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. SATURDAY, OCTOBER M, 1984

A Sorry Substitute

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'11 As a substitute for representation in the new KING Cabinet——of which there is none for Prince Edward Island, either with or without i§v)0l'lfOli0—PRlihlll-IR KING states that in his opinion “the representation of the Province -would_be effected in a more satisfactory man- ner if a member from that Province were ap- pointed as one of the parliamentary secretaries t0 work in association with a Minister of one of the departments.”

The duties of the proposed parliamentary ‘secretaries are fully explained in today's de-

i spatches. They are clearly those of an underling.

They give an opportunity of serving a political apprenticeship by doing the chores of the niin- ister in charge. The appointees will have no seat in the Cabinet and consequently no voice what- oricr in 11w gnrvrnmrnt.

\\"hat thcn did PREAIIER KING mean by say- ing that this I'ro\'iiice's representation “would be effected in a more satisfactory manner"_ by such an appointment at the next session of Par- liament, rather than by a seat at the council table?

Could anything be more ridiculous? Could there be a more contemptuous way of acknow- ledging MR. A_ E. blAcLzAiVs application for the portfolio of Minister of Fisheries!

Nor will UR, IVIACLEANE friends derive much satisfaction from the complacent assurance of the Halifax Chronicle (Liberal) that “the new cabinet is properly representative, affording a voice in government for all interests and all parts of the country, leavi g no important group of Canadian people 1017/1013 adequate representa- tion at the council chambpr."

Our "adequate representation" at the KING IGovernment council table is at present nill. And ‘It will still be niII, however many under-secret- lrics I\IR. KING appoints.

The Situation In Aroostook

_ The past few years have seen particularly hard times for the potato industry; but few, even of the largest growers in this Province, realize what the effect has been in Aroostook County, the most famous and most prolific potato gro\v- Trig section of the State of Maine. Losses there ire counted iii thousands, hundreds of thousands, and even millions of dollars. The situation is described vividly in a series of articles now run- ning in the Boston Simdoy Port, which sent a

cial correspondent there after Congress, on

uly 23 last, had passed the Wanner! Bill for the control oi potato production.

The reporter found in Aroostook “veritable

~ plupers living in mansions that remain from the

lush days of yore; men who once reckoned their wealth in hundreds of thousands, with scarcely tobacco-money in their 10-year-old pants." He found “towns, once rolling in wealth, with all their residental streets full of ruts and pock- rnarked with holes because citizens couldn't pay their taxes." There, in the champion potato dis- trict of the world, ‘he found only two towng in the whole section able to open their schools on their own money this fall. The other towns, all except Easton and Madawaska, will have to pay their teachers with script when the schools do open, and some of them haven't redeemed last year's script yet.

\Vatcl-iing the line of trucks unloading at the railway tracks at Presque Isle, in the heart of the County, the reporter's first impression was that hcre was enormous wealth in the making; here. at any rate, there could be no depression. Thcii a potato grower spoke. “Did you ever before in your life see so many people so darn busy losing money?" he asked. The grower pointed to a truck just turning out of one of his own ticltls: on it were 2o barrels of fine No. i potatoes, tit for the table of a king. “Know Iiow much I could get for them today, if I was to sell them right now, and I_\vill have to make immediate sale of enough to pay my harvesting costs? 'l‘oday the price, delivered at the track, is 45 cents a barrel. . . . Each and every barrel of those potatoes cost me a dollar more than that ‘.0 raise. livery time a truck chugs out of the field. I've lost $20. And more than a thousand truckloads will go to the warehouse. And I'm only one of 4.500 growers, l lot of them much larger than I am."

“\Vhy," asked the reporter incredulously “should anyone raise a crop on which lie will lose money P" The explanation given was simple. Every farmer hopes to make money. He invests SO-llltlCfl capital in fertilizer, seed, mortgages, tools, taxes, etc. If he doesn't harvest his crop, lifloses everything lie invested. If he gets some return on the llilfVtfiSf, lie loses less money than if lie quit. The same economic motive promotes the manufacturers to sell even below costs in order toFcut sure losses. Last crop, Aroostook County shipped 54.000 carloads of potatoes, 25o barrels tofl-the car, a total of 13,500,000 barrels, The pike on U. S. No. 1 table potatoes opened at 5o tor§5 cents‘ per barrel, quickly dropped to 35 and 4Qcents, and held at about that level until the fin: week of April of this year, when it jumped 5 cents to $r, stayed there a few days, and m1 m the former figure. The r934 crop

' m ‘barrels, 335 bushels, to the acre. ll-llme record which brought production cost

tcVbetiveen goeents and s11.» per barrel. ere,"~.olld?tltg-~Qr0wer, “you have it. Last th: potato ‘yilowm-Iof Maine took it on the fpbfiiflmflw. Where is there the industry .91 t? But wait a min- thll‘! t'| only what they on thi l they Ihipped. Thousands ,_ of lamb wow to the otlrch till?! I barrel, clnr lose of do

cents on each barrel.

“Even then, economic fate wasn't done hit- ting the potato raiser. Some say 6000 carloads, some say 10,000, dug out of the bins after the new erop_was planted early this summer, rotted and stinking, were spread out in the fields to dis- integrate or be plowed under. Putting everything together, the total loss for I934 was close to .‘$9,ooo,ooo. In the past six years, Aroostook County potato growers have lost $75,000,000. That's the tremendous gouge for some 4,500 men to assimilate; an average of about $17,000 each. Some of the larger growers have run behind as much as $i5o,ooo each.” Facts such as these——and many more could be cited from the Boston Port’: articles-will be a revelation to those growers in Prince Edward Island who, but a few weeks ago, were misled by political propagaiidists into holding the BENNETT Government responsible for losing potato markets.

Editorial Notes

Here 26,027 voters have no representatives in parliament, while 35,965 voters have four members. - 3K i€ 9K The unemployed are crying out for work- and getting sootlisayings from the Liberals. 9F, 9K 3K

Notes By The Way

A man after he reaches middle age learns that he cannot be 103l- cal. He knows when he gets up m the morning that he wlll probably have his leg pulled during the day and, when the moment arrives, he Wastes no time. He holds out hls leg and gets lt. over Wllh.—'I‘0l'0X1f.0 Star.

There are many people who be- lieve ‘that. a politician who achiev- ed eminence as a. pre-war radical and who retained ll. as a war auto- crat wlll flnd no appropriate piece 1n present-day politics; but veter- ans who stlll retain a walking-on part on the political stage wlll never admit that. they “lag super- fluous."

So much bu been ll-ld about. the mistakes and blunders of the so-called "younger generation" that it's about time to call out a few mistakes and blunders that. the older generation ls about to pre- sent to the unborn generations of the world. The present war mad- ness tliat a. lew men have arous- ed ln the world-Ahreatenlxig to throw all hope aside and to bring death and destruction to all clvlll- zatton-As surely not t0 be pencil- ed up to the younger generation.

The British elections will have a sort of local interest to us from the fact that Lord DUN- CANNON, our Governor-Generals elder son and heir, has been adopted National Conservative candidate for \\'cst Islington. He is just 22 years of age, but brainy and an accomplished speaker. We have been treated with contempt by Premier KING, Many electors were fooled by the Liberal propaganda—vote for SINCLAIR and LARABEE now, and one or other of them will re- sign in favour of Dr. CYRUS MAcMiLLAu who will be a member of the KING Government. Alas, and alack—~there is One born every minute! it 9K 9K

A Washington dcspatch tells of, a United States plan to “plough tinder a part of this year's potato crop." The planners, suggests an exchange, may be agricultural experts but they appear to be a bit hazy about just how potatoes grow in relation to the soil. '

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The great risk of conviction on unsubstan- tiated evidence is illustrated once more in the LABATT kidnapping case, One of the accused now serving 15 years imprisonment was positively idetified by Mr. LABATI‘ as his guard in the l-ilde-_ out. Faced with another man, self-confessed as

the perpetrator, Mr. LABATT admits that prev- iously he was mistaken, and that the new accused was really his guard.

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With the passing of “Uncle Ann-tun” HENm-zitson, the Rt. Hon. Ramsay bIAcooNALo, Lord Snowoou and I. H. THOMAS are practic- ally all that is left of the Independent Labour Party group that forced labour into polities and formed the first Labour Government. Mr. MAcnoNALn is now 69, and an active member of the BALDWIN Government, as is Mr. THOMAS, but Lord SNO\VDF.N is on the shelf and “out" with both Labour and RAMSAY,

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Circumstances alter cases even in that of imprisonment. Here we have had successful attempts of prisoners breaking out of jail; in Morrisburg, Oiit., the reverse has been the case, two menbroke in and stayed in: Two wandering hoboes wanted some place to spend a comfortable night so they smashed a window in the unoccu- pied jail and went to sleep in the unlocked cells. Constable CoLiGAN, on his return to the building, forcibly ejected them and then, on second thought, returned them to their chosen sleeping quarters and locked them in until yIEXl; day when they were further remanded.

Recently the official Japanese spokesman in Shanghai announced a Sine-Japanese four-point agreement. The four points. as summarized by one commentator, were: 1-—P0sitive co-operation between japan, China and Mancliukuo econo- mically and politically. 2- Joint action between these three states to extend aid to North China to sweep out Communists. 3—Early liquidation of all anti-Japanese activities in Central and South China. 4-—_Ioint action to curb all intrigue originating in China or elsewhere which is likely to (listurb North China or other parts of the country. The last point might be rephrased to say “Formation of a Sim-Japanese bloc against Soviet propaganda.”

A new type of concrete, so dense that a man can walk on it 2o minutes after it has been placed in molds without making any marks on its sur- face, was demonstrated recently by Mr. KARL P. BILLNER, internationally known concrete ex- pert. Ordinary concrete takes days to harden. Mr. BILLNER says his process is a “distinctly new_ departure in this important field," a vacuum method treatment. Recognizing that the amount of water required to obtain sufficient plasticity in the mixture is vastly greater than the quantity needed for the chemical effect of hydration." Mr. BiLLNi-in said, “I commenced experiments with the object in view of overcoming or largely reducing evil effects due to excess water.”

“You can't write Greek epics convincingly in an industrial age," Mr. RACHMILL LAVINB told a Montreal audience in the course of a. lecture on the development of Russian literature since the 1917 Revolution. This statement was by way of illustrating the MARXIAN view that art and literature arc not separate from life but grow out of the times, and that, far from being special individuals, living in a world of their own, artists and writers are shaped by their environ- ment. Acting on this principle, Mr. LAVINE demonstrated, the Soviet writers have developed a "socialist realism”; they are earnestly seeking the viewpoint of the masses; they feel that a worlgof art should foreshadow, in its reflection of the reality of today, what was coming in the future; they are trying to create a dynamic art. _But io this not of what political and commun-

The older generation plan the wars, the younger-the fittest and ablest-—of the younger generation are those who must. pay the prlce with their very lives. Every pos- slble means for murder and ter- ror has been perfected so that the chance of the commonest soldier l-s futile. He ls torn to shreds and scattered to the four winds-to redden tlie earth with his blood and to leave an endless stream of tears across the face of the ntoth- erliood of the world.

There l: no mystery which lrlps the imagination quite as strongly as the one which arises when o. ship sails out into the ocean and then vanishes without s. truce. Something about. the mental picture 0f a ship fighting her last fight in the darkness, her people dying without even l. chance to let. folk ashore know what; happened f0 them. puts a. cold hand on the uptne. One of the greatest of ouch modern mysteries ls that connect- ed with me Danish training shlp Koebenhavn, which sailed from Buenos Ali-es Ln December of 1928 and has not been heard from since. And the recent discovery of seven skeletons on a. lonely beach in southwest. Africa. may, at. lash clear up the mystery-at least 1n part. These skeletons are‘ believed to be those of certain menthol-s- of the Koebenhavns crew. The Danish government l5 conducting an investigation, and while the mystery may never be entirely solved, identification of the re- mains should at least dispel a. part of fir-and wrlte one moie tragic footnot, to the annals of the lea.

—Va.ncouver Sun. To the superstitious cures for whooping-cough recently mention-

ed in ‘Miscellany’ may be added

some curious ones found ln Portu- gal. One prescription ls: Mix ball- parlngs with a little tobacco and roll the mixture into a. cigarette. Dmp this at a civssroad without looking up, and the person who picks up the cigarette and smokes it. wlll take over the Illness with It. Another recipe ls to leave beside a. tree. bread to eat, wlne to drink, straw for s. couch, and a basin to wish In. You then pionounoe a little charm. calling on the illness to leave you. Then you run away without-looking back. The theory ls that the disease wlll be content to remain where it. has all the bod- fly comforts that. a man can need. An even stranger remedy ls still used tn Portugal for curing a sty. “In the King's name," cries the patient (although Portugal has been a republic for a quarter of a centuryJ "the house of my sly ls on flrel" And to trick the sly into hasbtning away to the scene of the supposed conflagratlon dry grass ls burnt and the affected eye held over the smoke-Manchester Guar- dtan.

The Englishman, we regret to say, has always been a fighting animal. Consider for example the speeches made recently by the stalwarts of the T.U.C. Was there ever such Jlngofsm? While the league of Nations is searching for a way to peace, our Trade Unionists are already proclaiming that. farce is the on‘y remedy. “Moral resolu- tions," their general secretary d9-

clared, "are no good; pious declar- ations of peace are ivastccl upon Mussuoltnl.’ And. again, "There is only one way to deal with a. bully, and that. ls by the use of force." Sir Walter Cltrlne admitted that sanctions In all possibility lnvolv- ed war-"It may mean war," he said, "but that Ls a thing we have to face." A blg wru- to prevent a small war, such ls the pacific eon- oeptlon of peace! Little wonder that Mr. George Lansbuiy wrlngs his hands over his colleagues, and pro- tests that. whatever they may say and do, he himself wlll never fights-London Morning Post.

It ll Interesting to note that the German press expresses admiration for Great Britain's almost single- hlnded fight for the perpetuation: of the League of Nations. One Berlin journal asserts that the Brlt- ish forellfl Dolley ls the moral poop of the league. It u ldded by German writers that the Belch ls Intent. upon keeping out of thQ ItlllAn-Ifbhldplln war. Germany, lt l: insisted, ll determined on m- mltnlng neutral. All this ll Inter- esting because of the fears express- ed ln some quarters that tf Brltoln and France were to become engag- ed In armed oonfllot with Italy. Hitler mlglu. calm the ooculou to enter the my by Mussollnfs alde. We have never fdltllllh thll. there was unyrealprospectofmchl cltutruphe-l catastrophe which would ineln l Ian-colon or world Ilh-Bohlfllte.

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The Aberhart Scheme

(Winnipeg Free tress)

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24. Are the non-negotiable certi- ficates not. contrary to the Bank act?

Answer-There an two excel)- tlons noted to the Bank act:

(s) A cheque on some chartered bank

(b) A promissory note, blll of exchange, bond or other undertak- lng for the payment of money made or delivered by the maker thereof to his immediate creditor, and not designed to circulate as money or as s. substitute for money-

A non-negotiable certlflcaleils an undertaking for the payment of money nmde or delivered by the maker thereof to immediate creditor, and not designed to clrcu- late as money or as s s‘ bstltuoe for money. Negotlablllty ls an essential characteristic of money or script. Any understaklng for the payment of money delivered by the maker to his lnunedlate creditor whlch ts non-negotiable therefore, cannot be contrary to the Bank let. ~(Notwltlistandlug Mr. Aberblrfs statement tn this auswei- lt ls certain that the right. of the Abeihurt government to issue these non- negotlnlile certificates wlll be chal-

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REMOVING TONSILS n! rm: "ELECTRIC" METHOD

It ls now agreed that when an lndlvldual has a-sore throat fre- uently with a tonslllltls more or less severe, the tonsils should be re- moved.

When the tonsils must. be removed it sometimes happens that the pat- ient Ls afraid of the operation or nls physician tthlnks tt. unwise for lilm to undergo an anaesthetic,

It ls for these reasons that re- moving or destroying tonsils by electricity has become popular, and most of the physicians equipped with the electric apparatus used for destroying tonsils are kept busy at this work. Of course the patient has t0 have a number of treatments be- fore the tonsils are destroyed.

However more than the apparatus ls needed, for surgeons using both the surgical and the electric or elec- trocougulatlon method state that. “it requires as much or more skill and knowledge of the throat structures

longed ln the courts. And there ls n well-defined oplulon that tho issuance of those certificates would come wltliln the prohibition by the lllnk art of instrument; “designed to circulate as money or as l sub- stitute for money." Tbll vlew is tllsputei‘. by lllr. Abenblrt ln l pam- phlet entitled "The B.N.A. Act and Soelll Credit." After making what purports to be l legal argument, he makes these observations: "Whe- ther the people of tbtl province would consent to have the wlll of

the majority rendered inoperative by loosely Jointed constitutional machinery, ersteppln: its proper functioning though influences or! l sordid nature brought to bear upon our good government, remains to lie leen. Especially wlll this be the cane when the only objection is one of constitutional lntbnrvlty being intruded lnto a realm of unneces- sary, interference?)

25. How would you flx. the Just Price on the various grades of wheat.

Answer-In the same way as you would flx the Just Price of the various grades of eggs. or any other artlele, or upon servlces- The 811M would simply mean a lllslht reduc- tion of the commission on turnover of production.

aa-rr the prloes of goods were all fixed ln what way could lndt- vldual enterprise manifest itself?

Answer - Individual enterprise would manifest itself in the char- acter of the eervloe rendered the neatness and sanitation of the store and the care of the goods, the ability shown ln salesmanship.

(The render may profitably medit-

nta on the dullness and stagnation

of ln economic order ln whleti the only remaining scope for lndlvldull onterprlsc" in, ls Ill grated in this answer. keeping the ooh of l 811"!‘ clr-nn and its shelves tidy.) 2'7.What effect would the prin- ciples of Social Credit have upon advertising?

Answer-There would be a de- clded decrease ln the expenses of advertising. Advertising would be more real. It; would, for the most; part. call attention to the qualities of new goods offered on the market.