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' Hill storniof’ indignation aroused lp England recently by the slan- derous imputation of an obscure writer regardingthe character of the late Hon. W. E. Gladstone, is indicative of a wholesome public spirit. Every country is 'proud of its worthy public men, proud of the fact that their statesmsnshlp and their leadership ls recognized abroad as well as at home, recogniz- ed by political opponents as well as by political friends. Public men are legitimate objects of criticism. 'i'hey belong to the people; they are doing the people's business; they are spending the people's mo- ney. The people, therefore, haven right to know what manner of men they are. -lf worthy they are hon- ored and respectedp ihotherwisc vthey are, and very properly, dos- pised.

Every country has its outstand- ing public men, past or present. The memorypof the fromer is revered, the latter are being closely watch- ed, their virtues recognized and their vices condemned, although too often winked at by members oi their party.

The people as a whole, regardless,

of their own virtues or vices, want to respect their leaders; want to be proud oi them as men of honor and truth and integrity. The his- tory of Canada is rich in the names of statesmen who now belong to the ages, men whose honor and in- tegrity had never been questioned, men whose memory will always be revered by all true Canadians re- gardless of party. Are we as carc- iul in our selection of leaders today as our fathers were? Are we send- ing to parliament men oi whom the present and the future may be proud’! What qualifications do we look for in the men whom we se- lect? Honor and integrity, or the ability to winout by cunning and trickery and crookedness? ls it true, as has been charged, that n. political crook can always win in

cannot be found ‘in the blue books.

it is not there, n. is a mylll- Bu‘ stranger still, l ilnd that as between the i922 reports and the Public all‘ counts of 1926, there has been a re- duction in the circulation of Dom- inion notes of $58,830,000, which formed part of the 5791199900 1'9‘ duction in the net debt."

Hoodwinking the nubllc. making the worse appear the better, has 5w..- been characteristic of the King Government. Figures can easily be transposed and- twisted to bring about a surplus, but when a man of the evident capacity of the Hon. H. H. Stevens, analyzes them the lai- lacy becomes very apparent.

As to the reduction of taxation claimed and boasted about, Mr. Stevens proved conclusively from official flgures that the taxes during the past flve years were ten Del‘ cent. higher than during the‘ five years previous to the Liberals’ ac- cession to oflice. -———<-0>————

FIGHTING DISEASE.

HE National Tuberculosis Assn elation of the United States re-

Notes by the Way Mayor map». ‘Webb u wlwiilpse

was recently In Vancouver, and while in the latter city he told an

pathislng with the Marltimes in their presentpiight he suggested that-one of the chief reasons for

that the- Maritlmers were not helping themselves, but sitting down and crying for the Govern- ment to do it all." Mayor Webb had earlier in the same discourse told his hearers that the three chief problems facing Canada at present were immigration, transportation “and lack oi knowledge of condi- tions and problems in other pro- vlnces."

A: the chief of a largo Canadian city Mayor Welbb should have been more prudent than to thus stigmatlse the people of the three Atlantic Provinces in the fashion above‘ quoted. His language was insulting and derives its only im- portance from his oillclnl position. Otherwise it would pass unnoticed here. IBut we may inquire by what right does the Ziiayor oi Winnipeg speak as he is reported? And in so speaking has he not made it clear that his own "lack oi knowledge" oi conditions and problems in the ‘Maritlmes is his best and only excuse for his intemperate and contemptuous words? Has he read, or in any way considered the iDuncsn report, or the claims which were presented to the Marl- tlme Commission?

The Marltlmes have the Duncan Report, also Premier King's pledge, to give efiect to it. They have the: Strong advocacy ol‘ ‘Hon. Hugh

audience there that. “while sym-Y

the low state business there was

‘lamb’ issued a smtemam Bhmvmg ‘Guthrie in their favor and none that the death rate from tuberculo- e1’ the opponents of the claimant

‘s.

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he gilwjuluaJib. a

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oftha last generation.‘ "

pened when you were a youlgster,

rattling in your head.

Your mother put you in between warm blankets, gave you hot water, tea, or milk to drink, put n hot brick or hot water bottle at your feet, and perhaps another alongside your back or abdomen.

She had _just one idea in mind and that was to bring out a "good sweat," and thus prevent a‘ cold coming on you.

And now Dr. A. W. Morse tells the readers of the American Jour- nal for Diseases of Ear, Nose, and Throat that "colds due to chilling can usually be cut short and no damage result if the patient is put to bed and made to psi-spire freely by hot water bags, hot blankets, and the drinking of hot liquidsl’ ‘ When the body is chilled the circulation of the blood is slowed up, thus preventing the feed bglng Bllnblled to the cells, and jikewlgg the removal of wastes from the cells also.

But what is still more serious is that when your body is thoroughly chilled the little white corpuscles (that protect you from organisms that are alwaysiln the body) are rendered practically powerless by this chilling, and so these organ- isms get a chance to multiply and Dr-rduce materials harmful to your body.

These 6M‘. nose and throat spec- ialists will tell you that acute ear, nose and throat ailments very fre-

1‘... cninhorrsrown cusnhum

GETTING AHEAD OF A OOLD l came across a treatment to pre. Steele, marine surveyor.

vent colds u... other any that will Well-

strike‘ home with all the mothers You may remember what hap-

and came home cold, "wet, shivering m6‘- from head to ioot, teeth actually “t "M

A Successful Islander‘

em. Rod. o. emu And the. Fam- oua Clipper Ghlp "Flying Cloud"

(Hlatorlcum)

PORT ARTHUR, Texac- Aus- Bl- ._Q[ priceless worth to its owner, and valued in‘ cold cash estimates a @359, an ofl painting of the famous old yank“ 01111119? 8MP “flying cloud", is ‘the gilt made ‘by the artlht. Captain Joe Oswell. 1° {my friend, captain Roderick D.

here this

. Imhere was aqflie» years cs0. ‘when. captain some mlled- ‘the w"- en. seas. and ‘the Ymiiw 01199975 carried the glory oi‘ the American chant marine into every pant world, ‘that the‘ "Flying Oloud" globe as‘ the noblest vessel of ‘them all. Over 60 years ago she passed 0'01, o‘: ‘the lanes of commerce, join- ing ‘the pent of missing 9111M. nev- ‘er to sail atgalln. Histories of the early Amelia"! shipping activities dev0te‘c0nsld> enable space‘ to recounting the prowess o: the "Flying C-loud." l-ler record‘ for crossing the Atlantic ‘ocean on a westward passage ‘has never been equal-led by oncrther sailing ship, and her sailing time from New York to San Francisco. around (‘ape ‘Horn, 89 days and 18 hours, still stands as a world's rec. ‘ord folr sailors, although made in 11851. On ‘the famous voyage gacross the Atlantic rshe is ‘repdted Eto ‘have made 385 miles daily ‘for four consecutive ‘days._ A daily run of 374 miles is recorded‘ as lher on ‘the New York ‘to ‘San Fran- cisco voyage.

HAS ATMOSPHERE.

l Correct in every (icllail is the "painting 0i ‘the "Flying Cloud" done by ‘Captain ‘Cwrvell; and no less beautiful done is ‘the essen- ‘tlslly artistic in the painting, uhe ‘Vblendsln-g ‘of ‘colors. ‘the (shading, ;nnd rthe creation 0t‘ ‘the elusive |lsolmetlrhlg ‘oallle-d atmosphere in ‘art. The artist ‘is internationally known as a marine architect and draftsman, and all oi this skill was brought ‘to bear on ‘the ‘intrlcalte

was known around the C

sis in that country has declined from 200 in every 100,000 of popula- tion twenty-two years ago to 90.4 in 1924 and to 86.6 in 1925.

This satisfactory result is due largely no doubt to the educational work carried on by the Tuberculo- sis Association as well as to the constantly increasing skill of phys- icians and nurses in treatment of the disease. The terrible death toll from the white plague thirty or forty years ago, was due very large- ly to ignorance as to the causes which produced the disease. It was contagious and practically no sanitary precautions

not regarded as

were taken to prevent its spread. ln our own province families were decimated by the disease because of the lack of ordinary common- sense precautions.

Through the eiforts oi tuberculo-

Canada while a man of truth and. honor must fail’! The charge is a serious one( and, while there doubt» loss are exceptions, there are too many evidences to substantiate it

‘if we are going to win out as a na- tion, a nation to be proud of at, home and honored abroad, we must‘ demand truth and integrity as well m: ability to win elections in our public men.

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THE BUDGET.

THE Budget of 1927 is now his-

tory. lt has been hailed by the Liberal press as an epoch-making deliverance, a godsend to the coun- try with its accompaniment of low ersd taxes, reduced cost of living, and increased prosperity, all pro ducts of the wisdom and foresight ‘of the Mackenzie King Government.

in striking contrast to these boastings is the analytical com- ment .‘.. Hon. n. n. Stevens, one of the ablest men in the House. Here is a paragraph from his speech dur- lug the budget debate:

"lt is a misleading budget. It is full of equivocation. 1t announces. for instance, a reduced duty-there is no reduction in _uui.. it an- nounces lower taxation-chore is an increase in taxation: it announces a surplus-this surplus is a myth; it ‘also states that therb is abound- ing business-this is only partially true." '

la a masterly analysis of the year- lrbrudgct announcements since 1982 Hon. Mr. Stevens showed from

‘ the aooalicd yearly reductions of ‘i public cm amounted m $110.- 000. On December 81, 1986, the reduction from the debt of March l, lbll, was shown in the Public inseam to be 010,000,000. oak," said Mr. Stevens, "where ‘ a reduction of; year citct ysai‘ Iilaihterct finance! n is “ . u m; ’

sis associations in Canada, includ- ing our owh province, the toll from this dread disease has been greatly reduced and the good work is in- creasingly progressing. With the Red Cross inspection of our schools and the other eiiorts being put forth there is room to hope that in the years immediately before us our re- cord, so far as tuberculosis is con- cerned, will he much more credit- able than it has been in the past.

A significant statement in the United States report is that, twenty two years ago the leading cause o! death was tuberculosis; today the leading cause is heart disease. Heart trouble of various kinds is becoming increasingly prevalent in Canada as well as in the United States and our own province has re- centiy had several sad proofs. Sani- tation and kindred precautions have little to do with this disease. Our modern manner of living may have. We may have acquired a pace which the heart may not be able to keep up with. In any case death from heart disease isadmittedly on the increase even in our own quiet little province, and‘ it is worth while making a note of it. There is no doubt that too great haste, too much anxiety over things which are not as important as well ‘regulated, healthy living, tend to, ‘alibi-tau life, and ‘to make lty less p‘ _ _ would be well in the busy days up- on which we of the express train. the automobile and the aeroplane, have fallen, to iearnthe great les son, “Heston slowly."

—--—Qo-c>———- EDITORIAL NOTES“

The iirst interruption to railway traiiic this winter was caused by the snowstorm of Thursday, March 8rd. not a bad record.

There has been more literary sc-

provinces can have any hope of; securlng,the rejection or nullliicni‘ tlon oi‘ the Report. That is not| their game. What the Webbs, the‘ MadPhails and the antllMaritime politicians and press hope for is some compromise that will reduce the award to a minimum, giving the; Maritime: as little as possible of’ what they so justly claim, And they are very zealous in thelranti- Maritime propaganda. Else why did Mayor Webb cross a thousand miles of prairie, and “a sea oi mountains" lo denounce our claims? And why did Miss Mac- IPhail, M.P., seek an audience so far off as ‘Edmonton to tell them that the Maritimes have no case?

Nobody In the Marltlmea has objected to lair criticism oi Mari- time rights or claims. These are as open to iair argument and dis- cussion as other public matters are. What is objected to is the spiritoi unreasoning and sectional hostility which ilnds expression in discourteous and insulting language solely intended to create pre- judlce.

The Old age Pension Bill has passed its third reading. The Gov- ernment have insisted on its pass- age in a; form: that will render it useless to probably one half of the IProvlnces, which cannot afford to co-Qperate with the iDom- inion on a iitty-llity per cent basis. Nearly all the provinces are al ready heavily in debt and provincial debts have incretsed to an alarming extent in recent years. Already the united debts of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia come close upon seventy millions of dollars. ‘

The burden of old age pensions would also fall very unequally upon the smaller provinces, ‘be- cause they have a larger pro- portion of aged persons than have the largor Central and Western lProvinces by reason oi the exodus of their young people, who have gone away to the States or to the ‘Canadian West. As it stands the bill imposes a new burden upon those provinces which have suffered ‘most from the migration o! their young people.

Furthermore, “as the ‘Federal half of the pensions is to be ‘paid out of the Dominion treasury to which all the people of ‘Oanada contribute ‘by taxation, why should the people oi those provinces which cannot afford to go into the pension scheme be thus compelled to pay for that from which they can receive no benefit?

There is a general feeling that Canada should adopt a_ system oi ‘pensions for aged and indigent per- sons such as has been was 'blished in ma y civilized countries, but that should be a national scheme and paid, for put of _ the national treasury exclulively. What right has the Dominion Parliament to sock to impose its will upon the Governments and Legislatures of ‘the provlncesi’.

No‘ provlncefcan be compelled to take any, sctlpp in regard to this

quently ioliow this severe chilling. flgghug m“; “mug; o; the “F134”;

"MM" —Jeremy Taylor.

these curiosity of futurc‘ages should

‘long uuhurn. and noblest pile

may in Charlottetown during the , _ _ ‘ ‘ * “matter. ohm. was-any n‘ is hut ex-

Of course We recognize the fact that certain acute infections are ushered in with a chill, even 1h warm weather, but being exposed l° “ld- llama weather can bring 0n the regulation cold in nose, throat, bronchial tubes, and ears However there is one other thing that your mother am Molrse didn't happen to mention. an: that was to give you e dose m; testine is a tremen ous help poisons from the system, blood to build up flggue

best building and fighting force h, mus in better shape to help you row off any possible trouble.

A SERIES. QF UTE QUOTATIONS FO"RARY BOOK LOVERS

Mflnday. March 7m.

"r“" "W" "lib sparks of holy 6 WMCPI I have thus heaped up WORM!‘ do not give llle to your PPHIared and already cnklndled- ‘Pirli. Yet they will sometimes help? to ententain a thought, to actuate a? Plllllln. to employ and hollow a

On some Burial Urns Dlsinterred:

lWhcn the funeral pyre was out, and ‘the last valedlctlon over, men wok ‘l ‘misting adieu of thcllninter- red friends, little expecting the

cilmmelll- ll‘l>0n their ‘ashes; and, having no old experience oi the duration or ‘their relics. held ll0 0p. inion of such after-considerations. ‘But who knows llbe fate oi his bones, or how often he 1e 1., be buried. Who hath the oracle oi‘ ‘his labile-E. or whether ‘they are to he scattered?“ The relics or many lie like the ruins of Pompeys, 1h ‘all parts or the earth; ullll when ‘"3163’ ar-rlve at your hands. these may seem lo have wandered far, who. in a direct and meridian tralv- el, h-avs but few miles 0t ‘known earth between "yourself and ‘the 9012....

These are sad pitchers, ‘which Wives; silently expressing old 11101101113’. ‘the ruins oi‘ forgotten times. and canronly gpegk with life, how long in bhls corruptible ‘frame some parts mlay be cheer. ru-pted; yél. able -to outlast bones

and sepulchral have ‘no joyful

among us. . .. We are coldly drawn unto mg. scarce time ‘before us to comm-g. bend new ‘things, or mjgke o“; learned novelties. ‘But seeing lhBy arose, as iihey lay almost in silence among us, we we're very

and ‘be buried twice among us. Be- sides. t0 preserve the living. and nvske the dead to live, ‘to ‘keep men out of their urns, and dig. course of ‘human fragments in, them, is not lmpertinent unto em- llmlcflnlon, whose study is life and final-h. who daily behold examples o: mortality. and of all men ‘least need artificial mementoes, or cof- fins. by our ‘bedside, to remind‘ us 0f our graves.

-¢SIr Thomas Browns.

buck" onto the provinces is only a bit of bluff. It remains to be seen wlrat the ‘Senate may yet do with the bill. , -

‘

‘High tide this afternoon at 1.38 and tomorrow morning at 2.10, ' ‘Sun sets this afternoon at 6,58 and rises tomorrow morning at 0.25, _ ' " ‘First quarter moon Tihuisday, March 10th. 6.00 a. m.

Jsout winter probably than in any ‘Noted by m’ Gwermem “Hui r

sct “he iw pgcct, {and

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that or.‘

courses of antiquities, wiho ‘have-

uh-wunug they should die again, B3

Cloud". Bu‘t an inspiration that ‘transcends mere technique is ap parent ‘in the paslntln-g presented to Captain Steele.

, Winn ‘Captain Steele, ‘Captain ‘Call-veil shalres a. ‘pride ‘in ‘the Amer- iican merchant marine ‘that is al- most a religion. ‘Bomb know and dove the old ships of ‘generations ago. it is not merely myltlh and ‘tradition -to them that ‘these clip-

castor oil. The cleanging of the in- pom, of “qmm me "Flying Cmudqhaving ‘been aIppoin-ted to the inc-

in was perhaps who, most splendid ex- ,rn‘tive and responsible public oi?‘ preventing trouble as it removesh|h,p1e, eemhhghed u"; United »s,mt.‘flce which he holds, than, is, Slur- "lilid Dllfe es as ‘the leading unariltime na/tllonivfiyol‘ lllld ‘Cflrrfisllflndfint ior tllc _ all Carr!‘ oi the world. a. place lost ornlyiBmllTl away waste matter is assured. Yonlzvhrouygh apellhy of the public and

5a lack oi ‘public sentiment for ‘this inamion to maintain her shipping 'prestige. ‘More ‘than romance

and glamour. too. is the memory ‘tlllrese men hold of ‘the voyages FOR THE ‘made by ‘the clippers, when they

carried the stars and smripes into

ievery nook and corner oi‘ 11210 globe,

their captains commercial ambas-

TY-PIFIIES EARLY SHIPPING

So ‘to his painting of the “Flying ‘Cloud’. Captain Carvell brought an intense (lesirewo depict in all oi its alppesl ‘the outstanding clipper ship, ‘typiiyling the early American merclhant marine. And ‘for ‘Cap- ‘talh ‘Steele the picture ‘is more ‘than. "a palinted ship ‘upon a painlt-

ooo-o-ooo-o-eo-o-oo-o-oo-oowoo-w DAILY LEQUONS IN ENGLISH

By W. L. Gordon

WORDS OFTEN MiSUSED: Don't say "he as well as l arc guilty." Say "is guilty."

0 F T b} N MISPRONOUNCED: January. Pronounce jan-u-ar-i, a as in “on,” u as in "unit," a. as in "day," i as ill "it.”

OFTEN MISSPELLED: neces- sarily; ono c, two 8'8.

SYNONYMS: fastidious, dainty, squeamish, over-nice, scrupulous, meticulous, finical.

WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours." Let us increase our vocabulary by master- ing one word each day. Today's word: COLLABORATE; to work jointly with another. "His wife was his collaborator in the preparation of this manuscript."

O Daily Selections FOR Guardian Readers

March 7, 1927

THE GOOD SHEPHERm-The Lord is my shepherd; l shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. Psalm