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_: BENNETTS SINCERITY

g The Right-Hon. Lord Alneas, who I,‘ as the Rt. Hon. Robert Munro, was I_ for a number of years Secretary of

; State for Bootlanlrllin an alrticle on "Life in the House of Com- 3; mons," asks: ‘What are the quai- IZ itiea which quake for success in the House of Commons?" and aris-

i were: “First I would place sincer-

ity. The House is quick to detect a

, humbug. A plausible tongue may '3 be a. passport in many departments i§ of life, but not m the House of

Commons. Th“. man who speaks

; from his heart—the man who suc-

I oeeds in impressing the House with his honesty, rarely falls to become '3 a. successful parliamentarian." With

the quality of sincerity. Iprd Alness

. links the quality of simplicity. Abstruse and subtle reascning, thl? f2 refinements of logic chopping. cut no ice in the House. Such methods

_' are destructive and lead nowhere. “I would cite as one of the most

jconspicuous modern examples of 7' the quality of sincerity and sim-

Tpilcuy the late Mr. Bonar Law," writes Lord Alness. “In him these qualities were perfectly blended. You could not imagine him doing p. shabby or a mean or a tortuous thing."

This tribute is all the mom sig- nificant, coming as it does from a political opponent, thc Hon. Robert Munro (as he then was.) being a

......Libera1 and Mr. Bonar Law a Con-

Eervative. The essential qualities of sincerity and simplicity he describes as having been pcssessed by Mr. Bonar Law are in like measure be-

fglng displayed by Premier Bennett.

WHAT KING OPPOSED

' We have been wpitinil. so 1M‘ in "yam, for any straightforward statement from the Liberal rpress as to the attitude of Mr. MacKenzie King and his followers on the X11955- ures for economic reform which Premier Bennett has proposed. In ’ the meantime, we note that Oppo- sition criticism is confined largely to repetition of thc misstatement that the Bennett tariff policies have "stifled" Canada's trade-a mis- statnment based on a quite mislead- ing comparison with the 1929 trade figures, which relate to the peak year. The comparison is mislead- ing on two grounds. First. because _ commodity values today are much lower than they were 51X yea“ ago; and secondly, because they take no account of the 91101100115 drop in world trade which has oc- curred as a result of the depres- sion. For example, world trade in 1929, estimated in United States gold dollars at 1929 parity, was $68.- 641.000,000. In 1933 it had dropped to 324.179.000.000. ‘Translated into permntages of the gold value in » 1929, the extent 0f the decline be- , comes more clear. It means that frcm 100 per cent in 1929 world trade dropped to 35 per cent in 1933. It was in face of them adverse conditions that the Bennett trade policies operated, resulting in Can- ada taking the lead cf every country in the world in the matter of trade recovery.

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TUESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1935-

Old Country were more than doub- led. ‘

"More and more it became evi- dent during the year that Canada was working herself into the ple- mier position as the United Klug- dom's aouroe of supply o! the major necessaries of life. Exports of wheat to the British Isba showed no in- crease, but the Canadian farmer averaged 15 cents a bushel more for his crop in the year just closed than in the previous twelvcmonth. This was due m "l0 stabilisation operations aullpfllbd by the Dum- inlon Government in the Winnipeg market. which yielded not lean than 95.000000 additional nah to the Canadian growers, according to the estimate of the Prlmo Minister.

"In food products the moat spec- tacular increaw as a result of the Empire agreements was shown in Canadian exports of bacon and hams ‘to the British market. Two years ago, before Canada was given the preference, the Dominion ranked sixth in the list of oountrfns from which the United Kingdom drew its vast supplies of bacon and hams. Today, Canada stands second only to Denmark. her export! having jumped from $3,167,000 in 1982 to $18,000,000 in the last twelvemnnth." The Globe then gives a tab?! of exports and imports between Can- ada and the United Kingdom, show- ing that the benefits under the agreements have brran mutual. With their leader eating humble lpie on the Empire trade question. the Liberal press has been fever- ishly seeking to find another and safer election “issue? While thus nngaged, like a thunderclap has come the Prime Minister's opening speeches, enunciatixlg his economic reform policy and appealing, by his obvious sincerity, his vision and statemsarlship‘. intherankand fileof thn people on issues of vasier im- portance than his opponents had even dreamed of. And now they know not what m do-Jearing, probably, that if they do anything they might

leader made in 1932 when he oppos- ed the Ottawa pacts, and threaten- ed he would make them the issue o! the next election.

EDITORIAL NOTES

rm bmak in the weather ‘is pleasant for the cellar but not so pleasant for the fret.

Did you ever experience such dnaadtul street crossings as yester- day’!

The "Big Interests ' are berinning to show their teeth in opposition to Premier Bennett's policies judg- ing by the criticisms of some of their organs.

In Ontario they conduct a short course for fathers who are having difficulty with their sons. ‘The ex- periment is said to be so successful that the course is to be extended this year.

'11?» Canadian Inhibition of Tor- onto struck it rough last Fall and has to record a loss of $18,190.92. adverse

In connection with the United States Senate investigation of arms matters, the New York Times pub- lishes a very interesting list of in- dividlmls within the republic who had a ybarly income during war year: of a million dollars or over. There are nearly three hundred names on the list, many of them receiving the income named through out the .who1e war period, some only getting their hand in to that extent in the later years of the war. When we remember that a million dollars a year means near- ly three thousand dollars a. day, much more than the average year- ly income for a family, and that many 1n this group received not one but many millions a year, it looks as if war was a very good money-clinker for some.

And now. with hi: whip, hid aside. he bids us. to our sorrow, a. quiet and affectionate adieu. His doing so reminds us of a. story told, somewhere, about a prophet who believed he had a vital message for his age. but delayed the publication of it until he could find the perfect form of- expression. First he tried n. sermon, then a. philosophical treatise, then a poem, then a. drama, than a novel, burning each in turn on being told by his critical friends that the form was inadequate to 1h". importflnce of the message. It was not until he was ninety and nearing his latter end that the form he sought was revealed to him. Summoning the critics round his deathbed, he said to them: "My friends I have found at last a form f0!‘ my message that will satisfy you all. Good-byeP-Drean Inge's farewell.

Henry Ford is credited with the assertion that the world is run by dissatisfied people, and although we may not at first sight like the Dearbom maxim it has something in it that is worth thinking about. There is a fine sense in which con- tentment with cur lot is a virtue to be cherished and cultivated. And thereis a dreadful sense in which discontent and dissatisfaction are an affliction to be avoided like thc plague. The “satisfied customer" may fit into an ideal picture of in- dustrial conditions; the "contented cow" may add the finishing touch to the beauty of some sylvan glade. But where would the work of the. world be at if all customers had been always satisfied? And to what stage of development would the races have been led by the simple contentment of the cow?

Surely there was irony In the fact that. on Armistice Day, a Sunday, except for two minutes at eleven o'clock, the huge British "Vickers munitions company worked all

make a. mistake as fatal as their through the day and night busily Lntef§t your readers w kmw ma;

manufacturing machine guns, rif- les and gas-projectors. It is a. won- der that operations were halted. even fo: two minutes. some folk will say, of course, the weapons are for the use of the British troops. but history does not make tha-t a sure assumption. Quite possible is it that the weapons arr for some potential enemy of the British people.—Niagara Falls Review.

We Hungarians have reasons galore for desiring that every hid- den connection of the Marseilles crime should be revealed. We feel particularly gratified that the Mar- seilles murder and all its ramifica- tions are now before the league of Nations; and at this stage of the procedure all we can do is to ex- press the hope and desire that the leaiue take its solemn duty roost seriously. act quickly-nay, at once --and thus refrain fr m protracting- an intolerable uitua ion,-that of world-wide publicity for atrocious charges put forward with the ut- most vagueness. The result of the inquiry, when the chain of events lending in Marseilles is taken in- fo account, may certainly prow: a painful ofrr,—but not to us.—-Dan- ubian Review (Budapest)

Notwithstanding editorial nwfil. and the pleadings of correspondents in the interests of pure speech. there still resound, from the plat-

negotiating the Ottawa agreements cott of the Hepburn government 18 time-worn lneleeancies of flfprea-

in 1932. It is only recently that the Liberal leader dropped his campaiwl of abuse and criticism of these agrmments, and made a complete

volte face in favor of them, prom- the senemlty 0f "118 pmvmilfi 111 Film;

ising. ii‘ elected, to keep them in

operation until he could secure

"better terms." Who, it may well

likely to have had more to d0 with

it. '

Out West they wally awmuie

sending such abundalnt relief in their present distmss. Its an ill- wind blows nobody any good: had

sion. I'd-om the multitude of inac- curate pronounciations, I have cull- ed the following examples, in the hope that their perpetrators may ace and heed: Tune-toon; Dew-duo; fillum: Studio-stoodlo; Father-fawther: Mother-mowther; Duke-Dock; Btew-stoo; Irebrlury- Fiebewar; Wednesday - wensday; Tuesday Jlioosday; Induce-indooce;

be asked, is potato crops been short Imd pflffl Ploduoe-prodooce; _ Introduce-intro-

1TH?!‘ qualified to obtain "better good. there probably would have dilce-"mwimi °°Mt""'-i°"-°°Mfl-

_ terms" than Mr. Bennett himself? .- I-lere is what he already accom- plished, according to the Toronto ' Globe, leading Lil-nral newspaper. in an article in its year-end issue i.‘ by the Globe's own parliamentary correspondent at Ottawa- "Any one," says the Globe auth- ority, "who examines the results of 37 the agreements signed at Ottawa 1n August, 1932, must admit their suc- cess. No orr: pretends they are per- fect or that all the varied interest! and industries which form the

warp and woof of the Empire oom-

mercial fabric pre satisfied. You can't make tariffs and trade agree- ments to suit everybody any mom than you can produce a ncwapa, to please every one. Int an agree- Inent between, (female and the United Klblllllll waml m n am-

mlllion dollnn into the p00- hula a cillilllll producer: and nnly u be unlined

"rbeadvmoo occurred on o. wide V about. affording conclusive mo! I; ‘b: m vlldlybf tub mam

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been much smaller response to the call for help from the prairies.

"Now in November," another "discovery" of a new author, twenty - four - mar - old Josephine Johnson of Webster Groves, Mis- souri, a novel distinguished for the poetry of its language, and the un- compmmisingly honest realism of its picture of drought and tragedy on the farm." So says the Literary Digest-high praise indtfid. _____.

Acoording to Dr. Sydney N. Nich- olson, fonrrrer organist and choir leader of Westmi. ‘ Abbey. I church choir‘; duty is not to p01:- fonn for the cuwrfllntion. but W offer through the Wlllblfl music carefully selected, worship in flhe name of the congregation to God. Than in a tendency in sing to the oodflllltion mama of unl- u; for the wanna» M ood- Chlnn llmltfollow n. m; 0f pim- bing-htwnrcletly. choir-mum’. choir IN. WIQNII$_ inn. he fold I»- Jmu oalbndrll connection in a.

opinion of many that the “infant prodigy" piano player or the "child wonder" violinist may end up as a street car conductor or a barber, Dr. E. P. Lewis, Assistant Profou- sor of Psychiatry at the University of flibronin, believes that the men- tally brilliant child of today will more than likely turn out w be the “"_rnanor.. offa- monow. Dr. Iewla makes it clearly understood, however, that the "mentally brilliant" clue of child- ren does not neoesu 11y include ihoee whose proud parents submit their bright saying: to magazines, or childmr- who can sin: “The Wreck of the 01431" through from lint w fut at the tcnder m of thrqe. Many children are given dealers’: being exceptionally intel- lectual beolule of some special abil- ityfog because they are merely aim.- rarenu often apou m»; minim t; lie-pm; u» much pflllo upon their headl." Dr. Lewis u- mtl- "I! this rm of child m elven an all-round Infantile teat M’ "p"! lbilily. ft would likely he found that his or be! mural iateiiigmoa quotient would uh w! little higher than the lump. I trim-downer, h. mama; Y ‘full!!! nmtiiliflfifibirbtil-

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Notes By The-Way

wlr! rlvrlwrrlvd vllnlcosa vanvs rs now ma: "USUAL" TREATMENT

‘During the war thousands of men with yaricose veins of the legs went into hospital to have these veins removed. It meant two to three weeks in hospital and little or no alarming for three to six months after the operation.

To-day only a. few cases of vari- cose veins undergo operation as the "injection" method of destroying these veins is now the “usual" treatment.

The patient simply walks into the physician's oflice in the regular way, has one, two or more injec- tions made into theWelrls, and then goes on his way. Perhaps two or three more visits may be necessary to get rid of all the varicoseyeina. Various fluids are used in the 1n- jection treatment; the fluids irri- tate or inflame the lining of the vein so that its walls first stick to- gether, and then become hard like a piece of string.

With some fluids the patient stands up, and a toumiquet is ap- plied to the leg above the point where the injection is to be made. The turniquet. by preventing the blood in the veins from flowing up- ward to the heart, causes the vein to swell up, stand out more, which of course makes it easier to insert the needle, and the fluid is then injected. The vein becomes swollen and hard’, and Whifil the needle is withdrawn there is no bleeding as the wound seals itself.

A number of injections may be made throughout the whole length of the vein from above downwards. When certain other fluids are used the patient lies down during the injection, and the wound is sealed with collodion, the collodloli being removed; a few hours later. A5 you lmow, the veins of the leg that become varicosed are not doing much work anyway and the circulation of the blood is carried on by the veins that lie more deeply. so that the varicose veins Ire not really needed anyway.

When you compare this method, which can be done in the physic- itn’: office, with the old method of weeks in hospital, away dram work, expense of hospital and surgeon, you can understand why the sur- gical operation is now performed in but few cases.

tooshin; sphereopear: Clothes- close: Athletlcs-athaletics. It may

the foregoing list was compiled, with fnw exceptions, from speeches made by Canadians-men who bold important professional positions in our mldst,-—Ex.

Sem-i-Centennials For 1935

(Fred Williams in the Mail and Empire)

The chief semi-ceniennials of 1936 will, of course, be those of the North-West rebellion of 1885, be- ginning on March 18 and ending with the hanging of Louis Riel at Regina on November 16; but equal- ly. perhaps more important from the economic standpoint will be the fiftieth anniversaries of the completion of the Canadian Pac- ific Railway, the driving of the last spike on the north shore section by Colonel Oswald, of the Montreal Garrison Artillery, on May 18. and of the final spike on the mainline by Donald A. Smith at Oraigellachie, B.C., just over the boundary from Alberta, on November '1. Both of these events will probably be re- membered in slrne fashion. A chronological list of the chief events of 1885 follows:

February 16, Canadian Express Company hicorporated; February 23. ‘death of Hon. J. 11:. cauchon. Speaker of the Senate, 1808-72, and Manitoba, 1877-82: March 18, first overt act-s by half-breeds at Duck Iakc‘ March 24. General Middleton left Ottawa. for Wlnnlpea; March 25, Indians seized store at Duck lake: March 30. troops left Toronto for the west; April 23. relief of Battlefonl by the Queen's Own Rifles: April 34, battle at Fish Creek: May 1, Rev. Charles Hamilton consecrated as Bishop of Niagara’ May 2, battle at Cut Knife; Ma~;\9, Middleton re- pulsed at Batoche; May 12. Batoche

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PUBLIC FORUM

ONLY: ONI PARTY

Bun-Is there now only one p01- lticnl lax-tr in Canada? rt would 30cm no. Both the Guardian and Patriot have little word N’ In!’ other. It f: excusable for the Gov- ernment orgtn to 9109mm n"

pecta and successes of rife p81‘- ty. But is there no other?

Certainly not in the Liberal or- gan, if there still is a Liberal par- ty. ‘There we also read columns and pages of Bennett and Bennett Government. His every sayin! 18 glgngglgd my; prose and verse. No other political leader seems fo all a ahow in. The C. O. 1". was once accounted a factor in the Patriots columns. but now both are pushed infe the discard to ‘Preserve the column space for attention to the 9115.1)!‘ ma!) of Qfllladd, P111110 Minister Bennett. » »

What is wrong? Is Mackcnzif King this early consigned to the pmy dump? Have they no word to help him out of the “Valley of humiliation," even thoufii he i5 without a policy? Is it the Wolsey cry,-"1"arewell m all my mat- ness"?

We can sympathize with them in their hunger for an election cry. their scarcity of policy, so scarce t-hai; all they can do is. like the whipped urchin, stand off in the distance and shout abuse with the over familiar parrot Crib-MUN! doomed govemment", etc.

Well; parrot crya never won an election; slander and scandal nev- er produced conviction: and these are the only cards in sight on thc Liberal campaign tables.

I am, Sir, etc, ' READER

"STRADDLE THE FENCE"

Sin-I fear you have failed t0 guage Mackenzie Kings versatility. Describing Hon. Premier Bennett's challenge on the clear cut issue of “Reform", you declare that on this the King party "cannot strad- dle the fence." Fact and history disprove your claim. There never was, and you will find there never will be. d political issue upon which he and his party failed to "straddle the fence."

You may bet your last dollar that upon this qumtion of econ- omic reform Mackenzie King and the King type of Liberals will perch 'on the fence and "All the King's horsel, and all the King's men" will labor in vain to bring Mackenzie King down again. -

Just watch‘ the-fence. Hound his lieutenants will be perched on its highest rail. 'I‘urning to one side you will hear than blowing off the gas of industrial reform, then with lightning speed ‘they will swivel around to attract the so- cialist rabble with an opposite bar- rage-against every national feature of the proposed reform.

The only fence which they have never straddled is obstruction. From alpha to omega they have never had full possession on it's one side. In this it has been,- "Monarch of all I survey. my right (to obstruct) there is none to dis- pute." Watch the next legislative session. Without limit or reason you will find every Government act and every Conservative meas- ure obstructed to the full limit of all their powers. There will be no let up. They will, per custom, ask for amendments and changes. They may get some-probably will. Of these they-will boast from coast to cont, as their panacea for the country's salvation. And than, in the final vote, they will vote to a rnln against the whole bill, their own heavenly amendments includ- ‘eid. ‘Pile is no dream. They always