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What About It.’

Dr. Cyrus Macmillan, defeated

Liberal candidate in the federal pose as prohibltlonmml but the“ Pmtmn» '15 m” actively campus!” stock has fallen considerably below par among the "right thinking ele-

\ng for the Lea Government.

It was Dr. Cyrus Macmillan who headed the “non-political" Educa- tion Commission which recommend- Fd, over a year ago, the establish- merit, of‘ a portfolio of Education ind Public Health, a separate De- puty Minister for each department, the re-organization of the Board of Education. the establishment of consolidated schools and, failing an increase in subsidy from Ottawa, a plebiscite to determine whether or= not the people should tax them- selves to pay increased salaries to the school teachers. The report of the Education Commission provided that "before the submission of any plan of revenue to the people, every possible means should. b: takrn by the Board of Education to inform the people of the conditions and oi the real meaning of any suggested financial arrangement.“

The Education Commission cost the taxpayers of this Province over three thousand dollars. and its re- commendations have not yet been implemented.

It surely cannot be on this ground that Dr. Cyrus Macmillan is indors- ing the policy of the Lea Govern- mentl

Disgraceful Episode

The manner in which the Pro- hibition law is being flouted under the Lea Government was exempli- fied in a. disgraceful event which is reported to have occurred in the West River District last week. The Guardian is reliably informed that a. party, held under the auspices of a most respectable organization of ladies, was invaded by bootleggers with a car of liquor and that the temptation proved some young men in the vicinity, who became intoxicated and were Ml be heard quarrelling far into the early hours of the morning. Later, an the same morning, two empty liquor cans and two potato sacks containing empty “teddies" were found on the scene of the disturb- once.

Naturally the ladies of the dis- trict are deeply upset, though the affair reflects in no way upon their admirable organization. I

It was on the pledge of strict en- forcement of the Prohibition law that the Liberal members of the West River District, Hon. '3. w. LePage and Mr. Angus MacPllee, were elected in 1927. They both as- sured their constituents that, if el- ected, the District would receive "the boon of a banished liquor traf-

fic,” and that all that was required ‘

to achieve this result was honesty

and sincerity in the administration of the law. Immediately after the

1927 election, at a meeting of the

Temperance Alliance, Mr. LePage

ulld:

"We are going to leave nothing undone to enforce the Prohibi- tion Act, and this can be done. There is nothing impossible in this Province. We have a clear mandate to go forward and en- force this Act and I for one will Itand for nothing but enforce- Inent to clear the Province of this cursed drink traffic. You will not find this Government lack- ing in anything it can do."

' Similar assurances were given, both before and after the election, by Mr. MacPhee. Both these gentle- lnan maintained, in every speech jhey made in the Legislature, that this promise had been fulfilled.

ey maintained that their own

trict was free of liquor and that situation throughout the Prov- lnce was satisfactory-notwith- Intending the fact that arrests for llninkenness have been greater dur- ing the last four years than at any time since Prohibition came in- I0 effect. And while maintaining an

of smug complacency

and llllllln' planter-J. B. Burnett

to release convicted bootleggers on ‘ricket-of-Leavel

'the official organ of the Lea Gov-

too much for -

at Hunter River lfriday night, "read the Liberal provincial platfo in of in’! and showed how plank after plank had been fulfilled.’

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The Western Situation

“From coast to coast," says the Ottawa Journal, “newspapers of all shades of politics rally behind the Government's decision to help the West." There is but one unfortun- ate exception to this unanimity, and, to its shame be it said, it is

ernment in this Province. Alone of all the newspapers in Canada, the local Liberal press has not henitat- ed to declare that the Conservative members from the Province were negligent in their duty because they did not object to the Bennett Gov- ernment's emergency measures for the relief of the drought-impover- ished farmers of Southern Saskat- chewanl

Fortunately, while the situation in Southern Saskatchewan is still critical, there are signs of improve- ment, while crop conditions in oth- er parts of the West are encourag- ing. The situation is well summed up in the following editorial com- ment from the Vancouver Star (Liberal) of July 3:

“He gives twice who gives quickly. The Federal Govern- ment, having become aware of the dire need of part of the farming population on the prairies, is act- ing with commendable celerity.

“In brief, there will be no liar- vest for many of those who sow- ed their land last spring, while for many others only the most meagre returns can now be ex- pected. The terrible drcught of the late spring and early sum- mer has proved disastrous to the growing crops on five million acres of land, and a hundred thousand people, directly depen- dent on those crops, are confront- ed with ruin.

“Luckily, the damage has been done in what is. after all, only a fractional part of the wheat- growing belt. Thanks to the rains that came in time elsewhere the prairie crop, while not of the great volume of those of some recent seasons, promises to be one that a few years ago would have been deemed of very satisfactory proportions."

The Voice of Labour

It is significant that in Canada the strongest secular voice raised against communism is not the voice of capitalism but of organized labour. Practically every issue of the Canadian Labour Press, publish- ed at Ottawa, contains a front-page broadside denouncing Communlgm as being based on unsound philoso- Dhy and wrong economics-destruc- tive to home life, to civic and re. ligious freedom, and disastrous to the country, '

The attitude expressed by the Canadian Labour Press is particuI. ariy interesting in view of the criti- cism in Liberal quarters that the action of the Bennett Government in placing an embargo on Russian Soviet products, especially coal, was dictated by capitalists. The fact is that no action of any Govern- me“ m @111! 0011111111’ has received 511011 Wldflflbread approbation as the decision of the Bennett Govern- ment fo have neither truck no; "1100 With the Bolshevfsts. _________

Editorial Notes

Between suppressing revelations in the Prohibition Court, discount. ing the evidences of disintegration 011 the McIntyre Highway, and 8011111118 the speeches of visiting economic experts on the improved business situation throughout the country, the Patriot's political cen. sor has his hands full these days.

According to our contemporary, Premier Lea, at the Liberal meeting

This

In! Government's electim dodge fonnance. It was also unique, for

NOTES av rile will

There are some critics who nay

that too much interest is given to sport in Britain and elsewhere. hav-

ing regard to prevailing economic conditions; but clean sport, as ex- emplified in such events u the Hen- ley R/oyal Regatta, and in other amateur fields, is a. factor of first- rate value in nation-building. The Greeks knew this.

For the fourth time the historic Diamond Sculls, the world's greatest

PAIN IN STCMACH.

Your physician will tell you that more patients come to his office

trophy in the field of I ‘ scul- ling, comes to Canada, but the vic- tory won at Henley by Bob Pearce is even more noteworthy as a person- al triumph. raising the Hamilton, Ont., oarsman to a position of un- disputed supremacy.

The New York Times says that low flyi is a modern variant of dangero driving. It bases a hom- ily on the subject, on the text that the Queen's Court of Special Ses- sions has fined an aviator $100 for flying low over houses in RDS€dEiB and moreover, warned the oflender that another violation would bring a Jail sentence in its trail.

The department of public works in the New Brunswick Government has made provision for extensive ex- periments in competing the dust nuisance. Tests are being’ made in the vicinity of Sussex with ground oil shale and it is expected that in the not distant future this modern menace will have been conquered. In our own province-one of the un- implemented promises of the gov- ernment is the failure to make any effort towards removing the dust danger from our highways.

All accounts asree that even on the low scale of living in Russia, there are great inequalities of wages and rewards- Piecework has been found necessary, there are privileg- ed and unprivileged workmen with the corresponding differences in the distribution oi the tickets for food and other necessities. Wealth, after all, is a. relative term, and l11°118h there may be no large in-

other nations in Russia, there are great inequalities on the lower level. In fact, so far as individuals are concerned, the experiment is not one in Socialism or Communism, but in State Capitalism. The State of Russia takes on the whole meth- od and system of capitalism and en. 1181100“ to play capitalist w its Cltlzfiflfiu-LOHGOH News Chronicle.

There is a tendency amongst p90. pie when referring trade betwegn the Irish Free State and Britain to speak constantly of Britain as "Ir-e. land's best customer,” says the Dub. 11p Evening Mail. True it is that more than 9U per cent. of our trade is with Britain, but there is anoth- er aspect of the relations which we are inclined to overlook—the fact that we are one of Britain's best customers for certatin goods. The value of the Free Statespurchases of British cars exceed that o1 the aggregate purchases of all foreign 0011001165 and exceed. also the total 11111011110 spent by the Overseas no- minions.

The Soviet authorities are extend. ing the hours of work in Russiu {mm seven 00118110. in response, 1110i’ 80v- w BPPBal-s from the work- ers themselves, who "have beenicla- 11100118 for permission to put in an extra hour daily." A Victorian phil- Muller said that Socialism would be imlwssible "until men were ans. 61s.” Can it be that in Russia, the antecedent condition is approaching fulfilment?

4900111111: to mam Stokes’ book

°11 "New Imperial Ideals," there are 110000.000 people in Nigeria alone, or about twice the population of Can. “*1- 1" 001M or PVDl-llation it a the “11111 ""11 1n the Iimiiilre- Mr. Stokes says there are over two hundred and thirty lung-um“ spoken m Northern Nigeria and as many more 111 111° 00001- He says further: "Be- tweii" "1" 110810 peoples of the south, the negro or negroid gnu“ peoples north of them, and the Fu. iani rulers of the north and norm. Wm’- thm "9 sulfa fixed that may well take centuries to bridge," The $110011! 0f government applied 10 the preservation of the native in. atitutions in each area, and M19 b0 develop them 5Q that they may m “"10 0418M» themselves m tn; modern world. That is to "y, m, people are to be gavel-nod by their awn rulers respecting m“, ‘nah i m“ "<1 develvplna IIICh distinct"? "1 0014 M may beiof value, and 1°‘ 1110118 the path of culture to n Possible civilization that may ecu. tflbme "111011110. 0f real value m human prom-g‘. .

never before have either the Pram. ier or his followers attempted to 1000» 1n Public, that famous pm. form on which they secured pow“ 1" 1110 11st compalan. and which contains as many broken promiggg u there are quills on the‘ fretful porcupine.

comes according to the standard of _

‘ ininu of ‘.. -“ “ dys- pepsia, pain in the stomach, than any other ailment.

Now although the world seems to be filled with special foods andspec- ial diets, neverthelea your stomach if in good condition, can digest practically all the ordinary kinds 0f foods. If your stomach is upset, you have pain, and some vomiting, you naturally blame the stomacl’, whereas the cause of the digestive disturbance may be at some dis- tance from the stomach.

an analysis of 500 cases of "indig- estion" found that 175 were due to some organic trouble, but only 12 of these were found in the stom- ach.

What does this mean?

That finding the cause of pain in the region of the stomach ma/y re- quire time and effort on the part of the physician, and the patient must not become restless on im- patient if his physician seeks the cause instead of just giving him something m relieve the pain.

Sometimes a slowness in the movement of wastes in region of appendix gives rise to pain in the stomach. 1

Air swallowing is another fre- quent’ cause or stomach pain, the bubble of air becoming so large that‘ it presses against stomach walls upward toward the chest. One of the commonest causes of pain in the stomach is some disturbance in the liver and gall bladder. There is usually much belching of gas and tenderness extending over toward right upper part of abdomen. '

Not having enough grinders or molar teeth, not being able to chew the food properly, is a. frequent cause of stomach pain.

Pain caused by “nervous" troub- les-worry excitement, tal work is simply due to the fact that the muscles of the walls of the stomach do not receive their ner- vous impulses from the brain, no churning is done, the food lies in the stomach for hours in an un- digested‘ state. A l

Pain from ulcer stops when food is taken then in oneor two hours re. turns and remains until food or some alkali is again taken.

Unfortunately in cancer the pain is not always very severe in the early stages, but if the person is approaching middle age this should be the first thought as only early operation can save life.

Remember then that while pain in stomach is not usually due to or- ganic trouble it should be investi- gated if it persists or occurs fre- quently,

EMPTY ROOM

she was disturbed by shadowlngs that came I

Across her mind when evening winds were blowing-

Elusive, vague, unworthy of a name;

And she would pause a. little while, not knowing

Just why she stared so at her idle hand,

Or what it was that left her so aware

Of tiny sounds she couldn't under- stand,

Like slow, reluctant feet upon the stair.

“Too soon for ghosts,’ she said, and closed the door Against the first chill of the coming gloom, And lit the larnp, as oftentimes be- fore And never guessed how in an attic room, Between a toy house and a Noah's Ark, A wood orse rocked softly in the ark. —William Harold McCreary, in Poetry.

The Causes of War

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(Boston Christian Science Monitor) War is in a large sense, ,a social economic problem. It is out of distress, unemployment, upheaval and despair that wars are made. Millions of men and women out of work, countries plunged into the deepest difficulties, ruined trades- rnen and impoverished farmers are the raw materials of conflict. The profound discontent of poverty with all its harmful potentialities. ia not only a result but accuse of ‘ctrifa, _ a

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MUCH TO REMEMBER!

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That at the end of 1930 the Iiea Government came out lqith increased liabilities of $234,491, a deficit on current account of $32,882, and a total increase in pub- lic debt in three years and four months of $758,994- over three quarters of a million dollars.

That this enormous liability was incurred notwith- standing that the Lea Government collected and ex- pended, since it came into power, two and u half million dollars over and above the revenue received by its pre- decessors. r

I919 CAMPAIGN RECALLED

In 1919 Premier Lea, Hon. J. P. McIntyre, Hon. B. W. LePage and other members and supporters of the Lea Government canvassed the Province abusing and criticising the Arsenault Governments road policy, charging it with committing the Province “to wast ex- penditures amounting to $875,000 _ln five years under the Dominion Highways Act. They damned that policy as an “infernal scheme." Today, as the electors are aware, the Lea Government ‘is spending more revenue on one mile of roadwork than would build several un-. der the Conservative policy, and its election speedway on Malpeque Road, built at a cost of $27,000 a mile, is already falling to pieces under the summer sun.

The electors will remember, also, that despite its increased squanderings _and_borrowlngs l_n the Public Works Department, which is today costing as much as it cost to run the whole affairs of the Province un- der the Stewart admlnlstratlon, tile Lea Government has secured not one cent of additional subsidy from Ottawa. And this in face of the Governments solemn

' ‘ ' ‘ ' 1 tf . t t ‘t Hlliettringroestealllllloetyafrgntdtspfigggtyllir pc liailaamforo ilelfgaslces subsidy" and the argument advanced by the Liberal leader on the advantage of having the federal and pro- prolzlglcflal goverfnmerctlts tine linegvsohthat thelProviifice wou ave ‘a rien a our ‘w en our calms _or subsidy settlement were presented at the inter-provin- cial conference in the fall, of 1927.

PROHI BI TI ON !

Nor are the electors likely to forget that tile Lea Government pledged itself to 100 per _cent enforcement of the Prohibition law, as admitted in a post-election editorial in the Patriot (June 27, 1927) in which it 1S stated that “bootleggers, home-brew makers, and Sell- ers and smugglers of liquor, if the Liberals remain true to their pledges and true to their affiliations with the Temperance Alliance, must be put out of business." And that instead of this promised “great boon of a banished liquor traffic” (Patriot, May 23, 1927) boot- leygers flourish in greater numbers than ever before- protected and encouraged now under the Lea Govern- ment's Ticket of Leave Act which enables them, even after conviction, to __evade punishment-and the result is seen in the Police Court records, which show a great- er number of arrests for runkenness, a greater num- ber of accidents caused by drunkenness, and a greater number of deaths from drinking liquor, than at any time in the history of the Province since the days of

Free Rum. , .. . OLD AGE PENSIONS

The Lea Government (the electors will remember) endorsed the King Government’s old age pensions scheme whereby this Province would have to pay fifty per cent of the cost. They promised to put this scheme into effect in this Province “in a manner consistent with our revenue.” Thispledge, embodied in their el- ection platform, was absolutely ignored, the Lea Gov- ernment not bothering even to ascertain the cost of such a scheme or the number of pensionable persons in the Province until a few months ago, when a census was ordered to be taken by their road superintend- ents, obviously as an election gesture and to mislead the people into supposing that they had some con- structive policy in mind. Y

Now that the Bennett Government, pending the time when it can assume responsibility for the full cost of old age ‘pensions, has increased the federal pay- ment to 75 per cent, and Hon. J. D, Stewart has stated that, if elected, he willput old age pension legislation into effect in this Province, the Lea Government has nothing to offer, one way or the other, but abuse and

criticism. MONEY T0 SQUANDER

It will not be necessary, either, to remind the" el- ectors that the "Lea. Government, though it had no money to pay old age pensions, to increase the teach- ers’ salaries or to fulfill its election pledges, could af- ford $8,000 of the taxpayers’ money to cover up the Andrew Fraser Mitchel scandal-a scandal caused by the bungling and stupidity of the Bell Government of which the present Premier, Hon. W. M. Lea, was Pro- vincial Treasurer and Minister of Agriculture.

Nor that $1,200 was paid, without Legislative auth- ority, to the Temperance Alliance out of the rum rof- its of tile Prohibition Commission, and another 1,400 tons-detective from Montreal, who, according to ex- Premier Saunders, washimself a drunkard and was incompetent to deal with the organized activities of the bootleggers in this Province.

Our school teachers will not need to be reminded that the recommendations of the Education Commis- sion have not been implemented by the Lea Govern- ment, though these recommendations were presented over a year ago in order to settle questions which even then were considered to be of the utmoaturygency and importance both to the teachers and to the Province.