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The‘ Ottawa Conference

According to our local contemporary, the estion 0f scrapping the British North America as an Imperial-statute did not come up at recent Dominion-Provincial Conference. _~ If this statement is c0rrect—and we pre- me, notwithstanding the “strict secrecy” of e proceedings that it is made on the authority the Premier, who attended--then it sub- tiates the shrewd guess of the Ottawa cor- pondent of the Canadian Press which ap- eared in The Guardian of March 3. \Ve quote:

OTTAWA, March I—Attorney generals from- the provinces. including two p. ‘ , today esumed deliberations here under chairmanship __of Hon. Ernest Lapointe, Minister of Justice, “seeking to reach agreem ‘ on the question of cOnstituti-nal reform, " _ Lacking any official confirmation as meet- . hip were held in private, reports were current tonight the proposal to bring within authority of the Dominion Parliament wide powers to amend the British North America Act without recourse to the British Parliament was meeting consider- able opposition from the Maritime Provinces. From the start of the movement for this re- ‘form, beginning at the Dominican-Provincial Con- ference in December, New Brunswick has staunchly opposed transfer of the amending power from the Parliament of Westminster to that at Ottawa. » It was reported that while all the other provinces remained agreeable to this change, Nova coiia and New Brunswick were unwilling to go as far as contemplated in the proposals before the committee . . . Possibility was advanced that no progioss =»would be made at present on obtaining the ._ amending power for the Canadian Parliament or the alternative oi’, complete re-enacting by the Dominion of its constitution. In that event it was expected certain specific amendments be-

lieved essential would be discussed with a view to immediate passage in the normal wsy_

This evidently is what happened. Nova Scotia. has come to New Brunswick’s support in ‘the fight for Maritime rights. But where does Prince Edward Island stand? _ .

What was suggested in these columns yes- terday was that Premier Canraau. state clearly, as the New Brunswick Premier and Attorney General have done, whether hi: {Iovcrmncnf 1': for or against the change suggested, 0f trusting Ottawa rvifh the power Io tinker zuith our Coll- {tiiufion without recourse Ia the British Par- fianlcnl, tuhich heretofore has slaod as Ihr safe- guard of minority provincial rights.

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The‘ Coming Session

fvlnouncement of the opening of the Pro- vincial Legislature on March 30 raises a moot qllCSllJlI. Among the thirty Liberal stalwarts who uill unlstitute the House, several are said not to see eye to eye with the Government on certain questions. At the September special scs- sion, three 0f these gentlemen, Messrs. DENNIS, Cox and McKAY, had the tcmerity to express their disagreement in no uncertain iernls. A repetition of such tactics on the part of Mr. DENNIS, now liiinister of Agriculture, is not an- ticipated; but there are others lcss favorably placed who may be inclined to take the bit in their teeth. The question that arises in this con- nfection is whether the solemn warning issued by Premier CAMPBELL to the Liberal electors of Eourth Prince, applies also to Liberal back- bencllers in the House? Wouldthey also, by kicking over the traces and refusing to vole at the dictation of the Government, be “simply reading themselves out of the Liberal party” and placing themselves in the uucnviable position of being unable to rcceive any “further recognition as Liberals"? g Surely, voting against a Government bill would be an offence at least as grave as voting against a Government candidate! If one crime is deserving of political excommunication, why nut the 'ofhcr? “Making the punishment fit the crime" is an old practice among dictators, famil- iar to readers of “The Mikado". Its introduction in the Legislature as a means of disciplining recalcitrant members would be all interesting ex- periment. It would, of course, be necessary i0 frame an elaborate scale _of penalties, ranging, for example, all the way from mild rebuke i0!’ any inadvertent reference to brewery stallions, to summary execution in cases of flagrant dis- obedience or mutiny. These penalties would have to be balanced by official recognition of some kind for meritorious conduct. 'i‘hus the ‘fgood boys" of the House would be encouraged in well-doing, while the naughty ones would be

‘imade to feel the weight 0t‘ the schoolmaster}

ferule. Even if the experiment failed to bring all the members to heel, and fell short of the suc- attending similar efforts by Hirtaa. STAN"

'|.nd Mussoum, it would at least be a unique.

. demonstration lender British democracy.

Concessions Always

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a little later the rest of the Allies followed suit Then came the Locarno pact, and Germany was admitted into the League of Nations. Other min- or -- ‘ m- were made to Germany, and in .1932. ‘at the suggestion of President Hooves of the United States, Germany's war debts defin- itely were cancelled by the Allies.

During these developments nlost of the bleeding was done by those countries to whom Germany owed reparations and indemllities, and the greatest part of it was done by Britain.

Still further to help Gennany, France, in i935, relinquished her hold on the Saar territory, on the understanding that for sonle years it was to remain a demilitarized area, And during this time Germany had been secretly violating the Versailles Treaty and building up a new army. Germany‘ left the League for her own purposes, indifferent to the effect her action might have on the security of Europe. Now she repudiates her pledge to keep the Rhineland unfortified. Her_ Financial Minister, has repeatedly pleaded Ger- many's inability to pay her foreign creditors.

And his pleas and Hli-Lalfs complaints of “bleeding white" ill assort with the imposing growth of Germany's air, land and sea forces, and with the Nazi Party's repeated assertions of the return to prosperity which the country is enjoying under Hitlerism.

Editorial Notes

The Curlers had a grand time at their bon- spiel, the Haligonians especially being loud in their praise and appreciation. May they all, and more, come back forikthegrogt fishing.

Hope genial Mr. DENNIS will not meet any- more black horses on his way t0 Ottawa—it is alleged that that was where his predecessor, Mr. LEA, made his lLlCky,*DI'*l1ll;lKiCky find.

Our contemporary misrepresents The Guardian as saying that Premeir KING had signed “the BENNETT treaty" at Washington. Back to its lately discrediteg tricks again!

5K 5K

Judging by the Temperance meetings and letters, people do not think an improvement has been eflfected by transferring the enforcement of Prohibition from the Commission to the Attorney-General,

5K 9K Both city and country, and all organizations that have made their wishes known, being behind the two bridge scheme, what is the CAMPBELL Government going to do about it? Is part of that $3,000,000 loan t0 be ear-marked for the bridges? If not, why not? a“

Only 9,808 dozen nightshirts were manu- factured in Canada in~I934, according to the Federal Bureau of Statistics, compared with 94,628 dozen pairs of pyjamas. At first thought, this would indicate the near extinction of what was once a great male institution. But it must not e forgotten that many a nightshirt is made. in

_ the home, while pyjamas are mostly purchased.

Probably a washday census over the whole D0-

minion would prove that the nightshirt is holding

its own much better than the figures here quoted

toaliubt Ml!!!)n00.00010-

would indicate.

3K 5K Canadals total trade in i935, merchandise

only, was $1,292,667,00o.‘ Domestic exports tot- alled $729,294,0oo, imports $550,314,000. and rc-exports $13,059,000. The proportion of Can- adian exports which went to British Empire countries was 51.8 p.c. and to foreign countries 48 p.c.; to the United Kingdom 41.6 p.c. and to the United States 36.5 p.c. The proportion of imports which came from British Empire coun- tries in 1935 was 31.6 per cent and from foreign coimtrics 68.4 p.c.‘; from the United Kingdom 21.2 p.c. and from the Iinitid States 56.8 p.c.

5K

The late Admiral BEATTY was like in ap-

pearance, character, ambition and success to the late Lord ROSElil-IRY. Both were sons of compara- tively poor parents — Rosllalznlfs (Primrose) Scottish ; BaA-rrfs, Irish. Both as youths expres- sed their determination to marry wealth and at- tain the topmost rung 0f the ladder of fame. ROSEBERY married a ROTHSCHILD, won the Derby, and became Prinlc lVlinister. BEATTY mar- ried a daughter of Marshall FIELD, became Ad- miral of the Fleet, alld- when he retired from the sea, First Sca Lord of the Admiralty in Parlia- nlent.

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If Mayor Gcmzv McGaalz fails to secure

that $26,000,000 this session, it will not be be- cause he has not iulportuncd in the “manner magnificent." The lilayor has just written to his

colleagues back homc the glad ncws that the Prime Minister and Cabinet have consented to be

carried all the way across Canada from Montreal

to Vancouver in a Special Golden Jubilee Train (provided no doubt by the C, P. R. 0r C. N. R.) as honoured guests of the commercial capital of British Columbia. Wonder if thejunior member for Queen's could be induced to lrun his chief and colleagues in a golden train (never mind the jubilee part) all the way from Ottawa to Charlottetown. It wouldlft cost them half as much as the Vancouver “picnic"; indeed $10,- 000,000 would sutfiic. i“ '

The peurile arguments of the Liberal de- fendantsIpf the Kmo Reciprocity Treaty is well illustrated in the following excer£t from the maiden speech of Mr. Wm. M. van, K.C., M.P. member for Saint John, Albert: “The upeeches we have heard from the Conservative aide of the House on the questionof potatoes dealt only in generalities,- They have produced no ficts and figures to show that the potato industry will be injured as a result of American potatoes

being put on the free list. It is all right to talk w

generalities, bullet ‘them give us the facts. We need have no fear that the Canadian potato pro- ducer will not be able to meet the competition of Anlerican producers at all time because we grow a superior potato.” There you are, our superior potatoes are to be‘ driven out of our own market by the dumping, duty-free, of so-called U. S. A.

Those who hope for peace look with disquiet on Russia. 1t is the storm-centre or the world. Yet this is through no fault of her Govem. merit. In the midst of their m. deavours to bring order out of the omfuslon which always follows revolution, the Russians u; threatened east and west. Powerful neighbors look with envy on Russia's riches. with disdain on her supposed military weakness. 11m- R-lmlo. the Pmller course seems clear. She cannot divest herself o! the wealth of her soil. Lethal‘, then, build up her strength-mason Sunday Express. ’

velt than an American Conference be called to consider, among other matters. the possibility of making the Monroe Doctrine All-American, instead of the policy of the United States only, calls attention to the use of the term Monroe Doctrine by Japan. which makes application of the sphere of eastern Asia and the Western Pacific. Americans should not be misled by the use of the term Monroe Doctrine by Japan. Japan's policy is imperlalistic and BXDl-‘llslontst. It is not a good neighbor in spirit or intention.- Dallas, Texas News.

Roosevelt's friends would repre- sent him as a Liberal-Democrat of unquestioned courage, with fine qualities of leadership. and a gym- pathy as sincere as that pf his wife with the hard lot of the poor and the unemployed. He has little in comm with the sturdy Conser- vatism of a Cleveland; --b‘ut he i; quite free from the arrogance that wrecked Woodrow Wilson} Some- times he seems t6 find inspiration in Thomas Jefferson, sometimes in Andrew Jackson. A doubting Demo- crat remarked the other day to a friend in New York: "I recognise the Resident's faults, but I shall so on supporting him because 1 know he has sympathy with the downtrodden and is li-Wlng to help ihemfihl-fc will prove a very diffi- qult man to beat, unless Fortune turns her back upon him in the coming yesrJ-‘Iirancis W. Hirst in The) Crmtempo sly Review (Lon- on.

Aflflli’; in the United States deserve attention. The president's attempt to impose taxation to meet the demands of the soldiers‘ bonus and farm subsidies is countering Democratic opposition as well as Republican. The building workers‘ walk-out in New York has led to s. police clash and there is a threat of extending the strike to make it national. The garment workers in Boston also are on strike, and there has been violence. One way and another these are not entirely re- assuring symptoms.—Ex.

Private indus y must be encour- aged.‘ That is not to say that pri- vate industry should be given special privileges to batten off the people. But it does mean that a million dollars drawn out of the same private industry, from com- panies or from workers by means of taxes. means a million dollars which is "dead" from the stand- point of industry in general. In the general rush to blame private ownership for every ill we forget that this is the only source of in- come of governments, and that

when governments take an undue

proportion of earnings by the tax route, industry is crippled and the only result is further unemploy- ment. The task of government these days should be to ‘help’ pri- vate industry at every tum. Too many governments, we fear, are actuated by a motive which would "hinder" industry. —— Lethbrldgc Herald. ‘

Aelilnllythe desire of the Wash- ington Government is to induce Chins. to adopt a bimetallic cur- rency on American lines. It is only too anxious to supply China. with Gold in exchange for silver to faelliate a change-over from a paper standard to a. gold-silver standard. Washington's long-term objective is. of course, to dcstrov the monetary domination of Great Britain and to substitute the dollar for the pound sterling as the wo:ld currency for international trade. The Joke is that monetary power has only letumed to London as a result of Washingtous gold and sliver policy.--The New Statesman and Nation (London)

Among the public works destined in South Australia are highyvays but they do not aspire in be mere roads, plain ribands from place to place. Adelaide is making a drive- way of twenty miles around the har- bOur bays overlooking some twenty beaches. Another part of the Anzac highway running out of Adelaide tuwnrd Melbourne will cost over half a million dollars. This‘ one will have two lanes of one-way traffic. with a garden section, and tree- lined footways on either side. Can- ada could do well with more such geeni highways.—Bl-andon Daily tin.

"la it. any aiM to the solution of the sensitive and critical issues be- fore the people of this nationin say that the cunency of the United States revolves around the British sun? is it any aid to say that the peopleof this nation must now choose‘ between the Stan and Stripes and the red flag of Moscow? Is it any aid to challenge the magnificent spirit of Governor Smith and to charge that his at sympathy with Ina use ins of the common man have been im- paired because he moved from fly lest Side t0 an: AvenueP-edfln D. Young. '

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"In the past twenty-five years’ combat against the enemy (tuber- culosis) wo have acquired many valuable weapons. Twenty-five years ago there was practically no way of separating tuberculous patients from other people. lo-day there are B7000 beds in 660 hospitals for tuberculosis. Twenty-five years ago

e people were entirely ignorant about tuberculosis: their mental re- action being one of superstitious fear. * To-day nearly every one understands how to guard against tuberculosis. Even the size of the tuberculosis problem has shrunken, for twenty-five years ago there were in relation or proportion to the population, three times ‘as many deaths and causes of tuberculosis. as there are now." -

-I am quoting Dr. H. E. Kielnsch- mlt. Director of Health Education for the National Tuberculosis As- sociation, New York.

Now how is this great battle with that great scourge - tuberculosis, consumption, the white plague as it is variously called, being so suc- cessfully fought? -

Just as a. fire at its beginning can often be easily put out, so also can tuberculosis be cured and. prevented if discovered early. Not onw does the present day physician ., know more about tuberculosis than was known years ago, but he has a won- derful help in the X ray, which en- ables him to tell whether or not the case is ‘ L culosls much earlier. which in turn gives the patient a better chance of'being restored to health and at the same time pre- vents his needle y infecting others. However notwi tending all this success in fighting tuberculosis these is still that group of young people, 15 to 20 years of age. in which the fight has not been very successful. And one of the main reasons for this losing fight is the refusal of our young girls, just em- erging into womanhood, to eat enough food for proper nourish- met, because they want to remain "sllm” 0r slender.

Mothers and ‘physicians pointing out the danger of this trying to keep slim doesn't seem to make much impression. However the fact that theatrical producers and movie directors are not wanting thin or "skinny" girls for their productions any more may be a great boon to our teen age girls. Thinness will not be fashionable.

C HEOICE

I might go now, leaving the smoke of the snuffed-out candles. And the thin bright taiters 0f the blown fire;

Forslllklng these, the idler‘: robe. and the well-worn sandals; Seeking the first high hill in the falling snow. and aearchini higher.

I might go now, delvini 11110 "It dingy mazes beyond the gale. Untraceable through the drift m! he who went before;

Yet here is the bench where he rested his feet from the trail, And here is his name carven deep in the wood of the door.

—Gretchen McKown, in “Silhouette?

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clal section it is hoped that by that

dependent Liberal party is

to be removed from the land. It is learned on the other hand

they are going to try to atom the

in their efforts to make the Pro- vince safe for demos ,. I am Sir,

Borden, March 9. 1938.

found the distillery in full

at current prices. Farmers in the

ganiaation of the distillery.

whiskey, are circulated freely among the children.

members of a Bible Class. Into thl-i

his head. onThe visitor also found in this city

of funds.

in; on in other countries. 8nd - Japan will Pmbllll? b9 131° m“ l” so dry. (Edward Gaston Pa!"

able to the wise in such a trims 0f

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