FACE Ft-iuk THE- GUARDIAN

I Canada.

Authorised an second Clue Mull Poet"-()ffl'co-' Department. Oluwb. The Island Guardian Publishing Co. .

xresldent. and Associate Editor. In A. Burnett. Associate Editor. Frank Wilkes.

CIRCULATION "Covers Prince Edward lsllmd like the dew"

"The strongest memory in weaker than the weakest ink".

(':HARl.oTF:Tolv.x. russnnr. APRIL 1, T953 1

War Veterans' Allowances l

Fifty dollars is the nlaxinluni granted under the War Veterans" Allowance Act to qualified vvlcrans' widows who have at- tained the age of .35. The Dominion Coun- eil of the organization maintained by these widows has asked the federal government to raise the maximum to 9360 a month. The- rcqucst deserves sympathetic considerati0n.l It seenls ollly right, moreover, says the Ot-I tawa Citizen, that the health services avail- able to veterans on the allowance should be available to their widows.

Tlle cllallgc,-4 in the allowallro legisla- tion requested by the widows, and propos- ed by the Canadian Legion last spring, do not appear drastic. The Legion wants the maximum allowance for veterans raised to 9660 for a single recipient alld 3120 for mar- ried recipients. Total income permissible under the means test, it proposes, should be 3.1.200 in the one case and 332,000 in the other. On reaching the age 70, the veteran could have the benefit of most or all his federal pension. 'Tll(3SC changes would give effective relief to many who are now in necd. .

The war vetcrans' allowance was de-i signed originally to assist veterans who at the age of 60 found themselves unable to carry on their former occupations. In ef- fect, it was an accelerated old age pension'

for veterans who became prematurely aged. Britain Cori-ectiy said; The outlook would Since the federal pension is now paid as be umore Whoiesome" of right to all citizens at 70 the argument a wider range of commodities. is sometimes advanced that. instead of thei British impoi-is from Canada Wm-e 131-gely allowance, this pension should be paid with-ii Such i.eCui.i.ing Commodiiies asp wheai, as. out a means test to veterans whose income-I". besios, aluminum aria new-sprint,

earning ability is deemed to have become impaired at an earlier age than 70.

But veterans on the allowance may re- ceive a maximum greater than the pension, and they have hospitalization privileges as well. At least until Canada more generous federal pension and estab- lishes federal-provincial health insurance, liberalization of the War Veterans' Allow- ance Act would seem preferable to any fundamental change.

Taxing The Municipalities

Finance Minister Abbott has turned down the proposal to extend the same sales tax exemption to municipalities which pro- vincial govcrnnlents enjoy. To make spec- ial allowance for 4,000 municipalities would be too complicated, the Minister states. So, comments the Globe and Mail. an unjust state of affairs is to continue. No one can

pal taxpayers. But the City of Calgary estimates that it pays 312250.000 in Federal sales tax every year. Across Canada gen- erally. the figure must total between 5520 million and Silt) million; all of it tax on taxes.

School hoards pay a large fraction of it. The Toronto paper estimates on a conserv- alive basis that Canada's urban and rural school boards are paying not less than 333 million a yunl- on this score. Universities are paying it. too. "When the amount of sales tax they pay is added to the amount paid by school hoards. it will be found that most of the ST million Ottawa is doling out to education was taken froln education to start with. (lltawa is not giving the money, but simply giving it back. How generous can you get?"

Motor Cars

Speaking at London. Ontario a few days ago, Mr. Rhys M. Sale, president of Ford of Canada, gave a number of interesting facts l'P,EI,Ellt(Iln,fj the use of motor cars in

Fifty years ago, the motor car was an expensive luxury. The top speed was 20 to 25 miles per hour, if a suitably straight and level road could be found. Night driv- ing and winter driving were out of the question. Today, cars are used in all weather, every day of the. year. People think nothing of setting out on long trips.

More than 3,000,000 cars and trucks are on the roads-1 car or truck for each 4.8 persons. On average, cars are driven 6,200 miles per year. Of this, only 9 per cent is for pleasure. No less than 65 per cent of all driving is for purposes having to do with making a livelihood. Eighteen per cent is for shopping. school. church- going and sinillait Vulential uses. The bal- ance goes for visiting or driving to the- atres, games. etc. '

the Maritimes 34 per cent.

provides a .

reckon precisely how much it costs muniolu

go to work by automobile. 13 per cent by

bus, 6 by truck and 14 by street. car. The

rest walk or ride bicyclu. Fifty-four per.

ilcent of all homes have at least one cult; Six per cent have two or more cars. Sixty- five per cent of the homes in Ontario hovel a car; 64 per cent of prairie homes; 55 per.

cent of B. C. homes; Quebec 37 per cent;i

Of the 2,100,000 passenger cars, 800.000 . are 10 years or older; 630,000 are 1950-51 or '52 models. 399,000 are 1948 or '49 mod- els. Sixty per cent of all cars were builti since 1945. Only 300,000 cars were made, in 1937 or earlier. How long do the carsi run? Two per cent have run more thanl 100,000 miles. Thirty-eight per cent havei run more than 40,000 miles.

Trade outlook

Canadians generally will hope that a new trend in trade will demonstrate the correctness of an estimate made by Malcolm Macaulay, president of the Canadian Cham- ber of Commerce in Great Britain. At the 31st general meeting of the chamber ill London, he believed a pivot or tuming-I point has been reached in the trade between l Canada and the United Kingdom. j

The Commonwealth economic confer-1, ence in London last December may well have prepared the way for better trading conditions. One of the longer-term meas-i ures considered at the conference was the. development of sterling-area commoditiesl

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which, as Mr. Macaulay pointed out, ”would

have a ready sale, say, in Canada, and which would not be competing unnecessarily with the products of industries already flourishing in Canada."

British purchases in Canada last year reached the highest value ever recorded

Canadian Chamber of Commerce in Great

if it had involved Instead

EDITORIAL NOTES

Easter Tuesday. O O C The ”depurging" of a group of Russian doctors is certainly a leading subject of , speculation at the moment. Whatever may lbe the real situation it at least indicates

that the present rulers of Russia wish to W

The Age-Old Story

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be taken for enlightened members of world society. 0 O I Ottawa is to have another car to the lground in the form of a new earthquake iobservation laboratory at the Dominion -Observatory. Scientists will probably be kept busy discarding political reverbera- i tions along with traffic vibration while on ithe watch for deeper earth tremors. O O 0 Jack Miner, whose birthday April 10 is i, being celebrated by National Wildlife Week, i lbecame a conservationist himself because' ihe first became interested in wild alife. That is still the way to teach conservation principles. If young people can be inter- ,ested in the variety and habits of wild life around them they soon take an interest in its preservation.

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i It is to be hoped that this, week's Coll- ference at Chalk River of United Kingdom,

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will, no doubt, trench upon resources of the Colony, the House of Assembly, to uphold public credit, granted duty of 8d. per gallon upon spirits distilled in this Island; but I re- gret to inform your that this was intercepted by the Council."

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LIQUOR TAX VETOED

"The House of Assembly hav

voted the supplies necessary for the public service. and for th erection of a Province Building, and have made provision for the maintenance of an Asylum for in- mi sane persons, and other objects of charity, and have also granted 8 sum to enable this Colony to par- ticipate ln the- benefits of steam navigation. These necessary grants 9” W ”' New Ycrk "WW3" W110 the says: "One of our most. anxiously

Then nlxl Jesus to those Jew: which believed on him. If ye con- tinue In my word. then are ye my disciples Indeed: and ye shall know the truth. and the truth shall nuke you free. . . . verily, I say unto you. If I mini keep my saying, he shall never see death.

Trooping The Colors (B. s. c. Weekly Tallks)

Since Her Majesty Queen Eliza- beth 11 came to the throne she has had 2 birt.hclays in a. year, her own on April 26 and her of- ticial one on June 11, which for her brings a. day of very hard work. "It is also I "clay of toll for about a. thousand of her House- hold Brlgade. Together the Queen and her guardsmen have to ac- rnmplish the spectacular task of ' Trooping the Colour", said Peter Lawrence in his BBC talk. Colour is the

Trooping the

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From an address to the Lieu- tenant Governor (Sir Henry Vere Huntly) by the Speaker of the House:

Excellency,

Vcrily,

A notable achievement for tho faculty of agriculture at. the Uni. Vie?-my of Alberta. is tlhe official licensing of its new "Ga-teway" baxley. a melting tyvpe. Barley has become an increasingly important crop in Alberta. in recent. ye-in-3.. e The appearance of this new varie-

ty with its combination of early ripening and 3- higher yield, should encourage the wider cultivation of this grain in the northern part. of the province. -llJdmonvton'Jour-

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New sluii. on the "should I mn- rlcd woman wor " question is giv-

dlscussed modem problems is whether tihe woman of today can 3 be R wife and mother, and hold down any other job at the some time. The woman of ycsterlny was

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and so Lodging the Colour became Trooping the Colour. "Today", said Lawrence, "moot. regiments Troop their Colours on regimental birthdays." The Trooping on Horse Guards Parade in the presence of the Soverlgn has become the Army's biggest. annual showpiece. I ceremony which draws the crowds as few others do, 9. cere- mony, too, which has a better chance of good weather than most outdoor occasions, falling, as it. does, at the beginning of June, "In the atomic age it is a. link between the living British Infan- try and those soldiers of 9. long past, more colourful era”, said Lawrence. "Yet it still remains a guard-mounting ceremony." After it is all over, the Queen on horse- back leads the parade back to Buckingham Palace and this short ride down the newly leafy Mall is the only occasion during the year on which she actually leads her troops. "At all other vlmes when she is with the Army she is in. Royal visitor", he said.

At. the Palace she takes the salute at the final march put and then some of the guardaxncn take over the sentry posts. "It has always seemed cunous to me". said Lawrence, "that. each day these men receive ii. password which they never get A chance to use, because the police answer all

i , , , , Army's most important Parade of mqim-im. Yin iii m American and Canadian scientists itvlll lead itrlie iyeuooiiigzimioriyl lllfadxi 30:, 3:; :howmen,em:.E? nae 85:. -, ' t -' - ' T3 em 5 b" to th.e freeing of muchi mforma n-Jinh 0'" isecn it".i said Lawrence. Never- me pains: aiigneasdmmxngregzg 8t0m1C en91E)'- The meat Powers 3V9 llhelesa it is one of the most me, and ii the aimm is given

itheir methods of acquiring the military in

'by security measures. 9 I I

William Godwin. English novelist and miscellaneous writer, died this date 1836. He was a sympathiser with the French Revolution and representative of English Radicalism. He taught that government is not an end in itself and that man's true growth is towards emancipation from it. He perceived the evil of collectivism. He relied upon and defended the integrity of the human personality. His children's stories were published under the name E. Baldwin.

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A London commentator notes one sig- nificant difference between the remarks on peace issuing from the Kremlin since Stalin's death, and the familiar Russian "peace campaign" which has gone on for four years. The difference is that it is be- ing addressed to the Western Governments,

the Western peoples over the heads of their Governments, and obviously with I. view

No less than 42 per cent of all people

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lpeoce negotiation.

. ,coloui-ful and lniany ceremonials for which Bri-

Majesty

our was curl in make llll'D that be it and knew to which Ituudlrd to rally. After battle the it

while the old propaganda was directed to in

to diucrediting the latter as "war mongerl." ,..u,u,, mmi -N m We cannot yet be sure of the sincerity of N Soviet leaders, but at least they are be-' g. .44 gm ginning to create the right atmosphere for UV M

formation they may need but the civilian pain is justly famous. only about development of atomic energy IS stultlfledi:it;.';dih9"5f”d M me "W3 W” turn up at the Horse Guards Parade get. ll. good view. Those on the fringe of the crowd have itn be satisfied with what glimpses they can get. of the arrival of the royal procession, the sound of the missed bands and, at the end, the d-srparture of the mounted Sovere- 'lgn's Escort. of Household cavalry, the bands. the long line of scar- let.-clad Fool. Guartk and Her the Queen herself on horseback. 9. position which she occupies with the greatest game and distinct

Lawrence went on to explain the history and tradition of Trooping the Colour which in an elaborate form of GuIl'd- Mounting. Until about seventy you: no Colour used to be carried in battle to mark the location of huaqusi-tar: and serve no rallying point; for the regiment: until Io'muny men lost their live! in protecting them that the practice was abandoned. In the olxtocntnclnbury the col- but each mm

thousand spectators

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to their blllcto

aided to watch. on-ry standard Into the building when it no to tall for night

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who

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they become operational troops, aiding the police in searching the grounds." The aenmes do not only carry ammunition but. stocks of it are kept. handy in the guard- room. Their duly pamword, so Lawrence revealed. is known to only one oivlllui and that is the Lord Mayor of Inndon. "nits rule". he said. "was made by Charles the second, who decided that the Lord Mayor was the only Londoner the sovereign should trust, and the custom has never been changed."

I.Noles B); The

1 wife and mother and held down

about a down other jobs at the saline time - she wu gardener, chicken fancier. dreasmakcr, tailor, mllllmr. cook. nurse. lnundreas and goodness knows what. else, And she didn't even talk about it.- she didn't. know she had or wu . problem." - Niagara Falls Review.

The tourist trade is fine. We like it. But. this city belongs to Victor- ians. It is their home. Must CVe.'Py- l-hill: we do be decided on the basis of whether or not the tour- ists will approve? Let. us let out of the lruckster rut, build the kind of environment we want. for ourselves, and let. all who wish to calm here and see us as we are, do so, and welcome. This used to be known as ii city of homes. Let's not turn it. into is city of allow windows. - Victoria. Times.

The London Time: comments on the fact. that Stalin's coffin was left. open at the funeral. This; it says. was the practice of the mars, follawed for many gorleratlons. Why? "The coffins of the Tsars," says The Tlmtxs, "were left open for tho people to see that: they had died peacefully and were not the victims of -foul play." This in in. teresting. It will be agreed that

there is as much, indeed more. reason to continue the custom under the new dlcbatorshlp as

under the old. - Press.

Winnipeg Free

Hon. Paul Martin. llllnlsler of National Health and Welfare, is quoted as saying, "There are al- ways reasonable and sensible limits to what governments and agencies can do to help meet wel- fare needs. We must: never lose sight of the (not that for every dollar that is paid out in social

security. a dollar in taxes must be

The book is completed. And closed, like the day; And the hand that has written it Lays it away.

Dim grow its fancies; Forgotten they lie;

Like coal: in the ashes They darken and die. song sinks into silence. The story is told.

The windows are dukened The hearth-stone is cold. Darker and darker

The black shadows fall: sleep and oblivion

Reign over all.

-11. wf Longfellow

" APRlL 70 1

The Pass

fume in not, and novel- wlll be. unanimous an-ounent on the theological meaning and

s of liutcr. This is not to be wpnderad at. not should whatever amusements um. mat bu frowned upon or dlloourued. 30 ion: as lnmloctull freedom II choc-lubed by free men. so long will there be differences in religious outlooks. And while these clif- fercnces are rooted in honesty they can do no harm. Freedom. proper- ly excel-clued. with A careful re. cognition of its rmponslbllltlea as well as its rights. never yet caused any trouble.

There is one thing about Easter, however, on which ohcl-e is univer- sal Igioemenlt. its usurnnoe tint beyond the dulnim there in lldhlt; beyond evil. the good. Historically, this assurance is .not confined to any one tradition. Ohrlstlanity developed the idea tremendously. Wt it was part of the spiritual armour of mulkind long centuries

re recognized by Ollrlstllan apologists in all ages.

It has been said of Socrates that "he put out into the danknen, a moral Columbus, tnlstlng in his haven on the stlrength at an And Plato”: "apologla" for his be- lie! in tho lmmiol-tality of good mlglht. have been VVTIIJIZEH by I Oh.l-latlan scholar of this gen- uraltlcm. b

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1-119. is everyone knows, in I inbntlure of many things. when is bitter mixed with the aw'eet. and fl-ustraltllons mixed wlbh uohleverherlls. Here there are bright rays of light, in another place there in shadow, and in still another "the place of I skull". There are valleys of solitude where the soul is alone and there are hleh places where ong looks up to the stars and breathes into oneb spirit the air of heaven. But in every human spirit lherb is a glinuner of hope that the best. 18 yet to be. That is the one thing that keep: one plloxlm on his way. As Grace Nol-l Crowell put it in a fine pooblc passage:

"A: certain as stars at night, or down after darkness, Inherent I-lthe lift of the blowing

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Wlliufever your despair or your fnmtrailon,

This. too, will pass".

Whether or not thins! always and inevitably tum out that way,

paid In." That doesn't quite state the case. It takes more th n 3 doi- lar in taxes to provide a ollar by way of handout. People in govern- mental offices have to be paid to adxnlnlster the welfare business.- Brlmtford Expositor.

Although it is doubtful if Can- ada will ever have a national liter- ature until more pecuniary recogni- tion in given her wi-item, one would hardly have expected better poetry from Robbie Burns if he had lived In a castle instead of ii cotter's cottage. or better lyrics from site-

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I; Observer noun P08!-IADTII THOUGHTS

mm in no miotukhu the 51,,-emih of the idea. And It is the I-1. itself, not any by-product. L "ii that has server; mankind V,

H "3h0"i' W9 Eeneratinns oi recorded history. 0 I I

It has been said that belief in immortality In some form and in some measure is common to -.11 human beings on all levels or cure. In this view it. belongs i natural iaoher than to reveal"? religion. Whatever truth ins... may or may not be in this i.ii,W' it does seem it fact that even the” most Dltimltive races believe ..,,, what we call death is just. an op.-nl gate to some new and M1,, thorollthfue of life.

traditional beliefs, have bi-guiimiiiii treat: the idea of immortality wiiii

the more eminent. ones have nu.-av. taken that stand. Now. with gvhp increasing knowledge of so-cane.-1

partition between ohis life and

lng. But one thing appears annmg oorlaln. namely. that future scienti- fic research will be Increasingly turned tmvamla things or the spirit. This 1! pefllano the world's best hope for tomorrow, hunmnlygpmk. lng; and another generation may see the beginning of the dispersal of the fears and cynioisms rm: have plagued mankind from one on to another 0 I O Emerson once said that "the blazing evidence of irrunortalltv in our dissatisfaction with any oth.-r colucion". And there does appear to be 3,:-estlessneln in the heart of man that cannot be quite explained by Hllyullllg In his own exlperiencn. There Ls. too. an Instinctive yearn. mg for possessions which the world We know lust does not have in its many siorehousos. Nor is thin warning the sole property of the saint and mylstlc. If you prclbo deeply enough you can find it in almost every person. The myclinlm guts have alw:-.ys been interested in this relation between "t.hL;.ow0r1d. ly" interests and impulses. They have collected much lnaful data on the subject but not yet. the final and complete answer. - If we were content to base nur judgement on the plain evidence of the present, it. would be easy Cll0lJ8h to make use of the "counsel 6! despair". But, somehow. most of us are not persuaded that the "H1188 we see with our eyes and hear with our ears and understand with our limited mental powers are the beginning and the end of life. Very few of us could put W15 185111118 towards the "evidence 0? l-hint!!! not seen" in articulate, black and white language, Never- theless. it does seem to be hidden

phen Foster if he had died rich instead of in poverty.-Saint John Telegraph Journal

in our persona-titles and now and then it takes on astounding strength.

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