recs roux _ . THE‘ ‘GUARDIAN

Morning Daily (Founded in 1M1) Authorized an i-‘iecaurl Cluuu Mull, Post Office Department, Ottuvrn.

The hlrsud Guardian Publishing 0a. Iditor and Managing Director, J. B. Buruetti

Associate Idltor, Funk Walker

"The Strongest Memory is Weaker Than the Weakestlnk."

CBARLOTTETOWN, TUESDAY, MAY'l_8, 194B

Government lly Statistics

Even a casual ovserver of government and politics must note, says The Printed Word, that there is a wide difference between TGPNSEllifITivu goverfiment as it is practised in a town or village council and as it is practised in provincial or Do- minion legislature. The difference does not mere- ly reside in the types of legislation that come be- fore the governing bodies. It is a difference in the quality of representation. The member of the lower councils is keenly aware of his re- sponsibilities ta those who elected him. He is on terms of equality with every other member and can indulge in a violent argument or everv phy- sical violence with some hope of advancing the cause he thinks is right, whether it be a matter of knocking e mill or two off the tax rate or drafting a workable by-law to keep dogs from ruining spring lawns and gardens. Moreover, the subjects with which he deals as a representative are of immediate importance to his constituents, much more so than the mass of legislation that is handled in Ottawa or the provincial capitals. The membe of the higher Legislature, un- less he is a cabinet minister, is virtually power- less to influence legislation on their behalf. He may criticize, expostulate and denoun c, but in effect, his power as a member is restricted to voting for or against a measure that the govern- ment has decided to pass.

Representative government In the town councils in fact consists of trying to get Tom, Dick and Harry what they want. In Ottawa it is more often imposing on Tom, Dick and Harry what Willie and Clarence and Jimmy think is good for them, or what Graham and Donald and Clifford have assured Willie and Clarence and Jimmy will be in the best interests of Tom, Dick and Harry.

For the Ottawa bureaucrats, whom some sus- pect of being the effective government of the iountry, Tom, Dick and Harry are no longer _human. They are merged into a composite fig- ure, without bowels or brains, hopes or fears. The composite Tomdickharry is nothing but o statistic. He~ supports, perhaps, 1.85 children. He has .64 of a wife. He is about 30 years olcl, earns $1,593.62 a year, is in the majority group of every Gallup poll.

Graham and Donald and Clifford, Indeed, know all the important details, except one, about the composite Tomdickharry, and they legislate wisely for him according to their lights. The detail omitted from their calculations is that he does not exist. Democracy, to the bureaucrat, has become government of statistics, by statis- tics, for statisticians, and there is small hope, at the moment, that it will ever perish from the earth.

More Production Needed .

A timely warning was sounded by Dr. W. A. Mackintosh, vice-principal of Queen's University, in addressing the recent annual dinner of the Dominion Mortgage and Investments Association. Having/set out to provide Europe with goods and services to the extent of our loan commitments, Dr. Mackintosh said, we are doing so only in a financial sense. We provide good on credit but we recouped ourselves with United States goods bought for cash. As a nation we have fallen far short of the net export of capital aimed at.

Our chief difficulty in this connection, Dr. Mackintosh pointed out, is that along with a great expansion in manufacturing capacity, in modernization of plants and equipment, etc., there has been lacking a commensurate in- crease in the outflow af consumer goods. This and the resistance of the consumer to any cur- tailment of his newly-acquired standard of liv- ing now are the chief active forces behind the rise in prices since I945.

Dr. Mackintosh laid stress on the lact that "the larger the free area of Europe and the world, the better for Canada's economic future." ‘This would appear to be a truism, but it is one which too frequently is lost sight of.

Ilnder Socialism

The manager of a British ceqeny received II income of $51,212 last year. When he had paid his income tax he had $I3,336 left for him- self. ln other words, the state had token thres- quarters of all his earnings. Of every four busi- ness days he was working three, without pay, for the government.

But, as this businessman explains in a letter to The London Economist, the state was not sat- isfied with these gxactions. Sir Stafford Cripps appeared a few days ago with a brand new form of taxation on higher incomes. ‘By the time this man has paid the new Cripps tax he will have left precisely $2,900 out of his total income of $51,212. In other words, the maker of the busi- ness which provides a living fer his employees will freaelve less than he is paying "a compara- tlvely junior clerk."

Apart from the obvious question of justice ‘Involved In such taxes, their effect on the not- lonaleconomy is certain to be serious. ln the first piece, what incentive can be left to enter- priests who, if permitted to keep a reasonable of their earnings would expand their

’ nd increase production? And at a time fferd- Cripps-ls urging everyone to

‘glnbd-ef spending ‘it, as a weapon

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‘whtl savings ere rendered relo-

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and received $29,876 last year from dividends on his investments. But he will not receive anything from these dividends. The government not only will expropriate all the dividends but make him pay in taxes $2,300 more than he received from this source. His savings, in fact, have become a heavy liability.

- EDITORIAL NOTES —

The prospects now ore that the Federal, General election will take place next year. k i‘ is I

The Provincial Governments are to benefit from Federal contributions for health purposes

next year.

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Budget day—Mr. Abbott holds the spotlight. His speech this evening should answer a great

many questions. I

New Brunswick and Nova Scotia farmers are to benefit from Federal Iargesse in the repair of dykes and sea defences next year.

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The rainy weather, we are assured, ls not doing much harm though it is delaying planting. A period of warmth and sunshine later will make

up for lost time.

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At least some of the income which Can- adians receive this year will not be subject to income taxation. Refunds of wartime "compuls- ory savings," now being returned to taxpayers, are not treated as taxable income.

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An American, Dr. Weizmann, has been chos- en president of the new nation Israel. That may be what set the Moslems by the ears and caused them to send an indignant letter to President Truman asserting that he had betrayed six mil- lion Moslems in Asia and Africa.

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There won't be much fun travelling In the U. S. A. nowadays, when all the remittance from- home will be $10, except by special permit. It will tend to keep the boys at home and encour- age patronage of ‘Canadian tourist resorts.

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The Canadian Ntrvy's proposed ice-breaker for use in Arctic waters and Hudson Bay should help to make Churchill a centre of shipping and indirectly make possible a supply of low cost

feed for Island stockmen. l I

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Canada ls not the only country where gov- ernment departments tend ta overlap. Rear Ad- miral Morton Ring, U.S.N., reported to a House committee that at one period during the war the United States Army had more ships than the Navy did.

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The first aluminum ship to be built in Brit- airr was launched recently. It is an experimental motor torpedo boat specially constructed for the Royal Navy. The M.T.B. 539, as the new craft is to be known, is 75 feet long with a beam just under 20 feet. The aluminum alloy from which the vessel has been built is only about one-third the weight of steel. It will be possible to make use of-this saving of weight to increase the craft’: speed, range or armament.

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George Meredith, English novelist and poet, died this date I909. Ho is an acknowledged master of the art of fiction, especially great as psychologist; while his poetry has won a place not less assured. Among his leading novels are: Beauchamp's Career, The Egoisf, Diana of the Crossways, The Amazing Marriage; his poems include Poems and Lyrics of the Joy of Life, Bal- lads and Poems of Tragic Life, Jump to Glory: "Observation is the most enduring of the pleas-

ures of Iife."

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The Canada Packers are back in possession of their plant, and everything goes merrily along as though there never had been an interruption. lt will be interesting to find out at the next scs- sion of the Legislature details ‘of the intromission of the Government and what loss, if any, was sustained by the Packers through the temporary loss of their plant. As the~Legislature did not authorize the action, the Province cannot be hold responsible, though the members of the Govern- ment individuolly and collectively are liable.

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Seventeen farmers have combined with eng- ineers taundertake a big reclamation scheme on the East coast of Britain, which will win 1,400 acres of new arable land from the sea. In a race against time and tide they have set themselves the task of building a sea wall 5 I-2 miles long in I7 weeks. The whole success of this farming ari- venture depends on completing the wall in time to prevent the hrglh equinoctiol tides next Sep- tember from flooding the land to be reclaimed. The scheme is being carried out in Lincolnshire on the North coast of The Wash. At present the land is a desolate stretch of salt marsh which is covered by the sea to a depth of several f_eet at high tides each'sp:ing'and autumn.

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.' Prime Minister Mackenzie King is nothing il not methodical. In his preparation for retire- ment he has planned every detail so that, there may be no interruption of orderly government, together with a plan for himself of .a grand fare- well tour of Canada and Europe. All the details are already blue printed, and by the time August is on us, and the Liberal convention takes place, oil that will be required to be done by the Party rs lo nominate a new leader, preferably the one of Mr. King's choice. Then he will sit back and give his successor time to pick and choose his cabinet and wheh that ls done, Prime Minister King will hand his resignation to the Governor- Gonerci and recommend that he send for the new Lflsera‘ leader. But even" than Mr. King's plans will n 1- be completed. tlo _will remain a member of ti House for Glengorry until next election but r I not-efferihimseif for rye-election. Was there rver a Parry leader here or elsewhere so rneti: ‘our over every detail of his arrangements?

Meufolk here are going to grow beards this fall to set the carnival atmosphere 1n January. Who knows. Just. o. few months of cuffed chins and the male element. may once again assert itself. and ln- splre among the ladies s new feel- ing of respect for the sterner sex.- Fort William Times-Journal.

Some people who shudder at the mention of cancer, heart. disease and cerebral hemorrhage will take needless risks while driving and walking. And ff they get hurt. they will often say. “Oh. well, accidents will happen." Of course they will

tloue are ignored. Remember irsf- fic accidents can be prevented lf reasonable precautions are taken. Don't shudder st the thought of lingering death by disease while sticking out your chin for sudden death by traffic accident. -Chat- ham News.

Should the killer enemies of sa- clety have board and keep at the public expense for the best. part. of s lifetime? For better that the money be given to old people who have spent their lives honestly and lndustrlously. The State of Michi- gan. for instance. does not have capital punishment. but it does have the largest penitentiary popu- lation. at Jackson. - St. Celharlnes Standard.

BabblWs typical American man was "a regular guy. “with hau on his chest." Americans appear to like to think of themselves ln such terms. But. s survey conducted by s well-known American magazine tells another story. The women questioned by "Living" magazine reported in 82.5 cases that their husbands help do the dishes, 50 per cent of the men help vacuum the floors, scrub, and even do the fem- lly wash. The furnace and the ger- hsge are traditionally male Jobs. Husbands. however. have their little freedoms. Most. of them leave their pyjamas lying around in the morn- lngMosi; do not clean up the bath- room after shaving, Newspapers get some of the attention the wife chinks due to her, and married men flirt with other women at. parties 40 per cent of the time, though they rarely go to the lengths of making actual dlilTlBS. It's the old story. We men are born of women. taught by them through the most. formative period of our lives. mar- ried to them. and generally donun- ated by them. Do we like lc really. deep down, or are we a weak-wit.- bed lot. who ought. to be standing up for some new Declaration of the Rights of Men? -Hal-lfex Chron- lcle.

India's new constitution repre- seats an inspiration rather than a reality. Like all greet. constitution- al documents. it promises" more than ll: can perform in measurable time. But. the promise ls important and if the new legislatures that. are to come into being under the constitution can work it. with vol- erable efficiency. India's teeming millions can look forward to the widest. possible opportunity for freedom and security. - Montreal Star. '

More than 30 years ego Miss Edith Raine lent a snrall clack to her sister. Mrs. Roycs Metcelfe. of Palm Beach, nest Sydney. Neither of them thought. much more about. ll. until the other day. when Miss Raine asked if she could have ft back. That reminded Mrs. Metcalfe that, soon after she'd borrowed ft. she had taken it to be repaired. She traced the watchmaker. "I've been expecting you since July. 1917," he said. - Australian News Letter.

On top of a. squat-building in Times Square. where the block- long chewing-gum sign was situ- nbed before the war, workmen are building e. 35-foot waterfall. 1t. Wlll be 12A) feet. wide, and 50.000 gallons of water a minute will tumble over ib-mot. on to Broadway pedestrians but into a trough where it. wnl be pumped up to the top again. ‘lhls waterfall 1s only one part. of e huge advertising sign — probably the mast. spectacular in the splurge of bright. signs being built. in Broad- way which would make the street. that. was dubbed the “Great White Way" back in the 1900s look like a dark alley. - New York Herald "Irlbuno.

There is some alight reason to believe that. the inexorable facts of the Palestine tragedy are at lest coming home to the statesmen of the small powers ac well as of the great. who have so long and so ss- slduously sought to evade them. The easy expedlents have all in turn collapsed. It. is no longer possible to stand off and advise the British how to do what. nobody else was willing to do themselves. - New York Herald-Tribune.

sir Adrien Iloult. British oom- poser. knows something most. peo- ple don't. know about. ecsls. He once conducted ln a London theatre with seals under the stage, and found. he discloses. that. they hxed Wagner and Strauss. How, we won- der. does he know? There may b! questions in the world‘ more lm- portant to answer but at. the mo- ment we find ourselves baffled and tltllleted by this one. How did those creatures of the deep set the sell of their approval on the Noa- dlcc of their choosing? Did s. wild clapping of flue greet the windy rlde of the Valkyries and the or chests-oi pranks of ‘rill Iulenspie- gel? Dld they tum s cold shoulder and 11ft. e dledeiuful nose to the refinements of Debussy sna Re- vel? can't. even s sesl be trained to make a better balanced Judg- ment? But don't try any chamber music on your favorite seal. You might find him barking up the

wrong trio. - Ohrlstlsn Science

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um ‘ our slmcwnrcscurs

The psddilewfieel boot; with he: walking-beam,

Her churning wheels and her plume of steam.

Has paddled upstream, far, upstream,

Beyond the wharvea of the morn-

fer

She was ‘huge and whim and fret- ted with Bold. peddle-box letter-

She walked over waves with e i-{iytihmlg stride.

tell thin ‘esteok shrill _ with pride.

I think of her names and I drank

her health:

Uncetenah Priscilla,

we The Grand Republic, the City of

. Oygnug. Gay Head. and Mary 0 s

And s. thousand other names. each one dear

To the long-lost children an a long-gone pier.

There was nowhere an island that could not. bout

Of fie paddlewheel steamboat. the best. on the coast.

of America followed

Hey-ammo on the ed bold; Her

Common-

the Trad by

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the paddler, and it never came bee ;

Something of America seeeewed sway

On the cinder! deck! stiles‘! 13W violins P1113’.

paddlewlhaele etol-‘flld and the walking-beam.

And excursions ended in e. issui- locked dream

Al; the mooring upstream. he‘. fl! upstream.

Beyonii the wharvea of the morn- n8

-R.obert. Hlllyer Lu the New York Tribune.

Doubtful Adventure

(Ottawa. Journal)

Reports from Parliament H.111 say that. Prime Minister King and his Cabinet. colleagues are ‘mar- 511311111‘ their forces" for a criti- cal best" against Premier Duples- sis m we comma Quebec elec- lions.

A fair comment on this would be that. Mr. King and his Oebln- ei; colleagues lnlBhl b6 59km m‘ gaged in mershslllng their foroes against such public enemies as the threat. of inflation. the soar- clty of housing, the evil oif high taxation. the problem of a na- tion.‘ fuel supply. P1115 "111" things we could mention. Against such enemies the forces ad Mr. King and his colleagues, whether mershalled or not. have thus far been not. too successful.

But, apart. from chat, Mr. King's Federal forces invading Quebec, taking on Mr. Duplessls, must. seem to many a. doubtful adventure. Much water has run down the St. Lawrence since in war days Mr. Duplcssls was challenged by the late mnest Lapolule, and successfully. Mr. Duplessls ls Today not. the man who opposed some aspects of our war effort. 1n office for three years, he has given ‘and ls giving his province sound gov- eminent. has built for himself s. strong following among those who formerly opposed him. In the light. of that, and with no Ernest La- polnte now to challenge him, the storming of his citadel may well be o. difficult enterprise. We shall see.

COMMON LANGUAGE

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OPTOMETRISTS

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fI-ANQUIT’! » VISIT

m 1761 Colonel Banquet, en of- flcer of the French Government. sent out to superlntend the new fortifications at Loulsburg. visited 5t. John's Island and while here made on extensive tour of the set- tled parts. Htls account is one of the most; interesting on record.

Banquet entered the harbour of Port la Joie on Aug. 3. 1151 and anchored off whet ls new called Warren Form. On the 9th. he set out to vlelt. St. Peter's and other settlements on the north side. To do so he took e barge with six rowers up the libel; River. Settlers were already establishing themsel- ves along both sides of the river. The crops. seen from the stream, were flourishing in the new soil. Opposite what. ls now Scolcnfort. the tilde falling. he landed and was welcomed at. the home of an Acad- fsn. the Sleur Gauthier. He and another Acedlsn. the Bleur Bugesu, each occupied s farm of one huh- dred and sixty acres. They had been settled there for eighteen months. Pksnquet walked around Gauthler-‘e cleared leads and new fields bearing wheat. peas, oats and many kinds of vegetables. such as he had not seen surpassed in the most. fertile parts of Franco