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time in the controversy about a national flag. It should not show indecent haste in the man

Noting that grandson cf the fer of abolishing Dominion Dsy, i 8"‘

late German er has expressed a willingness to take Over the throne of the Reich, a contempor- ary segely suggests that the en- nouncement be tiled under the heading of useless information. -- Stratford Beacon-Herald.

~ Official disclosures that German U-hoats operated Z0 miles up the St, Lawrence River may cause some embarrassment on the part of some Canadians who figured there was no danger from that di- rection. But the revelation is not likely to teach them 1m effective lesson, because such folk rarely re- flect, -Bra.ntford Expositor".

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Wilbur Wr-ighf, American’ airman, who with his brother Orville, was the first to fly with a heavier than air machine, born this date 1867. i

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sin-l» ow w u» memes amldinilsfiiifs: cf ea Co e. u» to

citiaens oLCha-rl tctown

sincere _

did hosp th Amherst for High Sc . myseliflléiuring our, recentvisit to your c . , ,

It was a great pleasure to make this tr in Prince of Wales Col- lege an I un confident that the Amherst girls will ‘long have en- thusiastic memories of Charlotte- town and its friendly citiscns.

I em. Sir. etc. GIAIILH I. IIINNBSSIY,

- Principal Amherst Senior High School. Amherst, N5. April 16.

SEEKS P. I. l. COBEBBPONDINTS

Sin-For a long time I have been wondering how I could get some col friends 1n Prince Edward Is- and. I would like Den-pals of about 19 byiarls, espauagy If)? ti; country, u wcu e eas to hear from anyone. My name ls lagefliiatit 138:1“; grggvfigt» ':g}"‘“;fi ~Joan Gifford, and I live on a 'arm. ‘w face lamb-this rot-inn. y r, five miles from our nearest town h“ been 8mm ‘m? vet 55$" which is Blenheim. This town is whim“, the m-useslé-nmlYmay-bé in the north eastern corner cf the I “mo, hue dim"! them The South Island, situated ill-the Marl- “c, remain. m“ except to} an

new. tours» h: ~~=-»»~=-~ or o= om. o» pastoral are“ The crop‘ we no“, of lobster or bag of oysters the 1 l n are wheat odts barley bus linen 3"“ ‘ummf P"°"““’°' “h”? "1' d Our racy lqlkor IW Ian not begrllgflu and élover- A ,2“; mm; 1mm most all Canadian heavy industry aifllegnyi, £5125’ "‘{’,,'§,,,§E“",{ “van-y here there area number of appleflggefléuigl; ‘fr’ fsear,“ “s d”? naturally have that effecm The “Tim-Pd!- I Plifk IP91" 111mm! "l9 do a“ French o‘? givilzmggfiss’ I avowed aim _of the Government is "D1310 afigfilhrwhich l; 111:1 fugi stwénxg am not "tempting to explain: I to put the dlspensaticcl of alcohoi- Egg-lug 3d $ng°ithe° wgork ‘dflw mere“; 901m w; ma; the who“, ic beverages on a more solid basis ' of Prince Edward Island hasn't got

or! Can the Govern-

o to the mint and whip up my of currency at. will! Ah no. ifsta bit more. complicated than

a. Now I ask you, to cost a candi

glance at us here 1n. Prince Edward A Aland. We think the Island beau- , , ' tlful, and so 1t is. We like it here. "*°°

and many of us have done very $_ Charles R. Mcq"“m BA. .

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It is a matter of satisfaction to find the younger generation taking an active part in the development of the trade and commerce of the Province, as exemplified by the director- ate of the new Inter-Island Steamship Com- pany.

wellindeed here. But what, pre- eisel ,,1s there to justify our claims for ridges. wharver, ferzries, and oved railroads? ve we a teeming population which ls so vital tothe nation that these things must be provided without ques- lun? I hate to ea it, believe mc do, but I'm afr we'll have to face the fact that Prince Edward Island is only a very tiny dot on the vast Canadian map. It's no wonderit ir now and then left out of that map. Back some ‘I9 years ago an rcement was signed to create an fant nat on. Time- pass- ed and the nation matured until now she is a long way past in- fancy. Prince Edward Island has

Tying i knot in the tail of the Russian bear, as suggested by some, woultkyt be easy. And it you think it would, you don't knew bears. Neither did we, but an old 'a hunter put us right _on this. ‘Their tall is so short," said he, “that even a Boy Scouting expert couldn’: tie a knot in one." And you know very well that any knot a Boy Scout cannot knot is not knotsble. New Glasgow Chronicle.

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I i‘ I l \ There are good prospects of the steamship tourist trade between here and Montreal be- ing resumed, provided the wharf help do not impose impractical conditions. The Guardian is informed that the sole and only reason why Montreal steamers ceased was that the then union imposed such conditions that made trad-

ing here not worth while. . if 1F i

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TUESDAY. APRIL 16, 1946 l‘. ident Truman's auditors have informed him, after a check of White House accounts, that his net income at the end of his first year as President will be approximate- ly “ZOO-out of a gross salary of $75,000— after paying taxes, in- surance and items of White House expense not covered by Government voucher. Congressional leaders have been informed of the auditor's re- port alld a move may be made to provide more liberal presidential compensation. -Newsweek.

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The Ottawa. Conference ‘i

Second reading has been given to bills in Parliament, which will give the Royal Canbdiam Sea Cadet Corps and R. C. A. F. cadets a per- ulancnt status, comparable with army Cadets. Previous legislation for the sea and -air cadets was under ordcr-in-council but it now is pro- posed to incorporate the legislation in the Naval Service Act and the Air Force Act.

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The- rcccuf budgets of the Qlltario and British Columbia (iovcrlllnents arc a. fair in- dication that the difficulties of achieving :1 satisfactory financial settlement between the Dominion and the richer, 0f the provinces are by no menus at an end. Both these provinces have budgeted in their new fiscal year for sub- stantial deficits and certainly in the case of British Columbia, although less so with Ont- ario, the intention is that the Dominion shall increase its zlircndy generous lerms to the end that lhc deficits shall be made good.

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Air mail service is not all that it is pre- sumed to be in the matter of quick despatch. A letter posted in Montreal at 8:3o‘a.nl. on

PERUVIAN PINNACLE The Andes mountains

The fourth, and it is to be hoped the final session bf the conference will open on April 25. The present negotiations began last August when the Dominion proposed to the provinces that for a period of three years they retire from the flclds of income, corporation and in- heritance taxes in return for increased subsidies from Ottawa. There were, of course, addi- tional considerations in the offer of the Domin- ion such as health grants, health insurance, re- sponsibility for unemployed and so forth. But, as might have been foreseen, these additional inducements were promptly brushed aside by the prDVinCCs. The provinces dealt with the Dominion proposal purely on the basis of how nluch they were to be paid. At the present time they are in POSSCSSiOH of succession duties and receive their normal subsidies and special sub- sidies under, the 1941 agreements whereby they turned over to Ottawa their income and corp- oration taxes. All told they are receiving under these hgadling5 $124.9 milii0ns per year. The

Dominion proposed to increase this sum to $138. _ L r 4 y " ilfc, will be rc-cstabllshed to its DYE-Milli‘ ml-

miilions. -

By a series of surrenders to pressure from the richer provinces, the Dominion raised the purchase price from $133 millions to $180.4 millions and finally to $197.2 millions. conference became an auction sale with the Dominion raisihg‘ the bid and these richer prov-

inces holding out for more. The offer stood a1‘

$197.2 when the conference adjourned last February but as the provincial budgets indi- cafe the end may not yet have been reached.

“From the standpoint of principle," says the if/innipcg Free Press, “the important fact about the proposals of the Dominion last Aug- ust was that the main recommendation of the Roucll-Sirois commission was ignored. This is the principle of fiscal need. The Rowell-Sirois solution was that a national minimum of pro- vincial scrviccs be recognized and that the D0- minion undertake, through an independent fin- ancial grants commission, to pav “fiscal need" subsidies based upon this minimum Standard in exchange for the surrender by the provinces of the income. corporation and inheritance tzlxbs. Fur reasons not yct disclosed by the Dmllininu. file commission's recommendation was sci aside. The Dominion Dieferfed i0 proceed on a straight bargaining basis, using a fnrlulllzl nf pcr capita grants, related to na- tional iilCOllif‘, as the base for bargaining. Equal pcr capita suhsitiics to the provinces, is of course. the. system zulopied at Confederation. It ifliifid because the rigidity of such a system prevent- rd the unequal needs of the various provinces from ilciug adcquatcbv met. And while it ls true that bv relating pcr capiia subswrcs to ‘na- tionai income, a degree of flexibility is achiev- ed, the basic weakness remains.

Tuesday, April 9, was received here on Friday, April 13 after the arrival of the ordinary nlzlil train. The writer had reached Charlottetown by train the previokus ‘day.

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So far as ilours of sunshine per day is concerned, Pfifltg Edward Island more than holds her own with other parts of the Dominion, as the following across-Canada totals for the fOur mouths ended April 3o indicates: .

Saint John, N. B. 579 hours Woifviiie, N. S. 472 ” Montreal, Que. .. 472 “linnipeg, Man. . . . . . .. 461 Charlottetown, P. E. I. . .156 Toronto, Ont. 455 Calgary, Alta. 440 Vancouver, B.C. 208

Prince Albert, Sask. 201 1i! It It t

With the exception 0f silk lllanufaciuriug. tile textile industry in France, one 0f the m0>i important factors in that country's economic

portal-ice by 1947, Francois Clement, president of le Cercle des Jeunes Patrons du Dauphinev. the French equivalent of tile Junior Board 0f

The Trade, declared in an interview given at La,

Chambre de Commerce des Jcuncs. Mr. Clem- ‘ent is directing a group of young French bus- inessmen, all associated with the textile dustry, who are visiting Canada, the United States and Argentina t0 acquaint themselves with the latest developments in the industry and to renew contact with American business as- sociatcs.

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Justice Minister St. Laurcuts reported statement to a delegation that cessation of fam- ily allowance payments and defaulted interest payments on Victory Loan bonds might be the consequences of a Canadian decision not to grant the $1,250,oo0,o0o loan to Britain, came under fire in the House of Commons recently. A com- ment of that kind, Mr. Diefcnbakcr declared, was “very dangerous" potentially. If it were iruc, then it was plain tilat the finances of thc nation wore in an extremely grave condition. He, along with others, had issued many warn- ings of the dangers inherent in government cx- lravagance in spending, but he had had 11o idea that matters had gong as far as the nlinisterfls assertion indicated to him. Many people were demanding reduced taxation and he was cou- vinced that a reduction was essential to place industry in a position to furnish employment, if for no other reason. “Yet,” Mr. Diefenbaker declared, “we have today expenditures to an cxlcut of $5,000,000 on propaganda agencies; and one of the estimates to come before the committee will be for a sum of $300,000 to re-

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“As the present negotiations have pm- ccedcd, ii has become ever clearer that the n61!

result will be not in brink about fllllfiiii-V 51111 was in time of war.” w n-

yo makg [he righ provinces richer while doing no more than to rescue the less tlrtflate IIIW‘ laces from their difficulties."

iThat "Canada Day" Bill

The Senate, suggests the Ottawa Journal, ought not to pass, at icast at this session, the private member's bill which goes to it from the Commons to abolish Dominion Day and to sub- stitute "Canada Day" for it. It is a ‘we, appar- ‘ently. for the familiar device of "the six- nloritils hoist", thus giving to both Parliament and the country time for careful consideration Sofa proposal which is more important than it

ounrs and which certainly is not urgent.

’ the bill had.‘ three or four boursoi de-

‘glme in rhfiommons before it was passed, and ' - debate at all in the country which never had ‘ i’ ' eme untiLthe House bad ap-

ncw the national registration — something which is totally unnecessary in peacetime; justifiable as

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It follows as the night the day that an in- Crease in the price of farm produce is follow- ed by an increase in the cost of farm imple- ments, etc._. Price ceilings for Canadian-made farm machinery have been increased l2 1-2 per cent, effective today, the,Priccs Board an- nounces. The board ssid a survey had shown that, with the swing-over from war production, unavoidable cost increases had arisen which no longer could be mct without an upward revision in the retail price.’ Officials said the companies had done their best to maintain production of the greatest possible quantity ind variety of farm equipment. The increase should mean that the supply of vitally needed farm implements would be produced "to the maximum that ma- terials sud labor supplies, permit." The new price should be competitive with prices for sim- ilcr prothcte imported from the United, States which. have been free of war exchange tax and ‘customs duties sineg July r, 1944. Following

f are the generaficategories of machines affect-

hy‘ the order: Planting, seeding ' ami- fertil- _ _ ; piowsrtlllsge implements and on; hsyinpmseblnery; harvesting ms- msvhihfl

‘for prépsridllffcrops for mor- 10M

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' On a less amusing side of Par- liamentary proceedings it ‘is evi- nom "m; the Board 01 Trade has.’ suggest a society be formed with

e firmly decided to fasten "down" “T. T!’ n president-its name um’ ‘ pointing" on us as a new example

of official English. Its Parliamen-

iary Secretary replied vcr ly, when some rash mom er had ting.” "I cannot res onsible for words used by hon- ora 1e members in questions. Ob- vlously the word should be down- pointlng." 1t does not seem so cb- vious as all that-except, perhaps,

on the prLnci e

Board of Tra e s ys, sa we

the things that it does, must in-

rilht.

we know. In the’

"downpointfslg"

cvltably be coupons only o

a

Woillll

time since the

ed to ruttle up

used “depcln

and to make control more effec- tive. That can be achieved only by proceeding with due deliberation during this important base period. If the choice is between a little waiting and wrecking the whole system, we can afford to possess souls in patience. -Wirldsor

‘lhc cabled order from Moscow which transferred $1,723,000 to the credit of the United Nations in the New York Federal Reserve Bank is regarded by many observers as virtually proof that Russia ‘las no intention of bolting the United Na- tions, These observers couple the latest Russian action with Prime Ministrr Stalin's statements regard- ing his country's attitude toward . and find the outlook more renssurirng than it has been at any ' irouhlesome Iran- incident was first handed to U, N. O. for solution, 0V0!‘ Russian protest, ~Kingsfon Whig-Standard.

Lite in this new and country can b0 desperately lonely for an overs-ans girl who suddenly finds herself rcmo-vcd rustomcd crlvironmcnt and estab- iisilvri in rm entirely nrw rnv, As those "War brides" arc destincci, in the grcaf majority of spend the remainder of their lives in Canada and to bc the mothers of Canadian citizens of the fniurc, it ought to be our part in cxtcnd tn lhcm as \Vlll'1l\ a weir-om‘: ttc 1-1111 give ihcnl and to stand _ _ beside them during lhc days ofdif-AWOTTY him. If 1i cures hi! ulvcvfli ficulty andiriul which probably 15o in} lllcad of many of them before thcy

become wholly assimilated. -l3rock- ville Recorder and Times.

Seventeen nf the nineteen mill- isters in the MacKenzie King Ca- binet graced the front benches on the opening day Each wore n red flower in his lapel. A Press Gallery wag suggested that the reason for the flower was in that cabinet members could readily rccc-rznize their fei- lows, The United States still gets along with a cabinet cf ten. 0n the other hand many great banks in that country have more vice-presi- dents than Mr, King has cabinet colleagues, Thai. fact gave rise to the story of the two strangers who met on the golf course and learn- cd that they wore high officcrs of the same institution. —'I‘he Print-

A small-holder of whom I have cognizance has made his neighbor rare success egg-production; and has confessed to his secret. It is to keep the hens in a loft over the pigs. Tile as- cending warmth seems to be an l1‘- rcstible influence! Another farmer has a view of the pig's utility which is capable of a rather wider ap- plication. l-Iis pigs escaped into an old stackynrd that was solid with The pigs at once proceed- the weeds am‘ to cat the roots with voraclty. Thesc tough yellow rots that strain the back of the human exca- vator were not cleared but fattened the pigs. - iLondon Spectator.

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lflcisi version; le and llcentiour vagary used by ill-informed private mem- bers. As cheer Jargon them does not seem to be much to choose be~ tween thelm-except that pointing” is longer and loclrl shade more uncouth than "depoiQ- l_ng."- Manchester-Guardian. _ -

o d always the building cf the Alaska vast ea

only

hat

ing the tractor and helping with the sheep. If anyone cares to write to me I will be able to send them pictures of my country and tell them of my life. Hoping for letters from your Is- nd.

I am, Sir, etc. JOAN GIFFORD, P. O. Box ll

Rapaurs, Marlborough, New Zealand.

"r. "!‘.'s" nlscovrsiir

Sir,—It is claimed that because ofthefimpetus given to research. y war. many discoveries which might otherwise have remained unknown for centuries have been

humanity. Many men have become famous by these discoveries. but your correspondent who modestly signs "T. T." may be regarded by posterity as one of ihogreatest benefactors of mankind.

Medical science has 1mg known that excessive worry is a major factor in the cause and aggravation of many of our current physical and mental dlseasesjlrondon doc- tors rccordcd a tremendous in- crease in cases of stomach ulcers during the big blitz. Cause: frayed nerves, mental strain. excessive worry.

Now along comes "T. T." with a cure both simple and revolution- ary, yet 100 per cent effective. T9 the layman i1. may seem a bit un- orthodox, But why should that,

strange

from her ac-

cases, to