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Morning Dally (Founded in 1881) Autho ‘ n Second Clan Mail. Post Office Department, Ottawa President: Lieut. Col. W. Cheater S. McLuro Vice-President: J. R. Burnett, F.J.l.

Bbcretary: Lieut. Col. D. A. MacKlnnon, 0.8.0. Idltor and Managing Director: J. B. Burnett, F. J. l.

Associate Editors: Frank Walker and Ian A. Burnett.

“The Strongest Memory is Weaker Than ' the Weakest Ink."

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1948

Mr. Sayer

s Address

The tax; of ii \'t‘l\' llllt‘l't'~llll"' wddrcss on

firaiisportzitioii, curt: ii: Rotary (flub by Mr, 1Q . ‘ ' i - - .. . bayci. L._\_-l\< Public l'L‘lZ|llllil5 OlllCCl‘, Mone- ioii, appears lll l|lfl,'l\'.\ i-sttc. .\lr sire-y‘; at». count of the lll<1\\'lllk‘lll o1 llttults‘ iii ihc C'l.l'l\,' . .

P?!" 01' ill‘: “at. zuitl of the irc-nicndotts coit-

tribtition llllitlt.‘ lviiic L..\.l\'. in titc war effort,

contains llllilflflilllllll which so far as we are .

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V lint lit-cu tiuhlisht-d before, and which at any late is qui.‘ impnuiv. in i“ totalitv.

lle lizis Jilsc» sonic \\..,-g[,\\1,,[e thin",- m Say . a about the iutirisi trade, which is due fora great postwar cxpaiishg-n, lyl‘\\illli_l't‘_'_fill".l to truck" traffic zind the dcsir. Gully 0t cciitixil control of highway transpor- mnon» “l3 5"\"~'Y 5llV-"lh: as a railway man and Quite properly so. Bu: there is another side to the DlClllfL‘, as we know iii Prince Edward Island. lhe‘ (...‘V\.R_. is a public utility, mmed bvlhe pcope o: L aiiztdzi, and its prime respon- lilblllly so tar its uc lift conccrnctl is to provide flllclellt "lllfllhtrtntioii with the mainland Truck CllIlTfKS 0n the C..\l.R. car ferry are out 0f’ all l>1">l1v\'li9i _to the (‘ltitfgcs made on the \\ ood l>l.'ll‘i(l~'—L1ll‘llJflll ferry which is operated by private enterprise, stihsidized by the Lioverii- ment. The effort of the railway to restrict truck traffic by exorbitant rates runs absolu- tely counter to the spirit of Confederation, Mr, Sayer points out that before the war, fifty Der cent of all railway traffic was czirricd at a loss and twenty-five per cent at cost. No Province in Canada has a better right than Prince Ed- ward Island to insist on efficient service re- gardless of cost, because it is written into our terms of lli1‘.0n with the Dominion, Lfmii 1M5 basis of our transportation grievance is con. Wdfid. We ‘cannot be expected to look with favor 0n the lJYillCiplf of centralized control, either of railway or of highway transportation. We mm to have had too much of that already.

Federal Proposal!

"n According to the Financial Post, the iie\v oor of Federal grants for all provinces dis- cussed at the Qttawa conference, is said to be about $r8o mIlAIOHS. 'l'liis compares with $138 {flllllctna m tllCCflglfifll Federal proposition. This 1s the sttm \vhich Ottawa would offer as an irre- ducible miuimttvti grant in return for the prov- inces giving up the riulizto levy sticcession duties, income and corimration taxes, _ It compares with about $125 millions re- , . . . celved b)’ bit provinces in 10-10-41 on the basis 0f sticcessiori tlutv collections. statutory sub- ridics and their own tax rcveiitics as calculated for the purpose of wartime tax agreements. 'l‘he $138 liilll10f15 minimum was calculated at $12 P°Y_ Ca lfa based On 194i population. The new b?" ll $15 P" Caitlin based on i942 popula- tion.

In addition. the Dominion Government is reported as now prepared to offer special con- cessions to meet particular claims of British Col- umbia and Prince Edward Island. These con- cessions Wfilild be in the form of zilternate pro- posals so couched that they would be of inter- est only to these two provinces. In the case of B. C. it is thought that the new proposal would guarantee that province a niiiiiiiitiiii payment of lbou $I9 pct‘ cmpila 0r an :iiiiittal tiayiiicnt of not lcss than Stb’ millions. This coniparrs with only about $10 millions offered to that prov- ince under the original plan. l". ll. I. is offered In irreducible minimum of b2 millions compared with an original tifter which wntild have work- Cd‘ out at only Sm million.-

Assuming these two iutcriiato plans are n. the order iiiirttttctl. the follinviiig tziblc indi- cates just how cnch province would fare under the new plan as Ct)lll])2li't‘ll with the old.

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i-:it~.'i.\it'.\i t-"i.iii~:iz.\i. i.|.-.\.\"t" (41 millions of ilollztis) Ofililal I lommirin Revised PrOViilcrs lhupiisnl Proposal I’, l5, l. - 3,0 . . s“) 7.0 5W) 5&3 10.1) l_’.7 Ill) 18.0 Total .. . . . . . . . . .. 158.0 180.3 A5 wcll, flit- lliitliitiioi! (ii»\'9t'i||||¢||t i5 rc- Jiorlcd as having (rift-rod the provinces a

"stabilized" iuiiiuul grzuit Iiriscil on the avcrtigc of income 1nd population ovcr three years. This would assist the provinces in calculating their grants more accuriitvlv in advance and lilsn eliminate fluctuiitioi] in thcir rcvviutcs. lt \\'()\]l(l mean that in ir,4(», for example, the proyinogg would receive close tn $200 millniis based on the new stib-itly piiitviwils mid zivcragcd accurtl~ mg lo income and population in 1Q,“ 44 and 45.

' "Contrary to expectations, Prime hlinister Kl"! m his opening remarks to the conference

#7 i: ‘ the importance Ottawa attaches to the neces- sity of a single tax system in Canada. He also indicated that if such a system could be evolved, the Dominion was definitely prepared to reduce personal income taxes considerably and also t0 remove doti-blc taxation on corporations.

-EDITORIAL NOTE S-

Nominations for City Cotiiicil take place tomorrow. 'l"he_rc are evidently to be contesLs in each of the five wards, as well as for the

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The new .\rk Royal which will accommo- dzttc one hundred. aircraft is being built in the Birkenhcad shipyards of (Tammell Laird‘.

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.\lo fewer than thirteen persons were re- ported in yesterday's issue to have been burned to death in fires in various parts of the con- tiiivut. A heavy toll, due for tlic most part, to defective heating appliances

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Stunincrsitlc Board of Trade is still active lll its endeavour to obtain a reduction in auto-

iruck rates on the Borden-gormentine Car Iierry. They do not see, nor ‘o we, why sim-

ilar rates should not prevaal both at Wood Is-

lands and- Borden. Ill

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Not since the Charlottetown R. C. Cathe- dral, now the liasilica, was destroyed, has the Catholic Church here sustained such a severe loss as bv the fFre at St. Paul's, Stimnierside. No doubt it will be replaced hy a similar new edi- fice, though it will take a long time t0 accom- plish this. n- v m n-

The first R. A. F, College was founded at Craiiwell this date i920; it was from this be- ginning that the valiant Air Force which saved England in 1939-41 was built, and it was to enable its students and graduates to practice uiuiiolested over wide territories that the Brit- ish Liovernznont asked the Ctinztcliaii (lovem- nicrifs permission to have .1 branch of the Col- lege established in Catiada. Permission was re- fused, and thereby hangs a tale.

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Where ignorance meant bliss. A postcard addressed to Abraham Lincoln, Springfield, Il1., was received by hilanager Hayden Davis of the Abraham Lincoln Hotel. It read: “Dear Mr. Lincoln: Please send me a copy of your famous Gettysburg address. I need it for school. Robert Bendler, zit York Street, Camden, NJ.” Davis sent ;i copy of the speech in the next

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Premier lanes gave good advice to the budding farmers at Guelph Agricultural Col- lege when he practically told them a little book knowledge in a dangerous thing. Theoreti- cal education is of value only when it supple- ments practical experience, and that with farm- ers must be got on the farm. Similarly a young man who has a mortgage :0 wipe out is much more likely to put liisback into his work than if he merely has to begin on the finished work of his dad. ‘l

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By 3g1‘(§(';]14§|][ with the ‘Nliiiistci- of Finance, the llritislt (lhancclloi- of the klxclicqticr has arranged to serrl a dclcgzitioii lo Uttawa to coit- duct, in association with the lligh Commission- er f0; the United Kingdoiit, discussions on out- standing financial and cxchzuigc problems with the Qmigpliaii (jovcrnnicnt, The tlclcgation will consist of 5n" Wilfrid lizidyi, .\lr. A. T. K. Grant and Mr. Edgar Jones of the Treasury, Mr. C. F, Cobbold, Deputy (ioveruor of the Bank of England, and will be i0incd by the H011. R- H- Bi-and, Trtgflgtlry Representative in “klsblllfl- ton and by Mr, Gordon Munro, Financial Ad- vise; to the High Commissiioiier. The discus- 5i0i15 are expected t0 begin about the 11th of February. u a s a ’l‘orouto eriioys the limelight of adverse criticisms. Comrollci- D. A. Balfour thinks Toronto is becoming too puritanical and wants to revive bingo games. "If V0“ Want l0 913V a game of bridge, poker or bingo why shouldn't You be alloivrd to do so." he asks. "Th6 WHY sortie of thcin are talking at city hall these days vou d think it was a sin even to walk outside the door of an hotel for fear someone would (lrzig you in." Ontario's .\llf)l'll(",'-GCIlCl'3l Les- lic Blztcluv-zll recently cracked down 0n bingo games and .\lr. Balfour, one of the four mem- bers of the citfs Board of Cotitrol, is think- ing of carrying thc bingo players‘ cause to the Federal justice Minister if ticccssary. He b8- lieves that veterans and Cllfifllilblz. groups and church orgai: ations should be allowed to hold benefit bingo gnmcs, as is tindoubtc-dlt’ the C855 in less ciilightencrl provinces than Ontario. a =4= m 4-

Some of the most cotwiforting words sine: income tax was nothing but a dark twist in s0nicli0d'y's mind fell upon Canadian cars this last weck. 'l‘liu.\' were: "For PFiFllCHllV 99 P9" (gut of the faxpziyiiig public new (income tax) forms dispense with stibstantiallv all calcula- tions of tax." Eliminatcrl were "thediereto- fm-c mihr-r complicated calculations.” \Vith this‘. Rcvi-iitie Minister McCaun iumotiiiccibtliat the forms f0,- 194; income were being distributed across Canada Tllcl’ \\'C""- he §“l<l-_“"_° ,1“ "lunbfl" '11,“; would be available at district 1n- ctiiiic tax offices and ‘it 00ft Oiflffs‘ with!" ll“ no“ few diiys The first form. generally speak- ing, is fut‘ thus: iniilcitig lass than $31090 “Pd the other for those making more than that. Itor [he ulhcfg ti»; mx is stated on a fillflllillllfl of a range of income with ii slated Dfifcfnlfllk o‘ the income above the minimitiii of the rat]!!! to be added to the dollar statement contained ‘in the table. i\lr. .\lcC:inn's statement gave this fin- courzigt-ineua: “'l'he forms at first glance apvcar highly dctaih-d but the first 111197959011 sllollld m; hc the l2l\"'lllf.' imprt-ssiui. for if each tnIPDHYCY will pfuCCCfl in an orderly manner and follow

ficnlty in coming to the correct (letcrmination of tax p,'1y.’ll)l(‘," Thi- simphfied forms fulfill

failed to put to the met-tins; a list of prepared Questions commenting on the troposals mad: pubiic earlier bv Premier George Drew of Ont- ario. \\'lia: he did d0 was to mike very clear

ilk’ llft)lll]C\'_\' ol Finance blllnistrr llslev i" fill! litidget address during the lust session of litr- liameiit when Le said that they were brim!

dyrcctinll‘; it 1s anticipated he will have no dlf‘. b.

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u Nova Booth °n 97°31'81". halted by iilx

0! Wlr. ll to be reaumed. Prgsegilii Diana call for the extension of el-

and atreliies of w

we a" ab“ to ar are abatlng, and

I9! back to normal ggiflggi-eglnéztlizlgy atlugients have -Wlndaor Star. m ‘h ‘"1"’ It ' dllfl Wll ult to er Robert [mills Stevgiiilijdiih viihrdii he was a child. "Robert, you go sltuln that corner for being miugh. W- Ofderfid the nurse. The em- bryo authur compiled. After a time, the nurse decided the boy had been sufficiently chastised and said: ‘You may come away from ‘he Mm" ‘WW. l! Y0“ Promise to 0d." “_Shh, don't bother me," Slim 1h?" ‘IVE-year-old Stevenson “ ‘m re n; myself _' Magazine Digest. a "My

In the current laaue o! a pup". liar weekly, [we discovered the word ergophobla , the meaning of which ls that. it Pflya to be lazy. And the writer certainly Bubmjflgd “trons "Bllment to that Every lead-swinger in the will have nothing on hla cons when he digests it. In effect, the fellow who loafed on routine and nasty chores had a lot of unused energy when he came to grl with the enemy. The “ergophobes ' really won the battles. — St. Catharlnes Standard.

army elence

Among the characteriaflca of the present age, the virtue of rever- ence is not conspicuo . It is ‘in- deed an irreverent age. On every aide one hears in ordinary convey. satloa the name of the Dlety light- ly used. Person: who would be offended if they were classed as non-Christians commonly use the name of the Almighty as thgv use slang words and phrases. It. ‘is a vicious habit which, when contract- ed ln early youth, is hard to get rid of. To the reverent mind, even to persons of refined taste though

not of religious bent, such blas- phemous talk is repellent and nauseous. — Guelph Mercury.

A newspaper reporter atrlvea to be accurate, but in the nature of thlnfl he cannot check and guaran- tee every implication of what he writes; he can only vouch for the principal facts, says The Peterbor- ough lhtamlner. Utterly accurate

the following, which is said to have been written by a pathologically scrupulous cub reporter who was sent to report a church bazaar, with instructions not to make any statements which he could not veri-

: ‘The bazaar was apparently opened by a Mrs. Johnson, alleged to be the wife of Councillor John- son, commonly su d to be t1 more or leas esteemed tradesmen of this town. She was dressed ln what some might describe as fash- ionable attire, and wore a hat of nondes ript appearance. She was supported on the platform by a clergyman alleged to be the vicar of the parish, and by other reputed ladies and gentlemen said to be- long to the church."

When II. G. Wells predicted the Second World War in his "Shape of Thlnizs to Como," he also pre- dicted that some time after the holocaust there would arise a new civilization in which all of man's material requirements for content- ment would be satisfied, Yr-t there would be new cause for controversy because some (llS('0i‘llPfllf‘l‘l souls would insist on flying a spam? shtp

aeern utterly fantastic, We have rockets that do not need the air for sustenance. We have atomic energy to drive a rocket ship throuizh space. And now we know that there will hr radar to guide it to its goal, Wells meant it. sym- bolically. Man should reach for the moon. The fact that the reach- ing by radar was done by an Army laboratory is significant chiefly in that it shows what energies, physi- cal and mental, have been diverted into the ways and moans of con- flict among men. The man in the moon must. be smiling wrylgr on these smart but mxled-up mortals. Whiy don't they get together with ther atomic energy, their radar, their television, and with themsel- ves, to make a world worth shining cull-New York Times.

The Red Pine is a handsome ma- jestic tree. It is easy to dstin- guish among the threc common na- tive pines of the North by means of the number of needles in a cluster, The Red has twn; the white has five; and the pitch pine has three, says The New York Times. Each pair of the long neod- les of the Rod Plne comes from a long, scabby sheath on its limbs Sometimes the sheaths are an inch long. In the woods where the trees are clustered close together the bare reddish-brown trunks run lilizh in the air, and the follaged limbs make small top-knots. The Red thrives on the thin-soiled upland pastures and along sandy stony ridges. Its far-ranging roots secure the food that; keeps the foliage a deep, glossy green and in the sprlnr turns the tree into a giant bouquet of beauty for a few days. Then the reddish clusters of pollen-bnarini: flowers blossom ln great numbers on the branch tips. Prodigal .- mounta of pollen come from the flowers, meant by Nature to fertl- llze the ovuies in the developing cones on the ends of the branches. The Red is dlffercnt from the White pine. The White ls gracious. feminine and pliable. The Red ls straight rugged and BKITESSIVO. It la a fitting tree to go with the rugged topography of Its environ- ment. Through the years ft fares the tests of the seasons and never aakl for quarter.

Though there was no city, town or village ln the country which dlil not in some way contribute to vlc- tary in the war, it is not unjust to record that three cltles did, in their own particular departmentl, more than their share, lays Th0 Manchester Guardian. Birmingham. Oxford and Coventry~two of them with an old tradition of engineer- ing, one with a new~were truly nerve centres of mechanized war. Their Influence was so rvasive throughout the armamen indus- trles that there la hardly a weapon that was not produced wtnily or ln part ln one of the three. MEIR- cheater, Sheffield, Glasgow Bel- fast (and of course, the great In- dustrial clty of londorn may have contributed heavier armaments, but few of their product: went tnzo ttle without some component produced b the lighter industries of the Mid andtlTha arnaiier links in the chain of war production are

’n rural electrifica-

reporting results in passages like qhgd

lo the moon. No longer does that f0

Hi5..9"ARLQTTEIQELNCQUABPIA! N018! By The Way

PUBLIC FORUM l This column Ia 0R5 to»

tha dlaclllllon by mngl spandenta of questions d:

Interest. The Charlottetown ' Guardian lloea not nleoaau-

t i liy andorao the oplnlon of siillillcfapriiaivlarovei-‘og Fe,- §§"‘._§}“},”,‘,{ correspondent; Year!- -Halifax Herald. Peace la really l; i °"°- '1" ""1"! AHEAD or ONTARIO

Sun-Well! Well! So Ontario has a woman who can make flowers out of shells and fish is going to set the at/ylea for Van- couver, Los Angeles and other cit,- ies according to the Woodstock re- port, in your issue of Fab. 1st.

Tlhose flowers have been made here in Prince Edward Island for years and several ladies have earn- ed a lot of money by making them.

Hundreds of dollars‘ worth have been sold in one season at. one of our summer hotels, end one of our local stores here in Charlottetown has been selling tihem for years. If your "Hamilton Spectator" correspondent sees tihls he may bo- gin to think we are not in the horse and buggy stage, but he will never admit we are ahead of On- tario in anything.

I am, Sir. etc., ONE WHO HAS BOUQHT THE SHELL AND marl SCALE JEWELLERY. Charlottetown, Feb. 2.

FREEDOM OF THE FREQ

Slr,-I wonder when will the Patrtfgit, Editor of “CliléillaecOg en " oea whining o ‘feat of Hosne. Cyrus MacMllian, at the last Federal election. I won- der why Cyrus does not atop Um- Perhaps the doctor does not read tihe Patriot. They say he has a very

i te beak t. use was £24550!!! of echo press ts

No doubt. a. wonderful thing, Some d? ago "Current Comments" car ed a.

clever one. to the effect that. the Right. Honourable J. L. Iisley, tum- lster of Finance. had added $2.000 to his indemnity — non-taxable. Surely the writer of "Current Com- ments" knew that, the additional indemnity ta taxable in the case of Iglnlstfirs and the Iieaider of the ppos on.

More recently one of the said Comments in dealing with com- plalnts about. the car ferry service lnslnuatod that since Hon. Cyrus MacMlllan was defeated, there was no one worth complaining to. which accounted for so few recent com- plaints. _

As an mlooker. so far as Queens County ls concerned, the writer has heard it. repeflmdly wld- m“ Hon, Dr, Cyrua MacMillan spent more of his time among his constituents, and leaa of his time in the Patriot Office, his chances of rte-election would have been better.

I am, Slr, etc. OBSERVER. King's County, ‘Feb, 4, 1946.

United Kingdom Supplies to U.N.R.R.A.

Details of the U, N. R. R. A, fin- ances mulnounced on January 21, show tihat, the first elem mlllon pounds of a total of 175 millions already made available to U. N. R. R. A. b the United Kingdom Zms been prov sionally allocated as foi- ow '—

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Supplies: Slxt millions. Shipping an Relief Services: Nine and a half millions eaoh. Administration: One rnllilon. The sixty million-is for supplies includes nearly 23 millions for agri-

cultural rehabllltatiun; nearly 19 millions for clothing, textiles and footwear"; nearly 5 millions for

food: over 4 millions for industrlnl rehabilitation and over 3 millions rmedlcal and. sanitation, The statement points out. that foodstuffs represent only an insignificant part of the supplies from the United Kingdom, though over one million is allocated to food not. produced in the United Klngdomwtea, cookinz fat, canned meats and dehydrated beef and mutton of South Ameri- can or Australian origin. The rea- son 15 that use has been made of tihe existing bulk buying arrange- ments the nited Kin dom Govern- ment has in the mar ets concern- ed. An important food item from the United Kingdom is over one million pounds worth of herrlngs.