C, I I A m naiitofisrown Gllhllbl-Ail i Instant-w. cum-o u. llrLnro. i i Ylca- President-J. Is Iurusta lavatory-Lieu!» Col. I). L Innltinuu, l) B. 0. t. g - IIIII all lounges-J. B. Burnt-II 5i . llluclull Idllbll-P. K. OIIIIIL Illvllwl) gm yuan- (h: 0011i 00.0» so.» {Vlilhl Dally (fnuldm e "3' mulle- ll Ulltcc ltauuu Inllvurol liluld II! vols (In an advance) TUESDAY, MARCH 4, 193i) Prohibition Situation A Summersido clergyman, a Lib- q-ul in politics and a strong prohib- ltiouist, frankly denounces present conditions under a government elect- Qd for the specific purpose of en- forcing and strengthening the pro- hibition law. The situation, he ad- mits, is a. sad commentary on pro- hibition. He maintains however, that the remedy is stricter enforcement. If the press and the public got behind the prohibition law, everything would be all right. With this opinion we cannot agree. When the expon- ents of temperance get back to the bed-rock principles of scientific iii- etruction and moral appeal, their cause will make progress. Un- m that time arrives, they must expect to be the cat's- pgw at political opportunists. Teln- perance cannot be taken out of politics until the political prohib- made ltionlst is eliminated. And so lent;- ls the sincere politician is penalized for his sincerity in recognizing and declaring the fallacy of prohibition as o, practical method of reform, just |q long will the political prohibition- ist continue to flourish. Rev. Mr. Harding is justly incensed at the slackiiess of an zidnziziistratiozi that can tolerate such conditions as are apparent in the Prince County capital today; but the same condi- tions are more or less evldelll throughout the Province and they arc the logical outcome of the kind of government which the vrohlblvlvfl- fsts elected to power and emolument- No government that could pf°llll59._ on the one hand, stricter DYOlW-lllm" enforcement. 8nd. 0H ‘he’ lithe‘ gheaper scripts and cheaper 11111101‘. eould be sincere. no government that could bind itself, in advance of an election, by secret written agree- merit to introduce prohibitory lcsls- lation at the dictation of a small group of extremists, while llli the same time soliciting votes on Ill-ille- other grounds from the opimllems “I prohibition in its party. will“ be frankand above-board in its deter- mination to enforce the law. The in- sincerity of the Saunders adminis- itioiiisis, ioi- s while. loudly Pro- election platform and 011 every p886 of the pro-election speeches 01 its leaders. Yet the Saunders adminis- trstlon was clectcd,_and the prohib- lttonists, for a. vviiilc loudly pro- claimed their satisfaction with thc result. The price of sincerity, so far as the Liberal party in 192'! W“ "m" A ' domed, would undoubtedly have been l "fimvfi" “.121. .;~*r:<":x:'i::;.1 ';..<. . , ~ supporting it. Prohibition has g only because of incom- the loss of the election. There arc many Liberals today who regret that this price was not paid, and that the party had not suffered defeat rather than be in the 11°- sition it finds itself in today. ‘there are many, like Rev. Mr. Harding, who bitterly deplore the‘ present situation and would do all 1n their power to lift prohibition out of politics. But the thing cannot be dime, Prohibition, unlike temperance which is a moral issue supiwftfld by right thinking people of every creed and country. is a purely political ex- periment. 1t is opposed, wherever it has operated for any length of time, by a considerable body 0f Opllllml Ind it is dependent, always, upon political organizations for its an- forcemsnt and support. when these organisations, sworn to enforce pro- hibition or elected, as in the case ' of the Saunders Government, for the ‘poems purpose of retaining it on the statute books, prove incompetent worse. it .fs of little avail to jrgug tbpt it is the lax enforcement alum and not the law, that is ut flu!‘ for the law and the adminis- {flange iogouier. If it were s. bet- fihw, It would have a more com- Qgl; s moi-o sincere, class of poi- wi mun. its appeal upon emotions that can always be exploited by a certain type of politician. While this does not excuse the Saunders Government for the present scandalous situation in the administration of the law, it does indicate a state of affairs which, from a prohibition standpoint, is even more hopeless than continuing prohibitiolllsts like Rev. Mr. liar;- ing have imagined. A Death-Bed Conversion W lt is s. cllrious coincidence that the reference in the Speech from the Throne at tile opening of Parliament to the consideration now being given to the final revision of the financial 'arrarigenlents contemplated in the Duncan Commission report, and the announcement of Premier Saunders which immediately preceded it, should have appeared just after Mr. Robert K, Smith, Conservative M. P. ,for Cumberland, placed on the order l paper a resolution asking for a read- justment of the financial arrange- ments as between the federal and provincial governments looking for special consideration and more gen- erous treatment to the Maritime Provinces. The Duncan Commis- sion report, which was in the King Government's hands in the fall of . i926, asked that immediate consider- ation be given to this matter. The word "immediate" is stressed all through the report. In the session of 1927 it was taken up by Parlia- ment and in his speech at that time Premier King said he hoped to im- piemcnt in full, within a short space of time, all the recommendations which it contained. That was over three years ago, and the Maritime Provinces are still waiting for the] promised implementation. In the meantime, the life of the present Notes Byliis Way‘ The thaw and blustery weather sets us thinking of the coming spring and summer. It is gratifying to know that this promises to be one of the busiest years for building in re- cent history. There is the new Cu- nudisn National _Hotei to be erected there is the-New Sauatorlum, and‘ there are at least a dozen new or rs- built houses to be undertaken in the city. ‘Yhen outside there are several new churches to be erected, and quite a lot of renovations. So apart alto- gether from the crumbs of Govern- ment work which will faii from Otta- wa, there should be a brisk time in the building trade of the Province. The Legion suggests, the time has arrived for the completion of an of- flciahhistory of the part Canada. played in the Great War. and with this all will be of one mind. Mean- time returned soidiers and others will be interested to learn that still another new war novel is to be pub- lished this month. There has been quite a deluge of such pubiicat‘ in recently, but this one is of particular interest to us, because it is the first novel to be published that tells thc story of thc Canadian Expeditionary Force in France. It is entitled "Wily Stay we Here?" and is by George Goodwin, the publisher being Messrs. Philip Allan, London. It should have a good sale among Canadians. The Naval Disarmament Confer- ence in London with its hopes and fears, recalls the words of wisdom delivered by Sir Austen Chamber- lain, the author of the Locamo Pact. That was the first great step towards decisive peace since the war itself, and reviewing the situation Sir Ans-i ten, addressing the students of Glas- eiected Lord Rector, said; , "There is but one danger that I‘ see in this endeavor. it is that wc' should allow our zeal for good causes, to outrun our discretion, and should be tempted to overlook the limita- tions inherent in our constitution, and so to meddle with matters which lies wholly within the scope and au- thority of the individual national governments.’ ' "The safety of the League and the independence of its member States are not to be sought in‘the di- visions of the Greater Powers, and ‘cannot be promoted by disagree- ments among them. If‘ those Pow- ‘BYS are ellwllfagcd pr permitted again ‘to fall into two camps the Assemb. ,iy will be rent in twain. “The world is not yet ready for a "Angle rorliament of Man. The sense ,of nationality, the, love of national independence were never stronger Government is drawing to an end; ‘than today The immedmta need of there is persistent talk of a general the day is not for some giaht Super- election in the near future and the gesture towards a belated implemen- tation of the report in the announce- ment that the audit board is making i preliminary investigation may be ac- ,cepted ‘for what it is worth. The audit board has rip authority to make a final adjustment, and there will scarcely be an opportunity of holding a Dominion-Provincial conference until Parliament pro- rogues. It will then be too late to i bring in any legislation until the foi- lowing session. If the King Gov- ernment goes to the country in the interim its prospects for re-eiection will certainly not be enhanced by its death-bed conversion to the mer- , its of Maritime claims, after so | lengthy a period of indifference and neglect. Publicity Worth While Some idea of the volume of business negotiations passing through the cen- trai office of the Maritime Provinc- es Trade Commissioiei of Ontario is furnished in the annual report of the Commission's activities referred to in these columns yesterday. we read that 89 business firms or individuals in New Brunswick, lll in Nova Bcotia and 10 in Prince Ed- ward fsiand have availed themselves of the services offered. Ontario firms made of enquiries for Maritime pro- ducts. Over 12.000 letter-heads have been used. 355 individuals repre- senting parties of from two to fif- teen hsvs made enquiries and have been furnished with Maritime tour- ist uuormution. Assistance has been given to seven‘ conventions held, or to be held, in the Maritimcs. With- in the last three months Commis- sioner Burnaby accepted twenty-nine invitations to address service clubs on trade relations between Ontario and the Maritime Provinces. Editorial Notes IILGIMIIIIAKQIGIMGCIOICIIQ Progmafve party intbsflouseof Oomuimiqoollsforthsobrogatiou IOOKIIIIIIOIQIBOIIIIISN‘ 0i the ‘irlfll III!!! It“ Ailltflmqfly ggquggu-mgmmh. bug www structure superimposed upon the Covenant; it is for agreements among those nations whose quarrels in the |paot have disturbed the peace of the world. Such I claim to be the ‘Irea. ty of Locarno. It has laid the foun- dations for the reconciliation of for- mer foes whilst preserving and con. llfmllli; Old friendships. It has open- ed a new chapter in the relations of the former Allies with Germany and of Germany with Europe and the world. ' "As I conclude my survey. hope predominates. The League of Na-' tions is an accomplished fact. The: peaceful settlement of international sort to war between civilized coun tries has been made more difficult A new vplrit ls abroad in the world. Thmllkh blood and tears we have travelled thus far." Contrast those words with these of the New York Times thc other day on the same subject. It said: "The United States enter this T-Bbsue? Bomc time in the distant; 11mm’- Porhflps but not now. we‘ a"! "Welly Opposed to our country's] b°°°llllIl8 ll party to the iniquities "l the Treaty or Versailles which this country refused to sign, which we Shall be bound to up hold. to sanctity and to enforce if we Join. '5 i 3n"? M98118 has been recreant to its trust while advocates hi" praised it to the skies and cov- fr"! "we o! sood Paper with adu- IWW W" its sradual acquisiti f1 of the strength to kccp its solemn Dledaes to do what is right. "And the horrible thing, about n, has been that while it hid its head in the sand the military forces or om 115W Brown and not lessened; that the world is hourly mcnsced by the threat of a new warfare of the na- tions to make the horrors of 1914- 1910 seem child's play." After reading the above, readers will sec that there is still need for educative work on behalf of the helsue. for surely it is a portrait of the fugue Hist is not s portrait. illfy to Canada's formers. By I lmmplucn error in print- lfll- 1M King's opening speech at the nlvll psi-icy. sn Irish newspaper has w! Nliflfly Ollllfls for "early reduc- tion of lllllhients thrfillllwllt the world." u that could be accomplish- ed, says an emhange, it would not differences has been made easier; rc- ' , And ringing keen resilience, , 58am and yet again, By/unu W.Barf0s.K.D. PASSAGE 0F FOOD THROUGH THE SYSTEM. Before we had the X ray the pro- gross of a meal throughout the bcdy was thought to take three to six days- With the use of the barium meal, which shows up black on the X ray screen or film, it was found that most o! the barium left the body in 24 hours, and that only small traces could be seen after 48 hours. Thus it has been generally believ- ed that a meal would g0 through the body in one or twc days. However research men, Drs. Kl- varcz and Friaelander, who have been doing an unusually large amount oi work on this subject, have been able to show that our old ideas of food "taking three to six days in its pass- ing, is more nearly correct. They find that thc barium meal acts somewhat like a purgative and that is the reason it takes but 24 to 4B hours. By the use of 50 small beads tak- en with the ordinary meal they found that 1s percent went through thc iii-s: 24 hours; 40 percent thc second; l5 percent the third; and l0 percent the fourth. After that it might take days or weeks before the entire number leave thc intestine. Now beads are not any different than other little objects such as seeds gow University of which he ilad been o; berries O,- ngs, m- um 5km o; an the Ponce and with n the whole of ‘ apple or other fruit which cunnit be’ digested. It was found that individuals. heal- thy and normal in every way, some times took longer for the passage of the beads than three or four days, whilst in others who were no; ,;s strong physically all the beads passed in two days. Now every health writer, including tion to the City of a_right to govern ' myself, talks frequently about the harmful effects 0f constipation, and of how, if waste matter ts left in the intestine too long, that it will be ab- sorbed into the bloc-i and cause poisming (autointoxicalion) of the system. ~ _ How is it, then that many indivi- duals kecp healthy and yet fcod mat- erial is three, four, and even five days in passing through the body? Simply bcsausc the material is al- ways moving along, even at, a 510w rate, and isiso because these indivi- duals have within the intestine, or- ganlsrns that so act on these wastes that they are rendered harmless to the system. I Another point overlooked is that should you eat much fruit or take a laxative that empties the intestine, it takes almost two days for the in- testine to become filled again. and no laxative shcuid be taken to induce emptying intestine because the walls W111 Elli) or grasp the waste when it accumulates naturally. And it is this srfiirhlnz or grasping power of the walls of intestine that moves the wastes along, mast-m gféiasg ESCAPE when thc fine metal of the brain Has lost its virgin brilliance And. sleepy and brittle, cannot ‘bear m: PHARIOTTETOWN coalition: The Public [forum Ibis column u open for the discussion by correspondents of question of interest. The chariot-town Guardian doc! not necessarily endorse the‘ iplnlouo of correspondents. BEHIND OR FROM UNDER. Blip-REV. Mr. Harding in his radio address upon prohibition is reported as saying-"We must get behind pro- hibition, and not in front of it." l-le might have added the alternative that if we fail to get behind, we had better et from under, to escape an linevitable crash. | Unfortunately we are neither be- hind nor in front of it at present, but standing idly aside looking on at the farce. Getting behind th Act to force it into operation, or, f we could, getting “in front" of it to lead into some form of activity, would be the saner and more courageous course. If we are wanting in courage to speak out, and put ourselves forc- ibly behind what we say, tilcn under such a humiliation, the safety first urge is to get from under. I am Sir, etc., PROHIBITIONIST A CITY MATTER Sin-Two things are as plain as a pike-staff to every citizen of com- lmon sense. One is that we have in Chief Birtwistie a man who is cap- able of doing things, with a highly efficient staff behind him. Arid sec- 0nd that we have a Prohibition Act in sad need of being enforced. The City Incorporation Act is be- ing revlsed. The City can use more revenue. Why not transfer the work of enforcing the Prohibition law to thc fines collected thereby, instead of a portion as at present? This would bring us a larger rev- enue, 'the Act would cease to be ai- most a dead letter on thc statute books, and we would have something more nearly approaching to prohib- ition than the fiction we have. Imagination In Science Imagination docs not mean fiucy. The gift of imagining things in human life rmembles the operation of a lens in taking pictures. Modern science has already revolutionized our ideas of time andspace. It upp- ears as though our y measure- ments of sins must now go the same way. A distinguished American as- tronomers. the other day was good enough to point out that the whole of our known astronomic system is but s fragment of the stellar universe, and that the stars swing around some remote centre beyond our ken. They are subject to the pull of some prium mobile lost in the far immenslties. Considering that the thousand million sis.‘ noted in astronomical charts require an effort of imagination which bashes the mind, what shall be said of the suggestion that this calculation itself 1s but as one little crocheted pat/fem in a. big tablecloth? Let anyone try to number the leaves on a single tree, giving each leaf a. million stomata or pores, and declare the sum-total. ‘Then allow each pore oi’ thc tree to stand for a star It is dizzy arithmetic. The London workman who said man is like some miscrosopic insect exploring within a drop of water was not far wrons- But side by side with tilts astonding discovery of the largeness of the planetary system deserves to be placed another scientific revelation equally marvellous. Professor 'I"iiomp- son, of Aberdeen Uiiverdty, speaking at the Franklin Institute, Philadel- phia, tflcd to lnipicture the election, usually decribcd as the smallest unit of matter in the physical world. What is his conclusion? It is that the electron, which itself is but a particle of an atom, reveals itself as a spiderlike net of electrical waves Each atom is a minute world in which electrons are housed and do their work, whilst, like our owu P1111109. each atom has an enveloping atmos- phcrc of its own. When the electrons are freed from atomic restraint they travel through space unhampered. and assume a form -roughiy resemb- ling that of a spider spreading out electrical tentacles or legs lll Well! lt would also be a Just contribu- Lts people in law and order. I am Sir, etc., CITIZEN NO COMPROMISE Sin-Our Prohibition Act; is fram- cd different to almcst - all -other laws in that an attempt is made to make evubion ‘of its provisions lin- possibie. To prevent collusion pen- alties are prescribed against prose- utors, and the duties of Judges arid nagstrrtes laid down in peremp- ‘ory language. It is defective irrthat, while ap- pointing means to punish ordinary offenders, no machinery is created to prosecute and punish inspectors and enforcing officers when they violate the Act, Because of this, of- ficers, made punishable for default of duty, and even for the more ser- ious offences of the law, can ride hrough its ordinances with a coach-\ in-four with the same i unity as lllfll elllflyed by the master bootleg- QQYS. I In a previous letter I referred to 653 drunks in the Police Court, each one of them adjudged to have had "possession" of liquor “in contraven- tion" of the Act; not one cf them proceeded against. The sworn ovi- dence of those breaches of the Pro- hibition Aot was right on the ground and difficult to evade. | The Act (sec. 80) gives the in- specter, or pc-Zioe officers, no choice but to take action in these cases, mil prescribes a penalty for neglect to do so, as follcwvsr- , And sturzfdesflraflilnrush of trl fte "m Eve” imlmw" "m1°°“““ mun an a r or constable neglecting or refusing That life drives over it relentlessly Till it may snap disastrously At any instant-then comes death, the ganger, To tear us from the permanent way; and, cast On the scrap heap, we are free at last _Of the intolerable stress and clangour Of traffic thundering down lif ‘s thoroughfare: \ And surely it is good to lie Quietly rusting under the quiet sky, Resolving Effldllally in sun andrsin, Till we are one again ' With our original element of air, —Wilfred Gibson in the Nation and Athshaeum. THE LAND WE LOVE to carry out and enforce this Act slmil incurr a penalty of not less than tendoiiars and not more than fifty dollars." | In all of those 658 cases, has there been one information laid by the‘. highly paid prohibition inspector, as the law requires? Not one apparent- ly, and. as each default represents a separate penalty, the loss to the rev of the Commission by this of the moral obliquity of such‘ men- optingnt-lie-‘Ach-The payments made are 00 Alberta, $125,110; to British Columbib, $1,771,050: to Manitoba 81,339,894; to Ontario, $771,657; to Saskatchewan. $1,048,668, and the North West Territories, $251. direction. Should an electron strike upon ain object, its course is diverted. but its radiating force coiltinues to move forward with ilndbnihished ._?.€__..__. ........ .- ._ “'30 i V391‘! i -- l 1S avmg-i Money _/ From a business. standpoint you are really not making any money unless you am saving some. Money you save is profit-rho. balance ' ' -. after expenses have been paid. The habit of saving regularly EACH WEEK ;is certain to show ‘Iyou a profit. ' ‘This Bani: Invltu THE BANK or uovA scour ESTABLISHED 1832 Capital $10,000,000 Reserve smoomoon Tots! Assess over $270,000,000 Wltb the object o! giving themes! possible snlwlnn 0o our llarltlme nuutnmsrs tbn Eastern Runsrvlanrs Dnnlltcnout to lnolisd II ' llnlnt Jnhl. N. B. velocity. Professor ‘Thompson, who classification in which physicists had hru made long and painstaking study persisted for many years. what of the electron, wld his auditors that men hitherto have deem ’ an infini- tlie new discoveries as to its pmpert- ——-——y--;— ----------- -__ ies and composition wouldupset the (Continuedon page 8) Prince Edward lslanifs M “Golden Future” keying with the Prohibition Act. is far from creditable. 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