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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1931

World Grain Conference

The world's grain exhibition and conference, scheduled to open at Rie- gina, Saskatchewan, Canada. on July 35, 1932, will be unique in that it will constitute the first venture of this kind ever held. The generous prize money offered, and the exceptional opportunity that presents itself for the gathering of valuable information and data in connection with the grain industry, has riveted the atten- tion of the agricultural world upon Q avent which will be one oi‘ the most outstanding features of that year.

To date, eleven countries have ac- cepted the invitation to attend, and there is mnple evidence to indicate that at least fifty countries will be represented at the conference when it Ls opened. Those countries who have signified their intention of sending repraentatives Italy. Peru, Yugo-Slavia, Guatemala, New Zea.- land, Czccho-Slovakia, The Nether- lands, Belgium, Poland, Siam and India, and a recent report- discloses that the maize growers of Southern Rhodesia are contemplating represen- tation. By July of 1932, it- is fully ex- pected that every country in Europe

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will be represented.

The exhibition will be held in a building (which is being erected ially for the purpose. construction of

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xrhich will be started in February of this year. and which will have a floor space of approximately 170,000 square fcct. The building itself and the dec- oration, appropriatc for the‘ occasion,

will be among thc most interesting

things at thc c-x ' ' on.

A big field vnakcs for kecncr coin- lzrLtion. and it is anticipated that tile "$31111. cf tho new building will be u" cf mtuiy friendly battles lcl auprcmicy in the (liflercnt

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Tire Pourw of Stalin

The casual reader of Russian news, noting frequent and apparently unre- laterl announcements cf the rise and fall of personalities in the party and government, can form no adequate conception of the trend of forccs since Lenin's death 1923. In truth. says Edgar G. Furniss iri an in-

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formative article in the Fribsuary is- sue of Current History, thc past scv- en years have witnessed a thorough- going revolution in the pohtical struc- ture of Russia. Of the original party membership not more than a fifth remain at the present time. Of the group of leaders who formed Ruins general staff En 1923 Stalin alone holds power today. The Lenin opened thc way for dissensions over matters of policy and the distri- bution of offices. Stalin at the time was one of humblest of the countrys leaders, occupying the comparatively unimportant office of party secretary. This office he used to win the support of the local party officers and through them to control Ia delegations to the central party conferences where the "line of policy" S approved; and to attach to him- self a majority of the members of the all-powerful Political Bureau through which the party exercises control over the ‘govemment.

Gaining power by these means to detennine the policy of the party, Stalin has proceeded to destroy every one who ventured to oppose him.

Trotsky, representing the extreme Left Wing, was the first to fall; and

when he attempted to reinstate him- ‘golf through 5 breach of party disci- pline he was driven into exile. Kam- dnsv, zinoviev and Radek, alter sid- ing Stalin in his fight against Trot- fly, were forced into oppositi -n and reduced to impotence. Now Tomski and Rykov, also Stalin's allies in the earlier lnt-raparty struggle, have been condemned as too conservative and .. ‘uced to the ranks. chicherln of the old guard. for many year's Rus- sia's Foreign Minister, has been re- plz-rsd by Litvlnov, a younger man and o :- :1“ u‘ Stalin Lmischzr-

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sky 11.1.. 1...; 1.4 post as coprmiasar of ylidate in an mgltituenoy; U‘

death of ,

, longer functions,

Education. Bukha-rin is without influ- ence’ and holds his place only by ab- ject subservience t0 Stalin's will. Not even in the height of Lenin's power was the dictatorship of Russia gath- ered so completely into the hands 01' a single individual as at the present moment.

U ncorwincing

Mr. R. J. Deschman, free trade advocate. cut a sorrler figure at the textile tariff hearing than the brief despatch published in FTldays Guard- ian would indicate. Attempting to con- strue a reply of Hon. CJ-l’. Cahan into s statement that western farmers should not have clothes, Mr. Desch- man was at once called to task and made explanation that his remark was intended as a. joke! He then claimed that a. duty of 96 per cent- is imposed on those kinds of clothing which are most commonly used by farmers and workingmen. this statement Hon. Mr. Cahan replied that the duty is not being paid be- cause the clothes are not imported. At the conclusion of Mr. Deachman’: protest, R. P. Sparks, speaking for the garment. workers, made a broad denial cf the allegations made. Fur- thermore, he said that Canadian farmers and workingmen are getting their clothing cheaper today than at any tlmein the past 24 years. In place of prices having increased since the tarifl was raised. they had declined.

cried in Canada and 14 others were coming. The only illuminating state- by Mr. Deachman was that the organization he represented -'thc so-called Canadian Council of Agriculture-As as hostile to protect- ive duties on foreign agricultural pro- duct: as it~is to textile tariffs.

Mr. Deachman is either a poor ad- vocate. or he had an uncommonly shoddy case to present before the fed- cral minsters lost week.

ment made

Should Visit Maritimes

Canada is to have the privilege for five months this year of entertaining twelve head-mistresses of English and Scottish schools. Their aim in coming here is to acquire a personal knowledge of Canadian universities and to investigate the possibilities of girls finishing their education in this country after a secondary course at home. It is to be hoped that in map- ping out the itinerary this section of Canada will not be ignored. as has too frequently happened on other oc- casions.

Editorial Notes

Canada's average yield in potatoes last year was 142 bushels per more, the total yield being nearly 82,000,- 000 bushels.

The entire population of Grind- stone Island, of the Magdalen group in the Gulf of St. IAwi-ence, turned out to greet an airplane carrying 000 pounds of mail. Bbrmerly, tho island- ers were cut of! from the outside world during the winter months, being com- pletely isolated- Now they receive mail periodically, thanks to the alr-

- plane. which ls rendering like service

fto residents of the outposts in Nor- ‘ thern Canada.

Our local contemporary professes to deplore the fact that tho King Government Tarid’ Commission no and that tariff

hearingsnoweome dinctlyboforcra- sponsible members of the Government. As our readers are alwsre, the Tariff Board abolished byPromler Bennett never had any " ‘ ‘ y existence. It was appointed by ordor-in-council, was a political machine pure and simple and if it made any recommen- dations in the Government they were not acted on previous to the bringing down of the Dunnln, Budget, in which the chairman of the Board collaborated with the finance Min- ister and then. threw of! the mask crmplclely, becoming a Liberal can-

Notes by the Way

The Unitas Stator, says the Pro- vidence Journal, will take a friendly interest in this unusual effort of the Prince to become a trade ambassador of goodwill to foreign countries in much the rune way in which ho has previously been a political ambassa- dor oi’ goodwill both to Domlnions within the Empire and to foreign

in this South American experiment as he has on his other foreign mis- sions of the past, American manu- facturers and exporters can not af- ford to disregard the consequences of his visit to our Pan-American neigh- bors.

Jascha. Helfetz, "lining his 30th birthday recently, remarked that he hoped his small daughter would not become a famous violinist. “It's too hard a life,” he explained. To reach greatness in any of the arts one must make heavy sacrifices. One must sac- riflcehindeed, one's self; must make one's self an instrument through which one's art can be produced. One cannot live as other men live; and if there is, for reward, a greater delight than other men know,'there nre, also, greater sorrow, greater pain, greater discuu agement. Life becomes a business of high peaks and deep valleysolf the peaks gleam with a. light not of this earth, the valleys are filled with the blackest of shad- owe.

A late despatch from Berlin to the Associated Press says: “Information reaching there from Moscow today said that the Russian ‘Godless Inter- nationale‘ proposed to initiate a ‘five- year anti-religious plan’ this year on the crest of the present world-wide wave of unemployment which is counted on to give the movement impetus. While the headquarters of the organization will not be moved from Moscow to Berlin as previously reported, it is planned to work out- side of Russia‘ with the Interna- ltional Proletarian Free-thinkers’ l Society, which already exists. The nim is to mobolize 20,000,000 Euro-

lpean atheists, excluding thcse who; Threc Biitsh mills had recently op-'

are not prepared to accept the doc- trines of Communism. The first task is given as systematic undermining and destruction of the influence of the clergy and the ‘unmasking of the

by the churches?‘

Reducing the various using the British figure as 100 it is found that the index of cost of liv- ing ln Belgium is 81.7: France 101.2; Denmark 118.9; Sweden 101.1; Nor- way 125.9; Holland 95.3 and Germany

for the United States 188.

systems of government,

among the peoples of the world have

ful experience in the arts of govern- ment. We are the proud possessors of l the Mother of Parliaments, and more 1 than a few generations of the rep-

no more than good government. and it does not matter to them what form that government takes. We. like the rest of them, want good gov- ernment, but unlike them, we pos- sess the ability to govern ourselves well.

Slow old John Bull, comments the Brantford Expositor. He holds the world speed records only for autos, \motorplanes and seaplanes. Also, it might be added, for meeting war debts.

If Fascism-qu- arry other single ‘party-claims the praise when it succeeds, it must expect to incur the blame when it fails. So the regime is being nus responsible m- hard times. The Italian newspspe are not pus itted to criticize but the people are beginning to murmur. The very exaggerations of Fascisms pretensions are now working against it. It is obvious that, like other forms of government, it is not infallible. For these reasons, competent ob- servers believe that Fascism is now being tested as it has not been test- ed before. The essential condition oi’ its existence is continued success. Mont assuredly it ls not an in- cnaae in the gambling spirit that will help the world through its pres- ont economic diff‘ “ . Wsll-to-do pacplomsyscenoharminsmild flutter, while moral consideration may be dismissed as debatable. The fact ' that " public policy compel the State to frown upon gambling and to keep it as far as practicable within limits. Hateful as the doctrine may be, it is still necessary for all in authority to

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reiterate the old truth that what the world needs for its salvation is sober, honest work. ' ___.__._____ Memory is n paradise out of which

nations. 1f he succeeds as admirably »

mendacity of all charities conducted! l tables and:

{of these undcrivcight children.

index figure for Canada is 157 and-

l 1 -1 t t t‘ . - ourselves to remember that we alone 1' :3“ 5:311‘: stgm gisclngffiionzlwgvtllg; enjoyed ten centuries of consecutively consistent and, on the hole, success-'

resentative or self-governing idea. I ‘ l Most of the people of the world want!

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B! b“, u: B1,!” MD a Before the time of the denser o! "he ‘ " day. . UNDIIRWEIGIIT CHILDREN Or at dusk on the b0llldel"bl'°ken

mountainside. The great cats seek their 0Y9)’-

Many parents as they look at their youngster and notice that he or she is thin or skinny as compared with other children, quite naturally begin

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to be anxious about it. If however °r hate’ d d ranmh underweight should be a family 1" desfgzeglwe‘ w°° ° M g

characteristic they dismiss the mat- ier from their minds feeling that the youngster will be all right when he gets a little older.

Now what about underweight or undernourished children?

Underweight may be due to some undernourished children?

Underweight may be clue to some little infection in the system or it may be due to undernourishment.

The great cats seek their mate.

Rippling. as water swerved,

To tgngied coverts overshadowed and deep

Or secret caves where the canyon’! wall is curved,

The great cats go to sleep-

Seeking the mate or prey Out of the darkness glow the insat-

It has been learned that any little me eye, miectw“ m’ teeth °r wmu5' we‘ Man, who is made more terrible far noids. sinus or other trouble, can be ma“ mey‘

the cause of underweight due to the wearing processes of these ailments on the system.

In cases where there is no infec- tion it is usually due to under- nourishment, .

This doesn't mean that the young- ster doesn't get as much food as other youngsters but the kind and amount that he gets isn't sufficient for his particular body.

‘Where groups of school children, some normal, and some underweight were placed under the same condi- tions as to iood, sleep and exercise, and watched for weeks and even months it was found that "it was possible to bring about a gain of weight in every child. It is to be re- membered that the children in whom this could be done were such as had failed to gain in weight under the method pursued in thc school‘ and

Dreams he is otherwise.

_(;eorge Sterling. removed by an early amendment- CD3 vltalcbjection is pointed out by Dr, Manion in his above-quoted letter to D-r. McLaren.—namely that the Qperating figures for the Maritime: are separated from the 89m?“ statement of the Canadian National Railways and by this inglorious isolation are held up to the Whale country as a standing example of the alleged unprofitable character of the

ern lines. Nothing could b6 more fullacious, unfair or unreasonable.

The alleged operating deficit of the C. N. R. in the Atlantic Region is not properly chargeable against Maritime traffic, for the obvious rea-

the homo." to that of the entire system. The l-low was the weight increased? most expensive part of any railway By milk? No. is the operation of its terminals, and

, Milk is a wonderful food and was the Maritimes contain an extensive! ,fed to these youngsters regularly be- ‘system of terminals, ‘cause it contains so much lime. Lime [is the source of the food supply for building up bone and teeth. and some lime should be in every cell in the body. Each child therefore received a good supply of milk daily.

But milk was not the standby m increasing thc weight and strength

tain and expensive to operate,| and eastern export traffic of the en- tire National system passes. Thissys- tcm of terminals would be necessary

and would have lo be maintained

what it is, or even if it were entirely: non-existent. Every expert in the country knows this to be so, and Sir Henry Thortaii himself, when testifying before Duncan Commission, mitted that regional cost statementsi were necessarily arbitrary and onlyl designed for book-keeping purposes. The City of Halifax, for example, might just as logically be treated as‘ a railway region, and the entireg,

Meat and eggs, foods rich in pro- tein enabled the child to play more and actually increase in weight.

The experiment showed that in the

possible for him to cat too much of meat and eggs.

youngster especlany 1; underweight cost of operating its terminals charg- contain no acetanlllde or other x plenty of meat, eggs and mmc ed against the traffic business of that <> opiates. 4 area. If this were done. what a 4: " , _ _ staggering "operating deficit" l-lali- I They “e pack“! m °°nv°n'__: Maritime Freight Rates m, would Show; > m" ti" "lies "m formula Only a degree less absurd is the 4’ $31118 95'1"“ ‘m “chh h“; 1 (Sydney Post) provision in the Maritime Freight . "“ “Md ‘m’ ‘Mm “m” . 0 at all times Get a 25c box and

During the recent coal conference Rates Act which directs that lpay-

flt Ottawa. l-lon, R. J. Manion merit shall be made out of the Fed- 1 Minister of Railways, erroneously eral treasury of the difference be- < stated that the statutory rates tween the Board rate and the

authorized by the Maritime Freight statutory rate on all Maritime traf- ,

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even if the local freight business in a the Maritimes were only a tenth of-z

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The Public Forum

no column u open m the‘ discussion by correspondents af questions of Interest. This Charlottetown Guardian dooa not necessarily endorse the opinions of correspondents.

COMMUNITY 0F BENEDICTINE MONKS FOR CANADA Sirz-It is proposed to found in Canada a community of Benedictine Fathers from the Anglo-Benedictine

Congregation in Great Britain. The proposal is to send across‘ to Great Britain‘ a number of young Canadians who give evidence of a vo_cation.to the religious life.

They will make their novltiate there and continue their studies until after the ordin-

utlon they are ready to return to Canada to be the founders‘ of a Canadian Benedictine Community.

This will take a few years to yac- complish, but it means the establish ment of a new community by Can- adians and not by strangers who, for

many years, would be handicapped

by new conditions no matter how willing and self sacrificing they

might be.

There are a few Canadians in view It is open to others to apply. Those who would be most suit-

1—Young priests who have a rc-

Iigious vocation and are free.

2—Young men who have taken their B. A. or the equivalent and fcvl thc‘. they are called to thc re- ligious life.

.t is as welllto state at the be-

‘ _ ‘ginning that the vocation to the Be- trlmspvitation business on the Elm- neclictinellife is different in many

ways from other religious vocations.

St. Benedict wrote his rule in the

‘beginning of the sixth century. It is ‘believed that as a recognized mas- lter, he was asked by Pope Hui-m- _ It 0t n1 to theiisdas to set down a rule for the 5°11 m“ "I" i‘ es ‘i ° Y 1 pnany who. with Perhaps morc zeal freight b"5111°55 9f this reg ‘m- but than knowledge, were devoting them selves in his day to the life.

religions

By this rule the monastic life was

stabilized and an -l ‘~

“mstructed ‘in-given to those ivhoopsllslhlelixrlultflo was a large capital outlay, costly to main- ‘monks to regulate their lives by pm_ per discipline and to refresh through which the transcontinental [Strengthen the“, souls by this guide

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The quickest way to break up a cold is, wo believe, by the use

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PENSLAR LAXATiVE DDLD BREAKERS

People who guard their , health use Penslar Laxative ., Cold Breakers because they

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insure yourself against colds. ,

stopping a cough we ‘ suggest that you try Penslar < White Pine and Spruce Bal-

Rates Act had cost the Federal treas- ury $9,200,’l00 in 1930. The Minister's error was due to thc fact that he in- cluded in his estimate, not only the

fic. The fact is that the railways are vastly better off ss a result of the <> Maritime Freight Rates Act, because.

sam. Sold in two sizes, plain " ul- ‘hoisted 35¢ and 50c. " 0 4

calculated loss of revenue to the railway by reason of the 20 per cent statutory reduction of rates. but also the whole of thc alleged operating deficit for the Atlantic Region. l-lis attention was called to this mistake ‘by Hon. Murray MVJLBTBH. and he promptly corrected it by a letter from which the following quotation is taken: .