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SATURDAY, MAY ‘l. 1938

Action Wanted, Not Alibi:

With some 524 families, comprising 2,246 persons, subsisting 0n direct relief in Char- lottetown, and the City Council urging the dire need of federal assistance in meeting what threatens to be an unprecedented situation of distress and tmemploymetit, the time, surely, is inopporttitu- for the local Liberal organ to boast of what the Mackenzie King Government has been doing for the unemployed. Its editorial excuses yesterday added insult to injury.

Speaking only a few weeks ago in the Provin- cial Ltflfflsltllllft‘, llon. j. P. McIntyre, Minister of Public \\'orks, declared:

“We are not getting our just rights, in direct relief or in many other ways, We should be get- ting something in the wny of a guarantee for seed grain as compared with the Western Pro- vinces. We find that Saskatchewan is getting $14,500,000 and we are just as badly off, prac- tically, in Prince Edward Island at the present time as they are in some parts of Saskatchewan and Alberta."

IVIr. Nlclntyre asked his colleagues to think of what this Province has been getting in direct relief urcr a period of three years. “Only 85 or 90 cents pt-r capita, and New Brunswick get- ting $3.10, Nova Scotia $2.50 and Ontario and Quebec getting c700. just imagine a rich pro- vince getting seven dollars per head for relief while we arc only getting eight-five or ninety cents!"

“Shame.” cricd some of the members.

Mr. McIntyre: “Yes, I say it is a shame; and you can go to the Western Provinces and find them getting up to $8.50 per capita on direct relief; and Prince Edward Island, that is isolat- ed, getting only ninety cents. I ray we are not getting our just amount of subsidy, our just amount of rrlirf, or anything, and I say if is time that the profile of this Province woke up and detumulcd that they get from the Dominion their just share.”

That is precisely what our people are now doing. And our contemporary takes this oppor- tunity to come forward with the excuse that the Liberals “never promised to end unemploy- ment”; that "they have kept their promise to fully investigate the problem and take measures to alleviate conditions," and that the figures show “that they are succeeding although the progress may not be as rapid as all would desire."

It is not necessary to go outside the columns of the Liberal organ to disprove these state- ments. What was the promise it held out to the labouring classes of this city in October, 1935. when the Dominion election campaign was on? “Jobs or Dolc——\\/hich?" "Vote Liberal and Get Back from the Poorhottse." “Tory policies cannot IZND unemployment: Vote Liberal for a return of Prosperity." The number of unem- ployed at that time (less in Charlottetown than it is today) was “a terrible indictment of Tory policy for the unemployed." (PatriopOct. 2. 193.5% _

Prctnicr Catnpbcll himself is thus reported by our contctnporzlry, Uct. 3, I935: “The attitude of the two parties with regard to unemployment was tht-n discussed. tllr. King presents a prac- tical soluliott of Ilia problem, and will have If deal! with by a thoroughly representative com- mission or couuuillcc, a! uthich the employer and the employers and zorimir organisations will be rcprcrctilczl. The zttlvztiltagc of having a Lib- eral govcrtimt-ttt returned is quite evident from the fact llmt I\lr_ Kittg would have the sytnpa- tltrlic co-twpcrolioit of cit/h! of the nine prov-l inccs."

Page Ilon. Mr. McIntyre for the answer today‘.

Again. we find llon. ll. W. LePage declar- ing: “Tiltis depression is man made. not God made. I! i: up In lmlh Federal and Provincial (Iownnttrzim Io sac that the people have cnoitgilt." (Patriot. July 6, l935l.

And zt-gmiit: “ ‘Jl/‘frrsxforis rttcrc rtevcr ltcnrd of iouhw u LlllF/‘tll (inwrrurtcrtlf declared Mr. hlnrk It‘. .\lc(§1_'gtu\._ during an impassioned ten minrtc tu-httttvl at the cud of the political debate in lltt- (Yottztdiui Lcgimt hall, Mount Stewart. which cvtltusctl the large crowd.” (Patriot, July 18. 1035).

Amt w-t nqztin: "No, ladies and gentlemen. fhcrr rtiill In‘ no shirt/allot: under flu’ Libtlffll Gattcrnnzcn! if rrlttritczl f0 office on the 23rd July . . . If dirrrl relief 1's needed, direct relief ‘will be git-cu. 'I'h.r labouring people and the im- cmhlotwl luv-m.- no rouse lo ‘worry from the re- lurit of a Librral Govrruutcn! in this Prof/inert”

(Patriot, luly 2o. r935. report of speech deliv- ered in Charlottetown by Mr. St. Clfllf Trainor.)

We could go on ad nauseam, filling columns

with Liberal emplovment not only been ignored. but apparently completely forgotten by those who made them. They are all in accord with the Liberal party platform. pledging the King Government to

nuance.” Why this attempt now by ltultlfy the efforts that are

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"deal with" _uncrnnlovment and to introduw. Imflnl ml)" _ things. “a national system, of unemployment m-

the Liberal organ to being made to bring election obligations to the King Gov-i well as to the Campbell Government.

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“Glass Poisoning"

Much more frequently than it is pleasant to contemplate, there appears in the weekly notes of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals some such sentence as this: “Inspector was called to see sick animal (dog or cat) and found another case of ‘glass poisonin '." Ground glass administered in food is taste- less and easily swallowed, and its fatal results are certain. It is also one of the most diabolical methods of causing death that has ever been invented. We can only assume that civilized persons using this means of despatching un- wanted animals are totally lacking in imagina- tion. They do notrealize what slow torture they are inflicting, what hours of agony their helpless victims endure before death mercifully intervenes. If there is no law on the statute books to punish this sadistic practice, there ought to be.

There is, however, a civic by-law prohibiting dogs from, running at large, and it is the duty of the authorities to see that this law is strictly enforced. Especially at this season, when lawns and gardens are beingprepared, our citizens have a right to expect protection from the dcpredia- .tions of stray canines, who cause more damage in a few hours than can easily be repaired in weeks of back-breaking labour. Several com- plaints have been received recently on this score.

If the law was more rigidly enforced in this regard, perhaps there would be fewer cases of “glass poisoning" to be reported.

Politics In Alberta

“It would be difficult," says the Montreal Star, “to imagine any more petty action on the part of s responsible provincial administration than that of the Alberta Government in deciding to close Government House, the residence of the Lieutenant-Governor, J. C. Bowen, and dismiss his staff. While the ostensible reason is econ- omy, thcre is a widespread conviction that it plays a far less important part than retaliation for the refusal of the Lieutenant-Governor to sign three bank and newspaper control Acts of the Alberta Legislature put forward by the So- cial Credit administration, and now awaiting rc- view by the Privy Council,

“Iast Saturday the Lieutenant-Governor was notified that bis chauffeur had been dismissed and the telephone, water and light services dis- continued. He was asked to vacate the premises by Monday. He refused to do so, however, un- til an Order-in-Council, properly signed and pass- ed, had been served upon him. As he is the man vtlrho must sign it, the irony of the situation is c car.’

I Editorial Notes r

Tomorrow, Mother’s Day. at a e m Everybody seems to be getting munition or- ders these days, save and except Prince Edward Island industrialists. ll‘ IF ‘I High school children spend too much of their spare time listening to the radio and show very little discrimination in the type of program they enjoy, according to the results of a radio survey carried on in the New York city school system, made public yesterday. i l? i‘ I The St. Bernard dogs are no longer to help lost and distressed mountaineers in Switzerland. St. Bernard Monastery’s pack has been con- demned to a life in the Himalayas as the result of one of their number having killed a little girl a year ago, and were put on board a ship for their new home in Tibet on Thursday. 4- * a- a Canada, U.S.A. and Mexico are to be linked up through a large motorcade in June which will start from Prince Albert, Saslc, and end at New Mexico. Primarily the object is to promote north-south travel along the west, but accord- ing to Premier Patterson, Saskatchewan, the motorcade would strengthen the friendship ex- isting between the three nations, i! i i 1! The late Duke of Devonshire will be kindly remembered in Charlottetown. At a reception in his honour in the Confederation Chamber he told the story of his immediate predecessor in the title who, when as Lord Harrington, addressing the House of Commons as a member of the Gladstone Government, yawned in the midst of his own speech_ m w r

The C. P, R. believe that tourists, like hus- bands, are to be wooed through their stomachs and that is why this week more than t 5o news- paper men, publishers, magazine editors and automobile club executives met at the sixth an- nual "Motor to Canada" luncheon at ‘the Hotel Biltmore, New York. Canadian Pacific hotels hold the luncheon annually to stimulate inter- est in Canada as a vacation land for the Am- erican motorists. The menu included culinary specialties from many of the fourteen hotels stretching from coast to coast. The meal was prepared and served under the direction of Louis Baltera, chef de cuisine of the Chateau Fron- tenac, Quebec.

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Characteristics of the ideal parent were out- lined by Dr. Edmund E. Day, president of Cornell University, at a better parenthood week luncheon at the Ritz-Carlton hotel. A success- ful parent, he told 10o educators and writers at- tending the luncheon, arranged by Parents’ Magazine, must acquire the ability to “take it." A lively sense of humor, a sense of fairness and justice and a deep affection for children are prerequisites of parenlhood, Dr. Day declared. Parents need “Infinite patience” and asyrnpathe- tic understanding of their and they should develop in ‘honest respect for the potentialities

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dentist who gave up his profession to study archaeology and manu-

facture dental uipment, amen-ta the metal aasertedly known

to an old syrfan family tn the city of Damascus. ‘Ihelr swords bad a flexibility, hardness and (em never duplicated. Cannes t archaeology for a clue to this lost tablets in

Len 0f legend that told how a fine sword was made. A Syrian, aocmfing to this fable, went at- midnight and to the dart; oLthe moon low the eastern desert. accompanied by a giant Nubian s‘ave. The Syrian canted a sword he had forged secretly. Far opt. on the desert he szt a chamoal fire. fanned by the servant. When the color of the heated blade mrtched the orange of the rising sun the Syfan grabbed the sword from the flre and plung- ed lt through the heart. of the slave This tempering In blood. the legend avowed. gave the blade its flexibility and hardness, Carries said that, despite the utfer fantasy of the tale. he fork a “gamblers chance" and followed ‘he prcess in so far a: he ctuld. using an un- revealed “warm fluid" lnste~d of the blood. The result. he said. was a. blade that rivaled the steel of the ancient. weapon. Blades Carries produced by his secret Prmula demonstrated before steel executives and metallurglsts. Among th tests of’ the flexibility and hardness of hi: roduct are bending the blade un ‘.1 the tlp totmhes the hilt, shaving hair from his dry arm and driving a. blade through sheet steel without des- trOylng the word's edge.

A Buffalo mun, connected with a chain 01f hotels, says that the old- fashloned nightshlrt still retains a large patronage. Lt. ls thus mant- fest that many people still prefer comfort to style when ft comes to courting the sleep "that, knlts up the ravelled sleeve of care.’ — Brantford Expositor.

The British Admfnltyls having built‘. at Dartmouth a non-mag- netic 650-ton ship, which ls only the second of its kind toibe design- ed for imgnetfc survey work and which will replace the American vessel Carnegie, destroyed by an explosion off Samoa ln 1929 after t/wemy-ffve years of service ln the magnetic varfatlons. The new vessel, t/o cost 2100.000. will be gamed the Research, It l1 befn construtred by Phtlfp 8a Sun. Ltd, largely weordlng to designs of W.J Peters of the Oamegte Institution at. Washlntztmi. With the exception of a crude-oil motor. the veszel will be constructed almost entirely of non-magnteblc materials. The hull will be made of teak. with broom or other non- magnetic alloy bolts and glrdem. The anchor cables will also be of bronze, and the galley equipment. will have no steal or hen. The crew will not be allowed to carry steel penlmfves The Research will be brlgrntlne-rfgged.

Henry Ford made a two-sentence speech at a dinner of the Bureau of Advertising of the American Newpaper Publishers Assoclatfm at. the Hctel Waldorf-Astoria. “We are all on the spat." he said. "stick to your guns and I'll help you all I can with the assistance of my son." When he sat. down, the toast-master. S. E Thomason. publisher of The Chicago ‘Times. complimented him on the berse- ness of his first naeech. "And the last," answered Mr. Ford.