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THURSDAY, OCTOBER I1, 1N5

Old Age Pensions

Old age pensious payments in Prince Ed- ward Island remain the lowest in Canada, the 1,881 pensioners receiving an average of $18.66 monthly, according to information tabled rec- ently in the House of Commons. The average monthly payments in other provinces are: Alb- erta $24.13; British Columbia $24.38; Mani- toba $24.47; New Brunswick $$22.I8; Nova Scotia $22.54; Ontario $24.45; Quebec $23.94; Saskatchewan $24.63; Northwest Territories $24.00.

This docs not include supplementary amounts paid by some of the provinces, as fol- lows: Alberta, $5 a. month to each pensioner; British Columbia, $5 a month to each pensioner; Manitoba, any amount up to $1.25 a month de- pending on the amount of pension granted; New Brunswick, nil; Nora Scotia, any amount up to $5 a month payable at the discretion of the pension authority, xvith maximum income limit- gd to $365 a year; Ontario, fifteen per cent of pension based on a maximum pension 0f $20 3 month: Prince Filward Island, nil; Quebec, nil; Saskatchewan, $3 a month t0 each pen- sioner.

Certain provinces provide free medical services to old age pensioners. At least three provinces, British Columbia, Saskatchewan and Ontario, have special plans for this purpose. Some of the other provinces work with the municipalities in order to provide medical care for persons who are unable to pay for it them- lelves. Provision by the provinces of supple- mentary allowances, medical care. etc., falls outside the scope 0f the Dominion-Provincial arrangemento made tinder the Old Age Pen- aions Act.

In a statement made in the House on Oct- 3 Hon. Brooke Claxton, Minister 0f National Health and Welfare, said he believed hon. members of every party were in agreement that the Act as at present in force is unsatisfactory. At the Dominion-Provincial Conference which began on Aug. 6 the Federal Government put two proposals before the provinces: first, for a national old age pension at age seventy of $30 a month regardless of means; and second, for old age assistance to people between sixty- fivg and gevgnty year; of $30 a month with a means test, to be provincially administered and to be contributed to on an equal basis by' the Dominion and Provincial Governments.

The total cost of these schemes of pension payments, according to Federal calculations, would be: Dominion, $217,000,000; Provincial Governments, $17,000,000. For Prince Edward Island, the estimated cost would be: Dominion Government, $2,400,000, Provincial Govern- ment $180,000.

The Dominion expenditure in Mr. Clax- ton’; view, would be “well within possibilities". He explained that in the proposals as submit- ted the year I948 was taken on which to base the estimated cost, and this had been the cause of some misapprehension. "The reason why the 1948 figures were selected was that that was thought to be the first year when we could safely estimate that there would be a full con- version from war to peace," the Minister said; “and most of the figures in the proposals were related in one way 0r another to I948. That 1S ‘h; Qnly reason why I948 was pflt there. If the provinces agree to the proposals we will introduce old age pensions just at Soon ls the legislation can be brought in to do it effect- ively."

This puts the onus on the provinces. There is, however, a joker in the pack. All the Fed- eral proposals are contingent upon the prov- inces agreeing to withdraw cornpleteely from the taxation fields 0f personal income, corpora- tion and estates; something which the better- off provinces, such as Ontario and British Columbia, and other provinces as well, seem loath to do.

Second Battle Of Britain

Lord Halifax was not exaggerating when he referred recently to Britain's present fin- ancial struggle as “the second Battle of Brit- lin. '

Britains plight, as the ambassador of the United States pointed out, lies in the fact that the must immediately increase and restore her exports so as to set up a normal balance of trade. But she cannot restore her exports with- out importing great quantities of materials to reconstruct the battered homeland and its mer- chant fleet. -

Because Britain_ truly engaged in "total war," her exports for 1944 were only one- fourth of those of r938. But even in i938 she had a tremendous trade deficit of about $200,- 000,000.

The United Kingdom has always had to import a large part of her essential goods. These have been paid for by exports, by in- come from foreign investments, by shipping, and by banking, insurance and tourist services.

Now Britain's export trade is drastically curtailed. There has been a serious loss of for- eign markets. Many of the country's foreign investments were liquidated during the war to secure funds for war.

Britain's merchant shipping is only half what it was in i938, and it faces competition from an American merchant marine equal to-

day to the entire tonnage of the world in 1938.

Now, she must have immediate importl to re-establish her industries, and those lim- ports must be paid for. That is why she is so urgently in need of help.

The war has added tremendously to Brit- kin’: debt. She now owes in blocked sterling approximately $14,ooo,oo0,oo0. Further bor- rowings would have to be added to this stag- gering total, and would involve still further servicing and repayment.

Henry Morgenthau, ]r., American finan- cial expert and former secretary of the treas- ury, points out that the major hope 0f the United Kingdom for restoration of trade is in a gen- eral world-wide trade increase, which would provide plenty of trade for all.

World trade in 1938, he says, totalled $45,0°°,°°°.000, and with a free interchange 0f goods, little hampered by tariffs, restric- tions and quotas, it might grow to twice that amount in coming years.

Participating in such a growth, Britain may restore herself to her pre-war trade position. Such restoration is absolute- ly essential if there is to be any general in- crease in the present low, ivar-torn, internal economic structure 0f the United Kingdom.

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-EDITORIAL nones-

If all the pennies paid each day for daily

newspapers in Canada were placed in a straight

hnc edge to edge, they would reach 54 miles. 1|! 1K i 1k '

It is sad to think we are living next door t0 Pictou coal mines and have t0 send to Ottawa to find out why we are not getting an

adequate supply.

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It is about time the City Council was busyiiig itself over the housing situation -— the scarcity of residential properties is, and has been for years, intense.

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The great naval battle of Caiiipcrdmvn, off Holland, ivasg fought this date, I799, when the British, under Admiral Duncan, won a bril- liant victory over the Dutch, putting them out for all time as a first class Naval power; its memory is preserved in the British Navy by battleships Camperdown and Duncan, always included in the list of war vessels.

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According to Hansard, tentative layout plans have been made for enlarging the Steven- son air field ‘at Winnipeg, and constructing longer runways. Presumably this is a Federal undertaking, or the information would not be tabled in Parliament. So perhaps there is hope yet of getting our Charlottetown airport ruii-

ways extended.

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Demobil-ization is slow in Britain com- pared with us, but 1,500,000 are expected to be let out by Christmas, and 3,000,000 by the end of June. The goal of 1,500,000 by the year’s end represents an increase of 400,000 over the figure of 1,100,000 set as the goal for this year in an announcement Sept. 5. Dur- ing the coming three months the average week- ly rate of release will be as high as 80,000.

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"Only when complications arise should a doctor be necessary at theibirth of a child- and then it should be a specialist”—declares the British College of Midwives, a trade union organization. It is also the view of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists- although it is not the view of the general prac- titioner doctors, some of whom appear to re- gard maternity as an illness. At the annual British Medical Association meeting in Lon- don, they declared they would resist any at- tempt to take away midwifery practice-a very profitable part of the ordinary doctor's business —fr0m the general practitioner.

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According to the Soviet War News, a brightly lit hall without a single electric bulb can be seen in the premises of the All-Union Electrical Institute, in Moscow, which is now demonstrating a new method 0f lighting. All the objects in the hall are covered with lumin- ous pigments which emit light when irradiated by ultra-violet rays. In this light it seems as if the walls are faced with marble, the decora- tions done by gifted artists, the furniture up- holstered with multi-coloured fabric, while the floor is covered by a bright carpet. In reality the walls are hare, the “carpet" a piece of can- vas, while plain cloth covers the furniture— but they u; fl impregnated with luminous pig- merits.

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Official figures show the extent to which the Government relied on orders-in-council for the direction of public affairs. From Canada's declaration of war up to September 1 last, when the Japanese formally surrendered, a total of 55,892 orders-in-council were approved. In ad- digion, 35,518 Treasury Board items were passed, making a grand total of 91,410 formal executive acts by the Cabinet during the six years of war, of which over 90 per cent have been kept secret. Of the approximately 56.000 orders-in-council, over 41,000 or more, than 70 per cent approved contracts under the Muni- tions and Supply Act for goods or services re- quired for the prosecution of the war. Another 16,000 covered regular departmental purchases, senior appointments and other administrative items. Nearly 5 per cent of the wartime orders- in-council or approximately 2,700 orders were general items of a legislative nature or having the effect of law. These included matters re- lating to Selective Service and price control regulations, Defence of Canada Rcgllltltionfl and other wartime measures. Of necessity. since the public had to know what regulations they had to comply with, the majority of these

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Notes By The Way

Arnlilt Inlen loldll III le- stroylng the union movement e1. most as fut u _nnt loy. ers can bufld it Ilfl.-—mrfi%

Mr. llnvre lnyl than pl be w. obs for every man, No matter ow many Jobs a woman has she, of course, has always one extra Jvb-nlvklne up after a mun-Tor- onto Star.

South Afrlcnn mlkrnen are up In arms over a propose! to deliver mlk 1n ackapes rather than 1n 5.‘§l§'"....?.‘l.."f.?a’°“$11.1‘; "P e

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Condition; are returning ta normal faster than-you may 111mg, A salesman reports that already a felvlv téusstlpqixgrs are ‘ ' n3 to man es to r 1 . reslstance-gfltciigiileii- ligcgrdfa es

"Mm ll In bk prime at 88" lays a contemporar , quoting someone W110!!! 1t descrl s as a ‘psycholog- ist.’ Phooeyl Man is 1n his prime when he reaches his prime, lf he has a prime, wh1ch 1s not always the case. Many men are like 1945 peaches-green and decayed at 1 cnce.-Peterborough Examiner.

A Calgary columnist my: that the solution of all unemployment problems came to h;..r 1n a dream; put everybody on the public pay roll. As a corollary to this, vie suggest that enough clubs, lodges, brotherhoods, associations and ben- evolent societies be organized to permit; everybody to be a vice-pre- sident and thus discontent will disappear from the world, _ Peter- borough Examiner.

We are reaping today the fruits of improvldence manifested by our legislators during the war. But we must, get out of the (houslrig) 1m- passe. There ls only one way: that is to build the greatest number of houses as quickly as possible. It is the government's duty to place the necessary material at t-he pub- he's dlsposaL-From Le Dmit, 0t tawa.

Having read for the third or fourth time that Goerlng has been cured of drug-taking while a pris- oner of war, I should like to know who on earth cares what Goerlng has been cured of, or what ad- vantage there 1s w humanity ln curing hlm of anything. Instead of that; waste of space, we might be told when he ls going to stand trial. The drug question may not arise very serlcusy after that. - Iondon Spectator,

Right now Ottawa ll filled with fine theories, We could also offer fine theories that certain people would better have been stns-ngcd at birth; that certain murders might have been nationally de- sirable. Fine theories are not. enough foundation for sound gov- ernment policy. t0ur governors and our bureaucrats will do well to remember that, for this ls a point easily unmarked in the sha- dows of the mind. — Toronto Fin- ancial Post.

What appears to be e valuable form of educational safety effort among children 1s carries‘ on by the school authorities of Suffolk, England, says The Hamilton Spec- tator. Every time a child ls 1n- Jured 111's; truffle accident p, re- port. is sent by the police to the headmaster of the school which the child attended. The teacher then holds an "Inquest" into the clr- cumstances of the accident so that other pupils may benefit from the facts so adduced and become more safety-come‘ . Th a real- fstlc approach to the problem and f; worthy of the earnest wnsfdera- tlon of Canadian authorities.

With regunf to the Japanese, the situation could be much worse than 1t was in Germany. The mys- tical Nip riese mind has already lllustra to a horrified world its ability to perform the greatest ut- roclties as well as feats of heroism 1n the name of patriotism and honor, Now is the time for the . United Nations m take e firm grip on the educational systems of Japan and German and insist that the provide un ed lessons in worl history, based on facts, not on government policies or ab- stract ldeas on encouraging a na- tional persecution complex. -Van- couver Province.

Gen." Eisenhower bu done the only thfng that a conscientious commanding officer could do by removing Gen. Patton from his Bavarian command. Eisenhower 1s aktndly man, as well as a just one, and he has tried to soften the blow to Patton by giving the lat- ter ommmd of the 19th Army, now a “paper" m-ganlaatlon. It. ls a tragedy that so brave and com- petent a soldier as Patton should get lrito a mess-but he got hlm- self lnto ft, not, plalsance in keeping Nazi officials on the job but by his callous at,- tltude toward the hapless victims of Nazi brutality. Americans make many allowances for mllltary heroes, however, and Patton's glori- ous record as a fighter is almost sure to be remembered long after his Inglorious n an - mlnfsbrntor 1s forgotten. -— Buffalo

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sldered up-todiite twenty-seven years ago 1s antl- quated and not practical at. the present time.

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realizing there would be a red Brown. He said there were forms to flll out. had any but he would brought out. two forms. Instructed my friend that. he had to fee, and that, his form ‘bust be filled out and approved by cer- talri members on the executive of the Legion, and he them located ir certain parts the cit .

consulted a. lawyer. he had, I asked hlm if he had any money that he could spare wards the rent. He said he back about thirty-five dollars 1n his rent, and he had forty-five dollars ln his

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Mr. Frank Clarke Offers $2,500 Towards

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New Legion Home.

Sim-I want to thank Mr. Ira M. ry of the Canadiatr-t e

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position to offer rltfclsm and sugges-

Wc all must realize that it 1a twent -seven years since Worl was wound up, and the formed, and w at was cou- and modern

About three weeks after the let-

ter lmd been written one of my now euiployees a returned man 0n the farm asked me 1f I would take hlm to town. He felt, he would like to join the Lesion. I said defin-

ft will be a. pleasure, not. lot 0i’ tape. We interviewed M1‘. He. wasn't. sure 1f they look He

Thcin he pay a two dollar membership

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Y About a fortnight ago I had oc-

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caslon tp call at the office of Law- son Jenklnsreturned men's rehab- ilitation organization, in the Y. M. C. A. building. He has a respons- ible position there to advise and assist returned men who are more or less 1n a jam. I noticed a chap 1n a naval uniform who looked as 1f he didn't have a. friend ln me world. He had his head 1n his hunch, and I said, "Hey, buddy, what 1s the matter." is very capable and very anxious to help. told me of his sad position. He had just returned from over- seas. He had n wife and four smnll children. Due b0 sickness, family his wlfe got behind in his rent, and he was being thrown out on the street the following day. He did not have sufficient money to meet his obligations, but he had a considerable sum due to hlm, his gratuity money; but that was com- in; through the Government; chafi- nels and there was no definite time that he could actually count on same.

Lawson, who

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I asked the young man 1f he had He told me

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one hundred

ket. A hundred dollars would

poc do the trick. I t-alked to his lawyer, Alex W. Matheson, and I loaned the boy one hundred dollars.

Now 1f this 1s the best rehablu-

tation program that, our Govern- ment can set forth to these re- turning bound to have flnanclal as well as other troubles, 1t, is a disgrace to both our Provincial 1111111120- eral members. regardless of wheth- er they are representing the Gov- ernment or the Opposition.

boys of ours who are

I wish to refer to another case

Last April by chance I ran into a young man wearing a, returned soldier's pin, who had been drink- ing too hard, who looked as lf he hadn't had e good meal for sev- eral days. and I questioned him. I found that he had been dis- charged from the Air Force fol- lowing an attack of malaria in the Middle some twenty odd operational flights over conquered country prior his illness. He was boarded

given the option of remaining the Middle East; as Instructor, or his discharge, which he acceptcd.

East. He had made to ‘add

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Hls discharge read as follows: ‘Indffferent, addicted to drunken- d been a. smart airman. a useful man." boy came home to the

farm around New Year's, rested up a bit, and came to Charlottetown to secure employment. He went to the Commission office. He was inter- viewed. They asked hlm what he had been doing since charge. been working but had been at. hone on the farm and was told he rcust seek farm work. At the same time 1;; had a nice position lined up as erk but without a permit he could not accept the Job. He had about four hundred dollars gratuity money and savings 1n his pocket. He went out and got associated with number of our bootleggers 1n the only by his coru- city. four days. He had spent a night 1n Jail, accused of something that he dld not do, and he was hungry.

Unemployment Insurance

his dis-

He replied he had not

1n one of our best hotels,

He was broke inside o

As I have had the disgraceful

experience of "the morning after

the night before" altogether too

many times, I knew from the be- ginning it vvu l cue for the hos-

rooln for hlm

ptm. arranged n. in the hospital. I got a doctor to

tbulldlnz all the offices ln

Courier-Express.

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WILD CHERRY

use, but. an old mun. with his sheep each day, Twlea throng gone by your w _, Half sees you here. and not once l again? Poryoharcofttie very rfbe- of 1 . And should have many lovers. who have none. In silver cloaks, in bullied troops down the nun Qiould they dilw 11001;. 0k. chance Ill Y Beautylhae no let weather. no lure pace- Hei- careful pageenklcc are here as there, With nothing lost. And soon. some led may uten- A strayed Meyer 1n this innuen-

bered space- At your tall white, and know you

were publicly revealed. But it may be con-

jectured that some still remain secret.