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CHAPTER. V!

Sally porter had the cab stop at e drug store at Fifty-ninth and Madison. She went in and tele- phoned the Evening Globe and‘ asked for Benson Hodge. ', "Ben. W5 53")’. What do you know about a man named Eric Larsen?"

“Is this a game?" the dramatic critic asked. “Are you and Be]; l; some evil cocktail bar playing pranks?"

"I just met him."

"So he _|ust mentioned. Aren't you together?"

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"You ought in be."

"I'm really serious. Benny. Tell me about him."

"All right, divinity, Eligible l; the word for Eric. He is probably, the most desirable young man on Manhattan Island. I-lls father ls Senator Larsen, the air condit- IOYIIHE kIflE- His family goes back unswervingly to the Vlkli-ip. Socially. he is tops. Debs cry for him. Fond mothers pray he'll launch their daughters socially by merely glancing favorably at them. He is not the best-dressed man on Broadway, as some columnists claim. but something about the way he wears his clothes makes him the most mutated. Observe the angle at which all smart young men are wearing their hats today It's homage to Eric Larsen."

"Stop joking. Benny."

D'Italin said tlierc were now rum-‘

ors the Communists would call a general strike in Italy Wednes- day or Thursday. The Commun- ists. the newspaper added, would justify the strike by "political in- cidents."

This is the second report that Italy might be plirlllyfid by a gen- eral strike. Previously the rightist press said the country would be strikebound today, along wth a similar walkout in France.

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"I am not joking, precious. The young man is not only popular and brilliant, but he's one of the de- centest eggs I know. You ought t0 be familiar with his reputation as a producer. He's so young they still won't take him seriously, but they will, Sally, they will! I-Ie has the rarest thing on Broadway _ artistic integrity. And the people who Work with him and for him claim he is the most generous, de- ccnt. honest man in the show business. He's wide-guage. Arid all the time I thought you were in love with Briney Teel. I told him you were marrying Barney Teel next weck. Did I commit a typo- graphical error?"

“No. Bonny. It's supposed to be an office secret. but it do:sn't matter now. And thanks so much."

"Don't forget that the Benson llodgc lonely hearts department is open at all hours to clients tn good standing."

Eric returned to his apartment. I-le was having a hard time re- conciling Sally Porter with all that he had learned about her. It was mystifying. if she was in, as deeply "with Stefan Zorane as she appeared to be. why had she phoned the account 0f his getaiwry I-O Barney Tcei? If she was as nice as she appeared to be, why was she running dangerous errands for Zorane and letting her column be

used for instructing alltn labor agitators scattered about the country?

The telephone begun to ring.

"It's Jim. Mr. Larsen. I'm at Fifty-seventh and Madison. She stopped to telephone in a drug

store at Fifty-ninth. 1 siipp.d tn- to the ‘next booth. she talked to some guy named Ben and asked him a lot of questions about you. Then she got back in the cab and wont down to Fifty-seventh. T0 Van Arden's apartment. She's there now."

"Okay." Erie snld. "Drop it. Go to the Newark airport and meet the senator. Hc took the three- dclock plane from Washington’. He's bringing the alligator brief- case. You'd better be armed. Don't say anything to him about thin girl. Not a word! I'm handling her myself.“ ‘

When Barney 'l‘ee1 entered the luvisli reception room of the Kresco Construction Company. he had the tsligzlitly feverish, mlrthful sir of a. man in the throes qt s, secret. pleasurable excitement.

The receptionist said gally. "Go right in. Mr. Teel." And she followed his tall, trim figure with approval and speculation. Slim. attractive, audacious, he was Just like the interestingly ruthless ra- porters shc sa/w 0n the screen.

Barney Teel went jauntily into Pop Krcscds cream, cork and chromium office. He was still glow- -ing from the handsome things Ilurly. his city editor. had said .because he had beat the field on the latest development in the lorane-Kresoo feud. Pop Kresco‘s comments should make a good follow-up. Pop Kersco would prob- ably blow up.

The contractor was seated at his immense desk as incongruous an a frog on a debutante's dressing table. lie did not look at all friend- ly. With his gray hair short and brlstly and showing the white scar running diagonally across his skull, and with his thick. self-in- dulgent lips and his cornfiower- blue eyes that always looked at your shoes when you ‘were talking, a heritage perhaps of his day in the ring. Pop Kresco was not n man 1o inspire confidence when he roiikea unfriendly.

The reporter said breeslly. "Hello pop! Well, I hear Zorane took a powder."

"Yeah, sit down." An injury to his Adam's apple. in tho prugillntlc era had laft his voice soft and whlspary.

The cornflower-blue eyes were cold. The heavy lower lip was pendulous.

“I thought friends."

"Aren't we?” '

The contractors lids were heavy. “Why are you double-crossing me?"

Barney Teal raised his dark eyebrows quickly. then _ brought. them down. I-Ill features ’ to sharpen as his eyes brightened. -

“Did I double-cross you. Pop?"

we were good

The palo blue eyes in their fatty seemed to [reels solid. The

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problems of unemployment and re- llcf. It possessed huge revenues such as no previous Government had ever enjoyed: It was political-

ly in line with the Liberal Gov-Q and we on} I

cmment st Ottawa. told by Liberal speakers that this is a situation greatly to be de- sired. It without q estlon_ there- fore. the all the circumstances and conditions surrounding its terms of‘ office were the best that the Government could have asked for, and were highly favourable to successful accomplishment. -Thu"e- fore. i1 there has been failure, that failure can be attributed to no out- side factor. but only to the inep- t‘tude of the Government itself.

I am confident that the general consensus of opinion is with ma when I say that there has been failure and that the Government's iecord has been one of uncertainty, inaction and neglect. That, I feel. .s the opinion o1 every indepen- uent elector, an opinion arrived at from day to day observation of the Government's conduct, and arrived at also by o. consideration of the Dissent condition of our public services and most important indul-

tries. A detailed review of the Gov- _

cmmenfls activities and record lIl the various departments is of course impossible in the short. ‘lme given to me_ but I might re-

fer briefly to the two great. spend- I

mg departments, the Department of Public Works, and the Depart- ment of Education. These may be ‘aken as typical of the others.

l No one could accuse the Provin-

‘rial Department of Public Works of Inactivity or iziattention during the past few months. Just a.s soon s.. an election became imminent, this giant. which had been sleep- ing for four years, awoke to vig- orous action. During those few months there has been veny great activity in the construction and repair of highways in many sec- tions of the Province, but every elector knows that for four years IILX’ secondary roads and even many of our relatively important high- ways have been without. attention or repair.

In the Department of Educa- tion, while the Government has talked and promised in reference to its elaborate but extremely vague plans for a Provincial sys- tem of regional composite high schools. the primary schools of the Province, basic and essential under any system. have been 1i- owed to retrograde and decline.

l In its manifesto which appears as an advertisement in the Char- ottetovvn Guardian the Govern- ment has set. forth a list of what. it refers to as its accomplishments during its term of office. At the top of this list, there evidently be- cause it is considered by the Gov

ernrnent to be its major accom- plishment, is a reference to the re- cent Dominion-Provincial agree- ment, which provides for a new giscal arrangement bet-weei this Province and the Dominion of Ca- nada. The question o! financial arrangements betweerfl the Pro- vince and the Dominion is a very large and important one. It em- braces much political history and is not capable of being discussed fully in a short radio broadcast."

‘Background Outlined

l shall endeavour to state very Lniofly the broad background of ills question. Under our original agreement with the Dominion we were to receive from Ottawa upon entering Confederation certain subsidies. and the Dominion un- dertook to establish and maintain for us certain services. One of the most important. of these services was the transportation connection with the mainland. Out of this agreement, over the years. large claims accrued to the Province against the Dominion, arising from various circumstances, including breaches by the Dominion of the Confederation ‘pact.

Our statesmen of the old days were alive to these claims, they pressed for settlement of them from time to time, and at inter- vals partial settlements were made. The first comprehensive presenta- tion of our claims was made by the late Chief Justice Mathieson, then Premier, resulting in what was then considered a substantial inn-ease in subsidy. later, under the late Premier J.D. Stewart work- ing in co-operation with the other Maritime Premiers. our claims were presented to the Duncan C- mmis- slon, which tribunal recommended an interim increase in subsidy and an nssassme t of the various un- settled claims.

Again. in I935. in co-oporatlon with the other Maritime Premiers, the, MacMillan Government. suc- ceeded in obtaining the appoint- ment of the White commission to assess the Maritime claims which had been established by the earlier Duncan report. As a result of the findings of this latter Commission, 1 further increase in subsidy was obtained.

This last increase. while most welcome at the time was never accepted by the Province as n full settlement, and a way m the pre- wrvntlon and further consideration or our unsettled claims was kept open by the mInoriI/y report of the into Ohio! Justice Mathleson. who was a member of the White Com- mission. From 193d until the re- tent Dominion-Provincial confer- ence. no further subsidy increase nod been obtained, except for the temporary u. ligament made after the commencement of the late war, when the Province. at the request o! the Dominion. vacated certain Provincial taxation fields for the duration of tho war.

In tho meantime, our old un- settled claims remained and the amount of thou claims was greatly

thick lips scarcely moved for their Winner. "You no” Pop Rrenco said. "I know who delivered that lnterne suit to Zonnn"

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of further breaches by tho Dominion of the Confederation pact. eerieciauy in reference to tranmortatlon. It will be recol. looted that. after the sinking of our isecond Car Ferry. Premier Jones. ispeaklng in the Legislature, em- .phaslzed the magnitude o! our iriaims in this regard,

War Yeas!

During the war years, the 170m-

llnlon Government had been given

exclusive control of the fields of income and corporation taxation. A! you too well know. those Pro- vincial taxation fields were ex- plotted by the Dominion Govern- ment to the fullest extent. After the end of the war. the Dominion desired to retain exclusive control 0i these fields. and desired also exclusive control of the field of. Succession Dirty taxation. The Do- niinlon-Provincial conference was summoned in an effort to arrive a; a general agreement between the Dominion and all of the Provin- ccs covering these fiscal and taxa- tion matters.

Considered against this histori- cal background and put in its brlefest. and simplest form, it may be said that our claims against the Dominion at the recent confer- ence fell into four broad categw- ies. -

I Fdrst--the claims which we had in common with all of the other _P-'ovinces of Canada for compen- isation Ill respect of those profit- -nble fields of taxation such as income laxfsuccesslon duties and ‘corporation tax, which the Dom- tlnlon was asking us to vacate for itheir exclusive use. y

_ Second —tlie special statutory Isubsidies authorized by the 00n- federatlon pact and as subsequent- hy enlarged.

Third — our special Provincial cllllmS which had never been set- lfled, and including those which Iliad arisen out of the Dominions ‘iailure to honor the spirit of the Confederation agreement} especial- .y in reference to transportation.

Fourth-our claims on the oasis nf fiscal need, that is, whatever additional amount was necessary after satisfying the first three categories to provide adequately for our minimum Provincial re- Ijuirements.

Some Treatment

In respect of the first category of claims, we received by virtue t! the new agreement with Ottawa, substantially the same treatment as that offered to every other Pro- vince. We received what automatic- ally came to us by virtue of the general settlement. That settle- ment was refused by Ontario and Quebec, it was long resisted by the Liberal Government of Nova Scotia. and reluctantly accepted when that Province received an undertaking of some further con- fessions. It was, as_ I have just said. 1.1. automatic settlement requiring no special representation by this hoince. It could not have been a very advantageous settlement wnen it was refused by Ontario and Quebec and so long resisted by Nov-a Scotia.

As to the second category of claims, that is. the subsidies pay- able under the Confederation agreement and enlarged over the years by the efforts of the Msthle- son. Stewart and MncMillai-i Gov- ernments, we are assured by Pre- mier Jones that these subsidies have not been lost.

There ls no suggestion that they have been increased. As to -the third category of claims, that ‘s. those claims which had never been settled and \VllICIl had been in- creasing in amount over the years. and which had been referred ‘o Ly Premier Jones in the Legislat- ure in connection with the Car Ferry failure, we received not. one- singie cent from Ottawa, and no ACCOgIIILIOII and no promise of any future recognition.

As to the fourth category. no one .vil1 think of suggesting that the settlement is adequate in refer- ence to our minimum fiscal needs. In the result. therefore. hills boast- ed agreement with Ottawa brought us nothing which we did not have before. We received. with the oth- er Provinces. our per capita. sub- glny for surrendering to the D0- minlon exclusive tenure of our most important fields of taxation.

We are assured that we retain- ed our old subsidies for which Premiers Mathieson. Stewart and

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iry. but it is by no means clear- tnat we retained these in their BY-tlretv. It is abundantly clear, however, that we received nothing I“ the Way of settlement or even u; recognition in respect o: our third and most important category of claims.

When Premier Jones reported the conference result to the Legis- lature this spring. he quite frankly admitted that the Dominion pro- posals were disappointing, and stated that they were accepted by ti" Province under protest. They were accepted‘ not for their merit, but because they were the best terms which the Province was able to obtain. Now, for election pur- poses, this disappointing settle- ment, this settlement which we accepted under protest, is being

nianship for which this Govern; ment should be re-elected.

Paramount Importance

This matter of our fiscal ar- rangements with the Dominion sur- passes in its importance any other matter of Provincial policy. More end more we have come to rely for our revenue on Dominion sub- sidies. We have surrendered to the Dominion or are abandoning most of the normal fields of Pro- vincial taxation. This recent set- tlement with the Dominion is un- inst as to our claims ihd grossly inadequate as to our minimum re- quirements. The Progressive Con- servative Party. with its tradition of success in this field, is pledged tc obtain from Ottawa a proper and adequate settlement. If our people support the Government in this election, Ottawa will have ev- try reason to believe that we are satisfied with what. they have given I15, and the way to a lust settle- ment will be irrevocably cut off.

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