“AGE FOUR TIIE j llIIIlRLllTTETllWlI GUARDIAN?

Morning Drly il-‘ouiiderl’ 1n 11187) Authorized as Second Class Mall. Post Olflco Department. Ottawa. ufllldblll, Ion A. Burnett; Vino-President. Wm. l. Bltnatt; SecL-Trcusa. (l. .\l. Burnett; Editor and Managing Director, J. ll. Burnett; Associate Editor.

Frank Walker.

“The Strongest illeniory is Weaker‘ Than Hie lbw/cast Inlf." Tllibqifitiivirl- 1 isriunrrr 711i, 1017

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Saeil Wheiit For Franco

A visitor in Ottawa this month will be M. Tanguy Prigent, France's Minister of Agricul- tum, who will seek wheat from this country to roplant the fields of France whore severe Win- tor weather has destroyed a large part of the crop sown last Fall. He is now in Washington trying to negotiate part of the deal there. What he is trying to arrange is either outright pur- chase of Canadian wheat, or an exchange of U. S. hard Winter wheat with Canadian stocks held for Britain. _

Thero'is more back of this mission than ap- poor: on tho surface, says the Ottawa Journal. In all Europe today, and in France in particu- lar, food has become a weapon in the fight be- tween conflicting ideals. In France the balance of power is very thinly drawn and a major catastrophe such as failure of the wheat crop, could easily tip the scales. Russia could be ‘ex- pocted to take advantage of such o situation, rush in supplies even though these might be badly needed in her own country, and so pose as. the saviour of the French people. lt is not al- together unlikely that Russia is looking for just such a chance to bolster the prestige of the French Communist party.

Only Canada can supply the seed wheat which France so badly needs. Our Prairie-grown Spring wheat could be planted in France gust as soon as the snow goes, could be expected to produce a crop next fall. Most S._ex- port wheat is of hard Winter varieties, good for milling but unsuitable for Spring planting. Should that be necessary it could be exchanged for Canadian wheat now in Britain, or held here for the United Kingdom account, withoutlloss to tho latter. It looks very muchIas if this is on instance where a little co-operation and quick action would accomplish a great d901-

Eiluoatliinal Fail

(ho powers-that-bo ‘are b¢9111111119 1° 1M1‘ lzo that fads and specialisms are entirely out of loco in elementary and high school education. lilon L. B. Pearson, under-secretary for ¢Xl¢ffl°1 affairsJn an address in Ottawa said that in many ways Canada's educational system had become "too specialized" but that "south of the bor- der it has become almost farcial." There, fol‘ d give" sum, "You cm, 017mm a degree in janitor onginooring," he said in an address to a par- ent-teochers meeting. He deplored the sloPPY trend of education which had a slangy way 0f using the English language and said the basic arts education of the old school was the best training, No two countrias were so closely re- lated as the United States and Canada, yet the i norance in the United States concerning Can- qgdq was startling compared with the Canadian students’ knowledge of U. S. affairs, ”We in (an-dd should be willing to limit our notional rights in order to obtain international under- standii19" ho said. "The 0'11)’ ‘WY We F911 11°” to succeled is by education and education starts right in our public schools."

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Wo have been helping out tho Soviets fin- ancially at a greater rate than most of us are aware. Under mutual aid, agreement for which Russia was signed on February ll, 1944, Con- ada supplied the Soviet Republic with help volugd at $167,000,000, the supplies including foodstuffs, base metals, military vehicles, mach- ine tools and other war supplies. All these were vitally necessary to the Red Army in east- ern Europe." The bulk of IhESGISUPPIIES, inc report states, was carried to Russia iii Russian ships, but this country under ftllllllflbflld‘ under- took to repair and victual Russian ships in Can- adian yards. and 125 ships were serviced this way at a total cost of 511.999.9119 C9999" undertook, the rerort recalls. 1011111111 11 0:111}; ber of minesweepers for the Russian Navy w ic faced the heavy task of clearing northflfl waters of mines sown by the Germans. These were not completed at the end of the war Iii Europe, however, but mutual aid took over siiinifi of the production of mineswccfte“ “"11 111111119 ton of these to Russia. "On the termiiifltw" '1 mutual aid on September. I. 19:15. 111° 101111191 Aid Board," the report states, gave authority to continue production of a‘ large amountho; industrial equipment for Russia as Russia a undertaken to makeplans to pay _for_tlie 601"?‘ mont urgently needed in rehabilitation of de- vastated Iand. But up to date alrlrangements l0 pay had not yet been concluded.

Loss Talk Anil fewer Laws

The Winnipeg Free Press commends to the attention of our own House of Commons an ad- monition diiwcted to the English Parliament in I593 in behalf of Queen Elizabeth. It is taken from I lifoiol Sir Edward Coko by Cuthbert William Johnson. Mr. Johnson writes:_

"In tho parliament which met at West- minster, on tho 19th of February, I593, Sir Ed- ward Coko was unanimously elected speaker.

"On that day the Queen opened tho session ln person, and the lord speaker, Sir John Puck- oriiig, by. command of his sovereign, gave tho parliament some vary undisguised and salutary advice, which modern senates would do well to

'romombor and follow. ' “'l-Ior Majesty hath farther willed me to

lier, both of occlosiastical and temporal, and so many then be, that rather than to biirthen the subjects with more, to their grievance, it were fitting on abridgement were made of those there aro already.

“Wherefore it is Her Majesty's pleasure that the time be not spent therein.

"'And whereas, heretofore, it hath been used that many have delighted themselves in long orotions, full of verbosity and of vain os- tentations, more than in speaking things of sub- stance, the tim-e that is precious should not bo

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therein spent. — EDITORIAL NUlhS -.

The Boy Scouts and Girl Guides are off to a good start in their annual Baden-Powell ‘cele-

brations.

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‘Australian women will be able to buy Aus- tralian-made nylon stockings by May or Juno of this year. Australia will be the only domin- ion to receive a nylon quota this year.

No economy is to be noted in the Depart- ment of the Secretary of State, where a staff of eleven, with salaries of from $3,000 to $4,000 a year, are being set up to handle citizenship

certificates.

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Personnel iii Prices Board Offices was cut from 3,156 to 2,984 between March I, 1946, and January 15, 1947, according to a reply tabled for Karl Homuth (PC-Waterloo South). In the some period, local offices of the board were cut from 82 to 68.

U Perhaps if the Toronto and Montreal mem- bers of Parliament had to pay their fares for their week-ends, they would prefer to remain in Ottawa to attend their parliamentary duties for which they receive $500‘ per month.

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The Transportation Board, it appears, "possesses sweeping powers", and can regulate rates irrespective of shippers or railways. In a word, it can reduce the rate on autos by a dol- lar or increase it by $3, and there can be no appeal. This is what bureaucracy leads to. i i i fi

Britain, quite impartial, invited Russia as well as U. S. A. to agree to a standardization of arms. Mr. Attle,e in a debate on foreign af- fairs November l8, told the House after re- ferring to Anglo-American co-operation, that Russia was still considering whether or not to co-operate with Britain in the standardization of arms, and according to question in the House last week, tho Soviet is still non-committal.

l‘ i Q I Wilson Barrett, British actor and dramatist, born this date 1846; he established his reputa- tion as an exponent of emotional. drarna in The Silver King which was performed at Drliry Lane and throughout the leading cities in Great Britain and Ireland oftener and for longer per- iods than any production of the Nineteenth Century. Barrett wrote a number of plays, one of which, The Sign of The Cross, had enormous vogue, and was the favourite theatrical produc- tion in London and the proyinces during Lent.

This 1s an instance how they encourage bureaucracy. Mr. Ross McLean, new Govern- ment film commissioner, receives a yearly sal- ary of $8,000, Revenue Minister McCann de- clared in the House. Last year Mr. McLean drew $4,500 salary, $1,549 in other remunera- tion and $466 in travelling expenses. Answering Stanley Knowles (CCF-Winnipeg North Centre), Mr. McCann said a salary of $330 a month and living allowance of $8.50 a day are paid _Nlis. Irene Baird as representative of the National Film Board and Canadian information Service ln Mexico City.

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According to Canadian Press Ottawa corre- spondent the long fingers of Caesar Petrillo, president of the American Federation of Music- ians, extracted $60 from Canadian pocketbooks lost year, as disclosed in the report of Auditor General Watson Sellar. The public accounts, tabled in the Commons disclosed the strange item stemmed from a National Film Board enterprise in which the organist and choir of Christ Church Cathedral in Ottawa were engaged during the making of a film. Direct cost to the Film Board was $48 for the services of the l6 choir mem- bers and $45 for the organist. Later, however, the Ottawa Federation of Musicians-the union's local organization of the A.F.L.—-sent the Film Board a bill for $60 for a "standby" organist. The $60 was paid.‘

The Wheat Board is, very practically, but perhaps not in the best tradition, trying to sell as much as possible of its wheat at open mar- ket prices, in proferonco to filling the British contract. During the first four months of the crop year commencing August 1st, I946, ship- menls were 43 million bushels to Britain, well below tho proportionate rote for the contract, and 33 million bushels to other countries. The Dominion Bureau of Statistics seems to dis- agree with Mr. Gardiner; makes a perfectly cor- rect statement concerning an acute shortage of wheat in the world, while the Department of Agriculture ls urging Western farmers to re- duco their wheat acreage. If we are to have planned economy, we shall need some agreement between those who plqn 1:.

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Evidently in contract claims there ls no time limit for payment. After 66 years Mr. Wal- lace Davenport, of Newark, NJ., caught up with a 40-cent dobt. Nov‘: 7B, Davenport walkod into polio: headquarters Monday and presented a claim labelled: "Duo bearer 40 cents for bring- ing,ln a drunk." Stortlod officials found that as a boy of ‘l2 Davenport had helped a policeman transport a drunk to tho station on a wagon load of oats which tho boy was hauling to his TIIIIIII"! stare. In than days 40 cents was th-s foo paid for the use of any privatoly-ovunod convoyanco for such a purpaso. Davenport finally decided to cash his claim Monday. fIe settled for $1, rop-

o’ iiify to you,’ said this plain speaking minister, ‘got tho calling of this parliament now, is not laws and

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nsenting principal and about two psi cont sim- plo interest for 66 years. Officials wlll keep the

nototoo. for ro aro already a sufficient num- rocoiptod claim as a souvenir

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THE UHARLOTTETOWN GUARDIAN

llotos By Tho Way

Tomorrow's deluxe trolls, no no iold, will have a movie theatre. a ballroom, a loud speaker system and radios everywhere. Passengers who wlsli to 5150p will hoip a freight. 1 -Edmon(on Journal. l

llypooorlama lo o “hirer-shy word meanung baby talk. Hypocorisnta ill incurable; the only way to stop some people from talking baby-talk 1s to shoot 111cm and put the body in a concreio tomb. It is possible to prevent hypocorlsma in the your; by proper training, however. Noah Webster sald that "a boy of six years of age may be taught 1o speak as correctly as Cicero did before the Roman senate." 1f you have a boy of six in your homo you should ‘inoculate him against liypocorisma at once. -l>eierborough Examiner.

One of the factor; justifying tho (me-storey school 15 that maximum use is made of mdinary daylighb- made possible b, (he large increase in use of glass. B111 the chief fac- toa- ls the mailer of safely. Every classroom and corridor has a sepa- rate exit at the ground level. As iheae are no vflll-ifWflys and no fire escape (h; school can be emptied quickly. Pupils aTe easily segre- gated according (o ago with sepa- rate play areas for little ones - 5111011181‘ help 1n avoiding play acci- dents. There is also the elimination of overhead noise. —Owen Sound Sun-Times.

There were not orfew accident when we began travel by ox team, S1111 the ox was compelled to yield his manod shoulder (o tho yoke. More accidents occurred when (he horse was Impressed Lnio service. The British Parliament spent houirs of anxious debate over the dangers of having an automobuo iravelind over the country n1 the frightful Sliced of 12 miles an houir. Should n cow stray in (he roar] of such a monstier. wfhai then? But in all ages we have hardy sou ho look upon danger and dlfflcu y as the way of achievement and service. So with our hardy-souled aviators. -Exeter Times.

A4 hao been mentioned often before. i1 is the custom of writers 1n other parts of Canada to poke fun n1 (he sort. of weather that. sometimes strikes (he Prairie Pro- vinces during the Winter. Only one rejoinder occurs fa us, to be made (o thcso gentlemen. It came to us thLa morning as we Improved 1m idle hour otherwise devoted 1o thawing out by reviewing recent temperature and vrind velocity readings. 1m them be assured that: the favorite topic of their orall- ery. persiflage and whimsey, no matter what else ls sold about, it. most certainly i; n01. a. laughing mailer. It was 37 below last night, fellows. -Pr1ncc Albert. Herald.

The advancement. of science may pose more Problems than i1 solves. what with atomic control and all. But at least one scientist, Pro. Al- fred Rcmer, of Harvard. has re- i-otf-tly provided n plausible answer to one 0116511011 that has been 111118111118 mankind for generations. The egg. says Professor Rainer, came first. Definitely. and mil- lenin before (lie hen. 1f it warm‘! for the development of tho hard- shellcd egg. rcipiiics would still be laying the soft-shell variety in the ivaier", and there wouldn't be any land mammals or birds-in- ctucllng hens. N , lf the physicists will only settle their argument about whether- the universe 1s iiniie or ‘infinite. we may get an answer to the old question of how high is up. After which we should all be able to tackle the problem of how to live with the fission- sble atom With considerably more confidence. —K1ngston Whig- Standard. ~-

Elephisns tucks are being m1”. ed again from Africa. and Lon- don's ivory market, the centre of amid trails in potential ladies‘ brushes. billiard balls and bullons is booming. Prices have jimiped considerably since pro-war auctions, with iuzlrs now bringing $280 to $520 per hundred pounds. depend- ing on quality. Ivory brokers com- plain that the prices are not lilgii 10011811. but. they appear IQ bi;- good cnaugli for the hunters. Despite the brokers‘ laments, prices a" so o1. (racllve ln Kenya, a llusjor hum- lng ground, that the local govern-

llmiting the number of elephants that ITlBy be shot. License fees have been doubled. and 1t now coats a hunter $200 for his first tlt-‘llrrczz’. and $400 for his second‘. ‘Pusks reaching (he London market flmflc 11D to six or seven feet In lenelli and we1a“ around 15o pounds. Half of the (uur ls solid ivory, the rest ls hollow. -Wor1d Report (New York).

In our oorspegsstlonol register 1111a monih will be found the bapt- ism of Gerard Martin Julian Forw- er, (no infant son r,f Mr. and Mrs. Herbert. Frederick Brooks-Hill Feaver of the Canadian legaflon at The Hague, the Netherlands. Th0 bflbllam look place on October 20, 1046, and was performed by tho Reverend Charles MacKay Gamer- on, one of our own ministers who was then serving os o t " with the Canadian forces 1n- tho Netherlands. Not IllVIXlfl,l bapt- ismal roglster available and at tho request of the parent: he asked uo if we would record (his young man's baptism. Mrs. mover woo formerly iady-in-waltlng lo lfor Royal Highness Princess Jullono of the Netherlands during her slay iii Ottawa, rind along wlih tho Prlzwess attended 5t. Andi-cw‘: Church. fr was specially a1 the mother's requu". that. 5t. Andrew's was chasm. l-lor Royal Highnon. who acted u godmother. told llr. Cameron how amen oho bod op- preclsted worshipping with us 1n Sh. Andrew's wlifla staying in 01-, torn. —Rev. A. Ila Bimini. in 8t.

Utopia By Arithmetic

(Hamilton Spectator)

Drawing a sort of mathematical conclusion we st1lldon't qulto get". C. H. Millard told-an audience 1n Oakvllle tho other day that 1f Co- nadirs 11345 notional lncomp of I11- 000.000.000 had been distri-butcd r, mom: “all tho people" the average Canadian family would have receiv- ed $1,500.

That sounded involve urilhme

So first. we divided the eleven bllli-on hv the amount ellch famj-l ily would have received Ind we find that by Mr. Munro's unique statistical approach there weie 2.500.000 families 1n Canada 1n 1045

good, oven 1f 1t did‘ 1 c.

That makes the picture prom r, than perfect. Because t! we dlvi e those families ln1o Canada's tolpll estimated population in 1945 we| find that this makes the ideal fan.- 1ly of five with only one 1n t t family ivorkrng and getting an ll- come.

Something then ran off groove. By ilie census of 1941, Whirh we lhen looked up, there wore nearly 4,000,000 gainfully cmp.qv- or] persons in the Dominion. Now we ihirik i1 1s safe to say 1h re are around 5.000.000 persons go n- fully employed In the Dominion ri-ght now, six years later. But let's stick 1o the 4.000.000. And lf -ou divide that figure into Can: l'i national income for 1045 you get: on average for each gainfully qm- ployed person of $2.750 per annum. That's the first step.

There remains, of course, he possible factor of adjusting n- comes on a basis of family size, for nothing could be more unjust to deal out the some amount-in s "ch a utopian mathematical prop 1- tlori-lo o childless couple so t o. robust family of fourteen. The 1.11.,» bonus firmly rfcggnlzes that.

What, then, l5 this Canadian "n u- tianal income" for 1945? Presuin- ably Mr. Millard took. his figules from the satisfies! summary of he Bank of Canada, which is an rin- questioned authority. Trig-e if is, anyway, 1n the summary in bl ck and ivhite. Our gross natiomal p o- duction in 1945 was $11,400,000, .

Now this sum is made up in w .1, we would call a rather curious f h- ion. It may be our lack of real p- Preciatlon of hlgh financial wiza d- ryi but a brief look at the set-cpl will indicate what we mean.

First, salaries, wages and o1 er, labour income totalled $5,000,000, 00 Whlch is clear. l Next item is military pay a|,d allowances (what we paid our sol- diers. sailors and airmen, we o. sumr-i and this came to $1.10 _. We don't qui-ie know why this}; regarded as national pro- dllctwri. because obviously 1t was paid out of the taxes of the sol- aries and wages and other lobour ljllllgome. But Ottawa has it figured Next comes investment income (before corporate income taxes) which 1s the amount paid to those W1") 1°11" money w government and iiidustryi. This came 1o $1,800,.

m..." there is manor moon... or individual entorprisers, farmers, slorekeepsrs and tho rest, which totalled 81.700.000.000. and depre- ciation added another $800,000,000. Then, WhlCIl 1s A most remark- able kind ‘of production, indirect 111x95 101811108 $1.000.000.000. (Tax- payer's donation. b.v the way.)

t_ this point let's take a look to find the leaks. The only chis- elllnguhat could have been dune is by individuals cheating on their yricome Ill-X or corporations pulling it off. _

5° 1! 1s on this personal Income tax that we first strike pay din m“; gel to what, perhaps, Ml‘. Millard W115_d1‘1\'1"5! a1. For there could be no income taken by any individual except by trickery-no matter what, corporations earned~tha1 would be recorded ln 1his table.

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In 1945 a. total of 2,365,900 15mm“ had o. total income of $4,542, 990- 0r on average of less than 52-999 DH‘ year per person. There would be others gainfully tmnloired who would not be t“. §§1° w that if you lddbd them 1n b? IYEYIZB fhi-‘y would clearly 1‘ "B l! down‘ eveil lower. Also a H0041 many wives and husbands Mwfidtthen- own separate incomes. 1‘ - 111911. 01 mfwratlons? By Bank of Canada statistics 709 Canadian companies had pro. {Ltreof $40,000,000 In 194s and pm "X §'0th$28'1.000,000. leaving a law. npftb l B" 111w earned in 193'] (tire wh, e11! Income to stockholder: "'11 Would be taxable as income) In Personal and cor oration iri- izlfflbbfllfe! the Fedora Government eon taking around $1,500,000.- 999 3111111511? for the Past four you", a So staggering taxis Ion p111; mo“- 26s and resultant bottlenecks arr» plainly the main obstacle in [he ($300101 liitrlreasing our general real be it" 9H1. which clearly should {or on "NP: goa1._11 should not be ...1.."r..:'.= u b Y l 01111’ worth '10 com; y 193B standards of what may W111 11")‘ in the way of food clatter’! "18 and the rest. It may be mo. some t0 g0 o" slymg “I but it P60111111} vnonclholess true that rho 1;"... Per man h Cruse 0mm“ o’ “M. Donn“ our. Thai-q l; m on," "k8 if) “éaigl-dgzlgfhostynre might flay other Way, m’ “"11 °"