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-- granted that an aggressive litiropeati

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The Charlottetown Guardian

to ail intents and purposes‘ would be the de-l

fcuceless sitores of tiie overseas Empire.

LIFIII-CUI w. Chute: a MIL!!! a. s. Burnett. v J l. D. A. Miwliluuon, IJ. l. l).

President. \' irr- Prenil

Iwnflur) l-Iv"

mm" tiiii llilllilfllll] DIrH-hil l. is uni-me. w. J. I

Anni-lute Eifitnin, l-‘runii Wmzu mil I). K. (funk.

di-llvi-rvd n (

- s i-zitiinrii lnlilml. $61M u" vet-r

to iii-r yi-iu- iln BIITBIIrII mulled ll ' tln ldvianofll

frontiers of Britain were on the Rhine.

"m" Halli-ll to viii-aria mild Ulllled sum sponsiiiiiity that should be ftiiiy realized and, WEUNESILII’, DIARCH s. 1937 Wflmll"? t‘? fhelr "lulllh Sllmlid‘ 3"“ a cal“ athati. not a b0lllll African, not a I\ew Zealatid- , t't' and not an Australian but is fully aware that The U- |\~ Agfeelllelll llritziiifs gigantic programme. is as intich for —--—-—~ their prOtOCIiOH as for her own. and not one of "In ennsitltriti; the change in the llt'\\‘ trade theni but is conscious of the fact that co-opera- agreenivtit \\t.i. tin- lfuitetl Kiugtltini", .‘~il_\> the tioti with her in tiefeiicc tiiziiis would not mean tihiht- tut ma, "it is necessary to kt-tp in nnnd zissistzince to the Mother Country alone, but coi- tiu- dittlreitri‘ ii<'l\\lt‘ll m3.‘ atid i937. The laboration iii the undertaking to make every prt-st-ttt tit-ittttttivtit, had it livvil in titfice then, ltart of tiie Commonwealth of Nations secure." uottid bait: 'itti the-i<i\vvr-t;i:'iil principle. \\illl lltt hh .. ‘oi the ilrilish dvlctmitiitti. \\he-. ther or not tite rt -:iit wntiid have been a- satis-i f Edflgrial Nole; j‘ tlietotw. lliitltT t-ttinlitions [iit-vttiiitig from i053 to tugs. t- a intuit-t" for speculation. iii 2\il_\'t __ _ _ ‘ _ ' _ Um,‘ ,1,‘ m“ 1m,‘ H]“,,._.,h_(] m m“ M. can, iiic_ Proviucizil (itiveriimeiit was in_ session up“, p“, h, m“, mprn-ippd m“ hpnpfih. ‘Yuupp llonilziy tirciiitiiiiziry to the annual session. have bun eaiattittiitts. This etilillil'_v hild a \'iS-l 1F i‘ * ibie trznit- it.tl.llli‘t‘ last _\e;ir of tiiorv than $400: Pt-Qntigr Abcrhart may haw been born a ltoitfrtn. tillr i lily lo Whirl!» ill l‘-\'¢l'>'> 0i, llfOpllCI, but it ltas not. taken ioiig to make hitii Fsltlihlftliht on ui tin linite-l hittgtlitiit and >480- “ _.¢|,Q,,,j,,g puljlicpnh 9004100 t.» all izztit-ire cottntries. The iiiiipire p at 1k 1r hi" l““ll "ill ‘llii’ ‘l lll ll llllll‘ 0i til?!" llWll-H Petisitms for tite biitid at 40 years 0f age is ll- llii "ill il"'l"'lll*‘ "y"'l"lllif"l'ill'.\' llllf~ICl>l~‘ lll“ :i vieiconie addition to otir pension burdens. The fact liht‘. tr.- iout -t.'trtt‘t' prnictpit- \\'.'l.\ by no province pays 25% and the Dominion 75%. fllt‘.tli.~ itiirttliti front tin~ limptrt- 1lt‘_'t'('t‘lllt'lii> n: at it ' ' l" lll “l ll ‘3ll‘l‘l‘lllll"lll ll‘ “hi4 The City Cotiiicil will find it necessary to ' ~11 “llllllll llllll lll" Lillllul l\lllfs"l"ll‘ make a 5100.000 bond issue before long iii or- ll" ivnti l1 ‘l'\"lll."li"lll' lll‘lll> \\“l'l‘ illimfll ll" der lu carry on. \\'lierc is it going to end’? These ill" ll“ “ll i’l""l"ll-* l" l".i~’ “l” llllll‘ continuous (ieficits are a serious menace and Elf" i" ' 5‘ll“l“ill*'llll)'~ llllllfl’ are hound to rtact oii our credit as a city. Art-t“,- _ _ itittid of variation iii the >i< i: 5t "lit" l“ 'll'l‘l‘-lll ""ll“'lll» lllllll." Ullltl" wlll‘ And now we are scriousiv advised that “the illwllll‘ r \‘\"“1l‘l‘l\'l l" llll‘ ll'°“_ll-‘l- control plan. by which the Neutrality Coni- ll l‘ lllll‘ ll'~'l ‘ll ill“ llllll‘ "l lll“ ‘lllllwllwllls tnittee hopes to localize the Spanish struggle, l" l".i—'l “ill.” ll'l' i'lill°lil’llll‘ll fill“ ‘\'*'l*l"“'l'l'L"l could iiot be opative bv tiext Saturday iiiid- ifii1"l\*l~ ~""' I/lfl illill >il't"l.4 - lllll ll l‘ ll"l°‘ night, the dale originally set". Nobody ex- nnrtitv titat ni the new zigreettteiit they maul it would, leave inc ntttrttndiztte, the only one that counts, w at 1-

at the ittel it was. and further inner the pre~

fereuvi. Tiber leave the guaranteed tiiargius ivhvrt‘ they were, though these were asaiied. Anotitvi‘ eritivi-iti iit 1H,}: was that the “hands tii l'1tt'ii:tittrtit are tied for fiiv ytntrs."

only thtieretict‘ now is that the all» . are tit-d for three years. The principle is the

5illllU. in short tite new agreement eitibttdics in prtii- eipie tin- old, and on the political nitlt‘ it repres-

etits a iuilztiroits cotiititt-tttziry 0n the thread- \\'itt'l'l virtue of political consistency. Section ai-

ter .~(‘t'lit>lI \\ili\‘li was‘ attaeitvd iii 1932 by the,

pritst-itt l‘ritiic _\lilli~it't' atpettrs in the new aorta-intent iii terms that do little credit to tht. grunts nr liI'iQll]Zilii_\' of rlrttitstiizittsltip. The

itietttbers of the iit1\'t‘1'l'll11(‘l‘l[ were no (ltittbt itonsciotts of their previntis linipire speeches of which Hansarti is stivh a ruthless

ret-ortit-r. and the zigreciitent, in some splits, iii- (ltUiilUS a struggle in (iraitstiiansitip to recoii-,

rile uhat tint House of tfontmotis is now ZlSl\'t‘(l lo acct-pt tivili: what it ilvas urged t0 reject tn logs.

The cry against tying the itatids of Canadian lhtritameiff is in part tin-t in any event as far its future l':triizuiienls are concerned. by limit-

ditq the :igreeitiettt to three years instead of five. This; of cotttstr. is open lo the ohjeelitiu that luasutttch as the rtgreetttetit i< claimed to be a good one. ubv should it be cotidetnllerl to a premature rlt-tntse. The :ittiiospltere for negotia- tion mav be less favourable in three years time. (lne thing is nta-‘ie evident by the agreement. nameiv lbat the t lttaiva Conference of i932 will be ZiWILVS associated with the greatest l'(‘~()l‘it'l1- tiition of trade and fiscal policies expcricucel

by any Lmptre of .\loderti Times. ’ r

A Last-Minute Gesture

‘When did the King tiovcrnntent ticcidtltl to return the five per cent Civil Service salary rc- dtiction? 'l'his is a t]llt'.~ilt)il, says an exvhziiigc, that has bevoitte of l\t'L'l] and particular iiiter- est about titlatva. where (‘i\il Service pay is one of the li\f‘~l topics. The indication is titat the derision was itiade at the iast iiiititite. \'Vhen the copies of .\lr. lhutiiittgl" stit-ech were ltandeti out. it ivas found that the sitigit- para- graph attnonutittg the restoration of the pay “as on a separate ltaii-shet-t of paper clipped to one of the ptiers. t in it was a note. instructing that the tiaragratilt be inserted iii the middle of atutthei‘ long parafgrttph oii the tinge to which the fragtttent ivas" attarherl. The fact titat this item “as noL in the specvlt as originally draft-

ed l§ (akin as sllfllfilvlll itiditvitittu that the de- (‘idtlll to put tin- tutl St-rvittt- hack on fttii tray \\;ts';il'i'1\<'tl at rather httrriediy and at the Iiivtflth hour.

Newfoundland Comment

The [viriiatttt-titari- debate on Caliarl.'i.'s nation- ni ilt-ft-tise progtzunttit- is attracting interest otit-

tsidv this ll-ititinitni. as is evident from the fol- lowing shrewd ctntunetit by the Si. John's (Xeufoitiullaitti) livetiiiig Tieiegrziiti:

“.\lttt‘|t iittttortanee Itppears to be attached (bV

(invertititettt speakers) to the neutral attitude which ii she choose, (“anada could adopt in the

event of an :ttt:i<"i\ on liiTiii Ilritziiii by a coni- bitizttioii of pittvers. llttt what ivouid her [tosi- pitm be if. iii the event of such a ivat‘. ilfllillllfi

flppl w“. o, ,~.(‘riiit|sl_\' t‘I'i[)|lll‘fl that it could no longer act as a stire shield for the overseas d0- iiiiniotis, inviutiing (ittinida? It is to be as- sttutt-tl that inr itvtitrziiity would be respected. or is it l;ti\t‘l1 for graiitetl that the Uiiitetl States would l‘fiit‘f'll\'t‘lr\' protect her front a rattaeiotistis-

swiiatit tut-ting eoietous eyes tit-on stlCii a rich

prf/e? it llliQlil be that America \\'0llili ill’ ftiliv ()<‘t'li|\it"l in preventing iil\'.'l~'l0il of iiei‘ IL-n-ific States and iii ivariliitg off attack upon ‘it-r expnst-tl t'iill‘,< aiotig the Atlantic freehoartl. ’ Itiet- tin: line of ih-fenet- held by Britain on the other side of the .\ll.'llillC was broken, with the lI|t‘-\II\‘ available todaiy. it may be taken for |t0>\\'t‘l‘ would not be slow to carry the war against what

Trade L

It is so easy to succumb 'to tcittptzition. espe- ciailv in its liquid form. Rev. \\’. G. Gaston, , field seerelarj,‘ of tite Aiiti-Sziioott" League in 1‘ Liiiiou (f y, Teiiti.. was arrested on a charge

’,t 0f public intoxication; and failing to appear in‘

tthe City Court". forfeited a bond of $i0. The ' Rev. b. S. 'I‘iniion, State Sittieriiitctideiit, in aiiiitittticiitg hisaiisniisstil, expressed his regret. "l think .\lr. tjastuti jitst slipped," he saiti. I * i‘ ' Melaiiurgists have reached the point where , they can ttiakc Taiiigstcn wire so thin titat 10 tuiies of it would weigh no more titan an ounce, t anti sheet metal so thin titat 500 sheets would not he as thicl; as note paper. .\lr. llarrtid Roast, |l\‘lt‘L‘~]It‘CSi(-l(.‘lii of the Cauatiiziit Bronze Cutti- i pauy told the members of the Engineering In- stitute of Cattatla. Ilontreai branch. iii an ad- dress last week on iioii-ferrotts alloys, >i< * =i<

Sit we are not t0 have a visit front tltc Gov- i eriior-Uetieral this summer alter all. Last year, it will he recalled on the eve 0f his visit His lixcelieiiey‘ was taken iii and had to enter hos- pital in .\lLIl1li‘(‘1ll. This year it is atiiiouiicetl Lord 'l‘\vet-dsttiuii' intends taking ati textcnsive rail, air and sea tour of the far north leaving Que- bee on _Iuiy 5retttriiiiigt0 Ottawa first week in September. Alas we are being regarded in (Jtlaiva ilt)\\'t'l(i;t_\‘s‘ as merely a useless appendix to the Dominion, that may be discarded with itiiptitiity.

it I!

If it be any comfort to our sorely taxed read- ers. they will be interested to know that tinder the latest Dunning budget, articles other titan iiqtior. more than 100 years old, may now be imported free front the Utiitetl Kingdom. Tihere will also be reductions in the tariff on food- stuffs", cigarettes and ales from the old country. \‘V()0li(3ll and cotton goods. leather products and silks, will also CUIHC in under lowered tariff rates. Ilusicians may be interested in lowered tariff rates on stringed instruments too years old or fllflCi‘. The rest of tis must continue to groan under the heavily increased taxes imposed by the King (ioveriiment a year ago.

Ill * n-

Ill

For several years the Queensland (Australia) Main Roads Commission has been experiment- ing with a machine invented by L. H. R. Irvine, a sydncy engineer, for the baking of the surface of formed-tip clay and black soil roads. The tiiachine is a travelling furnace, the heat of which as the tnachitie moves over the surface 0f the road, bakes the soil and converts it into a suit- able and lasting pavement. The experiments, which have been eoutiiietetl iii the Toowooiiiba district, have proved so successful that the com- mission has purchased a new and larger ma- chine for baking roads throughout the extensive black soil regions of Western Queensland. The new machine, which embodies many improve- ments on the experimental model, will weight when iii oporation about twenty-seven tons. lt is thirty feet long and is able t0 bake~the soil at the rate of approximately sixty feet an honr. its operating heat is about 1,200 degrees Fahrenheit.

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The Chicago Daily Tribune carries a fiill page advt. of the ltlarshail Field C0,, displaying a tnagttificeut illustration of the silver fox pelt

'o. 298i) for WlIlClI they paid $2.100 at the

Fromm Bros. fur sale. 'l'iiis is the letter press: "ii/H: rlrm’! know ‘who is going to teem‘ zofit). Int! 1w know rant-e thirty: about her.

IVc klltlitl .\'/tr is quick In beauty. She'll sac

a! ourr‘ rliul this glorious fur ‘it'll/i thick

xnf/ mam‘, its ilrc/tly MGVIZCd black cross,

its [t/‘tlilfl [trig/ti silver, is a king among fares, S/ltf-ill-IIJIOIU lilal Ilm quiet joy of if:

pnrsrntrintt zei/I In‘ ItyncinI/ts In her sattL. . .

Slit‘ ntriy b1‘ blrnttia against iii‘ blur‘ black,

or dark in Itarmony toil/i it, but she'll carry

Iirr ltenrl like a princess. She'll ‘wear if:

imlile lrngI/i across flu‘ slioitldrrs of her

Ini/Irnr or ‘warm ngainxl Itrr rlrrallrlagl‘, and if Ilic ocmxintt ix xiitiplr it ‘lei/l In‘ limit/i- fiilly 5n, am! i)’ il'_.r an (‘will il teill In‘ in- tensified. . . This is sltc ‘who mus! have 2989-

“Preniier BALDWIN once remarked titat the 1t is scarcely less true to say that the frontiers of Uinada are on the eastern side of the Atlantic or on the western side of the Pacific. llcr col- ifiijivi~iiiiiim ssioii pa; you it» IIIVIIIBI) It iaboratiitii and titat of the other Doiiiiiiioiis in the defence of the Etnpire programme is a re-

FHE WCHA RLOTTETOWW GUARDIAN’

Notes By The Way

Llflg fid oi tax exempt. bonus. ‘Iiiat. stiould encourage ihcase in this comi- Lry who ODJCCL to the tax-tree pro- VISlL-AS of our Government bonus.

is not. necessary to get. public tin- anclng. The United states will, it; may be supposed, eventually come to

the pmsent system in this country argue that, if there were no preter- ential tieiitment for government. bonds. governments would have m pay a higher rate to get the money. It 1s by no means certain that. this would be the case, but, even if its was, the costlwould not be prohibi- tive and the cost. would fall exactly where it. should-oii the borrowing EOVBYHIIICIIIr-MIIWRUNGC Journal.

"Things are coming our way." So it. must have seemed to an Arkansas farmer and a New Jersey motorist who figure 1n current news dis- patches. J. D. Griggs, or Joiiesboro, Ark, awoke the other morning and found a brand new house on his farm. The Mississippi flood had de- posited ft. there during the night. 1n

ed out with one auto and had two when he stopped. Iii the minor over his windshield he saw a darkened car following him at. ,c.ose range. finally stopping to fitvestlgate be found that when he pulled out; 0t a parking place he had unwittingly kidnapped another car ivhose front bumper had become locked with his rear one. Which only goes to show- tf a moral must. be while we go dutifully about. our own business, things may be coming out" way even if we don't immediately realize Il.-—~CI’II‘ISEIB.II Science Mout- tor.

No speaker ever failed to leave his audience sorry They are either sorry that he sat down when he did, or sorry that. he didn't. sit; down when he didn't. There is no such thing as a speech exactly the right Length. There is no perfect, stopping place because the audience is never ex- actly satisfied. It either hasn't had enough, or else it has had boo niucii. Between the two extremes. it would seem that; every speaker would err on the safe side 81kt make certain his speech would be oii Llie short side instead of the long. Sad to re- late. however, there are B dozen speeches too long t.o_ one that is too short. One eainiot help but recall Irvin Cobbs stow of tlie public hanging at which a fat negro matiimy stood perspiriitg iii the sun for more than an hour while the condemned man went oii with his final speech. Extisperated at last, stie called out, “Git. iiung, Nigger! Gel hung!" Most of the things a speak- er says after the first l5 minutes are of great interest to no oiie but him- SGli.-—K1\\’.'L11lS Magazine.

It would lie childlike to go for- ward on the assumption that the outbreak of a general war iii Etir- ope would ‘nave iio effect oii tli.s country if only we can keep our goods, our ships and our citizens at. home. In the first place, it: i.s ob-

vious titat the cessation of ail tiade with the belligereuts would necessi- tate revolutionary 1't‘3(l_l1l.'~"i1II'?fIL§ in our domestic economy to avert a depression and unemployment of disastrous intensity. In the second place, those who believe that Amer- ican involvement in European wars came solely from economic causes would certainly have their memories refreshed by a wave of partisanship and evangelical fervor of the sort which, bankers and exporters aside. had a great part in getting us into

the last one. To litiaeine that Eur- , ope coufd be divided between the, democracies and the dictators and‘ America be interested only as al

lender and an EXDOPLCI‘ is to deny the obvious-Baltimore Sun.

The King, Queen. and Princess possess today the affections of the people, and t-he Princess Elizabeth has already won all hearts to a re- markable degree. Past events have shown the necessity foi‘ providtng tor emergencies tn connection with the succession to the Throne, but the fervent hope wiIl be expressed that it. may not become necessary to put the bill into operation. While dic- tators ai-e parading the stage in other countries, we remain fully sat- isfied with our constitutional mon- archy and are resolved that it shall be perserved against. all the shocks and vicissitudes of these eventful tImes.—Be1fa.si; Telegraph.

The cumplny has lost millions of dollars in trade, part; of which has gone to its competitors while its plants were neld by the strikers. More than 100.000 empioyes not. in sympathy with the strike, and em- pfiyes in other industries, have lost. millions tn wages. Yet ft is not ap- parent. that John L. Lewis Ls troub- led by the thought that his victories for labor do not. beta-nu the losses; nor can he recapture much of the public sympathy that may have been with htm before this strike be- guns-New York Sun.

Peel Count-y C. C. F. will circulate a petition asking the government in case of war to Lake the profits out. of the manufacture of war mater- ials. What. the organization would do if wheat went: to $2.50 a bushel or potatoes to $5 B bag as a. result of war has not so far been revealed. —Peterborough Examiner.

Now that If In definitely estab- lished how narrow are the limits re- atrlettng the authority of the Dom- futon Parliament. it. is for me statesmen and people of Cfl-hldl to determine what extensions are nec- essary. All parties are agreed that. there must. be some redistribution of powers between the Dominion and the Provinces, but. difficulties arise u soon as any attempt, is made to work out. a new division or even to settle the method of amendment.- London Times.

When are the bootleggen of yel- tieryeiir. the men who maintained Bum Row off the American coast. operated huge distinct-lea on the land. and ran a great fleet of mickz between the United states and Can- ada‘! Stewart Berkshire. deputy commissioner of the Internal Rev- enue Bureau in New York. reports

The Canadian Government. ls let-

Caiiada beJeves that. tax preterencel

the same belief. Those who favour‘

Irvington, N.J.. Izzy Mittkofsky starta- ‘

drawn-that ,

...

virtual for ,

PUBLIC FORUM

Th1: uOIuInn h one: "Fill" ' iffmiuulon by correlpbnflanil 0|

. “Y

ourselves. yet. we believe that In our

way we are acoomnlllhlnl "m9"; thing for the public 300d. If we did‘ not believe so we could not bein- the

strain and worry which a Pmvfn-

cial Exhibition tentaflz on those re-

for I

quutlulu of Interest. The Charlottetown Guardian dllll In! i " the ,

n! aorrelpundentl.

Mr. Jones refers to our Grmu Stand a“ “ and horse racing.

EXHIBITION GRANTS, ETC.

Sin-A wise man has written that the measure of a man's re- liability can be gauged by his ut- teranoesand writings on public questions. If that statement ts cor- rect, then I am afraid the reliabL- tty of Mr. J. Walter Jones, M. A., M. L. A., is seriously jeopardized.

In a former letter I corrected some statements made by Mr. Pro- fit and Mfr. Jones. at. a meettnK 0X the Prince Edward Island Horse Breeders’ Association, believing that,‘ the information supplied would sat.- isfy the interested parties. Mr. Jones comes back with s, letter In yesterday morning's Guardian re Exhibition Grants, etc. which I am replying to so that people can see for themselves the lengths to which Mr. Jones will go with misrepre- sentations tn order to injure the Exhibition.

The following ls a statement from his letterz-"Thiit it is not; even up to any Class B or lower grade exhibition of which I have any record." It. ls certainly surprising that Mr. Jones would not have tak- en the trouble to go through the prize lists of other Exhibitions be- fore writing to the press.

To put the matter briefly, THE NOVA SC-OTIA PROVINCIAL EX-

,IIIBITION—A CLASS A FAIR»-

whicli has the entire province of Nnva Scotia behind it with a popu- lation six times greater than Prince Edward Island, offers in its CATTLE classes a total of $3,649.

780.60. In the same HORSE CLASS- ES as appear in our prize list. Nova Seotla offers $1,518. as against our $1.686. In SHEEP CLASSES Nova Senlia offers $529. as against our $496.50. In SWINE Nova Scotia of’- fers S302.-as against, our $436. In POULTRY it is impossible to make up from their prize list. the amount offered. Ours ls equivalent to 5H1. The above figures refer only to LIVl-J STOCK and do not include the prize list for the dairy products and the hundreds of exhibits which are shown in the Main Building. In addition we paid out. to our various livektock exhibitors for freight (train or trucks) the sum of $996.06. Freight allowance was first sug- gested by the ‘ate Honorable Walter M. Lea, who believed that the ex. litbitors all over the Island should be on an equal basis so far as cost of exhibiting is concerned. In order to carry this out it was necessary to guarantee the Efillibit/OI‘ from any‘ pat". of the Island the amount of‘ freight. it, cost. htm to bring 1115 ex- hibits to Charlottetown. Mr. Jones‘ WF-dvrs Whv this freight bill has increased so mtteh in the past; two years. The reasons are-ll) that the number of exhibits have tn- creased and second that; we now pay freight on every exhibitors" stock. even within the ten miles radius—Mr. Jones‘ stock included, It. would involve far less clerical wottk for us if the Prize List was increased by the amount paid out In freight. and would no doubt make the Prize List look much more attractive without costing the As- sociation any more money. But it would also cut down out‘ entry fist, by making it more difficult for the far away competitor to show. As the obiect of the Exhibition is to