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Our Veterans Are Different

Recently adopted legislation at Washington will pay a lump sum bonus to men who served in the American Expeditionary Forces between 1917 and 1919. Some Canadians without think- ing, express‘ the view that if this bonus is to be paid in the United States, something of the same sort might be done in Canada.

The answer comes in an emphatic negative from the official organ the Army and Navy Vet- erans of Canada. We quote :

“It seems to be the part of sound judgment at this moment to point out that circumstances in this country are entirely different. Our Canad- ian veterans were much more generously treated at demobilization than American soldiers- Our pension system is more generous, too, and, most important of all, the basic spirit and tempera- ment of Canadian veteran organizations is vastly different from that of the American veteran body _wl1ich, after years of vigorous, sometimes drastic, political campaigning, has smashed the bonus vo through, Congress over the Presi- dential veto.

“Canadian veteran organizations have never played politics, and that, we think, is to ‘their credit. They have concerned themselves entirely with the personal welfare of the veteran, not threatening, not attacking parliaments, or indi- viduals in high places, but seeking facts, present- ing evidence in orderly fashion, always avoiding extravagant words or actions which lead only to antagonism, even in victory.

“The conduct of our veterans has, ‘ever since the war, been admirable. Much of thiscon- ciliatory co-operative spirit is dueto the nature of the organizations pledged to forward the wel-

t fare of the Canadian ex-service men.- ‘I-‘he oldest

of them all, The Anny and Navy Veterans in Canada, has a record of ninety-six years behind it. Fenian Raid, Reil Rebellion,-und~-Boer war veterans were members of this organization many generations before 1914. .With SLlCll a tradition behind them, Canadian. veterans-are less disposed toward political excesses than those ambitious ‘young men of the United‘ States. Our veterans are different." ., . .

An Appeal To Women

"An Appeal to Women, in Memory of Armistice Day, Novembe r 11, 1918" is the subject of a strongly-worded pamphlet against aggressive warfare by Mrs. WILLIAM Seorr FERGUSON of Cambridge, Massachussetts. formerly Miss ALENA WHITE of Charlottetown and at one time a member of the staff of The

GUARDIAN, “All realize," writes Mrs. FERGUSON in part, “that the League (of Nations) is

by no means perfect or infallible in its collectiv e judgments, but up to the present it is the best solution offered to restrain the un- mitigated madness of civilized men from destroy- ing themselves by their own inventions. As in all crises many compromises have to be made for the good of the whole. _

_ “If women will stand behind the League's decisions, individually and collectively, as we would stand behind a doctor's orders if our child were dangerously ill, we can be a great source of strength to it in the interest of human- ity. If women will only use their tremendous influence to insist that quarrels must be settled by arbitration and that bloody wars of aggression will no longer be tolerated, what happened in 1914, is happening in Ethiopia today, and may llappen in Europe tomorrow will be made im- possible.

“But we must start at omce to create a amental state against warfare for anything but home de- fense. We must also detennine to ruin the mar- kets both of the wrongdoer and of individuals or governments that abet the nation judged guilty by the League.

"Women the world over, directly or indi- rectly, are the buyers of the world's consumers goods. We have only to drop from ow m in- rlanlly, stubbornly, and coluirlenfly the goods of any aggressor nation, large or small, found guilty at the League’: tribunal of vuilftllly invading and bringing war to another nation. Any economist will tell you what a. world movement-of thissort would mean to a nation—not otllyflossjofim- imediate trade, but a long hard pull to recapture a market once lost. . . .

"Modem science has put into the hands of this age weapons too powerful to beabused. Unless we are carbful they will destroy us all. It may be that the white race has had. its day and by its own inventions will die, but most of us do not believe this. What is far more likely is that when we are put to the test women will

‘not care enough to leave nothing undone to make

wars of aggression and our presentmodc of war- fare obsolete. But if we do care there seems to be a way if we will take it, and time to spread the word before another contlagration."

i Editorial Notes

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Tomorrow is Civic Election day in the city. ' ' . ., I l! I

up to its reputation of

be exceptional theseikday: of‘ financial straights.

Thecause and prevention of brown heart in turnips is stated to have been discovered large- ly through the investigation of Mr. R. R. Hoxsr and Mr. R. C- PARENT of the staff of the Ex- perimental Station here.

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Cards in connection with the forthcoming election for City Councillors. in addition to those mentioned previously in these columns, appear in The Guardian from Mr. J. A. MAC- DONALD, who is running for Ward 2; Mr- RUSSELL C. CHANDLER, who is contesting Ward 4, and Dr. JAMES EitBlisniuAnb, Ward 5.

Hon. C. A. DUNNING; the Junior member for Queens is credited with this one. A Saskat- chewan father was vjntroducing his family of boys to the visiting Liberal Premier. “Seventeen boys," exclaimed the visitor. “And all Liberals, I suppose." “All but one," said the father, proudly. “They're all Liberals, but JOHN, the

little rascal. He got to readin .

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We are not infrequently told that it is the "Big Interests” who manipulate and thrive on wars. Mr. J. P. MORGAN‘, multi-millionaire and world-figure, must be the exception for he told the U- S. Senate Munitions Committee that the entry of the United States into another war would do “irreparable damage” to western civili- zation. He then went on to say that “if the leis- ure class is destroyed, civilization will be ruined."

J iii iii If According to Mr. C. B. Gama of London, England, who, as a hobby, is keeping a record of persons who live past 90, widows of clergy- men live longer than any other group of per- sons, because, he supposes “they usually have a calm old age and inherit stifiicietit money to live on.” A remarkable number of Canadians, he finds, live to a ripe old age, and married per- sons seem to have the best chance for longevity. During the year just past, according to his re- cords, the deaths of fifty-six ceutenarians were reported from all parts of the world. 5K iii 9K

Lord m: CLIFFORD who caused the death of a child through an auto accident and was charged with manslaughter, demanded that he be not tried by the ordinary law courts, but by his peers, which was the privilege of his rank. This was, perforce, granted, and all the costly pro- cedure involved carried out, resulting in his ac- quittal. But the country was so roused by the proceedings that the British Government has found it necessary to introduce legislation de- priving peers of this privilege and putting the on a footing with other common ordinary men of the street. So Lord or: Curronn will have the distinction of being the last lord to be tried by his lordly peers.

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It may be the wish being father to the thought, but the Hon. R. D. MORAND, former Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons, pre- idicts that the Ontario Government will go to ‘the people in the near future to ask for a man- date because of a feeling that “their sins will find

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them out." l-Ie was addressing the annual meet- ing of the Essex County Conservative Club. Dr. Molmno said the Conservative party was reorg- anizing and would “gladly welcome back into the fold” all who aligned themselves with third or fourth parties in the last federal election. The Liberal party was elected, he said, not so much by an increase in Liberal votes as by a division 9K FRITZ Rama/mm", German State Secretary in the Ministry of Finance, announces that be- ginning July 1 the State would pay a continuous subsidy of lo marks monthly for every fifth child and every further child born in any family not earning more than 1,800 marks a year. This subsidy, which is to be paid in addition to the previous lump-sum subsidies,- Dr. REINBARDT states is the first step toward a sweeping equali- zation of family burdens in Germany. The Third Reich’s tax and finance policies, he explains, have three aims-reduction of unemployment, rear- mament assurance and adaptation of taxation to National Socialism's population principles. which call for a higher birth rate. The bachelor tax and graduations of the income tax already en- able two to live in Germany as inexpensively as one. . it ii i Out of the maze of diplomatic conversations going on in Paris it is beginning to become clear that it is to the re-enforcement, if not indeed the reconstruction of the system of collective secur- ity among League of Nations members, that France's new Foreign Minister, M. PIERRE- ETIENNE FLANDIN, whovisited- here with the Curran delegation, is devoting all his efforts. Side by side with that aim is the intention to en- courage economic recovery in Central and South- eastern Europe by direct help and, even more by obtaining more mutual help among the na- tions concerned. In his efforts Mr. FLANDIN has undoubtedly received direct encouragement from London, and the conversations in Paris are in many ways a completion of those that followed the accession of ‘King Eowlmo. K . i

It is interesting to note that the House of Representatives at Washington have just sent to the Senate : “A bill making it unlawful for any person engaged in commerce to discriminate in price or terms of sale between purchasers of like grade and quality, to prohibit the payment of brokerage or commission under certain condi- tions, to suppress pseudo-advertising allow- ances, to provide a presumptive measure of dam- ages in pertain cues, and to protect the unde- perlderltmerchant, the public _whom he serves aid the manufacturer from whom he buys, from exploitation by unfair competitors!’ The judic- ltry Committee of the Some added a revision the" Federal TrudefCornmlu on with quantity. llmitelon particular com-

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America ll traditionally the Iran's of sell-made men. yet It u unlikely that my American over nude for himself I more brilliant. career #116011? on merit and wlll tlmn Rufus Daniel Issues, born flan mu of a Ilondon fruit nut-chant, who wentonhlsownaa-ncabln boy at the an of 14 and who dled as the giant-quest: of Readlnqn-Bulflmore

Oxford ha: become n bigger uni] broader P1809. as the result of the “"51"” °f "l! 801ml men from OWMIB. s movement Initiated by mm“!- Fm? W"! 88°. there wen not mwy "ndfiwnduates from u.» 091011168. and still fewer from the United Stats. Pew pt Oxford could have told one where Sas- lKIWhQWBII. or Wyoming, were. To- “Y. all thut- has changed. 0f sp- Pwllmltcly 4.000 male luulergrad- notes at Oxford. 400. or ten per cent of the whole university, come from overseas (Including tbs Unip- ed States.) Ind this leavers of ten Der cent has u, marked Influence.- Melbourne (Australia) Herald.

Any one who has crossed to North America In an‘ ordinary common or , “en steamshtp when the Atlantic was in one of Its tant- rums will be amused or shocked, according to temperament, by the

the comfort of passengers m the Queen Mary. Perfumed su will be available for the ladies. who can also, by a. flick or the controlling lever. rld their rooms of cigarette smoke. . . . The air in the cine- mas and kitchens will be purified every three minutes, whlle In the twenty-five public rooms the at- mosphere wlll be continually chang- ed. Thls serves to mark the tie_ "lendmls fllflflse that. has taken Pllce since the coming o! the "luxury liner" on the Atlantic ferry-Manchester Gumdian,

Lust week-end both sides In [ha IMO-Ethiopian war claimed a sig- nal victory over the other, but somehow neither seelns to be able to show any definite galng, Th1; week Ethiopia claims to have de. slZTOYQd-di-Dlllhlluted 1,; the expm- slon first used-a whole Itullun “m1?- NOW ll. ls Just u brigade. Al- lowlns 1'01‘ some loosaness 1n use and translation of temls. there still appears to be a probability that somebody l; exaggerating tn- nun. lmlzlng the truth 1n view of Bad- ogllds report that there was noth- lng new on either front-Exchange.

If Chancellor Hitler should die In Germany. the amy would decide who would be his successor. Of 0011116. lb; generals would get plenty of help from the group who have placed Hitler in power 3nd maintained him at the top. In 1m. perlal Germany lt was the army which backed up the Kaiser and made him supreme. In the pres- ent Reich any prospective ruler must first win over the army. While the nelchswehr ls 8LlpPO¢9d to take no interest In politics, lt has the power to make a man secule or 1n- secure-Clark In Wlndsol-‘Star.

A daily newspaper has given lies-sing figures on the good nnan. clal position cf the Province or Quebec. These figures, which ap- Psn-r 1n the Public Accounts show, 1m‘ 6151111116. that tha Province of Qenbec Ls. o.‘ all the provinces of Confederation, the least In debt, the lowest taxed and mu most solvent. Let Us look at the, figures. They show that the "debt per caplta of Prince Edward Island ls $52; of New Brunswick U138; Ontario $170; Mfl-hltobs. $165: Saskatchewan slat;

Alberta $304; British Columbia $306; Nova Bcotls $123. and the debt of Quebec ls only $43 per

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his Emlyn-d l- . beautiful sheet of water In North Stafford- sltlre. It was at a. picnic at this lake- that young lpokwood Kipling, son of a Yorkshire preacher, met Allce Mscdonald, an Irish glrl, his future wife. Bo they gave their first-born the mine "Joseph Rud- ysrl KlIPUnBP-Ottawa Journal.

Mr. Eden ls mum; down to work In the most desirable work- room In all Whitehall, the foreign Secretary's room at the "E0." I-Iere have sat Palmerston, Rosebery, UNI. a long range of able men- th, two former In times when the secletaryshlp was a softer job. It

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WHY MORE MENTAL PATIENTS ABE NOW LIKELY TO BE CUBE!)

Home months no the statement was made that If the num of patients with mental ailments con- tinued t0 Increase at , rate, one-half cf the world's popu- lation would be confined to mental hospitals with the other half sup- porting them there. Now there ls no question but that mental ailments are actually Increasing, but not per- haps as rapidly as is thought be- cause practically all cases are known now and receiving treat- ment.

Further there are cases admitted to mental hospitals which formerly were being cared for at home. These cases are sent to hospital now be- ‘cause hospital treatment ts consid- cred best by the family, and of course many famlllcs are now un- able to carry the financial burden of having the patient cared for at home.

Our mental specialists now be- lieve however that the number of mental cases may be actually re- duced ln the coming years. One oi the first methods of treatment to give results was what ls called oc- mpatlonal therapy. This treatment consists in having the patient do some form of work during which time, of course. he doesn't think about himself, and by doing some actual or useful work loses some of" his inferiority complex and may thus be enabled to go back and take his place at work or business.

So successful has occupational therapy become In the treatment of mental ailments that Drs. C. C. burllngame and Carl Phillip Wag- .101‘, nartlord, Conn" report that they have gone beyond me slmp.e occupations tn which the patients were allowed to engage, and nave actually started a. school or lnsmu- tlon with the selected patients and nave made me surroundings Just. as lnucn like an ordinary school as possible. As you know mental pan‘ lents have as much brains as tuose of us outside the Institution, but they are "inside" the institution because they can't amust themselv- es to or get along with other people. ‘the Lreatulenl. conslsls ln having all doctors, nurses, teachers, attend- ants treating the patients as If they were normal. 'Ihere ls a daily plo- grarn requiring regular hours of study in what the patient likes or may need-personal and corres- pondence instruction.

As this method enables the pat- ient. to mix more with normal peo- ple he ls gradually made ready to go back and mix entirely with those who are normal.

"CHILD IN THE HILLS”

Where on these hills are tracks a small foot made,

Where rests the echo of his volce calling to the crows

In sprouting corn’! Here are tall trees his eyes

l-lsve measured to their tops, here lies fallow earth

Uufurrowed by terrsclng ploughs tune sleeping years.

Here flow the waters of Curr before bis darkened door.

I clmwi B99 you. child, but I can hear your voice

Shrlll and imperious with rain In the beechwood- trees.

In the dark hours I have heard

your questing words »

Creep out of nowhere 1n the moun- taln silence;

I have heard your small heart, beat

with low whlspe .

In measured breaths tifnfleep night "w" res runes

01m. wanna m the night o - eyed and wondering ' pm

coding, And you heard the swelling voles of the waters’ strensth.

Now you have fled with the goose

with the boots It midnight, Swept- wtth the waters down the unt-lln

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FEBRUARY 11, 1936

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"Events make news. Events de-

IISHNG AND BOOZE

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sin-The annals of early legisla- tive days In the Province are but one continuous story o! I adventure and endurance- With tow or no roads the difficulties of travel except by water were well- nfgb insurmountable. Early records or this legislature show that ses- slons met and were concluded be- fore the milder weather of spring might destroy the Ice so that members might return to tbelr homes over the winter highway which existed upon rivers and estuaries and about our shores. Early. settlements chiefly took place where lands bordered _upon the sea. Half farmers, half fisher- men, tbe early Inhabitants eked out a. frugal and precarious exist- ence. Fishing and the fisheries constituted the chief means of livelihood. Almosteverymanmeoes- sarlly was farmer, fisherman and seamen. As all had not capital to provide the necessary. equipment for engaging in the fisheries. em- ployment of labour was common.

These skllful and hardy udveu- turers who la all but the winter season risk their lives upon the tumbling waters of the deep where a false move or s mistake or an unsktlful, action might lmperll hot-h life and property. might surely have been regarded as con- stitutionally up to the mark of the Moderatfonlstb standard of manllness. Experience proved how- ever that the sale of liquor for beverage use was entirely Incon- sistent with the successful pro- secutton of the fisheries. “Pro- hlbltlons" had to be Invoked to protect these sailors and fisher- men, and It was accordingly enact- ed by the legislature. In 1825, that no liquor should be sold to “any seaman, fisherman, or other serv- ant. employed In the fishery with- out the consent of the hirer or em- ployer of such seamun, fisherman, or other servant, during the fish- lng scaso Penalties were also imposed for secreting, rharbourlng or entertaining any such person throughout the season except with the like consent. ~

The poor fellows could not be trusted at all. What. a terrible crime 1t was, according to tho Moderutlonlsrs point of , view, against their personal liberty. Yet beverage liquor was free to buy, good liquor st that; no “Pronlbl- tlon bootleggers" stuff to poison them and set them crazy. There had not even been a single “sanetlon" against the class to make them want to drink ‘Just to break the law’ (a. we are told). Yet It was shown from experience that beverage salennd the prosecution of the fisheries, our chief Industry of that day, could not go hand In