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"Mein und Gott" wasafamiliar ex- pression on the lips of the Ex-Kaiser of Germany‘. It implied that he was always in the right, that whoever ventured to oppose or criticise himl must be morally as well as politically reprehensible.

The Hon] _W. M. Lca, since at- taining the Premiership, seems to labour uhder the same dangerous delusion. In his budget speech he, went so far as to hint darkly about “what they woulddo in the South- ern States" to an Opposition news- paper that had the temerity to offer such criticism as he, Premier Lea, had been subjected to.

The Southern States, as our read- ers are aware, is a section notorious for the barbarous and inhuman practice of lynching negroes, without trial by jury or regard to the univer- sal precepts of justice and Chris- tianlty.

Was it this shameful practice that Premier Lea referred to with ap- parent regret that it was unknown in this law abiding Province? Cer- tainly that was the inference he left; ma it. is one which we doubt ff even the lbcKaiser, at the height of his silly and blasphemous pretentious, could have thought of.

That the leader of a Government of any province in Canada. or any country under the British flag would

so far forget himself as to mention, with seeming approval, the murder- ous episodes of mob tyranny and in- justice that have blackened the re- cord of the Southern States will be heard with shame and astonishment by all classes of our citizens, irres- pective of politics.

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fiemier Lea (he really must ex- cuse the repeated reference but he is the only spokesman for his Gov- ernment, and it is unpariiamentary to refer to the officials) has so little appreciation of the importance of constitutional Govemment that he would willingly substitute a. Soviet dictatorship of three unrepresente- tive citizens to try and get him out

of the deep hole into which his dependence on his officials has landed him. The Premier

had a, safeguard which he cav- alierly cast to one side, viz, the External Auditors. According to the Government they could get along nicely without these independent outside sorutineers, their officials were good enough for them. Now, we presume, Premier Lea would give half his salary to have independent External Auditors to fall back upon. But provincial administration is too important a. matter ‘to be at the mercy of those whom experience alone teaches.

DAY, APRIL 23, Stewart amid laughter and applause. "that my hon. friend's will ever bring him into Westminster Abbey; but I am afraid if he is n.1-

lowed to remain in power for the next four years this Province. 111101!"

worse than that.” i As often as Premier Lea repeats

ton Sanaoorium adversely affected

new Sanatorium, just so often will it be necessary to repeat that the

jective of the Sanatorium campaign was $60,000 and the total pledges re- ceived amounted t0 $76,000. It was the objective of the Liberal organ and party to whitewash Mr. Lea and his colleagues in the Bell Govern- ment, under the cloak of the-Sana- torium campaign, that was affected by The Guardian's exposure. That is what rankles! subscribed towards the torium, realizing the necessity of such an institution, but they did not forget to whom, they were indebted for the loss of the Dalton Senator- ium; nor, as we said before, are they likely to forget it so long as Premier Lea remains in public life.

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ially, will be in a. place very mlwh

What Rankles

he insinuation that The Guardian's xposure of his negligence in felling o secure compensation for the Dal-

he fund raisins campaign for the

nsinuation is unjustified. The ob-

The people liberally new Sana-

The Motorist Pays

Readers have been reminded in the past that the motorist who gives a “lift" to a weary Wayfarer incurs thereby a. very definite financial re- sponsibility for the safety of his passenger. To step on the accelerat- or instead of the brake when some- one raises an imperative hand from the side of the road may seem sel- fish, but most people will consider it justified by the hard facts of the situation and the unpleasant exper- iences of kind-hearted drivers.

A case in point, is cited by the Ottawa Journal. One R. Bardwell, of Erin, Ontario, driving on the Brant- ford-Hamilton highway, was asked by a. woman for a. "lift." He acquies- ced, and shortly afterwards his oar collided with another and the pas- senger was injured. She sued Bard- well for damages, and n. judge has warded her $2,000. Her husbandyfn the same action collects $735 for loss of his wife's house-keeping ‘services.

Editorial Notes

A Government that is in the hands of its officials is like a. teacher ruled by her pupils-the only progress possible is toward chaos.

Premier Lea says his Government will go to the country on its record.

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Notes by the Way‘

The British Merchant Marine l: intent upon recapturing the speci‘ record on the Atlantic Ocean, whic!

it held for so long. The new Can

adieu Pacific Railway liner, thi Empress of Britain, which sailet down the Clyde the other day, and which is shortly tn make her first trip to Canada, is regarded as a vessel which may travel faster than the Bremen and the Europa, the two new German boats which last year outrun the Mauretania. The Cunard Company, which owns the Maure- tania, has now under construction two 1,000-foot,,'13,000-ton. $33,000,000. good-passenger ships. They are designed to maintain a. weekly ex- press service between New York and Southampton, and thus to recapture the age-long British domination at sea. The first of these twin ships is still known as No. 534, and it has n0! y" been announced what she will be called when she is rfifldy 10? christening.

Mr. William Irvine M. P. has been telling Parliament (probably I105 more than 50 members as much as listened to him) that unless action is taken the present session to com- pensate agriculture for “the burden which it is carrying." than Confed- eration will eollalpse. What “burdens" is Mr. Irvine talking about. How. or when, or where does the traiff im- pose hardships upon Western farm- era? There is no burden of high pric- as, Prices today are lower for every- thing that the farmer buys or con- sumes than they have been for yell"- That being so, and seeing that the agricultural classes in Canada are more exempt from taxation than any other class, and that they enjoy comparatively low freight rates, and have largely been marketing their grain under their own tic-operative system, what is it that Mr. Irvine l5 driving at? What. Specifically. is his indictment? Or his remedy? Mr. Irvine has no specific indict- ment, and he has no remedy. When he speaks of "burdens imposed by the tariff" he was just parrcting the ery of somebody else who didn't- know what he was talking about.

Western farmers, we- must Dem"? ourselves to believe are not a lot of morons. They are a million miles above the plane of intelligence upon which some who profess to speak for them would have us place them, and there is not one chance in ten mil- lion of their seoeding or of their wanting to secede.

As a theory, Communism has its merits; but as it has worked out in Soviet Russia it destroys human val- ues in order to create material things, whereas American industrial de- mocracy, with all its faults, at least releases the energies of every mem-

ability and diligence. The way back to complete pros- cialism. We have to get back on the

to avoid in the future a. recurrence of our present troubles.

An automobile going an estimated 45 miles an hour, struck a ten-ton street flushing machine and carried it 51 feet.

If an automobile weighing any- where from a ton to a ton and a. half will do that, what will it do if it strikes a hiunan being? Another automobile? Where is speed safe and where dangerous? How fast can I “react" to danger signs? l-low quickly can I stop my car at 3), 40, 50 miles an houril-For the sake of safety these are questions every motorist ought to ask himself and answer.

ber of it and places a premium on

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highway of individualism if we are

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THE l8 DAY DIET TEACHES US A LESSON

You do not hear as much about the 18 day diet now as you did some time ago. You may remember that it. was published in practicailyevery newspaper and magazine.

Just how much good it did for its followers or how much harm will never be known. Physicians will tell‘ you that they have known of cases where the results appeared to be satisfactory and no damage done to the system, and on the other hand there were many cases where tem- porary and even , permanent harm was done.

What was the basis of this diet?

Bulky foods such as lettuce, grape- fruit, oranges, celery, cucumbers, water cross, tomato, olives with eggs, lamb chops and steaks to supply the meat or protein requirements, dry toast for the starch, and tea and coffee to keep the body stimulated till the next meal.

The whole idea was to supply a diet that was bulky enough in ap- pearance to satisfy the eye and yet be quite low v in heat units. The total number of heat units was not much more than half that of the or- dinary diet of most people.

However there was another point that was not taken into consider- ation and that is that much of the raw foods eaten were only partly digested and used by the system. It ‘has been definitely shown that the waste from the intestine was two to three times the weight of the waste from the ordinary diet. As much as 25 to 40 per cent of the food value of the food eat/en still remained in the waste from the intestine.

You can thus see that by eating bulky food, which "filled" the patient although there were not many heat units, and then remembering that a large percentage of these foods were not digested and absorbed into the system, the body did not. get suffic- ient food for its needs, hence the illness and collapse of many persons trying to live on the 18 day diet.

However we can get a lesson from the 18 day diet that is worth learn- ing. That is that the foods on the list are all good foods and if eaten in large quantities over a more lengthy period, say five or six months, some good results might be

Horrors the Censors Hide

(Ottawa Journal)

The world continues to hear much of Moscow's Five-Year Plan. Un- fortunately, and because of Moscow's iron censorship, it hears less of the foundation of misery and massacre upon which the Five-Year Plan is being reared. Only occasionally, and by accident, is the censorship pene- trated, when a glimpse is had of the ghastly inhumanities behind this Russian drive, of horrors which, in this twentieth century, areall but beyond belief. Such a. glimpse has just been given by a correspondefit of the Chicago Tribune.

To Russia, not long ago, the Chic- ago Tribune sent one of its .most ex- perienced correspondents, Henry Wales. Unlike the Canadian Press representative, he was admitted to the soviet Republic, and mi- some weeks past tho Tribune has been Printing his dispatches.

At first they were favorable, Mr. Wales was taken to the Russia tim-

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‘No Government of which I~ am

, .1 member will fever enact non- contributory unemployment insur- ance. We will not but. a premium on idleness, and wciwill not put our people on the dole. r The Gov- ernment has before it theaueation of unemployment insurance“ and my hope is that some step in this direction will be taken. But we will uever- adopt- a policy that would destroy men's self-respect!“ These wordfl. fipokeln by g Premier .. “toa,‘,“_‘ XoftheUnity] . ' league of Canada, and repeated in’ ike their streets so starkly effect-in the. House, must. challenge - the country's respecth- All of us are

AN OLD STREET.

4 1 do not like cities that new W, : fast,

shat too imperiously thrust aside The hallowed mtm 1' 0! 0mm“ pride, - a ‘a " Interring the pale beauty of the but Beneath mu L " ' s- ‘ vast.

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ide ‘ With :0 dim shelter where a ghost. familiar with the stripe o! politician i may hide _ who, faced with clamor from some

organization or some section for something, disregards both its dan- ger and its folly, and, thinking only of immediate political or party ad- vantage, resorts to aoothlng,_weascl words, or to anattitude to weak sur- render. How much Canada has paid for such weakness, what it has colt in crowding our-statute books with futile, costly laws, what in has meant "in mistaken politics thatdelayed de- vclopment andretarded prosperity, Heaven only knows. What everybody does know, is that it has been“ one of the thing's that have brought all politics and all politicians into more or. less contempt, that it has marked the. distinction between the shuff- lings of a politician and the courage- -out acts of a statesman. -

For these reasons, and“ for others, the whole country,_ regardless of party, should welcome Mr. Bennett's‘ decisiveness. 'It would have been easy, perhaps politically expedient, to have told thisgdeputation that the Government would "consider" (bless- e_d word) their dempnds, that it was in "sympathy" with the deputat‘ Ins ideas, that their request would have the attention of the Cabinet. _

On the same day, Mr. Mackenzie King‘ received the_ same delegation and the newspaper report-says:

Ofllcers of the league advocated a non-contributory system of in- surance and this plan, Mr. King promised, would be brought before the Liberal party at a- future cau- cus of the members.

It was obvious the Liberal leader said, that impoverished men who were out of work, wei-‘e unable to contribute to an insurance scheme. At the same time "what should be necessary to meet the demands of an emergency and what would be in the best interests of the-coun- try in the long run, should be borne in mind. A measure of one kind might be necessary in an em- ergency, but what would prevent a recurrence of those‘ conditions mightbe something else."

Placetory words, the words of a politician, vote-catching dangerous words. ‘ .

Mr. Bennett is different. The Prime Minister may sbmetimes. do the right things wrongly, may reach his goals by ways that seem unnecessar- ily abrupL-but it at least cannot be charged against him that he lacks courage, or sincerity, or a complete intellectual integrity. He told the Unity Workers, as he told the House, that he would never consider non- contributory unemployment insur-

I feel no certainty that I shall last.

| But here m you, grey city on the m. I take my ease and loaf, and feel that ,1 Am one with all the th1ll88__that use to be, That passed and yet abide. not why I love so much their quiet company Unless it be that I shall never die. --Ralph Mortimer Jones in the Queens Quarterly.

a '1' know

menagerie, they sit with staring eyes. peering from emaciated faces, gray, brown, almost black from crusts of dirt. Their withered hands and fing- ers look like claws and talons. Blld their great masses of matted hair, long, unkempt beards and moustache have not seen shears or razors for months." Some of our so-called economists and our internationalists have been grieved over Canada's action in re- fusing to trade with Russia. Let them considerthis from Mr. Wa1e’s des- cription. . "sprawled amidst ragged bedding and dirty straw, or siting on the bunks with legs dangling these brok- en men sit there day after day with scarcely enough nourishment to keep them alive. Once a. day a tiny ration of black bread and u. handful of barley is doled out to them, and then each one cooks up a rum-s, call- ed stew, and wolfishly devours it. “At night they prowl the city streets rummaging in garbage cans," fighting for the offal with dogs. They are not guarded. A sentry stands at the doorway of the church, but they are permitted to wander about. They cannot escape. The frozen stretches of ice and snow in the pitilesa Arc- tic keeps them safer prisoners then any bayonet, cell or lock. 4 “The townspeople cannot and will not take them in nor give them shel- ter. The netive population watches .""m°y°d- 0-5 the hungry men tramp ‘the streets, mutely appealing for food—they dare not beg or ask for anything. "Nearly all of the Kulakg are middle liked, or at least past forty. Most of them are forty-five and fifty yellrs. or older, as befits men who, by thrift and industry, attained dom- mating positions in their native Villages before their expulsion." There are Dwple who still profess horror over the cruelties of the

sympathy with the poor; he is op- posed to it-as nearly every serious economist is it is a degrading, demoralizing form of paternalism; which, as he says,_“pulls a premium on idlenesa";'which_ encourages the thriftnéss of the worthless and the lazy; which penalizes thrift and‘ en'- iergy for the sake of the indolent and the n-er-do-weil; which paraiyzes self-respect. Non-contributory unem- ployment: insurance in a word, is the

emergency, that is strangling Britain, and which Britain would give any-

cqnnot be confused with opposition to the rights of workers. estly. And Mr. Bennett, since tak-

bee.» srnnuom ‘we sbvrs 4:3 eiuvms l.

ing office, has shown beyond _ doubt" that he is sympathetic to workers. His first act as Prim. h, ‘ister was to call a special segggm Parliament to give men work; , today, because of what he did, , cause he met I. crisis by a comm emergency measure, 200,000 can‘ "ans are employed who would m, wise be'_out of work. 'I‘hose who attacking Mr. Bennett now, whq talking about his being "too m might well remember these ti, No Prime Minister that Canada ever had has been more enei-a and earnest in working for the terest of workers. His whole p0 the very foundation of his _, creed, is to get Canadians work. keep work in this country instead creating it abroad.

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ance, and-damned the , It is the sort of courage that this country is_ crying out for in its pol- itics-or ought to be.

Spanish Inquisition. But the same people. curiously enough, seem de. void of all revulsion over the yum]-

‘lnlquities of Soviet Russia, iniquitjgg that are being perpetrated in our own tune-they swallow whole the stories written and ciiculated by Soviet employes.

In the circumstances, a. Canadian with any decent conception of hu. "Willi-y. with a. vestige of pity and mercy. may be pardonabiy proud q; the Position that has been taken by the Government of Canada. The truth is that Russia, may, 13 an outlaw among the nations, a state marked with the brand of cam, 4; wlllltry rearing a giant edifice of

It is not as some will charge, that Mr. Bennett has-nosympathy with the workers. A few demagogues, a few of the sort-of failures whose chief business in life is towhine, will cry out that Mr. Bennett is "too rich," that he is too aloof. from hard reali- ties, thathe knowaand cares noth- ing of the sufferings-and the hard- ships of workers. It. isn't true. Mr.