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.7 To our farmers there was music 1n the patter of the rain on Satur- day and Sunday, as satisfying as a. lymphuny, It rejuvenated the parched crops and assisted greatly in fighting the fires which already have destroyed many acres of valu- able wood lands, especially in Prince County. It. was also a reassuring nugury to the management of the Provincial Exhibition, as the pros- pects now are for a few days of sunshine-just enough, it is hoped, to enable the Exhibition to be the success this year it deserves to be. The formal opening of the Ex- hibition is set for tonight at 7.30 in the Paton pavillion at the fair grounds. Thcre will be addresses by Mr. James Paton, president of the Exhibition Association, Hon. Dr. W. J. P. nfacvlillan, Acting Premier, His Worship Mayor Stewart, Hon. Thomas .\lacNutt, Minister of Agri- culture snd by representatives from Prince and King's Counties. Ar- rangements have also been made for a fine musical programme. It is hoped the attendance will be large and that every success will crown the events scheduled for the subse- quent days. Details of the Exhibi- tion attractions have appeared al- nqst daily in the press, and it is unnecessary to refer to these except to say that taken in conjunction with the entry lists in the various livestock and agricultural classes they represent one of the most ambitious programmes ever at- tempted at c. provincial fair in this Province.

1- " TWO VIEWPOINTS

Economists used to ask: "Who will pay the bills of Socialsan?" The New York Times, recalling this, inquired the other day about the payment of the bills of Mr. Roose- velt's National Recovery Act. Supplying its own answer. the Times pointed out that Mr. Roosevelt has from the first been it. There was‘ bandid admission that the price oi’ bread would be increased through subsidies given the growers of wheat. Nor was there any attempt to conceal the effect of the pro- cessing tax on cotton. It, was bound to raise the price o5 cotton. The Government, in fact, hod pointed but specifically that prices of all lrtlcles would necessarily be high- ‘rr; that this was really an essen- llal part of the recovery campaign. In other words, the consumer would pay.

This, says the N. Y. Times, is the old story. The consumers are the real "forgotten men": the people who, in the long run, are called upon to shell out for all of those

, grandiose and costly schemes to

beckon the lvfillonnlurn.

Another side of the question, how- ever, is emphasized in the August Newsletter of the Royal Bank of Canada. caricature the economist who wish- es for a higher price level claim that it docs not matter whether the farmer receives one dollar or fifty tents for his wheat, provided that \he price the farmer pavr. for goods l; proportionately higher in the first instance than in the second. It may be well to consider the posi- lion of the farmer in particular

lince what is true of the effect of the price level on the former is al- l0 true of the manufacturer, the miner and the distributor. To that particular farmer whose annual in- lerest payments and tuxcs amount ‘l0 six hundred dollars. it makes an immense difference whether his sur- plus over direct operating costs and living expenses amounts to five hundred or o thousand dollars s year."

So, too, higher prices allow the manufacturer to operate at a profit because fixed charges absorb a smaller proportion of his income. Manufacturing with a greater as- nuranoe of profits, he therefore manufactures the more. More help is taken on, sud thus the vicious

We quote: "Those who '

THE CHARLOTTETOWN GUARDIAN

Notes By The Way

In replying to o question 11M 1° him 118811111113 an alleged but quite imaginary attack nude by l. dis- orderly mob of armed Indians on the British residents in Lvscknow. Sir Samuel I-loare showed that he

P. Vice-President, d. IL Illrnctl, I-J- l A. llu-llinnon, l). u. 0.

Special Agency Iuc\._ New York Cel Alolorl liulldlnl. Detroit. lulu-nub Tmrcr llnlldlng, Chicago; Glenn Bull‘ n Francisco; IISQ Nu. 05th Stud

by which propaganda is worked up. This particular incident is GDP"- cntly based on a photograph taken ten years ago of the distribution of food and blankets at the time oi’ the Prince of Wales’ visit to India. Since then this some piotun has done duty for sll sidu it has even been used as propaganda iior Mr. Gandhi's untouchalbility 09111981811-

circle of increasing unemployment during clefiationsry periods is brok- en. But that is by no means all. It is these fixed charges, the borrow- ings and the interest thereon, which are such a burden today to almost every city, province, state or nation. [The fixed charges require on un- due proportion of the public revs- nue. They make our public debt: appear the more appalling.

The August Newsletter adds that "an excessive rise in prices injures creditors no less seriously than s heavy decline injuries debtors." Yet

When n Niagara of knowledge produces but trickle for the public, the world wonders why. So much ‘book learning was probably never housed under one roof as recently at Chicago. The occasion was a congress of physical scientists: the roof belonged to the world's larg- est hotel. Forty societies met in the on the whole an excessive deflation m?!“ The; fgibmed “W?” is worse than an excessive inflation :11“ eatmblfn such a in prices because the debtor can Bu‘ the earth w” not properly 1b stand only so much. Eventually, 11-18mm; by the deluge. The W15, men with falling prices, the debts are did not get their product to the repudiated and the creditor also is a 171119111’- 5 51413411171" at 111° W°PW5 surfer“ Fair near by could have won almost as good s hearing. The learned men, it appears, have not yet learn- cd how to talk to the public. They can teach s. class. mite a. book and ultimately may change the world's thought. But face to face with the world, when high and low are ready to hear, they do not know how to not. Here and there an individual wise man dew. but generally the savsnts dent-Christian science Monitor.

MORE BRITISH SHIPS

The Canadian assistant trade commissioner in Glasgow reports a continued upward tendency in Bri- tish shipbuilding. Lloyd's Register of Shipping ‘points out that n. year ago British shipbuilders hsd under construction only 25.3 per cent of the world's merchant shipping; the percentage is now 39.2. Over 42 pcr cent. of all the new shipyard wonk commenced during the past quarter was started in British yards. In Great Britain and Ireland there is an increase of 35,101 tons in the work in hand as compared with the low figures of the previous quarter. The present totsl—267,502 tons-is 6,810 tons in excess of the tonnage being built at the end of June, 1932. Allowing for the tonnage on which work is sizspended 040,000 tons, in- eluding the 73,000-ton Cunarder), British shipyards have over 147,033 tons gross in process of construction, which is much greater than the total for any other country.

A Glasgow, Scotland, motorist M20 was drunk. ran pas-t a traffic 51811111 and knocked a man down. Ho was ordered to pay fines and costs mounting to $750 and pro- 1117011011 from ever driving a. car again. Sentences like these will soon stamp out drunken drivers.

The word "book" is derived from ‘lurk!’ R110 Bknifies s 1m. The term equally applies to the book pages our fingers hum over, and the leaves that ripple in the summer melt?» B88111. "Palm? is named an" 1119 DBPyTfl-‘i. a plant that once WW profusely alone the banks 01' the Nile. The mention of g, “v01- time" may remind us that in olden 11m" msmwcrivw we folded m 5°11! 11181 as in nature each bud is

had goOd inslEht into the method l

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One of the problems facing both patient and physician in some m‘ thyroid ailments is whether an oper- ation should be 991101111911 81 "F" I or whether treatment by rest. iodine. .X ray or other methods should first ‘be tried. , | Now no one likes the idea of an operation because there is the Ill aesthetic, the time in hospital with its expense, and the danger of the operation. Naturally then if all this can be avoided it would seem like good sense to wait.

However physicians always kser

|Mr. King And The _ Grasshoppers ‘ ‘I

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i i‘ ‘it . - (Ottawa Journal) when Mr. MscKcnzis King be- gnn his tour of tbs West he made most sensible speeches. For one thing, he made an acute criticism o1 the platform of tho 0.01., [so much so that The Journal, which sometimes secs good in Mr. King. and doesn't hesitate to soy so, promptly commended him. But m. King, unfortunately, has been fal- ling from grace. Whether the rec- ‘son be those flowers that Prince Albert Children placed in his path, or that softball team of young lad- ies which put on a challenging and “come hither" look after lib‘. King had kissed a little girl. we don't know; but, unmistakably, he has changed. f On Friday night m. King spoke at Camrose. Camrose, in Alberta, about seventy miles from Calgary, isinthacountryoftholihlulaso it may be that Mr. King thought

PUBLIC FORUM

This column ll open In! the dlecuuion by corrolpnndellh pl question: of lntercli. The Chulottetown Guardian doom not necessarily oudorqn flu opinions of correspondents.

PIONEER. BREEDEBS

Sin-The Ontario Farmer of last issue contained an article by one of its editors who visited the Maritime; .with the purpose of writing feature articles on farm- lnl. Mr. Walter Les. ma. recent new to your new lays the ur- ticle appearing entitled Prince Ed- ward Island Ready for Business "should never have been circulat- ed" and proceeds to tell of his own and others activities some years ago, twenty or more, in os- tablishing I-Iostein cattle in this province.

But m. Hugh Cohen's article was mostly about potatoes, foxes.

. , , b- in mind that the extra. Juice from 110 1W1 10 "S9 1181-176.’ $811! l! 1-119)’ 1511:: itzioukms m why not p“ the thyroid gland makes the heart {talk in Cflmrwe- At any me. here ‘

beat more rapidly all the time and‘ this extra work, together with in the system, can sc ' damage the heart that‘ rest an“ other forms of treatment are of m,‘ avail. i i Therefore we now find that the‘ lcondition of the heart itself an ltho strength of its muscular walls,’ i in pumping the blood, is the factor: i that influences the physician whe-i ‘ther or not to advise operation. In! i fact many surgeons favor operation ;'even when heart symptoms are i mild.

wan is this operation?

The operation consists in the re- moval of a large part, but not all, of the thyroid gland in the neck. In former times this operation was considered so dangerous that pat- ients travelled hundreds and often thousands of miles to have it per- formed by some renowned surgeon. Today, in practically every hospital surgeons are performing this oper- ation with splendid results and with a very 10w death rate.

Thus Dr. J. de J. Pemberton in Journal of Surgery and Obstetrics reports a. death rate of less than l per cent.

What about the results obtained by operation.

Statistics from Kochefs clinic in Vienna and Mayds clinic, Roch- ester, Minn., give 86 per cent of satisfactory results after operation in serious cases of the severe type of goitro.»

The thought there is that where rest and other forms of treatment

a mass of infant leaves rolled to- gether. And anyone who will take the trouble to open a. chestnut bud will find the leaf-tresure folded up for the season ahead. Or, 11 the pink-tipped bud of s. wild rose be examined it will- be seen how ex. qulsitely this rolling process is done. The curvature is perfection of del- icacy and grace.

The aggregate merchant tonnage I now under construction in the lead- ing foreign countries is: France, 92,- 1 406 tons; Japan, 32,280; Sweden, 78,232; Germany, 49,855; Spain, 35,- 512; Holland, 31,733; Denmark, 27,- | 1B3; Italy, 27,0776: Norway, 9,410; United States, 3,038 tons. The French figure (92,406 tons) is large- ly due to two vessels-the 63,600- ton Normsndie, and a l2,000-ton motor ship. The countries with the most notable drop in tonnage un- der construction are Italy and the United States. Compared with the present low total of 27,076 tons, Italian shipbuilders had under con- struction at this time last year 14 vessels aggregating 190,565 tons gross. During the same period the American total has fallen from 162,- 200 tons to 3,038 tons. World mer- chant shipping totals 67,920,185 tons gross compared with 69,734,310 tons a. year ago, and 24,008,083 tons in 1901. Great Britain and Ireland and the British Dominions own nearly one-third of the total mer- chant shipping of the world.

In his address at Camrosc, Al- berta. Mr. Mackenzie King stated that the Liberal ymy behaves there should be a great national commision to handle the unemploy- 1mm Problem. The depression set in a year before Mr, King’; Gov- emment was retired from 0mm but Mr. King then said there was 110 need to take action for guard. ing against unemployment. Nqw that the depression is about ova;- MT- K1118 811886816 a commission to handle unemployment,

4 "ifllblv hlzhwnv Pfflleot un- derhaken five years ago and now wmbleted ls that from Winnipeg almost due south to Galveston on the Gulf of Mexico, a, distance o; 1669 miles. In the United States it 15 km)“ 9-1 111811way 75. Five years

dirt road or little better. Now, 901 mu“ 5T9 Paved. 40'!\mlles have bituminous mat lurlhoe and rest is zrsveled. -_._.

n" "ltiowmlll! Dvmlnlons as well as the Crown Colonies are now buying from and selling to the 01a Country on an in Sentimental bonds are strong, but

EDITORIAL NOTES

The Maritime Farmer advises its readers to attend the Maritime circuit of fall fairs. It notes that :ihe circuit opens at Charlottetown August 21st to the 25th and it is always pleasant ss well as profi- table to visit the Garden of the Gulf. The Monctnn Times reprints the advice editorially, thus giving valued publicity lb the event.

bleed. International trade is m1- 1°° °°mi11ex for all trade to be on '- "flprocal basis. but it seems a Wnmon sense proposition to help $11M W110 help you. and the picture 0i’ an ever-increasing mutual trade between the old Country and the Empire overseas is one that mus/t BIppesL-Br. Guiana m,

During the twelve months ended July, i933, cansdian wheat exported amounted to 240,136,568 bushels valued at $134,221,496 as compared with 1a2,aos,as2 bushels valued it $109,545,288 for the corresponding period a year ago. Of the above to- tals, 185,032,270 bushels were ship- ped by Canadisn seaports in i933 as compared with 139,633,423 bush- els in 1932. The United Kingdom took 156,461,736 bushels in the yen: ended July, 1933, as compared with 101,564,154 bushels the previous year, while the United States took 304,976 bushels as sgsi ‘ 4,473,293 bushels and other countries 83,369,650 bush- els al lkllnlt 7MO5MI.

51111011511 under firs {rum h", 1M1" <11 °PDOnents of cies, President do Valera. of the Irish Free State seems detennlned "l 9"" for further separationlst mfimm- By unilateral action the ds Valera Government now propog- cs to sever three of the resuming ties with the British Crown. 31115 have been submitted to the Dali 1111151111 _t0 abolish the rizht o! the Governor-General to veto or hold up legislstionrm transfer from the Crown's representative to the Exec-

mend amYropI-iations; and to ter- mbuto t» flkht of appeal from

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are not giving results in thesethy- roicl caseswhen the heart is af- fected, the earlier the case is tum- ed over to the surgeon the less danger there is from the operation.

Sometimes the operation is per- formed because the patient can't spare the time required by the res‘: treatment.

A BOYS SONG Where the pools are bright and deep,

Where the gray trout lies asleep, Up the river and over the lea, ’I'hat's the woy for Billy and me,

Where the blackbird sings the latest,

Where the hawthorn blooms the sweetest,

Where the ncstlings chirp and ficc,

That's the way for Billy and me,

Where the cleanest,

.Where the hay

greenest,

‘ There to track the homcward bee,

{That's the way for Billy and me.

mowers mow the

lics thick and

|Where the hazel bank is steepest, ‘Where the shadow falls the deepest, (Where the clustering nuts fall free, iThat’s the way for Billy and me,

‘Why the boys should drive away

‘Little sweet maidens from the play, Or love to banter and fight so well That's the thing I never could tell.

But this I know, I love to play

‘Through the meadow, among the hay,

‘Up the water and over the lea,

That's the way for Billy and me,

-—~lamcs Hogg (1770-1835)

The chemical compounds known fcollectively as alkali comprise chief- Ily sodium sulphate (Glsuberb salts); sodium carbonate (washing isoda); sodium chloride (common salt); magnesium sulphate (Epsom salts); and occasionally the chlor. ides of calcium and magnesium.

Alkali soils are characteristic of arid or semi-arid districts only and these in Canada may be said to be restricted to certain areas of British Columbia, Southern Alberta, and, in a limited degrce, Saskatchewan and Manitoba.

is what he saidz.

"The Liberal party believes there should be a national sys- tem of unemployment insurance Also, I believe the fanncr should he insured by the state, at least to a certain extent, against such catastrophes as continued drought, destructive insect plagues or other misfortunes which the farmer cannot guard against."

Mr. Colson chose his_own route in making his inquiries. and no one I know of reviewed his article. If he missed m. Ian's herd possibly it was because he travelled inde- pendently and not in a. government car.

And Mir. Colson was writing modern news, not ancient history. I shsJl have Mr. Leo's article for-

Just think of ma" m. w _ [worded him and, no doubt, u

worth comes along one day and tells the farmer that he's going to protect him against the hazards of old age, death, accident, uncmploy-J ment, sickness, rheumatism, coms,‘ cramps, colic, chaps and chilblains; Mr. King-who had been ‘critical of Mr. Woodsworth-comes along the next day and runs in the grasshoppers. The next thing we know some other competing states- man will be for taking care of the kophers, 0r the crow-s and the bsts. lvlr. King, of course, said s lot of otherthings. He was for "lncress. ing the economic freedom of the People," whatever that may mean: he thought fsmiers should bo able to borrow more money (winch is as 800d an appeal as I!!!)pl-nd. Just to clinch the thing, he thought they should be able to borrow it at a. lower interest rate.

Honestly, we are disappointed in Mr. King. It's not tbs first time, of course, that ho has disappolniod us; but, after some of his curly west- ern speeches, we thought he had re. formed. What we know now is that he's the some Mr. King, and. know. ing it, we take s. most solemn view

will be appreciated as a record of a. period previous to 1918, when Mr. Les was still milking cows. And likely Mr, Colson will mention Mr. Lea in his next. Mr. Lea is good copy.

Since 1918 all Prince Edward Is- land records have been won by re- cent importations made by various people and practically all show ring prizes in recent years have been won by the descendants of cattle imported since I918. The some goes for high prices. I raced not enumerate them unless the statement is challenged.

Also most of the leading herds of Prince Edward Island predom- instc in the blood of these late importstions, and, I may add many , of the leading Ontario, Quebec and some United States herds have acquired it. It was kept pure on the Island and wo sell it buck to them.

We know Messrs. Des. and Clark were successful showman twenty years ago. What's the point? If the stuff is still about why not bring it out with records or in show rings?

Wouldn't ft be a gracious admin.

of some of the things that are going to be said-and done-in th next election.

The Happy Village

(W. Beach ‘rhomas, in the Ina- don Spectator) Our English villages advance by many pretty actions to a social state more equal to their scenic beauty. There is a hamlet in Hert- fordshire where to their danger and discomfort many childr.\ played in the road, like any urban group, though they lived in the midst of fields. Some members of the little community put their heads together and secured um- porary pcssessicn of one of the fields. A little later a. generous neighbour bought and equipped the field as a children's play- ground and presented it as a pos- session "ln perpetuity" bo the Par. ish Coundl. The decds were hand- ed over this week at the spot. One small and quite unessential detail set a flourish on the altogether pleasing ceremony. Seventeen of the smaller children were gathered iflkether at a heap and pit of