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Preolllll, Illellh-OII. W. Chiller I. IeLnrO. Vice-President, J. I. Bur it. I‘. I. L loerctnry, Honk-Col. D. A. Inc nncn, D, l. 0.

tiller and llnnnglng Director. J. B. Burnett. l‘.J.l. Annotate lilltorc, hunk Wnlku and D. l. Ullflfl-

llornlng Dnlll (founded 1B1) $.00 per you (In nilvnnec). dollveud- NM In’ yen: (In advance) nullod to Cnlndn and United ltntel.

sarcnnav, niiciiiiuniin v, ma. Let's Have The Facts

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It is surely not The Guardian, a our con- temporary complains, that is making a mystery out of the Lea Government's half-million-dollar bond transaction! The “mystery" was created by the secrecy with which the transaction with the Toronto-Montreal syndicate was put through; and it has been heightened by the per- sistent refusal of the Government press to div- ulge the purpose of the issue, the names of the participating firms 0r individuals, the amount 0f the bids received, the manner in which they were obtained since no tenders were called in the regular way, and the reason why the public of this Province was not advised of the oppor- tunity 0f purchasing the bonds.

If there is no reason for suppressing this information, zuliy has it no! bean given?

A Flu-Cold Serum

Notwithstanding that a great deal of medi- cal research has been devoted t0 the problem. very little is known about the common cold _and its more dangerous brother, the flu. The latest researches, however, as announced by Dr. H. T. Cnicxiaaiuo, of New York City, indicate than colds and flu are the elfcct 0f filterable viruses, that is, organisms which are too small t0 be de- tected by the medical microscopes at present in use, and which are capable of passing through the pores of the finest filters. Steps are being taken to confirm this indication.

Another thing recently discovered is that antibodies, agents that enable the host to neutral- ize the virus causing the disease, appear in the blood during convalcscence. This discovery is

,_ highly important and is ‘being used as the basis,

isays Dr. CHICKERING, of the manufacture of a ‘fool-proof anti flu-cold serum.

It is hoped that success attends these latter Jesearches and that a trustworhy and efiecive 'serum is shorly evolved. The eradication of colds and flu, especially in a country that enjoys a

Tiwinter similar to ours, would have a great num-

ber of easily seen benefits.

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‘According to the Ottawa correspondent of

‘rflie Toronto Globe, Premier MACKENZIE KING

‘plans to visit London at the earliest opportunity

for the purpose of arranging with Prime Min-

.tlie channels of transatlantic trade.

'istcr STANLEY BALDWIN “for a deepening 0f Canadian Government circles are credited ‘by the writer

~with “a feeling that Canada dealt with the . Motherland like a. horse-trader in negotiating

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the agreements 0f I932. This country, it is ad- mitted, drove a hard bargain."

What is the purpose of such claptrap? In June last, in the British House of Commons, Rt. Hon. J. H. THOMAS, speaking for the Brit- ish National Government, cited the following

gures as evidence of “the great contribution” ade by the Ottawa Agreements: Canada in r932 exported to the United Kingdom goods

7 and produce worth 43,000,000 pounds; in i934

file figure was 50,500,000 pounds, an increase of

17 per cent. In I932 Britain exported to Canada

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17,500,000 pounds worth of goods. This in- creased 2o per cent. to 21,000,000 pounds in

Mr. KING, on his last visit to London, was disappointed in his hopes of finding the British people antagonistic t0 the Ottawa agreements and as a consequence he said very little about

i them in his election campaign, But his egotism

'_ will not let him rest until he has undone the

i,‘ age of the occasion to lecture the members in a 5 mild way on the amenities of debate. He sug-

1. work which his predecessor, Premier BENNETT,

achieved at the Imperial Conference.

Set Speeches Objectionable

On being re-elected Speaker 0f the British House of Commons for a fourth term the other day, Captain EDWARD A. Frrznov took advant-

"gested that as the members follow one another

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- they should confine themselves to delivering ar-

_guments for or against the proposal before the House. He regretted the tendency in recent sessions for debates to consist of a series of set SPCCCIIES. He felt that if that custom once be- comes firmly established interest in theprocced- ings of the Chamber will suffer. This is advice, suggests an exchange. which should be gravely taken t0 heart by members of the Canadian House of Commons, and of the several Pro-

. vincial Legislatures. Session after session the

pages 0f Hansard at Ottawa are filled with long- winded speeches by members who merely recite prepared orations which they will later circu- late throughout their own constituencies as _a proof 0f their industry in Parliament._ Public mcn in the Old Country long ago acquired the art of condensed speeches, and for the most part members of the House of Commons when ad- dressing their fellows in the Chamber adhere closely to the subject under debate. Judging from Captain Frrnofs cautionary remarks some of them have shown some inclination to follow the bad precedent established in this

country. A ‘ . _ EdilorfalfNotes

f‘ Tomorrow, second Sunday before Christ- lias.

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this year for a surplus of 30,000,000 francs. 3K 5K 3K

preted t0 mean a. nglitpery ilgighway to Japan.

Mr. KING has given U. S. A. free entry of po- tatoes while they shi: oars put. ,

Dr. RIDDELL, our permanent ofiicibl at Geneva, evidently resents being officially snub- bed by his Prime Minister, and absented him- self from the last meeting 0f the Committee of the League of Nations.

9K It fi Many people here know the Rev. S. BANKS Nsnsorv, Minister of Knox Presbyterian Church, Hamilton, who has spent several vacations on the Island, and will be interested to learn that, seeking a public office for the first time, he has been elected at the head of the poll for the Hamilton Board of Control.

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Next Friday Hon. J. E. MICHAUD, Min- ister of Fisheries, has promised to attend a con- ference of Fisheries Association officials from Vancouver to Halifax at Montreal. The Assoc- iation will ask for an annual grant of $100,000, and in addition petition the Government to be responsible for Canagélzfgkliih Week publicity. Commenting on the suggestion, that the DYSART Government is considering the licensing of wine and beer sales in hotels in New Bruns- wick, The Uniled Churchman says: “If the press interpretation 0f the Premier's words is true, then there will be many citizens of 'New Bruns- wick, representing the best elements of New Brunswick life, who will regrehthat the new government is so soon to betray the trust re- posed in it by the people." i

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It is of timely interest t0 note, on the authority of Industrial Britain, that artificial Christmas trees, varying in size from an inch to seven feet high, are being made in Birming- ham by means of an entirely new process. An- other Birmingham firm has put on the market a new toy, which takes the form 0f animals that, without any mechanism, can be made t0 walk and run along the ground by pulling a string. For adults these animals are being made in the form of racehorses and incorporated in a. race e.

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AIMEE MCPHERSON is evidently not the drawing card she used to be in the heyday 0f her ‘ evangelistic enthusiasm. At Winnipeg

mised $42 to provide “atmosphere” for the evangelist, but after she had taken her guaran- tee from the box-office receipts, there wasn't $42 left for the musicians, S0 Isanon sued the Amusements Promotion and Publicity Com- pany, who sponsored AIMEE'S public meeting. The company claimed in court that the evange- list’s visit had left it $900 “in the red." Never- thelcss, ISADOR and his merTy men were awarded $42 and costs.

. w x n- Reverting to the subject of noise gauges or sound meters, recently discussed in these col- umns, one of the revelations of research into the science '0f sound being conducted at the London University City and Guilds Engineering and Electrical College, is that when an emotion- ally moved young man whispers “I love you"

noise meter, placed four feet away, registers only fifteen phons as a rule. But when marriage is

get down to discussing the more ordinary things,

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Union want selves they might’ follow the the women of Linndale, Pa. notorious reputation

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i: _ a ' ultible Life

Cultures A. Dumuuc who relinquished the‘ presidency when he gecaiiineakMinister of Finance.

Notwithstanding all her troubles with ex- change and otherwise, France expects t0 budget

Washington's warning t0 japan recalls the fact that U. S. A. ofiered to pay 50% of the cost through British Columbia of a highway to Alaska, which the British Colombians inter-

New Brunswick potato growers are more alive to their interests than are ours, and have demanded countervailing duties against U. S. A.

Isaooa LAVITT and his orchestra were pro-

to his lady he is inclined to speak softly, and a

fact instead of a dream, and husband and wife

their conversation is loud enough t0 register sixty-five phons-half way to being painful to

If our Women's Christian Temperance to make a name for them- example of

It had a in pre-repeal days for speakeasies and bootlegging, and now is as dry as Sahara. The cleaning-up process started several years ago with the election 0f Miss ANNA LACKAWITZ, a stenographcr, who defeated “Battling Tom” O'MALIA, Mayor for many years, by three votes. She was elected recently for the third time and women were chosen also for the posts of clerk, treasurer and for two of the six council seats. “I used to be ashamed t0 claim this town as myresidence,” said Mrs. Ernst. So-ros, one of the ‘new council members. “Now our Mayor has cleaned it up. And she did it all quietly out 0f court. We are going _to help her further and we are going to make this town

The honor of being awarded the title of “Wheat King" of the world, won at Chicago by W. FRELAN WILFORD, of Stavely, was shared with Mrs. WlLl-‘ORD who may aptly be termed “Wheat Queen". In ‘all hlsexperimenta, started five years ago with Rewardwheat, tlie 30-year- old Southern Alberta farmer had the assistance of his wife. In the ‘careful handling and selec- tion of the prize samples, the farm-wife had a

THE CHARLOTTETOWN GUARDIAN’

Notes Biy The Way

Poor Clilnn l; cffllcted by lune- glides In hlgh places, wllllng to take Japanese 301d and betray their country and thelr race. Thls North Olilna aeeeulon movement Is Instlgaled by Japan, _ secure In her. mllltnry strength and In the knowledge that she can buy ChIn- ‘ese to ‘act as her puppets. General Yln. who has proclaimed an auto- nomous ieglme In eastern Hopel province, ls just a mercenary, llke the Chlneee offlclals In‘ Man- chuokuo.

The Unlled States and Great Brl- Iiiln, wlilch ls embarking on a re- placement building program, agree 0n the maintenance of exlstlng rat- Ios and also ns to keeplng total to wIthIn present treaty 11m- lts, although they dlffer radically 0n battleship and crulser types and armament. Great Bi-ltaln favouring less tonnage and lighter guns for the Indlvldual unlts. Japan rejects the ratlos and demands equality with the two other major Powers. The world ls In a dlfleyent mood today from that whlcli prevnlled In 1921-32 and 1030. and the confer- enoe faces a much tougher prob- lem. Secretary Swansons objec- tlons to having the problem of the redistribution of raw materlals brought before the conference Is well rounded. If the parley had lc problems added to the other factors making agreement dlf- llcult. the outlook would be poor Indeed-Phlladelphla Evening Bulk letln. »

. Mr. Baldwin la certainly the hes! polluclan In Great Britain just now. He entered public llfe dllxflng the war and, curiously enough, It was a Canadian, Boner Law, who dis- covered Mr. Baldwin and made lilm n. mlnlster when he, himself, succeeded Lloyd George as head o.’ the government. And Mr. Baldwin, who la a leading statesman as well as an exoeptlonal business man, In turn, later on succeeded Boner Law as heed of the party. Mr. Bald- win's vlctory, from the point of View of Canada, Is especially for- tunate, as he has vlslted the Dom- Inlon twlce In the last. eight years. —Quebee IJEvenement.

“Dole,” n "‘ shepherd do‘ attached t0 the Royal Canadlan Mounted Pollce at. Calgary, has been awarded B “dlploma. of honor" for savlng llvcs and for good work In the detection of crlme. The beauty of It la that, as with human heroes, "Dale" Is not In the least puffed up over this distinction, and no doubt would have been as well pleased l1’ nothing had been said or done on the subject of his achieve- ments. Well-bred dogs are llke that.

Thole ls n great deal of truth In 10rd Tweedsmuifs statement at the Canadian Club luncheon, while dIs- cussing the value of leisure: “You can easily put too muc-li work In- to l. job; what you cannot put In too much 0f Ls intelligence.” Thls probably explains why a, mun with so much work w hls credit as John Buchm etlll managed t0 enjoy a. share of leisure.

However, lb, Economist sees In the cutting off of the exports from Italy the League's strongest weap- on. It points out that none of‘ Italy's clilef exports-cheese, rlce, cltrus and drled fruits, wlfie, raw and ar- tlflclal silks, hemp, and cotton and woollen goods-can be regarded as essentlal to any country, and that "no one country takes a large pro- portion of the total Italian export,” except Germany's 38.5 per cent 0! thq, dried frult. If, therefore, to financial aanctlons a boycott of It- alian goods ls added by forty-six states, the problem of Rome's 00n- tlnulnk to finance the Imports needed to continue war might eas- Ily and quickly become acute. It Is presumed that even the most rap- aclous American and German pro- vIaIoners would decline to sell It‘ to moral dlsepp button there were added the Improbablllty 0f belng paId-Ba-ltlmore Sun.

The next Mona Llsa, or what- ever the twentieth century count- erpart of that masterplece ls 00 be. may be done with the tools of mod- ern Industry. Frederick Wllllam Lawrence, of Oklahoma City. one 0f the motor car Industry's humble nrttsans, a. workman skilled In the craft of palntlng automobiles wlth a spray gun, has-made an avoca- tlcn out 0f uslng the tools 0f his trade to turn out more than 100 "CHIN/IRES" In lacquer on compost- tion board. Hls landscapes and port- ralts show a hlgh degree of excel- lence In this new medlum. Like is. brush In the. hand 0f an old mas- mr’ the 51; v! ‘gun In Lawrence's hand has b_c0me an Instrument to express hls innermost feelings and ‘ .-Automotlve World.

We believe that thv Pflnvllile "I collective responsibility for the pEBCe of the world, on the basis 0f an accepted rule of law among the na- tlons, Involved In the covenant of the League of Nations Ia a. pmetl- cal appllcatlon of the principles 0f Ohrlstlanlty. We regard the stews members of the mucus who have signed that covenant as bound In honor to uphold It. We therefore [Ive our whole-hearted support to the action whlch the League Is now taking In accordance with the co- valent, In the endeavor to restrain what It has solemnly declared to be on act of lggresslon on the" pert q! Italy and txrbrlng to an end the

m Relief Outlook Winter 1935-1936’ _

A tnlement Imuedby the Board of Governors, Ollledlm Welfare - 00BX10“, DBOCIIIDBI‘ 1935.

As the late autumn Into

winter, and. Ciinadlniu enter the seventh year of seriously BIMKEIOG employment and resultant’ social need, one ele ‘ In the altuatlon demands xecognltlon beyond all others. and that ls this. A eondl- tton wlilch has persisted, wltli such sllghf fundamental vnrlatloii, over more than lull a decade, must cease to be deacrllped 0r regarded as an emergency or tenlporiuy state of affiilrs. and must be grappled with for whnt- It IBr-a. profound and yrolonged- tremor of t our whole economic and aoelal system which In turn has caused certain dlsplaoements In our em- ployment opportunlty and struc- ture. These dlsplaoementa, with their loss 0f earning opportunity and power for the ao-caned "work- Ing" population, and the resultant dlsslpatlon of savings and resources for hundreds of thousands of low Income homes, have accumulated problems that cannot but become complicated the longer they are regarded as susceptible to treat- ment through the continuance of emergency relief programmes alone. , It Ls true that the past summer and early autumn have seen a fairly contlnuoua upward move- ment. unemployment which has been malnlained with but natural r seasonal ieeesslons In the winter months, since June 1084." The em- ployment Index on November the 1st was higher than at any time slnoe, December the 1st, 1930. But, part '01 this movement, It must be remembered, has been stimulated by extensive publlc works, the ac- tivity In which has In turn revived demand In other llnes of produc- tlon. What must be faced as an inescapable fact ls that as employ- menl; has moved upward, the num- bers of those on mllef has not moved correspondingly downwards. and relief costs have conslstcntly moved upward.

REIIIIIII" IN MAROH,_ 1985

The Dominion Bureau of Stat- Istlcs reports an Improvement 0f 11.7% In the general employment Index 0n November 1st as 00n- trasbed wlth March 1st, 1035. Tbls Includes, It, must be emphastzed. those engaged In relief works, m- lief construction camps, ebe. Persons assisted ‘under the var- lous forms of seller avalliible under federal unemployment relief meas- ures at the end of February 1935 numbered at least 1,840,000 men, wbmen slid chlldren, at a. coet for the month of February alone of roughly $7,000,000. In round flg- ui-es, that month, 1.230.000 persons recelved dliect. rellef.

Of those on dlrect rellef, 200.000 were hoards 0f farnllles. Not less than 50,000 were young men and young women, or older displaced workers aided as single persons In private homes, whIle 1n axldltlon 31,000 homeless men were cared

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special rellef grants, on farms In Western Canada. Between 40,000

advanced 0i- rellef works projects. Nearly 13,000 settlers were belng given speclal ald In drought areas and another 18.000 persons who

whole or In part. , Of the entire total of 1,230,000

"drled out" areas of the atchewan. .

The summer of 1085, llke the summer of 1034, iecorded a move- ment back Into employment, and since the unemployment and relief

the "all time highs" of the early months 0f 1933, the autumn of 1935 shows both employment and the numbers on iellef In a more favourable posltlon than the aut- umn of 1934, or of I033.

ovnn a MILLION PEOPLE rm. ammo ASSISTED

On the other hand, whlle official statistics are not yet avallable. present estlmates and actual re- turns from the larger cltles and the provinces for the late summer and early autumn months, suggest that. In spite of the encouraging reductlon of perhaps 50% Inpthe numbers and coat of iellef In drought areas In 'Saskatchewan, the total number of those being aldéd through unemployment rellel funds In Canada, as wlntefsets In, ls somewhere In tha neighbourhood of 1.100.000 nien. women and chlld- ren. at a monthly outlay exceedlnc $6,500,000, wIth the llfllbablllty that numbers and costs wIll have moved rapldly upward 10% t0 15% ‘by the mldille of March. Even such a movement, however, would stlll leave the total about 100.000 below the 100d In March 1085. which In turn was better by ii.l- most 200,000.thln March I033. We are lioldlxi: omflown, and making a llttle hendwly- .

Even If subctantlal employment projects be developed. the tlme In- vowed In lniplementlng them. and the seasonal hsndtclpa of our Oiinedlnn winter, make It unllkely that any substantial Impact on re-

and unemployment has not lost but Incre Ioueness In the past twelve months. The wider Introduction of cash re- llef In many centres, without prlor

Inga. thelr bcckgro, needs and their posslbllltles, must now be the startlng point for any constructlve programme to brlng us out 0f thls decdenlng accept- anoe of idleness and relief u c contlnulng problem.