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President Heat-Col. W. Cheater S. McLnre Vlee President J. R. Burnett. PJ'-

Secretary ment.-Col. n. .4. auxin-mi, n.s.o.

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$5.00 per year (In advance) mulled to Canada and 0.8. Members Audit Bureau of Clroulatlona

“The Strongest Memory is Weaker than the Weakest lnkff

TUESDAY, JUNE 14, 1933

Informed Liberal Comment

Better informed than our local contempor- ary on the significance of the Saskatchewan election results, the \\'innipeg Free Press, lead- ing Liberal newspaper of the \\'cst, has this to say in its issue of Vlune t):

“It will be a ilisztster to Liberalism if the decisive l‘t‘>llll$ of the Saskatchewan election arc interpreted in l)llll\\'ll as a token of completc

approval of Liberal federal policies. The real intcrprctatioit, and the reason which will stand the test ul the future, is nothing of the sort. The voting is a tribute to the good sense and solidar- ity of Snsluitclitwiwiii which, after prolonged hard timcs, ll.'\\ >0 ilccisiyely rejected the (luack cures offered thcm by the Alberta witch doctors, But it is not a vine of endorsation for a Liberal Party which, in the federal field. has done little to fulfil the high hopes of the Saskatchewan which in I935 helped t0 return .\Ir. King to power. Thcrc is. instead, bitter disappointment, and .\ir. King must recognize this if he hopes successfully to hold the large ntcasure of west- ern sitpport which he received three years ago. IIis term of office has now begun to run out. and thcre- has been little sign so far 0f a policy designed and constructed to kccp Canada's pri- mary producers sound and prosperous."

The Pioneers

Nineteen years ago toda_v—on Iune r4, r919 -—Lictitenant Arthur \\'hitten Brown and Cap- tain john Alcock, D.S.O., took off from New- foundland in the first attempt to fly across the Atlantic. Their machine was an ordinary double- engincd Vickers-Vimy bomber. Sixteen hours later (a record that held for ten years) they landed in Ireland. It is recalled that when they emerged from the machine Brown's only com- ment to his partner was: "How's that for a fancy hit of navigating?"

These men flew “blind" through fog which enveloped them after they left Newfoundland. Their machine was coated with frozen sleet, and the speed indicator jammed. Their wireless fail- ed and they had nothing to depend upon but their instinct, their courage, and the engines. For a time they lost all sense of direction and even hor- izontnl sense. Once when the fog lifted they found, to their horror, that the machine W85 rushing downward in a mad spiral \\'ith the waves only a few feet from them, they zoomed upwards so steeply that they had to loop to escape the retribution of the sea. They never sighted a ship and the weather was so foul that only four timcs were they able to take readings.

At last the white-tipped rollers on the Ceil- ‘vvay coast told them that they were nearing journeys end. So they landed, having done what no man had ever done before. They were wel- comed with frenzy, knighted by the Government -—and then forgotten. Sir John Alcock was kill- ed a year later.

In a year from now the twentieth anniver- lary of this pioneer flight will occur, and a Newfoundland exchange suggests marking the occasion in some suitable manner. A tribute to these courageous Englishmen who blazed the trail for Lindbergh and others is indeed long over-due. It is a sad commentary on our indif- fercnce to a great Empire achievement that even the names of these men are unknown to many of the younger generation, to whom later and less important exploits in aviation are familiar history.

Still The Vicious Circle

It is now three years since the electors, invit- ed to "Vote Liberal and get back from the Poor-house," placed the Mackenzie King Gov- ernment in power at Ottawa. There was to be no more pump-printing, no more “doles", no more spoon-feeding of declining industries. The magic that was tn rcfill the cormicopia of pros- pcrity, cud unemployiment and bring about gen- eral tax reduction, was Mr. King's favourite formula. "Liberation of External Trade.”

Result to date, as stated in the House of Com- lnons last week by Finance Minister Hon. C_ A. Dunning: “In many municipalities the taxes are so high that many people prefer to live in a rentctl house and let the landlord worry about taxcs and the carrying charges on his invest- ment. If we ask why taxes are so high we find ourselves in a vicious circle. To an important degree taxes are high because relief costs are high. Relief costs are high because unemploy- ment exists, and unemployment exists because, among other things, there is little construction work being carried on."

And so, Mr. Dunning introduces new housing legislation with a view to stimulating the build- ing industry. “llhmtlyi,” says the Globe and Mail, (Independent) "it is pump-priming of the first order. It will be a sticcess only if the ac- celeration of business continues once the prim- ing has ceased. If this is to be the yardstick, the prospects, for the Government's plan are not nearly so bright as we should like to see them. If we have lctrned anything about slum clear-

ance hy low-rental housing projects, it is that the start-and-stop program is not worth what it invariably costs, either as a solution or a recov- ery aid. This much experience has been bought for us by the Administration at Washington As announced. the Ottawa plan is just such a scheme. It provides assistance to limited dividend cor- porations and municipal Commissions at gener- -- plnterest, etipulating, the maximum rent, the

ditions u to zoning, construction and manage- ment.

“There it stops. There is no thought of long- range, co-operative measures, no regard for ef- fective, practical town planning, nor any appar- ent concern for the fundamental causes of this phase of our problem. And, lacking all these, there is nothing that will guarantee some meas- ure of stability in rental and taxation conditions beyond the three-year period over which it will be developed. It is becoming trite to cite the British way. Nevertheless the comparison be- tween what Ottawa proposes and what Britain has accomplished is worth a little reflection. In the last seventeen years 3,500,000 new homes have been erected in England and Wales, I,- 000,000 by municipal authorities with Govern- ment backing, 500,000 by private enterprise with similar assistance, and 2,000,000 by private cap- ital entirely. This has not been accomplished without planning.” '

In its amendments to the Dominion Housing Act the Government admits the futility of what it is trying to do. The uneconomic taxation on property is what has stalled the building indus- try for the past six years and forced the Gov- ernment to intervene. “At best," says the Tor- onto paper, “the exemptions are bribes by which it is hoped to induce the public to undertake something which, in its own good judgment, it would not otherwise do."

1 Editorial Notes I

The Bastille stormed this date, l789-—Frencl1 National holiday. i: n: :- a Full steam ahead with our roads is now neces- sary lest there be practical chaos when the tour-

ists arrive next month. a u w u

The re-election of Mr. Adeland Godbout to the Quebec Liberal leadership was unanimous because the Union Natinnale Liberals on the ad- vice of Mr. Paul Gouin stayed away.

F Ill U F

The Dunning Budget to be brought down to- morrow is not likely to be balanced, nor ‘con- tain the tariff alterations which the proposed U.S.A. Reciprocity agreement intended. If the House is to rise on June 30, as predicted, it will mean one of the shortest budget debates on rc- cord.

o u e e Here is both a. useful tip and serious warn- ing. Experiments with cheapwine, known in Bendigo as "pinkie", have proved it a means of destroying codlin moth, the most serious of pests among fruit trees in the orchard country around Bendigo. Australia. The wine is broken do\vn with water and placed in receptacles under the trees. The moths are attracted by its aroma and after one glorious orgy, die. Serious losses caused by the moth are thus being considerably reduced. n- n- : r

A kind friend contributes the following ap- ropos of nothing in particular: A Scotsman supplied a transfusion of blood to a millionaire who sent him a cheque for £500. The Scots- man was pleased and when he was told that the millionaire needed a second transfusion supplied that, too, and received to his disappointment only £50. A third time he was tapped for the mil- lionaire and chagrined only to receive a cheque for £5. He went to the millionaire to protest: why was he given £500 for the first transfusion and only £5 for the last? “Oh," said the mil- lionaire, “I've so much Scots blood in me now that I can't afford more!"

a I- a u Besides Social Credit Alberta has gained world acclaim for another unique innovation- “Belling the Cat". In the little Alberta town of Stavely, the eat population must wear hells to give the birds a. chance. A by law to this ef- fect has been in operation for three years. It has been a success, so much so that High River and Vulcan and other Alberta towns plan to enact such a law or enforce those that were adopted but never made operative. Stavely's campaign to protect the birds has received international at- tention. Bird lovers in the United States, throughout Canada and in the United Kingdom have sent letters of commendation Many sought information, planning to seek similar laws for their cities or districts. n a e u

Mr. Bennett. art critic, speaks with reference to the National Gallery at Ottawa: “There is a substantial number of Canadian artists who are not at all adequately represented in the gallery. On my last visit I tried to make effective my criticism of some pictures there but did not suc- ceed. Certainly they do not dignify the gallery, whereas some of the paintings by those who are not represented would ornament almost any gal- lery in the world. It would be unfair to parti- cularize. We have ample funds with which to purchase Canadian pictures. We have repres- entations of most of the great artists and I am not for a moment suggesting that we should limit our purchases. In my opinion, however, the principle is wrong of selecting merely a certain type of picture that apparently merits the ap- proval of a certain type of mind and does not commend itself to others. Representation should be of all schools."

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Dr. Sara Geiger, phychiatrist of Milwaukee County Mental Hygiene Clinic has been telling the San Francisco Teachers Association that child delinquency lay largely at their door. Teach- ers she said must meet a wide variety of needs. that is, the needs of the defective child, the dull child, the child who is average and without strong drive for academic achievement, the very superior child, the child with organic conditions and the child with educational disabilities. Re- cognition of abilities, disabilities and limitations, both physical and intellectual and in personal- ity must take place in nursery school, kindergar- ten. or early grades, if the school is to diagnose and treat its problems intelligently." When de- linquency occurs under the present conditions. Dr. Geiger. said, and the use goes into a court, the court, "in an attempt to place the responsibil- ity nnd establish Ireltinent, not infrequently di- rects parents to correct their behavior, attitudes and reactions; but a court rnrelv, if ever, orders a school to correct its curriculum, its attitude

toward p. problem and its method of meeting

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NOTES BY TllE WAY

Blrth and wealth In Great Brlt- aln are “ eased to publlc serv- Ice as In no other country. IFor centuries the Ceclls. the Caven- dlahee, the Stanleys and tnnumer- able other old fmnllles have eon- trlbuted to the public llfe of the country. Duty has become a tradi- tlon and a habttplnndou Free Press.

Deaf mute: may Insult each other In the atgn language all they please In Paris and nothing wlll be done about It. A deaf-mute couple found that out when the wIfe eomplalned to the Parts court that: her husband had insulted her. The court held that Insults must: be "overheard." - Fredericton Gleamer.

Pick up almost any Brltluh magazine these days and you'll ob- serve that more space Is given to pomp and circumstances than to war and rumors thereof. But.

Amerlca does not: get that slde of the story-perhaps because It. does not understand that the braldt and tinsel Is the Brltlsh Empire's method of dressing Its democracy. But behind closed bars of the Tower of London the keys to the Tower are turned over to the new Constable. Slr Claud Jacob. Jewels; royal prisoners; old doors: musty traditions; very British. We like lt.--Chrlstlan Science Monitor.

The waters of the Red Sea are a deep blue, while those of the Black Sea are green. Both seas owe their names to a mistake In translation. In the Orient the four directions are flamed after differ- ent colors, red being used to stgnl- fy the south, and black the north. Instead of translating the names according to their meaning, some tiopograplilst of the distant past Interpreted them literally. — Parlser Tageszeitung.

A Toronto barrister, Mr. John Grudeff, born In Bulgnrlu, but. a naturalized cltlzen of Canada for nearly a quarter of a century, put up a strong plea. for more sympa- thetic consideration of “New Cana- dians," at; a business men's meet- Ing In the Queen City yesterday. “Many Canadians stmply pass these people off wlth a shrug as foreigners and Communists,” he said; “and these so-called foreign- ers object. to that term, because they feel that, since they are na- turalized citizens, they are no longer foreigners." Of the New Canadians In Toronto, the speaker estimated that. not: more than two or three per cent are Communists. -HamIlton Spectator.

In the early days of motor- Ing. a. favorite joke of the eomlc Weeklies was to show cartoons de- pleting horses dragging automo- blles out. of the mud. The ever- ready jlbe from the eurbstone Jesters to a beleaguered motorist was to advise hlm to get a horse. The idea that the horse should ever lose hls kingdom seemed ut- terly rldiculous. In the same vetn. when flying first started, the sug- gestion that. persons would be traveling through the alr on social calls or to business aroused laugh- ter, but something qulte llke that: happened here Sunday when twenty-five pilots, wlth passengers, brought thelr planes down at. the Buffalo airport. They just dropped In for a breakfast party wlth Buf- falonlam and departed a short. time later. It Is planned to have slmllar breakfast flights through the summer flying season-Buf- falo News.