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Trinidad The Key

A new search for a means of

_. reconstituting: the West Indies Fed-.

@ration has begun this week in

; {sh Colonial Secretary, Reginald ~~ Maulding, and Caribbean island

-» An abrupt, change in the plan for ‘granting independence to the feder- “ation. was forced by Jamaica’s decis- ~ fon, last September, to withdraw «>from it. Jamaica has since been as- *"gured of becoming independent as a separate unit and a conference to set the date for Jamaican independence

fe scheduled to convene in February. Without Jamaica, there are two

—&snew alignment of the eight smaller: --alands ‘with Trinidad-Tobago. The gecond would be for Trinidad-Tobago to become independent while the ~ other -eight islands, most of whom eould not go it alone, form an asso- ~_ dation that would probably remain tied to Britain. — If Trii should agree to form | unit in a new federation,

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+ ane ithe. <of | potatoes are commanding a “thighsr~ 4 Aad place where the -Apostle | premium on the Montreal ma Yr ket) ‘ 11 was shipwrecked “on- his sw this. year. They're getting stricter | ap ocean Biota: woe. mle" ths , with every possible effort | Bradford, has advanced } being ‘nade to see that not hing ; theory in a recent broadcast in the | leaves the! provincé that is.mot up ’' BBC: Home : pe areeres ‘to’ standard. This-calls. for coopers- ' 2°. During a winter living in the | tlon-on the part of all concerned— ‘| fishing village of St. Paul’s Bay, | and it pays off. . - Bradford sailed all found the “bone™ tin a @f rock” which is St. Paul’s Island | | The Wall Street Journal recently is separated from the mainland |quoted the following comment. by |.

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| fathoms, and a little further on 15 and waited for dawn. The sea-bed ound St.” Paul's Isfani comes up ‘abruptly from°20 fathoms to sheer rock, and any ship approaching the ‘| island at night and getting a sound ing of 20 fathoms would have Aen on the rocks before it had time to anchor.

‘ord believed he found the solution when he sailed up the coast a further three miles and reached the narrow Comino channel separat- ing. Malta from its sister island of | Gozo, This channel, with the eastern Mediterranean, or Ionian Sea, on one side, and the western Mediter- ranean on the other, was one of the few places in the Mediterranean ‘which fitted the description in the Acts: “And falling into aglace where two seas met they ran the ship aground.” - :

If this theory is correct, it is not impossible of verification. Perhaps in the future divers. will discover the remains of a Rorman merchant, man close inshore somewhere in the Comino channel! on the north coast of Malta, and a new chapter will have been added to the exciting story of biblical research,

The Communist Threat

Serious fighting between Indo-- nesia and the Netherlands over West New, Guinea is the last thimg the Western world wants at this time. The growing tension between the two countries over Monday’s naval. en- gagement off the Guinea coast is therefore being viewed much more gravely than the incident itself would seem to warrant. For a full-scale con flict would give Moscow—which \s already providing Indonesia with “massive economic and military aid— almost complete control of the’ coun- try’s potentially rich economy. A military agreement providing for Soviet bases in the Indonesian islands could be another result of a war over Netherlands New Guinea. :

- A New York Times corresponé- ent in Jakarta, the Indonesiam capl- tal, makes this point very clear. Com- munist control-here would mean con trol of the vital sea lanes between the Indian and Pacifie oceans. The political ef fect would be felt im- mediately in the wavering countries of Southeast Asia and might even be reflected in Australia, where Leftists gained heavily in recent elections.

The Dutch, it is believed, could handle an Indonesian invasion attack successfully if Communist interven tion could be ruled out. But the odds are all the other way. According to The Times writer, nobody at Jakarta doubts that the Soviet Union and perhaps Red China would immediate ly supply any additional equipment Indonesia would need, -and possibly experienced military personnel as - Thus: the situation, if it reached

crisis, would leave every advan- with the Communists‘who are .strongly supporting Indonesia’s claim to the. Netherlands New Guinea politically while the Western powers remain either “hostile or, as in .the case of the United States, neutral.

_ EDITORIAL NOTES It’s like old times to see the big drilling rigs coming back to the Is land. Our hopes for ofl were dashed before, but this time, perhaps, it wil turn up, or gush out, in anew source of wéalth that will be an added prop to our economy. i . e °

Agriculture Minister MacRae has

George-Bernard Shaw: “Now I wil be as frank as St. Augustine, and ad- . mit that the professed Socialists are also a very mixed lot, and if Joining them meant inviting them indiscrim- inately to tea I should.strongly advise you not to do it, as they are just like

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LATEST TAX-STUDY

No Escape For The

At long last there are indica- tions that Canadians are on the threshold of a gredt discovery.

They are, painfully, discover- ing just who does pay for all the marvellous blessings which va- ‘ rious governments bestow upon them.

“The money does not come from Prime Minister Diefenbak- er, It does not come from Pre- mnier John P. Robarts, any more than it came from his pre- decessor, Leslie M. Frost. ~The “money which pays for our manifold blessings comes from the recipients of those bles- gings—the taxpayers.

The Canadian Tax Foundation ¥s an organization which makes a@ constant study of taxation ia

LATEST ESTIMATE ‘3 On merely the taxes that can be traced, according to the lat-

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Foundation, even the middle works about one-quarter of ais time for the various govern- ments. ‘

The estimate is based on the example of a $100-a-week urban worker who has a wife and two dependent children. Out of -his $5,200 a year he pays at least -$1,232.19 — approximately one- quarter of his earnings—to fed- eral, provincial and municipal governments. ae

item, and

the one ‘he is no doubt most aware of, is federal income tax. $430. But, based ‘on the buying habits. of an average city fam- ily, Ottawa also nicks him for $115 through the 11 per cent gen- eral sales tax collected at the

mufacturer’s level on made- in-Canada goods, and another $100 in customs duties on im- ported goods. Excise taxes on

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some luxury items cost $39.54,

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FORUM , .

OLD AGE PENSIONS - $ir;—The newspapers are full

other about the generous way | they raised the-old age pension, also the new party now claims | the “six buck boys” have pinch- | ed their pension plan.

An official whose. office is carpeted from wali to wall told me his folks laid up fish for the long haul, At the:price fish is to- day, the old age pensioner will not get too much of it unless he can dive like a sea gull.

- The senior citizen who owns | property pays school and_ vil lage taxes, hospital insurance, | doctors when needed, also chur- | ah dues, on $55 per month. Most

workers today earn fat much | per week. In a country like this | Canada of ours, with its wealth | of natural resources, surely. they can afford to pay their sen- | for citizens enough for bare es-

- gentials of life. ~

I am, Sir, ete., : J.A, MacKENZIE eters Bay. .

TEACHERS’ LICENSES

Sir,—On Monday, Dec. 18, a letter appeared in this cdélumn signed ‘‘Progressive Teacher.” This teacher stated that Second Class teachers should not re

ceive a first class license after |

putting in many years of ser- vice'as successful teachers. Let

p> me ask Progressive ‘Teacher

why we should~net-as_ well as

‘those who have already done. so,"|,

afier completing \. twenty-five

yrears-in the teaching prof ‘ asks why We should

without working.for one.

Many Second Class teachers who attended P.W.C. more than thirty years ago are still teach- ing on P.E.I. For many years those teachers taught as many @s [itty pupils from grades one to

we are afraid of work.- Our teaching. year is a very busy one.

of accounts of the two old fed-“| We spend holidays, ete., prepar- eral parties sniping at one an- | ing sctiool work, bringing our

methods up to the most modern

| standards. That. with experience

which is the best teacher of all

is far ahead of attending night |

classes, studying something we never use in the classroom. Oh, yes, we get a higher class of ii- cense and more pay if we at- tend, but how the work of our papils must: suffer. *

It has come to the time when parents, the Teacher's Federa- tion and the Department of Ed-

| ucation including our Superin-

tendents must awaken, and find out the teachers who. are doing the job entrusted to them. If they are doing it well, they must be ‘ to remain in the profeapion by receiving a higher class of license and high- er salary. ~ I am, Sir, ete.;+ ~-

SECOND CLASS TEACHER

Prince County.

~- CANADA AND SWEDEN | Sir,— A few weeks ago Tom- my Douglas, leader of-the NDP,

in his hands two . He said

the first slipped from second highest in the world. Sweden, he said,

en Canada’s place. income

nadian per capita $1481; Sweden's is only,

oo ‘points out, Canada still s-second highest of living in the world sounding margin’’; *-’

The second report, Mr, Doug- las said, proved that Canada is

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and excise duties on Canadian liquor and tobacco add $42.74. Unemployment insurance am- ounts to $48.88. Through those items Ottawa has separated him from a total of $776.16.

PROVINCIAL FIELD __,,

In the provincial field (Ontar- fowls used as the example), this’ middle-income earner pays $20 car registration, $4 for two auto mobile -operator’s licences and

tax accounts for $2.88; hospital insurance premiums for $50.40 sales tax on retail goods for $44.25. the gallonage tax on beer for $5. Those items - total $165.53. .

In the municipal field only a property tax is entered in the calculation. Using the metropo- litan area property rates, on a $15,000 house’ a at $5,000 the tax is’$290.50. But even these amounts which add up to a. tax

* payment of $23.70 out of his $100

weekly pay, would fall short of the real total.

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pay business taxes and licence

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President Kennedy is

| the nuclear game cagily, threat-

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sion while slow-motion prepara- tions are made in case he de- cides such _ explosions are needed

His actions seem to indicate that he is in no hurry to resume

| atmospheric detonations, paying

spoke on a national television | free time broadcast. He held up_

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- Let me tell you the facts, Ca- | : is | Anglo - American strategy con- $1249.06 ference at Bermuda last De- and not only that, Sweden’s con- _cember when Kennedy and sumer price index has jumped | Prime Minister Macmillan 44 points in the period reviewed. |

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closer heed to the Western Al- lies than to the right-wing po- litical” element in the United States that has accused him of “nuclear negativism.” >. @epeatedly, when asked to name a date when tests will be resumed, he sidesteps a direct

<proved that the reply by emphasizing that the Canadian standard of living bad United States is conducting |

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wear skates or something a to keep the chain well anc |.

‘Some persons drive their car, truck, or tractor over the ice covered lakes and rivers of Can- ada and the northern. parts of the United States. This is dan- kerous unless the ice has been frozen for some time. One small section of ice supports each wheel of the car, or one

on a Wisconsin lake-when- ihe ice gave way and all went, un- der. :

(Dr. Van Dellen will answer questions on medical topics if stamped, self - addressed en- velope accompanies request.)

NO BABIES YET

Mrs. H. G. writes: We have been married three year¥ and, so far, no babies. IT keep think- ing of how :I would like to be pregnant. The doctor can find | nothing wrong with me and ad- vises me to stop thinking about it. Do you think I might become

about it? . REPLY,

Thinking will..get you no- where. Many women get preg- nant after adopting & child; pos- sibly because they are preoccu- pied with the new baby. I as- sume your husband is normal in this department. .

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. The absence of strikes in get- ting attention as one of the maj- or reasons for what has been de- scribed as West Germany's

worker lost less than a minuie of working time through strikes. a@ year W t in western European coun- tries was frustrated’ by official and wildcat walkouts. : West German industry had only 26 strikes in 1960. They involved 17,000 men and cost

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with 2,849 strikes in Great Bri- tain involving 819,000 men and costing 3,024,000 working . days, and 1,512 strikes in France in- volving. 518,000 workers and

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The lovelorn rhinoceros is vi from the savannas of the East—:the victim of his own bad disposition and his ‘‘magi- cal horn.’’ Three of the five sur- viving. species are diminishing fast.

_ The single-horned Indian rhin-

skin now number about 400. The Sumatran rhinos, which Marto Polo mistook for unicorns, have dwindled to a mere 50; the Jav- an species are even fewer.

The two-horned species in Af- rica—called black and white

a#though both are shades of grey

COLD WEATHER ACHES B. C. writes: Is there a cure for leg and back pains that oc-

cur in cold, ery weather? REPLY : Possibly, depending upon the cause. You sound as if you are getting old. If this is arthritis, aches and pains may come and go and there is no need looking for a cure if the condition doesn’t get worse. You will have good and bad days. When pain is pre- sent, an aspirin tablet and apply-

ys Test Decision By Harold Morrison ~ Canadian Press Staff Writer

-: a heating pad will bring re- ief.

Force base on Johnston Island | in the South Pacifie — 700 miles | southwest of Honoldlu—was -be- ing prepared for” nuclear pur- poses. The work would take sev- etal months. This would be in addition to the two months which already have elapsed since the president ordered pre-- parations last Nov. 2.

Johnston is only about one mile long and a quarter-mile wide and nuclear. authorities stress that it would be used only as a base of operations. The ex- plosions, if ordered, would take place es away at high alti- tudes over water. %

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resumed negotiations, Kennedy

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lay on resumption of atmos- tests. —

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where once there were thous- ands. The temperamental and nearsighted black rhino, which has derailed trains and charged artillery emplacements, upset- ting and trampling field guns, is no longer_a common sight on the grasslands. .

The white rhino, largest land animal except for the elephant,

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“If we lived the Ten Command-

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As we live the dollar sign,

There would be few darkened corners ei

In your thinking - and in mine.

There would be few prayers un-

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Fewer’ hot, resentful tears,

And_-life’

Fall like music om our ears.

Every jéalousy would-vanish

And the sweetness of success _

Would be measured in the sharing Of the ric possess.

If we lived the Ten Command- ments . j

As we live the dollar sign,

Folk would find a warmer hand- shake

When they grasped your hand- and mine.

There would be no lonely peo-

ple In the homie across the street And our threshold would be

gladdened

By the echoes of their feet.

There would be few disappoint- ments, ~*

Fewer thoughts of selfish gain;

There would be no stars in Hea-

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oceros with folds of armorlike |

—are now found in the hundreds ,

ven You and I could not attain. ~— Freetown, P.E.I. é

| costing about 1,070,000 working da

| Gays. ‘

At the end of the Second World War, Germany’s industry literally was smashed to smith-

the envy of other nations; ex- tremely few are . unemployed. Thé effect gives the impression that Germany was on the vic- torious instead ofthe defeated side in the war. If this doesn’t make the victors pause and think hard, what will2

The explanation of the so-call-

mainly in the dogged determin- ation and skillfuk work of tne German people, but it cannot. be forgotten that their récovery from ruin would have been much more difficult had it not been for enormous financial aid from the United States. Tae main aim of the U.S. was. to save West Germany from Com- munism.

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due to rigid gover nment prote e

tion. FRUSTRATED LOVE LIFE An important factor in the

sad and apathetic love life. The. individual male rhino sometim- es sulks for years, avoiding the

opposite sex. When he finally goes wooing—changing his grunt to a high whistle he

may have to travel miles be

| ereens, yet today the booming economy of West Germany is

ed “miracle” is to be found .

-+-fall-of the-rhino—is the beast's

fore finding a lady rhino. Too °

often, he is spurned, rebuffed, and beaten up by his would-be mate.

Even if he mates, it-will- take | the mother three long years to produce and raise a single calf, Gestation takés 18 to 19 months.

The rhino’s nasal horn- serves as a defensive and offensive weapon. It has also led to the animal's near extinction.

According to Chinese legend, the appendage, whij is not horn at all but corfipressed and congealed hair, is a powerful aphrodisiac.

Ground into powder, the horn allegedly has the magical pow; also to elinfinate pain, aid childbirth, rejuvenate the aged,

ward reincarnation. . For centuries, Eastern rulers drank from rhino horns mount- ed in gold or silver in the belief that the cup would disclose the presence of poison by sweating or shattering. © FORTUNE ON ITS NOSE Recently in Sumatra, a mer

chant offered to trade a new American a - oceros. In Indonesia thieves

+ broke into a museum and. sawed off seven horns from mounted specimens. The black-m ark et value of the horns was estimat- ed at $7,000. Current prices run as high as $150 a pound. Rhinophiles hope the animal can be protected in game pre- serves. Béast of little intelligence and capricious disposition: could be |, tomorrow’s fossil.

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