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EE-fipqker forward in answer to M}. 31-hour“ wlgrmre, came as some- iii!“ g! g surprise and certainly will L nggrggd a; a fatal coniemiou weakness by the electorate.

T Premier MaoMillan had placed opposition on the defensive 1n ‘_ Budget speech by complains

flan respective liabilities dnder both

Liberal and Conservative govern- srrrenu, and showing that apart

133mm replacing ruiconwood Hos- "pit-ll and Princg of Wales college. and cOnirlbutlng to unemployment

Jclief-experiditurm which the {pa "Government did not have to incur "t-the Con: ervative increase in debt .wa.s only $118,000 as azainst a Lib-

I'll incense, for the yesm 1920

and 1930, of 811,000 and a flu-th-

sr increase of 8544.000 in the last

"aiflrt months of Mr. Lea‘: admin- ‘lmtion. He allowed also that last {F3 the Government has expend- _sd. $15,000 10h than their total Q8- flates and challenged the Oppo-

sition to produce evidence of sim-

ilar economy under Liberal regime. Mr. Lea did not take lip the Phe- mier-‘s challenge, but he endeavor-

fl to show that Liberal capital ex-

penditures on felTica. bridges, and

road gravelling should be excluded in the comparison of liabilities in

Ian same manner as the Conserv-

stivs expenditures embracirg Pal-

arnwood and Prince oi Wales Col- ' lage. He ignored the mt that llC-h expenditures also had been incur-

Iod by the Conservatives, and that

these items could not fairly be ex- aliaded in one case and included in abs other: so that his argument re- arluied. as the Premier had shown htobaintheiirstplscaabissed mad partisan one. incapable alto- pbs of supporting the sweeping darges of "extravagance" with which the Opposition attack had moaned in the carry stages of the session.

"Mr. Lea had nothing to say in Jtiticlsm of the Public Works De- partment in his speech on the Qudget. His criticism oi this de- ‘Ilrtment in the Draft Address had “Qlfcldy been answered by Hon. Mr.

Sharp, and it was expected that m‘. J. P. McIntyre, the Liberal ex-

llixrixier, would renew the offensive,

Iwlren the opportunity came Wed- nesday evening of following Mr. Wiganore .\i the debate. This ovi- irntiy did not Slllt the poliq of the Imposition, and they allowed the

to go l-y default rather than 1Q a firrther trial of strength with

In Government protagonists.

1:" l4 POOR ALIBI!

' The Opposition alibi for letting _Qe Budget debate “g0 by default" wears in yesterday's Liberal organ. B reads sa follows:

"In the past it has always been ills custom for the Minister of Pub- lic Works to take the floor at an sarly date in the debate, usually after the leader oi the Opposition. It is quite obvious that the members of the House are not in a posnion to intelligently diSCU-SS the admin. khation of the great spending de- partment. of the Government until ihe Minister has given s. full and detailed explanation ‘of the variour expenditures."

A check-up of the files of 1931- tfll last sessional year of the Lea Govemmentr-has been made to g3- certain how much truth there 1a in our oontemporarys statement. Here Ire the speaks-rs in the Budget de- bate of that year, in the order in which they spoke, who preceded the hen Minister of Public Works:

Hon. Mr. Lea

Ron. Mr, Stewart

Hon, Mr. lePage

_ Jllr. L. R. Allen

lb. G. Shelton Sharp - Dr. McNeill - 1dr. H. A. Darby _ Mr. A. P. Arsensult

All‘. Peter Sinclair

Hon. Mr. McIntyre - At that time, Instead of taking the

floor “Immediately after the 09pm. F" kldlf". as the Liberal organ .fi7I has been the custom, the tab- dral lllnbier of Public Works waited

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cumstanoes under tbs lea Gavan- mant, this year the Public Will-U report, along with all the other da- psrtmerrtal reports, was tabled early in the session, giving abundance of time for a study of the items of ex- penditure in Mr. Sharp's depart- ment. Tbers was therein-e no resa- on why Heirs. McIntyre, IaePage and Campbell-tbs "big three" a- mung the opposition lieutenants- should not have launched their lt- tsck, and given Mr. Sharp an 0P- portunity to reply to at least ons of them;—-no reason, that is to say, ex- cept that they took “cold feet" ai- ter the fir bbing administered to them in the Draft Address debate, and preferred, rather than risk de- feat. in another pitched battle, to a- wait the chance of sniping at the Government in Committee.

C. P. R. GUARANIEE

Letting in the light of day on

matters of public interest is char- acteristic Omaervative policy, and is being followed both in the I-ed- eral Parliament and in the local legislature. There is no such thin! as smothering, or alithering over, unpalatable details oi administra- tion or financing in the practice of either the Dominion or Provincial administrations. The facts and fig- ures are submitted and the public allowed to judge for themselves whether the respective administra- tion has acted wisely and judicious- ly in the circumstances. The CPR loan Guarantee h a case in point. Notwithstanding that the Benne“ Government would have been quits within ita rights in withholding details of the trans- action, permiuion was given to the Committee on Ba-nkkig to call wit- nesses and have them examined as to the why and the wherefore of the guarantee. The Opposition, finding the Government laying all the necessary infm-mation on the table, leaving nothing in doubt, tried at the eleventh hour So make a little political capital by de- manding that special counsel be re- tained by the committee to probe further. The majority oi the oom- mittee rightly refused to waste public money and time by such un- necessary procedure. It is sufficient for most people to have the as- surance on the information divulged that the girarariicc in questim was considered absol- utely necessary in the interests of the greatest comme cial institutions oi Canada and of Canada itself. To have allowed the CJIR. to de- fault ior lack oi guarantee would have been criminal in the most ac- centuated degree.

EDITORIAL NOTES

Mr. W. M. 14a‘: confessed inabil- ity to "get away with it" in the leg- islature this year seems to have had a chilling effect on his party follow- ers. Their own laboriously accumu- lated ammunition is none too dryl

Mr. Lea, in the Budget debate, commended ths Federal Government for moving to establish a Marketing Board, but said this Province should follow suit, lion. Mr. MscNutt was able to show that in the matter of hog and sheep marketing, this was precisely what the local Department of Agriculture had assisted in doing last summer.

Hon. Mr. Macrlutfs able review of the agricultural situation in the legislature showed that his depart- ment has been exceptionally active during the past year, and that the far-m industry generally, both as re- gsrda improved quality standards and price increases, is steadily on the upgrade. There was nothing controversial in tna Asricultirrsl Minister's Qeech, but much that was informs“ - and encouraging,

Dr. J. P. MaoNeill, the only Op- position speaker outside of Mr. Lea

5 bate. spoke severely about giving I headline publicity to lawn-Qatar; 14g 1M Purpose of reflecting discredit on the administration cl jut)“, 3g "M011"! believes, as most sensible Pwials do, that the attack by llalra. McIntyre and lePaga m the rgpqgg- tion oi the Royal Canadian Houn- ffll P011“ was quits uncalled for.

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haa submitted a for the “ot- diratry." mrerts said its effects will be tbs same as that o! the NJLA. undsr the Romevelt administra- tion. A Berlin cable, by the Unit- ed Press says Schinitt is dividing industry into twelve main classes.

. The idea. as synchronise po- ' of all” Every undertaking in the RClCl‘. must join in this recovery pwgnrn. signing up with the respective branches of the orgsniation.

‘fliers eaa be raa question that the power to buy in mass places theamaliretaileratsdiatinctdis- advantage compared with the lar- ger concern. ‘Hrs small retailer, if he doc biwlness on sound sndbonst lineaisscitiasnwhomustbepio- sc-vedwvhatistobsdone? laitpos sibls that it is not mass buying and selling in itself. but the temptation to use it for crushing competition by cut-rate retailing by large con- cerns, rates that will not be kept low once ths small competitor is

that is the real fault?

When Sir Oswald Mosley waa doing his Socialist campaigning a few years ago in Brgland, he held up to scorn the members of the government ss "the old dead men ‘with their old dead minds." In the meanwhile Mosley has switched to the other extreme and is now lead- er of the British Fascist movement. “The old dead men" can at least claim that them is some consist- ency in their political ideas and that these are not proper objects of contempt simply because experience has proven them to be sound.

A familiar circus set ls the rhyth- mic marching around the ring oi the elephants, the trunk oi each holding the tail o.’ the one before. 1f all the linked elephant-s were labeled, they would serve as a liv- ing diagram of the perfect econ- omic sywtern. One pacliyderm would represent production; the next wa- ges, the next prices and so around the ring, with purchasing power or “consumer demand," holding tire tail of the production elephant to complete the circle. The social planners and economic control theorist; dream of the day when such a regulated system will be the established order.

The Birmingham correspondent of the London Times writes that “a real shop window of British iri- dustry" was how the High Commis- sioner for Canada described the Birmingham Section of the British Industries Fair. Mr. Ferguson said that Canada shared no mean part in the 50 per cent increase in over- sea orders received at the Fair. Colmnendlng the Ottawa agreement he said it was the first definite concrete step taken in (h? h..\f.;'_\' oi the Bnpire to draw its various parts economically together and was a great achievement. He added that Canadian trade with Britain had grown 20 per vent. within the last i0 months.

As part of the centenary celebra- tions ‘Toronto will ufiveil a mem- orial to General Pike. who captured York at. the head oi an American army in i813. Are there two other countries in the world which would exchange such compliments? Big- land and Germany have done so.

While the United States elalma to be the most democratic country in the world the President arrogat- es to himself powers which if un- deft-alien by the King or Prime Min- ister of Great Britain probably would provoke something like a re- volution. indeed, Mr. Roosevelt is a dictator in a milder sense only than Hitler in Germany and Mus- solini in Italy. The Senate having failed to ratify his message asking for ratification of the 3t. Low- renoe Seawsys project, he intimates that he will introduce the messirc in some other form and force it through Congress. So far as Can- ada is concerned there is much division of opinion as to the value of ths enterprise or the wisdom of undertaking it. at least under present condition.

Aastrla is described as being div- ided between two camps. There is a powerful pro-Ge man Nazi move- ment, fostered by Hitler and his emissaries. and a strong pro-Aus- trian Fascist movement, champion- ed by Mussolini and the Italian black ahirfa. The possibilities of conflict here hardly require stress- ing. If the Nazi cause triumphed.

would move at once, and the move- ment would ha towards Berlin and Vienna.‘ and it would be amour,“- ied by tanks in battle array.

The praise seconded lbs dent on the first anniversary of his assumption of odlcs does not melt

may fairly be said that he crested new problems and raised up formidable obsiaclcs in his firt-

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Perhaps you find it hard i0 under- ‘stand why some old par-son who has Inevsr used a toothbrush has line qstrong teeth and so many others- fwho have been tootlibrirali!

since childhood‘ hale rust as‘! their] ‘teeth stthe age of ioriy. = The explsxratiozr is not simple; ;but moot cases o.’ Jwlrhfl‘ new, 4e5- ‘pite lack o.‘ care, and those with pccr lie-cm, who have exercised a-er-y lea-re, are irke.y due to an inherited tendency towards good and bad teeth, and to the dirfcrent kinds of lrood eaten by each clam,

1t will usushy be found that the individual ‘with the good teeth has slwayg eaten plenty of fruit, vege- tables, and eggs, clmWSd his urea: well arid coiisuzned considerable ‘milk daily,

‘ The miir, irurt, vegetables ml .eggs build up the s: rig interior of ‘ins tee-iii aurzi lira .11 qr qua-s: .or tough foods a1’ he Cllklllifltlfln not only about the ieclli and the teeth sockets, but in the gums also.

Building up the tceih by this pro- per diet is one halt tire 10".) of pre- veritlng tooth dccn '" the other nail‘ |ia in brushing the idem. If the oil;- lside enamel is not kept mean, small particles of dccnyed food ge. into any tiny crevice or carviiy in the enamel and may work thrown to ths inner side oi the tooth and cause decay.

The point then is that while brush- ing is absolutely iiccrssary it is not all that is needd to preserve the teeth.

A rather humorous poem by Edith Dillingham Brown in Hygeia, psi-t of which I quote, expresses this thought.

"But milk is oirly babies‘ food!

Nor can I drink, in airy mood, Just water plain. And 1 confess Slight love for salads green, and less Fbr fruit. Hard foods take time to

chew,

And gum massage is tiresome too; While dental eagle's a beastly foe To my poor teeth-it catches so.

I brush my teeth! it seems unfair They wont respond to my good

care."

The whole thought about the teeth then is to keep the outside, the enamel, in as good condition as pos- sible by careful, regular bru and having the dentist fill the tin- lest cavities before you even know you have any. Regular visits to the dentist will insure "safety" for the outside of the teeth.

The regular daily use of milk, eggs, meat. fruits, green vegetables will preserve the inside.

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But O! when the bloom of light, With breathless glow, Along the tops of snow Tells out to all the valleys night is done- Think oi’ the boy. ye yound com- paniqns bright. Not Without joy‘ for he hath loved and gone, As dews that on the uplands shine and go, —Herbert ‘Trench.

‘For the funeral of the young son cf Douglas Preshfield, the mount- aineer.

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the planks Platform is to establish a national

highway system." ‘n: this the

iGua-idian added sums comma-in,

not inconsistent with sbovs, nor in any way lusitifylng the Patton misrepresentation, which I protest- ed against so vigorously. as calib- arately falas and a osntsmptible slander

Tbs difference is that the Con- servative paper- published a plain truth, and commented upon it. The uberal organ deliberately charged Hon. Mr. Bennett with mvmlsel and language to which ha never gavs utterance. Such as building highways "from ‘iignish to Scuris axld Gwrgviown."

The "Gridiron" with ii "blister- iIJB. searing, blasting. scorching roast," iiottsr than the severest sis-slings in the conception of Dante's Inferno. has been too much ior "Ha-rd Facts" and the slander clique, and he squeals worse than a stuck pig.

I gm, Sir, etc, STICK TO TRUTH. T!!! SUNNY SOUTH II.

Sin-l finished my last. by telling of the torrential rain which delug- ed St. Pcteraburg. The next dll! (Sunday) the weather became ex- tremcly cold (about 48 degrees above zero) and was certainly as much to be felt by northern visi- tors as our northern climates. Very few were to be seen on the streets without top coats, but by Tuesday the weathor had settled to Floridian normalcy.

The churches were well attended and the congregations took part heartily in the sirqing and services. A peculiarity which is foreign to our old fashioned custom is the conversation carried on all over the auditorium in ordinary tone by the congregation before the service be- gins. When a thousand or more people engage in conversation in a very audible tone there is sure to be some noise. With us in Canada there is a stiilna whnch can be felt when one enters the sanctuary. I don't thit it is a lack of rever- ence on the part cf our neighbors, but merely the result of custom The parks and green benches were pretty well dmeried on this particu- lar Sunday on account of the cold martbutlimarinstbeclubbirild- inp were as fully patronized as on week days. Moses’ band discouraed 800d music in the afternoon as us- ual-the greater proportion of the numbers being sacred pieces.

One of the ou sports that is greatly patronized by Canadians is Lawn Bowling. We observe by an item in a local paper that "Cans- dian bowlers maintained their prestige by winning all three tro- Dhies at the annual winter lawn bowling tour sment here in Feb ruary." There are no

less than twenty one boiling courts here with 808 members, but Shuffle-

board holds the palm for patronage, there being no lea than 3,500 mem- bers. But with Americans generally Base Ball engrosses their attention more than any other sport. With thern- after . ading the front page headings in the papers they tum to the sport pages to find the latest news of "Babe Ruth" or whatever favorite they prder. But "Babe" is still the idol. _

Next. week the 8-4 Century Club will take part in a frolic on the forum stage in Williams Park. The Club oonsis of m “- _..slc and female-of sevew five years of age and over belonflng to differ- ent States and Canals. This is looked forward tn with great. anti- cipation and will no doubt be very largely patronized. Whatever re- ceipts are derived from these enter- tainments are devoted to charita- ble purposes.

The great event for qaring will be the annual States parade on April 4th.! am unable as yet to des- cribe its features. but there will be floats and representations deplet- ing the products of the different States, and comic features, probab- ly resembling somewhat “Hard! Grsa." so popular in the South.

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