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Iurnlng lbuily (founded IIIUI) $0.00 per yeur (In udvunce) delherrd. $1.50 per year (In n-lvuure) mulled lu Cuuudn um] United Staten.

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FRIDAY, APBH; I, I032

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THE CHALLENGE

Whether we care to admit it or '- bot the forthcoming Imperial Boo- nmnlo Conference at. Ottawa is hrgely the outcome of the chal- -, lehge of the Five Years’ Plan, and now the second Five Years’ Plan of Boviet Rumia. The soclalistic propa- ganda and practical policy pur- nued by the Soviets, wh.ch was laughed and meered at in the beginning, are now being recognized as serious challenges to capitalistic countries competing for world trade. Countries such as our own‘ and those of the Ehnpire at large Inlet adjust our policy and prac- y. tice tn meet the new form of worldf " competition, which w ll result on: the second Five Years‘ Plan reach- ing maturity. A hint of this was} given in the able budget speech ofl 7 Mr. Rhodes. He sad: "If the dcle-I gates who assemble here meet 1n on avmosphere charged with deter- mriatirm to approach their del ber- Qllonu trim the point of mutual ziuxlizaiugc there will result measures which will give a marked utimulus to Funpzre trade, while thcsc measure; are destined ' primarly to stimulate trade within the Eknpire they will release forces and cstitbish currents WlllCll may well flow hcyond our borders t0 {the ercziiuai bcuciit of the world at large." In other words, the res- ponse of the capitalistic nations of the British Empire to the socialis- tic mlicy of Soviet Russia, i! 1110i?- erly inaugurated and projected at Ottawa, will give the anti-commun- Istlc nations a distinct advantage 1n world production and 00011195- ticn.

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‘ NEW TAXATION

The long and anxiously anticipat- ed Budget disclosing the taxation proposals of the Bennett (lovem- ment show they are not so drastic us might have been expected. The wind, so to speak, has been temper- Dd to the shom lamb. Those aible to pay have been asked to P01’ WW9, the others are practically left untroubl- ed. It is true there has been an in- crease of 2c on the Sales Tax, but this, for the most part, is absorbed by the wholesaler and retailer. Married people with incomes of “.000 or over were formerly exempt to the extent $3,000. Under the new lcheme incomes of $2,400 will be Ixemrpt. Over and above that they have to pay. Correspondingly - helors who had a $1,500 exemp- tion now get $1,200 exemption. No - ange is made in the $500 exemp- tion for each dependent child. Everybody having incomes of over 05.000 will have to pay a sur charge of 5%, while corporations, which formerly enjoyed a 20% reduction on the gross taxation, have this privilege taken from them. The tax on cheques, money orders, promis- lory notes etc, over $5.00 has been Increased from 2c to 3c on amounts up to $100.00, and 6c over $10000. ‘A 5c tax is placed on telegrams, ceblegrams and radio u essages, to- gether with long distance telephone

and the‘ Budget position will be correspondingly improved. In 9Y0- posing the additional measures of tuxatim the Government has given considere“ on the one hand to the ability of our people to bear the extra burden and on the other to the ‘ necessity of plating our financial house in order.

SOVIET GRAFT

Even Soviet Russia, whcih is en-’ dcavoring to introduce a new civili-

‘zatlon free from capitalistic domin- ation, is finding its course obstruct-

ed and its Pmtrcss interferred wth by the dishonesty of officialdom. The sort of civilization Russia is attempting to put over l3 what is known as Marxian socialism, under wh‘ch nobody makes any profits and all surpluses g0 to the State for further development and ex- panson. In other words the “bag" is held in common. and no one is supposfd to share more than his neighbor. Great progres has been made with the first Five Years‘ Plan

along these lines enabling the Soviet government to outline and arrange

for a second Five Year’ Plan. at the end of which it is hopcd Russia will be in a position to export and

undcrsell every capitalistic state in the world, unless in the meantime capitarsiic states re-

arrange thcir respective houses to meet the new conditions. But Joseph Stalin, President of the Soviet, Premier Viachcslnv Molotov. and Comm mar of Jacob Yakolev have just published a frank document charging gross mismanagement and economic ds- order in the cattle breeding, pig raising, and sheep, poultry and dairy trusts of the soviet. ‘this document reveals that 34 directors of large State ranches had ‘been arrested la‘ely, and that nearly ,100 more had been discharged. Russa of to-day is finding it no easier handling human nature than did the original body of Chris- tian socialists. It will bcu membe - ed that the disciples of old started out holding everything in common. but the’r little eocialisfc state col- lapsed when greed, envy and acquistivenass proved too much for the Christian veneer of Judas I5- cariot, the man who “held the bag."

EDITORIAL NOTES

Evidence of stricter enforcement of the liquor laws under the Stewart Government 1s furnished in yesterday's local Liberal organ. Commenting on convictions recent- ly secured under Magistrate Mc- Quald at Souris, our local contem- porary says: "These were all first offences, though generally conced- ed to be old, cute and very cautious law-breakers who successfully ran the gauntlet for years past im- mune."

'l‘he liberal Premier of Quebec, Mr. Taschereau, though opposing the policies of the Bennett Govem- ment, is unstinted in his praise of the Federal administration's course

cells. The railway sleeping car

"‘_'|.,.3' The sales tax goes into effect im-

from the first January, while the, cheque tax and message tax be-I carries effective on May 2nd. Noth-

existing tariff in vlr-w- of the forth- coming Imperial Economic Con-'

the wholesale application of the prunng knife to cxrwntiiturcc in all! dtpartmcnts and the imposition of thcsc additional taxes the Govem- ment anticpatc, not only making ends moot and balancing the Bud- gct but provding n surplus 0f $4.- 300,000, which will go to covcr part of the necessary capital expendi- lure. Even a slight improvement in price lcvcls, Mr. Rhodes says, and fhegrrnrrai volume oi’ bu-dncrs wll be-reficr-trd immediately in the rc-

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in the matter of unemployment re-

5911115 811d railway c8!‘ 611811’! hHVBiIFef. In response to e. delegation oi to pay 106'». or a minmum of 25cm

mayors of Quebec ctiee and towns

‘last week, Mr. Taschercau said: mediatelv. the insurance tax also "In the matter of unemployment I

wish to pay this tribute to the Ben- nett Government: they have done

iall in their power to relieve un- ln“ h” b0"! C0119 ID w-Stllfb the emplgyqnenl,"

Our local contemporary com-

fcrcnce at Ottawa. As the result ofIDmmS that the Benn“; Qgygnj-

ment is awarding mail courier con- tracts by tender. During the last session of the Icgilsature u good deal of time was taken up by mem- bers of the Opposition in insisting that the tender system was the only proper mvihod of awarding govcrnmcnt contracts. And strange to say, thc rcnscn given for crit- icising the Bennett Government i_n this instance, numcLv, that "the mail carrier will be forced to take a lower rate of pay owing to the

turns of customs and excise taxes keen competition that there will be iobly. < y , '

Agriculture -

rm: CHARLOTLTETOWN cuaanraa

The Opposition must take the re- sponslblllty for havlng blocked relief for four weeks on an Insignificant point. But the Government must take the responsibility for ggvgm. 108*")! 860N118 resulte~for reliev- ing the unemployed. The Govern- ment have a majority. They have legislation ready be their 11mm; u; make this meioritv effective. u "W? fail to use thlu-leflsletfon and so fail to function, then the blame is their: and not that of the Oppo- sition which was disarmed at the lust elections. TheCanudlan Pur- liament should prove that it at least can function. It has everything in its favour.

For u country admittedly bearing the heaviest burden of taxation of any in the world to accept an addi- tional load was in itself a surpris- ing manifestation of the national British will tc "pull through." But when the unemployment benefits also were cut; when the public was asked to pay three-quarters of the total income tax due for 1931 before March 31, instead of one-half, as before; when stock trading was re- stricted and the public invited to surrender its gold-then a spectacle of national unanimity was present- ed that has had no parallel since the days when the French paid the indemnity for the war of 1870, and even then they did not have to en- dure anything like the burden un- der which the British nation has at last staggered to a precarious safety.

So long as a wild extravagance is not indulged in, we for one have no objection to Governments maintain- ing a higher standard of remuner- ation as an example to others, for though it may be held that such a standard is "fictitious," it must also be remembered that the screwing down of wages to the lowest possible Y level may be even more fictitious, for that wage is sometimes based on au excess c-f labouring popula- tion and not necessarily on prices and on profits received.

For at least a month the Oath of Allegiance will remain in the Con- stitution, and it is possible that dur- ing that time events in the country may modify the Govemment'_s pur- pose. President Dc Valera made an important statement on Tuesday. He said that his Cabinet stood for one Government and for one Army, and that as soon as the Oath had been removed, there would be no "reasonable excuse" for any defiance of the law. Already, however, the Republican extremists have declar- ed that the removal of the Oath will not satisfy them; and the Irish Re- publican Army, suppressed by Mr. Cosgravch Government, once more has unfolded its banners 1n the light of day. There is no outward sign that the Republican challenge will become less uncompromising dur- ing the next four weeks. When the 20th April arrives, even Mr. DeVal- era may have discovered that the abolition of the Oath, in opening a quarrel with Great Britain, will close no quarrel at horncF-Dublin Irish Times.

A drizzle comes only when there is little or no ascent of air. A shower, on the other hand, requires a "vertical convection" or upward thrust of air of considerable strength. The shower covers a lim- ited area and is of short duration because the "air obviously cannot be going up everywhere at the same time over a wide area." Going from conditions to causes, the meteorolo- gist reveals stili another contrast. A shower is the characteristic pro- duct of air of polar origin drifting toward the Equator whereas a driz- zle is the characteristic product of air of tropical origin drifting toward higher latitudes. A shower is good evidence that air from Baffin Bay is in transit to Ecuador; a drizzle equally good evidence that air from tropical seas is bound for the Arctic Ocean-New York Bun.

We appear to lpcnd fur too much on other peoples’ vegetables, says the Trinidad Guardian. We spend more than £100,000 a year on buying them from sources outside the Coi- ony. We cannot, of course, hope to grow allof these ourselves, but if there is any portion of them that we can, the money could be much more usefully employed at home, We can double our estimate in practice, for we send outside the Colony for bacon and poultry an- other £l00,000 n year. Small holders ought w be able to raise both pigs and poultry.

for the contract," was precisely the reason advanced by the local 0p- position members for endorsing the tender system as the one which all Governments should follow 1mm.

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By lame: W. Barfon. M.D

rune-ran warm cause MANY mmznrs

‘rhefact that infected teeth and tonsils can cause a great many ail-

cause of an ailment he the teeth.

Do you know that this knowledge that the teeth were the cause a! many general ‘iaeases was not gen- erallyknown thirty years ago? In fact the state of medical and dental opinion before that time was that general diseases occurred first_ and were really the cause of bad or in- fected teeth.

It was in 1900 that Dr. William Hunter, London, England, stated that in his experience as a physician from 1880-1900, he had had his at- tention drawn to the importance of the teeth only from the point of view of mastication (chewing)

He then began to take a keen in- terest in the effect of dental dis-M ease and introduced the expression “oral sepsis", or infection of the mouth. His observations and stud- ies led hirn to the belief that many of the general diseases were due tn mouth infection, and as he says “by a remarkable coincidence unknown to me at the time the chief disease and disorders which I found most frequently as being caused by den- tal diseases, were exactly the ones that were thought to occur before the infection of the teeth, and to be calming the bad or infected teeth.

He spoke oi’ the various infections of the teeth and bone sockets as the starting point of many disorders of the body.

One of the points that is some- times forgotten is that. the infected teeth produce poisons in the body that do not produce any symptoms for months, even years. When the teeth are removed there is still con- siderable poison in various parts of the body. Sir William Wilcox has pointed out that general disturb- ances ln the body occur from pois- ons in the teeth, which have been located in the intestine, and these poisons are absorbed into the blood from the intestine, for in practically every case of this kind, examination “of the wastes from the intestine showed a great many organisms similar to those found in the in- fected teeth. The ailments observed were stomach and intestinal de- rangemcnts, heart disease, nervous diseaues, eye complications altered blood conditions, and rheumatic conditions.

With dentists, physicians, and Bllfseons all agreed that infected teeth can cause all these ailments it would seem like good health in- surance to have a dental examin- ;ation once or twice a year, and an X ray examination of the teeth every two years.

blames 1t on

FROM "THE DREAM OF GERDNTIUS"

Take me away, and in the lowest deep

There let me b6.

And there in nope the lone night- watches keep.

Told out for me.

There, motionless and happy in my D3111.

lone, not for1orn,—

There will I sing my sad perpetual strain.

Until the mom.

There will I sing, and loathe my stricken breast_

Which ne'er can ceiue

To throb. and pine, and languish, till possest

Of its Sole Pence.

There will I sing my 0580m- M“ and DOVE-

Take ma away.

That sooner I may r188. and 80 above,

And see Him in the truth of ever- lasting day.

-Cardinal Newman.

Canadian

Goldond Cu

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Speaking in the House of Com- mone on the relations of gold to currency and the business of the country, Rt. Hon. R. B. Beuuew recalled that it was late on e. Set- urday night lest. Autumn that the Bank of England decided to go off the gold basis. The Chancellor of the Exchequer made the announce- ment which appeared in the newe- papere next day. Mr. Bennett con- tluued:

"Now. look at what we had to

in cipher. It was decoded late Sunday night. It was impossible in the very nature of things to gath- e. our colleagues about us. A_ de- cision had to be taken. What were we going to do? What would you say about your country under simi- lar circumstances? Well. the state- ment. I made, as you recall, was perhaps in 15 words: I said . . . we would continue to meet our obligations in gold where we had p, mised to pay in gold. We had to do that or. our credit was gone. We were deprived of the market for our securities . . . . Upon what we said that night depended the credit of this country. Let ua have no misunderstanding about 1h The international bankers knew far better than some of the members of this House the terms of our Finance Act, our Currency Act, our Dominion Notes Act, our Bank Act. It is not necessary for me in do more than make that statement. They were aware there- fore that technically since 1929 the country had been off the gold standard as the hon. gentleman has defined it, but we were still working under the provisions of the Currency Act which provided gold covemge in the terms enacted for our Dominion note issue. I said we proposed to meet our obligat- ions in the terms of our promises, and we have done so. The only reason we assisted the provinces was to enable them to meet their obligations in the terms of their promises; that is all. Of course ft does not follow that this means there is any difficulty in the situa- tion of the provinces; 1t does not mean that they have become bank- rupt. It only means this, that for the purpose of meeting ' “ which they were not able to con- vert into gold at the time. we had to assume the responsibility of helping them. and we have ad- vanced money for that purpose. That 1s the positi in connectior with the application on the gold standard to our country.

"The modern tendency is to be- lleve that 40 per cent. is a. suffi- clent average metallic cover-nae for bills. ‘rhat 1s, instead of 35 per cent. up to $50,000,000, and there after dollar for dollar, the modem thought is that if we have 40 per

‘ PUBLIC FORUM

Thlu column ll open for lhl dheueulun byeorrelrflldfllll of question: of interest. The uhurlottetowu Guardian does net ueemurll! endorse the oplulouu of ecu-respondent;

GROW WHEAT

Sin-One of the ill-effects of war prices for potatoes is the almost complete giving up of wheat grow- ing and the consequent going down of the rural grist. mills. As in the case of fox pelts, there was a gen- erel belief that the price of , tatoee would continue to be high. A few conservative farmers, however, con- tinued to grow more or ices wheat, and they are among those in the best position today. Wheat growing necessitates good tillage and lib- eral manuring but it pays in good bread, good hay and good pastur- age.

A young farmer at Lakcvilie with quite a small farm, grew 00 bushels of "Kenya" wheat lest year. H! Beta it ground at Souria. The bread it makes is equal to that of the beet imported flour.

- work. Itcomee fromthe sulphur-in

I cent. coverage for all our felueuf wewillbeeafe. Thatiethegeu- orally accepted rule today, and you will observe that on the lust day of January the total outstand- ing weu $170,000,000. Party per. cent.‘ of um makes i. mm ofi $08,000,000, and you will observe that while we did not have that 000,000,000, nevertheless our cover- age of gold e0 nearly approximat- ed it that the credit of this coun- try hes steadily improved . . . .

menu” “W911 known “m, humor- do. It affords me an opportunity This government has labored day um do not now make fun or the w tell thll HOW- We“ the Wil- after day and week KW WWII- medic“ pfofgsglgn by ggylng that dom of what we did do hes been first to create and then to main- when a. doctor is in doubt about the questioned. The message to ue was tam e. favorable trade balance;

because we could not face the poe- sibility of having to pay in the only medium that would be ac- cepted universally, gold, m ud- veree balance which a year ago, Mr. Speaker. was $103,000,000. We have converted that now until the favorable balance where gold is due to us is between $10,000,000 and $16,000,000.