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Hopes Again Deferred >

The members of the Federation. of Mayors and Municipalities have been disappointed in their hopes of ob- taining a federal-provincial-munici-

their annual meeting at North Bay, Ontario, this week, they. decided not to press this matter further at the present time. A Winnipeg resolution had urged that procedure be initiat- ed to bring the three governments together at regular intervals on wel- fare matters of common interest. Another proposed by Estevan, Sask., and also turned down: would have asked for a three-level meeting to ar- range a more suitable basis for distribution ef tax revenues among the governments. A third motion in similar vein, submitted by Halifax and referred back to the executive for study, proposed an objective fed- eral study of municipal fiscal affairs.

But it was Prime Minister Diefen*' | baker’s address which naturally re- ecived most attention at the conven- tion. The Prime Minister made it plain that the Federal Government has committed itself as far as it can for the time being, and he washed out hope of any three-way fiscal meeting in the near future. “We all realize,” he said, “that there is only one taxpayer—the public—that no advancement can be made in this country except through taxation and enly one person pays for all these things.” We know all about that in this Province, and probably the Mayors and Municipalities Federa- tion delegates knew it too. But it does not answer the question about the distribution of tax revenues which is the basis of the municipali- ties’ complaint. .

Since its inception 22 years ago the Federation has been fighting for realignment of tax resources to give the third level of government money to provide services for an urban population that now makes up some €0 per cent of Canada’s population compared with one-half that 50 years ago. Heretofore the provincial auth- orities have been holding the purse strings in the division of tax revenue received from Ottawa, and that, pre- sumably, is the way it will have to continue for the present. The Federal Government has problems enough of its own to contend with and is not row taking on any more. And this not being a federal general election year, it was deemed a timely occas- jon by the Prime Minister to pass this information on.

And s0, with many delegates ab- staining, a resolution that would have asked for a three-way confer- ence and another that would have asked for an agreement among the three levels of government to pro- vide for a girect tax-sharing ar- rangement were both voted down. The delegates did, however, go ahead to request greater federal aid for education and to-ask the central ad- | ministration to do all in its power to | check inflation. After -that, it was time to call it a day and go sadly home.

Soviet Farm Wages

Before he left for his surprise visit to Albania, Premier Khrush- chev made a speech at Kiev which | bas been construed as indicating that another offensive is being launched against the most stubborn- ly_ individualistic members of ‘the Soviet population—the farmers. The Premier declared himself opposed 10 high wage payments by collective farms for work done by their mem- bers. He urged that such payments be kept down to levels satisfying the workers’ essential needs, and assert- ed that a large proportion of collec- tive farm income should go for in- yestment in communal structures such as bakeries and boarding schools.

According to a report in the New. York Times, Mr. Khrushchev indi-

on the richer collective farms. That

phrase must have fallen ominously

upon his listeners’ ears. The kulaks 4

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" pasic units of Soviet agriculture.

In the -past, Soviet propaganda

’ has cited high individual earnings on

particular farms as evidence of suc- cess of the collective farm system. Now Premier Khrushchev appears to be suggesting that the standards of such services as water supply, sewage disposal and bath houses ‘should be made the criteria of whether collective farms are develop- ing. properly along Socialist lines. This policy might represent a revival of his “agrogorod,” or farm city, pro- posal of 1951, which was defeated at that time. Khrushchev proposed then that the small villages of the Soviet Union be combined into large towns consisting of small apartment houses and equipped with the facili- ties of urban communities. It is ap- parently to make such reconstruc-

tion of the Soviet countryside pos- |

sible that he propses limitation of individual farmers’ incomes and in- vestment of available funds in con-

' struction of communal facilities.

The Premier’s attack on rural wage payments came shortly after a Soviet economist presented data showing how poorly paid collective farmers have been during the last three decades. The data indicated that even in the relatively prosper- ous year of 1956 the farmer’s money earnings came to only 1,300 rubles, annually, or little more than 100 rubles a month. At the tourist rate of exchange, which provides a rough measure of purchasing power, this is equivalent to cash payment of about $10 a month. The average Soviet worker earns about 700 or 800 rubles a month. Even taking account of additional payment in grain and other farm produce, the figures. ap- pear to support Western suspicions of extreme poverty on the collective farms, alleviated somewhat since Stalin’s death in 1953 but still far from overcome.

Even By Accident

Here, from Senator Mansfield (Dem. Montana) in an address at Gonzago University convocation, is a warning which should be ponder- ed at the Geneva conference, and by every world statesman who may be tempted to practise “brinkman- ship” in this dangerous age:

“T will not hold up to you the com- forting thought that nuclear war, being too terrible to contemplate, is therefore too destructive to be fought. As a former teacher of his- tory I find this thought—despite its considerable currency—complete- ly illusory. It is unsupported by the historic experience of mankind.

“War can come today as it has come many times in the past. It can come by accident or miscalculation, despite a basic desire of all to avoid it. It canbe a limited conflict, as in Korea, or it can be of an extent that will reduce to radioactive ruin the legacy of several thousand years of human civilization.”

EDITORIAL NOTES

The importance of the tourist dol- lars in Canada’s economy is illustrat- ed by. the fact that only two: ex- ports—newsprint and wheat—bring more money into Canada then the tourist trade, and only newsprint tops tourism as an earner of U.S. dollars. Last year Canada earned $352 million- from travel expendi- tures, a drop of $11 million ‘from 1957.

* *

The Atlantic Premiers are to meet at Fredericton on September 15. Two Liberals, two Conservatives, they met before without clashing politically and this time they. pro-

pose to discuss problems of Atlantic

economy in the same co-operative manner. We do not to remind these honourable gentlemen that this is the only way they. can hope to achieve results. . + * :

Mr. Forrest W. Phillips received well-meérited tributes at the Liberal canvention at Ellerslie Wednesday

night when it was announced that

he was retiring from. active poli- tics at the end of the present gov- ernment term. A former Speaker of the House, and former Minister of Labor and Welfare, Mr. Phillips was popular with all classes and his ill- ness, which overtook him about a year ago, was a matter of general regret. He can look back with pride on a record of conscientious service te his constituency and Province.

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MAYE@E “THINGS WiLL Look DIWFEREN

FROM THE SUMMIT

KNIGHTS OF THE ROUND TABLE

: OTTAWA REPORT

Big Potential Market

By Patrick Nicholson

A huge potential market for a wide range of Canadian consum- er goods and Canadian foods has been opened by the British Gov- érnment's recent removal of all restrictions on the importation of these items from the Dollar area.

During a recent survey in Bri- tain, I formed the opinion that this step paves the way for sub- stantial purchases of Canadian exports in certain lines, of which the most promising may well be our household electrical gadgets of all kinds:

The British housewife, who for so long toiled unaided in her old- fashioned kitchen, already is be- ginning to enjoy the streamlined North American style kitchen, with ample counter space, con- venient cupboards, and our gen- erally bright and easy-to-clean decor. Now she will also have the opportunity to buy our North American style push-button elec- trical adds.

The freed trade applies to U. S.A. as well as to Canadian pro- ducts; this had to be done under

ment against discrimination. But thanks to the system of Em- pire Preferential Tariffs set up by our Conservative Government in 1932, our goods will now enjoy the advantage of being ‘imported into Britain free of duty, while U.S. products must pay a tariff. UNKNOWN JOYS IN U.K.

Such electrical equipment as food mixers, meat grinders, dish- washers and garbage disposal units seem to me to be the kind of product which our manufactur- ers might now be able to sell to Britain in considerable quantit- ies. We enjoy the advantage that U.S. goods must bear a 15 per- cent duty, which is aggravated to 18.75 per cent by the purchase tax, while our duty-free goods have this competitive edge.

These’ items are at present scarce and costly luxuries in Britain, the product of British factories. A typical British food mixer, for example, costs $77.25, while a comparable Canadian machine sells here for $39.75.

Importation of our ’ large-size refrigerators may herald a new shopping pattern for’ British housewives. Only a few British homes in that temperate climate now contain refrigerators: these,

PUBLIC FORUM

This column is open to the discus

sion by correspondents: of question c.

imterest. The Guardian does not neses

sarily en‘orse the opinion ef corres pondents.

“BEFORE AND AFTER”

Sir,—Before the last two federal elections, Mr. Diefenbaker now Prime Minister, said to the elect- ors of Canada from coast to coast, “The Liberais tell you that reduced taxes and increased pen- sions and salaries can’t be done — put us in power and we ‘will show them’’. He also promised greater federal assistance to the Si ao onc throughout Can-

a.

Now the Canadian Federation of Mayors is holding its annual convention at North Bay, Ont- ario, and they have been addres- sed by Mr. Diefenbaker. He told them that they will have to bide their time in their search for in- creased financial aid from the Federal Government. He said there i$ only one taxpayer — the. public — and that no advance- ment can be made in this coun- try except through taxation. Dealing with the country’s cur- rent economic situation, Mr. Die- fenbaker said, “One criterion of development is shown in the zise of interest rates, which, of course, increases the cost of government at all levels’, but he did not tell them that the rise in interest rates was brought about by the blundering of his Goverament, particularly by the Fleming cop- version del.

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of British make, are much small- er than ours, and much more costly per cubie foot of capacity. A typical British product of 4' cubic feet costs $217; we pay $295 for one three times that size.

If Canadian exporters can per- suade the British housewife—of| the advantages of our pattern of one “ig food purchase each week with perishables stored in a big girls will make Canadian refrigerator, those girls will make attractive savings in shoe leather, and our manu- facturers will make attractive exports.

FOODS FREE TOO

The other new market possibil- ity now opened will interest the Maritimes and B.C. This stems from the removal of restrictions on the purchase of certain can- ned fish products, such as lob- sters, clams and chicken haddie. Salmon of course was freed jast year, when our record salmon

Purchasers of our cheese have hitherto been curtailed, although January to March exports to Britain this year aré running ten times above last year. Now. cheese is freed, offering an opportunity to the makers of our favoured On- tario cheddar, similar to that Oxford County product which the lecal M.P., Wally Nesbitt, always boasts so effectively around Ot- tawa.

Fresh, frozen and canned vege- tables, fresh fruit and fruit pec- tin are now freed, opening the -British_markets to our farmers.

Certain other items, typically|—

eggs, are also now freed, but our prices are at present too high to make them competitive in the British market. : This freeing of import restric- tions now puts 110 classes of these

consumer goods on the basis al- ready enjoyed in the British mar- ket by our wheat, many wood products, chemicals and other manufacturers’ raw materials. This happy development is the direct result of the lead given by the Diefenbaker Government in

promoting the diversification of our trade, and in convening’ the Commonwealth Economic

catch in B.C. was sold to Britain at record prices.

ference in Montreal last Fall.

The Times’ Fa

| From Grace

By Ed Simon Canadian Press Staff Writer

For the last 2'4 years, Selwyn Lioyd has been fired with the regularity of Vancouver's nine- o'clock gun by Britain's political correspondents.

As one of the most prominent holdovers when Prime Minister Eden resigned after the Suez crisis, Lloyd was the ob- vious scapegoat in a period when Eden's successor was doing his best to convince everyone that Suez never happened.

The foreign secretary tnexplic- ably stayed in office, weathering a series of parliamentary rows that kept Fleet Street buay re- vising his political obituary. Only The Times, the grey eminence of British journalism, declined to join the game.

Last weekend, when Lioyd’s diligent efforts at the foreign nin- isters’ conference in Geneva had raised his prestige to unpreceden- ted heights, the Old Lady of Printing House Square decorously boosted her skirts a few inches above her ankles and got her feet wet.

PREDICTS DEPARTURE

The Times article made hand- some reference to the foreign secretary's hard work, devotion to duty’ and growing mastery of his job. But under a big, two- column headiine on the paner’s main news page it predicted Lioyd’s departure after the next general election.

\ In the austere columns of The

reporting rather than crystal gaz- ing. The old lady's fall from grace provoked a considerable stir among her more wayward Fleet Street sisters.

The immediete question con- cerned the source of the informa- tion and the motive behind its publication. The columnists im- partially accused sinister forces in Russia, West Germany, France and even in the British govern ment itself of plotting Lioyd’s un- doing.

HUMAN ERROR While Prime Minister Macmil-

question of Lioyd’s early, depar- ture, an astonishing number of political reporters were reaching the conclusion that the unsigned article had simply been the pro- duct of human error.

Someone, on a newsless Sun- day night, had elected to write 13 paragraphs of political goo=ap Someone else had glanced at the story and shoved it into the paper. The som of thing that | never happens in The Times hed finally happened.

44 the monent, Britain's fer-

eign secretary enjoys unparatlel- led security in bis job. The same cannot be said for one or two employees of Britain's foremost newspaper.

OUR YESTERDAYS

(From the Guardian Files)

TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO (June 5, 1934)

The Supreme Court opened at Summerside yesterday morning with His Lordship, Chief Justice Mathieson presiding. As there were no. criminal cases on the docket, His Lordship was presen- ted with the customary pair of white gloves hy the Sheriff, F. JE. Wright. :

‘ Godkins Bros., Jewellers, Sum- merside, had a good .gized pearl brought info them by a local figh- erman recently, which he had found in a quahaug, picked up from a bed in the waters near

Summerside. The poarl was sent |

to Toronto to be valued and it was found to be worth $100.00.

TEN YEARS AGO (June 5, 1949)

A fire that the combined efforts of the § merside and R. C.A.F. fire departments to ‘con- trol, gutted a three-storey wood- en build'ng that contained the Olympia Restaurant on Water Street, Summerside, on Saturday afternoon. A barn owned by Wil- fred Kelly was also -destroyed. The restaurant was operated by Mr. Chester Gaudet and the building ie owned by J. Henry Gaudet. ‘

Deputy Mayor of Summerside, W. Henry Wedge, accompanied by Councillor Lorne Driscoll, left Saturday night to attend the ¢con- vention of the Canadian Federa- tion of Mayors and, Municipali- ties being held this week at the Chateau Frontenac Hotel, Que- bec City, where they will repres- ent the Town of Summerside.

NO OVERTIME

LONDON (Reuters) °— More than 200,000 pressmeén, typeset- ters and other printing workers throughout Britain Wednesday banned all overtime in a bid to enforce claims for higher wages and shorter hours. The dispute affects magazines and periodi- cals and most newspapers, though not the major London

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