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Associate Editors: Frank Walker and Llelt. Ian A. Burnett. k.C.N.V.R. (On Active Service)

“The Strongest Memory is Weaker Than

The Canadian government is expected to adopt a realistic policy in the matter of taxa- tion. Expenditures are bound to bet sub- stantially higher in the post-war period than prior to the outbreak of hostilities. The rise in the public debt has resulted in a large in- crease in the interest burden.

It is fully realized that. until the budget of the. Dominion Government is balanced, the danger of inflation will exist. Many circles consider balancing of the budget as impera- tive as the reduction of taxes. Nevertheless. a moderate reduction in taxes for the year I946

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A giant new learohll“. g hum“ produce sunburn" at a range of two miles. It's a real relief to know about this. as we read an item the other day that slid the 31m was burning itself out and there wouldnlt his brrliluch of a u“ ln l: a cou e 1 _ -Ottii)waoCltizef-ifl yum "om new

Has Canada any buntilnl eltsea? There may be some in the West; we dc not know because we have

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PUBLIC FORUM

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the discussion by corre- Iloadenta of questions of interest. The Charlottetown Guardian does not neoes. llfll! endorse the opinion of correspondents.

FOB BETTER. TRAN SPOITATION

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not been, there. There are eltles of charm, like Halifax and Kingston. but they are not beautiful 1n anv strict sense. Montreal is wcil enough, but not out of the ordin- ary, and Toronto is an irsjlammau-

sends me a clipping from an Island PM!!!‘ giving account of the recent visits of the C.N.R.. President to Charlottetown, in which he infor- med the people of Prince Edward Island that his system had under

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is expected tn he made in order to stimulate business activity.

More Important Issues

\\'i1h its Cllslolllilfy‘ bCCfl sccnt for rcd herriugs, the Ring Liovcruulent is making a great pother about its decision to settle the ques- tion of an official flag for Canada, once and for all. \\'h:1t I111. this to do with the serious problems of .~'.Ll1t‘~lllhll>lll]) confronting Parlia- ment at this zzmc? >11 far as this section of Canada at least 1s concerned, we cau get along iery well with the Union jack until something workable in zhc \v.'1_v of a reconstruction pro- gramme has bf-cu provided. The lack of Fed- eral and Provincial co-ordiuatiou in connec- tion with ibis \".tr1! issue is becoming painfully‘ obvious.

.\ wrilcr in Xczr: thus sums up the situ- aiiun:

Canada could lllZlkC no worse mistake, at this crucial stage in our history’, than to get all worked up on non-essential things like flags, to the detriment of tackling our real national problem, which is lflllr.

There is not yct a really serious unem- ployment problem. lllcrc are, 0f course, many thousands of unemployed men and women. Many of these are too-recently’ discharged from the armed scrviccs to have fitted themselves into the civilian picture. Cnculploycd cx-\var fac- tory workers have in tnany cases shown no par- ticular eagerness to accept jobs that are actu- ally available, either because they are in a dif- ferent line of work, or because the wages are lower, or because they‘ require long distance

First Seed Packages

The idea of packaging seeds and placing them in display boxes is attributed to the Shak- ers of the Enfield, ‘N. H., settlement. The time, about 1795. There was another pros- perous Shaker colony at Mount Lebanon, N. Y., which seems to have been more progres- sive. Seeds were not only packaged there and placed in substantial wooden commission boxes, as they were called, but salesmen were sent out on the road to place the boxes with coun- try storekeepers.

The boxes were plain affairs designed simplv to serve a utilitarian purpose. Farmers and householders were beginning to find it was cheaper to buy seeds than to take time out t0 select the best and store them away until planting time. That method was hazardous with rats, mice, squirrels and other rodents, con- stantly on the search for delicacies of the sort. Most collections of Shaker items will include a commission box.

If the Shakers were pioneers, it was Wil- liam G. Comstock who “modernized” the seed business. He bought out the business of James Beldon, a pioneer seedsman, improved the commission boxes, made and printed paper bags and eventually stamped designs on them. He sent his agents as far west as the Mississippi, some of them on horseback. Comstock's suc- ces lured others into the business.

tory wen 0n the body politic.- Peterborough Examiner,

The power of the atomic bombis such that the discovery will prob- ably outlaw war, on the same prin- clple that, poison gas was not used in this one-seemingly by mutual agreement-because such gases are now so powerful they would de- stroy bot victor and vanquished. With the princl les o! the atomic bomb well esta lished, no nation will consider going into war know. ing that it, too, will be obliterated in short order. At least that is bur layman hope-Detroit Free Press.

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I‘. will do no harm for the peo- ple to face more squarely the awful alternatives to which man- kind too often thinks itself bound by modern war. Indeed, it will be wholly salutary if they can be aroused to resolve more firmly that, war has become too horrzble to tolerate. Men must make the spiritual advance which will per- mlt them to hold lntematlonal crime in check without the neces- sity of slaughtering millions of the iinnocent-Chrlstian Science Mon- tor.

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ed States, Canada, Egypt and In- dia, were saved from destruction by the stubborn refusal of Britain to capltulate to Germany. and it ill becomes them, on the mcrrcw of victory, to demand their pound of flesh to the last drop. The pro- sent, problem arose from a war jointly fought for purposes sever- ally shared. It is therefore a part of the war that remains still to be fought. out, but not in terms of battle, but mutual agreement and understanding. - Winnipeg Free Press.

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construction a new ferry and when Completed will be something beau- _

tiful to look at.

my recent visit, to Island. Thankful I am that I did not arrive late

Monday with ting across.

l‘: People to! lglililnge Edward Isl- are no e u;

system o‘ n e a modern from their Island and not just somethitng good E

Hang’: tiswogflgd be in operation

Present-day engineering skill 1.11m quite safe something better tem. Why, Noah When uguld l 1' $11111 spendlni an extra fo r hours on the u

stand for the women have been notable and we], come no matter where they go, as

own door of entry they fail to re- cognize the importance of a twen. ty.four hour wevelndays-a-week service to and from their beauti- ful Island.

I believe I am quite safe in say- ing that if there was a modern day system of and from the Island there would

The recent war proved beyond any reasonable doubt is impossi

I wonder if Mr. President waited ore than four hours, as I did on cross over to the

Saturday night a; have to watt until no certainty of get.

would then

It seems rather strange to mg u“;

transportation to and to look at. A mod,

twenty-four hours 111W. seven days a week. With 1n nylon that there ls than a boat aye. used that!

you speak of beauty, what be more beautiful to a vis.

Island? The people Prince Edward Island always best. Your men and

class. Usually bold, energetic and

terminus: yet right at their

transportation to

a much Breater volume of vls. re and business.

that nothing 1716; if the people of

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Prince Edward Island want a mod- ern system to and from their Isl. and they should have lt. There is not the least doubt in the mind of $1115 Writer. who has been a visitor to the Island for more than a score

Every charred atone of the great arch that leads into the old blitz- ed House of Commons Chamber is being taken down and number- ed carefully, to be re-erected and

moves. Almost all families have more savings

than they ever had before. Family allowances

add to the purchasing power of many thous-

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Overseas the phrase “combined operations”

_)'0u it \\'Zl> their first meeting since

ands. Hence the government's unprepareclness to meet the coming problems may not be re- vealed for some time to come.

But there is an accumulating amount of evidence which suggests that the King govern- ment is basically' unprepared t0 meet the real crisis which will certainly arrive within one or two years, failing far-reaching moves to fore- stall it.

The most disquieting evidence in" this connection was the Ottawa government's atti- tude at the recent meeting with the provinces. Now that there has been time to study the exact meaning of what the King government proposed it becomes clear that there was a considerable clement of blackmail in the Fed- eral Goverunlenfis approach. Rightly or wrong- ly, n1a11_v observers rend between the lines 0f the King government's suggestions. an unwritten but implied threat. It is as if the provinces had been ordered to hand ovcr the income and corp- oration tax fields. in tow. or else be left by Oran-a to .~[(‘\\‘ in the juice of unemployment which could become quite as serious by 1947 as it was in 1033.

Words Failed Them

It is reported that at the historic meeting not long ago in China between Gen. Wain- wright. 1hr hero of Lorrcgiclor and for many years a pl‘lSull('l' of the laps, and LL-Gcn. \\'€cleu1c_ver, .-\111c1'iczu1 conlmander in China, the following CI\l‘|\'(’f:.'lll1Jll took place — and mind Wain- wrightis rclc-zlsc:

“icrlculcyer: "Gcncral \\'."1i11\\‘right? “'61- eome. sir, I'm \\'c1lc-u1c_vcr."

Wainwright: "llow do you do, sir." \\'(‘flClllC_\'Cl'1 "llnlv rlo you feel?" \\';1i11\\rigl1t: "I'm all right." Yoczlliulnrics filllfrl them. Tihcir remarks lzmal. This rcmiurls our of the saluta- ullfch Finulcy’ grcctcrl David Living- ston in rlarlw .\fric.'1. .\t the cud of his long and Jlffilllllis . ‘ch for 1hr fnulcvl explorer. ('11- contna-url l»_\ lill1ll>1lllll~ ~f miles of jungle, all Slazllcv could think if ~-'1_\ing was, “Dr. Liv- ingstone, I 11"" rmc”

Life is l that. lt is usually‘ in fiction that people live up to great dramatic mom- ems.

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Some Tax Relief

The .~\l1-x:1n<lcr llztmilutn lustuutc of New Yflrk predicts ~01l1c rrlicf for Cillllldl-Zllls from the burden of liiXiliilill Eu the coming year, but the authority nlsn states that it is n01 expect- ed that the llruniuiou iiovcrillllclit will pernlit any reduction i11 lnxr‘. for the calendar year. i945. It is 1|11it<' llflsslllli‘, hmvcvcr. that some reduction in taxes will tzxlcc- place beginning Ianuzlry 1, 194i». The possible changes in tax- ation in Catmrla for the ycnr 104!) umy be stim- marizcd as follows:

(f) Reductions 111:1v be made in both per- sonal and corporate income taxes. lt is p0sslbl0 that, bcgiilning with January 1, 1946, 'thc 7 and 9 pcr cent unlmal tax umy be reluoved alto- gether. The climiilation of the normal tax will reduce the revenue of the government by about Ssonooooo.

(2) The cxccss profits umv be reduced to Bo per cont. No grcaicr reduction is to be ex- pected in the immediate future because the outlook is that 1946 will be a highly profitable year.

(3) There is a good possibility that the tales tax will be ‘removed from production goods.

stood for I00 per cent team play; a good slogan to apply in our civil lives to win the peace. I I I I - Premier Jones evidently agrees with Mr. McLure, M. P., as to the sorry deal this Prov- ince has been getting from Ottawa. Both are protesting loudly, t0 the confusion of partisan pussyfooters. I The Legion resolutions indicate that our returning veterans are not getting a square deal in the matter of employment. What do our Federal, Provincial and municipal authorities propose to d‘) about it? I I

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A pleasing feature of the Legion banquet

on \\'ednesday was the manner in which the

younger members responded to the various

toasts, They acquitted themselves admirably. I t t n

Louis Pasteur, French Chemist, died this date 1895i best known for his work on Micro- organisms: showed that alcoholic and ascetic fermentations and putrefaction are caused by living organisms, and that when these are killed or excluded decay is prevented; thus he opposed the idea of spontaneous generations, and introduced sterilization: later studies led to the germ theory of disease, and the principles of prevential medicine, of which Pasteur insti- tute is an enduring memorial.

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There can be no reflection on the generos- ity c-f Canadians. Free gifts and donations scut overseas in 1944 reached a total of $33.743,ooo. representing nearly $3 per head of Canada's population. Force and fraud were the un- written law of the totallitariau aggressors but 110w the Allies are going to try what can bc done in the world by justice armed with the power to see that the malefactor does not es- cape the consequence of his transgressions of

the Christian la\v. a a a a

It is a matter for regret that in almost every aspect of this meat rationing program, the Prices Board has fallen dovvu so lamentably. .\ll Canadians are agreed that Canada can and should send meat to Britain, even if it moans arbitrary limitation on domestic consumption. The people will accept the principle of ration ing if they are shown that rationing is neces- sary to feed the hungry elsewhere. But they insist that the need shall be (lemonstratecl and that rationing, if found to be necessary, shall be so workable and so just as to carry the sup- port of all branches of the meat industry.

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Every charred stone of the great arch that leads into the old blitzed House of Commons Chamber in London is being taken down and numbered carefully, to be re-crected and in- corporated in the new Chamber. Scarred and scorched as it is, the arch will be a memorial oi the night of May 1o, 1941. when the House of Commons burned, and in some measure to the courage of all ‘the members of the House who stayed and carried on the Government of Brit- ain in defiance of ‘Geruma: bombings.

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The Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR have set the following tasks for the first post-war Five-

which had been occupied by the Germans; post- war reconstruction of the national economy; and further development of all districts of the USSR. As a result of the fulfillment of this plan, the pre-war level of development of the national

economy of the Soviet Union will be sub- stantially exceeded. ~

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Year Plan: complete rehabilitation of districts n

incorporated in the new Chamber. Scarred and scorched as it is. the arch w'lll be a memorial of the night of May 10, 194i, when the House of Commons burned, and in some measure to the courage of all the members of the House who stayed and carried on the-Govern- ment of Britain in defiance of German bombings-UK. Inform- ation Office.

When the hope was raised, a few days ago that tin cans for tooth powder and other toilet ne- cessities might be coming back, we felt it was too good to be trite. Now it. i5 found that the report was premature, and that we must wait at least until the end of the year to get rid of the cardboard containers that are one of the ir- ritating annoyances of war-time living. Thes flimsy containers are a, particular nuisance when travel- ling. Packed into a bag, they have a disconcerting habit of crushing and spreading their contents over shirts, ties and pyjamas. Even at home, the leave much to be de- sired. Bat rooms are wet places. and the cardboard packages, laid casually down ln a pool of wafer, nuickly become soggy. — Windsor

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It is said that owing to the in- troduction cf machinery men are losing that pride in their work which existed in the days _ when hand work WflS in vogue. This m-ly be so, but we believes that, the true workman, no matter in ivlnl. kind of work he may be engaged, whether lt be in a profession or 1n tnunual labor of any kind, will al- ways tnkc 11 proper pride in his work. H: will not do 1t mainly for the money there ls in ltwI-iisnprlde will not permit him to do any- thing ln which he has not put the bcst he l5 capable of performing. I; i5 his own self-respect and con- scie cs which guide him; his pride in uis work is caused ‘by these; lie. is master of his work and of his 5cul.-Guelph Mercury.

criticized the sfssechzs c! Mr. Churchill, al- though we have always had a sneaking admiration for him, even at his Wilfbi; and rt timEs our ad- miration h s been sn strong that there W85 nothing sneaking about it. For we have loved the great orator, as we have loved the great pc:t, and have always known th-"t a great orat has much in con man with a great poet, Mr. Churn- ill is the last of g:cat British po- litical craters, a man to be com- lflred (even if at -1 disadvanragc, as a rule) with such men as Lard Bclingbroke, Edmund Burke, Lord Chatham, Charles James Fox, Richard Brlnslcy Sheridan, John Brltlht. William Ewart Gladstone and Benjamin Disraeli, to name only .1. few. A speech by Mr. Churchill was always an event. Not, only Britons, but Americans, hung upon his words as they came over the radio. His fame as an or- ator l5 secure, and so is his record 5i as the world's chief exponent c-f the war against Adolf Hitler and German Nazism. - From San Francisco Argonaut.

Many characteristics. brought charm to the old fashoned family kitchen But nothing added more to lts cheerfulness lh-m the songs the kettle sang, There was great variety to them. A bubbling melo- dy marked lts approach to the boll, Then came the slbilant m11r-

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followed by the clatter of its danc- ing lld if a hand W311 tardy in tak- ing lt un witer low.

changed its tune to a hapby whist- ling. a far-awn tune that was woven in chldren's minds with the fairy tales they read on Win- ter afternoons by the stove, And in the evenings. a mother darn- ing socks found sympath in its sighlng, a; simmering on t e range exhaled softly after a busy day. It sans the songs of the family klwhen before the age of effici- ency shrunk that room, brought chrome and tile to lend its cold brilliance, a modern coo ng unit to supplant the old wo stove and. among its many gadgets, ra-

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of years, that the people of Prince Edward Island can have a’ modern l1a11lllortatlon system if they will only demand Your war record is of: your efforts

was all for dlstructlon, yet you won.‘ so today you stand on the pinnacle of a new world, and Lt

new world of will again win.

Bucksport, Maine.

Princeton astronomer, declares that recent photographic observations suow that several of the nearest stars have visible companions re- volving around them," while “the conditions for habit- abllltye

itable worlds among them,"

ating w the human mind about the question of other worlds, but. astronomers have been very skep- tical of the probability of the exp.

our own. tists. they w-mt positive proof and they discourage such matters. themselves theories regarding the origin cf the universe on speculations. which they call c,f them are mere guesses which are subyect to modification. often abandoned for new ones.

inhabited worlds than t one locking up at the immensity of space, with the countless unl- verses of the Milky Way. can ima- gine that it is all one vnst cosmic desert, devoid of llfe. If. as the astronomers admit, there are nu- merous there must certainly be at least one planet in each of those u11l- verses on which llfe

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upheavals and atmospheric torna- does. and when the waters which now fill our oceans were suspendcd in the form of encircling clcuda of steam. Where

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earth. but it; certainly must hate existed can come of nothing."