t a

‘v1.2a

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built to icrre Canadian trade ~ t

not sufficient reason to IOIIiPiVli-“PI

_ , ‘Inc

eegiiivENTY

1115i W

President-W. (heater. i. Sit-Lure. M. I‘.

herrNiiry-Lleut. l-Jilltur um] lliuniging

HARLOTTETOWN GUARDIAN

Vlrr-Prenldunl-J. R. Ilurnetl fill. ll. .\. Rllwliinllnn, ll. R.

0. Director-J. R. liurnett

Auorlnte l-Idltoro-Frank Wallin- and D. K. (‘urrio

llurnlng Unity lftlllllllll] Hill?» $3.00 prr year (In iulvuner) ileliu-reil.

$0.50 per your (in utliunre] nizi

llcal in (‘znintlu nnd United Struts-s.

~ H "The, (Ircaf Ifcfrug/d!"

The local Liberal orgarrs

ganizationr, in this Province fr. ""2105:

btitiresis. it F!"Jf~.".'.'5’."1 t’: L": 3 Ln the election of 1927f At that time, l“~'i:!".lll‘~_J i’) our ciiiitr-iii}'1"\v“|r_i', pm- n niiizii isuc, hi4‘ -i'r~"l l-v ‘ail riglu tlimlzing pn-"i-

iiiui‘ lllll vac: f: ivcir.

yile“ '1 vcc \'.i\t)__i'|l|lfl!~"11 h. WM": xirfhoais; they were beyond _the | w. l‘l iivrr ilii- \!t'[iiil-» or the

.,_.

lllqllltLUS Lou-Jr zizif- fiv. 0a" iliiu the Liberal party in . . ill}; t>:.".lir-.ac<-ti the liquor con-

trol {mlufv and ha.

ZlllP-iil‘ til,"

"min aw‘, “l. ~

lit". I-viwlwr

("Jilici-t In ifS that nu furth-

_. ' \ m‘ Uillllliﬁili’, isfreqittrgd,

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1930

lit was declared defense cf its party": ﬂbllllfiOlllllCllﬁ of pro- hibition lri Ontario will be read with amazement by the temperance 0r-

Thc tluariliziu iii-i

pa’,

i

on behalf of the rail-

ways that the U. S. lines would rc-

ducc also and nullify the advantage ,t0 Quebec. lhoivevcr, had no advantage over the rates on the lake and rail routes, and _Qucbec harbor ls closed in the wiii- tcr. There has, therefore, been little ‘development of grain traffic, and the iU. S lines did not reduce their rates. lflui the Nkiritimc tioris are open hi ‘the ivintcr, and Afr. Kirkwooil rul- ‘filth; that tlir- propiisrtl rcduccd fllif‘ ‘iveultl induce traffic. for lic says ilitit ,tl\c U. S. liner; ivuulii assuredly cut, ‘their rates this time. ‘This the Free

{Press regards as an advaninzzv- 1f

‘says?

i "While l.\'."u of the Commission-

l "l'.\ of tlic Railway Board were iii- v l 'i li. this consideration, lWtJ

including tuc 'f‘hcy were

t»; vlplvill“: ilic reduced

r 1. |'.ii‘ll it Llll‘ U. :5. liiici; did

l lower their rates to equal the rc- duccd rate to St. John and liali- fax. those ports ivould no doubt still receive a. considerable increase of winter grain traffic direct from the West. And if the reduction to the Canadian Maritime ports brought a reduction of winter traf- fic to U. S. Atlantic ports, the rc- sult would be that all Canadian export, grain would get the advan- tage of lowci" rates, to the benefit uf \\’c::¢t:i"ii producers."

'»" i" ‘_'l'>,lI!‘["‘

"i li"'.

.-l Sound Judgment

There ivill be general satsftixfon cicr the adverse decision of a lawsuit brought by an American architect to ccnipcl the rector of the University vi Lcuvaiit, Belgium, to place a cer- Don over the balustradc c1‘ thc univei".sity' library. The inscrip-

lain iiiscr

tun roads: "llr-troyril by 'l‘cui.'",iut' turv; restored by Atiicrican gen-in.»- ity." 'l'he library, it seems, “as dc- signetl by the yilaintifl and rebuilt by

cit-r; ihc.

titre, liFv-"c and priir". fir»: o; our who still liiic CilllEf n: =.. ,\"i'"i:! t0 llltiiif‘ ivzll i“.l..i till.‘ 3li‘.'f'l‘i.i'lilt_' iohiniits 0t ajiiuiiil um."- esf. g." arrzv to draw; iiiicntiur. to the aitiniﬂnc <‘...~;)laj.' which fill‘ merchants are pzntinl; on at liis season. In the ]§l'f.“i_‘lll f"lftlllflllil," struigenrg," it is a. wasa [7I)ilt_'_" t ~ ‘. “p money in circulation. li i i ii fl'."l\‘lll§lllli‘0 to sipeiiu lttrly tor ‘Chrlztniar- cizts iisiyeciiiliy: at. a time, iﬂ-ti-i ii h» i"‘l<lYlP'-.'~i ilPiilf- to ’ . ‘, » ,1» “h.

' ‘ i "is Pro-

i .i, ‘w; in ,:;~i".;.rii:".i":i and

g nvim equal distribution of wealth

prr i-ziplta than pciiiiips exists iii

other lklli. of the COllLlllClll. Our

iaritiezxs" have been hliw-cd with bountiful crops. anti xiitle auricul- turai prices liaiv iii-i i :i l'l"il zia iii 2~i‘ll'4‘ iivii’: _\','l iii ~ _i" i;"l fir o,~‘:.~i;,.,it ‘ll ‘ < .. t ii nyweribli fr; '" ‘ few v mics. hi rt-rir, tic intlusiritil rc-

eviticnt ' ‘ill Jib iii.- taun-

try tmriiioi nu. t» ln-utiii. flit‘ zigri» Cult u:".-.l int: Uiniiii-QLitty" prl liiixc i», ii iruiittft. anti this

reduction is ro Lvil in tlii. excel- lent,

our local iticrcli.

biiiirzaiits oft. by VniLiny of

At the pFtf-Elli, timr ilivrc .5 acLu ally more montq. on dvporit in tiic hanks in ills» city than lust year. This niiiizy. \‘.(‘, siizglst iiculd be ltllliil bt-ltcr lll ciriulzitaiiii. It would hp n lyvill tu lizil iIKfll-T uid with Q's ‘Fife-ivill iuirrlzqgplig: ;";\\r'." it,

would l; iii-fit lhc i)ii_\(‘l' izfiiil directly" and indirectly.

.11 National PIeIIg0

A strong chiuiii>i<iii o; loivci" grain rate", to Nfiiwliin" Iirirts 1.; the Maui tuba Ifrv: Hess. in ll l‘<"t‘f‘lli, hiding editorial refutes an ollbﬁrate argument of Mr. '1'. it, KlfkV-‘(JOCP of Montreal. the prupuscil ductiou and thiti. Maritime 1l1r]lil."\1l-')ll is for thc lul- film-rnt of a. national pledge which Chilllflllilltlllé;

"which

against l1"

lllloiliitlillﬁ the

on that

no one crin dciiiﬂ Mr. “While if may he lnir that. this rall-

p"_1;-|;dwl_ut'_. .‘i‘.‘i'.‘l.ll'|lL

"(ilk

into

way (the Tinaiirroiitriiciii1|i

Junerican funds. Controversy over the inscription lasted three YCilIE and ‘Nos marked by great bitterness. 0p- punehis of it objected that 1t ivould éervémto perpetuate war liatreds. Ah- otlicr objection, which they were pfCYXlUiy too polite to advance but which must have appealed to the trial judges, was that it would srive to perpcttiatc American lanoli- beigv. The handsome gesture in rcstor- ini: the library ivoiild have occn coni- plcicly‘ spoiled by inscription proposed which must have brought s. blush to the facc of cvcry wit-cent American visitor. In its vile taste it would be out of place uiithin the precincts of any university; utzcr- ly so in one of the cultural capitals of the world.

the oszterztatious

Editorial Notes

A Christmas trcc is one vthlnz that doe-z not hide its 11571113 U111?" ii. htthcl.

The return the farmer gets for his poultry noiv depends dLvcctly upon their proper ﬁnishing. This includes crate or pen feeding, proper killing and careful plucking-appearance end quality must be of the best t'i brini: the "milk-fed" pricc prrniiiuii.

The Ontario ‘Ilibieral party's sol- cmn “dcnunciatioii" of Premier Ben- nett's proposals for greater Empire

little pathetic. The party holds twelve seats in a Legislature of 112- iinrl that is just about the measure of li‘~ wciclil- and influence.

Accordion lo a Canadian Press (l(‘ll|7{lt(‘l‘l appearing in yesterdays

Canadian channels, thi.. in itself ls

an incorrect c-cozit m: ‘ii i-i of bug/i, the. In : ‘i "i " a Litld t! zil

y J“ quctioii izxu; (ll- doiaseil by the whole country, the rtiilnvey war; built, to a lii;:h slanti- m-q cxpprgsly no Llirit (‘iuiarlinu wade could tr: muted through Canadian chunneta nnd the Mari- ﬂmp; paid their share of the cost. Clhc carrying out, of the policy 1s m“, QPPQKCd by the railways anti |;.~,~ garcons of the country that up“); they" will suffer if the Mai-i- tiirie parts rcczive the services whim were pledged to them by

(luardiaii, the past week has seen a good rW-mtnid in Montreal for Prince i-Li .".i;ii island potatoes of the g2" an lliiliilltllll‘. i:ii"ii-l_v when sold in 15 lb. sacks. The advantage of small quan- tity packages has been pointed out many times in this newspaper. Therm

‘The new Quebec rntc,

' .1 - '. ex han , ‘ust a- w] c ls m“ an c Kc J [of human suffering and the preven-

_ What‘ 5300p- of inure

V. Btlflﬂll, ItLD _ ‘

l l {Notes by the Way, ~- l

Up to the end of October, says the ., New Glasgow Evening News, the‘ Scotch and Welsh anthracite landed i in Montreal was 640,000 tons, com- pared ivith 435,000 tons last year and 385,000 tons in 1928, and by the end of llic- season the total ivill have rcach- i 1;}, ed about 700.000 tons. ’l‘hc amount, ' has thus been doubled in two years. FOOD (“USING SKIN AlbmuNTs In addition to the British auithracite, tizcrc \\"ill have been landed this yeaig n” mm“ years n‘ has hep" Lmmv" by the cud of the season uvci" 200,000 twat Certain “News or food “mud tons cf ltussian anthracite. While it bring u“ m‘ “Lmck or u“: ‘mes has bccn stated, with reason, that '“r'“i“"“ri“) m some people; Such m1 ‘m, has not displaced British m“ ’cellcut food as eggs fui" instance ivill but. rather that from the United [cause hives‘ ‘Wm if cam“ l“ a ca“ m‘ Suites, it is equally ti"uc that the other confection‘ screenings have been "dumped" on Raw “um {we great orfmldcrs" as the market and have dislocated IMSO is t°° “inch meat i“ some‘ ctriously" the Neva Scotlan coal imses‘ trade. But there is a bright side to Howcwr It is only recemly mat me cam If this lmportaltiol‘ of ‘physicians have begun to think about Russiiiti coal is l'l't‘\‘(‘llt(‘t| next. ycut" ‘nﬂ-Lim‘ fonds as “mug m" (“we or such chixuiic skin conditions llfi m Y-(‘Illit and situiiai" nilnieniis.

Ar: you know some individual: will |itll you thrit their ctrzicnia conic. on, ‘OT IlPtIUIIIPS WOfbf‘ {it L'(‘|'lllill hl‘;'i1"||'l of the year thus attributing the ecvcmri to the weather, whcrcas the rciil cause is that at certain seasons they cat certain foods which are

[umcs l

l

laud i|'ev|~ i," wind l'(.‘ll‘-l\l‘l to believe tlizil this will Lie tlu" rim-oi an udricrl l“.l\l']{"i iif suiiir-lhiiit: like 1700,0110 tciis; "will linic her-ii prepared for the Bill-ill’! anthracite, and the interfer- cizce with Nova Stotiuu coal will have been l"fl‘l10\'Cti.

It is claimed that with the latest combine liorvcster-thrcshers that the iron)“, me cause‘

l|\ erago time to harvest an acre is 4i I N0‘? although u“: ski“ “Sis m‘. Ymnum,“ Th“ is u [Tducimn of m,“ icertani substances are helpful, such 0.": percent, from the time rcqiiircil f“ mgwppd as a cause o‘ hay [NCP it in harvrxsiiiirt {lllti llircnluvu llil nr-rc iwmlkl/rrml‘ mm“ the Ski" w“ ‘mo’; a cnﬂwmry “In “nwhmvrh, hmniot show the reaction when fund is great’)? facilitated work-on the farm ‘we Came or cczcma or “m” ‘Stow a" continuous ailment.

Accordingly physicians now are making the tests by actually using large quantities of the suspected food to sec if it aggravates the trouble

as well as in tlic factory, ‘out it throivs many nicii out of cmployniciii.

The unemployment insurance sys- tem is SfllllPlllllP- referred to by local speakers and \\'l'lf,£‘l'S as being sover- eign preventive of (listrcss in the United Kingdom, but the various social agencies in London and 01se- whcrc are oveinhclriieci with the task lln\\' czoiifmiitiiii: tliein iiiicl arc calling foi additional lu-lp. Frcc itieal kitchens are being established in the cities, and thousautis of persons are titieutiing them daiiv~iiiorc than can be aecomudatcd. according to “he London newspapers. The so- icallcd dole docs not reach a iiiulti- tude, while it docs reach others who abuse it.

having the patient do without particular" food for a couple of days, and seeing if the itching will stop or grow less, and the skin irritation be less severe.

Sometimes ihc animal protein- nicat, eggs, cheese and milk is with- hcld, and “the vegetable proteins- bcans. peas, bananas, bread-are stipplicd; or if a. fruit or vegetable is suspected, as the cause, it ls added to the dict.

Noiv this would seem to be n simple method of finding just what food or foods is the cause of the skin ailment, but you can sec that as many of these foods form a litre» part of the’ evcryciiiy dict. of most people, flint trying to do without them entirely might be a. serious

lloiv important ‘is the ncivspapct" luau and thi- |ll‘(“-.'v may he glcziiierl from ccrtzuii observations in the lvr-w York Times winch mentions the nuni- bcr of i\"i"it:r:: in the United States". 28.000 men and 5,00‘) women, for ‘Z0000 nc\i".spiipci"s. magazines, trade journals and similar publications- nearly 2,200 of these being daily pap-- -ers with a circulation of 44,000,000 copi This means that, one person in "wry [hypo Flt“ n ‘ ‘mu-Y lmws‘ l it ivill protect the individual against 1 lri"pf‘"'o"_ "imltmlf; “ma”? "ltd?! ‘the action of the large amount. “intern 5mm "f mo" mm m (“m-V‘ This method is certainly snfcr anti‘ Pym Bur’ m; mm “up” hi“; “no” easier on the patient lllllll injecting! ‘form wildmts" it "my b" assmmyd food substances into the skin, which filiiilffiiiiiélffl ‘ifflmi Jiiiffiiipifl “l” “"0"- , daily tinder his eycsi" And this is a , The thought than‘ m any old skint uml-igm which ﬂckcrtiscrs may b" ailment that persists for a long time.‘ _ _ ~ is to try and locate the food that may

invited to ponder. The newspaper be the cause of it.

reaches everybody and it reaches him, generally speaking, during his niost receptive moments.

health and happiness.

Dr. Urbzick, Vienna, suggests flint if a very small amount, of the food hniii" before the regular meal at ‘ which this particular food is served.

It is not right or helpful for well- Lo-do people merely to abstain from spending. At a time like the present, an obligation rests upon them to purchase as freely as possible iii ordci" to give business to Canadian retailers and \‘.‘1‘lt.ll(‘l;31C‘l‘S and iiuuiu- facturcrs, and so to \\";it_:e-c:ii"iici":: all (Lwii the linc. Aiitl, ahovc all, in making such ]llll‘f'lllt.‘l‘.‘», tlic buyers slioulil iiickt: f-'ll'!‘ that, lllf‘\' in": grill,-

Age of the Ezirth

evinutcd age cf the mrth has been groxving a: a shocking rat: cvei" since geology became a science. In 1860 John Phillips placed the age of ilic {flilbe c5 33.0ffl.00'-‘| i0 06.000000 yrurs. Tivrnly yctm; ago his lifrlie t. flyurc had |Jl‘.'"l cc..- s‘(lci":ibl_v enlai" " "i""" is. lint

t-Iir rind an". Rzirliiuii c1";

Z3

. I iFscm the Washington Pas-L.» I l

ml. l‘ t. _ . _ \|..':'">\'<‘!‘cti and suit-nee li"""nc.l that; uir; (luutithiin-mzitlc goods, and so "

this clement breaks up a‘. a definite rate that is measurable. Physicists, olxscrvcd the rate cf dlcintcgrcdic-n, in varicrs rocks and multiplied the previous es ‘mates by tvn.

When is venerable rgiwrc rcaoiicd nu age on im:i'~.~rl a", n’) loss than 500000.000 years Prof. ma, v. Piizson iiniarkcrl ' ‘ruly ilicre 1:; now a-n OfllbillTllﬁrpllg riolinccs of »timc." But. this did not stop science

from infliotiitg fll1'lll.'.‘l'-.",Clll1fl‘.y upon‘ Mother Earth. The latest cstiniat/c of time since a passing star tore the nucleus of the cart-h from the side of the sun is 2,000,000_000 years. This figure usczl b_v astronomers '

contributing something tovsartis the return of ])l'O$])Cl'lf_\'.

Ono of the vnnst consoling features of modern lifc is the fiict that noth- inp. ccn prevent science front t,iiiuiii_i' it."- foriviirti uinrrh. Nf‘lil'f‘l‘ l‘(‘\‘(I|llll0l1'illtll'll]l]!f‘!l\'llifi cf any kind can stop the scientists from adding to inc sum of general knowledge and in particular the investigator in the ficlds cf medicine and surgery from adding to means for the alleviation

C011-

tioii of disease. Year after year coii- lllblilfh’; its quota. to the progress

nuirlr, in the scientific world, nnd s“ i,m=_.,;_\._,| m. Prof‘ AM“ Iuimaiiily i’: ll‘l‘iY1‘lt‘;\/;ll1'1i|)l_\' the, K0, lop‘ M H“, yak. ‘my-mes d” Clillirl‘. mi-"iynnrnt. lfrof. Kf\,\'ll;l“l.k'5 mmmm- ""' — lflﬂlllli of the co tstaiit dtsintcg-rn-tion Thc London Observer mus: The

of YﬂUiCﬂFl-Wt‘ Piflllﬂlllg in n piece of uiaiiiniiic indicates an 000 000 years.

Many geological “time clocks" have been used to estimate the longevity of this pla lat. One favor- its measuring stick is the rock ifmta that are expat-rd in such gorges n; l-lio Grand Canyon of the Colorado. The flour-re of evolution attained by

Labour Government must go. With- out any Parliamentary majority be- hind lt and with a large majority of the nation against lt,lts efforts to govern is hopeless and disastrous. That is thc fundamental fact. If a Conservative Government proves to be the only alternative we shall fry to rnnkv the brat. of it, though forcseciniz i

age of 1,852,

tmi-kngcs appeal to purchasers who

that, ltr difficulties and dangers ivill ifnsslls (mind tn some of 111051», {ih-nt,"

do not object, in paying the highest price foi" a superior quality of pota- tocs put up ln an attractive and convenient Wfl)’. If our growers nnd shippers are to succeed. as they should succeed, in the home market,

Ln: nation." wit-ti the appliciilioii was mad" in

more attention must be given to rupturing this remuncrntlve trade ln

be for gravrr than Mr. Baldwin and his advisers seem to imagine.

also fur IISIIPs evidence. But the sc- qucnce of rock formation is fre- quently brcilccn, and it L1 imposiblc

A British worker who sells his labour except on approved terms is

foreign goods to be sold here below

and increases the itching, and ilicn_ that

matter from the standpoint of their;

l I that causes the trouble is (‘IltCll one! t

regarded as a blacklcg and a fit sub- ject for boycott, but a foreign worker who accepts less for his services than

1.": In" uie i-cducsa rate to Qucbm- the mat centres of DOPQIMLQD»

his; firlfish coiifrr;"r-i~ is f"-’lllllt"f| to bc 1' I benefactor because he enables

the cost of British. More illogical still, the Soviet Government that

employs forced labour fl given every

i‘ A New Perspective

(Sydney Post!

law, professed confidence ln.its. ef-

it was being effectively enforced. the Supreme Court bench, and last week presided for the first time over tlic criminal iisslm at Summersldc, lilr home town. In a particularly iniprcssiie address to the grand jury, Mr. Justice Saunders referred to the exceptionally large number of pris- oncrs iii the Prince County jail, there being 34 in all, including 21 boot- leggers, which showed. he declared. "that a good deal of liquor was be- ing sold illegally?‘

The incident can hardly full t0 have its effect on public opinion in Prince Edward Island. Mr. Justice l-‘fvrumdcizs, viewing the scone in the "larger pcnrpcclivc obtained from ‘the elevated vantage point of the ljlﬂil-‘lillT. iisiuus conditions in quite ‘a different light from that formerly tvnuchsafed to Premier Saunders in ‘J the restricted precincts of the politic- .al arena. And it is reassuring to inote that he describes them as he

finds them and interprets them fearlessly and honestly to the pub- lic. This" is particularly gratifying because it snows how quickly a ,ueivl_v-appniiiictl judge of the right : iypc can diic-t himself of all parti- Isziu |tl‘i"jll(ll(‘(‘.'¢. and discharge his i judicial duties without fear or favor.

I '*————"_ | ,

DLIlHC/VPIUN

(From “Wordsivoithls Grave") Ere vandal lords with lust of gold

iiccurst

Dcfacc each hallowed hillside Wt‘ rcvcrc- , I

Ere cities in their million-throated thirst

Menace each sacred mere-

Let us give thanks because one nook hath bccn

Unﬁoocicd yet by desecratioifs wave,

The little chuichyard in the vallcy green

‘Phat holds our Wnrdsivorihis grave.

"I‘iviis there I plucked these clcglac blooms,

There ivlierc he rests raties fit and few,

And thcncc I brim; this Gfbwlh 01' classic tombs,

An offering, friend, to you-

I You who have loved like me his sim- ple thcmcs,

Loved his siiiccre large accent nobly plain, -

And loved thc land whose mountains

‘mid com-

i nnd ivhostfstrcams ,| Arc lovchcr for his strain. l

It may be that his manly chant, be- side

More dainty numbers, seems a rustic time;

It may be, thought has

siiicc lie died

Upon the centurys noon;

It may he that we can no longer share

The faith ivlifch from his fathers he received;

It may be that our doom is to des- pair .

Where he with joy believed;-

broadened

Euoiwli that there risen who sings A sun’: so mitten of thc immediate soul, So instant from the vital fount of irings Which is our source and goal; And though nt touch of later hands there flout Ivforc artful tones lyre he drew, A1105 may pass crc ti" note So sweet, so great. so true. —$ir William Watson.

is none since

than from his

ills nnoihcr

t? determine how muoh time has C ﬁll-Fed between the formation of successive layers. Geology postulates that most of the earth's surface has been lltlflﬂ‘ the sea n. number 0f timer», and it is pmbalfe that some millionr, nf years would elapse from one inundation to another.

For measurement o1 rage-qt, um»; the mfe of cmosion is useful. Pb;- ex-

United Suites ts being lowered at

years. On til-ifs basis it is estimated that: 15.000000 years would be m. ouired to reduce the coiitt vent to m: level by croslon if the upheavals by which mountains rm» made were =t~ppetl.

i 11v- laymau is ncvi much inter- tested in them figures, or h the loch- iiloal processes by which they ore ivm-kcd out. Bot he may fir] some comfort in the fact that the earth Ls not a recent concoction, and that its present form will probably be modified but little in the next. million ymm. No one kllntvs tmw 10mg m»

facility to nil M: mediate h than islands, "A

him lv'"n mi tlu- l"ll".‘v, but. cf 10'0"“.

‘ilnlife clip-nib only u ..i-J__

During the two years or more that Hon. Albert. C. Saunders was Pre- mier of Prince Edward Island, he was a champion 0i’ the prohibition

ficacy, and steadily maintained that

Some months ago he was elevated to

_ presentatives, while ;w0uld lose members. A loud hi; iDFODDSI hiid been mad:

Mniiie. the average level of the,

Representation ’ The Fuiaiers of Confederation acted wiser" than they imagined I}: when. they placed in the British Norlh America Act a clause iviiiui l

fixed for all time the Parliamentary representation. declares the London,‘ Free Press. Under ‘this clause, as; every student of Canadian affairs

knows, Quebec is given 65 members. I After evwy decennial census there, Ls a redistribution. By dividing 65' into the population of Quebec the unﬁt of representation is secured. and the representtait/ion of the re- maining provinces ls fixed accord- ingly. There can never beany debate . or argument on the suhjectThe only ' chisrge which has been made has

been in the case of Prince Edward

Island. After the 1911 census, it was

found that the number of members

from the Island province would be

but three. There was strenuous ob-

jection and an amendment was

made to tlhc B. N. A. Ad. so that the

House of Contmona EDFCSOHLELIOTI‘ ivould never be less than the nuiu-

bcr of scnaitorrs, which in the cam of

Prince Edward Island is four.

In the Untied States the unit of

mpweentation is fixed arbltrarily by

Congress. Today it is around 235.000

and the total number of members of

the House of Representatives is 435.

After the 1921 census, so much pro-

test was made by states which would

lose representation that no redis-

tribution timk place. A committcc

was appointed which recommended

that the numlxm of Conzressmen be

left at 435 and the u it b: fixed nc-

cordixigly. Under suoharedfstribution

(talifoimln. w-ould gain nine rc-

many states

and it looks as if them will be a merry fight in Congress, One proposal is that. there be added 105 new representatives, so that no state will lose n Congress- nwt However, the newspapers and

will remain as at, present and onc- sided representation will continue with many states over represented andothers like Michigan and Cali- fornia without proper representation.

'I'l1e Canadian constitution from every angle is intrl‘ deinocintic and simpler than that which QOVPPlYr; the l",l‘c.

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Concerning Tiinbuctoo

(Montreal G-azettei Hon. Henry Cockshutt, Lcutenaiit-Govemoi‘ rcportéd as having Canadian Press that, lie is just as likely to accept tho appolntmcn‘, to Tlmbiictoo as he is to go to Wash- lrgton in succession m Hon, Vincent Mﬂssey- His statement l5 a reminder ' that Timbuctao has long "been a name to conjure with, in proof of which tihe encyclopedia states that Sihﬁe its existence became known to European; mew the visit of mi Bﬂflllla. in 1350. it gradually acquired a fame "out of all moportion to its real importance." Evidently there is something in ‘a name. after all. Not that, Tlmbuctoo is ui- unimportant place, I01‘ lt:is a city in {the French Sudan, situated on the edge of the Sahara Desert, and in oommunlcatlm by means of steamboat; with i Kmiﬂkoro on iitlie Niger, the terminus of the railway frJm Ambididi and Kﬂyes. Ilt was founded in the clo- venth century and has been occupied by the French slaw 1804. " The population once large, is nowﬁibout L300. ‘ ' 1' General Joffre has mitten an in- P ierestlng book, "My march to Tgm. buctoo," but to English-speaking peoples the Sudanese city was first brought vividly to light by

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finiiesimnl span in comparison with the length of time since tihis sphere came imto being. The important 1311118 seems to be that‘. man, now that he is here. is determined tn stick Wilih the old Blobo as long as it can- ililmies spin ilng.

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