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‘THE CHARLUPTETOWN GUARDIAN

FEBRUARY 2s, 1936

The ilharlottotown Guardian

Ieonlnlont. Llnnh-Onl. I. Olnntll I. Isl-urn. Vino-Proficient. l. l. Burnett, I. J. l.

It!!!" nlll lnlllllll Director. I- l. Burnett» I- 3- l Auneinto Idltnrn, Irnnl Wnlhr null l). ll. Currie.

Inning Dally (founded It") $4.00 pnr you (in ulvnneo)

delivered in City. 88.00 per you (in ndvnneo) lnnllod to

Irina Idwnrd lllllll. 84.50 per yon: (In ndvnnee) llallnd tn (lnnuln nnll United Staten.

TUESDAY, FHBUAIIY $5, 1930

What Did Mr. King Mean‘?

‘ — The Canadian Press quotes Prime Minister Kmo as having said to the House of Commons:

“Up tothe present time mam‘ of the Government have been- unable to discover a number of commitments to which the country has been obligated Every now and then we have felt that we have reached a point where we are aware of all outstanding obligations, but to our amazement every few days some new obligations come to the front and we find that in connection therewith the country has been committed to great expendfures."

In the Department of Finance there is a very able Deputy Minister. Also a Comptroller of the 'l‘rcas1iry. Is Mr. KING suggesting that at any time 0r on any day since his coming into office these gentlemen could not have given him a completely accurate picture of the country's obligations? If so, then he is suggesting so1iie- thing which, to anybody with even elementary knowledge, seems impossible

The implication of Mr- Kmcfs words as he used them, was that the previous Government committed the country to expenditures about which nobody knew anything. were secret, or perhaps sinister.

What he must have meant, surely, was that

That they there you are.

may we say of peace and war, you can expect any kind pl trouble out if atkhe East. it?

Butter imports in January amounted to 8,965 pounds, of which 8,456 came from New Zealaiid and 509 from the United States. The value of the New Zealand product was $1,814 and of the United States $171.

ah at sh _ _ The value 0f inlports for Canadian indus- tries from 1933 to 1935 increased 44.7_ per cent. and lmlll _l934 l0 1935» 813 Pill‘ cent, while the value of imports not for Canadian industries from 1933 ~to 1935 increased 32.8 per cent. ahd fmm 1934 i0 I935. i4 pker cent-

9K

Cheese imports amounted to 67,581 pounds, practically the same as a year ago. The largest quantity came from New Zealand, 19,128 pounds at $1,881. There were 9,703 at $3,032 {mm swig- zerland» 8,969 pounds from Italy at $1,952, 5,888 at $1,588 from Argentina, $5,763 at $720 from Netherlands, with smaller quantities from the United Kingdom, United States, Bulgaria, Den- mark, Finland, France and Norway. 9K 5K 9K

In Government Controlled Quebec the groc- ers are agitating to be alloxx-ed to sell alcohol by the bottle. I11 an appeal to the Government they argue that ff a moral issue be raised, the grocery section of the Canadian Retail Merchants As- sociation say “it was much better to sell alco- holic beverages by the bottle in groceries rather than tolerate their sale by the glass in a quantity 0f chibs, hotels, restaurants, etc- It was felt that if such a course were adopted by the law-makers it would do much to reduce bootlegging." So

iii 9|? 9K The gist of the British, Inter-ministerial sec-

only now, day by day, is his Government com- ret report of 1934 on Ethiopia which was repro-

ing to realize the seriousness of the obligations it assumed. ' -

Empire Vs. U. S. Trade

Figures of Canada's export trade for Janu- ary, issued by Mr. EULER last week in Parlia- ment. are an interesting study.

January saw operation of our new trade agreement with the United States. This month. therefore, affords a good basis of comparison of the respective merits of the United States and British markets. _

\Vliat does the comparison show? It shows that while, in January, the United States was buying $20,000,000 worh, of goods from us, the United Kingdom was buying over $21-ooo.o00 worth. The United Kingdom alone. The whole of the British Empire bought much more than that.

The Canada-United States trade agreement included cattle_ In January our sales of cattle to the United States were 9,445 head» a big gain over last January- On the other hand, our 1935 sales of cattle to the United States totalled 103.- 000 head, so that unless there be a considerable gain for the rest of the year, our position in this respect will not show any substantial change from what it was just prior to the agreement. Indeed, the quota provision in the agreement, applying to cattle, makes any great gain impos- sible.

In the matter of other natural products, our exports to the United States in January were lower in value than they were a year ago. Wheat dropped in volume from 565,000 bushels to 87,- ooo bushels. And this drop occurred in the month when Canada was selling abroad-mostly in the British market-more than $6,000,000 worth of wheat. this as against about $4ooo,ooo worth in January of last year.

With the Canada-United States trade agree-

duced in Giornalc (Vltalia is that Britain has no

particular interests in that country, and would be

as well-off if not better with Italians in control. All that is essential is that Britain should secure territorial control ovcr Lake Tana and an ade- quate corridor joiniii this lake with the Sudan. and also over other Nile tributaries. It was a confidential document, however- and some one has betrayed the (iovernment in handing a copy to some one in Italy. Naturally the British Gov- eminent and members of the House of Commons are worried over the matter, not so much about the disclosures, which are really favourable. but over the fact that spies are having access to British data, 9K 9F 9K Referring to gambling cxpedicnts to help hospitals and other charities the London Spec- tator says : “It is a bad argument for voluntary medical services that, to exist, they must share the proceeds of gambling with promoters, crou- picrs, and punters, and a worse argument for gambling that it flourishes by involving hospitals and charities iii its own discredit. It has long been thought one of the advantages of the de- pendencc of hospitals and medical services on voluntary contributions that such a system pro- moted charity as \vcll as health. It appears now that it promotes gambling also; charity is scarc- ely the word for a. percentage of the gains made at roulette or chcmin-dc-fer. Nor did the qnes~ tions which engaged the attention of the court compel the conviction 'that the sole object 0f those who engaged in this charitable activity was the alleviation of pain and disease. Indeed, there appear to be more repellent diseases than those which lead to a hospital ward.” ‘It 9K 9k

Part of the evidence in the Washington en- quiry into the purchase of the Canadian Gov- ernment steamer Margaret was not carried by

the Canadian Press, and as it affects the credi-

lllfilll 3 lllQlllll Old, Blllalll Slllllemillns Olll’ best bility of the witness and the reputation of Can- mllkfli Wltll “l! Brlllsll ElllPlle fill‘ and 3W3)’ adian Government officials we think it only fair

our best market.

From these facts the Ottawa Journal con- cludes :

This coming Summer the Canada-United Kingdom trade agreement comes up for revision. Now it is an admitted fact that when the British delegates were in Ottawa negotiating the United ‘Kingdom agreement, one of the things which i11- fluenced them (it was- held over them skilfully and subtly) in yielding concessions was their thought of the United States. Always, like a shadow ovcr them, was the belief that if they didn't make an agreement with us, or an agree- ment that we liked, the United States would. And that, from their standpoint, would be bad.

The position has changed. Next July, when Mr. KING or Mr. KING'S ministers arrive in London to revise the Canada-United Kingdom agreement, British statesmen will not be afraid of the United States. They won't need t0 be. on the contrary, they will be able to say-and they are pretty good bargainerr-that our United States argument or weapon has become some- what blunted.

In other words, our United States turd 39 n trade bargaining thing» is no loriger face down. It is turned up, for all t_o behold it. 811d lll= B"? ish may now say to us-—they undoubtedly Will say it to us-“Is that all P"

Britain's Mr- ELLIOTT and Mr. Runciiunr will know how to use their advantage. They will

' ask, and not unreasonably, “Is that all the Unit- ed Statcs will do for you?" 93nd the lllleslm“ will be pretty potent in a bargain. _

In the circumstances, and looking at the matter from a purely bargaining standpoint it might have been a lot better for Canada, so far as future negotiations with the United Kmgdom may be concerned, if a trade agreement With ll"? ‘United States had been delayed.

With our neighbors to the south we‘ should pineal ne-

‘ gully-Amt our greatest market, incomparably, ' toward more difficult

_ ‘the: ommtry _ 411d: with the British undone is, for Canada, an

‘ unfortunate agreement.

to give it here. It will be recalled that the two alleged grafters being examined were ZIMMER- MAN, a ship’s broker, and m: F 1121112110141 a_ Span- ish agent representing Brazil revolutiomsts. ZIMMERMAN accused on FIGUEROLA of missap- propriating $20,000 of the graft, ‘and at the same time alleged he himself had given a Can- adian Government official $1,000 merely to ex- pedite the sale of the S. S. Margaret: Report fol- lows : m: FIGUEROLA offered an excited rebuttal, while 211111121110»: sat rocking with laughter. He sought to cast_ doubt on the ship broker’s story by contesting dates and names. “He's a grafter." said n1: FIGUEROLA. “Didn't he say he bribed that Canadian fellow. 1 think he kept that $1,000 himself." ZIMMERMAWS jovial. assurance was lost for the first time. “Such a brazenness of ly- ing is uncomprehensive to me," he said. - 5K it fi

An analysis of the trade statistics of 1935 indicates that more than one-third of Canada} total imports comprise commodities for use 1n the various industries of the Dominion. The total value of the sixty-two commodities imported for Canadian industries in 1935 amounted to $3.12.- 82o,ooo, compared with a similar import in 1933 valued at $i47,o71-ooo. and in 1934 at $l96»33_li- 000; the increase in 1935 over 1933 amounting to $65,749,090, or 44.7 per cent, _an_d oyer I934 to $16,439,900, or 8.3 per cent. Eliminating from the total value '0f Canada's imports H} _l93_3i 1934 and 1935, the total value of commodities import- ed for Canadian industries in those years, the total value of the imports of commodities not for Canadian industries in 1933 flmollllled f° $254,144,000, in 1934 t0 §3l7-¢°9»9°°- "d l" 1935 to $337,494,000; the increase _1n the _val1_1e of commodities not for Canadian industries 1n 1935 compared with 1933 amounting to $33i35°f ooo, or 32.8 per cent, and with 1934 to $20,135‘

Q00, or 6.4 p61‘ cent. * * *5

LORD Rsllomcui former _Viceroy of India. and outstanding lawyer and Jud!!! lflli_$l-45°r' 000, of which $365,000 has been Pllld "l 4%“, dues, He was the personal friend and politlm

adviser of Rt, Hon. D. Lbovn Geoaca who furth- ered his political career at every opportunity- bord READING was an eminently oucpelsful bl!’- ristef. He entered law in I and ill’ the same yen embarked on his Parliamenta eamr- A! a» proetitionerbefore the bar, his rllliance at-

‘ ' erected considerable attention, and 111096 "l"? u‘ York Yankees m to

‘ ’ were among the‘ greatest played to mm raw _ q appedred n; chief eomui in a long trials for which he received

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Notes By The Way

Stanley Baldwin. Prime Mahler of Great Britain, was once in the dock of a. police court. The Prime Minister mentioned this when he sat on the Btourport bench regent.- ly to make a presentation to stan- Icy Hemingway. who has retired from the office of magistrates‘ clerk, "I have had a pleasure which was never zranted i» you." he told m. Hemlnzwnv- "1 have been in the dock during the time your father presided over this court. It was in the time when muzzling order; were about. I had a do; of b, vgry inquisitive tum of mind, and 1g wafiked out of the gate to get. the early morning air. Then it sat down on the grass verge to tear it; mug- 11s <>ff~ Irwpectci- Walker, again by at the time, saw it wasglngurf ficiently c‘ad' and it cost me ten Shllllnss- (Laughter) 1 often wish in this strange life which I puf- Sue." added Mr. Baldwin, amid n"- ther laughter, "that muzaling ord- ers were more common than they are."'-I..ondon Observer.

1t a lleelesn eh try '10 am “m, I>°°D1e who base their claims on Historic Missions, Mammy; 9min. 105- b!‘ the Glories of Imperial Rome. and dangerous to make concessions to such claims, No; until it is plain that peaceful neg- otiations offers the only prospect of concessions will it be worth Wlllle w Resolute. oi- will claims be stated definitely and exhaustively- lilld it should be a condition of i...’ concessions that those receiving them should join the collective or- ganimtion of 5gcur|ty,_'1bmnfo University Quarterly.

Th! "llyor of Hamilton any; times have changed, and that people used to come at 8 in the evening lllld 80 home shortly after 10, while MW they do not arrive until 1o. For "m9 who spicy a swd night's rest we submit the old plan has some fine points which cannot be over- milked’?! erboro Examiner.

Eight German farmers oi’ Roth- enbnch on the Dutch frontier, have been sentenced to five months im- prisonment for making smuggers of their hens. The farmers, whose lands lay on both sides of the frontier, conceived the idea of feeding their hens in HOIhmd, where fodder is cheaper than in Germany,

,and then driving them over the

German frontier to lay their eggs in Germany, where eggs are dear- er than in Holland. This ingenious means of making the best of mm countries was at last discovered by the customs authoiities, but not before 2,000,000 eggs, according to the authorities’ e rimate, had been carried into . Germany without payment of impJrt duty-London Times. ~

A rate war of North Atlantlc steamship companies has been avoided by abolishing Jrst-class ac- commodation aitogerher. This re- calls the old noilce on the dining- mcm tables: “In order to prevent guests ‘from taking fruit from the tables to their rooms no fruit will be put on the tabl-esfl-Maii and Empire:

A correspondent of The Loodon (E118) Times glvzs his version of the origin of the saying "we; your whisre." Among tise fine colieclion of silver plate posse sed by Chiist Church Colege, Cxford, there is a tankard with a whistle in the handle. When it is empty all you have to do ls to whistle for more. —Windsor Star.

It is no new thing for thin coun- try to be without a Prince of Wales. There was a gap of 21 years be- tween the death of George III and the birth of the late King Edward in i841. A shorter interval occurred between the accession of George 111 in 1760 and the birth of his son two years later. But the hiatus ended with the change of dynasty in 1714. when George I created his son Prince of Wales ten days after landing. There seems to have been no Prince of Wafes since Charles I came to the throne B9 years before: for there seems to be no record of Charles II having bome the title. The new hiatus may be_a long one, for the next heirs to the throne are a brother and his two daughters-Iiondon Observer.

With their bnro flntn men and women fought a lion in thg dark for half an hour in n native hut nenr Nairobi. Tanginylka. recently. The beast was killed, a native has died from his wounds, and six othere are in a hospital. The lion crept into the hut at dead of night. Screams followed as the man-enter started dragging a native through the doorway. The other occupants of the hut. men and women, flung themselves on the animal and beat it with their fiste. A terrible bottle was fought in the darkness. Eventually one of the natives matched a bl * log from the fire and killed the intruder-Ex.

(ierlnlnly Mae Jaotdrintn 0| 0n- t-nrio am bearing. their full share of the burden of taxation. Bungee- tiom of n nominal lioenne fee and n reduction in the tu on gasoline were made by Liberals when they were cnm inning for oiiico. but not a whisper his been heard about it since. 1n Opposition the Liberals protested against motor car RIB-Wing into the general revenues of the province, but this hnn been conveniently forgetful newthattlwynreinomoaltil conceivable that improved financial condition will permit n reduction in taxation one of time dnyl. but when the tun; comes it would resin only fair that the motorist. who hnn been the heavy bur- den. should in one of the first to he accorded relish-landed P116

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Till owlnll lo DWI l" u" dlnonnnlnn b! Oirtnlflnllonln nl auction: or Internet. Ila onnrlnttetown Gnnrllnn done no! nnoonnnrlly nnlnrln tin Olllbl‘ o! ooIIonpnndnIt-n.

have overlooked- Not l0 R17 1°"! agowehndthethirtoenthdeam in three directly caused by drinking bad liquor w by vivlvw during drunken revels. A few week! ago I was foreman of the Grand Jury of Queens County, when we visited the nu we found as wu- onere confined there for vlolltion

ANTI-LIQUOR LAWS

Entire

In Jame: W. Barton. MD.

£1

LACK 0F THYEOID JUICE CAUSES SYMPTOMS OTHER

in the neck regulates the rate at

is high strung and nervous, usually

physically. If there is not enoguh Juice being manufactured the pro- cesses work more slowly, less heat is manufactured, - the

cally.

trerne overweight. with lack of phy- sical and mental

be stispected of being the cause of symptoms that are not so marked as these.

and development of the bones of the at any 111108 110 0°l1ld 8° body; dry and brittle hair; poor product. Possibly there was

emotional disturbances. sleep; finicky

and a. ness, inattentiveness, and a lack of \ .

any leadership in the various activi- cheap biyond ties of life."

"In infants. some 111 suspect ‘l cases of vomiting, colic in the in- mg Mr‘ testine and enlargement of the lower bowel-the large intestine, are due to this lack of thyroid juice."

If two or three of the symptoms W" _ mentioned above occur at the one diml- time, the thyroid gland should be suspected-

Dr. I-Ioslrins suggests that in sus-

pure liquor, of absenee of

Chapter i2.

has become very prevalent common. esp:cislly amilll! cers, servants, labourers.

of the hands and other tests should be made by which the lack of thy- roid juice can be shown.

longing to, this Island; the co and excessive use whereof

ficdi-ZLQOI/Itt/t.

FORE’ WSTE

occupations,

spective

spilled downward from the tower- ed clocks,

time swirls upon the gusty streets. “qugr legislation imm

1113 up to the present time it

where. the dark voice of water meets

the hulls of ships, the hours fall softly as settling gulls upon ‘

the river-tide. Beneath the tall bridges, a tug cries and is gone.

each instant oi the early year; strange tenderness hands;

wings _1vmnc°5p1o5g_ creasing indulgence,

cocoons 1101111 ATTARGE from being Ml

Alta, Feb. flg-KLPJ-Ceugars are disturbed by on the loose in-thia district and law." “he is settlers are worried. Aniirflls ap- there is excessive ilk 0i Pear to be more p‘ent-i.'ul this year but the .. bounty.

spent in tracking the animal» ILOMJ’. ENTERS

Mental l"

led ns n law student at ‘the Uni- perjury

Naturally if the youngster is very that time. It may be beat to quote press, and present fat and apparently" very lazy lt la his letter at some length in order favor of up: Clléllflfltéoé‘ u tizhvsgclagi tivtgfi- that readers may thoroughly under- hibition Law. 0 e ll ‘l9 5 N! 0 Y‘ stand and realize the progress that they? rqid Juiw- However DI- R- G- Hw- iiiis been made under this legiela- sbouiuh-c they? And should we who kl“, B°5"°“- l“ the Jmllnll-l °l the tion. I therefore quote Mr. Bentley are asking that something be done Amemm Medical “WW1” m“ describing conditions in 1173. Ge- towards making some improvement “s “l” "he" "l" l” a 15°“ °l "ll" mic 1m there was I10 law m this u. these terrible conditions be class- fiftillgaeolllgtgfldtg; 2:‘ nvovinoe prohibiting the sale of ed as antagonists to the cause of