PAGE‘ FOUR THE Morning Daily (Founded 1881) *—i lIPQiIIIIRLUTTETOWII GUARDIAN nE 52v- .,_r rising to questions o delivered second editions 0 tive expenditure in " for the incoming I. their budget; that at t cial gcilcral election campaign, platform was drafted, it was thought the paved highway projects would cost the Province noth- ing; that the Conservatives had budgeted for a surplus oi $37,000 and no one imagined that at ear there would be a $370,000 ppeared in The Guar- Mr. \Vright‘s speech n of them yesterday the end of the y deficit. 'l‘hese statements a (lian report, April 14, of on the lrludgct. His repetitio ‘in reply to a Guardian editorial comment, was clearly out of order. However, we have no ob- jection to discussing them on their demerits- Accorrling to l\lr. “lright, it was impossible now that the Conservatives in one year of nearly a mil- additional interest and for the Liberals to k would pile up a debt lion dollars, necessitating sinking funds to the amount of $56,000. This was gross misrepresentation on hi1‘. l/Vriglifs part. As the Premier admitted in his the total liability increase of the Province during the calendar year 1935 was $952000. Both governments were in power d a considerable proportion curred by the Lea- budget speech, 1936, during that year an of this expenditure was in Campbell (lovernmenb In all fairness he should also have explained that when the Conservatives came into power in beral overdraft of more an increased Liberal h interest and sink- 1931, they found a Li than a million dollars, and debt of $1,177,000 for whic ing funds had to be provided. As for Mr. \Vright's alibi that the Liberal pledge to balance the budget was given on the misunderstanding that the total cost of the high- o be met by the Dominion only assume that the Bed- rque member has not read his 0\vn party’s pre- elcction hlanifesto, published in the Patriot on ijulv 5, I933. Therein it is claimed that “the 1B:iidcii-Ciiarlottetown highway will in all prob- ability add at least a half a million dollars to ill’! already staggering liabilities of the Province." In spire of this, the Manifesto pledged the party l0 balance the budget amiinrillyi. Even supposing that I935 Sll0\\'C<l great“ liabilities than were anticipated by the Liberals. aivho themselves were in power for sevfzral ‘months of that year, we would ask ‘Mr_ Wright ‘this question". How does this account for last year's deficit of $20,174 on current artcotint? when he was budgeting last “year. what the interest and sinking fund charges vroulrl be. yet he was out by nearly $60,000 1n lhis estimate of the deficitl way projects was t Government, we can The Premier knew, President. Lleui. Col. W. Chester S. McLuro Vice President l. B. Burnett. F. J. l. F-ldliin- nnu nnnmng Director .|. u. Burnett. r. J. l. Secretary Lleui. Col. D. A. Macllinnon. D. S. 0. Associate Editor Frank Walker SUBsCRlPTlDN RATES $5.00 per yea- tln ndvnnce) delivered to City ~ $.00 per ycur tin ndvlnce) mailed w P. E. island ‘$5.00 per year tin advance) mulled to Canada and U.S. Member: Audit Bureau of 6n ulntionu ‘- 7'_‘The Strongest Memory ls Weaker than the Jl¢rL=s§£1e'=i’~_ SATURDAY, APRIL 23, 1938 Budget Speeches, 2nd Edition In the dying hours 0f the legislative session “Yesterday morning, an extraordinary thing oc- ‘curred~ Two party stalwarts, Mr. Horace \Vright and Mr. H. H. Acorn, on the plea of f privilege, got up and‘ f their budget speech- cs. .\lr_ \\’right complained that The Guardian had suppressed his statement alleging Conserva- 1935 had made it impossible ibcral Government to balance he time of the last provin- wlien the Liberal ______________ M r. Acorn Again llties are apparently not worryi was Mr- Acorn who, at the i935 fall session, confessed that his election was entirely due to St. George's Day. w He aloud have ‘received only six cents per mile on the second 5,000 miles and foiir cents thereafter. The seven cent rate was discontinued a year ago, as it was found to be- more expensive than the old system of supply- ing cars to officials, which Mr. Acorn and his colleagues denounced as unnecessary extrava- gance in 1935. ~ Mr. Acorn’s two budget speeches were notable in one way: they contained no reference what- ever to the budget. Mounting deficits and liabi- ng him. Yet it the Liberal platform-namely, the o balance the budget annually. Was he he stalwarts who, according to our con- declared that if this was not done d never run again"? Editorial Notes l‘ I? 1i Tomorrow first Sunday after Easter. w w w w General Pershing, Commander-in-Chief of the ./\.E.l<‘. whose life was dispared of recently, has made such a remarkable recovery that he was able to attend his son's marriage in St- Thomas Church, New York, yesterday. w w w w Governor Lehman of New _York has signed the Desmond bill requiring applicants for a mar- riage llCCllSJ to take a seriological blood test for ithin twenty days prior to taking out The bill, which goes into effect July I, makes New York the ninth State to adopt such a law and supplements, in the drive against social ehseases, the Twomey-Newell bill, signed two months ago, which requires the tests for pregnant womcn- Other States operating tinder are New Jersey, Connecticut, Illhode Island, New l-lampsliire, Kentucky, Il- linois, Michigan and “lisconsin. w w 1i i? “Modern scientists now know many things about China from I400 to 1100 RC. unknown even to Confucius, who lived only a few cen- latcr," declares C- Martin Wilbur, archaeologist of the Field Museum of Natural China's earliest historical epoch, the. Shang period. has been restored to world his» tory bv archaeologists ivorkint: in Northern China during the past ten years, Discgvorigs w. veal that the Sliangs, about lioo R.C._ could write, worshipped their ancestgr_s_ had a social order ranging from kings to slaves and excelled in bronze casting and carving of fine jade. he explaikns in Field Museum News. * 1k llr ‘The steady increase of taxation is what is lfllllllg industry and heaping up unemployment. If the Canadian Government is in a position to spend $40,000,000, or there-abouts, in an at- tempted artificial stimulation of business, it can just as well afford the infinitely better method of relieving business of a. corresponding fin- ancial incubus. If something like the suggested sum were to be turned back by the Government into the normal channels of trade and indus- try, says the Gazette, the results at which the priming policy ziims would be more certain of achievement, would be accomplished more quick- ly and would be more permanent_ w w w w “Chartwell,” Winston ChurchilYs magnificent country place in Kent has been withdrawn from the market less than three weeks after he an- nounced that he was “prepared to consider" its The announcement was conditional upon a “sufficient offer,” which presumably did not develop, but Mr- Churchill now plans to sell some of the outlying ground. This would carry with it a. segment of the famous brick wall that he built himself. The veteran statesman who recently completed a monumental biography of his ancestor, the first Duke of Marlborough. has now begun an equally lengthy history of p, the British people. Whatever prospects he had d. "ll" Ammis “W55 fol‘ milklnl; 9- Secmlfl bud‘ of entering Prime Minister Neville Chamber- get speech was that one of his remarks ivhen the 13in’; Cabinet Seem to 113v: been destroyed by 1115 llousc was in committee on the Lobster Dealers’ IBill had not been reported in The Guardian. Isle flail said that he was speaking in the fishermeps ihterests and not as a packer; and l‘? lmllllcd that this remark had been suppressed for parti- pire essay contest arranged by (he National him reasons. Mr. Acorn evidently does not read liis own party newspaper, which carried, on iApril i4, word for word the same report of his ‘vflm- who forgot m 51g ‘statements as The Guardian published on the khorning of that date. The fact is, of course. at committee discussions, unlefts of special blic interest, are summarized in the press, for e good and sufficient reason that the public ould not endure wading through the columtlfi _ verbiage that would be required for a verbat- itn report. In this case, all the packers who i‘ oke on the Lobster Dealers’ Bill professed ‘to he speaking in the fishermcn’s interests-a f ‘which docs not seem to have made very much impression on the Ilon. john A- Cflmllbcll- ii Mr. Acorn explained that the item in the Pub- ihc Accounts, “Fishormens Ixian Hoard._ Ad‘ ‘ministration, Expenditure $5093.66. Efillmflle $2 40o" was wrong; that it included an item $r:4o7.3o for interest “which by no stretch of the irrmgination can be construed as being ad- nlinistrative costs. and therefore should be de- ducter ." Why then wasrft it deducted? Why didn't Mr. Acorn correct the error when the Public Accounts were tabled? Why blame any- one but himself for "not discovering” it? And by what "stretch of imagination” does Ct?“- clude that The Guardian was responsibe 0f this blunder? "Mr- Acorn sairl that “owing to an error" ‘in, dictation, hishptiblfihcd speeflp Zfiinlélmélafi lslzalteg ' , a rms ca . reporter by mm w 5 leagc he had cover-ed in two years, not "last year." That was figure 12,229 represented the mi Mr, Acorn’: error. 110i 0""- Bllllll . led whereas this rate should onlY ha" . and inner of one of the prizes in Ida M. Jacobs, o script she sent in descri Albert Hall last May and pirc youth movement_ Alfred Noyes, the fam- of the judges of the 500 from all over the world, was ffort he awarded a prize the author could be found. rid other London papers f several lines from the were sent to the vari- ized her handwritting e--an autographed ous poet, and one essays that came so taken with Ida's e for the essay provided The Daily Express a printed a facsimile o composition and excerpts ous Doniinions- Ida recogn and wrote claiming the priz copy of Mr. Noyes’ works. w w w The case of a boy whose head tick ed in The Daily Mail of London. Four years ago, it says, brighteyed 10-year-old Peter Pompa of Camberwell Newroad, S.E.—happy that his attack of measles was cured-put his arm round his mother’: neck and said: “Listen, mummy, I sound like daddy’s ‘tick-tock’."- Mrs. Pompa put her head to his ear; “tick, tick, tick." The sound which seemed to come from the back of his head was just like the tick of his father's watch. Not that Peter worries. “Listen if you want to." er listened and Peter was keeping perfect time. "At my old school they used to call, me the boy that swallowed the waitchfl’ he said- “Sometimes Tknow how I do it; I just think about it and itistops. But it al- ways starts again." MrgPomparaid: _"Spccial- tick! will probably stop in Peter mdy ngtjworry~~now,; but it might he grows older." The ex lnnation furnished by The Daily Mail’: medi- dentiiu that a blood vessel in the skull has probably developed a small , and that with each pulse hm ~ , it reverberatea suddenly a the blood ‘enters it ‘lillflldlllshi! lllmnllnlrran -- ~ p the tick. ,I- don He admitted that he improperly received iris uytllat the i gem; per mile for the full mileage travel- _ on hisnérves when a m4]; first 5,000 miles. On discovering f 5 lie culculatldthe remaining rnilelg! his. found that lie hail "' ‘ funded this to decision to make a speaking tour attacking the present British foreign policy. w w w w Council ofEducation for Canada has been found. f Pontadawe, Swansea is the n her name to the manu- bing the youth rally in her ideas for an Em- t p It THE‘ CHAR good sine girl out o1 holes Biber nnd sticking in. Anmfltar-Bllffalo News. blind persecution . Herald Tribune. The Slate o! Virgina’; plan to u“, of pedestrian deaths on the open highway seem; a1 together sensible, Under a bill pas- sed unanimously by bath house; of the general assezntfy and s‘ by Govern-er James H. Price, Slate Highway Commission will build sidewalks along the most heavily travelled roads- Guelph mitmerits to be ope time But thn majority of Canad- ians would like a more ccurageous alnlv a more hrnes ex- amination ol’ our place in world affairs, Are we making our proper ion to a common cause? is more than an a n to those who have refus- ntiiv the trim‘: which is vital‘ ed to give the cou declara-‘fon of policy l_v iieedmL-Hamlton Spectator. Commons is mu easy ‘in debate 0 House. And less stiff with Over there members on the tr sit wilh their e clerics table. and scores keclp their hats on: tizttonnal. Over here f a. hat seems to have Sir George hlle a. member with his desk, let alone the uld be in peril of Otta- than clerk's table, wo commitment to the tower.- ‘l’ of her coastal tons. 3J6 SD IIUIHETGUS elr hands in glee e grieving-Clark in A feeling o! pity is and t a genuine sense o gllun 091i with R sits several years Exchaxi to his honours besfo to his disgrace now. This is less. waste; it Ls right that we rncd when such n. man goes For collapse ot such a man basic questions of the proom wh him. He had ev on his side: as there were slmrply no New York A Montreal news laces that. the Hon. Bonn Dussaui Quebec, minister o he first freighter o! o Mont/real not usual for ag tars to pilot. frel the Em- rioultural ghters but. the story M Dussaul l rlvute life is a river pqllot, It; may be that M Dus null man in Premier Durp‘. been ind some need of a prof. lp oil.’ state. The outside the prov- ll not be so much of agriculture but how it is happens to be u1iturs?--Hallfax to guide the sh wonder to those minister of ogric in not to be rl idly do! ications s is report- kept- nwtvt. If this amtlul. what cause fu- the mpionage o governman to less cutout perhlni. He just grins fled Staten-Fibrou- Mail. The repute‘ It isbfiwmugh but iii are taking it. like miem-llidilwuilige 511d l-hfin there in the story o! the business man wiho hated about methods. He made a, v11 leaving his fortune directly t0 m; Toronto Saturday What oounts h not the Com- munist laibel but the actual concerning what the indivi guagyocatedrpr u! 511F110 . 01w the great difficulties about efforts to com- bat subversive radicalism ease with which laws to that end may be converted into engines for witch-binning and -—Ne'w York _ setting up of n lamts Office" has been ad- tliat thither the foreign tourist might fare to mark complaint. The idea ls already in operation in France, fit of tourists. May sometimes hinted burst acts in such a. capacity for Muskoka. We won d hone duties o! such an office here would be light. -Muskoka Herald for the bene- or Panter has that Graven- No one would" call for any bel- llscrent oratory 0n the part. c1 our e would {ilk fyr com- nly made at this Iimish House of eh more free and ur own dignity. The pace at which Great. Britain forward in her rearmu- be seen from Canada's This dominion wants to man some But. orders in Britain that by Canada can- ored {or at least three munitions companies l steam ahead in Eng- oldcrs of munitions ccm- stocks must. be rubbing ven i! mothers be killed are ‘Ilhe Windsor elusive thing and in If uleldnscoplc interests Wfl lned. But for teruninen uld not be publish- dlscusslon o1 Inn administrative m affair. have always t, other side of the line." with only when ofllc‘ authorized or releascd. Wh partisan lnlon u there that the actual do are. and m were not. es- could than be scarves that an m! that the of new marten rntiquo tOIOOIO:1( 3 I i‘. s rill i ‘é _ cuauoraive‘ ‘IIUIES BY TIIE WAY i I‘ IIll-Il In one who xcsuitn from um- PUBLIC ’ FORUM fluoulunnhonoul corrsr What do the neighbours say? Check your ex- perience with their-g, union in. M1108. 5nd Ioldmn Cardin d it in n, hole run nurrrmo uoisurunu Each day we give ygu exactly what some 0th. er Maritimer took the trouble 11.0 sit down, write and mail to u; They are simply sincere expressions of Opinion by people keenly inter. ested in Coffee, in the some way as you are. Journal. Falcon Farm roimd- nubile lnlpk of exec ‘s m w._ have we not . mion to learn “the way mut- here if n halt is not thInkinB whom the Gods antotivu who ob- ave sot the honesd tarlo alone where , man {thin itself. It is ‘man, and ‘brother-X He mankind a‘: a. irla-rie, The dun‘ our Lezislutura o! committed him L9 p“, Bsidrcwaler, N. S. government turn uiem. 1r they do they when the electors DISBATI ruin curl‘. "I shall nlwnyu u]; (o, "RED ROSE Como." w, u“ RED ROSE Tea. and have ni. W37! Iflllnd It. delicious." ns-sc thing aumwherc ines wlbh the plain mformthohorlzonJrohimth-a Inflfiflflllllifl-l, is been angle-shed that all hold a special prayer meeting magi; for Divine h whammy m“? Italian B-Sllloiogers of’ I that have come t 18R T. H. ESTABROOKS, C0» LIMITED Snlnt. John, N3, d on by the breweries and those who have mo SILENT (IPALSID of Assembly has w“; e Charlottetown 3 mm have been silent on the labor quest t: cries have their prey? I am. Sir. etc" YOUNG PEOPLE'S FRIEND CLYDE RIVER BRIDGE Mohammedanism mlssrs . 811d Barlow. mi uprooted peasantry, “m, l the metaphysical gloom angel, and misery of tileli- own IDQsto y’ vskl- Pelwlllfl-llv lwmenlnk for h‘, o n Land and lut/cerly hating m” 5 1W BTW world. 1M0 ‘ ohrist has tempted t}; were the men who were the unemploye work Mter they weree any wonder that the their critical st inizmen have beco are heartbroken from . o! Jupiter with Mer- Sir,-At-ter reading your da ken from the Public “Clyde River Bridge", ance the Budget", I like many others. a. this bridge totalling ,5 Take the Public Works r i936: West River Bridge. timber bridge-NI It. two large approach . Com of’ those two brid e his "H118 l0 llllwe astrologers. 1s to be heralded by the conjunction °¢ Jupiter with the Moon. The influence or this theory may the faibaiistic "philoso- efs “Decline of the ‘fixation? The work- me restless. They symbolism, Neo-Pytl.ia_ and a "d, Euclidean iigi-athemattilcs, Yllhologica hex-pram ion 0 or Goethe's Faust. Spengler prdn- llmlkhfr. the lintlchrlstéc epoch was conceived in the womb or the Roman the higher studies i; But] slowly starving catechism of Christian ii . The relief izlven ou for the addition- izes. I1 Clyde River lair estimate oi 1 and it it were not al charity from ch institutions conditions been that the muiorlty of the DB 01 Petersburg in 1703. H” n?!» "n19 mil-TWIN! in Raisslan ls Peter the Gieat.....'I‘lw or Moscow the . ft mlgih Mt- ol’ a primitive pa. "wt momma o! Maocalbean hatred as West River a For!“ A t ' GI‘ us rlan t" airhnaai Offlflal “lvlissing” botract ‘*- wlll notice two items, un- _ $1.00 and the BOn- nie Scot not $19.80, aim times as much as poof Pat. verse the whole qu white elephant. took the McMillan ndminls a howl would go quarters said today Wilhelm Emanuel Von Ketteler, na- slstant to Franz Von Papen when the latter was Ivlinlster of Austrlg, god‘ beep dismissed some time ago av m: d i; hiizh Nazrlciciiiifrterime dlsplem" by I 1m" P8148. the Holy Alliance. and the connect- ol the Great Powers. And this a. mtlonnlity Whose d“. tlnv should have been w live WTlLh-n Wl "- mm"? for some generations m“ scare ‘ml e soul o i old Russia wus simply in Lube per 1m . and sciences, nu ma; B31168. the rniiterlzl m cities, were introduced, although in ai 3135 Dre-cultural time religion wag '11s only l-flnsllose 1n which man In the wwmeni hind with us 9mm. Their children nee building-up tuni ' u our Drum“ uhereabouta are unknown. poor Put can say ake his medicine an tho faithful thir- elr desks crying not balance the unforeseen expendit- een expenditure for ants like Clyde River dge is putting it mildly. d I this bridge. t0 of th allsm 151113’ ‘like gmwnvs to administrated by or lwrld‘ m l 6mm ere are lacy‘ gloves to match. residency mlmd which was spread s 8 t!» market. The imitation BLUOII F000 FOR PALE AND THIN PEOPLE ‘gill-Elixir the s01 Mbbher , yr}, '1 SBU-SIBDtl-llfn and WW9. 0 administ ti - ders. but that. WIIIGIIB ihne an embodiment of fie. _.l?"jl on an n upset-ll! the treatment ol l: flush‘ er occasion ol carrvln ferent denartmen tlons were neve tgiee mafia! where it ne.c . I am, Sir, etc-- not based on he rich but. on In the waste. lchaxd Whitney of Grown, four twenty-seven ustnesc experience, an in- (ncc-ordlxig to theprclba- 1 per cent. a. five-times plriehsgidgpcy re adds our A nox now m. an MATHEMATICS AND CULTURE Mill 02ers Promo"! 0t the lihble wher -———— d“ mm should be. a. resold Pie-all" on the front page thep compliments. . You hearken. nu IQlIOW, _ _ _ beret down in myJitEB-Ili? 1116135 l1 WhOODLnI or ice in me Th0 nan reels a start. snow-melted torrents arc 11118 The hill-s. creme-misled and blue, A10 touched with the voice o1 tne rumou- Unsuiliea and new. 0f Y0“? 00 p were veg-y intfirwiilllB. to slllflle REVIEWING THE SESSION OINTMENT cases or Intornl should as to th loh created eiry human break the Judge said, extenuating Pest. houses of frost are deserted, eir slumber is broken and cone. d pale are the portals Awaltinl the sun. The bands o! 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