~‘ , force be increased; if they are neg-tn 1920, 192i anti 1922.

» ‘cam-it’ and m the Ilniletl Slillfiii.

i’ there are now many gaps to be fill-

l, good for health. Those who work

9'- country.

lieieures and the greatest retreati- blunt to the spirits of man-with- whlob buildings and palaces ‘Qllobut, gross handiwork; and a ‘Ibun. shell ever see that. when ages

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TUESDAY, MAY‘ 1o, 1927

' TIUE FOR ACTION. . PROHIBITIOWS FAILURE IN

NORWAV.

_ l} numerous burglaries that have recently been perpetrated htbe city call loudly for immediate action on the part o! the City Council. That stores can be en-,

‘teretll and goods stolen night after; 1118111 811d. 88 “'88 1119 01189 ill llififboth sides in the prohibition dis- Nbbefy '1'¢I1°l'll’1l i" Yflfll-Bfdflynpute in this country, the issue re- Guardian, even in broad tlaylighbmains obscure in many respects. suggests that I wrong in our civic

(l-‘rom the Canadian Medical Jour- nal of December, 192th .

ARD as one may try to discern

111111 it l9 11D 10 1118 CllY C111111¢il lbland the conclusion drawn from 50-‘ find out where anti what it is. Isl the police force strong enough IOlhy a prion‘ judgments. _ Kuard the city’! Are 111B 11011111 Ollganda 0n both sides has been oil duty or are they negligent? lrifilguch a prejudiced character as to‘ U19 111-11)’ 01' lliv i7il.\' (Tfillufiil 1.0 liitll leave the neutral observer unuer-i this out, and we would respectfully thin tif the side. on which the evill 111188881 111111 llvuv m"! at (tilt!!! it, thr- greater. This obscurity isl and, along with tht- jiolitzr, thot nhscttt wht-u prohibition is regard-l oughly discuss the whole situation, ,.,| m, m, “hurrah; issue, an it, ap-i and decide to lake such action its Dpflffl m I

they may doom to

have been in Norway 116-‘ !1P1'P5$11I'.\‘- avitvrt- ll Itas been dnft-atetl by Charlottetown cannot afiord to ltuvt- populgtr ynajuy-[qy flnm- a m,“

=15 nil The following factsi Th‘? tlliétviifi comt- to us urtcoloreti by party in-i

‘its fair name besmirched by almost gf-vgn yam-g, nightly burglaries. and hotter-breakers in tltl: I'll)’ Iiillfi- tt-restsi (American iledicitte, Octo-i necessarily be it-w and tht- poliw- nt-r, 1926i, p. 0153.1 “The lnw becitmu‘ should know who they are. it‘ we ptret-tive in 1.019. Difficult of exeq 1111-"! 1101- 911011Sl1 Iwlifiemeil. 11-1 ll"? cution, severe measures were added; ‘Vith théi “B9111. lei- tilem lit’- llil-ivllflflipll- I11 atldition of oaclt restraint, hurt-E any case the situation demands tlta:‘,.-,~,.,-_ U". siwnrpm bgt-pmn worse.) 1118111111. 811d liflillvfll mfiatillreti b9 flll-‘The at-tual consumption of alcohol 0111911 8111i the lirflt think 10 (l0 i5 Yfitittring this period decreased, but the "ml 011! Wllfife U19 1811i! llPfi- Allproblems of alcoholism increased; Beli-Tefilmcliilli (‘ililfifi-‘i W111i! 10 119 Tilt-re were more arrests for drunk-j and 319 P101111 1110111‘ C11)’. i111! if WI‘ ennt-s-a than before prohibition. B19 l0 b9 llifiilffluell l1)‘ i\l1110l11 Iliglll- there were more cases of acute al-Q i)’ bllfglflfieS U181”? i5 lilllt? Gilli-HE coholism in the hospitals, and there‘ 101' Dflde- “'8 look for immediateavere more ciimes tltte chieflyto ex? ‘aclllm 011 1119 D111‘! 01' llit‘ V11." cessive drinking. In 1922, the Nor-v Council. p wegian Government, realizing that' NOW ON THE LAND. . .

' _ mistake, began to repeal restrain-t “MING m“, gardening i“ this int: measures. Thc result was thatE

prohibition “'25, in its essence, a-

year’ 1927' was commenced the consumption of alcohol ittcreas-l‘ practically yesterdayfénme premw ed. but the arrests and disorders‘, atory work had been tlotte in the difcrefls"'l‘ Further legal ludlllg‘? previous week’, Bu‘ the work of cur-e was tried, and again consump- Cllltlvatlttg the land and stiwing the’ min lncruased and disorders M‘

"ed is just begun n is pleasing creased. The figures are eloquentzt to learn that i, is begun in good ln 1923, 3,t00 litres of wine were‘ circumstance“ and with m“, nrofixtmportetl, and the arrests for drunk-t pact”, The laud’ a" Over the coinr-eunese per thousand was 42.9. In "y, moistened by recent rains, H1924, 6,500,000 litres, almost. double in good tilth. With the additionallthe consumlmon‘ and ‘HA arrests? fertilizer that will be applied thisa "lurked decrease‘ l“ 1925' 9'30"" spring’ and such Hummer weamerlooo litres, and still further decrease as we “sunny enjoy the harvestofitt arrests to 32.6. Now it was be- tbis year should he at least as goodfcommg perfectly manifest w the as any of those obtained in recentlfiovernment that sobriety increas- yearm I AL any m“, the good farmjed with the decrease of restrictions a" of this Province may flow inland that drunkenness increased no,” we are thank!“ that umyl with the imposition of restraints. It have not had to contend with theiw“ not mug hem“ Mm the 6°" deatructwe gums and floods mm ernment and the people realized have vmted and filmed so manwthat’ prohibition defeated its own of the farmers in others pnrls offpumoscs’ am] mm‘ sobriety and temperance had nothing in common A” the Reason m], pmmingtreeg with prohibition. The result was,

b now at "and and m,“ is Cvanada.“ the. recent, vole, in -whiclt a heavy Diamond lubllee year we hope that majority w“ show" l“ “W” of m“ mkny maple“ w", forthwml lmlrepeal of the law, a proved failure."

planted in our towns as well as in the country. in Charlottetown, as] we have been reminded, there liasl been no general planting of since Mr. Paton was mayor; and

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EDITORIAL NOTES.

trees Spring is now fairly under way.

if there are degrees of meanness urely the lowest was attained by the mun or men who robbed the store oi‘ two women who are making a re- spectable anti honest‘ living by hard work.

ed in the squares as well as on the sides of the streets. it would be well to have these gaps filled this spring. We hope that members of the City Council will take the lead, and show the citizens at large "how to do it." There is nothing that “sets off" and gives dignity to our streets and the highways throughout the country like rows o!’ flue ornamental trees. _ Work in fields and gardens is

One of Chsrlottetowifs greatest present needs is s. Law Observance Society. each member“ of which would he required to pledge himself to observe the law and see to it that others should do likewise. The greatest menace to society is that class of men and women who open- ly advocate ‘certain laws and take the first opportunity to violate them. This is where Prohibition fell.

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have, moreover, the pleasure of ob- taining for their labor things good ‘to eat, and things that delight the eye, and improve the face of the One of the very wisest of Englishmen stated that work in F, 3111911 111 "1119 purest of human That the Prohibition Act is not capable 30f adequate enforcement,

. h Iii" in the truth in the contentions ofti° 5'9“ l° Sim“ and per up!

lllefe l5 B01119i-l1ll18zOverzealousness on both sides is, > t - Q IIBIIBBBIIIBIII-lresponsible for many exaggerations/Slim

t . .

called facts are invariably coloredlj-rhe lflfinumo“ ,0 (mm; alcohoncfBab

tlons undlir Government Control. Those who sell and those who buy unlawfully will be subject to the same penalties of imprisonment or tine. This is just in principle and in this particular the new law will be much more restrictive than the Old- ffhe young man under 21 years of age will be unable to get 11 hermit to purchase liquor law- fully, and is under severe penalties if he buys it unlawfully. ‘We ~be- g iieve that no other plan yet devis- - ed has been so eflectual for put- ting the bootlesser out of business and for preventing young people

Notes ltLthe Way

"BINOP t; he that ruleth m- swirl eplrlt. than he that mum» s cttyfli 1g the language of Holy scripture-

l"Self reverence. self lmowledfl. 11°".

a settles or Lrrertalrv euo-rartous roll

its-summit

uittwt: it

153-1. 15. B. llIrCREADY,

still

rcontrol, these three alone lead ll“ ‘Ito sovereign power," is the lallill‘? gage of Tennyson, which is in aBree-l tmeut with Scripture. There are. fmany temptations in life to which; all are subject. One of the strum?

Tuesday, May 10th GONE IN THE WIND. _

twttu one o‘: Museum's

_sexual desire. Other forms ‘temptation are to make gains by 1111' lave-tut means at the expense of a11- other.

lation from the Gennsn of Rucle t

sdias such. »It uaanowever.

tan opponent in a moment of pas-p sion, or to get possession of some-um“ the phrase l5 us“ “gel-Quay

‘thing that he has.

and nothinfl Can removelpoetm" ‘I900’,

To resist such temptations is virtue: to yield to them is sinfuL!

gone in the wind.

I gone in the wind.

The propa-jstimttlattts is very stroili»! 111111 lellllfl-fuke ‘he “Wm shadow,‘ n; Boom

to int-rvrzuut rapidly 111 Wurllll 1111191“! like the dreams _of the blind,

when not lat-id rigidly tinder cou-iVanish the Izloriefi 3111i P41111911 0i

. - ' I l I. trol. lint when intoxication begins‘ file “rm n we Wm

sotfwoutrtil is wnakcnetl and is sooniMzm, can“, mm, "and upon “ugh, ,

lost. 'I‘lterein lies the appalling in the pride of thy mind? danger of thh drink habit. abstinence is the only sure preven-t tive against this 1111111191". 1111‘ Wile" lions embalmed and enshrined. Jelf-COIIITUI is gotte self-respect usu-. lllyriiillfl 111111 111illl011-‘1 01

an‘, "Ueq with i, Fvon the relmm,‘ are snow in the wind. . h - - <

ed tiruttlntrtl is in danger all hlsjsulomnxh when, is my throne? “is after life, however determined hei gone-in the wind. may he to abstain. For from tlmelBnhylflil- M1911! 111111)’ mltllll? i1 l"

to time the tomplfllio" wlnflmme “Mu tllieihgoetiitititlditif man hath him t0 "K011i! l1 .191 1123m- i achieved or designed,

lwails but its hour to be tiealt. with And yet, paradoxical as it may, as tlttst by the wind.

. k . . “em. ‘.0 who": bis-m w" Hess m Say, what is pleasure? A phantoms prohibition is that it set out to re- mask undefined;

move the temptation to drink to ex- science? An almond, “memo; we (teas by forbidding to drink at all. can pierce but the rind; _ Thi- object in_view was good, but "Ongillfltfsjgmliazlcfiénlgffimmls mm the method svns at fault. After only m “Hue, and pass m, u". twenty-five years the temptation wittgs of the wind.

-. 't

h“ not been Tgmoved’ whether I Solomon, where is thy throne’). It is be the temptation to drink only a. goue in ‘he wimL little. or to drink to excess. liivery-‘Babymn, when; 15 my one who desires to drink and has, B11116 in the Wlnll-

, - ;Wlto is the fortunate’! He who in the monty to pay for it can now get anguish ha“! “med:

ittg ("an tarry behind;

might? It is

all he wants by day or by night. The temptation exists in worse} form than before. .'

dust in the wind. ,4,

:l\lortal, be careful with what Thy best hopes are entwined;

Many good honest prehibitioniststwoe to the miners for Truthuwhere mt us this condition exists ne-{wpelhtilflfépfjsklélifgeoiflgsi-h cause the law is not properly err. what "one ever find; forced. if for argumenfs sake we,They and their trust shall be scat- atltnit that it has never been pro-i lewd like leflves 0" the Wind- llerly eumrced’ will“ mum's? The Solomon, where is thy throne’! It is fact remains that the law has been gone in the w|ud_ ' on the statute book“ under sevettBflliylull. where lsilléy 11115111? It i1!

_, - . _ - gone mite wn . -

, ltearts have cottsigned other party. It has been tried un-lAll earth's affections and lougings tlct‘ successive commissions as well 3111i 11111911 111 i110 Win11- as successive Governments with the one unfailing result that the party out of power always protest- ed that it was not enforced. What hope is there now that if sustained by the popular vote at the polls it will be enforced any better than it has been heretofore? We can see no hope whatever.

for

Pity thou, reader. the madness of poor humankind, Raving of knowledge: (and Satan so busy to blind!) Raving of glory. like me; for the garlands I bind. Garlands of song, are but gathered, and strewn in the wind.

Solomon, where ‘s thy throne? It is gone in the ind. Babylon, where is thy might? It is gone in the wind. l, Abul-Namez. must rest; for my fire is declined, And I hear voices from Hades, like bells on the wind.

By keeping on the statute book one law that is being constantly violated in letter and spirit, all other laws are brought into con- tempt. lt is notorious that burg- lary, house and store breaking, per- jury anti hypocritical evasion of law have greatly increased under prohibition. What but hypocrisy can account for the ten thousand prescriptions calling for liquor as u medicine? Everybody knows that this form of hypocrisy and demora-l ization has steadily increased un- der prohibition.

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-—James Clarence Matigan.

OO-O

Dally Selections g ros Guardian Readers

May 1o, 1621 noes m GOD:—-Why art thou

- ta wn, o m soul’! and why M1 Prohibition is also unjust In thleincggu ‘zugquietedy with“, me? hope

that discriminates betwflen the man,‘ mo“ in God. 1m. 1 aha" ye; 9,1135 WM "m "W" "mun"? 1° law him, who la the health of my 001111- and the man who buys liqttor from tenance and my God. Psalm 42:11. him. It very properly provides a penalty for the seller, but treats the when a“ the ends or the earth buyer as an innocent, while both s n remember and mm unto 1.1193 are morally guilty. Boys and younizn all the Ktndreds of the nations men now think it Just fun to buy shall worship tbefore Thee.

liquor from u bootlegger. They can't be brought into court for that and the bootleggsr may set off with a line, which he can easily pay out of his large profits and it has no terrors for him.

HRAYERh-Bpeed the day. Iiord.

MOT HLER

The red of the rose. the blue of the

11 v .

The white of the milky way, The song of tihe lark in the morn- ___ lug hour

Very different will be the conctI-I The d°v° w“ at “b” °t d”; The smell oi the gass in the mee- ' dow, . '

The Glory of God on the throne, The ripple of brooks in the moun-

tain, . The love of Christfor his own:

The beauty ot light ‘at mtantsht. ‘In the star that. illuminee the sky. The lite of lthe mutt in the our time. _ v , That comes from tilts sun on hiflli.

run medley of gloriotts ‘ charms that dwell ‘

In the sky and air and sea,

00a gathered togaltter with infinite

lacking ‘as it» does the ‘strong sup- port ofpublittoplniou, must by this um bettteii-‘to those who have rt as ,, tgtutty to the subject. m general can adequately en- page v tum which)!“ not. the ‘ ‘I lipport of a good maiorlty

t

to itivility sail elegsnoy. llllen ‘stately looser than» w.

from acquiring the drink habit as

not all agree with this. but is it not worth a trial? '

|“*'hl" not prove equal to reason-

wiil be called for. A new temper-

care And gave ‘you- dear Mother to me.

his. Our prohibition friends will periment. We regard the promised

change in some respects as an e!- periment and a very hopeful one st that. ' " '

After it la put to the fut, and-ll . - _l_g__g,- Anether burglary p I'm sunny

hie expectations, a further change morning. Alvheueverjieforsavas

nook -,t.o_vsse . _,

- - it usual myfi‘ est of these is the temllllilio“ "i tincations this musnlflulnt 111111111‘ of dy was described by him as a trans- snd has hitherto always been print- no Still other forms are to lie. Qermnn originsl—the phrase “B0118 the wind" being practically all hat it possesses in-‘eotnmon with a certain poem of Ruclterfs, and twe therefore restore the poem to its true author.)—~Note by Lionel The” “Inflation; "is; in huminzJohnson in "A Treasury of Irish

lSolomomw-here is thy throne? It is

To,“ Wisdom will teach thee that noth- Tlto‘ there be thousand bright flC-g brighter

" the’watermetyto-attend, They had a mohopolyof the the. sup-

tried to whip up his horse.

men‘ of etnothetjwengine‘ seized pop 115,95” wit]; ;

‘w, ._ _

Afiordirig sketchy and Izttntorotts glimpse: of the Capital. of thc Domiuiott about the film: of Confederation.

l .1 't i i

Among the capital cities of the world Ottawa ishut of yes- terday. ‘Washington is older by some sixty years, Mexico is still older. London dates from the Christian Era. -It was 7_53A years earlier when Romulus with two white oxen drew a furrow around the base oi thc Palatine Hill, marking the boundaries of earliest Rome/ Athens, “the Eye of Greece," has existed for nearly 3,500 ' years, and is still a capital city. Damascus, coeval with Abraham, yet reposes in beauty among its ancient palms.

There are some points of resemblance and many of differ- ence between thc two great English-speaking capitals of North §America—\\'ashing10t1 on the Potomac and Ottawa on a mightier

ylou, where is thy might? It lsi river 50o tnilcs to thc tiorthward. Both were first ‘established tn~ t

iillt? primeval forest. Tom .\‘loore, who sang of "Ottawa's Tide." {also sang of the Potomac in lint-s as applicable to the noble Cana-

;dian river: —

"Oh mighty river, oh ye hanks of-shade,

Ye malchless scenes in Nature's morning made, While still in all the exuberance of prime

She poured her wonders lavishly sublime,

Nor yet had learned to stoop, with humbler care,

. / t

a From grand to soft, from wonderful to fair."

The irisll poet's unfavorable impressions of thc capital of thc Republic, as it was in 1804 xvhcn he vtsnted ii’, are well known!

“In fancy now beneath. the twilight gloom.

Come let. me load thee o'er this ‘second Rome!’ Where tribunes rule, where dusky Davii bow

And what was Goose Creek once is Tiber now- Thiit embryo capital where fancy sees

i Squares in morasses, obelisks in trees;

Which second-sighted seers ev'»n now adorn

With shrines unbuilt and heroes yet unborn, Though naught but woods and Jefferson we see Where streets should run and sages ought to be."

Ottawa was crudc and rough, indeed, when the first Parlia- mcnt asscmblctl in i867, but less so than the “lashington of sixty- threc years earlier. Wield has left on record that at the United: ;States Cilpliill there was the “ticcessipy of going through a deep‘

lwood for our: or two miles in order to sec a next neighbor in the‘ lstttnc city,” and Moore tells that “the public buildings, which were‘

l in some degree of forwardness, have been since entirely suspended.

He 8.111111 16101011‘ when his relics flfelThc ltotcl is already a ruin; a great part of the roof has fallen , ,

,in.. . . The President's house, a very noble structure, is by no,‘

litteans sttited t0 the philosophical humility of its present [)0S5€SSOi‘.i who inhabits but a ‘corner of the mansion himself, and abandons lthe rest to a state of uncieanly desolation." The Rideau Irlall of, sixty years’ latcr was not a very lordiy mansion, but \\':t.s ticatlyl built.

The Ottawa of 1867 was a straggling city, made up.0f twtr; principal communities, commonly known as Upper Town and‘ Lower Town, with the public buildings on “Barrack Hill" as a cou_;‘ necting litik. Lower Town was mainly French, but Satid_t~ Hill: at its southern verge was a fashionable residential quarter, withg Daly Street as the tnosfexclusive section. Upper Town cluslcrctl “about the Chattdiere Falls and thc great lumber mills, whose open atives were iuditfereutiy housed on LcBreton Flats or across thc river in the shanty town of Hull. Westward from the Parliament Buildings, just laeyond where the statues of the Fathers of Con-i federation now stand, was an old stone building, known as thc; officers’ quarters. In front of this building three tall poles were

zontally to its top. On these positions of prominence three bears, pcts of the Regiment, were wont to repose, basking in the sun- shine. They were an object obfreiluent interesrt-in full view from my olfice window in the southeast corner ofitliehbuiidi-ng.

‘The Library building was still unfinished, and Lovers’ Walk not yet carved out of the cliff side. Parliamenlg-Squarc was rudely enclosed with a high board fence, already tumbling down and use- less. ‘It was no uncommon sight to see a. herd of twenty cattle pasturing on the square on a warm June day, and these, when struck by a tormenting gadfly, would, with heads and tails erect, race madly down thc hill across Wellington and‘ Sparks Streets to the open fields beyond. * Ottawa had then no fixed system of waterworks other than wells distributed about lite town, from which hard water was drawn for drinking and culinary purposes. French carters from Lower Town paddled soft water from the river, and did a brisk business on wash-days. They also supplied the fire department, when fires occurred, as they sometimes did. Hand engines, of which there were five or six, were exclusively in. use. The days of steam fire extinguishers had not: yet come. , To stimulate zeal in both firemen and watermen the city paid ‘rewards-I think it was $20 to the engine throwing first water onithc fire, and $5 to the carter who brought first water to the engines, and thc usual price per lbarrel thereafter. There were strange scenes at fires in Ottawa in those days. I am tempted to record a typical incident. It was a winter: night and about ten o'clock when this ar- ticular alarm was sounded. The fire was in‘ a shop on Spgrks Street, west of Bank Street. The engines responded promptly, as the crowd always did, ‘but there was no water. The entire upper part of the building was soon ablaze, and the bystanders were jocularly throwing snowballs into the seething flames and com-