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President. has A. Burnett; Vloe-Prenlilaflt, Will. I Burnett; Seem-Tress, G. M. Burnett; Elmo! In! Manning Director, .I. B. Burnett; A-oclnt-a Bistros.

Irnnk Walker.

“The SETOIIIQIBVM¢MDTI lo Weaker Thais the Wee/reel Ink.’

MONDAY, NOVEMBER l, 1946

Those Tax lsraeiiioats

With New Brunswick already signing on the dotted line, the Ottawa correspondent of the Financial Post predicts that at least four more Provinces, probably five and possibly six will likely make tax_ agreements with the Do- minion Government in the nearlfuture. Head- ing the parade with New Brunswick, will likely be Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Prince Edward Island. Alberta's present reluctance is thought greatly tempered by knowledge of the impos- sible burden of double taxation which would have to be borne if no agreement were made. British Columbia is expected to ask ond r868!“ an important "bilateral" concession in the way of highway or railway reljef-a COIICeSSIOH thought justifiable in the national interest, and one which would make acceptance considerably more palatable while riot disturbing the over- all offer to other provinces. _ _

Ontario, it is thought, will eventually find it has no choice. The argument is that the Province has taken no steps to set up an in- come tax low and tax collection machinery ‘of its own. Such machinery is thought essential by Jan. 1,. i947 if provincial taxpayers are not to be penalized in respect of the proposed 5 pet cent deduction in -their personal income tax, which the Dominion offered to pay non-agree- ing" province which wanted to set up It! 0W"

tax system. _ _ The Nova Scotia cabinft ll ltltllmtllY ll!" orably inclined—with one MP9" lll °llc9Pll°llr

Premier Mocdonald. Eaentually te diffflefltlii which have been raised are expected t0 5° ‘ ' ll th concerning "minor" llZlIi'i'Ji"'I.§Zl§.°..'," l. ‘iii... m. Moro-oi raised particular objection. Quebec remains on enigmo.- Brit ll Ml thought rhor it will be in. only vrovim t“ l;- moin out-assuming, as is done here. llllll’ l 9 other eight will eventually roach agreement-

Leavliig It To The Spoakor

The admonition of Hon. C. D. Howe, Min- lster of Reconstruction, to a Liberal Associa- tion meeting at Port Arthur "not to feel too badly" about the recent by-election results, has prompted The Toronto Telegram to make the

_following barbed but pertinent comment:

"The Minister's attempts to minimize the importance of these disasters to the Govern- merit is in strange contrast to the speeches he made on Parkdale platforms when he was cam- paigning for Lieut.-Col. Hunter. On those oc- casions he was emphasizing the importance to the nation of electing‘ Liberals to assure the Government a clear majority in the House of Commons. He said that if the Parkdale and Portage la Prairie by-elections went against the Government it would have to depend on the de- ciding vote of the Speaker of the House in the event that the Opposition parties combined to defeat an Administration measure. ‘A situa- tion of that kind does not make for bold and fearless Government‘, was Mr. Howe‘s appraisal of the prospect when he was endeavoring to elect the Liberal in Parkdale." ' _

Nevertheless Mr. Howe sized the situation up correctly ivhen he told the Port Arthur meet- ing: “Therel is no cause for alarm for the Government's fate in Parliament, because the Opposition parties will not combine to defeat the Administration." Be this _as _it may, the Park- dale electors voted enthusiastically to leave the Government's fate to the Speaker.

Ilrsg Freiii Mllk Sugar

In the l2 months ended March 3i, I946, about l.500 farmers in Ontario and Quebec pro- vided 88 million pounds of whey from which 800 tons of milk sugar were obtained, practically all used in the manufacture of penicillin and 1,700 tons of whey powder used in the Dre- paration of poultry and livestock feeds lt is estimated that the formers received 925,000 from the sale of the whey. Because of the strict hygienic requirements of whey buyers, cheese lIctorIes paid much more attention to the wash- hig and sterilizing of the milk cans wlth the result that the output of hiah score cheese in- creased in the areas in which the whey was bought.

The latest report of the Agricultural Sup- plies Board states that milk sugar hos now be- come one of the basic inipedients in the produc- tion of penicillin. lt increases the yield of the drug, enhances its keeping qualities and od- vances the stiniulatina ef‘ect upon the oationt.

A development of interest to agriculture is the experimental work now being undertaken

' with penicillin by animal pathologists of Science

Service, Dominion Department of Agriculture, in treating animal and ooiiltrv diseases. As a _re- sult of mass production i-f the drug, the price of it hos been reduced to an extent that enables It to be used economically by veterinarians.

It. II. ht. P. 0iiiiiiiisiiilsd\

. A good word for the Mounties. ”Rngs of the Communists against the R. C. M. P. rose to whlte heat In the early war years when merry of them were hustled by the redcoats into concentration comps for onenly attempting to ' e the wnr effort, (sovs Montreal Gaz- i ‘When Germany invaded Russia these

l‘ started to clamor that they were now r side. They were released from ‘their eenipa and joined Iii the common

cause, always, however, injecting their anti-' democratic propaganda inro any sort of war ef- fort they participated in. Now that the war is over the ceaseless attacks against the R. C. M. P. and the traditions of law and order that the farco- stands for have been continued. One of the latest agitations has related to R. C. M. P. handling of the espionage cases, and the Communists have sought to make use of every public forum at their disposal to attack the federal police on this ground. Yet Justices Taschereau and Kellock, in their Royal Com- mission report, had already disposed of this matter in these words: ‘We may mention that none of the witnesses who had been detained under Order in Council P.C. 6444 made or sug- ge ‘ ’ any complaint to us about their interro- gation, the living conditions in their places of detention, or their treatment by their custodians, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. The R. C. M. P. is a force of such high standing in the minds of the Canadian people that it need not concern itself with the sniping of Communists. But it is the duty of the Canadian people to give this force its constant and complete support so that it may continue to flourish as an institu- tion in which this country can always take the greatest pride."

p. EDITORIAL NOTES .-

War Savings Bonds still going strong. it t i *

Where can more general prosperity be found than here, in this million acre farm, sur- rounded by its abpndgnt fish-producing waters?

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Mr. Justice W. L. Bond has retired owing to ill-health from the position of Chief Justice of the Superior Court of Montreal, and has been succeeded by Mr. ‘Justice S. Tyndale.

“ln cotton research they have discovered liow to make cloth indigestable to moths." But moths prefer wool anyway.

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Mr. George M. Morrison of Sydney, C. B., who has been mode a County Court Judge of Nova Scotia had a distinguished career over- seas as an officer of the North Nova Scotia Highlanders.

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The decisive battle of El Alomein fought this date I942, when the British Eighth Army, under Montgomery, drove the Axis forces in full retreat towards the Mediterranean. This was the real beginning of the end of Great War II.

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The Boys Who Have Returned From Over There are now preparing suitable Remembrance and Commemoration for those left behind them. The Eleventh is Their Day. Dare we forget or

neglect!

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The Dominion Board of the Retail Mer- chants‘ Association has endorsed a resolution asking that the present system of unemployment insurance be extended to include a superan- nuation plan for retail store employees.

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Premier Duplessis, like Premier Drew on a previous occasion in Ontario, has gone one bet- ter than Prime Minister King in calling a by- election on short notice. No sooner did Mr. King issue an order-in-council for is Federal by-election in Richelieu-Vereclieres for Decem- ber 23, than Mr. Duplessis announced a Pro- vinciql election in Bagot for December l8.

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The vacancies on the judicial benches throughout the Dominion are being filled one by one. lt will probably be a month or six weeks before we know who has been selected to replace Mr. Justice Arsenzult when he vacates his seat and goes on pension.

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lt is now announced that Dr. Fred Willough- by of Winnipeg, post president of the Canadian Teachers‘ Federation, has been appointed a member of the Canadian delegation to the Uni- ted Notions Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization which meets in Paris this month.

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A revolutionary development in agriculture

is predicted following the use on farms of a small alcohol distillery to provide the farmer with unlimited supplies of power fuel and by- product feeds from his own crops. The distillery turns three bushels of cereal grains, potatoes, sugar beets, fruits and wood products, into eight gallons of 95 per cent ethyl alcohol. From this distillery is expected to come such developments as railroad-car mobile distilleries which will move from place to place utilizing crops be- fore they spoil and consuming surpluses of cor- bohydrate products. it

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Quite a lively interest has been aroused In Summersldo avev the coming by-election to fill the vacancy in the Legislature occasioned by the lamented death of Mr. Dan McNeill. He was o popular representative, respected and loved by everybody, and popular in the Legis- lature on both sides of the House. lThe Liberals have set their minds on electing o railway em- ployee in the person of Mr. Carrol Delaney, while the Progressive Conservatives meet in convention tomorrow to make their choice of a standard-bearer. The contest will constitute one of the Santa Claus lay-elections arranged by the powers-that-be for this particular season.

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The word "liberol“ in the sense of generous or open-hearted was used five hundred years be- fore anyone thought of giving it a political meaning. Its purely political meaning was ac- quired in rather a curious way, as Mr. Alon Bullock, fellow of New College, Oxford, recent- ly explained in a BBC talk. In Spain, Nbpal- eon‘: invasion was followed by a bitter civll war which lasted, off and on, for thirty years. lt Is from t name of one of the parties in that civil war—the Liberales-that the political M0033: of the word comes. The first time it was_

In England in that sense was in IBIS-tho year after Waterloo-by Southey writing In, the Quarterly Review. Southey used it iia a Spanish’ word, written deliberately In Italics, to refer to

' rm: CIIARLOTTETOWN GUARDIAN

ltotos lly The Way

Ruaslans say they have s lam- proot tnduotrlal system. They just can't get. any-further tn the Red. —Ha.rnllton Spectator.

We can thliik of many miserable ways to die, bu: undoubtedly the most irritating ‘would be to ex- pire whllo some mmbllng lathaad mumbled. “Cheesi. I though yuh wuz. e deer!" -Pel.erboroilgli Ex- nmlner.

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The United States wtll take lum- ber duty free. Canada restricts the export. so than L! no help for the industry here. And the Canadian demand ls no: being met. -st. (‘ethos-Ines Standard.

The congestion tn hospital mat- ernity words may not be such e serious thing after all. Babies were born 8nd quire satisfactorily, be- fore there were sucn things as ma’.- cmlly wards —Brockvllle Record- er and Times.

For Z5 years the A. Schrnder family, tanning 1O miles southwest of Yflrktoll. Sask, lied hauled water from a dlstanoe [or all their needs. They never realized they were "sit- ting" on the top n1 a regular bon- anza of the stuff Lute ihls sum- mer o. well-driller struck a. 1,100- gallon-per-hour flow wlthtn a stone's throw of the Schrisder house. So much water giisnes out that. it uas necessary to ditch the flow Into a nearby slough, thus provid- lng on abundant supply for tihe Schroller livestock. —-l"umlly Herald and Weekly Star.

Why and how the notion grew popular that a blaring Julie-box. filling rcsbouranis with someone \vl.se's oliotce of raucous sound. should be a necessary part of pub- lic eating ls hard to imagine. It definitely ls no‘. restful: it fre- quently makes conversation im- possible except In shouts, and it ts essentially selfish in that one per- scn is allowed at the coat o1 ftve cents to decide what everyone else shall listen to whether ihey want to or not. “Vancouver Sun.

In England at. least, the ehlp- ping companies talk at llners which will compete with the airplane 1n cost. of transportation and which wlll attract thousands to whom a leisurely crossing or a cruise In strange waters ls a whole vacation. Transatlantic passenger shipping ls probably in a transition stage be- cause n! the advent. of the long- distance airplane. but. ll. ls not ex- tinct, Great ships there will be be- cause qf an international tension that. is not likely to be relieved so long as the Great Powers are uri- able lo compose their economic and political differences. It ls only the matter o! luxury that. rulses a doubt. —New York Ttrrice.

Paint has been none too plenti- ful all surruner but l! It can be obtained there arc a few paint jabs around most fomis that may be done tn the tall. It. ls a good plan to protect the farm billldlngs with a good coat of paint against. the severe conditions of winter. Paint also may be used to extend the lile of form machinery and other equipment, wooden parks should be given a cooling of good palm while the metal ports should be pointed

or greased alter being thoroughly

cleaned. -—Far'ner‘s Advocate.

The amount of goods that nan be produced at any given time de- pends not. only upon the efflclency q! .t.he individual worker but also upon time worked To he sure, ex- cessively long hours resulting in undue fatigue may reduce rather than increase output. But wlth ,a work week of 40 hours or less. there ls slight danger of that hap- pening. Over a long period of time it might be pcxwlble to out the working week lo 30 hours or less and silll maintain production at the levels now obtainable by work- Ing 40 hours. But. that could only be done by lntrodilclng labour-sav- lng devices on on extensive le and then forfeiting the adven ages 0t the potential increase In labours productivity by ‘iettlng machines l_ie ldle for led: of operators. For a long time to come certainly addit- ional ldlsure for’ workers can only mean fewer goods and services for the pulbllc to onjoy—lience lower real wages. More leisure bought at such ii price would soon coo-Be t0 be regarded as is won. —-Wisshlrigtnn Post.

rm Brltlah Tide-i Assootatlon has 71.0w mppolfllfid an edltor and assistant editor for a bulletin 01 abstracts from the world's medical journals to beg-In publication tn Jon. Before the woi- this service was perflanned In Germany The edltm- will be Dr. a M. Flndliiy. director or the well-known welcome labor- nim-y who as u. brfgadler diurtng the war did voluablg work In Alrlce 0n tropical medicine. ‘l-Ils assistant will be Ds. N. Glider, who spent five years In German prison comps whence he emerged wlth o know- ledge on no lees than 14 languages. .-Montreal Star.

Mose ot the great verbal artist!’ not the least o! whom Ia Winston Churchill, have advised writers ro tell their stories simply and pointedly taking core to prefer the tamlltisr word to the unju- milier, the short word to the long, the dlrect $IMQIIIBIIT._IO the sound-about, and so on. The other dgy Principal Atkinson at Glolbe Collegiate, aim/ii Joined In ihli instructive chorus “We should any what we moon" lie tolc member! of the ltlnamen Chm In the capital "and not take ico long about It." Amgn M Lhlt IL IA ll The QZIGWI Journal ‘agrees, mind advice for htrnwtiowrlbos ..lfltbere- nsarkod that some news reports. like einne sermons. err too long- winded, that. some editorials iutfor from the some m It be paid that. at. In! tale, the news-

tty to follow the advice re- peqml by the Ottawa headmaster and that the extent to which they m! shorter tholr ides; is s mee- guso o! lumen importer-Mon rather than a Mani to recognise s sinlsd

English ‘reformers of the time, and tho nisini stuck.

literary principle. Ttllrlnhm - Ii-

$40.00!) ForA Bull Calf

(Ottawa Journal)

In an auction ring at Onkvlllo on Monday a flve-months-old Hol- steln bull calf wlth the engaging name of Gleriisttoei Klllurney brought $40,000. u new record p-‘ICG for Canada. Some may wonder how such a small animal, unproven as a slre at that. could possibly be worth so much money. But the tact remains that amount was puld by a group of Ontario farmers who outbid several American million- alres.

m l WHY this group of Waterloo dlsirlct formers, who had held sev- eral meetings before their decision Wes mode. were showing their f-sflh and gambling on the future of the purebred cattle business; in Canada. They knew that many countries are looking to Canada l0 511991)’ hlxh grade stock and "my were gambling on tho hope that this interest wlll continue. From the number of countries who have "l" buying missions lzcre thle¢yeur, the numerous enquiries being received and the number of sales actually madg in [Hem months. It would appear this fgjth In the future was justified.

"~ to why this Killarney bull her‘. 5“"l‘l value In the minds of a group of breeders Is a long story which had Its start In the dream of a Canadian business man who believ- ed that l1)’ the most careful selec- tion c-f breeding stock o superior strvin of which would be high In butter-fat, would result. The late T. B. Mae. Allley was president of the Sun Life at the time but It Is now cer- tain that history wlll know hlm best as o breeder of cattle. His Mount Victoria Farm at Hudson Heights was sold and hls herd dls- Dfirsed n! hls death. but. today the broken" of thosr- animals are in d»- mlmd llractlcally everywhere. Mr. J- J. E. McCague. of Allision, bought several and the $40,000 null is the son of two of the best. Flf- teen offspring of Mr. McCnguah Mclllvlc M""""'“"" Slreliave sold recently for g total of $119500 and l BYlll-Sll lylldlcflte has purchased slx _for an average of $5,750. No strain of cattle in the world today l5 more In demand than that mg- Iii-sled at Mouriv \v:,.t0r]g_

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The Political Line-up

(Sydney Post-Record)

The King Government is calling the by-clectlon to flll the Rlche. lleu-Vercheres vacancy. created by the death of the lite Hon. P. J’. Cfldln. who carried the riding last War as an Independent Llb_ eral_ with a. plurality o! 9,793, ab. lfllmne more ihiin twice the total of votes polled by hls two oppon- "lll- Tl" Ilfllling date set for the bY-eleotlon ls December 2a. The Kink Government needs this seat, as its official majority In the House has been wiped out by the loss of Pontiac and Portage In Pfliilrle In recent by-oleottoris. And it can hold the rock-ribbed LII)- "ll constituency of Rlcliéllell- Vercheres If it still retains the political Strength to carry a by- election anywherd

The l“! Ml‘. Cardin. n. former Cabinet Minister, broke away from "It King Government aver the manpower plebiscite and All! as an Independent Liberal ln 194.5, but continued to support the M]..- Istry on crucial dlvlslons In the Hmm- ‘He reoresenied Rlchelleu- Vercheres continuously since ht We! made is dual-county consti- tuency by thi- redistribution of 1933. His majority was 7.501 in 13:55; 8.918 in 1940; and 8.793 iii

Prior ta its amalgamation with Vercheres. Richelieu had not, re- turned a Conservative l-n 42 years. Vercheres has never elected a Conservative since Confederation. In each of these counties the Du- plesels candida-ts lost hls deposit In the Provincial election of 1944. In RlcheIIeu-Vercheres 1f ony- where Liberalism should be safe against the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune. Here wlll be held the first by-eIecUc-n of the year that will find the King Gov- ernment's political cohorts, eager- for the fray.

The present standing of the par- ties and political groups in the House of Commons Is as follows: Liberals elected as avowed sup- portersot the King Government. 118; Progressive Conservatives. In- cluding the Ilderpendent P. C. member for Argenieull. 68; Gil-F.- Sociolists 28; Social Creditors. Iri- cludlng the recently returned member for Pontlac. 14; Indepen- dent Liberals. 9; straight Indepen- dents, 6; labor-Progressive. l; vo- ciint, RIchelleu-Verchores. -

This llstlng Is based on the pre- electlon professions of the mem- bers of the House end shows the King Government 5 short of n bare majority on any dlvlslon that might follow pro-election Ilnes. But the 9 Independent Liberals. all of whom represent Quebec rld- Ings. can nearly always be de- pended on to support the Govern- ment an any dlvlslon In which rte Ilfe may be at stake. It ls also to be remembered that almost all the C.C.'l'.-6ocl'nIIsts vote invariably