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SATURDAY, MAY 16, 1931

Proposed Tariff Board

The bare cost of operating the.

House of Commons lLself, including

Premier Bennett has given notice‘ only members‘ salaries and travelling

I!‘ his intention to introduce a bill luthorlzlng the creation of a statu- lory Tariff Board. whose functions

allowances, is $1,104,000 this year. The average session takes about 80 days of actual sittings. That is the

will be w hear applications for tariff basis on which is estimated the w“ changes and to/ conduct investiga- of those 700.000 lprds from the 0P" Lions with respect thereto, Fm- its position about the shortcomings of maintenance, including salaries nnd, the Government, and from the Gov-

expenses, an item of $120,000 has;

been included in the main estimates for the current fiscal year: '

Though the Jurisdiction and scope of activity of the proposed Tariff Board will not be made known till the Prime lvliinisters bill is presented to the House it is obviously intended to be a very different tribunal from the Advisory Board on Tariff and Taxation created by the King Gov- ernment in 1925 and abolished by the Bennett Government in 1930. 'I‘hat body, c: the Sydney Post point out. was created by orderin-council, and therefore represented merely the Government of the day, whereas the Board now being set up will be created by statute and will therefore derive its autlmrity directly from the Parliament of Canada.

The political character of the old Board was so obvious as to deprive it of any real value to the country. It was called into existence by order-in- councll for the convenience of the Government and simply performed the tasks imposed upon it by the Cabinet. The most dilatory tribunal that ever existed. it acted as a po- litical buffer between the Govern- ment and the public. Its first chair- man, Hon. George P. Graham. serv- ed only two years when he was trans- lated to the Senate. His successor, Mr. William H. Moore, was an astute politician, who resigned the Chair- manship to run an election for the King Government in an Ontario con- stituency in which he had been pré- viously defeated. No one ever took its deliberations seriously, and its hearings were occasions for fisEaT controversies which properly belong- cd to the political arena, and which rarely resulted in any concrete find- lngs.‘

It is to be hoped that the new Board will be as different in char- acter as it will be in origin from its predecessor. A Tariff Board should be a. fact-finding body, and not a tribunal for listening to or adjudicat- lng on questions of public policy that properly belong to the Government ind Parliament. And it should con- list, not of political wire-pullers, but bf businem and economic experts, capable of doing real work in an im- partial manner and of commanding the respect of the public. Unless it measurss up to these standards, the money spent on it will be largely wasted.

f 'A Costly Throne Speech

The Border City Star of Windsor,

Ontario. says: Desirable though it is that free expression be given lll Pm‘-

liamelll. to the opinions of the people's!

elected representatives. ‘it is some- what bitter irony that in a your when the Government is probing deeply with the economy knife, the House of Commons itself has spent practically all its time since conven- lllg accomplishing just about zero- nt a cost of nearly a quarter of a million dollars.

The 700.000 words spoken in the '18 day debate culminating in pres- entation of an address to the Gov- ernor General, thanking him for the Speech from the Throne delivered at the outset by the Administrator, cost the taxpayers of Canada around 32 cents a. word. The most able and sought after of writers would think that return fairly comfortable. In the accumulation of this wordy tor- rent the Opposition is mainly 10 blame, contributing two speakers to she Government's one.

Io far an effective results are con- rernerf. so for as the debate elicited ‘nformntion of value to the general public, one afternoon sitting could

emment about its merits, as con- trasted with the failures of the for- mer administration.

Actually, however, it costs a great deal more than that to run Parlia- ment. The figure is $2,411,711.75, and that,lllke most of other totals of Canada's spending this year, hos been lapped by yremier Bennett. The Prime Minister was able to bring down the costnthis year from a last year's figure of $50,000 more.

The larger figure takes into ac- count the cost of the Senate-will,- 000 fcr 96 Senators at $4,000 each, the Speaker's salary of $6.000 and $5,000 for travelling expenses.

It also includes $264,795 for salar- ies of the House of Commons offi- cials, $111,950 for clerical aslstanoe and all that. The parliamentary lib- rary needs $83,341.50. Stenographers to look after the members‘ corres- pondence are paid $55,000.

To publish the debates takes $60,- 000. Some of the debates, of course. will be worth publishing. Most of the contributions to date, however, have merit only insofar as they give a little help to the paper mills. which are sadly in need of stimulus.

, London's Last‘ Weavers

Writing in the May number of “The PI..A._ Monthly," Mr. W. J. Pasingham tells of the existence of a fast-disappearing remnant ori’ the descendants of the Hugenot silk-

weavers of Bethnal Green and Spitai fields. The weavers live in two-stor-

gyed cottages __e§p_ecinlly_designed for. their work, which is mainly silk cloth for expensive necktles and Jewish praying-shawls, he says. A recent order for squares of hand-woven silk revealed that the weavers are three months behind with orders from many European capitals and from New York. The art of silk-weaving by hand will soon be lost, it seems, for there are no apprentices to take the

places of the old folk who are most- ly between sixty and sevent/y years of

age. . The palmy days of the industry were about 60 years ago when thou- sands of yards of hand-woven plush- es, velvets, and corded silks were regularly exported to all parts of the world. There were at least five hund- red nlaster-vreavers in Spltol Square, who kept thousands of folk in the surrounding neighborhood occupied as weavers, warpers, winders, throw- sters. and dyers. At that time weav- ers were far too busy to wind their own quills, mid quill-winders trund- led their quaint machines through the streets. after the fashion of knife

grinders and tillkcrs, and their then familiar cry brought weavers hurry-

,lng from the houses with work to be ‘dollc on the spot.

Last Of Its Kind

Dsscribing Mr. Snowden as last Chancellor of the Exchequer who would introduce a free trade budget. Mr. Chamberlain said “Mr. Snowden dos described ii. as a land-mark. It i8 truly so and will mark the end of an obsolete and wornout system."

Oliver Stanley, another leading Conservative, was more explicit, The Government, he said, was borrowing at the rate of £1,000,000 per week. It was lending that money to the unem- ployment fund which was in fact bankrupt. It was doing exactly what cfllclal experts had stated ought not to be done. It was borrowing to pay annual expenditure.

Meanwhile Mr. Baldwin at Liver-

pool snid the first action cf the Con- servatives if retumed to power would be to put into force on emergency tariff on manufactured goods.

Notes by the Way1

cal bent has figured out that had Queen Isabella placed at 5 per cent.’ compound lntzrest the $6,000 she; gave‘ Columbus with which to 015-‘ cover America her heirs could now collect from the borrower $45°°J1°°= 000,000.

vestrncnt. for the sum the loan would have netted her estate is more than ll times the value of the United States. But between investing mon- ey at interest and collecting the in- terest compounded there is n vast difference and many l slip.

throughout those 439 years? And who could have saved all that money all those years. ‘There is a deal of diflerence between what money can earn in theory and what it falls to earn in practice, as a great many holders of orlce thought gilt-edged se- curities will agree. But at that. the statement is indicative of the truly marvelous power of compound inter- est as an aid to saving.

The Irish Free state Government is buying out all the remaining land- lords in Southern Ireland and turn- ing over their land to the tenants. At a cost of $50,000,000. 10.000 tmmi farmers have Just been relieved from overlordship and the romaininl 90.- 000 will obtain the rest of the land towards the end of the present year. This is a natural sequence to the land purchase legislation, passed at Westminlster long before the Home Rule Act came into force. The Im- perial Treasury contributed vast sums towards this reform and V, the Dublin administration has carried ii; to completion. The Irish Free Stale is to be congratulated upon thus 0m‘ phasizing the individual rights ‘of the men on the land at a time wsen soviet Russia is robbing a. whole ipeo- ple of their land holdings. The Rzuss- lan peasants are receiving no oom- pensation. Their farms areiexproprl- ated by the Government and largely operated under a. grandiose state col- lectlvlzation plan. Dublin and Mos- cow thus represent opposite poles in the politiw-eoonolnic world. Civili- zation may well take off its hat to the new British dominion, which by emphasizing individualism is dolnS mrlch to establish stable government and thus defect world revolution.

the London Bystander "l! gosip we must" sat an American and his wife grey-haired, grim-mouthed, and ob- viously very richi rm- an hour and a half they did not utter c. single syl- lable. When the meal was concluded the man remarked, "Good Exits." After a long pause, the woman re- joined, with restrained bitterness. "But the soyvice was blnn." And they went, silently out into the night and the Rue Duphot.

"The Economist" has compiled its tables of the earnIDBB o! British 111- dustrials for the first quarter of the current year. and reveals the sur- prising fact that the quarterly divi- dends have amounted to 8.5 per cent on ordinary capital shares and 5.6 per cent‘ on preference shares as compared with 10.6 p91’ Cent 811d 5.02 per cent, respectively. P8111 41111" ing the year cf 1928. There has been a decline of only one-fourth in pay- ments on capital during the most severe world depression in history. It is quite true that many of the Brit- ish companies are not setting aside as large an amount for depreciation and reserve as has been the custom in more prosperous years, but this is also sound policy. It is for reasons such as these that the London Stock Exchange is more stable than those on this side of the water. British administrators have "muddled through" the crisis with amazing success.

man philosopher, whose monumen- tal work" "The Decline of the West." introduced a. new and 11115811111511‘! note into modern philosophy three years ago, book another step along the road of prophecy last night when he told a. distinguished audience of internationally famous scientists at Munich that "a tragic end to the en- tire development of the human race is inevitable." The main reason he gave for this war that man has be- come the slave of the machinery he has created. Art"icial machinery has removed man from nature more and more, and “ow nature is tnkJHB its revenge by making mm the slave of his own machines, he declared.

A writer in the Fortnightly Ile- view, Lcndon suidfilt may be that, the youthful Dominion of Canada

Willingdon. Intimate

him certain tendencies in Britta

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Oswald Spengler, the famous Ger-

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.111: CHARLUFTi-TTO

Reminders and Reviews

Aviation writers seldom. cicdlt Leonardo da Vinci with having _ _la.id down the prl lciples of air navi-

311W" W-B¢"1'"'-MD gotion, yet he devoted years of his

On that basis she made a poor in- bmos INTESTINE can GIVE A gficgizfxh ‘i: flight of birds-tho form and move- ment of the wing; the first artificial bird. or him only as a Florentine punter who lived during 1452 and 1510, and in our minds he is associa‘ the “Last Supper" and "Mona Lisa",- hb two, best known works. Besides artist he was an equally gifted sculptor, architect, ‘en- gineer, botanist, and umwmist, 3e dissected nine bodies, and his studies on muscles and their movanents . are still admired by specialists for One biographer

5w“ FEELING IN $1.0M ‘on but he shunned them all and seamed

Many people quite naturally think that when food is ‘lgested in the stomach and passed on to the small intestine that the stomach is finished with it, and that it cannot influence ihe stomach in any way thereafter. And when you think of the length of the small intestine-over 20 feet-it would seem that the food could not influence it after it got this distance away from it.

But it should be remembered that the whole digestive tract is Just one long tube from the mouth to the very end of the large intestine, and that one portion of it can influence another at a far distant point. instance in an animal or n healthy ‘i’ human being, as soon as a. regular meal is eaten, there is and should be a movement along the entire tube, so that it is quite the natural thing for the stomach to start to move its walls against the food eaten, and the small intestin , and also the large intestine to move their walls against their contents, and thus rid. the system of waste matter.

Now Just as this movement of the

walls of the different parts of the whole digestive tube works down- ward, it can also work upward at times, so that 1t is possible for move- ment "in the large intestine or lower bowel to start impulses upward to- wards the stomach. I The effect of this impulse is to give a. "sick" feeling in the stomach, and the individual is apt to blame his stomach for this feeling.

Drs. F. M. Smith and G. H. Miller, Iowa. City, have been able to show that the stomach can receive a re- zex stimulation from the large intes- tine, from the appendix, and from the gall bladder.

Nowthis is of real interest to many sufferers from stomach trouble who are at a loss to understand wwhy these "sick" feelings in the stomach come on at times when the stomach must be absolutely empty, and thus the sick feeling cannot be due to cod

Not long after that Narcissus. Bwf/P‘

their accuracy. tells us that Leonardo theories concerning the muscular movements of the cardiac valves " also that “his studies in embiyolocy laid the foundation‘ for comparative azlatomy."

All art students know that as a painter and sculptor he would re- quire an knowledge of anatomy; he evidently loved study for its own sake and scholarship was another of his remarkable gifts. _

slon" followed him for when "ifs t shade passed over tho Stygian River | g

most important work, wag painted on the wall of the refectory in the 13o- mirlican convent of Sta. Mal-ls. delle

It is now prac- beoauso the artist used oil paints instead of the usual Fresco. the dampness had eaten into this masterpiece as early us middle sixteenth century. m redone 5'55‘! 301116 811°“! have been: made to preserve the remains. aiely there are a number of ex- “ 119119111. wples extant, and separate studies of the heads are available to made innumerable studies before beginning this gm- portant work. and each face ex- DFBS-‘ies in detailed perfection e, dis- tinct and separate emotion.

TM "Mona. Lisa" is, perhaps, the most celebrated portrait in the

Grazia’ m Mum. the present situation in radio in

years to the perfecting of this beau- tiful face the expression of which has so many conflicting interpreta- The model was the wife of Ser Giccondo: the painltingyes puf- cha-sed by Francis I of France, and preserved for three centuries at ion. It disappeared the bwefliiy-first of August, the Louvre where it had been since This. too. was a favorite study of the artists of that day and there are many fine copies in differ. cnt galleries in Europe.

An x my meal in these cases would likely show a. delay in the movement of the large intestine in the region of the hppendix.

Keeping tho liver and gall bladder active by bending exorcism thus sending bile down to stimulate -move-_ merit in this region should be of help,

Simple paraffin oil in those cases who cannot or will not exercise should help to lubricate the waste in this region and stimulate movement downward.

Outlook, holds that “educated people am becoming heartily and increas- ingly slck of the radio." Mr. Ker- nochan finds support from Professor William Orton, who in the April is- sue of the Atlantic Monthly sets forth the situation which now ob- tains. In the first place came the

It is hard to believe that Mozart, once the darling of royal courts, died in poverty and lies in an un- known pauper-s grave. True, there is a monument to his memory in a great Vienna cemetery. but it stands over an empty grave. lied fcrgfitten him so long that no cne could find his obsmre resting

lengths. The United States finds the

But he did not need their cold marble; he left a living monument- 0 beiliity shared by all civilized 11e- -i In his brief thirty-five years Exultant mind, that ever-more has of life he wrote 769 compositions He b92511 Qflfiyoof course, composing And garnered light through dark, his first minuot when he was only

I five, but he must have worked hard the to have accomplished so mu:h. From the time of his marl-lug; in Immortal, where each thinker ever 1782. iivhcn he was tnventy-six.) he worked und:r dlprcssing conditions, Poverty snnrii l; at his heels. his married life was not unhappy, far from that; ills blrgrcphcers say that h: and his wife danced t: keep warm when fucl was; scarce, and ni- \\'.""S made light of their affliitions.

l-le wrcte many opcras, but the 112st known tcd y arc-“The. Magic Flute", "Don Giovanni," and Mul-rlngg- of Figaro." nine symphonies filc

‘(a distribution, by the way, consent- ‘ed u» by neither Mexico nor Canada) ‘too few for her 600 broadmsting stations. These stations are clamor- jing for more power and problems of ‘distribution are augmented by the 'fact that a modern-sized station of 15,000 wats, which gives good service

THE LIBRARY

here freely gives From out its store. realm of thought

Where words that glowed of old glow Gleaming across the bournes of race

Instant to serve the present world 35 1n nilmbeTwhkih Wefeiiolcwlflmfl-

Voicing in timeless speech the things

Here to full day those scriptures are .. ‘wwever- P91515555 5° 11°95 ‘V3516. 10W cleared channels, and chain hook- iure the "Jupiter Sylllphony" undone 1110B, sending 111B Bil-me DTTOKPB-mme ‘in o. minor which has been describ- over many stations. It is apparent. ed as his tenderest and daintfcst 418°. 111" VB-‘IWd 7181116 Secured be-

fore the Federal Government of the

United States took cognizance of the heiflht-"i situation continue to complicate the

That spelled the Father's trust in Freedom's name;

Here by her shrine are books to guard and shield

And set new measures to her sacred 1'\~"'1"1m°"1fl1 °°ml>°$1$l0n-"

Mozart reached sublime in his church music; undoubtedly it problem. is his best work; musical critics say that his Requiem Mass is almost per- agrees that thenisapublic reaction fect. He was working on this Mass when he became ill in 1791. He tried hard to finish it during his illness andldld, practically, sketching in the incomplcted parts. dying it was been sung by some friends whom he had asked in for Kaulbnch, a modern afllSb, uses this scene as the subject for his well-known pointing Death of Mourt.""l‘ho dying mus- ician is pictured in the propped in pillows, with the musical script wide open across his knees: his hand, resting on the chair-arm. him one finger lifted as though mark- ing tho beat of the music. His face. with an absorbed expression, hslf- turned to the singihl 81'0"? in the background, seems more intent on the hqnnony than on death.

Seekers who come shall

Mantled with conquering mind.

light of man's all

against it, and in support of this opinion quotes Dr. Lee De Forest, president of the Institute of Radio Engineers, who sold:

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might end troyhe.

il-rvtrieva/bie catas- I ditions are very soon materially im- proved; unless the pitbllc is given the opportunity to listen to four or five hours each day of fine enter- tainment free from solos talk, I can- not see my way of tutoring it; for- m6!’ Prosperity to the rldio industry."