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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER ll. 1931

PICKING A CHAMPION

It l: now several years since the last Baby Show was held in Char- lottetown. Those who recall the_ enthusiastic interest taken in the! event will not be surprised if we| suggest that it is time for the holding of another. It may be too late to make the arrangements for such an exhibition this fall, but how about next summer? The, show should be open to baby con- testants all over the Province, and care should be taken, of course, t0 insure their utmost comfort and safety. It is scarcely necessary to add that the exhibition would be one of the finest seen anywhere in Canada.

One of the most successful baby shows held on the continent was at the Canadian National Exhibition at Toronto last week. The entry list included 853 Three large tents were placed at the dis- posal of the show, one, a sort of resting home for parents, another

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for measuring and weighing and a third for judging. A score each of policemen and and ten doctors, dispensed “smiles, arrow-

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root biscuits, and marks." "Thou- sands of baby admirers," we read, “stormed the tents all day, and formed a solid wall, several deep, all around them.“

Styles change in babies, appar- ently. "Two years ago the contest- ants were all sun-tan. Last year they were pink and white. This year a peaches and cream combination seemed just about right.” A couple of weeks of cold weather accounted for the change of complexion, some mothers pointed out.

Blue rompers were the favored costume for the 136 bouncing boys who turned out in the 9 to 12 month class. N0 less than 122 little girls, from nine to twelve months, almost all attired in wee pink dresses, gurgled at the judges. S0 fine was the class oi‘ girls from 12 to l8 months that two extra prizes had to be distributed to the chosen of 185 entries. This was the class which presented the champion, Patricia Armstrong of Toronto, with first prize, qualifying 1m- to enter with other first prize winners for the sweepstake. Patricia. is 16 months old, weighs 24 pounds 12 ounces the ruler. Her head measures l8 inches and her chest, 20- She has ten teeth, is just able to walk nice- 1y. find goo-gooed her appreciation of the judge"! choice before an ad- miring audience of several thou- sand.

Without in any way disparaging the claims of Patricia, we suggest there are babies in this Province who would have given her a close run for the championship. In any

event, a Provincial Baby show would undoubtedly be a. big suc- cess. I

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FEED THE BIRDS

"If you are going to feed the birds this winter, start now," ad- vises "Agricola" in his interesting Newsy Notes in Saturday's Guard- ian. "Don't wait until the birds have decided that there is nothing for them, and have betaken them- selves to the deep south. Get them used to the idea that a meal awaits them-regularly-and they will vi:- it you in the dark days coming." . This is excellent advice, and‘ "should be followed, especially by our. younger readers. ‘There i: ‘enough food wasted in every home to feed the birds. It i: just a mat- ter of exercising a little thought- fulness toward our feathered popu- latlon, who are an invaluable a:- set to tho former and a source of Uoy to every one. Without the birds, "God's choristera," no :um- mer day would be complete. 'I‘hero is always a scarcity of forage for

to the door for their ration: 0! bread crumbs and other food- The time to begin this humane practlcc. as “Agrlc0ll" suggests, is before the severe weather set: in.

THE SLACKER DOLLAR

“The very root of our unemploy- ment problem," says an Americln automobile manufacturer quoted edi- torially in the New York Sun, "runs down to the unemployed dollar- the dollar that is afraid to venture forth-sometimes through fear oi public opinion . . . When the slacker dollar goes to work men will go to work, and not before."

There is much truth in this statement, which ls as applicable to Canada as to the United States- The slacker dollar should be regard- ed with as much opprobrlum in periods of business depression as was its prototype during the War.

MANITOBA POLITICS

‘There will soon be an opportun- ity to test the trend of politi-

‘cal opinion in the West. The

term of the Bracken Government in Manitoba, which was carried into power by the Progressive wave of ten years ago, expires in January next and a general provincial elec- tion is likely to take place at the first favorable opportunity after the crops are in. The standing of parties in Manitoba now is, Pro. gressives 28; Conservatives 15; Lib- erals 5; Labo: 3; Independents 2, and one vacancy which the govem- ment has not been in a hurry to fill. The Premier is Hon, John Bracken, who was head of the Manitoba Agricultural College be- fore being called to the political life.

THOSE SLOW BRITISH

Yes, comments a sarcastic con- temporary, firltain is slowing up. All she is able to do is to keep on building the fastest locomotives, and to win the Schneider Cup without even competition, and to build the fastest automobiles, and run away from the Yankees with her motor boats. Finally, as a fur- ther depressing evidence of how she has 1°“ h" Dunch, she is just now bulldlus the largest and costliest and SDeediest ocean liner that the world has ever seen.

EDITORIAL NOTES

A special srend Jury which inves- tigated the Chicago police force re- Wned m" iii Wfls “second to none in America for honesty, integrity and efficiency." One might ask what other police force this grand jury ever investigated,

A British joumallst predicts that before flve years, or perhaps, ten

'have elapsed. Paris will ‘be brought

within twenty hours’. travel of New York by mean: of 50-ton or even 150-ton planes. Buenos Alres and Tokyo will be three or four days’ journey from Paris. Air travel, as the recent pageant at the Upton Airport strikingly demonstrated, i: steadily becoming an accepted fact, and the world l: being covered with a network of air‘ lineup ,

The beautification of highways is a subject that is now beginning to receive some consideration. A news latter published weekly by the Chamber of Commerce of the Unit- ed States in a recent issue said in this matter: "Highways are more than arteries of commerce and travel. To all who approach a city through a highway, such highway i: tho front door of that city. it welcomes or repels the stranger ac- cmding to it: beauty or _ nus." 111i: applies with quite s: much force to Canada a: to any

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IIDTES BY TIIE WAY

placed ten percent and a good deal more of the royal income at the disposal of the imperial govern- ment in order to offset the amoral depression in Great Britain. Of this splendid example the Iiondon Dally Telepragh nysz-"Yet again, His Majesty makes himself one with hi: people, and stands before the world as a living proof of that. na- tional unity of purpcle thlt 810M is needed to surmount our difficul- ties." I: it any wonder that both in the homeland and in the domin- ions beyond the sea: the love and loyalty of his people so out in un- stinted measurcto hiaMajaty King George the beloved sovereign of the greatest empire that ha: been?

Under the caption "They Know" an Ottawa exchange say::-The strongest and most intelligent op- ponent: of war in these times are the men who have fought. The men who know that talk about glory of war l: a fraud. that it: romance is a sham, It is this knowledge that is behind the peace-voice of the Canadian Legion. And it is this opinion, the opinion of the men who did the fighting in the last war, and who would have to do the fighting in the next war, that counts for peace. statesmen and politicians and diplomatist: may mumble about peace without their mumblings meaning much . But when the masses of the people. the people who have done the fighting or who would have to do the fighting, decide that they want peace, peace will come."

A community with a. diminished income can maintain its normal spending upon social services only by curtailing its expenditure “Dun the far more important business of producing goods and essential ser- vices. Obviously the only safe course is to cut down the expend- iture upon a. non-productive ser- vice to enable more money to be spent in the production of wealth. It is the failure to realize this truth that has led Govemments to waste huge sums upon unproductive doles. The inevitable effect has been to reduce the fund available for the production of wealth, and thus to create more unemployment than before.

Out of I. total of’ $642,259,949 in claims paid to life insurance policyholders and beneficiaries in Canada and the ‘United States in 1930, over $37,000,000 was paid to Canadian policyholders, according to final figures for the year pre- pared by the National Underwriters of the United States.

Respects for the pa found spirit- uality of Mahatma Gandhi, says a Toronto exchange, is not increased by the knowledge that one of his chhf lieutenants on" the voyage to England will spendmost of his time in making little idols ‘from a

recall the lines from Mandalay: “Bloomlrr idol made of mud What they call the great God Budd Plucky lot she cared "for idols When I kissed her where she stood. On the road to Mandalay."

One of the objecis of the Feder- al Government's tariff policy i: to encourage the exportation of Can- adian butter to the British Market. Hitherto Canada has supplied but- ter only in inappreciable quanti- ties to the British market. It i: ev- ident, says The Dublin Weekly 1h- dependent that Canada is bent upon capturing a substantial portion of the trade. Her exports to Britain have risen from 104 cwts in the first half-of 19301.0 H.848 cwts. in the first-six months of this year. Should progress ‘at this rate be maintained, the Dominion might, in the course of a few years, be- come one of the principal :upply- ing countries.

Then i: no one who has any acquaintance with world affairs who does not know first, that it is war debts, centering as they do upon German reparations, which are breeding the financial crises that have three times already this year threatened the financial :truc- ture of the world, and, secondly, that as matters now stand Ger- many cannot pay her reparation: bill as that bill stands. Everybody knows that France ‘will pay u: nothing that she cannot collect from Germany over her "net" in- demnity; can we fairly ask Eng- land for our hand in such circum- atancesi-Wall Street Journal.

The devastating ingenuity of the scientist: i: a feature of thi: cen- tury. Given tlme, your Teutonic chemist, for example, will make some sort of n. substitute for any common article from practically any unlikely raw material which

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HOW ‘I'll! SUN'S RAY SHGBTEN AILMINTS

In this civilization of ours we must live indoor: a good part of the time at our work. Many remain indoors when there i: no rcacon to do :0, and when the air is comfortable and the aun bright.

Naturally, as a race, wc an mic:- lns many of the benefit: of the ray: of the sun.

In an endeavor to bring sunshine and its benefits into tho homo, to babies, to invalid: and others, many ‘sunshine’ lamp: are on the market, and research men have been experi- menting‘ to ace whether all tho hen. eflts claimed for these lamp: are real, or whether the lamp just ‘seems’ to help because the indivl. dual thinks it l: helping him.

Dr. P. Woringer, Berlin, made ob- servations on patients with measles, chickenpock, and on those vaccin- ated with cowpox vaccine. Menclea developed among children of a tuberculosis centre; previously the children were exposed daily in bath. ing suits to tho sun's rays. The rash was more intense, more severe, on the exposed parts than on the nonexposed parts of the body.

In children during the few days after measles and u ‘ enpox had started in them, but before the rash appeared, one half of the body was exposed to the rays of a quartz lamp while the other half was cov- ered with a black cloth. In those with measles the eruption developed as much as two days sooner on the exposed half than on the nonexpos- ed half of the body. In children with chickenpox, the little sores (vesi- cles) developed early, and were more numerous on the exposed side; only one or two little sores appeared on the nonexposed side two days later. , ‘

Infants were vaccine‘ ‘ on both arms and then one arm was exposed V) ‘he fBY-S- The vaccination sores developed earlier, and were larger on the non-exposed arm.

What doe: this teach us?

That the sun's rays, the rays of the quartz ‘lamp, makes the resist. in! forces in the body work harder and faster, and the youngsters get rid of the ailment that much sooner.

Dr- Worlnsvr say: that ,1: the sun's rays will do this in ailments "he" there is an eruption, why can't it do it when the ailment ls of the kind that doesn't have an erup- tion.

You and I are going to increase our resistive power to ailments, the more our bodies are exposed to the rays ofthe sun,

POSTED AS MISSING

Under all her “ she trembled like a stag,

The wind make a ripple in her bon- ny red flog;

They cheered her frbm the shore and they cheered her from the pier“

And under all her topsoil: she trem- bled like a deer.

So she passed swaying, where tihe green sea: run,

Her wind-steadied topsoil: were stately in the sun; ,

There was glitter on the water from her red port light,

So she passed swaying, till she we: out of sight.

long and long ago it wa:, a weary time it 1:.

The bones of her sailor-men are coral plants by this;

Coral plants, and shark-weed, and a mermaid’: comb,

And if the fishers net them they never bring them home.

It‘: rough on sailors‘ women. They have to mangle hard,

And stitch at duagarees till their finger-ends are scarred, Thinking of the sailor-men who sang among the crowd, Hoisting of her topsails when she

sailed so proud.

-John Maseiield.

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activities are harmless and not without amusement. But the recent extraction of :ynthetlc albumen from coal by Berlin scientist: is

another matter. The world already-

ahudders before the Immense vol- ume of supcrfluou: wheat, beef and other foodstuff: which are pro- duced by too enthusiastic farm- ers‘ in despite oi flooded market: and falling pricea. Now, if the chemkt: have their way, great store: of vlctuals will b: provided from cool.

WORLD ARMAMENTS

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(Toronto Mail and Empire)

In viow of the International D11‘ armament Conference which W111 begin at Geneva on Feb. 2. 1932. the League of Nations Society 1h Canada has issued a useful book- let entitled “Dion ament: Facts. Figures and Quotations." It 13X- plain: the obligations to disarm un- der the peace treaties; describes the different conference: for limi- ation of armament; discusses the question whether disarmament would cause unemploymentv and gives figures to show the colossal colt ‘of armaments. 'I'his booklet, which has reached a circulation 0f 100,000, may be ObtBlXiBd from the society in Ottawa.

An analysis by the World Peace Foundation from the forthcoming League of Nations Armaments Year Book shows that $0,158,003.00!) was spent by sixty nations on of- fensive and defensive armaments in the last fiscal year. The United States heads this list of sixty nat- ions with an expenditure of $207,- 425,000, This does not include p811- sions or debts from past wars. The standing army number: 140,000 men and the navy is regulated by treaty, but the rate of pay, cost of clothing, food, etc., are all high- The fact is that the United States i: carrying a heavy armament bur- den. Following the United States come: Russia with $518,000,020; France, third, with $466,960,000; and Great Britain fourth, with $465,- 255,000. The Year Book gives the following; Canada, $21,069,000; Australia, $18,419,702; New Zealand, $3,496,150; South Africa, $4,906,891; and India, $211,587,622. Following Great Brialn, come Italy, with $248,946,500; and Jaipan,- with $236,- 851,500. The six big nations account for approximately two-thirds of the world total.

Comparisons with pre-war years are difficult, due to changes in the purchasing power of currency in different countries, but there is no reason to doubt that expenditures for armaments are greater to-day than they were before the war. The Iondon Economist has estimated that, outside of Germany. the bud- gets of European nations for mili- tary and naval expenditures a- mount to about $500,003,000 more than in 1913. President Hoover has estimated the total expenditues in all nations at 70 percent. above the pre-war level. The figures of the League of Nations Year Book show that during the last year, a depression year when it was not easy for governments to raise money, einpeaditures for military purposes increased by $100,000,000.

No Shell Shock?

(Edmonton Journal)

A news report recording a local tragedy. stated that the victim was subject to attacks of amnesia "as a. result of shell shock received in the war." To most men who serv- ed in active theatres, shell shock was a very real thing. There were instances of men who had gone through many an attack and bom- bardment apparently unafraid, even blithely, being reduced suddenly to a state of abject terror by a single explosion of a heavy shell or after being subjected to along and con- tinuous bombardment. Yet now one reads that shell shock has no existence. There is not and never ha: been such a thing. The de- clsion was recorded at the sixth in- ternationaL congress of medicine and pharmacy at The Hague rec- Bnfly- It was the unanimous opin- ion of the 165 delegates who repre- sented forty nations.

What has been known assheli 811001! W88 described by these learn- ed medicos as a. neurotic condition resulting from the stimulation by war of persons of dormantly neu- rotic temperament. Persons of a normally healthy nervous state. they said,are not mentally affected by shell shock or any other phase of warfare. To those who may be interested in the technical langu- use employed. the following quo- tation is supplied:

"The role played by emotional shock: is of particular importance 1n 9-116 89116518 of psycho-neurosis, leading during the war m p031;- emotional ‘ayndromes,’ but the we,» has not created psychosis of a, new kind, of an evolution hitherto un. known. No new morbid entity has been observed. The terms ‘shell- shoek’ and ‘post concussion syn. drome’ have been wrongly nppllgd at times. It is advisable to cease the us: of such term or to limit their application to cases strictly controlled.”

Medical men were convinced that the victim: of so-called shell shock entered the war suffering from com: form of neurosis

Veteran: will be particularly in- lW-IM in the succession that "persons of a normally healthy ner- you: state are not mentally affected

by shell chock or any other phase of warfare-f They will doubt if there we: onefinan in a hundred

THE DOLE BURDEN

(Mail and Empire)

Beside: placing’ a heavy bllfdm upon British trade and industry. the extravagant social services in- troduced in Great Britain by Mf- Lloyd George, and recklessly ex- tended by the present Government. conginue to play havoc with the ancient families which have serv- ed the nation well. The Earl of Lonsdale ls disposing of his racin!

Castle to strangers. The Earl of Derby is selling his race horse: and will sell hi: magnificent estate of Knowsley if he can find a purchas- er. So the present Lord ‘Btrflthuunl has placed on the market the large Scottish estate built up by the first peer of that name, who as Donald Smith, became so Prominent in Cull adian affairs more than a Belief“- lon ago.

There is no suggestion that un-l necessary tears should be shed ov- cr the financial difficulties of great families while millions of unem- ployed people are experiencing ac- tual physical want. The fact re- mains, however, that both the nob- illty and the prolctariat are suffer- ing from the extravagances and lmprovidence of modern 80V- ernments. A system of expenditure

to-do without improving the lot of the masses can scarcely be defend- ed. The sooner all get back to self- i-ellant individualism the better it will be for high and low.