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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1906

. Gasoline Taxes

inces in l944,,the last year for which these rec- ords are complete, are interesting for the pic- ture they give of what this levy means to each of them. The figures follow:

Prince Edward Island . . . . . . .. S 309,752 Nova Scotia _, 3,445,011 New Brunswick ,, 2,122,312 Quebec . , . . . . . . .. ,_ 12,333,342 Ontario . . . . .4 26,508,291 Manitoba ... . . . . ,._._.. . .. 2,678,149 Saskatchewan .. .. 3,397,280 . Alberta .. 3,808,155 British Columbia . . . .. . , , 3,763,626 Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $58,521,928

The Provincial tax rates on gasoline range from l0 cents a gallon in the Maritimes to 8 cents in Quebec, Ontario and Saskatchewan and to 7 cents in Manitoba, Alberta and British Col- umbia. These are the Provincial taxes. The Dominion gasoline tax, collected since 1941, amounts to another 3 cents a gallon. The dis- continuance of the Federal tax, which yielded about $30,000,000 last year, will mean either en- larged revenues to the Provinces or reduced prices to gasoline users, or, from the Provincial standpoint, relief in both these directions

What's The lioeil 0f It?

The Industrial Development Bank, a Do- minion Government institution, has just releas- ed its annual report, signed by Mr. Graham Towers. The Bank was started by the Govern- ment to help along new industry with loans for such purposes as erection of or additions to buildings, the purchase of machinery and that sort of thing. lt has a director apiece for each of the three Maritime Provinces but its nearest office listed is Toronto, apart from the main of- fice in Montreal. The idea behind this bank is good but, notes an exchange, it would be in- teresting to learn if any loan from it had been made to help finance industrial development in the Maritimes. What's tho good of an institu- tion such as this if it does not function here? Why shouldn't there be a-Maritime branch act- ively at work encouragnig expansion of our in- dustry? "The Dominion Government's brain boys can propose shipping out our unemployed young men by the hundreds and perhaps thous- ands. What's wrong with getting the Indus- trial Bank down here in a hurry to see what it can do? Such steps are taken in Britain by the Government as a matter of course. The British Government during the war shifted labor around; now it is directing new industry into those areas which have a surplus of labor. Maybe Ottawa ought to ask London for the loan of a couple of good men to tell as how it is done."

And That's That!

Prime Minister King's letter replying to the

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minion-Pravincial tax proposals elicits the fol- lowing blistering comment from our sister Prov- ince's leading Liberal newspaper, the HdllfGX Chronicle: ‘

”Mr. King graciously concedes the gasoline tax--a concession already made to the whole of the Dominion. l'le is willing to withdraw from the fields of amusement and pari-mutuel taxes -provided the Province compensates the Domin- ion for their loss. The electricity tax is reckon- ed by the Prime Minister as a sales tax, on grounds which would include almost every im- position under that head. He intends to keep rt. As for the subsidy granted Nova Scotia on the findings of the White Commission, this Prov- ince may now look forward to receiving 30 per cent of it-—not, however, on the ground of eco- ngmig need, but in order to equate the grants made to this Province with others allocated ta the Prairie Provinces.

"Every constructive proposal in Mr. Mac- donold's all too modest program was brushed off as inconsequential. Perhaps the most lun- dalentnl of the Nova Scotia Premier's requests was that an annual conference between the Do- minion and the Provinces should be held on a fined date. This is vitally necessary if any agreement now to be made is candidly regard- ed as temporary. There would simply have to bi consultations in order to devise machinery “l, for n permanent settlement of relationships at - the end of the five-year period.

"Mr. King, in reply, harked back to con- stitutional principle to find an excuse for re- fusing this embarrassing request — though _tl\e constitutional aspect of the whole- Dominion- Provincial debate has be'en carefully obscured end ignored. Any- tutu conference is to be celled "when the need a s," and "where there < is reoseirlobleunonlmity on the part of the PM- lneer lo the desire for a conference." Qf rll=ll need 6nd desire, no doubt, Mr. King would be the eltlinate ledge. Once in. the spider's web ' “Ina escape for the fly. _ _ ~ rein the Nova Scorien point of view, Mr. King's letter ls e verbose arid shoddy product. It gt"; within the narrow terms ‘o: reference if the

" lnnl conference. “It entire lgnorest pre- le of economic need Instead of answering News Scotia in the rlngl

The ligures given by The Canadian Press for gasoline collections by the various Fwy-

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Saint John, N. B., had a black-out the oth- er day from 12 noon till 8 P.M. Mr. Barry Wil- m. several mic-user. said that the disruptions were,the result of trouble in the supply lines carrying current from, first the New Brunswick Electric Power Commission plant at Pusquash, and, later the New Brunswick Commission's plant at Minto.

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George Eliot, pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans, English novelist and poetess, died to- morrow's date, 1880; her first effort in fiction was Amos Barton, followed by Scenes From Clerical Life, and Adam Bede-her finest novel. Others are The Mill on the Floss, and Silas Marner. Her poetical work is contained in The Legend of Jubal and Other Poems. Her place is among the greatest writers of English fietion. Curiously enough, she excelled as a painter of middle class- life and character, and her work is marked,by much p*ath_ps and humor.

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Mr. J. M. Macdonnell, member of the House at Commons for Muskoka and president of the Dominion Progressive Conservative As- sociation, charged in a dinner address at King'- ston that Prime Minister King had failed to handle the labor situation and had "made a mess" of Dominion-Provincial relations. The Canadian people were in danger of losing their freedom through the Government's refusal to re-

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British coal miners will dance at the pit heads when the_ mines are formally handed over to the National Coal Board on New Year's Day. It marks the end of a long struggle between miners and mine operators, but it does not mean that the miners are left in triumphant posses- sion of the field. The operators have gone, but in their place is the State in its manifestation as the National Cool Board. lt remains to be seen whether British miners will be any happier bargaining with the all-powerful State than they were when the function of government was merely to keep more or less in balance the relative power of miners and mine operators. ‘k I i

Present enrolment of 35,000 veterans in Canada's universities will increase to 40,000 with- in the next year, as soon as those ex-service stu- dents qualifying for university entrance complete their studies, according to Hon. lan A. Mac- kenzie, Minister of Veterans Affairs. The Min- ister estimates there were 16,000 veterans in their first year at universities, 12,000 in their second year, 4,000 in their third year, 2,000 in their fourth, and 1,000 in post-graduate courses. In addition there were B00 Canadian veterans studying in the United States and 200 in Great Britain with the Department's assistance. a w w w '

"Know Your Government" is the title of a very useful booklet just issued by the Canadian Chamber ofCommerce. lt is presented "in the faith that democracy is the best system of gov- ernment yet devised" and it tells, concisely and clearly, about Canada's governmental machin- ery and suggests how citizens can help it to work more efficiently. As appendices are given a complete list of the members of the House of Commons, by Provinces, with their constituen- cies, postal addresses and political affiliations, also lists of the various Federal Departments and Deputy Ministers, and standing committees in both the Senate and House of Commons. All this valuable information is contained in fewer than thirty pages. The booklet should prove of special value to high school and college stu- dents, and it is to be strongly recommended to our educational authorities in this connection.

It seems the striking farmers of Saint John area are "taking time by the forelock", charging as increased expense in production the antici- pated 30 per cent increase in railway rates; likewise higher taxes for better schools _when they build them. Mr. John Vaughan explains all this and more in a letter to the Telegraph-Jour- nal in which he says: "On account of the hay crop failure this year and the effect of the dry season an pasture, the barns of farmers have never been so empty of hay at this time of tlie year, as at the present time. The farmer is therefore forced to buy hay at twenty dollars per ton, that ordinarily sold at six to eight dollars, but only a third-rate article lacking in Vitamin, A. l'le is then compelled to feed an expensive grain and concentrate ration to make up the de- ficiency. Faced again with a probable 30 per

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' DECEMBER 21.1946

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5" mknfiml’ bit of information comes from Uoyd’: Resists-er of Hhloplns. which reports that of ‘he Wlllme of merchant shipping being built throughout the world up to Sept. 80 last. more than half or 53-8 Per cent of the tonnage was being built in Great Britain and Ireland. -St. Thomas Times- Joumal. '

231%,?" would have sbeegtied to us a. un-neceeear-y u a gpogs lmpertinence. British war brides are unfortun- ately quite well aware o! a certain amount. of prejudice against them. A sunl-lflcillar (though slightly bl!- le-Y‘) greeting among u; at blie mom- cnt 1s "Oh hello trhere. and have you been insulted at ~--'.s recent- 1Y?" The attitude of many young wvuien shop assistants is made only too painfully clear to us. These and these alone. are

We referred recently tn these ul-Iiiins to riie announcement by a Harvard professor that stout. men. as husbands, should be in a. pre- ferred close. We iwlsh he would lake time off and tell clothing manu- facturers about this; they appar- ently do not know that stout men exist. —Kingeton Whig-Standard.

This lden of balding n ‘citizen- ship week" is worthy of commend- ation, It can be used to do much to impress upon new Canadians the importance and significance of the action. Bur lt. is not. enough merely to hold such cewmonim during one week end then forget all about tt. The bestowing of nei- iurallzatlm should always be lrn- presslve said there should be as- surances from those taking it that they realize in full the meaning of whet they are doing. It ls sri honor to be n. Canadian. --Wlnn1l- peg Free Press.

l-Iave you noticed how messy times recently when you chive into a ser- vice stallon you are addressed as ‘Biff’ the mung attendant. Perhaps 1t never struck you as un- usual but 1t started us to thinking. In nine cases out of ten the at- tendant who so addressed you was n member of the armed forces who learned discipline and respect. for hi; officers on the parade square. He is too recently out of the forces to have forgotten the hard-learned lessons. That is the reason he od- drmed you as “Slr." —Oshsiwa Times-Gazette.

heartily welcome. Our "in-laws" have been wonderful, and the kind- ness ahowrn. to those of us In "rooms" is heartwarming. Th, churches also have welcomed us into their midst wlah great kindness.

We are not all angels we know! Some have been much too out- spoken in criticism of your ways. (and t-hese are the ones sensation- seeklrs; reporters rake a malicious

women have to uproot themselves from an old familiar

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I am. Sir. etc "A SCOTTISH CANADIAN‘

HISTORY FOR YOUNG CANADIAN S

Casual visitors are not the only ones who sometimes forget that the foundation stock of Canada and the United States is not the same. Into the latter poured many streams --comparable to our Continental European immigration - but. no major currents. Here we have had two, one going beck to France the other to the British Isles. Tires-e ls nothing to compare with those two dominant divisions ln the Unit- ed States racial background and the gradual merger o; the two will produce not Americans but Oan- adians. Jim-onto financial Post.

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recently been published. This re- port recommended that the same general content of history ‘and social studies should be taught throughout Canada but that s common history textbook for the whole Dominion would be imprac- tlcable.

It was hoped by social studies teachers everywhere that a dif- ferent decision would be reached. Nowhere 1n the whole curriculum for Canadian schools have we been more badly served in the past. than in the provision of

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'l‘here is the lady wlm thinks that suitable textibooks for teaching anything old is antique and that Canadian history to young Can- walnut tr valuable no matter what adlans.

It was Slr John A. Mucdonnid’: conviction that education should be a Dominion Government re- sponsibility. that only by having a national system of education could we hope to foster and de- velop n izenulne national spirit within the British Common- wealth. Thore would seem no more valid reason for having a. separate textbook for teaching Canadian History ln each Prov- lncenss 1t ls at present. than there would be for a separate textbook ln Geometry or Algebra. insisting on separate textbooks, separate school organization for each Pro- vince. separate qualifications for teachers has done more to retard national growth and intellectual development ln the Dominion than any other single factor.

A good case might be made for having different. textbooks in dif- ferent Provinces for teaching such a subject as Agriculture, where soils and climate differ. but why the facts of history mould be stated and distorted nine dif- ferent ways in nlne different Provinces just to satisfy the whims and tihe prejudices of a select few la a little difficult. to understand.

‘Ilhere ls a science of history first as there is n science of mathematics. If me fundamental fnots of history. the cause of the rlee and fell of empires could be presented to our young people in clear, unprejudlaed language. free from psraahlallsms. free from provlnalellerrie, free from racial distortions, en lnestlmable service would be rendered to contempor- ary society nnil to posterity.

It n separate textbook le need- ed for the teaching of the mu of Onnadlen History. let us have one that can be used without swiftly in every school in every Province from the Atlantic to the

wise lt has assumed. There ls e (gertialn period of walnut furniture which l; neither fish, flesh nor 800d red hen-ink. which ls her special joy. and many the time we had heard. or overheard- "Well, my dear. 1r must be good. It ls certainly walnut-and an antique." —EIlora Express.

The frequency with which women are being attacked lately is shock- ing. The reason for the increase in this type of crime ls hard to find. WOmen must exert great care and avoid the company, of men with whom they are not well ac- quainted. They should ovoid iwelk- ing alone an dam streets at night unlesg absolutely necessary. And perhaps those who commit these assaults might be discouraged from the practice lf women went armed with old-fashioned lust pins and used them whenever accosted by n prvwler of any type. And when an attacker ls apprehended the courts should give him the punish- ment such crimes deserve. <—Bost0in Post

Somewhere ln England there ls n m-sn who suffers from noises ln his heed, oamme - The Vancouver Province. The thin: that disting- uishes him from other noise-in- she-heed sufferers ll that his noises can be heard by other people. Bri- tish Medical Journal flnda this sufferer’; esrs produce loud crackl- lna. like static la s flrulty radio. st en avenue of 3d to 32 times s minute. He first heard the noises M hours slter being hlt ln the lace by a football Doctors say the "moat. likely cause" of his nt- fllcntlon ls "spsssznodlr. contraction of the stnpedlus"— n smell muscle attached to s tlny bane in the ear which helps to keep the ens-drum taut and resonant.

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