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VAGE FOUts ' TIIE. IIIIAIILIITTETIIWII GUARDIAN

morning‘ Dally (Founded in leer) Authorized as Second Class Mall, Post Office Department. Ottawa. President, Ian A. Burnett; Vice-President, Wm. It. Burns-it; Stun-Tramp, G. M. Burnett; Editor and Managing Director. J. It. Burnett; Aasochte Editor, Frank Walker.

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

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Premier Jones told the delegates to the Farmers’ Parliament last week that the two million dollar minimum subsidy we are to re- ceive from Ottawa under the new tax agree- ments is more revenue than this Province ever enjoyed before. What he neglected to say was that it is more than offset by the money we now pay into the Dominion treasury on personal jncome and corporation taxes alone. This fact has been pointed out on other occasions, but now we have the official figures, tabled in the House of Commons the other day in reply to a question. Last year we paid in personal income taxes the sum of $1,286,163, plus $714,670 in corporation taxes, or a total from these two sources of $2,000,833. There are, of course, other Dominion taxes, includirig succession dut- ies (which amounted last year to $26,085), and an 8 per cent soles tax on practically everything, for which no figures are available but which must runinto hundreds of thousands of dollars annually.

Here are figures for previous years, coier- ing a portion of our Island contributions to the Federal treasury:

1942: personal income taxes, $483,803; taxes, $263,733; succession duties,

$2,138.

1943: corporation $15,727.

1944: corporation $40,843.

1945: personal income taxes, $1,353,927; corporation taxes $630,623; succession duties, $46,133.

Thus in five yeaEs, 1942-46, we paid the Dominion Government $4,876,105 in personal income taxes, $2,974,953 in corporation taxes, and $130,926 in succession duties, or a total of nearly eight million dollars on thres tax items alone. And we, of course, are only a small Province, with comparatively small tax- able incomes. Is it any wonder Ottawa wants to retain these huge revenue sources which it took over as a wartime measure from the Provinces, and why the larger and wealthier Provinces are protesting so vigorously?

personal income taxes, $594,347; taxes, $815,994; succession duties,

personal income taxes, $1,157,775; taxes $549,933; succession duties,

veterans’ Loans

Despite ths wide publicity which has been given to the enactment of ths Veterans’ Busin- ass and Professional Loans Act, there has been little information available as to the exact cir- cumstances in which veterans may obtain assist- ance under its terms. Delay in producing neces- sary printed forms issued by the Government tended to create an impression that the applic- ation df the Act was meeting with somewhat less than complete enthusiasm.

These preliminary difficulties are being ironed out, however, and now the Bank of Montreal has issued a helpful little booklet called "What's the Score on these Veterans’ Loans?" No one who recalls the Bank's booklet for veterans, "Getting Off On the Right Forit,” issued Iota in 1945, will doubt that this one adequately answers the question put by its title.

The "score", to use the Bank's word, is given In ths report of an interview in which a veteran asks some very important questions and is answered by his Bonk manager in forthright language. An interesting feature is a list ap- pended to answer the question ”Can you suggest some of the things a veteran could get a loan for?" In this are enumerated businesses and professions in which the Bank has assisted vet- erans even before the new Act enabled them to extend longer-term loans.

_ The booklet sticks to answering questions and doesn't preach, but it makes no bones about saying that the veteran must have a sound business proposition. And that is as it should be. The veterans’ own money, their own enthus- iasms and prospects for the future, go into these new businesses, and neither the Govern- ment nor the banks would be doing them a ser- g Q Qsist in ventures foredoomed to hi3.

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Lobster canneries in the three Maritime Provinces turned out bigger aggregate output in 1946 than in 1945 though there weren't quite so many of them operating, says the Fisheries News Bulletin. In 1945 there were 141 plants canning lobst-ers and in 1946 only 136 but the smaller number put up 10 per cent larger pack or 66,175 cases as against 59,685. Even at that, of course, total pack was probably not sufficient to take care. of all the demand which will present itself before canning begins again in the spring of '47. °

‘Throughout the I946 lobster conning soo- sons all of the 136 plants in operation were subject to thorough inspection by Federal fish- eriss officers. The plants had all to obtain operating permits in ths first place, of course, and to get permits they had to satisfy certain specific requirements as to construction, equip- rnsnt, sanitation, etc., and tho purpose of the subsequent inspections waf to make certain that

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wore observed while packing was in progress. All told, 74$ giant inspections wars mods and thll assent that, on tho average, each cannery seas ‘lsspsctsd between flvo and six times dur-

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in this Province packed 26,465 cases or the equivalent. In New Brunswick there were 46 plants ot work in the lobster conning areas and their "score” was 20,150 cases. lf pack was larger in New Brunswick and Prince Edward the situation was different, however, in Nora Scotia. ,

While the New Brunswick canners were lifting their output approximately 4,000 cases above the '45 level, and in Prince Edward Is- land the increase exceeded 3,400 cases, the pack in Nova Scotia decreased by more than 900. The explanation, according to the Bulletin, of the Nova Scotia reduction was probably to be found in the marketing of an increased number of live lobsters. Once upon a time nearly all of Canada's commercial catch of lobsters went into cans but nowadays a large part of it is shipped to market "in the shell."

$2 Meals For ll Dollar

mans Hansard, which tells its own story:

Mr. Mitchell: My hon. friends do not need to go any farther than this chamber if they want to look at socialism. It all comes back to the question of subsidy. In the parliamentary restaurant you can get a two-dollar meal for one dollar-—

Mr Caldwell: We do not.

Mr. Mitchell-and the taxpayers pay the difference.

Mr. Smith (Calgary West): You have not had many two-dollar meals, if you coll that one.

Mr. Mitchell: It is a matter of opinion.

Mr. Gillis: l do not believe that should get in the press.

— EDITORIAL NUTIiS —

Premier Jones is to be the guest of the Charlottetown branch of the Canadian Legion on Thursday (tomorrow) night.

A Peterborough, Eng., lady writes: "Thought you'd like the latest austerity tip for keeping warm in bed these cold nights. Friend of ours wears his bicycle clips round the bottom of his pyjama legs. This stops them working up and thus keeps his legs worm." Seems like he's "crank-y”! _

Napoleon escaped from his confinementat Elba this data 1815, when France rallied to him, and he once more assumed dictatorial powers, and challenged the European coalition to un- seat him. The battle of Waterloo on June 18 was the answer to this challenge, and on that occasion the Dictator was sent to St. Helena, where in 1821 hs died.

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Premier Hart says it is not the intention of ths provincial government to levy a sales tax in British Columbia to make possible the pay- ment of a larger pension for the province's sen- ior citizens. Reports said that the Government was planning to impose a sales tax for such a purpose.

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One cannot but admire the patience, even optimism of people in the old land these days. A correspondent in Edinburgh writes: ”We are having cold stormy weather and heavy snow- fall this yeor. With the coal shortage it is a bit difficult to keep tho house warm, but we are not so badly off as some folk in the South which gives us ground for thankfulness.” Sure- ly a lesson in appriecigtinig smal-l mercies.

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Mr. MocNaught is following in the foot- steps of Mr. A. E. McLean in making it his prime and constant duty to look after the in- terests of his constituents first, foremost and all the time, leaving to his party chiefs the more responsible duty of attending to the af- fairs of State and Canada's interests generally. Ha recognizes he is a member of a team, and "plays up and plays the game."

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An Old Age Pensioners Organization, (On- tario division) has petitioned the Government in the following terms: ”We would respectfully bog to suggest that a Federal Old Age Pension be set up at not less than Six Hundred Dollars par person o year. This in effect would mean that a man and wife over the prescribed .age set by the Government, which we are convinced should be not over sixty-five, would be in receipt of a visible income of not less than Twelve Hun- drod Dollars per year; and, to offset the in- crease in cost of living since 1939, a Cost-of- Living Bonus of 30 per cent should be applied to all pensions, which could be increased or de- creased from time to time, should the cost of living so warrant this being done. The Cos't-of- Living Bonus to hoveino force or effect on basic pension." .

Over fifty years ago, Robert Louis Steven- son learned that one=of his friends had o small daughter who felt cheated because her birth- day fell on Christmas Day and, consequently, she only received one set of presents for two such important occasions. So Stevenson im- mediately wrote offering to change birthdays and, since he was trained as a lawyer before he turned writer and poet, hs put his letter into legal terms. Rose-Mary Sands, speaking in a recent BBC programme, quoted 11.1.. S.’s letter as follows:"’A Deed of Gift of a Birthday. In consideration that Miss Annie H. Ids was born out of all reason upon Christmas Day and is, therefore, out of all iuctice, denied ths con- sidorotion and profit of a proper birthday, and considering that I hars_ottoined an age when we never mention it, I now having no further use for a birthday of any description, have trans- ferred and do hereby transfer all _ond whole my rights and privrlsgss in the 13th day of Novem- bor to the sold Annis H. Ids to have, hold and exorcise and enjoy the some in the customary manner by the sport pf'fino rainront, eating of rich meats and receipt of gifts, compliments and copies of verso, according to ths manner of our ancestors." Annie, ‘or rather Louisa, livst in New York now but she still celebrates her "gift-

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A medical authority advise; people to l“! lo find the cause of rhclr hesdarms. We can name two 0111565 of ITB-ii" tread-aches which will occur in lhe next 1W0 nrrnihs —Tl Special rmd T1 General. Kings-ion Whig-Standard.

One of the great trouble-making factors in a democracy l; the rend- incss of the average lndivldml to exercise his right to believe any- Ihlhl this! he has never heard be- fore. —F‘ina.ncial Times.

Barn firoe are sufficiently numer- ous to warrant exhaustive research avork in an effcrt to find a reliable and effcctive preventive, Practic- ally all that ls known la dale is that spontaneous combustion may occur. and when 1t does, the chances c! roving the barn are slim Indeed There must surely be some special

Here is a clipping from the House of C~.'-.n- condition or set of ccczzlitlcn; that

cause a blaze. bur what are they and how are ‘they created? A real r/reveniive would be worth millions lo agriculture. —~Gl1elph Mercury.

The malts Ic and lrutlful r_r e sprucc is a familiar" . hr in mili- iurs of Canadian gsrd In A1151- rulia a man purchased a properly not for s. house to live in. "but 801931’ lo gain possession or an eight-fact blue spruce. Hg l; Charles Slade. a botanist, cf Syd. 1101'. who had czvcied lhe tree eve‘ eruce ll vras imported from Nm-rh America by another boranlsr, who was as deiermlned not to scll the tree as Mr Slade was to acquire 1t When ihe tree's owner died in 1934. Mr. Slade bought the _pro- Derly on which it was growing. dug it up 1n an hour with the hslp 0f 115$ hardener and sold the land 585m- HG Ill-Planted it In his own garden across the road and it is "'0" lllrlvlllfl "an the sunny side of the street." From eight feel, 1t has crown lo 30 fcei. It ls one of the few blu: spruce; in Australia and lhc cnlv our in- New South Wales. -Aust.rallan News Service.

A reckless driver can be punish- ed. Bul a. jail term ls D001‘ $018M 1o a hum who recovers conscious- ness In n hospital with life In. Ill-fies. An automobile mus! always be regarded as a potential danger, Those who drlve must accept fin- n-llfial as wcll as personal reman- slbllily- For our hart we can sce no more rtnson fcr compulsocy in» surance inviting i1. We have seen no figures brought up in refute this. M10 don"t lhlnk we will. —1~Iamll- ion Spectator.

She was one of lhc British brides. and as the liner docked. she spot- ted her husband on the whnrf almost hidden by the beautiful flovrcfs he was holding. she‘ rush. cd down the gangplank. throw her RYITLS around him and bbgd; “Darling. you shouldn't have ughr 50 ma"? IIOV-‘Brs for me." “That's enough of that. Katie." crisply 4d- monlshed Herman. “Get bllgy and holrp me sell them.“ wolmppgrs Weekly.

Professors Robert E. Grrrn and Paul D. White came from the Harvard Medical School last week to discuss before the New York "MB-Milly of Medicine recent ad- vances in 111" surgical and tnerllcal treatment cf the various afflictions (‘C-fllfliolll)‘ Wmpcrl fls “heart 6,15. 0858'? Says The New York Times. Both author-tries emphasized the noon of education and research - educallon to make the most of what nrcdiurl 50181760 (lacs know and rcwfirch to blow away the mist of ignorance that sllll prevails. .and both commended the effort or the New York Heart Association ta raise tn this clly me 511m or 55mm.) o1 ‘Whlfll $100.00) will be allotted in the American Hcarl Association far lls rational work. In furthering this campaign. Dr. Thomas Parran. magma-general qt the United Stel- les Public Health Service, broad- M-ii nn address in which 11¢ said that "llcarl disease will kill about twice as many people this year as dvus cancer and about seven times as many as tuberculosis." The gig. tlstics etupporl whet Professors Gross and White had to say at the New York Academy of Medicine. Much. therefore. depends 0-1 the nuceras of the efforts now put forth by the New York Heart Association on its owu- account and 0n that of the American Heart Association for which 1t acts locally. We need clinical services. particularly far Childml. lrr the public schools; we need public education through the bras. rcdlo and the screen to drlve home what can be done lo allevi- ate suffering; and we need money to ooodmt the research wllch. we are assured by Professors Gross and While. ls bouhd to brighten a dic- mBl record of premature death.

“The moving finger writes and having writ. moves on." is no long- er true over- a srreal part of this continent. The 51m.- art of calli- Efltllhy is dying out. ‘veil; The Ottawa Clllzen. Penmanship. once an accomplishment practiced by kings. is obsolescenr. Th; type-writ- er. telephone and dlctsphono are replacing ll. A census taken 1n- mlm hl-lfldfvde of schools across the international border recently, ehowodthsr panml ‘lp ls either not taught at all ar- cher tr ls tamht In such a fashion that 1t might. be described rather u block lettering than as handwriting. Yet It ls not n contra-y since n "fine Italian hand" was highly Q taemgd as Dari of a good educatlo . Legal documents In those days were "en. grossed" an arr that was the direct doscancanl of the beautiful. old illuminated manuscripts of lh

Middle Ages that sllll glow from the glass-cases of European muse. urns. Shakespeare refel's_to a "wrest Roman hand" and that bitter slip trlst Swift reserved one of h

ch11!" lhlfls for one who wro

badly-wile writes a hand like a fool." Wrist. he would ssy today of the serswlsrs of this continent

with nrs no ronsor even tstlirt re vrrlle. rubtnorgrs the Imagination.

I The Island In ‘I770 I

(‘lire Guardian 1s indebted to Group Captain H. R. Stew- art for a copy of the fol- lowing "Remarks and _Observ- atlons by Mr. William Drum- mond in his voyage from Cow- dcn to Si. John's Island in the Gulf of North America," from the original ln the archives at Ottawa. The period covered by the journal ls April-May. 1710.)

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April 5th. 1770.. Set out from Cowdon about five o'clock morn- ing. came to Glasgow at 9 eve- ning having got s chaise of Mr. Graham's ln Sterling. _

Aprll 6th. At one morning set our for Grccnock where I arriv- ed about 6 forenoon where I stayed all day balng Sunday. Preachcd 1n the old Kirk of Grccnock and baptized 9 ch11- dren. same evening baptized 2 more. r

April 8th. Spent the farenoorr In Greenock buying several nec- essarlcs. at Midday went on board the Shlp Falmouth. John Mac- Wtrae maslcr. Messrs. Buohannan. Morrison. and Company merch- ants in Grcerrock. owners. A! 5 afternoon the Capt. came board. anchor weighed and sail.

April 91h. Blew a northeast wind llll 4 RM. then north and 8 u-esr which caused us to lake thr- Soul-lr Channel from the Point KinLvre although lt was not intended.

April 10th. Same wind con- tinued. at 4 A.M. passed tho Isle of Mari. at noon passed Holy- hcad. a1 6 RM. passed Bards Isle.

Aprll 11th; At noon passed Waterford Ireland when wc were 1n Lat. 51:47. Al. 8 P.M. passed the Cotton Island, and at 12 the old Reed of Kirgsdale Ireland.

April 12th. At 8 RM. passed Cape Clear, at noon the Wind south ln Inf. 51:57.

April 14th. Wc made little way, at noon found ourselves in Lal. 50:57. At saw a ship steer- ing lo lhc eastward.

April 15th. Sunday. Prcachcd the aftorrrpon on ship board. Eph. 23rd.

April 16th. The wind 51111 west and southwest we were obliged to lack back and forward where- by wr- made little way. At. noon Lat. 47:52.

April 17th.

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Wind still west and northwest prevented our course. some showers of rain. Lat. 47:34.

April 18th. Some winds and rain. 19th. The same contrary winds and thick rain. The sick- ness which seized most of our company lhree days before was this day very severe.

April 20th. Saw at flve Lhis afternoon s ship steering cast- ward. Sickness sllll severe. At noon Lat. 45:52.

April 21st. The wind still wesl. and some raln. Our company still bad of the sea sickness.

Aprllyzznd. Sunday. The ship still sailing to south and south- west. This afternoon preached on shipboard.

April 24th. Thrshlp tacked three tlrncs north and south. The people now almost free of sick- ness except, David Lawson. At noon Lat. 42:34. This afternoon the winds high and squally with rain which made the ship roll exceedingly. -

Aprll 25th. The wind still high and the vessel tossing our com- pany began to complain. Steering still to the north found ourselves at noon In Lat. 43:47. April 26th. Arbour the sahrr- as yesterday.

April 21th. This forenoon the winds very low. being sultry. warm and foggy. Lat. 45260 afternoon almost quite calm. All our com- pany except D. Lawson are quite recovered. _ .

April 28th. This whole after- noon a pleasant gala from the- southeast.

April 29lh. Sunday. The sumo wind continued. only brlsker. The vessel ran at the rate of 6 and '1 miles nn hour. Prvached fore- uoon and afternoon. ' r

April 30th. Winds still east- erly though nat quite s_o brisk. Ran 4 and 5 miles an hour. Lat. 45.

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May 1st, 1770. Winds still east- erly and favorable. Ship run- ning at the rate of 5 miles an hour.

May 2nd. Very moderate winds. the ship running at the rate of 4 miles an hour. '

May 3rd. 4th. and 5th. Winds about the ‘same. Saw a whale to the southeast of’ the ship st six PM.

May 6th. Sunday. Fresh west- erly breezes. at 4 this A. M. spoke n French brig from Martinique bound to Rachelle. Alt. 2 P. M. saw a ship to southward. Al: seven had a severe squall and the remainder of the night it blew very hard with heavy showers.

May 7th. Severe squall: and showers. Al: l0 RM. spoke and English _shlp Bristol from Caro- lina to Lisbon. .

May Bth. 9th. 10th and 11th. Winds and weather about the same snd nothing o! interest oc- curred.

my 12th. The name winds continue, at 4 PM. spoke with a French schooner in with another Qrlp from Guad-