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WEDNESDAY. JU_N_E as. m4

The Budget

With one phase of Finance Minister Ilsley's budget speech there should be general agree- ment. This was his emphasis on the importance of saving and lending to the Government. The increased borrowings for war purposes must come from individuals whose incomes were still rising. lf anyone thought he was asked to do too much, .\lr. ll-ley said. he had only to com- pare his snxall priviitioii. w‘tl‘. the hardships and the complete rlttoti ii to tht cause shown by members of rite forces on the battle-fronts.

The Finance .\lini<ter did not profess to know when victi-i-y- in l-Itirope or in the Pacific would 0&2. lle knciv that we were well on the road to victi but lTC knew also "that when “m... i. _ . p is no time to falter. The fruit. HI \'l€li|l’\‘ will gt to those countries which can hold stcafly‘ on the tltrcsltold of suc- cess and whose people can. in mutual trust. work together for peace and a better world as they have Itked together for vivtoryt"

Three objec’ ‘cs apparent in the taxation changea contained in the budget are thus sum- marized bv The Canadian Press:

i. The rvtainincn: of all-out production at a (‘Jitical twriod of the war. reflected in the drop- ping of compzikoijv savings which were found to discourage tiiertinie work and added 88m- ings taxed at a higlt rate.

2. Smoothing cmidirions for business to pro- vide employ-innit in rhe i>~.=t~\\'<'1r lwrifid. 1'6‘ flgctfri in aditistziiciits in rile excess profits and corporation tax laws although rates are left un- changed.

3. Relieving cases of special hardship under the high wartime rates on personal incomes, re- flected in enlarged provisions for credits for de- pendents and other adiustments. _

Another feature which will be welcomed is the tariff reductions affecting farm implements and equipment. on which present duties range from 5 to 25 per cent.

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Training To Feed Europe

In preparation for the task of feeding the people in liberated parts of Europe, 15o experts representing i2 Allied governments. have been taking a special course in Britain to learn all that Britain learned about the economical use of food, the securing or’ essential foods. and the increas- ing m‘ no.1 production. The health of the peo- ple, including that of the workers and those in the armed forces, has been well maintained al- though food imports were reduced more than 50 per cent. This has. been one of the achievements in Britain's war record.

The detailed information was given by the pijnjstry of Food p; the experts, who belong to the UNRRA organization, and they will see that it is used in meeting the needs of the starv- pd population; of France, Waste and extrava- gance in the use of food will have to be prevent- ed, because the need will be great and the sup- ply may be short.

Britain really had something to teach in this matter, and the fact that the experts were given

the course of instruction is a satisfactory indi-,

cation that the general relief work is being care.- fully planned. Besides providing food that is immediately and urgently required, UNRRA will do everything to encourage and assist food production, so that the peoples of Europe can coon feed themselves.

Those Alberta Dividends

Hon. Solon Low, provincial treasurer of Al- berta, and now national leader of the Social Cre- dit party, has recently denied the promise of $25 monthly dividends by Mr. Aberhart. He also stated the constitutional barriers prevented the payment of dividends.

Unfortunately for Mr. Low, says the Van- couver Province, the facts are against him. Al- bertans were promised $25 monthly dividends. And no constitutional barriers prevented the payment of divideurls. The election platform of the Alberta Social Credit League, which af- terwards became the Social Credit Party of Al- berta, contained many planks, but the main plank promised a "basic dividend" of $25 a month. The term "basic dividend" was con- ltrued to mean the floor of the dividend struc- ture, with the sky as the ceiling.

Mr. Low was also in error in the matter oi constitutional barrier. .\lan_v measures which were not IllSllllClly Social (frcdit in character, were invalidated by the courts or disallowed by Otta\va. But the only Social Credit measure, the Social Credit Measures Act, was passed by the Legislature, received the royal assent, was not challenged in the courts. and was not dis- Allowed hy Ottawa. It called for the enroll- mgm of the people, the signing of covenants by various business groups, the establishment of credit houses, and the transaction of internal business by means of Alberta credit.

Administrative officers were itamed and ap- pointed. Skeleton staffs were tentatively en- gaged. Premises were acquired on lease, or by ggrgcment, or otherwise. And a date was set for the starting of operations. Mr. Aberhart stated that Albertans would be enjoying their dividends within 60 days. _

Then something went wrong. As opening 4a,- npprrutcllctl. flit-re was talk of changing over to a regional, ratlier than a provincc-\vi<le cX- periment. liven that idea collapsed. The first credit house was not opened. It failed to open, not lw reason of constitutional barriers, but be-

cause the Social Credit Measures Act lacked practicability.

EDITORIAL NOTES _

Saturday is Dominion _ Day, holiday, not Monday, though in some cities on the mainland the latter day will be observed also.

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Islanders at home and abroad will be inter- ested to know that the Old Home Week here has been fixed foaAtigust t5 to t8 inclugivg,

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_ One is thankful for small mercies these tax- rtdden day's, and Mr. llsley has been merciful

of compulsory savings. He prefers to depend on voluntary savings-bonds, certificates and stamps-to make good the difference.

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In the civilized society of tomorrow, writes Dr. Henry E. Sigcrist in “Civilization and Dis- ease", every family will have not only its tam. ily doctor but also its fatttily- health centre front which it will be entitled to receive all the advice and help it may need as a public service and with which it will cooperate in upholding the health of the nation. The physician will become a pub- lic servant——scientist, social worker and edu- cator—and medicine will increasingly shiit the emphasis from disease to health.

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After the war, we are told the nations ivill be so closely connected by airplanes that we will all be almost next door neighbors of each other. Traitscontineittal d: Western Air, Inc., the first LY S. airline to operate coast-to-coast passenger service, becatne the first airline to seek a rotinrl- the-world air route last week when it filed an application with the Civil Aeronautics Board to extend its services 20.000 miles and to bring any point on the world-tvide system within 38 hours flying time of .\'ew York. Major cities in the East, mid-\\'est and Pacific Coast areas would be linked directly with European and Asiatic capitals. including even llerlin and Tokyo, by the new rotite proposal, tliottgli both these capi- tals will probably be reduced to ashes before such a scheme can become effective.

U Q U The Headquarters of the Allied Expeditionary Force has disclosed how soldier-scientists. bear-

cretly some months ago on the beaches of Nor- mandy to determine whether these beaches were firm enough to support the weight of Allied heavy equipment. Tllfy were sent over in dark-

along the beaches, making their borings. This exploit, carried out at a time when the enemy was on the alert for Allied invaders, is, says the Montreal Gazette, surely one of the most daring of the war. And it emphasizes, toojhow all the development of scientific warfare has itot re- moved the need for private initiative and cour- BEE. - l i U ll

The Treaty of Versailes signed this date

1919; Russia was absent from the Conference;

to recall Lloyd George's minute on the situa- tions published in The Titties History of the War: “.\lr. Lloyd ‘George referred-indie ob- jections that hadnihéiénrclygised to perifiittififiililoh. shevik delegates to some to Paris. ,_ s-had been claimed they would convert France lfljdilingland“ to Bolshevism. If England becomes Bolshevist, it will not be because a single Bolshevist repre- sentative is permitted to enter England. On the other hand, if a military enterprise were start- ed against a. Bolshevik, that would make Eng- land Bolshevist, and there would be a Soviet in London; for his part he was not afraid of Bol- shevistn if the facts are known in Englandand in the United States. The same applied to Ger- many. He was convinced that an educated democracy can always be trusted to turn down Bolshevism." u e a -

Will the League of Nations be resuscitatcd after the war is a question now being agitated. Harold Nicolson told us in “Why Britain is at War" that “the League was an admirable insti- tution, but it had two grave defects. First, it did not possess armed forces suclt as could en- able it to impose its own decisions upon a re- calcitrant member. Second, none of the member States made any sacrifice of their national sov- ereignty. But for these two defects (and they are fundamental) the League might well have achieved the pacification of the world.“ \‘\'ill the present office holders explain how their new plan will overcome these two obstacles? All know what happened to the League and to the so called Briand-Kellogg Pact. No security was obtained by either. If the League is to hold Sll- premacy over the armed fOICCs of its mcntbers. why allow the nations to arm? In that case all that is required will be international police who can he constituted by the new Peace Treaty, and which will operate automatically against re- calcitrant nations who commit breaches of the terms of after-war settlements.

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The document entitled "The International Post-War Settlement," drafted by the National Executive Committee of the British Labour Party, is an encouraging demonstration of the unity of national opinion on this all-important question, for there is virtually nothing in this admirable statement which would not be accept- ed by nineteen Conservatives or Liberals out of twenty. To find the Labour Party declaring officially that "experience shows that, for any period with which we are concerned, pacifism is an unworkable basis of policy" is to realise what effect Nazism has had in ltardening those schools of political thought in the old country which abandon pacifist ideals the least willingly. Another shrewd observation in the Labour Re- port deserves quotation. Admitting fully the ex- istence of a large number of decent Germans, the authors add pertinently, "The trouble is, not that good Germans don't exist, but that they are singularly ineffective in restraining the bad Germans." To which it tnabv br- aildcd further, says The Spectator, that it will be a forniitlable task after the war lo disliiigiti-li lll(‘ rcall_v good Germans from the Germans who "will pose as

good Germans.

slx and one-half hours ls

does not know any such taking so broad ln conception. so Rrandlose in male. and so master- l.\'r ln execution." And Stalin knows something about war. as the Ger- ITKIYTS

Bennett vrns Prlme Canada. he time-honored Canadians,

distinguished men of 12w and literature

Knlizhthoods. Roberts among them- ‘ are

ing special scientific equipment, were landed sc- t -—Sl.

ness and crawled on their stomaches for miles is

_THE ctiAizLQTrLQWN GUARDIAN_

llotos By The Way

What a plty llul women ha" never found out that Jealousy ltllls love quicker than anything else, and that the strongest hold that a woman ever hes on a man ls her fllfh ln Mini-BI.

Detroit Eollce n; holding a wo- man who as had l5 husbands ln l8 years. not always troubllnit to rnake letzal dlsgoélltlon of one be- fore she acqu another- Just the odd hobby of a collector. no doubt-Ottawa Journal.

flopping the ocean by plum In stood.

we suppose. However. the old

m m‘ extent 0f rellefillg ‘he °rdinarl iaxPalTr shipboard romance will have to be

rewritten with faster dialogue. - Wlnnlpeg Tribune.

Elghl. mllllan walnut are nup-

portlng the war effort. ln Great Britain. housewives worklng part time. Of Women between the ages of 18 and 40. 90 per cent of those single and 8O per cent of those married or widowed are either ln the national

Of these. l0 per cent are

forces or ln industryr-New York

Herald Tribune.

Marshal Stalin on (h; Invasion of France: "The history o; tvar under-

have found cut t». their

great cost-Ottawa Journal.

Insurance business ls bonmlnz in

Chungkitzg. Where twenty-six lnsvr- ance companies are operating com- pared wltlt nineteen ln I942. Nine new companies are organizing. A central insurance agency will be

formed l0 DfOmOlP CO-OD9f3tl0I1.

Capitalized at ZOIXQOOO. an Indus- trial United Insurance will start business soon. factories Chungking will be members of this company-Ex.

Company All later

and industrial plants lri

For a brlef spell. when R. B. Minister of brouizhl back the system of titles hr non-hereditary. and

medicine. were ttlv-zn Banting, Duff and

Duff

s ivorthlly bzstovtted and WOTIl.

‘There ls no lottlcal a

mcnt whatever against the . em. it ls against the abuse of Catharlnes Standard.

An nptlmlsl. la a person who

fhlnlu the future ls uncertain. A pessimist Ls a person who ls nfrald

the optimist ls richt. A specialist a man who concentrates more and more on les and less. A nro-

fessor ls a man whose lob lt ls to

tell students how to solve the prob-

lems of llfe which he himself has

tried to avoid bv becamlnz a nro- fessor. A statistician ls a man who draws a mathematically‘ precise llne from an uttwarranterl assump- tlon lo a foreizcne conclusion. A consultant ls a man “tho knows less about your business than you do and gets paid more tor tellione you how to run it than you could possibly make cut of ll. even if You ran it. right instead o‘ the ‘.\'.'\V he told your-American Bar As-

in view of present developments it is interesting soclatlon Journal.

A lM-year-old rule In Brllaln that the postman must knack twice - "“ Ouble “rat-rrit" _ is beirtz broke for the sake of itizht _w0rkers. In houses whori- petiole iirejleeplng during the day the postman often obliges by making silent deliveries. The posttnan knows he ls breaking the rule. and the Post Office knows lt too. l! ls part of the unofficial wartime ser- vlce of the postman. tinofficlallyi recognized at headquarters. An- other rule broken durlnz Wflriime ls the one forblddlnz the postman to deliver a letter anywhere except m the address on the envelope. Recently a Manchester postman had a letter addressed to an en- gine driver whose RAF pilot son had been reported killed over Ber- lin. The letter showed the son was alive; it was written from a prison camp by the boy himself. Hurrylng to the house with it. the postman found the engine nrlver had gone to work. I-le teleizranhed his depot. got the times when ha was due at certain stations. and telephoned him the news. Later he delivered the letter to hlm ln his engine cab as lt drew into a Manchester station-Britain.

Although Germany has gained political. military, and economic control of most of the confluent. production has fallen heavily out-

side the Reich. output of coal ln a

Belgium has decllned by some Z0 per cent and the volume of indus- trial production ln France by 40 r cent. Milk production ls be- leved to have been reduced b"; a third taking continental Europe us a whole: and this ominous shortalte of a food essential to the health of tho rlalng generation has been largely caused by excessive slauxh- ter of cattle - which malntt-tlned the German meat ration but has seriously reduced the herd. Gon- eral shortage of fats Illustrates the ma! of the German Government. weekly ration wlthln the R/elch is 8 oz. ln Belgium 3 1-2 0a.. ln France 2 1-2 oz. “If there must be hunger.’ sald Goerlng in October. 1042. "it must ln no circumstances ln Germany." He has at least fulfilled that pledtte. but. at the cost of exposln t. e New Order, which was to ma e Europe self-sufficient as a synonym for low starvation throughout the rest nf the contin- ent. It ls possible that a system which undermines health and ne- atea the most elementary right of ood and freedom should endure. -Glaagow Herald.

What kind of n nun Is Gen- Elsenhower? John Gunther, news-

perman and author. describes

lm this way: "Medium height with a nice solid build: a hard, frlendly handshake: sandy hair. widely set bright. blue eyes under a Illlg broad forehead; a wide mobile g-rln: an impression of modesty, directness. guts and common sense. His talk ls infor- rnal and homely, full of expres- along llke ‘darn it’ and ‘you fel- lowafi" He. gets along well with people and wlns the utmost co- operation from the British and Am- ericans. He shows keen interest ln what happens to news he gives to the press. even thouith he wanes hlntseli "played down" and his men "played tip." Eisenhower be- lieves In keeping the American people informed to the llmll. of military security‘. Early successes

d make some people at home tin- clerestlmnte the size of the inb ahead. but neither Eisenhower nor other Allie leaders contributed to lhot optlndm. Eisenhower's nuc-

. hopeless despair.

St. Lo

(Exchange)

War i: the mat eewrlmv teacher. Until recently. how many of us had heard of Petaamo. H Alntneln. Anzlo. Guadalcanal. Tar- awa. Myltkylna or clvlta caste!- ana? And who, untll a few day: after the lnvulon began. knew of Troarn. Arromanches or St. Lo? ,

5t. to is one of the cutest names to come out of the war. says The Ottawa Citizen. The Wlnnlpek Tr!- bune says that some queried ltl copy desk. "Who ls thls Saint Lo after whom the town of 5t. 1o was named?" The desk was not stump- ed. Rlzht off the news editor re- plied: “Oh. he's the Indian saint. ‘Lo, the poor Indian whose un- tutored mind’ - . ."

Not bad. But. u a matter of fact. St. Lo owes lts resent name to 5t. Lo (Laudus). B op of Cou- tances. who died ln 500. In the middle aces. st. In became an lin- portant fortress as well an a centre of the weaving industry. 1t has sustained numerous sleges ln its long history. the last ln 1674. when the toim, which had embraced Cal- vinism. was stormed by Rornnn Catholic partisans and many of its inhabitants massacred.

Now lt faces a new siege. 1t ls to be hoped that St. Lo will not hold out long, for the beslegers come as llberators.

Deliverance of France

(Sydney Post-Record)

It will be written somewhere ln the memoranda oLInvaslon Day. perhaps ns a melancholy footnote of the great story of the deliver- nnce of France. how Marshal Pe- taln. the old soldier of France. called upon his fellow country- men not to take part ln the fight. That is the tragic sequel to which the man whose name was for twenty years the symbol of the heroic defence of Verdun has been reduced. He has asked Frenchmen to "refrain from ac- tions which will call down unon you traitlc reprlsals.“ He has asked them not to help the lib- craters. virtually, he has asked them to aid the enemies of their country.

Perhaps the judgment of hls- tory will be merciful to the mem- ory of Phillipe Petaln. Perhaps he will be sadly remembered as the old and broken mun who be- came the spiritual prisoner of the passing German conquest.

What concerns us now ls the assurance that. the Frenchmen of

of F . ice will not heed the voice of this broken cottrage and this France has no time or use for her apostates now.

Caligula’s Galleys

il-lamilton Spectator)

Mussolini has tasted n iot of gall and woiuiwood during the past year or so; he ltas discovtred what. a pal is Adolf, and now comes word that the Nazis trantonly destroyed two of his most clzensncd pos- S€S5l01l3—lll9 a. iznt Roman gal- leys of the It. .ei'or Caligula. ¢cvery of tilt.‘ .1 was one of Il Dui:e‘s proudcst achievements

The Nazis stand charged with set- tlng tire to tr...» hulls. their design being to blame the {LVUIIEIY fire of llte Allies. An ‘investigation con- rluctazl b; Allied officials. the com~ mls on o! Roman Archltccts, and experts frrin the Rome Fire De- paritnent established the tact, how- ever. that the Allies were in no way to blame Italian custodians testi- licd that German soldiers applied torches to thc wcozien bones of those old ships

Caligula lizd the galley; built in A D. 32. lt is rewrdcd for the hold- ing of revels in honour of Diana. Claudius. a successor who was stricter in morals. ordered the ships to be sunk in Lake Nomi, fourteen miles south of Reine. l-iis imperial will was obrycd and tire galleys were forgotten '1lt:_v were known to lle a fcw hlllldfid feet off shore, embedded ln from twenty to thirty feet o! mud The first attempt to salvage thctu was made ln 1446 by a famous architect named Albertl; ll. fnllcd as dld several subsequent. efforts