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MONDAY, FEBRUARY l5. 1N5.

POTATO FREIGHT RATES

The farmers of Kelly's Cross and vicinity, in a resolution published elsewhere in today's Guardian, make strong protest against the high

, freight rates on potatoes between the Marltimes ‘and Central Canad- ion points. The resolution com- mends both the Federal and Pro- vincial administrations. as well as the Boards of 'I‘rade, for their ef- forts to assist agriculture, and ap- peals for the co-operatlon of these bodies, and of all concerned, in ob- taining freight rate reduction on form products.

‘This. is a most important question, and it is encouraging to know that it is being pressed vigorously at the present time. This was one of the shicf matters discussed by Mr. Rand Vlatheson. manager of the Maritime transportation Commission, on the occasion of his address before the Charlottetown Board oi Trade on Feb. 14. The Commission's oom-' plaint has been lodged with the Board of Railway Commissioners and every eflort is being made to obtain a more equitable rate sched- ole for our farmers. The govern- ments of the three Marifne Pro- vinces contribute financially to the Iransportation Commission, and it k for the purpose of straightening out such difficulties u thesg that the Commission exists. This does not mean that the resolution passed at the Kelly's Cross meeting was unnecessary, however. 0n the con- trury, it should strengthen the Com- mission's hands, as well as those of our governments. our Boards of Trade and all who are, and have been. working energetically aionil this line.

LIFE INSURANCE ASSETS

Making clear to the layman what his insurance means and how the interests of policy holders are P70" tected, a series of striking display advertisements is appearing in the press. Number 1 of the series ap- pears in today's Guardian under in’? heading. “I-"olicyholders Own the Assets of Life Insurance Com- panies!“ The message is brief but comprehensive, and well repays careful reading. The development of life insurance in Canada may be Judged from the fact that the com- panies have built up assets totalling approximately two billion dollars, owned jointly by about 3,500,000 policyholders,—or practically one- third of Canada's population. Th0 reputation which these companies have achieved in their capacity of trustees for the policy holders is in- deed an enviable one.

HANSON ANSWERS KING

Replying last week to Mr. Mac- kenzie King's complaint that the Bennett Administration had used bargaining methods in dealing with the Government of the United ‘Kingdom, Hon. R. B. Hanson. Min- ister of 'I‘rade and Commerce, re- called Sir Wilfrid Laurirfs wam- ing to the Mother Country that if she would not give reciprocal pre- ferences in return for Canada's trade concessions, Canada would consider itself free to turn elsewhere for business. Mr. Hanson went rm to point 0hr how Mr. King had first threatened to scrap the Em- pire trade treaties and then to cut the Canadian tariff in two. If that is the Liberal leader's present "pol- icy, he has been careful not to say so. He has probably realized by this time that if any Canadian Govern- ment were to take that course, Can- adlan industries would be ruined and the number o! unemployed vastly increased.

"Mr. King has shifted his ground lo frequently on the Empire trade question that nobody really knows when he stands at the present time. All that can safely be pre- dicted is that, since the a‘. ‘ were neg-foisted by the Bennett Government, he is, and will continue lo be, "agin" them, and will do his boot, in or out of office. to stultlfy them. A poor policy, truly, for the leader of a once great party to fol- low; but at least he can boast that it is all his ownl "

EDITORML NOTES

- We will now be on th_e__l_ook-out to see whether the end of the ‘week indicates the lamb or the lion.

The rcxt big events will be the opening or the legislature, st. Pat- flgflg Day Mk1 hater-March 5, iloreh i7. and April 2i respectively.

.-"i'he farmers had a good and sorofitablotime at their annual conventions, and there was not the

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trol of any of the various organiza- tions.

The Hauptmann jurors are to appear as a theatre attraction. This is bad: but what would be said if the members of the Supreme Court of the United States were to tour in vaudeville? Anything may hap- pen in a land where people are eager to see the men and women who condemned a suspected killer to thr: electric chair.

Speaking in the British House of Commons the other day on slums and housing Sir F. Fremantle said that overcrowding had never yet been dealt with. queen izabeth, in 1500, recognised that overcrowd- ing was the main thing that had to be dealt with, and in her proclama- tion of that year said that where such great multitudes of people in- habited small rooms. if there were plague. it must spread. and great mortality ensue. Mr. Wilmot observ- ed that it is still the same. Three and e. half centuries have passed, and overcrowding is still not only at the root of the troubles which it produces, but at the root, oi slums.

Gold production in 1934 amount- ed fo 2.964.826 ounces compared with 2,949,800 in 1033. an increase of one-half of one per mnt. The December production was 261.874 ounces as against 248.839 a. year ago. Ontario's gold production in De- cember was 184049, Quebec 38,010. British Columbia 22,952, Manitoba and Saskatchewan 13,657, Yukon 1.- 516, Nova Scotia 489, Alberta ll. Gold quotations. in Canadian funds, averaged $34.57 per ounce in De- cember at which price the Can- adian output during the month was worth 80.035599. In November the average price per ounce was $34.16 and the value of the month's pro- duction, $8,540,000.

It is often remarked that choir boys can be naughty imps. The fact that they sing like angels does not prevent their having a good scuffle when they get out of church. "Well," asks a Toronto exchange, “what oi it? Such children have learned to take the church and art as natural parts of everyday life. When they get older it is usually second nat- ure to them to reek recreation and pleasure in types of music which some unfortunate people have been taught in youth to regard as "high- brow." They never quite escape from music as the most punctllious mistress of organization and forrn, and yet the greatest teacher oi how 5.0 praise God with a merry heart."

The Last Straw of Liberal Hope has gone. Toronto Saturday Night which deserted Bennett because it thought his reform policy detrimen- tal to business, and ,’ ed its faith in Mackenzie King. now finds it was relying on a, broken reed. It says: "We are informed that a great many people who know Mr. Bennett well felt all along, even in the deepest depths of his silence. that he would ultimately speak. and that when he did, it would be to very considerable effect. We are quite sure that the people who know Mr. King best have little expecta- tion that he will say lnyiihin-S startling between now and the date of the elections. And there is an urgent need that the Liberal party should say something startling." This is a definite hoisting o! the S.O.S. by the dismayed and dis- gruntled "die-hard."

Mr. Roger W. Baboon, economist, a certain "thatprospeflty is new just around the corner. It would come into full view if it were not so frightened and scared by the politi- cal and labor situation." he told Phoenix businessmen. "The gap be- tween the purchasing power of farm and industrial prices is grad- ually being closed," Baboon BIN- ‘ are ‘ ‘iv be- ing cleaned up. Private and corpor- ate debits are being rapidly reduc- ed. The decks are being cleared for a retiu-n of good business as soon as political and labor leaders come to their senses. "More money i! available for expansion today than ever before in the history of the country."

Cattle and calves on’ Canadian farms on December 1 totalled l.- 406300, a small increase of 3,100 held comm-Nd with Dec. l, I080. The reduction from June 1 was 407,000 head. mdicationi are thbt the rm of increase in the cattle population is slowing up. The num- her of hogs is eltimatod at 8.048.900 hood compared with 0,001,000 on June 1 and 8,001,000 a year ago. Indications point to an increase over 109344 in the. number of bole

iflghteot indication or throat of up- ‘ mm lu the iuunogoment and enn-

for market and local slaughter in the Dooorubor to Kay period. ‘rhea-o

Notes By The Way

In August 30,000 boys are expect- ed to gather in Washington for a 10-day Jamboree. Then will be seen the knot-tying, the wig-wagging. the handicraft and the athletics of the Scouts. What may not at, first be appreciated, however, is im- portant; the New World counter- part of the "playing fields of Eton" on which England traditionally de- pends for its leadership and strength, will be presented. For the Boy Scouts and the principles they so actively exemplify have become a powerful influencr: among the youth who must meet the problems of the hex: generation-Washington Post.

whet" lieu ahead for sum-hey- General ‘David T. Wiientz of New Jersny? The Leo Frank trial put the prosecutor, Hugh Dorsey, o! At- lanta, in the gubernatorial milli- sion oi the State oi Georgia. Thc trial oi’ Lieutenant Becker, of the New York City police department, made a governor of Whitman. Both of them conducted excellent shoivs in response to public demand, Mr. Wilentz has done likewise. Perhaps be has staged an even better per- formance than Whitman or Dorsey. The governorship of New Jersey will probably be his for the asking. -Border Cities Star.

Du Pont research workers report the discovery of a new explosive, twenty times stronger than TNT and a little harder than a tallow candle. It can be bored with red hot irons and pounded with tripham- mers with impunity, even put un- der the blow torch and shot with high power rifles. The only thing so far found which will cause it to ex- plode is a charge of dynamite. It is regarded as a peace time explosive and its main usefulness the removal of danger in industrial blasting. '

The destruction of three United States dirigibles—the Shenandoah, the za-z, and the Akron-meant a total loss to the U.S. Government of $8,375,000 in construction costs alone. The Shenandoah (ZR-l). de- stroyed in 1023, cost $2,000,000. She was emcted‘ at Lakchurst, N-.J. The ZR-2, lost during a test flight over Hull, England, in 192i, cost, the United States $1,000,000, or half of the contract price paid to British builders. The Akron (ZR-U, built at Akron, 0.. and commissioned in 1931, was destroyed nearly two years later. She cost $5,315,000. It is very questionable whether Washington will authorize any further expendi- ture for some time to come on such death traps. .

Washington hears Senaioix Elbert E. Thomas propose a. novel and promising method of assuring mace in the Pacific. This Utah strtes- man who spent five years as a teacher in Japan asks the United States and Japan each to spend "a little more than the cost of a battle- ship" in an exchange of students. I-Ie would like to see 10,000 bright; Japanese students come to America for four years‘ study and bright American students go to Japan. H2 secs this as ending a distrust that promises only unhappy things. His thesis is indisputable—“Nations that understand each other and have no fear of each other will never fight." -Monitor.

In an interview in the London Daily Mail in December, Hitler de- clared that nothing would mducc Germany to go to war as another catastrophe of that kind would end western civilization. Neverthe- less he pussyfoots about taking the initial step to prevent such cams. trophe. It is quite evident, adds an exchange, that Hitler is in the habit of "protesting too much" to be sincere.

"It is true that we cannot predict what will be the cost of evolution of democratic institutions in India. They may take strange forms un- known to us in Western countries. It may be that further experience will show that these forms of gov- ernment are not so attractive as they appear. But there is no doubt that they havr: for the present captured the imagination of politi- cal India. We cannot leave the Gov- ernment as it is. It has been use- ful as a training in the arts of rule; it is marked ‘provisional’ in the constitutional lists. We must choose between a resumption of authority or an extension of self-government. The history of our Empize and its traditions point one way: in spite of risks and forebodings wr: are bound to follow it."

On Lincoln's birthday the Moni- tor is privileged f0 record the un- familiar circumstuncss under which Abraham Lincoln freed the Negro slaves. The story comes from a lady who grew up with Robert Todd Lincoln to Artist Dwight Sturgcs. who made the remarkable Lincoln portrait "Guidance." The Presi- dent's wife vigorously opposed his signing the Emancipation Proclam- ation. All night he walked the floor of the White House study. often reading his Bible. At dawn wife and son returned and she demand- ed whether he was still determined to sign. Lincoln answered in il- luminated words which must now go into history-"I am a man under orders, I cannot_ do otherwise.”— Monitor.

New York has lived through any number of anti-noise campaigns and yet to the ordinary ‘ear. 1t sounds as noisy as ever. Nobody publicly de- fends noise. and science, we are told. has pronounced against it. we learn that medical study has shown that noise impairs digestion by affecting the flow of saliva and gas- tric juice, that a typlst under noisy conditions uses l0 per cent more

and loses 42 per cent in

campaigns make, so to speak. so lit- tie noise in the worldf-New York 'f‘lmee.

London Sunday Dispatch: The

was a smell increase in sheep and lambs. which shows that we have reached the and of the downward movement. The downward move- ment in the production of hens and ohlehao has also been checked.

enemy speed. Why. then, do the anti-noise m,

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ANIMAL PROTEIN BETTER THAN VEGETABLE PROTEIN FOR HARD WORK

It is only too true that many in- didduals who do nothing more than sit in anofficc chair all day make a mistake in eating meat three times a day-bacon in the morning, a chop or steak at noon, and roast meat 1o; the evening meal. Meat about QIlCC a day is sufficient for ullS incLvldu-ai,

On the other hand to try to do real work without meat or other ani- mal protein is likewise a mistake.

“It is well known that athletes who specializein contests demand- ing great endurance lay stress on an ample supply of protein in the diet.

The persons who call themselves

cheese-ail of which are animal pro- icins--t9 secure this supply of pro- tein."

lire London correspondent of the Journal of the American Medical

vegetarians usually take milk, eggs,

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its widest sense, first 0i 9m"!!- thenof the rest‘ of the British Commonwealth and other bu" °i the world in which Canada has special interest. mu is done in authentic and popular form with extensive illustrations. In tho Rb‘ ruary number Mr. John P. T011191‘ begins the story or the first creel march of the North-West Mounted Police from. Duffcrln (now Emer- son) slxty miles up the Red River from Fort Garry. across the open prairies to the Bow and Belly 3W2: in the country of the 313°“ Indians. ‘This was in the Summer of m4. The 10M, which he“ l“ inception the previous year in t; office of the Prime mnisier r John A. Macdonald, was organized u» patrol and safeguard the "WW purchased heritnee 9°11! F"! mm to the Rockies. This first greet mum firmly established its repu- t ti .

‘A? interestifl! article "Y M'- Donald W. Buchanan describfi Unjygg-glty Oity, Paris. A sketch ma? shows the original all“ of ""001" m; ma recreational grounds a! 18:6 out on the site of the form" ¢i Y fortifications. Nineteen dormitoflel

Asociation tells of a test made at the Institute of Physiolofll’, Glas- gow University, to see how leaving out animal protein entirely would affect the work of a 48-year-old cyclist who was a consistent prize- winner.

He was put on a strictly rationed diet which was varied as regards the kind and amount oi protein. l-Ie pedalled a stationary bicycle almost continuously for more than eight hours daily and each dietary experi- ment lasted a week. The work was measured by special devices and an electrical brake maintained the sort of resistance that would be found in a good level road. Four standard diets were used in which the pro- tein was obtained from strictly vegetable sources. An attempt to use a large amount of vegetable pro. tein failed because it caused diges- tive disturbances.

The cyclist was then allowed to choose the sort of food he would use in road racing. This included 5 pints of milk, 8 eggs, 1 ounce of butter in addition to strictly vegetable foods. This- diet gave the best performance of the series, with the highest speed records,

Thc conclusion is that in prolong- ed hard muscular exercise the large supply of energy required can best be obtained in small bulk and in palatable form from foods rich in animal proteins.

The point is that while vegetables might be able to supply the amount of protein necdssary. the human digestive apparatus can not digest the large amount necessary.

London Calls Iroquois Falls

(Ottawa Journal)

The London Daily Express comes to hand with a. heading three col- umns wide, "Silk Stockings in 105 Degs. of Frost." "The Daily Express,” it says. "established communica- tion yesterday with Iroquois Fails, Ontario, the col€est spot in the world.” Nine minutes after the call was made London was talking to Dr. Young at the Falls over trans- Atlantic telephone, and Dr. Young admitted a "cold spell," l record "low" in the previous night but he didn't feel it because he was “snug- ly tucked away in bed."

But the Express man was more interested in his conversation with n. telephone operator _at Iroquois Falls. whose name is not revealed. “It is a bit cold today,” shr: agreed. Apparently the interviewer asked if she were suitably garbed in wool and fur, “What do wc wear?" she is quoted as responding. .

“Just the same as your girls, 1 ex- pect, only heavier coats and muf- flcrs to protect our ears and noses.

"Yes. of course we wear silk stock- ings. But only a small part oi them —about nine inches-is exposed to the icy air. We have snow shoes that come a long way up the calf. When it is as cold as this some girls wear two pairs of silk stock- ings.

"You do not expect us to wear wool stockings or undies, do you?"

Nobody, of course, but c, mono

man would expect girls to wear wool stockings, cven at '72 below zero. and those who put on two pairs of silk no doubt felt they were making a great concession to the thermo- meter. Fashions nowadays are world wide, almost, and Iroquois Falls is not behind London or Broadway in its conception of what the well- dressed girl should wear. The weather is an incident. but to wear what everyone else wears is really important. And, as Dr. Young and the tele- phone girl told the Express man, nobody suffers in the occasional low temperatures of Northem On- tario. In the crisp, exhilarating at- mosphere, the bright sunshine and the star-lit nights, it is n Joy to be alive. and few would exchange that environment for the smoke and fog of great cities.

Briton has no special cause to worry about being a Briton and is little inclined in consequence to indulge in invidious national comparisons. When he does so he finds the com- parison in nearly all respects flot- tering to himself. Them is, however, onolarge black fly in this ointment of racial content. Every time he considers the matter he has to ad- mit thot in the matter of physical fitness this country is steadily fall- ing behind its more rPlOIIOlllVO neighbours. All visitors returning m F‘ comment on tho magnificent physique of the Labour Battalions there. We never beer now, as once we did, of the foreign- er be g impressed by the English physiq e. Now the Council of the British Medical Association is 00 consider. we are told. tbeloppoiut- ment of a committee to discus! means ofenoouraglng the physical and mental development of the nation. we sincerely hope that the cbmu-iittm will come into being and produce what cannot but be n val- ulblo report.