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'l‘llu Liberal "organs only excuse for the Government's failure to open the seals in tlle Cardigan and Char- lotteiowll districts now vacant is that these ecustltucllclca already have one member each who will take his seat in the House. To suggest that this representation is not suf-' flcrult is, according c: the Govern- ;_ ment organ, an "unkind cut" or. The Guardians part at Dr. W. J. P. Mac-

Mlllan, tlle sitting Conservative

i , member for Charlottetown. Tllis far- fetched argument will fool nobody, least of all the redoubtable Doctor, who has received more abuse in the Liberal ‘press than any man in pol- itics. The fact that the sitting mem- ber for Charlottetown is a host in himself, tllat he is equal in debate to half a dozen Government apolo-

“ gists. is no reason wily this city ' y, ' _ ; should be deprived of its full repre- J -_ sentatlon of two members in the Leg- islature. At present Charlottetown is ‘ without an Assemblyman, and 8rd Kings is without a Councillor, simp- ly because the Lea Government is afraid to face the music at the by- elections.

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l; l I ' ' Government to consult, him in his professional capacity. We have no doubt of what the diagnosis would be.

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The Outlook for Agriculture

So many divergent opinions as to the outlook for agriculture have been expressed that ‘ it is refreshing to ccnlc across an authoritative state- ment on the subject, and doubly re- freshing when this statement is found _ in furnish substantial ground for op- , timlsnl. Such, in effect, is the finding

or the Saskatchewan Royal Commis-

sion on Immigration and Settlement, whose report, just received, includes an informative and encouraging chap- ter on the agricultural outlook, partic- uls-rly with respect to Saskatchewan.

Dealing first with world conditions.

the Commission finds that despite the . great. increase in production oi _food- """ I” stuffs, so large a proportion of the

world's population at present con- sumes so little food per capita. that an increase in this consumption to equal the standards common in North America would create an immediate- ly visible shortage oi foodstuffs of an acute nature, even after discounting .- for the‘ ‘mereucu in consumption due to climatic eflects and racial habits. IhotherwordLit-isnetover- production but methods of distribu- tion and marketing that are ct fault. 1t is diflicult at present tosce any FQifliiV-igrectbopcofincludingthevastpo- ;. pulaticn of China in an economic cycle-m similar to that of North Am- erica, except in codst areas affected by economic communion with occl- dcutui social sycteull- In other cues. however, there is every hope of a study increase in standards of food ctumpticu. Th0 very mcintczaancc d modern civilisation depends on its ability to increase steadily its use of cmmiodtticc.

There are, oi course, those who doubt lu ability to continue, and {recast its replacement by some other system o! society. Attention, ‘for example, is often drawn to the great

experiment in collectlvist methods _ now under way in Russia. The Sas- __ kutchcwarl Conlnlisslou finds‘ that in- teresting as this experiment may be, it does not in any way affect the arguments laid down. in its report. Russia under collcctivist methods will " produce no more than under non-col.

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chanical power on a. larger scale

urge to produceno more than is nec-

labour available in the form of leis- ure. Even in theory there is no reac-

on to expect the success of collectiv- isatioln to flood the world with food-

stuffs, even admitting that Russia may, in the immediate future, for purely- political reasons, try to do that. It is to be remembered that Russia, at its pee-k of production. ; uevcr produced more than about hclf the food needed to maintain its own population on thestandard of living prevalent in the United States. 111d it is to be expected that the very auc- ccss of the Soviet authorities in cs- tabllshirlg a collectivist system oi pro- duction would increase, rather than lessen, the tendency to improved con- sumptlon of food in Russia.

S0 far as Saskatchewan is con- cerned, the Commission, while ad- mitting difficulties which may seem very serious to those who endure them directly, finds the condition 0f the farmers as a whole to be far from hopeless, even in the face oi two very unproductive seasons and acute difficulty in marketing their product a-t a. fair price. It has no faith in the adoption oi the much- advocated system of rapid and com- plete mechanisation of agricultural processes unless other industries are able to absorb the workers who will be thrown out oi employment in this way; but it does recommend confl- dellce on the part of the farmer in the ability of society to cqrrcctlpre- sent conditionsfand careful avoid- ance of too sudden changes in his methods. It urges that during a. period of difficulty in disposing of his staple products he should build up his own economic independence by adding to his operations the pro- duction of as much as - lble of his own requirements. It specially points out that the present difficult- ies of the farmer differ from those of previous occasions, in that he ls less alone in his troubles than at l-ny prior time, that his loss of income and consequent distress is shared by many other classes, and that the et- tcntion oi capitalists, investors, and stawsmen ls focused on the fact, of- ten forgotten in the past, that the very roots of our modern society are in the rural communities.

____..____ Britainfis War Debt Payments

The Christian scimce Monitor, an American newmapcr, agrees with Francis W. Hint, eminent British economm, that Great Britain is pay- ing far more on war debt account to the United Btatu than she borrowed, and that the agreement between the two countries should be carefully re- viewed. This is obvious when it k rcznembeccd that the purchasing pow- er of money fourteen years ego. when the debt was contracted, was only about half what it is today. The Christian Science Monitor rc- culls the fact that any abatement. m’ even the entire remission of-the debt, would not advantage Britain directly but her debtor allies only, who are required to pay hcr dollar for dollar what she Deva the United states, and no more.

“Undoubtedly? it sag-s, "profit would come to Grout Britain through the remission of the debt. or the mater-m reduction of the in- terest upon it. But it would not come directly to the British tax-

lcctivist methods. The application of a collectivlst system oi society to '. Saskatchctvull would not cause any increase in wheat production. A com- ~ - tine or a tractor does no more work because it is driven by a communist

~ clcrd of a wage-earner or a farmer. ‘z lc::l the theory which lies back of all

payers. It would come in the form of enhanced prosperity for those countrlca from which the British Treasury is now exacting plymeot in precisely the amount that it has to pay to Washington. These coun- tries are all cualmracrs of Great Britain. Their buying capacity would b0 enhanced by the reduc- tion of their indebtodncu. ‘their induu‘ y would be stimulated. in these ways Great Britain would

that in a more perfect form of society he will be relieved by the drafting to work of many now idle hands, and a general application to industry of me-

Were that accomplished in a system oi society which prevents Inyllm from accumulating property as a re- ward oi labour, the result would in- evitably be in the direction of an

escary, and to release the surplus

low prices, to a cc prosperity

travelling expenses

wages were $15 a week the question still stands; same; never! “Ah, but our standard oi living is higher," says someone. Doesn't that mean that in prosper- ous times we buy a lot of truck we don't need, and that in clays oi’ depression we are “broke?" If we are not "broke" we are afraid that We may be; the effect on general business i: the Mme.

While Mr. Philip Suowden was making his astonishing speech in the British House of Commons on Wednesday. sir James Dunn. British-Canadian capitalist, was giving the Montreal Gazette an in- terview in which he pointed out the way oi defeat for the Ramsay Mac- Donald Government- He indicated that if the British Chancellor of the Exchequer curtailed the "dole" the left-wing Laborltes would turn against the administration, a general election would follow and the Con- servatives would be returned to power. In forecasting sweeping sacrifices on the part of all classes of the community, including the beneficiaries of unemployment in- surance, Mr. snowden fulfilled thc first condition of Sir James‘ proph- ecy. It‘ now remains to be seen whether or not‘ the more radical section of the Icebor Party will vote against its own leaders and upset the apple cart. we maybe on the eve of far-reaching political develop- ments in the Mother Country, developments which will open the way for closer Inlpclial trade re

lations and co-ordirlated Empire de- velopment.

The NewvYork {Dimes rays editori- ally that if Mr. Hoover oltairls from Congress an extra $74,000,000 for additions to the’ navy it will be for

upon the country to do this. 1t is simply an option thatwe ‘have. It is no doubt true, from the technical point oi view, that if we do not avail ourselves of it now and start building the new ships there will hardly be time ‘to carry out tllc

attain naval parity with England by i935, when the new naval confer- ence is to be held." There can be no ‘doubt that both President Hoover and Prime Minister MacDonald were disappointed in the achievements of the ‘London Naval Conference. They wanted_both limitation and reduct- ion of naval strength, but were un- able to secure the latter. The United States came out of the con- ference with a plan to increase in- stead of reduce its navy, but as the Times says, there is no need to carry out that plan. The country is not threatened; and, by continued co- operation with Great Britain a iur- ther scaling down oi armaments can probably be obtained four years hence.

A committee of lawyers in the city of New York the other day re- ported that there were cc statutes which should obvioully be repealed because they were either obsolete, nullified. unenforceable, foolish or no iorlgcr in accord with prevalent thought." It pointed out that rc- ceatly New Jersey repealed 1,248 laws for simil reasons.

‘Ibo pncult problems that ’ Jun and distress us are really the grow- ingpains of vcryrapid progress‘ in a still young and vigorous world, not

loulc your: ago au Englishman came to Canada resolved to become a farmer. He had been a locomotive living at Crewe and draw- lng 30 shillings a week, He had and a wife which hr left at home. He got a job as r hired man on an Elgln ' County farm, and in a_ year he sent for his ' family. First ' on u. rented farm he made good, then he bought u hun- dred acres and came. in an ere of

Where did he get the money for when he made

the adventure. of emigrating‘), Con- sider a Canadian making 37.50 a

railway fare for six people from Canada to England? Even if his

and the answer is the

the single purpose oi obtaining, “parity" with-l the British- The ‘limes says: "No obligation res ts

entire naval programme and to‘

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. I frequently speak of old skin ail_ ments—eczema and other irritations -und of how useless any medicine seems to be in many oi these cases.

Where a condition is due to the

week and supporting a. family. skin itself being irritated by acids. How long would it be before he alkalis, or metallic substances, then could save cteerage assage and drugs can be oi help. In fact drugs

can be oi help even where the trou- ble is due to some trouble in the body itself, as these drugs stimulate the skin and the blood to healthy action.

However where a skin ailment per- sists for weeks and months some- times getting a little better for a while, and‘ then becoming severe again, there is one organ that can be suspected oi causing the trouble and that is the liver.

Why? .

Because the liver has three im- portant jobs to do, and any inter- ference with any one of these jobs can cause trouble in the blood itself, and hence trouble in every part to which the blood is carried, the skin of course includedl

These little jobs are the making of bile, the storing of sugar in the liver, and the cleaning out of the poisons in the blood. Thus when there is any inflammation of the liver and gall bladder ‘due to slowness, sluggish- ness, gall stone formation and so forth,‘ then the liver cannot do these three jobs completely.

A little daily exercise such as bending the body from side to side and forward and backward, with knees straight so queezes the liver and gall bladder that the bile flows down into intestines stimulates them into action. and kills ofi harmful organisms there. Where the indivi- ' dual is unable to exercise the old I treatment of calomel and epsom salts is helpful, particularly small I doses oi epsom salts. I In regard to the storage of sugar, ' it has been found that cutting down l temporarily on the sugar intake has been helpful. Sugar is our cheapest good food but in these old akin con- ditions it may be necessary to lessen the daily intake.

In regard to food,‘ lessening tho amount of fats—crcam, milk, butter i-will lessen the. work on the liver,

and enable it to purify ‘the blood I more completely as lt passes through.

So if you have an old skin irrita- tion that docsn't respond to treat- ment think of the Iliver as a possible cause; and give it a chance to catch up on its work by following the above simple suggestions.

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The Public Forum This column ls open for the discussion by correspondents cf questions cf interest. This C‘ lctteiown Guardian does

, not necessarily endorse the opinions of correspondents.

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I LINKS 0F EMPIRE

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Bir:-—I shall be extremely grateful to you if you can find space in your‘ column for a brief appeal for the “Links of Ihrlplre."

The Links were started in 19% un- der the auspices of the British Em- pire Union and the Presidency of Lady Apsley. Their great aim and object is to promote a spirit of friendship, goodwill and sympathy between all the citiuns of the Brit- ish lhnpirc by a system of carefully selected correspondence.

All ages and both sexes are eligible and each link ls given a correspond- ing Link of the same age. sex and in- ‘ rests as far as is possible. 'I‘here is no compulsory subscription al- though voluntary gifts are gratefully knowledgcd.

The growth of the Links since their inception has been wonderful. Thou- sands oi halppy friendships have sprung up all over the World and"

symptoms of cenility and decay. our productive powers have grown factor than our facilities of distri- bution and consumption; we have not yet learned how to make our monetary mechanism unoothly servo our needs; our political machinery-u luodlcvulrl-ud wc have notbeguntobrlngtbcbusinccc and financial interest! of all part0 of the world into the necessary co-ordin- aticn. But all then thing: will ccmc u rapidly in the next gener- ation u our technical inventions did in the put. '

Laughter shows us the end and ob-

. movements towards coliel-tivism ls rfmt at present the indivlduliwcrker

remarked that the United States.

profit, and it may be incidentally

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ln-l, . l:.;;i_; more than bushfire, and

as u great exporting nation, would wen: in alglwt like meanrg."___._~_,_

Ject of evolution; telv lfe only "l0

there are few places now within our wide spreading llknplre where there are no Links to be found. = The Blue Bird Clflying its message of friendship (which is our Badge) is flying in all directions and wherever it lettlel it brings fresh hope and good cheer either at Home or Over- leqaIft-hercarcanywhowlshto‘ find friends or to beput into touch with the Old Country or other parts 'of the Dominiorls will they wrifetoble andlwilldomybectlp satisfy their wants. I am sir, etc. C. L. BOWLING, flou. Sec. L. 0. l. Glynn House, Sussex Road. Bouthcea, England. _._____i__.

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TIIE LIVER AFFECTS THE SKIN!

angel a multitude of host, praising God and in God in the highest, and on peace, good-will toward men.

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Gloria m "Excelsis Deoi

About a year ago I contributed t0 fThe Guardian, under the M14111! j-"rllc Spirit c: Christmas." I, chm cketcll of ‘my impressions regardln! the manner in which the people of Massachusetts observed the Yuletfdc 5 Festival. in their homes, their activities, and the really‘ magnificent electrical and other displays about the resi- dences of the citizens of Boston 0nd smaller towns in the letters vicinity. Not only the decorations, etc-, but the music-vocal and instrumental -or Christmas themes, "Olde Tyme" English Carols, etc., that was heard over the radio from before christ-

chllflthed, their

mas Dly to New Year's.

greatly

time.

Commonwealth of

donna. and Holy Child.

ensemble of ‘eubhy forgotten.

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‘arth her first-born son, and wrapped Im in swaddllng clothes, and laid 1m in a manger; because there was

“.3 room for him in the» inn. And lzcre were in the same country shep-

“crds abiding in the field, keeping

watch over their flocks by night. And

lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them; and they were sore afraid. And the angel said unto them, Fear notl for bchold, I bring J0" 800d tidings of great joy, which shall be to all, people. For unto you is born this day, in the city of David, a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord. And this shall be a sign unto you: Ye shall find the Babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger. And suddenly there was with the the Heavenly saying, Glory earth,

The effect of these scenes upon the

onlookers was something indescrib- able and never to be forgotten, espec- F ially when viewed by night. New Year's night was our great oppor- tunity to be wltneues of thcse man vellously realistic exhibitions-B,

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of birth;

I was again privileged to spend the season just past in the same localities, "and to again vlitnesc the enhanced demonstrations by residents in the decorations of their homes, the window displays by the business houses, and the evident civic pride the people took in boost- ing thcir home-town attractions, and celebrating the great event of all I mentioned last year one of the church services, the address by the Governor to the people of the Massachusetts. the good-fellowship manifested by people on the streets and in the shops. I felt that they even excelled themselves this season in that direc- tlon also in their care for the poor, distressed, and unfortunate, as well as in the magnificent electrical dec- orations in and about the homes. lawns and house fronts of the more well-to-do portions of the population. Last year (Feby. 1930) I told of the gigantic electrical display in the town of Baugus by a wealthy resident of that place, and of the Desert Scene at Cliftondale where the Magi were to be seen alighting from their camels and approaching the Inn at Bethle- hem, where were to be seen the Ma-