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THE GUARDIAN

on Second Class Mail Put Office Department. Ottawa. The Island Gunrdinn Publishing Co.

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President. and Associate Editor, Inn A. Burnett, Associate Editor. Frank Walker.

CIRCULATION "Cover: Prince Edward Island like the dew”

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

CHARLOTTETOWN. MONDAY, JAN. 20. 1953

Staggering Figures

in A brief submitted last week to the Ministers of Finance and National Revenue, the executive of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce warned that the economy of Canada cannot stand the present overload- ed tax structure. This .contention appears to be fully substantiated by the official re- turns. In 21950, last year for which complete figures are available, taxes paid to support all government operations amounted to some 351,100 for a family of four Canadians. Individuals who paid .t;62,000,000 into fed- oral coffers in 1938, paid .i3652,000,000-or over l0 times as much-in 1950. Corpora- tion taxes went. up in that time from 5597,- Il00,000 to .'l5.939,000,000. Liquor and tobacco rr-venues jumped from fS82,000,000 to 35475,- tlfltl,(l00, and general sales tax, with its pressure on the cost of nearly everything the householder buys, climbed from 35128,- u00,00() to S5558,000,000. The corporation tax looked painless, until the government it- self sensed it was leading to uneconomic production and diminishing cash returns to Ottawa itself. The sales tax began to reg- istcr with a new bite.

- The Citi7.cns' Research Institute of Can- nrla points out in a graphic analysis that the most striking feature of the post-war situation is that the municipalities income from taxes ias increased since 1938 by only 76 per cent in contrast with a 251 per cent increase at the provincial level and a federal jump of nearly 540 per cent.- Al- though a breakdown of percentage distribu- tion of tax revenues for all Canadian gov- crnments shows that income tax took near- ly 17 per cent in 1950, compared to seven per cent in 1938, levies on real property took just 10.40 per cent in 1950 against 28 per cent in 1938. And this in a period of phenomenal urban growth.

This seems to be the most impressive evidence of the way taxes can be hidden. No one can miss the force of a tax on his home; every one can miss for a time the meaning of taxes such as the sales, income and corporation levies that in the end con- tribute forcibly to.rising prices, and the crushing of incentive.

Not Enough Gold?

The Northern Miner is authority for the statement: that world production of gold which is down one-thi1'd from former levels and at the lowest figure in 20 years, is now too low to support convertibility of sterling and other exchanges, and their ultimate convertibility into gold.

has been around a billion dollars a year and was S;l,264 million in 1940 is now down to around 35800 million a year. High costs have curtailed production so that gold mining has become something of a decaying business. In some years requirements of U. S. industry have run to twice the U. S. production of gold. After the demands of industry and hoarders are met only about one-quarter of the production is left for governments.

The question is raised as to whether, in the light: of past experience, this amount of new gold is enough to operate the financial

government systems, to lubricate foreign trade and exchange. It is pointed out that periods of enlargement. of money-metal supply have corresponded with eras of great expansion in human welfare and prosperity and inadequate supplies of money-metals have coincided with a withering of activity and progress. In the light of this, The Northern Miner raises the question of the possible future effect on the economy of the drying up of the monetary gold stream. .141??-

A Truman Legacy

In his Inaugural address of January 20, 1949, President Truman declared as his fourth point: "We must embark on a bold. new program for making the benefits of our scientific advances and industrial pro- gress available. for the improvement and growth of under-developed areas." The pro- gram got: off to at very modest start-Con- g1-egg voted 034,500,000 for 1951-but in the flncaryem 1952-1953 a total of 5276,. bun authorized. In addition, mm being lighted will spend some me. The American expenditure, imlduiullyfris about equal to Canada's ex- " under the.Colombo Plan, on a

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the basis of national wealth.

By spring, the United States will have-

sent out some 2,500 "shirt sleeve ambas- sadors" to the 35 countries, and given train- ing awards to .some 3,000 local student specialists. The biggest American programs are being carried out in India and Pakistan. in.,co-operation with United Nations agen- cies and the Colombo Plan. Thousands of villages are being helped to get water sup- plies, improve food production, achieve lit-

Roads and mines in Afghanistan, port de- velopment and a health center in Rangoon, are further examples of the work being done.

The New York Times with good reason concludes that Point Four is ”a valuable legacy" and a task for the Eisenhower ad- ministration to .carry on.

New Deal For lloukhobors

Word colncs from British Columbia that for the first time the government is prepar- ing to give a new deal to Doukhobors. special cabinet committee is evidently ready to recommend some sweeping, almost rev- olutionary changes in handling a question that for years has caused much trouble in that province. This committee is studying advisability of giving the provincial fran- chise to Doukhobors; of recognizing their form of marriage; of asking Ottawa to re- move from the criminal code the three-year penitentiary term for nude parading; and setting up a special branch of government to deal with Doukhobor affairs.

Most of the Doukllobors, says the IVan- couver News-Herald, are good citizens; they suffer because a minority are law-breakers and the general public has the idea all these

bors should have the franchise. They should be treated, with all the privileges and re- sponsibilities of everyone else. When they are, there seems no good reason why they wont, in time, be assimilated. Certainly the point is well taken by our Vancouver contemporary when it argues that there should not be two grades of citizenship in B. C. or in Canada.

EDITORIAL NOTES

, Australia Day. This date, 1788, the first British settlement, in Australia was founded at Port Jackson, now Sydney, by Capt. Arthur Phillip. O

India Day. This is the third anniversary of the date India became a Republic on the coming into force of her new constitu- tion.

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Rotation has acquired its full meaning for troops in Korea. Many have already returned to that theatre of operations for

a second time.

Snow-clearing cquipment'ltas had little use this winter to date, for which we can

system, to give liquidity and stability to I

be thankful. At the same time it is neces- sary to guard against undue optimism which

WOYIC1 D1'0dUCti0n. Wlth0,Ut RU-9518. Wlllclliwould permit the snow fighting organiza-

tion to be weakened or allow provision for future operations to be neglected. I

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The canvassers collecting for the an- nual Boy Scout financial campaign are giv- ing their time, as leaders do 'throughout the year, because they feel that the Boy Scout Association deserves their support in its turning boys into self reliant, useful Vcitizens. Leadership is always in demand, lbut this week the present leaders are ask- ing for funds for the work.

Mayor Wedge comments that had the 'facts been known by those who were criticising a proposal to dispose of some low land owned by the town of Summcrside the critics might have had a different opin- ion. The implication is that as a result of uninformed criticism the town has failed to gain a new industry and the employment and revenue it would bring. The point seems well taken but the remedy is in the hands of the mayor and council. The pub- lic can only be kept correctly informed on town business by having such business discussed at meetings open to the public.

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Well and favourably known in this Prov- ince is the Hon. Thomas L. Kennedy, whose retirement as Minister of Agriculture in Ontario has been announced. "Though I19 will continue to represent his constituents in Peel," says the Globe and Mail, "his status as a private member will of neces- sity alter the familiar picture of Ontario's most representative farmer. At this time, It need only be said that he-has earned the gratitude of all citizens, whether urban or rural, for the- constructive policies he has fostered throughout his long career in the Legislature. But even more may we thank him for the fine personal qualities he brought to public life in Ontario."

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Among the causes of

are the barriers set the flow of men and women the IL-5. and Canada.

In on children, the town has erected at its northern trance 3 sign which cautions ap caching motorists to wit

ferent. But are the town lgoing to keep it. up-to-date?-St Thomas Times-Journal.

saying that competition for a

limited to Toronto architects They are objecting to a wide competition, which would invite designs from all Canadians ltin the profcslon. Maybe there is something to the hogtown ex- tplanatlon that has been put for- ,ward in Toronto's defence -- that ,the city does suffer from an in- tferlority complex. -Sudbury Star. l i Big domed at the lcience con-

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volition in St. Louis reported some jnew discoveries. O-no scientist claimed he can understand what la chicken is saying when it clucks, cacklea Ind crows. A psychologist asserted he can read a man's character by the kind of food he leafs. This is all vely interesting,

lbuc we'd think more of it if they had discovered a way to un-

THE BENEFICIARY The years are quite without signif- icance; moments are more or less- There area few that pass in hap-

The important -

piness,

A few that merit only a. hasty glance,

A few that bring a momentary death. .

But which is which it would be hard to say,

For nothing happy ever comes to stay,

And no two people draw an equal breath.

And in the years cence:

Only the shock of trivialltlea,

Or some fair word or gesture, or the lack, '

Or some incredible inheritance,

to inconvenience trustees,

And mllch too big to think of giv- lng back.

-Ethan Ayer, in Poetry chap. Book.

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Mining Activity In N. B.

fllfolicton Times)

Up in New Brunswick's Glou- cester County there is currently being enacted scenes reminiscent of what. has taken place over the years in other province: to our westward and reaching into the Yukon in man's quest to garner the latent riches below the earth's surface. And the wealth-excluding that from coal-taken from the ground since the days of that Klon- dyke gold rush nearly fifty-five years ago, in which every part of Canada between the Pacific Coast the St. Lawrence Gulf has bene- fitted in varying degree, has been truly colossal.

Great as has been our mineral development in the first half of the present century, it becomes in- creasingly evident from the quite definite prospects confronting Can- ada. In these times that the re- maining hnlf of the twentieth cent.- ury stands to witness a vastness in mineral production well nigh in- conceivable in this year 1953. And here in New Brunswick there are emerging quite clear indications of our likely becoming participants-in the phenomenal progress forecast for the nations mining industry.

The rush of prospectors from all parts of Canada to the area A few

miles distant from Bathurst. to stake claims in the locale where I. Toronto mineral development

concern recently discovered the existence of zinc-lead-silver pyrite deposits, is sometlilng never before witnessed in the Atlantic Provinces. A department. of lands and mines office staff set up in the North Shore town is continually being kept busy Issuing licences to pros- pectors hlghly hopeful of making a "strike" in what experts have al- ready predlcted could well be the greatest discovery of its kind since that of Nornndn.

What n lift the economy of New Brunswick could be given through the development of the present actually discovered zinc-lend-nth ver-pyrite ore'body in Gloucester County. But. greater still would be that stimulus, were the 200 proa- pectors now concentrutlngon locat- ing still further deposits to on successful in finding. thein. And go on to "ntrlke" copper. which a veteran Canadian mining man en- gaged at the acene declares is al- rcady Indicated an tapering from the discovered zinc-silver ore body. It looks if this province hu started on the way to a place of import- ance in mining.

POPULAR OONPICTION ,

Canadian production of in

1050 reached 4,047,000 pounds valued at 82,390,000. -

of Sweden! total population of 7,000,000, In Bf.o&IoIm ha I tom of 1 V .00. ..

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(Winnipeg Free Press)

"Do Manitoba farmers work halt! enough?"

Professor Solomon Sinclair, as- sociate professor of sociology and economics at the University 09 Manitoba, suggests they don't.

He told delegates to the agricul- tural representatives conference Wednesday that means should be Iound to provide t.he farmer with employment to occupy, profitably, his available labor time.

"Can the economy afford to waste labor . . . when farmers talk nboul; price supports and bonuses (because) they're not earning en- outzh?" asked Prof. Sinclair.

Prof. Sinclair emcsliaslzed that research carried out in 1951 at 64 farms in the Hamloto area did not indicate that labor time was wast- ed, but only that it might: be.

Results of the study indicate that averages of 28.6 per can't of available labor on one-half section farms to 30.3 per cent on full sec- tion farms were used during the entire season.

On the half-section, 57.2 per cent of available labor was used at seeding and 77.5 per cent at har- vest time.

Livestock or dalrying did not ac- count for the balance of time avail- able. said Prof. Sinclair.

with one man-equivalent, the amount of livestock ranging from cows to poultry averaged only 4-53 units. Over two M.E.'s the average was 18.6 units

A man-equivalent is The amount of work a man will do in eight months.

Prof. Sinclair also concluded that a large amount of manual labor is still required despite increasing mechanization.

It. was 'follnd that rm average of 5.37 hours of labor. and 3.52 trac- tor hours were required to liar- vest. each acre of wheat.

The study sholved hired help"ls a small factor in farm operation.

Distribution of labor on the Harn- lota farms averaged, in man equiv- nlent months; the operator and adult male familv. 10-72 Wilma"- .5; children, .4, and hired labor, .4.

Olympian Company

(Mont-real Star)

The blue and crimson ribbon which Dr. Wilder Penfield. head of the ,Neurologl:al Institute of Montreal will be entitled to wear by virtue of EI8VI1I.l0Il to the Order of merit. marks him as a member of s most distinguished company.

The Ordcr of Merit, though ll carries no title, .ranks after the Orders of the Garter. Thistle, St. Patrick and the Bath” and the right. it confers to write 0. M. after onc's name is one to be prized. The Order, limited to 24 members and some foreign hon- ornry members, is Elven W me" or women of special cmuncncc, military or civil.

Present members of the Order have won distinction in a wide. variety of fields. Prof. Trevelyan is a. noted historian. John Masefield in Poet. Laureate. Vaughan Wil- liam: is one of the great contem- potnry composers, .Augustu.s John a. celebrated Artist. Prof Gilbert Murny is 3 renowned classical scholar.

Prof. If. D. Adrian is, like Dr. Penfleld, I celebrated neurologist. sir Henry Dale is 3 physiologist. Sir Robert Robinson A chemist. sli- Giles Scott an architect. Wln.st.on- Spencer Churchill is a historian. an Irmt. (if not. of John's rank) and ntotcimnn. Lord Halifax in a diplomat, T. 3. Elliot 1. poet, Earl Russell a philosopher. lair Alex- ander cndognn is n. diplomat, Clement Miles I. statesman. ,

Armed service members are Admiral Lord Chntfield, Marshal cf the Royal Ally. Pol-co Lord Na- wail. Marshal of the Royal Air Force Portal, Field Marshal Alan- bnooke, and Admiral Lord Cunning-

Tbe one foreign honorary mem- ber of. the moment in I citizen oft the United sum, 3 ooldlar, briefly an educator, at present. in I.n of- fice In which 1-no qualities of

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RETORT IN KIND

In the fight for Responsible Government over a century ago, the Legislative Council came in for many hard knocks for maintaining the "family compact" system and subverting public interests to its own ends. The following excerpt from a resolution passed by the

lCouncll on April 29, 1841, shows

that it was quite capable of re- taliating In kind:

"Although the majority of the House of Assembly have thought fit. in their resolutions passed this session, by absurd deductions of what they term 'connectlon'. said by them to exist between some of the members of the Leg- islative Council, individually nam- ed. and by charges of ignorance against others. also individually named, as to the true history of this Colony 'and of the toil. labour, hardships and prlvations of its in- habitantsf to draw inferences from such supposed connection and lg- norance, false In themselves, and personally offensive to those mem- bers of the Council-thus afford- ing a sufficient excuse to the Council, if so inclined, for adopt- ing a similar course; yet the Council do not deem these charges WOFIIIY of any very grave refuta- tion. because it is notorious, that by far the greater majority of the members of the Assembly are lg- norant and illiterate men. having but A trifling stake in the coun- try. and possessed "of no influ- ence whatever in society, beyond that based on their advocacy of the question of Esclleat; by which alone they have been enabled to nttaln their present position as representatives, and on the keep- ing alive of which question their continuance as representative: de- pends-whllet the fact of the greater portion of them being fen- nnts, and in many instances, large- ly in arrears of rent, clearly shows that they are interested, not only in keeping up the excitement on which their ephemeral influ- ence depends, but that they have n direct personal interest in the success of any attack on the pm. perty of their landlords, and are. therefore, in 'ho way scrupulous in creating charges against, and im- putlng unworthy motives to, the Council, who have endeavoured to control and check their extrava- gant and unconstitutional proceed- ings." '

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der 115. - New York world-'I'ele- gram. Some regard Wwllh misgivings

the appointment: of women jurors. We don't share that anxiety. If it woman is less influenced by the 18351 10310 expounded, she will be

more influenced by her natural intuition. She will have R fairly E0041 idea. by the end of 3 case,

W119 I5 right and who is wrong' Who I-!!ullt.v and who is not: Apart from the formal method or address to E J'Ury. lawyers will have to take 9. different approach when appealing to a mixed Jury. An argument which would appeal it) an 311 male Jury might leave the women members quite unim. Dressed. --Wlnpsor Star.

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Thai:-wnl 1 proverbial tn wind which struck Edmonton. While it replaced the "banana belt" wealh. er with a. blast of Winter, it also restored the farmers' confidence in the country's llbiiliy to produce moisture. During the exgended mild spell. there was much search- ing back througli the files of mem. 0W for at comparable Fall and CHTIY Winter period. As far as weather R5058 .80. however, the

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mometcr dipped la the latest nub-

up against zero weather has ever arrived in into Edmonton. It. ended a stretch of Wisdom 290 days and humanity demand that these Journal. barriers should not be raised but gfgerously lowered. -London. Her- a .

above zero.-- Edmonton

In case you forget, Lou). bridge had below-zero weather on Thursday morning around 1;"

effort to guard their o'clock. By seven the name mom. of Ltlstowel fng. thermometers were register- en- my 35 or so above zero. Thursday

the afternoon, following drive hours of balmy weather . care --"There are fifty-four city, they registered below children in the next. seven blocks." again. That night. The sign is novel and certainly dlf- night, the temperature began to i fathers climb again, and on Friday . thermometers

about in

ten the zero around mid-

the were registering 51 above at one time. Friday night the weather changed again with

There goes (roronto again: Arch- sub-zero temperatures again be- litects in that city are quoted asifng registered. Then on Saturday de- the thermometers began register-.

Sim for a new city hall should be fng temperatures of above 30. Sun- .'day they plummctted natlon- zero again.-Icthbridge Herald.

to below

Widdifleld, the sprnwling, out- size township which has been,

passing laws, collecting taxes. electing councils and receiving government grants for some 6'7

years. apparently never has had the right to do so. The Depart- ment. of Municipal Affairs has no record of Widdtfield eve having been incorporated. So clerk Arthur Carmichael informed the town- ship-councll at. a 'meeting last. night. caught with its records down, the department is asking a. municipal board hearing to pro- ceed with the incorporation of the township In the near future. In order to bring records up to date, the Department of Munlcl. pal Affairs is re-incorporating all municipalities of which it has no previous record, the meeting mu told.-North Bay Nugget.

For 50 years the name of Her- bert Samuel. later Six Herbert and now Lord Samuel, has (fitted through the pages of Canadian newspapers. This British statu- malh HOW 93 years old. remains I prominent figure in the life of the United Kingdom and. the storml. of political contests behind him, has gained a. considerable repvutg- tlon as it philosopher. Not. least of Lord Samuel's attribute has been a lively wit. The story goes um:

he once was bored by an Amerl.

can determined to make an im-

Dresslon who said, "One of my an. cestors signed the Declaration of Independence." said Lord samuel; "OM 01' my ancestors wrote down the Ten Commandments.

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