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“The Strongest Memory is Weaker than the Weakest lulu."

THURSDAY, APBH. S. 188C

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Those Election Years

Our contemporary in a long and labored edi- ldrial argues that Premier Campbell was justi- fied in charging up the whole expenditures of 1935, the last election year, to the Conservatives, notwithstanding that the Liberal Government was in power during the last four and a. half months of the year. The basis of its argument is that the Liberals had to meet $352,000 of Con- "scrvutivc obligations.

So what?

When the Conservatives came into office in 1931 they found a. Liberal overdraft at the bank of S1,041.24o.S8, plus accrued interest and unpaid hills of $151,280, \\‘lllCll they had t0 take care of; plus the Liberal share of the sink- ing fund provision for 1931, amounting to some $33,000, plus uncollectcd taxes to the amount of $394,604, plus another $78,000 which they had stibsequently to raise to redeem a 6 per cent $125,000 Liberal bond issue floated by the Bell Government ten years previously,

All these Liberal obligations had to be met by

it the Conservatives, and were charged against

the Conservative record by the Liberal press and Opposition.

But that is not all. In the eight months in which the Liberals held office in 1931 they pil- ed up an increased debt of $544,085, as against the Conservative debt increase in the remaining four months of only $4,836. And the Conserva-

l] tives had not only to finance the million and a

quarter overdraft 0f their predecessors-the extent of which they had no idea during the election eampaigm-but in the following months

v they had also to' face two colossal emergency

expenditures in the rebuilding of Prince of

l ,Wales College and Falconwood Hospital.

As for the MacMillan Government exceeding

Its estimates in the 1935 election year, which is i another alibi advanced for Premier Campbell's . failure to balance his budget snnually,-—what " about the Liberal election year 1931? In the Public Works Department alone, the estimates

that yesr were exceeded by $203,816, and the

total estimates by no less than $640,390.77!

Was it any wonder the late Hon. Mr. Lea in-

t‘: "slated that election years should be left out of _ reactant?

They certainly do not provide an alibi for the

fCsmpbell Government's broken pledges. Chief among these pledges was its undertaking to bal- l‘ ance the budget annually 1nd halt the debt in- i» crmee which was declared to be “driving this ; Province into the bankrupt condition of New- ; foundland." Today the budget remains unbalan- = 00d, and the debt is greater by over two million

_ dollars than when the Campbell

Government took office. That is not counting the present year, which may or may not be an election year

l: but which will undoubtedly be another big Lib- ‘~ eral deficit year.

A Serious Situation’

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The situation of our rural school teachers, as

ii irevealed in the address by President MacDon- ' lid at the opening meeting of Teachers’ Fed-

1 cent years. A wage of t_; ffor almost 84 per cent of our

oration convention, is certainly one calling for serious and sympathetic consideration on the part of the Government and public generally. It is not. as Mr. MacDonald pointed out, a. new situation, but it has been accentuated in re- a. little over $11 a week rural teachers stands out in glaring contrast to the increased

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Mr. l\lacl_)oual1l,stntes that the supplements, as compared with 1931, have decreased by 10.7 per cent, notwithstanding that there are now forty-three more teachers receiving supplement; that the allowance granted hy the Government t0 stippleiticttt the amount over the minitnum voted by the districts has in the same time de- creased by almost 50 per cent; that the average salary paid the first class male teacher during the past eight years decreased by $111.50 or I3 1-2 per cent, that of the second class male by about $60, and that of the first and -second class female teacher by $27 and $50 respective- ly; that last year forty-five first class teachers had to teach for second class pay and forty-six second class teachers taught for third class pay. .1 The teachers, moreover, are mnde responsible 1m‘ enforcing attendance and penalized, when: parents fail to co-operate, by having their al- geady inadequate salaries reduced. And they ‘have no security of tenure beyond their year's engagement.

In the report of the Department of Education for 1938, recently tabledinthe Legislature, note

sis takenof the fact that in the levying and col--

lection of (listrict school taxes there is “a break- -d0wn in the system." Large amounts of arrears

' pre on the books in many districts and continue

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loo from year to year. “In some cases, the mini- " upplement of $75 is voted for s second

_ her .or $100 for s first, largely to in- ilhelDepsi-tmentfinto- paying second or first ssgthttcese, maybe; in some cases the levied ‘but not collected, sud in a few

and consequently cntinot‘ be cof-

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is rightly theirs, further penalize them- by pay- ing them the salary of a lower class teacher."

The teachers are apparently convinced of the advantage which would accrue from a system 0f larger administrative units. The Education Report deals with this matter, but concludes that such a system “will only come when the ratepayers are convinced of its advantages, an to that end it should form a subject for study by Women's Institutes, Adult Education and other st_udy groups with the view to make (f) en experiment at an early date and so determine the validity of its clai_ms."

Is not our Legislative Assembly, now in ses- sion, also an important forum of debate, when

cussed? In the meantime, there seems no doubt as to

the increasing disadvantages under which our rural teachers are working.

Restricted Seed Areas

A bill before the New Brunswick Legislature entitled "An Act Respecting the Potato Indus- try,’_’ provides that a petition be submitted to the minister of agriculture by potato growers who desire to set up certified seed areas under the act. By these provisions, all spraying, storing, shipping as well as planting and digging will come under supervision of the inspectors to be appointed by the government, who will likely be the inspectors now active in the field under the Dominion government. As the great body of foundation seed-growers seem t0 be in favor of such a. policy, rays the Telegraph-Journal, there 1s reason to believe that very ‘practical results will be shown.

In Carleton County the area chosen is a 5,- O00-acre tract on the east side of the St. John River, from a short distance above Hartland t0 HarmenBrook at Pcel_ It is understood that about ninety-eight per cent of the growers in the Carleton area are in favor of the establish- ment of s. restricted seea area.

1i Editorial Notes i‘ l 1

Tomorrow, Good Friday. i i t

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Raphael died this date, 1520. e s a e

Saturday will be market day, and bumper display of Easter beef seems assured. l l 1

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Rain is wanted to make an end of the be-

draggled condition of the streets. u e w

The speech _of Earl Stanhope, First lord of the Admiralty was no blunder; it no doubt was deliberately aimed as a warning t0 both Ger- many and Italy; and its subsequent suppression in the British Press wls to avoid unnecessary suffering on the pert of anxious souls who lie awake at night anticipating the worst. s u w

The letter of Mr. Taylor in. yesterdays Forum indicates there is u much dissatisfaction with the Federal Liberal representation u with the Provincial. A little brief authority tends to make unbearable dietatorsiof most incornpetcnts, "nice" men or otherwise.

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With regard to the missing page mystery of Prime Minister Mackenzie King's foreign pol- icy speech, the following explanation has been given by Time's Ottawa correspondent: . “Many an M. P., although amazed that en avowed isolationist should say so much, wond- ered: How could he possibly have spent 45 minutes looking for the missing page? Surely there were copies?

"The answer, which the M. P.s were not told: Asssiled by doubts about his speech, Mr, King spent the 4.5 minutes telephoning Lon-don, read- ing the Foreign Office the whole text, asking whether the promise of aid to Britain if attacked was strong enough. Told that it was, he scurried back and read it to the House.”

e e u Russia is gradually making her voice heard as part of that comity of nations which is sup- posed to characterize modern civilization. At the 18th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union the delegates were told that “all Fascist aggressors will break their heads" against an “unprecedented unity" of the people in the Ukraine. The speaker was Nikitta Khru- schoff, an alternate member of the political bureau of the Central Committee and secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party in the Ukraine. In an extensive speech Khruschoff described a flourishing state of na- tional economy and culture in the Soviet Uk- raine achieved within the past year. "We have in the Ukraine,” he said, "an unprecedented unity of the people around the party and around Stalin. The union between the Ukrainian people and the great Russian people is mighty and in- vincible." e m r s

The Secretary of the Canadian Bank of Com- merce, Mr. F. C. Biggar, has a new and en- gaging description of the monetary reformer. He says that the mediaeval witch doctor is with us again. Because the country has been- beset by grievous troubles occasioning widespread suffer- ing during the pastgten years these doctors de- mand the eliminatioh of this ‘person or that group, 0r, some of them, the scrapping of the entire economic system for which they would substitute completely new and untried machin- ery and methods. Their procedure is to foster and focus unwarranted suspicion and make vehement appeals t0 the emotions, iThe witch doctors of old pursued this same method with the result that a great many interested people perished. Mr. Biggar spoke _t0 the Canadian Club of London and he gave no quarter; It is, disturbing, he said, tofind that the tdvmetei-of" 'chsnge,..price ‘cofitrol, motley regulation; the regltnentttim of Eminent-etc; are the majority" ‘of-fthentpersons of nofpexecutisle‘ experience‘

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free labor. the notional state and free men emwwerui to govern themselves;- Enquirer.

such questions might very profitably be dis- “mm

were a. decided menace salmon mus In other where the odd salmon would be found fished out by wolves, this year, there were tens and hun- dreds." The reference. of course, was to conditions on salmon wning streams ln the more re- aces. -Quebec Chronicle-

We gen; that‘ tin: Represen a ves n

e bill re-legolizlng the ocking 0f horses’ tails. The meas- ure if finally enact-ted will permit s barbarous tresnnent of dumb and defenoeless animals which was su-p- posed to be banned forever. And the fact that. under tlhe provisions

ockling

ow p only" does not make it s. lt less ob- teotlormble. The Michigan Humane Socletxy is protesting and it. should have general support -—<De't1roit Free Press.

The renovation of the me- morials which stand against the stone screen to the left of the door leading into the (xttnrpei of 8t. mun at the south end of Poets’ Corner, Westmlnism Ab- bey, ls now tn progrse. 111s monu- ments include tlhose of Shake- speare, Bums, Southey and Cole- ridge. Shakespeare's monument, en upright figure, stand on n pedestal, holding n. scrol which bears some lines from “'I‘.‘ne Tom- hns never been

pole cri after its emotion by public aub- scription in 1740. Bums’ memorial is e. Mist by Sir John Steel_ It was unveiled by the late Lord Rose- bery on March 7, liiba-lnnaon Sunday Times.

‘Ilia slurs which are being out e0 lightly these" days in the direc- tion of those who are representing us in Parliament constitute re- mn rkmbly poor return for the per- sonal sacrifices which, many 0f these men are making that the business of tans Dominion may be carried on and it is quite possible that "better type" candidates could only be obtained with extreme difficulty. Certainly those who have come forward st other times as thlrd-panl/y candidates have not on the whole begun to approach 1n eltlher capacity or experience the men wlhom they have strbemmed to defeat. Our MP3s may not be perfection, but they represent e. type of cltlzenshl which could not be easily equsll . -Brockville Recorder and Times

In recent yen: deer IlIVQ been spied quite frequently either singly or in small grwps 1n East- ern and Southern Ontario, but. it is only within the last week or so that herds of these fleet-footed denizens of the woods have aroused more than usual interest in the older section at this prov- ince. A resident 0i’ Glenmorrls saw e herd of 21 deer the road no he was driving along the West; River road near Ayr. A London insurance mun stopped his car for half an hour and watched and oumtedsherdofWdeerg-ruzing in e. farmer's wheat field about nine miles from Godorlnh. What accounts for their presence in airch unusually large numbers in the more seotled parts of Ontario? We 10118. severe Winter drive them south where it: takes’ lm' to mske

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Seafarers of many flags will hear, with a. sentimental pong mat

she will douse her light for the last. time, weigh her permanent. anch- QN. and be bowed to the ship- brsakerk yard. Her tflendly light. warn s or treacherous shoals and shifty currents to more than four generations of seamen, for the Nora lightshtp has kept her

atoh and w for over 100 years of! London port. She has weathered mentoroble gsles, and known ace and war afloat Past her dsr hull. with the big-letter- ed Nora staring over the-waters. have paraded in their heyda stately Illlldjflfllllfléfn. smart clitp pars, blunt-nosed tramp steamers. and modern liners with their brace of bucking screws. She has known all the sea travel QPOChk-GB. steam, oll. and motor. Borne ships she has seen pas out of wimlh word hes never again been heard. secrets of some dirty work st the submarine cross- nmds during the war. Now she must; make her bow, too and make way for s modern steel-built lux- ury llghtship. The now one will be mechanized. On the old Note they still use e hand foghorn. -Ottnws Journal

Many letters are reaching the Leader-Poet mlarzestin that. the government should core up the German bunch in Csmds and take

energetic b0 “crock d " Nazi zers lnb own on

lame sections ’ peo- nie. But ft ls eminent that there is hot», ma: smouldering I ‘er- giaéh It mtyords ehnd, ntgcnsutg syrups sen ere. 1n also be npperent. that it it 00ml to wnr ere leaving them- selves wide omen Jo stuck the tau-tum mot-gnu them win-g e nnytttinn‘ witn. ass mime 0f the" Greet Wet. £1!

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ANGINA PECTOBIB AND COBO- NABY DISEASE

Perhaps you or 0m of your fun- fly halve or have had n ‘heart st- tack’. Your physician may have called it. angina. pectoris or it may have been called coronary ‘disease --ooronsry occlusion or stoppage-

Aa both these conditions muse psln in the region 0f the heart you may wonder just. how serious condition is, whether it is 5M0 to be up and about. as advised by your

to do.

In speaking 0f the dmerezwe be- tween angina. peotorls-bressrpenq -and coronary disease, Dr. I.C. Brill, Portland. Oregon, Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Oregon, in Clinical Medicine

says:

Angina pectoris results from laok of oxygen in the blood simply- lng the heart muscle from what.- ever cause-excess food, excitement disease or partial closure e little artery carrying the blood t0 the heart. The pain la underneath the breast bone. ‘more is nltwsys some cause for the attack 0f an- gina. pectorir. The engine attacks lest but u. minute or two and the individual feels n11 right after the rattan-k. He stands stub-afraid to mov%lwhlle the attack is present. No rise ln temperature l5 present.

Coronary disease occurs most fre- quent ln middle-aged men with

ary disease (t tack lasts s long time, hours and to be no cause emotio-

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damage

bloodtvesoels has occurred the pe- tlent, must remain in bed for six weeks. until healing occurs.

In the treatment of engine peo- borls, the ‘ ‘ causing the et- teck must be removed or correct- ed—overes.tlng, oveuexercistng, too 11mph exoltetments-togetiher wtlth use of drugs to open the blood

ssels more widely.

In the treatment of coronary dis- ease, the prolonged rest. is most. im- portant. Sometimes, an lncreoeod blood supply to the heart muscle la dbtained by operation, an added supply of blood being obtained from large chest muscle. hi other cases operation, by dlvld the nerves that tighten 0r close e bloodveu- sels brings brilliant results.

Remember, engine. pectorts med! cure but not bed rest; disease needs four to resting quietly in bed.

coroner! six weeks

RESURREOTION Se! in bewiid this - e holerlplg; deys pro Wraps us about. in splendour- win ll

gs our re. Safe ffrolm all belief this truth en- o .

. d5 us. Arms and sustains us in the darker strife. Staggered were we or light without this VlSlDn That zltggfles the midnight of our YB B; This tale that. outllves hat-reds 011i erlsion Gives life to death end comforting to tears.

—LU\'..'Y GERTRUDE CLARKE»- In Si. Dunstan’; Red And whims,

HWVALID DRAWS VISITOR!

(By The Canadian Press) . md-dvlildred Vvtllls. an invalid confined to her home 1’! years in 1908 had 1,570 visitors from 17 slates, the oldest being 81 and the youngest 13 days. DERBY. England — Derbyshlre County (kicker. Club ls erecting a concrete stand on the County Ground here to replace a wooden Sl-PHCi/llre Mwked by a gale in No- xrmheL. ._. i

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The f M19911’: in the Ov- tows Journal:

Bir.—-'I'he timely, thoughtful edi- torial in your issue of, Saturday the 16th. blatant. under the head- ing, "Are We t 0f ilk- sentlais?" should receive more than passing notice. As I see it, the world that we have today would not be possible if we had not sl- rendy, in a. large measure, lost sight 0f the essentials. Every norm n1 ‘person born into l-bla world owes a. utytofiomtnhiefellowmen and himself. and is strictly w- wuntable for the performance 0i’ that. duty. If! Christlanit ls true that obligation contains a1 the es- sentials, end ls incumbent on the poor ss well as the rich, the only t. "Ito ' whom

shall be requir ".

article above mentioned is particu- larly applicable to present world conditions.

But the some mark of - tion mrmot be given to an Editor- ial in The Journal of the 5th of August last. A German profesor. Dr. Thomas Mann by name, hsd entitled

‘The Coming Victory of Democracy‘ into the hands of every one of our public men, into the hands of our teachers and educatlonsllsts, and into every newspaper office in tho country."

Well, nfter reading tlhie lntldn- tlon, I read Dr. lvfannb book, and having some idea of the overuse German philosophic mind and some wee. of the cult called ‘Mod- emlsm". I was not rlsed to fllnd that the book lgmo God's exis- tence, end did not have even an illusion to Jesus Cthrlst, the found- er of Christianity, 0r tn His beach- ing in regard to the affairs of this world. This bOok seeks to make "democracy" e. form of religion u