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Morning Dally (Founded in I887)

President: Lieut. Col. W. Chester B. MeLure Vice-President: J. R. Burnett. FJJ. lecrctary: Lieut. Col D. A. Mnclilnnou- 0.5.0. I-ifliir and ltlaviaglng Director: .I. R. Burnett. FJJ. Associate Eiiiiuis: Frank Walker and Ian A. Burnett

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_"The Strongest Memory is Weaker than the Weakest Ink."

TUESDAY, APRIL 22. 1911

Prince Edward lsland Ignored

just prior to the rising of the House of Com- Iions for the l-Iastcr recess, lion. C. D. Howe. Minister of Munitions and Supply, tabled a statement showing capital assistance given by the federal governmcttt on its own beltalf and that of Grcztt liritniit to inrir-its firms throughout Catmdm Tito amount of assistance totalled $363,- ¢99,S9.j, (liviiietl by provinces as follows: Amount I 182.526 9.123.045 115.773.359 107.625.1534 10.971801 81.609 13.288051 10,443,368

New Brunswick Nova scotizi Quebec

Ontario Manitoba Saskatchewan Alberta

British Columbia

$26BA99£94

1t will be noted that the only Province in Canada which did not receive capital assistance from the Federal l.i0\'et‘i1tt1Cnt in the matter of war contracts xvzts lh-iitce lidwnrd Island.

Why are we thus ignored. after repeated assur- ances that ccriztiti wzir contracts would be made available to a local cottccrn? Apparently it ll not a question of money, because plants on the mainland have barn assisted to the extent of the antouius zibrwe specified. Is it because the powers-tlutt-bc are indifferent to the interests of Charlottetown, which refused to return Liberal candidates in the last provincial election? There is the proverbial “nigger in the ivoodpile" some- where, and it is up to our federal representa- tives, and those who stipportcd them, to smoke hint out. This Province, as Colonel Ralston re- cently conceded, is in the forefront so far as per capita contribution in manpower to Canada's \\ ar effort is concerned. \\'hen it comes to war contracts, we seem to be left high and dry. Our only outspokt-ti champion at Ottawa so far has been the Lender of the Opposition. Is it not possible for our own representatives to get be- hind Mr. Hanson in his plea for fair treatment for this Province?

Tax Free Co-Operatives

The fact that ag r i cu 1 t u ral co-opera- fives are tax-free as for as the federal corpora- tion income tax is concerned, says an Ottawa correspondent, was news to many members of Parliament and no doubt to many other people. But everyone around (lttatva knows about it now. This seems to be the upshot of the recent flurry of agitation over the question of taxing eo-operatives .

Not long ago a district income tax official laid down the ruling that all co-operatives who dis- tributed dividends to stockholders as well as to patrons would be subject to income tax. The legal point involved turned upon the distinction between regular joint stock companies whose profits accure to shareholders and legitimate co- operatives whose profits accrue as patronage dividends. Some ctr-operatives, it appears, in- clude a small element of stockholding in their let-ups.

The attitude of federal tax collectors, whose sense of smell for any collectible tax sums has been sharpened to razor edge by long years of experience, is that every person and every or- ganization that is taxable must pay taxes. But co-operative are specifically exempt and there has never been any doubt about that. The ruling made. by the western tax official has not been sustained by the department and it has not creat- ed any change in the situation. The co-ops could have discovered that by consulting the experts 0f the national revenue department.

But the national revenue and finance depart- ments begun to be flooded with resolutions and letters of protest. Moreover, the mail of members of Parliament bceztttic- swollen with similar pro- tests. Everyone begznt to ask-z “What is all this about the pUUlS and cit-rrpcfilllvcs ?" The special exemption enjoyed by the co-operatives was never in danger, it is leatrnctl, and the not result has been a great dt-zil of attention attracted to the fact that it m"

Provincial Variations figures recently released from Ottawa show gross disparity betivecn the. provinces with re- spect to increased prosperirv rising out of Can- arm's war effort. (Liberal) while sttggssting that criticism on this point is "wide of the ituirlt tinlcss it Ciill be shown that lllln lltr-c cxpctiditurcs and ihc lllCillliill of wzir itilltisiries cniisitlcratioiis other than the fortiwirtlitig of the watr effort by the most available nteatis entered," goes on to say:

"The figures, ni-vcrlltcli-ss, throw a clear illttmitintioii upon n ivertkiicss in our imiinnnl ecunnniv. Vere is tlie plnini-st possible proof thril Dominimi policies- can and do create taxable cal)- acitv which varies widely as between provinces; and that this results under uur present system of

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taxation in wide variations in provincial rev- enues. If the Dominion Treasury was the sole beneficiary of taxation levied upon taxable cap- acity arising from Dominoin policy, there would be no cause for complaint, though there would still remain substantial advantages for the more favorably situated provinces.

“The financial proposals 0f the Royal Com- mission on Dominion provincial Relations would effect such a readjustment, When the figures of national income, in its provincial distribution for the first year of the war are examined, it is easy to see why Mr. Pattullo and Mr. Hep- burn are so hostile to the proposal. They desire to retain the advantages that the present system gives them. This is understandable; but in the days that lie before us, this country will not be able to continue a scheme of taxation which fav- ors some provinces and deprives the Dominion treasury of revenue that would remove these discrepancies between the provinces and give the whole country the benefit of its national activi- ties."

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I ‘Seeking wartime gasoline substitutes, an Aus- tralian Federal committee reporting to the Gov- eminent recommends that the sugar industry make available additional supplies for the pro- duction of power alcohol, thus utilizing a. portion of the annual sugar surplus which is now unex- portablc because of the shipping shortage. The preliminary objective is 4,000,000 gallons an- itually.

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Sympathy of the whole community goes out to Rev. Dr. R. Moorhead Legate and his fam- ily in their great bereavement chronicled in this issue. The late Mrs. Legate was one of the out- standing women of our time, able, learned, artis- tic, efficient and progressive. Anything she undertook she made a success of, and she had many successes to her credit. Mrs. Legate will be greatly missed in the home she adorned, as well as by ahost of friends, who had learned to appreciate her many qualities of heart and mind, and to love her for her forthrightness and strength of character.

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Quebec Government is giving ear to Tem- pcrance representations. Midnight curfew for li- quor selling in restaurants and night clubs throughout the province including the city of Montreal, and a ban on the retail sale of hard liquor on Sundays are to be included in amend- ments of the Liquor Act to be submitted by way of a Government bill this week. Premier God- bout told his caucus that he saw it as his duty to promote temperance in the province through laws that would be enforced to the letter and with all severity. He asserted that he would rather give up his premiership than fail in what he considered his duty in respect to a stricter control of liquor traffic.

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Henry Fielding, English novelist and mis- cellaneous writer, born this date, I707. He dis- covered the true bentof his mind when, after the publication of Richardson's Pamela be com- menced to write “Joseph Andrews" as an avowed parody_ As, however, the work grew in his hands, the original idea was lost sight of. lt was published in 1742 and met with instant success, and was followed by other notable pro- ductions including “Jonathan Wild The Great," “Tom Jones” and “Amelia." Fielding ranks among the greatest English novelists. He. held up a merciless mirror to the people and the manners of his day. His characters are always drawn in a masterly hand, and his style is bracing and vigorous: “It hath often been said that it is not death, but dying which is terrible.”

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Four women are seeking seats in the Mani- toba Legislature in the Provincial election today. Three are running in Winnipeg's ten-seat coit- stituency, while the fourth, Miss Salome Hall- dorson, only woman member of the last house, is standing for re-election in St. George, a rural constituency. Miss Halldorson is president of the Manitoba Social Credit League. The three Winnipeg nominees are Mrs. Harriet Dick, Liberal, Mrs. Asia Oddson, Social Credit, and Madeline Hryniewiecki. sound money economic. Mr's_ Oddsori born in Winnipeg 46 years ago and mother of four children, has been active in Social Credit League for six years and is now a merit- ber of the board of directors. She graduated in arts from the University of Manitoba, worked with the Manitoba Economic Survey Board in I937, and the following year was employed on the cost of living survey of the Dominion Gov- eminent. Mrs; Dick has been active in Winnipeg welfare work and other public services for 25 years. Born in Cobourg, Ont., she went west as a young woman and raised a family of six sons. three of whom served in the first great war. Miss Hryniewiecki, born in Winnipeg, is the president of the Canadian Consumers Youth Council.

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A marriage bureau in the interests of Dom- inion soldiers overseas and others seems to be a paying proposition. Two young English girls, a couple of years ago, were casting about in I.ondon for some kind of business to engage in. Their combined capital did not amount to much. Iiinally they decided to open a marriage bureau in Bond Street. Their friends were deprccatory, could see no future for such a venture. Today the partners, Miss Heather Jenner and Miss Mary Oliver, have cleaned up a fortune, accord- ing to The London Sunday Express. On their

,_ H _ _ jboolrs they have between 9,000 and 10,000 men ll" l‘ "W119i! 1'"? Pm“- 'and women. Each of them has paid a registration

fee of £5. When they get married they pay a fnrtlicr fee of £20 each, making a total of £50 a marriage. So far the two girls have brought off 900 marriages. About a quarter of their clients are soldiers or working-class people. These pay only 30s for registration and £5 each when they wed. Catiadians and members of the United Stat- es Eagle Squadron are much in demand. Unfor- tunately the bitreziit has no "Eagles" on the books —htit it has plenty of Canadians. "At Christ- mas," Miss Jenner said, "we had letters from married couples all over the world.

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Whatever was once the 9'10""- most governments nowadays do not place sdvertisinl only with the newspapers which support them, nor do they use advertising as a club to get support or aver criti- cism. - Ottawa Journal.

British efforts to free Tobruk harbor of mines were delayed for a few minutes while a kitten was rescued from the Italian criuser Ban Glorgio. The kitten had experi- enced for i8 hours the fierve fire whkh exploded the vessel's muni- tions. Two seamen who boarded the cruiser from a rowing boat. found the cat crying. They summoned a minesweeper which took the cat and gave it milk. issuing orders as to how it could be nursed back to health. - London Daily Telegraph.

A great deal of nonsense ls still being talked about. the mighty ocean litters that. will ascend the St. Lawrence to the Great Lakes once the river is deepened in the rapids section and below. As any shipping man will tell you. much of this talk is pure moonshine, and probably thc only liners we will see will be not much larger than the ocean "tramps" that have been travelling u and down the r.ver for the last 0 or 4.0 years. —Brock- ville Recorder and Times

It look; as if Vichy will have to wait a. very long time before an- other food shipment is sent to un- occupied France. One shipment was permitted in the hope that the Pe- tain Government would cease to collaborate with Nazi Gennany out-j side the terms of the armistice arrangements. But the shipment‘ he; hardly had time to get. half- way across before an item from vich informs the world that the. Petan Government, far from call- ing off its relaticns with Berlin, i5 actually reinforcing its colliiboraq tlon. The item reports a focd swap from which the Nazis would profit enormously. - Washlfliwn Pist-

You'li find Stifth in all languages , and races-it ls Goff or Gow lni Gaelic. Koviir in Bohemian. lizwai in Polish, Covacui m Rimwlllflfl. Kovacs ln Hungarian. We all know,

smith. and the Smeds of Scandi-

navian origin. Ferreiro is the Port-

ugeso origin, I-lerrero the Spanish.

Mr Smith in France is Mmsieur

lclFevr-e, in Italy Sgnor Fabbm. In, the novels of P. G. Wodehouse, hc_ is Psmith, which ls merely an; author's aberraticn. The Smiths

like the Jobnsons and the Ander-

eons, are a numerous and helpful

race. The rest of us couldn't have. gotten nearly as far as we have lnl civilized progress without them. -

Minneopolin Star-Journal.

F: ‘ "enadian members of L119. Quebec legislature are seeking a‘ lumber of important reforms in the school system for French-Cami adian children. The changes pYO-i posed are: Czmtpulsory education‘ in the cities of Quebex tnformity in elementary school text-books throughout the province; hill-IE!” standards of training for teachers; and that. the teaching of lEkiirLsh should begin in the second instead of the fifth or sixth year in the lower schools There-ls no cam-l pulsory schofl attendance law in Quebec and this. it. ls_ known. de-_ prives a. considerable number of children of the opportunity for even elementary school educaticn. The absence of such legislation. raggravates also the child labor prcblcm in the province. - Toronto Sim‘.

Hitler threatened America. Bel now lets the German man-lri-theq street know why. The Nazi press is at last. allowed to state that. Americans don't. like Nazi ways l How th’s dislike has grown up is not explained. Hitler said his lJ-bcots are ready to sink American ships. But Japanese ships. not German, are Hitler's wealponsi against the Unit/ed States. Mat-_ suoka, Japan's Foregn Minister.‘ repeats the threat to Roosevelt that if the United States enters the war Japan will lWlD lhfl AX!!- Jiupan has a werflul navy. It tn- cludes sever of the newest and biggest battleships in the World» The stalemate in the China war has cut dcwn activity in the Jap-l anese naval yards. She has a big stake in Hitler's victory. If he fails an angry world will be free to iiduiiniater justice to Japan. If he‘ succeeds. Japan will take her cov- eted picking of the Dutch East Indies and much more besides. America stands in the way of desperate men in Japan as well as in Germany. — London Daily Ex- press

If we were to prophesy that- in the year 1930 a population of 50 mill one, better led clad, and lodged than the English of our time, will cover these islands - that machines constructed on. principles yet undiscovered will. b, in every house-that. one debt. vast a; it seems to us. will appear trifling to our great-grandchil- dren, many people would thfnk us_ insane. We prophesy nothing- but; this we say: If any person had told t the Parliament which met after the crash o1 1720 that in i880 the wealth of mglanti would surpass their wildest dreams -thtit. stage- coacltes would run from London

to York ln 2t hours, that men would be in the habit of sailing without wind; and would bribe-I ginning to ride without horses» our ancestors would have given as much credit to the prediction as they gave in Gulliver's ‘Travels. We cannot absolutely rove that those are in error who tell} us society has reachcd a; turning point, that we have scent our best days But. e0 said all‘, who came before us. and with lust as much. apparent reason. —, lord Macaulay in i930. ‘ In Philadelphia a parrot soiveil a serious early-morning bottleneck ini one funil simple by hollerii-ign "Rosie, ge out of the bsthroemi", In the Bronx. s fellow had in give his parrot to the zco because when- ever s. bell rang the bird remedied: "Don't open the door-it’! a sum- mons." A macaw in the furniture department oi Bamberiteri store in Newark. NJ" fools all the new eicvatcr boys b suualling at them: ‘ "Wait. please, want u: get on)". A member of the New York Stout] Exchange ha; a parrot that greets him every evening with "How's the] market, Pop I'm a bull, I'm a built" A metallic bird in Calttemal asks all male guests: " 0's your bootlegger?" One in New York. whenever he hears the cocktail shaker. shouts: "Wet r

weather!" And another one out rest carefully counts his C‘W"€l"G

rinks for him. A Youngers. N.Y., whis parrot likes to iieckle Waiter Dam- bune.

the Schmidts. the Gemtan brand 0f ‘ Bl

‘Cflrkoes in open fields and on

"9155 BY “l5 w" ! Britain Sees It Through

Anti-Aircraft ‘Trap’ _ _ Is Waiting for Hitler

PAUL A. TllltNllYr- Wai- Editor, New York Post (Copyright, 184i. By New York Pelt. Inc)

The members of the British cebint with whom 1 was discussing the ibilltiea of a Omman invas- lon earied ecrou his desk to add

his words.

“The Germans," he said, "can unleash an air attack three times as powerful as any they have made thus far. arid I am quite sure. they can sustain such an attack for two

weeks.

‘Their object," he continued, "would be to disorganlze us by knocking out. certain ports, cripp- ling our au- fields, and creating general panic, if possible.

“But; unless such an air attack is launched and proves successful, I don't. believe t ey will ever start their army across the Channel."

A cabinet minister. obviously, has access to more information than anyone else in England. We may safely assume, I believe, that his estimate of the Nazi‘ potenlal strik-

force is probably the best. ob- ta able.

How They'd Face It

So I noted his remarks carefully and kept them in mind during my tour of British defense areas and in my conversations with officers of the Army. Navy and RAF. What I wanted to discover. If Possible, were the ways and means whereby Britain planned to deal with such an attack when and if it came.

I found out much. but befo;e g0- ing into details I must make two observations:

First. no responsible person in Britain pretends to know whether an invasion will actually be attem- pted, much less the date of it. On that point, all are guessing. and You may guess, too.

Second, I did not see any secret weapons or mystery devices; I doubt whether any civilian has seen any such thing. If anyone has seen them, he is a. friend of the Gprmatis if he talks about them at.

And, now lets get down to facts: One big item which can be pub- lished is this-the full strength o! the British anti-aircraft: defense has never been put forward. There have been some terrific bar-rages, for instance, but nothing like the one that is held in reserve. There are enormous groupings of defen- sive units from which no gun has yet been fired.

Awaiting the Hour

These main defenses have been held in idleness not because they aren't. ready-for they aze ready- but because the hour for their use has not yet arrived. They are one of the many surprises which are being held in reserve for the Ger- 111E115,

They are being saved for the day when Hitler attempts to make good his boast that he will fill the airl with alzpianes. If ever he does that, his losses will be terrific. Meanwhile, these units remain carefully camouflaged and the guns are not discharged because the British do not wish to betray their locations to the enemy.

Here is the way the situation was explained to me;

"We have set our trap. and it's a big trap, and we are waiting to. catch something big in it. Until the i crisis comes. we are guarding our secret as carefully as we can. In the meantime, we use other de- fense units as fully a5 possible. Also. in the meantime. German planes are getting through to our cities and doing damage. But we ltaye to endure titat. because we are saving the big stuff for the big big day when Hitler really makes his grand effort."

I have seen some of this "big stuff" which is being saved for the ' "his day." I feel at liberty to say only one thing about, it: It's there.

I was at one point on the British coast where, through a high-pow- ered ghass. you can read the time 0n the clock in the town hall in Boulogne, the English Channel. It is from this general vicinity that. the night-raiding parties take off to land on the French coast, snatch prisoners and haul them back in small boats to Britain. Such raids have been more frequent than reports indicate. but sometimes the "suicide squad" doesn't return at all.