" elicit: mu. lllE IHIABLOTTETOWN GUARDIAN Itnideut-W. Cheater B. Ale-Lure. Vlce-Pruldent-J. B. Burnett. secretary-Liam. fol. D. A. lllnriilnnnn. h. n. 0 ' Editor and Manager-d. n. Burnett. minim-mi, Morning Dally llonmled llitil) $5111 per your [£50 per your (In nit-lure) mulled Associate Editor-D. K. ‘Currie. .____.__.-___i-.__.__.- tln advance) delivered. In (‘anmlu and United Stllel. WEDNESDAY. Is Mr. King Responsible ." ‘The question has already beer. ask- ed by Hon. R. B. Bennett; Is Prime Minister Mackenzie King really re- sponsible for what he says? The lead- er of the Government has- made so many inconsistent statements during the present election campaign, he has said so many things that are at variance vrith, facts, that the most charitable view‘ for his party sup- porters to take is that Mr. King's memory is failing him. His flat de- nial of the notorious. "five-cent piece" speech in Parliament, Iiotivith- standing that this meet-h is on record in Hansard, is s. case in point. An- other striking example of irresponsi- bility is found in nu attitude tr wards Maritime claims. As every Maritime elector knoivs, the most im- , portant of these claims, namely, n- ldjustment of subsidy which was urgently recommended to the Gov- irnment four years ago, is st;ll out- ltanding. Yet in his speech at Sydney the other night Mr. Kin; declared; "I stand here tonight and say lo the Maritime Provinces that there is not. o. irmljor rccoinntcilclatioil in the Duncan report. not a recom- mendation of any real significance today. that we have not carried out in letter and in spirit." Here is the recommendation of the Duncan Commission with respect to subsidy readjustment: I “It follows from what. we have said. that both in respect of grants for the machinery of government" and in respect of debt allowances, the Maritime Provinces have satis- fied us that they have a genuine claim to a readjustment of the fin- ancial arrangements that exist be- tween the Dominion and themselv- es. and that in any rcadjustmcnt their territorial limitations entitle i-hcm to still further consideration. The terms of readjustment are ob- viously a matter for detailed do- termination and assessment. so that the actual amount~as well as the reasons and purposes attach- ing to lt-can be recotzitiztcd by the rest. of Canada as fair and equit- able. It is not possible, therefore, to make a final recommendation as to the increase and form of Do- minion aid which is rcutiircd to satisfy the just claims of the Mari- time situation, hut we recommend that the Dominion Government should give 1 ‘late considera- JUNE 25, 1930 this Province‘ is entitled to receive from the Federal Government is the anlnunt specified by the present ‘Premier and published with his eu- lthority on the editorial page of the {local Liberal organ on January 2i ' last. i in the circumstances, and in view of the extraordinary contention of ‘ Premier King that he has fully imple- mented the major recommendations ct the Duncan Commission, it is in- ~ cumbent upon the Provincial Govern- ‘ ment, which boasts of being “in line" ‘iwith the Liberal administration at l Ottzuva, to remind Mr. King that our subsidy claims have not been set- tled and that no settlement can pos- . sibly be considered that does not take into account the full amount of our claims, 53.372.166.57 cidy plus $200,000 cash payment. namely, sub- i A Poet on Poetry ‘ Poet: have occasionally been moved to write in prose in defense of their art, not because poetry needs defense ,in any age, but because its value and Ipurposc are so little understood by Ithose who do not read poetry. It is ldoubtful whether one can be argued into an appreciation of something which, after all, is a matter of taste; but those of our readers to whom the Poet's Corner makes an ‘appeal will find satisfaction in the contention advanced by Mr. Alfred No_vcs, English poet, that the value of poetry lics in the fact that it is a. means of increasing the real values of life itself. “Most people. at the present flay" says Mr. Noyes, "are sleep- walkcrs. They are alive. but they ore notrcally awake, and they do not realise their own miraculous possessions, or really perceive the world around them. They are hypnotlscd by their own routine, even when it is a scientific rou- tine involving observation of ft certain order of facts. and they spin round like humming-tops, fast asleep. "We know how amazingly this is sometimes discovered when anything happens to disturb that routine. tve have only to think of what would happen to our minds if (through some climatic change) the trees were to break tlon to the whole of this subject, :44;- a- Ga“- ta a “mg-ea of the financial arrangements as between them and the Maritime Provinces.” Will the Hon. Cirrus Macmillan, Minister of Fisheries, who was a member of the Commission which submitted the above recommendation to Premier King on September 23, 1926, say that this recommendation was implemented “in letter and in spirit"? Or is it his lenders cont/en- tlon that this was not a “major rec- ommendation" and is "not of any real significance today“? Surely, if Mr. King isnot completely irresponsible for his statements, it was imncccs- sary for him to add insult to injury by telling a lilarltimc aildicncn at Sydney that he had implemented "in letter and in spirit" this most im- portant of all the Duncan Commis- sion recommendations which he had ecflously ignored for the past four years, and the satisfactory settlement of which. to this Province alone, ac- cording to Premier Lea would mean increased federal subsidy three and a quarter million dollars. of over _Our Subsidy Claims However unimportant the belated settlement of the subsidy claims of the Maritime Provinces may appear to be to Premier King. there can be little doubt about the importance of these claims to this Province. Thc pamphlet submitted last January by Premier Lea shows that Prince Edward Island is entitled to an an- nual subsidy of $3,372,166.57, plus $200,000 cash payment for damages arising out of expmprilliml of the paltcn ssnatorlum and for mainten- ance and improvements in public buildings. And in this estimate Ex- Premier Saunders assured the Legis- lrlttlliil-hllgMf-"LQQ had erred, if at into leaf only once in n. genera- L-fx. and . t: appear c: the carih only once in a quarter of a century. , "The beauty of that liipcarancc would be. almost overwhelming. We should walk in wonder and nvte through our fields and woods and an npple-botuzh in blossom would seem to us, then, the mir- acle that it really is. "1; i5 in this quickening oi the senses, not. to airy nothings lshakespeare gave that phrase to a representative of statccraft, not. to a citizen of the heavenly city.) that poctrv has its great part to plav in our modern life. It quick- ens us to miraculous realities. To enter into the kinlldilm 0i U939 poetry is to enter into the real v:orld, the intelligible world, a world that is for more solxl and sure than that which surrounds most people " can.’ __________ Editorial Notes Premier King told his Charlotte- town audience last Saturday that he was anxious to go for a scrim on Sun- day afternoon. Nothing like getting into training for his long submer- sion tinder the flowing Conservative tide. T110 warmth of the reception tcndci~cd lilrssrs. Myers and McLure atthe Conservative rally Monday night was another evidence of the sentiment of the electors of Queens County in favor of the candidates supporting Hon. Mr. Bennett's Can- arla-first trolley. With Dr. Cyrus Macmillan and Mr. Ian Mackenzie taken into the Minis- try, Mr. King's pro-election Cabinet re-organlziaticn is over, but the Pre- changes after the election. Well, as the Ottawa Journal suggests, Mr. King will likely have to get rid of his entire Cabinet and tender his own resignation after the election‘. but meanwhile a lot of his captains must be wondering why the Premier wants to get rid of them. The thin; m. aéitiause of moduli-v. We ml? n» it, engage, that-tho lesstthgt hardly fits in with the claim that the Ministry is 100 peritoneal/aunt. 4 mier has promised “more extensive“ Notes By__The Way‘ When the Dunning budget was brought down on May 1st, Mr. Dun- nlng turned his first somersault. He proposed s. fixed duty after declaring a seasonal tariff imposible in Can- ada. Then l8 days later-on May iii-he scrapped his fixed duty and, adopted the seasonal tarifl’, thereby] completing the double somersault. If] he could change twice under pollti-I cal prcxstirc in this period what hope have the public that. all the tariff, schedules won't be torn to pieces to? meet. political expediency if the King Government is returned. With an Mastic Liberal imagina- aiion and : shock-absorber satisfac- torily functioning, the driver of a car might persuade himself that the roads at present are in a condition] to deserve the culogium handed out to them recently inthe local Liberal organ. To the driver who is obliged to take the bumps as they come with- out. the aid of an imagination, the, roads in this province for the past, few weeks have been more cut up with ruts than they have been in many years. And this at. the beginning of the tourist season. There may be ex- tenuating circumstances, there may be reasons for this condition, but to‘ call such roads the best we have had is only to draw attention to their] defects, and to give visitors the im- presslon that we don't know the . meaning of the word roads. fix-Postmaster Vfinioi is truejo type. While campaigning in the rec- ent New Brunswick election, we are told that. he did so as a citizen of the Province, rather than s: s. Cabinet Minister seeking preferment in the coming election. A rose by any other name, etc. Within five weeks the King Gov- ernment adoptecl four different tar- iff attitudes: (i) No tariff at all on fruits and vegetables, t2) No seasonal tariff; l3) A fixed tariff; t4) Replace- ment of the fixed tariff with a seas. onal tarlffand this is only one lrr-‘l stance. What hope can be entertained l of a stable tariff under such cir- cumstances? .__.'_. The Hon. Chas. Stewart's most sig- nificant statement. during the 1930 budget was that wherein he let the cat. out. of the bag and indicated the real reason for the amazing feature oi’ the budget. “I think the Minister of Finance has shown remarkable skill in producing a. tarifr which comes so near to pleasing all kinds oi divergent opinions." Hon. R. J. Manna, in his speech fittingly summarized the Dunning budget in these words: “The more it is investigated, the‘ more sham, deceit and humbug you find it contains. The budget ls a queer mixture of free trade and pm- tcctlon, of British preference and, American preference of tariff stabll-i ity and tariff imbecility. In other words the object of this budget; is to get the votes of both the protection- ist and the free trader by decgjv- _ing the one and betraying the 0th- ier." The countervailing dutymeans no. "lint; more nor less than equality of duty. For instance, u the Unitcd slates Charges Canada a duty of $1 on a certain article, that will be the, rate of Canadian duty on the same‘ article coming into this country from “is United states. 1t is, indeed, the "brick for brick," policy of which we, have heard much in other years. i‘ Knowles. were the disaster that; cost him his life, that. he had brok- en the world's record for speed boats! Sir Henry Scgrave probably met‘. death in the way he would havcI chosen. He had been driving racing "a" t°° 19118 to be unaware that every time he set out to attack e. re- cord he took his life in his hands... When at Miami he drove his car, The Golden Arrow, at the almost in- credible speed of zar miles an hour,‘ he said that the slightest shifting of] his grip on the wheel, causing the‘- ‘merc-st change in his arrow course, would have meant instant death. ‘Having made this record, hc turned ‘his attention to the driving of speed- ,boats and as the event proved had in iMlss England II. a craft capable of ‘greater speed‘ than ever before was made by a. boat without wings. The world's championship would, in all probability, have fallen to him this {summrr in the course of the inter- national contests, and he would thus have had to his credit the two su- preme records of motordom. Even fame that comes to a man who drove lthe fastest mile on land and the [fastest mile on water ever to be rc- ICOYdEd- The British lilmplre mourns a very gallant gentleman in the loss of Major Segrove. The Fisheries News Bulletin of British Columbia gives the follow- death has not robbed him of the‘ "mil: Cnalztxrrrcrnww GUARDYAR) 80hr . of ' your! By lmuW BaIIImUD. DON'T NEGLECT _ JAUNDICE You have seen an individual with jaundice, that yellow tinglng of the! skin, and perhaps have wondered‘ what caused this condition. As a matter of fact, there are a number of conditions that may exist. 1st. Somethlna may be pressing on the little tube that carry the bile away from the liver and gall blad- der and so the bile is forced back in- to the liver, is carried away by the ..._,_._._.. __._._.. THE SIGNIFICANCE or ARITHMETIC (Donald ‘was I... the North Ameri- oan Review) I PROFESS to no llllrtloular pro.- judioe against arithmetic. The ghastly stuff probably bclcngs some- uhere in the civilized scene. and I was once a sabre-untied shark at it. 1 could assimilate s. staggering column of figures. multiply It by g. cook-caved decimal fraction, divide it. by aleast common denominator or anything else that was handy, and carve it neatly int) fractions and cube roots, until the cows come lions». Jrlienoe I went further into higher and wilder mathematics. In spite of Whloh, I now confess that I can't lay a slice of linoleum beneath the kitchen sins without a paper pattom cut out by my wife's loving b1°°d- and °i °°“1'5° 5°95 “F11 Pa?“ hands. The net residue of some of the body, including the skin. This may be caused by gall stones, or by a growth. 2nd. Some infection gets into the blood, and of course goes almost dir- ectly to the liver where it inflames the liver cells. One of the jobs done by these liver cells is to take the yellow coloring matter made up from broken down blood cells, and use it to form bile. If however the liver cells are inflamed by an infection or pois- on entering the blood they cannot do this work properly, and so this yellow coloring matter remains in the blood and of course tlnges everything yel- low, including the skin. 3rd. Certain other types of infec- tion attack the blood and destroy so many red blood corpuscles, that. there is too much broken down substance in the blood for the liver to handle, even if the liver cells themselves are healthy. Dr. Wm. Msgner. Toronto, advises that where there is jaundice, it. isi well to remember that in the major- ity of cases it is due to some infec- tion in the system, and the treatment is the same as in any other infection -—rest.. Diet is most important, and means that meats and fats, must, be cut down, and the starches and sugars increased. In fact sugar ls most es- sential. Plenty of liquids must also be used. I ‘ Where the X ray or dye test meals shows that I. stone or growth h pne- ent it means operation, although not usually an immediate operation. The jaundice due to destruction o! the blood itself also involves an oper- ation, but upon the spleen, notthe liver. Don! negloa n “ht d fillies. even if you have no pain, no nausea. or no colic. Get to bed. send for your doctor. and treat the condition as you would any infection. It may not be of a serious nature, but it is s. sign that all is not right. and its cause should be investigated. gdéflfi FROM"THE DAFFODIL FIELDS" There are three fields where daffo- dils are found; The grass is dotted blue-grey with their leaves; . Their nodding beauty shakes along the ground Up to a fir-clump shutting out the eaves O1 an old farm where wind grieves High in the flr-boughs, people call This farm The Roughs, but some call it Poor Maids Hall. always the moaning", There, when the first green shoots of tender corn Show on the plough; when the first drift of white Stars the black branches spiky thorn, afternoons are evenings light, The shivering daffodils do take de- light. Shaking beside the brook, and grass comes green, And blue dog-violets come glistening celsndlne. of the Arid warm and and And there the pickers come, picking for town Those dancing daflodlls; ‘all day they pick; Hard-featured women, weather-beat- en brown, ' Or swarthy-red, the color of old brick. ' At noon they break their meats under tile rick. The smoke .of all three farms lifts blue in air As though man's passionate mlnd had never suffered there. -John Masefleld. ____._._____ More than 1,000 tons of food in- tended'for export are condemned every day at the Port of Inndon. iiii‘ ——-ni— couver to points outside of Canada no less than 1,213,607 cases of 4B pounds each. This total was slightly lng statistic! on the value of the sal- mon flsherles on the Pacific eout. In 1830 than was shipped from ill-iv lower than in 1928. but was some- what above the annual average for the l-YQLUQN 1806-103 _’44‘ twelve years of arithmetic amounts to this that I can usually remember my ovcn telephone number and know ilhe change from a live dollar bill. All the rest is gone of: into smoke. ‘I would willingly forget all this, except that the curse of my youth is now fallen upon my innocent child- ren. The oldest sen, for lristance, is periodically paged by one another of his young friends on the family tele- phone. The young gentleman on the other end has forgotten the assign- ment, which ought. to be reason enough for tfoitin’; heme-work with . the indifference it. deserves, but, isn't. He wants to know what the "problems" for tomorrow may be. My son says incredible things to him. I quote him verbatim. "Listen. now, and I'll tell you. ‘Find the angles of a triangle if the first angle is twice the second and the third is 15 degrees less than two time: the first. That's what I said . . I know. its cuckoo. but that's what it says. . , ." ‘ “mt. is arithmetic or something, and that is not all. I have a comely young daughter who. as the poet says, is standing with reluctant. feet where the brook and river meet. But she is also standing, for reasons known only be the pedagegues, up to her knees in arithmetic. She must beluddle her curly head ivith the bald language of the textbooks in rnailhmlldl. S!» and mud h’ evenings looking cross-eyed at a book whose principle Intention is to be as unintelligible as possible. I concede that it may be important. that a 13-year-old blonde should un- derstand 5 modicum d mathema- tics. But t cannot unmtand my she should bother mo. brokerage, or ivorry over rates of international ex- change smd lnsurancepremiums on a shipment of cotton bales.‘ And that's the sort of raw material which goes by the ton into arithmetic books. Nor is this all. The jargoneers who write the textbooks have no real in- tontion of being comprehensible, They take a fairly simple problem and tie a knot. break it in the mldd- 1e and tangle it in fly paper before they spring it on the budding mind of young America. Thh i presum- ably intended to compel the young-l sters to think. It is more likely to give them St. Vitus's Dance. This sort or thine ls frlght/ully hard 0n Parents. Father comes heme from his work end the children de-l scend upon him with the arithmet- ical Pflvlflgfi 0f a maniac. written in Jabberwoclty and illustrated by hieroglyphic diagrams in the key of B flat. And lie cant salve them. No- body can but a mathematics teacher, and he has nothing else to do. I consede that mathematics is probably a higillyymoral subject. But its demonstrable usefulness is to; tragically trifling compared to the trouble it takes. An unsuccessful ""111 “"111 mftlli’ have ocnsslon to make use of arithmetic, because he succesful man can buy 5, calculating machine or hire a bookkeeper, and do with out it. Schopenhauer -dis covered this obvious fact a century use when he w-rcte: "That arith. mctic is the basast of all the mental activities is proved by the (up, that it is the only one that can be accom- plished by a machine." an this, you will understand, is Ln foot a brief parable of protest. The mmfltniflfv grievance is arithmetic, but a dozen other educational ab.‘ surrlities would do nearly as well to get my steam up. . The Years or youth are nearly s, third of our allotted three score and ten. By consent of all poets "y; _ _ __ will never have anything to count. A \ llillllS‘ KID N EY- i’. // ,a. silver mug. and took the place by M R. KING KISSES (Ottawa Journal) We felt it in cur bones all alonBi _‘ that sooner or later this would hap- Pfiflt ' - RAY BRJOWN Canadian Press Staff Correspond- ent. RICHMOND. Qua, June Ill-A beautiful bouquet of peonies and a warm welcome was given Prem- ier King when his train stopped here for a brief interval today. The peonics were presented by Miss Mina Smith, daughter of J. l). Smith, president of the Liberal As- sociation c! Richmond Wolfe. “She would like to give you this bou- quet of flowers," said Mr. Smith. “I wish you would give me some- thing else," responded Ml‘. King to tihe little girl, then he kissed her. There was no speech. Mr. Bay Brown, who is a respect- able married man, moulded in the austere environment of the. Press Gallery, neglects to state the pre- cise or approximate number of Bum- mers of the young lady thus honored by our Premier, contenting himself with the mere mention that she was "a little girl." It was. we think, a grave repqrwrial mistake. In these decadent. days the phrase “little girl" frequently covers a multitude o! years, and e. first class chronlcler of the activities of our statesmen should be more meticulous about details of obvious and major importance. Mr. Bennett, too. is entitled to know the facts. ff this election is go- ing to be won by oscillation instead of oratory, it is important to know in just what force the enemy is going to attack. For our own part, wanting the Conservatives to win, we view what has happened with alarm. Mr, Bennett, a bachelor too, shouldn't really be handicapped in any such pleasant strategy, but. while we're prepared to put odds on him on the platform or in Parliament, we con-~ fess to an inferiority complex when it comes to accepting bouquets with the maximum of gallantry and grat- itude. In that field, we fear. Mr. King has the edge. Last yew‘. We recall, he went out to Prince Albert. turned up at a christening, produced storm. The truth is that at. either a christening or a. wake. Mr. King is in a. class by himself. He can look as sad u a man who holds Nickel at ‘n, m 1h he can mm mill- ing the depths of pathos, turn up at. s. wedding like a Rudy Vallee. Hence our alarm over this incident at, Richmond. It's up to General Mc- Ras tn make Mr. Bennett counter acme: gt, thg earliest possible date. cheerful philosophers, they are the gracious and generous years. when our capacities for life are way ahead of its responsibilities and hopeful energy has not been discouraged by experience. And they are short and go swiftly. So it might be supposed- that we -__.-_-._ .,___._________ Continued "on rut’: 6 THE LAND WE LOVI- n, rum anon INVESTMENTS IN CANADA Q. What are the estimated British and foreign investments in Canada? A. The Dominion Bureau of Sta- tistics estimates that the total British and foreign investments in Canada on January192B, was $5,742,043,000, 33385386000 being from the United States; $2,209,517,000 from the Britfsh Isles and $245,740,000 from other countries. These large sums should be considered in the light of the fact that Canada's national wealth is esti- mated to be between 27 and 30 bil- lions. or about five vmes the amount of invested foreign capital. Canadians 'alao own from 55% to 65’; of the sccrities of all enterprises located on Canadian soil. On the other hand, Canadian investments in foreign countries is estimated at. $1,579,0'l4,00o or more than a quarter of outside in- vestments in Canada. JUNE 2s, HEW IIATs J ust. arrived by Express, a large shipment of Ladies Mohair Hats. Speial . .. $1, Q Also a. new line of Ladies’ Sport Hats in stitched Silks: Crepes and Tweeds. Sptcial at $3.93 We have also re Tame in Whites and a ceived a large assortment of Aug“; ll Pastel shades at $2.2‘ . Q-Q-O-O-UO-Qwi- Q +Q+OQQOQ4§§OOOQ --" *0 eoo¢o¢o0o0ooa>+oo+ TRY BRAHMIN -._.__. s To get the real refreshing flavor of tea Sold "Only in Red Airtight Packages OQGO-QO-QQOQ-QOO-O-GO FQO Keep That Lawn Attractive Call at. our store and look over the many useful Lav-q and Garden complements. Mowers. Price."- $8.00 to $20-00. All sizes. We have real values in Lav-u Also. Rubber Hose. Rakes, Spziding Forks, Hoes, Grass Shears. 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