"Recovery Before Reform"

Afraid that he might lose a Canadian general election by seeming too much like President Hoover, Canada's stuffy, rich and pious Premier Richard Bedford Bennett long ago announced a "New Deal" (TIME, Jan. 14). Last week his enemies set out to defeat him for being too much like President Roosevelt. Flaying the New Deal shibboleth of Reform-before-Recovery, the Premier's bitter rival, onetime Canadian Premier William Lyon MacKenzie King launched his Liberal Party's electioneering campaign with a radio speech in which he keynoted "Recovery Ahead of Reform!"

Said Mr. King, "Mr. Bennett has declared that recovery must certainly follow social reform. The truth is that economic recovery is the only sure foundation for the successful establishment and continuous operation of social services. To seek to erect an ambitious program of social services on a stationary or diminishing national income is like building a house upon the sands."

Canadian wiseacres last week guessed the general election would come the first or second Monday in October. Canada's new Novelist-Governor General, John Buchan, Baron Tweedsmuir, is to land in Quebec Oct. 10. Getting out Sept. 12 are the unpopular Earl of Bessborough and his Countess. To preserve Empire amenities, Canadian women's organizations are taking up a collection to present Lady Bessborough on her departure with a vase 16 inches high made by Canadian goldsmiths from Canadian gold.

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