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SUBSCRIPTION I; lull in I‘. n. l., [L00 oer your: ‘L25 for Ii months; Min lnr one month City Ilt-Il\'rr_v'l5.00 per your: $8.00 tor t! month! $1.76 inr I month»: Gila tor on! mfllllh By lthli to other Province: end lJ.l.A. “.00 Mr veer leturde! Weekly: I200 Der you: 01.00 ior l months. 50o tor I months

Guardian may be obtained 1t Timer Square. New York: Old South New» Agent]. Corner lilllk end Washington Boston.- ,.\letronolltnn New: Alenry, 1241i Peel St, Montreal: J. Fine 8M Buy Sh. Toronto: NOW! Stand, (Jhnteuu Lnurler.‘ Ottawa: Wolfe’: New: Slant! Sull- bury. Ont.; liub TUIIIIOCI) Shop. lloncton. N-B-

The Charlottetown Enrolling’: New: Agency.

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_\11_v cl c resulting from redistribution will not aiitc: Province except relatively. Our

bcizztit- Yufllccvlllitllilll of fottr members is fix- ed by stuitue. 111111 l1 is also pruvitlctl (thanks to thc efforts of the llzuliivson Liovcrntnetlt in 1915) 111.11 our l'€pl'€:CflliLtl\'C$ in the Com- mons shall not fall below that number. This provision saved 11s from losing one and possibly two iticiulwrs during the years 11f steady exodus of our pt-‘lllllllllbtll.

The 111st.» of rcpreseritatinrt in the Lower House 1s the Province of Qucbcc, which has a fl.\€‘1l itumber of sixty-lite menvbers, each of the 1111101‘ prtniuccs 111-111;; assigned "such a uuut- ber of tucnibcts 21s will bcar the saute propor- tion to the niurtber of its population (ascertain- ' ed at each dicennial census) as the number sixty- five bears to the numbcr of the population of {Jtielit-c."

\\'l1<~11 we emered Confederation in 1873 we llitrl six members, Nova Scotizt 21, New Bruns- wick l1). Ontario 88, Manitoba 4 and British Columbia 6. Under the last Representation Act of 1033 the distribution by Provinces was as follows: Prince Edward Island, 4; Nova Scotia 1;; \'1\v lll'\lll<\\l<.‘l\, 1n: Quebec, 11g; Ontario, 8?; \1.11111~lm, t7; Faslvalcheuwtn. 2t; Alberta, l7. Brirr-h (Qnlumbia, l6; Yukon, 1, making a total nl 215 members as against 181 at Con- lEiltlélllttll.

ltiollotvittg previous redislribtttions the “lest- erii l'r1.vi11c1.s111z111c steady gttins, but. it is (111111111111. judging by the 194i census returns, if :11: next Representation Act will make any grczii difference. At any rate. as already 1101.-

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t .\»‘lzji1:l 11w (Qauzlriiati Institute of Public 1s ll<‘l11 ilh eleventh annual conference at 111-1111“ ltirk, Lake Lnticlticlting, when a series o1 1111111- 11.1 political, economic 111111 social 1111-1111111. 1111- given. 'l'l11- press reports of 1hc p11><1crl111§s 11111-1: now been supplemented by 11.1» publicntictu by the Ryerson Press, Toronto, o1 111i‘ full text of the addresses under the title,

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111-11: 111 ilie iiitrotlttctioit supplied by one of the ("lllfll . llr. .\, l\’. .\l. Lower, Professor of His- .-1r11v zil 11111111 college, Winnipeg. and the 111111.11 zt- 11 1111-111- r1111 scarcely he tcriucd 2111 . 1-.1,11.1t<- 111;11"11~1-111.11i1111 111' tirilc (Qttnailiztit pub- 111: ~pi1111~:1. There are, hntvcver, some excel- 11111 ;11‘1=1:l1',~ iitelitdiug 1111c 11y M1‘. Percy J 111p. 1’Jt'.;i\\.'1 C()l'1'(‘S[)f)l1(l(’lll rutd formerly 1'11» c1~rr1~|111t1rl111t 111' 1l1c .\'c\v York Titties, \ >111.1-1;1t1»1-'~ Vie“ of Cuuattlu :11 \\/'z1r" 111-. 1-p1,~1>1"tt111i1_v of spculviiig fléllllxl)‘ and

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Latiiutlrt \\'1'l.\ in suck cover and protection." That is not how .\lr. King explained the agreement in llztrliznnciit, 111m" which 11c seemed to be un- (luly clailcd: but i1 is .\fr. Philip's phrase for it", 111111 111- 111111.;

“l fir-t 111.1111 11f i1 tvliilt: l was i11-Vichy —-— f1t1111 .1 1.11.11 pzttltwlu ttltu 111d not ti-tttccal his drliglit in pinniiug 1-111. 111111 Canculn has rushed 11w 1111- p1n11-c1i1111 111' ,1 neutral power 211111 that ht 1" tl-tiity; >0 \\'.'l..\ 11 straw showing which way 2111- wind w:1.- blutviitg, telling how the great (lav- of the lltitislt limpire were over and the children ucrc going their-own road.

"Herc i11 (Einada. I think it served to drug 1111111- pm-plfis mimls hack into the soiuuolcttt (‘flllfllllrrll fltllll which they \h:td been rudely zivvnltr-ut-tl l>_v lltc derfcat of Frztucc. lt soothed ucrves which 111111 been somewhat jmtglctl and i1 scrved 1n placate a [mhlic which had bccotue 11n- :1~v :1111l 1o give 1'1 a false sense of security with a 1'1\11.-.1~1|11111t slowing up of the whole war 1111>v1~1u1-111. l1 served to tlull the edge of Cait- nrlnis rcptttnlinu and 111 cause that lack of ap- fIFCCl-‘tllflll of her part in the war about which tlicrc has‘ bt-r-u so much complaint. 11 rather ltrljtrd 1111111 l111rt the American isolationists,

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serving to strengthen the feeling that America would not ltave to fight. 1113i all ill: needed i0 do was 1o exist and tu spread her protective mantle over those who felt themselves in dan- ger.”

All For Victory

Uur Russian allies are not only setting an ex-

the battlefield, but they are giving equally con- viuciug proof of their unity of purpose. Even religious differences ltavc been forgotten in the determination to crush the conuuon foe.

On Jan. I, says a Soviet official publication, Vladimir Stefanov, priest of the Assumption Church in Moscow, addressed the following let- ter to Stalin: “A; a. shepherd of souls, I deeply mourn the fate of our brothers and sisters who have fallen uncle} the yoke of fascism in the temporarily-occupied regions and suffer unpar- alleled atrocities and tortures at the hands of the German fascists. Being eager to help the R111 ;\r1ny to defeat the enemy as soon as pos- sible 111111 lo clear our sacred Russian laud of fascist vermin, on Dec. 2, 1942, I deposited with the State Bank all my Church savings, totalling 273.000 rubles in cash. l ask you, joscph Vis- suriouovich, to build with this motley two war- pluucs to be limited for our heroic ancestors, Alc-xtuidcr Nevsky- and Dmitri Donskoi. Le‘. these powerful planes punish the Hitleritc crim- inals responsible for the calamities which have befullcu mankind."

a EDITORIAL NOTES .—.

Calgary's coal shortage in subzero weather, re- porlul i11 ycstcrtluys (iuzlrdiztu, might be tuorse. .\11111'1li11g t1» the Canadian Irlress, only five per tent of the homes there depend on coal for heat; the others are heated with gas.

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Painful but fortunately not serious are Col- tiuel Ilalstoifs injuries received in \1Veducsday‘s 111110111013116 accident. They include a fractured right wrist, a cut through the lower lip into the 111011111, a cut over the chin requiring six stitches to close and an‘ injury to one knee. X-rays slinued no other fractures.

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An extraordinarily large portion of the ferm- er’s cash income is going into payments of debts, reduction of mortgages and savings, with good increases in consumer soft goods and semi-lux- ury liues which are still available, reports the Cotintry Guide. Thus the farmer is building up au exceptionally large backlog of savings which augur boom business for the makers of capital goods, building materials and supplies, equipment and farm machinery, once these are again available for purchase.

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Rev. Dr. j. S. Thomson, manager of C.B.C. told a service club in Saint John “every depart- mental officer of the government and every ntiu- tster of state. including the Prime Minister o1» this country, has come to ma, not with orders, hut with requests, that in the public interest of Caxljlda, they should inform the public of Cau- ritla by making this or that statement. We are zit war, and who am I as the general tnanager 0f a great public corporation to say to the Prime Minister or any other minister of the Crown, if he feels it his duty to communicate with the (juuadizin people, iltitt lie shrill certainly not do it tlvcr the llztuzldlan Broadcasting Corporation network"? 1 doift think the public would likely tolerate any such obstinate interference. In- deed, I should be nothing more than a hum-bug and a IIUlSHIICQ if I attempted to do so.” Imphl 111' 110 doubt would be presented with the "Order of the Bout."

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Lord Byron, English poet, born this date, 1788; his mother was Catherine Gordon of (Sight; on his father's death, he lived with her in Aberdeen till he went to Harrow then to Cambridge; fell in love with Mary Chatworth but was rejected by her, a disappointment that bad some bearing 0n his subsequent life; he toured Europe, including Spain, PortugaLGreecc and the Aegean Sea Islands; on return 111 London he married an heiress, bliss Milbatike, and after their daughter was born they separated, he set- tling iu Geneva where he wrote his master-piece, “Child Harold"; later became joint editor with Leigh Hunt of “'I‘he Liberal" which, however, was a fztiltlre; after his friend, Shellcy’s death he raised money to help the Greek insur- rcctiouists and sailed to Missolouglti where he died April l9, i824; his earlier poems are garish and itisincere but his Inter p0€ms show much sympathy with the stormy side of itafurc. and great powers of wit and satire:

“Hereditary bondsmen! know ye not

Who would be free, themselves must strike

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An hour may lay it in the dust and when

(Ian man its shaitcrfd iplerdottr renovate?"

You had better have your grocery bill paid up by the cud of next month or your credit will be gone. Prices Board officials of the consumer credit division have clarified the new consumer credit order, effective Feb 1, as it applies to food particularly. The order-in-general con- solldzltcs previous orders and, tightening re- strtctioits 011 credit purchases, extends the r0- visious of the constutter credit policy to iuc ude [lfflCllCillly all fortns of credit sales. Previous to this order, payments in connection with fbotl cniuc uudcr uo government rcgulatiotis (the grocer extending credit as long as he wished.) At the request of grocers across Canada, Price Board officials said food. along with other cont- modities now come under the credit policy. Food still can be purchased on charge accounts but these now are due and payable the 25th day of the month following the month of purchase. No days of grace are permitted. Two excep- tions are made: A necessity clause in the new order permits sale of fnod under exceptional circumstances should the buyefs account be in default. Farmers under the old order were al- lowed seasonal accounts under which they were entitled to urchase goods (other than passen-

ample of courage and brilliant generalship on d

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The mm who carried "The Mes- eaze to Garvin" 1n 1898 he: died 1n San Francisco. lie was Majol- And- rew Summers Rowan and was 85 years old. A shy and modest person, he llvect 1n the shadow of his achievement, which won fame by the notable essay that Elbert Hobbs-NE ashed oft an hour before preu time and himself became . ed as a. result of it. --Hamllton Spectator. The Scottish lenlul, Bobble for a’ that." Similarly, we think e woman ls e woman for all the sad mixtures of types that now are grouped together under the nigh sounding term finely." Surely no lngher tribute could be paid- lo e fine, noble, adult female than t0 58y. "She 1s s. real woman!" If this isn't the case any longer, then why not drop the word "woman" entirely and get some other term to allow for variety and contrast between differ- ent types and different degrees of culture. manners and sentiment? - Kingston Whig-Standard.

A dispatch from the African bnt- tlcground speaks of the surprise and discouragement. of German prison- ers at the vast equipment. which their captors now have to call upon at need, American material oi all kinds. Apparentiy they have be- lieved the repeated assurances given them that American equipment could not reach any bottle-front in time to be of much use. Furthermore these German prisoners refused to he- lieve that Stalingrad had not only not fallen --as they were assured by their supreme African command last. month that 1t had - but that the Russians were actually driving the German army back-Montrealstar.

Is the Eiffel Tower about to fall lIllO the hands of German Wredlters? Last. week a. Paris dispatch printed ln Stveclen asserted that the world- famotts landmark "has rusted be- yond repair as the result 0d’ neg- lect.” If the Eiffel Tower has really fallen to disrepair this has hap- pened against the deslres of most. Frenchman. For they know that every slx years the towering pride of Pztrislnns had been painted by 65 during workmen who tradition- ally refused to wear safety belts (ztltliottgh at least flve were killed on each jab ) A year ago the Ger- man invaders talked covetously of the towers 7,000 tons of metal, '111e rust story suspiciously like e. Nazi lie stared as a forerunner to the destruct on of the best-known fea- ture of the Seine landscape. Built for the Paris Exposition in 1889, the Eiffel Tower has been allied “an upended bridge that went nowhere except into the heart o1 bourgeois France" Alexandre Gustave Eiffel himself once admitted: "I know it is atrocious. but: there it is. and there ls stays." And so all 984 feet of the Eiffel Tower stayed —lts massive toes dug deep below the bed of the Seine and its heed lifted serenely into the Paris haze. Stratford Beacon-Herald.

A woman air raid warden In e New York apartment house was amazed by the variety of her neigh- bors‘ pets. Dogs imd mils were com- mon. One wmmm hilt-i n. monkey anci- anothcr a. white rat. Strangest of all

was a caged barnyard rooster. Chatting with one housewife, the girl told her of the pet; in the building. "The lady right above you has a rooster," she said whereupon her hostess gasped and slumped to the floor. When she came to, 1.11s Jody was. profusely apologetic. “I've never fainted before, but. 1L was s111-11 a shock," she explained “You me, I've been tinder treat- ment for six months by the h1g1:- est priced psychiatrist in New York bztause I kept hearing roosters crowing." -Reader's Digest.

On November l. 1935, the Japanese ltutiou celebrated a special national ltolidny to honor their "Sacred Sword" This swam ls suppoeed to be the identical one given by the sun goddess, 1n the mythologi- cal age. to her descendant-ln-Jnpen

taln his empire.” Preserved in s. Shinto shrine, l1. 1s worshipped rein- larly as part of the ritual of Shinto -—the national religion. The i935 celebration. however. was I. special and extra-solemn occasion. It cele- brated the removal of the sword to a new sltrlile -_a ceremony that had last. taken place forty-three years before when it had served as a symbolic preparation for the first Slim-Japanese war. The highest tre- ' us. military and government of- fl ls took part. The masses of the people, in public parks, 1n the court- yards of shrines and temples. or gathered around public mdlo, were

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elm-elm rum enundw’ Id- dmeeto the Grand Jury at in: trtsrm s.:*"..;."r"r: u tunmers .

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e. what, Dgople would like to kmW is. wh are these dens not. closed up? A1 this must. be dlscotlretpnfl to any police official who is 1Y1’- ing to do his duty- Lately the Ten-‘fgy-gmgg Federatlon has beent send up 111 letters to the Press lu 1 long-wnded explanatlons. of whet the ptibllc already knows about 110 (ltstiilars and brewers in w" .1-~- per Provinces. What has all £1115 l0 do with a Prohibition Province like prince Edward Island? What a- bout our dlstlllers of D0159" m°°"' -‘“1“1°.’.ll““ h"? °‘1‘..111‘§1i“‘1‘.‘1.l1§ e e e s . ' 1.11“ pctltaeliidful conditlflfl 0f wrltxugg to the ress go.- o; ag p lbltton is smp- ty dodging the main issue.

The present state of affairs with these wretches making and sell- ing moonshine with the attendant evils and often tragic results 1s a situetlm not to be lsnflred. Aw the ulspensere of t poison to be allowed u» defv the 1W and so unpunlshed.

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CRUSADBIL Stmtmexsfde. ‘

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The Ruml Taxation Plan

(Btraftord Beacon-Herald)

Both in the United States and in Canada. the Ruml plan of income tax collection ls 88531914112 HEW supporters since it was proposed early this year. A few weeks ago The Financial Post, of Toronto, took a "plebiscite" of opinion among businessmen and found strong end widespread support for the system. The more people look into 1t, the more they appear to like it.

The author of the plan 1s Beards- ley Ruml. chairman of the New York Federal Reserve _Bank. and the plan, briefly, l; this: “For eta" last year's income tax collect one and call the collections made this year the tax on this year's Income. In other words. so far as Canada is concerned, instead of the de- duction; now being made from weekly or monthly pay envelopes or from other sources, being the tax on last years income, treat it all the fax on the current; income, thus paylng as we go.

On paper t would seem as if everybody was being tforglven a year's taxes and that the Govem- ment would lose a. whole year's re- venue flwu that source.‘ But, in fact, the Government would lose rtothlng. It would continue to re- ceive a year's income taxes 1n per- petuity; till the end of the world. 1'1 there 1s such u time. If, when income taxes were first imposed, they hac‘: been applied v0 the rur- rent year instead of to the income of the previous year, l1; would have been e fairer start.

There are many hardships due to the present method. There are many people whose incomes are re- duced by the war. There 1s the case of men who give up good jobs to Join the armed forces, and they ere faced with the payment of last yenrfl; taxes from army pay. It

off by illness and 1t 1s hard on tlmse who have been compulsorlly retired and have to nay lest years taxes out of smaller superannuation income, These end other circum- stances account for much of the income tax which the Governments are unable to collect. The system Ls particularly hard on widows, who 1101. only pay death duties on their husband's estates. but have to pay last; var’; income taxes on no 1n- come at: all.

The pny-as-you-go system is emin- ently fair to the Government and to tlhe taxpayer alike. It protects the Treasury from loss. and pm-

torn or the ceremonial 1n emotional tents millions of people from anx- natlonalistlc speeches. This Japan- 19W Ind distress. People are for- ese ritual received little attention 811/911 110311111! because they never 1n the American press. We find it 5WD DIYlIIK. The situation may be- hard to take Japanese mythology come serious after the war 1i cert-