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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6. 1930

Airing Civic Affairs

11 ls to be regretted that the retir- ing City Council, which had been in- Vlted to attend a public meeting in file Laborers’ Union Hall. and declin- Od to do so on the.ground of a pres- sing business meeting, should see fit, Q few days later, to accept the invi- tstfon of the Rotary Club where an lddress on civic affairs was given by the Mayor, where no discussion was allowed and where the public was ex- eluded.

His Worship, in introducing the Councillors and water Commission- ers who attended this meeting in a body, is reported as saying that the invitation of the Club might wcll be taken as an endorsatfon of the work which these two bodies had per- formed during the past two years. He strongly expressed his own appre- ciation of their activities and empha- sized the need of selecting capable men to conduct civic affairs. Effic- iency in government, he pointed out, depends on the interest which the people take in these matters. I-lc urged that complaints be sent dircct- ly to the authorities and criticised the publication in the press of let- ters, whether signed or anonymous, from people unaqualnted with the facts or actuated by personal spleen. He then went on to enumerate cer- tain important needs of the city.

‘The Guardian suggests that the in- terests of the city would be better served, and our citizens better satis- flsd had His Worship delivered his address at a public meeting. The op- portunity presented by the Laborers‘ Union should have been embraced, if not on the night spccifled, then on a later occasion. Better still, a meeting [could have been celled in the Strand Theatre. As it is, the limiting of the discussion of such important public matters to an exclusive club luncheon has left a decidedly unfav- orable impression.

The Subsidy Mix-Up

Premier Saunders’ revised version‘

of his statements with respect to set- tlement of subsidy claims has ap- peared. I? alas given, according to the local Liberal organ, in an inter- view with a Board of Trade delega- tion on Monday. For all the infor- mation it contains, the Premier might just as well have referred the delega- tion to the article in the Halifax Herald, republished in The Guardian of Jan. 29, which article was pre- pared for tie specific purpose of cor- recting the garbled and misleading statements attributed to ‘Premier Baunders on his return from Ottawa. ‘file Premiers announcement at that time, as broadcast in the Canadian Press, was that “an audit board of expert accountants has been appoint- ed by the King Government to make the final adjustment of Prince Ed-i ward 1sland's provincial subsidy claims." His anu- ncemcnt as report- sd in the Patriot of Jan. 25, though more cautiously worded, was no less Iiisleadlng. 1t mid m pin-c‘; “Premier Saunders then stated that an audit board has been ap- pointed by the King Government to make this final adjustment. “The members of the board so appointed have been chosen with the greatest care. . . . "This board is at present at work on our claims, maklns the adlillt“ ment recommen‘ " by "l9 Dim" ban Commission." ' ‘ The facts, as the Premier has now admitted to the Board of Trade dele- are mil. the question of the of 1111M uu-muu mvlnw gm‘ been “referred b! ow M- qmlmy sand i m the Do- " ' mailed Audit. The idem {paw m- spsoial. board If!‘ luv-lulu who wmwi b!

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of Audit will be of a nature prelim- inary to‘ a Dominion Provincial Con- ference to deal with the subsidy ques- tion and finally settle upon it. The Nova Scotia and New Brunswick gov- crnments are reported as taking the position that while their ready co-op- eratlon with the Board of Audit in this work may be reliedupon, the preliminary nature of the investiga- tion must be recognized.

It is difficult, even yet, to gather from Premier Saunders‘ reported statements what his attitude is on this point, or what the information actually was that he was instructed to convey to the people of this Prov- ince on his visit to Ottawa. It is ob- vious, however, that in his interview with the Board of Trade delegation on Monday he endeavored, after his fashion, to retract some of the state- ments attributed to him in the Pat- riot of Jan. 25. He no longer refer- red to any “appointmcrlt" by the King Government of an audit board, “chosen with the greatest care" to make "final adjustment" of our sub- sidy claims. Instead, he "read the ln- structions as given by the Treasury Board at Ottawa to the Board of Au- dit" which specifically stated that the duty of the latter was to act in an advisory capacity. He contradicted his previous reference to a “final adjust- ment" by the audit board when] he added; "Prince Edward Island is not necessarily bound to accept the find- ings of this Board. The final settle- ment of the claims is a matter be- tween the province and the federal government." ‘Ibis, as we understand it, is precisely the view taken by the governments of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, and it. is perfectly in ac- cord with the" suggestionoffered by the Board of Trade, which is found- ed on the assumption that our claims will eventually have to be settled eitheryat a Dominion-Provincial Con- ference or by a Royal Commission-

What further action the Dominion Government may take remains to be scerl. lit seems useless to expect Premier Saunders to shed any light upon the i matter. The fact that stands out ‘prominently in connection with the l Premiers visit to Ottawa is that he se- cured nothing which the Province would not have enjoyed had he stay- ed at home, and that, in his ili-ad- vised and fumbling efforts to make political capital out of his visit, he created suspicion and distrust among our sister Maritime Provinces at a time when it was most important for ‘us to retain their co-operatlon and support. .

Tllc British Way

Law enforcement in Great Britain, and the principle upon which it rests are well summed up in the following paragraph from the London Evening

News:

“In so far as our country has been kept q-lme-free by compari- son with many others it has been done, not by making crime diffi- cult but in making punishment cer- tain. Like General von Moltke. who told the Kaiser he had six plans for invading England but none for getting out again. .'I‘hs professional criminal knows s. doz- en simple ways of making easy money injtngland, but no reliable way of remaining at large to cnioy his plunder. If this admirable system shows signs of weakening the remedy is to strengthen the hands of the police, not to sow the country with bolts and bars, man traps, spring guns, bandogs, barb- ed wire, an army of watchful of- flclals and s. general atmotphers of distrust."

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Tariff tinkering is still going on both at Ottawa and Washington and It is almost useless to guess what the outcome may be. In Ottawa we have a pro-American Government, very anxious to please Uncle Sam, but still, in deference to Canadian 0pm- ion squlnting toward a little more protection for our farm products, or' some of them. 0n this point ft seems to have been decided to straddle the fence so that in the West, when the election camiifllflll is on Liberal min- isters and candidates can stress the points that make for. free trade across the border, and in the mung. ,trial centres cast of the Lakes lay stress on the points that indicate some sort of protection. .

Inywashlng‘ the free list of Ca- nadian products now entering the States and the coal situation are both subjects of serious concern. The free list includes gypsum, hides, leather, cedarshingles and other ar- ticles of Canadian production val- ued at some $00,000,000 a year. The coal barons of Pennsylvania are ex- ercised over Nova Scotia coal going into New England, and coal from British Columbia now finding its way into the adjoining states on the Paci- rlo coast, and are calling for new or higher duties. But these are the sub- jects of controversy in the Senate and may remain as they are.

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As the Canadian Parliament usual- ly meets but once a year and seldom has a special session, while Congress usually holds full and spring sessions and may call an interim session at any time, and moreover the Presi- dent has power under the constitu- tion, or in tariff acts to raise or low- er certain duties, Canada is at a dis- advantage in the tariff tinkering competition between Ottawa and Washington.

LION George Is noted for his ready wit in repartee. Once when he was flddfewlflil some Welsh miners he said, "We will have Home Rule for Ireland, and for England and for Scotland and for Wales-J’

“And for hell," interrupted a deep, half-drunken voice.

“Quite right," he instantly replied. "I like to hear a man stick up for his own country." -

A device recently invented in Eng- land eliminates the nuisance of the telephone operator's “They don't an- swer." In the absence of the sub- scriber the device takes down the message. This is but one of a num- ber of inventions made by Louis Blattner in recording and reproduc- lng sound. He has produced a tele- phone registration machine which

telephonlc conversation, including

busy bodies on the wrong line.

And it seems no money can be raised by new taxes until June next by which time the arrears will be four times as great. It is also strange reading that the rich state of Illinois has defaulted on its bond issue‘ pay- merits.

In addition to state and city los- ses and debts, ft is stated in the press that owing to the crash in the stock Market over 50 millionaires in com- nlon with a host of the less wealthy have become pennilessh

Published statistics tell that in the United states last year pay-roll rob- beries resulted in 1'7 deaths, 9 kid- 1189111088. over 100 woundinga, and a loss of millions of dollars. The U. s. Secretary of Labor has proposed a more general payment of salaries and W898 by cheques, as a partial pro- tection against pay-roll robberies. Many large employers of labor trie.l the experiment of paying their workers by cheques in envelopes, but filly found that a malority of them preferred to receive their wages iii money Many o! them were unfamil- iar with bank customs, or unable to write their names, or wanted money to spend on their way homewardg- so the pay-roll plan was continued.

Ireland has l. new problem in the mun-chewing habit whichpu spread so rapidly over the colmtry that the Dali is called upon to pus leg- islation fozbldding the sale of gum. And yet time are some who clllm that the mastication of gum. helps toprescrvs the tooth ff put in prac- tice before-decoy has begun. .

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Of the 17.335 deaths from acute appendicitis in 1928, Drs. J. C. Bower, and J. H. Clark of Philadelphia, es- timate that 11,680 died as a. result of taking laxatives before the opera- tion.

That is nearly '10 per cent died be, cause they endeavored to relieve the pain with a laxative. Dr. Tanner and Camb of Add6flllYO0L€s Hospital, Cambridge. Elngland, believe. that caster-oil causes acute appendicitis to take a. more violent course than it otherwise would, and! they report some cases in the British Lancet.

They point out that in a series cl‘ fifty patients, eight had been given, caster-oil, and in all of these cases; u"! “Pllendix was gangrenous." The reasons given for the harmful effects of caster oil upon acute appendicitis are that the oil further irritates the already inflamed and irritated-intes- tine, and thus actually hurries or in. creases the destructive changes tak. ins place in the tissues. '

Also, giving the castor oil gener- ally delays the operation as ‘the pat. icnt waits to see what results the oil will have. Now as most pain in the abdomen and in the region of the oppenclix also, isduef to gas fol-m. ation, and caster oil is a. ‘natural remedy to use in removing/same, _lt 1s not surprising that .it is used'so often, and no bad effects follow its use. .

However in view of the figures quoted above from the United States and Great Britain, and they apply el/Wywhere, the general use of caster oil for abdominal pain will have to be carefully watched, if t_he great yearly number of deaths from appendicitis is to be lessened.

If the pain shifts about from PM“? w Place it is not usually ap- eppendlx also." is due to gas form. middle of the abdomen, shlltgdgwn to the right side and stays there, it 1s usually lfppehdlcllls.

If you feel that the pain must be shifted in some manner, then the use of an enema or ‘hojeotfgn will often be sufficient to relieve pain.

Remember then the dfimagg and frequent deaths that follow the use of cantor oil or other purgatfve in appendicitis.

The figures quoted above is my reason for speaking about this matter

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thfizutgds stratngely the despatches lgcflng do; which has ‘used nearly‘ » ° 8"“ “M m“ °"Y °f ("11- I $20,000 m: ohaity at Waterloo Station cago has no money to pay the salar- | England, 15 going blind and will b“ , . les of its 40,000 public employees to “placed by a yvunger caning whom it now owes over 511.090.0001

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were lemm- much to be desired. At a mesons of the Geographical can. felfllw. in Ilondon, many speakers

Bflve most amusing account of the sort of stuff fmey were taught at

school about the scenery and clinlate, etc. of the various countries intro- duced fo their notice. It would per- haps be better to say that the pictur- esque parts of instruction were care- fully lcft out and all that remained in the mind was some vague, general impression. which was no more like the adludl reality than the; Sahara ls like Ceylon. It is ctr-wee the way in which utterly false and gratuitous

posed that with all the enormous uuzount of uumcy spent upon edu- cation, and with the abundant means of travel people today have at their command, oldtlme prejudices and ignorance of the lmds sketched upon the map would by this date have vanished. Yet this is far from being ‘ the case. Take Canada itself, for example. It has been called “Our Lady of the Snows" That impression surmounts and overtones all iihe rest. It crystallizes itself, in the mind of time stranser

starkly savage, and touching the im- agination witlh an icy chill. People at a distance have got so used to hearing about Canadian forests and wilderness spaces and winter rte and the ice palace fete that ilh Y‘ probably vronder if ever-the lmfitfld crust melts from flhe window-Pm“ and evisoge our Dominion as a sort of Siberian waste. It is reported that last summer, be it noted, a. stranger came into Montreal from southern American states equipped with snow- shoes and skills. under the imT-IIWS- ion that he would find hweboufs uh outlet for his sportlns wow“ ities. This, of course, is an extreme instance, yet enough to hid-icon: the silly notions some- folk have concerning the Canadian climate and scenery. And Mr. Courtney Riley Cooper, who has Just returned from mtour of the Hudson Bay T9810"- exmvggges his deep regret that so many peculiar notions ofv Cmadl have belconie ‘prevalent. He’ says: ffThe people or the United‘ Mates - are under the imprezsfon that Can- ada is o. land "of desolate, frolen wrists“; announces his inten- tion of what he calh" "selling Can- ada. tlhmugh books"; in oflhcr words,

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The British principle of emulatin- der whlchamanfsassulued " ‘ oceut until found guilty will i: ‘ applied to the Tomato brokers now in the toils of ,the law. On the other band, says the‘ Ottawa Journal, the sweeping action of the Atti-ney-Ceu- eraiand the manner-in which the ‘ar- rests were carried out, would appear to indicate that the Ontario Govern- mént has come‘ into possesslodof in- ‘ ation of a’very serious charac- ter. In the circumstances, and in view of the rumors that have been golpg about, destroying public confi- dsnce in mining brokerage houses as a whole, Mr. Price‘: vigorous hand- ling of the situation will meet with public commendation. ’ Perhaps the most amazing feature of the recent arrests was the proni- inence of the men and houses in- volved. The public assum -tfon has been that whatever of irregularity existed was centred chiefly in the smaller firlm or in houses not, affil- faled with the Standard Stock and Mining Exchange. lt canle some- what as a shock, therefore. when the Attorney-Generals dragnet took in men who have been regarded as the very pillars of the mining brokerage business in this province. g ' Amazing, too, will it b; if it]: found that illegal practices have been go-J lug on with the full knowledge and’ condonatlon of Milling Exchange leaders. One would have‘ thought that with the boom in speculation of the past two years, when everybody was in the market, brokerage houses

would have been content and quite, prosperous with their leglllnuvtb brokerage oommiisions. And one. would have thought, also, that there’ was enough brains and integrity, among the leaders of‘ the business, to perceive that sooner or ‘later lr-. regularities would lead to disaster for some and to trouble for every- body, and that they would have tak- en steps to either curb or expose such practices. Quite japparently, however, wrong-doing was first con- doned, then embraced then given al- most general sanction. \

The pity of it all, of course, is that

most legitimate mining development. It ou ht not to; but it probably will. It will be more difficult, one fears, to securemoney for the financing of even first-class properties; public con- fidence will be shaken" and the good will suffer with the bad.

Yet this action had to come. The worst thing that could have happen- ed-\vcrse ‘for both mining and pub- lic-woilld have been a policy of hush. ‘Ihat, in the light of the ru- mors and reports that have been widespread, would have been destruc- tive of oil public faith, and wouldalsol

of making an effort to correct and offset the absurd ideas vmoh have unfortunately taken lodgment. in tn: minds of those who live for from our borders. ~

This crass ignorance would be

wilting were it not so appalling. we have our winter season like many other folk. Yet we can speak agcodmmforwirreruimnada, and Mr Cooper hottiltels that he suf- fererd more ‘firm. cold in Chicago than 'in the Hudson Boy country. As for the summer and fall seasons all who live in Canada and those who have visited this Dominion. know perfectly well there is not