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THURSDAY. APRIL l3. 1N8.

BUDGET ADOPTED

Our local contemporary finds it ‘significant’ that every Opposition member in Parliamcnt, with one exception, voted against the Rhodes Budget. 1t is surclyequally significant that every Government member and supporter, plus one Opposition member, voted unhesl- tatingly for it. It is even more sig- nificant, when one considers the fact from our contemporary’: standpoint, that though the com- bined Opposition was only 72 as against 107 supporters of the Budget, those seventy-two ‘agin’ the Government" members were equally at odds among them- selves. Eleven of them were op- posed to the Liberal amendment; only 1a of the '12 indorsed the Pro- gressive amendment.

The harmony prevailing in Con- servative ranks was certainly in striking contrast to the disharmony among the Opposition members. This, we take it, is the point which our contemporary endeavors to make in its long-winded tirade against the "Tories" having voted with such unanimity. No better evidence need be ad- duced of the stability oi the Government and the confidence which it continues to inspire in a time of world-wide unrest and economic depression. One would have to read through a good many pages of Hansard before finding

such’ enthusiastic indorsation of niiy measure introduced by the de-

funct Mackenzie King Government

during its eight years of power. Incidentally, it will be noted that

in voting against the Rhodes

Budget every Liberal member, iri-

winding Mr. A. E. MacLean, Prince

Edward Island's sole Liberal repre-

srntaiive, voted down the provision

for stabilizing stcriing exchange for the benefit of our farmers and fishermen exporting to other Em- pire countries. This measure, it is calculated, will mean the value of Canadian farm and fishery exports by $25,000,000. The stabilization policy is designed spe- cifically "to assist producers of cer- tain primary producis exported to the British market and to remove unsettling effect of fluctuating exchange." It consists of the estab- lishment of a fund from which will be paid on exports the difference between the price actually received and the pound sterling valued at $4.00. The commodities already in- eluded are animals, meat (includ- ing bacon and ham), poultry, fresh fish, canned fish, tobacco, cheese. milk products, canned fruits, can- ned vegctables, maple products. eggs and honey. The Provincial Govemment and Conservative fed- eral members have asked that fox pelts also be included. According to the Bummcrside Liberal press, Mr. A. E. MacLcan was so favorably hnpresslll by the benefits to be de- rived undcr this feature of the Budget that he too was active in requesting the inclusion of fox pelts on the list. Why then, if not for political reasons, did he vote against it? Now that the Budget has pased with a substantial ma- jority, it is hoped our foxmcn as well as our farmers and fishermen will participate in the advantages which its stabilization provision confers. In that case, of course, Mr. MacLcan, who is a foxman as well as a politician, will benefit ma- terially in spite of inc antagonistic attitude which he and other mem- bcrs of his party adopted to the measure on the floor of the House.

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TEACHERS CONFER

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Special interest attachesto the in-

part of the Federation to raise the educational statue of the schools as well as of the tesehinl Profession. The evidence of such interest and enthusiasm is in itself s most re- assuring sign that progress is being made. ~ ,5 situation which is becomin serious at present, but which may be regarded as of a temporary nature, was emphasized 6y the president, Mr. Elmer Pineau, and by Chief Superintendent Shaw in their addresses at the opening day's proceedings. That 1s the oversupply of teachers. It means that only the beet qualified teachers can hope i.o succeed in the profession nowadays. and that even among the highly qualified there is keen competi- tion for employment. This should be an incentive to efficiency and thoroughness on the teacher's part, but it should not be made an ex- cuse for undercutting salaries be- yond the point at which a decent existence can be maintained. In some districts, unfortunately, it was necessary to reduce supplements. In other cases teachers have applied for legal assistance in collecting their supplements for 1031-32. These are dimcultles consequent upon the general economic depres- sion. We are living in times when farming communities especially find it s. hardship to raise ready money, even for the most necessary pur- poses. This fact should be borne in mind by Federation members. There must, in the circumstances, be a little give and take on both sides and s determination to avoid friction wherever possible. It was with this object in view that the decision was made in the Legis- lature not to reduce the salaries paid by the Province this year to school teachers, Government mem- bers and supporters being convinced that allowance must be made for reduced school supplements in many cases, and that it would be an unfair discrimination to expect the teachers to accept reductions both in supplement and salary.

Emphasis was also placed in the president's report on the, need of creating the proper educational atmosphere in the home. Co-oper- ation on the part of parents and zusrdisns with the teachers was never more IlQCQSSHry than today, when there is such keen eompeti- tion in every field that only the M! or girl possessed of sound knowledge and training can hope to succeed.

THESE ARE ESSENTIALS

The new publication "Health", organ of the Canadian Social Hyg- ine Council, has a timely and easily uncleriood article on vitamins by Dr. Frederick l". ‘Tisdall, from which we take the following excerpt: "Why do we pay so much atten- tion to vitamins now, when our forefathers know nothing about them? We must not forget that our methods of living have chang- ed and that today from 40 to 00 P9i‘ cent of our food is comiwsed of purified products such as sugars, jams and white flour, all of which are absolutely devoid of vitamins. This means that s. very definite strain is placed on the remaining 60 to 40 percent of the diet to supply these essential food elements in adequate amounts.

“Briefly. vitamin A is present in large amounts in dairy products such as butter, cream and milk: in many vegetables and fruits, par- ticularly spinach, greens, carrots and dried prunes; in egg yam, liver and in cod and other fish oils. Vitamins B1 and B2 are plentiful in yeast, wheat germ, whole wheat,

formative reports of the annual con- egg yolk and liver. Small amounts

vi-niion of the Prince Edward Island are‘ found in milk and in

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Teachers‘ Federation now in session vegciafzlcs and fruits.

in Charlottetown. These reports

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vegetables.

in factory-canned tomatoes.

higher vitamin C content

kettle method in the bane.

recent scientific discoveries

suit of the action of the

marksble chemical process.

"Although great been made in our knowledge optimum requirements for vitamin and the exact

and fruits.” '

RECIPROCITY

agreement between Canada.

safeguarded made at the

and the

of this Province,

reasonable Jeciprooal trade

Mt‘. McIntyre. Omitted

resolution in its amended

reeds as follows:

"And further resolved that this Legislature in conjunction with the Legislatures oi’ the other Maritime Provinces press upon the Federal Government the advisability of availing itself o1 any fair and reasonable proposals from the United States of America, that would benefit the farming and fishing interests of this Province, and are not. of such character as would cause injury to this country through speedy termination of the said agreements, or as would conflict with the agreements of the 1932 Imperial conference."

'If the Bennett Government succeeds where the King Govern- ment fallcd in negotiating a re- ciprocal trade .5. ement with the United States, it will undoubtedly be along the lines indicated in the paragraph above quoted.

EDITORIAL NOTES

The legal bills committee of the Ontario Legislature has killed s measure introduced by Mr. Sinclair, Lbcral l-lcusc louder, to abolish the

‘m; wmato juice, in fresh cabbage and, flesh lettuce. Smaller amounts occur in other uncooked fruits and. Although this vitamin ls very readily destroyed by cook- ing, it. is present in large amounts The reason for this is that the cooking of the tomatoes at the factory is done without exposure to air. In general it may be said that factory canned fruit has a. considerably than fruit canned by the usual ‘open

"The sunshine vitamin D, strange- ly enough, is not. present in most foods. It is only found in small amounts in egg yolk and sunrmpr milk. Cod and other fish oils are very high in this vitamin. However, you and I don't care particularly for cod liver oil. It is evident front that the human race obtains its sun- shine vitamin D largely as the re- surfs rays on the skin where the vitamin is actually manufactured by a re- This secret has only been recently dia- covered and it ls now possible actually to make this vitamin. Al- so. one of the recent important discoveries is that this vitamin can be produced in certain foods by exposing them to ultra-violet rays. "Vitamin E is present in large amounts in lettuce and other leafy vegetables and also in wheat germ. progress has of vitamins, we still do not know our each quantity obtained in various foods. We also have much to learn as to their ef- fects on the human body. All this makes this study s. most fascinat- ing one. From the practical stand- point, if we apply a very simple rule we can go a long way towards supplying an adequate amount of these mysterious elements-with the exception of the sunshine vit- amin D-that is to build up our diet around milk, eggs, vegetables

Premier Harrington is quoted in a Halifax exchange as stating that if there is to be a reciprocal trade and the United States, the interests of the primary producers must be I agreements Imperial Economic Conference fully protected. In al- most the same terms the Legislature by unanimous vote, petitioned the Federal Gov- ernment to embrace any fair and ar- iangement with the neighbouring Republic. The original resolution, moved by Mr. Lea and seconded by l"? ltlnuliition as to safeguarding Can- adian producers’ interests or con- forming with the Imperial Confer- ence agreements. wisely, therefore, Hon. Mr. Sharp moved, seconded b! Hon. Mr. MnoKensie, that it be amended. The last clause of the form expresses concisely the conservative attitude on the Reciprocity issue. It

grand jury. Instead it is proposed Attorney-Generals Department. pre- "Vitamin C is present in fliblllld-Jllflt a survey of the whole jury sumably with a view in possible

NOTES BY TIIE I“

There are many wen of ovsiiin: income tax. Charles E. Mitchell, former head of the Rockfeller Na- tional City Bank of New York in i929 sold 18.000 shares of National City stock a "friend" (the "friend" being his wife.) later buying them back at the some price. this enab- ling him to evade his income tax that year despite a gross personal income of $3,000,000. To do this suc- ocssfully it will be observed that it ls necessary, in have a wife or a. friend to help carry the thing through.

in 1919 practically all the lines that now comprise the Canadian National were baxikrupt-fsankrupt under private ownership. ‘The truth indeed. is that it was the failure, the utter collapse of private own- ership which forced the country into public ownership. There was no public owncrhsip fetish about it; we just had to play the part of the creditor who was glad to take so much on the dollar and make the best of it.

"This," shouted Chancellor Hit- ler, "is the century of heroism. Art and literature must be drafted to educate thepeople in this sense. Everyone failing to support the Government will be outlawed." l-Ie is reported as having told the Reich stag_ that he wanted no discusslo at this time of restoring the mon- archy, and any German state seek- ing to solve the problem would be guilty of high treason. This would be serious, because, as he said, "treason against the German na- tion and people would in the future be oxterminated with barbarian ruthlessness." Even Kaiser Wilhelm at his worst neevr talked quite as raw stuff as this!

The Young Women's Christian Association especially observed the typewriters birthday the other day. in New York and elsewhere, as that organization considers itself a. godmother to the present generation of stenographers, for it boasts of having held the first class for typ- ists in New York City. It ls the pra- tical application of the typewriter which is being honored. Actually, away back in 1714. Henry Mill, a London engineer, first applied for a patent for a. writing machine, but the inventor left no drawings or dEWPlDiion of his device. Ii". was in 1873 that the first Scholes and Glidden machine known as a type- writer was placed on the Unitccl States market.

Professor Auguste Piccard, re- cently told large audiences at. the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- nology and Harvard University that in the future, stratospheric trans- portation would be cheaper tliari by rail, and perhaps even than by bOHl- The holder of the world's rec- ord for altitude explained, from his own experience in altitudes hizher than man can live in writh- out artificial rcspiration, the pos- sibilities of utilizing a small supply of oxygen for the maintenance of life by absorbing the carbon diox- ide, thrown off by the lungs, ‘into an alkali chamber and using this waste atmosphere as fuel for a motor.

Computation have been made recently. says the Regina Leader- Pofl. as to the cost to the public of borrowed money. It has been shown that at certain rates of interest n. million dollars borrowed for say twenty years, costs another million in interest. The fact is that the borrowing was done, with the’ borrowers fully aware of what it was 80mg to cost to pay it back. The state was urged by many persons to borrow plentlfully, and let the future take care of itself. What did a million dollars matter if there were twenty years in which to pay it back? Well, the future is not taldng care of itself in the easy manner expected.

London Times says: Though su- rperience abroad may have shown the futility of expanding credits without some sure prospect that they will be used for productive and not merely for banking pur- poses, there is no longer any reason in this country why public credit should not be used to stim- ulate public and private enterprise for really productive purposes and to the public benefit. The essence of the whole mater is that it is now safe to pursue a. forward policy on lines which would have been quite unsafe eighteen months or even s year ‘ago. and that a forward policy being safe, is urgently necessary if the reward of the past sacrifices is not to be delayed and even imperil- led.

By limes W. Berton. M-D. DISORDEBED HEART ACTpN

Usually when a patient complains of his heart no organic disease is present and his chances of long life are good insofar as the heart is con- cerned. I-Ie may worry about his appetite, digestion, and sleep so that he is under par in his general health.

Something like nine out of ten cases admitted to military hospitals during the War showed no signs of organic disease. Real heart disease causes symptoms" such as shortness of breath, swelling of hands and feet and cough, which are not the signs that would make the patient think he had heart disease.

Dr. R. D. Rudolf, Toronto, tells us that most cases of D. A. H. (dis- ordered action of heart) during the war were due to nervousness or to a temporary poisoning of the heart muscle by infections such as influ- enza. The heart itself was sound but its action was disturbed for the time being.

In cases due to nervousness the treatment consists in raising the whole nervous tone of the indivi- dual, especially by well regulated physical exerclses. _

In the cases where the action of the heart is disturbed by Poisoning from some infection the cause is searched for diligently and if pos- sible removed. Very often it was due to absorption from the intestine, to infection in the thyroid gland, from influenza or other infection. Sometimes the poisoning was from too much tea, ‘ coffee c; tobacco.

This poisoning may be sufficient to weaken the heart muscle ‘ arily, and sometimes even to cause serious loss of power.

However, as Dr. Rudolf points out, the heart has a marvellous power of recovering from such changes if only the source of the poisoning is removed.

The usual symptom in these cases is the great increase in the rate oi the heart beat on slight exertion and often also when the heart is at rest.

Don't worryabout your heart. In most cases it is not the heart that is at fault.

Let your doctor glvc you a thor- ough examination. If you have a functional or non-organic condition he can advise you how to correct it. If you have an organic near-t ail- ment he can teach you how to live comfortably and safely.

PUBLIC FORUM

This snlnusn as open (or the discussion by correspondents of questions or Interest. Th» Charlottetown Onnrdlun does not necessarily endorse the opinions of norrollllndontl,

GBOUCIIERS

Sin-My first letter on the above subject seems in have hit-per- haps tco hard-one of its objec- tives. With selfish egolsm "Anoth- er Anti-Grouch" fits the cap on hi8 Own head to the evident ex- clusion of the many for whose de- coration it was intended. "That section" and “That Other-section of the press." which that writer prides as meaning exclusively the isolated section of his own activit- ies, ls in his opinion like Crusoes Island a. domain or kingdom of his own, the sovreignty of which there is "no right to dispute."

I hate to rudely dispossess him of this monopoly, for in my letter

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FROM “THE VANISIIERS"

Doubt who may, 0 friend of mine! Thou and I have seen them, too; On before with beck and sign

Still they glide,and we pursue.

More than clouds of purple trail In the gold of setting day;

More than gleams of wing or sail Beckon from the sea-mist gray.

Beauty that eludes our grasp, Sweetness that transcends our taste, ' Loving hands we may not clasp, Shining feet that mock our haste-

Gentle eyes we closed below, Tender voices heard once more smile and call us, as they so On and onward, still before.

Gullded thus, O friend of mine! Let us walk our little way, Knowing by each beckoning sign

show a commendable seal on the ance in orange juice, lemon juice system should be m“; thmugh gm ](\gi3]a[,jon m, a iaym- dam

That we are not quite astray.

The Daffodils a Of Vimy Ridge

(Montreal Gillette)

0n luster Monday, ‘April the ninth, sixteen years ago, the four Canadian Divisions unsuited, sud captured Vimy Ridge- the ground over which they attacked was I quagmire. llior eight months ‘it had been subjected to a. ceaseless blast- ing from high explosives. The rains of winter had ‘uced the churned soil to unspeakable mud. During the eight days immediately preced- ing the attack, no fewer than five hundred and fifty-three thousand rounds of all callbres, representing a total of thirteen thousand tons of shells, were fired. while, on the actual day of the bsttle,'two_ hun- dred iind twelve thousand rounds or four thousand two hundred and ninety-nine tons of shells broke in waves of fire along the Ridge. The ninth of April dawned grey and cheeriess, with low hung clouds and s drizzle of rain, which later turned to sleet.