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I KING'S STRANGE CASE‘

A curious insight into lac mental process of the federal Liberal loader was given by MrQMackQnais King hlnlself when he said thathil views nn economic reform would be lmmd in his book, “Industrylnd Human- ity", written elghiedn yell‘! ago; Eighteen years ago would take us but to 1917, when the Great War was at its height-whanthe present economic problems had ‘not arisen as a result of the Wat's aftermath. Mr. King must have been a prophet indeed, to have forseen these prob- lems! But the strange thing is that for nine years subsequently hewas in power at Ottawa, and not only failed to put his own alleged re- forms into practice, but opened the floodgates to unrestricted capitalis- tic abuses. In 1390, after the stock markets had crashed and the de- pression had set in, Mr. King re- mained unconvinced that anything was wrong, and even denied the responsibility for federal action to meet unemployment and other diffi- culties that had arisen. "The idea cf any "Tory" province receiving so much as a five-cant piece from his government for such‘ purposes was, in his opinion, an outrageous doc- trifle!

George III, we are told, was un- der the hallucination that he had fought at the battle of Waterloo. Mr. King's hallucination that he was the author oi the Bennett re- form policies is a case which may prove cf equal interest to the psycho-analyst.

LIBERAL OPINION

It was amusing to note in a roc- erlt issue of the local Liberal press n quotation (mm the Montreal Wit- ness on the Prinle Minister's reform policy. The Witness has been a staunch Liberal of the reform school. and assuch it. has welcom- ed with open arms Mr. Bennett's policy, In an article which our con- temporary is unlikely to republish, it says:

“The Liberals may complain. but the new situation is the result of Liberal fiddling while Rome was burning. Years ago that party should have challenged Canada. with a real, progressive, economic and social policy. Now its chance has gone. while it was fiddling Bennett was thinking, and has acted. Ho has nailed the flag of an aggressive economic and social policy to the Conservative ‘masthead. ‘It has been boldly done, and Mr. Mackenzie King must be rubbing his eyes and wondering where he’ ‘ls-in Ottawa, m bedlazn, or at clutch-on a San- dmy morning."

The Witness frankly “rejoices” a file Prime lvfirlistefs s‘ ‘ ‘ and says: “Mr. Bennett mast have me support of all men and women st vision, atgobdiflilla 0f under- Ihandlng, to see that only thus can we have a revolution without chaos and bloody viols- revolution U! orderly evolution.”

‘ NATIONAL BULWARK

__ _ The National Revenue Review -Tt7eports' that an increasing degree of ‘success attended the efforts of the iffipsrtment during the past year ('51- the way of preven-ting the im- portation into Canada oi indecent or immoral books. magaaines, photo- ;. , gmplls and similar publications. ' V‘ , ,_;fiClCnl and constant co-operatlon " Li ggioollectors throughout the Dom- " irlion with the official lbcaminer of ‘jfjrublications at headquarters re- sulted in large quantities of indec- “gm publications being nlwrceptrzd. -' oi these were prohibited im- - portlticn bypmclal memorandum, , “ examination. Many othem ‘ _ either seized and destroyflii. 91f Ifgnhqvped beck to the exporters. _ __ _l‘~_‘!‘he question is asked sometimes [@1131 the Department succeeds in Qffprevventing a flood of indecent pub- Mflfltiorls from entering Canada. Y‘ (Iilleetars of Customs and Broil: ‘ an

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I in its duties lit-n!“ connection. vhs Decal-talent sr-uiucnal Rev- enue is fillflllln‘ a vitally important function, and it will have behind it the support of All» right-thinking people. 1t u act-inc. u a bulwark mum a Clldd of literature which is not wanted in Canada, but with which we would be inundated but fq- constant governmental vfiiiance.

EDITORIAL NOTES

Real reciprocity. and not of the jug handled variety, will be the re- sult of the present nfilfltiations be- tween Ottawa and. Washington. '

The poor showing made by Rt. Honymhlifackensielfinginhis speech on the address may be due as much to the stale of his health as to the paucity of his policy. The Loader of the Opposition is report- ed to be fer from well.

Certain of the Liberal but benchers argon’ that now the Lib- erelpas-tylsinfundsduetoths millionaire Hon. Vincent Massey having undertaken re-orgarrlaation, the first stop to secure their re- turn from "the Valley of Humilia- tion" would be tin l itution of the 800,001 involved ln the Beau- harnoig

Under-hand agitati-l in still in p ,, to supplant Mr. King in the Liberal leadership. ‘Pile claims oi two likely substituicsare being canvassed-the Hon. Ernest Iapointe and l-Ion. J. L. Balaton. A popular English 51191111118 Qrnboc member sponsors the former, and g, well- known Maritime member the latter. A canvas was recently made of the Maritime members for support for Mr. Lapolnte with the result that not one vote in his favor was prom- ised. '

‘Iurming it the “finest organiza- tion for boys in the world today," Hon. n. A. Bruce. Lieutenant-Gov- emor of Ontario. 09811001 the cam- pabn for the extension of the Boy Scout Association in cenada. “The whole duty of a father to his son has not been discharged until that boy has been encouraged to join the Boy Scout organiaatiorl," said the lieutenant-Governor. ‘That or- ganization will make a true, loyal, honorable, useful man of any boy. It will make him in e, word, a good Scout."

Referring in leadership it may be mentioned there is still a strong de- termination among the rank-and- fiietogetridofMnKing. The eorest point with them‘ was Mr. King's declaration in Parliament that the whole Liberal Party was “in the Valley of Humiliation" over their participation in the Beau- harnois scandal. The back-bench Liberals say they wouldn't mind if Mr. King had said tho Liberal leaders were compromised, but de- clirle to have the whole member- ship involved in a eoarldal in which they had no active participation.

The new treasurer wrote s letter and 50 per cent of those in arrears to the church paid up; he wrote anothe letter and all but one paid. Plhllly he wrote om more, and the last man eentin his cheque. Short- iy afterwards the pestor was invit- ed to dinner at the man's (home. "You have a new treasurer at the church now. haven't you?" inquir- ed the host. "Ya," answeml the pastor, undeoidedastohowhispar- “ felt ‘ “ him. "He

host, "except that has-can't spell." "Is that so?" said the minister. "no; he ought/in bacorrected on that." said the host seriously. “E spellOd ‘skunk’ with a ‘c’ and had two 'a‘a' in ‘lousy?’ . . .

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vice. Another client got in touch with the Toppers and offered to lend his car. The car arrivcd, and ‘lbpper and Mrs. T. Topper dress- ed. to- the ninsfl. PUFF-ltd to I03 in; Suddenly Topper noticed that the face of the footmul standing rig- idly at attention with his hand. on flle open door, was the face of his

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A meeting oi the boards of re- view for the three Prairie Provinces appointed under the provisions of the Jiarmere’ tors Act met last week in Regina for the purpose of formulating a uniform policy of administration of the act, says the Calgary Herald.

The board of review. is in the nature of an appeal court from the decision or lack of decision or agreement before the official re- ceiver. ’i'hey am given very wide. powers to force upon creditors a compromise of their claims. It ls wall, therefore, that great care and forethought be given to the admin- istration of the act before putting intoiforce these powers and that it be made as uniform as possible in itsoperation. 111i appears. from the statement given out for publication that every effort is to be made to encourag voluntary settlements before any

_ u» l... ' ' * mala- ers of ‘coming armed conflict de- clare that they are simply the

realist: oftlrn age, with no illus- ‘ions. an rtrue realism takes in the whole picture. There are coun- terforces as work in the world fo- day that make conflict certainly not inevitable. Suppose our publicists should spend u. twclvemonth in playing up the forces that are drawing peoples into an ever more compact bundle of human life. The will for peace might be made quit:- as dynamic as that of devastation and ruin-Christian science Moni- tor.

The pangs of Jane I) in Ger- many. the barbarous murder of Dollfuss, the assassination of King Alexander, a realisation of what happened in the Russian famine. and now the systematic butcher-y of "class enemies" in Russia have just about turned the stomachs of west- ern men and opened their eyes ta what these alien conceptions of government really mean. As a re- suit. the balance of power as be- tween these two conceptions of life —the liberal and the despotic-has been shifted during the year. The liberal western powers are no lzng- er on the defensive. The despotism: are on the defensive. It is no; such a bad prospect for the future- Wsltcr Lippmann.

Mr. Edwin G. Parkman, the well- ‘known contractor and builder is to- day receiving the congratulations ofmany friends on the attainment of.h.is 83rd birthday. Mr. Park- man, notwithstanding his years is enjoying the best of health and his athletic and boyish figure gives no indication of the years to his credit. Although retired from actual duty for several years. he by no means spends his days in idleness as he still busles himself with light car- penter work of which he has made a hobby. He shows no evidence of breakdown, either mentally or physically and it is safe to predict for him many years of active en- joyment.

Hundreds of araests all over Ger- many. Ndbody knows who is in pri- son, who free. Nobody can be sure who is dead,- who alive. Hitler's Government protest that ‘runnour has exaggerated. They made the same protests on June 30. Tmn came to many families the message: Come, fetch the body. One thin: is certain. After two years of abso- lute control Hitler is so rocky that he s arresting by hundreds the men On whose shoulders he climbed to power-London Sunday impress.

The two men molt h the public eye for the mom ‘ are Mussolini and Lanai. Mussolirlfs father was a village blacksm n and his mo- ther the village schoolmistress. and Mussolini, himself, worked as a bricklayer. Laval was the son of a village butcher and in his youth drove a hack and studied the clas- sics while waiting for customers. Even in Europe being born in a village and of poor parents are no invidious bars to men of genius. Rlihof they seem to be advantages. Ramsay MsctDorlald is mother ex- ample.-lnndon Advertiser.

Mr. Rudyard Kipllnfa 70th birth- day last week was a reminder that conicmpo ary celebrities are not getting younger. We hear very lit- tie howadays of Mr. Kipling. even less than we do of Sir James Bar- rie. and these two contrasted lit- erary personalities share a great shyness. Of the two. I fancy the Amy's Poet Laureate is even more of an oyster than the biographer of Thrums. After a period of poor health, Mr. Kipling is now better, 91011811 Obllsed. like so many other people, to dict carefully. Fonnerly he and Mrs. Kipling umd to Winter. in South Africa, but not: they divide the year between their cot- tlee on the Sussex Downs and either the south of France or a Mediterranean cruise. ‘Itnir mar- ried daughter and her husband are constantly with them.

The announcement that the ex- ecutors of the late Sir Henry

minded as being both thslsest and the greatest human all- lfimts. liven if ‘we the ser- ious-coneeqrlenoes of complications that omn follows cold there re- lnaintlle loss of time and em- cicncy with which the milder types of infection an 'i assoc- fatelie-qiasgow I

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lslon is brought to bear. Creditors are proverbially ready to adopt any reasonable suggestion that will give a debtor s. chance to carry on and meet his liabilities even to the extent of a reduction in these liabilities and no difficulty in proper cases may be expected from them.

The act if properly interpreted and applied to the strained rela- tions between farmers and their creditors will no doubt prove to be a wise extension of the bankruptcy law. By the Bankruptcy Act itself a. farmer can not be forced into bankruptcy and although he may take advantage of it and make an assignment or make a proposal for an extension this way was very sel- dom done.

It must be noted that neither

the drought nor the economic dif- iiculties of the past three or four years or both are the whole cause of the present plight of the farm- ers. One of the chief causes of their difficulties during these seri- ous times is the effect of the un- wl- leaomc debt adjustment legisla- tion which has been in force in this province for ten or twelve years. This legislation was directed entire- ly towards limiting the rights of creditors for the recovery of their claims and as it was made indis- criminate in its application it has tended almost wholly to destroy the farmers’ credit including the credit of those who were able to get it or would have been‘ able to get it if the legislation had not been in force. The Farm Creditors’ Act states that "lt is essential in the interests of the Dominion to retain the farm- ers on the land as efficient produc- ers." And the board in their state- ment recognize this stated purpose of the act. It is to be hoped, how- ever, that this interpretation will not be strained so as to force com- promises on creditors of farmers who have proven themselves utterly inefficient and for_whom any com- promise will be futile. It would he no kindness to the Dominion that inefficient -and thriitless farmers should be retained on their land at the expense of their creditors. A wide discretion and care should be exercised by the boards to see that the credit of the other farmers is not injured by a .milk and water policy of bolstering up this class of farmer who would be better off the land. A wise administration of this act along the lines indicated will do much to re-establish the credit of the farmer by giving confidence to his creditors that their interest will be protected, whereas a weak. over- sentimental view of some farmers‘ difficulties may only tend to further hamper the general recovery of the farming industry by decreasing the farmers‘ credit.

THE FROBTED PAN!

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leaves, and ephemera, and gin-g or earth,

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He drew them on the glass.

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What a difference it would make if we could measure up to the status of ‘ tesmen in discussing party and political issues, and deal with pub- jjc issues upon merit, freed from the stench of slsnder arld misrepresent- ationh l

Although too much in evidence this disease of political filth is not pandemic. It is largely a habitent of ‘North’ America, yet we have statesmen who soar above it, carry- ing their campaigns as in 1111811116 upon the platform of statesmanship in the envircfunent of cleannesa and honor.

‘Ihere is nothing gained by the discharge of partisan skunk bags? An ounce of purlgent truth and fact will goiurt-her in impressing an e:- eotoratelthen a whole avalanche oi the‘ falsification. and rumor, and office made scandal, no matter how adroitly invented or blatantly broad- castsd. And the muckraker and roorback broadcaster invariably learns that the rebound hits him- self harder than the person at whom he. aimed it.

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THE OFT REPEAT!!! DECEQTION

Sinl-Tile Patriot continues to parade the result of Federal by-elec- tions; its latest an imposing column of 9 Liberals and i Conservative. There is nothing criminal in this. But why lie about it? Why class- ify them as "Liberal wins" for the abject purpose of misleading its readers? it knows the claim to be an absolute untruth. It knows that they were not all Liberal gains. It knows positively that almost all of them was nothing more than the return of Liberal candidates to take the seats of former Liberal candid- ates who had passed out.

That they did gain a couple of seats is not disputed. But why not tell the truth as tn the remainder? What is there to gain by the decep- tion? It is nothing new for two or three seats to go against a govern- ment in by-electlons. It occurred even in the days of the great Laur- ier. Nor was it marvelous that in the heart of a world wide depres- sion. while the Prime Minister was in Europe ' on Canadian business. with the money bags and the skunk bags of misrepresentation and scan- dal suffocating the electorate, that the ‘scandal secured some extra votes.

But it is not a precursor of further success. We have the history of modern Liberal stability. The Bell Government was hoisted from office by the people on the first oppor- tunity. The Lea Governments were also sent to the woods the first chance the electors got. Mackenzie King was unthroned after the first trial at a general election. After grazing in opposition he asked for and got another chance to make good. He made such a. mess of it that he was hoisted out of power by an overwhelming majority.