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, Ices-oun. Hen.- 0 A lsellnnea. 0.8.0. Killer Ind In Dhlcfm. J. l IIIIIOSL IJJ Ansell W. Waller

n: v . sue “ilfifiélllfi.” ‘$2.. t. t... 0M0 (IIILIVIIIOO) dulled so bl uuno ll-Iyuyear tlnsovanul llllcritocuudsond U-I- Isulen Audls BIIOII of Circulation: ‘The Strongest dlenrory f: Wcalm than fhelljqakesf ink.‘

WEDNESDAY, MARCH H, I989

Speaking Of Prophecies v __j__

Rather inopportiine from the Liberal stand- point is the occasion taken by our contempor- ary to criticise Hon. Dr. MacMillan as "a poor prophet."

Take for example his prophecy in 1935 that the Liberals, if elected, could not implement their pledge to balance the budget annually ex- cept by increased taxation or curtailment of necessary expenditures. This prophecy was made at a joint campaign meeting at Tignish, Ind at the following Bloomfield meeting Hon. Thane A. Campbell, now Premier, quoted it scornfully, just to show how "incompetent” the MacMillau Government was to even com- prehend what Liberal economy meant. "Dr. MacMillan says that," he said, "but I say la you that we can and i/iurl balance Hie budget trilli- on! doing any of than» things."

\Vho was the trtie prophet.’ The electors ac- cepted Mr. Campbell's promise and waited hope- fully for the balanced budget. 1939, the first full Liberal year, passed with a deficit of $24,654 on current account. Premier Camplbell estimated s deficit for the following year of some $60,000 and came otit with a deficit of $120,773. The i938 Accounts Show another Campbell deficit

of $80,113, with a total debt increase during and farseeing director as Mr. Justice Arsenault

his three and a half yczir regime of over two million dollars. And this notwithstanding tax- ation increases amounting to some three hund-

red thousand dollars, and curtailment of neces- and Ministerial circlesthe f f l sary road maintenance expenditures to such an secrecy is being maintained, the de ence o tie

extent that even the Government's party sup- porters are complaining on the floor 0f the House.

the Legislature Dr. MacMillan

other prophecy. He predicted that the Liberal I

debt increase for i938 alone would amount to over a million dnliars. The actual figure, as

shown by the Public Accounts now tabled, was Sides ‘$0359! fofllflcatlonsi $1,249,856, the biggest in the history of the bB 5°‘ "P lhfie- g ‘R ' i

Province. A pretty shrewd prophecy on the part of the Conservative leader!

Another prophecy of Dr. MacMillan was that Hon. B_ W. LePages expenses t0 the Old Country to attend the Coronation would be so heavy that one year's Public Accounts wouldn't be able to hold them. What happened? The Accounts for 1937 showed $1,000 paid to Mr. LePage for his Coronation jaunt. The 1938 Accounts reveal a further item of $657.40, be- ing the “balance of expenses" incurred by Mr. LcPage on that occasion. Talk about prophe- cies!

Of all the prophecies made by Dr. MacMillan, however, the most emphatic one has been his prediction that the Campbell Government, when it goes to the country, will be overwhelmingly defeated. We have no doubt that he will prove just as accurate in this case as he was in fore- casting Mr. LePage’s extravagance, or the mis- erable failure of the Government to implement its election pledges. '

Garbling The Accounts

One of the minor mysteries of the Campbell Governmenfs liquor administration is the amount of profit actually made in liquor sales for the year 1937. According to the Public Ac- counts 0f that year, the profit was $40,000. But according to the Comparative Statistics of Pub- lic Finance, 1925-1938, tabled last week in the Legislature, the profit in 1937 was $55,000;- a difference 0f $15,000.

Why were the liquor profits represented in

~ the Public Accounts, 1937, as being $15,000 less

than they actually were? We take the figures in the Comparative Statistics as correct because they were prepared, not foi- home consumption but for the Rowell Commission on Dominion- Provincial Relations. The Premier says there is no mystery about his administration of the Prohibition Act, but there is no doubt that the ublic was grossly misled as to the extent of his profits in i937 in the Public Accounts

of that year.

The question “Why?" remains unanswered but it is not difficult to surmise “how” the con- cealment of this additional $15.00!) was effected. We calledattention last year to an unexplained item 0f $15,000 appearing in the Pub- lic Accounts as “Casual Revenue: special re Sanittorium.” r legislators should, of course, have asked or the particulars of that item, but they did not do so. Indeed, they some- times show a remarkable aptitude for putting the blind eye to the telescope when it comes to examining government transactions.

j Whether or not the $15,000 in “Casual Re- venue" represents the $15,000 extra liquor pro- fit that went casually astray in the 1937 Ac- counts we do not profess to know, but we hazard that guess; Perhaps it is all explained in‘ those mysterious-reports of Prohibition Id- minlstration which the Premier says were "in- formally available” for the use of the members dufittg the last two sessions, but which were lievcr tabled. But theinnolther we nor the pub» lfc he access to those documents, and few per- ’ ii ' 1y. orvothcrwlss, of their ex-

, than in his

‘So won-time lure to. keep

fiflfio additional liquor

wmnderlnfi how many

000,000 “rearmament" scheme. Whether or not

A few weeks before the present fission of the Union Government will obtain theauthority hazarded an- of the League Council for the fortification of 3mm,

i other items have gone similarly astray, “unwept,

unhonourcd and unsung," since Mr. Campbell and his associates took office.

Federal Aspirant:

Hon. Mr. Mclntyrfls speech on the Address, with its long rehash of federal political matters, lends colour to the rumor that he is getting “all set" to oust the sitting member, Dr. Grant, in the King's County nomination as fed- eral candidate. Rumor also says that he is not without competitors among his legislative col- leagues, including Mr. Wade Hughes, who seems to have been caught napping during the Draft debate but is likely to make up for it when he speaks on the Budget. That is, if Mr. Speaker will give him the san1e latitude he gave Mr. McIntyre, to ramble all over the fed- eral field. The Speaker, who is the only member who cannot participate in either debate, is him- self reported to be in the running for the King's County federal nomination. Like O1’ Man River

“He don't any nothtn’;

He must know somet-hlni" It was noticeable that he heard Mr. Mc- Intyre’s labored efforts as King Government apologist with a somewhat sardonic expression on his usually amiable countenance.

t

I EditonaFNotes 1

Scott, the explorer, died in the Antarctic this

dateiiz. '9 swan

Mr. A. A. Gardiner, the Assistant General Passenger Traffic Manager of the C. N. R. who was here with Mr. F. R. Sayer. Over the Walk‘ end is a most genial soul and as full of the joy of life as an egg is full of meat. He is thoroughly master of his job, and is as familiar with crowned heads and belted knights as the proverbial lord chainberlain. Mr, Gardiner is thoroughy “sold” on this Province as a tourist resort, and thinks we are very fortunate ill-DEV- ing at the head of our Bureau such an efficient

has proved to be. J i i D

Although in the Union of South Africa military greatest possible

South-West African Mandate will constitute an important feature of l\Ir. Oswald Pirow’s i6.-

he mandated territory is still uncertain; the ex- tent of such defence plans cannot be revealed at

“Music like any of the arts, 0f course, de-

personal taste" remarks a critic. “There are some devotees of "classical music who sincerely dis- like swing. One can respect their taste and their opinion. They fomi but a small group, however, of those who decry swing." Experience has taught us again and again in music that what is plebian in one generation becomes classical ere three succeeding generations have ru_n their course. That does not imply that the music is any better than its original critics considered it to be, but by oft repetition it has become so familiar that the jaded ear of the new musical critic actually craves for it.

n e e In our front page comparison between now and then in Government expenditures there were one or two unfortunate mistakes. The figures and facts are those, taken from the “Comparative Statistics of Public Finance,” laid over in the Legislature:

1934 1938 Ministers $12543 $13.01 1 Departmental Offices 68.707 84.324 Registry and Land Title Offices 7.856 3.923 Pensions 1.500 2.500 Miscellaneous grants 4,000 2,900 Miscellaneous Expenditures 1.991 5.229 Total general Expenditure $96,502 $1 i8, 387

An increase of $21,885 in administrative ex- penses since the Campbell Government took of- fice. The only reduction is in grants, and these consist of the subsidy of $1,000 to the Mari- times Transport Board, $100 to the Maritime Province Club, and $100 cut in the contribution for the upkeep of Queen‘ Square Gardens. J i U

Delcrium tremens is one of the sequels to imbibing alcohol not wisely but too well. ‘Hiis is an age of investigations, and so scientists have been busy discovering by personal interview with alcoholics undergoing hospital treatment, that ‘lpink elephants" are not so common or frequent as they were supposed to be before science had thought it worth while to turn its eagle eye upon them. Neverthless, for convalescing inebriates, the world is a no better place in which to live than any caprlces of pink elephants could make it for them. The results of the survey made by Dr. Dynes are recorded in the current issue of The New England Journal of Medicine. The story unfolded is that, among the “things" which appeared before the jaundiced eyes of the alcoholic subjects snakes, birds, cats, lions, tigers and rodents led the field in that order, while two patients said

ly. Nine apparently could not make up their minds. so Dr. Dyncs catalogues their visions as “animals not specified." troubled by animals or insects. reported they were being chased by the-police-which is s particularly disturbing idea. Even worse, one imagines, than visions of whales orhippopotaml jrnust be thc haunting suspicions of an inebrlated

Draft . ouuioi-ituimum

pends for the constituency of its followers on m-ooks, big and

they saw a whale and a hippopotamus respective- “m; m4

Others, while un-

THE (IHARLOTTETOWN GUARDIAN

NOTES BY TIIE WAY

Iomadesloorfothodlsosrn- fngwbatwtll ‘lb ‘ clear to almost. all-that the assai- tlnl lssuelsnotbeviiocnhsolnn and Communism. not be

men are Jnvlolable, responsible, nut-tonal free-Walter Idpixnan.

Thatawuoversfqwhunilnd mlles of Enrich-held territory 1n Afr-tea would warrant the people of the United States marchng to war under the banner of a de- moomcy which the riatlves of the terrl 1n question would never compre end, ls untnlnkable. Eng- land didn't settle Europeb age old problems in lBll. Germany settled nothing with her victory ln 1871. The U.S. settled even lac by her intervention 1n 1917-18-41:. H11:- ler. Stalin and Il Duce teatlfv. Flght. for democracy? Yes. let's. By repairing our own-here at. home.» New York Post.

A nun recently entered \nd rob- bed a Lra/ppefs cabin 1n the British Columbla "bush," and he was sen- tenced to eighteen months ln jail. He had violated two laws-the for- mal law to protect prtvate proper- ty and the great unwritten law of the wllderness that ls dulgned to safeguard human life. For 1n the Canadian hinterland there has at- ways been a code that the owners of cabins should leave them un- locked. so that 1f some one ls lost, lll or hurt, he can seek refuge there. He must not, 1n hls turn, abuse this privilege by stealing or destroying anything. Later, 1f he can, he must replace what he has taken and always leave wood for 2a” next fire. —Hamilt.on Spec-

It ls disheartening to learn that the home ts becoming more dan- gerous. The Travellers Insurance Company of Hartford, Conn, has found. after a survey, that. home and recreational accidents are greater than the automobile ac- cident toll. In a five-year perlod. the company found that automo- blle aocldnets accounted for 23 per cent of all claims, while accidents 1n the home and from sports ac- counted for 35 per cent of the. claims showed a. decrease of 6 peir cent over the period from 1929 to 1933. but. home accident, claims 1n- creased 5 per cent 1n the five- year period. It would seem that. an 110ml D€0ple throw caution to the winds. —Bostqp Post.

livery day newspapers. authors. printers, publishers, and distribut- ors are gagged by 1t (the present law of libel), blackmailed by 1t. The right to fair comment must be made sure and certain. N0 responsible newspaper asks license.

this stage, but there is a possibility that, be- The pfegg of the cqunflfy u, 5 a Union air basc w," great tradition of fairness and re-

sponslblllty, and ll. has pr ved 1t can be trusted. But the e1 eci of the lww as 1t. noiw stands Ls to give license to the most unworthy. It fives an almost free hand to little, to bring speculative, Irresponsible iwitons on a “heads - I-wlxi-talls-you-lose" busts, since they usually have nn money to paly costs 1'11 the verdlct goes against them. The B111 whlch the Government wtll eventually substitute must be at. least as cmipxebeuslve as the one that has been withdrawn. And there 1s no reason for leaving the gag in beyond the present session o1 the House. -—Sunday Despabch, Imudon.

‘For (enerall us the Irish str gled to expel British from con- trol 1n Erin. Following the treaty of 1921, iihe British army evacuate-d the 26 countries of tne Irish nee State, except for the port-s of Cobb, Berehaven and Lough Swilly, where care and maintenance parties were stationed. Now, under the agree- ment of last. April, Eire has taken over these ports, and no British force ls left. 1n the count-Ky. The Izrtsn of Eire are now completely free of British uniforms, but. at a price. While Brltaln ls strengthen- lng the defenses of the slx coun- tries of Northern Ireland, spending about $15,000,000 on building new army barracks and brlnglng old ones up to date. Eire has to pay for tts own defenses. -- Ottnxwa Joiunal.

The process tlrlsh labor emigra- tlon 1.0 151118111110) apparently ls un- checked ano signs of magnetron and alarm are beginning to mant- fest themselves in various parts of t-he country. Durmg the crisis era 1n September DOB/JORGE of me ‘ex- lles” scurried back to Smithem drelima, alaavowmg litmus-la ml.- lzenshlp lest they should be em- braced tn the widespread net. of

me tluo oif migration turned again and there have been such acces- sions to their ranks, ln particular about. the Mersey 11nd tne Ctyoe, that politlcai and labor organiza- tions in those areas are beginning do "kick" about. 1t. In Liverpool ft meeting organized by an the pout.- lcsl part-lea protested against the immigration laws which permitted such anomalies as 1068M)’ resi- dentiul working peapie stanmng tdiy

rived trom Eire wno were tiLlng flied places. -Be.ldaet lkleirfloii.

a feature of many of their recent

cured on Mlnlsterlsl authority not so long ago that the Brltlah mar- ket. "was gone for ever." Mr. Mac- Entcc, Minister for Finance. 1s now satisfied. that. for the of the nation's exportobls agricultural surplus the formers have to rely glnctpsllv, 1f not. wholly. upon the

ltlah market. De Rye/n Minister

interrogated, dogs, insects, 4°11’ AFIlWWW» "h" 4W9“! "l!

tor of the calves, ll today for increased -

mind that doth fear that each bush\ dong. the

gcotlnthcirdioiicluslu; lilclt _ sumo-that there mail ftet’ prohibitions-st the lips. . ‘

vestiptious hlvdno remcdyoft; fiction to

uneven course of a honiewnrd walk ls a police-i man: or that after arriving home, frimnorieb" pillow the moot i.» the upcctof nfoffleelr- f3... of the lawiCuflously enough the» reieittlflc,_ fro,‘

national service. Cline crisis over, m

by as spectators of men irwniy ai- of 1|

1 Admissions by Mlnhters showing a a how they have been converted iu-s dim

utterances. Tne country was as- sh

Imfdl hll be have, liq hi]

PUBLIC FORUM

Till OHIX ll GIG III a (null-old a! . soundly sh ulnluu el

OISOINI PIIJODICALB

Sin-I em not go to clam anyone with so iiidcocnt llter- eture, but one th 1s this: the clergy’ uy that indecent lltenturo 1| so ; so we must. pruums some ls com from somewhere.

I oblec to some of "One of the Rdslng Generation!" views on this mutter. He says that their inau- zlnes deal with everyday thing; of llle and 1f these so-cnlled lm- moral wpcs were discussed more ‘ftreelywgouth would beneftt from

moral? The Church. This young person has no right tio contradict Church vlews on this subject. If he would check his views with the

clercv.

hls_ attitude to this saytng that " v and t “

gatiton of these subjects will benc- ftt. youth, once . he ls speak- ing out. of his llasful Ignorance. Such folly wtll onl lend to further Wnnltcahlons. bl control; etc. slnst which the Church condoms mos

I un, Sir. etc, ANOTHER OI‘ THE RISING GENERATION.

DEGRADLNG READING

with the keenest eyes. to hear with the finest ears. an to ilsten to the sweetest voices of all time."

‘These words were written by James Russell Lowell; had he 11v- sd 1n 11111 day. he could have added lines. desert tlve of other senses that. might catuied too. by some 0f the present time joumnls, both narrative and pictorial, that lute our news stands. and the mm and réilorals of some of our young peo-

e. It l8 Bflitlfylxig to learn that a

Y 0f vouns DEODIe ln Halifax, have declded for themselves, that they wtll have nothing to do with debastzig literature. nor with those who Droflt by its production and ggiv-‘llctigalwemlgrliliéveia this." there alre

oun

in our own Prov y, wgOpsglljlfil not besmlron their minds. by the

erual of the filth that 1s set be. ore them-town and country-but 511191.11 there 1s some wav of putting B- 51011. to the everlncreastng influx of reading matter that has no llt. erary value, and L; educational only 011 llflBs that are degrdlng and this tn a time, when truly good m. erature. both educational and enter. talnlng, ls within the reach or at] as never before.

O1 the foe. that these publicat- 1on3 are immoral there can be no doubt. Surely what 13 m“; o; 0m- mvtlon pictures 1- tru~ here. There l5 11° 5011811112 the point. I have seen and read, enough to satisfy m 51% on thls 5005p.

fB-llce reuar ng hygiene etc. 1s no virtue, and it u hard to we how, tn this age of outspokennes: 1n reliable journals and papers, and 1n everv day llfe. any coula exfs. If 1t oes, the form o1 enlighten. ment. to be obtained, 1mm me ietadln matter that, "one or m; Rising neratton" finds 1t 1160c:- sary to depend, methlnks-an 1y

W111 only d1: deeper, those plt- ll‘ he makes mention of. QB" “WW9 lune-st a remedy for lhis form of moral lntec ion? igtlllléllty Mother," rupaggg, u“;

e ountfes i mg‘ film finglgtlteggéven power to deal

ui-e_ t,

d“; to so and that

l Slr, ., OLD FASH-IICNED IMMOTIIER-

PREMIER CAMPBELL PROIIIBITION

Stiz-Conttn 1 mm _ ter. ls 1t Nfllgéllglblfi tomasbklaslil l$o clalm that heductlou of boot. 198881: fstrly accounts for the lamgely increased soles of boom by Vendors? On this claim what ls flue evt. deuce? What. suppression-i or 111mg sellers 1s there represented by $1,828.41 of fines and penalties. coJectod 1n 198B, as compared with E500. collected b.v Premler Stewart 1825. lti lfhe city alone? As yet ithere ls no record u to the drunkii and ll uor offenders. conv otzd ‘n the 01y Court. to show how for i-ellable court record; W111 ‘o u, £703) up the clalm that. bootleggen uve been eliminated. and tth liquor trade sales transferred to tlighvendolizi e \- _ llshfld ‘if. 632°... lldlii...“ ..‘Z“'.’. some estimate ot what the total; 1M5’ be. The issue of the Guardian, tn which Premier C mpbell’; all. °‘“&;"...":.:"”l:“°‘t- “at” m . , n staoo fines 1m whlch m

l" 1° 11°“? 1111111! of those oonvlctaeecil “Willy DRY blie penalty, and how l)!‘

8. bunzlarles and crlmlnulty, the pgmuog d

glefiouncod so vlclmisly in 193, h,

for this!!!“ $111.: l‘ m t” u: m I10. offences,

he would, I think, change And

Slra-“Readtng enables us to ses som

O r ° ‘cvaslon of culmblllny. ‘n:

ti 1113M the queslon. so on affirm

' road machines for sxunplc. ‘lhe Prom! soc

help of; townie?“ f2: “a:

P- MKPJ, Ind the Olly p911“

which he amiable and , sensors

to amt marrow:

I luvs Qohun before of the caus- es of pom 1n dlflfcrent of ins head. ‘Ihus, 1n and over the eyes h due to eye strata; higher on fore- head 1s due to sinus tflfllblfl; still hllhcr on formeao and at back of head ls dgguto llsndlgestlon and gas pressure. t . ~ e pain in me majority of cues ts due to these