The Quebec Public Service Commission, for
instance, already has been granted legislative juris
diction over truck freight rates, although it has
taken no action pending uniform action by other
Provinces in cooperation with Federal authorities.
REMINDERS.
The sorry pilgrimage that has been an after
math of the war is over. The last group of Gold
Star Mothers has knelt by the White Crosses in
France and is now back at home.
In all 6,669 have gone over to stand above the
bit of earth their sons made forever American,
as Rupert Brooke made his ‘‘corner of a foreign
field forever England.” The money that it has cost
has been justifiably spent. For with them, of
course, the war is not yet over. The boy is still
away.
To have given them the opportunity to stand
at the simple shrines which mark their sacrifice
was the least the country could do for them; to
have made possible for them those few moments
of odd exaltation was no less than a duty.
Now, coming back with their sorrow, they bring
to mind their plight. They live on as reminders
of the folly of gunfire, the stupidity of the bayonet
and the everlasting futility of war.
THE CHAMPION OF SILVER.
Under the above heading the current number of
Engineering & Mining Journal compliments Senator
Key Pittman, former Alaskan, for his valiant services
to the silver mining industry of the country. His
latest achievement, the eight-power agreement to
restrict government sales and promote the use of
silver, which is one of the concrete results of the
London Economic Conference, is but one of many
that he has rendered.
