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TUESDAY, JANUARY, 8, 1939

‘The Strongest . i the

The Farmer's Handicap

A fizzled farmer told Premier Bracken's wheat conference at Winnipeg}; ti: ptherhdayé, o; selling wheat for 4o cents a us e in t e ar days of I932 and for $1.50 a bushel last year. And on the day when he sold for 40 cents, the price of bread in his market town was exactly the same as on the (lay when he received $1.50.

The farmer's figures were accepted without question‘ at the eonferpttce, and a ‘prominent dealer in wheat sermet to express tie opinion of all the t-xtserts when hc said that the price of lm-ntl did not hear very much relation t0 the price ul wheat. 'l'oo nnnrvfotlter fpctolr; entered.

\\‘ltat are illt‘>(3 other r actors. ere are, says the Vancouver Province, a lot of then1— milling costs, baking costs, transportation costs, CuSts‘ of storage and ltatitlling, costs of materials. like yeast and salt and stigar, that go to the mak- ing of bread. llut if one analyzes these various costs, it will be found that most of them trace back to labor costs. The ntilling, the baking, the transportation and the storing all involve labor. Even when the work is done largely by machinery, labor C0515 are inV0l\'€(l, for flit’, machinery is nude by labor.

All this labor must be paid for and is paid for in the price of the loaf of bread. It is paid for, also, on a rigid unit lnsis. Transportation costs the same, whether wheat is worth 40 cents a bushel or S2. Milling costs do not vary with the value of the wheat used. Baking costs do not go down when flour is cheaper. And so it

oes.

All this, however, is poor comfort to the far?- er. who has never succeeded in putting either is labor costs or his capital costs into the price of the commodity he has tn sell. But while he can

_ not get a return for either his own labor or his

own capital, he is compelled to give a return to those whose labor he utilizes and whose capital he rents.

Getting Away With It

Probablv the best of all commentaries on ‘the amazing Coster case in the United States is the laintive note contributed by the publisher of ho’s Who, who remarked: “Who’s Who takes it for granted that a man elected president of an $S7,ooo.ooo concern is a man of good re- putation and standing in his community." Because practically everybody else follows the lame rule, an imaginative swindler was able to put across one of the most fantastic hoaxes of modern times, deceive everybody from the U.S. government to .\\'all Street, and come to grief only because of a slip-up on a minor detail, People probably will be drawing morals from this case for years to come. An exchange sug- gest that the most striking thing about it is the way it illustrates the almost universal tendency t0 take a man at his own valuation.

Memorial To Cheese Factory

To mark the site and commemorate the estab- lishment of the first cheese factory in Alberta a cairn was raised recently in the Springbank district, some twelve miles west of Calgary. It bears a. bronze plaque which records that this cheese factory was established “by Ebenezer Healy, on N.E. 12-25-W5, Springbank, 1888." Mr. Healy was a native of Nova Scotia. He reached Winnipeg in 1882, went to Regina iti 1883 where he established a dairy farm, and then located at Springbank in 1887. He died July, 1937, aged 92, having seen the cheese out- put of the Province rise from 20,000 pounds to 2,300,000 pounds a year.

The idea of perpetuating achievements of this kind is an excellent one, and might be adopted in other agricultural Provinces. So far as cheese factories are concerned. we understand that the first was started in Prince Edward Island in r883—five years before the establishment of Mr. Healy's factory in Alberta. g Mill View, Dunk River and St. Eleanors hold the distinc- tion of being the first communities here to en- gage in this enterprise.

Apples And Penitenll

‘Although he had apple trees in his own gar- den, Mr. William Symonds of Torquay, Eng- i land. helped himself the other day to seventeen

_' apples from the orchard of a neighboring farm- ~ er. A watching policeman accused him, where-

upon his conscience smote him hard. Symonds,

i Ttwho is 61 years old, hastened to make amends.

, He wrote a letter to the aggrieved farmer, en- closing flve it notes. An read in the police court the missive ran: "It am writing to offer

‘ you my apology for having done you, a neigh-

bor, a grevious wrong. It was brought. home

to" me last Sunday evening during the reading of me Scriptures and Psalms. I stood there con- frleted of wrong-doing to my neighbor and be- ore God and I cannot quiet my conscience nor jleeb until ,1 have done something real in the tter, for the Scripfitreuya that having sin- ' gglihtit, a nil hum- l nhould meet him while ‘ y‘ and offer restitution for my»

owner and own up to him as welL The boy. though a little dubious, fo1low‘ed the person's ad- vice only to meet a very muscular Christian who abused him in most unchristiatylanguagc, and took the price of the apples out of his hide. The poor penitent, more in anger than in sorrow, now thinks Protestant soul clinics are not all they are cracked up to be.

Hitler's Self-Sufficiency

Advices from Germany are to the effect that Herr Hitler is becoming more and more the re- cluse. He spends most of his time in his strong- ly guarded mountain fastness, and mixes less than ever either on social occasions or with his coadjutors and political lieutenants.

This attitude is said to be encouraged by Der

Fuehrefls conviction, consistently strengthened by past dramatic experiences, that his judgment is far nearer infallibility than that 0f any of his subordinates. He was warned against every one of his now historic post-war coups — the reoc- cupation of the Rhineland, the Vienna anschluss, and the Czech drive. In each case he took the gamble, and in each case he backed a winner against the expert tipsters. This has naturally tended to confirm such tendencies towards megalomania as the ex-lance corporal has long exhibited. The only ques- tion is how far this process of self-sufficiency may carry him, The hysteria of megalomaniacs ntay be (langerous-especially when they happen to be autocratic Chancellors.

J‘ Editorial Notes I‘

General George Monk, restorer of the Brit- ish Monarchy, died this date, 1670. :- w a n:

It is now predicted that Parliament will ad- journ over the Royal Visit, as there is too much pre-election business to get through to permit of prorogation. I I I Truly it may be said this is a land which “the Lord Thy God careth for: the eyes of the Lord Thy God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year even unto the end of the year." U. ¥ l l!‘ Contending that a. sandpit of Provineetown Harbor, Mass, and not “the mythical rock" at Plymouth, is the “holy ground" on which the Pilgrims first trod, Cape Codders propose t0 dig up tombstones there to prove that at least some of the pious pioneers went ashore for forty days. i i l I The Washington Government intends to re- commend to Congress the continuance of the stabilization fund of $2,o0o,00o,0oo, authority t0 operate which will expire on June 30. The fund is a very important feature of the Treas- ury's activities, and a profit had been realized on its operations and all expenses paid out of its earnings. The profit, resulting from the fund’s operations last year was $6,000,000 and the profit at this time is not less than that amount. The fund was set up when the gold dollar was devalued at the end of I933, and has been used since that time to stabilize interna- tional currencies and guard against speculative abuses. a 4i :- u

The Indian town from which Pocahontas was kidnapped by the English in 1612 has been lo- cated, and is being excavated by Dr. T. D. Stewart, Smithsonian Institution anthropologist. Identifying the place by aid of Captain John Smith's map of Virginia, Dr. Stewart says there is no doubt this was Patawomeke on the Poto- mac River west bank, where lovely Pocahontas was hidden by her father after Capt. John Smith left Jamestown. Indian fears that Pocahontas might be seized as a valuable hostage to the English proved well founded, when Captain Ar- gall used an Indian to lure the maid away from Patawomeke, and held her captive until her father ransomed her by an exchange of English prisoners. It wa during this captivity, says Dr. Stewart, that Poc atontas fell in love with John Rolfe, whom she married.

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Commenting on the fact that a joint message on the Jewish question has been issued by leaders of the Roman Catholic Church, the Protestant Episcopal Church, the Southern Baptist Con- vention, the Presbyterian Church and the twen- ty-fivc bodies constituent to the Federal Coun- cil of Church of Christ in America, The New York Times says: “This is believed to be the first time that spokesmen of all Christian denom- inations in this country, Protestant and Roman Catholic, have tinited in a declaration on a. sub- ject of such international importance. For this reason the significance of the statement is un- mistakable. Never was there a time when the unity of all faiths on the one essential of hu- man rights and human dignity was more des- perately needed. This protest comes as a brave answer to those who feared or who hoped that on this issue the common front of Christendom was broken."

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Smugness may be a. fault, and, if carried to excess, even a crime perhaps, says The New York Times. But the question is whether peo- ple are not going too far in the other direction nowadays. A meeting of school teachers usually has an address entitled, “Ths Bankruptcy of the School System." Parents in convention assemb- led face the factsboldly in a. nation-wide hook- up, “Our, Crimes Against Childhood." The en- gineers at their annual banquet are told by one of the speakers of the evening that the per- centage of illiteracy among civil engineers -iu higher than among g arecroppers in the Deep South or something orceful like that. Doc- tors, lawyers, authors, Mayors, football play- ers, dancing teachers, youth organizations-they all love to stand up- in public and confess to ilns of which the public often may have {shrewd notion, but often, tannins of which the public would never dream of accusing them. Per- haps they. are all (try of the crime: to which

they cunfespf’ Ce tily the, aspect of the world t ii ‘such n: 6 unmet that there laenough ’ ~ ' But‘: b practical

proposi- no many anim-

ti}. n tit: nu It’: the which fi

zotonrellefmdrcnnlnonrollef that

tentloued plans to auatalntng. —6t. Thoma: "runes- Journal.

Fortboflntflmunhioolnoor-

poratlon of the munlclpnll iln 188i, the flnnnclel lffalre o the are new

Ooraputlon of Brockvllle 1n e hands a

lelaudsuto “like assurance they‘ w orouahly ca. e an dependable hands. — B lllo

. 8t. Louis, Mm, n clly about the also of ‘Ibronto. did not inaugur- ate toxold campaigns until 1984. Durln: the ftrst. eight months of that year. before the flrat cam- paign, 594 children 1n St. L-oula developed diphtheria and 22 of them dled. During the first eight months of this yeer there. were 128 cases and two deaths. showing the beneficial results fuuuwmg toxld. —Eastern Chronicle.

Oysters now come in tablet form for those who do not care for the taste of them 1n their natural state. Those new models of auto- mobiles that you saw at the auto- mobile show, originated and grew from ‘experiments that started with clay toy-size models. Castor oll and coal tar have been com- blned to make a new synthetic fiber which 1e expezted to be adap- ted for making women's hosiery.- Ohrlstlan Science Monitor.

Any forelm power which mlght be contemplating an attack upon Brltaln should not make the mls- take of "underratlnr the domin- tone. Sfr Maurice Hankey, for many years secretary to the Brit.- lsh Cabinet. warns. It. 1s a warn- fng that should be heeded. Ger- many erred 1n 1914 ln mtnlmlzlng the loyallty and strength of the domlnlons, and 1t was u. fatal mis- take. -Wlndsor Blur.

It 1s the first reel enuoun g vote from the electors ln a ng series of bye-elections, but possibly some of the result. wu due tn l flnner attitude on the part. of the Brltlsh Prfme Mlnlster towards the dictators and an expression of vlew that. was not heard from him 1n the same tone as that which was quite ommovn a. few weeks ago. -Amherat News.

Editor O'Brien Boldl, o! the Dally Dartmouth, planned to send a Chrlattnus present. to Adolf H11;- ler: four test tubes containing samples gollan and “Aryan" blood contri- buted by undergraduates, t» _,ether with a letter challenging hlm to tell the difference. The plan fell through because the would-be don- gil-s could flnd no “pure Aryan"

Surely even the people who nurse a perpetual suspicion of "pelt- tlclans" and all thelr works would be touched by Mr. Vernon Barb- lett‘; pathetic disclosure about the price of success at bye-elections: "f have received so many friendly pen on the buck that it. 1s painful to wear braces." One has card of American presidents with their arms 1n slings u a result of ordeal by hand-shaklng, but back-patting carrled to such a plmh (that the called shoulder afterwards wlncea under contact wtth the braces 1a a new price to pay for sudden popularity. — Manchester Guard- an.

ham Berlin comes, the report that efforts to eradicate llgloua temhlng 1n L ‘ seems tn be making little headway, only about fifteen per cent. of Protestant teachers having responded to the Nazl teachers’ unions’ demand for elimination of rellgloua classes. The rest said they found ants strongly opposed to dropp re- ltglous education. Apparently old aplrltual forces retain their strength among people, whatever the rulers may think or order. -- Montreul Gazette.

Today's diplomacy 1| __ with lnslncerlty. The democracies are stalling for time and the dlc- tatoralu calculating the moat favorab vlalt of Mr. Eden to America was closely related to all these fnter- national manoeuvring. He 1a the

g man and have to save Brltaln from the mess that. others got her into. The United States likes Mr. Eden. Her help or benevolent neutrality wlll be need- ed to save the cause human llberty. -—Toronto Star.

Csnldllnl {vut read with mum surprise that "more than twenty- flve deaths have been attrlbuted

few clays. And how cold was the cold that took such a toll? ‘rwen- ty-three deureee above semi Noll 28 above ln Canada 1n winter: 1s

1t. isn't. cold enough. At that tem-

tt 1s being cheated out of lt-s right.- {pl ellnualhte amt-age. It 1s hard- eno ut pum kln, let 1km: unlverul dis- ort. —Ott|.ws Cltllen.

mTllr-lembpeopla do an! . um’; paroc bu fm-iotten that the vut nu-

HEY

all

of Jewlsh, Negro, Mon-

moment for attack. The

to cold” 1n England during the last

a cause of universal complalnt that peratum the populace here thtnks

frost on me-

lupport Allan. Ho

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1i . dlnleruul tho h ‘with’. 1a w flnduhhlmulef

ect of cule 1n .1110 coun- large. - Wtnnlpo: , nu

OVIBWEIGHT AN D Tlll HEART

‘I110 experience of physicians and the statistics of our lneur- ance companies deflnltely show that weight 1s an 1m taut fac- tor 1n health. The 1n vldual who can kee at normal or slightly overwelg t» until the age of thlrtv and after that age can remaln at. nornual or sllgnly undietv-welght l8 lllkely to be more free of a11- ments than those who are under- weight up to thirty or overwelzht. after thirty.

‘That overweight 1s s forerun- ner of diabetes was pointed out by Prof. E. P. Joslln, Boston. some yearn ago. That overweight can seriously affect the heart. blood- vessela. and kidneys has been amply roven, whether the over- welght due to heredity, to over- eating, or to some irlancl distur- bance. .

While 1t has not been proven that fat cells replace the muscle cells or fibres ln the heart, that fat cells can get, 1n among the muscle cells of the heart and so weaken the power of the heart 1s an established fact.

In an article 1n The Medlcal World on the Management of the Heart 1n Obmlty, Dr. Edward Podolsky, Brooklyn, N. Y., speak- lnit of obesity (overwetght) due to eating to much food says:

"In obesity due to eating too much food, the circulation of the blood 1s Increased. The intake and output of the heart 1s increased and also the blood pressure. The overloaded heart becomes enlarg- ed just as does any muscle whose work ls increased."

While this cnlsirgment is nat- ural or normal up to a certain polnt, the work of this enlarged heart may result. 1n changes in file bloodvestuls. kidneys or other organs. espectadv 1f them 1s any weaknessthere anyway.

-Anot.her symptom often present 1n overweight. due to uvereatlnr! 1s heart pain, either the vise-like gripping pain or angina pectorls, 0r the pain which accompanies pxreathlessness or difficult. breath-

g.

Dr. Podolskv describes the other forms of overweight (hereditary, gland) which can also cause heart symptoms and points out that the flncllng of the cause of the sur- plus fat and the removal of this fat 1s the first thought in trying to preserve the ‘reserve’ power of the heart before real zlamane oc- curs either to the heart itself or to the bloodvessels and other org- ans. '

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A Souvenir Five Cent Piece

(Ottawa. Journal»

*A correspondent makes the sug- gestton that the Canadian gov- ernment nhould authorize a com- memo alllVé five-cent pleoe 1n honor of the fortheormtug royal vlslt. In vlew of the heavy duty to be imposed on the import of cheap souvenirs from foreign countries. announced the other day py the minister of national revenue, the government could quiet well consider the issue of n special five-cent piece which would form a particularly acceptable souvenir amongst those who could never hope to come lnto posses- slon of the proposed silver dollar.

The government might. even follow the British example 1n Coronation Year. The Royal Mlnt ll-fllck a spectal Coronation threé-

plece whose distinctive form and deal made 1t an es- peclnllv attr tve souvenir. De- parting entirely from the usual silver coln, the Coronation three- penny bit was mlnted of a. bronze I110? lllproxlmately of the thick- ness of (we Canadian five-cent piece but instead of being round was made twelve-slded.

A most novel coln resulted, as Iwell u n finely designed one, and 1t quickly found favor. ‘that they are really being kept a3 muvgmrg 1e manifest by the difficulty ex- perlenced now 1n obtaining p05- aesalon of one. Arlmllar; suitable commemorative five-cent piece 1n Canada could become equally popular.

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Iior Manion’is Plan

(Windsor Star) The Windsor Star 1a exactly 100

“Andmuehatiztdlllnwnrlmll oftbe "

While it 1s trub that Klnl George the Sixth received nu ex- tmnev ggund education. vet M elreful to tin old kluluol “men: m! 1n ooivore

Juituaoonutbevounzfiin“

was ow. euo to stand w. 11¢ was given drlll. M; first this lnntuuctton was b? Semen-nt- Wrllb-t. of the Colchtreem . and than

was carried out under the dill-ec- tlou of Flue-Mak- Wrwth

r 8.8m? the Boots Guard: and Simon 0%. a. nrlvute ln the Cameron

tr n0

ways preferred t0 the: than a mere QWMOI- HW- ever. the activities 1n all cal and sborfotnz uffulrs depended. en- tlrelv co the location of the Rove-l lwme because the. parents of present: Klna wished to live tn close proximity to the Palace o! $119 late Kim: Edward the "Seventh; Therefore. ‘he {Maul tawny 415:;-

part of the season . flrstt at York House and then at Malborouzn House or FNBIMYB

aslle; 1n the lI-ta

was ln e near moral: 1n the late autumn the? went south to York. Cottace at

sandrlmgtham where they usually swat the winter and wiring. ex- cept for a about stay at Windsor 1n the month of January- This 1m- nlled that. all olwslcal or 890M118 affair: had w be adrivitfmaeqord- lna in) tlefluite 018ml 00E‘ tlon. For example. while tn Inn- don. the Prlnce wu on active mem- ber of the famous old Bath Club where he learnt. how to and to plmv ‘- lacquers