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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY, ll, llll.

Away From Jargon

In a recent address the Governor-General of Canada, Lord Tweedsmuir, made some trench- lnt observations on one of the complexities of the day——the “isolation" of specialized knowl- edge. This isolation, His Excellency pointed out, has been aggravated at a time when it should he yielding to much broader needs of coalition welfare. It has developed a jargon of its own, and “the reason is that if you shut your- self up in a subject, you are apt to invent a shorthand in which you can communicate with other people interned in the mausoleum.”

Ile was speaking at McGill University, hut, comments the Islamilton Spectator, it was far from a merely academic issue. This is an age of specialists and experts. Yet the tragedy re- mains that these very people, who should be able to shed the most light, and offer the most con- structive rcmedies for the harassing issues of the state and humanity, te11d rather to form scholarly islands removed from the orbit of those who need their guidance. These are the "tnansolcu1ns” that create that disastrous ‘gap between genuine understanding of economic and social problems, and those who are in a position to act. For it has become plain that the most strident voices of today arc not those the most qualified to speak with authority, but those fl-e- quently the least qualified to do so.

In His Own Defense

It is to be hoped, comments the Sydney Post- Record (Independent) that Hon. Ian Mac'- kenzie, Canada's Minister of Defence, had a better and more convincing answer to the critics of the Bren gun contract than the one he gave the House of Commons on Thursday night. Instead of discussing the report, the Minister

- assailed his political opponents with a barrage

of abusive epithets, in some instances so coarse and vulgar as to raise a strong presumption that he had lost his balance and was groggy from the attacks he was attempting to ward off. One of his opponents who had criticized the precious contract had "a Prussian mentality," another was “a dirty liar" whose “head" the Minister threatened to “knock off" if he could get him outside the House. Dr.‘Manion‘s reasoned criti- cisms were described by Mr. Mackenzie as “the figmcnts of his Hibernian imagination." The Conservative member for Mount Royal, W. A. Walsh, who is a school teacher and school in- lpector, was referred to contemptuously as “the splenctic dominie from Montreal." Another critic of the transaction, T. C. Douglas, C. C. F. member, xvas described as “this quibbling ro- mancer from lNeyburn."

Mr. Mackenzie concluded this general hand- out of inverted compliments (some of which he had to retract and which for the most part were expunged from the Hansard report) by boasting that none of his critics were responsible for Canada's defence but that “Mr. Ian Mackenzie of loyal highland Scottish descent is _Minister of National Defence for the Dominion of Can- ada.” Manifestly the Minister's contempt for hi; opponents is equalled only by his profound and magnificent sense of his own inherited im- portance.

These few sample passages and expressions, taken at random from Mr. Mackenzids speech in his_ o\vn defence. (says the Post-Record), give a fair idea of its general character and amazingly weak substance. It was. in short. an answer to nothing. In the circumstances he can hardly complain if the general public should share the vicw thus expressed by Hon. C. H. Cahan, who followed him in the debate:

"WVhen Hon. Mr. Macltcitzie was appointed " to the Defence portfolio, neither the Prime Min- istcr nor the people knewwhether he would prove atleqtiate to administer the dcpartment_ Hc was chosen to head a (lcnarttncnt which was rapidly becoming one of the most important in the (iovernment. It 1111s a testin": time for him.

1 “I submit." said Mr. Cahan. “that the reoort of Mr. Justice Davis reveals that he has h"cu careless, negligent, incompetent and disnualific-‘l to carry out the administration of tlwt ltigh office in the interests of the people of Canada and of the Government which he represents.”

The Harassed Citizen

This letter rightfully belongs to another column, but as it is more than usually human and self-expressive we may as well give it edi- torial prominence:

"Dear Mr. Editor,” writes the harried ‘izcn. “In reply to your request to send a cheque for my subscription, I wish to inform you that the present condition of my batik account makes it almost impossible. My shattered financial con- dition is due to Federal Laws, Provincial Laws, City Laws, Corporation Laws, Liquor Laws, Mbther-in-laws, Sister-in-lllws, Brother-in-laws and Out-laws. , '

-: -“"I‘,hrough these laws, I am compelled to pay l, Business tax, ‘amusement tax. head tax. ncltoo tax, ggoline lax, ll hrtax, sales tax, and excise‘

but. ven nrytbra m are taxed. I am require

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not to mentiotrc marriage licence and dog

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to fontrihute to ’ the

life insurance, property insurance, liability in- surance, burglar insurance, accident insurance, business insurance, automobile insurance, light- ning insurance, unemployment insurance, old age insurance and fire insurance.

“My business is so governed that it is not an easy matter for me to find out who owns it. I am- inspected, expected, suspected, Jisrespected, rejected, dejected, examined, re-examined, in- formed, required, summoned, fined, command- ed and compelled until I provide an inexhaustible supply of money for every known need, desire or hope of the human race.

“Simply because I refuse to donate some-

lied abbut, held up and held down and robbed until I am almost ruined. I can tell you honest- ly that except for the miracle that happened, I could not enclose this cheque. The wolf that comes to many doors nowadays just ‘had pups in my kitchen. I sold the pups, and here is the money, "Yours faithfully, “Michael McTurk."

I Editorial Notes I French relieved Kimberly this date, I900. l i I l

The Protestants are having a j0i11t prayer meeting in Zion tonight to ltear a dicussion on world evangelization.

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Production of cheese in January amounted to 1,271,765 pounds in comparison 1vith 2,077,613 in December and 683,889 in January, 1938. Sas- katchewan was the only producing area to re- cord a decline from January last year.

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Notwithstanding anything that may be said to the contrary, the question of peace or war now rests almost exclusively with Italy and her am- hitions in the Mediterranean. The spark most likely to set the world afire will start there in connection with French North African posses- sions.

_ U I i I

A citizen suggests a dietitian should give per- iodic talks to students of Prince of Wales Col- lege. Far too many of the boys and girls, he says, are confined long hours in college, and when at meals hastily swallow their food to the disturbance of their indigestion. Not a few of the cases of sickness prevalent, he says, may be traced to faulty digestion, and a talk by a diet- itian could do much to prevent it.

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Now that the City Council have blown off steam there should be a coming down to earth again and the facing of its problems. The city is in the unfortunate position of being without money to adequately provide for those unfor- tunately without work, and it is the Council's business to bombard the Campbell government to get them busy at Ottawa. Laissez faire both here and at Ottawa can have only one ending. c It =11 r

It is quite evident that it was not the Con-

Capt_ W. J. Osborne Dempster to oppose the re- turn by acclamation of Col. George A. Drew to the Ontario Legislature for Simeoe East. Premier Hepburn promised that there would be no officialrl-Jllcralopposition, but Capt. Demo-

_ster 'i1l__intimat1ng his withdrawal from candida-

ture saidhe had given a written undertaking to withdraw on the strength of an assurance that a candidate from within the riding would oppose Col. Drew. x n: n- =1.

Speculation as to constitutionality of mini- mum milk price-setting by the Quebec Dairy Commission is rife in view of a judgment rend- ered in Superior Court by Mr. Justice Gibsone ruling that price fixing in the shoe repair in- dustry through a provincial regulation was void. Operation of the collective labor agreement to fix prices for the shoe repairing industry on the Island of Montreal is against the interests of the public, a contravention of the Federal Combines Act, ultra vircs of the provincial Gov- ernment and therefore void, Mr. Justice Gib- sone declared in two simrarijtidgments.

Some ingenious plans are being put; forward in the United States, says The Spectator, for making taxpayers realize just what taxes they are paying. In New Jersey, for instance, it has been suggested that landlords note on their rent bills just what proportion of the rent is chargeable to taxes. A large rubber company wants the same thing done for tires. Gas sta- tions do it now. "Invisible" taxes are not as rc- pellent to the Canadian and American as they are to the Briton and Frenchn1an-—so the theory runs. But if suddenly rcvcalcd in the cost of a11 article, they would probably provide a shock for the average consumer. It titigltt bring home the price paid for government much more cf- fcctively than sermons and abstractions. The reaction would be at least interesting.

11' t o n.

The Prairic’s gloomy view on world trade was expressed by Mr. George V. Ferguson, the managing editor of the “liunipcg Free Press in an address at the Canadian Club, Montreal, the other day. For almost 25o years 11ntil the end of the war, Mr. Ferguson said, Britain's “bal- ance of power" policy in Europe had kept the doors of world trade open. And “out there on the Prairies we trade with the world or we perish,” he reminded his audience. That was what made the Western farmer at heart a lo\v tariff man, a. free trader; “he sells in a world market or not at all." But that world was no more, the editor noted. He recalled the imposi- tion of tariffs in England in 1931, the break- down of collective security following the Man- churian incident and the beginning of Japanese aggression on the Asiatic. mainland, "and it was not replaced by the old system of British imperial security" which‘ up to the war had been able to ~keep the gates of trade open all over the world. Westerns wondered if it were only l1 temporary or a permanent change in Bri- tish policy. Mr. Ferguson added that event! lino: have made them wonder, more. He men--

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Alberta n bu Ion - ploushlp t the Royal Winter rau- but ‘at that 1t was not-mu: compared to the steer Premler Abortion gave the electors of that province. —u ‘ ‘ ‘

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Except for the typos of lull known as "exclusive models" or "creations," men usually pay u much u or more for their bat-a than women d0. In any event the first colt 1a also tbc lut for a. woman's but. Bba doesn't have park 1t. somewhere when ab: oes to lunch. In fact, lf she took t off she would be regarded as a blt. queer. Many hotels and reat- auranta have racks 0r stands whereon a man customer may de- alt his hat whlle he eats, but to a man of substance, who bu to maintain a certain status, or who ordlnutly patronize: the class of dlnl room where hats have to be "chec ed," his hat costs far more ln the long run than almost. any woman's hat does. - St. Thomas Times-Journal.

The Army Council h stlll pot- terlng about with infantry re- organization. The Brass Hats have. ever since the war ended as well as durlng 1t, been qulte un- able to make up their minds what they want, 1n the way of machine- gun strength. First they had a meagre machine-gun equipment for each battalion of infantry. Then they instituted a special Ma- clnne-Gun Corps. Then they dis- banded the machine-gun battal- lons 1n favor of machine-gun oom- panles for each infantry battalion. Three years ago lt was thought finality bad been reached at; last. But now the 26 machine-gun bat- talions provided by the 1935 re- organization have been reduced to eight, the remaining 18 reverting to their former estate. The ex- cuse for this fresh change 1s the hlgh ratio of Bren guns now pos- sessed by cur infantry battalions, or soon to be so possessed. Among- st the former machine-gun bat- talions so reverting will be, when they return from their Palestine duty. the famous 1st Royal scouts, known as Pontlus Pllateks Body- guard. -0ttawa Journal.

rouuwlng the discussion n. me recent Winnipeg wheat. conference on the relation between the price of wheat. and the price of bread, the Budget, the organ of the Al- berta Pool, publishes some figures from a research analyst. In gen- eral. the analyst states, 1t requires from four bushels ten pounds to flve bushels fifteen pounds of wheat. to make a barrel of flour- 196 pounds. The outrun of flour varies with the grade of wheat. and the method of mtlllng. 0n the average, four and a hail onsh- els of wheat, or 270 pounds, will make a. banel of flour and the flour will make 2'10 onc-puuxid loaves. This means that. one pound of wheat will make one pound of bread. A bushel of wheht - sixty pounds — W111 make sixty one- pound loaves. If wheat varies a cent a bushel, the price o! a one- pouncl loaf of bread could proper- ly vary one-slxtlehh of a cenr. As loaves are purchased onw a few at time, and as there ls no coin smaller than a cent, 11, ts nor. prac- ticable to vary the price of bread unlem there 1s a, very great rlse or fall ln the price o! wheat‘ A slxtv- cent. change ln the price of n bushel would warrant a change of one cent, in the price of a loaf. This, of course, takes no account of possible changes 1n the cost of the numerous other fadtors besides wheat that enter lnto the mllllmt of flour and the making of bread. —Vancouver Province.

A few weeks ago I non- Aryan German, who had maln- talned a. position 1n Germany, re- celved a summons to go to the police station. He went expecting some new tax, but. was promptly arrested and sent to a concentra- tion camp. Hla wife, who knew nothing of the arrest, was aur- prlsed when her house was 1n- vaded by a. squad of Storm Troop- ers. She was turned out of the house Bud guarded by armed men. while her furniture, personal be- lon lngs and indeed the whole con ents of her house were thrown from the windows into tho road and burnt before her eyes. _'I'he man 1n charge of the squad had been a. friend. and the school- master of her children. As a last protest she said that she hoped he would leave some blankets to cover the children at night, but the wreck of her flat was com- lete. and 1n order to make 1t un- nhablta/ble the windows were brokenubater, the leader of the Storm Troopers sought her out. privately and expressed bitter re- gret for what: he had had to do. He explained that he was a great. deal suspect. in the party and that. this job had been particularly chosen for hlm because he was

11y. If he had not. stood the test and canted out his orders whale- beartedly, he would himself have been sent to a concentration camp. -Nev1 statesman and Na- tion, Landon.

What significance, lf any, In to ho attached to Mussollnfs silence on international IIESMOM tn the Fas- cist. review 1n at which he was expected to make a startling speech? His discretion at this particular time would ap- pear to lndlca‘ an not, only 1n An 1o - It an relat- lonahipe, but a o 1n the general polltlcal atmosphere One of the chief sources of trouble that has been en dared ln Europe ln recent your: as been the practice of Muarollnl and Hit- ler, to make blatant and belll r- ent speeches from the hous p; on inter-fictional questions rather

discuss them quietly

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HUNTIB IIVII Bln-‘Ille at» of Hunters Grove in your B; y’: edition was lntematlnq. I remember a selection of poetry. “Bow Hunter River lot. 114 name" I think it was entitled but the Author's name u well as most of the selection have boned out of tlgsmory, bljt. 1n it were 1n- oorpora some o the happenings mentioned 1n J-he narrative. some of ur readers will no doubt be a lo to aubb the mu- sing verses part5 of whch were u follows 1f I remember correctly.

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In depth of pine woods for away

wtu. a pillow of hemlock beneath his head

And bad lonely Mlcmiumo watch his

Years passed, the maiden received r

as ue . What the little birds sang, that. from nowhere flew

That her lover had perished from‘

paln and cold. And the chann that had vanished 50011 879W Old.

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"Thiy hurled 111m there beside

e stream

‘that bears t0 t/hls day the dead man's name."

of Prince Edward Island oom- plled by the Secretar of the Geozraplu: Board publla edln 19$ (in which there are several mla- takes) I find. "Hunter River. Af.

ter Thomas Orby Hunter stetlonetl

at Rotterdam 1746 as deputy pgy- master of the English and Dutch troops. Lord of the Admlrallty 1761.

A local tradition that the river ls so named because a hunter per- lsl-ieél "near it 1n a storm has no

which story 1s correct? I am, Sir, etc, -.1

MR. DOYLFPS CASE

Bib-In your report of tbs (my Council meeting. Monday evening Mayor Fbster L; reported g5 5mg. 111B: "as far as he was concerned 96150118113’. Mr. Doyle the man suggested by Councillor I-lennessey haxl had a. fair trial by the Police Commission a few months a a and did not. feel that he should e put 1n a. position of trust just yet." The above statement since 1t tn- volves the character and reputation

Mr. Doyle demands explanation. We would ask if a secret trial be- fore a Police Commission ls Mayor Foster's idea of a fair trial, accord- ing to the British Constitution, for a. British subject. Moreover slnoe the trial was held ln secret the public ls compelled to take lvtayor Foster's word that the trial was fair. It would appear that the trlal was slmllar to many other things

settled by the Council. "ln caucus,"

wll-hcut. the benefit of publicity and with the public excluded. Con- cerning the assertion that. Doyle could not be trusted the man 1n question has twenty-three veers of honest. and efficient service, with- out a. blemish. to belle Mayor Fos- ter's lnjudlctous accusation.

3W1’! man has a liahtfio his Rood name and the esteem of his fellows and no man not oven the Mayor has the right to deprive hlm of such. It lll becomes the

holder of such a. lofty position as

Mayor of Charlottetown to seek to

deprive a man of hitherto un- wt spotted record of the good reputa-

tion he gained thereby. In justice to Mr. Doyle a falr trial open to the public not a hole 1n the corner

trial. or a trial "ln caucus" should

be given hlm so that Justice, the right of every loyal subject. may be tendered him

In closing the lines of a writer

come to mind .

"He who steals my purse steals But he that fllcltes from me my

good name Robs me of that which not en-

riches him. And makes me "our "ideedffl

I am, Sir, etc. CITIZEN

"MILK VENDORS, ETC."

Blrz- If Daniel R. Ja would more a tentlvely the space re-

l'l "miscon-

lt would save qulred to correct atrued statements." He. first aocwes rne of referring to Dr Grant as a ‘ elon. ‘This is one of his own vagaries. l! made no suoh reference. but I dlcl point to some of the many chameion-llke changes of the Liberal burly. a vast- dlfferent matter Next, he blatantly BBRBr-"FIJI- ther ln reference to the milk ones‘- lon. What a. deplorable comparison be m-ide Ant. regard to mos