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m the panama or u» were!“ permanent hikhway 1301M "W"! Charlottetown and Borden aa pl!‘ at the Dominion trans-continental highway system, it is to be hoped every care will be taken to avoid the problem which is now con- fronting the Provincial Department a Highways in connection with the McIntyre roadway. rIald just prior to the last provincial election, it was pointed out in theee columns at the time that no adequate founda- tion was provided, and that in- view of the expense involved this should be the first consideration. The past winter was the first really severe test this stretch oi highway has been subjected to. The result is now obvious to anyone driving over it. A section where the foundation has gone to pieces has caus- ed the asphalt surface to crack in several places, and repairs involv- ing ‘an expense of several hundreds of dollars will be necessary this nlrnmer to put the highway in proper travelling condition.

FREE DISPENSARY

All our citizens who can do so should make an effort to attend the annual meeting, this afternoon at 4 o'clock, of the Charlottetown Free Dispensary. The meeting takes place in the City Building Hall, and the activities oi the organization will be fully discussed. No more useful community movement has ever been established than that of the I'm-e Dispensary, and the work which Miss Amy Earle, M.B.E. is doing in this connection is vitally Import. ant, especially in time! oi econ. omic difficulty.

Financial support in carrying an the Dispensary activities is n! course absolutely necessary, and following today's meeting there will be an envelope collection campaign to which all our citizens will have “l9 Olllwflllllity of contributing. The envelopes will be distributed to householders on Saturday, and will

' be called for on Monday. The mcr.

its oi the campaign require no fur. ther commendation. we trust that; it will meet with the full measure of success which it deserves.

_-_-_-____. SPEAKING 0F MARKETS

In supporting the bill for the es- tablishment of a Dominion Mark- eting Board. Mr. n. a Perley, the member fer Quhippelle. saskatcli- ewan .truly said that the bill's real Purpose is to procure for primary producers a fair remuneration for "181! PIOOUCIS SO ‘that Q18] mgy gn- iey I decent living and reasonable profits as a result of their labors.

It Wee very emu-fins. he said, to hear the Liberal opposition, which W" °PP°S1HK this measure, speak so glibly oi wider markets. No Gov-

_ ernment ever did less to obtain new marlcets, or hold existing market; than the Mackenzie King Govern. mmt did during its nine year term of office. Mr. Perley quoted mm m, 0150181 Commercial Intelligence Journal to show that as commodit- ies which were on the United stain; flee list ln 1921 had disappeared from that free list by 1930. ms s... oi them was on the free list when file King Government disappeared, The US. tariff on other Canadian 18110115 had been increased (mm 100 per cent. to 200 per cent. dur- ing the nine-year Liberal regime, HW- "W11. can the present Liberal Opposition have the face to lecture the Government of the day for the non-existence cf markets which they themselves loci?

The Bennett Government has Fulfilled a much sane: course. Miter Ilins the tariff and tariff lcgiglg. tion to protect our farmers and Wrkera esalnrz unfair dumping from countries which had excluded 0W seeds. the new administration bullied itself with obtaining new 1nd extended markets under in. flee. The Opposfti oppoggd m, "mite Kiczdom I-Ereements. ‘When the esreemcnts were under discus- sion Mr. Mackenzie King said iiini i! "fumed w power he would re- Deal the agreements, and would n9; b9 bound by them. But the people of Canada know very well wnai, m, agreements have meant to than,’

In the eleven months between April lat. lass. and March m, m4, Canada's exports to Empire some. rice inmtascd u follows: To Brit-

a ilh lxnpire countries, 2i per cone;

_ ti" . increased as follows:

United Kingdom, 20 per cent; Aus- tralia. M per cent: British South Africe. 01 per cent; British India, 44 per cent. At the same time Can- lfil’! imports from lmlpire count- Prom ‘United Kingdom, 41 pct cent; from

-.8rltieh India, 114 per cent; from

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Allltrllll. 102 per cent; from New Iealafld. 102 per cent.

Besides the aanpire trade treaties tmqovernmeat hes negotiated new

itichopedwillyieldrecultswhen Congress has given President Rooecvcltthepowcrlhenowaeeh. Thcnunlnicn Marketing Board. whichitisnowpropeeedtosetup, iaintendedtoatimulatethemalt- sting of agriculture and other primary products at prices which willbemofitabletofhecloducera.

ent conservative Government is do- ina those very things on behalf oi the fanncrl which the Liberal Government neglected to do during its whole nine-year term of omcc.

THE CHANGING WEST

According to the Vancouver Prov- ince, thereisgoingonanimportant racial change in the Canadian Northwest. Those who lived in the prairie provinces two or three de- cuies ago, the Hovince says, will recall that the farmers and ranchers and the entire profession- alelassoftheunall townsand cit- ieseswellwereallfxom Eastern Canada er the older countries. They brought with them their own ways and manners; their life and their thoughts, even in a new country, were the direct result of early train- ing, tradition-an eastern or Euro- pean background.

Not so with the young people oi the new Northwest. While the parents of these may still remem- ber other ways and days, the young- er folk know nothing of such things Their background is the Wat; their conversation may be of political doings in the capital or of the wealth oi the eastern cities iti- the beauty of the British Columbia coastline and beaches, but their in- formation is mostly second-hand. But these factors do not go alone into the making of the new race. Thefehaa also been the almost un- noticeable assimilation oi the people the pioneers of three decades ago referred to as "foreigners," but whose children. born in the West, have been educated in the western schools and colleges and call them- selves Canadians.‘ Ploreignere who in the early days lived in the Rus- sian settlemts or "on the wrong side of the railroad track," moved into the country. took up land, and sent their children to school.

Now the racial barriers are al- moet wholly removed.

In one town in the Northwmt, a check-up showed that every profes- sional man was born and educated in Western Canada; ,the bank clerks were mostly oi Scandinavian plrentaae; thebenk manager was born in Winnipeg, the doctor in Edmonton, the lawyer in lud Deer,

'I'his is very interesting and sign- ificant: but it does not affect the importance oi the contribution which the Eastern Provinces have made to the West, and a. check-up oi many western communities would probably still show a surprising pro- portion of its leading citizens to be of eastern Canadian origin. The list from this Province alone oi men who hold responsible positions in Church and State, in finance, commerce and industry, in every Western Province, would be an imposing one.

EDITORIAL NOTES

Give a man a piecc oi ground in the Spring, says an exchange, and you give him a vision oi delights to be that will rise from the soil under the care he lavishes on it. And incidentally you give such a man, who“ he Icrdenc in his spare time, or whether he gardens for sustenance, a new lease on life.

"It is not easy," says the Toronto Star (Liberal) "to find fault with the "‘ ‘plsoftlaenewgoldtar. Not long ago the gold mines were P9091"!!! $00 odd per ounce for their gold. since which time ‘by Bilvernment action they have been permitted to receive :06 per“ ounce. Th0 CIIHOOK I01‘ [Old mining com. pflfliee llicired magically for the het- tcr as a. consequence and it is not lmffllmlble now to require the mineatoaharecomeoftheir good fortune with the general public."

Our contcmporaryb reference y“. teuiev to relief irregularities by municipalities in other Provinces omits mention of the fact that where such irregularities afleot the Domin- ien "emu-v the money u being le- iunded. Moreover, it is highly grat- lfylnlionotethstso far u.this Province is concerned, there 1mg been no criticism of any kind, Chartered accountants of the Audi- tor Genet-arc Dcplrtment were here for some three weeks, made an ex- haustive check-up and found every. thine apparently in apple-pie order. Our provincial and civic govern- ments are to be warmly congratula- ted in this connection, though they will lrobably wait a good while be- fore reccivinl bouquets from the Opfxlitien mel-

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Belih once told

after which it dis- appeared into the outer blue. e passed. Following usual custom, he swiped a breech- block from some other battery and went on with the war. l-Ie forgot all about it. And then, after wee had passed, his requisition cam back to him-but no breech-block! At the head oi one column, in red ink, was written, in a clerkly hand: “You have not stated in this col- umn your reason for desiring this Meech-block." Major Belth aeiud his fountain pen "On accountoi the great European war," he wrote. “which has now been raging for three years and a half." He narrow- y escaped court-martial.

In u» ...~. hment room oruio

airport at Croydon, London, a re- porter found Mrs. Margaret Terry. a widow, of Norfolk, seated at a table drinking a cocktail and smok- ing a cigarette. She had just arriv- ed after flying to Cape Town and back, a. distance of 18.000 miles, having hired the machine and pilot to make the trlprbecause she was feeling a bit lonely. She enjoyed it an much that she said she thought she would sell her car and buy a plane, probably learningyto fly it herself. Mrs. Terry is (ll years of age. Her grandchildren and great grandchildren will have a. job to keep up with her.

West End hotel managers and shopkeepers retain romantic mem- ories of the first Round Table 00n- fcrenoe, when I.ondon was invaded by multi-millionaire Indian princes The latter are now, especially since the United States went sour on its dollar kings, by far the wealthiest nabobe in the world. Their lavish style of living while in Ipndon gave a new perspective even to West End tradesmen and dialer-domes who were used to Yankee lnagnates in their pallniest days. One Prince who transferred £100,000 to his Lon- don accouni before he arrived, had a £85,000 overdraft before he re- fumed to the East. A charge of a guinea a night for the bedroom oi a servant who invariably slept on the mat inside his master's bedroom door was never questioned. We are to have mother small invasion of Indian princes this summer and the west End business people are counting on another golden harvest. -I.ondon Correspondent in Ex.

lbs-onto Star: A university pro- fessor who has spent months with a nomadic tribe of natives in Ven- ezuela reports that married life among them is perfect and that the children are never scolded. Well with no winters, no railways, no rad 10s, no victrolas, no newspapers, no schools, no churches, no mills, no motor cars, no taxes, no lawyers and doctors, why should not noma- dic life be perfect in the tropics? One may lie down and snooze be- neath a tree feeling sure that if his breakfast does not fall out of the tree for him his supper will. What a life! Think of a. land without a tax-bill anywhere between the cradle and the gravel

All Britain is experiencing one of the latest springs known for many years. The boughs are bare, even the quicks no more than in bud. The Wheata are as short as the grass and look parched, or almost withered on the sandy soils, and farmers spend half their time in “rolling the moisture up." Garden- era watch in vain for the appearance of the asparagus that they were eating freely at this time last year. ‘Ilhcre is little black- thorn, though the "blackthorn win- ter" has been apparently enough. The ground-nesting birds will have little cover from the eyes of ma- rauding crows and rocks. The brave thrushes and blackbirds are build- ing so conspicuously that you can see birds-nest from a cari

British newspaper holiday adver- tisements offer tours on the eon- tinent that may fill people on this side with wonder. For example: Six- teen days at any coastal resort in Belgium, Ostend, for instance, rail and steamer fares from Icndcn and full hotel modation, $32.50, or nine days for $21; sixteen days tour of Switurland or Italy for $63, or nine days for $49; nine days in the Riviera, staying at Monte Carlo, Montana and Cannes $44.50, or a week anywhere in Ger- many, Franoe or Belgium for $31.50. All found in each case. These are astonishing bargains. They are in keeping with the British policy o! making travel as cheap as poe- ms. British railways and sieamships are doing wonderfully now by this policy.

When a British soldier in India heard the news that South Africa had, in the early part of last year, formed a Coalition Government, and intended to bury racialism, he decided it was an appropriate mom- erit to return to Mr. Z. J. De Beer, i-iarriemith, a silver cup bearing the inscription, ‘The Harrismith Breeders’ Stakes. USS-Won Z. J. De Beer's mare, Bianca," which he Iltd taken away during the Anglo-Boer War. This has now been safely received and suitably appreciated.

A business man says It look him fifteen years before he could write a cheque of 01,000. Home have been known to write the cheque first and take the fifteen years afterwards.

Harry Strait, 46, charged by pol- ice with being intoxicated and tak- ing a rerfllantern oif a highway re-

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London correspondent of the New York Times says that in fiction Scotland Yard is far in advance oi all other official detective bodies, so much so that its name has be-

swift and euro punishment of crime. But in fact, as distinct from fiction.

den away in the big red and white building overlooking the Thames. As far as technical methods g0. Scotland Yard can only do what

f However in true‘ the pat.- ‘lent has a chill. followed by fever and feels aenarnlly sick; the breath- ling becommrapidandtha tempera- Auregocsuptwoormotcdegreesln lp or false pleurisy the‘ ‘pain m the cheat or in the "pit" of_ the stomach is about the symptom. ‘ ~ ' f Pleurodynla has often been called muscular rheumatism because the‘ pain is in the muscles of the chest which are collie-outside of-the ribs. whereas in true pleurisy the pain is in the pleura covering the lungs. that is undernesththe ribs; , It has usually been thought that pleurodynia isdue to some infec- ‘tion in the body from the teeth, ton-l sils or intestine or from cold or ex- posure. However from different parts oi the world IcelandJlnited States, England, Denmark, Sweden, Norway there are re which would in- dicate that this devil's grip. false pleurisy, pleurodynle. myalaia. mil-P ular rheumatism or other names by which it is called la often com- municated from one person in an- other, just like iiu. . . , Drilfjnar Sylvest studied the dis- ease on the Danish island oi Bom- holln, in some districts of which l0 per cent of the people were attack- . Epidemics have been reported from New York, Philadelphia, Cape Cod, and ‘Tennessee. The epidemics occur usually, but not always, in summer and early autumn. ‘Ihe disease seems to spread by contact but Just how is not known. In a military training ship a number oi cases developed, and after a visit to an island les- tsurant by a number of cadets, a number of g cases developed throughout the island. In families with several children, most of the children may be attacked mildly or severely at thesalnc time. In addition to the pain in breath- ing there is pain in the muscles on either side oi the stomach or over the stomach itself. The pain lasts from a_ few hours to a day but the tenderness may remain for some time. -

On Making A ‘Speech

(Ottawa Journal)

One day in Washington this week. Pnaident Roosevelt made a speech His audience consisted of more than 1,000 persons, included many Senators and Representatives. The New York Times, reporting the speech, noted that the President used no notes and that "his 511E919‘! occasionally wandered among un- relafcd topics," added:

"The speech which was delivered without preparation and without even the assistance oi’ notes, was, taken down verbatim by a White, House stenographer, with the un-_ derstandirlg that it could later be] made public textually, as is the rule with speeches by the r sident. Some time later, however, word was given out at the White House that no text would be forthcoming, a. de- cision understood to have been prompted by the fact that the speech was oi such a deeulty char- acter that it could not he put read- ily into the formal phraseology ex- pected in an address by the Chief Executive."

A lot of budding" orators, also some who have budded," might read this with profit. For if ‘resident Roosevelt,‘ a very fine speaker, with command oi the language, oom- posure on his feet. and a very wide knowledge, is unable-without prep- aration-to make a speech consid- ered nt for iaublioation, what chance has the avenge man-of do- ing it?

Good speaking, without some sort. of preparation, is impossible. Elm-- possible for all. It is not a quee- tion of memorizing-though many of the greatest speakers do that- or oi consulting notes. It is the ab- solute necessity of preparation of some kind, oi scale sort oi plan of what the speaker is to say and of how he is to say it .

Mr. Gladstone, a great orator, sel- dom used notes. But Mr. Gladstone prepared all of his speeches with meticulous care. spent days (as he said) "wornbling" them about. So with John Bright; so with Winston Churchill, who writes them out in longhand; so with all great orators. Chauncey-Depew acid that he learned his “extcmponneous” af- ter-dinner some. “lust as r learn my prayers." -

The matter is important. Ior ai- though oratory may be a lost art, the need for clear speaking, as for clear thinking. is as great as it ever was. Moreover, there is little worse in the world than to have to listen to a men who. aa Winston Church- ill orlce said of Loni Beresfoni, ‘doesn't know what he is going in say before he lets up. doesn't know what he's saying when he is up, and doesn't know what he hu said after he sits down."

pair roject, told Judge A. I. Pic- kens. "1 read so much about ped- estrians bcing hit by autos I felt Ineeded aredlanternforatail light." "Phat." said the Judge. “will be $10. Your idea was good but your execution was bad."

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evuy other front-rank detective service does, and vice-verso. It can and does hit upon its own congen- ial combination of methods. Se- tween the enormous csrd indexa of the Berlin detective and the bril- lisnt guess-work of the Paris defec- tive, Scotland Yard strikes a middle point. But this is not its secret. The one thing which makes it the most famous detective force in the world is the character of the population, for in criminal matters the English are always on the side of’ the po- lice and against the criminal. They give the police a degree of co-oper-

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Notb in life more strange Lost lineaments of human histories. —Sieg.friod Sassoon.

I *Ireland’a Gaelic. Revival

a (Sydney Poet-Record)

The Department oi Education for Ireland is urging on teacher! throughout the nnerabi Isle. the advisability of teaching hiswfy through the medium of native songs and poems

This is but one of the new chan- nels which are beink eilplolvd m

ation which makes it easier to catch cirlminala in England than in

Dublin to encourage a revival oi the 111s); ‘ . Dramatic com-

any other country.

The London “srespondent says Scotland Yard works by the usual detective methods but with perhaps a slightly different emphasis- It uses informers, as everybody else does. It also makes quick and ef- fective use of the public by appeal- ing for informaion. A questionairs is dram up for the use of every- body who can give fnfomation of any sort. The answersfwhich this questr-wire brings in are sent to the men ho sit with luke-wann cups of tea beside them in the roomful after roomful oi large quarto vol- umes which make up the criminal records at Scotland Yard. These studious men sort out the answers and search their classified volumes for the likely man. In twenty-four hours Scotland Yard has so much