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WEDNISDAY, MAY 15, 1935.

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GREAT CONVENTIONS

horn two widely separated parts

If the Province came no uncertain evidence yesterday that the tide of Conservative sentiment in this Pro- vince is flowing with undiminlshed strength and vigour. Not even the popular ovations accorded Conserva- tive speakers four years ago, in the last election campaign, equalled in enthusiasm the conventions held yesterday respectively in the Town I-Iall at Georgetown, and at Centre- = f3; ville Hall, Bedeque. ' At Georgetown the proceedings created special interqt, in view oi the fact that ayfederal as well as provincial nominating convention was to take place. Ac both meet- ings, however, there was an excep- tionally large attendance, and the enthusiasm, as well as the harmony and unanimity which prevailed, were significant not only of the strength of the Conservative party, but oi the public sentiment behind the dele- gates and their nominated candid- ates.

Home time ago, l-lon. J. A. Mac- Donald, MP, veteran of many con- tests, provincial and federal, who has so ably represented this Province tn the Dominion Cabinet, announced his intention to retire from active political life. His ‘ecision was re- gretfully accepted by the King's County Conservative Associa- tion, and his name therefore did not come up for re-nomination at yes- terday's convention in Georgetown. But the party was fortunate in hav- ing a successor in view who, like

‘John A" himself, has been for

many years in public life and enjoys

‘the widest popularity, confidence, ‘ and esteem. We refer to the l-ic-n. Dr. A. A. MacDonald, former Speak- er of the Legislature and at pres- ent a member without portfolio in the yPrcvincial Government. Dr. MacDonald received the unanimous I nomination as federal candidate for Kings amid an outburst oi applause which was indeed inspiring.

In the nomination of Mr. J. H, MacDonald, M.L.A., and Mr. Reid Underhay as provincial candidates for the Fifth District of Kings, the convention was also fortunate. Mr. McDonald, the sitting member, has ' shown marked ability as a legislator, ‘ and while Mr. Underhay is new to

political life, he is widely known and esteemed in his district, and is well qualified to discharge the duties to which there is every reason to be- lieve he will be called by the electors. The Premier, the Attorney Gen- , _eral, Hon, Mr. MacDonald, Mr. Mc- Lure and Mr. Myers, M.P., who ad- dressed the Georgetown convention, received a wonderful ovation — a tribute both w their records politic- ally, and to the able speeches which they delivered.

At the Bedeque convention, the same manifestation of confidence and enthusiasm was given. Hon. Mr. Sharp, Hon. Mr. Arsenault, Mr. Arnett and other speakers were warmly applauded. The unanimous choice oi the delegates fell upon I-lon. Heath Strong, K.C. and Mr. Hugh Morrison as candidates in the provincial election for the Fourth

, District of Prince. In both (‘-8508 ' the nominees were the candidates in the last provincial contest. Mr. Strong's ability as a legislator has been recognized by all members oi the House, over which he was elec- ted so preside as Speaker following Hon. Dr. MacDonald's appointment to ‘the Cabinet. Mr. Morrison, defeated in the last election by a narrow margin by the Liberal leader, Mr. W. M. lea, has good reason this time to anticipate victory; and with twosuch representatives in the Leg- islature the district, and the pro- vince generally, will be well repre- seated.

While congratulating the candid- ates, federal and provincial, upon the honour conferred upon them yesterday, we feel that the party wor s and supporters in both Con” h are equally to be common‘- ed. ‘thief:- choice, m every case, has . fallérfunhesltstlngly and unanim- 5 ously on candidates oi utstanding

ability and integrity, whose anneal

to=the electors is bound to be a

strong and convincing one. Per their

Uwn part, the candidates have ex-

prelcd the greatest confidence in the" leadership of Premier Mac- miisauuioftheatuoihas. Bennett as Prime Minister of Can- rlds. They stand four-slicers bshind the policies of both Conservative ants; "F? believe , these to be h! the bit intflllt b!

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Tower near Lake Wales, in Flor- ida. you must take note of y. little line in that garden sanctuary, which i; printed on a ei pie slab therein. It was written y John FIIYIOBGhB. the itveat and lovable naturalist. and here it is: “I come hem often to forget myself. It is so easy to get lost in the world."

The present Canada-wide tour oi Lord Baden-Powell recalls to a Toronto exchange the part which Canadian troops took in the relief of Mafeking on May 1B, 1900. Opening of the South African war in October, 1H9, found Lt.-O0l. Baden-Powell. as he then was, in command oi 1,000 troops in this trading post of 2,800 population in British Bechuanaland. about ‘B10 miles northeast of Cape Town. The post was immediately invested by a superior Boer force, which for 213 days kept up the siege.

Meanwhile the British were mak- ing strenuous efforts to relieve the stricken town. Colonel Herbert ilater Field-Marshal 10rd) Plumer, work- ing south from Rhodesia with a column of mounted troops, but lacking artillery, was for some weeks unable to pierce the strong- ly entrenched Boer lines. Eventual- ly reinforced by "C" Battery of the Royal Canadian Artillery, the Plumer column cut through the be- siegers lines. They retired in dis- order as the siege was raised.

When Canada with the rest, oi the Empire celebrated the Relief oi Maieking so vociferously it was without the knowledge part oi the Canadian contingent had shared in the engagement. The Canadian bat- tery, shortly after arrival at Cape Town early in 1900, had sailed again under sealed orders. The unknown destination proved to be Belra, 1,600 miles around the east coast of Africa. Landing there the Canad- ians proceeded 600 miles partly by railway but mostly in forced marches across the Bechuanaland desert to Join Colonel Plumers re- lieving force north of Mafeking.

No word of the movement reach- ed the Canadian public. and ior 9- month or two the Canadian gun- neis were "Canada's lost battery." Not till letters home a month later revealed the battery was at Mafe- king did Canada realize its troops had taken part in'the relieving engagement.

It is a long-standing article of faith among the English race that they are a subject race, their con- querors being the Scotch. Ii the fact is ls 5110260, it is certainly a conquest achieved against tre- mendous odds. A study of the census figures for i931 shows that among a trifle under 40,000,000 people in England and Wales the natives of Scotland are 360,000. It is lesg than one in a hundred. In Greater Lon- don there are something more than 100,000 North Britons. which would be approximately one 1n eighty or nm°lY._New York Times.

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Since Hitler and Pilsudaki have united for a common drive towards the East. Poland's interest in Dan- =12 has disappeared. It ls no long- " neefifd as a political handle 8851115‘? 59min)’. and its value t0 P0115?! eXliort trade since the con- struction oi the ‘harbour at Gdynia has become practically nil. Poland's Wishes W503’ receive the friendliest consideration in Danzig, and the 500MB. sacrificing without a, mur- mur positions labouriously gained to protect it against Poland in past yells. is now only concerned to ob- tain Polish tolaration for its cam- Dfllgn against the Opposition. The llmbithlns of National-Socialism are “m! rapidly realised at the ex- pegxse of the Gennans in Danzig.

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Th! beat statisticians are very skeptical. They respect their tools, but they never forget that they are tools and not magic wands and divining rods. Ii we as laymen are going to use statistics as freely as W0 110W 05c them, we shall have to learn from the statisticians how to be thoroughly skeptical, partic- "lflfly when the statistics indicate a. conclusion that is contrary to cum- mos‘ sense and general knowledge.

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Mr. Lloyd George must know, just as we all know, that the gab. inet is not making a, technical ex- amination of his scheme: it is ‘thinking in political terms how m it is wise to embark on a. policy 0i public expenditure and how far to stand pat on "economy." The cab. inet is not unaware of the state or the distressed areas, but it 1s 0559s- sed with the idea that capitalism can make an automatic recovery, to which Mr. Lloyd George makes the memorable reply that you can never flit round the corner of a vicious circieI-The New statesman.

TOURIST EXPENDITURE M l‘.

The total expenditures in Canada of tourists from other countrierin 1934 are estimated to have been $120,974,000 compared with $117,- 124,000 in 1903. Tourists irom over- seas countries are estimated to have spent $9,455,000, compared with $7,763,000 in i933; from the United States by automobile 086,259,000 compared with $12,196,000; from the United States by rail and steamer $34.260,000 compared with $20, ,- 000. It is estimated that Canadian tourist expenditures in ‘foreign countries amounted to 000906.000 compared with $50,880,000 in the previous year. Tourists to overseas countries are estimated to have spent $14,212,000 compared with $13,982,000; by automobile to United States $32,646,000, compared with $24,611,000; by rail and steamer to United States $13,988,000 compared with $12,267,000.

In the first world war the guns Plflyed a diapason which drowned all man made music, although the Scots clung to their pipers. The mechanized warfare which we ex. Dect to rec in the future will have little need of field music, unless some tank battalion takes a calliope to the battlefield-Ex.

It is in Russia alone that women are to be given Equal rights with men in wartime. 1b this end 20,000 women have been given the special military training of the Leazue for Air and C‘- ' l Defence; 450.000 have been trained as sharpshootcrs, 50,000 have been given special in- struction in aircraft mechanics, and hundreds have learned to pilot their own airplanes. In Russia wo- men are no longer ‘m: gentle sex, ior there the age oi chivalry is gone and women hereafter must be 86 111016111; as men are attheir worst. —Vie1.oria Times.

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THEN AND NOW

“Janus" in the Landon Spectator, contributes the following quotations on a theme which scarcely requires further elaboration;

"Only through the complete re- nunciation of Christianity will the German people achieve the unity which it needs and which would have saved it in the trying days

The first Toronto child to dlp from diphtheria in fifteen months has passed away in a city hospital. The child had never been immun- ised-had not been given the tox- oid treatment which accounts for the city's rcnarkablw reduction in case rate and death rate. Toronto's health ofllcer states that he cannot recall a single case where a child

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of 10l8."-General Ludendorfi last who had received the complete Sunday treatment succumbed to the disease. —Toronio'star.

"Ludendorifs complete collapse at the end of the War was one of the tragic sensations oi the time. After demanding an unconditional armistice, when the armistice was actually granted he abandoned his country and fled to SwedenP-En- cyclopaedia. Britannica, Vol. XIV, p. 471.

The London and North ibstcm Railway have decided to operate a hish-speed steam train between Newcastle and London timed to do the journey oi 368 miles in four hours. The new train will be named "Silver Jubilee." The object is to ascertain whether the public de- mand for such limited trains of a on high-speed character is suiilcient in warrant their provision as sper- manent feature-f‘ ' , Events in" Britain.

r EDITORIAL NOTES

President Roosevelt says the United states will never arm offen- sively or defensively against Can- ada. Canadians believe he is sin- cere and that in this he speaks for his country. They feel no alarm over military or naval policy in the United Btains, and are thankful

"There have been rumors," says our amusing contemporary, fthat the election date may be deferred." Bincs neither the provincial nor the federal electiomdate has yet been announced, it is difficult to "ass why

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,Notwithstancling that heart ‘dis ease stands first as a cause of death, the number of. individuah with heart disease who are now able to live for many years is most encour- aging to physicians. This is accom- plished by Heating" the heart and thus not using all its “reserve?

However there are souie cases where even rest is not suflicient and the heart still continues to work too As the juice oi the thyroid gland in the neck speeds up the, heart Just as a draft does the burn- ing of coai_in a furnace, the remov-

al of this gland has been done in a number oi heart cases. Sometime

ago only a portion of the gland was removed but lately surgeons are re- moving the whole gland,

It so happens however that in some of these cases the removal oi zne gland, while quieting or slowing oown the heart ‘rate, also slows down the other processes so that tne in- uividual may grow fat in body and sluggish in mind. This can be read- ily undcrstood when we remember that the body processes before oper- ation may be working at the rate oi 130to 140 as compared with the nor- mal 100, and after the operation me working at the rate of about ‘i0.

Two Boston physicians,

Biumgart and D. Davis. in Endroe- rinology, describe a method of giv- ing the extract of the thyroid gland to make up for the loss or removal _of the thyroid gland so that patients with heart disease may be free from distressing sympt weight and’ sluggish mentality) and yet gain the benetfis to the body by the reduction in the rate at which the heart works.

In addition to these symptoms there may be a mild anemia (thin blood), and lowering or lessening oi

the free hydrochloric acid in the d stouiach digestive Juice. Apparently this anemia and change stomach Juice produced no symp- toms in the patients. Further the patients had (lo trouble in handling starches in the system, and the kid- neys performed their worik as well as

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"Under these conditions - slow- ing of the body , rcliei oi the heart conditions has been definite."

It is certainly interesting and re- assuring to know that the thyroid gland can be removed to rost the heart, and enough thyroid Juice can than be- given the patient to proper- ly control the various processes of the body.

C. C. F. Ambitions

(Sydney Post-Record) J. S. Woodsworth, M. P., leader of ‘the Co-operative Com- monwealth Federation. does not expect his party to carry a majority of the constituencies in the coming Dominion election, but professes to believe that it will have enough seats in the hem House oi Commons togiveit the bahnceofpower as between Conservatives and Iiiber- als. This was the view he emreseed before a meeting of his supporters at Barrie, Ontario, a few days . "We have no yobs to oifer," he said, “no contracts to offer. We don't expect to swing into po first Dominion ‘ ever fought as a party. but it is probable that the C. C. I‘. next election will hold the balance oi power as between the two old

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Adult Education

(Winipeg Free Press) Adult eduotution has been for B from lacking in Canada. although it has gone by many other names. Last year, in Toronto, ‘numbers of organisations which had had ex- perience along these lines met and Will-lured an adult education com- mittee which was instructed to make a survey of what really was happening. That ‘commit will report at a, meeting called for June 14-15 at St. Anne de llellevue. Great Britain now has a well organised system of adult educa- tion wanking through various - ‘, including the universi- ties, but the-one dominant feature every ‘effor-t" is the presence oi tutors. “These ‘are men and women especially trained to lead adult education groups and perhaps pant of the success of the

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‘Britain's defences.’ Work is already under way with additions to the all‘ force which had reached such a stage of incfficiencyias 100B?" 311°- oonmempt of otha- nations. Thus pecifism collapses with the mere contact with reality. Circumstances which have changed Premier Mac- donaid from a Pwlfisl l0 00° Wh° hasjustsoundedacailtoarmscan- not be ignored by Canadians-

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dedicated to st. successor to Mellitus. its bishop. was the famous Saxon saint, Bmenwaldi, iwho preached to the forest tribes in London north; and after his death Saint lirkenwalds altar was heaped with offerings by rich and poor. foreign kingsnnd princes being cmonl these devotees. Fitz-Stephens, the ohronlcler. has recorded his con- viction that “the only pest oi Lon- don are the “lmmoderate drinking

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Cartwright, who, working under the Carnegie foundation, has made a survey of “Ten Years of Adult Education." The re is not particularly cheering. He states that its costs have been but ' its effect: have been by'no means commensurate