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the repressions of dictetorslil’.repu1ting from ab- sence of the right education, gr. derriocracy." And another _delegate made this pregnant remark: "We can make govermneuts ‘listen to us and give us what we waritfif only ~we can come to an agreement between ourselves as to just ex-

-. .. j l “hag. 91;‘ an (In ndvnet) allied

. ‘ 2, Cznndn and

United Infil-

ftfiogdcd tun 34.0! per use (in savanna

‘per your (in adrenal

actly what it is we want."

The Montreal gathering was preliminary to a National Youth Congress whichis to be held at Ottawa_on May 23 to 25 and an International Congress of .Youth.scheduled for Geneva. later

2" . aiirunonv, Ann. :5. ms.

About Potatoes

The following editorial from the Ottawa Journal throws light on a. question which has 'occ.1sionad a good deal of discussion recently:

. “Last week the lowly potato iuade the front . page of most newspapers when certain persons whose bttsiness it is to know about such inat- ters suddenly discovered. or thought they had. ‘that Ontario and Qiiclicc faced a serious short- age. Some even went so far as to talk of a "po- tato fluniue.” Toronto dealers reporterl a."de- cided sliortage" in storage stocks. Prince Ed- Jvard island and New Brunswick dealers stated supplies in the .\laritimes were depleted, that Ontario and t,_Jtu~liei: need not look here for usual Spring requirements. The houswife had the matter brought to her attention when she was

|‘(’q[lll'L‘tl in p.'1_v nearly double last month's price. The \\llUl('\.'llC price per bag was near the $2 niark in Montreal and Toronto on Saturday.

.\larch I [)l'lL‘C\' were from ()0 cents to $1.15.

"l)espit1: the prictz trend there appears con- siderable confusion as to whether a shortage really exists, The statistical experts in Govern- ment departments here in Ottawa. fail to agree. liigtircs made public by two branches of the Gov- ernment, separated it is true by a mile or tnore of paved street, differ so widely that some ex- planation is certainly required.

~ “Shortly after Toronto dealers and officials isstied a warning about the likely shortage. and ' Maritime dealers backed up the statement by pointing to depleted stocks in the liast, the Do- Ininirm l-lurcau of Statistics herc issued a bulletin stating that according to figures compiled at the Bureau as on March 31 there were 11,447,000 thtmdredweight of potatoes then on hand in Can- ada. This was compared with 19,740,000 at the same date in 1935. The statement went further and pointed out the 1933 figure was abnormally - large and, according to the (Tan:1<liai1 Press re- port "officials felt there would be plenty of po- tatoes to go around.”

“But the Dominion Department of Agricul-

_ tnre also issue potato statistics. and the weekly -crop and market report issued April 9 states that ‘the amount nf commercial potatoes available in Canada on April I was 48,152 tons as compared

: to 246,673 tons on the same date in 1935. Going back over old copies of this report it was found 75,000 tons of potatoes on hand, 1932 some 182.-

fthat on April 1, 1931, the Department reported

. 000 tints; 1933, 91-000 tons and in 1934, 104,000 ions. These figures certainly indicate that the Ill'(‘>"'ll stock is decidedly low.

"The strange thing is the wide difference betv l'l'|l the two sets of figures. The Bureau of Stalmlics 2-3.'l_\‘s there is 11,447,000 hundredweight

. on hand, while the printed report of the Depart- ment of Agriculture states there is only 963,040 hundredwcight (48,152 tons). A little matter of ten million huudrcdweight to be explained as be- tween two sets of figures. ‘

“Possibly the explanation is as set forth in a letter to The Journal by \V. B. Soitcizsizr, On- tario's Commissioner of Marketing. lie says ‘The Bureau of Statistics figures inelurle the large requirements necessary for seeding pur- poses as well as for table stock—thc amount left

' ‘for table use is very considerably lower than in "previous years.‘ Ile attaches a report by _l. T. . Cassm, pt‘(‘Sil’l(‘llt of the Ontario Potato Grow- ~ ers', which would indicate unusually low stocks."

Youth Andi Democracy

it hecmues increasingly evident that if our economic and other problems are to be solved. it must he with the help of the younger gener- ation who are the chief sufferers today from, the tnalzuljustment of our economic machinery. Recently in .\luntreal. .1 signal tlemonstration of the interest which youth is taking in Canada's problems. political, social and economic, was giv- en at a mnfercncc of delegates representing 135 local youth groups——including five French- speakitig organizations, the Y.M.C.A., Y.\V.C..’\.. YC.\l.1l..\., young peoples‘ societies of all church

dcnominzttiuus, boy scouts, girl guides. junior ,

bo:n'tl.< of trade. and 1-cllool and college groups rcprescntitig from 8.000 to to,O00 young ineti utttl women. The convention was addressedby Professor ' joitx l’ll'tiHl-'..'~‘«, of McGill University, who atnong other things emphasi7.ed the fact that education and democracy must go hand in hand. "‘L0ol;ing to Europe we see nine dictatorships ‘find only ‘four democracies," he said. "We are more fortunate here. and can meet like this and /say what we-think. But how long we shall con- tinue to liavc that liberty one cannot tell. He ...\i'Otlld be an optimist indeed who would say, ‘It njEan't happen here.‘ We must be ever vigilant to arpreservc such "freedom while we may." ' Democracy, he admitted, waa_no,t an entire "success and was honcyconibcd with corruption; ...§ut th t was not 'inlicrent in thesystem, nor in- “separa le from it. Democracies did‘ exist which were comparatively free.of corruption and graft.

h;'id"tliat form of government was the only one valhed intellectual free-

tbierable to people who .8I‘0_I11‘4 . 3' » 5 ' is_,|he esstrttlllkxzl of

he- _McGt

democracy

i,dieem'i

in the summer. At the Ottawa congress the fol- lowing six-point programme will be discussed:

1. In is socially useful life accessible to the thouénnds of youth leaving schools and imlvers- itles

-' 2. can slums and their demoralizing, deliri- - quency-breedini influence be elinainntedl

3. L5 our educational system adequate? Are recreational and vocational training facilities in keeping with present day needs?

4. Unemployment and relief, their causes and influences as they exist. in Canada. must be studied and understood, While unemployment ex- lst,-, can occupation and honorable means other thsn relief be found for youth?

5. Is war imminent?‘ How can Canadian youth cooperate to preserve world order?

6. what are our political, cultural, and ae- liginus leaders doing to meet. these problems? What can Canadian ‘youth do to assist. in their all-important. solution?

Editorial Notes

This is Anzac Day. it Jlf ¥

Tomorrow is France’: election day No. I. Jlé it if

The roads are now fit for travel-—at least the main ones.

if if \X Mayor TURNER worthily expressed the feel- ings of the citizens in his message to N. S. Min- ister of Mines.

56 BK if . It was a Kingly act for His Majesty to send his congratulations to the valiant miners at Moose River. if if if

the right thing at the right time and in the right manner. I I i Farmers. would still be well advised to re- duce potato acreage this season, instead of in- creasing it, as many are inclined to do. 9K 5K 9K .

Potatoes were selling this week in Ontario at $1.40 per bushel and in New Brunswick at $2.40 per barrel. The improved roads are facili- tating hauling. BK ilé Premier CAMPBELL was a little later than the others in sending the miners congratulations on their successful endeavours, but none the less sincere on that account. BK ll

The Sackville Tribune asserts there should be a speed-up on the Borden-Charlottetown Ex-

being long enough for 4.2 miles. It admits that the numerous stoppages is a serious handicap, but suggests as a. remedy the running of a jitney. \Vt.\'s'ron CI-lL'RCl-{ILL has a proclivity for ‘making our flesh creep,” but unfortunately there is ground for his latest outbreak in that direction. His warning has been anticipated in most quarters, and it is from this very forearm- ing that danger is to be anticipated. They are all doing it.

r

if Bk’ ilé Summerside, which, as everybody knows, is the Premier's home town, has been provided in the Supplementary Estimates with $29,000 for harbour dredging. \Vhat about the survey and dredging of Charlottetown harbour? Perhaps everybody concerned was too busy pursuing the will 0’ the wisp bridges scheme, to think of the necessity for our harbour improvement. iii if )ié

The TASCI-ll-ZREAU Government has been de- scribed by Mr. C. H. l\lOlNEAl.‘ former president of the .\icrcicr Political Association, as a “band of Ali Babas," responsible for all the wrongs in Quebec. Speaking at a meeting of the younger

Nl-‘.AU said it was to fight against the “monster" that the Alliance Liberalc Nalionale had been created. Its mission was, he said, to "clear the parliamentary heavens first, then the political heaven.

It is anticipated in financial circles that Brit- tsh Columbia and Saskatchewan will sp'eerlily follow Alberta into the default column. The for- mer has a $3,500,000 loan maturing on May 15, and not a dollar in.a sinking. fund to meet it; while fifteen clays earlier, May 1, Saskatchewan has $2,000,000 coming due and in no better posi- tion to meet it. As both Provinces are averse to

cure Federal guarantee, Mr. DUNNING sees noth- ing for it but to leave them to take care of themselves as he has done in the case of Alberta. Both Federal and Provincial Governments are hopeful of having the situation cleared up by the end of the year; meantime Canada's financial reputation is suffcrigeg Lgzndon.

The Kind Government is to.enlai-ge. the powers of the.Ta_riff Board, (established by the Banner! Governmentunder the Ottawa agree- ments) to include all questions of tariff. It-is contended that the Tariff Board has been such an outstanding success that if all tariff requests are pessedurpon by the board, pad that none of the p .chuiges -coma-only from the De- of ‘Finance after deputation: have been

I'dr0'I‘ in to some plea of political expedietcy. n¢ would be divorced as feoéiy ‘as is possible from party litlcs. It irifg t‘_ or ,' that such 1 ‘tnove"wotiTd ‘Jeopar-

.f¢‘-iponsilwility. But itiis apparent dI|tfll’l«llnotrul;‘.forin the

case. one if out ....,,. . .

.. ‘and than thméeniialt as I worm but nio dim Altair: rot-'Alberpt¢a“i:”nd°iroi-in 31;‘. l" ""'“"‘ "“°“ °‘“""‘“' "'9 app,“ 1 ' * ' an ‘ mm. The mlioflty of people have West. Tbrritoriei. “°° °°“""""‘” "" "”“ "°°“' - ' °‘ 9"’ "l’°"u - l’f°‘ many. out our vein hopes of quick Chiefs of the min. ‘received an 1""? ."§'-}§“.,‘.§'." '°' " "“’°°" "’

'.°'“‘ : 3 fi“d'“K remedies for our file. each. councillor‘: 016 each end the so ' ‘H " "I'M ” 5"

Notes by the Way

versi to some

miles, and another who was asked the length of the Suez Canal gave the fine round figure of 2,000 miles. The members of Mr. Rut.t.‘.edse’s expedition who are delegated to make the assault on the final 1,000 feet. of the mountain may be in- clined to agree with the student's estimate, while anyone who has traveled through the Canal in the height. of summer may not. think too harshly of the other figure.- Glaesfrw Herald.

In this nutter of official ulerles there is one omce which, though all the rest went unrevised, ought. to be more substantially paid-—t.he omce of Prime Minister. lie is the most. important and most. hardly- driven servant of the Realm: and yet, by a. monstrous inoonsequence, I financial burden is laid on top of his others. one of the Select Committees urged that the Prime Minister should receive 7,000 pounds the other 8,000 pounds: and the larger sum is none too much. Mr. Asquith hold the 1920 Committee that Downing street left. him a far poorer man; Mr. MacDonald has observed that the same street is one of the highroads to poor law re- liefxlf the First lvllfilster in the Cabinet is to be recompensed for his labors, if he is merely to be able to command the duties of 1105- pitality out of salary, his ,5,000 pounds a year must be generously enlarged—a.nd ii pension attached to B. supreme office which, once as- sumed. traditionally debars the ex- holder from pursuit of money.- London Morning Post.

The young man. coming fresh from college this Spring, is apt. to think that all the good jobs have been filled. There are more jobs

Our Lieutenant Governor knows how to do awaiting the right man, however, food.

than there are right. men to fill them! The eternal yearning of the progressive employer is for better men—men with ideas who take pride in their work. Men who see nhend, men who have vision and ideas. Men who want to do better

_ for themselves and their employers.

and who are willing to pay the price of real success. The man who Ls never satisfied with what he does. and who continually strives to im- prove everything he does—“the man who delivers the goods"-—he Ls wel- comed the world over, and always will be.

The capacity of Canadian Gov- ernments to spend appears to be limited only by f.heir'ability to box‘- row. But when their ability to bor- row comes to an end, then their capacity to spend will be limited to the amount of their incoming rev-

longer Canadian governmental in- stitutions will have borrowing abil- ity is a. pertinent one. There are already signs of limitation. For instance, some municipalities are in default; four western Provinces are practically limit.e't'. to borrow- ing from the Dominion Govern- ment; and it. is generally admitted that the London market is closed to the Dominion Government. while it. appears doubtful if the New York market. is open except for certain refunding operatlom-..—— George C. MacDonald, in Canadian Business, Montreal.

Arnericpn and Cnnadlan railways may be in the doldruma, but Brit- ish railways are climbing rapidly out of their hard times, the four main companies making aggregate profits last year of $160,000,000. As 3 result of the promising’ outlook the companies will this year start an expansion plan involving ex- penditure; of $250,000,000, part. of‘ which is to be met, by govcmmcntt assistance. Nearly 100 miles of the Southem Railway will be electri- fied.—-st. Thomas Times Journal.

Without a contest to help in bring- ing people out, Roosevet rolled up 3 vote in Illinois primaries nearly

for Knox and E0"Lill. ns|)i1‘ants for the Republictm nomination. _Ob- servers are agreed that the Presi- dent. is regaining much of the popularity he enjoyed two years ago and later lost. in some n1ea;.- ure. It looks as if lie will win again in November un‘ess business slumps in the interval.-—Lm1don Ad- verttser.

A local dentist tells the follow- ing fish story: Out trolling he got. nyatrike. He reeled in his line and n. 44-pound fish was on the end of it. Getting the fish into the boat. the dentist. suddenly found the

throat. he aaw the tail of a smaller fish. Pulling out the little fish, he found the hook in its mouth. The little ‘fellow weighed eight pounds. Fifty-two pounds‘ of fish in one strike is good fishing.—Victorin Col-

Approprietlons for the united Hutu nutlornl defense during the coming fiscal year are close to $1.- 00o,000,00D—t.he greatest. pence time awrwrm-Ion this country has ever nude. That amount. of money is retlly enough to make Americana look around and try to find out whom they are defending them-

selves from.—-christian Science bdonitor. The British people have new

learned in the school of experience that there is no short cut. to in- creased employment. The Labour Party was taught. that lesson in no first term of office, although it still ¢lllI|'.‘l pathetically to the doctrine

' rut: CHARLOT'l‘(ETOWN an

Dhtinee in apparently no object to certain graduates of Indian unl- mordinc “bow- lera" quoted by the Bend Minister of Education at the opening of an , "Education Week" in Calcutta. To the questlon——I-low high is Mount Everest? one student replied—.5.M0

I

lltljat‘ , Baby of finurs

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smnciuno iron rniricnusn AND com: or ASTHMA

Less than ten yearshao in. group of asthma sufferers began writing to the press in Great Britain about the lack of knowledge of the causes of asthma. Sufferers of high and low estate got: together, appointed a committee of sufferers and physi- cians, and organlnedwhat is known as the Asthma Research Council. Funds were collected to enable re- search physicians and practicing physicians to investigate the causes and best treatment of asthma.

This program of research includ- ed (1) formsflon of asthma. re- search centres. (2) investigation and study of (3) asthma. in child- peu with vomiting that occurred at regular inbervula, epilepsy, migraine (one-sided headache) and skin disease. (4) being sensitive to ani- mal, vegetable, or other foreign meter, (5) physical methods of treatment including the breathing in of medicated substances, use of ultra violet rays, diatermy (elec- trlc heat to inner tissues). and breathing exercises, (6) relation of asthma. to other chest ailments (bronchitis, titberctilosis). ('1) the effects of diet. (8) various cures in- cluding secret remedies, (9) family histories.

Since the formation of this Asthma. Research Council in 1921. investigation along these lines has been the means of brinllng relief to a great many sufferers.

Thus in locating the causes of asthma. defects in nose and throat, being sensitive to various substan- ces, the eating of certain articles of have all been definitely shown to be the cause in 3. number of cases. Con-ecting these defects. rsxoidlng these substances, and omitting these articles from the diet. have kept many free from asthmatic attacks.

The breathing exercises mention- ed before have been so helpful that the Council has issued ii. booklet at a shilling ll. copy obtainable from their headquarters, King's College Hospital. London, Engalnd.

All the patients attend the asthma clinics for 5. period of two months before any special treat- ment: is given. During this time they are given general advice as to dler, orrls mot, feathers or horse dander. which is shown by skin tests to be probable causes of the attacks.

During e. two month; period of observation about half the patients lost. their asthma. or had fewer at- tacks. of these who improved about

press of about an hour——an hour-and-a-quarter enue- The questmn 0' how much one in four had a. relapse six

months later.

SALT TANG OF

SEAWEED

Now, as the children gather home together,

How good to see them—strong and fresh and y0tmB.

With eager eyes and looks that match spring weatherl

And hear their words across the sunshine flung

Like arrows wing‘d with P‘a.ncy'5 fligliting feather —-

Words of 3 song as yet; but all un- sung!

And now, as time runs out. and they are scattered

Once more in distant haunts at work and play,

something of each that doubtless little nutttered— .

Gesture or tone unheeded on the

day: >

Tlirobs through our heart swift as through nlouds wind-tattered

members of the Confederation Club Mr. Mo1- doubie that of the oombmea V0“: The o.1r;er.sunl1glit floods the morn-

ins is'l"‘l’. so from our own past. ‘ youth—all

sequence seeming

Sudden unbidden, like i\ madcap" fool—

Some trifle, long forgotten, without warning

1/.-ape to remembrance —— poignant, wonderful—

Sweet scent of clover from for fields of mornlng,.

Salt tang of seaweed from a wave- . washed pool,

(sir Patrick Ford in Clnimbei-s’a Journal.

sacrificing their Provincial independence to se- hook gonelbooklng down the fish's M-mt 3,1,, Wm-id ,,e;d_., today is

more business between all the no- tions. In a world of artificially clos- ed markets it. is not 'p0sslble to build up vigorous industry and commerce.-—_Belfaat. Telegraph.

Detroit customs officials have re- tumod I Van Dyck (spelled Van Dyke in deapntehes) picture to Toronto to ascertain why the artist could not sign the customs deo‘e.r- ntion in person. The other day Rumenlsn peasants called for the author after 8 play by Shakespeare. and probably Detmlterl the laugh. ,

INDIAN POPULATION ' ' 1

(OIIIIIIIIII Plait)

tribeetnen “peach

ARDIAl'tl «

joined in

0-903 IN ALIBITA

CALGARY, April 24—Alberta has on Indian population of 10.003 and the various tribbeieeeived a total of 055,000 in "treaty monies" dur-

BIIWIIY V5. HEAVEN

\

Bil‘.-There are extent many who are not only doubtful about -the motives of the Montreal brewery in muting a high class stallion avail- able to this province, but are also concerned about the results of- be- ing under obligation to liquor 31311‘ ufacturers.

While it has been pointed out that this deal will bring immediate advantage to the horsemen of our Island, the more remote results may be quite the opposite. It is far our advantage ‘to look a little further than the end of our own nose.