"groups of commodities. PALJ l: H ll it The Charlottetown Guardian Prolidant blank-Col. H. (‘hauler U. IvLIIo Uiuo-Prrnidanl J. B lluruotl. l’. J. l. Editor and lliiuinniun lllrvvlllr J. it. tiurllltt. I‘. J. l. Hes-ruling Lletll- Lul ll a Mnvhlnwll "- l 0- Aiuuoiuto Edlturo i-ruiik “ulliur and lJ. It. Currio lloraln; Ilia l: tlfouudrrl M81). $5.00 par your iln Il|\lIiI'Il delivered to City. 51.00 t,» yrur tin iuluani-r) mulled lg l'- "III"!- 8500 per year tin uthnnerl "Ill"! "l ("'15. l". or l TUESDLY. NOVEMBER. 9, 1937 The Five Years’ Hoist It is ZilllltllliKCil that the Royal Cotiimissitm ml Doniiuitiit-Provincial relations will hold it‘ first sittings at Winnipeg 0n November 29 and r11,“ {t5 report will b¢ in the hands 0f Ffidefiil (iovcrnnicnt by the ctid of 1938. its SClIfl-llllfi 0f public hearings. as‘ Wlfiilffll b,“ ‘l5 Lh§""““l' Hon. N. \\'. Rowell, will cover a period of months. 'l'li:it is. Mr. Rowell says, providing the LToininis-ioticrs be given “the cQ-oPQ-FMIO" promised." llthcrwise Prewmablf/ lfodjrcm}: estimate can be placed on_ the length oi time this tribunal may spend on its work. ' And thc" there will be neither finality nor binding force iti such recommendations as it may make, for these. as the Chairman points out, are merely atlvisorv. _ The deliberation with which this investigat- ing body is swinging into action, says the Syd,- ney-Post Record, can hardly have escaped piib- lic attention. Appointed last summer, it has seemingly been ever since then undergoing an elaborate process of organizatiflfl. 3P4 "5 "a1 work—tliat is its public hearings-will only be- gin at the end of the present month. Four months cannot but be regarded as an unconscion- ably long time for a. Royal COHImlSElOYI 0f 5 tncu, all Canadians, and presumably in fit C011- dition, to require to get under way. But after starting these sittings, seven months will be needed to cover the planned sCltcdlllfl- Then the Commission is to take six months af- ter that to produce its report and recommenda- tions. Finally, ivhcri this repprt and these r8- (‘Omillflitlfllltlrls are given to the Government at the end of 1938, they may or may not be made ihe basis for a number of far-reaching amend- ments to thc DNA. Act for the consideration of the Dominion Parliament in I939 or 1940, and ‘fr; ratification at l/Vestminster some time after jliat. Meanwhile tinemploymenf lnstirance, the minimum wage law. the maximum hours of ‘work ,aud all the other social and economic re- forms Parliament assented to in I935 will stay suspended. like Mohammed's coffin, between Iicaven and earth. The Dominion Govern- ment has thus succeeded in giving all these so- fial murity measure; the five years’ hoist. Ari Experiment Approved 1 A paragraph appended to the _I936-37_ TEDDY‘ bf the Imperial Economic Committee which i185 just been issued states that the Imperial Con- that this estimate is somewhat astronomical and that no significant approximation is possible. An examination of the methods employed to arrive at a year's estimate however, show that thc calculation is itpon a conservative basis. Since there are more than twenty million visi- tors in thc course of a year, a per capita ex- penditure of lcss than $15 would produce an ‘ag- gregate of $300 million. In order to secure as close a check as possible on the volume of such expenditures, the Dominion Bureau of Statistics supplied thousands of visitors with cards and asked them to fill them out and return by mail. As these cards were returned, average; were taken. It is :1 notable fact that there is no great divergence in the average amounts indicated on any thousand successive cards as compared with the next thousand 0r any thousand that follows iii a single calendar year. From year to year, however, the divergence is marked and this givc5 some basis for arriving at a conclusion as to how freely visitors have spent their money while iii Canada. The per capita amount spent in a given year has risen substantially since the bot- tom of the depression. i I‘ Editorial Notes I D.S.O. established this date I886. =- x 1t v P6366 Day and Peace lecture. v it =- at The old age pension conference did discuss arrangements for pensions for the blind of thc "E49 0f 40 upwards. 'l'he_\~ also decided to tighten upihe regulations and lZi\\'.< for the compulsory tiiaintainance of parents by children in a posi- tion to do so. it ‘A prisoner in Georgetown jail in connection with a. riim running case now sub judice, writes to The Guardian complaining about. the alleged insanitary conditions of the jail. He makes fur. ther appeal on behalf of the wives and families of the crew of the alleged rum-runner left stranded in Newfoundland, The Government should lookinto the matter without delay. =0- : iv s Meats were imported to the value of $142.- 520 during September as compared with $127,- 644 a year ago. Argentina lcd the supplying countries with a value of $52,605, followed by the United States at $43.51.; and the United Kingdom $25,765. Canned beef was the cliicf item with a value of $71,508, cominglargely from Argentina. Rarrelled porl; in bring was worth $33069, all from the United States. 1k i I iii #11101 The bulk of thc September imports of farm implements and tnachinery came from the Unit- ed States; the aggregate ivas $1,738,849, more than double those of September, 1936. The amount from the United States was $1,638,048. Internal combustion traction engines for farm purposes valued up to $1.400 each were valued at $I.227.Ii4 as compared with $486,669, large- ly accounting for the large gain in the grand total imports of farm implements. Qlotllli ifCrCtiCC of last summer approved of the work bf the Committee and of its continuance "Willi omewhat increased financial Fcsoufces". Tlwffi- Ev a constitutional experiment Which was initiat- Rd four years ago has been endorsed. The fx- ‘ erimeiit consisted in forming an orgamZ-Btltl". (financed, controlled by and responsible to all Governments of the British Commonwealth (mid ufilj merely to any one of their number) to d0 work by all—i.c. a truly co-operative body 0f- ganizetl on the basis of equality with Joint re- gponsibility to serve a. common and agreed Pur- ~ O58. '.l'he Committee is inter alia empowered Etc examine and report upon any economic ‘Question which the Governments of the Coin- pmonwcalth may agree to refer to it.’ So far its (work has consisted in the collection and presenta- lion of economic information on particular sub- iicts, with the object of throwing light on the ade and industrial competition ivliich coun- ' ies in the Commonwealth are meeting ‘or tire ¥kely to meet in particular~couuuoilitics or Speaking generally. the reports and intelligence services. present {world information with facts of limlml‘ ""9" est in the foreground. Ihey- ari- therefore zis a rule both more detailed zuitl more clearly direct- gd t0 Commonwealth in‘ re" s than is often pos- sible in international statistics. Tourist Expenditures Kcports front all parts of Cziuadzi lilillCiliC . , l‘. - that 1937 has been .iii txtcllcnt )c.ir_in the ltl. ist iradc, savs the monthly lcttcr oi the ltolfll Batik of (jaiizitlii. 'l‘bc_i1utl1l><‘f 0f Pmlllc “lw have come m Lgnuul‘, ,5 equal to the number entertained lli thc T000111 W?" 1939- and “"5 ear the visitors have ilfifil" llcc" Sllcndlllg free‘ y On a, basis. sonieivliat similar to that iisfid b); the Ijurpininn Bureau of Statistics for Col- culatitig thc volume of PXPCINlIlUTP-Q of “"35” visitmg it “Tiuld appear probable that the total for I937 W1" Qilllill 0r cxcci-d the record attained in i929, nameltvbgoo million, I I In the first eight months of I935. 1035 "l" "i927 foreign ziiitoriiobilcs which cntcrcil C1"!- ndn numbered zdtiflooo, 3.811.000 and 3-134- ooo respectively. The eight months of i936 giimvcdwi-grtiir-n-F-~.-;-i5-,oe>o-ears-ns-crniqma,i_..w,ttr., ._ 1935. and thc eight tnoiiths of ‘W371 m “lmg ‘1 gain of 373‘OQO org;- i936. ()1 the cars \\'lliCll . tutored (jflnnlp, in m3; nnt- lilllllfili. rctiiaitieil within the country for periods which \'Ill'l’Ell from twn days to two innitths, and more than 1.300 cars were here from l\\'n to Six I""l1_’l1-=- about hw-ntv-niillioti people from the llnifrtl States will have visited (Yiuatla llvfufl‘ llil‘ .“(‘-'"' _|_< over, and lit-tween four mid five tiiilliott of qhr-m will havt- _\l'i\'i'tl lll'i'i‘ two days or more Statistics sitcli as these portray iii a quirk "lid graphic lll7lIill('l' th~ ina-giiitiul- mid rcvciit Hlpul expansion of llll‘ tourist trade of Canada. 'l'hose \\'!I> av" enthusiastic about the effect of the tnnrbt trzidt- on Canadian business are in- Ten loans under the Dominion Housing Act were made to Prince Edward Islanders dur- ing October. Altogether for, the Dominion the number totalled 14o for a total of $741,498. pro-‘ viditig accotiiniodatioti for 149 families. ‘This was nnincrease of 25o per cent. over the amount loaned in October, 1936. Average loan per fam_ ily unit was $3.822. Initiated more than two years ago. the act provides for cooperation be- tween the Dominion and authorized loan com- panics to facilitate borrowing at a maximum in- terest rate of five per cent. for erection of du-ellitig. It ivas noted that the average loan per family unit dropped from $5.304 in 1935 to $4.309. indicating that tllc sitiall home biiild- er was hcticfiting. the original aim of the act. Of the October loans 75 were for $3,000 or less. ##4## The King GOVCYIIIIIOIIK. has awarded a Um‘ tract running into approxinizitcly‘ 391-50010130, fol; the construction ot eightcctiumproverl risto “Blcnheinfi Coastal Rcccmiiaisance twin ragla- cd aircraft, to ill(‘_l“i\ll'C~lill(l AITCTPI“ Emmy the building of \\'lilt‘li will covfif "Pllroxlllmlcl thrcc vcars and employ ll(‘l\\‘(‘(‘ll 300 mid 40° men The itizichines will be built at the plant of the Ifairrhild Companv at Longueuil, Qilfl. where combincrl si-atilnne and land Plifm‘ laffl" tics are available. The liYl-‘lfll nlellhclnl- ‘vmch is Powered bv two llrisiol hlflfllr." 825 hliitflni glues. was chosen by the Department of J1] tional Defence ziftcr a careful 5\"""@y fol _a available general rcconnatsaticc types _n i111"- craft tiow in cottrse of dvvelopniciit In GIT?" Britain, because. it is reported. tlit‘ (kllafllllelll considered it to be thc lit-st -iti its class. Its rang!‘ with an ordinary bomb load is about "ill" but thc exact bomb load catinot be discloficil. T‘ this varies according to the amount of fuel carried. j i Ill i Om- of the wot-libs celebrated collections of ziir-itiail stamps and covers, zissemblcil by _Ml'- Rnger Stcffan. a vicc-prcsitlent of the Nillmmfl Citv Bank, Ntwv York. “H19 50m for "PPTOX" "mmv $75300 m mpgtinil. 'l"lit: record nrtcc W35 for the "fzitnous liotiditras red." so-call- ed because of a rod ovvrtiflllt "t1 fl Honduras 5-ccntavos blue stamp i sited in 1925. Two 0th?!‘ llTiiilliiiiii ' chi‘$173M‘"a~ii1l""$4&°°"-' Collectors and dealers titiitl more than $24.00!? {or $(‘\‘(‘ill_\’-l\\'t) Ilontluran items. Iiniil Bruccliig of New York gave Sjctfxio for one of the eighty- fIllC existing full-perforatctl copies of the scarocst United States air stamp-the 24-cent carmine and blue of 1018 with centre inverted Former- lv owned by the late (foloncl E. H. R. Green. it was part of a shcct that elude the scrutiny 0f a cleric during the tlav's sales at the Vl/ashing- liin, I).(_,,, piisliiffivt‘ .\ll‘. lriiclillig pfild $3,i()f) for a supi-rli copy of Ni-ivfiiittitllzitid l)e Piiicdn (to-cent black til‘ i917, nni- of philatel_v‘s most prized iii-tits. 'l‘en other rarities from Mexico. Doniiiiicati lteptiblic. Fcuailor, China, New- foundland. Russia. Bolivia. Honduras and 511R- :lincd in b~livvc that an estimate of $300 million of expendTttvn: somewhat antler-states the full anituint spent in Canada. Those \\'ll0 have only Castial contact with the business arc likely to feel tralia. brought prices ratigitiq from $670 tn $2.- 200. and about fiftv either stamps sold for mt-rc than $200 each. Some of the items brought higher than prevailing catalog values. I ‘X_/\1.-<- r rut.» 21mm '—-~ 'i"rii~; t;HARi-.(Yi‘ ij_§.._'tliyv__:\t__i;~_i ism NOTES BY TllE WAY Chho’: leaders lay China can fight for five years. That may no be true. but. it w ll not. take lllb 1on3 to make Japan wonder “n.1- she con get. the money she needs i.» conduct. a costly war on ‘ ‘ sou \ s \l PUBLIC FORUM this oolumu in an"! l4" "*- ‘fl-uufl-Ig- b; urn-situation!» cl quantum: oi llllnrrll ‘flu Charlottetown liunrvllnll duo: ou- npqtllllf", rmiuru the opinions If i oorrelpulrirnlu ’. prised the world. It looks much more like a unified China-Ex. - Canada's mines, yielding gold, pay little attention to ticker tapes. Thus with two-thirds of the year account- edfor production exceeds that. of the corresponding period last. year by 231,000 ounces. That, at $35 an ounce, is roughly $3.560,000—wh ch is a lot. of moneyz-Ottawa Journal. Thai one talks best who is most himself. ‘Iaiere is to the talk of many that something which lights up life to another and which makes that one utters words that picture his heart. To some we can confide our innermost feelings, while to others we remain silent. To the latter our very want for words seems a sscrtlega-Adams. Thai. was a biting remark by the French newspaper, 1e Populaire, when it directed attention to the frt that Mussolini. while shouting that Germany must have colonies, neglected to offer that country any territory in Ethiopia. It bit to the core of MUSSOUIIYS pretensions. - Telegraph Journal. ' ~ An English traffic case centred on the duty of a motorist confronted with a confict. between a road sign which said "Stop!" and a pol cemtm ‘who said "Come on!“ The magis- trate at Amersham fined the mo- torist fifteen shillings for obeying the policeman. the ground being that mad signs take precedence over policemen-Baltimore Bun. Until public opinion in the United States awakes to the need for co- operation wlth other permeable pow- ers in establishing e. collective sys- tern for arbitration of international disputes, the neutrality act stands as a. worthy attempt to prevent com- mercial greed and outmoded insist- ence on "rights" from exposing American lives lost in ‘war areas. Unless positive consuitatton between the Western powers interested in Far Eastern peaoe evolves soon, in- vocation of the American neutrality laws would appear unavoidable. -— Christian Science Monitor, Boston. The occasional tendency of jurors to be diverted from the evidence by the scent of mush is no indictment of the jury system fri general. But the presence of morbid or hystei- cal or silly spectators in court. rooms is another matter. There is little that can be said in defense of a custom or practice that permits trials to be one of the leading spectator sports. -New York Bun. Up to the end of October 75B cars of foodstuffs have been shipped from the various parts of Canada. to the needy West. If one should esti- mate the cost. 0f this food. had it. been bought; and shipped 1n the 0r- dmary way, it. wand total almost $500,000. The fine thing about. this project is that it. has not; been look- ed on as charity but as something one Canadian ought to do for an- otherwho is in difficult. straits through no fault of his own. From the Maritime: to British Columbia, all creeds and classes have co-oper- ated-a fine eimmple of Canadian solidarity-United Churchman. Mussolini; Spanish policy ls sim- ilar in sortie respects to his policy of defiance toward Britain in the Eth- iopian eiffair. It is not understand- able except on the theory that II Duce believes that. Britain is bluf- fing again. Hitler has some doubts on that score. but he probaby has intimated to MUSSOlJil that if he cares to test. Britain's determination with favorable results. Germany will associate herself once more with the Italian policy of Fascist interven- tion. Hitler hesitates to challenge Britain on his own. but he would he pleased to see a loss of British pres- tlue and influence and to make an indirect contribution to that result. —Tomnw Star. . As I matter of fact, the total rain- fall this summer throughout prac- tically the whole drought. district has been greater than it was in 1936. The trouble was that it did not come in time. This fact, taken together with the r sing level of the take of the Woods, the fact the. Manitoba this year had enough ruin and grew a better-than-average crop. and the fact. that the drough; broke this year south of the inter- national border. are the best. pos- sible indications that a. period of normal rainfall is beginning. _ Winnipeg Tribune. From the "25 Years Ago" column of in: uttawa Journal: The edlto: counted the pockets in h s clottiv found 23 of them. most of them i use. Why the dtckens, he nskt. shouldn't a woman carry a lot. oi things in a handbag? The author o. the paragraph missed a. good human interest story. He should have tolu with what. the editorial pockets were Iined 25 years ago and wnat they contain today. if anything. We hazard the guess, however, that. from decade to decade the editorial pocket is nothing to write home abouts-St. Catharines Standard. "How lo be happy though mar- ried and in the White House" might. be the caption over a few para- KFFPhB illPlll. . .. Ifilall"! a" inlcivléw given the press by the nation's “first lady." The reporters were teasing her for information as to. the possibility of Mr. Roosevelt again running for the presidency, but they might. have been asking any other question so far as the re- ply was concerned. "I have never," ahe told them deflntely, "expressed to the president or myself a choice —-es to anything my husband did. I can never remember his asking my advice." Au to i940: "I can only toil you I have not. heard him express on opinion.” It. had never occurrctl - to her throughout the presidential term of her husband to do anything but adjust herself to "his mode of ltvingP-Rome (N. Y.) Sentinel. Lovers of democracy will flnd not-hing to choose between dictator- ahvpa, whether they be of the Right or the Left. Today Russia is a dic- tatorship. The Stalin constitution on the faoa offt. leaveaooroom fora 7-"*"‘\'1l"*'~“‘§l?'\5?5‘i WI?“ = . ' ' ‘ , . The resistance of China has surp- ~ ~ , LEST we i-onuirr Sir-As Remembrance Day draws near again it brings beck memor- ies of bygone days: of horrtbic sight; on the battle-tom plains; of terrible nights in water-filled trenches and shell holes; memor- iies of nights watching the rec l flames from heavy guns cu; ithrough clouds of pluck smoke; imemories of the so-called mim- ‘ made hell on earth. Space wit; not. permit the thoughts that raced through the minds of those half- rgxirved men who at. times had - forgotten everything in their ag- ony. Volumes may and will be printed on wars. but many of the things that happened On those blood drenched fields are to be left. untold: secrets locked in the treasure chest of the past. How many moth are still living who rememb writing to their sons with the address “Somewhere in France". True it was some- where and some of those mothers whose hair has turned w silver still think of their sons who are today somewhere in finance. they live with them in memory and see again their smiling faces: they dream of their footsteps as the wind squeaks the stairs lead- their voices in the murmur of the wind at night as if seeking the door of life that closed so quickly behind. But; no, its only dreams creep into their lives. There i; no door that leads us back from eter- nity to this mad world. If _vou could visit those battle fields to- day they would present a different picture: trenches have been filled. the fields levelled ofl’. barbed wire fences destroyed. But you will see a forest of white crosses that stand are there. The crosses that mark their grave make a living picture. 5, symbol to live forever in our memory. They seem to cry out to a restless WOFlEl. a world where nations are today letting human blood drip from their stained swords. "Listen to its," they seem to say; we are the ones who were cut down 1n the primeof life; who have gone through the gateway of death and today look back at. the door of life that. is cltxséd. So new let us all join with them on Remembrance Day in praying to heaven to send us peace. "Lest we forget." I rim. Sir. Pic. WALTER A. O'BRIEN. Bristol, P. E.I. Str.—Some daysaso I read in the columns of your paper a. let- lter written by a regular cones- Dondent who has written good letters during the past three or four years on several topics con- cerning the welfare or the [glamp 'I'his time he writes on the apple lndu-“TY and I confess his letter makes a, strong personal appeal to myself, for though I am not a practical farmer or gardener I ain nevertheles a keenly interested observer of farming and garden- ing. ebpwifllly as these are carried on tn our own province. Having spent several years as a public school teacher in several of the finest. fruit raising districts of British Columbia, the famous Ok- lmP-Bfln Valley, included, I am quite convinced that. not one, of these districts can surpass our own province in the production or 5p- pies both in respect to quantity 11nd quality. And 1 am also fairly well acquainted with the flavor of Ontario. Annapolis Valley, and Massachusetts apples, and I um quite convinced that. out own choice apples eaten in their pro- per season compare favorably with the very best from those famous apple regions. And as to the un- surpassed beauty of our applgg, this is antiualiy demonstrated at. our Charlottetown Exhibition, and our Central School Fair. butniore especially at our Central Experi- mental Farm at Charlottetown. Ami it 15 a great wonder to me that more young farmers do not avail themselves of the opportun- ity of visiting the farm and seeing for themselves what. wonderful ap- tiles can be produced on our Ia- land and tn what profusion too gThls lust. nutumn the very sight of the heavy-laden apple [reek v iden indeed to their utmost ee- ilaclty. was inspiring. Clearly our t lfsland apples cannot. be beaten by those of any other country what- ever. And. oh the tragedy of ft-— last winter the people of char- Iottetown were eating apples im- Dom-d from Ontraio. British Col- umbia. California. gnd even from New Zenland at the othei side of the earth. What is the. matter with our florid? _Durlng the past 25 years dictator. If Russia is preparing to introduce the Stalin constitution in' actuality. there ts hope for Russfii. The consensus of "opinion of foreign observers is that Russian progress had been in proportion to Russian neglect of the tenets of Communism. Is ii too much to hope that 1's‘ idea has percolnted even into Mos- cow?—ftll_onnton Transcript. But. . ing to their little room. They hear i in memory of our brothers who 1 hernias-lino cur-minis, are.‘ o lit has made marvellous strides ln l the use and abuse of automobiles. radios. mgsrettes and even Pyllml: ed, but its fruit industry has bar. st. a standstill. In fact. it I3 declined. if indeed it ever was l fruit induscry worthy of we "W"- Let an interested observer Wily take a trip across the Rocky Point ferry and travel es fa! ll Victoria. If he travclled over the same route 25 years B80 h! "m observe that only e few some trees or trees of any kind 710W l been planted during the pest 25 E years, but. on the other hand tho - ‘ old orchards have been neglecwil. i and in some cases are actutflly d!" l ing out. It is a great pity that our young farmers are not more alive to the value of horticulture. even from the standpoint. "f beauty. and surely we need not laboriously argue on its import- once from the viewpoint of utility. I have already mentioned the fact that eating apples were 1m year imported to Prince Edward Island from far distant l ‘ . Not only were apples imported but likewise preserved cherrir). plums. strawberries, raspberries. goosebu- ries, black currents. 6w-—fl1l "i which can b; grown and preserved as well in our own country as in any country in the world. Over 30 years ago an Island scholar who l5 now a. noted Con- sdian educationist. made the re- ‘ mark to myself that if ever. the Island came to its own it would .| be as a horticultural country i combined with the canning indus- I try. Fruit canning factories, he said, should literally clot the whole . Island. This person has since .proved himself to my knowledge to be a fairly good prophet in N- , spect to other things 11¢ then pro- _ phesied would come to paw: but j thus far his prophecy in respect j to the fruit and canning industry tin our province seems fer from l bring fulfilled. But it Ls interesting for myself . to now observe the interest that {has recently been taken through ‘the public press in the project of ‘ a canning industry for PE. Island. y The Hon. Chas. Dunning he; re- , cently said at t; public gathering I that he would heartily sympathipe ; with any project in P.E. Island iconriected directly with its mgr‘.- cultural interests, and we pre- sume he would include in this category the horticultural interests of the Island. But. just how much can governments do to promote potential industries? We confess we cannot give a. very definite un- swer. but we shall certainly watch with keen interest any attempt on erdl and provincial. to foster the apple industry and fruit industry in general on P. E. Island. ' I am, sir. etc.. AN OLD TEACHER. DEMOCRACY THBEATENID Sin-All sort; of 0199x955“ Mo. ple, whether they be in Spain, Germany, or Canada, should be the concern of every deep-think- ing man today. The Atlantic 0c- een does not separate Canada from the kind of oppression, the kind of tyranny shown in somany parts of Europe. We ere faced today with the same kind of threat to Democratic liberties, as countries that have in the past suffered so disaslrously. since the World War and up to the year 1932 Germany was milk- ing splendid progress with her 8o- c1111 Democratic Union, bringing great benefits to the worktngclus in the matter of housing. oo-oper- ative movements. and a free press. At that. time the name of Hitler was coming to be an important one in Germany but he W15 not then in power. Some of the- beat informed students of German. soc- iety at that time were of thg con- viclion that the social Deni “ movement in Germany wasao strong that it could not possibly be crushed by the rising Hitler movement. Their reason was based on the prernise that Democracy would survive. but. everybody knows what happened. The change was brought about by ruthless undemocratic means. There was at. least one man from Canada in Germany at that time and on one occasion there was a, great numbe of Social Demo- crats going to a big central hail close to the centre of Berlin. The meet"!!! was composed principally of the younger generation andwas addressed by a young Socigl Dom- osriit from Austria. This young man said in part: "You think your mighty Social Democratic move- , "tent. ts of tremendous strength; you may have control for a while but it must. achieve still greater success.’ If Hitler gets in power," he warned. “everything you have achieved in Germany will be oe- stroyed: you will be subjected to B11 Oppression and tyranny far worst», than were experienced be- fore the war." And we all know what hspnened. I sometimes think that we here in Canada are taking our Demo. cracy far too much for granted. I sometimes feel that we think we are so very safe because the M- lantlc senarates us from what is, taking place in- Europe. I think that we are almost romantic and that we v-sn cheer ourselves bv savin". "Nothimz can defeat us". "Notblnv can hold hock democ- racli". I iwree that in the lont lontv rim Social Democracy will siiroiv win. But. no one can look at the world torlnv without seeing it. is unite possible for any Dgmb- creov to be destroyed. if steps are not talc-n to protect the." demo- cratic flizhts and principle: that lbdonq to us. It. is verv important "w movement wherein ttwmt to Democracv today. Democracy is mi-noced who“ Deirwerev-v shows that it can aim M1 effective blow at. the iilronl knlrll n! vwwq-nq whip!‘ gm- rm.» m4 flpnhtfll! have Wen qnlnii in: the. common people. at that point Democracy la in danger. A: lies =1 the part of our governments, fod- ~ |For iis to be on our quot-d evnlnrt. - .' I l l happiness“ I004 hnllh" on your income for food. ueoouitiu of life- rghqpg you have never » your lifetime-sly. . "I." IIIIII ll. If diepon now provide. lnoome Plan-is or"! l" 1°“- l Charlottetown. uanur>~o GUARANT "in i me is ‘quite as necessary for comfort and A N I n“ You and your deimidenis rely shelter, clothing, and all the daily riousl, thought of what might. In nine mould stop. V “our” n" c after you "reach retirement. age-you ti. should stop because of your death, your dank would be fwoed Wll-h the lock. of finding Sume- to replace the regular income which your earnings A guaranteed solution-The Great-West Life Monthly t iivtioiini a. 00.. unis» rrovlncial Managers Summerslde, EEll If it. mould stop curing Montague _.____ to ma merit. of certain liberties. ll’ Y°\_1 don't interferg with anY°n° emf ‘privileges and revoke!" ""- dou not mean very much-thin} mmooi-uy will continue. Just as soon however as Democracy M‘ comes a danger, just as soon as it threatens to destroy newer and take aviary privileges enjoyed "l the expense ofbthers. then the strongholds of vested interest be» gin to devise ways and M8511‘ whereby Democracy can be ciw tailed and if necessary destrovetl. Let. me illustrate two or three things that happened here in Can- qdu. whit was the Realm Hot? It represented on effort on the nor-Lei the authorities to crush a legitimate protest by some hun- dreds or thousands of young Can- adians to conditions In rel‘ef camps that were intolerable and who were exercising their freedom and rights as Canadian citizens to pioteat. As long as the unemploy- ed remained quiet. as long as they submitted to conditions forced upon themthe RCMP. would not be raised against them. but im- medistelvprotest against intoler- "able conditions was organized. the authorities took cognizance. Then lief: us take the Province - of Quebec, a great province and a. great people. but. a people who have been more or.1eas content to reniriinturicler thetdomination of a combination of the industrial lead- era inlthe province. The people submltletf because coming from ISHILLIUBHY, they did not have t the. technique of industrial organ- isation; industries were establish- ed and» cheap labor was exploited . to amasvfortunes for a few hun- dred wealthy families. That con- dition is changing. Quebec has ‘felt the depression tar more ac- utely than any other industrial sootionJof Canada. Relief rolls lheve‘ mounted. There has been o ,1 steady ‘wearing down of the stan- ,den:la of living. What happened? ‘rho peoplg have; been thinking in terms of ‘political organizations as never before. Quebec today is in {seething ferment. One result of the changing condition was that ‘the old Tuchereau administration lwgs destroyed completely. That gave the people of Quebec a sense of democratic power they had not had for years. It: is helping them in oonte to believe that if Premier Dupleasis does not do what they want they. can throw him out too; they have o-sense of power they never- had before. " On the other hand the privileged groups which for years have been exploiting-Quebec had come to the conclusion that at all costs Que- bec demoorocy- must be curtailed, so that wit-hi Tasoliereeu gone and Duplesaia-in power. legislation has been" placed on the statute books which hos‘ been steadily curtailing the‘. democratic rights of French- Conodians. The most infamous has been the."Padlock Law" and thetmost of us knows what that means. ‘mat is just one example and this significant of the ‘whole ‘trend inthe province against the tcivii-rlghis of the people. Theirlet us look at Premier Hepburn‘ of‘ Ontario. To my mind democracy is regarded ‘ by reac- tionary Informs as u. menace, when it begins 0o develop efficient foruiabf industrial development in the trade union movement. Look at 11101186 -ot the 0.1.0.; that. movement.‘ recently came to Can- ada. General Motors had come to an opeoment with the C. 1.0. in the Unified States and it is quite probable that: a ‘ “ n5lGGlTl€llt would have been reached in Can- ada, had there not been outside interference. But there was; right. at. the beginning the Premier of the province of Ontario, a. man who hm boasted about. being the friend, of thc working people of Ontario, flagrantly coating out on the aide of the owners in the strike and refusing to recognize the riahi: .0! the workers in the General Motors plant at Oshawa toot-lama; p, union of their own choosing. More than that, he worlocdiin close contact with some ,0! the greatest financial interests in Ontario. and used every means of propaganda alainat the 0.1.0.. recruiting a private army for the purpose of possible strike-breaking. ‘Altogether he created s, condition of unreal; in that province such as we never have seen before, and the Premier . put in power to l longuDemooi-my hutharlgiae- " .p€i'l5g of the "3""fiidqliéYhjoy-‘i-rnaintain the democratlYFi-‘ifiliifi the people of Ontario. so wtili western Canada at broken up politically. and the twr largest eastern provinces going pas, clst about as fast. as they can go [ say we are facing today and g," likely to face to a greater extent the same kind of threat to demo. erotic principles and liberttq u has bteri faced in European coun- tries. Unless we take measures t; protect our rights and defend whit democracy we have, there is very great danger of that democracy gradually slipping away from us and a dictator being in power backed by big interests at. the ex.- common rank and -file of the people of Canada. I am, Sir, etc. II. B. DENNIB, RELIGIOUS vocnioivs arm PUBLIC SCHOOL sun-On page two of your issue n November 6th, appeared the mpro. duction of an article relative to | glowing tribute to the newly con." secreted Bishop Ryan of Hmflw. and also included several Prim Edward Island clerics, namely 3141,. op Neliigan of Pembroke, Archbish- op iwcNally of Halifax, Archbishop Siiinott of Winnipeg and Archbish- op MoGuigan of Tomato: (hi might- have mentioned other Island (Continued on pagg '1, cot, 5) OXEN 1N THE FUBBOW These heavy furrow: wan by our: turned ' Two yoke there were in pull flu one slow plow ' With thrust of shoulders, buckling. up of backs, t And the woe horns above the low- held brow. 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