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concessions at all. It simply provides:

l. The amount of $1,350,000, being the sum of $15 per capito, based on our popula- t‘ n for the calendar year 1942; "it being agreed for the purpose of this agreement that the said population for the said year was 90,000 per- sons."

2. The amount of $656,932, being the amount of the statutory subsidies payable by Canada to Prince Edward Island during the lzol- endar year 1947; and

3. The amount of $93,068,000, being "an ‘additional amount agreed upon between Can-

ada and Prince Edward lslond."

' THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 194T

Our Way 0f Life

A man is, according to the philosopher, what he thinketh in his heart. Unfortunately vsry few of us give public demonstration of v-fiot we think, and are in consequence token largely for what we appear to be to our fellow citizens. In this Province we are all, or, well, nearly all, at least nominal Christians, and will,‘ in a measure, observe Good Friday and Easter Sunday as in duty bound, praying for the con-j version and enlightenment of tho heathen both‘ It home and abroad. '

But do not let any of us lay the flatteringl unction to our soul that in that way we are actlt-l ally so much better than the other fellow who; may have had neither the training nor erc- ample in Church attendance, and yet, accord- ing to his lights, is striving to follow the Goldpn Rule. Perhaps in his laxity as regards churoh- going he may be a better practical Christian than some of us who never miss a service or neglect a Festival. lt becomes a simple mot- ter for those trained in the way they should go to follow in Mother and Father's footsteps; it is altogether different with those who know little of the Church except its frowning "Thou Sllalt~ Nots!" lt is by no means an easy matter to make church-going Christians out of the house- holds where the family altar is non-existent. But it is a mistake to judge by outward op- pearances. "Doing the Will of the Father", we l are told, is the test of a Christian, and that in-j cludes considerably more than Church attend-l once, though that be the outward and vipible sign that we endeavour to live by our profes- sion. But it is a mistake to judge merely by appearances, and Kipling (that modern Shake- speare, though it may be like comparing Perry F. Rockwood's Four Truro Sermons with George Adam Smith's The Lives of the Twelve Pro- phets, to soy so) has a short poem which illus-

' As pointed out by the Opposition in the Legislature, this $93,000 item is likely to be (completely wiped out by the 5 per cent income tox on corporations which the Jones Govern- ment is enacting to be collected and spent by the Dominion Government.

lt will be noted that the per capito sub- sidy of $15, applicable to all the Provinces, is hosed on our estimated 90,000 population in I942. Why did they not take the census year 1941, when our population was shown at 95,- 047? Every year subsequent to 1942 also shows

higher estimated population figure than 90,- 000. In other words, on a noroml population basis we are not even receiving the full $15 per capito payment offered to all the Provinces under the agreement.

The Opposition also pointed out that from trc statutory subsidies payable to this Province, the annual interest charge for Hillsbora bridge, mounting to some $9,000, is still being de- ducted. The Jones oGvernment failed even to obtain this slight concession as a result of their representations.

Many anomalies in the corporation tax bill were pointed out by the Opposition on Tues- day. For example, though Hon. Mr. Hughes maintained that the imposition of the tax is obligatory under the agreement, and is to be collected and expended by Ottawa, the agree- ment itself, Clause 7, page 14, states specific- ally that this Province "may enact legislation imposing income tax for the raising of revenue fer provincial purposes at the rate of 5 per cent," etc. Government members failed satisfactorily t» show how this could be interpreted as a compulsory measure, or why, having imposed the tax, the Province shopld not expend it for pro- vincial purposes os authorized.

As for the eleventh-hour amendments intro- duced into the tax agreement bill, these were sent down by the Federal bureaucrats and on one occasion the Provincial Treasurer had to admit that he did not know what they meant. lt was an ominous example of what we may ex-

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trates how simple it is to misjudge by appear- ances. We quote it as it is sure to meet‘ with rppreciotion in this horselloving, race patron- king Christian community:

iJane Austen Beecher Stowe de Rouse Was good beyond all earthly need; But, on the other hand, her spouse Was very, very ‘bod indeed. He smoked cigars, called churches slow, And raced—but this she did not know.

For Belial Machiavelli kept The little fact a secret, and, Though o'er his minor sins she wept, Jane Austen did not understand That Lilly-thirteen-two and bay—- Absorbed one half her‘ husband's pay.

She was so good, she mode hlm worse;

(Some women are like this, l think;) He taught her parrot how to curse,

Her Assam monkey how to drink. He vexed her righteoys soul until She went up, and he went down hill.

Then came the crisis, strange to soy,

Which turned a good wife to o better. A telegraphic peon, one day,

Brought her-now, had it been a letter For Belial Machiavelli, I I Know Jane would just have let l1‘ lie.

But 'twas a telegram instead,

Marked "urgent," and her duty plain To open it. Jone Austen read:--

"Your Lilly's got a cough again. Can't understand why she is kept Al» your expense." Jane Austen wept. . lt was a misdirected wire.

Her husband was at Shaitanpore. She spread hcr anger, hot as fire,

Through six thin foreign sheets or more, Sent off that letter, wrote another To her solicilor——and mother.

Then Bclial Michiavclli saw

Hcr error and, l trust, hil Wired to tho minian of the Law,

And traveled wifeward--not alone. For Lilly-Jhirtecn-two and bay- Came in a horse-box all the way.

There was a scene—a weep or_two— With many kisscs. Austen Jane Rode Lilly all the season through,‘ And never op-ened wires again. She races now with Belial. This ls very sad but so it is.

Be it remembered it is the some Kipling who composed the Recessional the lost verse of which is:

For heathen heart that puts her trust ‘In reeking tube and iron shard- All _valiont dust that builds on dust, And guarding calls not Thee to guard. For frantic boast and foolish word, - Thy Mercy on Thy people, Lord!

ll Bad sum

The Opposition members hove made an ex- cellent job of showing up the deficiencies in thc much-vaunted tax agreement between the Lacs Government and Ottawa. As shown in rtllO memorandum of the agreement embodied in . the bill, the basic minimum of $2,100,000 to be received by this Province represents ad special

_the Legislature in unanimously

pect in the future, and it may well mean, as one Opposition member predicted, the beginning of thc end so for as our status as an independent Province is concerned.

- EDITORIAL NUTES .- l

Tomorrow Good Friday—-Holy Day.

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That was o graceful tribute on the part of resolving to adopt "Lady's Slipper" as the floral emblem of the Province, and doing so on the suggestion of "Agricola" (Mr. Blythe Hurst, Sr., Brockley) who has laboured so long and interestedly in his con- tribution of Newsy Notes to our Saturday agri-

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John Abernathy, Scottish physician, pupilll of Dr. John Hunter, Scottish anatomist and sur- geon, born this date 1764; assistant-surgeon otj St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London; he largely, influenced medical practice by his discovery and! insistence on the connection of local diseasesj with digestive disorders-"take care of th stomach and the body will take core of itself.‘ He was instrumental in securing by the nation of Hunter's Museum in Leicester Square, and the inauguration there in 1813 of the annual Hunterian orations.

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At the Fisheries Conference on Tuesday a delegate declared: "Everyone knew there had been an increase in fishery production. Th|e essential thing was to do something about the surplus fish in cold storage and ‘start with a clean slate.’ There were 180 million pounds of fish in cold storage in the United States anti two million pounds in Canada. Most of that fish was now a poor article of food and the best thing to do would be to get clear of it in some wcy and keep the market supplied with a wholesome product." Perhaps the fish firms are waiting for a rise in the market.

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It ls e fine kettle of fish, this Subsidy Tox- ation Act passed by the Government. It strikes at the root of democratic goverment, no tax- ation without representation; here the Ottawa government without rights or authority, orders

THE CHARLOTTETOWN GUARDIAN

{Notes By ‘the Way

You om safely bet an a girl's wed- dlus l! she mm hei- mus-led 1m with mos, kitchen aprons than (lounging robes. —- Chatham News.

One of the {not trouble-making factors in a democracy is the rend- iness of the average individual to exercise hie right to believe any-

rthlng that. he has never hear}. - ‘Filillfllfilfll Times. ,

Canadian universities are prrpsr- Ina to spend 330000.000 in the next 10 years. It sounds like a lot of money to pay out for higher learn- ing, but even that amount l5 trivial res compared with the cc-st of ignor- ance and lndolence. -- Farmer's Ad- vacate.-

Lltfle is more foolish than to ep- Ply to our world of today words of advice spoken by men who lived in a. world totally different. ‘ft l5 a new and terribly changed earth that we inhabit. calling for fr h thought. and notion. Our peril s that for- getting this, or delaying our under- standing of it, we pit: obsolete wea- pons against some deadly new ar- tillery. - Ottawa Jomiral.

"I put no credence in the gloomy forecasts about tilts country. No people with the resolute character and the capacity for industry that the Bfltis-h p€0ple have. can fall to overcome the problems which face Britain at present. “I have com- plete confidence and fraltl-i that the sun will ehlne brighter and this country will recover lt.; traditional position In the world." (Lewis W. Douglas, U. S. Ambassador to Britain. on his arrival ln London).

A timber company at Glouces- ter. NSW. has purchased a cedar tree 3'7 feet im- glrth at. stump height. 20 feet in girth 20 feet from the ground. ~10 feet in length to the first branch. and estimated -lo contain- 20,000 super-deer of tim- ber The roota often produce beau- tifully grained and figured rwood. Cedar has become very popular again and is in grew-t demand for furniture Oedar antiques have re- cently brought big prices. -- Aus- tlallau Nevrs Letter.

That. necessity ts still mothering invention la apparent. from s report of a four-alarm fire near Soult Ste. Marie. lvlioh, says This Week Mag- azine. The engines were hampered not only by deep snow. but by low water pressure In lhg mains. At s. critical moment o, "SnogW-ane of those big rotary snovrplows-ezflved on the scene. plunged into o. big drift and sent the snc-av Xlvlcag all aver the burning building. mobalfly the first. recorded instance of fight- ing flames with snowflakes.

They tell me that some of the mm working on or with the bull- dozers clearing the trenches on vhe south coast are having dinners pro- vided for thempby the bullaooers. says o. writer ln The Sheffield Weekly Telegraph. What happens is that. the machines dig well Lnrto (he trenches and often tfhey bring up rabbits, disturbed in their under- ground homes. Some are dead, but some ore not. I was told of one sooopful that came up with more than 20 rabbits in lt. But it Just showrs how careful people have be- come these days with so many lwws aboundlng.

Never again will vrg ply lny lt- tentlon to the old-timers wlha tell us the the climate l; changing. Tlhose tales of earlier days corn all be matched by yams which will be repeated 25 years from now of the Winter of '47. 'I‘he severe weather l; not confined lo Western Ontario. In Western Canada. the oldest pioneer cannot recall anything lo match the severity of this Winter. tho size of the drifts and the con- tinual zero "weather. The oold weather even extends south to Florida and many a Imdoner has found the balmy breezes of the South not so balmy. - London Free Press.

Every manual of English oom- posllion warns the student: to d the obvious. There is Gunmen; , fore lu n. news story such do" one 111181» explorer Attillo GGMI will search for a reported sllpcfllpg when he takes the Gatti-Halllcrrafters Ex- pedilicrv to Africa this Summer. If M-z". Goth‘ won't be cffended. we hbd best d1spuss it m5 a heartening sign of ‘mlllrn normality. ftlltcir is deed _but we min-t have our monsters.

Loch Ncss will be ln the headlines soon. along with u "sensible" Sum- mcr costume for men. a rwket s!- pcdltlon- to t/he motm. synlhetflc souP. plastic automobiles and the other jieacetlme playthtngs. A girl who speaks p. strange “lrlrrililte? langu- ago has already tumor! up in Ger- mr-rrv. Seems like old times. —O'olc- ago Dally News.

Sailors may grouse at. times about

the Provincial Government ovcr which they have "0 600001. 1'0 impose a 5 per cent tax in order that make up the loss in th-eir financial ad- ministration due to th_e non-cooperation of Cntorio and uebec. The only benefit we are t. obtain, according to Provincial Treasurer Hugh-as is that in the course of years we will find out what profits outside corporations de- rive from this Province! it it Ar ‘l’

_ it's o good job some folks aren't super- strtious but anything goes when you're house-hunting in Britain these days, providing it's got four walls and a roof. . . . even if it's u hoarse! Thirty-year-old Patrick McComiskey, with his wife, small son and grown-up nephew, have lust set up house in one of these charm- mg vehicles . . .1 They pay 75c rent each week and they're pleasantly situated on the shore of a beautiful lake in Northern Ireland. Com- pletely homeless, they jumped .ot the idea of a hearse! . . Bungalows on the adjoining sites

ore getting rents up to $120 a month. Mrs. ; mxtemthficgl: McCcmiskey has got her new home fixed up members. "To become n munbsr pretty comfortably, and she and Pot had no °1 ohm" Ohm"- "WIM "m" qualms whatever about sleeping in a heorsoffmlwnflwuzhgfnug l: m

even if the bonshees might come wailing round.

the distinctive dress which they wear. Jumpers, collars and all the rest of ll may be a nuisance to the |sallor who wants to go rshore in I- |hurry. But there are few sailors whq do not feel some se-n-se of pride when well turned out in n uniform lwhlr-ly stands for a good deal of tvndulm rind prestige. thinks The lfalifux Herald. There havu been attempts from t-ime tn time to change 1h;- gorb. Just as there on busy people who would forbid the Highland soldier to wonr kills for his ‘walking-out!’ uniform. These ‘misguided people clten propote ohrrrges with a view to "efficiency" (and sometimes one .- ts. be- cause thev have an office It. head- ouartors and not. ogre-tum to keep them usefully oocupiedt. Such "efficiency" ls often mlsswllfi-

mnmBURm-t, eootlana - (or) -Reo. Gcame Held. oonvenor of

Edinburgh PNQYQSYT GVCIIQHIH

Thll column is opou tn the dlleulelou by corru- spoadente o! questions or Interest. The Charlottetown Guardian does not necessar- ily endorse tho opinion o! "I correspondents. i:

fiflFfl-‘B-‘P-‘i.'»"-'h'-'l-'J'-'h'-'-‘-’s rm; Pinch»; 0F BREAD

Sl|‘.~\\'.llal is tho real purpose °1 "L? lfitlslatlou reducing tho Welsh: of nu.- loaf of ui-euaz- u u. not. as slated in the Legislature lo "W"! 10¢ ‘Wish; uniform with the res} of Cfsnado but it may be pos- slb.e that the object is to provide 1°!‘ K" "Tllldlkiled rumoval by the Federal authorities of the subsidy novw paid on wheat. If and when this subsidy is removed them l5 no 0005f. that the price of wheat for domestic use will advance and it l! l0 H168! 111k expected advance

seeking for relief by having loin Welsh: of bread reduced from 24 w 20 ounces per loaf.

I have today checked over scan of the breed conning here fron outside the Province and find the " as llolsccn" ls 20 oz when baked, Eastern Bakeries “Butlcl: Nufland Dnyefslonves ave '14 oz s: that when the Act passed b5: thl: Legislal-ure is proclaimed

{JADE latter firms will have to conform ilo its provisions and reduce the size of their loaf or else abandon furni- er trade with this Province whl h I hardly believe they will consc it to do-they can ship here at s. profit with tho loaf at 24 oz, that. their profit will be ixtcreasFi by a cent o. loaf when the weig 1t ls reduced. 1t. does not look as if tine price of a 2Q oz loaf \v0 id rise higher than the present pr ce of eleven cents.

I run, Sir, etc CONSUMER

LIQUOR AN D TOBACCO

Sin-As the Liquor 'I‘raffic is 11C greatest curse resting on humani y,l viclbh its twin broutler, tobacco n w s. aloee second except. that 1t docs ‘t estrange men's brains so that t ey ‘will shoot. each other off hand, as was done down east. the other night. when two lives were snuffed out in the twinkling of an eye. wh ch surely cllmoxed all that had g no before. and thla when the Legis- lature is in session, snaking lt. like a. challenge thrown out to the members of the lcfllslaturo to get wzether and make a law so strong with enforcement so straight that. no would-be violator would dare to tralPB-ie Its they have been doing in the past. These two great evils (rum and tobacco) are growing to such proportions that, unless they are arrested, and the people avrak- oned to tihe peril they are prepar- ing for their children, it is going to be a serious situation in the future. Everything in connection with tlmese two evils is bad; the highest authorities leach that. We soc lt. every day in llfe. we see the men who indulge in drinking liquor big dot fellows live for s. while, slow down In motion stagger around awhile, and ale. They were not created for such a fate but they crhose that, instead of lifcatits best, sad it is.

Now the tobacco evil Ls not gener- ally considered so serious but that is according to the conception vie have of it; it k detrimental to lrhE human systemwmanyraw "person's health is impaired by the use of l1, there is a poison in lt. when people get wise enough to think for their own good they will abstain from Indulgence in either of these evils.

About. l2 or 14 years agO I called one Sunday eftennoou to scc an old lady who was on hcr death bed. and there was another man there and s. teenaged boy there; and this men asked him "do you mlokc cigarette?" The boy said "no". Well, he said, don't. ovcr touch either liquor or tobacco. I never:

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b l editor, Toronto Globe

‘he Bakers Asswlmlcl‘ “mllongcomml-ttees became quite dicta-

‘sclentlflc experience. In 1926 this

Finance‘ At Large

lBy Wellington Jeffers, Financial

March 4. 1947.) Early ln the ws: I heard a, Brit- lsh scientific ggrlculturist tell Cn- nadlan lbout tho plan in Britain to control iBriiish farm output from Landon |' through county and district. ugrl- “cultural "i-nmiitees with the ob- {Jt-‘fl -0l »\ Eng exactly what. food {was \\‘.'lllI.'.l nnri to remove such lformers as sholved “inefficiency” or ‘unwillingness to collaborate uith l the orders from central. ll. all ' sounded qulle logical and likely 1o work In a time of war. and the impression left was that the Brit- l lsh Government hoped tn this man- ‘ net to have best farming practice | on every farm. From time to time I have heard ;, repercussions from the former thus | regtmented. 1n its working out the lpolicy was not all sweetness 8.110 reason. Strange to say, many men

torlal, were not willing to admit that the judgment of the farmer on 'the spot as to so-il. animals, best tllllng methods might sometimes be right, and roughly cut across the farmer's plans developed through a lifetime. f have no fr;- uros on the net results, and would like to srq a report of an inde- mndt-nt uarumisstc-n an \\'ll€'li"l' ttw

v _ -.-.-. plan was good In time at war ma’

the nation '0: not. However. the. powers given were too great. tlllfl] I do not think they would be liked‘ any better in Canada than they seem to have been in many rural ports of the British Isles. ‘ 1' rl- rt- 4 I have just read the judgment of Mr. Justice Atkinson In the case of George Milton Odlum versus R Straits-n. It occupies l2 columns of the Wlltshlre Gazette. In itself an Indlca‘ n of how rnuch im- lportance t attached to it by Brit- lons at home. George Milton Odlum lhappened to very proud of iris. labilily as o farmer. He was him- ‘self a scientific agriculturist, had been called in consultation on farm matters by 35 different countries and had wide practical os well as