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Morning Dally (Founded in 1887). Authorized as Second Class Mall, Post Office Department. Ottawa. _ President, Ian A. Burnett; Vice-President, Win. R. Burnett; Secy.-Treas., G. M. Burnett; Editor and Via-raging Director. J. R. Burnett; Associate Editor. Frank Walker. .

"Tire Strongest Memory is Weaker Than the Weakest Ink." '

CHARLOTTETOWN. SATURDAY. DEC. 6. i941

Speaking With One Voice

As the Provincial election campaign draws to its close, it is worth noting in connection with many of the pledges given by the parties in the contest, that Federal co-operation is not only de- sirable but necessary. This means that the can- didates should be in line with their Federal’as well as Provincial-policies and leaders; other- wise their words are "as sounding brass and tinkling cymbals." This is particularly the case in connection with pledgeras to obtaining Fed- eral support for building Brighton Bridge, of ob- taining reduction in the still exorbitant rates on the car ferry, of constructing a marine railway slip, etc. On these issues, whatever the Liberal and C. C. F. candidates may promise, their Fed- eral party leaders have remained silent, and the electors have no assurance whatever that they would be able to implement their pledges.

The Conservatives, fortunately, are in a different position. Their Federal leader, Hon. John Bracken, is specifically pledged in these matters. Hr.- has taken the trouble to study our problems at first hand, and is 100 per cent behind his party colleagues provincially. Here, for ex- ample, is the Conservative policy as announced a Mr. Bracken's meeting in Charlottetown in Mai, i945, and again enunciated on his recent visit a few months ago: '

"One of the aims of Confederation was that there should be no barrier to inter-provincial trade. Your geographical position has imposed such a barrier. We see no reason why that con- dition should mt be rectified and promptly. We believe that the water rautefrom Borden to Cape Tormentine should be in effect a national highway. Accordingly, the Progressive Conserva- tive Party pledges to the residents of Prince Ed- wa"d lsland that the increase in cost of mov- ing farm products and other essential freight, by truck or rail, occasioned by this water route aver the normal cost of moving such farm pro- ducts and freight for the equivalent mileage on land, will, as a matter of national policy, be borne by the Government."

Also, Mr. Bracken is pledged ta the con- struction, without delay, of an additional new ferry for the Borden-Tormentine route; of effici- ent repair and maintenance of wharfage facil- ities at Charlottetown, Summerside, Alberton, Georgetown and Souris; and of a marine railway slip at Charlottetown for the repair and servic- ing of ferries and ships.

On his visit here last August Mr. Bracken repeated the pledges he had given two years previously and added: "l saw today that you have to drive fifty-two miles by road to get from Borden to here. The direct route is thirty miles. This afternoon it was my privilege to drive out with Dr. MacMillan and MrQBeII and see the site of this so-called Brighton Bridge project. I think this is something that ought to be done; it is iust fair play and common sense.

"Also with regard to the Wood islands- Carrbou service. Some assistance has been given by the Federal Government towards transporta- tion in that section, and deservedly so. Person- ally I don't see why, if assistance is justified in improving that section, it would not be justified if 't were done from West Point to Buctouche in another part of the lsland."

These statements—and others which could be quoterL-indicate that the Progressive Con- scrvative Party-Jiedcral and Provincial — is at one with regard to its policies respecting Prince Edward lsland. It speaks with one voice, and this unique CVKlEIICG of sincerity and unanimity is something well worth considering over this criti- cal election week-end.

lloiFree Liberal Handouts

cibcral spokesmen have been proclaiming to the housctops that the subsidy received from Ottawa undcr the Dominion-Provincial tax agree- ment is more Federal revenue than over came to this Province before. They credit this to the Jones Government; but they neglect to cite the huge tax collections which Ottawa now takes from us. For thc first seven months of this year, for example, the Dominion Government hoarded a surplus oi S56l,673,240,—-and this at a time when taxes and the cost of living in Canada are about the highest on record. Lost year, accord- ing to returns tabled in the House of Commons, this little Province paid in personal income taxes the sum at $i,286,i63, plus $7l4,670 in corpora- tion taxes, or a total from these two sources of $2,000,833. Thcre are, of course, other Domin- ion taxes, including succession duties (which amounted last year to $26,085), a 25 per cent excise tax on many commodities and an 8 per cent sales tax on practically everything, for which no figures are available but which must run into many hundreds of thousands of dollars annually.

Here are figures for previous years, cover- ing a portion of our lsland contributions to the Federal treasury:

and $130,926 in succession duties, or a total of nearly eight million dollars on three tax items alone.

The fact of the matter is that the Dominion tax agreement, under which these collections will continue to revert to the Federal treasury for anothr three years, was forced on the Jones Government. They would not have gotten less in return had they stayed at home and argued the case by correspondence. The King Gov- ernment had the whip hand, and used it. Now Premier Jones and his followers are trying to make a virtue out of their necessity, by painting the agreement in its rosiest colors. But this will scarcely fool anybody who has read the Prem- ier's own briefs presented at Ottawa, in which he complained bitterly of the terms prsuiosed, and maintained that this Province was being "by- passed."

- EDITORIAL NOTES ...

Tomorrow 2nd Sunday in Advent. . g e a 1r w Three more days for activity prior to the election. i I I I Governor Bernard is obtaining quits e lot of free publicity for the lsland in Boston. I I Q i

The wind bloweth where it listeth, but the politician consults the meteorologist to make sure of the direction.

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Even Royalty, H. R. H. the Duke of Windsor, recognizes that to effectively reach the public tho Printed Word is the surest, most reliable

medium. I I I O

The New York Times divides the "cold war" into the labour front and the diplomatic front. They might well have added the food front and the scientific lfront.

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The threaten-ed loss of English markets for

our foodstuffs is a direct result of the high price level prevailing here. We have followed the United States in pricing ourselves out of a mar- lret.

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Tl-l_E__ GUARDIAN. cnAkLQrrefrowN __

A Minnesota hunter became lost ln the woods last week because .ie Ieft home in the dark and picked up his wife's compact. in mistake .ar his compass. He may have ieen mad at himself for msklru, the mistake, but not likely as annoyed as his wife was when she reached for her compact and picked up a eomyase. -- Fort Will-lam Times- Jnumal. -

An Australian government af- flclal has brought tram Japan special instruments used by the Japanese when operating on oys- ters used in pearl culture and t. 1-? lwlwd to establish the industry in the north. The Japanese, the official ascertained, conducted se- cret experiments on Australian cysters on Thursday Island in 1923 and in subsequent years took many oysters to the Celebes and Palau Islands for pearl culture. The cost. was tremendous in oyster- niortslity, but. the Australian oys- oer pesrl was worth ten times that of the smaller Japanese product. -Brsndon sun.

It is easy to ba wise after tho event. Rree ‘Trade ideas dominated rhe 19th century, and in 1846 it was hard to resist the spirit of the age. But we can see now the fear- ful gamble Britain had taken. She ‘sad placed her destiny at. the znercy of world forces beyond her control. Even then there were warnings that her industrial pre- eminence mlght not lust and that. ff ever Britain could not sell en- ough goods to pay her way her position would be perilous indeed. That is our position today. and it La not entirely due to the war. Since the 1850's we have slwaye bourht more than we sold.— Lon- don Dally Mail.

One hundred and sixty boys and girls in Britain are being chosen to form the vanguard of the na- tion's new generation of experts 1r. nuclear energy. A government apprenticeship scheme has just been announced by which they wlll

-' if PUBLIC FORUM

i‘ This column is open u. 501s dlaeuliou by corro- s spondents of questions I" . Interest. Tho Charlottetown ' Guardian does not necessar- lly endorse the opinion of correspondents.

>fiPsl'h‘s‘i'h'ls'u's'\s'n'|'-'s's'b's'sl'-'Is's‘s POTATOES AND POLITICS i

Sir, _. 1 notice the Jones Gov- ernment are claiming a lot. of cre- dlt for marketing the 1946 potato crop. The farmer's of Prince Ed- ward lsland were made the "goats" for stabilizing potato prices in the rest of Canada because of the Government order forbidding ls- land potatoes to be shipped any- where in Canada until the British contract was filled at. a Price so low the New Brunswick growers would not fill their share of the contract allotted to them. One dealer who has been in the pola- to business for years told me he could have paid twenty cents a bushel more tb the growers and could have sold the seconds if he had been allowed to supply his customers in New Brunswick. On- tario and Maine who had been buying their cobbler seed through him for s number of years. In- stead of that he was obliged to sell his potatoes to the Govern- ment agency buying potatoes for the British market. and no sale for seconds, with the result. that the farmers whg grow cobblers were left with the seconds which com- posed slxty to seventy percent of the crap last. year. on their hands. Sorns who shipped to the starch factories received from eight to fifteen cents a bushel after the expenses of shipping were paid. with the result that. hundreds of tons of lost year's fertilizer are still to be paid for.

Now when there ls s world shortage of potatoes and the farm- ers have a chance to get out. of the red, the Government reimposes a price ceiling on potaloesdower than the farmer received for their potatoes in the short crop potato years during the depression when he could buy his farm equipment. and supplies at. one-fifth or one-

The intimation that "Big Business" would not press for sale of margarine followed im- mediately after Mr. Lester Douglas got to Ot- tawa and advised the powers of the political risk involved here.

Prim: Minister Mackenzie King is seriously Impressed with the lowering clouds of war and starvation facing western Europe—not to mention Palestine which was not included in his month's itinerary.

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lt was Sir John A. Macdonald who declared that the prediction of an election winner was as uncertain cs the winner at a horse race. After many years experience Mr. Lester Douglas, M. P., has come to the same conclusion.

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Russia's currency troubles stem from their basic system. Workers carn and may save money but investment and interest are taboo. Large sav-ngs in years of scarcity of consumer goods were available in highly liquid form so that the threat of devaluation caused a panic to exchange money for goods of any kind.

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Encouraging?

rumored (says The Financial Post). say that no decision has been reached but they point out that they can't go on paying higher costs without some compensation. lt would seem wise for Canadian newsprint producers to con- sider their pasition very carefully. They should rea‘ize that too high a price would tend to jeop- ardize much of the goodwill that has been won among thcir consumers as a result of the -reoson- able pricing and servicing policy during and since the war."

Over 30,000 European volunteer workers are to he recruited to Britain's coal-mines during the next i2 months undcr a scheme which was rec- ently approved by thc National Union of Mine- workers’ Executive. lt is also proposed to bring over l0,000 homeless German orphans who are now in camps in Germany. are already coming to England to work in the mines at the rate of 100 a week and this num- ber will bu stopped up to 2S0 by mid-December. The foreign workers will be taught English of special camps and given training in coal-mining before starting work in the pits.

Herc is evidence that socialism costs more than free enterprise, as is taken from the Sask- atclrewan News, the official organ of the C. C. F. Government there: "Regina-Living costs are rising morc rapidly in Saskatoon, which is repre- sentative ol Saskatchewan, than they are far the Dominion as a wholc, Co-operotives Minister L.F. Mclntosh said recently. of Stdtistics in its latest report showed that from Sept. l to Oct. i the Saskatoon index rose an addffional 3.4 points while the Dominion index rose only 2.8 points in the same period, he said. Since August, i939, the Dominion index has climbed only 4l.6 points, while in Saskatoon dur- ing the same period thcre has been an increase of 44.0 points."

The Feast of St. Nicholas. Saint has enjoyed a more extended popularity.‘

ceiving practical radar and

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_ "Another increaseof from _$6 .§,‘1,‘,§f,‘,‘,,“’,‘,§,‘_.;,',,,_ to $l0 a tan ln the price of newsprint ls being Journal.

Producers

and creed made to total war.

complete Free Press.

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oral hospitals. the word practicability of

Foreign volunteers ten.

lomc.

Anlerlcan

n frontier l-abln _ _ the eldest. of a The Dominion Bureau

humbly into rthe

/\ prominent women's magazine announces tlrc gradual disappear- ance of maids from the American The cause: icnls. costs. taxes. The result: peo- lie will seek smaller houses. more labor-saving devices. By a curious mechanized process this brings the housewife baick to the old American virtue of Ilance. But self-reliance in s mod- ern apartment with help from an elcctrlc dishwasher is not the same think as self-reliance in

a timid suggestion to the Now comes the machine. the mighty leveler. with its suggestion to trade

be trained in atomic engineering and Jet. propulsion as well as re-

instruction in

telecommunications. They are being recruited by the usual method of competitive exam- inations for appointments in Brit- ain's civil service. Girls will be eligible for work at the Royal Alr- iraff; Establishment where research into supersonic flight ls carried out and also at the Telecommunica- hon Research Station, which is ~0-

sturly, practical

application and potentialities of

Kingdom Infar-

The newlyweds were giving their first. turkey dinner. since her hus- band was a novice at. carving Mrs. Newlywed insisted on his learning v.0 carve from her new cook book, lest he display his ignorance be-

The turkey was

inter placed before the inexperienc- who was plainly at. s loss to know how to begin. "Ga on, dear, carve it. You know ex- actly how to do it." the loyal young wife. "Of course r do, b'ut. 1 can't. find any of the came

whispered

back the - Wall Street

Rscislism has no part in a na- tion whose soldiers every race and from every con- tinent. Barriers of class and creed, lztalerable anywhere, are doubly so in Canada where every class

came from

its contribution

Inequality of op- portunity should not. be to exist when war called for the equality. —- Winnipeg

allowed

The On 1"io Minister of Health says the government. is consider- ing the construction of convales- ncnt hospitals as much cheaper -;o ‘build and operate than active gen- The definition of "convalescent" and the

working within

‘l ls a very essential part. of the problem that, ls apt ta be‘ forgot- -- Ottawa Journal.

high wages.

sell-ire-

quite

with help from bouncing broad.

Emerson, the prophet of self-re- liance invited n somewhat. abashed maid to eat with the family as a sign of democratic egalitarianism Since then the situation has chang- er; and. many a mistress creeps

kitchen to olfe; maid.

. ll. your cook for a pressure cooker

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Perhaps m, Monitor.

i942: personal income taxes, $483,803; He is regarded as the special guardian of schol-

corporation taxes, $263,733; succession duties, ars, of virgins, of children and of sailors. Schol-

$2,l38. ars, were particularly under his protection, and u", o, weaum. i943: personal income taxes, $594,347; churches in university centres were dedicated to

corporation taxes, $8i5,994; succession duties, him, and for the reason that students were orig-

$l$,727. inately denominated clerks in holy orders, the i944: personal income taxes, $l,i57,775; fraternity of parish clerks placed themselves

corporation taxes, $549,933; succession duties, $40,843.

i945: personal incam corporation tqxss, $630,6 ;

taxes, $i,353,927; succession duties,

Thus in fivs years, 1942-46, we paid the Dominion Goismmellt $4,876,105 in personal income fuss, $2,974,953 is corporation taxes,

under the guardianship of St. Nicholas. An im- partnnt function assigned to St. Nicholas is the protection of children and sailors. iss churches dedicated to this Saint ars popu- ,i lar for baptisms and marriages, while sailors in such seaports resort to churches of St. Nicholas to return thanks for preservation at sea, by mak- ing offerings for the furtherance sf their faiQ.

In many cit-

imd be undisputed mistress of your home. - Christian Science

Regarlllens of all this. however, we will never have anything but pity for anyone who prefers that.

in which one

must. run himself ragged in order to keep warm at nil times when in is outdoors wade through knee- vleep snowdrtfts, struflle through s biting, blinding blizzard, riazardausly over icy streste, nPuftle himself ta the ears tn layers of heavy clothing, snd shovel coal and dig his csr out. of the snow. We Just. can't seem to appreciate lt.. when the first snawfsils come we'll sceept the Winter, but we'll

slither

.rest. of Canada..- .

half the price he can today. Why the necessity of reimpflsing a ceiling price on potatoes lower w than the farmer received during the short crap years of the de- presslon and let wire fencing, farm machinery, boots, shoes. clothing and everything the farmer has to buy continue ‘to advance with the a sky the limit? There is great; dis- satisfaction at the unjust way ceil- w ing prices have been relmposed on

while manufactured articles, which the farrncr has to buy are allowed l)

ernment takes such pride in be- ing in line with. Farmers of Prince Eli-ward Island should mark their ballots on Dec. i1 for the Progres- sive Conservative candidate and show the Jones Government they rw will not. again be made the goats to stabilize potato prices for the

I am. Sir, etc., JOHN l'.C. MucDONALD Monticello. Kings County. (Patriot. Please Copy)

UNKEPT PROMISES Sin-On Nov. 28th last. I had flhe pleasure of listening to the Hon. Mr. Barboufs address. I sum sure

on the silbjeets he had to deal with, h. however, I do feel Mr. Barbour needs to be further enlightened be- o‘

people of P.E.I. of tlhe benefits to

be gained under Liberal admln- m tstratlon. Rn. Potato Prices: Mr. Barbour m

quoted prices as of 1930-31 to 1934- 35 as being eight cents, eleven cents, twenty cents and thirty three cents respectively. These quotat- I ions ahaw an all-tyne low at. the time the Conservative Government came into power in 1931, and prices DID increase during the ensumg four yours. I wonder what. might. I have happened under Libcral Ad- ministration‘? Mr. Barbour did not. state when making his comparison that. in 1931-35 we were in uhe midst of the greatest depression this country has ever cxperleilced.

would any fair-minded man glvc the credit to lilie Liberal Govern- ment or the efforts of "our farmer premier" for the prices bo- tng paid for potatoes today, when half of the world is utter starvation and we have more so markets than we can supply‘! flow"- ever if Mr. Barbour insists on tak- ing this credit to his party no doufbt. he will be wl-lllng to take the "cred--

feed grains. the ninety per contin- crease in flour prices and the gon- m-al increase in prices of most of the necessities of llfc.

Perhaps Mr. Barbour does not ro- member blur depression years or was little affected by them as he was secure in a. "Government pael- tion" during those years.

It. is not. likely that either Mr. sl Barbour or Premier Joncs was armong the farmers who the shares of Northumberland Strait wihh racks of potatoes on their backs trying to get trans-