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§ llornlng Dally (Founded in ill!) . Latlsorleed rsn lion-unit Clues liisil, Post Office i, Department. Otfnsvl. j The lnlnnd Guardian euiiiisisine Co. j Illlor lllll Imaging Director, J. B. llisrlolls

Associate Editor, Irnnk Walker

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UIABLOTTETOWN. SATURDAY, AUG. 2B, 194B

Taxing The Farmer

.- income Tax officials since 1942 have made increasing efforts to persuade farmers to keep regular accounts and provide the department with information which would be equivalent t0 the Profit and Loss statement o-f other taxpay- ers. The new "Guide Book" for Canadian farm-

ers issued last year is an honest attempt to-

make this task as simple as possible, but it still requires that someone in the farm. family make the entries and keep a permanent record of al-l transactions. i‘

Business men can sympathize with the farm- er for they have been keeping for many years records for the sole benefit of the income Tax Department, and in addition furnishing reports to e variety of Government Offices.

Taxation of the Farmers under the new system constitutes more or less of an annoyance as even under the present prosperous conditions farm profits could easily be considered below the taxation floor.

Of course the department will get a few thousand of the P. E. I. farmers hard earned money, but the cost of getting it will be very high. if as in the past the farmer were free of the Tax Department altogether it would not mean that he is not contributing his share, for he does so at every turn. Each purchase he makes, each time he requires the assistance of some business or professional man, in fact he may scarcely move off his farm without h! some way contributing to the government coffers. This is of course all indirect taxation, but at least it -ls paid without requiring the farmer to change his way of life.

An Island Brewery (i)

' ly an overwhelming vote of the electorate we have come into line with the rest of Can- ada in the matter at liquor for beverage pur- poses.

Citizens watching the huge loads of beer being hauled continually from the freight office or by truck from mainland breweries, may won- der why we have to send Prince Edward island money away when a product equally good or bad could be brewed here.

The manufacture and sale of spirituous liquors has long been illegal with us and though the sale under direction of the Government has been mode legal since the plebiscite, no change has been made with regard to its manufacture.

At Tecumseh a group of veterans recently financed and built a plant known as "Old Com- rodes Brewery Lt ." which will market its pro- ducts under the name of Schneider's Beer and Ale. The plant has a capacity of 120,000 bur. m‘: annually wit-h e staff of approximately

Such an undertaking here may be at pres- Int out of the question, and further alteration of the law wouldbe met with strong opposition, even for manufacture controlled by the Qqy. ernment, with ingredients bought on the local market.

Shortage of help, however, would be one of the least drawbacks, as reference to the pro- per authorities would reveal a list of skilled brewmasters and trained personnel of many years’ experience, readily available.

Soviet lleiitoiiarlaiisj?)

in "Notes on Soviet Life,” being circulated

in Canada and the United States is this extra- ordinary claim to longevity among Soviet farm- ers: "The Learned Council of the Ministry of Health of the Byelorussian Republic has collect- ed same interesting data on the longevity of the people of this Republic. it has been found that in seven regions there are more tifan six hundred people who have reached the age of cone hundred, and 16 who have reached the age of 110. Pelageya Makarevich, a collective farm woman living in the Komarinsk District of Poles- sye was born in 183i, and Maria Shanko, of that District, is about the same age. Mark Okunets, a collective farmer of the Zhitkovichsky Dis- trict, recently celebrated his 118th birthday. The oldest inhabitant of Byelorussia is Maria Kupmich of the village of Ostrovshchina in the Polotsk Region. She was born in i812, the year of the routing of Napoleon's armies in Russia» She has never known illness in her 136 years and enjoys very satisfactory health

to this day." 'I'his is of the category "Tell it to the Marines." _._.__________.‘__. “That Blessed Word"

it was a dear old, reverend church-wor- mpping lady who used to enunciate eiropliatic- oily, in season and out of season "that blessed word Mesopotamia”. Today it is our ultra mod-

" ern and would-be scientists who have recourse

to such word-blind worship, that "blessed ward” In their case being "Psychiatry", oralternateiy "Psychology". During the recent war psychiatry was not infrequently resorted to as an excuse for meiingering and to justify exemption from military service. Today, according to real, as distinct from pseudo-scientists, psychiatry is -.being reduced by public entertainers from tire to the ridiculous. Arr eminent Scottish ' J professor, Dr. T. Fergasonlodger, pro- ’, Pfycliiatry at Glasgow University, has ‘(entrained to enter o strong protest, tell-

ing the International Conference of Mental Hygiene in London that the glamorizing of psychiatry and its practitioners in the films, and trying to "over sell" it, could only retard pro- gress in the profession.

"ln recegt years," he said, "we have had the spectacle of the cinema glomorizing psy- chiatrists and representing psychological meth- ods of treatment in a way that can only be mis- chievaus to the spread of sound principles."

in his view blame did not attach to the producers and directors of such films; for he ad- mitted that they were a faithful reflection of existing mistaken ideas on mental health.

"Perhaps if, in the past, psychiatrists had been more concerned with their social responsi- biilities and less with advertising their skill in treatment (he said), the cinema would have por- trayed us in a truer and more" dignified way."

At the same Conference Dr. Julian Huxley declared that med-icai science was just re- discovering that after all there is nothing new under the sun, and that Western scientists should study Yog-a, a system of Hindu philosophy showing the means of emancipation of the soul from further migrations, akin to self- hypnotism, and to see what is in it for all man- kind. Dr. Huxley, who is the Director-General of the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Commission, told the New World Federation for Mental Health it might well look into the mystic lore of the East.

if this lore could be investigated scien- tifically, he advised these learned mental spec- ialists, "then l think an immense step forward could be made in your field."

Here is an outstanding scientist telling the pick of the world medical scientists that it is quite possible, indeed, expedient, to make progress by looking backward. Holy Writ is thus once more being vindicated, coming into its own through scientific investigations into the pro-historic.

~ EDITORIAL NOTES -—

Feast of St. Augustine. I I I I Tomorrow the 14th Sunday alter Trinity, or 15th after Pentecost. i I I I it looks as if coffee drinkers may have to go a little easy on their favorite brew. Heavy damage is reported to Brazil's coffee crop by a pest known as "broca." l I I I I A new shipping line Plylng the flag of the Union of South Africa will soon link Canada with South African ports. Trade with that coun- try is expected to increase considerably. I I I I

Naval battle o-ff Heligoland Biglht this date 1914, when the British Navy closed tile channel preventing German war vessels using it in Great War l.

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The other day we were gwi-trayed ln a De- troit newspaper as being in the frozen north. Now a Chicago correspondent addresses us as being in the tropics, viz., "Charlottetown, Prince Edward island, B.W.i.” (British West indies).

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Nova Scotia ls not taking her lack of in- dustries lying down. The Nova Scotia Re- search Foundation has been formed to explore native industrial possibilities and assist pras-

pective manufacturers. I I I I

Representatives from at least five prov- inces will report on the treatment of French- speaking minorities in their schools at the Can- adian Association of French-Speaking Teachers’ Congress being held at Ottawa this week. The five provinces which have appointed delegates are Ontario, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Albertd;

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John T. Hiackett, K.C., M.P., president of the Canadian Bar Association, who recently vis- ited here, will be honored with an honorary degree by the Universite de Montreal during the forthcoming annual meeting there of the lawyers from across the country. Mr. Hackett is mentioned in Ottawa as a possible candidate for the leadership of the Conservative Party.

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Dr. Gustave Lanctot, president of the Royal Society of Canada and Dominion Archivist, has been elected as Canada's representative on the international Commission an Folk Arts and Folklore. The commission, affiliated with UNESCO, ll a clearing house for information and studies on folklore, folk arts and music. its headquarters are in Paris. Dr. Lanctot, president of the Canadian Folklore Society for 20 years, is a well-known historian and author of a number of b-ooks on Canadian and Ameri- can history. One is a study of Canadian-Am- erican relations, entitled "Quebec and its Southern Neighbors."

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Hugo Giot-ius, Dutch politician and jurist, died this date i645. He wrote Latin plays and verses, and _became historiogra-pher to the United Provinces; was sent to England in 1613 to make arrangements concerning whale fish- eries. ln the disputes between rigid Calvin- ists and the followers of Arminius he tried to restrain the Calvinist clergy by maintaining the supremacy of State in Church affairs, and composed an edict counselling toleration, the publication of which aroused popular resent- ment. Grotius was arrested and sentenced to life-long confinement; but his wife, who shared his imprisonment, soon afterwards contrived his escape. Going to Paris he subsequently held the post of Swedish Ambassador. His most cele- brated works qre De Jure Belli et facis, of which there is an English translation-a great treatise in jurisprudence; and Annaies et Historian do Rebus Beigicio, an historical work: "Cities are immortal."

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MUSICAL PERFORMANCE

The Charlottetown Amateur 0t- chestral Club paid e. visit to Pow- rusl on Monday last. and Iflve I very creditable performance in m, hail there. There were some drawbecks to the occasion. one: that the mass of the audience would persist in remaining out- side, thus avoiding the entrance Ma; and the other: that. the mission of the Club was seriously misunderstood. There seems to have been on impression that our mus. 41 friends were e bodq of potato merchants, end numerous samiplee of bubors w!!! thrown in through the windows for the tn- apectlon of the musicians. But for these txifles the performance was s, complete success. -—Weelrly Examiner, October 4, 1814.

Britain Building Territorial Army

(By Stuart. ttisderhfl. Oe-neatsn Rees Staff Writer)

Britain is getting ready for an all-out. recruiting oempelgu tor 1h territorial. srimy — tte oft-teen

soldiers who turn our for weekly drills and two weeks’ annual camp.

Field Marshal Viscount Mont.- gomery, chief of the Imperial 0on- erol Staff, says that. without these men there could be no national army and no national security. Full-dress recruiting begins lri mid-October. The official send otlf comes at: the end of that. month with e review in London's Hyde Park. The object 1e to raise the territorial army's present. strength 0.! 50.000 to 160.000. _ The need of building up the ter- rltorials has become more urgent due to the slump in recruiting for the regular army. Despite conscription for IB-yesr-olds. the intake ts said to be running shout. 20.000 behind the figures neces- sary far s trained forioo of 200.- 000 by next. spring.

The war- Oiftlce plans eeli for the terrltortals u well: Train- ed force to be ready to steip into any defensive breach alongside the regular army. The territori- nls attend 30 drills yearly end are trained to handle modern weapons and think along tho lines of mod- ern warfare.

“livery mim and woman in Brit- aJn should understand that. if the territorial army fails. their homes, their freedom and their way of life would be in the gravest den- ger if we were attacked." Lord Montgomery said in an address a‘. Blackpool.

He is anxious to get. the terri- torlals built. up in time for the regular army's annual we: man- ccuvre which next yea: will be "exercise Britannia." Lest. year it, was "exercise Bamboo" and dealt with a hypothetical far-eastern problem.

“Exercise Britannia." will oover the whole question of civil de- fence ln Britain in the atomic age. This ls in itself en innova- tion since ft will involve alvll departments in wer games. Rep- resentatives from the dominion; and from British cities which were badly bombed in the we: will be fnvfoedto attend.

10rd Monleomery told service chiefs, at a recent. conference that. their job is "to try to evolve a civil defence doctrine snd beeh- riique which will link the civil organization with the military one in this (rent mutter of defence. We can not. have two things in watertight compartments.“

.'I‘he territorial; will draw pay while on dul-y end also other

oncesnam. _

The Field Marshal already heir introduced merry reforms in the regular ermy ln hopes of slep- plng up recruiting. The cem- psign is lagging due to dissatisfac- tion over food. Men have com- plained that they have to spend most. of their opera oesti in the canteen to fill up on buns be- tween meels. Another eeuse dis- satisfaction in the leek of married quarters.

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Car Prices

(Ottawa Journal)

‘Ilhere was rejoicing in the hearts of thousands of prospective buyers of automobiles osi July 8'1 when Finance wnieter Abbott, u e pre- lude to the National Liberal con. ventlon, removed the heavy excise taxes on Canadian-made cars. But their joy has been short-lived, Now, less than tnvo weeks after the re- moral of the lmpost, prices gt both mid and General Motors machines have been moved up another not/ch. Reason given for the boost ls tihe inevitable “rising material and labor costs."

Mr. Greenfield, director of ersles and advertising of the Ford Motor company of Canada, sold that the company had "came to 111115 decis- ion (to increase prices) reluctant- ly," and no one who has followed the history of the tfnn will quest- ion om reluctance. Henry Ford became ruler o! is great automo- tive erniptie and one of the world's richest men not. by building ex- pensive cars but by building auto- mobiles priced within tlhe reach of those receiving modest. salaries and wages. m: e. time at least this policy ts being discontinued. and even workers in automobile motor-tee complain that. they can- not afford to purchase lfhe cars they themselves make.

Whether there _ls e field for miter-prising manufacturers in putting out. a oer priced lower than those in today's automobile show- rooms is problemetloal. It can be reasoned that tlhere must. be. On the othgr hand, ft. ls difficult to imagine ouch °orporatfans ea Ford, General Motors at Oliryeler miss- ing a worthwhile bet. The Ger- mans had just started mass pro- ducllon of the "universal car" shortly before Hitler led his leg- ions tntq Poland and the mekin! M til-ifs car-it. was called the (pal-was subordinated to bhe rnenufsctmre o! military vehicles. Perhaps some wealthy industria- list will build nn American or Canadian version of this low- pi-loed madhfne and put. ft. on the list will build an American or would-be motorists and his own on. richment. Those in the lower and medium income brackets can only stand and welt.

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Beef Famine Unlikely

(Financial Post)

Officials here are inclined to think ell the rumpus over beef prices which has followed re- moval of the embargo on the ex- port of beef cattle to the United States, will settle down very quickly. So will prices. There ls no suggestion yet. of refmposing ceilings, nor is ti. thought Can- adians will go short. on beef.

Price-wise, things will probably settle down to about. another 15c s. lb. at. retail for is while. Then. with our producers aiding the simply situation in U. 8., prices there might. quite easily star‘: coming down. M. least. that's the wsy experts here see it.

At. the same time, Agriculture Department officials told The Financial Post they could see no reason for removing the export embargo on hogs and pork pro- ducts. '.i‘b‘.s ban. of course, re- mains because of our ccmmlt- merit lo supply Britain with 195 million lbs. of bacon this year, of which 146 million libs. have el- resdy been supplied.

The contract comes up for re- newal this fell and. contrary to some reports. according to a. high official in the Agricultural De- partment, there is no suggestion here yet of seeking s higher price than the current s36 per cwb; nor hse there been sny pressure by the fsrrn lobby to free bogs from the export embargo.

The situation differs radically from the beef situation. Al. pres- ent. the producer seems more sal- isfied with the stable market. of- fered tilrn under the U. Ji. con- t-rsct. Additionally. the U. S. msrkel. in hoes hes elwsys been subject to gytntlons; historically our prices have generally been higher.

In the beet situation. several important factors tisve not. yet been made clear. The quote, for instance, does not es yet exist. Our farmers can. in feet. sell to U. S. markets nil the beef cattle those markets will take. until Weflslnzton decides to cslll e halt.

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Five thousand eimsote. wrapped in sold:

One mfllllon mowflekao. lerved toe- 00d;

Five quiet. friends; one baby's love; Ono mad. white us. with clouds above;

One hundred dreams Of moon-drenched roads end liar-

rylng streams; 0g pmphesylng winds Uld tee-ea; 0f silent stare and browel-nz beee: One June night in e. fragrant. wood; One heart. that loved end under- stood? ' I wondered when I weked at. day. How, how in God's name-I Poi’!

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Jewish State A U. S. Mistake

(Ry J. M. Roberto, n. Associated Press News Analyst)

British officials still think that the United States made its Brent.- cst. post-war mistake in Palestine.

may recognize the pressures to which. the Westminster: Govern- ment. wee exposed. they It!“ when reminded that. American policy goes back to Bdtnln’: Bal- four declaratlon after the First. World war, which was interpret- ed ee promising n Jewish National State 1n Palestine.

But foreign office expert-s think lt- was immature political think- ing to project the national state idea. lnlo a. neiw ere. in which they consider Russian containment to be the paramount world issue.

They Admit. they ere not. en- tirely clear on whet. should have been done. They admit that. humanitarian thinking, something they have grown to expect. from the United States. probably play- ed ss mulch n part in American policy u did domestic polities.

They reiterate, however, that this is s hard world and thatthe practicalities of the main ques- lion must. frequently overrule moves which may appear Aesir- iible within themselves.