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‘The Strongest Memory la Weaker Tin the Weakell Ink.’

MONDAYL MAICI 5, l!“

Farm Income Taxes

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What the Financial Post calls “disturbing implications" are contained in the following figures representing the breakdown by prov- inces of farm income taxes assessed for the tax year 1942-431

"These figures", says the Posl, “show that the income tax levy on Saskatchewan farmers ($205,835) was almost 50 per cent of the total from all Canadian farmers. This figure is not in itself large, but it looks liiige ivlieii it is seen that it is larger than the total farm returns from Ontario, Quebec, British Columbia, Alb- erta and the three Maritime Provinces all put together.

“Ottawa reports assessments of just under $200,000 from these seven provinces COmbinEd. Ontario reported’ less than $30,000 0f farm 18X income for the entire province, while Quebec is credited with just $5,205 for its 150.000 0W0‘ pied farms which, in the year to which these government returns applied (I941), “We "5' ported as having a net cash income of $118 millions. The public has a right to be told the reason for the apparent extravagant ilisparities in xissessments between various provinces."

The Past ivotild appear to be exaggerating the difficulty oi getting at the reason for the figures it cites. Saskatchewan is a province of huge individual farms-thousands of acres in many cases—and these big farm owners natur- ally have to pay large income taxes. Prov- inces like Quebec, Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick, on the other hand, possess few large farms and individual farm incomes are for the most part negligent. The statistics of farm production values by provinces (l0 110i show this variation, but it is an important one to bear in mind when speaking in terms of in- come tax assessments.

Mr. Bracken's Views

Public interest centred last week on the hearings at Monctoii of the Royal Commission to inquire into the application of income taxes to (Io-Operatives. The co-operativcs, naturally, are putting forward their strongest argu- ments. In this connection it is worth noting the news tccently expressed by IIUll.._I0ll1l Ilracken, leader of. the Progressive Conserva- tive party.

Mr. Bracken, who supported and encourag- ed co-operatives among the farmers of Blant- toba while Premier there for many years, had this to say:

"We are not going to try to tluslroy" private enterprise by unfair taxation. They are going to put a double tax on co-operatives. We are opposed to double taxation of co-opcratives or any other organization—thztt is only just and fair. I ncvei ltcartl of a co-operatlixe that wanted an unfair advantage. Let us tax all on the income received.

“I stand for encouragement of co-operntives as the best answer to monopolies and cartels and as an alternative to Socialism and the wheat pool would not be there if it were not for certain actions I took when Premier of Manittma.

“I aiii opposed to taxation of patronage tliridends (of co-operntivcs) its tinfziir taxation, butif ive are to fight double taxation of co- operatives, we must also fight double taxation of private enterprise."

'l'h1. Progressive Conservative leader's stand would thus set tip income taxation based on thc principles iu use iii peacetime liiigltnul. llis views coiuiiieiid themselves as cniiticiitly sens- ible and the proper answer to the question. an answe: which does not require the expense of a Royal Commission to be found otit.

Prolonged Life Expectancy

The average expected span of life of Can- adians was considerably higher in 1941 than it was in I931, according to figures compiled by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics. 'l'his applied to all age groups with the exception of nien in the sixties and seventies where in each case the expectancy period was less in 1941 than it was in 1931. The explanation is not given. In all groups the average expected life span is higher for females than for males.

The figures showed that the one year old Canadian girl has extended her expected life by 3.09 years and the one year old boy, by 1.53 years, namely to 68.73 and 66.14 years rc- apectively. At the zigc of ten. the average Can- adian girl may look forward to another 01.08 years. Among males of ten years of age, the expectancy of life in 194i was 58.70, com- pared with 57.96 in i931. At twenty years of us, the average Canadian‘ woman has_in pros- pect 51.76 years of life, compared with 49.7 in 1931. Among men of the same age, the longevity period was 49.51 in 194i as against 49,05 ten years earlier.

An analysis of the causes of the increased ggpected life 01in in the various groups is not

given. In the younger groups it is n0 doubt due to the effective measures that have been taken to- reduce child mortality: greater care in the matter of cleanliness, hygiene and feed- ing, together with the successes of medical sci- ence in discovering means to prevent 0r 10 10b of their terrors certain diseases. '

The 1.- less leisured way 0t itvihgih the N

present age, the incidence of mortality due to the increased use of motor vehicles and other such factors, it might have been expected, would‘ tend to offset the mortality rate among adults due to the effects of ill health in an earlier geri-

cration, but this is not shown to be the case. m,‘ “y ls hard to refuse a wife who nus c]

Their period of expectancy of life is prolong- ed in virtually every group.

_EDITORIAL sores-f

In Detroit a youth of sixteen has been ar- rested on a charge of killing his mother, be- cause “she wanted him to go to a. church sup- per", instead of visiting a. school chum.

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Hippolyte Adolphe Taine, French historian-Qllwl‘!

Notes By The Way

Vancouver waa the faatea w- ing clt 1n Canada until last ura- . en the barriers went up in the face of thousands of Cana- dlana who had hoped to settle here. ow they can't come unless they can prove that their presence la ec- scntzlal. It la All‘ Vice-Marsh Stevenson's ab, as admlnlstrawi- of emergency to repel all un- wanted boarders. First reports from 111s office indicate that c ls j t: zy, but flrm- e that there them here. 1t

come from Toronto to be near her sailor-husband. It 1a touih to tell a father that he can't ring his famtl out from the cast to live with Yet Mr. Stevenson can't, be lenient-Vancouver Bun.

Salhtcliewan now has Ila first woman mayor in the person of Mrs. John T. McOrmond. . c- Ormond was dul inducted as mayor of the town of uthei-land on Jan- uary first of this year. For the last nine years she has been n mem- ber of the town council. Born ln Kingston and with a degree from University, Mrs. McOr- mond moved to Sutherland 1n 1912

and ciitic. died this date 1893; a distiiieflishfllwnh her husband, John T. Mc-

nian of letters whose works are published in English, German and Italian as well as French, lie enjoyed the friendship mid admiration of] litterateiirs of his generation; his works in- clude Histoirc tie Ia Litteraittre Anglaisc, Origine: dc In France Cantenz/Ioraine,‘ La, Iianlailtc e! ses Fables, Lfi/fncicn Regimes “A. society cannot be founded only on the pursuit of pleasure and power; a society can only be founded on the respect for liberty and justice." I Q I I

An attempt to trace those who call them- selves Saxon and those whom others call Sax- ons is a very confusing task. The way t-hey spread in the Dark Ages and the way their rulers apparently left them to govern other people, complicate their history. It is not, lio\v- ever, far from the mark to say that the inhabi- tants of tuodcrn Saxony, those who call them- selves Saxons now atid are called that by oth- ers, are not the descendants of the fierce pir- ates ivho took over Britain as Anglo-Saxons south of tlie Tweed and left their name to many places such as Essex, Middlesex, Sussex and Wessex, respectively the east, middle, south and west Saxon territories. Present-day Saxony is a iomparatively new creation, having notli- ing in common with the pirate race which played havoc with southern Britain in "days before time."

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The R. C. N. announce the opening of the navy’: first dry-cleaning plant at the R. C. N. barracks in a Newfoundland port, offering three-day service and prices that will assure its popularity. Only ship personnel may have clothing cleaned at the plant at first but there are hopes the service will be extended later to shore-based personnel, including Wrens. Prices, established by naval order, will be low. For example, a two-piece uniform will be cleaned and pressed for 50 cents, or sponged and pres- scd for 3o cents. The navy has been pro- viding dry cleaning service at HIM.C.S. Stada- cona in Ilalifax but the plant is a private one taken over and operated by the navy. A new plant at tlie training base at Cornwallis, N. S., has n-~t yet opened. The Newfoundland plant will be directed by WO. I. C. Gourley, London, Oiit., \\'l10 had 12 years' experience iii laundry administration before joining the navy. The work ivill be done by Newfoundland civilians.

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Neutrals, however well in-teiitloned they may have been, are looked upon as suspect by the Allies ivlio are not tlisposed to allow them to have a definite tleciding say in post-war settlements. Spain, Sweden, Sivitzerlatid, Por- tugal, Argentina and possibly Eire have been banned from the San Francisco ivorld security conference. Even a declaration of ivar-the price of admission to the peace table for other neutral nations-apparently has been turned down in the cases of these countries. Only a change of government, it is reported in re- sponsible quarters, might iviii some of these countries a place back in the good graces of.thc major powers and a seat-with a vote-in the projected world security league. An exception tnny be made of Eire because of the food and other produce she stipplies to the Allies, and the large number of her nationals ivlio voluntarily enlisted in th: British and Dominion forces.

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At the beginning of the flying bomb attack on London :1 daily conference was instituted be- tween the .\Iiiiistries of Health, Works, and Labour, and the War Damage Commission; this later becoming the inter-departmental Lon- don Repairs Committee, with its own Statis-

tical Branch. The Committee receives. through 15

the Mitiistry of Health, regional reports Oll damage, and arranges ‘with the Ministries of Works and Labour for the immediate dispatch of the needed materials and men. The follow- ing are among the measures taken by the Gov- ernmetit to ensure adequate supplies of both for the London area: (1) The trans- ferring of diuiips of building material front all over Britain. (a) The mob"- ilization, through the c0untry’s employment exchanges, of all available building workers. (3) The withdrawal of a quota of maintenance staffs front big industrial undertakings outside London. (4) The temporary release of skilled workers from the forces and other industries; inr example, in October, 1944, a special nation- wide appeal was made to all with past experi- ence as slaters and tilers. The force of build- Eng ivorkers of all kinds in IJOUCOH area has increased from twenty-one thousand in June, 1944, to a hundrctl-and-thirty-tivo thousand now -—that is. about one third of the building labour of the whole country. Thirty-five per cent of this force catne from the provinces. In addi- tion, four-thousaud-nine-hundred service men. most of them with special building qualification», are engaged, as well as nearly two thousand

'Ormond. who Ls an operator with [the Canadian Pacific Railway. Sh»:

has three sons nnd ll tlaiigli . . three sons have served w l R.C.A.F.—-R.eg11ia Leader-Post.

Turkey has permitted herself to be known as “a satisfied nation." As such, she ls onto the Allied bandwagon as vehicle now rolls irresistibly tow victory on There was a time when Turkey a push. Her declaration of war against Germany comes too late to matter much. But even Turkish ncn-belllgerency aided the Allied war effort some extent. So therefls a‘ mild welcome for the new

assenger. But; naturally the car ti getting more and more crowded

By entering the war before March 1, Turkey has bought a place at the peace table, but her position still strongly resembles that of a strap- hangelm-Chrlstlan Science Monitor.

The ‘coat of employing women ls greater than that of men for equal work. This is the conclusion reach-

by the Corporation of Edin- burgh, Scotland's capital (population 439.010), which employs 4,000 wo- men. The reason ls that; over a long period more wicnen have to be employed on a 1o than men, according to the corporation. — London Dally Mall.

science. noise perfected, and seems likely to bring about a far-reaching development 1n city building methods, in trans- portation and 1n every day life.- Chatham News.

Llfe ls apparently harder on Can- adian men than on women. Be- tween the 1931 cording to newly issued tabulations of the latter canvass, the life ex- pectancy of one-year-olds showed an increase of over three years for girl babies and only one nnd a half years for boys. And the total llfc expectancy of the boys ls still about two and a half years less than the glrls—66.14 years against 68.73. For men at ages from 4c years up, the average expectable life span actual- ly declined between censuses, where- as those for women showed consist- ent increases for all age levels. - Montreal Gazette.

You see we Ilka our rains-they really more often re emble a Scotch mist than n. rain-and the mists that occasionally roll ln from the sea are an interlude that adds some splce to everyday affairs and takes us out of the humdrum. The lawns and trees are our scenic pride and we need a certain amount of moisture to preserve their health and beauty. We usually get ust the right amount-Vancouver ro- nee.

Two Ontario newspapers are tell- ing their readers how shocked they are bv an crleari novel that. from their accounts, goes to an ex- treme ln salaclousness. However well-founded may be the objections to the book, experience unfortun- ately shows that the authoress will profit from the attacks upon it by an increase tn its sales. Someone once said that, if wide publicity were nut given to such stories b their being vigorously denounce, they would be “obsccnes but not readP-Edmonton Journal;

It might be appropriate to draw attention to the act that the pre- servation of our beaver ls also a factor of importance in its turn ln the preservation of our forests. For the dams built by the beaver do a great deal to prevent a too rapid run off of the rainwater or the water from the melting snows of Winter. They maintain ponds and protect the level of streams and so protect moisture to: the trees lltld reserve for nu" wow." Ilf.".'“I'\'V— ments. A few years ago two A1- IZDHYI iIILLl Hill “Lt-Ill (‘hi "LLHUCJ )1‘ tourists were discussing routes with a party who wished to take n canoe trl . "De cu know," one, “lf e beaver have been trap- ped out at such and such n spot?" And his companion replied that he believed they had been. “Then there no use," said the first guide, "in scndln, this party by that. route;

lt‘ the beaver are gone iherc won't be enough water for the canoesP-Sault Ste. Marie Star.

Germany's manufactured goods are not wanted here, but Britain and the Allied nations should make Germany pay b taking from her the raw materla s which are need- ed ln excess 0f their roductlcn. In 1937. Germany's r0 uctlon of lm- portant lndustrla ,mlnerals was as ollows: Copper 33,00 tons. This exceeded the Spanish output. and was exceeded ln Europe only by the Yugoslavian. Iron ore, 3,200,- 000 tcns. Lead 70.000 tons, the equivalent of the production of Bpaln or Yugoslavia. Zinc 180,000 tone. T0 butld up her war machine, Germany consumed all her Produc- tion and was a heavy \lm orter. The United Nations do not nbend that. Germany shall have any wai- machine after her defeat. They should, therefore. be able to draw upon these materials as the! l" needeiL-Inndon Dally Mall.

whole submit” said the

climbing belately l

own momentum. ' might have helped give the wagon u“

cs 1t approaches Victory Station. .

The Century’: Pro

an chm ta upon the aoelil - iifettléns Oafnfhfll’ time ll llrlely (footi-

vey the social scene of today. Th would no doubt be astounded to discover that. the much-heralded revolution had failed to materialize except in one of the moat backward ltll}d least industrial

r cs.

more surprised than Engels. who lived into the closing years of the last century and who came to see that. the revolution was by no means as certain as he had previously thought. But both would be amaz- cd nt the changes 1n resent-dc E1131 1d, nat- to speak o the Nort Am? n d .0 "l *

c .... 6o. that Engels wrote

mllil the Z

lived under harsh,

dlt nsi F110 barbn: c

g s The infant mor- , and the average expect-

lfe of one born In the laboring clnss was no more than ‘l5 years. Child labor, long hours

and so on-all these were

ml in those du s. they would fnd the 47- oblalnlng even ln war- mniimum wages. factory iviilch assure conditions tin- nmed of n. century ago, soclul insurance, old age ensluns, piibllc etiucation and hca th services, a t . 1 .' 1n the general

___ a A new and practical branch of t control, is fast being p 5

and 1941 census, nc- it

vary judged by North Ameri- can standards), a life expectancy many times greater than in 1844. They would find that many of the killer diseases of 1884 have been

eliminated.

is ls so, there would also be in evidence a great’. discon- tent wlth things as they are and

1n telling the sum of things that. are wrong ln the world of to- day, it ls well to remember the progress made 1n the past. There are times, in listening to the com- plalnts of contemporary leftists,

And more swlft and sure than tn the democracies.

These are tlmaenot for discour- agement but for confidence. if warrant for confidence

sired. the record of the p

. It is this regard. rather than its suldcs to the future, that the apostles of the revolution — Marx and Engels-are most. valu- able today.

QUIET WORK One legon, Nature. let me learn of ee.

One lesson which ln‘ everv wind ls blown.

One lesson of two duties ken‘. at on

Though ethc loud ivorld proclaim t enmity-

r . - Of toll unscvered from tranquility, Of labor. that. in lasting fruit out-

grows

Far noisier schemes, acccmplLstied

repose.

Too great for haste. too high for rivalry.

Yes. while on earth a thousand d rds rig,

Man's fltful uprnur mlnzllnfl Wlflh

Still do thv sleepless ministers move on.

Their glorious tasks 1n silence be!‘- fectlng;

5:111 worklizg. bllamlng still

' l . Lhtordissnthat shall not fall. when

man is gone. —Mattlieiv Arnold.

rofi-wan SECURITY

, old 008st. — (GP)- Every native woman here who re- eelves an allotment from a soldier puts part of it into the Poet Office savings bank to provide a fund in readiness for her husband's retiim and to help in the war effort meantime

floored by that esqulpedallan.’ The dictionary gives it as derived from the Latin and meaning lit- erally "a fa I l1 hull Iona" -

"Ihla

s aker. “has been smothered un-

er a mass of sesqulpedallan ver- Mace." As it happened, he was ed- dresslng a Brantford and it. goes virtually wlthou that everyone at the meeti exactly what he meant. 1g possible that, had he been in; in g less well itc

American troops.

in i

00m- munM. some folk, iiillht have been

was '11s high as 155 per .

for adults, unsanitary

of livln , a death rate of '

The reverse, of course, ls true. Army

rim CHARLOTTETOWN cnhggli i Afleniibn

RED CRO

City Crgaiiizatm

Special llamas. Committee-Divisional Commanders, Captains and "Members of "leans.

All are urgently requested to stittcntl the opening ICampaign Meeting.

MONDAY, MARCH s, a P. M. at; v. M. c. A.

Cards will be distributed and plan of

Campaign Outlined.

BE PRESENT

WHERE IHEBES A WILL

ROTHE. Scotland — (GP) — Thomas Llewellyn of the Royal Medical

ook so the minister, Rev. William Han. n-zh, said he would marry them wherever he met. Chem. He kepf his word.

PORT ARTHUR, March 2—-(CP) Frank Sargent. reside f Canadian Amateur Hockey Assoc- iation. said today he received two- requeetc for the assoclatl to con- sider a special challpnge series for the Allen Cup but l had ruled a- gainst it

The reixuests had come from Quebec it y_ d Vancouver and the

“f: WHY HAVE‘

i; tlie best. 1n any’

t had been made because teama competing 1n 1t would not neces- sarily be "truly repreaentctlvm of pectlori or sec-