T t

‘Eli ‘FOUR rut Antuntrowu susnnnu

Ieniqbsihthaaleliallfl)

Indian Heat. Cel. W. Chaser I. lb-l‘ianett. I. J. I.

leerelaryt Iaellaaaq, 0.8.0. sad Illllill 1 l. l. lenses. IJJ.

Director lladsie Illten: hank Weller all Heal. In A. Iarastt. LC-NJLI. (On Active lervioe)

‘The Strongest Memory u Weaker The the Weakest Ink.’

IIIDAY. MAIOI I, 19“

Political Radio Suppression

Says the Casein:

“The comedy of errors and confusion which culminated in last-minute cancellation of a CBC national network talk from here Saturday night, on direot order of Mai-Gen. the Hon. L. R. La- Fleche. War Services Minister, is less funny than it may appear at first glance. There is altogether zoo strong a suggestion of political suppression, in the arbitrary manner which has led to uch clire results elsewhere, of freedom to discdss something that might be politically [uffling to friends of the Government.

“From published reports, it appears well established that General LaFleche himself tele- phoned t0 the CBC studios here the order that barred from the air, only a few seconds be- fore it was to have been delivered, the sched- tiled talk by Kenneth Johnstone, a Montreal Standard writer. He was to have summarized and discussed observations he made while act- ing as an attendant in a mental hospital in New Brunswick, and which he has already reported in articles in the Standard.

“Objection to the broadcast seems to have come from Hon. F. W. Pirie, acting Premier of the Liberal Government of New Brunswick, which is responsible for the support and ad- ministration of the itiental hospital where l\'lr. Johnstone found abuses and negligence. The ob- jection was on the ground that the broadcast would be improper in view of appointtnent of a Royal Commission to investigate Mr. John- stone's reports.

“Since these reports had already been pub- lished and the broadcast would have done lit- tle more than review them. it is difficult to see how the radio talk would have affected the Royal Commissions proceedings one way or au- other. But it is not at all difficult to see that ‘General Lalilccbe was responsible for direct and tmwnrrantetl Government interference, at the l)t:i“5t of a politically sympathetic provin- cial pcditfcinu. to suppress an address of legi- timate public interest. Radio listeners are as much entitled as readers of the lllonlrral 571mm’- ard tn know what .\lr. lohnstonc learned while working in the New Brunswick institution, what it was he charged that was of sufficient im- portance to bring about appointment of a Royal Commission, and how he feels the care of mental patients generally could be improved.

"Dr. ihtgustin Frigon, general manager of the Cl-lC, apparently had cancelled the broadcast earlier hut had then withdrawn the order after further (llSClISSlOII of the matter. As the top aduiitiistrative head of the CBC, Pr. Frigoifs judgment or. such tnattcrs should be final and should certainly not be overridden hy pressure from cabinet. ministers. tnemhcrs of Parliament or ollnrs wIth political axes to grind.

"lf this is a typical example of what state ownership of national broadcasting means in the shape of political control and direction, it is high time that the whole policy and set-tip were giver: I thowtigh ntcrhatiling."

Premier Maitlatld’: Claim

The British Cultnnbitt Coalition Prctnier, Hon. l.\lr. hlaitland is boasting that the Cou- scrvative-Libcral policy in his province is more progressive than that of the C.C.F. in Saswatche- wan ln the Legislature he claimed that month- l“ Old age pensions payments were $30 a person ln British Columbia. compared with $35 in Sas- katchewan. "One would have thought" that at its special session last fall one of the first acts of the Saskatchewan Legislature would have been to increase old age pension payments but

they met lll Regina, passed their legislation and adjourned. but never increased it a single dollar." “Social allowance" for a single per- son in British Columbia was $27.50;; month com- Pifell 1\'l1l1 $13-30 in Saskatchewan and the B.C. allowance for a family of five was $62.50 Wlhpdrcd with $46.35 in Saskatchewan. Speak-

toral Officer has been notified of the vacan- cies. .

It is easier to understand this seeming shadow-boxing, says the Sydney Post-Record, than the action of the Chief Electoral Officer, Mr. Jules Gastonguay, in recalling the writs and thereby cancelling the by-elections. There is of course no question of his authority under the law to do this when the date of polling falls beyond that of the expiration of the House of Commons, as the present case. The question is why events were not simply allowed to take their course, that is why dissolution, certain to come sometime in the next few weeks, was not al- lowed to operate in killing the by-election writs without the necessity of recalling them by a for- mal order of the Chief Electoral Officer.

-EDITORIAI. NOTES- In 1944, British Coastal Command Air- craft sank 120,000 tons of enemy shipping, 3 destroyers and 40 other vessels. 1F l1 $1 101

During the summer of 1944 there were 50 harvest camps in the county of Herefordshire, England, attended by over 1,300 schoolboys.

1k 1i i1 i1

Rev. C. MacLeau of Johnstown, N. S., and "County, N. S., are on a tour of Quebec to study

Quebec's agricultural system. They have been keenly impressed by what they have seen and

heard, and so expressed themselves to Dr. Adrien Morin, Deputy Minister of Agriculture. a a e e Prime Minister Mackenzie King intends vacation t0 recover, no doubt,_fro|n the effects on his nerves of recent political cvenis- l1_ 1S said he may visit President Roosevelt to fmd out why he has not been invited to the San Frausancisco Conference with the Big Three. n= s a

Gen. Eisenhower declares that the new Al- lied offensive is aimed at reaching the Rhine and that it is progressing satisfactorily in co- ordination with Red Army operations on the Eastern Front. The Allied leader makes it clear, however, that he has no hope of an im- mineitt German collapse and anticipates a hard fight which will end only when Allied armies meet the Russians “in the centre of Germany."

l I I U

For the last two years Canada's parlia- mentary Social Scctirityi Committee has been studying the draft of a health insurance bill. providing for a scheme to be administered by the provinces. All but the financial details have been worked out and they are awaiting approval hy a Dominion-Provincial conference. The scheme would be on a contributory basis, with $12.50 a year for each adult being the likely con-

tributioit.

l I i U

Salvation Army head has time extendftl. General G. L. Carpenter Wlll continue n1 11s position as general for at least another year, 1t

is annomicetl by Commissioner B. Orames, com: wander of the Army in Canada, Bermuda and Ncnrftitmdland, in a letter rcceivfll l1)’ Bllliadl“ Green, divisional commander for New Bruns- wick and Prince Edward Island. General Car- penter was elected connnander of the Salvation Army in 1939. Succeeding General Evangeline Booth, Will) retired llffilgifliti)‘ 11161118" llmll-

A new synthetic building material Wl11¢l1 combines the properties of concrete and wood has been evolved in Britain. Ilt is made l1)’ mixing sawdust with concrete. Hitherto no way of "qmrryitig" sawdust to concrete has been totind-—lntt British scientists have discovered =1 chemical process which successfully blends them. The new wood-concrete can be produced in bricks or sheets of any shape or size. It 1S cspecirflbv suitable for interior walls or pattelhnt-I» since it can be sawn, drilled or trailed, exactly like wood. Unlike wood it doesnot warp. lakes a high glaze and c*a|i‘be*st8;11¢<l i111)’ C9101"-

Aftcr constiltation withllylr. Roy P. Steeves‘, architect for_N. B. provincial departnlienlt 0 iducattuti, Saint John Board of Schoo rus-

lof the old King Edward School could not

tees, having received his opinion that the ‘Vans

be utilized for a new tnoderu school have yoted lfll construct a new school as soon as [Jflsslblc 11111 authorized its own building "lspecmri M“ l‘ eonard Heans, to approach the city arch11=¢15

and find out which of them would be avail- V,

Jhk to mdermke the work of drawing plans- ' a n- »: w

Mr. Angus Ramken, agronomist of Richmond h,

proceeding to the sunny South for three weeks scum

ing of finance Mr. Maitlztnd said the Saskatche-g

wan gorermnent had provided $S.00o,000 "to meet the change over from war to peace," Bri-i

Iloracc Walpole, 4th Earl of Orfo , Eng» tau. author, died that an. 1797; his mm"

fish Columbia had provided $50,000,000. “The point is not so much the ‘3111011111, but the credit of the government and that credit depends very much on what kind of government it is and whether or not it adheres to a tried economic system, or even if it doesn't intend to do so, preaches the destruction of those things upon which we depend for our economic development today."

By-Election Writs Recalled

Over two months ago writs were issued ;lor _.) Federal by-elections. The constituencies to which these writs related were Montreal- t, St. James, Kamouraska, Portneuf. St. Hya-

mthe. Bagot, Terrebonne, Kenora-Rainy River,

i nd Weyburn. The date fixed for polling was

. April 23, six days after the demise of the pres- ent House of Commons by effluxion of time.

In the circumstances it is clear that the Gov- Qtnment, in directing the issue of these writs. could have had no intention of having the hy- Glections take place. Polling WOiIld in fact be itnposeble, because there ivould be no House of Commons in existence on the scheduled election day and therefore no vacancies to be filled. The writs were simply issued because the law rc- quires that procedure within a certain number 0f months after the Speaker or the Chief Elec-

spoudence, which was widespread, has cd his name famous in three continents, its e. tcrs being distinguished for their c859. 20>‘ sipy stylc, playful wit, racy (lcscription, anec- dote, and lightness of touch; his publlciiiwfli. The Castle of Otranlo, Memoirs: d “How frantically have the 171311611 Bfllgd. how rationally the Americans. But ran 111 and Washington were great 111011. 110118 l11""3_3ll' [mat-ed yet in France. . . Liberty hasstill a continent to live in. . . . 11161113111 Allgusllm .~\ge will dawn on the other side of the At- lantic. There will perhaps be a Thucydldes 31 Boston, a Xenophon at New York." - a s s

The Government politicians, according i6 the Montreal Gazette Ottawa correspondent 111° in a chaotic condition. Contact between the leader and the led in the Liberal party seems to be lost. Signals began to weaken last fall; static tangled communication during the Ralston- McNaughton episode, and the final silencing of signals came with the calamitous candidacy of General McNaughton in North Grey. Things haven't hcen the same since. A $011 0f elfliilfill black-out has seized the Liberal circles. "Dont ask me” is the invariable reply to profoundly innocent enquiries about the next session. the general election date’, how drastic will be the ministerial shake-up and other matters about which Canadians have an excusable curiosity.

1 (IE CHARUJTTWFOWN . GU

Notes By 77w Way

"Vi!!! Ive are laments lgau- 3111 o! web milk-r, but e have never been able to under- stand w lawyers refer to as s always at lent lentils. 4mm

was the inf-- the mun. Coummd

"y the fishine us tea’. me"..n"a"1“ e gyermsgx per ceiling-upset: t“: . campers e 194g and its landed value, neagly s22 million, was sixteen per cent great.- the last quarter of the all’ 0 “attic? were hampered b weather beta’: of fair ‘lo tion, but no abnormal loss ‘(if gear is reported. gfioengtggaveveig, h _c I. . . o’ oommercga c anadian Bank In Scotland, in many areal, the" are many men and boys with exact.

n MacDonalds

one community and usually some Jckname ls gtven to them so that “t? may be more e identi- I . says the Niagara Re- yew.’ Thus there may be a John Red’ MacDonald or “Mary's John" or something else along that line, Something similar has been found m Prince Edward Island, where a rxe number of the people have names beginning with "Mac." In. deed. the problem has become so acute tn some localities that, tn connection with the new family al- lowances. a boy or man may be known by his own and his mother's name, so that one may hear of Don- ald "Sheila" MacPherson, or Don- ald ‘Margaret!’ MacDonald, so that a way will be found to distinguish them n; Prince Edward Island as 1n

n .

Leopold of the Belgians and former French Premiers Edouard Daladler and Paul Reynagud have been interned in the Hotel Dreesen in Bad Godesberg since mid-No- vember of last year, 1t was revealed recently when semi-official _

man quarters began putting out; feelers for negotiations - the creation of "open districts" in Northwestern and Central Germany, NW5 FY0111 Belklum reports. Those three men are reported "safe and Well." Admission were forthcom- ing that “others in their suites" had been either killed or wounded in recent Allied aerial attacks 1n that area. An eyewitness vouched for by refuses German Socialist circles here stated that the Hotel Dree- sen, which was the scene of the Chamberlain-Hitler meeting of Sep- tember 22 to _24, ln 1938, ls surround. ed by electric barbed wlre, guard- gl triage and out by urmgd 55

mg o ld“ if ts bl ' be Wm‘ hi)‘; s w e elesed to

King

We wonder whether the member of the local church congregations bring the same enthusiasm to bear on the duties of such membership as do those who are interested In more mundane matters. Just a 16W 4111's 118°. when the roads and city streets were certainly not a great deal better than they were on Sunday night, there was a hockey game in the local Arena. Those who were interested filled nearly every scat, them lifted their voices both lust-

Hisher ve 1 enhanced this vhlg: .

ARDIAN

rtmuc

COAL OI SLATC

Sir.-- Every day we reed lume-

sbout eon-l and oosl states.

or t vvelcbinz loads on the city

scales. We are warned in press

to save coal; end when out. of it

to accept. whatever kind of coal the dealer ha; to offer.

enough. _ But I wonder i! the Government hutabenanystepstouetlbat a mm, s w child orders a load or fiv heygetcoalandnots . Slate welsh-s pretty heavy, and when one shakes the ace or stove and finds lame hunks of that Whetstone-lite stuff that. won't go through the (tutu, ft is time something was done about it. I do not. put any blame on our coal dealers, as f believe they are doing their best for us and are only selling what. was sold to them. But the point is. the Gov- ernment ls Dlyifle s bonus on dif- ferent things, such as eggs; why not pay the working People who are getting along on their Weekly my envelope a rebate on their.

omen or g loads o! coal,’ late

coal to pay for the slate they get, ----.P8Y also fbr the broken fur- nace and stove grates that those hard lumps caused. 1

Mflybe the time ls not fer dls- iflht when tlus city will not want any coal _if this keeps up, Every- one is crying now for oll and elec- glic stoves and many are ggtflng_

em.

The time has come f 1111111: to be done beforeorsnother winter. Our local Ifigislature will go into session shortly, and m]; 111011111 be v. good item for their

ere ma be 55pm, Mina this Slille rrndzinwtliiie him, but there ls a way of rebatlng the con. Swilttliars throttrh the coal dealers on e amount of coal each one of us buys in the yetug

some-i

wanrsit aiin’ tilhflm" 26 Spring Park Road, I [EN Charlottetown

Case Of Rich Girl

. (Financial RPost)

140111111111’. not having married One. we wouldnt xlve a seconds worry to a thirty-year-old girl with a trust fund of $500,000.

But H. V, Laughton, general manager, National Trust Co., has reported the case of one such young

and the majority o1‘ $18200

lady which stirs our solicltude for her. Much more important, it arouses our indignation because the same sort: of thing may__wel1 hap- pen to people who are not; thirty years old and do not have $500,000 tn their trust. fund.

This thlrty-year-old was to get the income of the $500,000 estate, the capital to go on to others at her death. The young beneficiary immediately found herself saddled with federal succession duties of $72,000 and Ontario succession duttesoof $110,000 or n. total of

'.l‘lils ‘total tax has to be paid in

lly and enthusiastically. On Sun- day night, however, many seats were vacant in some city churches, and comparatively few voices were lifted either lusttly or with a great deal of enthusiasm. Priests and ministers often upbrald their con-

50111‘ YBHFS. or $45,500 er year.

Assuming that the und earned four per cent. the young lady's to- tal annual income ls $20,000 of which she has to pay $12,000 income tax. That: leaves her $8,000 a year out of which to pa the $45,500

gregattons for not attending as re- Zvlarly as might be, but on these occasions they are talking to the W101"; people. They are talking to those who are there while they should be talking to those who are not there-Owen Sound Sun- Times.

Enlistment in the Women's Anny Corps of the United States becomes more alluring all the time, for this year the W.A.C. is settling down to recruiting mainly 5 ectallsts in the various needed ttel s of work, says the Christian Science Monitor. The first Negro unit was formed Januc ery 16, and ls already setting about making the history for itself which lt ls expected to establish for all time the prestige of the Negro wo- man in her country's nrmy. Woes also are being trained as civil-af- fairs officers, so that they will be prepared to handle the populations of captured territories. as the oo- caslun arises. Only one training centre for Wncs now remains, that at Fort Des _Moines._ But at that one centre tnere Will be special training offered for girls who are fitted to become clerical workers, typists, stenographers, dental tech-- melons, pharmacists, medics! and surgical technicians, and specialists tu other lines. Some raduates of the training centre wll be sent, on to army specialist schools in col- leges throughout the country. Fif- teen thousand Wacs are serving overseas there are 90000 in 5e11- ce. This ls a good backlog and the days of all-out recruiting for as many Wacs as could be enticed into tne army are over. From now on the quest ls for women trained for special kinds of work. But for these special recruits the opportun- ltles seem even better than they have ever been before.

An Item of week-end reading which delighted us-and doesn't; ne- cessarily point s moral-ts an in- terview with a travelling actress, Martha O‘Driscoll, published tn the aervicemanb paper """" It asked this young lady what hap- pened when she met servicemen tn the remote areas, where she has been entertaining. Actually. she said, most of the men she sees haven't seen an American girl for years. Their first reaction-and she told of cltm ' aboard a submarine at Dutch Harbor, Alaska-ls com- plet/e dis-belief. It just isn't. so. It. can't. be a girl on their submarine. She isn't there. nut on this artf- cular submarine. explained arm; “they took me below to show me what the inside of a sub looked like. A little kid was asleep in his bunk. "'00 ahead-make him up,’ they urged. I didn't. have the heart. He looked about 10, sleep- ing there like a little el. ‘Aw- yo ahead.‘ they insis . "so I aimed over and kissed him on the forehead. f-fe awakened slowly and opened his eyes. for e moment and then closed them again. Guess he thought he was dreaming. Then his eyes opened spin. “ ‘Golly-J he said, ‘a girrl" And that accord all that he set her around as long as aboard. looking and staring. that. was about e11 be per not of the 0.11s in the Aleutian: ever did or said. They just stand there shy- ly end stsre.—Ohristlan Science llosltor.

Ill

“loan " r

succession duty instalment. (And remember, she couldn't: chip into

let/a A

her ca ital. It. isn't hers.)

Say ihhe devotes her entire 1n- come, after income taxes, to try- ing to pay those succession duties. After four years she will owe the governments $161,260.

“'85.”? °“ ‘it’? it?

$8, . 2 so a e

authorities were to settle on that basis, the girl would still owe the governments $62-52 l1 W" 115 1°93 as she lives or until drastic income tax reductions change her net in.- eome from the estate. As Laughton observed:

The _on1y sensible thing for the lrl to do would be to refuse l0 ave anything to do with the est be .. .Wlule we all know that par ta- ment by law can declare that. black ls white, I think the public as n whole 1s complete] unaware of the development of th new 11109955 l" technicolor which not only

black figures into red, but. leaves the poor beneficiary entirely out of the picture.

While the effect ls more specta- cular tn connection with a l e estate, there is the same effect proportion in the case of any mo- derate ‘estate I could 81119 V911 example after exam 1e of actual cases where the res ta of the 8P- plicatlon of succession duty taxes arttcularly when combined with come taxes. are sunply 013511111- and also tragic.