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fetal Clitrynfoue ...... .. 8.183 Tomorrow th Sunday iii nt. 8 ii Gnrdian does not ueoesseh 1;, gang, 11;. .4, uyg up 5 con. tu, ma you mu, yo "me. tell in zone L057 Sunday ' ll! GIIIIOIII "II CPU” 0' lug-high thing. .-'with thlnl. the department advises All Others .. ....---.. sci: . . . correspondents. vision receiver. home, movie This novel inclusion to pnxfcgke lam Net Paid . ......... .-..................... lust -: projector. air-conditioning controls, better is recommended by 4;", won an-I Ilansglmng II;-ocinhr. It -Iurnelt With the sale of the M. V. Eskimo the TEf0IlEB3' SA!-A3133 c.”-r chemo-tear aerostat-. reragzrrz ogvtha Onunrgiengmmmnc.

, "”d"' M" "n ' "Jones Line" would seem to be out of bLlSi- sly, .. The Minister of Education. meteiy fire. extinguisher. . radio, -a. oumm

, "The Strongest Memory is Weaker Than "955, Ron. EA I.-arse. in I-recent much not mdins llehta. an intaIjcom- Purl River It evict little place, . ".9 weaken lnkn . . . in the 14031311-mre. put forth 0EI'- lnunioeting system with other about twenty miles west or New

tain figures regarding teachers rooms in the house. and a bund- York. A young fellow was walkln

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St. Patrick's liay

- The patron saint of Ireland is no legend-.

ary figure, but one of the greatest Christian missionaries of all time; and his career has fittlngly come to symbolize the achieve- ments in Christian culture and civilization of Old Erin, dating back to a period long before the light of the Gospel had penetrat- ed to other parts of the British Isles, and when her scholars and theologians gave in- struction and inspiration to all Europe. -The observance of St. Patricks Day has been one of the grand old traditions of the Benevolent Irish Society since its formation

War threats, the cost of living index, bridge sites and even election prospects are very much in thebackground as Irishmen hold the centre stage to celebram St. Pat- rick's Day.

Philip Massinger, English dramatist, died this date 1640. In 1606 he went to Lon- don and wrote plays, mostly in collabor- ation with Toumeur, Dekker, and above all, between 1613 and 1625, with Fletcher. His individual pieces have ingenious plots, often taken from the Italian or Spanish, but the handling is often gross. 4

It would appear that the question of dropping" the means test for old age pen-

salaries which through their in- completeness might be misleading to the public. He stated thlt the teachers in summcrsid High School. who have more than thir- experlence. received 81.000. There are twelve teachers in this category and only one receives 31.000 '

The salaries of urban teachers which he quoted might seem rela- tively high when compared with those of rural teachers. Neverthe- less this does not mean that the urban teachers receive more from the government. The difference be- tween rural and urban teacher-s' pay is the supplements paid by the school Boards in the respective areas.

On the contrary other factors be- ing equal, the urban teacher re- ceives twenty-five dollars a year less from the Government than a teacher in the rural areas.

All teachers in the Province rc-

teen years'

Pop Goes The Weasel

(Montreal Gazette)

The Age-old Story

impressive. An army, navy and air

quality which Canadians have de- monstrated on many. battlefields mskei the military contribution a

more significant is the utilization of Canada's mines and forests for the common defence.-(New York Herald Tribune.)

untouched in Northern Ontario

ling-board down the middle so that when a large man rolls over his wife won't Jounoe. Priced at 011.05. with an anti-snoring device added. one of these would be a must for the well-equipped homo. -(Ottawa Citizen.)

The role of Canada in the mob- ilisation of the free nations in their own defence is extremely

force on a scale ....,n-eoedented in Canadian history in peace time is being created. and the fighting

most important one. But even

A fortune In blueberries is left

sions there the other ing at crows. one of went sstrsy; instead of crow it was aimed at. it hit a. me- works factory. The whole pm, u;ent ukp a blast and a cloud 0 sum e s led le all to think Mi awmlcpiginb i..i'i'”.,';'.','1 drolilied. What did they do? g listener to lectures. a peruse, of pamphlets. misht Suppose that me, all ran away from the explosion, The fact of the matter-as any real student of human nature, 9.1. pccially North American human nature. might have guessed-1. thsttthey did just the oppogitg. ;l'hhey ran. drove, and p,-op,,m.d eir wheelchairs toward it, Every highway leading to the plant wag jammed. Civil defense officials might well study the incident, They are making their plans ox; the assumption that when Men, 109011! sets bombed, thousands Wm flock out, looking for safety.

dill? shoot. his bullets hitting the

here in the year 1825, and it is one in which all our citizens have taken interest. During the war years, the customary full- dress turnout for the anniversary was dis- continued, but since then it has been re-

They

sions will turn not on matters of principle but on the practical problem of determin- ing over what age group a general pension can be awarded without reducing the value of the pension to those in actual need.

ceive from the Government the same statutory salary and if there is a difference. then the school boards in the urban areas are the ones responsible.

we are. sir. ei.c..

every year. Thousands upon thous- ands of bushels of this small fruit rl n and shrivel away each sea- soihe. their only function that of adding extra color to hundreds of miles of landscape. some day. not

should also consider the possibil- ity that when Mcgalopolis gm, bombed, thousands will flock in looking for excl ment. The tram: Jim! may well caused by Dcopj. entering. not leavins. the doomed

There have been a number of financial cruditlcs in Canada's pol- itical life. But perhaps a rather special claim may be established for the decision to make 3. direct Brant of 865.000.0110 to the Canad-

lu God have I put my trust; I wllI.not be afraid what man can do unto me. Thy vows are upon me. 0 God; I will render praises unto thee. For thou hast deliv-

vived and today's observance will be mark- 5 G30”? 01' TEACHERS inn wheat growers. ffd "" "M mm d""” "m ""' W0 W "WY W9 '”P'- P909” "l cm" M” 1' "W" 01 flesh and ed. as of old. by a turnout in full strength . o ' The tshranthls not beinlz made 119- u.3'.' Idsrllisvserrwzik iZ?3.."3'I.'c'i1i".'i.'.f 3,'".,.;1if.',';T. zfn (i;2a2:u;;:nf:!x:,5 ?il.:odne:i1.mani;1o:ff,':,a f,"t,,,1," 3”” . . --- -----.. - ms

to St. Dunstan's Basilica. Minister of Industry and Natural Re- guavsell eurhvlefathgroizrefni dd: M" "' "" ""”"" blueberries throughout the district. good bit of rubber. Knock hm:

Also in keeping with time-honoured Prac- sources Cullen reported in the Legislature -s wheat contract made by the (love have been planning to hold it in. :"f,":"d”' if m'”,:,' ,::',',','. ",'f,?,m';f h',”"""” "W W . .- . 11 000 .d - t . .f Ow ernment with Great Britain. It is According to Mr. Gal-dincx-'s '" Y on mm a D h ' m' "d he mm?! tlce is the B. I. S. dramatic entertainment, that over 35 , was pal ou in ox, cr being made because they did not planning, it would be , gm", of Lands and Forests. Toss 9. s smbllns back. Threaten him

handful of blueberries-in season

with nameless horrors, and he ex, -or frozen blueberries at this time

presses a lively interest. and asks how much it will cost to act in, and is it all right to bring in, 15mUY- The kind 01 people now facing atomic demolition are, am; all, the kind who pay out goog money for automobiles which they drive at seventy-five miles per hour on roads fit for half that

and skunk bounties last year. 7,445 skunk bounties were turned in, 856 foxes and 793 crows feet. Quite a lot of work for the de- partment to handle in addition to its other duties. i

do quite as well as they and the Government expected.

But direct grants of this kind, and under such circumstanccs,.can hardly be made to one group of producers slope. The Government can hardly become a political dis- criminator of persons.

The rush to Ottawa is already

thing to negotiate a long-term contract for wheat with the Brit- ish Government. As an induce- ment. to the British to enter the contract, a low price would be set -one lower than the world-price of wheat. When the great reces- sion came. the world-price would tumble. and the Canadian wheat

which drew large audiences yesterday after- noon and evening at the Prince Edward Theatre, and is being repeated at matinee and evening performances today. The pro- duction is under the capable direction of Mr. Pius Callaghan, with a talented local

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CLONMACNOISE

From the Gaelic of Angus 0'Gillsn In a quiet wa'.er'd place. a land of

685,000,000 could have been ap- plied io any one of a score of oth- er urgent matters. from paying for defence to reducing the nut- ional debt. Because it goes to the wheat growers is a direct subsidy.

It all depends on whose ox is gored.

088i and numemus 5P9Cia1ti95- T0WS- beginning The cheese producers growers would find themselves it only mans that "135 15 mu . . . . . . . . - . ' s speed. Let t r ., Three outstanding objectives have been Britain's Socialist Government has been rliglreguffs (nigh Ir (who were also tied down to a riding above the waves. another 066300.000 for the WP sume that gvllierho tit? Jlel?ld”y!iL 5 9 long-term British contract) have Now it is all about over, and Pill?" W mam! up OW 0' M3 0W" E "p'

nationalizing her industries at a wholesale rate, irrespective of private interest and enterprise, but no sooner does Iran follow suit than she enters her vigorous protest.

pens, an invisible hand will'bg seen writing. "Mene, menc. take; upharsin." What is as likely is that an all too visible hand wil be seen collecting admission fees. and an all too audible voice helm-,1

pursued by the Benevolent Irish Society since its organization here a century and a quarter ago. These are the relief of the poor of all classes, the perpetuation of Irish

famous generations

Slumber there. wemwom make"

It is an old saying about sowing the wind and reaping the whirl- wind. But in this instance this grim reaper will come tapping at

announced that they are meeting next week and they, almost cer- tainly. will make similar demands for "adjustments." And then there are the apple growers, who may

the calculated depression has fail- ed -to materialize. The Canadian wheat growers. instead of doing better than nvaragc in a depressed world, have done somewhat worse

There beneath the dcwy hillside sleep the noblest Of the clan of Conn.

i entiment and the erformance of because the rivatel owned oil industry of ask 1., .,..,..e,-1-hey we,-e no. mm. mm average in a booming one. the taxpayer's d00"- It 15 the Wk er I . "P . Yvilglzsmilnfs benevolence It l!l)sts among its Iran is vitalpto Brit3l:in's defence. Each Yiglazivghllitfzstgghaglnh "me in dihappollnted 1" their mark” The Wm?” PW” ”” ”'” C”"'”" p"”" "M 3"" V” "” "” we drlnii....--1”?-E7.one5”?9i3i; - And the sacred knot thereon. . ey ad amost no market at all. inn Federation of Agriculture Political an-v-ul-lament-S 01 Mb M.u,)

founders some of the outstanding men of the Province, and it has continued to enjoy the confidence and esteem of the public in

-a manner highly creditable to those who

have carried on the work. May its shadow never grow less!

Taxing Tilil Snail Merchant

Taxes, it is said, tend to favor Big Busi- ness at the expense of the small merchant. Truth of this observation is illustrated in the proposed provincial sales tax on retail sales.

Consider the problem posed by the re- tail sales tax for the merchant whose busi- ness is largely confined to low-priced items. How will he be able to add three per cent to the cost of a soft drink which sells for

, seven cents? What about the bar of soap.

or the box of aspirin, or any one of a host of items that sell for, a few cents and which, when the three per cent retail sales tax is added, would work out at a price to the consumer of so many cents and a fraction?

The bookkeeping alone would eat up most of the profit on such items. Alternatives open to the merchant would be either to increase the price to the consumer, which would reduce sales, or absorb the fraction, which would make it tougher for him to stay in business.

Even on more costly items there would be a problem. Trade practices of selling items at 99 cents would vanish. Three per cent added to 99 cents makes an im- possible calculation for the retail business.

It most of the provinces had not sold their normal sources of tax revenue for an annual Ottawa "hand-out," probably no situation would have developed in which so unmanageable a scheme as the proposed retail sales tax would ever have occurred to the politicians. '

. Defence contracts & liecrlitlsg

Consistency is, perhaps, an overrated virtue but it is one in whlchthe Federal Government seems conspicuously lacking.

Ingfhe matter of recruiting the objective is to attain a-maximum expansion of the nation's armed forces by voluntary means. In striving for ' this each Province and local-

” lty is. given every encouragement to con-

tribute its quote. The fact that costs would probably be reduced by concentrating re- cruiting efforts to the larger centres of population is absolutely disregarded in the interest of obtaining maximum results.

5-. It is-otherwise with war contracts. The

A . dainbility of making mu use of available

..svm-Ire:-'1 housing. sources of

In India it is now proposed to introduce legislation to check the growth of India's superabundant population. This won't be altogether new. Before British admin- istratlon and civilization stopped the prac- tice, the restriction consisted not of taxing the parents, but of drowning the excess of girl babies.

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The practical silence of the .Transport- ation Commission report on our Wood ls- lands-Caribou service seems inexplicable save from the point of view that it is a private commercial enterprise without the scope of the Commission. But it will be a serious matter if the service the company renders is to be handicapped for the lack of ade- quate subsidy. O The service clubs of the Province, of which there are quite a few, are suggested by the Premier to add to their undertakings that of purchasing, say 1,000 acres or so'of cheap land and planting it in trees, as is being done in some other provinces. The ideals a good one, and if adopted, might ultimately result in the organization of a splendid publicly owned asset to our new forestry industry. 0 The trouble with our P. E. I.-New- foundland trade development plans seems to be that no sooner was it inaugurated than the Federal Government subsidized big interest competition from Montreal and Cape Breton to help out the St. John's merchants, who were sufferingloss from the Island's direct shipments to outports. Now the private owners of the Eskimo will expect to be subsidized to carry our Island produce, or we will be left out in the cold.

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New Brunswick potato producers like our own are complaining bitterly of the in- adequacy” of markets and prices in the past year. Mr. H. C. Greenlaw told the Legislature that although there are fewer potatoes on hand than at the same time iatt year, the situation is worse, because the some markets are not available this season. Normal fretums for an average

317,000,000 to 520,000,000. he said, but this year. only about 35,000,000 had been re- ceived so far. 1 '0 O The C. C. F. in New Brunswick is mak- ing polltical histo;-y. For what is believed the first time in the annals of the 105- year-old Legislature in political party op- posed to the government of the day pre-

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seated in briefto a regular cabinet meets, in. log. Submitted by a four-menpdclegation; t-fostered headed by President Percy Kitten. 4 , bury; thefive-point brief h;t,ex on

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There are laid to rest the seven Kings of Tara.

There the sons of Cairbre sleep- Battle-hanncrs of the Gael that in Kiel-an's plain of crosses Now their final hosting keep.

And in Clonmacnoise they laid the men of Tcffa.

And right. many a lord of Breagh; Deep the sod above Clan Creldc and Clan Conaill,

Kind in hell and fierce in fray.

Many und many a son of Conn the Hundred fighter

In the red earth lies at rest; Many a blue eye of Clan Colman the turf covers,

Many a swan-white breast.

-'r. W. Rollcsion. 6) Old Charlottetown (And P. E. I.) n

"Tuesday last being saint Pat- rick's Day. the Irish volunteers and the Benevolent Irish Society. with music and banners floating on the breeze, marched in 'pro- cession to the Roman Catholic Cathdral. where a sermon appro- priate to the occasion was presch- ed by the Rev. James Mcxenna. "in the evening the society gnvc a. concert in aid of their funds in st. Andrew's Hall, which was so well filled that nurobe were unable to obtain admittan . The bill of fare was large. varied and well rendered. The perfor- mance on the Irish pipes was highly appreciated. Last evening the concert was repeated for the benefit of Mrs. Stevenson whose services in connection with Tues- day night's entertainment were favourably acknowledged.

"At the annual meeting of the Soclet,. which was also held at st. Andrew's Hall on Tuesday evening. the following gentlemen were appointed office bearers for the ensuing year: Patron. Ron. D. Brenen (re-elected); President, James Reddin. Esq. (re-elected); Vice President. Mr. Francis Mc- csrron: Assistant Vice President. Mr. John A. Mcxenna: Treasurer. Mr. Martin Hogan; Secretary, Mr. Walter C. Grant. (re-elected): Committee on Charity. Mr. John Mcouillan, chairman. Messrs. Peter Doyle. Owen Winters. Mich- ael Kelly. Patrick Farmer, Mich- ael l-iennessey. Francis McKen- na. standard Bearers - Messrs. Hugh Creamer and John Henna-

M... --The Islander. March 20. 1000.

ST. PATBICKIS DAY

only women

sue. . candidate for council, was also el- outed.

ST II. J. A. BROWN. mop. ,' orthopedic cmaoromsr Novglcocsied in the

And then there are the fishermen

of the Pacific and the Atlantic

coasts. They too think that they have at least as good a case for a direct grant. I O 0 If these claims are to be met

(and it is hard to see that one claim is not. on broad grounds, as reasonable as another) hopes of slitting Government spending will disappear. The bcttcm of the treasury box will resemble nothing so much as a sieve.

It all goes back to the year i948. when the Government's planners, were planning. Rt. Hon. J. G. Gardiner. as Minister of Agricult- ure, received much the same kind cf advice from his advisers that other cabinet members were re- ceiving from theirs. According to the advisers. Canada was bound to enter into a slump after the war- a slump that might slip down- wards somewhere near a depres- sion. It was in accordance with such advice that the Government planned. more or less all along the line. to let loose an inflation, at the very time when it ought to

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