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TIME FOR A REST
During the recent Dominion
Provincial tax sharing conference
thC'r{ were repented references, to
the -meed .icor a l lrger share of ieder,al
tax nioneyq by the provincial ggo%,
ernxtments. Prerlder Frost of Ontario
;sliced the opinion that otiless the
Ottawa. governillent call release
intich larger payments, the people, sof
this pr covince .can expect a new pro-
vincial sates tai.. \ e sin erely 'be-
lieve that annormcenient it) be" the
most unwelcome Calle ever Blade by
the present premier.
Govvrlllilent�,, large and ~plass,
,,houl+,d -Dear in mind that the taNpay.
er. even Though hi' i, ;;trnieone else's
eni,ployee, is rlknnn a hlis-mess---T
the husin". s, of raisin; a falllily aild
keeping his head above very turbu-
lent financial waters,. lie "doesn't
get Isis funds for tat p vnments as
a special and ;separate rez}ard for
his s erviee,s, but rather die has to
find the mnoney for tares of all kinds
out of the margin which reati.ainst
.after he Inas feed his mite and ehild-
ren a ncl niacle the payments tail the
illortgage. In many cases that niat-
gin sof family -profit" has become
smaller its recent years.
Ontario eitiyens, like those in:
most of the other provinces of Aan-
ada, are in no mood for further tax-
es. They have timet increased tai: -
SENSE OF GALT
Iver since the United States drop-
ped the atomic bonib Coll lliroshilii
the Western world has been oppres-
sed by a sense (if gniilt, says The
Printed Word. It must be atdluitted
that the inan who mnade the final
decision about fusing the bomb, ex -
President Truman, does not seen- to
suffer from this. On his occasional
television appearances and in his
newspaper interviews. he shows hi11i-
self as jaunty as ever. with no trace
of the pangs of conscience that
afflict maul" of his counti-vinen and
their cities, llaiiv of the scientists
Who helped to develop the first bomnh
are now prominent advocates of nu-
clear disarmament.
It is curious that the sense of
guilt does not seemn to afflict the
nations that were chiefly responsible
for M*orld XVar II, i�'esterii Ger-
iamanv seems to have forgotten the
atrocities of theNazi-, and the bu7'z-
b onmbs:aim«,d V-2 rackets -he rained call
England during the last years of the
War. -Japan shows no 1 isible con-
trition for her iIlhuman treatment of
prisoners and her Pearl Harbor
attack. Both countries, now seedi
niore concerned with regaining their
eC01i onllc posit.1ol3 In W -A. trade
than with lamenting their sails. Re-
habilitation of 4airviving victims of
\azi Medical e\-perinients in concen-
tration calfips. has been left to pri-
vate charity in the United States.
It is in1p ortant for the future of
The whole plural race that no inci-
dent siillllar to Ilir:osdaimlla be per-
-inittetd to occur :a�Lraill. In Ilegtotm-
ations tt ith the Cather nations who
nlight mese the bomb. Russia and
conilnulaist China, the United ;