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SIGNIFICANT FIGURES

Recently the census showed that Charlottetown and Suinmerslde had made the greatest gnu-ease in population during the past decade of Maritime cities and towns. The report of the Dominion Bureau of Statistics. released for publication yesterday, shows that Prince Edward Island stands high- est in the bfaritiine Provinces for per captta wealth in 1929, with an increase of eight per cent over the preceding year, as against an in‘ grease of four per cent for blova Scotia and an increase of .1.per cent for New Brunswick.

A steady increase in per capita wealzh in this Province is indicat- _ed by the fact that in 1921 our per caplta wau-fiih was $1,353. ln 1028 it

returns

was $1.759; in 1929 $1.905. The cor-i

responding figures for Nova Scotla are; 1921, $1,437; 1928, $1,539; 1929, $1.655; and for New Brunswiok. 1919, $1.541; 1922i. $1,877; 1929, $1,- 879. In other words, while the per capita wealth in our sister Man'- tinie Provinces increased by about Z15 per cent in eight years from i921 to 1929. the per capita wealth in this Province for the same per- iod increased 40 per cent.

This is surely a striking indica- tion of the steady progress which this Province is making, commer- Coupled with the increase in population in Charlottetown and other provincial centres, it is a most promising uugury.

‘FUR FARMING, GERMANY

Fur farming in Germany is the subject of an informative article by Mr. L. D. Wilgress, Canadian Trade Commissioner, in the cur- issuz of Commercial Intelli- of

rent gence Journal. The breeding fur-bearing animals isla compar- industry in Ger- many, and may be said to date from the stabilization of the cur- rency towards the end of the year 1923. In the intervening eight years rapid progress has been made un- til now and, with respect to the number of fur-bearing animals on fur farms, only exceeded by Canada. Norway, and the United States.

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Germany ls probably

The breeding of fur-bearing ani- mals in Germany, M1", \ViIgrr355 states, has been taken up largely as a side-line to farming and for- e-itfy operations; there are compar- atively fcw independent fur ranch- 'es. Silver foxes and mink comprise the largest proportion of the fur- bearing animals kept for breeding purposes, but nutria, racoons, blue (itlis), marten, badgers, skunks, beavers, opossums, and Karakul sheep are also bred on German fur farms. Canada has supplied a large proportion of the foundation stock imported for the breeding of silver foxes, mink, and beaver- A fairly considerable num- bcr of silver foxes have also been imported from Norway. The Unit- ed States have supplied both silver 10x05 and blue foxes, and nutria have been imported tlna

About two years ago the surplus stock of silver foxes from domestic

foxes, polccats

‘ breeders began actively to compete

with the foxes imported for breed- ing purposes. More recently the fall in pelt prices has largely reduced the industry to a pelt basis. and the prospects are no longer favour- able for the sale to Germany of live Ioxes for foundation stock.

With a view to determining the progress made in the development

‘ of fur farming in Germany, the

German Statistical Bureau has taken a. census of fur farms and the stock of fur-bearing animal; on these farms as on February 1, 1931. This census has shown that on the

there were only 467 farms brooding silver foxes.

0n February l, 1931, there were 3,593 silver foxes on fur farms in Germany. Of this total, 2,851 were on 112 farms in South- ern Bavaria, where the mountain- ous character of the country has 1m to a great development of fox breeding. The next district in im- portance is East Prussia, where 666 silver foxes were registered on the above date. In the northern part of the province of Hannover there were 607 silver foxes, in Central Frimconia 529 silver foxes, in Thur- ingla 467 silver foxes, and in Lower Silesia 400 silver foxes. These dis- tricts accounted for nearly WW‘

thirds of the silver foxes registered.

Fur-bearing animals are free of duty on importation into Germany. but they must be accompanied by a health certificate signed by a veterinary officer.

A FAIR INDEX

It ls pleasing to note that at the Halifax Exhibition Rlnce Edward Island factories carried off a first, a second and a. third prize for cheese, with three entries, and a first, a. second, two thirds, two fourths and a fifth prize for but- ter. This is a fair index of the quality of the dairy products that are being manufactured in this

Province, and it is an achievement

which we need be hesitant in proclaiming.

Another source of satisfaction is the splendid showing made by Prince Edward Island livestock breeders at the St. John Exhibition Over $2,300 came to the Province in cash prizes. Mr. J- Walter-Tones receiving a total of $557 for cattle and horses shown. This is very encouraging as another index of the high standard of live stock

breeding which is being maintained.

EDITORIAL NOTES

A new word has been coined at Oxford to designate a growing pop- ulation in ‘England which is neith- er rural nor urban no: suburban. The new word is "rurban," and it refers to industrial workers resid- ing in rural communities.

Mr. Taschereau, says an Ontario

from Argen-

exchange, is something of a para.- Idox. Though to-day perhaps the ionly powerful Liberal leader in ‘Canada, he is more typical of the mldfashloned Tory _(circa 1890) than any other man in Canadian public life. He has never pulled very well with Federal Liberals since the death of Laurler, and the only eminent Canadian public man outside his own province whom he has seemed to hold in personal re- gard, has been Hon. Howard Fer- guson.

It was said of Dr- Johnson, whose laziness led him frequently to misquote the poets in his writ- ings, that in his misquotatlons he often unconsciously improved upon the originals. The same can- not be said of a contemporary exchange which boasts of being the most widely quoted newspaper in Canada, and which informs its readers that the lines quoted by‘ Rt. Hon. Philip snowdcn in his budget speech, concluding with the words: “Come the world against us, England still shall stand," were written by Swinburne find occur in one of his odes. This is surely enough to make turn in his grave u. poet whose delicate ear language was unrivalled even by Tennyson. What the British Chan- cellor quoted, and what Swinburne wrote, was: “Come the world Mlgainst us, England yet shall istand." Our much-quoted contem- poraiy, by its slipshod substitution of "still" for "yet," has foisted up- on Swinburne on atrocious sibli- ance, causing one of hie-best lines

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NOTES BY TIIE WAY

Lord Wllllngdun hll bald tlllt l! is character not color that makes a man. This is the one fact which counts. _ To take your stand on color, then all those qualities which are or may be common to men of divers races-heroism, vir- tue, benevolence, sacrlflce, self-sa- crifice-becomes little better than words that mean nothing to those who use them. The vice of the white becomes a greater thing than the virtue of the brown; and the valor, of sacrifice of the yellow be- comes a baser thing than self- sufficlency of the European. But supposing that we forget about the color of a mans skin, and we think only of the virtues of character that are revealed by those who come under scrutiny- Are we go- ing to say that the sun. which burns a. man black and the cold which leaves him a pale skin makes his soul white? We all know that in the last resort, the worth of a man is determined by the worth of his soul.

An advantage of the vacation period not always comprehended is that it shakes up office routine. When absence of members of the staff compels a. rearrangement of personnel and tasks it is often discovered that doing things a new way is an improvement. The office worker who comes back to work with health restored, mind at ease and sun-tanned skin natur- ally feels that he alone benefited bythe two weeks in the country he seldom realizes that by the mere act of staying away from the, office for a fmtnlght he has sha- ken the structure of routine and‘ moved it from its base a percep- tible distance.

When the railroads increased the degree of accessibiity the old systems were changed but little, because rails did not radiate in all directions from the county seat, and the ability cf the horse was still the measuring stick. But today the motor vehicle has chan- gedl everything. The township 1s no longer necessary because its business can all be transacted and better transacted. at the county seat. Counties could be doubled, tripled or quadrupled in size, and still bc smaller, in terms of time, than the counties of fifty years ago. -

The next time we get a mouthful of unpalatable salt water while sea bathing we should lay the blame for our feeling sick on the World's volcanoes, according to an interesting conclusion arrived at by Dr. T. A. Jagger, director of the Hawaiian Volcano observatory and n, volcanogist of international em- inence. Dr. Jaggar reckons that at least 4B5 active volcanoes arc jetting forth in the course of a year more than 100,000,000 tons of hydrochorlc acid, which rises as a gas mingled with the steam. Mer- ging with the water ‘vapor forming clouds, it falls with the rains land unites with the sodium in the rivers to form sodium chloride, or com- mon salt.

The Wall Streat Journal says that some thirteen million deposi- tors have $10,000,000,000 on deposit in mutual savings banks in the United States. All this money is not wanted by the banks, and they are urging the depositors to take some of it out and purchase goods of intrinsic value and permanent use. There are other billions of savings put away. Prices are low and this is a good time to pur- chase, but a lack of confidence withholds the people.

The choice of the New British Ministers brings bnck into the rare- fied air in which one supposes that 01H‘ rulers live a number of excep- tionally interesting women-Jsady Austen Chamberlain who so succes- sfully promoted international har- mony at Locariio; Lady London- (terry, chief hostess for the Con- servative party, whose eve of the session receptions at Londonderry House have been the most brilliant feature of their social year; Mrs. Neville Chamberlain and Mrs. Baldwin, who is always eager to help any good cause concerned with the welfare of the women and girls but whose chief interest is in her home. It is interesting to note howgreatly most of the Min- lsters have been helped in their public work by their wives- Sir Herbert Samuel, Sir Donald Mac- Lean, Sir Samucll-loareyand Sir Archibald Sinclair, are other not-

dcrstood and known that the Mar- chioncss of Reading, who in the middle of her interrupted honey- moon finds that her husband has become a. Cabinet Minister, ’ is thoroughly well informed in the details of his public work. Alto- gethcr the wives of the Ministry

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TUBERCULOSIS norzswr AL- WAYS START AT TOP 01-‘ LUNG

It will come as a shock to most of the older physicians to learn that most cases of tuberculosis do not start at the top of the lungs as has been so long believed and taught.

It has always been thought that tuberculosis of the lung always started from a small ixlflammatlun situated Just below the collar bone. Prom this starting place, i1 1r, did not heal, it might slowly progress and involve the surrounding lung tissue and extend to the base or bot. tom of the lung.

The reason that this has been the general belief was because research physicians, examining thousands of lungs, after death, found the 0mg,“ scar or remains of an inflammation, in the top of the lung.

However li. was found that in 438 cases in Germany in which this scar was 190M1- ‘mly 7 Per Cont developed tuberculosis, yet the death rate from tuberculosis among the general pop- ulatlon was 10 per cent. This shows then that the top of the lung is really not the starting point of tuberculosis of the lungs.

Accordingly a number of research men working withthe aid of the X ray, have found that tuberculosis of the lungs does not start in a small area at the top, but in any pin, of the lung. and it may vary in size from that of a. cherry to ma; gf an apple. The commonest pom; . at, which it starts is Just below the shoulder blade, but it may occur at the bottom or at the top of the lung, This little beginning, which 15 many like a. small area. of broucho-pneu- monia, may occasionally heal with. out treatment.

Usually without treatment 1i; Elli-ends, by the breathing of the patient, to other parts of the lungs.

Now what difference does it make whether tuberculosis starts in the top of the lung or at any other part.

The point is that tuberpulosis doesn't come on very slowly at the WP of the lung and gradually ex- tend downward; but tuberculosis is, at. first, Just like any other acute illness with an attack of fever, fol- 1°W¢d by B- Coush. The patient gets over the attack in a few days, re- turns to work but the cough contin- ues.

You can thus see that tnls acute attack can easily be mistaken for in- fluenza. but as Dr. H. V. Morlock, London, England, points out, a. diag- nosls of influenza, except during an epidemic, is usually a false one.

This means that when a, pgtigni; has loss of weight, tiredness, no ap- petite and night sweats, tuberculosis is really well advanced.

The lesson then is that with fever and cough complete rest should be Riven so that should it be tuber- culosis any spreading from its start- ing point, may be prevented.

“FROM A BRIDGE"

Above the stream, about the piers, The martin fllts and tends her nest. And swoops and sails and skima and veers,

North, south, and east and west: Summer has still so long to runl

able examples, and it is well un-

The last spring flower is not yet dead; a Barleys yet green and hay not won- But. lol the swlfts are fled.

Here, where this lordly bridge af-

fords

A highway to our motley clan-

Self-styled. forsoothl creationb lords-

A lovelier brood I scan;

And miss that minlon of the air, That prince of all the swallow race, That strenuous night-plumed voya-

891‘. From his just pride of place!

Their careful course the cygnets steer, -

The laughing-gull displays his lure. And pounches where the stream runs clear, ,

And holds his prey secure; But southward turns the swift his

flight.

Strong-wlngd as he has far to go,

Andtrima his sail toward regions bright,

Whose charm I ne‘er shall know. -—Sir George Douglas, in the Scotsman.

MEMPHIS, Sept. la.—(U.P.)-A Memphis banker recently was asked to cash several $5 notes on the Farmers a Merchants bank here.

The bank failed in 1M2. The notes

i 11.. British Financial Situation

(Monthly Letter, Nations

The series o! dramatic events pre- cipitated 1n Europe in May by the difficulties involving the Credit An- atalt, Austria's leading bank, reach- ed a new climax during the past month when the center oi’ financial pressure moved from the Contin- ent to London, bringing British fin- ancial troublcs to a head and ev- entually forcing the downfall of the Labor Ministry and the appoint- ment of a coalition government headed by Mr. MacDonald to deal with the emergency. When the fin- ancial crisis first broke out in Cen- tral Europe. London had stood as a bulwark of strength against the spread of the disorder. The Bank of England courageously extended a credit of approximately $31.909.0°9 to the Austrian Government at a critical time when negotiations for a. credit appeared to be breaking down. to the imminent peril of the entire banking structure of Central Europe, and later participated to the extent of $25,000,000 with the Bank of France. the Federal reserve banks and the Bank for Internaticn a1 Settlements in a. joint credit of $100,000,000 to the Reichsbank. A5 the crisis spread. however, London itself eventually became involved, and during the last three weeks of July was subjected to withdrawals of funds which reduced the gold holdings of the Bank of England by $158,000,000 to $649,000,000 (133,- 000,000 pounds) on July 30, the low- est since November, 1929. Of these withdrawals, $100,000,000 went to Paris, the remainder going to Am- sterdam and Zurich. American banks refused as a matter of policy to take gold from London, although the rate of exchange would have made such transfers profitable.

In an effort to check this out- flow of gold and attract funds to London, the Bank of England in July advanced its discount rate by two successive steps from 2 1-2 to 4 1-2 per cent without avail, and on August 1 announced that it had obtained a. joint credit of $250,000,- 000 from the Bank of France and the Federal reserve bank. Still the withdrawals continued, with the re- sult that by the latter part of Aug- ust a. large proportion of the cred- it was reported to have been used, with no indications of a subsidence of the drain. In the face of this emergency, the Labor Party in pow- er was unable to agree on the dras- tic measures regarded as imperat- ive in order to restore confidence both home and abroad, and in con- sequence was forced to step down in favor of a coalition of all parties pledged to deal with the situation.

Of the various influences com- blning to unsettle sterling. the most immediate has doubtless been ner- vousncss induced by the general sit- uation in Europe. It is known that London had substantial commit- ments in Germany, and apprehen- slon as to the safety of these com- mitments has apparently led to con- cern on the part of foreigners as to the London positkm. It is sig- nificant that weakness In sterling first became pronounced at the time when the German situation was rendered most acute by the clos tng of the banks. The fact that most of the gold lost by London went to Paris has already been re- ferred to. since the _Bank oi’ France has not been a party to this move- ment, havlng on the contrary. par- ticipated in s, credit to support the pound, the conclusion is that the movement has been on the initiat- ive of private banlq and other lend- ers having large balances in bond- on. and who. despite the great ple- thora. of funds in French money market, have found reasons for wishing to have their money near- er home.

Besides this immediate however, other dtlficulties of more fundamental character have also been factors in the situation. Ever since the war British foreign trade has suffered from two important handicaps, (1) a tendency on the part of certain foreign markets which have been large buyers of important lines of British goods to develop their home production, as in the case of textiles in the Far East, and (2) the relatively high cost of British goods, due partly to failure to thoroughly modernize industrial equipment and methods and partly to comparatively high labor costs attributable to trade un- ion resistance to readjustment of wngeu in lina with lower prices.

Origin of the wage difficulty dates back to the different financial pol- icies pursued by Great Britain and rival nations after the war. At that time Great Britain's principal Con- tinental competitors found their exchanges so heavily depreciated as to make restoration to parity out of the question, hence mort of them simply accepted the current, levels of exchange as permanent and ad- justed their currency systems ac- cordingly. Great Britain.’ however. with l. much less depreciated ex-

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iLondon as an international money ieenter to safeguard, refused to fol- ilow this policy of repudiation and ,elected the more difficult task of irestoring the value of the currency to par. Such a policy necessarily ln- ivolved a decline in the price level. which, if unacco panled by a cor- ‘responding redu, ion in money in- icomes-that in wages and salaries- ‘was certain to 18y B hBBVy b11148" -of cost upon British industry. Al- though a reduction of money ln- comes in keeping with a decline of prices would not have involved any ‘sacrifice oi’ real income or lowerink of the standard of living of British workers. the attitude of British la- !bor has been consistently opposed {to any concessions in this regard, with the inevitable result that pro- duction costs have been kept up and ‘British prices have tended to be higher than those of competing goods. The fact that British labor is so strongly unionized has been one important reason for this inel- astlcity in the wage level, and the effect of the dole has likewise been to prevent necessary wage adjust- ments tu meet altered conditions by diminishing the compelling influ- ence of unemployment.

Because oi’ these adverse influen- ces, Great Britain's export indust- ries have been in a more or less chronic state of depression ever since the war, and of course the difficulties have been vastly in- creased by the dcpression and fur- ‘ther decline of prices of the past year. As the number of unemployed ‘has grown, the burden of the dole ‘upon the budget has been increas- ed. while the revenues have been re- duced. Though the need for econ- omy has been imperative, the Brit- ish people, like most other beanie in similar circumstances, have dis- played a natural reluctance to un- dertake retrenchment in a serious

of such expedients as tariffs, or central bank action to flood the money market with credit; as sub- stltutes for economy, in hope that by these methods, prices could be in- duced to rise and prosperity W"

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the North Atlantic, as follows. WEST-TO-EAST FLIGHTS June 14, 1919—<A1COCK and. Brown from St. John's, Nfld., to Clifden, Ireland. ' May 20-21, 1927-Chas. A. Lind- bergli, from New York to Paris. June 4-5, ION-Clarence A. Churn berlain and Charles A. Levine from New York to Eisleben. Germany. June 29-July 1. 192’l—Rlchard E. Byrd, Bert Acosta, George 0. No- ville and Bernt Balchen from New York to Vcr-Sur-Mer, France. August 28, 1927 Schiee and William Brock,

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The Liver And’ Kidneys Must Be Kept Active

lf the system ls to work in a free. normal manner. Disorder in these organ: cause a heavy and depressed feeling, hcitd- ache, sickness, giddlnccu, in. digestion and general debllity.

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The Atlantic Air Record ____ i

Since 1910 when Captain John Al- cock and Llcut. Arthur W. Brown made the first nonstop crossing of the Atlantic in a. hcavier-thau-air machine 14 aeroplanes have suc- cessfully negotlatcd that hover over

William F. from Harbor Grace, Nfld., to Croydon,

June 17-18, l928-Wilmer Stultz, Louis Gordon and Amelia Earhart

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June 13-14, limb-Jean Assolant. Rene LQFGVIG, Armeno Lotti, and a stowaway from Old Orchard, Me., to Comtllas, Spain. -

. July 8-9, limit-Roger Q. Williams and Lewis Yancey. Old Orchard, Me., to Santander, Spain.

Oct. -9-11, 1930—Erro1 Boyd and Harry P. M. Connor, from Harbor Grace. Nfld., to Scflly Islands.

June 23, IBM-Wiley Post and Harold Gatty from Harbor Grace. Nfld., t0 Chester, England.

June 24, foal-Otto Hllllg and l-lolger Holriis from Harbor Grace, Nfld., to Bremen, Germany.

July 15, 1931-Capt. George En- dres and Alexander Magyar from Harbor Grace, Nfld., to Budapest, Hungary.

EAST-TO-WEST FLIGHTS

April 12-13, limb-Baron G. von l-luenefeld Capt, Herman Kochl and Mai. James Fltzmaurice, from Bal- donnei, Ireland, to Greenley Island, Canadian Labrador.

June 24-25, l930—Charles Kings- ford Smith, Evert Van Dyke, J. Patrick Saul and» J. W. Stannaga, from Port Marnock, Ireland to New York.

Sept. 1-2, 1930-Dleudonnc Cost/c

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A PERTINENT QUESTION‘

slrrln connection with

items appearing in the p,“ garding the present scarcity ducks, do you not think than 115W 8011c to other piacgs due the sloughs being dry in pm, western Canada?

.The Manager of the c“, Bank of Commerce at Blah; Saslo. writes in his business n dated August 27th as follows:

“Some of the old timer-g in

district state that they have 5 larger flights of ducks this than ever before and wg h." instances. where farmers’ crop; being destroyed through their: ages." . I am Sir, m,

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