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“The Stronuuegfi Eniorfi_ll’oclcu the Weakest Ink.” .._"_.._._ .:_ __"' TUESDAY, JANUARY a1, 19x9.

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A Rousing Convention

1..ast night's rousing Conservative convention was another evidence, if such were ueeded,'of strong public sentiment and interest in the for- tunes of the party.

In tendering unanimous nomination to Hon. ; Dr. W. J. P. l\lacl\'lillan, provincial leader, and >’ l\Ir. W. A. Stewart as candidates for the Fifth ‘ District of Queens, the convention chose two veteran standard bearers, who have worked to- gether iii the past in the interests of the City " and Province, and will certainly not fail to give a good account of themselves in the future_

One of the objectives of Dr. MacMillan and Mr. Stewart if returned in the next provincial election will be to remedy the serious unemploy- ment situation which has gone seemingly from bad to worse under the present administration. Both they and the federal Conservative candi- dates for Queen's County, ‘Messrs. McLure and Myers, are in accord with Dr. 1\'Iani0n’s pol- icy of full federal responsibility for unemploy- ment and are wholeheartedly behind the bridge a11d harbor improvement projects with regard ' to which so much has been heard, and so little accomplished, since the last elections.

Other measures. notably farm rehabilitation. were outlined by Dr. bTacMillan in the course of a vigorous speech in which Liberal policies of drift and inaction, of invasion of constitutional rights and indifference to the most solemn pre- election pledges, were denounced in scathing terms.

: The large attendance at the convention, and the enthusiasm and harmony which prevailed, measured up to the most optimistic expectations.

' i Better Late Than Never

On several occasions during the past few months attention was called in these columns to the Provincial Government's responsibility in the matter of farm rehabilitation. The increas- ing number of vacant’ farms in this agricultural province, we suggested, is a challenge to leader- ship that cannot longer be ignored. In this con- nection we cited, among other examples. the success of an experiment conducted b the Metropolitan Insurance Company in re iabilit- J, ‘ = . atiug some 7,000 foreclosed farms. This was followed up by Mr. H. K. S. Hamming in a letter to the Government, urging consideration of the matter.

Our contemporary n0\v reports that the Gov- ernment purposes to take action along this line, at least to the extent of canvassing the opinion I _ of_the members of the Legislature at the next i‘ - session. Premier Campbell is quoted as coin- " mending the "very instructive example" of the Metropolitan scheme to which we directed his attention. We appreciate the compliment im- plied, but suggest that his sincerity in the mat- ter would be more apparent if he had frankly ldtuowletlgcd the source 0f his inspiration.

A Poet's Death

1n the list of outstanding poets 0f the past half century, no name stands higher than that 0f \Villian1 Butler Yeats, whose death at the age of 73 was

regarded as a recognition long overdue.

reported in yesterday's des- patches. The Nobel E_’rize for literature, which was bestowed upon him in 1923, was even then

Yeats was one of the founders of the move- ment for the revival of Celtic literature, and

Canada are concrete and constitutional in the political structure of Canada. They existed be- fore the Union and were the foundation for the Confederation. They are not to be thought of‘ as the scaffolding of a structure which, when completed, are torn down. But as the material from which the larger structure comprising the original material is built. They are integral and inseparable from the structure.”

The only way that Canada could be govern-

intolerable. The less government contro the less bureaucracy we have in this country the better for all concerned. It was the lack of con- trol over the executive by the legislatures that led to the rebellions in Upper and Lower Can- ada in 1837, and, similarly, if there had been local government in the Territories in 1870 and 1885, there need never have been any re- bellions. Irresponsive officialdom, with its in- difference and self-complacency, is ever a cause for discontent, frequently the creator of it.

.1‘ Editorial Notes I

Guy Fawkes-executed this date, 11606. a 4- is =1-

penditure are estimated at $75,000. s- o at 4-

Canada's air mail is estimated to cost a half a million dollars next financial year compared with the current year. g 4 s c i: It is now announced that the League of Na- tions will be succeeded by the League of Dicta- tors. In that case, where will Ismet Inonou of

peer, Lord Parinoor, has been expelled from the British Labour Party because he is too radical -—out-Hcroding Herod, as it were. .

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This is the hundredth anniversary of the publication of Lord Durham's famous report advocating the Union of the Caiiadain Colonies, January 31, 1839. . is i: 4- it

The Horlick-Bull will case has been settled out of Court, we are told because of “the Hor- lick family's dislike for publicity.” Mr. l/V. Per- kins Bull, K.C., on the other hand laments that “I've gone down two pounds" since the pub- licity started.

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Sir Iohn Gilmour has been reappointed Lord High Commissioner of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. Sir John, a former Conservative Home Secretary, had been His Majesty's deputy in this service last year. - ii- 4- * a

Sir Kingsley Wood, British Secretary for Air, states that British manufacturers had suc- ceeded in solving the problems connected with the operation of guns in high speed aircraft. Speaking on the subject of gun turrets at a factory in Surrey he visited, Sir Kingsley said that Britain had outstripped all other countries in the design of mechanically operated gun turrets.

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The export of hides and skins in December was valued at $459,816 compared with $560,514. in November and $181,778 in December, 1937. The total for 1938 was $2,967,954 as against $4,018,587 in 1937. Imports of hides and skins in December were $259,367 compared with $553, 045 in November and $415,258 in December, 1937. The total for 1938 was $2,935,975 com- pared with $6.329,g54*in ‘I937.

A movement has already been started in Can- ada of men and women who are coni/inccd that if there is to be prosperity the old economic cr- der must be changed. I-lon. W. D. Herridge former Canadian Minister to Washington, told the men’s association 0f Chalmers United Church, Ottawa. Fascism is “a monster in the world tracking our civilization down," he said. Canada should fight it from within by bringing prosperity to its people. It should fight it from without by uniting the British Empire and the United States in

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men - to h plqymm “u; ’ bsswbgii-iimibneqinpcnlicnfthcrcwfc:

ed from Ottawa, it is pointed out, would be by u“

a huge bureaucracy which, from what we know g ‘y an ‘o on of the one already in operation, would rove drawing 11mm}: t cc, and I l-hflfl‘ ll 18110. It I

rate in excess of what they could hope to let. if they winked. ever die word breathed, there is of "Fascism"

017 pzpple who know B

scare. Yet. the problem has really nothing prlneip Apply the round formula or Maintenance" and. so weak is hiunsn nature. so liirilted are some men's desires, poverty, standards, a small residuum who will maintenance. is

should amount. to as many 000 men under thirty-five, should we be content to tolerate it and to accept it as a necessary piece of

_ _ __ _ _ social wastage? - Manchester

The train service for the Royal Visit is esti- Guild!“- mated to cost $350,000, while other items of ex- “The chum“, u, - new“ accust 1 to liberty. They are

expert in the difficult art of demo- cratic self-government. They en- joy, as i1 matter of course, their rights to free speech. a free press, liberty of conscience, tolerance, Justice. "Like ourselves,

unable to conceive of a life for themselves without these elements. On ever in every politics. point of view is exactly the some as ours. Therefore —most

Turkey fit in? * g ‘I ant at the resent time-their re- r i. are“

' ‘ n o e an ay s sure Sir Stafford Cripps, the second son of a to be e 5mm as oum “Emmy.

that country has in a time of rest strees proved its ability to and arm of their right as shock stand shoulder to shoulder with- or confronting-the finest divisions of the armies of the world. "So it seems to me that. our northern boundary us give thanks for fortifications of this kind; and work tor more of the same on what. we may call our frontiers in distant parts or the hemisphere." —Let.ter in the New York ‘times.

January thaw similar to that. in Ontario, amethyst hunters will be gathering the from the quartz outcrop on the face of cliffs about Scotts Bay and Cape Blomldcn and elsewehere on the Bay of Fundy. Amethysts Ire found sandwiched between layes of rock, and frost splits the rec , exposing the crystal. through the trap-rock formations o plough turns them up. farmer boring a well amethyst bec. A Canadian Press ' writer quotes a Kentlvllle jewellery as saying the stones mean $100,000 a year business Sales to tourists are said to have increased tenfold ‘in the DISMSIX or seven years, and many persons from this part of made purchases semi-precious stones Wlfflllb tour- ing the Maritimes. Amet-hysts used for jewellery brooches, some tourists like to buy the un- polished rocks Lhysts nestle. Jewellery have to be sent to Europe to be cut, as there are few Jewel- cutters on this side of the Atlantic. —Woodstock Sentinel-Review.

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When- "compulslon" is n11 outcry; the is raised, and at. - deal tar hasten w create a political

to do with the general of unemployment relief. of "Work

so demoralizing is so imperfect are social there will still remain

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Ontario have of these native

find their way into lockets and rings and

in which the amn- The stones used for

There is talk in England of pre- paring Exeter as a capital of re- fuge in case of war. Once before there was a shadowy British cap- ital beyond the Thames when charles I set. up his rival Parna- st Oxford; but it. was in the shadow of Westminlster that the King's head rolled from the block. The strategic reason for selecting Exter as 11 seat of gov- ernment is obvious. Exter. far to the west, 1s still within easy reach of France, but comparatively safe from air raiders. German planes, seeking Etxter, would have to flv across at. least 5200 miles of Brit- ish territory or over is sen patrol- led by British warships. The re- lays cf air bombs which London feared could scarcely be maintain- ed i0 Easter. nor does it offer the

of the Irish literary theatre. Always a pains- taking craftsman, he was particularly effective in breathing life into the old Celtic-mythology. and some of his most beautiful poems were in- spired by folklore.

Of Yeats‘ long-continued popularity one critic his written: "While other poets have risen and fided. and expectations have been aroused and disappointed, the conviction that this is one of the great poets has rmiiainctl tinshakcn; that the same voice is uttering changed but beautiful and enduring ivioirv to changing ears; and-that one who is still living is already of classic impor-

brought in vanced to Butter imports valued at $1,411 $5.724 in 1937-

lance."

The wcll-kiioivn lyric published in Poet's Corner is an example of style; it came to his mind in a London street, and expressed his homesick memory of an islet in Lough Gill, a lake near the town of Sligo. A much longer quotation would be required to »do justice to his maturer work, on which his fame ultimately will rest.

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Many writers have noted Ycats‘-kinship with]

some of the Elizabcthans. especially in his gift for majestic imagery and rhetoric. To him. as to Keats, beauty was truth-truth beauty; he lived imaginatively in that world where, as he

Y t ' 1 l . ea S ear y ' Canada's High Commissioner in London, her

iministers, secretaries and staffs in foreign cap- itals will next year cost an estimated $499,500 compared with $494,500. T here is the appropriations for Washington $100,000. Paris has been cut from $77,000 to 75,000 and

ber, 1937.

Tokyo from $68

tecl last year at

Due to a large increase in the importation of butter, the value of milk and its products during the calendar year 1938 ad- $1,788,3o8 from $462,098 iii 1937.

ly lower, totalling 1,386,645 pounds valued at $311,635 compared with $1,410,336 wortli $327,- 565 in 1937. The December imports 0f milk and products amounted to $36,884 compared Will] $49,355 in November and $40,952 in Decein-

tions at Brussels and The Hague were budget-

find their appropriations $5,000 higher. The

an Anglo-Saxon union. 1k iii m a-

aggregated 5.231,838 pounds ,958 compared with 65,918 at Imports of chccsc were slight-

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no change in London at $157,000 and

The appropriation for ,ooo to $65,000. The new Lega- $3o,00o, and for 1939-40 will

Geneva will have

himself has written,

“Beauty his nowbb. decoy no flood,

‘But. 30y is 14011001. Tlmo In OM11 will." ' This

' variations. iWould Mean More Bureaucracy

impugn! 110i n’ innit "l"

perhaps was his supreme message, the ttheme on which he elaborated with-in-

t. jit-w ibiillltf recent! put P“ "to abolish ythose

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League of Nations Office at_ the same allotment ‘as ‘the preyious year, $32,500.

rcgatcd $10,641,148 in comparison with $19,- 5,426 in 1937. The decline was most mark- ed in beef cattle, the hea class dropping to 108,639 head appraised at

class wclgliiing from 175 to 700 pounds number- ed 11,254 ‘cad valued at $97,040 compared with 27,746 ar$684,968; tliosc lighter than 175pctinds each totalled 49,417 head valued at $759.9‘: compared with 99.648 it $1,48$r738; iotherhlnd heavy dairy cattle increased ,t0

head valued st .046 from, 6,787 it p34

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Canada's export of living animals in 1938 ag-i w

same target. Other factors may also be receiving consideration Exetyer Ls as deeply rooted in Brit ish history and tradition as Lon- don itself. as Caer Iscc of the tribes , it was a British stronti- hcld before ever the Romans came. British, Roman, Saxon or Nor- man, it has been forever England. It was the men cf Devon who swarmed out of their water war- rens to overwhelm the Invincible Armada sailing up past The Lizard. The mouth o the Exe still re- mains En land's last. ditch. - New York es.

It is impossible not to sympa- thlze with Hans Borchers, German consul-general in New York. in his protest over what he calls America's "daily presentation of the German character the world as a mixture cf crudeness and arrogance." In Herr Boreh- ers‘ opinion. "the best witness of the German character and life are the hundreds of thousands. even minions of men of the t Ger- rncn orfgin now part of the United States." In spite of all that Hitler and Cloelycels can do, Americans still agree with Herr Bcrehcrs on. this int. But. if their cdmirnt-ion for s German character unwill-

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filo column is loll he tho ljuuolno correspondents of llcslhlc of - flu Clor- loOkIIIl 0 ll loco not lo- oounrll; ulna tin opinion of correspondents

AGRICULTURAL ' ITATION Bin-The Patriot forecasts. in piomect. lexlaldtlon t» atoms; irdvornmcnt help. cg vacant fcrinii. I ave no hesi- tation in my be Nil-t this could

be co important meuum cfvbene- flt to the province. l! administer- ed in competent sincerity. and not’. eimloitzd by s party “in extrema"

tcavc , udinzdisutexnlfcel- cure that all parties and classes will delicht in izebtina behind the omfmt. to divs it efficient. per- forumncc.

‘rherc is both rumfci an dancer. however. that it is one o! those . familiar to electors, held out in the throes of d to ewe tli 1n It. is

x . gettinz u» neeer w the day of ‘GOKOMDR w. the polls w be

lied 8a more dependable {AS15135 "catibcsc" displays of It would have been a good think. rt-icularly to urban peace. if an r rural protect. "Rcfornr story wclninent. in tho Liberal Plictfonn. been o tnnirlblc reality instead of cu alluring m/yth. . ~

Another zocd tihiniz. of which our friend Mr. J. Walter Jones M. L. A.. was a leadlniz apostle. prcmlslniz cold stcraize faculties l1: different parts of the province. to “relwbllitatfl declining agricul- It was an emerg plan! "to net in on" forgotten w en they reached the haven.

A 100% enforcement of Bro- hibltion had its entlcements (c: the Churchmen and moral living. and. as as it was. u cm- of the stories of incoming Liberal» ism. it wt least had

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fluencc amongst those faithful who had the illusion that their lenders really meant what. they preached.

I am not throwinn cold water on the proposition. Much rather I am hoblnz for its success. I be-

t it will develop into a reality. will beczme our people. of all to tzct behind it. and tn

classes, to it that. it is not a monkey

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created to zcflher up the coupers W

while the onzan grinder turns the crank to sound out the empty music. The past. has loaded with those empty enter- tainments. lit is about time now to not some kind of a hand out. cif a real and tantzible nature.

I cm. Sir, etc. LEWIS P. TANTON. "NIX GAMBLE”

Sin-As your correspondent "Nix Gamble" assumes the right. to make a. mistaken zuess as to my identity. I feel prlvtlefled in reply

accuracy. 8s to his personality.

His evident contempt fcr "the small property owner. or business man" rather impcles him as one possibly a. treasury feeder. l-atiher sensitive in the fear. which he represses. being dreamed from his pinnacle of distill/y. by “eco- nomic pressure (tn) the ranks of the proletariat."

It may similarly be assiuned that. he wants “unemployment. in- surance" lest he at. some time removed from his present eleva- tion to the level of the "small property owner" or "to the ranks of the prolctaria" whom he re- fers to which such contempt and disdain.

He makes it clear however that he does not wont this at his own expense. His decided conviction is that it. should be bald for by "the small property ovmer" and "pro- letariat" to continue oluence of

him. ‘The

days overtake " e Tlhc- Goats". or others contributinit to his existence.

escapes his share of the imbost. Remidiathia his diatribe, I a. stronzly in favor of ment insurance. but I shculd be . as in the case of all other insurance. upon s pram tical actuarial business foundation. "Nix Gamble". (Mythological Gauibler). and all others in com-

tablc employment. should be compelled to bc/y their due share of emiums. as other insurers are ob ed to do. without spongin m1 their neiahbu classes.

unemploy- believe it

the beneficiaries are contributory. It. is true that admlnistrat-lv costs. under government. manage- ment would be desirable as sav- imre sums involved by the tmant ccnmcnlee. But there is mime cf machinery in our over-manned offices of novcrnment, and sufficient of money waste whim. if conserved, w easily provide this outlay. without making it an excuse for further taxation: byegovernmente whose ore-election pl was was to use the pru ftul squahderinz. and to reduce the burdens of taxation now hnnuinir as millstnnes on the necks of the

“w” i 1 un Slr w 6 n on or 1111i dons.