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MONDAY,

MONTREAL DISASTER

It does not seem possible to avoid disaster, no matter how careful the precautions taken. The terrible holocaust at Montreal in which so many lives have been lost occurred through a mechanic piercing a steel plate half—an-inch beyond what was

necessary. No rules or rfgulatons‘

could prevent such a happening. ft was the act of an individual done unintentionally and without any idea of the consequences. Which brings us back once more to the impor- tance of the human element in industry. Machinery and mech- anism. generally, have the'r impor-f tant parts to play, but after all. it is, to the human mind, the sentient? being, that we must look for the

rafe and reasonable progress of the; world and its events. The disastenl

grave and terrible though it ls. has} brought to the front once more that‘ rpirit of bravery and self-sacrifice rharacteristic of the human racer under Christian civilization. No‘ greater sccrifice can any man make- ihan that he lay down his life for! mother. This is the essence of Christian ethics, and this has once more been examplifled by F re Chief Gauthier and his three assistants, who literally took their lives in‘ their hands, in an endeavor to save’ the lives of some of the mechanics: imprisoned in the fiery furnace 01' the oil tanker, Cymbeline.

RADIO & SYMPHONY

One of the problems before the Radio Commission when it gets, down to mnsidering the regular} broadcasting of good music will be] the cost of maintaining a Symphonyi Orchestra. That has been the diffi~ culty w.th private broadcasting rtations in this country. symphonic organizations are expensive. The National Symphony Orchestra, op- erated by the British Broadcasting Corporation cost in the year 1930 the very respectable total of £110.- 000. or approximately $500,000. It“ the estimate of costs for a normal year submitted by the Can-|

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The sensible method seems to be for the Radio Commission to sub- sidlu existlfll symphony 0111M- tras where such exists in the lI-Itfll‘ Canadian cities, giving each a pro- portion of the hours allotted for broadcutlul luvs-IMF!“ 0cm“? ing to the repertoirie of Dwflhmm" iwhlch they are capable of adequlw" ly rendering.

A GOOD BEGINNING

A good beginning has been made

[with the all-important Reparations

Conference at Lausanne. The wise and statesmanlike opening address oi’ Premier Ramsay MacDonald Bu" a key note to the subsequent pro- ceedinzs. The leading statesmen of Europe arc in attendance, and all, without exception, in their ad- dresses stressed the absolute neces- sity of a. new beginning for‘ the progress of the world, commercial- ly and lndustrally. The Rt. Hon. Neville Chamberlain. Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer, came out boldly for the abandonment of both reparations and war debts. ‘This, he said, meant a sacrifice of

|$10.000.000.000 by Great Britain.

But this additional sacrifice she is prepared t.o make in order to give Christian civilizaVon another chance. The French Premier. M. Herriot, did not go the length of consenting to the cancellaton of reparations by Germany, although agreeable to an extension of the moratorium. He added,’ however, that the French delegation con- sidered that a. Franco-German en- tente was an essential element of European security, and that in order to provide for that France was prepared to g0 farther in her concessions than he had indicated. The new Premier of Germany, Von Papen, naturally hailed th's con- cession by M. Her-riot with enthus- iasm, and it now looks as though solid ground had been reached on the question of restoring Europe's financial and commercial equilib- rium. Of course, the United States has to be reckoned with. She is not represented at Lausanne, but has

NOTES BY WAY

FY0811"! In the Lauanno Conference, Secretary Stimson of U. B. made a statement which on its face practically nullfies the purpose. Secretary Stimson has prepared the way for his Govern- ment’: case by declaring that there will be no cancellation of war debts, even if then ll n total cau- cellation of reparations. This is Washington's rejoins-r to London's announcement that the British Government favors a clean 818$!- At the same time it places France in the position of inexorable op- posltion to any downward revision of German lfldemnltlcs, for with- out the recept of these payments in full France cannot meet her ob- ligations to the United States. As the Conference is now in session it would be useless to predict what the probable outcome will be.

No public man should be 619"" ed to ruin his health by overwork. There are emergencies, however. that impose a terrific strain that cannot be avoided and Premier Bennett has had the 11118101111118 w come upon the scene when such conditions are at. their worst. He could not take a holiday when the parliamentary session was ended. because he must prepare for the Imperial Conference. He ha; taken few holidays in his life. H's record

on hard workflrhe man who has that faculty ls to be envied, but it is termlnable and there is 819st danger that those who possess ii‘- make this error that they do not know when to quit.

Announcement by a British fn- ancier that British, Dutch and Swiss capitalists have $1,000,000 on deposit in Geneva banks awaiting investment in Northern Quebec m'ning properties is news of im- portance, if it suggests renewed in- terest abroad in Canadas re- sources.

Anufher Hoover illusion that must be discarded i5 the noble theory that he does not lmow anything a- bout the somewhat disreputable game of politics. His actions on the movement to repeal the Eighteenth Amendment are sufficient proof that he knows how to play politics but does not know enough to play politics without being dstct i in the act.

In the Dartmoor prison riots of January as some of the convicts fought for their guards hgffnst their fellow inmates with the result that no fewer than 27 of them have had their sentences reduced. Among them W55 a man serving‘ a life- sentenoe for murder, which suggests that there is perhaps as much dif-

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VALUE 0F RELAXATION

Borne years ago a clever young boxer was matched against the champion of the world. I examined

and there was a tenseneas and a

manager that was distressing to see.

As 1 looked in on him that ev- ening just previous to the bout, he was still tense and solemn as ‘he sat alone with his manager in a private dressing room. Ono would have thought that he was about to face death itself.

There was no lack of [courage about the boy; his previous record showed that, but he was to meet "the champion of the world."

What happened?

He wore the same drawn look, had the same tenseness of body as he entered the ring. I-le boxed well enough but still had the drawn look and tensed muscles for three rounds and then from sheer exhaustion had to stop.

1n other words the tensed mind and body for the days previous to

so far fs that he has always thrived 1 the match and even in the ring so

exhausted him that he was com- pletely tired out at the end of three rounds of a. ten round bout.

What about the champion?

To him it was Just "another bout”; he was smiling and quite re- laxed previous to the bout, was re- laxed when he entered the ring, relaxed when he stepped up to box, and only tensed or tightened his muscles as he struck or guarded a blow. ‘

My point of course is that what most of Us need in this civilization is the ability to relax when notes. sary, not only at night when we are at rest or asleep, but at other times.

"To be able to relax at will both mind and body makes for health, and it is well known that muscles which relax thoroughly have the Power of contracting or tensing thoroughly or completely."

Keeping the body tense from anxiety, from noise, from extreme attention to a book, play, picture, or athletic competition, is only nat- ural and cannot be avoided, but it tires you just the same. The tens- ed nerves, lensing the muscles means that more bmc: must be sent to these mpscles, more wastes removed from them, Just the same as if you ‘were using these muscles to do; actual- physical work.

So whenever possible try to relax body and mind; don't let ruiimport- ant things tire you out by keeping you tensed.

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The Maritimes And The Tilriff

(at. John‘ rcumoh-Jourull) m "gm-mg to the difficulties which m encountered ill “l! l" rlngomnnt of cal-rm which will R "mum, u; an parts of Canada andtoallinterestaintheoounffl’ The F‘ ' ‘ Post will “Whre the hes advantage or disadvantage 1o o"? Pmmum tariff item lies is exceedingly dif- ficult to determine. It is Dlrticu- larly so when one considc a that a; partial compensation for who..- ever additional disadvanWSE-i there are for the Maritime

Provinces in the Canadian tar- soiemnass about himself gndhlsf

m, the producers of that area have been Bra-hired 3° W!‘ W1"- freight reductions at the direct expense of the country l! h whole, have been flint/Bil WNW es on shipments of coal. h!" been given enlafled orovinoiol subsidies, large expenditures u" national P0108. Bf-c- Allllhfllhfly. the millions of dollars poured out of the federal treasury into the Maritime Provinces to bolster ur their prosperity and to imple

ment the direct or implied Drom

lacs of Confederation are of llttli importance to the indivldua. Maritime producer meeting a spe- cific problem such 8s the Ono the fish canners have in reflhfd to their tin Pluto supply."

It seems to be next to ' , ible to get into the minds of most oi the people in Ontario and Quebec that certain concessions made to the Maritime Provinces in recent years are not 'fglfts" or “favors? Nor are they specifically "to bol ster up their prosperity." The: provinces have received nothing the hands of the federal govcr. ment to which they were not ius‘. ly entitled—ih fact, the scales are still heavily weighted against the Maritime Provinces. '

At the same time, it is well t: point out that The Financial Pos. is very much off the mark when it interprets the twenty per cent. reduction in freight rates, or the increased provincial subsidies, or expenditures on national-ports as "partial oompensatoln for whatever additional disadvantages there are for the Maritime Provinces in the Canadian tariff." Reference to the report of the D Com ‘ ’ - will make this clear.

The reason given for the twenty per cent. reduction in freight rates is explained in the Duncan Report in these words: “The combined ef- fect of these (changes in frame- work of rrate structure since 1912) has been to impose upon the mer- chandise and industry of the Marl- tlmes, a burden which, it is alleged, is quite out of proportion to the increase which has been added since 1012 to the freight structure in other parts of Canada. . . . We feel that the increase arising from the changes that have taken place in freight rates since l0l2l-over and above the general increase in

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Education In. Canada

(Montreal Gazette)

Since it is generally acknowledged that it is upon the education of the people that the fstd of the country largely depends, the Annual Sur- vey of Education in Canada, recent- ly published by the Dominion Bur- eau of Statistics, can be read with some gratification and a certain contentment. The report, which is for the year 1030, fumlshes enough material for an interesting study on the status of educat'on in Can-

ada. it is an advancing status. The!

‘promised to take an active part in adian Radio League the total

other parts of the national system-

nlcal high schools. This is in murk- od contrast withthe eight per cent. of a decade ago. In i919 the pro- portion of enrolment in" average daily. attendance for the Domlnon as a whole wls 64.7 per cent: by 1980 it had risen to 77 per cent and was 70 per cent in every province. This means that the average pup‘! was attending school at least a month more in 1930 than in 1910 and thatsomethlng like a full year had been added to his school life by means of increased regularity of attendance. i

A chapter of the survey deals with

struction from 117 teachers. y only does consolidation offer bet school facilities to the children i the most remote rural regions, .. it creates a much stronger lncenti than any little red schoolhouse co ‘ for the children to go beyond . elementary 813.415, as ls manifest . tho flkllros given in the annual an vey for 1930. It is shown first on 45 per cent of the fourtcen-year-o . continue in the small school a . they have reached fifteen, wh -. in the oonsofdated school the < teeu-year-olds are B5 per rent . numerous as those a. year youn mcorded itbenduw at Gunman ‘the consolidated school, and as this | It is something worth wihile to lu

ference between murders as be- tween nommurderers.

educational institutions in the year; "Mm iuoiit-uilou 1-! "Fried i" liihvd o motor and more our -- und" survey w“ 3,49o,333'-1-° "we . one of the most hopeful sign; of ivo interest in education amen m“ number o; pupum 333“ “My” thé times as far as rural education the rural communities of the pro

ncerned. the data _oh theselincc.

is as fair a measure as can be made of these special considerations, and accordingly should be transferred

the subsequent Conference to be allotted for Canadian programmesmeld in London m November‘ Th“ was $250,000. The

v As propaganda for the St. Law- “mmmi °f will give the United States an time to be

rence waterways project, the "trum-

devoted to 5ym_ "You have too often left in the

Iphonic music will naturally be only n few hours a week, but that the problem of financing a. Canadian National Symphony Orchestra out of this $250,000 will certainly require much careful management. The cost of talent on this side of the Atlan- tic is even higher than in Europe. The New York Philharmonic costs approximately a million dollars a. year, providing 130 concerts a sea- son. This has slightly over a hun- dred players, with twenty or thirty

opportunity of having her elections over and her executive free to con- sider the mo ‘ questions at is- sue on the'r merits, apart from poli- tical exigencies. The prospects now are that at the London Conference satisfactory arrangements will be made for tho abandonment of both reparations and war debts. the United Stole; obtaining as s. quid Dru quo the sniflsfaction of her de- mand that. world armaments be re- duced to a minimum, in order that progress mav he made by the differ-

more in reserve for the heavier Wagnerian or the more eccentric modernist compositions, which in- clude tin kettles and buzz saws. the performers on which are paid Union tcale rates. The. deficit on the New York Philharmonic con- certs last year was $160,000. some of the other deficits make interesting reading. Detroit symphony loll $200,000; Cleveland $200,000; L0:

war constantly hanging over their heads.

MOUNTIES ON THE JOB

difficulty in landing liquor

Angeles $175,000: Minneapofs $160,-

ooo; st. mun $135,000; Cincinnati times Provinces. Buys and inlets

goes on the shores of the Muri-

nggpmy The Chicago syjnphony"bhlt once were wide open and un-

which has a payroll of $260,000, lost guarded now are watched from tnelsfwr dork- Now the clone “canny air, and a coast that is clear one gummy, M president chm-m 1.; minute may hnvegthc shadow of a Hamil, that ‘the financal condi- Sollllsne on it the next. RWHI tloml of the Orchestra Association’ no such as to compel it to suspend taken to the air to combat the 01,!-

l82,000, and n" ounced

concerts for a time.‘ ‘This decision has been arrived at after an ex- perience of 41 years.

n correspondent in the Gazette. it. would certainly seem un- wise for Canada to attempt to es- lablnh any National Symphony

smugglers. ' I

eni. countr-‘u, without the fear of

The Canadian Press reports that Q1 opal-stem of plants, for the first time in the history of profit. plus "prohlbrflon" or “government w,” never have beer-l in the industry at trol", rum-runners are experiencing CIT-

Cansdian Mounted Police have

financier" said the Hon. H. H. Stevens in addressing the Cana- dan Manufactures Convention, "the determining of the amount of capital that should be locked up in your enterprse. The technical manager of a concern was not con- sulted as to the financial needs of the concern, and the financier was supreme. And immediate profit was too often the goal of the latter. I submit that the industrial manager is impotent in this respect. He has thrust upon him an amount of capl- tal often far in excess of hi; in- dustrial requirements, and upon which he is asked to produce a dividend by his plant. In my opinion a great deal of the trouble we are confronted with today is the undue amount of captal that has been injected into industry. And it l5 asked to produce and pay the cost reasonable capital that should all.“

ly they knew where the boats were to be found and went elsewhere pilots tell the boatmen where the smug- glers are likely to be found, and the traffic between St. Pierre and the provinces seems to be falling

The services of the Mounted

Six planu, f1; is reported, have Police, it will be recalled, were been in Opgfgtlgm during in; lug promised the electors of th's Prov- wm, the“ “w”; in mind, ggyg month, patrolling the coastal wat- fnce as a check to liquor smuggling

Mmgnfl era of Nova sooth. New Brunswick ls far backasthe provincial election

and Prince Edward Island. Two are campagn of 1927. The promise did

and two st Gaspe.

stationed at Halifax. two at Bhedic not materialize under the subsequent

Liberal rcgimé. Today the Mounties

pmhcsmr. for uroadcasting pur- The flying policemen check thsiln not only in charge of the Cus- poses, confined to my one city. Tho positions and movements of vea- ioms preventive service but of our

cost of operation can be held with- I: reasonable limits Only by will?"

seis off shore and oo-opcrata withgprohibltion and other provincial the police boats blocking attempts law enforcement as well. That they

mg subsidiary revenues from con- at landing. In other years, despite will perform their duties fearlessly Qgft gudlenrqs, and there is no one the efforts of an effcient force of and competently is the belief of all my h, om“; largo enough to Preventive service aleutbs, the run- who have any knowledge of the

provide more than twenty or thlrtyinm had little trouble in dodging record of this justly famed or-

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pets and cymbals and florid speeches" heard at Albany recently cannot have any real effect, since the new river channel running 143 miles up the Hudson River to Al- bany's enlarged port constitutes no serious threat t0 the prestige of the port of lvfiantreal. is nearer Liver- pool than is New York by 382 statute miles and nearer than Al- bany by 525 statute miles. "Our channel at any stage of the tide will shortly have a depth of 85 feet. Our storage and handling faci- lities are unexcelled, with unlimited space for extension of our elevators. Our inland water comm ' tion, with the existing canals. is fu- superior to the water communica- tion to Albany or New York. We have more water in our canals than has the Erie canal, either from Buffalo or Oswego: the Canadian canals have a depth of 14 feet, Erie Canal but l2 feet."

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