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MONDAY, NOVEMBER, 2.8, 1932

LIBERAL CRITICISM

Mr. Mackenzie King may well nomnloui, as he (I'd at the Ontario Liberal Association meeting recently. of the feeble press support he is receiving. There is scarcely a first- rlass newspapei- in Canada which lhas not roundly criticised h‘s ob- structlolfst tactics in regard to the Imperial Conference agreements. frequent reference has been made in thcsc columns lo the attitude of the Toronto Globe, a newspaper which, a5 the ouawh Journal re- marks, was a strong champion ol Liberalism: when Mr, King was in rompers. The Globe today ls one cf the Liberal leaders severest critics. Nor does it stand alone among im- Domini Qmlositon trainers in this lfiPtct. The Winnipeg Free Press, one of Mr. Bcimctis most tmrelent- lng foes. approved the Ottawa agree- ments ss a step in the right direc- tion. The Ottawa Citizen com- mended them. The Toronto Star Iollowed Mr. King, and now is more than a little concerned to find it has run counter to the views of a great. many of its readers. Liberal edtors m the industrial towns of Ontario and Quebec were for from enthus- lastic about their party's policy; Lib- eral editors in the rural sections uu-oughout the country were hard to persuade that Canada would be mined by opening the British mar- ket to her natural products. And, above all, there is the ease of tho Vancouver Sun. lending exponent of Liberalism in Britsh Cofumbia. which not long ago published an editorial denouncing Mr. King and his leadership with extraordinary

the insurance scheme a Plan of unemployment relief for all able- bodied industrial workers who have eLther exhausted insurance benefit rights or in un nsured trades.

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FIFTY YEARS AGO

An editorial comment in the "Ex- aminer" of Dec. l0, 188d, casts an interest/pg light on the then policy of our local contemporary. Hard times prevailed in thiii W"? PM‘ vinclal revenues were falling; farm prices were low and crops were poor, The panacea suggested by the Patriot at that. time was “a moderate tax assessment."

"What matter then," comments the Examiner drlly, "that. the oat crop has been short. Is not a ‘moderate assessment’ on the farmer's land a full equivalent for light grain? What difference if prices are low? Is not the unposl- tion of a snug dreet tax quite n8 efficacious a remedy for diseased finances as blood-letting when the vital fluid becomes impure? Here then we see at once the criminal stupidity of our Government in not providing a tax on the land this very fall. If they had done so. joy would indeed take possession of every heart and hard tines would come again no more."

It seems that hard times are not new, and that Liberal panaceas have a. fashion of coming in cycles. Mr. W. M. Lea, the present Opposition lender, cannot be blamed for the policy of the local Liberal party fifty years ago; but doesn't the Patriot's suggestion of that date

read strangely like some of Mr. Leaks utterances when he was Pro-

vincial Secretary-Treasurer ln the Bell Government, and was insisting

vIgor, with an inlcilsliyl of language probably not equalled by any Qlon- servntlve newspaper even in the hen‘. of rm election campaign. v The reason for Mr. Kings popularity ivltll his own leading party prC‘&=, is obvious enough. Newspapers are in close lmlilh with the opln ons o.‘ $1181!‘ readers and Liberal newspapers rcolzc that

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Inany supporters of the party feellevepybody__ucept the

that the Ottawa agreements are af-l least a step in the right direction and are also in line with the past policy of Liberal leaders, includuig Bir Wzlfrid Lnurier and lVfr. K1118

lmsclf, In tiiew of the facts, Liberal ouyngllg such 5;, the Toronto GTOBE.

e Ottawa Citizen, the WinnipCKI ‘ ee Press and the Vancouver Sun. cannot afford. in a business way. 01'! as a. matter of principle, to approve of Mr. King's right about face.

It is a rcalizutoil of this fact, no doubt, which leads to the de- mend in certs n quarters for an el- ection now, while the minds of thef‘ people are in a 5mm of ilrlrcst and» before there llus born llmc for the‘ Ottawa trade pacts to become fully operative and give reFult-B-

BRITAINKS‘ DOLE SYSTEM

Of the leglslatvc program out- lined in the King's speech in lhc Brtish H0use of Commons, tot the least important item is the proposal to bring forward a measure to den-l more comprehensively than hereto- fore with unemployment instirancc and provide what is hoped will be more equitable treatment for in- dividuals unnbfe to obtain work- Herein llcs the most acute domcsfc problem that has troubled and ls troubling the United Kingdom. The IIIBBSUI‘: that is to be submitted t0 Parliament, deslgncdly to reform the "dole" system that has worked such havoc with the morale of the unem- ployed and their fitness to resume Work when opportunltes have oc- curred, will be based largely on the majority report of the Royal Com- mission on Unemployment Insur- ance. 'I‘he salient features of this report are directed to establish on n firmer and sounder basis the actual system of unemployment in- lirance, and to place parallel with

that a. taxation dose should be administered, xvilly-nllly, to the farmers?

EDITORIAL NOTES

“If communcations reaching The Globe are any criterion," says the ‘leading Liberal newspaper of Can- ada, “the obstructionlst tactics of the Opposition are dlspleaslng l0

minority of mere partisans who look on all proceses of government as mere fights between groups of glad- iators struggling for omce."

When Mr. Hoover leaves White House less than 4 months hence. the Unted State; will have two cat-Presidents on its hands. the other being Mr. Calvin Coofdge. There is no retiring allowance for CX~PTCSld9IIl5. The late Andrew Carnegie once volunteered to start

‘a fund for such a purpose, suggest-

ing a pension for ex-Presldents of $25,000 per year. But the scheme proved unpopular and was dropped. ‘Subsequently, in his will, camegie left $10,000 a year to Mr. Taft and hs wife if she should survive him,- lns she did-and $5,000 a year to ‘the widows of Grover Cleveland and {Theodore Roosevelt. The Carnegie COYDOl-atlon has power to employ lpdrt of its funds for the penslonlng ,uf cit-Presidents, but has had no loccaslon 8.5 yet to exercise lt, On October 13 the United States {Department of commerce estimated that one result of the Imperial 0on- [ference in normal years will be a re- duction of 875,000,000 in United States exports to Canada. Later cal- ,culzitlons have ra sed this figure to $125,000,000. The Royal Bank c'rcu‘ar adds that, as yet. the percentage of imports coming from Great Britain has not been greatly changed. It $31195 time to build up new trade connections, to establish agencies and service organzatlons: these de- velopments do not take place rop- fdly during a depression. The public has not become accustomed to British trade names, but in time British goods generafy may be as well known ln Canada as col-reg. Punting names and goods from the ,Unlted State;

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IUTES- BY TIIE WAY

The New York Journal of Com- merce says: congressman refuses to admit or else cannot understand, is that the United States will sum-r as well n5 the debtor, if by our insistence we force the British to deplete their exchange reserves to effect the ne- cessary transfer of funds. By de- priving the British Government of resources needed to give it control over exchange quotations, we shall be helping to weaken the position not only of sterling but of all other currencies tied to sterling. We are already facing the abnormal compe- tition offered to American goods at home and abroad by commodities coming from countries with deprec- iated currencles. The longer the period during which these curren- cies remain unstabiltzed and the faster they decline lu value in terms of gold, the greater will be the com- petitive handicap upon the com- merce and industry of the United States and the few countries re- maining on the gold standard.

An exchange recently said of a woman publicity seeker: "Mrs. Francis Marsalls, on the strength of holdingthe women's flight eh- durance record, has announced that she will make a flight over the South Pole if her husband will let her. Someone should speedily take her husband asldc—-there‘s no use arguing with a WOhlBlb-élfld point out that polar flights are for scien- tists, not publicity seekers."

The sldestcppin at Washington over the war debts by the outgoing and incoming administrators proves that the ganlo of politics can be Dlflyed as ruthlessly over a big qucs- tion at the American Capital as at Ottawa. War debt revision is essen- tial to America's economic salvation. Intra-Emplrc trade offers the quick- est and surest escape to Canada from the depression. The Opposition to both demonstrates the blight par- tisan polltlcs can become in times of great emergcilcy-Sydncy Post.

Conditions in the Irish Free State seem t0 be going from bad to worse. ‘News from Dublin reflects an in- l creasing bitterness of internal strife. ‘Several hundred men, armed with Ysticks and stones, tried to prevent Mr. Cosgrave, former President of the Executive Council, from addres- sing a. public meeting in Cork rec- ently, but the spirit of British fair play prevailed and was strong enough to give him a hearing. He provoked only one dissenting voice when he declared that the 11.: Val- era Government is bringing "econo- mic ruin and spiritual degradation to the Free State." The courageous and intelligent campaign that the Opposition is conducting outside Parliament appears to be winning a growing measure of popular support and leading the electors seriously to ponder whither the Government's repudiation of the Irlsn Treaty, and the Executive's proposal to appro- priate the land annuities in dishonor of n. valid agreement, can loud the country.

Mr. Owen D, Young one of the most influential and able support- ers of President-elect Roosevelt n a recent speech said, referring to American action after the war, said: "We turned about and adopted a program of creating unnecessary barlers in the great. highways 0f trade. We become pccvish because retaliatory action is taken by Others- We wake up to find the whole world building competitive trade barriers, Just as we found it a few years n90 building competitive armaments. We are trying to reduce armfimfiflls w ipreserve the world's solvency. We shall have to reduce competitive trade barriers to preserve 1hr! world's sanity. As between the two, trade barriers are more destructive than armaments and more threat- ening to the peace of the world. It ls time for us to call a halt."

ln a recent address in Toronto Lord Bessborough, Governor Gen- eral of Canada described the move- ment for the promotion of scienti- flc co-opcratlon within the Empire as being substantial and fur-reach- ing. He stressed, and very properly the need of a wider understanding of problems common to all Empire countries, a more general apprecia- tion of a common Empire interest in the enormous resources which the British peoples are called upon to administer, and a more intensive realization of the fact that however great the natural resources may be they arc valuable only in terms of intelligent and understanding use. Mr. Justice McCardle, who has achieved a fine reputation for speaking to the point, now comes forward with the statement that crime is not a disease, as some worthy people maintain, but that its causes are still to be found in the old and fundamental forces of hu- man nature, greed, anger, Jealousy, vanity and lust. and perhaps negli-

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ROUTINE WORK AFFECTS THE . NEH-VHS

One of our best boys‘ schools, preparing students for business and professional life, has a. well equip- ped carpenter and machine shop. The idea behind this is that the hands and mind working together is good mental training.

Further, a. boy with a head or bent for mechanics and construction work, but no strong liking for acn- demic work will learn to be of use to the world and himself 1f he 101- , lows up this work at a. technical or engineering school.

Now this man can keep himself interested in his work because of this training, but what about the average man working in a carpen- ter shop, a machine shop, or any other kind of shop, where he works with his hands?

Unfortunately the tremendous in- crease in the use of machinery for all sorts of construction has made the work of the average factory hand very monotonous. Tightening a nut, boring a hole, feeding a saw, running the saw, or other machine, becomes so monotonous, so tire- some, that its effect upon the work- er ls now recognized.

This individual may have no or- ganic ailment, no particular com- plaint, and yet may be what is known as an "industrial invalid."

Dr. J. C. Bridge, London, Eng- land, points out that pleasure of the craftsman or worker is being crushed by the use of so much machinery. that he is not. interested in hi5 W011i. and the result is seen in the tendency to a, rise in the sickness rate for what are termed “nervous disabilities."

There is no question but that doing the same thing every day, Year in aid year out, creates a svearlness that can't be described as real sickness, but in a desire by the worker for a little relief from time to time, from the enforced “bore-

'dom" of his work, in which m,

mind is really not used at all.

This fact must be recognized if We are to really grasp the mu rea- sons for the sickness records, and “nbscntcclsm" among the workers.

“More days are actually lost from work from these nervous disablll. ties due to boredom or tiredness of the tedious routine work, than from all the recognized diseases to- gether.“

How can this condition be cor- rcctecl?

“Piece work instead of time rates, promotion for efficiency, rest periods during the day with change of posture sitting to standing. or Standing $0 Billing. bonuses for un- broken time, are a few suggestions,"

The Use Of Words

(Montreal Gazette)

Sneaking before the st, James LiterarySocle-ty, its honorary presi- ‘dent, Dr. s. P. Rose, gave an illum- inating address upon this topic. 1t it'll-S Pointed out that words have a moral content and, being the ve- hicle of ideas, ever show forth the mind of the man. And {or this reason, amongst many others which msht be cited. it would be of great advantage were more attention paid to the original thought coiled up in the common words we use, and "W" lmins taken to attain a clear style freed from the vagueness and

misuse of words which, properly employed. carry a vast fund of sound instruction and deserve an utterance in accord with the best trad tlons of the precious heritage left to us by the ablest exponents of the English tongue. "How for- cihle arc right. words" is one of the cplgrams of the good old Book, which itself ls a. noble monument of pure. simple and elevated speech, and from which all our greatest writers of English have shaped their art of clothing thought in a. be~ coming garb and learned that "unit of style" when we are told consists in the use oi the better word. Ruskin has said that the two most lasting monuments every nation leaves to posterity are its architecture and its language, and of the two, lang- uage endures even when walls have crumbled to ruin. How came the Greeks to employ the sclfsame term

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At the meeting of the Ontario Liberal Association in Ottawa Ml’- Mackenale King made a rennrlt- able attack upon the Canadian press. and especially upon those Ll- beral newspapers nn- ghout the country which have not supported his apposition to the Ottawa trade agreements. The Opposition leader is impatient with his former cham- pions on the press. He goes so far as to suggest some sinister 1n- fluence behind their present atti- tude.

Has it never occurred to him that he himself is in the wrong and not the newspapers? Has lt never struck hlm that the trade agreements offer new markets and great advantages to Canadian pro- ducers; that the tariff changes under these treaties have now been on the statue book for some time: and that the Canadian peo- ple wish to give these trade agreements and tariff changes I fair trial over a term of years be- fore decidlng about them‘). We are moreover, moved it ask if it has never struck Mr. King that in talking for weeks against these agreements, and in procuring his followers to talk against them, he is discouraging Canadian produ- cers and exporters from taking advantage of them? If the peo- ple were to listen t0 hlm the)‘ would do nothing. 'I‘hey would

Disarmament Plans

(iMontreal Gazette)

The alacrlty with which the ud- vocatea of disarmament at Geneva don reglmentals and stride across the stage with swords that clink and clatter at each step might well invite the jibe of a satirist; ii: prc- sents as grotesque a spectacle of pro- fession contradicted by practice as ever threw international councils into painful bewilderment. Brown- ing tells of an Eastern satrap who, aboard his galley, ls decked in a colorful vest of sllklest texture and dyed with 'I‘yrlan purple. He lets it fall into the sea and the salt wa- ter eats out the tincture throwing cloud after cloud as of impenet- rable mlst on the water. And this seemfi “l be what is happening in the disarmament negotiations. There is no more fatuous, illuslvc and hurtful stroke of policy than the wrongful handling of a right cause. The co-operative idea. of disarma- ment is consplcu Ins by its absence. It has become choked up and viti- ated by a sort of competitive strug- gle. The posts hammered down as a protection against the recurrence of war are being strung with barbed wire.

In the United States there is a disposition on the part of some prominent officials to pit the ques- tion of disarmament against that of the war debts, and to set the re- duction of arms foremost on the score that until some arrangement has been made about lowering the cost of armaments it ls futile to ex- pect the economic situation to im- ‘prove; and when this has been done, it is argued that the debtor nations will be able to discharge their war debts obligations. Again, Germany has come forward with a proposi- tion that the prior consideration must be given to her own claim for arms equality, and that until this mutter, which ls considered crucial to her future standing and welfare amongst nations, has been satisfac- tory settled, her statesmen will hold themselves aloof from the League. France has brought forward a dis- armament plan concerning which the hope is expressed that it ls cap- able of combining the advantages of

with those of the sort of security for which France has consistently stood. The scheme puts security first and disarmament second, and is based upon the thesis that na- tions can only reduce their arms quotas in proportion as the guaran- tee of security ls given and the pro- per machinery assembled for mak- ing security certain. The concert of Europe is bound up with the League Councils and the key to E"“"11Chl‘| peace is in Geneva.

the generations that follow, and, laden wth this precious freight, they sail across the gulfs of tmc in

for a man's word and for his reason, unless it be that speech conesponds to the acton of light and lustrates the whole landscape of human ex- perience? And considered as a means of establishng and rightly ordering human relatlonsshlps, the power of language is supreme. No mechanical device can be compared to its in- fluence, for, as Archbishop 'I‘rench reminds us, “words convey the mental trerures of one period to

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which empires have suffered ship- wreck; and for this reason a lang- uage is mightier in every way than any one of the wo z: which may have been composed in ll." UNITED STATES GRAIN IN CANADA Stocks of United States grain ut Canada on November 11 were ns follows, the figures in brackets be- lng H1080 0h the cuucnyblldlllfl date last year: Wheat 7,445,481 bushels ($1,384,573), outs 1,228,907 (388,308), barley 30,909 (23,973), rye 99.158 (803,077), corn 3,662,156 (B9B,-