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THE CHARLOTTETOWN? QEiKDTAN

Notes By 77w Way

President-W. Chester l. IeLun. I. I. Vina-Pres Ieoretary-Llont. Col. D. A. IMKlnnnn, l). I. 0.

Editor and llanlglng Director-d. B. Burnett Associate Editors-Frank Walker and D- K. Currie

Mono-J. I. Bane“

When the Ifrinoe of Wales lddrell- ed a vast audience of ex-servlce men and women in London, his remark,

llnrnlng Daily (founded I887) 85.00 per year (In advance; delivered. IG-M DI! year (In advance) mulled in Canada and United Staten.

"We do not want another war, must not even contemplate one, and must, above all, do our utmost to avoid any

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WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 26, 193

[mum summer Peace-Time Patriotism --__. \Vltl‘ Christmas but a month away.

we aw- still in the lap of Indian Sum- ‘

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‘ lvtr. Henry Ford is reported to ha

the erection of a large new F0 plant 1n this country. This develo

cently quoted in the Poets’ CuITlH‘. called it. No longer do "leaves. like vellrlv/ lanterns, iizht the lane"; nni long", M‘, me rhle‘.san,homllms yep‘! Primc .\’lil1l5l(‘l"5 insistence

m,“ bu. wlfltel. for some reason is up‘ adian raw materials and maiiufactu

informed Premier Bennett in London‘ me,._m. Squaw sumrqe,‘ as a poet n._ that Canadian steel will be used in

lilent is wholly 1n keeping with the that Can- »

wan" was greeted with a storm of cheering. The Prince has seen the‘ horrors of war at first-hand, and, as an earnest thinker, is desirous of lcontinued peace. Such a plea from him is calculated to have tremendous ve effect on public opinion everywhere.

A constable at Croydon Country

Court in England was awarded £40 . work.

damages, with costs. against an l wk 7 engineer whose car had bumped him y in the back and pushed him along ‘ten yards. This should teach British |lllOZOTl5£S that they must not run

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because they have been so able t

,--' control the acute diseases of child

,MONIIY T0 SAVE ADULT LIVES

I often wish the health officers of i011!‘ various towns and cities would .‘_\ ‘get their newspapers to publish cer- tainlacts about a week or ten days before they ask for their annual ap- propriation of money for health

Because they could show that it is

The Public Forum

LAW ENFORCEMENT

butter methods. There are only two rational meth icds of procedure. Either apply univ

‘cl-sally approved systems of correct 0

Sir-A Forum enquirer asks what are oll going to do with the Juvenile Delinquent." He suggests the "birch" This would be good in a limited class of cases; bllt in the main there are

inn, or adopt fox cllnnlng and leave him alone. To hail him before a

. . -:-~n— ca let f , di 11th.‘! - .

i‘. ,1. approach‘ and acammsoflwi es shall be utilized, as far as possible, ‘mm pohcemen Just u though they ‘lllgm; arid °te‘:';i's_t§at v.1“: £311“ ‘t:31fta3:18:52‘dixllsragiztaiuijxtrslezt

, baa.‘ .Q._ph,.,.e'fi1;5n,e 5k). lumen. to the exclusion of foreign products. ‘were common pedestrians. The lalv ‘me has been reduced m per “em ‘we you Genus! weakness and 1m

- . . - . -. - - '_"tl Ol t" i l t ., ' ‘

,- lhiliiif. ‘lll_'~')l('l'li>'i‘l of unusllalliwiulet.‘ The G““‘11““Em5 “m5 ‘and an“ Ltspelled d Con“ 1y s new o be Wllllln a space of fifteen years. Acld- potency to deal with him, you send i | rm. and hazy “.eflmer_ awn M n 135m dumping legislation was directed to- i '

only a fewdsys. may be designated the; Indian Summer, provided it occurs at}; any time between the middle of Sen-l‘ "l emwllw‘ remix-r and the early part of Deccm-

at ' "lme this tee-n became current, American

mall they are 1n the more eastern reg- ions. to which the white population was chiefly lilniled prior m the be-I fibril-g

intra-Imperial preference

ginning of the Nineteenth century; e16 911i "W1 to l°n°w “in 5m“ or these industries might be able to draw from the United Stfltcs cheaper than they can buy $119111 111 Canada. but most of them are like- ly to fall cordially in line with the Any who do not conform of their own vo- lition will, no doubt. be officially re-

Pioneer New Englnders are said to have believed that the habit of the Indians bumirlg prairie grasses produced the‘ smoky atmosphere characteristic of‘ this season. The Indians have gone, however; the autumnal haze lingers.

It is probably nothing more nor less? than the dust and smoke which are} not blown awn: the wind, but float near the earn: llrface. The poets have found more fanciful explana-

supplies

Government's patriotic policy-

quested m play the same by Cened and the Canadian people-

tlons, and perhaps the poets are, right. Who cares? It is beautiful. it inspires thoughts c1 sublimity and grandeur. and that is sufficient. It is "the after-glow of summer, when the

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Barrio on Education

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The prevalent view of 961169.310

rays of the still genial sun descendi through the stripped warm the gnarled roots. the shrubs

boughs and

wards this end. Mr. Bennett and his colleagues mean to make that pol-

The ilcws of Mr. Ford's announce- ber. Tie name is due to the fact that: “m” “m be “Tu "ecewed bl’ a“ be’ the phmomena o; m, Im-um, sum,‘ lievers in the made-in-Canada cam- mer are much lnrw distinctly marked‘ P111?" 115 3 111911115 0i’ relieving unem- in rlu- uppl-r _\llsrissfp;ii valley, the: ployment and stimulating a return r€g1nn “may occupied b, the mdlansi of economic prosperity. Hundreds of concerns manufacturing in Canada under the aegis of the Ca- ‘ nadian tariff, and thus benefiting by

which aims primarily at standardiz- ing the individual was criticised rec. ently by Sir James Barrie in hi5 0W" inimitable fashion The occasion W85

typhoid fever. luent. . But what about chronic ailments“ Unfortunately they are 0n the in crease.

another acute all

A self styled comedian of the illlllléd States stage complains that ‘Toronto audiences are slow to see his jokes. He says he had to wall some time for his audience to get the poill’. and adds: "Next time I play Ontario. l am going to pass out printed diagrams. on the order of road maps, ‘showing them when and whore to ‘laugh?’ Canadian people who have ‘seen and heard the type of comedian ‘that until recently flooded the vaude- lill stage will not be slolv to laugh ‘when they read this joke. The only ‘smile provoked by the majority of ‘these "comedians" illOW happily l ‘disappearing: is their cool assumpf tion that they are humorists.

creased 20 per cent. and that o

flll lives to the world.

saved.

mg enough money to spread lCll0\\'lCl‘lE£€ of good health habits il

the ccglniullity. One lesson alone would save ma-v

S.

ing the food and

f moans of saving thousands of ihcst So many sudden deaths have lcccurred recently that we are re- minded. that while the space of lifc seems to be lengthening as compared with a century ago or cven a half century, it is due to the lesser infant mortality rather than any increase for those who have arrived’ at middle age. In one respect, we are younger in that we look at life v differently. In Shakespeare's time n man was old at forty, and sir Wal- ter Scott bemoaned the fact that he was an old man at fifty-five, The orator Edmund Burke called himself‘ ar. old man before he was sixty. Dr. Samuel Johnson once remarked that at thirty-five a man had reached his

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fact the large intestine has an extra set of muscles running lengthways on it, whose purpose is to draw a pnr- tion of the intestine back behind waste matter, and thus let the cir- cular fibres squeeze it along. ‘Thu; Nature did her best for us.

It is the delay of waste matter in this long intestine that is responsible

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l n H the “oodland m5 lmwuéuon as Chwcenor or peak and after that his course musbfm a large pmcemage ‘l’ the nc" ' n11 ' ll ' , . _ _, . l . m“ m ‘ g V Edinburgh University, and ht. ad- be dowmvarcL such statements E5 "chronic ailments thatrafflict man- fima‘ hm l with the deb“ of ml. - dres took the form of a plea for 811 uhese would be discouraging to many. {Mild- lrn li‘fl‘.i‘<.' A‘. such times we crlre‘

l" v~~ xmc .' I .1 L h " f“ < lenqfic cxplalnuong n life and intellectual

[he Pmmvmlnt of the ma!“ alchemy freedom as well as furnishing equip .

depart more from tile SCOIHSh i698. which I take to be to educate our lnen and women primarily not for their country's good but for their own, not so much to teach them “ha; lo think as how to think, not preparing thcln to give as little trouble as pmsible ln the future, but sending them into it in the hope that they will give trouble. 'I‘hcl'e is a small group of the In- lelligcntsizl very much afraid of any such creed, because its mem- hcrs are so (lospnndcnt- about their fellow creatures. They are not lit- tle minds--they contain some of the finest brains 1n the couiitry— but they are as gloomy as 1f this were their molllting season. They think their land may endure a lit- tie longer if the new generations are plied with soporitics. All they ask of us, especially of youth, is a little all-round despair. No more talk about hitching your wagon to the stars. Few of us have wagons, and there are no stars."

Dr namm ‘ ‘ b lment for practical demands. . n1 - -, ~ ii . The 11th of hmcmhcr a1. 1c d i‘ “N““nng‘__ Sam s” Jmnes‘ “can > the R0 is to be the beginning 0i‘

ivint-er. We are aireadi; past that; date. and Vllnter st.ll tarrics. But it‘ i; likely to arrive at any time, and‘ when it comes it will usher in the invigcratznz spill-ts which are an 111-‘ separable part of the Christmas sea- son. A month is quite long enough for Nature to work another llflfillfifOfmfi-j ticn. will “when iclclcs hang by the wall" and the merry tlnkle n! sleigh-bells l5 heard .5.“ the blanketed hills and valleys.

bringing us t0 scasrml

Educational Parlacea

A cash payment to parents to al- low their children to be educated is‘ 1Q hflfl "proposal of the Labor Gov- ernment in Great Britain. The prin- ciple of providing free elementary education to children and of compel-

Editorial Notes

ling every child to receive it was ac- cepted long ago. and the govern- ment's new school attendance bill to raise the school age from 14 to 15 g1; mods with general approval. But the clause in the bill to provide maintenance allolvanoas will be strong- ly opposed. These allowances will be payable at the rate of five shillings a ivcek per child ill respect of children over 14 years who arc kept at school for another year under the bill. ‘Ii-icy are notlcomparable with schol- etc., which help

the poor scholar of great ability, but. ‘a ‘s gwd u ‘ nod m w blind horse‘

aside from that distinction, there is and "one so dumb u the“ who do the objection that additional heavy‘ not wan‘ to “kc . mm when it is

‘ U‘ expenditure will be involved at a time! Ewen ‘hm. l " ~ when the country is staggering under

I its burdens, The total public expen- diture on education out of taxes and rates in the, current year is estlmat-icsnadian Club at Vancouver, Hon.

sold as rabbit skins to be used in the making of imitation beaver. The cat seems to be a versatile creature even after 1t has come to the end of its nine lives.

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since the electors of Second Prince turned down g, Liberal lawyer after Premier Lea had exlplained that he couldn't carry on without one at the xt session of the House, the infer- is obvious. The people 40111

‘ want him to carry on. But a wink

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arships. bursaries,

In a speech delivered before the

i education that would give fullness of ,were it not for the real fact that and spiritual ilnany have accomplished their best

It is alleged, says the Dublin Opin- ‘ion, that cat skins are now being

Exercise will help to move the waste along, but exercise simpfy k arm. they have passed the use ‘ means Work" to many individuals. {my , Bismark‘ “.110 died M‘ i If the health officer will simply ad- jm-Rht‘._th,.ee_ did his greatest ‘vorkqlso the people to eat a little bulky ‘after he was seventy’. and Goethelmod e"el"'dal""cakbage' carrots’ M’ Zllnshed his "Faust" only a few years ' wce- fruits‘ “Team “w” and 5° 195,119,.‘ Gmdstone wok up R newiforth-niny of these at, least once a. langungé when he was seventy and ‘ day——he would be doing to some ex- Titian, the great painter lived to be l Lem for adult‘ what he h“ bee“ ninety-nine and did his worl: right up “mm f“ children‘ to the end Lamacg the _.,_#J.On0mm._ i And adult lives are worth saving. was still at work when death caught: up with him at seventyl-elght. Edi-‘ son. at eighty-four. is still active in invention and some of his best work has been done since he pnsscd the ‘Pcallnlsts mark of‘ three score year‘: and ten. Tile fact would seem to be that a man's age is a matter of feel- i " ling and of his outlook on life and ‘that though the physical powers may diminish the mind and spirit can have no limitation placed on them.

WOT

MY STAR

l All that I know

i Of a certain star,

i Is it can throw

‘l lLike the angled spar)

Calm and unruffled the Old World ‘ N ‘ d t o! red continues to show the way to the “owa dart r bu‘?

new in great enterprises. From all ‘ ‘lo?’ a F‘; 0d ha‘; said

accounts it might have been imagined i T: my r15“, Sm s" mo

that in the m of robbery Chicaso ;;y°:t:r°:m“:mrues'the "ed and m: could furnish correspondence courses i blue, ‘

in every line with individual attention i ' _ guaranteed to each student enrolled. iThen Efofiéipiillkefuraledwrth But what chance has a country that . ' 1 ..-.- steals mere millions and occasionally ‘They must solace thenme veg mm

l the Saturn above it. a millionaire against Germany where . - if th l .. . they do things on a far grander fwhat matter to me er 5 M l:

a world? s.ale. There apparently they stealnmne has opened l“ 5M1

whole constitutions. One has dias- l

th f I l it. appeared from the Rieichstage library, 1| ere o" igobert Browning twenty-seven pages of parchment and nineteen pages of signatures.

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There was u general election in the lwithou" same selbdeluslonl-Anflzoicl

United states on November 4 last. llmlnoe‘ Yet the newly-elected senators and l

. 1 . congressmen will not meet in regular l How “kc " peddle!‘ no“ of ca n ' session until December. 1931.

Se‘, chanting his wares, moans Tlmc ' i ___|1 d i eral newspapers call attention to the I through the gummy’ cobweb‘ an

, I contrast with Canada's method. fable’ o history! _G' w' and“ i

They revert to the fact that the

government of the day in Canada. It l‘ curious m no“ m. o“ "a- decided in June 1m w hold an =“""“““ °’ “m” mwgm‘ m“ election. held that election in July, wbslm“! °°“““'y '°"°"l‘ _‘°'"° “w and that the new government and 1 mystery; we bum when momw" parliament held its first session in l‘ "sad to ma. memnlvem-mngrel- September. This "speed" amuse our °" cousins in the Itebuplic. The cannot emulate it, however, becsus: of the By “m!” ‘ m“ ‘bu’ u n "I"

cc‘. at hi"! 07.00’). The new nlaln- 1 W. A. Gordon, Mlntster of Immigra- i tcnanrc of 811011111695 in the first fulli tlon,

|l..l.illl<~.-: and start are provided the ihe time comes to admit immigrants i"! r"-I]lf‘llill‘ill'," will reach £8,000,000} rare will be taken that only the right zr-nr. [fllifiilli wys The Tllncsipeople are admitted. Not less im-

- n! being re- portant is his further assurance that

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~= lmctnlng . can only brfmust first have every prospect of

msslmrlcrl by bribes to parents lbelnr absorbed into the national life.-

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restrictions imposed b _ contemporary with the ages past- and

outlined the pflnclplgg that, ion of the United states. This shows 1th" way o’ running up beyond "m"

"tal" is estimated to cost an add- will guide him in as administration "1"- lmflll- 111111-"111"! conliiiui- be" m“ rum.‘ m,

‘_ l _ _ _ ions have their drawbacks. Britain and “WV,” l‘ ‘r

if ‘nal £33130 000. and when extra of the office. He declared that when “ma. h." constitutions‘ we‘ Bu‘ exht9nce__c°m"_

‘they are far more elastic and adapt-

able than that of the United states.

-~ .1 it is to bC-‘llhuse who are permitted to enterfww bu"! discussed‘ Elwrymdy h“

recognized it for years. ‘in it.

y ‘he consmuh ‘i antedate his life, and make himself

n the United States everybody re- ognlzes the anomaly of the situation i

ed to this is the control ill adults of

During the same fifteen year pt-r- iod deaths from chronic ailments in-

course means the loss of many usc- How could many of these lives been

Simply by the health officer hav- ti..-

lives. and that is. that just as watch- intestinal move- . nlcnts of babies and children was the

him out encouraged and fortified for ‘greater wickedness. Better not stir up

‘the muddy pooh-unless you have

31153115 to cleanse it.‘

We live in a spending age. Despite

unemployment and private individ-

"e have money to burn. Thousands ‘Zld hundreds of thousands. are avai

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Cross, social

uni penury, in the collective sense,

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""ble for orphanages, hospitals, Red movements. expensive Highways, library, sauitariuni, civic

and government extraordinary en-

l heritage of crllninals? The "bad" boy or girl.

diverted

ggood citizen. becomes an asset of high value in the economic and soc- llial wealth of the community. far in

young lives. so also would the wmch- excess of the cost of his reform. A1- ing of the food intake and intestinal lowed to develop in an evil career he movements in adults save adult lives.

Man was made to work or exercise, land a costly white elephant to our and was given a long small intestlne prisons and departments of justice. t0 absorb all kinds of foods. and R lflfllllifll/ 11101‘? 9111391151113 large intestine able to hold a fair way than the trifling cost o amount of waste, which was meant 111i! his or her young lilc Into 8n 11P- to be moved along without delay. In right manhood or womanhood.

iis a menace to the community peace.

f chang-

, This Island is probably better a- ‘$611015 01' ihB W651- dnpted for an institute of juvenilel Premier Bennett's proposal was not correction than any other place on exclusively to the Rnliisay McDon- tlie continent. Being almost wholly aid Goverulncni-lvith an uncertain agricultural every purpose could be six months of life before it. His ov-

" con- crtures were to the British people ducted ‘under refcl-mntory methods. "w

lserved by a "detention farm,

specializing in farming education.

of establishment, such an institution should be nearly self sustaining, from the fact that small fruit production, poultry, minor live stock and dairy- ing, for which young people are best adapted. are amongst the most prof- itable labor paying of rural enter- prises.

In larger centres there is opposit- ion to to comps \ trade, In 1.. ; be no such ob that the demand for strawberries. black currents. eggs, dairy products, fowl, &c. is so far in excess of supply as to totally eliminate the question of trade competition.

And as corrective, measures; the more you bring the pupil into touch with the greet works of nature of which every department of rural in- dustry ls an cnsample; the more certain you are to wean the evil mind may from that which is bad, into n love for and an enjoyment of that which is ennobling and in the clos- ‘vi touch with the Godliness of that i

‘il with established

‘ell

'"‘~or which was first prescribed in;

terpriscs. What is there to hinder i1. l-cformatory farm or corrective school ‘to save the next generation fom a ,

from evil childhood into an adult

in every chased from the colonies. Is this an {empty hand for Canada? It may be

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After providing the primary costlsrimelro

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""":' bolus brought in- Canadian nest foulers ‘their muckrakes, that is if they can