liovernment these costs are steadily rising.

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Morning Dally (Founded In I887) Alillorll ’ ll Second Class Mull. Post. Ofllco Department. Ottawa.

PICBHIBIIL Ian A. Burnett: Vice-President. “m. ll. Burnett: Sena-Trans. u. .u. Burnett; Ellllttl‘ um] “will!!! Director. .I. fl. Burnett; Associate Edltur. Frank Walker.

"The Strongest lllcmory is IVea/cei- Than

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Fireman's Tag Ilay Tomorrow

holdixhc Charlottetown Fire Department are 9 0 (I9 rlny tomorrow (Saturday) with tho pmceeds bcmfl "Rd-towards furnishing now uni. forms for the firemen. reersTciiridfiticfhiisnfrm ‘Manly ‘me u" will". and Professions thilmvunous"ypcs o‘ busuwss I r. - 05f vdnilyvthcy has»; yo cave their shops and offices III answcr to a my: Iglgirm from some part of the city. During Yif" mPIlY 0f them were up all night 0n several occasions, standing by their hose and lpClCh-IIWS until the last spark had been ex. "IQIIISlIEd. Most of us fail to realize how much we depend on these mcn for the safety of our homes and places of business in time of tire; their prompt action has in o great “timber- of cases prevcntcrl many serious Conflugrntiong from becoming disasters. Their work i; not confined to the city as on numerous occasions they are called to aid some rural home or com- munity. Thc firemen never know when they will be called, as fires do not choose a conveni- ent hour to break out. However when the alarm is sounded these willing workers converge on the Fire Station on the run, and cheerfully don their boots, slickers and hats in the speedy dash to the scene of the alarm. lniuries, both to clothes and to the person, are sometimes suf- fared but, ii1 spite of these hazards, fhe Fire Department has an evcr increasing waiting list which reflects the calibr-e of this organization.

The Fireinen are requested from time to time to act in an official capacity at ball games and gatherings where they control crowds, and are on hand to render first aid should the need tor it arise. There is, also, the annual lire- men's convention where tournaments are hold, and vcriou: matters are discussed betwccn de- partments from all pails of the Moritimes. The firemen sometimes attend civic funerals as a group and here as in the aforementioned cases uniforms are a necessity.

Our firemen need ond deserve new uni- forms, so let us show that we appreciate them by making their tog day tomorrow an over- wlwirning success.

Where Taxes Go

fn reply to n question asked by Mr. D. G. Iona, M.P. (St. Poul’sl a return was tabled in ‘the House of Commons disclosing the fact that Instead of cutting down administrative costs of As (It December i945, there were some l50,000 por- sons employed by the Government of Canada. The return tobled on March 27, l9l7 shows that as at December 31, I946, there were l73,96l. In salaries, wages arid allowances this is cost- ing the taxpayers well over 26 million dollars per month.

War Assets Corporation~8,509 employees cost $l,43Z,906 per month.

Taxation Division-7,455 employees $l,046,566 per month.

Novy—8,l3l civilian employees 223,433 per month.

Army-—'l8,000 civilian 535,053 per month.

Air Forcc-—5,:97

ont . swlwllfliiflrfi mPrices and Trade Boord~4r568 gmplgygeg cost $732,290 per month.

These figures substantiate the Iirolflsli made by Opposition members in the Leglslalllrv, with regard to tax burdens and bureaucracy.

Accidents 0n “The Farm

The nnmbcr of accidents that occur on forms each year rind the severity of the re- sultant injuries have for years been noted witii concern by doctors in rural communities, and yet to date comparatively little work has been done to prcvcnt these accidents. So write Drs. Hermon Young and Ralph K. Ghormlcy in the Journal of the American Medical Associa- tion. ll tho post national and local safety coun- cils hove directed toward the prevention ol traffic and industrial accidents and have turn- ed to the problem of farm safety only recently.

The problem of accidents on Ihc form varies, of course, with different localities. One factor in the situation is the fact that the farm- er is generally his own boss or employs only a few men. As a rule he does not carry com- pcnsation, hospital or accident insurance. How- ever, ha is handling machinery thot_is as power- ful as many other industrial machines ond handl- ing this machinery over rough ground in con- frost to many industries that can bolt the ma- Furthermore tho former uses his various machines season- ally, whereas the operator of a punch press, for Instance, um the some machine daily and hull opportunity to become familiar with the ilourcol of danger. ln order to spud up pro- action, tlil format permits tho removal of ‘fduvicu from his machines or fails to In after repairs uro madc- Hc often lava o clogged mochlno while It rror may use o piece of makeshift poly unguardodtlo um flooring Is necessary, op-

‘tlctdtl, handles unruly Iowutli or uncertain rm- yllm Vtlyllxpam lllll- tblkr lll ll out in

cost cost SI,- employees cost $2,- cost

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i all kinds of weather and must often wear bundle- isome clothes that hamper quick movements. Those are but a few of the dangers that lurk on the farm. To these must be added the don- -ger of gas gangrene and tetanus, for the farm- er's hands ond clothes are contaminated with fertilized soil and manure, and o_ny wound may ipermit the entrance of these organisms into the body, where they produce disastrous re- sults. ,

ln spite of medical ond surgical advances that have been and are being made, the phy- sician cannot help but be impressed with the al- most utter hopelessness of many patients who have been iniured while at work on a farm. The best cure still lies iri prevention of the acci- dents. The first step in prevention likewise lies in educating the farmer to the facts of haw, where, when ond why accidents happen on zhe farm.

r- hUlHtRlAL NUILS .-

One thing about Premier Jones, he docs not shelter himself behind that commonest of poli- tician's alibis, the newspaper "misrcporl." When it was suggested in the Legislature the other day that the report of his statement on Labor

be untrue, he said it was publliod that way and he was standing by it.

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The Princess Royal (Victoria Alexandra Alice Mary), Countess of Hareword, only dough- tcr of George V born this date i897; hos two sons, Hon. George Henry Herbert, Viscount Lascelles, and Hon. Gerald David Lascellcs. The two daughters of George Vl are in the order of succession to tho throne, and oftcr them the Duke of Gloucester and his children; Ihcn the children of the Duke of Kent, followed by the

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The recognition bestowed by the Legis- lature on Mr. L. B. MacMillan, M.B.E., for his long and meritorious service as Deputy Minister of Public Works, was in the form of a resolu- tion which will be inscribed in the Journals of the House and will be on r-ecordgfor all time. lt is a well-earned tribute, ond one to which few individuals in any Province can lay claim.

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More good drinking alcohol can he modc from natural gas than all the whisky, gin and ruin consumed by Americans in I946, a peak year. And the cost would be only about one- lifth that of grain alcohol. This report was made to the American Chemical Society, Atlantic City by Dr. Robert S. Aries, of the Polytechnic institute of Brooklyn. Because of legal restric- tions thrown around production ol drinking alcohol, Dr. Aries thought that drinking of nat- ural gas olcohol is unlikely to become a na- tional trait. Another reason, he said, is that this some natural gas will be considered even more valuable for making synthetic gasoline and some by-products like aspirin, royons and plas- tics.

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Mr. W. J. Brown, Independent M. P. in the United Kingdom Commons, well known writer of realistic criticisms. of the Labour Government's mistakes, organized the Civil Service Clerical Association, now one of the most powerful unions in Britain. Elected to the House, he resigned as General Secretary of the union, but mode a con- tract with the union by which he was to be paid for service tb the union, but which specifically eft himfree in political affairs. The Civil Service Clerical Association has now notified him that, unless he agrees to cease all opposition to the Labour Party, his contract with the Association will be cancelled. Mr. Brown has refused lo ac- cept the c-ncellation of the contract, and has brought this attack on his privileges as a Mem- bcr to the attention of the Commons, where it has been referred to the propcr Committee. It promises to be a particularly interesting example of the attempts of Sozialists to throttle open dis- cussion of public affairs.

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Mrs. Gladys Strum, C. C. F., Qu'Appcllc, who has certain admirers of the name of Smith here, has been stirring up things in Parliament. "Are we going to sit here and allow the manlr- locturers to drag us into a depression because wc do not like to go to the trouble of controlling ,prices?" askcd Mrs. Strum. "Arc we going to permit this thing to go on until consumer rc- sistance and the lock of purchasing power bring on buying strikes and another depression? Sometimes when I read the opinions of some of our economists I think it is time that we started ci new school of economics. They regard what they coll the low of supply and demand as some- thing like th-o law of gravity, something over which they have no control." Parliament could and should do something about thc control of prices, she said.

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An interesting and novel experiment in agricultural technique is being carried out in Britain today. Wheat is being sown from the air by spraying it from o low flying aeroplane. This enterprising way of harnessing air power for the assistance of agriculture has for its object overcoming the results of the serious hold-up in forming operations—and spring sowing in particular-caused by the calamitous weather of the lost six,months. The experi- ment is taking place over on area fifty acres in sin and a Miles Aerovon aircraft is being used for tho job. The plane will be flown at about 75 mph of on average height of 50 ft. and will be carrying fivo tons of wheat seed. This will be scattered over tho land through bomb apertures in the bottom of the plane and the forcu of tho wind will do the work of spreading the sud evenly over the fields. This operation will bu followed up by harrowing with m-z-horiicol tractors. Land on the moiority of forms in lritaln is still too sudden to permit surface sowing and this experiment in alr- opraylnp nod is being watched with the great- est intlrnt by thd agricultural community.

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THE CHARLOTTETOWN GUARDIAN

Notes By the Way

Apparently Rusuia hopes that Brilmln- and the Unllod State; will snake substantial loans tio Germany so that Germany, In IIQT turn. will be able to make repanztlons to Russia. Surely we have had eizlough experience of that kind of financing. -Niagam Falls Review.

Considering the farmer‘: dislike for gardening, an expert gardener ‘might make a business of putting in farm gardens and caring for them. The maim- rcason why it \\‘0\Il(Jlt'l. work is that. ll: is not. traditional. - F‘armer's Advocate.

Alas the younger generation h s no respect for its elders. str t- corilcr ivnversabioils overheard ln one of the city's "better lcsidenlipl i-listrloto":-"\’ou abut. up". “H w old are you" "I'm foils.’ "w I. I'm eight." “Yea. and ‘you no stupid." - Oncill- Sound Sun-Tim I.

/\ lltlle knowledge of English is n ilangerous thing, u, i5 illusbmlorl by a sign reported above the alms box at a ehucch In Milan. Italy. T c good clerics hoped to induce Amedl- can soldiers to contribute. but thqir prose would give any God-fearing GI u. mm: “Appcle to Oharlbabloa- The Brothers (so-called of Mcr ) ask some slender arms for t.h lr hospital. They harbour all kind; o! diseases and Ilave no respect f0.‘ l'(‘ll§l0‘ll." ~- Tllls Week.

Ono of flu: grcalcct problems in pvollioblng highway nafcly- ls the altitude taken by too many peo- ple that. "Accidents Ilappair to olhcr people. not us". Having convinced themselves of this un- Irulh. the drivers become careless and the pedestrian fails 1o respect the ordinary rules c,f common sense. wllli the unfortunate result that. somebody gets killed or permancatlyr lnjuucd. ~ Qhcrbrookc Record.

Comments the Ottawa Journal: "In Philadelphia a parmt and p, dog rare to share lrlle income from n $12,000 estate. It. will be a waizl-der if the parrot doesn't talk the dog out o! his snare”. Maybe. But on the ol-ller the hand, may not the dog hound the bird out of lls inheri- tance? ---- StratIorv-l Boicomvl-Ierald

Attraction! nf n. blilmfflflfllllg homo has solver! the DFOblrm or New {south Walvs iiulslrallrn, sulssldlzed nlcrllr-al services in small country "mm-s. Before the nor many of these towns hurl been wit-hour permanent doctors. Today. the fact that. a house is found with the country Hllllollltluent has proved lrrcslstaible bait. All prsls mo. fillc-d. —Auistrallo.v. News. '

A thought that must often come to persons of middle cge. and beyond that. is the severe nervous strain to which [NOD19 are subjected by conditions us no have them today. A frw gcncrzilions ngo there were hardship. too. hut, life was less com- plox thori, and the trials amid trib- ulations clld not affect. the human Ilhlltique ‘ul the same was as they do today. The clla-nge has been blnzuglil about by a number of things Among lhcnl are lllc more rapid pncn Ill which evciyvllllllg is travel- ing. kccnvl" competitlrcr resulting in lllr} survival of the fllbesl, and the influences of this highly mechanized ago. _ Cholham Ncuvs.

More lluin an,\l.l1ing ctr-n it has been lllf‘ cniploynlclll of vimnen lli the United Stillcs that: has weakened the l-x-rstiluilon of lualriiriolly irl that. country. we ilhinl-z. Whcn lwo people oil-lei‘ the iliurriagc contract, it should be with lllc intciiron cf fouitrdlng n home. The husband's role is that of bread-winner. -.~.:o the nvifcls that cf a home maker. When both

DOCOIIIQ brond- inners, 1t ls the home that The employ- mclll of I1I£III'lC(l women ‘m the

United Stale; has lzccu r: pozrsiblc for the (lCCllllf! in the Llflll rate.- Chclhzml Daily Nelvs.

It's described nu looking llk- a kiddie our v."1‘h on ovevherd fli ulna-her! Io an oulbs- rd motor. It boars the SIPIII‘. rclzillon to nn :iil'- >])l1II‘.'|L‘ th-rt a iuolorqvcle ‘rears Io n

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Health Experiment In Britain

(United Kingdom Information)

Have you ever thought that health might be Infectious? That it might spread through a com- munity? That family after family could catch it. and m catching it start a. healthy sovicLv? Wcll, that Is exactly what has happened ln Peckham. London.

Set back from the sidewalk of a quiet; street. in South London, there's a. building called the Pio- neer Health Centre.

'I‘I1ere's no other building ln the world quite like il. and certainly nothing similar to the work lilal. la being done there‘

It's really a great laboratory. with human Ilcillgs as guincl pigs. Its origin dates hack 2.0 years lo the time when livo young biol- ogists began lo develop two lm- portant new approaches to Iieallti problems.

First. of all they decided tlial the best. vvay of fighting sickness was to keep people healthy‘. SCL" and, and equally" important, they began to investigate the COJIIIHUPKI lnfuences of health. environment and social activity.

So these two biologists, Dr. In- nes Pearse and Dr. G. Scott Wil- liamson. decided to provide l hclllh service which would enable families to avoid sickness rather than be cured after they became sick.

They started n ‘social activities‘ club l0 which 112 families belong- cd and these families ivcrc IZIYLZI a periodic health (‘llCUh-tlll. Soon they found this club-house was much I00 small.

I11 seven years, $156,000 was col- lected, and o. new club provlrliltg for o. membership of 2,000 lflllllllCi was built and opened in 1931i.

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There are lllrce floors in Ule building. One half of the lo-p floor is the ‘Consultation Block’. coa- si-sting of private consulting rooms, reception rooms and a bib-ch ni-‘ cal laboratory. The rcmai half of the top floor, has a Il- brary, work room, ‘occupation’ rooms. and an Infants’ nursery

The whole of the second floor is taken up by a cafeteria, and n large hall for meetings or clam-- ing. In the centre lllcra is a lame swimming pool, surrounded by glass Partitions, ivhich enable par- ents to sit. in comfort while IVB-IFl" in; their childrnn swimming. Nearly all the walls in the liinlil- ‘mg, except. those In the riirdicfi department, are made, of glffifi.‘ Whcn the building was designed

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watch the activities all around him he would evc-rlluallyr overcome his qualms and join In, was born in mind, and this llICOYy pro-veil correct.

The first floor consists of n gymnasium. which also i-onluirls u. small children's and learners’ swimming pool, a theatre, and nurseries for children ave two, ivliich open on to the izrou cl. zn summer. The res! of tho spur-r- irn the first. floor is Iakrn up In" cloakrooms. dressing rooms an-l showers.

The land in from of the b-.irli.l~ lng. apart from an area c-f U011- crcte used for roller skating ind bicycling. is as yet ilndcvcluylcri. but it. is hoped that in the not. too distant, future this will he made into tennis courts. and play- grounds for the children.

Peckhanl vras chosen as the place to build llrc f-Ir-nlth Lien- lre. because apart from Fnlhnrn. il was the only place in London which contained a population varied enough for the biologsls’ experiments. The Peckhum famil- ies - solitary individuals are ilot arllnitlcd—all live within a lllilo of the Centre, and their income-.- range from $12 a iveck Io $43000 la. year.) They pay n membership fe of 40:: per week for each 1.1m- ily unit, and the c-tlly other '- gall-orl to mclnbovship is lhui family must have a yearly lllljtll- cal BURCH-LIP.

The purpose for this chuck-up is not mcrcLv to discover" sickness in the members- of the Iulnilgv; IL is to estimate the Illflfl-livlll confli-

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niilcs an lrour u|i la "n altitude of, l'_'.lltl0 Iccl, \‘.'Ii.'~I will 'l‘.f‘_\' act up to urlxl? ’Il\l ls :'l!l‘o'~ti 1's IZOTlIl n:

those ylfillfllll‘ \\‘-“gs uc us-cd l: rlvci m abort Brr irc-‘ll pm ab!‘ ll"\'t'_‘ Io _n'vc up Ill‘ fnvarlt/t‘ spoil

of mountain rlinlbllg row to avofy lll(‘ lloFdr-y- Il'(‘ l‘ nfifzzillq all“ from pcrik to punk. ' . trouble \'.‘llll lllC'Jl1Illl.L'.ll

I It. gals i.-~i {he poor : up‘ -" We can jusl picture ihc llrarl

ncsazuun I“’.§lZ1.\"llI in thc sun

rcillnrkiirg sndflv. n» s rind uirirrs about his h: . ' nuilo. ’|'I1-~l'g mvl Sricllce hlonbnl’.

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I vxcrc VCTy tad, just before the war. Neville Ck-‘nvbcrlalir erupted ‘n lm-

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mr-nsc lc-cllng oil national relief ll-"Qfl rclrixnllcn by nrltinc to the [ire-s nbo I. the movements and be havloy or l-ilackblrrl th-"t. he saw in the cal-den o! No. 10 Dawning Sir-act. When things are really ser- iou; In England. you can always rely on a defeched newspaper coi-raspozirlcncc about the movement of o. ster globes. throslles or cand- plpcrs. And at a real crlslo you would often thlnk_you wen In ari o-plary rather than On tlhe Spot. - Onssandn In London Dally Mirror

Up In Ibo Bram: a oltlfled rprvilrl has "pointed" n blrrl nesting In n fire-escape. But those who roam a city without benefit of tree; emf flowers have already zpotood nlflll of Imminent spring. In the lubvuy, for example. udvertlamonta havl notified slmphanoera-tlrat they om olmln loom at reamublc rum for hioome ha: pom and inc-owls are not qulto u __ n they urea to be when doma- uo. left open between

ll-on c-f the family ullrl all its mun- hsrs, and lllcir (‘flflllllill vs for i1) individual lifc. i2) lillllll)‘ life, and till social lire.

The ovgarlircrs of lllf.‘ licwhil Ccmtre (lac-lore that a few munllis of social nnrl i-onlrnullzll fll'll\'il_", the acquisition of nciv lrinnds, :il.rl UH‘ cIcv-c-Irpmcnl nl new llllrrisl:

flllfl skills result in a rlfliuilr‘

ylrovcment of Irvzillli. n liciuiiti lug c-f vitality rind uoiicrzil l|IL'~ll]') of mental lllltl plly .. health.

The Ccnlr-o runs ll\l‘ll. than‘ .r r! nu rulcs ‘nilcl i _ Ialurln, :iyi-ir-' from lhc yoirly fllllill ilna-h-i-yi. Chlldrrcl and adults organize and run lhcil‘ own activities without.