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SATURDAY, APRIIL 13, 1963.

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At this time of the year, while the world about us alternately freezes and thaws, Easter comes with its certain message of hope. Life's transiency weighs heavily, like winter. Successive generations of men, like snowstorms. fall on the earth. only to disappear. Wars come and death mows down mil- lions. Against this background, the message of Easter is that there is an abiding unity in the universe upon which all changes are strung.

Christ has risen. When He died on Calvary, it was as though the sun had set. But sunset is in the point of view, depending on the be- holder's position on this revolving planet. Nothing happens to the sun itself. It is still there. It abides. Thus does Easter feed man’s hun- ger for something eternal.

It is no wonder, therefore, that this great festival has become adorned with so many symbols of beauty. The flowers of Easter in themselves symbolize the resurrect- ion of all natural life from the dark of winter. They are new-born as in the never-ending miracle of resur- rection. The music of Easter too, is of a rich gladness. However sol- emn may be its underlying theme, it finds its glory in a great em- bellishment. in the efflorescence of

all that is fair and lovely. ‘ Easter is a special occaSion for

church-going, and participation in hymns of praise. Throughout this province and nation, indeed through- out the whole of Christendom, choristers tomorrow will sing some of the grandest music ever written, awakening devout response in prayer and thanksgiving. The free- dom of worship we enjoy is denied to many people in other lands. We should make the most of it here, "seeking God's house in happy

Political Stocktalong

The paradox of Monday’s fed- eral election, says the Ottawa Jour- nal, is that the party which won the greatest support did not do so through firm leadership or clear policies. Mr. Pearson’s qualities, con- siderable though they may be, are not notably firm. What seems to have appealed to many are his proven abilities in the art of com- promise. He has appeared as a man equipped temperamentally, at least, to heal the differences among us.

That, perhaps, is what we most need. In any case, compromise is a two-way street. If the Liberal leader shows talent in this direction when he takes power, he will have to have co-operation unless his party succeeds in obtaining an overall majority—which is most unlikely. It has been said that he can ex- pect this chiefly from the New Democratic Party; but in policy Mr. Douglas and Mr. Pearson are poles apart, and it is hard to see much ground for compromise here.

Mr. Pearson proposes to honor what he claims is a commitment to arm Canada with nuclear wea- pons. Mr. Douglas made renuncia- tion of nuclear arms the keystone of his election policy. Can the New Democratic Party now accept these arms, or the Liberals reject them? That wouldn't be compromise; it would be a plain sell-out on a stand which both loom Inflated was of made: importance in their campaign.

The Conservatives are not so strongly committed on this issue.

their views are more in accord with the Liberals than with those of either of the splinter parties. There was even some talk before the election about a coalition between the Liberals and Conservatives. That is neither likely nor desirable. But there could be compromise, if the Conservatives are prepared to avoid the bad precedent which the Liberals themselves set in the last Parlia- ment.

Their sole aim then seemed to be to upset the tottering Diefenbaker Government at all costs. They were prepared to support even a “funny money” amendment of the Social Credit group to attain their ends. But the electors are not interested in that now. The times demand a more constructive role for the 0f- ficial Opposition to play in the next Parliament; and the Conservatives, we hope, will rise to the occasion.

They should endeavor, by all legitimate means, to go along with Mr. Pearson in achieving s om a measure of political stability. Un- less some very serious issue is raised—something that only a di- rect reference to the people could decide—their duty at this time will be to avoid harrassing the govern- ment with repeated and routine votes of want of confidence.

Indeed. as the Montreal Gazette suggests, this may well be their primary responsibility during the coming session. We are assuming now that Mr. Diefenbaker will shortly decide to resign, and let Mr. Pearson take over. There is no reason why the Conservatives would impair their independence and iden- tity as a party by assuming the role suggested here. It is indeed the only role that. seems open to them to fill with credit and dignity. By us- ing their power to oppose with alertness but with restraint, and by meeting half-way any efforts at compromise that Mr. Pearson may sincerely make. they can safely af- ford to bide their time. Any other course would plainly be as harmful to their interests as it would be to the country's at large.

The Voting Age

Are today’s teen-agers more ma- ture in their judgment than were their parents or grandparents? The question is raised in a Toronto pub- lication, Clip-Sheet, which says that most adults concede that high school studies are more advanced than they remember and that boys and girls in their late teens seem to have more information than the preceding generation. But does this signify a greater degree of self-reliance and experience?

Already, it is noted, there has been a trend to drop the voting age. A Liberal motion along this line was defeated in our own Legis- lature this week—not on the grounds of its merit, but because it would cause confusion with the Federal Election Act, which retains the 21- year provision. The voting age is now 18 in Saskatchewan and 19 in British Columbia and Alberta; Que- bec seems ready to extend the fran- chise to 18-year-olds, and perhaps Nova Scotia, too. In those areas, and elsewhere, there is support for a vote in federal elections at age 18. The states of the US. seem more conservative; in only four of the 50 states is there a vote before age 21.

One thing hardly in keeping with this is the recent election campaign offers by all parties to continue family allowance payments (up to 20 in one instance) for youngsters remaining in school. If that were to come about, probably the next campaign’s offer would be to make it universal, in school or not. The question of reconciling the franchise with the baby bonus would then become of practical concern.

EDITORIAL NOTES

In referring on Thursday to Mt. St. Laurent's prompt resignation as Prime Minister after the June 10, 1957 federal election, we said erroneously that he did not even wait for the return from the service vote? Actually these retume—heav- ily Liberal—were announced on Saturday, June 15, and Mr. St. Laurent tendered his government’s resignation on the following Mon- day. It. was not formally accepted until June 21, prior to the swearing in of the Diefenbeker administra- tion. In one Ontario riding (Welling- ton South) the voting wee defused until July 15. l:

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THE WAY OF THE CROSS

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OTTAWA REPORT by Patrick Nicholson

All Working Hard For The Government

Canada's average payer of federal income tax falls in the group earning between $4,200 and $4,299 per year. There are 89,270 taxpayers in this group, and of these many fall into the normal status as a family man with a wife and two children.

To this typical Canadian tax- payer, is late March date was a red letter day which passed un- noticed. But its great signifi- cance was that on that day he ceased to work for government, and began to work through un- til year's end for himself and this family.

It had taken him from Jan- uary 1 until the late March date to earn what he will pay in taxes to the federal govern- ment. to his provincial govern.- ment, and to his municipal go- vernment during 1963.

The Dominion Bureau of Sta- tistics carried out periodical surveys to ascertain just how we spend our money, From such a survey. we can deduce that this average payer of in- come tax will spend more tlhan one-quarter of his earnings on feeding himself and his wife and two children: he will spend more than one-quarter also on housing them.

MOST COSTLY ITEMS

The actual percentage spend- .5 on mi 27.3 on

this latter including

18.8 on the bare home, 4.8 on

furnishing and equipping it. and

3.7 on lighting and heating.

The next highest cost is 9.8 per cent of his total income on transportation, of which 7.8 goes on his automobile. proba- bly acquired from a used ce lot. and 2.0 is taken up by “oth- er transportation".

Then this Average Canuck spends 4.8 per cent of this earn- lngs on alcoholic drinks and to- bacco, slightly exceeding the 4.6 per cent he spends on m cal care fir his whole family. Recreation costs a trivial 2_ per cent, reading only 0.0 per cent, and education 0.3 per

cent.

Translating these expendi- tures into terms of dollars for this average income-tax payer with an income of slightly over

4.250, and assessing the hidden taxes included in his payments. we find that these concealed le-

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vies exceed the direct taxes which he pays. 0n $1,170 worth of food. he pays about $36 in taxes; on $358 worth of clothing, he pays an estimated $62 in taxes; on $104 for cigarettes and tobacco, he pays $37 in hidden taxes, while on $42 worth of hard liquor he pays no less than $34 in various taxes to obtain a commodity y $8. His $55 spent on beer contains a proportionate- ly lower 724 in hidden taxes.

INCOME TAX LOW

His used car. costing perhaps $1,000, contains an estimated 55 in taxes, but it costs him $17 in licences each year, plus

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$71 in taxes hidden in the $189 he pays for petrol,

His personal income tax to- tals only $187, which is less than one quarter of his total tax payments, but this and his property tax —- if he owns his own home — are his only two direct "bites" by the taxpayer.

Add p these major items, plus the taxes included on les- ser expenditures. and we find that this Mr. Average Income- tax payer was finally able to clear off his liabilities to gov- ernment for this year by a date in mid—March after work- ing through between eleven and twelve weeks for the tax col- leclot‘s.

Spring’s Liveliest Whistler

Ottawa Journal

The red-winged blackbird is a gentleman of strong person- ality. He is a member of a fa- mily that includes the bobc- links and orioles, and all are birds with distinctive traits and colors. The red-wing has not had the attention given to bobo- links and orioles, but these sun- ny April days the slim, smooth blackbird is sounding off in the sloughs and swamps with his three-syllable whistle.

There is something bo t the red Wing‘s whistle difficult to describe. William Hamilton Gibson put it well when we wrote it has a "gurgle and wet ooze in it." One of Spring’s ap- pealing pictunes is a handsome male red-wing with his scarlet epaulettea swaying on a swamp reed and tossing his song to the blue sky.

The male bleckbirds arrive in flocks ahead of the females, but they do not start their sing- ing until the harshness of early Spring is over and the feeling of true Spring has come to the land. The courting antics of a male is an interesting sight. He lifts his wings wide; he bows

and nods his head to the lady: he sits on a reed a few feet from her and repeatedly pours forth his whistles. Sometimes a male has two or three mates and while the nesting season is on, he stands guard to drive away crows and other birds.

The whistlers are partial to swamps and wet ground. The nest is a well-built basket-like affair, made of grasses and rushes woven tightly. The four or five eggs are a pale blue- green color. spotted with mark- ings of brown and purple. One interesting point is that the young often leave the nest be- fore they are able to fly, and along in July a marshy spot often seems alive with the young. fluttering juveniles and anxious parents. '

The whistler is not so popular as the robin and the bluebird. but the countryman likes red-wings. When he is mending pasture fence along the edge of the swamp, the whistles-s toss their songs to the blue sky and a man knows that another season is under way.

Oyster Cloister

Chrlatlan Science Monitor

Attracting sudden attention not to the human but to the oy- ster situation comes a report

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A SERIOUS PROBLEM

Sir.-— Among Canada's for- gotten men and women are those between the ages of fifty end sixty-five who, m some misfortune or. by their own folly, find tlsemaelves out on a limb. so to speak. To this

group of people the doors (1 in- dustry are closed and locked fast.

How can those pereonalead a normalpbeppy life, when th

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useful pursuit for our citizens who have reached fifty six— ty mark, many have (one down premature graves,

It is a sad on our way of life to learn that once we've passed the half-cen- tury divide. the bells begin toll- ing for our dismissal from he

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our nation. for those that have given their best years to hdp make Canada the grown-up na- tion it is today. Some people will tell you that jobs are open to who is able

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that many oysters, having "suf- fered" in the cold European winter will not be fit for human consumption. Who, on reading this and pulling his own blanket a little tighter up under hi chin, can doubt that the oyster's point of view is one of the most interesting problems ever to be served up on the philosophical half~shell.

It is, of course. the very re- verse of the oetrich's. The oy- ster has more to lose than h l a tail feathers by keeping his head in the sand. He needs to see as far as possible into hu- man motives.

Now oysters are used to ed- mlretdon "What beauties! Pass the sauce. please." They dis- count it, perhaps preferring ob acurity. And in this they differ from their umen admirers. who often would rather be de- voured with praise than com- fortably ignored.

t ls reported by oyster opin- lon polls that oysters form themselves into three political parties based on their relations

with people.

There are conservative oysters who feel that a really" secure niche of thei- the lands \of time is more Important than people.

here are middle road liberal oysters who hold that people are all right in their place (which is not necessarily at he dunes- we).

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"You; use. just why you briefing my daughter home at six in the morning?" “I’m due at work at seven, sir.” — Sarnta Observer

The most one thing about a practical joker is his belief that those who do not lands at his pranks have no

Puberty Brings Marked Changes

In Youngsters PHYSICAL performance

herself in any limit. But after adolescence begins. there is a marked difference between t h e sexes in abilltlés along this line, as is shown by tests. to cle strength, speed, and ance.

According to a group of pedia- tricians at Georgetown university school of medicine, most girls reach their peak of endurance for exercise at 13 years of age and decline thereafter. 'I' h e e e physicians mention a study has-

on the 600 yard run, show- ing that a girl of 6 usually pe - forms better than one of 18

anemone, ‘ch may play a role. This content- ion is confirmed by similar ob- srvations from the use of other tests for physical endurance. The situation is different with boys. Their endurance grows steadily from age five through 20. Physical capacity improves at the age of puber . As the male adolescent grows, his capacity for physical pe formance increases. We might: amume that this stems from the fact that he is gaining wei- ght, growing teller, or getting stronger. These factors help but some credit must be given to the nervous system, which matur- m with age and tibia enhances muscle coordination.

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Gain in weight during adoles. cence contributes more Io the boy's muscle power than do the added inches in height. This is of practical value for physical education directors at the junior high level Their classes should be divided by height and weight, depending upon the performance demanded. Dr. Felix P. Heald and his Georgetown colleagues suggest that weight be used when it comes to contests requiring muscle power, whereas height is a good judge of sports requir- ing jumping.

The Georgetown physicians 8.1- so mention the results of a large study in Ceylonese subjects aged 10 through 50. The person with a normal or stocky build has, on the average. “ . . . the greatest speed, the greatest strength. and the ability to sustain prolonged muscular effort." But (those with a slim body build were more capable of performing stren- uous exercise than were the stocky.

OBSTRUCTE'D VESSELS H. P. writs: What is done for dermatompositis? REPLY

This is a rare cmdition in which there is obstruction of the small blood vessels of the skin, muscles, nerve, and connective tissue. The outcome is fever, aching, a rash, and symptoms resembling rheumatic fev- er. So far, the disorder has elud- ed all remedies.

MO’I'IVATED REDUCING Mrs. B. . writes: Is there any magic pill that will make me allergic to delicious desserts and give me strength to push myself away from the table while drooling for more food REPLY

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Yes — a motivation pill that will make you determined to lose weight.

SLACK MUSCLES Mm. W. writes: Do you have the faintest bit of information on Oppenhelm’s disease? REPLY In this condition, muscular de-

velopment is delayed and the child is weak and thin.

ON'T KILL YOU J. S. writes: Is a spastic colon ever fatal? REPLY o. Abdominal pain Is about the worst the victim can expect from this nervous condition.

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Our Yesterday s

(From the an Files) TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO

Apr“ 18, 1.938

Isomer B. Gaudet, (mat-lotte- town has taken ten hours flying instruction from flying instruc- tor, L.A. Fletcher, and will fly solo until the arrival of Stuart Graham, inspector of civil avia- tion who will give license tests,