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NE_W LAMPS FOR‘ OLD Our local oontelllvfllffl PM!

ticlpatlon of s. sweeping Liberal ry in Alberta. which would b! helpful to m. Mackenzie Kins" not materialized. Perhaps the ls of Alberta were not as

t at promise-making as they ‘vedrecentlytobeinthisprov- ce. Perhaps the achievements of 3.1mm gorcmnlenfs in British ahlumhia, Saskatchewan. and Cen- ‘Q-al and Eastern Canada were not {pf the kind calculated to inspire fioniidencc in any pre-eiection as- flglmances. Perhaps the Alberta el- Qpctors didn't want i0 be “helpful" Mr. King. At any rate. they flyoted in a brand-new party with a Qirograuune which eclipses anythin! rjthat the most imaginative Liberal Qrarnpaigner has been able to con- Qoct. “Balancing the budget" is jphlldfis play compared with the feat gyrhich Mr. William Aberhart, lead- ior of the. victorious Alberta= Social Ziiredlt League, promises to accom- ylish. Having no past political rec- ord. Mr. Aberhart was unassailable " that point. l-le was frank en- Tiugh to admit in his campaign that Lit would he at least eighteen inonths before a. Social Credit Gov- Qfnment, if elected. would be in s. (position to pay its promised initial ‘dividend oi $25.00 a month toevery bona tide citizen of the Province. This sum. he also explained, would not be paid in cash, but in credit. A “State Credit House" would be created. Under the plan. each cit- izen would be given a dividend- ' book and a book of blank, non- negotiable certificates. Tile book would be presented to the Credit House each month and a credit entry of $25.00 made. For children, from 16 to 80. payments would rangeirom $5 to 820 a month, sc- cordlrlg to age. A wife would rs- ceive $25.00 as well as her husband. A11 this would be financed by rc- duc‘ existing price spreads in production, pl ing and “et- ing of goods. No new money would be issued, and no ‘_,’_ “'- scheme of taxation" was contemplated.

It reads Ike a story out o: the Arabian Nights. It has been esti- mated that it would take 0lao,ooo,- 000 annually to pay the basic divi- dend at the rate of $5.00 a month

to each ciiincn. Aladdin with his Wonderful Lamp could scarcely be

expected to do more.

‘The defeated administration, the ‘Alberta. United Farmers‘ Partyhad doubtless a sorry financial record. and was open to attack on many grounds. But it was precisely on such fantastic promises of achiev- ing s co-cperotive economic Utopia that the United Tanners first es- tablished themselves in the West. This fact, apparently, was forgotten by the electors in exchanging still Jlewer lamps for old, in the hope and expectation that prosperity could be pulled, like a rabbit, out of MT. Aberhsrfs hat.

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HERITED TRIBUTES

I Prince Edward Island is deeply indebted to one of its native sons. Professor D. C. Harvey, of the Hil- toric Sites and Monuments Board of Canada, for the attention given in recent years to commemo sting, in enduring form, matters c! na- tional interest concerning the his- tory of this province. The bronle tablets on the pillars of the Pro- vincial Building, eommemo ail... the birth of Confederation and the laying of the first marine cable on this continent. as well as the Cartier Cairn unveiled last summer, and thsfstill more recent cairn erected tdjCaptain Holland, are in Sarge sflrasure due tn Professor Harvey's pal arid initiative. As an histolhn. the, he has performed m invaluable ' in his brilliant History of c Acadisn Regime infrincenld- , Island. and in contributing ‘fishy shorter articles dealing with ‘re-Confederation days. “,;i‘lle painstaking research which wfit mm the preparation of his grfdfiss delivered "etude! is an

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whtch Professor Harvey has devoted his talent. As Archivist for urn ills rs- ts nat-

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EDITORIAL NOTES

Tomorrow is practically the last of vacation Sundays.

The rain was not before time-to say the least oi it.

The Exhibition i_s all over for another year-and mighty well over too.

The clean sweep of United Farm- ers in Alberta is further proof that we are living in a time of unreason and opportunislrr.

"There will be nine Liberal Pro- vincial Governments after the 29nd" we were told. Well, there ain't.

Potatoes have suffered from the lack of rain but judging by the samples in competition at the libr-

hibltion, the early varieties have fared‘ well.

'I'he,export of eggs in July was 21.007 dosen as against 15,022 last year. This export has doubled in the last four months, being 50,914 dosen last year and 105,159 this year.

‘I'll-e wet spell should give Hon. Mr. Macfrltyre his opportunity to get on the roads. Due to the lengthened period of intense- drought, some roads have got badly out of condition. and require im- mediate attention.

Nova Scotials Minister of Agri- culture, the Hon. J. A. Macdonald, was an interested spectator at our Exhibition, and very appreciative of the excellent management and magnificent displays.

meme omcials are said to be surprised that the British govern- ment should be prepared to go any length to see that the League lives up to its covenant. But, of course, officials are proverbially laissez- faire.

Mr. Guy Henson, secretary to Nova Booties Premier during the past two years. has been appointed secretary of the Nova. Scotia De- partment of Education. Mr. Hen- son is well-known here, having pre- viously held the position of assist- ant to Mr. R..W.E. Burnaby, Mur- itime Trade Commissioner at Tor- onto.

are of the prime reasons for Britain's anxiety to prevent a clash between Italy and Ethiopia, is that given by General Botha. of South Africa. It might set the match to a racial ‘olocaust. As Britain has always looked upon herself as the foster-mother and protector of col- ored rsces-"the white lhs-rfs bur- den" in Kiplingb words-—with such dire and inevitable consequences obvious to all, she cannot stand idly by and allow a white nation deliberately to make war on a black nation merely out oi a spirit of revenge and envy.

Charlottetown is mt becoming the centre of pilgrimmage from all parts of Canada and the United States on the part cf curious poli- tical eoonomists and joumaiists an- xious to discover the nature and quality of an electorate which vol- untarily submits to government with- out opposition. Hon. Thane Camp- bell may be equal to the occasion, however. pointing comprehensively tn his 39 brethren. and quotin/l scripture about the worst enemies being those oil coca own household. And under a parliamentary dictat- orrbio they cannot very well be’ P-ahot or imprisoned.

The Moscow oorresponfint oi the Christian Science Monitor gives a different picture c! Russia from

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THE. CHARLOTTETOWN GUARDIAN -

Notes By. The Way

Canada's offer of a new bond is- sue in this country comes as an- other indication of returning confi- dence and increased activity in the investment markets. The new bonds. offered at 9'1 3-4 and ac- crued interest, bear the low rate of 2 1-2 percent per annum—a figure in itself a sign both of the easy credit conditions now prevailing and o: the belief of the Ottawa Gov- ernment that it is in a. pos.tlon' to ask for favorable consideration of its securities. The Canadian bud- get» for-the fiscal year ended March 31 showed a surplus of ordinary revenues over ordinary expenditur- es. Csnadian business has. been improving, and industrial produc- tion is now at approximately the highest level in five years. Cana-

And . Commerce

Trade

(By Drool-fer) .

"Balance of trade" is s. term cf- ten used in party discussion, yet many fail to understand its im- port. The Liberal tells you (when he is not in office) that, unless ex- ports exceed, or at least equal im- ports, we are on the high road to ruin. This is true, only in respect rto the character of the goods af- fected, but blindly the Mackenzie King aggregation now lay it down as a rule absolute. The trouble is, it hits back. -

In the nine years ending 1931. under King government, our ad- verse balance of trade with the United States amounted to the en- ormous sum of THREE BILLION DOLLARS. Think this over. In ille short time of only nine years,

dian exports have been gaining, and the balance of trade with other, nations is favorable-New Yorkl Times.

A peculiar incident took place 011i John Findlays farm. Meaford. While he was busily engaged coil- ing up hay, with a slight, breeze blowing, he decided to go into the house for a drink of water“ Just as he was returning to the field he noticed one of the big coils lift off the ground and go straight up, he judged, about 40 feet. He was greatly surprised to sce it spread While up that distance and sud- denly go through the air to light on apple trees in the next farm owned by Mrs. W. J. Johnston. Findlay as first thought lle was seeing things and could not under- stand what took the hrly into the air so suddenly-Wingham Ad- vance-Times.

One becomes aware that unlike, the old days, Hong Kong is not at all sure of itself. At the moment the Colony, notwithstanding "out- side appearances,’ is in the dumps, a mood resulting from the fact that after a surprisingly long period of resistance the Colony, like the rest oi the world, has fallen victim to the economic depression. As long as China managed to keep out of it, Hong Kong too was able to hold its own, but now that China is in it, l-Iong Kong necessarily follows. The discouraging feature about it all is that the Colony has no chance of emerging from the slump until China has done so, but this is all dependent, amongst other things.on the future of silver, the price of which is being artificially raised above that of _ the goods which China sells. However, if Chirlivs capacity to sell is restored, the fut- ure outlook for Hong Kong would be relatively brighten-Hung Kong Press.

Arid now we have Miss Dorothy Frocks. attorney and counsellor-at- law, of New York, concluding a fifteen thousand mile journey from Los Angeles to Alaska and across Canada, outlining a. plan to end the depression in thirty days. Her plan in brief is as follows: All real es- tate should be graded into zones from $10,000 up, and upon this val- uation banks should be empowered by law to lend up to one tenth the value in cash, such money to be used in improvement of the prop- erty. This, Miss Frocks contends. would bring a huge amount of money into circulation and by so doing would encourage spending and so end one of the vital causes of the depression. Miss Frocks‘ scheme seems to be almost asprac- ticable as some of the fantastic proposals advanced by Canadian radical political parties-Ex. ‘

To the many Royal relics in the London Museum, most of which have been the gifts or loans of the King and Queen, a notable addi- tion has now been made. The

organizations, radio stations, thea- tres and scientific institutions. The party's central organs assume direct supervision of the work of every teacher, writer, artist, architect, author and natural scientist." Of course, as the new generation of Russians know nothing of freedom having been born and reared as Soviets, it is believable they wouid be "apparently hapill" in their crabbed, cabimd and confined tute- lage.

A writer recently observed: “The Lfague of Nations as it wa". con- ceived in 1919, was the outcome cf a very general change oi heart among the people of Europe. It denoted the desire'for a new sys- | iem of international relations. It‘

the peoples. They mo must supply the engineers in use the machnery for good or bad purposes. If any blame for the p:'e'eflt stat" of Eur- ope should be given. that blame must be put where it belongs- nsmely, on the separate gcvern- ments, and not on the league. Af- ter surveying the work done st Geneva at close quarters, I. am bound thithfully to assert that many cf the foreign minjstcls and others who come together in the Swiss city. are just as nationally- minded. or individualistic, by the Lake umsn as they are at home. Their policies are national or individualistic policies. Tbey en- deavor io-line up their colleague! in accordance with their own views and sympathies. Something good undoubtedly eomel cut- of these meetings. despite this general, st- titude, for, with so many nations lillsent, it is obviously sensory to modify policies and to Ind a our‘

Canada bought $3,000,000000 more from the United States than they bought from us.

One of the effects will be remem- bered. We had to pay for these ex- cess imports in cash. And we had to pay in United States currency, and because of this we had to pay as high as $1.18 for American dol- lars to pay it with.

Under Mackenzie King the sale of natural products to the United States, that is mostly farm prod- ucts, DROPPED FROM $35,000,000 DOWN TO 514000.000. This is what Liberals call enlarging markets, with the gall to call it prosperity.

These vast imports canle in by the open door oi Liberalism, while the Fordney-McCumber-and Haw- ley-Smoot tarifis in the United States were busily shutting out out produce from their markets, and while Mr. King was sitting back 1n his cushionedchair in abject fear crying,-Hush! Hush! don't strike back lest they make it higher.

That was not Premier Bennett's timid way of dealing with it. He adopted the more businesslike rne- thod and closed the too open door against United States dumpings. The result was that Canadian mar- kets were reserved for our ownfarrn products. prices of butter, cheese, eggs. bacon, hams, poultry and veg- "etables advanced in Canada's in- valuable home markets. The Lib- eral balance of trade against us was wiped out, ‘our dollar climbed up. not only to n81". but for a time selling at a premium, and the Uni- ted Staies, adamant against recip- rocity with the King Liberals and. their open door, are now anxious to trade with us on equitable terms. and a. favorable reciprocity treaty is under preparation.

Balance of trade may be a curse yet it may also be practical busi- ness. If a farmer incurs debt for eggs. meats, eats of any kind which hc can produce on his land, the adverse balance of trade is not to his advantage. If he creates that outside debt to buy better brood stock to produce more eggs, bacon, or produce, then it is practical bus- iness. If to buy fertilizer or farm implements to increase production. it is also sensible liability.

It was for this reason that Hon. Mr. Bennett closed the Mackenzie King/s “open door,“ cancelled the lc duty on New Zealand butter, the semi-free-trade in pork and animal products, substituting higher tar- lffs on farm products, and wiped out the Liberals adverse balance of trade, to benefit agriculture in Can-

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Queen has lent a cradle which was used for three generations of the Royal family. Made for Queen Victoria's eldest daughter in 1840 and used for all her other children, it was given first to Queen Alex- andra, as Princess of Wales, for her children, and subsequently to the Queen, when Duchess of York in i894, and used for all her family. This cradle, or swing-cot, stands seven feet high and is of mahogany ornamented with gilt and with in- set panels of embroidered satin.

Mattress. pillow, and brzcaded hangings complete it. -— London Times.

Mayor La Guardia and Police Commissioner Valentine have reas- on to be pleascd with the results of the campaign for fewer auto- mobile accidcntsj New York is the safest of our large cities. So for this year the automobile deaths are eight pzrcent under lust year, no doubt with more cars on the streets, Even then by the end of the year the present death rate of 11.5 for 100,000 oi the p0plllail0n will have‘ taken more than 800 live . The in- jured will be more than 30000. The city is much safer than the cpen country. For the nation at large the death rate from automobiles is nearly twice the New York rate. It has bren as high as 25 deaths per 100.000 peop'e. lat so long ago scarlet fever, diphtheria and typh-

20k} were words of dread. But ilicl form" it was commended by the 5001911941 the mwhlflffy- bit "l9 motion-wide automobile morialityis - opposition. in masse. but with vig- motive-power must be supplied by , five times as high as for typhoid crous protests that he “should have ‘and diphtheria and l0 times as

high as for scarlet fever. - New York Times.

Gareth Jones, correspondent in China for the Manchester Guar- dian, killed by bandits who had kidnapped him. was a martyr to duty. He was exploring for his great newspaper a part of Asia which is a nest of ihtnnational in-

years hlsbeen so marked that it beoameneosssarytolsurlchanat- ionalerllsadsagainstitflriscam-

statistics which have now be- raee sections of the which crime was for- as foreign. The Flflillllg gaining con-

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| ’ BACK-ACRE on Lulumao

I A great many of sufferers from ibnckache will tell ‘you that they ,‘ just stooped down w pick up some- lihing when they felt the sudden 1 pain in the lower back and it has remained there ever since.

thought that a sprain or strain oc- curred during the eflort of bending or stooping. Now this is true to a certain extent but there would have been no strain or pain if there had not been some "trouble" about the joint. At some time in the past. inerc had been some infection about the joint or perhaps some previous strain. This had set up a flblous formation of tissue about the joint, and the bending or stooping strain- ed or actually tore some of this hard fibrous tissue.

Perhaps some new or recent in- fection was present at the time of the bending or stooping and the movement silllply stired up condi- tions about the joint and the back- ache was the result.

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WEATHER-S

And so‘ do I; Wlwnnolzowm betumble the chest-

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And nestlggs riy;

And the little brown nightingale bills his best,

And they sit outsideat "The Trav-

ellers’ Rest," And néaids come forth sprig-muslin

rest, And citizens dream of the south and west, And so do I.

This 15h the weather the shepherd

uns, And so do I; When beeches drip in browns duns, And thrash. and ply; And hill-hid tides throb, throe on , throe, And meadow rlvulets overflow, And drops on gate-bars hang in a

and

slorl Black, 11.9., former Speaker of the

tion, but the Bitiiltkln is l-lllllslifl.

The Two Blacks

(VlctclrioTimcs) Thereseemswbealittleconfu- inthefasnily offlou. George

Commons. Obviously lc loco-ordina-

Ill-hcalth caused Mr. Black

to retire from public life. Mrs. Black, an active and very cap- able woman, and the wife of Hon. George, not desiring to ‘i; the prestige of the Black family in Canadian political affairs to dwin- dle. conceived the idea of running herself.

After this. Hon. George Blsdrgot well-as everybody hoped he would, or his siilrlirlg qualities alone-and. casting back his glances on his own and the Conseavsfive peat‘? but; ground, thong e m l8 oarrytheseatinthe Yukonwhicn he has represented for several years. Husband and wife have agreed in leave the decision to the electors of the constituency.

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row, And rocks in families homeward go, And so do I.

—Thomss Hardy.

eral invention. under the illusion

that it was Hon. Mr. Bennett that

Similarly sitting on a cold seat, being exposed to a draft, getting the clothing soaked in a rainstorm brings on a backache the next day. But even here it is not likely that any backache would have resulted from the cold and dampness if there were not already some low in- fection or old infection about the joint.

When however there has been a great strain put on the back from suddenly stepping downwards a considerable distance when the ground or floor was thought to be level, twisting the hips violently in swinging at p. golf, tennis or base- ball, braking a. heavy car going down a hill having a very heavy abdomen which pulls the upper part oi the body forward, all put a strain on the joint at the small of the bank. This type of backache due to strain on the joint needs a belt or brace to support the joint for weeks or months.