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Worry England

It's a long time since England

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SUMMER ABANDON.

‘II will ‘not wash my face.

“i will not brush my hair;

1'1 lie around the place.

There's no one here to care."

" The inspired poet ‘was evidently wendlng his holidays by the sea- shore, perhaps alone-as poets are not usually gregarious-but more probably in the company of kind- l... spirits who had, like himself. hound the bounds of and giieii

themseivcs outside civilization themselves up to the full enjoyment of the glorious privilege of doing they darned pleased. in this Qexcess of’ delirious freedom they ‘took a savage deitght in going 10 the extreme opposites of civilized llfe, descarding all the usages of civilized society. doing all tliat wvasforbidden in the ten command- ments of home life and so enjoy- ing thelfree life of the savage and tbe.untamed animal.

Such is summer life by the sea- shore and many are enjoying the reversicn to savagery around the shores of Prince Edward island. a reversion that appears to be an life, a reversion that makes for rest

essential part of ii-ll animal

and recuperation along the strenu- ous upward road of modern civil- ization. liven the domestic animals ‘enjoy an occasional relapse as is "evidenced by the fact that those of them that are not bound down by. the tramimels of business or necessity. take to the woods, their ancestral habitat. in the spring, re- turning later on renevred and re- freshed ibly the ltenipora-ry" "lcom- munion with nature in the wilds. Thesummer break to freedom is a necessity, a natural‘ corrective to iiie oongestlons and the poisonous secretions resulting from too siren- uous hunt hfter dollars or after iilflvwolfl- as the case may be. it i! refreshing that this season there are more people than

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‘FRIDAY, JULY 29, 1921

had nothing lo worry nbout._ For some years it was the war, and since "then it has ibean Ireland the us“, enjoy," the relapse m “w coal strike-and a dozen other do- imestic problems. No sooner is one

“gen” The” l’ ‘mu mo“ brinroblem disposed of than another thousands more. tholswis who srslshows itseitf on the horizon, the playing with death in congested C latest to appear being that of mar- cities imd who could renew their Pigs "iii dii°r°°~ i‘ i‘ “‘"°""" l?!” n me by spendm‘ a lewlfor many years the divorce ‘laws -in England were scandalous, ~snd

"iii! P’ W" i‘ i" 1"" °" "iii" that they still fall m short of the outskirts of civilization by thestandards that are generally‘ ac- seashor°_ cepted in civilized countrlesilbver- the-less. the laws then wereimoh as to m-adde nonly those persons .who wished to puttheni into-wher- ' a-tion, and not the puiblic general- The Toronto" Globe _ly. The public generally was rath- “7 599 5 gleam 9' hope 1°’ the er pmud of ~the fact that so few 14118113115 in (the return from A} divorces were granted, and enjoy-

beirta. The truth is that that eiec- ed “mi” the evidence in the , h C l comparatively few cases that came Lon means the w‘ We 0r rerurbefore the courts. Now the public (a ‘Ja-"wumaged 1'35"“) 3M m” SIICIWS a disposition to worry about spectacular the great number of divorce ac- tions that are annou-nded and at the corresponding decrease in the number of marriages. lf both these tendencies continue it is pliiin that the country's increase in popula- tiou will be much less than mlgli-t have been expected.

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-_----<oa——- MENACING SECTIONALISM.

professes

sudden and rise of Wood. the Missourian. Province that has been overwhelm-

ingly biberail since its lforrnatlln.

Here is a

rejecting its first lnve in terms so emphatic as to leave not a ray of comfort. All is Stygian darkness. Orerar. like Drury, would “broaden out," but Wood, like Morrison, will ) have nous of such perfidy Wood, increases in divorce are ascrib- ls for complete farmer-control, and 9d l0 "W0 “W595- Olie i8 U"? BT88!- ‘wuh a“ er <faoilities for having marriages

annulled. the other is the war. H9 h" Pimmd m“! "iiwiig "i6 "i"? Though the wur is over its effects rarians of the North-West tlie de- upon the marriage und divorce testable methods of American ma»

statistics will likely be felt for whine panties “york to pertecuon‘ years to come. There were tlimis- It is ‘

nails of marriages made in the war merit and the anti-thesis of our

Blamed on the War.

to hades manufacturers.

a new “m! Sinister ‘lew-‘w years, espcdlnlly in tlic ycLir 1915

between couples utterly unsuited to each-other. As the London Daily Telegraph notes, "Young men in civil life were called up for ser- vice in ain unfamiliar sphcre; mam" _ot them found themselves for the wrnment will emerge triuiiiphantf fir“ iri-iiiie ill their "V88 With a 00n-

siderable income, and when on

but. just at combination of the grain business‘

with politics is triumphant. Andi one Globe speaks of. these men is lflrogressives. and goes so far as

immemoriail British usages. Wlzcrc it will end. who shall say? We have tfaith that in the end, the old

well-tried British theory of gov"

present, the sinister

any, his Government liad made to recover it. in view of his prom- is_e that‘ N0 TAXATION WOULD BE IMPOSFID UNTIL EVERY EF- to gloat in anticipation over theirFORT HAD BEEN PUT FOR- Dosslibie union with the KlnS-Lu-"WCRIC AND laAlLm) m “meet

from Ottawa those “clalms" whicli ‘was t0 but our province iipori the 113111611!- Wllfll I10 U18 F0011’! biliii“ easy street of finances and provide new men a; me cQunu-y Lhinkfis with every necessity. \\'l’l‘f»f--

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about. it? it is about time they‘ RESORT To TACATION’

Premier Bell will ‘he asked t0 woke up ‘to the menace. i answer why in his two years of

Mismaiiagement, he had done ab

poinite combination in the next Par-T

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i For several years prior to the election of 1919 there was very much ado made ‘by the Hon. John H. Bell and the Liberal contingent generally over what they were pleased to characterize as neglect of our island's interests in the matter of our claims against tihe Ottawa Government. It was an especial feature of their program. upon which they harped most voci- ferousiy, to collect these large amounts. mounting away up ln the millions according to their compii- , " . tations. and with "this vast wealth _ , .' to give us an administration of pu‘b- ' ' 11c affairs. WITHOUT TAXATION, on a’ scale so elalhorate that even the gods would ibe tlclrled with de- light. ‘Ilhey are now on the ra-

ipid wane oftiheir existence. with the term of their mlsrule nearer

to the end than to the commence- ment, and only a few short months fr m the final bursting of their hi! le. What have they got to show towards the fulfillment of t, one oft repeated pledges? The i. is! are here in redouhled and gusdrupled force, ibut where is the

"big haul from those claims which was promised as the panacea of relief from these intolerant bur- dens. Have they dotted an I or crossed a T, or even voiced their views in their Ottawa pligrimages. on this subject.

-. n J‘ - - The Hon,‘ Pyemier Mathieson. and his then colleague. Hon. A. E. Arsenault. presented the case before ohp Borden Government 311th such force of argument and gm as to receive from the then gremier ot Canada a complete re- cognition iofour claims, SO COM- yuprn AND nnoi-siva IN ac- tions}. FACT Til-AT our ‘FOR ‘sun DISTRACTION PRODUCED , "Tm; OUTBREAK or THE WAR- "PHEY WOUUD HAVE QEEN SATYISFACTORIILY SETTlr lion" THAT TIME. it was ibe-

qauso Premier Bell and his clique knew this, and recognised the se-

iiflring of this money as a certain- ty after the war was over. that, emails those promises. with the irther abject-of timing to embar- hol truth governments‘ during gleiiyaffortu to help the nation out

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solutely nothing in tlil-i matter.

These two electoral districts wizl

in the near future be called upon _, to give tiielnverdict for or against mm m”, a, they we... whim this combination, and m the in- Premier Borden practically accept-li-efim. i" i-ileii‘ Siildy 01' Dllbiiii ed (hem the (app; and argument questions it W0llld'i)8 well for them and memoranda are on record at i0 k159i) these “clal-ms" and the Lib- me Capim], 3nd (he Federal “numeral promises concerning them well ers are financially alhle to hand outliii mind $0 $11M they may require m Premier Bell and his Govern-fl! the inwmivetents an explana- mem eygry (10113,- ma; 15 due us tlon of their shameful neglect and And why are they not getting after iiiili "160? may it's. able to reward (t? .13 [g ma; they don't wanf the treachery with -an avalanche of the money: or that they hate towflle! 1'01‘ their ‘burial .

keep a promise. or that it ls easier , .

to tax the people? . Daily Selections Guardian Readers

Furnished by W. l. Lvulon,

Of course they did do something, There were similar elections pen- ding ln Nova Scotis and New Brunswick and this scheme of "claims" which had worked so well

in P E. island was trotted out

there by ‘the Liberal premiers as 3EEING LIFE

splendid catch votes. and to put

the farce in good shape Premier The“ “T” iliwiiyii i! number 0-

Deople. not always youthful people —who think they are not "seeing life" unless they are rushing day after days from movies to restaur- lllll. n-iahraii". . il ciuieanrlz-cu tre to dance. if flung on their own resources they are iserable. If they go to the lakeside for the week-end they play bridge or daucg i!" 1118M- flnd eat all day. Paradisc to them is found in an atmosphere of pink lights, chatter and chain- pagne.

Such people have never lived at all; they have m taken the shell of life for the ke el. The under- standing mind will find a feast far richer spread before it in the quire:- vesi country town or wayside vil-

Beil was invited over 10 a confer- ence on the sulbject. But those elections are now over. and the "claims" are shelved. until next

election. These Maritime Pre- miers did get together since. and

they did go to Ottawa in a matter of "claims," but it was not these claims, but some others out of which they thought they could make some political capital. that they took with them. On our claims for compensation for west- ern schoolilands and our capital investments in the ‘west, and Hud- son ‘Bay territories, were relocated

iage‘. to the background, never to ‘be To understand himianity-to heard of again, unless perchance "live". It is no more necessary for they can resurrect something out i" '0 “'3'- i" H Whirl 011111111 6X-

0! It of a polmcal nature on the citement than it was for Jane Aus-

ten to go to Honolulu to write a 9i"! 0i i"! eieciioii- 97mm" novel. Humanity begins at honic. Bell wont to Halifax instead of to Life lies upon our doorsteps. It is

Ottawa on his promised collecting tour, and he might just as well have stayed at home.

But an end must shortly come to this dodging. in a very ibrief time

for us to stoop and pick it up.

MY TASK

V e To love someone more dearly

every day.

he and his Government will be To help a wandering child to fini. called upon to answer at lest two his way,

electoral districts ars to what he T‘) ponder d" ‘i 59MB "millili- has dope about the collection of Anqigflgrz-{lxyn Evan," m“ these claims. When he gets Th“, l, my Mask .

before the people of’ Murray Har- bor and Malpsque. he will be up

‘Inns, something m“ ‘his "M"; To follow truth as blind mcn lonig

m“ a! “'9 p”! "i" “n” “ii '-° To tiwrmlylgest from dawn of do him no avenues of escape. The till night,

question will not be so -much" as

To keep my ‘heart fit for ills holy ‘g r i

pf its dlstrdlsi and difficulty. The

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lira‘! is orea-fthacinlmo an just “didn't get it, as to what effort, ‘ *~ $.;7.I2.!"' ‘

to whether he got the money or‘ "if \ ' 4

And answer when he calls, This is my task. 2

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for spending it freely. Every social foundation seemed to have been undermined and ltfe depended on uneerwni chances. In, than; cir-

ea were lightly - and sometimes tboughtiassly contracted. on' a foundation of‘ little mutual know- ledge. The separation allowance to wives paid by the Government contributed to encourage the stream of young men and wmnsn to the altar or the waist?! Office.“

Left A.‘l Alone Again Blues.

No wonder many of ‘these mar- riages ‘turned out unluappiiy. Everything seemed to conspire to inakrrmostt of ithem a fadlure. The young illtlSbflild, in uli likelihood. wig ordered abroad. His‘ young Wife remained at home with iiiore money than she had ever had be- fore in her life. and with little ex- perience in the handling of-money. 'I‘lie likelihood was that she should (all in with other young women in similar circumstances, and that they should try to escape tlie bore-

dcm of their lives by whatever means Irume to hand. Perhnlis lone‘ iness perhaps desperation.

made many of them 'ea'sy victims to ‘the first ‘personable chap who came along. In many cases they would discover, after the husband's first. leave, that they made i! mistake in choosing partners. There would be mutual disappoint- ments, quarrels. wiiih no common

. haibit of‘ life and mutual respect 1.0 ‘ tide over the critical period. Un-

faithfulness proved. there remain- ed the door of escape through the Divorce Court. iind this door not been opened then there would have been desertion und the setting up of illicit households, such as liad happened inthousaniis or instanc- es in the years befire the war.

Marriages Decline.

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.At the Euiitcr sittingWif the Divorce Court there ‘Vere 2.373 petitions aiwaltiing ‘trial of which 2,000 were not defended. nine- tcntiis of them, in tlie opinion of the Lord Chancellor, being trace- able to the influences of the war. and this tendency, in iiis opinion. is likely to con-ti-nue for a genera- tion. The Westminster Gazetto be- lieves that tlic way by Wdlltiii mar- riage can be restored to something like its old sanctity in public re- gard is not to make‘ divorce liard- er‘ ‘but to niake it easier. Just now. i-t says, "opinion is ripening toward a rebellion. and the present state of the Divorccflouris should- warn the legislature that it it will not put the matrimonial 'laiw_-on a reasonable footing, iiie institution of marriage ‘will suffer a severe shock." That it has suffered some sort of shock is plain enough from the dvirindling marriage rate. In the flnal quarter of 1-920 there were 18,000 fewer marriages lhan in the preceding quarter and nearly 10.- 000 fewer than in‘ the ifourth quar- ter of i919. T-hat yea-r uias the last of iihc marriage boom years. the rate having reached 21.5 per thousand of population in i-Jngland and Wales. The peak year was 1915, when the ‘marriage rate was 22-5 as compared with 16.5. whitdh was the rate in 1918, the last nor- mal year.

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‘Fewerl Birth; and Delthl.

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in the view of the Times, the reason marriages are declining is becauseof the (increased cost of living. Marriage is a good deal more of a luxury nciw than it was in the war years, when there were millions of pounds distributed weekly in pay and allowances. The birth rate too, la ‘declining, and in the first (‘iuarier of this your was 22.6 per thousand, which, accord-

ieuve. with tine and opportunity x

cumstances thousands of marriag- _

(Toronto Telegram.)

‘Jlu Music imi Cubist Art_

_ an music has had its dny_ According . to the Sheet Music Dealers‘ Association the once popular jazz has lost its grip and is fast sinking into obscurity.

It is not surprising that jau is on the downgrade-the wonder is ‘that such ‘a grotesque imitation oi.’ iriusic should have been tolerated so long.

Jazz music ante-dates the Great War, but it blossomed during the days when men's minds were so over-balanced with catastrophic events that jazz mullc seemed to provide a sort of safety valve for overcharged emotions-as a good cry ofien relieves the over-wrought‘ nerves of a tired woman.

There was more psychology. than music in "the jazz regime. Future generations may marvel at an age advanced in so many ways which delighted to dance and sing to the accompaniment of cow bells, sand paper. police whistles and automo- bile horns. v

‘it is at least as easily explained as futurism and cubist art which offends the artistic eye much tlie some as jazz tlie musical ear.

Twenty-Five Years Premier. (Vancouver World.)

——'l‘he history of responsible government in tlie British Empire affords no example of continuous office holding approaching that of the Hon. George ‘H. Murray, who today completes his twenty-fifth year as premier of Ncva Scotia. When Premier Murray- was a very young lliflll he sat for n short time as leader of the government. in the egislative Council. He was al- ready Premier when hc was first elected to the =House of Assembly in August, 189$, and Premier he has remained ever since. it is tlie greater tribute to the success with which lie has carried oii his ad- ministration that lie never under- went iiie salutary experience of sitting in opposition He knows parliamentary lifc from one side of the House only.

Two monthsago, before proro- gatlon,_the members f tlie Nova Scotla House of” Assembly passed an unanimous resolution signallz-

a quarter of a century of leaner ship.‘ As the Morning Chronicle, of Halifax remarked editorially. The issues which divide the parties were for the moment laid risidefall controversy was‘ banish- ed and the members 0f the House united with onevoice in paying tribute to and recording their ap- preciation of the great Nova Scotian and his great services to tlie state. it was one of those happy lncidents-—-perliaps far too few and-yet not uncommon .n pub- lic life-when mcn who agree to

lowest for any first quarter since the establishment of civil registra- tion, wi/th- like exception of the quarters affected by the war. In- creased taxation is also playing n part in the reduction cif both niar- riage and binth rates. About the onily cheering piece of news in the vital statlstiics is that which sihuws that tlie deaith rate is extremely low, being slightly less than 15 per thousand, its compared with 20.1 zin 1915, and 21.2 in 1919. The figures for 1919 are puzzling and we must assume that many d: the deaths were the result of injuries

ing to the London T-imes, is tlie

sustained in the war.

A‘ Store

Ladle: White Pumps Ladies‘ White Oxford: .. ' Balance of our ties an

thousands of other bargains in fine or heavy boots. from 26c to

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, daily.

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Bargains

Ladies White Boots $3.50 Ind $4.00

We bought recently lmi In o now en sale B. R. . stock which we are offering at about half value. Men's Patent Dancing Oxfords . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..ll0.00 for $5.00 Men's Patent Luther Dancing Pumps

Lndla’ Patent Oxfords (American) 87.85 for

pair. HEADQUARTERS FOR HOLUHIOOF HOBIERV. The but hose for the lent money.

5 Goff Bros.

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- reduced to . . . . . . . ..ii.98

1 .. . .l1.50 up . . . . . . . .. $1.87 up

I a big dllcoim . ' u . .

both sides

ing tlie approaching completion of .

differ on Qiiqstipu .0! ‘Dllbulhffifq hpiad. to unite M: applaud!!! and

rignalizlng worthy,‘ public service."

thnt ‘Premier Murray has not been spoiled by success’ but remains a "plain, courteous and approach- ‘sble man, without pretence, as- ‘sumptlon or effort to exalt himself. .in any way." l-ts concluding wish that he may have many more years of health and happiness as ihe first citizen of his native prov- ‘ince. will be shared today by the ‘many Nova Scotians who have ‘found their way to this province

Dover-Calais Tunnel (New York’ Times)

‘—-—-—-Work will be started this fall on the Dover-Calais tunnel on of the Channel and when it is ' completed, inside oi’