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TUESDLY. NOVEMBER. 9, 1937

The Five Years’ Hoist

It is ZilllltllliKCil that the Royal Cotiimissitm ml Doniiuitiit-Provincial relations will hold it‘ first sittings at Winnipeg 0n November 29 and r11,“ {t5 report will b¢ in the hands 0f Ffidefiil (iovcrnnicnt by the ctid of 1938. its SClIfl-llllfi 0f public hearings. as‘ Wlfiilffll b,“ ‘l5 Lh§""““l' Hon. N. \\'. Rowell, will cover a period of months. 'l'li:it is. Mr. Rowell says, providing the LToininis-ioticrs be given “the cQ-oPQ-FMIO" promised." llthcrwise Prewmablf/ lfodjrcm}: estimate can be placed on_ the length oi time this tribunal may spend on its work. ' And thc" there will be neither finality nor binding force iti such recommendations as it may make, for these. as the Chairman points out, are merely atlvisorv. _

The deliberation with which this investigat- ing body is swinging into action, says the Syd,- ney-Post Record, can hardly have escaped piib- lic attention. Appointed last summer, it has seemingly been ever since then undergoing an elaborate process of organizatiflfl. 3P4 "5 "a1 work—tliat is its public hearings-will only be- gin at the end of the present month. Four months cannot but be regarded as an unconscion- ably long time for a. Royal COHImlSElOYI 0f 5 tncu, all Canadians, and presumably in fit C011- dition, to require to get under way.

But after starting these sittings, seven months

will be needed to cover the planned sCltcdlllfl- Then the Commission is to take six months af- ter that to produce its report and recommenda- tions. Finally, ivhcri this repprt and these r8- (‘Omillflitlfllltlrls are given to the Government at the end of 1938, they may or may not be made ihe basis for a number of far-reaching amend- ments to thc DNA. Act for the consideration of the Dominion Parliament in I939 or 1940, and ‘fr; ratification at l/Vestminster some time after jliat.

Meanwhile tinemploymenf lnstirance, the minimum wage law. the maximum hours of ‘work ,aud all the other social and economic re- forms Parliament assented to in I935 will stay suspended. like Mohammed's coffin, between Iicaven and earth. The Dominion Govern- ment has thus succeeded in giving all these so- fial murity measure; the five years’ hoist.

Ari Experiment Approved

1 A paragraph appended to the _I936-37_ TEDDY‘ bf the Imperial Economic Committee which i185 just been issued states that the Imperial Con-

that this estimate is somewhat astronomical and that no significant approximation is possible. An examination of the methods employed to arrive at a year's estimate however, show that thc calculation is itpon a conservative basis.

Since there are more than twenty million visi- tors in thc course of a year, a per capita ex- penditure of lcss than $15 would produce an ‘ag- gregate of $300 million. In order to secure as close a check as possible on the volume of such expenditures, the Dominion Bureau of Statistics supplied thousands of visitors with cards and asked them to fill them out and return by mail. As these cards were returned, average; were taken. It is :1 notable fact that there is no great divergence in the average amounts indicated on any thousand successive cards as compared with the next thousand 0r any thousand that follows iii a single calendar year. From year to year, however, the divergence is marked and this givc5 some basis for arriving at a conclusion as to how freely visitors have spent their money while iii Canada. The per capita amount spent in a given year has risen substantially since the bot- tom of the depression. i

I‘ Editorial Notes I D.S.O. established this date I886. =- x 1t v P6366 Day and Peace lecture. v it =- at

The old age pension conference did discuss arrangements for pensions for the blind of thc "E49 0f 40 upwards. 'l'he_\~ also decided to tighten upihe regulations and lZi\\'.< for the compulsory tiiaintainance of parents by children in a posi- tion to do so.

it ‘A prisoner in Georgetown jail in connection with a. riim running case now sub judice, writes to The Guardian complaining about. the alleged insanitary conditions of the jail. He makes fur. ther appeal on behalf of the wives and families of the crew of the alleged rum-runner left stranded in Newfoundland, The Government should lookinto the matter without delay. =0- : iv s Meats were imported to the value of $142.- 520 during September as compared with $127,- 644 a year ago. Argentina lcd the supplying countries with a value of $52,605, followed by the United States at $43.51.; and the United Kingdom $25,765. Canned beef was the cliicf item with a value of $71,508, cominglargely from Argentina. Rarrelled porl; in bring was worth $33069, all from the United States. 1k i

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The bulk of thc September imports of farm implements and tnachinery came from the Unit- ed States; the aggregate ivas $1,738,849, more than double those of September, 1936. The amount from the United States was $1,638,048. Internal combustion traction engines for farm purposes valued up to $1.400 each were valued at $I.227.Ii4 as compared with $486,669, large- ly accounting for the large gain in the grand total imports of farm implements.

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ifCrCtiCC of last summer approved of the work bf the Committee and of its continuance "Willi omewhat increased financial Fcsoufces". Tlwffi- Ev a constitutional experiment Which was initiat- Rd four years ago has been endorsed. The fx- ‘ erimeiit consisted in forming an orgamZ-Btltl". (financed, controlled by and responsible to all Governments of the British Commonwealth (mid ufilj merely to any one of their number) to d0 work by all—i.c. a truly co-operative body 0f- ganizetl on the basis of equality with Joint re- gponsibility to serve a. common and agreed Pur- ~ O58. '.l'he Committee is inter alia empowered Etc examine and report upon any economic ‘Question which the Governments of the Coin- pmonwcalth may agree to refer to it.’ So far its (work has consisted in the collection and presenta- lion of economic information on particular sub- iicts, with the object of throwing light on the ade and industrial competition ivliich coun- ' ies in the Commonwealth are meeting ‘or tire ¥kely to meet in particular~couuuoilitics or Speaking generally. the reports and intelligence services. present {world information with facts of limlml‘ ""9" est in the foreground. Ihey- ari- therefore zis a rule both more detailed zuitl more clearly direct- gd t0 Commonwealth in‘ re" s than is often pos- sible in international statistics.

Tourist Expenditures

Kcports front all parts of Cziuadzi lilillCiliC . , l‘. -

that 1937 has been .iii txtcllcnt )c.ir_in the ltl. ist iradc, savs the monthly lcttcr oi the ltolfll Batik of (jaiizitlii. 'l‘bc_i1utl1l><‘f 0f Pmlllc “lw have come m Lgnuul‘, ,5 equal to the number entertained lli thc T000111 W?" 1939- and “"5 ear the visitors have ilfifil" llcc" Sllcndlllg free‘ y On a, basis. sonieivliat similar to that iisfid b); the Ijurpininn Bureau of Statistics for Col- culatitig thc volume of PXPCINlIlUTP-Q of “"35” visitmg it “Tiuld appear probable that the total for I937 W1" Qilllill 0r cxcci-d the record attained in i929, nameltvbgoo million, I I In the first eight months of I935. 1035 "l" "i927 foreign ziiitoriiobilcs which cntcrcil C1"!- ndn numbered zdtiflooo, 3.811.000 and 3-134- ooo respectively. The eight months of i936

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1935. and thc eight tnoiiths of ‘W371 m “lmg ‘1 gain of 373‘OQO org;- i936. ()1 the cars \\'lliCll . tutored (jflnnlp, in m3; nnt- lilllllfili. rctiiaitieil within the country for periods which \'Ill'l’Ell from twn days to two innitths, and more than 1.300 cars were here from l\\'n to Six I""l1_’l1-=- about hw-ntv-niillioti people from the llnifrtl States will have visited (Yiuatla llvfufl‘ llil‘ .“(‘-'"' _|_< over, and lit-tween four mid five tiiilliott of qhr-m will havt- _\l'i\'i'tl lll'i'i‘ two days or more

Statistics sitcli as these portray iii a quirk "lid

graphic lll7lIill('l' th~ ina-giiitiul- mid rcvciit Hlpul

expansion of llll‘ tourist trade of Canada. 'l'hose \\'!I> av" enthusiastic about the effect

of the tnnrbt trzidt- on Canadian business are in-

Ten loans under the Dominion Housing Act were made to Prince Edward Islanders dur- ing October. Altogether for, the Dominion the number totalled 14o for a total of $741,498. pro-‘ viditig accotiiniodatioti for 149 families. ‘This was nnincrease of 25o per cent. over the amount loaned in October, 1936. Average loan per fam_ ily unit was $3.822. Initiated more than two years ago. the act provides for cooperation be- tween the Dominion and authorized loan com- panics to facilitate borrowing at a maximum in- terest rate of five per cent. for erection of du-ellitig. It ivas noted that the average loan per family unit dropped from $5.304 in 1935 to $4.309. indicating that tllc sitiall home biiild- er was hcticfiting. the original aim of the act. Of the October loans 75 were for $3,000 or less.

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The King GOVCYIIIIIOIIK. has awarded a Um‘ tract running into approxinizitcly‘ 391-50010130, fol; the construction ot eightcctiumproverl risto “Blcnheinfi Coastal Rcccmiiaisance twin ragla- cd aircraft, to ill(‘_l“i\ll'C~lill(l AITCTPI“ Emmy the building of \\'lilt‘li will covfif "Pllroxlllmlcl thrcc vcars and employ ll(‘l\\‘(‘(‘ll 300 mid 40° men The itizichines will be built at the plant of the Ifairrhild Companv at Longueuil, Qilfl. where combincrl si-atilnne and land Plifm‘ laffl" tics are available. The liYl-‘lfll nlellhclnl- ‘vmch is Powered bv two llrisiol hlflfllr." 825 hliitflni glues. was chosen by the Department of J1] tional Defence ziftcr a careful 5\"""@y fol _a available general rcconnatsaticc types _n i111"- craft tiow in cottrse of dvvelopniciit In GIT?" Britain, because. it is reported. tlit‘ (kllafllllelll considered it to be thc lit-st -iti its class. Its rang!‘ with an ordinary bomb load is about "ill" but thc exact bomb load catinot be discloficil. T‘ this varies according to the amount of fuel

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Om- of the wot-libs celebrated collections of ziir-itiail stamps and covers, zissemblcil by _Ml'- Rnger Stcffan. a vicc-prcsitlent of the Nillmmfl Citv Bank, Ntwv York. “H19 50m for "PPTOX" "mmv $75300 m mpgtinil. 'l"lit: record nrtcc W35 for the "fzitnous liotiditras red." so-call- ed because of a rod ovvrtiflllt "t1 fl Honduras 5-ccntavos blue stamp i sited in 1925. Two 0th?!‘ llTiiilliiiiii ' chi‘$173M‘"a~ii1l""$4&°°"-' Collectors and dealers titiitl more than $24.00!? {or $(‘\‘(‘ill_\’-l\\'t) Ilontluran items. Iiniil Bruccliig of New York gave Sjctfxio for one of the eighty- fIllC existing full-perforatctl copies of the scarocst United States air stamp-the 24-cent carmine and blue of 1018 with centre inverted Former- lv owned by the late (foloncl E. H. R. Green. it was part of a shcct that elude the scrutiny 0f a cleric during the tlav's sales at the Vl/ashing- liin, I).(_,,, piisliiffivt‘ .\ll‘. lriiclillig pfild $3,i()f) for a supi-rli copy of Ni-ivfiiittitllzitid l)e Piiicdn (to-cent black til‘ i917, nni- of philatel_v‘s most prized iii-tits. 'l‘en other rarities from Mexico. Doniiiiicati lteptiblic. Fcuailor, China, New- foundland. Russia. Bolivia. Honduras and 511R-

:lincd in b~livvc that an estimate of $300 million of expendTttvn: somewhat antler-states the full anituint spent in Canada. Those \\'ll0 have only Castial contact with the business arc likely to feel

tralia. brought prices ratigitiq from $670 tn $2.- 200. and about fiftv either stamps sold for mt-rc than $200 each. Some of the items brought higher than prevailing catalog values.

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NOTES BY TllE WAY

Chho’: leaders lay China can fight for five years. That may no be true. but. it w ll not. take lllb 1on3 to make Japan wonder “n.1- she con get. the money she needs i.» conduct. a costly war on ‘ ‘ sou

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prised the world. It looks much more like a unified China-Ex.

- Canada's mines, yielding gold, pay little attention to ticker tapes. Thus with two-thirds of the year account- edfor production exceeds that. of the corresponding period last. year by 231,000 ounces. That, at $35 an ounce, is roughly $3.560,000—wh ch is a lot. of moneyz-Ottawa Journal.

Thai one talks best who is most himself. ‘Iaiere is to the talk of many that something which lights up life to another and which makes that one utters words that picture his heart. To some we can confide our innermost feelings, while to others we remain silent. To the latter our very want for words seems a sscrtlega-Adams.

Thai. was a biting remark by the French newspaper, 1e Populaire, when it directed attention to the frt that Mussolini. while shouting that Germany must have colonies, neglected to offer that country any territory in Ethiopia. It bit to the core of MUSSOUIIYS pretensions. - Telegraph Journal. '

~ An English traffic case centred on the duty of a motorist confronted with a confict. between a road sign which said "Stop!" and a pol cemtm ‘who said "Come on!“ The magis- trate at Amersham fined the mo- torist fifteen shillings for obeying the policeman. the ground being that mad signs take precedence over policemen-Baltimore Bun.

Until public opinion in the United States awakes to the need for co- operation wlth other permeable pow- ers in establishing e. collective sys- tern for arbitration of international disputes, the neutrality act stands as a. worthy attempt to prevent com- mercial greed and outmoded insist- ence on "rights" from exposing American lives lost in ‘war areas. Unless positive consuitatton between the Western powers interested in Far Eastern peaoe evolves soon, in- vocation of the American neutrality laws would appear unavoidable. -— Christian Science Monitor, Boston.

The occasional tendency of jurors to be diverted from the evidence by the scent of mush is no indictment of the jury system fri general. But the presence of morbid or hystei- cal or silly spectators in court. rooms is another matter. There is little that can be said in defense of a custom or practice that permits trials to be one of the leading spectator sports. -New York Bun.

Up to the end of October 75B cars of foodstuffs have been shipped from the various parts of Canada. to the needy West. If one should esti- mate the cost. 0f this food. had it. been bought; and shipped 1n the 0r- dmary way, it. wand total almost $500,000. The fine thing about. this project is that it. has not; been look- ed on as charity but as something one Canadian ought to do for an- otherwho is in difficult. straits through no fault of his own. From the Maritime: to British Columbia, all creeds and classes have co-oper- ated-a fine eimmple of Canadian solidarity-United Churchman.

Mussolini; Spanish policy ls sim- ilar in sortie respects to his policy of defiance toward Britain in the Eth- iopian eiffair. It is not understand- able except on the theory that II Duce believes that. Britain is bluf- fing again. Hitler has some doubts on that score. but he probaby has intimated to MUSSOlJil that if he cares to test. Britain's determination with favorable results. Germany will associate herself once more with the Italian policy of Fascist interven- tion. Hitler hesitates to challenge Britain on his own. but he would he pleased to see a loss of British pres- tlue and influence and to make an indirect contribution to that result. —Tomnw Star. .

As I matter of fact, the total rain- fall this summer throughout prac- tically the whole drought. district has been greater than it was in 1936. The trouble was that it did not come in time. This fact, taken together with the r sing level of the take of the Woods, the fact the. Manitoba this year had enough ruin and grew a better-than-average crop. and the fact. that the drough; broke this year south of the inter- national border. are the best. pos- sible indications that a. period of normal rainfall is beginning. _ Winnipeg Tribune.

From the "25 Years Ago" column of in: uttawa Journal: The edlto: counted the pockets in h s clottiv found 23 of them. most of them i use. Why the dtckens, he nskt. shouldn't a woman carry a lot. oi things in a handbag? The author o. the paragraph missed a. good human interest story. He should have tolu with what. the editorial pockets were Iined 25 years ago and wnat they contain today. if anything. We hazard the guess, however, that. from decade to decade the editorial pocket is nothing to write home abouts-St. Catharines Standard.

"How lo be happy though mar- ried and in the White House" might. be the caption over a few para- KFFPhB illPlll. . .. Ifilall"! a" inlcivléw given the press by the nation's “first lady." The reporters were teasing her for information as to. the possibility of Mr. Roosevelt again running for the presidency, but they might. have been asking any other question so far as the re- ply was concerned. "I have never," ahe told them deflntely, "expressed to the president or myself a choice —-es to anything my husband did. I can never remember his asking my advice." Au to i940: "I can only toil you I have not. heard him express on opinion.” It. had never occurrctl - to her throughout the presidential term of her husband to do anything but adjust herself to "his mode of ltvingP-Rome (N. Y.) Sentinel.

Lovers of democracy will flnd not-hing to choose between dictator- ahvpa, whether they be of the Right or the Left. Today Russia is a dic- tatorship. The Stalin constitution on the faoa offt. leaveaooroom fora

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, LEST we i-onuirr Sir-As Remembrance Day draws near again it brings beck memor- ies of bygone days: of horrtbic sight; on the battle-tom plains; of terrible nights in water-filled trenches and shell holes; memor- iies of nights watching the rec l flames from heavy guns cu; ithrough clouds of pluck smoke; imemories of the so-called mim- ‘ made hell on earth. Space wit; not. permit the thoughts that raced through the minds of those half- rgxirved men who at. times had - forgotten everything in their ag- ony. Volumes may and will be printed on wars. but many of the things that happened On those blood drenched fields are to be left. untold: secrets locked in the

treasure chest of the past. How many moth are still living who rememb writing to their

sons with the address “Somewhere in France". True it was some- where and some of those mothers whose hair has turned w silver still think of their sons who are today somewhere in finance. they live with them in memory and see again their smiling faces: they dream of their footsteps as the wind squeaks the stairs lead-

their voices in the murmur of the wind at night as if seeking the door of life that closed so quickly behind. But; no, its only dreams creep into their lives. There i; no door that leads us back from eter- nity to this mad world. If _vou could visit those battle fields to- day they would present a different picture: trenches have been filled. the fields levelled ofl’. barbed wire fences destroyed. But you will see a forest of white crosses that stand

are there. The crosses that mark their grave make a living picture. 5, symbol to live forever in our memory. They seem to cry out to a restless WOFlEl. a world where nations are today letting human blood drip from their stained swords. "Listen to its," they seem to say; we are the ones who were cut down 1n the primeof life; who have gone through the gateway of death and today look back at. the door of life that. is cltxséd. So new let us all join with them on Remembrance Day in praying to

heaven to send us peace.

"Lest we forget."

I rim. Sir. Pic.

WALTER A. O'BRIEN. Bristol, P. E.I.

Str.—Some daysaso I read in the columns of your paper a. let- lter written by a regular cones- Dondent who has written good letters during the past three or four years on several topics con- cerning the welfare or the [glamp 'I'his time he writes on the apple lndu-“TY and I confess his letter makes a, strong personal appeal to myself, for though I am not a practical farmer or gardener I ain nevertheles a keenly interested observer of farming and garden- ing. ebpwifllly as these are carried on tn our own province.

Having spent several years as a public school teacher in several of the finest. fruit raising districts of British Columbia, the famous Ok- lmP-Bfln Valley, included, I am quite convinced that. not one, of these districts can surpass our own province in the production or 5p- pies both in respect to quantity 11nd quality. And 1 am also fairly well acquainted with the flavor of Ontario. Annapolis Valley, and Massachusetts apples, and I um quite convinced that. out own choice apples eaten in their pro- per season compare favorably with the very best from those famous apple regions. And as to the un- surpassed beauty of our applgg, this is antiualiy demonstrated at. our Charlottetown Exhibition, and our Central School Fair. butniore especially at our Central Experi- mental Farm at Charlottetown. Ami it 15 a great wonder to me that more young farmers do not avail themselves of the opportun- ity of visiting the farm and seeing for themselves what. wonderful ap- tiles can be produced on our Ia- land and tn what profusion too gThls lust. nutumn the very sight of the heavy-laden apple [reek v iden indeed to their utmost ee-