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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER s, 1931

Strange Revelation

Confession is said to be 800d 1°!‘ the soul, and no doubt this applies to a Liberal organ as well as to m individual. In its issue of 3'95‘ ierclay our local contempflfllry H5- lerts that the Lea Government was niticlsed by the Conservatives for plundering, and that The Guard- ian had also been guilty of mak- ing the same charge. It then pro-

, teeds to inform its readers that on Aug- 25 last the Lea Government advised Ell-Sheriff John G. Mc- Fadyen that he had been reap- pointed Sheriff by the Governor:- ln-Council, whereas, it asserts, the Governor had not given his ap- proval and therefore "the notice should never have been sent, be- cause until the Minute of Council had been signed by His Honour, the Lieutenant-Governor in Coun- cil could not be said to have act- ed."

Comment is unnecessary]

With regard to the appointment of Sheriffs, the Stewart Govern- ment filled the vacancies which had occurred in the three Counties owing to the Sheriffs not having been appointed, as is customary, in the month of June, before the end of their existing tenure. Evidently for political reasons, the Ilea Gov- ernment did not deem it desirable to make these appointments while the election was pending. Having been defeated at the election, they had no power or authority to make the appointments thereafter, al- though, according to our contem. porary, it would appear that they improperly attempted to do so.

The Situation In Britain

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Ii- i5 110W DO-isible to estimate with some degree of dcflniteness what will be the new alignment of political forces in the British House of Commons when the next Session Opens on September 8th. Premier MacDonald has been de- Posed by the Labor party. It looks very much as though his career as a Labor leader is ended, although he has not yet decided whether to present himself for re-election wh_cn the time comes for another appeal to the country. Chancellor Snowden has definitely announced he will retire from politics as soon as the coalition Government has completed its task, and that his de- cision has in no wise been lnfiu. enced by the new turn of events. Meantime, the Laborltes have re- organized their forces and have is- sued a manifesto declaring war upon the new Government, expres- sing their determination to resist to the utmost the economy pro- gramme with which the Cabinet 118$ i-O deal. Arthur Henderson has been chosen leader of the Opposi- tion and will be supported in this (‘flllacily by J. R. Clyncs and W. Graham. ifllmflfiy Home Secretary and President the Board of Trade, respectively. The economic Irisis has acted with seismic force, producing a cleavage which seems destined to remain. And the politi- cal forces thus ranged against each other the Montreal Gazette believes, arc already gathering for a pitched battle. As now appears, the first onset will be over the provisions embodied in the present Govern- ment's economies schedule which the Labor party bitterly denounces as a false move and an attack upon the interests of the workers. They forget that the crisis was such that it could not wait. They forget that A Sflcialist policy was in large 75ml YflDonsible fa: an unbal- anced budget that menaced British credit, and that when the real pinch came, Labor leaders, by their own confession, felt themselves

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the emergency. But all this does not in the least hinder the Labor Opposition from accusing their for- mer chieftelns of recreancy and hue surrender w capitalist into:-

ests which have brought pressure to‘ bear upon Great Britain from the‘ outside.

It seems fairly assured, contin- ues the Gazette, that the LaborllB-i can reckon upon a technical tally of 281 in the Opposition camp. The Government has a numberinl! 0i 331 out of s12 seats in the How °i Commons. The coaliticnlsts may. therefore, count upon a majority of 50, which is a workable majority and larger than the Labor 60W"? ment was able to muster most of the time it remained in office. These figures, of course, are sub- ject to "snaps? and "ralrlnss" which from time to time may inter- fere with the standardized roster. But it ‘looks as though, immediate- ly fronting the budget issue, the forces back of the Government pro- gramme are better murshalled than those within tho Opposition ranks. The real test will come with an- other general election. what the result of such a contest will be, no- body can tell. But there is at least the certainty that the next cam- paign will be one of the lcerdest fought and most momentous politi- cal struggles in British constitu- tlonal history. i

Death-Bed Repentance

On the eve of its departure, namely, Aug. 26—it having expired three days later-Abe Lea. Govern- ment reduced the gasoline tax to the rate fixed by the Legislature, which it had taken power unto 1t- self w boost.

Repentance without restitution, we are told, of no avail; and the defunct Lea. Government, hav- ing mulcted the autoists of an ex- tra cent per gallon for‘ three months, will receive no credit for this belated attempt to curry favor with the public.

The British Way

“If you asked any American, European, or Asiatic, who new the Atlantic, he would say ‘Lindbergh.’ Even in Britain, while it is gene:- ally known that someone else did it. first, you would not find one per- son who knew the names of Alcock and Brown, for every ten who know of Lindbergh." This is the complaint of a British M. P. in a speech recorded in the Journal of the Royal Society of Arts. "Simi. larly,",he continues, "if you were asked for the most famous incident in British airship history, you would say, ‘The H.101 disaster.’ The filling of the Atlantic both ways, the first crossing of the Atlantic by any airship, the first crossing of the Atlantic from East to was; at all-the fact that these are all Brit. ish records has almost faded out of our minds, and certainly is not known to one in ten thousand of any other peoples,”

Britlshers have an ineradicable 1 Prejudice againstblowing their own ‘horn. It is an old fashioned preju- ‘dice, out of keeping with the pres-

ent ass. but quite in line with th\e tradition of the race, which is pgr. haps not a disadvantage after all. The fact seems to be that British. ers.a:-e content with achievement and are perfectly satlgflgd go M the other fellow do the bragging,

Taxing Girls

The Summeraide Liberal organ, true to type, is advocating increased taxes. It suggests the imposition of a municipal poll tax on young lad- ies holding positions in commercial offices (not civil service, be it not- ed). It says Summerside is spending

lame sums oil-street and sidewalk improvements, and gallantly con- eludes:

“What more losicnl was of rais- in! this i ’ revenue than by adoming the above suggestion could be found. for who uses our streets and sidewalks more-day and night-than some cf our

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ernment appears to be well balan- cod. counting the -fu1l Ministry. there will be five Laborites, five Liberals and seven Conservatives in the new Government, or in the actual Cabinet of ten members. four Labor representatives, includ- ing the Premier, four Conservatives and two Liberals.

A Saskatoon geologist who has investigated the cause of the per- ceptable lowering of the water in the Saskatchewan River attributes it to the glaciers gradually dis- appearing irl the Rocky Mountains. He predcits that the river will dwlndletoa. dry ravine in 850 years. The “old oaken bucket" will be covered with many coats of moss before the dust flies in the river bed.

Besides placing a heavy burden upon British trade and industry. the extravagent social services in- troduced in Great Britain by Mr. Lloyd George, andrecklessly extend- ed by the present government, con- tlnue to play havoc with the an- cient families which have served the nation well. The Earl of Lona- dale is disposing of his racing stab- les, and he is to rent Lcwthel‘ Castle to strangers. The Earl of Derby is selling his race horses and will sell his magnificent estate 0i Knowsle-y if he can find a Dllr- chaser. So the present I.ord Silo-til‘ cona. has placed on the market the large Scotish estate built up by the first peer of that name, who. as Donald Smith, became so prom- inent in Canadian affairs more than a generation ago.

Slavery once existed in Canada. Upper Canada, now Ontario, can boast of being the first country under the British flag to abolish slavery, which was done by an Act of the Upper Canada, Legislature in 1793. All Imperial statute 0! 1833 removed all remains of the system in Canada. The first re- corded sale of a slave was at Q118- bec in 1628, when a black boy from Madagascar was sold for 50 half crowns.

In the foreword of tho Sask- atchewan public School curriculum, the following significant passage occurs. "Teachers are requested to concentrate upon the final Oblec- tives, namely, health and happi- ness, social efficiency and the use of leisure for the enrichment 0f life. The emphasis is not to be placed upon subjects of study; but upon child-welfare. The spirit 0i the curriulum is more important than the details of the subjects prescribed."

Comic strips in their. far-flung empire may not constitute ‘the highest type of entertainment, par- ticularly some of which have not out-grown a certain coarseness, but at least they do not offend by £11011‘ use of the salacious and the sen- sational and generally they bring the solvent of generous humor to many family circles where their leading characters have become as familiar and as well-thought-of as the neighbors next door.

Science has badly shaken tllc home. Now science is coming to the rescue of the home. A quarter of a century ago and earlier the home was the haven to which all has- tened alter the day's' work 811d there to remain until the morning- Then the “family circle’! was more than a beautiful legend and it was

kith and kin and sister's beau gathered for entertainment par ex- cellence. And then along came the “movies? the automobile, the dance

traptions of science" to disballd the compound members of the home circle and to cause an even- ing spell of dark desolation and somber silence over man's castle. The modem home, one was told, became a place in which to remain as briefly as possible and fathers, mothers, brothers and sisters be- came strangers to each other.

Now science promises to undo its evil work and -restore the home and family circle as of yore. There has been so much going on away from home for these many moons that even pupae and mamas have feared to remain at home lest they miss something. The future prom- ises to bring many things. into the home that one will loath to leave

0f Into years Canadians have do- mcnstrated a. creditable capacity to fabricate their own raw materials into finished articles of commerce. 'I‘his tendency is greatly facilitat- ed by the fiscal policy adopted and placed in operation by the present federal administration. Australia, South Africa, New Zealand and the British West Indies are turning b0- wards us in search of closer trade relations. Once there is n change of Government in Great Britain the

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THE CHARLOTTETOWN GUARDIAN

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A SIMPLE BEGINNING "

You have hes-rd jbo expression that “ENE? 05KB from tiny 500mg grow." I often think that if we could keep that ill mind that many a serious ailment might be pm- vented. _

Some one has said that “the great strategist, whether military or med- ical, antlcipatcs what the enemy in- tends to do and forestall: him by more ample preparations." ‘

If you and I could iultfthlnk back from some serious ailment-pneu- monia, tuberculosis, heart disease, rheumatism, deafness, typhoid fever and others, and really see the start- illg of all these ailments, what. tvouid we find?

In pneumonia or tuberculosis, lust a. little cold that was not serious enough to keep us in bed more than a couple of days, but to tell the truth we did feel weak for some time afterwards and we had to go to bed again. Heart disease; Just a couple of bad teeth, 'or_a sore throat that really did occur fairly often. We admit that we didn't go to bed with these sore throats because they didn't seem to be very serious. We did have some rheumatism 'follow- iug one or two of these" attacks of sore throat but the rheumatism didn't come on for some time after- wards. ‘

Deafness: we- can hardly be blam- ed for this because it was during and following an attack of scarlet fever that the deafness was noticed.

Typhoid fever: we'll admit that when we went on that camping trip we were a little careless of where we ~got our drinking water; never thoughtof boiling it.

Now it is not my intention to try to frighten anybody about these things. Nothing will undermine the health and the general resistance to ailments like being over anxious about your every habit of life-your food, your sleep, your exercise. -This over anxiety actually lowers the tone of every organ of the body.

My only thought is that at the be- ginning of any illness, however slight, every care should be given to build up the resisting forces of the body so as to prevent a slight ail- ment becoming a serious one.

This simply means resting in bed a little longer than may seem hec- essary, having your doctor visit you, even if the illness seems slight, and not resuming hard mental or phy- sical work too soon after an illness.

Good Jobs G0 Begging

(Regine, Daily Star)

Announcement by Mr. George Simpson, editor of official debates of the House of Commons, that iti-S becoming increasingly difficult to find reporters with the necessary experience, suggests that a number of young Canadians might profit m themselves take llp short-

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experience ; deal combination, a parliamentary reporter must ‘convert hsreeord of extemporan- ‘eous speaking with its inevitable ‘redundancies, transpositions, and ‘vcrbalwimperfections into terms appropriate to a, written record,

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as far as possible the exact phras- ‘ing of the speaker. Despite the ‘common belief that the unabridged i ‘House of commons, Mr. Simpson ‘says that few public speeches, de- however agreeable to the ear or clear to the understanding, can bear literal transcription.

One of the cruellest pranks a newspaperman can play upon a public speaker who disputes his re- port, is to print an exact verbatim record of the speech as it actually was given.

Dr. Samuel Johnson, listening behind a screen in a bookseller’; shop to the gossip of parliamen- tary members was the first par- liamentary reporter. 'I‘he profes- sion is an honorable one and fglrly well paid. Most newspcpermen seem in prefer the smeel of print- ers’ ink and the excitement of mllilill! lip a new paper each day to the tedium of listening to par- liamentarians and dressing up Llfilir speeches into readable m‘.

Motherland will join this procee- sion. When that timecomes Oah- ado will be able to place in the Empire pool of resources and pot- entialities as great a contribution as any other part of the Empire and a greater ctmtribution than moat parts. '

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(Regina. Daily Star)

A Star reader has been making some enquiries about Illcyuu. the famous British insurance concern that for two and a half centuries has been the centre for maritime information and where it is popul-

GLAIING OAI. LIGHTS

Sin-I think it verv- dwell" the wgy motorists drive in this kovince and never dim i315" lights. On Sunday nishi ‘Wllw 1 was coming in from the country I met aicar on its side in the ditch- 1 gtgpped and the owner of the car said a ear had passed. that ths driver had not dimmed the lights and their litmus elm blind- ed him. It is the some way all along the roads, meeting horses and people walking and the car lights lust blind you on the road. Then we wonder why there are so

drivers should dim their lights. I dim my lights but there are very few who pay the compliment back. 1 am. Sir. etc. CAB DRIVER. _____Z______ BOARDING HOUSE BATES

gll-rwe are day by day reading of the world wide depression and hard times that exists, which in- deed we all know and feel even in our own favoured "Garden of the Gulf," where ere arcfew of the wealthier class and very many more who find it hard enough to make both ends meet. A mat many of our people, farmers and others,

every eflort, every sacrifice to send their eons and daughters to Prince of Wales, St. Dunlltonll, and busi- nese colleges, as the case may be, in Charlottetown. but lfind it imposs- ible with money so scarce and ev- erything the farmer produces cut down to the lowest figure, to pay the high cost of boa-rd demanded in the City. So we must needs keep the boys and girls at home. Some few years ago, when prices were‘ good and board reasonable, we had a chance. Then hotel and private board went up, "soared," and we were told it was because every com- modity was so high, and of course at that war time it was so. But my object in writing this is to inquire why in all common sense now that all commodities, flour, potatoes, meat, eggs, and in fact everything eatablc is down to rock, bottom prices, why do the hotels and board- ing houses continue to exact exor- bitant prices. We may be told that the hired help is so expensive, but why do the proprietors pay such wages when at this crisis we are all

fair living wage and no more. We are all proud c! Charlottetown, our fair Capital, and we naturally look to it for educational purposes, and needless to say we very much enjoy our visits to the city for business or pleasure, but I am of the opinion that if the hotels and boarding houses continue their prohibitive prices, the people throughout the

shorthand ability with news-‘

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hall and the other “infernal (On-“art record of the speeches in the

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country will perforce ‘have to stay at home. But may I ask, is it wise,

outside people population of the Province?

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To hollow out the sea; Ride aatride a seabirds back, Nor ever be ‘ Afraid to raid the nests of gulls In the shy places of the rocks; Nor slow to draw music from The fluted comb. Spread a bed of gathered down From dandelion clocks; Scorn not the thorn whercon there grows The everlasting rose. Do not you ufeur to spin A thread to catch the air, Nor lock to pluck the golden broom On the high ledges where The taro‘ birds there do preen and ' plume Themselves above the boy. Nor fail to uil a coral boot Out to moot the day At dun of down: And may Your cyo dowry Whatever there‘ lllalllie Between the groan loo and the sky. —A. L. Howie in the New Stoicman and Nation.

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(nation-usual Prone) mlroltr; Gwmllny, September g-willpebp ,m'ade entirely of glue fable-latent product of o

glass factory at Jlouscho. The new product is durable, washable, and guaranteed not to feds.

many car accidents. I think all car‘

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glad (or should be glad) to get a‘

arly _, ’ that one can insure anything. In fact our reader wondered if the western Canadian crop could be insured at Lloyd's. Dcubtless it could—but at a price. Lloyd's insured thellmgllsh Cha- nel against against the "risk" of being defeated by Gertrude Ederle and paid Gertrudes papa, $100,003 -in return for his $25,000 premium. Lloyd's though a corporation, does not do any insuring itself. It is an association‘ of underwriters who meet to place risks and rein- sure. Because the founders o.’ the corporation as far back as 1689 met at Edward Lloyd's coffee house in Lombard Street, I.ondon, to tran- sact buslness, the corporation be- came known as, and has retained the name of "Lloyd's?

Farmers in England do insure at Lloyd's against drought risk- which .is not heavy in England Cloth merchants insure aguins‘ sudden changes of fashion. Rae: course owners and boarding houte keepers insure against rain. Wine merchants insure against the risk of prohibition coming in. One chap with a nervous complex for 6d got a policy for one thousand pounds against the risk of St. Paul's Cathedral falling.

One man—a Canadian, too-BM a policy against the risk of strikin" his wealthy mother-lu-law fro." whom he had expectations. I Quebec couple with ahlstory c’ twins on both sides of the family took out a policy against the risk of twins. They were to get $5,000 for twins, $10,000 for triplets and $20,000 for quadruplets. Lloyd's won. The couple have three children-all singly born. - ~ -

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Nature was generous to him and he was presented ‘with triplets. The underwriter refused to pay, hold- lhg that he had only ill-slur" ‘against twins. Hence the cautiv ‘of the Quebec couple in stipulatb for the indemnity .or triplets Ill‘. ‘quadruplets. f Policies are not- issued as ‘Blllllil ling chanc:s. Lloyd's has ver} csmpleic statistical records and the premiums bear a relation to 1h; law or posibilities.

Like The Ostrich

(The Monetary Times)‘

Despatches from New York 0W1‘ the week end, contained ii"? new‘ ‘that the United States Farm BORN had agreed to trade 25.000400 ibushels of wheat. held by its Willi“ Stabialization Corporation for 1,- 050,020 bags of coffee held by ills Brazilian government. The move in ‘one wa/y. is a return to the system of barter which obtained between ‘countries over a hundred years e80 but whether it will have. the d9" sired effect or not remains to b9 iseen. Just how the plan will work

with or for the best interests of the city, |out is something that time alone’ ‘ to thus debar the hand work and train themselves who. for the most part make up the to be rather difficult to see lust

will tell. On the surface it seems

where the advantage is going to be. True, tho Republic of Brizil Will have a. stock of wheat which it did not have before and the Ulliifiili‘ States government will have B. stock of coffee which it did not have before, but the available world supply of either commodity will not be reduced one iota by the move. In fact it would seem that the United States Farm Board ls only adding to its troubles. In the first place it is evident that the price which the Board is accepting for its wheat is in the neighbor- hood of 60 cents per bushel as the 25,000,000 bushels will be worth

. $12,500,003. Some months ago it was

stated that the boardmad purchas- ed in the neighborhood of 250,000,- 000 bushels at an average price of 92 cents per bushel, If these figur- es ‘are correct the board stands to lose at present valuations $10,- lio0,‘l00'on the transaction which of course will be modified one way or another when the coffee is actu- ally sold. 'l‘hut, of course, cannot take place for quite a while yet u under the terms of the deal the board promises not to begin selling coffee until September, ‘i032, and at the rate of 82,500 bags g month it will not finish selling until Janu- ary, i934. Hence the investment of the United Status in wheat as far as the 25,000,000 bushels is con- cerned becomes s frozen asset. More than this the Farm Board is MW in the coffee trade as well as the grain trade. There is strait- ifliil‘ some uivanillo in diversifi- cation of holdings of securities, l! these are well selected. and app». sntly the Board thinks there is "m! “violin lu diversification of commodities, whether they org well selected cr not.

The wheat sent into Brazil will presumably displace an equal quan- tity which would have been bought

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from the Arsentliie or Canada p°5' sibly and this in turn will come out. on the ‘world market in 00m- petition with United States. Cana- dian, Australlan and Russian wheat. So that while the Farm Board gets this quantity of wheat off its hands, it does not 8st rid of it entirley, as it still is a. factor in the world markets and thereby defeats to some extent the dblect with which it was first bought some months ago. In this connec- tion it is to be noted that there i8 no restriction placed 0n the sale of wheat by the Brazilian Govern- ment aa is the case in the coffee to be taken over by the United States government.

How much better it would have been had this wheat and more of the Board's holdings been sold to China on long term credits or even give it to her or to other nations where food supplies are scarce. Had it been given to the unemployed in the United States it would have re- lieved much distress and would ihave strengthened the wheat mar- lkets considerably. It is lust this big supply of over 200,003,000 bush- ela of wheat owned by the Grain Stabilization Corporation and over- ihanglng the world that is one of ‘the weakest spots of the whole ‘grain market today. -

While this exchange qf t- mmod- ities may be termed barter or by any other name, it can only be re-

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Joan, the city girl, went for " brief spring holiday in the country. After a while she become aware ‘ a young farmer who was payifll; "- his attentions.

Ono moonlight evening, as ti!!! were strolling across a mead”. they saw s. cow and a calf rllilililll

into the girl's eyes. " he exclaimed poeiitlllli "that sight makes me waut to l the camel" '. The girl smiled. "All right, go ahead, then." replied. "It's your cow, isn't it?” ‘ --4i

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