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THE GUARDIAN

lilurnln; lbully tFoundctl ln llllfl) Aullmrluul n! Ben-null (luau Mull, Poll Ofllcn llcpnrtvm-nt, Olin-mu. The lnluurl (iunrrllnn Puhllnhln Po. Editor am] Managing lllrvrlnr, J. ll. "uracil. Anson-lulu Ildltnr, Frank Walker.

—""_fhe Strongest Memory {Weaker Than the Weakest lnk"

FRIDAY. DEC. 50_ I949

rift l-tlofr trroivs.

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Locking Bumpers

.\ car stops stiddcnly and the one behind "lashes into it damaging its own grill work nut perhaps the gas tank of the first. A

lush to a stalled fellow motorist. The tllllll])t‘l‘§§ lock and the drivers will be fortun- ale if they can be disengaged ‘again with-

rt-‘uces in spite of the fact that automobile bunuicrs: are supplied. at considerable ex- pense, to the owners of all cars Llsillg the highways in this Province. The trouble, as t‘\'(‘l‘_\tlii(‘ Lninvs. is that there is no uni- formity in the placing of these bumpers. and a (ll'l\‘t‘l‘ never knows whether the next t‘.‘ll' that may bump him will have its buinp- t‘l‘,\ fitted higher or lower than his own. 'l‘he l‘r~>vin~i\ has zidoptcd and enforced specifica- tions for lights and brakes. ‘Fherc is no reas=oil why. in consultation with other Prov- inces. a Lmifornl height for bumpers could not be laid down.

0ntarlo’s Bad Example

livery Province can take warning from figures recently released by the Ontario tiivision of Canadian Undenvrliers. An- nouncing a stibstantial increase in the col- lision schedule of automobile insurance for

eidcut figures which are startling. in the first nine months of the present year the rate has gone up 26.6 per cent, with pro- perty damage increased by 38.1 per cent. which lncans. in terms of dollars. a loss of almost six and a half millions. More im- portant than the property loss by far is a rieath rate of 594 with 12,457 injured in this nine months period.

in this Province our accident rate is comparatively low, but there is room for improvement and it is sometimes more by luck than good management that highway injuries and fatalities are averted. A con- certed effort should be made during the coming year to make this the banner Prov- lner- from the standpoint of traffic safety.

Madame Speaker

Mrs. Nancy Hodges, who as presiding officer of the British Columbia Legislature will be the first Speaker of her sex in the history of the Commonwealth, is well quali- fied for this position. Though born and edu- cated in England, she has become in nearly four decades of residence here a good Cana- dian and as a citizen of this country she has worked her passage. From her first

trade of journalism and still earns it with a forceful pen. After more than two ternls in the Legislature as a member for Victoria she is no zinititetil‘ of politics and as leader of ihc ilational organization of Liberal wo- men she is known far beyond the bound- aries of British Columbia.

“lt will be a new experience for poli- ticians," remarks the Winnipeg Free Press, “to tlefcl- ill (lcbatc to a member of what is huntorotlsl_v called the weaker sex, and it will bc e useful experience in demonstrating Wurclfs urmving iuirt in the government of Cnnrtlzi. A" a (listingtlislled product. of wo- men's suffruze Mrs. llodgcs will be watched with interest by the natioli as she takes her plum: on the Speaker's dais at Victoria."

The ll. S. Meat llarket

Canadian producers will be interested in noting. froiu a review published by the United States Department of A$_Zl‘l(‘.LlllLll‘(‘, that with (lcmanci continuing strong, Am- erican prices of beef and cattle are not ex- pected to average much lower than in 1949. RClUFllS from cattle feeding are likely to be better this ivhlter than last although consid- erably; lower than in several years of the 1940's ivhen a prolonged rise in prices rc- stiltrd in tinusually high profits from feed- mg.

More meat will be produced in 1950 than in .1949. It will be the second year of in- crease. In 1948, production fell to a 6-year low of 21.6 billion pounds as it was restrict- ed by the small 1947 corn crop and by pre- vlous declines in livestock numbers. In 1949, production will likely total 22.1 billion pounds, 21/2 per cent more than in 1948. In 1950, the increase is expected to continue because hog pnoduction is now trending up- ward and beef production is likely to be maintained. The prospect for 1950 is for clocetoiibilllonpoundsorati-tper cent

lflueue. _».Al-m0n mat wlll be produced; um-

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1ned .\tilllltl‘illill tiscs his own car to give a}

out Lltlllltlflt‘. 'l‘hcsc are evcry day OUClll‘-'

Ontario motorists, the statement quotes ac-_

days here she has earned her living at her‘-

nutlmn It

may approach 150 pounds per person, com- pared with thc 147 pounds indicated- for 1949, and the 146 pounds in 1948. Con- sumption at that rate in 1950 would be well above the 1937-41 average of 134 pounds, but several pounds short of the 155 pounds ill 1947, a Sfl-ycai" record. Nearly all of .the increase ill meat production next year will be in pork. A gain of around 8 per |ccnt over i949 is estimated. ' Price changes in i950 are likely to be t greatest for pork and hogs. Smaller changes tare expected for beef and cattle.‘ Prices i of lalnb and mutton, and of sheep and lambs, are expected to continue high rela- 1 tive to prices of other lneats and meat ani- , nulls.

EDITORIAL NOTES

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‘ ln tomorrows issue the Ill/ii) review of 5 hlarititne Harness l-lorse Racing by Col. D. i A. Macliinnon, D.S.O., will appear in The Guardian.

. O I QLiObCt‘. Liberals have decided not to ;hold a convention for the choice of a lead- ter until llltly. Meantime Mr. tieorge C. illlarlcr, leader of the opposition ill the legis- lature, will continue to act.

I O I

, The External Affairs Department are lptizzling how their representatives abroad lshotlld be addressed-as consuls or zunbas- sadors. ‘Fhey may be graded according to the importance of the assignment.

O

Charlottetoivnls open harbour is a decid- ed advantage this winter. As has been pointed out, shipment of potatoes by water goes far to off set the rather low prices ob- tainnble.

0 O O

A New iforlc psychologist has said what he considers to be the worst about comic books in stating that they tend to make chil- dren behave like their parents. seek escape rather than face problems of living.

Q I O

'l‘hc P. E. I. Arts and Crafts Guild are to be congratulated on sponsoring the Got- shalks Ballet here. To their interest in the cultural and artistic they have added a flair for seizing upon an art that, at the moment, is commercially profitable.

O I O '

Cxperiments show that water-filled truck tires minimize wheel spin and skid- ding, improve braking and acceleration and cause less wear on tires than com- pressed air. If the idea is adopted here there will be another Fall duty to remem- ber. putting anti-freeze in the tires.

Q I I

The Conservatives in New Brunswick have decided to contest the vacancy in Char- lotte caused by the promotion of Hon. J. J. Hayes to the bench. The candidates are Mr. Wm. N. (Jampbell, Liberal, and Mr. Douglas Everett, Conservative. The election is fixed for January’ 9th.

'.l‘he Jesuit. Society founded this date 1538 by Ignatius Loyola. The members are bound by three religious vows of poverty, chastity and obedience, to which a fourth was addcd—io undertake any mission upon which the Pope might send them, even at the risk of life. Three forms of activity are peculiarly the function of the order-teach- jiilg, preaching, and guiding Christians in ‘the way of perfection.

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i Some of Britain's Labour l\l.l’.'s are (le- cidedly class conscious, according to a story ttold by Minister of Food Strachtyv. A police-

{THE GUARDIAN. CHARLOTTETOWN

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POSTAL CHARGES

From a petition to Her Majesty Queen Victoria. presented jointly by the Legislative Council and House of Assembly of Prince Ed- ward island, April, 1852: "Owing to the insular position of this Colony, your Majesty's sulb- jects residing herein have not hitherto derived the like benefits with the inhabitants of any other of your lllajcstyls North American Provinces from the recent changes which have taken place relative to the postal arrangements for the transmision of mails between the United Kingdom avid the North American Provinces.

“The charge nlnv borne by this island for the conveyance of the mails by steam between the Pro- vince of Nova Scoiia, in the sum- mer, and from New Brunswick. across the ice. in the winter, is up- wards of £840 currency, which added to the deficiency occasion- ed by the reduction on Colonial postage. exceeds £l.000 per annum —a stun which the limited re- sources of this Colony are ill able to hear.

"For upwards of thirty years past, your hlajristyfls Government has been pleased ‘to allow the amount o.’ British packet postage, collected within this Island, which has seldom exceeded £400 sterling per amium. to be applied towards the liquidation of this charge. but which is now ordered to be r!- mitted to your lllajestys Imperial Exchequer — a regulation which we humbly trust your Majesty will not enforce until the department is sclf supporting. “As the British iranslnittcd from Halifax to the islands of Newfoundland and Bermuda — as well as to all oilher places whcrc steam conveyance is rrtuiired on this side of the Atlantic ——without charge to those places, and at a cost of upwards of £ll.000 per annurn to your l\'lajc-sly's Im- Drrinl Government, we are in- duied l0 hour that your Majesty will not place your loyal Isubjects in this Tslailti in a worse position than any of our fellow’ subjects ill the other Provinqgg,

“We. lhcvcfrlrfi. humbly pray lhnl your Mnjrsiy will br- graqj. ously pleased to direct that 1h.- amount of Ri-itish pgslagrg Co]- ircictl in this lslimrl, may 1m at. lowed to be applied towards dc- frayin: the charsc for the con- Vffivance of thr British mails ‘.0 lhc shore."- of this Island. u-ntil thc revenue arising from the Font Office dcpnritncnt of this island- siizill be sufficient to defray the charges for the same."

mails are now

Elllall called the attention of a member to a tgroup in the lobby, saying they \\'l‘.'l'C mem lbers 0f the l-loustmvives‘ League. The men lbcr, not at. all impressed, took hold of tli

{fur coat of one, opened it and said, “Iloost

74c ?oefi £11m

;wi\'es, are ye? lloosewives? Wham-i yer

apron 7"

I O I

in reviewing Hardy's “Life of W. L. Mackenzie King“ at the time of its publica- tion, “Time" declared it to be unauthorized by a King propagandist. Premier Macdon- ald's reply seems to prove this. It bears out more clearly than ever that MacNaughton was the nigger in Prime Minister King's woodpile at that particular juncture. Ever since then he "has been taken care of" through appointment to high, ivell paid of- ficial positions.

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When once authority and discipline loosens anything is liable to happen. Trade Unions are supposed to' be the only author- ities for permitting strikes, but London mo- tormen did not see why they should be regulated any more by their unions than by their employers. So when they became dissatisfied with arrangements for Christ- mas leave, they just laid down tools leaving other workers and holiday makers stranded all along the line_s out of London. Their union protested that the strike was illegal,

ON TIME

Fly, envious Time, till thou rim out thy race.

Gall on the lazyyleaden-sleprping hours,

Whose srpecrl is but. plummets pace;

And glut thyself with what thy womb devours.

Which ls no more than what is

false and vain.

Anti merely mortal droal;

So little is our i068.

So little Ls thy galrll

For, when as each thing bad hast entombed.

And, last cf all, thy needy self consiuned.

Then long Eternity shall fleet our

the heavy

lull.

iss Wiilh rm individual kiss. And Joy shall overtake us u a

flood; When every lhlng that is sincerely ood

8 .

And perfectly divine,

With Truth. and Pence. shall ever shim

About. the supra-me throne

Of him, to whose hwy-trunking aiglht alone

when once our heavenly-fuidod soul shall climb.

Then. all this earthly momma

and have,

quit.

Attired with stun we shall for ever all,

‘Priunrphing over Dflllh,

but what did that signify?-the damage had been done, and was irreparable. I

Ind Chance. and thee, O Time!

Meighen: Legend 8. Fact

(Eugene Forsey in the Ottawa Citizen)

To the younger generation. Arthur Meighen is perhaps hard- ly more than a name and B legend. Those who read his book. "Unrevlaed and Unrepenfed." how" ever, will discover that much 0f the legend is cruelly false, U19 creation of malice, vlndictivcness and mendacity unparalleled Ill Canadian political history. 'l'he.\'

may also understand why, for those who knew the Hull-SC 9f Commons when MPlgllP" “'55

there. the glory has departed since he left it. For he was. bcrvhd question, the greatest parliamentar- inn of his time in Canada, perhaps the greatest. we have ever had. B1‘ his prodigious memory. by his un- rivalled knowledge of constitu- tional principles and Vi"'||='"l"‘lllfll‘.\' history and practice, by his unfail- iiu; readiness in (ichate, and by the flashing sword of his rluquvllvf‘. h“ dominated the House as no onc else has done in this century- O O I He was above all “a Elsa! House of Commons man." Willi Peel and Harcourt he could have] said: “For every man who has lfl-I ken part in the noble conflicts of‘ parliamentary life. the chicfesi ambition of all ambitions, whether in the majority or in the minority. is to stand well xvith the lloufit‘ of Commons." He (inminutctl the House because he rcsflvvlvd if. be‘ cause he believed in it., bccuusc hc knew it to be the oillj.‘ sure shield of the people, and so would stiffer no breach of its ancient rights and liberties, no weakening of its pow- er or its effectiveness. He nnnlr no parade of this devotion. 110 lived it. The threat to Parlia- ment might come from n recalci- trant, witness, us in lhe R. C. Mil- ler case, refusing to testify, and so frustrating “Parliament's power to make effective inqulsltion into pub- lic accounts." It might come front un obstructive minority, taking ad- vantage of every technicality "t" stop our very veins of life", as in we debates on the Naval Bill which led to the introduction of the closure. It might, as in the Petersen case, come from a Prime Minister seeking to persuade mem- bers that when they voted to ratify a specific contract provid- ing for the payment of large sums of public money to :1 specific per- son, they were committing them- selves io nothing more than the assertion of n vague abstract prin- ciple. It might, us in i926, conic from a government confronted with imminent defeat on n motion of censure, nntl trying, hy dissolu- tion, to "withdraw from the cog- nizance of the peoples represen- tatives the great (‘altsc pending between ministers am! their .'ic- cnsers." It’. might as repeatedly during the inst wur, come from "thnt, loud champion of the rights of Parliament who thunde ed on this subject throughout fanatlu during all his ycnrs of opposi- tion," and then brcnmr "the auth- or of the most flnlzrant defiance of parliamentary rights ever ud- rlressed to any free Pnrlinnlcnt, in the civilized world." Wherever ll came from, Meighen lcupt fr) meet it. That the defence of Parlia- ment's rights might cost. him his political life, as it did in 1926; that it might expose him to years of obloquy; these things counted for nothing. He "never sold the truth to serve the hourz" nnd for him the great principles of parlia- mentary government were nlwuys among thelmost precious of truths, one of the lreuslrres of our race. O O

Those who know only the legend about Melghen may think all this exaggerated. But this book pro- vide; ample evidence that it is sober truth. 1t gives the facts about these great "struggles. It draws the conclusions with irre- futable logic. Facts and conclus- ion! alike may be new and un- palatable to many who read. But recent events have perhaps shed

‘some light on what has been hap- pening to parliamentary govern- ment in this country in the last 25 yearn, and supplied some evi-

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§The Age-Old Story

[ill blood, we llmll be IIVQd from ivrath through Him. For l! when We were anemia we were recon- ciled to God by the death of His Son. much more being reconciled we shall be saved by Ills life.

Being now Jullslflod by

dance that Melghen spoke truly when, on the eve of the 192G elec- tion, he said that on its result would depend in no sitiall mea- sure the standard of our public life for years to come."

Rut lticighcn was much more tluin just. a superb parliamentar- ian, .1 first class fighting man, and this book is much more than just a record of his parliamentary tri- umphs and (lefcnce of parllanlent- ary liberties. lndcetl, barely half of it is made up of speeches de- ll\'t‘l‘t‘d in either House; some of these, like the great speech on church union, und the tribute: to ticpnrtcd Senators, are not politi- cal: and only another 70 pages or so lnve more than a remote Con- nection with politics.

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The non-political speeches show thr- range of Mcighenk interests and powers. They deal with such (livcrse subjects as international law, our natural resources (the only distippointing speech in the hook: it rcnds almost like n cata- logucl, education, Canadian foreign policy’, liberty and law, socialism. the careers of Sir John A. Muc- donuld, Sir Jnhn Abbott. and Tho- mas rl'Arcy McGee, and, last but not least, the great oration on Shakespeare. 'l‘hcy reveal (what; the legend hns always ignored or denictll his kintlliness. his gener- osity, his invincible lrualty to his friends, his essential humanity,

'I‘hcy reveal also n muster of English prose. Mclghen. always said exactly what; he meant. and meant exactly what he said. He knew his subject, he knew his own mind, he knew the language. He had a stivereign contempt, for ghost-waiters. Very few" of his speeches were over written out before-hand, and they come to us here as they were delivered, fresh and \ivitl, "unrevisezl and unre- penictl." Several of the best are very short. But, short or long. there is no pudding, no windy rhe- toric, ticver a wasted word, very rarely onc that could be improved on. 'l‘hcy draw on n marvellous and inexhaustible fund of quota- tions. But these are nearly always very brief: they are never drag- ged in by the curs; they never gel; thr- better of the speaker. They are so completely a pert. of him- sclf that they always seem ln- cviiably nnd exactly right.

OLD DOBBIN

in the museum of Amherst (Nlass) College is the skeleton o! the oldest. horse known to science, believed to be 415,000,000 years old‘.

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In u cheap. lnluior uclo you wlll ands-mun your onlln bullnou llfo. An you confident that your gala wlll prolocl its conlonll Ugulmi uvon flu. or iholl’! l: ll largo enough lo contain all tho record: and valuables you should protect b night‘! You can b0 euro with u Taylor Sale.

Thou an Taylor Salon la IIIY lino u. which you will have flu

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Electrical Illtractor

WlI-I-NG AND IIPAIRINB

IINIST I- RAHDAY.

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DECEMBER 30. 1949

a —- Notes By

ll l: high time that all then: Dominion commercial and indus- trial enterprises, from rubber making to house building. were placed on a par with private com- mercial undertakings, able to sue and be sued in the ordinary courts of the land-Winnipeg ’I‘ribunc.

The once popular blue serze suit has almost become the “Dodo" of the Canadian mate's attire to- day. Perhaps army headquarters noticed this and gleefully con- cluded that the cloth was the logi- cal choice for a distinctive lini- forln. If so, headquarters failed to appreciate the basic cause of the decline and fall of the blue serge