BANK (Cuiitinued from page 1) Prince Rupert Daily News Thursday, January 10, 1952 Francois U Detonators Barred In Noisy Farewells LONDON (CP) An official ban LONG MOURNING LARGEST BASIN Amazon Amazon River River system system Timbering On Haines Cut-Off During the year 1951 Issuance of Itmbcr sales in the northwesterly part of the province along the Haines Cut-off Highway was recorded by the provincial Forest Branch. Whilt Pass and Yukon Route Is c6in- he Sailors in the British Navy to increase expenditure in the1 future. What really matters is the intention of those who own j the savings and the intention of those who control the Government surplus. economic system. Economic development means 111 that Canada's population must expand at a rate possible only with large immigration; (2i that her capital investment must continue tor a long period to be a large proportion of her national income, and (3) that outside capital must have confidence in a government policy of just and equal treatment. Great unnn-e ti thp vninmp of com has been imposed by British rail- i nrains a basin of 2.053,000 square werr black neckerchiefs to com-ni iles, compared to 565,500 for the menioratc the death of Admiral St. Lawrence. Nr'ion in 1805. joe Perrier returned oi f day afternoon by car, spent the holidays with his i fly near Nelson, "I do not think we need worry too much about the private ; ways on the old custom of ex-; ploding railway signal detona- j tors on the line to send-off newly-married couples. j The order comes as a sequel mencing logging in this avea and It is Dussiblc the company may position and perhaps the, direc- j The lake is frozen over . four skaters casne avals' Sunday afternoon. The lorry a channel across and the mi weather is keeping the w ( Ladies' Shoes FREE! to a head-on collision last summer between two trains near Fishguard, Pembrokeshire. There t lormirv very rapidly now Mrs. Sueden is sinv n. . establish a good-sized sawmill there. Another new development ii. the di.'tiict !s in he Stew i t region where U rge scale icwr'rv opeiations art to commence shortly by a contractor taklnj out loss for the Columbia , the Paul Piche family at Son bank, having come up rivn (from New Westminster she has been spending S(.T! weeks. , were no casualties. Brig. C. A. Langley, inspecting officer of railways, noted in his report on the inquiry that apparently the practice of blowing whistles and exploding detona- ; tors at a wedding party send-off ; is a long-standing custom. 1 "Everyone would wish to show good-will on such occasions but detonators are expressly supplied to stop or warn trains in . emergency and not to speed them on their way," he said. "Instructions now have been issued to prohibit the light-hearted abuse of these valuable safeguards." the U.S. industry likewise has tree access to our market. Canada musi haye other industries that could benefit greatly by a further extension of this principle of "limited free, trade." In addition, oilier mutual concessions of a less spectacular nature could contribute a great deal in total in Increas-e the long-run health and prosperity of Canadian industry. - -tT ' Jit it J V lion of our foregn trade musi oe expected; the competitive position of established businsses may change, as new industries appear; and so on In other words, economic development means anything but a qlet life for workers, businessmen, and government officials There is little doubt In my mind that Canada ein achieve both industrial development and freer trade. Our problem is io hasten the process. Our first step should be a long-run program to reduce or abolish excises and sales taxes at the manufacturer's level, thereby reducing the disparity between prices to the consumer in Canada and to the consumer in the United States. The result will be a more rational price and tax structure for the developing Canadian economy. Our second step should be another long-run program to get reciprocal concessions in trade, particularly from our nearest neighbour, the United States. Our farm machinery industry now has the advantage of free access to the U.S. market and Fashion Footwear PRCilFIC ARTIST Rembrandt, the treat Dutch a tist who died in 166S, left about SC3 paintings, 303 etchings P"d 2X03 drawings. 1 anvoutn STONE BUILDING "The increase in federal excise and sales taxes is unpleasant, but these taxes do hit the spen-, der where It hurts. Unfortunately he does not know what Is hitting him. Why? Because the taxes are levied at the manufacturing level, pxssed or plus mark-up at various points ironi mere on, and finally concealed in the retail price. The system is therefore, inefficient: for it takes out of the consumer's pocket much more than it yields to the Government in revenue. But, worse still, the purchaser sees the whole Increase in price not as a tax, but as a rise in the cost of living and a rcjusun for demanding higher wages for his work or a higher price for his product. "A further aggravation is that provincial and municipal sales taxes, levied on the retail price, obviously become in part a tax on taxes. This is bad in principle, and, as we have seen, it lacks even the virtue of expediency: in the fight on inflation the federal tax is ineffective because concealed, it is ununuu-ate that in 19ol this iiap at spending had to be aaniinii.er-d Viih an anaesthetic. INTERNATIONAL SCENE All in all, the free economy in the western democracies has gained on balance during 19ol. We have seen the urgent aeniaiu of the defence economy superimposed on an economy already strained by the el fort to reconstruct a war-torn world. It siuuid be a source of comfort in tnese trying limes that gur advance towards military stieugth hds not required a wnoieaie retreat into controls. Inaeed, we have managed to gain in miiitaiy strength ana at tne same time to achieve a luher measure of fieXiO.luy m oar e.uuomy. Our satulacticm should not make us comp.ai.e.i.. cut, earring tne linai i..0eUy ol large-scale war, we ca.. lupo tnrougn right poi.y to w.ui..aj tui au.di.ee uwaids tne twi.i goals of economic as wel is pj.-itical freedom. In general, the key to successful economic po.icy in the loir; iun, as in the hort run, is again i:ex:ohity. We have the ejsea-uals ot llexib.lny lor me immediate luture in pur present Interest rate and monetary pjl-icy, foreign exchange policy, and, to a smaller degree perhaps. In our tax and fiscal policy. This uues not mean that we should reverse the wheels at the first sign of a failing-bff in wholesale prl:es and tne cost of hying. Prices should be aiiowtJ ao.ne fitx.ollily too, downward u well a' upward, in a healthy individual dissipating his sav-! ings and so adding to the inflationary ' pressure. Nevertheless, he should receive encouragement j to add to rather than spend v hat he has accumulated. Unfortun-1 ately, experience does not point in quite the same direction re-' ' garding the Government's sur- plus. This surplus, induced as it is by increased taxes, perhaps designed to check inflation, ac- tually becomes an inflationary time bomb unless it is rendered inert by impounding it as a deposit in the Central Bank or by using it to retire Government debt held by the Central Bank. The problem of policy today is that, in a time of acute inflationary pressure, a balanced budget or even a budget surplus is no guarantee against inflation. We all admit that a balanced budget is less inflationary than a deficit, and a surplus is less inflationary than . a balanced budget. But, if we really want to make a frontal attack on inflation and perhaps achieve some tax relief as well, the only effective way is to reduce the size of the Government budget itself. "The real test of tax policy to combat ihflation is whether or not that policy penalizes .spending and rewards saving. With this in mind one must recognize that a whole multitude of the spending public are not even toucned by the more drastic of the additional imposts, in contrast, a large segment of tru tixed wage and salary group has been hit and hit again. Trio is, of course, unfortunate in itself, on grounds of strict equity. But the real question is, 'How much of the increase in taxes on this group in the last half of 1951 came out of savings?' liv hijiv that came out of savings, the less the effect on inflationary pressure. "Corporations were even harder hit in the 1951 budget. 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