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Morning Daily tr‘ouiidi.-d in i881) Authorised en Second Chins Mull. Poet. Office Department. Ottawa. regiment, Inn A. Burnett; Vine-President. Wm. I. ggmgn; Bony-Trend, G. M. Burnett; Editor and lliinlrlns Director. .|. B. Burnett; Aseoelabo berm.

I-‘renk Walker.

“The Strongest Memory is Weaker TIIM the Weakest Ink."

WEDNESDAY. JANUABIL". 1M1

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The ' ciirirciiiii Route

Attention is called to an impflflfllli 1911" in today's Forum by M_r._l_'l. K. S. Hemming, with reference to the possibilities of western grains being brought direct to Prince Edward lsland and other Maritime Provinces from Port Chur- chill via the Hudson Strait. The fact that ships can leave Churchill as late as November l5. thus permitting a vessel to make as many as six return trips from Churchill to Charlottetown each autumn, is something which is not gen- orally known and which changes the whole pic- ture, so far as the grain supply question is con- cerned. Mr. Hemming states that he has not yet been able to obtain all the cost figures. lt is to be hoped that these will be disclosed with as little delay as possible, and that the Wlwlfl matter will be gone into thoroughly and expedi- tioiisly.

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When the Provincial Treasurer, Hon. Mr. Hughes, declared in the Legislature last Morch that he could not agree with the OPP°5"'°" claim that the tax on liquor and tobacco should be devoted to public health and not. used as general revenue, h‘ W‘ "m"! "°"9l‘5l‘Pd 9'?‘ the law of the land. The Act under which this tax ls collected was passed in 1941 and I5 5P9- cifically entitled "An Act to Provide a Revenue for the Public Health Services." The preamble reeds: _ .

"Whereas it ls deemed advisable to rciise fl revenue for the purpose of defraying additional expenditure incurred in the provincial lipflltlt services and particularly in Pfittldm! lufllm‘ for combating tuberculosis: therefore be it en- acted," etc. _

Obviously, therefore, the Tuberculosis Lea- gue is perfectly within its rights in insisting that this money no longer go into general revenue, as has been the case, but be used for the purpose for which the tax was iinP°$°d~ u

Moreover, Section B of the Act reads: The tex shall be collected, accounted for and paid to the Minister by such persons, at such times and in such manner as the regulations may pre- scribe." The Minister referred to is the Min- ister of Public Health.

Be it noted also that the tax is for the purpose of defraying "additional" eirpenditure in public health services. This does not include the expense borne by the Department occasion- ed through the transfer o_f Folconwood and the Infirmary from the Public Works Department to the Public Health Department; this is not on additional expense, but only the accounting transfer from one department to another. The purpose of the Act is to raise revenue to_pay for additional services not theretoforeprovrded by our public health program. In particular, as the preamble 'states, is this money for tuber- eulosis work. _ _

The phrasing of Section 8, providing that the money shall be paid to the Health Min- ister, is in direct contrast to that of statutes whose main or sols obiect is revenue for general purposes. For example, the corresponding sec- tion of the Prohibition Act (167) dealing with the fines and profits received from the sale of liquor provides that all monies received or col- lected "shall be paid into an account in the name of the Provincial Treasurer atsuch branch of a chartered bank as the Provincial Treas- urer may direct and shall form part of the con- solidated revenue of the Province." ,

The distinction is clear. ln 0M 6115i "l! money is to be paid to the Provincial Treasurer and‘ constitutes part of the ordinary revenue to be used in the ordinary course of governmental administration. In the other case the money is to be paid directly to the Minister of Public Health, and kept separate and apart from. the funds which normally come into the ordinary revenue of the Provincial Treasurer. They are

funds at the Health Minister's disposal to be used in his department only. As a matter of fact, however, the Public Accounts show_th_at the health fax has been paid to the Provincial Treasurer, put into ordinary revenue, and pre- sumably spznt as the exigencies of government or opportunity demand-ed.

This practice, now that it has been shown to be absolutely contrary to the statute, will surely not be defended as a matter of policy by the Government. As we suggested the other day, it is better for the Government to admit

. its mistake and have this tdx money revert o its proper use. Otherwise there is not much “ use in our Legislature meeting and passing laws at all. The first duty of any administration, as bf the humblest citizen, is to obey the law.’

A Serious Situation ,

i Re its fronrParliament Hill tell that the sag rnment will now try to extricate it- hon. the mess of its dealings with the by o new conference with the five - witlrwhlch it has made different

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' exchange, i: llltlg. have the oImBst in- ipectacle o r cent. omin- lbl Conference, ‘fritlli. the_ provinces umbla, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Vend Prince Edward Island iii- ‘ _ of Ontario, Quebec, AI- elclddeil. This is the ‘ ' i Geiieda drawn up

‘inces included in‘ it took what ‘the Dominion

offered them in the first place-what was pro- posed in the Dominion’: original plan, and later modified by Mr. llsley. It would be to quiet and satisfy them by yielding to them the terms which bought off British CoIumbia—-a jump from the original proposition of a $15 per cap- ita subsidy to one of $21. , Ontario and Quebec, apart from Nova Scotia and Alberta, are not going to be bought or " J. " by the Dominion's tactics. They have asked that the Dominion-Provincial Con- ference be re-convened; demanded that fiscal p, t‘ between the Dominion and the prov- inces be discussed and resolved in a fair, dec- ent, Canadian way. If they are denied that right, the only récourse left to them will be to impose their own taxation. Should they do so, it may well mean the beginning of the end, so far as Canadian unity is concerned.

- LDITURIAL NOTES —

Premier Jones has thrown his weight be- hind the project to develop fruit and vegetable canning in this Province. The next step should be to appoint some one—not a politician—ex- pert and efficient to advise farmers, and would- be farmers how to enter upon and develop such an enterprise. i fi

The City Council have re-appointed Mor- rell 8r Co. auditors. lt would have been a little ungracious to unseat them after proclaiming from the roof tops that their system of muni- cipal accounting was the best submitted to McGill University department of public ac- counts.

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We enter the second half of the month today. There is so much still to do to adiust ourselves to almost daily changing economic conditions that one wonders what the outcome will be when Parliament meets and thrashes out pro-socialist vs. pro-individualist policies. One thing of course is certain, whichever plan finds favour, the consumer will be made to

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The decision of the Privy Council does not mean that appeal to that body from Canadian judgments automatically ceases. All that it decides is that it is within the jurisdiction of Canada to decide for itself whether or not such appeals should cease. At the present showing five provinces are in favour of con- tinuing the appeals.

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Fanny Kemble, tragedian actress, died this date 1893. She belonged to a distinguished theatrical family all of whom became famous in the nineteenth century. Fanny was a daugh- ter of Charles Kemble, who played s-econd to John, the greatest Hamlet of his day, parts play- ed by Charles being Cassio, Macduff, Laertes; Fanny was outstanding in tragic parts and her reading and interpretation of Shakespeare both in the theatre and on the concert platform- the latter a form of cultural entertainment rarely given these days.

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Will our powers-that-be please note. A British Empire Exhibition will be held in Aus- tralia this year, in conjunction with the Royal Agricultural Show. Contributions from all parts of the Empire are being prepared for shipment to Australia. A large map of Canada, indicat- ing towns where Australian airmen received training during the war, will form the back- ground of the Canadian display. Aspects of reciprocal trade between Canada and Australia will be demonstrated, together with different ways in which Australian raw materials are manufactured for consumption by the Canadian market. The Canadian section will be super- vised by Mr. R. C. Brown, who will ‘arrive in Australia shortly.

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The 600th anniversary of the foundation of the Order of the Garter will be celebrated in Windsor with pag-eantry and music in the late spring of 1948. His Majesty the King has com- manded Britain's Poet Laureate, Dr. John Mase- field, to write a pageant play, and the Master of the King's Music, Sir Arnold Bax, is to cam- pose its musical setting. The riave of St. George's Chapel, home of the Order, will be the setting of the Pageant. Knights the Order under the Chairmanship of ishop Hamilton, Deon of Windsor, are now at work on the plans.

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New schools costing $4,000,000,000 are to go up all over Britain as a result of the‘ 1944 Education Act. This is the estimate of a com- mittee of experts, formed to simplify and ex- pedite the school building programme, whose re- port was published this month as a White Paper. The figure includes the building work needed for all reforms covered by the Act including re- construction, reform and development of prim- ary and secondary education, new schools on new housing estates, new County Colleges, and other wide developments in further education, and the expansion of facilities for the training of teachers. ’

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The Dominion Bureau of Statistics report stocks of creomery butter in cold storoges and dairy factories at January 1 totalled 43,919,807 pounds, showing o seasonal decline of 13,277,- 387 pounds from ‘December 1, but an increase of 7,700,017 pounds over the amount in storage a year ago. The stocks also were 5,750,000

‘ higher than the January 1 average for the five years 1942-46. January 1 stocks of cheese, at 25,768,722 pounds, were only slightly under December 1, but were 7,973,326 pounds lower than January l lost year. Holdings of evaporated whole milk also were reduced, the total of 12,700,131 pounds comparing with 18,- 744,117 pounds at December 1, and 18,422,534 pounds at January 1 last year. Shell e g stocks were increased amounting to 2,445,7 3 dozen compared with 1,450,644 and 1,953,146. Frozen egg-meet holdings totalled 5,442,707 unds

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Stocks of poultry meat were substantially high-

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Th’ "h" 591"! Nye n number n! "Dwnrd adjustments i... price

YOU’. little having h9g1; necessary to reflect the lmpggt, 0g hlghu- pm, dlwtlon costs and the csssa. ion or some of the subsidies. All o which l‘ "m" Way of caving that the “WNW hes had a, spot of inflation. -—Brentford Expositor.

_ Radio Moscow clllmg the Ruse.

1811f! have invented a track-laying

"H111 Which allows 20 men to handle n Job formerly requiring 5.000, m) Eonlvbox orator will describe this

BS o. capitalistic trick to hamstring the workers at any rate. -Teronto. Telegram.

What the ladies wlll say about. Dr- Ivor Grifrlui. of Philadelphia. can be left lo their imaginations Dr- GYlIlll-h 5113's that the reason ‘vmfle-‘J Prlml? ls because they are 111mg hard to be as beautiful ns, the men. He says iuriher bliat the. ru-ilcs of any species have always] their the more handsome and llin‘. women have inferiority complexes, m"? "l9 bBIBfl-l". about their com- parntive lack of beauty. Maybe h; ‘$110111 He does research along that "he. --Var.cmrre;- Suzi.

Naturally the most, prosperous nation on earth. we have mocked our own prosperity in the hour Qt the Wflrldk most desperate need when other nations were digging themselves out of their ruins, The great- 1¢$0ri of the war has been 10st on ue. While we speak big words of peace. we soom the plenty that We have to sear-ah for the little more that we might get. We have grown dcubtful in what should have been our hour of greatest confid- ence. We have tied cur own hands and made an almost unexamplerl record of lnterlor discord when the simreme need 0.1’ all mankind was WOFk- hroducliveness and good will among us. —Detr0it News,

The notora of trends and viewers vrilth alarm wlll flnd ample fodder in lhc portrayal of the year's best dfcsscd woman 1n male hoirdress, 51°DDy shirt, belling trousers, jitter- blll; lieychain. zoot suit belt. and play-toe sandals. Pending a sanity “M1118 for the board of style “berks responsible. however, n'e‘ll generously assume lt ls p subtle him that living costs have made "10 lWO-Pant suit essential even in the top-bracket. family. There had been hopes before thatfillile could g0 dovm in history as only a mildly scrc-vrball year. -St. Louis Globe. Democrat.

0n the street. car a group of high-painted liigh-sehoaleers were talking about a. [mter ihsi dis- play; not only Miss Detroit Street Railway for December, but; 5i); 0mg;- charmers. The youths were loud in their praises i‘ the seven. The discussion got q ile heated and then it went completely bold when s. liv- erish-looklng mid-aged gent, pfQ- jected his voice into their paean 0f praise for beauty. to grumph: "Probablv there isnt a darn one of ‘cm that can cook." -Deiroil News.

I suppose the wine of my coun- try is beer. . . I-‘ive miles away ls Bere Regts. Just over the border lll Devon is the fishing village of Beer, while up in the north of my county ls Bere l-Iiackett. Bere was the old name for barlzy, and this

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A REVELATION AND . POSSIBLY A'BEVOLUTION§ ___ I Slr.— It will probably be e met-l ier of surprise to Islanders getter-E ally. as it. has been to me, to learni that so soon as we have a gralrii elevator near the improved railway] wharf‘ 1n Charlottetown with ai rapid system of automatic ship un-E

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loading, we Sllflll be able to lay} cicwn in Prince Edward Island all;

lcs, including wheat, barley, oetsfl rye and flax. at. a net east. welll

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have not yet been able to obtain all the oost figures, so it will be as well to accept. the fifteen cent. figure fc-i- the present.

‘Tim ilbgrizzial ls to have grains, for the Maritime Provinces shipped from‘ the grain growing areas to the Hudson Bay and brought down from Port Churchill 1n ships via the Hudson Strait. down along the Labrador Coast and thrciugli the Strait of Belle Isle, a distance be- tween Churchill and Charlottetown qt 1500 miles. Up to date, all grain shipments from‘ Churchill have gone to Liverpool, n distance of 3000 miles. The Maritlmes, there- fore, will have a preference of fifty percent in ocean travel.

‘There has for year; been a wide- spread idea in Canada that the Hudscn Bay ls closed for the winter during the month of August each year. thus preventing the year's Western harvest from being shipped by that mute. It is now, however,

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stated by reliable Western auth- orities that ships can readily leave Churchill up to November 15th. thus permitting a vessel to make six return trips from Churchill to Charlottetown ouch autumn. Mare- over, as their ships may be loaded to the top deck with 300.000 bushels of grain. a decided advantage ls gained in freight rates over ships sailing from Port. Arthur for Montreal. for the latter can only be partially loaded as they have to Doss through the l4 feet St. Law- rence Canals. Naturally these ships from Churchill would have to be unloaded very rapidly. whlch could only be dune with the best ouiae mail/s marine leg unloading facili- ties and an elevator large enough to be used as a transfer and stor- age bin, so that the grain could be distributed throughout the Island and held by farmer; and merchant dealers. -

I have disclosed the above facts at this dale. mlor to obtaining all the necessary 00st. figures, because the farmers of the Island are now showing a keen interest in the building of an elevator close to the railway wharf ln Charlottetown. and hcre let me emphasize the fact that this is an Island proposition and not merely a Oharlottetoiim one. It would be of material assist.- anoe to formers all over the Island enabling them to feed their live- stock at a, cost lower than could be done in Ontario and Quebec. while the fact that the finished product of the Prairie farmers would

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"Another Consumer's" inability to grasp the purport of that. state- ment does not by any means alter the fact. For Instance. mllk of 3 Der cent butter fat; content is 25 percent, lower value than mllk showing 4, per cent. and on the same baols at reckoning, 4 per cent mllk is 33 1-3 per cent hlgtier value than 3 per cent mllk. Lt that is no: 8°» l Hm Prepared io be authorita- tively corrected.

So far as the deplorable mllk sit- uation in Saint John. NB. is con- cerned. I am probably as poorly advised an detail as lie is, only with this dlfference—I never presume to discuss any matter with which I am not familiar or know nothing about. I wlll. however, venture to suggest, the present impasse in Saint John is due to human nature cutting loose with both sides hiss- ing at each other, revenging and raking revenge as the blcod boiled, and now producers and consumers are at each others throats ‘m deadly combat. with no sign of n let-up. or Blvfi-lfl, on either ride. rind con- sumers including babies, growing children. lnvzillds and certain ugetl people are suffering as R result. That. Ls o. situation we do not wish to eee hold sway in Charlottetown. no matter how much 1t might, thrill n pervert, goedlng from the shad- ows. '