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HIV EXPLODED FALLACY

The Halifax Liberal organ en- deavors to show. by obsolete and fallacious arguments, that every tarifl is a tax on the consumer and that because Canada has a pro- tective tariff and England has not. the Canadian taxpayer is so much the worse off. Following its argu- ment through a maze of figures it succeed , to its own satisfaction in refuting a Canadian Press state- ment that the British taxpayer pays $446.51 on an income of $4.000. while the Canadian with the same income pays only $16.00; and it ar- rives at the astonishing conclus- ion that the Canadian is more heavily taxed than the Britisher be- cause, forsooth, on every $100 the Canadian “pays $4.00 directly and $67.95 indirectly."

The manner in which our con- temporary reaches this conclusion Ls by shutting its eyes to the facts. “Take for example," it says, “an article which costs $100. It enters

ing the cost up to $130." The cost to whom? That is precisely the ques- tion which is ignored. An article cannot enter Canada and sell for 5130 if a. similar article is being manufactured in Canada and sold for $100. The duty must be eliminated if the foreign article is to compete with the local manufacture, and the way to el- iminate the duty is to have the foreign article manufactured or assembled here. That is the purpose oi a pro- tective tariif—to shut out unfair

is not and cannot be made in Can- ada, it is not subject to a protective duty. The protective duty is there- fore not a. tax on the home consum- er but on the foreign manufacturer,

ation of the home market and build up home industries in place of foreign industries.

In the short time in which the

power this object of a protective tariff has been attained to a re- mark-ibis degree in the automobile indll-‘iify- American automobile manufacturers have found it nec- essary to establish branch factories in Canada in order to retain their Canadian trade. This has given increased employment in Canada, at a time oi’ serious economic depres- sion. On the other hand, the heavy tax increases under the recent Bnowden Budget were necessitated. in part, by the phenomenal decline in British industries, unprotected in the home market against the dump- lng of cheap foreign commodities.

The Halifax Liberal organ, more- bllel‘. ignores in its comparison the fact that the income tax is not the only tax paid by the Britisher with I $4.000 income. In addition there are customs duties, excise duties. estate duties, stamp duties, land duties, super tax, excess profits tax, COWOPMJOH profits tax, postal, tele- graph and telephone service taxes, crown land duties and miscellan- eous taxes-alluof which goes to bring up the taxation on the av- erage man with a $4,000 income in the Old Country to an amount very Iiuch in excess of what the Liber- l1 organ of Halifax represents to be

Our Halifax contemporary

Winkle. It has been asleep for forty years. Its arguments have all been refuted by experience, a faot which is being recognized today even in Manchester, where the free trade

l! _ surely not so far behind the times as the die-hard attitude of its leading Liberal newspaper would in-

‘ NOT so BAD

Again the Maritime Provinces make a very good showing in com-

reglrds economic conditions, ac- cording to the business map of

oi the Nation fo: the past month. Agriculture u listed as swd in Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick, and fair in Nova 560- tia; manufacturing is shown as quiet in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, and fair on the Island; wholmale trade is given as normal for New Brunswick, and fair for both Prince Edward Island and Nova Sootia; retail trade is quiet in ‘New Brunswick, fair in Prince Edward Island, and fair to slow in Nova Sootia; collections are fair for both New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, and fair to slow on the Island. Current conditions for the whole Domin- ion, according to the same tabula- tion, are: agriculture, fair; manu- facturing, quiet; wholesale trade, quiet; retail trade, quiet; collec- tions, slow. The Maritimes are ev- idently keeping their end up very well, despite a few chronic grouch- ers whom, like the poor, we have with us always.

PATRIOT vs. T_HE MAYOR

.__.._. Our local contemporarys gloomy survey of the economic situation in its issue of yesterday is in curious contrast to a state- ment of His Worship Mayor Prowse at the Y's Men's convention dinner on Thursday night, thus reported on page four of the same issue of ourperturbed contemporary: "The world wide depression has reached this Province but not dis- astrously. People are liable to be- come discouraged. The _duty of every business man is not to be- come pessimistic, but to think things out, and figure a way out. The business men were feeling it but he assured his listeners the silver lining was only a short way off.”

Our contemporary, in its present frame 0f mind. has evidently no use for silver linings. His Worship is a staunch Liberal in-politics, but he should be careful lest he incur the wrath of the Liberal organ for his Outspoken optimism, as did the secretary of the Canadian Cham- ber of Commerce when he ventured to make a. similarly encouraging announcement to the members of the Charlottetown Board of Trade. To our contempmary, now in the winter of its discontent, all such statements are anathema.

“Oi comfort no man speak: let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs."

Fortunately. this is a. ‘viewpoint to which the people of this Prov. ince have never subscribed. They have good reason to look confid- ently to the immediate future, even in the present period of world de- Dression. Nor are they likely to ap- preciate having their difficulties Exploited by those whose political

aspirations have been thwarted and whose incompetency when in office

added largely to the problems now facing the country.

REMEMBRA-INCE DA Y

Armistice Day has passed from the list of Canadian days of com- memoration, and in its place Re- membrance Day will be observed each year on November 11, and on no other day. In 1921 an Armistice Day Act was passed by Parliament providing that Armistice Day and Thanksgiving Day should be ob-l served on the first Monday after November ll. Last session this Act was rescinded, and a new one in- troduced by A. w. Neill (Liberal, Comox-Alberni) was passed, The new Act, which had the approval of the Canadian Legion, provides for Rememb uhce Day on Novem- ber 11, and Thanksgiving Day be- comes an entirely different matter. Remembrance Day is a statutory holiday hereafter. but Thanksgiving Dfly comes bniy after a proclama- tion of the Governor-in-Council.

The necessary proclamation for this years Thanksgiving Day has been made in the official Canadian

Jugoalsvia recent‘; got rld or g dictatorship which had been rigor-l ously maintained for two wars and" a half. and the announcement of a- new. constitution was received with popular acclaim. Details of the new, order, however, are calculated to blisht the hopes of the people. Vot- ing is to be on national lists, and lists failing to obtain 50,000 votes will receive no mandates. This means that the great parties only are to be considered. Furthermore, the sec- ret ballot is denied; all voting is to be opcn- In the circumstances, it is easy to see that persons voting for a party that fails may later get in- to trouble. Leaders of the former parliamentary parties already are declaring that it is useless to nom- inate "opposition candidates in the electoral farce." The Jugoslavs will have to continue agitating to’ achieve complete political freedom. A 800d start has at least been made.

Human nature has a queer twist. If people are told that Johnny Jon- es is hungry they immediately sup- ply him with enough food to last three months. But if they read that thousands of other small boys have hollow places in their stom- achs the idea ls too large for them to grasp. The personal appeal, or some method- of challenging inter- est, is more effective.

Reno divorce courts are operating under force blast. Other American cities are operating marriage bur- eaus under the same tempo. ‘There is something tragic in this. There is something cheap about it. True, the machine age has brought it about. We can not have highly organized lives and medieval romanticism. Yet it would be pleasant to believe that some phases of love and life have not been warped by the whip of competition and the necessity of efficiency. A price must be paid, but it would pay to consider what price it is worth.

It need occasion no surprise if there is a general election in Great Britain before, many months. When that happens Stanley Baldwin will probably become premier on a pro- gram of protection and inter-em- pire preferences, such as was out- lined by Rt. Hon. R. B. Bennett at the last Imperial Economic Confer- ence. Then Britain will move for- ward again.

With the eyes of the world turn- ed upon Brltain in her hour of national crisis, there is a. tendency among many students of world- economics to think that Britain is bearing the heaviest burden of de- clining trade. But other nations have their troubles in this direct- ion,—and very substantial troubles they are, too. Figures Just made

NiITES BY TIIE WAY

available by Washington show that‘ the United states suffered an actual' loss of $5,516,000,000 ‘in her foreign! trade for the past fiscal year. Ex-l ports declined by $084,000,000 and imports by $2,432,000,000—losses of 34 per cent and .37 per cent, re- spectively.

Do the American people like it. asks the Christian Science Mcnotor Do they really like to have a police chief boast of stripping a suspect and putting him in a cold room till he gives the information required? Or of inflicting "a sharp, but not heavy, regular blow of a club on the skull, repeated at regular intervals, so that the regularity of the blows arouses anticipation which increas- es the torture?" such things are being practiced in America today. It is left for the public conscience of the nation now to decide wheth- er it will continue to permit the clock to be turned back to the Dark Ages, or compel the police to perform their duties~hard as those may be—in a civilized manner.

A German of a mathematical turn of mind has gathered togeth- er the figures of the great war and graphically set out what it cost. In the four years, eleven millions were killed, one for every thirteenth tick of the clock. Over ten millions were multilated, a number sufficient to replace the population of Spain. ‘its cost was five hundred billion dol- lars, a figure which means noth- ing to our minds for they are unable to grasp its immensiti But with this much money it would be pos- sible to give_ every family in Can- ada, the United States, Great Brit- ain, France, Belgium, Germany, Russia and Australia a $2500 house. standing in a five acre plot and containing $1,250 worth of furnit- ure.

In addition it would provide for every 20,000 families, a university, schools, and a hospital and the sal- aries of teachers, doctors, nurses and professors. The graves of the dead placed side by side, would reach from Paris straight across Europe and Asia to the Sea of

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THE CHARLO ETOWNGUARDlAN

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B; has. 10.8mm. ALB. rwo roams or APPENDICITIS

I write very often about appendi- citis because, notwithstanding all that has been learned about it dur- ing the past twenty years. the dan- ger of delay and cf taking castor oil or other purgative. the death rate from acute appendicitis is as high to-day as it was twenty years ago.

Now wily is it with all this know-

ledge about the symptoms and the, fact that early operation is now- ‘clone so often, that the death rate

remains so high?

Dr. D. P. D. Wilkle, Professor of Surgery, University of Edinburgh, says that acute appendicitis occurs in two forms one of which if not operated on early is responsible for the high death rate. The first form is where there is an inflammation of the lining wall of the appendix, but the products from this inflammation can pass out of the appendix into the intestine. This is the simple or catarrhal form.

The second form is that in which there is the usual inflammation of the .lining wall of the appendix but the products from the inflammation get blocked so that they can't get out into the intestine. This is‘ called the obstructive form.

It is this obstructive form that is dangerous to life.

In the first or simple catarrhal form of appendicitis the pain comes on gradually and usually occurs about the region of the appendix, there is a slight increase in pulse and temperature with nausea, dirty tongue usually constipation, but oc- casionally diarrhoea. It is seldom a fatal disease.

With the second or obstructive form of ppendicitis, the pain at fir“ is "Welly In the ‘pit’ of the stomach; there is colic, nausea, and vomiting, but not much increase in pulse or temperature, in fact pulse or temperature may be normal. The Symptoms in this form of appendici- tis are really like an obstruction of the intestine, and as you know ob- struction is a dangerous condition.

It is this obstruction form that, as Dr. Wilkle points out, is the dan- gerous type of appendicitis, and if operation is not done early, the

chances ofsaving the patient be.

come much less owing to the peri- tonitis which follows. »

If you have a' pain in the pit of the stomach with nausea and vom- 191118. don't take a dose of castor oil 91' 9th?!‘ nursative, until you see your doctor.

FROM “MORNING ON BLOMIDON”

Dark Blomldon lay in the hushed repose ~

Oi seeming death, shrouded in mist, the‘ fog

Of Fundy's Bay. No voice o! pine or fir '

Disturbed the night; and ' on the quiet shore

Each little wave, likechild aha-shed gave swift

Caress, and fled to hide a quick eon- fusion

Within the bosom of the sea; while she,

Mild mother, clasped her children to he: breast, I

And sang to them her old myster- ious song,

Not as a solemn requiem, but as

A lilting lullaby which seeks to hold

In slumber one beloved. The shade of night

Enfoldcd silent hills; no song of bird

Had stirred the hidden echoes of the air;

And cool grey mist held. a great heart in thrall

As Blomidon, dark Blomidon lay dreaming.

-E. H. Butler in the Dalhousie Review. '

"I hope you don't think I'm con- ceited," he said, after he had fin- ished telling her about himself.

“Oh, no,’ she replied, "but I'm just wondering how you can keep from giving three hearty cheer! whenever you look atyourseif in the glass." Dr. Robinson told the Government Officers at Oxford gioolniiy, “the police are ' _, into contact with the wealthy classes. They are dis- covering that far from being the l-w-abidin: Pbople, wealthy people

are the moat lawless." But it is not aln and not even all the cums/red‘ the lawless rich who are the new workers, u. supporters of the Leb-‘that the opposition to tho National,

(Montreal Gazette)

w. Mitchell P‘. Hepburn, who leads the Ontario Liberals in the provincial field from his federal lest in the House o.‘ Commons, bu decided to launch an election cam- paau on 0mm lo.‘ The m: that

. there are no provincial elections in

sight is a matter of 'no cosequence A certain Don Quixote once set his lance in rest and very gellantly charged a row of windmills, a mar- tial proceeding which did no harm u» anybody at the / time, left - the windmills uninjured and undisturb-

several generations of readers tho. world over. Mr. Hepburn goes one

windmills before him. Be ha! set the time for the provincial elections at some unnamed date during the summer of next year and in this respect he appears to have surpris- ed the members of the Ontario Government who had no suspicion that a cont was impendin . Pre- mier Henry observes that he had not hitherto heard of the election. while the Attorney-General, Hon. W. H. Price, summarily disposes of the proposition as being of hot weather origin. This makes it rath- er awkward for the Liberal Oppos- ition, as it has long been the custom in Ontario, and elsewhere. for the leaders of the party in pow- er to determine when and in what circumstances an appeal to the people should be made. Still, Mr. Hepburn has been in conference with some of his Liberal associat- es ln Western Ontario and they ap- pear to have agred upon a change in this time-honored procedure, irrespective of the constitutional and practical difficulties which lie in the way.

Mr. Hepburn occupies a peculiar and somewhat anomalous r . Ai already _stated,,he is a member of the House of Commons. At the Liberal Convention in Toronto, list December, he appeared as a cand- idate for the leadership, backed with a considerable following, and Mr. W. E. N. Sinclair, who has been discharging the duties of the office with very little help from his party, declined to put up a fight for a very tharikless.“office. Mr. Hepburn got the post, but. his ocu- ception of leadership did not impel him-to seek election to the Leg- islature. although opportunities were afforded in subsequent by-el- ectiolis. The result was that m. Sinclair was again left to do the work, discharging the duty of party leader in the House, and doing it in a. manner highly creditable to himself.’ Mr. Hepburn, by this ar- rangement. has held --a ‘atrainic position at a considerable distance from the firing line, nor is_ it his

present intention to seek a place in

the Assembly m advance or the general election for which he is making his present long-ranged preparation.

The situation is full of interest for those who are able to apprec- iate the technical niceties of sham warfare. The campaign will he wal- ed, no doubt, to the music of “The King's Horses and the King's Men" The Liberal cohorts will march out in battle array, banners waving, ac- croutremeuts shining in the sun- if it isn't raining-chargers p. cing -~and bugies blowing; Mr. Hepburn leading from the rear, will take them somewhere or other, and then presumabily, will take them back again. The fight will be over, Mr Hepburn will have demonstrated his’ capacity for leadership, and the members ofthe Ontario Gov- ernment will read all about it in their morning papers at the break- fast table. In a period of general depression and gloom, this singular undertaking will serve one useful pur p533; the people of Ontario will have something at which to laugh.

British Labor's Strength (Exchsnlc)

Thc backbone of the olllmsiiim to the new British National Mini!- m- ls nude up by the ‘Trades Un- ions: This was w. it is lawns-lilo! w look at the strellli-il 01- the "h" ions, at their membership. In 1W3- aowrdiug to the British Labor y“; geek, the British Trades Un- ion congress embraced 21o unions with i membership of s,'m,uo. In 1929 there were 1.114 "B10" with a membership of 4.088.115 in Britain and Northern Ireland Of these unions 202 yrs-rs members of the ‘trades Union Congress: thaymad a total membership of 8,018,144. ' - In mo, ninety-one o: the trad» unions were members of the Labor plrty; their membership was 2,- 044,379. .

What isbleer from thus 1180f" il out not all the Worker! of fini-

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Reminders g . and Reviews.

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When Sir Thomas Gainsborolllii was at the peak of his popularity in anemia, su- rlenry Rlebum. 01 Edinburgh, Scotland, was ‘Just be- ginning to feel the stirring of ar- tistic ambitious. Destined to en- rich Scotland as Gainsborbugh had enriched England, this orphan sou of Scotch parents, had to fight his way to success. Be wsa -born 4t Stockbridgo in 17M and educated a; Herlot’! Hospital. At the I-Iafi! fifteen he was apprentice to a gold-smith in Edinburgh, hers he first learned to draw. Some rings. adorned with minute dra on ivory by his hand, are s ii extant. His interest in painting was arous- ed by miniatures that came to his master for framing; he purchased water-colors, and began to prac- tise thip most difficult branch of art, unaided.