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THE GHARLOTTETUWN GUARDIAN

il0l‘lilllg_l_)3\lly‘l Founded in 1887)

President: Ln-ut. Cut. W Cheater S. McLuro Vite Prcsidcnt: J. R. Burnett. FJJ. Secretary: LIUUL (Jul U A. Alacliinnon, 0.5.0.

Editor unu Jlunugmg DlTCllUlZ J. R. Burnett. LJJ. Assuciatgtlriitnrs: l'l'i_l_lllt_ \\ aiker__a_nd Ian A; Burnett SUBSCRIPTION REYES:

By Mail Ill l'.i<..l., $4.00 per year; $2.50 [or 6 month. $1.25 for :5 iunths: 5 ur one month

City Deliier): .00 pt-r 3c '; $3.00 Ior 6 mouth; ~ " lur 3 months. By Mail in L? t“: and IQ. S. .-\.: 55-00 per year

M00 per year; SLOO T01’ ti month.

Iaturday Weekly: 0th.‘ for l.‘ lntllltlla.

‘The Strioiigest lllemory is Weaker than the Weakest Ink.” '

SA‘l‘l'lil).\Y, JANUARY 1S. Ill-ll

Pay Your I I ncume Tax i Now

built-r lllf‘ ul-w zirrzuigt-iiiciit nunlc by the I‘.“II(IITI‘L lip; .;;;.- llvp-irliiivili. t‘\k‘llltltl_\' lllél)‘ l ..|l'lii‘l‘l:.rii1lli‘litXlllllllt iusiiilnicnt plnn,

Ill ' iirdvidctl the first Illslillllltlll. is pziid on or be- fore _Iami.ir_v 31. 'llii-_ is a great convenience, especially a: the tax has been c0nsidcrably' in- m-(c-‘uvl p. prnvfvl» ~lll\‘\\'~‘ of war. Income tax {onus arr non :i\ znitl In‘ is :1 \\'l.~(‘ (‘conn- mist as uvll zi~ n ilzst iinunilulg patriot who goel and gets his inunc.ll.;itcl_v' and pays over one- eighth of the total before the end of the month. lle will thrn have zill .\ugu~: to pay the re- nuqhgn: d“... ‘In and .'\ conlp.'u';ilivci_v easy min-I to lllc ll-

Liberal Press Comment

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(‘onnntii:{;~._~ i - 11v .i!. . ltTlllillilllllll otbtnc lloiiiiiiilrii-lhvlv ' cllillt-rcncc the llillllilX Lihrumrltl tlsilleiui’) say. that Prime “bllfllfilfl King, in atlvotxiznlg atloptititi of the blrols If‘ Ii ui-uld be a step towards cur ~~.n‘v iu lllt‘ \\';u' effort. .\lr- i~~llc in iIn- clcclion vihich

tli .\l=., 19kg dud his sttppoftcri to office les .n a year ago. Tihat election was claimed by him to be a demonstration of nation- al unitv. If it alreznlv exi-"tcd, then there was no "(m-Ll 1.‘, flute p by ,,.l ailing the Sirius rcport.

"Aciunlj 5.1;. the tlflrizillcli‘, “lhc confer- ence was a tint-at to national unity. .\lr. King admitted this himself in bringing the session to its earlv close. . He had also argued that the financiél ,,,-..\-;;i..n,< of the report would streng- then (fanzulzfs credit: but incrcasiug tlic fedcrnl debt by absorbing the provincial debts could not possibly increase federal credit, so badly need- ed in time of wiar."

The Halifax Liberal patier goes so far as to rejoice in lhc fztcl that ‘ilic Sirois report “is a dead pigeon *nt lczist for the pi'c.~clil." Now, it lava, the nation can devote itsclf unitedly and wholeheartedly to the war effort, such action being “much more to the public taste."

The Chrmzirlr has bet-n consistent in its 0p- position to holding the confervnce at this time, and repeatedly warned the Prime Minister of the folly of the course he was pursuing. Evi- dentlv Mr. King doesn't road his leading party ficwspaper in Nova §voti=il

port, slag s". uationnl u liunul miii_\ deci wclv rt

“lumen And \Var \Vork

A corttributnr to the Ottawa journal com- plains of the f-iiltire of the Canadian liovern- ment to make all. i,l.l.'.l< use‘. or any use, of Cain- adian woincn in time gigantic lél>l'\' which fact-s this Empire and this country.

He points out that such organizations of wo- men for war vtork as exist in Canada are strict- ly unofficial, have thus an extrt-mcl_v' limited sphere of u-"c ,.('~\~—ill.ll points out by C011- trast that in the Linlltffl lxlingdom women in their thousands are voluntt-cr members of offi- cial auxiliary services which belong to the mili- tary establishment of the country, their mem- bers paid, prriviilcrl \vith uniforms. living in barracks unrlcr distiiilline, and performing all over Britain a host of duties from which men are relieved for combatant work.

A military expert quoted by the contributor estimates that such a force in Canada ccnild lave some l5 per ccnt of the mcn now in uni- form in the home forces. These are the men dining halls —— jobs women can d0 as well, or better. Today- the .-\rtn_v, the Navy, the Air Force, our c-wlltiitl \\'Zil' iniluslrics, agriculture, all are making ilu. llPlllillllls on our manpower,

and it l> fzir fmni bring an inexlnuislilile reserve.

'l he lotirnal l!i(li)l'.~'l‘w its rorrcspoildcnfs view and silys it is lnnc the (iovcrnmeilt gave very serious though; u. this question. Iixistcnce of lllllll\' \lvllllll.'ll'_\ .\\llt'l.'ll.ll\IlS of tvmnpn for gnu lung t‘_I;t~~<'-- \Ill.‘III‘|| who give up lllt‘lr ]¢i_\ll]‘€ to train lli<‘lll\t‘l\t‘- a: llit-ir own (’.\"‘.Cll_‘.(‘ for some ilwiul place in thi: wm- pff.,|-|__5||(,\v5 that a \\iiu»<n‘< .\rin\. an official part of our nulllnrv r-l: ~lllllt‘lll, Hlllllll be grcclcd with ‘I'm ‘ill’ ' ll?” ‘lll. “ll! not let th: \\llllll‘ll h~lp nan llll “H?

blnrilinlrv Fnrnlers penalized

' llliil t'.lilill.'ll'_'ll on Ili'll.'llf of (Ju-

/\ Hilda; l-‘lllo l-'II'IIIII -'l\ Irwin vnirrnwl on in rcccnt wccks lH lll<' l/lliln Illll/ .ll.nl. l: llc-cribvs iln: fIlYlllCls ln lllt‘ \\'.'.'llli"l -: l"'-l\:i l‘ Ill (lulinlzi as “scctll- l"! \\lll1lilwllliliu”ouriln-nrlliliwirvaction of l_l'i' ll;l.i\\.i .11! n ~ xi rung innxiunull prices tor lnlliir. will will \\.Iil unpi'ilfil.'il»li- priccs f"l' ll\"‘ ll"!~ ' lllllllil \ - ~laul<lzirils willl \\lllill :!.i~ I.. . ' lupin-ll kllillllFlf‘,

~\§_|"'IlI<lI on: fl"‘l|lli'llll\ in lllt'~L' columns. Ill!" >2 "l. ll'l‘.\' Kl r Itl|~.'lll.~.fil("l'l|"\' in (lil- lluim" "‘“7“ '-l' l\ l1" ‘M-lsi- for our farmers ll‘ Ill" -ll-'ll"llll“ l'l<l\i|lrl"~. 1min! ti. liil-Zllcr lmil-qll-rl‘ o. ‘~" Ililtl olbm" ll".'l\\l).'tCI\'\' inci- <l~ll ll» l w~:-~~~. our .\l.'il'ill|llt' Libr-rail l'l>I- :i..'. .- .1 1i wmblw of making zmv lllIIiI'<~-l4lIl on lll- illril Illllllllldllfis: pf-rlmpc \"ll "liPtllll ilr" n- lln- iliiuanll for .'iclion. "ll ll-‘l!’ ‘ll ll ill ln- <I»»ui-. In lhv incan- llll’? ll '* "lP-"llldtllli: ‘o noic Illlll our Tomlin» ("onlz-illllorzirv hi» Ii|ll‘ll up llu- cullgils i." (my lilinll, ll .'.l._; '

"Alfillllltv" l'llr\ll\ l’ l‘.1-,p..|-.~ In“. rh-N,“ (U,- (“lllllil _ _ \~.'-l.".l inf lll Pruviilcial (iuvrrn. ll"i'_lil olllrlzils .'llff‘lltlllll' tho Utlnwil confrrcllct‘. lflll-ft.‘ l~_lll\ill-tl l\l.ll;il rho-w it shipped to Alon-l

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treal, weighed there and then sent back to Hali- fax over much of the same route, for export to linglzintl. The produccrs rcccive the .\l0ntreztl price. less the wholly unnecessary freight charges, since all cheese exported from Can- ada is paid for on the basis of Montreal prices.

“Thus, at a time when the railway between Rlontreal and Halifax is jammed with trains carrying vital war inatcrizlls and munitions, and scores of miles of additional passing tracks had to be constructed to facilitate traffic, we have the strange spectacle of Maritime Province cheese destined for Britain being shipped more than a thousand niilcs nlcrcly fur the purpose of being weighed. ls there any reason why the cheese could not be weighed and graded at Char- lottetown or Halifax?

“'l‘lie Maritime farmers have another griev-

ance: Hogs raised within sight of Halifax Har- bor are paid for one the basis of prevailing Montreal prices, less the freight rate from Hali- fax to Montreal, which means Nova Scotia far- mers get about 60 cents per hog less than Que- bec farmers. That may be reasonable enough if the Iiogs are to be slaughtered in Montreal, but it seems a bit thick when they are killed, pickled and packed in Halifax and sent directly overseas, with the overseas price to Canadian Bacon Board based on delivery at the Atlantic seaboard. “is it any wonder the Maritime producers are angry after taking the matter up ivith Ot- tavva and getting nowhere? The whole thing shows a lack of proper consideration.”

EDITORIAL NOTES

I Ex-Mavor Houde is reported to have been sent t0 21 days in jail in his interment camp for talking politics. \\'hat else could hc talk about anyway? m m m s Britain's war effort now is costing approxi- mately 831,620,000 a day. It cost $45,000,000 daily in I940. Anny, Navy and _~\ir Force costs combined averaged about $55,000,000 daily in the first lI days of I941. The rest went for interest and management, national debt and ordinary expenditures. i: 4i m n- Primc Minister King ought to be more than grzttcftil lo Prcinici" Campbell for the ulagnific- cut though utiavailing support he gave him at the abortive conference, and if gratitude be the anticipation of favours to come, Prince Edward Island must surely be a bencficiaryl as the result of the two working in such close Iiarmony. it it * 'l‘hroughout the province as well as the Do- minion memorial services for the late Chief Scout, Lord Baden-Powell, will be held to- morrow. In the City a joint service under the ziuspiccs of thc lloy Scouts and Girl Guides As- sociations will be Iicld at four o’clock in the af- ternoon in Trinity United Church, Rev. Hugh Miller, B.D. officiating and Rev. D. C. Booth- royd. BA. delivering the address, while other city clcrgy also will participate. ll‘ 1K ll‘ 41

The Hon. W. F. Alan Stewart writes to our evening contemporary asking it, or any of its readers, to tell him how the farmers can carry on in vicw of the incrt-ascil liability thcy have incurred tlirotlgh hziviup; to pay higher prices for their purchases while receiving lower prices for everything they have to sell. We can tell him, and ‘have been doing s0 since the outbreak of wzir-iiisist upon a coalition government for IllL‘ (Illfiltltlll of the \\'2li', v 4r 4- 4- Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer, 1st Baron Lytton, novelist and statesman, died this date, I373. clllayed prominent part in society and politics and became sccretzuy of state for the Lblonics in 1858-9. The novel “Pclliam” establish- ed his popularity as a. writer followed by the brilliant series including “Eugene Aram” “Paul Clifford", and "Godolphin”; in “The Last Days of Pompeii" and “Rienzi" he showed an unsus- pected power of stistaiiling human interest in zirchacological and historical fiction. “Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword." w e in w Ilcre was the inspiring editorial contribution of the Saint john TClCgTflpll-JOUTIIZII to the dis- cussion of the Sirois report: “In considering the recommendations of the Rowell-Sirois Re- port. it is to be hoped that both provincial and federal representatives will be able t0 find a solution to the many problems which face the confcdcralion as a whole and the units which form it, without destroying any of the advantages and privileges necessary to the provinces in or- der to fulfill their proper task in the federal or- gnnizaliiwii". All in one mouthful and two breaths! w w- k v

Here is Premier Campbell's representation at Ottawa in a nutshell: “He dismissed any idea that the Sirnis Report recommendations involved loss of provincial autonomy’. Thcre was no danger of centralization of authority at Ottawa. Irlc referred to recent suggestions that some pro- vnices_ might be bankrupt in two years if the commission's recommendations were not carried out. lfe believed lhcrc was sonic danger of that eventuality. llis province might have little to gzun from the recommendations but he be- l!(‘\'f'(l all parts of the Dominion should work for whalcvt-l‘ was Ix-st for the whole.” And who l> lhcrc lo disagree with him?

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Tllt‘ If. Association of Fnrcigil Press COITC- syionilcllls has removed from its rolls two active

lllt‘lllll(‘l'$ mentioned in the llics Committee \\ h l tc Papcr on un~.-\mcric.'lii activities. has acccplctl the resignation ns an as-

and lsncizilc member of Dr. llzms llorchcrs, German (‘nnsiil-fivilcrzil. .\lr. llans Ilorchcrs, German, llisliilg liilnsclf as corrcspondcnt for scvcrnl Braz- ilian papcrs, was cxyvcllcil. Dr, llcrbcrt Cross. .‘\lllt'l'lt‘illl corrcsivonrlcill for Nncllriclltcn fier- nlzin .\linislr_v~ of liconnulics, resigned tinder firs‘. Iiolb has Iiccn CIIHTQPIl formallv with "unpro- frwsional cnnllilrl." The \\'Ilil.- Vapor Iistctl .\lr. Krcilllirnslcili as an ('lll]llfi_\'(‘t" of the Trans- ()l‘('.'Ill .\'c\v< §vrvirr_ an orgnnimliolt described in lln- tlllt‘lllll"lll (is IIilIri-‘s "nqciicv for the dis- \"lllltl’llflill nf pnninvaildl in filrfiiljll cuunlrii-s.“ and .\lr. Gross was named as Iiaving Iieen iden- tifird bv a committee wilncss as "an agent of the (jcrman government."

___THE CHARLOTTETOWN GUARDIAN

NOTES BY THE WAY

The tout w His Majesty is d! unk tin an UTMCEFQ’ mess) in mu man- ner: As soon as one pIi-QXOQUT: has satufigd himself that all is in i"eadines.s,foi' the toast. viz. that the wine decanters have betn plac- ed in hunt of hmiself and the vice- pztemden-t, he fills his wine $4855 and then passes hi. decanter clcckws: w tihe cnner on his left; the vice- pruident dses likewse. Durex; wno are teetotallers snould ask a waiter to fill up their wine glass with wa- ter or other iron-alcoholic beverage before this passing of the w.:ie takes place. When the president sees that all leases have been filled, he rises a his feel; with his wine glass m his right hand, and in a loud, char voice says, “Mr. vice. the King," whereupon the vice-president riscs, glass in ngnl. hand. and says, "Gentlemen, the King", alter Whldh all diners rise with glasses m right hand, all standing to attention wlhile the band plays a few bars of the Na- tional Anthem. When the band ceases playing the Commanding Officer razses his wine glass and

says. “The King. God bless bun". After the Commanding Officer has said these words. bu not before.

all diners raise their glasses, and say “’I'he King" and then drink from their glasses. The words “G.d bless Him" are permitted to Field Officers only; the use of these words l: tioziel and not oomipui- ldrl’. — It R. in Canadian Veteran

More than halt a million Cana- dians will pay lnccme tax next year-twice as runny as ever be- fore-and if they are t» do their par: according to their muons and IQSDOB-iibllllles it will be necessary for the K118101115’ to make some pro- vision to mcet their payments. The Government exipects to rose £200.- 000,000 from this source to help pay the stupendous costs of war. Large incomes have been heavily taxed, but. a SUM/e made by she experts shows that, if they were to pay one hundred cents on the dollar the Government wculd obtain 195s than $150,000 000. so it is necessary to ask all sngle persons reccviilg $750 cr more and all married pcrscns in receipt, of $1,500 or more to contrab- ute. In addition w the gfudltiakd iziccme tax based on ability t. pay. the Government, has levied a na- itonal defense tax at a Ila". rate ap- plicable to all incc-mis abcve $600 for sngle persons and abcve $1,200 for muiuitcl pCLSOIIS. and it w.ll be generally flglfiEd that thoe who can't. fight should pay. As far as it is mticable, this tax is being c 1- lec d by employers at the scurce and paid over to the Department of National Revenue, but there will be thousands of cases where L-llls is not. feasible, and those aflfectcd will be required to pay their taxes direct. For such persons, indetd for all Income and natimai defense taxpayers wlho have not substan- tial reserves of ready cash, it will be wise to start, a budget. This method of payment has bccn faci- frated by an instalment plan which eases the impact ovf the levels and permits Payments to be spread over the eight months from January t0 August. - Toront.) Globe and Mail.

The placing of double guards alsng the Channel coast. and tlhc constant. patrolling of all beacnes means that the British Government still believes that Htler will altzmpt. an invasion and does not propoe t; be taken bvsurprlsc. The heavy niovemoiit of (Jermain trcops into Rumaniu may or may not. be a plind devised by the Nazas for the purpose of concealing their real strategy and in lulfng Bixta n into a false sense of security. Tile marked reduction in the number and cxtent of recent. air raids over Britain may well have been part of this strategy. It is improbable, h.w- ever that the Gomrnment in Lcn- dcn is acting merely ullcn a W691i- latfve interpretation ‘of German troop movemcnts and air procedure. Il may be taken fr glantcd that Britain is being well sCrvEd by l1" own agents in Europe and by friendly citizens in German oc- cupied territories and that. the Pfe- cautlons that. are bEiIlg taken are the result o.‘ something more than guesswork. There is a sugg-Bilnve parallel betnlveen the pres.m posi- tion of Adolf Hitler and that of Napcleh. The Frcnch conqueror knew that he must subdue Britain or fall in everything. He had mas- bertd Europe. His attempt to strike Britain thruugln. Egypt, met wmh d s; ter. Hitler has tried the same tactics by using his Italian ally, and Italy has jailed him. Na-po eon spent a lcng time M Boulogne, waiting for the fleet, that never came. He too, built, barges and cther troop-carrying craft, which never crossed the water. He sought to decoy the Biutish fleet into 11-S- t-ant Sea; so that, the channel crcss- m; mfgin be made 1n safety. and he failed. He did his utmcst to confuse the British Govcrnment as b0 where he intended to stake, but his real intentions were kncwn. An exiled LyaLst saw’ to that. Trafal- gar was fought and the whole m- vaslon scheme collapsed, The docm of Napoleon was ‘written in terms of British scapowcr, and history is repeating itself. Britain's navy still rules the sea, augmented by slhips of the Dominion-S, and the British air arm has plflvfid U581! more than equal to brat of Ger- many. A great army recruited in all parts of the Elmpire waits In the United Kingdom far the day when it will march to Hitler's Waterloo. —Montreal Gazette.

If your neighbours house in burn- ing down, the President sizocinctly observes, involving an imminent menace to the safety of your own. you tttrusl. your tire hCYe into his hands without sLppInQ to collect bhe $l6 the hose may be worth. Whcn the crisis ls over lie ‘can R-Ve back the host: or rcplace it. The aitalcgy is‘not exact, for anna- menl, ls destroyed or becomes ob- solete, and the last thing we should probably want would b9 to have 1r. replaced. But the United States is dedicated to the policy of all aid no Britain, not because of the cash profit, in line busncss, not. because of any ccmmerclal considerations. but. tor the single reason that. the safety c: this c unlry‘ d.p:n<ls upon British survival. If t elr house zoos down. the fire will lodge in cnr r001 and walls. and the one reason why we are falling ovcr mxselvcs l/O d: up planes and gulls and tanks an ships for them lies 1n tho hope that»

reaches us, But. so far we h~ve been charging them cash on the barrel head. and at a. handstmg profit. for tvery item of fire-fighting equip- ment We have gem. The Brtsh. for whom It ls e mtzttlrr of lle and desth. have not complained: they have scrimped and gore short. sent us their luxury wcclcns rr Scotch

After the Ottawa Conference

(Saint John Teleizraph-Journal)

The series of incidents which marked the close o! the abortive Iederal-brovincial conference in 0t- tawa this week - the charges and counter-charges. the threats and counter-threats. the resumption of a personal feud between two of the foremost figures in Canadian pubic life. and the Renerel tone 0f uncer- tainty and antalzonism which over- sbread it all-mas done little to en- hance the statesmanship of many of those who izuide the destinies of this Dominion and the provinces. It were better if the Prime Minister's first conviction. which was shared by at least some 0f his collealzues. had prevailed. and that there had been "no attempt to implement the trp-ovlslons of the report at this

me "

The threat of the Finance Minis- ter that. because of hhe failure of the conference to take action upcn the Sirols recommendations. it may be necessary for the Dominion w invade provincial taxation fields to finance the war, raises the question as to what won't! have harmened had the Dian outfitted in the report been adopted. Does Mr. Ilslev mean to infer that the implementation of’ the recommendations would have secured to the federal zovernment revenues from whet are now bro- vincial sources which would neatly increase the Domlnionb total in- come? Or does he mean that the sources of revenue which miizht have been handed over b_v the pro- vinces to the Dominion as the re- sult of negotiation will be seized anvwav bv the federal authority?

If he Intends to convey the fact that the Ottawa lrovernment had hoped to profit financially at the oxbcnse of’ the provinces through the Slrols plan. then he takes issue with his leader who. in his openink remarks before the conference. de- c'ared that “should the recommen- dations of the report be adopted. it (the federal government) will. at the outset. be called upon to accent an increase in its financial bilrdens.” If he means that the federal taxa- tion authoritv contemplates a raid. m- a series of raids. on the provin- cial field. reirardless of the attitudes of the provinces concerned. then he should be reminded of the stato- meul. nmde bv the Prime Minister. also at the opening of the confor- ence. when he asserted that the Dominion government c0u‘d proceed with its war financini! without seek- ing any rearrangements or adjust- ments with the provinces. but that this course would involve "qravein- enualltles and iniustices." and add- ed: “It is hard to sav l10\V_1l. could. fail to provoke serious discontent and a xveakeninz 0t morale." In the face of this warnlmz. it is difficult to see how the Finance Minister could make the threat that he did.

The whole proceedings were marked bv displays of childish h9- haviotn" which must have been re- ceived with disllusl. bv a EYBRL mflIW Canadians. and the onlv hone left is that the meetlne which set out to create a greater decree oi’ national unltv does not achieve an entire- lv opposite result. After all. the affairs of thi-= ccuntlivytic sumicscd to be under the direction of a enn- stltutional government. and the sooner we net back to a realization of the fact that. under the consti- tution. both the Dominion and the provinces have rights and Drlvilelres which must not he violated. the sooner will we be able to attain that unitv.