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rears before the holiday adjourn- ment. The arrears are the uncom- pleted business left at the time of the sudden dissolution last dum- rner. An adjournment of one month

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Associate Editor-D. l. Corrie.

iWEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1926

at least has -been spoken of aspro- babie, and with a new Government and a new Parliament and manyim-

.,, A FIV E-DAY WEEK. a

lllflti’ FORD has eno.ugh money

to‘ play with and try experi- ments. His. latest invention is a five-day week. Heretofore his eni- ployees worked five and a holidays. He now proposes to reduce the working hours to forty a week lu- stead cf forty-four. He has some thousands of employees and the loss of four hours each will make an apparent aggregate loss per week of many thousands of dollars.

port_ant and vital questions to he donside ti: it seems unlikely that the seas‘ ‘ may be resumed earlier than the beginning of February, iii so early. The situation is not un-‘ like that of the first Parliament which met on November ti, 1807.

to secure 5.000 bushels of wheat for seeding. As railways had not then reached the Canadisu West. the most expeditious metiwli 0! travel was to the end of rail at

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‘ Bu Ionic: W. Bcrion,M.D- $LEEPYNG SI6KNES8,

Less than ten years ago sleeping sickness was practically unknown. Today pyaryf part oi‘ the world re- ports cases, nearly one thousand in Northuiinerica alone.

Just/what causes it. where it gets its start, frat ‘present unknown. Three or four years u-go it was thought that it‘ was in some ‘way related to influenza, but lt attacks

‘the hands of readers who have

Béedlns Grain-—- East and West

HOW GERMINATION MAY IE HELPED 0R DEL-AVID.

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Possibly some o! the information on farming which we supply t0 Guardian readers from the Domin- ion Blue Books may have reached

already had reports sent to them. from the Experimental farms and vice versa.

In this article it is thought ad- visable to take the matter of seed- ing grains in the diflerent sections or provinces into careful considera- tion, as the date of germination is n. serious subject 1o the agr‘ “ur- alist-tco serious to be misunder-

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"it will he seen that the ‘Domin- ion revenue from customs and ex- cise has expanded in much greater ratio than the moist. payments to the provin ;"" '1 ' and "we find ourselves ln agree out with the contention of the % i- time Provinces that they have n and yrs being debit with, differently from the Western Provinces, and wo think 11181.51! entitled to have their vallowapce reconsidered.

These are two of the conclusions reached hy tbs _si _e[s 1p- poiated by the M v e_,- ng gov- ernment no enquire into and sot forth the rights of ‘the Maritime Trovlnces, iln short the Commis- sionere have decided that the "Mari... time Provinces have nptao far rs-

i-‘ishet-‘s Landing on the Red River in Minnesota, and thence by river steamer to Winnipeg. The seeds- man arrived in Winnipeg only a

8111 11111300911111" 23- 11-1111 111911 ‘"1’ just one or two liitiiviiluals here journed till March, 1868. ‘and there, whereas influenza lays thousands low at one time.

But in those old days there were‘ D13 C11"- 111111101- 01 “'1"111l1°B- has collected much information on

stood. or not understood at all. qglvg “mo, 1n u

The seed tests often take quitea msgtfog m? “Imam length oi time to set to the people That they ghould be [justly treat- ss the hooks have to ha printed at ed i-g’ a, 8|“ qua‘ oou of success Ottawa by the King's Printer and 0n the pa" of the Govorumou, uuu then sent out to the country, which

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only four Provinces in the Domin- ion, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick. Quebec and Ontario. There were‘ then only 181 members of the House of Commons and those who went home to spend their Christ-

day or two before the sailing of the last steamer of the season. lu the brief time available he was able i0 secure only 857 bushels. This was sacked and shipped by steamer to

encephalitis letharglcu, an it is call- ed. He tells us that cases develop gradually with ‘a dull headache. weakness. and drowsiness. although some are stricken down suddenly with severe headaches, vomiting, fever, and deliriu-m, with pains in the face, neck, or other parts, and

But there is n proviso in the new arrangement. lt is to come into effect only when it can be shown that as much wonk can be done in the forty hours was formerly done in the forty-four. Whether this proof can be established mains to he seen.

Fisher's Landing, thence by rail to Toronto. At the recent celebration in Winnipeg it was pointed out that the grain movement inaugurated by this tiny consignment of 857 bushels in 1876 had grown to total 1'9‘ shipments of _ nearly 350,000,000 011° o1 M“ bushels in the crop year 1925-26. for allowing his _____."______

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Ford's reasons employees those leisure is that with so much tlme1

on their hands they will buy more,‘ R051 PARLMMTJXT 1111-11001”! not necessarily more automobiles; a T011011 111111 1110 C°11Fe1'."311"“ but mOre goods generally. thus aid-'0l1l1<15i11011 P10110008 511181118 11111-1111 {pg pr0d“r-u0'n_ This, u; m, aid tqlovei- tfic Imperial Conference rc- prqupertqq may we“ 1,9 question. solutions, says the Ottawa Journal. cil. If. because of more leisure. 11111 “"1111! ‘V111 11 118111? TWO 1111011 Ijeopte buy tum-Q just .0 pm limo, authentic students or imperial af-

mas holidays did not need in any case to go west farther than the Great ‘Lakes, and a“ members east and west could reach their homes

frequently with double vision. This drowsine s gradually gives place to ilileililtil sis. the luatient he- ing pract ca y as eep a- tho time, in one or two days. Now, although W113" nlwgfid‘ W111d'i111t511‘"01‘ ‘"1111- .. _ egen y. mnie aeysns facilities for travel have been mm deep smmlmz This ma” ‘or greatly improved. many W951i?" days, sometimes for weeks or members going home from Ottawa months. have a mu, m. u“, days jouruey There are twitching movements "emre them or jerkiiigs which occur in certain ' groups of muscles. Sometimes the “he comm“ ‘mourn skin and hair ‘are unusually sensi- i ' tive. tit is est mated that three out the of tour that are attacked recover. but a considerable percentage have symptoms remaining that resemble

. {The length o merit is of special Interest to Maritime members and people. Now that they have learned of (hi: 8pm“ (‘horn ailments‘

favorable recommendations of the Lyufomuuumw mu ouuuuuvo or. Duncan report, covet-lug larger Sllil- ganlsni has never been discovered. sldles, -l'€(i\i(‘€li freight rates, cok- “m1 11151 110w 1t 1'1 1551111111119‘: (“:13 :2? time member naturally desires to u hum u, mko ureoauflouu m ma. hs-ve the Government take early vent the spreading.

action to bring the matter before HMVP-VPY- 1119 1191111119111 19 0" a

la a cause of delay. in many cases the result is that a year or so eu- sues before they reach their des- tination and are quite belated lu the eyes of busy people. By get- ting into the newspaper press they push along faster and improves-cry much in value.

The ‘Report on Seeding Grain to which we are now giving attention is published iby direction 0f the Minister of Agriculture at Ottawa. and as it is devoted to the time of seeding is valuable even if delayed for years. "in Ottawa." it states, "to iletermineihe value of early. medium and late seedings of grain extensive expenditures were start- ed ln 1890." The first seeding was made as soon as the land was ready to sow and ilive successive seedinga were made at one-week intervals.

At Ottawa the advantage of seed- ing wheat, outs and barley in the Spring was found to he very out- standing. ‘The best resitltslu every case were secured at the second seeding that, is seven days after the lniid yes ready to sow. After

the country as a whole. it has been well said t-hht "justice is the basis of s nattlolfii greatness." So long as it is believed and felt that justice is not dime to the ‘Maritime Provlinces. there iwill be dissatis-

the whole country; _-for ‘when one

faction. dkicontent and tiiouhie in .

insurance Policies - DeedsWills _ and othergvaluahlcs _

memlbe suffers, ‘the- ‘whole body suffers. The new rPorliarne-nt of CJMiii-da -will, therefore, do the right thing if lit should. as soon as pos- slhle take into consideration and carry out to the fullest. extent that is possible the recommendations of the commissioners‘ to the end that justice may be‘ done.

it is. of course. to be understood that the Pnovinces- neither those of the West or Ease-can make lav- 11511 expenditures and constrain the Federal Government to supply all

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ance their , ' -’ -' there in required at the present time in respect to the expenditures of the Provincial Government, and the Government of Canadapaliike, the greatest '])0'A‘Siil16 economy and care if Canada is to maintain the na- tional independence of which game

Mr. Justice Arsenault

The Saint John Telegraph-Jour-

nal says:- St. Peter's Auditorium was filled

this date all the seedings, except in the case of peas, were slightly tit-creased in yield. Perhaps with iiliiiiy

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dormers and especially ' in 94.000.000.000. and ‘with the absol- ili-ltis coiltalliing wet pot-holes, orflile recuiremeiite essential to the

Sunday night to hear a scholarly lecture by Justice A. E. Arsenault. of the Supreme Court of Prince Edward iisiand, on the ‘Expulsion of the Acadians." The chairman of

0i’ her lioliticinns now boast. Willi a public debt approximating m

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This column is c on discussion Ivy n l" n" questions o!

Charlottetown Guardian do" not necessarily endorse tho w. inlonn oi’ correspondents.

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Parliament, have the report adopt-

fairly well established basis, which

many u-m coufluue ma, tuoyu-o,,l,1 fall's us General Smuts and tax-Pre- ‘mier ‘Hughes of Australia ——- men Wm go, uufwho ought to tkuow what they are

be better off working.

lvhether .\ir. Ford much work in his forty-hour vvecklliludnfl 1111°“i-—11a"° 1"“ declared Ul‘ whether the extra leisure will 110111131 111° 199°" °1 111° coin-emnc“ itii aid to tlic production 0i FOYGS ‘K111131119 1101111113 "ew- 11"" m” Emfi of 0mm- commodmom does um oou_'1iii'e is precisely where it was. That’ yo, me torlgv,houla week being so——uiid it was pretty obvi- tlic lyeginnlug to even hour week may be “.0111, cunslderldlibillfli students of Empire matters lug. ‘if one can accomplish as “m” much m the shone, o5 m we long, anybody in Canada becoming much er week it means either that he did excued 01"" 1L

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as compared with the forty-four ""5 "m"

—tliere ‘seems reason for

demands absolute rest lu bed, even ed and put the new arrangement in m mud “sou

workink- The headache. tlie twitching, and the drowsiness are treated by the physician by the usual metli ds.

'l‘hls new ailment is bafflng at The bright" "rowed! opened by present, but ‘fortunately it does not

‘he c°mmi"1°"" '°p°" mweaws appear in epidemic form, and our 1116 11111101101100 01181‘ i111)‘ 110111)’ 01' research tneu areiikely to discover postponement such no a long nd- its causation and thus its preven- joumuueut would mvolve however tion before very long. Thu fact the.

_ it has lbcen occurring iu all putt:- necessary such action itiay be. of the ,wm.ld gives research mo], What the (fommission ilflfl in mind everywtm-e an opportunity to study was "immediate" relief. not some» it. '

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tiring far in the future. But as it is o I looawo»

we must visit with such patience DAILY LESSONS

as we can C0lll1fllii1ld.

water courses, their ‘first seeding growth and further development of would more nearly correspond with the country, there should be no second seeding at the ‘Experimental 111158 nubile expenditures, by qhc Farms. inasmuch as the land and Provinces or byiCansda on a whole, the seed were itniform the (le-‘ihfii 81B 110E 1118111181116 0111 the crease in yield was duc solely to groiurrds of T811150]! and uecE-i-islty. tlic late seeding. Justice should however be main. twp), 3pm,; when we lggg inllflillfli. The ‘Commissioners-after yield by delaying seeding one week}! careful examination» and mil coll- heyoiid the peifitd which these ex-‘sldcrtitlon declare that the existing perlmeuts have shown to be t-he 0011111110118 should now be reviewed. most favorable has entailed a loss ‘V1111 Byillllfliiletic consideration and of over 30\pei' cenL; by tliilllylllglilllllersllldiiiillg. s0 that in approach- two wee-ks fully 40 per cent; hylilg the future a better balance of delaying three weeks 50 per l‘9ll(..131'i‘1l0f‘1i1i prosperity can be us. and by delaying 4 weeks fully 1111111811 111111 I116 011E101" 11096 of Con- loss of over 58 per. cent. 1¢i101l1i1011,— 111111)’. lliflllfilllty a-nd With barley the loss’, in yield contentment for, all the provinces, by delaying seeding one week after,“ ivell as for the whole of Canada

the evening was L. M. Owens, who in a few short words expressed the pleasure of the gathering at the opportunity of hearing so learned a speaker and one so gifted in the subject about to be discussed. The lecture was held under the attsplc- es of the North End sub-division of the C. W. L.

Justice Arseiiaulttraced the his- tory of the Acadlan settlers from the founding o-f Port Royal iiutilthc treaty of Utrecht lit 1713 and from the treaty oi‘ Utrecht uutll the ex-

ViQARNNINIG TO SU-BGCRIBERS- . h

iDear Sin-A few weeks ago, tw [3 1101111: men were in this city, sol ‘1--_ itinz subscriptions. for magazin *1 I have been informed by one fir that the men in question had no: authority whatever to do so; the are tiukuown to the firm, and diilg not turn in to the latter the moneys = thus collected by them. '

The Imagazine is in no way res- ponsible for these men; but ha; re- ported the matter to the vigilance committee of the Publishers As-

pulsion in 1755. He descrlliZ-d them as being of n loyal nature, peace- a-ble in character and agricultural- ly inclined.

sociation; and an effort is being mode to apprehend them. Al- ready another pair of fraudulent operators,

‘f ‘ lug for inmslnsrs The total number at the time of have been "ruu down, mm u," "m v the expulsion, about 2.500, was divuuiven (he Boom-out oouuuy um gu. ‘

the most favorable time hna comp-wan 1m made capable of re-aliza-u

can _ sloned a loss oi‘ '24 118!‘ cent... a 1-011-

not do his best lnthe latter or that The 01’1’°“1'-1°"' m’ comfe’ IN ENGLISH

in protesting against the re-clsc-t The govormneut mu by M“ l‘

he is becoming l-uore omoiom, u point this out. can show that mucli natural consequence of honest lab-ad‘) 15 11°11"; mad” o'er 1101111115 lot u! me aim o,- Mn Ford is ,,_,_that all that really happened is that ooouro neuter efficiency and morojthe udroit Lord Balfour, anxious to ego" by shortening the hours ougivc Mr. Hertzog something totake

By W. L. Gordon

delay oi‘. two weeks n loss of more

0' ided into three settlements at Chit?

tarlo courts could impose in the

tion of Speaker iLemieux, hlinGuth- ‘rie, the Conservative ‘lions/z leader. iseems to have fallen into error in stating that since Confederation an ‘English and then a French Spcuikcr

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labor some good may result. Efficiency is the greatest factor in any classes of work and is perhaps the rarest. Few men in any call- ing are more than flftylpv-r cent. efficient and the great majorityare very much below that percentage. But, we submit, the shortening of- working hours will not make for‘ efficiency. Thomas Edison, one of.‘ the world's greatest lnventorsu thanked God that the eight-hourl do)’ had not been introduced until‘ after he had learned his trade. He and his young contemporaries work-g ed all day. from daylight tu dark. even after dark to flnlsh njoini The workman, whether n mantis]:

‘laborer or a professional. who lei

looking for easy hours and more leisure is not likely to he classed among the efficients.

A reasonable amount cf leisure ‘is necessary bot-h for the physical and mental health and, with allthe favor saving machinery of today men are only able to do more work, notto find more leisure. Work, IIBHLWOFR, is a necessity of life. und we can shirk it only to our cost. Let its strive for greater efficiency. not more leisure.

SIQNIFICANT ANNIVERSARY

‘Tun RAPID development oi worn‘

eln Canada was significantly dfeminstrated at a jubilee celebra- tiontilven a few weeks ago by the iionra of Trade of Winnipeg i-l first city, to mark the fiftieth anni- jfersary of the first shipment of Mheat from the Canadian West. Wheat had been successfully grown in the died River ivalley from 1812 (‘onward but before um only for home consumption. ‘in the latter ursir t-hsro -was a serious failure of its spring wheat crop in Ontario, which i} was hit was due to the

home with him, got some lngenicll-‘i had always been chosen alternate- British writer to pen a few altilfiihly- There have been scverul s» paragraphs about the Bums], Emnceptlons to this general rule. lion. a 1» would ‘be to clothe with importance succeeded m, Ho‘; w_ Angmh an episode that is more interesting elected m 131M Auolu “on peter than consequential, and to merely lWhite. elected in April, 1891, was no", round out the speeches that succeeded by Sir James D. lid-gar. ML Kmg must be already “ramp-elected in 1896, and he in turn was mg for sticceeded by Hon. Thomas Baln. elected in 1899. Here were three

wumry" Anglo-Saxon Speakers in succes- *—“‘<'°*""'_* sion, with no French-Canadian in-

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certain sections in the

HE Christian Science Monitorof! u |u udmmud by u" "m" t)", recent date has the following Hon. Rodol h Lemlcux has been a uigmucam paragraph, ‘very socep hie Speaker of th- The heretofore fiumble mpudiul-lbuse’ of Commons. He has held

- ~ mm“ 11°" ‘be “dmumd t“ ‘he and during a ‘very trying period in circle of agricultural arlstooratssoul. parliamentary muwmu He mu The eastern markets are at ore-been. thirty ears member of the sent receiving baking potntoeai11°u9e 01 C 1110115 011d 1111B 110111 from this State, each as large t.""““Y lmpmmm “mm pmmums‘

But in a country where two races a man's 1110111815’ packed h‘ “my and languages are prominent such

boxes, instead of barrels or jutelquestiom m, ma, mused m, Mn sacks. These retail at ten centsiGuthrie must needs be handled very auto“, uuu upward, and ouch. ueuldiscreeily. Canada is not in a po- amte when scrubbed clean m- sltlon to adopt the English system

1 t kl hi its native dirt. is carefully wrapdgosnalonng tCZGm5SLlSSZTy ppgrfmhhne- ped in tissue ‘paper! The ldahoeut _

potato, thus arrayed. commands a price as high as the Washing-

in Great Britain the women have m“ or Oregon apple." the voting franchise only after reaching the age of thirty years.

This shows what careful prepnr-And even when they reach that "110" 101‘ 111° 1115111101 W111 11°- 51'11"‘ age the unmarried ones are shy

potato w, yo,“ u,‘ u mow; ,q_wouoi . And now the ‘voteless wo- nm," anti this kind of potato is m?“ “"‘°'°‘b°‘“'°°“ '1 “"1 3°”

are raising a ructlon about being taboo in all civilized markets. Yetodenmd equumy o! privilege Wm,

1’°°““5° they “e W1 “P 1" 11'5"” their brothers. They have planned paper and sold for ten cents apiece, a great parade in London on lDec. me be" market, Wm mum-b memos in protest against tho injustice greedily and buy the lot. they "e aufletlng‘

What would the market not pay; A prgylgul attompt to parade for a real, mealy lPrince tEdwsrll was stopped by the police on the island Green Mountain or iirish pretext that their rosters were Como". "emu" two mm a umui-larger by a few inches than the of-

ficial regulations permit. Police in-

Ounce.“ ‘rapped In “t.” mperterferance has fired the militant

d In Cantu", “and m a m" b“? spirit of the voteless faminines and

mo» tho old lied Fife variety iii fllflgyflfll had lost its vigor. ‘rhettsmsi-otvaeaiv-son emu _ in

P°°91° h‘ “m” d° M‘ ‘my "W" the war is on. One of their slog- 11011110" 11! 1119 811011 01' filf-iflfllitans refers to the women who re- they buy them from day to day in cenily swam across the Channel. infill quantities and they want -W°m°“ 1n "m" ""11""! a" 7'1" l m" n“ _ "hon" or ileged to vote at 21 and why shall

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