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THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1930 1 Bn gr Daily Tiles HE OH WA DAILY REFORMER (Established 1871) $18 Bond Building, 66 Temperance Street Telephone Adelaide 0107, H. D. Iresiddes, representative. " REPRESENTATIVES IN US. Powers and Stone Inc. New York and Chicage SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27th, 1930 "OSHAWA'S NEW INDUSTRY The news that a new industry has been established in Oshawa -- the Westman Ma- chine Works, which has moved to this city from Toronto--will be received with satis- faction by the citizens. True, it does not claim to be a large concern. In comparison with some of the present industries of the city, it is quite small. But all industries, as a rule, have small beginnings, and the offi- cers of the company are confident that they - will, in due process of time, grow and develop + until they have a plant and staff of more than moderate proportions, But an indus- try which can give employment tp even a dozen men is worth while, without consider- ing the possibilities of future development. The fact that this industry has come to the city through the efforts of the Chamber of Commerce is another proof that that or- ganization is losing no opportunity of fur-. thering the interests of the city. At a time like the present, few industries are seeking new locations, or are making more expan- sion, and it is a difficult task to secure new industries for any community. - But the at- tractions of Oshawa as a manufacturing centre, coupled with the energetic work of the Chamber of Commerce, have been suffi- cient to bring from Toronto a concern which, it is hoped, will have a real future in this city . / The Times not only expresses its congratu- lations to the Chamber of Commerce on the result of its activity, but extends a warm welcome to the new industry and its officers, and hopes that it may grow and develop until it is able to give employment to far more than the dozen men who will be supplied with work in its initial stages. : GIVE A MAN A JOB The Chamber of Commerce committee which is sponsoring the "Give a Man a Job" campaign 1s frankly disappointed with the re- suits achieved so tar. 'L'he lack of interest . seems to indicate that the citizens of Osh- {awa who have not suffered from the depres- sion, and there are hundreds of them, care nothing for the welfare of their less fortu- nate feilow-citizens who .are out of employ- ment. It is to be hoped that this is not true, and that they have simply been waiting un- til they had time to look around for odd jobs which they could offer to unemployed men as casual work. This kind of work is much needed, and it is needed NOW, because win- ter will soon be here, and The Times again * earnestly appeals to all those who can to + Jet their odd jobs around the home and the garden be done by unemployed men, so as to help relieve a pressing unemployment situa- tion. TARIFFS BEYOND CONTROL When the new tariff schedules were under ~ discussion in the House of Commons, much was said regarding the guarantees which had been given by manuiacturers that they would not increase the prices of their pro- ducts by reason of increased tariff protec- tion. 'I'hat was all right as far as it went, but events have proven that it did not go far enough. There are still the jobbers and dealers to contend with, and already there (ds proof that they gave no such guarantees, nor do they intend to take any steps to pro- tect the consumers from increased prices as 'a -result of the higher tariffs. This has been parficularly true in connec- tion with the glass industry. The tariff on window glass was increased substantially, and the manufacturers guaranteed that the price would not be raised. But within a few days, the jobbers had taken full advantage of the tariff to raise their prices, and they are determined to maintain them at the new high level. s And the increased price has been applied, not to newly imported stock, but to the glass now in their warehouses, glass which was imported under the old rates. . There ig nothing that can be done about it, of course. If the jobbers want to profiteer because of 'the higher tariff, there is no law © to stop them. But this instance is sufficient to show that tariffs cannot be eontrolled so far as their effect on the consuming public > is concerned, and that the people of Canada are likely to find the cost of many articles materially increased by people who have given no guarantées, and have no intention of giving any. It is a poor attitude on the part of the jobbers, and the people of Can- ada will have their own opinions of those who use the higher tariff schedules to line their own pockets with.excessive profits, THE NEW PENSION BODIES The new pension tribunals and appeal court have now been appointed. The list of names announced by the ministex of pensions and national health is a formidable one, from the standpoint of military rank, and honors re- ceived. There will, of course, be thousands of disappointed applicants, for applications poured into Ottawa from every part of Can- ada for the positions which were to be filled. In the whole, however, the appointments should give general satisfaction, for all of those appointed are men with honorable re- cords of active service during the war, and some of them. have done valiant service in the cause of the war veterans since their re- turn from overseas. Si There is one criticism, however, which might be voiced, and that is the entire ab- sence' of representatives of the men who served in the ranks. All of the appointees are commissioned officers, ranking from colo- nel down to captain, in spite of the fact that when the pensions législation was passed last spring, there was an unwritten, understand-' ing that the men who served in the ranks would be represented on pension tribunals and appeal court. Surely the government might have been able to find at least one man who served in the ranks with the necessary qualifications for these' bodies. We could name a score of men offhand who would have filled these positions with distinctjons, and who never rose above the rank of private. And the rankers who will have to present their cases to the tribunals would have had a great deal more confidence in them had there been one of their own rank on the body trying the pension claims, The proof of the new pensions legislation, however, will rest in the efficiency with which it operates. The chief' objection. to the old bodies was that they lacked in sym- thetic understanding of the problems of "the men who served. That objection should not be applicable to the new bodies, since all of those serving on them are men with ac- tive service. They will be closely watched, however, and in due time the official repre- sentatives of the war veterans will be able to express an opinion as to whether conditions have been improved by, the new machinery which has been created. A PROMISING DOMINION It is not unusual to find that people who visit Canada from other countries have a much more exalted opinion of this country than many of those who live here, Canada's most severe critics are her own people, and her greatest boosters are those who come here from the old land and make compari. sons. One of these is Lord Moynihan, presi- , dent of the Royal College of Surgeons of Great Britain. He has just returned home from Canada, and has given his impressions of this country to the press. They are worth noting, for in one paragraph he says:-- *"She is ambitious. No one can fdil to be impressed with the virility of her people and their tremendous capacity for work. Not a few Canadians believe the Dominion holds greater promise than any other country in the world, and while Canada continues to be led by men of such vision, I am inclined to agree." That is a true appraisal of the possibilities for the future of Canada. She is now, in common with other countries, under a tem- porary cloud, but like young and vigorous individuals, she has all the materials and re- sources to make a rapid recovery, and to go on from strength to strength with a future before her far beyond even the most hopeful expectations of her present generation. EDITORIAL NOTES Give a man a job. Think and act for Prosperity. According to W. C. Herring, Canada is suf- fering from "conversational financial plues." And the cure for that disease rests entirely i the individuals who are suffering from There are a lot of people who will agree with the suggestion that a buffalo be killed to provide meat for the unemployed----even if only to get rid of the buffalo. E There is not likely to be much unemploy- ment in Russia while the demand for execu- tioners continues. One comforting thing about radio is that the artists do not have to worry about stormy weather keeping the audience at home, \ y * TT 8 Britain's unemployed showed a decrease of over 86,000 in the week ending September 15. This may indicate a definite improve- ment for the mother country, and may it be. felt in Canada, too. | health, were meant to be at ease, and Other Editors' Comments SOME CAPACITY (Montreal Gazette) The six-foot = ditch-digger of Saskatoon who consumed eighty- one large green apples, cores and all, on a bet, and then asked for bread and bologna sausage, seems determined to keep the doctor away for the rest of his life--bar- ring interference by the balogna. WEED OFFENDER FINED -(Calgary Daily Herald) An Alberta farmer was fined for not destroying weeds on his farm. This sort of thing happens so sel- dom ope might imaging we have few weeds. On the contrary there are plenty of weeds but too little strict enforcement of the Weed Act. { FUNNY MAN HURT (Jackeonvyille Times-Union) The other day a New York col- umnist fel down on a baby golf fours and sprained his ankle, and he city had to get along with 2, 496 columnists for a few days. Bits of Verse MAY YOU GO SAFE (On the death of a Mahometan friend.) May you go safe, my friend, across that dizzy way No wider than a hair, by which your people go From Earth to Paradise; go safe to-day With stars and space above, and time and stars below. may you And at the further end may you not fall to reach All that you hoped to find upon the other shore, Where the long centuries go cury- ing up the beach And foam away and cease, there is time no more, and And if, from some small door be- hind our Heaven, should stray A weedy path, from which the or- thodox refrain, Round to your Paradise, I'll seek it out one day, And sit and hear you tell rare Indian tales again, w-Lord Dunsany, in the Saturday Review, For their own sclf-protection, voters should give more than cas ual attention to the various candi. dates seeking election to public office. As a usual thing, 'the average voter goes into a voting booth and surveys with bewilderment a list of names - and wonders dumbly which ones to vote for. Too many voteryg then take a chance and the wrong man gets elected. Now is the time to choose the candidates for public office and select those that you think will serve the "public best. Investigate them, them when voting time comes you know who you are vot- ing for. Most office seekers want to do all in their power to promote thé welfare of the section they serve, yet some of them regard a public office as a private possession to be used for personal gain or advance- ment, Some candidates are willing to barter away and promote any- thing in trade for votes. This class of office seekers are' enemies of the public, A true office seeker is the one who considers a public office as a public trust, who will do every- thing to advance the welfare of the people he serves and who will promote public well being in so far as his office will permit. TODAY THE CITY, THE PROV- INCE AND THE COUNTRY WHOSE PEOPLE SELECT CARE- FULLY AND ELECT HONEST, SQUARE, WELL-MEANING OF- FICE HOLDERS ARE THE ONES WHO ARE: AHEAD IN THE MARCH OF PROGRESS AND WHO ARE OUTSTANDING IN POWER, MONEY, EDUCATION AND PROGRESS, That Body of Bours By James W. Barton, M.D. YOUR ADVERSE LEGIONS . "The experience we call disease is just like a quarrel; a conflict, be- tween a particular set of qualities of a human being an dan equally pare ticular set of adverse forces in his surroundings or environment; These forces may come from the four corners of the universe in the form of physical violence, violence from organisms, chemical violence, and violence due to misguided or misdirected thinking." . In the above vivid words, Dr."Geo. Draper gives a striking blt simple picture of disease, 5 : Now the word disease is unpleasant to the ear, but it means simply that one is not at ease, And you and [| despite the above "adverse forces of =mind and character, (By E. S. Martin | Britain Paying Her | Life's Blood to U.S. in "Life,". New York) 4 Mr. Hoover's way of finding out the truth about any large subject is to send a commission to explore it. One . could wish that he would do that for Europe. We Would like to know whether we are taking too much money out of that Continent for war debts 'and reparations. We would like to know also. most parti- cularly whether the annual payments that Great Britain is making to us on account of what she owes us (mostly for war supplies) are great- er than she can afford to pay. If they arg we cannot afford to have her pay them. England is very hard pressed. The war damaged her trade and it has not yet recovered, She has a big unem- ployment list, and is now simply tak- ing away from the Haves what they have got left and: distributing it among the Have-nots, That cannot go on forever, It has gone on too long already. We have lent her mo- ney, thrown off part of our claims, done something of course, but we have kept up collections on war debts, refused to join the Leaglie of Nations and raised our tariff. » The money we got from England does us very little good. It merely helps Mr. Mellon in his book-keep- ing. It is not vital at all. But the money England pays us seems to be life's blood to England just at pre- sent. All these war debt payments that we have arranged to have come out of Europe are more or less fairy gold. They depend very much upon what happens next in: the course of human life, The amounts have been assessed the payments have been agreed upon. We have had the best judgment we could get on what was possible and Great Britain has really paid us some real money. All these things are part of a process and .it is well to, have them done, but if things go really bad in the world these findings of ®cono- mics and diplomacy, will float out of the window. There is a prestige of the English- speaking races which the United States shares with Grt, Britain. That is a fact, though it may be disputed, and is a tie between those very con- siderable powers, And Canada and our peacekeeping northern boundary is another tie and both will have their weight of influence if present British straits go from bad to worse. In all these matters that relate to what is ahead, one must note and keep noting the great changes in human affairs that is proceeding with the development of machinery and the overproduction of commodities which miss their sale because of un- employment that is partly due to in- creased machigery, There are re- markable factors working in our eco- nomic world and they will work ac- cording to the laws that govern them and largely irrespective of the wills of political governments. ' Now all we can do in regard to physical violence is.to look berore we cross a street, in fact, "watch our step" at all times. Similarly with chemical violence whether that comes externally from burns or internally from wrong eat- ing habits. In regard to organisms; they are in the air in immediate neighbor- hood of those afflicted with various illnesses, and it is up to us to keep beyond the range of these organisms, Or organisms may be in the food we eat. And wrong and unhealthy thinking can so effect the whole body that it cannot be in a normal condition, However, despite these legions of adversity, and despite their tremen- dous activity and power, vou were given forces with which to fight them and so be free from. disease and en- jo life, It of course is wonderful to be well born, to have had parents who were strong physically, mentally and morally, This gives you a fighting front to the legions of adversity, that "fends" them off to a great ex- tent. However this very heritage of good health may be the means of having you take chances--eat any- thing, anywhere, anytime; go on working or playing without proper sleep: or because you were born strong, take little or no exercise, For this very reason the individ- nal who always has had to watch his health, because he wasn't strong, often outlives and outworks the one born strong. He recogni®es his "ad- werse legions" and prepares to defend himself. The thought then is that as your most precios possession. is your health, if you are going to retain if, to enjoy life to the full, you should not only recognize these adverse le gions about yeu, but remember gratefully that you were given for- ces with which to combat them---the will to watch food, sleep and exer cise. These are vie only weapons, but they are' really all you need. (Registered in accordance with the Copyright Act.) a Man in the Press Gallery (From Maclean's Magazine) To understand the political rise of R. B. Bennett, his achievements and bis career, it is necessary to study his New Brunswick ancestry and background: necessary to ex- amine his birth, his upbringing, his education; how his, mind was nourished, his character formed.q Like almost all who have made a differende In the world, R. B. Bennett sprang from the middle class. Romantic popular opinion, delighted by melodramatic cofftrasts and surprises, like to imagine al- ways that the men whose careers have made history started from the lowest rungs of the ladder. That is seldom true of them, for a rea- gon that is obvious. To one who will require excep- tional vigor developed at an early age, it is an undoubted advantage to be brought up comfortably; not to be obliged to use his strength as soon as he has it. Those who rise from the ranks of squalor, or from among manual tollers, seldom have energy enough left, after they have risen, to become innovators. Their vitality has been so largely spent first, on the hard tasks set to them at the start of their working lives: later, on the incessant, exhausting effort to exchange those tasks for others more to their taste, that asa rule they fall into line with whatever is generally accept- ed, with any tradition which hap pens to be in vogue. From Mc of resisting force they conform to the practices which are hallowed in the: common mind by long usage and convenient custom. Of U. E. Loyalist Stock - . R. B. Bennett started life without any such handicap. His people, nine generations on this continent, were of sturdy, prosperous, U.E, Loyalist. stock, and from this ancestry he secured the sufficient nourishment and the léisure which allow youth ful brains to brood over distant possibilities without the harsh compulsion of attending to Im- mediate material needs. His early surroundings were favorable to the natural, unforced growth of the The Bennetts lived by the sea and were imbued with its traditions. They built the old tall ships of the New Brunswick shores in far days when the Cana- dian ensign was seen in all the port of the world: and thought they were a far cry from modern mercan- tile capitalists they were among the gentry of the countryside, with a stately rural home, shaded by glori- ous maples and made inviting and prosperous looking by tHe English ivy that climbed its colonial walls. In this atmosphere of comfort, if not of wealth, R. B. Bennett was cradled, reared, sent to school, and trained to be a school teacher as his mother had. been before him. He did teach school for a time. They tell of him going to Irishtown, a little hamlet near Moncton, at the age of seventeen, with a superior first-class teaching license. "We thought him just a boy when he arrived with all hig possessions ih the smallest black trunk I have to be free from disease or illness, ever seen," says a daughter of Corn- HON. R. B. BENNETT elius Sullivan a¢ wiaose house in Irishtown he boarded, 'but he was a good teacher. He was always reading boks and would bring them down to the sitting room. He had a wonderful faculty for hearing what was said while he studied, and he'd correct any misstatement made. And he was a terror to argue. Father stumped the coun- try with Liberal politicians, and Dick wéuld argue with him and them until he nearly brought the house around our ears.' But R. B. Bennett was made for something more heroic than the mere role of a schoolmaster. He had law In his blood, and politics. Those were the rays, and they are still a lot with us, when every young Maritimer nursed an ambi- tion to be a great politician or at least a great orator. Somebody once wrote that Edmund Burke had made the Irish a race of aspiring orators, and so in the Atlantic pro- vinces the name and fame of men like Joe Howe and Leonard Tilley ingpired the youth of all the land with an ambition to emulate their political achievements. It was so in the case of R. B. Bennett. When, having abandoned teaching for law, he was studying for his new profes- sion at Dalhousie Law School, he used to practise political oratory, and i on, after he had moved to C am as junior partner in a law , he filled in his leisure hours by assisting as secretary of the Methodist Sunday school, by lecturing in the Temperance hall, and by going out whenever oppor- tunity offered to make party speech- es. "There is nothing to prevent my -being Prime Miglater of Can- ada if I keep on working," he used to say then, and through all the years that followed, whether in Parliament or out of it, the ambi- tion was never quite abandoned. Proficient at law, and with a flair for politics; he was always sOme- thing of a preacher. Brought up in a stern nonconformist commun- ity, sprung from: a rigid Baptist ancestry, he has always retained what the English call the 'non- conformist consclence" and it has en been said by those who have héard his almost pulpit and. revi. valist style of eloquence that if pol- itical lite bas not claimed him, he might have made a modern De Witt Talmage. Nor has this religious strain been extinguished by years of law and po- litics and contact with realities of the world, A wide reader, versed in the best of literature, the Bible has re- mained his favorite book, and mot since Sir Wilfrid Laurier has there been a politician in Parliament with such capacity for quotations from the Scriptures. With all his wealth and success and contact with worldly and material things, he bas remained something of the lay preacher. He is an unbending advocate of temper- ance, talks "dry," votes "dry," and drinks "dry," and last year, speaking to w- gathering, of women, he came out with a denunciation of Sunday golf, He is, indeed, an uncompro- mising Sabbatarian, and it was typi- cal of him that when in the course of the last election he was greeted on a Sunday afternoon by 4 crowd of Englehart admirers, he told * them that were he in their place he would be spending his afternoon in a house | of worship. Was No Slave to Party This, the background, the upbring- ing and the temperament and char- acter of R. B. Bennett, is the key to his career, an aid in the gauging of his future, If was said of John Morley that he was sometimes wrong, often on the wrong side, but never on the side of wrong. That, one thinks, can and will be said of R, B. Bennett. Whatever mistakes he may make will be his own mistakes, and no group or faction or interest or considerations of self will dictate his policies or his principles. He is, as his whole record has shown, no slave to party. When he came to Parliament in 1911, and political per- ferment could have been purchased by docility, Bennett almost immedi- ately became a rebel and at one time something of an Ishmaelite. with W. F. Nickle he stood out against his entire party in fighting aid to the old Canadian Northern, and although he was looked upon as a corporation lawyer and friend of financial interests, he thundered against the corporations and against the practice of lobbying for big busi- ess. Again, too, in 1927, he startled the mandarins of St. James Street by boldly proposing that the State should raise revenue from the profits of in- surance companies for the purposes of the country, The truth is, indeed, that for all his wealth and all his connection with financial interests, R. B. Bennett is an instinctive friend of the under- dog, with not the least propensity to worship .in the temples of mammon or to bow down before the tall chim- neys. Those who are now asking where he will get the money to pay for national old age pensions, might profitably turn to a speech which Bennett made in Parliament three years ago when he advanced the ra- dical proposition of a turnover tax-- this as an alternative to the income ax and sales tax. Did Net Buy Hjp Way There is something more. Bennett is perhaps the only man in Canadian history to athieve the Premiership without. resort to financial aid from powerful outside sources. He is 'in this respect the captain of his soul. And if there be in Canada industrial magnates who believe that Bennett's mission as Prime Minister will be to build kigh tariff walls behind which they can sit without competition, levying undue tolls Bpon the consum- er, they are, I think, doomed to bitter disappointment. He is a protection ist, but those who have read his speeches or who know the man, know that he does not regard protection as the be-all and end-all in life. In this respect, as in others, he will not be bound by the dead hand of his par- ty's tradition, If there be Tories or others who are skeptical of this, they might profitably study some episodes in their new leader's career. They might, for example, go back to the year 1917, when R. B. Bennett, defy- ing his party and oblivious to the passions of the war, risked his whole political career and temporarily eclipsed his personal popularity for what he believed to be the sacredness of the constitution. This story, seemingly forgotten but a brilliant gidelight, may be well told here, One Lewis, who had been exempt- ed from military service, was taken and held at Calgary under an order- in-council cancellin exemptions ranted under the Military Service ct. Bennett, feeling that reversal of the King's pledged word inflicted discredit upon the major institutions of government, took up Lewis' case as a test, He had been Conservative member for Calgary. He was a stal- wart supporter of the war. He had visited its theatres with the Prime Minister, He had been Director- General of National Service, crossing the continent with Sir Robert Bor- den, preaching the gospel of unlimit- ed devotion to the cause. Yet, never hisitating, he taok up the Lewis case, not as a lawyer but as a patriot, fecl- ing simply that it was possible by the suspension of constitutional guaran- tees to inflict more injury on demo- cracy at home than on autocracy in Germany. His application for a writ of habeas corpus ordering Lewis' de- livery by the military was upheld by the Supreme Court of Alberta, the result being not only a triumph for constitutional principles, but a revela- tion of Bennett's devotion to the spirit of independence and liberty. Advocate of "Canada First" The truth is that Bennett "is of the Left of his party, belongs to the Tory Democracy. Randolph Churchill and Joseph Chamberlaing believed in a sort of sanctified Toryism that would apptal to the workers. So, in the campaign just closed, Bennett put employment and wages for workers in the forefront ofy his platform, butt- ressing the appeal with a program for national old age pensions. When he was challenged as to where he would get the money, he replied that he would get it from taxation--and that taxation wouldn't the workers. It is not that he is an enemy of capitalism. He is, on the contrary, a thoroughgoing capitalist, compromising only with collectivism and paternalism when he deems them vital to the state, There is much about Bennett, in fact, of the untram- melled politiccal realist. Ang as with economics and his re- lations to party traditions, so with his imperialism. In the campaign just 4 come from: closed he stressed "Canada First," yet no one, can doubt his imperialism, Disraeli said of Gladstone that he held the sceptre of the British Em- pire as though it burnt his fingers. No opponent, no matter how partizan, will ever be able to say that of R. B. Bennett. Speaking in Montreal three years ago, he summed 2 his imperial creed in these words: "There are those who only speak with bated breath of imperialism, but just ask yourselves what would the world be today without the British Empiré? And then ask yourselves whethér the destinies of this Dominion can best be worked out as part of the Empire or separate from it? Foreign rela- tions are bound up with Imperial re lations. Are we to claim separate in- dependent nationhood and yet look to another , nation to defend wus? Every time you send a load of mer- chandise abroad you have to face that question." His Imperial Creed It is perhaps a piquant bit of re- partee upon this utterance that in the general election Bennett did not attempt by a single utterance to an- swer the last question that he asked; and there may be those to ask how he reconciles economic nationalism with political' imperialism; but how- ever that may be, it is fairly certain that Bennett's sincere Imperial creed is a free, independent and self-re- specting dominion within the British brotherhood. Further: it perhaps should not be forgotten that with all his seeming antagonism to the Bri- tish Preference, Bennett was she first responsible Canadian statesman to advocate the idea of an Imperial Eco- nomic Conference. So. far as Canada was concerned, he was the father of that propesal. Nor should it be for- otten that, so far as the British Pre- erence is concerned, Bennett has said no more than can be laid up against Sir Charles Tupper and Sir Robert Borden, Not that he will go back to Tup- per or Borden, or even to Macdon- ald, for guidance in Empire trade, On that question as on others, Ben- nett will trust to his own instincts, to his own conceptions of what the times and the circunistances require, * For he is no slave to tradition, There is a self-confidence about Bennett, a faith in his abilities or star, that is both arresting and attractive. When he declared on platform after plat- form that he would cure unemploy- ment, taking this stand in magnifi- cent disregard of world conditions, it was not that he was playing the dem- agogue. He believed what he said. And now that the problem is with him, that he has been taken at his word, he will try valiantly to solve it. The problems that confront him, great enough to appall any man, have really no terrors for him. A Contrast with Mackenzie King It is in this respect, in his impetu- ous challenge to things, in his pro- pensity to take vigorous and prompt action, trusting that he will be right in the gross and not too concerned with details, that Bennett differs from his predecessor, Mr. Mackenzie King. Mr. King, extravagant some. times in statement, was the quintes- sence of caulion in action, He would weigh and balance the advantages and disadvantages, cohsider the 'political and economic repercussions, = debate possible public reactions. Bennett, rightly or. wrongly, will not do that, He is, tempéramentally and instinc tively, the bold and headlong type. It is not that he aspires to be a Mussolini or that he is likely to be carried away by sheer emotional vig- or. Bennett, for all of his tempera- ment, has about him the check-rein of the lawyer. Mr. Meighen, who hat- ed temperament and emotion aad made a god of legic, paid tribute to him as an arresting, original adviser in cabinet, It was not always ne- cessary nor perhaps wise to accept his view, but no cabinet could afford to --and Meighen's never did -- decide against him without giving the deep- est consideration to the argument which rendered it so plausible. And it may just be that Bennett, facing the responsibilities of office and beset By tremendous problems, will come to regard as folly some of the things which a few weeks ago he Promised with such rhetoricll vigor, The most sincere of men have not infrequently done that. LS, A Unique Premier He will be a distinguished, arrest- ing Prime Minister; in many ways unique. And he will have dignity. Never a "glad-hand" politician, he has no small talk. He walks through the corridors of the House of ons with an. air of Napoleon Bonaparte or the morning of the 18th Brumaire. 'He does not mean to be reserved, but he sometimes contrives to give the impression to those that know him little that he does not desire to know them more. Only his friends--a small, circumscribed circle--understand him well. And all of them protest that there is no man in public life in Can- ada with a heart so warm, with a simplicity so complete, with a loyalty $0 unswerving and so dependable. Intellectually, Bennett unquestion- ably towers above most of his follow- ers, He ms bad the money and the leisure for Jrevely he has Fad and knows books, and can en em; his 'association with big business has brought him into contact * the keenest minds of the day. A ty and success are stamped upon him. There is the questioning attitude of the great lawyer, thé purpose of the experienced administrator, the analy- tical character of the jurist, the'poise of the man of wealth, the condéscen- sion of the tried parliamentarian, the reserved dignity of the Prime Minis- ter, : No Canadian Prime Minisier has ever taken office at a ndore critical time, He has to grapple with unem- ployment; he faces declining reve nues; his first year is bound to pro- duce a deficit; he has $1,000,000,000 of refunding before him in his first five years. All of this, or even a small part of it, would appall the av- erage stout heart. It has, so far as can be judged, fio terrors for Ben- nett, And whether he succeeds or fails, whatever may hold 26 hiss he will give of his best. 1 e said of Disraeli that if he sometimes invited censure he never deserved contempt. R. B. Bennett's témpera- ment and character and metholls sometimes invite cénsure; his con- duct never contempt. *