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‘The Strongest Memory is Weaker Than the Weakest Ink.‘

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Parliamentary Wage Boost

The bold. barcfaced. indenuiitv boost bv our Federal legislators is universally condemned. It is simply a case of, while in control of the cash register, putting their hands in and stealing the cash. The blame primarily lies with Prime Minister itlacltenzie King whose motion set. the pace, all the others‘, ioining in to share the spoil. The Muritrra! Gazette puts it thus: b

‘The virtues originally inherent in the in- crease in the stipend of members of the House of Commons have been largely obscured in the public mind by the tactics and timing of the Govcnnnient in pushing the plan now, regard- less of public reaction. And the acceptsbilitv- of the scheme has hardly been enhanced, but on the contrary is likely to be converted into pub- . lic resentment, by the new move to extend ad- ditional remuneration to Senators as well.

“An attempt has been made to make this $700,000 salary increase 'scem more palatable, more judicially calculated and more finely dif- ferentiating, by classing as subjeot to income tax the extra $2.000 payments to Senators, Cabinet Ministers and the Leader of the Opposition. In effect, the pay boost for these gentlemen is be- ing treated as an increase in salary, while for ,_ ordinary members of the House it is being left g," on the basis first proposed—as non-taxable al- lowance for expenses arising out of their duties.

“The tax distinction mitigates only in par- tialdegree the lack of any real necessity or basic soundness—-—certainly at this time-of any ‘i. proposal to raise the pay of either Senators or Cabinet ministers. It mitigates not at all the cynically brazen political payoffs in the ob- vious attempt to induce the Senate to ratifythe pay jump for the Commoners, without any fur- ther fuss over ‘equality of treatment.’

‘And it has no bearing whatever off the fun- damental question at issue in the whole man- oeuvre: Are the Government and the Com- moners warranted in voting themselves addition- sl compensation from the public treasury while still being committed to maintain controls over inflation, including the "freeze" of salaries and wages of ordinary citizens? The argument that the $700,000 pay boost has a potential infla- tionary effect much less tharpif wage- and salary controls were lifted does not affect the validity of the principle that what is good or necessary for the. national community as a whole applies equally, if not with greater force, to self-bene- fit by those holding the public purse strings.

“There are various convincing aguments why the ordinary Comnioners should receive an ade- quate. tax-free amount (not necessarily $2,000) to cover their out-of-pocket expenses from tra- vel, living in Ottawa for long periods and other- wise serving their constituents. Similar pay- ments to persons engafid in private busincgs are not taxed, and many .P.’s are largely or enti- rely dependent for income upon their sessional sndetnni-ties. But it cannot be overlooked that the current pressure for the extra amount for mem- bers arises out of the impact of present heavy income taxation—which has created comparable difficulties for all Canadians.

“It is hard to find even daliatable iustific- ation for raising also the salaries of Cabinet mln- isters and Senators. All things considered un- der present circumstances, the ministers are not too badly paid. Each receives an aggrcgatofof $16,000 a year, including sessional indemnities and car allowances, with the Prime Minister re- ceiving Szrooo. ,

“As for Senators. a number of them are well- ,to-do or in receipt of other income which, with Ytheir indemniries, leaves them in comfortable circumstances. Under a system which allots them limited responsibility and work to do, they do not have to spend as much time or money on travel and living in Ottawa as do the Common- crs. And. being appointed for life, they are not bothered by the expenses of conducting election campaigns and cultivating their constituents. "The revamped proposal now brought forward ‘ bss all the earmarks of political bribery in re- srd to the Senate. and in regard to the Senate "ind Common.- alike provides an unpleasant tvscle of impatience even before salary con-

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ffsnadian farm machinery helped Britain will the battle of the land. Supplied through

_ mutual aid program, it enabled Brit- s to 'plough up 6,500,000 new scrip laud, much of which hsd not been _ ltioe Saxon times. With the help of Fluids" “prairie busters", bull-dozen. " ‘u! y alter hesvy equipmenLBrltsin herjw t output from_an average of in the live pre-wsr veers

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turned over to country w_sr agricultural colu- mitteesset up by the government tosupslri/lse sll farming in their areas, to direct, farmers’ efforts and eliminate inefficient" methods. Kept in a central pool. the machines were sent to in- dividual farms as needed. - . I

Most spectacular to English eves were Can- adian combine harvesters. whioh not only, out down manpower requirements but helped farm- ers to beat the treacherous English weather by ‘enabling them‘! to gather their Jiarvests- in a hurry. One Cambridgeshire farmer, “Land at War" records. raced a storm by bringing four harvesters to his farm at once and driving them‘ in echelon formation through his wheat fields. clearing 36 feet of izrain in a finale sweep- When the storm broke, the grain was safe in the barn instead of soaking in the fields.

War has revised Britain's rotation of crops. In the old days, the standard rotation included a year or two of lying fallow between grain and root crops; but in the war years no such wast- age of good acres could be permitted. In its place, farmers substituted one vear in which fields were sown with carefully prepared grass mixtures, which was harvested like a grain crop and turned into cnsilage; this brought silos to the British countryside where silos were scarcely known before. Special grass has been bred for the purpose, and many new strains introduced to meet varying soil conditions.

-EDII'URIAL NOTES-

Wc enter the second‘ last lap in the

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It has been a hectic time recently, and it will be more so before Santa has been ultimately traced to his source of supplies.

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The time has not yet come when we can be complacent about tuberculosis. This disease is still the greatest killer of people between ages of f5 and 45. Nearly 6,000 Canadians died of

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Sir Humphrey Davy, English chemist, who proved that diamond is pure carbon. and in- vented the miner's safety lamp, born this date I779; he was a distinguished agriculturalchem- ist, investigated the alkalis and alkaline earths, and isolated potassium and sodium, also boron and other elements.

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The Commons respecting the of maple

Another trade restriction. gave third reading to an act manufacturing, inspection and sale

"products. The bill, previously passed by the

Senate, requires sugar producers to obtain lic- ences if they export sugar or maple syrup from one province to another. ll i I! l

Mr. Bevin is definitely losing support in Left Wing circles in Britain. He is a man of rigid honesty of purpose, and a true patriot. To him Britain is a power for good in the world. Such a nian is more likely to get cheers, as he does, from the Cotiservatives and Liberals than from the Socialists in the *British Parliament.

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Sterling area countries are, perforce, fol- lowing Britain, in denying Canadian exporters permission to enter their markets. They have to do this, since their currencies are closely tied to Sterling. Since many of our most im- portant markets. outside Britain, are in the Sterling Area, this adds to the pressures of a situation which is definitely alarming to Ot-

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justice Minister St. llaurent said in the Commons that his department knew nothing about the reported use of a lie detector in Windsor, Ont., to test the culpability of a con- vict. He ivas- replying to John Diefenbaker (P.C., Lake Centre) and said‘ that any_ infor- mation about the use of the detector would have to come from the attorney-general of Ontario. Mr. Diefcnbaker said that if the lie detector had been found to be reasonably infallible he wondered if the Justice Department would con sider its use throughfutluthi Dominion.

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The Senate sent back to the Commons the most amended piece of Commons’ legislationgof the session, a bill to merge the Departments of Reconstruction and Munitions and Supply into a single department of Reconstruction and Sup- ply. Third reading was given after Senator Wishart Robertson, government leader, said Re- construction Minister Howe had informed him that the amendments would umhandicap his department in the renegotiation of war con- tracts.

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attractions are being widely advertised in the United States and South America, Trade Minister , MscKinnon said in the Commons. TheqCsnldisn Trsvcl Bureau also was undertaking s campaign to make individual Canadians confclous of the vslue of tourist trade. The campaign was aim- ed st making each Canadian ltdllte‘ the necessity of being considerate to tourists so they would return to their countries and urge otheri to visit Canada. - ‘

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The Quarterly Bulletin 1 of , Agricultural Statistics issued by the on" Bureau of Statistics said cash income the slleof fsrm products in Csnsds for the first six months or r945 was syoapoopob compared with approximately $764,000,¢o0 in the period last yesr. And except. for s small amount in Nova Scotis, the three" PrsirieProv- lnoes accounted for sll fllfl-dfifflik- The, , esedecrcsse in income was $$t,_ooo,ooo tl Ssskstcbewsn. followed by s ddétessei of fifl 000,000 in Alberta and hioddrrow sacrum Manitoba compned with i944. lrm inbuilt} ures. ‘m bulletin um tirmilhllsu his". lttlnpsrtbyincressesin , limo. in fsrm income ln Oh for ‘months of _i9_45'sppro ~

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Nova sooth l: spoofing topxport ~s mllllon Christmas trees to the United States ln the next few weeks. Whst the Nova Scotlsn farmers lost on the poor apple crop, they hope to make up on the Christmas trees, no doubt. —Ot-

approprlsted to communities for setting out ln parks. 1t ls lust as well. There ls something incongru- ous ll] the spectacle of guns ln such places. They are not even‘ an ornament. Many people have robjected and they are not far ‘mung-Port Arthur News-Chron- ce.

Football without a near slot; hockey or baseball without a few spilt skulls, a shower of pop bot- tes and paper and a referee flee- lng the wrath of the mob; lacrosse without a few stretcher cases- these would be highly bogus pro- ducts to display to our friends Europe. Even things llke cricket must have their appropriate puru- phernalla, for cricket would be pretty awful wlthout awnings and cake, although to many people cricket. ls pretty awful even with awnings and tea and cake-Hamil- ton Spectator.

Now ls the time 0o have antl- freeze put ln the radiator of the family automobile. The cold weatl - er ls upon us and, while there may yet be a day or two of In- dlan summer warmth, the tem- peratures will contlnue to decline. The damage that a frozen clrcu- lutlng system can cause ls con- siderable. echanics are still ov- erworked, and the new automobiles are stlll a little way off. The old car that took us through the war ls going to have to lust a llttle longer, and it deserves careF-Bos- ton Post.

l hadn't hoard this French resis- tance story before. Apparently an oldlady had taught her parrot to lay "Mort. aux Boches." Suddenly, she had a member of the Gestapo bllleted on her. He told the old lady that next tlme he heard lt he would kill the parrot, Very

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"m" “mm- "noun w numrnnnu y ‘ I \ _ _ > wrdh muTué-b‘ u ‘ ‘m: TIIJPIO. | .. l( . I \l lnl hi. w, ' w» __ ___ ,_ n sor w on: en oy __ ‘but '0 m“ ' condition now applying, with not, at’ I ‘m .~ u" a- v I _ ~_ \ , , _ , ‘a- Strut Oompmyoneahlrotcndollsrs l ii.l,\ l . one patient. ln its Isolation Hospl- cub "if m; other slsalbfdl dol- ‘ ' ' ‘ l ll‘ l \! ~ i . . tel. The fact that this can be" u- m" by work n m‘ um‘ o‘ com _..__..... chleved temporarily, however, ll motion By “m” “,6 “m1 . , 4 , encouraging, It stresses the value am a m], n _ c’ “w 0311'“) wit!‘ ; of the public health service that m“ comm! I “n. manned , . n“! J“, w - l‘ “l” “m”! °"' "' Wham‘ ‘slut. thls Company's sffslis were i’ ~ . . - s ,. . . -—-—- 1 ' 5i"- putlnhheUtllltles3osrdby ins All ll) .'\(.(.ll)l‘..\l Dof-nuu-(oei-or or person o whom 1 have 9 l1! "W! lit-er Douqq The ""1"" I" "°'°"°° '1" no knowledge. 1 can lpesk from bu lanolin d thnr 104s mom stated that no more guns wlll be ‘umoflty'_l h“: no mowmuv “ma; u. u; ‘ax-hurl. no ~ eases w . avails

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of those procee . , ~ -_~ . The “mm "e m“, m; dedmny _DIED 1N ‘IOBONIO LISTEN, GIRL! l Bu"! W111 lllVtWhlte lettering on Ullfik i

of the Utilities Board. of whom 1- - ONTO -——9 . (c? muons COMING i a“ mkfllmlld- _ -_Doucott am informed Dr. rm- 1s the M“ J wal-mmlfs {cw-M >- - o -—- -, t, "l" tin-volume, mitt-tenor. chairman, llllllb North Wlltsblre mmbw- o‘, D - nah B Yell‘! I _ WEN SOUND 0:11., 99¢, 14__ 0 0M Pl!!! PM‘ ve lcle wlll n. Telenhone 00mm” u to b. My un M nautical. o! one queue forms lip the left. fob, msln because of steel lhortagog. Ied two hundred mil-tony dollars d.‘ "He ma‘ ‘ ' lwnmlfit m; A1 l!" “m? , _ i L _ m - g-gulypg many-guy? m. -’°“ 2.’.a°.“.r.."“°.;“‘.l‘.r.‘&‘ mo. Mo...’ " " - '

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Island Telephone Conmsnly the “m, u, m‘ 131 qmf, m, Wm‘ ‘mad m“ w, mm‘ some amount they have been niw- . s lying are his widow on a cmfdh‘ b’ .

lug Central of one hundred and wo as n. brother: ‘Ilhe price? ha?‘ up w m’ ~

‘went!’ @115" P" "u" u“ " “"117. of oatmeal. Prices and Trade Board.

bove statements sre correct as to" the salary to be Dlld to Milton Central. this no doubt wlll be a to other telephone s-i

n P12. Island who also have o been lettlpll s. starvation salary. »

Reports are quite current that these unusual proceedlnirs are to be lnvestlgnted, and why the shareholders of North '_ re, Company were never notlfled of; those proceedings. 1 If those statements are true as I have stated. has not time ccoulrh elapsed. that the shareholders of North Wlltshlre Company should, be notlfled of the doclslon of the, Utllltles Board of this hovlnce. *

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Back ' to Moscow

(Globe and Mall)

A ouncernent that the Foreign Ministers of Brltsln, the United States and the Soviet wlll meet in‘ Moscow Dec. l5 to discuss the com, trol of atomlc energy should re- store strong hope for s betterment of the relatlons"~between these three Powers. There has been vlsi» ble a steady deterioration ln their j relations since the London meet-

worrled, she asked the Cure to help. He had, he said, a very-well-r brought-up parrot which ho would‘ exchange for hers. They swapped. That night when the Gestapo manl came l.n the parrot said nothing. Al last, losing his temper, he shouted "Mort uux Boa-hes." The parrot said, "May the good Lord answer your prayers, my son."- Lonclon New Statesman.

Maybe our schools aren't all they are cracked up to be. At any rate, glrls nrd boys returned to Britain are sold to be having a hard llrnoj passing examinations for schools there, and many public schools have accepted the boys although the results of the entrance exam- lnatlcns would have kept them out. We can stlll learn u lot from Brltlsh educatlon.——Brockvllle Re- corder nnd Times.

When horses founder, they maul» fest sudden stiffness, lameness, iindl u tendency to place their forefeet out ln front, so at they rest‘ on their heels. wlt the hlvid tect- plsced somewhat forward under the body. This condition ls due to blood congestion ln the feet. say, veterinary authorities, and requlzesl prompt treatment If permanent damage "ls to bs prevented. ‘first sld measures recommended are: standing the horse ln running water or pouring cool water over the feet, or applying flnely-crushedl lee packs to the feet. A VGKGliII-y urlan should take charge of the cue as soon as posslble, because the speed wlth which remcdlal measures can be applled largely affects the extent of recove:‘y.— From Government Bulletin.

Lt. Gen. Jimmy Doolittle com- pleted s trans-continental non-stop flight ln a Superfortress Sunday st the disappointing slow average speed of only 3B9 mlles per hour. ’I‘hls was considerably short of the record of 8B3 m.p.m. We can't help wonder‘ng what was holding hlm back, We recall the time when the old muster would step into an or- ange crate", held together wlth‘ chicken wlre and covered with an old awning. and go around the pylons at. the National Afr Races so fut towers rocked In the wlnrl. We remember how Jlmmy, wlth a broken leg, climbed lnto a plane snd flew lt across the Andes. Brit that was sll years silo when he was young. Hts later exploits have been such prosaic stuff as loading that flight of Llberstors to give Tokyo ltsflrst bombing, Nothing spectacular, y'underste.nd. And now, to do no better than cross the country st s pedestrian sbr hourslsnd so nunutgs. It's old an creeping}: on Jimmy. that's what lt ls.-- trolt Free Press.

lng of the Council of Foreign Mln- isters collapsed last October ln nn atmosphere of unpleasant recrlm- lnntlons and little by way of ac-. compllshment to its credit.

Considerable responsibility for‘ the tensions and frictions which have followed can be attributed to" Russlan suaplelons that the Anab- Saxon democracies were determin- ed to ke as a monopoly the se- crets of t e atomic bomb, and ivere even ready to hold that weuponl as a threat over Russia ln order to force modlflcstlons of cerraln

f her pollcles. High spokesmen of the British and American Gov- ernments have repeatedly repudi- ated any such design, and have gone far to demonstrate thelr willingness to work out arrange- ments for the international con- trol of atomic energy. But their assurances have not so far quieted the suspicions of Moscow.

Now, however, lf United States Secretary of State Myrnes falls lnto line with Mr. Berlin's plan "for placing the cards on the table face upward” and they lnvlte Rus- sla to share ln the secrets of the atomic bomb on certaln equitable conditions, a rejection of such an offer would place the responsibility for the continuance of the present tension fairly and squarely upon Moscow. If on the other hand the] Soviet wlll reciprocate their trsnlo, ness and share ln the "PQIPOIISllJIl-i ltles" of control a favorable at-l mosphere should emerge for a hur- monlous cooperative settlement of a variety of postwar problems ln which all three, Powers are deeply interested. ~ _