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TIIE BIIARLIITTETOWII GUARDIAN

Morning Daily iFounded in i881)

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VAITITAHLTI-ISUIGT 1942-

Archdeucon Scott's CyniCism

Tlic wicran and venerable Archdealcon F. Scull of {jut-hm has wrillcn in caustic lcrml I‘! llu- llomrcul liIi/ivllé as full\l\\'53

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lruuic ilccau, and its will? rlvfl" §llel°lle5 {mm glp- gca-luiaril is the pathway l0 both. lllc Dom‘ llllull and tlu- lhitcil States. and as air and sub- lnjlfillp aiiziclq: miglv. cndlv ilzlmngc our QHCIJCC Ilriilgr‘, 5n bluclviuq- the Si. Lzwvrcuce route for uizmy months and possibly yours, for two twisted steel spans h: still beneath the surtacc, and as flit important aluminum works 3t -'\l'\'ld3- alld the cities of llisicrii (Ymmla lie m)?“ l" 5llllm5e as‘ saults from ab» air by an uver»L;ll>rad<)r roule. rE' cmlrsc shorld be had at once tu assistance ff0lll our great ally to the South. A: day fill" d3)’ passes, we have to have our ears fillcd with talk. m; rd defence, bur of aim-conscription pro- paganda. (if coursc. in a democracy. we nluili tolergtc free speech, even if it is uttered by people who do not know what they an talking about’. My suggestion is that, while allowing this privi~ lcgc, we should take steps at once to prevent a Pearl Harbor surprise on this gateway of the continent.

"I would propose that, in view of the peril that comes in this war from waste of time, we should invoke the terms of our alliance with the United States and invite the American army to send three or four of its divisions to guard our shores. They would consist of artillery, anti-air- craft batteries and infantry. This army would constitute s wall of dcfcnce around the arenas of our parliaments, so that discussions pro and con on the Plcbiscitc might be continued without danger to our hClOVCrI Canada. After all, the Un- itcd States cannot afford m lose the war because we squabble, American troops are already on guard in Ncvvfoundlaurl anti Northern Ireland and arc now bring svlll to England. \\'e are told, rightly or wrongly. that their introduction l0 lllc fll<l<‘<l colony has brought in many reforms such as better roads, better housing conditions sud oven pisiciiririug milk. We could imag- Illc what a roiuluc from our complacency in this llupriilvclcil civrucr of Canadian life would re- sult from the [YYPSPHCQ of troops who felt the dangers ihzu lonmvtl ovcr North America from the wild Pris: Cfiflsls of Quebec. lVbctbcr or not HCllFlu on illr liucs l have suggcslcrl is possible at flu‘ prcscui iinif’. l lrn-ivc it in "llllllilry and naval and 1dr exports m dccidc, but uubodv can read the .~‘i)(‘f‘t-'ll(‘.~‘ of PTPllIIPl‘ (iodbout without a thank- ful feeling that in T1€§li quarters our French- Weilflllfl Cfllllpiilriflis scc zhc danger that threat- ens us this spring. Tu quote, wit], a Change’ H“ old Ixuin hymn,

"Tilie fimcs arc very evil,

The hour is waxing lair, Be careful and kcrp vigil

Th0 I'll,'.\' ic at llic gate,"

(Sltucdl Fruanmzicx GEORGE Scurr. Qucbrc Alflrch (uh. I012.

_____________________ New Tax Convention

Good ucws to Canadian investors in American securities was contained in the recent announce- ment of a new fax convention between Canada and the United Sialcs. 'I‘he Dominion Gflvsrn- mom also hnpcs to lucuofit substantially, Revenue .\Illll>l€l' ilibsim explained, through "the avoid- aucc of duublc iflXlilfill, the prevention of fiscal evasion-and the general promotion of the flow of commerce between the two countries."

Briefly, tho convention follows along the lines of a previous convention which existed from

i936 uufil .\pril loll. Deduction (taxation) at the source in the lfnilcd States was increased in i941 from 5 to 27 1-2 per cent 0n dividends, interest, rents, royalties and other periodic pay- ments Coming tn residents in Canada. The new convention rcduccs this tn I5 per ccnt as and from the lust ilil_\’ of _l.'um.1r_v, 194i. Canada also deduct: 1;’, pcr ccui in respect of interest, divid- ents and rr)_\'aliics going to the United States, so that there now exists substantial equality of de- ducfion at tlv- source between the two countries.

lndividuzils rc-"idcut in Canada who are not citizens of flu» United Slates arr not subject to the graduated rrilcs nf fax in the United States and arc um rc-quircrl f0 file Llnitcd States re- turns, unlu-s they luivc zm office or place of busi- ncss ilrt-rciu.

Fur p.'ii'<‘ni rouipzuiiirs in Canada rczeiving divi- dl-uds from wholly nwvgrl subsidiaries in the Un- iu-d Sirius. 1hr ilcduciiun at the source is reduc- (‘ll in Q pvr i‘(‘ll|.

.\s 23w ouivciuiiui civmcs liiln forcc on ihc first day of _l5lllll1ll'_\'. llLll. .1 rcfuud will be made of all i.'i.\':'s lli‘llllt'li‘ll zu ilic suurcc in excess of tlic i5 pm‘ ccni ur 5 p'.'i' ccui ralc without application Tic-lug mzulc thorn-I'm‘. us the rcfiuids will be made

by dirsciiuii of the Government of the United Siaics through the mciliimi of corporations and

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of information between the revenue authorities in each coimtry “insofar as such information may be of use to the authorities of the other con- tracting state in the assessment of the taxes to which the convention relates." Matters of this kind arc public property in the United States, but not in Canada, where federal income tax returns may m; be dcvulgcd even to succcssi0n duties su- illorilics of a Province without the consent of the estate of the tax payer. The new convention goes far to remove such secrecy. at least insofar as investments of citizens of Canada in the United States, and vfn vans, sreconcerned.

Six Weeks of

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Our House of Commoni. says the Qllawl- Journal, has been sitting for six weeks, ind ll‘ ready members have read or spoken words which fill some 1,200 pages of Hausard.

The first definite accomplishment of the ses- sion was the passing of the plebiscite bill. last week. For a month the members opened their hearts on the debate on the Speech from the Throne. For a fortnight they discussed the plebiscite. And already they are making plans for an Easter adjournment of a couple of weeks after which, but without any improper 1185i!’ the budget will be brought down.

The House has not been sitting Wednesday and Friday evenings. Nowhere is there any sign of urgency, any indication that the members feel they are wasting time and money, that cabinet tniuislers in this emergency could be b¢tt€r em- ployed running their departments than sitting lhrough dull and repetitious debates.

Nobody will read the Hausard rrport of this session without a sense of depression. There is the political by-play, the jockeying for tactical position, which make the reader wonder if the llouse knows the Japan's-c are at large in the Pacific, that Germany is threatening the world. Little in these 1,200 pages speaks of drive or force or inspiration; painfully little shows any under- Ztauding of the deadly peril in which we live t0-

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EDITORIAL NOTES

We should be free from equinocial galcs round about the 20th, seeing experiences we have al- ready gone through.

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‘In Westmont residents have been fined $10, Wllli $4 expenses, for non-effcctivc observance of black-outs.

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The S. S. Prince Edward Island must be in poor shape, when with all six boilers going she takes ten hours to negotiate the passage to Tor-

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As the Irishmen of the city afe not going to parade on the 17th this year, it does not matter much whether or not the streets are fit to walk upon dry-shod on that historic day.

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Sugar in Australia, like wheat here i5 at a dis- count. Because of thesmaller quantity of sugar Purchased from Australia this year by Great Blllalll. 850v! 450,000 tons of sugar cane cannot be harvested in Queensland this year. Production of sugar will be about 60.000 tons below the out. Pill f0!‘ 1940-41, wllcn 260.000 ions were madc.

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Remembcrf-in fighting japan we are not op- Pusfd Y0 a civil -cd,—far lass Clrrisuun, foe. ja- Palls Conception of war-fare is “women and children first-strike at the hearts and homes of the enemy.” They have done so in l-loug Kong, and for lack of white women and children have taken flic yroung lads in uniforms, ticd them io- gfilllcr. truFsed them, and then gratified their blood lust l)_\'l)3_V0ilClliil;1 thcm. Uf such is ihc Kingdom of l-Iell.

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Lucknow fell this date 1858; the Indian Mui- iug broke out in I857 at Mecrut; the chief ccuircs of the war were Delhi, Cawilpore and Luckuoiv; Cawuporc was the scene of the “Bloody Well"; Luclrlloiv is celebrated for the relief brought to the British garrison by General Havelock; with ll"! Calllure of Delhi, the headquarters of th‘: rcbcl troops. the back of the rebellion was broken; the Derby-Disraeli Ministry llicn transferred the

(iovernment from the East Indies C0., to the’

Clown; the last flames of the Mutiny, kept 3ll8llt_ b)’ Nanna Sahib, were quenched by Lord Canning 1859-62, but the unrest in many parts, “Peclally Bcngalitha: bien serious cver sincc.

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Not before time, the Federal Govgmmgm i; lll-‘llflng In attempt to economize in stationery. Every newspaper knows in this connection sinful waste by the host of bureaux now in existence. A five men committee, with Mr. Justicc T. C, Davis has been appointed m investigate and re. port. The committee was formed after Mr. C. U. Staplcton, manager of office services for the Canadian National Railways, told a gathering of interdepartmental officials that Canada faces a stationery paper shortage of 100,000 tons this year. Suggestions from various departments at the meeting included use of cheaper paper, re- duction of size of forms and elimination of un- necessary types, economy in use of kraft enve- lops. substitution of ordinary printing for em- bossing on letter-heads and use of both sides of

letterheads.

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Because he has accepted socialist Sir Stafford Cripps as his deputy in the House of Commons. Mr. Churchill has roused the indignation of the old-time laissez faircs of Cliveden days, and now the two Astors, of The London Times. and The Sunday Timcs are joining with the Daily Mail and Evening Standard and other malconicnts with a view to curbing the powers of the Prime Minister, who is also head of the Department of War. The curious part of the controversy is that one half of the critics blame Mr. Churchill for having appointed Lord Beavcrbrook, subsequently dropped, io the production Nlinisiry, where it is alleged lie got at ioggcrhcads with both army administrators and industrialists. retarding instead of expediting. hence his substitution by Mr. Oliver Lytileiou. a socialist, in whom ihc other half object. Altogether .\lr. (‘hurchill has not his sorrows to sock running the Empire and the

prevention of fiscal evasion" for an exchange war, not io mention the House of Commons, I v

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IIIITES BY TIIE WAY

Pass: e inlo 0U!" hum‘ “I u“ travel agency 0f 1'50""! c°°k 5‘ 50;; l; m’ interest to multitudes who» convenience, comfort. and pleasure it has served so 1011C- Forlunslely, its name, the girdle I! has put round about. the earth, mmains. 1t has seemed s. superior- ity to some to smile at Cook's tour- isiis. Yet manna 000k 6v 5°" h!" no mean plane 1010118 “will” Ind benefactors; 1nd they hid u" imagination of amt snlemrlwl- mamas Cook began work at 10. He was gardener, wocd turner. Prlfllfil‘ publisher, Bible under. Baptist homo missionary. pmclwr "1 M- totaiism. A temperance excursion by s special train 0n lhe Midland Railway in 1841 was his first ven- tum into transportation. He mnclo excurslonlng his business. In his axrflflflilflkllll with howl keep- ers he invented those coupons for hotel bills now familiar to most of mankind. His son. Jill"! M5501"- was over here 1:1 1866 and studied the North American business. n,“ he provided for special pas- saucer traffic on the railroads M the Continent. His steamship and postal service on the Nile, his how] and hospital" at. Luxor, his transportation of the British wounded and ill afier the battle of Tel el-Keiblr, oi Genera] Gordon and British armies, marked suf- ficiently his activity, H; was mas- ter of the Nile. He extended 000k- lsln to India at the invitation of the Government He devised means for the safely of pilgrims to Mecca. I-Ie steered the late Gen-nan Em- peror u-p Vesuvius and on his comic expedition to the Holy Land. He established an frrmense collateral business of banking. exchange. shipping He got rich, as he deserv- ed. He and his father added to the experience and the happiness of millions of men and women. It, is just» that their honorable name should continue to be written and heard - New York Times.

Our men aro lighting not. bo- mus; fighting is their chosen pro- fession, but. for a concrete purpose: to preserve the dcorncics of de- mocratic life st. h:me_ They can- not b; expected to face the savage ordeal of battle fire unless they arc certain that. life at home is as free, wholesome and courageous as they left it. I! life at hflme be- comes tirnid or hysierlcal, if it de- generates into stupid wrangling, no command to go forward into the perils of battle can carry full weight What. our marines did at Wake Island In the face of over- whelming odds and nhai. General MacArihurs men are now cloin! 011 Bataan Peninsula and on Cox-regi- dor express the spirit of men who love and trust the way of llfe they left at home. Al. a time like this the individual citizen can con- tribute scmeihlng vital to the war effort. by self-discipline. He can assume an attitude of personal re- sponsibility for ih-e war. Itf he keepsfresh 1n mind the prlncirves for which it is being fought. if he understands the lntimale relation between his daily life. his home, his job, his arcoclaiion urlih ifs friends. his cultural life and the fury of battle against the prophets of an- nihilation. he can strengthen our cause. Not only what he docs hut “hat he fAllIlik-r and says affects the mini war effort. - New York Times

Two hundred tons of rose hips gathered from the hedges of Eng- land and Scotland lail autumn have been turned int-o syrup for the older children in Britain who cannot. gel. a regular supply 0f oranges. Like the orange, rose hip-i are a rich source of vitamin “C" the anti-scurvy vitamin Before l-he war it. never occurzed to anybody to use rose hips, but. when the sup- ply of oranges durlndlcd a small army of Boy Scouts, Girl Guides. teachers and Wrmen's tistitute members turned out; into the lanes with their baskets Even house- wives who were expert Jam mak- ers found li- dlfflculf to IKGQQHIIIQ hlp hairs out of the syrup and the hips were therefore sent off to nino factories which have now pro- duced from them M0000 bottle of syfllv- Young childrfn are sipbin! ii. with rellm at the rate of one leaspoonful a day Two teaspoon- fuis in the twenty-four hours give all the vitamin C which older boys and girls require. Britain's min- istry of health are so pleased with the result that they are hoping for a much bigger collection of rose hips when autumn comes round again, _- By Robert Williamson.

Opposition will no doubt be met. by the proposed law in Ontario re- quiring those lntenduing marriage to submit to blocd tests. Legisla- tion seeking tho some object, but. broader l; scope, in fact, had to be withdrawn two years ago, because it was so violently opposed. It is difficult l-o understand the an- tagonism to this principle. It aims to benefit the general health of the people and bears the promise of healthier generations in come. Several states require such ex- aminations, and their experience with these laws has been splendid. Yo; them are prejudices no be over- come, and they die hard. -- Wind- sor star.

British Columbia ls to plant i0,- 000.00) young trees on iis logged- off lands this year. That, it is stated, ls the full schedule planned by the ibrcsst Brandi and will take all the seedings available in the Green Timber and Campbell River nurseries Ten million trees will require a lot. of handling and will replsnt ten w fifteen thousand acres of logged-off land. Prcpm. in; the land and planting will in- volve a lot of work and ihe ex- Dsll-se will not be light. However, if British Columbia expects to keep in being tho forests whim provide the mater-in] for the provinces premier industry. there is nothing for it but to undertake the work and spend the money. - Vancouv- er Pivvinco.

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OVERSEAS MAIL

Sir:-.Prom tame no time 1 luvs brought to your attention cant whore s considerable volmno c! mull was lost. duo to curcumstanoes beyond f-hs control of this new"- mont. Buch a situation has just come to light. again and the Post- master General, Hon. Mr. Mulock, has asked that. the can be brollilit to your attention,

Word has been received that a westbound steamer, expected to reach Canada with 906 bags of mall on board, has been lost due lo enemy action.

Naturally anxiety will be felt by the addressees when letters and parcels they may have been ex- pecting fall to arrive and no doubt complaints against the Post Office will follow-you will, however, ap- preciate our position.

While writing on a Postal sub- ject, I might mention that the volume of Military snails shipped overseas continues to Increase. During the h-lendar year 194i some 5.566 ions of Military mall only were despatched-a gain of 3,568 tons over ihe calendar year 194-0. The mail forwarded overseas through the Base Post Offirc dur- ing i941 was made up as follows:-

11.413.B.'l0 letters.

1.346.751 pounds of newspapers and magazines,

9,571,138 pounds of parcels, ln- cluding tobacco gifts.

Scme 65,000,060 cigarettes are now helm-l Slllplkd monthly to our fighting services overseas by the Canadian Postal Corps. Ln playing their particular part in the en- deavour to "keep the smokes oom- lng" (as our troops request. repeat. edly in their brotucasts from Eng- land), Canada's Army Postal au- thorities are giving every possible attention to the careful and sys- lemalic handling c-f tobacco pay. Gel-B throulh the maib, and are Slllpplng a. supply sufficient to av- erage. roughly. 12s cigarettes per man oversaw. every week t0 our forces. As revealed by the break. down above of the mails shipped Over-lie“. the tobacco gifts are Just a part of the entire volume f’! mil- llflry mails passing through the Base Post Office.

The ellllrmoll-E 88in in the volume v1 military mars in 1941 and the fact. that. an uptrend continues, serves to emphasize the constant, need of co-operatlon by the man. ins Public so that the full time of the Canadian pasta] authorltics may be ‘levoled l0 expediting a regular flvw of malls rat-her than diverted to attend to letters which are im- Dlvprrly addressed or to re-pack and re-address parcels utrch for Wlllll 01' lldflqllflle preparation have been dflmgised in the malls.

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B. J. FARRELL Acting Director, Post Office Department, Ottawa. Marl"; 10

WE MUST BE FREE It. is not to be thought of that the

Of British freedom, which to the open sea

Of the warlzrs praise from dark antiqu y

Hath flowed, ‘with Dump of waters

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unw . Roused though it. be full often to Which“ spurns the check of salutary

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That this most famous stream in b0il5 and sands Shouldogsrish; and to evil and to K Be lost for ever. In our halls is uni! Armour of the invincible knights of We must‘ be free or dle, who speak the tongue Thai:

Shakespeare spake; the faith and morals hold

Which Milton held. In everything we are sprim l: Of earth's flfit blood, have titles o . -Wordsworfh (18_0_2,.)

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