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moNnAY. lbucklmiln 10. 1m. Following Bennett's Lead

The Guardian on Saturday carried‘ full_de- tails of the various reports and resolllllvflS adopted at the Dominion-Provincial conference. A careful reading of these reports Wlll show that the monferencc in large part approved of the policies of the late BENNETT administration, and authorized the KING Government to con- tinue these policies as the best means of dealing with the problems left by the depression years. Dominion relief contributions to the provinces, which the BENNETT Government initiated, are to be continued and even increased: The BENNETT traus-Canadzrhighyvay .pollcy ls also to be continued, on a fifty-fifty payment basis, as well as the federal farm loan legislation. at a minimum interest rate of four per cent. and steps are to be taken to consider debt re- duction, taxation duplication,_uniform company laws and other matters in line with Conserv- ative policy.

Of special interest in the report of the ag-,

ricultllral committee is the emphasis on the im- portance of investigation and development of all possible export markets for both seed and table stock potatoes. The \Vashington treaty provcd a disappointment to our potato growers in this respect, no tariff reduction having been obtainedmn table stock entering United States. while the quota limitation 0n seed potatoes is ridiculously small for all Canada. Other markets must be found, and the onus has now been placed on the Dominion Government of taking immediate steps to establish the necessary machinery to effectively carry out this purpose. Little has resulted from the conference de- liberations which was not known before and embodied in the policy with which the BENNETT Government u-ent to the country. Condemned by its opponents, repudiated by the people- there is surcly something ironically amusing in the fact that practically the same policy should emerge from the deliberations of a Dominion- Provincial conference overwhelmingly Liberal and desirous, naturally, of finding other rem- cdics—-if such were to be found—for Canada's economic ills_ Wisely has it been decided, instead of reverting to laissez faire Liberalism, to fol- low the BENNETT lead, which has already taken Canada three-quarters‘ of the way out of the depression. -

N. B. Takes Exception

There is more than meets the eye in the

i failure of PREMIER KING to obtain unanimity

in the proposed change of the British North America Act. Hitherto the Province of Quebec ha: stood absolutely firm in its opposition to any attempt to abrogate what she considered her safeguard against the day when, probably. the English speaking population in the other Provinces would far exceed that of Quebec. On the present occasion, having an eye, no doubt. to the irnminence of another provincial election, Prawn TASCHEREAU took no decided stand on the question, but hisiplace was taken by the HoN. J. B. MACNAIR, Attorney General of New Brunswick, who entered dissent on behalf of his Province. The grounds he claimed were that New Brunswick was not prepared to commit herself without first knowing the nature of the proposed alterations in the Act, and the fear that transference of power from the independ- ence of Parliament of Great Britain to a party majority in Canada’ might prove detrimental to New Brunswick interests.

This stand applies equally to Prince Ed- ward Island, The B.N.A. Act as it now stands is of the greatest importance to both Provinces, and no alteration should be allowed without making doubly sure that our rights and privil- eges as an independent Province are not thrown into the melting-pot. We cannot afford some fu- ture Federal government--Liberal or Conserv- ative-deciding that Maritime-Union should be- come an accomplished fact, and sacrificing our interests arid provincial freedom for the benefit especially of Nova Scotia.

Ypres At Dusl’

War veterans particularly will appreciate the description in the December issue of Bcackwoolfs of a post-war visit to Ypres by Lt.-Col. Burma, D.S.O., who rode into that city with the first of the British troops, the Seventh Division, in October, 1914.

"The kindliest time to see Yprcs,” he says, “is just when dusk has deepened into night, and the artificial lighting flatters the buildings of the square—to make _them older. The torrent of cars has ceased, and sightscers have left. Of a. sudden the houses have gone back to the Middle Ages, And they take you with them —back, not merely to pre-war, but to where they took you in those pro-war days. Fantastic, now, the nightly cofivoy, plodding through this self- same square on towards the Gate and away (if

‘not unlucky‘) by ‘Hellfire Corner’ and ‘up the

Line! . . . The very war itself, as you sit here and listen, is banished-nearly.” _ Lh-Coi. Burma: adds that it would bc diffi-

. mlt to praise too highly the work of the Imper-

inl War Graves Commission as shown in the at/Xpres. _ . .

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Parliament not to meet till. Thursday, anuar o, 1 6. - J y s 9s a“ g p _

Two important delegations of Liberals have intimated their desire to interview Premier LEA as soon as he returns from Ottawa.

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The munici lities must foot the bill for the dole as heretofianre until the budget in May, with such assistance as the Provinces may extend.

fi I It , Premier TAscaEnEAu with the prospect of being turned out of office before very long, is now impressed by the fairness with which all governments of recent years have treated Que- ec. if fi if _ Would it not be a pity if the Clerk of the Weather disappointed our machinery-mad Min- ister of Public Works by letting us have a win- ter likc I912, '13, '14 when there was hardly enough snow to cover the pastures. Then, too, the frost killed all the bugs.

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The Hon. C. P. FULLERTON, K.C., chair- man of the Board of Trustees of the C. N, Rail- ways does not seem to be worrying over the Hon. Mr. HowE's threat to take the control of the C. N..R. again into politics. He says par- Iiament would be better employed regulating motor truck and other railway competition.

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It may be recalled that a Canadian, Lord HALIBURTON, son of “Sam Slick" long ruled the British Foreign office. Again at this critical juncture a Canadian, is playingian all-import- ant part in Britain's foreign policy. Mr. MAURICE PETERSON, the Foreign Oflice expert on African affairs,.who is taking a prominent part in the Anglo-French parleys in connection with the Italo-Ethiopian waf, is a son of _,the late 'Sir WIELIAM PETERSON, principal of McGill Uni- verslty. -

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In review of this year's operations of the Canadian National Railways, Mr. FULLERTON released some, striking figures which showed an operating profit for the railway’: hotel sys- tem more than double the 1934 figures, an oper- ating loss of $127,000 in connection with the merchant marine in 1934 transformed into an estimated ‘profit this year of $273,000, and an estimated profit of $164,000 for the West Indies steamship line which has'shown an unbroken, if decreasing, record of deficits since its incep- tion in 1929. Surpassing even these figures, the chairman predicted a gross revenue for the rail- way sYitem 0T $173-000.00o for 1935, a better- ment of $8,000,000 over r934. A new phase of social dancing was brought out in a recent discussion of the trends of that pastime at the December meeting of the New York Society of Teachers of Dancing. There is a revival among the you-nger devotees of the ball-room of the square dances of the 1890's such as the lancers, quadrllles and other formal figures whose restoration has long been advo- cated by HENxv FORD. Those teachers who re- ported the revival of square dances at college and private functions also stated that the cotil- lion figures favored by the elite in the days of Warm McALmsTEn, Mrs. jonN JAcon Asroa and HARRY Lana were again being danced by the youngsters and that the demand for instruc- tion in the old figuris was ailpcreasing.

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A North Simcoe branch of the Ontario Potato Growers Association has been formed at Barrie, Ont., at a“ gathering of representative producers. I. 'I‘_ CASSIN, one of the organizers of theAssociation , stated that other branches were to be formed in Hamilton and London districts. The meeting passed a. resolution urging compulsory inspection of potatoes in regular areas as designated by the Department of Agri- culture, particularly in Toronto and district, as a means of preventing cull or inferior potatoes from being dumped, and thereby injuring the reputation of Ontario potatoes in the main market. Another resolution asked for co-opera- tion between growers and recognized dealers in the marketing of potatoes, a step regarded as essential in the movement to obtain better mar- kets-and better prices. Where is our marketing Board? 5E 3K 3K

It is not always agreeable to listen to can- did critics, nevertheless they are necessary, be they evil or otherwise. Mr. Hxmzv HILL, sup- ervisor of music in Kitchener and Waterloo scholls, told a service club that the musical tastes of Canadians are decidedly low-~and he wasn't as polite about it as that. “The average

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musical taste of the high school student savors more of the gutter than anything else,” he rc- marked, “and I say that advisedly." Rotary Club members laughed heartily as Mr. HILL read the lines from a popular song he called “mushy.” “The average musical taste of the university graduate never gets beyond the kindergarten,” he added. Mr. Hm. said the University of Syra- cuse, with a student symphony orchestra and other musical organizations, was ahead of Uni- versity~ of Toronto in matters of music. He hoped that eventually students would _be re- quired to attain a. certain musical, standard be- fore passing entrance examinations. I if fi. i \ Over 30o hotel and tourist executives, transportation and Government oflicials from Canada and the United States, are expected to attend the annual mid-winter meeting of, the Adirondack Resorts Association which will be held in Montreal on Saturday, January n, 1t is announced by Mr. Tampons G. Mono/m, presidentvof the Montreal Tourist and Conven- tion Bureau. The Bureau will act as host to the visiting delegates and during their stay in the city

V of the international winter dint met in Montreal in r919 and 1; annually Jamaal: th? “d; rfWuuymewait oocto 1 --,‘..;..‘“‘§,“l, L-truffic andwtravol conditions. Mullen cholera: to the travelling public, dud

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Mr. and Mrs. William Walker, are

marital phtlmophy quotes only Mrs. Walker, an inkling of the secret of their wedded bliss may be hinted at. She does the talking. She has taken pains to feed oer husband well, look otter his clothes anti give 111m as much freedom “as was good for him. Never argue with a

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"Why wouldn't Canada make such a proposal? Somebody must tak; the lead. The whole basis of the League 1s collective action and the members of such a. collective body must. act upon proposals ad- vanced by their fellow members. If the proposal 1s not acceptable, very well, dmp 1t. But solvebody must propose 1t. Somebody must say 1t. The suggestion was not that Can- ada shoufd take such action alone but that such coilectlve action shuold be takenfl-Str Robert Iai- concr.

The situation with respect‘ 1.0 automobile accidents has become such that the Red Cross feels call- ed upon to enter the field 1n be- half of the injured, to say nothlng of the dead. If a certain disease were to fasten upon a million of the population and take 30,000 lives, all the forces of relief would be sum- moned to repulse 1t. The first flg-, uro stands ‘as the number of ln-l jured and the second as the num- be: killed 1.n uutomoblle accidents 1n the United States last year. No wonder the Bed Cross 1s called to servloei-Buffalo Evening News.

The now British House includes 56 pmcblslng barristers, nine doo- tora and surgeons, five colllery chcck-welghmen, a horse breeder, an actor. a. dentist, a master mar- iner, an unemployed miner and many prominent ln sports. There are also 97 Knights and 10 Peers‘ com and Peereases.

Someone onoo said that every mm should be ‘lonely at heart.’ 'I'hat is not so easy in a bustling world. 'I‘oo much of our time 1s spent on the treadmill, without vis- ion and perspective in Our work and with a most intolerable clatter 1n our ears. But sometimes we must get away from the din and discov- er ourselves. we need seasons of solitude with ourselves, for we must all be solitary 1n the great crlsw of life .a.nd we must all be alone at death. Thatqs the greatest of the frults of leisure, the chance to discover our souls, the opportunity of that ‘rest and returning’ which, according to the prophet, should be our suengt ."—Lord ‘Iweedsmulr.

The Lord Chief Justice of Eng- land, Lord Hewart, held forth 1n strong language the other day on the subject 01' medical evidence 1n support of insanity pleas 1n mur- dcr cases. While the law was very precise on the subject, he said, and capable of being understood by a chtld, there were few topics on which so much rubbish and so much sentimental nonsense had been talked. "You have been asked to ‘be merciful,’ he said to the jury. "Cm you tmaglne anything less merciful than 1.0 stlgmatlze as a. criminal lunatic a man who is per- fectly sanelW-Globe.

A tremor rim would hardly be

hailed as an earth quake 1n fortun- ate Rhoda Island . . . Our earth 1a all the time under lntemal strains that affect. 11s surface even to the slow upheaval and subsidence of oontlnents or portions of them. Al- so the tidal effect of the sun and moon 1s constantly at work. Along our shores its operations are ob- vloua. But deep 1n the earth the solid, still more the broken, rocks feel its disturbing pull. As this ef- fect accumulates, 1t may cause slipping along faults. Regions of the oldest mountains, l1ke the east- ern United States and Canada. have largely outlived their dang-er. The whole rim or the Pacific Ls an active danger zone, where destruc- tlve earthquakes may occur at any time. Fbrturlately we may look back upon our recent tremor as an interesting experience rather than u. devastating calamity or a. warn- 1n¢ of impending evil-Providence Journal.

Mr. J. S. Woodsworfh, lil.P., whose opinions on international. affairs are, 1n our estimation, more re- liable than some of his opinions on queatln of domestic economy, presented the truth cogently when he said that, 1f sanctions were to be applied at all, they should be u complete as possible. We would odd, however, that. they should bs as effective as possible. and that if relatively strong Sanctions can atop Mussolini, there 1s no need to reoott. to t.h¢ very strongest form. In the present case, unfortunately, ‘it looks u if the strongest form will be required-Hamilton Herald.

No no is sentenced to gentlen- thry ti: Cmlda for any offence de- serving lea ‘than two years’ 1m- prloonment . . . The Feat maj- ority of tnmotes of Canadian pen- iilenttartea are therefore what may in described as “bard cases." The? mould be treated fairly; they should be decently ‘ 16d. 6MB“! decently lodged. They

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Anthology’

(Of interest to all lovers of litera- ture 1s the following paper. ‘which was read recently before the Catholic Poetry Society b! Mr. Harry E. Foster, M. A. Charlotte- town. The translation quoted fro the Greek Anthology, except where otherwise designated, m Mr. Foster's own.)

The first Greek anthology was compiled by a poet of the city of Alexandria, Meleager, 1n the 1st. cent. B. C. The word "anthology" 1n Greek means nothing more than a. picking or gathering of flowers with the idea. of forming a. wreath or garland. Melange: him- self has explained his aim 1n the preface to his thol _,. He tells us that he has chosen the work of varlolu poets, each of whom he re- presents symbolically by a por- tlcular flower. In his garland he has woven the "ltlfes" of Anytmtbe “roses" of Sappho, the "hyacinth" of Alcaeus andotberflowers typify- lng the different poets 1n his book. With these words he concludes, “To my friends I make the 31ft, but this sweet-voiced garland of the Muses Ls common to all. the initialed." This. the model of all later anthologies naturally gave rise to other: of the same kind. About a century later another poet, Phlllipus. made u collection and about six centuries later still another was compiled by a poet named Agathfas. These threeanthol- ogles were the only ones known to the ancient world. Finally 1n the 10th. cent. A. D- u Byzantine scholar, Constantine Cephalas, formed a new anthology out of the three older ones, adding additional poems of his own choosing. This 1s the collection we possess to-day, although anmanuscrtpt of another anthology, based on this one. the Planudean of the 12th. or 13th cent- has come down to us. The anthol- ogy of Constantine Cephaiaa 1s known as the Palatine Anthology, because the manuscript of 1t was foun in 1606 1n the library of the Elec r Palatine at Heidelberg.

The importance to us of the Greek Anthology does not lie alone in its being the first anthology but in the comprehensive view 1t offers of Greek poetry over a period‘ of 1500 years. In 1t are represented some of the earliest of the Greek poets of whom we know-the golden names of Sappho and Aeschylus-as well as some of the lust blossoms from the garden of Greek poetry. Here we may find Greek thought and feeling on such timeless themes as love, death, and friendship, expressed 1n exquisite utterances of simplicity and beauty. Religion alone 1s almost omitted, being treated only in its‘ more formal and exterior aspects. The reason for this 1s that all the poems in the Anthology are concerned with some brief thought or emotion, for which the particular form used 1n the Anthology-the eptgram-ls perfectly adapted, whereas religion, needing greater scope for express- ion, was left to the playwrights and philosophers, who have written more lnsplrlngly on this subject than any other non-Christian thinkers.

The Greek Anthology has un- doubtcdly greatly influenced both Rennalssanoe and modern litera- ture. It ls fairy certain, for ex- ample. that Ben Jonson took his "kiss wlthfn the cup" from the fol- lowing poem:-

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If I must drtnk, and I will drain

1t up.

What could I do but, where the kiss has sunk,

with that changed liquor be

divinely drunk, What, when to mine the beaker oars the kiss It tasted at your mouth, but burn with this?" (H. Wolfe.)

The influence of the love poems on the Ellzabethans was very great indeed and the skeptlclsln of many other poems has left a strong mark on that great modern poet and scholar, A. E. Housman.

Rupert Brooke, Robert Bridges. and other moderns frequently show to what fountain head they have gone to drink the waters of their inspiration.

To find from the Anthology what 1s Greek in thought and feeling is made easier from the fact that it 1s divided into several books accord- ing to subject matter. I'm- instance, one book 1s devoted to poems on love, another ls a series of epltopha, whlle yet another 1a composed of dedication; to gods and goddess", The remaining books deal with various matters, such as descrip- tions of works of art, satire, hurl-l- our, clonvlviallty, and the like, one pe ‘ book 1s composed of’ rid. dies, oracles, and arithmetical pro- blems. all of which roduoe unusu- al and mvltk in the wly of posh-y. m 1t is to be found a beautiful oracle, r “""l‘.‘°"l"'°é’l.‘l'° o’ "-

w! spew o us’: Lady Mifiblthh- m” "Come, stranger, pun: in mind to the precinct of the pun Inf, after dipping thy hand tn the water of thetvyplpbl. I'm‘ a little drop nufflou for the righteous. but not i.e whole ocean shall cleanse “wicked man with its streams."