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'An Ontario exchange says itwould like to interviewlwvn Geoaoa, who “committed Great Britain to acquiescence in the Versailles Treaty," on the question: What would have happened in

. Germany if, instead of imposing crippling terms

on her, the victorious nations had offered her a true olive branch and helped her toward econo- mic rehabilitation? " -

Fancy devastated France and Belgium 0H- ering olive branches to a horde of beaten van- dals! LLovn Gnome, interviewed on this matter, would probably counter with the query: What would have happened if, instead of stopping short of giving Germany a taste of her own medicine in the War, the victorious nations had marched to Berlin, smashed everything before them and dictated such terms as BISMARCK made France s\vallo\v in 1871 ?

It is a fair guess that if the Allies had done this, there \\'0uld be no war-mongering dictator- ship in Germany today.

Conflicting Statements

A handsome picture of Premier CAMPBELL adorns the front page of the current issue of The Maritime Advocate and Bury East, a journal of strong Liberal bias published in Sackville. On page i3 of the same issue appears an editorial headed: “New Brunswick Fights Pluckily, But She Fights Alone." The editorial deals with the attempt at Ottawa to scrap the British North American Act as an Imperial statute. We quote lhe concluding paragraphs :

“The astonishing thing is that little old New Brunswick ts the only province which dares to fight for its right-s. Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island. and Quebec which might well stand with this province in a. struggle to retain that to which we are justly entitled. are silent and afraid.

"All honor is due to Hon. J. B. McNair, attorney geneml and Hon. A, P. Paterson, president of the Council, who are fighting a good fight for New Brunswick. They deserve the hearty support and united co-operatlon, not only of the people of New Brunswick, but oi Canada as a. whole. If a solemn agreement is to be considered as a. mere scrap of paper; 1f New Brunswick is to lose her sovereignty and be- come subordinated to brute majorities, then the sooner we know it the better. Ii this pro- vince is to be clubbed int/o a Legislative Union, then we will become a. subjugated people; we will be obliged to g0 to Ottawa. with our hats in our hands. saying “Please may we do this or please may we stop doing that."

“As far as I can see the stand of New Brunswick, as lucidly stated by Messrs. McNair and Paterson, is the only one that a. self-res- pecting province can take. Liberal or Conser- vative panties do not enter into this question; as‘ one man we should stand up for our lib- erties. The shame is that New Brunswick must fight alone."

Is this charge correct so far as the Govern- ment of Prince Edward Island is concerned? According to the Ottawa correspondent of the Canadian Press, the ‘Nova Scotia representatives supported New Brunswick at the recent Domin- ion-Provincial conference, against the other seven provinces. The London Free Press, how- ever, is authority for the statement that “the Prince Edward Island Liberal government is joining New Brunswick in protesting the pro- posed changes in the B. N. A. Act.”

We sincerely trust that the latter statement is correct, and that the Government of this Pro- vince has retreated from the position ‘it is re- ported to have taken at the December conference, at which New Brunswick was left to fight alone the battle for Maritime rights.

In any case; in view of the conflicting re- ports, the elector: have a right to expect a full and flank explanation from Premier CAMPBELL in this tnatter.

Here ls A Real Problem

Dr. GEORGE A. MORRISON, Lord Twaaos- Mimi's successor as M.P. for’ the Scottish Uni- versities, has earned a continent-wide reputation on account of a problem he set in the House, puzzling the members.

This is the problem :—“A man went into a shoemaker's shop and bought a pair of boots for 16s. He put down 1 pound to pay for them. The shoemaker had no change and he went next door to his neighbour, the butcher. He got the change, came hack with it, and gave the boots and 4s to the man who went away. ‘

“Then the butcher ran in to say that the 1 pound was a. bad one. The shoemaker had to make good the pound to the butcher. How much did the shoemaker lose?" _

Dr. MORRISON'S sum was the most delightful problem that has faced M.P.’: for a long time. In the lobbies and libraries afterwards members gathered in little groups, puzzling over the tran- section.

,Dr. Molnusou was busy the whole evening hearing the “answers" to his teaser. Economists and even honours graduates of Oxford went up end told him quite solemnly that the answer was I pound 4s. The answers varied from 4s to as

high as 2 pounds and a pair of shoes.

One of the few who gave the correct answer at the first attempt was, appropriately enough. 1dr. Ouvnu Srxnmv, the President of the Board of Education. i t , It was e delightful experience to hear some ll; the foremost economic planners, who usually i, ‘in milliormlosing themselves in confusion f the use i~ pound note, and ulti-

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pronounced "sh." The reply came at once, po- litely and smilingly—_“Are you sur'e ?” i! it if , The 13th and Friday and Lent. fi it fi River ice now risky. ' 9k 9K Thanks largely to the Forum we still have champion hockeyistsakin aguraknlidst.

The Government better make sure they meet on Monday, 30th, otherwise the mover and sec- onder may be made April Fools.

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There is no fear of Premier CAMPBELL being caught napping, as was Premier Auous MAC- DONALD, by an unexpected Opposition amend- ment to the Address.

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When the Legislature meets it probably will be found the members will be unable to call their souls their own, lest they be read out and de- prived of patronage

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General sympathy goes‘ out to Mr. H. H. ACORN, M.L.A., who, on the eve of the meeting of the Legislature, has sustained so grievous a bereavement in the unexpected passing of his wife.

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Our Day News-editor assures us that there arc “prognostications and prognostications” her- alding spring, but none so assuring as the increasing influx of‘ letters to DOROTHY D1x’s “Letter Box." ' 9E 9E 9K

When doctors differ Wll0'Sl’lElll decide? Un- disturbed by Prof. ALBERT Ems-rams charact- erization of “mass centres" without gravitation as “mathematical spooks,” Dr. LUDWIK SILBER- srcm, Toronto, plans to strike another blow at the Einstein theory of general relativity. The “mass centre" theorist, lecturer at the University of Toronto, says that within a short time he will prove the Einstein theory entirely wrong. In the meantime, he attacks it in a paper to the _Physi- cal Review, entitled: “Non-stationary axially symmetrical solution of the gravitational field equation.” That should settle it.

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History is repeating itself. Nearly 22 years ago Canada, her “First Contingent" over-en- listed, stopped all recruiting. For the past I8 months Canada has been recruiting again. this time for the Canadian Legion official pilgrimage to Vimy. More than 4,000 returned men and women have signed up, and four big liners, two Canadian Pacific and two Cunard-White Star are practically filled. So a “no more recruits" sign is again hanging up all over Canada. Last Saturday the two steamship lines advised the Canadian Legion that no more applications can be accepted postmarked later than lltlarch I4. Once again a Canadian Expeditionary Force is going to France, and once again Canadians will

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It is not often the country doctor gets his due-or his fees either, for that matter, but here is a tribute to him culled from a contemporary. Through all this bitter weather, and with it fre- quently blizzards and badly-drifted roads and trails, the country doctor has carried on. Bundled and muffled to the eyes, and with unflinching spirit has ridden forth, sometimes in the middle of the night——an “awful night” to be sure—-to minister to someone in danger or inpain. Some- times it has been to bring a new Canadian into the world, sometimes to perform an emergency operation. He has gone to isolated hamlets and to little white homes still standing up bravely in these clays of depression. The “country doctor" still means something in Canada.

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The Ottawa Journal is kicking against Radio's claim to be an air newsmedium. Criticiz- ing one of the weekly news commentators on this subject our contemporary says: “lf what this commentator knows is what he hears "over the radio" his background of world events is singu- larly limited. Actually, of course, the newspapers are his original source, and he should be frank enough to acknowledge his debt. The Tokyo des- patches announcing that the Japanese Premier had escaped death, was alive and well, were pub- lished everywhere in evening newspapers of Sat- urday-newspapers on the streets before noon. The radio carried this piece of news hours later, and carried it by grace of the newspapers. The Canadian Radio Commission, as has been point- ed out many times, has no facilities for the col- lection of news, either abroad or in this country. That collection is made by the newspapers, at their own very considerable expense, and as a service to the public they make summaries avail- able to radio audiences at regular times. Thus even to suggest that radio is the original source of information is misleading and unfair." r

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Our old friend Canon Scorr .of Quebec strongly objects to hanginge-of others of course. If it is necessary to retain capital punishment as a deterrent to the crime of murder, he says, it ought to be administered in the quickest, most painless and least revolting manner possible. Naturally, he cannot speak as an eye witness, but he has first hand evidence of "one poor man, whose neck was. not broken by the fall from the trap, who hung twitching for twenty minutes after the drop; of another in a similar condition whose agony was only stopped by the execution- er clasping the victim's body and by his added weight hastening the end of strangulation; and of a woman whose head was pulled o6 her body. The horror excited in the mind of the public atauch incidents only tends to throw sympathy toward the criminal and criticism on the carrying

trocution, offers a means of capital punishment which is most merciful to the condemned least horrifying to the nerves of the attendants and the outside public in general. Moat adults in these do l, at onetime or another, have es-

‘ d. tsld of an c and lmow why, he asks, should not a , lilac Canada mt off for ever ‘liijbf meriievclism in the awful, but

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true reform without penitence. 0n the other hand, more hum than

individuals, who seem to think that thereisnosuchthlngelorlme at all and that all that is essential to a complete happy social ‘order is that every offence should be re- garded as a malady, calling for the intervention of the doctor, instead of the Julieta-Hamilton Spectator.

Three member: of Parltamenl spoke last Monday with the great- est good sense on-t-he duty of Can- ada. in international politics in the course of the Commons debate- Miss MacPhail and Messrs Woods- worth and Douglas. The first duty of Canada. is to mind Canada's business. Before starting to tell or to show other nations how to act in foreign politics Canada should settle her own domestic problems, remembering that she is an Amer- ican country in the first place and that she has an interest naturally limited in what in Europe. Asia and Africa, Great Britain, France, Italy. Russia and Germany do as they intend ix) in matters of their foreign relations. Canada has nothing to do with that or with their ‘ecisions in there matters. Why should she suffer from the repfircu§l0gm of their pdittcsf-‘Le Devoer, Montreal.

The new government in New Zenland has gone tn for fixed prices for wheat and butter. As the pountry imports flour from Aus- tralia, the policy malt-succeed in ex- tending wheat acreage sumclently to enable New Zealand to supply its own wants. but butter is in a different position because much of it is exported. The fixed price in- volves the purchase of that pro- duct by the government. Says the London Observer: "If the‘ New zeaiand government is to act as _vendor in the flercelv WmDQliW/e world-trade. its proposals will be awaited with interest not unmixed with anxiety." It is doulfbful whether the British government which is artificially stimulating. the British milk industry, will tolerate subsidized competitizn on a large scale.

There ufiould be no question I»! to the necessity for the increased activity in horse production. It takes at least five years to produce and raisz a horse to the age of four years. and the annual wastage of horses in the Dominion clue to old age or other natural causes. is very considerable. While the_ number of horses on farms in June. i935. showed an increare over that of June, 1934. it has taken the tn- creaszd production of colts in 1933 and 1934. to reach the point where the annual increase exceeds the natural wastage 0i maur: ani- mals. Then, too, it must be remem- bered that the colt crOPS 0f 1934 and 1935 will not enter the ranks of four-year-dd work horres until 1938 and 1939. while the annual wastage gees on in the meantime- C.P.R. Bulletin.

Lord Roberts came across the child prince. gazing out of the win- dow. “My child, what will you do when ycu are king?” ask-Ed 10rd Roberts. “When I'm king." replied the prince, "I shall do three things. I shall pas: a law against. cutting puppy dogs‘ tails. I shall forbid them to use curb reins on liorscs. and I shall do away with all sin in the worldP-Helton in Toronto Star.

There is a school of thought which believes that the manufac- turing industry shou‘d take prece- dence of agriculture and that‘ agri- culture will never be anything but auxiliary to industry. Things have come to pass during many years that suggest that agriculture could, without damage to world economy. take second place. The country is emptied to the profit of the cities because the son of the farmer can make a. greater gross income in tn- dustry than upon the land . . . Today the situation is ~reversed. People realise that nothing can guarantee them against unemploy- ment, while one can-although sometimes the poverty is great- llve upon the products of the land.- So people are returning to the land for the same reasons that they left it-Le Drott, Ottawa.

Each year on March 10 there be- gins about the eaves of a historic California mission building a bat- tle between returning swallows and a group of ‘sparrows, permanent. dwellers in the neighborhood. It is said the conflict always aids in n. victory for the tnvadcrs,_ who in- variably leave again on Qct, 2a, This is very interesting, u indicat- ing that tn the bird world there puppesrs to be an organised plan of e.

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HEART HUBMIIIIB NOT l8 IMPORTANT AB 0TH“. SYMPTOMS

It has been a. surprise to many that Dr. James Mackenzie was able to teach the medical profession and the world in general so much about the heart because he was a general practitioner. To most physicians the fact that the heart had a murmur- due to a slight leak of one of its valves-was usually enough to have the individual advised to do light work only, and he was also usually rejected from overseas service.

Just as a pump with a slight leak _is usually able to pump _‘ water for ordinary needs, so also can a heart with a leaking valve usually pump enough blood for the individuals needs.

We are told that Dr. Maokenzieb office was situated at the top of a hill and as his patient had to cltrnb this hill he was able to tell exactly how these hearts would stand hard work or hard exercise because climbing a. hill is hard work.

‘Phus, 1f the patient after climb- lng the hill at the usual or ordinary rate of speed was not greatly out of breath despite a leaking valve with a murmur and was back to its nor- mal rote in o short time after the climb was made, the heart was con- sidered to be in good "working" condition and the patient allowed to do his usual work.

_ Dr. Mackenzie was at first sur- prised but finally became quite ac- customed to tlnd hearts with mur- murs, where the individual was doing heavy manual won: every day and had come to him for conditions other than the heart.

Physicians are naturally a little anxious about children who have had attacks of rheumatism. which have left a little leak and murmur. However if there have been no rec- ent attacks of rheumatism or St. Vitus’ Dance (chores) it ls not con- sidered a dangerous condition. If however the youngster gets out of breath easily, the heart is very rap- id and somewhat enlarged. care most be take that the child does not work or ay too much.

The thought then is that the ability of the heart to perform its work enabling the individual to go about his daily tasks without breathlessness is what really mat- tersf not the fact that it has a leaking valve with a low or loud

murmur.

FRO-M “THE PASSIONATE MAN'5 PILGRIMAGE"

Give me my scallop-shell of quiet, My staff of faith to walk upon, My script oi joy, immortal diet, My bottle of salvation,

My gown of glory, hopes true gage, Ami thus I'll take my pilgrimage.

Blood must be my body's ba-lmer. No other balm will there be given, Whilst my soul like a white paimer Travels to the land of heaven, Over the silver mountains,

Where spring the nectar fountains; And there I'll kiss -

The bowl of bliss,

And drink my everlasting fill

On every rnilken hill.

My soul will be a-dry before,

But after it will thirst no more.

And this is my eternal plea

To him that. made heaven, earth, and sea:

Seeing my flesh must die so soon. And want a head to dine next noon, Just at the stroke when my veins start and spread,

Set on my soul an everlasting head. Then am I ready, like a pslmer fit, To tread those blest paths which before I writ.

~81!‘ Walter Raleigh (1552-1618)

NEW YORK IS CENTRE OF BUSINESS LIFE

The place that New York City occupies tn the business life of the United States is emphasised in the figures for bank oifige in com- parison with the U d States as a whole. In 1085, of the total of m7,1'l'l,a08,5l0 for the whole Unit- ed States, New York City accounted to: 61.09 per cent, or l181b51,000.- 808, according to the Industrial Dc- partment of the Canadian National Railways. The highest year since 1020 was 1929 when the bank clear- ings for the United States totalled 8727348371330, of which New York or

0011b, 1157318891751. "88 seems M been the bottom of the de-

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Edward Island I feel that I must speak at this time.

lastlull a questionnaire on leg- tnetton was cent out to each In- stitute. Thole have been discussed and are being returned. Already I have received a large number. '

One question and its answers par- ticulariy apply at this time: “Is there any special legislation which we as women of this , Province should work for?" Those who have answered this question all stress the more effective enforcement of our Prohibition law rather than new legislation. So this may be taken as the voice or the country women of our Province. Vie have l. large membership made up from all the churches and from both politi- cal parties, so thk is netthcrfll. denominational movement nor e. political one. You all know our motto "For Home and Country.’ Surely if three thousand and more women want Prohibition and its positive enforcement to protect those homes and this Island there is nothing. unusual in their de- mand. , .