i‘ cu 9. 1931

; TIIE BIIARLOTTETOWN GUARDIAN

PlIeflmt-W. Chester ll. IeLuu. I. P. V- Seoretnry-Llent. Col. b. A. Ineklnnou ll. l. 0.

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j‘ Associate Editors-Trunk Walker and B. I. (Junie

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MONDAY, MARCH 9, 1931

An Astonishing Situation

According to a despatch received nst night and published in today's Guardian, this Province was repre-

> rented in the Supreme Court of Can- lda last week by Mr. C. L. Moyer, who appeared, along with counsel re- presenting the provinces of Ontario and Quebec, to dispute the claim of the Dominion Government to con- trol radi: brczizltcving in Canada. It will be l9Cd‘lLd that a few days ago. when The, Guardian asked why the Lea Government should engage counsel in a case of this kind, which would involve considerable ex- pense and could result in no benefit to the Province, Premier Lea re- pliectthat the employment of any counsel in the case was "news" to him; that in fact no such counsel had been engaged. ‘I'm.- news item on which The Guardians comment was based, whi .1 appeared in both local ucwzslrapcrs, was repudiated by the Liberal organ as "an imported floating rumor" and the public was given to understand that it contain- ed no truth wvhatever. Now the fact is revealed that the counsel represwntiiig Prince Edward Island was retained by thc Attorney

General of this Province.

Is it conceivable that the Attorney General zicted on his own initiative, without the knowledge and consent of Premier Lea? This is the only inference that can be drawn from the Premiers emphatic profession of ignorance. Representative govern- ment must be abandoned in Prince

Edward Island when an individual

whose services have been turned

down by the people can take it upon himself, without consulting the Pre- mier, to land the Province as a lit- igant in proceedings which will event'- ually have to be carried to the House of Lords. In such circumstances it is indeed time that the Government woke up and assumed the duties and responsibilities of its ofllce.

The least that will be expected of

Premier Lea is a frank explanation of the ignorance of his Government of the action of the Attorney General in this matter; an explanation which might well be supplemented by an a-Pfllolly from the Liberal organ for its uncalled-for reflections on the veracity of the Canadian Press, and its efforts to frustrate inquiry and mislead its readers.

The Truce With Gandhi It ls well to bear in mind that the agreement reached at New Delhi lust week between Lord lrxvin, Viceroy of India, and the Mahatma Gandhi, cle Iacto leader of the Indian National- ists. is not a settlement but merely a truce. It ends the civil disobedience ceunpaign, provides for the liberation of all political prisoners not convict- ed of actual violence, gives the native population on the sea-shore the right to manufacture their own salt, and terminates the period of martial law that began over a year ago. But it says nothing regarding the (luestion 0f India's political status, except that lllo Nationalist committee will par- ticipate in the forthcoming Round Table Conference to be held at New Delhi. And even this reference to In- dia's vital problem has been modified by Gandhi's significant caution that l! the Nationalist demands for Indian autonomy in finances and military matters are not granted, the agitation for the country's separation from Britain will be renewed.

Butwlth all allowances and reser- vations. this truce may be described II the most momentous and hopeful development in India's political history since the close of the war. Its essential "‘ “canoe ls that it as- Iureo the co-cperatlon of the Nation- llbh, - lwretofore uncompromising summits-in the evolution of e. pa for the retention of India in the British Inpfre with Dominion stat- H‘. This means that, temporarily at but, alloutward political differences

to shoot ones husband at- bridge in Kansas City.

Saskatchewan grain EPQWfl‘ m '05‘ cover" that

Board shows that in 1029 the balanfre due was only $100000.

are numerous and ever-lncreflelflll- M? present besides the two old constitu- tional partles, Coitservatives and Ub- erals there are: Rt. Macdonalds Labour Party. MP- James Maxtonh Independent Labour Party. Mr. Neil MacLeans Communist Par- ty. g1;- Qcwcld Mosleyfls New Party (vacuum, Lord Beaverbroolrs Emvlfe Free Traders, and Lord Rothermerefs Empire crusaders.

ment sets one precedent inasmuch as for the first time in history the ceremonies will be carried out by B native-born Ccnldllh- lu, Hm. Lyman P. Dufl of the Su- preme Court of Canada, as actinS e Administrator of the Government. that the distinction of opening Per- liement falls in

Governor-General. quently happened that sessions have been prorogued by Chief Justices of the Supreme Court, but it has never

Freeman-i. I. Darnell Director-J- ll. Burnett

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some hOPe that calm deliberations may result in wise decisions, and that, with the London Round Table Pact as a basis, a scheme of self-govemment 1'" India m8? be worked out, which will command the approval and ac- cord of all the leaders of thought in British India.

Six Months of Action .

Reviewing political activities at Ottawa, a newspaper correspondent writes of the impression made upon him by the fact that the Bennett Government has had to deal with more serious problems in the first six months of office than any other Canadian administration in six years. In support of this statement hc points cut that an emergency session within a few weeks of the election was called to save Canad- ian industry and agriculture, to les- sen unemployment and prevent dis- tress. From this work Premier Ben- nett hurried to the Imperial Con- ferenee to lead the fight for an Em- pirc trade policy, and to affirm the will of the Canadian people that there must be mutual Imperial pre- ferences. Almost coincident with these activities came the disaster to the wheat pools, the prevention of their collapse and the orderly market- ing of the huge surplus guaran- teed. Home again, it was necessary for the Premier to go to the west and carry an assurance of a credit scheme, which brought hope to wes- tern farmers. Back in Ottawa but a short time, he went to Washington and served notice on President Hoov- er that "unfinished business" on the International agenda must be finished before other negotiations were commenced. Retaining to the Capital, and preparing for the gen- eral tarifi; revision the necessity de- veloped for immediate action to pre- vent the collapse of the motor busi- ness with its millions in investment andthousands of employees. Scarce- ly was this accomplished, when the Soviet trade proposals were before the Government and were met with decisive action to protect Canadian industry, agriculture and labor. It has been a record of such a half year's intense and necessary M51911 and decision as may never scam confront a Canadian Government.

Editorial Notes

Evidently it is quite lesitmwbe play

It has taken twelve years for R

the canadian Wheat

Unfortunately for him. the Grain

The partiw now in British laolitics 1

\

Hon. Ramsay

n“ gm“- ‘n; session of Parlia-

101500

the absence 0f l 1t ‘has quite fre-

hcve been composed and the country b to have a meplte from civil agita-

innnlilalmslsailemntllbhl

been called into session except by a Oovamor-General. On the present occasion Chief Justice Anglln is in tlcn endpopullr unrest. In the nt- the South on sick leave and Mr.

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that the sun has really set on Britain . as a great trading nation, he brings discomfiture to them by the simple expedient of publishing his annual balance sheet.

ixued once again by the Government It shows that in the trading opera- tions of the twelve months just end- ed John Bull closed his books with the tidy balance of $195,000,000 on the right side of the ledger. Clearly the vetetran trader is not yet think- ing of putting up his shutters. While - the visible balance of trade against him in the year was 8.960.000, the in- visible balance. such as foreign in- investments. dividends, and shipping services, which constitute the main source of his financial strength, v/as‘ S2,l55,000,000 in his favour.

c:- (lndependent) says: "To say that tariffs, ably and reasonably designed, are a peril to exporting power is pal- Board owes the west 870000.000 t° pable and demonstrated nonsense. swoycmmcc in bundling prairie wheat. During the last half-decade the ex- ports without free trade", can no tionist country have made more pro- gres than our own. The only great country which submits to “free im- ports without

and efficiency to any of the chief Protcotlonist countries. If British re-

world-revival, tariff-equality is the indispensable menu. The key of our own fortunes is in our own hands.“

Canada, it ls said that 5,000 are pag- ans. At that, the Red Man does not make a bad showing as compared with his white brothers, considering the advantages the latter possess.

(J. liulterflehl in Vancouver Province)

Highlands are to be graced by a new university with an

called the Iona Society in America. 'I'his passion for carrying the banner of education to foreign parts seems rather peculiar Just as we have re- ceived the news that an old Ameri- can university will close its doors for lack of funds.

cudcaver to preserve for future gen- erations the rich Celtic traditions and literature of the North of Scot- land. But I have never yet heard

Columbia's Agent-General

any Great Britain."

Pierre Robert, director of the French Catholic missionary fathers, statement in the hall of the French high court of appeals before the president of the French senate and other government oflicials on Feb- ruary 10, charged that at least 20,000,- 000 Chinese lives were sacrificed in revolutionary activity instigated and directly fostered by Russian Soviet agents from 1023 to 1980.

In suppressing a Communist dem- onstration. the New York police ar- rested a Russian who was shouting for bread in the front line of the dis- turbers. An investigation showed that the foreigner had $2,622 in a bank. If he saved that sum in his adopted country he was not Justified in find- lng fault with conditions. But per- haps the money came from Moscow.

Russia is in process of outstripping the United States in the production of cereal grains. In 1929 Russia's total acreage under wheat was 73 million, again 61 million in the United States. The Russian production of wheat in i929 was about equal to the amount consumed per person in the United States. 1f the figures given for 1930 are correct, Russia is producing close upon seven and a. half bushels per head of population against the Unit- ed States 1930 outtum of about sev- en bushels per head.

John Bull, world trader, seems to delight in nothing so much as in con- founding the prophets of his ruin. Flor the greater part of the year he allows their gloomy predictions to run unchecked and sits by in silence while they "view with alarm" the state of his enterprise. Then, just when there seems a danger that they may succeed in persuading the pub- lic that what they say is true and

Notes by the Way I

luuh with her convict m»: an‘ achieved an actual preference in the British markets for its wood products and nothing but a political upheaval in mitain will alter the situation and give Dnplre timber opportunity to enter the market, according to a bluntly worded repon from British in Lon- don. 1t is added: "British Columbia Douglas fir continues to rank mat in , imports of Empire softwood: into the i United Kinxdom- In view. huwvver. jar under nu footboard, but it did- of foreign competition, and partlcul- no; cccul- again for twc cl- chi-cc arly the strangle hold Soviet timber; dc has secured 0n this market, condi- tions are the reverse of favorable for jar cccuclcuclly he {cl-gut about it, increased timber trade with

New York Times from Paris, the Rev.

y lame: W. Barton. M.D. I Col/DB AND PNEUMQNIL

Stopping for a red signal light,

'a.ttempted to go ahead when the

green light appeared but found

ACCOPI-Iln‘ l0 l IPQCIII Ollile C0 the cg;- wguld nut ‘o, glthotygh Q19 gn- Iglne was running all right. He was

‘towed to a garage where it was fou

in fl I that an axle was broken and the i the hub was “chewed up". ,I-1ad hc attended to this first "knock”

l lining of

A motorist thought he felt a little

ys. He intended to speak to the garage man but as he only felt the

rut cumztorrcrown GUARDIA_N

Britons In The Argentine

(Montreal Gentle)

‘Prado Exhibition at Buenos

well to recall the fact that British connectio. with the Argentine is an old story. The relations are discussed by Donald G. Begg, M. B. E., in the February number of United mnpire. the journal of the Royal liimpire Society. Mr. Begg reminds us that as far back as 1760, Paul W. Thomp- son and Dr. Michael O’Gorman went to Argentina, settled there, married into good Spanish families and rapidly rose tc prominent positions in the service of the state. Later on, a British expedition went to Argen- tina during the Peninsular War,

be

his

nd

People in all parts of the British Empire are today taking e, keen m- ' tel-est ln Argentina because of the Dresence of the Prince of Wales and ' the visit there of a big delegation ob Canadian business men and others in connection with the British Empire Alres. The Prince, along with the President of Argentina, will open the exhibi- tion. In the circumstances it may be

When You Look Into Your Future '

WILL you see yourself still struggling for avliving... a disillusioned man ... worried uitrouble-burdened? Or will you see a scene of glad prosperity

‘he would have saved a. lot of money What is my thought?

cleanse out the intestine, does noth-

care. pneumonia may follow and then he is in for real trouble. As you know when you think of a serious illness you think first of pneumonia, for despite all the pro- gress made in medicine by curing malerla, small pox, yellow fever, and lessening the- death rate of tuber- culosis, there does not seem to be much success in lessening the number of cases. or lowering the death rate, in pneumonia. How does Pneumonia start? In the majority of cases, about four out of five, it follows a "cold." The actual organism that causes pneumonia. may be in the nose and throat in healthy people. It would seem that the cold either makes it more harmful, or what is more like- ly the cold renders the natural heal- thy lining of the nose and throat less healthy, and so the pneumonia or- ganism doesn't have to fight hard to start trouble. Thus the trouble extends from nose and throat down the bronchial tubes to the little tubes and little sacks or. bags which form the lungs. The same tissue, the same lining, as found in the nose and throat, ex- tends downward to the lungs. If you were to spill some water on your vestibule fioor, then there i.s nothing to hinder that water ex-

That balance sheet has just been

J. L. Garvin in the London Observ-

free" trade can no

onger give lessons in organization

ival is to play its full part in the

Of the 100.000 and more Indians in

Cools To Newcastle

It LI announced that the Scottish t endowment of

10,000,000 to be collected by a body

1.1

The general idea seems to be an

that there was any llkelhood of their m, »

Sprawls like a broken wrestler where

be well

That these unprofitable, ragged, strong

Free things should perish. Yonder,

The squat, green orchard trees ad-

The hillside, making lt demure and

The vagabond mustgo, in man and

Shall be for one who serves pros- So saith the busy world with sober But barefoot dreamers

And cities have been lost in wilder-

men left. Indeed, l1 there could l» found one better way than another to vltiate and destroy such a rich

done by establishing in those parts a modern and highly efficient Amerl- r can university.

facilities for

men were willing to make sacrifices to get it. The history 9f culture ls rich in Scotsman who have tlcally forced their SdLICBuOII from the world at a high dost to themselves in time, labor and determination. 1 would think that to such men it will appear an lmpertlnence to force upon the whole population of the

tending into the house, into sitting room, dining room or even the kit- ehen, because it is _all the same floor. So don't neglect a cold. It can usu- Elly be checked by rest ln bed, cleansing intestine, inducing perspir- ation, and eating light meals.

I love these woods; but here and there a tree

it fell; . ‘

And I go softly, even fearfully, As one who looks on death. It may

line by line, vance along

fine.

tree, Whose being is not building; and his place

perlty,

face;

have been known to bless,

ness_

—-Ethel Davies in The Australasian ___i__i__

radltion I should think it would be

The Scotsman has never lacked education where ed- cation was desired and where young

PIEC-

That the common cold can start in a very simplewayby anirritation in nose and throat. If the individual neglects this cold, does nothing to

ing to induce sweating, continues to eat heavy meals, the cold may hang on and bronchitis develop. Despite

dial of our radio, heard the Prime Minister speak on the League of Na- tions. As we help wondering whet effect radio will have upon the art of speaking. Mr.

g0, was a. good one. Re was, of course, reading from a manuscript, and it was clear that he had put time upon mé There was logical structure in his argument, his phrasing was good, if not distinguished, his enunciation all that could be desired.

lng in this speech, or this reading from a manuscript, that made us get excited about. the League of Nations, or enthusiastic, and if in consequence of it anybody anywhere is converted to or made more ardent about the League, we shall be greatly surprised.

Far from it. What we say, or what wc are going to try to say, is that e. radio speech, no matter who stands before the microphone, is a dull. in- slpld, atilted thing, without personal- ity or persuasion, incapable of power or beauty or ‘ those things which, all down through the ages, have made the appeal of the orator one of the mightiest of the arts

League of Nations had Mr. Bennett takenhls manuscript to sprinter, had it put into leaflet form, ctrculateddt through the Ommtry. Pwple then might read it, might be informed by etuthr of it. might be convinced by its

pomcthin‘ compelling in a living piece of prose.

As it ls, theme is no record of what easy as 1t is to despise painting, or Mr. Bennett said; and who remem- poetry, or sculpture, or any of the ‘hers what he said? The only public great arts. But to those who know memory is of the Prime Minister striving desperately to get away from the dull monotone of reading. trying in vain to put smoothing 0! 91013101518 into what he sold. wouldccrry conviction.

contents discontente

ed in the country after the Argen- tlnes threw off their allegiance to Spain in 1810 and declared their in- dependence. Fighting continued for six years more and in 1816 the for- mal recognition of Argentine ln- dependencc was signed. By this time there were a couple of hundred Brit- ishers in Argentina and they had a Chamber of dommerce whose mem- bershiip was ‘restricted to British people. These British pioneers be- came prominent in all branches of commerce and in the professions. They mixed in a. social way with the best families. In 1825 their numbers were swelled by the arrival of Scottish Colonists and later on of Welsh sett- lers. . Today the British community num- bers about 40,000 and the capital in- vmted by them is estimated at $3.- 000,0D0,000. British banks and in- surancc companies, including Cana- dlan, railways, land and farming companies, industrialists and mer- chants, are to be found throughout the Republic. The British influence is likewise felt in the realms of sport, football, or "futbol," being the most popular game. The origin of many of the leading Argentine families is indicated by such names as Brown. Miller, Thompson, Newton. Winter. Howard, Fotheringham, O'Gorrnan. and others mentioned by Mr. Begg in his article. It ls no wonder, then.