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• HE HURON EXPOSITOR •
.31
ubles of the Irish
(By J. A. Stevenson in Toronto Saturday Night)
airs ofathe Irish Free State
ati recent months been pushed
the foreground of internation-
ublicity by the emergence of more
rtaut developments elsewhere,
„-•%aeland would not be Ireland if
did not contrive to preserve the
PaaTaat liveliness and paradoxical
1.);fusions which have been 'charac-
Ste of her political life for gen-
-erationS. One thing, however, is cer-
',.
aftba, that emancipation from British
irr•' control the attainment of
Doniinioa status has not yet brought
to the inhabitants of the Irish Free
tate -the settled domestic peace and
abounding prosperity, which they
were assured would be certain con-
comitants of political freedom. Presi-
dent Eamon de Valera is now enter -
Ing upon his fourth year of office,
and while in the eyes of the outside
'world he looms larger than ever as
the dominating political figure in the
country, he cannot contemplate with
tmalloyecl satisfaction the fruits of
his regime, and must be filled with
considerable misgivings about its fu-
ture and his own.
he fundamental basis of his
statesmanship in the past three years
has been the economic war which he
declared against Britain. Its orig-
inal objective was to 'save the Irish
Free State several million pounds per
annum by withholding payments, due
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THOU
SHALTItIOT
KILL'!
Drive Carefully!
as obligations under the Irish Land
Act, which his predecessor, Mr. Cos-
grave, had acknowledged as a defin-
ite liability. For this course of ac-
tion he sought and obtained a deci-
sive mandate from the voters of the
Irish Free State, but its results so
far have been dead sea fruit, and
have not tended to increase de
Valera's prestige. It is matter of
history bow the British Government
promptly embanked upon reprisals
for the withholding of the land an-
nuaies and imposed stiff tariffs and
cinota systems against exports for
which the Irish Free State had al-
ways found its most profitable mar-
ket in Britain. Through these im-
i osts Britain has been able to col-
leet successfully fecen Irish produe-
eta every year a suin at least equiva-
lnt to the amount of the annuities
whieh were withheld. Moreover, so
severe a blow was struck at the Irish
cattle -raising. industry, • perhaps the
most important buttress of the na-
tional economy, that Mr. de Valera
has felt it advisable to retire from a
position of complete fiscal belliger-
ency and restore free entry to Brit-
ish coal in return for more favorable
treatment under the British quota
system for Irish cattle. There have,
morever, been repeated rumors that
further negotiations for a full econ-
omic peace were making headway,
but the hopes thus raised still await
ulfilment. Meanwhile the fiscal war
has been responsible for a tremendous
dislocation of Irish business; the
search for other outlets for Irish pro-
duce to replace the British • market
has not been successful, and the pay-
ment of the disputed monies through
a system of bounties and penal tar-
iffs has plainly entailed much heav-
ier burdens for the country -than a
voluntary payment through normal
channels would have done.
Economic Nationalism
The retaliatory measures of the
British Govenment, however, provid-
ed Mr. de Valera with an excellent
excuse for evolving a domestie policy
of self-suifficiency and industrial de-
velopment, to whiohhe and his allies
Ontario's Highways
are NOT Speedways!
ENSELESS SPEEDwhich leaves terrible injuries
`" and death . in its wake is hardening the hearts
of people, police and courts against all reckless
drivers. They will be dealtwith ruthlessly . .. to
make Ontario's highways safe for everyone.
In self-defence you are wise to fight the temp-
tation to speed . . . especially at night. Make sure
that your brakes, lights and tires are efficient.
Cultivate a definite sense of respnsibi1ity towards
pedestrians and other drivers. Tt is the only wise
Course.
IT IS BETTER TO BE
SAFE... THAN SORRY
MOTOR VEHICLES BRANCH
ONTARIO DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS
ONTARIO
THIS MUST STOP
/Iriontaritii tinting 1934, there were nearly 10,000 auto-
' mobile 'Icidents.
stg people were killed
• 4'.-1119 0 peOpie were injured
44'464v lehiblonifOlige 0170 1933. It netst be evident
ethttbb mug 410p,
me son;
othf/ kay4
had always been temperamentally in-
cliaed, and they have pursued it with
energy and a considerable measure
of surface success, Under the shel-
ter of stiff tariff duties against for-
eign imports, there have come into
existence a substantial number of
new industries in the Free State, and
work for people who would otheraise
have been on unemployment relief
has been thereby provided. But not
a few of these industries are of the
hothouse type and findait extremely
difficela: to make ends meet with a
restricted market and in face of the
diminution of rural purchasing pow-
er, which has been visible through
the curtailment of the outlet in Bri-
tain for farm produce. Indeed mere
tariff protection has not been suffici-
ent to keep some of these new inaus-
tries afloat and they have had to be
boisterea up by subsidies and boun-
ties for their products.
Moreover, in the towns the wage-
earners and the unemployed, seeing
the special protection and privileges
which were being accorded to the
capitalist promoters of industry, have
been showing a new spirit of restless-
ness and a determination to get their
full share of any •public largesse that
was being distrbuted.. So wage dis-
putes have been frequent and Dublin
was recently the scene of a bitter
strike of transport workers, who
achieved a• notable victory over their
employers. In the course of this con-
flict MT. de Valera's Minister of La-
bor manifested a tendency to give
comfort t� the employers, and as a
consequence Irish labor generally
has become keenly suspicious that
the Government is ungrateful for the
loyalco-operation which the Labor
Party had even it and is too friend-
ly to capitalist interests. In Dublin
and elsewhere there has come into
existence a vigorous Corrimunist par-
tereaa-hich is steadily making con-
verts to its faith, and as the trades
union leaders feel it necessary to
adopt a Militant attitude in order to
keep their folowers outof the Com-
munist fold, their relations with the
de Valera Government (promise tip
become more and more strained. Now
Mr. de Valera has already alienated
by his pokicies the propertied clasSeS
and the larger farmers whose main
source Rf income had come from cat-
tle-raisiag, and ifahe forfeited the
support of the urban labor 'vote, the
foundations of his ,political power
would be seriously undermined.
A Difficult Budget
ANT SLEEP
fin YOUR NERVES
Relief comes soon
with use of
Dr.CHASE'S
Nor is the popularity of his Gov-
ernment likely to be enhanced by the
Budget which Mr. Sean MacEntee,
the Minister of Finane, submitted to
the Dail on May 15th. Placing rev-
enues for the fiscal year 1934-35 at
£245,22,000 and expenditures at £35,-
.442,000, he had to admit edeficit of
over seven million pounds, and such
a balance sheet seemed to offer little
Justification for his complacent ex-
pressions of pride in it. For the cur-
rent fiscal year he budgeted for ex-
penditures decreased by rigid econ-
omies th £29,376,000, but even then
ha had to resort to .new taxation in
order to offer the prospect of a tiny
surplus of £10,000. The income tax
on property is to be increased by
one-fourth, the entertainment tax on
"movies" is to be raised 50 per cent.,
and there are to be heavier duties
on wheat, tobacco, tea and sugar,
while the only remission is the aboli-
tion of the excise duty of 10 shillings
on each slaughtered pig, which was
a sore grievance with the farmers.
The duty on foreign wheat is six-
penge (12 cents) per cwt., and is de-
signed to encourage wheat -growing
in the Free State. Even though mere
Irish cattle are now being admitted
into the British market, the remain-
der after domestic needs are supplied
is very large, and so efforts are be-
ing made to get the number of cat-
tle reduced and some land hitherto
devoted to grazing put under culti-
vation for grain. •But expert agri-
culturists are very dubious whether
in the damp climate of Ireland wheat -
growing can ever be a profitable era
terprise, and contend that it is a ter-
rible' gamble to risk breaking up rich
Irish p, r and, which is rated
the finest in e world and would re-
quire years o res ore to its present
condition on he oblematical chance
of reaping a in crop from it.
High Cost of Living
Thanks largely to the economic war
atith Britain and Mr. de , Valera's
general policies, the cost of living in
the Irish Free State is already mucn
higher than in Britain or 'adjaent
Northern Ireland, and the new food
taxes call scarcely fail to increase
the disnarity. So the new Budget
haa.had a distinctly unfavorable re-
ception and the Opposition paaties
have opened fire on it as offering
convincing proof of the incompetence
of the Government and of a parlous
eondition in the national finances.
The de Valera Government is fac-
ed by two sets of enemies, and luck-
ily for it there is not the remotest
possibility bf their joining forces a-
gainst it. On the one hand there are
the followers of ex -Premier Cosgrave
and their allies, the farmer adher-
ents of Mr. Frank Macdermot, one of
the most interesting figures in Irish
politics. • Their basic policy is a term-
ination of the ' eeonomic war with
Britain and a partial abandonment of
the program of ecenomic national-
ism. Mr. Macdermot has been car-
rying on a campaign of propaganda
in the Times and other papers with
the object of indticing the British
Government to consent to the abro-
gation of the Treaty of 1921 which
established the Irish Free State and
surrounded it 'with certain constitu-
tional limitations, and he argues that
if Irish grievances about the oath of
allegiance and other mattera Were
removed and the Free State &needed
complete independence, the way
would then be open for a harnronious
new settlement, under Which the Free
State would soon become voluntarily
a useful and contented partner in
the British 'Commonwealth a Na-
tions. He puts the ease for such a
policy with great fotee and skill, and
has elicited some support for it in
Britain, but officially t'he British Gor
ernrnent shows no sign of being con-
vrted to it. There is no immediate
prospect of a restoration of a Cos-
gravite reime, as Mr. Ooggrave and
his friends have last :the eoifficlance
Of the Mall ititaaaafg atid )10'0 11:0.
solid body of voters behind them, but
they are performing a very useful
function as critics and have most of
the intelligentsia on their side.
IA more serious source of trouble
for Mr. de Valera is the Irish Re-
publican Army, a body of impenitent
extremists who have never forgiven
him or afr. Cosgrave for what they
regard as their pusillanimous capitu-
latons to the hated British on a num-
ber of questions. When MT. de Val-
era first canie to power, he proclaim-
ed complete toleration for the I.R.A.
and proceeded to embroil himself in
trouble with Britain by abolishing
the oath of allegiance on the pretext
that such a move and nothing more
was necessary to wean the I. R. A.
baok to the paths of constitutional-
ism and peace. But the oath of al-
legiance has now been abolished for
two years and the I.R.A. gives no
evidence of shedding its will and
ability to. create coatinuous trouble
for the Government. Its members
have retained their arms, and not
long ago a way brutal murder in
County Longford which has been laid
at the door of the LIR.A. served to
confront Mr. de Valera with the
charge that in conniving at the ac-
tivities of such an unconstitutional
organization he was failing to dis-
charge the elementary duty of pro-
tecting the ordinary citizen in his
rights. When he assumed office, he
announced his intention of govern-
ing without coercion, and abolished
the summary military tribunal which
the Cosgrave Government had set up
for dealing with the LR.A. ' Now Mr.
de Valera has found it expedient to
revive the military tribunal, wbich is
being' kept fully empoyed, and also
to enroll a special body of armed po-
lice. So the Irish Free State, four-
teen years after its foundation, finds
itself rent with domestic discords
and struggling with grave economic
difficulties for which a solution must
be found before there is any revival
of real prosperity. Under such con-
ditions in a normal country the rul-
ing Governinent would be leading a
very precarious and unhappy life,
but one of the great buttresses' of
Mr. de Valera's prestige is the gen-
eral consensus that if he were eject-
ed from office something like chaos
would result, as there is no other
part a at present capable of forming
a presentable and stable Ministry.
Farm Notes
Weekly Crop Report
An average crop of fall wheat is
indicated and cutting has progressed
rapidly. The hay crop is a heavy one
but the quality is nneyen owing to
wetweather which has made curing
difficult. ' Corn and roots continue to
make satisfactory progress. Rasp-
berries and small fruits are abund-
ant. Late varieties of apples are be-
low average. Peaches are doing well
and give promise of a large crop.
Harvesting of the tobacco crop has
started and prospects' are excellent.
Pasturage continues in good condi-
tion.
Producing New Queen Bees
A mathod of producing new queen
bees is to place a full sheet of foun-
dation, or a new comb, in the centre
of the broodnest'of a desirable queen
and to watch this comb daily. As
soon as eggs are found in it brush
the bees from the comb and place
them in a colony that was made
queenless and lirbodless an hour pre-
viously. Eleven or twelve days lat-
er ripe queen cellswill be found on
this comb. This method ensures that
larvae of the right age are used and
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AuGiisT 91 19341
INSTITUTEWOA BLIND ASSIKS BLIND grins
On August ath ,1931, these three
young ladies were at a picnic a short
distance from Montreal. Two male
companions found a box in an old
shack. Laughing and joking, the pic-
nic' party, two men and five girls,
gathered round the little red box.
They speculated as to its contents as
one of the young men tried to Pry
open the lid. The two men were kill-
ed in the explosion which followed.
Two of the girls recovered complete-
ly from their injuries. The three
young women in the photograph lost
their sight.
This spring, Lucy Senkeivitz, sb,awn
in the right of the 'picture, who sus-
tained the loss of her right hand as
well as ;her vision, graduated from
McGill University. Stella Gordon,
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centre, operates a light refreshment
stand awned by the Canadian Nation-
al Institute for the Blind in the
ISoutham jPlress Buildng, Montreal,
and Elizabeth Walker, left, conducts
a cafeteria owned by the Institute in
the Children's Memorial hospital,
Montreal.
The Canadian National Institute
for tie Blind, through its library
service and by supplying special
Braille texts to Miss .Senkeivitz, en-
abled her to complete her university
course so tragically interrupted, and
it has found remunerative employ-
ment for Miss Walker and 'Miss Gor-
don'. Tbe nation-wide activities of
the " Institute have assisted many
blind Canadians to reconstruet their
lives.
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that the resultant queens are from
good stok.
Parasites of Poultry
Lice and mites are often the cause
of poor egg production during' hoz
weather. Body lice can be controlled
by the use of blue ointment applied
beneath the wings and around the
vent. 'Mites feeding off the birds at
night, and living in cracks and crev-
ices during the day, have to be treat-
ed differently. Ordinary coal 011 will
kill the mites, but as it evaporates
quickly the effects are not lasting.
An excellent "paint" to apply to the
roosts and nest boxes is .composed
of one part crude carbolic or, pos-
sibly better still, nicotine sulphate, to
three or four parts of coal oil or a
mixture of coal oil and crank case
oil.
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Shrub Pruning
(By John F. Clark)
When climbing roses have finished
blooming, old canes may be cut off,
throwing strength to new shoots that
will flower next Mean
All shrubs that have bloomed may
now be pruned, Cut out old wood,
thinning shrubs in a uniform man-
ner to keep good shape. Permit new
growth for next year flowers.
Evergaaents may now 'be shaped
for the season. Give mulch and
leave same for rest of summer.
Home -during of Pork
In the home curing of pork either
the `dry salt' or the `brine method
may be employed, but which ever
process is adopted common salt is
the curing agent. Such other ingred-
ients as sugar, saltpeter and baking
soda are also used. As a rule, the
old-fashioned brown sugar' is prefer -
ad to the white granulated kind as
it is believed to give a slightly better
flavor to the meat. A small quan-
tity of saltpetre has a preservative
effect and gives a reddish color to
the meat. Baking soda is used prin-
cipally" with the brine cure.
Pork for curing should be cut up
into convenient sizes, and it is im-
portant, on the one hand, that all
animal heat has been cooled out of
the meat, and, on the other hand,
that the meat is not frozen When the
caring is 'commenced. A cool, well -
ventilated cellar is a desirable place'
for both brine and dry curing. The
curing is more easily controlled in
cold, or at least cool, weather, so that
thick pieces may not have a chance
to spoil before the salt has penetrat-
ed.
Cheese Board Orders
Order No. 1
No person or .partneship or cor-
poration shall buy cheese in the
Province of Ontario in average lots
of 'more than five awes a month
Without first taking out a license
prior to August 1, 1935; and all such
purchases of cheese shall be subject
to Orders and Determinations issued
by the Local Board. Applicationsfor
licenses may be secured from the
secretary of the Ontario Cheese Pat-
rons' Marketing Board at Belleville.
The license fee shall be the sum of
1.00 and such license shall be issued
Subject, to satisfactory evidence be -
being produced from time to time to
the Board as to the financial respons-
ibility of the buyer or the Board may
require the production and filing of
a guarantee or a" bond as to the fin-
ancial responsibility eif the buyer,
and in default of same, may refuse to
issue a license or cancel any license'
which has been isud. Such license
shall be valid only until March 31,
196, unless renewed by the Board.
Order No. 2
.All licensed cheese buyers shall
pay to the 'Ontario Cheese Patrons'
Marketing Board a toll on the mar-
keting of the regulated product
(cheese) at the rate of 5 cents per
hundred pounds on all cheese pur-
chased on or after August 1, 1936.
The said toll is to be remitted month-
ly and as direeted to the secretary
of the Ontario Cheese Patrons' Mar-
keting Board, ,Bellealle, together
with a certified statement of all
cheese purchased from the date of
the last return up to the date when
the said return is made together with
Brighten up with I
ALL -BRAN:
You've had days when you've felt
discouraged and low. Nothing
seemed to go right. Frequently these
dreary days can be traced to com-
mon constipation, due to lack of
"bulk" in your meals.
This ailment may cause head-
aches and loss of energy. Correct it
by eating a delicious cereal.
Laboratory research shows Kel-
logg's ALL -BRAN provides 'bulk" to
aid elimination. ALL -BRAN also fur-
nishes vitamin B and food -iron.
The "bulk" in ALL -BRAN resists
digestion better than the fiber in
fruits and vegetables. It is gentle—
and often more effective. Isn't tide
natural fpod better than taking pas.
ent medicines—often harmful?
Two tablespoonfuls of ALL -BRAN
daily are usually sufficient. With
each meal, in chronic cases. If not
relieved this way, see your doctor.;
Brighten days with Am.Busil
Get the Tett:and.
green package at
your grocer's. Made
by Kellogg in Lon.
don, Ontario.
Keep on the
Sunny Side of Life
•LL• •P'L
the registered number of the factory!
front which •the regulated :product
(cheese) was purchased.
Order No. 3
The local board hereby designate
the Ontario Cheese Patrons' Market.'
ing 'Co -Operative Limited as the maro
keting a.genay through which, all ex.
port shipments and domestic sale"
of a regulated product for experi-
mental purposes shall be marketedl
end to conduct a pool for the equal-
ization of returns received from the
sale of the regulated product in con-
nection with any experimental sales
made with the consent of the owners
and agreed upon by the Ontario
Cheese Patrons' Marketing Co-Oper.
ative Limited.
Order No. 4
The secretary of each cheese fee -s
tory in Ontario shall forward to the
secretary of the Ontario Cheese Pat-
rons' Marketing Board, 266 Front
St., Belleville, the names and address-.
es of all persons who have been pat-
rons of the cheese factory dutiing the
current season. Also a monthly
statement of sales of cheese. This
information to be forwarded in thei
manner directed by the Secretary a
the Ontario Cheese Petrone' Market-
ing Board.
Each pad will kill flies all day end)
every day for three weeks.
3 pads in each packet.
10 CENTS PER PACKET
at Drtsggists, Grocers, General Stores.
WHY PAY _MORE?'
THE WILSON FLY P4.DC0., Hamilton, One,
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