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REASSURING FIGURES

It is generally admitted that de- ggilg ti; dLQcultie-s our farmers and merchants are facing, this Province has weathered the scon- cmic depression at least as we‘l as any section of the continent. Fig- ures of provincial purchasing power for 1931-32, complied by The Bus- ineas Year Book and rrpubllshtd in Canadian Advertising Data, amply tupptri. this belief. The figure: lhow Prince Eldward Island's dc- grain.- in per capita purchasmg power to be 8.9 per cent, which .is by far the smallest recorded de- crease in Canada. Saskatchewan record; the next sznallest decrease, of 16.7 per cent. Nova Sootia’! per lmpltl. decrease in purchasing power for the same period is given at 26.1 per cent, and New Brunswick 21.9. The average decrease in per saplta purchasing power in the Dominion in 1932 was 21.5. It will thus be seen that on‘ a comparative basis Prince Edward Island has been exceptionally fortunate

RECIPROCITY

A recent editorial comment in

the St. John Telegraph Journal, a politically independent paper, is of particular interest in view of its accord with the terms of the amended resolution on Reciprocity which was passed unanimously in the Provinciallvegisiaturc (luring the recent ‘ . The resolution, as amended on motion of Hon. Mr. Sharp. seconded by Hon. Mr. Mac- Kenzie, stressed the advantage oi the Empire trade policies negot- iated by the Bennett Government last summer, and the reason for emphasis being placed on these agreements in the resolution is clearly brought out by our New Brunswick contemporary in its 00in- ment on the present opportunity for Reciprocity with the United States. We quote the article in full:

“An Otterwa- deIPI-tch lays: ‘Events of the pest few days 118-" strengthened the belief here that a reciprocal ‘trade agreement be- tween cane/dc and the ‘United Stat- ea is in the making.’ This lacks of- ficial confirmation, neverthélass it needs no prophetic vision to forsec the coming of Something oi the sort. It depends principally on when the United States is ready. A bill auth- orizing the president to negotiate tariff treaties with Canada. is ex- pected to be presented to Congress soon.

"Before the Imperial Conference met, at that gathering and since, it has been repeatedly amrmed by re- sponsible statesmen that the intra- Empire agreements were by no means designed to prevent nations of the Empire concluding trade treaties with foreign nations. In- deed the intention was the reverse, and it was held out as a hope that, not the effect of the treaties, but rather the example of the Empire nations would induce foreign na- lions to negotiate for similar agree- ments on the basis of opening markets in exchange for open markets. The act of apparently closing British markets, so severely criticized by uut-and-out free- traders, was necessitated by the fact that the traditionally free trade Biutislr nations had to do so, first- l_v, in order to save their industries in a uorkl that had closed its markets against them, and second- ly, in order to have something re-

fiprocal to offer for the reopflllnB Professor of ‘Philosophy at Geneva,

of closed foreign markets. "The lntra-Enrpirc trade agree- ments are reciprocal: the

trade first real attempt to scale EveFcst lgivflinvnis bfliwesn moire nations was in 1m by an cxpcdiiixi led and foreigners are and will be rc- by Col. C. K. Ifnwrard-Bury, which ciprocul. Canada‘ now has her T°fl°h°d mm)’ l/iiflily-l-llreo thous- imdc ny-mn-Cngs Wm, the Bowm. and fcct. in 1922 General C. G. "lent-s o.’ fir: British Commonwealth Bruce attained twenty-seven thous- oi Nations rind m5 gpgggd mgrkcu and fect. An avalanche carried

abroad or within the Empire- Canada can therefore well aflord to State her terms to the United States as soon as the latter is willing to climb down from its high protection perch. Canada wants a United States market for certain of her products, but with the nnpire agreements as a solid and assured trade background. Canada la in a position to stand out for absolutely fair terms. In addition to this, the existence of the preferential Em- pire treatlelpto which all foreign agreements must necessarily be related, rules out any talk of such foreign treaties loosening - the bonds for lknplre. lbreign trade treaties are in conformity with the policy laid down when the Empire treaties were concluded."

MR. HENRY’S POSITION

Premier Henry of Ontario is be- ing fiercely attacked because of his having possession oi a bond of a power corporation which was taken over by the Ontario Hydro. The bond was for $5,000 and un- doubtedly its value was increased. but it is not questioned that the transfer was in the interest of the province. Premier Henry. it ap- pears, is a man of some

him he may resign and thus re- lieve the party of further respon- sibility.

Perhaps a politician should not have any investments in semi-

politics poor and retire

confined to any particular party. Thirty years ago, when the Ross Liberal Government was in power. a general election left parties the Legislaturg Then came the when the member for the Mani- toulin Islands, elected in opposition, brought proof that he had been approached and in the end offered a cash bribe by a member of the Government to change his party allegiance. The result was the de- feat of the Government. At a com- paratively recent date, a member of a self-styled Farmer-Labor Gov- ernment was convicted of conspir- acy with a. firm oi brokers to de- fraud the Government of hundreds of thousands of dollars in a bond transaction. Flor this he was sent- enced to a prison term and the Government of which he was a member was defeated in a subse- quent election.

Premier Henry's offence, if such it may be called, is quite insignifi- cant in comparison with those noted.

EVEREST AGAIN

The mountains, notes an ex- change, were rrot popular with the ancients any more than they are with the Himalaya hlllemen today. and for the same reason. The Greek gods dwelt on cloudcapped Olympus, which is less than ten thousand feet high, a hundred and fifty miles from Athens and only ten miles from the ocean. but no Greeks climbed up to see. Mount- aineering as a sport was the inven- tion or discovery of De Sausgurg,

who was, in 1787, the first to reachi the summit of Mont Blane. The!

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and had various investments. It ‘luenuy Wnmeilded u not claimed that he acted 1n a °°itmm°ill 1°’ i“ time 15°11"!- dislronest way but in view of the “(mm 5° °°M1d°Y°d criticism that is leveled against WP" at l"- much 1"»! the M11118

away and killed seven 90ml’!- General Bruce tried again in 1934. but his health failed and he sur- rendered the leadership to Col. Norton and the weather defeated them by falling to twenty degrees below zero. 0n another occasion Norton and a companion reached twenty-eight thousand feet. They were close to their goal, but the last half mile PNl/cd too much for, them. Norton, temporarily blinded. wis carried back to the base.

In the last attempt. G. H. l... Mel- lory, who had been in the two previous attempts, and A. C. Irvine made a dash for the summit. They were never seen again. '

And now. while the participants of the flight over Everest are be- ing honoured, an expeditionuuder Hugh Ruttledge; a. retired ofiicer in the Indian service, is toiling up the side of the mountain which no

man ever has climbed. Fourteen men comprise the Rut-

ledge expedition, including L. B. Wager, who took’ part in the Brit- ish Arctic air expedition of i930 and i931, and Thomas A. Breckle- bank, who stroked the Cambridge crew to victory in 1931. ‘Their base camp is twelve miles north of Ever- est and as high as the top of Mont Blane. They planned to maintain three camps, each three or four hours apart. the third twenty-one thousand feet up the mountain. Their schedule will take them to twenty-three thousand feet about May l7, and thereafter there would be two more temporary camps at more than twenty-five and twenty- seven thousand feet.

GLOBEKS LIBERALISM

Recently our local contemporary propounded the question whether

ma“, the Toronto Globe. having fre-

the Bennett

“a. Liberal

Liberal paper." The same query occasioned amusement during the budget debate in the Nova Scotia Legislature, when Mr. A. S. Mac- Millan, Liberal, "endeavoured to

public corporations. but Premier ten the H°us°~ that me T°rimt° Henry is in a different position 01°“ w" m" I “he'll 99'9"" from that of some men who enter T!“ 51°“ Klmuny “FEW” u" wlm discussion wealth. An exchange recalls that "Puzzled L°3i51“"“‘5»" addmfi that Ontario has had its share of pol- m editmm aim has bee“ "m sup‘

itical "scandals," and they are not h“ Nudes

under the heading

beneficial to the country and criticize those which are not, regardless of party."

So now all its Lxoeral readers know

m why the Globe has been support- evenly dwkmL irrg the Bennett Government trade Gum}, ‘nfldem’ policies and denouncing the ob-

str-uctionist tactics of the Opposi- tion under Mr. Macken ' King, despite the fact that for years it has been recognized as the leading Liberal newspaper of Cannes.

COMING TO CANADA

Scottish business men have be- gun to organize a second Trade Mission to Canada. ‘This decision was taken as s. result of the suc- cess attained last year when a group of industrialists "fraa Auld Scotia," under the leadership of the Glasgow Chamber of Com- merce, equipped’ s. floating exhibi- tion aboard the T.S.S. Letitia which docked at Montreal. Last year's visit resulted in a considerable in- crease oi trude between the Clyde A district and the Dominion, and this

second mission should further

strengthen those ties of commerce " formed under such favorable cir- icumstances. It should enlarge the [contacts between Canadian mer- chants and the business men of Scotland to mutual profit.

EDITOTBYAWLWCFES

There seems to be a depression in the collar and cuff button bus- iness as last year's imports were only valued at $12,048 as compared with £10,193 the previous year. It mill’ mean that people are spend- ing more time searching for the missing ones.

British cattle buyers are shipping large numbers of live stock from Canada to the Old Country, "and, it may be said,“ notes the Toronto Globe. “they are not asking the

Canadian Government to gimrantee that they will pay and they are not in ex-

offzring some commodity

change."

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sores av rut rm

The Constitution of the United States forbids absolutely the sale of intoxicating liquors. To be consti- tutional therefore. 3.2 percent beer must be non-intoxicating. Wheth- er it is remains to be proved. li it is non-intoxicating why should it not, be sold with no more rc- strictions than regulate the eale ofciderorpoporteaornrllhso long as the taxes are paid to the Government? Restrictions are rid- iculous if the beer is non-intoxi- cating, and if it is they are con- trary to the constitution in that they permit its aale.

According to a hill lately intro- duced into the Dali liireann all Government employees receiving more than a thousand dollars a year are subject to redue" in their pay. The salary cuts extend to the army, the police, civil ser- vants, teachers and unlcir l em- ployees. The treasury expects to save $2,000,000 by this means, and there are also to be far-reaching eurtnllments 1n expenditures on social services. One .onder~s how long the Southern Irish will con- tinue to out off their noses to spite

Spanish-American De Valera maintains a curious hold or. their imagination.

‘Hie Canadian dollar now is at a discount in New York but that is not good for either country. Many people will recall the time when the United States g enbsck was at a heavy discount in the Mari- tline provinces and other parts of Canada. At one time it passed for little more than fifty cents. That was following a period of currency inflation in the United States dur- ing the Civil War of the sixties. .

It will be hard for Japan to defy world-opinion indefinitely, espec- ially u the moral victory ‘which the Chinese have obtained at Gen- eva will encourage resistance to Japance policy on an embarrassrng scale.

Three accidents to lighter-than- air machines coming in appallingly rapid succession would seem to settle finally the fate of the air- ship, or at least until some entire- ly new discoveries render the prob- lem of overcoming gravity other than it is at present. The list of airship disasters has been dreadful.

How childish the Liberal conten- sion is that the trade ‘agreements entered into at the Imperial Con- ference last year had cut of.’ our trade with foreign countries! Hon. H. H. Stevens. Minister of Trade and Commerce. presented the House of Commons the other day with a statement showing that our trade with ten foreign countries had increased by $17.300.li00 over rear.

Great Britain is providing em- pioyiment for many millions of its people. One of the projects now in hand envolves the building of one million dwellings during the next four years and the tearing down of 60,000 dwellings. The worlds largest graying dock is beink built at Southampton and is expected in be opened by His Majesty within the next four months. The cost of this work will be in the vicinity 0f $165,000,000.

The chairman of the lion; Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation rnade no pretence of optimism in his review of the Far Eestem po- sltlon. While he was speaking men were fighting on the Jehol border, and when war starts prognostic!!- tion is useless. The Hon. J. J. Paterson contented himself with a review of the past year. from the political and commercial stand- point, and the implication of his address was that China, given a reasonable chance, could once more prove her power of recuperation; but. that the country was nearing the danger point beyond which

the collapse of the economic struc- ture by which commercial relations are maintained with the West. China is, in fact, in danger of los- ing her place in the markets of the world.—l-fong Kong Press.

The position of Great Britain in the Persian Gulf is unique in world politics. Without owning a. square mile of territory on either of its shores, or even possessing one of its barren and inhospitable islands as a. base. she has for generations borne burdens there which no other nation has ever shouldered, except in the capacity of Sovereign: she has undertaken duty without dom- inion; she has kept and keeps the peace amongst people who never have been and are not her subjects; she has policed waters over which she has no formal authority, and she has kept an open market in

those distant ports cqlzally m all the merchants of the u-orld.

their faces. For the time being the.

looms the chaos of bankruptcy and,

What 30hr of Quilts

By loam W. Burton. MD.

THE SEVEN WONDER OI‘ MEDICINE <

Whether or not you are able to remember the seven wonders of the world, you at least have heard of ' them.

, A thoughtful physician, Dr.. Bow- irnan C. Crowell, Chicago, has sug- gested seven wo " of medicine.- :'l‘hese wonders are first, Immunity, that is the power man has in him- ‘self to ward of! various ailments- typhoid, diphtheria, smallpox, yel- low fever-by means of the use of vaccines or other measures either by himself or by his parents before him. There are no dcvastatingiepi- dernics of the above ailments any more, although Flu remains to be conquered.

The second wonder is Anaesthesia and Analgesia by means of which operations may be performed and I pain relieved.

The third wonder is Asepsls and ‘Antisepsis keeping wounds free from organisms or killing these organ- isms when they are present. When we rerne ber the tremendous death rato in surgery before antiseptics were given to the world by Pasteur =_and Lister we realize that this is ltruly one of the wonders of medi- cine.

The fourth wonder is the Know- ledge of Food Values, that ls just how much fuel or heat value there

‘III DIBIITID VILLAGE

The moaning cf the grey wet wind All day:

The peevish bickerinfl 0f childish birds

Kept prisoners in the yew’: dq shade: a way,

immovable by hedges, patient hard;

Have learnt to pass away the gloomy hours:

The sleep of death that comes o'er villages

When no one stirs abroad, and drooping flowers

The wind and rain unmercifuliy press

In gardens long forsaken by the

tread

Of feet that loved to wander down the paths

Now rippling tiny skies of molten. lead.

How like a winding-shoot the @- pest‘ swathes.

All thingkthe trees; the houses and the mind

Of him who peers forth sadly at the dayl-

For though he sees, 'tis yet as one half blind

with memories, through ages of dismay,

—Romilly JOhn in the Spectator-

‘PUBLIC FORUM

this column u open for the dlaeuaaicu by correspondents of uuaationa a! Interest. The Charlottetown Guardian does

is in any definite amount of the dif- ferent foods. Thus knowing that meat and starchy foods have u." equal value and fat just twice thise value, it is easy to work out the; ideal meal for the majority of man- kind thut is 1 part meat or eggs, to 2 parts fats, to 4 parts starchy foods.

The fifth wonder is tho Know- ledge of Light and Ventilation. The value of light in industry, light such as the ultra violet_ ray, in curing various ailments, and the knowledge that air that is moving in a room, not the amount of space for each individual, is the important factor in ventilation, make light and ven- tilation truly a wonder of medicine.

The sixth wonder is Organothe- rapy, the use of the extract of the various organs in the body in eur- ing ailments, and is indeed another wonder as we think for instance of insulin from the pancreatic gland. preventing deaths from diabetes, and extract from the liver curing that formerly incurable ailment pernicious anaemia.

And the seventh wonder is per- iodic Hcalth Examinations where the individual goes to his family doctor for an examination while he is well instead of waiting untiilre is ill, thus warding off ailrflents and making life more safe and comfort- able.

Thero may be other wonders of medicine but Dr. Bowman's selec- tion of the seven above mentioned must appeal to everybody. v

A police pocket radio set, oper- atcd as simply as a telephone, is now used by policemen in Brighton, England. ,

Broadcasting equipment has been Perfected in Italy which sends a message in one direction—straight to the spot and to the receiving apparatus for which it is cxciuse- ively intended.

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SELFISH GBED

Sir,—-"Citizen," writing in the Patriot commending Nova Scotiu's alleged- legislation prohibiting em- ployment to non-natives of ‘the Province, asks, "is it not good lil- islation," end adds "the same thing might be very well up- plied to Prince Edward Island."

It is safe to say that this- un- christian, soeialistic, selfish greed is more responsible for the great depression of today than any other visible cause. I believe the consen- sus of opinion of the greatest of the world's economists is that it is the eibsoluts and the whole cause- of our industrial adversity.

It is an irrefutable verity that "No man can live unto himself," and is in a greater sense true of spiritual and community life. The great wisdom of Providence creat- ed mankind into an intended broth- erhood. all working for the oom- mon good, and as far as possible each doing his share in carrying "each others burdens." Man's sel- fish greed in many ways. tho world over, has outraged these pr‘ ciples Divine, by ttemptiug to corral the cream of industry, that their own combinations may have the bread and butter with sugar and jam on top, while denylngto the equally deserving brother an unbuttered slice or even a crust to save them from starvation.