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_____———.-—._..__——-—..._.._T PAGE 6 WENDESDAY. DECEMli—ER 5. 1962.

. Sales Tax Ancl Manitoba According to the Winnipeg Free 'Press, the sales tax question is one

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.of the underlying issues in the cur-

rent Manitoba election campaign.

. Yet d e s pi t e its importance, the

politicians are shying away from it—“getting up on their horses”, when confronted with it, “and rid- ing off rapidly in all directions.”

Manitoba is one of the two Cana- dian provinces that do not have a direct sales tax. The other, Alberta, has no sales tax largely because provincial revenues from oil have made an additional source of revenue unnecessary. Manitoba has no sales tax largely because Premier Roblin, when he first came to office, promis- ed that he Would not increase taxes.

However, that promise was made some years ago, and Mr. Roblin cannot be held to it for all eternity. There are increasing signs that. de- épite their attitude of pretending that the issue does not exist, all political parties are slowly coming

around to the conclusion that a sales tax is inevitable.

Our W i n n i p e g contemporary cites, in this connection, a. study of the impact of taxes on various groups in Canada, published recent- ly by the Canadian Tax Foundation. This study indicates that, contrary to the commonly held view, sales taxes are not harder on people of

: lower income. In the below $1,000 lincome category the effective rate lof provincial sales and excise taxes i is given as 2.1 per cent of income; 5. in the $3.(l()()-$4,0()0 group it is 2.3 .I per cent: and in the $7,000 and . over group. 2.6 per cent. These fifigures would seem to support the ' theory that a direct sales tax. with ‘3 appropriate exemptions for neces- ‘ cities, is a relatively equitable source of government revenue.

In Manitoba, h o w e v e r, each Apolitical party has used its own de- 'vice to evade thinking about this .. problem. The Conservatives have ap- .lpointcd a royal commission, which fmay come up with a recommenda- ..tion that will give Mr. Roblin the "excuse he needs. The New Demo- .‘. crats say they could raise the needed I; revenue for their program from L: higher provincial income taxes. The ,Liberals would get their money {j from the general revenues of the ‘ province; that is, from gasoline and f liquor taxes and from the provincial income tax.

The Free Press doesn‘t think 'much of any of these alibis. “The ,voters of Manitoba,” it says, "are l' mature enough to recognize that .you do not get anything for noth- ling." Perhaps. But how many par- , ties, in recent years, have attempted to campaign on that policy, in any 3' part of Canada?

The Kashmir Quarrel

‘ The Chinese threat has finally ,' eet Indians to thinking that may- ? be some sort of accommodation with 2, Pakistan is necessary. They are not ‘ ready to buy a joint defense ar- rangement or to compromise sub- 2‘ atantially on the main issue be- ,‘tween them—their 15-year-old dis- : pute over the state of Kashmir—

, ‘. but at least they and the Pakistanis

Fhive agreed, through the good of-

1 ficee of the United Stutes and Brit-

:z'ein. to take the Kashmir issue to

. the bergelnfng table and seek ways

; to reach a settlement. I

:1 When the Kashmir quarrel be- .snin 19ft- it provoked no deep

W except among the Kub.’

' when Pathan tribeemen ' Wr from Pattern.

much of India became aroused and Prime Minister Nehru rushed troops to the defense. Then Pakis- tani troops entered the affray and warfare raged for 14 months. It ended Jan. 1, 1949, under a cease— fire supervised to this day by the United Nations. '

India and Pakistan agreed in principle to a plebiscite under U.N. auspices; but one was never held because no agreement could be reached on the military prerequis- ites. Time and again the dispute was taken to the UN. Security Council, but always in vain. U1- timately, Mr. Nehru began to say that to sever Kashmir from India would be like slicing off a man's arm or leg, while the Pakistanis remained convinced that because 77 per cent of the Kashmiris are Mos- lems. self—determination would give the state to Pakistan.

Such was the situation last October 20, when the Chinese Com- munist troops attacked the Indian forces on their Tibetan border. Al- though India had more than three years’ notice that the Chinese were up to no good in that area, at least three-quarters of the Indian army was kept poised near the Kashmir cease-fire line or on the borders of Pakistan. A large part of the Pakis- tan army was poised against India; but unlike India, Pakistan was not under attack. '

Washington and London have been exerting every effort to make both countries realize that Com- munist China is imminently their biggest enemy, not each other. In- dia is now known to have trans- ferred a considerable part of her troops from areas near Pakistan to

_ where they could be useful against

the Chinese, though still unwilling to relax her vigil too much against the customary enemy.

This is the situation today. There appears to be a better than even chance that the negotiations now agreed upon will fail. The old animosities are very much alive. But if Pakistan and India can co- operate, Western military special- ists believe it might not prove dif- ficult, with Western aid, to deter the Chinese Communists. Other- wise, there is grave danger of\tbe Reds overrunning or subverting South Asia.

N.B. By-elections

Under normal conditions the re- tention of a Conservative party stronghold in two provincial by- elections in ‘New Brunswick on Monday wouldn’t cause much inter- est. But the situation politically is anything. but normal. and this by- election campaign—with not even all the legislative seats in the coun- ty at stake and with no prospect of the outcome effecting a govern- ment turnover—was fought with exceptional vigor by both the major parties. The Liberals lost out with 41 per cent of the popular vote, precisely the percentage their can- didates polled in the 1960 NB. election.

Premier Robichaud says he is not at all surprised at the results in a constituency that has voted Tory almost since Confederation, and Conservative Leader C. B. Sherwood says they show “the awareness of the electorate of pro- vincial affairs generally.”

The election does not seem to have been affected oneway or the other by the turn of events in the last federal contest, which left the Conservatives in such a precarious position in the House of Commons. Similarly we note that in our own provincial campaign federal issues are conspicuous by their absence. We bear little, on the one hand, of the need for “keeping the govern- ments in line” here and at Ottam; or, on the other, of paving the way for bringing them into line follow- ing the victory that Mr. Pearson so confidently predicts for the Lib- erals in the next federal showdown.

Perhaps it is just as well. This old ahibboleth was worked to death in previous campaigns. It didn't mean much at any time, and it means less today. A government that will fight vigorously for our interests here will get results at Ottawa, regardless of its political affiliations. A government that Won’t or can’t do this is not worth electing under any circumstancee. And in any case, it would take a Nostradamus to say what’s going to happen federally within the next twelve months.

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OTTAWA ANIMAL ACT OTTAWA REPORT by Patrick Nicholson A Pinch-hitting Conservative Orator

“1)‘you mean that little guy... who never talks at all?" asked the sarcastic elevator operator, when I sought directions to the new office of Mr. Eldon Wooll-

l lams. l The bulky. booming red-hcad- ed Saskatchewan arm b E murder trial counsel and MP. ' for Bow River. Alberta. h a 5 won for himself a reputation as an ever-ready pinch - hitting or- ator for the Conservative Gov- ernment. You name the subject, Eldon can rise to his feet at the drop of the Party whip’s signal. and hold the floor elo- quently. informativer and en- tertainingly for the required twenty minutes. This is an in- valuable accomplishment ' Parliament. where tactics some- times call for a motion to be “talked out“ until closing time. This is the man whom I was seeking. in the spacious 3 n d quiet new office he occupies in the made-over West Block. just 130 yards away from the Com- mons via the new underground all-weather tunnel. The soft yel- low walls are decorated with coloured prlnts of the Queen and her husband, and with the wid- ely - hung montage of photos of Canada‘s thirteen Prime Min- isters. In the corner stands an affluent-looking leather golf bag. heavy with clubs. almost garish with impressive hand-tooled or- namentation.

FAMED BEYOND CANADA “1 got that for $39 in Mexico City. when I was invited down there to address a United Na- tions organisation." he told me.

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"It would have cost me between $200 and $300 here."

There you see. so famed ‘ Orator Eldon that the long arm ‘ of the invitcr stretches out i from Mexico to the Alberta foot- I hills for him.

ut what has made him so highly regarded in Parliament is not his lmprcssivc prcscncc. not his never-silent voice. not his repute as a courtroom lawyer in criminal and civil cases. not even the fact that he typifics the Canadian dream of barefoot-boy to public success. No. his respect here is based on the immense range of subjects on which he is deeply informed. '

“I guess I am a ‘political reader." he confesscd to in "so I know a subject wbcn comes up. But I don't prepare my speeches."

Eldon was born and raised on a wheat farm near Rosetown.

Our Yesterday’s

(From the Guardian Files) TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO December 0, 1937

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rge C. MacDonald C.A.. President of the C a n a d t a n Chamber of Commerce. past president of the Montreal Board of Trade and a governor of Mc- Glll University, will be guest epeaker at the 50th anniversary blnquel of the Charlottetown Board of Trade tomorrow night.

( Chief of Police Archibald Blrt- wistle has received numerous letters from points all over the world. requesting all kinds of in- formatlon, but yesterday he had an unusual one — from an auto- mobile llcense number pl a t c collector, asking for several old P.E.l. license plates.

[EN YEARS AGO , December I. 1052 Raymond F. Player, .M.A. Mus. Bee. organist and choir director of Trinity Untied Church hes submitted his resignation to become effective at the e ' , to accept a eimiler position with a church in Toren-

The long sought after McCur-

G a

pby to the . 'e Univer- Ifty football team by‘llll Grant,

dent of the Ru by Union, leei

Saskatchewan, where his father had homestcadcd in 1905. When the Dusty Thirties dumped the price of wheat from $1.70 to 23 cents per bushel, 12-year old E1- don. just finishing Grade 8, had to quit school to help Papa on the farm. But his education did not end: with,11is books propped up, on the well while he drew water, near the end of his nose while he performed other repe- titive farm chores. be learned the poems of Byron and Brown- and he studied bis wa

through high school by corres- pondence. Then the hard-work- ing clever young lad won a Leo- nard Foundation Scholarship which took him to his Bachelor of Laws degree at University of Saskatchewan.

A great part of Eldon's ora- forical skill is in his play-actor‘s gcsturcs and voice control, thea- trical arts which he learned from his mother. who encour- aged him to participate fully in the concerts and dramatics at the crowded one-room school- house. “Those concerts wcrc to us children what the television

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is to today's children." he said.

Today. senior partner in a successful law firm in Calgary. he is a natural as his Party‘s best pinch-hitter in debatc. Thus typically, when NDP MP. Da- vid Lewis proposed that elec— tion expenses shouuld be regu- lated. and in part paid by the taxpayer. political strategy was to talk but this impracticable proposal. You guessed it. E]-

the breach. Parrying questions and pouring information. so in- teresting that even Liberal cri- tic Jack Pickersgill paid close attention. Eldon poured'out a stream of figures which most of his hearers had never heard be- fore. dealing with the costs of our past elections. and com- mented expertly on the trend they disclose.

To professional politicians. his subject matter was of great in- terest: to any student of poli~ tics, his extemporancous ora- tion was admirable. made pos- sible only by one of the finest ‘ intellects ever grown on a Sas- l katchewan wheat farm.

Higgle Or Hoggle?

Globe and Mail_ Toronto

Did Gcorgc Washington higgle when he should bavc hagglcd? The question is raised by a let- ter written by the first Presi- dent relating to some land he was trying to sell. which has just becn auctioned off at Solhcby's in London. “1t is not my intention to dispose of the land for a song." he wrote. “nor is it my wish to bicglc or

s : make many words of the bar-

gain.

Postcrity may be loss inter- ested in what price George finally got for the property than in his use of the word "higgle." which scams to have dropped out of the language. although "baggie" remains very m u c h a part of it.

Webster's New International Dictionary, second edition. gives “higgle” as “to chaffcr. to sti- ckle for small advantages buying and selling." while it de- fines "haggle" as “to wrangle, dispute, esp.. to make difficul- ties in bargaining."

‘v “baggie”

i This would seem to make somewhat the strong- er word. perhaps in the same ratio that the modern “hard sell" outweigth the "soft scll. " But it does seem odd that the form “haggle” has outlastcd “hlggle” while "giggle" and “niggle” have remained in far wider use than "gaggle and nazg e." For a final bit of linguistic. perversity, one might mic that while "tattle" is a common word. nobody ever uses "little." except possibly in referring to Y.A. Tittle, the football player. However clear it may all have been to George Washing- ton. tt‘s very confusing to us. Perhaps the/best solution is to fall back on the multl-volum‘ ed and multi-splendored Oxford English Dictionary which im- perturbably solves the whole problem with “b1gg1e-haggle,." which it defines as "to blggle or baggie with much alternation."'

' Dud Questions

Ottawa

The Prime Minister has put the time-Wasting ways of the Opposition in cruel focus. At the opening of every House slt- ting the Government is bombar- ded with questlons for about an hour and. said Mr. Dlefenbakér. "there isn't one in a carloa that would embarrass any-

0 e."

There's nothing against a question period lasting for an hour, if it is as Sir Ivor Jen- nings. the British authority on Parliament says it should be. "the cocktails before the ore- torlcal feast." In the present House, even in this mlnorlty government period, the ques- tions are state stuff, boiled-over- agaln inquiries. no enticement to flip “feast.”

Mr. WI. Dawson in “Proce- dure in the Canadlan House of Commons" (University of for- onto Press) says that the first question in the Canadian Com- mons was asked three weeks after the House met in m7. By 1878. a Speaker could say it was customary for members to ask the Government for “any specie! information between the various cell: from the Chair for the. day."

So it is an old and hallowed

Journal little wit or force and too much 'nanity

When Mr. Dlefenbake‘r con slders the Opposition questions no better than damp equlbs it is time for the Liberals and others to look to their-ammunition.

And also time for them to consider seriously whether their methods are not seriously im- peding the business of the

ouse. ~

Christmas Flowers

Noll Conditionl Often Gives Hint Of Poor Health

By Dr. Theodore n.1v... Defle-

condltlons. including poor circu- lation. any elderly persons have thickening of or a plllng up under the toe nails with ir- regular growth. shape, it form of the nails themselves. They may be so thick. only the physician or podiatrist c an trim them properly.

But the alterations are not always consistent. We also see elderly people with impaired circulation who have thin and brittle nails. Other irregular- ities are noted. such as loosen- ing or shedding and longitudinal ridges running along the length of the nail. Almost anything can happen to these structures as we get older, quite indepen- dent of injuries. .

A British physician reported that82of100 patients with cirrhosis of the liver had cloud. ed nails. giving them a ground glass appearance. The h alf- moon was indistinguishable from the rest of the nail. Longi- tudinal ridges also were noted. In some they were flattened as though compressed. This opac- ity is seen in children but is un- usual in adults.

deficiency of thyroid causes brittleness and separa- tion. The condition is corrected by taking thyroid extract. In those with c e rta l n types of heart trouble. the half moon may become reddened. blue. or suffuse .

The nails often are pale when anemia is present and unless the disorder is remedied. the outer shell may become flat- tened and depressed like a spoon. A shortage of certain food elements also produces brittleness. which may explain why adding certain proteins to the dict is helpful.

Dcspite these observations, the nails are not always a e liable index of disease. Th ere arc too many exceptions to the rule and there are too many external infections and injuries that create changes. In addition. the formation of the nail itself is a complex process and it is likely that the half-moon is re- lated more to the adjacent skin than to the nail bed.

(Dr. Van Dcllen will send leaf- let on nail disorders if stamped,

self-addressed envelope accom- : anies re uest. don Woolltams was rushed into ' p q

) ILLNESS AND LONGEVITY FLY. writes: Is it true that sickly individuals outlive the healthy?

They frequently do. because persons in poor health usually take better care of themselves.

any "delicate" persons pre- vent wear and tear on the body through inactivity and frequent- ly stay home whenever they do not feel up to par.

HEARTBURN AND lN-LAWS

0.1.. writes: I have bad in- law trouble since my marriage. Whenever these aggravating sit- uations come up. develop heartburn. Will these attacks lead to ulcer?

This is not for me to say but in-law conflicts have d rt 1 l c d oles in more than one sto-

BLOOD STUDIES H.M. writes: When a woman becomes pregnant. why is her blood tested?

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REP In most states the law re- quires a blood test for syphilis. In addition. it is advisable to have the blood tested for the Rb factor and the hemoglobin as extra precautions. STIFFENED SPINE A.L. writcs; What will be the effect in later years of congeni- tal fusion of five lumbar verte- bras in a child of 10? REPLY Thc lower back will not be as flexible as normal because the vortebras are stuck together (fused). This is a slight handl- cap but it could be worse. NORMAL LIFE SPAN writes: