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ARE’ THEY SINCERE?

The partisan political nature of the criticism of the Opposition members in the Legislature was shown very clearly Li their cam- paignagainst the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. They seem to have forgotten that the establishment o! the Mounted Police in this Province was one of their own pro-election pledges in the 1927 camimhh-Im that occasion, the local Liberal organ boosted that “with the assist- ance of those well-trained and con- tinent famed Royal Mounted Police we may count reasonably up_on a thorough clean-up of illicit stills. smuggling and bootleggers, making a most DOTlVlflClIlg argument that Prohibition does prohibit."

It will be recalled also that the Temperance Alliance, to whom this

pledge was given, discovered during.‘

the campaign that it was only a bluff and that no effort was being made to implement it. They promptly got after the Liberal lead- er and threw such a scare into him that hc dcspatched the following 8.0.8. call to Senator McArthur, who. happened then to bc in Mou- ireai. The telegram, which was signed under the date of June l9. 1927—just before the ebzction of the Liberal party to power-read as follows:

"Insistent demand by Temper- ance Alliance for Mounted Pol- ice. Fear adverse results political- ly unless request immediately granted. Feeling running stxong. indignation meetings held. Make sure Police here before next week. Urgent."

So critical was the situation that two Moaultcci Police officers w-erc actually (lE'S])i\ll7ll(’d to the Province. They were visible for a few hours on the eve oi the election, and after the election they disappeared nod

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Tltv: Saunders-Lea administration completely ignored its pro-election pledge to the Temperance Alliauce.1 Evidently this was in the mind of Mr. W. H. Dennis, Liberal member from O’Leary, when, during the 1932 session, he urged strongly up- on the Stewart Government the advantage of bringing the Mount- ed Police hem. There might, he said, be partisan political objec- tions to such a coiuse, "but throughout the country there is a large number of deep-thinking men who weigh public problems from a bread standpoint, and there is I. solid element of voters in this country who would stand behind a leader or a government who under- takes to do for the Province what he thinks is best and right."

Pt is evidently not to this "solid element of voters" who "weigh public problems from a broad stand- point" that the present Opposition campaign appeal is directed. What- over the motive behind their crit- icism, it is significant that they find themselves diametrically opposed to thlrir attitude when campaigning for better prohibition enforcement.

THE RELIIEF DEBATE

It is significant that the opposi- tion ‘in Parliament to the Bennett Government's "blank cheque“ leg- islation has undergone a consider- able change of front sincn last ses- sion. On that occasion. Mr. King and his followers objected to this kind of legislation on the ground that it was derogatory to the priv- ileges and functions of Parliament and that it conferred powers of ex- penditure on the Government which the Constitution did not sanction and which opened the door to extravagance and lmprovldence. On this occasion the complaints voiced by Hon. E. A. Lcpointc and Hon. W. D. Euler, the two chief spokesmen for the Opposition, were that the Government's relief pro- gramme had proven inadequate, that the existing system was un- satisfactory, and that the Ministry's relief measums were not calculated to stamp out the unemployment scourge. Hon. Fer-hand Rinfret de- clared that "the construction of public works which were not need-

depnealon rendered such old neces- sary. It is nevertheless a fact that Canada has more nearly reached that goal than either Great Britain ou- the United Stotes. and that its system of relief has hen repeatedly praised and mu up as a model in‘ the American Congress.

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Hopi-rations are now under way by the Boy Scouts and Girl Guides. for the visit of their respective 1 Chiefs. Lord and Lady Baden-Powell in July- There will be inspection and displays, all the Scouts and Guides rcing in uniform with flags flying.

Next month there will be unusual opportunities for displaying and wit- nessing the hlstrionic talents of ourl young people, there being no fewer, than three major theatrical enter-i tainments in Easter week, including the Shakesperean play "The Mer- chant 01f Venice."

The Mayor of Montreal and the Mayor o! Charlottetown will be able to fratemlre on an equal foot- ing as fellow members of the Most Noble Order of the British Empire. Perhaps it was with the hope of having the order formally conferred that the idea. of a Mayoral march to Ottawa originated. ft is, unfort- unate, thercfore, that His Excel- lency the Governor-General should seize upon this particular time to quit the capital for the woolly west.

Just as Attorney-General Malc- Phee closed the debate on the Ad- dress in a speech which finds few equals and no superiors in the long history .0! our legislature, s0 Pre- mier MacMlllan opened the debate

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Notes By The Way

That the youth of today will Stwp 80 10W as to torture dumb animals unmerctfully is at times" be-

caily a gruesome report. unfortun- ately based upon facts, creeps in- to the day's news. Just what causes an outbreak of this brutal spirit 15 I» mystery. Punishment cannot be too severe. One of tho latest reports

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stock where two youths annoyed at finding a. neighbor's dog on their property cut open his groin and

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Dflllred turpentine into the cut, thus . causing untold suffering to the ani- mal. Magistrae E. S. Livcrmore is to be commended upon hisserit- ence of two months to the older of the two offenders and although he; 11-11mm"! the yW-Hger to go on sus-r pended sentence it is likely that this ‘ lad has learned his lesson and? will think twice before tormenting! another animal. Inhuman acts of this kind should be stopped at all costs and prison Penalties are not too severe at all for perpetrators of such crimes.—St. Thomas Times- Joumal. ,

The administration approach to! the press is different. It is based? not on compulsion but on charm. 111 (‘B31115 with the press, Washing- ton stoops to conquer..where the club has been used on stock ex- changes, where strong-armed lead- ership has been used on Congress, where the power of license control has had its subtle ffcct in keeping radio close to official skirts, the press is handled with open arms, cordiality, - and servicw-Elx.

Half arentury ago Canada was greatly disturbed over the Riel Rf:- belhon in the Northwest; but in view of more recent warlike events ill which the Dominion has been Engaged the Metl; trouble did not amount to a great deal. However, it is well that the veterans of this campaign, a rapidly dwindling body of men, are to have a reunion and fight over again their battles with Louis Riels strange following.

Obviously the inner meaning of Hitler's melodramatic repudiation of Germany's pledged word is what all seek. It is probably just what Hitler wants to keep everybody 8119551118- Is it Germany's way of bidding for superiority of arms under the cloak of a. demand for 5@¢111'11y. or is it, as The Lnudon Times expresses it, "Simply a rather crude method of asserting equality?"

‘on the Budget with a speech that ‘will become historic. It is reminis-‘ were subject to influence by the appeals of Parliamentary speakers. Alas, the Opposition now-a-days is» sq constituted and heart-heardened, that it would refuse to respond "even though one were to rise from the dead" to seek to convince them.

Irrespective of when the Domin-. ion election takes place, Premier Tascheieau announces that the Quebec provincial election will be: held before October, probably in‘ August or September. If, as sug-l gested, the Federal Parliament fails‘ to be re-elected in September, Que- , bec will have to select August, as two appeals to the Province in Sep? tember would be one too many. On the other hand, August, being holi- day season, is a very unsuitable month in which to get voters to‘ the poll.

In a debate in the House of Com- mons, Westminster, a distinguished member declared that he preferred herring to any other food set te- fore him. He said one herring was equal in food value to a sumptuous sirloin steak, and that that very evening he had had two her-rings for dinner, at o cost of 4d. or 8c. each. Another member declared that if herring were as scarce as salmon, the demand would be enor- mous and the price fabulous. Prob- ably if some one could eliminate the effluvis from herring as has alleg- ed to have been done with cabbage, the fish would become popular with housewives.

When peace reigns, the diplomat has triumphed; when war breaks. he has failed; such was the mes- sage of the Hon. Wesley Frost, Consul-General for the United States in Montreal, concluding an address on "Diplomacy" at n. lin- cheon meeting of the Electrical Club of Montnll. The diplomat body spread over the civilized world he likened to o mtwork of electrical communication in which the mu ropreoenmtlvpl of the various countries vrm Hthe operators hmflfll in wuoh with each other in the hope cl’ 1min- tolning pace relations by 119801111- tlon and compromise. Big business interests hove gradually come to

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md added: "The only cure would be a. return to normal business con- ditions and n. mvivnl of industrial lctivity."

None of these statements. points out an exchange, imply o single honest cdtlcism of the Government nor offer a single helpful or intol- ligerrt susgestion on the unemploy- ,' merit problem. It is perfectly true that who: the Federal and Provin- cial and Municipal Government! have done in the direction of unem- ployment relief hos fallen lhdrt of extending old to oll the needy or work to oil the unempmnd. I 1|

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Whatever it‘ is, it must be record- ed as the kind of thing that makgs it very difficult to deal with Ger- many as one would deal with a. civilized nation. Another point is that it is unikely to be wmr, Nazis say it is.—~Ex.

"There are many things in a free country that many of us do not 11kt. and them always will be as long as men are free. Do not make any mistake. If dEmQCfEuy is going to survive and live it can only live by its own endeavours. Therm)!“ 1101111)’. 8s ever since the W81‘. is I have preached till people must be sick of hearing me, you cannot have a successful democracy until every man and woman in the country zrraiizes his and her respon- sibility for the conduct of that de- mocracy. It is a high demand-fur easier to sit back and do what you are told and not thinkfl-Stanley Baldwin.

There is a. saying in China thrift the good people are those who live within sound of your cook's crow and your dog's bark. In a. word, the good people am the people you know. The people you don't know are very likely bad. In any case, they are to be accounted bad until they have been proven not to be. The Chinese village is the symbol, round the world, of paroohialism. It is as nearly as possible self-con- tained and it does not want to be anything elm. Socially, we are not likely to approach very close to the Chinese village. We have a. differ- ent outlook. But economically we are working toward it.--Vancouver Province.

Behind the invention l; the in- ventor; behind every discovery there is the pioneer; behind each new thought there is the thinker. Th)". thinker is thus the real ruler of the world. l-fe initiates new ideas. is behind each great advance, and really it is he who determines the line along which mankind ‘is des- tined to advance. The thinkers are the world's real leaders; can we not say that they are the world's, rcal rulers? The pen is mightier than the sword!

Dcvalera. in his speech ypoterday spoke of independence but not sep- aration. Every other Etnglish-speak- ing nation would rcjoire if the div- isions in Ireland wen: healed by mutual consent. A united Ireland could determine her own political yfuture. The Free State lihs that right now.

A radio speaker lust evening over a, United States station attributed to Di mmond, the Canadian poet. the statement that when, on an international train. you heard a baby crying, it would not be a Can- adian baby. The ictc E. E. Shep- porrd used to say that whenever he hoard and saw a baby crying on a train it was always in the lop of a mmher with bad teethr-Toronto.

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_ and overweight especially after middle age, is a decided liability.

Dr. L. H. Newburgh, Ann Arbor, Michigan, has been investigating the amount of heat lost by over- weight lndividuals when they are at rest. He was able to measure the amount of insensible perspirgt1cp_ not the drops of sweat that roll off the skin, but the moisture that is on the skin but not seen. This, u Jrou know, is the way the body gets rid of its heat. ‘

l-Ie is convinced that all over- weight, persons will lose weight when they are underfedand, what is~more important, that these per- sons have all become fat simply and solely because they have eaten too much.

He tells of a fat man who had enormous masses of fat in various parts of the body whose weight was 560 pounds. For a year he was fed only 300 food calories a day in- stead of the 3000 or more calories Drevivuslyeaten. This took off 287 pounds. During the second year he was given 600 caiories daily. and lost 93 pounds more. He now W91€hed 194 pounds. a weight that was considered satisfactory for his height and he was told to keep his weight at 194 pounds by careful selection of his food. Nine months later as he still weighed 194 pounds, he was told that he had lost a sufficient amor .t of weight for his build and height.

This case teaches that practically all cases of overweight, no matter what has caused the overweihgt. can be reduced by cutting down on the amount of food eaten.

Howeverthis was an exceptional case and the average overweight, even if 100 pounds overweight, should not attempt such a severe reduction in the food intake.

A simple yet safe method of reducing is m continue to eat meat, eggs. oi- fish once 0r twice a day, and cut down on fat foods—but- tel‘. cream. fat-meat-by one- nuarter or 25 percent .and also out down on starch foods potatoes. sugar, bread. pastry-Jay 25 per- cent. A'1 liquids should be cut down by One-half as liquids from a great part of the excess weight of the body.

Fruits and leafy vegetables should be eaten in the usual amounts as they satisfy, the appetite and pre- vent acidosis, which is liable to oc- cur during weight reduction.

A Grim Ordeal

(Winnipeg Free Press)

03319318111118 t0 reduce the death toll from auto accidents. the hos have decreed that major traffic violators make visits to the city's morgue-to sec the mangled victims of careless driving by others. This must be a pmty grim ordeal. and may serve some purpose in bringing graphi- caly to the attention of selfish drivers what might be the results of their ovm thoughtlessness.

Surely, however, there is no need for such drastic, emotionally-de- pressing features towards the ‘, average driver involved in p. breach ;of traffic regulations. And for the others who are habitually careless, something even more effective seems to be necessary; the first of which should be a more f _ ‘ ‘application of the penalties provid- .ed by law-and if these penalties are not sufficient, they should be stiffened.

fe-rlority forced upon them under , the Vermilion Treaty. Although re- amiamegit is undoubtedly proceed-

plainly Budget. the Nazis are hampered in building up their military strength by the necessity which they still feel of not violating too openly the letter of the ‘Treaty of Versaillu. Their policy is one of gradual en- croachment upon the terms of the Treaty without any overact that can easily be tinned by the Lfiflcuei of Nations or by the victors at Versailles as a decisive breach of international obligations. They are breaking down the Treaty a step at a time by the improvement of their facilities for the manufacture of the prohibited arms, by extending con- stantly the military character of the training provided for the Nazi following and for the general body of the German youth, by stretching to the utmost the facilities which civil aviation gives for military pre- paredness, and by pressing continu- ally upon the Powers the need for fmh concessions in the sphere of rearmame it. But t/hough Germany is reerming fast under these limiting conditions. it is bound to be some time before she can regard herself as ready to mand up to her possible enemies in war. Nor is i-t certain that the Germans do mean war. even in the long run; for they would imdoubtedly prefer to secure their objects without tlhe great ridfs to their supremacv which WW1‘ would be bound to inVbTVe. An aggressive war would inevitably bring about a large-scale revival of Socialist qiposltion inside the the country. rt would menace the power of the Nazb from within as well as from without. Therefore I-Ie-rr Hitler, when he proclaims in his v, ches addressed to the world at large the German will to peace, is not wholly insincere; he does want peace-pro- vided he can get without, war every- thing he regards as essential for the re-eshsblislmient of Gremlin great- nessnindheisevenfflfllfiredtogo concession is by no means prepared. That does not need tcmuhe any con- ceaions in practice is because his possible antagonists are fully as re- luctamtogctnwarashelshlm- self. But a peace maintained on these fem-is is obviously of the most

rule make war out of deliberate in- tention, but rather because they, pursue even at the risk of war pol- icies of which the inevitable out- come is a clash of national and im- |oenlal ambitiom which only war can resolve. When sitch policies are pursued by a Government which bass its hold on “the people largely on its exaltation of the warlike virtues. the danger that. the ultim- atemitoome willbewar is bound to be greatly increased. It is imposible to avoid the conclusion that in in- tematlcnai matters the policy of Nazi Ger-many, whatever its inten- tions. makes for a situation calcu- lated to stir up such antagonisms hiliurope nstomakewanifnot inuninent. at any rate probable in the long run."