We learn that His Holiness, Pope John XXIII, has increased by 25 to 30 percent the salaries paid each month to the 2,000 employees of the Vatican state. He has also doubled the rate of family allowances issued over and above the salaries paid. Mothers get $16. each, and children will get $20. each.
Notice especially the allowance which is special to the mothers. Canadian mothers get no such benefit from the Canadian government. The amount given each child, without exception and regardless of how many there are in the family, is, to put it mildly, very generous.
Pierre Chaloult writing on this act of the Pope, in Le Devoir, was no doubt poking a little fun at the Crediters (who have been pressing for the doubling of family allowances in Canada for a long time now) when he said"
"No doubt the Crediters of Quebec are going to take advantage of this to say that the Pope has fallen under their influence."
No, not quite, Mr. Chaloult. But is is not surprising that they who follow the same principles should arrive at the same conclusions.
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