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Department. Ottawa. ia-n A. " “; Vice-.- SecL-Treu. G. M. BIIIIIQI-li r" .l. n. z ‘ Ihnk Walker.

“The Strongest Memory ie Wellllfl‘ Tillie Illa‘ Weakest Ink.‘

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7. 1945

An Alarming Situation

The Charlottetown Board of Trade lost a golden opportunity of making their influence felt with both the public and government by ignoring the situation at Tormentine lost week due to the breakdown on the car ferry. Again and again reference has been made to the un-' certainty of transportation across the Straitsl with our present ferry facilities. Now, when] we are on the verge of entering upon ice condi- tions, it is all-important to traders, consumers and passenge. alike that measures should be taken to prevent a hold-up which might be of much longer duration than the one occurring last week. The alarming state of affairs has occasioned the Summerside Farmer to direct the attention of the Provincial and Federal Governments to the matter in a forceful editorial which concludes as follows:

"This incident serves to illustrate once again extremely inconvenient conditions which exist at both piers when these delays occur. There is absolutely no excuse whatsoever on the part of the Railway, the Federal Government for not having proper restroom facilities and a lunch counter of some kind on both sides. We have been reliably informed that the toilets available to the public at both piers are unfit for human use, and in the case of Borden an extremely bad report was made over a year ago by a qualified Provincial health officer who in this report stressed the danger of spreading such diseases as polio, etc., through these unsanitary conditions. However nothing was done. Some- one in this Province hould make it a point to find out who is responsible, and public opinion should bo so aroused and incensed, at these horrible conditions that they would be remedied immediately. The Public Health League of Canada should get after this matter, and there is no use in their spending money to promote public health in one place and having condi- tions like this exist which could easily undo a

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might render it impossible for the Post Office to find sufficient accommodation on the last vessels leaving in time to ensure Christmas de- livery.

"Gift parcels to individuals in the United Kingdom may now be mailed up to the maximum weight limit of 20 lbs. and are no longer re- stricted ta one per month from a sender to the same addressee. There is no limit on the quan- tity of food in general or of any one food-stuff which may be mailed in any gift parcel weigh- ing up to 20 lbs. to addressees in the United Kingdom. Such parcels must be unsolicited, con- tain only bona fide gifts and must be clearly marked, "Gift Parcel." Parcels containing food cannot be insured.

"The total value of the contents of par- cels sent to the United Kingdom and other coun- tries without an export permit must not exceed $25.00.

“The regular I5 and 20 lb. parcel post rates apply on parcels over l0 pounds in weight mailed from Canada to civilian addresses in the United Kingdom. Articles mailed in parcels are subject to British customs regulations and/or purchase tax.

"Bear in mind that the ll lb. weight limit at the I2 cent per lb. low rate still applies on parcels mailed to the Canadian Forces Over- seas.

— EDITORIAL NOTES —

This is a week of weeks—Education Week, Book Week, Poppy WEek, Enlistment Week.

Not a few observers at Ottawa now be- lieve that it is highly probable that there will b: a General Election in I947, or I948 at the

latest.

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Major-General Weeks had a happy get- together with patriotic sons of his native Province yesterday, and must have recalled the enthusiasm with which he, thirty twoyears ago, while yet only seventeen, responded to the call for volunteers for Great War I. He has climbed high since he enlisted as a signaller in ‘I914.

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lt seems strenuous endeavofl: are being mode by Liberal organizers at Ottawa to have a reconstructed cabinet soon, which would mean the removal of some old timber like Postmaster General Bertrand and Public Works Minister Fournier to make room for such up and coming Quebeckers as Mr. Speaker Gaspard Fauteux and Mr. Hugues Lapointe. Neither of these changes would involve a by-electionp

great deal of their good work. We urge the Provincial Government, with all the strength at our command to see that steps are taken without a moment's delay to overcome this state of af- fairs. We feel that the Railway authorities will co-operate, and we would suggest to them that when the ice conditions arrive they make ar- rangements for an extra passenger car or two to be stationed at both Tormentine and Borden so that when large numbers of people are held up and those who ‘are offering accommodation cannot take care of them all, that these peo- ple be allowed to use a warm Railway car so that they would at least be comfortable during such periods of delay."

lnoonio Tax Amendment

Much has been written in the past year or two of the need for a revision of the Income Tax Act. In the course of the discussion the "discretionary" power of the Minister of Na- tional Revenue has been sharply questioned. In practice, this means the power of the senior officers — the permanent official heads of the income tax department. The real culprit, how- ever, argues the Winnipeg Free Press, is Par- liament itself. At the behest of various govern- ments over the past 29 years, the original I917 statute hae been amended in all but three years. It has been garbled and confused to the point where none but a taxation expert may hop: to understand it. This is Parliament's doing. Unfortunately, however, the people who mugf bear the brunt of criticism are the collectors and staff.

As an example of unintelligible English, the following passage is quoted from page Z2 of the amending bill of last session. It is from section 8 of the bill and deals with lump sum payments to employees on retirement:

"The said single payment or the aggre- gate of the said payments made in any year, may at the option of the taxpayer by whom it is or they are received, be deemed not to be income of the taxpayer for the purposes of sub- section one of this section, in which case the taxpayer shcll be liable to pay an additional tax equal to the amount which bears the some relation to the single payment or the aggregate of the said payments as the tax payable by the deceased, under this section upon his income for the last complete taxation year in the em- ployment bears to his income during that year."

lt is not easily possible, suggests the Free Press, to imagine words with less meaning. And yet, this rigmarole is the law on the taxation of money, apart from superannuation and annuit- ies, paid to elderly folk at the end of their working days. Wrapped up in its incoherence is a harshness which is worth uncovering.

Overseas iihrlstmas Mail

Christmas is but about ‘six weeks off, and those who have friends abroad to remember must be beginning to think of them. A Post Office llllstin on the subject roads:

"Deadline dates for rho Overseas Christmas Mailings for surface transport have been set as

follows: .

November lBtli-Tlio

and Parcels.

November 25th-Tho United Kingdom-

Parcels. ,

December Ind-The United Kingdom-

ivhlch has to travel farther shoidd be

qaoportlonotoly rorller.

_ , plbllc ls cautioned to mall as early i. Lost inlniito postings, if general, d; _ . .

Continent-Letters

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l It is worth noting that Sorel, where the Car Ferry, and all the Canadian and French Government shipbuilding takes place, is in the Richelieu-Vercheres constituency vacated by the death of the Hon. P. .l. A. Cardin. In ordinary circumstances that should make it a soundly safe Santa Claus proposition for the return of a supporter of the Government. Though the seat has been Liberal for 50 years, and the Con- servatives lack organization. Mr- BFMIW" "ti" nounces the election will be contested on‘ the ground that the Conservatives are a National Party.

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One can have too much of a good thing. The Charlottetown Board of Trade, after years of apparent non-activity, started out again this week with too rich a menu of good things to be digested at one sitting. Better have one particular definite subiect for consideration, discussion and decision than several and get- ting nowhere with any ohthem. lt has been previously suggested and is worthy of consid- eration, that what the Board of Trade needs'is an organizer to keep the interests of the city ever before its members, the City Council, and the Provincial and Federal Governments. In other words, a specialist in industrial develop- ment and publicity to co-operate with the Pro- vincial Tourist ond Travel Bureau.

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Th: last public execution in England took place this dcte I783 when one, John Austin was lhcnged for robbery with violence. Later the gal- lows was transferred to Newgate, and curiously enough opposition was made by persons resid- ing oround the Old Bailey to this abandonment. One of the most vigorous drawings by Hogarth represents the execution of the Idle Apprentice at Tyburn—a fitting termination to his disreput- able career. Referring to this drawing Thack- ery makes the following observation in his Eng- lish Humorisfs: "How the times have changed!

. . On the spot where Tom Idle (for whom I have an unaffected pity) made his exit from this wicked world, and where you see the hangman smoking his pipe as he reclines on the gibbet, a splendid marble arch, a vast and modern city

. the polite Tyburnia arises, the most re- spectable district in the habitable globe!" En- vironment counts—-from most disreputable to most respectable within o generation.

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The National War Labor Board, dealing with the application of Canadian Pacific em- .ployees for a wage increase, said that it was ‘not interested in whether the Canadian Pacific could pay these increases out of current earn- ings or not; that the Company must pay them because its general financial position would lporniit this for the time being. This, says The Letter-Review, is something new in Governmental l onomic theory. Under this ruling the Gov- ernment has the right to fix wages and prices, ‘on the basis of the general financial position of those affected. The principle is laid down, for 'oxainple, that no farmer is entitled to on In- crease in prices, if he happens to have savings which will enable him to do without this in- crease; that o retailer should not be allowed to raisp his prices because he owns some Invest- ments; that, to carry tlis argument to Its logical conclusion, no workman is ontitlsd to lead for on increase in wages if lie has onoug savings to snoble lilin to do without this Increase. This

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oshainsd, and it ls going to be very amusing to see how the Government defends this policy.

"We should tcii children m. truth about Benin Claus" nag-t; on educator. Yes, and while we're at it. we should tell the taxpayer; the some. —K1tchi-ner Record.

Now oolliee e food chemist so 5W 918i. ‘teenage girls are missing their Prospects for mor-herhood by Ice cream sodas. The innocent nods. now takes its place with comets.- hlxh heels, late hours. dancing, 618819305 and cocktails and tho many other things that have bu“

Fwd during the last century o;- p9,: --Kingston Whig-Standard.

The modern pig l: a small onlsn. a! that has two ears. four feet and a tall. In former titties this animal also had e, body whim; supplied hams. shoulders, pork chops. spareribs. tenderloin. ind Mid crackllnb‘. L.B.Y. writes in The Indlampofls News. However, mainly? 01 D18 Ls not butchered My more. We reach this conclus- ion after research 1n scores or may, morkets where we have been able to find pig mils, ears and an no. canlonol foot. but the other par-t; of the pig seem to have disappeared h a form o! evolution.

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M: _0rrIl Maude. who is s4, is 791mm"! b0 the stage shortly in Shaw's oomedv, "You Never Dan T911" Th6 London Dally Mall re. ports. His last professional appear- ance in the theatre was 1n "Cab- baies and Kings’ at the Ambassa- dor in 1933. He has left his home iovrlooking the harbor at Tor. qllfly and is In London ready to ‘rehearse the mcmcnt the produc- Illg "laflflzers El-re the word. -Mr. Mlwqueen-Pope said: Waude is to play the putt of William the Waiter. The mic- was written for him but he has never yet played W.

The British B. adcasting Cor- DOTBIIOH, almost swooping with in- creduilty. announcer: that it ha; found o. man who has never heard of the British Broadcasting Cor- Pflraflon. He is on elderly Welsh farmer, living in Glamorganshlre; neither he nor hi5 wLfe had ever heard of the BBO nor had they ever heard of the existence of radio. A man who has never heard c1‘ radio must be innocent. of many other aspects of the modern world, as well. We are tempted w envy the Welsh farmer. and we are sorry that. his beautiful innocence has been mattered. —Peterborough Ex- amlner.

A generaftendeiioy in Canada during the past iwo decades to- ward younger motherhood ls noted In the 1944 report on vita] statistics for Ontario. just. ieleaxd. The 0t- tawa Citizen comments. Of every I00 babies born alive In i923. for example, six were to mothers under 20 years of age, 24 to mothers 20- 24. and fi to mothers 25-29 or a total of 5B children to mothers under 30 years oi age In 1944 of every 100 live births. seven were born to mothers under 20. 29 to mothers 20-24, and 28 to mothers 25-29 or a wtiil of 64 children to mothers under 30 years of age. The picture however is noi. complete without; mentioning the fact. that

5mg; ciimoorrerowu GUARDIAN iiotss By Tho Way l

FIOH “A TUDGMENT IN l HEAVEN”

There is no expeditious road To pack and label mien for God. And save them by the barrel-load.

Some may pwl ‘once, with‘ strefwe

I surprise _ Hove blunder-ed into Paradise.

Invsstly dusk of life abroad

NOI‘ c...’ the m1. that. they tmd And, wondering oil the about.

out.

Old Charlottetown (And P11.)

"rue sworn) (slimline

‘ihsioiinabingaf second "Gul- nsre" is thus desert in an old Island newspaper of 1845:

“On Saturday last, from the Steam-mill Wharf. o. beautiful

but-then, called m: Gulnare. built by Messrs. Peaks d: Duncan. for W. Stevenson. Esq. of Quebec. She was ‘christened In the usual mariner. and off the Iaunchway amid the shouts of the spectators ln fine style. This splendid vi-ssel is lavender! for the Surveying Service, and

"the command of Captain Bay/field. R.N. We regret to have to add that by some acacldent, one ot the sea- men belonging to the vessel had his left, hand badly shattered t0 pieces in a dreadful manner, and was otherwise badly injured by the discharge of ii brass gun. at the minute the vessel began to move off the launchways."

(Sydney YET-Rama)

One result of the double defeat for the Government's candidates in Toronto Parkdale and in Pnr- tago La Prairie is a report from Ottawa that the single transferable vote is being seriously considered with o view to making thlo inno- vation at the next Federal elec- tlon.

fles the system of voting which proved so satisfactory under the

lete and of course its great fle-

electlon of so many minority can- didates In a multiple-party cram- palgn. Theoretically there is a great deal to be sold for the P. R. sys- tem, but It also lends itself to tho argument that it is likely to lead to deadlock. This objection (‘an hardly be brought against the transferable vote. but another ser- ious drawback is the complicated machinery necessary to conduct

fewer children are now being born to each mother tum was the case lwo decades ago. and these are be-

. ing born in the curly years of mar-

ried life.

The newspaper story of the ini- gration of a family of twelve froml rural Quebec to a small industrial community in New Hampshire gives cause for thought on several phases of the problem they are en- deavouring to solve. It appears that. this family had endeavoured to make a living on a small fort}- acre farm in the north country. They are seeking now an oppor- tunity 1o beltcr LHEXXLSHIVQB where industrial employment is offered. Those who ccnzcnd that. farm prices are too low-that they are not ln parity with the costs of prio- ductlon-wlll no doubt find in this situation an argument for price in- creases. And those who argue for wider industrial acLvlty, with pro- tective tariffs when necessary. will point a moral m support their con- tention. —Finaaicie1 Times.

The Bfllrllh chimney-wt. and the open fireplace to which it. serves as a vent-sacred institu-

tona to which we shall sacrifice this iwlnter "a quarter of the coal needed to solve the world cool shortiage"— nave not so much escaped as ignored pas: criticism, says The Manchester Guardian. If. as an American writer in the mag- azine "Fortune" puts it. they "dom- lnate not only the architecture of the country but its llf-e and death and pursuit or happiness" 1t is little

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wonder that famlilarlty has dulled our vision and that we never really look at and see a chimney-pot for what it Ls. To the American eye it ls comet-hing so unusual as to be astonishing. ‘not. we are op- pressed. nl; once. with‘ shortages of coal and of houses gives us at least the opport-uniiy of making a beginning, but there ' ence that we are taking it. This winter's wastage la In any case

elections under the system and the

dislncllnatlon of the average voter.

to attempt to grapple with Wlifll appears on the surface to be a baf- fling ballot.

If. as is argued tn many quar- ters, the single transferable vote would operate against the possibil- lty of stalemate in election. It would deal with the problem of minority representation. At pres- ent iiome 100 of the 245 members represent minorities In their eon- stltuencies. and as o matter of fact all the recent by-elecflons were won by minority votes. Of course the situation is not new. There have been allegations in the ast that the Liberals benefited by the existing electoral system, and the i945 election might be termed o classic example, whereby the Lib- ensls won 53 percent of the Fed- eral seats on the support of less than 40 percent of the total elec- torate. But the results of the re- cent by-electlons, it ls understood. have moved the Government to feel that the current system of voting Is now operating against the Liberal party, instead of In its fa- vor. Hence the report that Ottawa l-s taking the transferable vote un- der serlous study.

Redistribution is due before the next election In any event. This is a traditionally thorny problem. a1- though charger of "gerrymander- ing" are rarer of late years since committees representing all parties have token over the jab of redis- tribution. But the shifts In popu- lation may result In the disappear- once of some historic and well- known seats, including Glengarry. now represented by the Prime Min-

wan. J’. G. Dlefetibukeru constit- uency. ft may be felt that solving the redistribution problems will be

L, “m, evhbl troublesome enough without sackl-lnever been so heavy or so

.'ng'the transferable vote ‘issue, However. the possibility of no

imyond avoiding _.,md ngany wing- party. least of ell the Liberals. hav-

ers after than-but need we con- tinue to build the old fireplaces and crown them with the old pots? The rickshaw is toot losing oat ir. lbkyo. There is but a small tetra-lion of them lefi. and they nuke their hearlquarters st the sumptuous "Battery Club" on Tokyo boulevard, which the Hod Oroeii has turned into o olub for enlisted men. Robert B. Ooehruio writes in The Baltimore Bun. Bus- iness holds up pretty well there, since ovary G1. wants ‘to ride the things-once anyway. G L's chron- lazily overpay their human horses. give than clgoreta, handy sad‘ often the iemrns at their lunch. Tho rickshaw men love those west- ern customers. Bicnhevrs do little to alleviate the real problem of Iii . I! IN D0 . the street airway. the on oil chronically overload- liusns and outoniobilfl

cl-fl. the Nit. lino hoses

ing a majority In the next House may prompt n definite move to- wards the transferable vote.

and trucks that still operate have been converted to charcoal or wood block fuel. Often each vehicle must stop while its driver stokes his

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With the emergence of new par-l

two-party system has become nbso- ‘

feet now ls that; it leads to the