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TUIBDAY, APRIL l, 188i.

A " “PLATFORM" FIASCO

Themystery of what became of Mr. Ra's “platfcrmfl which he was

,__ _“all set" to have delivered at the

Lenten banquet on Friday 1118M. ll

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certainly not cleared up by the ex- planation given yesterday by our contemporary. According to our

‘contemporary, Premier Bennett, in

his radio broadcasts, gave only a pm of his reform policy. reach/ins his “completely official platform" till a later date. This, it ls SHSBes- ted, is what Mr. Lea did in declaring. on Friday night, that "he would follow the democratic course of fully discussing with his candidates the complete platform to be announced.”

The parallel, we sussest, is not vary convincing. Mr. Bennett was not dealing with an election plat- form but with policies which he was about to introduce and did intro- duce, at the present session of Par- liament. His course from the first was clearly defined and consistent. Mr. Lee's course was precisely the reverse. The assurance was em- phatically given in a front page an- nouncement in the Liberal press that at the banquet on Friday "fire plat- form and policy of the Liberal party" would be announced. That it ‘was to be a full and complete plat- form was indicated by the further statement that a pre-banquet con- ference would be held at 3 p. m. in the Board of Trade rooms “where an opportunity will be given to fully and freely discuss the various planks of the Liberal platform before it is finally adopted."

Obviously, this did not refer to any “democratic course of lfully

. discussing with his candidates the

complete platform to be announced," because the candidatcs are not yet

-in the field and many who took

active part in the pre-banquet dis-

' cussion, and fought like blazes over

the planks, were not even prospec- tive candidates!

It is clear that Mr. Lea came to the Friday afternoon conference with a fully constructed platform which he expected would receive in- dorsation beforc the banquet pro- oeedings started. But something happened which neither he nor our contemporary anticipated. The con- ference became a free-for-all, with the result that some of the “pI-unks“ were carried ofi bodily and thrown overboard, while others were sawn down and trimmed to suit the 13955. not of Mr. Lea, but of one or other of the party stalwarts. The Opposi-

.tion leader had then to go before

the banquet and present all that was left of his “platform? and iii

- doing so he washed his hands of the

"whole matter by saying‘ that it would have to be reconstructed by

“mthc as yct non-existent party can- .. didutes.

Of course, the Opposition leader

“ was at a disadvantage in going bo- W-fore his supporters after the poor

showing made against the Govern- ment in the legislative debates, es-

bacon, when he had been deserted “by his Attorney General, Mr. Thane

A. Campbell. Mr. Campbell, had hc been present at the Friday af- ternoon conference, might have pre-

vented the demolition of the “plat-

form," m- at least he could have ad- vised his lcadcr as to the shaPmE 0f one that might have proved more

“ ' “ acceptable.

If the worst comes to the worst, Mr. Lea of course can go to the country on his "n. o. r." He did that last time, and the result. W88 not very encouraging. But if his followers persist in running things to suit themselves, and smashing up his platform before he-haa B chance to launch it, what else can he do?

OTTA WA AGREEMENTS

Canada's trade returns continue i9 reflect the advantages of tho Ottawa, agreements, and also 1h‘ ilicate a revival of international trlde. A statement issued by Hon. B. B. Hanson. Minister? of ‘Trade and Commerce, shows that for the plum months ending February do-

’ Ianutlo enrorts m all countries m- Jq-ggggd from ‘$21,106,434 in 1934 to

. i mes-n u» ma. anlncreasc of mm, o. 1a.: per cent. These

' to pupae countries increas- non (‘mm-loom m4 to coir,- ' iii in II}. In increase of $3.- ‘ pa, arms percent, whlla sim-

ymss. ""“ """

I findultb‘

iIfllIilIIl. Carlin. IIUIIIIQDUCiDIdIYIfl. Dlllil

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or 16.4 per cent. ,

m, the eleven months endind Ibbruary our imports from all countries wen 888,710,801 in 10M M compiled with $114,940.01! in 19cc, an increase of arson». or 22.8 per cent. The imports from Elnplm countries were $121,312,200 in 1984 and ilclflnfiil in 1985. In increase ofhiliillflgll, m" 13.2 pcr cent, while the imports from for- eign countries wen $259,067.98 in 1934 and 880250.099 in i936. an increase of 811,189,366, or 27.5 per cent. During those eloven months imports from the United Kingdom increased from Manama in m4 to eioagorsls in 1985; an increase of $7,406,750, or 1.8 per cent, while the imports from the United States. increased from $200,123,011": in m4 to $272,307,460 in 1985, an increase of $63.l83_,'l'l8. or 30.2 per cent.

EDITORIAL NOTES

Certainly business is on the boom, according to Bank and Com- mercial Agency reports.

From all accounts the renovated Prince Edward Theatre, which‘ opens with an all-star programme on Thursday, ls altered for the bet- ter almost beyond recognition.

. The grocery and general store business expands by leaps and bouncb. "PU." has added an ex- tension to his already large prem- ises, and intends replacing the pres- ent front with large plate glass windows.

The unfortunate illness of Cap- tain Eden is another evidence of the extraordinarily severe strain being put on statesmen and diplomats in these critical times. The sudden passing of Mr. Delano Robbins at the early age of fifty is mother. The strain is almost more than the strongest can withstand.

Liberal insincerity was never made more manifm than in their present attitude in the Federal Parliament. While demanding Gov- ernment control of the Central Bank in favor o! the Big Interests, they qmose control of m; Inter- ests in business as recommended by the majority of the Stevens Commission.

m. .' o. Hyndman, of the 1...‘...- portatlon Commission, has been‘ in telegraphic communication with Messrs McLure and Myer-g, Dr: MacMll-lan, Dr. Manion, and Mr. Fullerton over the Dominionsob- ligation to provide an adequate train service between Mbncton and Tormentine in connection with the Car Ferry.

In our sheltered nook on the Eastern seaboard. we have much to be thankfulfor in the matter of weather and social conditions. We have extremes in neither, and for the most part know of excesses onlyv from TNWSDBDer reports. Here over the week-end we had calm temp- erate weather, while elsewhere there were storms causing death and dis- aster.

Miss Agnes MadPhail, M.P., is Easily fooled by the plausability of undoubted sccundrels. It will be re- called she made a laughing stock of herself by swutly protesting against the punishment of a pris- oner who turned out to be a con- vict 0f notorious reputation. Now she complains that another prisoner with a long prison record in Can- lfl. and the Unflod Mates. had declared that an ofll- cer told him Miss MacPhail “would never be able to lift up her head in the House again." It looks as if the prisonerwas coming nearthe truth on this occasion.

_._.-__ Danzig willremain independent of both Germany and Poland as the noult of the recent vote, aitbou" the Nails are still in control with an increased msiority. Damig in a Prue City, but with a large Ger- of oitllenr. Nearly

‘that Germany. has finally settled every

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delinquent taxes!

The return of the

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modern jazz dancing.

pedestrian crossings,

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tery.

and again

Tribune.

ers increases the evil.

Spectator

high crimes

armamon her own aggremion. Such

ls the position of the first of the “ acted" Powers after the nego- lll 101N011- Bilt What about the second of them. Hllhsflry. now her former ally. important What about our rightful aspirations and armament equality for us? What about our security? What about our rights lmder the muiorclty provisions of the Treaty of ‘Irlanon? What about the fulfilment of those clahng which we have never renounced. when are the discussions to start about; the Icfeements reached at Home? On a bilateral or a multilateral basis? And‘if bilateral. have they filmy begunr-Pestl Naplo, Buda-

Victorian quadrllle is forecast in dancing circles. It is expected that the Jubilee Ball at Buckingham Palace will be opened with state qua- the King and Queen will dance. Some believe such an example would offer serious threat to the popularity of

, the conditions

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Notes By The Way. no p111 arr-Tu.- Convention, Gcmlany ro-obtalns t equality and security on IOOOIIDU Nil-hit l-ll

Nothing is so difficult to appraise as mother's mind. We may be w- quainfed with a person for years, and yet not know him but in a. mtall way. "Judge not" is more ap- plicable to the mind than to any- thing else—for -it is the most easily misjudged and the most misunderstood. Ono's mind is one's realm," one's empire, one's playground-one's estate. It's ion that we own from the cradle to the grave, and which cannot be taken from us through foreclosure or because of

Mayor McGeer-‘a boast that he would lead a. riot and throw the sheriff into the bay should that official be given the job of collect- 111B‘ taxes in Vancouver by holders of defaulted bonds was not received with acclaim by his fellow mayors. The sheriff doing duty prescribed for him by provincial statute would have the protection of lvfr. lVmGeer as mayor and as a member of the Legislature. His talk in Montreal is bombastic nonsence and dangerous. It is as if the chief of a fire depart- ment were to ‘incite to lngendiarism,

England. on her own account, does not fear Germany a; does France or Russia. She does not be- live that she will be the first object of any attack. Indeed, there is much reason for believing ihat Germany would not force a war without be- ing sure that England would not be against her.-Dertiot News.

The real problem is not so much how people use the roads. but what kind of roads are provided for them to use. In narrow congested streets, in wide roads without facilities for all thoroughfares where traffic of vast- ly different kinds is mixed up to- gether. accidents will occur. They are inherent in road chaos, and we wish we could feel sure ‘that _ Ministery of TTBHEPOTt as much appreciation of. the need ‘for road reform as there is for safety devices-London Daily

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Looking as straightforward and as intelligently as we can at the religion which Jesus Christ came to establish on the earth we cannot ecape the convicition that it was intended to he upsetting. 50810913’ need Jesus’ 0am statement: “I came not to send peace. but a sword." to convince us that there was, of Divine intention a decidedly revolutionary purpose in l-lis heart and working itself out in the things that He. did and said throughout those strange years of His minis-

We have pointed out here time that. however meant it may be, compromise with the silver crowd is a wholly mis- taken policy. To this unscrupulous group compromise is merely a sign of weakness and hence an invita- tion w demand bigger and bigger subsidies. Such has been the history of the silver agitation for the last two years. No sooner has this crowd got what it asked for than i; has commented figuring out some way of reaching out and grabbing some- thing more.-—New York Herald.

It is time that the motoring pub- ' llc revised their Judgments motor accidents. In most cases some one is culpable. and excessive ten- derness in dealing with the offend- Thls false tolerance is short-sighted and weak. Instead of thinking. “I may get into trouble," the motorist should say. "Unles this thing is stopped. I may be killed." The Juryman, in- stead of saying. “The unfortunate family of the accused." rather think, “My family may be unfortunate unless I show these reckless drivers they cannot klli or inhue with lmpunityP-l-lamilton

American business was at a dis- ,advantagc, not very long ago. be- cause it was so heavily charged with and micdemeanours. Millions of 98091:: were suffering from the bonkpanic and trade collapse of almost two years ago; and thxynwcro ready to believe any- thing _t__ t waaaald against bank- er: as a class. But bankers had not created unmet

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change. The same was followed by scrpts already well

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_ . A physician knows thatths body a that is work- ing at its greatest capacity all the time. As a matter of fact your body l!‘ ‘Willi-bl; 01 ilolnil a great deal more worse than 1t is ever called

Thus we find an extra eye, an extra lime, m extra kidney, extra islands in various parts of the body; we know that the liver is much _ larger than it needs to be, that mg heart can’ beat twice as often and. puniptwlce as fmuch blood with evey beat as it does under ordln. ‘ary circumstances. 1p fact ha“ g1 5W?“ IIIIDOI-‘twtorgans as the liver, kldneyfl. lungs, stomach; small intestine and large intestine,

Wbllld Si!" keel) on doing its work. A5 Profit W. B. Cannon, Harvard UNVBYSRY. Points out. ‘Nature l6 "My for more than the ordinary needs v1 the body. and it is because the body has this extra strength that the physician is ablelto-geegtm

A trained physician knows the ‘ much extra strength the body can exert in em. ersencies and endeavors to prevent anything interfering with the body's effort to use this extra power or

and heat manufactured by the body by m, Pmcflififis going on within it, may increase the body temperature to a dangerous height unless the alert physician prevents it. Or great feu- can act on certain organs and cause Emit body disturbance. The family Physician can so explain this that the patient is reassured and loses

Now when anything goes wrong withthe body the physician knows that if given time the body will right itself because of this extra or reserve strength it possesses, and the physician is able to explain to the Patient why time is necessary to TWWBPY and thus instills patient-g

"In the body there are admirable devices for maintaining its ability. to keep on working despite attacks of illness from within an without. and there is extra strength gnd special

when we are afflicted and our body resources seem low, we should thinkpf these power; o! protection and healing which are ready to work for the bodily welfare,

> - (Exchange) ’ Deposit in the Princeton Univer- sity Lbrary of 200, ancient Chinese oracle bones from Oha/o Kuo-cheng should result. if scholars are at- tracted to the study of these ob. jects. in at least partial bridges for three somewhat ya/mlng gaps in historical knowledge. One is the origin of writing. Another -is the early history of oracles and divination. The third is the mystery of whether the start of Chinese civilization did or did not depend on contacts with an-

The oracle bones of Chan Kuo- cheng are known to be ill&rlbed with written characters pin-t way bet/ween pure pictures and mbi- trary characters representing ab- stract ldeas. says an American Ex- development ancient the cuneiform of Babylonla and the hieroglyphic of Egypt. These two seem in have developed independ- ervy. Students of the history of like to be sure whether the same development al- so went on independently in China or was conditioned by Occidental

Two kinds of divination seems to be almost equally ancient; both of them Bablyonian and both much older than the famous oracle of One was to read the fu- ture from the stars. The other de- pended on examining the organs sacrificial animals. especially their livers. Both nrobablyhad. at first, quite reasonable foundations: star reading in prediction of the screens. liver reading in detection of dangerous animal plagues. It is less ea-v to discern how. when and where began the familiar Grecian idea of oracbss which spoke and category the Chan KIIB-‘Jhifn’! oracle apparently belonged, the inscribed bones be- ing either theoues-tions asked of the oracle or perhaps. in some in- stnaces. the answers which the

The idea that Chinese civiliza- tion sprang from Bablvonian roots rests more on inherent probability than on actual discoveries. Baby- lonian merchant venturers seem tn have ranged widely over the world more ‘than four thousand wears ago. It seems unlikely that China

would have escaped them .to say nothing of the possibilities thatboth Gnina and Babylon

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Bo. far as my fishermen neighbors are concerned I and my family can starve. Yet these same fishermen expect the Government and public

worked. up over-their

HOG P319088 AGAIN

Blr,—0onstnictivc criticism should by any indi- vidual or organization, but dcctmc- tlve ofiticimi, such as was levelled against the Livestock Marketing Board by some individual in recent issues of your paper, under the title “Hog Prices". must of necessity act as a boomerang; like that famous missile used as a weapon by the Australian aborigins. which when thrown would describe a series of curves and finally rcooll on its pro- k110i‘.

"Producer" states that the Mar- keting Board. whether intentionally or not. materially assisted in lower- ing prlces to the producer of hogs. let us analyse this statcment and examine the facts: In 1026 I went to Montreal with one hundred andforty one hogs. Why did I gol Because at that time the Montreal and ‘Ibronto prices stood at 3-3 1-4 cents per pound higher than the beat prices quoted in the Maritlmes. Itcostl i-4ccntstoplaccthemon the Montreal stock yards, thus giving tb-the prodmor an addi- tional 2 cents per pound. In other wvfflfl. on the entire hipmen the farmers received slightly over Five Hundred Dollars extra net returns. Again, in April 1927 I left Char- lottetown with two hundred and ninety-seven hogs for the same marketywhere the price was still 2 cents per pound better than the home quotations. What , happened! f was intercepted at Borden where I received instructions from the Marketing Board to divertdelivery to a Maritime destination, as a re- vised quctation was in line with the value placed upon the hogs by the Board.

What ‘do we find today! Prices in the Marlltimes are equal to and occasionally a little higher than in Montreal. This I maintain is due to lac-operative marketing of hogs. I have at hand a manifest of a half car olf hogs loaded at Vernon, for which the owners received $8.06 pcr hundred‘. country weights. The same may some thirty hogs were trucked’ to Charlotetowrl from this

was received. It cost aolroximately 1-4 cent per poundfor truckage. thus leaving a net price of‘ $8.75 to the fanner of: truck weights. An additional 1-2 cent per pound or theleabouts may be allowed for shrinkage while enroute to Char- lottetown. The point is easily seen. Had this lot of thluty hogs been in- cluded with the others the saving in frlegm charges would have been sufficient to bring the net price close to 0' cents per pound weights at Vernon. However." farmers must arc-operate in the fullest sense if the maximum advantage is to be realized.