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Members Audit. Bureau of Circulation:

“The Strongest Memory l: Weaker than the Weakest Ink.‘

Jvunnnsnail. my). I98! Falconwood Costs

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The Campbell Government's record of was“ and extravagance is nowhere better seen than in their mismanagement of Falconwood H05- pitul, where in three short years they incurred increased maintenance costs of $99904 0W1‘ the corresponding years of the MacMillan Gov- Crlllnclll.

But, says the Liberal press, “Iialcoilwood burned down in i931 11nd 513"“ i-‘gam m 1935: so in their three full years they had no Falcon- ymod to run at all.”

Such a ridiculous misstatement is dltpfovtd l)" the annual reports of the Superintendent. '1‘: necessity of providing for the patients‘ fltx-tls under the emergency conditions caused by the fire tended to increase, rather than dim- lFllSlI, the maintenance costs. Nevertheless, the Public Accounts show the following results:

Conservative years: I932, $82,975; 1933. $81, 972; i934, $96,355. Total $261,302.

Liberal years: 1936, $114,794; 1937. $122.- 913: I938, $122,659. Total $360,366.

These expenditures have nothing whatever to do with the capital costs incurred in re- building the institution. The capital costs in- cluded construction of the East Wing, salvage, boiler repairs, ctc., purchase of Sims build-' ing, Ncwsom block, installation of new boiler in the old P. E. I. Hospital which was taken over as emergency accommodation, repairs t0 infirmary, new water lines, etc., in all totalling upwards of $260,000. And it is the bulk of these capital expense items that the Liberal pres: charger up to Conservative nlaintenance costs in _order to show a fictitious "Liberal rav- ing under the present Government of $50,886.”

This alibi is so flimsv that it has to be but- - tressed by other misstatements; as for example, that there was a considerable increase in the number of patients under Liberal administra- . tion. Premier Campbell is quoted as giving the number in 1938 as 399, According to the report of the Medical Superintendent, the total cases

last year numbered only 366, and the average

number during the year was 259. The average ‘ mlmber in i934, the last Conscrvatiw year, was 26o.

Here we have the record clarified on the basis of patients as well as maintenance costs, for the corresponding last year of each admin- itration:

26o patients maintained by the MacMillan Government at a cost of $95,355. V259 patients maintained by the Campbell

. Government at a cost of $122,659.

With on average of one patient less than the QOHSGFUGWUEJ to provide for, tlu Campblll Government so successfully provided for them- ..sclve.r that they boosted the maintenance cost ‘ sn om.- year alone by $26,304!

Exploiting Old Age Pensioners

The conspiracy of secrecy with which the Catiipbcll Government siprounds its adminis- tration of the O.Ld Age Pensions Act-refusing the request of the Conservative Party leader for the list of pensioners-does not extend to its oivn party supporters. The Liberal organ. in its issue of Saturday, admitted that each of the Liberal representatives in the last Legislature had been supplied with a list of all the old age pensioners in his constituency. These men are now in the field as candidates soliciting votes. They are not representatives any longer; the House has been dissolved and it is ques- tionable whether a corporal's guard of them will ever have the chance of sitting again. Yet they, and they alone, are in possession of the lists of old age pensioncrs,-—information _ to which eyery taxpayer is as much entitled

as ? Thirty.

Bank Of Nova Scotia And Trade

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orally lower thanllast year,

ug districts of N "was larger than n the previous year.

the disbanded and discredited Thriftless

l 111 their Monthly Review u» Bank of Nova Scotia has the following comments on the Mari-

. 1 ‘fWith logging operations on a_sma_.ll scale this

. _Winter, coal and iron and steel output curtailed, port activity restricted and firm income “gen- _ business in the Maritime Provinces appears toluve suffered more than elsewhere in Canada. Etn laymen: averaged 7 per cent to 8 per cent sml er in the =flrst quarter of the your than in the same period 9531938.; Both urban and rural rmll sales have

hown substantial declines. below mt year's g la. with the notable exception oflhe apple "Scotti when tu-"m

,-,out.look, homvernii new leis gloomy.

liquidated; but farmers, particularly in the , Saint john Valley where yields were poor, have little left for salealiced is running low in many parts of the Maritime: and March output of

_ dairy products was smaller thamlast year in all

three Provinces. Nevertheless, livestock gener- ally wintered well and with the advent of open pasturage the flow of milk will increase.

"A successful marketing season for apples has just been concluded in Great Britain. Shipments were substantially larger than in the previous year and were well absorbed at higher prices.

“Fox farmers have been confronted with lower prices—the January London sales brought prices about 20% below last year-but they are making strenuous efforts to increase the pro- fitability of their operations by culling poor breeding stock.

“Hugging The Patronage"

At the last session of the Legislature, one of the supporters of the Campbell Government vigorously denounced the Government mem- bers—who are also trustees of Falconwood- for hogging the patronage at that institution. He cited the pledge in the Liberal Platform, 1935, regarding “purchase of supplies and let- ting of contracts on a proper competitive basis by the Executive Council or Falconwood trus- tees,” and asked how this could be reconciled with these same trustees selling supplies to their own business firms,—a practice which he de- clared was “unethical, and would not be tol- erated in any other Parliament."

As. Dr. MacMillan pointed out in a recent speech, this pledge is repeated in the I939 Liberal platform, and means that if reelected the Camp- bell Government intends continuing this prac- tice of administering Falconwood in their own selfish interests.

The Liberal press offers the excuse that firms represented by private members under the Conservatives sold supplies to Falconwood. But this was on a proper competitive basis as shown by the fact that their expenditure at Falconwood was NEARLY A HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS LESS than under the Liberals.

The present case is on a different footing, where Government members, as trustee; 9f ljalcomvood, are themselves the purchasers of Ilia ru/I/Ilres they are rolling throw/h 111m‘,- finm;

MDYEOVCY. one member of the Falconwood Trustee Board whose firm in the past three years has sold over $2,500 in boots and Show, to Falconwood, has been drawing an additional $200 for his onerous services as “piirchaginu agent”. His duties consist chiefly in purchasing Falconwood suppliesl ‘

More Liberal Alibis

“Dr. MacMillan had charged that the report

of the Public Accounts Committee, of which Han. Mr. Allan was chairman, did not show the unpaid bills at the end of i938."-—Patriot report of speech delivered by Premier Campbell at Summerside Liberal convention. Every day the electors are confronted with a fresh crop of Liberal misrepresentations. Here we have a brand new one, in the reference to Hon_ Mr. Allen—who is not a. candidate for re-elcction-as being “chairinan" of the dis- credited Liberal Public Accounts Committee. The chairman of this committee was not Mr. Allen but Hon. B. W. LePage, President of the Executive Council and chairman of the Fisher- men’s Loan Board, whose activities it was part of the. duty of the Public Accounts Committee to investigate, and who, as chairman of that Committee, tabled its report in the Legislature. Why does Premier Campebll now refer to Mr. Allen as the chaimian?

1 Editorial Notes 1

Jamaica discovered this date, 149$. ‘ 4 u a n»

When our fiscal need is required to be im- pressed upon the Powers-that-be at Ottawa, it takes the Conservatives to apply the necessary

pressure. m r s m

The Montreal Gazette backed Tachereau

against Duplessis in Quebec and lost out; as a

political prophet it has been weighed in the bal-

ance and found wanting. IF Ii! Ii i

Afraid to faoe the electors in public meeting, the Campbell Government are assuming the ap- pearance of bravery behind the “mike.” That other dictator, Hitler, it will be recalled ad- dresses his audience from behind bullet proof glass. . n- m a: s:

Our long continued fight for existence as a Province has been successful so far only bc_- cause the respective Conservative governments have enlisted the sympathy and support of the Federal Governments. ,

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Coming events-the retirement of Prime Minister King are casting their shadows before." He has employed Mr_ Felix Weiss to sculptorl-iis bust. Mr. Weiss. we are told impressively is im-

congenial atmosphere of Laurie: House.’ lie be- lievcl letting. to work in surroundings thtt are natural to» his iitters and the-r; is perhaps no place in the world" where the Prime Mlulitcrgll more likely to unbend than the beautiful home which ll part of his Laurier herltdge. In- cidentally, Mr. Weiss ‘has completed fiiie bu- reliefs of the mother and father of Mr. Kilt’; lnd-tllelemre to befound in the roomswhleh helium frequents In his few haul-fat tidbit-Time ls precious towhvlalsse _ re I " crsbleader ‘we are ftuldfiiad‘ £14m

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TheFedoral Government Expect lletoat 0n Eve 0t Election

orrawa u... z-"iiil. budget statement delivered in

the House of Commons this week may be regarded u tbe- _

economic swan song of the Mackenzie King Administra-

"tion. It bears evidence on the face of lt. _of having - been dictated by the spirit of ilefeatism which pervades goversi- "

merit circles on the eve of a. general election. Delivered by

m Hon. Chas Dunning, Minister of Finance, it was not a

Dunnlngbudget. In past years Mr. Dunning endeavoretlto cope with conditions confronting him. Even his political opponents admitted that he had made-an effort to. flcl

on his father, which place last week? ‘Inst depends on whether he does. in fact, describe himself as a Communist, u I am told is the case. At. any rate, he studied as an artist under the Mexican Communist painter 111-‘- vera, and ls responsible for th mural paintings at. Marx House,‘ Clerlnenwell. It. depends aJao on‘; whether the claim is disputed by‘ Viscount Churchill, who succeeds‘ 00 his title in 1934. Lord Church- tll stands well to the Left; politi- cally, but; I am not: sure whether he can be rightly termed Oom- inunist. - London Spectator. ‘

There is ul justice ln , Stalin's jibe that. the ausnclomeu‘

of collective security and collectlvel resistance for nonlnterventlon an neutrality has led to n. "certain. amount. of connlvance" with the uggrcssors. That has at least. been the result, if not the lnfleurlon of Munlc

h and of our Spanish policy. But Stalin does not seem to sug- gest that. this ls because the lead- ers of the democracies are pro- Fasclst (which ls om Communism argument); their object is the more Machiavellian one of hoping to see the aggressors weaken themselves at the expense of - somebody else. Russia for preference. Agalrn-there ls the uncomfortable grain of truth that this is what a number of peo- ple both here and tn fiance would like to see. These are, however, polemtcs; whet. ls more lmnrtant ls to know where Russia now stands. - Manchester Guardian. (

The immediate tasks do not. in any case await. a national verdict upon the ethics of conscription. The f st. is to determine the number of men who can be equipped and trained within a given period, and the measures which can be taken forthwith to increase the supply of equipment. and instructors. The second is to make permanent pro- vision for the universal training of the nation's youth. This will re- quire an elaboration of long-term policy. social rather than military tn its purpose and effect. Anyone who studies the may of equip- ment wlth which a miniature army Ls to travel during the summer can arrive at. a certain definition of the first task, It; proclaims how much there 1s yet to do before it could be practicable to raise lm army on the scale which some are demand-

I. If the present military ma.- chtno were suddenly called upon w digest. recruits tn the n era which would be produced by con- scription on the continental model, the result in the first instance , could only be complete dislocation and the reduction, rather than the lrelnforoenient of our military , strength. - The Times, London.

The Vatican City authori- tles have considered the provision of air-raid shelters. Among the imposing walls and buttons which. Wcre built to protect the Vatican against assault. and siege in past centuries there still remains at least. one edifice which could serve M an e ellent refuge against danger e air. This Ia the great round tower of Pope Nicholas V. built nearly flvo centuries ago by the arch Antonio d1

seems ideally suited to resist any bom- bardment. Not. only are its walls v thick-la ft. at the base and 10f . at. the top-but above the great round chamber which forms its interior there ls a neaviheteel roof formed by the strong-room. whore the deposits of the Vatican administration are kept. — 1on- don Times.

The fortunate escape of Mr. Geodfiey Do Havlllund, senior test pilot of De Hsyllland Aircraft, and his passenger, Mr. John Oun- n , again demonstrated the value of-paruchutes to llots and observers. Mr. De Havlljiand was tea a. new machine which not. out _ control. Both pilot. and ob-

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prevailing conditions. Iu last week’s budget no such effort was made. Even the most loyal friends of the Administra- tion see ln it a surrender by Mr. Dunning to ministerial

impotence and the lire-election pork-barrélllng impulses of '

its members and followers. The resourcefulness with which, ln previous budgets, Mr. Dunning attempted to meet diffi- cult sltuutions is almost. entirely lacking in his current ef- fort. The general impression in purllmentary circles is that a good fighter has at. last. thrown up his hands.

Mr. Dunning’s effort to relieve the darkness of the fis- cal plcture he was compelled to present to parliament was obviously half-hearted. In computing the budget deficit for the fiscal year, ended March 31, last, at $55,000,000, he placed the loss under Wheat Board operations at $25,000,- 000, although it is generally conceded that it will be much greater. In estimating the deficit for the present fiscal

d year at $60,000,000 he made no allowance at. all for Wheat

Board loss, which may easily bring the overdraft to $100,- 000,000. Even this deficit figure is predicted upon an im- provement in business during the year. . Financial appropriations presented in advance of the budget precluded any attempt to cope with the deficit through economy measures; and, with an election in the offing, it. was out of the question that it should be met by additional taxation. No provision is made for financing

Dunning has responded with anamendnient tothe Income Tax Act" providing that, where company profits are used for plant expansion, a percentage may be deducted from Income Tax assessment. In view of the complaint of busi- ness that government policy, or lack of policy, renders its operations unprofitable, this will not be regarded as much of a relief measure. The grievance of industry and busi- ness is that under existing policies there is no inducement to expansion. Mr. Dunning’s answer to this grievance was an attempt to shift the blame from the Government to busi- ness itself. Notwithstandlng the discouragement: imposed on business enterprise by the Government he accused busi- ness men and investors of timldlty. it IiI Ill III

The only important. tariff changes, apart from those necessitated by the Washington trade treaty, were the re- moval of the three per-cent import. excise tax on all en- tries except those under the general tariff and the lu- crease from 27 cents to 60 cents a gallon on spirits used in the manufacture of vinegar. The first of these will cost. the federal treasury $14,000,000 a year in revenue and will deprive a number of Canadian industries of the margin of protection which enabled them to compete in the home market with foreign products. ,

The sacrifice of this excise tax was made necessary by the terms accepted by Canada in the trade bargain with the Unltedi States. The large increase in the customs duty on spirits for the manufacture _of vinegar is to encourage the use of Canadian cider ln vinegar making and is in- tended as a measure of compensation to apple growers for the loss imposed on them by the Government's sacrifice of a third of the British preference on Canadian apples 1n connection with the United States treaty.

IF Ii III It

The campaign waged by Conservative members of the House of Commons during the last two or three sessions against the loss inflicted on Canadian farmers, duirymen

isuported free of duty may result in a small measure of redress. In his budget statement Mr. Dunning reported

of the tariff in this connection and the imposition of an excise tax of three cents a pound on the vegetable oll coh- tent. of shortenings and lard compounds and of two cents a pounds on the similar content of soaps. Before than rc- coiiimendatlons can be adopted, however, ll. is necessary to secure the consent of the British Government to modi- fication of the Empire agreements. The Conservatives bad urged a. processing tax on important vegetable _0lll for the protection of Canadian producers of animal fists,- which

any other government. It Ii Ill I

When the new trade treaty was under discussion dur-

lerver landed unhurt. but the ma- chine crsshed and burst into flames. This eplllodo is one of the fa that have occurred with British- deslgned ‘planes. , Only ln three instances ha test. pilots had to resort to our utes o luvs them- selves. In the Royal . Air. Force ovomhmem-ber of the crew of an all-p e has to wear his parachute or have it within easy IGIIBD. No lofflcisl figures are available ls t9 the number of lives that are uved each your but. a rourh estimate for last yen: ls 10 o; 16. ‘Ibis, of course, includes members o! the olmv In well as pilots. ‘I'M stun- ts“ Its-e": e .. ..t..l,i= ca“ | an pu u - tu; .13“; schools requires three or four undred feet to operate,

‘d me on lh DIN- ll?» l°d%l1"“v°il.1.°”ta"l.’$ wail! $01M flfli liiiiidfld ‘fest

fi utmp.

ingl the early days of the session Liberal members

‘cussed at considerable length the supposed benefit accru- Iing to Canadian farmers and dalrymen- from the edu- cesslons ‘secured from the United States, on milk and

cream. Now It. develops that in January and February, 111,6 .

first two months of the treatyhi operation! Canada‘ sold u» the United States-exactly 24s gsllonsiof mllk and up ‘cream at all. This trade treaty results, acknowlegcd in tlieullousa of Commonsby the Government, speaks for lilac . l

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Grave alarm is felt ln Governmental other quarters over this week's report. from London" that ttlio United Staten _ls seeking to negot _ Britain providing for the exchange ot._ov'er ouojiundced million bushels of American wheat and quantities _of- eoifou for supplies of rubber and tin. The UnluulSist/II sold some 00,000,000 builiuls of wheat ttrGmt Britain bu- modluul! after the .1100“ 011110

entunder which lhcslxciutl abuts! British,

stint» enjoyed ‘ (Medina-wheat ivugolun p e ‘ the "Unified S , » » what oiif

the pro-election agricultural measures recently introduced , by the Government. i To the demand of business for taxation relief Mr.'

and livestock raisers by the competition of vegetable oils I

that the Tariff Board had recommended is rearrangement. '

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THURSDAY, FRIDAY, SATURDAY, 4th. so ca.

This i: our first. May Day Sale and we intend to fliYGjflll-Dlllllll! extraordinary you'll a,‘ prices here as fine as Dollar Days