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made in the legislature Wednesday night by Mr. B. W. IoPage, Liberal membe for second Queens, that the‘ Government of this Province should not only have used the taxpayers‘ money to guarantee the financial losses incurred by the Potato Grow- ers‘ Association, but that it should have gone “quietly" about the mat- ter so that the true state of affairs would not “leak out"; and further- more that at the Association's sub- sequent annual meeting the real financial situation should have been "kept under their hats."

As Hon. Mr. MacLeah, in his speech reported in today's Guardian, pointed out, Mr. LePage was a mem- ber of the former Liberal Garvcm- merit, and was familiar with the oath of office which government members take. That he should bfiilg forward such a suggestion was in- deed a revelation of the attitude which one member at least of the late Liberal administration took to- wards governmental responsibility. '

Yesterday, when Hon, Mr. Sharp referred to this statement, Mr. 1e- Page complained that it had been wrongly "interpreted." The words quoted, however, were the words he himself used, and it is difficult to imagine what other interpretation could reasonably be placed on them, but. that tbetzansaotl should have been madc surreptitiously by the Government, without either the con- sent or the knowledge of the tax- Pi-YEII. ind that. thereby the whole matter could have been conveniently hushed up. s

LIBERAL OPINION

Effective answer to the liberal contention in Parliament that Pre- mier Bennett's reform policies as enunciated 1n his broadcast address- es were ‘gestures’ merely and were not implemented in the legislation subsequently -- tmduced, is given in the Toronto Globe (Liberal) of March 29. Commenting on the Rhodeg Budget, the Globe says:

“The Finance Minister's new measures manifestly repreecn‘ an effort to 1m lement the recent promises of Prime Minister Ben- _, net-t in his raidio addresses. The en-

deevo to fit the growing require- ments for social amelioration into the general éfonomic pattern has resulted in several important fiscal offenses."

The Globe also credits the Fin- ance Minister with having "moved toward the further carrying out of tlhe Ottawa Conference promises relating to intro-Empire trade." It lees the removal of the excbe tax from imports under the British preference agreement as represent- ing “another step 1h the imple- menting of the Empire Economic Conference promises to remove as quickly as possible restrictions which hampered the working of the trade arrangements." Another change, noted approvingly by the Globe as promising to widen the scope of the British preference arrangements ls the provision made for intro-Em- pire extension by Order-izi-Councll of the most-favoYed-natlon tariff treatment accorded any foreign country.

Coming to the sections of Mr.

inhcdes speech dealing with finance and commerce, the Globe finds:

“The importance of the Empire pacts as irrecovery factor." says the Globe, “is revealed again by the fig- ures showing that in the ten months ended Jan. 31 exports to the United

.Klngdsm recorded an increase of nearly 22 per cent. For all the Em- pire countries the rise was 24 per

v cent, exports to foreign markets having expanded only a per rent. 0h the import side-Canada's pur- chases being largely of textiles, iron products ‘and chemicals-increases in the last ten months amounted to $8,000,000. or 9 per cent."

The Globe notes that "in the tradfi field a surplus of export; over im- ports is recorded for the fourth eoiaeciiive year, the balance for i the eleven month-s being $134,000,000. m.‘ ‘significant than their: figures. perhaps, 1| ‘the ‘ merit showing tom trade for the eleven months valued-st 01.080.847.000. an increase

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were increased earningsand dq-

creased exchange charges involved! The“ mum” - in interest payments abroad. Gmlmlggnpefevafigeu: ‘Jfiénfvtsgxn’ (‘towm eawinss increased by 810.100.000- ori leave home? The reasonsyare per- 1l per wit: and. while operating inane as many as the people involv- expenses were somewhat iaiger than iii-mgzstrui?“ 3N3 495F011‘. the the estimates of railway budget, the i mgemoggfiftrgfignsfigrpflct outcome on the whole was slightlylcej-ggmgy unm Tune heals the better than W83 expected. The debt ;wounds. Alert novelists make mov- of the Canadian National Railways”!!! W188 of thcsi trascdiefli and

outstanding in the hands of thexfiggcsuahtfizlefusgaugntgfbwim” public is recorded a: $1-2HB.000.000-!sei perplcxitios which formelgi: viii; a reduction of $15,000,000 having iconimon mam-they solace and in- been achieved in the you". or the 3591M" I’ outstanding amount, 09560000000 - . . v represent Dominion guaranteed ob- vaqgmpllittiz‘: mnxaufi‘ a? 111:‘; lisations." Sear, March ll. And it will be a real . ‘ surplus. achieved after a reduction The Globe also nofes with cditor- Iof the national debt. No other m1 Qppfoval we Munster; gq,ag,e.,country' in the world that wont meiit that there was an employment légrczugikgs “Liwfg h§1§g““ht° bu‘ 331" i" 1934. °,r 153 p“ °em~ W91‘ vived an old rIationaI custom? m‘ 1933 and that individuals; on relief ‘ ‘ in February aggregated 1,229,935, a. decrease of 117,2% from February 1994. The institution of the system oif monthly grants to the Provinces, it finds, has "eliminated a lag in accounting." It is interesting to contrast this appreciative comment of the leading Liberal organ in Eastern Canada with the pettifogging abuse and criticism with which the Rhodes Budget was received by the local Inbeml press. If our local contem- porary is right, the Globe, of course, must be wrong. Certainly it cannm be charged with partisan bias in favor oi‘ the Bermett Government; and its long record as the mouth- piece of responsible Liberal opinion thmurhout Canada gives its utter-

Frunce is plainly determined to let slip no chance of accusing Ger- many of something. The latest isle charge by Edouard I-lcrrlot that Big Bcrthas are being manufactured. What if Germany is? These ultra- long range guns proved themselves remarkably ineffective when last used, and. unless they have been considerably improved in the mean- time, they can be disregarded as weapons of any military conse- quence. They may fray civilian nerves for a. short time. but in cases like this it is generally necessary only to organize a sweepstake on where the next shell will fall to turn the affair into an interesting sport with the participants impa- tient for the next packet of fright- fulness to come oven-Aux.

The “hiternationallsts,” some few of whom are outspoken, declare that to working folk it matters not to

is clear that peace would not come to the working man if his country were conquered and the conquerors deprived him of his vote and con- scribed him for military service. It i; absurd to suppose that in all cir- cumstances pacifism is, like Touch- atones “lf", the only peiwemaker. Peace to be possessed, acquired, or retained must sometimes be fought for, sometimes purchased by war, or preserved by armed defence. In the same way, liberty, as Rousseau reminded us, to be possessed must

EDITORIAL NOTES

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"A short time ago there gathered in the Grand Ballroom of Hotel Pennsylvania, New York City, an audience that over-flowed the corri- dors so great was the interest in the subieot discussed."

a What was that subject?

The discussion was whether the tune-honored statement “A clean tooth never decays" was true, or ivas not true. . I am quoting from Oral Health, .i.lie ofllcial organ of the Canadian Dental Association. _ _ Three outstanding research wonk- lcic stated that a clean tooth was ;.all that was necessary to prevent triecay, and three, equally outstand- ing, believed that tooth decay was

due to faulty hygiene and diet.

Thus one school of thought be-

lieves that tooth decay starts on outside of the tooth and that y- pi-oducts due to ferments destroy the tooth whether the quality of the tooth tissue isgood or bad. The other, however, suggests that the tooth structure is changed either by inheritance or because of improper diet, and that teeth decay whether clean or not. Commenting seriously and also humorously on the question, the New York ‘Hines states that moth- ers are now in doubt as to what to do-make the children continue to brush the teeth or feed them certain foods.

The youngster: th lves were all for doing away with brushing the teeth until it was found that the diet recommended meant more spinach and cod liver oil.

However the majority of the den- tal professlon is of the opinion that while the process of decay may be the some in every case, the immed- iate cause may be from inside or outside the tooth, as the decay is affected by local conditions in the mouth and the condition of the blood which nourishes the tooth tis-

“sfllhe modern skilful dentist is one who is called upon to balance all til;

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Sin-Regarding the money spent moving clay from mt Exhibition Grounds? I wish to taho exception to the remarks ‘of Mr. LePage, both on the draft adds-cs and the budget debate. The money was an unemployment grant from Ottawa. The Federal Guv rnment sent an unemployment agent in the per- son ofldr. Thomas McGladcny to investigate the unemployment situmtionof thisiprovinoc. He was much interested in trying to pro- mote some system of immediate employment. On his arrival in this province a conference was held in Hon. Premier Maolldillnrve office and the chairman of the lottetown unemployment commit- tee and the president of the L. P. .U- were asked to attend. Those men were naturally lifter- ested particularly about the unem- ployed of Charlottetown. They re- commended the filling in of th swamps and marshlsnds- on g: Remington rifle range as the clay could be secured from the exhibi- tion grounds. a distance of about three hundred yards. It was the be“ Proposition they had to offer at that time as there were then 500 men idle in this city, This was the beat real unemployment grant that iwae cvcrsent to this prov- ince. Not one dollar of it was ex- pended on materiel or machine _,. All! mm. be he Liberal or other- wiee, that will criticise a propo- sition of that kind, does not know the unemployment situation as it exists. This money could not poc- aibLv have been cpent- on roads without the use of material and machinery. That is the great dif- ficulty in this province. to find work for our men without spend- ing a very large amount in mater- ial and machinery. ‘Ihat was one occasion where the government consulted labor representatives and twenty-five thousand dollars was paid for labor without any ex- pense otherwise. The unemployed very much ap- preciate anything that may be said or done to help their cause, but

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my rcply I proved, from “Pro- duccrb" figures and our own re- cords, that nothhithstanding the fact that the general price average per pound was higher at the time for which he quoted sales records than it is today, (that point was not disputed and does not enter into the discussion nor constitute an argument) nevertheless he ac- cepted I 1-3 cents per lb. less for hlshoge onnlive weight basis than our wesent system of mar- keting would plaoe within his reach. In his second letter “Pro- ducer" docs not attempt to dis- prove that statement. In fact he appreciates its accuracy and I ven- ture to suggut that your corres- pondent ls a patron of the local Shipping Club operating in his locality, and if so we wonder why. when there is still an open market

for dressed hogs in Charlottetown. Ninety percent of your corres- u pendants letter is made up of per- sonal opinions and irresponsible; statements, unsupported by proof of fact, and if he intends to be tnkm seriously he must do betteri than that. Prince Edward Islar , farmers todiiy, with more than a decade of experience .'wlth prac-

when they receive something that they asked for it would be well for

factors concerned, when decay found. The great amount of dental decay now existing shows the Vii-Bl necessity of maintaining mouth health, and overlooking neither the hygience of the mouth nor the im- portance of the dict- From the above it that you and I must continue to brush our teeth to keen the W! clean, and w cat vegetable! and fruits daily to maintain the tiseuel. Th, youngster however may have

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demand‘ to have the auto m; g: Nggotodfhua we m _. . esc ‘ or uced whereby giving the fanri- e I mo! by m appmnt “Hume e“ “n” m“ ha?‘ of them. There is no inconsistency here, no paradox-The Australasian.

The export of poultry to the Unit- ed F’ continues to grow. In February ‘it amounted to 765,000 pounds out. of a total of 706,000. The wtal export during the first eleven months of the current fiscal Year was 2,624,000 pounds compar- ed with l,5l9,000 in the same period last year.

A hundred years ago the first Earl Nelson died. I-lc was not the great admiralfbrut merely an obscure par- son. His only merit was that the great admiral was his brother. For that he received an earldom, 90,000 pounds cash to buy an estate. and a pension of-5,000 pounds a year for himself and his descends ‘. We still pay that pension. In 100 years it has cost us ‘$00,000 pounds. Hor- atio, the admiral for whose sake all this was done, was killed on his quarter-deck. He got none of these things. He never asked for them. He made just one request-a modest one: “Do not let Emma (Indy Horn- iltmi) starve." It was not granted. -I.ondori Sunday Express.

What ls the use of a. battleship that can be sunk by an airplane? ‘Let some enterprising MJP. obtain the answer when the Service Eti- mates are laid before the Z-ouse of

Hon. Mr. IsPagc does not believe in spoiling the Government by sparing the rod; indeed, like some cruel step-fathers, he puts 1t in pickle. Fortunately the govern- mentris well protector! by a. substan- tial coat of work accomplished and to their credit, so Mr. LePagcs ef- forts prove futile where they do not react on himself.

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uhds spent on the Red war the Soviet Government. who shout for total disarmament. The subject for investigation is- could we get better value. mo“? 89' cure defence, if we 806B?- mm °n air strength, less on navalf-Lon- don Daily EPW58-

We in Canada have our own m! of collecting materials to help the needy. 1h Sofia. Bulgaria. they w“! military trucks. ‘lccompaned W buglers, through the streets to ecl- lect offerings. Signs on the vehicles read: "Help the poor of Bullorllv" end "Bring out your old junk." On a recent. trip, servants produced old clothing of their masters. o. man presented an old ewve. a caster gave a large pumpkin and 0th!!! donated old furniture and footwear- The articles were taken to mp5" departments organised by the auth- orities and then distributed amohi the pooh-at. ‘Thomas Times- Journai. '

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Commons this week. British taxpay- ers pay 57,000,000 pounds for war- ships and 17,000,000 for warplanes. In all, our defence costs us 114,000,- 000 pounds. It is an immense sum. ‘Prue, it is far less than the 500.000.-

Fix-President Hoover is keeping in the limelight with a view to re- nomination. He sent a message to the California Junior Ricpubhcuu Convcndon, ' unc‘ the Demo- cratic regime; but. although he was enthusiastically thanked for it, it was Governor IPrank '1‘. Merriam who was suggested as the most like- ly winning candidate at the next nomination.

best purchaser last month was the United States with $0,000.

Prorogation in the middle oi May is now looked for at Ottawa. This is due to the intimation that Mr. Bennett will not be allowed to leave his room for another few days, and then must go on a vacation to put him fit for his visit to Lon- don. Thc present intention is to take Easter vacation, and resume thcmaftor, especially as it is ex- pected by that time Washington will be able to submit hcr recipro- city terms. The Opposition is fight-

lt was bound to happen. The Mackenzie King entourage are hinting that Mr. Bennett is suffer- ing only a diplomatic indlsposltlon in order to put off the election till the Fall. Of course the Liberals have no foundation other than suspicion for their, allegation, but would it not be condlgn punishment if it were true that Mr. Bennett was outbluffing tlicni? If the story be not true it deserves to be. .

the House adjourn without any specific reciprocity treaty having materialized or been submitted.

Hon. Dr. Manlon, like our I-lon. Dr. MaoMlllan, is, when he chooses. a holy terror as a destructive critic. om ma“ "tum. mun“ ‘f, . besides being, when occasion requigg, Queen.‘ own Rm“ “an”, m Fm. an exceptionally able constructive m“ h“ the” gym gqnfldjgm m one. For instance. what mom decd- jexpuu: (a) "I do not believe that ly effective than this by m. Mm- go“,- 9011mm m. in Canada. was; i; ion: "Three things always give inc 1s pure as it should be, and it can- -e lawn-the Dunning Budcet. tho ‘not be imp: uved until we have col- lhicerei Platform of inio, and ur. iftfeians of the typl of the aenril :King's book on Industry and I-Ium- lancer who cannot be boulbt vol- mnitv." iiucciiy. u» With mud to novel i with?!‘ Collage, Kingston. winc- '. tihc export of bacon and hams in over else may be laid about it, "It éreb-"utry was of the value of ti» icon mo. the boy: to take their 1252.000, or more than double um of ‘Whitney iijuc gentlemen and not cycaragoflfhileitisnctarccordiiikc m

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A writer in the Manchester Guar- dian consider; -the charge-if it be g, charge-made against Victorian writers. Probably the criticism is well-founded as to the too vehe- ment expression of feeilna! about which many kindheartod people on shy. The Victorian fashion of faint- ing on slight provocation has been held up to ridicule. The horror of death was aggravated by the stud- ied gloom of funerals and the oe- tentatioug wearing of mourning. But sentiment, when not so exag- gerated or made into a pccc. is simply the expression of goodness of heart ,which is just as essen- tial to normal humanity as sound- ness of mind.

polltlclarzs to keep quiet about it and perhaps they might get more. When a sum of money is given for unmnploymerit we should all ap- prcdaio it, but when some men try to criticize and_ make political propaganda at the expense of the unemployed it only has a tendency to stall further relief. It seems just too bed that another project such as the one referred to could not commence as soon as spring opens up. We now have ‘I00 un- emnlpyéld-éin Oh lotfetown and I hopG ‘the members on both sides of the House will be unani- mous in trying to relieve the situ- ation. Mr. LePage at times says some Ililflndld Sympathetic words for the unemployed, and he is cer- tainly trying to legislate to keep them sober. As a taxpayer of the city-he might use his influence with the City Council to give more relief, or he might get them to talce more advantage of Federal grants, as I understand the local government arc willing i» ' their share for Charlottetown. Af- ter all a lot could be done lb, fill. unemployed if there was less vyin- cism and more unanimous action I am. Sir. etc. UNIMPLOYID.