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Those Sugar Duties

Credit must be given to Senator William Duff, (Liberal) of Lunenburg for having con- sistently opposed the sugar duties consequent ttputl the existing Canada-West Indies trade treaty. ln the llouse 0f Commons and in the Sen- ate. in (lpposition and as a Government sup- portt-r. .\lr. l-)uff passed up few opportunities lo criticise what ‘he regarded as the adverse cf- ft-rts. both of tht- regular duty under the treaty lt-tl the special dutupiug dutv which was itn- posed in 1032 and is still in effect; duties which he mtzintnitietl were detrimental in the Cuban and ollter tioti-llritish islands on producers of certain primary products, such as fish, potatoes, minus and flour.

\\'u regret that the same credit cannot be given to .\lr. ;\. E. .\lztcl.cn.n. our Prince County re- flresctltativc in the Ilousc of Commons, whom Senator Duff associates with himself as hav- ng put up “a long fight” to have these duties removed. .\lr. .\IacLean made several political speeches on the dump duty when in Opposition, and cveti went the length of promising, if the Liberals were returned to power, to “change it and change it pretty quick.” (Hansard, May 3t, 1935). But that was four years ago; the duties remain unchanged and Mr. hlaeLean has made no further speeches on the subject. As for duty under the West Indies treaty, he was himself a party to its adoption, and he has noticeably re- frained from comntettting adversely at any time pn this striking example of Liberal treaty bung- mg.

Now. according to Senator Duff, the duties on stigar from Cuba, Haiti and the Dominican Republic seem fated to remain at their existing high levels for an indefinite time to come. He cites the Speech from the Throne which inti- mates that the whole matter is being handed over to the Tariff Board “for examination." This statement was coupled with the intimation that notice hid been given, effective Dee. 3f, 1939, terminating the Canada-West Indies agreement.

“It is,” says Senator Duff, “a great disap- pointment to all concerned that the dumping duty was not removed years ago, and that the I2 months’ notice as required by the Canada-West Indies agreement should not have been given last April. Had such notice been given, the new agreement. which would include Cuba and the Domitiican republic, would then havebecome ef- fective in April of this year instead of January or later of next year."

“At this rate.” says Senator Duff. "it will be 1040 before anything is done. This session will not see any lowering of the barriers which have been raised in those important markets against our fish and potatoes, or in the price the l-tottscholtler must pay for sugar.”

And this‘. it will be recalled. was one of the great Liberal campaign issues in 1935!

Science And Potato-G rowing

Two announcements of much interest to po- tnto growers were made at a meeting in Rich- mond, Virginia, of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

The first was by Dr. John Guthrie ‘of the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, who told o'f a new method to prevent potatoes from sprouting in storage. ~In the past, he said,

growers have been dependent on the weartsome the Crown to mke us Over as a Crown colony process of Phlcklng o“ ti.“ sprouts.‘ Now’ by like Newfoundland. Iean visualize then how we treating the old tubers with a chemical known might easily be the only Oasis in the great Cam

are re- duced to a dormant state. A second chemical, erican desert of pirates and pussy_footcrsn ethylene chlorohydrin, wakes them when sprout-i '

as potassium naphthalcneacctate they

ing becomes desirable.

P-y this new process, according to Dr.‘ Guthrie, ‘ p it will be possible to control bud growth during vfiltlpttlg- A slight, shy boy whose greatest de- tltc winter and stimulate activity at planting “Rh! P15 3 Child “'35 l0 l)“ lwld "P l0 a Plan‘! b)’

time.

A150 interesting was an anngunggmqnf by Dr, will be guest conductor at a performance in Que- Theodore E. Odlaud, head of the Department bee January 23 by the Quebec Syntpbonic Con- of Plant Industr_v at Rhodc Island State Col- cert Society. _Now only _12, the boy composer, l-gc, of a seed potato which will produce a po- Clcrtnortt Pepin, lives quietly in the little town tato immune to blight. Euthusiastieally he prc- of St. Georges dc Bcaucc where his father is a

dictcd that this uiil revolutionize jmtato grow- barber. _ _ w¢ have had a similar brought llllll honors in a contest held by the

ing. 1n the hiaritimes forccasL

“Thousands of potato plants," said he, “have ly after one of them was performed b_v the Mon- been ruined by blight. The only weapon against treal Symphony Orchestra under the direction of it has been eonstzuit spraying. and otfen this has

failed. Conditions will now be better.”

The new Sea} wit] not 1x available Qgmmcf- composing, Clcrmont leaves his hmnc only on

ciztlly for several years.

l_ibe~rafll—l3_ries_s_Cl~pinion i

uoser study of Mr. Justice Davis's report on the Bren gun contract by no means substantiates not that of this Province. Bombay city experi- the premature antrottncement that it contained a enecd “prohibition" for the first time recently, wlrite-tvashiitg of the whole transaction, a clean when shops selling toddy and other country li- bill ofhealth ior all concerned. Quite the con- -quor and imported liquor were closed for two zrary, according to the PVintti/weg Free P708, a days-the mills’ pay day and the day following. leading Liberal newspaper» which interprets the The experiment was in many ways a success, report as "a sweeping contlcnznation of the although the Congress Governments immediate methods-used in this attempt ofiCnnada (should objective was probably not fully realized. The it “not be the Canadian Government?) to pro- intention is to keep liquor from the mill-hands on vide herself with Bren guns." It is none the pay day and the day after when they are likely less sweeping, says our Winnipeg contemporary, to have most of their wages. Though the rev- for the fact that it is indirect. "Had Mr, Justice cnue from liquor consumption in the city is like- Davis no fstult to find with the PIOCCGUN adopt- ly to fall the polity is to saye labourers from the 0d by the Department of Defense, had he been clutches of money-lenders and "from financial satisfied with the working of the inter-depart- ruin. mental committee charged with the supervision straight from the mills to the liquor shops on pay of war contracts, he would have said so. But he day, but as they had been fully warned about the ,

Instead he recommends a ‘fd. ' days. those of them .3110" [d not do drastic change in the whole system and method w ut liquor availed themselves Prigrtfii- 70071- '_ of obtaining our war m‘, lieu. If this in not union allowed for domestic malnutrition-an ' ' ldverse ‘c tieism of the method "' adieu i

was not lntisfied.

no whattwould In."

conduct and methods pml forth: mum,

all the certalmmtrlctlon

Commissioner did not say he had no fault to find, but contented himself with setting out the facts and leaving Parliament to study them grid take such action thereon as they may see 1!.

“In other words," says the Free Press, “the attempt of the Government to place this respon- sibility upon a Royal Commission has failed, and the whole matter remitted to the high court of Pailiament, where doubtless it will become, as it should become, a subject of vital public discussion." ' The Winnipeg Liberal paper also notes that Mr. Justice Davis says not a word as to whether the contract was a good bargain for Canada; he merely points out that in the absence of com- petitive bids he is “unable to pass upon the sub- stance, as distinct from the form of the con- tract.” This also is recommended as a question upon which the Government and Parliament, in the light of the evidence brought before the Commission, must pass judgment.

Summing up its impressions of the report, the Free Press says bluntlv: “The Bren gun busi- ness is by no means disposed of; nor has any- one received vindication. save in the tnattcr of personal corruption which was never in ques- tion. Insleutl, there is every reason to believe that the public will be far from satisfied. and will (lemand more light from the floor of Parlia- trtcnt.”

1 Editorial Notes I British llotisc of Lonuuotts ussctnblctl for the

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Flying to hloitctoti totlav is cquivalctit to go- ing to Montague by car in the summer. You can leave after luncheon and return in tituc for stip- P". i i I F

Why is there not recruiting for our Can- adian permanent force? If :1 recruiting sergeant were stationed in Charlottetown he could enlist many eligible young men.

it at 1ft

In appreciation of the treatment his wife re-

has offered to give the hospital three rupees (45. 6d.) a month out of his monthly salary of Rs. 6o (£442) as long as his wife is alive. Like the Chinese who pay to keep the doctor away the grateful Lahore husband puts a limit to his generosity, but his action is held in the Press to deserve the widest pnfsillle attention F

Plumbago and desiccated coconut are the chief Ceylon products for which the Ceylon Govern- ment has been pressing for favoured treatment by America in conncctionuvith the Anglo-Am- erican Trade Pact. American imports of desic- eated coconut from Ceylon have been on the de- cline since 10:25, owing largely to competition from the Philippines. As regards plumbago Ceylon enjoys a good market in America. a s: m w:

It is regrettable to learn that the Campbell Government has decided not to be represented at the New York \Vnrld’s Fair, for which Mr. A. F. Seaman is Commissioner-General for Canada. Nobody visiting that Fair will know there is such a place as the seat of the Silver Fox Industry or the locale of the Green Gables series of novels by Mrs. Lucy hfaud Montgomery. If we want to distribute any tourist literature ll must be through the_courtesy of_the Govern- ment of New Brunswick on a charity basis.

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Iu Ontario Premier Hepburn is by no means the only pebble on Ottawa's beach, if it has a beach. Mayor jamieson Bone, re-elected Mayor of Belleville, in his inaugural address declared: “I for one, even if I be the only one in Canada, am openly for rebellion against this continued policy of laissez-faire.” He had “repeatedly sug- gested" that government heads visit England to “learn how‘ people there are fully employed." If they did not follow that advice he said, “we in Bellevillc will have to take steps for ourselves and if necessary ask the county, and perhaps some other counties to join us in a petition to

adian desert, or indeed in the great North Am-

n- m iv m Geniuses are still born though they need dc-

his mother and who started to compose at six

Last spring two of his compositions

Canadian Performing Rights Society and short-

Wilfrid Pcllcticr who had prepared a special orchestration. Still hard at work studying and

rare occasions. “lhen he goes to Quebec Jau- uary 23, he will direct the Quebec Orchestra in his “symphonic pour orchestra” and “nnnuet.

w w s at India's idea of what constitutes prohibition is

It is true that the mill-hands could go

i "milled, themselves, with an no , .

ceived in a Lahore hospital a grateful husband ,

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notes at TllE-TIAY

The German-hunks New York staataulwnl and Herold lruow under the official bun 1n G because of its‘ crlflolms of the Nut treatment of the Jvwa and from vlenna comes word that the Naude Frets Presto and the Neues Wleuer Journal wlll discontinue publication. -Exohmru.

Whenever l use the word

clty bum 1n. The bearable to think of 1a clvlt. No offence. of course. Beca them 1s no offence intended by those who speak of us country olks as yokela. -Crane (Mo) Chronicle.

Editors of small-lawn paper: meet. a. lot of people. 1n spite of the fact that a good 50 percent. of thesg people want to sell hlm something, he learns a llttle about. a great man subjects from cou- versatlons wth callers who find 1t conslderab easier to gain ac- cess tb the o flee of a small-town than the holy of holles oc- cupied by editors of metro lltrm publications. We feel that. his 1a one of the advantages we enjoy over those who occupy mare prom- inent positions ln the field of journalism and 1t. ls a prlvllfige which we would sacrifice with a. graph deal of objection. —Llndsay 0a.. '

I05 Boston, the distinguish- ed Academician, closed the meet- ing wlth a new story about. George Inness, the elder, whose little daughter once invaded hls studio with the information that. "Moth- er wants twenty-five cents." George plcked up a cheque for $300 that. was Lvlng on the table and endorsed lt as follows: “Please ay bearer twelve hundred quar- ers." and sent the child to the bank around the comen- An as- sistant cashier brought the sack of colns the Innus studio, where the painter dumped 1t 1n a. corner. "There, my dear," sold he, turnlniz to hls wife. ‘whenever you want a quarter 1n future, help yourself." -Bob Davis, 1n New York Sun. i

111: tmaxntrrrmuwu ‘GUARDIAN

The Realm Of Solitude

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5 - ooln mtbwmm bum to us doors cf dolly chars and readers of n . Flvlnlz south- from the edle of the An- tarctic over m immense unknown M11011 he has seen no bare land. no mountnlns- m1 he ha; a keen eve for mounialns. n Wu he who manned from the air the Sentinel and Eternity ranges. We see hlm nnswabershitoaswellasan alr- shlu. He and his men dodae roams and I colony of loeberizs as non- chalantlv as we mor uedestrlans continual-charge of

Call 1t a duv.

To us stay-at-homes Anharotlca has the terror and chm-m of llhc unknown. It. belonxs to the lee ace Comm/ted with 1t the Arctic muons are pooitlcus. htunsu. civilized. Antarctica 1s inhuman. un- inhabited an lmmemortal haunt. of solitude. There the eznperor oeu- zuln ls the flower of clvlllzatlon. almost. human. more than Justify- lnz Anatole France. The Ancient Mariner knew no such loneliness. ere the old navigators long sought. “the third world." The were rizht ln seektnz Southwar . It 1s curlcus to remember 1n this lull tide o1’ Antarctic discovery that. early medieval ueozrabhers out both Asia and Africa ln the Northern Hemisphere. In the sense of lts soleness and lnhumanltv An- tarctica ls a third world. Dante and Vlrrrll saw the four holy stars. “unseen before save ov the flrst. folk." Adam and Eve. Fnm. the dank baclnvsrd and abvrnt cf time Antarctica remained unseen. Cen- turies of search stlll leave it larce- lv an undiscovered country. In the last. few years lt has elven 1m many of its secrets.

Tn the mlosit of the ctxcltv and the fear of war.‘ 1t ls ccnsollng to human dignity to think of those who have exposed or lost their lives to add to the sum of know- ledge. Sitting by the fLre. one thinks with admiration and a. sort of awe of Ellsworth. rldlmz the air over that mltmty waste of sncw and foe. wnv does he do it? ,Nzm— sen told us: “Man wants to know and when he does net want to know he ceases to be man.”

In this country, when: l of the press 1s taken for granted. 1t comes as something of a shock to be reminded by Ernest Dlmne», French author and lecturer vlslt- lng these shores, that. many Europeans gleaned their first knowledge of the background of the late September crlsls om American newspapers their respective countries. Here discussion of freedom e press ls mainly academic. That press control should keep the people 1n lznorance as to mat.- ers of vital and pressing con- cern to them ls from the Ameri- can vlewpolnt simply unthinkable. Yet. that. 1s exactly what. happens ln countries where government determines how much it 1s good for the people, with due regard to the maintenance of power by their rulers. to know. -—Phlladel- phla Bulletin.

If anyone has doubts about. the depth of anti-Nazi feeling ln the United States, he should ponder over what has taken place 1h New Hyde Park, New Jersey. ‘There the library board has banned Anne Morrow Undbergh’: latest book "Listen. the Wind," from its shelves. This action was taken because tthe husband of the author. Colonel Charles A. Lind- bergh, accepted a German decora- tion recently. The library board has, of course taken a narrow- mlnded and unwarranted attltude The action 1s noteworthy, however, as an expression of antl- Nazl feeling. It must be remem- bered that. Mrs. Lindbergh 1s n former resident of New Jersey, which her father represented as l senator. This makes the banning stltgk out all the more. —-W1ndsor S r.

Seven you: In Kingston peni- tentlary for stealing a dollar ma. seem a heavy penalty, yet 1 should not be forgotten that the man 1n the case, sent. down for robbing a Toronto drug store, when arrested, had 1n hls posses- sion a loaded revolver. The fact. that the loot. 1n this case ‘ ed only to a. dollar la Irrelevant. ‘mere 1s eve expectation that. a thug, with a coded gun wlll shoot to x111, 1n the event of opposition. It would have been tine same 1n this case 1f 1t had been a thousand d01- lars. The danger t0 the vlctlm would have been just as great. There must be drastlc punish- ment 1n all cases where thieves are Arrested, having loaded guns 1n their possession. The carrying of guns 1n Canada must me made as unpopular among the crlmlnals as 1t ts tn Great Brltaln. —N1agu.ra Falls Review.

An. authenticated instance of a British-built. warship abhlev- 111g a speed of more than 56 miles an hour has lust occurred. A new Thornycroft motor torpedo - boat, built. for a foreign Government. on her trials on the long reach ln the Thames estuary coveted one lap of the measured mlle. whet: being put through a series of mile runs for a mean speed at. 411.18 knots. This ls the highest. speed ever offlclallv recorder for a Brit.- lsh-butlt. warship. ‘These motor- boats, unllke the new m.t.b.s. of the Royal Navy are not. intended for 111g -sea. work. They are :10- veloped ‘from the coastal motor-

wlth the Dover patrol, and they are popular with everal foreign nuvlu for harbor d fence work and 1n- shora patrols at night. They are fitted with two torpedo tubes and with a small anttalrcmft. gun, and

boats which did such good work .

LEAVETAKING

Pass, thou wild light,

Wlld light. on peaks that, so Grieve to let go

The day;

Invely tarrylng, lovely too 1s

n . Pass thou away.

Pass, thou wlld heart, Wlld heart of youth that still Host. half a. will

‘To stay.

I grow too old a. comrade, let. us part,

Pass thou away.

—-Slr Wllllmn Watson.

will assure manklnd that lf there are Mprtlans they have not. yet. surpassed the human race 1n de- vlslng, fabricating and utilizing Instruments of destruction. —New York Sun.

The factor that arouses Hitler's tre to the highest pitch ls, o! course, hls realization that no one outside of Germany, Italy and Ja- an has the least sympathy for ls anti-Jewish programme. This comes to turn as an acute surprise for like all small mentalltles‘, it never occurred to hlm that he might be wrong. Hence, opposi- tlon wmes as a shock which he cannot bear, and the only means of counter-offenslve that he can understand 1s one of added crimes against the helpless Jews still un- der hls crushing heel. --Sydney Post-Record. ‘

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We are supplied wllh all high grade Coal: comprising Hard Stove and lllnlNul, Old Sydne Screen- ed, Sprlnghlll screened, nverness Screened, Albion Nut. and Alb on Round. Alan Dominion Coke. Care- ful deliveries etc. -

in-uz-un-u nin- WHY S0 MANY PHYSICIANS DIE OF HEART AND BDOOD

VESSEL DISEASES

‘In every medical Journal, wheth- er 1t be weekly‘, monthly, or quar- terely, 1a the t of deaths 1n the m lcal profession and ln moat cases the cause of death ls recor- ded. Every 11st tells u: the ammo story-moat of the deaths anion ' physicians are due to some hear

condition. mostly hardening o1 the arteries and partial closlng of the little vessels supplying the heart muscle with blood. It. ls called

coronary sclerosis. Naturally the

heart ls olng to ‘fall’ to do its

work 1f t. 1s not. gettlng enough blood with which to do that. work.

An interesting comparison be- tween the number of cases of coronary sclerosis among ‘physic- ians and among other pro esslons and trades ls recorded by Dr. H. L. Smith 1n the Journal of the American Medical Association. He examined the consecutive records of 307 physicians, 300 bankers, 304 lawyers, 306 clergyman, 306 laborers, and 30B farmers.

There were 88 cases of coronary sclerosls among the physicians, 16 among the bankers, 14 among the lawyers, 14 among the clergyman, B among bhe laborers. and 8 amozu: the farmers. The average age.of the patients was about. the same

for all groupts‘.

Why are ere so many more cases of this form of heart d1:- ease among the physicians than among the other groups

“It has lon been recognlzed that strain, in enslty of work, and mental worries are factors 1n the production of coronary sclerosis. A physician's schooling ls long and intensive so that he has used up a great; deal of nervous energy by the time he graduates."

Secondly, the nature of a phy- slclank work is much more stren- uous and he not only has the rc- sponslblllty of health but often- times of llfe itself 1n hls hands. A physician's routine work whlch includes taking care of mother and baby at childbirth, broken legs, severe heart attacks, scarlet fever and diphtheria among children and pneumonia the aged. and the responsibility of the "surgeons ls actually or nearly as lntense as that of the banker when there ls a. "run" on the bank." In other words, what. ls a crisis for the banker and business man 1s more or less routine or everyday work for the physician.

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Twenty-one years before this important develop. ment, in 1856, the Canada Life issued its first policy to a resident of the Maritimcs. Even then the com; pany had been established eight years.

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FISHERMEN’S N O TI C E

The Dominion and Provincial Governments strew- ermen who have SuSlfllIWd

operating to recompense fish loss or damage to their fishing eqlllllmefll- (luring ll" 1"~‘°°“l' _. severe storrns. A representative of the Provincial Fisher- man's Loan Board wlll visit the different fishing localilie! where loss was sustained for the purpose of taking claim!- Due notice will he given by posters, and fishermen who haw suffered loss or ‘damage are requested to be prepa1erll° present a statement of actual loss and sign a declaration I, of same. All claims for loss must be made to this Board t before FEBRUARY 10th, 1939.

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