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CIT YTFCITICE

For some time there have been rumours of lack of discipline in i!" city police. General diaries have been made that the hands 0f the police are tied; that 03611008 60m- nlittod by certain citizens, who allegedly have pull with the City Council, are not proceeded with; and that the police themselves, or some of them, are not so sub- mlsaivo to law and order as the citizens have a right, to expect- Tilrre is nothing new in this. Such allegations have been mode in the past and are likely to be continued to be made in the future. General criticism is not sufficient for action In the part of the powers-that-bc. But when definite charges are made and specific information concern- ing them submitted it is the duty of the City Council to take action. In these circumstances the Council ls to be commended for ordering a public investigation into the con- duct of certain police officers. It is to be hoped that this action in fact: indicates that the Council will stand behind the Chief of Police in the fulfilment of his

duties and prevent any alleged 111-:

tereference in the carrying out ofiso many other!’ M,‘ Km‘ 18 no,

the law. Nothing is more calculated‘ to bring the law into contempt‘ than to have the suspicion of some ‘hidden hand" or “hands" coming‘ between the police in the executionl of their duty and the magistrate in the administration of the law. At the same time it is hoped advantage will not be taken of the public hearing to have a general "washing of dirty linen" in public. His Wor- ship the Mayor being a lawyer should keep the investigation with- in plescribcd limits.

THE CONSTITUTION

'1' o some people the word con- ,-:.1lltion has the same meaning illfi significance as “that blessed word Mesopotamia" had 0o the gofld old woman. Rt. Hon. Mr. Mac- Kcnzie King is one of the number. when he wants to give an exhibi- tion of self-lmportanco and regard for the public weal he insinuates that he is the guardian of the con- stitution. If he wants to make our flesh creep he launches out in l.‘ tirade against those who would threatm to tamper with the con- stitution. It will be recalled that during the 1928 election m. King made the constitutional question, the issue and won upon it. Mn: King is s very diplomatic politician, using words for the purpose of concealing his meaning, hinting, insinuating, suggesting but never actually declaring what he means.

. It will be recalled that in 1926 Lib-

eral politicians from one end of- Canads to the other declared that ‘ the British Government, through

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action, and it a mo‘: sittins o! the House on s WIN"! °1 f PYM‘ lege read the letter to which m9 Prime Minister had‘ referred. In this letter m. zinc bee" pointed out to mu ‘sync. "the 0W6“! General, the ‘gmvity of the situa- tion in h‘s being refused n. dissolu- tion and suggested, ‘that the Gov- ernor General oommillllf-lie with the Colonial Offioo and eofoum u: opinion from that ‘source as to his

course of action. Mr. K111i naturally does not wish the in- terpretation to be but "PW

this letter which Vit bears on its face. He himselfinaintlins that he had not sought to raise the constitutional issue by his recom- mendatlon to tbs Governor General to take his advice from Downins Street, but Mr. Bennett immediate ly replied that whatever Mr, Kin! intended to do or did do. his fol- lowers, as cited in the instance 0! the interview with the MIRROR Free Press, had seized upon the incident to nmlle s ' constitutional issue, and it was in OOB-ltqllm“ °$ this that Mr. King won his elec- tion in 1926. 1n this matter, as in

candid. He raised ‘an issue by 1n- neundo, allowed his followers to use it to inflame the electorate. and now when charged ~in the House with his filgrlnt disregard of recognized controversial ethics,‘ turns round and says “it wasn't me it was my followersif How like Mn; King this is. In the Jieauharlloisi scandal he adopted the same at-‘ tiiude. He benefitted politically‘, from tile Beauharnois contributions} and when faced - with ~ the un-' animous report of tbs-special com-l mittee in the Home of Commons“, turned round and said ‘It wasn't‘ me it was myfriendsl"

MUSKRATS 11v suitors:

Muskrata havebecome us great a

nu sance in Europe as skunks are reported to be in the western part apparently with of this Province. Curiously, too.

the difficulty experienced 1n both cases is due originally to the dmports- tion of the animals for. fur pur- poses, Both spec'es are known to be prolific breeders. Bel-e is u. his- tory of the muskrst nitration, "as given in an exchange: In 1905 three females and two males 1mm Cm- ads were placed uponian estate near Prague. So, rapidly did they breed that by 1914 their descend- ants had spread ioilocalitvies 00 miles distant. By. lm-nelrlyhalf of Austria. was ooveredlby‘ them, and towns such ‘as Vienna.‘ and Munich were invaded. ‘It, y... esti- mated at the time that. snout loo,- 000,000 musknis had established themselves in Europe‘, all descend- ants of the orignal fivef Without ‘rigorous control it is feared that the

Street, was interferring with the same menace may fin Great administration here. It was alleged Britain as on tilegcontinent, where

acting under

General. they have undermined rivers and instructions from canal banks and obstructed drain-

Dswnlng Strcet, had refused to al-lage by building dsihl.

low Mr. King to appeal to the country in a general election but had sent for Mr. Meighen to form s‘ government. In the House of Com- mons the other day Prime Minister Bennett referred to this and stated that the alleged interference on the part of Downing Street was called forth by Mr. King himself. Ha said "there are men in this House who went to and fro in Canada. in 1926 (and I look fairly at one of them who gllve an interview to the Manitoba Frce Press in which he speaks 0f dictatorial forces being used for the purpose of enabllnl England to trample upon the right of this country. and that Downing Street had taken the place of Ot- tawa and dominates‘ the situation in Canada, and that this parliament llad not been free to exercise its lgllt) butldosay thisii the people cf Canada had known of that cor- respondence as they should have the consfltutional issue that we have being hearing about ever since would not now have been talked

Measures for their have been introduced in Germany, Ain- tria, Norway, Sweden; and Switaer- lsnd, and in some vdilifloil special officers have been‘ appointed to‘ kill them. Rewards, are fpuluflol- their destruction. Land} Bcyilit Russia, on the otherare en- couraging their breeding N!‘ the sake of‘ musqullhdilrf-ihichdsia well-known was»: rt was with the esmeobjeet that animal wu introduced into ‘Greet Britain. but a number-of farmers who have endeavored to U306 the animal 1n I. have found it impoflibll,zto_ compote eco- nomically with “M1155 pf North animal or-with mo mor- mou; hordes now killed each you in mil-ope. _' ' k

Canadian milsktlts line ‘increas- ed so rlpidly in the; Old Country that a. Destructive Imported Ani- rnals Act has been passed by the British Parliament-specifically u» dcsl with them. Under, this Act an in»: m we: um: new“! N

MITES BY TIIE YMY

The Mo!!! prophecies mi the PM" °1 llllwrted foodstuffs were bound to rise have not been ful- filled. This is due 1n pI-rt to the fact that certain counties from which we purchase 59 percent, of W!‘ imports of food followed Great Brit“! 0" the 801d standard, and other gold countries had to adjust their prices to ours. But it is also due to the praiseworthy IQlf-fgg- traint of both wholesale and retail traders, who refrained from ex. piolting such opportunities as or- TEICd.—IIODdOD Daily Telegram.

To hays an ideal does not by any means ensure that one attains‘ to it, but it does make it probable that, if we have an ideal, though we may not attain it, we shall at- tain something higher than we otherwise should have reached 1f we had had no ideal. It is not all of us who can find pearls of great price, but none of us can find pearll of great price if we do not believe that such things exist. —Viscount Grey of Hallodon.

A native of India, a woman law- yer of some repute, now on a visit to the United States, warns the people of that country that Candi- hl is a fraud and does not repre- sent the vast majority of the peo- ple of her country. The British Empire is free to all but it is un- fortunate that it more or less openly countenances such trouble- makers as Gandihi and De Valera. —Moncton Times. -

We do not, says an exchange, concede that any man who enters the wild race for money, and who prostitutes the power of position, who sells his influence for mater- ial galn, has any place in the councils of the nation. ‘

Canadians have every reason in be proud of the position they oc- cupy fn relation to the coming Conference at Ottawa. Thirty years have elapsed since the ques- tion of mutual preferential trade within the Elllpire was first sug- gested and but little progress was made until ihc 1930 Conference was ilcld in Lolldon. At the Lon- don Conference Premier Bennett was a leading figure and though his plan was regarded by some of the Imperial statesmen as rather impractical it took hold on the great body of the people. as shown in the general election last year, and that the Government has come around to his view, in part at least, is evident from recent tariff enact- ments.

A county court Judge observed- solne surprise- that he had never known a. woman who could resist the feminine temptation of banging doors when she’ was in a temper. Then the iudge can only have known charm-

lng and sensible women. The sulky and brooding type never bang doors. They quietly and

morosely take their grievances in-

to another room and tllink up new ways of nagging. But the big- hearted. companionable woman, when the tumult within her de- mands a loud noise without, gets instant relief from a slam and a clatter that. shakes the whole house. Then she is herself agail.

The explosion has restored her bal- ance. Whatever it was that was disturbing her system has been got rid of. She is once more the pla- cid and affectionate friend and wife, No man should marry a woman who has not spirit enough and naturalness enough to bang doors when the mood 1s on her, andto bang them good and hard. -—Toronto Daily Express.

The ‘United States Government. over a long depression period, has steadily resised efforts to induce it to extend direct relief to the un-

employed. Washington despat- ches indicate. however, that s changed attitude is likely. Con-

sideration ls being given by Presl- dent Hoover to the possibility of having to extend a. Federal credit to municipalities whose finances are in such bad shape that unem- Plfiyment relief funds are exhaust- ed or nearly so. Chicago is cited as an example. If Mr. Hoover takes this course he will be follow- ing the Canadian example, for both Federal and Provincial Gov- ernments in this country have been co-operating with the muni- cipalities, on a direct relief plan for some time.

THE Ci-lA GUAAEIQN

FRAGMENTS 0F TONQILI"

You may be astonished when you learn that in a series of 400 cases where the tonsils had been removed, 300 cases were found to have frag- ments of tonsils.

There was a time when these fragments were blamed on the work done by the old family doctor, who used to simply cut the tonsLls out with a ‘snare’ leaving a coli-Sldernbie portion of the root of the tonsil still in the throat.

Can these fragments cause any harm or damage to the system? yes; It has been found that where these fragments have been removed that there has been a ‘striking im- provement’ in the symptoms of many patients. -'

Is the family doctor to blame for all these cases where fragments have been found, some time after the tonsils have been removed?

No: Drs. Normal ljeshin, and Samuel Pearlman, after an ex- haustive study, conclude that there is no method of removing tonsils that will guarantee the patient that there will not be some little new growth of lymphoid tissue at the point where the tonsil was removed. ft would seem that it is just the nature of sonle individuals to grow a little more of this tonsil like tis- sue, whereas other individuals once the tonsils are removed never have the slightest regrowth of tissue; not even a tiny fragment. 1f the usual operation of remov- ing tonsiis by the knife, carefully removing everyvpart of them, does not prevent fragments growing afterwards, what about the other methods by use of electric knife, or coagulating them by electricity? ' Every throat specialist including those who use these other two methods—electric knife and electric coagulation-advise that. the knife method is still the best as these other methods may dam back some infection beneath the scar timue. The patient still has the infection, and if surgery is used later the sur- geon has a difficult job cutting or clearing out this scar tissue. However where the patient is afraid of the operation, or where there may be other reasons for not using the knife, other methodsaare certainly much better than not re- moving infected tonsils. So don't be surprised if there may be a fragment of tonsil 1n your throat some time after operation. It is not likely that it will need to be removed, and even if that is found necessary it will not be a serious matter.

-wllut About The Wolf? '

(Ottawa. Journal) '11-“ mo“ hated of Canada: predatory animals. is the wll- H" 2mm are law. end- i"! w“ anyone can l mtmbff- um“ m" been csmpl-illll “'5' “d m.“ _ ‘- - (qt the purpose of C8- terminstini hm‘- °°'°mm°'i" with their bounties have been after

Yet, from the trapper‘! mint o1 view, he is one of the most vlllilbl! of fur bearing aIilmBl-i/Hle W" l! worth three times that of a moose and six times that of a deer. 1t is worth more to the traPPfl m“ m! bear, white black or brown. It is worth more than the mink or the raccoon, the skunk, the wilt‘. cat or the cougar. Although lower than it ha; been for years, the last market price reported to the 90111511011 Bureau of Statistics was around $14 and the skunk only $139-

Whether 1n number he is dimin- ishing or not is debatable question, although it is true that the timber wolf catch of over 7,000 last year was only about half that of two years before, and the prairie wolf take of over 21,000 was less than half.

That is, however, just the catch as recorded by the sale of pelts re- ported to the Domilfon Bureau of Statistics. n. is not an altogether reliable indication as to whether the wolf is increasing or diminish- ing, for he thrives in such game preserves as Algonquin Park where it is diff'cult to put him out of business. The records of the Bureau are now got for the most part from the provincial governments, where- as formerly they were Obtained direct from the various fur agencies and other trapping interests; the classification is not as detailed Is formerly. For example the Bureau has no record of grizzly bears taken last year, although it is known that some were killed. British Columbia. where mNt grizzlies are suPPOWl W loam, does not distiflllli-Bh in "8 reports between black, white, brown or grimly. They are just "bear." In Manitoba there is no distinction in the provincial report between the tmber wolf and the coyote. The catch of wolves in the season 1028-9 is recorded at 84,898, in- eluding coyotes. In the following year the catch was reported to be 40,209 andvllst year 28,253.

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ma, includinl MN‘ r ‘l’ tional labor organisation and W1’- mlnent court of international jus- tice, alnounts in 8330.311 W549 u" item came up in the House of Com- i mons, Mr. Bennett, 1n reply i» K questkvn as to bow the expenses 0i the League are allocated. Itltcd that the old may“ the lmtll union rates. Under that 8Y8"!!! 5 heavy burden was impelled “P011 Canada, but some adjustment-l l1!" been made, and now there is an er- bitrary allotment fixed by the De- partment of Finance of the Magne- A principle has been arrived at by which our share is almost thirty- five one-thousandths. Population was not regarded u a wimd N!!! on which to determine these contri- butions when the League was start- ed, The postal union arrived at certain understandings upon which were classified the different coun- tries, and our original contribution was made on that basis. It 111100!- ed on us a heavier burden than would have been the case if DOD"- lation had been the standerdbri cause we occupied s P063100 P!’ somewhat Ereater importwco. 11'0"! the standpoint of the lnternstionnl: Postal Union, than was indicated by, our population. Finally In "KEMP, ment was reached by which the cost was divided into 099 1-2 shares, our portion being 35 shares.

Graft In Chicago (Ottawa Journal) ;

The city of Chicago alnd the var-l ious municipalities of Cook county. in which Chicago is situated. spends each year the colossal sum of $850,- 000,000 to adminster the public:

The world will be amazed by the outcome of a famous murder trial Just concluded a‘. Honolulu, in the

white woman. was murdered by her friends. Following a prolonger trial, in which Clarence Darrow, eminent

of the British family of nations are

of Empire stress, so the article re- printed on another page today from the current issue of a. Glasgow monthly called the Scottish Stage will strike a responsive chord in Canada. It is a. friendly recognition that Scotland and Canada are alike in seeking artistic expression for their own individualities, especially through a genuinely national drama, and conveys the cordial appreciation of a leader in the Scottish Nation- al Theatre movement for Canadian effort in that direction,

There can be few, if any, in this country who would wish to give up the Dominica's glorious heritage of British drama, but there must be many who feel, at the same time, that there is no reason why Can- ada should not develop her own na- tive geniu; and endeavor to make an original contribution, some day, to the world's art, in her own new and fitting form.

The Scottish National Theatre and the Scottish Community Drama Association have set a fine example in this regard, by their aims, their methods. and their achievements. So much the more deeply gratifying is it, therefore, to receive from those who have already progressed so far on the road we hope to travel, this generous praise: "It is impossible to read ‘Six Canadian Plays‘ without being conscious of a new, fresh breathqblowing upon the drama of the world."

Canada And Scotland| Friendly ties with other members‘

particularly welcome in this time‘

Chicago counsel, appeared for them. the accused, four citizens of the United States, were sentenced t0 ten years’ imprsonment, with hard labor. One of the convicted persons is a woman.