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President. Menu-Col. W. Clone: S. Mel-In Vice President. J. l. Burnett. lJ-l. learner). Liana-Col. D A Iaelinnon. 0.8.0. ldlier mu Managing Director. J. B. Burnett, IJJ.

' Aauoclilie udiinr. Frank Walla- SUBSCMIPTION RATES ' $5M per yea: tin advance; delivered to City. 84-00 oer year (In mum-u mailed to I. I. uiand $0.00 mr year (in advance) milieu to Canada and IJJ. Members Audit i ol Circulation: “The Strongest Memory is Weaker than the Wen/rcpt lr_ik_.':_

MONDAY, JANUARY. 30, 1939.

Tonight's Convention

preparedness is a good thing in politics as well as in itational defense. The King's and Queen's County Conservatives have their fed- eral candidates nominated and ready at any time t0 take the field, and this evening Con- servative delegates for the Fifth District 0f Queens will meet in the Board Room of the tQity Building for the purpose of nominating their candidates for the next provincial elec- toral contest. \\'hile only the delegates have votes, the meeting is open to the public and after the ilotninations addresses will be given by provincial and federal candidates on political issties of the day.

'l‘here is no knowing whether the Campbell Government will take the plunge this year, or hang on for another session. In any event, the (Ionservatires of Charlottetown and Royalty are taking no chances. 'l‘heir convention will likely be followed by other districts in the near future.

There is no question as to the unpopularity into which the present Liberal regime has fallen as a result of their broken election pledges and (lictatorial procedure. By organizing well in ad- vance of the contest the Conservatives are mak- ing doubly sure of such a. victory at the polls as will mean a return once more to democratic, responsible government.

Dollars To The Rich

‘inc Financial Post, an independent news- paper, is authority for the statement that prob- ably 20 per cent of the federal wheat bonus was paid this year to farmers with excellent crops averaging over 3o bushels to the acre. It char- acterizes the payment of this money to these people as “a public waste.”

1t cites, as a characteristic example, the case of two Americans, brothers, who had a large holding of excellent land in Southern Alberta. From 500 acres seeded to wheat these two men harvested 20,000 bushels, averaging close to 40 bushels to the acre. Like all other western wheat growers this year their crop was turned over to the Government wheat board at the Government minimum price of 80 cents per bushel. This price was approximately 2o cents a bushel above the open market, giving the brothers a tidy bonus or handout of about $4,000.

The Post points out that with their large scale operations and big crop these two brothers should be able to break even at 50 cents per bushel; they should make money at 60 cents.

“The 20 cent bonus," it charges, “was sim- ply a wasteful handout to men who, it is re- ported, come up from California every spring, take off a crop and go back in the fall. They hire practically no help, using power driven machinery and harvesting with a combine. There are no real buildings on their land, the brothers simply camp out or “batch” it in a granary and trailer. Aside from machinery and the original land about all these two buy in Canada would be a couple of pairs of overalls each summer, a grub stake and gas." '

The wheat subsidy will cost Canadian tax- payers between $50,000,000 and $65,000,000 this year. "At least a fifth of this or $10,000,- ooo to $3,000,000, is being handed out to peo- ple who don’t need it."

Here is a matter that calls for investigation, and a very prompt and thorough one. Our far- mers in this Province will recall that last year they applied, through the local government, for federal assistance to purchase seed grain, and were told that they were capable of financing themselves. The refusal to grant their modest request was given in Parliament. coincident with an announcement by Finance lllinister Dunning that Saskatchewan and Alberta farmers were getting some $16,000,000 for similar purposes. , This in addition to the subsequent action of the King’ Government in pcgging western wheat prices at 80 cents. .

It is to be honed that our Maritime repre- sentatives will insist on demanding a showdown on this question of wheat bonnsinq at the pre- sent session of Parliament. lf the Post's charves are correct, “public waste" is a mild term for the racketeering that has been going on at the expense of our own hard-working farmers whose taxes g0 to foot the bill.

Nothern Colonization

1'he most ambitious colonization scheme. for Canada that has been heard of for some years is that; proposed by judge John McKay of Fort

It is also suggested that Canada should accept u settlers a large number of refugees from Ger- mag and Czecho-Slovakia. "

e northern arable lands all across Canada

_ should be settled, and they -will be in time, and

will maintain a very considerable population. Whether it should be by assisted settlement, re- mains to be decided. There are arguments both for and against that policy. But new conditions

. in the world might affect the decision to some

extent.

In any case, as the Winnipeg Free Press points out, the proposal to hand over the C.N.R. line from Quebec to Prince Rupert to private capitalists would not receive public support and therefore could not be the basis of colonization work.

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I Editorial Notes J Charles I executed this date, 1649; and Field Marshal Earl Haig died, I928.

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The new election act, we are advised, will come into operation March l, but probably will not be tested in practice till September.

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A good few have passed to their reward since Mr. Lloyd George ran an election with the cry "Hang the Kaiser". His Imperial Highness is still very much alive and kicking in his exiled home in Holland. Similarly quite a number have joined the ranks of the poor and needy since Mr. Mackenzie King ran his election to “End Unemployment.”

I i l Something more must really be done for the poor and unemployed in our midst; why not have a meeting of clergy and social workers, such as the public service nurses, and let them reveal active conditions as they know them. That ap- pears to be the first step to rousing public op- inion in the matter.

it u- l- tr Miss Agnes McPhail does not believe the Am- erican Trade Treaty worth a rap, and is of the opinion if farmers are to be benefitted it tnust be by marketing regulation, (such as the Ben- nett Government passed but which was sub- sequently, under the King Government, declared ultra vires), providing authority for the ma- jority to bring others into line to regulate pro- duction and obtain better prices. ' x i- a at

The grocery trade has been heartened by the fine business during the week or two prior to Christmas and week between Christmas and New Year's, says Canadian Grocer. There are reports of some of the larger retailers having increases in December running as high as 30 per cent. Same applies to many of the smaller ag- gressive dealers. Merchants who had set quotas for December found them exceeded by a wide margin, the increases in certain instances wiping out the decline up to that time. All of which indicates the buying urge of the general public had been pent up for some reason or other and when it did come it went off with a bang. Many holiday stocks were cleaned up several days be- fore Christmas and there was a lot of buying around among competitors. According to many grocery brokers, I939 has opened up nicely. 'l'his is easily accounted for. jobbers and retailers have been more or less starving their stocks dur- ing the past several months and now have t0 replenish some of them.

Ill 1'1- lll i! Science shows that plant growth is absolute- ly dependent upon nitrogen as well as upon other elements. Without available nitrogen in the soil, plant and animal life would cease to exist. In the 1938 Yearbook of Agriculture, “Soils and Men,” it is estimated that farm soils each year lose nearly 23,000,000 tons of nitrogen through harvested crops, grazing, erosion and leaching. Only a little more than 16,000,000 tons are given back to the soil in the form of fertilizers, man- ures, rainfall, irrigation waters and legume crops. American soils have from 2,000 to I6,- ooo pounds of nitrogen per acre do\vn to a depth of 40 inches-in areas studied by depart- ment scientists. It is estimated that the air above an acre of soil, however, contains from 145,000 to t5o,oo0 tons of free nitrogen, al- though it must follow what is known as the nitrogen cycle before becoming available t0 plants and animals.

n n- v For the first time since the Liberal Govern- ment's advent to office. it has applied the Cus- toms Act provisions which empower the Rev- enue Minister to fix value for duty purposes to imports of manufactured commodities. Textile articles of cotton and artificial silk were those to which the ministerial decree has been made applicable. A department bulletin announced that bedspreads and counterparies of artifical silk and cottons will henceforth be valued at 32 cents a pound. Towels and accessories and woven fabric terry cloth will henceforth be valued from 34 to 6o cents a pound, according‘ to the character of the pro- duct. Other values fixed by the Minister for duty purposes are bath mats and seat covers, 64 to 80 cents, and terry woven fabrics, 3o to 55 cents. The valuation is at Canadian funds, f.0.b. point of production, and it applies to goods not entitled to entry under the British prefer- ence. However, the provisions of the Can- ada-United States trade agreement are not af- fected by the new arrangement.

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non: in uomeltlo ‘service in En;- limu and the Netherlands. - Chuthum Newt.

Bu: and truck driven will be required to produce medical eer- tificates to show they are physical-

fit, with particular reference to vision and hearing. About 5,000 are affected by thin Alberta r - tlon. Strangely enblllll. driven of private passenger can are not re- quired to prove they are physically ht to operate n car in traffic. al- though they far out-number hue and truck drivers. — Edmonton Journal.

Old Allee Billy, a conic c‘ British Columbia squaw, predicts that this year nations will gather and smoke the pipe of peace, "but there will be treachery 1n their hearts." Old Alice apparently be- lieves that. history repeats itself- ID101181189-

The leeret h out. The vogue for men's napkins, the size of s. postage stamp, which have superseded the good old-fash- ioned bed-sheet variety, was ln- splred, I'm told, by the dry clean- ers. —Scanlan in Buffalo News.

The mayor-elect o! Pawn-nan on the road to North Bay ls 33 year old and he based his campaign on the claim he intends to get more of the tourist traffic to stop in his town. People go throng/h there on the way to see the qulnt-s, but perhaps they might be induced to stop over and have a look at a 23- year-old mayor. — Peterborouzh Examiner

If the historian of the future has criticisms to make of the policy of the British and French Govern- ments ln 1938, they will relate not so much to what was done by Lon- don and Paris in September as to what. they clld not do earlier in the year. The indictment will lle not against the methods adopted to get out. of the dangerous situation that arose in September so much as against the inertia that. allowed such a situation to develop. It was proved in Qeptember that, when it came to the point Britain and France were not. pre red to fight to preserve the lnv olablllty of Czechoslovakian frontiers. That being so, true statesmanahip would have dlscemed lt in May. or even earlier. Looking back, with all the admitted advantages of hindsight, we can clearly see that. Britain and France, on May 22nd at. the latest. should either have warned Germany that. they would fight. or have warned Czechoslovakia that they would not. fight. The world was dragged to the precl- plce because they dld neither. The fault. lles with the incurable predilection of British statesmen for the policy of stalling for time ln the hope that. problems will solve themselves. And 1t is hardly reassuring to reflect that precisely this is the avowed policy of the British Government at. the mo- ment. -From the Economist.

William Foran was more than the Secretary of the Clvll Service Com- mission. In many respects, and ln much of the public mind. he was the Commission Foran stood by

the Commission's cradle, watched it. grow through forty years,

championed lt and fought for it against all comers, knew more about it and its aims and work than anybody else, took more abuse and criticism for it than all its members put together. Once a parliamentary committee, or some- body concerned wlth a parliamen- tary committee, advised Fox-an to confine himself to “the duties

of a. Secretary." The advice was about as sensible-end as effec- tlve- as KIXII Canuteb efforts

with the waves. Foran had forgot- ten more about. the Commission than any parliamentary committee could ever learn, perhaps forgotten more about it man any Clvll Ser- vice Commissioner could learn. And the Commissioners knew lt. Knew that For-an could no‘ more be a mere Secretary of the commission than the skipper of a ship could be a. cabin boy. Last week William Foran cleaned of! his desk for the last. time, called 1t a civil service day. It. was a day which took in 40 years as the Commission's chief of staff, 50 years of unbroken work as a clvll servant. Few men in the Canadian or any other civil service anywhere can look back on a prouder record. Or to u more honorable one. As Ibran, still with a song in his heart, goes to his Indian Simmer, the legion of Canadians who know him not only as a civil pervant but. as a king of lacrosse, of hockey, of football and athletics in general will wish him well. He deserves much of Canada; has earned richly o. rest. -0ttawa. Journal.

Nineteen hundred and thirty- elght. was such a big year for the Germans that it ts not surprising that; their-language grows n. little flowery when they try to summar- ze it. Marshal Goerlng says that. lt "sticks out. above the centuries llike a granite obelisk. and over- shadows all events in German lhlsfoiy like a gigantic oak tree.” Non-Germans may be inclined to feel that it sticks out like n sore thumb, and that lf ft is an oak it is of fate poisonous variety; but allowance must be made for point of view. Meanwhile Baldur von |Schfrach, leader of the Hitler Youth, has adned all youni Ger- mans to "emulate the Fuehrer in their private lives." Hitler, ll everybody knows, neither moles

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MOST SKIN DISEASE CAN Bl CUB-ID

Like many other physicians I larva repeetedltlfigtolvdhetoi-y about; e skln spec a_ o oklpg made the statement that. he had chosen to be u skln specialist be- cause his patients never got him up at night, never died. and never got well. The idea of repeating the story was to show that skln all- menta were often difficult to cure and required much patience from

repeating of this joke has really done harm ts stated by Prof. Carroll S. Wright. Temple Unl- verslty, Philadelphia, as guest. ecu. tor ln Medical World.

“I have actually, on numerous occasions, had patients inform me that. they understood that skln diseases, for the most part, are incurable, and a physician once told me that. he had no interest in treating patients with skip diso- ases when even a skln specialist admitted that. ‘they well’. ‘

It can be understood then why patients with skln ailments will often neglect to undergo freak, ment lf they believe lf. to be lust a waste of time and money.

In answer to this old joke, Dr. Wright. states that as a matter of fact. he has been roused from bed by skln patients with severe pain, and hasseen patients dle “ f ailments. and fortunately the great majority of skln ailments ‘are entirely curable or can be greatly benefited by perslslgnt medical efforts."

The ten most common skln all- ments ln a series of nearly one million cases, ln the order they occur, appear to be eczema, acne (pimples), scabies (itch), psoriasis (white patches of silvery scales), seborrhea (dandruff). urticaria (hives), dermatitis venenata (in- flammation due to touching aub- stances of a ‘" ' 1, vegetable, or animal nature), and verrucu (warts). Figures from the private practice of Dr. Joy F. Schamberg and Dr. Wright show ringworm fa be as comm as eczema. _ Dr. Wright. points out that the above diseases can be helped by treatment although the disease may return because the cause f4 not. and perhaps cannot be en- tirely removed.

In order, then, that. patients and physicians will get. arway from the ldee- that skln diseases cannot. be cured. Dr. Wright says, "It is mv belief that the results of treat;- ment in skln diseases are at least euual. lf not superior. to the” achieved in other specialties."

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When Britain ls At War

(Sydney Post-Record: - One o! the moot. amazing emu;- ments yet heard ln the Dominion Parliament. was Senator Dendiur. B-nffs armament um Canada, 1;; unable to cooperate with Greet §.'li."'lh2.‘.’l‘.“.l§“ts°‘wl“°‘°“‘°' lie;

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side this Domlntcn mlgth-l; stand ln event of another great war, Senator Dandurand is the Gov. eminent leader in the Uboer House, 8nd as the matter u er discus- sion related directly to nations] Dpllcy 01 prlmeldlrlpportanee, he m“ o eours spea, Admlnlsfratlon. (gthfgdwlbheehlsma? fgundlné‘ remark mltrhit be dismiss- e as e tf “perf- flcfal thinks-ling: fill: ltijalla-mgrk of In irresponsible mind.

But. nct. only is Senator Dan- durand a member of the Federal Calainet and tlhe Government lead- er in the Senate. He was Can- ghas rBDresento/t-lve at can“;

en the last. meetlnaz of the A‘. semblv of the Lemme of Notions

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the lfldehellgehhanlllfindaorensufii‘ Star on Senator Dendurand‘; mm. ous philosophy with respect to m. Dqrlal relatlcns and obligations:

I! the Klnu Gcvemment dces not know with whom this country m-lzttt be allied in the event of war —as Senator Dandurand suggest“. then it miltht be lntereetlnu to have it consult the public on this WW DOInt. Wm- fs the l the peace-loving peop want. but the same peace-loving people know where they stand and What they wont when it wmeg m defence of the British Common. wealth of Natlorts-Jedtlch f; us: gpottclégigdtxpv gfirsaylgz t-tlltalndefeme so far u defense is concerned. cannot be separated from the in- beravta of all the empire." .

Britain: enemrles are Canada's .."i‘-3-?.‘°2...“’l‘3..“°..l£€"l’ll2f..“‘l. ‘$3’ ofihrr Aa ml

0B ry- Sir Laurie:- onee reminded Parliament. when Britain is at war. Canada, fa newer. and this fa a necessary condition cf our membership in me IRIMN. But Canada's place 1n m; next war lnvolvfnz Britain will mt depend on constitutional doc- trines. Parliamentary resolutions, or the policy of any Dominion Government may contain key Ministers of Mr. Danduruid’:

home aiuinat the vandals is felloltous counter - prllpaqlndg g9 the wanton tales of her dalllance with the Mummon of Unrlzhteoue-

patient and physician. That. the tum“? l‘ mumlfm"

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music. Science . but‘ it cannot displace it. The reputation of Paderewekl ta not endangered- neither ls the reputation of Sir James Jeans. ,

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FROM “IRRADIATIONS" i

The moi-rung is clean and bl d the wind blow-s up the giiitiiiis; Nvw thoughts gathered from

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th rugby gIUIIllHGS and alflnuiiitr: ed swords, Move out to war.

8m our morning pipes we dull rl_ two and two

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For our old cause lKCCDs ua together And our hatred is so venous not. death nor defeat can break in.

60d willing, we will this day meet that one enemy

Whom lvenusaomanyagood

‘Ihank “Clllod we‘ have e. cause worth

8 01‘. Arid a. cause worth losing and n 800d 50118 to sing.

—~Iol1n Gould Fletcher.

Decullam‘ type. 1t will be determ- ined by the will of the people of Canada. d there need never be any dues on as to-how lt will be glm y‘ out.’ of lgalmilvidiiir“ “d mi‘

. u bu c 5m fluent. ln this great. British Dmnlnlon. If he has spoken in this case with the sarwllon and ap- proval of his oolleaaues. the King Government has yet to learn the temper of tihe beonle it affects to represent.

Kidney Acids Bob Your Rest

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