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HIPORTANT TRIFLES

Evlery once in awhile the corres- pondence columns of British reviews and newspapers like The New

Statesman, The Spectator and The

t Times reveal an astonishing inter-

est in what Canadians might con- " lidor trifles. The wide and endur- 5 ing popularity of "Alice in Wonder- ‘ land" i.s rooted in the nature of the

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' English people. Some time ago, for "example, The Times gave space to

letters on the subject of “Th: Pur- ' pie Cow." As many will remember, ' this gem 0f IiteratuJc declares:

"I never saw a purple 00W.

I never hope to scs one.

And yet I always feel somehow

I'd rather sec than be one." But there was so much disalree- ‘ment as to the author, iii‘ true rendering and the high significance 01' the verse, that one was no wiser

when the controversy ended than "he was when it began.

Later there was trouble in the .'Tlmes over Nebuchadnezzar. Ap- i pareotly no one could remember __the whole poem from which the foorrespondents quoted, and no two

could agree as to the true reading of the verses they thought they ".had remembered. Unfortunately, as ' in the case of “The Purple Cow,"

the true rendering was not estab- lished nor was the whole pcem re- '- discovered.

Dlring recent weeks there has been a. tremendous argument going on in the columns of reviews like The New Statesman and The

‘__ Spectator over something said in ' ‘the House of Commons, by $11‘ Jflhfl v Simon. Sir John, discussing arma- ments, based his peroration on ;' what he thought was on the whole ‘the most moving single sentence wln modern Emglish literatureh-the ending of Thackeray's chapter on Waterloo in ‘Vanity Fair":

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"No more firing was heard at Brussels. The pursuit rolled miles ; away. Darkness came down on _, the field and city; and Amelia was praying for George. who was lying l‘ on his face, dead, with a. bullet in his heart."

For weeks afterwards the columns 11ers challenging Sir. John's ind-z- Timent, or debating it. Some thought Qtho most moving passage was Wrhlokersyh description of the death 0f Colonel Newcome. Many mated for the last entry in Pepys‘ Several mentioned the de- .-loripti0n of the deaths of Tom and lilflflfih Tulliver in "The Mill on moss," and the last sentence of .plivo Bchreiners "The Story of an Illarm." Two suggested the words of Motley! ‘Dutch ylnmiiblia" q-Qggrding William of "finngeil

. “M long as he lived he was the‘ guiding star of a brave nation, and * when he died the little children ‘, dried in the streets." ,, ' ‘ L The claim-“the most tangle sontenoe"-was too

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moving large a Hone for finality. But the contro- "1 y was delightful, the sort of éiv I g one finds only in Britain Libero was tension in the Saar, and 1 war talk, and other trouble; but

those people could find time to get. excited over the most moving pas- fjage in their literature. ls it this, the Ottawa Journal, that makes so wholesome, so wonderfully i ‘one?

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‘The practice of Canadian firms {btfiking a. market in Great Britain appoint exclusive agents in Lon- Jdnn or elsewhere in the South for ‘qthe whole country results in many leases in their losing ‘the Opportun- lity of making sales in Scotland, Fwrites Mr. G. B. Johnson, Canadian hfimde commissioner in Glasgow, in _ o Commercial Intelligence Jour- l Scotland provides a quality

‘ consum- who show a preference for Em- produots when these aré Vof tlvo vsiue.~'1‘helr businlls naturally prefer-to mlrqhose requiremenfilfiiitically " raid-fer - an. ,- ' tyg/vfilr ‘rm. m maumluhwhllrtm , habits, mQmIthQdt e1 ao-

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a small extent. In lifngland it is eas- ier to sell Canadian softwoods for rough timber work in house con- struction because the chief compet- ing wood is Baltic redwood; the

ilatter is usually dearer than Baltic

whitewood, which is commonly used in Scotland. Scotland uses fa_r more Canadian flour than England in proportion to population, not only because the Canadian product is best but on account of the differ- ent methods employed by the Boot- tish bakers. England is a. good mar- ket for canned lobster; sales in Scotland are of little importance. Scotland is more of a quality mar- ket than England, and the instinct for quality is one that runs through the whole range of commodities.

EDITORIAL NOTES The lllflrlllllgs are already lighter.

Below bezo weather is character- istic here of the first month of the year.

"l-Ie don’_know where he are." ln the words of the old song, is truly descriptive of Mr. Mackenzie King's present predicament in leadership.

His visit here and the friendships made crate a more than usual interest in the premiership and policy of M. Pierre Laval. His mis- sion to Mussolini is being follow- ed with interest.

Sane economic evolution is the policy of Premier Bennett. He in- tends to lop off the dead wood of the capitalistic system and graft on new branches which will make it suit the changed conditions of the new era we have entered.

The great success of the recent Catholic missions at the Basilica and the Church of the Holy Rt!- deemer should encourage the Pro- testant clergy in their six evening's special’ services this week. It is a time for prayer and spiritual vival.

Now it is our old friend Hon. Duncan Marshall who is finding the advantage of the Bennett

{SM the reviews were filled with let- Marketing Act. and he has gone to ‘Ireaty is set right, there will be

Ottawa. to seek its cxtensicn to the cattle export trade. Poor Mr. Mac- kenzie King made a bad break in staging opposition to this now much appreciated legislation.

‘rho publication on page six of Saturday's issue of the literary success 0f Mrs. John Gardner oaughllnkhee Miss Sally Sue Allan, niece of Mrs. Brow and Mrs. Pawn.) reminds us literature must run in the blood, as Sally (by which name she is more familiarly remembered here) is a cousin of Miss Passmore 0f P.W.C. and Miss Ruth Hieartz, writer 0f our Book, Art, and Music column.

' President Roosevelt has announc- ed that early in the present ses- sion he will call upon Congress to enact legislation "to take profit out of war," and to ensure the proper coordination of the man-power, the manufacturing capacity, the finan- cial reserves, and in fact all the re- sources oi’ the country in any fut- urr: conflict. Britain has a similar object in view as witness the com- mission of which Iord Macmillan is chairman. To be effective any scheme of the kind must. be inter- national, and Sir John Bimon rec- ently laid down the three main objects which should be sought in an international agreement. The first and most obvious is effective control of the export trade. The terms of the Convention should be such as i0 enable an effective em- bargo to be placed on the export of arms wherever such an embargo will help to preserve peace or to stop a war. The second is effective national control on agreed linns of themanutacture of ems 1n all countries. The third is reasonable publicity. It would be of real ser- Vice to the cause of peace if all the principal countries manufacturing and exporting armscould be brought to aorcpt an agreement of this kind.

Herr Hitler has washed his hands o; the church dispute, and says _ Irll the dL, ‘ ‘ can fllht ‘it out themselves. Nevertheless for the present conflict between church and state in Germany, Hitler and his advisers have thomselvel to blame. 1t arises from the sttmpt of’: Reich Bishop nominated by fien- Hitlnr and his "German Christian" associates unify the regional Churches on e blots of ramp" and fnlle doctrine. ‘nae Confessional Community do not cbjlct to imiflntion u such. Theft Qbifittlon hi0 the mm and the with £110 ' '

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year we get so used to greeting every one with “a Happy New Year" phrase-and it's a fine cus- tom. Would that everyone would be happy-always happier at each new year. But what is it that makes people happy. anyway? 1s it not the experience of having some- thing useful to do-anddoing it as well as ones ability permits? Cer- tainly the happiest people are those who are continually busy at work, feeling that they are doing some- thing that is not only enriching their own lives, but tho lives of others. Nearly all of us have search- ed for happiness all our lives—a.nd we always come back to the one thin; that produces it-doing some- thing to make others happy! After all, this is the simple formula for happiness.

Ills Majesty may be said to be without an accent. and certainly he is not handicapped with that, in- frlnsement which tries to ordain that only a certain accent is the attribute to polite society. By nat- ure and by life's environment he himself happens to be a man of culture, and that is conveyed with- out being emphasized in his voice. 1-1;: does not employ it to proclaim his rank and position. l-le neither mgurgitates his words in what is supposed to be the Oxford accent, nor trims and clips his words as noodles still do in the services, nor on lofty occasions does he intone the depth of his sorrow or the ap- preciation of his approval. ‘The King is an Emglishman who may be claimed as the sovereign exponent of the best English. He speaks

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THE CHARLOTTETOWN GUARDIAN

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Bo much has been written about the overuse of sugar and cereals that it is Just possible that soml in- dividuals may get the impression that sugar, and cereals-wheat. oats. corn and other breakfast foods-are not needed by the body.

Now the first point to remember is that your body, like any furnace, needs a. certain amount of fuel or food and there is really no better fuel or food for heating the body and giving it energy than sugar and cereals. It is quite all right there- fore for everybody to continue the use of these two foods.

What food experts object to how- cver is that as sugar and cereals are prepared or purified foods they do not contain certain other factors aside from their heating ability, which the body must have. These other food factors are minerals and vitamins.

It has been proven that minerals and vitamins are absolutely neces- sary to maintain good health, and some experiments would tend to prove that certain foods are help- ful in warding off certain infec- tions.

Fortunately very small amounts of foods containing vitamins and minerals are all that is necessary to

, ,. King George Among The Longer Reigned

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Kings (Ilxcbsnge) ' . Km; George has now become one of the nail group of longer relxned soverigns, of Great Bri- tain and one of the older monarchs of the world. Since 1008 only eleven other mush kills! had sufficient years w mark a rllvar jubilee, and only 13 since hbert of Wessex became the first to bold sway over all B1818"!!- Alfmd the Great is the first kin! whose ago is recorded. and since his ‘acccmion only five sovereigns have lived to the ago of Kin! George.

Since William the Conqueror came to the throne in 1066 the average reign of 36 sovereigns has been less than 24 years, rang- ing from the few months of the murdered boy Edward V to the 63 years of Victoria. '

If omens of the past hold true, His Majesty may look forward to many more years. All those who passed their silver jubilees went on to much longer reigns. In order of length they are: Georsfl II, 33 years (1727-1760); Henry I. 36 yea." (1100-1136); Henry H. 35 years 1154-1189): Edward I. 35 years (#724307): Henry VIII. Zidyears (1500-1547); Henry VI, 39 years (1442-1461) Elizabeth, 44 eyars ‘ (1558-1608); Edward III,

neither as of Marylebone nor oi’ supply the b°dy Weds) but they Mayfair, and because m5 voice should if possible be eaten every may be imbued with the modulation d derivable from the moderation of the climate of his native land, it need not be, and His Majesty would be the last to expect it to be. the accent of refinement prevalent in other countries where climate and other contingencies make good speech and pleasant voices sound differently without being less cul- tured.—-Ex.

ay. Drs. Alan Brown, and F. F. Tis- dall, Toronto, tell us that we can go a long way in overcoming ally lack of vitamins and minerals in the average diet by building up our meals around five essential articles of food—namely, milk to supply cal- cium lime) and protein (the body building food); meat to supply more protein; eggs to supply still more protein, vitamins and iron; and vegetables and fruit to supply min- erals and vitamins. The remaining calories or food units can be readily supplied by the refined sugar and cereal products.

In other words then these high authorities suggest that. we continue the regular use of sugar and oer- eals but make sure that every day we eat these other everyday foods. Most of us hat enough meat, eggs. and milk but we may not eat enough fruit and vegetables.

And in these days fruits and vegetables can be obtained all the year round.

Sir Andrew Macph-all has an articll on "Hindenberg" in the lat- est Queen's Qualerly in which-—as ballast. to the biographical record- there is the first notable Canadian appeal for the restoration of hum- anity in our thinking and speech about international affairs. 1-1.". re- cites once again the flntolerable scene of vengeance too weak to save itself, which was enacted when the Peace ‘Treaty was signed by the German plenipotentiaries: he re- minds us that "The Germans trust- ed us," i.e. the British people, to see that rectitude was preserved in the carrying out of that treaty; he quotes the unlearned truth of Mr. Lloyd George s words. "no settlement which contravenes the principles of eternal justice will be a permanent one," and he concludes himself that "until the wrong in the

Gift- House- .For The .King (Manchester Guardian)

Many ‘peqple will be interested in the news that the King is to have an "ideal home" presented to him as part of next year's cele- brations of the twenty-fifth year of his reign, for the pursuit of the perfect dewlling-rhuuse is a form of ‘iimhitran whiclimzilliracts all those who have cver been struck by the difference between the ideal and the actual in household arrange- ments. And the King's interest, like theirs, will be mainly a matter of seelingand approving the good, for it is not intended that the house which the Royal Warrant Holders‘ Association is to build. furnish, and endow shall be occu- pied by a royal tenant. The King is to select its occupier from peo- ple who have rendered distinguished service to the country, as is done in the case of other “grime and fa- vor" houses or apartments in places like St. Jazmes Palace. Rensington Palace, and Hampton Court. In those cases the chosen tenants are surrounded by an atmosphere of the pastj in this the Association of some one thousand five hundred t. desme 1 who serve the royal household intends t; create l. gift that will belong to this age and no other. The Royal Institute of British Architects and its presid- ent, Sir Giles Scott, are to see to the selection of possible designs, and apparently a delightful site that is at present a secret has al- ready been secured for the erection of this promised domestic master- piece. One does not. see much charm of the secrets being long preserved, though it would odd to the fairy-tale flavor of the cam- paign for the perfect house if it could be displayed for public at- tention with something like the wave of a magicians wand. Will the design be copyright or will im- itation, with the King's house as

nothing more than an armistice,- no peace, no securlty."—beague of Nations News Shmt Canadian.

A member of Parliament who brings in the same bill session attelt. session is sometimes misunderstood. There was the old member who, after many vain attempts to haw: the cleaning of windows from the outside made illegal, at last induced a sympathetic Home SGCTCIZBIyZxI/O issue a. departmental order to that Effwt. and was congratulated on the success of hLs persistent effort to make window-cleaning safer for the cleaners. "No, no; safer for my- self," said the rnembcr. "When walk lng the streets I used to be afraid that a window-cleaner might fall on mefl-Aberdeenshire Mall.

They still talk In England. As l. rule there is no straining for notice nor any oontrolmrsial asperity. A guest at a dinner table is content to talk to his neighbor. If one gets the attention of the whole company it seems to be by accident rather than by design. Nor does one forget the. left even though he would rather talk to the right. There is the obligation of courtesy and the guest does not forget that he is only less responsible than the host and hostess for the success of the dinnlr. Om remembers the Punch story 0f the anxious butler who whispered to the young daughter of the house at her first dinner party, "a. little more conversation to the left, please." The talk ranges from books to pictures. from hymns to doggerel, from birth notices to epi- taphs. Now and again, too. there is a frank revelation of political dif- ferences and as candid criticism of political associates as of political opponents. ‘The social life of the

spurt mt mummy by revoking I11 the Mai-m which are inofmslstent with

Church Constitution s! 1m,

British people ls essentially toler- ant even though their political qWYRl-i are often as acute and bit- ter as those of any other country. --1!2xchange.

The Wicked Fairy has had pretty much her own way throughout 1934. stirring up strife and keeping the political situation in i; state of simmering disturbance. For nearly a month. however, the Good Fairy merned to gain the upper hand, the international cauldron went off the boil and all looked forward to a finale promising greater quletude. Not so. The Bad Fairy has still a trick or two up her sleeve. With a single wave of her black wand the

claiming to be responsible for the affairs of the Protestant Church. 0M. lliflolnted by the Confession- al Synod, is attempting to build up

basis of the parishes, ln accordance with» the democratic tradition of Protestant (march life in Ger- many. The other is the mime of the Mich Bishop, whose ynttdlnpt to compel unity from abovn col- IQFIG On the withdrawal of police mom. and who is attempting to buiidgbi-idcehuclrmtaerrctut-

sho- lanai-ally loocpted Evangelical

“we life with a big battle in which so,-

with the Princess's hat. become the sincerest form of flattery?

Italo-Abyuinim trouble has flam- ed up, the Gran Chaco war between

Bolivia and Peru, that all believed

wasps good as over, has sp to

OOO-troops were engaged, and a

brand new mischief has bluled in I.

brand-new territory in the form of forcible resistance by the peasants

of Russian Turksstan to the grain

levy imposed on them. What I

world i

"The destinies of our Indian our. plre are covered with thick‘ dark- ness. It is difficult to form any 0on- jecture as to the flte reserved for a State which ruembles no other in history, and which forms by itself a separate class of political phen- omena. The laws which regulatmits

I new order from below on. the ‘Ifgwth ‘M m “m, u.‘ m“ “m

known to us. It may be that the public mind of India may expand

under our system till it has out- 111mg“

Irflwn thot Int-em: that by good government we may educate our subiwts into a olvlblty for better government; that having baooma instructed in IIIODQIILXIIOWIGCIO, they may, in some future age, ac- irimd mmmn institutions. Whether such a day will ever some 1 know not. But never will I attempt to mart or retard it. when", it cornea it will be the proudest d; in Blgllslfhistoryfl-l-Mdklulav ' x century ago.