' . to talre out Probate. and go through the elabor- ' ~ f advertising

‘"'?fi"£f‘.....l°“ use. .. . ear l . ‘Tn’. (In advance) lulled lo I. I ear (in mulled

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Ignition

I ‘Tlledlronaeet MGIIWII la Weaker than

the Weakest Ink‘ TUESDAY. my e, lose

What Price Democracy?

Reference was made in these columns yes-

. tcrday to the warning sounded by the Toronto

Globe, deading Liberal newspaper, following the last election in this Province, with regard ‘to the danger to democracy of a one-party Legis- lature. Especially silice, as the Globe said, the election figures showed the Liberals to be “in no wisc entitled to the absolute rule they obtain- ed."

Ari opportunity of rectifying this situation ocurred following the death of Hon. Mr. Lea, when the by-elcction was held in Fouth Prince. What was the reaction of the Campbell Govern- mcnt to the appearance in the field of an In- dependent Liberal candidate in the person of Mr. Douglas Bell? Instead of welcoming the chance of having at least one independent Liberal voice in the House, Premier Campbell immediately published in the press a signed statement, calling upon the electors of Fourth Prince, “as Premier of the Province," to "condemn this senseless conduct of Mr. Bell's, which will involve the Government and taxpayers of Prince Edward Island in the USELESS EXPENSE of a. con- tested election."

He said more: He said: “As leader of the Party, I may say to the Liberals of the Fourth District that Mr. Bell AND ANY WHO SUP- PORT _ HIM ARE SIMPLY READING THEMSELVES OUT OF THE LIBERAL PARTY, AND CAN RECEIVE NO FUR- THER RECOGNITION AS LIBERALS."

This was using thehbig stick with a venge- ance. Reading all and sundry OUT OF THE LIBERAL PARTY if they dared to support an independent Liberal candidate! No plums of patronage to those who weren't prepared to knuckle down to the party bosses.

Cheaper School Books

Another Conservative pledge whichdlte Lib- eral press designates as “bunkum” is to in- vestigate the present high price of school book! with a view to lessening the cost and adopting a plan to prevent frequent changes in text books.

The Campbell Government was pledged not only to reduce school book prices, but tom- vestigate the subject with s view to obtaining free school books. _

If the Conservative have “copied"_ part 0f their I935 platform in this regard, it is because on the admission of the Minister of Education in the Campbell Government, no action whatever had been taken, though there was in con- templation, two years ago, the appointment of a. committee for this purpose.

As_ Dr. MacMillai-i has pointed out, this com- mittee never reported, snd it is safe to assume that it never was created.

Speaking in the Legislature last month, Mr. George Saville expressed the pious hope that “some day" in the indefinite future, action would be taken with regard to the implementation of this Liberal pledge. It throws revealing light on the dictatorial attitude of the Campbell Govern- ment that its i939 platform contains,-no refer- ence whatever to this subject,

Mr. Saville to be consistent should at least vote for his Conservative opponent, since it i: only in the Conservative platform that there i: any pro- spect of school book price: been reduced. Not only is the i939 Liberal platform barren in this respect, but Premier Campbell has stated, in a recent speech, that the present high prices are a: low as it is possible for hi: Government to obtain.

The only hope of a reduction, therefore lies in the return of the MacMillan Government.

Electors will rccall that- a similar "deadlock oc- curred ulider Liberal. administration in con- nection with old age pensions. The Saunders Government pfOllllSfll old age pensions but failed to implement their promise. The stewart MacMillan Government put that Liberal pledge into effect with the cooperation of the Bennett Government at Ottawa.»

Getting After The Poor Man

Both Mr. Heath Strong and Mr. I. A. Mac- rlonald inaddrcssilig the electors have referred to a most glaring example of unjust legislation ‘in the new "Probate Act" passed at the session of the Legislature just closed.

Up to the present time the law has been that if a man died leaving land and made a will giv-

i Qing the land to, say, his son, such land went

directly to the son, who could have the will re- corded at a cost of not more than three or four dollars. Nothing further was necessary to establish the son's title to the land.

Under the new "Proba Act" sponsored by Premier Campbell, the Ian does not go direct-

' g‘? the son, to whom it is willed, but to the

cutor, who in torn must deed it to the son. ‘In addition, it is now compulsory in every case

n. a

‘lahoizjto a modest farnl or hoimeifree

'This' tension, together with such domestic fac-

deht, dies, and under his-will he leaves the property to his son, -up to the present time the property went directly to the son, and all he was required to do was to file the will andpan in- ventory a] a cost of very. few dollars But now, under this new Campbell legislation, the pro- perty does not go dimtly to the soil, but to the Executor, who in turn must deed it to the son. In addition. Probate must be taken out, an ad- vertisement published in the Royall Gazette, and‘ accounts filed. And the cost of tliedeed, the advertisement. the Letters Probate and the til- ing of the accounts, must all be borne by the estate.

And furthermore, if the estate has no money with which to pay these heavy costs put on by the Campbell Administration, the Executor has power to sell the property to pay such costs.

It is truly legislation aimed at, and affecting only, the poor man.

A Scalhing ‘Indictment

Toronto Saturday Night, whose editor is a Liberal in politics strongly supports the appeal recently made in Parliament on behalf of the unemployed by Mr. Denton Massey.

“We do not "feel at all disposed, “says upon Mr. Massey by Government supporters f0!‘ supplying his own estimate of something for which there are not and cannot be any official statistics, namely the number of persons in the single transient unemployed class who “have died as a result of exposure, illness, actual starvation, and lack of care.” Mr. Massey says there have been thousands of such deaths, but that there is no statistical evidence to prove it. Mr. Rogers says that there is no statistical evid- ence to prove that there have been thousands, and therefore there cannot have been thousands. For ourselves we do not know whether there have been thousands or not, but we are very sure that there have been far too many, and that they are chargeable to an almost unbeliev- able lack of sympathetic imagination on the part of the rulers of this Dominion and its Provinces, and ultimately on the part of the electors them- selves. What both the rulers and the electors need is a few more Denton Masseys to- wake them up to the tragedy of what is going on. “We should have far more sympathy with the Government's demand for exact statistics in the discussion of the unemployment tragedy, if the Government had at any time shown the slightest desire to procure statistics. But the truth is that if the Government had deliberately decided not to know anything about the extent and incidence and consequences of unemploy- ment in Canada, it could hardly have done any- think different from what it actually has done. It has been left for the Canadian Welfare Council, for private members like Mr_ Massey, for individuals and committees and organizations like the National Youth Congress, to delve as best they could among the masses of chaotic and unrelated material which the Government should have been studying and setting in order; and

been done by an official body, the Purvis Coin- mission, has been studiously ignored ever since it was given to the public. Meanwhile everybody knows, except in Parliament, that malnutrition has been taking its toll of young Canadian lives and is leaving its mark on those who survive it to be the workers-—-or the workless—-of the en- suing decades.” '

I Editorial Notes 7

Sir I. M. Barrie born this date, i860. U I I O

“It is in the air" that a change of Govern- ment is due. ' '

a a a a V We have just eight days for political platform

discussions. a a a a

Are the taxpayers satisfied with Premier Campbell's attempt at obtaining a snap verdict? i 1U 1i

Look at this succession of events within seven days! May i8, Election; May 20, King's Birtli- day holiday; May 24, Victoria Day holiday.

I i i i

The King and Queen will be here almost be- fore ‘we are ready for them-thanks to the Campbell Government's attempt to secure a snap

verdict. i i i I

Saturday Night," to join iii the censun poured ,

the one important piece of study which has m’

ma: ll-llflithat marks the atgnm catamaran lib which the‘ 411ml. W0 DJ . W. more in» tut they tmve 98111011. ll! , m- every dollar only a little ore ' was In net lncolne--" year the tax

the owners mo: aloas of i123,-

...._‘..._ -

Always a champion of the apple llldllil-U’. Hod J. I... Ilslsy seems to have got. in snot-nor aio to the apple growers. The Dunning Buo- gei. provides an increase of 2'1 to 60 cents per gallon on import- ed vtnezar spirits "nus is expect.- ed to stimulate the market for law grade Qanadlan apples by en.

mdnlllfhotllro o; vinegar, is minister of national revenue and he‘ comes from the IPPJe country of Nova scotta. ._ Windsor Stu; . -—4__ WM“ l wmlled as a special constable I felt. that I had at least. volunteered for w, man's job. From the Dally Mall I um sin-prised and 11mm dI-leusted to see that Bol- Wfl h“ 111-". IP90 ted its first wo- man special cons ble. Is there nothing sacred toi man? For irly Dart. I shall not attend any lectures 0r instruction classes at which there are women; inxtgct, 1.5m con-viderlns Mlsutnz. - Special Con-stable. Bolton, - Dally Mali.

Did yon ever look at the world about ypu and then 1N1 m impulse to go out into the street and howl like a wolf? Most of us have probably felt that way from time 1° llme- Bub We don't doll. being conservative. orderly and respectable folk. Adam Wuchowlgu dld. In Buffalo, lice answer-ed d call from nelgh s and found Adam leading a canine choir of nwbi 1w does. all howling in full voice, Adam loudest, of all_ It hllp. Dened to be 4 am. of an otherwise Peaceful Sunday morning. off to court went Adam, and the judgn 0'01"“ him t0 stop howling for $11M? years Perhaps he flgur

m" by U111; time we'll all be howl- lng and it won't make any dig. ference. Sure. it's silly. But we'll bet Adam feels better, at t_ _ Regina Leader-Post. .

DI‘. A» 3- lamb. director of the Physical Education Depart. ment at. McGlll University, has 1113 own ideas about golf. He alred them at a luncheon of the City 1m- plrovement league. “Public health”,

9 881d. 1s better because of golf, but. not because golf itself ‘ls healthful. Golf increases the blood Dre-WIN. ruins the disposition, spoils the digestion, induces neur- fl-lt-henln. hurts the eyes. callouses the hands, ties kinks in the nervous system, debaudhes the morals, drives men to drugs, drink md homicide, breaks up the famuy, turns the ductless glands into in. ternlil warts, corrodes the pneumo. 8851-110 HWVB. breaks the edges ott the vertebrae, induces spins] men. mkltls and progressive mendeclty, start-s angina pectorls, eds winds on the swfnach. But 11? k999i the doctors out. in trio open ulr and gives the people in the hospitals and sick rooms n gltippce to net well."- Montredl

Ill l2 years of active rnlnls- .R.ev. Dr. Frederick William Gilmour, Moderator of the Lon. don-Hamilton Synod of ‘the Pres- byterian church. has not miss/ed 1° Bllndflys in the conducting of Wrvlces. except when lie was taken down with typhoid fever. He attri- butes his healthy life to athletics ln his yflllflflflr days, Dr. Gllmour

tals lacrosse team of 45 years ago, And anyone who could survive the knook-‘em-down style of Canada's 113501151 Eflmmln those days must have possessed is good physique. Being wble to come thro gh a Rd. son without serious in ury was proof not only of ruggedness, but also of ability and luc . No wonder the Moderator bemoans the lack 01 slllrlt of youn theological grad. uatu of today w o shun the hard. ships of home mission fields in the Wat and in Northern ontai-lq,

lacrosse. ‘their $116!’ W ‘d ‘t. be . wherelm: rivlndsoftgigrfo “o any

a matter of faot, the idea of an alliance wlth Russia h" its wmleuflnt aspects for the British and the ZPrench, no less than for the small countries of Ell-item Europe. BY no stretch of 1mlllnatlon can Russia under lte present regime be described as a Qmwfflcy- The some brutal meth- ods of dictatorship, the some resort to governmental espionage and 553a, the some ruthless reglyngn.

Gel-runny. prevail mum's great adverse The one substantial

also in Q".

Russia wants peace whereas many seeks conques . and that

Clo Russia's interests ln this one de-

One of the fundamentals of democracy is "no taxation without representation." How are we tol recoilcile this with the Campbell Government's] attempt to obtain the power to tax without the opportunity of discussion?

i i i i -

In the House of Commons Hon. H. H. Stevens pleaded with the Government to mobilize the forces of industry‘ and finance in the Dominion‘ in a desperate attempt to break the stubborn un- employmentuimpassc. “It is not more legislation we want," said Mr. Stevens, “it is administra- tion, the will to do." The money already spent op relief “has gone down the sewer and we have nothing to show for it but wrecked lives," said Mr. Stevens. The Labor hlinister admitted that one pf the main hopes for improvement in the employment situation was an easing in inter- national tension and stimulation of world trade.

tors as the persistent condition of drought in Western Canada, had seriously retarded pro- gress out of the unemployment tangle. When Mr_ Rogers was expressing hope in the world trade situation as a factor Hon. C. H. Cohan liiterjected that no more than i5 per cent. of the country's productive energy was employed in ' ltlit for the export trade, exclusive while Mr. Stevens pleaded with

to cling so closely 41o "this " from interns-p Wllrfactor." '

clslve matte ll l . eats of the rwllft-"hf rfiilfetiniifa make a defensive alliance pos.

slble, But ltls a marriage of con. venlence, not. a neratup of friends. — New Yor Times, ,

‘rile newa that. “l! Doinln. 1°11 Government intends to Ipgnd "m9 Kimmy upon lmprovemmts W PM Welllniiton. at. Preaoott, will be ecelved with both inter- "i l"! ‘Pnroval by wall-winners of that old fortification which is one of the few

Milken a e

ublm erpendlture, mn Ibrt w. lemma. ely- u m m. rlson left it. malty years an. nlth its hulldlhll atlll ma good state of

lt.”? 3'.‘ .".‘3'&“"Z..li‘ ‘llilmh? visited‘ annually by . many more of whom

ooiipooy-st. Thomas Tlmeb-Jollr- i Ill . i

t u. l dl ld v1 servlceoof tleie xltaiieflbiiei/ristliinlgixiiii r

tn the Fast. c“ difference _ 1" "18 Dresenl situation is that w

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:--'.l‘he Suboptimal t-h lg:- t-hll under

ihtdu Mf- illd be 0b- served. (y. should be sol . for beverage use that. tuln d from e. Government

a’ '4

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campaign on‘ I'll companies egel deaths

lbl D0 O0 llll

lnsumnco.

courlelnv the use of B91110 cider ‘m’

.'I‘a.nton

while lt does

unaleto

the plv

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the soelall plus total t

sary to do the our or even wt ery.

Of course entirely body of dllcatee attempt

on the part of

vlously designed

from those who resent them!

y use to the might still ‘filltkl?’ ‘E3?

9y . them?

sin-as the known as unemplo

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h the f

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rloe or value, latices the d and.

Not. so with Marx. he points out clearly that the socially-necessary time needed to pyod mfidlly determines it's value: and tf he 1s right. "cost of production l; oheapened by the use of

, Mr. Tenton may right in the rest or main lils letter, tn which he ln-

, I am, Sir. etc- NIX

“m.” v " which proved to be cf substant l value 1n its experlmenlt-

n

he services of

OD duntfounhrtild ethlblt

ill

afghan-tn tevec

the surfape l

"' fur-n Kim ttli t?“

it?» of lyso

confuse. says that on this

point. leading economists argue with plausible force that

infringe on

does not. reduce the actual coat. These so-called leading econo- ts are always in a quandry w it romeo to economics, and wo d probably d; better as fl- grgtélermbu-t any fate they appear

tell what. determines hen the sup-

uce the com-

mu-

whlle machinery etiliibodles

v time it took

Y . to produce it, the total time of all who helped toprod-uce the machine lme of all who use it, wlll most certainly not. be as great as the total time of all men neces-

llfe (duration of)

work of the machine. by hard lob-

th inferior machin- be

to deceive by with-

holding lnformntlon and Mml-‘lly- 9d lng confused and confusing figures,

the Liberal party:

I have no argument. with him there. But nccordlnfl lo the Patriot the Uberol party is the Democratic one; tn the tn rests of people I suppose!

Perhllm lfimeone could point out. some lezlalatlon which

only truly always leglelstlng the common

was ob- ln the interest and.

for the sole benefit. of the working class. or even some fraction thereof; surely t.liere are enough workers to justify at least ore small tum

are elected to rep-

On the other hand lt they can Show legislation that has been of

farmers here. they

call themselves demo-

they? well, what stopped

G AMBLE.

BE CITE FREE GARDENS A$SOCIATION

Drfijeci: formerly M in ‘the circumstances of gt

ti cams would not. nfi-equent necessary. A at! and any warnings that ml dioated. even if no oroaecu . brought, would Q but the WIlIOICSBIg granting

Gmdens for the

is very soon

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. rated it mfly be a mat- ter of en qyiteninent to the public at large to know the plnnsof the association for t-he coming suinmzr and the methods pursued direction the City app authorities supply t e means zlnanclal .e this endeavor. ts htlltllll yin: more or less vwag a mm. _ Imel-iinen a wor was n

b" M the Ottawa 0”‘ hot. none in the matter of conduct w‘; of ‘planting and process n ec of the most. useful and most

by those ly and otherwise, tn

eeessary lnz but sel-

Dromate t. m“ ’bil¥l§"l.la..l'2i<¥l§°.“l°.§¥£'

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who ha. du

principle Act and

Act is not honestly anc vlded in

plete

and whe 1nd and the 2 are num r

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8. p" to disco

is to and a

8nd

Penalties

D1

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see their

glelglelish€fl eauliiligbr beaviiaéwpleiiii m" ‘

to be detdrmtned. Ohlf’ ottetown ls do, who m , fimgmi, “flml; ‘ié-fnafll"

Dutlolilarly fortunate tn the oon- m. uquor whkh 1, vqnmm u, m“, 9 h"

prillcyglan gitjperlficlangéf til: npetélre Mums‘ The l“, “m” “m: - at; “ti: totality dig-n