l aGovernment in. D1re Straits

Revert to Conservative P0licy

. i OTTAWA, May tip-The number of western m, against the Government on the budget would have much larger but for the hurried intervention of Minis“ Gardiner and Euler with notices that the Agricultu n t, bonuslng bills which have been before the House for n‘ eral weeks will be withdrawn and revised messum u" stituted. These notices were interjected when the Hons?“ Commons was dealing with the budget in order to m o! western Liberalsthat. theGovernment was prepared u“ once more alter its decision about the guaranteed mining“ price. Revision of the bills was resorted to only am,- a‘ forts of the party whips, and private assurances in m, ' had failed to persuade a number of western Liberals t: main loyal to the ministry on the budget. m ll t i It expenditures for all

the twelve sill" "t" fronigliicrliiuivalieailfigillgliotliuililnar‘ ‘mmtlm ch“ d 1 response sue

... ll:":i"":.:ir"1:.'.'::i:" i?““°".i”°‘iii'°' ""1 motor cam. 4 Del‘ cent; other t g ‘ty d f ‘u! 515;? 36' s chance or bell‘! ummmuon. a pa, can“ and ,,d_ a s rong con en er or e ral leadership in the event uoation. community gag-gt Daily} of the retirement of Mackenzie King has be (mum, m“, pwm, wedkened. Western Liberal members who real that 11...‘

e,g, through school Ira-tot?‘ 1:: glass. are f_acing_defest in the forthcoming general election m M 1 record for Parliament. s’ Se‘ a new‘

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Expenditures In Canada

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we: the some‘, old Liberal Globrthat it had al- ways been}. Its‘ reputation is too well established to be repudiated bythe organ of the Campbell ‘Government, which, as has been well said, rep- resents neither Liberalism nor Conservatism, but only themselves.

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‘The Strongest Memory is Weaker than ' llll Wfltlkeli fill,”

WEDNESDAY, MAY 1v, 19H

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It must not brtorsetten-in the midst-of the phhlie con-' troversy ever wheat that Canada has more than its farmers to worry over. Our customers are also to be considered. I! the world will not n buy Canadian wheat, it is obvious that all tpxlsns oi’ acreage bonus, subsidy. ed prie what not. become mere relief plans, The es- sence of the problem is to per- suade our customers to use more" and more Canadian wheat. l! that, noo"°°°“..‘.i.‘ “iflmliiiaofikso not’ w“

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of itself, For this reason the vm and opinions of the men in Europe who buy and use our wheat de- serve a consideration which has been somewhat obscured by the domestic controversy form which the necessary assist- ance to falmers shell take. These two aspects o! the problem are clloselyt relatedkhlndeectifi qtsnyh stud: _ _ o pas years ows a. ere ‘Ministerof Immigration", Mr. H. H. Cox are a definite and vital connection be-

being counted among the fatalities on the 18th mralzhfiwngégalfisgfiefmfiafé lnst. The story 1s current all about St. Peters sell its wheat unless the world was that Mr. MacIntyre is doomed, and that he pwpn“: w P” “h” ‘wumugh’ will drag down with him the genial and u11-

We should get, it would rapidly

mean the end of our markets and successful breeder of Holstein Pedigreed Cattle.

n duthnisqflllsoes were occupitd by

§ench and Brltll-sh famillta re- ti!

sident in Mon I mu“,

Public Works And Immigration all" ‘h’ '°"§“",§w,fl“"if§,',,, “up Apart from the frenzied financing of the Prqmiel-‘S Dsparunennof SccretaryiTl-easurer, the Department of the ProvinciaLGoverumcnt subject to most criticism is that of Public Works. That is the principal spending departmcnnand‘ the Public Accounts show that, including the highways, money has been disposed of with an abandon and free hand that only newly rich millionaires can emulate. Mr_ Maclntyrc has been on “the top of the world" for the past four years, but now, alas, he and his colleague the

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varied no?“ thro out the rant! 0f for twelve cities. and c around a per cent_ Net savings were by no means as 111811 M W!- llowever, since accounts outstand- ing on September 30th for the survey year averaged nearly 5 DB!‘ sent o: petal expenditures. For families of other racial 01181116. the e of the "Savinkfi" BTW}? e11 to 7.2 per cent in Winnlhel and to 6. per cent in Montreal. percentages for other

prwllspesofthd

on. . Living expenditure records were collected for the yes-r ending 8e tcmher 30 1088, from 1.135 f 1- ies of B11 origin in eleven cit- ies. from 211 . families of French origin in the uwo Quebec cities whlch were surveyed, and in ad- dition 98 records were obtained in Montreal and Wlnnlwil f"!!! 1M1- llim of other racial origins. hm- ilies contributing records were selected at l “ Iran prepared lists of llouseho wi certain characteristics which make them typical oi’ Canadian wage- eerner homes. Both parents and one or more children were present

' Those Bond Borrowings

' As stated in the Canadian Press bullfitifl i" yesterday's issue, the Campbell Government has gone on the money market in order to raise a. temporary loan of $300,000 on one to three- year serial bonds with interest at 2 1-2 pert cent. _ ,~ This, it will readily be seen, is not a loan 1n the accepted meaning of the term but a tcn1- porary relief in time of trouble. The banks from whom the Government has obtained its huge overdraft may hold these bonds as collateral. But Wlly $300,000 instead of the full million issue which the Government, at the last Session. took authority to float to meet part 0f its other obligations?

It is a. moot question, of course, whether the Government was entitled to go on the market at all. What is its status? The Legislature has been prorogued, and it is a well known fact that with an election pending the Government cannot now make appointments or discharge other than ab- solutely necessary functions of government.

If they had the status to borrow $300,000, they-should llllilfl been able to borrow the full million just as well. .

The bonds issue was floated privately, with- out calling for tenders. Is this another case of Prince Edward island bonds being huckstered by the mysterious Mr_ X., who seems to have experienced considerable difficulty on this 0c-

Kfls of the end of wheat-growing sltc- '5 “as!” a} gather. — Winnipeg Free Press.

The theory that. Nari Germany was created by the Allies’ failure to treat the German Soc list Re- public kindly is derided by those All Efngllsh-

Neither Premier Campbell nor his party fiflgeygg, 1:513 ‘flgegnfrfrglggnlgiaxf;

press has yet undcliaken to enlighten the clec- L? mag lypfnrg, ton; me ma; Prus- tors as to "the law” in the case of their three ‘l ° c" "W" l" a m°' disqualified party candidates, Messrs. Trainer, §$§‘,‘.§,.‘_°‘-‘m,‘§‘ 1:1" ,°,’,,,§§,°,,,‘Z,f’“',‘.'§§ Acorn and Gallant. The law is-that these gentle- tggllrougnarfly m 1116f! were sitting and voting illegally ever since qmte ‘neffpeflenced m admmmfit. their appointment to salaried positions in the gtzwvgugtelilcllzrll: rtgte 3g ‘wag! Government service. We have not only quoted ed‘ exemng ma] eontm], bu, u, the law, but also exposed the bungling attempt still in possessi . My informant

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to patch 1t up on three different occasions, the gigs: “id gift“? Zgfi: ‘w; last one being-made at the lSMYlCQlSlMIVC scs- always present. and. after the in- sion in an amendment to an Act which had zggzlfwgerlzghlfnliflfgehlgregfdggga‘ nothing whatever to do with elections. stetementslhrzoln tthe §Bl2n61dS0l€glB The Premier had an excellent opportunity of I "m" I? n° °n d ° explaining “the law’: at the Tignish meeting mpganmifgl), p$ggmgnylnozs for the benefit of his own colleague, Mr. Gal- lrlélgmlmmt ‘fimgullllguifi lhant; but £19" didflét {do smhnotwitlflstanding that ghhgzngrlzgg m, _t and 15,15 m _ a amo ac wou never

léafqisnacna enge mm t e p at érm by Dr have bgeh signed had not Stress- ‘ mann and Luther. the two German

Still Disqualified ne ledger or

ed with the fanlily_ Earnings in the sample ranged from $460 to $2500 per annum.

An outstanding fact apparent from the summary data available is the remarkable similarity of proportions of income s t upon the more important items. As income and living standards rise, the proportion of income spent upon the necessities oi’ life tends to decrease, Other budget expenditures do not appear to be closely related to the amount of income.

ons not members of the family The proportion o1 families owning motor can varied according to - trtcts. In the Maritime Provinces. about one-third of surveyed fam- ilies were oar owners, in Quebec province about one-tenth. in On- tario nearly one-half and in west- ern citles about one-third.

The principal value of the sum- mary results available at this time is to provide a basis for cmnpariug 2r "M "was" are...“

e same . ans an e- earner fanil in one city with similar average annual expenditur- es in other representative Can- edian cities, This is ill-lite dif- ferent from s eomprarisou age levels of living Census recolds show that file uro- portion of iamilim with annual earnings ranging between M60 and $2500 differs materially from one city to another. Consequently. in order to obtain an esmlnss umrlv

But the cabinet has been divided from the outset o. the wheat question and Mr. Gardinel-‘s position has hm most unhappy. His announcement in February that m, guaranteed minimum price has been a mistake which in; country could not afford to continue, and that the Govern- ment was getting out of the wheat business and would abandon the guaranteed price, was the result of one group in the cabinet having its way. This group was Qppoggd t,- the guaranteed pricebecause of eadternidernand for rs. duction in the cost of government. The revolt in the Wm which followed Mr. Gardinel-‘s announcement. persugflq] the majority of the cabinet that a political mistake had been made. Mr. Gardiner was allowed ‘to attempt a coin. promise, with a guaranteed price lowered from 80 to 60 cents_ and legislation to this effect was introduced. It was not proceeded with because it was quickly evident that tits

er mailed each the pr tlo

pen year. opor ns for the individual cities being con- centrated within the narrow range between 592 (Charlottetown) and

amongst

nificant erencq The pro- portions for families of other racial origins were 65.4 and 68.3 per cent in Winnipeg and Montreal re-

“ authority, one of the most outstanding in Can‘

_, granted a‘ fifteen day option on $325,000 of 3 T was the Province’s request for tenders on an

qoption basis,” declared the Monetary Times, “i:

mrphctic in declaring that misuse of the majority

Casion?

The charge on the bank overdraft is 3 1-4. per cent, and the yield of the issue is as follows: I year, 2.80; 2 years, 2.55, 3 years, 2.45, or an average yield of 2.60.

("compare this showing with this 1r.'eek's issue pjFDonzinion Government 1 1-2 per cant bonds jolzich zuere sold to yield 1.72 for‘ three years, while this Province has to borrow on a basis of 2.60, and it lvill be seen that the Campbell Gov- ernmcnfr latest bond borrowing was anything but a financial triumph.

The funding of indebtedness on such terms, of less than a third of the issue contemplated, for from one to three years only, is of no last- ing benefit, and gives rise to speculations as to ‘why it should be necessary. '

Comment in the financial papers has not ap- peared with regard to this issue; but in the meantime it is worth recalling what the Mone- tary Times had to say about the previous issue by the Campbell Government, This financial

ada, referred to Prince Edward Island having

per cent bonds due in twelve years and stated that the "incredible" part of the transaction

option basis only. “Why the Province would not ask for firm bids as well as bids on ‘an

incomprehensible. Some wry unsound advice tlppearr lo have been handed out from some ~ quarter.” It went on to state that firm bids were -rcceived from ‘at least two other syndicates at - close to the accepted prices, “which would haw l relieved the Province of all liability in the tram- action.”

Unfavorable publicity was also given by the Financial Post with regard to the Campbell Government's bond borrowing methods in Feb-

~ ruary, 1938, when a $400,000 issue was called for privately, and when difficulties were en- ‘countered by the investment dealers in making bids owing to the inability of the Province to provide a detail of financial results for the year previously eildcd.

T hose financial papers reflect the opinion of the bond houses .and Dr. MacMillan was there- fore quite within the mark in saying that the Government has been experiencing trouble in

_this connection, and that its operations were open to serious criticism

_ It is amusing to find in yesterdays Liberal organ the statement that Premier Campbell ‘dealt with this limiter at the Tignish meeting i11 his own district "amid the cheers of the aud- ience." The fact is that he not only failed to receive any “chcel-s", but his attempted ex‘

. planation of his bond borrowings was so in- volved that the audience told him to skip it and Vgct on to something that they could understand.

The _G|obe’s Warning

Naturallythe Campbell" Government organ

were introduced with regard to other changes-in

that on other occasions, “whitewashing" acts the Election1Act_ What has that to do with the status of the three Liberal candidates now seek- ing office? The “whitewashing” in their case was applied so bunglingly that they-are still dis- qualified, and the seats which they improperly occupied while drawing government salaries should long ago have been vacated.

1 Editorial Notes I Sir. Thomas T.,Lipton, the Tea. Man, born this date, 1850. a s s s Why all this rush to float a loan by a dc- funct Legislature? U i I By his own showing, according to Mr. Bentley's letter, Premier Campbell is the Pooh Bah of Provincial politics-a finger in every

ple. a s a a

Travelling in the country at present is almost impossible-outside the » hard-surfaced roads— for man, or auto or beast. How the Candidates and poll workers are making it will be a record for historians to relate. ‘I v Ill it!

The Duke of Windsor was guilty of bad taste.

King in addressing the American people. When he had remained silent so long, anotherpmonth would not have mattered very much. We ‘mav easily imagine the King's feelings when he heard of such an unbrotherly aotion_ 1e s s a The number of cattle exported in March was 12,340 valued at $429,978 compared with 2o,- 7l7 at $1,065,003 in the corresponding month last year. These went chiefly to the United States. During the fiscal year just ended there were 196,815 head exported valued at $10,280.- 469 in comparison with 287,459 at $13,914.54! in the previous fiscal year. a s1 s e

Mr. Roy W. Howard, U. S. A. newspaper publisher, who returned from Europe on the French liner Ile de France declared that as a re-

ister Neville Chamberlain, if war comes it will. be. “at a time when England and France choose, and not when Mr. Hitler wants it." Americans view Chancellor Adolf Hitler from an emotion- al standpoinhlle declared, while in Europe ‘he is considered “the most unscrupulous statesman since Napoleon." Mr. Howard believes that the Rome-Berlin Axis will not be permanently sustained because “every one in ltaly hates the Germans-and every one in Germany has con- tempt for the Italians." v a .. __ e w" m s

here, in supporting in the House of Commons,

. resents being reminded _of the warning sounded four years ago by the Toronto Globe, leading Liberal newspaper of Canada, with regard to the danger to democracy in the results of the

Ylsst election in this Province. Liberals as wcli as

scrvatives concede that the Globe was pro-

Scheme, in addition urged the separation of agriculture from unemployment relief and pro- viding distinct treatment for unempioyabies and employables and in these two divisions make special provision for youth. The unemployablcs

which the Government undeservedly obtained bald be disastrous. not only to the province

, t to theLiberal party as well. This has prov- ed, lobe. the case, as the reaction throughout ‘Pro ‘plainly ritidifiatetl

Qll , contemporary now says that the ‘d3: Gl b8,/Wit9"ll0t‘8-l6fldiflg' Liberal organ ’ j_ ’ ' that to i‘ beiiudgmentpt older

obe T was for

fticil bible.

:1 was? mbrged in “the yum

"under s r ‘new management; time it tom-a the Liberal Govern-

s] tltqtdanlsv: ma, a.

‘psi authorities who were better lfitted. to deal with them. _“Thc_n I would suggest that the Do- minion Govcmmtnt take alisolutp and complete charge ‘of an the employablcs both youth and otherwise," he said. This divisionhof responsibil- _ ity would check the present tendency to "pass the buck" from one authorit ‘vtojnother. Mr. Walsh rssid lbs state Nico-lit vol-aggro;

. . a q . 061.5. HM l as charimsn hid done a

And the onl alibi his ress can offer is delegates, disobeyed Berlin orders

y play P not to act. on their own responsi- bility. You comfortab . League!" predicted one high m

if nothing else, in anticipating his brother, the mm,

suit of the stand recently taken by Prime Min- P’

Mr. Walsh, M. P. for Westmont, well known w

Mr. Dcnton Masseyb Unemployment Settlement new},

should be left entirelyto provincial and muniei- o,

l.

“n. tihe

Ger-

an official. - Ottawa Journal.

will find us very ie members of

The unemployment return for

. show the usual unprove- ment over those for February, though the extent of the improve- ment (100789 for all classes) ls considerably greater than at the same date last. year (81,440 for all classes) There was on March 13 a

pared with a total of 1,748,981 on Marci}; 14. Theniyncreasekegl enrp ymen naura mar in building. agriculture, ta d dressmaki hote , tlon, and so on, though th is. rather surprisin 1y, a slight de- crease in l ulld employment. All the in ustrles directly con- ted real-moment, engin- eering. iron and textiles are grad- ually recovering some of their lost ground. Altogether the re- turns are reasons. ly encouraging The 5p boom appears to have begun eary and to have n

stands at a figure which ls better than any record d since December, 1931. — Manchwier Guardian

It was already known that the census of 1936 had revealed a fur- ther decline of 3.572 in the popula- tion of the State. The detailed an- alysls of ages now available shows that, unhappily, the ition is lar more alarming than is lnere fig- ure of continued decline. would in- dicate. In brief, not only has the population continued to fall, but a er and more serious fall is inevitable as the years o on. We are now in the unenvia la position of being the only country 1n the world with a dwindling population decline of 3.572 was as we have said, in the population as a whole. I But the number of chil- dren under i4 years ‘o! age de clined by no less than 47.486. The is not, all. If the census had been confined to those under 21 years of age. it would have shown a fall of 69.000 These are terrifying fig- ures for s. small country which had already seen the number of its peo- ple reduced by 3,560,000 since the Famine. What is even more dis- turblnc is that it is in the rural areas that tilts decline in the child- populaos is taking plaee. -- Irish Independent (Dublin).

Mr. Knickerbocker, of the Hearst press, who is an exception- ally wel informed foreign corre- spondent reported on April 17 that esidcnt Roosevelt had received a verbatim transcript of a con- versatiou between Hitler. and one of his most trustced aides. ostensi- bly disclosing the Fuehrens real ambition. The Fuehrer is reported to have said: “I intend to take the whole of Camacho-Slovakia and by Autumn to have brought into s great National Socialist federation - under the leadershl of the Reich - Poland. Yugns via, Bul- garia, Greece and ossibly ‘Ihlrkey,

total of 1,726,939 unenlployed. com- 01M

with vigor, and the generalmotal wtm,

l

spectlvely

The ions n

25. 3

to 312).?

families nch

Pie

clearly the falter cit es. Proportions of

cent for Mantras There was a

ranged from 15,1 cent Charlottetown to can: cent wa.

couver hhese percent cr ma lly

which had boudht homes the year. makin subetarl ments iromaavinas or

famiii

Almost exactl

per cent_ faanillu

thirdafthe

lee. Thae ranged from

cent for Miontreal families British origin to 4B per cent and coincided in

decennial census rec

cent in Quebec cent in Charlottetown,

(Group expenditures e ,

Budget If"?!

Food

Housing

Fuel and Light ..

Clothing ....... ... ..

Necessities-total ......... .. 59.2

Household Operations and Furnish a . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..

Health and Personal Care llduca/Epoéi. Oouumlnlty Welfare.