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" \lt-. .\l:i‘i|\t'it's statement that "the re-

. SitViioii Itlltl ii-rttt!‘ art" to be set out in orders- ltltlilllbll \\ltti| _'\'ll\l'l'lllll§_' tht- split-up of the >1» ‘in/V t», atittiwit-ii ctitit-tict- of a somewhat -il Ilt‘L'i~ltI1i to grant tht- aid finally, as set

riia‘. iii tht: li-tiitt:itc~. Nor ivas the Minister t-Uii- it -;t_\- it-tu- itiuclt of ihc lump sum would li -gii'i'. ‘ii t'Jlt'll Itill‘ of llll‘ three hlaritimcs. He

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THE CHARLUPTETOWN GUARDIAN‘

The Charlottetown Guardian

Prulrlenl. lJeuL-Cul. W. Ghouls! I IQLIIO Vtu-Prenldlnl, J. B. Burns“, I. J l Iceman Ltnun-(Zul. u. A llulflnnn. D- l- 0-

Idllol md Iunnglug Director l. I llurlntt. I. I. l- Anouluh litlllorl. Fruul WIRII uud l). I. 081k

lorulnl Dally (launder! 151171 86.00 per Jul (ll Gland)

rlliffPd ‘u (‘lly LL00 per your ill odvulwu) Inllud IO

o0 ldvmrd lulnml- 1.00 Mr you (lu ulvuluu) lulled to Clnmlu uud llllltod lllkl

‘TUESDAY, APRIL 20. 1931

decision to put the Fisheries Research Board under the control of the Minister of Fisheries. “If," said he, “we are ever going to get anywhere with the fisheries of this country, it will not bc by engaging scientists from the universities. During the last forty-five years I have heard a good deal said about when the mackerel would be on the Atlantic coast, when the herring would come, and when the lobsters were going to crawl, but I"l1ave never yet known a scientist who could foretell those things as well as the old fisherman who was otit in his boat in the rain and storm from dawn to dark. Perhaps it is not worth mentioning, but all these pro-

Tax Collections

It would be a licrculcttii task to keep track of all thc llilaflillblllfiillr; llllflle by otir political shatlotv-hoxcrs in tlicir thrt-c ti-ccks’ performance itt the Lt-gi-lttttirt- thi. yt-ttr. llow much of the liittt- spt-itt iti sicrct vztttcits uas devoted t0 con- roctitig tlti-sc toi-utttt-itit-ttts, nohotly knows. But ott tht- floor of tht: lii-u-c. without any official , klpjiosititiii to act as a tlctcrrctit. there was 8 rtigtilar iir_<_3_v of jtilfllfiilll spccch-inakitig, tin-

pztrztlltillctl iii thti lllsltilT oi the Province.

Tlilii" for cxvitttplr tht- claim mettle bv Pre- titit-i- l tut-tuft. that prt-viotis governmeiits had li(‘L'll "iicgligtiit" lii coilct-titti; tax arrears, and flttt the l.ii‘_Ql‘i’ t.t.\ rt-ccipt- of my; was due to tli- iiuriiditctitiit, for thc first time, of efficient

bollection methods. lf lltt l’ri-|itit't' ltatl saiil that tax collections

iii tog; h_t tltt- inc-tilting Liberal (juvernmenr

ltatl ptirpo-t-ii- hit-u iicgltrrtcd in order to make a lltrl-i Ji-iuiii; ftii‘ their j>lt'(lt‘t‘t‘5.st)1'.~' and a livlti r wll-tt‘. it-q for tht- sticcccdiiig first full Lib- ~_-t ll Vttxtr. lu~ uoultl havc bct-tt nearer the truth.

i'riiti:it~ .\l.\t\ll|.|.\.\, iii his last Butlget

spt-i-wit tiii .\ltl!t'll io_;_;. gave a convincing avrtttutt ot tfoit-ttr ttirt- stcwztrdsliij) in the lilil'it‘i' of tax Uttllvcllttiis, and showed that not-

itiih-tzttitlitig the world ilt‘lll't‘s.~'ll‘lli and con- sitpztiit fztlli-t; off iii farm anti other revenues, thi ~t~ ci-llt-rtiiiii- h.til bet-ii ucll maintained. In Btliliiitil to tht- cttrri-nt taxes, arrears to the itllliililll ll- ."it).l H ltzttl bt-cn collected in 1931,

Piittao iu 1-3;. $471X7Ull1 i933, and $56.35.:

itt ttija. .\li<. Ctuiiitiict, and his associates tht-it in (ippo-ittoii tlitl not attctnpt to challenge this \l2llt'llit'i]l.

h. is by ihc iiliiflisllltlll o_f more taxes that our "lttiilgv! l».'tl:iiit't-r<" ztrt- running the country, not

b)‘ any mot-c t-iticit-tit or equitable methods of collvctiott. For stich procctlttre they not only have no tuztitdatc from tltc electors, but they mailc in their caittpztign promises a binding con- tract lo tht- contrary. \\'c have quoted these protili-tv. nmtlc both by Premier CAMPBELL and his jiztrty ])l't‘.~.s‘-—])i‘t\Iiii>(‘S which were repudiat- etl on thc floor of the House this session by the Public \\'orks" Mitiistcr but which, notwith- stzttttiittg, are in black and white in the files of the llatriot itcuspajier.

"’Bait" For Nova Scotia

. Alinistt-r of Fisheries .\llL'll1\L'D, WllCli pilot- ing through supply tlic itt-m of $500,000 for the

gt-iit-riil an] of .\tlatuic fisheries, drew from a lltiti-h Coluiitliia government stipportcr thc tpic-tiiiu. “\\h_\- this very large sum?” There

utirt- "ittrt-tls" on the llacific coast,

'| lit-ii a- ht- ('Xl>l.'lllit'tl, the minister cited that no lc-s than two tititttnisstitns had recommend- eil liclpiiig titi~ .\tl.'tutic fishermen by providing ntorc butt and bi-ttt-r bait. 'l'his, said he, the sum in tpu-tioti hail rcntlcrctl possible, as well a. aiil iii other l'\‘\]tl'l.‘l\- 'l'ht\ ht-ttcr “0rganized" .l'ztciiic ll~lll‘l'1lil'il ucrt- not suffering as those faring the .\ll;itilic.

i'rctiotisi_v, notcs an Ottawa correspondent, Nit. l‘o't"i|i.|t (Shclluiritc-Yarmoitth) had ad- viidzttcil a lflallklitfis Rehabilitation .—\ct. lle, like I\li:. l\il§\l.i.\', u-as lilllllT the urge, of the mil-

lions llt'ill;_f allocatt-tl by tlitr government for uti-tiirtt rchziltihtzitioit purposes, and the prairie Itr-Aititi-S glillflllilflis t'.~jil“’Cl.'lll_\'. That the At-

lantic f!~ll\'l'_\‘ inihi-irj‘ "hadtft the capital,” as Nit. l\|\t.i.\. ptu it, mirrored expectancy, not

\\ . i i‘.\t ttr, t-lt-ztr on at lt-ztst out‘ bait freezer, to l'l‘ t-~t.tiiii~ltci.l ott tht- north shore of New ll»ti'l~\‘ it'l\‘_

ittit- hppi-Jtiiiii critic of these indefinite nlillllll‘, lilhlllg his cuc from tlic certainty at lt .t of thi~ "hail sttjijtly", remarked: “Inas- |i'.l.l'll ,t~ tiu lll‘\l."‘ll'\ for bail 1t the momcntiis lll'.l‘ l: tttotc appart-ut lil Nova 5cotia”-—a broad llllll. al prti-pt-vtivt- jiroviiicial elections—“than

it. ii i i-lltci‘ priniiicrs, l suppose Prince Edward li ltl ;oit| .\'iw lll'\11l.~\\‘lt‘l\' will have to look iii iiit ll'-'\i|-]ttti'li\ll4l1I sitlt‘ of it, while the bait i.- uiziili- :tt-.til:tblt- for Nova Scotia"? (The hazy plan of li‘.'1llsj|t>l'l£lllllll was rather hurriedly set lllll h; a promist- of “:tssistaitcti" for those facil- ltit». "tin PIJFlltJIIS of thc coast vihere they are liitttltiipt;ttc.")

.\ll of thc ltirt-gtiing gives a fixed color of fact to a statement sent out from Ottawa and pubiisht-ti to thc cffcct that, “'l.‘hc Maritime liil'l1il|('l'S (ot-t-r it score of them) have been lIPUllllZlTly silt-tit in tlic llousc. But they have hiul pit-itty to say in govt-nnictit caucuses, and tit-ir silt-tict- hits only been bought through hold- ing out a htipt‘ that stintethitlg would be done {or lll('lil. . .l"or a tinic they were a rather dis- appniitrt-tl lot u-itcn they lcarncd nothing was to he tlotic this session."

.\iitl thcit ‘itiotig cattle lli-"ssits. Duprnino and‘ illitimi ll -— illlll .\liz. MACDONALD, the Neva sCtlllfl l'l'f'ililt'l‘——iitrl forgetting the Commission- rl't'tlilillll'lilll‘ll “l1:tit." .

Stiiiator lirrr. who l\'Il()\‘V.s‘ all about fishing, Qvt-iil to tlic- tit-tail of traiiit-ti seals, has won ap-

proval of ihc Nova Scotiti press iii saying the esigi-ucit-s of Atlantic fishing development "call for firt- itiillions. . . ll ($500,000) isn't a drop in lllt‘ lllll'l\l'l uiit-ii _vti|| look at the real needs nf

_ fcssors do is to visit. and ltave a good time- As

far as anything of practical value is concerned it would be much better to take the tnen at the Halifax, St. Andrews and Prince Rupert sta- tions aitd have them work with the practical mcn who know something about the industry." It is a safe assumption that Premier ANcus Mxcoouxto of Nova Scotia is not favorably

. impressed by any criticism of the half million ‘ dollars grant with its specific inclusion of sums

for ~ bait MR.

llllCllAUD.

purposes, as announced by

I lidilorialiNotes l‘

This is I-litler‘s birthday—bom 1889, ¢ l? i 1*

The last of the Coronation delegates leave this week, iii iv a Now we are to have another City bond is- sue of $140,000. a it: at The first quarterly collection of Civic taxes under the new system did not prove the success anticipated, but the citizens have not been stif- ficiently aroused to its advantages. More pith- licity is needed. u iv a Washington has just voted $500 million naval appropriation, including provision for work on two $60 million battleships. It means plenty work for a time, but after that what? ~ in It iii

The Mayor and City Council of Saint John, N.B-, are not satisfied with their financial state» ments, and have employed the firm of Milne. Steele 8i C0., chartered accountants, Ottawa, to conduct a thorough survey of the City's fiii- ancial set up. Charlottetown could do worse than follow Saint John's example.

iii is at

Sir Charles B. Gordon, President of the Bank of Montreal, en route for the Coronation told the Press representatives that there would be no boom in Canada only a period of good busi- ness. “What is needed most in Canada tiout." he held, "is a good crop in the Prairie Pro- vinces.” it- at i: They believe in careful preparation for pub- lic celebrations in the Empire's capital-hence the Coronation rehearsals. It is easy to be ivisc after the event, but prudence dictates preliminary supervision of all details so that there may be no liitclitvhcn the tnillions flood London for the historic events themselves. >i< it >1

Rubin Ketchum wanted to help the Scvier County, Tenn., taxpayers who were pitttitig up 75 cents a day for his keep while he served a six-months larccncy sentence. So he wrote Judge W. P- Monroe, suggesting the county treasury would be saved $67.50 if his term were cutto three months. Judge Monroe found merit in the economy plea and reduced the sentence. How like the Campbell Government.

Gil

Vl/hat next? The King Government has given the order for decorating our public buildings for the Coronation to a Saint John firm. Are our business men, Board of Trade, Liberal Execu- tive asleep at the switch in allowing Ottawa to put it all over us the way they are doing? Soon, at this rate, the Liberal 30 will be finding them- selves superseded by an aggregation at Halifax 0r Fredericton. ' a u a

En route for the Coronation, the Director- General of the New Zealand Postal Telegraph Service, Mr. U. McNamara, told a. Saint John Telegraph Journal reporter that during the last i8 months his country had experienced a pros- perity boom that was unprecedented in her_his- tory. “Our main industry is of course argricul- tural products and the exports of butter and lamb and wool have never enjoyed a better mar- ket. We are not troubled with any major labor troubles, such as I find here, and in the United States,’ he said, referring to the. strike at Os- hawa in particular.

ii- in is Are we in for a run of youthful proteges’? Lorne Munroe, 12-year-old Winnipeg cellist, is so highly regarded by Mr. Arthur Benjamin, adjudicator at the Manitoba musical festival, that the London critic has offered to give him the "best musical education the world can pro- vide.” Mr. Benjamin was so impressed with the boy's playing that he hopes to take Lorne back to England with him. The critic offered the child board and lodging at his home if a Winnipeg service club would undertake $1,000 annual maintenance ‘expfnsfe.

Five of the amateur firewalkers referred to the other day sitiged their feet in the interests of science, while the Indian "professional" came through the ordeal unscathed. Ahmed Hus- siari, twenty-three-year-old Moslem. whose fath- er and grandfather were firewalkersbefore him, succeeded where the amateurs failed in the ex- periment conducted by the University of Lon- don Council of Physical Investigation. lie walked in a pit twelve feet long, glowing with embers heated to 93a degrees Fahrenheit with- out a trace of a burn on his bare feet. Nurses washed Hussian's feet before each test, and Dr. C. A, Pannett pronounced them "quite normal." Hussian prayed before each of his trips, which lasted one and a half seconds. After the ex- periment, Dr. Pannett reported Hussianh feet showed no trace of burns. The council plans

thi- ittilii-tr)", 'l‘iic Senator has dropped an-

further experiments before drawing any con-

other fly lll tiic ointinctit by his comment on the ciusions.

l. Notes

' “Stanley Jones sdys: "The soul 0t

‘By The Way

“ll," says Premier M " '

PUBLIC FORUM

‘Illuoolu-lhclilholla

democracy you mean government tor and 1n the interests of the peo- ple. then our system and OUTS 8100B is truly democratic." Your defini- tion, dear Benfwy. is like me sari: you wore 1n the movies the other day-cut much boo short. The most. essential characteristic of a democ- racy ia that. it. be a government by the people-we even want to make our own mistakes-Portland Oreg- oufan.

The sea has always been the tra- ditional occupation of residents of Cape Cod, and they have achieved wonders 1n the fields of fishing and commerce. Now 1t. appears that the Cape residents are fine farmers, too. A survey of cows there shows 1.1m they produced 8,321 pounds of nuik in an average year. The average tor the whole country Ls about. 5,000 pounds. Like the well known Cape Codder. even the cows are eflfclent. —Boston Post.

America is hungry iryou can get to it. The greatest hour of evangelism is now upon us. The Church must get back its nerve and courage and faith, and move forward with its message into the soul of America."

British motorists and other road ushers paid state levies of over one hundred and sixty million do11ars' inst year. The average cost. of 11c- etises was $10 for motorcycles and $4.5 for cars and $250 for taxtcabs. Tire residents of the United King- dom are a heavily taxed bunch in many directions and although they stlll use the national privilege of grumbling, they also pay up in good style. The Empire must be looked after.—-Brant.ford Exposition.

.i_ .

If the race (or armaments aimong the tiations continues there will be no money for anything but guns and dug-outs and gas masks. That. is the peril that. confronts Europe. But there is one thing which could and may be done when may help to stay the catastrophe, and that is the establishment of close and friendly relations between the two peoples on either side of the Irish Sea. That. two nations so long an variance with each other should come together to compromise their differences and to enter into a new relationship, based on a frank rec- ognition oigeach others rights and needs, could not but. have import- ant. reactions on the condition of Europe. Those who cnn bring that new relationship about. will render not only good service to Britain and to Ireland, but also I believe, to hu- manity-Finance Mititstcr, lrish Free State.

I chanced the other day to be one d! a company just. returned from the church. One enthusiastic churchgocr had heard the same ser- mon in different churches twice; the subject svas "War." Returning from the evening worsh p, she re- marked. "It. was awfully good for ‘the first. quarter of an hour. But. he went" on talking about fear so long, that the only fear I li-Jd was that. 1 should be too late for supper."-- United Churchman.

While the civil war in Spain may be ruining a. country and a tiation, 1t certainly is proving one thing- and that is that all the stories we have heard about the “Rlllllllll8llllg" effects of the itioclern apparatus of war are Wlllfllll’. very much found- ation. In other words, the machin- ery of war today would appear to be very much what it. was during the Great War — deadly enough and destructive enough, but. certainly not. "completely annihilating" by any means-hatifax hernia.

Subsidies, it. would seem, need not. always be so hard to get. rid of as some/of’ us had feared. it was pom".- ed out. here reccnty that. the nai- ural course of prices has driven down the levy on flour-wnicn goes to support. British wheatgrowers-to an almost. negligible levei. And now both the speakers in the recent Par- Lamentary debate and the report. ot the Tramp Shipping Administra- tlve Committee assure us that. yet another subsidy may disappear be- fore 1937 1a over. The tramp ship- ping subsidy, the renewal of wnicn the House of Commons had to dia- ctiss, was calculated to maintain the earnings for freight carried 1n Brit! ish cargo boats at. the 1929 levels- so far as this was possible within the limits of an animal appropria- tion of £2,000,000. Now freight. levels are near enough those of the stand- ard year to make 1t. possible that, thoughParllament. is asked to authorize the same grant. as 1n past. years. the actual sum which it wia be necessary to pay over wiil not. be large. The subsidy looks like ex- tzngulshing itself with the return of better tAmesL-Glasgow Herald,

It. ma be taken as certain that. Socialist pl pagandu. 1s working ‘back through the ranks into Italy.‘ Conditions under dictatorship in the home country are admitted by Fascist authorities to be desperately poor after years of sacrifice to the absolute will of the Socialist rene- znde. the Italian Dwple may well be a-skzng themselves whore they are going under Mussoltnra fmperialfsm. There 1s a limit. b0 the patience even of the Italian peasant. In the meanwhile, there are signs that. the limit. o! Fhscist. bluff against. other countries is being reached. It. 1a about to be called-Ottawa Journal.

We are 10-day living in a worn: of an intense scientific which renders competition at. and stronger. 1n vnln a country pos- sesses great. natural resources. arable soil. mines, forests. water power and fisheries; it will not. succeed 1n get- ting all the return in wealth wnicn they contain and 1n overcoming 11a compettma 1f it. has not. the neces- sary lnteilectu 1 resources as well. That ls why 1t. is to-day of the ut- most. necessity that u country not. only pay particular attention to the technical instruction of 11a youth 1n general but take steps to use their best talents. to create the leaders that. it. needs in every field of nut-

lollll lllO.—I.ADI0ll-, Ottawa.

"ti: s. u quutl n cl unmet. The Olurl w: Gurlluu has In! a ulna lb opluloul

i ol his hthnfl

i the alumni-bed. Mr. llidwllm for- bade thfl. He informed the parties a@9flgt\§e forty yea; button and dated 9i m"! -not ralae the water. The wpfll- mon. however. under u 0M. proceeded with the walk and till-y nod some seventeen beam ewes- wiu u um mum and chm/o the = he This altered the na-

INIQUITOUS LEGISLATION

6113-111 the conflict being waged between authoritarianism and de- mocracy towards which contest Canada and its Provinces are rap- idly anbrmhtniz. any act which tends to destroy confidence in the justice and fairness ot demon-lib or representative institutions i; a blow struck at dem any itself. More especially is £1115 the cue where the representative institu- tion is in a position of holding sllllfemge power. The object-ion to Fascism is that. its unlimited pow- er Ls exercised for its own contin- uance and the rights of individfiala are ruthlessly dlsregardedandwer- ridden. I1’ Democracy, through its Rpfesentative institutions, la guilty of the like practices, 1t pm- pares the way for its awn down- fall. In quietness or peace and 1n confidence 1n itself lies Democra- CYS strength. When, therefore, the Campbell Government. 1n the un- precedented position of power which it occupies through 1ts 101- lowtng 1n the legislature, saw {it to introduce and to have enacted the legislation about to be mention- ed. it. struck not merely a. blow at: its own prestige and at any con- fidence which might have existed in its integrity and impartiality, it weakened likewise the desire to maintaur our present. 1*- m- form of government. Why preserve thepower even of a Democratic institution 1f that power i5 to be exercised as an instrumented.’ wrong and oppression?

Under the provisions of the Road Act. the Minister of Hlghways and Public Works 1s given general con- trol and supeivls-on over the high- Wfiys and bridges ott‘ the Provinc- including thelr laying out, altera- tion, building, improvement, maln- tenanoe and retpair. Potwer 1s giv- en to eiipfofirlate additional lands if such axe needed for the widen- lng or construction of roads, the Owner. of course, w be compen- sated for the land so taken. '1‘.he Act. does not expressly declare that the powers given to the Minister shall be exercised carefully and without negligence or misconduct on the part of the Minister or of those working under 111m. Such an express declaration is Vqulte pun- necesary. Carefulriess and a due regard for the rigits of others are assumed. This 1s part of the common lmw applicable to till Hi5 Majesty's subjects, not excluding even a lVl'in- ister of Highways. The expression is often heard “The King can do no wrong“. This, applied in the cir- etimstances, means, the King. throtteh His Ministers. even through bhe Mlnlster of Highways, can do no wrong; for l1 these Min- isters or their servants are acting wrongfully, then they are not act.- ing a5 the King's Ministers or ag- ents but are acting in their pri- vabe capacity. They are 1n such case personally liable.

It is a. principle of law well known to lawyers that, although a. statute may expressly enable a thing to be done even for a pub- llc purpose and in the public 1n- terest, it must be done without neg- ligence and without interfering with rights which are vested un- less such interference is clearly authorized. The constructian of a bridge. for instance, over a stream flowing across a. highway. may be authorized by statute. It must not be built, however. so as to dam up the water and thereby interfere with the rights of - living near the highway through whose land the stream flows. The persons who do this, evetn although the construction, or the reconstruc- tlon, of the work be clearly author- ized. are doing the work 1n a negli- gent. and improper manner. They are committing a wrong, a tort. and for such tiortious and injurious oporLtion, those actively engaged and all who direct the periorm- ance, are liable 1n damage; to the person injured. The Government. or His Majesty. are not responsible inasmuch as the negligent or for- tlmis operation was at least. 1n theory, never authorized.