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MONDAY, JANUABY rs, issz which ne was arranging thfwgh ‘i

_ _ _ New York tourist agency. 1-ie add-‘»

' W ivailin depression in the United that he has cancelled his GOING A-BORROWING 5 seripiinns to several United s

States .

enterprises and that he will 11°*

__ ` send a dollar into the Arnemlm

One of the chief aftermaths of THE PUBLIC LIBRARY Rgpublle until the exchange rate is

the war is a general campaign of

rignted In .another viii'-lllf°P“ Mf-

borrowing on the part of govern- It 15 emsom-aging to note thai: Crout remarks: "Our motheg" ments and municipalities to keep were has been B oonsldembie m_ country, Great Britain, 1011-YW

some of your Scuthem States

tmnss 3°m¢' This is °°mm°“ t° an crease in the circulation of books in rl to

countries and most municipalities, put not a few are beginning tn rind

their borrowing powers greatly re- stricted. In the Quebec Legislature recently power was sought and ob- tained by the govemment to close-

ly supervise and restrict the bor-

rowings of municipal bodies. The

government reserves to itself the right to refuse authority for tha

floating of municipal loans. Evid-

ently this restriction does not ap-

ply to Montreal, which, city just

announced through its Mayor that

it intends placing in the hands of

the Bank of Montreal and La wo

' som

Banque Canadienne Nationale. to

morrow a new bond issue of $15,- 000,000. Sir Charles Gordon, Pres-

ident and Mr. Jacques Dodds, Gen-

eral Manager of the Bank of Mont-

real and Mr. Beaudry Leman, Gen-

eral Manager of La Banque Can-

adienne Nationale, announced that

the loans are specifically authoriz-

ed and immediate payment granted

for unemployment relicf of $2,500,- 000 on the following terms:

"(1) That the city will agree to

place in the hands of thc banks

for sale to the public on Tuesday

next its proposed new bond issue or sls,`ooo.ooo and the banks, in c0_

operation with a group of banks

. such books last year being

since the remov-

to its prwent

quarters. In

full year in

the Public Library

al of the library convenient new

1929, the last

which the library was housed in

the Provincial building, the total

book circulation was 26,978. In 1931

it had increased to 41,854. Of this number 27.274 were books of fiction.

'His proportion of fiction drawn

from the Library is somewhat larg- er than is desirable, though prob-

ably no larger than in other cen_t- res. Fiction may be of a. high ciil- tural and educational content,~but

much of it is ephemeral and

e of the modem output can

There _are excellent modem his- rical, bographical and o‘her

brary which are deserving f ider circulation than they have cceived. This, of course is a mat-

ter of individual taste; the aver-

age person resents being dictaied

to in his choice of reading matter;

but it docs seem a pity that so much

solid litcratiu-e remains on the lib-

rary shcives, practically unread.

The winter months show ,ri .larger

in Decem-

and bond dealers, agree to cndeav- ber' when 453 volumes were mken

or to market the issue, without commitment, on terms of which the

city will be advised definitely on Monday next.

"(2) That this loan of $2,500,000

and a special loan for $1,200,000 al-

out against, 3,326 volumes of fiction.

There are, Of course. many ‘V110 1`e'iadian dollar an advantage as well sort to the library for the purpose

of looking up rcfcrcuccs, and books

t d question are well enough known.

approximately £l00,000,000 D DT the cp/11 war, none of which has yet been paid. I fail to see why you should expect Great Britain to pay ner war debts to you When l'°“ are well aware that some of y°“f States repudiated their own.” This correspondence says the Mail and Empire voices in clear terms the views held by a great ml\J°l1tY of people in this country. We do not claim that we can place the entire blame for the adverse ex- ch‘nge rate in the Unittd Statts upon the United States authorities. The discount is, in part, due to well-ascertained economic condit- ions, but there is a widely held impression that the money chang- ersin New York are exactinga larger pound of flesh than is

°“1y be described °“ trash' justified under the circumstances-

The cause of Empire trade is mt oin to be assisted by ihosr v~h0 sit round and moan a ou friction which is bound to b created between the Mother Country and the Domlnioas in the course of negotiations. Howls of anguish may be expected from special interests on both sides of the Atlantic. Some are bound to be disappointed in any tariff changes. But it would be fi mis- take to interpret the walls of thes: iritcrcsfs :as thc voice of nutloml

works of permanent value in the E ' 5 ' ' Li _ ' 0 g b t the

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clrculfiton of general (non-fictlon),5P"Um”“°» 9’ W imawie that “my

indicate friction between the

literature, the.greatest demand for' 5 i “ 2 __

negotnting parts of the -Emp.re.

The Lethbridge (Alta) lieraid

secs in the discount on the Can-

ris a disadvantage to the Dominion. The unfavorable aspects of tile

of this kind arc in cons ant e- _

' V but there are certzin ways in which

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ready authorized by the banks for

unemploymcnt works. $3,700,000 in ull, will be repaid out of the first

proceedings of the bond issue.”

During inc year several gonor-

ous doiiatloiis were made to the

Library by the estate of the into

Mayor Houde in announcing the Charms Cumming’ M,._ JV A' Rgwey

underwriting of this loan by the banks describes it as "an uiifiligvt-

tlble service rendered to the city of

the Daughters of the Eli\p`Lrc,

Cameron, and ozlicrs, the total has to pay as high as $125, to sccurc volumes acquired in 1931 being 927

Montreal as well as to thc uncm- as a ,mm 405 in 1929 _

ployed."

These are hard days for public

bodies going a-borrowing. and this

is made particularly evident when

we find a city of the importance

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Altogether, the increased interest

shown by thc public lu the Lib-

rary is encouraging. and proves the a<i\'antagr of having spacious ac-

- romodation, conveniently located,

of Montreal compelled to accept the underwriting of a loan on pi-ag. tically unconditional terms. In oth- ernwords they are evidently thunk. ful to get financial assistance on

any terms which the banks may dictate.

H001/ER'S SUCCESS

The latest from Washington an- nounces the s2.ooo.ooo,ooo recon-

struction corporation bill, the fore- most of the measures proposed by President Hoover for the enliven-

'ing of United Stntcs business, has

been given the overwliclming ap- proval of`the House of Represent-

atives, and now only requires the

adjustment of a small difference In det-ails between the Senate and

the Rouse of Representatives to

receive the general approval from the White House.

The purpose of the measure is to

infuse $2,000,000,000 of credit into business channels by loans from Govemment-supported funds to banks and other financial institu-

tions, which in tum are to pay the,

money to assist industry, ugi-ic.ll- ture and commerce. The second item on President 1-loovcrs econ-

omic program-a bill to increase

the capitalization of Federal land banks by $100,000,000, has been amended by thc Senate with rin addition of $25,000,000 to enable the

banks to postpone mortgage bank installments. It is likely in confer-

ence with the House of Represent- atives this amendment will be

agreed to and both the measures will receive the Presidents approv- al and go into effect at once. It be hoped by this means to greatly -oriiicracl the effect of the prc-

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THE BEST MEDIUM

A comparison between the effec-

vertising as compali-cd with other

forms oi' product publicity is can-

tained at a. special exhibit at the

advertising expos tion nf, the Miount Royal Hotel, Montreal. The claim

is made that daily newspaper ad-

vertising musf, be the basis of any

successful sales campaign in Can- ada.

Tile newspaper case is founded

on four premises: the universal ap peal of the daily paper, which en- ters the intimacy of the home and 1.; read by all members of the fam- ily; its immediate appearance and lmlpulse tg immediate action; the

frequency 9! a newspapers appear-

ance and its localized circulat`on, that is, its closeness to the place of purchase. Advertising in the daily paper may be extended progressive-

ly by zones and seasonal variation may be taken into account by the aldvertscr whereas he would bc un- able to do this in a more static

form of publicity.

EDITORIAL NOTES

it has bccn reported to the agricul-

tural comm ttee of Glamorganshlre. Waits. that after lectures on horti- culture had been delivered in the

Cardiff and Swansea prisons, some cf the prisoners protested to the governors that such lectures were

1105 included ln the'r sentences!

The Brltishcr still looks upon his

hcmre ns h’s castle, eve when that

ihcmc is temporarily the jail.

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and though they seldom appear Canada nmy benefit' ,md the 'ill Ui” Y@C°1'd5 Of Cif°“lfm°“- Herald mentons one in particular.

Canadians, it says, who have bccn in the habit of visiting California or Floridi during the \vi»ite»

and thc discount on th? Canadian dollar is the reason. Whcil cuff

$100 in American money, says tl\0 Herald, thc point is obvious. But the some discount works another way, The United States tourist can tike $100 of his oivu currency and exchange it for $125 or thcreabouts, of Canzidliln moilcy. :nd thereby he is provided with an induccmeuf, to do his holidaying in Canada.

A France whose policy is dict-'lttil

by fear will never bc a leader, how- cvcr stored her coffers may bc with gold. Fear does not make

n meness °f dauy newspaper ad' leaders either ol men or nations.

But if France will set aside her fears and become as courageous in the cause of peace as history pro- claims 'she has been in that of war, she may yet, at a critical moment in the world's history, assume true léodcrxhlp in a distracted world.

Scnaior Borah’s investigation

in Washington shows that on thc billions of loans to Eurnpc silica

' 1020, New York bankers made 500

to 600 millions in profits. Sailing back and forth across the Atlaniic in their private yachts, the Morgans and Schllfs and Wiggins controlled the outward flow of Americivs money and cred‘t. What have they done with that credit? Where have they placed it? Was thc money not wasted and misused to build lip competition in Europe in- stead of being used to build up markets in Asia? Were those bank- ers economic statesman, intellg- ently using the power and money entrusted to them by millions of workers and investigators, or were these bankers nothing but glorified stock s.il*smcn who, jilgglcd, short- soid and rc-sold hundrocis of mlilcns of worthless oil sr~curi*.‘<=.", to the public. simply to inakr commissions?

North Carolina furnishfs an ex-

ample of n State which found that lt was spending too much money and which faced ri serious problem with courfge and to good effect. when the new industrial em ln .thc Scuthcm States began a quarter of a century ago North Carolina \v.~.s cnc of those which bclzau to forge ahead. Textile and other fnci:ir`cn

n . ' .’l\'ei'e established and the state be-

ic`mc largely industrial as wziil ns

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YOUR. MIND MAY CAUSE INDIGESTION

You may be troubled wirn indig-

estion and have reached the point where you consider the medical pro- fession might turn away from can. ccr or heart disease for awhile and try and find a cure for simple in- digestlon. `

What is lndigestion? You have been to a number of

doctors. You have had the test meals-toast and tea-and had them removed from the stomach at differ. ent periods after you have eaten them, You have had the bismuth meal and have had an X ray exam- ination to see how the stomach handles that meal.

The stomach appears to bo nor-

iual, no spasm of the openings, no ulcer, no cancer, no inflammation of the lining of the stomach, and yet you have indigcstion, gas pressure, belching, distress, and sometime; pain.

If there is nothing wrong with

the stomach what may be causing the lndigestion? Your mind. Not that you just imagine you

have indigestion because there 15 really no question about that.. but because your mind is interfering with the impulses that cause .the digestive juices to flow. _You have been upset at times, and

have catch certain :food at these times, Illld as the upsetment inter- fered with stomach digestion, indig- cstion resulted. You have blamed this on the foods eaten. Accordingly you have likely been trying to eat other foods, soft, uninvlting, be- Cf\\lSL‘ ycil have been told that these i°‘~f‘~'s v"‘re ‘good for you? Yet. you continue to have iniligestlon from tilcsc foods.

What is likely thc matter? You do not like thcsc- foods, and

therefore thc brain docs not start the juices flowing iii thc mouth and stomach before you eat. The food thus goes through the mouth with- out much _change and into the stomach which has no juice really waiting, and this food has to Wait until the stomach makes enough juice to digcst lt. This often takes n long w‘iiilc. and so indlgestlon oc- curs duo to forinaiton of acid gases.

_ if vour doctor savs thcrc’s noth- ing wrong with the stomach try eat- ing wholesome food that you likc.

0utari0’s Seaport

(Toronto Mull and Empire)

Moose Factory, on .limes Bay,

will henceforth bc known as Moosolice. This frcsh liamc for

Ontiil'_o's only seaport is a.new one for our school children to learn, and lliougli we do not know the exact iiiiranliig of the name, lt seems io be justified by the fact .hat it has been used by the Indi- nus of thc district for many yeirs back. As cvcryoiie knows, the T. .°c N. O. Railway was completed to the new port last Autumn, and it will be opened for tourist trade and general business next Julie. In pirparation for. the Ollfllilllli the l'ailv.'.1y man`gcment is erecting a sluail hotel of the b\lllQ010\V tYD@» A comb`natiou passenger and freight' depot of a. .icmporary character will also be built to serve thc new town on a site which will not obstruct the erection of a

permanent building as the develop- mciit of bllsinrss warrants. The liianiigunlcnt- is to be congratulated upon restricting its building oper- ations in keeping with the times. The prospect is that with the re- sumption of normal economic con- ditions a consderable tourist busi- ness to Moosonee will be developed. There is romance n thc thought that Ontario is at list in touch by rail with l-ludson Bay, that great Inland sm which for centuries has been nothing more than alargc body of wnivr on the map, identi- fied, in the miin, with the history of the historic 1-ludson's Bay

Company. `

agricultural. The statc was provid- cd with an excellent system of .good roads. But in the forward movement a large public debt was incurred, and when thc dcpresson came thc people found themselves in a difficult sistuation. The governor and legislature grappled with it, #nd proceeded to reduce cxpand tures. The credit of counties and towns was stabilized by requiring state approval for the irsurance of bonds, and rigid cc ‘fcmies were instituted in vari- ovs directions. As n result the icfal cast of government has been reduced in two years by $7,000,000. and the tax burden nu property diminished by more than $i2,000_. 000.

reading from the Canadian statutes which show how the Dominion Government “makes laws to get revenue without injustice.” The United States Congress, represent- ed as a snail. is asked to consider the sane legislation adopted in this country. Our correspondent says: "This is surely a Bfefit tribute to our present Federal Gov- ernment."

The Bennett adminiiztration has

been .able to handle the unemploy- ment situation with much more force and effectiveness than the Washington Government. The powers that be at the American capital announced months ago with a great flourish ol' trumpets that the United States would have nothing todo with the dole and that Lmsmployment relief would lizvo to be given without taxing the people. As a matter of fact, millions ol' worklcss people are be-

ing taken careyof in the American Republic to-day, in the main, by contributions from local municipal treasuries.

The latest estimate is that therc

are 6,000,000 unemployed in the

United States, which prob‘bly means that there are three or four times that many individuals in receipt of whole or partial relief. No one can deny that the Cari- adian system of government is much more adapted than that of the United States to the meeting of emergencies, or that of the Bennett Government has shown a much more effective concern than the Washington Government for the welfare of the unemployed. Early in the present depression

Mr. Bennett said that the

Government would take care that no one need suffer from hunger or cold in this country, and ills Government and the co- operating provincial and muni- niulcipal governments have certainly gone the limit in living up to this undertaking.

Gent, Gentleman And _ Man

iiidmonton Bulletin)

The dons of Oxford refuse to buy

shirts or necktics ut a gcnl.’s furii- ishing shop. They will, liowcver, en- courage n trnacsiiniri who onus him self a habcrdaslieiz That is not sur- prising. Wlmt is rcnizlrkablc is that ri gcnt.'s shop dared to opcn in Ox- ford town, / _

Sonic dictlonarlcs dismiss "gent"

with n. curt "abbreviation for gentle- man; vulgar." This has moved a writer iii the London Observer to ask what is thc lnzittcr with the word; why and how it has become so horribly vulgar ns to make Ox- ford .dons shudder. Many other words have been shortened and have still i'ctainctl‘thci1' original respec- tability. _

It is evident that "gent" was not a

cause for shuddcrs at first. Burns in his epistle to an Old Bard, asked:

D0'yc cnvy the clty gent

Behind to kiss to lic and skleut Or purse proud, big »wl' com; fm-

cent.

The Century Dictionary, which

takes the trouble to explain more about the word, records that orig- inally it. was an adjective, now ob- solete. It meant noble, gentle, or, if applied to womcn, slender, graceful, pretty. Spcucer‘s Faerie Queen has the line: "He loved as was his lot, a lady gent." It was first used as a noun in thc slxtcciith century, "prob-ably at first with some refer- ence to the adjective, but in more general use was taken up iii speech from the written abbreviation 'gent.‘ in law records, lists of names, and in plays, as ist Gent.; 2nd Gent;-- Vulgar; in literary use, humorous or colloquial?

It was in this' latter sense, no

doubt, that 'I‘rac'kcray used it in The Newcomcs: "And behold, at this mo- ment, the rcverei1d gent cntcrs from the ve.stry." And yet, Washington Irving, on the title page of “Brace- bridge Hull" published pust over 100 years ago, inscribed himself as "Geoffrey Crayon, Gent."

If thg word "'gcnt" has deterior- ated, so also has "gcntlcnian," The Encyclopaedia Britannica, publish- ed in 1915, defines the latter as "onc who, without any title, bears a cout of arms or whose ancestors have been freemen." Today thc word signifies excellency of manners or moralirand not necessarily distinc- iiori of blood. Perhaps this might be taken as grounds for an argu- ment that the word has gained, not lost, in quality.

It would indeed be a pity for Chi-

na to'lose this -war to Japan after all the losses she has sustained practising on her own soldiers dur- ing the last few years.-Ex,

Rub in \|lnaid’| filler snow-sliaeinz.

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MABIAN 1

She can be as wise as we,

And wiser when she wishes; She can knit with cunning wit, And dress tha homely dishes.

She can flourish sta!! or pen,

And deal a. wound that lingers;

She can talk the talk of men,

And touch with thrilling fingers.

-Match her ye across the sea,

Natures fond and fiery;

Ye who zest the turtlc’s nest

With the eaglc's eyrie. Soft and loving is her soul, Swift and lofty soaring;

Mixing with its dove-like dole

Passionate adoring.

Such a she who‘ll match with me?

In flying or pursuing,

Subtle wiles are in hcl' smiles To sct the world a-wooing.

She is steadfast as a star,

And yet tile maddest maiden:

She can wage a gallant war,

And give the pence of Eden.

-George Meredith.

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Veterans .

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Representatives of war veterans'

organizations met in Ottawa on

Saturday, decided to make repre-

sentations to the Government re- garding n. number of matters af- fecting ex-service men. .One feature in connection with this decision exhibited a fine tem- per nnd common-sense. The meeting appointed a sub-commit- tec to prepare u statement to be placed bcforc the Government, and of this, the reports says:

“The sub-committee was de-

finitely instructed, by unanimous vote of the coilfereircc, that in all representations on the pro- gi-irni i-o be submitted, it take into cansidcratifm the eronomic coiiditou of the country ag the prcsciit time, mid, as far as p0S- .=..ble. that nothing be asked for whicll -will materially il‘.i:;'case the cxpcuso to be borne by the colmt1'y.`/’

In thc light of Canuda’s record

with rcspcct to her veterans. plus 1-hc cxistiug fiiiaucinl situation, this, surcly, is the right attitude. For Canada, everything consider- cd, and within her capacity to pay, has iried to kccp fnlth with llci' vctcrnns.

'l':ikc, first of all, the nlatici' of

pclislous. Since 1016 Canada. has paid out. in war pensions 462 mil-

iliou dollars, and slic is paying out .pensions today :it the rzitc of 45

lliiiiliolis :i _\'o:u'_ Iii 1918 thc num-

ber of those i‘r'.‘l-i\'lilg yearly pon- sious was 25,000 Five ycnrs later, in 1923. thc iiuinbci' had grown to 63,000; last _vczir the number had grown io 72.000 Where in 1918 the cost of pclislozis to the trezisury was a little ovci' $7,000,000, it had grown in 1020 to 37 millions This year, 1932, it \vlll bc over 45 mil- ions.,

The Pensions Act enacted in

1918 was found to bc deficient, and in 1930 Parliament, with the co- operation of nil parties, passed a new act, designed more adequately to meet the needs of veterans. This Act came into force ri. little more than o. year ago, and sinc/s then there have been more than 35,000 applications for new pens- ions, or for revisions of old pen- sions.

Unfortunatcly, and perhaps ln'

cvitably, thcre was no existing Go- vernment machinery to cope with the new condition, with the con- sequence that the various Pensions Courts became clogged with appli- cations

These courts, liowcvcv, ‘.\i c nc-

vcr ceased working-~moi'c than 2,000 persons are constantly cm- ployed in pensions administration -and arc now o\'c:l;-oming their difficulties. Every month :luring the post year, iiccrlv 500 vctcranr. were added to the pension list. with

the rcsult that the uiunbcr of pen- sioners hns grown from 70,000 in March, 1930. to r~~.o.'c tlian 90,000 at thc presfivi iiinc. They rcprc- sent -a total pi;-r.li~1' assisted by pension payiiicuis :il 230,000 of our population. _

Summed up, the iiaundinii Pen-

sions Act, subj:-cf: i\:':‘:.|;li it must be to human i`iilllE;ilif;.', and rcstri- ctcd, of neces.~ii.;:, by the nat1on's financial limitations, 1;'--with the

possible exception of what is being clone in the United States-the best expression of pracil-'al grati-

'tndc nr its kind in urn world

Evcry month something like

$3,500,000 worth of pcnslon chcqales go out from Ottawa.

Nor are pensions the only debt

which Canada pays to hcr veter- ans. More than 1,000 returnc:1 men are given free hospital lrcat- ment cvery month, eight liiispltals for this purpose bcinsr fii.\in‘.a’.::cd throughout the country. War vet- erans nrc cligiblc for old imc pon- simis at ilic =‘."_c ri! 171. iri:-'iz-nel of at 70, :.1 in the .1-..~~.-. n' i‘t.'-~.c‘e~:- ans. Old nge \~c:\.~.lo.is, lu-zriavcr,

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ull: cluliiorrrrowu cuiinnlul lions iv nn wil . U. S. c»»lme»if~ sr r iiomwe Of Jewels

lmndon nailv Telegraph)

The crown jewels of Bavaria

were under the auctio;ieer’a ham- mer yesterday. Though the family character of the Royal House of Wlttelsbach has had much in- fluence on the welfare ol' Europe, from the lack either ti resources or of desire for gems, its sover- cigns did not amass a :egalia of overwhelming splendor. But these jewels had some of liose links with the fate of natiorz which of- ten make the history ‘if Pl'e¢1°“5 stones fascinating and invest this one or that with what seems a sort of magic. Who can 1';-call without something of 0. thrill that in the _British Crown, beside the diamond wom by Persian and Mogul con- querors, shines the ruby brought to England by the Black Prince and home on his helmet by Henry V. at Agincourt?

No such military fame indeed is

in the flash of thc Bavarian jew- els, But the Wittclsbach blue dia- mond stirs the imagination. Whence it mme first the experts cannot tell, but probably the se- venteenth contury Travernler. who saw such huge rind wondrous stones in the treasury of Aurang- zeb, if not quite such huge ones as he described. brought this Wit- telsbach diamond back from India. It came into the Wittelsbach family with a daughter oi' the Hapsburgs whose marriage was meant to end the secular rivalry of the houses which had devastated Germilrw. It did not rtvert the quarrel from which came the convulsion of the Seven Years' War, shaking all the world and establishing the British Dominions overseas.

Poets of the Maritimes

(A. review by Edgar Mclnnls, in

thc Toronto Saturday Night, of “Songs of the Maritimes," an An- thology bf the Poetry of the Mar- itime Provinces of Canada, cclitcd by Eliza Ritclhie )

There are few surer ways of

damning a. good cause than by 2. pcrsistiint exaggeration of its vir- tues. Put. it down to innate depra- vity or original. sin or what you will, the fact remains that thc in- terest of the average man is aroused far more readily by the controversy of- attack and defence than by any unrclieved chorus of praise, however well-deserved. Many ri. movement that has tri- umphantly survived persecution has withered under an excess of complacent approval.

There has been danger, of recent

,_vcars, that such n. fate might over- take Canadian literature, and cs- peclally Canadian poetry. From some quarters, at least, adulation has come all too easily. This is not to suggest that it has been unani- mous, for there uve occasional ro- bust voices which nre ready to ut- tcr ri healthy and unbiased criti- cism Oniy, it has been easy to turn from these to circles where an enthusiastic log-rolling is the main diversion, and where the wounds dealt by unappretiiltlve Philistines can be salvediby com- munion with kindred souls.

Now, however well-intentioned

in its origin, this is a. process which can be extremely detrimental in its results. By all means let Canadian literature be encouraged. By all means ict us be ready to honor prophets in their own country. But let it be done because the prophet- lc fire is clearly recognizable. and not simply because they. happen to bc Canadian. In an effort to over- conire the prejudice that no good thing can be produced in Canada, the supporters -of the home pro- duct are sometimes in danger of insisting that everything Canadian is good. The result of any such indiscriminate attitude will bc to encourage the' very prejudice against which it is directed.

Specifically, tliic assumption that

we in Canada possess a native body of major poetry is one to be urged with cu-ution. There has been true poetry written in Cana- da, There has been poetry in which the major note is unmistak- able. But thcrefis scarcely ii poet in whose work the major note is sufficiently sustiained to set him definitely among the immortals of English literature. And to insist otherwise is to distort and obscure the real merits of these poets who have attained. ri definite rank among us.

Bliss Carman is one of these;

may be given io nny veteran who is permanently uncmbioyablc. Fl- \i:ll_~', tlicrc is the Returned Sol- diers' Insurance, under which 30,- 000 veterans have obtained State insurnucri totsilliiif.: more than $70,- 000,000; there is thc Soldier Land Srmleiliciit scheme: the Veterans’ Bitwzau; other agencies as wcll.

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and his collected poems do much to reveal both the strength and thc shortcomings of Canadian poe- try. Cnrman is a. writer who will long retain. an honored place in our literature. In his handling of metre, in his feeling for the 'Cana- dian countryside, in the quiet yet colorful simplicity of his pastoral. verse, are qualities which we could ill afford to lose. A poem like "'Lov| Tide on Grand Pre" is an orna- ment to any literature. And it la' not detracting from these to recog- nize that there are heights which Carman failed to reach. His des- criptive poetry holds the note of reality; his didactic or reflective verse falls back on a conventional

romanticism which has little mes- sage for the present generation. There are fine things which he has sung, and sung worthily; but there are oven deeper things which ht has failed to express, and of which we still await a fully adequate ex- pression from n. Canadian pen.

Much the slime might be said,

with no intention of ‘dispraise, of the other volumes under review. Miss Wetheruld is a poet who, without pretence of greatness, has ri. tranquil charm in her best work which gives it definite pleasure. And in the Maritime anthology, edited by Mrs. Rltchiejand draw- ing from both the elder poets and their younger followers. is a body of work of no mean standard. Ii need in no way obscure our appre- ciation of these facts to admit that some-things are still lacking; per- haps it needs the stimulus of such recognition to make possible the further advance which must come before we can boast a literature of definitey major significance.

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