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lion. Mr. Mayhew’: iilelt

Prince Edward lsland extends a cordial geosting to the recently appointed Federal Min- lster of Fidreries, Hon. R. W. Mayhew, who ar- rived here over the week-end and is scheduled to remain for a few days. Mr. Mayhew's itin- erary will include visits to Rustico, Souris and Bideford, and he will be the guest of honour at a dinner to be tendered by the Prince Edward Island Fisheries Federation. lt is a matter of satisfaction to our citizens that on this, his first visit to our Province, the Minister has planned his tour in such a way as to get as much first-hand information about our fisher- les as possible.

Mr. Mayhew has represented the constitu- ency of Victoria, B. C. in lhe House of Commons since i937 and for the past few years has been one of the parliamentary assistant ministers be- fore being elevated to full cabinet rank. Un- like many of his predecessors, he is_not a lawyer but an industrialist. ln gathering experience of the fisheries industry in the Moritimes, and particularly in this Province, he has an able par- liamentary assistant in the person of our Prince County representative, Mr. J. Watson Mac- Naught.

The Minister will not need to be reminded that next to agriculture our main source of wealth in this Province is from the sea, and that the development of our fishery resources is of vital concern. lt is hoped, therefore, that his visit will be productive of far-reaching results.

florny Commentators

Our staunch Liberal contemporary, the New Glasgow Eastern Chronicle, is peeved at the way the National Liberal Convention was mis- handled by the bevy of radio broadcasters. For half an hour at a time, it complains, "the dele- gates were given the shunt. . Nothing could be heard clearly because of the commentators. So fond were they of their own voices that they chit-chatted with each other, cracked corny jokes, asked each other for comments on this and that about the convention. No one cares a hoot who those professional prattlers talked to, what they saw, or what they forecast would hop- pen next. One male in best Oxonian accent noted a CBC boss sitting somewhere near him with a pair of earphones on. The commentator noted that he used to do that when he was an eclitor—we quote—'attending a boxing match, or that sort of thing.’ A female commentator found it was ‘too, too fawscinating ta talk to people from all pawts of the country.‘ The pity was that the country could not hear what the people from all parts of the country were saying, while the CBC people yapped. to their heurts' delight. . They gave way in time, after a suffering earful of childish woofing, to the Premiers of New Brunswick and Prince Ed- ward island who tabled the resolution on Mari- time rights."

The Chronicle concludes with the hope that when the Conservatives hold their convention in the autumn, "the CBC governors will have found muzzles for some of their loquacious em- ployees. They should know that the peoples’ voice without words is one hundred-times more interesting than time filling verbiage."

In any case, however, adequate reports ol both convention proceedings will be on record in the daily newspapers, and can be read and studied in cold type for what they are worth.

00st 0f Taxation

Teople in the United States are spending a lower percentage of their incomes for con- sumption than in previous peacetime years, ac- cording ta Domestic Consumer Markets, a chart book prepared by the National Industrial Conference Board.

"They are setting aside a slightly higher percentage for savings but the major factor in shrinking the proportion of income left for vol- untary expenditures is higher personal taxes", the report states. Taxpayers, the board points out, paid in direct personal taxes last year more than they spent for all of the following: New homes, new cars, new furniture, religious and charitable purposes, private education and medi- cal cage and death expenses.

Retail sales are now about $70,000,000,- 000 higher than in 194i, the board reports. Since the end of the war, it is noted, retail sales have maintained the some position relative to disposable income. that prevailed during the two decades preceding the war. ln the open- ing months of i948, retail sales were "only slightly above" the long-term relationship.

But in the opening quarter of this year, total durable sales, it is reported were "still some 9,600,000,000 below their normal position _ in relation to disposable income." In contrast, non- durable goods continued to be purchased at on annual rate of $l4,500,000,000 above their "nor- mol", report continues.

The board reports that formers are for more prosperous than before the war, their net income-after production expenses — having mountId from an ‘average of S7,500,000,000 fer 19354939 to on estimated $25,0N,0ll),000 in I947. Farmers‘ per copitv net income reached‘ an estimated S900 in i947, as compared with about SZSOpre-war. ,

‘ Similar trends are in evidence in this country,

y though on e less noticeable scale. ,

. ~ EDITORIAL NOTES -'- .

The Governor-General ln residence here. I I I I

The Island got its share of wind and rain. I I I I

This week a big attraction will be the of- ficial visit of Fisheries Minister Mayhew. * I I I

Back to normalcy—until another Old Home

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"Your beef will cost you more" but the farmers should be in pocket unless the tax- gatherer gets after them, directly and indirect-

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, A Prince who can go on a $10,000,000 spree is not of the type who gives away dimes like the late John D. Rockefeller, the oil and rail millionaire.

I I I I Perhaps we should be thankful for small mercies. In spite of the many roads still to be hard surfaced there has been comparatively little dust to annoy tourists and islanders. e o e p

it surely could not be that the removgl of the ban on export of cattle, and consequent rise in the price of butcher meat here, was due to the coming visit of Prime Minister Mackenzie King to his "spiritual home" in U.S.A. I I I I

It was too bad the holiday-makers did not get the opportunity to enjoy the exhibition Fri- day ond Saturday. lt is unusual to have bad weather here in Old Home Week. I I I I All will be interested in the visit of the Governor-General to the city Thursday to lay the corner stone of the new "Y" building. Apart from the opening of the Exhibition, it will be His Excellency’: only public engagement during his long holiday residence in our midst. I e e e t According to the Saturday Review, Mr. Hec- tor Hughes, M.P., a back bencher, surprised a front opposition bencher, Mr. Henry Straus, by quoting Cicero's prior use of St. Paul's famous Civis Romanus sum. Another proof that it is never too late to acquire knowledge. I I I

The Dairy Council of Canada's recent statement in favour of a butter substitute al- though surprising-in itself is by no means un- qualified. The conditions are that the Govern- ment is unable to import butter or re-introduce rationing. I I I I The famous .303 will soon be no more a military weapon. The decision to adopt the American cirmy service rifle as the personal weapon of Britain, France and the United States means much loss in tradition and in material, but the gain in facility of cry-operation is in- comporobly greater. ‘ ' I I I Lost March Argentina, after hard bargain- ing, took over the British owned railways in that country. Recent reports indicate that the re- sult has not been all they hoped for. In fact the railways have since been losing so heavily that it is planned to tear up about 40 per cent of the track and concentrate on highways. I I I I

Just how far we are justified in going in adopting compulsory treatment of disease ls hard to say. Obviously persons with communic- able diseases should be compelled to undergo treatment but whether non-infectious dis- eases should render the victim subject to compulsory treatment is quite anther question. I I I I

Pressed by inadequate provincial financing the Canadian Teachers Federation has recom- mended Federal assistance in the matter of edu- cation but without Federal control. The mone- tary need is obvious but if Dominion funds are earmarked for education it would be difficult to deny Ottawa the right to soy at least what education consists of. I I I I

Sir George Otto Trevelyan, English states- man and man of letters, died this date i928. He was a nephew and biographer of Lord Mac- aulay; sat in Parliament from i865 to i897 when he became Ambassador to Washington. His writings include, in addition to his famous Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay, The Early History of Charles James Fox, The American Revolu- tion, George lII, and Charles Fox (2 vols.).

Mr. Grant Dexter, noted Liberal journal- ist, is authority for the statement that at the party's national convention the King Cabinet fought hard to defeat the freight rates resolu- tion, which was an unqualified reversal of Gov- ernment policy. "After hearing o member of the Cabinet speak against the resolution," says Mr. Dexter, "the resolution committee carried it bv a vote of five to one. That particular min- ister Ito doubt retired to the eminence of the convention platform feeling as if he had been in collision with a steam roller." "

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Twelve and one-half steers bought a farmer a new Nine Hundred and Fifty Dollar car on time payments in ‘i940; eight and ons- half steers bought him a new Sixteen Hundred Dollar car for cash in i948 (writes Mr. John Atkins in The Scene from Shingwauk Farm). The fortunate farmer lives in the United States to which market the Canadian former cannot ship his steers. The Canadian beef producer's car casts him much more by reason of taxes which are supposed to discourage him from buying a cor at oll,'and somewhat higher Canadian costs. The Canadian farmer is compelled to sell his steers ‘for little more than half as much as an American former gets. On the whole, a Can- adian farmer, who knows his costs and prices, estimates that he is forty per cent worse off, taking into account all he buys and sells, than

, the United States former.

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‘Hale eolansn la open pe‘ the tliocamloa by oorreepondents ‘, of questions o! Interest. The , Guardian doee not neoeesn ; lly endorse thetoplnlon of correspondents.

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TAX 0N CABS

8fr,—-The austerity fox on cars wee as per cent. on the first. $1,200. 50 per cent. on the next 8800 and To" per cent. on the remainder of the wholesale price. And- import. restrictions still in effect limit. imports to 75 per cent. of o cer- tain period.

I understand that in 1047 Lbfllll’ $85 million in U. S. funds wert for complete cars, and about. 885 million for parts, and that Can- adian cars are 80 to 70 per cent. made ln Canada.

The graduated tax would save U. S. dollars lf lt. encouraged Cen- sdlan production. and ln view of the fact that. we have deprived ourselves of essential commodities. ln order to conserve dollars, and other measures involving sncr2~ flces by harassed Canadian coc- sumers are lauded as though earn- ing U. S. dollars were a noble achievement, I can't. see why the austerity tax should be remov=d from high priced cars which are largely imported complete.

The tax has now been reducod to e flat. l0 per cent on all cars. Wouldn't ft. have been better to drop the tax entirely on the first $1,200 and retain the 50 and ‘.5 per cent. on the upper portion? We will probably have regulated aus- terity for e considerable time. enzl I thlnlc the financial penalties on luxuries should stand as long u there are quantity restrictions.

I am, Slr, etc. JOHN W. GILBERT Hanover, Ontario.

A‘ Boost For Braces

(Hamilton Spectator)

We get them from _Parl.s. from New York or from london- por- tents of s garish revolution 1n men's haberdsshery.

Canary-colored vests. Purple straw hats and things like that are the most modest of the fore- casts. and ft. ls probably n pro- found sense of helplessnes that prompt. such nightmares.

Why not for once start. at bllc beginning? Why not tackle in the interests of modest comfort. an indispensable accessory that. re- volution has. left. stranded?

Why not. concentrate on braces?

If half the ingenuity that. went into imprinting Danublan sull- sels and bacterial swooshes on lxcckties went. into the glamorlz- ing of braces. we figure that. a real triumph would crown the perspiration war.

The Swiss, who are an intelli- gent people. have devised wonder- ful braces, as intriguing as lozem poles and as relaxing as an old sweater. They are anything but an nffront—lndeed they are .\ form of peacock fodder Lo Lire male ego.

What could we not nchlevc with distinctive Canadlan braces? Fathers at Confederation pro- files, wild geese. BC apples, loo- ster claws and plcborlel embe. llshments of an equally high order would flower. Bronze chains could hang from them and crose piece: could give the Alpine climber look.

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PIONEER nus

Prom who accounts of early British immigration to this colony 1t. would appear that. such settle- ments as were made were placed at. or near former French settle- ments, and, in all instances, be- side the sea. This was e double advantage, fn that lt. gave ready access to sea food and made the problem of clearing the lends less acute, although much shrubbery had overrun the French uplands even by the date of’ Holland's sur- vey in 1705.

Of the three isolated Scottish settlements, that. of Cavebead had the best start, having landed with- out. ncciclent, endthus saved their provisions, clothing, and utensils. They, like the people_of Prince- town end “rracedle, had not. been entirely destitute of means, nor driven from home by stress of poverty. Rather, they had sought. to improve their condition and acquire lends in a new world u yet. uncrowded. The Melpeqire people bed lost. their supplies at their very door, later settlers at Covehead and St. Peters had been plundered by American fishermen and prlvateers, and the ‘Pracadle clan bed lost. one ahlplond of pro- visions, so that. all were more er less victims of fate; but they were men of pluck and resource, flt. subjects to found a new colony.

In the period under consider- ation no settler rose above tihe log hut; but. there was plenty of wood to burn; end, although wind end snow beet through the cracks. a cheerful fire flamed in the chimney; end their rude beds of shrew were piled high with blankets. Tom Curtis, a HIIbP‘ shire youth who emigrated to New lnndon In. 1W9. slept in e straw bed, like n cabin bed, under ten blankets.

Luxuries were unknown and ecesnltles were coerce; but there was food 1n the woods and tn the see, to be bed for the tflfng. Though the first. hut. Curtis entered looked like e cow house, e goose was cooking for dinner: and, though he lived molt. at the winter on lllt flell and potatoes supplemented by a little bread. he was never in better heelth. At tlmes rum, sugar and rno could be bought; but. thaw

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The Problem Of The Arab Refugees Sermonless Services

By (W. N. EWER)

~The "Palestine Question" has entered a new phase. The truce. if uneasy and punctuated by charges and counter charges cf infringement. exists, And the United Nations has again to facc the problem of e settlement.

The difficulties ere no less than they were. Some of the Arab stares- .men may have realized that Lne establishment of some form of Jewish state fa an irrevocable fact. since there is no possibility of their being permitted, even lf they W81’; able, to overthrow it by force. But on the other hand. Jewish claims are beginning to increase. The familiar argument is heard that. on strategic grounds, the frontiers of “Israel“ must. be changed and its territory increas- ed ln order to provide security against. possible future Arab ag- gression. The more extreme Zion- 1st. organizations reiterate their claim that. all Palestine musL be included fn the Jewish State. And there is now further com- plication of the Arab refugees who have fled from Jewish-con- trolled areas. This, es Britain's representative, Sir Alexander Ca- dugan. has pointed out. to the Se- curity Cormcll, ls now "e. major factor in the Palestine problem" as well as a. tragedy of human suffering. ‘

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The flight began l.n Aprll when the Jews look over control of Jaffa and Haifa. A Jewish agency spokesmen has described lt. as the result of a flight. psychosis. "fear" ls e frsnker word. Fear- even ff unressonlng - developer

into panic» Andnofhlng was done by the new authorities to allay it.

In those months of the spring

end early summer. nearly the whole Arab population of the Jewish-controlled territory fled.

taking with them what. they could carry, leaving their homes. their jobs, their lend.

Estimates of the tolel number of these refugees very. and there are no accurate figures. The low- est. assessment ls some 250,000: and even this. es Sir Alexander Cadogan has pointed out. is greater than the total number of Jewlsn "displaced persons" in Europe end it is almost. certainly fer LOO luw s figure.

It. has been s mess eoxdus not

of social relaxation, educational or religious facilities. From the point of vlsw or religious guid- ance, the ‘rrecedle settlers were better off, tn that. Father James MacDonald served them es well as the Acndlens. The other settlers were largely Presbyterian, and sow no clergyman of their own faith prior to. 1791. On that. date. Dr. Mac-Gregor found that. there were good books in circulation at Cove- head, but. the young people of Mnlpeque, 10 years of nae. had never seen a minister and did not. know how to behave in chllch. Even in Charlottetown trwo visits from Rev. John mgleson, 1773 and 1714, afforded the only opportunity for religious observ- encd, prior to the arrival of Person Desbrlsay ln T775. At. this date also, there was not n school nor a school teeoher on the Island. —P'rom an article by Dr. D. O. Hervey in the Delhnusle Review, January. i932.

MAN’! NEED

Men's need ls fractional

In the flrrnernentel integers l-le eeka e trlvfol are

Of the heart's geometer;

A winking Iperk

Of the planetary firs;

A trickle of etr

Tn the flooding atmosphere; The sparrow’: inch of sun

In the bank's eerlel stadium; The minnows pinch of pool In leviathan’: aquarium. . Not the thundered word

But the whispered syllable; Not the exalted number

lut the kneeling decimal.

for bare existence mtthnrt thought}

r-rDflld MI ln "Poet's Odd."

the flight of n minority. In tnc territory of "lsrael” there were. apart. from the nomad tribes of Negeb. well over 300,000 Arabs- settled on the land ogivorklng LLl the towns-where they end them ancestors have lived for s 1001 years. Today. there are probably not more than 30,000.

And this mass of fugitives. to- gether with other thousands from areas outside "Lsrnel" but. in the Jewish military occupatlon, ere now entirely indigent. Thousands of them. according to Sir Raphael Cllento. Director of the U. N. Refugees Branch, are living and seeping in the open without ever tents. There ls danger of starva- tion. There is danger of cpl- comics.