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THE GUARDIAN.

CHARLOTTETOWN

JULY 4. 1'93;

THE GUARDIAN

Authorized no second Cine Mall Post Office Department, Ottawa. The Island Guardian Publishing Co.

Editor and Managing Director. Inn A. Burnett, Associate Editor, Funk Walker.

CIRCULATION "Coven Prince Edward Island like the dew"

"The strongest memory is weaker than the weakest Ink".

Transportation Brief

That the Maritime Freight Rates Act was a necessary protection to these Prov- inces against earlier steps towards freight rate equalization is pointed out in the Mari-

llme TFan5P0l'i3li0" Commissio” brief be'icontributi0n of income tax, and that the

fore the Board of Transport Commission- PP5.

for Maritime rates in relation to others. delayed or slightly reversed from time to time by such measures as the Maritime

H . bered 434,200 persons last year, and paid cH.uu.n'r'rir.1'owN SATIIRDAY, .u'i.v 4,gin5.tLl3;81,000,0O(), or 14 per cent of the grand Mm " total of all tax payers.

The hi5i0i'.V (if freight "ates 1” ihisiaverage income in Canada. Doctors and country is one of a constant upward trend!

Freight Rates Act.

The reason for being of Canada's rail-1; pm. com or me grand total of income taxes ways is to link together the various regions as compared with 0.69 per Cent for en, 01” U19 POUIHTY 50 lhat lh9.V ma-V mrm 3”; gineers and architects and 1.65 per cent for economic as well as a political unit railier;1a,,.-w,,.S'

than being isolated from one another and linked instead to neighbouring American states. That transportation link is the oth- er side of the coin to protective tariffs for industry. The various regions being obliged to patronize Canadian manufactured pro- ducts were in return to be given access to the central Canadian market for their own regional products.

This principle. of course, must fight an unending battle both against competing pro- ducers within Ontario and Quebec and against the natural desire to run the rail- ways as businesses rather than instruments of national policy. It. may seem easy to yield to that very great pressure but the Maritimes can only do so without disaster when this country ceases to provide tariff protection for the goods that we must buy.

TlJIarkotTI'rnlilems

This country's export trade, although at a high level. shows signs of falling off. The British market and the Sterling area generally are up against the problem of finding exchange with which to purchase Canadian goods. For a time that was met by extending credit, a practice which it is safe neither to extend too far nor cut off too abruptly. At the same time Americans, who are well supplied with foreign ex- change, are increasing their production to a point where they jealously eye. any im- ports which may compete with domestic products. The trend has been particularly noticeable in dairy products.

The recent tightening up of rcslrictions on the movement of farm products will re- duce Canadian exports an estimated two million dollars a year. This is a very seri- ous matter indeed for Canada and Cana- dian farmcrs. The American farmer and taxpayer, on the other hand, are faced with mounting stores of surplus farm products taken off the market at government ex- pense. They do not see any advantage in adding to those surpluses by freely import- ing dairy and other products.

The problem must be tackled from many angles . Every effort must be made to en-

afford them. We must actively seek oppor- tunities to buy abroad. particularly in the sterling area and at the same time remem- her that an essential practice of a creditor nation is to continue extending credit. It was a contrary policy by the United States that did much to precipitate the unfortun- ate economic crisis of tile ithirties.

So far as the lfnited States is concerned we should lose no opportunity of remind- ing them that we are an even better cus- tomer for them than they are for us and that restrictions will .do them more harm than good.

I lIoi:tiirs' Incomes

Doctors continue to have the highest incomes in Canada, with the exception of consulting engineers and architects, accord- ing to 1950 taxation statistics released by the Department of National Revenue at Ottawa. The average income of those physicians and surgeons paying income tax was 59,881, while that of architects and consulting engineers was 510,995. Lawyers ranked third with a yearly average of 59,- 641, and dentists came next with 56,202.

Lawyers headed the list for the 1947 and 1948 taxation years, but dropped to second place in 1949. Doctors have been almost regularly in second place for some years. In the post-war years engineers and architects have alternately held, first, sec- ond or third place from the income stand- point.

Quoting the above figures, The Canadian D9019: says there is no way of telling how

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many, if any, medical men were Fcluded among the 1,340 persons in Canada who admitted to incomes of more than 550,000 a year. They paid a total of 545,000,000, or 7.8 per cent of the total tax. Some are likely to be found among the 5,050 Cana- dians reporting incomes of between 525,000 and 550,000, who contributed 555,300,000 to the tax total, or 9.6 per cent. The great bulk of federal income tax payers are in the moderate income groups-making be- tween 53,000 and 54,000 a year. They num-

Some interesting details are furnished by the Department of National Revenue statement covering doctorsi incomes for 1950. This would indicate that medical men as a group rank highest in the pro- fessional classification in their aggregate

doctor in Newfoundland has the highest

surgeonsi income in 1950 was 1.18 per cent of the total income of all occupational groups against 0.23 per cent for consulting engineers and architects and 0.63 per cent for lawyers. The medical men paid 2.78

In Z1950 high average was shown for Newfoundland at 512,160, whereas New- foundland came seventh in 1949. Lowest was Quebec province where doctors aver-,' age income was 57,364. Second highest: was Saskatchewan with 511,868 average, then came Alberta, 511,679; Ontario, 511,- 031; New Brunswick, 510,229; Manitoba, 510,188: British Columbia, 59,610; Prince Edward Island, 58,360, and Nova Scotia. 57,527. There were 8,400 physicians and surgeons in Canada paying income tax in 1950 and 1,100 declared non-taxable returns for medical men, making a total of 9,500 physicians and surgeons recorded by the income tax authorities.

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EDITORIAL NOTES

Independence Day, U. S. A., 1776. I O 0

Tomorrow, 5th Sunday after Trinity,

6th after Pentecost. O! O 0

Limiting the Rocky Point ferry "Fair- view” to cars and trucks of one-half ton or less is presumably a wise and necessary safety precaution by the Department of Public Works and Highways. It indicates clearly, however, that a new boat is most urgently needed on that run.

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The 11 per cent personal Income Tax reduction announced by Finance Minister Abbott in the last session became effective July 1 but the majority of Canadians will be looking for the result in today's pay. "Phat percentage of their week's tax de- duction, however, will hardly he-strikingly noticeable.

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Southern Rhodesia which the Queen Mother and Princess Margaret are visiting was named for Cecil Rhodes whose cen- tenary is tomorrow. His vision of a uni- ted South Africa taking her place in a world where understanding had replaced suspicion has not altogether come true but his contribution to education has probably been at least as important as South African unity.

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James Monroe, fifth president, of the U. S. A., died this date 1831. He fought in Washington's army, becoming a captain. then took up law under Jefferson. He held many elective and diplomatic posts, negoti- ated the Louisiana purchase and in 1822 declared the independence of the Hispano- American republics must be maintained at any priceAthe famous "Monroe Doctrine."

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More than 6,000 copies of a brochure on Scottish heroine Flora Macdonald have been sent from Scotland to Scots in all parts of the world. Written by well known Scottish author Moray McLaren, distribu- tion of the brochure coincides with the re- building of Florais home on the Island of South Uist. The rebuilding has been done by the Clan Donald and on one of the walls has been placed a plaque commemor- ating her rescue of Bonnie Prince Charlie.

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Some 59.6 per cent of Ontario's doc- tors are against compulsory health insur- ance and 40.4 per cent in favour of it, members of the Ontario Medical Associ- ation werc informed at their annual meet- ing. This was contributed in the report of a questionnaire circulated among the medi- cal men of the province. Most of the doc- tors in favour of a national health plan be- lieve it. should be administered by the medical profession, the report further stat- ed, but added " the possibility of any gov- ernment tumlng over for administration a fund which will approximate 51,000,000,- 0()0 a year is so remote as not to warrant discussion."

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NEWSYAPEII ITEIMS

From the Colonial Herald. Oct. 21, 1843:

G. Coles announces that he has lately imported one of Morris's improved Cardlng Machines, and that it will be in full operation in the course of a few days. "Pay- ment for services will be taken in wheat, barley and oats."

The steamer Albion arrived here from Pictou on Wednesday last, with the British North American Circus, which, notwithstanding the lcarclty of money. and the hard- ness of the times, attracts "large numbers of our pleasure-loving townspeople."

The Phoenix Foundry announces that dollars will be taken at the rate of six shillings and slxpenre each, in prompt payment for all purchases made. from this date until further notice.

Israel Fellows, formerly of St. John, N. 13., announces that he has removed to Charlottetown and taken at large and pleasantly ritu- ated house on Water Street, near the Queen's wharf, which he has furnished in a neat style, and will conduct as the Victoria Ho- tel.

The election of Master: for the Central Academy tin consequence of the numerous applications) oc- cupied the attention of the gov- ernors two days. and terminated in the appointment of Ihe fol- lowing gentlemen: Mr. John Irv- ing Roddick, one of the masters of the High School of the Mechanics Institute, to be Head Master; Mr. Frederick Gore, of Toronto, to be Second Master. it is intended to open the school, under the new arrangement, on Wednesday, Nov. 1st.

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and with weeping, and with mourning: and rend your heart, and not your glrmenta, Ind turn unto the Lord your God.

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I said: The heartbeat of the house is low;

I did not. know

It: only way to warn me was to die

The house so much more sensitive than I.

1 said: The house is tired, let it rest.

It. will awake refreshed;

I said: The pendulum

will not be quiet. long,

The house is strong.

But. I was wrong. The hum

Of habitation was not there,

The breathing had departed from the air.

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The juke box was invented on years ago, but it didn't become popular until the world reached a state of mind that would lol- erate the invention. -- Kingston Whig-Standard.

The great one and elm: of Robin Hood's Sherwood Forest, which were slowly disappearing, are now being replaced. But at a current scale of income taxes in Brlhainn a modern Robin Hood might have trouble finding the rich to rob-or the very poor to reward-Comvwnli Standard-Freeholder.

China has gone through I rer- olutlon, perhaps the most shat- tering revolutlon in its long his- tory. Western people do not like the form of this change, but they have to live with it unless they want the shambles of another World War. The tragedy is that the Western Powers did not ally themselves a generation or in de- cade ago with genuinely liberal forces in China. Then the rev- olution mlght have taken the shape it has taken in India, Pak- istan and the Philippines where democratic regimes friendly to the West are in power. -- Toronto Globe and Mail.

A Fort William teacher was talk- ing this week to her third grade pupils about rabbits and what they ate. She said they were par- ticularly fond of rarrots. To brighten the little lesson, she told about her own dog who also likes raw carrot. She said that he actually dug up his own carrot. from the garden to eat. After the teacher had finished her story, a little hand was thrust up. ”Yes, Johnny?” "I saw a rabbit once that did that." laid the boy. "He backed up right to the end of the yard, then put his head down and ran right. at a carrot. He bunt- ed the carrot with his head and loosened it. Then he dug the

ground around the carrot. with his paws. And then he ate it." Now there's a good fisherman

growing up!--Fort William Times JournaL

Young people should he better in athletics than those who are alder-and they are. Young peo- ple should be better automobile drivers than those who are older -hut they aren't. Take the On- tario accident statistics for proof. Out of every 1,000 licensed car drivers under the age of 18, 107 have been in accidents. Out of every 1,000 licensed car drivers in the age groups of between 25 and 40, only 54 have had accidents; in the 21 to 54-year group, 45; In the 55 to 64-year group, only 39; and in the group 65 years and over, only 31 The explanation is simple. In games. youths follow the rules. Behind the steering

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wheel of a car. far too many of them do not.-Fort William Times- Journal.

Any one who has actually been among the Canadian Eskimos will have the keenest interest in the result of introducing some of these primitive peoples to the bal- lot box on August 10. By those having such experience, this move will be viewed with varying emo- tions ranglng from approval at least of the basic idea, to violent scepticism. If, at this time, the emancipation gesture were to in- clude all 8,600 of the Canadian Eskimo people, it. would be noth- ing short of fantastic. For among that population the great majority have absolutely no idea as to the ways oflthe white man "outside." It will take years of intelligent and intensive education to provide them with any reasonable con- cent of citizenship. This is not to say that the Eskimo is not A good prospect for progress, and that along ideal lines. For funda- mentally he is naturally equipped with the qualities of honesty. truthfulness, courage. willingness and capacity for work. The fact. that the Eskimo generally is not ready for the vote, as well as the parlous state in which he pres- ently finds himself, is undoubted- ly due to the shortslghled actions through the years and the neglect of white men who have exploited the country in which he lives pre- cariously, and where he dies of measles, mumps, diphtheria and tuberculosis.-Montreal Gazette.

Friendly Co-operation (Windsor Star)

In a world so full of tariff and other barriers to trade it is nice to hear of instances where people of two nations take initiative in bringing about co-operation of mu- tuai benefit to themselves. Such an example exists down on the Maine-New Brunswick border.

A pea processing plant was es- tablished in Houlton, Maine. It. was found, however, there wasn't enough acreage in that area given to pens to operate the plant at maximum capacity. But, just across the border in the Woodstock, New Brunswick, district, there was land suitable for peas but the farmers there didn't have a plant.

An approach was made to the New Brunswick Government, with the result some 300 acres were sown to pen in that province. The Maine plant got the peas it. need- ed. and some New Brunswick farm- ers got a fine cash crop. If all in- ternational problems, trade or oth- envise. could be solved as easily and would be a happier and more pros- perous place.

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In the long ago. when the year begon in March, this was the fifth month and was called, quite pro- perly, Qutntiilis. Julius Caesar. who changed a lot of things. some for better and others f' worse, felt it necessary to make alterations to the Calendar, too. He had been born in the month of Quintillls; so, without bothering to consult popular opinion, as befitting one whose "word stood against the world," he changed the name to July. Perhaps it: was just as well. Some- how the appellation seems to suit this time of the year better than a mere numerical one. Latin numer- at: are all very well for the autumn part. of the calendar when "cool, sequestered voice" are to be had for the asking, for coolness and things mathematical have affinity one with the other. But when "fantastic summer's heat" descends upon our spirits, there is need for something out of the stuff of his- tory to mark the days and hours.

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The astronomers, who like noth- ing better than indulging in strange signs and symbols that pcrpiex the rest of us, say that in this month the sun is passing through that. area of the Zodiac named Leo, the lion. having tired of the Crab which was its day and night companion in June.

Well, what. the astronomers say must be true, and yet one won- ders what possible relationship sedate July could have with Leo the lion. Certainly there is nothing un- ruly or ferocious in nature's dis-

ural youthful exuberance of Spring and early Summer has been no- ticeably subdued. The earth and all its associates have taken on n hushed, seemly dignity.

Growth is still evident. to be sure, but. it is now a quiet phase that has set. adolescence behind it preparatory to the maturity that soon will characterize every leaf and flower. While the birds are still singing their divine offices at dawn and in the evening before the sun goes down. they, too, are showing a prefefence for the ser- ious melody that denotes impor- tant work to be done if young fledgling: are to be properly pre- pared for the serious business of living.

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merrlment. and clapping of hands in the woods and hedges, but the

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The Passing Scene

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JULY

merrymakers rcscmbics the deep notes of the organ rather than the shrill pipes which May and June had favored. The poet”: "gift of looking forward" is still contained in nature's treasure box. In mys- tery, however, has been all but un- folded. Ahnost anyone can see through it now.

In the fields the grasses, have just about completed the mission alloted them. Silently, with source- ly I murmur that life for them ll short, they stand waiting with the courage that God gave them for the eager hand of the harvester. The grain, too, is rapidly approach- ing its destiny though not with quite the some haste. There is I sign of hope fulfilled all over the land. -

The farm&. always busy enough. is now approaching the time of the year when clocks are disre- garded in a business that requir- eth haste. Harvesting is a. business, of course. Economic necessity is one phase of it, but it is not, 1 sug- gest, the primary one. The one thing that can turn a Job into a calling and a task into an art is the abiding and compelling sense of co-operating with a divine in- tent.

No man in any sphere of life can experience this sense more fer- rently than the harvester. His is the privilege of "seeing all things good, as when God first saw and gave them the weight of His will for law."

Putting the sickle (or whatever it is that takes the place of the sickle in this machine age) to the corn and to the newly blown hay is essentially I religious act, in- volving the "binding" of a finite earthy deed with an infinite un- earthy purpose.

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A great religious thinker of the last century remarked that farm- ing would never come into its rightful place as a top-ranking vocation until field workers in ev- ery land got into the habit of singing an ”nngclus" or its equiv- alent in their fields at eventide. Be that as it may, the field worker, especially the harvester, is in a better position than most other men to join in Emerson's convic- tion:

"Let me go whcre'er I will

I hear a sky-born music still: It. sounds from all things old. It. sounds from all things young, From all that's fair . . .

Peals out a cheerful song.”

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