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Every Canadian who has ever visited the United States has moticed that articles of every nature are a great deal cheaper in that country than in Canada. Naturally they wonder why. With wages and salaries in the US. considerably higher on the average than they are here, it is hard for Canadians to see how identical articles can be sold for sometimes half the price charged in Canada Under the circumstances it is only natural that blame for price be fixed on the merchant and the manufacturer. Such, however, is not the case, for the blame for high prices rests with the Canadian government because of the unnecessarily high taxes. The present tax picture in Canaaa is simply this: The governâ€" ment has usurped the power to levy taxation as they see it. Abbot considers he and his advisors above reproach in this matter and feels they are far more capable of telling the Canadian public how to spend their money than those who actually earn it. For all his pious crying, Abbot has not once justified the present insane method of taxation. Not one Canadian would protest footing any pa:yof the defence bill, if that was where the money was going. Instead, it is simply being used to snowball the present tremendous surplus, and boost prices further from the reach of the average Canaâ€" Even those persons who do not make it a point to know too much about what the government is doing, are by now aware they are taking a fleecing far and above what is necessary to support the present defence effort l()ther Editors Say Created in 1947 by act of Parliament, the week is a tribute to the memory of Jack Miner, the man who has done more towards the conservation of wildlife than anyone else in Canada The week of April 6th to 12th has been set aside this year as Wild Life Week. Jack Miner‘s goose refuge at Kingsville has remained a living monument to his conservation efforts and his Christian way of life. Conservation has now become such an important part of our Canadian lives that both time and effort should be on a national scale. Like most projects sponsored by the government, there has so far been too much talk about Wild Life Week and not enough actual effort to do anything constructive. If the government wants to make the week other than something to talk about, they should designate a conservation project to be accomplished in that week. Then they would really have something to remember each Wild Life Week by â€"other than talk. Jack Miner would have really appreciated such an effort on his birthday . Signs are not lucking of similar pressure on this side of the interâ€" national border. Such a development is utterly contrary to the prinâ€" ciples of democracy. Using theâ€"government Wage Stabilization Board as a lever, a new drive is under way in the United States to bring all workers into the labor unions. If successful, all industry in the country would become a glorified closed shop and every worker, regardless of his personal feelings or the character of the union concerned would find himself herded in No man shou.d be forced against his wi‘l to join and support any group, labor or nonâ€"labor. He might easily find himself in a union dominated by Communists or other leagers with views that were abhorrent to him. And such leaders with ample and guaranteed funds at their disposal could not be displaced. Soberâ€"minded <citizens are already disturbed by the vast powers exercised. and often irresponsibly exercised, by some of our big labor unions. To make that power absolute and permanent would be danâ€" gerous in the extreme After the destructive wildcat strike at Ford of Canada just beâ€" fore Christmas. it hardly seemed possible that any labor union, let alone the one involved in that shocking affair, could get itself enâ€" tangled in more recklessness so soon. Those were just three of the soâ€"called "issues" in this latest manifestation of a union drunk with power. The others were equally unimportant. Every issue of any consequence has been settled, inâ€" cluding wages. This week‘s strike proved how wrong one can be about unions, particularly one us irresponsible as the CIO Auto Workers Imagine calling a strike over whether a company‘s hospitalizaâ€" tion plan should cover maternity cases Or whether a firm should give the employees it retires $1,000 life insurance policies. Or wheâ€" ther shift pay differential should be 5 cents or 7 cents. ( If the preâ€"Christmas walkout was senseless, this one was just silly, as well as costly. Its brevity is confirmation of that. Closing down one of the country‘s greatest industrial plants on the most trivial of differences, does not demonstrate "loyalty" to the Auto Workers Union. That‘s stupidity of he most dangerous kind. It‘s about time members of the UAW and other unions stopped acting like sheep and refused to follow swicidal and arbitrary orders of their bureaucratic union bosses. In a postâ€"strike statement, the umion said it hoped the new twoâ€" year contract wou‘ld usher in a new era of industrial peace. The country sincerely hopes so. too. But. in view of the previous record of this umon. it will have to wait and see. Taxation Reason For High Prices U.N. Civil Assistance Command in Korea English newspaper, devoted to the interests of the City of Waterioo and Waterloo County, is published at 370 King St. North, Waterioo, every Friday. The Chronicle is a member of the Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association and of the Ontarioâ€"Quebec Newspeper Association. THE WATERLOO CHRONICLE THE BEAN PRINTING & PUBLISHING CO. Owners and Publishers A NATIONAL CLOSED SHOP? ARE THEY SHEEP OR MEN? Wild Life Week (The Financial Post) (The Financial Post) ® Canzdiana: According to the Progress, Chilliwack, B.C., farmâ€" ers with an extremely low water table are approaching the 5rowinx season with the driest land in hisâ€" tory of the valley. . . Bobby Morâ€" an of Mcosomin, Sask., at eleven {ears. took three lessons in whist rom his parents in the afternoon and that night was man enough to win the prize at a whist drive when they were one man short: but he wasn‘t man enough to use the prize, three bars of shaving soap, according to the Worldâ€" Spectator. . . They missed John Martin Deafgle who died at 82 in Whitefish Falls, Ont., where he operated the power plant, He was known for his standing offer to supply electric power at half price for one year to every family where a baby was born and free if twins were born; he also proâ€" vided fre« gower for street lights, schools and churches and to Inâ€" dian residents in his area at half cost. . . Mrs. Rosemary Busse of Eastend, | Sask., shopping in Havre, Montana, lost her wallet, and it was picked up by a 10-‘ yearâ€"old boy; $40 went into the Salvation Army Kettle and he distributed another $100 (all Canâ€" adian money) among his friends. Montana police recovered $212 for her. . . Nine lives had a sixâ€"foot wolf which Mr. and Mrs. D. N. Fehr ran into with their ‘28 Chev. on the highway out of Love, Sask.; struck by the car it was stunned, so he hit it with the car crank, tied it on side of car. When they got into Nipawin they found the animal still alive and had to shoot it. . . Enroute from Florida, according to the Windsor, N.S., paper, the steamer "Gypsum Queen" noticed a flock of gulls flyingâ€"toward them in the middle of which was an owl. Flying low the gulls swept over, but Mr. Owl didn‘t make it, landed on deck, hitting the cabin then taking off towards the bow when the wireâ€" less‘ operator captured it and is \keeping it for a pet. .. A Walkerâ€" ton man is offering to pay $450 ifor 150 live jackrabbits wanted for shifiment to New Jersey where they are to be released to be hunted down by American sportsmen, according to the Waâ€" terloo Chronicle. . . At Brampton, Ont., James Watson, died in his 92nd year, never having been treated by a doctor in his life, acâ€" cording to the Conservator. ® Grenfell, Sask. Sun, columnâ€" ist: In Regina last week we were asked the question, "Is it true that you have a sign over the rest room in Grenfell which says No Indians Allowed. We coughed a bit, then admitted that was a fact and explained that there is anâ€" other rest room for Indians. We thought we were correct, but we find there is no rest room for Inâ€" dians. We hang our head in shame. Never more will we critiâ€" cize the US. for the treatment of 4 Morden, Man. Ties: One of the greatest national economies the world has knownâ€"Great Briâ€" tainâ€" built up a nation of middle men and the world‘s greatest inâ€" ternational trading, until its soâ€" cialistic government, trying to reâ€" medy the terrific costs of war, forced England nearly to bankâ€" ruptcy by hamstringing free enâ€" terprise. When next you think of doing away with the middle man, stop and consider. He is an emâ€" ployee worth his wage." thought we were corr find there is no rest r dians. We hang ou shame. Never more w cize the U.S. for the t N(}mes in the south." Morden, Man. Ti the greatest national ® He doesn‘t think industry is an ogre and here‘s the argument: It‘s a fact, for onnéple. that the fortunes of every Canadian are linked to industry. Manufacturâ€" ing is now Canada‘s chief occupaâ€" tion and its bi?ldl source of emâ€" ployment and incomeâ€"it employs "Man in the Making", was lost. Fortunately, however, Mr. Enns kept a carbon copy of the remainder of "Book I" which will be published unil it is complete. ly this issue we are starting page 21 of the "epic‘.) On heavy wagon trains medieval serfs Were annually wont to cart their share Of stipulated tribute from their yield And from the produce of their callous hands, In any weather, over rugged roads, To the manorial castle on the hil} Where an imposing drawbridge locked the gate Or spanned the g@ping chasm of the moat ; But they could not demand the right of way And almost ditched their overloaded carts, So eager were they to clear off the road, Whenever they beheld their feudal lord Astride his steed, a flawless thoroughâ€"bred, Prepared to sally through his stronghold‘s gate And ride to hunt the foxes and the hares, Accompanied by other haughty peers Who scorned the serfs‘ obeisance with pert sneers. And apathetic shifts of workers are _ _ Still filing past the punchâ€"clock yawningly At seven early, and at three past noon, And later at eleven in the night, And once agm.p at seven day by day, To check their time cards at a factory Where they may covet, if they can look out, Some stately residence across the street Where th=ir exploitors, elegantly dressed, And too sophisticated, or blase, Are coming in, or going out again, As haughty ladies and proud gentlemen;, To be escorted and transported by Their private chauffeurs, trim in uniforms, And driving latest model limousines, & To many a cocktail party and back home To sleep off satiation, when they please, While those who labour for their luxury Must bore themselves to greater apathy, Mechanically repeating without zest p One single operation, like a cog, And never once experiencing the thrill Of mastering a chosen craft or skill. Just as the slaves believed in slavery, And serfs accepted serfdom as thir lot, So do th hired men toâ€"day consent To be regarded as a working class, As if their status were ordained by fate And nothing could redeem them from that state. (To be continued next week) Country Editor d has knownâ€"Great Briâ€" uilt up a nation of middle 1 the world‘s greatest inâ€" nal trading, until its soâ€" government, trying to reâ€" he terrific costs of war, (Eptrrom‘s Note: . MAN IN THE MAKING | How to Protect Your Home from Burglars By HENREY ENNS BOOK ONE of l!.;y tu_u' modern epic, ly against misunderstanding of its motives and actions .. . a common target for criticism. And among those whose welfare it mos}%lvos- ely effects, there are few have ever. an elementary idea of the business principles on which it operates. more thun one quarter of the country‘s labor force and indirectâ€" ly creates jobs for countless othâ€" ers. Every third dollar of the naâ€" tional income is earned in its facâ€" tories. Thousands of Camadians share in its ownership as stockâ€" holders. Industrial development has made an impressive contribuâ€" tion to the nation‘s living stanâ€" dards. Yet it‘s also a fact that Canadian industry fights constantâ€" & Prince George, BC., Citizen: We now must realize that coaliâ€" tion governments are never a longâ€"run solution. Too often, to get agreement, they must water down the soup until it is tasteless. # The Powell River, B.C., News! takes a dim view of the total naâ€"; tional provincial and mumcipal‘ spending of $5 billion this year,‘ saying in part: "If the individual‘s spending had kept pace with Otâ€" tawa‘s spending, a working man who earned and spent $40 a week | in 1939 would this year have to| earn and spend $280 a week. This a comgarison that indicates how free ttrwa has become with someone else‘s the taxpayers moâ€" ney. . â€" on & Aurora editorial in Newmarâ€" ket, Ont., Era: It is not money that is the evil. The evil is in the hearts of men, who having much money, fail in the obligations which its possession confers. "The name of a good man lasteth long and hath the fragrance of roses." © Steinbach, Man., Carilion: There is nothing mysterious about the success of this or any other town. Hard work, and more work, are the principal ingredients of success, individually or collectiveâ€" ly. And our workmen had the & Editorial brief in a weekly: Feed the birds! Protect the birds! 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