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FRIDAY. AUGUST 21, 1931 L;-gt-gimqvgégihog -$833,
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A recent Canadian P:ess des-
W, 1 t t that week. Stalin, complaining of "ir- fer their car for the funeral, re-
Pafch ffm* nn peg 5 B es responsibmty., among me workers fuse them, because they never ask-
an influx of United States citizens ed me to take B ride thou they
.
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looking f°" fam W°’k d“'|-“K the says' must have known how much an
harvest season has added hundreds
to the unemployment figures of
Manitoba. The statement. is made
on the authority of Hon. W. R.
Clubb, Director of Unemployment
Relief. Mr. Clubb has informed
Benator Gideon Robertson, Domin-
ion Minister of Labor, that hund-
reds have crossed the intemational
boundary illegally, and the Domin-
ion Minister in his reply has urged
the farmers to co-operate in com-
bating the situation by hiring only
Canadian help.
In Portage La Prairie, according
to the same despatch, it is reported
that between 150 and 200 United
States transients are begging about
the streets.
These facts indicate the changed
circumstances in which we live. A
few years ago it was impossible to
keep Canadian citizens from emi-
grating to the United States. Can-
ada was the dumping ground for
'American products, which in many
cases were turned out by Carrad-
lans working in the United States
for higher wages than they could
receive in this country. Today, de-
spite the still serious conditions in
many parts of Canada, we are,
comparatively with our neighbors
and indeed with the rest of the
,world, most fortunately situated.
Our industries, thanks to wise tar-
lfl' measures, are being maintained,
our agricultural-markets are being
preserved for our own producers,
and by judicious trade arrange-
ments with other countries within
the Empire we shall be in a posi-
Dion to take the fullest advantage of
the trade revival which will un-
doubtedly follow the present period
of wo:ld depression. Let pessimishi
EBV What they will, the relative
economic condition of Canada and
lhe prospects for future expansion
and development were never
brighter.
Breakdown of Communism
The Economic Review of the
Boviet Union, the semi-monthly
magazine issued by the Amtorg
Trading Corporation ln United
States, in its issue of August 1,
carried a leading article by the
Russian dictator, Stalin, containing
Excerpts from his speech at the cou-
ference of Industrial Directors in
Moscow on June 23rd last. There
Cen be no question of its authen-
ticity or accuracy of translation. It
is the official Ebiglish translation
of the official organ of the Soviet
Union, published over Stalin's
name.
Under the topic of "New Prob-
-101115 of Economic Construction"
this is what Stalin says in demand-
ln! new methods of leadership and
new conditions of industrial de-
."'°10Dment. After deploring that
hwy industries had not kept pane
Vltih the DIBIIS, he gays;
"In a. number ol’ enterprises
°“l‘ scales are so determined that
'the difference between skilled
Slld unskilled labor, between
hard and easy work has almost
¢0mDl€i2€|y disappeared. This
filualization leads to a situation
.Where the unskilled laborer is not
interested in becoming skilled,
havinl U0 D€I'SP€Ctlve of advance-
ment. Hence he considers himself
ii vlslwr upon the Job, working
Only N2mP0l'Brlly in order to cave
\ bit and then 80 elsewhere "ln
learch of luck."
'Ilo do away with this it is ne.
*WSU to eliminate the equaliza-
tion of wages and the oid wage
ccale. We must not tolerate a sit.
.llation where a steel worker re-
ceives the same wage as a sweep.
121'. or a locomotive engineer the
lame as an office clerk."
' Dealing with the means to be
taken to stimulate ambition on the
out of the lass skilled laborers,
Stalin lays:
"They can be attached tothe
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-and one which was not mention
ed in press despatches-is in regard
to the abolition of the seven-day
How was it possible for this
lack of responsibility to become
established in a number of in-
dustries 'P
It came in as an illegitimate
companion of the continuous
working week.
To liquidate this situation and
do away with irresponsibility . _ .
we must change the conditions
under which the continuous
working week is introduced or
where conditions are not conduc-
ive to such an experiment, do
away with the continuous work-
ing week on paper and adopt
temporarily a six-day week with
one rest day. as was done recent-
ly at the Stalingi-ad tractor plant
and then prepare the ground for
returning later to a real continu-
ous working week.
An altered attitude towards the
professional class and the intelli-
gentsia is also ordered 'by Stalin,
who says:
“No ruling class in history has
been able to get along without its
intelligentsia.
"Some comrades think that
only party members should be
advanced to leading positions in
factories and mills. It is unneces-
sary to say that nothing can be
more foolish and reactionary
than such a. “policy."
“It would be stupid and sense-
less if we were now to look upon
practically every specialist and
engineer of the old school as if
he were an uncaptured criminal
or damager. ‘Specialist batting'
has always been, and still is con-
sidered a harmful and shameful
manifestation."
These announcements from the
Russian dictator prove that the So-
viet has had io reorganize itself in
conformity with the laws of life
and human nature. Mankind, finds
Stalin, cannot function at its best
without the spur of ambition and
the hope of reward. Nor can man
toil unceaslngiy without a day of
rest. Even were the Sabbath with-
out religious order, it would still be
necessary to have a. Sabbath ol
rest or recreation for working man
and working animal.
Stalin's arnouncements, com-
ments the Regina Star, mean that
Communism has been tried and
found wanting in many important
aspects of national life, compelling
a return to the once despised insti-
tutions of hated capitalism.
Following Bennetfs Lead
Some weeks ago Rt. Hon. R. B.
Bennett asked holders of $250,000,-
000 of Dominion Govemment bonds
to accept loans bearing a lower int-
erest in lieu thereof. The people re-
sponded by converting $634,000,000
of their 5 and 51,5 per cent. holdings
into 41.5 per cent. bonds. The United
States Government took the cue
and put through a much larger loan
conversion. At the present moment
Australia, also taking a leaf out of
is working out a. loan conversion
scheme, with a considerable measure
of success. The British Chancellor of
the Exchequer has a huge loan con-
.version plan under consideration. It
looks very much, comments the To
ronto Mail and Empire, as though
in this, as in other matters, the
present Canadian administration is
slioyving the way to the English-
speaking world.
Canada's Achievement
It is truly remarkable ,says the
Northern Miner, the manner in
which a small population in this
country has contrived to win for
itself such a. powerful position in
the world at large. Ten million peo-
Dle have forced recognition of a
young nation in a surprisingly short
period. Today it is rare that one can
mlke I Study of any commodity of
covering that canada is a notor-
‘|` and a big one. `
Editorial Notes
enterprise only by promotions,
by wage increases, by wtablishing
scales which would be an incen-
tive to acquiring greater skill-_"
[An equally radical depnrturl
from original Bolshevik 
5
Bt. Kilda’s Island, 140 miles off the
coast of Scotland, which was evac-
worid importance without ssriy dis~ fthe Washington and London aeru-
‘ . World Disarmament Conference.
I have lived here for years, lonely
one of them has dropped in to
cheer and comfort me. If they of-
invalid would enjoy getting out.
Do not let them lay a flower on my
coffin, for they never gave me a
single bloom in life."
It isn't speed in Itself that ls the
direct cause of motoring accidents.
but thé feeling or recklessncss and
the momentary laps; oi' judgment
while speeding. Since these are
rather vague and abstruse mental
conditions, the next best thing to
control them is to place a definite
restriction on their cause-l!2xees-
sive speed. -
In 'practice every committee ln,
the world, be it 3 number of vill-
age elders in China, Imgland or
Ministers of a great Power, or a
group of generals deciding on the
proper plans for the overthrow of
the enemy. is divided into cliques,
indulges in personalities and dif-
fers violently over every point of
importance. There are two alter-
natives in committee procedure,
either delay, fndecision and in-
trigue, or the complete dominance
of one man. _
While the British Government
does its utmost to devise for India
a constitution which will be fair t0
all concerned, the assassination
of British officials continues. On
July 27. Mr. R. SR.. Garllck, I. C. S.,
district judge was murdered at
Aliipur. On July 23, Lieut. Sheehan
was wounded and Lieut. Hext was
murdered in the central provinces.
On July 22, an attempt was made
to shoot Sir E. Hotson, acting gov-
ernor of Bombay. A statement by
Mr. Benn, Secretary of State for
India, shows that in addition to
those mentioned, one magistrate
was killed and other officials in-
lured earlier in the present year.
Dllrillg 1930 at least seven officials
were assassinated and a dozen oth-
ers were wounded, including Sir G.
de Montmorency, governor of the
Punjab. when leaving oonvacatlon
at Lahore University.
The Sault Ste. Marie, Star, own-
ed and edited by Mr. James W Cur-
ran, is an independent newspaper. It
criticizes one party as often aa it
does the other party. It does not.
like many independent journals,
endeavor to please its readers on
both sides by straddling a pressing
moral issue. Possessed of a clear,
straight vision, it realizes that one
of the central party organizations
was “sweetened” by the Beauhar-
nols promoters and that the other
refused to be so fixed. Contemiptu-
ous of those newspapers which pne-
tend that both parties are in the
same boat. it hits straight from the
shoulder at the party which has
been caught flagrante delicto. It
even goes so far as to say that lV.'.r.‘
Sweczey is a comparatively inno-
cent man who was squeezed for
money by the Federal Liberal or-
ganization. In addition, it explains
quite clearly why Rt. Hon. R. B.
Bennett, an upright, honest man.
with the slush fund. As The Star
points out, the present Prime Min-
ister hates graft with a perfect
hatred; he takes a tremendous per-
sonal prlde in the only job he has
ever wanted-the job of building
jobs for Canadians and of putting
' CHU”-da 0" it-S feet- inf piano wire, acres of canvas, twelve
The Herald-Tribune hints that
arms and ammunition-have been
smuggled in to Cuba from the Unit.
ed states. As -to the 'policy which
it believes should be adopted the
New York 'paper says: "The moral
is that, although we have tried it
off and on through some thirty or
forty years, we shall never succeed
in imposing good government on
Cuba from without. Cuba's destiny
is her own, and the best service we
can do is to pemiit her to work it
_out herself. We cannot see the I8-
land fail into a state of anarchy,
but short of that it is our proper
policy to keep our hands off.”
‘ At a. time when Great Britain ll
keeping down her naval expendit-
ures far below the stipulations of
ments, and almost on the eve of the
Alaska’ an a5,em.~b]y of cabinet _ago when a. number of patients who
refused t0 let hi! Central Pifffy °f' ‘they must have learned something
the Canadian Prime Ministers book. B'en12nti°n have anything to do from the destruction or the amish
#oily !
of
yours '
It is interesting to look back and
follow the treatment of epilepsy up
to thirty or more years ago, and see
how the ideas of the cause of ep-
ilepsy and consequently the treat-
ment have changed sinca that time.
Years ago only one line of treat-‘
ment was given, that was a power-
ful depressing drug-the bromides-
which while lessening the number
and severity of the attacks kept the
patient depressed and melancholy.
Although it has always been ad-
mitted that epilepsy was due to
some disturbance of the brain or
nerves, it was likewise admitted that
the attacks themselves were caused
by the kind or amount of food eat-
en, or the condition of the patient
when he ate food. Food then was
the immediate cause of the epileptic
nt. - '
This was proven just a. few years
had daily attacks, or a. number of
attacks daily, were kept absolutely
free of attacks as long as they did
without food. At the end of ten
days they just had to eat to keep
alive and the attacks returned.
Then it was found that certain
foods had the effect of bringing on
attacks more often than others
starchy foods-vegetables and bread,
whereas, fat foods-cream and but-
ter-seemed to have the effect of
preventing attacks. Accordingly the
diet now in use in homes and insti-
tutlons consists of the usual amount
of meat and eggs, an increase in
fats, and a decrease in starches.
Thus the normal individual usually
takes 1 part of meat or eggs to 2
parts of fats and oils, to 4 parte
vegetables and bread, where the
epileptic patient takes I part meat
or eggs to 4 parts fats and cream, to
2 parts vegetables and bread.
Finally, it was found that many
of these patients seemed to hold too
much water in the system, and by
cutting down on the amount of
liquids taken, the attacks were pre-
vented or lessened in number. Sud-
denly increasing the intake of water
during the course of the treatment
tends to cause the return of the at-
tacks, at least in the severe cases.
I have spoken before of the
above dmgless methods of controll-
ing epilepsy. `
principal drug used everywhere,
where these other methods are not
effective.
TheAkronTakesThe Air
(Ottawa Joumal)
Two or three years ago when gov-
ernments were not cramped for
money the United States decided to
build its navy a fine big dirigible.
Millions of dollars were spent and
on Saturday last the dirigible Akron
was launched at Akron, ohio, by the
wife of President Hoover. Before
the end of the month this new
“di-eadnaught of the air" is expect-
ed to make its test flight, and then
no doubt the United States will feel
safe from attack by wayward South
American powers.
The Akron naturally is the larg-
est dirigible in the world. Certainly
it should be the best. Its builders
have had the advantage of the mis-
takes built into the Graf Zeppelin.
R-100. The German-built Los Ang-
eles of thc United States Navy hu
been in active service for years and
still flies.
I There are ten million parts in the
Akron of which 6,500,000 are rivets.
,Into its construction went 1,500 miles
great gas cells. It is to carry a crew
of fifty-eight, has accommodation
for five fighting airplanes which can
be released and taken on in flight,
is supposed to carry a useful load of
close to 200,000 pounds, has a. cruis-
ing speed of eighty-four miles an
hour and a range of 10,000 miles.
Properly considered. however, the
dirigible remains in the stage of cx-
periment. Its ' record in peace and
war has been one of catastrophe and
disappointment. Great Britain is
maintaining the R.-100, but is build-
Secretary of the Navy Adams, of the
United States, has issued l state-
ment of policy that can only be re-
‘garded as of a provocative nature.
Summaries of this statement which
i&Ppeared in Wednesdays newspa-
pers, and which are to be sent to
all branches of the United States
naval establishment. are to the ef-
fect that the republic will maintain
1 fleet of all classes of fighting
tion, has found s new use- It has
been purchased by the Earl of Dum-
uctedcyear agob itslone d '
7 ly an ,;!d°by its owner for the study of bird "my wahume explmim_,_v‘nr
poverty-ctrickm remnant of popula-
fries. 23 years old, and will be utilix-ith” Unch 5"" WW h“'° B "BW
ships built up continuously "to the
limits of the London treaty" and
"maintained at that level" in order
"second to none" and "capable of
0wN ru \Rm»\\ e _ _ . '
.   'The Public Forum T
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s;r,-It was with greet interim
that I read the auouncement of the
visit to this province of the Trans-
Canada Air Pageant. This is an
event which should attract wide at-
tention, but it appears to me that
such a meeting is deservinl 01 “T
_more publicity than_it is receiving.
It is nothing less than an education
in the advancement of aerial na,v-
igation in Canada; I-ll ¢*h|\>m°U °f
the various types of flyink Shiv! in
notion, and in this use when “le-
tion is coinmandlnif B0 11\\\°l\ Sf-W!"
tion I think it behooves us as U.
province to put more enthusiasm
into this pageant.
As an illustration of the interest
taken in the pageantin the Western
Provinces, note the following extracts
from the August number of “Can-
Canada:
--No less than 25.000 people saw
the show which marked the form-
al opening of the great Vancouver
civic airport, while there was an
attendance of over 20,000 at Re-
gina. Calgary citizens turned out
to the number of 18.000 for the
show there, while Lethbridge at-
tendance was estimated at 9,000.
Newspapers everywhere devoted
columns of space to the tour pro-
per and to the local programmes.
Provincial and civic officials have
taken a .part in the ceremonies
which form a part of each show.
The crowds have been thrilled by
the variety of machines, from the
tiny Aeronca to the big Sara.
Cloud and tri-mobored Ford
Transport, not forgetting the Au -
togiro which has been hailed as
the first Canadian machine of its
kind. The acrobatics by the
R.C.A.F. flyers in their Siskin
fighters were always a hlshlisht.
The pageant has served various
purposes and there _is every rea-
son to believe that it has done -
much to further the cause of avia-
tion in Canada.”
I think an event which attracts
such attention in the other Provin-
ces merits a little more enthusiasm
here and that the press should as-
certain the correct dates and live
it good publicity, and that the pub-
lic officials should get behind it and
give it a. real boost. \
I nm, Sir, etc., `
A. K. LORD.
(Our correspondent is in error so
far as The Guardian is concern-
ed. We have iii/611 the P88050*
The cause of luminal is still the,”-b““d°-U7' P“bu°"'y- but N w as'
, certaining the exact dates, that has
`h`ot yet been possible. The Provin-
cial authorities are in i8l1orance. 131°'
Railway authorities are in ignor-
ance, the Pageant officials are in 18-
norance, and Dr. Jenkins says him-
self the ground cannot now be ready
on the date given by the Canadian
Press in response to our indllify-'
Ed. 0.). i
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ing no new ships while the Wh01°
subject is given exhaustive consid-
eration. There is an imP°'1tB“f
school of informed public opinion
which considers such craft nothin!
but huge, frail, expensive toys, and
certainly their hlstvry is not likely
to lead the average citizen to any
other conclusion.
(saint ste. Maris stu- (Independ-
ent)
Right I-Ion. W. L. Mackenzie Kin!
is through, and realius it. The
severe speech in which Premier
King'a plea for mercy in the Beau-
al have been regarded in the pub
lic e e as the chief sufferers in this
that the general public could ever
again have faith in Mir. King as the
head of a political party . . .
Should a leader know where his
campaign funds come from or
should he be content with the
knowledge that the Lord will pro-
vide? Mr. King sought to make it
appear that Mr. Bennett claimed a
leader should be aware of the source
of his campaign funds. From the
debate on the question on this point
we quote:
Mr- King: "There is where we
d|si\8l'09. He il perfectly sincere in
his belief; I am perfectly sincere
in. mine. Ho lays that a leader
should have knowledge of the
source.” _
"whoa-e and when has he mr.
Bennett) said that?" demanded the
Prime Minister.
_ "Bo has slid it---," began Mr.
Kin]
“film and where?" flatly de-
manded Mr. Bennett again.
"I-lu he not?" asked Mr. King,
I ‘ | oouvcr Star.
"No, he hal not," replied M;-_
Bennett.
feet in depth over which to trans-
, .
Political Career Ended csivsr or stoisn goodsis s ornninsi,"
hi ost--as---th - ’
:F315-, Zvhxzshelsoiimen theeoteif-` Dont Allow the
' y  
mess. But a truer view is that the  _
ers were. By no stretch of the im-
agination could anybody euppose  '   u
,. f C
The K1ng‘s Highway
(Canadian Motorist)
gmisation of an institute of high-
aiu! 8 Oil
‘appraisal of the value of highways
‘-an anonymous quotation: “Roads
th ld- ot k'n nor
legislature that never changes, the
only court that never sleeps, the
first aid to the redemption of any
rn sta nation
agery in any tribe, the high priest
of prosperity after the order of
days or end of life. 'I‘he road is
umpire in every war and when the
new map is made itsimply pushes
hope, brotherhood, efficiency and
peace." `
Like most sweeping gene:-allties to
The Hellenic civilization was the
most brilliant recorded history
reveals, yet its internal transpor-
tation- system was notoriously in-
adequate-a factor that, probably
more, than all others combined,
resulted in the downfall of ancient
Greece. In simple equity it
should be added, however, that
Greece was the only ancient
power to gain. dominance over the
vast Mediterranean basin and be-
yond that was not a great road
builder. More than six and a half'
millenniums ago, more than as long
before Abraham's time as it in turn
antedated the advent of the
Christian era and than that
epochal event anticipated today,
King Cheops had a road paved
with blocks of stone eight to ten
port the massive masonry for his
titanic tomb the Great Pyramid
at Ghizeh. This the most colossal
of the rnausolea of the world con-~
tains ‘sufficient stone according to
John stoddsrdu computation, to
pave a road around France thirty
feet in width and six inches in
thioknessi ' _
Rome's record in road building
stood unrivalled until the advent of
the motor era. The Via Apple.
was but one of a vast network of
highways-another girdled the
Mediterranean-over which her‘
mighty legions marched to subjug-
ate and make tributary to Home the
known world and introduce and
maintain the law. order and cul-
ture of the Latin people. “All
roads lead to Roma" was then no
idle boast.
It is estimated that the world
has constructed more miles of
paved highway since the Great
War than were built in all the
millenniums of recorded history
preceding it.
___._._.---_-_--I-I-&
"In his words a minute_ago he
inferred it," continued Mr. King.`
"Let us have an understanding on
this thing. I would ask the honor-
able gentleman just what position
n leader should rake in these rein-
tions with his party?"
“I have always held that a. re-
said Mr. Bennett._ .
While Mr. Bennett did not ans-
wer Mr. Kings question, there is no
doubt at all that the public‘s ans-
wer is that a. leader must know
know that the campaign funds in
course there are clean party con-
._+
Annoy You _
We have anticipated your
needs to combat this nul-
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line of the boat fly killers nl-
ways on hahd at our stone.
Look over the list and seo
if your choice is not here.
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FLIT, all silos. _
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AEEOXON FLY COIL.
FLYOSAN
KBATIINGB POWDER.
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ll., etc. _
We sell all patent medicin-
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prices. 1
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CINTIAL DR UGSTOBI
Dolrfmneglect your torp-
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on its great campaign 'of help, Cofnpafatively  P fices
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It wiu be i-sosiisd that Rudyard ‘ . D A  & FRA S E
Kipling eplgrammatized Macaulay's R
famed tribute _to transportation in
‘"n-ansportation is oiviiinntion". CHARLOTTETOWN, P. E. I.
adian Aviation". the omcial pub- say nothing or spigi-sins that  
lication of the Aviation League of assertion gs too comp;-er-,¢n3iv¢_ _
iwcy engineering in England con- . ` ~
t the foilowin ~ el uent.
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Rough on Blackmailers
(Toronto Mail and Empire)
An Associated Press despatch
from London in 'I‘uesday's paper
noted that in Lord Bvnirs annual
report, the chief commissioner of
police "criticised judges for: having
permitted the suppression <11 the
identity of victims in blackmail
cases in recent years, which, he
said, resulted in a considerable in-
crease in there cases-" It is difficult
to believe that Lord Byng made
such an extraordinary statement,
for one would have expected him to
have held directly opposite views.
It is true that the action of the.
judges has resulted in more black-
mail cases, or rather in more rr:o-
secutions for blackmail, and surely
nothing could be more satisfactory
to the police. They might well de-
precate an increase of cases of
murder or robbery, but cases of
blackmail are in a. unique category.
in that the more of them there are,
the less blackmailing there is like-
ly to be.
In the past,' the great weapon in
the hands of the blackmailer has
been his victim's dread of publicity.
The man with no reputation to lose
cannot be blackmailed. It is the
man of position, because of somr
earlier offence or perhaps merely
some earlier folly, will pay money
ln order that the position he values
may be preserved. It is the affec-
tion of his family and the good~wili
of his friends which he imagines
he is buying when he pays money
to the blackmailer. It becomes,
therefore, as much to the interest
of the victim as of the blackmailer
to keep the transaction secret. This
is why in years past it was so rare-
ly that police ever were appealed to.
The victim could only punish the
blackmaiier at the expense of his
own good name.
Recently there have been several
cases of blackmail tried and con-
victions, registered. The victims
knew that they might appear and
give evidence under assumed names
or unde: the protection of judges
who were able to keep from the
public knowledge of their identity.
There can be no doubt that this
practice has enabled men to defy
Beneral opinion is that n i
mailer is the most detestabie of
criminals. Many a victim li.
driven to suicide. Until recently
has also come more rarely inn;
tolls of the law than any
criminal. Now his victim hu
answer for him when he make;
demand- It seems extraon
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A` Striking Compari:
(Ottawa Journal)
The world hears much 1
Panama and Suez canals. well.
nc figures just made available
that the tonnage carried On
Great Lakes last year was
greater than the tonnage P
through the Suez and Panama
als taken together, the comp!
figures being:
Panama canal   33,633,850
Suez canal  31,932,320
Sault Ste. Marie canal 72,891.75
Detroit river  94.155359
blackmallers with impunity- The St. Lawrence canals . 6,119.02
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harnois scandal means that Mr. tributions. _ - »
Bennett also realizes the situ M‘~ King is through The sooner
ation he steps out the better for his
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