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= Ferry Problem Aired - Our transportation requirements e strongly emphasized by Mr. Heath Macquarrie in the Budget de- bate in the House of Commons on Monday. According to the despatch in yesterday’s Guardian, he devot- ed the major part of his speech to this subject, ‘dealing both with the causeway and the more urgent need for extra ferry service until the causeway has materialized. fh Our junior member for Queens is one of the ablest speakers in the House, and we have no doubt that he-made out a strong and convincing sease. He was here at the time of the ‘fast mishap to the Prince Edward Is. land, and: could speak from firsi- band knowledge of what occurred. dn a telephone call from Moncton on “his way back (by plane), he inform .ed.us that he was checking évery ssource of information and hoped to present a full picture of our problem -at Ottawa. His colleagues also were working on the matter, Hon. Mr. MacLean in particular. | We have been critical of the lack ‘of attention which our car ferry ‘needs have received to date, and - we: are glad now to be able to com- imend our members for the zeal they _ ate showing. We trust that they will _ Keep up the good work until concrete ‘action is taken. For the present, we _ want particularly to know where w ‘stand with regard to that available ‘beat in the United States—or rathe ‘where Transport Minister Hees _ stands, for it was he who raised the - question of foreign registry as an ob- ; jection to acquiring it.

A Sad Example

_~~ A sad example of the condition brought about by world trade re- rstrictions is the waste. of food sur- ‘ pluses, produced for human consump- _tion in the more favored countries, . which somehow cannot reach the mil- _lions of people in other parts who are starving or are living continual- ‘ly on the verge of starvation. An in- stance of this was brought to notice. in Parliament the other day. Under -Canada’s price support program, the Government has been buying skim ‘milk powder at prices ranging from 12 to 17 cents a pound. Between January 1, 1958 and March 2, 1959, it disposed of 51,636,900 pounds of ‘this product which had accumulat- ed and grown old. It was sold as feed at around four cents a pound in- ‘Europe and Latin America. ; “In a world of hungry children,” _says the Ottawa Journal, “it seems ‘almost sinful that this should be.” ‘It is sinful. The taxpayer has suf- fered some loss, as may be expected in price-support programs, but that is not the tragedy. For as The Jour- +nal says, “What offends us most is _the waste of the effort that went in- to that milk powder—the good hus- -bandry of growing grain and forage ‘crops for cattle, the maintenance of ‘milk standards by dairymen and the ‘asceptic cleanliness of the plants. At ‘every stage the\ consideration was that this food would be used for ‘man ... It will not be used to bring; - color back to the watf cheeks of a- ‘hungry child although Canada has offered milk powder as a gift to in: , ternational relief agencies and found ‘no takers. Instead, this pure food. - unsold when fresh, will be fed to pig: -in Belgium, Denmark and Italy or ,otherwise used for purposes neve ‘intended when it was being made.” : |The largest purchaser, we are told, is Denmark, which has taken - 23,512,550 pounds. Danish farmers ‘are using the skim milk to fatten ‘hogs ayid cattle for export. In recent ‘years the Danes, with their lower -costs of production, have almost -wholly, eliminated Canadian bacon -from the British market. The feed ‘which Canada is supplying at fire- -sale price will help them to congoli- ‘date their hold. This accentuates a ‘serious trade problem, but it does _not pose the challenge on moral -grounds which our failure to trans- {port surplus food to those who need Lit involves. ' This, of course, is not a problem ‘tor the Canadian Government alone.

and wholesale dumping programs, in is evidence of ted economic trouble in the world at large. Our

space, but our economists seem to be helpless in solving what would ap- pear to. be the much more simple problem of food distribution on our own hungry planet. :

Another Backward Step While ‘most of the rest of the world. struggles forward toward ra- cial equality, South Africa persists ther way, The latest

house of assembly in Cape Town to segregate universities. Schools like the University of Witwatersrand, which has proudly served all races for more than 40 years, would be- come exclusively white.

‘ The university is protesting the new ban, which would become efffee- tive upon a date to be proclaimed by the governor. The assembly has vot- ed to allow continued integration for medical students. It would be too costly to set up separate medical schools, the argument goes. What the new plan really means is that in the five new “Bantu” universities to be set up, standards of education are bound to be forced lower and lower. There aren’t the staffs or materials available for two university sys- tems, ; ©

It is partly for this reason, as well as the moral reasons, that Ro- man Catholic, Anglican and Jewish authorities are opposing the univer- sity plan. So are the colored groups, for the segregated system would mark another step toward their de- gradation.

These are voices crying in the wilderness. South African political leaders are going their own way, mindless of the opprobrium they are bringing upon themselves and thei) country. It would be a relief if they severed their ties altogether with the British Commonwealth, for we lik: to think of the Commonwealth as headed in a quite opposite direction. We take no pride in such a partner- ship; nor do we need to be prophets to predict that for South Africa itself

some day bring forth a dreadful har- vest of hate.

EDITORIAL NOTES

An American chef took top ‘prize in a tripe-cooking contest in Caen, France. We can’t see anything in

that to crow about. * *

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Dr. Frank MacKinnon, president of APEC, reports that of the rough- ly $8 million in foodstuffs purchased in Goose Bay, the ‘Atlantic Provin ces supply only about $1 million worth. There is something obviously wrong and illbalanced in a situatio of this kind. Now that the facts are known, steps to improve’ the situa- tion should be taken without de-

lay.

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Don’t throw away old books. A 400-year-old translation of Jacques Cartier’s account of his first two voyages of discovery in the Gulf and River of St. Lawrence has been auc- tioned off at Sotheby’s in London. It fetched £4,200. The rare volume— only six others are known to ex- ist—produced the most spirited bid- ding and the highest price in the sale of more than 200 documents about the early history of North Am-

erica. * * *

Winston and Lady Churchill will not be visiting Ottawa next month. They will fly to the United States on May 4 to be guests of President and Mrs.

land on May 11. It will be an arduous: enough schedule at Sir Winston’ age, with no official obligations af- tached. But the gesture in exten ing the invitation to Governme House at Ottawa was a fitting on bespeaking the warm sentiments , our people generally, and will n doubt be appreciated on that groun * * *

According to the Nova Scotia partment of Agriculture, there are *indications of a far greater defici- ency in food production in that pro- vince than had previously been esti- mated. At the producer price level the net deficit (total consumptior less \total production) is figured at $57,800,000, of which $16,900,000 is for meats alone. At the. retail lev it would run around $115,000,000, with meat accounting far about one quarter of this. A good opportunity here for our Island producers and shippers in a profitable neighboring

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OTTAWA REPORT

Prosperity

And Taxes

By Patrick Nicholson

Will 1959 be a banner year for Canada?

Kh looks as if prosperity is knocking on our door. And as the budget debate grinds to the end of its eight-day span, the outstanding thought left with me is that our parliameniarians have singularly failed to notice the en- couraging foreczst of a 1959 boom contained in Finance © Minister Fieming’s budget calculations.

Mr. Fleming based his finan- cial predictions on a jump in Our gross national product to

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VISIT ENJOYED

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Sir.—1 should have written returned to Pittsburgh

in February, to~ tell you

about the pleasant trip I had from Charlottetown to Pitsburgh. The weather wes mild and

clear. Prince Edward Island scen- ery, the most heaut'ful “rural” on the trip. Crossing the pond in the car ferry was a delight “‘ne- ver to be forgotten”. I stayed on deck part of the time looking at the gulls and snow covered ice.

Had a three hour stop-over in Moncton. My cousins met me there and we had a nice visit. I also stopped for a visit with re- latives in Winchester, Mass. Had snow there. After leavin Massa- chusetts for Pittsburgh there was no snow to be seen along the way.

We had a heavy snow s‘orm here April 12th. All gone now and the grass is green, Robins are with us.

Prince Edward Island will soon be beautiful again, ready to en- terain her foreign cousins. God bless you all.

I am, Sir, etc., (MRS.) ROLINE SHACKLEY 2220 Starkamp Avenue = Pittsburgh 26, Penna. .

UNTAXED PROFITS

Sir,—The top tax rate on earn- ed income is 80 percent which gives the impression that the rich are being soaked. But specu- lative profits have made million- aires, built luxurious homes and provided Cadillacs and residence in warmer climes. They - have done the same in the U.S.A. only their gévernment has beca tax irg copital gains and getting 6 slice of the profit. While our gov ernment hasn't seen fit to tax such profits, made largely on our natural resources, the U.S. gov- ernment has. It collects capita! gains tax from its citizens on foreign investments. This tax doesn’t appear to deter investors

Should not all income regard less of its nature be taxable up der one graded schedule of rates’ This should resv"’ in a more re alistic tax schedule with maybe a maximum tax of 50 percen!

The Seaway showed the powe) of pressure groups so the U.S.A tax could hardly be a good mo del for us. I think capital losses should be deductible from cap! tal gains but not from earned income. Maybe taxability should after 15 years of owner- how about recognizing ation of ou dollar and reducing the taxable profit by 5 percent of the cost of the invest ment for each year it was held? Such a tax would not be infla tionary.

Another untaxed income ts found in the practice of com: panies issuing warrants to share- holders them to buy stock at much below market va- lue. In a recent case the com- pany will receive $85.000,000 new capital and the shareholders wil) be $17,000. richer.

1 am, Sir, ete.

thirty-four and one-half billion dollars. That would be not mere- ly an all-time record; it would be a colossal increase of more ihan one-quarier above the pros- perous yesterday of 1955.

Part of this increase will stem from increased output, and part will be caused by higher prices.

Tax increases in the budget will raise our cost of living at least four points. The index, now Standing at just over 126 com- pared to 100 in 1949, will prob- ably rise above 1°0 within the year. This will be the normal conseauence of the manufac‘urer

nd the retailer passing on to the consumer the increases in cprporation tax and in indirect jt xes.

OU, ARE SANTA CLAUS

' For,.-make no mistake about | this, there is no Santa Claus te pay the higher costs of all the services which the voters de - mand from the Government. The person who provides the govern- ment revenue frem all forms of taxes—estimated to average $303.50 for every Canadian man, woman and child this year—is you.

But the big news behind the budget is the forecast that more dcilars of ‘‘personal income” will jingle in your pockets this year: an average of about $1,520 per Canadian, compared to $1,436 in 1957. And we may save more th's year, perhaps as much as $137 per average Canadian, com- pared to only $88 in 1957. This will be an indication that we are not so hard-pushed for cash.

Our personal expenditure will p-obably average $1,281 per Can- adian on goods and ‘services.

Where will this money go” M we follew our accustomed pat- tern, we will spend it like this,

President Eisenhower can he expected to assume a larger and more personal role‘in the form- ulation and administration — of American foreign policy in the future.

It is unlikely that Christian A Herter, his new state secretary will be able to step immediately into the same personal relation. ship that existed between the president and John Foste: Dulles.

Through six years « close an¢ intimate relationship Eisenhower tended fo give Dulles a free hand in the shaping and diree- tion of foreign policy.

So broad was Dulles’ authority that his critics were fond of say- ing he carried foreign policy ia his hat and conducted a one-man operation. His ready access to the president, and his obvious in fluence at the White House tended to support the charge. ROLE FOR NIXON

With Dulles now retired to the sidelines through the ravages of cancer, Eisenhower inevitably must exercise in the critica! weeks ahead a much more vigor- ‘ous and personal role in the for- eign field than he ever has in the past.

lt also is apoarent that the president will assign a larger share of the foreign policy dutie to Richard M. Nixon, his able bu' yew'hful vice-president,

Nixon has been touching on the foreign field in recent public ad- dresses and has been directed by the president to journey to Rus- sia in July to open the U, 5S. ex hib't at the Moseow trade fair

Nixon says he hapes to conduct “frank discussions’ with the So viet leaders.

Apart from length of stay. Nix on’s Moscow visit is expected b parallel that of Soviet deput premier Anastas Mikoyan whe visited the U. 8. early this year

with Eisenhower, Dulles

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for the average family consis- ting of father, mother and two children.

Food $1,240 Shelter 744 Household operation 676 Car and transportation 600 Cicthing 536 Tobacco and alcohol 340 Medical and dental care 340 Miscellaneous 648

THE WELFARE STATE

Se much for your own expen- diture. Now let us see how the government will spend the §$l,- 214 which it will take from that average family in taxes, some by direct tax but must concealed in the price of what you buy.

To start with. $132,48 per fam- il’, or more than 10 per cent ef the total taxes, will be need- ed to pay our old age pension- es. $113.52 wil be needed to pay family allowances. $75.20 will be disbursed in health grants and provincial. hospital plans. $66.88 will go on pensions and other ex- penses for veterans. $17.12 will be paid for unemployment insur- ance.

Thus that average family will pay no less than, $405.20 for ‘‘wel- fare state’ benefits. How much will your family get back under that heeding tvis year? The to- tal which we all receive can ne- ver equa! the total which we must all pay in, for a large propor- tion of our payments are absor- bed by wages and other costs of the swelling army of civil ser- vants who handle ali those trans- fer payments. *

The Welfare State, at $101,30 for every man, woman and child this year, is our costliest govern- ment item. The second most ex- pensive is National Defence at $97.40.

Without war and compulsory welfare, our taxes could be slash- ed comfortably to about one-third of the $303.50 which must be paid by the average Canadian tax- paver, for himself and for each of his dependents, during this year.

After Dulles, What?

By George «Kitchen Canadian Press Staff Writer

other U. S. leaders.

Mikoyan toured the U. S. for several weeks; Nixon is expec- ted to visit only. Moscow and stay only a few days.

One expected result of Dulles’ departure is the restoration of in- fluence in the state department's career diplomatic service. Under Dulles, with his \almost unlimited author'ty, the direction of foreign Policy was a one-man operation and few if any important deci- sions could be taken without the secretary's personal approval.

OUR TESTERDAYS (From the Guardian Files)

TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO (April 22, 1934)

A party composed of Mr. Wil- laim Rogers, Miss Mona Wilson, Miss Margaret Hegan, and Miss Grace Billingsly returned recen-

tly from a West Indies cruise on the Canadian National Steamship “Colborne”. The ship is under the command of Captain John H. Hubley, formerly of Southovort.

In the list of successful grad- uates in the Associates’ Course of the Ganadian Bankers Associa- tion »ublished recently was Mr. John Denny, member of the staff ef the Bank of Nova Scotia. Charlottetown. Another staff ~ of the. same bank. Mr. E.B.S. Ling, was also Usted as being successful.

TEN YEARS AGO (April 22, 1949)

The Hronze Arrowhead course for Patrol Leaders was held at the Montague Scout Hall on Thursday, Friday and Saturday of las’ week Members fram both the Montague and Souris troops were resent to take the course which was conducted by Mr. Ed- ward Emery, Field Commission- er, Ottawa. Mr. R.C. Charlottetown, also

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confusion or a brief dizzy spell. But usually it’s not enough te bother you. Even the long-range efiects aren't too noticeable at

Perhaps you will experience a slight clumsiness of your hands. It might be enough to show a change in your handwriting. But your relatives and friends are apt to notice the effect of these little strokes before you do. Eventually you will become unusually irritable and your per- sonality probably will change for the worse, no matter how nice a guy you once were. DOESN’T ALWAYS HAPPEN The fact that.-you have had several little strokes doesn’t necessarily mean that you can look forward to having a big stroke some day. True, it does havpen, but not always.

In fact, you may have just one little stroke, or one big one, and then never have another. Recovery might be complete or partial. There is no set rule a- bout the recurrence of strokes. No matter how slight or how severe, any tyve of stroke, little or big, is a definite signal to call the doctor, so you may know just what to do and what not to do. With proper care many peo- ple live reasonably active lives ‘or lonz vears

QUESTION AND ANSWER

E.M. A.: Could mineral oil cause hardening of the arteries? I have taken mineral oi] daily for over 30 years, and my doc- tor says I have hardening of the _arteries.

Answer: As far as is known, regula~ use of mineral oil, prop- erly empleyed, has no , connec- tion with hardening of the arte- ries condition.

MAXIMS

Everybody’s heart is open, you know, when they have recently escaped from severe pain, or are recovering the blessing of health.

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Roy St. G.

This is a bad age for poets. Perhaps there has never been a good one but there have been better ages than the present.

It is a melancholy fact that to- day no poet in Canada can make a living, even a poor one, by his pen alone. Many of our best poets could not achieve the dig- nity of print but for the bounty of some of our publishers. A Can- adian publisher i fortunate if he gets back his costs of jro- duction from the sale of a book of verse.

This means that poetry cannot be a full time occupation in this country. A poet must find some other means of making his bread and butter. Many Canadian poets have entered the teaching profes. sion.

At the time sRalph «Gustafson prepared his biographical notes for his recent Penguin Book of Canadian Verse, some thirte o of the thirty-nine living poets repre-

—Alfred Bailey, Earle Cirney, Roy Daniells, Louis Dudek, Rob- ert Finch, D.G. Jones, Irving Layton, L.A. MacKay, E.W. Man- del, James Reaney, F.R. Scott, A.J.M. Smith and Wilfred Wat- son—were at universities as tea- chers. Two—E.J. Pratt and A.M, Klein—were former university teachers. Two—Dorothy Livesay and Kay Smith—were teaching at schools. And three—Leonard Co- hen, Daryl Hine and Jay Mac- Pherson—were at universities as post-graduate or honor students. ACADEMIC LIVES

Thus slightly more than fifty

\wer cent of the living poets in this anthology were leading, at ‘one level or another academic lives. * No sensible person would want to be heard to say that excellent poetry, cannot be written in ac- ademie groves. The evidence would be strongly against him. But he might say without viol- ence to the facts that the poet is laboring under a handicap if he comes to the chief purpose of his life at the fag end of a fa- tiguing flay. ‘

On several counts a teaching career may have an unfortunate effect on his work. The grind of his day-to-day teaching chores

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may dull the edge of his erea. tive powers. : ea

One of the first men to write poetry on the prairie:, Nicholas Flood Davin (founder of the Re- gina Leader, and first member in the House of Commons for the riding of West Assiniboia), recog- nized the ri: that the poet runs who can only indulge his crea- wy activities on a part time ba-

s.

FATIGUING WORK

“But soon after I began to earn’ my bread,” he said, in 1889, in the preface te his An Epic of the Dawn, the first book of verse to be ‘published in the North-West Territories, ‘" arrived at the con- clusion that with the cream skim- med off the mind by newspaper writing, and engaged in the ex- acting study of law, I could not, even if I had the native gift, hope to write poetry which should be at once original and of high workmanship.”

Another danger that the poet turned professor, or the professor turned poet, runs is suggested by a question put by Dylan Thom-

do they learn anything?”’

The answer to part of this ques- tion, at least, is obvious. in fancy can poets eat dew stardust and drink the milk Paradise. Living at a practic level, they need coin of the for groceries and other practi- cal necessities.

But it is a good question and suggests that poets who ' college as teachers, after finish- ing their courses as

active battle-fronts of life. ANOTHER HANDICAP

There is yet another reason why a ‘teaching career may handicap a poet. He may come to know too much. Scholarshig may shackle his creative instinct. As, John Jay Chapman once said, “Tf the old Greeks had known as much about Achilles as we do, the Hiad would never have been

written.”

SHIP STILL AGROUND

MONTREAL (CP) — The Nor- wegian freighter Sunmoira Mon- day remained firmly grounded on a Lake St. Peter clay bank below Montreal. She ran aground a week ago. The Saguenay ship- ping vessel has remained stuck fast despite lightering off of much of her general.cargo and dredging operations. Tugs have tried to pull her free but have been unable to budge her.

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In about another week work will be resumed on the extension and repair of the runways of the Summerside Airport. This work was started last Spring by Cur- ran and Briggs, who have the contract valued at about one mil- lion dollars. Al] the runways are to be recapped and extended, and it is hoped the work will be com- pleted this fall.

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