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THE GUARDIAN. CHARLOTTETOWN

'-JANUARY W155. 1954

PAGE FOUR

THE GUARDIAN

Department, Ottawa.

P ... . m--masa-1 Authorised ll Second Class Mail Post Office

general review of the sales tax. To which should be added a more generous policy in respect to deductions for medical expenses, especially by making all such expenses de- ductible, and removing the-present "floor"

The Island Guardian Publishing i:o. of

Fxiiltloi-winndn)lFiii;g;:-Dii;-ctor. Inn A. Burnett. Associate Editor. Frank walker.

(7lR()lJLA'l'i0N "(lovers Prince lidwnrd lslnnd like tli

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"The strongest memory is weaker than the weakest ink".

Tu; RI.()v'r'i7'i-;;i'oi:S":s:A-111:!-I)AV!V':l A Well ilone

The announcement that Mr. J. 0- C- Campbeli, Q.C., has resigned from his of- fice of Deputy Attorney General to resume W.-Wale practice will be cause for reg-ret. The Government has now lost the services of two outstanding deputy ministers within a very short time, Mr. W. R. Shaw having recently retired as Deputy Minister of Agri- culture.

During the past four year

to m M

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s while Mr.

Campbell was Deputy Attorney General and previously when he i'eP1'e5f-"lied nil? in various capacities this

Government Province has b being very ably stated incl and commissions as well day negotiation between governme ; departments. l! A great deal of the legislation enacted in, the Province owes its form to Mr. Camp- hell's parliamentary draftsmanship and above all the Revised Statutes, 1951 stand as a monument to his astonishing capacity for work and skill as a legal draftsman. It was a very great achievement indeed to undertake as sole commissioner the re- sponsibility for revising the Statute Booki of this Province from the time before it was separated from Nova Scotia. It is to be hoped that it will be followed by ten- vearly revisions so that never again will bur statute law become the tangled skein ily was before the revision. Despite the energy with which Mr. Campbell tackled governmental problems he a trial lawyer, being a familiar,

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is essentially figure in all our courts, not excluding the

Privy Council. To a very considerable ex- tent, therefore, his work will be as before but without departmental responsibilities and with more time for the conduct of trials.

Federal Expenditures

if our members at Ottawa are to re-I ceive, as now seems likely. an indemnity boost of 334,000, plus a 35.000 False in the salaries of cabinet members, it is incum- bent upon them to make every effort to

their own emolument increases. Certainly the Canadian public will not lose sight of the fact, that this is being mooted at a time when the Eisenhower administration in the United States is submitting far-reaching tax reduction proposals to Congress.

While the basic U. S. rates of income and other taxes will not be changed for the moment, quite extensive relief is offer- cd to taxpayers through allowances and ex- cmptions of various sorts. Some, such as the llberali7.ation of the rules regarding ex- ions for dependents and for medical costs. are designed to help the hard-pressed faintly man. Others. notably the more generous depreciation regulations, are in- tended to encourage investment and mod- erni7.ation of industrial plants.

In both Canada and the United States, the biggest item in the budget is national defence. But whereas the Americans are planning large cutbacks in military ex- penditures, no such reductions are in pros- pect in Canada. The difference may be. due to the fact. that our defence planning has emphasized the air force, where cuts in strength are harder to make, and risk- ier, than they are in the ground forces. In addition, Canada has ii much more ex- tensive, and therefore proportionately more costly, social welfare system than the Un- ited States, and this is largely untouchable. Another big drain on the treasury, which has no parallel in the States, is the pay- ments to the provinces under the tax-rental agreements; these, too. cannot be reduced by the federal government alone.

Even making allowances for all these items, however, 'there is ii general feeling that a return to pre-war principles of thrift would make possible substantial savings at

cmpl

Ottawa. without reducing any of Canadaisl

major commitments. The Canadian Chom- ber of Commerce. in a recent brief to the cabinet. submitted some proposals along this line which deserve careful consideration. They include: grants to municipalities in lieu of regular taxation on Crown property, which would give indirect relief to the herd- Erreled local ratepayers; allowances to tax- aoyeto wife make their own provisions for Ifltiflllldnt. similar to those up-onted to per- Dmllon till!!!

immediate means boosts at Ottawa contingent

bers are wise they will keep this fact con- stantly in mind. lays the golden egg has long been regard- ed as the acme of improvidence.

vertisements in ii Bangor boost his proposals. suggests that Maine could help do away

shipping only those potatoes between 2 U2 and 4 inches, and diverting all the oversize, undersize and culls to the starch factories. This practise, of course, is followed by some growers, but the starch factories are still not operating at capacity. larger percentage of the crop in this way would assure the consumers that all lower, grades have been destroyed and, same token, would give them confiden that what they buy is the best quality.

the Bangor Daily News Aroostook crop started at 58-million bush-

the measuring yardstick, It- usually

profit to the grower; when it exceeds that yardstick, it means the national crop has

eliminated from the market between now

three per cent.

Unfortunately our taxpayers have no of making indemnity upon more onomic administration; but if our mem-

Killing the goose that

Maine's Potato Surplus

Maine potato growers are being urged help themselves out of their present arket predicament by a Bridgewater, aine, dealer, who has taken full-page ad- newspaper to Briefly, this dealer

ith the national surplus by sizing and

Siphnning off a

by the

cel In an editorial commending the scheme. says the 1953'

is, but by the shipment of some 10-mil- on bushels has been reduced to 48-million. Somewhere in the 40-million bushel mar-I et," it says, "lies the 'common denom-l

inator', that is, the point that turns in all

When the shipment runs less than, indl-l ates a national shortage and a greater

rofit.

and February 20 by diverting them to the starch factories which, though willing, are not operating at full capacity. "The same procedure," says the Bangor paper, "would probably eliminate much if not all of the remaining 7-million bushel surplus after that date." '

It is rather late, however, to accom- plish the fuii purpose behind the proposal.

1 ' ' to tie taxvi er in other directions. Aroostook cannot mov i. . . . mhm- 1- Kill , b bl 1 - Stu-V t. . . E tg Crop out of the CM! llm further Splli In "WNW 0P' or British are forging ahead with Only m this way will the) e a e .0 Ju . Coun iy in time to meet the May 1 dead. erations. sh... ,.,,,.1,,.,,.-..,.. 0, nuclear me,g,.

In other words. whereas lll,for civilian and peaceful purposes.

line. That date customarily spells the end of the crop in the tlate states', since south- ern potatoes are then available. To move the Aroostook crop by May 1 woullfmean the shipping of the equivalent of 400 cars a day from now to the deadline. The de- mand does not warrant that kind of potato traffic. But it isn't too late for a reason- ably g00d salvage operation. The Bangor paper says that practically every grower polled in Aroostook expressed belief that ill? l3P0P0Sed plan had considerable merit. On the other hand, no one seemed willing to set the pace.

EDITO-R-IAL NOTES

Corunna (Sir John Moore), 1809.

Possible Unforeseen Developments

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Economics Of The Atom

(Graham Hutton in London Calling)

Britain began the whole world's lance of the civilian ntonilr-eiiergyl Industrial Revolution with coal era. What none of us yet really and steam. Today Britain's mninlknows is how much it will all economic problem is the cost oficost. in order to be perfectly safe. getting iocr coal, which will lzr-'.lii'c are all in the bands of our' for 200 years more. It now l:'-,.-zcienlists; nnd they can only judgcl deeper and further underground. by the awful effects of the atom!

On the Oil!” llilnfly 3CC0lTlllll-"still a very long way from cheap

to the latest official stzitenicnis.

The. Passing Scene

By Observe: .IE THE uusn VANISIIING v.

No one but an Irishman or, bet- ter null, I group of Iitalunen. would have the right. or thq, boldness to suggest, even so faintly, than the Irish race to in I pi-oces of cle- cllne. such a book has recently been published under the title "The Vanishing Irish". It is really 3 collection of essays by outstand- ng Irish writers including Mr. 'Eeun 0'Fnoioin vdho is in the ilorefront. of con-ternporary Irish iuien of letters. And, to give the t.ym.poeium an undenlalbly respect- luble imprimntur. an Irish priest, lzhe Rev. John A. O'Brien was tgiven the task of editing t. In liaot. the idea was Father O'Bi'ten'o Ito begin with.

l In his introduction this scholarly land candid priest has this to say: "Nothing in recent centwurleg is so challenging as the lphenumenon being enacted be- 'lere ous eyes: the fading away of -the once great and populous na- lhon of Ireland". This is the liileme which runs, with varying izgrees of deviation here nnd there, jirough the collected essays.

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M in all works of this kind some :onstdera.ble space is given over r statistics. Proceeding, as a non- '.'.-islimen, on the assumption that

.nytliing put down in writing by an Irishman call for no verifica- tion, I simply quote ttlie figures as .!icy appear in the book. In 1840 the areas which now make up uh: Republic of Ireland had a. popula- Llon of approximately Sit millions. By I946 the population had dwind- 'cd to not quite 3 millions. T'ii.".t.

.presc-n-ts nn approximate decline

-2 5070 in a century, One does not

ave to be skilled in higher math-

inatics, or in any other kind for -.2iat matter to see that, should the trend continue for another hundred years (which the good Lord forbid). the Irish nation virtually will nave ceased to exist, That. is n prospect which no one but a veritable sunl- peen would view with delight or oven with equanimlty.

As for the direct and classm- able causes of this rapid and nor- rowful decline, the contributors to "The Vanishing Irish" have var- ious opinions which may be sumcd

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POEM IN WINTER Today the children begin to hope

for snow up broadly under three headings: And look in the sky for aug-urtes (1) we 131.0 marriages; (2) :90 law ll marriages; (3) too many one-way

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been laige. Black then becomes red. P0- and it is costing the British pol:-.lionibs already exploded. And' N, 15 got ('0, auch omens that we

iatoes are a drug on the ma.-key" pie kfrom zslooooo tn il,000,000 - merely on the production of suchl WM. gmHui”:o:::;rai&:lds,Acmrding m . . '2 ', t .' '. , ' nc'.'.'l.t i l . ' - - v.- . .. ' - -

Last yeai Aroostook was unable to :1l)aiiai neiquigiicnchltmfioxf thtlilr ma1- ill:-niiiCriu)stiiTi."li)ls nliitiijonzhcitfliliechlhrillill 0” ll,f"ms.m”l' W” b” "med by Father O'Brien and hls nsvroclat-"S market a 52-million ” '. ' ,. ' -d -t l i ll 1 -..--,1 3 lira. - 1 - ' ,. . ”a "W the average mzirrylng age in that Vealpq S , I . t. bushel yl.eld' .T.hh lI1tE)ln;:i lliufnllriie Sozii? pSuwihncl li'(()S1lf'(?,:)((i0:11TllIiof1 Mc”;..Il1,i.gsl?mle.,lln,;':;dl.l,l:-(3 Famnghol Salk” to He Mm” m" land of historic romance is 35 and , . uipus is es imated at 12 million of 11.... 00...; rgntinually .3.-9.-, ....ul..mu.... alomlc 9....” .....l.. 5.... ” W5 i only A minority of Irish girls mirry gushels, which would leave the bushels to tl11ntt?0f:ll""aIlllyhraiises girstciost ?l,ly,kant; on a scale sufficient to And even if the snow comes down It '11- at l9"-'”,l”."fl""dr

. ' ' - EEC P10! 3'. W I6 I1 Hi" - ma e ritain tnde nri t of l, indeed e marketed at 46 m,m,l0n' It ls "ow l”'0' mainly produced from coal-flre"l'or to make ivcstei-J: Eeuriope iCnorfc- We still shall stand behind apane Jual What percentage of the de- posed that some 5-million bushels could be furnaces .penrl(-nt of imports of oil. iVc nrc of glass cline is due to emigration the Untouchcd by it. and watch the b00k F1055 DOC 833'. but llo mu.V D0

children press Anyone who has travelled

assumed to be very considerable. very

much, especially in the UIIIISEI sum, does not need my otetlstios to remind him that than are u lot of Ii-tshmen who do not. live in Ireland. North or south. That, of course. to bad for the 013' world; no one would question its beneficence for the New. What. would New York oi"Boeton or st. Iouts or me Anzelee or Detroit be like without the Irish? who would men their pouce forces or add the spice of gsiety and excitement to their political battles? who would keep alive the courageous spirit of St. Patrick. so very much needed in this age of fear and scepticism? In every instance where I coun- try's population is on the decline it probably would be found that economic conditions are involved in it. Cematnlry they are in chi; in- stance. The auiilwrs of these euuyl do not suggest. that every Irish- man who has gone to the United states or Canada was unable to make it living at home. And it's tl good thing they don't for no Irish- mn would put up with that kind of talk even from one of his own race. They do suggest, however. that this is a part of the sorry pic- ture and that something must be done, and quickly. if mass emigra- tion is to be stopped and earlier and more marriages encouraged. Being literary men rather than economists they do not present. any detailed plan which might. eirpidite economic recovery. They are con- tent with describing the situation as they see it in language which -bctokcns a. deep affection for their native land and which reveals I literary excellence which at times comes very close to poetic grand- eur, In addition there is, of course. that mark of lively and cheerful wit which comes naturally to every Irishman. The - economists them- selves. backed by govemnicnvt aid and encouragement, will have to look for the remedy. e . 0

Statistics and expert conclusions notwithstanding, one finds it dif- ficult to believe that the home land of the I'rlsIi will ever disin- tegrate ns a prlitical and social unit. As father O'Brien and his fellow essayist: seem to infer it may tnke ll miracle to halt. the relent- lcs trend. but miracles do happen as the Irish know as well as any people on earth.

Even if the worst. should com- to pass. that would be by no means the end of the Irish. Into many lands they have gone taking with them their heritage of piety. poa- sion for freedom, good cheer. good sense, and friendliness: these things do not perish. And. wher- ever an Irishmen makes his home. there is established for all to sec in little bit. of earth that is for ever Ireland.

the initial cost of prodiuing elec-I

latoniic energy for nil. l 0 I 0

triclly from nuclear energy will The tragedy of atomic energy Probably be "C0mD0llilV9" Wll-ll is, of course, the tragedy of man- lllai Of Droducins cleclrlflly ln ll1'3 kind's two natures: the evil nat- old-fashioned ways; and-as with "re making for war, nnd the good all new inventions after they are nature making for prosperity, co. llT5l- Dill l0 Wmkmllml "ill-'l9l1T' operation, and welfare. Today in Pn0r;Z.V P05! is likely I0 Tell SlE8(l' the atomic-energy age we face on ily rather than to rise. Moreover. (hg one hand the penalties 01 be. 8 Slranlle 8!D9Cl Of atomic energy lng a divided mankind: the rncc is that in the future nuclear rc- 1,, Mamie armaments; the 1,0,, 3Cl0I'5 Plivluflell ll" "”lillil"R 9l”” Curtain of mistrust and enmitv, tricity the atomic material will and on the Mn” hand the Rut-,. l7l'5i'tl MW Tllnlerlftl WlllCll- l" lllmv sians as much as the Americans

forms of maklnx energy up llllllndeed. the British have the big- now have been ways of transform-inst export nude or an ln Mnmh llll 50"" lllclr-i'0"l "T Ollv ll" lnwisotopes for medical purposes. stance--into another fuel teicc-I lFll'li.Yl M H ('0ll5CilU5lll l055 "l deed, what we can perhaps get to material somewhere in the pro-'kn0w more M5”), and

C953. the new Hlomlc lllfl "01 ntlve than about armaments--is only produces the electricity but the comparative costs of producincl also replaces itself to ii consider-V-norgy this now way. the hog?

But there remain several prob- nlllqashlonod (arms and ghelr ln. is-ms to be overcome before we all (hlstripsv such as coal, oil gas enter the atoniir-energy era nndlnml all.”-5. I ' ' throw nwny our coal-mines. hydro-l ll is A V;-rv good piece of news, electric stations, and oil refinerics.l(h,1g the British and Amorimns M4, First, there is the. geological and going rapidly ahead with then- geographical Dfoblem 0l' limllnillcivliian, peaceful production of and getting enough'of the raw ma- clam,-imy from nurlmlr ,.m,.m,.g ieriai for atom-splitting--uranium. hr-muse it may bring nenrcr It is mainly found in the Belgian day Wm." two and full Inlcrnn. Comm. Canada. and Al-lslralla. Ind Ilonal co-operation can take place a. few other places. Doubtless in for the safeguarding of nil human-

The difficulties over the release of Pris-l

oners-of-War in Korea are more character- istic of the struggle going on in the world than was the fighting that prccecded IL: More than a battle for power and territoryi

it is a struggle for men's minds. 0 O I

On the back of new series of Bank of Canada notes that will be put into circula- tion in September it is reported that Cana- dian countryside scenes will replace the symbolic figures representing agriculture, industry, communications and so forth. There are at least two dangers involved in the change. ,Some scenes are apt to be rapidly "dated" in a developing country and there will undoubtedly be A great deal of pressure from local boosters to have their own locality represented O I

Edward Gibbon, most celebrated of Eng- lish historians. died this date 1794. His great work. "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire," has placed him in the front rank of historians. He made little progress at school because f ill health but passed many hours in his grandfather's library. Later, under the guidance of tu- tors, be concentrated on history, not read- in; any book through, but pursuing o sub- ject into every hole and corner. After six-

: full life until settling down for his mog-

nu:-nopuo.,

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What we all need to knowv-in-I -

co-ope r- .-

Theiri image on the drifts the sky

liaa id U-pon a winter they

have made.

This is a wise illusion. Better to Believe the near world is created

they think

by . A wish, a shaping hand. 9. certain

eye.

Than hide in the mind's corner as we do

As though there were no world, no fall of snow.

-Elizabeth Jennings in the London Listener.

(And P. I. I.)

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IN THE WRONG SHOP

able extent. This is, indeed, sonic-It.-M-5 of securing H". SMMV M

lllllll ll"Pllmlll'l1"l l" l'C0l'l0m'-illhiimnn beings, the best methods ---

development, and it offsets a good..,f applying lhls new form of "Shortly before 4 o'clock this

deal of the cost of producinz Moe-,onar-,;y, and the best ways or afternoon. an innocent-looking

triclty from a nuclear reactor. leushloning the social and economic countryman entered the Police Mimi" ' i ' lslltwk Ol ll"? MW enemy upon the Station, and, after feeling his way, l'l9l'3ld-

asked Sergeant Cameron if he, could not sell him A little drop of liquor. The Sergeant asked the visitor how much he wanted, and he replied that he only wanted about I hslf pint. in I flask to take with his medicine. as he had not been feeling very well of late. The Sergeant replied that he was very sorry he could not oblige him. as they were wholesale dealers and only sold by the cue. The men then left to look elsewhere for his 'litt.ie drop'."

the silly not she may be wearing.

who eat meat. are say would he say if we all people who don't.'en donkeys?-Petei-borough Examiner.

3 limit Austrian faklr who lived a lyesr in a glass bottle is that you ;can live in a glass bottle.-Brant-l :ford Expositor. '

Icuts jolts many young lwho can't even use e bowl because 'theii- crockery is all the modern

'mntter-where towns are close to-

teenhieheoltlibecuneooundendheled,

O O E time we shall overcome this Drob- ily from both civil accidents in l TOm0lTOW. 2nd Sunday after Eplphany..iem. and also develop machinery (mm waruke Pxperlmenysv W3; 0 o 0 land methods for using lower-qunl-.iliis biggest single source of pow-