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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER M, ID89-

Governor DeBlois's Retirement

On the eve of his retirement from office which he has filled with outstanding success for five and three-quarter years, His Honour Lieutenant Governor DeBlois has written a farewell message which appears in today's Guardian, aud_whtch will be read with interest and appreciation by all c135,.“ of our citizens. In the reyiew which llis llouour gives of the many activities during his regime, his own untiritig devotion, generosity and hospitality are passed over as a matter of cottrsc; but all are aware of the noteworthy con- tribution which thcse efforts have made in main- taiuing the prestige of the Province and strength- ctiitig the link that binds the Crown and the people together- Tribute is also due to the graci- 011s manner in which .\Irs. DeBlois has discharg- ed her many responsible duties as hostess at Government llottsc.

Of spt-ciztl intportatice in His Honour's mes- sage is the t-ntphnsis placed on the need, at this critical time in the affairs of Canada and the Empire, of men in public office being guided not by motivcs of personal gain or glory, but of service to the country. Particularly does His lsluttour appeal to the youth of the land, upon whose shoulders rests the hope of the future.

It is a matter of regret that the powers-that- be at Ottawa have seen fit, at this time, to ter- minate Lieutenant Governor DeBlois's period of office, in which his zeal and ability have been amply demonstrated. There has lately gone forth from the Dominion Government an appeal to forget party politics and unite in wholehearted support of the Dominion’s war efforts. Would it not have been accepted as a commendable ex- ample by our ciitizctis at large, if the change at Government House had been postponed to a more appropriate occasion? We say this with- out reflecting in any way on the calibre of Gov- ernor DcBlois's successor, Hon. Mr. LePage, But it has been a subject of comment throughout the Province, and even in the mainland press, that t_here has been undue attention given to purely ‘olitical considerationsiin this instance.

Mr. Bell's Election

congratulations, (unavoidably belated) are due to Mr. R. Reginald Bell, Councillor-elect for the Second District 0f Queen's, as decided in the Suprcitte Court in a judgment delivered yesterday by Chief justice Mathieson. As point- ed out by the Court, Mr. Bell was a victor on May I8 in the provincial general elections, and should have been declared elected in con- formity with the Statute. The “attempted resignation” of Hon. B. W. LePage (Mr. Bell's opponent) was not made in conformity with the requirements of the law but this defect, the Court found, “becomes of no consequence in view of the fact that he was not elected and had therefore no seat to resign"

Ur. LePage, up to the time of his purported resignation, on Sept. I2, held the offices of Pre- sidcnt of the Executive Council and Chairman 0f the Iiishermetfs Loan Board. Announce- ment was then made of his appointment as Lieutenant Governor. While the appointment is scheduled to go into effect tomorrow (Oct. I) the oath of office will be administered 0n Monday.

Mr. Bell's clcction gives a representation of four Conservatives in the Legislature, as against twenty-six Liberals. His party colleagues in the House will be Hon. Dr. MacMillan, Opposi- tion lcadcr, and lllcssrs. W. A. Stewart and H. F. blcphcc, KC. Young in years, Mr- Bell has had considerable experience, both as a lawyer and as sccrctary of the Queen's County Con- servative Association, a post which he filled for several ycars with outstanding success. He is an able tlcbatcr. as was proven in the last elec- tion contest, and will undoubtedly make his mark in the legislative arena. ‘

Bible Society Campaign

The British and Foreign Bible Society, repre- scntcd hcrc by the Prince Edtvartl Island auxili- ary, is making an appcril for-a war emergency fund in ordcr (I) to maintain and. if possible, to increase the circulation of the Scriptures throughout the world xvithottt distinction of friend or foe, and (2) to provide an adequate supply of New Tbstatttctits for presentation to all Protestants from Canada and Newfoundland who tnay bc callcd to proceed overseas in the armed and auxiliary forces of the Crown, and to meet, as far as possible, the increased need for Scripture distribution due to war conditions.

The Society has had, since its foundation in I804, as its sol:- objcct "the wider circulation of the llolv Scrinittrcs without note or com- ment." From 1014 till 1010 it distributed in zmmccliott with the Great \Var. more than nine ntillinn copies in over cightv languages. and in Cattatla some .134.8I4 in eighteen languages.

Finer thc tlcirrrssinn the Society in Canada and Ymvfoiuvlland has had to operate on over- drafls. The war emergency has. naturally, in- t-rca-"ctl tho financial needs at home and abroad. and occasiuuctl lbw “resent appeal for the pur- poses above set forth.

The Bata Industry '

The first $1.o(><i.rx>0 unit of thle liata shoe industry near Frankford. (Tut, will include rt five-storey factory and 60 brick houses and is

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expected to be completed by the end of the year. There will be five such units in the next five years, and a new town of 1,800 employees and their families will be created.

The company has a, reputation for efficient production- As for employment and the methods of the company, there will be a five-day work-- ing week, and it is stated that wages will be above the minimum and union wages. They will be based on a complicated production schedule and will vary with the output of the individual and of his department."

Thercwill be an age limit of 3o years and the employees will therefore, be engaged for from l0 to I5 years-—\vhen their alterness and speed is at its peak. And they will be an in- telligent class of workers, for they are to be young men and women who have graduated from high school in the surrounding country, accord- ing to a writer in Canadian Business, who says that after they have reached the age limit they will “return to take over the family farm or the village grocery store." A few, of course, will rise to executive positions.

We are also told that life in the model com- munity is not to be strictly “free."

"That is. promotion in the plant does not do- pend entirel on the skill and efficiency of the worker at h task but is influenced to a. degree on whether he m ea a good citizen in the com- munity. And a. good citizen, according to Thomas Batu, 1s one who sbsteins from drinking and

smoking, who uses his free time to advantage and, about important, one who spends his money

The clerk of the village of Frankford is quot- ed as doubting the advisability of this super- vision. He says: “Canadians are too independ- ent to submit to any regimentation or control, no matter how benevolent, when it comes to their private life."

The company's reply no doubt will be that the employees are offered steady work with good wages and working conditions. That will, appeal to a large number of young people and probably give the company all the workers it needs. It is an entirely new plan in Canadian industry, on which there will be differences of opinion. Its operation will be observed with in- terest.

e. EDITORIAL NOTES i:

Damascus occupied this date, I918. v a a: a

Summer is now definitely gone, and the fall- ing leaves are with us once more_ Taken as a whole it has been an exceptionally good season, and will long be remembered by tourists as ideal for our sea shore and other attractions-

Today, as already mentioned, Government House closes on one of its most outstanding re- gimes since Confederation. Lieutenant-Governor and Mrs. G. D. DeBlois have set a pace which it will be hard for any of their succdssors to keep tip. The pity is that party politics should be per- mitted to terminate a glorious period 0f history esteemed and appreciated by all, residents and visitors alike. a e a n: Referring to history isn't itamistake to publish as has been done in a n-tainland newspaper, a list of military defence names, many of whom, for various and satisfactory reasons, have been exempted? The historian, were he to depend upon such a list, will find himself greatly at sea when he subsequently discovers many of the names men- tioned also appearing in other activities in civil life. a- w n- x Mr. Adrien Arcand, “fuehrer” of Canadian Fascists, has suspended activities. His publica- tion, “Combat National," did not make its Sep- tember appearance and his public meetings in Quebec have ceased. It was understood that his retirement followed a bit of “advice" from Cap- tain Ennis of the Montreal police department's subversive movements squad. at it =r n: It is a mistake to think that the war is to be an excuse for a government or governments be- ing permitted to do what they jolly well please. Laurier 1n I914, I5, I6 refused to consider en- tering a coalition because he considered it more important to lead the loyal opposition in check- ing and criticizing the Government's policy and activities. It was the result- of this that Sir Sam Hughes was replaced by Major-General S, C, Mewbtirn, just as Hon. Ian MacKenzie has been succeeded by the Hon. Mr. Rogers. Mr. lklanion has adopted the same attitude as Sir Wilfrid- that of watchful waiting and effective criticism when the occasion requires it. e at >t< Herr Hitler is very inconsiderate of univers- ities._ Not only has he shut down 75 pcr cent of his own but has ititcrfercd with Catiadiati courses as well. Professor L. R. Adair of the Department of History at t\IcGill University is about fed up with having his extension courses in history shot from.ttnder him by Germany. As a result the courses, which are open to the Pllllllc. are likely to be abandoned. Before Ger- many tlook-ovcr Austria he announced a (fnurgg on “Historic Background of Current Problems". Austria disappeared. The following ycar hc said he would deal with Czccho-Slovakia. 'l‘hat too was swallowed tip by tltc Hitler rcgituc. This year's course was to have dealt with the “Dif- ficulties of Poland." Now, to all intents and purposes, Poland has gone the ivay of the othct‘

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Births in this Province during the first quarter of this year totalled 487 legitimate, and 32 illeg- itimate. Still births numbered I6. Deaths, (ex- clusive of still-births) were 334; (lcatlls under one year, 52, under one month, I9. Marriages totalled 86. Live births in Canada during the first quarter numbered 55,677 (preliminary fig- ures) giving an equivalent annual rate of 20.0 per 1,000 population, as compared with 56,117 births and a rate of 20.3 for the first quarter of I938. There were 2,332 illegitimate births form- ing 4.2 per cent of all live births, as compared with 2,470 and a rate of 4.4. Stillbirths amount- ed to 1,629 or 2.8 per cent of all births as against 1,611 and the same rate. Deaths totalled 30.- 136 with a rate of 10.8 per 1,000 population as compared with “28,86I and a rate of 10.5. The natural increase for the quarter was 25,541 giv ing a rate of 9.2 per 1,000 population, as against 27,256 or a rate of 9.8.

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Permlnllon to establish an eiderdorwn industry in the Eastern Arctic has been granted the Hud- son's Bay Com any by the De- partment of Mnes and Resource; Ottawa. An area embracing the southern coast line of Baffin Is- land and all islands east from Cape Dorset to Pangnlrtung hos been leased to the company for the purpose of establishing sanc- tuaries for the elder ducks and a permit for the collection or the down has been issued under the authority of t-he Migratory Birds Convent on Act, About 1,500 Eski- mos live in the elder duck area. and the development of the in- dustry should contribute to the livelihood of many of them at il. time when they have little else to do during the period between trapping and hunting Under the company's plan Eskimo families srtic atlng 1n the in- dustry wi be slotted certain rein ions in which to collect elder- down. The natives will be taught. how to remove the down with-

out causing the ducks to abandon

their nests, as well as the proper methods of cleaning the down. In addition to contributing 00 t-he sup ort of the Eskimos, the new in ustry is expected to en- courage conservation of the ducks by the natives. Heretofore the Eskimos had no idea of the value of elderdown and did not use it

for any commercial purpose Periodic visits to the nestlng grounds by the nut-lye collec-

tors will tend to safeguard ducks from foxes and other natural enemies. Elderdown is much in de- mand 1n commerce, and the work of developing the elderdown in- dustry l.n Canada was firs: begun 1n 1933 along the north shore of the Gulf 0f st. Lawrence. It wns started as o measure of protec- tion for the ducks by impress- ing on the inhabitants the bene- fits to be gained by safeguarding the birds and adopting modern methods in the collection of down. The elder ducks produce this down on their bodies and de- posit it: in their nests as a soft, warm protection for their eggs. By the exercise of clue care. some ofthe down can be taken from the nest without duck to abandon

without interfering wit-h the even- tual hatching of the eggs. -From the Canadian Resources Bulletin.

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We depended on international law and our rights as u neutral to keep us at pence last time. They failed us. we therefore have de- clded 1.0 depend on our own statutes this time, not. to try to impose our will on the war situa- tion. Then, by dra-wing a capric- ious statute, we do impose our will on the war situation. England has sea power; Germany has laud power; we arbitrarily decide to em- bargo arms and thus help the land ppwer to overcome the sea power. e do not let the war go its own way, making its own inequalities as between the belligerents. We write an inequality into our statute. We say that even though Britain may blockade Germany successful- ly, we will interfere 1n the war to the extent of embargolng arms, thus giving Germany the e uival- ent of an Atlantic fleet an of o. llne of fort; on the border be- tween ourselves and Canada. This deliberate injection of a new fac- tor lnto the war 1s hardl neutral- ity. Itislnterventlon: we -meaning intervention, but; one based on a false premise as to what constitut- es neutrality, and one which there- fore produces an unneutral result it not. purer neutrality to se‘.l all goods, cash-und-carry, to all comers. and if some cannot. come here because " of the war, to let them know that‘ they mu=t blame this on the war, not. on us? — New York Post.

It is clear that the small national units are fated to be tossed about from one country to another, one sphere of influence to unothec one protectorate to another until the world, more subservient to the great. laws of morality, shall un- derstand that- nothing ls to be gained by crushing the weak ln the name of a superiority based solely on brute strength. Let u". not hold the small nations of Europe to blame for their unfortu- nate plight; it is not- their fault that bandltry has assume: a leading role in the International concert. But we wish to make this point: a. young people which has the great good fortune to constit- ute n part of s. great and mighty power would be mad to belittle ll’.- self voluntarily at the behest 0f s. nebulous and empty mysticism. Anxl we bellitle ourselves volun- tnrlly each time we refuse to c0- operate with the re .15 of our great country, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and to collaborate in the progress and prosperity 9f she en- tire nation, we prefer being a son oi an immense, strong country, well populated, well developed, well defended and respected, with fewer relics of the middle ages. to remain shut up in our Lauventlan reservation, with all our ancestral qualities and our ancient and mou- ern faults, er inhabit-ant of a small country ldlch cannot brush up against its neighbours without. contracting a back-ache. Le Jour (Montreal).

The diplomatic ceremonial of an ambassador "asking tor his patsport.“ when it. appears that hls count is golnt; to declare war has a o puzzled many people who wonder why he hasn't had one all ifong. The tact. is he has had it. What he asks for when war ls imminent. ls a special pass to the frontier. ls is more of a gesture than nnythin; else, be-

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children of well-to-do parents are more nervous, more anxious, than those of poor parents. ‘This is due to the fact that children of pour children meet so many cares and tlllffleililtles that the learn to take them as l mat. er of course.

It. has also been “howu that: those who have always been poor in this world's goods, the parents of these children, have better nerves than have adults who live in better circumstances.

An interesting study of now the eoomomio status the financial condition or position of individuals. has an influence on when is celled coronary heart disease (disease of the arteries supplying the heart. muscles) ls reported by Drs. W. H. Gordon, E. F‘. Bland, and P. D. White, Boston, in the Ameri- can Heart Journal. They examined the records of 600 ivell-to-do pat- comparlson, 2800 patient: from the public wards of

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number of cases of coronary heart disease and disease was 600 patients (private) tthan in the 2800 general ward patients. The greatest difference occurred in the middle-aged patients, 1n whom the coronary spasm of sto pane

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was most striking in middle-aged men. I believe the lesson for all of

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