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THURSDAY, MAY 7, 1931

Bdded that he, himself, felt very

A Frank Statement ' much like Marius, the conqueror of

___

"I wouldn't try to explain the

3N Public Accounts. I wouldn’t be fool-

ish enough.” This is the frank statement made

_ yesterday afternoon by Mr. Angus

MacPhee. Liberal representative for

§~_---~~the Second District of Queens. Mr.

MacPhee was the last speaker in the Budget debate. He had heard all the arguments pro and coir. He had lis- tened to the laboured explanations of Hemier flea, of Hon. Mr. McIn~ tyre, of Hon. Mr. LePage, chairman of the Public Accounts Committee, of Hon. Mr. Wright, Hon. Dr. Mac- Neill and others, whose contention it was. that the Public Accounts had never been presented so clearly as in the Auditor's report for 1930. The Opposition, on the other hand, had contended that the Public Accounts were in a badly muddled shape, that it was extremely difficult for the av- erage man to gather from them an accurate idea of the financial con- dition of the Province. Mr. MacPhee evidently shares the 0111111011 0f file Opposition on this point, and is man enough to confess that he,‘ at any rate, cannot explain them.

Z4 Liberal Philosophizes

In the House of Commons s. few days ago second reading was given to a bill increasing the number of Can- adian National Railways directors from 15 to 17. The discussion on the

Hannibal, who on being exiled from his own country wept on the walls of Carthage. He, himself, felt WW much like weeping every day. He did not like to go into the House. He was always thinking of the ancient gloriesof the Liberal party and what the Liberal party had come to. But the Liberals, concluded this frank member, ought to be glad for one thing, and that was for being out of office and free of those responsibili- ties which had fallen upon the Gov- ernment in the present crisis.

Tariff Red Herrings

Much valuable time of the Legis- lature during the past few days has been taken up with a discussion of federal politics. The object of the Lea Government in introducing this

viously to distract attention from prov- lncial issues, and especially from the failure of the Government to im-

plement its pre-election pledges. One of the absurd statements made in connection with the federal tariff‘ was in regard to an alleged duty on fishcrmcns rope, said to have caused the Fishcrmerfs Co-operative Association of Nova Scotia to pay $1,100 extra on a supply of rm im- ported from the United States. This statement was made by the Minis- tcr 0f- Public Works and repeated by other Liberal members. It was de-

discumion was, of course, quite ob--

. votive party, and it was foolish to

riled by the Opposition. Yesterday aftemoon, in the debate on a reso- lution re the tariff, the promoter, Hon. Mr. wright, let the cat out of the bag when he quoted from a. let- ter he had received from the Secret- ary of the Fishermerfs Co-operat- ive Association, which plainly showed that no such duty charges hadbeen paid by the Association. Dr. MacMil- lan demanded of Mr. Wright which statement was correct. Mr. Wright, in reply, talked loudly and long, but he was unable to reconcile the con- flicting statements and the Liberal argument, so far as fishermens rope was concerned, was proved to be nothing but political propaganda.

amendment was carried on in good temper and with a sense of humor on both sides. As a. Liberal, Sir Eu- gene Fiset wanted to know if all the new directors are Consefvfliiives- D1’- Manion, the lilinister of Railways end Canals, smilingly admitted corn- plete ignorance regarding thepolitics of the new appointees, but added that none of the new directors should be an active member of any political organiation. The most amusing con- trlbution to the discussion was made by Mr. Sam Jacobs, Liberal member for Cartier. Speaking from the Op- position benches, he congratulated the Minister on the new appoint- ments, and continued:

During the period the Liberal par- ty was in power, every man who was a director of the Canadian National was a Liberal appointed by a Liber- el Government, and I think it is only right, now that we have gone cut cf powezz-that they should be super- seded by men appointed from the Conservative Party. BS COHSBTVB‘ tives, by Conservatives and for Conservatives. This is only as it should be, and in due time, when this Government retires-and I hope it will do so within the time that I am still living-these men will be superseded by Liberals. This is P511 of the system. I recall that in 1922, after the Conservative Government had gone out of power I was in Win- nipeg shortly before the appointment of the new directors of the Canadian National. I made the prediction at a public meeting that every man who was to be appointed to that board would be a Liberal. regardless of his ability or his position, or whether he was an outstanding man or not. I was 81nd to see that the gift of prophecy which my people always claim has descended upon me."

The member went on to say that no doubt all the Liberals thus ap- pointed at that time were men of ability. But the Liberal party had no mcnoply of ability. There were some men of ability in the Conser-

Lost m The Arctic

The British Scientist Augustine Ccurtauld, who has been exploring northern Greenland is posted lost. and search for him is being made by the Swedish flyer, Captain Ahr- enberg. Courtauld was under com- mission to the Brtish Government to secure meterological data and map out a British Arctic air route across Greenland. He had spent several weeks in the northland, but an ex- pedition sent out to relieve him in mid-April failed to find his camp.

The Swedish aviator, flying a Junkers aeroplane of 320 horsepower will cruise the east coast of Green- land. on which he hopes w find the marooned British scientist.

The task of locating Courtauld on the desolate wastes of Greenland is not an easy one. but the icefields will be combed thoroughly for trace oi the lost explorer, and Ahrenberg will not return until either the camp has been located 0r decision reached that further search would be futile.

Editorial Notes

In the current issue of the foreign egg market report the Poultry Divi- sion of the Dominion Department of Agriculture indicates that Great Brit- ain at the present time is importing upwards of $640,000 dozen eggs per week. Denmark, the Netherlands and Poland are the largest contributors to this huge volume of exports; other

decry the appointment of new direct- r ore today because they happen to be conservatives. This was part of the system, and as long as the Govem- ment was running an enterprise of countries include the Irish Free State, this kind it would continue to exist. Belgium, Finland, France, Germany. Even if every one of the new direct-‘ltely. Sweden, China and IZyPi- orn had rendered some service to the Canada is not, at the present time. party what more could the Liberals listed as a con-signing Willi"? l1- aak? The Liberals had been de- though a market which imports feated; they know they had been de- such huge quantities of egsfl I110"!!! tested; the thing became more evi- dent to them every day, Mr. Jacobs Canadian producers.

lof capitalized business, then fromlgunr

Notes by the Way’

Spain, meanwhile. 10in! the llat cl‘ republim. and the ranks of the kinisl close up again. Hapsburg, lichen- zollem, Bomanofl and Bourbon— the royal rulers who Irave lost their thrones in the past decade and a half make an imposing list. What' does their departure mean to the world? The death of the czar has not yet brought freedom to the Russ- ian. liiorms change, but government from above continues.

But the story is not yet all told: will not be, for another generation or so, the ferment let loose into the world by the American and French revolutions is still working. The kings are going into the discard, and the names that once stood for un- limited power and high pomp and circumstance are now museum pieces. As for the dictators-they are build- ing cn foundations of sand. They hold themselves in office by their own genius; when they go, that which they have bruit will tumble down. Demmfflcy. in Spite cf Dost-war set- backs, is still advancing. If you doubt it, ask Alfonso, last of the Bourbons.

Mr. Justice Wilson of the Quebec Court of -Kings Bench last week sentenced four gunmen to life in prison in the penitentiary. The Judge is being congratulated by the representative press and doubties by all who desire to see law and order maintained in Canada. The following comment in the Ottawa Journal is well worth pondering not only by prospective bandits but by lovers of justice! The whole country should applaud. The sorry example of the United States, where gunmen and racketeers maintain a reign qf terror, and where lenience of the courts, coupled with incapacity in the police, has bred all but unbridled violence, should be an object lemon to Canada. This country, in fact. must make Canada so unhealthy for the bandit that thc bandid simply won't thrive here.

The five-year plan is a gigantic,‘ experiment a1 its results. so far at? least as regar " production, have] bccn notable, says the Singapore Free Press. N0 purpose can bc

run crr/rnrxrrrrernwrv cuaimrm

. Troubles or Pershing

(J. v. McAres in the Toronto Mail and Empire) ‘ '

What we said so rudely and un- expectedly about Col. Lindbergh some months ago gou double for Gen. Pershing. Perhaps it is because of his appearance-especially the mouth.

punts

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soon after he and the first

8,1.” w’ Bdrm‘ Mfg American contingment arrived 593g T55951- in France he walked into an

5m) 3351115511351 American cook tent one day and when one of the cooks did not salute

with sufficient promptness ordered

It is strange how some individuals,

afflicted with rheumatism, are not willing to admit that they occasion- ally have a sore throat. They are naturally afraid that if the rheu- matism can be blamed on the tonsils, that the tonsils will have to be re- moved. The thought of the operation makes them belittle the severity of‘ the sorethrcat when it does occur.

As you know, Just as tuberculosis, heart disease, pernicious anaemia and diabetes are now being cured owing to the intensive study made of them, so rheumatism is being cured more frequently, as all over the world research physicians are study- lng all kinds of rheumatic cases and their cause.

Dr. B. Schlesinger, London, Eng- land emphasizes the important part played by the tonsils in connection with acute rheumatism in childhood. He says "there can be little doubt that rheumatic relapses are largely brought about by acute and often extremely mild throat infections."

The time interval between the on- set cf tonsillitis and rheumatism is usually from ten to twenty-one days. Thus in many cases a mild attack of sore throat is entirely forgotten by the time that the rheumatism ar- rives, and it is hard for the patient to believe that such a sore throat, which did not really lay hlrn up in bcd, could be responsible for a severe attack cf rheumatism. Yet if a record or history of ilrcsc attacks of rheu- matism is kept it will be found that they always followed an attack of torrsillitis.

Now in youngsters it is not advis- able to remove tonsils under ordin- ary circumstances, cvcn if thcy are large, if thcrc are not attacks of ton- sillitis. The tonsils were meant to re-

him to undergo peck-drill or some- thing else extremely humiliating and painful. Or maybe again itis Just as it was with the girl and Dr. Fell. Therefore a wholly impartial, still less sympathetic article on Gen. Pershing is not to be expected from us. His interminable war reminis- cences have not healed the breach between us, even though in c. pro- fessional sense they have been a kind of manna. We do not think they are more boastful than is necessary. Certainly they reveal an attitude of mind that would have exasperated "l9 People of the Allied nations had they been aware of them at the time, One would infer from the reminis- cences that so far es Gen. Pershing was concerned, the defeat of the Central Powers was a secondary and even subsidiary aim, the grand 9b- Ject being to build up a Complete American army under his own com. mand. He even was prepared m mo; the possibility that the French and the British armies might be defeated before he had the separate American

progress of the race .th the poets. - . —

1t would tabs a big hook in dil- crme the number of inventions which have found mentipn iumtic ph- ductlcos era they became known as scientific‘ facts to thcvworld‘ at 1&3!- 'm whom do‘ weowethc Jtimulua that comes from the steady culture of lofty ideals‘! By whom‘ have ms compensations of life been revealed ifnotby those wbohavc learned in suffering what they taught in song? And to whom may-we lcokfor a re- vival and an appreciation of the

folk

hcrselfhas a local habitation and i» name, if not the poets? War is one of the spectral fears cudthe curse of the ages. Wherever has it been satirized in more pungent fashion than in the Byronic lines: ,

"Monarchs! Did yq-but taste the

mirth ye mar Not in the toils cf giory- would ye - fret, ' The hoarse dull drums would cease, and man be happy yet."

Who more tenderly, yet scathingly withal, rebuked the encroaching evil-s of commercialism than Goldsmith? Bmwing has been called the preach- er’s teacher-a Just verdict. Tenny- son seems just now in danger of be- ing ’ among the "prim Vic- torians" and this by critics who proa- ably could not match a single stanza of ‘The Two Voices" or "In Memor- iarn" if their lives depended upon it. To cite a 1m of the poets who have‘ struggled for the redress of griev- ances‘ and climbed rickety stairs to- wards a better and brighter outlook for humanity would require- vastly

force complete in every detail: after} which it was his intention, if fate? m“ diwlefd- $0 8o out and defeat the Germans single-handed. It true that in one crisis he modified‘ this cardinal principle, which 1,, fairness to him we must admit was!

The President, of course, had made it .' not‘ one of the Allies. Thcy were an as-f sociated power. But it seems that! both Wilson and Pershing for an ab‘: stract principle were ready to risk: supreme disaster. An unnecessary, acrcagc of France and Belgium were. soaked with blood because of Persh. ing's insistence.

I have translated and

served by becoming hysterical about it, calling Russia names or denounc- ing it as unfair. If the people of a country are agreeable to, accept a state doctrine and work for it, that is their own business, and if thatsys- tern can beat the ordinary methods

economic and industrial point § of vicw only that system deservesvto triumph-if it can. To rant about “slave industries" is foolish. If Rus- sians are so stupid as to allow them- selves to be tyrannized over as slaves. that is their own affair. The only concern of other peoples, if they are convinced that production conditions in Russia are such ' as no civilized people should tolerate, is to see to it that such production docs not come into competition with their own. In other words. Russian output in such circumstances will have to be de- barred entry.

The Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin has accepted, wholeheartedly, the Rt. Hon. R. B. Bennett's programme of Imperial economic unity. When the

‘other. The late Lord Haldane, one

- ‘of the most gifted Englishmen of hold something U‘ opportunity ‘minis generation, unhappily for him

Canadian Prime Minister first made his pronouncement in London in very clear and forthright terms he was virtually accused by critics on this side of the water of insulting the Mother Country. Liberal politicians, who never before showed any warmth towards the British Empire, and Liberal newspapers, which had long been committed to separatist tactics, developed a new concern for Empire solidarity.

As a matter of fact, they felt no such concern: they were moved, in the main, by the conviction that here was an opportunity to strike at the Canadian Premier by insincere ap- peals to the strong Irnperlalistlc sen- timents of the Canadian people They predicted that Mr. Bennett's course would alienate the United Kingdom and prevent the develop- ment of intro-Imperial trade. Mr. Stanley Baldwin has blown their argument sky-high. He has paid Canadian Conservatism the compli- ment of adopting the Canadian nat- ional Policy of fiscal protection as his slogan for the Mother Country.- He has launched a country-wide campaign in support of that policy- a campaign which will bear fruit at the next general election.

A pleasant sign of the subsidence of war animoslties and of the res- toration of normal international amenities is the proposed Anglo- German Club in London, says the Chicagz Tribune.

The nightmare of the war inter- rupted but it could not destroy the deep lying affinities between the English and German cultures. Over the better-part of European history England and Germany have been friends and allies and each has con- trlbuted and will continue to con- tribute stlmulating reactions and in- spiratlons to the civilization of the

lnatism regularly follow even mild

main until about the age of fifteen, i when the boy or girl were emerging . Literature And Life

into manhood and womanhood. Ton- si1s' are needed as a protection '——' against, and to fight’ ailments that wsolrrerietcivnenlias staid [that the historiirea attack the body, and 1r the tonsils, e ° Y °"° “P” 5"" Y arehcalthy they do their part in this more or less dramatic incidents "p" work. thrown much as insome beetling llowever where tonsils may_ look “all ‘by violin‘: 33in‘? glenlments‘ The fairly healthy, but atta a r n - m’ “m” s "Y i‘ s °"d “ml i‘ c S o r w ‘place in the chronicleisofttimes con- attacks of tonsillitis, the individual is lispimwufl by l: “wen”: H” “tile d°l taking grave chances, not only with we m“ ze e genuine influence“ crippling rheumatism but also wlthlwhlch have crystallized public om” heart disease. Hg‘ ‘m: midi‘ 5°!‘ human P1081955. Parents should think this mattens ge y sage medeflck Hamsm’ over carefully, and discuss it with lm his book upon "order and Pm!" their family doctor. It is most im-‘Iress’ tens us that “almost an great

portamh thing for a time have rested in the ‘energies of a small .minority, and most great changes in human history have shown a resolute few asserting the ascendancy of conviction." n; 15 well spoken. Literature is the con- starit index of this truth. The pom have their place in this resolute minority. Unfortunately, it is true, P5 W" 551d by a McGill University professor a few days ago, that a v3,“ Iler arms across her breast she laid: izglnflrflglgilpgltfgle deg?“ Pa"? P 5°“ She was more fair than words canirealjtleg or exlsaézm (‘an ‘r3218 the say. - . e p are Bare-footed came the beggar maid ‘too 0mm considered as htusiate“ swhcse serene pleasure or function it’ Before the King Cophctua: p15 to "s"; upon the hula w m . i ge er" In robdeogalgd crown the King stvllt | “kc the gods "careless of mankind-h To meet and greet her on her way; gigefigabigh“ ghee pgeuc impulse es- "It is no wonder," said the lords, p g e me “She is more beautiful than day."

THE BEGGAR MAID’

a flipping of refreshment of no par- ticular value as concerns the down- i right duties and practical issues of'

As shines the moon in clouded skies, She in her poor attire was seen:

One braised her ankles. one her me A Jug o’ wine and a l“ x “Yes- b a? v o o One her dork hair and lcvesome {flea Res’! but we “WEN the wine- mlen. e p3 0 the POBtlc programme

and forest the nutritious bread. Yet as We have been reminded, it may be fflirlr questioned whether any c1555 of craftmen, either with tools or pen- cil, have done more to advance the

Sc sweet a face, such angel grace, ‘In all that land had never been: Cophetua sware a royal oath:

"This beggar maid shall be my

Queen." 2-2‘ 4.0m Tennyson. "“'_—" ' I n A Y ‘ In "Romeo and Juliet”: 2-!

“YOIIIIB Adam Cupid» hi! that 5110i- P n o E c T Why not remember her with :4 Tired of looking al; the sunre old liuuse, the name wall; wirim- ~ " a nice box of Chocolate: Incc- H], floor: and furniture? on no of uni svrina i" fl When King Cophetua loved the Y o u R lglly bug] (m- un oncgflgfi? w treating yourself to a change-bright, cheery fumllur: befllwmflki" F We have propane far-ycur rooma full of color and harmony. a house out;