(mus-a until ,, KING uv amour noon If evidence were lacklnl 0f m" " umueuis K198’! w“! WW1" ' (Q mnpansblo leadership, it wt! ehown in the Kill-W °l cmmm‘ wQmQQy, ms speech on tho Draft “gag, "pm-m in todsvh new: lolumns. u uwnishini m it» 1n- ‘ __ mo misstatement of facts whwh ggn be verii-ed by an schoolboy. ' A8 is now well known and admit- - t“; y,“ King's cbstructionist at- ltude to the Empire "Mk MUN" [or my political leader to have made. Yet he aslm YIPPQBB h" -_~;_,-s “x149; ggflllLSl the~Bonnett Gav- ‘ Jrnmenrs policy of “economic im- Pp-susm" ind flatly declares that 5Q, h; perceives no evldenv: of eco- ‘gv llomlc luizermcnt lll Canada's a1- (Alrs- The figures published by the ltmmsu of statistics. he imhles. J? hgvc been doctored in some way m‘ other so as to show a. 's:ziiisti~ m1 prosperity" which docs not cx- ist. lie "does not think -t is true" ‘ thgt the Empire agreements have it” benefited "all Eknpre countries"; c he suggests that so far as. Canada ' is concerned the figures have been ‘Dliivfl-Nd in order to make a spcc- . hauls: showing, or some showng. ti‘ under thug Empire agreements in ‘order 1o show a large-r trade be- twwen Canada and oiler parts 0i l the finprc" at tlic evpense o.’ for "1 elgn trade. And in Lttempll-n! 9° prove this he is careful no‘. to cite Canada's balance of trade, 0r Qhgr export trade, or her relative “ pogtion among the trading I111- ~.f; tions of the world. These things, . ,. according to Mr. K1118. are 11111118!- 2: Cf-ll. What is important, he says, is "the total amount o! money 1w- : presented" in Qlll’ trzidc-whch oi i: course means import as well as Itport trade. ' The Liberal leader, when he spoke, must have been aware that the latest rrport of the Dominion Bureau of Statistics shows increas- f, es in both the export. and import ’ trade of Canada for December ov- fitper the corresponding month of s} 1932. Imports, about which Mr. King seems so much concerned, in- creased on that pHlOd from Em- ‘ pzre countries by 1'1 per cent, and from fmeign countries by 24 per . ,oent. f. But lince Ml". Kng is suspicious ‘ of the Bureau of Statistics as be- » lng undcr Government jursdictlon, . niflet us take outside authorities. Re- Igocntly in these columns we quoted T‘ the statement of General Manager SLogan, of the Canadian Bank of LlCOUIIIICTCE, who said at lhe an- , l" iiual meeting of the Bani: that not i‘ only has Canada held its own in . {general trade increase during the l, past year, but that “the rate of the exports of this country, calculated in gold values ‘ d for the purpose of reliable compar- tqii _ ‘risen, was more than double the rate in world exports as a whole." *5’ v In other words, this Dominion. un- "flder what Mr. King is pleased to ' , term the "economic Imperialism" not the Bennett Government, is re- ‘ oovcnng twice as rapidly as the res‘. o.‘ the work taken as. a wiiolc, v General business. Mr. Logan said. “actively increased 10 rrer cent. in 1N3 in contrast with s decline oi N13 ‘per cunt. in i932," and he con- cludes vrith the statement that we have found it easier to niziiiiilhn our proud rrcord of honouring our external debts, while twenty coun- itries hau- defaulted wholly or in ‘ part. Let us take still later authorita- tive statements, and see where Mr. Kin! ltaiids. Th0 January Busi Ilene Summary of the Bank of lowest opens with the sentence: "Better business conditions pn- Vlfling in the latter months of the [hr have been continued." It goes tli to note. Among other cptimlstc lam, that "the upturn in Canada's external trade which begun 51x Ibflthl Ito continues, imports in Doom-her lhowing an incense of_ J nun-gnu: I fl.fl p: you (In Manon) nnlld TUISDAY, JANUARY S, IIL mens of 1932 was l major blunder. 9Q thalamus) lvllvwul. II lid I104 kin flulutof Nova Bwt-lminits Monthly Ravisw fr: Jlmlifl- Iflli "The you 1088 has witnqed n marked turn for the better in the Canadian business situation." And it notes, in addition to increase 1n value o: Ocmdn exports over the past eight months, a nbstmtisl rise in prices, reflected "in s nurk~ led betterment of business in the Maritime Provinces and British Columbia, as well as, though to a lesser degree, in Ontsno and Que- But it is unnecessary to go out- side thzs Province for refutation of Mr. Kings gloomy utterances. At the snnun meeting of the 0hr:- lotteww Board of 'I"rade the re- tiring president, Dr. Cll-rk, noted in his presidential rapOrt that “the year Just past has, according to those we consider authorities in such matters, seen the plummet strike the bottom of the finuicial depressinn and rebound." At the same meeting, reporting as chairman of the Eknplre Trude Committee, Mr. S. A MacDonald, called attention to the "remarkable increase in the Dominion! trade with lllmplre countries," which r0":- frcm thirty-six percent. of our total trade in 1930 to forty-seven per cent. in i933: "in other words. practically half of Cumin‘: ex- portable surplus found markets unthin the EmpIE, which embrac- es about one-fourth of the world's people. 1n the suns period, Can- ads’: import-s from British Empire countries increaaed from twenty- two to thirty-three per cent- of her total imports." And this great achevament, as Already noted, has been accompanied in recent months, not by u falling off in for- eign export trade, but by increases, which in the case of agricultural pmduota t0 the United States .n November last, amounted to 290 per cent, over the figure for No- vember, 1932. Hundreds of other authoritative statements could be quoted, expos- ing Mr. lung‘; inslnustions against the Bureau of Statistics as utterly worthless and oontemptible. They are but s repetition of the cam- paign speeches he made in the by- elcction contests lut year, which were swallowed then because the figures refuting them were not as rendJy available as they are now. Today it is no longer a question of Mi‘. King versus the Dominion Bureau of Statistics", it is s case 0f Mr. K118 versus every financial and trade authority in the country. All are agreed that Canada n mak- ing splendid economic recovery. All of them accept the Empire trade lgreemcntc as the essential factor in this recovery. The Lber- al leader, out of step with every- body. even his own leading party newspapers like thg ‘Ivronto Globe. the Vancouver Sun and the Ottawa Citizen, still "nursing his wrath to keep it warm", sees nothing but the shadow oi his own disgruntled cgo as h; gases st the brightening prospect ill around. and issues dtreful prophecies of what will be- fall unless he, Mr. King, is speed- ily returncd to power. It is indeed time, as the Ottawa Citizen kind- ly suggesis,_ that he consider the alternative proposition 0f retiring to the sheltered portiool of MvOill or some other ncldcnc institution. there to regain his sense of pro- portion, and polish the periods d his sonorous prose to at leut entertaining purpose in the chap ters ci his long-mediated auto- biography. EDITORIAL NOTES Spanking to members of the (Midi-In Gwilflbhicl-l Socely and other; in the Choteou Laui-ler in Ottawa on Wefiieldny of last week. Ah- Oornmodore Pbllowes 118.0, AD.C._ Jid that although British IVILWII have conquered the roof of the world, soaring above Mount Everest in one of the most dangerous of earthly adventures, the Nflflhetoffoweringrockln to on recovery and that reform should go with 1i- msre ldlustment," it is llso WW thn the new iuseneu between Great Britain and the rest of the t‘ onweslth has led $0 811i": sensitiveness and IDQDBHNR The links of Empire have become shorter and Perm?‘ 111°" "num- A policy or "British agriculture fliit," if it ls not hlndled with extraordinary caution. may have serious reactions on the ecanom c. and, therefore. also on the politi- cal future of the Domlnlons. The United Sl-IMA Shipping 30am h“ recommended that a law be passed rsqulr ng at least ._'>0 pq- “n; or 3.1 gcods purchased in America by foreign countries with tha proceeds c! foreign loans to be shipped in American bottoms. What a dffercnt talc there would be t0 tell 0f the plight 0K our own Mm" chant Mamie if some such Law had been passed by one o! our enlightened Five Trade Parlzsrnt-nts fifty or even fifteen years ago! But our policy has always been one of no protection for the Brit sh mar» chaiit ship and no retaliation against those nations the‘. discri- minate aga nst lL-Lciidon Ex- change. The total number of debtors im- prisoned in England annually ex- ceeds 20.000. The crediiors have the doubtful satisfaction of legal vengeance. but they do not get their money; hardship is caused to wnves and children, and the Stair is put to considerable expense. There is hope tlirit the Special Committee's; pcpcrz~which will not be ready for some months yet— will simpl fy the problem of doing justice to debtor and creditor in equal measure. a May it not even be that there is an external struggle for survival in whch nstlons, like the rut of Na- ture, take part. and out of which they cannot contract without pail of destruction? That at least is a working hypothcsis which m; think .t wLae to take into account. Our forefathers accepted it cheerfuly and courageously and contrived to survive. snci for our part we do not look for any new world which shall superannuatc the loyalties and the precautions of the old. The Greek dCmOCTBClPI; could not persuade Philip of Macedon to dsarm; their only chance lay in the strength to resist his invasions. All democracies, all governmcnts, all societies, now as then, must be prepared to defend themselves or perish. As we 100k out upon a world. convulsed in parts w th up- suminc DHUOIIBIIYIIIS, controlled in other parts by enthroncci tyrannles. we reflect that these are up; t0 be both hostile and rapadous; that we live-as man has always lived- in a dangerous world: that life it.- self Ls dangerous; and that nations were probably ordained as the best means of protect-lug the otherwise naked and helpless ndividual. Bet- irr to take account oi these things than to behave as if they did not exist. Die-hard opponents of Mr. Roose- velt point to the radical, if not "socialistc," determination to give preference to wages over capitul. Socialists, on the other side. com- pllan that Mr. Roosevelt is an un- repentant capitalist, shoe he re- tains private ownership of industry and still encourages the profit mo- tlve. The truth, however, appears to lze between thua points. The President is attempting to help capital and labour simultaneously, and insists that. there can be no general revinl until public purchas ing power is increased. That means increasing the nation's wage bill, so that w-th tho wages of one industry more products of the capital and labour of other indust- ries may be bought. Facts are staring Europe in the fact‘. says the London Daily Thie- graph. One of them is thht in the absence of a disarmament agree- rncnt, Germany will rc arm in free- ddfn from any restrictiom-even though the Socialist party is "ir- revocably opposed" to her doing so. The chocs before the nation i; that between regulated and un- regulltod armaments. The British Government is devoting all its en- ergies nfd all H4 prestlgg w rescu- ing the wvrld frfln such s disaster as the second of those alternatives. In Britain we hive tried h and the crisis by balancing the Budget. The President is tryng to Bo the mac thing by deliberately unbil- ancing the Bucket. f0 l ‘I i} IJIIUIIAIIHI IND IILIT DISIAII IN CIILDIII ‘more isn't any question but flat there are fewer tonsils rwiovod new tbsnthereweresomeyearsmsnd I believe that. speaking generally, , most physicians urea with this. Sven if the tonsils have stqiped being of anyuse, there is no nuon for having the youngster undergo this operation. However there is no question either but that infected tonsils IN often a cause r of rheumatism in children and rheumatism is very often s cause of heart disease. Dr. R. Miller. London. reminds us that the prevention of rheumatic heart disease is bound up with the heart disease is really not one of the first effects of rheumatism, but tends to occur later in the more severe fom-is of rheumatism. 'I‘lius before tlie more severe forms of rheumatism occur with their add- ed danger to the heart," there no weeks and months when very slight Ol‘ doubtful symptorns of rheuma- tism are present. It is during the weaks and months of these slight symptoms that there is the best chance of preventing heart disease. It i: recognizing this "tendency to rheumatism" thl-t is so important. when the presence of rheuma- tlsni-"grnwirig pains“ in jdlllb-ll rccognlzrd or strongly suspected. ilic following methods for the pure- vontlon of heart disease should be followed. ' 1. Regular examination of the child should be made as only s pm- per examination of the heart cui detect the early signs of heart trouble. 2. The child's surroundings must be carefully supervised and every effort made to provide him with proper clothing, dry rooms, and wholesome food. 3. When the rheumdtic pains become severe, the patients should report it to the physician, and should there be any rise in temper- ature rut in bed should be ordered. 4. The tonsils, if infected, should be removed, 5. What are known as the silicy- late drugs should be given in small doses over u long period. The thought then is that if heart disease is to be prevented in child- ren the above five rules must be fol- lowed. because the chain consists of infected tOIISIIS, tlmi rheumatism and then heart disease. Cuba Libre--Or What? (Vancouver Provincei There ls a new revolution and l. new President in Cuba, and there is a vast confusion which is noth- ing new at all. President Runon Ban Martin is out, ousted by his own principal supporters, apparent- ly--0r ostensibly-because he has been unable to carry out the rudi- cal pogramme which he had p0- claimed, Provisional President Cur- los Hevia is in, a young mun of thirty-seven, a graduate of the United States Naval Academy of Axinapolis The two men who had most to do with the ousting of Ban Martin, Guitu-ns and Bstlfln, though nominally in support of H:- Vil. are reported to be at log-ger- heuls. and Batisws candidate for Pfflident. Carlos Mendleta. is still in the field. Labor trouble is epide- mic throughout the island; there is riot. blood-shed and violent death In the streets of Havanl. . Meanwhile in the hlrbor cf HI- vana, the war vessels of the United States ride at anchor, and no pic- ture of the Cuban some is com- Dleie which does not show the enig- matic presence of the ohm-u States in the background, Sumner Welles, the American ambassador who advised against recognition, has been called home, and s new ambassador has been sent m the island, but the prospects of speedy American recognition of m; 119w Pflflme are not improved by the lltfiflgraglflnlmfind egrcbiérslons. 0!‘ Y no significant that this latest overturn 101m“ °1°°°1Y "Pun the recent striking pronouncement of President Roose- velt, when he practically scrapped "l! 01d tradition OI Lhg Mgngue Doctrine, and said that with regurd to the Americas the “definite p0- licy 0f flhe Uflittfl Silk‘: from 110w 14 °Y_\f‘ Opposed to IHTIEG interven- tion. If that meant as it ha; be"; tlktn to mean, that United flutes marines are not likely m pint-g; m, streets of Havana, it evidently ace; not mean that the United 5m" war vessels are likely to be with- drawn. Despite the a i prevention of rheumatism. Also that . “om-manna an unnu- to British statesma has not so far ordered his news- papers to demlnd a fascist regime 10g Great Britain. He is suspected o! liming at the Prime Minister- shlp as the head of a “super-Im- perialist" party, advocating seces- sion from the League of Nation: 1nd the withdrawal of Brita-in from all Euwbem engagements. If he should Join Rothermere in a pro-fascist campaign, the two peer! could use for their purpose news- papers with millions of readers. Fortunately it, has not been dem- mstrgmi that thus Journals have an influence proportioned to their circulations. and it is unlikely that they could win many recruits for a fascist dictatorship or oligarchy among a people with liberty bred in their bones Fascism is so 0p- pcsed w the British character end to British political history thlt It cannot take root in British soil, and Its advocates may be put down as men who, like Rothermere and Mosley, an embittered by disap- pointed ambition. Those Feeder Cattle (N. B. Exchuige) ‘mere should be more feeder est- tle fz-om the west coming to the lhrltime Provinces this yen- to bl prepared for the British market. The sharp reduction in freight nus and the reduction in rates for coarse grains to feeding points should have that effect ii our farmers take ad- vantage of their opportunity. Them has been n cut of fifty per- cent in freight rates on export cat- tle to apply from feeder points in Eastern Canada to ports of ship- ment. such ns Montreal. Saint John and Halifax, but only on cattle pre- vloimly curried to these points hy the railways. Ontario and Quebec hive been bringing feeder cattle from the Prairie Provinces and some have been brought to the Mnrltinies in the lust two years. Feeders in the eut are promised a saving of 830 s carloed on exports cf the fsttened cattle. and that is a considerable item. The Mmtrenl Gazette says: "The actual difference in the cost of the truisportl-tion per 1,000 pounds from I mint in West- ern Ontario to Montreal is between n prevailing rats of £3.60 and a new rate of $1.80. If the port of ship- ment is Saint John or Hlllfll. m! prevailing rate o! “.40 t: cut ex- nctly in half. Important Ontario centres sfleeted are Chi-thaw. RI- gus sud Pembroke. wbilo Mano:- viile, Que“ Woodstock, N‘. 8., and Lswrmeetown. N. 5.. would benefit from reductions between than points and Montreal, saint John and Halifax, respectively!‘ it is believed that both thvwest- ern ranchers and the groin IIWQN. profit from the new cattle rates. The nilwuys have ugreed that when full frellht hll been Dlid for local movements to prairie feeder peas s rebate of twenty-five percent ll to be allowed upon re-shlblnwt i0 an Atlantic port for export. Maritime farmers ubould be deep- ly interuted in this matter. Usu- ally feeder cattle ue muusht cut In the summer and (All. ‘ Th1! Y!" shouldsoomoueofthemeomlngthis way. rm anon VAILII, n: wvv mu. Othshlallgbvnlky, u» little law Andtlvecomleldvvattbeln. Tbewindmctngnssndthuiliu ltlll, Andtheelovsdltlutrwtmdfleel Othegnyillsndinlbuninbow r III. 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