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THE GUARDIAN

Morning Dally (Pounded 1n 1801.. Authorised as Second Claaa Mall. Post Office Department. » Ottawa- Tha Island Guardian Publisifng Co. Preident. Ian A. Burnett; Vice-President, Wm. lt- Burneti; Secy.-'I‘reaa., G. M. Burnett; Editor and Managing Director. .I. It. Burnett; Associate kidllw- I-‘ranls Walker.

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

UHARLOTTIITUWN. TUESDAY, APRIL

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—-—p-u_‘ ieties was cs follows: Green Mount ' 3,387,700 bushels; lrish Cobbler 2,392,300 bushels; Sebago 1,423,000 bushels; Netted Gem 463,100 bushels. and Bliss Triumph 421,500 bushels. There were on additional 49 varieties inspected which pro- duced from 65,000 bushels to as low as 5 bushels in the case of some of the newer varieties being tested for disease resistance.

Sales of certified seed from the 1947 crop ot December 31, show an increase of approxim- ately 700,000 bushel over December 31, 1946. Shipments to Argentina were increased by over 650,000 busheld British Columbia shippedi over 51,000 bushels of White Rose to Argentina, which is reported as arriving in excellent condition. The potato shipping season at the port of Saint

“l-lotel Man Says Too Many Peo- ple Give Tips as Bribes Instead

of for Prompt Service." Others think of them as pure and ablcc‘ appeasement- Sauit Ste. Marie Star.

The last two Great Wars broke out after the harvest in Europe had been garnered. That should minimize the present scare o! Im- mediate war to some degree. ~51.

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PUBLIC FORUM

This colamn la opan to corra- opondcirta of aaeatluna or intonat- The Charlottetown Guardian doaa not aoca—r- lly nndoraa tho opinion or

tho rltacifloa by

correspondent.

—o oyoo-oo-ouowwoeooo-ooaw i DOMINION - PROVINCIAL

TAXATION

$ll'.—-E\'€1‘ since the Provinces=oi

Quebec and Ontario refused to en

room‘: rare nousr: anarmrvr.

A naked house. a naked moor, A shivering pool before the door. A garden bare of flowers and fruit, And poplars at titre garden foot: Such i8 the place that 1 live in. Bleak without and bare within.

Yet shall rugged moor receive The moccnparable pcmp of eve, And the cold glories of the |dawn

norm" m Promote careful driving by

law suits, no heartbreak. LIVE AND

Enjoy your cor Drive Safely

NAFETY PAY5 511° llflllllll My! dlVitlOBflF-llf) ‘accidents. no deaths, no

Observe the rules oi the road, keep your car in good m“),

i APRIL 6.4955

E CHANCES driving carefully.

‘LET LIVE

to prove that they are fit for free-

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Freight Rates [nu-ease John was one of the busiest on record, with as Cumin-mes S“??? Fscrdclglogzlliéffuigziiltnelxlllt rbvslplblct Behind W“ ‘muting m“ he gilegtrlaiagrlrallirtcncbngollevif virllleliil: “lnzhi. I'm combined Wm‘ . many as three vessels loading atthe some time. Th M I d m d k u taxation. we have had sporadic And fiflffh, wind 1...“ plage to Clflldlln homes. ' re l '°m"“'“l°il' l" min!

_ r _ e ~ "5 "I" l" l‘ l" l" i out-bursts of reciprocal n m - ll- ' Commenting on the Transportboards (it for the privileges of self-govern- ing. a e m Dom lgrémunmoored cloudiancon i . ‘ cision authorizing a 21 per ccnt increase "l _ lllflll- NOW they "lufil 800W U191 ‘These outbursts on the part o! 05,”. freight rates, the Winnipeg Free Press says: —_ LDIIURIAL NUI t3 -- we equal w the dutles- “lher lllv- nigh officials of both the Fedora. . n

and Provincial governments do not you; garden 510cm end slgpm

The Canadian Pacific is accepted as the

. . . . . d°m "01- °YllY bl’ l-he ‘WY 11-93’ in the least harm the respective 1 - Insurance Si 1372 yqrdgflck by which the needs of the railways for Quite a lot of_Spring sickness is prevalent, fulfil their own political hopes bu‘ Officials, but, invariably result in wnh iggpihg sum“ with glancing Offices: Charlottetown n“ ~- ievenue are to be measured. On this colds, sinus, arthritis, heart weakness, and, alcs, fllw- and (‘Yell more lmiloflfinl- "I new, additional or higher taxes, or rain. ' ' summem“ ' lllillll-flilir

Lilo] ligfiiirllCgl in mlriclrinttrtclye Agents throughout the pmyhm, \\'l 1 10f‘ y gro pa new Domihicms. - Winnipeg Frc:

Press.

a combination of them being lm posed on tlie people. The men and women of Canada. as you know, are neither federal nor prOVlIlClul Canadians, but simply Canadians, If only. say. the Dominion La liinct. as a penalty for 1L5 atub bornness or recalcitrant attitude, could impose a new. additional OJ llishcr tax on the respective pro

Here shall the vfzard moon ascend The heavens. in the crimson end Of day's declining splendor: here The army of the stars appear.

-R. L. Stevenson.

basis the Transport Board, it seems, has arrived sudden death. nt its judgment by calculating the assumed needs of the C.P.R. against its gross revenues‘ in 1947. The gap is placed at $30 millions and the gross rcvenues against which an increase in rates would apply are put at $137 millions. The 21 per cent. presumably, is calculated as an increase in rates

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Few things so readily reflect changing ideas an-d events as does the naming of children. An extreme example, perhaps, is that of an Arao mother in Jerusalem who has named‘hcr twin boys Ercn and Tommy.

The Oniurin flog Producers pass ctl a resolution this week for ‘a complete study of the possibilities oi having the tnarkeling _ scheme cxicnricd to include control oi re

_ GENTLEMEN THIS srortr; SPECIALIZESIN FITTING cnornrsu as 1125';- nloorsls YOU-FOR TIIIS IS r reaaqiu, yum“

Old Charlottetown

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on $137 millions of business which would give the company $27 millions more revenue per year. The additional $3 millions needed to bring the total to $30 millions will be picked up from higher specific rates on coal and coke and lesser items. Applied to the Canadian National which has much more mileage and does d larger business, the 21 per cent increase is calculated to add $40 millions of revenue.

The extent to which this decision is based upon the estimates presented to the board dur- ing the hearings by officials of the Canadian Pacific Railway is a matter of interest. Th: board finds that the Canadian Pacific requires $30 millions more revenue. This is inst a little less than the amount by which the ‘experts of the Canadian Pacific under-estimated tlie revenues of the system in 1947. During the rate hearings they estimated 1947 revenues at $285 millions whereas the actual total as announced by the C. P. R. on March 9 was $318 millions. The dif- ference between the actual revenues of tlie C.P.R. and the total of $130 millions, cited by the board, is due to the fact that much freight traf- fic moves under statutory rates (grain and flour) or competitive rates and will not be affected by an increase in rates.

The point, however, is clear. The Transport Board in its judgment finds that the Canadian Pacific Railway needs $30 millions additional rev- enue. Yet the Canadian Pacific in its annual re- port early this month showed earnings ot almost a peak. Only once before did the railways do bettzr and then only slightly. Net earnings wer: S22 millions and other income brought the total up to $47.6 millions. After fixed charges and dividends, the company added $20 millions to profit and loss account, bringing that account to $279 millions. A company which in 1947 in- creased its gross by $26 millions over 1946; its net by S4 millions; reduced its fixed charges by $2.7 millions; had sufficient earnings to cover the fixed charge three times over—this company is now deemed so perilously placed as to require another $30 millions of revenue out of the pub- |ic's pocket.

The Free Press emphasizes that the Transport Board is. not a court, nor are its decisions final either as to law or facts. It is but a commission to which is delegated the rate-making functions of the Dominion Government. The Government's statutory authority to reverse the decisions of the Transport Board has been, on more occas- ions tlian one, of signal service. This is a fact which Provincial governments should not overlook in considering the course of action now to be fol- lowed.

Gash-Anii-iiarry Education

The following comment from an article in the Saturday Review of Literature indicates a trend which is becoming all too evident in Can- oda as well as in the neighboring Republic:

"Contemporary education has to a large ex- tent plowed under the classic past. More than being dead, Latin and Greek have become buried languages. Our educators have seen to that. They have wanted to make education "popular" and sought to have it practical. It's too hard try- ing to keep up with our own appaling times to bother about the remote past.

"Did a knowledge of Xenophon or Juvenal ever turn a soda-ierker into a tycoon? The point of modern education in America is useful- acss, not culture. lf it aids in gaining profit- able employment, it can skip interior richness. The result must be of on immediate cash-and: carry kind. Moreover, everything must be made as easy as possible. The motto of the so-colled progressives is, apparently, spare the whim and spoil the child. Hence no brambles along the poth. No disciplined marching. No steep cliffs

. to climb. Just o level and fairly straight high-

way (macadamed, of course) leading to a job."

Seed Potato-Production

Production of certified secd potatoes in Canada in 1947 amounted to 11,747,000 bushels, or an increase of almost a million bushels over 1946, and over five million bushels more than in 1945. All provinces except Nova Scotia and Quebec produced more scod in 1947 than in 1946. glritisli Columbia moved up from sixth place in production in 1946 to third place in 1947, ex- ceeded only by PriricQEdward Island and New "Irunswicli.

'. Tho greatest increase by vorictiar was shown Kotcbdiiis", with a production of 3,307,700 _. hols in 1947. This represented on increase of , .7 par tent over i946.< White Rosa showed an iaasa of 25.7 per cant, or ii-totol of 92,100 shalt, practically all of which occurred in lrit- " iambic. -

Production of tlie remaining popular var-

Thc passport frauds case now being tried in thc Old Country indicate that getting into this country is a matter of some difficulty. So much so that there is a ready market evcn for forged capers that will permit the alien at grout risk to enter as a British subject. i W

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Finance Minister Abbott's change in termin- ology, referring to the present situation as boom rather than as inflation does not change the economic picture. It does, however, indicate that the Liberal Government now wants people to get in o happier mocd about internal conditions.

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Dorothy Thompson, whose opinion on world affairs is well worth regarding, believes that Rus- sia is already waging for the domination of the world, though not the old fashioned slugging war. She describes Henry Wallace as Russia's atomic bomb in the U. S.

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Thcre seems to be considerable variation of opinion as to Canada's supply of educated young men. Some experts claim that we are turning out more than the country can absorb, but at the same time the army finds it necessary to reduce its educational qualifications for enlist-

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Unquestionably "big business" is behind the agitation for the importation of margarine. lt began in the German manufacturing section of Ontario, and has been pushed for all its worth in-most industrial centres. Only the feafof the farmers’ reaction at election prevents the Gov- ernment capitulnting right away to the porty

money-bags.

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The world's leading bicycle exporting nation is Britain. In 1947, exports of bicycles from the United Kingdom totalled 1,449,662 out of a total production of 2,489,929 (including 34,476 juven- ile bicycles ond 189,910 tricycles). This means that on an average o minimum of ten bicycles were exported every minuteof every 8-hour work- ing day from United Kingdom ports (excluding Sundays and holidays). On the some basis of cal- culation, 8,300 bicycles are made every day in Britain's factories-or 17 every minute.

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Laura, wife of Hugues de Sade, died this date, 1348, this being her- centenary. The Ital- ian poet Petrorch was her Platonic lover, and his fame as a lyric poet rests on Canioniere, sonnets to this lady, and whose death he laments in his In Marti di Madonna Laura, the lyrical story of one of the great loves of the world's literature: "To be able to say how much you love is to love but little" . . ' "Yon nightingale, whose strain so sweetly flows, Mourning her ravish’d young or much-Iov'd mate, A soothing charm o'er all the valleys throws And skies, with notes well tuned to her sad state." n ,

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On All Fools Day the youngest member of the Nova Scotia Legislature flagrantly "defied the King" in the Legislature. Mr. Henry Hicks (L-Annapolis), 33, when interviewed on his con- duct, said he was merely demonstrating an "anci- cnt constitutional right" when he sat through the session without removing his beaver-skin hat. He explained that a 13th century edict allowed him to weor, with impunity, any headgear he chose— as long as he abstained from prayers or address- ing the House. No one disputed his privilege. l9 used to be a common practice in our own Legis- ioturc for members to sit "batted", for two good and sufficient reasons, in the old bowler hat days it was risky leaving ones headgear on a chair; and then again, before steam-heating, to wear one's hat in the Chamber was a safeguard against cold.

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The First Canadian Army, which fought so courageously and efficiently in Northwest Europe, was formed iiv England on April 6, 1942, exactly six years ago tomorrow. . . . Three years ago, on April 8, 1945, Canadian airborne troops dropped east of tlie Zuider Zea and on April 9 tlis First Canadian Army crossed the Ems at Neppsn. Thirty-one years ago, during ‘four days of bitter fighting in Franco in the First World War, four Canadians serving with the Canadian Expedi- tionary Forcewon the Victoria Cross for extrema bravery in action. The men, and the dolor of their awards were, Pto. W. .1. Milne, 16th Iii., April 9, 1917; L/Sgt. E. W. Sifton, 10th 0a., April 9, 1917; Pta. J. G. Pattison, 50th In., April 10, 1917, and Capt. T. W. MacDawcll, 30th 0a., whose citation covered the parioii 9-13 Apri‘, 1917. Awards to Milne and Siftoii wan made

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tail pork prices." At the same meet.- iug producers were beefing about. “|'t‘p:ln1(.‘lli:1ii0ll." Agricultural o.‘- gmrizatioirs must realize that the more boards and controls set up. thc greater the regimentation win be. They can't have it both ways

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his unnecessary squabble.

l say unnecessary. because

o-called

vincial Cabinet. or vice-verso. l-llE mutter would be quickly adjusted. but such is not the case: the pie themselves bear the brunt oi

CO~

the

constitutional difficulty

Dr. Uliriclr was

mosa, Ont. His ial.

0 satian and his mother Canadian,

thus he becomes t

tenant-governor

flee in Saskatchew lieutenant-governor vince was Hon. A.

rich’s appointment peciaiiy gratifying

age to continental

Mr. J. E. Rutied Halifax Centre.

rd in

such as are skilled

created once again

an important craft The quality of the

comparison with ever came out of

an attraction at g

Geoff. H. Jowart. 0 lug for The quin

tached to one end ls a sandbag. A up to the post an

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up," same idea. lll 8 though not so ei

eryone -as it was is nature's Spring on the Inn

with earthly play that must. go climax of eternal may mean less to \\’€il and untroubl ill. the aging and tators of its The strongest is its invariable

certainty. It l5

Calgary Aiibertan.

that should have

comers are belnfl things about the that should help

good. Australians.

feet in Canada's. icy brought in

part of th them pretty mu devices. ‘I11! 1181111 tahlishment. of a

foreign comm these the native only

spect ior Canada tlana. There are

people. sturdy folk loyal to til adopted land

act mean

settlers wc have here. Wc should slvlnl how to become

Province.

-Woocistcck Sentinel-Review.

of other Anglo-Saxon descent. to hold Jf~

was of French descent. Dr. Uh-

numbers among the pop this province who trace their line-

trles. ~ Regina Leader-Post.

provided food for thought when he propos- the Legislature last Tues- day that. if Scottish were to be sought for Nova Scotia. some oi them at least should be

that a textile industry might

Haml-iveaving is rapidly becomilli ed by local weavers is worthy '1'

Anything that will increase number of skilled workers lll U15 craft must be for the seneral good» _f-faiiiax Chronicle.

Tilting the qnintaln was a p01"!- lar sport for horsemen ill the Mid- dle Ages. Before long it may

horse fairs in Northern Australia. On the village green at Olflllllll- Kent. is Britain's last qurntain. 8nd the chairman of the P814511 9°"?- cil has had a letter from-Mr.

full constructional details. lain consists of a D051 with crosspiece on a swivel. Al»

lance at the other end. If llt l5 too slow the crosspiece swlrlls‘! round and the sandbag hit-a ll-m

Spring tells the worldi Poets are stirred to volt!

does something for

promissory v d is the beauuiu! stage setting iorthe acti man aspiration ll‘l steady C0 vicissitude. Life is a

unfolding pageant impression of SPIl-l!

perhaps delayed but never-failing

overtone of human existence-

Australla haa-lnsililllllll

Canada generations ago -a 00W“ nf instruction. among 211F099!" l!‘ migrants. on Australia. The new-

is that the_ Government _ thousand-sh 0i’ 9903-9 , d ed t. ‘mm Eur“: and then left ch to their own

unitles. In some

language uacd and in man; there is little knowledll 0i 0r "-

thousanda of fine Canadians among those and hard-worlrint e principles of their but the! have bo- come so largely throng}: determined initiative.

bringing ln Itrropean

in fairly large numblrlr the Canadian oltlaenahlp force should be able to something. We have our leetcd to do the right thlnl by till‘

tho newcomers a course on good Oanaiflana. A vlrilc Canadlaniam ia one oi Ca- nada's great needs. - Vancrruyor

can be straightened out, but not under the aegis of the statute which governs Canada today, I re- fer to the British North America Act. " Under that Act, in the matter of taxation, the Dominion Govern ment yields the big stick: it. car. legally do so, and it does. On the other hand. the Provinces. under the same Act, are in a very sub- ordinate and unenviable position, insofar as taxation is concerned.

Under the Act of sear, a1| the Dominion had to pay to the orig

inal Provinces was as follows: Yearly. for the support of their Kovernments and legislatures. $80.- 000 to Ontario, $70,000 to Quebec. $60,000 to Nova Scotia; $501100 to New‘ Brunswick ‘and an annual grant in aid of each Province equal to .80c per head of the population, as ascertained by the proper cen- sus. Note the law. which is still the law ‘today: "Such grant shall be in full settlement of all future demands on Canada."

There was a revision of these yearly payments ~for the support of the governments and legislatures in 1937, and the principle of auto

born at. For- her was an Ai-

he second lieu- than

rm. The first of the pro E. Forget, who

will prove es to the large uiation of

EUYOPEBII COUII-

ge, Member for serious

inrmigrautr

I11 textiles, so be

in the province.

in Nova Scotia. goods produc-

matic increase in relation to anything that growth of population, was incor-

the Hebrides. DQ111190- rize The Provinces claim — and just-

ly so- that it is still inadequate.

Permit me to give you, without

comment a brief extract from the

report of the Duncan Commission,

re Maritime Claims, issued in 1926'

page 12:

"In 1867 the grants given for the

support oi provincial governments and legislatures were (within cm"-

taln limits) of a fixed amount. and

were not on a scale that increased with the increase of population or the expansion of Dominion income

It was, apparently, an accepted theory of those times that the functions of government (provin- cial. of course) should be limited to a minimum. The Dominion In- tended that the Provinces shoulu not make a gain out of their grant and should be discouraged from over-spending. It was felt that. i.‘ they had to fall back upon their cwn people for additional revenue. in the event, of over-spending, there would be an effective check upon them. lo much of deliberate intention on the part of the Dom- lnion is to be gathered from the records of the time. The policy may have been a wise one, but it clearly was too rigid and inelastic when we bear in mind the devei