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CIIARLOTTETOWN MONDAY. JAN. 8, 1061

Visiting llopiiiy Minister

This evening Mr. J. A. Lessard, Dep- uty Minister of Transport, and party ar- rive for a one-day visit. During his all too brief stay he will undoubtedly be brought in contact with many of this Prov- ince's problems of- rqil, sea and air Com- munications and have impressed upon him the potentialities of the Island which de- pend upon the services regulated by his department to be made actualities.

One subject which has been neglected of late is the provision of opportunities for followers of the sea to study navigation and allied subjects and perhaps be examin- ed here for certificates of professional competence. It would be a decided ad- vantage if at least local and coastal papers could be obtained more readily than is now t.he case.

The Trucking Issue

A major issue in Dominion-Provincial relations which has been carried over into the new year is the question of control of the trucking industry. Transport Minister Chevrier, according to press reports, has asked that the Provinces surrender their legal power to control highway trucking in return for promised aid from Ottawa in highway construction. In other words, the quid pro quo for the Federal Government's part in the Trans-Canada highway is to be the abandonment by the Provinces of one of their most lucrative sources of revenue.

This is a matter which goes to the very- root of Canada's constitutional system. It follows closely the pattern of the Federal Government's efforts in recent years to re- duce the Provinces to the role of pension- ers of Ottawa, and to centralize taxing powers with the Dominion.

Every Province in Canada has a heavy investment in its highways. Carrying charges on that investment and funds for liighway maintenance have to come out of licensing of trucks and passenger cars. Highway main- tenance has always been a matter in which local and provincial autonomy played a sig- nificant part. It is not hard to imagine what the plight would be of, say Prince Edward Island, if the people of this Prov- ince had to rely on Ottawa to make road repairs and to maintain truck transporta- tion in the event of another possible rail- way strike.

Whatever arguments may be put for- ward by Ottawa, the fact remains that control of the trucking industry by the Federal Government would be a violation both in principle and in fact of Confedera- tion itself. The power to tax is the power to govern. If the Provinces abandon any more of their taxing power to Ottawa they will ultimately cease to be governments at all.

Ottawa's "Pound of Flesh"

Officials of the regional offices of the income Tax Division have long been noted for the consideration and courtesy extend- ed to taxpayers who, for reasons beyond their control, are experiencing difficulty in paying off taxarrears. Both the taxpayer and the Government have benefited from the discretion exercised by regional offices in making arrangements for payment of tax arrears.

It is little wonder, then, that tax of-

. licials are as bewildered as are taxpayers by the directive issued recently to regional income tax offices to collect, in full, all outstanding balances by March 31. In the majority of cases, such a directive means merely inconvenience. In some instances, however, it means very real personal hard- ship. Antagonisms are amused among those who, having been making an honest effort to pay off arrears by installment payments, are now told that they must pay up the outstanding arrears by March

31, "or else".

Income that officials have reportedly been told in blunt terms that failure to carry oufthls arbitr directive may . Deprived of the

discretion they formerly enjoyed in the . msttci-,of srrsnglng psymcnt, tsx officials themselves in s positionino loss dis- isrustiisthanthstotuxpsymwhohsvc mien behind in settlement of fsimccounts. . at its worst. That

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fore then, the courts will take appropriate steps to restore some element of discretion to regional income tax authorities.

EDITORIAL NOTES

Fruit is now being brought all the way direct from Boston to here in refrigerator road trucks. avoiding delays and other risks by railway'transference.

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Christmas comes but once a year but many canny buyers seem to be taking ad- vantage of the season of sales to do their shopping for next Dec. 25.

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Marriage licenses must now be applied for from the Clerk of the County Court instead of from the treasury office. The implication, presumably, being that they can be more appropriately classed with a summons to appear and answer than with

a license to drive.

Once more Islanders are replacing old car license plates with new. Perhaps some day permanent plates will be iidopted and identificationmade possible by a continuing record distributed even in neighbouring

Provinces and States.

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The Town Council of Louisburg has de- cided to revert to the original and historic spelling of Louisbourg, a most proper de- cision which will save school children learn- ing one form in history lessons and a dif- ferent one in geography.

An Ottawa dispatch puts it that Can- ada is withdrawing special "dumping" con- cessions on imported British cars next May. It wouldnperhaps, be more accurate to say that we intend to re-impose discriminatory duties if it is considered that British cars seem to be competing unfairly with the sale

of our own and American models. 0 O O

Lord Baden-Powell, founder of the Boy Scout and Girl Guide Movements. died this date, 1941. He was a man with a dis- tinguished military career in India, Af- ghanistan and South Africa, but his main life's work was to found in 1908 the Boy Scouts, and two years later, helped by his sister Agnes, the Girl Guides. When he died 10 years ago, he had seen the astounding progress of this movement be- gun, as he loved to explain, "for the pur- pose of training boys in the essentials of good citizenship."

O The Leadership Course just concluded here has been successful and encouraging to the promoters. It is only when a mixed crowd like the students taking the course get together and straighten themselves out, that they discover what a lot they have to learn, and forget, when they attemptdto set themselves up as guides, philosophers, and friends of those whom they would seek to 'lead. The course is expansive and va- ried, and should no doubt attract even greater interest next session.

0 ll 0 Premier Duplessis does not -want Que- bec to become a. province of pensioners. He told a delegation from the Provincial County Councils' Association so in an in- terview. They had suggested provincial pensions for invalids just as there were pensions for the blind and the aged. The Premier, warning against carrying the pension system too far, said the Govern- ment .is achieving success with Labor De- partment branches devoted to rehabilita- tion and re-employment of invalids. "We must be on guard against any system of premiums on inaction," he said. "Today more than ever we must get back our sense of proportion. We want a charit- able, actlve and prosperous people and not a population of pensioners." Mr. Duples- sis told the delegation his Government has acted in the past on a number of recom- mendations by the Union which represents rural municipalities.

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Though retired for many years as Post- master of Charlottetown and Postal Inspec- tor for the Province, the late Mr. John F. Whear remained active physically" and mentally and continued to discharge his duties as a public spirited citizen in a man- her which would shame many a younger man.-He could look back upon a successful career as lawyer, as member of the Leg- islature, ss City Councillor and as a high- rsnklng civil servant, but it was toward the future that he preferred always to turn his face. His letters on civic and pro- vinclal affairs, which appeared frequently in The Guardian over his initials "J.F.W.", were widely read and appreciated. both for their moderate tons and for their son- slbic stiggesfioiii” At Trinity United Church, since the death of Mr. Henry smith, ho was recorded as the official church historlsn,,.snd his contributions in this capacity also were widcly Iwrceistcd. Known to client sll as s man of exceptional abilities. Mr. Whcsrs dcstlrls 1 community loss. sincere sympsthylscxfsndcd tohlswldowsnd

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JAIL LIMITS FOR DEBTOR5

During the year 1842 there were committed to the Charlottetown Jail 124 persons, of whom fifty were incarcerated for debt. Every year, in each of the three County Jails, a large proportion of the prisoners wasc debtors. They ap- pear, however, to have had the run of the -town as well as of the jail precincts. In 18-13 It was sought to re-enact. legislation to include the water lots and wharves within the limits of the Jails, but. this was op- posed by the Executive Council on the following grounds, as set forth in the joui:-nals of Assembly: "Because the Legislative Coun- cil conceive that the legitimate object. of Jail limits is to afford air and exercise to persons con- fined for debt which. object the Council consider will be fully attained by confining the limits to the Towns and Royalties. The extension of the limits to places where persons may ob- tain exnployment is not. in the opinion of the Council, im.por-tant, as. by the Act for the relief of Insolvent Debtors,s person not having property may compel his creditors to pay the maintenance allowed by such Act, or otherwise obtain his discharge; and if such person has property which he witholds from his creditor, the Council think he has no right. to complain if he suffer someiincon- venience in consequence of his dishonesty in endeavouring to do- prlve his creditor of such property. "Because, by extending the lim- its to the whnrves and water lots. persons residing, in the Towns will suffer no inconveni e from being imprisoned, inas ch as their ordinary business will not be thereby interfered with; and it is notorious that many persons have avoided the payment of their just

debts in consequence of the said limits being so extended; and such extension virtually does

away with imprisonment for debt, as to persons in the Towns, but leaves persons residing in the country liable to all its inconven- fences.

"Because the limits of the Water Lois are not visible -- some en- tcnding to the channel, and some s very small distance from the shores - in consequence of which, persons confined are much more likely to commit involuntary breaches of their bonds. than if the limits were confined. accord-

ing to the amendments made by the Council. to the Towns and Royalties - the boundaries of

which sure. in general. much more clearly defined.

"The Council do not conceive that the recent English Acts, abolishing imprisonment for debt. materially bear upon the present question, inasmuch as those Acts contain provision for the protec- tion of the creditor against caud- ulcnt debtors, which are not in force in, and cannot. in the opin- ion of the Council. be made ap- plicable to this country."

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IN THE COOL OF THE EVENING

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A sound. A ions on Is dbnmcd with flying noises. and the tree aocs - whisper. whims. whisper sllmtly - Tilt all its whispers spread into the sound or s dull mun Us close! to in The shuts in cup and no my PM! In by. we u:,s.o very small. and no great viisuusd to starry snslcstlcs, may ' nu Too wide to my us hiding in IN All. mtssryi thesun has not yet soon And we are ruled: Imus! look ,'J'”mn'. 0" Itsnd min: i 11:, tonne-O that it were 30,11!!! . . . What? it- lbw-

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Oban Revisited

(Elizabeth Richmond in the New Glasgow Evening News).

one hundred years ago when ueen Victoria visited Oben. in I 6 Scottish county of Argyll- shire. she described it as "one of the loveliest spots I have seen". It Avas a village then; today it is a beautiful town surrounded by molmlalns. tree-fringed lochs (lakes) and lovely glens. - When the traveller goes to oban he steps into a Celtic afirtiosphere. Gaelic is spoken. tartan kllts are still the popular dress, and the Skill 01 the bagpipes can frequent- ly be heard.

There are shining yachts and rnotor-boats in the bay, for Oban is the headquarters of fthc Royal Hlshlnnd Yacht Club. A circular building on the town's highest lilll resembles the Coliseum at Rome: it was erected in the 1390's by a. prosperous citizen named John Stuart Mscccig to find work for the unemployed. Oban faces 9. long green fertile ls- lanci callcd Kerrera where there is B. monument to David Hutcheson who developed steam communicat- ion nlong the western Islands. About 1820 the "Comet". believed to be the first paddle steamer. Dlied between Chan and the Clyde.

There are some ancient cas- tles in the neighborhood. One is Dimellle Castle. seat of the Mac- Dougslls of Lorn who own the famous Brooch of Bruce. one of the finest pieces of Scottish sil. verwork in existence. It once he- longed to King Bruce of Scotland but was won from him by the Mawousaiis in battle. They kept it for hundreds of years. when in 1647 one of their castles (in which it was kept) was set on fire by the clan known as the Campbclls. it vanished. Nothing was heard of it until 1323 when it appeared in II London auction roan. General Campbell of Lochnell Jought it and returned it to the (lampbells.

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Dutrstaffnage castle. four miles from Oban. was once owned by the Macnouizslls, but they lost it. in battle and it became a Royal castle. At one time it housed the famous Stone of Destiny which the Scots had brought from Ire- land and on which their kings were crowned for hundreds of years. This was taken to Scone. near Perth. and later was remov- ed bv King Edward I of England to Westminster Abbey where. until its recent. sensational theft it has since been part of the Coronation Chair.

Trips to the Isles of staffs and Iona can he made from Obim. a journey which used to take from a week to ten days. staffs is not- ed for ills group of basaltic caves which nature has carved fan- tastically. The best. known of these is Plngsl's Csvo which was described musically by the com- poser Ivicr.-delssohn who visited it in the early l!lt.h Century. More than 200 feet long. it has it natur- iil loftv granite roof. The Atlantic flows into the nave but on a sum- mei-'s day it shines like is tossed- latcd pavement for the stalsctitcs in the roof rcflcct scintillating colors.

The Isle of Ions is n half an hour's journey from Staffs. More than 1,000 years ago St. Columbia settled there and founded s mon- astery which centuries later was I .' " by s Benedictine mon- sstory. The restored Abbey Church is now used as s olscc of worship by the church of Scotland and near it are the old crosses of at. Martin snd St. John. beautiful at-

,' of Celtic art. The street of the Deed leads to the old burial place of many snciont Scottish kings Ind.,lmighto.

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The Age-Old story

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Grace and peace be Inultfpled on- to you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord. sc- cording as his divine power bstli given unto us In things first per- tain. unto. life ..snd .godlineIs. through the knowledge of. film that hath called us to glory and virtue: whereby are given unto us exceeding great ,snd precious pro- mises: that by these yo might. be poi-takers of the divine nsturc, hav- ing escaped the uns ,t.lon that is In the world through lust. And be- sides this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; sud to knowledge tem- persnce; and to tairipcrsnw phil- cucc; and to patience godliness: and to godliness brotherly kind-

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charity. For if these things be in, you. sud abound. they nuke you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfrulttul in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. But he that lack- eth these things Is blind. and can- not see our off. and hub forgot.- ten that he wss purged from his old sins. wherefore the rather. breth- ren, give diligence to make your coiling and election sure: for if ye do these thlnn. ye shsll never fall.

Easier Than By S-hovel

(H. W. Patterson in C.l.-L. Oval Magazlie.)

A million calloused devotees of canadirs most unpopular Winter pastime will not be saddened to hear that anti-freeze is muscllng in on the cld-fashioned shovel.

Experts estimate that some years may elapse before "radiant heating" which uses

"permanent" anti-freeze in its pip- ing system, will be economical for the average Canadian house hold- er. But. since it. was introduced in Toronto in 1948 it has effectively thawed out snow-and skeptics- in most parts of the country. And mcre and more business concerns rind it. a highly efficient way to keep Old Man Winter in his place. and off theirs, at reasonable cost.

Four years ago. the vlcs-presl- dent of s leading Toronto pipe and tube firm intrigued the neighbor- hood by having public sidewalks around his Forest Hill home ripped up. In went the pipes. on went the concrete. 'rhen. when Jack Frost. started on his gay white way, the executive flicked a switch indoars and a score of shovel-weary neigh-

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A uotorht who is worried about socldccitolly running down pedestrians in the dark offers good advice for thee rainy, busy evenings. "Pcdectrhns should rc- metnbcr that cars have headlights but they glon't." he says. Despite his careful wslcb on the ram, he's been badly frightened several times "1 by pedestrians who dashed suddenly into the du-kl ronclwsy, apparently without look- ing to see if a cor wu coming.- Vnncouvcr Sun. ' -

lt.lssboutilmc.ltIccmItous, to think up some other designation for the semen sctor Mickey Rooney. The old "typicsl American boy" label no longer fits. In the first place he can't. go on being a boy forever. In the second place. 0. third shattered marriage is not typical of the average American boy. Mic- key, according to wife No. 3 doesn't like the restriction of marriage”, A great many other American boys find these restrictions somewhat hampering at times. but they learn to accept them. sud before they know it they are happily tuned. 3113 Mickey. no typical American boy. doesn't like the restrictions of marriage though you might any

botrs paid silent: tribute to con- i:da's first private snow beater. More than 50 -Toronto banks, shores. car lots, churches. homes. truckyards and warehouse have at- so installed outdoor "radiant hect- lng". While the idea caught on fastest in the Ontario capital, Mon- treal is not far behind-and titre are over 200 installations from Hull- fax to Emonton. The snow-beater works this way: A 60-50 solution of "pet-ms.ncnt" anti-frccze and water. heated to an average temperature of 130 de- grees is pumped through I web of steel pipes lmbedded in asphalt or concrete (concrete is the better conductor). The surface above is warmed to about 33 degrees, melt.- lng the falling snow instantly. The systan is designed to handle a melt- ing rate of one inch per hour. And within minutes from the and c1 all but the woi-st,falls, the whole area will be bane dry.

Actual operating costs run as low as nine cents per square foot per Year. and some firms with special snow problems have achieved dru- mstics savings. '

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XCIII II! when the. 8! Artist Chuilcy Russell was gt. cowimndhc pa-fated s plciurg msdchimfsmoiss. He oslli 1, "Watch: for s lfig... hunt. and Alscriuis,.po, rm-V. often "waited for s.Chlnook" am. lnltlurd winters since but mi; Winter is In exception. In neg, outta the reverse is true. Dow is Cut Bank they are praying 1&5 lllllllfd. the reason being 1 Howard Hawks, motion picture , oducer and s retinuc of iictq;-5, ccqicriimen and technicians have been there to film scenes. some of the ucnccs in the film can for Polar scenes but the Chinook hu interfered. Show was mshod in from Glscier Park but. sins, it melted as it was unloaded on to. cation.-Leihbrld-ge Herald. i

It is impossible to exercise-. control .wer .prlces ..etflciently without a control on wages. for it ll miss that in s great measure determine the fluctuations in the cost of production which. in it. turn influences the selling price, Whoever therefore agrees to the control of prices should be dlspos. ed to occept control of wages. There is perhaps one exception" to this lo doctrine. that which his to do with the price of sgi-1. cultural products. in this cue the payment of subsidies may be Justified as I m u of compen- sation directed to the producer, since it is I question of consum- er products essential to existence which are at the basis of the ol- ficinl cost of living estimates. The production of these things should be maintained in order to meet public requirements . . . it s gov- ernment like the present Canadian one does not wish to have re. course to price and wage controls, it may try to contain the infla- tion-sry drive by other fiscal snd monetary means: increased taxes and restrictions on credit. - Ls Patric, Montreal.

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