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WEDNESDAY, JULY ll, I934

MR. KING'S “POLICX”

' Notwithstanding all that has been done by the Bennett Government in the way of unemployment relief con- tributions to every Province in the Dominion, the Liberal organ says "there has never been any definite policy on relief and unemployment such as has been urged by the Lib- eral leader Rt. Hon, Mackenzie King for the past four years."

Mr. Mackenzie King's attitude on unemployment relief is to be judged, not by what he urged in Opposition, but by what he said as Prime Minis- .ter of Canada when confronted with the same problem before going out of office in 1930. On that occasion :froin his seat in the House 0f Com- rnons, he read five of the Provinces of Canada out of Coniedcrcfion with his declaration, first that he would not give "a single cent", and later "not five cents“ of Federal revenue to aid any Province in which a Con- servative government wz=~ in power. For days public leaders i‘ "oughout the Dominion, Liberal as well as Conservative, refused to believe Mr. King had laid down such a policy, more particularly because he was dealing with the hunger-stricken victims of unemployment when he announced it. But his statement, as reported by the Canadian “ress, was amply confirmed by the Hiinsard re- port of April 3, which stands to his everlasting discredit, and which. if

poor fun to laugh at people who do

even if it t; against themselves. But humor, to be st its best. must abso- lutely be good-natured. A small tincture of malice in it spoils it for all kindly disposed peopifl.

WHAT WE EAT

It is interesting to know What W6 eat. A Western exchange has been inquiring into this question, and finds among other things Canad- ians consume much more pork than beef. The per capita consump- tion of pork in 1933 was '14 l-2 pounds which incidentally was eleven pounds less than in 1932 Consumption of beef was 56 pounds and mutton and. lamb a little over six pounds. There is more chicken used than lamb, the per caplta consumption in 1933 being over 7 i-2 pounds, turkey 1 3-4. duck, less than half a pound and goose less than one pound. The consump-

vary much, a. little over pounds to each person in the last‘ few years and almost 3 1-2 pounds of cheese. But the consumption of eggs has been declining a. little each year for some time. In 1930 the per capita was almost 25 dozen in 1931 slightly over 24 3-4 dozen.

tlon of butter and cheese does not] thirty .

Notes By The

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London Dally Express: Businear is picking up elsewhere. The arma- ment industry is active. Sorry, there will be no cheers for that. . . . When those guns of admirable British workmanship go off, where will they be painted? If you look in Bedford Park you will see a notable

‘war trophy. A gun captured from

the Germans, and bearing a. Brit- ish trade mark. The Dardanellcs

not see the joke. Better far let us were sown thick with mines, made laugh with mo“ who appreciate “I in Britain. which blew BfitiSil S93.-

men sky high in that campaign of bloody memory. For whom are we making the shining instrument of death?

After the revolution in Russia, the Soviet decreed that young Russia must. disregard everything but that which related to Russia and the Soviet program. Whatever was said about the rest of the world was designed to convey the impression that it had made a. mess of things and was no example to an up and coming civilization. Its history, its religion, its whole life was merely a. warning of what would befall if Russia did not remain true to the doctrines of bolshevism. But Rus- sia. is now getting out into the world again. The Soviet has never hesitated to change its policy and has no regard for precedents. Now Stalin has decreed that the sea- ondary schools must in some meas- ure adopt the standards and meth- ods of the rest of the world. A new era. begins.

The eerie atmosphere of Mont- reals morgue has been heightened P)’ the discovery of a. scorpion, five inches 1on8. clinging to the clothing 0f a corpes recently recovered from the St. Lawrence River. Morgue attendants, whose nerves are us- ually proof against the unusual, Wererall startled when the venom- ous insect crept out from under the c031’. lapel OI the dead 1113,11, Using a stick, they flipped it into a pail of chloride of lime. Scorp- ions are almost unknown in Can-

and in 1932 there was a drop to 23 3-4 dozen and in 1933 a still further drop to less than 21 [-2 dozen.

he were possessed of any shame, should effectually seal his lips a- gainst any criticism of what the Bennett Government has strivcn to do for the unemployed of’ every Pro- vince, irrespective of political affilia- tions. We requote this passage from Hansard, now that the question of Mr. King's attitude on unemploy- ment rellcf has again been raised. It reads as follows:

Mr. Mackenzie King: "So far as giving money from this federal treasury to provincial governments He, prom-am mm order, public an. is concerned, in relation to this ques- thusiasm cannot, be Stirred up a; a tion of unemployment as it exists to- i moment's n°mce_1t must be deve]- daY- 1 ""31" b“ Pmpamd w 3° apped by ad/vartisements artful aid. certain length possibly in meeting one or two of the westem provinces- lhat have Progressive premiers at the head of their govcrnments—"

Some lion. Members: "Oh!"

Mr. Mackenzie King: "But l wouldl not gi\'e a single cent to any Tory government."

Mr. Bennett: ‘Shame!’

i Mr. Stevens: "Shame!"

Mr. Mackenzie King: "Do my hon. friends say ‘shame?’

Mr. Bennett: “Yes, shame!"

Mr. Mackenzie King: “What is there to be ashamed of?"

Mr. Stevens: “You ought to be ashamed of that.”

Mr. Mackenzie King: “My hon. friend is getting very indignant. Something evidently has got under his skin. May I repeat what I have

EDITORIAL NOTES

Half -holiday for stores-

'l‘here is no lack of places to go for entertainment this afternoon.

It ls time to get our Jacques Car-

‘It is well Mt". T. Stewart Lyon and the Toronto Globe parted com- pany when they did, for heretofore Mayor Stewart's strongest backing came from the Liberal organ as re- gards law, order and good gcvem- ment.

President Beatty and the mem- bers of the Board of Directors of the C.P.R. are to start from Moncton today 0n a tour of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. As we have no C.P.R. lines or connections this Province 1,; not included in the itinerary.

The Governor-General is to visit officially Moncton next Wednesday when a public reception will be held said? With respect to giving moneys at Victoria Park. There Wm be a of the federal treasury to any Tory procession o! autos to the Park, government in this country for these but apart 1mm ma,’ the" Wm be alleged unemployment purposes, with no demonstration or engagcments these governments situated as they for m5 mcenency_ are today, with policies diametrically] opposed to those of this government, I would not give them a. five-cent piece."

Well might our civic and municipal authorities ask where they would be today with their unemployment prob-

The whole of the Labour Party. held together by iron discipline, is pledged to schemes of wholesale confiscaton. "It is not the trade unions which make the program lems if Mr. King had remained inland direct the policy", says Lord power and his ,,pollcy,.__w,orthy' a5'Snowden, with great candour. "The

' Labour Leaders do not even pretend

Hon. Mr. Guthrie exclaimed. of a m be democraw"

Tammany leader in the lower wards of New York-had remained in ef- fect after the defeat of the Liberal government in this Provinccl

It is a pity there was not oppor- tunity, during C, N. R. Vice Presi- dent Alistalr Fraser's welcome visit, of having "conversations" over our relation to the Car Ferry. We right- ly contend, however. that the Domin-

v (fir: Hahn: Imh n“ “ddrpsi ca": ' WiiiCh we have to deal in the matter. e is you .i u carers to r a . their sense of humor, but to take‘ care "not to make all their jokes at the expense of the other fellow."

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\ HA RMLESS HUMOR

The fact that it has been defin- itcly decided to hold a meeting of _ the Steering Committee of the Dis-n The admonition. 110105 a Canad-iarmament Commission M Geneva ian exchange, was not unneces-‘in October is heartening news, e5_ sary. The humorist is oft-en inclin- . pedal“, when n B Mwmpamed by eri to allow his jokes to hit even hlsi. the announcement that l naval best friends, yghile if theyhretaiiatc , conference may be held at the same he bmW-‘S I" lfllmm- 5"“ a hm‘. time to pave the WlIYIOT the ms Na.- oi-Lst is but "a poor sport.” 'I‘he;vm Parley Diplomats are working ma“ wh° “mot m“ “ 1°“ had. hard and disinterestedly to keep the

better never try one on anyone else. . big bad war W0“ a, My The mari who can laugh at the Joke’ __ which hits himself is sure to go, In reference to the C-aifornia sit- lihrough life with less friction than, uation it is well (o recall what Dean the one who holds his own person ‘ Inge says about revolutions: ‘Those sacred while regarding all others as' who think that the dnhier 0f Y6- legitimate objects of harmless fun. volulion is negligible forget that all Fun ceases to be tun when it; revolutions are made by small min- urouses ill-feeling. The moment. welorities. Lenin, with his curious see that a Joke is ill-timed we had. frankness declared that out of better call a halt to our joklng.' every 100 of his supporters Most or us relish most of all a joker there were 60 fools, 39 which a wise speaker tells against criminals, and one Communist. Yet himself. It does not hurt him at with this seemingly puny lever he all in our estimation to relate how was able to turn the Russian State he was "caught." Them are ctw- upside down. tain pPrSUhs, and most estimable ones at that, who are not much dis-

A most unusual situation has dev-

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ters and almost

ada, although they have been dis- covered here in shipments from Southern ports.

A press despatch quotes the hope of physicians that Patricia. Mt:- Gulre, the sleeping beauty of Chi- cago, may soon arouse from her 1011B slumber. For more ihan two years the attractive, 26-year o'd Blfllogrfipher has been asleep-vic- tim of a strange disease. Medical men. challenged by the case, have visited her bedside and attemped to find the secret of the ailment".

Al‘ the world likes to receive let- as unanimously dreads writing them. Letter writ- ing would be a lost art but for lov-

ers, dutiful relations and the avail-

ability of stcnogiuiphers. Sn l‘.il‘C a. bird is the habitual letter writ.- er that persons who write to the newspapers are looked upon by their contemporaries as cranks or eccentrics. And yet there are let- ter writers who derive from this recreation other pleasure than that from seeing their thoughts and names in print. One of this latter school writes: "I have all my life made a hobby of writing let.ers-I get the kick out [of it that others get from bridge, gol, billiards, ctr It is a pleasant and ieircshing rc- creation. And what is more men- tally stimulating than letter-writ- ing? Some sage said that letter- writlng makes a full man." Letter writers are unpopular for the rea- son that letters require answering. yet popularhr the reason that people lzke to receive personal messages. The only letter certain of an answer is the pubished cpistle expressing a thought contrary to the opinions of its rcadcrs.—Bangor Conimcwcial.

The worst thing about paternal- ism is that it weakens or destroys the spirit of individual self-re- liance. When the government grants a business man special favors, it may make him richer but it does not make him a bet;er business man or better citizen. When the government gives a man a dole. either directly or by providing use- less work for him, it may help him over a desperately hard place. and that sometimes is necessary, but it runs the grave risk of undermining his character. The benefaction should not be continued a day after the occasion insistently calls for it. When the government en- courages people to think that they need not be respoirible f0: their honest debts. it invites the danger of making had neighbors and bad citizens of them-San Francisco Argonaut.

Secretary of Slate Cortlell llul‘, says the Providence Journal. takes sensible ground in his note lo the Bolivian Minister at Washington re- garding the protest of (he Bolivian Government against the scion of the United States in forbidding the sale of munitions, within the bor- ders of this country, to either Bol- ivia or Paraguay. We stand firm, then, on our decision to have noth- ing to do with fumishing the bei- ligerents with the wherewithal to maintain their wicked conflict. May this example be generally followed, and a. very practical method be thus adopted l0 b; ing the senseless shedding of blood in the chaco to a close.

In J-n-uo. WHY NOISE TIRES YOU

Anyone who has lived for my time in Exit-ope can understand why so many homes have a "courtyard" in which flowers or vegetables are‘ grown. It may have been mostl for protection in former days but it must have been also for "quietness"; to get away from the clash and clat- ter of horses‘ feet and the iron tires on the wheels of waggons and carts.

To-day when we g0 to any hotel we ask for an inside room, a. room opening upon the “quadrangle", to

get quietness.

Dr. G. W. C. Kaye in the Annual’ Report, Smithsonian Institute, says, “the protective shieldings by build-: ings is well illustrated by the sylvan or woods like quietness of inclosed triangles. The bedrooms opening on a hotel courtyard are usually much quieter than a room on the outside of a building ;that is if you can get far enough from the kitchen noises.

Does noise really affect health or our ability to work?

“As regards the effects of noise on human beings, there would appear to be a volume of medical testimony that the strain of heavy traffic and other types of continuous din may act as a powerful irritant to the ner- vous system; placid and normally unruffled persons tending to become irritable and “worn out." Indus- tries such as shipbuilding, boiler- mnking, cotton weaving, and print- ing are, it is stated, prone to cause an accumulation of fatigue products in the system with dizziness, head- aches, poor hearing, and general ex- haustion."

Noise is now admittedly so harm- ful that it affects the ability of men and women to work properly, lessen- ing their value to their employers and so noise is said to be "on the payroll."

In law noise may be defined as an excessive, offensive, persistent or startling sound.

However you and I know that even common noises must be affecting us because when they stop we find our- selves relaxing our bodies and minds showing that we have been uncon- sclously tensing or bracing ourselves against the noise. And as you know tensing our muscles brings on tired- ness just the same as if we were using them for work or exercise.

To prevent or lessen noise requires co-operation from all sources; machines to be made less noisy, automobiles and trucks to be better cared for, and insulating materials used in the building of factories, of- fices and homes.

THE GARDEN PATH

To the garden path I came at the deepening of the dusk,

When the new moon hid its flame in a half-diaphanous husk

Of cloud, and the scent of the rose was heavy with nard or musk.

The fireflies prickcd the gloom where the meadow vapors rolled;

'I‘he cup of the primrose-bloom was brimmecl with a pallid gold;

And above a. single star shone virgin

and faint and cold.

I caught the breath of the dews soothing and strangely sweet:

And what subtle clew of clews I know not led my feet

Down the garden path to the end and you on the garden-seat!

And suddenly space and time eddied, | were merged in one; ‘(My heart-beats leaped to a rhyme‘ i as old as the rune of the sun; ;And ‘love’ was the first word said. ‘ and other word there was t none! —Clinton Scollard. That commonsense to whloh the lcommon man appeals as the ulti- ‘lmate judge of truth continues to l get unpleasant shocks from science. J-fousewives, for example, have been brought up to believe that a cup [which is washed in the seullery and] [carefully dried is clean. Not so, we learn from Prof. Andrade, of thel University of London. It would! take an hour's work by a tralnod chemist to'remove the layer of grease-and not mere metaphorical elbow-grease. either-in which the Wt) remains wrapped-dander: 1.351.111 Telegraph-

P es

(Maritime Merchant)

The development of new V3115. ties of‘ potatoes lrzttcr equ pped w tcsist disease is a matter of great, lmllfimiiice to these provinces. It is estimated. for example. that spray- i118 Dfllfltoes for late blight costs the farmers of New Brunswick about $400.000 per year. and this, of course, is only part of the swry. The devol- opment of new varieties has not

fused permission for a gigantic demonstration of unemployed from all parts to morph through the streets and to concentrate in _’Queen‘s Park. Those in charge of the demonstration interviewed Pre- mier Hepburn, who not only ex- pressed his disapproval of the May- ors embargo but appointed Brig.- General victor Williams. Commis- sioner of Provincial Police. to seek the cooperation of the City Police in giving the paraders the use of the streets. In critical times like

eloped in Toronto through oppos- ing policies of city and ‘provincial

posed to be humorous, and they had better be reckoned with when- ever wfl lvtvmwi ~ ~ one. It is rather

the present, unity, no; division, is necessary among ndmlnL-tratve

governments. The Ms/yor has ie- authorities.

been given as much attention in Canada as in the United States lend I Europe. It is therefore interesting to learn that a potato breeding policy W85 Bdopld by the experimental ‘farm in Fredericton two years ago ~and that vareties have been crossed land approximately 25.000 seedlings "IIZIVC been transplanted this season. It is a complex problem. but some progress has been made with the assistance of Dominion officials in formulating a potato breeding policy for (he future. Vai-‘ous breeding cenlirs in the United States will be visited and Dr. Gussow, Dominion irotnnist, may visit stations . in Europe. With the knowledge thus gained tho formulat ons of a fruit- ful policy will be sought, to make more productive and profitable an iilflliilifl’ of much importance to the Maritime»-

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B! FRED COOK

MR. BLAKE AS A PUPIL

Ono afternoon in the autumn, I went to Earnscliffe w see if I could coax something from the Old Chieftain. Luckily there were no visitors, and Ben Chilton, Sir Jbhnls confidential messenger, after I had been announced. returned to the waiting room with a message from Lady Maodonald saying she would like very much if I would join Bii John and herself at tea. She par- ticularly wanted to know how I in- tcrviewed a public man, and when old Ben told me this he chuckled‘ mightily. I confess I was a little nervous at this remark, but findingi the distinguished couple in the best

PUBLIC FORUM

This column In open for the llloulllol by correspondents cl questions 0| hunch TM Charlottetown Guardian Icon not necessarily undone an opinions at oomuonihlh-

ANONYMOUS LETTERS

Biig-‘rhere is a great deal more truth than Poetry in the contents of Mr. Lewis P. Tanton’s letter ou “Our highways" that appeared in Monday's Guardian. The practice of misstating and exaggerating facts, for partlzazi and other purposes, by writers to the press who hide their identity behind pseudonyms is al- together too common in this country. and is one of those mean things in

SEA BREEZE! KEEPS YOU WELL!

JULY ~18, 1934

life that should be frowned upon by all who believe in the spirit o! play- ing the game. I sometimes wonder what kind of a mental picture you and other editors form of writers of unfair letters , for I presume that you make it an invariable rule not to publish an anonymous letter unless you are sure of its au- thorship.

The inference naturally drawn by