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‘FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2s, 1930

. >Philosopliic Resignation

According to the report of the Fed- rrni Minister of Agriculture for the year ending March 3i, 1929, which has been tabled in Parliament, "Can- ada has lost her connection, for the present, with the United Kingdom market so far as the butter trade is concerned." The Minister iu his re- port does not undertake to give the reason for this loss of "connection," though it ls one which our dairy producers will have no difficulty in explaining. As Hon. R. B. Bennett pointed out in his speech on the Draft Address the other day, a tar- if: policy that gives the farmer a protection of only one cent per pound on his dairy products is scarcely cal- culated to encourage production. The Federal Minister has evidently washed his hands oi any responsibil- ity in the matter, for he adds: “If and when the production of cream-

ery butter again overtakes. home'

consumption, there will be no diffi- culty in finding a market in the United Kingdom for any that may be available." ln the face of a threat- ened invasion of 50,000,000 pounds of New Zealand butter into Canada this year, there is little inducement for the producer to attempt to recapture the British market.

Premier King's Dilemma

Analyzing the election rumors cur- rent at the opening of Parliament, an exchange points out the significant

fact that while Liberal members were ‘

Voicing the opinion that a 1931 ses- sion "of the present Parliament would bogheld, the Conservative members iota.‘ unanimous in anticipating and predicting an election this year. Though no one yet knows whether the King Government will take the plunge in 1930, the followers of each party have evidently framed their

conjectures to the dictates of their’ wishes. Not in many years has a political party vlsioned the outlook,

with such confidence as animates the

Conservative Opposition at the pres- '

iii time. On the other hand, it is

fairly certain that Premier King and his followers would like to find a ' plausible reason for deferring the el- vectnral reckoningilll next year.

From no angle of vision does the '

political situation yield comfort or

hope to the King Ministry. Oi the fjcvan provincial elections held since ~19”, the Liberals have lost all but Ztworlirom British Columbia to the Vfittiwa River, there is not a single ‘Jiiberul Provincial Government in oi- Z-The overthrow of the Gardiner ‘ in Saskatchewan broke

iolinisWi-y

‘Th!!! in the whole Dominion, and left

i .Quebac as its onc remaining outpost.'

mad even in Quebec its defences are 1pm; menaced by a popular revolt jgontreal ‘which may. a few weeks dgfloo, transform the whole political .‘ lexion oi that Province. Outside ebec, it would be difficult to iégflmtc a single Province which t flag Government can reasonably inset to carry. So obvious is this M , even without any increase in Quebec representation, the nficrvatives expect and believe they " ;carr'y the country by a safe ma- . while any break of import-

in Quebec would convert the firm-uncut! defeat into a debacle- mgut sport mm those ugiu or the political trend, events have conspired u i..." m mu sequence. against 10mg Government since Parlia-

t uncut 1m me. A fifty pa: cent min

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course was no more to blame for these conditions than to be credited for those which had preceded them. une- point is that it was playing in luck last year and is out of luck now. It is. incredible that any Ministry would deliberately choose to face s general election at such a time, and in the face of such conditions. But the King Government has little choice left in the matter. It is simply confronted with the dilemma of an election this year in a forbidding field, or next year in a hopeless one.

True Democracy

"The cruel subterfuge oi false de- mocracy," declared Dr. Nicholas But- ler, President of Columbia Univer- sity in the course oi’ his annual re- port, "has misled millions upon mil- lions, and has closed their eyes to ‘the fact that a democratic system which cannot produce an aristocracy oi its own for its ornament and its service is certainly doomed."

Democracys aristocracy, Dr. But- ler pointed out, is not one of birth,

5o! inherited privilege, or of wealth, but it ls one of character, of high ilntelligence, oi large knowledge, of 'zeal for service, recruited from the {bosom of democracy itself. Demo- Icracy can only flourish under the 'operation of the law of liberty. It E must recognize that matters oi prin-

ciple can never finally be determin- ficd by a majority vote. In short, no majority has any rights whatever. The individual has rights and a ma- ' jority has privileges. It has the pri- vilege oi determining who shall be chosen to serve it in public place, and it has the privilege of deter- mining what policy or course of con- duct shall next be entered upon, but it has and can have absolutely noth- ing h} do with the determination of true or false, right or wrong, mor- al or immoral, beautiful‘ or ugly.

"A majvrity in Central Africa," continued Dr. Butler, “might vote that the but of a savage was more beautiful than the Parthenon or St. Peter's or Westminster Abbey, but this would not alter the fact that the hut of the savage would remain squalid and ugly. Standards of ' excellence, and excellence itself, are always set and revealed by the individual; it is inconceivable that either should be set or reveal- ed by a majority v~te of those who know nothing of what it is all about."

Editorial Notes

The February issue of the Labour Gazette gives the total amount of "pensions paid since the inception of the Old Age Pensions Act uptoDec. isl. 1920, as $5,001,100. IThe no- minion Government's share of this | expenditure was over two and a half million dollars. Prince Edward Isl- and which paid its proportion oi this amount through the federal treasury, received absdiutely no benefit there-

IYOITL

Mr. R, h Burnap, new vlce-presl- dent oi the Canadian National Rail-

ways, told the New England ‘Traffic,

‘Club at Boston recently that the ‘Maritime Provinces were “the most ‘attractive vacation ,, ‘ in North America." This is the kind ofpub. licity which counts. c. ma. oom- ‘ials enjoy exceptional opportunities of boosting the tourist attractions of this part of Canada, and many of them have done splendid work in l this respect.

Canadians. 11118 to Rev. Dr. |0. H. Heustis, general secretary of the lord's Day Alliance, are the best iabbath keepers of any nation in the world. This announcement de- serves far wider publicity than it has yetreceived. Asanindicationolths quality of Canadian oitiaeashlp and the influence which, Christian churches have snorted upon tho civ- ilisation of the land. the m: is one ‘which should up recorded m letters

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General Veniot has ex-

administrator by coming out with o ‘deficit of 9.359.000 which the tax- payers generally will va to make good. Unlike some departments o! government, the Post Odice is not a spendingbut a revenue institution. it is there to he run on business lines, to pay its way, and to make a profit as well. The Post Oflice of Great Britain has always a sin-plus, and last year netted some 145,000,000 profit. nemithstandlng that the telegraphic service was run at a loss. Here, Mi‘. Veniot has proved the Department to be a loser, and therefore there must be something seriously wrong with his administration. i

In 1927. when the questions oi newspaper gostage was before the House, Mr. Veniot justified the throwing away of $400,000 revenue in these words: “I feel satisfied that I have every ground for hoping that the increased volume of t ‘ which we are losing now from the large dailies on account of the extra amount we are charging, the heavy cost of the rate we are now charging for shorter distances, because they have no forty mile zone at all, will make up for thisdeflcit, and that at the end of the coming fiscal year the dell/cit will be no greater than it is now."

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Here Mr. Veniot was either ignor-

ant of his own regulations or wil- fully misrepresented them. He im- plied that small dailies were entitledi Ito be carried free within a zone oi 40 miles, whereas as a matter of fact there was not then, and is not now,| any such exemptions. In the matter of newspaper postage the small daily is in exactly the same position as the ' big metropolitans but with this um’ ference. The Big Dally may seek to ‘ develop a. circulationJrom Vancouv- er to Halifax at the same postage rateas a small provincial daily from, say Charlottetown to the Royalty. Is it to be wondered at then that an ad- ‘ mlillstratdi‘ with such false ideas should estimate that a. loss carrying

newspapers at 11,5. cents per lb. would . inot be accentuated by carrying them the length and breadth oi Canada at a half-cent per lb cheaper? The maxpayers now know differently.

. chums: the “mush rust 01m.- Iwith the Canadian Post Office under. Mr. Veniot.

the British Post Office is able to show a record profit of £9.0i2.'l64-ior the: financial year ended March 31. 1829. 1111s compares with a profit of £7,-|

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Portrait Of VA Démagogue-

(London Spectator) Phi-several solflevident reasons- ihe nerds‘ oi the aristocratic itraditinn. the two party system with

With; pleasure we

mentality. and also the almost pain . fui sincerity or those who profess I and col-l themselves Socialists-Niel

New '21-'00

s;

announce the arrival of new spring goods, from almost

every part of the globe. -

Our 1.1m’ goods department has. been" considerably enlarged, making it now one of the best arranged shopping centres of this store.

Tire new arrivals include. lovely new Silks fromlthe Orient in

FFBRUAFgY 28' ' » ."‘~'-‘

kmim "i" 1" m"‘Y.""‘-1“F ‘hm’ ‘ in roubles of Great Britain. w, sands of lives are saved. yearly by Lloyd George 3 m“ m“ phmonk

llfimlioluo is a rare phenomenon I

early operations,‘ nevertheless the number of deaths yearly from delay in operation is most pathetic.

I have no desire to alarm anyone.

I try to make these little daily talks so helpful the/t my T904161! 09-h b6 B8 free as possible _from worry about themselves, thus getting more peace and, ' enjoyment out of life.

However when the actual figures show that delay in operating on app- endix cases causes ten dwths in every hundred cases. we must face the facts. Perhaps you had a pain in the appendix region have become alarm- ed and when about to call a doctor the pain has passed away You have a feelingdn the back of your head that if you had called the doctor he would have called it appendicitis and you'd have undergnoe an ‘unneces- sm-y’ operation.

As a matter of facts most cases of appendicitis do not start in the re.- gion of the appendix but light in the centre of the abdomen. in the ‘pit’ of the stomach, as it is called.

There is usually a feeling of nau-

sea, often vomiting, and the pain gra- '

dually slits down to the appendix region and ‘stays’ there.

‘Pr. Hamilton Bailey, ‘an English surgerm, reminds us of one sign that may be of help in deciding whether or not the pain is due to an acute appendix. It is known as Granville Chapman's rising test. The patient is instructed to place his arms by his sides and then to rise himself in bed by means of the aibdomlnal muscles alonef he must not use his arms to help himself to the sitting "position. If he fails to rise or complains of great pain mattempting in rise this is con- sidered a postlve sign of an acute ap- pendix or other acute abdominal con- dition, and an operatim is indicated.

Now if you have pain in the ab- domen that shifts from place to place it is usually due to gass formation

land there is nothing to worry about. Mm. charging when” on capital Usually an enema, or water injectloni

will remove gass and give relief from pain.

However watch abdominal pain‘

closely, and take no purgatLves-cas-

510,313 for the preceding yen, which ; tor oil, salts of other ‘hediclne. If

was in itself a record. Last year's ac- "Pam m“ M “Lmwh; 511494 W RPP- .

tual profit on the postal .services and“ "ill-Ml and stays there, and you amounted p; £93453”, while the ‘ feel ‘sick’ at the stomach, you'd be

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‘enon par excellence, and this ac- counts both for the fascination I which he still undoubtedly exerci- '02s on half-baked minds: and m: ‘ - the deep mistrust which his political 1p. "ty arouses all over the country, not least in the Liberal Party. | Before 1914, Mr. Lloyd Georee i came into prominence first as Pres- ident of the Board of Trade. where ins-Sir Charles Mailer. recognizes, i ‘he did very well:- | “Mr Lloyd George's energy and i open-mindedness, his persuasive me- ‘ itliods, his readiness to consult ' _and draw together men of different i .vlews and interests, his adroitness ‘ in defending his proposals in Par- liament, his sensitiveness to opinion his quick. eye for a deal, all helped Ito make his administration of his ' l first Department a remarkable suc- . “$53. i And sulllequently as Chancellor of‘ g the Exchequer, where, for all his re-l marlfable platform oratory, he must, be considered at this distance of ‘ time to haye played fast and loose with the best traditions of British finance. As Sir Charles Mallet is able to show time after time, "econ- omics never appealed to him so powerfully as the idea of asserting ‘ . the rights of democracy and improv i ling the lot of the poor." (We need ionly recall the tone of his speech ;<>h the Government's Coal Bill.) The ' guardian of thé public pulse was. one whose mind "soothed with plans |for spending public mloney." He was ‘ iin fact, »qulie in the wrong place ' at the Treasury. "Squandermenia" came into its own during the was, and Mr Lloyd George wcs never more happy than iwihen he was multiplying public oi ricials and piling up public accountr to astronomical proportions. To his credit liner»: stand empirical achieve men's such as the adoption of the convoy system in the teeth oi ex- wrr, "crabbing," his capacity for introducing business men into the administrative mmhlnery of th country; and,‘ above all. his tincon’ suerable optimism, which undoubt~ mil? had a great deal to do with successful prosecution of the

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[Satin ‘Hay in fancy patterns, 36 in-

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Dress Coats,

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Jersey Dresses.

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I A LARGE SHIPMENT OVFVTIIE LATEST MODELS IN LADIES HATS

JUST RE CEIVED.

s. A. McDONALD

'oi £324,695, but against these figures ‘has to be set a loss on telegraphs oi . ‘£757,237.

‘ Ch-rlotietown Jail was not always ‘exclusively occupied by Prohibition. offenders. Away back some seventy‘ years ago unfortunatodebtors were ‘incarcerated there, and a debtor in- those days was considered as hope- less a sinner as a bootlegger, not en- titled even to "the benefit of clergy." An esteemed contributor sends us the following with a request for its re- publication: a rmsofiaivs COMPLAINT

Come all my fellow-sinners, whoever you may be,

How clergymen do act I have to let you see; ,

A prisoneril am now above a half a year,

And once in all that time a Parson did appear.

A Parson I am told is paid for com- ing in

To preach to us poor sinners and warn us against sin,

And ones or twice a year perhaps he thinks will do

For him to visit prisoners and say a word or two.

What he read when he did come I knew was not a. lie,

That I could do as well myself, but I am rither shy;

l-Ie read a chapter and short prayer, which did not keep him long,

n he thinks that a enough r really think him wrong.

Poor prisoners here in jail have souls they wish to save, '

And clergyman should visit us and tell us how w live;

But here they do not come, not one

well remember it and keepit in their mind.

Tl}! 01¢!!! I believe do only preach for money, .-

The! pals thefloor of all the poor

like boos wholoek for honey;

Remember the flame quoted above_ lliiiar in the dark days of 1917 1918

They don't deserve to be observed when out of this I get.

Tis a blessing we have got the Bible here in jail,

It tells us what we all must do to save our souls from hell;

Although we are confined for debt we think it no disgrace,

But clergymen appear too proud to visit such a place.

They wish to have us go to church as that's the way they live,