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THURSDAY, may 4, um.

CIVIC FINANCES

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Al reported in today's news col- umns, the civic estimates were tab- led last evening and passed as sub- mitt/ed. The city is budgeting for a deficit of over nine thousand dol- il-rs, but is keeping the tax rate at two per cent for the ensuing year. The estimated expenditure cents an increase of more than five hundred dollars over the preceding yell, a fact accounted for by Coun- cillor Kennedy, chairman oi the Finance Committec, on the ground that since the beginning of the present year the city has expended $10,000 for relief purposes, that in- terests and discounts show an in- crease oi $4,337.44, and that the School Board shows an increase of $1,630.39 over i932. Drastic curtail- tnents have been made, he reports, in practically all other departments in order to keep the estimates at the figure presented.

An interesting comparison is made by Councillor Kennedy between the taxation rate in Charlottetown and various other towns and cities in the Maritime Provinces, showing the lo- cal rate to be considerably lower than any oi the centres mentioned.

Emphasis is properly placed on the necessity of making every effort to collect unpaid taxes. the large balance oi which is for the years i931 and 1932, Vfhile it is difficult in many cases for citizens to mect their tax arrears, it should be re- membered unit it is still ma... dif- ficult to kcep the civic machinery functioning without the revenue that should be derived from their collection.

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THE MOTOR LEAGUE

With an upswing of the coon- omfc pendulum which world states- men are now looking forward to we may anticipate in this Province, as well as throughout Canada, an in- crease in automobile traffic. With this increase will go an enlgrgg- ment of the activities of such or- ganizations as the Prince Edward Island Motor League. winch this evening is holding its annual meet- ing in the Board oi Trade rooms. The reports to be submitted will be awaited with interest. In the meantime, it may be stated generally that the Association has had ‘an active year and that special interest attaches to the work which has been done in the placing of road signs, route numbers, and i1- luminated Railway crossing signs. The latter signs make for much greater safety to the travelling public, and the Association, working ln co-operation with the Depart- ment of Public Work, is to be pur- ticularly commended upon its en- terprise in this connection.

THE GLORY OF MAY

‘The advent of May has cvcr hen a favorite subject with the poets, Chaucer and Spencer, Milton and Shakespeare. l-lcrhcrt and Her- rick, Tennyson and Wordsworth, and a long line of pOPtic dynasts. have felt impelled to express their feelings concerning the springtidc lpirit that puts its glory in the grass and splendor in the flower, that fills the air with fragrance. and the skies with beauty. and so transforms the face of ihc land- scape that its new charms call in- to life whatever of pocfry or rom- ance or fine emotions lie hidden in the remote depths of the human

loul. Writing on this subject in Springtime mood. the Montreal Gazette says: “Now is the time,

when the crowfootsand fhc dande- lions spread their gold upon the turf; the wild hyaclufhs display their wonderful blaze of blue among the furry fronds oi the young bracket-l; the pale primroscs start the woodland banks:

grass; the “lady-smocks all silver white" lift their delicate cups w the sunshine and, hard by the shade of the hedgerows, the lmttomups and pink-rimmed daisies add their moiety of the lyrical symphony oi merry Maytime. And perhance the most conspicuous and charmful feature of this springtide festival is the hedgrows, now all covered with the snowy blossoms 0f the haw- thorn, clustered amid the green leaves which form their colorful counterfoll, and redolent with the balmy breath which comes of the purity of light and the freshness of the morning dew. And these illlmitable walls of life bursting into leaf and blossom "white as no Fuller could whiten them," blend magically with the bell-like peal oi the cuckoo‘: song and thB Jubllflm notes of the skylark, the blackbird and the thrush. Is it. then. any nlarvel that in Old EliZllmd the 111- coming of May of olden time was the occasion of rejoicing through- out the length and breadth of the land, and that the people on this day should make joyful holiday in celebration of what Chaucer, in his characteristically happy fashion, calls the “month of gladness"?

COMMUNITY CONCERTS

The success achieved by the Charlottetown Community Concert Association in the initial series of concerts last winter should make a strong appeal in the campaign now in Progress for the Association's second season. The purpose of the Association, as explained in these columns last season, is to bring high class artists to the city on a basis which eliminates all financial risk, the success depending, not upon random ticket buying but lip. on the support of as many as p03. sible of the music-loving public who purchase, in advance, mem- bership cards qualifying them for admittance to the full concert series.

No finer-concerts have ever been heard in Charlottetown than the series given by the Association last season. The cultural value of such entertainment need scarcely be em- phasized. What may be stressed. for the benefit of those who missed last year's opportunity, is the sheer enjoyment which they afford, even to those who have no special know- lyrics 0-‘ music. but who have "ears to hear."

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It is to be hoped the programmes this year will not fall below the high standard set last season. The suggestion has been made, and fmds favour in some quarters, that the performers should be requested w Play or sinB more “popular" music. This, we be. llcvc, would be a fatal mis- take. "Popular" music is easily available elsewhere. It should be a matter of pride to the Community Concert Association that it is bringing classical music within rcnch of many who otherwise would bc unable to hear it. This is a. point on which the Association need not hesitate to appeal. At a time when so much that is shoddy and superficial passes for music, for literature and for drama, let it stand iimily by the highest artis- tic ideals, encouraging the artists whom it engages to give of their very best, in full assurance that such policy will meet with ever in- creasing appreciation and support.

EDITORIAL NOTES

Francis X. Bushman, the former moving-picture star, who recently was plaintiff in a Western Ontario lawsuit, has flied a bankruptcy pc- tftion in Chicago. His assets are

daffodils listed as clothing worth $100. Even dance in the meads. and the violcis this is something to have

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NUTES BY TliE WAY

On the highly cultivated march- es of South Lhcolnshlre is a farm, one of the bus‘. in England, where iheravugcs of deleterious insects began to grow scrzous. The vvise and ingenious lund owner and farmer found a complete remedy in the pheasant, a lrrd that delights in low lying ground and is a sufficient gourmet to be very much fender of wire worms than of turnips. The bird delights in low lying ground even more than in woods. The last time the farm pheasants were seen running about like domestic hens. The insects are kept within bounds and a. great many hundred pheas- ants are shot yearly.

It is apparent that one oi’ the most formidable and ~ vcxatiotls problems contributing to thc pres- ent economic and commercial dis- order is being approached in a new Spirit and with a definite possibil- ity of a nfutuully satisfactory sci- tlement. Both loaders, in the words of Mr. MacDonald, have faced the realities and the obligations, and both bclicvc that as a result lhcrc is laid the basis of a clearer under- standing of the situation afiect- ing the two nations. No scttlcnlent. or plan of settlement, is actually under way, but there is the definite statement that progress is being made in the most friendly spirit.

According to Mr. J. A. Kennedy. superintendent of the Esquimalt; and Nanaimo Railway, lumber nulls are opening up again in British Columbia, mcu arc going back to the saws, and soon a small nnny of fellers and buckets will be at work in the big timber nrcns of the province. Export demand is good and more orders are in sight. says this authority, the fields being the Prairie Provinces. the United Klug- dom, Australia, Japan and China. As the Russian situation is expect- ed to create a greater dcmnnd for lumber from Canada, tho Pacific Coast province should be in a much more hopeful mood.

The ex-service men of the Uniicd States took their medicine vcry well. The Washington budget had t0 be cut and cut heavily. Out of the payments to cx-soldicvs cztmc $450,000,000. The service veterans of the neighboring country naturally enough, fought against it; but once the law went, through they took it, on the xvholc, like men. Canadians as well as Americans, had a lot of Dralse for an administration that dared to defy such ft well-organiz- ed and powerful lob-by. 1t was xvidc- 1S‘ remarked that howcvcl" much merit there might be to the vet- erans’ claim for special attention, times were extraordinary and the interest of the nation as rt whole must be put above thc iliil c ‘i. of any single group.

Not ihc war, however fczriltlc, ‘was the dircst moral calamity. It was the peace, says J. L. Garvin in The London Observer. The "Peace With Dragon's Tccth" as in the dark Spring of i910 we vcnturcd to call it. The Treaty of Vcrsailcs and the subsidiary treaties of short- sighfcd vengeance, mixed with in- dulgent faijouritisnf, have been the cancer of Europe from that day to this. Unless we diagnose the disease and cure it we shall sce the death of peace. To believe in mechanical disarmament without moral disar- mament is one of the most futile phantasics that ever entered into the mind of man. Why have we wasted years and years in elabor- ate manoeuvres seeking to dodge the one real issue?

It is reported from \\".l:»|li!2g;i0fl that President Roosevelt is prepar- cd to recommend to Congress that France‘: payment cf war debt to the United States. due on the 15th of June next, shall be postponed until after the World Economic Conference which is to be held in London in June. Whether this postponement: is to be made condi- tional upon preliminary payment by France of the $10,26l.432 debt in- stalmcnt she has withheld since December last or whether the dc- faultcd sum willbcpald, if a pledge is given in advance that postpone- ment of payment of the June linb- ility of $40,738,568 will be granted, in not very important! so long as an agreement on this most acute question is mutually reached.

Forty-two years ago the average inhabitant of the United States made eight trips by rail, and in i920, when rail passenger business reached its peak, twelve: in i031 the number had fallen to five. The automobile is held to be the big- gest factor in this change. in proof of which contention the Eric Rutl- road Monthly gives an example The Key system in Oakland. 0.11., employs hundreds of mcn in its car shops, all of whom’ arc privilcgcd to ride free to and from their work. Nevertheless, the grcllt maj- orlty of these men use their own automobiles, despite the cost as azalnst free trsnflpflrtatlon to work;

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GOITRE IS DUE TO OVER- STlZ\lI.'L.l'l'lON 0F THYBDID GLAND

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It is the balance wheel which regulates the speed 0i your watch so that it will kccp the correct time.

it is the thyroid gland in the neck which regulates the speed of your body processes so that they will do their work at the proper rate. If they were to \vork too rapidly you: heart would beat too many times to the minute and you would breathe more rapidly; in fuct you would do cvcryihiiig so fast that you would become very thiu-“worn to a shad- ow." If the proccsscs did not work rnpldly enough you would become slow in body and mind, and in- crease in weight.

Nature always keeps ahead of our needs so the thyroid gland always has a. certain amount of what is called ‘colloid’ material, resembling glue, stored within it. When a. boy or girl is growing very rapidly, about the time of puberty, or when there is any extra demand on the system for increased work, less room is taken up by this tolloid material and the cells o1‘ the thy- roid gland r-nlargc and are able to manufacture more juicc-thyroxin. Thyroxm is the substance that cirivcs or speeds up the body pro- (305585.

When there is no further need for an increased supply of this thy- roid juice, thcu the cells become smaller, and an iticreased amount of this colloid material is again stored in the gland. Thus the gland may enlarge at times and yet be quite normal.

When the gland remains large or grows larger. it is called goitrc, and there are many names for the var- ious forms or changes that take place in the gland according to whether the colloid or glue like ntaterlal increases, or the natural cells bccomc thicket‘ and more fib- T0115.

Thcsc changes are all, believed to be due to something which, keeps stimulating the thyroid gland in“) action-infection, shock, worry, or emotional disturbances of any kind.

Tints we find that an enlarged thyroid gland which has the heart beating as high as 120 times to the minute, instead of '12, may come clown to normal xvith a. fcw months of mental and physical rest.

At. times, iodine is the usual treat- ment and less rest is needed.

The usc of the X ray has lately come into more general use with ex- cellent results.

In the very severe cases, your family doctor will recommend sur- gcry-uemovlng Dart of the Blami- as the only means of saving life.

Oranges From Palestine

(Mail and Empire)

An interesting discussion 100k plilCC in the House of Commons over the tariff item admitting Pal- cstinc oranges frcc when import- cd dicct during the months of January, February, March and Ap- ril. Mr. Rhodes, Minister of Fin- ance, said that the only protest against the item rcccivcd from any part o'f the Enrpirc was from Jam- aica. But, altitsugh oranges are frcc undcr the British preference and subject to a duty of 35 cents per cubic foot under the interme- dluic and general tariffs, 88 per cent. of the oranges we imported last year came from the United States. There is, thcrefore, ample room in Canada for the West 1n- dian, pnrticulavly the Jamaican, orange. Under the circumstances the Government felt that Jamaica had no legitimate right to com- plain of the frcc entry accorded to oranges from Palestine, where Great Britain holds a mandate.

In rep‘y io qucsficus, Mr. Rhodes explained that free entry of Pales- tine orangcs was confined to the four months mentioned in order not to conflict with the treaties with Atlstrnlln and South Africa, which ship nt another season en- tirely. Without any treaty obliga- tions, and outside the West 1n- dian treaty, Canada gives free en- try to Jamaica the year round. He pointed out to a delegate from Jamaica that the Island was not presenting a good case to the Gov- ornment of Canada when the ob- jection to ircc entry of Palestine oranges was that Jamaica oranges would soil here at a lower price.

Mr. Rhodes thought Canfla had dcnlt fairly, evcn generously, with the British West Indies. They have the benefit of a iwflmSlllp service which costs Canada around three- qttartcrs of a million dollars a ycnr. But frequently West Indian sh'ppcrs use tramp stcrtncvs io the detriment of the Canadian ser-

The Rise In Prices In The United States

(Monthly letter, Royal Bank of Canada)

At the time when the agenda for the World llicooomic Confer- ence was being worked out, those forces which were making for fur- ther economic dislntegratlon still held sway. With the downward movement chedked by the prohibit- ion of the export of gold and the announcement of a programme directed toward the restoration cf higher prices, and with the upward movement gaining impetus. empha- sis during the Conference itself will naturally centre upon meas- ures for the encouragement of the upward trend and upon measures designed to secure and maintain stability when a satsfactcry price level has been achieved.

In view of the unprecedented difficulties in the banking situation in the United States, the course chosen was probably the only one which could have produced a quick reversal of trend. By the suspen- sion of gold payments a buffer was established that absorbed the shocks which would have resulted had the United States remained on the gold standard while the neces: sary legislation was being enacted and put in force. The programme of legislation constitutes a some- what belated recognition that the greatest single factor in producing the depression has been monetary policy.

Without a clear outline of the full programme contemplated, an outline which lt- would be quite impractical to publish at this mo- ment, the public and the press have drawn widely varied conclusions as to what further measure are likely to be enacted and as to the re- sults likely to follow from the measures now in force. On the whole, the financial world has ex- pressed cordial approvol of the programme undertaken and there is an accumulation of evidence in show that financial confidence is being reestablished, not. only within the United States but also in the outside world.

Adverse criticism of the Wash- ington programme has centered upon two tpoints: first, that inflat- ion will not be held within due bounds, and second that bitter monetary warfare with Great Brit. ain and the countries on a sterling basis may result. Control of the degree of inflation is within the power of the monetary authorities and it is only reasonable to sup- pose that they will profit by‘ the experience gained in the jarcvious cycle of inflation and deflation. The secret of monetary stablity is the maintenance of a stable ratio between volume"of production and volume oi credit, but this will not be an acceptable ideal until the general price level is much closer to that which prevailed between 1922 and 1028.

‘The second criticism is based up. on a widespread fallacy. It is a mistake to think that the chief stimulus which follows upon de. preciatlon oi money L; that which l5 whet-fenced by the export in- dustries. In all countries, the v01. time of internal business greatly exceeds exports and imports, and in the case of the Unltedsfrfos, 701N811 transactions account for 1m than 100 per cent. of the total trade. By an increase in prlcegl profits are restored to industry, "flwnvlvvment is reduced and a more satisfactory relationship is established between debt and carn- ing power. It is this strengthening oi the internal financial and con. nomic structure which brings the sreat benefits of reflation. when this is once thoroughly understood, there will be no fear of monetary warfare. The rise in pffcs and me improvement of conditions in the Ufllted States cannot fail to have a favourable effect in Great Brit- ain, in all other parts o.’ the world and particularly in Cflnadfl, the country which carries on the 1mg. fist proportionate volume of trade withvthe United States.

vice which is kept up at great 9x. Dense. Moreover, through our pref. erence to West Indian sugar, which the West Indian avails himself of t0 the last fraction of a cent‘ wg i!" i" effect giving a subventlon of several million dollars n year to the islands. The Jamaicans‘ have an Bmlfla Opportunity in the Canadian market to replace a portion of that B8 per cent. of oranges imported last year from the United States. Mr. Rhodes added that while Palestine is a class A Brltlsh man- dated territory Canada is under no obligation to that country. Yet to the extent that we import or- anges from Palestine we have an opportunity to increase the ship- ment of Canadian goods to that country-thus developing Canadian ports and providing business for Canadian transportation systems.