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not too soon.

by Parliament. Yet, to an extraordinary degree,

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The Guardian may he shtalued st: Huh luaaeee shop. Moanlnn. N. l- ‘Ihe News Shop. Manama N. l. Gwrte Melanin. Pie-tun N B.

Walker's wait.» 8PM. ll sum st... ileum. N-l- - uetmpolltan News Agency, ms Peei 8a, Montreal. United Cigar Stereo Chateau Lsurter, Ottawa Oat.

B. Althea, lord Ellln‘: flutes Ottawa, Ont. J. Flue. 354 Bay Sh, Toronto. Ont. " Wolfe's News Stand. slllllllfif- 0"- Dld South News. Cor. ivlllh and Washington Sla

Boston , Hotsllnfu NOW] Agency, Times Building Ne! Yuri-

Presldent: W. Chester S. McLure, M). Viee-Pree-‘arnt: l ll. Burnett FJL Secretary; lieul Col. l). A MseKinnou. 0.8-0. Editor and Managing Dlrectm: i B. Burnett. FJJ. Associate editors: Frank Walker arid Ian L: Burnett

‘The Strongest Memory is Weaker Than me Weakest Ink.‘

FRIDAY, MAY l0, i946

\Velcome Visitors

Uur citi/t-n. uill extend zi warm welcome w» thc \l~lllll;; nit-tubers til ihc Maritime divis- itni uf The tluiadtizui Press, representing the dlaritinie dziilv llt‘\\'S[)ElllCl'5, who hold their an- nual husincss comcntiini :11 The fliarl0ttetoivn lodav.

It is scvcrzil rt-zirs now since the last CF iiccling ll(‘l",'. uliich is tuulcrstaudzihle in view if ll'IlllS[l0|‘[I1ll<lll (lifficulties (luring the war. \\'n1tli fClllQllIlJCTlllQ‘ is the fact that the ex- rt-llent cort-rzigc of new.- we cnioyetl in these momcntous intervening Years was furnished chicflv by Iihc Canadian Press. Several bril- liant Cl‘ ntcmhrrs. including Ptill Stewart (whom we claim as :1 Charlottetoiiizui bv adoption), Iervcd 11s L‘¢Ill“l>lIUll(lt'lllS on the battle fronts ltl(l helped tn make history while they wrote it.

The post-ivar years present new problems fri news gathering and distribution. The Can- adian Press aims to meet these problems and go steadily forward improving its service. That is what brings the Maritime members togrther at this time. We like lo think it not improbable. however, that Charlottetowns fame as a hos- pitable convention ccntre,—penetrating to the remotcst sections of our neifrhboring sister Pr0vinccs—pr0vcd a strong inducement.

The Captains Depart

Evidence that the nations of the world are pinning considerable faith on the United Na- tions Organization is indicated in an Associ- ated Press survey of the present status of the armed forces of the world.

Tlic big armies, navics and air forces of the war years are melting rapidly away in most countries. Smaller and more vulnerable coun- trie in partitilar, are disbanding their armies bfiilSC, in any event, they could not stand llo i. Herc are some of the present service strengths, wmpared with those at V-E Day, as revealed by the survey:

Great Britain: ‘Nearly 5,000,000 men and women released to ctit active strength to 650,- 000 hv end of 1946.

United States: Cut from 12,000,000 on Y-E Day to 4.725.000 now. Army to be cut to 100.000, navy to 500,000, and army air forces to 400,000.

Canada: Army of 25,0000, air force of 16,100 and navy of 10,000 as compared with wartime peak army of 495,000, air force of 250,000 and navy of 90,000.

Russia: Demobilizing several million men, but keeping large proportion of officer corps

Australia: Army to be cut to 133,500, lgainst wartime yicak of 593,510. New Zcaland: Services cut to 24,000 men. India: Post-war Indian army expected to be about 300,060, nearly double pre-war strength of 30,000. ' China: Forces now numbering over 6,000,- 000 to be cut to 840,000.

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France: Forces to total 548.000 at the end of April.

Italy: Army being reorganized to include 140,000.

llclgium: Rebuilding to 100,000.

llolland: Now approximately 90,000; for- ccs totalled 300,000 u-hcn (icrmaus invaded.

Denmark: Army now 24,000.

Sweden: Army, 64,000. '

Finland: Cut to 3000 professional addict-l.

Poland: Half-dcmobilized, leaving-25o,0oo.

Iiungary: Whiits 60,000, has 30,000.

(ircccc: Army now restored to 64,000.

'l'urkcy: Still fully mobilized at 1,000,000.

Portugal: Cutting to 30,000.

Thus, with few exceptions, uniforms are being rapidly swapped ’for civilian clothes lhroughoutthc ivorld. As for the western powers, it, is to be hoped time will prove it is

Top Much Discretion

The first and most important right which British Parliaments won for themselves through centuries ofstruggle was the right to levy taxes grid to prevent the King or his Government irdrti levying any tax not specifically approved the: Cutiadim ‘Parliament has abdicated this tliifctlmt Byfielqlflting its powers to the dis- tioii oldie-Government in collecting income ' l‘ his been dcmeynote! en exchange. l otlsé Government wide powers of “fixing tlietaxes of individual tax- ‘ disellmviiig their appeals against ‘f-Mlfiqlhtlflfl. _ ,_ I l)“ Bywvsrious wit- einergeiiey over, the

officials should fix, to the maximum extent pos- sible, the exact conditions of all tax collections. The Income Tax Payers Association urges the decentralization of administration. The Dom- iniou Association of Chartered Accountants, after analyzing the present discretionary pow- ers in the hands of Mr. Elliott, Deputy Minister of Nati0nal Revenue, urges that they be drastic- ally curtailed and limited only to matters on which it is impossible for Parliament to legis- late in detail. '

The accountants’ brief says there are 95 sec- tions of the Income Tax law wherein the min- ister (which means his deputy) is empowered to exercise discretion. Twenty-eight sections of the excess profits law grant him similar dis- cretions. Finally, important discretionary powers are vested in the Treasury Board of the cab- inet.

The field of discretion is too lengthy to b6 set out in detail here but, as summarized by the accountants, it covers:

(1) Administrative and punitive powers.

(2) Powers which make the minister the judge of reasonableness or equity‘.

(3) Powers which constitute the minister the judge of the facts.

(4) Powers to grant or tions and allowances.

(5) Power to approve a pension fund plan for income tax exemption purposes.

Summing 11p the extraordinary powers of the tniiiisters, the accountants quote from a publication of the Dominion of Canada Taxa- tion service as follows: “It does not appear that there can ever be a case where the court can review the actual substance of the minister's discretion, even if improperly made, and sub- stitute its own opinion for the minister's."

This argument about discretionary powers leads to the argument for a satisfactory appeal tribunal to hear appeals against the decisions of the income tax department, which appears to be a nation-n-ide demand at the present time.

refuse exemp-

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“The local newspaper achieves world- wide news coverage," according to the Federal Communications Commission.

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The Province is well represented by its M.’ P.’s and Senators these days—-the force of one good example from Queen's.

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Notwithstanding the enormous destruction of human lives during the War, the best fig- ures evailable today would indicate that the total world population is now at least one hun- dred million more than in 1939. How is it to be fed other than by the "haves"?

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In Great Britain the Government foots the bill almost entirely for radio. From 1937 to 1945, t-he deficits of B.B.C. over licence re- ceipts, averaged $10,710,000 which had to be made good by the Government from tax rev- enue. In Canada it is not so bad as rhat— yet.

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A Quebec M. P. advertising the special claims of his choice of a_Canadian flag says it has no representation on it of the Union jack 0r Fleur-de-Lis. If it be adopted, he claims, “in twenty-five years we will have complete national unity.” Yes, to the same degree that “if wishes were horses ‘beggar: would ride."

The Government railway, says a contempor- ary, is not at present earning enough net even to provide for the Income Tax which it should be forced to include in its accounts. It is not ex- ceptional, alas, in this respect, the Government taking even “the shirt" of not a few enter- prises.

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Surely if our new Car Ferry Abegwcit is to be on duty in September as promised, the S. S. Prince Edward Island could have been kept on the route till then without going to drydock. It is a risky .matter being depend- ent on Scotia I for our regular connection with the mainland.

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So oleomargarine gOt what it deserved in the Senate, the parting kick being administer- ed by that veteran politician, Senator john A. Macdonald of Cardigan, at the instance of P. E. I. Dairymaifs Association. The bill will thus never reach the House of Commons, where a warm reception was being prepared for it by Maritime members.

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There should be popular patronage of the Wo1nen's Institutes Competitive Musical Festi- val in Prince of Wales College this evening, and again tomorrow evening. It says much for the cultural interests of our Institutes that- they should extend their patronage to such a worthwhile objective, deserving of every en- couragement, not only from our Provincial and Civic leaders, but ‘from the public at large.

Now Baby Bonusers are threatened with the privilege of paying a “security” tax of 5% of their earnings, big or little. This means for the responsibility of having little ones to nourish and bring up, a man or woman, if he or, she survives the ordeal, will get an old age pension, provided he has paid the Government $5 per annum out of every $100 he earns from the time l1e leaves school. -Some inducement to become a parent and bread-earner! And the bachelor must pay ‘as well.

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The lndiaii Mutiny broke out this date 1857 in the native army of Bengal; the im- mediate cause cf the outbreak ls supposed to. have been the introrlizrtiozi into the army of cartridges greased with tows’ and pigs’ fat. the handling of which‘ was abhorrent both tol-lindus and Mohammedans. but discontent with Brit- ish rule under the East India Co., had long been, gaining ground. On the re-eetablliliineiit of British authority. the power of the But Indie Co. was abolished, end thereafter the

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Notes By The We,

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Bulls’: elslm to onmthfrd f gmlel onwgiie-iter 111N920 o1 Ne and an. .a1a but; y“ that. —-Wirideor Star. ma“ WIINIQIQ; 1511?: are lellngtlzddnto Just. so up to the attic tilts 10°11 It‘ mme of the illustrated magma; of 2g ago! -0h.i1st.i.en fence

General Crerh-r-‘slssoned advoo- w»;

My qt’ compulsory mllitetry ill advisability 0d

his guests the fntvltutln l alt ll f ‘v 0186;‘: untarr y before the

If the Japanese women elected Parliament who complain that won't. listen to their views tlemoe they'll 53011 (us. coven- tha the masculine rlla- meinteirlanswtll beonlytoogadto give ilhem credit w-han things go wrong. Jllarorvto Telegram.

N015’ thlt our hair ls turning gray, we daily become more and more omcernod about "What ls the yvungor generation coming to?" PVTHMWIy our hslr is not so gray that cannot 1a h

W! mieandohage worry to u:

eem on most. owe up the mounting foibles of advancing age. -Cslgn.ry

w. themen

TlielUnlted Statgnls seedy to re- verse isellf. and s u hemlgyn

"It-livery ‘peer Which includes new? filllffl». the Peron dictators -p

will make a fnceeavlng gesture towazrla flflfftlllng its year-old pledg- m to eliminate "Axis influences".

department revemal means the abandonment. of we galley o! wtlve opposition which we ave followed since lust summer. But it would be dnngerpusl l0 flwmne that our {l-Tiefltlne poll was a mistake. It isnottihepo yofcpposltlonm this: Phscism which was via-orig. The esiror is deeper. and 1t is son- tained 1n the state department's policy c-f hemisphere regionalism, which has made it tznposstblr. to Izaak up our denunciations ot Peron with action. -New York Post. Beyond any question of the value to a firm of a young men of 2'1, or 22, as against one o1‘ 26 or 2'7, iihere up other umstdeiretlons which should be

experience in dealing with men. the cevelopnient winch ccmes with travel, with struggle with meeung oliflicult Blil/HIILIOIIB, should siuely go far to make up for the fact. that: me university veteran is not so young as the metrically unfit grad- mte who was Unable to get mm the forces. But there l6 another ocns , and a highly unpert- an-t. one. ihat. ls. than tne young veteran tins been serving ms mun- iry. He left his university courses to meteor. those irciry firms which now say m is too 01d. Those firms owe it to the veteians to wulve then" peacetime rule and to accept, if Ml other qiuiuice-‘uons are pre- ecnjt, the veteran who is iii-ore tnun 21 years of age. —Toiron.o Giooe anu Mali].

There ll mother thought on the uxrumi of firearms. 1r 1.. 111s. Juv- eniles should never, except mioeir okvct. ciLpa-rvlsiau, be p-siirutiea to have canoml oil revolvers, IXISLUIS, rliies or unmguns. Zfnere is no. cnly danger o! Llum snwtnng ‘theme-elves but oif causing niyury w ctners. Then are times when u youngster

wrong ant Jlbsclst

stares out with semen rule and P!

becomes involved in acts winch maty ceiuse serious injury to lumseif or a cmnpenion 0r damage to pro- perty. The youth with s gum is prone to seek for targets. sometimes u time will do. but more often uhe wlzidaws of vacant or temporarily

are the marks aimed nit. After breathing a wmcow ortwmltlsunlyasteptoloounl; the . ‘time have been tunes

wneui animus nave been me vie- tirm 01f the youthful muriumen. Moot particularly resid-

ents in tine mrei enact", nave been mined great. annoyance by youths with aims. -saim John Telegraph- Jan-rial

Mr. Arthur Welsh, Ontario's new travel and publicity nuuizlster glean- ed some valuable information irom a questionnaire which he sent. res oenuly to a leinzo number of Untied sum tourists. He naked them what. 1digi- lthed best, about Ontario, and tih answer wasn't the fishing, vlie been or tine food. Wlhei. nae 1m-

most these wunscs sum. was the o0 ans friend- t

llneeedhhepeople 1m lsagood la

point. to remain-heir at tihe dawn of

tourist season winien may 1n history. Mzr. one to see that.

U? mats full value for his (‘if

money. that he is not subjected to he

bou e stores. Am and favorably to hos- " trlendltness. They 1t tn On/tsrlo. —0wen 11mm. nlng of summer.

node are alive wt fennel-ed ereexsiree.

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lnito account. The qlmwh

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Old ' Charlottetown (P. E. l. Magazine, 1H2)

miid. They wiere: Gee: Col

Chief, A. H. Yates. 0110.19? Welseti: W. B. Da/wson. Hon Edward Whet- un. William M06111

doach Warden or eer car- ried e. red sin-ff abogwliive feet. a gilt ball, as emblem of authority. The chief's emblem was a baton or s different color, iownbllug that carried by a Marshal on rade. were fire

Comipeixitm, No. 1 captained James Wallis, No. 2 by ‘Bios . Dedd and No.3 Pyftlas Bamard.

It a. n-oin the records that. the ty was well equ with fue engines up to the t of the Gircat Fire 1n i866, but all were r-and engine-s Tries-e were five of them. tlhe most. powerful be the Tremont, pivcincdiu 1M2. cid good service for several years, but the mentioned fire, WhIOIl destroyed the greater part or four blocks pounded by Queen, Dorchester, Pownal and Great George Streets, necessiltazied a more efficient fire filivhtief‘; 60 the first steam eingbie was brought frcmlonrlon in 1N6. and was known as the Rollo Another, called the

HlllfibC-rctllgll, popularlv known as the )Sl15,li‘.ly1 tllflfltedmlglllllf 9li name was mm

Seneca Pulls. ' Y

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The finst annual report qt the nt was submitted to

Fire the Coiuicll tn 1877. Same excerpts follow:

“Art. the present time with the large and expensive team and Hand Fire Engines and apparatus. we are reasonabiy well prepared to fires. but it cannot be too foaclbly ted out to every house- keeper, e necnzity for oonstam care and watcihfulness Great rare should be ta-ken ivlth wcod ashes, which when hot. siliould be placed 1n suitable iron versels. and proper safes should be used for the pre- servation cf luclfer maxeties . .

“On the 28th October last a fire oocured ln a trunk factory of George Full, situate ln Ward 3. Block 3. and was entirely consumed. together with e rrmctilne shop owned by the late William Stlgglns, a house owned by William Heard. Esq, and several other small bulld- lngs. om- ucieizl as s dwelling ‘The damages may be estimated at about three thousand dollars. The build- ing ctwucd by the lute Mr. Szigglns ls stated to have been the first lvicihcdtst. chapel, erected in Gnar- lcittrfcivn about the year 1813

"The morning we fortunately calm, several inc-hm pth 0f snow hind fallen the same evening, and the flamers were fortunately sub- Curd before they reached the Iur e and valuable dry goods ewtabli. - mrrts In the neighborhood. At one time sciicus consequences were cp- "taentfcd “Oin the 30th of the mine month, fire bmkv out lu the grocery store cf George D Wright. tlhe flames quickly mashed the adjoining drug store of P G lilrrrizr, sit the corner of Queen and ' d Streets

premises - Hon William MoGlJl and Wlllélm 81n- clalr otn tine one rude, end tine house of Mrs. Mwarmn on west were slaved in a very damaged condition. The losses sustained may be about seven thousand dollars. "

futhenewbellwaisfmmdto be lit upwards for a anoe of r. y tfu-ee feet from lower edge, and lt is otmeoqueritl rend- ered of but, lltztle me for t e pur- pose intended. .

"In tlhe month of A t last the new building in King east. Ward 1, was oom leted and ion taken In n. ~ horned the Bile- l)’

Steam mire Engine and appur- tenances, and a peli- horses. ready for en M Mtdoe.

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PUBLIC FURUM This oeliseun le open hr. the dlseusdan l» earn ipentleats o! uuaetluaa at intuit The lJIsarlattateI Gurdlau does not ueeeassa ll: endorse the oplulea oi w-reepoadeata.

HOTIII’S DAY

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. ting u to white eoniemfriaohpih words vlsfllllfl my

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m}: my vs ss a la , in ees-s long fometten by many. we gs the dinner table Mother,

and lalwhter.

And it was Mmlier who kissed us a lust good fright; it. was Ln those days that I learned from hu- of the breakers to be met, of the stormy see. of life. when f wouhl

business with others and the same in pleasure.

It. was there that I learned to stroll alone in the golden evening sunset beneath the green of the beach trees and listen to the song oi the birds as they rocked in the loft branches.

s is one Mother, the one I vrrlte about now, but things have changed around my old wuntry

there s few days

ago. Mother ls there no more sitting nt her window with her white aipron on. No more will the tears come to her eyes as we go away. No; Illne so many other Mothers, me has gone to rea- her reward. but ls never forgot. en, not for one hour 1r. the day b into t-h-Ls word. Day around my old home, changed and lonely, but manory lingers on. What a wonderful world this would be if we all realized what

Mother mall did for us? But strange and e, in my trove-ls. I have seen Mothers abused,

ed dieserted by the very suns

own

and daughters they suffered ho b Into this world. I have seen ands of sons raised in bitter strike their mothers; I

and daughters who cursed fr own mothers; am in that have prayed that. God would freeze

that upraiised arm and still for ever tlhat awful tongue.

NCM‘, one more Moiihefs Day dawns on us. (no little dsv f0!’ mothers everywhere; Mothers who raised sons to fall in battle that we might live in W809; flwfe-‘lefl who have been neglected, forgotten and abused along with more who are happy. So let us. all. no matter how nasty we may have been in the past, turn to mother on Moth- er's D15’ and ask he: forgiveness mi this. her day. For before Mother's Day comes a am. tihere will be nianty, like th writer. who will flnd his old heme chanitd Bnfi mother gone. Surdsy ls Mother's Day, the first peacetime Mothers Day tn years. Let us all remember her.