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MONDAY, JULY 29. i946

Penny-pinching Spendlhrifts

carriers ltnvc- rcctsivt-tl notice that the small bonus pztid them itt war years is to be discon- tinued and tllc)’ will prcstttuably‘ have to con- tract on prc-tvar tcrttts if they wish to continue in their jols. This i. a sample of the penny- pittcltittg "cc-ltottt)" practiced at Ottawa, where, llilYlllll lllttslcll tltt"it' owtt salaries by $2,000 au- nually, ottr pttrltzttttctttarlatts are now engaged itt putting tltrhttglt :1 hill to ltoost judges' sal- arics all along tltt‘ littc. The suggestion llluf the jlillQC\ cttttltl wait for ttttotltcr year, until old age llt'tl\t<lttt‘r< 11ml oihr-t- unfortunate classes were tztltctt care of, finds n0 favour wich justice hlittistcr '.\'t. lrtttrcttt. All his Colleagues in the Cabinet, \\lto arg so tnuch afraid 0f in- flation if frtrttt t-rtrcs are increased, will of course vote witlt .\lr. St. Laurent to give the judges whztt tlu-v uztttt. And they will of course stand shoulder to shoulder with tVir. Ilslcv in insisting that the taxpayers continue paving for a war-inflated civil service out of all proportion to our peacctinte needs.

This great ztruty of bureaucrats which was placed on the public payroll during the war ap- pears only too willing to stay there. A year after Y-E day, tltcv are going almost as strong as ev_cr. .\lt'. _l. .\l. Macdntincll gave the House of Cottnuotts a few statistics about them whiclt are worth repeating. Since I939 the civil service llfts increased front 70,000 to 150,000 gnvcrlttttcttt cntplovccs. Since the \var's end tltc ittcrcdiblv stttztll reduction 0f 900 in this army of 150,000 has been nttide. A real cause for curiosity cuttccrits the present activities 0f many of the other 149.100. Thousands of jobs of stcuograpltcrs, clerks and controllers must have disappeared with the ending of the De- partment of Munitions and Supply and other war services, but on the basis of Mr. lVIacdon- 1tcll's figurcs the civil servants linger on, draw- ing their pit)‘.

.-\n illustration of what is happening while the rural mail carriers are losing their bonuses is provided bv a Civil Scrvicc Commission ad- vertisement for a director of public relations for the Department of National Defence for Air, at a salary range of $3,900 tn $4.500. The fact that the position was advertised by the Civil Service Cotntuission ittdicatcs that the job is to be perntatiettt though it is about as ne- cessary in peacetime as a fifth wheel to a cart. \Vhen the peacetime Air Force has news to give out the IlCWSDZllWrS can be depended on to

' go after it. That applies to other government offices as well. All that live newspapers ask is a fair field and no favors in news gathering; not government ltatldotits, which are’ usually larded with propaganda. As one exchange opines, it looks as though this peacetime pub- lic relation director's main duties will be t0 see that the swivel chair officials and officers inthg department get their names in the pap- ers on every possible occasion.

Cin the basis of the‘t:tx rates now in effect the paytncnt of clcvctt taxpayers earning $2,- 500 a year will be rcqttircd to pay the salary of this one director of public relations in the Air Defense lkpartntcttt. How many rural mail carricrs' botutscs it would pay is some- thing wc hrtvctft worked out. And this is but one itcnt in :1 lottg list of unnecessary expenses that is keeping the taxpayer's nose to the grand- sfonc, and ntakittg .\lr. Ilslev"s statement sound pretty sillv that tht- (iovcrttlttcttt is doing every- thing tiossiblc to curb cxttcttrlitttre.

P.E.l. Farm Income Higher In the official compilation of cash income reccivcrl by Cattztditttt frtrtncrs frotn the sale

of farm products in 1945 the combined totals of the ttittc Provinces are shown as $145858 mil- lion, compared with the record of $t,826.5 mil- lion received in I944 and which represents a decrease of $140.7 tttilllott or 7.7 per cent, The 1945 ittctlrltc, ltowcvcr, was $276.2 tnillion higher than for 1943 and $963.5 million above the figure for 1939'. When supplementary pay- .mcnts arc included, income for 1945 totalled $t,- 692.3 tnillion as cflntpared with $t,844.2 mil- lion in 1944. While the overall total declined, it is notc- worthy to record that in five provinces an in- crease was registered and Prince Edward ls- ~iand was in this category, the others being New Brunswick, Quebec, Ontario and British Col- umbia. By Provinces the cash farm income for I945, with the i944 figures in brackets, is shown, in millions of dollars, as follows: Prince Edward Island, $16.4 ($13.7); Nova Scotia $26.($27.9); New Brunswick $35~I ($33.3); Quebec $228 ($221); Ontario $449.3‘ ($404.1): Matnltrfoa $1534 ($176.7); Saskatchewan $414.8 ($543.8); Alberta $289.1 ($338); Brit- ish Columbia $737 f$63)- I The cause of most of the total decrease in , farm csshincome last year was attributed to i much smaller msrketings of wheat. ‘barley and bogs in-the-Prtllrie Provinces. On the other lurid (he sq: ‘in income recorded came from 1m

tobacco and cattle

Qttr ltlrtl-u-tt-ltctl and tioltrly paid rural ntail

figures in brackets, is given in thousand: of dollars as follows: Grain, seeds and hay, $506,- 565 ($677,395) ; vegetables and other field crops $117,064 ($107,812): live stock $539-565 ($570.- 785); dairy products $263,467 ($268,305); fruits $33,193 ($39,113); eggs, wool, honey, maple products $96,834 ($90,769); miscellane- ous products sold off farms $27,240 ($27,794) ; ‘orest products sold off farms $35,010 ($35,- 134) ; fur farming $11,368 ($9,386).

With average crops it is anticipated, accord- ing to Official sources, that farm income for I946 will be maintained at about the same level as in I945. This is a most encouraging prospect.

- EDITORIAL NOTES .-

Citizens are beginning to count the days till Old Home Week. l!

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The country schools seem to have done better than the city ones at the P.\\".C. entrance ex-

animations.

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Children learning hv correspondence

ntust be akin to floating the C/ltlf/Fw‘ .4. Dttttnittq

on watcr shown on a chart. Right in theory but wrong in practice. >l!

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It is worth noting that while progress and civilization induce Turkish women to foresakc pants for pc-tticoats, the self same progress and civilization obliges Attglo-Saxctt women to rise from petticoats to pants.

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Perhaps the lltlttst of front $I,OOO to $5,000 itt judges salaries will be. like those of titembers of Parliament, free from incotttc tax. if not, why not?

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If everybody using coal wcrc to do now as was done in prc-car fcrrv days, lay in their winter's coal by Uctobcr, there would be less need to worry. People with cellars have stor- age, and the coal titcrcltattis will no doubt ex- tend the credit. .'

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Should the Federal (joverntnent act on the suggestion of the Law Society, and add an ad- ditional Supreme Court judge at the expense of the County Cottrts, probably the County with the least crimes and offences would be the vic- tim and its judgc the victor.

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Canadian politicians itt Britain are evidently pro-centralists attd anti-tirovincialists. Both Viscount Bennett and Mr. licvcrlcy Baxter told the Hottsc of Lords and llouse of Commons respectively that (fattada, viz. the Federal Par- hantent, should he allowed t0 ntake its own con- stitutional chattgcs, which would, of coursl‘, wipe out the ll.l\'.:\..*\. altogether.

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‘A new angle on the dctcntiott 0f juvenile de- linquents in the contttton jail was given in Vic- toria, B.C., when Mayor Percy Mcorge receiv- ed a letter from .\liss lvlary-Aune Iohnson sug- gesting thatjuvcuilcs should be detained in separate quarters because 0f the danger of the young criminals ntislcaditig innocent, harmless drunks. Site urged the" city council t0 have separate quarters provided as soon as possible, because “drunks 0n the average are ltarmless in- dividuals with no bad instincts but a craving for liquor." She qucstiotted, “is it fair or decent that he should be forced ittto association with these juveniles, most of them adept at crime and many of them with several convictions?"

Iii 1i! it 1i William Wilberforce, Etiglish philanthropist, died this date I383; was a member of the House of Commons for forty-five years, and enjoyed- the reputation of being the leader in social re- fornt, exercising the greatest influence of any one not in office, supporting Catholic emancipa- tion and parliamentary reform, the abolishing of lotteries and of climbing boy chimney sweeps; and last, not least, the great object of his life, the abolition of the slave trade; he introduced a bill for this purpose in 1789, which was de- feated, and for seventeen years he re-introduced the measure until it was at length carried by a majority of Iutto 15 ; at his death he was buried at a public ceremony in Westminster Abbey. where he rests close to his old parliamentary friends, Pitt, Canning and Fox. 1! ti! i!

Here is enterprise worth recording even if it is away "down under.” A South Australian firm, Wiles Nlanufactttritig Ltd, has contract- ed to supply UNRRA with $162,000 wortlt of plows for use in Albania. Tlu nmnagittg direc- tor 0f the firm, Mr. K. j. Wiles said itt Ade- laid production of the plows has already start- ed, and it is expected that the contract will'be fulfilled carly itt Novctnber. It was the Wiles Company which solvcd the Attstralian fighting services problem 0f feeding men on the march. Early in the aeeond world war, they evolved l mobile steam cooker which was capable of turn- ing out hot meals for thrce ltundred men in a short space of time. valuable in the south-west Pacific and in the

Middle East.

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Tax collections for the first quarter of the currcttt fiscal year, tnade public by Revenue Minister McCattn show increases for all items except excise tax, which decreased $31,833,151 and resulted in an ovcr-all decline of $17,274,483 in total collections contparctl with the same per- iod last year. Department rtfficials attributed the major share in' the decline of excise tax collections to the extension of exemptions from an eight per cent tax to include farm and other productive machinery, effective last Jan. ‘l. In- come and customs-excise collections for April, May and June totalled $505.587,685. a de- cline of $17,274,473 fronl the first quarter of the 1945-1946 fiscal year. Income tax collec- lions, totalling $403,553,936 were up $5,295.- 526 compared with the previous year, while customs-excise collections at $192,033,749 were $32,570,009 lower. Following is the break-down of customs-excise collections with :t comparison with the first quarter nf 1945-1946:

Customs dttiiu .. Excise tax

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Excise duties ... 44,182,485 + 3.315.010 Sundry collection: ..

223,136

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Notes By The Way

Children u. the New 1m: Cit! urea are ersomally experlenclt-B inflationary ites into their upend-

allowonces~ lolllpops have gone 28 percent in prloe. Pbrm- erly seling at one cent each. the price last week was three for l0 cents. —Toronto Star.

lilo; George of Greece remain: a lcnQly exile. and there are others on the outside looking tn. Bu! watch

ld of Belgium wanfile a safo return! Incidentally, w at hap- pened lhe stodl market boom 0 get, Carol of Romania back? Aid where are Glrol and Lltlpescu? — St. Catharina-s Standard.

Ool. Edgar Mnlgo, for many year: connected with life 5t. John's Am- bulance Associawn, had a very practical suggestion when he call- ed for a program to handle scold

ents on the ltighways and bathing beaches and a campaign of pre- vention. As he pointed out wond- ers htne been worked to reduced aoclderlts 1x1 lndustry- why not elsewheref- New Glasgow News.

We always like those stones about persons who 2e: lucky hunches or. horse races. ‘fliers was n man in Winnipeg who mace a purchase :1‘. a store, and when he gct home, he noticed the number of the sales sllp was 444 The purchase totalled $4.00. A racing enthusiast, he romptly dashed to the bark and e-t on No. -i in the fourth racc. That's rlght- it came tn fourth -Cur.r.wall Standard-Freeholder.

A newspaper writer bemoan: the fact that unification c,f Fiermauy seems a long way off. The longer the better. Look what happened after Bismarck and pals unified Germany before. -.Branf.tord Ex- poslior.

The British Society of Individ- uulists is taking some cclnfort these days from the fact Britons are now ‘permitted to wave handkeruhlefs at a ship .11, sea or a flying all-plane. Soon, the society hopes citizens will be able to buv ther own fut;- eral shrouds without surrendering coupons. ‘These 4TB only two of the 80,000 restrictions on indlvdual and corporate freedom authorized dur- lrlg the war and the society. its roster of IIIBIHDHTS bristling with titles, is fighting for immediate rc- moval of every on: or them. "We want, the restoration of liberties which were ftlched frcm us" Slld Russell Sldebottom, former official of the Ministry u.’ Information and now editor of the society's public- atlon. “For rln example of U19 things we are opposing I give you thls- it toluls 103 Government forms to et a bottle of milk on the consumers doorstep Among othw things, you can“. me mussels for fishing bait" -»Brltlsh United Press

Latest blast against the British Royal Family from Walter Win- chell, staccrlto-v-olcr-d columnist and radio broadcaster. In his fmntsc 15-minute Sunday night program Winchell said he wouldn't oppose the proposed ll S lot-tn to Britain lf he could be assured that r-mc of the money went towards the $3.(l0,003 annual sill-t: plld to ttv, King, Even a f . year CLOHCIXlluS student should be table to poke holes in that argument. Ar-jt "sal- ary” paid to Hts Majesty lslpalrl in pounds, not dollars. England has billions of pounds in ner trel- sury, but pour-is are no POOd out-

the U.S. dollars to trade in Am- eflcg-qlot m support thc Rnyal Fanuly. It might be easy to laugh Q11 the whnll: winchelltan, n01- sense but AIlWTi-Lllll radio tlstezus-rs, senators and congressmen among them, are all tin often influenced by columnists and colrtlnentators who happen to be mls-lnfomlen, as Winchell was in this matter, their influence is unfort/atzitite London Free Press

We anspect that the lamented passing of William S. Hart, may have been hastened the spect- ode of crooning, gu tar-playing. dudishiy attired young men at- tempting to till his boots and sad- dle as cowboy heroes of the modern screen. We also suspect that his understandable sorrow might have been lightened by a small news item which appeared, unfortunate- ly, on the same day as his obitu- ary. The story told of 10,000 vet- erans 1n bu adopted state of Call- fornta who wsited- some of them 2A hours- for a chance to buy 1.388 surplus jeeps. nlese young men doubtless became acquainted with the jeep during their days in the service and knew it for wnat. it ls -a jarring, bruising, belrlborlng. tooth-loosening invention, sturdy. tireless and practically unstoppable but definitely skittish, especially when rounding comers. ln short. a. broncho on wheels. Yet even after having ridden them, these veterans still wanted them. We think it would have proved to Mr. Hart's satisfaction, as it to curs, that. the old, hard-riding pioneer West. ‘isn't dead after all. —Calg1lry Albertan.

Throughout the confusing fam- ine stories and the President's tfood pronouncements of recent months there ha’. been _'to clear statement of who needs wh-lt and where it. can be obtained. nor whet. this country is expected to provide. The proposal to reduce Genmn rations to the danger- ously low figure of 1,000 calories a day comes ln good grace from e food minister of England, where last month's rations were cut, to seven ounces ol fat o weQ and one egg and where the waste of broad was termed "an anti-social act". In tarnished parts of Yugoslavia. the ration was reporttd to be 720 calories. It mtly be that the "Allies first’ idea will speed the conservation movunent heregwe hope so. But we believe it, will deepenjunoert- ainty and add tc dissemination wlm Wash wit’: fumbling food policy. -New York-Herald Tribune

Pardon n: while we lhed I 10W crocodile tears, zernarka Ifle Min- n ti: Btu-Journal, for ..he rnlj- or segue baseball owners who are an amazed and hurt st finding themselves confronted by oomtw tltlon. Ami from Mexico. o! all paces! amund lle so much cord within their mm cal-dolly guard- ed microcosm, the moguls of sport now find there ls mi re to the world than i0 cities; The -t\fexiea

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Guardian l. read with pleasure a letwr suggesting bread rallunmg, we have reau so lnucll o: ula desperate ralmne wnoluous lll me world yet nave done so uttle that I was oeglnnlng to 106G il-llh ln a practical cnrlstianlty.

We are told to treat ‘other: as We snould wish to be ‘treated, yet what have we done w help moss wnu, lnrougn no fault o! ulelr awn. are uylrtg from hunger, or are sunslstltlg on a let o: root-s. stems and clay!

We, me nest-fed peoplg 1n the worm (and who ,csn deny m) spend lieu million collars a year on beverage alcohol when mil- lions are starving -for bread‘!

‘lnink 0t lL-—-i.lli'll1n‘,i94¢ci0u5 one... Anlt) DOLSOXl wneu uou m- tellued lt. to leeu rll-s cnllolellt uO we ucserve peace we DIOSDEIILY?

Jfflllmlvllll l5 HZLEXI-lttflt 140m ialld "l-rlrmers lvlsgltune": "l-low are we Canadians lneasurirla up lll tnls world enlergencyr L: u. enough to ne eflllSDEQ because we are meeting one 100G comlult- lnents mane by our uovernmenlt"

If we nnd ourselves ln another ivorld war, by now much will it be our own fault‘! As individuals let us do our part oy BDDIOVLDR bread rationing.

Let us senu our names (on cards as requested: to Mrs. Guin- evere Earle Grey. 95 Walmaley Bldg, Toronto, OnL. and at the same time let us request our Gov- ernment to ctr-operate by cutting down the grain used to make beverage alcohol.

I am. S11‘. 91¢‘.

Kinkora, P. E. I.

OBSERVER.

Labor Barons

(Financial Post.)

Today's reality 9s that trade un- ionism has grown to such a stature has so successfully acquired privil- eges and avoided. l ‘r titles, that society flncls, for its own pro- tectictn and the protection of trade uninn members themselves that it must take a "new lcok at this mighty institution, V

Some union leaders now hoin in their own hands power that. lets them defy. with virtual inl- punlty, goven-unent and she over- Whelmlng body of public opinion They have ‘lcrorrle stronger than government itself. They tie up and dc-btluch a whole nation's cconom Those with closest shop aqreccnec. can doom to impoverishment in- dividuals who question or reject. their leadership, at least until the worker teams to make ms living at some other Job. And with wr without s closed shop, the union leader has his very highly organ- ized learns of “pressure boys" who use various forms of "p-lttlng the hell-t" cm. "troublesome" union mem- bers; in maklnx life extremely mis- erable for the worker and his

. y. The labor lender can instruct his armv to halt production regardless of- the effect on the oommunl as a whole, on other workers, an ma“. agers and shareholders. He can order his armv to damage and wreck and prevent access to pro~ perty, and neither he nor his union is liable to penalties for no doing

Unlcm grew as minority groans film-int; i" 5 Renerally hostile world for certain well-cefined objectives --more pay and better working conditions. With their Jlevempment as gt termlttonal corporations, with Wwerful helrarchles of profession- al executives, the; have become very different things.