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Morning Dally lfunnilcd i857) 85.00 per year (in advluceYdollvered. $4.50 per year no advance) nmlleil in Canada and United States. ADYEILTISINU REPRESENTATIVES

UNITED STATES-The llcrirnlin Special Agency fnc._ New York Cflitfll Building, New _l‘0rk ‘ivy liencrul Motors Building petrol; impugn‘. BUHQ: ' ifhlcngo: Syndicate Trnsl Houatlnoch Building, ban

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Morning Maxim , Labor is another commodity that suffers as a result of overproduction.

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1933.

000cm‘ Anaurzzcnvrs recent years in» been Germany-

whose bankers 5nd manufacturers The comprehensive review of the

uonzs avnn: wnv‘,

i

Mr. lilcCrea, Minister of Mines of! Qnlario in a recent address before the Border chamber of Commerce strongly declared against the no QepmiiCB of currency inflation and other superficially attractive nos- trunls for striving present day econ- omlc difficulties. Such proposals, he said, would only do more harm than good in the bringing about oi

ver . And added: “‘ .

fifftlagairexeipcoouryheads, at: are not W” are an 11m some through caught unwarily by the storm, wei “us world Once and I one“ w” will weather it BSStOImS before have d? how numy of us are doing the- been weathered." By way of em- mm“ °f Ufkwwk “"1 “m”

phmzmg his optimism the Mmisp lion-that we want to do. i

llv lame; W Bailon. M.D. ‘ THE SCHOOL VOCATIONAL OFFICER

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February 6, 1933. i

guy-In this morning's issue o! your paper you say that I abused the hospitality of the Rotarlans by “gm; that; organization as a plat- form to urge thccbnndonment of our provincial status.

By ivhatrlsht do you 111166111111‘- to speak for the Rotarians? I chal-

tmnsportatlon disadvantages affect- ing Prince Eciward Islnnd and the Maritime Provinces generally, sub- mitted by Mr, J. 0. Hyndman at a council meeting of the Charlotte- town Board of Trade, appeared in YP51F1T111Y5 Gurlrdlnn and morils careful reading and CiJllS1(1l'l'.‘,1.i0Il.1 Undoubtedly, as Mr. Ifycclmun suys,1 the present freight rains- sqiuaiion constitutes dlscrinaifiation nizziinst these Provinces. 11c iilsiunccs the, fact that the freight cn a cur of oats today from nn Island point t0 Sydney is equal t0 50 per cent o! the value of the shlpmcnt. Grnin,1

he points out, gets a low frcighthlbout sloovooomm of German cred.

rite from Western Canada and our‘ major products in the ltfuritfmes are entitled to cqunl conslticmtion.

A gtmfig point is also made of the fact that while we have contribut- ed in taxes to the extravagant rail- way expenditures in other parts of Canada, we have reaped none o! the benefits which should follow the equitable distribution of such expenditure. On the contrary, we have suffered because of-thc con- centration of wealth and the great development in transportation has attracted industry and commerce to the more favored centres. “Thus? ls Mr. I-Iyndman expresses it, “what was intended as a partnership to be developed on a basis equitable

have been willing to extend credits. 1 er of M01811 rmlled @1111 111ml’ W111i In some of our an!“ the “m” These credits have been falling due , “:11_1:8rfiiooiigiginfizxhiyfiilf; recently and lacking sufficient of its its renloved from a world “those own goodmRussiahasbeenattempt- problems were “capable o; 531i]- ing to meet p5 bills with gold and ‘ tion. He remembered, also, that Dis- Suven Durmg um 13st two years,‘ raell and other notables of the this correspondent states that Gcr- many has received from Russia things could not possibly be “mw ¢1°§1= 10 5100-0110000 1“ 3°10 “d and that there was no wuy out. The about, $3,000,000 in silver and some pgginjigjn of these leaders had n91. platinum. Delivery of gold, howcvcrx D0611 11151111007111“ ‘V0110 1130 found

, , - l has been far in excess of Russian1a “by out and ind $011k ‘m. 0‘ iaclucvcmcnis greater by 1111' 111-111

production and silver payments have an) 1mm; known beiom

been largely in the form of 979N111‘ . I silver coins, accepted by Germany Nothing rcnlly important will b", as crude bullion. Then, too, at tho, 5611194 bl’ 1119 111511 °1°°1‘°11“~ T110” cud of 1032 there is supposed io bc 1135 119°" 11° 51g“ 1111111 111° deep and, daugerOilS cleavage m the Free state‘ has- been bridged or is likely; to di$31)‘,)IB‘ in til,‘ near future. 111-, tematlonal tumioil and bitterness: are likely to be the lat of the Irish for another generation.

its to Russia falling _due within the ncxt two years.

“Other uthoritative reports lend svclght to the belle! than an acute crisis is currently at hflnd—fl M1515 attributable to four factors, name- 1y; a crop shortage amounting to roughly 30 per cent; an acute short- age of consumptive goods of all kinds; inflation of currency: and the forced pace at which collectiv- ism in agriculture has been achieved ivhich has now brought a0 per cent of all" farmers into the collective system, whereas the "plan" called for but 20 per cent-

“There ls no question that. Russia ls desirous of buying from Canacia- even though it may be as a last

Mr. Bennett's address in T01‘-

outo according to London de5r181¢1195

has created o. splendid i111l~11'E551°11, in Great, Britain. His declaration

that Canada will not resort to in-

flation, the Lmidon Daily 1311111955

points out “should silence the

croakers who have been conducting

n prolonged campaign of economic

disparagemcnt against the Domin-

ion. Canada. has her problems B1111 her difficulties, but is facing them resolutely and successfully. No country in the world has n more glorious future than this Dominion continent, won for us by th "ruins of our forefathers."

to all, has turned out to be a dis- crimination in favor of Central Canada, largely at the expense of the Maritlmcs, with the further re- sult that ‘we have 10st not only population, but representation 1n the Federal Parliament.”

Reference to all the points rais- ed by Mr. Hyndman would exceed the limits of space available here. W! can only repeat that his mem- orandum ls a forceful and thought» Dfvvokfng document, and will un- doubtedly ltwnflhen the hands of U"? Pltllnmentcry representatives h their endeavor to obtain more qnnwhle treatment for the Marl- Imfl in the matter of railway humor-canon.

RUSSIA'S FINANCES

The Prime Mtnlster has effective- II disposed o1 the so-oalled Soviet M3191’ proposal, in which Canada III! expected to guarantee Russian finds to a. mflXlmmn amount of “£00,000 solely in the interest of a Welter-n Canadian syndicate. Par. linen IAbm-al newspaper which gave “P9011 to these propagandlsis are now discreetly silent. Subsequent to finale:- Bennews statement lrrPcr- Ilmmt the following significant I-tlcle appeared 1n the Financial

Pilot. It i5 entitled “Is Russia Facing

rCrlsis-f" and serves to emphasize the wisdom of the course pursued by the Bennett Government: "fflcar, (iispassinnntc information from Russia in recent weeks indi- fites that s financial crisis may be rapidly approaching 1n that much- discussed country. A few weeks ago in ‘Toronto W. H, Chamberlain, of- flcial observer for the pasttzirycars W!‘ the Manchester Guardian and the Christian Science Monitor, sfnl- a that one of the rcnl dnugcrs ill Russia. toay was that l‘. might 11o‘. N able to continue its purchaser; horn abroad. Exports and goods available for export have divindicci Nry rapidly in the p.l:~'§ i.'\‘,'CI years. he minted out, and zillhcugh ihc demand for imports was grcuwpur- Icularly for COllSIiIflPllYO gocds Ildei‘ the new policy of tlv: seccnd five-year plan--ihc whcrcu-Lthnl for pyment was becoming i1~..~;e:sii1gly' Ioarce. 1 "This vcry important pains-in which Canada is particularly inter- ested at the present time-ls further elaborated in some illuminating Qrmspondtlhcd in the New York Annalls: which pflihlS out that the nhief source of Rim-slab impofts in

resort as- other sources 0f supply

dry up. ‘There is equally no doubt

‘that Canada. could find a ready

market for her hides and cows and

other commodities in Russia. if Rus-

sia could pay for these commodities.

But about all that Russia has to sell ls such raw material as she can sacrifice-lumber, petroleum, anth‘

racltc coal, manganese ore and three minor commodities, namely, furs, ca- vlare and platlnum—none of which, with the single exception of Detrot eum are needed in Canada in any quantity 1f at all. Her ability to pay cash or to finance a deal with- out the use of barter is- practically non-existent, and the reported pos- siblllty of an economic crisis during the» present years. adds additional risk to an already doubtful trading position."

Fully aware, as they are, that the‘ American Republic is losingheav- ily by its insistence on dcbt col- lection, leading American financiers‘, are said to insist upon Swifllllllé’: concessions to Great Britain and, the other war debtors a5 ihc most‘, direct, available means of rc-stimul-i ailng intcrnutjonui trad: and re" storing prosperity on both sides of,‘ the Atlantic. This view coincides‘ with the emphatic opinion express-

ed by Mr. J. L. Garvin in tho

‘London 0b...- .1" that; crass

payments on the huge international obligations arising out of the ivar can never again be resumed by Britain. France and Germany; that, through no fault of the debtors, the war debts are as dead as mutton: that Da-Yments cannot rbe made next June, or ever again; that com~ mon sense should take the place of chaos: and that. it is better for the nations to co-otmrate for recovery than to compete in mcriminations.

A resolution passed by the. Con- gress of the United States twenty years ago 1n favor or constituting the combined navies of the world an international force for the pre- servation of universal peace is rc- called ln the New York Times by Mr. David Davies. The project was strongly supported by Theodore Roosevelt, m. Davies thinks that had Roosevelt's advice been listened to there probably would have been no great war, and that had the Congressional resolution been acted upon the economic condition of the United States and of the world might have been very diffcxnt to- day.

A MAKES NEST

Our local contemporary rushes to anticipate, from a. statement at- trlbuted to Hon. E. N. Rhodes, Minister of Finance, that the rev- enue of this Province under the Domlclled Companies Act ls in danger. No such assumption ls war. ranted by the statement quoted‘ from Mr. Rhodes. The Finance Minister was plainlyreferring to companies evading ‘the federal income tax by incorporating un- der provincial statutes. Our con- temporary should know that the companies registered here under The loose assumption that Eur- the Domtclled Companies Act are 011° 15 115111118 America 10 i111)’ 111B not incorporated in Prince Edward “hole c051’ of H“ K111017080 “mm a1‘ Island but by the Domlnlvn 5°“ Zoniirrgicfglnliiile}iifizfcfwieglii Th" m" i" 1114111‘ 1° 11°fl1'1l'$2,00O,O00,000 or roughly, the domicllcmvherc they please, and full present value of the 300a,; 511.; mmy an, 1n no Sense evading ‘ed, borrowed at wartime prices. This Em, Income tax by domicmng m ls not, of course, including interest. Prince Edward Island.

A". to the query whether Premier

‘,1 Stewart “took any steps nt the m. {cent Dominion-Provincial confor- 0111-‘0 l0 Drevvnt the Province los-

ing" the rcvonuc derived under iihc Domicllcd Companies Act, the linnsiver is easy. The question was ‘ncvcr raised at the conference! Docs the Liberal organ suggest that Prclnici- Stewart should him. self have introduced it and invited discussion on the legality of a stnt.

crnment.

America's army of dollars.

All the money in the world would not have won without mcn. Human lives were tho great cost of the war. And lt might be worth while to remember at this time that Am-

as against 9.000.000 for I-‘mnrr, Ii,- 001000 for Britain and 2,000,- 000 for Italy. Of these millions, a large share were losscssustnint-(Lby the allies in holding the “American

T thing which

have a department called vocatlon- 101180 V011 1° 1151110 011° 1101mm“ a1 guidance where boys and Ems who suys that I abused the 11051111- am advised on what is likely to be allty of the Rotarlans on the oc- me best 0,. most suitable mm, o; caslon you mention. I look upon work or profession in which to en- 11 as highly presumptuous for you‘ Egg some cmes mink of this v°_ to speak for that highly respectable rational work as an unnecessary body’ of ‘which you are not a men‘- "n-nr- and will not spend the ne- 11°’- uessarjy money for this work.

Of course youngsters may have dreams or visions of what they _ _ _ _ want to bo-cngineers, airmen, mo- goézléfillmrzg grsfgiliifflfilfiovllncdiz: tor cops, physicians, lawyers, prea-‘howevm, point out conditions l,rc_ chem’ bu“ players and so forth? 1 veiling bud influences working in and it might be a wise thing and i “m Province" m“, woum l; um mean a happy 1m for them to be l checked, force us into n Maritime “mum. 1° “an” their 51111111113115 Union. I also stated thcrc was no

K911911911 ‘he "ocammal Jflncer- good reason or justification for such zisks questions, tests out their cblll- an undesirable outconm t'cs along the lilies in which they In case o; Unmnl the“, ‘vould ap think they could excel and be “mys be a brunch Q1- the supfemc happy, learns their general capa-: Con" here’ m try here up 91,111 and 111111105‘ 11110 30111505 111cm a5 t° criminal cascs. No witness would xvhnt line of work or profession ls have to go to snckviqg p‘ the Ap- bcst suited to their talents or p931 Cguff; should be 1gpntcg there, 1111111133 v only in case of an appeal there, the

With o real Obie-ct in view the typewritten evidence ‘tnkcn at the boy or girl then goes on to a pYC- trial here would be forwarded. paratory school-the ordinary pre- I am, Sh", etc, pm-ntorv school lending to tlir W. S. STEWART. university. or to another preparer wry School preparing for mg,» (If the Judge be unaware of hav- eering, mt’ chemistry, physics; m. ing abused the hospitality of the w a preparatory Commercial Rotarlans. he, with the possible ex- school to prepare m‘: bugmes‘ ception of his fellow propngnndist,

What has this to do With health 1s 11"’ °“11' ‘me 5° ‘gmmtn’ Thf fiEId that body of yaurs? ‘ remainder of His- Woirsglpi iilitill,

of 11w 3.11.1531"i.ii“,f,iiliilg..i..if.i,ff.ZZZ ’ ‘ ’ ' ’ advocated Maritime Union but worry, which is chronic fear—may

be traced to the individual working

from morning tmtil night at some- he dislikes or for

vinclal status, I have always as my words to the Rotarlnns show, been

leged advantages we would under such union-Ed. G.»

. which he is untitled. ' ——————————--

Thns his life work which should bring joy and peacQ cf mind is ac -

wally crushing his very life out. h crtlfl wt. I .___~...._.9_1_/.1..__..

We cant all make a change in MEMORY

our \\‘O!‘k even if we wished to do so. We must continue to support our loved ones and ourselves. All we can do 1s to sack to got from and to give‘ go the worlk something in our spare time.

Ifowevcr it will

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, Along your. g

kerb whcr; mean nmch t0

_ _ . And the rain softly falls. Factitious Famme

Where sentincls of s-llcnl; spring Flank either side its solitude, And the rain softly falls.

(Saturday Reviewi _ "Today the Russian population is

experiencing a famine without 111111-116 0f 0101133’ This damning Each tree so far apart, a torch judgment on Bolshcvik policy

comes from no political opponent, but from a report Jus; issued by a strfctly impartial Inquirer, to wit. the Birmingham Bureau of Ro- searcp on Russian Economic Con- ditions. Here we have the lncvi- tnble result of an attempt on S0- clallst lines to make production fit artificial prices instead of al- lowing it to be stimulated by the prospect of fair reward to thcpro- ducer.

It is a result foreseen by all sane perwns Judging from universal err- rrrtence. Not even ‘yranny can compel corn to grow where it is unprofitable to grow And cbm. The prices fixed by the mas- tors of Russia have gunk to as low 01w strvet owoy a laccard Ham at ten per cent. of the market 11111101195 111191101113’ B10118. vfiuo ofcom when freely sold. I18 811110 d105, fwlslcns drmv near

‘crcfore corn ls no longer grown. A1111 1-118 P01060110’ 111115- V t stretches of fertile Russian la d arc over-run with weeds. Quliimtzead’ unknown’

.

Fl ur often costs one hundred ti cs more than in pro-war days. U“1‘°°~d“‘g_11°“°- m has“? 1° 5°' Never again to meet, it fades,

Glistens the asphalt, of the path, And the rain softly falls,

Cnlmer than any field at dawn A. patch of cmorclcbfnrling sky Borders upon a saffron crc-sk, And the rain softly falls.

One star afloat upon the creek. A tuft of grass athwart a wail Drinks up the bounty clfcrcd it, And the rain softly falls.

Lit 1n a house so much the some

up, the rain softly falls.

unneeded

but, there ls more than a little doubt balcony v1 the hotel. and could hear 0i‘ the decency of charging inisrcst ‘Vllflt i110 young couple were saying on the men they "lent" to match in the garden below. .

. nrm excitedly. “I think he is Being to propose," she said. "We otightn't to listcn~whlslle to warn him."

truculcntly. "Nobody whlstled to warn me!"

erlcan casualtfes were only 350,000 -————————-—~-—~ (‘OR-st of North America. Columbia, Washington and Oregon shared fn the trade, which was about 65 per cent o! the total soft- wood imports- of China. Canada has

Sh rtage of nil agricultural pro-

du ls acute. Communkm or, And the mm somy tuna wh t is the same thing herc, So- ca ism, equals far-nine.

i The Smiths were sitting 0n the

P1155 5111111891‘, with lncurious eye Fixed to the earth: though beanys here She needs no witness. The leaves dflo. And the min softly falls,

Mrs. Smith clutched her husband’; —-Monk Gibbon in The Spectator.

"Why should I?" askedylvla‘. Smith

British

I As to the abandonment of pro-

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1011111151915 if 111W @111‘ 111111-11,‘ green, totalled about $6.350. and ice used 111w" Influx». 11111115 W111i 11 quflhfwd And. light their candles, dies the to cool it cost about $2.500 more vocational officer. noise, The smallest "em mum-hm miner.

No step. no sotuid, an empty road,

0f green reproof against thc grey.

Is this love, to watch that light

ute which no member of the con- s fcrance had disputed? Our con. iemiiviflry would never had raised such a ridiculous question i; p hnd paused to inform itself of the facts.

United States was 1n the war and could send only dollars to the front.

lng towards China as a rich market. Lust year the Chinese took 200,000,- 000 feet of lumber from the western mcfiis to the Orient.

had a substantial trade balance of some $57,000,000 with China durlnfl the six years closing with 1930. The Chincs: have intimated a willing- ness to trade with Canada, and the Pacific coast lumbermcl. are hop-

cctor" during thc first _vca1- the

Canzflfiln lumbermen are look-

“Iirjpnt. "Wm v11’

‘L 10.11 "rum/W (

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ing ihoy can increase their ship-

1 Clearing at $1.59

Arrow Shirts "are nationally known as to rit and ‘quality. We have selected several dozen from our Arrow Shirt" stuck regularly priced at $2.50 t0 $3.00 which we w.ill ciea this Shirt Sale at $1.59.

SEE 011R, wuvnows.

_ uanoanson s. cuonona

during

MEN'S WEAR ‘ ' . _ ____________ -_ - ges, shampoos and u u lcures for which barber's charge as mul Shavlng ,Senat0rs would probably make up ‘the dls- as for a haircut. would cost twfo At Washington crepancy. as much as a shave.

l (New York Times)

Members of the United states 1Stnnte during the fiscal yead cud- ing June 30 consumed, at the cx~ pense of taxpayers, 500 aspirin tablets, onc- bottlc of bromo-selt- izcr, onc package cf soda-mint tab- ,lcis, three pounds of ialcarbonatc {of soda, two bottles of mouth iwash, three pints of 111911168160

have their hair cut and there are about 20 bald pales which may run even longer than two weeks without a. grim.

only bearded Senator, beard. generally immaculate would indicate, and this

Some Senators, of course, do not Thus, Senator Lewis’ bill fol- , haircut and n beard trim wouii amount in one week to a (101111 and 1n a thirty week session to $3:

Senator Long gets a daily aha“ and assuming, a weekly haircut, m, bill through a thirty week session would run to $60.