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AIDING THE FARMERS

P13130118 from many quarters and sections of Canada are being re- ceived of the successful operation of the mrmers’ Creditors Arrange- ment Act. The purpose of this Act is not to abolish all farm debts, a task obviously impossible. What it does aim to do, however, is to help farmers adjust their debts, to scale down principal and interest rates; to work out reasonable settlements. In other words, its purpose is to keep famers on their land, to give them c. fresh start, to bring what they owe within possibility of pay~ merit.

This, in many_ canes, is being done. Finance Minister Rhodes re- ports that there has now been as- toblished ln each province under the provisions of the Act a Board 0f Prview. 'I"hese boards are func- tioning, In the Province of Sas- katchewan 159 cases have been appealed to the Board of Review; 49 have already been hoard and in 35 cases proposals formulated. In Alberta. 160 appeals have been taken to the Board of Review; 40 have been heard: in Manitoba. 135 cases have been taken to the Board of Review and 33 cases have been heard: in Ontario 120 appeals have been taken to the Board of Review; B5 have been heard: in Quebec 520 appeals have been taken to the Board of Review and 30 have been heard.

Just how this Act is WOTklflg out may be seen from the following rec- ord of six cases in the Judicial Dis- . trlct of Humboldt, Saskatchewan, the adjustments being:

k-Llnlillitios _ s mama ltoducrrl to 4,101.08 I—Lli\lvilltlos .. .. . g '_'.fi2i0_(l'l llNlilCNl to 20.7.00

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C-Jliuhllitlcn . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. $Ifl..§'l0.fl7 llcducml to ... .‘ ..... .. 11,823.14 D—l'ilnhilitl"s ... ‘ vnsru 1 Reduced to b08735? E-Llnliilitirs .. . .3 3315,00 Reduced to _ L‘,<Ii0.00 I~Liruiuizm .... ..... .. 3 0.2mm Reduced to . , . . . . . . . . . .. 3.701.430,

T!!! official receivers appointed under the Act for this Province are Messrs. J. D. MacLeod, Murray River. Edward W. Manson, Sum- mcrcidc, and Chas. E. MacKenzie, Milton. The Registrar under the Act

a is Mr. James B. Johnston, Char- lotirtown, while the Board of Re- view for the Province conslsts of Mr. Justice Arscnault, Chief Com- missioner, Mr. C. M. Williams, creditors‘ representative and Mr. E. B. MacLarcn, debtors‘ representa- tive.

SOCIAL ACTS COMPARED

An interesting comparison of the figures under the British Unemploy- ment Insurance Act of 1934 plus an increase of 25 per cont to offset the difference in living costs between the two countries, with the figures under the Unemployment Insurance bill now submitted to the. Canadian Parliament, was made last week by

i Premier Bennett. The Prime Min- ister pointed out that the benefits under the Canadian bill for men be- tween twenty-one and sixty-four ore $0 per week as against $5.17 un- dcr the British bill of last year, and 35.10 for women as against $4.05 for women under the British bill of last year; and for men between eight en and twenty $4.20 per week in Can- ada as against $4.26 under thc Bri- tish bill, and for females between the ages of eighteen rind twenty $3.60 per week here as against $3.65 per week in Great Britain, conver- ted into Canadian funds. For boys of the age of seventeen the rate in Canada is $2.70 and $2.74 in Great Britain at par of exchange. For boys under seventeen, $1.80 in Can- ada and $1.82 in Britain; and for girls $2.10 in Canada as against $2.38 in Britain; $1.50 for those un- iier the age of seventeen 1n Canada md $1.52 for those under seventeen in Britain. The dependent payment lo adults in Canada is 82-70 P01‘ week as against $2.74 in Britain, ' ‘ tnd the payment for each chili-l in ihls country is 90 cents per week as igalnst 61 cents under the British

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i , One of the most amazing features ' n the’ British Empire, says the Toronur Globe, is the variety of “dialectic English speech the trirvrl- 1,1101‘ may hear. EnglsndVitsclf pm- . cents many different dialects. The

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speech, fairly familiar, however, around the world. Ireland has its North and South variations of "the brogue," and also boasts of its well~ known Dublin accent. south Africa's English is diluted with a. smatter- ing of Dutch and Kaffir. The Srscerh of the Australian man in the street L1 richly redolent of that heard in the neighborhood of Bow Bells; and even Canada must admit that she has s. touch of the nasal twang familiar in the neighboring Republic, to saynothing of the (‘nlightfully original English heard in the Province of Quebec. To all this, and. in all countries must be added too-prevalent slovenlincss of speech, and the day-by-day en oevnumelltS of slang. ' -

Consequently he is a courageous man who, like C. Etuar Ford, Doc- tor cf Music of Oxford University, essays to unify these dialects. Dr. Bord, at present in Carmela, is, in his own words, “interested in set- ting one standard of speech for the Empim." He wants to break down those barriers which exist because of present dialects. Dr. IPord real- izes the magnitude of such an undertaking, but approaches his task in a spirit of good humor. For example: "We in Britain, of coursn, have many different dialects, al- though they are tending to disap- pear. I once asked a girl (and this is a. true story) as to why the Pied Piper was callncl Pied. She replied that it was because he was picd (paid) by the corporation to get rid of the rats."

EDITORIAL NOTES

Miss Goya's performances IPrlday night were a revelation to most of

brr audience of the poetry of mus- cular movement.

Taking time by the forelock, our evening contemporary is dishing up election propaganda. in wholesale orders. It will be stale and un- profitable long before the campaign opens.

In an interview in the London Daily Mail in December, Hitler de- clared that nothing would induce Germany to go to war as anmher catastroph". of that kind would end western civilization. Nevertheless ho pussyfoots about taking the initial step to prevent such catastrophe. It is quite evident that Hitler ls in the habit of “protesting too much" to be sincere.

The destruction of three United States dirigibles-trn Shenandoah, the ZR-2, and the ,Akron-—meant a total loss to the US. Government of $8,375,000 in construction costs alone. The Shenandoah (ZR-I), de- stroyed in 1925, cost $2,000,000. Che was erected at Lakehurst, NJ. The ZR-Z, lost during a test flight over Hull, Eng, in 1921, cost the United States $1,000,000, or half of the contract price paid to British bulld- ers. The’Akron (ZR-d), built at Akron, 0., and commissioned in 1931, was destroyed nearly two years later. She cost $5,375,000. It is very questionable whether Wash- ington will authorize any further expenditure for sometimp to come on such death traps.

The impressive showing in the expansion of Canada's business with the British Empire is almost wholly attributable to the operation of Ottawa conference agreements. An almost equally impressive showing is the expansion in Canada's bus- iness with the British Empire. largely attributable to the opera- tion of the conference agreements. sales to the Empire amounted to $335,245,138, a growth of over $80,- 000,000, while purchases from the Empire totalled $157D6d,710, an im- provement of $34,389,073. To the United Kingdom alone Canada. sold $270,333,857 last year, an increase of nearly $60,000,000, while $113,- 419,309 was brought from the Unit- ed Kingdom, an increase of $15,- 540,137. '

Payment of "sweatshop" was? scales and employment of child 1c- bor are to become criminal ofbenccs panying heavy penalties, if Parlia- ment adopts the recommendations of the Royal Commission on Price Spreads and Moss Buyiul- Th0 Royal Commissioners, are now busy drafting that part of their report dealing with lobour and industrial conditions. The central recommend- ation, it is learned. Jl. the emotion of a new federal body. to have Ill!- isdictlon over trading practice! I04 labor conditions. This D047 Wm have authority m" ism rczulatluul which will bent!» force of luv, violsttcififof I111 commits

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Notes By 771a Way

Whcnthcothcrfcllowhsetln his way. he's obstinate; when you are, it is Just firmness? When the other fellow dciz-srvt like your friends, he's prejudiced; when you don't like his, you are simply show- 10-8 $11011 y0u are a good Judge of human nature? when the other fel- low tries to trout someo special- ly well, hcc toodying: when you try the some game, you are Using tact? When the other fellow picks flaws 111 $111098. hos cranky: when you <10. Y0" IN discriminating. When the btrer fellow. says what he thinks. hes spiteful; when you do, you are frank -

Lloyd Gwrlc’: coll roi- o. New Deal has attracted attention. Our 00511530110! 55y the Conservatives 0T0 910118111101» U10 Laborites are critical, the Liberals are delighted. Lloyd George Birding himself for new battles at the age of 72 m- minds people of Gladstone staging his gmat Midlothlan comeback at the n80 0f 71. The parallel may not run very far, but the English pec- Dle amid many changzs’ remain 10y!!! to old favorites. We hear much of coming young men like Al-thur Eden and Walter Elliott, t) spieak 001v o! those in power, but the country still seems to be chiefly "in by Ramsay Mae-Donald, who is 80; Stanley Baldwin, who is 67; Neville Chamberlain, who i; g3; John Simon, who is 62. Even the etemally youthful Winston is 61. Youth in the person of Oswald M08101‘ has not stirred British pul- ses.—New York Times.

Fllllvwllfg the receipt of a parti- cularly nasty letter which had been mailed to us on a Sunday, wc had B 800d Suspicion of the identity ol the writer. Meeting the suspect on the street on Monday afternoon, w: approached her and said: "Next time you mail me a letter, you'd better put a stamp on it." "I did Put e. stamp on 1t," she blurted.- Tmnton Courier-Advocate.

In our age of vaunted clvilhation it is dlfllcult to place credence in the suggestion that three major marine disasters in which vessels of the Ward Line have figured with- in five months-the Morro Castle, the Havana and the Mohawk- were directly due to sabotage aboard. Yet there seams to be some basis for the suspicion that the series of tragedies were more than mere co-lncidenm. In each case there was evidently something des- perately wrong with the manage- ment of the ships. The current 1n- quiry by the United States Steam- boat Inspection Servize should dig deep until there's no further room for doubt, one way or the ofher. Modern liners are so nearly in:ch~ anically perfrct the public is en- titled to know whether cr not the human element has been at fault. -—Border Cities Star.

If everyone‘ made a chart each year of all th. increasing advan- tages and blessings accrued to them, and to the world, and compared each chart at the beginning of each new WM. there wouldn't be so many grumblers and complain- ers around. I can imarirn many a grey-haired old-timer smiling over the time when he walked miles to borrow a book, or to attend school, in contrast to those who have a public or lending library a fcw blocks from their honor‘. or who can purchase a classic for but a. few cents at some public store. If we keep our sense of humor, and our sense of beauty and appreciation, it won't matter how much money wn have or whether we become fam- ous or not. In the end we are tuck- ed away in the warm earth—cqual at last.

CBIIEIIELWSSES a strange flapter

lotion. The Royal Commimion is out resolutely to" abolish the sweat- shop.

An increase I»: over $100,000,000 in total business with the British Empire, an expansion of nearly $130,000,000 in » trade with the United states, a notable growth in sakes to Latin America, and a fav- orable visible balance of over $237,- 000,000 are features of Canada's trade for the calendar year 1934 as compared with the previous twelve months. Canada's total sales in 1934 were $659,903,020, an increase over the previous year of over $132,000,000, while purchases last year aggregated $513,469,497, an ad- vance of over $112,000,000. In view of the present negotiations for a tradi". pact with the United States a

ry of business with that country is interesting. Imports from the United States were $293,779,913, an increase of $76,499,315, and ex- ports to that country amounted to $223,544,093, an expansion of $52,- 002.183.

Mayor Simpson of Toronto, like Premier Ramsay Macdonaid in London, finds being in power makes quite o, difference in viewpoint. The Mayor is a 0.0.3‘. and before elec- tion was strong for economic re- form and curtailment of expendi- ture. Now he thinks propaganda of that sort quite uncalled for. At o gathering of i. ronto Municipal Foreman: Association he assured the member that civic employees need not be afraid that "threats of out- siders demanding-extreme cllffiftllq meat: of civic salaries and wages"

charge of the administration of civic affairs." ‘I711! bond of control and city rcuncllwculd not bcfilcd any by the lupcmeleuuu of lup- crilcloi thinkers,” Ills worship d0- clorcd, 10110711243111! up with c contemptuous. reform“ l0 "Immi- cipcl- bureau: that let themselves up ovcrywcckdtoototnlluchow

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MEAT AND POTATOES CAN BE EATEN TOGETHER WHETHER YOU ARE SICK‘ 0B WELL

“people have coma to me ‘with the ridiculous but apparently naus- ible theory that meat and 0835- p1-btg1d5,_a_nd, potatoes and bread- starcliea-dont agree in the stoni- ache, and I knew well from studies covering eight years that this could not be true. They came bark with the statement, "Well. ‘mt may m" b9 true regarding a normal ind v - dual, but it is true regarding o 810k pqliohneiv of no place where I could g0 for exact information rekardinfl the subject and I made up my mind that the univ ivua" w i!“ "is 1"‘ formation was to 801 it myseu- I“ mo}; me a, year t0 get the flflilT-B and a week and a half to comp 0 them, but these figures are the 118- ures as they actually occurred in {he ward- patients of the Jefferson l-lg5plfitl, and there is no evidence that even in these sink 11001110 with all manner of ailments that protelds and starches are not as easily. d38- ested together as when taken sep- arntely."

1 um quoting from Dr. Martin E. Rehfuss, Clinical Professor of Medi- cine, Jefferson Medical College 0f Philadelphia. in Journal of the American Medical Association. During the years 1914 to 1930 Dr. Rrehfuss and his co-worker Drl-lawk made 1000 studies in 200 normal men. They found that there W610 three types of digestion-rapld, slow and mecllum—and that the rate of digestion was the same for the same individual whether meats were eaten alone, potatoes alone. or i! meat and potatoes were eaten to- gether.

What about sick people? Are 810k people able to cat 90m!!!“ and meats-starches and 111010105 '"' 9°‘ gather? Yes! In fifty sick indivi- duals with ailments such_as inflam- mation of the kidneys, rum-- matlon of the gall bladder, asthma, c081!" pectoris, and acute illnesses such M rheumatic fever and pneumonia. meat alum took 3 hours and minutes on an average to digest and meat and potatoes together. i001! 3 hours and 54 minutes.

I believe these figures from a Professor of Medicine taken from the wards of a famous 1105011-0‘ clearly show that well or sick, whe- ther‘ eating meat or potatoes alone or together makes no difference in digestion time in the same indivi- dual.

Professor Rehfuss finally states: "There is no evidence either in tht? literature or in my invfiitlflutlflhs l0 lead me to believe that proteins and carbohydrates are incvmPfl-“ble 111 the stomach. Such a. tcachln! 01“ lead to serious malnutrition as well as lighting up of tuberculosis and old infeciigs."

written in the contact of its law with its aboriginal people. A ludi- cial party flies hundreds of miles ,t0 bleak Copperminc to convict Ahigiak. Eskimo defendant, of mur- der. Three ycaz-s ago Aghlgiak skew the hunter Aniurak when the lat- ter made advances to his wife. The Eskimo tradition having been duly served, time Ehkimos cannot uncer- stand Why the white man comes in to reopen the matter now. Ahigiak will be flown out to serve five years in a. ptl50Il——Alld who. asks the puzzled village, is to cam for and protect Ahigiak's wife while lie is away -—Stecle in Monitor-

So Congress basal 1B8!- Willi-H! that it has submitted to dictation for two years past and is growin! restlve. Roosevelt has done wonder- fully considering. Mussolini march- ed on Rome and made over the constitution. Hitler has an elected backing in the Reichstag before bl". began throwing his weight about and when he had trouble in his immediate following did not hesi- tate to settle it by execution. Boos’:- veit has done it all with honeyed wozds so far. How he will settle re- volt in hm legislative backing, if it comes to that, remains to tn seen.

The mt that a social systom works is no proof whatever of its excellence, for everythingfrom the ancient Turkish system of govern- ment by murder down to the mod- em forms of government by bank credits has worked. and. 8t time5- all of them have worked satisfac- torily. But a. faulty system of col- lective human relations produces storm centers which reveal them- selves after a while in sudden out- bursts.

A spider with n hllmln 1M6 h‘!!! been discovered in Chumatien, Hon- an. Its body is small, but its head is abnormally large. The face ,ic dead white, with black eye-brows and n, black nose. White lips add to the horror of its appearance; it!

feet are dark brown. A well-to-do Chinese found the creatum in his house. He has sent it to the peo- ple's educational institution.

FROM "EXIT" '

Easily to the old

Opens the hard ground-z ' But when youth grows cold,

And red lips have no sound, Bittcrly docs the earth

n to receive ‘

And bitterly do the greases

In the churchyard grieve.

Coldcloy knows how to hold An aged hand;

But how to comfort youth It dcu not understand. liven the gravel rupl

In o dumb way

when youth comes homing Before its day. .

-Wilson Mocdoncld.

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A . ‘crown GUARDIAN

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The question is not infrequently asked why many Prince Edward Is- landers do not realise,

ions of the Island are ahead of thorn in other parts of Canada and the United States, particularly the latter.

The reason no doubt is that they have been sensible enough to go to their own shores for their vacations and, as a result, have not experi- enced the many short-comings of the resorts on the Mainland.