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“The Strongest Memory is Wed/WI‘ Th!!! the Weakest Ink.“

WEDNESDAY, JUNE l9, 1946 ,____--___._- __.....__.._. Premier Drew's Reply

;\tltll‘t‘\>ill‘_' 1t scrvicc club in lllllllllti-‘l! ‘m hlondztv, Col. i‘ "go Drew, Premier 0f O11t- ario, made an effective answer to tl1e charge that he had been "thc big bad \\‘0ll" 0i ti“? Dominiou-Prot-iticial Conference. _

.\n1o11g olhci‘ llllllk“. Iiremlcr Dl-C)" lmmb ed out that tho (onfcrcncc did not HLllOLlTll on his utotion or the motion of any other provin- rial l‘rc111ic1'. lt was atliourned 011 the motion ttf lion, l. L. llslcv, Nlinistcr of Flmlllfifi “lltcrt- was no suqqy-tiort that the Conference had CUlllQ to an cud." Col. DYCW 531d» “find tl1e govcr11111c11t of evcrv‘ Province has a r1gl1t 1., t-Xpt-ct. as tlu- tiovcr11111cnt of Ontario d0¢5 L.x],m~t_ that tltt- (o11fcrc11ce will be reconvened Shun}, by ma Drtntittion Government. On a 111t111l>cr Of occasions thc Prime Mifllfler 0f C311’ ada DOlfllCLl out that the course t0 be iOllOWfll by the Conic-retire rested with the whole Con- fgfgflce and tl1at it was not for the DOmIIIIOII Government alone to s3)‘ “hat would or should not l)C tlonc. . - Tllfffi 3ft? man)’ sub‘ iccts to be discussed apart from details 0f taX collection, and having regard to his own state- ments tl1e chairman is in duty bound to recon- vene the Confcrcncc so that it may decide what is to be done." ‘

A strong point made by Premier Drew was that “even if we had reached agreement 0n the 11min tax adjustment proposals, we would still have had much to do before being able to carry out the health or social security proposals, bccatise they were t0 be financed b)’ two new additional taxes about which not ncar- ly enough has yet been said. The money for these new services was not t0 be covered by the c0rp0ration. pcrsotial income taxes, or other taxes previously imposed by either the Domin- ion or provincial governments. That money was to be raised by an additional new income tax on all incomes of possibly five per cent, and on top of that the Provinces were asked to impose a poll tax which would he payable by all Can- adians of sixteen or over without exception. Sonic obiection has been taken to this tax being described a-s a poll tax. lt was described in the original proposals of the Dominion Government and subsequcntlv as a registration fee. But an annual tax payment payable by every person, whether emplovctl or otherwise, upon a fixed basis per capita is a poll tax and nothing else no matter how n1ucl1 anyone may prefer to use a less cwbicctionable and less accurate name. To Qafry out 111g Dominion proposals, that poll tax in Ontario would require to be $12.00 per capita, I din not think it is yet sufficiently understood that the new health and social scc- urity proposals of the Dominion Government depend upon the acceptance of this added bur- den of two new and vcry unpopular f0rn1s of taxation, quite apart from the basic tax adjust- ments which have bccn the main‘ subject 0f dis- cussion."

Premier Drcw maintained that the Ontario proposals were fair to the less wealthy prov- inccs lwccatisc thcv ]ll'O\'l(l(‘<l for a. national ad- iusttitcnt fund such as was recommended by the Rowcll-Sirois report. "I made it clear," he said, "that wc arc rcady to agree to any sys- tcnt of ztdminis uion which will be acceptable to thc provizircs 1"cc':i\'i11g national adiuslmcnt grants. and that wc are ready to agree to any financial basis for thcsc grants approved by the Confcrcncc. l might remind you that the Donmtion proyvosz1ls cxcludc this vcry csseittial recommendation i11 thr- Rowcll-Sirois rcpOrt. \\'c attach considerable intportatice to this pro- posztl and \vc want a provision for an adcqtiztte national adiustmcnt fund included in the agree- mcnt."

This is :1 llZ‘.l‘llt"lll.'l!'l\‘ strong point. Tihcrc is no doubt that the lip-iv idea of the Rowell- SirOis Co111111i>sinn was distribution 0f the total tax revqtue of Canada so that the position of the weaker provinccs would be strengthened. 'I'lie Maritime Provinces in particular were hopeful that subsidics would have been based on fiscal necd rather than on population. This would have been a rcztl step forward in the dir- ection of national tmitv. But it was nOt taken. The couccption was droppcrl when the plan for a pcr capita sttbsidv to the provinces was pm- posed: and it was the King Government, and not Ontario or any of the provinces, which did the proposing.

The Mihailovitch Trial

London ncwspapcrs cmphasize that the trial of General Mihailnvitch’ by a Military Court in Belgrade, on charges of collaboration with the enemy and of committing numerous war crimes is strictly a domestic Yugoslav con- cern. The Unitcd Kingdom Government has neither the desire nor the right to intervene dir- But an official indictment read _in court contained allegations against United Kinzdonfoflicet-s attached to the United Kingdom Military Mission with Mihailovitch and tllric-‘gllegttttotls immlkmthe policy of the Brltilih '., The United Kingdom Govertttttetit, t ‘felon, cannot leave these charges unanswered. ,

..The purport of these charges is that the gdonr Military Mission, acting on worsen. nuptial: mwamd twat/twat

1

~thc allegations seem to ltave

and his Chetnika to oppose Tito’: Partisaus. It is even alleged that one United Kingdom 0f- ficcr. Colonel Bailey, told Mihailovitclt that the Allies intended to land on the Adriatic Coast in the spring of 1943, and‘ that the Partisans must be liquidated in order to provide a clear hinterland.

On lune l2 the United Kingdom Charge (FAffaires in Belgrade handed the Yugoslav Assistant lllinister of Foreign Affairs a note pointing out in the first Dlace that it would have been the customary procedure for the YlIlZOSb-V Government to have invited the United King- dom Government's comments before issuing an indictment casting reflection upon the United Kingdom Government's policy. The next note states that the United Kingdom Government is making an exhaustive search of its records but that, on the information already available, no foundation whatever. Thirdly, the United Kingdom Gov- eruntent requests the Yugoslav Government to provide documentary evidence in stipport of lltc allegations-made.

The catcgorical statements of the two surviving lhiitctl Kingdom Officcrs concerned completely exonerate the United Kingdom Gov- ernment from the chargcs levelled against it in the indictment drawn up by the Yugoslav Gov- ernment. ln point of fact. the instructions given to the United Kingdom Military Mission whn were attached to Miltailovitch wcre in an exact line with the policy adopted by the United King- dom Government i11 all theatres of war, name- lv, to encourage all those who fought the coir- Emil Ellftlll’. whatcvcr their political color might

e.

— EDITORIAL NOTES —

The Clothing Collection is off to a good start. U U U U Everybody should be going to the toda_v—at the Forum. II U

dogs

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‘Villtlfiilt’, Ont, scents to be the most 1111- lucky centre of all Canada. 'l'hcre is always some trouble or commotion there, fro111 bank robberies to tomados.

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According t0 the Dominion Bureau of Sta- tistics, no less than $105,000,000 was spent 0n all forms of advertising in Cattada i11 r945; newspapers obtained $38,612,339 Qt‘ this; and radio $9,327,155.

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DlSClplcs of Isaak lValton will be [wlcascd to learn that the dam at Milton has been repair- ed; 11W ‘$05K 0n a basis of 50-50, being defrayed by the club and the government. Though man- flllfid hv the club fishing there is not confined to members, b11t open’ to‘ visitors as wcll.

Field Marshal lllontgontcrys visit here in August, probably 25th, will provide a red letter day for us. The date mentioned happens to be a Sunday, so in all likelihood the ceremonies, apart from the itispection of the guard-of- h011our will take place the following day. The ytscount 1s sincerely religious, and was known 1n the army as “tile praying gciteral."

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The ladies of the farm will eitjoy the freedom of the city today at the annual conven- tion of the Women's Institutes. Morg ‘and more, as the years go by, the institutes are play- ing an important part in the affairs 0f the prov- ince. At_the present gathcring it might 11ot be inappropriate to send a greeting to cx-Chief Justice Mathieson, for it was he, as Premier, and his then Commissioner of Agriculture, Hon. Murdock MacKinnon, who first inattgttralcrl \Von1cn's Institutes here.

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A plebicite On the flag question would be merely an attempt on the part of our legislators "to pass the buck". We enjoy, or are Supposed to entoy, representative govcrmnent in this country. and elect ntcmbcrs to carry 0n our af- fairs, free and tmtranttnelled, according to their judgment. If they do not worthily dis- charge this onerous and ltonotirable duty, wc reserve the right to vote against their re-election at the next appeal to the country. .~\ plebiscite on one particular question is utidctttmratir, and about as reliable as a Gallup Poll.

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‘ James VI of Scotland and _I of Great Britain, born this date I566; with him began the internal devcloptucnt of joint kingdoms and the real cxpansiott 0f the Empire; his rcigtt was tnarkcrl by a constant struggle with Par- liament, which in the following reign led to the Great Rcbcllion; lames was the author of several books, which though mediocre, show

scholarship, due no doubt to the fact that he be.

was taught by George Buchanan, who was also

tutor of hi: mother, Mary Queen of Scots; d

Buchanan was a political reformer wl1osc demo- cratic political trcatise was twice cottdcmncd by Parliament, and publicly burned by the Univers- ity of Oxford; he was a scholar and writcr of the first rank. U U U

To a world distressed and sickened by the picture of moral decadence, which has always seemed to accompany war, four rccctit news items should bring a gleam of hope, says Th» Christian Srienc; Illonitur: April l): The French National Assembly, without debate, out- lawed prostitution throughout France, hitherto legalized for centuries. April I2: 'I‘l1e United States War Department issued a regulation placing houses of ill-repute off bounds t0 all military personnel, and invoking disciplinary action on violators, and-what is cvcu more significant-upon practices which tnight be in- terpreted as condoning prostitution. May to: The Economic and Social Council of the United Nations mapped a world fight against prostitu- tion. May l5: President Truman signed Pub- lic Law 381, making permanent the control of prostitution around military" and naval estab- lishments. It would be distinctly premature, to read into these events signs of a great moral awakening. An assumption" nearer the facts» would be that conditions have "become bad enough to crack through the-ancient ehell of de- festism. But even that it something to be very

Notes By The Way

Russian eeplo Q wit. u, gem

11- nmsrees and Buck cem-

Qlll “lit. is Allflllhh ‘napalm

. - an t S-

a b: the in en“ 5% pafiflof-

18m d people. -—8t. Catlin-fines Standard.

a drunk driver ‘at so (la t u» hitting and crlpp for le a child at Windrslgn] In hell: some city, a Bardiner w u ru loose also 30 iiiays. =11: stuff e11 w ‘ch Bulshevlsm fatlens. but the real cure is in n more alert mcracy. —St, Oatharincs Stan-

A writer has fumed out an m. icle on “Ildachixiesme Running the Cowl-try". He wrote it on a type- writer. --—Kitchencr Record.

The finpire may be weakened, but not the British mph. There are many. who be e that the postwar generation will be lnorc t-n ing and resourceful than their fathers. Certainly the British are the best risks in the world today-and the only strong oom- pelltms in the business of making the democrat-lg; system work. New York Times.

lf we tackled the housing prob- lem wit-h half the energy and re- solve that we nut- into the manu- facture of fllllll-tify Sulilllws, l; would be solved Ln a-ppreciable measure. If lu-bor and manage- ment could sink their differences and resolve to get. on with the job. come whtal might of uctng all the countless ocmmcdl ies qt urhlnh the world stun-dz. tn such sorry nerd. they would be forthcoming. —Brockville Recorder and Times.

Some critics think that balancing a budget. is as simple as the lu-te Blondins stunt of crowns; Niagara gorge on a tightrope But tight- rope walking lms gone cut. and so has the other balancing feat -— Ottawa Citizen

Industrial workers get two weeks‘ holiday with pay but when a farm- er ts-kes a holiday, he must; pay someone to mtllk the cows, feed the pigs. gather the eggs and see that the cattle do not break int/o the corn or grain iiclds ll is impossible for a tanner ho tliut down for two u-cclcs and have evervthin-g fu ~- tlcm nonnally when the power is agau turned 0n -Farmer'.s Advo- cafe

Beryllium. second simplest of all metals and prewar wonder stuff. has graduated out of the miracle class into practical use, savs The Scientific American. With a melt.- lng point ctf ncurly 2,400 degrees Fahrenhelr~or nearly twice as high as that of m n-eslum or al- umlnum- nearly gs lght. in weight as magnesium, so simple in struct- ure that unlike the heavier metals it is virtually transparent to X- rays and able to lend strengt-lt, toughness and corrosion resistance to t5 alloys, beryllium ls obviously destined to play an important rote 1n the future but for two big W's. If we can find rich enough de- posits of the metal, and if the rlce can be kept down-now u! a u’- 617 per pc-tmd.

Whoa Confederation was still young there might be found

in almost ever-v Canadian home at least, one daguctreatype. Usually it held a place of hrontor on an already overburdened what-not. It was almost sure to be featured in any parlor coasting a hair-cloth “set", and a murblclopped table centred by wax tlowws protected from dust and fingering by s gleaming glass dome, says The Oti- awu Journal. with the waning of their popularity the little pictures were consigned to some limbo from which they are now making a ":1- urrvphant. return If nothing else. this resurrection seems t,o prove that recent attic diggers discover- ed during their excavations a re- waml for: themselves as well as garments for the needy. These ified predecessors of the itin- erant. tintype takers’ wares must be distinctly mtflatwring or else the originals were less good look- tng than the present; generation. But, in artaktlc value thev are far ahead of the 110mm; known s’;

“ci-oyuie" which at. a slightly later an

date in the world's social develop- ment. reposed on draped easels tn many s parlor. Daguerrclotypes were also a distinct improvamant on some of the glowermg appetite-destroy- tang portraits of long gone gerttle- men that still hang on many a din- ing room wail. es must classed among the s! ctt the things left over from the “Home Sweet. Home" crewel-work- ed-motlo (laws ox long ago. But. aboutlhernl ors uwuch o. Ethos, for the ntajoflty are un-

entitled. Any original mlgm have been litshgresent owner's granti-

friend. An w ollv lost.- all

uncle. or only o fam- O

onymous. identity that is left. ls the ow a man who once was alive-—who workt-d mid laatghod and sighed, even as you and I.

Great Britain's first high altit- ude pressurized hlfllllfl’, the Avro 'I‘udor 1. has cmnpleted an extens- ive sertes of tests in the course of which fltghts up ‘.0 30.000 feel have n made. These tests have been mthelv satisfactory and have prov-

thll the complicated DfeMlIlI-fit- ton tnnamtion nun-e than meet-s the severe conditions set for it by the British air regulettiom. While the

ctnu-al pmblzms were being

removing surplus heat frun the nlr after lt leaves tne blowers of the sllenoem for eliminating the noise‘

of the blowers mm the system, a cabin heaters. fans for c muting instrum to for record-

the alr, of en int: and regulating remrres and olr cleaners

temperst and

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to prevent l e enl of dust when d the aircraft is t 0ft from desert. r h

a throng sandstonm. Gtmut tom's new Lréansallanrtlc airliner will not new

name-Eh}; In the our- of the Journal of the Medical - ' s‘ m:

PUBLIC - FQRUM

This column la open to

the dlaeueaion by eons

upondenta of qoeatlooa at

internal. The Charlottetown

Guardian done not ueeamr ' ll! ‘ he opinion at

norreapoudenfa.

“WHAT OI‘ THE NIGHT?”

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Sin- ‘Hurt the use of b5’ Parents had o. detrimental el- fect u the offspring has been

during thousands of

the the

Vulcan was attributed to the drunk- ermess of his lather Jupiter when Vulcan was conceived In that case alcoholic indulgence by the father at the time inception affected the child's physical well- being. The mother of Samson, who was to be a champion of his race. w-as enjoined dun/lag her pregnancy "Now tlmefoue, urware. I pray bee, and drink no white nor strong drink" (Judges XIII, 4, 14).

Observation and experiment have established on an matron-bio basis the alcoholic origin of feeble-amid- eclnes and idiocy.

Observation by scienbkts u on alcoholic and non-alcoholic f lea resulted in the following compari- sons Front 10 110mm] families in which there were 61 chtldrm, clzlldreh only out of the 6i were de- formed, none were idiotic. none were epileptic, 3 were Plot born alive and more mart 88 per cent were r1 . From l0 alcoholic famtles in which there were 57 children. l0 out of the 5'1 were deformed, 6 were idiotic, 6 were epileptic 25 were not born alive. and only 1'1 per cent. weme normal.

Sclenmtlc research has throvm much light upon the devitalizing effect of alcohol tipontzltesex organs of both sexes. Alcohol has a decid- ed aifinltvy for the reproductive or genital glands. Alcohol acts upon the ripe male cell shortly before the time when tt fertilizes the ovum or , glv rise to a defect in the tvid , tlius explaining the recorded effects attributed drunkenness at the time 0f con- ception Observations have shown that a mule in a state of acute intoxication is more apt to beget m1 abnormal offspring than is a non-intoxicated male. altho h a frequent user of abohol. Au rlty for these statements Ls found tn "A System of Medicine", by entlnent authorities in Great Britain the United States and the Continent.

'I‘h1e use of alcohol by patients has been clearly shown to be the cause qt’ mental deficiency in the school-work of children Observa- tions have been mode covering thousands of school children whose family histories have been traced through three generations. This was done in grea- d-etall with re- gard to the taking of alcohol Oi’ the children whose parents and grandparents had rgéltiised aloolzgl, l ‘rid rirencuitihcvtieiieerg ndteziieeoifrunei ‘alcoholic taint in their ancestry. only 23 per cent were proficient Of the chill/iron with hereditary ni- ooholtc taint, '16 per cent suffered from some neurosis or organic dis- ease. ,

Parental alcohlLm transmits and exhibits its evil inheritance in the nervous system or the next, genera- tion This. enfeabled nervous or- gtmizatlon Ls frvquently ~t=xhlbited at birth as revealed by convulsions and other debillties.

Ln their mental development. many children of alcoholic pur- entage shows signs of stupidity. mental deficiency, moral instability and lack of ‘Jbflllhl control Others exhibit idiocy, epilepsy. hysteria, ous unbalanced

together with varl cravings.

In many cases the damn to tho chllcl does not show un-tl he or she reaches the period of adole- scence and has to through the strain of growing tnvto an adult.

The character-law: mental trait 0f the child of the irwwtate moth- er ls a warped or stunted intelli- gence accompanied by impulsive, uncontrolled actions. Patrenta-l 1n- toxlcatlon tends to use "gglsive degenem " and

beetles.

a minority o‘ drinkers‘ are passion-Ila; and ment- y rtmmatl. e percentage given b some authorities being as h h as 1'1, by others no l1 her thaattlpereent. Thusaveryla. e proportion mtdeed are ly and mentally sub-n normal. Du". Mata-ice Craig, rt well-lenowm ullenlst. declares that ittsbetweerttheagesoif 14 and 34 that symptoms of degeneracy us» a , it is when the real life begins that the child

children

work

- of the alcoholic parent first shows

0g early nervous ex-

moet. seriously b0 ap- eeble intelligence and l‘ Jpower of these r- sons and to prevent them. by tfe- lotng gums-rid protection ban the part Stare. mom ringing children into the world. Almady the number ti’ incapable htlnlm ‘beings is lling a wise community should take active mea- sufestptfassg: at luff stmroeiby the pa" nc neg». ve mlgen causes of so much disease M!

alcohol "W"

3e1-

v, preted in some quarters in the

the Yt

llii tments d.

0 QOIKBTIB

unatten- the markup of 8h- N @-

fl

vereetiona will oove on each of the tlnns in the Oom- mil/tee o: mum's Report. The lwo groups of c-ffkiala will have before than in the course their dlseumlnns the rtahentmu which ENG lIV 2&1 ' go been 1 lted f the Arab