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OIIABLOTTETOWN.

L'Aifalro Iiliig Sung

Underground rumblings in Ottawa and elsewhere indicate that the last has not been heard of the Ming Sung affair which broke into the headlines in the dying hours of the last session of Parliament. Latest development in the whole sordid business is revealed in remarks made a few days ago in Moose Jaw, by Mr. John Diefenbaker, Progressive Conservative member for the constituency of Lake Centre.

According to Mr. Diefenbaker, the Ming Sung Industrial Corporation, operator of the Canadian-registered ships running from Hong Kong into Red China, was exempted by order-in-council from payment of all but two in income tax in 1950. Exemptioi, was provided for, says Mr. Diefenbaker, in an order dated May 11, 1950, which was concealed until about a month ago.

Charlottetown continues to be featured in the Ming Sung affair, despite the mystery which surrounds the whole busi- ness locally. The Ming Sung Company, according to Mr. Diefcnbaker, was incorp- orated in Prince Edward Island, although its solicitors were in Montreal, "to escape income taxation in Quebec." Prime Mir- ister St. Laurent, speaking last month in the House of Commons. confirmed that it was common practice for shipping com- panies to incorporate in Charlottetown "be- cause of tax benefits to be obtained by this system."

It may be that when the House rc- sumes its sittings in the fall, the Govern- ment will have some perfectly satisfactory explanation for the secrecy and mystery which, up to now, surrounds the Ming Sung affair. That explanation, if it is to be ac- cepted by the Canadian people, will clear- ly have to include such points as the fol- lowing:

(a) Why was no action taken by the Government to protect the interests of Canadian taxpayers when the Ming Sung Company defaulted in its payments to Ot- tawa on April 12, 1951?

(b) Why did the Government of Hon'; Kong deem it necessary to ask the British Government to pass an order-in-council 1': cover what it considered the unlawful pur- pose of the Canadian order-in-council auth- orizing the Ming Sung Corporation to op- erate its ships with Chinese rather thal- Canadian crews?

(C) Why, on November 17, 1950, did the Hong Kong Government object to the crews on the Canadian-registered Ming Sung ships?

SATURDAY, JULY 28. I951

For The ilatlon

Through the efforts of the I.0.D.E., the beautiful carpet made by Queen Mary now will be hung in the National Gallery at Ottawa. A sum exceeding b100,000 obtain- ed through exhibiting the. carpet, repre- sents dollars earned by Queen Mary as her gift to Britain. Some 250,000 persons in 65 cities and towns helped to buy Queer. Mary's tapestry for Canada by paying 25- cent and 10-cent admissions to see the famous handicraft. There also were per- sonal contributions to the fund. Around 75,000 school children in classes accom- panied by their tcachcrs, had a free view of the carpet. Expenses in transporting the carpet were more than paid for from the sale of literature about it. Queen Mary is reported to have begun work on another carpet, this one to be a gift to her family.

The carpet now in the permanent pos- session of Canada originally was intended for her family but the great need of Bri- tain for dollar exchange led to Queen Maryls decision to dedicate it to earning

, dollar exchange for her country. This pur-

pose has been fulfilled through the services of the Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire-services which brought a message of "warmest congratulations” from Queen Mary. i

' Tariff Boaril oprratlsss

Among the functions of the Canadian Tariff Board is the hearing of appeals by business concerns against rulings of the Department of National Revenue on cus- toms and excise matters. Because of its care and fsimess in these matters, says the Ottawa Citizen, the Board is becoming more and more established in the public confidence. In a number of important cases during the last few years. it has

ruled against the Department; this means, broadly speaking, that the latter has been

restrained from charging as high a rate of -

duty as it would like.

The Board's most recent decislm which went against the- National Revenue Depart- ment, was not in itself a momentous one, because it dealt with a situation which no longer exists. But a considerable amount of money was involved. In this case, a packing company appealed against a de- partmental ruling that, during late .1949 and early 1950, mixed shipments of hydrogen- ated cottonseed oil and soya bean oil should be dutiable at a rate of 20 per cent in- stead of 1711; per cent.

Among other successful appeals by im- porters was one affecting table glassware. In another case, five different chemical materials used in the treatment d furs were involved; the Board found the De- partment was wrong in three of the five instances. An Ottawa instrument firm succeeded in its claim that it was assessed too high a rate of duty on altimeters. And similar examples could be cited.

In many cases, of course-probably the majority - the Tariff Board finds in favor of the Department upon the evidence pre- sented. Nor are its decisions always final, as there is provision for appeal to the Ex- chequer Court.

EDITORIAL NOTES

Tomorrow the 10th Sunday after 'Prir.-

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A mountain peak in the Rockies in the vicinity of Banff is to be named Princess Elizabeth on the occasion of Her Royal Highness visit in October.

One thing that this country obviously needs is a Summer capital. Ottawa doe-'. very well during the greater part of the ycar but in the summer heat public servants, as well as the people's representatives. would like to be elsewhere--prefcrab1.V 0!1

a breezy island.

Berlin is to have a typical English gar- den planted with trees and flowers from Britain. The project is sponsored by the British Commandant Major General Geof- frey Bournc and will be for the use of the German community in West Berlin. Burgo- master Reutcr has welcomed the as ”a living memorial to Anglo-German friend- ship."

Robespierre, French rcvolutionist, one of the chief authors of the reign of terror. was guillotincd this date 1794. His res- olution that no member of the Constituent Assembly should be elected to the forth- coming Legislative Assembly stultified that body and shifted power to the political clubs. His consistent adherence to the theories of Rousseau made him a populai figure until he was required to become a

man of action.

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An attempt is to be made when Par- liament reassembles to form a Maritinrc Block to further the interests of the foul Provinces when matters affecting them come before the House. As Hon. Mr. Gard- iner explained in connection with a sim- ilar Prairie block, the difficulty is that the member must respond to the Party Whip in the event of a vote, and no Government would be prepared to risk defeat because of its followers abstaining from voting. Of course, the threat of such an event might induce the Government to give. way.

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Mr. V. W. Scully. a member of the Fed- eral Government Brain Trust is retiring from his position of Deputy Minister of National Revenue, Taxation branch. He successively (and successfully) headed War Supplies Ltd. and Victory Aircraft, Ltd., then (in 1945) became Mr. Hows-."s right- hand man as deputy Minister of Recon- struction and Supply. When it folded in 1948, he went to the taxation division which needed overhauling badly. Mr. Scully streamlined the division and has made it one of the most efficient in the public serv- ice. His retirement from the Civil Service (and the Brainsl Trust) will leave a big hole for the Government to fill.

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On Monday it B.O.A.C. Strntocrulser will land at Dorval airport with twenty-six British newsmen aboard. These newsmen are the cream of the British Press and Motor Trade Publications. As guests of Austin of England, through the Austin Motor Company (Canada) Limited, these men are going to see and report Canada from Montreal to Vancouver. Montreal, Ottawa, Vancouver, Victoria, Revelstoke, Lake Louise, Banff, Calgary, Edmonton, Toronto, Hamilton and Niagara Falls will all be on their itinerary, but the Maritime:-, as usual nowadays, are excluded. One of the highlights of their trip will be their attendance at the official dinner and open- ing of the largest automobile exhibition ever presented anywhere in the world by Austin of England on Thursday. August

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"Thirty years ago, when Char- lottetown was not a city, and when it had attained but half its present size, and with scarcely a respectable building within its whole limits. every corner house and store had the names of the crossing streets upon them in large, painted letters. Today, after the city has been corporate for a period of over s. score of years, not one building, private or pub- lie. or any other object, points out- to a. stranger the name of a street through which he may be passing.

"A n 0 th e r inconvenience for strangers, and indeed everybody. which has been so much neglect- ed, is the proper numbering of all the business stands and other buildings. in a proper and system- ntic method along each street. No definite directions can be given 9. stranger to find any particular place or building, except by giving him a personal escort to the spot. he wishes to find or visit. A gen- tleman from New York, on arriv- ing at a late hour in the train the other evening, asked Ills way to the Broadway House where he wanted to meet his wife. But no one could direct him how to find the name of the street or the number of the building, uiitll at last 9. boy came up to the cab- man. and gave him 'landmarks' by which he succeeded in identi- fying the house. Such awkward incidents occur every day, and it is time they should be put an end mu

-The Examiner. July 19, 1877.

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A SMALL BOY KNOWS

Being no more than seven. he is wise As only small boys ever are. He lI(lllOW,s exactly how a wild fern es

with lip tight-curled and he can make a star

From a five-spurred spider lily or a leaf

Of woodblne,tanager-sprangled on

A split-log fence. It needs only his belief '

To make it so. The hleroglyphs a lawn

Taps with quick hooves outline new roads

To boy adventures, as they slant up aspen rises curve through copplces shady that green toms Cling to leaf-mold like moss. ways surprises wait in full sun or where the woods are dim with s green twilight, because a small boy knows That earth's forever-wonder is for him Who walks where trees grow tall and clean winds blow! -Anobel Armour.

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15'- 0 come, let us sing unto the Lord: let us make a Joyful noise to the rock of our ssivstionalot us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise unto him with psalms. for the lord is a nest God. and .'I treat Ring above all gods. In his hand are the drop places of the earth: the strength of the hills is his also. The sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry land. 0 coins, let us wor- ship and bow down: let - hneei before & Lord our snahsr.

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Lambs lnto Lions

(Ottawa Journal)

Men who normally wear closes

are to be accepted as air crew by the RAP. This concession follows experience during World war II when the dim-vlsioned (without glasses) and the one-eyed per- formed deeds of skill and valor quite as well as the Adonlecs with the eyesight of eagles. i g It is pleasant. to see that our most formidable weapons are be- ing fltted more and more to our frail capacity. There must have been many disappointed dare- devlls in the days of knighthood who could not stagger about in ur- mour or swing a six-foot .sword and disappointed hordes of would- be frontiersmen never trod the North American forests. fllntlock in hand. because they had gone too fat or suffered flat. feet, Thus far it has seemed that the exploration of the limitless sky and the surging currents of jet speed must be left to the very cream of clear-eyed youth; now, happily, we see the opportunity for the ordin- ary man, complete with glasses false teeth. falling hair and the paraphernalia of civilization to take his place in the forefront of this last great exploration that may lead, who knows, even to the moon and to the stars.

For many s. veteran of aerial ventures, the emphasis on perfect eyesight, has seemed a bit. overdone. and there will be those to recall that. Wop May. an Edmonton flier who did as much as anyone to trace the Northern air routes and risked his neck in many a danger- ous mercy flight. was discovered to have almost no vision in one eye when he was performing prodlgles of flying achievement.

Then there is the legend of the RAF examlniig board after the first war which decided only the best pilots should be retained. They had this delicate little man, thick glasses stuck on the end of his nose, who became dizzy when they spun his chair (as they did in examina- tions in those days) and finally jumped out the surgery window when they fired a blank shot to test his nerves. He was marked down as a hopeless misfit who ob- viously should never have been in

the service; then they consulted his documents, found he was an see who had shot down 21 Germans and won strings of decoi-stlom. so they took him back into the RAP, glasses and sll. and he will

Classical Study

(St. John Telegraph Journal)

Mention in recent newspa a of the classical association of the Maritime Provinces and Newfound- land reminds us that there are still plenty of educationisi.s- who cling to the best in the tried meth- ods of the past and refuse to catch up new ideas simply for the sake of novelty or to discard the old ones merely b our ancestors found them good. The classics. by which Latin and Greek are gen- erally meant. are a case in point.

It need not be surprising that! many ordinary people are puzzled by the teaching of "dead" lan- guages. Nobody talks in Latin or Greek nowadays; why not cut them out and teach the children something "useful"? The point is that they are not truly dead, they are actually very useful. They live on in many of the languages spok- en today and anybody with a good grounding of Latin will make short work of learning French, Spanish or Portuguese and will lie greatly helped in English itself.

However. the practical utility of the classics does not end there. The student who is well versed in 'them has been through a course of mental discipline, that can hardly be equalled. He has toned up his faculties to cope with pretty well any task of learning. so equipped. he cnn'grIpple more easily with subjects quit; outside the scope of languages. I help: him in any kind of learning.

Another advantage the classical student has is that through lan- guages, living or dead. he learns to know the people who speak or spoke them more intimately than by any other means. The classical. student becomes acquainted with the very foundation of our present

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Baby sitting is becoming a so- cial menace. Too many parents are either entrusting their child- ren to the care of other children. or are allowing their children to be baby sitters at too early an sage. Children as young as twelve. ten and even seven years of age sire iblning out - or are being hired out by their parents - to cope with reqionsibllliies their elders are shlrking. some of them are kept on the job until midnight and later, alone in oth- er peoplc'.s houses with other people's babies. What run-of- milne child of twelve, ten or seven is competent to meet such emer- gencies so fire, accident, illness and burglary? - Saint John Tel- ezraph-Journal.

A , i" ofthc"” al Employment Service told is meeting at Montreal recently he was puzzled by the reluctance of employers to hire qualified slen-

day Western clvulzation, for that is built on those of Greece and Rome. In considering and seeking to understand modern men and their institutions -yes. even Com- munixn -he knows the basis on which it all rests. It Is no waste of time and it saves people from -su periicislity to study the classics.

JULY 28, 1,951

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ozraphers who w , knew of several wezlnelildwrllli. 1! year! otlexuperiema in ,,,.,e.; ial work who could not find wt because of a mentality that exnoi ed in offices. and it seemed possible to change that attili' of employers in this respect Tfl: calls to mind the case or ,m'o"' manager in the early form; ,3; had to me his pretty ...,,,,I pher because she became moi-egla terested in her boy mend .1," her ,work. which was btln-g ,.a fully neglected. Forced to lo! help immediately. he took mm 53-year-old widow who had new had actual office experience i, had taken a course in biisiqe: college at 50 years of age, go;1o,', ml the death of her hl.lE"L)anr Magically that office manage,- W0Yk ” I MW pleasure in matter of days. Needed files reach. ed his desk promptly. The H” employee unobstrusively began I, relieve him of dicta-lls tha: i... previously slowed him up. ufhe, he had to take trips out of town she kept him informed by pjmm wire or letter on crucial matter; The lady exercised intelliym-,,-. and ingenuity. In the book of tin. employer. he had found the 9....

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