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Mary Day Parade and Prayers Star Ixrily STARBEAMS Here We Go Gathering Founded in 1918 by W. F. Herman The Star Publishing Co. of Windsor, Ltd. Hugh A.

Graybiel, President, Star Building, Ferry Street Windsor, Ontario, Wednesday, May 1, 1957 "Nothing is too ridiculous or inconsequential to be produced as a last minute election issue." Words taken from H. L. Mac-Pherson's "All's Quiet on the Hustings." Few Political Orators Following the traditional torchlight procession nobody remembered to bring a torch, so they broke up the cheers i and built a bonfire the Stormy' Pretzel of Western Ontario Politics went into conference with his well seasoned paign advisors. He is understood to have spoken to them (off the course) on the touchy subject: "Do Young Vegetables Resemble Their Parents?" "Unlike my equally distinguished colleague, the Minister cf National Wealth and Hell-fire," said" the Hon. Hoop N.

Koff, "I never pose for photographs even if it might prove to be the pose that refreshes. As the election campaign proceeds it will become increasingly apparent political orators of high calibre are rare in Canada. Many may be competent but few are eloquent. Yet Canada in the past has produced some comparable to the best of any nation. This was tfiiTin the Confederation era and Mental Ailments On Increase Much emphasis is placed on finding preventions or cures for heart diseases, cancer, polio and other physical ailments of a most serious nature.

This is right and proper. They are deadly killers and the human desire is to live as long and as healthily as possible. But serious illnesses are not only of the body. This is Mental Health Week, which calls attention to there being approximately 1,000,000, among the Canadians, who suffer from some mental or emotional ailment. And of all people in hospitals in Canada half are mental, patients.

It is perhaps not strictly accurate to describe all these as mental patients. A large proportion suffer from emotional problems which, perhaps only temporarily, have unhinged their minds. But they require, hospitalization in special hospitals and require special care to cure their troubles. The science of curing sick minds probably is much less advanced than that of curing sick bodies. It is not possible to cut and probe into the brains in the same manner as into bodies, to ascertain and rectify what is wrong.

But, especially in recent years, there have been some remarkable advances, in drugs, in shock treatments and even, in some cases, in brain surgery. The result is that about 50 percent of patients admitted to mental hospitals now are discharged as cured or lids ueeu ue, uuw iai.njr icicuuj, omtc. There were Sir John A. Macdonald, with his brilliant wit and robust humor; Sir Laurier with his silver hair and Edward Blake with his resounding And, of course, there was D'Arcy McGee, with the poetic charm of the Irish and the vision of a prophet. In another generation there was Rt.

Hon. Arthur Meighen who for precise language, sheer logic and debating skill was without peer. There was Rt. Hon. R.

B. Bennett with his prodigious perorations. There was -Michael Clark (Red, Michael), a private member from Red Deer whose eloquence was superb. There were others, the 'dignified Hon. Guthrie of Guelph; Hon.

H. H. Stevens, the debater of the bull-dog breed, and smooth-tongued Hon. R. J.

Manion. "Later there was Hon. Angus L. Macdonald, with the sonorous sing-song sway of voice 1 a 1 1 1 A 1 "No. What was good enough for your Dans-ies and grand- WBsn, feJN -i (Special to Stai beams) SANDWICH NORTH SPINACH GROWERS HALL.

May 1 Hon. Hoop N. fiery member for Tecumseh Road and Minister of Alibis and Bottlenecks in the St. Laurent inet, was renominated for all this and heaven, too, at a meet-, ing of his ecstatic constituents. The hall was full to the brim.

So were the constituents. The audience was electrified one might almost say gassed when a telegraph messenger (carefully rehearsed) literally fought his way down the aisle at the predigested psychological moment and delivered a signal from Oncle Louis. (Hoop, who prefers the French spelling, is still hoarse from rooting for Rocket Richard.) The historic telegram read: MES AMIS STOP DEMONSTRATE YOUR FAITH IN GOOD GOVERNMENT. AND FREE FLEA POWDER BY AGAIN CHOOSING THE HON HOOP KOFF AS YOUR CHAMPION IN THE COMING STRUGGLE FOR NATIONAL AS WELL AS LIBERAL PARTY SURVIVAL STOP I YOUR ONCLE IF LIKEWISE ELECTED SHALL IMMEDIATELY ELEVATE YOUR HERO AND MINE TO THE PORTFOLIO (WITH ZIPPER) OF SECRETARY OF UNDERSTATEMENT FOR INFERNAL AFFAIRS STOP WITH ALL BEST WISHES FOR A HAPPY MAYBE DAY I REMAIN YOUR DEVOTED SERVANT AW SHUCKS JUST CALL ME LOU STOP! STOP! When the cheering had subsided, Mr. Koff stepped forward in graceful acknowledgement of the trust thus bestowed in his personal integrity, his long and unblemished record of selfless public service, his uncanny capacity to evaluate trends and always end up at the window marked "Win." Unfortunately, in stepping forward the Tecumseh Road statesman stepped forward too far and fell off the platform.

"I guess I took a drop too much," the Master Strategist quipped as they lifted him out of the bass drum. The laughter was general. Hoop's a one! He goes on forever, like Tennyson's "Bolero" or Ravel's Experience Shows Cuts in Taxes Don i Necessarily Lower Prices paypies ou jt-ais ago guuu enough for yo-yo. "Eastern Standard Time does not wither nor Canadian Cus- toms stale. "This is the way I looked then.

This is the way I look" now. "Toujoor (hie) glamoor! Hoop springs eternal!" The theme song lor the 1957 campaign will be: "How You Gonna Keep 'Em Down on the Form?" by RimskyWithHis Corsets-Off. wmcu ueirayeu ms uaeuc ancestry, uiu IHon. J. L.

Ralstoq, with Ms keen legal mind and speech. French-speaking Canada produced, its own orators. On the political platform many of them were devastating. There were Rt. Hon.

Ernest Lapointe, dignified of mien and utterance; the fiery Hon. P. J. A. Cardin and the persuasive Hon.

Fernand sRinfret. And, of course, that volatile independent, Mr. Henri Bourassa, a commanding personality with his gray goatee, sparkling eyes, eloquent in gesture and speech. Vr greatly improved. The emphasis is not only on finding cures.

It is essential there be an increasing emphasis in prevention work; in helping those on the verge of breakdowns before these occur. Prevention often is easier, and also less costly, than treatment and. accommodation after the ailment becomes acute. Women Doctors Women doctors are common in many European countries. They are becoming more common, even though still a small minority in the profession, on this con It never knocks.

It H. impossible, considering the resources they had at hand. Wavell, Auchinleck, Cunningham are names quickly recalled. There have since been doubts that their replacements in al), cases were as capable. Sir Wirston has Exercise not revealed all the In workings of his mind Psychology? in these cases, and perhaps he never will.

A plausible reason is that these firings were largely a psychological exercise, to prevent recurring reverses from creating at home and in the forces a sense of defeat. The big cams commanders, by this reasoning, made convenient "goats." So. out they went when there was need for a sacrifice. This made it tough for high-ranking officers, and Sir Winston was lucky the supply held out. The good ones left are few.

Rt. Hon. Louis St. Laurent combines the courtroom manner of an eminent barrister with the paternalistic charm of a French-Irish grandfather. Rt.

Hon. J. G. Gardiner is a political orator of the old school but in political effectiveness he has been living on borrowed time. Hon.

Paul Martin is at his best on the -political platform. Self -trained in the art cf public speaking since youth, and at ed5e in win riXigusu auu xrencn, ne nas an his audience. Hon. Lionel Chevrier. re ing for the full value of those reductions to reach him.

In some instances he's beginning to doubt they'll ever reach him at all. If you accept the Linked explanations, almost To a formula now, they Prices- say the tax cut which he absorbed in whole or part merely saved the producer or distributor from having to raise prices. The automobile companies used it in 1952, when the excise tax was cut 10 percent. Apparently the government hasn't forgotten, although it may have escaped some candidates. can be done about this absorption of tax cuts? Joe Doakes, trying to become M.P.

of Northwest Spinach, may argue that if his Revived Reconstruction party is elected it will take care of that by legislation. But how, by legislation? By introducing price controls? How well would that go over with parties that fought price controls once the war ended, and can be expected to fight their return? Let's leave it for the lower-prices-through-tax-cuts boys to get off their own hook. Wartime 6 Winnie9 Hard Taskmaster More of Sir Winston Churchill's severity as a wartime taskmaster fa learned bit by bit as personalities he demoted are revealed. Many of the highest were of military rank, most of them generals. Now it's recalled that at least one high-ranking navy man, Adm.

Sir Dudley North, also was bounced from his command. In this case, is in many others, the argument is that the victims were banished to exterior darkness simply for failure to da the By L. MacPHerson Candidates hereabout who hope to make political hay out of the taxes on automobiles should realize early that something more will be needed to elect Jhem. There are so many thistles in that hay they'll have trouble gathering it in. It's easy, to be sure, for a candidate to raise arms and voice and declaim: "Automobile taxes are making Ihe price of cars prohibitive.

They should have been cut in the last budget, to bring down the price, sell more cars, and increase employment This is one of the first things our party will do when elected," etc. The pertinent Requires question at this A stage is: Guarantee "What guarantee can you give that if those taxes had been cut this year, or last year, the saving would be passed along as a price reduction?" For a time in the early '50s the special excise tax on cars was 25 percent In two stages (1952 and 1955) it was reduced to 10. Much of that 15 percent reduction was taken by the manufacturers as their own private plum. Those who prer Redactions sume, or would have Not the guileless believe, Automatic that tax cuts and price reductions are coincidental and automatic just aren't facing up to the fact this state of idealism hasn't yet been reached in our society. Last March 14 the 10 percent sales tax was removed from tea, coffee, cocoa, prepared desserts and some other grocery items, and the 10 percent special tax on chocolate bars also went off.

To judge from frequently heard gripes, the consumer still is wait- News of Bygone Days cently returned to the Cabinet, also is perfectly bilingual and excellent in 'both languages. Conservative leader John G. Dief enbaker Is good, but lacking somewhat in change of pace. The same applies to Mr. Donald Fleming, M.P., second ranking man in the party.

Mr. E. Davie Fulton, M.P., is able but retains certain characteristics of a "boy orator." Peanuts To Politics One Way lo Lose Farm Owen Sound Sun-Times There are various ways by which, we suppose, a farmer could lose his farm. Through laziness, poor management or ignorance of good agricultural methods he could go into the red and ultimately have to default on his mortgage or go into bankruptcy. It is a tribute to farmers as a class that so few of them find themselves in this predicament But ther4 is another way In which a man can literally lose his farm it an be washed away by the rain.

The April letter of the Royal Bank describes what a little raindrop can do to soil. "Every falling raindrop that strikes the bare ground acts as a miniature bomb. It splashes soil into the air at its point of impact It holds the soil in suspension to run off vith the surface water. It puddles the surface, forming seals that practically waterproof the land. Surface sealing causes poor aeration, destroys worm life, and interferes with microbal action within the soil.

Splash erosion may wash out and float away the light organic materials that are so important to plant health" The letter quotes a report to the Ontario Legislature: "A one-inch rain can move 100 tons of soil per acre. 50 Year Ago From Files of May 1, 1907 City beautification was one of the important subjects discussed by the park committee of the City Council at last night's meeting. Seven men entombed for 100 hours in a cave-in at Pittsburgh were found alive, but nearly best platform men in Canada. Its leader. dignified, with a fine presence.

He is a master of, the English language and has 10 Years Ago From The Star of May 1, 1947 Twenty-seven persons were dead and hundreds left homeless in the U.S. in the wake of five tornadoes struck in the middle west, southwest and southeast Vancouver reported hope for the safety of some of the passengers or crew on board the missing Trans-Canada Air Lines transport plane. Hope arose from a report that lights had been seen in the mountains. 25 Year Ago From the Star of May 1, 1932 James Cagney, red-haired star of the motion-picture industry, said he had definitely decided to quit pictures. He added' that he would take another turn at vaudeville in Europe and then study medicine.

pernaps ine mosi pleasing voice 01 any contemporary politician. Its bell-like qualities rantivafA an anHienra Vhv Mom Worries St Catharines Standard The average mother worries, about her daughter because she remembers when she was once a girl. V. Premier T. C.

Douglas of Saskatchewan Is a veritable terrier on the platform. Quick of wit as of tongue, he is constantly snapping at the heels of political opponents, giving them no time to kick back. He is at his best in the rough-and-tumble of Soft-Soap Kitchener-Waterloo Record Suffer not a person to you, Ijest he clean you. been retired to the pasture of the Senate, Australian States Seek Restoration of Income Tax tinent. There died the other day in Toronto a real pioneer among women doctors in Canada, Dr.

Minerva Reid. She and her sister who predeceased her. Dr. Hannah Reid, were trail-blazers. They studied medicine at a time when women doctors were virtually unknown in Canada; when, in fact, it was almost considered indecent for young women to think of such a career.

The two sisters were instrumental in the building of the Women's College Hospital in Toronto, a hospital intended as a place where women doctors could treat women patients. From 1915 to 1925 Dr. Minerva Reid was chief surgeon there and, despite her advanced age, she practiced medicine until fairly recently. These sisters were an example of the younger generation in another way. Of a large family, they trudged five miles daily, and back, to collegiate, through the mud of spring and fall and the deep snows of winter.

They were determined to become doctors and they did; were always a credit to their profession and to their sex." Pertinent A rid- Impertinent No maybe, May! And the Tigers are McHale and hearty. The flowers and vowers that bloom in the spring, tra-la! Mr. St." Laurent opens the campaign with his old zest. Uncles away! "Many Miss Income Tax Deadline." Tell me not in mournful numbers. R.A.F.

is working on a missile that will travel 10,000 miles an hour. That means it'll be back in a minute. Jordan's new Government claims the anti-Communist allegiance of almost every tribal leader. Sheik, ahoy Young King Hussein fights to keep his throne. Meanwhile, we'll ours and take it out into the back yard.

No, Virginia, the bus fare you squander on going to hear the candidates is not deductible from your income tax. In sending Marines ashore in the Middle East, it remains to be seen whether Uncle Sam is sticking his Leatherneck out "I am monarch o'f all I survey, my right there is none to dispute." Words by Nasser, music by Suez steam whistles. President Eisenhower brands widespread labor racketeering as an "abomination," but some of the boys still think it's nice work if they can get it World Bank is reportedly playing a peaceful role in the troubled world. Even the accountant in charge of overdrafts, they say, smiles half the time. Middle East rioting is inspired by the Cairo radio's Voice of the Arabs program.

Some over here annoy us, too, but we don't riot. We just turn 'em off. Ottawa announces the first Institute of Canadian Studies. The best way to study Canada, however, is from the vantage point of an automobile, airplane, train, bus, boat, or even the humble rubber heeL 1 They may take some part, but not the part they once did. Mr.

Power was a natural on the piatform, something similar to the late Hon. Mitchell F. Hepburn. Both he and Senator Croll have an innate gift for phrase-making; phrases sufficiently pointed to strike home. Sheep Worriers The most faithful dog can go berserk it gets among a flock of sheep.

And it can cause fantastic havoc among them. This is demonstrated by three St. Bernards, normally placid, friendly dogs, having killed 55 sheep in the Toronto area. Sheep are peculiarly defenceless animals against dogs. Their only means of defence is butting their hard heads against an attacker, and dogs are too quick to be victims of this.

The sheep seem to know their defencelessness. They panic at the sight of a dog, running after By R. L. CURTHOYS The Star's Correspondent in Australia MELBOURNE The High Court of Australia is hearing in Sydney a case that is probably the most significant and far-reaching test of strength between the Commonwealth and state governments since Australia was federated in 1901. The governments of New South Wales and Victoria, the two most populous states, the one governed by Labor, the other by the Liberals, are challenging afresh legislation under which for the last 15 years the Commonwealth has exercised a monopoly of income tax and the states, in consequence, have bt-come the indigent retainers of Canberra.

The two states claim that by legislation passed by the Curtin Labor Government at Canberra in 1942 the Commonwealth abrogated the states' constitutional right to tax income and that legislation is inconsistent with the provisions of the Common income tax during World War I. It was ostensibly a temporary expedient for raising money for war purposes, but like all temporary taxes it became permanent and was soon a major element in Commonwealth income. State income taxes varied with the nature of government By 1342 Queensland, which had had continuous Labor Government since 1915, except for a Liberal regime in 1929-32, had the highest, with New South Wales not far behind. Victoria, which had never had a Labor Government in control of both Houses of the Legislature and- whose social services lagged far behind those of the other states, had by far the lowest. WORLD WAR II ACTION With mounting war expenditure to firfance, the Labor Government at Canberra cast about for ways and means of raising more revenue.

More income tax was the obvious source but the additional rate it could impose was limited by the high tax in Queensland. Yet clearly there was "slack" money to be taken up in other states, notably Victoria. Treasurer Joseph R. Chif-ley, who in 1945 was to succeed Prime Minister John Curtin, conceived again as a temporary wartime measure, which in 1946 operative. Secondly, 15 years' experience" of what Canberra is pleased to call the uniform income tax has reduced the states to a condition of beggary which makes a mockery of the federal of government and is last driving Australia toward the unitary system which it was the express aim of the Fathers of the Constitution to frustrate.

Thirdly, sine 1942 there is virtually a new High Court bench; and while it is not the custom of the court rashly to jettison the principles of any important judgment, the Australian Constitution is a living constitution and the court has never hesitated to bring its judgments on constitutional issues abreast of the changing facts of the Australian scene. NEEDS INCREASE If the needs of the Commonwealth have increased since 1942, so have those of the states, which can point to the fact that since then not one significant taxing measure has been passed in any state legislature and that they are now sovereign states in name only, because tie continuance of Commonwealth income tax law in its present form deprives them of the capacity to shape their own budgets. They are cast back upon such negligible imposts as land tax, entertainments tax, stamp duties and the like, which have already been raised to feasible limits. Their roads and railways, their schools and hospitals are hopelessly inadequate to public needs, to say nothing of their countkss other responsibilities. COTTAGES OF TAXPAYERS them.

Often they are torn to death, but sometimes they smother themselves in a fence corner. The only way of dealing with a sheep worrier, regardless of how valuable a dog he may be, is to shoot him. Once a dog, has tasted the wealth Constitution. Until 1942 income tax was by far the largest source of state revenues. WORLD WAR I LEVY The Commonwealth, which had such ample additional sources as customs and excise duties and postal revenues, first imposed an ing with state legislation became the law of the land; and that under the sweeping defence power of, the Commonwealth in wartime a measure designed to provide the Commonwealth with the sinews of war was clearly valid.

Prime Minister R. G. Menzies has been no less uncompromising a champion of the overlordship of Canberra than were his two Labor predecessors. REDUCED TO BEGGARY Why, then, should New South Wales and Victoria make a fresh appeal to the High Court? First of all, the challenge is made in peace, not war, and the far-reaching defence power of the Commonwealth in wartime is m- was made permanent by amending legislation the bright idea of imposing a federal income tax so high that no income tax revenue would be left to the states; ol providing by law no taxpayer should pay state income tax until he had discharged his liability to the Commonwealth; and of reimbursing the states from the proceeds of federal income tax the amounts they were then raising from income tax, on condition they ceased, to levy income taxes of their own. The states challenged the new Commonwealth legislation before the High Court, which ruled that under the Commonwealth Constitution federal legislation conflict blood of sheep he never again can be trusted within a mile, or several miles, of a flock.

A well-trained dog can be a sheep's best friend. But, he must be well-trained by a master shepherd. Untrained dogs, raiding sheep in the fields and usually -at night, cause much loss, to farmers each year. Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, be unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever. Revelation 5:13 I.