FEBRUARY 27, 1931'

THE IZIIARLOTTEIDWN GUARDIAN

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L4 Touch 0f Old Times This week's severe snowstorm and consequent tic-up of railway com- munication is a reminder of the har- rowing experiences of other years, when our isolation from the main- land for days and even weeks at a. time was complete but for telegraph- ic news- In the days before the pres- ent car ferry steamer. scarcely a winter passed without finding us in "a state of siege, and it was neces- sary for wholesale merchants of that timetolayinasufflcintlfofid goods to last throughout the winter there have been seine severe tie-ups, not-

ably in 192a. when the Abegweit

hockey team was snowbound at Em-

,» v erald from Jan. i2, to Jan. i7, and ‘ ' in 1926 the railway lines , I throughout the Maritimes, with few exceptions, were completely blocked. and the hockey team from Sid- ney took four days to reach Char- lottetown. It was in 1026 that the New England States suffered the worst blizzard since 1888. The present winter, though it has ;ied up railway communication for three days, has affected us less than it did the island of Cape Breton, < which \vas cut off for several days this month from all direct commun-

months. liven in later years

when

ication with the mainland owing to the destruction of telegraph and tele- phone wires. Also, we have been for- tunate this year ‘in having the air- t mail service. There have been inter-

ruptions in this service. due to un-

favorable flying conditions; but its ‘ efficiency has been highly creditable , to the department. So too, have been the efforts of the railway authorit- ies to clear the lines. Even with the powerful rotary plough supplement- ing the usual snowfighting equip- ment there has been a lengthy tie- up this week, but; it is one which, the nature of the case, must be accepted philosophical- ly. It is hoped that, before the pub- lication of this issue, the main line will have been cleared and the train schedules resumed.

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The Fire Department By-Law

‘ Y , Elsewhere in this issue appears the ‘ full text of the new civic by-law reg- ulating the Fire Department. That this by-law was pending for a con- siderable time, that there was strong opposition to the age limit provision by some members of the Council, that the discussion, pro ancl con, was con- fined to caucus meetings and that the measure was finally passed at a spec- ial meeting, unanimously and with- out discussion, is about all the infor- mation available as to its introduc- tion at this time. The main purpose of the by-law is to reorganize the whole department, limiting the age of all the firemen, including the Fire Chief, Assistant Chief, andcom- pany captains to from twenty-one to fifty years. The Fire Board, to whom ‘the Flm Chief will bc responsible, has been extended to include the chairman of the Commissioners of Sewers and Water Supply as well as the fire commit‘ of the City Coun- cil and the Fire Chief himself. Pro- vision is made for the creation of a Salvage Corps and the various duties of the members of the Brigade are more specifically outlined than in the preceding by-law. The changes are important, and are dictated, doubt- less, by the desire for even greater efficiency than in the past in all the activities of the Department. Members of the reorganized oom- panies will be chosen, as far as poc- sible, from the present members of the Fire Brigade. Unfortunately, however, some of our most capable. and certainly our most experienced firemen have passed the fifty-year ‘l limit and will be ineligible under the I new regulations. PerhaPl thl-i WIS "11 avoidable if a change was to be mode. It is no reflection upon the best of men to rcwflhlzc that the? are less capable of physical exertion u @1131 cdvcacc in more. lievmlis-

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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1931

lottetown has now started producti -u, and already twenty men are fully em-

never have happened.

ganlzed in England by the Empire

lcsl, it is to be hoped that the City Council will find means of publicly

acknowledging the great service which these older members of the Flrc Department have given to thc community, voluntarily and without thought of personal glory or emolu- ment. oftentimes their duties en- tailed hardship and ’ —con- ditions which they faced as cheerful- ly and as willingly as did any body of soldiers in the War. They never courted publicity; their voice was never raised at public functions or patriotic ceremonies; but they were always on the job when there was work to be done; they were always cool-headed, dependable and efficient. Such splendid service entitles them to every possible consideration. If they are no longer required as active firemen, at least their achievements should not be forgotten, nor should their judgment and experience be al- together dispensed with in re- organizing the department.

It is a moot question whether a man at ‘fifty-one is not as capable physically as he was at, say, forty- five. Pensions regulations usually ap- ply to persons of sixty-five and over; under that age one is assumed to be able to earn his own livelihood, whether by manual labor or other- wise. However, the new by-law sets the firemens age limit at fifty, after which he is retired automatically, whatever his physical condition may be. The change may prove beneficial in the encouragement it will give to younger recruits, and it may make for greater efficiency, as the Counc- il doubtless believes to be the case. Let us hope so. In the meantime, further developments in the. reorg- anizatiorrof the department will be awaited with keen interest by all our citizens.

Micawber Tactics

The Liberals under Lloyd George's leadership in the British Parliament find themselves in a curious position today. Their one object being to hold the balance of power, they could not bring themselves to support such a measure as the Trade Disputes Bill, with which they disagreed, b_ut also they could not aflord to risk putting the Labor Government out on a mat- ter which even the Government might regard as a question of principle. 5o the Liberal Party agreed to abstain from voting at all on the second reading of the bill! Under the head- ing of “Light Llimericks for Luckless Liberals," a versifier in the Saturday Review thus sums up the situation:

There once was a Liberal L. G. Who said: “We must see, we must Sea";

For to speak and not vote

On all matters of note

Is what makes the perfect M. P.

Editorial Notes

Great progress is bcingimade with the new woollen factory of Messrs. Landrigan 6c Co., and the flnn is so full up with orders at Souris that it will be kept busy there right up to the fall.

The new fertilizer factory in Char-

ployed. But for the tarifl policy of the Bennett Government this could

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The first “Empire shop" to be or-

Marketing Board has been opened in Birmingham. For six month: all kinda of Empire produce will be dil- played and small samples sold to the public. Each Empire country will oc- cupy the shop for a period of about a fortnight. England and Wales ocmc first with [display of 45 different articles. The second period opened on

February 9. when New zealand took over thcphop; and afterwards South

Notes by the Way

Wisdom has coma to u cthln Exeter man with the years. (hr the occasion of his 61st birthday he said: "As we now view matters from c. mature understanding, we realiu that all the good pccpic do not belong to our lodge, that ull Chr' “ are not found in any particular church, and that graft and dishonesty is about equally div- ided among the various party or- ganizaticns."

A London letter says it would bc interesting to know even approxi- mately how much money the Indian‘ Princes spent in London during the Round Table Conference. How much difference their presence in town meant to the West End may be guessed from one detail. One Maharajah alone, by no means the wealthiest of the Eastern nabobs, cashed three cheques during his stay

bills alone, amounted to over £30,000. Another Indian Prince gave an order for a complete set of onyx furniture, onyx being, let it be

observed, a semi-precious stone. After dealing with the Indian Maharajahs, our West End shop-

keepers and hotel proprietors will be able to put a mere American multi- millionaire‘ in his place. It appears the patricians of the East are nowa- days the only surviving compeers of those great nobles who lavish for- tunes on art and literature in me- diaeval times.

The news from India continues to be encouraging. The Viceroy and Mahatma Gandhi have had their conference at Delhi, and afterward the little brown man declared: “I am satisfied, even optimistic.” Their is a world of‘ meaning in this statement, as, whatever else Gandhi may be in Occidental eyes, there is general belief that his sententious speech expresses exactly what is in his mind. The “satisfied" and "optimistic" Indian leader is to meet the Viceroy again, and the outlook for peace is vastly brighter than it has been for more than a year. '

Analyzing official American statistics for the years 1920-1027, the Millbank study reveals that the American death rate for women aged 25 to 64 is more than 30 per cent. higher than the rate for England and Welsh women within the same range and ages. Comparing men in the same groups, the report shows that the morality is at least 15 per cent. higher than the British. The difference for men and women aged 65 to 74, while not

British and

longevity revealed in this report is considered significant because it is shown consistently for each of the eight years studied, as well as for each age group of men and women taken separately.

A recent survey of London shows that ten times as many people are being killed on its streets now as forty years ago, but 40 per cent.‘ fewer Londoners die natural deaths. The average Londoner drinks only half as much beer as he did forty years ago, but he smokes twice as much tobacco. Laborers earn one- third more than they did a generat- ion ago, and the working day avera- ages an hour less for those who have jobs. -

One of the speakers at a recent convention of scientists declared that life is becoming so complicated, that machines are being so widely multiplied, and that the art of living is already so dependent upon train- ed knowledge, that the years of in- fancy may soon be prolonged-

It is fur from the truth to speak of this as a young man's age. If

and these, which were for his hotel '

‘club,

House,“ after Gilbert Talbot, brother of one of the two founders who was killed at Hoogc, on July 30th, 1915, serving in the Brigade. ‘

course "T. H." which, the professional jargon of the Army signallers, was "Toc H." The Army code of signals from curious name is drawn was devised to prevent mistakes when messages were spelt out over field telephones. Under the best of conditions ‘the letters a and h sound much alike, while the group of letters in the alphabet ending with the sound of e were Thus, b. c. d. e, g, t, v, offered poss- ibilities for innumerable errors, any one of which must not onlyhave wasted time, but might perhaps have led to mistakes. involving disaster. To get over this, a was pronounced "ack," to distinguish it from h, and while c and g and e were left un-

so great as those for adults under changci b became “be”? d ‘was 65, are still against the Americans. "am", ‘md I" t’ v became "Pm" The evidence of greater Brliish ‘we’, and "Vie" respective]? Both

m and n were easily mistaken, so m became “emmafl speaking over the telephone to an- other would usc the them and evening (am. and p.m-) became "ack emma" and "pip emma"; thus it was only the natural sequence of this method of speech that Talbot House should become "Toc H.” club thus received a name which, while it commemorates something of the lighter side of trench warfare (this method of 'de:crlbing things offered a basis amusing allusions among must always also carry with -it re- memberance of the men who served, and through evoked, an inspiration to those who follow.

it seemed at one time as though little that was good could be saved from it. But an idea came into the mind of "Tubby" Clayton, who had, during his three years in Poperlnghe with Toc H. been doing some hard

thinking. His thoughts ran some- what in this way. While the politicians were at-

rua. CHARLOTTETOWN cuaaomu

Toc H. and the Empire

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"Ibo H? mac!!! .whut lc it!" The question is froquentb asked, and ‘the answer is, one of the most remarkable of a membcruncc move- ments that sprang out of the War. The belt and, in fact, the only un- dcntmdablc way of showing how ‘lbc I. "has become a great Empire influence for the good of humanity is to begin at the beginning, which carries us back to the darkest period of tho War as well as to its grinun- est arena.

In December, 1915, twd padres of the Church of England established a small club for soldiers, just behind the British line at Poperinghe. At that time Poperinghe was the first habitable place left to the troops as they came out of the Ypres sailient, that Welter of mud and desolation in which men of our race suffered, fought and died in conditions almost unbelievable to those who were not there. The two founders of what was announced on its slgnboard as "Everymanb Club," were Neville Talbot, now Bishop of Pretoria, and Philip Clayton (known to all as “Tubby"), now Vicar of All Hallows’, Barking-by-the-Tower, London. This for which a -small private house was taken, stood in one of the main streets of the town, and was open to all who came to it in the spirit of fellowship. Inside, the first thing to catch the eye was the admonition, "All rank abandon, ye who enter here." In a very short time this small house became the centre of fellowship for many thous- ands of troops of all ranks, from privates to corps commanders, and it is said that even sergeant-majors

ventured within its walls and be- came human again! The house was named "Talbot

The initals of the name were of turned into

which this

always a stumbling block.

Thus, one soldier

about the trench mortars

initials only and call

the "toe emmas." Morning

The

for innumerable soldiers),

the very memories

But the War came to an end, and

one takes the iioublc to trace back the lives of the men who are doing highly useful and important work, you will find that most of them were practically

tempting to grasp the material spoils of victory, andthosg who had be- come rich through the sufferings of others were busily purchasing worth- less titles, it seemed to him that the

"going to schoo " most precious thing of all-the spirit

medicine ll prolonging life, and men of seventy are still young in health. If tho boy has to wait till thirty till be is considered not hurt him any.

the London Daily Telegraph states that all motor headlights will,

until they were past forty. Every year piles up an additional mass of knowledge, which one must master before he can call himself educated.

The your! of infancy arc the happiest, so what harm will it do‘ to prolong them even to thirty ~or forty? There will still be time to be serious-minded grown-ups, for better knowledge of hygiene and

"grown up" it will

The motoring correspondent of

vehicles carrying after January l, 1932, probably be compelled by law to carry dipping or dip-and-switch dcvicu to prevent dacale- Such a

Am“ Amtnu.’ ma.’ Ommgrc lotion was recommended by the Rhodesia, the Irish Free State. and c“

of sacrifice which has animated the fallen-was being trampled tinder-

other countries might. The glare light evil is responsible for numerous night ' accidents and some compulsory measure is needed everywhere to curb it.

consider it.

indifferent to the cccrifiocc mode by their cldcrl, both living and dead. ‘rbcrowclctcrch tobchcndodw. the torch which liknlfiec lllht and the purifying flame of sacrifice. ‘Ibo spirit of those who foil must

ations to come, in order, that some one thing that was fine might emerge and remain from the ghostly carnage of the War. Thus in 1919-1920 'I‘cc K was born again in London. Its bcxilllllfll W53 modest. Its first members were "Tubby" and a few survivors of the Ypres salient. Its aim was to re- capture the War’: spirit of ccmsade- ship in common service, to bring to- gether an elder brotherhood of those who had served, and who would pass on this spirit to the younger gener- ation. The torch and the lamp be- came its emblems, and its motto "In Lumine Tuo Videbimus Lumen." Toc H lights its many lamps as an inspiration‘ for youth, and its eyes are on the future-of Bngland and thp Empire. Two years from its renaissance in London, the small experiment had been repeated throughout the length of England, and within five years the movement thus started had gone right round the world. In i922, Toc H. was granted a Royal Charter. I Its patron to-day. and one of its keenest members, is HRH- the Prince of Wales. In certain places, c. team of rnembe a live to- gether in a House (called c. “Mark"), the visible embodiment of Talbot House and the centre of effort in a wide area. At the beginning of i930 there were 19 Houses (or

foot- n this should bcallowed, the! younger nnomion micht crew an;

become the heritage of the gcncr-l

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By lumen W. Barton. M.D.

FHZDING Till BQDY BY MEANS OI‘ THE VEINS

There arc time: when to keep the stomach and intestine at rest really means lifc itself: an ulcer of the stomach or intestine, an operation when two and: of infliction have been joined together after u. gan- grenous portion has been removed; in obstruction of intestine and so forth. Yet the patient must receive food, must be nourished if life is to be preserved. ,

Therefore it is interesting to know of a method of resting the digestive apparatus, and yet keeping the pat- ient alive.

Dr. Geo. A. Hendon, Louisville, Ky. describes a method he has ‘ in a number of cases by means of which he not only supplies the food necessary to keep the patient alive, but supplies also any medicines that are needed.

The method is to open up the flesh and expose the-vein above el- bow or knee, and insert a metal tube to which is attached a rubber tubins winch in turn is fed from a vacuum bottle situated at a height of about six feet.

‘This vacuum bottle contains the dextrose or sugar solution that is

"Marks") at home and eight abroad; B4B Branches or Groups at home cnd 224 abroad. The overseas Groups and Branches are rapidly increasing in number. They are already finn- ly establish = in tho principal cities, and in many others, in Canada, Newfoundland, the United States oi’ America, South America, India, Ceylon, Malaya, Aden, Australia, New Zealand, the Union of south Africa, Rhodesia, East Central and West Africa, Malta, Egypt and Palestine. There are four Toc H centres in Belgium, one in Paris, and a Group was recently formed in Berlin. In all these centres the voluntary service of Toc H members flows in two main streams: (1) In- dividual assistance to the sick, the. disabled, the blind, the deaf and dumb, the lonely, the down-and-out, thecrippled or neglected child, the boy or man in prison or just out of it; (2) Leadership and friendship of boys and young men—-often badly in need cfit-inclubes, camps, classes Scout troops 8w, in_ the spirit of fellowship and common service learnt during the War.

The original Talbot House in Poperinghe is now the property of Toc H, thanks to the beneficence of Lord Wakefield, who purchased it outright in 1029. The centre of in- spiration for the world activities of Toc H is now the church of All Hallows‘, Barking, of which the

fed into tho vein and the system is thus supplied with food without the use of the stomach, intestine and other parts of the digestive system. You can perhaps see some of the great advantages of this method. "It is a simple, safe, and efficient method o fsupplying nutritious foods directly into the circulation in any quantity that may be desired. The flow can be regulated so that there is no shock-mo reaction.