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SERVICE eons engaged in the production and marketing of a. natural product may petition the Dominion Gov- ernment and submit a scheme to regulate on" marketing cf such natural product by a local board which will function under the sup-

Iiwaiuie-r. undue a. Ielaro. 1a.: Secretary-

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(JAR FERRY _ There has been considefsble crit- with regard t0 the removal at

the present inopportune time of the the car ferry steamer “Charlotte- lowul‘ from the Borden-Tormentine

mute, the old steamer "Prince Ed- llvard Island" being handling expeditiously the automo- |bile traffic. This criticism appears

_ in; be well justified. Automobile ac- vbommodation on the old ferry is limited, and the cars must bc load- ed on fiat cars for shipment. This lilihculty should have been forseen,

Ind _earlier arrangements made for ‘repairing the s.s. "Charlottetown,"

jwfiicll, we understand, could have

been done in drydock, either at jflalifax or Saint John, before the summer automobile traffic devel- lubed. This year, 1t is alleged, the

‘Canadian National Railways invited

competition by Upper Canadian lflrms, and after tenders had been weceived from the two Maritime

-repair plants and several Up-

' anadlan firms, the specifica- tions on the job were changed qeieral times and finally the boat lwilsfsent in the Vickers plant at

Montreal. There the repairs on the “Charlottetown” are bang delayed due to the large amount of work In the Vlckefs yards, while the Halifax and saint John dry-docks grelooking for work.

Tihaiother complaint is that car drivers cannot obtain return fares they did when the "Charlotte-

13am» was in operation, but. must

the 45 cent single fare both

, on account of the additional work involved in loading and un- loading on flat cars. Thus the ex- as well as the inconvenience oftfie old-time service, which would not have been felt had the repairs

H i. effected before the auto season

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fers of the travelling public.

1" vVhile the "Charlottetown" per- fforried good service during the ex- , qgptlonally severe winter now past, 3 it is no secret that the condition of thgsteamer warranted the earliest Eposlible attention in the way of

;; repairs, and her continuance on :1 thmrcute during the spring season

; was a mistake from the standpoint Lionomy as well as convenience

incapable of

ervisicu of the Dominion Marketing Board established in Ottawa. The local board willbe a creation of those who desire such a, board in a Riven are} and will be administer- ed by them through persons whom they elect to the Board. This board under authority of the lhminiori Board may have power to collect charges or tolls from persons en- gaged in production or marketing of regulated products; to establish a fund for the n y expenses of the board and the creation of reserves or the pooling of returns. The Board will also have power to withhold a product from the mar- ket or to forward it to a specific market and may pay compensation or loss silstainedon an order of the Board, but no compensation shallbcpaldinthecflceofsreg- mated product withheld because the grade is considered unsuitable for a. particular market or because o! government restrictions applying to that market.

A local board may be establish- ed by a pool md the necers ry percentage of voters favouring the scheme to warrant its further con- sideration shall be stated by the Minister.

The Bill also gives the Govern- ment power to limit or restrict the importation of a. product which is competing with a product subject to regulation by a board, and also power to restrict the export of pro- ducts from Canada when it is in the interests of producers to impose such a restriction.

Part 2 of the Bill provides for the determination by investigation of what may be termed a fair spread for the marketing of a natural pro-

duct; and also that persons who charge in excess of such an amount shall be subject to certain penalties. Representations have been receiv-

ed from farmers and their organi- zations, first in Western Canada

and later in Belem Canada, stres- sing the necessity oi the Domin- ion Government enacting market- ing legislation and the Marketing

__ tothe public. Indeed, it is the opin- some who have studied the

ion that the old steamer, ii “"'f!fibted as an oil-burner, would still

Bill is therefore designed to meet their needs.

It is evident, therefore" that the. Marketing Bill is a democratic

_’ , givq: many years of satisfactory ' I wirfler service, while leaving

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the new-steamer available in first-class

: shape for the heavier traffic during

‘J. the spring, summer and

autumn

f: months. Under such a plan, repairs

I.‘ to either steamer could be effected E {without disrupting the transporta-

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" tion service; the wear and tear on

‘ ,,. Ieduced, and her period of useful-

ness lengthened by many years. With regard to the inconvenience t present occasioned, this matter has been taken up by Mr. Justice Arsenault, president of the Tourist Association, who has com- . munlcated by wire with Premier

v upon the authorities the need of

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having the repair work finished as ‘Pbedlly as possible.

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measure to meet the considered and expressed desire of the farmel! throughout Canada.

EDITORIAL NOTES

According to the census of 1831, the ratios of mortgage debt to value of farms was: Hince Edward Is- land, 33.74; Nova Scotia, 40.46; New Brunswick, 88.26; Quebec, 38.21; Ontario 44.79.

A short fruit cwp as the result of the severe winter frosts is fore- cast here. This applies rnore par- ticularly to cherries and apples, but plums. gooseberrfes, black and rei currents are also reported to be affected. '

A great deal of unnecessary hub- bub has been created in Ontario over the unfortunate contreiemps in connection with the Governor Gen-

Notes By The iVay Japn’: survival as a peflple de- pends upon this right to trade. It happens that her population is in- ‘ atarapidratcandthat nature has not endowed her with enough natural resources. She must obtain food and raw 818.6!‘- ials flom other countries, or a large portion of her population willatarveflffl ththieabeoau sell these other countries only the products of her factories. Bhc does not produce gold as does South Africa or sliver as do Mexico Bud the United States. Her economy is. distinctly a commercial r, and she must trade to live. Her factory workers are willing to work harder and for lees money than thcle of other countries, and this gives her the only asset she pos- sesses, comparative advantage in certain types of manuiact —‘ing. If the world will not recognise this position and insists upon placing obstacles in the pathway of her at- tempts to survive, then, and then. only, will Japan fight-Current History.

In Liverpool police court a South- port man has been fined 10s and 1m costs because as a passenger on a. train he objected when a young lady lighted a cigarette and start- ed to smoke. The charge against him was “interfering with the com- fort of a passenger" and the mere male victim had to tender a. hum- ble apology to the maiden. The punfslunent should act as a warn- ing to men to mind their manners whenthe fair passengers forget theirs.

The average man and woman, urlversed in the theories of crim- inology and penology, rightly re- gards the prevalence of crime not only as a scandal and a disgrace. but as a. challenge to society to put in force the tenets of civilized living. We are confronting a meas- urable reversion of savagery. There Ls no blinking or condoning the stark facts flaunfed before our eyes daily in all their lurid and dis- tressing details. Prohibition can no longer be blamed. Organized crim- inols are pursuing their way as vigorously in drug traffic, burglary, racketeering and kidnapping as they ever did i-n illegal liquor traf- fic-Christian Science Monitor.

Onaof the greatest engineering feats of modern times, the Mersey Tunnel, has now been completed and thousands of people walked through it at the Easter week-end. The tunnel is to be formally open- ed by the King in July. It brings together Liverpool and Bottle on the Lancashire and. Birlzenhead and Wallasey on the Cheshire side, four boroughs with a. total popu- lation of close on 1 1-4 millions. On April 3rd, 192g, the preliminary tunnel from Liverpool met that from Birkenhead under the middle of the river. So accurate was the sur- vey work that the divergence for line, length and level averaged less than one inch.

The sllveredvocates have now found a new reason why it is nec- essary to raise the price of the metal. ‘Forcing up the price of sil- ver, we are (old. “would force up production costs in Japan and oth- er countries on a silver basis,” and so hurt them in export-trade com- petiton with ourselves. Merely to provoke the antagonism of a pow- erful nation by a. deliberate blow at its world trade is e. minor matter to the silverites. There is, however, a slight defect in their argument. Japan is not on a silver basis; it is normally on a gold basis and is now on 9. paper basis. Consequently, a rse in the price of silver would not affect its production costs at all. It is true, however, that a further rise in silver would hurt the Chinese, as the preceding rise already has. by lowing Chinese prices. But when the propaganda. for silver wa: in full blast a few months ago, it was precisely to help the Chinese and restore their "purchasing power" that silver was to be raised.

Geneva rumors mention another attempt to get Germany back into the disarmament conference. For the sake iof world peace, that is much to be desired. Nonetheless, to give Germany her due, it se:ms pretty useless for her to go on dis- cussing a. malter that France abso- lutely refuses to discuss. France is utterly set in her refusal to con-

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During 847 nightathe lleepoflfo children and teen age boyamnd, girls (e to 1s) were under observation by a group of psychologists (brain mental phyaiciansLJ-ndtho rebuffs of these‘ observations are ofinterest to teachers. Parents. and the child- ren themselves. ‘

These children. in grouplof twen- ty, slept in single beds each ntted with an electrical device which re- corded any change in position" the youngster made, minute by ‘ ute, throughout the nine houra atay in bed. Each group of twentyohildren remained in these special beds for about fifty nights. " After obtaining a general idea of the normal sleep habits of ‘each child these habits were compared with the effect of a. picture show, of drinking coffee and coffee substi- tutes at the evening meal, the effect of loss of sleep an dthe effect of any that was about to attack the The research workers were Dre. Samuel Renshaw, Ohio State Unl- versity, Vernon L. Miller, Bowdoin College, and Dorothy P. Marquis, and some of their conclusions are: The temperature and moisture o! the air in the room did not seem to have rnueheflect upon sleep. Younger children are quieter sleepers than older ones.

There was less movement and more real quiet restful sleep during the first half of the stay in bed, es- pecially from thirty minutes to one gig one-half hours after going t0 seelns some movie films does cause a disturbance of sleep, espec- ially durlng the first half of the night but if not indulged in too often does not seem to do any harm. If however the youngsters attend too many movies it was found to in- terfere with health and growth. For certain very sensitive or weak youngsters only certain selected films should be seen.

The sleep of children below 10 years of age did not seem to be greatly affected by movies; the sleep of children at the age of l4 to l8 (growing from boyhood and girlhood to manhood and womanhood was most disturbed.)

"Frequent loss of sleep, equal in amount to one-third of the usual amount required, caused by staying up late, will almost certainly lead to disturbances in conduct and to phy- sical conditions harmful to the health in children. Young children and children of weak construction and nervous temperament will show these effects in the greatest degree. Bleep then is most necessary to the health of children; as necessary as food and fresh air.

Revival Is ~ Urged

(Toronto Globe, May 30) The revival of the Churches of Christ College, which at the present is not functioning and which is a preeminent question to be considered during this afternoons session of the All-Canada Convention of Churches of Christ (Disciples) convening in the Hillcrest Church was brought before the delegates last evening by C, L. Burton, Chairman of the College Session. Several graduates of the college were introduced by Mr. Bur- ifin. who declared that he did not believe it was the will of the people nor the will of the Master that the

the Brotherhood. He quggtigngd whether God wanted the college to be disappointment to the people of the Churches of Christ; whether God wanted it to be a reproach to the people.

The College Board, explained Mr. Burton, is only in existence to bring into effect the will of the people, The graduates, he pointed out, were Promising young people.

A series of flve-mixiute addresses on the subject, "What Christ 1-1;; Done for Us." were presented by c. Wfltfifwfirth. Prince Edward island; John A. McKillop. Ontario; Enos Hervey. Saskatchewan; Willard Shelton of the editorial department

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sin-after a long hibernation Hiiberal Political Student" appears

Jqgin in vaudeville in baturday‘: Patriot. He has not cleared the-

cob-webs from his ayes ‘however. His vision is still hazy.

Under a to beading, -"A Hopeless Oaae" he puffs again at bk pioded bubbles of figure juggling,‘ his vanity no doubt in- spiring a hope that repetition oi fallacies may make his “Hopeless Case" less hopeless. Ho evidently does not understand his own fig- m-es; how can the public be wise to his contortions and vagaries? My exposure of these has not been met aifd=1 need waste no further time ‘combating his density.

I will refer again only to one bbaurdity. Because in 1003 en ov- erdraft of $650,000. ts shown in the Public Accounts, every dollar of which is accounted for in re- buildin Faleonwood and the Prince of W es College and relief costs.

ms.- attempts to conjure it into an unpaid part of the Lea Govern- ment overdraft of 1930, three years previous. What stuff to dish out to readers with common sense?

In bold capitals he quotes my

statement, _ "THIB WIAS ELBO- TION YEAR” ‘with the puny as- sertion that it was “an example of (my) his deceit," and that,-“it certainly was not provincial election year." I did not say that it was. al- though ln the campaign sense I would have been justified had I done so. It was a Federal election year in which the fate of two gov- ernments were intensely interested imd in which the Provincial Liber- als clutched at every straw to es- cape the deluge, In Prince County, their one gleam oi’ hope, even fhe ps- ’ i enforcement was tamo- ered and exploited to save their candidate from the whirlpool which engulfed their three other Island aspirants.

It was also provincial election in the political game in that the Lea Government's financial show- ing up to December 31st of that year would be the fighting ground when they went to the polls a few months later. And it was that de- plorable record. which in this Pro- vince was properly interpreted by the electorate, which resulted in that avalanche of votes which bur-- fed the Liberal candidates almost to extinction in both federal and provincial elections-

The old axiom that “a lfsr should have a good memory" still has its inferences, although I prefer to charitably believe I am dealing with ignorance rather than deliberate falsehood. In his original letter he sought to credit the new Nova Scott», Liberal Government with bonding the overdraft “three months" after. When I pointed out that the Nova. Scotia Liberals were not in power at that time he make a. characteristic Gyrator coniortlon, quoting the Hon. Mr. Fraser as saying,—"’l‘hls is to fund a sum of $2,000,000. that the bank has been carrying as an overdraft for two years." when we consider the fact that l-lbn. Fred Fraser was a member of the Conservative Gov- ernment, we would surely appreci- ate that this creditable deal was traditional Conservative policy. which this Liberal propagandist so deliberately tried to steal for his party benefit, and the credit for which his opponents were entitled

college should not be supported by to

"Liberal Political Student" should also try to Oultivate some sense of proportion, just sufficient to under- stand that a. large province lzke Nova scotia, with its many mil- lions of revenue and vaster resour- ces could carry a $2,000,000. over- draft with comparatlve ease where our small Province with little more than $1,000,000. revenue would be heavily overdrawn with an adverse "balance of one quarter cf that amount.

When yvith “grave anxiety" he asks such questions as “cost 0i’ ad- ministration and the personal ex- pense" I refer him to de.ails of the Public Accounts. and more par-

cept enemy bombers.

mtrvnieiy rspid_elimb to 009m- tionel "heights of 20.000 feet and more, linked with great speed. are

within that year, this illogical Gy- "mm

Warning of the approach of the enemy might not reach the aero- dromes, even with the moot effic- ient methods of location and ob- servation, till the raiding forma- tions were over the coast.

Ln the brief space of time before the bombers would be in Pboition to drop their mhsllea on lnndon the interceptor‘ fighter must ritsc from the ground, climb probably toabelghtoffouriiiileaandcetefi them. A further essaitial detail c]

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Too milch distance must not be lostin the “ ‘ process. The "Fury", therefore, is designed to mach a height of 20,000 feet in 9 1-2 minutes. while still maintain- ing a forward speed of 150 miles an hour over the ground.

airplane derives power from a Rolls-Boyle super-charged ‘Kest-rel" 535-600 h. p. liquid-cool- ed engine. Except for some of the wing components and the usual fabric outer coverings, it is made entirely of metal. In officialtrials on the production type adopted by the Air Ministry the “l"il.i'y", with full military load on board. at- tained a speed at a height of 20,- 000 feet of 20'! miles per hour and a maximum level speed-mt 13,000 feet-of 214 m. p. h. Its armament consists in two Vickere machine- guns, which are mounted in the top engine oowling and fired i-hfmlsh the disc swept by the air- screw.

A modified form of this magni- ficent biplane is the fastest milit- ary aircraft in the world, attaining last year in official trials on the power of a special “Kestrel” mot- or the amazing level Speed of 250 miles an hour. Within the past few months this craft has been rebuilt, and still higher speeds are expected

Why Not More Definite?

(Ottawa Journal)

Dr. Stephen Leacock, Professor of Economics and Sociology at Mc- Gill University, is reported to an. nounce to the world that the great present lack in the world, of course particularly including Canada, is honest government by honest men. Which by implication means that in the world just now, including vflrilvvlariv Canada. o! which Pro- fessor Leacock knows most, honest government by honest men does not much exist. Unless such gov- ernment can be got, Professor Lea. Mk intimates. present civilization Will so to the demnltlon bow- wows.

versity, at the head of the Depart- ment of Economics and Sociology, Prof. Ieeoock with eagle eye has discerned what is hidden from the observation of some of the 10st, a! us. Eynie. by the wsy, since we have used a word which has var- ious implications, is defined by the Oxford Dictionary as meaning among other things "nest of a bird oi’ prey, especially an eagle, or of

Frwn his evrle in "McGill Uni- ,,

of their govemmenfa in the main, and of the great majority of their public men.

But Profesor Leacock, to use the words he does, must know of many dishonest governments among us and of numbe n of d‘ honest men among our public administrators, Indeed, he must know e. great deal of inner doings in our politics, and of the characters of our public men. Indeed, he must have private know- ledge, personally, that few of our present hundreds of governments or public men in Canada are honest, otherwise he would not be justified in issuing his present clarion call for wholesale renovation in the way he does. Now, with the knowledge he has acquired in his cyrie, would he not help us all by citing blunt- ly, and by name, what important government in this country of mere- ly the present time (which of course the Professor knows most about) is dishonest? Or what gov-