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FRIDAY,

DECEMBER SO, 193C

The Late Mr. Bremner

3 Q At fhe ripe old age of eighty-eight years, Mr. i ’ Beniamin Breniner of this city has “crossed the bourne", his passing taking place yesterday. Mr. Bremner was one of our outstanding and most successful citizens, judging by character and civic usefulness. He belonged to a family of printers, and was associated all his life, more or less. with the printers‘ art. He had fine lit- erary, musical and artistic tastes, and his opin- f ion on letters, art and music were always well ‘ worth \\'llllC listening to. After his retirement from business he found congenial occupation in colleming from his lifetime scrap book. and rcstirrccting from old files, literary and antiquarian items which he arranged and pub- lished iii a series of three volumes, and was in the midst of preparing a fourth, which must now be almost ready to be issued from the press, when death called him. His affiliations apart from Trinity Church of which he was a devot- ed member, were with the Free iMasons and Oddfellows, in both of which orders he was a W veteran, and held in high esteem by his breth- ren. The Guardian joins with a host of friends and admirers in extending to the bereaved family heartfelt sympathy.

Successful Resettlement Scheme

A striking example of success achieved in farm resettlement on a big scale is described in a recent issue of The Country Home Mag- azine. A chain of more than 7,000 foreclosed

_farms in the United States, taken over in the last eight years by the Metropolitan Life In- iurance Company, has been modernized, beauti- fied and brought up to top productivity through a company agricultural programme utiprecedent- rd in the history of private capital. The value of the scheme is that it is operated under rigid icientific supervision.

The plan adopted was as follows: First the farms to be rehabilitated were divided by the company's farm supervisor into geographical territories. A legion of former county agents and other practical men of the soil were hired 1s field representatives. Each was given eighty farms to supervise. Over them were ten field managers. Then the staff moved into action, mapped each farm, took inventory of its im- provements, and put its soil through the labora- tory. With analyses complete, the field staff mobilized the huge army of workmen. Houses and barns xvcre rebuilt or refiirnished, hundreds of thousands of tons of fertilizer were dumped on perisliiiig soil, erosion was stopped, weeds were exterininatcd, and crop rotations estab- lished.

Many of the farms have been relet to the form- er owners, who, however, must follow the in- structions of the stipervisors. Today more than 90 per cent of the farms operate on a produc- tion percentage basis, and there is a list of wait- ing applicants for acreage The company is providing dozens of fine new farms by break- ing do\vn large estates. One 7,5oo~acre estate in North Carolina now has thirty different own- ers. A 2.5oo-acrc South Carolina plantation has been sliced into It) modern farms. Alto- gether the system supports between 50,000 and 50.000 persons on 1,618,000 acres of improved land, and brings to the Metropolitan and its tenants $12,000,000 a year.

The SUCUPSS of the scheme is shown by the proved yields from the company's land-yields Dl)l'.llll(‘(l by building up the soil with 4,- oooooo piviinds of legume sccii annually. In a single _ve:ir more than 300,000 acres sprouted with soil improvement crops, and the various rotations are supervised by the field repres- entatives. liacli year they travel 3.000.000 miles to be sure the spccifietl crop is grown.

Surveys have proved the benefits of this rigid. uiivarying adherence tn rotation. Forty company farms iii one Illinois county recently ziveraged 42.2 bushels of corn per acrc, while

j i i the general county average was only 35 bushels. Iii a similar group of Iowa counties the aver- , i age was 4o, ivliile the Metropolitan average was I 53. Yields on company farms, as a whole. prob- ; 1 ably average from IO to 4o per cent better than they did under individual ownership.

If farm rehabilitation on such a vast scale can be achieved by a private corporation, chief- ly concerned with protecting its own investment, the question arises: Why cannot it be done suc- cessfully as a government enterprise? The need for such enterprise is great, even in a small Province such as Prince Edward Island where there are today over 50o vacant farms. No doubt complete details of the Metropolitan plan could be obtained by our ‘provincial authorities on request, and might prove of great value. in illleeveloping a practicabfarm colonization scheme

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”Sic Transit"

"sue rirst ravislimeiits of travelling by y air Tittle for those persons who fly often and far, ‘i but‘ ‘when revealed by travellers who have not done much long-distance flying, show thatthe dimensions ofiimpressions gained from flight are, as unbmiiided as the-heavens. _ ' This inaygbe gathered from the vivid aug- titlpna ‘that came from Lord Lothian, as he m; .flqyr,n nearly 35.0w miles in, tittteprare chart 1M0 months. on-Iiia-way found from-and while " handed-the fiikitialfCbmlrkinvrealth cant-n-

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this is realized, Lord Lotliian thinks the world will “get into the air” for all long-distance travel.

By the evening of the first day's flight, “we had looked in on four of the great civilizations of ancient and modern Europe, Greece, Rome, France and England. Next day we passed over lands literally covered with the remains of civi- lizations now long dead. Crete, Egypt, the Pales- tine of David and Solomon (landing on-that pearl among waters, the Sea of Galilee), the Empires of the Assyrians, the Medes, and the Babylonians before passing over the Ur of Abra- ham to land at Basra for the night." y

On, and on, across India, to Rangoon in Burma, to Bangkok in Siam, to the airdrome at Singapore, and so on to Australia-—“where animals were marsupial and man was still liv- ing in the stone age, before Captain Cook laid the foundation of what has become, perhaps, the most mechanistic civilization in the world."

By flight, the contrasts effected by time, and the descents as well as the ascents of human existence. reappear in the mind's eye. For, Lord Lotliian testifies in the London Observer, “the modern airplane shows us the panorama of history, from stone age to skyscraper, in less than ten days. And the first moral of the trip de- rives from the debris of cities and irrigation works and temples. once lllffillgcfl with gay and vigorous peoples, ‘now lying empty and dead. ‘Sic transit gloria niuiidi'!"

I Editorial Notes I‘ Rudyard Kipling born this date, I865. “What should they know of liiiglantl that only England kno\\' .7" l i

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Seek and ye shall find" new markets for sil- ver fox pelts is the message of optimism dc- livered by Mr. Mclaire to the great industry founded here by hlcssrs. Dalton and Oulton.

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An endeavour is being made in Ontario and Quebec for the observance, as in England, of Boxing Day as a public holiday. The argument is that Christmas is a religious festival devoted to family reunions, while for social observance and holiday making the additional day is desir- able. Certainly store clerks would be all the better of the extra day after their arduous pre- Christmas activities.

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The trouble with administrations, according to Bruce Barton. of Batten, Barton, Durstine 8: Osborn, is that they are “trying to save the pro- fit system without having in their ranks any men who ever made a profit or know how and why profits are made. \Vhen rcal recovery comes, it will be engineered by men who put pep instead of pills into the body politic. Such men will give atlvcrtising and salesmanship a high place in their programme."

w. it v cOlfllllllCd production of all items of coii- centrated milk in November amounted to 8,481,- 505 pounds compared with 11,436,378 in Octo- ber and 8,673,367 in the corresponding month last year. Evaporated mill: was the principal item, totalling 5,294.978 pounds. Total produc- tion of concentrated milk in the eleven months ended November was 152,633,099 pounds coin- pared with i29,(i26,o7 in the corresponding period last year. increases being recorded in all items, excepting cream powder and condensed butterniillc,

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As there will be money literally to burn avail- able the incoming year, our Provincial Govern- ment and Federal representatives had better get busy in order to secure early what is coming, or ought to be coining. our way. The sessional program at Ottawa will to some extent fore- shado\v the general election campaign expected next fall. The Government is likely to provide for a sizable program of self-liquidating relief works, additional to the Canadian National Rail- ways project to complete its new terminal facil- ities in Montreal. It would not be surprising if the works program would call for a total out- lay of $50,000,000. Moreover, it is expected to be entirely Federal, the former policy of having relief works provided jointly by the Federal and the Provincial GOV€f11lllClllSlklO be discarded. n: x iv

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Notwithstanding a general desire to hurry up parliamentary affairs at Ottawa to be ready for the Royal Visit, there will be considerable dlis- cussion, especially on tariffs. The S€SSl0lliS largest time-consumer will be the new trade agreement with the United States and the ne- cessary changcs in the agreement with the Unit- ed Kingdom. Thcse will be stibniitted to the House almost iinnietliately after conclusion of the Throne Speech debate, and it is. dotibtfiil if they will receive final approval before the middle of March. The Budget, which is expected af- ter the end of the fiscal year, will resemble last session's document in that it will be little more than a financial report. Last session there were few if any tariff changes because the Govern- ment was awaiting the new trade agreement, and this session practically all of the tariff changes will have been made and approved with the agreement and before the Budget appears.

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Here is something our local Legion might busy themselves over. Col. C. E. Reynolds, president of the Ontario command of the Cun- adiap Corps Association announces the associa- tion will propose immediately the establishment of to youth training camps across the Dominion to alleviate the problem of unemployed youth. Under the association's proposal the camps would be operated under military discipline, moderate military training and military pay and each equipped to house, train and maintain 5.- 000 young Canadians‘ in vocation advantageous to themselves and- the Dominion. Sites for the camps, according to the plan, will be chosen to give equal opportunity of trainingto _all youths. who would enlist for a two-year term-fill in tlieiniuception these centres serve'the_ tisi-tul u i‘ o relieving‘ a pressing, immediate need, they should not even initially‘ be considered by those in charge u part pf “any unemployment relief scheme," Colonel Reynolds said.‘ The plans call for training In fol-entry, propagation

conservation andiprofaagation culture ‘and animal ‘husbandry; machine‘- , practice; wimodm ‘ Z}.- muller-e '

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0n oloothn all“. lhyor Stewart. stated that. at that mo- ment. there was only one mm on hls 1988 program to unce. He would do everything bla wwfl‘. he sl-Id, to have Klnpton Included

the Itln the Klni and

1939 program comple 1n 1088 A tter from Hon. Nonnon Rogers telllng the Olly Oouncll

that Klan

in the tentative ltlnonry weaned at. Monday's councll meeting. — Kingston Whli-Btnndnnl

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more than unionism!- able. It seems Inevitable. that Wflllam H. (BI; B111) ‘mom should be trying for a fourth

u Mayor of’ Chicago. '31s thin: became certain n soon as It. was officially announced some tlme ago that. George V! and his Queen wffi visit. the Uhltod Ell-tea next spring. In other wards, the Brit.- lsh peril w whtoh Ma or ‘Iihompson s on ud In he Nineteen Twenties a out‘. single- handed Is looming bigger than ever. Big blll never made the mlt- take for whIch Downing Street. has been blamed so often In Its for- elgn policies, namely, falling to make Its position clear untll It ls too late. Mayor Thompson left. no doubt where he stood. He threatened to hlt King George V, father of the present ruler. “on the snout" If that monarch ever dared to show his face In Chicago. - ~New York Times.

Anybody who has followed the

the Bar must recognfzee that the new Chief Justice of Ontario be- longs to the school of eminent. lawyers who have from tlme lent distinction to the Ori- tarfo bench. Moss, Meredith and Rowell have a worthy successor In the new judge... Mr. Robertson's appointment Is unassallable from his equipment for the post. He has been an incessant worker and stu- dent of the law. It Ia his faithful pursuit of the Law. rather than any socfal or political affiliation, that has resulted In his conscription for the bench. The courts may be expected to benefit. from the d1- rectfon and exam le of a enter who has a bigger w llbrary In his home than most lawyers have In their offices, and whose ap- proach to legal problems has some relation to case and statute law.- Tbronto Telegram.

It In really not necesao y for Mr. Hepburn to go to Australia to find out. about that. Commonwealth's flnaflclfli- The Finance Depart- ment. at Ottawa can tell hlm all that. he wishes to know about. It, and so can the Statistics Branch. But the publlo ought. to know l-hflt. under orthodox and volun- tary methods, the average rate of

imtfirest on Canada's publlc debt Ia

now below the average rate of lu- terest on Australia's public debt, and that the Interest charges on Canada's larger public debt we less than those resting upon the Australian llc deb . Under ordinary - re undlng methods we have brought down our average rate of interact farther than Aus- tralia. was able to do under a con- version that was partly com- P1118011’. and If. is Mr. He urn think we should o, we should now turn tao partial reduc- tion of our obligations to those who have Invested tn our securi- ties, there would be most damag- lng effect, upon our not unsucces- sful efforts to attract capltal from other pin-ts of the world. —Brock- ville Recorder and ‘rlmes.

We have endorsed the mun- tlon that the champion schooner

Scotlan institution. ally

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as generally aireed. however, Bluenose deserves a better than to crumble to cargo barge or to rot. out. her tlm- bers. deserted, on some lonely

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couraglrig. It. cu eats Bluenoae In to become

schooner will a

quarlam take sum tact. Jiallfax Chronicle.

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careei- of R. S. Robertson, K.C., at

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Bluenose be prmerved as a Nova gener- agreed that Bluenoae has ended her raclng days. It l; us:

a fate pieces u some

shingle. Bluenose la more than a champion raclni schooner. She ls

a wotrithy fi-epresvsgmlv; of ‘Lho _ PM" M1 m "6 Y- u-om e I the prrovt f on- ed so Important a. part. 1n ovn fir“, “Mn-Mn; w 85,44“.

industry. Bluenose is a. , of the notable part which this province plwed in the great. days of sail. It In gratifying to learn, therefore, that. a move- at Lunenburg private activity tn an e fort to preserve the Blue-

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preservatlon, that the proud old colorful historical rellc comparable to old buildings and forte which” antl-

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But-mu. 0P APPINDIOITIS IN LARGE CITIES

when the death m. for Ip- peudlcltla ln one large clty la about. three times that of another largo cI , there must be some reason o or than the skill of the surgeons or the staff and equipment of pltala.

Dr. Mont R. Reid, plnctnnatt, In ‘Surgery’ states that. the lapse of tlmo between the onset of the symptoms and operating HgIGB-fl to be the Important factor de- termlnln: the death rate. 11hr ex- ample lu Phil adelphla where the length of time between the ap- pearance of the first symptoms

and operation Is t9 hours. the deatm rate Ia 11 er 100,000; where- na In Cinclnnat, where the time between onset of symptoms and operatlon Is 91 hours. the death rate ts over 30 per 100.000.

Btumlstlcs also show that the taking of purgatlves definitely ln- crease the death rate.

In communities when: intensive campaigns have been conducted to educate the public with respect to dangers of delaying operation and taking purgatlves. the death rate has been greatly reduced and doctairs hpvabrgn ftoraed by ubllt; sen men a op e po cy o advising immediate consultatfon with a. surgeon In cases of acute unruptured appendicitis.

Just as a physician would not now refuse to use axibltioxln for diphtheria, so should the physic- lfln. In the llizht of the knciwlwlze that early operation lowers the

a rate In a. pendlcltfs. not neglect to advise ths early opera.-

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Dr. Reid also states that In his experience when he Is sure an acute unruptured appendfx Is present, he advises immediate BIIPBEYY- "I have loniz slnoe re- fused the responsibility of ‘ob- serving any case of acute ap- oendleftls. In my practice this must be borne by the patient or his family."

Another Dolnt. Is that while the typical or ‘usual’ slgns of append- IcItls-a pain that. starts In raglan of stomach and then shifts down to lower rlzht side of abdomen and stays there. together wlth nausea and vomiting-airs found l" m8 malvrttv of cases, the an- Delldlx may be situated at other than Its regular DosItIon and 5° not give the usual symptom»,

We must. not think of a cam- DBlKn i0 hflve early operation for appendicitis as a. scheme to en- rich surizeons but as a campaign l-O Have life. The flizures of Circl- Inna- and Phil d l hi tniiu of thlsnii en a “my” the

Palrbnage ipbliics

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The Canadian people need to be on guard again the Hepburn brand otf liberal politics. He ls the potential Huey Dong of’ Canada: bllt Iihe nsmtlv" brand of Liberal leadership on Parliament Hill Is no more lnvplrlnc. It Ls only ne- cessary to need through the state- ment. given to the press by Hon. James Gardiner. Dominion Mints- ter oif that

of patronage. Gardiner had an Interview or rather several interviews. with Mr. Hepburn about a month ago. Mr. Gardiner had been showing some Clydesdale horses at. the Royal Winter Falr at Toronto. Banner Gardiner went to talk with runner Hepburn. first about. the Clydesdale: doing so well at the show. The conversation turned later to the subject of recent b - election politics. particularly c ruult at. South Waterloo. Mr. Hep- burn disclosed to Gardiner how strongly opmed he would ‘be to the federal ral Administrat- Ion ln the next. election unless the ty deposed Mr. ckenzfe

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According to Mr. Hepburnu ac- count. of this conversation, Mr.- Gardlner met, this threat by an

of more participation by H In lbdera political

are puibllc statement: