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Editor and Managing Director. J. R. Burnett. Associate Editor, Frank Walker

"The Strongest Memory is Weaker Than the Weakest Ink".

CIIARLOTTETOTVN, MONDAY. MAY 21, 1951

liunstan's closing

For an institution which is observing its ninety-seventh anniversary, St. Dun- stan's University is remarkably youthful and vigorous. -Its years rest lightly upon it, and the traditions which it has accum- ulated, and which make it venerable to all associated with it, have enabled it also to serve successive generations with in- creasing efficiency, both in the modern sci- ences and in the more thoroughlv tested pail:-:. of the humanities. Nowhere has the true goal of education, as defined in Tennysonls "In Memoriam", been more devotedly followed or more successfully realized:

"Let knowledge grow from more to more, But more of reverence in us dwell; That mind and soul, according well, May make one music as before,

But vastcr . . ."

This combination of light and learning is what higher education means. Its pract- ical advantages are obvious and important, but less obvious and much more import- ant is the training in character building. in the acquirement of an adequate phil- osophy of life based on Christian ethics and principles. This is the great boon which St. Dunstanls confers upon its students, year after year, who have gone forth to become leaders in church and state, and in business and professional activities, in all parts of the Dominion and in many parts of the United States.

Today's graduating class, and students generally, are to be congratulated upon their opportunities as well as their efforts during the past year. The education they have acquired should be of value not only to themselves, but to the community at large. The world is in a chaotic state, needing more than anything else sane lead- ership and guidance along paths of peace and goodwill. Our surest hope that these goals will be reached in time lies in the output of our fostering institutions of Christian culture, of which St. Dunstan's University is a shining example.

clean lip

Like others across Canada the Souris Board of Trade is pushing the idea of a clean-up week with the result that the Town Council has named the present week for that purpose.

Much will be done by the Council and the Board members to make the pretty King's County port attractive to visitors and a reason for pride to the townspeople, but the success of the project depends upon the general support given by individual property holders and organizations such as the Boy Scouts, school classes, firemen. fishermen and others.

it is a cliche that many shoulders make light burdens but to have a community present its most attractive appearance there is no satisfactory substitute for hav- ing everyone pitch in and do a share.

"ilo Ilse Pretending"

in the opinion of Mr. Gaitskell, British Labor Chancellor of the Exchequer, the people receiving dividends, rents and inter- est cannot supply the answer to the tax gatherer's needs. "It is no use pretend- ing,” he says, "that large additional sums can now he raised exclusively from wealthy people. . . . The plain fact is that to raise appreciable sums we should have to im- pose more taxation on people with lower incomes."

The Labor Party, in its pamphlet on "This Cost of Living Business," faces the facts no less plainly. Of wages and sal- aries, it says: "About 60 per cent of the value of the nation's output is the cost of wages and salaries. Changes in wages and salaries, therefore, have a profound effect on prices." ,

Of "distributed profits" (that is to say. dividends) the Labor Party's pamphlet says: "A reduction in distributed profit could do little "to reduce prices. They are a very small part.of the cost of any item. . . . Even if profits were eliminated alto- gether” there would still be a cost of living problem."

Of the real answer, the party pamphlet says: "Increased productivity is the only way to get more of the things we want at reasonable prices."

This represents a complete volto face on thc,purt.of British socialists. The Labor Plrtyof-thoUnitJed Kingdom isleaming the hunt way what their capitalist oppon-

ents have been maintaining all along. It is interesting also to note, according to the some Mr. Gaitskell, that the proportion of dividends, rents and interest in the total of personal British incomes has dropped con- spicuously since 1938. ln that year they constituted 34 per cent of total personal in- comes. But in 1950 they amounted to only 25 per cent.

EDI I URIAL NUI E8

Trade talks with the United Kingdom re- open in Ottawa today. Proceedings will be closely followed in the West Indies where trade and currency are closely link- ed with United Kingdom.

0 O I

Some suspicious minds see in the recent complaint of coin-vending machine oper- ators against the steel five-cent piece mere- ly a preliminary to adjusting their con- trivanccs to accept only dimes.

O O O

The first Maritime ecumenical confer- ence gets under way at Halifax today. Probably the general public would better understand the aims of the conferenceif it were called general, universal, catholic or world-wide rather than mysteriously ecumenical.

O I 0

Col. Cha1'les'Augustus Lindbergh, Am- erican flyer, arrived in Paris from New York by air this date 1927. He had flown solo 3,647 miles in thirty-three hours and twenty-nine minutes to win a prize of 5825,000 offered since 1919. His plane was "The Spirit of St. Louis." .

O O O

ttwhat is the difference between the Province levying a one, two or three per cent sales tax", says Premier Angus L. Macdonald, "and the Dominion levying a ten per cent sales tax?" It is not, of course, the difference that concerns the taxpayer but the sum.

' D O D g

The Mayor of Charlottetown has hazl his monetary return from the office frozen at S325 since 1855 when the capital was incorporated. As teachcrs' salaries in 1874 ranged from S11356 to d324.44, it would seem that the chief magistrate is entitled to an increase to at least the pre- sent salary of a school principal.

0 9 O

A New South Wales, Australia, farmer found a new use for a milking machine He was bitten on the too by a snake, and having no means of extracting or sucking out the poison, he quickly scarified the wound and started up his milking machine, attaching a teat cup to his infected toe. The machine removed both blood and poison, and is reported to have saved his life.

0 O 0

Word from Brandon, writes an Ottawa correspondent of The Gazette, is that the by-election there will be fought squarely on the wheat issue. By the time that the votes are counted, Parliament will have a pretty fair idea what the West (or part of it, at any rate) really thinks about payments under the British wheat con- tract and, subsequently, under the interna- tional wheat agreement. The Progressive Conservatives are hopeful that dissatisfact- ion with the Government's wheat policies will increase their vote in the riding over the level reached in the 1949 general elect- 1011.

O O O i

There is no longer any doubt in the House of Commons that the C. C. F., led by Mr. Stanley Knowles (CCF-Winnipeg North Centre) intend to continue the di- vorce bill filibuster until the provinces of Newfoundland and Quebec arrange to take their divorce business elsewhere. Unless they change their minds under heavy pres- sure, few divorce bills from these two prov- inces will be passed during the rest of this session. This is going to lead to hardship for some. Take the case of a Montreal woman whose bill for divorce is one of those affected. She had intended to be re- married in a June wedding. Her lawyers were sure that the old union would be a thing of the past by that time. After hasty consultations, her June plans have been cancelled.

O O 0

Political friends--and foes--are still rallying to the defence of the late Col. J. L. Ralston. The reason is the charge of the unpredictable J. F. Pouliot (L-Temiseou- ate) that some remarks by Col. Ralston when Defence Minister had. inspired the Germans to launch the Battle of the Bulge at the cost of American and (Mr. Pouliot claimed) Canadian casualties. Irate op- position M. P.'s were the first to leap to Col. Ralston's defence. Agriculture Min- ister Gardiner and Defence Minister Clax- ton followed. The last indignant wort came from scholarly Senator T. A. Crerar, a Cabinet colleague of Col. Ralston's at the time of the conscription crisis and one who stood with Col. Ralston then. The at- tack, declared Senator Crerar, was."whoily unwarranted." He added: "It is an ev- idence of the underlying sense of fair play in Parliament that members of the three Opposition parties were the first to mm:

to the protection of his memory."

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A 7; (And P. 1-:. 1.) oovsnson GENERAUS VlSll'

"The Governor General of Can- ada, the Rt. Hon. Sir John Young, arrived here in the Canadian steamer Napoleon III shortly af- sunset on Wednesday. His Excel- lency is accompanied by Lady Young, Sir George E. Cartier. Colonel MacNeilll, military secre- tary, Mr. Turnville, private secre- tary. and Mr. Ponsoby.

"The majority of the people of this Island believe that the Gov- ernor General has come here for the special purpose of endeavour- llig to bring the Island into the Confederacy. We beg to assure them that such is not the fact. and that Sir John Young is only visiting the various provinces un- der his government, among which is included Prince Edward Island. without any special political ob- ject. We cannot, however, sup- pose that the question of the ad- mission of the Island into the Dominion will be entirely ignored, even by the Governor General, while among us, or that those of- his ministers who are now in the Island will refrain from all allu- sion to this important. subject." -The Islander, Aug. 13. 1869.

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The Age-Old Story

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earth also in thine: world Vnnd the fulness thou hast founded them.

Toward A Better World

tRoyal Bank Monthly)

our vast programmes of econo- mic and military mobilization cannot fail to affect the outlook of youth. We must try. while pre- paring to fight if necessary for what we believe in needful to our happiness in life. not to lose in that preoccupation the very basic of the thing we are fighting for.

It. is appropriate, in days like these, to reflect with C. S. Lewis that a consistent practice of vir- tue by the human race even 101' ten years would fill the earth from pole to pole with peace, plen- ty. health, merrlment, Ind hearts- ense. That. is a dream hardly to be realized, but we can, under what- ever circumstances of strain and uncertainty. cultivate the basic ethical values of democracy devotion to equality. individual worth, intellectual freedom. politi- cal liberty, democratic processes and general welfare, and. we cln broaden down into everyday use the high moral principle: of the great. religions. our shnnxrl-Lo to not I spot on 3 map, but some-

"It is all very well to talk in thou sweeping words." lame m-v say. "but let us cultivate our gor- den.” That is good advice. We must, first of all, cultivate our garden. But it. may be for our good, as well u that of our neigh- bours, to co-operate in I spot of irrigation, or in getting together to improve our minds, or in sign- ing 1 memorandum to the author- ities about the need for a new lchool.

The freedom and happiness of mankind depend upon how free men of goodwill conduct them- selves in the present crisis. Young people of today have the capacity to build new and tranquil cities of freedom, and to erect loftier and happier towers of achievement.

some may be shying away from the truth that the future depend: on them. But there Ire enough others for us to be sure that to- day's passing turmoil in our of- fairs shall not end in undies chime. and that the liberty of men”: minds shall not be femrrod by evil and cruel men.

These are embarking on Idult. life with spirit: capable of on-

dunncc. high idem and rich achievement. Thain to I challeng-

ing and a noble prospect.

Those Taxes

(0. B. of Commerce Letter)

A straight 20 per cent surcharge on the present personal income tax becomes effective on 1 July. and is expected to yield an ad- ditional 385 million. Sundry minor amendments to the Income Tax Act, including a deductible allowt ance for certain medical expenses, trade union and profesaio lmem- bershlp dues, and lump sum ac- cumulation: of income, are pro- vided for. '

The estimated revenues are pre- dicated on a gross national pro- duction of 320 billion in the pre- sent calendar year. an increase of 12 per cent: over last year. The attainment of this figure is con- tingent upon either or both of two developments, the one lnvidi- ous. the other highly desirable. namely, a comparable increase in prices andror increased produc- tton. Last. year the increase in personal spending over that in personal income resulted in a net. decline in savings of S270 million, or 30 per cent, and was an im- portant factor in the over-all price increase of 12 per cent. It. is, moreover, one of the few control- lable factors in the rising price spiral. and the need for an in- crease in saving to cover the cap- ital investment. program which is in prospect is, therefore, both urg- ent and practicable. At the some time, the abnormal 4 J of defence, and the currently high demands of consumers and busin- ess are in the aggregate greater than the country's present capac- ity to fulfil unless there is I sub- stantial increase in per capita productivity. (Productivity per head of population has not in- creased measurably in post-war years owing to the growth of the two large groups outside the la- nour force. namely, the under-age and over-age groups, and to the shortening of the work week.) The implications for the lndividualnre, therefore, clear-he must work harder and longer, and save more.

The unexpectedly large budget- ary lurplus of 1950-51, 3203 mil- lion, arising out of the buoyant condition of the economy and the

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THE ASPIRJNG SCHOLAII. When first the college - celvc his name, The young enthugtsst quits his

case for fame; Rcsistless burns the fever of re- nown. Caught. from the strong contagion the gown;

Yet hope not life from grief or danger free,

Nor think the doom of man re- vers'd for thee.

Dcisn on the passing world to turn thine eyes,

And pause awhile from letters. to be wise;

There mark what ill: the scholars life nssai

Toll, envy. want, the patron nnd the jail.

See nrlitlons slowly wise, and mean-

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If dreams yet. flatter. once again attend.

Hoar Lydiat's life and Galileo's end.

-Samuel Johnson (1709-1784.)

nels. In a radio address designed further to ill t t budgetary intentions the Minister said:

Let me state here frankly that the purpose of some of these com- modity taxes is not only to pro- duce revenue but. to ”

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keynote of present issues. We have artists with talent nndimaginotlon in this country. They should be given an opportunity to put Can-

design.-(Pelerborough Examiner.)

the Government might subsidize travelling expenses for students. This brings the thought that in- stead of the Province financing a. university in the North, the pro- jected appropriation might be used to build a residence for Northern students which they could occupy while attending Toronto University or any university the authorities

he assured of accommodation at

very reasonable rates. together with a government rebate on actual travelling expenses from

hometown to university town. sei- ection of students worthy of these privileges could be worked out between the Province and municipal boards of education.- tFrom the Kirkland Lake News).

Pbineu Taylor Barnum has been dead these 60 years now but his use saying "There's one born'ev- cry minute" is as true as it ever was in the great showman's hey- day. As witness the hundreds of unsuspecting visitors to A Festival of Britain exhibit the other day. who cheerfully forked over two shillings of their hard-won wages to a flower vendor and received in exchange a pretty little bouton- nlere made up of bright gold buds neatly wrapped up in a green leaf, all unknowing that they were buying the season's first dande- lions. Not but what: the buyers weren't. possibly getting good vol- ue for their money. For the dim- dellon is a pretty flower.- (Regina Leader-Post).

Finance Minister Abbott in I speech urged Canadian workmen in put in 40 minutes a day more so as to increase production by 19 per cent and help avert "the grave danger and calamity of runaway inflation." That same night several trade union leaders. without, of course. taking time to sound the opinions of their mem-

.f Notes Bx The Wax. my

high time our pooh! outb- orltiu woke up to the importance of well-designed postage stamps. not only for the commenter ' c issues, but also for the ordinary which are very their way into every corner of the globe. and are a miserable advertisement Almost anything is better than this dead level of dull- hens and ineptitude which is the

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may select. Here students could.

MAY 21. 1951

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has to be considoreyd at ltilfgn gum We have to um ourselves and u;' Atlantic Pact. countries as 1,", G we can to prevent another glgnnas war, or to fight one if necessarc There is no time to lose. This no time for standing firmly bl hard-won concessions. Canada uni: other pact countries, are 0;, wartime economy now. If we we: to lose the next war those Collcese sions would be wiped out. gem,-. do out utmost today to preserve them than have to fight it 10,, and devastating war 3. year all more hence. it might be too late then.-- (at, Thomas Times-Joun nnl).

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Every your street. accidents cause the death of more children than does disease. In spite of gum, campaigns and safety orgamza: tions, statistics reveal that four children a day lost their lives in traffic accidents in Canada. Cer- tainly the imprudencc of motor. ists and the daring of Children must. be taken into account, but the fact remains that parentshavl also their share of Tespnnsibllllf It is their duty to correct. by as tontlve and constant oversltzlinm often fatal heedleuness of that children. The street is not g place where children should play. Too many parents show lheni. selves indifferent in this lll.lilN and that is exactly what explzllns the frightful number of young. sters who are killed, or wounded for life.-(Le Progress dc Hull).

In Kirkland Lake and through. out Northern Ontario there is en- dent no enthusiastic response tr. the promise of 3 university for the North. Most residents, grad. uotes, teachers. housewives, slu. dents share the belief that it is better for Northern students to take advantage of established illit- versitles where standards are known and maintained. Decent- ralization, it. is suggested, would pose awkward problems of admin- istration, while if the university were centred in any one town there would be little financial ad- vantage for students in other cen- tres. coming from say Sudbury t: Kirkland Lake, as compared to going from Sudbury to Toronto Principal Joseph 0rd of Kirkland Lake Colleuinte suszrzests that if A million dollars were set. aside for :1 Northern university, the money might better be split up into bur- saries to enable Northern students to attend old-established institu- tions. It was intimated, too. that

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high level of employment, has made possible 1 further ” t tlal reduction in the net. debt,

which at 31st March stood at 311,441 million, o total reduction during the past five fiscal years of 31,980 million. The budgetary aur- plus for 1951-52 indicated as like- ly to be about 030 million, which if approximately correct, suggests that the period of steady debt re- duction of recent: years will be at least temporarily halted. i The Minister of Finance has striven to impress on the Canadian people the fact that the additional taxes are not merely, or in some cases even primarily, revenue rats- lng instruments, but are 'ntended also to serve as an antidote to in- flation, and to direct materials, labour and production away from consumer and into defence chm-

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