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J. Finc- 354 Bay SL, Toronto. Ont. Walla’: News Stand, Sndbury. Ont.

Old South News, Cor. Milk and Washington 8b.,

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Aloclata Editors: Frank Walker Ind hn A. Burnett

“The Strongest Memory is Weaker Thm the Weakest Ink.”

THURSDAY, MAY 2, I946

Cogent Arguments

Too bad Senator McIntyre wasn't familiar with the material in the Jones Government brief on Prince Edward Island fiscal claims when he was asked in the Senate Chamber why this Pro- vince was claiming its revenues were inade- quate, as it was the first to reach its war loan objectives. Ilcre is the answer: _

In the 9th Victory Loan the total assessment for the whole of Canada was $1,13o,ooo,oo0.

On a per capita basis, Prince Edward Island having .8 per cent of the population, the allot- ment for Prince Edward Island would be $10,- 644,000.

Prince Edward Island's capacity to contri- bute must have been taken into consideration by the National Finance Committee as the assess- meut was only $3,300,000, or approximately one-third.

Again, the brief gives an interesting compari- son of revenue from Provincial sources. The figures are from a. Dominion study of finances for the year r943:

Total provincial and municipal revenue for all Provinces amounted to $591,000,000.

On I Der capita basis (P.E.I. having .8 per cent of the popukition) the Province would have had $4,728,000 instead of $I,562,oo0 a5 shown.

This $1,562,000 is a proximately one-third the per capita rate for Canada.

These are the kind of arguments Ottawa should understand. If not, the blame cannot be said to lie with the‘ manner of their presenta- tlon.

C P: Superintendent Retires

It is alcoincidencc that two important “breaks” '81 the Canadian Press should take PlIiCC at this particular time, viz. the dcath of Mr. H. Maclrlin, one of the “fathers of C.P."; and the retirement of_.\lr. A. D. Klcrkcl, the genial Atlantic Superintendent. l\[r. Mcrkcl has been associated with C.P. in this region since the founding of the organization, and is known by most of the leading citizens in the three Hari- time Provinces as wcll as the newspaper frater- nity. IIis duties have been many and arduous. for he was the connecting link between the journalistic and the business sides 0f the organ- ization, and in addition had to be here, there, and everywhere when important public affairs called for his attention. The fact that he suc- cdcderl in making Jhings work smoothly and vum the confidence and cslccm of all with whom he came in contact, testifies to the success of his regime and his ability as an ndmitiistrator. In addition to being a journalist, ‘.\Ir. Mcrkel

' is also an author and pocuhnving attained a niche high in the literary world. lt is under- stood one of his objects in retiring from active journalism is lo cnnblc him to (lcvote more time to his literary work. and the bcsl of good wishes in this respect goes with him from his fellow journalists not only ‘Of lllc hlﬂflfllllcs but throughout the Dominion. Ilc will be succeed- ed by Mr. John Lacey who has had long train- ing and experience at home and abroad in the (LP. Service.

Newfoundland

Settlement in N(‘\Vff)llll(llilll(l is the subject of an lntcrrsling .\lll(l_V by Ur. (jriffilh Taylor, professor of geography at the University 0f Toronto, just published by the Canadian In- dilute of lnternbtional Affairs. Two traverses weremade of the island in August and Septem- ber last year, settlement and topography being the chief interests, though-some account is giv- Il also of the fisheries and paper-pulp indus- tries.

With regard to population, it is pointed out that growth has been fairly uniform since about 1825. Today there arc approximately 300,000 persons living on the island, the population hav- in; doubled in the last sixty years—‘—this is rath- u" slower than the rate of Canada, which has doubled in forty years; but it certainly compares Wtll with Prince Edward Island. ‘About 98% of the inhabitants are of British stock, coming orig-

‘hilly for the most part from England. Ireland

_ l‘ the Channel Islands. Newfoundland is some ' ,1 miles across, with a total area of 43.000 Details of a somewhat technical char- Iqber nre given of the geological formation of l» ‘thmiilafid. The climate is described as “marine, modified by the cold Iabrador Current." The summer ls cool and in January all the is- ﬁhd in below the freezing point; “even in sum- gtttnnw persists in places on the table lands." lnfall is adequate, with snowfall heavy in . pg and cast. , ' ~ v V‘ _ fouhdllnd has about 25,000 Asquare ' of comma, most of tha country abov - Juanita-like nmorlandf in thinks, "no satisfactory let- tvqb- of the spams: kind, seems pos-

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“bu” warm“! ll Riven thlt, u regard! tim- be" ‘he “mm! “W the much longer to develoP than l" 9113110. because of slower flmwlll» fllPllﬁll with care the forests are cap- able of being regenerated.

def"!!! If": railway; settlement has proceeded along the coasts, fishing villages being only a few miles apart. Brief descriptions are given of the chief towns, the “Finger coast" and oth- er places. The sections on St. John's, Cup- ids. the Avalon Peninsula, the Northwest and Grand Falls. Deer Lake. the Humber Valley and Cornerbrook, Codroy Valley, Port aux Bas- ques are of special interest. In the interior, apart from the logging camps, the island is almost as empty now as at the 'time of its discovery, while water power is only about one-third utilized.

t-EDITORIAL N01 ES-

_ Will airplanes serve to extend our interna- tional trade beginning with lobsters? Practic- ally» with the exception of potatoes and turnips, we have been cut off from the U. S. and other foreign markets since the adoption of the na- "Qnal P°l1¢Y and the non-fulfilment of our Con- federation agreement with regard to trans- port. i- w w m

Mr. E. H. Macklin of the Winnipeg Free Press was the G.O.M. of Canadian journalism. There may be older men active in the profes- sion, but none better known, respected and loved from Halifax to Vancouver, and his passing will be generally mourned. He was long a fel- low worker ‘and colleague of Dafoe on the Free Press, and it is to their joint iniative, resource and JOUHIElISIICdHSIITICI that that daily rose to the high position it holds today as a newspaper and voice of public opinion. Peace to his ashes.

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Premier Jones certainly put forward an al- most unanswerable brief to the Conference at Ottawa, and his presentation of our case was almost all that could be desired. He had the sole right to speak on our behalf, which was better than at the initial Provincial Conference in 1913, when the then Premier Mathieson ably presented our claims, and was un- fortunately followed by Hon. W. S. Stewart who presented divergent views, causing the Conference to ask why our delegation was not of one mind.

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Do our business houses make money? The

following is the official Income Tax return: In

fits below $1,000, II between $1,000 and $2,000, 9 between $2,000 and $3,000, I4 between $3,000 and $4,000; 5 between $4,000 and $5,000, 25

000 and $15,000, 4 between $15,000 and $20,- 000, 4 between $20,000 and $25,000, i6 be- tween $25,000 and $50,000, I0 between $50,- 000 and $100,000, and 3‘0ver $100,000.

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Farm and Ranch Review correctly points out that the fact that Canadian wheat is being sold in Canada, for domestic consumption, at 3o cents a. bushel less than even the present

on wheat farmers, for the benefit of the rest of the community. Businessmen will be wise to realize (says The Lctter-Rez/ierv) that their in- lercst is always identical with that of the farm- er. The farm Income Tax problem has not yet been solved, and this messes up the situation, but, basically, it is of the greatest importance to Canadian business that the Canadian farmer should receive his fair share of the National In-

COITIC.

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nearly a million Germans surrendered to Field Marshal Sir Henry (now Lord) Alexander as the result of a document signed at Caserta three days earlier, the larger part of Austria being in- cluded in the capitulatiou area; the Field Mar- shal in an ordcr-of-the-day told his troops they had won a victory which had ended in complete and utter rout of German armed forces in the Mediterranean; the Russian High Command an- nounced the capture of Berlin and the surrender of the garrison; Australian troops invaded Bor- neo; British forces landed in Rangoon; Soviet troops captured Rostock in the Baltic, and 2o miles away the British Airborne Division tool." Wismar; other forces taking Lubeck. if I

A lawyer, a minister and a doctor were adrift on a raft on the high seas. Frantically they worked to bring their unwieldy raft to shore, but each time the tide shifted and carried thcm out. Sharks lurked all around. Finally, the men drew straws to see who would swim to shore for help. The lawyer drew the short straw. A: he prepared for the ordeal, the min- ister suggested a prayer for the lawyer's safe trip. The three knelt in prayer. Then as the lawyer dove into the water, the waiting sharks turned to form a. path for him with their tails. “There," said the minister to the doctor. “There, right before your eyes is living proof of the efficacy of prayer." “Prayer," snorted the doc- tor. "That's just professional courtesy on the part of sharks.”

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Income Tax delays continue a public scan- dal. No one is now in a position to put his estate in good order, as against his death. His heirs will have to wait until the Income Tax people make up their minds about what he owes. Taxpayers have to tie up bank accounts, waiting for a clearance ‘of income tax. The Government collects interest, often for years, on underpayment; gives no interest on over- payment. _ Practical suggestion is that the Gov- ernment should now agree to collect interest on underpayment for only one year: to pav in- terest on overpayment: after a year. In that way, the Government would still penalize de- liberate underpayment; avoid bonusing delib- crate overpayment. The assumption would be

that, after a year’, any further delay in clearing income tax returns should be considered the fault oi t Governmen i A 5 ,of A Rccohidmended to tlidmé on m- otion. l

lvlth ll" “W950i! of certain strips bor— l

between $5,000 and $10,000, I6 between $10; ‘p

unduly lo\v price for export, constitutes a tax m

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th a mem- ‘J, complete. -Ch.lo-

An educator l2 ls

we when rinsliitlap mdl2‘;“‘s‘.'i.: g: W's- We 61591112 l-‘h-Ls. says m

Examiner. The gin]; keep 1' 011 mokinc faces, but between 12 and 65 boys mlsgmre (them for Babylonian alhmements, g! YV of a ram and fm-

sem scarf who

a alone and the . a . cuts his shard’ of thgm Two of England's duke! have alm- lltiilav amnoimoed their en- laﬁmlwm 191.11“, Wm Duke of Rutland. Miss Anne

Ladylilimbeth Sodlrtelder MIdDildhQS

. and a. Duohem of Gloucester. don Dally Mall.

touch niece of ~From Lon-

and

Wonk-day haircuts, S1. trim, $1.25‘ Such the master

Saturday

_ _ 6W5 runs-ks 1944 taxation year, 22 companies reported pro- n beam to

to mdsklns. Du , Bill and the Dalton boys skipped a lot. o! barber . We drmt have to go bank to Prince Rupert's gov lads or tlhe Three Musketeers lo Jimtlfy even curls and rlnglets. Therm there's the old electric horse clipper which shaved nmnv a fruiml lads head down at the fire ermine house. It's a popular male ootffnre today in Jolliet, Sing Sing. Sari Qumtdn and other reports. The fllllng blrth-rale is already outsider-able repercussions ln B l-lsh. schools. There are half a mllllon fewer children of school age 1n local authority somols than 11% 1938. g1 Tia of about be . fall not. 110- flnogln gtny lowering Lnt aver- 801! size of chases. which ls stilL to call-up and retirement 29 Der ‘tea/alter. The actual size pleases. Ignoring atvheiwes. 1 A116!‘ changes n e gleogra, oal distribution of uh

children. London Oountiy Council's school population has fallen from 48 000 ln

of

‘Ber m; hamshire rose slightly. Similarly 1n Liverpool the fall was 19 per cent instead of i0 per cent. -—Fv;om Inndon Economist.

When Jackie Roosevelt Robin- son walked out to second base in the Jersey City ball park. a ghost of Crow still hovered over the

. ‘Ifiere were those who lmdsaldtrlmtaNegrolmidmplaoe ln baseball, or hh-at it was a noble

Innings latter. the

It dl-ad somewhere between Rob sort’: performance and its-recept- lon. mu first Negro to plav in organized baseball bait-lied five times. He Mt saifelv four firms. drove ln four runs.

The conclusion l: plain-ll we wit. to head off Spanish ‘com. mun-lsxn. than Brltsln and Amcrlm wt. oo-apeiute ho IPi-aneo out.

as. {lurncrwglcreigim we belong or or to the j0f their ut wlltebhu’ we ftelp the one thing » defend! Becmitv

work-s M Der hav emu. A

Mouton-Downs daillrhter of the Duke deserve more of Buoc the tori t.

trad atonement oexmmly

PUBLIC FURUM“ This column In open ‘Iv tllo clllondon by non-n upondonh ol qnnctlonl o! lntllﬂt ‘Ito Olllrlottntown ﬂnnrdnn loan not noun»

~ l1! onion-u ﬁe oplnlon of oomllonnhnb.

IN D§‘NCE 0F MAYOR HIODONALD

vim t if’ mil/trim I ﬁll m“ Y 0 8Y0!‘ 0

po . To In with. he stated that he 1e w

use: par-tot . 1 cation, he should beablo to

out a. meaning of his own. M a

system of education

It. one into l ‘ ql Inumks, gluon to the school teacher the pupil for tfhe einmm. After one entemkthoitaol- . every-thing e or morhertodo. What omcant “Bum Out fou- henselt is ls quire often never explained. This 1n a1»:

answer the unsolved problegm b3? are a. greet nanny w o w sim 1y reply. “You stiould know yourself." If the duff‘ Slly 1t in so many words, ey ﬁg ln sane ot_

fibre-tenths is forgotten. This is good reason why the rural teadlmm - . When tine

ve he simply um roceve

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morning, wo la person

stand by this statenﬁm that. he ls gelatin pldr the hmln 1n his ha and can-y it, with 1' Cm‘- talnlly rm Anyone who

a menu-rig o! this t ows a poor education. ‘Ilhe sum goes for Mayor

11's remark

Inclns ,Iwiou1d11ketoaa.y tit-at, there a. grep

work mt. Prince o! Wales Col

(by the students) that could

easily avoided Lf the tnaftutlon would, only bake a short time to think about 1t. ‘There are many Inga learned at the College that are only a waste of time. If they would only ut more time own the subjects wh b are essential and discard those which are more o! a hindrance than n. hdp. A stmdent can max; very good marks in some subjects and when ones an written t are be cause of a student's f lure. It ls all very dds- oo when they ame not. m!- lng to bettzer their System of edu- caiorn because it Ls the 051189 o! many pupils not tryms W d0 "W" best when the teachers give them me unpresslon of not, worrying

e315 whet-her they succeed or not. Some

of them don't seem to care what becomes of tlhe students as long as they receive their salary.

I am, Sh‘, etc. AN EX-P.W.C. STUDENT

Our War Cemeteries

(Department of Natkmal Defence. 0t. a) The men of Canada. who gave their lives Ln Northwest Europe in blue summer and autumn of 19M s“ ~".2.~r~...°a.us B91) (mg B p In ded rest planes. from ell. and ln brutal lots guarded by Dine tireec and whfdti adorn the

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