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rue WHEAT PROBLEM

While reports of starvation have some from Rusvls. there are millions of bushels of unmarketable wheat in the world. The object of the World Wheat conference, recently concluded successfully under the chairmanship of Rt. Hon. R. B. Bennett, was to bring about some {onn of agreement between im-

porting and exporting countries and?

curtailment of world production to yorld requirements.

The August letter of the Canad- ian Bank of Commerce gives some information and striking statistics of the world's wheat acreage and wheat production covering the per- iod from 1885 to 1932, or for forty- seven years. These statistics show that surplus countries (Canada, the United States, Argentina and Aus- tralia) increased their production from an annual average of 690 mil- lion bushels in the five-year period from 1885 to 1890 to 1,638 million bushels in the five year period from 192'! to 1932, by well over 100 per cent. ¢ ‘ '

Mixed countries, self-contained or neither large exporters nor im- porters, increased their production trom the annual average of 1,184 million bushels to 1,984 million bu- lhels. These countries included Russia, parts of Eastern Europe, lndfa, South Africa, New Zealand. and parts of South America.

Deficit or importing countries in- creased their production from B89- million bushels to 758 million bush- els. These countries are Franco, Italy, Germany, United Kingdom, Scandinavia, Belgium, Netherlands and Switzerland. I

1: will be seen that world pr-ol ductlon as far as returns are avail- sble has increased 1n the forty- seven year period from 2,543 million bushels to 0.380 million bushels, or by rather more than 70 per cent., which of course is a much hgher ratio than the increase of the con.- suming population. even allowing for the fact that wheat has largely taken the place of oats, barley, rye and buckwheat as a food for humans in Europe and America and to some extent has also taken tho place of rice in Asia. and Africa. Hence the wheat problem, in which Canada is so greatly concerned as having the largest wheat surplus of lny country in the world.

PRESENT PROSPECTS "

In a quarterly survey or Business Conditions the Monthly Review oi’ the Bank of Nova ‘Scotia has this to sayr

After a. period of almost four years, in which the patent chron- icler of events has been obliged to record conditions of. on the whole, ever-increasing gloom, it is with relief that he is at length able to prcstnt the reader with the fact of

ago. This relative improvement in the prices of farm products (in the use of wheat. the advance has been much more ,,. ed than for the index as s whole) should do much to mitigate the unfavourable effect; o! short grain crops in Wes- tern Canada.

The upward movement has been

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Notes By The Way

“Friends of Empire Market-Int" is the title of a new orsanlwtiva formed in London to advance the intermts of trade within the Brit- lsh mpire, and its object is to 1111 the breach made by the abandon- mmg 9; the Empire Marketing Board. The formation cf such a body is evidence of the intention of British Peoples to dra/w closer to- gether in matters of trade, and as such it is an encouraging sign of the times.

“If Gandhi continues to go on any more hunger strikes he will be held responsible for the inaibil- ity o: the nat.'ons to dispose of their surplus wheat. And if he continues to dress as lightly as he does, he will be blamed for the cotton crisisfl-Le Devoir.

general throughout the Canadian economy. 1t is notable, however,’ that a more pronounced rise has occurred in the Index of Stock] Prices, rather than in the lndices] which more nearly represent the ac- tual condition of businm. I i

LUNAR PERSPECTIVE

Many have wondered why the moon looks larger nearer the hori- zon than while it is higher in the sky. Sir William Bragg, in “The Universe of Light" recently pub- lished in London, supplies the answer. Sir William says: “Uncorr- sciously we adopt a different scale for the measurement of objects in the sky, according to their d‘stance from the zenith overhead. We see clouds floating towards the hori- zon and shrinking in their apparent dimens-l while they db so. An aeroplane becomes smaller and smaller as it moves away, the sub- tended angle decreasing continu- ously, and it is s. mere speck when it disappears behind a distant hill. But the moon does not change its subtended angle in this way, and when we see it close to the horizon we measure it on the scale which we have learnt to associate with that part of the sky; and so it looks enormous. If we saw an aeroplane rising albove the horizon from be- hind a. distant village, having the same size as when overhead, it would seem to be larger than the village itselLand would surely be terrifying spectacle. And yet that is what the moon does: so that them is nothing surprising in the fact, that it may look large, in spite of all our experience of its be- I havlour, and of our knowledge that it cannot really be any larger there than when it gets overhead."

EDITORIAL NOTES

1A. formidable task has just been undertaken by the Port of London Authority. This involves a thorough clean-up of the ‘Ihames estuary. It is stated that. sunk in many feet of river mud up and down the mouth of the London Thames there are at least 200 old craft of various kinds. These submerged derelict: are a danger to river traffic, and will now be sought out and carefully remov- ed. Neither socidenr. nor design ex- plains the existence of this sunken junk. They are small craft that have keen forgotten and left to swing with the tide at their moor- lngs until they rotted and became

I definite increase in general lrul- iness activity. For whatever may be the developments of the future,

the second quarter of the current year, the general level of business throughout the Dominion showed s distinct improvement.

The most significant feature has been, of course, the general rise in Wmmvdity prices, and the better Equilibrium obtained as bevweou the vari01l5 groups o1 prices-for the laps between basic commod" y prices and general wholesale prices on mo one hand, and the prices of Can. sdan farm products and the prices of manufactured goods on the oth- er, have been consistently narrow- ing.

Prom s strictly Canadian view- pclnt the better balance as between the prices of farm products and manufactured goods is ‘eqaecially important. It means, roughly, that

flwlv wsterlweed. A good many of these forgotten boats once be- longed 0o men who joined up for the war, and who will never return to sail them Allin.

Tho movement to elevate prices in the United states has resulted in increases is the price of the loaf of bread. and, following complaints from conmmera, the Consumers’ Council of the Agricultural Adjust- men-s Administration at Washington has taken notion to chart the rise. It is reported that the intervention has been succlaaful, but in some in- stances at the cost of an inferior loehfliiaiaanotherprobiemtobe ablated. The bskbrl who have increased their stsfls and raised

Le Messenger (Lewiston, Mainez) "If there are people who have rea- son to believe that study of the French language is a waste of

[time they would do well to cast

their eyes about them. They would see what great sums of money are being spent by the schools, colleges and‘ universities of the lJnited States for the teaching of French. More than that, in England, cradle of ‘the English language, all pupils undertake from six to nine hours of French conversation a, week, which is more than is being accom- plished in some so-called Franco- Amerlcan schools. And this year in England, there were 56,000 candl- dates for the French examinations, as against 4,000 for the German examinations."

Insects arc the only branch of animal life which is capable of dis- puting the heritage of the earth with mankind. Their behavior re- calls the questing curiosity of man. kind. They are the vectors of dis- ease and the attackers of human food and crops-sufficient evidence of their practical importance. The greatness of mankind's task is shown in that nearly 500,000 species of insects have been collected. dc. scribed and named, The 13mph Rvyal Society has had a. great Share in bringing order into this vast assembly of forms. but a. vast number of further insects still re_ main to be dealt with.

A recommendation to move 250,- 000 Jews out of Germany, settling 100,000 of them in Palestine, will be put before the eighteenth World 31mm QOIIETE-w. opened at Prague, in Czechoslovakia on Monday. This

recommendation would involve the

removal of almost half the Jewish population of Germany. The World Almanac for 1933 says that Ger- many has 564,379 Jews out of a total population of 62,348,782 per- sons.

It is a common and erroneous be- lief that kidnappers usually escape, but the fact is that since United States federal police have been paying attention to the racket few kidnapping mysteries remain. In more than 00 per cent. of the cases arrests have been made, and the expectation is that there will be convictions, for in nearly all such (asses the victim is able to identify 113s custodians.

The Soviet authorities do not rec- ognize any unemployment problem. Their difficulty has been met by the passport and depopulation de- cree of last December, January and Aprfi. These decrees divide the So- viet Union into restricted or first- class and unrestricted or second- class zones. Unemployed persons are classified as undeslrables and are not allowed to live in any of the ruwtrlcted areas. They also for. felt their food cards when they be- come unemployed. 1f they are dis- missed for no fault of them own they may retain their ration cards for fifteen days longer. Then, unnl they have obtained new employ. ment and new cards, they and their dspc4ients must retire to one or the second-class supervision until they can qualify for first-class citi- zenship.

Only two ships got past the rock of the sirens, but while Odysseus got past by binding himself to the mast and filling h’s sailors‘ ears with wax, the ship which carried Orpheus succeeded in passing be- cause the music of Orpheus was more beautiful than the music of the sirens. The way to meet tho challenge of bad music is not by withholding peoplo from it, but by providing something better.

A lone bandit is operating in,

their wages are now wondering how‘ they can mend more in their bus- ineab and not ‘ crease their charges. . Perhaps, suggests the Montreal

what the farmer sells has a. great- er value in terms of what he buys

the“ you?

C “ smneone may advise them how to operate their plants without

Montreal who makes his male vic- tims remove their trousers before he leaves the raided store, He knows enough of the shrinking vio- let nature ofithe lords of creation to realize that not one of them would rush out on the street in pur- suit unless flrst garbed in his ne-

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WATER. AND SALT IN SWELIJNG DUE T0 A FALLING HEART

One of the symptoms of a. heart that is besinning to fall is swelling of the hands she feet, particularly the feet, due to accumulation of water.

Naturally the patient desires to drink water and other fluids but re- rtrains himself thinking that too much water in the system will only <lncrease the amount of swelling in I the feet, abdomen, or other parts of

the body.

Drs. I. Harris and R. Mannie, Lon- don, undertook some experiments to learn the effect of large doses of

‘ salt and water in patients with this i

PUBLIC FORUM

This column ll OIOI NI’ "l nonunion by correspondents s: question of interact. The m, m. Guardian dose Mg necessarily endorse the opinions of rnlpnudento-

MR. HYNDMANS LETIEB sh-__w_ .1. O. Hyudmanb letter in Saturday’! "Glllmm" h“ n° doubt been read with both 111W?“ gnu approval by _Prince Edward

Seams And Sones

(3,543, in the Winllifll 1""! Press)

When in doubt the practice seems to be to lecture on poetry. Th9 incest to raise his voice is 1". L. Lucas, who has been 898111118 b9- Iore the British Academy on "The Criticism of Poetry." M11111: that "gust body that there isn't. any

now; to all those who have got their cflorts artistically placed on bro-xi expanses of nice, thick paper

Islande s svnerally- All W!" w” that ‘the $1.00 charm for csrrylns automobiles from and $0 "l9 mainland is excessive, and that gvsry possible snort should be made to have that figure reduced. u My, Hyndman suggests, to 81.00 per individual trip.

‘rho two other matters referred m, viz: the uncomfortable railway passenger cars from Sussex to Tbrmentin; and the dusty high- ways on the Island are, like the high ferry charge, decided deter- rents to our tourist trade. whim

only to have some smart aleck as- sert that the volume lacked the authentic lyric 11°00»

‘Is there." airs Mr. Lucas; "a single law of literature. a sinflll principle IOX‘ writing poetry. a slnsle canon for criticizin it, about which a. congress of our critics would agree?"

It isn't recorded that Mr. mess paused for a reply. He had his answer all ready and it is "No." But why pick on critics of poetry? Is there any kind of a congress on anything from scan-ls to sonnets on

might be made of great 11118110111

, sw'elling due to a failing heart.

i First, they put 26 patients on a lstandard or ordinary diet for one .' week.

The second week, they gave large quantities of fluids but no salt.

l The third week they gave large f quantities of fluid again but gave ; also about one ounce of salt daily. l‘ Some of the patients were given a l small quantity of liquids-about - two glassfuls daily-and a diet in l which the ordinary amount of salt i, was used; later on. a small amount ,' of fluid-two glassfuls-and no salt. l In other patients the effect of ' large quantities of fluid and no salt, i was compared with small quantities ' of fluids and no salt.

All sorts of measurements of pres- ‘surc, the haemoglobin, the sticki- i ness of the blood, the alkali reserve, ' were made, and the results carefully examined. .

What did these physicians learn from this very complete test as to I water and salt in their effects upon I the swelling of feet and other parts due to a falling heart?

They conclude that salt and water have m unfavorable effect upon the system and increase the swelling, and if given in sufficiently large quantities greatly increase the amount of liquid or water in the blood as compared to the number of corpuscles. The use of large quan- tities of water alone, without the salt, has not very unfavorable ef- fects as far as the swelling is con- cerned, but causes an increased con- centration oi! the blood.

One discovery was that in this type 0i‘ swelling the kidneys could not throw afl’ the salt in normal amounts.

When Morgan Became An Ally_

(Ottawa Journal)

A bcok Just published in New Yorie-“Mlmxrs of Wall Street" -- brlngs out a remarkable Anglo- American incident at the out- break of the Great War. A few hours after Great Britain had de- clared war, Sir Cecil Spring-Rice, then the British ambassador w the United States, called the late J. P. Morgan on the telephone,

fcrence. A few hours later, in the seclusion of the library of the Morgan home, in New Yon-k City, the ambassador presented the Bri- tish case, said that Downing Street

arranged for an immediate con--

value to the Province, with its won-

which there would be unanimous agreement among the delegates? And if all the critics did agree

derful sea beaches, cool summer months, comfortable hotels, and beautiful scenery.

There is, however, s. further mugs for complaint that Mr. Hyndman chatted to mention. "i=1 the exceedingly slow rate 0! t!"- e1 on thg C. N. R. on this side of Mcncton, and particularly on the Island itself. The following figures will illustrate what I refer to: Toronto to Montreal: Miles 333.8, hours 8, minutes 00, miles per hour 41.73.

Montreal to Moncton: 653.0. hours l9, minutes ' 25, miles per hour 33.58.

Moncton to Tormentine: miles 73.5, hours 3, minutes 15, miles per hour 22.61.

Borden to Charlottetown: Miles 42.2, hours 2, minutes 5, miles per hour 20.29. , Charlottetown w Tisnlshr Miles 115.2, hours B, minutes 49. miles per hour 13.09.

The time lost at junction points. Moncton, Sackville, Tormentine and Summerside, is not included- ln the above as travelling hours. It may not be generally known, but there are parts of Europe. Pi"- nonlar-ly in France, in which the rails of the steam lines are being torn up altogether or are being used only for slow freight, while the railway companies run busses and express trucks on the high-

would the Poet then be sure that his DPOW'B laurels were everlasting?

cflticlsm. Which i5 891118 to be bll '

One critic's opinion might be a majority against a. hundred hays, and one critic's negative might be damnation against the plaudits of a multitude. Congresses of critics someway arent so hot when im- mortality is waiting in the wines- tlon to the excellent judgme it and artistic ability of those gentlemen who superlntended the arrange- ment of the exhibits and interior decorations of the main huildink- To Mr. James Paton, the President of the Association, and Mr. S. A. McLeod one of the efficient D1-. rectors, t be awarded the palm for the, beautiful enseMile result- ing from s well-executed planning of detail.

Entering the main building and ascending the stairway to the left. and taking s. position in the centre of the gallery, facing south, one was entranced by the appearance‘ of the lower floor. The two cen- tral rows of tables contained prob- ably the finest, largest and most varied display of fruits ever seen in the month of August at any Provincial Exhibition held here in the past. (It must be remembered that the larger fruits do not] ma- ture until well on in September.)

ways at from 35 to 40 miles per hour. Such o plan would, of course. call for full width asphalted roads. If the Ottawa Government is pledged to build the east end of the National Highway across this Island, which I presume would mean from one end to the other, why not suggest to them, as own- ers of the Canadian National Rail- ways, that the Railway Company be given control of all bus travel and public carriage by trucks, in exchange for the building and maintenance of such roads as they might require for these purposes: or our Provincial Government might share the cost of maintain- ing ths roads, which would be less than the upkeep of clay roads as at present.

This plan would sol-n three of our present problems: 1. lhsty roads, 2. Slow passenger travel, 3. Blow express and mail carriage. The great saving that would result on the railway would, I believe, in

wanted an answer to one question. “Would Mr. Morgan lend all his power and force, financial and commercial, actual and potential to the Britfsh Government?" The matter of contracts and commiss- ions could be taken up later. Morgan answered simply "1 wl1l;" and that was all. The am- bassador and the financier shook hands. There was not the exchange of a letter, not a scratch on a pad. ‘The greatest financial arrange- ment in history had been consum- mated by a sentlemens agree-

MONTEREY

We were not many-we who stood Before the iron sleet that day- Yet many a gallant spirit would Give half his years if he then could Have been with us at Monterey.

Now here, now there, the shot, is hailed

In deadly drifts of fiery spray,

Yet not a single soldier quailed

When wounded comrades round them walled

Their dying shout of Monterey.

And on-stlil on our colu kept

Through walls of flame its wither- ing way;

Where fell the dead, the living stept,

Still charging on the guns which.

swept \ - The slippery streets of Monterey.

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