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‘The Strongest illcmory is Weaker Till the Weakest Ink.‘

MONWDALIJEOB-MBEI a lMb_______ Unify And >Prosperily

.A szilutory method of evaluating the im- poftancg ‘or reaching a settlement of Dominion- Provincial fClffllOllS, suggests the WWIIPQK Frra Press, is to consider what will happen if the Ottawa‘ discussions fail. If the negotiations come to lifillliflg the impact upon thelcooflomY and upon the average Citilfifl Will l>¢ Serb)“ "d not long delayed. _ _

Failure automatically means that We Wlll have to go back to the arrangements that worked so badly before the war. For the past few Y¢3l’5

_l0V€f'l1ll1€flll have been 011C789"?! ""4" ill‘ Wartime Tax Agreements of I941 by, Wllllih the pfovillQflg gay: (hi; Dominion sole power to levy taxes upon individual incomes and corpora- tions in return for certain annual payments from the Federal trcasury. The inipelling necessities of Wll’ made this logical scheme possible. Under this arrangement the financial burdens of the war could be spread uniformly and equitably over all the taxpayers in the nation. . _

The Wartime Tax Agreements will expire

.in about a year from now. If no new settle- ment is reachedlthe provinces are again free to tax incomes, and corporations as formerly. In- dced they will have to, since the special 96V‘ merits from the Dominion will have ceased with the expiry of the agreements. This means that the new provincial taxes will have to be levied on top of the Dominion rates. What

Ywould be the effects of this double impost upon

taxpayers and ‘upon business? In the future the Dominionls tax rates are bound to be substantially higher than in i939. The cost of carrying the war debt; of assisting veterans and of providing export credits can- Under these circumstances the additional and widely-different levies of the provinces would multiply many times the harm- ful effects of duplication, competitive taxesiand inequities that existed before the war. , But this is only one aspect of thematter There will be glaring disparities in the ability of the different provinces to carry out their functions. The Central Provinces and British Columbia, the areas of industrial and financial concentration, will be able to tax the surplugin- comes and wealth that flows to thend from all parts of the country. Because of this more fav- ored position, the situation in these provinces might be tolerable from the narrow standpoint _of provincial finance. The other six provinces, however, would be in a well-high impossible position. An examination of the provincial makes it obvious that with a return

budgets to the

if pro-war arrangements there is no use talking

about a nation wide improvement in the care of the aged, in education, in health services or in the productive. value of our resources. There would be in this country an ever-widening

double standard of basic opportunities — one,

for the citizens in the more favored areas and .lff0ffl6f' and much lower one in the less favor- od. The ties of national unity would become feeble indeed.

Mr. Amery’: Warning

There have been a number of statements

by prominent men in America to the effect that U. S. A. expects that in return for financial consideration Great Britain will abolish her pol- icy of Imperial Preference and discard the sterling area. These statements have been sus- wered in s, trenchant review of the situation by Rt: Hon. L/S. Amery, President of the Em- pire Industries Association, in the course of an lddress before the Royal Empire Society rec-

IQUIIY. o “There can be no greater injury to the cause of good relations with the United States, in alone to the unity of the Empire," Mr. Am- ery declared, emphatically, "than to allowdt to _b_e-. thought that Imperial Preference is a subject which we are even prepared to discuss with v any ‘outsider. That is the key of our own house- hbld which we cannot hand over to strangers. Thu-u our birthright which we about sell for ofpottsge." ,, . v '

‘The loss of Imperial PrefcrencehMr. Am- cry‘ predicted, would give United States com- ~pct economic control of the British Empire. H: rgcallpd the American wave of speculation fgdgto. ii suddtn collapse in ‘IQIQ, sud

ii sjshsrp contraction in theibssis of tnverywberenThe existence of Imperial

' ‘ind the sterling area abtodiss a

si-iiiia impact» and the effbctwas

v iheijiritish Empirefthsii siiywhei-e.

the steps toy-which Great-Britain was

I93: re-cstobli; the confidence

, Empire, which bad been sffected as imbecile. and who {maim- factor in the

' i m MhIclflfolIowed thit action and

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pire we should find Great Britain Pllwi b! ill! impossible position of being between the upper and nether millstones. For the rest, the minions‘would be compelled to stand upoirtheir own feet if they could. Canada would un- doubtedly lean heavily on the United. Siam, and it would be little short of a miracle if her obvious dependence on that country were not to lead eventually to virtual absorption. Aus- tralia and~Nev'v Zealand would find liliomlolvfil in a state of isolation, which their comparative- ly small economic structure could not support. It is doubtful whether South Africa could sur- vive any economic pressure which the United States might choose to place upon her, and as for the Colonial Empire, it would find itself competing in a stern world market against prices which in many cases it could not possibly meet. Only the richer areas. such as Malaya, with their immensely valuable, products of rub- ber and tin could hope to carry on, and even they in time would become economic depend- encies of the United States. . -

“The world requires at least one othcr large economic unit such as the British Em- pire to maintain its balance, and it would be vastly profitable if instead of destroying the mutually dependent structure of the Empire other such structures were created such as might easily be accomplished in the Scandin- avian area nr in South America. There are only two things which stand iii the way. One is the Most Favoured Nation Clause, andvthecthcr is the worship of this Clause which has set its hold noon the American D€0pl€.,

“Whatever financial arrangements may or may not be necessary. we have no hope for the future unless the British Government and the Dominions make up their minds that they must not be bought at the price asked by the Am- 7ericans, which would. without question, place the prospect of world recovery in the direst ieopardy.

i-EDITORIAL NOTES-

The only European country with adequate food supplies is Denmark, and it lacks corn

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The best way of discovering the identity of the alleged Islanders who deserted, is tc publish their names and addresses.

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Agriculture Minister Gardiner said in the Commons that the Federal Government is as “sure 3,5 i5 Q2111 be” of a French Government coii- tract for the purchase of 35,000 Wofk lIOY-SES l"

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We escaped wonderfully the rigors of the storm which played such havoc in the other provinces. We have usually bad weather round about St. Andrew’s Day banquet anyway; in the past Scotsmen from outlying parts have been held up coming or gaging.

Newspaper readers spend an average of 66.6 minutes per day digesting the contents of the paper, accordingto _a survey. Advertisers know the value of this high exposure per read- er -—— almost seven hoursta ‘week!

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According to the Federal Government National Harbours Board there are but two harbours in the Maritimes, those of Halifax and Saint John. This being the case is it any won- der we are discriminated against in all mltttis affecting our transit improvement and develop-

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Samuel Compton, inventor of the mid: for spinning cotton, born this date i753 st Firwood. near Bolton, England; muslins, until near the close of the eighteenth century, were all im- ported into England from India; English spin- ners were unable to produce yam fine enough for the manufacture of such delicate fabrics: Arkwright had invented spinning by rollers, and Hargreaves the spinning jenny, when in_ r779 Crompton succeeded in combining both inven- tions, thereby enabling spinners to draw out long threads, in large numbers to more than Hindu tenuity, and helped Lancashire effectu- ally to her high and lucrativeposition for years of cotxon-spinner-in-chief to the world.

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As already announced, a campaign to riffs; $4,300,000 for general purposes is to be launched next year by the Church of England‘ ‘in Canada. The appeal will be known as the Anglican Advance Appeal. As s first step members will be called to rededicate themselves to God and His church and later to make s special tharikoffering. The sum asked for in the appeal ls to be apportioned as follows: Pensions for missionary clergy, $1,300,000; 1115885"!!! objects, hgoopoopeducatioiisl. work, $roo,boo; social service, $55,000; _ _ $90,000; churches inBrifain, $100,000; General Synod, $205,000; local diocesan needs, $800,- ooo; extension to Church House (administra- tion headquarters, Tormto), $50, i cam- mizn memes. Voomo- - ' -

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Effective Dec. f the, New yflrunswick ‘Liquor Control Bosrd‘ will sill rum, to consumers without dgmiiding s ration coiipon and will double the ration on both’. imported and domestic wines. With gin siid rum offlths ration and fourquarts of wine svaillbls tolclch patron per month,- New Brunswick’ ‘liquor Il- tion becomes "the most generous 6f any prov- iiic in Canada." Other spirits} oil/toms bottls hjff ‘ _ v

still rationed szftwoidozeir glsrgo month. , It is”; ’ ldlpsted thst.

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unless by‘ mssslnstlon of ind n11 ls

, for the proof is mtors clear 51in ever that, that

plsrinod ws-r ond were ihtermln : tothwsrt every effort to PIWQM it. Tbs documentary proof ls al Alflnst ‘Lindbergh. Ai- thur NEWLUIINIllClC.

Wins Is n chum-ed mountain“ The following, says The Canadian Ohiimrsd Accountant, ls a quota- tion. from ii. recent issue of one of our leading newspapers: “All hust- ness‘ from the biggest to the small-

ls founded on the basic rln. ciplo of distrust of all men. are chartered aconntants‘! “Profes- sional dlstrusters, The commandos of distrust trained to a hair, skill- ed in all the arts of creeping up on s.n unsuspecting citizen and all

lng a piano wire around his nec .

e paratroops of distrust who some down without warning sinned with the very latest and deadliest

weapons, on a. hapless bookkeeper." A]

President Msnnerhelm of Flnland was right, when he sold he was lourneylrig to Portgual for his health. It now develops his trl was s flight and his health mlgh be permanentl impaired lf he re- turns home. e war guilt trials at Helsinki are linking the 78-year. old commander closely with the Germans. While offlcialdom looked the other way, no doubt, the laid marshal left. Finland forever. B0 ln disgrace ends the Flnnlsh career of the‘ one~time national hero, the baron who liberated his nation dur. lng the Russian revolution, -Mln- neapolls Star Journal.

There l.s word from srohseologlsts ln London that. "civilization" ls really two thousand years older than they once thought; chat ls, between seven and eight thousand years pid. As a matter of fact, we would, offhand, have said it must. be even older, Eight thousand years seems such a little time to have develo ed the mess we're in»- Montresl S ar. ,

Tho House of Commons may or may not still deserve its reputa- tion as the best club in London, but this week's Change: have unques. tlonably made it the club with the cheapest food. Announcement of the institution of! a 1s. 6d. lunch and a 2s. dinner had kindled live- ly expectations, and they have not been dlsappolntedThe first day's luncheon menu consisted of soup, braised venison and two vegetables, and plum tart—wlth alternative choices for those who liked some- thing else better. And there ‘are no $96. best lt should be said that

Pfa are being fed by the tax- payer the Kitchen Committee has expressed the conviction that with the numbers now being served (and there is never a vacant seat ln the dining room it one o'clock) there wlll be n. balance on the right side. However that may be, the lnnovii. tfon ls a boon for those members with nothing but, their £800 a year to llve on. —London Spectator.

In. s casual conversation about esterdayh snowfall, a citizen said ho ‘color was all right." But, ac- cording w good authority, white is not, a color, The Port Arthur News-Chronicle points out. Neither is black. The colors are variations of the two. Webster's dictionary, ii-i s. long explanation of color as the effect of light of different wave len on the retina, apparently ox udes black and white, for it oes on to describe fr. further as a ue, "other than black or white." It slso mention; "the colors of the llliflbOW—fltl'lui~iy exciudin black snd white." Newton gives t e seven colors as red, creme, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. For every color there ls s. com lementary color which when mb nod with ft gives white. In other words, these colors neutralize or destroy one an- other the result being white, which ls itof s color. .

I‘ ‘ street " traffic keeps turning in new records. Last Bsturday our ancient street cars, middle used as buses and new trolley buses contrived to carry some , m re ' than flu mu tlon of the city. The new sin: s day's "high" ls 144,- ffl. The department has wise firm buck to "two nun csi-a" dur-

I rush" ho , only now sir-ser- ylceinen have replaced the conduc-

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M I crowded restaurant tbs t there wuss party of , in Isn sing Lrdy Inset an s msn on wom- sn, ‘The Inndifii txndard fellikl. They were dos ln conversation and then Ill ssrfoiln

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its Superintendent snd 1n cha e of the industries c by e boys under Mr. management, and in chsrle their education and trnlnfn . er residents wlll recall Mr. flstm as having been for several years Field Secretary of the Temperance fiance in Prince Edward-aloud and ls havins been st one tine in pastoral charge of the baptist. Church ln Montalue. Whle en- alllsgf in temperance work, Mr.

n resided in Charlottetown. One of his sons, the Rev. James Wilson, was, minister of the Bap- tist Church in Summer-side a few W!!! 880.

In my vlslts to the Halifax In- dustrlal School I have been shown through the various departments of work performed by the boys, have been shown their lng room and living quarters and found everything apotlessly clean.

I have also had to do with boys who have got lnto trouble and who have been senrto this Re- form School. My experience of this School is that the reformation in boys‘ lives it has effected, and of which I have had personal know- ledge, has been qulte remarkable. My tribute would be that of un- qualified praise.

It ls hardly HECGIBITy to say that during the last. flve o-r six years, owing to war-travel restric- tions, I have not had an oppor- tunity of vlsltlng nfy friend Mr. Wilson, for whom I have the high. est respect. I would flnd the greatest difficulty, however, in regardlng the conditions reported on by Mr. Fielding, for whom I have also hlizh respect, as other than unusual and rare. I very much regret that Mr. Fielding’! strong and apparently unqualified con. demnation of an institution which I regard as one of a yery hlgh character, should have received such widespread publicity.

I am Sir, etc. w. ii. BENTLEY

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Sir, - Charlottetown could be "Billy improved by cleaning side- walks, streets of waste paper - a varied assortment of wrapping paper, torn newspapers, candy and sum wrnppfhr-often. old cartons that rain and wlnd have buttered —oranze peel and the. rarer ban- nana skins. All this wastage is an QYQ-WOPE l0 P801718 WhO GTO B0- customed to orderly cities and towns. ‘ _

Why ‘not. have. metal containers fastened securely to posts

throughout the city and especlal- '

ly near stores where candy ls bought by children who tear wropplrigs off and throw them to the wlnd for want of receptacles to hold waste. A clean-thostreets campaign could be instituted and children given friendly advice by teachers, appealing to thelr clvlc pride and emphaslzln: the help each child could give in this work. As children need to have advice Apentod until habits are establish- ed, teachers as well u parents, who of course have the zrenter to play‘ in teuchlnl order and cleanliness to their fsmlllos, would need to give frequent ad. vlce and encouragement to those ln their charge. Parents too would become. Interested and there ls no reason why s smsll clty like Char- ht t twn! ‘ " {at do its ut- nios o mprovo s pesniice. Ar there ls little moneypto spend on clvlc improvements than esch citizen-owner s: well u tenants, “ "‘ feel l '“ to o his and her belt to brighten streets and homes. l Women have done exceedingly well.“ wru- jobs and have not ihought manual labor atoll kinds snd so , beneath them-this is the splrt that e world needs today-help ho ful people who realise thnt s s short and l“ need to leave s record of useful- ness behind them. Hers fl n rug. gestlon for tho women of Char- ‘ottstown In ' their homes. They exce at frislde pslntlnr ilk?“ “"1? l2 lflffwlflill. rl sir-use t n . no dull shades. If this campaign were once started, I foul rnsny might donate paint especially man who may be too busy so do this work.

than wll bspwo ,forfil."f‘lifs utllltsrlsn spirit-should b0 fndlia- ti fth~ ‘t-of ousopsrstlon,

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knows. Since that lust amend- ment went on the statute books the whole situation has gone from bud to worse, That amendment is I travesty on the Prohibition Act and travesty ‘means burlesque.

Somebody said the other day that the use of the word degrading t» describe the part the Medical Association was expected to play in selling this ludicrous amend- ment to the public was putting lt a little too strong. The word de- lradlng ls much too fine a word to use ln this connection.

That Act to amend the Prohlbl. tlon Act by authorizing iiphyslclan to prescribe for a sick man 26 ounces of distilled liquor or 104 ounces of wine, or nine full quarts

ale, beer or porter not. oftener than once ln two days, for six months and that. other provision for the appointment of one or more social service workers whose duties shall be to endeavor to alleviate and remedy any or all the circumstances of family dis- tress resulting from the illicit traffic ln intoxicating liquors has made this iniquitous bit of legis- lation n subject for laughter and derision from one end of the Pro- vlnce to the other, Providing social service facilities for families who are victims of the

alcohol ls supplied by the bunt- legger, or through the black mar- ket, and denying the same privilege to families whose family life is destroyed by alcohol supplied by u vendor with the government's guarantee ls unfair discrimination.

The effect ofalcohol is always the some. Alcohol when taken into the system destroys brain cells; Ind it doesnot matter under what trade name the beverage is manu- factured or under whose authority lt -ls sold alcohol still destroys brain cells and makes the vlc- flm progressively unable to dls- tinguish right from wrong or mun- age his own business.

The. guise of using men or wo. men who are physically or men- tully ill as the channel _through which intoxicating liquor shall flow lii ever increasing vc-luniu ls about-the most thinly veiled dis- slmulation we have met in our time. And yet we talk about physl- cal fitness programs, and all the whlle the greatest enemy to physical and mental fitness the world has ever known ls running wlld. ~

I am, Slr, etc, VERNON CROCICETT, Charlottetown, TRANS-PACIFIC TRADE

Sin-There seems to be good hope that the Federal lGovern. merit wlll soon take steps to'lm- prove our Brltlsh Columbia har- bours. It would seem equally lm- portant that our Provincial Gov- ernment should take steps towards cultivating a frlendly “good nelgli, hour" feeilns between us and our great neighbour-nations across the Pacific; for lt is to Euuln, Japan. China, India, and the East Indies that we must look for the trade that wlll Justify and pay for such heavy expenditure on our qunys and break-waters. Prince Rupert, Victoria, and Vancouver are the natural gateways through which should flow the costly cargo: from the For East. Into both Canada and the United States. Before the war there were shfploads of raw sllka continually plSllIlI through here for distribution all over moi-tn America.

By tho grace of God- and the courage inspired in British hearts throughout this Commonwealth of British nations, helped out by that.

Chins, we have narrowly escaped lbsorptlon Into the ‘JEmpli-o of the Rising Bun." For eight long years luvo Chfung Kai-Shel: and his lri- domltsblo people been British Columbia's shield and‘ bulwark sgslnst invasion. Yet this is no reason why (after due pun. lshmont to all war-criminals) we should now rpfuse the helping hand of cosnmorcl frfendshl to our fate enemy the spnneso. loaders were full of Insolence and co ‘but let us not repay fr own coin, Our leader, Nelson, u want into sc- tlori ‘st wrlttsii prayer‘ us ty,

-"blsy human after victory, be

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the predominating feature ln the British fleet." and It has always been so since- that merciful treatment of a fal- len foes brings sure reward In 1M!- fng frlendiihl . Take this one example: the r War ended with the Treaty of Vereenlglng; the ‘Iranuvaa and Orange Free State were given generous pence terms, and selhgovernment by their chosen lenders, Louis Both: and J. C. Smutr: result, Brltulri had a new friend, the South African Union; and the German dream of Deuuich Zollvereln from the Mod- lterrnneun to Cape ‘Down was nipped in the bud,

Right now our British Colum- bia government can bring to pass a very useful spirit of friendly lis- tercourse and trade with the For

East by removing those frsnchise - disabilities imposed by ‘the Act "

of 1816 which denies to All Orien- tals (although domlclled ln B. o. and Canadian cltlzem by birth or naturalization) the right to vote. It is not in human nature that our late allies, China and India, should relish such treatment of their nationals born or iiaturallz. ed in Canada, and be keen on ex- tending us a friendly hlnd ln trading privileges. In the United States, and in every other Pro vlnce save this one with the “Bri- tlsh" name, there people jiave full cltlzenahlp. Even our Russian no. tlonals are not dlsquallfled,-“not being Orientals within the mean. lng of the Act". Let us wake up in Brltlsh Columbia. We don't want to be to the rest of Canada "as the little fly which maketh the ointment to iitlnk."

I am asking publicity for this letter right across Canada, be- cause trade lii the life-blood of every Province, and In the belief that any Injustice toward or un- equal treatment of racial mlrion- itles ln _one Province makes for dlsunlon and bad blood through. out our whole Dominion, and should be corrected by action of our National Government.

I am, Sir, etc., F. W. L. MOORE, . Lieutenant-Colonel

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REGINA. Nov..30 — (Wk-W. P. Turner. secretary Mu! sot commissioner of the Pirblfo

rfed women enmloyed by the Suk- atchewan Government will be leased as experienced slnttle imiphers leave the armed become available for

omen an civil service positions.

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