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a . SATURDAY. JUNE l, 1938

inexcusable Delay

The delay in introducing Finance Minister Dunnings bill to authorize low-interest loans to municipalities, now given second reading in the House of Commons, has received a well merited rebuke from .\lr. Bennett. The Conservative leader pointed out that the House had been in almost continuous session since January, that the Legislatures of the nine Provinces had as- sembled and prorogucd in the meantime, without any intimation from thc King Government as to its pctlicy’, and it is now suggested that special legislative sessions will have to be held by all the Provinces in order to authorize borrowing by the municipalities and also to guarantee rc- payment of the principal and interest.

“Year after year, month after month, week after wcck and day after day during the years from i930 to i935," said Mr. Bennett, “com- plaints wcrc heard from this side of the House; criticisms, bitter and rcinorseless, were launched against thc government of the day because of what was snid to be the delay in dealing with these matters. Now we find this Government, on the sccond dziy of june, introducing what the Minister of Labour described the other day as the policy of the Government to deal with un- Clllpllllllltllf. That policy is to be part housing, part sclf-litjuidatiiig loans and part something else. If this (iovcrnment had a policy as it should have had when the House met, why did they let the Legislatures of the nine provinces prorogue iritlioiit being advised of it P” '

Surely a pcrtinctit question, and one which will have to he answered.

“whose duties it would bc to supervise all ef- $134111 The proceeds of the bazaar ‘vhgch

forts at relief and methods of securing employ- ment for the unemployed"; and had this been done “this motion would not have been necessary at this time because its objectives would have been attained long before this.”

It was Mr. Kings contention that if such a bommission had been appointed it would have taken care of the housing and rebuilding ques- tion by co-operating directly with the provinces and municipalities. It would be so representa- tive in character that no question would arise l6 to‘ divided jurisdiction. It would be an or- ganization “represcntativc tof the more important industrial and philanthropic interests in ‘the country, of employers and employees, of rail- way companies, of such organizations as Cham- bers of Commerce. the ‘Manufacturers’ Associa- tion, the Trades and Labour Congress, the Sal- vation Army, the Red Cross and bodies of that sort, which national commission would be a body formed for the purpose of administering expenditure of federal appropriations for relief purposes and supcrvising and linking up all ef- forts at relieving tincmploymcitt and providing work hv co-rtrdinrititi’: whatcvcr might owe its origin to funds providvd by the Federal Gov-

grmncjjt, Provincial Governments and munici-

politics or other lxodics." (lrlansard, Jan. 24, 193R).

liinc sounding ivorilsl Can anyone find, in such a flk‘S(‘l'l'lllfill, attythiitg remotely resembl- ing the Cotntnissirlti actually zippointcd by Ml‘- King when hc got into officc-—n Commission powerless to cnforcc its rccotnmcndations, which has since gout‘ out of its (‘XKVUHCC with its major findings still uttftnulciticntt-rll’ f

Wis-ding The Ta rtan

illlf‘ of tho .'ittr::cti\'u fcaturcs at the nnfplfC Iflxlllllillllll tiov: in jib-grass in (ilnsgow is :1 fltlil()ll<ll'.'ltl<>ll oi ttirtziit-ircziviiig. Since the titers-ion to the llritish throne of a Scottish (juccn, l.".l'I'lll. wltli other things Scottish, has (‘itjtiytwl zt lllJllttlllPillll boom in the 01d Coun- try. lu (luv-nation your lzirlviit was one of the most l:tsliii~t1.l.~.t: itiuiviiuls on both sides of the Atlantic, ztutl tiic llortlsi‘ mills haul t0 work over-

time to copc with the dcmantl.

Stratigilv otuuugh, Frzincc is the one country ln Europc-Stwirlattd cxcc-ptcrl-—where tartan flourishes, irl‘{‘.<|)('(‘ll\'(‘ of fashion or season. As long ago as the hoqititiitig of this century, beauti- fully wovclt tartan stockings in fine cashmere were worn in France. More recently the visit

nf a Scottish delegation to Denmark brought

about a popularity of tartan so overwhelming that it was described in the newspapers s “a rash!"

Nowadays, says a writer in the Edinburgh Scotsman, imich of the tartan sold in shops, and all that is used by the Army, is woven on power-looms iti factories, instead of by the old method of hand-looms in cottages. The "tar- tan village" of Kilharchan. Renfrewshire, used to employ 800 wcrtvcrs.

kills worn by Rflyflliy. And Willie Meikle, just now, is om- of the ltusicst men in the country. The making of tartan in the old days was a friendly lwusitivss, when distant neighbours met together to work in lmrmnny and exchange the gossip of the coitutrysicle. In lonely shiellngs and tiny liolhics thc women of the Highlands helm-d ¢"1l‘ll other itt the manifold processes, and some of the loveliest of old Scots songs are lilts they sang in primitive crafts as they worked. The weayinq demanded both skill and concentration. end often these devout women of old "lifted their eyes unto the hills" in tpgayers for aid in hi: qulleai mks. Winn pd: vne enq-

‘ _ We recall lllflli "l the Sisters of Charity of Quebec, who continued I935, whcn a tiationnl housing and reconstruc- until June ;4_ 1925, when the hospita] was taker, tion policy was ititroduced in Parliament, Mr. over by 51¢ sisters of 5t A/Iaflha 0f this pro- Mackenzie King was the first to criticise the vim‘, An important part of the work has ap delay. The llctinctt Government, he said, should ways been of a Charitable namrfi free hospimj long ago have appointed a national commission treatment 139g year being given m the extent of

Now there are nine- tccn. llut at Kilbarchan, home of the kilt- mnkcrs. lives Willie Mcikle, who weaves all the

plete it was made ifito clothing that lasted close on a lifetime. It had to. For men were poor and life was hard in those Highland hills. And the kilt was warm and soft, and the roomy folds of the plaid kept its owner snug and dry on the wettest hillside.

With the passing of time, each disttlict pro- duced a pattern of its own, evolved by the pati- ent skill of some expert weaver, or determined by the natural dyes obtainable locally from plants or seaweed. This was the beginning of the clan tartans. After the rebellion of i745, the weav- ing of kilt or tartan was forbidden by law in any part of the Highlands, under penalty of six months’ imprisonment for the first offence, and transportation for life for the second. But this law failed to break the proud Highland spirit. The tartan survived, and the kilt is steadily regaining the ground its lost long ago.

Park Roads Not Speedways

Now that we have a magnificent paved drive-

way around Victoria Park, there seems no legi- timate reason why the roads through the Park, which are not paved. should be used for motor traflfic at all. The Park should be left for the enjoyment of pedestrians, particularly children, for whom it is an ideal playground. So long as the inner road continues to be used as a speed- way, it can only be a source of danger and of anxiety to parents. Complaints have reached The Guardian that even other Park roads, which are posted as being closed to motor traffic, arc used by motorists. The chief complaint, how- ever, is with regard to the dust nuisance and danger to life and limb occasioned by reckless driving over the road leading from the North River Road through the Park. The attention of the City Council is directed to this matter, as one of considerable importance to a large body of our citizens who, with their children, wish to enjoy undisturbed the oppor- tunities for healthful recreation which Victoria. Park was intended to provide.

A Worthy Cause

Elsewhere in today's columns appears refer- ence to the opening this evening in the Market Building of the fourth annual bazaar and enter- tainment in aid of the Charlottetown Hospital. This institution is the oldest hospital in the Pro- vince, having been opened on Sept. 9, i879 by

opens tonight and will continue all next week. go towards the maintenance fund of the insti- tution. As the need this year is great, it is hnpcd the public response will be generous. The enter- tainment features includc contests for substan- tial prizes, as noted in the advertisement. A special attraction will be appearance nightly of Dr. Harvey Doney, noted singer, of Toronto, whose voice has been highly acclaimed by critics and whose performances will be the first he has given in this part of Canada. The bazaar com- mittee has gone to much trouble and expense to make tonight's programme and the many feat- ures arranged for next week the best entertain- ment of its kind seen in Charlottetown. It is hoped therefore that all our citizens will take this opportunity of showing, in a practical maln- ncr, their appreciation of the splendid work the hospital is doing.

r Editorial Notes r George III was born this date, i738. 1F 1k i i!

The Rowell “Fact” Finding Commission has unexpectedly developed into a “Fascist" Find- ing Commission. m 4 4= e The comparatively early deaths of Dr. Ledwcll and Dr. Biggar remind us that even physicians with all their knowledge and scientific ability cannot guarantee us the three scorc-and-ten years of life. w w a n: According to yesterday's Patriot, the Editor and the President of the Executive Council are closely and historically associated with R. ll. R. the Duke of Windsor. Some people are born grcat——some achieve grcatncss—-otltcrs have greatness thrust upon thcm. while a few merely lay claim to greatness in view of the prospects of becoming Licutenant-Crovernor. x n: m

These figures show ho\v air transport has grown in Australia.

Length Miles Pas'grs Freight i0 yczirs ago 3,507 423.000 ooo 15,000 lb. 5 ycars ago 6,509 900,000 6,300 88.10011). Last year 27,574 6,797,000 58.000 852,000 lb. Already the airlines are flying at the rate of 8,754,000 miles a year, and piling up passenger- mileage—the most significant figure in air stat- istics. Last year's passenger-miles total was greater than those of the previous three years to- gether; this year’s will be far ahead of that.

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In June of each year, the Dominion Bureau of Statistics, in co-operation with the Provincial Departments of Agriculture, distributes card- board schedules to farmers for the purpose of collecting statistics of acreage under crop and the number of live stock and poultry on farms. An innovation of i931 extended this survey to cover the breeding and marketing intentions with regard to live stock. In all of the provinces, ex- cept Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, Alberta and British Columbia, these schedules are dis- tributed to the farmers through the rural school teachers. In these four provinces, the cards are mailed direct to the farmers. The acreage of field crops, in particular, are the real founda- tion of the Bureau's scheme of agricultural pro- duction statistics. Only slightly less important the Bureau's national planning is the necessity of having correct knowledge of the numbers of livc stock on farms. The accuracy of the Bureau's compilations in both these classes is largely de- pendent upon the obtaining of completed cards from a fair sample of the total number of Can- adian farms. lt is up to farmers, therefore, to

The Kin; of Cambodia, feeling the pinch of depression, is loin: to cut down expenditures by dia- poslng of 100 of his 200 wivel. ‘That's a start. at least-Owen Sound Sun-Times.

Condemned mun down tn Ar- kansas the other morning was pemiitted w inspect m» ‘eotrle chair minutely, test the back, the seat and the arms and glv his approval thereof. All of w ab, though, 1s 1n the noblest tradi- tion. Just before he had his heed chopped off Sl!‘ Walter Raleigh asked his executioner for a look at the axe, tested its blade with his fingers, kissed it, laid it down — and 30 seconds later it sliced gpough his neckr-Windsor Dally

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That the fight against the spread of salaclous diterature throughout Canada 1s not the problem of one church alone, but the task of all religious bodies, is well illustrated 1n the recent dele- gation from Montreal which wait- ed on the Dominion Government urging stronger laws against the importation of filth into the coun- try. The delegation comprised an Ankllcan bishop. leaders of the various Protestant denominations. thirpersonal representative of the Roman Catholic Cardinal. and prominent members of the Jewish IRlll'L—-Sl1EI‘bl‘O0l{6 Record:

In the torrid South there ll 1' general let-down 1n business com- petition when the sun 1s high; but if there 1s any sleeping it. 1s with one eye open. No representative business man could sleep natural- ly beside a cash register unless someone kept the machine's chimes ringing in his subconscious ears. He will admit that he works too hard, that he dines too well, that he has to little rest, but 1n these Perlvus days an American bus- iness man wants to be a tired bus- iness man, must be one, and con- siders himself more lucky than abused if the doctor warns his bones are encased 1n fat-Phil- adelphia Bulletin.

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startled soemeo o]; his flockflbywri- Iwulwlns that he Played bl'l e should not be required m m e any 81101083’ for his participation in that form of indoor sport now enjoying such widespread, ularlty. His own expressed be ef is that bridge becomes a moral issue ‘when a woman spends all afternoon playing bridge and then rushes home to "feed her hugbgnd on canned soup. —-Brockv1lle 11w- order and Times.

A duel between a large eagle and an airplane is re rted from Adam Ababa. The mac lne was return- ing to the capital from an 1n-

Cliffylng two airmen and some Soldiers. when it was attacked by all Elsie, A machine gun was fired at the bird without hitting 1t. The eagle however, struck and damag-

.ed the machine and injured the

pilot in the forehead with its beak. Finally it was mt and 1911 w the around. The airplane had to land. The eagle which was found by some natives, measured eleven feet: four inches befiwggn the Wins tlDs.—The London ‘Time!

Since the m istice, Sir Harald Bellman told a representative gathering 1n New York the other day. 3.500.000 houses have been bullt; in Ehigland and Wales, 1n- ereiising the available housing ac- commodations by n ly 5 per cent. Municipal authori ies erect- ed 1.000,000 of the houses private enterprise with government as- sistance built 400,000 while 2,000,- 000 were provided by private en- lefllrlse without subsidy of any kind, he said. some 40 per cent, of the municipal houses, he said, were let at weekly rents of $1.60 to $2 and more than 65 per cent. had rents below $2, all rents be- lng exclusive of the tax rate which 1s 25 w 50 cents weekly on a $2 rental for a house averaging four rooms-tlvlonctton Times.

Grandfather used to say u calf was the orneriest thing ever made; some of them had s. little common sense but most of them had none at all. Teaching a calf to drink was one job that he al- ways turned over to the hired man. If there was anything in the government bulletins or the new ks of rules that the hired man was always reading about how m make a calf drink then grand- father was ready to have the thing tried out. But 1t does seem a bit. strange that with all the axe of invention has done for the farm they have no new or better way for giving a calf scientific instruc- tion on how to drink from a tin pail. They are still bending that stiff neck, still holding fin ers up from the bottom of the mi , and the calf ls still knocking the pail over and douslng the instructors. Peterliorough Examiner.

There are three ways of fame, so the adage says. Some men are born to greatness; some acquire _ greatness, while others have greatness thust upon them. In Vancouver there is a fourth way to fame; one‘ owns a kinkajou and appears 1n the public prints each time the police or tho fire brigade ls called out to rescue the pet from the perils of its daring. One day it is reseused from high up on the facade of the Hudson's Bay Building, doing‘ a human flv

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JECTIONS, FUN HAY FEVER.

Although hay fever symptoma- t sneezing running

, nose, itchy eyes. sometimes obstructed non-may occiirmt any time in the year, wiui trees 1n the Spring, grasses 1n tn. Summer, and weeds 1n the Aul umn, what is commonly called in. fever is the Autumn type, eaut. 1n most cases by pollen from rat, peed. It 1e estlgatted lilialvnlllilc.

percent-one every y pel sons—1s subject to hay fever to some degree.

The Fall weed hay fever season begins toward the end of July in southern districts and from the middle to the end of August. 1n the northern, and ends with the first frost.

In addition to the above men- tioned symptoms , there ma be headaches. weakness and ed- apss, and slight asthmatic symp-

ms.

To detect the particular pollen causing the hay fever, skin teats and also tests by eating suspected foods or inhaling (breathing in) other substances, are used. ‘This which the individual is sensitive or allergic.

What about: treatment?

The treatment now generally used 1s to try to make the atient less sensitive or allergic the substance - ragweed pollen 1n most cases-to which he 1s sen- sitive. This is clone b injeetin: small quantities of po en extract under the skin once or twice a week for six to eight weeks before the hay fever symptoms usually appear. Most physicians lprefer to start the injections not ess than three to four months before the hay fever season as 1t allows much more pollen extract to be given and thus a better chance to gt the system desensitized to e ragweed tpollen.

1th e arrival of the lily fever se , e ect-innl are continued but the dose is reduced wfonteiihlllhg tb hay fever symp-

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toms as they arise, Dr. O. R. K. Johnston, 1n the Cleveland num- ber of the Medical clinics of North Amprica, statics, Tok rellelyfe

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If you are subject to hay fever you should consult your physician at once about the use of the pol- lm extract. Moat family physic-

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Mr. King’s Foreign Policy

(Montreal (Janette)

Mr. Mackenzie King's definition of this country's attitude towards foreign nations. andinore particul- arly of its attitude towards the Brltidi Em lre could be sung to a familiar re rain. We have no for- e1 policy; that 1s to say the Do- mfion Government has none. The Canadian peo le, on the other hand, have a orelgn poll!!! H141 B" Emplffl policy, and the Empire policy 1s the foreign policy. Cun- adian sentiment and determina- tion found much more accurate expression 1n the s of the leader of the Opposl on on ‘mel- day than 1t did 1n that of the Prime Minister. Mr. Bennett was more logical. but w. King was frank enough to admit that his own position 1s not logical. ‘micro are a. number of other which 1t. 1s not. It 1s not Can - tan, He tells us that the Canad- ian Government does not regard an ln-and-out interpretation of the League of Nations Covenant. based upon the varying interest of some member of the league as making for honesty or good ll He does, apparently, regard an 1n- and-out interpretation of the Do- min1on's relations with the rest of the British Empire, based upon the common interest of the Brit- ish Commonwealth its an ex- emnllficatlcn of Rood will and honestv, The vast majority of Canadian citizens. we believe, are 0' another opinion.

Mr, Ping ls inconsistent. It is up- vwrentlv quit- rlaht to withhold fiamdlnn military supplies from Fuel," but not from Japan, al- thotvzh the Prime Ministe strong- lv rem-lists! a sumesti-t. that l-e ccn-‘oncc the action of Jr-nan in Grin". There 1s no logic here eltber. "f r-rwrse there lii no ‘Pm- v-l" war "act no commitment. either to -~~ve in war or to re- mnlvr ne-ltrPl tn any mven event- w-"Hv, W» MmMtn-ent. is needed. Nnutrblltv is an absurdltv. and Mr. "inn 1s at least riqht in rul- ino 1t out. He is not nearly no rlvht in static" that. anv danger of t-tt-nk 1mm Canrds in minor 1n dem-efl end Ieeonclhand tn m-lgln. that it. in Mmlfllf. PlPHOO shots we new! to defend ourselves. The 0n- nosltion leader is much nearer the