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CHAR-LOTTETOWN WEDNESDAY. APRIL 1!. 1951

An Austerity Budget

Perhaps the outstanding feature of the Budget delivered by Finance Minister Ab- bott in the House of Commons last night was the' staggering increase of 20 percent in personal income taxes. This is for de- fence purposes, and will not go into effect until July 1. Other changes, including a two per cent boost in sales taxes which al- ready stand at eight percent, become effec- tive immediately. Cigarettes, tobacco and other commodities and luxuries are hit by other tax increases.

In view of Federal proposals for amend- ing the Constitution to enable the Provin- ces to impose their own sales tax, the boost in Federal sales taxes is ominous indeed. Experience has shown that whenever this retrogressive tax is raised, it usually stays at that level until hoisted again. It is rarely reduced, even in times of general prosper- ity. Governments find it an easy way of milking the taxpayers, especially the poor ones, and as it is pyramided before it reaches the consumer it represents a very onerous burden in many cases.

Financing has reached an extraordinary stage at Ottawa. The most ill-informed lay- man could hardly be farther off the mark in forecasting our financial position than was Mr. Abbott last year, when he predict- ed a budgetary surplus this year of 315,- 000,000. Instead he came out with a sur- plus of over iB200,000.000. Why then the further boost in taxes this year? Defence expenditures, of course, will require huge appropriations; but the other reason given --that of preventing inflation-could be met by imposing price controls. This the Government is not prepared to do at the present stage. It prefers to budget in a manner which will fall with particular sev- erity upon the ordinary taxpayer, who al- ready is finding it almost impossible to balance his personal budget owing to mounting prices for necessary commodities. This stern policy may in the end prove justifiable, but on the surface it is open to very grave objections.

International Pork Barrel

"Pork barrel politics" is an unpleasant epithet once popular in describing a dis- tribution of government largesse for the purpose of influencing certain electoral areas where political support for the party in power was known to be lagging. Oc- casionally it worked. More often it prov- ed a dangerous boomerang. Communities which had been consistently faithful polit- ically resented that political heretics should be favored at their expense.

In recent years pork barrel politics has been superceded by social security politics. Social security politics is what External Affairs Minister Pearson would describe as "enlightened self-interest." Peo- ple imagine that everyone benefits from the political "share-the-wealth" program. -People forget until budget day that it is everybody's wealth which is being shared. Meanwhile the Government reaps the credit.

Social security politics has now been extended to lntemationai affairs. So far as Canada is concerned, the Colombo Plan for so-called technical assistance to south- east Asia is the best example. Largesse to be distributed this year under Canada's al- location to the Plan is ;i25 million.

The commodity which the Government expects to purchase with this sum is orient- al goodwill. Asiatics, it is anticipated, will abandon all thought of supporting Com- munism, and string along with Canada and the other western democracies when it comes to a vote at the United Nations. The trouble of course is that, except in the Security Council, big countries and small each have the same number of votes. May- be the Latin American bloc or the Middle East bloc will get jealous and vote the wrong way. It is a dangerous game.

Canadian cooking has begun to come but of its comparative seclusion on the wo- men's pages-of newspapers and tends to become front-page copy. The most recent example was the story of the meals served It Quebec's historic Government House, Boil de Ooul01l8E. to the President of the French Republic and Mme. Aurloi. Others were about an Ottawa gout-mets' club and Junior Chambers of Commerce suggestions for the adoption of distinctive dishes for

the venom Provinces or regions. a , picture. however. Home nova:-y appreciation of the

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boys for our troops in Korea, who seeming- ly prefer beans-not necessarily without reason-to the other forms .of military ra- tion, represents a very considerable section of Canadian eaters.

There is no reason why we should con- tinue to neglect the finer things of the table. In Canada we are blessed with a great variety of choice foodstuffs and have developed the means of distributing it in prime condition. Cooks are generally only too happy to supply varied and brilliantly prepared meals if only the diner will ap- preciate them instead of demanding long accustomed fare;

EDITORIAL NOI ES

Official nominations tomorrow. in o. I Apparently there are going to be no acclamations in this election. 0 O 0 Budget and new taxation imposition the first order of the day. I

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Too many cooks are likely to spoil the Korean broth. It does not do to have any- one but a dictator dictating international policies.

Now we are to have a boom in Marl- time trucking, provided new sales taxation on the part of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick does not intervene.

O O 0 If we are to wait the outcome of the patent legislation between two contending meter companies, it is likely to be a con- siderable time before the new auto meters will go into operation.

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The Abbott Budget reveals that in the years 1946 to 1950, more than 339,000,000,- OOO of new plant and equipment was instal- led by Canadian industry. Alas, very lit- tle of it came to Prince Edward Island!

0 O I An increase of 12 per cent in gross na- tional product in 1951 over last year is estimated in the Abbott Budget. This should mean a considerable increase in our payments under the Domini0n-Provin- cial tax agreement.

0 It is encouraging to note that agricult- ural production in Canada in 1950 was higher in both volume and value than in 1949, and farmers' cash income, excluding the variations in Wheat Board disburse- ments, was five per cent greater in 1950 than in the year before.

0 0 Nova Scotia Legislature is to have a summer -session to pass on the proposed sales tax and amend the pension law. That means Premier Angus Macdonald is sure the proposed amendment of the B. N. A. Act will be carried at the adjourned meet- ing of the Federal-Provincial Conference.

I O 0 It is announced the Federal Govern- ment has established a bureau of current affairs to tell Canadian service men why they are serving and fighting in Korea. In view of the many contradictory propaganda addresses being given over CBC, one would think such an official bureau was highly essential.

Mr. Bell, Leader of the Opposition, ac- cepts Premier Jones' declaration that the issue in this election is, which party should deal with the Federal Government in ref- erence to' the Dominion-Provincial agree- ment. This being conceded, there is prac- tically nothing else before the electorate except to discover what each party stands for.

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It must have been depressing in the ex- treme for the Islanders to have to go on the ice at Sydney knowing that two of their number had received a summons in con- nection with the previous game played in that town. They are to be heartily con- gratulated under the circumstances in doing as well as they did, in spite, too, of being two men short in their customary line-up. O I 0

Some extreme left British newspapers are adversely criticizing Princess Elizabeth for spending more time with her husband abroad than with her children at home. The same type of newspapers previously hinted that the Duke of Edinburgh should be transferred from the Mediterranean to Naval Headquarters in London to be near his wife. It is a case evidently "You'll be d - - ned if you don't and you'll be d - - ned if you do." . 0

An indication that prices are at an ex- orbitant peak is shown by the fact that personal spending in 1950 increased more than personal income, resulting in a. 30 per cent decline in net personal savings out of current income. Yet in other coun- tries the situation was even worse. Whole- sale market prices in Canada advanced 15 per cent last year, as against an increase of 19 per cent in the United States, 22 per cent in Australia, 23 per cent in the United kingdom, and between so and 25 per cent in most of the western European

whine. The term of been-countries.

THE GUARDIAN, CHARLOTTETOWN

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This column is open to the discussion by correspondents of questions of interest. the Guardian does not in

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correspondents. GOOD BAMABITANS

Sir.-I would be much obligedlf you would allow me to express in your widely circulated paper my thanks to those people, chic: among them the tractor owners, who have on many occasion; pushed, pulled. and even lifted me out of the snow and mud through the period of several years that I have driven a car: 95139618-Hy since they were always kind enough to do it without charge! Being a clergyman I have received more than usual kind- ness (especially in this Province) but I know that many tractor owners never charge: and some- times an individual tractor owner is put to considerable expense. when there is a. bad hole at their gate way. I would not like them to think that I take these services too much for granted.

Many. I am sure, would join me in this expression.

i am. Sir etc. REV. JOHN DOUGLAS York, P. E. I.

CRUSADE FOR. GOOD READING

Sir.-The Royal Edward Chapter of the I. O. D. E. at their last monthly meeting discussed it lol- ter published in The Guardian re- cently dealing wit-h immoral liter- ature. which is finding its way to the stands in our local stores. This was an excellent letter written by Mrs. Regina Murray, chairman of "The Crusade for Good Reading" In the Charlottetown division of the C. W. L.

Mrs. Murray puts the matter very clearly before us and opens our eyes to the danger of allow- ing unclean literature to be so easily available to our people. both young and not so young.

We have read with interest. and pride of the growth of our Public Health Department and of the huge increase in the amounts budgeted for this branch in our government estimates. And we wonder if the officials in this department could help in this im- portant phase of public health. As Mrs. Murray points out, "How anxious and eager we are to pro- tect our bodily health...but we do 0 little to prevent spiritual in- fee on which is lnsldlously creep- ing into the minds of the readers of immoral literature." The members cf my Chapter voted unanimously to join "The Crusade For Good Reading" so well organized by the C. W. L. I nm. Sir. etc.

HELEN A. LAWSON Regent. Royal Edward Chapter. I. 0. D. E... Charlottetown.

THE SOLAR. SYSTEM

Sir,-I love to think of the eight or more planets, revolving around the central sun, all held in their proper position by gravitation. Each one follows the right path and keeps the correct distance, none varying nor making mis- takes.

I fancy the Almighty expects us to see in this as well as other things in nature, a spiritual les- son. The natural sun is their attracting force. They may all be receiving heat, light, life and power. as the earth one of their number does. But man, the greatest of God's creations, unless it be the angelic host. seems un- able to follow God's plan for him. The Creator sets before us two courses of actions. He tells us the reward for one and the tragedy in the other. By nature we choose evil, or allow our minds to revolve around some- thing of doubtful value. Adolph Hitler said: "I'll change the minds of the German people in 10 years. I'll rule the notions of a Suprcxrne Being out of their thinking and let. them revolve their minds around me. I'll teach them hatred and cruelty instead of love and helpfulness." He got into war before the 10 years

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GOD'S ACRE

I like that ancient ssxon phrase,

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The iiurisl-ground God's Acrel It s s

11! : It conseci-ates each grove within its walls, And breathes s benison o'er the sleeping dust.

God's Acrel Yes. that blessed name imparts

Comfort. to those who in the grove have sown

The seed that they have garnered in their hearts,

Their bread of life, slssl no more their own.

mto its furrows shall we on be on ,

In the sure faith that we shall rise 58!

At the great harvest, when the srchnngel's bissi.

Shall winnow. like o fan. the chaff and grain.

Then shall this good stand in in- mortal bloom

In the fair gardens of that second

birth, And each bright blossom mingle its rfums '

pc with that of flowers which never bloomed on earth.

with thy rude gloushshsrc. Denim. t a, soil. . the furrow for the we sow: This is the field and Acre our

God. This is the place where' humsn harvests growl

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were up and he almost won it. Each of us may have a little God that is the centre of our life and thin-kinvg. it may be some real vice lhat. we are a slave to. 0: to shorten this letter, l'1l mention one very laudable and worlliw-hile idea. that a young man might talk about in the day and dream about at night, and that is the idea of serving in public life. This is generally cal- led, going into politics; and in most cases, I suppose, the nom- inee does not question himself as to whether he is going to fight on God's side or the devil's. It has got to be one or the other. Fath- er James Keller, founder of the Christopher movement, says these who do not want God, get the devil. Our thoughts are guided by either one or the other. Ev- ery volunteer takes the oath of allegiance to his captain, and puts on the uniform. It must be a wearing job for a. man to fight in politics without faith in God. With faith a politician is a states- man: and quite a few are need- ed to bring about several long delayed reforms. l have seen the end of old worn-out politicians who simply made self the centre. With faith, you have light, heat. and power. I am, Sir. etc.,

J. A. MacKENZlE. Kensington, P. E. I.

JACK MINERIS ACHIEVEMENT

Sir,-The weclk of April 3 to i4 is National Wild Life Week in Canada.

in April. 1947, Parliament. by a unanimous vote, passed the Jack Miner Bill which created National Wild Life Week. The week to be observed always con- tains April 10th. the birthday of the late Jack Miner. This educa- tional week stresses the va.lu.e of conservation and is a living me- morial to the life work of the labc Jack Miner.

Jack Miner was born at Dover Centre, Ohio, near Cleveland, on April l0i.h. 1865. In 1878. when he was thirteen he came with his parents to Canada. He studied bird life and compiled data from the time he learned to write. One biographer stated that "Jack Miner was a naturalist from the time he was but four or five years of age when he used to put pollywogs ln'io cow tracks along the creek to watch them develop into frogs."

In 1904 "Uncle Jack" founded the Jack Miner Bird Sanctuary at Kingsville, Ontario. in order to promote the conservation of migratory waterfowl and to en- courage the eslablishumisni; of bird sanctuaries. He used to say to all visitors, "Hunters feed birds to attract them to be shot. I feed birds to attract them to a. place of safety to save them from ex- termination." In 1909 he began banding birds to study their mi- gration roules to gain scientific knowledge. In 191i he startled to place a verse of scripture on each band. in this way wild fowl carried God's word to the Eskimos and Indians of the north and to the hunters of the south.

For thirty years he lectured throughout Canada. Newfound- land. the United States and Alas- ka. His audiences were cap- tivated by his straightforward honesty. candor and simplicity of expression. Blogra-phers contend that his greatest contribution was the part he played in educating the public to the value of bird and animal life and the need of conservation. In 1906 he was re- ferred to as "the father of the

conservation movement of Am- erica."

During the last thirteen years of his life "Unlcle Jack" Miner bccame one of Canada's best

known and beloved citizens. Very few Canadian or American mag- azincs and newspapers have not pu-biislrzd an account of his work and bird sanctuary. Every year thousands of visitors journeyed to Kingsvllle to chat with Jack Miner and to see the sanctuary.

What a wonderful experience to have visited the sanctuary when guided about. by "Uncle Jack!" The Miner homestead is sur- rounded by tall whispering pines and a large green lawn. To the west. next to the homestead. lies the large pond where tame ducks. swans, geese and other wild fowl swim and froliok. Multi-colored phensan-ls, peacocks, pigeons and bantam chickens strut conleniediy around the sanctuary grounds. When "Uncle Jack" accomrpanied visitors to the pond area, the birds would come and feed from their hands for they knew his presence meant safety.

From the look-out tower large feeding ponds are observed north of the sanctuary: barns. Dur- mg the fall and spring thousands of wild geese, ducks and swans alight to feed on grain strewn on the bottonf of the ponds. In the ponds are wire pens where the wild fowl are trapped, banded and then released.

In autumn the sky over Kings- ville is dotted with V-shaped flights of honking gccse winging back and forth from Lake Erie to the sanctuary. During the hunting season the geese run a. five-rmilie gauntlet of shot from sportsmen who prize a well-cook- ed Canada goose. Only the move fortunate, however, obtain such a prize for the

tion using the wind and clouds always to best advantage.

"Uncle Jack" Miner was not just a naturalist,-he was a Christian naturalist. His thoughts, words and deeds were always based on Christian principles. He considered himself in partner- ship with God when he began placing scripture verses on his leg bands. His faith was that God guided him and the birds. In his own rendition of the 23rd Psalm he says,

"The Lord is

Teacher,

I will not get lost.

He makes my heart s receiving

station for His wireless."

In 1946, King George VI be- slowed upon him the Order of the British Empire. The charter signed by the king and accom- panying t.he gold medal road: "For the gteaiest achievement in the field of conservation in the. British Empire." When he died, November 3rd. 1944. men, women and children from every walk of life came to honour this beloved Canadian naturalist. Several peo- ple drcssed in hunting clothes played silently before his bier. There were a few of the people he had rescued from the northern woods. Words of condolence. rc- gret and appreciation came to the Minor family from all over the world.

The late Prime Minister Moc- Kenzio King wired, "Jock Minzr was one of the outstanding cit- izens of Canada and his name holds an honoured place in' the history of our country. He has set a noble example to his fellow cii.izens."

National Wild Life Week is truly n living memorial to the life wonk of "Uncle Jack" Miner. the Christian naturalist. who pre- sented to the world "love of God,

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Envelope . enclosed with Baby Bonus cheques and signed by National Director of Family Allowances. advises housewives to economize in various ways, one of which is by doing their own baking. Questions that arise are: (1) Who is to compensate home bakers for the batches of dough they spoil while learning the art of brcadmaking? (2) If the house- wives succeed in learning the art, who is to-compensate thc'com- mercial bakers for lost business? (3) Who asked the Director of Family Allowances for his advice. anyway?--The Printed Word.