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l: TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26. 1929

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THE TECHNICAL GRANT

“concerned, there is stlll_ available

$133,000 to this Province; but this amount must be drawn within the next five years. The cost of usinfl

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Notes By The cWay

"nic forty-minute limit u» speeches is stated to be a time-saver, but has been productive of more than the usual number of speakers. The member who formerly made but one speech during the session, and that of considerable length, to let consti- tuents know that he is on the Job, now speaks three or more times, to work off the different matters touch- ed upon in the long speech which from force of habit had been pre- pared and which could not be deliv- ered within the time limit. None- theless the limitation is generally

rne l cmrrmerown GUARD 7w

The Growing Of Rubber

(Condensed from The Scientific American.)

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Concerning Self-Acquaintance (mm u» Montreal Gazette.) ,

Condensed from The Scientific Am- erican,- D. T. MacDougal

Companions of Cortes told ,on their return to Spain, of a game of tennis popular among the people of southern Mexico. lt was said that "Their balls .are made of the Juice of a vine that climbs over the trees. They cook the iliice of these plants until it hardens, after which one shapes the mass as he pleases. These balls are so elastic that when they

solved by statistics of production and population. Yet, despite Ameri- ca's need for rubber, there is no area in the United States where rubber trees can be. profitably grown.

The main supply of rubber Gilli!!! from hevea trees of the tropics. ‘Thou- sands of other species, hundreds of which are native to North America, show some caoutchouc or rubber in their milky Juices, and might be drawn upon profltably- if the price of raw rubber rose to ten dollars a

Nowhere does the Christian Church more clearly manifest the value. of her ministratlcns than when, as in Lenten season, special stress is laid upon the duty of self-examination. And rightly so. This is the beginning of grace, namely, the spiritual disci- pline which impels human souls to take stock of the motives and affec- tions that play within the inner life. '_'The proper study of mankind is man." In that sentence. Alexander Pope touched the core of religious

sorlpturaliphrase which tells how, im- mediately following the mightiest mir- acle God ever wrought upon earth, each disciple went to his home. The silence that followed the Resurrection vent was a prelude to the revival at Pentecost.

Self-scrutiny is not an easy work. Manypeople regard it as difllilfee- able and irksome. They flinch at the mention of it, and are much more concerned with overlooking the char- acters of their neighbors than mak-

i. P‘ » . —a.i.’ter' you are ‘sick. l You can consult a, lawyer after you're in

trouble.

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approved and the old custom of long to call an insurance

oratlcns is not likely to be restored

torlal on "The Technical Grant," t m m h it was ‘e w c - - it on the an” much the gmund’ even “mush 113m‘ pmmd‘ But ‘my “twmpt w produce teaching. Personality is the supreme ing any attempts at a fair inventroy

i ‘I ‘ o! the Duncan Commission is an ex- ample of the length to which our

‘p199 their Just claims at Ottawa, and ‘ i that the King Government was prac-

I. . Government. The statement in the 1 i

i 5 tin-e," is in effect an admission of

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V have been familiar to the Patriot, 85

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All by the Stewart Government with the 5 assistance of the technical grant, rc-

' f under the Bell

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-,> “and in the circumstances, with the

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h pointed only after strenuous efforts u- on the part of the three Maritime

J ment of the Commission was made ' in the Federal Parliament, and could

makes no attempt to defend the ac- tion of the Federal Government in withdrawing this grant, but confines itself to a denial of any credit to the Stewart Government in securing any benefit to the Province in utilizing grant for technical education, ‘Ifhe absurd statement that the Stew- art Government opposed the creation

contemporary will go in the heat of It is well known that‘ s Duncan Commission was ap-

Pmvinces to secure some recognition

driven into action on the In any event, the appoint-

ficaily matter.

not be "opposed" by a. Provincial Patriot, however, that “it was the Duncan Cmmission that recommend- ed that as far as Prince Edward ls-

portion. affected to a much 8165i" "item than the agricultural provinces by withdrawal‘ of the technical

As a. result, another handi- cap has been placed in the way of developing Canadian manufactures, and a further impetusglven to i11- dustrial development in thelinited States.

grant.

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cured, namely a fifty-fifty basis, t0- gether with the restrictions placed upon its use in the matter of agri- cultural training, will make it diffi- cult, if not impossible, to take it all up within the prescribed time. some other prvinces,‘ where there is ample room for technical training

along industrial lines, the grant has been pretty well taken up. Ontario,

for instance, having used all their These provinces will be t few minutes, and was greatly sur-

EQUAL RAILWAY RIGHTS

The Canadian Pacific Railway is asking Parliament at Ottawa, at this session, for a series of charters, cov- in Northern

railway lines

, land was concerned, technical educa- £ tion should be considered as agricul-

I the part taken by the Stewart Gov- ernment in securing this grant for agricultural purposes; for it was the

1' Hon. J. D. Stewart who presented our

f claims in this respect to the Duncan

’ Commission, and it was due to the

ble presentation of these claims by Mr, Stewart that the Commission was convinced to the point of em-

; bfldylng the suggestion in their re-

i port to Parliament. Mr. Stewart also pressed the matter personally at

Qttawa, on an occasion which must

' he was accompanied there by Messrs. g Shaw and Boulter. These gentle- ‘ men, had they been consulted, could ' have reminded our contemporary of the facts, if indeed, it was looking , for facts and not political goose- i grease. As stated in The Guardian. it was through the initiative of the Stewart Government that the technical grant was made an available asset to the , Province. The short courses in mo-

Qtm- mechanics. domestic science, l woodworking, blacksmithlng and ‘other’ lines, which were carried on

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placed the more expensive courses given in the Technical School, which, Government, were carried on partly with the assistance of the technical grant and partly with the agricultural grant. The latter grant was withdrawn by the ‘l King Government during the first l year of the Stewart administration,

heavy overhead expenditure involv- ed ‘in maintaining the School and the

f altogether inadequate returns in the w» of school attendance, there was ‘guy one course to pursue, and that to close the institution and sub- ititute the short courses. This the

i Stewart Gvernment did, and, as al-

' isady stated, it was able to secure file technical grant for this purpose.

-In addition, the Stewart Govern- ment has arranged for an agricul-

t course in Prince of Wales Col- to be financed also with the ‘hdlktance of the technical grant. It started a progressive measure

- the assistance of our_ fruit grow-

mo. a competent instructor had

'_ Ilsa appointed, and it was arranged

~" H» half of his will? would be Plid M the technical grant. The Government, when it came

power, dropped the negotiations filth respect w the agricultural ' at Prince of Wales College gdscharged the fruit expert. The ” available from an» technical _ for time two nflrncsw-bcth ‘ flail initiated by the Stewart i " t-was, through the negli- efhc Saunders Oovsrnment.

the Province. I the technical grant

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Saskatchewan, and there are indica- tlons that at the next session they will apply for railway charters in Northern British Columbia, to the north of the Canadian National Rail- ways’ lines (Grand Trunk Pacific.) These charters are valid for a period of five years, and can be renewed af- ter that time. They‘ carry with them no compulsion’ to construct the line of railway but give the right to build if material and other develop- ment takes place. They amount practically to an option on the ter- ritory and while they are in force it prohibits other railway lines from being constructed in the particular territory covered by the charters, as it would amount to duplication of lines. /

Northern Saskatchewan has min- eraiized areas which make it a very attractive field for exploration and possible subsequent development.

In the case of the National System charters cannot be obtained similar to those which the Canadian Pacific are able to obtain. The C. N. R. must go to Parliament with a speci- fic building programme, and if these are authorized, they canont vifthhold construction of the lines of railway. Construction must be started prompt- ly and completed within three years. Such is the legal status.

This places the National System at a distinct disadvantage in relation to the Canadian Pacific, and blocks further development in the North, which is not good either m: the sec- Lion of the country concerned, nor for Canada as a whole. Public opin- ion demands that there be equality as between the two Railway Systems in this regard and that it be arrang- ed at the present session of Parlia- ment. The Canadian Pacific should be made to comply with the ‘same conditions that the National System is compelled to do, that is, construc- tion of the railway line to be com- menced promptly and completed within three years.

EDITORIAL NOTES

A recent snowshoe marathon in Quebec was won by the father of fifteen children. His success is at- tributed .to the endurance developed. by his long experience in circling the room with the kiddies in his arms.

Mr. J. E. Sinclair, when Parlia- ment was debatlng a resolution to restore the highways grant, made a strong appeal for railway lines. This might have had some effect if it had been pertintent to the iasua. It il hoped that when the appropriations for railway extension coma up, Mr sinciair will not start talking roads.

The Federal Government, says the Toronto Globe, seems to take the view that technical education. inch-

in Parliament.

A dull speaker soon empties the House of Commons of half its mem- hers, a fact of which he seems obliv- ious. When he has prosed along for half an hour it seems to him that he has been on his feet but a very shorttime. Perhaps when he rose to speak he craved the indulgence of the House while he addressed it for

prised when his time limit had ex- pired. In an English court a loqua- cious counsel who had craved the in- dulgence of the Judge, for “a few minutes" was reminded by his lord- ship and called down when he had spoken seven minutes. "A few min- utes," according to this ruling is lim- ited to seven.

In the earlier Parliaments of the Dominion, mixed among the many statesmen of that time, there were always a few BORES who were re- cognized as such, and who sometimes emptied the House down to a bare quorum or less. Possibly in these talkative and less patient times there may still be one or two of the same stripe who get elected to the House on Parliament Hill.

H011. C. A. Dunning, Nflnlgter of Rallwflys on Friday last, announced the intention of the Canadian Na- mnll F-BUWBYS to purchase railways in Quebec and New Brunswick. at up. Pfvxlmately the following prices: Quebec, Montreal and South- ern . . . . . . $6,000,000 Gaspe Peninsula 3,500,000 Saint John Valley. ,,,, ‘69004303 KentNorthern 60,000 $15,560,000 Fifteen and a half million dollars is a large sum w invest in four branch railways, which have not hitherto paid operating expenses. Of “"756 they may do better under more efficient management after further large expenditures for better meats and some needed extensions. It will be a great relief to New Brun- swick to be freed from the burden of ownership of the unfinished Saint John and Quebec Railway (common. ly called the Valley Railway), which has hitherto cost the province $250,- 000 to $275,000 yearly over what it earned. To the purchase of .non-paying railway mileage in New Brunswick is to be added a like transaction in Bri- tish Columbia running into many millions, and this with new mileage to be constructed by the C. N. R. in all the provinces, totalling over ‘700 miles makes a formidable series of federal commitments that can only be defended by the doubtful assump- "tlon that the present prosperity of the Dominion will continue for years to come. Hope as we may, a contin- uous repetition of the bountiful har_- vests which the Dominion has enjoyed dim"! the but three years can hard- iv be expected. and much depends on that. Experience has proved m“ Prosperous times are often quickly succeeded by hard times, and it is then that the pinch of the pre- sent colossal commitments of the Federal Government will be realized.

We need the competition that can "hi! some to Prince Edward Island b! direct ection with the Can- adian Pacific transportation system, as Mr. J. O. Hyndman so ably point. ed out in his address before the Cal- edonian Club. The monopoly of mnliivrtatlon in this Province hith- erto hsld by the Goyemmsnt Rail. W178. must be broken. It has not been and never will basatlsfacwry. Competition is needed by the C. N. n. mm, which renders a m- mm- service in every respect in, tho“ Provinces where it has competition than it does here.

The C. N. B. in this province needs w b9 lliwded up, and nothind short of competition will do it. Old en- Iines and cars on the route, long as. 1m at Sackville, and inadequate fa- cilities for the tramport of motor W’! during the summer season. have Mlvilf lllfldlolrlied our tourist trade. intolerable delays at Ottawa pobtpons indefinitely the cuistruc- tlon of the promised new Oar Perry and the providing of improved con- ditiam. _- These are fruits of the sx-

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isting monopoly.

ly thrown, they spring into the air with the most incredible leaps,"

This, with other information as to water-proofing fibre, constitutes the earliest knowledge of the use of rub- ber. Not until the last half of the 19th century did it begin to be em- ployed for raincoats, shoes, hose- pipes, and other articles. No extend- ed demand, however, was made for it until inflammable gasoline, com- ing as a by-product of oil-refining, was squirted into smoothly bored steel cylinders and ignited rythmic- ally and the internal combustion en- gine was born. Horses were unhook- ed from hundreds of thousands of vehicles, gasoline engines were hid- den under the drivers‘ seats and the commonplace world‘ quickened its pace from five to 25 miles per hour. This increased speed called for the cushioning against Jolts and Jarato the human anatomy. Cores or rings of air enclosed in circular rubber tubes were attached to the rims of wheels to mitigate bumps and abol- ish noise: The epoch of rubber was initiated.

So common has the pneumatic tube become that the number kept inflated in the United States is as great as the pairs of shoes worn by the populace; the count of horse- shoes could be included without dis- turbing the equation. This implies about six pounds of rubber for every personin America, and the total Am- erican consumption requires 68 per cent of the worlds production. With tris material assuming such import- ance in daily life that it ranks below only steel, sugar, textiles and wood, problems arise which are not to be

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STOMACH AND ‘INTESTXNAL ULCER

You have been suffering for some time with what you and your friends call indigestion.

Finally you find things following a sort of schedule. You eat a meal, ev- erything feels all right for about two hours, and then you begin to have pain in the stomach, usually a little b the right of the middle line of the body. This pain continues until you eat some food, then it ceases, you are free from pain for two hours, and the pain returns.

You find that baking soda or other alkali stops the pain, and accordingly take some baking soda or’ use some soda mints when pain arrives.

You consult your doctor and he diagnoses the trouble as an ulcer of the stomach or first part of intestine. He has you take a barium meal at the hospital and the ulcer is located.

Now there are two ways of treating this condition, by medicine, or by sur- Bery-

Where the ulcer isblocking the pas- sage of food from the stomach into the small intestine, an operation must be performed, but in the majority of cases of ulcer of stomach or small intestine, it is usually worth while to use medical treatment, which consists simply of the use of alkalis to offset the acid Juice—hydrochloric acid - which is thought to be the cause of the pain of ulcer.

Now as the stomach needs this hy- drochloric acid Juice to digest the food, you can readily see that alkalis like baking soda. or magnesium or lime sails, must interfere or stop the action of this Juice.

However Nature, as ever, keeps ahsadcfourneedaandsothcpan- creatic Juice which is poured on the food as it leaves the stomach, docs thsworkuuttirsstomachwasun- able to do. '

However the first t is to find out what is causing the and of- tenitilwllonfrombadtaethaild tonsils. or some nose condition.

And then alkaline preparation of bakinl soda. masnssium. or bismuth are given after nary meal. I

lo don't dollar with indigestion of any kind. '

Pindoutwbatiswroxiaaicar, or annals inflammation. and follow the treatment faithfully. Slop it up for

somsweshflfteryoufssltbatyou

rubber at such a. cost would be Jus- tlilable only in a grave national em- ergency. The only rubber of real im- portance is that which uses land more profitably than it is being used at present, and brings a falrcom- pensation to grower and manufactur- er.

The first successful attempt to grow rubber inlthe United States on a self-sustaining basis without gov- ernment subsidy is the project of the Intercontinental Rubber Company. This company has been engaged in the extraction of gum from dried shrubs of the guayule plant collect- ed chlefly from its extensive holdings in northern Mexico for 22 years. The guayule is second only to hevea in contributing to the world's supply of rubber. When the wild plants which were being used began to show signs of dwindling in quantity, experimen- tation was undertaken to bring the wild plant into cultivation. Four- teen years of experimentation and work have given the company small lots of seeds of less than a dozen va-, rieties of the shrub which show a higher percentage of rubber than the wild plants, and some pretty definite knowledge of a practicable method of growing crops of the improved va- rieties. .

The domestication of a. wild plant within so brief a period, so that it may be grown as a field crop, is without parallel in the history of ag- riculture. That the best possible pro- cedure ln all ,.“ of the ‘ ‘ ‘ y has been found is highly improbable; for comparative example, we are still improving the yield and methods of milling wheat after having this plant

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..under cultivation for five to ten

thousand years.

w The essential feature of a field crop

is-that its seeds should be made to germinate so nearly simultaneously, and the piantlets to grow so uni- formly, that millions may mature their grain, nbre or other products at the same time. If some heads of wheat in a field ripened in June, oth- ers in July, and others stayed "inthe milk" until August the difficulties of the tamer would be much greater than those of which he now com- plains. ‘

The production of a crop of guay- ule on the plantation in California where it is now being done involves the following program: Seeds from desirable varieties having been gath- cred by specially devised harvesting

achlnes from standing‘ shrubs, which are _not injured by the pro- cess, they are subjected to a special treatment so that 88 out of every 100 germinate. ‘This is literally first aid, since in nature many of the seeds may not sprout for weeks. This would result in a lot of plants of widely different ages and development.