I ‘ organim ‘Insuring llnl; than!“ lllh “.10 pos- ysns- (In nlvnlroll y a ll The historic Legislative Cham- __ber, scene of,» many verbal com- jbsts, which in the past few weeks sever-hauled to the‘ voices of parliamentarians “going at it ham- I-grer and tongs," will be quieter sf- Zfir 12.30 p.111. today, wnen the ses- terminstes and l-lis Honour the Lieutenant Governor prorogues the House. The spate of figures. of argu- ments, of charges and counter- "charges, will form the subject mat- ter of many more debates when the election campaign opens. In the meantime, however, the mem- bers will return to their several homes. content to forget politics for a while. A‘. least we hope so. In the mood evoked by the pro:- ‘pect of -.\ silent ‘Chamber-desert- ed of all but the pictures of the legislators, past and present. adorning the walls, and the ghosts of so many once vital and now "dcad-and-forgotten political issues jostling each other for p< session of the vacant chairs—we were ‘about to suggest that the press might profitably do likewise. yBut we note that the ground “which the Opposition lost in the I Draft Address and Budget debates and attempted to regain in com- mittee on the Estimates, is al- ready being claimed by our con- temporary as a great Liberal achievement of some kind. Gov- ernment members, it is implied. had little or nothing to say for themselves, or tlielr departments. What they had to say will appear lhortly in The Xrdian. In the meantime, elsewhero in today's ls- sue. appears reference to the attit- ude oi f-fr- ‘Lea and. his colleagues in the matter of reduction in the salaries of teachers and govern- ment employees, made in 1933 and ' now repudiated. KING'S JUBILEE __ ‘The Premier of New Brunswick the House of Commons and Senate ‘has announrtrd the Provincial sr- "V 93mm“? lhXiW-B f0 get the - rangzments for the celebration of "Tithe King's Jubilee as laid downdn» ‘s memorandum from the Secretary ‘- oi Slaw. The Royal wish is that all cole- bration programs be ushered in by religious observances at either morning or evening church services on Sunday, May 5. Mayors of cities and towns are requested, wherever possible to provide for the conduct of civic and municipal celebrations but the caution is that "undue expense be avoided." The memorandum states that "the King will broadcast s message to the lilmpire on the even- Ins of Mar 6-” The details are given as follows: 1. Accession Day, Monday, May 6. I935, will be declared by the Dom- fnion government a bank holiday and s holiday throughout the civil services of Canada. The provincial government will proclaim that Ac- cession Day shall be a holiday In the public schools and‘ through- out the provincial services‘ of the province. 3. 'I'he provincial government has been advised by the Secretary of i State that it is the King's desire that local celebrations be held wherever practicable and that un- due expenditures be avoided. B. It is requested by the govem- rnent of the Province of New Brunswick that the celebration of Accession Day be inaugurated by special services of thanksgiving ssollmynvihnlvn-srnslrvnsd. Illlolhllllllllllllllodlhlfl. i arm l. ms. i g g Hg 3g Ifi=1g=mi 1>rovuiee of rreiTruTswics his sd- liament. ‘vised that ho will give s. state din- ner st Fredericton on the evening of May 6. MR. RALSTOWS OPINION Just before Christmas, Mr. Ral- sfon spoke before the Association of Life Insurance Presidents, New York. I-fe spoke on "Home Obstacles to Recovery." An admirable speech, logical, well-reasoned, it contained. among other things, this: "I don't intend to make you green with envy by going into par- ticulars today to show you what a Rreat country Canada is. I shall con- tent myself and relieve your feel- ings by saying at once that I have read the speeches which have been made to you by the Hon. Mr. Tas- chereau, Prime Minister of Que- bec; the Hon. Mr. Lapointe, and the Hon. Mr. Guthrie, both Ministers of J115Il¢€—i\i- different times—and the Hon. Mr. Rhodes, Minister of Fin- ance. I have read every word they have said about Canada. and I hem and now declare to you that l ad- mit it all. even though I seldom agree with anything which two of those four gentlemen ever say in the Houseof Commons." MY- RBIs-ton was not than speak- ing as Opposition financial critic. He was not doing a job. and be- cause he wasn't, because he was under no necessity of attuning his Words and mood to a political tradi- tion. he discussed Canadian and world problems with good sense 3nd reason. EDITORIAL NOTES Our local legislators will be m. tum“! hm" I055? after having concluded four year; work Tm next local parliament will have flve N. . 0m of the worst features of ti; touiidc with the opponents of this co try. If a dispute arises with Great Britain in any part of the world the Labour Party is almost certain tn range itself ‘against the the experience of recent years. whether it be in Moscow. Egypt. India, South Africa. or anywhere elscrflelfast Telezraph. For the first time in forty-one years, Pennsylvania has a Demo- cratic governor. For years Pennsyl- vania, appeared corrupt and con- tented under a Republican machine. in ill repute scarcely second w Tammany. The new man seems to be oi a dlflerent type. George H. Earle, Jr.. is a young man. a law'- yer, banker, millionaire and form- er polo player who has entered the political game, he says, to help "the unemployed. the helpless and the downtrodden.” and what is more he evidently means it. ' "All these cries and threats of ruin, if to; tariff were reduced or removed on various American pro- ducts, have been heard for years. and in i930 they resulted in new highs for tariff protection which gumly ought to have_revived Ani- erican industry if any-thin: would. The‘ historical fact is that th: tar‘- iii to which Mr. Hoover consented against his better judgment was the immediate predecessor. if not the gauge, of the grratdeprsssion. The gentlemen who are now telling Mr. Hull that his trade agreements will ruin i'\ nought not to be al- lowed to i0". e‘. that they had thrir way once and we are still struggling up from the ruinsJZ-Baltimore Sun. There is a double tragedy in the death of S/anley Siscoe. He had brought the mir: ame to a stage rewarding his struggles ing his rosiest dreams. perished of cold and hunger in the wilderness in one of those aerial exploring expeditions which pla so large c, part in the developmen of northern Ontario and Quebec. He could have remained at heme in comfort and affluence but adven- ture was in his blood. as in that of other brave men who have made that region one of the world's great treasure-houses. . at which they were and realiz- 5 Berlin despatches reveal an urn- azing coincidence during a lunch- eon at the British Embassy at ‘ instead of four, bringing it into line with the Dominion Par- The Mackenzie King-ites in both date oi the election; they should worry._it mu be too soon for their‘ Prospects when it does come. When a speaker of a certain type makes s. bad break he blames the reporter. But that docs not make him right, or convince his hearers that he is right. It does not even salve his own conscience, provldgd it is active. The UBA: Federal nnergency Relief Administration announces that the total number of men, wo- men and children now on the Am- erican relief rolls is 20,500,000. This figure is so immense that it dwarfs all other issues and draws into its orbit all contentions of political life at this time. 1n Hamilton, Ont... no sooner have they got their milk dispute settled than an egg racket breaks out. Trouble started 0n the Central Market when a dealer sold several hundred ' ns atom to two cents below prevailing levels. Farm- ers banded together in an attempt to stop the war by cutting their prices. Eggs were selling as low as 10 cents s doaen on Friday. The Marketing Act for potatoes is developing along logical lims. Willie the minimum price to be paid by wholesalers to producers is pegged. the price at which the retailers sells to the consumer remains open. In all the churches in the morn- ing or evening of Sunday, May 5, snd that the arehbishops and Jaishops, moderators and other tit- liar heads and clerfgy of all reli- gious denominations amist in the arranging for such services. ' 4. Jubilee medals will be present- Od locally to those to whom they have been awarded. 5. The provincial government re- quests that the mayors of ; rll civic and municipal centres local oelebratlons' where possible and take general supervision: of same and suggests ' that patriotic programs and enter- tainment for children be features ; if any such celebration. m." ‘s. The King will broadcast s message to the knpire on the ’ of my s. l“y' "I. Members of sil defence forces fihfponeetonsx-ticirutom any i _ ssuthoritios up which the! m _ vim. ‘ " rifles; ssrncisi sctof thanksgiv- illg on tbevbsrtor the clock of Canada on the occalm of, thil ...“‘ianlvsnuy u» lacquer-ounce: afford pse- ntJunu to so known‘!- - 6.60m v. simi- Jubilee 0m- ‘ ‘has initiated sa can! That ls. if a farmer chose to sell direct to a merchant at the mini- mum price, the merchant can sell to the consumer at s price which would eliminate tin wholcsolcfs commission. A Washington correspondent says: “There is grave doubt whether the National Recovery Administration certainty that the $1,000.000.000 Bonus Bill will not seventually be passed over President‘ ‘ veto: there is pending a measure which would corporations; thefe Is in the offing but the of , and worker in largo industries an entirely new footing: and there has been in the fut few dsys s llvvilrflblo report from the from labour committee on the Limdcen Bill. which. without providing s means of ralsihprevsnul. would oblige the Fcdcrsl-Qorwnment to pay unemployment and old-In Iaccident that they were lying in sharply increase the assets IA: on s ‘Trade Dispute; Bill which might which the German and British con- ferees were present. Adolf Hitler and Anthony Eden discovered by directly opposite trenches on a Great War battlefield exactly 18 years ago to the day of Beflhi 998°‘? conversations. Official figures show that during i934 nine Southern States-Alaba- ma. Arkansas. Florida, Georgia. Inulsiana, Mississippi. North Caro- lina. South Carolina and Tennessee —received $l45.04'l.000 in relief funds from the United states Gov- ernment. Those nine States and communities thereof. contributed the total sum 0f $4,584,000, or a little over 3 per cent. A bill new before Congress provides for a new a-p- propriation oi $4.000.000.000 for re- lief in some form, and. according to the “Congressional Record" of March i4 the above named stairs have already flied requests for $1.- 400,000.000, or more than one-third of that appropriation. Mayor Simpson's solution of the relief problem as outlined to the conference of mayors at Montreal is a simple one. It lg that the mun- icipalities should be relieved of the problem. This would indeed be the best of all possible worlds if we could dispose of all problems mere- ly by passing the buck. but for ob- vious reasong the relief problem is one that cannot be met by the Fed- eral Government or the Provincial Government. acting separately or together. The municipal government has not always been an efficient check, but it is the only government with facilities to serve as a check- Proper dlstribution of relief re- quires local administration an’! 5mm meagum of local financial re- sponsibility. The export of bacon and hams In February was of the value of $2.- 253000. or more than double WEI- of a year ago. While it is not a record since the British Empire Agreements wnnt into effect it is much higher than usual. The rec- ord was in March. i934. when the value was $2.787.000. This is an ex- port which goes mainly to the Unit- ed Kingdom. in February the amount to Great Britain was $2.- 244000 and in the record month $2,703,000, The next best purchaser last month wag the United States with $6.000. Jewelers appear to be disturbed over the circumstances that there are no boys today undertaking to will survive in anything like its learn the watchmalcers‘ art as ap- present form; there is no mplefe Dfemlws- A dfilllumrim "m" m” Canadian Jewelers‘ Amociation waited on the advisory vocational committee oi the Toronto Board of Education a few days ago to request the latter not to discontinue the classes in watch making at the technical ‘ ‘ as was being con- templated. The delegation stated thst there was not an apprentice in ‘ ' ‘ i--- in any of the Tor- ormto jewelry stores, and that the Association wis ‘ ‘ ‘ to the tech- nical schools for the watchmslsers of the future.-Moncton Times. The matter of the Polhh corridor I necessarily irritating to Gor- mlny. separating ss it does Dust Prussia from the rest of the Fath- erland: nonetheless it might be dif- ficult to ursngc otherwise. Donsig UNI! that cit especially British labour Party is its readiness I home Government. That has begn. ' rs which bare his b Then he I body action rate goes up five times y a . t being very warm. This continues for will be normal again and will have lost considerable weight._ "Ports 90 cases of overweight treat- ed by dinitrophenol points out that there are some cases where thyroid y. 1m the Atlantic to t extract is the proper treatment be- c t enough thyroid juice. But in cases . trophenol be given over a long per- itself has been flirting with rtesi- door ismsnditmlghtbopmsiblotors- of the Irv-irons.»- firs. nun-moms WEIGHT iligr-Arrgnuclrlrs ' MANNBB lxlncigg t lkifostnof the a e o from 4 to llpoundg dup- IIIB a half or full hour bout, but as they usually wrestle three to fly; times each week, they mugg u; em; lost weight back before the ‘next bout otherwise they would become thin 1nd stale. ( ‘ 'As they are usually hearty eaters they have no difficulty in keeplng their weight up to the desired point. In feet most oi them carry an gxtm 6 to_10 pounds to prevent gettmg "fine ‘qor stale. . However my point is that if a half to an hour's exercise and modern wrestling while spectacular and w. tertaining, is not harder than uthe 81111198. will take this much weigh€ on athletes in good condition, how valuable then it must be to those who are greatly overweight if they are willing to take exercise. The first tissue that exercise goes after to burn up is fat. This is be- cause fat is not an active tissue like other body tissues, but simply stored food or fuel as it were. Now there are certain individuals who cannot take exercise ior various reasons and as their weight ‘must be reduced for safety: .sake, some physicians are using the new drug dlnitrophnol becausedts effects are more nearly like exercise than any other drug. Experiments on men and animals show that the rate at which the body processes can be made to act Y dllliirophenol. may be five times the normal rate, whereas a safe amount of exercise cannot more han double the rate. ' In a dog under dinitrophenol the nd the animal shows evidence of some hours. By next day the dog Dr. J. Markowitz, Toronto, who ause the overweight is due to the hyrold gland not manufacturing where the thyroid gland is not at fault. thymld extract does harm by making all the body processes (in- cluding the heart) work too fast and yet does not reduce weight. lie ad- vises therefore that in those cases where reducing the food does not re. duce the weight small doses oi dim- iod of time as it greatly resembles exercse in its effects. A Peasant Poet (Winnipeg Free Press) John Clare. the peasant-poet of Northampton. who was born in hBIWWIIht wrestlers - ‘these islanck. "om ‘to musivuvidowv. this they In and frauds. is par- to other mglishm Gulf Stream sees frun afar- off the found this.ou_t. and envy may have had oometliuig todo with it. But they am scientific Prenchmenqand scientists, who are by profession exact observers, have observed ‘this very frequently about themselves. that they, almost a!0nc. are the disinterested and detached servants of the truth, without human pas- sions and free from all such petty vanities as the desire to be always right. The Gulf Stream, say these detached Frenchmen, never reaches us at all. It does start. it is true, in an easterly direction. but that may equally mean that it is thurklng of the pleas w of la belie France. Anyway it gels discouraged half-way across the Atlantic and steps. Just where polar waters are very much in evidence and thersaro no attractions and no good work to IIOH “SI-ll! AT SEA” Sound the deep waters:- Who shsli sound that deep?- ‘Ibo short t plummet, And the we hmeh sleep. Borne dream oteffort Up s toilsorne steep; Some dream of pasture grounds For harmless sheep. White shapes flit to and fro From mast to most; They feel the distant That nears them fast: Great rocks are still ahead, Great shoals not past; The! shout to one another Upon the blast. 0h soft the streams drop music Between the hills, And musical the birds‘ nests Beside those rills: The nests are types of home Love-hidden from ills, The nests are types of spirits Love-music fills. $0 dream the sleepers, Each man in his place; The lightning shows the smile Upon each face. tempest - - o t . . _ —Christina Rossetti. Longer Lives (The Times) Once again the figures of the Registrar- General bear- witness be done. the inefficient, lazy, dago of ‘a GulfSti-eam throws up tho sponge and falls down on the 10b- Greatly encouraged by this bad news the French scientific mission has gone even farther and ex- plained that in any case. even i! we had had special‘ attention from the Gulf Stream, the compliment is a complunent to Europe and not to which belong w the mainland‘ really and ought to ex- plain what they are doing on their own- The Rhine, that natural frontie . has‘ its natural exit in Scottie“ iatitu’ . Their witnesses are fish, haddock, and tunny fish who do not make any use of the English Channel when they want to he North Sea. not knowing about it yet, or being too snobbish and old- fashionedto take a. vulgar new short cut- It never occurs to the French investigators that there mil-Y be other reason-is for avoiding the English Channel. Nor need we take too much to heart the exposure of our Gulf Stream. because the benefits, such as they are. remain- somebody is doing something In take the edge off our ncthemness. and the field is open for countries who are anxious to be friends to The chief annoyance wlllbe found among sehoolmasters. If now it is geographyis turn to go, what certitudes are left, what subjects can be trusted to stay the same for s generation or so while a modern back is turned? 1793 and died in 1864, is to come into his own, chiefly owing to the affectionate labors of Edmund Biuncrn. Arthur Symon; also made n. selection from Clara's poems and. I think. wrote his life. And a. sel- ection was recently made from the voluminous body of hi; verse by J. W‘. Tlbble, who had written a bio- graphy with considerable detail. But It W85 Mf- Rlunden who examined that verse in the orthodox canon- ical way, and found most or it good. He is the real begetter of the apparent Clare revival. Sir William Beach Thomas. who writes on Country Life for the "Spectator," says that Clare was as good an ob- server In the fields as Richard Jefferies himself, perhaps the gent- est of English-natuie-writers. A Times Literary Supplement leader, unsinged, gives Clare and his poetry a Dilge-and-a-half, with Coliioiis quotations. The two vol- umes edited by Mr. Tibble contain the 560 Poems published during the unfortunate poet's life and after his death. adding over 300 never printed. And he tells that more are still in manuscript. outnumbering the 850 published. 8o that Clare must have composed without ceas- 1118. the numbers coming involun- Wy. No doubt what he needed was a thorough training in prosody and B kilowledse of classical poetry. One 0f the 800d poems quoted is “The 'I‘hrush's Nest." in which he makes the femfl‘?! a singer. And perhaps she had a song of her own. or it "my have been that her mate was Iielpin; to build the nest. At any rate. all the critics agree that Clare was a close oimrver of net. ilfe- Th9? Sill’. too. -that his weak- est vcrse will bear the light of day. H9 WM Dut to work as herdboy on a farm at seven: and from the be- ginning absorbed the beauty of the natural world. as many and msny a child and youth ha felt it before and B11160- Whc has not heard from a child some revealing word of such enjoyment’! Clare has told how he became a scrlbbler “for downright phasupg in giving vent to my feelings . . , 1: wrote‘ it pleased me in sor- row, and when happy it mares me feel happier. . . . l pursued piers- ure in mlny DlI-Ils and never found hfl‘ lo happily ss when I sang im- Hslnnry songs to the woodland lol- itudes and winds of autumn." Like Blake. he had visions and hsord men! as to denrive Poland of corridor. III Chlvllo. Grocer John legall- I i the Minus‘ roller skates, two boys turned w the um with s cum-as bsshebset it down you insfllc the‘ thlcovlnflstout new ~suusu' pipings In the air. He would listen to the blaclsbird. lark, nightingale and “envy their gift." "No matter how the lyre was strung. From my own inert the music sprung." ‘ A; to many a lover of the open air, growing things were “ o to him. Flowers. weeds, birds ‘thought and felt with him." "God was in Orion and in the primrose." I find it very pleasant to read about this remote, unknown child of the soil and his passion for the earth and skies. But his lifts as he lived is r sad story. Prom herding sheep an geese to working on a farm; thence to a tavern where he fell in love with Mary Joyce. whose father for- bade her having anything tn do with him; employment by a gardener, and camp life with gipsies partly make up the tale of his life until he some poetry published. Mary di and became to him Beatrice with a difference. He married. was given an annuity, lived beyond his means. became slightly insane. was in a private asylum and later in s public institution for the rest of his unhappy life. But he seems to have been writing verse steadily through- out, sane or insane. Whether he will become a vogue must be uncertain. The place that Mary occupied in his vision and dreams seems to have grown greater in later years as madness increased. ‘e dreamt of her till thri- end. and he -knew her as little as Dante knew Beatrice. It is rather interesting. She too. is a symbol. but a symbol of Nature. His "Rural Muse." and it my be “The Shepherd's Calendar." were noticed in the great "Quarterly Rs- vlcw." by Christopher North, who advised him to imitate Robert Bloomfield. an earlier peasant- poct. I should like a glance of that pronouncement which I_ could get in the old file of the “Quarterly” in the Provincial Library. I used ta notice when consulting those old numbers. that knowing renders suns/tunes wrote in pencil the sis- natures. For. untilrcccnt yours, the "Quarterly" articles-were . And who knows u. iessor John Wilson (Chrisfophoflforth) wrote looking through s douen anthol- step in and claim the, vacant credit. . thp review of (limb poems at all, that. as a people, the English are Blowing older. The birth-rate for last War remains low; the death- rate is lower still. Consequently the "oversee we" of the population is rising. There are fewer children; there are more old men and old women. It is a cheerless prospect, but there are mitigating circum- stances. The infant death-rate. for example, ~ is the lowest ever recorded. It was fifty-nine pe: 1,- 000 live birth: in the five-year period 1901-1906 the rate was 138, the lowest recorded until then. The death-rate again has been falling steadily. It was 16f] per 1.000 of the population in the five-year period- 1901-1905; last year it was 11.8, which is only 0.4 above that for IMO-the lowest ever recordecL Reduction in the death-rate has oc- cuned at earlier rather ‘than at later years. so that it is youth and 9N1? middle-age rather than‘ old We which have been saved. When that fact is set side by side with the saving of infant life fears of s ' prowess into national decrcpitude are allayed. Nevertheless the nation's crowd fl-N sfowihi; embticr. The birth- rate last year was 14.8 per 1,- 000 of the population. In three-year period 1900-1902 the rate was 28.6 PM‘ 1.000. Thus in twenty-thw Years the rate has been cut in hai This is a fall without paralied s~ far as is known in the history c this or of any other country. Mar explanations have been and are b Ink offered, including the view tlia fertility rises and fails in waves..li itis ‘thataperiodofris- ing fertility is also a. period of Greater activity of mind and body the industrial age has been u. counted for. But the evidence in whim-t of this hypothesis is not Very convincing. It would seem that fertility. bears a relationship to the standard of living and to be the religious and moral ideas by which . __7i BLOOD FOOD _I‘0I PALE AND THIN PEOPLE H. LAPTHO L. S. STEVENSON .\ "What Mullen. . 14o summons street. cbsrlotuion the birth-ale remained very high and the population increased 1n spite of s high death-rate, m", however, were years of hop, and of undinuncd faith in "pm. It may be therefore that, when better times arrive, the birth. rate will rise once more. depression birth-rates tend to ‘fsll not only because wages m lower but also because hope is diminished. 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