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THURSDAY, JANUARY, M, 1939 Some Treaty Anomalies

Canadian Business, organ of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, is authority for the statement that there is strong demand, froin both social organizations and industrial concerns, that ‘Canada denounce the trade agreements with Germany and japan so that they would be re- moved from the itiost-favoured-ilation basis and thus be (lcprived of the benefits now conferred on them autoniaticallv by the new trade agree- ment with the United States.

“Catiatlians," says the journal above quoted, “cannot see why they should be friendly and gen- erous to the flictntors who have seriously threat- ened British interests oti three continents, and especially they do not see why they should con- tinue to give them tariff concessions when, from past experience, it is known both Germany and japan will buy goods from Canada no matter what the fiscal relations. Canada is iii the posi- tion of being a great producer of many of the commodities essential to the prosecution of war by whatever country, on the face of the globe.”

(This is one anomaly that has arisen under the new US. treaty. Allegedly negotiated in the in- terests of the democratic countries, it extends the tariff concessions given by Canada to the dicta- tor nations which are today threatening the very existence of democracy.

Another unfortunate situation has been creat- ed by the removal, under the terms of the treaty, 0f the three per cent excise tax. Only the items on the schedule are affected. It is regarded as unfair to Canadian producers, who are still fac- ed xvith the tax on raw materials, whereas fin- ished products entering into competition with their goods in other countries enjoy the removal of the tax. As a result of many protests receiv- ed at Ottawa, the Minister of Finance issued a statement to the effect that when the necessary legislation would be introduced it would remove “any unfairness that might otherwise be expected to result from the exemption from the tax of the particular articles enumerated in the agreement."

But, as Dr. hlanion pointed out, in making this concession, which means removing the tax from other articles not mentioned in the schedule, how will it affect the treaty? “Did the British know and understand that a number of other concessions were to be given? Did the people of the United States know? Did we know that we were going to give a number of other con- cessions? My suspicion is that we did not, that there was a lot of bungling done. Now they find, after having made concessions of the u t mo st importance not only to United States but to japan, Germany and Italy, the three dictator nations, that they are going to have to make more and get nothing in return: that when they bring in this treaty and deal with it in this House they will have to suh- mit a long list, probably much longer than that in the treaty itself, of materials and Articles from ‘which the three nor cent excise tax will he total- ly eliminated. \Vhat return are we getting for that extra concession to the United States and other favoured nations?"

Dr. Manions conclusion was that "evidently this Government works on the principle that it is more blessed to give than to receive, forgetting the other principle that charity begins at home."

Farm Problems Discussed

Reviewing Canadzis agricultural problems in a series 0f articles in The fiarmer’: Advocate, the editors state that the situation “has been growing increasingly worse for eight years and in all that time, outside of the Ottawa Agree- ments, there has been nothing but emergency measures, temporary adjustments, and waiting, like Micawber, for something to turn up. So far as up-to-date government policy is concern- ed—policy designed to adapt Canadian agri- culture to the gradually changing economic

conditions-—tht're has been a drought just as devastating as the long dry period on the Prairies."

The cure, The [Tanner's Advocate believes, lit-s in a planned programme of production and marketing. replacing the present governmental policy of “drift and inaction." In the meantime.

_it offers the following suggestions for “partial remedies that may bring immediate results":

f. That a much larger volume of Canadian- grown grains be fed to beef cattle and thus make them more acceptable to markets in Can- ada and the United States,

2. We have filled only a little more than 6o per cent of our bacon quota in Britain and we cannot complain too effectively about grain surpluses while this market will take another million hogs. .

3. Expansion of the Canadian cheddar cheese industry, over a period of time. to an export basis of fifty million pounds. This would re- quire concentration on quality production and orderly, consistent marketing. It is stated the uallty of Canadian cheese has been ‘slipping in

te past two years and. if something is not done to restore the industry we shall eventually surrender to NevrZealand our ever-weakening claim to a place in the British market. accuse it is the balance wheel of the whole dairy in- dustry-irrCanadaour governments could very well spend l considerable aunt of money putti

factories in a, position to attritt a mu‘

' on of the total milk produced. of eggs and dressed poultry to Qdom present. oomeopportnnlty

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fine get together and agree upon a system of wage control. These four countries produce B6 per cent of the world imports of wheat and are, therefore, in control of the whole situation.

growers would be able to command a reason- able pricc‘ for export wheat and thus put a stop to'tlic present ruinous programme of over- production which will cventually, if unchecked, bankrupt the wheat producers and reduce the entire agricultural population of the four coun- tries to a state of poverty. The possibilities should at least be explored and our Canadian Government could well take the lead in the matter.

.1‘ Editorial Notes I General Gordon killed at Khartoum this date, i885_ 1 i ¥ I

Senator Dandurand, Liberal Leader in the Upper House, is not sure on which side Canada would be in case of Britain being at \var. This is laissez-faire in excelsis. <

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The religious composition of the Mackenzie King Government is as follows: Catholic, 6; Presbyterian, 5; United Church, 2; Baptist, 2; Anglican, f; Lutheran, l.

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In view of the Royal Visit will the Legisla- ture he called earlier than usual this year? It is customary to begin the session about a fortnight or ten days before Good Friday, which this year falls 0n April 7. Ash \\'e(lncs<lay is on Febr- uary 22.

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Earl Baldwin will inaugurate the lecture- ship at Toronto University founded in hon- our of that distinguished Islander, Past Presi- dent Sir Robert Falconer. It is interesting to recall that when the Guardian carried 0n oratorical contests in conjunction with the Toronto Stat‘. Sir Robert, in successive years, acted as one of the judges in the finals. n- w

It is a strange waste material that is not pro- ductive of some good. The girl who leaves a red smudge 0f lipstick on the drug-store glass may be the enemy of the soda dispenser, but Dr. Preston Yarbrotigh says that she's the friend of public health. The youthful chemist for the Georgia Department of Agriculture explained: “When lipstick lingers on the glass, the soda dis- penser must scrub much harder than usual to remove it and in the process he eradicates many bacteria that otherwise might go down the public throat."

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In I898 Sir \\"illiam Crookes predicted a world shortage of wheat by 193i. He thought this calamity might be postponed, hut not averted, ii a cheap way were found for extracting nitrogen from the air for fertilizer. The cheap way was found. In 193i, for this, among other reasons, there was a world wheat surplus of 400,000,000 bushels. This year, according to the estimate of the International Institute of Agriculture, there will be a surplus of 1,140,000,000 bushels by july I. Just now, the world over, we are pro- ducing four bushels for every three bushels we eat. w w- : v

Of the 69 daily newspapers in Canada belong- ing to the Audit Bureau of Circulations, only six are now sold at 2 cents per copy. Thcse are the Hamilton Syiccfafor, Charlottetown Guardian, Charlottetown Pofriol. Montreal Herold. Saint john TiflMS-Gffll?!’ and Halifax Slur. \Vith the exception 0f the Charlottetown Guardian these are evening newspapers. The morning editions of the last two papers, the Saint john TC/CQVG/I/l- Journal and the Halifax Cliroiiidc, are both 3 cent papers. Canada now has 43 daily papers selling for 3 cents a copy, and 2o dailies selling for 5 cents a copy. Of the 5 cent dailies, over 80 per cent are located in the West.

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Ten young men from British Columbia travel- led all the way at their own expense to Lon- don to enlist in the Royal Air Force. When in- terviewed upon their arrival they expressed sat- isfaction at getting the opportunity to enlist and one of them said: “British Columbia will have the terminus for the Canadian-Australian air service and all the young men there are air- mindcd. The only way t0 travel in the far north is by air. About two hundred have already come to England from British Columbia to join the R.A.F. WVc have all had to pay our fares, but I think if the Government offered to {my the fares there would he 20,000 young men jump- ing at the chance to come over." [low many would there be under similar circniitstziiices in this and other provinces?

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Has dread pneumonia been conquered?‘ \\’c are authoritatively told that while the introduc- tion of stilphanilamifle in the treatment of gon- orrhea, spinal meningitis, child-birth fever and streptococcus infections in general is properly re- garded as the most notable advance made in chemotherapy since Ehrlich gave us salvarsan, yet another milestone is reached with sulpha- pyridine, a derivative of sulphanilamide, which holds out the promise that pneumonia will be entered on the list of conquered diseases. The first reports of British results in pneumonia. with sulphapyridine were received in this coun- try with interests, possibly with some skeptic- ism. Clinicians are so hardened by disappoint- ment that they naturally regard all new “tri- umphs" of medicine with an eye in which there gleams only too coldly the unuttered verdict: “We'll have to test it before we believe it." The tests have been made. And the testers reported at the last meeting of the New York Academy of Medicine. Despite their commendable re- straint and caution there is little doubt that. a

with a single specific the thirty-two different diseases which we lump together as ‘ipneumomafi The significance of this new approach, to pneu- monia can hardly be exaggerated, even though no further progress is madef It so ha ‘ens that the old and those in the prime ofli e are the

‘elsiest victims of pneumococcl. In other words. .

it is the brsadwinnm who fall. Of the cases ‘of sickness-identified annually ‘in this country ‘as, rteumonia fullyz; per mit terminate ti

dine alone there is more than a hope the tnortality rate‘ can ‘be considerably reddeni- - _) , j - e

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great forward step has been taken in treating. M]

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THE CHARLOTTETOWN ‘ GUARDIAN

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ld- behind o 801d ll! , Ill known as "Ublnllllllll I014.” ‘There was not. much of a prloe for It, but. the t-hrlf are of Whit they found. ‘I110 IhUQJOIII-IQQIR affected to damn l except. n. few w o were ant enough

1s the younzst Mayor 1n the pmvlnce. 8f. Marys has had four 01' live young mayors 1n a row. all 1n their thirties, and we have today perhaps the yo est coun- cll ln the province. The average

B89 ls 38 ears. Mayor Dickinson. who has t stepped out, laden with honors ls still in his thirties

Our lncoinlxig mayor, David White

ls younger still. It ls I hopeful alsn to see the actlve yuan-r} men P

of a town stepplng into 1 1n municipal llfe. — St. Marv: Journal-Argus. '

Elnsleln In: been bollluen a good deal when he comes to New York by people who stop him 1n the street and say. “Aren't you Professor Einstein?” The Pro- fessor flnall got the old brain to work an figured out. a dodge. He says with great humility, and in broken Ekigllsh. “Pardon me. so sorry! Always I am mistaken for Professor Einstein." People tum away without saying anything more. instead of asking hlm just what that. theory is really about the way they used to. —The Ne’; Yorker.

Superintendent Johnson of the Chicago public schools is re- placing the old manual training and domestic science sea with new "home mechanics" classes de- Slkned to teach the child-how to handle the many time-saving de- vices that fill the modern home. Parents generally will applaud this enlightened move and many fathers and mothers probably would like to have the advantage of these courses. The man of the house. these days. has to be a combination of auto mechanic, radio expert. electrician and plumber to keep the u per hand on the streamlined app arioes and gadgets of the home. If he does not. know what. t0 do about them when they go wrong he 1s likely to find them more time-consum- ers thtin ttme-savers-more instru- ments of inconvenience than of comfort. -V1ctorls

M. a dinner recently one of the toasts ran: "Woman! without her, man ls a brute"; but the com- positor set 1t up as: "Woman, without her man, ls a brute.” The mover of the toa had a good deal of explaining to do. In

an article on the milk supply 1n large towns, the writer was

made to say: "The mllkmald hav- ing finished milking, a cow offer- ed to take me lrito nu adjoining room. where the milk is cooled." That was perfectly innocent, but there was sheer mallgnltv in the conduct. of the comma which made a Nonconformlst minister declare that. “he wanted to wear no

clothes. to distinguish him from his fellovrchrlstlans " “frhrpligy ended. lmDDflY." recently wrote a. local critic. What.» a difference a comma can makel-Parade. ‘

In the heyday uf- railway travel, during the last quarter of last century. there was a dog pas- senger on the Southern Railway (in those days L. B. and S. C. R), who was celebrated for the regu- larity of his daily journeying. Each morning he would arrive at. his station on the South Coast (still licking, no doubt. like his human travelling companion.» the last crumbs of breakfast biscuit from the comers of his mouth) just in nice time to catch his usual train. Alone and unattended he would take his place in the c m- partment. slttlniz up 1n a corner seat and admiring the landscape through the window: and having arrived at. his destination, some dozen miles or so distant. he would get. out, leave the station and pay a round of visits among acquain- tances ln the town. In the even- lng, always at tho same time. he would be back M: the station again, waiting for the train to take him home. —BBC Listener. mnclon.

That Germany is now going in for spectacular treason and plot trials on the Russian order need occasion no surprise. The totali- tarian regimes are dependent upon social myths and other psycholog- ical apparatus that range far back toward totem and taboo. Sacrifices and macabre spectacles seem to be of the very warp and woof of such forms of society. In the 19th cen- tury men flattered themselves that the human race had emerg-‘d from that sort of thing. We look- pd buck with mlnzled hcrror and

ty to the persecution: and heresy trials of the so-called "Dark Ages". The Salem witchcraft trials un- der the Massachusetts theocracy were seen to be of the same nature as the dark rites of primitive Mexico or African voodoo. The horrendous tales of plots and curi- solracies in Tudor and Stuart England earned not onLv dark but distant. In Amzrlca we were even gettlnfi lwav from the mass orgy of the public hanging. But. withh- craft a return engvtzement, with first. shclwlrvts at Moscow and Berlin. Next? -—Chlcago Daily News. . g,

Ho who possesses an eon- riomical wife undoubtedly has gained a treasure. although there must. be tunes when such u hus- band may with that his partner were less consistent. A mnoushfre man married a girl who, off none too large a wage. ln six veers had not him half-way to buylnglns own house. ‘This Chrlahnas-the husband won a ill-pound turkey 1n a raffle. The bird provided for Christmas d1nnet,.t.n-.-nnd sup- per. Afterwards the hip-band cw- rfed 1t out, u sandwiches ~10 -h!| r Owlafllllhll

carbonated-disposal of the

("t1 bneketwork"). so after unre- _ v rauiovlng w vestlge of meat. foi- further interiors she wont our. to‘ purchase some

oubntlnlftu the mm.- 0n liar retu she - , thnrttio hOlUIQ-h NIILMQKM»; to; mire i-fedlv lhhlnfafifla the, and than ftlll up‘ tnlll ; htlhhdm $91!“ W?!‘ I411.‘ amt" ~~ , ,

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INFECTED TEETH 0R TONBILS CAN SET UP lNFfiTlON ELSE- WHERE BEFORE TIIIY All

when it was found some twenty m thirty years no that infected teeth were the cause of o great many cases of rlieumatlnn or arth- ritis. it. was believed by physicians that. this old 1f not. the oldest dis- ease of man would be cured and prevented. ‘I'm-t a great number of cases are cured and cured oom- letgly by the removal o1 ‘ ' ‘ eeeth has been proven so often that no one would think of questioning tltls fact. However, 1t. is just. as true that a greet. many cases have not been cured despite the removal of all the pallentts teeth. In many cases the rhuein- attsm persbts because much of the poison ls still present 1n thn lower bowel, in the blood. in the joints and elsewhere in the body. also. so much damage had been done to the joints that perfect re- p811‘ or recovery ls impossible. In presenting the Dr Frank Billing‘: Lecture at. the last An- nual Session of the American Med- ical Association in San Francisco,

statement ln 192,0. "Focal infection (infection starting in one part of the body and setting up further infection 1n another part, such as infection 1n the teeth causing arthritis or rheumatism in the knee) as a cause of disease has come to stay. But. like every other principle in medicine, it. has lts limitations."

Why are there failures to cure rheumatism or other ailments by the removal of focal infection — teeth. tonsils, gall bladder?

“Much of the failure in the treatment 1s due to the fact that the-surgeon or physician removes l. focus (one place of Infection such as the teeth) which may be the right one and then nefllects any further management. of his patient. If you have removed the true or original focus you have only prevented any more infec- tion of the tissues by this first. focus.”

This means. of course. that. the original focus or place of infec- tion may have started up a second infection in some other part of the body and this second infection ls really ‘causing the present symp- toms. ‘Fhus infected teeth may be removed but before they were -re- moved they had start/WI an ln- fection ln the tonsils. The infect- ed tonsils could start up further infection ln the joints or ln the heart. An lnfectsd sinus. before 1t was corrected, could have started a middle ear Infection which, 1n tum. has started rheumatkm 1n some joint.

Don't expect. “Immediate results after having infected teeth or tonsils removed.

‘lt ls Still Dubious

(Vancouver Province) The report of Mr. Justice Davis on his lnvestlizutlon of t-he Bren gun contracts still leaves this whole affair 1n a verv duiblztis posit/ton. There is a positive ft&dtink of M

commotion. in behalf the min- ister. his department. officials and the members of Parliament. in-

But; wthat. Mr. Justice Davis dlstfnszulshes as “the ques- tion" 1n tlhls matter. he does not pronounce upon at all.- He ex- lt lo the determina-

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Whatt is tlltls uestion? It ls the question of whe er the Bren 81m Donslble per-sorts surely that question 1s lust BS important as any that ls raised or can be raised 1n this affair.

lit ls idle to ocrmrienlt upon flhv detrree of responsibility for a. thor- oughly unsatisfactory lnvesl-lzutilcn. as 1t falls between the Kim 80v- emment and tlhe lnvestlizator. The judge seems to a-sstune as a mat-