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' An Island Authoress

The late Mrs. Elizabeth MacLcod will be remembered’ by our older citizens as a frequent contributor to the press and periodicals in days gone by, and as a very talented writer both in prose and verse, She achieved a notable success in her patriotic poems during the Boer War, her love of country being indeed the inspiration of all her work. 'l‘hose privileged to know Mrs. MacLcod personally were aware of something finer in her character than anything that found expression evcn in her poctry,——a life-lon de- votion to the highest Christian ideals, com ined with a charm and grace of manner which won her friends as well as admirers in all classes of society. She lived far beyond the biblical span. and retained until the end her keen zest for life, her interest in public affairs, her affection for simple and homely things and people, and a deep and abiding faith in the verifies of re- ligion. She is of that immortal choir whose voice will reach us still across the Great Divide, an inspiration, if we read her rightly, to that kind of achievement which concerns itself not with this world's goods. but with “the things that are more excellent."

The New. Trade Treaty

The Canadian Unionist offers the following comments with regard to the new Canada-U. S. trade treaty:

The old assumption that free trade or freer trade would automatically cure all sorts of econ- omic ills no longer holds water. The United States is now usually producing an oversupply in relation to effective demand of many of com- modities on which the tariff has been reduced. Thus. increases of Canadian exports to the Unit- ed States, as a result of the tariff changes, will depend largely on the occurrence of the some- what rare occasions when demand exceeds domes- tic supply. Moreover, trade today flows in ivell-organized channels, and the domestic trader is now consciously concerned to protect his home source of supply and to resist the invasion of independent jobbcrs interested mainly in taking advantage of lower external prices.

In some circles, more emphasis has been laid on the political aspects of these treaties than upon their economic consequences. It is argued that they will strengthen the political relations of the Iinglish-sticakiiig countries, something highly desirable in view of the threat to democracies presented by the rising power of the totalitarian states. But reducing tariffs does not change the coulnctitive nature of trade; it rather in- CFLIlSQS the impacts of foreign competition upon domestic markets and makes them more disturb- ing. The Great War might have been expect- ed to release the workers 'from the enchant- nicnt of the idea that commercial rivalry makes for peace.

.v\gain, it is an illusion that free or freer trade necessarily stimulates business. Other- wise, how can one explain the fact that, in the United States, the largest free trade area in the world, business is now more depressed than in practically any other country?

The problem of promoting the economic ex- pansion of Canada-and providing full employ- ment—will not be solved, it is suggested, by in- creasing foreign markets, but only through such domestic reconstruction as will enlarge the home markct through a better and bigger distribution of purchasing power among the masses.

Mr. King Responsible

rIowevcr strong Canadians may be fut na- tional unity, says the Edmonton journal, they are tinlilcely to forget that Mr. King's own Lib- eral Govcrnmeut at Ottawa must accept its full share of responsibility for perpetuation of con ditions that give rise to discontent and hence to agitations that shake national unity. There is just a suspicion in some (niartcrs that the re- cciit attack by two Federal ministers on hlessrs. l-Icpburn and Diiplcssis, justified though it

mmight be, was made in order to divert attention

from some of the Federal Government's own shortcomings. _ The most ardent supporters of Mr. King's ldministration would not be likely to choose its handling of the problem of unemployment as a thcme on which to base a song of praise. On the night of October f4, I935, when it became evident the Liberal party hadswcpt the country, ‘Mr. King exclaimed: “The people share the view. which the Liberal party has all along maintain- ed, that itncmployment is Canada's most urgent national problem." The election result he re- garded as endorsation of “the Liberal proposal to deal with this question by means of a repres- entative national commission and by policies which will serve to revive industry and trade." ‘Unemployment was Canada's most urgent problem in i935; it still is. The national coni- mission that Mr. King promised turned out to be a pommission of inquiry only, with no power to act. Its final report and recommendations have been in the hands of the government for '11 months. Many of the work-creating projects included in it were detailed in an interim rc- port presented i8 months ago. ' i The hub of the National Employment Com- mission's ~ rccommenclatipns-the appoin I infill Mmlnistralive committee to t the re- atlmui. into effect-mill is iaregarded, ,; iii-gifts of the promise linplled in Mr. auwn words hat e .... benetup.

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either national prosperity or international peace almost impossible.”

throughout the province who deeply mourn her

Provincial Government's picnic season has aus- piciously commenced. I-Ion. j has gone to Ottawa—for a forthnight, the Gov- ernment organ announces-and he has now been joined there by lhc Hon. Mr. Dennis, Minister of Agriculture.

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Dr. Butler's Reminder

Worth-reading in conjunction with President Roosevelt's warning to trouble-niaking dictators is an address recently delivered by Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, President of Columbia Univers- ity, on the responsibility of the United States for the present grave situation facing dem- ocracies. Dr. Butler recalls that a change of nine votes in the U. S. Senate when the Treaty of Versailles was under consideration would have ratified that Treaty on the part of the American Government. There was a large nia- jority for ratification, but not the two-thirds vote required by the Constitution. Had ratifica- tion taken place, the means would then have been provided for the peaceful and orderly solution, under American influence, of those problems which have just now led once more to rule by force and threat of force instead of by reason- able conference and consultation.

“If the two American political parties, parti- cularly that one which was successful in the pre- sidential election of 1920, had remained true to their pledges given to the American people," says Dr. Butler, “this world would have been a different place. The Republican national plat- form of I920 clearly and definitely committed that party to agreement among the nations to preserve the peace of the world, and without the powerful address in support of that policy which President Harding delivered at Marion, Ohio, on August 28, i920, he could not have been chosen President of the United States. It is for the American people to reflect upon their own very large share of responsibility for what has happened throughout the world to make

J‘ Editorial N0les— I Edmund Spenser, author of the Faerie Queeric, died this date, i599.

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The Bren Gun Commission report in a nut- shell is: The Department of National Defence bought a pig in a poke. but made adctjtiate pro- vision for its SUDSCQUilII inspection.

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Our readers will join with us in extending sympathy to Mr. j. j. Enmari, Editor of the Summerside Journal, and his daughter Nora in their sudden and tragic bereavement. The late Mrs. Enman had a host of relatives and friends in the City as well as in Summerside and

unexpected passing from our midst. I I U I The Christmas holidays being now over the

P. MacIntyre

It must be great to be among the great at the great ceremonies connected with the great opening of the great Parliament of Canada the great. v u: a- In a recent broadcast Hon. C. A. Dunning was sufficiently recovered from his illness to describe the principal features of the Finance Department over which he presides. He describ-

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we?‘ seems by for their but course. - The Bphlhx. Carlo.

Strike of French seamen, which

other vessels at Le Bavre, hes been a boon to the Cunard-White Star andmther Brltlah ahlpfillng lines gllfithflll/O lbéen ea n3 regular capec pmaenger lists. Well, where would one ex- fiecl; lll wlxide to blow nobody good

not. on the lolly old ocean? - Wlhdsoi- Dally Star.

Enter l: n deeply rooted ln Brltlah hlstory and tradition as London itself. As Caer Isce of the tribes, lt was a British stronghold before ever the Romans came. British, Roman, Saxon or Nomnin, ft has been forever Elngland. It was the men of Devon who swar- med out of their water warrens to overwhelm the Invlnclbles Armada

sailing u past The Lizard. The

mouth o the Exe still remains

Eaigland’: last. ditch. —New York es.

The people of Canada must. be

very close to having achieved the world's record in the passing of resolutions. They have passed scores upon scores on the export of nickel and war materials, on boycotts of countries such as Ja- pan and Germany, of protest against. actions which are not. favored by certain sections of the community. It. has become s pop- ular pastime to pass n. resolution, and there the matters rests. - Vlctorla Colonist. It ls not lo be forgotten that. the development. of the social services, as measured by expenditure, has tn recent years been very rapid. tn the last. ftve years Budget. ex- ndlture alone on health, hous- g pensions, unemployment and education has increased by >30,- 000,000, and now stands at f 31,- 000,000. Unless and untll a. half. can be called to the expansion of our armaments blll lt. will be impos- sible ho keep up a. pace of increase such as this-London Teleflfauh- Post.

Under the direction of Slr Jamel Woods, president of the Gordon MscKe Company, a club has been establl ed ln Toronto for the pur- pose for flndlng employment for men who are between 40 and 5n years of use. The group will enroll men between those 88¢ llmlwmfld according as employment. ls found for them, new members will be taken in. The charter members will be provided for first. Blr James, who ts now 84 and stlll active in business, ls of belief that men bebween 40 and 50 yeam 0f age are useful-more useful ln certain Jobs than youns men- Y“ they are finding lt. almost impos- sible to secure employment. The members of the club must all be physically flt. and the oblect. ls to secure posts for them to which they are adapted. Industry has been harshly. 5nd Wmeldm“ ‘m’ mlrly, accused of discarding mot! mu in me pi-lme of llfe, to bake on young men. in ls encouragmtl to tlncl therefore that. one of the best. known DllSlllflifi ieauers in Canada is enqeavormg to remedy

ed preparation of estimates by departments of

paring clown until they rim the gatintlet of Par- liament and final disbursement of money under rigid watch of the Comptroller of the Treasury. Three channels were open for raising revenue,

taxation, borrowing, and manipulating the cur-

rency, but in all cases the final result was that the money came from the poclcets of the people. By borrowing, the burden might be postponed and by currency manipulation it might be con-

cealed -- “in each case with certain other consequences I cannot here discuss," Mr. Dunning said. “It is unfortunate these things are true. If Finance ,Ministers were

magicians, they might be more popular." ‘ It is

the Prime Minister, usually, who essays to play

the part of magician, especially at election times. it 1 4- w '

Hon. Mr. Cahan has no enthusiastic sup- porters in Hon. G. D. Conant, attorney-General of Ontario in his proposal to abandon appeal to the Privy Council as the last court of resort. Speaking in Osgoodc Hall at a ceremony in which Hon. R. S_ Robertson, recently appointed Chief justice in Ontario, and Mt. justice C. P. Mc- Taguc, promoted from the High Court of jus- tice to the Ontario Court of Appeal, officially were welcomed to the court, Mr. Conant said: “Whether the right of appeal (to the Privy Council) is continued in all respects as at pres- ent or not, and with the greatest respect for this and all other Canadian courts, I incline to the view that in matters and cases involving coli- stitulional questions, particularly in issues be- tween the Dominion and a province or between provinces. the right of appeal should be coii- tinued. Perhaps I am partly influenced by senti- ment in this view, but there is in addition, in my humble opinion, a very distinct advantage in having such matters finally adjudicated by a tri- burial entirely detached and removed from local considerations and local atmosphere."

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An important factor in all great business successes is a shrewd sense of publicity values. A striking illustration of this is afforded by the career of the late Hon. Peter Larkin, former High, Coniniisiouer for Canada in London, and the huge business he built up iii Salada tea. Starting in i892 with first hand experience of the tea situation. Mr. Larkin devoted. himself to producing a high quality, standard commod- ity with adequate newspapcr publicity. He had the enthusiasm which sees no obstacle as in- surmountable and he lived to see his business grow to be the largest of its kind in North America. The firm is one of the largest news- paper advertisers on the continent, flflddillt benefits it derives from this publicity have been acknowledged on a great many occasions. It has three large factories, in Toronto, Montreal and Boston, the building in Boston beingone of the “points of interEst" in that cityand housihg

e veritable museum of Orieritll objects of e .'

This la anotlierintei-esting feature of ‘ tarp-the attention given togcultural 4m! ‘lnmeury to developing ng to the demand for.

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the money they will require each year, the final~

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an unfortunate situation. Bu‘ Jfimfls has spent 44 yell" m W5‘ uness since nu W88 ‘M! Yea“ 9'5- anu none wno knows nlm Wlll sud- gesi. uiat. ne‘ has been other I-mm an asset. to commercial ilfe during mess timer rem- It B 110'- 5w" Iprismg in me light ofhls own ex- l penance, that". he should believe wnar. men Dc-LWOEII 40 and 50 are wornhy of their iilre. ‘were is no reason why sucn a movement. snoula lack success. It. ls fonun- aie in its sponsor. No man in bus- iness ls more respected and posesses more lmiuence among commercial leaders than does Bu‘ James wooos. To the extent; that. his plan succeeds. ne will desfllw me uianks of older men stlil will- lng and anxious to work. Anct the scheme should succeed, Sir James is trunking ot a similar club for youths. At. be he ls still man- ning ways and means of betterin8 the lOl. 0f his feuowmen-Wixiosor star.

When lgonirlvfltoh llelkclgmggn reaches us am - wealth Parliament should be ln . session. If ne attends, as he CORDLESS’ wlll. as he ts DESI-m- anly going to the Antlpoues to learn uu he can, he will rind this ls a special session of the A115- trallan Parliament called to for- mulate amendments to the cou- stttutlon. Australia has dlscover- ed, as has Canada that. the con- stitution is not. a 1939 model. There ls continual strife over the ques- tion of authority bsbwesn the Fed- eral and the State Bovernments. At the fall session of Parliament the Opposition leaxl. Mr. Bculllon. suggested a special session to con- sluer revlslon of the wnstllulillm- The Govemmsnt. accepted the suggestion and ft. ts proposed to "draft amendments wldenliig the ‘power of the Federal Parliament m meet. changing social and ec- onomic conditions. They will llke- ly be submitted to the electors Ln the form ofai-efarendum —a fav- Ofll-B Australian method. The Can- udlan Liberal Monthly. nwblllhsd by the Ottawa Ubernls. obwbly fivtth a vlow.t.o trylni to 0W Ml‘- nepburn the ll ht, draws attention to the oonstlfutlotinl difficulties of Australia very atmllar to Can- gdafs, and quotes with evident ap- provnl the speeches of Mr. Bculhn and Attorney-General Menzies

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Pillars“. nll-JIBUDS OF HELP- ING CHRONIC ARTHRITIS PATIENTS

In all cases of arthritis or rheumatism. the first thoulhf. l5 to try to flnd the cause. Even when the cause ls found and re- moved, so much poison ‘still xe- malns 1n the system and so much damage has already been done to the joints and muscles that treat- ment of some kind may be neces- sary for months or years to pre- vent permanent stiffness and

pain. As Uhe treaunent. of these chronlc cases of rheumatism may be so lolonged- and physicians do not e using palnkllllng or quletlniz drugs over very long periods, other methods of treatment. are now flndlng favor. Among the methods ls electrlclty, which ln trained. skilled hands has proven very helpful. As there are so many cas- es suffering with chronic arthrltls, I believe it would be of help to re- peat the suggestions of pllysiflfll. not. medical, methods of treailng chronic arthritis as outlined by Dl‘. Robert. T. Phlllips, Boston, some months ago ln the New Eng- land Journal of Medicine. Dr. Phillips points out that these patients, aft their many weeks or months- o illness. are really very tired physically and mentally and that rest ls an lmportantpart of the treatment. One method of resting suggested ls lying down for an hour after meals. Two positions may be taken during this hour. For the first thirty minutes the patient lies on his back, a pillow under his lower back and knees, but. none under the head, the arms outstretched, and the hands rals- ed to the head for the purpose of improving the cuictilewn l" "e abdomen. For the second thirty minutes he lvllfha face KA.\|AA' W,- ported by a pillow placed cross- wise under the abdomen. This sends the blood in the reverse direction further helping the circ- ulation ln abdomen. . In r ard to exercise. Dr. Phillips states that. the patient. must. work his joints to prevent; them from becoming stiff. The bending and sbixhgiltctiliig of the joints thus preventing stiffness and hardness ~' "w: and tendons can be done lying, alt.- tlnz, standing hi... l... Heat, another blg factor in help- lng arthrltlcs ls given by applying hot water cloths. Wool ls the best material to use. Heat in lJlLlS or other form should be applied twice a day. Massage, properly applied (toward the heart) ls also of great. benefit. The thought then is that chronic cases of arthritis should not be allowed to become bed or chair- rldden but should use some of these ‘physical’ methods which are so helpful ln keeping them free of stiffness and pain.

. PUBLIC FORUM

Thll column ll open for the dllnuufun by . rrespnndenfs of question: of lnterelt. The Char- lottetown Guurdlnn dloerr not na- oenai-lly nntlllrso llu- nnllilonn or nnrreennmlentn-

... ' ll. _____ NOT A ROSY PICTURE

Slr,—The majority of us CltlZEllS of the North American Canttnent. have been prone to boast ln the past that. we could always do any- thing bigger and better than any- one else.

The Canadian Press (Ottawa) news report, relevant to $900,600.- 000 for relief. which appeared ln the Guardian (Jan. 5th) under

council Deolrres Continued Lac! Of Intelligent Planning," streng- thens, somewhat, the aforestated

prbenslon.

$900,000,000 ln nlne years! Something like $190 per minute.

The lcture ls not rosy. But when l ts considered that the price system ls supposed to be

erpetual, one ls rather inspired o wonder what. man's situation wtll ba with the passing of a few more half-centuries?

Reading further lnto this news dispatch: "All ln all, a weary country and a disillusioned people have been ln a mood of drift, but. there appears to be s. growing realization that the situation can- not continue; that the attack must

basic, . . . ."

Why cannot the situation con- tinue? Hopes, desires. preferences. resolutions. philosophies. super- stitions. the opinions of men are not likely to be measiireubly effec- t've toward the creation of change. While such pastimes may have a. distinct entertainment value, none of them can be said to

determining factors tn a technolcgfcal high-energy state. Again: whv cannot the situation continue? The discontinuance of the prloe system isn't. generally anticipated, or ls it?