w the radii-fer "W" W?‘ l“ more foodoverscas s goal in Canada

future wars. Right!‘ means must be found to _ and the way to achieve such has yet -to be found. '

conomic Heights

News

" Ono wortlrwhll s ortlzes and inr bee d covered.

ing out of fashion, insurance men WDOIl-flfheres less stuff, and lt’s easier to sell it this to burn it. ~ For goods to be esteemed more hs_n money would seem to be a esirsbie state of affairs-only it never happens until there are too few Roodr. -Chicago Daily News.

--@l_ Some patriotic Canadians should e getting around more and tell; ing the people about Canada. The hools and universities welcome

To New F

with mars-non: 01mm: I s. nnrssii. sun. 9 editors: Frank Walker and a Inn L Barnett.‘

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Good news‘ for Canadians as well as for our southern neighbors is President Truman's announcement that civilian production in thc United States has risen. to record pgacgtjmelb

heights. Furthermore, production is stillon thelsc increase and may soon reach the volume of Wflf-iomto" M"! limiters who so irto time production as at V-j Day. ' h good because of its constructive bearing on un- employment, wages, goods shortage and hous- i

e audltoria and declalm about how wonderful it is to live iii any other country but Canada. It should be noted they never take advan- I ace of-ohances to go to these other

countries to live, being content to lmake s living running clown the country of their birth or adoption. ——W. L. Clark, lip Windsor Star.

Everyone benefits when there ismiore to divide. Profits can rise without injury to the _ wages of labon-Wages can rise without jury to the profit-earning capacity of com- tu Money can be freely spent without en- dangering the price structure. GOOds can he produced and marketed without fear of a short- Taxcs can be levied and paid without unduly prejudicing the living of taxpayers.

If, there is anything resembling a cure-all iii the economic system, it is the removing of all barriers to full production. all economic endeavor should be to step [)l'O-, duction to the maximum and hold it there. Per- haps the discovery, identification and removal of the barriers to full-time production is the ultimate economic problem. Or torbc more ex- act, it is the ultimate political problem, much as the barriers are already known to the

A famous prlma donna on re- _ mini; to her home town | invited to sing at the church where she had made her earliest hit as a choir soloist. She agreed most graciouslv but flatly walk in the choir processions! cus- tcmary at the beginning of scrvice. Eiithrnned in the hlgli seat of the choir-loft she waited state. After the "processlonal hymn and the "Eneral settling down. shr- larose and sans! vchrmeflllv .r*viiot‘ofl#illi' “Oh Master, Let Me ‘if/Rik With ThceV-Muslcal Cc-ur-

. Boston Ioiallnfs News Agency, Times Building New York.

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

MONDAY. APRIL 15, 1948

Improved Shipping Services

'I‘lfi_\-isii here last week of Mi". D. j. Clarke, president 0f the Clarke Steamship Coin- parry, iii connection with plans for improved steamer services between Newfoundland, and between Souris, Pictou and the Mugdalciies, is a good omen. services cstzibhslictl. and with the new car ferry at Bordon, a ncw service between West Point and Buctouclic, and a second steamer plying be- tween Wood Islands and Caribou, we should, within a measurable period, see our basic agri-

"" '~ Isabella Sbciiherd. of Rhud- In. in North Wales, urcmiiv that she is 106 years old and has smoked cigarettes for the "act 40 year's. Shc appears to regard _ this as some sort of proof iiias- cigarette smoking is not harmful. |But the Wclsh are a loiig-livcd people, and w;- grg surr- that the Anti-Tobacco Lentzue will be able to prove that the hihit has stunted her growth. It North Wales. we remind our read- ers, that Old Parr lived to the age 0f 152. and died at lust of unwise high-living on a journey to Lon- don-Peterboruugh Examiner.

-EDITORIAL NOTES-

these facilities are avail- able, thcre is no reason why we should lot up on our demands at Ottaiva.

In this rcspcct Premier Jones is to be com- iiiciidcd for tlic initiative he showed in getting the improved service between here and New- foundland, as it was the policy he adopted of a commissioner that has resulted in the expansion of our trade ‘with that dominion.

In pressing our claims for the new car transportation improvements we have received invaluable support from mem- bers of Parliament and newspapers in our sis- ter Maritime Provinces. That is something to remember; and we can do so in a practical way, long-deferred project which would be of great value to us as well as We refer to the Chignecto Canal.

The Snckville ‘Fribivie in an editorial ap- peal for united Maritime support of this work says, truly enough, that if the Canal is not built now, in this period of post-war reconstruc- "tion, it may be half a century before it again becomes a live question. is no doubt as to the benefit we would derive from this proposed Igunile water-

We enter the last week of Lent. a a a a

ft h not boo much to ssy that nobody can use slang itself to any real effect unless lie is also aware of what vast resources are at. hand in the well of English undefiied. fSIanrzis like pepper: too much of it spoils the dish. “Some chicken. snmemeck” was a famous interpola- tion in a speech that Mr. Churchill

That colloquial sally would not have emerged with such tremendous ef- fect if the maker of it had not. also been a master of what Sir Walter Scott called the big bow-wow man- ner. There can be no playful and effective descent if the performer IS fllwllys rapping on ground level. -—Manchester Guardian.

Matthew Arnold, English poet, died this date 1888: “The seeds of God-like powers are in us still; Gods are we, bards, saints, heroes,

_ widow stenographer, divulged State secrets to the Soviets, will have two-and-a-half years, or less, to rc-consider her

ferry and other application for Soviet citizenship. a s n: s

A motor bus service in the city should be much‘ appreciated, especially by those, yearly in- creasing in numbers, \vh0'are taking up resi-

bY 5l1DP°Tl1llg a dance m the subul-Ps‘ ltls evident from these propos- ed agreements (the food contracts announced by Arwiculbure Minister Gardiner) that Britain infvndS to continue her war-time policy relativelv short-term tracts. Canadian farmers ed for something better. least five-vcar contracts for many products which would give agricul- ture stability. and a basis m1 which to plan, Food contracts which run only two years are not a basic on which to plan farm mo- fluctlc-n and tend to keep farmers in a perpetual state of agitation. Just at present most farmers sro not in the. mood without some assurance of what thi; future holds. —-Ottawa Jmir- nu.

Notwithstanding demobilization, travelling reservations are at a premium and have to be made weeks in advance, been warned there will be little chance of latc applications receiviiig ‘Kcoilsidsration.

Conventionists have

Those‘ who heard Mr. McLurc's recent ad- dress ovcr the radio are appreciative of CFCY’s offer to place their facilities at his disposal. It is good, once in a while, to hear the voices of Brunswick and Nova Scotia. It would enable 9i" Tfillffiieflliilives» Slleiklflil from lhfi $6M 0f vessels from Prince Edward Island to reach United States, West Indies and South Ameri- can ports without making the long open-sea passage around Nova Scotias stormy and Summerside would be brought 225 miles closer by water to these customers by direct course. And the canal would give us a virtual inland navigation route tn Boston, our biggest and natural market.

Many of our readers will recall the Con- mission which sat here in I93! taking evidence as to the advantages of the proposed canal. One of the ivitiiesses was the late Mr. Nelson Rat- tciibury, who made a submission on behalf of the Charlottetown Board of Trade. He offer- ed facts and figurcs- showing that i5,00o.00o bushels of Island root vegetables would move through the canal annually and that the saving to shippers in freight costs would run to $640,- Thosc who kncw Mr. Rattcnbury do not need to be reminded that lie was no dreamer, but a shrewd business man whose predictions were usually well within the mark.

The Trifiiuic v0iC€5 the hope that the Pre- miers of the thrcc h-Iariiimc Provinces will unite to press for this project when the Dominion- Provincial COlllEfEflCC hers of Parliament and head's of municipalities in the hlaritiiiies are zilrcady oii record as ap- proving 0i the scliciiic. required runs into millions, but it would be a baigatcllc CUiilllilfCil with the millions spent on canals iii fciiirzil Quintin. Tlicre isn't a canal iii the Klzrritiiiic lwovincics, ilil(l it is difficult t0 sec what reasonable opposition there could be I building this one st Chignecto.

In Central Canada there is a curious mix- ture of optimism and depression Everywhcre one may hear the same prophesy that good times would continue for at least three years, with theproviso, "unless labour Prices, one is told, are bound to rise higher and higher, which is bad for the ordinary wage earner, especially the white coi- lar workers, teachers, store clerks and such like. “Something will have to be done about it" is the comment, more in w than of hope to be r

l?

Hundreds nf thousands of salaried workers, deprived of creases over a period of years. and with the income tax taking a huge slice of whatever they have been receiving. are worse off today than ever before in their lives. Their lincomes have been at a standstill; lthey have been deprived in most cases of anything their net incomes have been slash- ed by the income tax; and they nay more for everything they buy. This is a condition which, apart 3y of hope defer-Nd ‘fro/m its injustice. is bad for Can-

ada as s whole. In many cases, as ecord attests. it is resulting in t ousands of our young men getting out of the country-going Vover to the United States conditions give more hope. {democratic society which IlOO much hardship upon its nildv idle class invites grave danger-Ot-

iiiost pro f itablc

the war—£l50,000 of surplus war stores and fifty mil- lion pounds surplus receipts from trading activities of From his experience as a farmer, Senator. Denanment" Sinclair knows that "the willing horse gets the load to bear", so he is not altogether surprised, though he complains, that in the Senate hori- curable members avoid appointment to import- ant committees where the actual work of the Senate is performed. The Senator is opposing Senator Euler's bill permitting the importation of margarine in competition with butter, has been so busy on committee work that he has been unable to complete his case, and asked leave to have the debate adjourned. out by a majority of nine, and no doubt this is an indication that the Senate as a whole favours

i When four mernhe nf the Soviet [Embassy staff at Ottawa [caught going through ,ment at Ottawa. they claimed diplo- Imatic immunity. They declared the

Ottawa police had no right to ar-

rest them as they were

embassy stuff and. therefore, abcve

the law. This dipcmatic

stuff can be carried too far, Just

because a man belongs to an em-

hnssy staff, that should not give ‘him the right to kill, murder. pill- azc or assault. any one. In fuct. wiv embassy staff man or "hnuid set an flY’"‘"llE hv conduct. Instr-lid of goin- nilf and commit- Iinu a crime and then seeklnq re- furzc in diplomatic immunity, they should never even allow the finder of suspicion to he level"! ar them There are certain privileges that a_i'c- mjoycd hv the staffs of embas- sies. but under nn stretch of the imagination should these nrivileilel inciudr- the right in break deliber- atelv thr- laws of Canada. By the same tokon, neither shoulrl mem- Ciinaclian Embassy abroad deem themselves abovn the laws of tho land where the stationed-Windsor Star.

In the not too distant The Wall Street something will have to be if about semicolons; it is a habit that ins up on too many ers; wthout any due reason they ut in a semicolon and keep g - whereas any school boy knows ieie thought has been ex ressed t e traditional and punctuation mark is

s-l lacs for sem colons in wrlt- , ut it's getting to the in books i‘!

. . ill es where one hereto

cellar. "as the most achievement to be proclaimed not only in this country but throughout the world."

The amount of money The Wartime Prices Board, though ivar is now over, announces the four-ccnt-a- pound price increase authorized April i creamery butter has been cxtendcd to dairy and whey butter, effective today, April i5. same time, the support prices for dairy and whey butter paid through the prices stabiliza- lion corporation during the last three years have been advanced to four cents a pound. Cream- cry butter, the Board takes the trouble to ex- plain, is the factory-made product which pro- vides the. butter of the Canadian household sup- ply while dairy butter is that produced on farms Whey butter is made in cheese

Starving Peep?

jicaking m a group in Western Ontario i Premier Drew emphasized the role WlllCll Can- i’ s_da's food production this year will play in keeping the peace of Europe. Here is the way Mr. Drew put it:

“The threat of totalitarianism in Europe and _Asia_is greater than at any time during the reg- ' I of Nazism, Fascism and Shintoism. It is a yi-le ~witliout arms, but one no less serious. ' , rrltmism will sweep through’ Asia and Eu- ‘ ss the democracies demonstrate, by - hem from starving-to death, the hu- ' tuba: way of life." litig on thii statement-the Onmm

» Hing cressingly. sppsrenriiisi mi’ ‘it tiii 'f _

lor said we must go s the: relief thisiyenr. Purchase Tait he did not regard as a

tax but rather that it h

and yield Jivlfill! t

help pnv the hill for bonlliheiiefe merit. He nroposad. however. to re- Introduciiig the British Navy Estimates. f mlfvflzixa“ a” w‘ for the sixth year in succession ‘Mr. Alexander, missions mainly in h First Lord of'the Admiralty, was no longer in-. mm”) m hibited by wear-time reticence. the House that the more spectacular victories

and successful actions fought st sea were really, but a smsll part of its contribution to ‘the over- throw of tyranny, and that its real task lay in the uncaring vigiisncq-devotion, and tqli that went to the preservation of

Suniriia‘, Erogi Chancel or~'sf~ udgel Speech ,9»

-_~_

Dtchflfifltl‘, ‘ ODOR“! the

iwettreven 0:111! finan 1

iiditure with hi! ‘ a of l.

hewhol of the estimate by. record of '21.361.000.

tlm be. f £1 . I ‘allxplendifure flat ' £5

had fallen i slow y at

quarter as corn in June, lilfi. 1046 was £2 000,000. Towards fi-

vlded £ . .000, National Bonds and Savings Bonds $1.290.-

’ "Prospects for the yes: continued the Chancellor, are loss sombre than some of the scribes have imagined.” Estimated expendi- ture for 1846-47 is 523.837.000.009 B reduction of £l.'1%,000.000 ithlrill- one poi-cent) on the estimate for last year. Under defence votes there was the provision of better pay and allowances and more tren- erous war pensions. The main item! of increase in civil estimates were for education, school milk and meals, housing, family allowances. old age and widows’ pensions and development areas.

One of the first instructions he had given as Chancellor was that as regards constructive plans for development areas, the treasury should henceforth no longer he a curb but a simr- “I pledge my word," he stated, “that ‘this job shall not fall down for lack of finance."

1946-47 he estimnfed at £400.000.000 war damage payments one hundred to one hundred and fifty millions, excess profits tax refunds one hun- dred and fifty to two hundred mil- lions. Three hundred and thirty- five million pounds were provided for cost of living subsidies. The pol- icy of price stability was costing a lot of money but the Chancel- lor expressed his determination to

ly at the present level for calendar year. ’

dealt with the prospective yield

sumption that no changes were made, The Chancellor

over fifty million

could look forwsr to a substan-

figures than for last year, he concluded that Customs Excise as

000.000. an increase of eighty-nine millions, though the figure might have to be substantially reduced lf unfavourable any kind abroad led to reduced lm- ports.

He would lose 5283000000 this ycar through Income Tax conces- sions announced in the October 1945 budget, but with increasing profits and incomes generally he expected this to be offset to the extent of sixty-seven million pounds, giving a total income tax yield this year of-£1,145,000.000.

Taking into accomt other Inlsnd Revenue Taxes including E. P. T. and the National Defence zontribu- tion (from which he ex cted s much lower yield) the hancellor reckoned that Inland Revenue du- ties would bring in £L705DM000 on the existing balls of tsxat on. He had two substantial items of non-tax re enue as n legacy from .000 from the sale

Government‘ The total estimated revenue on

the basis of existing taxation was géggooittlm total expenditure of cit wavs thus only £094,000.000 rs con- siderably smaller figure than most prophets anticipated. This meant

000.000. Tire prospective defi-

hat we should be raising by taxa-

tion slxteen shillings and five ce in every one pound Ignoring “terminal items" on each side the figure would be eighteen! shillings-not very far off a bal- anced budget.

expen ture

"This l regard." said the Ghan- remarkable

A much more serious problem was

presented by the deficit in over- ' seas balance of payment; was out st seven hundred snd fifty million pounds this year. The bird- get hsd been prepared siirv-"tlon that the can agreement would be. approved. ‘if it failed, some fl'"'f‘."‘l would have to be imeiirled. We should at once have to take vikorous mens- ures to reduce imports.

which

cur the ss- Anglo-Ameri-

Blnce October 100i "ovsrinment

credit. already high. had risen even further of Interest had fslen below ihres percent

and the long-term rate

"fuming to P“ huestlon of

chinges in tnxstim. m Chandel-

lovr with fur-

increasing

{If sq... out» Empire‘ and n:

i, l.

‘Q'.|:['g mllifi

. sntertsinmenta a t sen established n He" m‘ 0:0.’ Piirehsse Tax had also s new

against in !

304.000.1100. was $81,000,000 below the esllmlifi made inst April. Expenditure M1 defence and supplies departments lrst but

since January the decline had been rapid. In the last three month! the rate of expenditure by these‘ departments had, fallen by one with the rate

e deficit for 1046-

' th , ll vin 0-. nancingsssogo sma so K9 I16“ Mn J a

The debt charge for the year

hold the cost of living substantial-

The third section of the speech ‘ from taxes for 1946-4’! on the es- estimated i that Purchase Tnx,_if left uzialter- - ed, would show a rise of n little ounds since he tial increase in the production of

articles subject to tax. Other cus- toms ltems also being put at higher

a whole should produce about £1.-

developmerits of

Mr. Dalton,‘ chancellor “Fxdé? -_

ll l. 8-1’! ll- ‘Ili. II! l" - Ell-libs‘ Ind W? we" . had a total;

tion

ppend her t hi Speak! for ifsglf. I

are noted for their generosity.

I am Sir etc.‘ 0. HYNDMAN.

P. E. I. Representative Save the Children Fund

\' (Enclosure) Middleton, P. E. I.

. Hyndman. Charlottetown, P. E. I Dear Sh"

. Enclosed please find an endorsed‘ ___ lumimFamily Allowance cheque for the

“Save The Children Fund." When I read your ad m the paper today, appealing for funds

for" this most ,worthy cause. the

thought occurred to me thntrpns- slbly hundreds of Island families who are recipients of these month-