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'11:); 80th MILESTONE

The rmual interest taken in the oommencem ‘ exercises at St. Dunstan! University was enhanced this year by reason of the fact that yesterday's function marked the elghtieth anniversary of the institution. This memorable mile- stone has been passed with great credit to all concerned. It is evi- dqut that while retaining the tra- ditions and basic educational prin- ciples of former years, the Univer- sity has expanded its activities in many ways to meet modern re- quirements. The faculty have real- ized their tremendous responsibil- ities and have impressed on the student body ideais of conduct and living as well as afforded guidance 1n“ practical affairs. The effect of such training is of incalculable benefit to the szudents, whatever may be their occupations in later life.

It has been said that a univer- ngity education is not necessary t0 success in life. It would be truer to say that success itself takes on aIquite different meaning when set against the background of a uni- versity training. The student whose emotional life has been deepened by severe classical study, whose mind has been wheticd by contact with other minds engaged in scien- tific experiment or philosophical speculation, is already. on the high- road to the most enduring kind of Hmcess.

7st. Dunstans has not only achiev- ed an enviable record in the edu- ratlonal standard which i: has set in recent years. but there is every promise that the institution will go on growing and developing, a source of pride and inspiration not only to those privileged to call it their Alma Mater, but to all sec- tions of the community and Pro- Vince.

{_ THE reaasozv WHY

_The railway extravagance to which the Mackenzie King Government committed the taxpayers of Can- WaIda during the years it was in power furnished Mr. W. Chester S. Mc- Lure, MR, with material for one of the ablest addresses delivered in the House of Commons this session. The text of Mr. McLurcs address ap- peared in The Guardian several days ago. Its effect may be judged from __the efforts which the local Liberal organ is now exerting to show that the Queens County member's char- ges were unfounded. Our contemporary maintains the Liberals “were looking to the future and were Justified in doing 5o by the prosperity attending the operation of the railways undcr the Mackenzie King regime." Qn the contrary, it is because they failed to look to the . future, and squandered right and left, that the railway problem is "today such a bugbear, and that such drastic retrenchmcnis have had to . be made. Those are facts which cannot be disputed. Mr . McLurc clearly revealed the situation in Par- liament, and his statements passed unchallenged. Hon. Dr. Manlon, Minister of Railways, also analyzed these figures, and the assertions of both speakers were based on authen- “tlo figures. Dr. Manion, for example, showed r ill-that during the Mackenzie King re- a gime.—a period which our con- “temporary says was one of un- ‘eiccelled prosperity, - a deficit _, of $185,000,000 was piled up in the handling of the Canadian Na- mrfilnal Railways. Interest charges in that time were increased by thirty- m. million dollars a your. At the Sims time, the debt of thc Railways to the public was increased by $461,- 000,000. In 1929 alone. the King Government's pro-election year, they permitted Canadian National Rail- way commitments of between $200.- 000.000 and $250,000,000, -— “rolling the Liberal pork-barrel." as Dr. Manlon expressed .lt, "all the way flom Halifax to Vancouver." The Duff Commission, which in- vggtigg‘ J these expenditures, re- rted as follows: "It ls impossible to’ avoid the conclusion that the ar- tectors and management of the Canadian National were amenable to public influences and pressure which it would have been in the public 1n- Kr-ost w have withstood." ' Today, as Mr. McLure stated In his address, the situation is radic- ally changed. After prolonsed d15- Mreguuion of the Dufl’ Commission re- . "llpommended, Parliament passed "An jg: respecting the Canadian Nation- . .1 Railways and to provide for co- Iperation with the Canadian Pacific m," under the provisions of J“ ‘ ch three trustees were appointed Lm-ea administer the Canadian National nmmwuem’ "placing the Old b08111 OI a o ' 51mm“, These trustees under Par- "Bmm; w”; given practically oom- te authority for administration of - e system. It is the? who Irwin‘ rile President. and to "W" ‘m’ President is solely responsible. It is

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PROMOTING TRADE

Parliament has voted the sum of $200,000 for advertising and pub- licity in the United Kingdom and Europe. Premier Bennett explained that the other Dominions, after the agreements of 1932, were spend- ing substantial sums in advertisinif in various ways. After discussion Wlth the I-Ilgll CHuuuISlQDCI‘ It was thought desirable in co-oper- atlon with the Department of Trade and Commerce that we should use a larger sum of money for the purpose of advertising Carr- adian products in Great Britain and on the Continent. One can now see on the vans that travel about London the names of Canadian products. It was for that purpose that it was decided to use the words "Maple leaf" as distinctli Canadian. The movement under- taken by the High Commlssio 117A to have a mission sent to Canada is really a form of advertising growing out of this effort to make Canadian products known. Particulars of this “Maple Leaf Tour of Canada" are given in the latest issue of "Canada." the well know English magazine pub- lished in London. It states that one of the mdst ambitious tours ever organized by a Dominion as a means of promoting Imperial trade is now being prepared by Canadian

Notes By The Way

Policemen of Plymouth. England. have been accorded the prlvilele 0! using their own discretion as to the marine of patroiinx their beate- ‘rhislspartofaplantocurbtne gltyu burglaries and hold-ups. Here- tofore u. ma been an easy met"! for evildoers to wait until the pat- rolmen had passed and then 8° about their nefarious business. se- cure in the knowledge that he would reappear only after he had covered the rest of his aSlflW-"l M!" ritory. “Discretionary workins.‘ l8 the new system is called, providing the individual policeman with an added sense of responsibility. 18 N- ing watched with interest by the HomeOfIice and Scotland Yard in Iondon.

“It seems to me that, in lpelkln! of the League of Nations and the present crisis. one should first so back a little and compare the situ- ation today with that of 1919. De- velopments have been rapid since 1919. From i924 to 1930 the world experienced a period of prosperity such as it had never known before. and this engendered a feeling of optimism, and led to the hop: that human possibilities would be fully realised. In the economic field we looked forward to limitless prosperity; in the political, in that of the League of Nations, there seemed to be a certainty of peace assured automatically and perman- ently on a. Judical basis. This per- iod came to an end with the ap- proach of the economic crisis. and immediately the optimism of pre- vious years gave way-human Imi- ure being like that-to a feeling of pessimism, and often of excessive pessimism. I do not mean that the situation from 1930 onwards did not afford grounds for legitimate anx- ietv. I think that from 1930 on- wards the world has undergone ch ,, more profound than those it suffered from 1914 to 1930, apart, of course, from the disaster of the War. There have been immense changes in its constitution; there have been immense changes in pol- itical tradltions, in the outlook on internal politics. and more espec- ially in the outlook on foreign af-

fairs and international relations.— Mons. J. Avenol. Secretary-General of the League, in International Af- fairs (London.

Ono of the causes of the poverty

of our intellectual life is perhaps

Government representatives in Great Britain. The party will leave Liverpool

on the Montcalm on August 10— calling at Glasgow and Belfast-

and will return on or about Sep- tember 0, visits having being paid in the meantime not only to the principal food-producing centres of Eastern and. Middle Cadrada, but also to a number of tourist resorts and to the Canadian National Ex- hibition at. Toronto. In the course of the trip the members of the Party will gain first-hand know- ledge of the conditions under which many of the Canadian com- modltles they help to sell to housewives are prepared. The tour is under the auspices of the Hon. G. Howard Ferguson, High Com- missioner for Canada, and is or- ganized in conjunction with the Canadian Pacific Railway and the Canadian National Railways

MONEY AND GOLD

The widespread and growing in- terest in questions of monetary policy is reflected in a letter print- ed in The London Tunes appealing for "an immediate investigation by Parliament of the fundamental principles which should govern our monetary system with a view tn its reform in the interests of both producers and consumers." It is not long, comments the Times, since all such questions were considered so abstruse that ulscussior of them was left to professional economists, Treasury officials and dealers in 1n- tematlonal exchange. and other people whose business it was to understand them. Ordinary laymen engaged in trade or production or in the professions were content to accept the system as it stood. without attempting t0 fathom its workings, far less to question the principles upon which it. was based. In fact there was a tendency to dismiss as a. crank anyone who ventured to criticize the orthodox gold standard or to suggest that it might be possible to devise some- thing better to take its place. T0- day it is dicussed as feely and as critically as any other institution or doctrine inherited from before the War.

EDITORIAL NOTES

There is every indication that the British Market for Canadian lumber in 1934 will be even more satisfactory than it was last year. In both hard and soft woods Can- ada's position in the British market has materially improved. The Brit- ish Industries Fair, at Birmingham. did much to enhance the popularity of Canadian timber. Inquiries were received for all clause of commer- cial timbers and a wide range of manufactured wood products. Of mom than 80 specific inquiries re- ceived by Canadian Government of- ficials at the Fair the m-lldfll! dealt with some kind of Canadian lumber. Rewftl 110m 11'1"" 00m’ plnlel exhibiting at the Canadian section of the Pair indium! that they were well satisfied with the interest shown by buyer! Ind 0th-

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that we do not sufficiently inculcate the taste for- reading in our school children or, what is worse, incul- cate a bad taste. I have known bachelors, first in their class dur- ing all the years ,of study. who

have never opened another book than those of their studies. These are not the people who will haunt our libraries after school days are

over. On the other hand, the pretty and costly imagery of books often given as school prizes are a waste of moncy for the giver and of time for the receiver. Let us give to school children books within their mental range, of course, but books calculated to cultivate their taste in reading-Ex.

I submit. says Sir Ernest Potter, that any further delay, in view of the present temper in Europe, is nothing more or less than a gam- ble, a gamble so desperale in char- acter that no business man would be a party t0 it. If the gamble should fail, it means the crrd of our country and its power for good lrr the world. It means that there will be nothing left to be done but to write "Ichabod" upon the tomb- stone of the greates; Empire that the world has yet known. “What is all the world to a man i1 his wife is a widow?”

Ten million Americans can be wrong. concludes The New York Times. As a matter of fact, they know they are wrong. New York motorists try to beat the traffic lights because each one of them thinks no accident will ever happen to him. Commissioner OI-tyan finds that driving standards have been growing lax. and declares that the fault lies with the public. not with the police. The most reckless is the fellow who starts before the‘ light turns green. In any case, ther: is to be additional protection for the harassed folk who have to cross the street on foot in a few brief sec- onda-Exchange.

Today we are faced with the trag- edy of an annual "flow-back." the gravity of which was revealed when it was authoritatively sta‘cd in the House of Commons on February 14, that immigration into the United Kingdom from other parts of the British Empire outside Europe, for the year 1933 exceeded the number of British emigrants to those countries by 23,882. The full impli- cation of this figure is seen from the fact that while this "flow-back" has been taking place large settle- ments of foreign stock in both in- dustrial and agricultural enterpris- es have sprung up in our oversea Dominlons, notably in Canada. while British stock has remained “stationary" at the best-A. M. Lyons. M.P., in National Review (London)

A watchman at Port Credit told a man and his wife to hop out of their car when it stalled on a crossing. Then he shoved the car out of the way Just as a fast freight, rolled Dust. ‘That, we be- lieve, is about the most satisfacory level crossing story which we have seen in print during IBM-Strat- ford Beacon Herald.

The justification of Bulgaria's move towards a Fascist form of gov- ernment appears to lie in the politi- cal gmupo that were gumming the bearings of the legislature. When any parliament breaks up into I multiplicity of groups. its business

inevitably degenerate, into an axe-

grindlng bee. No government can feel secure and free to proceed when at any moment a coalition may break up and send it to de- feat. When a parliament cannot free itself of groups 1t invites a no- party form. and according to pres- ent-day political thought its choice lies between Fascism and Com- munism. Whether there is a Franco-

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INFLAMMATION OF- IIBIOUS TISSUE -— FIBEJOSITIS a

You may have a "pain in the neck" extending from the back of the head right down the neck to the shoulder blades. Sometimes the pain ls at the side of the neck.

Or, you may have a pain in the "small of the back", lumbago as it is often called.

Perhaps you are attacked with a pain in the chest- which hurts you to breathe, to cough, to turn-over in bed; a pain that becomes more sev- ere when you touch or press it.

You will notice that these pains are not in the Joints. and so cannot be due to arthritis or rheumatism.

Now while the pain in the neck. chest. and lower back may be due to various causes, nevertheless, in a great many cases, it is due to an in- flammatlon of the fibrous tissue of the body, particularly the tissue- tendons-that attach the muscles to the bones. As you know, muscle is an elastic tissue which draws one bone close to another to give us movement. However the muscle is usually attached to the bone by means of a hard fibrous non-elastic tissue. The covering of the muscles and ligaments are also made up of fibrous tissue.

It ls an inflammation of this fib- rous tissue-Jlbrositls-that often causes pain in the neck, the chest. the lower baok, wrist, and other parts of the body.

Just as rheumatism or arthritis is due to some infection in the body. which may be aggravated by wea- ther conditlons. so flbrositls is thought to be clue to infection from teeth, tonsils, gall bladder and 1n- tcstine.

The first thought then in the treatment l5 t0 100k for the caugg of the trouble and remove it.

The intestine should be well cleansed by small doses of Epsom 53135-9- lfivel teaspoonful-every morning for a couple of weeks,

The use of any of the pain reliev- lng ointments without much mas- sage at first, is comforting to the Patient. Ointments containing win- tergreens are particularly effective. As 1t i5 often a run down condi- tion of the body that allows the in. fection to overcome the body‘; d9- fences, all round care of the body is necessary to prevent future attacks. All round care includes pmpgf food habits. outdoor exercise, enough sleep, regular intestinal habits and proper clothing.

Mr. De Valerals Peace Gesture

(Montreal Gazette)

Mr. de Valeras gesture of peace towards the United Kingdom will be noted by all friends of Ireland with genuine gratification. The re- cords of recent history show that the President of the Irish Free State is a difficult man with whom to negotiate. but it is well known that, by principle and intinct, he is a. lover of peace and his sincerity may not be doubL.d when he de- 91-1165. as he has just declared pub- licly at Cork, that it is his wish to be on terms of friendship with the

to be at enmity "with Britain," he said, “and lf Britain should give preference to our_agricultural pro- duce We would be prepared to give Britain the preference in such cap- ital equipment as we may need." That the two countries need one another economically ls acknowl- edged on both sides and if, through a renewal of negotiations between Dublin and Downing Street, a set- tlement can be reached which will lay the ghost of the Irish Free State grievances. no opportunity should be missed which will pro- miSe to lead to such an agreement. President de Valera, at all events, has made his position clearer by what amounts to an admission that he appreciates more than ever the fact that freer trade between Southern Ireland and Great Bri- tain offers both countries many substantial fiscal advantages.

The main question that divides the two governments concerns 1m. land's payment, or, rather. non- payment. of land annuities. l-lcrc- tofore, Mr. De Valera has persist- ently opposed reference of the is- sue to the arbitration of a board composed of representatives of the Empire-Downing Street Just a5 1,9 naclously has refused to sanction the appointment of adjudicators from outside. If the oblections tn Imperial arbitration are still insu- per-able, good economic sense may suggest more readily today than formerly a compromise by which the controversy regarding a cash adjustment of the land annuities might be submitted to the Judg- ment of, say, The Hague tribunal. When both sides to the dispute can mutually come to an under-stand- ‘ing on this point. the two coun- tries will very quickly re-establlsh their old trade relationships. which is n. consummation largely to be desired.

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Britain Stands Guard

(‘Ibronto Globe)

Great Britain 1m acted with custom y promptneu in its mas- sing of naval and other forces for the protection of its nationals who are said. t0 be f“ ‘n __" Wm! massacre by the embat Arab trlbesmen at Hodeida, on the Red Befipprehension lest the victorious onslaugh‘ by the well trained army of Ibn Baud on the ancient King- dom of Yemen may have I ing afterruath in a “Greater Ara- bra" movement seems to be We" founded. The aggressive ruler o! Saudi Arabia already has gone be- yond the oblectl es fixed a month ago, when he indicated willingness to confine himself to a deslswli-ed mountainous area. Ha 1s suspected or r ' ‘ ambitions and a. de- sire to bring all the Arabic peoples east of Egypt under his sway. British attention for the moment seems to centre in measures in safeguard several hundred subiects largely Indians, in Hodelda and in protect interests in Aden (control of which was taken over recently after negotiations with the Imam Yahya. ruler of Yemen), and of other large districts in Southern and Eastern Arabia. Measures to be adopted will depend largely on the disposition of Ibn Saud to ho- nor the pledges given to Great Britain by the Imam after the re- cent parleys.