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TQIE BIIARLOTTETUWN GUARDIAN

,1 President-W. (‘honor I. lIFl-Ivt vm-reontlunc-J. l. Caulk - rnlan- teat. Pal. u. a. llwaunnna u n. 0. . ‘lditu and llananr_|. It. nun-r» sea-man n liar-II. It. (‘Irvin

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MONDAY. DECEMBER v16. 1929

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pensions under l. law passed at the Iiast session of the Legislature under The winter road problem is UOWlWhlCh the municipalities are required lIDOn us, and no doubt the Depart-Ito furnish a large proportion of the dent 0f Public Works is making pre-lnecessary fund. Not one of these oer-Hons to zrlnnle Wlth lt- Fv-"iprcvinees will have to pay out a Wm the custom 1n many l°<3fl1l“;f0l'tleth part of its revenue in pen- ties has been to follow the line ofrsiom y; Not-a 599;“ acceplgd the least resistance. When the malnjscheme, m." ‘ mm o; 1L, "pump

The Winter Roads

' reads are uncomfortably blocked. rm,“ inadequate by fllgoopqq p y";

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Notes By The Way

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Airplaine peril to clflea have come? to be considered serious. With us here, in Charlottetown it does not cause any concern because we sec a. plans butt l, rarely while in the great cities or the! . world o! large area there are so manyi of those machines aloft by day and‘, l] by night coming and going that the‘. 1 peril of a crash is veiyroal,

A few days since thousands were‘ hatching a plane gyrating over Cen-l tral Park evidently in trouble and likely to make a forced landing witli- , in the city. The spectators nadhct’ long to wait. The airplane - .n its swift descent finally crashed against a Y. M. C. A. building in course of erection and fell to the ground, bury- ing the dead pilot in the wreckage. 1t

road is opened through the fieldslw m", the v1.31 w“, o; prevmcm T” regardedi“ remflnme m“ only

The Public . Forum

I l } ran column u can; m uia l, discussion by eorraaponlenu ‘ of uaaaiiona of ‘ ‘ The i t i l

Q I i Willzam Hazlztt I l Oomplaint i.s heard that our mod-' crn literature is thin and rilditlvc ‘and that the up-to-date readers has -no time to sieadlly study authors of lcstabllshed repute‘. Pity it is if true. ~Amongst the essayist: who have areal claim upon our attention stands _ ' ‘ Wiiliaur Hazlitt the contemporary l _ Sin-I understand that the Gpv- and friend of Charles Lamb, and as- erhmeht helm imminent: to tome ‘suredly one'of the boldest and mos: acre and settle on farms. if that is so vligfous critic,‘ of the eighteenth 9Tb!’ dill“ ihe? hell). W!‘ OWXI 59y! W century. Hazlitt was born in 1778 at An lmglishman recently remarkediscttle on farms instead or lfitunglkfajdszone_ w)“; “pooling he m; that he saw more children crippled blilllem so W U- 5- 5- ""1 vthevlwn received from his father, a

uharlotlelown Guardian dual not necessarily endorse the minions of eorriaphldella.

- v UNFAIR nlscnmnvafrlolv B’ IIIIGI BOPIOII. ’

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PREVENTING lNI-‘ANTILE PABALYSIS

l infantile paralysis ln America than he.‘ countries. I know there is lots of iunilgflpn minister, by whom the.

‘Iivllllil m4?“ W310 WWW "ll-m °n ‘youth was sent to Hackney College

11in brings this matter abruptly wlfwhs l! they only hed e “heme- l lwlzh a. vlew to ordination. But this, our attention because I believe we think it ls near time someone took haplmde “may “m, to an emy M. would all do much to preventlt. l; hand in this matter, Why settle “m. some‘ iprenmc cunt; M a p0,-

'As you know that dread ailmeritlimmlgrants on our farms and letgmn bun/JP," which he glued w

did elsewhere.

and often through barnyards, to the bewilderment of travellers. azpeciallj:

administration, would have to be ‘paid out in old age pensions.

‘Y u night‘ The" Show: be mm- In Prince Edward Island the rate liifllrulty in keeping the main roadsl p" cup“. would be even ma," and open a“ “nun The “an”! hasgthc drain on revenue would simply “m” t° “d” m’ m” °’ m‘ ‘”°"‘se disastrous. The utter impossibility trict to turn out with horses. sleighs or the Act being put mm an“; m and shovels when necessity arises. m present mm m the Marmme

Th“ t?" not ‘Mays bu“ done’ and Provinces was manifest to the Kiri! the pioneer work is left to the . - Government when the legislation lillkman or the mailman, some-, d It Test w the . w m ni times to the doctor. The result islwas gasses as rand m sup ' r en - crooked and bewildering roads and aisaun "s ‘oemm

t h ' generally unsatisfactory condition porters ‘when the}; Elm t feliotf; lawn‘ not only during the “inter of the eectors in 9 on ear B

but even late into the spring. Farm- to! u‘ Nothing mrth" med be “m era naturally object to thisfas travel-m’ demonstrate m’ jmmcemy o‘ the ling over half bare fields Ls lnjur- Liber” “my mm ‘t home “d m ious to pasture and hay lands. ltlotmw“ i“ ‘supporting such an ‘M. is ‘hoped this season the overseersgqumfile 553mm‘

be properly instructed and that,‘ they will take action. so that main? roads will be kept open for winter trams. The right time to begin is before the advent of snowdrilts.

Who Lost the Money.’

Fabulous sums have been lost in the heafier stock market since ihe last week in l, October and a common enough ques-

Ition of the small speculator who reads

A” 01d 5190mm Gag [of "Ten Billion Shrinkage in Market

- - Values" and “Prices Melting in Market

The Liberal candidate in the i-lal- PahlC" has bee. n "Who got the m‘ bPP-lflililll l! "Ported to be el- money I lost?“ The answer, says an oquent on a subject which has been exchange is that the money which 5953'"? "D011 bQIl-llllllll!‘ by Llbelil‘ he had with his broker and which caiididazes at other elections both vanished in the crash has now been vijtltlflvlal and federal." It will be re- placed 1o the credit of those who sold "n"! hi)" 03d A89 Pen-lions was eK- short. The bears have eaten it up. ‘plotted against the Conservatives in spme experts suggest that at least the Dominion elecilon of 192s anci l three quarters of iheictai passed ih-

the

again in the Provincial election in this Province in the following yeanOn bOth occasions our aged poor were told that the reason they were not lflelvlnk Pensions was that the stewar. Government had refused to take advantage of the King Govern- ment's Old Age Pensions Act, had faded to tote the funds neces- IIFY $0 ca"? l‘. into effect. The

v came propaganda was used in Nova

sclotia in ihe election of 1928, and is apparently being used again wLtli cynical indifference zo the disgus: of intelligent electors. As pointed out by the Sydney Post. the Federal pen- IlOhs Ac; of 1925, forced upon the King Minimryl by independent mem- bers whose parliamentary support was vital to its existence, was an impossible statute s0 far as the three Maritime provinces were concerned. Not one of these provinces had been lhlc to balance its budget for a de- cade previous to lls enactment, but the statute called for a levy on every Province‘ in Canada equivalent to 50 tier cent of the entire fund required for old age lmnsions,

The unfairness of the Oid Age Pensions Act to tLe hlavitlme Prov- inces was known to every member of: Parliament when the bill was BYOl-lrhtydown ‘by the King Govern- ment. A Parliamenary Committee had just investigated the whole ques- ilOfl and had fOllnd that the agctl granulation was so distributed that pensions payable by the various pra- vinces would make very uneven de- mands on their several treasurles.

Thepercentage of the revenue ol,

each of the nine provinces that would he required to finance the scheme was found to be as follows:- fiovince Percent Prince Edward island 35 Nova. S:o.la

New Brunswick

Quebec Ontario Manitoba Barkatclxelvan Alberta Br-iiish Columbia

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and

to ahe hands of big operators. for lt ls ‘notorious that the small speculator .i.;- seldom to be found on the selling lsice of the market. l-le ulvfers 1° l buy.

It must be remembered. l. svcr.

that by far the largest siimsuuzntion- ed in the headlines were purely paper ltransactions. Suppose that a eom~ ‘pany has 2,000,000 shares issued and ‘that these are selling at $20. The [market breaks, and the stock drops "Bbfllptly to $10. Here is a 529900.909 , loss in value. But during the market lbi-eak. perhaps only 1,000,000 shares ! were sold. This would mean an actual loss of $10 000.000. The rest reme- sents a loss ,ol paper profit, and no.h- ‘mg more.

Origins of the V. C.

The magic letters "V. 6.", says a correspondent in the London Dally Telegraph, are very prominent in our news columns at present, and un- doubtedly euphony and brevity are ingredients in compounding the magic. Yet few people know that the "title" had a narrow escape from mis- carriage, and was indeed born in spite of Queen Victoria's initial dis- approbation. We learn from the Pan- mure papers that she declared to the secretary of state for war that. "V. C. would not do." i-ler reason was that such initials always designated a per-

‘ chiefly.

one death resulted.

A few days later, a huge lllokker alr- plane, the largest yet_constructed in America, crashed into ‘ a. house in Mineola, Long Island, setting both the house and plane alire. 0n the same day a plfme crashed into a. roof at Westhury, Long nuns, ‘killing the pilotwlvlany newspapers are protesting that; something must be done to pro- tect city dwellers against the menace of‘ death from the skies, a menace which many fear will increase as fly- ing becomes more popular. As one paper puts it: "Pilots playing at avia- tion have no business over cities. There is enough danger now from reckless motm-ists without adding careless dyers.“

Premier Anderson of Saskatchewan, in an interview in Toronto the other ,day predicted that the province in the next Dominion election will send more Conservative members to Ottawa and also more Progressives than Liberpls. l-le ought to know the Province pretty well from his long connection with its political affairs.

Population in England is 700 to the square mile and in Canada only two and a half and in the United States 35. The number of unemployed in Etiglancl is now said to be 1,200,000. and it seldom falls below a million. 8o far the number of people in 1mg- land has increased about 200,000 year- ly, but the rate of increase is slowing clown and is now barely half what it was l7 years ago. The war reduced the population by about a million in a few years. '

Taxation ls very high-such as we know. nothing about in Canada com- paratively. The general desire among‘ statesmen over there is to redure the‘ surplus population by securing settle-l ment for them in the dominions and colonies oversea. which would build up the Empire and enlarge the market for British manufacturers at the same! time. _

The chief objection British emi- grants have to settling theuiselves in l Canada is the ‘severity of our winter ‘ along with the high cost of living, not only in this country but throughout'

North America. ‘The dole system in:

age and whose earning power ls small. It keeps them at horns. ’

It la rather surprising to learn what the Mail and Empire points out, that Quebec has more hospital beds than Ontario-Juli!!! against 16.029. On- tario's population is about 20 per cent greater than thatxof Quebec and to make hospital ficcommodation equal in proportion ._woulcl need to have 33,000 beds instead oi is present 16.920. Quebec hospitals are located, in the larger centres, while those of’ Ontario are more largely distributed throughout the province.

The Upper Province has 250 hospi- tals and Quebec 116, the latter being much the larger and distributed in. cities along the St. Lawrence river This is more economical in the way. of maintenance, heating. litthtlng and overhead charges, but the institutions are too far apart. In many cases. the victims of accidents cannot- be conveyed ' to the nearest hospital irl time to get the b”; fe_

son, as. for example, C. B., Compan- ion of the Bath; M. P. member of Parliament. And she added, "No one could be called a Victoria cross. ‘v'.C. moreover means Vice-Chancellor at present." The Queen suggested as al- ternative “D. V. C. decorated with Victoria Cross." 0r "B. V. 0.. bearer of the Victoria Cross." Her preference was for the last, and history does not 1313i! how her logical prejudice against “V. C." was overcome. The

that, logic notwithstanding, no other and longer combination could have possessed the magi: of those two aim-l ple and personally lnapphcable lei?

' i029 is n: down at $107,511,310, an Ln- . present generation are likely to feel

Keeping this table in view it is not sprprlslng that the four last named _. provinces are the only ones which Editorial Notes have yet fully Accepted the scheme. The rich provihte of Ontario i new about to administer old ale

HIS. r

Poultry faiitill‘! are Mill] unable Yb sayvlmher turkeys an fooled w

' now.

‘(lit l OOUPIG of Emmi!» hoflfdllfi.

suits of surgical attention and fatall-

ties occur from this cause.

i The price of paper is ‘exercising the minds of publishers in both Canada and the United States these days. It hlls long been a heavy charge upon "l6 newspapers whose readers-give it.

llttlethought. Naturally anyidea of‘

l an increase is not a subject for l-e-'

f Jolcingdln this connection it" may be

| of lmerest to note that the‘ value of pulpand paper exported 1mm" Oarilda

, to the State; in the first ten months of

crease of about $1,000,000 over the ~ corresponding months of last year.’ The pulp and paper manufacturers seem not to be suffering. '

all the kind solicitation shown for

their health 1r. the farm yards just

. v ' _ Two good Cliristmls presents will be received when Premier in! hands

comes stealthily into a communitylthe cream of the country go to other and in " a short time the numbeifplaces for a livelihood. . stricken u, alarming. Deaths are ire-i I hm Sh‘. ete- r

imake any great mark. albeit through- out his life he retained his love for tart Hazlitt became a free lance liter-

quent, and pemianent" crippling is‘ usually the rule.

Now when Banting discovered in- sulin, which saves the ‘lives of thej ‘young and lirolongs the lives o! older, folk, the Ontario government veril generiusly donated a large sum oil money annually distributing insulin free of charge to diabetics too poor to buy it. And still 00cc so.

Justice m critic and‘ there he found hisjtrue , ‘bent. m inuepenma- and vigorlof "uls mind and notlass his rreattalen‘: "

A Greeek Profés§arjor speculative research, speedily ‘ ' Psrought his essays to public attention ‘ Revzsrts Helas

‘Their lucid style, pungent observa-

-.lons, insight of human nature and, lpikcturesqueness of eacpreslon are

A small party recently had themuauu“ that hm)“, compensate m“ F?” PYM-"W °f a ‘ “W” wursltheparadox and prejudice whereby.

Then when Drs. Minot and Murphygjourney through Greeee with Pl'°- “my. u, mquemyy imam Them can;

discovered that eating

iver wouldiiessor W. Macneils Dixon of Gias- l“ m.“ mu", that Baum-s 8mm.‘

cure ‘pernicious anaemia. it was seenigow, and the reading public now has that liver would not always be avail- the same opportunity of seeing able andsofthe Ontario governmentgGreece as they saw it. In "Hellas again came forward, and through thehievlsited" Professor Macneile Dixon minutel- etnealth, Dr. Forbes God- tells the story or their jcumeyinss - frsy. an extract of liver was aecuredlihe story of a scholar who is n only

{criticisms upon poetry. drama and the lifine arts commanded the admiration, {Of young minds experiencing the "l-c- i volt of youth,” and of even those,‘ who scoffed at his political anlmad-l mcrsions as the outcome of a soured.

‘and warped imagination. An illSlil",

and is being distributed regularly free steeped in his-subject, but a Thole!‘ of charge, throughout the province to gifted with that happy. easy f

all sufferers with pernicious anaemia.

it seems only natural therefore to’: ivy to the senenl reading oubllt; ; c“ ‘t m times‘ md K Bohemian m hls|fair specimen of his craftsmanship perlor to any amount of intellectual

read that when cases of infantile par- alysis began to appear, that immed- iate measu ea were adopted‘ to shave the lives and prevent the distressing crippling that ensues.

D11 Godfrey announced a few moviths ago that of the 200 cases of infantile paralysis treated in Ontario this year with blood serum, obtained and prepared by his department, fully 95 per cent have completely recovered.

‘These complete cures simply mean»

that there are nearly 200 citizens of

this Province who will be alive and

well instead of dead or paralyzed. And the cost in connection with this

work has been only about $1500." What about thiswork?

, A health minister often has to ob-

| tain the money needed by his depart-

ment by hard fighting, Legislators will

I “my !gent in politics, a hafer of pharltfllsm i

I " - I.’ hls- book ‘o! expression m‘ Tenders |and pretence in every form. outspok-|

There is nothing professor-lat, foi- ex-| ‘ lif.thi htl tLsto

dmhk-cbtll‘ me my he ~"“"°d“°":1e°d;i§t in ei-lazlisttruliehclf eTirlsicre is‘ the mode of conveyance! ' l,

lthe mule. _ me “my h“ ,0 ‘dept m‘. h“ of, ylllfe and spirit in whatever he has to and, The Proms“ “fir” : ___" _ ‘say. and whether as writer or lec- “That slnsular creature. the mule" fill" Mlwvfl‘ 91100"! $11050 “h?” 6m“ no crmml commenm with uglrtrlcks of artifice which invite the, ‘ter nbhehiienee‘, 01‘ it maybe ties-cleaver ef~ eoolew- ll- when illc ‘pairing ohstinacyhe pursues a trackWll-nle 0i Nllvoleen was synonymous lpossibly no; mo" m“, p, yard in in the minds of Brltishers wiih the width, on the edge of s. cliff a thous- |"inark of the beast." Hazlitt wyote and y"; h, hqighl, 5911mm“ ‘up (‘his biographical appreciation of ihe rock ladder like s. goat. glissades nay-eyed Emperor. he sincerely down a slope leaps over a watcr- meant all he said. lhd Said ll Yo‘?! course, 02‘ (plunges irro a. gully. ‘rhere ‘well in foin- volumes. . ‘ ls genius in the mathematical "exaz-i Hazlitt was a great reader. In this tltude with which he picks his steps. "we'll; jqeeompares with Coleridge. “His ‘selficonfidcnce “is as supreme unending he calls the greatest pleasure as his contempt for his rider L1 11n- fln life, howbelt he admits ‘that ea he bounded. In hendlons dweenfie- or ellgrew oldér the stronger stimulus oi awkward corners ovierlodllln: d"- iwrlting took the edge off it: and for‘ tructlon‘ his phslehlelb-lfl‘ h! l8 m’ ghlsdridivldual advance we have rea- i

England has its attraction ‘for some‘ ., lazy ones and for laborers past middle‘

sweeter far than all thlnzs heard,

give money for hospital care but often , ‘, _ _ A _ , fail to see the wisdom of preventive n‘°"_m"l‘ P519 ‘m5 Juli-WWW ‘P’ |son to be thankful. Curiously enough’,

“my; r prehension, butfor the trennorsoffhe Rm M15 u, m‘, h, 51nd,“; Burke, L I believe that when facts such as “uwmu; m‘ 4n”°9"i°“°*d his mwmitlunlus and Rousseau "with tear-m", these are brought to the attention of l‘ “h”? “fuhwt fifmlzasiir“ ifland no aspirant ever labored harderl our legislators, there should never b: Lakes “° m" °r w” a“: n‘ o“; ‘v90 °l‘¢l'°°m¢ 31¢ mid entrvatlers 9‘. any tlifliculty tn obtaining ample “r _b75_“°1l_°5» ""1 “W15 Plwwywim‘ ldum-‘bness and diffldence which ham-f funds for the health needs of the m" m; "d?" u swept ‘mm th€“d' >pered his early efforts. Yet he be-‘l w" “w” 315d?“ nu.“ ‘Fm him‘ d!“ came the readiest. of writers, and the‘ has a preference for t.e outer e ge Iuanknus or his criticism is char“; of precipitous pisses, and will ens/ch ‘tarmac Jiroughom an m; essays” He i” ‘Term? “ha!” below ma“ ex-dubbed Shelley a “philosophic fana- wefiunes‘ ‘ ' itic with a maggot in his brain." He; could pronzunce Bishop Berkeley's, T T” Artufh “(Umzzxmals m lwrheovy of Vision" a masterpiece of, t “ o ill“'iifi vvi. . he ‘ - . . l f , _ analysis. and Bishop Butlers ‘Anal- Such spa“, is gexmany use!“ andogy"). tissue of sophlstry, albeit he

jassurcdiy inadvisable. He is moreover, “H N t“ 9.. Ilnsufficlenzly bz-lzlled wi-‘h a singlelheldme "rum" °n “man a r |

vein. end his saddle, insecurely poised 3 “n” "m M pmmuml, reasoning‘ Ht upon his buck h “u, from l bed b: was Hazlitt who said "there arc but,

roses. His sardonic humor leadsmlmlhree‘ “mks m ‘hm? if’ is woliux p w mp and Stu-flit‘ m. ms pan“ o; while to look for a qumston, name y;

recovery are un-Xmyed“ Hem”, tlze 01d Testament. ‘Ssslnsprnrcs .above the \l‘_".'1llt‘.el"ij,'alisflillyrft; 9115's ll"! Wordsworth; “Excurson- mland, kicking, .-. i has been krioarn to; “"4 l‘ “s 3”“? “'1” “’"H_g°d m bite. yet he is none the less the para- m.‘ made“. Abmhm‘ Tuckan‘ "TM gon of animais. As a ‘philosopher he U811’- °|-' .I“l'“*'° Pursmdfl a b°°k hadhery 1 am permaded w that is still well worth the rcadlns» .the raallstze school, and hi the end althouzh. like mlhv elwlhel‘ rlvll one comes to share his acceptance of 511515! 0-’ lllilllllll- l" m" d3!“ (‘"93", desiny, rememberingthat ‘Tinje and ten. William Hazlitt is at lib best tile hour run through the ro ghost when dlscourslng of Shakespearean dgyj ' t lblzaracers. or, rgain, of tin,- E11:- Selt and siren: and loud and llsht. The party eventually reached at- abethan dramatists and poets Qllwf V?!‘ 5°lll1d °l V"! llilll hens, an the chapter lfi ‘which the .l-.an‘the Avon bard. H: has wribcn H98"! 7mm mvfhlllfs roslest height, city is revealed has no trace of the much concerning the poets and nov- When the sound oi all delight guide book or the lecture room. felista of his own period and it can bo Fills a childsclear laughter. . "Q! Alums who‘ m5 n01; 5p0ken_"l' ' ______________ 581's the author. and who can will‘ jnyrnent cf travel in Greece. Se: arlde adequately? And indeed, in this eityp‘; llgeraiui-e and history‘. anzl tin-rel to order one‘: ithoushts ls an lmova- ti-emalm its art. of a-lilcii so many Hours so blithe in tones so bold, slbilitv. ,Not so much- because there “exqulggi, “ripple; survive. Set thczc As the radiant month of gold are many ‘and delightful’ things £0109, “ids, and you have still the Here that rings forth heaven lconfuze the mind wLh their varletyUr-puniry itself. its climate, its scenery If the golden-crested wren ‘though that is true enough as because p5,... Qnfi 113ml; and wild fishers. W"! l hllhtinzale-why. then, l-zhe- modemJown clashes so violently “(Uuch- “id “m 554m. Pam); 15 a something seen and heard of men‘ lwith the ancient. It ls crowded, ffull 3r§fl~fn§¢k ‘ {Hugh} A (Jurist may Might be h_aii as sweet a when ‘of bustle ‘and eiceesiimy noisy. i no; h", mu 1-1pm“ or heard of Leukhs‘ a child of séven. _ LPlliea. _but_ there before his eyes arel ‘—Alge‘rnon Charles Swinburne, '_ ‘rile Travetienwith a Vision .' Rye Niko Aptsroa, the Charioteer oi ' . uaav-im.) "We fclt ma’. svmmthy with t-hefnelphtithe ridges and crooked dolls , Jflrmelirlvelleryhctthourhtltnnler- of Arcadia. And though Greek his- tunafe that; Corinth or Niillllll. Oljtory literature and philosophy may LAND WE LOVE "i" “h” l"! “m”! IP09. he}! m“ be studied anywhere, for the sculp-j l, "Mm "w" - been Bellfited M1 the mo“!!! ¢l.l5ll,ll-_'turs and architecture this must go to: » r . 101W”; ‘Alhelll ll! lmdllillrhdll lNVAthensI ‘Pl-lose who are not scholars {oi-‘refléctlon and'cllm'efli0§mil"- will find a visit to Greece of evenj “Let l! h“ be HP , "that ieaitn- ,;i-ea'.sr_ value and importance thané, _ 19L H!“ 01' 4911011419. fllfllllltllluiose who are. And the reason? Be-‘ may increase.‘ l! lléfllilry in Qh- ‘cause in their art we have a direct av- l l