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THE ANSWER

ans iollowizig statement in yester- day's issue oi.’ the local Liberal or- Illsis ‘vsncedssaressonwhyths, Bennett Government should be ds-‘ lasted: _“‘Our ioreisn trade has been shot to pleas by high tariiis and other o‘ “ v measures imposed at the special session oi Parliament in And here is the answe . 3y reason oi successive tariii in- creases ,‘ ‘ at Washington dur- ingthe nine years oi the Mackenzie King regime, Canada's exports oi agricultural products and of manu- isctures thereoi were reduced irom over $113,000,000 to less than $8.000.- 000 per annum. Canada thereupon, through the Bennett Government, negotiated trade ,, semen within the Empire, with the result that our favorable trade balance with Great Britain, which was reduced to 594,000,000 in ‘the last iiscal year oi the Liberal Tfregime in Canada, increased in the iiscal year ending March 31, 1934, to $123,200,000 and enabled us to pay the annually accruing interest on our indebtednes to that country. Moreover; during the nine months oi the calendar yea.r—irom January 1 in October 1—ths rts oi Can- . jldl to all countries’ creased from $140,000,000 in 1932 to $360,000,000 in 1088, to $459,000,000 in 193s. So phenomenal has been our trade “ recovery that the Economic Council ' a! tho League oi Nations credits ; _ Canada with leading every country ’ la the world in this conncctionl

i

RUBBING IT IN

Pumled to account to its readers ior the undeniable iact that har-. ' 3 phony, unanimity and enthusiasm‘

L‘ existed at Tuesday's Conservative

Eisonvention, the Opposition organ

‘ his hit upon a brilliant explanation.‘

the ‘Tory party was present so that‘

.. i! ‘harmony and unanimity’ did not

exist the outlook would be indeed 1 7 gloomy."

‘ ‘vention at which Messrs. misses “ arid Sinclair were ' ted? The '3 bickering and squabblin which pre-l railed on that occasion was admit-l by the Liberal organ. Not even the chairman, Mr. D. J. Riley, was?

a semblance oi order and decorum. f‘ and countercn-igee were ambanged with the utmost disre- gird ior “harmony and unanimity" sad m. Mackenzie King's own! nominee, Hon. Cyrus Macmillan, who‘ had borne the party standard and‘ _ the brunt oi the fighting in the last election contest, was ousted to the indignation oi his suDWIWN- Are not Dr. Cyrus Mac ". 5611510! Sinclair, Mr. Harry Tidmarsh, the cream, the elect o! the Liberal party] and were they not present on that mam sble occasion? Or does our‘ contemporary suggest that cream" oi the Liberal party was sub- merged in baser elements, st that never - to - be - forgotten convention? This is the most iavourable inter- pretation that can be put upon its explanation oi the harmony attend-

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is an insinustion which the iriends d! the minated Liberal candidates naturally resent. And it is surely adding insult to injury to suggest that the conservative outlook would be "gloomy indeed" ii a repetition of Ivbst occurred at the Liberal con- vention had taken place an Tuesday. Just why the Liberal press should no out oi its way to invite compari- sons oi this kind is something which its readers will have to figure out lot themselves. Senator Sinclair, who is credited with being the party ' mentor and whose political sagaclty is proverbial, will have to take our contemporary out behind the wood- siicd for some rllld diseivlinlns. i! it‘ insists upon implying that he and his irisnds are other than "the -craa'm-the elect-oi theiiibersl

filth" p LIBERAL CRITICISM

ulicworstsspectoithespcilssys-

administration, however, is that it has definitely degraded the. stand-

: "that is quite natural." it says, day; (m; ma; Qpgnlng day) Ttior the very cream-the elect-oi‘ which are dated 10th and 11th re- m,

"the l

in; the Conservative nominations. It,

iaithlllllhflcpointedoiltthatevcn the" 0n the lowest level bi espediency Iiiberals should mnember that ii they guillotine ‘the ‘Tories, the Ibrieswillheiieinptedtoguillotino

them when they getinto power.

temasadoptedbythe‘flepbism

ards of public life in a province. which for several decades past has‘ adhered wBritl-lh ideals 01 govern merit.

EDITORIAL NOTES

‘rheseoondbollas-Day.

bliIotes

ms xasr-rssanssuror corral

In-im-merda patients could "t beblsmediorrgt tingtouudtro-

performed everywhere out the civilised world and the results are unsatisfactory. Notwithstand- ing thisiaot many patients are iear- iulioi opersticna- and allow the 310%.“?

e is endangered, and they finally have to submit to oper- ation undcr- ism iavorsible conditions thsndl they had undergone the operation sooner.

the only‘ me 0d of‘ treatment and " E; Pia-bl‘ Philadelphia,

Dr. Goo. cr, whom I-mentioncd in a previous

i

ruins oi the shell-tom Cloth Hall at Yprs on the poet oiiice lawn and ienccd oif a space ior Cross- es o: Remembrance, made by dis-

Not all chain stores pay starva- tion wages it now appears.

Ii seeing is believing the store! business yesterday?-

i

did D0119; Day.

We should take partioulssnprlde; in the celebration o! Rrinos George's marriage seeing he is the iirst Duke oi Kent since Primes Edward Island was named aiter his great, great grandfather.

Ottawa correspondents are nuns or less guessing as tothe date oi the opening oi rarlismcnit._ The first week oi January is‘ too close to Yule-tide holidays for members to return to Ottawa, so it resolves itseli into a choice between the second or third week, the ‘Imurs- in

speotively.

Premier “Mich” Hepburn, who saw iit to 1ZUOTQ.fllG'cIlDIKu&D_

' What then about the Liberal con- National Exhibition st Ibronte, has‘ 8y with clearer

wskened. w s. mutation of his re-

‘*ilities,a.nd_,_ ed the opening ceremony at the Royal Winter Fair. N0 Premier has the right to allow politics or per- cons-l spleen to interiere with the]

yws svs sss-

Immune from criticism, and his m: discharge o: his public duties, es- mm“ mums,“ ‘we an mub throughout the meeting was one oivpecially where these aiiect the trade m, View“ o; the 1 parading diniculty in insintainins and commerce oi the province or penses oi

dominion.

some idea oi the eiiect the Saar question is having in certain quar- ters in France, (writes "Janus") is conveyed by ‘s private letter irotn Paris. The writer, whose-boy is at school in Switzerland. mentions her intention oi leaving him tnei-e in view oi the probability "of war in the spring." Iibr-thesame season plans ior the redecoration oi the faintly not are being abandoned, since it is not much use spending money (M) paint and varnish when you may have s bomb through the ‘r00! in six months’ time. All this seems Very wild and fantastic-and nodoubtis-hutitisiniacttakien ‘ from an ordinary private letter from one iriend to another.

The safeguards provided in. the ‘report oi the select Psrliamen‘ y committee on mdian Iflvernment reiormshould goslongwsytorc- lieve the doubts and iears of Anglo- Indisns and imperialists generally. ‘The White rspei- policy pi-setiesuy threw the iuture o! India into the ‘hands of some 230 diiierent speak- ing nationalities. and hali-a-doeen religions without adequate impala! .. “ or control. The new re- lport, on which me British hvvlssas" mom's bill will be based. lamina in ‘the hands oi the Mother Oountry,

‘directly 01‘ indirectly, control of oe- ifcncc and external relations, which flirsetioally means that military and ‘iorekn policies will be

0i Indian hiinierencc.

instnkhilsmeatingcithcmild- men's Aid Bocicty brinlficlcbly to ois attention the mt iasi,_net- withstsndingthsgrsststridssrnsds ‘in improving the condition oi

ablcd vets and purchased by those wishing to plant them in memory oi the fallen. By the time Poppy Day arrived hundreds oi these little white-crosses dotted the square. and now they are to be burnt and the ashes taken to France, where they will be scattered over Can- adian war graves. A touching meth- od, o: remembering loved ones. Border veterans might do worse than adapt some such plan next Re- gitembqauce Daih-qyorder Cities air.

Man is the great instrument that produces wealth . . . We are not poorer, ‘but richer, because we have. through many ages, rested irom labor‘ one day in‘ seven. The day is not lost. While industry is su:p2nd- ed, while the plough lies in the furrow, while the Biz-hangs is silent, whileno smoke ascends irom the iactory, a process is going on quite as important to the wealth oi na- tions as any p.ooess which is per- formed on more busy days. Man.

‘-' oi “"1a= the machine compared with which all the oontrivances oi the Watts and the Arkwrights are worthless, is re-

and wmdin; up. so that he return to his labor on the Mon- ‘ JJvith-liie- iier spirits, with renewed corporal vizor. Never will i believe that what makes a population stronger and healthier and wiser and better, can ultimately make it poorer.- Lord moliulay.

is‘ u lss-‘as the United States

me and ex- the Federal Treasury, the situati B8 o! the end or the mstl is about what was expected. Re- cei are about $60,000,000 below est ates‘ ior the quarter, and total, expenses about $0,000,000 below, espectations. The deficit is piling

article, says that many-specialists believe that X ray treatment gives excellent in all cases oi goitre in which the patient isnot dange ously ill withalarming heart symp- toms, or isnot suflering irom the pressure oi the goitrvi.

The advantages oi the use oi the X rays instead oi surgery are:

(1) The fear oi operation is re- moved and thereiors the patient is more likely to come under treat- ment early, and before any damage is done to the heart.

(2) Due to the removal oi the iear oi opeartion, and early reatinent, the patients are not interrupted in

is well advanced, or serious symp- toms am present, they must, how- ever, be put at rest.

(3 ‘There is no painor shock and no great inconwnience, ii the con-

dition is treated reasonably early, . notip wear uniforms within twenty. (4) Patients with advanced an. iive miles oi the border: and they

ease or serious heart complications may be treated without shock, and ii radium is used. need notcven be removed from their rooms. .

(5) There is no risk oi death from the treatment-

(8) There is an absence oi scars,

ior any hard white lumps oi’ scar.

tissue. .

('1) The results are about equal ‘tothose obtained by surgical oper- ation. _

The treatments are given every 8 weeks and themumber oi treatments is from 4 to 6. Ii there is no im- i. . ht after about 6 treivments other methods should be used.‘ _

It can thus be seen that there is no need to delay treatment in goitre cases as the X ray tr

. . . ‘ . sives results where} » ent " cdlilibt‘iilldcrgflh%pcfl oraagim w

Shakespeare Fihns (Winnipeg Tribune) George-Arliss is said to have a. plan maturing to play Shakes- peare io: the screen. "It would

be an experiment worth trying."

he‘said recently. w. Arlisss remark sets several

|quarter oi the cunent fiscal year trainsol! thought in motion. One

is that millions oi English-speaking persons are growing to maturity without ever havingseen Shakes- peare played upon the stage, arid who ohswcsmall hope oi ever seeing

up at the rate oi a little more, in- him played, except perhaps by ‘ad-

stesd of ‘the expected litle less, than $000,000,000 icr the year. We are spending about s3 im- every fl we take in. Ii the pruent rate of re- ceipts and expenditures continues‘ weshouldclosetlicyesrnotiar irom the original estimstem-New York Herold Tribune-

had no bread to est, why d ‘t they est cake? But ii the l

Queen had really talked like that she would be vindicated It this late hour in her own country. in the (Jhampsgne region so acute that 20,000 iamilies are. ra- portediobelivingonpotsitocsand Ohlmpigne. The reason is s. huge wine surplus, a bumper crop, and a resultant collapse, in champagne prices. New crop and ' reserves anwilnt to something like 240,000,000 quarts, and the annual sale is 25,-- 000,000 quarts. The small growers live on potatoes they can- not buy bread. They lack milk ior the small children, but they have their own champame to drinks-Ix.

be seen irom the iollowlng pro- noimcement on the 08A.‘ economic situation: ‘The situation confront- ing President Roosevelt so the sixth year o1 the great depressioiropens is one oi appalling gravity; The

tionollisboursnnoisncos thstlthe total oilullslnllllillilmt runs again tbs is

ten-miiiioomsrhsati. to

wanced amateurs, and then none too

irequently.

Another thought is that since audibility has some to the screen

the great obstacle to iilming the Bud's works has gone. The "word music" oi Shakespeare can now beheard from the lipsoi great actors“!!! the silent films. ‘Shakes-

n g on], “ma” u,“ Mme gn- pears was like s rose without either ioinette asked ii the French people

iragrI-nce or color. Sir Johnstone Forbes-Robertson's silent film oi

with both sound and color available, a Shakespearean screen play could

‘satisfy both the ear and the eye, st

ithe same time appealing to the in- telligence.

The screen possesses one outstand- ing advantages over the stage-it cancommsndgoodplayers iorevcry part. Bince all Shakespeare's part iscreen prod could be isr better than the svmsgc stage pro-

tedtooneortwo-s

s

s about the box-office and.

No Dictator For

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However o‘ ration isn't always;

are important, this means that s ‘

a collection oi _, sversgc p ayers ~ Mi‘. ‘X1185’! idea is excellent irons _

the artistic Mint 0f veiw. But 0M

"uig innerm- spsrsneithertrozblenor

alder-able number _ _ voters, it ‘ . have sailed» al-

The clause lathe treaty relating to the eligibility oivoters residsz, a All persons, without: distinction oi set. more than 20 ycsrsold st the date of the voting, resident in the lierritory at the date oi the signat- ure-of present treaty, will have‘ the right to vote. ' In neither France nor Germany is thersanylonger aneiiorttpcon- cealthe uneasiness aboutthé situ- ation that is developing as the cloc- ltion date IDIDIUBISIIOL-Ml‘. Geoiimy Knox, the British Chairman oi the league's Governing Commission, this taken stem to recruit eonstabu- lary to a strength which it is hoped gwillibe suiilcient to avert disorder. 1m Franco fears have been expres-

itheir occupation. When the disease ‘BB4 0! l- lildden mwflmut 0! mt‘

ler Storm Troops into the Basin. Germans deny emphatically that sny such coup is contemplatcd. The? aiiirm, indeed, that the Storm Troopers are under special orders

iascuse the French oi planning to ‘retain the Saar regardless oi the “$10130! u” mg" position call

_ . ox occup s, - ingior constant prmonca s-ndfiore- igight. Any indiscntion on the part either of Francs or oi the League Oolzsiaiesioner; wguld quickly hb: as upon y. xmsny or e own advantage. .\_ considerable body oi the voters is said to be dI-BPOsed Cor the present to take s non-cinn- mittal attitudcuficvergile animus?

hi are not vora a - “twin-n oi the scar to Gennany until the break-up oi Hitlerisin are likely to themselves ‘strongly, A display oi ioroe by the ‘orlby France whichfoulldjbe mis- rrep as high- or e0- eieige in intent mailman, swine voteé-s q! Q2116 undee co grouping;

rman . mmission 31o: so tai- has ymaintained admir- able poise, and it is mi likely that he will be misled by beyond-the- botder ieinis 0i the Nazis into tak- lng hasty or ill-considered action." Many close observers ioi the sit- uation are laopeiul that tioubh will ommiss un . .

"tilfé" “"°“.:;.” ‘tilfiifiii they feel that sitar that the iuture will be unpredictable. Ii the Saar population should vote ior return w Germanyrtheie will loomtiap mun." qgjbnjryflllfllflj _ . French ownership oi the mince and oi _ .. Y's ability or willhwflell to pay-fir them in gold. as the treaty stipulates 6hould»the' area go book to Germany with ‘the mines still in the on o. France. the possibiiitiesoi trouble can scarcely be ioretoid.

s‘. declared. ‘ "is “my; ego bigto be ruled eiiicicntly ‘by s dietatoflhowcver sbiehe may sis-mining plans or theories oi " ‘ t for his country Ohiaw has been unusually non-committal.

"' Be evidently used the ovum-runny

resented in this interview to mo opinion-on many political du

duotloirwlilch is necessarily llrni- W011i" Mb

so: any stamens put oi .1)» ma. a" various m: .

osmsiivr. nqir. hsps the dullsst ending ecr had over

yss’ syeoinmotionin the ‘andliidding became

encounters-ell"!

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comeback

fi-Ilt- was pcr- - .10. esaiv oi household efieots the auction- experiencedi The ‘line, usinl collstioarnsnovflil. diction-i 'ing very slowly. Suddenly there]

_ corner brisk and

woinsnoustouin had found

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. our sun elf-missions Thatwood was-like a

Andsometimescameagreyoidmmp Astwistedssatrcel, " ‘ - ‘- ButwhenIti-iedtospeakto Iieneversnsweredme. i.

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any more -- ButI have ioiund a grey old tree I never saw before.

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Pirandello [Vancouver Hovibceh

The three leading dramatists oi our day are Bernard Shaw, ‘Zbuigi Pirandello and Eugene‘ O'Neill. ‘All three are intellectual dramatists. They are oon wi

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Farmers oi the Irish Free stats will be eqsoureeeii m raise wheat.

, oerned primarily th the things o1 the mind, opinions, sions and the like. though each, 01' course, has his own distinct ‘in- terests and his own methods. Shaw is an old man. Ho has passed his zenith. O'Neill is still mounting the ladder. P“ dello, who ~has just ‘been awarded the Nobel Prise for literature, is atthehsight oi his fame. Among Continental drama- tists he has a reputation that has not been equalled since the days oi Ibsen and Chekhov.

Pirandello came to i the drama rather late in liie. 11c had written several books oi poetry beiors he was twenty-three. mien he went to Bonn and took his. degree in philo- sophy. Ret toitsiy, he be»

came a teacher oiitalian llteraturei -

writing at the some time several novels and innumerable short stories. A friend persuaded hiin to dramatize one oi his stories, ‘and that was the beginning-oi his new

Put is enormous. He works con- stantly. "For s. painiul family reason.” he told Mallarme, once, "I have enclosed myself in work. ‘And Ithink unoeasingly. Whether walk- eaiéitngormtalking to ym|,.I. m"? 0P ID hing out ideas into plays" my