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PAGE 6 fiiibav. NOVEMBER 30. 1932. The Financial Issue

According to Liberal Leader A.W. Matheson, the Provincial Gov- ernment will have to find .2,000,000 to cover the proposed abolition of hospital insurance premiums, not to speak of about $2,500.000 for resour- ces development, $1,000,000 for a new frozen foods plant and $5,000,- 000 for a new provincial office build- ing. Mr. Mathesotl asks: “Where is this money coming from?” His point is a good one, notwithstanding that his own party, in some measure at least, is committed to these ex- penditures, and has also an obliga- tion to inform the electors as to how, with the revenues at hand, it would implement its pledges.

Mr. Matheson, moreover, insists that the finances are in a bad mess, which would seem to indicate the need for a policy of retrenchment rather than of expansion—though neither party has indicated that it has any intention of pursuing this course.

If the Liberal leader’s stand is illogical in this case, the Govern- ment is scarcely in a position to score on it. Its program will certain- ly involve a great deal of additional expenditure. and it hasn’t said “where the money is coming from." Will it necessitate an increase in the sales tax. the gasoline tax, the liq- uor tax, or other tax boost. or is there a big windfall expected from Ottawa of which weIknow nothing as yet?

BUDGET FIGURES—At the last legislative session. the Government budgeted for an overall surplus of $18,386 for the current fiscal year, and a revenue surplus of some two and three quarter million dollars. In the ordinary course it would have waited until after the next session of the House before calling an elec- tion. and the public would then have some idea as to how these estimates Corresponded with reality. As it is, it has no idea. It can only judge by what has happened to budgetary predictions in the past.

For the last fiscal year ending March 31, the Government had originally budgeted for an overall surplus of $90,665. This figure had

W. J. Hancox,

to be changed last session to an estimated $621,673 deficit—owing. as the Provincial Treasurer ex-

plained. to early spring storms and the outbreak of fusarillm rot in the potato crops, which practically ac- counted for the difference.

Going back to the previous fiscal year ending March 31, 1961, there was an overall surplus of 628.061, but this was considerably less than what had been budgeted for at the 1960. session. Here again, bad weither conditions, plus disastrous forest fires in the summer of 1960, infer-ferried with the Government’s Minolations.

. rUNCERTAINTIES—How about thin year, and the effect of unpre- «dented weather conditions on our andliomy. and on the treasury? The r Government may have some idea, , 3‘ 'hfldhe electors.'as a body, are com- 11$er in the dark. ‘

7 IIAgain, Mr..McQuaid had estimat- fhnt an of March 31 this year the of the Province Would be “ The Opposition leader that l on the condtrary, oldie $36,500,000; and he pre- thnt by the end of the current - , totit linbilitice would be at , “7.500.000, as against $29,- ' the Liberals left of- “ Will have proven accounting is

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There are reasons here, we aub- mit, why every endeavor should be made by the Government to answer Opposition financial criticism. and why all its pledges involving increas- ed expenditure should be scrupulous- ly price-tagged. with the amount, if any, which it expects to receive from Ottawa. and how it expects to raise the rest. This obligation it assum~ ed when it undertook to call the election at this time, and before the current year’s accounts could be submitted to legislative scrutiny.

If the Government were running on its past record alone, this would not be so important. But it is its ex- pansion polices that are being chief- 'Iy emphasized, and these—however meritorious in themselves—will have to be financed. Perhaps they justify a return to more deficit budgeting. We are not going to argue that penny-pinching policies would be preferable where the interests of our basic industries. or basic ser- vices such as education and public health and welfare, are concerned. But in any case, the electors have a

' right to know the cost of what they

are voting for, and how it is going to be paid.

Another GIassco Report

Another shock wave at Ottawa has been felt as a result of the sec- ond report of the Glassco Royal Commission, whose basic recom- mendation is that the Government get out of its commercial enterprises and stop wasting the taxpayers' money. The Commission felt that “at least $50,000,000 worth of goods and services, which the Government now provides, could better be secured from commercial suppliers.”

This waste goes on notwithstand- ing that the Government ordinarily pays no taxes, rent, service char- ges, depreciation and other usual and normal costs. Its charges to itself “often‘exceed” by 50 per cent the price it could get from private en- terprise.

It’s a devastating report—lard- ed with such details as the following: Savings up to $600 per car or truck could be made—but are not—by bulk or central purchase of vehicles. One department pays $24.44, and another $12.94 for the same size brand of fire. In one department oil costs $2.00 and in another 47 cents a gallon. Storage cost in salaries of stationery supplies in the Labor De- partment run $44.29 for every $100, but at the Statistics Bureau it can be done for $6.66.

The Navy has enough wool and cotton underwear of one particular size stockpiled to last 1,000 years. The RCN also stores an 85-year sup- ply of one size of boot, and has enough small kitbags to last 10 years. The RCAF has supplies of a certain type of electric light bulb to fill a 270-year requirement; it has also a wool stock supply good for 81 years, and enough tires to last until 1974. The Army won’t run out of size one in men’s plain black cot- ton overalls for two centuries, and its suppy of a certain type of flash- lights will last deep into the let Century.

And so it goes. It Is amazing that the experts were not sidetrack- ed and baffled by civil service dou- ble-talk and rambling justifications; but they stuck to their chore and made. their report. Now it’s been tossed into the Government’s lap, with recommendations involving rev- olutionary changes which, if ac- cepted, will be felt in scores of de- partments, boards, bureaux, com- missions and assorted Federal agen- cies.

Prime Minister Diefenbaker has announced that action has already been started to implement some. of the commission’s findings, and that most of them will be carried out “at the earliest possible date”—an in- dication, in itself, of the impact the report has made.

EDITORIAL NOTE

Conservatives in British Colum- bia have been trying to persuade the federal minister of public works, Hon. E. Davie Fulton, to leave fed- eral politics and become their prov- incinl party leader. Mr. Fulton says he’s “still entertaining the idea .but it is a difficult decision." We can well understand that. It has been about three decades since a wholly Conservative government held power in British Columbia. For about one decade, Conservative re~ ps'esentejtion in the legislature has been At present. itie non-gn-

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"NOW WE CAN DISCUSS IT”

OTTAWA REPORT by Patrick Nicholson Shokeup Needed In Federal Trovel Bureau

()ur go-getting Minister Trade and Commerce,

of ivernment in Ottawa would Hon. iforced to reinstate those earlier

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George Hoes. may be the man 1 Liberal travel restrictions. dis- to save us from severe curtail- Itasteful though they were

mcnt of Florida holidays similar foreign expeditions.

We Canadians are the world's greatest travellers. and we are the world‘s most lavish spend- ers visiting USA. The Dominion Bureau of Statistics has just re- vealed that we spent a record $642 million. or an average of $35.66 for every Canadian man, woman and child. on foreign travel last year. But what hurts us is that foreigners together spent only $482 million here. and this was the eleventh successive year when we spent abroad more than foreigners spent in Canada.

Our lakes and forests are world famous as a sportman‘s paradise and a vacationcr's dream. Bun whereas tourism used to be one of our most re- liable and lush "invisible ex- ports." it has now become an in- creasing drain on our interna- tional balance of payments. So imuch of a problem has this been that Canadians will recall with gloomy foreboding that 15 years ago a severe albeit tem- porary curb had to be clamped on our foreign travel.

PICTURE WORSENS

Last year. largely because we attracted only one-sixth of US tourist expenditure. and ranked even behind Mexico and the Ca~ ribbean islands. we had a defi- cit of $160 million in this field. But in the first half of this year, our deficit soared to cx~ actly what it was in the whole of last year: we spent $230 mil- lion in USA and $99 million in other countries. while US visit~ ors spent only $147 millioin and other foreigners a mere ‘ lion here.

This is a disastrous picture, and no doubt was in part re- sponsible for the Government’s determination and correct judg- ment to devalue our dollar and peg it at an advantageous inter- national exchange value. This was donc before the Canadian tourist industry reached its full- steam-ahead holiday months of July and August. and hence we may expect confidently that the full year‘s figures will be better than those of the first half-year.

But it seems assured that the 1962 total will be even less fa- vourable than in 1961. If this trend were to continue. any 30-

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pendants. All letters published an III jeeite nenelecndeaaewnarr Incas-are. T'Ia Guardian la enable it new tale any corr- ence recent. Inn leitm nbmltted.

OTHER GROWERS AFFECTED Sin—The Department of Agri- culture In to be commended on Its efforts to compcnaa grain growers for their losses in harvesting their crop due to bad weather conditions. In Prince County and part of Queens we had a heavy Ions in

our n weather conditions. In the can- ning crop there were over 200

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Against this background. there has of course been some seri- ous head-scratching'in Ottawa, about the promotion of tourism in Canada. Reduced air fares. the ,saving of holiday time by the “Big Jet" airliners. and the worldwide “Travel now - pay later" scheme: all these are tending to boost international holiday making. With our im- mense natural attractions. we should enjoy a substantial ad- vantage in this field; perhaps even return to the pattern when, for at least 24 successive years prior to 1951, we always enjoy- ed a favourable balance on tou- rist account. But despite great efforts by provincial govern- ments. notably those of P.E.l.. BC and Ontario. as well as the great advertising campaigns by Trans Canada Air Lines and the railway companies, we are just not attracting visitors. es-

pecially from USA. In sufficient numbers. A GREAT BOOSTER

The situation is not helped by the sub-optimum associations en- joyed by the federal Canadian Travel Bureau. This is a poor little misplaced foundling cared for by our Department of Nor- thern Affairs. The well-heeled Yankee tourist is dumped und- er the same governmental um- brella as the tubercular Eskimo.

Tourism is a selling job. The best Canadian selling job today is being done by Trader Bees and his band of merry men staffing the Canadian Trade Commissioner offices all around the world. How wonderful It would be to see each of these promoting tourism In Canada! An imaginative stroke. and one likely to be taken soon. is the transfer of the Travel Bureau Iinto the field of responsibility lfol Hon. George Hoes — to I c :benefit of our tourist industry ;and our international balance of l payments.

India Move

India is quietly moving about four battalions of seasoned in. fantry troops from the east Pakistan border to the Commu- nist Chinese frontier following a decision to reject the Chinese settlement terms and eventually reoccupy Red-seized border fer--

ltory. High Indian diplomats in

iWashlngton concede this move

could cause a new flare-up tn the India-China war if the Reds choose to challenge the pres- ence of Indian troops in territory which the Chinese propose should be turned into a virtual no-man's land after Dec. 1

Prime Minister Nehru is re- ported to accept this risk, though even with fresh troops his forces may be far from ade- quate to meet the fury of a new enemy thrust.

But the Indians also see the possibility that the Chinese, having gained their limited ob- jectives‘ especially in the La- dakh area to the northwest. may choose to ignore the lack of an Indian withdrawal. pro- viding the Indians do not launch an assault on established Red positions.

BIT BY BIT

As seen by B. K. Nehru. In- dia's Washington ambassador. the Red Chinese may be work- ing on a play to seize India in stages.

"They have achieved what they were after." he suggested In an Interview. “They have

iven us a bloody nose: they have established themselves in the Ladakh territory that they wanted and now they are put-

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By Harold Morrison Canadian Press Staff Writer

ting themselves before the world as advocates of peace."

Nehru suggests India must be prepared for a long and costly struggle.

“If there is a lull now, the Chinese may come back again in three or four years and try to take more territory~taking In- dia piece by pece." PAKISTAN PRESSURE!)

_ Withdrawal of a substantial portion of Indian troops from the Pakistan border would seem to Indicate some form of easing of tensions between the two Commonwealth countries. Ap- parently the United States and the other allies have been able to bring some pressure to bear on Pakistan. which went so far recently as to threaten to sign a no-war pact with Red China.

There still is great hatred be- tween the Commonwealih neigh- bors. particularly on the ques- tion of Kashmir. but It may be significant that the Indian troops‘ withdrawal) is reported coming from near the Kashmir area. indicating some increased Indian confidence that Pakistan won't attempt to seize the dis- puted state.

Ambassador Nehru says'the India-China war may be long and costly. but India never again will trust Red Chlnau

The development of In. concentrated in pure economic growth. now will be broadened to inkedn long - term military strength. with the tareet of in- creasing India's total troop strength from the ' . to some 2.500.000. armed with the best equipment available.

Easy Painters

Shouldn’t Drive

By Dr. Thnedeu R. Van A MAN LOST control of is

he remem p

accident waa a-violent coalth

spell. Tests showed he

been drinking and that he was mentally alert and well coordin-

e . This man had cough syncope (fainting) and physicians teeth fled In his behalf when the case came to trial. The condition in numerous re- ports on the dieorder have ap- peared in medical journals. Ser- ious accidents have occ several occasions and It is ob- vious that victims of this dil- caae should not drive.

Cough up a reflex that slows the pulse or lowers the blood pressure. ‘As a result. the blood supply to the brain is curtailed. an the Individual blacks out or fainfs. This is all it takes to relax the hold on the steering wheel and to veer off the road.

We do not know why some people faint more readily than others. In all probability they Inherit a nervous system that is overly sensitive to certain

reflexes. Many individuals faint when they see blood. smell obnoxious odors, or with ordin- ary pain such as that assuriatr ed with a hypodermic injection. Others faint when the reflex is set into motion by pressure on sensitive nerve centers in the neck or.when persons with cer- tain types of heart disease try to exert themselves. Passing out often is preceded by weak- ness. giddiness. blurring of via- Ion. pallor. and sweating. week we told of nar-

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sclousness after laughing or be- coming emotionally upset. This is more closely related to sleep or coma than is a faint. Epilep- sy also is easily confused with fainting. In the major form (grand mall. jerking move- ments of the extremities and head occur. The minor type ’pctit mall resembles a black- out and is momentary in dure-

on.

These different conditions are mentioned because the bystand- er can elpful in describing the behavior of these Individuals to the physician. The victim Is unconscious and cannot recall what happened.

HAIR BALLS

A.L. writes: I swallowed a human hair yesterday and this has me very upset. Could this be trouble producing?

REPLY

The hair should pass without a tickle. Hair balls form in the s t o m a c h occasionally when girls or women tug continuous- Iy at and chew their own hair. These masses may get so large they must be removed via sur-

gerv.

WORKING OFF ANGER

A.C. writes: I'm all for your advice to blow off steam to some friend or even foe. But suppose, as In my case. fh ere Is absolutely no one? What would you suggest as a safety valve.

REPLY Get a workshop with a ham- mer and saw — and hammer and saw.

Our Yesterday’s

(From the Guardian Files)

TWENTY - FIVE YEARS AGO (November 30. 1987)

There has recently been er- ected in Brudenell. cemetery a monument to the memory of two brothers. James and Donald Dewar. who were born in Perth- sbire. Scotland and came with their wives to Montague River in the early years of the nine- teenth century. _"The heart ls Hilghland and blood is strong" that cements the ties of kinship and binds their memories to the beloved "Sea girl. Isle."

Clive E. Johnston. Charlotte- town. of the staff of the local branch of the Royal Ba

Canada. has been transferred to Glace Bay. NS. and left Sat rday to take up his new

dui ea. TEN YEARS AGO (November 80. 1052) The constant and expanding inroads by beavers on valuable timber lots. and the

up by these industrious workers has caused Hon. Eugene Cullen. Minister of Industry and Nation- al Resources to declare an 'open season on the offenders for a more or less indefinite period.

Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Norris and c h i I dress Barry. Marilyn and Paul of Fortville. Indiana, arrived in Montague Ia week where Mr. Norris. graduate of Alberta Bible College, will minister to he congregation of the Gnuchfof Christ in Monta- gue. Murray River and Murray Harbor. I

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minute and have no burning de- sire to read 40 times that fast.

I doubt that the 11,000 words a minute man 'gcta much pleas are out of re more. than a foggy notion of what he's

. .no time to look up the machine of a ctrennie word. to appreciate a M hire

phrase or to ponder ‘ fence. He must

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