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WEDNESDAY, MAY l7, "ll

Condoning The Scandal

. '51: amazing alibi is advanced in the Liberal press for Premier Campbell's cash transactions with the malodorous‘ “Belgian Count.”

“The real question," it says, _ “is not lwW

' much cash has been obtained from the Treas‘

ury, but whether it was properly spent and ac- counted for?” Well, WAS it properly spent and Bocoiinlld for?

We leave that question to the electors. Ap- parently it is the only defence that can be 0ffe_r_- ed. To anyone who has read the sworn testi- mony in the Police Court, it is even more start- ling in its implications than the scandalous pro- cedure oiit 0f which it arose.

Argentine Needs Potatoes

lividently they are not sold on Irish Cobblers 0r Green hioniitains down in the Argentine, where there is a seed potato shortage this year,

“The Argentine potato crop is expected K‘ be short of domestic requirements both for table use and for seed purposes. A5 a T051119- prices will be considerably higher than last year,” states Mr. J. A. Strong, Canadian Tfflllfi Commissioner at Buenos Aires in a report‘ t0 the Department of Trade and Commerce. The quality of the local stocks available for plant- ing is for the most part poor and in consequence, there will be a demand for imported 506d, with the emphasis placed on variety rather than country or origin." The two North American varieties which have stood up best are Katahdifl and White Rose. It is likely that these varieties will be in greatest demand for seed reproducing purposes during the coming season. __

"Should Be Almost Starving"

On nolsingle issue are the Campbell candi- dates in harmony with each other. While some are boasting of the amount of "dole” that is being distributed, and some are prostituting ‘the Fishermen's Loan Board for their own partisan purposes, others protest expending any money for unemployment unless the recipients are on the very verge 0f starvation. Take for example the following statement by Mr. I. Walter Jones in the Legislature, as reported in the Govern- ment press, April 11, 1939: _

"Referring to direct relief, Mr. Jones said the day was coming when you will be sorry you aver gave help to any of them» because _every dollar you give them, you put their sons in the game position. It will pyramid until the Prov- ince can't carry on. He belief/rd in a lairru fair: policy in dealing ‘with this problrm. Relief applicants should b: almost starving before they are halpedont."

Dairy Production In Canada

l‘ ‘Accoring to the Dominion Bureau of Statistics the total value of Canada's dairy’ Pm‘ duction reached $220,164,000 in 1938, in com- parison with $215,513,000 l“ _19.'l_7 m‘! $98" 672,000 in 1936. Milk production advanced » t0 r5,77o,236,o00 pounds compared w_ith_ 15,325,‘ 728,000 in 1937. The total production ‘include: butter, cheese, miscellaneousproducts on a mill! basis as well as milk otherwise used. The butter output advanced t0 371953090 P°ulld9 l“ wm‘ paflsOtt with 355,141,000 in i937. The total cheese outturn amounted to 122,416,000 pounds compared with 131,858 in i937. _ _

The farm value of milk production was eati- mated gt $150,201,000, revealing an advance of $6,507,000 or 4.5 per cent over the previous year. The gross farm income from milk was estimated at $144,221,000, while the income from the actual sale of dairy products was estimated at $118,652,000. Compared with the previous year the gross income advanced $6,535,000}? 4.8 per cent, and the income from sales in- creased by $5,783,000 or 5-1 per cent.

The consumption 0f butter on a per eapltl basis was 31.83 pounds in 1938 compared urlth 32.31 pounds in i937; and the consumption of cheese was 3.62 pounds compared with 3.58. Thea-daily per capita consumption 0f rnilk- was 0.82 pints in 1938, the farm milk produping population consuming an average 0f 1.17 pints, while the non-firm population, including the occupants of famis where milk was not produc- ed, consumed 0.70 pints per day.

Phantom Pledges‘

When reminded in the [legislature last year of,‘ the "Liberal. pledge t0 balance the budget aii-

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i; membej of the Campbell’ Government

, 13c couidrecaii ftQLIl-lfill promise. r t , . ~

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available, should have been able,

only WjbI-lance its budget 0n ordinary ar- fidtiitf, ‘biitralso to show “a magnificent surplus (WCFALL expenditure." (Patriot, July 5, i935.) This after rebuilding Falconwood iHospital

- and ‘Prince 0f Wales College without additional

taxation, and providing for unemployment relief during the worst period 0f the depression.

At that time the revenue was half a million dollars less than the revenue enjoyed by the Campbell Government last year.

Notwithstanding that, our "budget balancers" came outwith big deficits every year on cur- rent account, an increased debt of two million dollars and bank overdrafts at the end of 1938 of a million and a quarter dollars.’

One of their own supporters in the Legisla- ture compered their broken budget balancing pledge t0 "a will-d-the-wisp like the phantom ship seen off our 00st recently.

Premier Mackenzie King used t0 call Liberal elections a “chai-t" by which to navigate the party_ into power. “Will-(f-the-wisp" is a better definition. According to Webster's Dictionary. it _means “an ignus fatuus, hence any person or thing that misleads by illusive or evanescent appearances.” ‘

Important Conservative Policy

Here are some of the ways by which the Campbell Government, to quote the language of the brief which it presented last year before the Rowell Commission, “has exploited every feasible source of taxation and revenue":

"The Prince Edward Island succession duty is maintained with higher rates and lower scale of exemptions than prevail in most 0f the other Provinces.

“The Province collects an amusement tax at as high a rate as is considered feasible, being higher than the rate prevailing in most prov- inces.

. “The provincial gasoline tax is unquestion- ably the highest of any Canadian province, be- ing now fixed at ten cents per gallon.

“A tax on the registration of [izisseiiger motor vehicles is imposed at the rate of 50 cents per hundred weight, together with Ctrlillfl small fixed charges. A higher rate of registra- tion is also imposcd upon motor trucks.

"A tax on chain stores on the basis of $2.000 per branch is imposed, and is probably the highest rate of any in the Dominion.

“Chain theatres are taxed. each branch $500.

“Peddlers are taxed, each from $50 to $200."

Reference is also made in the brief to the personal property tax, the real property tax, the road tax, the horse tax, the dog tax, the taxes 0n insurance companies, accident and guarantee companies, acceptance corporations, banks, trust companies, loan companies, tele- graph, telephonc, gas and electric companies, wholesale gasoline distributors. and advertise- ments along the hjghway.

"From the above list," says the Campbell Government brief, “it will be seen that the Province has imposed a great munber and our- iety of taxes, and in fact has exhausted evvry source and method from which substantial rm;- emu: may be derived."

This, if true, is a very serious situation: yet it is totally ignored in the platform on which the Campbell Government is appealing for re- election.

The Conservative platform, on the other hand contains the following assurance: “Havinq ‘in 1935 established our claims against the Do- minion Government to the extent of flirce mil- lian dollars, giving this Province an increased subsidy of $150,000 annually, w: will continue to prairi- for a full realization of our claim: on the basis of the minority report of the While Commirrion." "

"Why" Still Unanswered

The curtain is about to fall on the last act of the election‘ campaign, and_the question in most mind; must be why was it ever raised at this particular iunoture? The rnvsterv ‘is as deco as ever. Mr. Dougald Mackinnon is the only member of the late legislature who hashazard- ed an official opinion 0n the hustings, and his was not very convincing or clarifying. When last session was opened he declares, “Premier Campbell told us (evidently in caucus) this is the last session." And why? Because the Pre- mier wanted "to obtain a new mandate from the people to build tourist roads leading to the Na- tional Park to which the Federal Government was to contribute." Then it was the Federal Government forced the election was it? This excuse we suppose is as good as any other, especially when Mr. MacKinnon added that the Premier had told them after being selected for that office that if he was leading the Goverii- merit at next election it “would not be held in midsummer but either in the early Spring or in the Fall when the road work was completed." He did not vouchsafe _any explanation why a summer election was to be avoided, but we may presume it wascto avoid meeting the electors and confessing his failure to keep his pre-elec- ‘tion isea.

That is the plausible story which the Canny Scot from Belfast is telling his erstwhile sup- porters, but it. does not coincide with the Pre- mier's own admission. He boldly told the Leg- lature that constitiiionall they had other two years at their disposal fore appealing to the country, and even up to the eve 0f the dissolu- tlon of theI-Iouse his fidus Acliatcs, Hon Lucas Allen declined (emphatically that this was, not

rim irig m“ I _ which remain unanswered, as

PI!“- l] A, _ _ itheygosto ‘ polls tomorrow. I ‘

Some’ Alibis Dfsposdd 0f‘.

the election campaign has been, the appeal made by a number of Government candidates for ic- election on the ground that they personally had opposed certain obnoxious measures passed by the Campbell Government. '

A case in point was the_ statement 0f Mr. George E. Saville at the Georgetown meeting, that he and his colleague Mr. Hughes had voted against withholding right 0f appeal to the courts and would, if they had the opportunity, “vote against it again." This statement was made in the presence 0f. Premier Campbell, who had laboured to show that our property owners had no such “right" whatever!

In the case 0f the National Park Act, Messrs. Hughes and Saville made no protest when the legislation went through. Their excuse is that having unsuccessfully opposed similar ex- propriation provisions in the Road Act, they deemed it “a waste of time" to repeat their ob- jections.

The first Liberal member to sense the public indignation against the National Park legislation was Mr. Allan Stewart, 1st District of Queens. In a letter published in the Patriot on Oct. 2i, I937, over his own name, Mr. Stewart stated:

"We were told by our Premier that the 00st of bhe land t0 this Province would be ‘negligible,’ not more than $15,000, When the Expropriation Act was discussed 1n caucus, I strongly imposed lit and questioned the validity of such an Act. When it came up for second reading ln Com- mittee of the whole House, I was named by the Sneaker as chairman of the committee, I think the Government made a mistake in not making a preliminary survey 0f the area, to sound the attitude of the landowners, tn not having the landowners represented on the aubltratliig com- mission, and abiding by their decision."

The inference from Mr, Stewart's letter is that he was prevented from voicing opposition to the bill by being “named by the Speaker as chairman of tJie committee." The fact is how- ever that .\lr_ Stewart was not chairman of the committee which passed this legislation. The chairman ivas Mr. Cox. 'Mr. Stewart had ample opportunity of objecting on the floor of the House, had he cared to do so.

The bill to ivliich he and every Liberal meni- ber assented provided that where satisfactory agreement with the landowners could not he reached by the Government, an order-in-coiincil could be passed, fixing the amount of compensa- tion, wliicli the Provincial Treasurer was em- powered to pay into the Court of Chancery; and that such payment into Court "shall fully dir- rlmrgc Ill!’ claim of all persons whatsoever for rom/irnrnlimi in rcr/irrl lo Hie expropriation of such lands." .

Not one of the “Solid Thirty" objected to this measure, ivhich in effect wiped out the right of every property owner to appeal to an independ- ent tribunal. ' -

IlOTES av TllE mu

Mysore his repaid to Aus- tralia a debt. owed by South India. when the prickly pear pests began to overrun large areas, the author. mes decided to profit by the ex- perience of Australia, where areas similarly threatened had been sav- ed by the dissemination of the cochlnesl insect. This insect des- troys prickly pear quickly and completely. Ceylon, in 1924. decid-

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a bribe. To p10

One of the most extraordinary features of. '

on raised in coinniitt was by M . Mustard, who aii==<iwhiith= wit wou“ be. "r C Premier replied "that ,1 wu crowd that the cost to the Provincial Government for a National Park would be irifliiub" (P-triet,

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Aplrfl 15?: riioiiths later‘ that Mr. Stewart's 1am,- appeared in the Government press, R- pudiating responsibility for his share in the transaction, and stating that they had been as- sured that the cost to the Province would not be ‘more than $15,000. _ _

This latter statement, after going unanswered for two and a half years, was contradicted by the Premier at the last session 0f the House. He claimed he had never given any such assurance in or out of caucus. Mr. Stewart made no reply to this disclaimer. .

It is apparent therefore that while the con- sciences of some of the Government supporters were at times uneasy, they did not press their objections as they should have done in the Leg- islature They were “tongue-tied by, authority" and preferred rather to straddle the fence than come out openly as the champions of the rights and liberties of their constitutents. They pre- sent appeal for re-eleetion, whether as support- ers or 0pponents‘0f the Campbell Government, isequally illogical. .

Th? ,.F“+Wl is Act mdfllIQjQIKTIIPrQbate Aq p

. ,.Tb‘.2"l"l°i‘s fl“ .. iii-c W! H111“, c, 90-, uesday M; 9 . on the subjects! '11» i=rqiiiia.,nu,~ til, pligflflllilflii .. -“For,our part tliedlscusltouon the matter is c m“ i mahriniiiéieiogas’ use one mi, imi- on Tueglazlglfiifill! lfitePu ot an “l"' -’ 7.- Harliu ninth‘ observed b ' shown by the statement . eisfare ouryuntiilllierglliteflot h. clplesrbut. lf you don't. llke- ‘cm-we can break ,em_,, m: experiencing tlic devastating _ effect of Conserviitj speakers ln their esltillpure, of 111a Campbell Government‘). legislative bungling and blunderliig, the Patriot in its d. operation and in its eleventh hour conversion fries to j ‘l: tlfy the exploitation of in, families of the rim», of ti.’ i province. It purports to enumerate eight advantages h the sections of the Probate Act regarding m“ est.“ These advantages" are Imaginary and illusory and l‘. contrary to the facts of experience. The Patriot tells l‘ This has been the ease since the Chancery Act o; 19m’ The new Probate Actnow compels such administration t4- he effected ln the Probate Court. in all cases. l-leretofo l lt has been only in a rare ease say only one in a hundr ' that an estate must be administered in a court at all. wit“ this is required it is usually made necessary by reason of. infancy or other disability of some of the beneficiaries. In such case, the Court of Chancery must be resorted 1,,

I Editorial Notes 1

One day to Election. n- ir n: ii-

i Public Forum

Sin-The Junta. are much eon- cerned over the reverses ol L. Prowse. A "straw" out. ls a "special" that the tennis or golf at. Victoria Park la t0 be burrowed. There ls not. much magnificence to this as h and narrow the

Tomorrow Ascension Day. _ r s w * Under the new act, the Probate Court. has power to appoint‘ a guardian of an infant, but has no jurisdiction over thy administration of the estates of infants, nor over thu‘ estates of persons under other disabilities. To administer such estates, the Court of Chancery must still be resorted to. Families are thus put to double expense. This is as un- necessary as two humps on a Campbell. , ‘ In the other ninety-nine cases, the practice heretolon has been to file the will and aninventory at an expeim, in simple wills, of two or three dollars. The children the; take title directly under the wlll, no probate to the e1. ecutor being necessary. , 2. The Patriot states, “the beneficiary can obtain | much clearer and more satisfactory title to real estate‘ under the new Probate Act. than was possible in many? cases where the terms of the will were complicated or un- certain.” This is sheer nonsense. The executor or adminis- trator can only transfer the title which the deceaseilliin- self had. Where-there is a will which is complicated or uni certain the difficulty is increased. If the executor in tho deed uses the same words as are found in the will the 1r sult may be disastrous. Different rules are applied ln iii- terpreting a deed from those applledln Interpreting a will, The same uncertainty ln a deed nilght be fatal, ' might not be fatal in a will. Three results follow:— p (1) If the executor prepares a deed which does not carry out. the intention of the will, he will commit a breach of trust. . . (2) If the words he uses in the deed are the same u the words in the will lie may still err, as the documents may be differently construed. . (3) ‘In a‘case of complication or uncertainty the u- ecutor may find it necessary to resort to a court to him the meaning of the will ascertained. That court could not be ‘the Probate Court. Still more lawyers charges anl court fees would be incurred. 3. The Patriot further statem-“In actual practice tho beneficiary in almost all cases voluntarily asks and er pects the executor to give him a deed and is surprised l0 learn that the executor has no power to issue deed." Thb is absurd. The Patriot's extremity must he great when ll invents such untruths. 4. The Patriot states that “in cases where no willg made the administration of real estate will he very great

Beware of Grit last minute roarbacks. ii- r a t

The King and Queen arrive today: “happy and glorious." a n- 4i The feeling from West Cape to East Point is —it’s time for a change. s i: n s Talleyrand, "a man always ready t0 sacrifice principle to expediency,” like some modems, died this date, i838. w in i, w The loaves and fishes, especially fishes, have been the stock in trade of the Liberal cam- paigners for the past three weeks. it t it in

Judging by our correspondence columns dur- ing the last three weeks, the Liberals should not have a corporal's guard to represent them after the votes are counted tomorrow.

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Telling the electors that the Campbells will have the distribution of road work after their defeat should fool nobody, save those who want to be, and deserved t0 be, fooled.

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There was an uncertainty and hesitation about Premier Campbell's last election oration quite in contrast to that of Dr. MacMillan who followed aii hour later. The Doctor was buoyant and optimistic, breathing confidence imq {hg atmosphere all around. ‘

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rilce. well appointed home, t m the gables till to sell and roam; 1f you squeal out. loud for Justice, its dented to every man, N0 appeal or any tau-play since‘ the Campbell reign began.

If I. man upon his deathbed whll-

Mr. held from Ottawa.

an mini, 1,, "m, I

ecl to copy Australia's example, and imported some 0f the insects from that country. prmsod thereby, impor

Ceylon. 11nd there too

were good. flince their the insect, has cleared large tracts of infested country, and cultivator: have been gxieatl assisted. Now Mysore has helped fruitgrowera tn

Wales by sending them an insect which ls a deadly enem of the fruit-fly. Australia. la gra ful. and has written to say so. The Gov- ernment 0f New South Wales did not keen this beneficial discovery to itself. Other rts of Australia have shared in ts hop y- results, and even Fiji. -- In press Union.

An lngenloul device embles a, telephom subscribe;- cheek all calls on his Phone baa been invented by CLVL. mtcliell, of Brisbane. The device fits over the ordinary dial. ls almost. un- noticeable, and requires no effort on the part of the telephone oper- ator. He merely adds an extra "X" to his number, and dials. As the iumiber is dialed. it is automati- cally recorded on u. paper ta inside the mechanism. The ad l- tlonal "X" makes a break ba- izween the numbers called. If the number is en three "X's" are dialed to indicate it. At the end of a day the device can be unlocked," the paper tum removed and a. complete record of culls ll available to the subscriber. ‘rho inventor believes the device should be of particular value to large bus- iness firms where hundreds of calls are made each day, u ablu the subscriber. to know just how many calla have been made where the calls o each d and who; his phone ill ehouldxo. -- Australlan Press Bureau.

What Herr Illtler can has‘ caul- fid to count: it ta does that matters, an use; Your." c ...

N‘ I5 , vmrqg, 7h"! M"!!! the llliistion fllfldl- mentally no better than it was least left. it. no worse.

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