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THE cnsnuorrerowu GUARDIAN

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Morn}... Daily (Founded in 1887) Authorized as Second Class Mall, Post Office Department. Ottawa.

President, lisrl A. Burnett; Vice-President. Win. it. Burnett; SCCYwTICIIH-s G. M. Burnett; Editor and Manuging Director, J. R. Burnett; Associate Editor,

Frank lllalkcr.

‘fTlieaStrongest Memory is Weaker Than the Weakest Ink."

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Canada's Economy

The Ilatest figures of the Bonk of Canada present on encouraging picture of the nation's ficmwml‘ "I the period ot reconversion from war 0_ peace. The national wage index yo, induy "ml °°5"P°ll°"5. for example was up to nenj- l)’ l5‘) in the autumn of i946 from about 105 in ‘i939. As against that, the cost of living index had risen from on index figure of lOl 5 ' i939 to 125.6 at the cnd of August lost W091i‘. Thus had advanced mucli foster than the qnsl 0f living to the immedirte benefit of the wa ' earner, due largely, cf course to the succesgs: ful control of priCLS.

At the some llfilfi farnl:rs received parallel lrenzlits. In i939 tlzc cosh income of Canudiqn

the ffifiilldlflgiiffl sllovg that over 56 per cent cf Canadas taxpayers poid too much money into the Dominion treasury in the year in quas- lion. Here, in the Department's own figures, is en argument for taxation reform. Tho De- partment of Notional Revenue is employing a lot of people collecting too much money from the people of Canada and another lot of people sending the excess back—oll at the expense of the Canadian taxpayer. _

One of the reasons for the excess pay- ments, of course, is the complexity of the taxo- tion forms ond regulations. A great many tax- payers do not understand them and that is not to be wondered at since the officials of the De- pnrtment do not always agree on interpreta- tions, while c new profession-tax accountancy ——hos developed out of the taxpayers’ bewilder ment,

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_ Everything is now stepping up. and ngxf it ls to be rents.

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They ore having as much trouble over the transport of grain to London as we have in get- ting potatoes to the mainland.

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What worries the heavily laden taxpayer in ail this controversy over Federal ond Provincial relations is that his relief is seemingly never

The moot precious heritage Bu: the Canadian people possess to- dfly lo their British civilization which. through the centuries. has been built upon the ielgmng; or "w 6081191. The re-emhrcnement 0f the Church as the exponent and bulwark of these principles is bell‘? retlcfinifcd more and more as vitally necessary to the wel- fare of society, —Brantford Ex. positor.

An interesting bit cl information w")? "Om UOYWS Registrar of ‘Sgi-ulgillnflfltwhlchhreports‘that or the ' e o mew ant, sh i bet built throughout tho wlbIi-lldlgup rig §PDL 30 last. more than half, or @333 P" pent. of the tonnage was being blllll 1n Great Britain and Ireland. -st. Theories Times-Journ- all.

y Although historical societies hnve Ignored lhe delicious detail, it is a__f8¢t that the pies which the Pil- Sllnlb‘ find many happy Separations 0f the" lifflfllldflnts consumed were baked in square, deep, 1mm pans or the some sort that, could held a turkey. Iron has given place to tin, bill» Pumlllfin pies are sllll la be found baked in “dripping pans" l“ will“ F NW’ England. —New Yolk Herald ‘Tribune.

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Whitehall Notebook

(By Ilium MoCock. Canadian Prone Staff Wrltcr. Inndon) John Archibald Boyd Carpenter. 39. Conservative member of Par- liament. for Kingsion-uporl-Illlirmca, who sits behind Anthony Eden in the Common; opposition “ nches, is regarded by elder Conservatives as of the breed that will eventually lake over from the Ohurchills,

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He is not notable for profound speeches. eccentrlclties or special interests, but for industry. He is one of e faithful group of young (Xmservlrtives who appear in the Commons every day and follow debates on every subject. their heads thrust. forward sllghtll’ in a position of intense interest. Carpenter is u barrister and his bwkaround is almost typical of the Opposition benches his father a Knight: Stowe School and Ox- ford; toured United States with Oxford University debating team, i931; culled to bar, Middle Temple, 1934: l0ined Scots Gourds. 1940 and served in Italy.

Political pariy scouts nn dgubt, when he was elected president of the Ox- Union in 1930. He has written

Cotton Industry

The flit msnuhctilm cf cotton in Condo wu started at Blur-- limole. Quebec.

IRO- ll?! ‘Rattles. On Much mo. the Legislative Assembly/of the Boviuce of Could; lncorpir- "95 7-110 Elwfilocke Ootum Factor? which was the ‘first cotton mutu- factilnr in Canada and. mcldmtoliy tihc first limited liability company. This mill. which probwbly inn-ted Productlm of gray ‘sheeting in 18M. hm 1.200 spindles and employ- ed a doom men. "may, at Sher- brooke than he 71.698 spindles and the manuftcture of cotton rheellnss is n molar indildbry. Short- ly after the atablishmont of the Sherbmolse mill. the Ohiurlbly (Que- bec) Cotlon Manufacturing 0cm- pany began to turn out shootings. History of thin mill is vogue. but its sheeting was highly praised in adyertieemcnts appearing 1n the “Starlstead Joullnal" in November. 1646. Canada's third cotton mill wee established at Thcrold. Ontario. in 184.7. It had l8 to I) looms and made grey sheetingp. other plain goods and cotiton betting. This mill was destroyed by fire in 1864. In 1853, F‘. w. l-iarrls started a cotton mill at Montreal. This mill had an initial capacity of 1.500 spindles and 46 looms and produced tlcklrlgs. denials and scomleas baa In 1860. Joseph Wright started the manu- facture of cotton bums at Dundee. Ontario. and in the following year manufactured wtlnn yarn. cloth

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In noiseless tumult, break and wove and flow. Now trend the for Southnor lift. _ rounds ofnnow Up to the white mom's hidden love- ‘ linen

Home pause in their grove wonder-

coulirodclesa, And tum with profound vague and slow. An wiho would pray good for the world. but know Their- bcnedlctlon empty bless.

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They say that the Dead die nnhbut.

Near to the rich heirs of their grief and mirth.

I bhiri: they ride the calm mid- henven. as than.

In wise majestic melancholy train.

And watch the moon, and the still- raging seas.

And men. cooling and going on the

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DECEMBER 19. 1946 '

PrTofmIonaI Bards

NEIL W. HIGGINS

CHARTERED ACCOUNTANT Currie Building Charlottetown i

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NOTARY. ITO. IABI-ISTIE BOLICITOI CUB!!! BUILDING

MORRELL and COMPANY Chartered Accountant Eastern Trust Building Phone 1H1 — Box l“

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PUBLIC STENOGRAPHER

Mlmecgupiring cards and circulars.

concert programs. correspondence,

typing and kkceping HELEN GIDDEN Telephone 1890-3 Apt. No. l. Connoiight Aph Pownll Street

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farmers totalled $732 millions, including all gov- ernment payments. In i945 it reached $169 billions. lt had more than doubled. For in. twelve months ending June, i946, it was $l,6‘l bllions. The farm price of agriculture pj-n. ducts stood on the Bank's index at 9L8 ill i938, the average for the period of 1935-39 being tnk- e" ‘is loo- BY JulY. i945, the average price had reached _l8§.6. lt had more than doubled since the beginning of the Wilt.‘ The farmer's cast c-f operation had already risen but not nearly as fast as the price of his products. As the Bank reckons’ lt, the price the former must pay to pm. rluce his crop, including virtually all his costs stood at just over 100 at the beginning of the'

considered, only whether he should be subiect to tclxoticn by the Federal or Provincial Govern- ment—or both.

Old Charlottetown (And P.E.l.i

ll lu-ncrally is held lo be a very ll-aziviscd if not, fcolhardy course

action lo interfere in a family row. It also seems that it is equally Ill-fltivlscd to interfere with a police- "1811 W110 is arresting n drunk on illc street. In Tbronto the other (lay a young man interfered in such a circumstance with the result, the drunk got away. But the man who interfered was hauled off to the police siuliCm. ~Fort willie n T"m'3$- Journal.

and seamless ban Ochlirol of this enterprise was piircl-iascd in 1661 by John Young who later founded 1n gnmll-wn what. is today the Ham- ilLon comm company. frhe Dun- das mill ceased OPEPMW"! B5 l cotton mill in 1894 but. after an interval of more than 50 Y9"!- the building has been renovated and modernized rnd production cf l egttqn yarns ' es and cordagc irleilry Hlsscard, Mr. JOllThOIl. son i5 j--'-- -- -~: 1 lls month as a c1" Di". Johnson, medical SJIuGIIIS. 1'1‘... cl llle Hamil‘. n comm Com- and on old gentleman-Mr. Joseph parry “inch is now undel- the direc- well- of Bangor-es paesenecrs. had tlon at John Young's grandsons. proceeded safely to within halt a

In x361‘ wllljnm parks and Son mile cf the Island chore, when o. smned ‘he 11m enrmn mill in the seven-e snow-storm was encountered. Maritime Provinces at saint Johirr. The boot. utterly unable to make N g_ headway, was put about. drawn on

many Essays and articles on polit- ical subjects and after 1B months in the House he is becoming more confident and his diligence ln ask- ing questions has brought him to the attention of all mermbers,

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Those psychiatrists who are worried over the difference between the spirit of Christmas and the Santa Claus symbol, might devote their time and energies to more useful purposes. They could, for instance, start a movement to have New York Sun's‘ famous editorial on the sub- ject, (reprinted in our yesterday's issue), in- ccrporoted in all school readers. lt would clear up any misunderstanding on the subject, and stll leave Santa a reolity.

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In the month of March, 1855. a distressing occurrence look place. The ice-boat from Cape Tormentlne o the Island. with Mr. Jellies

Publicity ways: Howard Lancum, press officer to the agriculture ministry. has written a book on the ways c,t ncwspapermen who daily ask him questions about his department. His conclusion ls t“"' newspapers are honorable trt- ers play “a slraighi go ‘and "off the record" slatcnlcvls are respected.

After these lli¢= filings, Mr. Lancuin. 11h a shudder, recalled

McLEOD & BENTLEY

W. E. BENTLEY. ILC. J. A. BENTLEY. K.C.

Barristers lrlill Attorneys-at. Low

The 1113M)’ of the youthful prison repeater was again brought into shat-p focus in tile Wiurllpc; city police court when n ZO-ycal-

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war and was up to nearly l50 lost ‘summer. Thus, by high form product prices ondlgood crops the former had far more than compensated himself for higher operating casts and for his own in- creased cost of living.

This is one side of the picture; but there is another which is thus presented in the Winni- peg Free Press:

What mode the grcot war boom in which we are still living? Where did the higher wages for wcrksrs and the ligher income of formers come from? The easy answer is that they come out of o great increase in total pro- duction ond this, so for as it goes, is true. -But if we ask hcw this production was achieved and how it was disposed of we shall soon find that against the csscts on one side of the ledger there are balancnzg liabilities on the other.

The war boom came mainly out of three fac- tors: huge government spending, financed by in- creased national debt and high taxes; govern- ment subsidies to producers; and an unlimited foreign market, created by the war. All the gov- ernment's spendings were financed somehow by the people. Part was financed by taxes ancl these taxes consumed a large port of the gain in wages, as every wage earner knows. Borrow- ings also must be rcpaid by the taxpayers. Their cost to the treasury is merely postponed. Inso- far as the boom was financed by government borrowings-and that was the chief factor in it —we have merely placed a mortgage on the no- tion's future production and we have lived on the immediate proceeds, as o man might mort-

- gage a house ond spend the mortgage money on a spree.

By subsidies the state hos held retail prices down but not without cost to the people as o whole. The taxpayers poy the subsidies. The cost of advancing prices is merely transferred from one group in the community to another.

As to foreign exports which have absorbed the products of farm and fa:tcry', they have been given a-vcy or very largely financed by loans from the Canadian treasury to foreign nations. Gifts hove not increased the wealth of Canada; they have reduced it. The lI-CIHS also will reduce it unless we secure and accept ultimate repayment in goods.

lt is thus clear that the nation is not hosic- ally so well nff as a casual study of the Bank's figures would suaaest. M"rc than most people realize we have been living on borrowed money.

Musical’ Chairs

Prime Minister King hos announced the second ond presumably final stage in the re- organization of his Cabinet. lt consists of the transfer of the Health portfolio from Mr. Ircoko Claxton to Mr. Paul Martin, leaving with the former the three branches of the Ministry _pf Defence. As the count now stands, therefore, Mr. St. Laurent has given a portfolio ‘to Mr. llsley, Mr. llsley to Mr. ADDO", ond Mr. Abbott to Mr. Martin. lf this is not intro- Ministerial reciprocity, it is ot least‘ a process of fair mlchange, which the old saying affirms is no robbery. In this little Cabinet game of pitch-ond-toss, Mr. King has played on import- ant tolo with his usual skill. While he has introduced no new blood into the Cabinet, he has mods the old blood race at high pressure during the past week. If tlio exorcise of swap- ping portfolios is good for the health of o inst, suggests on exchange, that of Mr. Kings should be blatantly robust by now. But as o precaution against any off chances. a good idea for Mr. King to stage oiicof these Ministerial musical-choir gun's c couple of

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Joseph Mallard William Turner, English artist, born this date i775; as o pupil of the Royal Academy he began exhibiting when only fifteen; was admitted R. A. at twenty-eight, or-d appointed professor of perspective ct thirty- three; as o man he was unattractive, reserved and in some respects eccentric, but always ac- ble to those who sought his advice or com- pcnionship, especially the young who followed art; as o landscape pointer he ranks equal with Claude and Corot; his knowledge of nature was urrivalled, his water colours being superb for delicacy and brilliant execution; his oils are characteristic for the ideolizing of things, to- gether with o passion for expression through col- ours.

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Boy Scouts and Wolf Cubs of the Eastern and Central Provinces will conduct on extensive paper salvage campaign next month in on effort to supply raw materials needed in the making of roofing and wallboord products for new homes for Canadian veterans. The announcement fol- lowed; o meeting of the General Council at which R. C. Stevenson of Montreal, presided. Leonard W. Brockington, newly-appointed honorary Do- minion counsel of the association, also attend- ed. The paper drive, already under preparation from Ontario eastward, is being made as o "scouting good turn" and on effort on the port cf the Boy Scout movement to do something con- structive tcwords relieving the national housing problem.

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Wallace, making his debut as editor of the New Republic, states his 'plot- form for "jobs, peace ond freedom". "l stand for one idea," writes the former United States Commerce Secretary, who turned magazine ed- itor after resigning from the Cabinet on request of President Truman because of his public criti- cism of the administration's foreign policy. That idea, he states, is "that jobs, peace ond free- dom can be attained together and can make possible one world, prosperous and free, with- in our life "me." Declaring that progressives must carry on his program, Wallace makes an open bid for support from both major political parties. "The American people hove rejected, as they olvaoys will, o Democratic Party that is not militontly progressive. Americans have. call- ed for a new leadership. They will not find it

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crinle who is Z2 years of age, anal who was also sent to Stony Mcun- tain for four years, was only l":-' leased firolm that institution lest. March. —Winnlpcg Tribune.

Tho hope (for peace) l‘: in the fact. lhLlt it llikczs only for! of zl-lzcui a (‘ozcn ycnrg = inlplzlnl a hut-i: culture ill the ; .id cf niiill - the pcricll 0f cl. :..lcod beiiieen lhe age cf iws llli'l ‘llc age of four- tccll. -—Bbai'd5l°_v Ruiml. cllairlnan Federal Resezi lliilk of Ncw York.

An Intern: ' nil Compcfition for "l6 R0319“ ‘l cf Chz-epometerzr Will be he"! ‘.1 Shvitzlzland in the Spring of 7'8. at ihc Cb-ervnicry of NCUW“ cl. EWl'Zt'l‘l£l‘.(l on the 6601mm cl lhc icnicriury of the Ncuchaicl Republic. Admitted are llle prcducts of the watch industry from all over the world and the C-llllilletition will comprise in parti- culllr. marine chronomelers. pocket and bracelci clionolnclcrs. The rules anll regulations for admission can be obtained from ille Legalion of §witzerlund in Ottawa. ~Monlreal cinr.

The lumber lack has been identi- fiul witll Canada's forest industry 501" mlmy years. He has seen it move westward and northward from the shores of the eastern lakes. He has been a strong and rugged figure The old-time lumber lack and river driver was a strong and fearless soul. In the main he was as honest and trusting as a, child. but he would not allow anyone “lo run on him." He would fight for his rights and his dignity from the dcop of the hat. Not a few who served for years as lumber jacks later became farmers or lurriiher- men in their own right. —Fort William Tlmes-Jounlol.

The popufoun Stine of New York and in particular, the metropolitan area o! New York City would be inviting targets in an atomic war. Thai m explanation enough for New York Slate trifling the lead in actually putting into operation defensive measures against the atomic bomb. But no section 0.! the caunt/ry is LHllTQlV immune from the danger. The New York Slate experiment will, therefore. certain- ly be followed with interest else- where. and the probability is that

in the present Republican hierarchy; until they find it, they will not rest. v i i‘ W‘ n

Alas, for the ruthless despoilers at Ottawa! Not only hove they abolished our military head- quarters, but abolished the kilt as well. The kllts that hove been in storage at Ottawa during the war are being returned to the Hlghlandpnlts which formerly owned them. Once that I°l> f‘ completed by tho Ordnance‘ Corps, there Will be no further supply at public expense to bonds of Highland units. There is nothing to prevent any officer or soldier of a Highlulid um! fwm buying his own kilt either out of his own pocket or with the aid of regimental funds. They may be worn on such occasions as ceremonial par- ades and walking out, if approved by tholgcn- eral officer commanding lli any particular rog- icn. But Mr. Mackenzie King, in spite cf his name and forbcars is done with the regimental kilt so long and so famously associated with Auld Scotia’: greatness.‘

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The legend of Father Christmas goes back to the good bishop and Saint, Nicholas, who lived 1,600 yuan ago. lot why docs ho conic in down the chimney? Many people believe that this dates from vary ancient days in Britain-—- 2,000 years before tllo birth of ‘Christ; when people lived in halos in tho ground, and tho only entrance was through a hole iii tllc roof of troughs and billings. The holes or pits have been foinl in various parts of lritoin, ‘iinifdio- covcrlos ll and around thorn him enabled u- pirts to build up a picture ofjtlic lifo lived in those far-off Joys. about _tlio origin of tho legend. To the llttio aim it ls still tho literal truth; ond they hang up tint: stockings on Christmas in witti complete confidence in "Father Ciirirtiviuff