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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1929

Handsome Recognition

News oi the selection oi Hon. Mr. Justice A. E. Araenault to the pres- idency oi the newly organized Can- adian Association of Tourist and Publicity Bureaus will be received with great pleasure in this Province. where his services as president of the Prince Edward Island Publicity As-I, scolatlon since its inception havei been oi inestimable value. The suc- cem which the local association has made in recent years is largely at- tributable to this gentleman's untir- ing efforts. to his tact and courtesy in handling difficult situations. to his comprehensive knowledge of tourist requirements, his appreciation of the value of aggressive publicity, methods in advertising the advant- ages of the Province. and perhaps more than anything else, to his un- bounded enthusiasm which has been an inspiration to his fellow workers on many occasions. With a new era. in transportation and tourist accom- modation opening for Prince Edward Island in the immediate future. the appointment oi Mr. Justice Arscnault in the presidency oi an association oftourist bureaus representative oi Canada from coast to coast is most opportune. lt may be regarded as a merited recognition both of his -own services and oi the increasing im- portance oi this Province as a tour- ist and publicity centre.

The aim oi the new organization. which will have its headquarters in

J/Iontreai, will be to co-ordinate the activities of all the provincial asso- ciations. The step is undoubtedly one in the right direction, and will make for substantial progress in an indus- try which is as yet only in its in- fancy in Canada.

_ Subversive Propaganda

To Canadians generally the subject oi America's part in the Great War, as sentimentalized by American pub- llcists, scenario writers and radio or- ators, has become tedious by repeti- tion and ludicrous by exaggeration. There is little desire in this country to compete with our American neigh- bors in advancing claims for recog- nition oi sacrifices entailed in the war. It is not the British way to boast about such things, and we like to be British in this respect as in others. There is another viewpoint, however, which must not be ignored. Recently in Montreal Lieut. Colonel George A. Drew, Master oi the Su- Dreme Court oi Ontario and author oi many articles on Canada's war cifortTcalled attention to the sub- versive nature of much American Pfilliflganda and its effect upon Can- adian school children. There is a cult in Canada, he said, which be- lieves that the war should be for- gotten in order that peace may be furthered. This would be a fine ideal i.i the ears oi the children could be closed to all outside influences. Since it ‘is impossible to do this, weshould see that an authoritative history oi the Empire's part in the war is made available in the schools. With the facts before them. there is little danger that our children will devel- op that inferiority complex with re- apect to their own country which it would seem to be the chief aim oi much American propaganda to fos- tor. *._ Mr. Dooley on Gifts i In the giving of Christmas presents one should be guided wholly by the unselfish desire oi giving enjoyment

in spirit, and looked with increasing suspicion upon all packages that ar- rived in the Christmas mail. The ex- perience that made a cynic oi so amiable an old gentleman is worth giving in his own words, as culled from the pages of a magazine of days gone by: '

“Wan year I wanted a watch more thin anything in th' wurruld. I talked watches to ivry wan that I thought had designs on me. I made it a pint to ask me irinds what time iv night it was, an’ thin say, ‘Dear me, I ought to get a watch if I cud affoord it.‘ I used to tout people down to til‘ Joolers shop an’ stand be th‘ window with a hungry look in th‘ eyes ive me, as much as to say, ‘If I don't get u. watch, I'll per- ish.’ I talked watches an‘ thought watches an’ dhreamed watches. Father Kelly rebuked rne f'r bein‘ late fr mass. ‘How can I get there befure th’ gospil, whin I don't know what time it is?‘ says I. ‘Why don't ye luk at ye'er watch?’ he sayd. ‘I haven't none.’ says I. Did he give me a watch? Faith, he did not. He sint me a box iv soap that made me smell like a coon goin’ to a. ball in a State Street ca-ar. I get a. necktie ir‘m wan man; an’ if I wore it to a meetin’ iv th’ Young Hebrews‘ Char'table Society, they'd ‘ve thrun me out. That man wanted me to be kllt. Another lad sint me a silk handkerchief that broke on me poor nose. Th’ nearest I got to a watch was a. hair chain that un- raveled. an’ made me look as if I'd been curryin’ a. Shetland pony. I niver got what I wanted, an I niver expect to. No wan does."

An Election Forecast

The Ottawa caorrespondent oi the Monctcn Transcript has let the cat out oi the bag with respect to the much discussed datejof the general election. In a significant despatch dated Dec. 1o, it is predicted that Hon. W. R. Motherweli, Minister oi Agriculture, will retire from public life “with the advent oi the general election next fall.” Readers who have followed intelligently the news oi the Dominion Government's activities in the planning oi public works for i930 and in u... recent political speechmaklng of the Prime Minister will have had no difficulty in guess- ing the date; but the present oc- caslon is the first on which we have seen the admission in a Liberal or- gan. Whether expressed intention- ally or by accident, it may be accept- ed as fairly authoritative. So far as Hon. Mr. Bennett and the Conserv- ative party are concerned, they will not be caught unaware. A general el- ection "next fall" will suit them ad- mirably,

Another significant item is con- tained in the Transcript/s Ottawa despatch with respect to Mr. Mother- well's anticipated retirement. It is pointed out that he and Hon. Char- les Stewart, Minister oi the Interior, are the only members who have sur- vived "the mutations oi time, the ups and downs of political fortune," with the portfolios with which they began their careers in the Liberal Administration eight years ago. Next month, it is suggested, Mr. Mother- well will be seventy years oi age. l-iis political career, given in detail in the Ottawa despatch, reads suspiciously like an obituary. It may therefore be assumed that a younger and sturd- ier champion will be sought out in Mr. Motherwells constituency for the coming contest. It will not make much difference to Mr. Mother-well, since it is more than likely that the portfolio oi Agriculture along with tho other Cabinet positions will be occupied by Conservative members after the election.

Editorial Notes

According to the local Government organ, Premier Saunders made a be- lated explanation oi his attitude on

to the recipient. Too frequently this golden rule is ignored. It was one oi the complaints oi the immortal Mr. ‘Dooley, whose homely philosophy was papular with readers of another gen- eration. that he never received the ‘Chflstmns gift he wanted. m- this

Maritime Union at the St. Andrew's banquet last week. He is quoted as having said that he had never given the matter any serious thought. Many in this Province who read and wondered at his reported utterance at Amherst will quite agree with him. But why should he go to Am-

the Christmas season, became soured

herst to broadcast the fact?

Notes By The Way

The Grand Banks ave shifted and the ocean floor was displaced by the recent earthquake, as the news des- patches have told us. but few lands men know very much about the Grand Banlu. The sea captains and their crews as well as the “deep sea fishermen, so called, could tell us much.

l-lere the cable repair ships are at work splicing the broken wires over a wide area. TheBanks extend 200 miles along the coast of Newfound- land in the form of a triangle and stretch away 500 miles south-east towards Europe. Within that area the depth of water is an average oi 40 fathoms but varies from i0 to 16 fatholns. The ocean floor is an elev- ated plateau covered by the largest expanse of comparatively shallow salt water that is known.

Across the plateau the earlier elec- tric submarine cables were la-id to connect the new world with the old. The banks had been frequented by European fishermen long before the discovery oi America, and still con- stitute‘ the largest and most produc- tive breeding nnd feeding area for fish- in the world, especially for cod.

‘Ihcre is no intimation as yet that the great harvest of the sea. will be diminished by the ‘quake that has occurred. The fish will not probably be scared away nor the mists and fogs dispelled above the darkened waters. ‘Ihey may be expected to come again and again.

Winter however cold it may be, has some physical compensations. 'I'hc busy fly no longer tickles the"\bald head and drifting snow is at. least more cleanly than drifting clouds of dust and more beautiful also. Tile bloodthirsty mosquito no longer plies his suction pump upon our vital iluld. The June bug, the potato bug. and all the bug and battle tribe. with the ants, caterpilfars. sna/kes, toads and worms—-the bane oi picnics- have disappeared from human vis- ion. They have gone, but they will come again in that: "good old sum- mer time" which Justtnow seems so far away m the dim future.

When we read of the frightful storms, shipwrecks, gales and floods that have of late afliciedthe British Isles and other _lands, itQmay serve to remind us that although alter our pleasant autumn, the winter and the snow have come earlier than

and automobiles are still in evidence on our streets.

Sc far our weather conditions for months back have been prosperous ly cast. And moderately cold weather, if steady and without sud- den changes oi_temperature, is the best: and most healthful we could have at this season. We have not yet reached the shortest day oi 1929, but it is drawing near and the nights are already longer and the sun ris- ing late and setting early.

Seeking a name for the new hotel why not call it Abegweit? the name is historic and was given by the rightful owners of every foot of Is- land soil before the white man came. It-is a. poetical decriptive and eu- phoneous name as well as an his- torical one. It is rich in meaning, the idea begotten in the Indian mind. and expressing the conception oi a beautiful island resting upon the waters.

Do we not owe something to 0hr Indian brothers who in ages past by right oi first discovery and occupa- tion made this “Island their own and gave it a name? We oi the white race, "the pale faces," havcvmade but n. poor return to these -dis- coverers and owners and their des- cendants whose right we have ac- quired without compensation. We are now building u. lordly hostelry whose grandeur will strongly contrast with the Indian Wigwam, but if we name the structure Abegweii: it will tell that we owe which is now lonl overdue.

Premier King has told the world that he felt it to be his first duty to give every province representation in his Cabinet. We note in the ang- ing rumors about reconstruction of the Government, mention is made oi out-going Ministers and their proba- ble successors in the oilices they now hold, but no Island names are men- tioned among the success no, and no Liberal newspaper in ‘this or other Maritime Provinces makes mention of ithe omission. Is the Prime Minis- terb "first duty" so soon forgotten?

Premier Saunders has got his name into many newspapers by his ili-ad- vised reference to Maritime union. Apparently trying to win favor with his leader at Ottawa. he has brought upon himself an undesirable reputa- iion in his home province that will not soon be forgotten.

One housing project to be started

in Edinburgh, Scotland, will cost £4300. .

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GOOD AIR FOB WORKERS

You read with pity in your hem about the young a 180M’ P)’ radium paint which is used “to letter watch dials, speedometers and simi- lar pieces or apparatus!‘ These youus women lived for months with the knowledge that death was just as sure n5 that» night would follow day.

All over the world scientists are working on the problem so that some effectual remedy may be secur ’ in prevent this poisoning.

lt does seem strange in these days when the heads oi manufacturing es- tablishments. labor union oflicials. welfare workers and others aredoing all in their power to make things comfortable for workers, that these young women should have to lose their lives. v

One oi the objects tiny have suc- ceeded in attaining is'good air for the workers in many factories. In fact the air in some of these establish- lishmenis is really better and more healthful than the air outdoors.‘

In many factory districts the air is heavy with smoke, fumes or gases, dust, odors and so forth, and in the midst of this, the employees are en- joying air that is cleansed, cooled, and with the surplus water removed. And as you know, it is the warm moist air that exhausts you in the summer, not Just the heat of the air.

In the cool weather the air ls warmed and water added to it, be- cause cool air will not hold asmuch water as warm air. It is the‘ dry hot

ness and irritation oi the nose and throat during the cold weather.

This means that during all 'the hours of the day, winter and sum- mer, these employees are breathing manufactured air.

Incidentally, while it means health and happiness to them, it means that .the manufacturer will get an increas- ed output of his goods, withless loss of time through accidents and sick- ness. And this is only one cf the many improvements that are now a part of industrial liie. '

' THE onus or Tun BORDERLAND

Oh for a day on the Border hills, l Wi’ their brackens waving high. i Where the nloorcock whirs, and U10 plover trills, And the bloating flocks reply; To gaze aiar o'er the purple heath Or away to the Cheviots grand, Where the warders watched in the days of old, And the beacons blazed, and the ' slogan roiled, Where the brave and the valiant met the bold, At the Gatcs of the Borderland.

There's a valorsomc spell‘ on the Border braes

That name but her children ken,

For the Border mithers crooned the lays

That mottled the Border men.

As visions rise on the bare hill-sides,

fanned, I can see the reivcrs ride the swlre, And the flashing steel on a field of

fire, Or a Douglas stand with a tigers ire, At the Gates of the Borderland.

‘There's a dool and a wac in the Bor- der glans,

And their sabbin’ bodes an omen;

There's a lonesome licht in the Dowie Dens ~

Or Kilmenys haunted gloamin’.

But I wanda turn, though I dree

' my weird,

Or the ferlie waved her wand,

And beckoned me doon by the Eildon tree

Where the Queen and the Rhymer rode the lea, .

And passed to their deathleas mys- teries

Through the Gates of the Borderland.

‘There's a glorious peace in the Border howrnes, _ And a harp on her silver river;

air oi our homes that causes the dry- _

And the flames oi romance are

‘DECEMBER 12, 1919

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UNWELCOME CHRISTMAS CARDS

Sin-Serving Incoma Tax notices in December does not show much consideration for theta: payers as

et at this time of-the year. Were we being taxed on our eamings for 1920 I could see some reason for the late

income received in ma these bills to my mind could Just as well be sent out in June‘ If I mistake not under the Stewart Government we received

reason for keeping them until near Christmas, I would like to know what it i5. - lam Sir, etc. INCOME TAX

IN MEMORY

Sin-Upon reading your excellent article anent the book entitled "Skye Pioneers and the Island," by one of our gifted Islanders, Malcolm}.- Mc- Queen, I , at once sentfifor the vol- ume and spent hours imbibing its in- teresting ' pages which stirred up memories of the long gone days when ' as a child I spent many happy hours in the manse of Snizort and once more I dreampt that I culled the sweat

flowers on the moorland.

Or roamed o'er the fields which my forefathers trod, ’ Ere their life blood empurpled tho . ' hills of Hispanic. || Ere their souls soared on high to‘ the patriots God. And now has arrived a news paper containing a likeness oi the lately departed, generous chief of the Mac- Leods, Dunvegan Castle, whose son- in-law, Captain Nicol Martin of Glendale, youngest of the Manse of Snizort boys. was a white haired child when I formerly visited his home; the elder brothers having lcit for ‘plantations in India, be- queathed them by thelr uncle, valu- ed physician and friend oi the Maharajah oi Mysore. I am Sir, etc, E. S. M.

Etiquette

Byleberlaliee

Q. Is it necessary to repeat a per- son's name when one is introduced? A. It is customary. ls it shows that one has heard thelname correctly. Q. Is the calling on friends‘ on New Year's Day still a custom in the larger cities? ' A. Yes, to a certain extent, though not so much as in the smaller towns. ‘Q. At a dinner should the host bother about introducing the gentle- man to the lady whom he is to “take in" to dinner? g A. Yes. l-le should see that every man either knows, or is introduced to, the lady he is to “take in" and ii pos- sible, to the one who is to sit on the other side oi him also. '

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Honor Roll ci ‘ll-yon School for Oct. and Nov.--

Grade X.-1. Eulalis. Mclnnis.

Grade VIII-l; Leah Lord. z. Ethel Lcard and Mabel Mclnnis (equal) 3, Sheldon Dixon and Jean Muirhead (equalJ

"Grade VII-l. Maia:- Waddell. s, Ococly Ieard. S. lib-nest ford.

Grade Vt-l- Mary cums. 2, Vance Dixon. 3. Bernice Dixon.

Grade IV.—1, Jessie, Leardu 2, Thomas Dawson. 3. Rhoda Cobb.

Grade m-l, Lillian Thomson. 2. Voids Delaney. 3. Mildred Iefurgey Grade 1I.-1, Ruby DeLaney. Grade L-l. Doris DeLaney. s, Bertrum Thomson. 3. Alex Dawson. Jllfletie MacVitte, Teacher.

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The sosgs that shall" live for ever’.

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DE SALABEBRY i

Q. Who was De Saiabeny?

A. De Salaberry is one of are out- standing names in early Canadian history and especially during the war of i812, He was born at Bcauport, near Quebec andentered the British army where he served for eleven years under General Robert Prescott; and in 1704 took part in the capture oi Martinque. In i800 he served in Ire- land and in lslo took part in the Walcheren expedition. He was ap- pointed in 1811 major and aide-de- ‘camp to General Rottenberg in Can- ada. At the outbreak of the American ‘War oi 1812, he was promoted lieu- tenant-colonel. and rendered good service as commander of the Canad- ian Voltigeurs. On October 26th, 1813, he defeated the American forces under General Hampton at Chateau- guay, the outcome of this action being to compel the invaders to evacure Lower Canada. For these services he was made a C. B.