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THE GIIARLUTTETUWN GUARDIAN

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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1931

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Tamar INDICATIONS

A writer in "The Commerce of lhe Nation," official publication of (he Canadian Chamber of Coni- merce, is convinced that the forces which generally precede prosperity are now at work in Canada. The signs which lie observes speeding up of the boot and shoe industry. "now working 50 per C0111 more than before the \var;" great- er activity in the textile mills: iii- creased retail buving, and an ex-

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pension in chain store sales, which have risen from 5 to 9 per cent above those of last year.

Recently the some cheering inel- sag’: was brought. to this Province by Hr. W, bfcL. Clark, secretary of the Chamber, which is Domiuioii- wide and non-partisan. Regrettab- l_v. Afr. Clark was bitterly attacked for his optimistic statements by the lccal Liberal organ, which at the time was engaged in a campaign of propaganda designed to persuade its readers that conditions were going from bad to worse because the Bennett Government was in power at Ottawa. The smoke of political battle has now cleared; our con- temporarys propaganda has been answered by the electors, and the facts cited by Mr- Clark are being recognized more and more clearly as evidences of the revival which he predicted with such conﬁdence.

SIGNIFICANT PICTURES

Canadians, it is interesting to note from a recently published re- port of the National Commission on Law Observance and Enforce- ment, are relatively. few among the persons arrested in the United States as law violators. The report also justifies the conclusion, con- trary to popular belief. that the Yﬂfvign-born the. neighboring Republic commit crimes less ire- quently than do natives of the country. The standing of Caiiad. lans is shown as both below the rc- cord for the native-born and the general average for the iorcign- born in. tables of arrests provided.

In a study 1o cities

having more than 500,000 inhabi- tants, 10 cities having from 200,000 to 500,000 inhabitants and 11 ﬁnes having from 100.000 to 200,000 iii- habitants in 1930. 1t was shown than arrests of Canadians held to the ratio of 260 pa: 10,000 of popli. lotion while the ratio for American- oorn on the samebasisandlnthe same cities stood at 1,056. This figure Includes the negro population with the native white and is therefore somewhat out of proportion. Some valid conclusions, however, can ap- parently be driiwn from the table since it shows that the arrest rates of Canada, England. Scotland. ,Wales, Germany and Hungary fail- ed to equal those of the native born white in any one of the 31 cities studied.

Why ls it that the American- born citizen is more likely to land in the criminal class than the Brit- lsher coming into the country as a foreigner, with obviously greater disadvantages to overcome? The answer, in part at least, lies in the scandalous maladmlnlstratloii of ‘dustice which has been prevalent in ,the United States for some years past, and which has brought about a contempt for law and law en- forcement unprecedented in civil- ized countries. Laxity on the bench, Vuensationallsm in the press, chican- ery in the courts, a corruptlve en- lforcemerit system-these things all have had their effect upon the mental attitude of the native-born citizen toward law observance, un- til today, in large centres like Chl- eago and New York, the gunman ind racketeer have come to be ac- cepted as necessary evils, and wholesale gang killings arouse- less

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A writer in an English review. after a visit to Chicago thus sums up the situation:

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“To happen 1111011 two rival groups of reputable and old-fash- ioned wine and 5111111 m91'°111‘11l3 haviiig_it out. with machine 13105 in Pall Mall would be enough 1Q make anyone ‘Write t0 The T111165 and send for the police. But t0 read, over the morning egg, of Al Capone and “Bus? 0'10"" shy-mg it with bullets up and down North Clark Street. only lends one to reach for the pep- per, keeping the place with tllﬁ other thumb."

WHAT MA KES HISTORY?

Those who cannot fliid any inter- est for Canadians in European business or politics may well eon- sidcr the thoughts contained in the Monthly Review of The Bank of Nova Scotia for August which harks back to 1914 ln its reference to an event in Europe which at the time attracted comparatively little at- tention but later proved to liave a powerful bearing on politics and commerce and industry the world over. _

On Monday. June 29, 1914, says the Review. the front page of one of the principal daily papers in this country brought, to the break- fast tables of its subscribers a. num- ber of headlines. A prominent item. treated as of purely European signiﬁcance, was the murder in a little know Bosnian town of an Austrian Archduke of

which was

royal blood. In the course of a for- mal visit, and while driving through the streets, he had been struck down by an assassin.

This news item created little ln- terest in Canada at the time. Yet within six weeks the fact which it recorded had swept the Dominion into the maelstrom of a World War. Its consequences are known to all of us. It involved the sacriﬁce of fifty-six thousand Canadian lives, and the wounding or crippling of many thousands of other Canad- ians, numbers of whom still lle in our military hospitals. It was de- stined to cost us about two thous- and millions of dollars in money. It produced a complete transforma- tion of Canadian industry; a com- plete transformation of our ﬁnan- cial structure, public and private; and a great and lasting expansion of our agriculture. Involving, as it; did, supreme efforts and sacriﬁces, it gave to Canada a new status in the British Empire, and a seat in the councils of the nations at Ver- sailles and Geneva While it. oc- curred in an obscure corner of the Balkans, it was, nevertheless, in a sense, the most important event in Canadian history.

EDITORIAL NOTES

Commenting on the preliminary report of the Dominion Census re- turns, the Montreal Gazette says, it is gratifying to relate that, in Prince Edward Island, Charlotte- town and Summerside show con- slderable growth. On the other ilimid. the communities in Nova tScotia, in quite a few instances, have to register declines. In On- tario, as in Quebec, growth ls gen- erally shown, the increases in num- erous lnstances being‘ quite large.

Our contemporary again makes confession of the late Lea. Govern- ment's faux pas in endeavoring to appoint Sheriffs after its defeat at the polls, and in notifying Ex- Sheriif MacFadycn of his reap- pointment without the said reap- pointment having been approved by the Lieutenant Governor in Coun- cil. ‘The whole transaction, as the Liberal organs explanation clearly indicates, was quite irregular. But our contemporaryp conscience need t/rouble it no runner. The Stewart Government has straightened out the irregularity; Sheriffs for the three Counties have since been duly

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Cotton. says the Philadelphia Ledger, retains the tenacious hold upon the South that it hushed ever since the invention of the cot- ton gin. It owes its grip to the fact that it is the "money crop" in the South. Yet its value has been ma- terially curtailed by repeated over- production and the decline of ex- ports. This will be the fourth con- secutlve year ‘that production has exceeded the average since 1920- soine 13,000,000 bales-which in turn is about the maximum require- ment of the whole market. Such a condition is increasingly serious.

The status quo ls "ivhat France desires, says the Christian Science Monitor. It will attack no other nation because it wishes to change nothing. But it will resist any other nation which tries to change the dispositions of 1919. That is the es- seiicc of French policy, and whe- ther thc policy has been pursued with frowns or smiles, whether the world has seen the iron ﬁst or the velvet glove, French policy, based on security and the status quo, has ncvcr varied. It is useless to go into the Disarmament Conference next year without a clear conscious- nem of the French viewpoint- Eith- er something must be done to meet the Fzcnch viewpoint, or something must be clone to change it. That is the dilemma to which we should direct our attention without delay. Since there are nations which dis- pute the justice of the status quo, just as emphatically as France proclaims its righteousness, it seems dificult to give international pledges for the safeguarding of the status quo. 0n the other hand. France has shown no sign of mov- iiig from its position.

The attitude of the United States in view of the coming disarmament conference is somewhat puzzling.

The American Government has issued a pronouncement to the ef- fect that its policy is to have a Navy “second to none, well bal- anced, and capable of ready W871 time expansion." What docs this mean? Only a few weeks ago Pre- sident Hoover was insisting on the necessity of general disarmament. Unhappily, the declaration has something of a swagger about 1t which injures the present reputa- tion of Mr. Hoovcr as a statesman with a fundamentally wide and pa- cilflc outlook. One should not need to say in August that one ills ar- ranging to set the pace in a race for bigger armaments when one has just expressed the hope that in a few months’ time tlic nations will agree upon much smaller arma- ments. In this connection Musso- lini appears the bigger and the greater ﬁgure. 11c has come out for a great reduction of national a’:- iiiaments and has not announced in the same breath almost a new armament policy which might b: taken to be a contradiction or a threat-

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Our smaller Liberal newspapers which are childislily carping at and criticizing every move of the Ben- nett Government would learn a valuable lesson by taking note of opinions held outside of as well as in Canada. The New York Jour- nal of Commerce says in part. that the Canadian Government "ls to be commended on the despatch it has exercised in getting the relief programme under way." The Jour- nol of Commerce, moreover, feels that the Federal and provincial au- thorities iuthis country have made remarkable progress with unem- ployment measures in the past few weeks. It praises the Federal min- istry for taking wide powers from Parliament so that it is now in a position to make such contributions for the alleviation of want as it deems advisable. As a result. of its insistence on obtaining what was called a blank cheque it is able to undertake comprehensive measures.

Liberal newspapers instead of hlnderlnl; the work of the Govern- ment could do much for themselves and for Cannda if they put their shoulder to the wheel and give the Government what assistance they could instead of making themselves clogs on the wheel of progress.

Fourteen New York policemen were ahot and killed by (rimlnals in seventeen months: the murder of an English policeman on duty is so rare as almost to be unknown. There are said to be 150,000 revolv- ers in possession of New York crim- inals, to say nothing of sawed-of! shotguns, machine guns, bombs and other deadly weapons. The police

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THE CHARLOTTETOWN GUARDIAN

B) Iona WBufnn. MD.

ADVICE FROM DISTINGUISHED DENTISTS 1

The medical profession gives much of its time in instructing thepublic on how to preserve health, and bow to avoid sickness, thus really doing themselves out of considerable in- come. "

Similarly the dental profession now gives much free advice to pat- ients and to the public on the best methods of preserving teeth. While some might think that the advice "sec your dentist twice a year" ls really to bring business to their of- flees, this simple advice saves the patient. much suffering and consid- erable inoncy. A tooth preserved ls worth a great deal to the patient.

Formerly, the individual would never think of having the teeth ex- amined until one or more of them began to ache and then he went to the dentist and asked to have them pulled.

This neglect of the teeth in Great Britain was brought forcibly to the authorities during the examination of recruits for war service. Since the war instruction on the care of the tcetli has been given to the public in newspapers and magazines.

Recently the Dental Surgeon to the King, the President, British Dental Association, the Dean of the Edinburgh Dental Hospital and three or four other outstanding dentists signed their names to a newspaper article part of which was as follows: “We are impressed by the great amount of suffering and ill health, which is caused by dental disease. Believing that most of this could and should be prevented, we feel it desirable to outline for the beneﬁt of the public, the means, which, we consider would lead to that end.

(a) Eat toast, crusts, and other ﬁrm materialsrequlring chewing, in preference to soft sticky foods.

(b) Try to eat some raw fruits, nuts, and raw vegetables, aspecially at very end of a. meal as they leave no wastes on the teeth to ferment.

(c) Brush the gums and teeth, without fail; after the last meal of the day or before going to bed, using atcaspoonful of solt to a tumbler of water. '

(d) Visit a dentist twice a year for the inspection and, if necessary, treatment of the gums and teeth.

The intelligent and steadfast practice of the means indicated in these rules would result in far fewer teeth being lost from dental decay or pyorrhoea.” .

When we remember that so much sickness gets its start in the teeth the above advice is worth serious consideration.

HEARSAY

They say, He is. alone- Whether by night or day-

And desolate, They say, His heart is stone.

They say, His laughter lies, I-lis mirth is full of tears,

A requiem haunts his ears, A ghost his eyes. ,

False are the words they speak, Never alone I go.

This pallor ls not woe Upon my cheek.

It is the shadow there Of love that lights your face In that eternal place Wlierc now you fare.

I do but turn my head- Seeking your eyes anew-

To ﬁnd you watching-you Whom they call dead.

Se, I go not alone. Forever, ever more,

My feet turn at. your door, To your heiirthstone.

—Ben Brigham, in the New York Times.

TEXAS ROADS QALLED "TERRIBLE"

DALHART, Tex., Sept. 2. (U. P.) -Northwest Panhandle roads were described as "terrible" by the wife

of Governor 1-1. P. Long recently.

seek to meet force with force. A She and her party arrived in Dal- swashbuckling "cop" armed to tho hart after being stalled in the mud

teeth, presumably ready to shoot at the drop of a hat, inspires to deeds

for several hours between Hartley

bind Channing in Hartley County.

of violence his natural enemy, the They were en route to the moun- law-breaker. The British police go talns.

unarmed, and no force in the world has a higher reputation. They are

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Reconstruction

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Industrializaton in Russia did not begin with the Five Years‘ Plan. It started in the ‘nineties of tho last century; and even the au- thors of the Plan; who are not 81W“ to any excemiveiadmiration for the work of their predecessors, admit that in this narrow sphere the Plan is merely a continuation, though at a greatly accelerated pace, of a development started forty years ago. , - What distinguishes the present from the earlier phase of Russian industrialization, and what, indeed, distinguishes it from tlic process of industrialization in any other coun- try and at any other period, ls not the scope of construction, but the methods employed. It is unique in that, instead of being a slow pro- cess spread ovenseveral generations (in the U.S.A. 1t took seventy-ﬁve years), it is to be completed in a few years’ time. It is unique in that it is being carried out in ac- cordance with u carefully prepared‘ plan. and that this plan has a def- initely Socialist bliis and basis. But the most dramatic distinction of the Piatlletka is the unprecedented way in which it is being financed; not. 0s ls usual, from the accumulated savings of the nation or from for- eign loans and credits, but by the mobilization of more than half of the llﬂllOfllll income. In other words, the development of produc- tion is being carried on at the ex- pense of a most drastic curtailment of consumption. Industrialization in Russia may without exaggera- tion be described as reconstruction by prlvation. Even a country pos- sessing considerable accumulations of capital cannot attempt the most moderate plan of reconstruction without affecting the national stan- dard of living. But for post-Revolu- tionary Russia, which was absolute- ly drained of capital, to attempt to carry out an ultra-ambitious scheme of industrialization in the face of a. universal ﬁnancial boy- cott, appearccl at ﬁrst merely fan- tastic. And on the ground of its obvious absurdity, the Piatilctka, upon its promulgation and during the ﬁrst year of its operatlongwas

HUDSON IBAY

(New York Sun)

Hudson Bay is in the midst of the pro-Cambrian Shield, one of the world's storehouses of mineral wealth- The Hollinger mine is famous as one of the largest of gold producers; there are copper- zinc ore deposits in northern Manitoba, massive bodies of fcrrifcrous ore on .Hudson Bay islands, especially Belchcr Island, and great marble quarries in process of development in other regions. Forests in the southern sections promise an extensive. supply of timber and an abundance of pulp wood. Water power is‘ plentiful; lakes and rivers offer marketable fish; trapping, one of the oldest of the country's indus- tries, is ‘still successfully carried on with profit. It is this natural ivealth’ which strengthens" the belief of its projectors that the Hudson Bay Railway will be a successful venture even independ- ent of the Hudson Bay route.

ENGLAND STILL ’ IS ENGLAND

(Ottawa Journal)

It was the Daily Herald. Lon- don's Labor newspaper, which pub- lished the preposterous report that the Federal Reserve Bank of the United States had made it credit extension of $125,000,000 to the Bank of England conditional upon assurance that the "dole" would be cut and other economies effected by the British Government. Appropriately enough, denial of the story comes from the United States. The Federal Reserve officials made no conditions of any kind in the credit transaction, noi- did private ban era consulted in the course of -_negotlations, it is stated definitely in New York. Furthermore, if the new National Government or any other govern- ment of Britain desires to secure foreign funds it will have not the slightest difficulty in obtaining money in New York.

England still lsEngland. and the credit of Britain is the best in the world. It is backed by character, which is the debtor's Greatest asset.

It is founded on centuries oi’ fair trading mid honest business backed by the stability .of British instut- ions and national life. To the bankers of London, of New York, of the world it does not matter greatly whether the govenrment of the day is Labor, Liberal or Con- servative. What matters is that in any hands the continuity of the British tradition is preserved and the Englishman's habit of paying his debts, meeting his obligations, does not suffev» ~

iln this way hope ls kept olive.

By Privation The Spectator)

treated as a deliberate fraud or as a statlsticlarfs nishimv-re- It "l" assume‘- that the ’ 111115565. only just recovering from the semi- starvation of the years of lrlvll war and famine, would never sub- mit. to the suffering involved in the experiment, and that, in any ‘Fa-W- their sufferings would be useless. For how could savings thus effected be adequate to such a colossal und- ertaking ‘I

It is now possible to estimate to what extent this assumption was justlﬁed. In the ﬁrst place, it was apparently based on an under-esti- mate of the Russian workers’ ca- pacity for suffering. In the discor- dent chorus of opinion about pres- cnt-day Russia, there is one note of agreement, the conviction that the Russian people have been and arc now passing through a period of great suffering and tribulation. The food queues, the scarcity of meats the overcrowded houses and tene- a mcnls, the soaring prices of goods in the open market, all this has

character of the suffering so caused P

tress now existing in Russia is far from being an, absolute or stable condition of things. It admits, for- tunately for its victims, of‘ a great deal of variation and mitigation and, to do them justice, the Bolshe- vik rulers of Russia. are experts in the manipulation of these varia- tions and mitlgations. They ImOW to a nicety what the workers will stand, and s0 they never allow the stock of all commodities to fall so low as to exasperate the people. A deficiency in one essential food will be compensated for by a compara- tively plentiful‘ supply of others. Bread, meat, fats, sugar, vegetables and tobacco may all be scarce; but they are never allowed to be scarce on the same day and to the same extent. Any day there may be enough of one of them to go round.

There is a good time coming, and all this prlvation is only a kind of slioi-t cut to a destined goal of plenty.

Moreover, it must not be forgot- ten that the depression caused by suffering is balanced by the eleva- tion of feeling it stimulates. I do not want to enter into any philoso- phical estimate of the disruptive or creative force of suffering; I am concerned only with the latter force or phase because it appears to af- ford an explanation of inexplicable phenomena, the fact that, espec- ially among the younger generation, hardship is being endured not only with patience but with enthusiasm. To suffer from poverty is one thing; to make a sacriﬁce for a common cause ls quite another. Expressed 1n general terms this statement will be readily endorsed. But many peo- pie will protest that a sacriﬁce not self-imposed but forced upon a peo- ple must fail to exercise any ele- vating 0': cnnobling effect. Such critics, however, overlook the fact that in great crises it is extremely

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REPORTING THE PREMIER

When the Premier of the Province was delivering his Budget Speech in the [louse this year, he was reported by three graduates of the Union Commercial College writing Gregg shorthand. One, n. former Court Reporter; another, the present Court Reporter; and n young Indy from one of the Government Offieel.

Those student: were all trained by Principal Moran.

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