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The l\l.'lllll liillrrilliln l'\llrll~llln[ ('0. Editor imil Ilniiirglng lrirt-vtur, J. It. Ilurnclf. Asunr-lirlu liillltir, Frank “Walker.

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eriiaiiartifitiMKESKFEETBQT Parliament‘ And The Senate

With the Opening of Parliament the Globe and ft/iail takes the opportunity of again remind- ing Prime hliriister St. Laurent of the opportunity he has so far missed, of enhancing the value and popularity of the Senate. His recent appointees tn the Lipper House, like hundreds of others so honorccl before them, qualified mainly by faith- ful and prclenged party service. Mr. St. Laurent, by making these choices, helped to confirm the prevailing notion that the Senate is only a de- vice ta enable Prime Ministers to reward poli- tical friends.

With six from Newfoundland, the total Sen- nate membership is now I02, Liberals hold seven- ty-nine, there is an Opposition of fifteen and eight placcs are vacant. If the Prime Minister makes political activity in the Liberal interest the sole criterion in filling these eight, the party tally of Scnat: will be eighty-seven to fifteen. This Qvcnvllfi -._ maiority, which is never near reprnscntirq ti" popular voting strength of the PTJVIIPS, i: l candy grow during Mr. St. Laur- ent's pcind in office since the Opposition Sena- tors, datinq from Conservative regimes, are for the mast part elderly gentlemen. ln fact, there i0 at least n statistical possibility of a Senate rnodr up ciitiicly of the ruling party.

ln llicsc circumstances, it is suggested that Mr St. Laurent has o chance to do some single- handed reforming of our Second Chamber. He is not, as other new Prime Ministers have been, facrd with the troublesome prospect of obstruc- tion by n Senate with a hostile majority. He can afford to disregard party colisiderations. Some may believe it is asking too much that he appoint o few eminent political opponents — to restore a reasonable party balance. Leaving this point aside, there is a method of bettering the Senate which would be immune from criticism by the partisans of any group. Mr. St. Laurent could

choose a few Senators for their attainments in non-political fields — with no regard to their party allegiance.

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lengthened Llfe Span

In its study of the industrial population of the United States, the Metropolitan Life Insur- once Company has found that l0 years have been added to life expectancy since 1930, and more than 20 years since 1912. In 1912, the average baby born into a wage-earning family would live only to the age of 46.63 years. Today persons reaching 24 still have that many years ahead of them. Babies born lost year may on the over- oge expect to live past their 67th birthdays. Even more striking is the change in the chances of survivorship. Of the 1911-1912 crop of infants, one-tenth died within their first year, but the present crop will reach 44 years before this toll has been taken.

Later, unprecedented numbers will be retiring in good health from active work. In Brit- ain,'two-thirds of all workers were under 4° in 1911, but today this proportion is little more than half. Considering the need to encourage older persons to keep busy, The Times ‘of London suggests a three-fold policy under which elderly Britons could retire on full pension, work longer and receive a lump sum payment of accumu- lated pensions when they did stop, or _work part time, receiving meanwhile part of their pension and the rest later in a lump sum.

North Americans will find ways of. dealing with this problem when it becomes serious. Des- pite the troubles af the post-war era, the length- ening span of life is pleasant to contemplate.

Nazi Goods For Norway

German goods and holdings in Norwayé con- ‘ b the Norwe ian Directorate for nemy SEZSZSEY, krill occountg for some $7lho°llrquo "l the $4,Z60,000,000 wh_ich Norway is claiming as war reparations, according to a statement by Directorate head Erik T- P0"l55°"- BY mld-tefll’, some $60,000,000 of this sum had been realized. Largest items remaining to be settled include $5,000,001) in German-held stocks in the Nor- wegian chemical firm Norsk Hydro, and holdings ‘I other Norwegian ffrmn. _

Following capitulation, the bulk of German material was to be found in Northern Norway, where it was stranded following the Nazi with- drawal Irom Finland. RollinQ Swcki mcludhlg trucks and autos, composed the largest single Iitem, and has bzen sold for o total of $4,500,099- Over $4,000,030 in private German IICCOIIII" ""5 accounts receivable make up the second largest category. Other large items included $3,030,000 in German foed stores and over $1,000,000 in liquor. The latter, notes Director Poulsson, was o most surprising item: "ln one city alone the’ Germans had laid away some 600,000 bottles. All liquor has been turned over to the State Liquor Monopoly, ot cost price.

Possibly the most useful items which the Germans left behind were railway rolling stock and equipment to a value of $1,100,000. This ‘III- cluded 72 operating locomotives which during the first years following liberation were largely responsible for moving traffic between Trond- heim, Oslo, and Krlstiansond. Half of the long runs, it is estimated, waie made with German lo- comotives as late as December, 1948. Of the 1,760 freight cars confiscated by the Directorate, 340 were tank can. As than were but 80~tank can in all of Norway before the war, it would from bun Impossible Ia moot 1h; Increased post-war demand for lrflflttl and fuel oil wm l.

THE EDITORIAL NUTES

Tomorrow, 14th. Sunday after Trinity.

Arnhem Day. I I

Mr. McLure has been allocated a seat in the House of Commons immediately behind Mr. Georg: Drew. He will be in a fine position to prompt the Leader of the Opposition.

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Prime Minister St. Laiirent’s plea for a sing- le system of multilateral world trade certainly represents what this country needs. What we have been getting and are likely to get is some- thing else again.

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Today the Foreign Ministers of l2 North Atlantic Treaty countries meet in Washington, Differences are ounJ to arise, but the steady outside pressure of the Soviet Union is a great unifying force.

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Meat prices are due for a drop according to a forecast by the Ottawa Journal. Large ship- ments to tho United States are falling off and American prices have gone down. The importance of lower feed costs becomes greater as this trend continues.

U ‘ I A bill ll h be in trndiiccd to standardize dis- cipline in the three services. There is a danger in carrying the unification idea too far. Condi- tions ond duties vary considerably, and the ser- iousness of types of misconduct may well vary CVCTI "TOTE. W I i "ln the world today," said Prime Minister St. Laurent recently "state aid is necessary for our youth, to meet unemployment, illness, physi- cal handicaps and old age." "Not," he explained, "because it hos any lust for power but rather to help the individual by giving him the means to get along and make progress in circumstan- ces most suitable to him.” i ‘k I

It is not likely the Provincial Government or any other one, even including railwaydom will approve of the Federal Government suggestion to hand over the Wood Islands-Caribou service to the C. N. R. The latter has headaches enough running the railway and Borden Ferry without investing in another enterprise competing with themselves. It has also been suggested the roil- way should take over all truck freight traffic in

the lsland. This also would be inimical to the Provinces best interests. I I I "While endeavouring to avoid an excessive

'.lanus' in The Spectator, l do dis- like seeing words given an impossible meaning. Take ‘oblivious.’ lf moans ‘forgetful fol)’ 0nd nothing else--not 'unconscious lot)’ or 'indiffer- ent (to),' or anything of that or any other kind. Provocation to those remarks is the reference in a daily paper to a baby sleeping 'oblivious to the noise of fireworks.’ I don't for a moment be- lieve the baby had forgotten the noise; I don't believe it had ever heard it; it had gone to sleep at an hour when all good babies should." ~94 s. ~k

purism, writes

A novel safety first toy attracted much at- tention at the recent opening in Birmingham of the toy display organised by the Toy Fair As- sociation of Great Britain. lt consisted -of o 40- foot model village, an electrically-driven car and two small dummy children one of whom crosses the road while the other hesitates and is knocked down. Both car and children are directed by remote control and local authorities are to order collapsible versions of the model for safety first demonstrations at schools. The toy is expected to have considerable overseas demand. i‘ "k "l!

Tobias George Smollett, British novelist and man of letters, died this date 1771. Served as an apprentice to doctor, during which time he wrote The Regicide, a tragedy which was un- successful, whereupon he soiled as a surgeon's mote on a warship to the West Indies. Failing as a physician, he took with success to novel-writ- ing and literary work. His best known works are Roderick Random, Peregrine Pickle, and his mos- terpiece, Humphrey Clinlier, all of which _ore "picaresque" romances, full of humour and ob- servation. His other works include History of Eng- land, The Reprisal, a comedy, and The Adven- tures of on Atomwa political lampoon. Hie was a caustic but not an ungenerous satirist, with a great narrative faculty.

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What kept children of other days on the straight and narrow path. Dr. E. Burnett, 8Z- year-old London pathologist, sfill believes that to spare the red is to spoil the child. And, more- over, he thinks, policemen ought to be allowed to apply the rod. Testifying ct the inquest into the death of a ninc-year-old boy drownedJn the Thames, he said: "When I was a boy I fell in a river. A policeman fished me out. He made sure there was nothing wrcng with me, ‘took off his belt and gave me a good hiding. It taught me a lesson l have never forgotten . . . If police- men had power to give naughty youngsters a good licking on the spot a great many children would benefit and a number of lives might be saved . . . I know the police well and I am certain they would not abuse.it."'

With the decision to abolish appeals to the Privy Council the Gordian knot of our Dominion connection will be cut, and henceforth, for bet- ter or for worse we will be on our own as a na- tion. Hence the desirability or necessity of amend- ing the British North America Act to enable the Federal Parliomentto make such omondments to our constitution _as itin its wisdom or otherwise thinks fit. The rights, privileges and prerogatives of the Provinces will be in jeopardy. But the Gov- ernment has an overall majority in the House and Sgnate now and appreciates the golden op- portunity of striking while the iron is hot and before the new M. its fully realize what it i: all about. If the Canadian parliament is tobe empowered to amend the constitution "on a federal or national level, not to interfere with

rights ‘of Provinces" it means that the courts are to have the final ray.

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DAVID srawmrrs JOURNAL

t Continuation from last Saturrlavl of the journal of Drivirl °tr\\r_~-~-fl' E_5q-, of Scotland, recording hlg visit to hls estates in i'r.ii..- c...- ward Island and to Nova Ecotia lfl the year 1831.

"Monday, July 18: We have 591 out for Sydney. our hospitable host having provided a‘ boat and four capital men, nll Highlanders but One who was an Irisltr/"ri, \"»- put ourselves on board at the end of the Bras d'Ol‘ Luke lll'l(t UAI ii most beautiful morning entered Perhaps the most beautiful lake ln the world, Certainly by far the most beautiful I ever saw. We continued. The various breaks,‘ buys. promoritaries, peninsulas, re. $93595. Creeks anduslands In arid about the Lake which is wholly of salt water exceeds anything I ever | beheld. The shores or beaches are , composed of beautiful sand, gravel or stones and every point and re- | eessls wooded down to the water's edge and generally with large tim- ber and most beautiful underwood and shrubs. . "The water is clear as crystal when take" "P in u glass and In the lake varies in colour according . to the light. In shape it Is itn- possible to Hllfpilss Its beauty In ‘almost every scent}, and y“ no two scenes are alike and as our boatl was impelled swiftly along, either-y With oars or SflllS or partly by; 9110b. for both were used. the! changes took place must rapldhn, The boat shot like an arr-ow through Bmvnsst the Islands and

to the vlew. Large tracts of land are cleared along the margln of this superb lake on the south 51d;- which we were now coasting and “dmlrlns- But It seem; the", i, "mm"! Perfect In this world, for notwithstanding trig beauty of the ehuns of the lake and the brllllancy of It; waters wlth all the richness of the sea and Its delightful shores of sand, gravel or stones, with here and there an Insulated rock and the most beautiful masses of cloud: "B7181": over the margin and ox. tending over interminable slopes of no mean altllude.——notwlthstandlng all these advantages and a thou- sand others, I could not help 1a. mentlnx the absence of the mighti- and "ubllmfl flicks of Kllarney a‘! "10 "PPM" lake and the wonderful 599"")! 0f‘ the Isle of Skye, Kin. tall, Loch Nalrn, Loch Ness, Loch Lomond and the memorable east end of ~Loch Catherine, and 5|" the west end toward; Port Nelgon and the Dark Glengyle. Her-e the beauty iii Indeed unequalled as m or the lake Ir concerned, but there l! Mlnlnm lubllme. no high mmmlllnl. no Dreelpleoun rocks; all In soft. all In elegant, but noth. In! can eompenlate the wan! of perpendicular rocks and tremen- dous mountain; overhanging the lalm- Even the English Lake: surpass this an fur as relates to mountal , but nothing can equal It: aha It: brlllluncy, .Itu calm and It! benutlful softness on luc a morning an this. i O O I

"We had now quilted the upper and of the Lake and were out In one of It: widen bulm, about 18 mller wide In the wldert place and about 60 rnllel long, W; rind 1 zentle breeze and the boat under nll went at the rate of ten rnllu an hour. The day contlnued brll- lIant and the Icenery enaliantlng. We now met two flshlng bout: full of cod and ackerai wlth three Highland boys. I alked them for

past the capes when at every point l the most delightful scenes opened farms some of the finest oxen I

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‘WKRWOOEOOWQWK Notes From Q

Another Island ,3 l s

By "Anson" LONDON, England:- During the last few

ral England has been

the traditional scenes

weeks ru- presenting of peace

and plenty in keeping with the harvest season. Workers on the farms have been putting in long

hours gathering in the corn, and theglorious weather has all hein- ecl to make one believe that all is well with the world.

Peace and plenty. It sounds very nice, anyway, and the city dweller who doesrft see a great deal of the countryside may eas-

one cod; they handed me one about 4 feet long. I risked what I must pay for it. They replied nothing, they had plenty. We gave the younger boy u shilling. M1. Smith sold we might have bought It for 3d.

“It was now one o'clock. We passed on and reached Mr. Carrie's at the lower end of the lake, about 4 o'clock. Here we dismissed our boatmen, had our cod dressed, and diner on It and excellent potatoes. We now procured horses nnrl rode on to Sydney l2 miles, The road tolerable and the country rich and beautiful; both sides of the road full of tho finest raspberries, per- fectly ripe and as thiclbas they could grow. We stopped our horses and ate raspberries for half an hour. The road here ls hllly and the scenery delightful. There ls some cleared land on each side of the road and some of the settlers are blacks.

"I saw at one of these Negro lever saw, as heavy as Hereford-

shlre cattle and In excellent eon- | ditlan. The blacks themselves were lworklng among their potatoes. I went Into some of the houses; {they were clean, with excellent board floors and 3 or 4 apart- ments ln each, The farms vivoro their own. They risked ma to take some refreshment which 1 declined. Some of them are rich. l ‘fWe passed on and reached Syd- .ney.about 8 o'clock. Here Mr. lSmlth and myself took up our lodging for the night. Mr, Smlth went to pay vlslts. I declined to accompany hlm, out presently writs called upon by some of Mr. Smith's friends and as usual proposed to vlslt them, which I of course cle- cllned. Mr. Smlth returned and we went to bed much fatigued, and I much pleased nrid even aston- ished to flnd an Island I had hith- erto heard represented as atone. barren and incapable of'cultlvn- tlon, superior to moat. countries l had ever neen, both In beauty-and fertility. ~ - - . .

"Thlr morning l: cloudy, the nlr mlld and delightful. One of,the gentlemen who visited us lniit nlsht dld ul the honour to break- fast wlth u: at tlx o'clock. We then set out In the mall boat for the mines. The town of Sydney l! admirably situated on an arm of the sea and close on IIr margin llrle lhlDl can load clone t: the mlnen but at present they have not any good what-vex. Thev are. however, building lome whnrver and It In probable the town wlll Increase u ft ha! a fine country and certainly a flne poll- tlon or station on the gnu,

It In, however, poulble that the place now derlgnnted North Syd- ney, and which u situated nearer to the mines. may draw the bull- nen to melt. At resent there Ire few houur at orth Sydney.

well lnld out.

and In

lly imagine that. everything I! fine when he looks out of the

of the world. cede; further Info the past; German mood swings back closer to Its modern norm of complete self-justlflcatlon and complete fall- ure to appreclate all cuuisn for be- Irig regarded as anything less than a trustworthy member of the fam- Ily of natlons. ly familiar process. —— Sault Daily Star.

Set at

ways.

good; windows and the storm windows need paint- lng, but wlll they attend to these

A.

- Notes By The Way ._

German: have

had, any conception of the detesta- l tlori_ and dlltrust their repeated

aggreulon has Inspired ln the rest A: VE-Day

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Far-men, olty people, old people, busy people and people who have little to do—they all huddled lnto the office where one secures car and they all wanted to nded to at once. the some thing In a number of We flnd out when we go to light the furnace In the fall that the grates are warped and broken. ago, but. not untll there is need for fire do we attend to It. ple know right screen door of last year is they are aware

arker

We knew

need

have been thinking about and plenty. Well, we can think about it now, and if these ever- present reminders do keep ing us, perhaps we can take some comfort from the fact that are mostly in a fare-Jane stale of disuse. The gun emplscements are overgrown with moss, fields —- some of them at least -- are derelict; what barbed wire r:- mains is rusty. and the signs rm the beaches that say "Danger — Mines" need not be there at now.

Maybe none of

be needed again. We could take some comfort from that. o n a

A resident in one of our bamb- ed towns had his own post-vrar problem recently. He ls living in I pro-fabricated house. and quite happy, too. untll one something went wrong with electrical wiring and ybeoame “live? He put his key in the front door and promptly got l shock. Later, when he'd had It fixed (he thought) he turned on his cold water tap and got hot water. Something new, even for English plumbing!