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THE‘ POLICY COUNTS

Fairly reliable information from “' I authentic sources up to the present time, indicate that Mr. Ben- MU: will lead his party in the coming election, although no defin- ite announcement has yet appear- ed. However. even that much news h cheering to his frlends, and will not be welcome to his nents. Among the latter, it would appear, are many who entertained the be- ‘ lief and the hope that Bennett would relinquish the leadership of his party and place the heavy bur- den of the campaign on the shoulders of one less experienced, less aggressive and practically de- void of the famous Bennett fight- ing spirit.

Indeed it would appear, jildging from some late press comment and the prolific fountain of political gossip, that it is possible a. few, at 1 least, of Bennett's adversaria l were quite pleased with the prospect that he would not pilot his party in the coming election.

This statement does not carry with it even the faintest sugges- tion that any Canadian citizen op- pomd to Mr. Bennett rejoiced in per- sistent reports of his forced re- tirement from the election cam- paign now under way. Though per- haps relieved and encouraged by the possibility that one of the greatest obstacles to the political success was temporarily removed from the scene, not one of them desired that his inspiring personal- ity and natural ability as a leader should be lost to his party through physical affliction. »

In sports and pastimes, as in pol- itics, when the "best man" is not in the lineup of the team, the op- posing athletes immediately take an. ntage of the situation without wishing the absent player further misfortune, but still delighted that he- is not pitted against them in the contest then in progress. But as the game proceeds it is quickly observed that new heroes are re- vealed owing to the absence of the "star" and the game is even- tuaily won without him.

Thus it may be that the satisfying contemplation of Mr. Bennett's op- ponents that he would be absent from the campaign may have arisen

' from the thought that the Conserv- ative party has not within its ranks a man capable of filling Mr. Ben- nett's place. This, we believe, is a dangerous conclusion.

The electors are not voting for “the man" in this election. Rather they are invited to vote for "the man's policy"—whlch was conceiv- ed and. thoroughly explained to all Canadians, and fearlessly broadcast throughout the world by "the man" himself-Right Hon. R. B. Bennett.

All citizens of Canada, quite bsido from party alliance, are pleased to learn that from present

indications Mr. Bennett may be able to ‘lead his party in the elec- tion. But should circumstances con- spire to force his withdrawal from the contest, any member of his cabinet, or any private-member of hisgovernment-even that obscure but faithful public servant co_m- monly referred to as "back bench- cr"—can take Bennett's place for the time being and carry the Con- servative party into office for an- other term absolutely by the con- fidence of the people in the unl- versally accepted economic reform policy of Mr. Bennett.

The voters of Canada well iliderstand and have notjorgotten the domestic trials of the hectic period through which we have rec- ently passed. They also know full well that drastic, but intelligent, government action must be intro- duced and. immediately ratified in order not only to prevent a return of the dreadful depression, but also to ensure that never again, from any cause, will the loyal people of rich and beautiful Canada be sub- jected to such disheartening trial and privaticn.

And we still believe that Mr. Bun- nett will be "the man" who will ' - have the extreme satisfaction of _' ' putting his own policy into effect for. the material rcdempt 'n of the

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SPEAKING 0F ASSETS

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contrast these and other Liberal works, permanent or- otherwise, with the enduring monuments which the conservatives have erect- ed. or assisted financially in erect- ing, during their administ ‘ Here are a few of them, as detail- edbylidr.W.A.8tewartina8peech at the last cemion o1 the Legis- lature:

Concrete pavement to I-lilisboro Bridge, done by days‘ labor under the unemploy ‘ relief provisions.

Rebuilding of breastwork along Victoria Park from the Cundall Home to beyond the powder mag- azine.

Annex to City Hall, Charlotte- town, done by the city with the assistance of federal and provin- cial revenues.

Prince of Wales College.

Improvement to the Charlotte- town Driving Park and Provincial Building, a federal undertaking in- volving an expenditure of about $25,000, practically every dollar of which went into the pockets 0i’ working men.

Extension of the water system to Falconwood—a project which, had it been done under Liberal rule. would have saved the Faloonwood buildings from destruction by fire.

New wing at Falconwood and re- modelling of the old Infirmary.

Rebuilding of the Marine Wharf, Charlottetown, a $25,000 federal undertaking, ecessitated by long neglect under the Mackenzie King administration.

Paving of North River Road and road leading to the Provincial san- atorium. -

Concrete pavement from Arm- ouries to Government House.

Concrete and asphalt pavement in front cf the Provincial building; replacing the gravel dumped there by Mr. McIntyre to the annoyance and inconvenience of_the public.

Concrete and asphalt floor and new roof at Arrnourles, Charlotte- .town.

Asphalt road from Hillsboro Bridge to the railway crossroads.

Rebuilding "of butts at Kcnsing- ton Rifle Range, a federal under- taking of permanent value. A large proportion of returned soldiers were employed on this project.

Concrete highway at Borden, ex- tending nearly two miles, built en- tirely at federal cost.

Several miles of cold mixed sand asphalt highway work, undertaken at low cost as an experiment, but which may in large part prove at least as enduring the "McIntyre" highway. ‘

Trans-Canada highway between Borden and Charlottetown, com- menced last summer, which it ls proposed to complete this year.

Morell Bridge, commended in the legislature by one of the Liberal representatives for the district es "a credit to the Province."

Many more projects could be cit- ed—all representing work of as permanent s. nature as anything done under Liberal rule-for which the Conservative Government is to be credited, either in whole or in part.

When these expenditures are de- ducted from the Conservative debt increase of $932,000,—which is the argument advanced by Opposition speakers in defense of their finan- cial rccord-it will be seen that a surplus of several hundreds of thousands of dollars should be cred- ited to the MacMillan Government.

EDITORIAL NOTES

The Queen's County Liberal As- sociation repudlated the proposal to "swap horses crossing the stream."

The Labour Party of Canada has, according in the Canadian Labor Pres, decided to throw in its lot with the Bennett Government and vote for its rc-electlon.

Not much enthusiasm was shown at the Liberal convention on Friday. Regret was felt on every hand at the unavoidable absence through illness of Hon. Walter M. Lea. There is a sad lack of leadership in the party, which seems to be all at sixes and sevens.

intimation is made that 5t. James Kirk will celebrate its 110th anniversary on Sunday 38rd inst. when tin special preacher will be the my. Dr. Alexander u. Gordon of It. Andrew's church. Quebec. since recs, time have been twelve ministers cf It. Jamel. and Dr.

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Notes By 17w Way

The Amalgamated l“ ' w, Union points out in moderate

language to its members the rer-

ious results of some of the unedi-

cial disputes in which it may be-

come involved. injurious as the re-

sult of such disputes may be to the

Union's resources and the interests

of the membership as a whole,. even more serious is tho damage done to the general interests of 'l‘rsde Unlonism. ‘Trade Unionlsm has outlived the guerilla war stage. It is‘ a great organised movement, conducting its business miilhnslbil-

ity and rationallyr-London Daily

Herald.

Ontario and the Dominica Gov- ernment have reached an agree- ment to "complete to a standard" the partially-constructed sections 0i the Trans-Canada Highway be- tween Schrelber and the Manitoba boundary. In recent years there has been much talk of a highway across the Dominion, but great gaps still remain. It is satisfactory to learn that the important section in northwestern Ontario is at, 13st to be completed. especially as it will provide work for some tcn thous- and men.

The continuance of economic re? covery during the early months of the present year was fully demon- strated by the gain of about 9 per cent in the business index 0f the Dominion Bureau of statistics. The index is computed from 45 factors representing production and dis- tribution on a volume basis with 1926 as the base year. The avers e standing in the first four mantis of 1935 was 97.7 against 89.7 in the same period of last year. m: gain of about 9 per cent represents the acceleration in business. oper- ations over one year ago.

The decision is not a solution to the problems and abuses which brought the National Industry Re- covery Act into being. S0 far as the immediate emergency was concern- ed, the act has served its purpose, whatever the court may hold about it. It did accomplish much to put a bottom under sweatshop wages, to abolish child labor and bring a semblance o1 fair competition into demoralized trade. Christian Science Monitor.

Italian papers accuse Great Brit- ain of mobilizing troops on the Ethiopian border. The British Gov-

hood, and it lays a protest with the Italian Government. The Rome Government must take responsibil- ity because it has made the press of the country its mouthpiece and denied every newspaper the right of having a mind of its own and of expressing views that are not om- cially sanctioned. Mussolini cannot dodge the issue.

The plight of the man without means and without country is one to move the mcst indifferent. Not Since the Dark Ages has the world known so many in that plight. The deputation that yesterday up- proached the Foreign Secretary on the refugee question spoke not about hundreds but about hundneds of thousands of those driven by political intolerance or racial dis- crimination to this desperate emer- gency. Russians who fled the Bol- shevist tyranny, Germans who have escaped the Nazi Terror, Armen- ians whom no nation has yet ab- sorbed, Assyrians who lodk to con- tlnuing one of the world's oldest races in a new land—these and others-Manchester Guardian.

An electric machine-gun, capable of firing up to 1.500 rounds a min- ute, has been invented by Private 591F195 BBBnaII. of the 2nd Battalion o: the Royal Warwiclcshire Regi- ment, stationed at Inkerman Bar- racks. Woking. Private Bagnall has submitted his preliminary specifica- tions whlch, it is stated, srrebelng sought by two foreign Porters) to the War Ofilce but, being a serving soldier, he finds that there is little prospect of making much out of his invention. He used to work for a firm of electrical engineers 1n Manchester, and when he joined the army a year ago. he was given every encouragement by his Major. The new gun weighs twenty-seven

eminent says the story is a false- .

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HIST 0F MIND AND BODY NEEDED

When too much .juice ls manu- factured by the thyroid gland of the M611. this Juice hurries all the dif- ferent proceses of the body, just as an open draft in the furnace makes the coal bum fiercely. Thus the nerves, heart, stomach and other organs are under stress all the time.

To lessen the amount of this juice in the system, a large part of the thyroid gland is now removed by surgeons. Should a little more than lS necessary be removed some thy- roid extract is given to the patient daily to make up the necessary amount.

At one time this was considered a dangerous operation and patients travelled many miles‘ to cities where this operation was performed. To- day every first class hospital ha; surgeons performing this operation.

However more than surgical skill is necessary to bring patients safely through this operation and Drs. W. O. Thompson, S. G. Taylor 3rd, and K. A. Meyer, Chicago, believe that next to surgical skill thsmost im- portant factor in estimating the risk of the operation is the condition of the patient before operation. Thus aside from the care with which iodine is given, the emotional iri- stability, muscular weakness, rest, body weight and the amount of in- fection must be considered; the two most important of these being the emotional instability and the mus- cular weaiknes.

Therefore because of the benefic- ial effects of rest patients should- be Prelliined for operation in hospital.

A Kain in body weight is a good Si!!! therefore the amount of food the patient should try to take should be iust twice the amount his basal metabolism test (rate at which his body processes are working when he i8 M118 down at complete rest; shows that he needs. '

In cases of colds in the nose and throat two weeks should elapse be- fore operation is performed and in cases of bronchitis or pneumonia the operation should be postponed four Willis. The time to avoid danger of operation is before operation is done.

The thought then is that rest or control of mind. and- aiso rest of body are important factors in pyg- venting serious results from this necessary operation.

CLOUDS AND RAIN Lo! the earth is your‘ again, Ilhi

Fresher, sweeter aft;-

head, 911 YOU glide with tears to shed, 0ft the sun yoii quite effing, l Underneath the moon you face,

Endless seems your 1115551 g Robed in darkest uniformfle mm

B!" B- dfly dawns, and we view Just the sum-no sign of’ you] And we wonder where you are‘ Picture you in ciimes afar.

Each 218i! brings. up joyous hours, Everywhere are fragrant flowers, All around us sweet birds sing, Heel/en's Joy in everything.

But alas! one day we find

Sunlight mirth has made us blind:

For the flowers now qmop and fad

e Everywhere in field and glsde.

Trees and grass, green,

ghow a withered, lifeless mien;

alféllfllli are low which once we“;

before bright

i8 . Sparkling water-pools are dry.

Helpless men in their dismay In and out of church do pray That the clouds will come again

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Does the following true incident throw any light on the public which now buys or borrows both thrillers and biographer-s in such quantities alike in this country and in the United States? A friend of mine recently lent s. lady a copy‘ of Zweig‘s Life of Marie Antoin- ette. Wlien he met her a couple o? days later she rushed up to him with the words: "I'm in the mid- dle of Marie Antoinette and I'm just crazy about it. But don't tell me how it endsl"--iN'ew Btatcsmsn and Nation.

Austria is reported aa on the verge of political change. Austria has for some years been skirting the edge of one change or another. One came about when the Fascists ousted the Socialists. one was averted when the Nazis murdered Dolifuss. 1t ‘is nearly time for something to happen.

ing in m. Patriot, the alleged "im- morality" of the lihhners Belief Act. etc. What are farmers to ex- pect from Liberals when this is their attitude immediately before m sacrum Shades of all the dead and gone, political economists, what are wctcthlnkof aparty that would deprive the farmer of his

of “cmuoitutlonalltyl” The Great Duke of Wellington once declared ifitimcaogcrisiaitwaatbegcvcm- month duty to make precedents- acttcfcilowtbamlfr. Klngand "JIM." would rather have the

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“T318318 soft, life-giving rain. -—B. C. Lane in Chambcrss. Honoring The Arts

(Mall and Empire) Canada has her first knight of

‘ The Love 0f ‘oers

(Montreal Gamttc) _

ThcPflnocof Waleaonthcoc- cssion of his being inducted a member of the Worshipful Garden- ers Company in Iondon, expressed his great pkuure at the honor conferred upon him. and remarked ontliegrowlngloveoffiowcrsby the people the British Isles. pointing out t, along with cheap- er motoring, the revival of hiking. and longer week-ends .and holi- days, more and more folk have come to know and to country and its flowers. This, His Royal Highness declared, is a healthy sign, and sneaks well for the refined tastes of the commun- ity at large. “Let us have flowers in our homes every day," laid. the »Prince, himself an enthusiastic cul- turist and lover of these blooms. Who does not re-echo this senti- ment? The love of brightness and beauty is natural and instinctive. Mr. Iloord tells how. walking up Euston road with a bunch of yel- low broom in hand, a bootblack stopped him and said: “That used to grow where I lived as a boy." The fondness for flowers belongs to all peoples and all ages. It is not confined to civilian folk. It is found amongst savages and most primitive races. It is common to

art and her flzst knight of music_. l" Edmim Willy Grfor. painter. and Sir Ernest MacMlllan, musician, Knishthwd presumes that a. man has served as well as excelled. and it is reccgnired that one service or duty of the arts is to inspire the imfluinatiori, to feed that part g1 man which cannot live by bread alone. The personalities of these two men have fired Canadian imag- inatlon. Neither man has ever been labelled a democrat, and yet each he: made notable contributions to the public welfare far beyond the bounds of academic or studio gratification.

‘The music public has widened very fast in Canada of recent years. so fast that the growth mg d9. velopinent of this culture have riv- alicd fire, murder and sudden death in the news. sir-Ernest Mac- Milllan has been the "first Oanad- lan in music during this period, and his attitude has been an al- most fierce ‘demand for quality- the wider the public

children and grown-ups, to learned and illiterate. to folk in the arctic; zones and the tropics, to those who would not know what "botany" maens, as well as those who are familiar with the latest textbooks upon this subject, And nowhere is the love 0f flowers more keenly shown than amongst the folk of the manufacturing districts and those who toil hard for their daily bread. Back in the "sixties," Dean Rey- nolds Hole started a campaign amongst the Nottingham weavers in favor oi’ rose-growling. Today on tiu: Mappreley Hills there are miles of this queen of flowers grown by workingmen, a gay belt of floral beauty that can easily vie with any garden spot in England, or with the marvellous blaze of crocuses along the Trent Valley. This is but one instance of what is being done in the land whose traditions are everywhere associated with the snowdrops. daffodils, cowslips, cuc- koo flowers, violets, daisies, blue- bells, fox-gloves, clambering honey- suckles and, above all, the glory of the rose. ’

It is sometimes said that the art of gardening was lntrcduced int/o England by the Romans. But this is not true. Although it is true that, as Stanley Baldwin once ob- served, the Roman legions did a greater work in bringing certain blooms into %igland than they achieved by their wall 01' shields and the power of the sword. Gard- ening began in the British Isles long before the Caesarian troops set foot in the land. It was given a great impetus after these forces were withdrawn. and during tltn time England was a summer resort for Roman magnates. It was stim- ulated after the Norman Conquest, and after the crusading period a large number of plants and flow- ers were imported into the “Isle set like a precious stone in s

‘silver sea." But for the revival and sustenance of the floral craft. England owes an immeasurable debt to the devotion of the monks who grew herbs for medicine and flowers in the gard- ens of the monasteries and sbbeys for use in the sanctuaries and for decoration of the altars and placess of worship at the great religious festivals. Flowers were borne as badges by the knights and took their place in heraldry. They were used as offerings by the people entering the sanctuary for worship on the Sabbath day, They were carried from place to place by monks and pilgrims and so spread over all Christian countries. It would need a book to recite all the flowers which were named after saints and martyrs and given in one way or another religious titles. I-low many of our common flowers are thus dedicated to "Our Lady?“- "Maryzs gold," "lady-grass," ‘lad.- ie's bower," “ladies mantle," "Ma- donna lliy," etc. Then “sanfoin," or “holy hay," supposed to form the bedstraw of Our Lady in the Bethlehem manger. and includin; such well-known blooms as the ya). Iow-rsttle, wild thyme, spearrnlnt,