v

l‘

petl to _

wet-l; T10 dozzctt are ~ettt over. as and this num-

ber will be tncreastd ett-rv st-cotttl week in thc

ttcar future. lirrtttt-rs itt the Itrovtttcc are rc- _ ct-it-ing z: In :4 cents per llt)'/.(‘l'l net, GOSH 0i

pk year disclose a ltighly encouraging situation.

pcomparcd with 100772.430 cwts. in 1936, fell

z‘ ‘bout 7 pcr cent to 7,77_<.572 pounds. Im-

ttt: cttlctontatowtt GUARDIAN

Hunting Dally (Fuundau_llI1] __ .->.~.;~ .11

. Irolldaut Lleut. (Jul. W. Charter 5. McLuru Vlcl Prominent J. B. Burnett l". J. l.

Idltol and Aunughtg ulntctur 0.1%. Burnett, F. J. l. lnhtnry Lluut. Col. l). A. lluektunuu, l_l. B. 0. ‘um-lulu Editors Frunk Walker and l). h. burr-u

' BDBBURIWPION HATES ll lfvuu- l tlellvcntl to City “milsc-t-paibnx-Eiiiu ulflrltlnucr) ‘azullod to l’. Ill. lnlund - “Jfl par yrur qln utIrunc-e; mulled to (Juuutlu ulul U. B. llembent Audit Bureau of Clrnulnttonu

“The? Strongest Memory is Weaker than the Weakest lnk.”

THURSDAY, Manon a, 193a

Helping The Farmers

Atldrtrssitlg the recent annual Vttteetitlg of thf‘ P 15.. I. lige atttl Pottltrv" Assoctzlttvfl- Ills Mm" ister of .\;._.icttltttre stressed the ttced‘ for co- ttpcrttttott and said. we can accoutitltslt SUllk- tltittg alttttg co-ttttctztttrt‘ lines we can Itnd u way out of our tllftcttltics." _

'l‘lt'.tt st-ettts to be what Ilte Quebec (J(.l\'(‘l'l'l' ntettt is d-witt-J ttt tlte tnattt-r of egg shtpntettts to the Uld Cottnttjr. .\s a result of a lllilll built-Z applied by thc tittvertttttt-ttt a total of tlumt t" ' front (lttvltuc farms ltarc been ship- Ptwlatttl dttrittg the past six wcclts. liaclt

intent and stez-tttrt" living paid by Cattatlzt

shit _ _ itt co-opertttttltt wttlt the Que-

Pztclters. watt-kitty; bcc Ilorertttttt-ttt. .\'n dottltt other provincial govertttttcttts could tnalct- similar rtrrattyientcttts with Canada Pack- crs if tltcv tortf; the initiatirc. as the DUPlQS5“ (iovt-rntttettt scents to ltarc done in this case.

Western Liberals On Warpath

Western Liberal tttetttbers of Parliaulent arc .cportcd to be out for tariff reductions this ses- sign, _\t a Gort-rtttttettt caucus recently tltcy made thetttselres lteard, as all Ottawa dispatch expresses it, "in no uttccrtaitt tottcs." The com- plaint of tltosc “freer traders" frottt the Prairies is that the liittg Gorcrnntettt ltas retained too much of thc llettttett tariff structure and they dentand dowttwztrd changes such as will ulakc the Liberal fiscal policy "easily distinguishable” from that of the Conservatives.

The promise of lower and always lowcr tar- iffs, colttntcttts the Sydney Post-Record, has been tltc crux 0f thc Liberal catnpaign appeal 0n the Prairies as far back in the years as poli- ticians of this generation can remember. In thc election of 1935, Mr. Kittg gave the specific pledge that. if fCtLlfllCd to power. he would tripe out all thc allegedly “unwarranted tariff in- creases” the Bctlnctt Government had intro- duced and would rc-cstablish the customs struc- ture as it ltad existed under “the Dunning'bud- get" of I930. The Prime ltlinistefs failure to implement this pledge is said to have already weakcttctl his Government greatly in the \Vcst.

On the rttltcr hand, the Govcrnmcnt’s capitu- lation to the low tariff demands of its Western stalwarts would Ittrtt all the solid interests in the country against it, and would certainly meri- ace its political lifc 0n the occasion of the next appeal t0 the constituencies. Never in Canada's history has a serious, clear-cut, generally recog- rtized tariff issue in a. Dominion election been decided otherwise than against the proponents of “freer trade.” whctltcr it took the form of reciprocity, lower customs duties, or bald anti- protectionism. Canada is a protectionist coun- try. The politicians who have not yet found that ottt must surely be written down as being incapable of conning the clear lessons of re- peated experience.

Our U. K. Trade In- I937

Canadian cxprtrters; with few exceptions, iave been able to develop their sales in the Bri- tish market in 1937 and to introduce new lines, writes Hr. Frederic Hudd, Chief Canadian Trade Commissioner in the United Kingdom, in the current issue of the Commercial Intelligence Jottr-nztl. Board of Trade statistics for thc

Canadzfs share of the total wheat imports, which amounted to 96,883,523 cwts. in I937 as

by 4o per cent to 34.248724 cwts. Her share of the barley imports, on the other hand. increased by 7o per cent. to 2.<_)3(t.ot3 cwts. out of im- ports totalling 18.101354 cwts. Shipments of oats front thc Dominion last year. amounting to 1.041.903 cwfsu rcprcsettlctl almost Q0 per cont of thc total importation. but showed a drop of nearly 1,000,000 cwts. as comparctl with I036. Tltcrc was little variation from I936 in the flottr inzport trztrlc—Cztttzttla supplying 4.043.724 cwts. out of a total itnttortatiott of 8,540,802 ctvts. lntpttrts of rolled oats front thc Dominion. amounting to 432,151 cwls. registered a. coll- traction of some I4 per cent. , Canadian packers continued to expand their sales of bacntt and hattts in thc United King- wlotu during the vcar under review. but landings of live cattle from the Dominion were only altout a quarter of tltc number rcccivctl itt I936. Annual intnorts of chccsc amount to nearly 3,- monrlo cwls. of which New Zcaland supplies more than half: Cattarlzfs share in I037, how- ever. increased bv some 2o pcr cent to 722,277 cwts. Tttthorts of fresh apples from the Doin- ininn increased bv 8 per cent to 2,134,263 cwts. There were sl’"ltt increases recorded in im- ports from Canada of canned salmon and lob- ster, while frown fish imports from the Dom- inlmr-ncnrlv’ all swlrtton-amotlnted to 77.380 cvmt. an increase of 3o pcr cent over I936. Althotvrlt thcrc was an increase in I937 of 2o per cent in total itlmrtflfi of stripped leaf tobacco Cattmlw amino-titted hr-r supplies at thcsame level as in thc previous vear. shipping 874,168 pounds: total imports ni thc ttnstrinped variety showed l} decline and (‘nnrtdian shipments were reduc-

pot-n of lumber and timber and of non-ferrous

Telling Premier King

The Winnipeg Free Press (Liberal) docsrfti take lying down the denunciation by its party. leader 0f “reckless news stories and uncousider- ed comment on questions which easily arouse, acrimony and friction" with which Mr_ Mac- kenzie‘ King accompanied his explanation in Parliament the other day of Canada's vote at Geneva. in favour of Spain's re-cligibility to the Council of the League of Nations.

"Lct it be quite clear," says the Free Press, “that Mr. King meant this newspaper."

Our Winnipeg contemporary continues: "The Free Press has no apology to utztke to Mr. King.

army and um uunorms. nuns orjilanea. has onstratett ma terrluc sI-IYIIIB DOW“ or 3 decnstve war when people fight backs to the wall tor tnelr homes and their Incas. tattcreu luIlItIa of velobed oftenslve power as dIn our own tattered Contlnentals; lemlnd- ea the world that Napoleon had hevolutlonary mob-s of Paris. dIssentIons that are deceptive. ,peu.Ic function. They anu draw oft mternal poisons; tn perpetual process of controversy

Y TIIE WAY

om-

Mcre. tne Mudrlu has de-

_ the armles of 31101!‘ orlxht In th

The

dIvIcIe democracy they have a. thera-

ease tensfons

Q

m

The facts are these:

“The Geneva correspondent of thc hlanchcs- tcr Guardian, one of thc ablcst jottrnalists of Eu- I rope, reported to his newspaper thc fact that

‘ and compromise Is a better basls for national runfty than blud eon and terror. Dlctatorshlps are ails, and we don't think the Inmates wIlI bc any too anxious w lay down theIr lives for the dear old wardens-New

Canada had voted against Spain. This dcspatclt reached the Free Press which, in view of the source from which it came, had no hesitation itt

York P

0st.

Is commonly supposed that

publishing it. The Free Press Ihcn don correspondent to Gettcra to

rcfttscd to say anything. firm or dctty.

eeptctl ntodc of news dissemination all right to satt snntcthittg—latcr. Parliztntettt tratttcd the give it there. has only himself to ltlatttc.

stubborn formalism ill-fitted to the democratic country such as Czmadzt.

able to do so. reliable sources just because it docs Klllglil ‘innit: to do so? What was

lwfore it published its report? tn Mr. King's argument which, in

finding of the Maucltcstcr Guardian. and ltc, in due course, reported that, according to thc bcst information available. thc Guardian was correct. The Free Press published that also. “Mcztntrltile t\lr. King. who had come ttttdct‘ 1 ha“; criticism as a result of these dcspatcltcs. flatly" He would nciflter cott- Tltc ballot, he said. was sccrcl. llut he addctl, with a lofty disdain for the ac

try. that he would aslt" thc League if it would bt-

information. If this ittcrcztsctl the suspicion the German. but any IflImpSC of Its and uncertainty of the public tttind, Mt", Kittqt It was an attitude of j times surprised how It can work at

is emphasized by the fact that, when .\Ir. finally did impart thc information, pressed doubt as to whether or not it was suit-

“Is the press of this cottnttjv to dcnv its rcacl-

crs important information which rcacltcs it from l Lllelve Years‘ lmprlsmment-

do? \\'as it to ask tltc government's permission This is implicit

It. . L _ whereas the democracies act, If at 50m I15 Oh- all. slowy and after much muddle ruched‘. ti“. , and superfluous and Irresolute talk, the dlctatorshtps work wIth clever, concentrated purpose and the ut- lmost raludlty o. decIsIon. The democracies. It Ls snld, do not know Ithelr own minds tIf they :an be sald to_ have any). while the dlc- "BLUFSIIIDS know exactly what they and how to get It. It wfll be found that these assumptions when ; critically examlned ar , not, all well founded. The appeara ces are de- cco ‘Ive. for the atmosphere of infal- ltbtltty that surrounds. because It Isl ,tnade to surround. every dictator and the secrecy Impcsed by eenscrs and terrorists conceal all the human Iveatcncsscs from which even dicta- tors and tltefr associates are not. cxcmot There ls not a dlctutorshlp In the world more efficient than

dcspatclt

in thc coitu-

and that if he trottld

inner wcrkings will reveal}: state of such confus-cn that one ts s0me_

mmpw of a \ aIL-lvlanehestcr Guardlan. and n“ w") It will be; no comfort to the res. l\tttg . pemable‘ Brltlsfl householaet" to re- Ilect this week-end that birds of a feather flock together. For he learns that. his new ally In the challenge of the American gunman Is-the Eng- lish buttgtur. A.n Amerlcan has been tsentenced at the 01d BaIIeyC to on- cerning thIs It Is statedtltut Scot- land Yard has been asst-sled In I way on Invadmg gangsters by In- formants In the London underworld Itself. It will be Interpreted, accord- Imz to the simple faIth or cynicism of the observer, as an outstanding instance of patarIoiIsm or an Im- plementing of the slogan “British

he still cx-

not suit Mr. the press to

ltztltler form.

ts slon.

made a flamboyant appearance last Suttday itt Berlin when Plcrr Hitler declared ltitnself ‘op- posed to the almost intolerable incitement of the press in those countries uudcr thc pretext

C

London Sunday Dispatch.

rIbs for British cracksmert.” —

There is one thing which the

of a free expression of opinion.”

I Editorial Notes

Sir Henry Wood born this date, * w 4- at

it means to neglect the first law of m it at l-

Rowell Commission, in t:

l! Ill

tion.

It is light early and late nowadays. m it at x

The pacifistic Chinese nation knows now what

The onlooker sees most of our faults these days, distance not lending enchantment to the view presented by Premier Campbell to the

Rt. Hon. R. B. Bennetfs bitterest political opponent is the old Montreal Gazette, yet it was in thc Gazette’s territory that Mr. scored the biggest victory since thc general elec-

Rowell Commission wIll not be able to remedy any more than the gov- ernment. which trIes to curry out; Its recommendations-that Is the de- mancls of the public. An energetic

I government. could perhaps correct

_ what there Is that Is defective In our institutions. as In our system of

I869. taxes and In the sharing of pubIIc

revenues between the Federal Gov- Provinces and the municipalities. But, the political power whIch tries to correm the hablt. of the public of demandIn everythtng from governments an of making them bear the responsl- bIlIty o. all evIls that. happen that. Dower wIlI be committing suIcIde. . If that continues democracy wIlI de- cour Itself. If we want. democracy to survive we must understand that governments are Impotent. to create wealth and that. what they gIve us twIth one hand they must ave first taken away with the other as taxes. —Le Solell (Quebec)

"It is useless," says Dean Inge, “for tlte sheep to bass resolutions In favor of vegetarianism so long as the wolf remains of a dlfferent opIn- lon,” and these days the wolves are

ernment. the

nature;

Bennett

mat-ign-

Premier Campbell boosted thc gas tax at the expense of the autoists. Premier Angus Mac- donald boosted the tax but negotiated a corres- ponding reduction in the price. Premier Dysart has just made a similar arrangement; so that we are the sole victims of “outrageous fortune” through gross mismanagement by our Gov- ernment. =0- n- at

In the Saskatchewan Legislature now there are 5o Liberals and five C.C.F. members. ln the previous Legislature there were 23 Conserva- tives. four Progressives and five Independents fortrting a co-opcrative government with 26 Lib- | erals in the Opposition, and with five vacancies. The Legislature was rcducctl from 63 members‘ to 55 in I934. In view of an approaching elec- tion. tltc Liberals allege thc Cottscrvativcs arc arranging a “saw-off" with the C.C.F. in ordcr

to avoid three corn-red contests. I U i!

1k

In the Argcntettil election. the Liberals rais- ed oncc more the race cry with a view to rally- ing thc voters to their support, but all in vaiu On the eve of thc election, Mr. Hcott, the Cott- scrvativc candidate declared that if clcctcd ltc would endeavor to continue to further the spirit of racial harmony which had always existed in Argcutcttil Cottuty. The candidate charged that paid agents of the Liberal party had been sent Io Argcntettil to create race differences httt sai-"ll he was confident that the people of the county would not be misled by these otttsidcrs.,And as the rcsult showed his foufitlcttce was not belied

at

The Attstralian Press in general deplored the resignation of Mr. Anthony Eden. British Foreign Secretary whose statesmanship and ltiglttnintlcd- I ncss it warmly praised. But nevertheless the rc- , signation was regarded as a victory for realism. I which will permit foreign policy in the future to‘ be shaped according to the hard facts of that international situation. Premier Chamberlairfs wise desire for a rapproachcmcnt with ftalv‘. was regarded as having overcome his natural reluctance to part with a brilliant lieutenant who preferred. in one writer's words, "to adhere to the idealism of yesterday."

a n a 0

The United States is at present the largest market for Canada's exports of domestic pro- ducts as well as the leading source of the Do- mtmon’s imports. scpond by a large margin over all other coun- tries. After these two countries. the largest mat-- ket for Canadian products duringthe last nine months of I937, for which an anal sis of Can- ada's trade by countries has recent y been issu- ed by the Dominion statistician. was fumiahed. hv Attstralin. with Japan fourth. As sources of Canadian imports. the corresponding positions

metals and mzwttfr-cflirrrs from the Dominion

ll I937 showed substantial increases.

were occupied by the British West Indies and Australia.

Izamzln

l dreams of power that. express them-

tseen In the HIstorIcaI Museum on

The United Kingdom ranks’

R DD.

Every few days one or other of the up-Ispnd ports reports the de- parture _of a. deep-sea. frelghter loaded with our best fir logs, golng out of the country as unmanufac- tut-ed tfmber to supply raw mater- Ial for mIlIs and labor In foreign countries. This export Is at the ox- oense of our own Indus and labor. It Is procecdlng whIe our forestry officials are warning that we have only a dozen years’ sugply of first trade fIr timber Ieft.—- Ic- mrfa Dally Times.

At the moment It Is doubtful whether Hitler Is the real. or at least the active, ruler of Germany. More and more wrapped up In hIs own obsesstons. more and more oca- cular: more and more pursued by

so ves In projects tor rpetuatlng his memory In monumental srchl- tecturc, more and more Immersed In moody sIlence (though some times broken by outbursts of pas- sionate speech), Hltler llves more and more In hIs drcam world and In accordance with hIs pseudo-div- ine attrlbutlons rather than In the world of practical affatrs. The real ruler of Germany at the moment Is General Goerlnlz. It does not follow that some day Hltler wIlI not. re- emsrlze and determlne German pul- Icv anew or It may that. Dr. Goebbe s, now In eclipse. wIlI be at the full attain. General Goertng. Is, for the tfme beln . the resultant force of many czn used and varylng forces-Manchester Guardian.

The first telephone exchange In the world was Inauzurated at. New Ila-en. Conn" on January: 23. 1678. It. had 8 lines and served 21 sub-

scrlbers. Hugh C. Baker establtshcd '

the first exchange In the EmpIre at Hamilton, Ont... two months later. It served 89 subscribers InItIaIly. A model of the first Hamllton switch- board together wIIh ot-Iglnnl sub- scribers‘ sets of that period may be

Is C. B.‘ ' C. Heading For BankruPW-Y? ‘- (li. h. Hilliard In The mommy ftumtes) l] -- n

A lurvey o!‘ the most ralllbln source: brlnls t0 IIzhr. the swung DOGBIDLIIW that. the Canadian Broetdcastlng corporation may be on the roan w bankruptcy. It Is

poratfon Is ffnsnclally embarrassed and. when ftgures are announced for the fiscal y In: March 31. I038, they may show thls to be true. ‘Xhosa close t0 the sItualIon vlslnn the Corpnrotlnn eveggtllally “‘ mun In a mu e com e propor Iona e y t0 that. In w“ the C. N. R. finds Itself. This. It ls Bald, Is the ex- planatton for the " Invaslon of Amerlcan commercfals, In a last. desperate effort to balance the year's budget.

Atho h revenue Is not. reatly Increase mom that avaflube for the Commission tasltde from loans), admlnlstratfon, salary. station o r- atlon. station maintenance, nut n- al network matntenarttze 0nd, IIkely also. program costs RBI/B all risen, whlle major expenditures have been made for statlons as never before. Futures have. In some cases, oub- lecl and trebled as compared to Commlsslon ffgures. Tlme on the aIr of the network, with a conse- quent Increase In costs, has dOUblCQ.

Revenue From Licenses

For the vear endlng March 31, the first complete year of the Cor- Duration. revenue will Include $2,- 000 from Icenses, acoordlng to a ‘statement of Hon. C. D. Howe, hamster of Iraztsport. In addItIon to this will be the amount collect- ecl from udvertlslruz. no more than $500,000 and probably a urea: deal less. Total revenue, therefore, wIlI not exceed 312500.000. exclustve of a $500,000 loan front the DomInIon. For the veal- ertdlnz March 1936. the last complete year o. the

altzady betnatsafd In some quarters Th th t ma Cor

3L 50,000 watter, OBL, gIvIng as much

locum trln beyteen WWW" '1‘- OBI-WI ll necedury. ‘Ru: opccutut», department Is In Toronto. 9118111 In M0 d C0 . magi“ “itndttiilniitiiaitviaélsht Him-i Cos-a 9 one nun“ 1mm m’-

tlons I 000 watts In power. amounted to $91,000. Power of nll statfom to- t ed 15100 watm. The corporltwn l have tn Include the cost of, oueratlna two new 50.000 watt at»; tIona for the last '.0ur months oz, the fI-scal year. and costs of the amulet blunts (taken over from the Commission) for 12 months In Its stntfon oneratln exnetlses thIs year. Therefore, Ins ltd of payfng for 15.000 watts, the tl wlll be be watts. T Ia elbecw to good englneerfng author-fay, w more than double the $91.0 (Ig- ure to 8200.000 for the flscal year whIIe. allowing for 12 mottlhs of op- eratlon of the two large stations, and Includlnlz the small ones, sta- tIon mats for the Corooratfou dur- Inlz a year could well amount to $300,000