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     THE GUARDIAN‘ 
     
    
   
   
    
     Narnia] Dilly (Founder! In 1M1) 
     
     lltlhorllld ll lice-old (‘lien 31:11., eon OHIO! 
     
     Department, Ottawa. 
     
    

    
     The loluuel Uuersliun Publishing Co. 
     
     Editor Illll Managing Director. J II. Barbells 
     
     Aum-llle Edition Frank Wulbol. 
     
    
   
   
    
     "The Strongest Memory is Weaker Than 
     
     the Weakest ink." 
     
    
   
   
    
     CHARLOTTETO\VN, THURSDAY. MARCH 31, 1949 
     
    
   
   
    
     Welcome’, llewfoundland! 
     
    
   
   
    
     Not least on the important items of busi- 
     
     ness before our Legislature last week was the 
     
     adoption of a resolution formally recognizing 
     
     "the welcome entry of Newfoundland into the 
     
     Canadian Confederation as the tenth Province 
     
     of Canada," and extending to ‘the people of 
     
     Newfoundland "as fellow Canadians, our warm- 
     
     est greetings and the hope that their association 
     
     with us will forge mutual bonds of contin-ued 
     
     co-operation and good will." The resolution, 
     
     moved by the Premier and seconded by the lead- 
     
     er of the Opposition, was carried unanimously, 
     
     both the mover and seconder making short ad- 
     
     dresses underlining the importance of this event 
     
     to all our ci izens. 
     
    

    
     Years before our own entry into Confedera- 
     
     tion, Prince Edward island and Newfoundland 
     
     were closely linked by water communication, and 
     
     it is worth recalling that the historic Confedera- 
     
     tion Conference of i864 in Charlottetown was 
     
     called origina-lly for the purpose of discussing 
     
     a political union between the Ancient Colony, 
     
     Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and ourselves. What 
     
     might have happened as a result of that union 
     
     it is difficult to say, but there is no question but 
     
     that geographically and otherwise we were in- 
     
     intended to form one large trading unit. All 
     
     our interests are in common, and this fact will 
     
     become more and more apparent now that the 
     
     last artificial barriers are swept away. 
     
    

    
     The Guardian takes pleasure in participat- 
     
     ing" in the celebration which has been arranged 
     
     locally in connection with Newfoundland's as- 
     
     surrrption of its new Provincial status. in the 
     
     years to come, may we work harmoniously to- 
     
     gether in furthering, not only our mutual inter- 
     
     ests, but the greater interests of the Dominion 
     
     as a whole, which now fulfills the dream of Sir 
     
     John A. Macdonald by embracing all the citi- 
     
     zens of British North America. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     ls llocker Dangerous? 
     
    
   
   
    
     Comment in the Public Forum of Tuesday 
     
     by Col. Clarence S. Campbell, M.B.E., President 
     
     of the National Hockey League an The Guardian 
     
     editorial of March 4th. must have} been appre- 
     
     ciated by not a few. However, his assumption 
     
     that "the,curren~t clamour is the product of ill- 
     
     informed and incompetent writers and broad- 
     
     casters, who, not knowing the really fine points 
     
     of the game, have seized upon its more gory as- 
     
     pects and have left the unfounded impression 
     
     that the game is deteriorating, for which there 
     
     are no real facts to support it" seems hardly 
     
     creditable. ' 
     
    

    
     According to a CP despatch dated March 
     
     28th., Elmer Lach, star of Montreal Canadians 
     
     hints that he has played his last game'_of hoc- 
     
     key--the reason, a fractured skull, brain con- 
     
     cusfion and breaking his jaw twicemay be all 
     
     the punishment he can absorb. _ _ 
     
    

    
     The final paragraph of an editorial on this 
     
     subject appearing in the Ottawa Journal of 
     
     March 23rd. grimly sums up: "Hockey will kill 
     
     itself, as Lacrosse did,_ if the present trend is 
     
     not headed off, and that would be a great pity." 
     
    

    
     Vince Lunny, Montreal Standard staffwriter 
     
     in the publication of Marc-h 12th. interviewed a 
     
     number of Hockey "Greats" of years gone by, 
     
     and most of them agree that something is wrong 
     
     with the game as it is played today. Aurel ioliat, 
     
     the mighty mite of the old Flying Frenchmen, 
     
     stated that hockey has deteriorated sadly from 
     
     its high standard of 20 years ago.  l40-pounder 
     
     would be killed today,_he believes, smashed‘ to 
     
     a pulp in illegal checking anducharlging against 
     
     the boards. Joliat tells Lunny, Don t let hockey 
     
     promoters tell you there's a future in the game 
     
     now. They control too many teams and players, 
     
     if they are not injured, are pushed around from 
     
     club to club. Spe'ctators fill the rinks in the hope 
     
     of seeing a good game, but they go away dis- 
     
     qppaintcd nine' times out of ten, Still the N.H.L. 
     
     governors won't admit that play is poor — it 
     
     would be bad business for them—-but it is poor 
     
     because there is no playmoking. The game today 
     
     is simply a case of shooting into the corners and 
     
     starting scrambles. Frankly l don't like it." 
     
     Lionel Conacher, according to Lunny, believes 
     
     that 90 per cent of the current hockey injuries 
     
     are caused by players being slammed into the 
     
     boards by rivals from behind. Conacher claims 
     
     if they keep on like that they'll have no hockey 
     
     players left. Nels Stewart, greatest all-time 
     
     scorer in the history gf the N.H.L., believes that 
     
     there are too many yam-s in the corners of tne 
     
     rinks today and riot enough hockey. Stewart says 
     
     the game is foster today but a return to "more 
     
     scientific rushing would improve it." Art-Chap- 
     
     man, now general manager of the Buffalo Bisons 
     
     in PiIO.AIl1QYiCCII‘LEDQIIG, says the game as it 
     
     ls- played today is a menace to life and limb. 
     
     lle is determined not lo let his two sons play, 
     
    
   
   
    
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     lt is doubtful whether old-timers (especially 
     
     time who have had a taste of the new gumei 
     
     will take very ltindlyto the President's‘ view that 
     
     "stickhandling of the type that was so popular 
     
     and malent under the old on-side rules was e 
     
     simpe matter at the speed in which they travel- 
     
     ti, but the skiff required today ls of a much 
     
     higher‘ order because of the angles from which 
     
     passes‘ must be given and received." 
     
    

    
     With all due respect for the views of the 
     
     Colonel, on M.l.i.. Chief of the National Hoc- 
     
     key League, a brilliant lawyer, Rhodes Scholar. 
     
    

    
     "distiifqiiicliod soldier, a referee of more than ‘l2 
     
     years’ experience in both amateur and profes- 
     
     nicest hock , on lslonder (lath r liorn at 
     
     ClllfiqilllifililNlIIP-lt-il Question e wheth- 
     
    

    
     l v m5m\'q3fir is played today ate 
     
    

    
     ‘Intifmiem throughout 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
        
     
       
     
    
   
   
    
        
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     1 columns ‘rum cs f. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The end of the stormy month-now for 
     
     April showers to make Spring flowers. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The Ancient Colony welcomed today into 
     
     the eighty-odd year of Confederation. 
     
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     By voting with the Liberals in support of 
     
     the Speaker's ruling in the House of Commons, 
     
     Mr. McLure showed an intelligent anticipation 
     
     of things to come. 
     
    

    
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     Finance Minister Abbott's phrase, "there 
     
     isn't the chance of the proverbial snowbai," 
     
     might i/IGVG made more of an impression had 
     
     not President Truman got in well ahead with a 
     
    
   
   
    
     stronger one. 
     
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     The Ottawa Journal notes one important 
     
     omission in the general tax reductions of last 
     
     week. Furs are still regarded by the Government 
     
     as luxuries even in this climate and taxed oc- 
     
     cordingly. 
     
    
   
   
    
     nut 
     
    
   
   
    
     lt is not elevating td find debate in Parlia- 
     
     ment descending to the "arid you're another" 
     
     level as where Victor‘ Quelch (S.C., Acadia) 
     
     nominated Agriculture Minister Gaidiner as the 
     
     "crackpot of the year for i948" for criticising 
     
     certain economists a: cvrocitpots. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Newfoundland's time, three and a half hours 
     
     behind Greenwich, has caused some confusion 
     
     here and appears to some to be unnecessarily 
     
     complicated. The reason for its adoption, of 
     
     course, is the location of St. John's almost half- 
     
     way between longitudes 45rond 60 West. 
     
    

    
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     Newspapermen appear horrified at the 
     
     strong language used by President Truman. They 
     
     should read the reports of this Province's early 
     
     debates and realize how lurid were the expres- 
     
     sions used and recognized as parliamentary by 
     
     the pioneer politicians and statesmen of those 
     
     by-gone days. They weren't by any means what 
     
     could be described as "awfully so refined." 
     
    
   
   
    
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     At the end of January the Federal Govern- 
     
     ment was employing 154,999 persons, Stole 
     
     Secretary Gibson said in a Commons return. 
     
     Of that number, he said, 122,771 were "civil 
     
     servants proper." The -others were casual em- 
     
     ployees paid by the hour, revenue postmasters 
     
     and people ~working for Crown companies. The 
     
     total also did not include some 42,000 regular 
     
    
   
   
    
     servicemen on the government payroll. 
     
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     Canadian authors'andr others should take 
     
     heart from the opinion ofMrJohn Forrar, Ameri- 
     
     crin publisher, who is reported by the Canadian 
     
     Press as saying that he believes Canadian au- 
     
     thors now are showing, "the same vitality, power, 
     
     imagination and drive that American writers 
     
     showed after the First World War." Prophets 
     
     are riot without honour when they pay atten- 
     
     tion to the export market.’ 
     
    
   
   
    
     His Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester, 
     
     born this date i900, General Air Chief Marshal 
     
     alter a period of» Governor General of the Com- 
     
     monwealth of Australia. His Duchess is a daugh- 
     
     ter of the 7th. Duke of Buccleuch and a brother 
     
     of the present Duke. They have two sons, H.R.H. 
     
     Prince William Henry Andrew Frederick, eight 
     
     years old, and H.R.H. Prince Richard Alexander 
     
     Walter George, five years old. 
     
    
   
   
    
     A Perthshire castle, built at fabulous cost 
     
     some l23 years ago, but never occupied or even 
     
     completed, will provide 200,000 tons of stone 
     
     for the construction of one of the dams in Scot- 
     
     land's big Tummel-Garry hydro-electric power 
     
     scheme. Murthly Castle has been a white ele- 
     
     phant since its owner died while trying to 
     
     humble the pride obneig-hbouring lairds with a 
     
     building which would outshine their homes with 
     
     its Tudor facade and seven pagoda turrets. With 
     
     his death, work stopped and the castle — com- 
     
     plate with banqueting hall, ballroom, and grand 
     
     staircase — was never floored or fitted with 
     
     windows. The castle which had stood so long was 
     
     brought down in a week. Explosives had to be 
     
     used to reduce its massive walls in which 6,000 
     
     shot-holes were drilled} 
     
    
   
   
    
     Postmaster General the Hon. Ernest Ber- 
     
     trand, K.C., M.P., in welcoming Newfoundland 
     
     into the Canadian postal family, remarked that 
     
     Canada's tenth Province would, from April l, 
     
     enioy the same postal rates and privileges as the 
     
     rest of the country. Newfoundland's Telegraphs, 
     
     which were formerly operated by the Departments 
     
     of Posts and Telegraplis will, under Confedera- 
     
     tion, be operated by the Canadian National Tele- 
     
     graphs. The Canada Post Office is co-operating 
     
     jn having Postmasters at certain Newfoundland 
     
     points continue to undertake telegraph duties. 
     
     For some months past, various officers of the 
     
     Newfoundland Administration have been in Ot- 
     
     tawa‘ helping to decide miitters of policy and 
     
     familiarizing themselves with details of Canad- 
     
     ian Postal Administration. Mr. M. D. O'Brien, 
     
     District Post Office Inspector, Halifax,_is in 
     
     Newfoundland for the purpose 0f 055M400 0f- 
     
     ficals there in effecting the change-over to Co- 
     
     nadian administration. 
     
    
   
   
    
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     Liquor is certainly a reinunerative business 
     
     in New Brunswick.‘The financial statement of 
     
     the Liquor Board shows a net profit of $5.606.- 
     
     29l.00 payable to the Provincial Secretary- 
     
     Treosurer on gross sales of $6,661,291.42 and 
     
     additional income amounting to $37,840.38 or a 
     
     total revenue of $l6,699,i3l.80. The, ratio of 
     
     not profit to total revenue is 39.56 per cent. The 
     
     total operating costs for the year were $336,- 
     
     023.77 of 5 per cent of the total rcvenue. Oper- 
     
     ating costs comprise all expenditures mode 
     
     by the Board including those for the purchase 
     
     and irtprovement of its properties. in addition 
     
     to the net profit of $6,606,291.00 payable to the 
     
     Provincial Secretary-Treasurer, approiiiinotel 
     
     $4,303,522.57 was paid to the Department _of 
     
     Notional Revenue _of Canada for customs and 
     
     excise duties and sales ‘tax on purchases by the 
     
    
   
   
    
     Provincial and Dominion Governments for tire 
     
     provision of pubiicservioes iendereifby them 
     
    
   
   
    
     is therefore $i0,9i2,8l3.57 or 65.5 per cent of 
     
     the totoluoies for theyeor. . Z 
     
    
   
   
    
     ouauc roizurr 
     
    
   
   
    
     ‘llhleoolumeleopoatotbe 
     
    
   
   
    
     dleoulllon by Respondents 
     
     of questions or femur. The 
     
     Guardian tloeo not ueoeQr, 
     
     ll! on‘ the opinion of 
     
     correspondent. 
     
    
   
   
    
     CHALLENGE T0 A DUEL / 
     
     Sin-A letter appeared 1n the 
     
     Public Forum today which was at 
     
     once amusing and disturbing. The 
     
     author, one “Reader”, made refer. 
     
     ence to my recent "unwurageous 
     
     attempt at a. political letter. It was 
     
     amusing 1n that, although my let- 
     
     ter may not have been a clever 
     
     thing I think it takes more re- 
     
     buttal than an accusation of cow- 
     
     urdlce levelled at the writer, es- 
     
     pecially when the charge is made 
     
     by someone a bit lacking 1n cour- 
     
     ag himself. If, was also disturb- 
     
     IHB. because on reflecting if see 
     
     l1"! Possibly my letter was-un- 
     
     courageous. ft. seems now that the 
     
     wlser course would have been for 
     
     me to include 1n the letter a pis- 
     
     tol and a. challenge to duel, both 
     
     of these for anyone who dared 
     
     take issue with whet I sold. I re- 
     
     member that I dld thump my 
     
     desk once when I finished a sen- 
     
     tence, but I don't, reckon anyone. 
     
     especially "Reader" knew that I 
     
     dld. I do think it shows some 
     
     spirit, even if only very little. Now, 
     
     in e. rather belated effort to re- 
     
     deem my claim to poiltlcai hero- 
     
     fsm. I hereby challenge to a duel 
     
     to the political death anyone who 
     
     Bl any future time takes issue with 
     
     my stand on any political ques- 
     
     UOII. be it a proposal to'dlssa1ve 
     
     Confederation or to lay off a. deck 
     
     hand on the our ferry. I oilszesi 
     
     that the weapons be copies of the 
     
     Progressive Conservative platform, 
     
     and that the duel be waged on 
     
     the floor of the Senate before only 
     
     lflyfll party-men, men whose nar- 
     
     row-mtndedness has been proven 
     
     by their unswervlng loyalty to the 
     
     party of their fathers, despite its 
     
     sliagnancy and discrepancy. Does 
     
     "Readet” went to take rne up on 
     
     that? It should be e good scrup- 
     
     the puslllurilmoua ‘fReuder" and 
     
     if"? llllciillrflkoue Green snarling 
     
     and spitting at one another, each 
     
     backing, unherolcaily, toward; 111g 
     
     nearest, exit. 
     
     I w. Sh‘. etc. for more end 
     
     cheaper newsprint. 
     
     JOHN ELDON GREEN, 
     
     March 26, 1049. 
     
    
   
   
    
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     BACKING THE PACT 
     
    
   
   
    
     Slf,—The North Atlantic Poet 
     
     has at last become e, reality and 
     
     with ft new hope spring; in me 
     
     hearts of free men everywhere. 
     
     HQWWGX‘. let 11s not suffer from 
     
     the illusion that the mere signing 
     
     of this epochs! document will en- 
     
     sure for us a. perfod of everlasting 
     
     Peace. The signing at the Pact 
     
     can be considered as u oleai-‘m. 
     
     dlceiion that we are saying to the 
     
     Rvsslenr- “you have eons so m, 
     
     you shall go no further." 
     
    

    
     It lakes I10 great imagination to 
     
     perceive what the reaction of Rus- 
     
     sia will be to this. We can prepare 
     
     ourselves for B, storm of abuse and 
     
     threats such as we have not ex- 
     
     perlenced since 1939. The Russians 
     
     “'91 11° everything in their power 
     
     to undermine the good intent 
     
     “nderwm! this show of strength, 
     
     and will attempt to portray 1t u 
     
     an instrument for evil. 
     
    

    
     Already the members of the L. 
     
     P. P. are screaming lnvectlveg in 
     
     posters and paid newspaper 5d. 
     
     vertlsements. Whether they are 
     
     f°°l5 *0 d0 B0. or whether We are 
     
     fodls to let them 1s a. debatgble 
     
     paint. The fact remains that should 
     
     they even breathe euch thought; 
     
     against government policy in i; 
     
     Communist dominated country 
     
     they would be liquidated quickly. 
     
     Freedom’ of speech 1e a privilege 
     
     we appreciate, but. one wundern so 
     
     whet extent ft should be permit- 
     
     ied when‘ its abuse attempts to 
     
     tear down and destroy the very 
     
     structure of our way of Life, 
     
    

    
     The Communists roar that the 
     
     signing of the Pact Ls 8. military 
     
     alliance intended to destroy peace 
     
     and create war. We, in our pence. 
     
     ful non-police slate, know how un. 
     
     true this ls. It seems to us that 
     
     the Communist renting presup. 
     
     Doses that we are as insincere ln 
     
     our declarations as they have 
     
     proven to be in so mimy of their 
     
     agreements and statements. So we 
     
     have supported our leaders in 
     
     their efforts to make certain peace 
     
     is preserved. History h" shown u; 
     
     m" ‘hi! c"! only be achieved by 
     
     unfiy. , 
     
    

    
     Now that our Government has 
     
     committed us to this line of not. 
     
     ion. success will depend entirely 
     
     upon the deeds of management, 
     
     labour and of every citizen. If 
     
     mflllhflfimw" _becomee apathetic 
     
     and falls to prepare itself far the 
     
     DNllble emergency, and it labour 
     
     falls in production, then we will 
     
     be 111 equipped to back up the bold 
     
     efforts of the Pact“. This ls some- 
     
     thing that Russia will be watch. 
     
     lnakeeniy. The minute she rm 
     
     reason to believe that the Pact lo 
     
     but I- n"? of paper with nothing 
     
     1.0 DICK it lip, Ill the gram] w“); 
     
     will have availed us nothing and 
     
     we will then have but ourselves to 
     
     blame for the inevitable canoe. 
     
    
   
   
    
     011011086. ' 
     
     . We are, Bu‘, eta. 
     
     Tan CANADIAN 
     
     mnusmmf. PRIPAREDNEGB 
     
     , Association." 
     
     Montreal. , r ,‘ 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     The ropmcrir, rum or 
     
     AGRICULTURE 
     
    
   
   
    
     Y . 
     
     rlmens introduced o motorist thr- 
     
    
   
   
    
     Board. The total ampunt "n... rotiirhed-fo lllli 
     
    
   
   
    
     I!!! 
     
    
   
   
    
     Bin-As e Federal election ep- 
     
     peers to be imminent. the time 
     
     hoe come when all formers and 
     
     iruiilnees men whose incomes are 
     
     dependent. lonely on those at the 
     
    
   
   
    
     lief-mere. should carefully consider 
     
    
   
   
    
     he olenleo at not: party olef- 
     
     iorm m their relation’ to Ilfloul- 
     
     ure.  , 3 
     
    

    
     In 1006 the lennett Govern- 
     
    
   
   
    
     ketdnlltf». are moral opiaii 
     
     ilolf opposed _e -' , i 
     
     nrnlfitl of dlete  (ox- 
     
     pennlve bmuuspteorwhlob would 
     
     spell the ruin offllnode. ‘After 
     
     the election when the liberal: 
     
     returned to pawl. . the new 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     IQ (mu ié-iigi tibia‘; 
     
    
   
   
    
     or‘ Trim Lillihil, lfpl/xNli 
     
    
   
   
    
         
     
        
     
         
     
         
     
         
     
        
     
        
     
       
     
        
     
          
     
         
     
         
     
         
     
         
     
        
     
        
     
         
     
        
     
        
     
         
     
       
     
        
     
       
     
        
     
       
     
         
     
        
     
         
     
       
     
         
     
        
     
         
     
         
     
          
     
        
     
       
     
        
     
         
     
    
   
   
    
     INTO CONFEDERATION . 
     
    
   
   
    
        
     
         
     
          
     
       
     
    
   
   
    
     if iiiosicoiiiiiiwiiciiii/ 
     
    
   
   
    
          
     
        
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     Old Charlottetown 
     
     (And r. it. s.) 
     
    
   
   
    
     THE CROSS KEYS 
     
    
   
   
    
     Most noteworthy of Charlotte- 
     
     town public houses in the old days 
     
     wise the Cross Keys, ‘kept by Alex- 
     
     ander Rlchardson who was clerk of 
     
     the first Legislative Assembly of 
     
     the Province, which convened ii'l 
     
     July, 1773, just one hundred years 
     
     before the Island entered Confed- 
     
     erationl The tavern stood on the 
     
     corner of Queen and Dorchester 
     
     Streets and it was here, for lack of 
     
     better accommodation, that the ear- 
     
     ly sessions of the House were field. 
     
     It is related that at the first meet- 
     
     lng the town constable, who per- 
     
     formed the double functions of ser- 
     
     geant-at-erms and doorkeeper, took 
     
     occasion to remark ln audible tones 
     
     that "this was a d-—d queernPar- 
     
     llement!” ‘Hie comment: cost him 
     
     a fine of five shillings, or one 
     
     day's pay. The House sat but two 
     
     days on this occasion, the mem- 
     
     bers receiving no indemnity, after 
     
     the British fashion; and the entire 
     
     cost of the session was £11. 
     
    

    
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     It was at the Cross Keys, also. 
     
     that the early sessions of the Ma- 
     
     sonic Lodge were held. The war- 
     
     rant of constitution, issued at Hall- 
     
     fax on Oct. 9, 1797, empowered the 
     
     petitioners to open a Lodge “at the 
     
     house of Alexander Richardson or 
     
     elsewhere in Charlottetown." Rich- 
     
     ardson was one of the charter 
     
     members, along with Lieutenant 
     
     Governor Fanning. Ebenezer Nich- 
     
     olson, William Hlllman, Robert 
     
     Lee, James Colledge, Peter Mac- 
     
     gowan, Alexander Gordon, Alex- 
     
     ander Smlth, John Webster 
     
     and James Curtis. The Lodge 
     
     continued to meet at the Cross 
     
     Keys until 1811, when accommoda- 
     
     tlon was provided by Alexander 
     
     Robinson ln iils quarters on Queen 
     
     Street known as the “Long Room." 
     
    

    
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     The following amusing story ls 
     
    
   
   
    
     Government. sent the National 
     
     Marketing Act. to the Supreme 
     
     Court which declared 1t uncon- 
     
     siltutlonai. Now in face ‘od a 
     
     general election the Liberal Gov- 
     
     ernment, has switched ltd stand 
     
     while theConservatlves, also true 
     
     to form now declare any Govern- 
     
     ment, measures along these llncs 
     
     to be unconstitutional. 
     
    

    
     Why all t-hls inconsistency on 
     
     the pert. of the two old parties? 
     
     Could ft be that Big Business 1s 
     
     coming to the rescue of the Tory 
     
     machine? Fortunately. we have 
     
     an alternative-the 0.0.11‘. Since 
     
     its _blrt.!1 that party alone has 
     
     been consistent ln its demands 
     
     for a National Marketing Act ln 
     
     Canada. If we had such legisla- 
     
     tion since the war which would 
     
     guarantee stabilized prices for 
     
     farm commodities we would not 
     
     have such silly fluctuations today 
     
     which has resulted ln a decrees- 
     
     lng output of farm products. -It. 
     
     ls small wonder that. other coun- 
     
     tries hesitate lo ‘enter with us into 
     
     long lei-m contrflrts to any. ap- 
     
     preciable decree. I cite for ex- 
     
     ample the bacon end egg con- 
     
     tracts with Greet Britain. 
     
    

    
     Finally whet. about the co- 
     
     operative movement ln relation to 
     
     politics? Both old parties have 
     
     mode lt abundantly clear es to 
     
     whose side they stead on. What. 
     
     about the 3% income tux on ea.- 
     
     tronlee dividends? ‘This tax has 
     
     been celled by the (re-operatives 
     
     "the penalty tax". Why ls it cul- 
     
     led income tax when ft ls based 
     
     on money that ls not lncoin t 
     
    

    
     The C. C. fr. ngaln comes to the 
     
     rescue of Co-operntlves one pro- 
     
     mises t-het. on their election to 
     
     power, this unjust penalty will at. 
     
     once be repealed. ‘ Wtieff the e - 
     
     operatives were first liexed tn 
     
     3%, iimivment for the YFHNPWV 
     
     was for not 3% biit, 10%. but 
     
     thanks to the find work end sound 
     
     erpuments- of our O. C. 1i‘. Fed- 
     
     eral members they succeeded ln 
     
     lowering it to 4%. 
     
    

    
     fsn'l: it clear who are the 
     
     champions of the farmers? We 
     
     have ouch e ohsmolon of our 
     
     i-‘gbts already nonflneted ln Prince 
     
     fifillhfv..-finfl "eat-eon. the only 
     
     former candidate ln this titre’. 
     
     constituency. Dan film en eetlvc 
     
     rim in the ctr-operative end cre- 
     
     dit union mow-rumor one is thor- 
     
     cnirhlv orouvnten win the crea- 
     
     n needs of eorlciilrure end its 
     
    

    
     ts on the mt of our ooouls 
     
     ‘ii-n ‘Hie issues. ere clearly. de- 
     
     fined. Let us consider them carr- 
     
    
   
   
    
     f m. nir. etc‘. 
     
     _' n. poi-co: vcimuw. 
     
     Kenelfieton. P. I. I. - \ . 
     
    
   
   
    
     a 
     
    
   
   
    
     related 1n an article appearing 
     
     anonymously ln the local newspa- 
     
     pers some years ego, the period 
     
     referred to being the early 1840's; 
     
    

    
     “A popular resort in the old days 
     
     was the Cross Keys tavern. It was 
     
     a long low structure with dormer 
     
     windows on the roof, and ln the 
     
     rear the roof sloped down for some 
     
     distance back of the rnaln building. 
     
     One day,ln winter Paul Mabey, a 
     
     pr mlnent and rather eccentric 
     
     cl en, drove into the yard of the 
     
     Cross Keys. It happened to be just 
     
     after one of the old fashioned snow 
     
     storms, and the snow 'had drffted 
     
     hai-dln against. the house with a 
     
     considerable quantity on the roof. 
     
     Not seeing any good place in the 
     
     yard to leave his horse, Paul drove 
     
     up the roof to the top where he fled 
     
     his horse to the chimney. Making 
     
     his own way down he entered the 
     
     house, where he met some con- 
     
     genial friends. The time passed so 
     
     pleasantly that they took no ac- 
     
     count of 1t, and 1n the meantime e 
     
     rapid thaw set. ln. When Paul curne 
     
     out to get hlii horse, he eaw/ the 
     
    
   
   
    
     chimney. The writer heard Paul 
     
     himself tell the story, and 1t was 
     
     only one of many he delighted in 
     
     telling." , 
     
     m 
     
    
   
   
    
     The First ‘Aluminum 
     
     Bridge 
     
    
   
   
    
     (St. Thomas Times Journal) 
     
    

    
     British engineers have done 
     
    

    
     many famous jobs of bridge-build- 
     
     ing. not the least being the ingen- 
     
     ious Bailey bridge, which lii now 
     
     proving as useful in peacetime u: 
     
     it did in war, 
     
     Now F. J. Walker, a British en- 
     
     gineer. ls' the first with an alum- 
     
     inum brldge. Mr. Walker. who ion; 
     
     noted the fact. that 70 per cent of 
     
     the material used in a steel bridge 
     
     was merely carrying its own 
     
     weight, leaving only 30 per cent for 
     
     a useful load. began the study of 
     
     aluminum alloys before the war. He 
     
     found substantial success with 
     
     aluminum alloys in implements of 
     
     war, but lt W!!! not until peace 
     
     come that he could concentrate on 
     
     the prospects of en alloy that 
     
     would be strong enough to bear 
     
     traffic weight across long spans. 
     
     Aluminum companies co-operated, 
     
     and the result was that recently 
     
     the first aluminum bridge ln the 
     
     world was pened across the river 
     
     Wear at underland. It hue a 
     
     strength of 25 to 26 tons per square 
     
     lnch, compared wlttr28 to 32 for 
     
     steel. The bridge hen an opening 
     
     90 feet wide, and will carry roll as 
     
     well as road traffic. 
     
    

    
     The successful completion of the 
     
     Went bridge, which ill! two large 
     
     leaves, shows that bridges of any 
     
     type can be constructed of alum- 
     
     inum. By using this new alloy the 
     
     self-welghior dead load, of a bridge 
     
     can be reduced by about two-thirds. 
     
     By having only one-third of the 
     
     weight ta erect. there ls a caving ln 
     
     the cost of transport to lite, in 
     
     linndllniz and erecting, and also ln 
     
     foundation costs, due to reduced 
     
     loading, to say nothing of the con- 
     
     venlence and easier handling on 
     
     the part of workers. - 
     
    

    
     This discovery may have fer- 
     
     renchlmz results. An alum niim 
     
     bridge ls' not only cheaper and 
     
     lighter but the alloy can be used 
     
     for almost any purpose for which 
     
     nice] is usQd. That will not be 
     
     pleoslni: news to steelmaker: but 
     
     it. should be very gratifying to the 
     
     producer's of aluminum. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Brown-Sugar Pudding . 
     
    
   
   
    
     (Ottawa Joni-nah 
     
    

    
     A men may at least continue his 
     
     crusade ‘for honest. satisfying potl- 
     
     dlugis. The culinary system needs 
     
     an overhaul whet with no many 
     
     doodeddilsh dishes anemone mm 
     
     forced to out salads to set e good 
     
     example for thg ciiiuueu Biidilliui: 
     
     were invented e long. 1e time 
     
     ego when mankind no young and 
     
     not we clvflloed with bombs e 
     
     unexpected fortunes over the nrln- 
     
     less. 
     
    

    
     Puddles! are different‘. A me 
     
     naturally wants his full shore 
     
     pies, cakes ‘and cookies but I 
     
     moist. rnveei. gooey pudding tilts 
     
     rfie loot with pleasant results. In 
     
     ell the llet of puddlfmi theta is 
     
     not-hing that quite equals Grand- 
     
     mother's old-fashioned. brown-ni- 
     
     ‘ZIP concoction. Oookr don't ‘moire 
     
     such thing's very often now. Taboo 
     
     ioo fnuoh time when o women m 
     
     afternoon ' ended-rot 
     
     on committees to ernellmese the 
     
     condition of the magma in 
     
     frlmbucfoo. ‘ _ 
     
     However. o cook will auto no 
     
    
   
   
    
     puddles for emroh copper. The 
     
    
   
   
    
     1-2 cupful ot wblte run: and m 
     
    
   
   
    
     ' \ 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     better ls put" on the luuoe. Beui w 
     
    
   
   
    
     When nun lnvolliod money. he 
     
     thought he had solved most pro- 
     
     blems of economics.‘ then somebody 
     
     come along and threw a monkey 
     
     wrench into the machinery by ln- 
     
     ventlng credit. —- Iiltchene Water- 
     
     loo Record. _ 
     
    
   
   
    
     In 1047. not a slnele death from 
     
     diphtheria we: reported among res- 
     
     ldents ln doArnerleen cities at 100,- 
     
    

    
     or merepopule‘ : and in 15 
     
     of these cltlel, there were no deaths 
     
     among relldente for five years or 
     
     more. In New York City, llie 
     
     number of eases reported for nli 
     
     of 1948.we| less tlien the wc-eliiy 
     
     everugrtwo decade; B80. With ln- 
     
     u .. acceptance of immuniza- 
     
     tion against whooping cough, the 
     
     number of children protected has 
     
     grown rapidly, and as in the case 
     
     of diphtheria, the emphasis on pro- 
     
     tection in infancy has borne fruit. 
     
     Only a decode ego tho death rate 
     
     from whooping cough among ln- 
     
     fanfe ln tho general population was 
     
     as hlgli as 150 per 100,000; by 
     
     1947, the latest year for which fl:- 
     
     uree are available, the rate had 
     
     dropped to 34 per 100,000. — Metro- 
     
     politan Life Bulletin. 
     
    
   
   
    
     A oolontlfla project, designed to 
     
     flnd out why ruffed grouse or pert- 
     
     rldge decline in numbers and then. 
     
     increase ovet a 10 or 11-year cycle. 
     
     ls underway in the "wilderness 
     
     area" in Algonquin Park set aside 
     
     for such studies. The wilderness 
     
     area "offers exceptional opportun- 
     
     ities for field studlee in many 
     
     branches of wildlife research," says 
     
     C.-Disv1d Fowle, biologist. in a re- 
     
     port to the Research Dlvlslon of 
     
     the Ldnde and Forests Department 
     
     at Toronto. The area covers about 
     
     30 square miles, le roughly rec- 
     
     tangular 1n shape, and lles north 
     
     of Highway 60, occupying the north- 
     
     eastern pert of Cenlsbay and south- 
     
     eastern portion of McLaughlin 
     
     townships. It does not include any 
     
     of the maJor fishing lakes of the 
     
     Park nor does it lle across any of 
     
     the important canoe routes. The 
     
     whole urea‘: closed to fishing and 
     
     public travel. "The area", the 
     
     biologist eald, "may be regarded as 
     
     a vast: outdoor laboratory where the 
     
     forest and the animals 1n it may 
     
     be studied under relatively undis- 
     
     turbed conditions." — Ontario Gov- 
     
     ernment Bulletin. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     Bombs have begun 
     
     kitchens, elckroome, greenhouses 
     
     and other peaceabie places. Mll- 
     
     llane more are coming. These will 
     
     destroy insects, germs and offens- 
     
     ive odors-end do quite n number 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     raining Into 
     
    
   
   
    
     sol bornbfl-lmell steel or alum- 
     
     inum caiie that at the touch of e 
     
     button emit under pressure ultra- 
     
     flne epreye of insecticides, deodor- 
     
     ant; or what do you need. Develop- 
     
     ed durln: the war ta ward off ma- 
     
     lerlu-cerrylng mosqultoee lri the 
     
     tropics, aerosols already have gone 
     
     for to displace old-style spray guns. 
     
     Manufocturere estimate seven mll- 
     
     llon were cold last year-n figure 
     
     they hope to treble in 1949. A score 
     
     or more makers ln the field are 
     
     busily devtelng e myriad of new 
     
     conned apt-aye designed to kill 
     
     moths end cold germs, polish fur- 
     
     niture, shampoo rugs and even paint 
     
     the porch chairs, Drawbacks to the_ 
     
     "bombs" first marketed were that 
     
     they were bombs lrideed-lri weight, 
     
     shape and colt. They had to be 
     
     made of heavy metal to contain the 
     
     high pressures under which the 
     
     contents were then kept-and hence 
     
     cost $3 or $4 eplecc at retail. with 
     
     refills $3 eech. But now producers 
     
     have developed law-prellure sprays 
     
     which can be held ln light cone.- 
     
     Well Street Journal. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     tablespoons of butter or merger- 
     
     ine. Add to this one cup of milk, 
     
     one cup flour. two teaspoons bak- 
     
     ing powder. 1-2 teaspoon salt, 1-2 
     
     cup relelne, 1-4 cup wulnutlneecs. 
     
     Next make e uce of two cups 
     
     tepid water, cup brow-n auger. 
     
     two teupooiu ‘butter or moi-gar- 
     
     ine. one‘ _t_e.blespoon corn starch. 
     
     M1: these- uuo, ingredients toge- 
     
     ther and boll five mlnutel. Grease 
     
     e casserole and pour in the syrup 
     
     Put the batter on the syrup 
     
     and bliss an hour at 3.50. 
     
    

    
     If you have never eaten this 
     
     pudding you have u pleasant ex- 
     
     perience smelting. Life ls reel and 
     
     life 1e earnest; your neighbors’ 
     
     actions and attitudes are definite- 
     
     ly penplexlnng. But e. b1: dfehful of 
     
     this pudding lt-h plenty of cream 
     
     over it will artlniiy restore your 
     
    
   
   
    
     faith 1n human nature. 
     
    
   
   
    
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     WHEN. YOU All ow 
     
     Wham-fig, old  grey and full 
     
     And nodding by the are, take down 
     
     And slowly reed, end dream of the 
     
     soft. look 
     
     Your om tiiid once, and of their 
     
    
   
   
    
     shadows deep; . 
     
    

    
     How many loved yourmomenoe of 
     
     glad grace, 
     
    

    
     And loved you: beauty ‘with love 
     
     false mie- 
     
    
   
   
    
     of o 
     
     M But one men loved the pillrlm soul 
     
    
   
   
    
     tn 
     
     And loved 
     
    
   
   
    
     yflil. 
     
     o sorrows of your 
     
     chm f 
     
    
   
   
    
     I000. 
     
    
   
   
    
     And bonding down beside the 
     
     glowlna bore 
     
    

    
      o. we udiy. bow love 
     
    

    
     And paced» upon the nsoiistsln 
     
     dNfho ' ‘ 
     
    
   
   
    
     And hid his face amid e crowd of 
     
     lien. ~ . 
     
    
   
   
    
     “w: "P- Y?!‘ 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     mliitlite to decide on broom-timer h“ 
     
    
   
   
    
          
     
    
   
   
    
     The‘  . 
     
    
   
   
    
     , i 
     
    
   
   
    
     of 
     
    

    
     m. it must be ndrrgted, m“ 
     
     iappy with their lot end fly. :7 
     
     tire satisfaction ta the" who H: 
     
     ploy them. When, for a reason. 
     
     able motive, there iii gi-aund yo; 
     
     replacing a worker the bureaus do 
     
     so willingly. Howeve ,. one, u, 
     
     found where newcomers refuse c: 
     
     fulfil signed engagement um,“ 
     
     tionspglvlrig bed service or delibep: 
     
     eteiy quitting their Qmployment 
     
     There should not be too much n". 
     
     prise over these failures, which o," 
     
     ordinary human weaknesses, above 
     
     all on the part of unfortunate: Whip 
     
     have undergone such hard trials, 
     
     Sometimes well-lntentianed Employ. 
     
     ees, relatives offrierids are to be 
     
     found who have tried to induce 
     
     these workers to leave their wqrk 
     
     to find other employment. Th" 
     
     does them a bed service. It ls Very 
     
     lmpflffBiltyfhtlb these newcomers 
     
     who a plre to become Canadian clil. 
     
     leni begin by_ "faithfully firjmlin! 
     
     the contract which blndithem. Th; 
     
     future of _the immigration mo“. 
     
     ment in Canada depend: upon m. 
     
     faclllty with which those already 
     
     among us assimilate themselvee. a‘ 
     
     Le Canada, Montreal. 
     
    
   
   
    
     ‘wile trees mniorl ' 
     
    
   
   
    
     A man from Hqulmllh onnus In“ 
     
     this offlce- the other day with hll 
     
     unemployment insurance book in 
     
     one fist and in the other a 1m” 
     
     "m" l" llflemPlflyment insurance 
     
     commission supervisor. This men‘; 
     
     job shut down ln December and 
     
     he didn't get any insurance bane. 
     
     flts although he'd been paying p“, 
     
     miums ever since the scheme wenl 
     
     lnto effect. He mulled his fmuy. 
     
     ance book to the commission's vs... 
     
     couver office in December and g9] 
     
     lt buck ln Febru ry with a covey». 
     
     ins note. "Depo ltinz a book doe: 
     
     not automatically entitle you gq 
     
     benefit." the note laid: "A cieiru 
     
     must. be flied in the prescribed 
     
     manner. Should you desire at any 
     
     future date to file claim for b01194 
     
     fit, please write this office request- 
     
     ing the necessary forms and you 
     
     will be instructed as to the proper 
     
     method of filing claim.“ Si; h, mu 
     
     doesn't know how to go about geo- 
     
     ling hle rights. Hie insurance book 
     
     doesn't tell him. This men mp1 
     
     particularly worried about his own 
     
     case. He’! gone back to work again, 
     
     But he thlnkii that people who 
     
     aren't able to get in touch with the 
     
    

    
     commission by phone or street cu 
     
    

    
     should tlnd all the required lna 
     
    

    
     etructlons right in their books. 
     
    

    
     They'd save time and money for 
     
    

    
     themselves-end probably a lot of 
     
    

    
     clerical work for the ommleslon. 
     
    

    
     It seems like a eenelble Illggegtlan, 
     
    
   
   
    
     animal hanging by the neck to the of other chores. .They are "aero- “Yanclmv” 5""- 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
       
     
    
   
   
    
     Lenten Meditations 
     
    
   
   
    
     The TImQIT-Lolddn ' 
     
    
   
   
    
     THE CHRISTIAN 
     
     CHALLENGE 
     
    
   
   
    
     ‘ The response of the Christian to 
     
     crisis and danger lii one of the mall 
     
     tests of the quality of tile religion. 
     
     When all is well and life le making 
     
     no heavy demands upon courage 
     
     and fortitude it is easy to think of 
     
     religion a: primarily a comforting 
     
     adjunct. to life and to lose the 
     
     sense of urgency and adventure. 
     
     Today such a religion 1| clearly 
     
     inadequate. The Christian la not 
     
     called upon to provide, still lean to 
     
     dictate. solutions of the many 
     
     problems with which the statesmen 
     
     of the world are grappling. Yet lt 
     
     ls his bounded duty to make hle 
     
     fullest contribution to the spiritual 
     
     climate in which alone the most 
     
     fruitful solutions can be discovered. 
     
     Our Lord went. so fer as to sey 
     
     "ye are the light of the world." But 
     
     the light. to be effective. must be 
     
     shed abroad and riot hidden under 
     
     a bushel. "Realism" may see fhlrisl 
     
     es they are, but too easily lt do- 
     
     generates into fetellem. Faith sec! 
     
     also what they may become: it lii 
     
     "the giving substance to things not 
     
     seen." ' 
     
    

    
     The Christian, indeed, should be 
     
     the true realist, ln that he can. 
     
     without despair, face all the know- 
     
     eble facts with which the world 
     
     presents him, »for he laake upward 
     
     as well ee round about; of the earth- 
     
     ly scene. and knows that God is the 
     
     one supreme and inescapable facl: 
     
     of theunlveree. . 
     
    

    
     In the Epistle for the Third Sun- 
     
     day after Trinity the challenge la 
     
     the Christian ls made clear. He 
     
     must be "sober" and "vlzlloni"-- 
     
     self-controlled and alert: lie must 
     
     resist evil "eteadfastjn the faith." 
     
     though loin hinted that he dot! 
     
     not struggle alone. "The Chum‘ 
     
     militant" is more than a mere ldeiil- 
     
     Over against the elements ln hu- 
     
     man llfe which ignore God there ll 
     
     ln the Church iin underlyln! "filly 
     
     of belief and purpose which dif- 
     
     fereritlntes Christianity from all 
     
     other ways of life, and upon which 
     
     it lo well for Christians to concen- 
     
     trate. so that both enemy end ally 
     
     may be recognized. 
     
    

    
     At e time when the whole fuliitl 
     
     of human society ll no stake. If"! 
     
     good and evil ere muintelnlri: ‘f’ 
     
     precarious a balance, the worlds 
     
     challenge must be met by W’ 
     
     Christian challenge. It to for cacti 
     
     individual to melee lilo chaff!- 
     
     there cen be no neutrality. H: 
     
     that f: not with me 1e ezelnst m!- 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     mus 
     
     shamed one’ confounded: ‘ 
     
     snuff be en pointer. one the! ll" 
     
     uulve your  ofifll : If": 
     
     anti out. ma. use moi cs3;