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uounar. suiwn u, um ‘ What U. S. Famers Obtained

Canada as a dumping ground for _U. S. agricultural products under the Washington treaty is predicted in the following United Press

despatch which was read the other day by a Con- servative speaker in the House of Commons: “In an oflicial statement Secretary of State HENRY A. WALLAci-z said the treaty would bene- fit ‘the whole of agriculture’ and predicted re- covery of most of the $35,000,000 dfitilme l" United States agricultural exports to Canada during tlie past five years. During that time, he said, exports to Canada of American farm pro- ducts, upon which duty reductions are secured in the treaty, declined from $50,000,000 for the year ending March 3i, i930. t0 $I5.000.0°° dill" ing the year ended March 3i, 1935. Wallace cit- ‘ed the reductions granted to Canada on a quota limit of beef, cattle, calves and dairy cows and added: “There are a few farm groups which ivill fear they arc being hurt by the new agreement, but actually in those cases the tariff reductions are moderate, and in addition there are quota restrictions of such a nature that imports from Canada cannot affect the American price struc- ture by more than I per cent.”

Bertha’: Big Brothers

A writer in a mainland exchange recalls that some 22 years ago, citizens of Paris attend- ing Easter Sunday mass in a city church were virtually scattered to the four winds by the im- pact of a shell from the German lines. At the time, it was not known that shells could travel so far. No gun had a range of more than 25 miles, so far as the Parisians knew. And the Ger- man lines were not that close at the time.

The mystery was not solved to any, great extent, even after the war, when the emplace- ment of the renowned “Big Bertha" was dis- covered 80 miles from the city.

“Bertlias” shells went, far, fast and high. The monstrous siege gun sent a 12-inch shell into the stratosphere IO miles above the earth. where it met with but little resistance on its screaming go-mile journey. So far away from its objective was this gun that its operators had to allow for the curvature of the earth arid the speed of the world's rotation.

Germany, it is believed, has for a long time been secretly rearming in preparation for just such a move as was made last week in reoccu- pying the Rhine areas. Has she also been de- veloping bigger “Berthas", of still longer range and more deadly precision than any used in the last ..V\Var? This question is probably giving France more serious concern at present tliziii all the talk about germs,‘ rays, and new gas bombs which popular credulity’ associates with scienti- fic warfare. On the other hand, Germany may find some surprise packets behind the solid French fortifications fronting the Rhine, if the present crisis gets out of hand.

A Literary Controversy

A delightful literary controversy has taken place between the Toronto Globe and Sydney Post-Record in which honours belong to the latter, as the following editorial from its issue of Thursday shows:

Some days ago the Post-Record requested

fthe Toronto Globe to cite the verse in Sornocuss‘ "Antigone" in which that paper claimed the Greek author had mentioned the name of the Roman deity “Jupiter." The Globe responds with this curious statement: “For the information of the Sydney Post-Record, which asks: In Johnson's edition of ‘Antigone’ (i758) SOPHOCLES quotes as a saying: ‘Quem Jupiter vult pendere, dementat primus.’ It is no unusual thing for a writer to quote in a foreign tongue."

For the information of the Globe, Sornoccns did not quote as alleged, in “Anti- gone," or anywhere else. It is, as the Globe says, “no unusual thing for a writer to quote in a foreign tongue," but it would be quite a remark- able thing if SOPBOCLES, who lived and wrote several centuries before the literature of ancient

‘Rome began to germinate, should have quoted

either the passage in question or any other from classical Latin.

But in this case it is unnecessary to argue from inference, SoPiiocLss’ “Antigone? does not contain a. word of Latin from beginning to end. The play does not mention the name of "Jupiter" anywhere, but it does refer to the Greek deity “Zeus? Nor does the _prove_rb, “Whom the gods would destroy they first drive mad,” appear in any form in this Greek tragedy.

There is, however, one passage i “Anti- gone” which does remotely suggest the idea embodied in that now hackneyed proverb. Lines 620-624 read thus, as nearly as the Greek can be rendered in our own alphabet:

“Sophia gar ek tou

Kleinon epos pephantai

To kskon dolcein pot’ esthlon

Tod’ emmen lwto phrenas

Theo: agei pros atan." ,

Translating thin-subject to the Globes wisely

.

from this l noted saying is good to the whose lflifllflllo God drives to dflfigff-Ctlml." mlpusnge o Wsastropheyv LOW"!

“invocation w “Zeus," the all-powerful

thlGotls of the pagan Greek world. _

‘ ' iflttt the’ mine of "Jupiter" is

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has a whole

“perderc" and of “primus" for “prius."

to quote.

Editorial Notes

after all-only Government Control. 9K 9K 9K

sent law is to be adhered to?

9K 9K It Appropriately enough, the new President of McGill Debating Union, Eu KELLOWAY, hails from Spout Cove, I§eCW£€O1ll¥ll3fld_

Rumour was ever a lying jade, as the Tem- perance Federation realizes after reams of cor- resppndence and hours of temperance meeting orations. 9K 9K 9K

During the past few days a number of men, otherwise unemployed, have been 11.I'fl.llly en- gaged on the city streets. This week, if weather conditions remain as they are, a street cleaning programme should be undertaken in earnest.

9K 9E 9ft Prime MinisterKmc now finds the Ger-

that German nationals would be conscripted: perhaps he has also learned by this time that

in discussing the League of Nations.

9K 9l€ 9K A Canadian Press despatch from Yakima, Washington, gives the following account of the deplorable tendency to tippling developed by birds of the air: “Apples frozen on the trees last Fall, says Mrs. CHARLES IMAYO, are getting the birds out lier way drunk-so tight, indeed, they can't fly. Worst tipplers among the feathered friends are the robins, wax-wings and blue- birds.” _ 9K 9K 9K

the KING Reciprocity Treaty. Hearings of the furniture manufacturers before the Tariff Board ended with those companies which produce steel desks and other oFfice furnishings making their representations. The furniture men asked for an upward revision of item 519 of the tariff sche- dule, in order to neutralize the advantages grant- ed to the United States under the reciprocity agreement. ‘ 9K 9E 9K Having failed to get His Majesty the King to attend Vancouver Jubilee celebrations, Mayor GERRY McGizizn has landed a pretty big fish iii the person of the Lord Mayor of London. The Lord Mayors party, including two sheriffs, sword-bearer, a iiiacc bearer and five attendants, is due in Quebec August I3 and is scheduled to leave for the west a few days later. The party plans on spending two days each iii Vancouver and Victoria. 9k 9K H?

First reports from a number of districts in Eastern Canada that sap is beginning to flow in maple trees indicate that the maple sugar indus- try will be in full swing by the end of this week. Weather conditions of the past winter inQue- bec and Northern New Brunswick have been generally proclaimed as heralding of a bumper crop; deep snow blankets the countryside and daily thaws with frost at night, which experts

ed in many sections. 9K 9ft

Windsor, Ont., is not going to wait for the

deepening of the St. Lawrence for connection

and passenger steamship service between that port and London, England has just been made. Two steamers, under United States registry and with accommodation for 2o passengers and freight, will start the service May 1. Sailings will be weekly and the ships will touch Saint John

first direct from Windsor and Detroit to London. 9K it 9k »

In recent years there has been a return to the use of windmills for various purposes here, due to the invasion of travelling salesmen push- ing these wares. This is the outcome of the re- development of the industry on improved basis, scores of American firms having started making windmills to supply the needs of wide sections for pumps and irrigation, for cattle and domes- tic use. According to the New York Herald- Tribune wind mills are now used to cut wood, churn, and generate electricity for light, heat and power. Why develop hydro when wind answers the purpose P l! It It

British Columbia is introducing a Health Insurance Act which will provide medical care by the physician or surgeon chosen by the in- sured person, free hospital care, services of di - nostic laboratories, necessary drugs and me i- cines and a maternity cash benefit of $20 which are “mandatory benefits.” Various other medical services are “permissive benefits" which may be granted if sufficient funds are available after

merit will contribute $50,000 annually to the cost, while employees will pay two per cent of their wages, and employers one per cent of-their pay-

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It is just a month o since Senator PITMAN, Chairman of the U. .A. Foreign Relations

toexclude Americana from Asia in general and China in particular. Now Japan igsupposed to be backing Germany should the go to war, the

deduction, therefore being that should Japan and

on’ Germany driest France and lier Allies, including

p, the next move would to “liiy-cut" “B. ‘Al-which is n Euclid has n, absurd, but plesiutt for U. S. A. senators to omi-

something like this: “Whom-Jupiter wishes to hang, he drives crazy before any other deity gets a chance at the job." This interesting vari- ation of the well-known proverb is produced simply by the Globe's misuse of "pendere” for

Committee, startled Washington and the world by declaring that Japanese war ‘preparations were anti-U. S. A., and her policy in China was

Notes by the Way

lab and the United Stale; u,“ m, Dflllfifll Problems created 1n tug Far East by Japan; QXp-nflqnut 9011c? unsolved. It u, 1n. 4°94. ill! Very fact. that no agree- ment has been reached on ma“ questions that has-made success 1m-

There is going to be no Government sale Pm!!!“ It "W "W81 Conference.

5° fir Jinan has not aciicunccc the Nine-Power Treaty of Washing- ton which blnds her to the collec-

Will the Premier now cancel the agree- tlvc system and to Obaervimcg o; merit for the brewery stallion, seeing the pre- m‘? "OP"! 17°91" Prltwlplii and ct

the territorial lntegrlty o; 0mm“ But she 1s pushing forward on the mainland of Asia. and no one can say with certainty what hei- pollcy there may not lead to. That She mfly lflblre to ‘ semon over China and Eastern Siberia. 1s not to be ruled out. Herrecent man- oeuvres mther strengthen the sus- pfclon that this 1s the intention of her naval and military leaders, once they feel strong enough-Belfast Telegraph.

Reports o! death from carbon monoxide gas have not been as 1N- queut thls winter as 1n the past, probably due to people having leamed the great danger from automobile exhausts 1n an enclosed place. A reminder to,be on eon- tlnuous guard 1s, however, to be 1e- garded as timely 1n days when the

man consul was within his rights in intirnating temperflllll“ sussests ll“? 01061118 0f

doors-Port Arthur News-Chronicle. The truth will out, and the peo-

the Italian consul was equally within his rights plg or Ontario will learn before

long through the urgency of their increased power _, ' ments how. for from delivering the province from the sc-civlecl Quebec “power barons," the Hepburn - government has completely played into their hands. The Government 1s crowing over the savings 1t has made through its self-legalized welshlng and "chlselllng." These savings, like paper profits made 1n the stock market during the boom days, will disappear overnight when the pres- ent hand-to-mout-h power supply is exhausted and the Hydro has to go back, hat 1n hand. to the

Furniture people are vigorously opposing Quebsg companieg and take what

they offer or bulld steam pants.- Hamilton Spectator.

In a seven-day traffic census on the London Underground Railways. 300 extra inspectors examined '1.- 5011000 tickets. Apparently, in the ru'h hours 1n the great city there are almost as many people under- ground as on the surface.

Italy, 1t may lie noted. has taken advantage of the diversion to ac- ccpf, “on genfrfll principles" the suggestion of a fresh attempt to negotiate s. peace with Et-hlopfa. If’. may be gue"sed that Mussolini hopes to play iipcn the fears arous- ed by Hitler's act to obtain all he wants. Itefy ls never llkelv to be 1n a very much stronzer military post- lalon in Ethiopia than todw- Frances lukewarm support o1’ the covcnant has brought this about. The time 1s very propitious for Italy and on this occasion. be 1t noted, the negotiations may start?

tlons to which Mussol n1 mu"t com- mit himself. More than ever ‘Mus- sollnl 1s 1n a posltlon to make the Ebhloplan affair an integral part. of the general situation M111 not an isolated incident. This will all help hlm to put across his racket. If he succeeds. 1t w1‘l 1n conjunc- tion with Hitler's friternatlcnal gangster conduct furnish something

say constitute ideal sugar weather, have prevail- mm the mm‘, Fuumon h, the

United States before the G men were let loose. will any internation- al G men save the world Doss the Brltlsn Empire and the Unlbed States suggest themselves for the

with the sea. Announcement of a direct freight m1g?_-Ex,

Three accidents from nsollne explosions, inflicting death and 1n- jury, have occurred 1n ‘nus city and vlclnlty wlthlri the past, three weeks. Too many peopie are unaware of the dangerous properties of gaso- line. It 1s a highly gaseous llquld b0

inward and outward bound_ The service is the be handled with extreme cam e5_

peclally indoors, where 1t ought not to be kept lf possible. It can be ignited by friction, which 1s the cause of many accidents-London Advertiser.

Bernard Shaw has advised the United States to chuck lts Consti- tutlon lnto the ocean, bag and bas- gsge." This, from the once great Bernard Show, 1s pretty old stuff, and poor. There was a time when were shocked by 1t. or thought 1t amuslng, but. 1t has been worn so thread-bare, 1a trotted out ‘by m. Show so often, 1t has be- come somewhat pl-thetlc. Jack Benny on the radlo, clowns llke Jimmie Durante and Ed Wynn on the radio, say funnier things than thfit every night, third-rate thoilflh they are. Bernard Shaw, we sup- DOae. will be remembered. so: some of the thing he has written, he deserves to be remembered. But memory of lilm, whether long or brlef, won't be for the things his has been saying and writing during the plat flve years. I-Ie has become a second-rote clown. and for the sake of whet lie once was. 1t would

payment of mandatory benefits. The Govern- be a mercy 1f some of hls friends

could ammo to have 111m ‘ cuffed-Glows Journal.

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Cndltjovernment of Alberta, the Olllll‘! Alberta says: "No one

Jilin: defection, 110mm "h. ruiiccmciim pmcicmi wiuiin- will no doubt be discussed elsewhere.

As the Globe has said, it is often dangerous AM“ ‘u’ l‘ l‘ * "mum" "I filt-

wlthout definite advance proposl- ,~

tlibat M12 of pours

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HELPING BACKWABD CHILDREN

It 1s a source of (rent satisfac- t1on to thinking Individuals to see the improvement that can be made now 1n children who are "slow" at school, or who are below normal mentally.

In former days, u you know, the youngster was the duncg 1n the class and the butt of his school- mates. ‘To-day be 1a 1n a class wfth

youngs‘ Ilka hlmself under the supervlslou of specially trained teachers.

At first the improvement was ob- tained by keeping blm free from the Jests and Jeers of others and giving him fndlvldual as well as class lnstructlon. Then attempts were made to remove any Infec- Llons of teeth and tonsils, make sure that hls hearing and eyeslgh were normal, Improve the nature of his dlet and of his home surround- lngs.

However 11: was not until the knowledge of endocrinology-the science of the ductless glands-be- came known that great strides 1n the mental development of these backward chlldrcn were made.

Drs. M. B. Gordon, L. Kuskfn, and J. Avln, Brooklyn. 1n llkidocrln- ology, record their observations on 155 mentally backward chlldren who showed signs of gland disturbance and 162 who were backward men- tally from other causes.

The treatment consisted of g1v- liig gland extracts (dried extracts of the thyroid gland 1n the neck‘ and the pituitary gland lying on the floor of the skull), together with proper dlet, supervised school teaclilng, and lmproved home con- ditions. Apparently the improved diet and home conditions did not give much improvement, so that any improvement noted ‘was due tn the gland extracts and the supervis- ed teaching. They believed that the gland extracts were the blzsest or most important fkctor 1n the 1m- provement obtained.

A tendency to continued unprove- ment was observed 1n 45 per cent (nearly half) of the gland type of mental backwardriess, and 1n only 1 per cent of the other type.

And 1n the gland type those cases due to the poor or insufficient working of the thyroid gland 1n the neck improved more than did those whose pituitary gland was at hult. It 1s comforting to know that. 1t is

‘possible for many of these back-

ward children to become useful

members of the community.

FROM WESTMINSTER T0 ‘WINDSOR

(An Expatriates trlbute. on hear- 1118 the broadcast of the funeral of His Majesty King ueorge VJ

From Westminster to Wlndsor ‘rho King rides to his rest,

The orb, the sceptre and the crown Are shlnlng on his breast.

And klngs and earls and common-

ers

Walk ln his wake, and weep, Because the King is weary, Because the King must sleep.

I hear the guns at Windsor,

I hear the toiling bell

And the sweet. chimes of Wfndaoi- Whose tale 1s sad to tell.

For tho’ I'm fbr from Windsor, Earthwlde the tidings ring,

To bear my heart to Windsor, Where lies my liege, the xirigi

Amimd the bendlng ocean

Around the curving 1nd,. Vlbrates the vefl of other,

That men may understand

Whlle grleve the stones of Windsor Beneath the funeral pace. i

Now ends the klngly tenure,

But not the klngly grace.

llbur stalwnrt sons of Rolland Walk close behlnd thelr sire,

In grief that must not shake them, On feet that dare not tire".

I'm York and Kent and Gloucester The watch shall soon be done,

But heavy lungs the yoke of kings Upon the first-born son.

In Westminster or Windsor

The K1113 can never sleep.

wnn crown and orb and- sceplro Re has hla fntth to keep,

Then let the walls of Wfndlor with English echoes r1n|:'

“God Iuerd these glorious symbols! God rest-God save-tho King!"

-I.D11ys Bennett.

Seattle, Wuh, ‘l7. S. A., rvprlnted ‘from "The Maritime Sept-lit."

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Sin-In youi-"fmio of the 12th lnst your-correspondent “Pm Mod- cratloxie" publishes another or his futtls efforts at cleverness 1n whloh he pretty well reveals himself wlule attempting to reveal others. May I say for his information, as well as for that ofyour readers, and 1n lllstlce to ‘Pwhlbltlonist ' that hi! guess at the ldenlilty of t t gent-le- man 1a. 1n appropriate slang, “all wetP-just as wet as his moderation policy,‘ Just, as mistaken, just as wet as 111s newspaper controversy. So once again he has done what cvl- dently “pmhlbltlonlsffl has accused hlm of-made mereassertlons and proved nothing, for the simple reason that his statement 1s not 1n accordance with the flcts. In all probability “Pro1i1b1t1on1st" will de- fend himself. I am only interested 1n keeping the record straight. I Im- Str. etc.

BERT WAINEB

SENATOR HUGHES PROTESTS

Stu-On the editorial pale 1n your issue of the 9th lnstmt you state: “Senator Hughes has every reason to enter a vlgorous , ‘ against the tlghtlenlns of the customs ltws when he 1s all for relaxing them." The above 1s a gross misrepresen- tation of my attitude on thls quea- tlon, and I think you are intelligent euoush to know 1t. I am, Slr, etc, J. J. HUGHES.