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VPN, TUESDAY, AUGUST i, 1040 it Marathon Session

A Landon despatch recently told of the Brit- lsb Hausa of Commons "being in session can- tinuousiy for 36 hours or more."

No record there, comments the Ottawa Journal. In 1913 our House of Commons, battling over Sir Robert Borden's bill to present the Brit- ish Admiralty with three dreadnoughts, met at tlirea o'clock on a Monday and sat right through without a break until midnight the following Saturday-a stretch of 115 hours. I

During this marathon session our MPs at- tended the House in relays; and as the week want on it was not an uncommon sight to sea some of them entering the Chamber at midnight for their "watch" suitably garbed for a bit of slumber; one of them, Sir Herbert Ames, appear- ed once with pillow and nightcap. _

Through the whole of the 115 hours, night and day, ‘oratory flowed unceasingly, with all recoivls smashed in the duration of individual speeches—if such they could be called. One member, David Lafortunc, began speaking at midnight and was still on his feet at seven o'clock in the morning-a feat which made Palmerston’: famous "dusk-to-dawn" oration (actually Palm- erston spoke less than fivehours) seem nothing. Still another member, Dr. Molloy of Provencher, rose one night to soy that Norman Angell‘s "Great lllusion" contained many facts germane to the debate, whereupon he proceeded to read and place the entire volume on Hansard.

Leading the Liberal Opposition then was Sir Wilfrid Laurier. Sir Wilfrid, however, took little part in the blockade, usually ret_iring from the House around ll o'clock each evening. The real leader of the obstruction was William.Pugs- ley, a redoubtable strategist who would have de- lighted Parnell. Pugsley, it was said, remained

' in the House or on coll for 75 hours at a stretch, and his skill and resourcefulness won for him such popularity with his party that he was then, without challenge, the favorite to succeed Lour- Ior.

Pugsley, though, was backed up by able captains. Dr. ("Red Michael") Clark, on English- man who had learned his liberalism under John Morley and Joseph Cowen, and who was a speak- er of extraordinary distinction; "Fighting Frank” Carroll, a New Brunswicker whose industry matched his ability; Charles Murphy, with his avar alert shillelagh; Rodolphe Lemieux, a poet who had strayed into politics and who was an able, if sometimes too florid, orator; "Ned" MacDonald, who was the personification of "Sergeant Buzzfuz"; Hugh Guthrie, who was once "the rising hope" of Liberalism, but lived to be- come a Tory; Jacques Bureau, who was a stormy petrel; plus a half dozen or more others who could hold their own in any parliament any- where.

And the odd thing about this great and prolonged controversy, or seemingly odd at least in the light of the present, is that it was all over a sum of $35,000,000. Nowadays, our parliamen- tarians spend that amount without as much as notice of it.

Boom In Advertising

National advertisers in the States boosted their total newspaper investments from $169,- 000,000 in 1939, the last year comparatively un- affected by the war, to $389,261,000 in 1948, tha latter total being almost as large as the combined total of newspapers, magazines, farm magazines and network radio in 1939, according to "Expenditures of National Advertisers in Newspapers: 1948."

The Bureau of Advertising, American News- paper Publishers’ Association, resumed publica- tion of this annual advertisers‘ expenditures re- port which was suspended in 1945 due to the war. The sixty-page volume gives reports on 1,102 advertisers and 2,536 products or services. It in- cludes the 1948 newspaper expenditures of all national advertisers calculated to have spent $25,000 or more.

Of the I00 leading newspaper advertisers

_ in i948 the publication's tables show that i2 were not on the list of 100 leaders in 1939. Of the 88 who were on the 1939 list, 77-or all but seven -showed increases in 1948 over a decade ago.

Most spectacular increases, the tables re- veal, were those of the four 1948 leaders: Gen- eral Motors Corporation, which increased its ex- penditures from $9,136,853 in i939 to $15,282,- 575 in 1948; Procter & Gamble Company from $3,143,057 to $8,373,006; Colgate-PalmoIive-Pleet Company $2,127,298 to $7,969,983, and Lever Bros, $2,900.41" to 37.36.123- '

Four Industries iilt

Over the balance of i949, federal trade ex- perts believe effects of the sterling area cuts in dollar purchases will be felt in this country mainly by faur industries, says the St. Catharines Standard. .

They are the copper industry, the aluminum Industry, the wood products industry, including pulp and paper, and the tobacco industry.

The apple-growing industry, after glimpsing a ray of hope in last May's token British order amounting to $1,500,000, will have to resign it- self to the knowledge thatvtha door of the Brit- llh market is to be closed tightly against it.

Altogether, loss of business aver the bai- anee of 1949 is expected by government experts to amount to not lass than $60,000,000, nor more shu $M,flD,00. For a nation with a total export baflnasa wail in excess of $3.%,IIII, those fig-

fla of the figures for tha remainder of " yoarlsno guarantee erto the j‘ randi in 1950. That is because

area a not particularly largo. They amount to by than tliraa par cant of the total. The government experts point out, however,

existing contracts era being allowed to run their course. The bulk of foodstuffs and raw materials which Great lritain and sterling area countries import from Canada is protected by forward contracts to at least the end of the present year.

JEDITORIAL NOTES!

The Law Courts are on vacation for the month of August.

I U I - The coolest spot in Charlottetown with its 92 degree heat Saturday was tho night race track. I Mail coaches for the speedy distribution of passengers and mail introduced in England for the first time this date I784. We are still behind the times here. '

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. u ' a a "Early in September we purpose publishing a verbatim report of the Watterworth case, the Attorney-General having arranged to our having access to the official stenographic report.

Moncton is natu-irally fdvourable to the West Coast ferry, as that city would benefit consider- ably from our Western trade, which would tend

to try-pass Summerside.

Ontario is sending a gift to It! new sister- province of Newfoundland — a Speaker's chair for the House of Assembly. We suppose it will‘ have a-Il the trimmings.

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Newfoundland wants West Indies as 11th Province. Mr. Gregory Power, executive assistant to Premier Joseph Smallwood suggested in Kings- ton, Jamaica, recently that the British West Indies take steps toiexplore that possibility.

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The "fairIy-well-off" Haligonian who dis- tinguished himself by being orrested ‘on Satur- day in New York in connection with a $356,000 jewel robbery must have been suffering from a heat wave, and now he is in the "cooler."

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According to the Audit Bureau of Statistics report, up till July 15, 15 per cent more tourist cars have entered Canada than at the corres- ponding date last year, and we have had our share, as those having eyes must have seen.

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Col._D. A. Mackinnon, D.S.O., etc., ls back large as life in track racing and in Provincial Exhibition affairs. Both will benefit from his ex- perience and enthusiasm. lt has ever been so. Where he leads others follow as a matter of

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That 21 of Europe's 27 countries still have food rationing is a clear enough indication that we are a long way from over-production of food. Those countries must, however, sell their own products in a dollar market if they are to be able t'o satisfy their foodstuff requirements.

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Discovery by a United States destroyer off the Atlantic, coast of "large patches of dust an thesurface stretching as for as the eye can see", is not readily explainoble. Soil conservationists will lose no time in pointing out that the proper place for that dust i: on somebodfs farm.

The new wing of Fort BeauseiourMuseum near Sackville, N. B. will be formally opened by Mines Minister Colin Gibson today. The new ad- dition is to be named "the John Clarence Webster wing" as a tribute to Dr. J. C. Webster, Chair- man of the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada.

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Churchill has gone to Italy to recuperate within easy distance of Cripps who has gone to Switzerland for a similar purpose. Were Attlee to take a vacation in France there would be a lclonziderable relief in England's torrid political

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U I ¥ _ The present session of Parliament at West- minster may see peercsses gain admission to the House of Lords and will certainly see the de- laying power of the august body reduced from two years to one. In either case their lordships’ say in British affairs will be materially reduced. G i i

Thomas Gainsborough, English artist died, this date 1788. He was one ‘of the six original members of the Royal Academy. Was a rival of Reynolds in portraiture and of Richard Wilson in landscape. He, more than any other artist should be called the father of modern English painting. He painted over 300 canvasses, 220 of which were portraits.

Mr. J. F. Pouliot is not on "independent" Liberal any longer. When he shared desks with Professor Cyrus Macmillan he was "at outs" witli Mockalilie King and ignored his leadership. But no sooner had Mr. St. Laurent been adapted lead- er than the redoubtable Mr. Pouliot swung back into line and ran, and was elected, as an adher- ent of the official Liberal party. But ha still re- mains independent in his views and criticisms.

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Canadian prisons come in for criticism by New York counsel for iewel thief Gerard Gra- ham Dennis. "Their system," he declared, "has been very different from ours. They seam to have no provision for parole. Dennis had no chance in prison for learning a trade . . . (and at 16) was put in prison to mix with hardened crim- inals." The charges are not altogether fair but there is enough truth in them to ‘remove any complacency we may feel as to our treatment of offenders.

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Matrimonial murders are becoming so com- mon nowadays, that when a Quebec farmar walk- ed into the Granby police office and announced ha had just murdered his wife, thara was scarcely a ripple of ‘surprise. The Canadian Press tobarly relates that when "Constable Auger of the Gran- police said he visited the farm shortly af- terwards he found 31-year-old Rose Aimee La- porta strangled to death with a kitchen towel." Ali e matter of routine, not worth getting ax-

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INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION

Handicrafts, which are being re- introduced as a feature of the Pro- vincial Exhibition this year, played a prominent part in the exhibitions of years gone by. The following account of the fair held ln Char- lottetown in November, 1852, is from Howard's Gazette:

"The Industrial Exhibition came off on Wednesday, the 3rd inst, as advertised, in the lower room of the Temperance Hall. There was a large concourse of visitors of all ranks and both sexes. it seemed ta be the opinion of all competent persons that the woollen and other home manufactured goods were, in general, greatly eu- perlor to those exhibited lust year, and in some cases far superior to anything ta be met with in the shops.

"The afternoon of is single dny in November, however, is too short a_ space of time to enable people to ‘form a proper judgment; and we trust that. at. the next Exhibition the better part of a week will at least be allowed to this purpose. We trust also, 'ere long, to see the Central Society erect an Agricul- tural Hail 1n Charlottetown, for the purpose of holding public meet- ings and exhibitions in; and, we doubt not, the community gener- ally, if called upon, would contri- bute liberally towards such an use- ful edifice. J "By the politeness of the Sec-

retary we are enabled to give n list of the prizes:

"For best 10 yards of cloth spun

and wove an the Island but finish- ed at a Plctou mill, Mrs. Douglas,

£1, 10s.; best 10 yards wool grey homespun, milled and pressed, James Monaghan, Lot 47, £1; best 10 yards fancy mixture, Miss Mc- Beth, £1; best 1O yards Shepherd's plaid, Mrs. Jos. Lane, £1; beat 10 yards plain flannel, Mrs. Jas. Lane,

10s.; best 10 yards homespun, wo-

men's wear, Mr. D. MacPhee, North

River, 10s.; best 1O yards wool nnd

cottonp women's wear, 10s.;

best 2O yards of carpeting.

Mr. W_ Mulch, Hopeton, Lot

48, £2: pair of horse rugs,

Miss Susan Seaman. £1; hearth

rug, made of woolen yarn, Miss

Catherine Stewart. Lot 48. 10s.;

hearth rug, rags, Mrs. C. Stewart,

Charlottetown, 10s.: best woolen

fancy plaid shawl, 10s.; best Shep-

herd's plaid shawl, Mrs. Jos.

Lord, 10s.; best net shawl. Ml‘!-

Craswell, St. Eleonora, 10s.; best.

long shawl or scarf, Mrs. Cras- well, 10s.; best pair of thick knit woolen stockings for overalls, Miss, Louisa Bryenton, 5a.; best pair, glove; Miss MacKlnnon, 3s.; best

a pair mittens, Mrs. Douglas. 3s:

best linen table cloth, Miss S.

Rude, 10s.; best 1-2 doz. linen tow-

els, "McIntyre", 10s.; best 3 linen

sacks, "McBeth", 15s.; best bonnet

of grggg plalt, "WBITGII", 105.; 119M.

3 sheepskin mats, dyed and dres-, sed, C. Crass, 10s.: best. 6110190111!

axe, Elisha Weatherby, 55.; best

manure fork. Elisha Weathcrby, 55-;

be“ hay fork, Wm. McKenzie, 5a.

"Agricultural products: Best tub of butter, W. Smallwood, 10s.; best cheese, W. I-lude, 10s.; best Swede turnips, R. Bagnnll, 3s.; best table carrots, Bryentan, 3a.; best. field carrots, Judge Peters. 38-; be“ blood om, 1.. w. Call. 31-1 b"! rnengel wortzel, L. W. Call.

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bent pumpkins, Judge Peters. 31.. best ears Indian corn, T. Hunt. St. Eieanofs, 3a.; best onions, '11: Cairns, Bedeque, 3a.; best “‘ Scantiebury, 3a.; beat apples, W- Dsrk, 3s.

"On the recommendation of the judges the committee ordered U" following sums to be paid to the exhibitors of sundry articles not enumerated in the published list at premiums: John McMillan for e piece of cloth on account of colour. 5n. 3a.; John Calledin, Lot 48. for a piece of plaid drugget, an ac- count of its texture and 91'1""- 5s, 3d.; Mrs. Perkin, for a lllbflllll‘ woollen shawl but not Wave In 0|" piece, 5a. 3d,; Mrs. Robert Robert- son for 3 sacks, 5n. 3d.t Mr- "ll5" McFarlarie for a piece of anclrinl. 5s. 36.; for linen bedtlck. 5l- 34--

- nnd i...- white linen, 5|. ae; Mrs. R-

Robertson for a counterpana. 5a. 3d;. Miss Jane Hunt. 0f 51- 51"’ net's, n girl under 12 years 0f lit. for a white cotton bed-Gill". 5'4 Miss Susan Seaman for a Pill‘ l" horse rull. 3t; “Ill ""3"" I-fyile for a woollen counterparts. 3a.; Mina Catherine McLeod for n woollen counter-pane, -3I-; Jim" McKenzie, Lot 4B. for a churn, 5a.: Georle Smith, New GIIIIW. l" I turnip sewer. 191’

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Two newspaper reporters have mode o. survey of t5 ‘Porontn cock- tail bars with results that’. reflect significantly on the cupldity of a. good many in the retail liquor busi- ness. They found that. elx lounges served a quarter of an ounce less than they advertised and that an- other two served an eighth of an ounce less than the amount rep- . sensed to customers as the mint- mum drink. some others served ex- actly what they advertised but by false markings on the measuring glass gave the customers the un- pression they were getting more. Nona served less than the legal minimum of one ounce.

The researchers into alcoholic fraud discovered that; acme of the measuring glasses were too small to hold the size of drink advertised. In other instances a. false bot/tom in the "shot glass" fooled the ous- tomgrs. It was estimated that where the drinks were a quarter of an ounce short, the cocktail bar oper- atars were cheating their patrons to the extent of $121.50 s. day, or $85 a week.

On the basis of general prnctlce it Ls probable that an ounce and a quarter drink cost the lounge own- ers an little as 14 cents. So at 50 cents a. drink they were making a prom of more than 250 per cent, and somewhat less than that. on more expensive liquor — provided the customer got. it at the Socent. price. There is often a graduated scale of prices, depending on the brand of liquor served.

One Toronto cocktail bar netted $100000 In six months, according to court evidence when the part- ners engaged in a law cult. It. is obvious that. aside altogether from social disadvantages. cocktail bus can degenerate into a. racket - and that they did so in most. of the places visited by the Toronto in- vestigatars.

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And an easy pad-nag to ride out a. mile.

May I govern, etc.

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A new bottle "whintlal. lllrlyl and pours, and has an arrange- ment in the lid for bolting an egg or heating the baby's bottle.” A more thoughtful inventor would think up e--- further attachment that would try fish or freeze a brick of ice cream. — Ottawa Citi- nan.

‘no olil railway pay ear was n glorified caboose with a pay win- dow at. the end where the man ro- eeived their pay in hard money and signed the payroll receipt. The pay oar disappeared with the camlng of better banking facilities and the use of cheques instead of cash. The old pay car was the most popu- lar car on the road and its arrival was hailed with joy by workmen and townspeople alike. If it hap- pened to be a day or so late, there was great anxiety in all quarters. -— Fort William Times-Journal.

. There In nothing old-fashioned about, a need for moral leadership. There is still Christian leadership in plenty available in all churches. The churches are turning from ultra-conservative ideal of past decades. There never was a better time for the good people who do not go to church to learn some- thing about the way it is facing today's problems. They would often be surprised to find that the church they have been think- ing of as a stuffy relic in more progressive than they are. — Corn- wall Standard-Freeholder.

It in not the history of the tree that absorbs a man workingithe wood on hie bench. It la the cam- pellirig concentration of fashioning its shape, cutting away the defeats, affirming the strength of his ma- terial, bringing out its beauties and favoring its virtues. There In a close harmony between brain, hanrl, tool and wood as he planes ta his lines. He gives himself to his task and the petty worries of the workarlay world fall away. An the shabby exterior of his wood yields to his tool, the irritating rough- neu of external frictions are shed by his mind. It emerges cleansed and refreshed. — Victoria Times.

In the Soviet Union, music, drama and painting muss show the proper proletarian inspiration, or suffer condemnation as value- ieaa by the central committee of the Communist party. Even the