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Associate Editors: Frank Wllkor and -- Inn A. Burnett.

“The Strongest Memory is Weaker Than ' i the Weakest Ink.”

SATURDAY, MARCH 2, I946

Where Stand We Financially‘?

When the Dottiinioit-Provindial Conference ldjourticdloyi Fcb. 1 the official statement de- ‘clarctlthat “the Dominion revised its proposals of last August in some important respects." Ac- cording to the statement, these revised propos- als were discussed at length and the conlerettce their adjourned until April 25 to allow time for ‘ further consideration. '-

It is unfortunate that the revised proposals were not made public so that the people as well u the heads’ of governments represented at thc Conferitce could consider them. Until a 51‘lll(‘lIIClll is reached, neither the Provinces 11or the Dominion camproceed intelligently to plan cithcr for the present or the fnttfre.

Although the text of the revised Dominion proposals is not public, there has been a great deal of informed discussion of a semi-official character. Ottawa correspondents in such news- papers a the Globe and llfaifof Toronto, the 6mm of Montreal, the Vancouver Sun, the Winnipeg Frn Press and, more particularly, the Financial Post, leave little doubt as to the main outline of the proposition which the provinces are now considering. A careful summary of the information thus available, appearing rec- ently, in the Winnipeg Free Prom, is republished in this issue.

A study of this summary reveals a. number of interesting facts. The Dominion has con- siderably increased the price it is prepared to pay to the provinces for the surrender of their income, corporation and inheritance taxes. Prince Edward Island, for example, is offered an ir- reducible minimum of $2,000,000 as against $1,- 200,000 originally proposed.

It is argued that the taxpayers also stand to gain substantially. The Dominion, apparently. hasagrecd that if duplication of taxation by the Provinces and the Dominion is avoided, further reductions in personal income tax will be made. The corporation tax will be cut and reduction, here, will be so made as to lessen the clement of double taxation. In this sense, double taxation means the taxing of corporation income in the hands of the corporation and again in the hands of the shareholder who receives interest or divi- dends.

Obviously, a. lower rate of taxation if spread over the whole of the country will yield the needed revenue much more efficiently and fairly than duplicatory Dominion and provincial taxation. Because of the high rates which would be necessary in the less fortunate provinces, an equal spreading of the burden would be impos- lible. It is only possible if the Dominion pos- sesses exclusive power to levy these taxes.

It is being argued also that the proposed agreement is to run for only three years and, therefore, is a temporary arrangement; that the new proposals represent, broadly, the best settle- ment that can presently be obtained; and that although discriminated against in the larger sense, the less fortunate provinces will be able to face the immediate future. '

Against this is the fact that the proposals ignore the basic finding of the Rowell-Sirois Commission, in favor of adjustment grants by the Dominion to the provinces on the basis of fiscal need, of actual need. In the sense in which this phrase was used in the Commission's report, the proposed settlement is no settlement at: all. The position of the lesrfortunate prov- inces, relatively, will remain the same. The old disparities will be continued and the troubles which afflicted us in the past will inevitably recur in the future.

\\’c trmtctn" in thc lViuni/irg Iirrv Frost's suggestion that “as the time for the resumption of the itegotizititutis (Iran's nearer, the public who pay the costs and reap the advantages (or disadvantages) should tnake their wis-hes known in no tmccrtain terms." 1

Also, it to be hoped that Premier Jones, VAddress debate, will give the Legislature next . ‘week a full and, frank statement as to the Fed- gnnl prvtmrsztls for this Province. and the counter- flmll, if any, that have been made.

Dr. p Latlimefs Survey

- yllablcd in thc Lcgblatttrc on Ilmrsday was i rt on Ifitxation in Prince Edward ls- whlch has been under preparation for some L r. l. E. Lattinier. The satnc care and dug fleas that went into the compiling of ’ Winner's “Economic Survey of Prince , aloud", published in November I944, ihthip work. It might tnore fitting- _ “Taxation in Canada. with special ‘ Edward Island,” inasmuch in considerable detail with all the Iutlimcjr [emphasises that it is

I ‘ rreport." Thepoihts he rc- Mapfhtlnzyclonoat. study are the fol-

ofiPrince Edward Is- . 4W1 sumo-Tb“ ;on a ‘minu- number.

i “bf creInadh

for loan purposes by the Canadian Farm Loan Board. - ' .'

5. Taxes on farm land may’ be doubled before reaching that of the lowest other prov- mce.

6. There it a definite limit to the increase in taxation on farm land. Other sources of rev- enue must be made available to furnish the re- quired funds for the necessary and proposed services of rural sections.‘

7. Local school boards being the taxing, authority leads to a lack'of uniformity in amount collected. ,

8. The general pracficcris to use the same assessment fro111 year to year and change the rate on assessment as required. _

9. The rate varied twntettdously f1'01n year to year and from section to seclion.

‘ 1o. The proportion of gross income spent on rural schools was less than one per cent in 1940.

11. Better. educational results secured by fewer and larger schools.

12. Results of questionnaire indicated that such a move would be approved~providetl roads were kept open throughout the year.

13. Answers to questionnaires also reveal- ed that provincial assessment and collection of all school taxes would be wclcome-—pr0vided local control of school was retained. .

14. The questionnaire confirmed tho mod for a new assessment.

15. The inequality of assessment was an outstanding revelation of the study. In the cen- sus year the assessment amounted to only 42.5 per cent of the census valuation. The variation among different farms ran from 1o to 144 per cent.

16. Centralization of industry has shifted population. The result has been to move peo- ple of working age away from the province of Prince Edward Island. r

17. A reallocation of the tax on corpora- tions may be necessary and is now proposed by the Federal Government.

18. The present position is that sources of public funds are inadequate for present and future needs.‘

19. Taxation methods must be modernized.

2o. Different industries and different classes of taxpayers must be treated different- ly.

21. It requires many types of taxes to en- sure that all will contribute something to public funds and to ensure-sufficient public. revenue.

22. Taxes on income, property and ex- penditure are all necessary to make this cer- tam.

The report runs to some sixty pages, con- tains many charts and schedules, and a biblio- graphy which indicates that the author has gone as far afield-as Sir William Beveridge and the editor of the London Economist for his author- ities. He was assisted in the work by Dr. S. C. Hudson and Mr. H. C. Murray of the Eco- nomics Division, Marketing Service, Dominion Department of Agriculture, and by Mr. I. W. MacKinnon of the Provincial department.

might be

It ls Up To Parents

In this enlightened age, it gives one indeed a distinct shock to know that unfortunately not a. small minority of parents of young children here, either through neglect or ignorance or both fail to get their babies and young children protected against diphtheria. It has been re- peatedly proven that children, so protected, are immune to this enemy‘of health. It seems in- credible that anyone should wait till this enemy is within our gates, o11r communities or our homes, before taking action, when we can de- fend our future citizens from this common foe in advance.

Not a few consider parents who neglect or deny the protection to their children should be held criminally/liable, should any child, in their negligence, succumb to diphtheria.

. In order that people can enjoy good health and a sense of well being, they tnust necessarily

be diphtheria, tuberculosis, venereal disease or any other enemy of" the flesh gr of the mind. Too many go through life partially‘; incapacitat- ed in one way or another due to ignorance of 1raturc's laws, which remain the foundation of the Scicticc of Ilcalth. ,

Parents are only doing their duty in tirotect- ing their babies, pro-school and school children in order that they may develop sound bodies and sound minds.

-EDITOR IAL NOT ES-

l The P. I. llospital collectors report hav- ing a cordial reception whcrcvcr they go; the

oredoinggonlvrork. ‘

I! i Ill it Motors, etc., licenses, etc.,‘ last year reach- cd Ihc goodly figure of $169,199.45, while Prince of Wales t"..1|¢g.*t¢.3 totalled $11.5I6-60- v i!

Ex-Mayor Dudley Wright will be much missed, not only in the city but throughout the Province, where he was known from North Cape to East Point. A kindly, genial soul, he was

to Iii: civic activities, did much in his dlyiand generation for various fraternal organizations. ' U U U I

foun er of Wesleyan Me lam, born this date 1703; ordained‘ priest nVChuroIt of Eng- land in 1725, after having been a member of

University; developed a passion-for evangelism, after labouring. most Iullyq itinerant rnlulonaryi uni-output E ’

vfilted Georgi‘; |ndbNvrdt_ Attfiflcb wcotnpnuied. f I _ i‘ H " but“ W4." il-‘llwbw-“vf

ulfiul it

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fight disease in any and every form whether it 5

popularly known as "Uncle Dud", and‘ in addition ghb" I ohn Wesley, English religious leader, and

the religious society of Methodists at Oxford wt

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r a tulle.-

Mandy . who “yiuuh. i Ditrott Prof ‘ _

swat m. conflscatocl- flu _~ “mam”. flhfllillillfilllfi W!’ Ire JllrlOIll to know wlutbol"

W" l I1. ll, or Clllflh Into R give uvyvanayr,

—Edmonton as

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make ‘ h-Iend n

Bel- ef-

dare th crlmlnal act. Long ago society found out that crlme does not pay. We have heard, too, that though justice may travel with a sore foot she Is sure to overtake the ullty. Yet, In face of this well- kno n fact, the criminal dares hla hideous deeds. Why? We cannot but believe the criminal acts as he does because he looks for a Ihzht sentence should he be overtaken In his offence. Society Is only too prone to see the criminal but to forget hls vlctlm. There ls the

offender that h; wlll not be caught. —Exete_r Times Advocate.

In n statement Issued soon after he had received his cardlnaks hat, Cardlnnl McGuIgun said.‘ "In the social and economic order of each country, there must be a greater equallutlon of material goods, and more equal op ortunltles for all children, espec ally for those who In the past were underprivileged." That Ir a declaration to whIch Pro- testant. and Cnthollc can allke auh- scrlbe. The gospel of the better chance for the poor and the under- privileged Is at the very core of Ohrlstlunftg. It I: on this founda- tlon that t e new and better world rnurt be buIIt. The new cnrdlnal could not have found l finer prin- clple to enunclate than that whlch calls for the more equal dlltrlbtt- tlon‘ of the comforts and privileges of llfe, and an opportunity ‘.0 suc- ceed where such op ortunlty has int the part been den ed.- —'Iloronto

or.

Much good can be done by the

tnbllnhed by the University of Mlehlgnn, provided the Idnons It teaches are kept on a practical plane. It lnvItea parents to consult It and learn the truths and fallac- ‘les about Inherlted tendencies, and there Is much room for the dts- semlnatlun of this Informatlon‘. A wrest deal of nonsense has always been spread havlng to do with heredity. Some belleve that chIId- ren can Inherlt almost. any physi- cal, mental or moral character-h:- ttc of their parents, whereas n-tost. of them are due entirely to envir- onment nnd t . Mothers and fathers too often take the ltope- lesl vIew that their offspring are inherently bad because of csrtaln undesirable features In their lln- eage, or have complacent confl- donce that, because they are res- pectable folk, their |ona and dauph- ters can do no. wrong. I! the cl nlc can get rld of a lot. of these ml!- conceptlonl, It wlll have accom- pllshed much. -From th, Wlndaor Stag - v _ Itfolnnflmoofwbltovp nnow-nloundad atone wlll: on w

no chfpmunlu camper, In

few uh wln about the scrub oaks, that the untln| outlook for miembors of tho dmneutlcnted cut

i 111E . CIIARLQTIEIP

further belief on the part of the Year

heredity clInIc whlch hal been er- .

vuauc FURUM I Tblo column In unpla- llu llllonulon by, Q11} '. upoudllh of indium"?! _ Interest. ‘Ibo Charlottetown - Gulidlll iloec not about» lly unlorlo Ibo oplnlol of

- correspondent.

BUR-AL BIAUTIFIOAIION

sul-"rti plan of 001. nw. Johnatnneo for rural baouuflmtlon Is one of the best Dmlecto offend for some tlmo. as It l8 NWUBI-blh

tI t to ist I hh liiilesillil°if°il his ti’. flshntn ii to fish

But the rlver Is being invaded eve winter by flocks and flocks of ‘diitcks. sea ducks, mostly of dif- ferent breeds when the bays freeze _ stay till the river Ia fished out. Big and small sal-

mon and trout salmon are nearly

a. thin? of the past. It. Is 1118i these last Ive or six years I at they have been coming and fey am ccmlng In larger numbers each

I don't know what, can be dccie about It. but It, should receive some careful consideration.

I am. Str. etc ELDON DRUMMOND Freetown, PILL

REPAIRS TO THE ‘IIXILWAY WIIARF

Sin-Fearing that the United States steel strike mltrhl» delfil’ d0- lIvery of the steel pIles requlrcd for the repairs to the Railway “than! In the Charlottetown Harbor, wrote sometime $80 to the‘ con- tractors, J.P. Porter to Sons of Montreal. and have 110w received a. letter from them of whIch the following extract wlll, I am sure. b; of Interest, your ‘readers: "Wiflh regard to the delivery steel we have no reason to feel that there wlll~ be any undue d-ehty In the shipment of this material At least we have not been so ad as yet and according to our pres- ent. understanding. slupment w go forward durlnz the latter part

av}. some hlng unforeseen wpperts, the ear 194B wlll at long net. release Hnce Edward Island, rom Its thraldom of Isolation. Had Ihe harb Isl-and been placed In outslde world seventy-three years mo. there Is every reason to believe that the foreign trade of the Prov- Ince by now would have attained rtfctis, with a. popul- flve times

10111‘ OI‘

owiitpefo the present. teveals bwo mndltforta suworttng

one am er:

l. Bolt water harbors have al- d for ocean ves- sels allowing f. em to enter. load and unload. with a constantly ornulm world trade.

‘I. Because of the Inestlmablo ue of an Interc e of Produce choline gamete . court};

so g . pa wIth mt axtonslve arded It, as of that

is

from the m] author- I so, fled

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I leads to death from

m Septlcemla Is thoughthbly

he on the muooeae of

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tutu of Amorlcl

economy m6 ndnptfng bur condltlonl). ‘

by the perennIaI cIvlI servant. I must add. though. that. I uw no evidence of my eneruetlu attenmfi by Foreign Minister Bevin to re- vitalize hIs ministry pr change the pally-today practlee or foretgn af- a rs. . I , The party Is‘ by no means unfted on these queshlons. ‘Dalklng to a number of the younger munbers who won seats In Parliament dur- lntz the labor landslide. I could not help but: see thelr euthanas- ment over the present volley. One them ld me: "They could at least have piomlsed that. after the

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find, upon exumlnatlou. that the subcutaneous tlsaues of the head. neck and throat are gaseous. Gela- ttnous Infiltration around the larynx and pharynx are observed. In the acute Septfoemla type. we flnd the characteristics that are common I-o the acute fatal supblcemlas wlblwm spoolal loon- tlon. It sets In rapldly and often

12 Io .24 hours. The cerebral and Intestinal f

l8. Kh M In well

of a septtcomla. . .

1n the chmntc form. the aub- Jects have eumonl- and dlarrhea and are aclated. Hemorrhagic some to flan In

be the most connnon cult tvneumtmtn. l Dlqnosls. m diagnosis of Hemorrhagic Septlcemla or Ship- plnB Fever Invites controversy for the Iollowlng reasons: first. the normal habitat of the baclllus Is well animals. so that Its presence In the t-Iasue of the dead Is not conclusive the It Is the‘ cause oPthe disease. 0nd. a buctertologlcal examination of antmnls that have died of the disease may be uentlve. Third. the name has often bean uppII

and

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deuce of the v et-Inarlnn’: Ignor- mnrdleu of thou llmftu tn In malt

(Thlnsthoflfthoflovm srtlclubylno Amortcnn soommlat And exooutlve amour; of the I when‘ tho Omuu News Azamy v Inn lnnl. to Brlfotn to may how tabs labor Government In moot- In: t1» problem of reoonveitlmtho country from be: war-unto"

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and don't buy. so England must constantly slnk Into further debt. There on I/wo “es to this dllelnma. A number of the more aural Y ‘ rites are uralng "austerftyfl-oonstnnlng loss for n w to build up Brltlsh ex- plrq Industries Aa-

The followlnc h a summary- pontpfled from unofficial combos. of the rcvloed proposals submitted by the ton xovermztent at the meant zealous of the Domln- Ion-Pmvlnctu Conference. ,

, It Ia assumed that the reader In: n. neneral hwwledlu o! I'M ' -1 proposals put. forward

nit Austin.

With reurd to _DomI.nIon grunts tp- the pravtucel, the Domfnlon hi“ “ti. °“°“",....' "’"u"'“..‘.‘;..’f2;

o rov w s Xodglgts Dogtlnfm for n perIod of three you: theft- tnccmte. contou- tlon and Inheritance taxes. hbe '1 similar period) m round per cnplto. grant. 11nd a formula by whleh the grant Ill 1:8 amid to ‘pa; t1 1 . a ema v . ttiicn will paynto an prov- “‘°° " 3°.‘ "‘.".;.."‘t'.€.‘..?° iii mi yo? I941 0r a cash of flunlluona 1m‘ ll!- num. tax alreetrtent would not Include the gtursnlngwltllt remoct to the ku-