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TUESDAY, MARCH 5, 1929

A GOOD START.

"his Farmers’ Parliament made a beginning yesterday afternoon t- - evening with a largely attended ‘eating of the Provincial Dairymens ' .- iation. ~While the farmers are in the city | their own business, it is hoped ey will find time to make the 0c- {1 - on an enjoyable one, socially and ,i erwlse. ' They have been favored Kit-h excellent weather and good ‘pads, and it is expected that Ill the gioetlngs will be largely attended. I l will have much of mutual in- .. to discuss, much also that will QbSTGSB our merchants and citizens generally. The meetings should re- ‘ 1t in enlarging the acquaintance » ind friendship that have always ex- d between city and country, as o. as in direct benefit to the fann- rs themselves from their conference i

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' GOOD SEED PAYS ~ ithas been found a beneficial, prac- tfce to exchange seed grown on the farm for that grown at a distance. Erhe Maritime Farmer suggests that , he present time, while there are sur-

plus stocks of Goverhmeut certified peed potatoes in the bins of farmers

and "ahippem, would afford an excel- lentopportunity for making such a hhange, particularly for those who ._‘ gtil! ‘grow varieties of potatoes that re not the best. The journal sug- ‘at; that each farmer purchase one more bags or barrels of certified ‘aeedand plant at a distance from ‘his own home-grown seed. The edi- _i .. by. he tried this oh his own "farm last year, planting two bags of ' Mountains and one bag of Cobblers from Prince Edward Islanchand har- jvcslcd forty-five barrels of good jquality stock. The yield was three ltimes greater than where he had iuaed his own home-grown seed.

CRISIS IN IMANITOBA.

. v i‘ The Farmers‘ Government in Man- jltoba, headed by Hon. John Bracken, now face to face with the fate that to . overtaken practically all group éorganizations which have evolved ‘from co-operative associations for hutch benefit into political entities. The present crisis is attributed ‘dir- ieotly to the so-called "Seven Sisters ideal," a. transaction which has stir- [red the province from end to end with» distrust, ‘misglving and resent- ‘ment. The case is one in which the f ‘best water falls in Manitoba have ‘been alienated by the Government i‘. and leased to a private corporation , ‘for 99 years. In this deal the Fed- : ‘era! Government played a large part, _ .--just how large is now about to.be

wliscussed on the floor of the House

of Commons. Hon. Charles Stew- art, Minister of the Interior, who ap- pears to have had charge of the Ot- awa end of the transaction, is en- llvoring to pass the buck, hide iboofs and horns, over to the Brack- f en Government. But there are two 8950i! of the case which suggest‘ atrongly that the chief sinners were the Ottawa Liberals. It was at Ot- t!!! that the heaviest lobbying was “can-led on by the agents of the Win- allpeg ‘Electric Company. It was the H tan Government that granted the to that Company of the Seven

‘ ‘k - ’ fills. It is perfectly true ‘ {before Ottawa acted it obtain-

" Premier Bracken! assent to the

A tion. On the other hand, Bracken and his Cabinet

were strongly against the

' In: over a year, and only chang-

‘ t after repeated confer-

“ with the Federal Government.

- lilliifioant that this change

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lature, suddenly abandoned his hos- tile attitude, toward the Bracken Government, stumped for Mr. Mc- Kenzie ih Isnsdowne, and endorsed the Seven Sisters‘ traiuulcuos m its

entirety. All the evidence therefore

‘points strongly to the‘ conclusion that

the Seven Sisters deal and the plan for a Liberal-Farmer fusion in Mani- toba. were carried out simultaneously, and were part and parcel of one poli- tical transaction.

The disclosures made before the Royal Commission which is investi- gating the whole matter, resulted in the forced resignation of two Min- isters of the Bracken Cabinet, and the Government experienced great difficulty in getting an adjourment of the House for a week to tonslder the situation. When the members ire-assemble a few days hence they may find that the Farmers‘ Govem- ment has become extinct, that old things have passed away and that many things have become new. Nego- tiations are said to be in progress look-

_ ing to a fusion between the Liberal

and Farmer groups, a Cabinet recon- structlon, a. portfolio for Hon. H. A. Robson, Liberal Provincial leader, and an early appeal to the constitu- encies. "

INEXCUSABLE DELAY. v

Commenting on the dilatory action of the Federal Government in the payment of War Claims, the Toron- to Globe (Liberal) says:—

"The Opposition would appear to have good grounds for its at- tack on the King Government's war-claims policy. Two separ- ate Royal Commissions have long since heard and passed numerous claims for indemnities for Can- adian losses totalling some four million dollars. Why "the Secre- tary of State should at this time propose to liquidate only about half of these national obligations is not dear. The war is over; the German Government has paid Canada all that Canada is going to collect. The sensible thing to do is to wind up the whole business with common- sense despath.

"There have been allegations in some quarters that theCanadian Government's sloth in this regard is actually threatening to injure Canada's credit in the money markets of the world. It is clear that some of the larger claims have international complications. But what is also clear is that the

. claims of ordinary individual

Canadian citizens, having been twice sanctioned by Royal Com- mission, are never going to grow smaller. Already there is a de- mand for interest payment from the date of allowance. Why not wipe the slate as clean as possible as soon as possible?"

EDITORIAL NOTES

hereditary title passes, the

higher rank should be restored.

Uncle Sam, says President Cool- idge. is a friend of Europe. haps only the president's unfamiliar-

calling Uncle Sam a regular Mowgli, the little friend of all the world.

Our fanners, while in the city at- tending the agricultural conferences, will no doubt have a look around. Among other things they will find New Zealand butter and California carrots competing with their own products ch the Charlottetown mar- ket. '

The Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has offered a priaepf $250 for the but answer to the question "Bow, hu- manely, and at the lame time effec- tfvelyeanadcgbetrainedtoguard himself mid-injury t; the automo-

auswarmaybefolmdtobaaplaliq-

semiannual.- a airmail;

Dean Inge proposes that as each heir should be dropped one degreein rank. If, however, he does something tn justify his possession of a title his

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[Vat By The Way

eating people livins in the northern ‘put of North America. Them are not more than fifty or sixty thous- ands of them, all told, and thvy 8N scat‘ od along the northern and Arctic coastline from Labrador to Alaska. Few of their widely dis- persed settlements are more than 20

centuries under extreme conditions of hardship, but are said to be in- creasing. This is the more remark- able as the winter temperature in the regions where most of them live in Canada, dips ‘occasion lly to 60 and even '10 degrees below zero. Though commonly spoken of as In- dlans, they differ widely from other Indian tribesf The men are beard- ed. short in stature, but this is less notable when they are sitting. They are dressed in fur skills, of which two suits are worn in winter, one with the hair next to the skin and the other with the hair turned out. Men and women look so much alike that a casual observer finds it difficult to distinguish’ them. Explorers in the Arctic regions also adopt. fur robes in winter because of their greater warmth. Drused skins of the caribou, the polar bear, the seal or the white or blue fox are the ma.- tezials for clothing. " The name Eskimo is said to mean "eaters of raw flesh," and is quite appropriate as most of the Eskimos prefer certain foods raw and frozen rather than cooked. Their food comes mostly from the sea, where in their kayAksLor boat-st made of drift wood covered -,with skin) they hunt the seal, thewalrus, the polar bear on his cake of ice, and even the whale at times, and catch other fish. This hunting is dangerous, for though the hunter can right his boat with a stroke of his paddle, if it is overturn- ed, once the skin covering of his craft is pierced hesinks and must drown. Very few llbkimos learn to swim.

The Ibkimo-language is altogether exceptional. It is characterized by the power of expressing in one word a whole sentence in which are em- bodied a number of ideas which in other languages require separate words. Sometimes an Eskimo word expresses with perfect distinctness what might in our language require 20 words. InGreenland and Lab- rador the missionaries have adopted the Roman letters for reducing the native langupge to writing. The Eskimos are of a cheerful and kind- ly disposition. One who has lived among them tells the Scientific Am- erican that "any 110111151 white man who has been in contact with them respects and admires their many fine qualities. "The clean and honest Ibkimos of the Arctic Circle in honesty, truthfulness and friend- liness are equals of the civilized white nlan."

Possible of newrevitnuge-iln Nova Scotia to meet the cost of old age pensions have been reported upon by Commissioner C. Mabon, who was appointed by the Rhodes Govem-

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miles inland. They have lived for,

x‘ . Bylum IKBQMMD. CHEWING F001) MAY ranvsx-r Ubclm or STOMACH

You have been advised by your

doctor and dentist to chew your food well and you naturally conclude that it is the breaking up of the food in- to tiny parts that is important so that these very small pieces of food will be more easily digested when they reach the stomach. . Now this is true all right but them are two other jobs done by chewing that are equally as important. That is the moistening or softening of the food by the saliva or digestive juice of the mouth, and the mixing of this alkaline Juice with the food, changing starch into sugar.

It is this mixing of the alkaline saliva with the food, a chemical ac- tion, that is most important.

Real strong alkaline’ food going down into the stomach stimulates the acid stomach juice to action.

Dr. J. B. Hunter, Bristol, noting the rapidity with which wounds of the lining of the mouth stopped bleed- inx. and the firm clots of blood that occur. came to the conclusion that the saliva had the power to hlury theicoagulation or clotting or the blood.

Following this idea he tells us that there is present in the saliva a sub- stance that HASTENS the clotting of the blood. That the stomach juice with free hydrochloric acid DELAYS clotting.

That the delay is most marked in the presence of high acid juicfi such as occur, in stomach and intestinal ulcer.

His suggestion is that the stomach juice should be rendered less acid by the use of baking soda or other al- kaline substance.

Now what is the lesson for us here?

Your doctor will tell you that his patients with ulcer of stomach or in- testine are usually high strung ner- vous individuals who do everything in a hurry.

And one of these things they hur- ry ls eating their food. ,

You can readily see that by not chewing their food they let it go down into the" stomach unsoftened by the saliva and with an insuffic- ient amount of alkaline saliva on it.

Thisfood insufficiently broken up and softened can irritate the lining of the stomach, and breaking a small blood vessel on lining of stomac‘ can start bleeding that is very slow in clotting, because of its insufficient supply of alkaline saliva.

Chewing the food well should cer-(k

tuinly help to prevent ulcer of the stomach and intestine.

THE POET'S CORNER

nient for that purpose. He -- ‘ ’ that the following might be utilised, singly or in conjunction: (1) A levy on the municipalities; (2) a provin- cial poll tax; (3) a provincial income tax; (4) liquor control; (5) fees pay- able by applicants; (6) a further Fed- eral allowance.

I-low far are these new sources of revenue available in Prince Edward Island by the Saunders Government? We have no municipal councils to levy upon. The poll tax once levied by a LlberalGovernment has been repealed by the‘ Conservatives, and not restored by the Saunders Gov- ernment. Apparently it has been abandoned as too unpopular to be tried atin. . A provincial income tax we ave ._ already and nobody wants it incréased. A further Fed- eral allowance toward equalizing our excess of aged persons is desirable if we can get it and should be insisted upon. A tax on the applicants for pensio might tend to lessen their numbe , but would be unfair to those justly entitled to pensions. Liquor control could not be entertained as a source of revenue by the Saunders Government.‘

Hon. Mr. Robb‘: boasted reduction of 26 millions in taxation will hard- ly bear examination. What con- cerns the taxpayers is whether they will get other things and services any cheaper by the abolition of the "nuisance taxea"—|ucb things as in- surance premiums, railway and steamship tickeh, telegram and cables.‘ will our merchants reduce I their prices to purchasers because of the 1 per cent reduction in the sales tax? If not. when will there be any gain to the taxpayer?

It is noteworthy and significant tliattmnobbmadenarvferencew the United States rahina hlgharita tar- iff wall agaimt omaian farm and otherproduotmorhowna proposed to meetit. ’

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BOUNDARIES

"Why speak of boundaries? For you can lay

A hedge, and I can take a pile of stones ,

And build a. wall, and any bag o’ bones

Can plant a row of trees across our

_ way.

Yet of us all, who is there that can turn

The flowing, shapely curve of hill aside.

Or break the cup wherein the valleys wide

Drink deep of mists and to sky- spaces yearn ?

And lo, when colours glow shadows pass

Like wind across the land, what care have they

For staying hedge or wall? They mould their way

To sweeping hills; they bend like flowers in grass

Beneath their breath the daunting boundary‘ line,

Sunk in the rich fulfilment of de-

sigh."

and

-R.uth Harrison».

To obtain evidence against auto- mobile speed law violators an Ohio policeman has invented a nwwr cycle speedometer which records speeds made in pursuits and pn- eerves the figures for later use.

And the alleged reduction of the national debt is subject a to a very

large discount on account of tiwbig '

sums for which the Dominion-has become liable u indcnor or guaran- tor for Canadian National Railway bonds. The O. N. it. owca the clov- ernment i?! ‘that way much more than the Ooyernmontlhaa reduced the débt. wm tbaibcminloa owu y own taken to- gether make up tile-real national debt fw which the Government and

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’ iVew Era-New’ Standards

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Eb the businesycoditioua of to- day refleqt merely a periodic prosper- ity or is the world adjusting itself to a new era, which already has dawn- ed?

A new era would mean that stan- dards of value generally had ad- vanced to a higher level, at which they would ‘ reasonably sin.- bllised. at least, thc farthest dcfiuns from this level would be considerably above the highest advances of the era which preceded it. ;

auch_ changes lh standards com- moniy have followed the introduction of epoch-making inventions, as the cotton gin and thestealn engine; the opening of rich gold fields ,as in Cali- fornia. South Africa and the Klon- dike; the reclamation by productive settlers of vast areas of wilderness lands. as in the Uniwd States, Aus- tralia and Canada. The effect of any widespread increase in the perman- ent poduction of wealth is to raise standards of living-that is, to dis- tribute more generally the fruits of industry. The luxuries of the former age become necessities for the people of the later period. The increase of buying power creates more demands for manufactured products and greater‘ diversity of occupation. These conditions, in tum, tend to cx- pand still further the buying power. Thus civilization builds itself up, not by an! inflation of suface bubbles, but by steadily enlarging and straightening the. foundations on which it rests. '

NEW TRANSPORTATION METHODS

The features of present times which suggest most oonspicously the en- trance of the world ihto a new era are the mvelopment of new methods of transportation and communication. The motor vehicle, the aeroplane and the radio are the mechanical wonders to which these results may be at- tributed. It is hardly too much to say that they have effected a. revolution in methods, at least, as great-as was accomplished by the railroad and the telegraph between 1850 and 1860. Whether actual economic effects will be equally pronounced may be open to debate, but it can be affrimed with a feeling of certainey that the better knowledge of economic laws to-day should enable the world to realiza much plompter and more complete benefits form these improvements in the normal facilitiu for living than were gained in the more experimental day of the nineteenth century.

, Furthermore, the development of these new means of transportation and communication has hardly more than begun. Extraordinary as prog-4 rem has been since the close of the World War, it has been achieved un- dcr a handicap of poverty what that conflict left in the wake. Consequent- lythis progress may be said to have been only sufficient as yet to open a vision of the possibilities that lie in a normal future.

All POWER THE KEY?

Most engineering minds recognise that the key to the industrial expan- sion which the adequate developm of new methods will require must be power generation, and the projects now in ' tance or in contemplation might be considered sufficient to coll- stitute a new era in themselves. Probably power enthusiasts would saytbat their speciality is the cre- ator of the new era and that auto- mobiles, ariplanes and radio are only in adjuncts. '

One factor, however, which is most easily overlooked by businem minds, but which may be the most influen- tial of all, is the political situati -- By this is meant, not the stuggles of Parties for the control of govern- ments, but the general attitude of mind toward the purposes and func- tions of government.

Up to 1914 the entire organization of the world rested on the conception that the fundamental purpose of gov- ernment was war. In the lmllish- speaking countries, this has been n- duced to a motive of defence only, but the used for defence, as events proved. was great. The termination

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The psychological effect of this in promoting business prone-w W" may be tremendous, even thoilsb it is felt, rather than expressed. 5o far as confidence can be entertained that the wealth developed by industry will not be subject to destruction either by international war or by domestic revolution, plans may be extended for into the future, and the business ex- pansion which raises living stan- dards may disregard political b01111- daries and natural obstacles alike.

Here is perhaps the deepest reason why a. new era may have been born out of the very war which strove so mightily to throw civilization back into the Middle Ages.

M; g1] events. these considerations are worth entertaining when the question arises whether values . as rep. ted in present markets are high or are merely an admstrnent to a new and permanently higher level.

A The Public Forum

l . | This column la open for the ,| discussion by correspondents I of questions of interest. This _ Charlottetown Guardian doea not necessarily endorse the opinions of espondentl.

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