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THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 1931

Makes It Unanimous

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"We know that the Government. so far as the opinion of the great majority Oi’ the people is wnwn- ed, is doomed to destruction. It is still functioning, however, to the great regret of all."

‘These words, from an editorial in yesterday's local Liberal organ. sum up the provincial political situation in a. nutshell.

Memorable Anniversary

Today is memorable as the 116th anniversary of Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo. The details oi the bat- tle and its momentous results are known to every school-boy. The victory was achieved by the tenac- ity of the British forces under Wel- lington, reinforced, as the day wore on. by the Prussians under General Blucher. The battle ended in n rout; it left Napoleon without sup- port and without hope. He was forced to seek refuge on board I, mitish frigate, the "Belerophon," in which he was taken to Plymouth, and from Plymouth straight to the lonely tropical island of St. Helena, where he remained, a tragic fig- ure, until his death from cancer In 1821.

Literature is replete with stirring references to Waterloo. Byron's memorable verses in "Cl-tilde Har- old's Pilgrimage" have passed into every-day speech. Less familiar to our readers, perhaps. is Victor Hugo's magnificent passage in "Les Meserables," in which the scene oi the battle is thus portrayed:

“The field of Waterloo has at the present day that calmness which belongs to the earth, and resembles all plains; but at night, a sort of visionary mist rises from it, and if any traveller walk about it. and listen and dream, like Virgil on the mournful plain of Philippi, the hallucination oi the catastrophe seizes upon him. The frightful June 18th lives again, the false monumental hill is leveled. the wondrous lion is dissipated, the battle-field resum- es its reality, lines oi infantry undulate on the plain; furious galloping croses the horizon; the startled dreamer sees the flash of sabers, the sparkle of bayonets, the red light of shells, the mons- trous collision of thunderbolts; he hears. like a death groan from the tomb, the vague clamor of the phantom battle. These shadows are cuirasiers; this skeleton is Napoleon; this skeleton is Wel- lington; all this is non-existent and yet still combats, and the ra- vines are stained purple, and the trees rustle, and there is fury even in the clouds and in the darkness, while all the stem heights, Mont St. Jean, Hugo- mont, Frieschelnont, Papeiotte. and Plancerloit, seem confusedly crowned by hosts of spectres ex- terminating one another."

Canadian Manufactures

Electricity and the manufacture of automobiles, according to a re- liable C. P. R. publication, are the two outstanding features of Canad- ian industrial growth in recent years. Both have come to occupy more prominent places among the manufacturing processes and pro- ducts, and both now play leading parts in the everyday life of the Dominion. There ls one motor ve- hicle in use in Canada for every eight persons, and Canada stands iecond only to the United States among the countries "of the world in this respect. Over 57 per cent. of all the. homes oi Canada,‘ both tirban and rural, are using electric- ity. 1n Ontario and Quebec, the ratio is over two-thirds and in Brit- ish Columbia over threenuarters.

A recent report on Canadian manufactures calls attention to changm which have been going on in industry. This report describes conditions in 1929, and in the three preceding years when some strik- 111g changes took place in the relat. ive rank of particular industries.

192a pulp and paper led- Bswnd 9°" sitiorl had been captured by the slaughtering and meat Plwkl!!! 1n- dustry in the later year, whereas in the earlier it was occupied by flour and 811st mills. During this period the railway rolling stock industry also made considerable headway. rising from eleventh rank in 1926 to eighth in i929.

Liberal Consistency

Liberals hailed the Fielding budget of 1922 as a “poor man's budgetfyet it raised the sales tax to 6 per cent, whereas the Bennett budget now fixes it at 4 per cent. Consistency is of course a quality no one expects from any Opposition when it is destitute oli material for criticism of the Government of the day, and admittedly, as the Sydney Post remarks, the Parliamentary group headed by Mr. King is in that predicament. But it is quite too big an order on public credul- ity to ask the people to believe that taxation methods which were fair and reasonable when employed by a Liberal Government, become op- pressive when employed in more moderate measure by a Conserva- tive Government. The Opposition members have said more than enough about the budget to con- vince everyone that they have nothing to say against it.

One In Three

We take it for granted, in this country, that human life is sacred, and our most valuable asset. But a rude blow is dealt this cherished be. lief by a statement that one Can- adian in every three dies of disease which could be prevented.

The normal man, says the Otta- wa. Journal. usually rejects such claims as this with a bit of con-

tempt, as being extreme and fanci- ful. This one, however, isnot so easy to shrug off, for it is made by public health officials after careful consideration oi vital statistics. These have been gathered by the Canadian Social Hygiene Council, and some of the most significant are presented in a little pamphlet. As many as 1,200 Canadians die in a year of diphtheria, yet it costs little to prevent this disease through immunization of children. Typhoid has taken 1,111 lives in one year, yet cities like Toronto have cut their typhoid death-rate almost to nil by proper health methods. Death rates from other diseases are given in the Council's pamphlet, and the possibilities of reducing them are indicated. The estimate is made that one-half of our disease is prevent- able. Yet 180,000 Canadians are al- ways too sick to work. Sickness costs us as a nation $1,311.000,000 including the loss in possible future earnings of those who are taken by it, and this in a country that needs badly men and money.

Editorial Notes

There is little prospect, under the Lea Government, of the Pro- hlbition Magistrate being present- ed at any session with a pair of white gloves.

The Lea Govenmlent missed an opportunity of going down to de» feat spectacularly. lllaving been beaten in the Second District oi’ Prince on ‘Trafalgar Day, it might have arranged for its overthrow in fall on the anniversary oi Water- loo.

During the so-calleci prosperous regime of the King Government Canada spent $26,000-000 on immi- gration and lost 1.200000 people,

successful efforts.

contended that the‘ world had reached a new economic era'- and

plessions. Declining stocks create furthenpessimism and this further pessimism sends security prices lower. We thus have a vicious circle based upon the instability and hys- teria of the average human being. It was absurd for people to say, as they did, that there could be no end to the upward movement of 1928 and 1929. It is equally "iculous to suggest that there can be no tee. mination of the present depression. Many of those. whose Judgment should be sound, feel that the bot- tom has now been reached in thg recessional movement and that fun- damental conditions are already shaping for a. sure, if very slow, re_- tum towards prosperous conditions.

Liberal newslilllers and Liberal politicians complain that there is still unemployment in Canada.

ence to the number of persons who have‘ secured - Joyment through the efforts of the Govern- ment and they certainly have not aided in any way in providing ‘em- ployment for those who needed ‘it. What a boom it would be to Can- ada if those agencies were to exert themselves as much in aiding the unemployed as they do in finding fault with the Bovernliitnt or even in acknowledging the governments Authoritative statistics show that 7,600 unem- ployed in the cities have been plac- ed on farms where they earned good wages. In addition to this through the joint efforts of the fK-flwflys and the Department of Immigration and colonization 1,500 families who were without employ- ment have established themselves on farms. Howmuch more effect- ive would be the efforts of those politicians towards securing ‘the government which is their only goal if they admitted truthfully the success so far attained by the Bennett government in carrying out its ‘Promise to relieve unem- PIOYRIent.‘

The Bllclftflt Indians, If. mp- pears, have $2,000,000 to their e114. it in the Department of Indian A1. fairs and have built a. $250,000 school on thou- reserve. ‘Iiotirowfoot their old chief, who was prominent in the stirring Northwest days some half-century asp. goes the credit, for he_it was who started his tribe on the path of agriculture‘ before tihe buffalo disappeared. Crowfoot was a mighty hunter and warrior, but he was a man of vision also.

There is an omission in the m- gressive sub-amendment to the bud- get which is too significant to-be al- lowed to pass without c- -t For the first time since the Agrar- ian group made its appearance in Parliament 12 years ago, no protest is being voiced by the leaders of that group against the tariff and the iniquities of protection. Thld is the more remarkable in view of the fact that the tariff structure, as contemplated by this year's bud- get, is the highest that Parliament has been asked to authorize in the country's history.

Speed limits aloneivill riotonake the highways safe. While it.is true that speeding has contributed to a great proportion of the highway acciden in all parts of the world, comparatively few have not involved some other circumstances which have smacked of carelessness or in- competency or both. Cutting in, passing on hills or curves, defective brakes, badly worn tires, glaring or badly focused headlights, and other similar causes, ‘have figured in most of the automobile mishaps in recent years. These must all be

is being taken up.

It is stated that Russia was one of the few countries to show an in- crease in foreign trade last, year. The increase is of course explained by the absolute necessity of getting money to carry on the five-year plan. Russia was not exporting her products to secure a profit andithe loss sustained had to be borne by her own work-people. No country can go for a long period enlarging its trade on such terms, but while

Russia is doing it she isinfiicting

a very serious injury upon other countries. Among those who have

suffered severely are her near

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taken into consideration when the _ question o.’ motor traffic control; l

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THE IIETIABLE LARGE ' INTISTINE

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Now-that civilized peoples are eat- ing ‘refined’ foods-flour, rice, white potatoes, sugar-there , has been a natural outcry against these foods because they do not leave enough waste tofill up the lower bowel. Also they do not irritate its sides with ro haguesswtshrd shrduu sides with rough wastes sufficiently to make the bowel move its contents along and out of the body. This means slowness of action by the bowel and constipation.

This has made many people 8o to the opposite extreme and they must eat nothing but whole wheat bread, the whole apple and potato skins and all rough‘ vegetables and fruits, and also bran.

Many of these’ people ‘are of the always anxiously Weldon: their fopd intake, their di- gestion, and the" intestinal habit. Thus it happens thatat times they will ‘ be ' bothered by constipation, and at other times diarrhoea, and before they are aware of ' it they have r ‘ eomefout‘ and out‘ "nervous" casesin "so farms the lower’ bowel is concerned. ' . _

A_n examination ofthe lower bow- el or large intestine or colon—it gets all three names-very often shows one portion widely dilated or stretch ed and another Portion closely con- tracted. The boweilooks like the in- ner tube of an automobile tire which

is stretched out wide in some parts,

with other parts very narrow.

The symptoms are a soreness in the lower abdomen, or e. cramp like Pain so severe as to resemble gall stones, kidney stones, or appendicit- is. sometimes the patient gets the idea. that he has a cancer.

Now the first thought should be to get an X ray of ‘the intestine and so find out whether it is simply this ballooning or contraction of the bowel, or whether there is really ap- Péndicitis. a. stone, or a growth.

These cases are often underweight

and the first thought is to “remem- ber the nervousness of the patient, and get his fears removed, feed him well, and get him nourished. ' ' Then instead-oi coarse bulky food which only irritates the lining wall, soft foods only should be used and stewed or cooked fruits. " These-called y protective foods- butber and cream-with a. little meat every day to kggp up the strength should be given,

After a little while the patient shouldireturn gradually to the u" of one-or more of the coarse foods, because as a matter of gang, the

bowel was meant to contain a. cer- .

tein amount of waste matter so that its muscular‘ walls would be kept in 800d ‘condition by squeezing these wastes along. The bulky food gives it something to squeggg,

THE COUETIY Ol" THE CAMISABDS

,We. travelled in the print of olden wars.

Yet all the land was green,

Andvlove we found, and peace,

Where ilre and sword had been.

They pass and smile, the children of Ithe sword- No more a sword they wield; And O, how deep the corn Along the battlefield! -R. L. Stevenson.

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B f ff ri to this Coiiferencethe-pian which, once eefftclclige, ivilllgin rnyopinlon make for grail! Pm!‘ perity in all parts of the Emplroil 9h!" b71993" Bu" the fiscal policy of the‘ Canadian administration, or which‘ 11f]? ther laced.‘ _ _ , ~ '

Fica ocyo.anaa p .' s The Conservative party of Canada believes in,~ and gmplnys, the principle of protection of the home -pro- ducer of agricultural andfabricatled productst harmful interference by world colllllollloffl- B" k t: not part of our policy to exclude from our mar e t foreign goods, so long as their importation does no threaten a reduction in the high standard of, living which our citizens enjoy. On the other hand, itlis our declared policy to provide‘ for. the consumer a cheap market, by stimulating the growth of 09111129"?! 4°‘ mestic industries to that point of development‘ where they will be able, in fair colnpetitionwith others be- yond our Dominion, to offer to the Canadian public products of like _quaiity and .a_t prices com arable to those prevailing ill the larger; markets of o her coun- trlesTo achieve this result, we ‘are obliged to consider the whole question fromthe point-of view of. both con- sumer and producer, and, through the employment of a flexible tariff, to ensure the proper protection of the one and safeguard from exploitation the other. This result we are on the high road to accomplish. Its ac- complishment will mean vigorous industries assured of that minimum scale of production through home

I consumption, without which their-excess products can

never find a piacein world markets. -

In pursuance of this policy, and to meet an econ- omic situation, brought about by world and domestic causes (it is not necessary here to deterrninethelr re- iative responsibility), the Parliament of Canadaat _a session called for the purpose III September of this year, enacted certain changes lll the tariff, designed, in our view, to strengthen the position of the home pro- ducer. Certain measures were taken as part of this em- ergency legisiatiom-to avoid the exploitation oft the consumer; and in the good faith and good sense of the Canadian producers we-have the necessary assurance of their rigid adherence to these measures.

This policy of the Conservative party has come to be known as the policy of “Canada first.” In approach- ing the economic probiemspf our Empire I stand four- square behind that policy. And if this Conference is to meet these problems and- provide an effective solu- tion of them, it seems to rne that my attitude towards my own country will be the attitude of you all towards yours. On no other basis can wehope to effect an en- during agreement of benefit to each one of us.‘ I will determine what my country needs, and, if you do like-

‘wise, then we may come together and search out the

means by which we can be isfying those needs. _ A Policy of Preferencefor Empire Goods

I rejoice that the Government of Canada finds-in the Empire scheme I haveto propose, the surest prom- ise that its duty to its owncountry will be fulfilled. For we believe ‘that through the broadening of the home markets of Empire States to Empire products, in preference to the products of foreign countries, ev- ery unit of this Empire will benefit. This does not mean, of course, that an attempt should" be made to ex- clude from Empire markets the goods of other coun- trie. We must have-all of us-markets "without the Empire, and to make those markets sure, and greater, we must place no insuperabie barrier in theroad of re- ciprocal world trade. What it does mean, however, is that we should direct the ‘present flow of trade into more permanent Empire channels by preferring Em- pire goods to those of other countries. This can be done only in one way-by creating a preference in favour of Empire goods. _ _

We have considered what such a cheme of prefer- ence will mean to ‘Canada and to theother parts of Empire, and our conclusion is, that we of the Empire States have within our own" control the means to ad- vance the interests of each one of us, by developing a plan of economic co-operation, based-on theprincipie of "Empire preferences.

To establish‘ the soundness of this conclusion, I lappiy the test which most readily suggests itself to me a a Canadian. I shall teii you frankly what it i_s, for it is clear that no useful agreement will ever be rc ched until we fully disclose to one another the mainspring of our contemplated action.

The primary concern of Canadato-day is profit- ably to sell its wheat. We believe that we shall be reaching towards a solution of that problem if we can establish a better market in Great Britain. This mar- ket we want, and _for it we are willing to pay, by glv. ing in the Canadian market a preference for British goods. You may each, in your own way, apply what tests you choose to determine the value of reciprocal preferences to your own country. I am confident your conclusions will coincide with ours. ' ~

And so I propose that we of the" British Empire,

r joint and several interests, do subscribe to the y pie of an Empire preference, and that we take, without delay, the steps necessary to put it into effect- ive operation. " ' , First, we must approve or reject the principle. I put the question definitely to youfand definitely it should be answered. There is here no room for coni- promise and there is no possibility of avoiding the is- sue. This ia a time for plain speaking, and lspeak plainly when I say that the day is now at hand when the peoples. of the Empire must decide, once and for all, whether our welfare lies in closer economic union or whether it does not. Delay is hazardous, further discussion of the principle ls surely unnecessary. The time for action has come. Projects other than the one I propose have been

of mutual ‘assistance ‘in sat-

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