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This month some 170,000 electors (if they all secret ballot whether Newfoundland is to (1) retain its present Com- mission system of Government, (2) return to Re- sponsible Government, or (3) unite with Canada. lfrthe vote is not final, that is if any one alterna- tive does .not poll a majority of,bollots, then a second referendum will be necessary.

According to the Atlantic Guardian, a.\vell- informed magazine of Newfoundland, it would appear that the plebiscite will actually be the final step in a long-drawn-out fight between those who favour Responsible Government and those who want to see Newfoundland become the 10th Commission Government, regardless of its merits and de-merits, does not represent a final alternative in the voting, since in five years, if that form should be chosen now, the people of Newfoundland would be faced with the some problem all over again.

From the day the Notional Convention open- od, in September i946, and indeed before that, it was obvious that a Responsible Government showdown Major Peter ,1. Cashin had been agitating for years in favor of restoration of the self-govern- ment status that was suspended when the Com- mission took over in i934, and in the early days of the Convention J. R. S ollwood entered the arena as a .igorous champ n of Confederation. Around these two men have crystallized the hopes and fears of individuals and groups throughout the country who stand opposed in this two-way

coming.

The last-minute plunge of Mr. C. A. Crosbie into the unexplored and unknown issue of Econ- orrric Union with the United States is simply on- otlrer angle to the Responsible Government fight. Mr. Crosbie wants the country to get back its own government so that it can then talk to Wash- ington as one government to another. There ap- pears to be a lot of support for the Crosbie plan, although there is no firm assurance that, having “Newfoundland would get anywhere with the United States. Certainly the "Economic Union with America" Party will draw off some votes from Confederation, which is said to be one of the motives of this new group.

‘ Whether or not Confederation would be the beet thing forNewfoundland, those who are be-

rhind the Confederate Association at least have something definite to put forward to the people. It is not a case of getting votes first and talking afterwards-Canada has made a definite offer to Newfoundland and the details of that offer have been made known to the people for study. In this respect the Confederates have the al- vontage over the Responsible Government League, the Economic Union with America Party, and all- oomers on that side of the fence.

The fight is now on in earnest, and, it has all the aspects of a general election battle. Target of both sides is the great body of voters who are caught between cries of "Newfoundland for New- foundlonders" on the one hand and "Baby Ion- llfll for Everybody" on the other. in the post those, says the Guardian, who promised the most usually got the most votes, and politics always showed its ugly head in elections. Today, how- ever, there is some ground for hoping that the people will not altogether be carried away by propaganda and promises in making a decision that is perhaps the most vital they have ever been

Railway fiesta hrui Revenues

The Transport Board's judgment on railway freight rates points out (page 16) that the oper- ating expenses of the two railways, between 1939 and 1946, increased lry $155 millions. That is a very large sum. But the Transport Board failed to give due weight to the equally striking fact that railway revenues-the gross earnings from traffic carried-rose from $325,208,000 in 1939 to $692,825,000 in 1947. In the result, says the Winnipeg Free Press,- and it totally defeats the argument upon which advocates of higher freight rates rel-y,-the combined operating profit of the two railways rose from $49,262,000 in i939 to $71,421,000 in 1947. That is, after all the high- pail, the railways were-left with $71.4 millions of profit instead of $49.2 millions.

The Transport Board, in seeking to show that rising casts have hurt the railways, cites not 1939 but i940 against 1947. profit was $00,558,000 on traffic carried of v Thus, says the Board, an increase in business between 1940 and 1947 of over $300 millions produced~a smaller profit-$71.4 mil- lions, ogolnrt $80.5 millions. lut i940 surely war a year of exolbitont profit. On this basis, the railways would be conceded the right to make some $170 millions of profit in 1947. The most partisan advocate of higher rates must agree that a comparison with a full war‘ year is not admiss- oile- It}: fair. bovmr. to proceed back rm the pro-war years. .lf this is tlone it will be found profit in 1947 compares fevorehty with $30.6"milllons in i936; $39.5 11937;, $36.5 millions in i936, and so

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rose from 129,362 in 1939 to 180,353 in 1946. The payroll went up accordingly. But, naturally, more employees are required to look after $646 millions of taffic than S325 millions of traffic.

Actually, while railway costs went up $155 millions between 1939 and 1946, the bus- iness done by tlie railways increased by $321 millions and the profits from- $49 millions to $71 millions. ,

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The end of the war in North Africa, this date i943.

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It is good news to learn there is prospect of an increased acreage of potatoes this year. Potatoes is the ‘Cash Crop" on which farmers most depend. _

I i I I So there is likely to be a new FederoHPr-o- vincial Conference after the election to settle taxation problems. Wonder if Mr. King will be there to issue the invitations.

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There ore to be more than usual transfer of United Church ministers from the Province at the coming Conference ct Sackville, it is re- ported. ln some districts almost every charge is due for e change. -

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island sand for gloss manufacturing was od- vocated by the Development Commission. ap- pointed by the Mathieson Government. The main drawback then was that glassware could be importedfio cheaply there was not much in- ducement to invest capital in such an enterprise locally.

Sir Ronald Ross, M.D., Medica-l investigator and discoverer. Was on the staff ofthe Lon- don College of Tropical Medicine, when he dis- covered that malaria was spread from one per- son to another by the Anopheles mosquito. Up till then it was believed it was the unhealthy tropical atmosphere that bred the disease, and Sir Ronald's discovery led to an entirely new pol- icy treating epidemics.

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Hudson Bay Route shipping and Unitea Kingdom business conditions will be discussed in Regina May 18 by Mr. Peter Dalgliesh, presi- dent and managing director of the shipping firm of R. S. Dalgliesh Ltd., Newcastle, Co-op_era- tives Minister L. F. Mclntosh said recently. Mr. yDalgliesh will also seek information on the po- tential demand for British goods in Saskatchewan and elsewhere on the prairies. The first Dalg- liesh Line sailings to Churchill this season are expected shortly after mid-July. I I W I

Divorced persons who remorry have been des- cribed by Rev.- L. W. Fowler of Port Hope, Ontz, as "self-confessed adulterers." He told the Presbyterian Synod of Toronto and Kingston the Church's refusal to marry such persons created a problem. lf a Presbyterian clergyman refused to marry divorced persons he sent them "shop- ping around the various clergy for someone to solemni the marriage," Mr. Fowler said. Ho introduced a motion to set up a committee to invostigaie problems of divorce, remarriage and civil marriage. The present Marriage Act was outmoded, he said. The only grounds for div- orce was adultery. He urged an extension of the Marriage Act to provide for existing marital problems.

Dr. G. S. H. Barton, Deputy Federal Min- ister of Agriculture since 1932, reaches retire- ment age of 65 June 29 and may be succeeded by Mr. J. G. Taggart, now director-in-chief of the department's Agricultural Services Division. Dr. Barton, one-time Dean of Agriculture at Mac- donald College, in recent years has represen‘ ‘ Canada on the World Food and Agriculture Org- anization. He has been mentioned as a possible appointee as director-general of F. A. O. when he retires here. Mr. Taggart, a former Minis- ter of Agriculture for Saskatchewan, held sev- eral appointments in the Dominion Department during the war and now is chairman of the Agri- cultural Supplies Board as well as head of serv- ices. l _ . I I l I ln life, Viscount Bennett was a convinced and. enthusiastic imperialist and in death his wishes in this respect are being carried into ef- fect. The Duke of Gloucester, a brother of the King, and Mr. Norman Robertson, of Island stock, Canadian High Commissioner in London,’ were among the guests at a Royal Empire Society boll in aid of the Bennett Memorial Fund. The lam Viscount, who was a vice-president of the Society, lrft £2,500 ($10,000) to be applied on redemption of the mortgage on the society's building,~with the proviso that another £2,500 was to be given if £5,000 was raised by other means within a year of his death. The Society states £3,800 has been collected to date, and it is confident that the £5,000 goal will be reached by the anniversary of Lord Bennett's death, June 26. Q I I I

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Are the Maritime: benefitting at the ex- pense of the Prairies? In the House of Com- mons, Mr. Douglas Horkness (PC-Calgary East) renewed charges that Government policies hove led. to a "terrific" reduction in hog production in Western Canada. While Western production has fallen off, Eastern output has odvanged, he said, This was because of the Government policy of subsidizing Weaitern. feed shipments to Eastern Canada. it was on "arguable proposition" whether that whole- However, there was no doubt that the pol- icy operated against Western Canada, because it estern farmer's income. is this cognition Mr. William Iryce (C.C.F.-Sellrirk) renewed hi! "first for. the establishment of a hoard of Livestock Commissioners.‘ During stedy rt Agriculture estimates, he seltthat ll such e

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A mall's peoe fa estimated es one mile in 10 yeerl. which ls slower than anything except the progress of civilization. --Edrnoni.on Jour- n .

Two svceh on the nude and 50 on the rocks to whet. the average vacation adds up to. - Kitchener Waterloo Record.

To meat-ion but a. few, Mother's Day ts May 0; Father's Day. June 20; Children's Day, June 26; Na- tional Baby Week is May 10-17; Cleanup Drive, May 17-19. What. still 1s needed ls a Make Taxes Part of the Cosla-of-mvlng-Index Week. —'I‘omnta Financial Post.

If. ululer ideal British democracy and British lew, the death penalty can, be proved essential to deter- ring murders, then the majority of Britons will no doubt. sensibly seek to return the hangiman to office. But. 1f there is no upswing in copl- tal crimes, abolition will have e good chance to become permanent. 1n either case Canada has little to lose by waiting to see how Brit.- ain't; experiment works out. -—Van- couver Province.

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Argentine’: oorn crop has been unofficially estimated st 385,000,000 bushels as compared with the 194’! crop of 229,000,000 and 117,000,000 and 114,000,000 bushels tn 1945 and 1946. Last. year a farm ln New south Wales grew 21.000 worth of hybrid oom on eight. sores, about. 60 percent better than the yield of ordinary com. As e result 3,000 acres will be grown in Australia this year, and lt is predicted that. 50.000 acres will ‘be seeded in 1949. -.F'emlly Bea-aid end Weekly Star.

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oration --or both -of e. peniten- tiary when desperate convicts are so inadequately guarded that arms can be smuggled 1n to them. What wards should be used to describe this sort of supervision that made such smuggling possible, and that made it possible for two convicts to hide themselves in e. car and not be missed? What. words should be used to desalbe a system which allowed an automobile to leave the penitentiary’: main gate without, even s routine cheek of its eon- t-cnts: it is s sytem of supervision and operation that leads inevitably to death or the threat of death.- Kingston Whig-standard.

Delivering his Andrew ha; Leo- ture. on “Law and Custom," at st. Andrew's University. Lord Macmil- lan seld—- "The lover of our ancient. lews and ' tttutlons, which we have inherited from our fathers, cannot. but. look on virith some dis- may st the process which we see daily in operation around us where- by the customary common low of the lend, which has served us so well in the past, is being more and more superseded by a system of laws which have no regard for the usages and customs of the people, but. are dictated by “ideological theories?‘ Parliament. now micr- vened in matters formerly thought to be entirely outside its" scope. Un- necessary legal restrictions which interfered with freedom of action and the settled ways and customs of the people inevitably led to evasion and s. general lowering of moral standards. - Ipndon Times.

lush Henley. e Bristol beauty. tilted by her lover. flung herself from the $040. high Clifton Sus- pension Budge. That was in 1085. And the other day Sarah Henley -who became Mrs. Irene, of Croy- don Broad, Bristol - was buried. She died a natural death at 04. When she jumped the wind filled her arlnalfne and she perechuled down into the River Avon and was ‘ unconscious but. unhurt. The official history of the bridge relates: “First, the women turned a complete somereault, and her clothes formed e parachute, and she was blown across from the Somerset, side to the Bristol side of the river. "To the fact. that. she Jumped instead of felling freed first she undoubtedly owes her life, as, owing to her remaining in an upright. position during the greater part. of her descent and her dress acting as o. parachute, she escaped death." 1n more mod- ern times no one has survived the 250 ft. drop. ~1onclon Dariy Mall.

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At lest someone -- en English- man with an unusual faculty of observation - has discovered why telephone" cords get. twisted into tight and intractable knots. He says that most. men sud women pick up the receiver with the right hand, and then shift 1t to the left, which replaces the receive: on the rests. Every time this happens the cord ts given s kin-k, and in time many kinks make e big twist. This sounds reasonable. (True we have just. picked up the telephone. and discover that. we lift the re- cetvet with our left. trend. listen with our left. ‘oer, and replace the receiver with our left hand -bul then our cord ta not. klnked.) What. ls't.o be done about. it? Should the listener give the cord s. heir-hitch srouarl yconvenlent, chair? Should “o” he isbatlosrely pinch the klak out '

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greater dexterity with" his bend? Our guess ls that. he will go right on geltiflkl kinks in his.

“IOHAND DAD”

Bin-livers" tn these days of sophistication and plain speaking, nrany parents are bound lrlbtctons reaardlnz ters, and still cling to eflhustr- hush" attitude as far as their children are concerned. The re; sull- ia that. most. children have been kept. lu ignorance of "locus o! life." very often result- lut; in tragedies such as is being portrayed this week at the fi-ince Edward ‘Theatre, under. the title,

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I-t l5 quite true that the picture is far from perfect, and no doubt. for commercial Pll-YPWN. but. even 1f it. ls only successful in savlnz one boy or girl from e tragic mist-eke, 1s is well worth the effort.

Many of us like the "Mire. Blake" of the picture are very smug mg anxious to "protect. our children's Innocence." and not only that. may be busying ourselves endeavouring to lFlilrove other peoples’ morals. But tragedy struck the home-and let us not be too sure lb won't. strike ours. children plain scientific inform.» Hon on these matters t; the but (and against. such ‘

The day is not. too fa: distant, we hope. when our school hygiene text-books will include the "feats ,- of life" in s. more detailed men-

—-— I worsict urge eves-y t I when u men-m: terrlbb mo“ <4 adolescent iii-f :13 wrong with the regulations or op- gm; p, u, my, puma-L m“

‘Mme you: boys and suu see rs. and tf at all posslbl them so that you may review lolcther aad so be in e to “PW-B my points not under- 5l°°¢ B)’ "M11118 this picture You will find yourself drawn closer to you: children, and will thus meke 1t easier for them to talk over these intimate prob-

The theatre management is to be comment-la’ for making ft, pes- slbie for the people of Charlotte. town to view this vital film. -

A nmum" or amps liooks Just Published

Red Bepulch by Peter Slmonds (Adamo Press, Montreal) is e story of adventure behind the Iron Cur- tain. The finned" crew of e Len- csster piloted by Flight Lleuc. "Rod" White, DEC. R..C.A.F.. ex- Mounile from Moose Jaw, bailed out over Hamburg 1n tire final days of the war. Their expeplences as prisoners of war end their es- cape with some eighty others the Russian lines provide plenty of notion. The author's attitude to the Red Army ls indicated by the title.

Ranger, Sen Dog of the Royal Mounted By Charles S. Sirens. Il- lustrated by Kurt. Wiese (John C. Winston Co. $0.75). How could e slx-manths-old puppy, a. Barnoyede. one of the oldest breeds of do; in the world. have come to be adrift 1n Davis Strait. in e kayak? That was what puzzled the men o1 the on the Mounted patrol boat 8t. Roch. Fr-- rrally they decided in give Ranger for safekeeping to e. lonely boy in Halifax Harbour, and the dog's life settled down to be quiet and uneventful. But fete took s hand. and the quiet fireside gave place to the wastes of Northlsnd and a killer Eskimo and the troll of the gold watchoharm. Roger and Ranger. side by side, plunged through adventure after adventure until they not only solved rs mys- tery but’. soiled triumphantly into Vancouver on the 5L Roch. Here is another great‘ dog story. Fucked full of excitement and action that will make Ranger, Sen Dog of the Royal Mounted, sake his place s- lang aide Silver Chief, Valiant and Lassie Come Home.