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Dreadful Highway Toll

we = pe shaken out of our complacéncy by the dreadful traffic accident on the Brackley re- sulting in three “deaths at the time of writing, With four other victims d in hospital. This is the

tials. Price wars will make writes’

- states—Oregon, Carolina and Virginia. And Some

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differ from stalion to station within one city. “—

In Canada, the smoker pays a pro-_ vincial tax of 2c‘ to 4c per package vf 20 in four provinces—Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island. This is, of course, in addition to the current federal tax of 10c. In the U.S.. he pays fed- eral cigarette tax wherever he goes.

. plus a state tax in all but four Colorado North

cities and towns charge TT taxes on cigarettes. his Sales taxes, in 33 U.S. statés' and six Canadian provinces, can make a big. difference in souvenir shopping. A number of municipatities in both countries levy their own taxes as and Quebec City, for instance, a total of 6 per cent sales tax above the retail price is charged—2 per cent provincial, 2

third tfatfic disaster in two weeks, establishing a record of 11 highway

’ deaths this month—a_black-leiter month indeed for this little Province. '

The fatalities for the season to date,

number a as against 20 during all of last’

pathy ‘of all our people is with e beréaved parents and relatives oe these accideht’ victims—most of -

them young persons with what seem-.

ed a promising future before them, of happiness for themselves and use- ful service’ to the .community. But somé¢thing more than expressions of shock and sympathy is required if this appalling Meath and me toll

-is to be checked

Motor_vehicles today are power-

ed with engines out of all -propor=

tion to legitimate requirements, and our hard surfaced roads—designed primarily for safety and conven- ience—offer temptations .in the way of reckless dtiving that must be couritered by increasingl® drastic penalties, tighter’ laws and more intensive safety campaigning.:

Ay The fact that the problem is.na-

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tion-wide does not lessen our re- sponsibility of grappling with it more seriously 1 that we have done in Prince Edward Island. We used to boast of our comparative immunity

from ‘serious traffic accidents; but -

that, apparently, was due to lack of opportunities for speeding rather than to any inherent virtue on our

part. Today the situation has chang-

ed, and we are faced with a chal- lenge which cannot be ignored. The R.C.M.P. is doing a good

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job with the.staff .and facilities | available, but there is need for more ~

highway supervision, especially in the way of motor cycle patrols. If more men are required for these duties, could they not be recruited from our’ ‘citizens, outside the force, as special patrol constables for the summer months? This, would not be a complete Qnswer to the problem, for it is impossible for any number of patrols to. be’ every- where at once; but at least it would effect. some improvement. The main challenge, however, is to our own sense of responsibility as citizens. This calls for prction on a Province-wide front, enlisting’ the support of every public-spirited or- ganization and individual in an all- out drive to restore ‘sanity, sobriety and safety on our highways, at all

costs. ‘ ~— j \ Those Hidden’ Taxes

test survey by CCH Canadian Ltd., reporting authority on tax and business- law, shows that provincial and state levies on a variety of tour- ist needs vary greatly. Most com-

mon of these taxes are levied on.

gasoline, cigarettes and retail] sales. Since Jast year’s survey, 18 state tax increases have been added in the United Siates. In Canada, Nova Sco-

tia has added a 3 per cent:'tax on’

retail sales, 2c on 20 eigaréttes- One cannat escape a-state or pro- vincial gasoline tax anywhere in Ca-

ze nada or the US. But by tanking up,

Say in Missouri, before entering any neizhboring state—I lin-is, A. kansas Kansas, Oklohoma, lowa or Nebras- ka—one can save trom 2c to 4c. In Canada, if motoring south from the Yukon, a tank filled there before en- tering British Columbia would save 4c a gallon. The gas tax in the North- west Territories at 1c. is ‘the lowest on the continent.

On the whole, gasoline taxes in the U.S. are Jower than in Canada. Bas- ed on the. Canadian Imperial gallon (about five U.S. quarts) the US.

11L.7e in Canada. But tax dif-

of course,

average is 7.5c per gallon compared :

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‘~Howard Greeh, Secretary of State |

‘ wrath. 2

per cent city and 2 per cent education taxes. Amusement taxes also may be levied by city, province or state, a typical one being the Ontario tax averaging about 10 per cent up to a maximum of $1 on movies, theatres, | ete., plus all meals where entertain- ment is included.

- EDITORIAL NOTES

The fatal shooting of an uh- armed London detective last week has revived an old controversy about whether Britain's police should carry Weapons. Britain, with one of the best forces in the world, is one of the few countries where the police are not armed. The British public want it that way, and so, apparent- ly do the police and the supervisory . authority, the Home Office.

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As a result of the strenuous na- ture of her Canada-wide tour, Queen Elizabeth was reported over jthe-

and weariness.” It is not to be won- dered at. Too much advantage has been taken of her conscientiousness in meeting the relentless demands of public duty. Let us hope that these will now be curtailed as much eas possible, regardless of any con- sideration other than Her Majesty's , health.

Why, we: wonder, was it: neces- sary for Parliament to. make “a marathon, non-stop push” to pro- rogue on Sunday morning instead of adjourning on Saturday and~finish- ing in a more dignified and leistirely mariner this week? What was the emergency? We are not told in the news despatches, and- apparenty there. was none. This was the first Sunday sitting since 1919, and it could well have been dispensed with. j o *

The minister who scored highest popularity points in Parliament this

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(Patrick Nicholson is on vaca- tion. His guest columnist today is MURDO MARTIN, C.C.F. M. P. for Timmins.) -

The basic concept of a demo cratic government is based on the theory that-there are two sides t» every question and that the best—solution-can—be-reached only after a thorough presenta- tion of. both points of view.

Consequently in a democracy the opposition is Jike a conscien- ce in a human being, the strong- er the conscience, the better member he is uf -society—the stronger the opposition to a dem- ocratic government, the better the government will be. By the same token a government with- out an opposition, is like a man without a conscience and can viT- tually become a menace to #>- ciety.

This basie concept of democ- racy has always seemed to ap-

. ply in Great Britain, whether due

to a gréater political conscious- ness, or whatever other reason, the British people have always’ maintained a healthy atmosp ws e as far as their government is con- cerned by always keeping their

oppusition sn ti BRITISH EXA!

When the Liberal party in Bri- tain became almost indi stinguish-

| able froin the Conservatives they

‘tain anything”

were prompt.y dropped | by ‘the Britis people and the Labour

year appears to have been Hon. for External Affairs and Minister of t Public Works. He put each of his

two sets of estimatés through the | Commons in a day. This is something of a record. Usually it takes a member of the cabinet two or three days at least to get his estimates approved. The reason, according to a press commentator, is that Mr. Green knows when to provide the soft answer. that turneth away

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Between 1949 and 1958} accord- ing to a Senate finance committee ; National Product—

the over-all measure of our current national wealth—increased by 97 \ per cent; but the spending of all governments—federal, provineial and municipal—inereased by 156 per | cent ‘and is up again sharply this | year. Thus the cost of our govern- ments combined, all living on the same taxpayer, accounted last year for 31 per cent of the Gross Na- tional Product as against 23 per cent in 1949. The per capita cost of | government at the three levels was $276 in 1949 and $560 last year,

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iences, ‘on the awe of the s¢chola ly. world.

He was an: -anthropologist, as- ‘tronomer, botanist, geographer, geologist, geophysicist, metoro- logist, oceanographer, physiolo- |

gist, and zoologist—all rolled into one:--In—each field he made dis- ‘tinguished contributions. For bot- any, he collected some 60,000 specimens and described 3,500 new species. For geography, he

Humboldt’s Centenary - National Geographie Society

After 10 years, Alexander von! geology in Ecuador. Before leav- |

Humboldt, a one-man academy of | ing the Americas more than ever com- { conversations with his friend Jef-

1} olas of Russia sponsored his ex-

fathered the modern science and started climatology as a study in - itself.

Thomas Jefferson proudly re-

ceived von Humboldt at Monti. | volume

cello. Charles Darwin called him the ‘‘greatest scientific trav- eler that ever lived.” Ralph Wal- do Emerson declared he was “one of those wonders of the world.-slike Aristotle, like Julius Caesar, like the Admirable Crich- ‘ton,.who appear from time to time, as if to show us the possib!- lities of the human mind, the force and range of the faculties —a universal man.” 1.G.Y. HIS MONUMENT This year the world is mark- ing the 100th. anniversary of his death, which occurred on. May

_| what was probably the largest

6th., 1859. But in a sence the re- scent International Geophysical | Year is his monument, for he) led the way toward world-wide | co-operation. among. scientists.

- Born in Berlin, in Humboldt was the son of a chamberlain to Frederick the

When oil poured out of \the ground, in Alberta it was thought there must’ _ be similar underground treasure in Sagkatchewan. Hundreds of millions | of} dollars went into exploration and diWling. The oil industry drilled al- most 600 dry ‘holes. Wells that were found to be productive have resulted ° in fractional financial returns in com- parison with the money spent in the’ search. The industry is now about | te abandon further work \in Saskat- | chewan and turn to more promising | fields in Alberta’ and northen Brit- ish Columbia unless by some stroke _of fortune a rich discovery is; made within the next few ania l. |

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Great._tte -became—actntre dest; ead

or in his early twenties but it wasn't enough to keep him Susy. He studied electricity and pub- lised the results of his experi- ments in two books. ~

In-t799~ King €tiarles TV of Spain gave him permission to travel without restriction in Spanish America. Within a year, von Humboldt had explored Ven- ezuela extensively and found the connection, between the Orinoco and Amazon rivers. He went to Cuba and wrote a book on Citha's political history. The part deal- ing with slavery was suopressed when the book was published in the United States. where some- what similar conditions existed, but von Humboldt’s report prob- ably hastended slavery’ s aboli- tion.

He’ studied mining in Mexico,

1759, von i:

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party took .their place. I think time will show that if either the Conservative Party or the Lab- our party, or both, fail to do their job! then in all probability we might see a resurgence of the Liberal party in that country. Even in the United States, while they may not have maintainea the stability seen in’ Britain, they have never gone too far over- board. 5

Unfortunately in Canada. -par- ticularly in recent times, such is not the case. There seems to be a very unhealthy tendency in this country of everybody want- ing to climb on, the bandwagon. Everybody wanting to be on the winning side. The initial fault for this may be laid on the doorstep of political parties, particularly the two old parties. This does not say that the CCF might not be equally guilty, if and when they

got the opportunity. nm ike others, are made. up of n beings with buman wea

But while political parties have tended to create the idea “that you must have a man on the gov- ernment side if you hope to ob- . this does not ex- cuse the Canadian voters elector- ate of their duties and responsibil- ities. If the Canadian voters re- mémber one small fact—that thei? governments are servants of the people, rather than their masters, such an appeal as this

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he had long,

“the most virtuous of * Von Humboldt returned to ek with great chests of plant ‘and rock specimens, notes diagrams. ers in Napoleon's Paris.

There he wrote voluminously, and his fame spread. Tsar Nich-

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, -BOTH HOT AND COLD OTTAWA REPORT ServantsOfThe People ~

could never receive any support throughout the country. TOPHEAVY MAJORITIES

We see such examples as the federal house where the govern- ment has 208 to the combined op position of 56—such as Alberta where the govérnment has 63 out of 6, and indeed the ultimate as was seen hot too long ago: in P.E.1., where every seat was won by. the government candidates. Such examples should serve to send a chill up the spine of the people whe believe in and cher- ish —democratic—principles..__Of such things es these are dictat- orships born, and dun't ever think that it can’t happen here.

}-believe it, was Churchill who said. “Power corrupts—absolute power corrupts absolutely’’. -Hu-

rman beings being what they are

with normal human wea2hmesses,

‘it is impossible for any govern-

ment to give its best performan- ce under such conditions. Top much power breeds smugness and arrogance, arrogance breeds carelessness, carelessness breeds mistakes, blunders and eventual- ly chaos. This is something peo- ple should give careful thourht to. No matter how popular a govern- ment might be at any given time, the best way to ensure that that ‘government will perform at .its best is to ensure that it has a healthy, strong and alert opposi- tion to keep it on its toes.

We cannot expect governments members, regardless of party, to work toward this end. The respon- sibility to guard and maintain @ healthy democracy is the respon- sibility of the voters and the vot- ers _:

saleisitie subjects. The index alone amounted to no less than 1, 117 pages.

A list of siircsitauenieate might run almost as long. In anthropol- ogy he recognized the importan-

ce of environment in the forma- | tion of customs; in astronomy, he

first observed with instruments the great meteor showers of 1799 in. botany, he supplied the first accurate information on ‘rubber trees: in zoology, he experiment- | ed with the —— oft electric | eels. o % ‘

Today he is immortalized in

pedition to the Ural and Altal

mountains, where he studied go and platinum mining. He trave ed as far as the Chinese frontier. 30 VOLUME SUMMATION

During his final years, Humboldt : worked on_ his masterpiece, © cosmos

dealing with the most diverse

ld | Venezuela. Towns named Hum- ti are found in Illinois, Iowa,

geographic names from China to

Nebraska, and |

Minnesota, Tennessee,

Kansas, South Dakota,

von | Saskatchewan. California has a

Humboldt, Nevada a Humboldt River, and Colorado a Humboldt Peak.

Education Is For Life

” Robert Milne - Tyte

British schoolchildren during | the last few weeks have had ex: | citing stories to tel] their parents when they came home in the evening. nearly seventy - five thousand of them have visitied

exhibition ever devoted exclus- fvely to education and careers for young people. \ *

This show, which recently end- ed at Olympia in London, was unique both in size and scope, and not surprisingly, it attracted vis- itora_ from more than twenty countries. By linking school with those first uncertain years in the adult world of industry, commer- technology it graphical- ly underlined the fact that educa- ‘tion is not an end in itself. It is a

preparation for life, a life in ‘wich opportunity now beckons to | young people from many more | directions than even ten years ago.

The exhibition was staged not by the Govérnment, or by -indus- try, but by the 230,000-strong Na- | tional Union of Teachers. When, | after a ten-day run, it closed on | June: 5th., 150,000 people had vis- | ited it, including the Queen and | the Duke of Edinburgh, and most senior members of the British Government. .

“LIVE” LESSONS

The education section was split up into 20 clearly defined | divisions, beginning with the his- tory of education in England and | Wales from the Norman conquest of the llth. eentury and continw |

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ing through It gave a fairly comprehensive picture of every facet of teaching and learning, showing the various grades of schools—nursery, in- fants’, ~ junior, secondary—and some of the work done in them, It demonstrated, too, the way in which handicapped children— blind, deaf, physically-andicap- ped, emotionally disturbed—are educated.

This section also covered the training of teachers, and the val- ue of a career in teaching. It glanced at adult education, the

universities and other forms of _

post-school education, and the work done for young people ar- ter leaving school by voluntary clubs and similar bodies.

A distinctive feature of the ex- hibition was the number of “live” itemss which were“Qresented. In all, some 7,000 schoolchildren, students and teachers took part. In the demonstration theatre, for example, classes in such suhb- jects as maths, geography, scien- ce, music and religious igstruc- tion were held two or three times a day. , i MODEL LESSONS

On éach occasion, a class ‘of 20 or 30 children—who had travel: led perhaps 250 miles‘to London with their teacher—found them- selves receiving a normal school lesson—but under the gaze of 100 onlookers or so who filled ‘the banked seats of the theatre.

A 45-minute lesson im, say, el-

to the enlightened | | Education Act of 1944.

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If the methods I ,bave outlin- ed here don't readily relieve all symptoms of heat exhaustion, summon a doctor right away. QUESTION AND ANSWER

Disgusted: Could you tell me what causes excessive. under- arm perspiretion? I have tried all Kinds of deodvrants but none seems to help.

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Until her corps of cygnets darted Ia shy glissades and saw their

queen, A Wraith of moonlight, leave the scene. i€

The violins prociainied love's grief

And, sighing, , vanquished as

belief. Elian Lishetenen In the New York Herald Tribiine

ticeships, engineering and scien-

+-tifie_training, and facts about

each were relayed over the tele- phones. OTHER COUNTRIES

This section of the display was

of particular value both to the children and their parents since it showed clearly te link between school and the job. The way in which it was patronised and the favourable comments which _ it received from parents, led many of the industrialists and others

who participated to urge that the National Union of Teachers should make this a regular effair * Lord.

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|) There are some grounds fo doubting that eating carrots im- proves the eyesight. A eat can see much, better than a rabbit ean.—Port Arthur News-Chronicle

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UR YESTERDAYS | (From the Guardian Files)

TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO * (July 21, 1934)

Part of the loss was covered by insurance. eS

A horse and wagon proceeding — north on Queen Street, and a car | which was: making a turn on Upper Que@n to Euston were in © volved in an actident last eve- — wing. One of the occupants pf the wagon was thrown to the street and received a cut on the head. One of the wagon shafts went through the \window of the car narrowly missing one of. the oc-_

-TEN YEARS AGO 2 (July 21, 1949) .

Many olfi friends and First

World War buddies of Gus -Pet-

seaman ae

Joseph Peters, Summerside, will ‘be interested to“learn that he’is — at present in Hollywood where he is engaged as lighting technician

picture stars. Two brothers, -George—and—Laurier and also a | sister, Mabel, reside in Summer-

ane,

‘Bank of Nova Scotia, Kensing- ~ fon, -has been transferred to and left oa- Wednesday to take up his duties” there. Prior to his departure he | was tendered a farewell party at — Brookins’ Lédge, New London.

The Age Old Story

‘Wait on thd.Lord: be ef xood courage, and he shall strengthen — — wait, I say, on the

ementary genneitee. proved to. the spectators how teaching meth- ods have changed even in the | last/ten years. The dry and dull | approach to the subject has been | thrown overboard, pupils now | learn the technique of making and reading a graph, for examp- | le, as part of an interesting. game.

On the exhibition stands, pup- ils were seen conducting scientif- le experiments, receiving lessons in catering and general house- craft, and, among the juniors, in subjects like natural history and handicrafts. '

In the exhibition theatre, six or ' seven items were staged daily by | schools and colleges. These in- cluded mannequin parades—with clothes-designed and made _by pupils of the schools concerned —orchestral and band concerts, end drama programmes. ; CHOOSING A CAREER

young people soon to leave school was that which outlined educa- tion. prospects in industry—de- tails of opportunities available | for the training and education of young workers.

The importance of choosing a job offering good training—and hence good prospects, has sudden

A section of particular value to |:

ly become very apparent to the i thousands of children soon to contemplate a plunge into the | world beyond school.

In ..Britain today, jobs ore | harder to find for school- ‘leavers than even three years ago. There are two reasons for this.

Firstly. a slight recession in such industries as engineering, shipbuilding and eoalmining has cut the overall number of vacan- cies for young people. Secondly, there are more youngsters com- ing on te the labour market as the effects of the sharp birthrate tise at the end of te war begins to be felt.

Thus the stands of the careers section of the exhibition where apprentices were on hand to demonstrate training opportun- ities were particularly popular. | British Railways, the Scientific

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‘Manufacturers Assoctation —and the Royal Air Force were among exhibitors who showed their ap: prectices at work. \ <

Altogether 42 different types of careers were dealt with One which attracted much attention was er of British European Air- _ ways, * ingeniously devised ‘stand wh ich showed part. of _ the interior of an aircraft, and, more exciting, of the cocknit. Seated at the controls, children were | able to put on_ headohones and | listen to details of the opportun- ities of this airline corporation. “ At the stand run by the Gas Council, the details of careers were obtained by dialling code letters on telephones set in front of film screens. On each screen some of>the work in the gas in- dustry was shown, such as man-

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