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lollvorol- It.“ I0! no: (l: ulnar-o) called to Canada and United litmus.

monnar, rnauaay s. mo. A Note Of Warning

' A note of warning is sounded by the Mon- treal Star in connection with the proposal that the power to amend the B.N.A. Act be \vith- drawn from the British Parliament and vested in the Canadian Parliament. This suggestion is ac- companied by the assurance that special pains would be taken to safeguard and perpetuate A‘ those clauses in the Act which deal with race,

religion, language and education. On this point the Montreal paper asks how this is to be ac- complished, and adds : _ “Are these clauses to be separated from thc rest of the instruments and pointedly withdrawn from the control of the Canadian Parliament ? We can imagine nothing more challenging, more provocative, more likely to weaken their founda- tions and defences Would it not be simpler and stronger to, treat the whole Constitution in the same ivay, not singling out any part of it for seg- regation as a section of our Constitution on which the more people of Canada are not to be per- mitted to lay unholy hands. This would stick out as a perpetual “dare” to the strong desire for autonomy amongst‘ our citizens, and supply a new and more respectable reason for attacking it to those who were foolish enough to want to attack it on quite other grounds. This is a point ' at which logic would be very dangerous. All that is sought is ease and speed in making amend- ments—-not the power to make any amendments we desire. \Ve have the latter now. Surely some simplication of procedure on this side of the Atlantic could secure for us the former.

"What we gain by the necessity of appeal- ing to Westminster is the cooling effects of dis- tance, disinterestedness and delay. How can anyone be sure—especially the leaders and

i guardians of our various minorities-that in ~- some day of heat and passion we may not most sorely need this piece of ‘cold storage.’ l/Vc are in the Empire and we are goingto stay there. Why not keep all the incidental advantages of this relation ?”

This is a. point well taken, and is entirely in accord with the objection ‘raised by the New Brunswick Government, which secs a danger to Maritime rights if the Dominion Parliament is empowered to tinker at will with the Constitu- tion. That danger is just as real to this Pro- vince as to New Brunswick, for it is the smaller and weaker Provinces that are bound to suffer in any constitutional changes which may be forced upon‘ them. It is high time that‘ our Pro- vincial Government realized this fact, and joined forces with New Brunswick in protesting before it is too late.

i Debt Refunding.

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K . Sir THOMAS Wmrrz, Canada's wartime Minister of Finance, has contributed to the ._ press a notable article on debt refunding, which . he discusses with characteristic clearncss and ‘ logic. Conversion loans, Sir Trrorms says, are

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only legitimate and wise when they do not in- p, y; yolve repudiation. The purpose of refunding is t‘; l,‘ of course to procure the advantage of reduced l’. ' ‘interest rates, and consequently the advantage of lessened public burdens, but refunding is only- jl legitimate when it does not interfere with the

rights of investors or imply refusal on the part _ . of the debtors to meet their obligations in full. ' .1 To illustrate what legitimate refunding i means, Sir THOMAS cites the courses followed ' by the Governments of Canada and Great

Britain, respectively, within the past couple of

years. In the case of Canada all the refunding

which has taken place has been rendered possible

by the maturing of bonds which were redeemed

by the flotation of new issues at lower rates of

interest. No compulsion in this case was exer- ' cised to oblige any bondholder to cash-in before ‘Imaturity, or any investor to buy a security

which he did not desire. 1t was a purely volun- gtary process from beginning to end.

.. The extensive refunding accomplished dur- _ lng the pastjwo or three years by the Govern- Qment of Great Britain was also carried out with- t.’ Iout any compulsion being applied to bondholders " and certainly without recourse to any action

‘e I which might be characterized as repudiation.

I Sir THOMAS Wands statement is timely ' because there has been considerable confusion of flthought with respect to these refunding oper- "ations, which have been cited as precedents for

repudiation by certain politicians, who have ad-

vocated sheer default as a new way to pay old debts. Repudiation, it is hardly necessary to add, cannot fail to be destructive to the credit of the i country resorting to it, whereas legitimate re- funding improves a country's position by re- ducing its fixed financial obligations.

Wno finances Hitler‘?

Often the question has been asked : “Who finances Hrruntf’ A seeming clue to the mys- l tery, says the Ottawa Journal, comes with a des- jjpatch from Essen telling that German rearma- lament boosted the profits of Known by more than A $1,500,000 during 1935. Its net profits for the ; year were over $4,000,000. ’ y

"i ‘_ The Treaty of Versailles, which most 0f us ‘thought the end of militarism, decreed y, rueéigon of Kgurvfoiaag nurtet1als,_|amou1|:. .. to poo, “n! rm into rat way r0 - . n‘ m. , new That treaty still

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have been, these last fifteen years in Germany! Her navy was sunk, never to be replaced; her war plants were dismantled; her army was re- duced to 100,000 men; and she was to pay bil- lions in htdenmities. Today Germany builds powerful “pockct" battleships; she has the big- gest war plants in the world; her army and air force are among the greatest in Europe-and what of indemnities? ' HITLER, professing to be the champion of the German masses, had his Nazi party financed and was put into power by the iron-masters and death merchants who now thriye on his regime. THYSSEN‘, Kuurr, others of ‘their kind, they were the real authors of the German revolution, and Nazi-ism and all that it means were sired by their ambitions. Swastikas, brown shirts, the march- ings of multitudes, these were but the outward signs and things by which “patriotism” was flamed and sane men co\\'etl—with the rest of the world awed into inaction. I

Editorial Notes

The Red Cross is off again to a good start for new records in 1936. . 5i? 9K

9K Our_ curlers no more like to be discrimin- ated against than do our hockeyists.

Only three weeks or so to Lent-make most of the intervening days and nights.

“Pap fed" communities as a term of dero- gation is bad enough. What then are we to think of a “beer-fcd" Prohibition Province ?

Shades of all past administrations l It has come to this, we must now depend upon the New Brunswick Government to defend our inde- pendencc.

“It is to laugh"—-or cry. The only Prohibi- tion Provincc enters into a deal with a brewery to advertise its brand of beer throughout the rural sections.

we at an

Spraying a riotous crowd, as in Cairo, with indelible ink is ‘a new one"~—it means “if you ily with the crows you will be sllot with them" whether you are a. rioter or not, for the unde- niable evidence of your presence is on you !

‘Hon. B. W. LEPAGE has gone to sunny Florida to escape the cold blasts and snow drifts of his native Isle. By a coincidence AL. Sruru, the stormy petrel of the Democratic party plans spending the month there too, in order to escape the political chills and onslaughts resulting from his’ recent Washington Jgwalk-out” speech.

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President ROOSEVELT has asked Congress for a. $2,249,178.35 appropriation to meet the soldiers’ bonus bill voted into law over his veto. A tabulation of official estimates reveals that with the payment of the bonus the amount so far paid by the United States for the World War will reach $45,o0o,0o0,0o0, reports The Assoc- iated Press. Added to this, 123,654 Americans were killed from various causes during the war; 182,674 were injured in battle; 469, 541 veterans have died since the war, and they are dying now at the rate of seventy-nine a day.

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Our old friend and former Islander, "Bossy" GILLIS, Mayor of Ncwburyport, is doing a, little dictating to tlfe full complement of bankers in the town of his adoption. Five bank presidents who had opposed his election were summoned to his office and unanimously agreed to finance his campaign for industrial revival. The presidents, the former “bad boy mayor" announced, will furnish a commuity fund to move shoe factories to Ncwburyportand instal their tnachinery. Under Grtus’ plan, employees of the new companies will contribute two per cent. of their wages to retire the fund.

There has just died in London, Mr. Hucrr CLELLAND HoY, who with his colleagues, seclud- ed in a room in Admiralty Building gathered into their fingers all the wcbs of intrigue and cs- pionage which Germany had spun across Bri- lain-gathered them and snapped them, one by one. Not until years after the war was the veil partly lifted from that secret room. In the book “40 O. B." published in r932, Mr. Hov told for the first time some of the story of those days and nights of intrigue and counter-intrigue. But in this work he wrote: “I have been obliged to omit many startling and exciting matters. . . . I have had to remember-—and also to forget." And now the secrets have gen; waiéh lint to the grave.

The Dominion Textile factory at Sher- brooke, the immediate cause of a Royal Commis- sion to investigate the industry opened its doors on Wednesday after five days shut down. The President said the appointment of the Royal Commission had nothing to do with the reopen- ing, but the fact that Japanese representatives had stopped quoting the extremely low prices they had been doing, thus easing up the situ- ation. Mr. C. P. Howarzn, M.P., said the fact of the matter is quite a few Canadian manufactur- ers had opened factories in distant country places in Quebec where labour was cheap and plentiful, and were able thereby to cut in on the Dominion Textile Co.'s quotations. Anyway all’s well that ends well for Shcrbrool; wéprkers.

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If Senator Bonn be adopted Republican _candidate part of his programme will be "a pen- sion at 6o." At a Republican gathering in New York the Senator expressed the view that every old person 6o years or over deserves $50 or $60 a month as an old age pension." In the first com- prehensive exposition of his stand on a number of vital current issues since his name began to be mentioned for the Republican nomination for

for: Delegates to the National Party Conven- tion instructed to frame "a living platform" that would “taloe care of the people as l." whole” A

policy‘ for iliflfwlifltty‘ in international Anti-mining legislation .fr1aofid Putin: firfitlifnot 1n- flfiil . . thtmmfl. ' rdfiilnktyntatlcnf‘ rather

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Notes By The Way

Stalin spends £0,000,000 for n. Bovlet "Hollywood." Ruaslnlm says must. come rirst 1n all the arts. m Moscow Shakespeare's ploy: are drawing crowds. Now army officers are to be lsiinxulshed by gay unl- forms and badges. Day by day the RlLBSlll-ll leaders are turning more towards the arts and social distinc- tions. 1t 1s a. slgnof the stability of their regime. That 15.0. good sign. For the Russian Government. a good Government, desires peace, --I.oudo.n Sunday Express.

Tho sunshine come; by 11;, m‘; gives life. The night come; and Rives/rest and relaxation. The seed ls planted and the earth, 1n co. operation with all the forces or nature, 1s warmed-and, lo, therels a multiplication of-llttle into plenty. All creation is by oo-opemtlon, m) one man can complete any great _ inspira- tlcn o1’ others. Capital can be no

enemy of labor and labor can be no enemy of capital. Both must co. operate. We cannot all be creators, but: n11 of us can be workers, and the humblest workh- deserve; we- cum compemstion for the effort Blven. A11 through nature we see co-operatlon at work-and with such a minimum of confusion! Our greatest lessors must be le m. ed from mother nature. when on-

rue Cllaaboficrowu GUARDIAN .

8y James ID. Halon. MD. ‘

TIZNDENCY T0 ovanwsronr or-‘ran rnunnmm our. WEIGHT can BE

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Carefully gathered records ob- tained by going back a number of years andgeneratlons show that from 65 to 60 per cent of overweight individuals are the children of overweight. parents. While the 1n- herlted type of overweight tends to devfilO-l 1n the young, there 1s a general tendency towards over- weight after about the ‘thirty-fifth year ln women andafter about the lortieth 1n men. Women are more Jkely to become overweight than are men. ' '

Overweight may ’ follow typhoid fever pneumonia, plenrlsy, measles anu whooping cough, but overeating of szarchy and foot foods-potatoes, bread, sugar, butter-is the cause 1n

fused and 1n doubt, we are wise-if we turn to lrcr. None or her motives have an ulterior end. | _'_“i‘ I

It is interesting to note that only one of the eight kings who were present at. the funeral of King Ed» ward the seventh now 1s a xlhg, and he is King Haakon of Norway.‘ K1118 600186 0 Greece was assas- sinated 1n 1913. Alfonso of Spain and the former German kale; are 1n exile. Ferdinand of Bulgaria‘ abdicated ln 1918, while King; Frederick o1’ Denmark died 1111913. 348111161 of Portugal fled his coun-l try fdlowing a revolution and died, 1n England. when: he had taken] refuge. Among those at. t/he fun-' eral were Archduke Ferdinand o1'| Austria. whose assassination was the spark which set off the fire which threw almost thewhole world into the greeted: war 1n history.- Niagara Falls Review,

It appears that at the 38mg time and place an Italian force won a signal victory over an Ethiopian force and the Ethiopia force’ soundly b:a: that. o1 the_ Italians. Under the same date‘lne Japan sent a chafenglng note to Russia and Russia rent a warning to Ja- pan. lvfanchukuo being the inter- medlary in both cases and the mat- ter concerning Outer Mongolia; it is something of a. puzzle to say ex. actly how Mongollo stands 1n re. latlon to the USSR. The worlds nflairs have became so entangled that it is small wonder that the average observer turns 1n relief to a story like that o the two Par- lslsn lawyers who settled their personal differences most unprofes- slonally with foil: and left. the field with honor satisfied but un- reconclled when one pricked the other 1n the arm. Nations are al-

United States President, the Idaho veteran called p

ways pretending to be reconciled. but they seldom go so far as- to declare their honor satisfied-Ex.

Mrs. Amanda Beaver, of Fort Dodge, 91, recrntiy made a trip to Dodge City, where she had her hair given a permanent wave. 'I'he Globe says this sets the record for age lnthe cowboy capital and adds the lady looks at least 20 years younger than her age, while the beauty shop operator declares: "It 1s one of tlhe most beautiful permanents I've ever seen." And this no doubt will stand as the ultimate in the "external feminine" bent of mind until some gal or 95| years or so takes up tap dancing.- Topeka Capital. '

During the celebration. of her employers‘ golden wedding anni- versary 1n a. southern city, a negro servant who had been in the fum- lly about forty years felt. constrain- ed to add her own fellclbatlons to those that had come by wire, by telephone, by letter and ‘by personal calls. The opportunity came whllc she was assLstlng 1n the prepara- tions of the anniversary dimer when she said: "Well! A11 I has to say is dot dey sho‘ has fought a good fight."

hecoueelved notions, even stand- ardized beliefs, are receiving their qufetus 1n these latter days. Two. of the latest to go by the board affect celery and mahogany. It is not frost. as was hitherto thought, that makes celery crisp and pelatablefl 1t is rain. Mahogany ls not a. red wood. Any dark red color found on this wood is due to stain applied 1n finishing. A purchaser should not buy as mahogany any pleoe that has been finished so dark red and opaque that the grain 1s not read- lly dlseemlble-‘Victorla Colonist.

It wu neither the aeroplane nor television which most amend Ndanlsc Kimmie, giant Matabele, on o. vlsli; to Inndon. "Them ap- pears to be no poverty ln London. Everyone 1s well-dressed, especially the ladies. when and how do they all live and get food, simm they grow no crops?" he wondered.- Morlcton ‘Irmscrlpt. ,

The shortage of fall, moat and potatoes 1| approaching famine pro- portions in the ‘Iii-ltd Reich. but. it is interesting to lee thgt for the eleven month: ended I‘ 1. last. year, champagne sales hut ex- ceeded 18,000,000 bottles. exceedlnll the previous all-time rezord set during tho days or. war milieu‘- lllI-illflfl‘ is." u fascists love to n7; the loader of "the when peo-

lW-bul "the whole People" aren't dmhktng: hhambliner-New Tort

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about nineteen 1n every twenty cases.

Added to overeating ls underexer- clslng. Exercise, or moving the body about, helps to burn up the food instead of allowing 1t tn be stored away as fdt.

1t 1s surprising how Nature allows the human body to accumulate many pounds of excess fat. and the body apparently carries on its work 1n about the same manner; the 1n- dlvldual 1s “slower” 1n some ways but. still able to do mental and phy- sical work.

Nature meant that n little fat should be placed 1n various parts of the body—under the skin, under the heart, in the eyeballs, 1n the bone marrow, about the kidneys and other abdominal organs to support and prevent injury. In fact 18-11 1-1! found almost everywhere 1n the bone marrow. about the kidneys and other abdominal organs to sup- port and prevent injury. In fact fat 1s found almost everywhere in the body except ln the lung tissue.

In‘i.he ordinary healthy or normal lncllvldunl fat is supposed to weigh about one-twentieth of the entire body weight so that a. man weigh- ing 150 pounds would have about m- pounds, and n. womazrwelghlng 150 pounds should have more than the twentleth-one-flfteenth-or 10 pounds.

Yet what do we find 1n come over- weights? Men whose fat should be about ten pounds are carrying 26 to 30 pounds of excess fat-that is 15 to 20 pounds too much, and women are doing likewise. In fact ere are many cases where the normal weight should be about 150 pounds and the actual weight ls 225 pounds, the excess weight being about 65 pounds.

The point ls that 1n 19 of every 20 cases, cutting down gradually on the food intake and increasing gradually the amount of exercise 1s all that ls necessary to attain nor- mal weight. ~

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THE PERILOUS FLEET

Fog on the Straits today, and the deep-mouthed warning

Of the channel bell-buoy thunder- ing up to the sky;

A dead-still moon on the heels of a dead-still momlng-

The ships of the Perilous Fleet are mastering by.

Out of the sabre-blue of the Arctic weather,

Out of the bone-white sand of the tropic shore,

Rise the white sails and the white bleached hulls together,

And set their helms for the open sea once more-

Wtth trails of bannered weed for the masts’ adorning,

With shattered timbers, with bent and broken spars-

These are the ships that sank in a blood-red momln

Or foundered at noon, or were lost .l.n a night of stars.

Into the ash-rose heart of the west forever

Goes the Perilous Fleet, and none shall turn 1t again;

The smolgv coaster launched on a Scottish river

Jostles the gilded caravel of Spain.

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God send them port in some fair uncharted harbor

Whose piers are agate, whose wharves are plllared gold,

In a land as green with trees as a summer arbor,

When never a bird turns south or a leaf grows old.

God send them rest where the 11m- pld ripples quiver- To swing at rust-red anchor eter-

nally .

Where all the storms of the world are by forever,

And the pearl-paved streets run down to a sapphire ml

--Audrey Alexandra Brown, 1n the Press. i

Winnipeg Free amount 1n Tat Rina. Horses and cards do n attract the stakes they oncsfdld. some plutocrals, of course, get a thrill out of genuine on Wslljtreot;