he was born in n log ciibin near- hy, We have no museum on the Island, as wr- should have, and priceless relics which might have been preserved tn such a PM"? are now gone beyond recall. We have only a few pincer: with a real sentimental or historic in- terest and these should be pre- served intact because they are llnlu with the past, The old Mont- gomery house at Clifton Corner moat certainly is one of them. I am Sir, etc., OBSERVER. New Inndon, Jan. 5, 1950. iii 4e évefifiuwz g A Old Charlottetown (And P. I'- U I [HE WESTMORLAND "The Government have engaged the steamer ‘Westmorland. the property of Christopher Bolton- house, Esq, of Sackvillc, N.B., to carry the mails, passengers, the. between this Island and the neighbouring Provinces for the next eight years. Built by the present owner, at Sackville, the ‘Wcstmorland is only one ycur old. and is a most substantial and “Yell-finished vessel. She has no protecting guards, andtis consc- qucnlly a much slendicr croft than a casual observer would im- agine. Her length, over all. is 160 feet, hei- main breadth 24 feet. and her registered tonnage 192 tons. Her engine and boiler were manu- factured in Saint John, N.B., 0X- pressly for this vessel. The for- mer. a beautiful specimen of_m.='- chanical skill and ingenuity. is_ol_ 150 horse-power. In ‘the 11143195 cabin. ivliich is well lifihlfll and ventilated and elcgantlv finished. there are 26 sinfllf! bfrlhfi l" ll“ gentleman's cabin, which l5 315° used as the dining saloon. there are 38 berths. There are also 10L" state-rooms containing three berths each. On the main deck there is abundant space for horses. cal- tlc, carriages and all description: of freight. while the hurricane deck. which extends from stem ‘to stern. affords n splendid promen- ado for passengers. The ‘Wesi- moi-land’ is furnished Will’! four large boats, one nf which is H zinc life-boat. life-buoys. and every other requisite to ensure the safety of passengers in case of accident. "One peculiarity deserves sne- cial notice: namely. the absence of’ a ‘bar-room’ for the sale of in- toxicating linuor. l-Iad the ‘Falrv Oueen’, whose name has been upon so mnny lips since the ‘West- morland‘ first made her appear- ance in our harbour. been con- ducted upnn strictly temperance principles. it in. to sav the least. probable — notwithstanding her rxmy other defects ---thn_t the melnncholv loss nf life, and the disgraceful occurrences connected therewith. would never have hap- pened. The services of Capt. Lund, late master of the packet ‘Orlnnder’. an experienced and trustworthy seamen. have been secured as pilot for the ‘West- morland.’ Of the attention an-l ventlemanly ‘bearing of Cant. E. ‘Ffvans. the master of the boat. and b‘: subordinate officers and crew. " is impossible in speak in other ‘rrrns than those of the highest commendation. ‘Tare: from Charlottetown to “Vctou. $200: from Cit-whitetail," SONG IN THE VALLEY GI‘ IIUMZILIATION He that is down, need; fall. He that. is low. no pride: He that in hrmble. ever shall Have God lo be his guide. I om content. with what. I have. Little it be, or much: And, Lord, crave. Because Thou Invest such. School program, now entering its fourth year, nearly 700 American college students have received six weeks of intensive in- struction in Norway since 1947. __.__ . _ _ l fl-‘uilneu to such a burden la That go on pilgrimage: Here lltllfi. and iierenltnr bliss, Is best from age to age. -John Btu-inn (4001.08)). fear no to Bedeoue, £1.50: Trnrq (‘hqvlqffo- town i0 Sherlinc. $1M: from ‘Bod-g- que to She-dine. $1.50. "On Frldav inst n nubile mont- lm! was held in Plcimi, nhortlv after the ‘Wesl-norland‘ nrrlvcrl there. and resolutions were im- r-nlmously passed. oledclnl tho town to fake the necessary steps for the erection of n more sult- ablc wharf for the convenience of "l! "Elmer. and urging the exer- conteniment ntlll 1 cine of every legitimate Influence with the Government of Nova Scotla to obtain _n handsome grant from that Province in lid of the sum agreed to bu given by the Government of this Island for her services.” . - —‘!'hc laminar, Au|ust i7, 1857. "F5 ALwAYS Gnamuies 80v, A phoiognph taken from n roc- ket. 80 miles above the earth show- ed this planet to be of a strange purplish hue. With all governments deep in the red what other color was to be expected? — Hamilton Spectator. A cominl“ now ls named by Mr. Truman to define "monopoly", drawing a clear line if possible be- tween the dangerously big busi- l'iBSS\8l'Id one that's only disgust- ingly healthy-Detroit News. Even Russia is preparing her territory within the Arctic Circle for a possible war. That should throw a further scare into those who believe a third world war is imminent-Edmonton Journal. The story of the sugar beet In Alberta parallels the story of ir- rigaiion. for controlling water supply is one of the major factors in successful sugar beet produc- tion there. The others are deep. rich soil, plenty of sunshine: ade- quate frost-free periods and ex- perienced beet growers. Southern Alberta has all these, with the result that. besides the 130000.000 pounds n’ sugar. it produces an- rmually <ome 60,000 lambs and 20.000 cattle fattened on beet puln and beialasscs. by-nroducts of the industrv. - Sl. Thomas Time-- Journal. Particularlv will l! be helnful for Americans to see that in their own efforts to export democracv lllBY must put a genuine interest in freedom ahead nf narrow na- tional interests. Russia's back- wardness and oppression ill equip it as an exporter of international communism. Let the Ilriitcd Slates ovoid the mistakes of trying to dominate or make other nations 800d from that, Whether the elect. mnerefillt Rives us a. Conservative or a Coclnllst or—unlikcly-a Libel-n] Chancellor, And. this being England, we fihflll undoubtedly have some Weather -—\vlth n capital W! The winter hns been kind so fnr bub We remember that it. was just as kind three years ago until mid- Jorwery. 8nd then it hit us with everything at once. It. may easily do the same. In any case. we'll all bet we'll have our usual bouts _ 0i I'll/Kink storms and bitter cold :2 in mid-summer. and sweltering heat l‘, N Utes Fun“ _ *3 before summer comes. drought. It's n near certainty that in a few weeks more we shall have g __ _> ______._ JANUARY 7, 1950 msvnv wlvuvv-aaav-vuvfir -- Notes By The Way ~ g over in its own image. Let Am- l erica prove by enlightenment and good example an effective Sales. man of democracy. - Christian Science Monitor. A prescription for flflynng “L fering from a state of non-con- fidencc in the future of Canada is to be found in a review of pm. grass made ,in the past ten years, If that remedy is not wholly an fective, we recommend to study of the past 50 years, a period “which includes iwn world wars and .1 period of acute depression. 'l‘li=, person who duly notes the amaz- ing development of this nation in the past half century, and car, still fccl that Canada has gun» about as far as she can go, ma" be considered an incu-tiblr ca,“ Fort William Times-Journal. Under the pulnlt of his church a minister at Zanesville, Oh... found $600. Sn far, it has been claimed bv five different innu- bers of the congregation. says he left it there liv mistm» How lVfai-k Tvrnin would have lm. ed this! The pastor has no throw»- as to where the money came from We miflit venture one. Perhaps in Zaries-vlfle there is snmclhndv possessing a cynical curiosity avzl S800 he could spare for research Mavbe this individual wanted ‘c. test the sincerity cf the TPCllliVli indicated but not necessarily prov- ed bv a man's presence in church If so. he got his mnnews wort‘: Anyway we think lllark won't have written it that way. M D»- troli Free Press l More care could be taken also iii checking railway equipnitii‘. and SllppllcS. For example, on:- car on a pool train for Ottawa pulled out of Toronto over the Christmas holiday without any water in its tanks. It: passengers could neither wash nor secure a drink of water without making their way to other coaches, n feat that was exceedingly difficult with people and lugrg-ige occupy- ing a good part of the passageway: between seats. This omission re- stillcd in tinsanitary conditions. an well as discomfort to the people in this car. To make mailers worse, no scft drinks could be purchased except by a long jaunt through several other cars, an obstacle-cluttered trip that fe" dared to essay. Thcsc are rovi- ditions the railways should giv- thoiight to correcting - Toronto Star. v A few weeks ago we were facing Another Island floods. That's just. one of those things that. we never seem to do much about. Come summer we shall once again be welcoming thousands of visitors from overseas, particularly from the United States. That will be a the h, h purl. of our ever-continuing drive “Innthsg lights of the past iiwelve 10;." 1on8“, angular’ 21mg which Nationiillr, we Rl\\‘li‘S hsv w e as muc a c“ "re M 1950 quota of rlotable evcnzs-the Sag.- ti," was o’ 1949' which‘ comedo canis and ceremonies. now being L “k or n‘ brings “s m the 9mm attended by come of the old colour hat’ ppneral Electlonmpnrt‘ 195° and pomp that was lack,“ duh doesrlitt hold out much prospect of i118 the war: the biz Sllorting events, new y‘ mzmy of which we somehow man- age to turn into something like a P1136111“: and ns a nation in recent years we have had n fiilr quota of crises, too. lndlvlduallyi, we all have our pct memories of happenings within our own circles. amongst our families, of our summer vacations, of our jobs, perhaps of piirts—however small-that we may have played in some of the national occasions. d‘, By "Anson" ‘LONDON, Ellglllnd; _ A5 the 1\ew Year bcginsits life and the Old Year dies, it ls always a. popu- lar thing to look bark and recall I O I No. no novelty. unless something quite unforeseenble turns up. For whatever colour of Government we elect. for ourselves most. thinking men and women expect, in the words of the doctor, "the mixture as before". Austerity under Social- ism or austerity under Conservatism —it ls still austerity, and the only difference of opinion is on the ability of the contending parties to get. us out. of it. In any case, most of us expect it will take n little time. Meanwhile we'll take 1950 as it. comes, and In due time we shall remember it. doubtless mostly for reasons which happen to affect: u: personally. There will be progress in individual ways; some people will get married, babies will be horn in- to the world of 1960, and there will be death. ton. There will be vacations, and work, and sleeping and waking, in England as in other . . o All that. looking back: but what of the future? What's to be look- ed forward try-what's in store for us in i960? Some things we know will happen because they always do; some will happen because we shall make them, because we have already planned that way. some things will happen unexpectedly, swiftly, with results perhaps grave, perhaps gay. 'I‘iiose things can't. be foretold-we have not. yet found a present day Nostrada- Sirong men who have never faltercd in the face of danger have felt their blond turn to water at the thought of a sea voyage That. is the iffcct that seasicknesv can exercise not merely on the body but also on the mind. Its lor- menls have gone unabated throuah the centuries for no matter what kind of rcmcdics have been tried. none has really worked for every- body. It is certain. there-fore. that no medical discovery of the age will be hailed with more universal joy than the drug which is credit- ed with destroying forever the fear nf mal dc mcr. And if‘ it is as effective as Captain Cowley of the tug Foundation Josephine has testified in a statement to n re- porter there will not be enough passenger accommodation on the worlds liners to take cnre of a!‘ the former victims of seasickness wanting to take a voyage with the assurance that they can take their meals and walk the dock with all the gysurnnce i’ an old and sea- soned salt. - St. John's News. gm Age-Chi Story cumctcocoanmecnaoaaozoooaamooaomcrc lands. Al: the end of it all, we shall all he a year wiser we'll have that. much to show for 1950. v mus. But: let's have n quick look at. some o the things we know we can expec ; it will make a change from looking brick. One thing stands out a mile-Aha General Election, That's some- thing we know will happen. whnt. we don't. know is the likely re- sults, Mid anybody who can at this early date forecast the right answer wlll have used as much luck as political acumen, lf not more. We shall nil be working hard- there'll be no change there, and when worktlme is over sport will. of course, play its accustomed and very important. part in our lives. whether we play or merely watch. The football season will rise tn its climax between now or April or May. 'I‘here'll be the League Championships and the Cup Final. and then it. will he all over until time new season begins around QUEEN ed for ever them that are sancti- fled, CLEARING ALL STOCK SUITS — TOPCOATS — OVERCOATS AT COST No Alterations — No Refunds - No Lay-Aways J. P. MIQPHERSQN STREET August. O l I In between therell be cricket. and a team from the West Indies will visit us. Then, about October. some sixteen or seventeen or w o! our cricket stars will sail sway to Australia, u. try to avence the crushing defeats we sustained at the hands of the Aussies in 1N8. And when they iii-rive down under. half-or more-of Efllllfld Will B" around the radios in the, early mornings in hear the commentaries on the games. 'I‘here‘ll be a bonnet. or maybe two. from the Chlncellor of the Exchequer. Few would expect much l For Foot Aliment Cmult m chock our henlngo. The roul m independence l: life lnlurlnce. Why Miro an un HYNIIMAN 8r Provlnclll l-IECK YUIIR BEARINGS We travel fan. on the Journey of life, striving (wrench l! haven of independence, before the ovenlnll 0| 0|‘! IE0 "it'll"! us. The New You comes, another milestone, and bidu us puule You can obtain n Great-Well. Life, Pension m- Endowment by Inventing your uvlnn- for largo or email nmountn. It [IP0- toctp your family too. Let u: pend you particulars. plainly mlrkcd-tho hlghwl! l" known road? G0. LIMITED Managua Li." ' u - II.J.A. lllCWll. o. r. Orthopedic Zlropodlot ill Glut (loom linen CIIAIILOTTITOWN, P.l.l. ALLISON P. McLliAN-Diltrlci Menager- at Suuuncrlld- OYIUB A. B. SIIAW-Dlltrict Mlnlgnr at M n!!!“ THOMAS MoAVINN-Bpoclnl Representative I. L. MnoNUTT-Bcprcoonhtivo It Remington I. T. MYIBB-Roprolcnhtive u Iilmodalo IAILI d. JELLY-Immanuel" n 01m" l. IRAN! flllIb-Iepreoontnun at lourle. Anni: Throughout The Province d?" - M '-