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WHY NOT ORGANIZE?

Now that the data. Ausuit 34. 11$! .‘ been definitely set for the visitation j, we of the moose-n delemwu 1n " connection with the Cartier anniver- sary celebra“ , it would be well. to consider the timeliness of organising '3 thorough community swine clem- up campaign.- Mflny of our citizens annually prepare for the summer season by beautifying their grounds and residences, but this year, in view ct the Cartier celebration and the 1 anticipated increase of tourists. would seem to be the 0111101111116 W‘ casion for thorough organisation a- long this line.

‘Ibis could be achieved through the formation of a Civic Improve- ment Association, such as exists in other centres, for the purpose of giv- ing leadership and encouragement to what heretofore has largely do‘ pended upon individual initiative. Attention to lawns and Burdens. painting and repair of houses, fen- ces, outbuildings, cw. -—- 111559 511d many other activities could be great- ly stimulated by organized effort. and we have no doubt but that many of our leading citizens would be delighted to loin in such a move- ment. The civic authorities would also gladly co-operate. If a start is to be made in this direction-and it has been recognized for many years that some such organization would be a splendid civic assetfithen 11111 present time is most opportune. Our merchants and others interested might well consider the feasibility of calling a meeting for the discussion of this matter. Once organized. than; is every reason to believe that the movement would meet with B911- eral approval and suppolt.

l4 BIG BUSINESS REGIME

speaking recently in the Parlia-

_ ment, Hon. H. H. Stevens, Mmiswr of ‘Prado and Commerce, effectively dispfltd of the Liberal criticism. voiced in practically every speech of Mr. Mackenzie King, that the Conservative Governments have been the special friends and bene-

‘Ificiaries of big business. Among

other things Mr. Stevens pointed out that during the period between

""" 1922 and 1929, that is to say. dur-

ing the Mackenzie King regime. Zthere were formed in Canada no -'~ less than 120 mergers, involving ' companies. 0f - power and paper mergers there were " eight, which look in 5a concerns. A

‘ . biscuit merger absorbed seven of

the old companies; the Eastern mirics absorbed l0 local companies;

- ; the Dairy Corporation of Canada.

took in six separate companies; four milling companies absorbed 48 bak-

" 7 cries; one paving corporation gob-

bled up 14 independent companies; ~ 11 public utility corporations com- bined 46 local companies; General Steel Wares combined flvc compan- ies, including such concerns as lMcClarys, which for o. generation had been a household term in this country, and Happy Thought, In this connection Mr. Stevens ,58tid! ‘It. is difficult to realize the effect that this has had on our na- tional life. The social change re- sulting from this was most strik- ing, because this is what ensued. 0f the 500 companies which were th-us merged into a much more limited number, the heads of these companies vanished as leaders in business. Some of them of course were carried into the merger and occupied positions of leadership, but by long odds the largest pro- portion of these independent lead- ers were eliminated from the bus- 11168! life of the country and no longer contributed either their ex- perience or their guidance to its affairs." A large number of these companies failed financially; 1p other words, they were not success- ful as mergers. so that from the economic standpoint there Was no gain to the country so far as they were concerned. The loss to the shareholders in many cases has been heavy.

FUTURE UNIVERSITIES

Dr. Walter Scott, President of the Northwestern University at Chicago, has been drawing a pic- lure of the average university twenty-five years from now, with airplane landing fields on the ‘earri- pus and professors assembling their data from the libraries of the world by facsimile radio. Dr. Scott said:

‘In the future students of differ-

_ mt intelligence levels will receive - the kind of training appropriate to _ them and will be trained in accord- _'snoe with their inclinations. As machinery displaces labor the num-

ber of students of average ability ..t will increase greatly and means will have to be found of supplying

i them with the kind of education ~ suitable to their abilities. The uni-

versity of the future will disting- uish clearly between its political

aoimtists, scholan and mum and the students merely good or fair in ability who seek a training for more aflcient cttisansbip.

The direct colt of inst-traction P01‘ atudentwlll be greatly reduced. shoe it has already been demon- strated that a profenor may lcctun to 500 students as effectively as to fifty. By charts, diagrams, models, loud speakers. Phenomena. still pmtures, sound pictures, talking books, space radiO. wired radio. in- creased library facilities animated diagrams, radio facsimile broadcast- krg and many other potential in- struments of culture, a single pro- fessor may increase the range of his influence a thousand fold,

This is all very stimulating; but there seems to be a catch in it somewhere. Have we not been told that the essential element in edu- cation is the personal contact be- tween teacher and pupil? “Canned education" of s kind such ls ls vis- ualized by the omcaso professor might result in giving I. lilpcfulcial educational polish. but it would bc a poor substitute for true culture.

GOODWILL GESTURE

ncsident Roosevelt has recom- mended to Congress the return to Ontario of the historic mace, which was taken from the ‘Iloronto Parlia- ment Buildings after the Battle of York in April, 1813. He asked that it be returned on the occasion cl’ Toronto's centennial celebration. The President I inds Congress that the mace, which is the symbol of legislative authority under the British monarchy, has for 121 years remained in the possessio of the United States, and that it now rests 11! the naval museum at Annapolis, He notes that the mayor and coun- cil of Ihronio have provided a site for the memorgl which is to be cr- ested by the United States Daugh- ters of 1812 to the memory of Gen- eral Pike and others of the Ameri- can forces who were killed acthe Battle of York. now ‘Ibrmto. There are plenty of precedents for the gesture of international friendship thus proposed from the White House.

THE UPTREND

Evidence is accumulating, says an ofiicisl Ottawa publication. of an improvemen‘ in the financial posi- tion of Canadian agriculture during 1933. The index ofrtho wholesale prices of Canadian farm products lose from 42.6 in December. 1932, to 53.8 in December, 1933. Indepen- dent surveys of the position of can- adlan agriculture have lust been published under the auspices of the National Advisory Committgg on Agricultural Services and by the Canadian Bank of Commerce. Both report improvement in the financial position of the Canadian farmer. The Canadian Bank of Commerce finds that the purchasing power of the Canadian farmer rose on aver- age l0 per cent during 1938, while the National Advisory Council states that there has been a tendency for prices which the farmer received tn rise nearer to the level of those EOOds which he buys.

NATURE OUTDONE

"Nvthinl has been more pathetic in Canadian politics since 1980," says the Ottawa Citizen (HDETSL) “than the failure of Liberals in Parliament to advance any effective alternative to the Government's policy."

It is not so much the failure of the Liberal party to advance alter- native measures as the partisan attitude it takes to every measure introduced by the Government, that has convinced most people that the party is fatally lack- ing in leadership. Quoting the Ot- tawa Libersl paper's criticism in the House of ‘Commons during the recent discussion on the Marketing Bill, Mr. W. G. Ernst, Conservative

for ~ 1. = _, said he had no quarrel with Liber- alism, but surely it. was not Lib- eralism that is being preached by the Liberal party in Canada today. “It ls." he said, "the dead shades of past Liberalism, with no future." Mr. Mackenzie King he described as one who "looks w the past for his guidance, but having looked to the Past, instead oi setting his face to the future he keeps looking back- ward while twins to so ahead.‘ Crabs IN llid i0 ‘ v flu “m; system of locomotion, but there is no scientific warrant for this as- sumption. Nothing in nature af- fords a panllel to the acrobatic antics of tho Liberal Opposition under Mr. King, unless, indeed, as a correspondent suggested in these columns, it is the proverbial flea in the mit. "when you try to put your

t... a.

finger on any fixed Ubersl policy you find that it isn't time."

Notes By‘ The Way

The Imam cl ‘lemon may be yo» may mom/la his pacific and hum ’ reasons for retreat before the forces of Bodies but he will nevu- ‘be believed. l-ns message reads like the millennium. "We in-

’ fcrmyoutfiatinccoordance with our

peaceful policy among Moslclns and in order to avoid sending Mcslems to‘ their death, we have decided not to consider ourselves at war

thcKingorfiIedjazhndnotapllfl-l“ ently already won a fairly conclus- ive victory over his rival.

Thd Home Olfloe has rejected Leon notskyb application for P111‘- mission to reside on British soil. The former Soviet war lord has gone into hiding somewhere in France while awaiting word from Tin-key or some other nation that is willing to grant him refuge. IPra-nce ordered him expelled recent- ly because of his failure to abstain from political activities.

A recent writer in the Atlantic Monthly marks a "touch of nostal- gia. a wistful reaching back to old forms and techniques" in recent American trends. He attributes it to a distinctive reaction from the diillculties and disoomforts of the present. But there may be a deep- er explanation than that. It may be that this age is beginning to be fed up with a gadget civilization and, like a small boy who has been surfeited with mechanical toys and things automatic and throws them all asido for some primitive and elemental playthings of his own devlsinu. is turning from it to the things that are real. and abiding.

The motor vehicles of Canada. if mustered out in one monster parade with a hundred feet of highway e1- luwed‘ to each vehicle, would form a procession over 20,000 miles in length-dour fifth of the distance around the world at the Equator. With a little crowding, and utiliz- ing the trucks and buses, the whole population of Canada might be carried. Such a. motorcade. in motion, would more than 50,000 gallons of gasoline for each mile of travel.

It ls rather interesting at this time when Japan is the centre of such perturbation in the world at large that Australia should send out a mission to pmnots good-will and closer trade relations. Among other places Japan will be visited. One reason is that next to Great Britain Japan is the best customer for Australian wool. Australian opinion has been disposed to regard Jslpan as a friend rather than an enemy, and hopes for a trade agreement. Just what eflect the lat- est Japanese statement of her plans in Asia may have upon Australia remains to be seen.

An ancient Indian temple, said by Tennessee valley authority ar- chaeologists to be the only one of its kind ever found in the Eastern section of the Unized States, is be- ing explored near La Foliette Tenn. Thus far four rooms have been un- covered. The walls are made of stone and burned clay. Objects found in the temple are unlike oth- ers found in Indian mounds in this section. The ruins will be flooded when the Norris Dam is completed.

Peru opens a four-months cele- bration of the 400th anniversary of the Spanish foundation of Cuzco. The Peruvian Congress names Cuz- co archaeoiogicai capital of South America. When Pizarro landed with his tiny, efflcient army in 1531, it was the golden capital of the Incan lmnpire. There were cities, fortres- ses and treasure houses ruled with gold. There was also a Socialist civ- ilization which hnd built the can'- als, dams and irrigation systems now to be restored. Yet at Pizarrcrs first blow the Empire collapsed-Its Socialist system had robbed it of initiative and strength-Christian Science Monitor.

Somehow one cannot picture Great Britain under a Fascist dic- tatorship in spite of the expressed optimism of Sir Oswald Mosley, black-shirt leader, particularly in view of the recent budget showing large surpluses, reductions in taxa- tion and restoration of salary cuts, and increased export business. It may be that the British people have a stronger sense of humor than their neighbors on the continent and the sight of bodies of men at- tired in black, or green, or brown shirts arouse ridicule instead of in- temtt.

The grave danger of smallpox V- comlng epidemic in this province due to its close contact with the Orient is emphasized in the April bulletin of the Provincial Board of Health. It is pointed out that there have been thirteen cases during the past months, nine of which came from incoming vessels and were dis- covered at the Federal Quarantine Station at William Head, and four cases in and around Victoria. They were all cases of a virulent type of haemorrhagic smallpox, resulting in the alarming mortality of six out of tho thirteen, or nearly fifty per cent. The sudden death from this ghastly disease of a local citizen gives added significance to the warning of the provincial authorit- ies who earnestly urge upon citi- zens the p. ‘ ‘ of ‘ "M

The Australian Government is ‘ new‘ " ,,. ",lar- ger ail-drones, quarantine stations and luxurious hotels in connection with the England to Australia air service which is expected to start operation within a year.

The highest tribute we can pay to a man is the acknowledgment of sincerity. To be in reality what one is in appearance requires a moral courage of the highest order. A man blessed with the high prerog- ative of sincerity need never pause

_ to count either friends or enemies,

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ALL HIAIT HUI-HUI! All N071‘ . . SERIOUS

Dining the examination. of re- cruiisforoversccsscrvtoeitwasthc custom inthc United States , and Canada to reject those with heart . c n - ma“... no-Yfirll“? i’? lieve that many of these than were nt for active service but because the recruit might be selected at a later. date, thousands of miles‘ from home, and the government would be put to all this expense for nothing.

Now heart murmurs ans s. definite

sign o! heart disease in many. but not in all cases. If the knowledge that all heart murmurs arc not ser- ious was known to everybody. there would be many thousands of happier people in the world, because the fact that they know they have a murmur is a t worry. The commonest murmur is what is known as the systolic murmur. which occurs with the first beat of the heart, as the blood is pumped into the two lame vessels, one car- rying the blood to the lungs to be purified. and the other carfyllll 111° blood to all parts of the My.

In Annals of Internal Medicine. Drs. A. R. Freeman and S. A. Ievine tell of an investigation in which they undertook to find out how often systolic murmurs occurred in the ordinary routine or everyday examination of patients, and under what conditions these murmurs were found.

Murmurs were graded according to their intensity or strength. A mur- mur of grads one intensity is the faintest bruit or murmur that can be definitely heard. A murmur of grade two is what the general pi\v- sician would call s. faint systolic murmur.

Twenty per cent of the Patients studied proved to have systolic mur- murs of grades one and two. The murmur was twice as common in fe- males es males. '

The systolic murmurs appearing

at the base of the heart (uppermost as heart is pear shaped) while the patient held his breath, and those gppearlng after effort but not pres- ent before the effort, Drs. Freeman and Levine believe tobe of no sig- nificance, that is, not true organic heart disease. “The systolic murmur (murmur with the first beat) need not indi- cate serious disease, nor disease of the heart, but a heart murmu‘. greater in intensity than grade om should be regarded with suspicion and receive further examinations."

If then, your doctor tells you that, although you have a heart murmur it is "functional“, not organic, you should stop won-yin: about 1h murmur. -

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DESTINY

Why each is striving, from of old, To love more deeply than he can, Still would be true, yet still growl cold?

-—Ask of the Powers that sport with manl

They yoked in him, for endless strife.

A heart. of ice, a soul oi’ fire;

And hurled him on the Field of Life, An aimless unailayed desire.

-Matthew Arnold.

A Fair Demand

(Halifax Herald)

As a. result of strong representa- tions at Ottawa, the people of Prince Edward Island have secured the as- surance that a rate of $3 one way and $5 return on the carriage of motor cars on the far ferry will be authorized as from June l5 to Sept- ember 15 of this year ,

This means that last year's rates again will be put into effect.

What is referred to as the old rate was $4 one way and $1 return. Last year The Island people secured a re- duction to $3 and $5 during the tour- ist scason. This year it was the in- tention of the C. N. R. authorities to put the rate back to $4 and t1, and it is satisfactory now to know that last year's rates will be effective a- gain.

It has been urged that the $3 and $5 rat/es should not be raised but really should be lowered to $2 and $3, the contention being that as a result travel by the car ferry would be increased to an extent that would return even more revenue to the railway system. And while they have not abandoned their campaign for $2 and $3 rates, the people of The Island realize they must for this year at least, be satisfied with the rel-establishment of the rates in ef- fect in 1933. But, as the Premier of Prince Edward Island states, they "have no intention of considering the (l3 and $5) rate ss either satis- factory or final." And it goes with- out saying that the campaign for the a: and $3 rate will be continued in the hope of better success for the tourist season of 1035.

for he is strong enough to do with- out the former and to discount the importance of the latter. It is the one defensl-e weapon forged by Providence and placed in the hands of the individual who desires to match his own strength against tirat of all mankind. It is the ground work of courage ,ths con- dition of genuine success, the key- stone of character. sincerity always wins respect; be it clothed ever so humbly it can command whatever place it may desire; knowing itself for what it is it asks for no more

thin its due-m.

. PUBLIC FORUM

o1'.i.'u'.1"'>'..“.2..".'-.3.'¢£ ~ o: questions of intonat- Ill Charlottetown o b“ "g oadcna tho opinion at’ ocnaoiwllllil- ASSOCIATION COIIMINDBD

gin-As one who attended the meeting of the Potato Growers As- sociation in Charlottetown on Wed- nesday, I with to express satisfac- tlon at the attitude which the moefln‘ unanimously adnlltld 111 authorizing the directors to take whatever action is necessary 111 111° present financial difficulty. Mem- bers sometimes do not realise what would be the result if there were no Potato Growers’ Association- What would it mean, for example, m foftllllfl‘ costs? rue 111-11» Wmfld be much dearer. and our market opportunities would be wally cur- tailed, as it is a well known fact that the Association has been re- sponsible for opening 11D 011!‘ W611 potato market in the Southern States. The one way in which the Association can succeed is by its members sticking loyally together, and remembering that the advan- tages of membership far outweigh the occasional losses incurred. I am, Sir, etc" PALMER. Churchill, P. E, I. May 10th.

LIBERAL DEGENERATES

Bin-In this series I have not had the pleasure of mticislng Liberal policy for the obvious reason that -—in the words of their own lead- ers, they have no policy to criticise. I have therefor only been able to round up their escapades as trim- mers and fabricators

Their chronic hatred of truth and honesty is the record of history- I do not apply this’ to all Liberals. There have been many of out- standing statesmen of integrity and purity of motive in their ranks, but the ruling majorities have too of- ten superceded these to make room for exploiters.