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President Lient. Col. Wt Chester S. Mel-urn Vice President .l. l. Burnett. F. J. l. ltlihr and Mullins Director J. I. Burnett. l. J. l.

Seere LillLC‘ D.A.MLeL\nnun,D.S.O. “nhcdcinte “Sailor Frank Walker , SUBSCRIPTION BATES $6.00 per year tin ldVllluGl delivered to City

$4.00 per year in advance) mar-ed to l’. S.

$5.00 per year (in Hive-noel malted to ennui: Ill] u.s.

Members Audit. Bureau of Circulation:

‘The Strongest Memory is Weaker than the jglfealceaf lnkl’.

TUESDAY. APRIL a, 1938

A Liberal Prophecy Recalled

Is it to offset the criticism of its own party members in the Legislature that our contempor- ary is devoting so much space to boosting the Campbell Government's road-pavingprolects?

One notable point about these projects is that notwithstanding the extra taxation which has been imposed to finance them, contrary to Lib- eral election pledges, there is no evidence pf the economy that should result from the saving in road maintenance charges- The Government budgeted this ynr for an unprecedented expen- diturc over and above its road-paving projects.

The eulogy our contemporary devotes to the benefits of hardsurfaccd roads from the tourist standpoint applies more particularly, of course, to the finished projects, namely those under- taken by the Bennett-hlachlillan Governments. Also to the .\lacl\lillati Government is due the credit for developing the local gravel pits,‘ in preference to the former Liberal policy of 1m- oorting gravel at exorbitant cost to the Province.

Even as late as the last election campaign, what was the Liberal policy in this matter? We quote from the Patriot, July 22, i935:

"when the problem of dealing with the roads was tinder discussion, the Provincial Engineer was asked his opinion as to the value of the Blflvel

available in this Province. and he said ‘We must remember that when we imDOTi this SCYWMd

the nits. it b often that. is no better than the

we are using 50 per cent clay, and road surface we are covering.

"There are roads in this Province covered with imported grove that will last. longer than any paved hit: ways the Conservatives are building, and they will be there when their roads crumb e to dust."

This statement was made at a time Wlifln i118 Borden-Charlottetown highway, including the stretch of solid concrete highway at the ferry terminal, was being constructed. It is riot likely to crumble to dust for many years to come. and where are the imported gravel roads that were to outlast it? Thry have been dug up and sulf- grndcd with Island gravcl,_h_\i Mr. McIntyre, m prcfinralioit for Iiardriirfurmg! _

All of \\'lilCll proves, according to the Liberal organ, that “Good Roads Campbell" and “Good Roads McIntyre" ought to have some kind of statue erected in their honour. Iarius. two-faced divinity of ‘ancient Roman highways, would, we suggest, suit excellently-

The Sales Tax

Just before the House of Commons rose for the Easter recess, one of the King Government's supporters, .\lr- Deachman, put forward a sug- gestion on a subject that must have been troub- ling the conscience of many of his fellow meni- bers. In view of the improvements in the Do- minion's trade and commerce and indicated further betterments, said Mr. Deachman, the sales tax-now standing at the unprecedented figure of eight per cent—should be reduced to five Ptr cent.

\Vhether or not the Government will follow this suggestion, says an Ottawa exchange, is open to conjecture, but perhaps it will accept a broad hint and do something toward the allevia- tion of this lcvy. It is hoped that as time for consideration of the budget draws near, it will at least give very serious consideration to the matter.

.Finance Minister Dunning himself is no doubt‘ aware of the fact that in this Province, and particularly in his own constituency of Queens, the sales tax was one of the big issues of the i935 dominion election campaign- At that time the tax stood at six per cent and no op- portunity was lost by the Liberal candidates and their supporters denouncing it. Even in the Provincial Legislature, at the session which pre- ceded the dominion and provincial campaigns, the six‘ per cent sales T3X"'W3S"Cilt!t‘l' by Liberal-

members as evidence of the greed and rapacity of the Bennett administration. Our farmers were pictured as coming to town with a few dol- lars to spend. and being multced six cents on every dollar by Mr. Bennett. It is not an exag- geration to say that every supporter of the Lib- eral candidates in this Province voted on the expectation of seeing this tax reduced sub- siantiallv. They wcre promptly disillusioned when Mr- Dunning_ in his 1936 budget speech, announced this tax had been hoisted to eight per Cflif.

_ A new broom sweep clean and perhaps when Mr. Dunning’: new colleague for Queens takes his seat at Ottawa he will rise and support the Deachrnan suggestion of a reduction of this "fnuisance tax" to at least‘ 5 per cent.

The Business Index

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.17 Business in both‘ Canada and the United ‘States continued to decline during February. according to the Bank of Nova Scotia Reoort gicccntlv issued. Although the recession in Can- fidirm business in the Dominion from January {lo February flvurea was exactly the same-mt- TQOIIilS. in emnlovmint “in manufactures, such not the ‘case in industrial production. which .<l 1.6 points in Ca da. and .9 points in he" United Staten. The s defies issued in the

the period of rgng-ao. and. corrected for sersomilvlril . ii w. I ‘. tow I

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renort are based on zoo monthly rm,

United States was less pronounced than in any of the preceding five months. As compared with conditions of a year ago, however, the re- scssion has been much more marked in the United States in the past twelve months than was the case in Canacla- In February of I937. the indice for employment in Canada was 105.4, and for the same month this year rose to 109.4, whereas in the United States the employment indicc dropped from 99.1 in February, i937, to 82.6 this February. In industrial production, the indices for the two countries registered de- clines, falling from 108.9 to 90-4 in Canada, and from Io5.8 to 72.! in the United States for the twelve-month period In revenue carloadings for the same period, Canada registered a drop of only 2.7 points while the United States regis- tered 78.6 in February, i937, and 594 in Febru-

ary, i938.

Dining The Doclor

A novel suggestion was made at a meeting sponsored by the United Parents’ association in New York, to the effect that if doctors were given an opportunity of studying prospective patients in the latter’s homes, especially during meal time, it would greatly improve the health status of the nation. The proposal came from the medical director of a large American hos- pital, who spoke to the following effect: “A doctor needs to know the background of a fam- ily. He must know its morals. its fads‘ and its temperamental foibles. Inviting the doctor around to a meal gives him a chance to find out what the home is like"

“We must confess,” says the Hamilton Specta- tor, “the idea fails to appeal. and we doubt very much if it would anneal to the majority of medical nractioncrs. For some of them, no doubt. the meal. whatever its gastronomic qualitv might be, is about all thev can expect in settlement of fees. But the bill-dodgers are not the kind of people who would invite the medico, in anv case. Busv doctors too, canliardlv be cxoected to get excited at the prospect of a round of meals at the homes of their clients. However beneficial it would be for the clients, it might prove dis- astrous for the doctors.”

H ungry Larvae

Although the larvae of the common clothes moth may give trouble all the year around, they are the liveliest, and hungriest, in the spring. So now is the time, suggests an exchange, to get rid of them. '

The chemists have evolved some tongue-twist- ing delicacies, such as napthalene and para- dichloroberizcne and pyrethrum spray, which when laid out as a feast for the foraging larvae soon send them to happier hunting grounds. Therefore the industrious housewife will take a moment now to save an hour of grief next fall. She will store all her valuable win- ter furs. woollens and other fabrics of animal origin, in the special commercial vaults for that purpose, or will liberally sprinkle them with napthalene and wrap them in brown paper and store in fairly tight boxes. . And she will sprajp all places that can harbor (lust and lint, for it is in such elysium fields that the moths lav their eggs, the larvae hatch. and later take off to hunt for further neglect- ed clothing and rugs and upholstery in which to lay more eggs from which larvae can hatch and so on and so on, until the mystified liouse- wife shrieks with despair-

Edilorfdl Notes I

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A forgotten issue in the Legislature this year was Prohibition enforcement. Two Government Control advocates were heard from; the rest were silent.

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Congratulations to the Rev. Dr. Raymond, whose well merited honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred upon him yesterday at Wycliffe College, Toronto-

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Our Liberal legislators were so much 0on- cerned about the mismanagement at Falconwood Farm that they forgot even to inquire about the accommodation for the patients. Yet they all agreed that public health was the most important responsibility of government! That, at any rate, marks an improvement in their pre-election at- titude.

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Remember how our Liberal members used to complainabout the high income tax collections under the Bennett Government? The National Revenue Review for April, i938, gives the fol- lowing figures under Dominion Income Tax Collections by Districts: "Charlottetown, I936- 37. $871-$454; 19374-8. $97.<>.=78-s8" — an ifncrcase lnfl per of 300 per cent WI’ i I935

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The travelling public and especially the people of Cross Roads and vicinity are being greatly inconveniéncediby the delay in launching the Grand River Ferry. Mr_ Wm. Mills who has had the job of launching and beaching the boat every year for the past 30 years was relieved of his duties last spring, and repair work and painting, which should have been completed in plenty of time to allow the ferry to be put in use at the carlicstpossiblc moment, is still being done.

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Eight Canadian airplane companies are now manufacturing-for the Canadian Government a total of about 75_planes of service type- The understanding is that these are comparable to types now being manufactured in. Britain for the British services and that the Canadian com- panies are quite capable of tumin out almost anything that would be wanted on t e other side of the Atlantic. ,,'It.is believed that Canadian authorities would be well pleased if companies in this country received some British contract: as that wbuld expend facilities for a poss- ible emergaicy. A desirable feature ln having ciiihdim factorial Well ‘equipped to manufac- ture warplanes-ll to be dint they would

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Driven away front one side of tbe I001. the bud simply hopped over the and started to work on [the opposite skie.- New York 4°°10¢wal Socictv.

Sir Robert Vuisfttart. who h the “big noise" (on the Civil Service aide), where foreign affairs are eon- oerned, and who is now Britain's Propaganda Expert No. to find his “ pe" from every- day life inwriting. ‘Phc next. comedy at the in

. hondm. will be from his pen. Actually, he has written quite a number of plays. and has also turned out some creditable verse. His new comedy is described as a political farce." let's hope it. doesn't raise an ‘in- ternational situationf- Glasgow Bulletin.

The age-old trick ol the “Span- ish prisoner" letter, of course, still swindles the gullible, but. the lam- or of the game is gone, due to iter- est in the civil war. The police have been busy trying to run down fWSHies o1 paintings and oth- er art. objects suppozed to have some out of the Spanish churches lod- ed in the civil war that. is still going 0n there. The French cap- italissaidtobo bheoentre of this traffic in fake ecclesiastical m. Most. of the fakes are the work of picture forgers and oopyists. It. never saw the inside of a church in Sapin or anywhere elm-Bran- don Sun,

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when an actor becomes I0 hi; work evokes the honest ad- miration of other actors, we call him an actor's actor. It's the high- est praise we can bestow. when a writer becomes so skilled that oth- er writers read him with sheer joy, we call him a. writer's writer. Well, I have just. met a salesman’; sales- man. He has everything. His per- formance is so smooth. so subtle, so inspiring, convincing and finished that. listening to him is just. like hearing a symphony, ‘There is the sama perfection. What. a. sales- man he isl I askedhim how he has developed such finish and effect- iveness. He, said it. was simple enough-merely a matter of prac- tice. I admired him all the more when I learned the route he had followed in reaching his mastery. On his first; three selling jobs he failed completely. This almost con- vinced him he wasn't cult out to be a salesman. He decided he'd be one anyway. He set. to work prac-

cing. "I practiced for hours in front of a minor.” he told me. "In front of a mirror!" “Sure. Why

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looked pref/W bad. took some work to change that. Then I check- ed upon the way I sounded to my prospects." "How " ‘The boss had one of those dictating machines in the office, I read my sales talk over and over into the thing. Then I listened back to how it. sounded. Pret/ty rough. I smoothed it up" There's a salesman for you! He didn't depend upon natural gifts. He merely developed the gifts that pyery man has-C an Bus-

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Canada. as the heart of a re- moulded, consolidated British Em- pire. her vast. spaces peopled by milliorns of new settlers, enjoying the fullest. measure of pr rity and security, is in‘; p'an en by RA. Piddixigmn, Engl h amber-economist, as a means of saving tine Anglo-Sexton race from uitimafg extermination, Mr. Pid- diitglon s the micro/aim flow might be extended over a period of fifteen years, with an average exodus of about 1.000.000 annually. The chief effect of the

goposed migration plan would be bring Canada's second-best

customer right. into her shop. New industries planned and located in advance would demand fresh labor instead of comirming with workers already there and the enlarged population would swallow the out- put. of every factory in Canada. and Great Britain for at least. twenty years. Rapid stimulus of business activity and ever-expanding kcts eventually would make the new seat. of Empire the envy of the world, the economist argues. The Piddirwton“ Secretary of Labor Council, who migrated from England to this country in . C.H. Carlislc. President of the Dominion Bank and Chairman of the Executive and ‘Financial Cam- mititee of the. Goodyear Tire d: Rubber Company of Canada. Ltd. was equaliv" r-keptiool of tine aug- irestion. “It. is so im ‘e that it is hardly worthwhile to oom- ment on it," he raid. “Such a. dream is a long way off," cold Right Hon. R. B, Bennett. "A wild. imioossble idea.’ said Pruni- er Hepbhrn. "and from a purely economic standpoint I can't. pon-

bly conceive of anyfliitw wilder or ifioihe invpmdb‘ ." — Glob; and G . _

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OINTMENT PATCH TEST FOB TUBERCULOSIS

Since 1007 research workers in tuberculosis have been to getaskinorpatchbestfort - cuiosis that. would be easier on patient; and phyfiéftlllhmjelgtlflh tithe; nresen method o tiaberculin. - m‘

Dr. Ernest. Wolff, San Francisco, in the American Journal of Discu- es of Children, about three B80 re cried his results with the use o the tuberculin ointment Patch test ln 800 cases, More re- cently. in the Journal of the Ameri- can Medical Association Dr. Wolff and-Dr. Samuel Hurwitz report i000 new tlents Heated by this methodr tisntotal 011m

cases.

I11 onierthatihetruevalueof the test. could be learned two oi intents were made up in exactly the some manner, one ointment “M33598 tubercle o anis-ms and one without the orga , lnfihllfilmfélfi‘; “"’"°" ‘° i"

E 9 will‘ arm or the skin of the chest wall The skin is cleansed with banging m» other and dried. A pea-sized drop of the tuberculin ointment is up- flird on the rieht side and a sim- lnr sized drop of the control oint- ment. (without, tuberculin) is p on the left side. ma. or mm drops is covered tightly with g one and a half inch aqua“ or Ordinary adhesive plaster, which 1; removed ln 48 hours. .

Positive reaction (tlybgmulqsk present in the patient) show up p; tfolseows: a weak test-light case o1 u mulosis-r-hows a. ‘few ginglo 511"" Pflvul“ or pinmies of a pale rose color. a medium reaction con- sists of many vividly red pimple; with redness of the surrounding firth, while a marked positive mac.

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e“ 4 Sh°°k and Dllln by the use 01' "Ye hypodermic needle." " “The ointment is comparatively "s? l0 Prflcare. is relatively 1n- gmmlrfs» 5nd Ms been round to yeaflmn" strength for at least (our

IN APRIL

All thtenpldht-ADYUS nierce my heart I hearmtéiem 805111118. singing down I feeit-he Bold blade z o .fodil Run through me ilk: enigma. 1 hear tne slight, Imbalpopgle slow roots invoke the Of by 0n fl ids. Young

floweeriizg grass, leaves’ tau dden in the valley. And I

bass Caressxeéid and smitten by g wmgw

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PUBLIC FORUM

‘this column ll upon for the dhelulen by eerrnpondenh of '1‘ Uhlr-

questions of Interest. he lothlown Hurdle: d not no- eennrlly endorse the e nione of oorrelpendonte.

representing,

’ Wm. H. Leishman?& ca...

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on April 26th & 27th, 1938

You are cordially invitedi to attend this‘ showing of fine woollens and models.

wmows- PENSION

Sin-I seer. lot about old age n- sions and pension for the bind, but I never sec anything about the

owe of P. E. I. I know some young

arm-ti. running in to 15 and 16. and there are eight twelve children al ing but a morgsger cattle. The oldes leave school and try to get; work small wince! to help feed th younger bothers and oldest boy ff any will have to hard to make enough to pa

some cues ir ten or even

left with noth- : farm and a few

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30 or 35 years old before ever think of getting mart“. then he will have to b his wife in with his mother whi some- times isn't aiw a the best policy. His mother is ere: She cannot post a letter without aakin for a ew pennies and very of n is broken down in hcaithafier 511113

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a little mone coming in of her own she woud be made so much more welcome and could have en- ough w buy something to work with and help her pass hcr wee hours. She wouldn't. have to as her poverty stricken son to rovide her with money to work wth- I think it. could be managed very easily if nil married women on P.

p). or 1.50 n car

l chiidre up to l! n m n {can y a nny a week to go for heir suppoiiieun- til they are ll years old I kn lot more than that on ii; ll not getting‘ them anywhere. I think th e0 action could be easily mode throu h the school secretory of each dis ct and it would not be calling on the Gov- ernment u they have a lot to pay now.I hope Premier Campbell will see this and conside it before the condition of the orphaned children in P. E. I. hlilgfle too for, 1 hope to hear from o er widows on this