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THE GIIARLOTTETUWN GUARDIAN

Vloa-PreiIdeubJ. B. Burnett. Associate ltrmur-D. I. Curvls

Notes By__T he Way

The pro-Awerlcanism of the King Government will not down. However much the newspapers supporting it

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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1929

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may desire and attempt to disguise it or to lull their readers into forget- fuiness of its existence, it remains a fact, that cannot be ignored. Equally apparent is the disparity between the

INSPIRING CONVENTION

"ihe harmony and enthusiasm Qwhich prevailed "at the Ccnservaitve q convention‘ for Queen's County yes-

fition, not only to

1' "Orally throughout the Province. The:

‘Quoting was a largely attended cne,l

and the spirited applause which! greeted the nomination of Hon. J.. H. Myers and Mr. W. Chester S. Mc_—| pure. M.L.A., as candidates for the} Dounty in the forthcoming federall election was an eloquent tribute t0_~ the popularity and ability of the. gentlemen named. f

Messrs. Myers and McLure are well , known throughout the Province. Mr.’ Myers is a. successful farmer and has‘ a brilliant political record as legis-‘ lative representative for the Fourth‘ District of Prince and latterly as f . Minister of Agriculture, "in which‘ capacity he came into contact wlthl‘ all sections of the Province. He is admittedly one of the abiest plat- ~- -form speakers in the Province and his qualifications for Piederal honors

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and in Ottawa. Mr. McLure is an outstanding fig- uro in the business life of the Prov-i - _ince and of Canada. As represent-i

marked ability both as a. speaker

Ileld of Dominion politics. Although the date of the IFederal

be congratulated upon getting its‘

must, develop a type of Canadian ba- con hog and. thus attain to the uni- form quality that the world's best markets demand.

1n Denmark there is but one tyvs Llvterday must have been an inspirll-l of bacon hog and that type is de- ‘ the candidates vglgpgfl - nominated, but to the orgariizationl tlons. There are central breeding committee and to Conservatives gen- places in which the prescribed type of hog is raised and these are sold to the farmers at actual coat. More- over, the Danish system, not only in bacon. but in butter and eggs is con- ducted on a purely co-operative basis. 'I'lie farmer knows that conformlti! with the Association's regulations is to his own advantage. and he rigidly complies with all the requirements 7 laid down by the Association. There is also a system of rigid inspection which prevents the export of any un- worthy commodity. Ti-iis insures, to , the Danish farmer, the highest price and the highest place in the world's most exacting of all markets, that is. the British market.

under

WHAT IS CIVILIZATION?‘

Most of us assume that civilization h", been Rammed box, at home § is so obvious that to ask if it exists lis to be ridiculous, says a writer in ithe Manitoba. Free Press; but if the l question is pressed as to what exact- ly civilization comprises. the answer docs not come very readily out of the ative roi- Charlottetown in the Pro- ‘ Pmblem- F“ example» mule“ 1'0"- vluclal legislature he has Shownidon, in its streets and buildings is an ienormously-more gigantic and im- lpressive place than the London of and legislator, and the fact that he ‘ Queen Elizabeth; but, would we say has made good in everything he has . it was a more civilized city? Thebes, ‘undgrtakgn 1s a promtsmg augury, which Homer said had a hundred ‘m, m. mwre success m the wide, ‘igates, was a more imposing architec- tural crcatlon also than Elizabeths capital; but was Thebes, because of that. more civilized than the city in tlection has not yet been set. it will , which Shakespeare. in a dirty old be héid m; later than 1931 and p05. 5 theatre on Thamesidc. produced Mac- aibly ih 1930. The oohvohtioh is 15mm “d Kmg “h”? If we exclude the so-called evidenc-

Government direc-

‘und co-operation of every polling district in paving the way for an assured victory for Messrs. Myers I-nd McLure on election day.

DEVELOP UNTFORMITY

candidates early in the field and in, securing the whole-hearted approval‘

I in which human victims were roasted

es of civllizatlon—py'ramlds, palaces, tcmples, literature, art, laws, cities‘, and so forth, and decide these are at best contradictory and inconclusive proofs of civilization: wonderful idols, for example, masterpieces of construc-

‘ tional art, which were really furnaces

attitude of Sir Wilfrid Laurier and that of his successor in the Liberal leadership, to Canada's connection with Great Britain, the British Em- pire, the monarchical system and British institutions and traditions. For all these Sir Wilfrid Laurier

is sadly absent _from the leader and his colleagues who are now in powcr at Ottawa. Sir Wilfrid's attitude in regard to our British connection was quite in acoord with that of his com- patriots in the Province of Quebec. Before Sir Wilfrid's advent to politi- cal life, Sir Etienne Tache had made the memorable statement, "The last gun to be fired in defence of British sovereignty in Canada will be fired by a French Canadian."

The-same sentiment has been re- peatedly endorsed by Premier Tas- chereau and hLs predecessor in ofllcc. Sir Lomer Gouin. They were both loyal supporters of Canada's connec- tion with the Empiic, as Sir Wilfrid Laurler was. It is true that the large majority of the 65 members repre- senting the Province of Quebec at Ottawa give their support to MI‘. M116- Kenzie King. They were very proud of Sir Wilfrid, as they well might be. They had been trained in his school, and were very loyal to him.

not they had in their minds when

he passed out of life ii very strong

prejudice against Mr. Fielding. whom

the majority of English-speaking Lib-

erals preferred. Arid by their num-

bers and consequent dominant voting

power in the Convention, they made

had an affectionate admiration that‘

barometer a storm.

change."

it.

it is called.

Mr. King the successor to Sir Wilfrid in the party leadership. Having done;

and under certain limitations.

is the story in brief of the early rela- tions of Premier King and his sup- porters from Quebec.

Quebec does not want to sever its relations with Great Britain, and the British Empire. While that connec- tion stands she enjoys under an in- violable treaty the full possession of her own laws, her language and her religion. Her people know that "if British connection were abrogated there can be no altematlve short of absorption into the United States, and all that she holds most, dear would be engulfed and lost forever.

affected

‘The longest case recorded for any one patient was one year, and the this they came under some sort oil shortest was two weeks. -What did obligation to support him for a tlmci they find? That in some forms of rheumatism sir Lomer Gouln served as Minister. or arthritis due to age, to injury, or of Justice under Premier King. but] to gout, the weather did not affect not very long until he found the at- l the patients very much. However in mosphere of the Council Chamber! patients whose rheumatism was due uncongenlal and he resigned. That to bad teeth, tonsils, sinus or gall bladder trouble, the weather greatly their condition, for the presence of a storm was associated with increased pain. "This held true not only for days when there was

rain and snow but also for those days when thc

cloudy." They tell of one molhing during

THE WEATHER AND RIIEUMATISM

You have heard Li's: story of the salesman who tried to sell a baro- meter to an old lady. He explained that it would be possible with the

to foretell the coming

The old lady replied, "What do you think the good Lord gave us rheu- matLsm for if it wasn't to help us know when the weather is going to

Is there any truth in the statement that the rheumatic patient can fore- tell a change in the weather? You and I have met a. number of these cases and we are quite ready to believe that there is some truth in

However research physicians of the Mayo clinic have been gathering sta-

tistics on this matter. In the summer of 192'! they made daily records of the condition of rheumatic patients in hospital. , Each day the pain of each patient was esteemed from the patient’: own statement, then the pain of Ens whole group was estimated for that day, and the average comfort or discom- fort of the group was recorded on the same chart with the pressure of the barometer, the temperature, signs in- dicating cloudiness, winds or storms with rain or snow.

They have made a report on what they observed in a study of 367 pat-

ients with rheumatism, or arthritis as

weather ' was

definitely

early summer when they were all pleased with the general sense of well-being among the rheumatic pat- ients. The sun was shining bright, no cloud in the sky. Early in the after. noon one patient after another, twelve in all, began to call for some sort of relief from pain. Late that

The people of Quebec are really

. l A gentleman who visited the large. market centres in England recently‘ i ‘was given an illuminating lesson in‘ the secret of Danish domination of the British Market. Visiting a large‘ . ~ STORY! he Was shown hunlrcds of ‘ Danish sides of bacon hung along the A length of the store room. Examin-l lrig them carefully he found that they‘ were uniform in size and quality.‘ The grocer explained to him that, ‘ when a customer ordered a sldc cfi l‘ Danish bacon or fifty sides. as thci u ease might be, he knew exactly what‘ i he was getting and that he was get- ij ting the best that the market could‘ supply. In the store room in which} Canadian bacon was shown there was no such uniformity. The sides were of different sizes and cf differ- ent distribution of fat and lean so that as the grocer explained it tho customer would be obliged to specify whit kind of bacon he wanted. This was cumbersome, and the grocer, without intending it, gave it to be understood that he didn't want to be bothered with commodities which re- speciflcaticn and might not always prove satisfactory to the cus- tamer. Canadian bacon has found a place for itself in the British market but not the highest place, and for the simple reason that it lacks uniform- ity.‘ Individual samples may be of llcellent quality but the customer bust pick and choose for himself, {which is often a. hindrance. , The reason for this lack of unl- fformity in Canadian bacon is that , b A e is no Canadian bacon type I Every Province has its own " or types, often a half dozen or » “Filmore, and these are crossed and re- ‘ ‘ crossed until the original type has been practically eliminated. “a” r: this country is to make its way ‘(u-the British market. or in any of

have

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. to death in honor of the god; stu- pendous monumental tombs in whose production ten or twenty thousand slaves were worked to death; if there is a flaw in most of these proofs, where are the proofs cf civilization to be found? If there is no other evi- dence than blood-shot testimonies, what right

is anything more than an abstract notion of the mind? Modern London has better build-

tor poets. which is the more civiliz- ed? The United States has develop- ed mechanical mass production. An- cient Greece developed Plato and Aristotle. contributes-most to civilization? This involves the direct question as wthe existence of a civilization; but we cah ask others. civilization, and that it has an out.

temporary social life which will de- termine the appearance of the social life of the future’!

We are up to the ears in a mechan-

influenced by the theory that mech- anical progress is the inevitable course our communities will take; carrying us and our descendants into a mach- ine-controlled society of the mostex- traordlnary complexity. course, is a pure I umptlon, and even if it were established, such a course might just as well carry us out of civilization altogether as info an ex- tension of the notion which we imag- ine civilization to be.‘ civilization does exist, and is progres- sive, it is something which cannot be accurately measureu or

1t is some quality which canbe traced through all the varied stages of the past, and which Vimerts itself on hu- man relationships as a continually world's other great markets, it stronger influence.

these chequered and

we to assume that civilization

but Elizabeth's London had bet-

Which contributed - or

Assuming there is

whst'are the elements in con-

society, and we are heavily

'I‘his, of

Because if

god by the activities of human societies.

conservative and protectionist, but not in name nor in the party sense of the word. They are now beginning to see more and more clearly from year to year that the King Govemmentis pro-American in its failure to pro- tect the Canadian home market against encroilchments. Quebec far- mers see. as other farmers see, how they suffer from the deluge of butter I and other farm products that is let= into our home market at les than the cost of production in Canada.

In like manner Canadian manu- afcturers find that they have to com- pete in their home market with the overflow of mass production in the United states. dumped into Canada at what it will fetch at quick sale. Pro-American is a mild term as ap- plied to Premier King and his col- leagues who are thicker than thieves with the nabohs in Washington.

The King Government tariff exact- ly suits Uncle Sam. Bloated with profits made out of the war before he had put a man into action at the front in i918, and still more bloated because half the greater nations of Europe are now his debtors in bil- lions, he gloats and laughs over the fact that the King Government tariff exactly suits him. It keeps his mills and factories busy, promotes the ex- odus of Canadians southward across the border, limits Canadian indus- trial profits and farmers’ profits, or puts them out of business. What more could he want? Wherefore he laughs and gioats and gives another twirl to his tariff Windlass to hoist his tariff against Canada still higher.

Unemployment 5mm; rgllwuy Greece was not dreamt: Rome had workers in Canada is becoming not b88111 - 59110113, “cording w pfgsg dgg- Young wonder filled the hearts of patches from the west. There m6!!-

fs usually a reduction in the number oi’ such workers after the grain crop has been moved, but this year-it has come earlier than usual, not because the grain movement, toward the sea- board ls finished but because "the spout" is choked. It is strange that this should happen in a year when the grain crop is unusually short, but so it is. And it means a loss all round —to the grain-grower, the transport-

afgm systems and their employees. 1111a! unemployment comes earlier

d

Out to the Indian camp I went-—-

Therek something lost in organ-penis Those Indians had hot quite forgot Where had I heard these lilts before, Or did they but remind ms of

than usual is a serious business as it

means a longer winter. and in our northern climate the cost of living‘

afternoon an electric storm " y appeared.

What will be the effect of this ex- perlment?

'I'hat in some hospitals already they have chambers where the atmos- pheric pressure can be adjusted so that relief from pain may be at- titlned.

INDxN DANCE

When they had pitched their smoked Tepees In horse-shoe curve upon the plain, I strolled into the Indian camp- And straightway was a boy again.

The years between were crumbled ~

dust; A dream of youth had come to pass: I smokedma calumet with five - Tali red men in the sun-dried grass. Yet coming back to Now and Town, Interrogated where I'd been, "Just looking at the Indian camp," I said, with most rionchalant mien. For who believes in miracle? Or why proclaim so much as half Our happy lunacies to one Who would, not understanding, laugh? But there was deeper miracle At night, when stars and fires were lit And wind-borne Town As though to cast a spell on it.

rhythms came to

The Public Forum

This column Ia open for the dfacualou by correspondents of quest-Iona of interest. The Charlottetown Guardian duel not necessarily endorse the opinions of oorrellleadeute.

CONDITIONS IN KING'S iSin-"Observer" in the Patriot of the 16th inst. refers to the efforts of the law officers to suppress smug- gling and other illicit, trafficking in intoxicating liquors in the East Point district. He praises the officers and says this is now the driest section in Prince Edward Island. If this statement is correct the other sec- tions must be very wet. No doubt the officers are doing the best they can, but the public men who should be supporting them are not giving them any assistance, and in some instances. are actually put- ting obstacles in their way. The con- sequence is that there is a great deal of illicit liquor sold and used in this part of the country. The public men who are either apathetic now, or who are actually helping the law breaking fraternity were either tem- perance candidates, or were elected on a temperance platform a little over two years ago. It is this kind of thing that makes" two thirds of the drinking and the trouble. These public men must think that the tem- perance people of this Island have

of

Very properly. the officer had his assailant hailed before the court. but I have been told that the Crown so bungled the case from the begin- ning that the trial ended in a. fiasco. Instead of the guilty party being sent up to the Supreme Court he was let off with a fine, and a very ‘small part of the fine was collected, which makes it impossible to collect any more. If the politicians have the right to name incompetent counsel or counsel who are sure to bungle things in such cases, and if the courts get things mixed up, the officers have no chance at all, and we are not far from the conditions that prevail in ChlcLgo. Everybody knows that Mr. Barbour la trying to do his duty. and if he were allowed to employ his own coun- sel or even to conduct his own cases, we would likely have‘ different re- suits, but apparently he is not ai- lowed to do this, and the Justice Department at Ottawa is not there- fore free from blame. If the politician in King's County who at present seems to have access to two governments, and who is car-

ple of this Island will stand for such

men and women. If the politicians knew that our temperance principles were stronger than our political par- tylsm we would have different con-

very short memories. ditions soon. A few weeks ago Officer Miller was I am Sir, etc, interfered with and asaulted while 3551' pom‘: in the discharge of his duty. This was surely a very serious offence. “M ‘ c s c T.

i Insidious

t ' tlon is required, Hence defective

THE LAND WE ‘LOVE

By FRANK YEIGH

THE NURSERY INDUSTRY IN

Q. What is the extent of tiie Nursery Industry in Canada?

A. Opportunity exists in Canada. for the expansion of the nursery in-i dustry not alone with regard to in-l creasing domestic requirements, but‘ also to an export market which looms ‘ up ever more promising. Nursery-men in Canada in the year ended May ant, 192a, sold 341,808 fruit trees,‘ bushes, and plants to the value of} $128,537 and florlcultural and decora-f tive plants to the value of 32,680,130.‘ These were apparently insufficient to; meet the requirement of the country‘

and in the year 1928 the value of all‘

shrubs, plants, trees and vines im-i‘ ported into Canada had. a value of‘ $1,795,931 as compared with $1,496,395. the year before. Imports were mainly’ made up of florist stock,

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his awn way the prohibition law and i the customs laws might just as well be repealed. If the temperance peo- ‘

conduct, they ahould not be called

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