firm-a L. ,.,_

. , _ TIIE 5 OIIIIILOTTETOVII OIIAIIOIAI

Morning Dally (Pounded In III!) Pnllllenl. lahllt.-Col. W. Chester 3. Hull?! Vice President. J. B. Burnett. I’. 1- 1. s.mtuy,‘l.leu¢_-col. D. A.‘ uuxtnnon, n. s. o. Idltor and Managing Director J. ll. Burnett. I. J. I

‘ - Anoclate Editor. Funk w-um

sonscnlrnoa as-us use pg year tin advance) delivered to Oil! um per you (in advance) mailed to P. I. Islam! 3;. per year (In advance) milled to canahunllJ.l Members llndlt Bureau of Circulation

Memory is Weaker than Weakest Ink.”

i

“The Strongest '- the

TUESDAY, AUGUST 32, 1939

The First Democra ls

l

All a contribution to the recurrent arguments for and against the value of classical edu- cation in modern democracies, an exchange sub- mits the following quotation. It is from a speech delivered by Pericles in 431 BC., in the course of a eulogy to the nlen who died in de- fense of Athens:

“We cultivate refinement,” said Pericles, “without extravagance, and knowledge without effeminaey; wealth we employ more for use than for show, and place the real disgrace of poverty not in owning to the fact, but in declining the struggle against it. Our public men have, be- aides politics, their private affairs to attend to. and our ordinary citizens, though occupied with the pursuits of industry, are still fair judges. of public matters; for, unlike any other nation, regarding him who takes no part igthcse duties. not as unambitious, but as useless, we Athenians are able to judge at all events if we cannot ori- ginate, and instead of looking on discussion as I. stumblinghlock in the way of action, we think it an indispensable preliminary to any wise ac- tion at all,"

To the utilitarian, it may seem a. waste of time studying classical literature. The value of the classics is, however, that they are timeless. Peri- cles’ speech over two thousand years ago is in line with the latest concept of enlightened demo- crac . What a world of trouble might have been averted if men like Herr Hitler had had the advantage of classical training and all that it implicsl

‘.-

_____________. A Soothing Reply

- The controversy which has arisen between Dr. Manion and Premier King over the ques- tion of unemployment and relief in the Pro- vince of Quebec is attracting widespread inter- est across Canada. The trouble arose a couple

._....

,___._'.._

_.£LU£QS_T 22,3239

year. and give them a chihe to pass upon his hopless and helpless leadership,—to wake him from his four years of sleep at Killgsmere,—— to show its opinion of that address of one hour and five minutes at Toronto, full of reminiscent platitudes and memories of the past, but empty of any recognition of the present or the future, ——an address which showed how completely he has failed to realize any of Canada’s urgent and frightening problems of today.

“That speech, voicing as it did not one word of

hope for our youth or our unemployed, and indeed no constructive word of ally kind, was the climax of Mr. King's four years of com- plete and dismal failure to measure up as A leader of initiative, vision and ccuragc. As a result of that failure, Canada is today suffer- ing not only from discontent and llopelessness, bllt from more than its share of that dissension and sectionalism promoted by Mr. King and some of his followers for the purpose of attain- ing and staying in power, which promotion of dissension Mr. King now brazenly and unjusti- fiably tries to attribute to me." No effective reply to this crushing indictment has been forthcoming fronl Premier King. He now no doubt regrt;ts having drawn Dr. Man- ion's fire, and must feel that in the circum- stances “silcncc is golden.”

Misunderstood

An exchange carries the following story, for the accuracy of which we cannot vouch. The moral, however, requires no elaboration:

The editor of a Kansas paper picked up a \Vin- Chester rifle one day recently and started up the street to return it to its owner. The delinquent subscribers got it into their heads he was on the warpath and a number of them he met in- sisted on paying him what they owed him. On his return to the office he found a load of hay, 15 bushels of com, 10 bushels of potatoes, a load of wood and a barrel of turnips had been brought in.

e-2 EDITORIAL NOTES Richard III died this date 1485, defeated by Henry Tudor- at the battle of Bosworth Field.

It 4- at now

Will the Hitler bluff actually land us in hos- tilities? Having succeeded twice will Hitler attempt a third time, to his undoing?

it n: a- x

A visitor from New York was surprised and delighted with the beauty and weather we pro- vide for tourists and holiday makers. Asked if be brought snow shoes, he said no but admitted he had included several pair of thick woolen

stockings and an overcoat in case of emergencies. la: no: at it

of weeks ago when the Premier of Quebec and Mayor of Montreal headed 8. delegation repre- entative of the Provincial Government and the Municipalities of that Province, met Premier King and most of his Cabinet, and had a dis- cussion on the unemployment situation. The proposal put forward by Mr. Duplessis, sup- ported by the Mayor of Montreal, was that the municipalities should be relieved entirely of the burden, and that relief measures carried on should be financed on a "fifty-fifty" basis by the Dominion and Provincial Gov-enlments. Mr. King rejected this proposal, and told the dele- gates that unemployment appropriations could not be increased, as Parliament was not then in session. Premier Duplesis replied that the situa- tion might be met by the issue of Governor- General's warrants by the Dominion Govern- ment to provide the necessary funds. In reject- ing this proposal Mr. King declared that Gov- ernor-General's warrants could only be issued in unforseen emergency cases, and that unem- ployment relief did not fall within that category. A couple of days after the close of this con- ference Dr. Manion issued a statement in which be criticized the _Prime Minister strongly, de- clared that the rule he laid down with respect to Governor—General’s warrants was too nar- row, that it was a rule the King Government had not observed, and that as I matter of fact millions of dollars had been authorized by Gov- emor-Gcneral's warrants for unemployment re- lief in Western Canada. Dr. Manion’s parti- cipation in the discussion angered the Prime Minister and he attacked the Opposition Leader in unmeasured terms, declared that he was fo- mcnting trouble, creating diaunity, and exploit- ing sectionalism _for political purposes. Dr. Mulion’s most: recent letter is n withering com- mentary on Mr. King's whole political record. A quotation of the concluding paragraphs of this letter is well worth repeating here. "Surely," writes Dr. Munion, "Mr. King, in his ill-temper, spoke without thought, or, per- haps it was with full thought and remembrance of that occasion in the House of Commons when, amidst cries of ‘Shame!’ Mr. King said he would not give u five cent piece to any Province of Canada controlled by a Government opposed to his. That was probably the most shamefully partisan statement ever falling from the lips of a Canadian statesman. "Is he merely carrying out that threat in re- gard to Quebec Province, which so recently cast out in disgrace the completely discredited Provincial Government which had so long play- ed machine politics of the most blatant kind to keep,both itself and the King Government in power? Is Quebec suffering from Mr. King's desire for revenge against that Province's de- claration of freedom from Liberal misgovern- merit? , “Mr. King ought to cease voicing his old, wom-out political humbug about ‘the suprem- acy of Parliament.’ Parliament is, and always has been, supreme, as he well knows. At any time the gttajorlty in Parliament can run out a Govcrnment,—-though his 180 members are so well controlled by their whips, And so fearful of the, _lt_.ot an election, that they are un- ' him out, as they should. ' ’ fimtaw ‘little such words as ‘suprem- cut 3 ,§,war_rant for the C.N, Rail- ‘ was issued on unuury u do Mow ‘ llinlt

slzditlp vice

really mean to‘ Mr. King,‘ I,

th¢~tueelng‘ot that.

few Non“-Allutlc tourists will be allowed to purchase Qili lhflxlnithrut 2'

One of the passengers killed in the Pan- American Airways crash in Rio de Janciro was Professor James Harvey Rogcrs, Professor of Economics, Yale, all original member of the

rm: cnAlu.oljrlsTowN GUARDIAN

IIOTES BY THE WAY

The direct. route toward restoration of national prosperity is the exercise of political leader- ship in eliminating waste and political expendlency in public lrualnus and in the balancing of public budgets. With this as a 5'-81'"-D8 PMM the way would be clear for political leaders to facilitate and co-ordinate Job- maklng opportunities in private en- terprise. Such policies would give more Jobs for nemployed; would create more wealth and prosperity for the country as a whole than Could ever be achieved through continued. debt-creating expan- sion of public spending. _ Toronto Financial Post.

Men of the sea always affection- abely. refer to a. ship as "she. To those who love ships, they are alive. They are made of dead lumber and steel, but once articu- lated into a whole, they take on personality and life. At Antioch, Callf., lay the Hesperldes, a three- master which had outlived her usefulrleg and was condemned to be burned as a menace. The other night she broke her moorings, drifted up the San Joaquin river channel without a pilot, poked her tall masts into high-t.cnslon wires, caught fire and burned to the wa- ter line. Suicide, the old men along the waterfront called it, no less Nonsense, rejoin we landlubbers from our fireside chairs. And yet —t:here is something about a ship —more than planks and plates. These are the very things we lump togcther and call coincidence. —New Glasgow News.

In Europe today there is a de- termined drlve to improve physi- que, and ft. is significant; that chlef 9100118 the agencies set up for the purpose are food councils and committees, In Great Britain 5: Nutrition Committee has been at. work since 1935 and one of its major achlevcmcnts has been to after the nature of the agricultural problem. Vlfhlle previously em- phasis was laid on the economic interest of the producer with safe- guards for the consumer, now the problem Ls to meet, the needs of the consumer whllc adequately safeguarding the producer. 'Il‘nu.s the problem of nutrition is reallv part: of the great. agricultural prob- lem which many countries are try- ing valiantly to solve. —Exchange.

Japan has apparently re:llzed that her plan could hope to succeed only if she obtained complete con- trol of China's trade with other countries, and could bring the foreign exchange supplies so can- tured to the support of the ym. Tlentsln appears to be a tentative step in that direction. If Japan, in vldatlon of treaties to which she 15 a party. persists in this dlrecb

famous “Brain Trust" which President Roose- velt institutcd when first elected. and which pro- duced the “New Deal" policy wllich has been the thorn of contention in the i)Cl‘tlOCl'ZlliC party ever since. lie was (i('SCl'li)(‘(l as possessed of an “cxtraordillary widc persollal acquaintance- ship" with foreign l).'llll\’~‘_‘l'S and industrialists and it was to visit some of these friends that he went to Brazil. -an no: no: The I939 crop of maple sugar and syrup is slightly above average despite a short, late sea- son. It was short of the bumper crop taker. from the maple trees in the spring of i938. Dis- tribution of production by provinces with the corresponding estimates for 1938 in brackets: Maple syrup (g;lllons)——Qucbec, 1,810,400 (2,- 353,800)-, Ontario, 479.000 (570-800); New Brunswick 8,800 (23,300); Nova Scotia, 4,000 (7,400). Maple sugar (pounds) —- Quebec 2,- 715,400 (3,212,100); Ontario, 66,200 (79,000); New Brunswick, 82,400 (118,200); Nova Scotia 3.6.200 (44500)- : t it an Regarding exports of metal to japan, U.S.A. and elsewhere, it is Wtll to bear in mind, Can- ada furnishes about 90 per cent of the world's annual production of nickel, according to the De- partment of Mines and Resources, Ottawa. With the exception of small quantities recovered from the silver-cobalt ores of Northern Ontario, the entire Canadian output of nickel comes from the nickelcopper deposits of the Sudbury area, also of Northern Ontario. Other deposits of nickel-bearing minerals are known to occur in Northern and Northwestern Ontario, New Brunswick, Manitoba, British Columbia and on the west coast of Hudson Bay in the Northwest Territories. 1- is in an

The official news which issues from the Bri- tish Foreign office has for long been prepared by an Australian journalist, Mr. VV. A. Leepcr who has just been promoted to be British Min- ister to Roumania. Mr. Leeper was at the height of his effectiveness during Anthony Eden’srrcgime at the Foreign Office. More re- cently he had been kept from daily contacts with the correspondents anrl had been working instead

served at Riga, Istanbul and Warsaw before joining the news department and at times acted as chairge d'affaires. His successor as head of the news department is expected to be Mr. Charles Pcake, who has been the heart and soul of the department ever since Mr. Leeper with- drew to other duties. t s s . , A thousand volunteers are to be enrolled in Bombay to assist the police in enforcing prohibi- tion and to carry on "missionary work." A census is being taken by the Excise Department of the Government of Bombay of the number of persons who will lose their occupations incon- sequence of the introduction of prohibition in Bombay city and suburbs. A committee will later be set up to endeavour to provide them with employment. Permits will be given to non- Asistics to buy liquor from shops ‘and hotels which ‘are licensed, houses. In Ahmedabad a fee pf Rs. 10 ($3.60) is oollectcd~‘fl-om every permit-holder. In Bom- bay,‘howev.er,,the fee will undoubtedly beltlgher.

on British propaganda in foreign countries. He ‘

and also from bonded ware-

challense to the rights or other nations in China, it would approp- riate for them to retaliate with

economic measures. After two years of floundering in the Chill- ese mlre. Japan's posltlon ls par- ticularly vulnerable to such meas- urcs, the more so as it is her ex- ternal economic sltuatloll, rather than domestic conditions. which gives her ground; for acute anxiety.’ Tremendous demands upon the country for army supplies, for de-, velopment In Marlchoukuo, and for attempts at industrial reconstruc- tion in China have been met. but. not without cost. —— Exchange.

The other night we had the pleasure of listening to a very fine address on the subject, “What Would You Do with a Guy Like That?” An unusual subject most of our readers will agrce and we fancy many of them will wonder just. what kind of a guy our speak- er was talking about Well. he is the man, or woman for that mat- ter, who goes about with 9. long face and Ls always ready to speak and believe 111 of his fellows. If a citizen is trying to do something 101‘ the BGVGMB-Be of his commun- ity. this kind of Elly is looking for a hidden and selfish motlvc back of the good not. If 9. man is suc- cessful ln business or in sport our guy refers to him as a. “lucky stiff" instead of cheerfully giving him the praise that, his success mcrlla. F-‘Very community has guys of this kind. What would you do with them? Like our speaker we con- fess franlnly that we do not know. They are a class of citizens who do not help very much and often do 9. great deal of harm. but what are we 801118 to do about them.-— Omngevllle Banner.

A propaganda‘ film exhibited to young soldiers in French barracks shows five Germans fighting two Frendlmen. No, It is not. intended to demonstrate the superior fight.- lng qualities of the French. It seeks to drive holrne the fact that the future proportion of Germans to French will be five to two it the present low birth rate in F‘r9.nce continues much longer. — Edmon- ton Join-null. >

It is an ugly word In our lun- ¢uege—sabotuge. Originating from the French 'smbot" for wooden short. and applylns to the llama!!- tug of an employers property by throwing oodm shoes into the machinery, ft. now embraces a. far raster field or malicious destruc- flan. It is the menace of an enemy within the gates who, dlstored by 0 lplrlt. of venganee, or working for In enemy. makes it nu bull- ncu to frlntrate the co-operntivo wolthln of other men. It is the 111010 ‘lily in that. the splrltof it: depredatlons in confined to no In angrw no land. -— Hamilton spec-

Ihny u suulnm theatre troupe is rolling its customers in the allies with revivals, played with strdlht facet. of such old menar- dnmmerv. «The Partner’: Daugh- ter. Thu Druntmu and Nellie, the Buutlful-{cloak nroael. "Unhand her vlnahll" "fuss Ire royal - msnt. when worn for virtue‘: asks” me proud saucy. r lam you tn,-tI|0=“fMRt"l — the tumu-

Vhen acclaimed. in Ill emolu-

\

burg lfrtcr uimwcreomfnsly funny ‘

——-an-u_.__

llthat ‘ hub? of yours

uJuuuQ.Iuh.u y

ll.EUUuNltlNt.i TENDISNUY T0 TUBERCUDOSIS AND 30 PRE- VENTING IT

when we learn that the death rate in 1900 from tuberculous was 160 per 100,000 of the population and in 1936 it win but 36, it, would scem that our tuberculosis spec- ialists would be satisfied. As with all research workers, however, we find that they are not satisfied but believe the day will come when there will be no cases of active tuberculosis in our midst. And their reason for believing this is logl:al as we study tm report. of the work done by Dr. William Ogden and nine associates at the Toronto Western Hospital as re- corded in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.

Instead of waiting until there are definite signs of tuberculosis present as found by examination of the chest and Xray, these workers during the past fifteen years have been making tests of cases which have been in contact with -cases of tuberculosis and whose test by vuberculln is posi- tive. The blood serum of these "positive" cases is now tested and they are grouped as in the case of the Wassermann test. (for syphilis). that is from 4 plus down to 1 plus. doubtful and negative

What; happened in these cases thus tested? 'I"Llb€l‘Clll0Sl5 signs and symptoms were found at a£‘.'l‘.% lime after the tests were made in 43 percent of individuals who had given a positive or questionable reaction to the blood serum best/. "Heretofore, without these tests we had no means of discriminating amongst the contacts unlcsa or untll they showed positive sputlun. positive Xray, symptoms or signs. and then actual disease is present and it ts too late for prevention." -Dr. Ogden points out that as long ago as 1911, Dr. A. H. W. Caulfleld, one'of his associates, advocated the examination of the blood serum which would detect a. stag: before tuberculosis actually occurred.

By giving advice as to food and rest. (mental and physical) to these “posltlve" acses. 3. great number of cases of active tuberculosis was prevented.

"In an observed and large con- troiled series of 1300 contacts in 15

years, the number of cases of tu-_

berculous disease was 4 percent compared with 20 percent in un- controlled series."

"fn an observcd and largely con- trolled series of 400 normal indivi- duuLs.. not. a single case of tuber- culosis developed."

——-————-.——

WILD ROSES Against the dim, hot, summer blue Yon wave of white wild roses lies, yvatcmng with listless olden eyes f‘h-2 g‘r’eg;l"lea.ves shutt out. their The tiny’ leaves whose motions

t Are l.lll(1eBh€l'na.ll things or emerald

White butterflies like snow-flakes And broyiln bees drone their homey-

ca . ——Wllllam sharp.

EVEN SERIES

HANIBPORT. N. 8., Aug. 21- (CP)——Hallfax Cardinal; easily de- feated Hantsport. 7-1 here today to even their best-of-five series in

baseball playdowna at: two games each.

lines. spoken in the same way, weren't. funny at all, but genuinely thrilling, to audiences of 1899 and years thereafter. — New York World Telegram,

illassy stomachs Relieved

Every peron who ll trollalod with pa In the Itmnuh and get A bottle of Dr. Evans Stomach Mlxturo um! see how quickly It will re- llcve all dlllreulng symptoms.