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MONDAY, DEOEERIBER S0, 1935.

Mr. Dunning’s Nomination

In his speech at the Strand Theatre oii Saturday Hon. Mll. DUNNING sustained his reputation as a “straight shooter" by frankly acknowledging his obligation to the Conserv- ative party and press in assisting in his election by acelaniation to the scat vacated by MR. J. j.‘ LARABEE. He came fully half way to receive the olive branch extended to him, and lie did not make the mistake of attributing this gesture by the Opposition to any motives less worthy than his o\vii in re-enteriiig politics at the pres- ent time.

Perhaps it- was too niucli to expect that the Finance Minister \‘\'0lll(l be equally {rank iii dis- cussing the political situation at a Liberal party convention. At all events, while he refrained from direct criticism of his Conservative pre- decessors, lie used his eloquence to leave the impression that from the time he quit office in 1930 until lie resumed it two months ago, Canada had been going from bad to worse fin- ancially, and not one single instance of the dif- ficulties the country faced and met during that period was referred to. Mu. DUNNING believes that it is the (JOVCYIUIICHCS first duty to see that no one in Canada starves. Tllilt was the duty which the BENNETT Government discharged, in the face of much criticism about “doles” which were distributed particularly to the \Vcsterii Provinces. M12. DUNNING, being a Westeriicr, knows all about that. He knows too about the success of the Empire trade agreements of 1932, and the long series of negotiations carried on by Mk. BENNETT leading up to the reciprocity treaty with the United States. The Finance Minister gave all the credit to the KING Gov- ernment for this achievement-an achievement marred. at the last moment, by MR. Kine/s un- wise haste in concluding the treaty on terms to which MR. BENNETT certainly would not have agreed,

At this point Mia. DunniNo showed his mastery of the art of skating on thin ice. The treaty has not accomplished what was hoped by our potato growers, our fox farmers, and our fishermen-three of the most iinport- ant iclasses of producers 'in this Province. Of this fact the speaker was probably well aware. He explained that it wotild not be judicious for him to discuss the benefits of the treaty in detail, as his remarks would be placardcd in United States newspapers and used against the lVashington administration. This exhibition of caution is the more remark- able in view of the fact that PRESIDENT Roosn- VliLT, in a recent speech at a farmers’ meeting, showed no such concern about embarrassing the Ottawa government when he boasted that the treaty gave free access into Canada of a wide variety of U.S. farm products while safeguard- ing, at the same "time, the American market by a rigid quota system against Canadian products.

MR. DUNNING was hailed at the convention as “a. doubtless future Prime Minister of Canada.” Unquestionably he is among the ablest -—if not the abltiSl—-—m€ll1l)€l' of the blncxianzii: KING Government, and enjoys the confidence of those “big interests" which he defended so eloquently in his speech on Saturday. In the event of Mn. KING retiring before his govern- ment's term expires, the probability is that his successor will be the present Finance Minister. In any event, there will be many opportunities for that genial gentleman to express in practical form, as he has already done verbally, his sense of gratitude to this Province for giving him the opportunity of re-entering Parliament un- opposed. '

The B. N. A. Act

As noted in these columns recently, ohjec- tion has been taken by New Brunswick to the suggested amendment of the British North America Act, at least until full information is available as to the scope of the proposed changes. This attitude is also voiced by the Fredericton (N.B.) Gleaner, which says :

“The fact remains, criticism or no criticism, that the B. N. A. Act is the charter of Confed- eration and the only document which gives to the individual provinces, their rights. The Mari- timcs expressing their dissatisfaction with con- ditions as they have existed in recent years, have every reason to guard that Act in every \vay,_ in order to preserve what they still hold. Pres- sure toward amendment is being brought by larger and more populous provinces. The claim that social progress makes necessary such amendment, has much to commend it. On the other hand there is no reason for any altera- tion in the fimdamental features _of the Act. Strength of Senate-representation has come to be vital to the Maritime Provinces. Sugges- tions as to altering the powers of the Upper House should be scanned with greatest care in order that there be no weakening of the rights which the citizens of these Provinces have in the powers of that House. The same holds true with regard to other matters now under dis- cussion at Ottawa, There should be every sup- port to those who are endeavouring to have provincial rights_in the B. N. A. Act adequately lafeguarded."

Flight Of The Lindberghs

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judging from comments in the United States press, there is profound concern and hu- miliation over the voluntary expatriation of Colonel Linuiiciiop and Mrs. LINDBERGH and their second child. The New York Herald Tribllm: in a leading editorial notes that the Linoiisnons have sailed for England "to find a tolerable home there in a safer and more civ-

Nations have exiled their heroes before; they have broken them in misunderstanding or per- secuted them with meaiiness. But when has a nation made life unbearable to one of its‘ most distinguished mcii through a sheer inability to protect him from its criminals and lunatics and the vast vulgarity of its sensationalists, publicity- seckers, petty politicians and yellow newspapers? It seems as incredible as it is shocking. Yet every one knows that this is exactly what has happened.” The editorial concludes :—-

“The LINDBERGIIS can live with some free- dom iii England, not only because there has been it is said, no recorded case there in recent times of a kidnapping for ransom, but even more. be- cause of the adult public sense of good taste, restraint and respect for individual right and privacies which underlies the British freedom from crime. Now that Americans have driven one of their leading men to flee in secrecy from a life which they made intolerable for him, they would do well to meditate upon the value of those virtues.” '

Once again it lias thus been demonstrated to the worid that it pays a nation and an Empire to possess a cultured civilization and to have de- veloped a general observance of the amenities in human relationships. '

Editorial Notes

~ Now exporters of salt pork to the lumber camps “have got it on the neck.” ' 9K 9k it

Today we will be represented in the KING cabinet by Rt. Hon. C. A. DUNNING. Congratu- lations.

Prime Minister KING will soon have the all-time record of victories by default-allow- ing the other fellow to have his way.

.\Ir. A. E. BIACLEAN, M. P., has not yet been gazetted as aii Under Secretary of State. But it's coming to him.

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AtGovernmeiit House on Saturday there was a. most cordial welcome to both Mr. DUNNING and Mr. hlicimuo by guests of all sorts of political opinion. In this respect I-lis l-Ioiioui- sets a precedent and example that his successors will do well to follow.

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According to a Canadian Press despatch from Geneva, Canada led the world in improve- ment in the building industry during the first ten months of 1935 over the corresponding per- iod of 1934. This is the declaration of the Sta- tistical Bureau of the League of Nations. The advance occurred under tlic BENNETT adiniiiis- tration.

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Hon. Mr. {KBERHART with another “lizuid-out" of $3,000,000 from the Federal Treasury for the benefit of Alberta has gone hack with a favoiir- able impression of Prime Minister limo. On the otlicrhand he has become quite abusive of those to resent delayin his own "hand-out" of $25 per month. He now says it may be two years before that is possible.

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It is related of the famous Duke of Devoii- shire, who died in 1908, that he yawned iii the middle of one of his own speeches in the House of Commons-he was then Lord I-Iarting—and afterwards blamed the dullness of the speech. Lord T weedinuir, Governor-General, tells aiiotli- er story of him as the Duke. He had a horror of speechmaking, and related to a friend that he had an awful nightmare. “I dreamt," he said, “that I was making a speech iii the Ilouse of Lords, _:i_nd I awoke and found I was."

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Those evangelists across the border seem to know how to combine financial and spiritual interests to their own worldly advantage. BILLY

SunnAv made his pile; Mrs. Aisici; iMACPl-IERSON has made hers; and noiv comes Mrs. Ernst. Duncan, evangelist of Los Angeles known On the radio as “the Good Samaritan of the Air.” She has just surrendered to face a federal indictment charging failure to file an income tax return in 1931 although she alleged- ly made more than $86,000. Mrs. Dunc/tn, founder and pastor of the First Church of the Apostles in Los Angeles, and her former hus- band, Ltovu PREWIIT, also indicted, were ac- cused of seeking to evade taxes of more than

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Exports to British Empire countries in No- vember were of the value of $48,256,475 com- pared with $35,560,381 a year ago, an increase of $12,596,094 or 35 pei- cent. Exports to the United Kingdom were $41,208,646 compared with $30,072,634, an increase of $11,136,012, or 37 per cent. The following were the exports to other leading Empire countries in November with the 1934 figures in brackets: Australia $2,403,076 ($1,464,829), Newfoundland $1,- 085,565 ($740,317). British South Africa $8son14 ($7s<>.=s6). N¢W_Z°=1la"d $705435 ($553,777), British West Indies $820,145 ($566, 411), Irish Free State $270,764 ($475,671), British India $207,495 ($349,056), British Gui- ans $145,493 ($87,447). Bermuda $135502 ($92,336), l-Iong Kgpggrgggw ($146,816).

The Legion is not so vigorous a body in Quebec as itishould be, so our old Carnegie Lib- rary friend, LL-Col. Witritso BOVEY, O. B. E., president of the Montreal District Council has been stimulating interest in the formation 0f a new branch to be called after Sir ARTHUR Cuiuuiz. l\lr. Justice bl/ickinnon is temporary chairman of 5o organizing members including Alderman GEORGE LAYTON, Major R. E. Buss; G. B. PUDDICOMBE, Lt.-Col. B. C. Hurcuinson, l:‘..D., Rev. T. IJESTRANGE, Lt.-Col. C, A. MAC- Donatn, W. E. Dun-ton, Maj. G. C. Bun- BRIDGE, Maj. A. R. KETTERSON, Maj. J. L. Hunriinizv, Col. I, L. Rscsron, C.M.G., D.S.O., Mr. Justice W.L. Bonn, Brig-Gen. ].B_. Wifrrn, D.S.O., Col. E. G. M. Cars, D.S.O., Lt.-Col. H. WYATT JOHNSTON, Sir P. O. W. Looms, Lt.- Col. E. G. Hanson, D.S.O., Dean C/trrmsus, Col. C. B. PRICE, D.S.O., Capt. L. W. TAYLOR and Maj. D. T. Connie/tn, D.S.()., M.C. It is noticeable that Major Cviius MACMILLAIVS

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Notes By The. Way

Ilhllflllofllldlllfllollcvvlofil single day specimens of careless English iii the Prince or win... among the llvlng and 1n Abraham Llnoolii among the honored dead. The helr to the Brltlsh Throne at a business men's meeting recited 5 jingle of which the flrial couplets runs:

Will never reap the golden dollars Like he who shows them round and hollers.

8.11.11. has doubtless forgotten that the word "llke" always has the preposition "unto" understood after 1t. Hid that 1t should iiiei-e- foie be “like him" for “like unto htm." Such is the control-mess of human nature that. people will say "like he" when 1t, ought to be "like him." but when itought to be “like m6” they Me now stlylng “like 1.’ As for. Abraham Lincoln, theiie is reason for asserting that the Rall- splftter was even more formidable as an infinitive splitter. In one of hi5 dictum. Just, published anew, occurs the following sentence: “The only remedy for this ts to, as m: as porslble, drlve useless labor out. of existence." From the author of the immortal prose of the Gettys- burg Address this ls enough to, with all due allowance for the fact that ft is an early Abraham Lincoln who wrote the lines, make the reader throw‘up his hands-New York Times.

Th, polnt really at fssuo behind the screen of talk about "prestige" and “security” ls whether Britain and America are going to permit. Japan to control, beyond any ])‘31‘- adventure of future powcr politics, the For East, as :he will certainly do ff she has a fleet equal to this country's and England's. That may

view, a question of international ethics or of imperialist economy. But. the chances are that, logic or no logic, the two Anglo-Saxon pow- ers wlll continue to answer it. em- phatically in the 11egatlve.-Baltl- more Sun.

A young man recently came to town, bouzht a second hand car lat- er ln the (‘by and went fa: a ride. today he ls tn jail for a month and his license has been taken from hlm. He collided with another car and seriously, injured its occupant. Worse, lle ran away and failed to return to the scene, which is a criminal offence in l:se‘f. All the fines in the world wlll not stop some people, but making it impos- sible for, a man to dilve s. car at all is the most salutary manner in which to handle drivers who caift be trusted with a car. If this young man makes good, he may yet get his license back and become rt safe unit on the strtets. Mxmtlme he must think it out for himself, and it ls trusted he will be wise and riot. feel d1: gruntled and get into more traublcx-Karrroops Sentinel.

A story 1s told o! a Sunday din- ner at which Th? faintly was crit- icizing the church s“rvlci~ all had attended. Father objected to the

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ECZEMA DUE ‘IUJTXHDS AND CONTAUI‘ WITH CERTAIN ' SUBSTANCES

One of the discouraging oondl- tions with which many mothers have to contend ls having n. youngs- terwttlia, 4 ‘eczema. The skin is more _or less itchy, the youngster sci-atelier it and the oon- dltlon does not. heal. And even tn older children, under good super- vision, and wlth the use of the latq est “olntment.s", the eczema persists. Treatment fn various forms helps many of these cases, but tn a few weels or months the coridlt-ton re- turns, much to the dfstras of moth- er and child.

For some years skin specialists. baby specialists, and. filers! prac- titioners have been searching for a cause of eczema. and have found that tn some cases the tendency to eczema. has been inherited. Some research wor-kers have found that n grandparent and also a. parent of the child have been afflicted with eczema, and searching further dls- covered that they were “sensltfve" to certain foods.

Dr. Samuel M. Peek, New York City, in New York State Journal of Medicine, records the observation of D3 cases of eczema. tn infancy and childhood. Of these 23 were tn- fnnts and the others varied tn age from one to twelve years, the mu]- orlt being ln the ages just younger than school age.

They were tested by means of scratch and patch tests. The scratch test is made by scratching the skin and rubbing the suspected food or substance lnto the scratch. The patch tests is made by putting the substance on the skin, and covering it with a. patch for a number of hours. If the child ls “sensltlve" to the food or substance the red mark left on the skin wlll be much larger than if they were not sensltlve to" this particular food or substance. Among the fods meats and fish. the white of egg and the yolk of egg were found to be most. frequent causes of eczema.

Among the foods meats and fish. which come in contact with the skin and cause eczema. are goose, duck and chicken feathers. Milk was found to be n frequent cause of eczema.

The point then ls that the foods that. frequently cause eczema are the best body building foods known. that is meat, fish, eggs and milk, but there ls something in the “make-up" of certain Individuals that makes theiii sensitive to these foocls and eczema. results.

lilmlongwflseupfromtbepress table and bong the speaker of the evenlnz over mo held with s mrafe. Every newspaper ndltor hi6 his 11st of them: tbs words that jump from the copy or. worse stlll, from the first edlttonb printed page sod blt him tn the eye, olustnc frub ong- ulsb; every hft and making him went to start porroms nil-Inst the teachers and professors who lulled to wipe the horrors from youth's typewriter fingers before youth got into the-no per business.

Lists differ. every mun his own black boasts. Yet. there are certain

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words ‘that, by their ‘ have earned is place on every llst. 0f these the worst, the most unutterably bed ls “contacted.” The Globe ls in oom- plete agreement with the Victoria Colonist and the Ottawa. Journal there. "Oontleted" is jargon,‘ and

CIICICE QUALITY PEACHES No. 2V; TIN '

inexcusable jargon. It ls an upon English speech. 1t ls the ii-l legitimate verbal loft-spring of lazy mind and cheap soul. 1t 1s the worst thing that has happened to thlfcon- fluent/s vocabulary since normalcy arid colorful. Add to ft “proposition- ed" and “and/oi”; you have as nasty a trio of btlrbarlties as ever called aloud for phllologteal lynch law.

The Right To Hum (London Times) I

The bummer, using the word tn its musical and not tn its indecis- ive sense, ts a man who knows how to comfort himself. He ls common- 1v He liums because humming is unl- quely adaptable to sudden changes of key, iul indeed to abrupt tran- tlons to an entirely dlfierent time. He does not need to remember Hm’ words, but t1 he should lie can sl- weys insert them like the conduc- tors of smart orchestras. He is in fact quite all right, and only asking to be left alone to go his way Ml- companled by the cheap and gentle music of his own devising. He does not mind that the 3.13.6. makes so little effort to discover hllmminB talent or to uttllze 1t. when known. He ls not working for reward. All the same, just as very rlch men are pleased when their stocks appre- ciate, arid greatly complimented beauties still thirst ‘for little 00m- pllment, so are the most contented men izlnd of additional good news. And for hummers comes this news. that to hum music, by a. ruling-of a. Leipzig court, is not to infringe

sermon and mother thought lt tiriie they hired a new organist. Daugh-l ter was swore on the defects of the choir. The :on of the house list- ened uneasily to all E7115 criticism. Finally he put in his word: "After all, dad, I thlnlt 1t wCs a lot. for a centfl-Petoiia Advertiser-Topic.

“The people are not such an in- effective, helpcss flock of sheep as those who claim tn streak in their name oft/en imply. They have a way of making their opinions known and heard when they feel deeply. We llve under the shadow of the

last war, and its memories still slcken us. We rcm-mber what mod- em warfare is, with no glory in ft but the heroism of man. Have you thought how public llfe has suffer- ed becnuse those who would have been ready to take over from our tired and disillusioned generation are not there? Perhaps we avert our thoughts from these terrors and send them roaming over this “dear, dear land’ of ours. To what. risks do we expose our lrrep1ace-‘ able treasures, for you cannot build up beauty tn a few years of mass production. Everything we have and hold and cherish is 1n jeopardy in this great ‘Issue. There ls s geri-

never knew war. and tt is for us to see that those things shall riot be again. We want no armored pence: but, unless we are careful, tt is all the peace we shall tiavefi-stanley Baldwin, Quoted tn Public Oplnlon. .

Perhlpo Mussolini believes what anti-League papers in Britain and this country tell him-that the British fleet 1n the Medtteganean ls at the mercy of Itirlari bombing planes. But he would be unwise to make the test, as this view ls not shared by the British Admiralty.

Those who have wondered at the ease with which s. printer reads type backward upside down as it appears 1n the forms, or who have marvelled at the fllclltty with which a. telegraph operator reads Morse, will marvel still more at the fac- ulty developed by Miss Julia. Wolf. of Technique Films, London, Enz- land. She ls abl¢ to rend the round- track of films. The sound-track, ft wlll be recalled. la a strip an eighth of an lnch wide riinnlngalong fine‘ edge of the talkie fllm. It varies in density with the pitch of the note and tn loudness from dark to light. To appreciate what reading this sound-track means try to pick up on n mmoplione record, from just looking at It, where patter oi- chorus begins. Mlas Wolfe has spent years odltirig sound-trucks and has de- veloped her faculty tosuch an ex- tent thst from looking iit the soul:- gle at the edge of the fllm she can recognise 1'1 the vowel sounds and a good many of the consonants, plot up the thread of conversations, tell at a glance lf the fllm ls tn Hench, English Dl‘ German.‘ fill- tfmufsh at sight speech from music, l man from I woman. u planvfrom an orehestrnu-ffslfiflton spectator-