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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1924

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Singulla ly rich and warm are the tributes paid to this Hon. J. B. M, Baxter, 1M. P., of St. John on the occasion of the recent banquet given in his honor by his Comer vatlve friends. From the Conserva- tive press such tribute might, in the nature of things. be erpected. But the commendations and the acknowledgements come alike from Liberal and Conservative sources.

The history of the Maritime Pnovinces is exceptionally rich in the names of outstanding political leaders and statesmen-dlowe, Tripper, Tilly, Smith, An-glin, Blair, Coles, Whelan, Laird, Davies, Fer- Jguson, Borden, Fielding—na.mes interwoven not with the history of the Maritimes alone but o.‘ Can- ada. in our impatience, cnen, we bemoan the passing or the retire- ment of our leaders and speculate pessimistlcally on the probable or improbable succession. So far there :ls no cause .for anxiety on this score. The Hon. J. B. M. Baxter has already proved his right to the apostolic succession in Maritime etatesmanehip. lie is in the class in which the above ‘illustrious names are enrolled.

vDr. Baxter is still a young man, having yoined the ranks oi‘ the Benedicts only a few days ago. His political future is stilll before him. The ‘beginning he has made has already placed ‘him in the front rank of Canadian public men. The ‘Si. John Globe, Liberal, comment- ing on the banquet says:

"The honor conferred upon lion. J. B. IM. Baxter by the Conservative

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agreed to make certain reductions in the tariff. On January 4th the Toronto Globe announced in big 119mm,“ ‘iPremier may seek I11 filling cabinet to win back West." The Toronto Star on the same date announced, also in scare headlines, “To Invite Progressives to 10in Government." Then something 1111i?" pened. The Toronto Globe an-

nounced. equally big type. "N0 11111’- galn with Progressives is Kings

attitude." On‘ the following day. January 8th the Globe undergoes another clflbge and announces in the same type, "Proposals made to the Hon. T. A. Crerar to join the Cabinet."

Has the King Government any inlicy with which to meet parlia meat at the cOmlngsession? Have they made that secret bargain with the Progressives? How is Canad» ian manufacture in guide itself in the face of these uncertainties? How is agriculture to shape its course for the coming year when there is a well grounded suspicion that the Progressive policy of re- duced tnriifs may or may not be the policy that will be pursued.

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BAND CONCERTS

in view oi the fact that the

the coming as“ lsture. Down to

course. _

Prince Edward

whip without seated near him

coming into coll

habit.

robins are already with us and par- ticularly in view of the tourist drive now in progress and of the prospective coming in of a new City Council, i/t is perhaps not too early to think about our next sum- mer's band concerts. There will be some weeks, some months in fact. before any ponsiderable appetite

party at their banquet to him in the Pythian Castle on Tuesday even- ing was a signal one. Political iban- quets are not by any means a rarity, but i-t is not often that those in attendance are so completely united to honor the guest of the ev- ening. Dr. Baxter is rightly regard- nd as the leading figure in the Con- servative ranks in the Maritime Provinces. ills career, both l-n pro clncial and federal politics, has ably titted him for the high posi- tion which he now holds. A fluent and pleasing speaker, his deport- ment upon the floors of the House of Commons has on more than

caslon drawn the eyes of the country upon him. One of the abiest debaters in the House, his speeches challenge the closest at- tention of political friend and foe. His friends believe that there is no-honor which the political arena of Canada affords that he may not obtain.”

The hope of Canada lies in its statesmen and Dr. Baxter, now the recognized leader of Maritime Con- servatives, is one of them. He will unquestionably stand high in the Meighen Cabinet after the next gen- eral election and not only the ldarltimes but Canada as a whole twill find in him a champion and an advocate of statesmanlike govern- Ineht.

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-———<0>——— JUGGLING AT OTTAWA

The political storm at Ottawa is becoming a cyclone and is now blowing from all directions. Noth- ing definite can be ascertained as to what is in prospect The Liberal petal is at sea and without chart or compass to guide lLEach Liberal pqsr la shifting for itself and nipping out the course it thinks tn; government might purses with ‘ m: is, with advan-

totme government. The coun- try at ilarge has ceased to be a filler and the only consideration cow is how to hold on. ,lomstwomonthsagowe were informed through the IJberal press lit overtures had been made to the Progressives with a view to gattgg their support in parliament h, without that airport the govern- naatuulaaoiun. ‘llicviait of

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for open air concerts can be work- B11 11D but, to be forewarned is to be forearmed, and we -may as well at the outset regard the open air

band concert as a necessity. We‘ fully realize that: civic expendl-i ture is already heavy, but there are] necessary erpenditums whichi must, in the interests oi the city, be undertaken and the band con- cert ls one oi these. We are mak. ing a bid for tourists and there is

Bvvry reason to expect that we

shall have more visitors next hum.

want them and it is up to us to make their sojourn among us n5 pleasant as possible. Open air non. certs are part of the regulni- nn-m. mer routine in every city visited by summer tourists. They will inn}; for it here as one of the evidences thait the city is alive and up to date. Our own citizens, especially those whose automobiles are either out of repair or not yet pur- chased and there are many of these-need the kind of outing for which the ‘band concert is a justi- fication. We have several live bands in the city, bands of young men who have spent money in training and iaprovlding music for themselves. They need and are entitled to the patronage. Our bands compare very favoraly with those of any other city and will be

"191 "1911 111 My recent season. We -

our case are number.

Maritime Provinces have ad to the British practice of turnin the left when teams or 11111‘! 1110B! upon the highways. The practice in the United Staten ling always been to tum to the right. Owing to the unpleasantncss which resulted in the Declaration of In. lifliiendence cur American cousins resolved that- they longer turn their horses the we the Britishers did. in comparatlvel rswht years the people of Ontario H11! Quebec. who have many roads crossing the border line adopted the American rule of the road, and the motor car traffic from States and Provinces has year led Nova Scotia and

Brunswick to adopt

changed‘ conditions and , stances our people. especially those who drive horses on the ways, would never have sought to change the rule we have had so _ long and to which both men and horses have become accustomed by

THE CHARLOTPETOWN GUARDIAN

Notes By u... Way

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the Present, 'th

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Thus by force of circumstances been isolated and stands alone in North America as a. community adhering to the "loft turn." The old practice had its advantages, as, with the driver sitting at the right side of the carriage he was free to use his disturbing others two teams met and passed each other the drivers were in a position to see and guard against the wheels for

island has

, and when

ision. But

circum

high

it la the motor car which la the moving cause toward a These cars are ‘made in the vinces or States where the rule of the road is opposite to ours. The car driver has no need of a‘ whip for his steed and his car i183 the drivers seat at its left side. lt. follows that the turn to the left, which would best suit the

driver would not suit the driver so well. But, of necessity, there must be one rule of the road for all vehicles that use the high- ways in common. And motor cars are increasing much more rapidly than horse-drawn vehicles, which are not increasing at all, but l-n in

diminishing

Motor cars come amp ths- In- ternational bordsriln thousands and tens of thousands every summer, bringing tourist visitors to Canada. We also greatly desire to encour- age summer tourists to come to us. To build up this traffic a wide-

la Plats-region.

insane on the vo

wsnosi.

helped very materially and en- couraged as weil by being thus patronized.

Last summer there wore several good excuses for the meagre enter- tainment given in the open,

Unfavorable, weather was one of them. The coming lllflllllfifyfiiil, like the present winter, be as fav- orable as both were unfavorable last year and we and our visitors will look for open air band con- certs.

Our prospective City Councillors will do well to make a note or these facts. They will be asked for the canal contribution when the term comes. Other cities,‘ some of them much smaller than ours

make the band concerts a first con- sideration in their appropriations.

tho Anti-Slavery

first admlnistrati Cleveland. died 1904.

loose from the this is what Lord after his arrival. a group of men known as Little were anxious to her colonial

Truro. for example, contributes. 0600 towards its scanner concerts aad the stream or vnttora to that i) increasing, yearly. fiat our

India. served s for Ireland, w

missions:- of the‘ llitl 4“

§Lest We Forget

Eminent American lawyer Secretary of the Navy, during the President 2, industry must feed his cans into a

in: .

awake Tourist Association has when n rush of fish is on. - With all due respect to technical (c°n‘|"u°d o" y", 5) investigators, and their scientific - opinions, many of us are still dis- +o++o+0+e+e++e+ee4o+4++¢ posed to question very much

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2 time to cool thoroughly before

packing. and many a small pack-

OTHO 1 er-lf not all, one year or an-

other——who under stress of circum-

(Or Otto) King of Germany. stances has been obliged to carry

which Wns formed under over boiled lobsters on the coolers

Charlemagne by the union of for possibly a day or more, has

Thuringier, Franks, Saxons, hnd them turn out in perfectly sat-

Bavarlans, Swabians, Lorrainers. isfuctory condition. when cans wcrc etc., was crowned Emperor at tested by the purchaser.

Rome. February 2, 962. To the writer at lonst it seems

more than n coincidence that

MENDOZA those complaints about inferior

(Pedro do) Spanish captain, who undertook to colonize the Rio do

founded 2

Aires on February 2, 153s, Famine and Indians devastated the colony and Mendez returning to Spain died

YBKG. L PHILLIPS

One of the leading orators of the Abolltlonists and president of and advocate of woman suffrage. penal and labor reform. and prohibition, died Ferbruary 2, 1884.

WILLIAM C. WHITNEV

Society,

on of on February

LORD LIGGAR

in these day; when the bonds of Empire are firmly fixed and a great British League of Nations has de- veloped from the loosely Empire of the nineteenth century.

cornea as a shock to realize that a Governor-General of Canada in- vited this country to cut

linked

He in the homeland linalandera. who have

hered g to motor-

the this New flame

change. Pro-

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and

itself Mother country. Yet Lisgar did shortly represented}

Britain drop possessions overboard. Yet Lisgars career was itself algal- flcant of the extent that infl of that Empire. Be was born - in Chief-Secretary High Com-

HOBBS

The Public Forum

This eoiiunn. Ia. open for the discussion by corres- e pondanta of " n. cl In tarsat. The Charlottetown Guardian does net neeeaaan lly endorse the opinion ex- pressed by its correspon- denta-

Slr:— Regarding letter

shell-fish and the operation of Can- neries," while the general aim and intention of those various regula- tions is highly commendable, and while no operator, packer or deal- er is likely to raise any objection to any reasonable demands upon him looking to more sanitary methods, or anything that may tend to raise the standard of the goods with which they are con- cerned, still there is one proposal in particular that seems to call for very serious consideration before any definite action is taken upon it

Section l8 providesz- "No boiled lobsters for canning purpos- es shnll be kept over night, and shell-fish meat that has been re- moved from the shell shall be im- mediateiy packed and processed." As pointed out by a correspond- ent in the Guardian of Jan. 9th, this is a regulation which if‘ car- ried into effect would work very

such a handicap as to prohibit . them entirely from conducting packing operations.

As can be easily verified by of- ficiai figures, a very large propor- tion of the lobsters packed in this province are taken along the north shore of the island. in this, the Gulf section, the season opens in early spring, when weather condi- tions are very un-settled. Stormy weather may prevent fishermen from reaching their gear for days and consequently the factory can never figure definitely on any regularity in the supply of lobsters they arc to handle. Then

season's catch in taken in the first_ three or four weeks, the remain- ing quantity caught being distri-

buted without any regularity throughout the balance of the horse season. car

To comply with this regulation that, "No boiled lobsters for can- ning pilrposes shall be kept over night". it would be imperative for‘ packers to keep continually in’ their employ sufficient help to handle the maximum catch of each! and every day of heaviest fiahing.| Even if help to that number were. available-and they are not—it{ would he simply ruinous for small- er operators to attempt to hold such a staff in their employ. for the spring season is a time when extra help is wanted on tire farms as well as in the factories, and a packer cannot play “fast and loose" with help once they are en- gaged. he has to keep them on steadily, and on unbroken pay; otherwise they will not be avail- able when he needs them most,

whether it is after all so essential that fish be packed immediately after boiling. The brightest meat is that from lobsters that have had

fish have become so serious since the introduction of "modern" methods of sealing, and the ultra- modern method of leglslating more fish into a littlo can than it could properly be expected to ever con- tain if any room left for the brine necessary to preserve it.

In the earlier and more easy- going years, but the yearn when the splendid reputation enjoyed by island lobsters was so well estab- llshed, there was no such strain- ing after impoaslbilities. but each can contained a reasonable lot of fish in proportion to its size, and also, very important, sufficient pickle to preserve that fish in good condition until disposed of by the ultimate consumer tn Europe or elsewhere. But today the packer who would keep up with the pace set byihe "Big Interests" in this

"Header," the attendant of that machine subjected to a continual shower bath as the head is "squashed" into place. displac- ing as it must that portion of the contents most readily moveable, the brine, leaving the fish without enough of the preservative so es- sentlal to keep it in proper condi- lion.

That method seems to be res- ponsible for far more trouble than can ever arise from leaving boiled‘ lobsters for a few hours over night in the temperatures common along the North Shore from April to June. .

if not feasible to use larger cans, as machine; and cases are now standardised, why not amend the regulations with regard to

NEW LOB8TER REGULATIONS.

circu- lated recently by the Fisheries Branch, Department of Marine and inn praprlety and advisability of which the ivory mounts were set

‘THE RAILWAY §|TUAT|°N

‘letters appear in to- day's issu-e oi your paper. which l think call tor a reply just at this particular time. and while there are °f the 01122312? British Parliament Queen Mary, av

‘to answer them’ as Chairman usual, was beautifully gowned and

Sin-Two

many members town Board 0t‘ Trade better ed

of the Transportation Committee tlhe Board, and because oi’ the

of l . 111°‘ 1111111116 ma"°,f,f?r‘gfglrlifl,,‘°wg bodice and front of her

. . presented by m9 to (he Fauna] dress in addition to sparkling on

Members and Senators at a meet- ing of the Board on Tuesday even- ing last, perhaps I am tne one to -

"Bystander" and

try and clear the situation.

in the best

the Federal

Board on Tuesday evening last;

with us;

ence on this occasion. i am satis- fied that we took the proper course

m] also of me opinion that “Byv costume’ made those of the stander stands alone in his opinion Peerwsefl 5111119 to the contrary. ll‘ we are debar- the brighter

red from consulting in a matter of this kind from our representatives, to whom shall we go? Perhaps “By- stander" would suggest consulting the "Would Be" representatives,

some ot' whom seem to take more Elizabeth Byng and Lady Mary

than ordinary delight in b€4iililiiD§ Byng,.will leave for England dur- rather ing the last week of March. iier

the efforts of the Board, than giving it the loyal suport that might reasonably be expected. "Bystander" goes says:—~“Let it be shown to him (Sir Henry Thornton) and those

mull service oi‘ this Province 1H sufficiently liurge and important t0

- l n Mrs. R. N. Taylor presid d t justify the l-ate service and tlic 31:29am tablo- Among the c a

ditlona-l steamship suggested the Board of Trade and the great additilonul expense that this will 0n- tail, and themld-wlntcr night scr- vice will-l, plied." words mean-s, I do iknot know, but it is quite (aleur tlult he docs not know just what the Board oi" Trade had in mind when he referred to them as asking f-or a night-trip oi‘ the boat. means to convey. The amusing part of’ the situation is that, "Traveller" blames the Board for not asking for what "Bystander” isays they did ask for. The intention of tlhis letter is not to criticise either of these writers, but ratheir to give the pub- lic some idea of what tho Board is doing, and suggeli- U111! if anyone ei-se has some lbeilt9r plan or one they consider better, that they come before tho Board, and give tihem the benefit of their

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Daily Selections

FOR

Guardian Readers

IIOOQQIO- A PLEA

Give me one friend. just one, who

meotn The needs of all my varying moods: We in noisy city streets, Or in dear Nature's solltudcs.

Onc who can lot the World go by And suffer not a minute's pang;

Who'd dare to shock propiety With me, nind novcr care a hang

Who, in my rarely righteous streaks Should lovc me,—lovo mo tho less

When l nm given to outbreaks

Of pure, bcsottcd selfishness. One who, when I am sick and

R m.

Can lay conventions on the sliclf, And just for my dear alike become

A blooming heathen, like myself.

One who can aharc my grief mirth, And know my days to praise or

0l'

curse, Aind rate mo just for what ini worth. - And find me still-O, not worsel ‘

8D

Give me one friend, for peace or war,

And l shall hold myself well- ble t

s And richly compensated for The cussedness of all the rest. '

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contents ac as to allow proper space for brine? With that pro-i