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THE liiilillliiiiiliiiiN Bllifllill

Notes By The Way

Mr. Charles Reid, Agricultural

W- Cheater I. Helium. President ' D- K-

J. IL Burnett, Editor and Publisher

Currie, Anus-lute Editor

expert and representative of half a dozen leading Irish and Scotch

lblllli Dolly (founded 188T) Il-lltl per

year

‘dcuwrfl, h ldvunw newspapers, is now in the city. The

M30 lunar (mined) ll ldvllce il Cunmlu and United Slutcl object of his visit is to investigate

the soil, climate, social conditions,

"l? , FRIDAY, AUG. 10,1923

of the Province, the price at which good farms can be purchased and to gain all available information

OUR LEADERQS VISIT

If to be clear, definite, convinc- IIIK li-ild pleasing withsl is oratory then’ the Rt. Ilion. Arthur Meighen is In orator. For over an hour and a quarter he held his audience spell bound as he explained, with the irrefutable logic of n proposi- tion in Dicild, the political ation in Canada during the late and To all who

situ-

the present regimes.

heard him, hisexposure of the Mac- during the late administration, but all will admit that they have a pec- uliarly significant connection with

Kenzie King government, election pol-icy and promises and its subsequent abandonment of all of these Ibare a strikingly close resem-

its pre

biunce to recent political events iii Prince Edward island and prestige a similar outcome."

d A practically verbatim report of the address is given elsewhere and we commend it to the careful perusal of all our readers, Liberals. Conservatives, Progressives and Independents, it speaks for itself and editorial continent is unneces- sary. iProbalbiy an abler political speech was ' delivered in Charlottetown and it ‘carries within

never

itself the proof of its accuracy in every detail.

The Rt. Hon. gentleman is en- joying his visit to the Maritimes ‘and has many good words for this province whidh he is seeing for the first time in its summer garments.

His visit is partly a holi- day one. His political friends are glad to welcome him

and he has not been able to escape the platform in the centres which he has visited and which ‘have in- variably given him a warm wel- come. Again we commend the re- port of his address to our readers not only for present reading but for future reference.

.__.<<-0->----— THE ROADS

The expected has happened on many of Liberal Highways. “The rains des- cended and xhe. floods

the newly constructed came and beat upon" those roads and they are, now, wltli but few exceptions, worse than tilt-y were before the Bell government spent that million dollars or so on them. Visitors who recently drove to Brackley Beach declare they would not risk their cars on that road again. The road to Souris is also in very bad shape and’ similar complaints arz» hcaril from other directions. The trouble has been not so much in tile orig inal work with its extravagant out- lays but in the of the roads since, some of them not be- ing touched since they were first built. Just what proportion of that million dollars has been worse than wasted is yet to be revealed.

_._-<o->—-—— WHAT THEY PROMISED

neglect

“And you people can only find work two or three days a week: don't you think it is time for a change?” So spoke Mr. EJM. iMcDon- nld at a meeting in Stellarlon while ussaillng the Meighen government during the election campaign in 1921. Quoting further from one of his speeches on this occasion he declared the Liberals, if elected, would “create conditions under which we can ‘once morebrlng sun- shine and happiness anti prosper- iiy to the homes where there is nothing but dispair."

Since these words were spoken the Liberal party came into DOWBI‘ at Ottawa; thousands of young rneu in Nova Sootia and hundreds of thousands of youn! men in Con-

"ada, unubie1to iind work for even

two lor three days a weelnat home

have left for the United States to leek employment!

‘in our own province a pious Lib-

‘ was heard to express the the

writes the Liberal WW WM fle-

province the “golden era" of Li

ever before in its history . These things came in coincides

hard Liberals are trying to pa

they originated during the war an

isting conditions today promises.

—Z-—<-o>i- "KING WANTS TIM"

llealy’, nick named Tlin,

mediately preceding

tion posters were throughout the constituency ben ing the following legend:

Vote

and get $86,000 Government Docks , and Breakwater $25,000 Water Works

Free gift from James Cooper

$75,00 Brick and Tile Yard

for llealy

Vote for Robinson and get‘ Not-hing but hot air King, needs Tim, so do you Tim and King, that's the thing

supplementary estimates

North Essex constituency.

Bye-elections were pending

and Rivers." the

contained only 14 items province. Ontario had

estimat for th

tions pending and.

pending and 37 different no bye elections but it had quite received generous

There are 68 items for Quebec. Putting all these things togcth

of corrupting the electorate.

Supplementary Estimates said:

will be very serious. Yet in spite that, my ‘honorable

been a good IDIBJIY years House or the other." Senate Debates, 1923.)

"Now, what did the present G0

l V. ‘This is the dawn “i; ggdor any mun,» t,

eraiism has proved a leaden one and the "daybreak of prosperity" has seen more financial breaks than

ly with the Mackenzie King gov- ernment and have been in evidence during the regime so far. Some die-

suade themselves and others that

the King government, and that ex- COIIIJHSI strangely with Liberal pre-eiectiun

At n bye-election in Niuftll Essex. Ontario, this year Albert Frederic was the King Government candidate. Belle River is in this constituency. lm- tbe bye-elec-

circulated

To employ 30 hands tho year mound

So read the poster; an item in the rushed through the House during the last night of the session, reads as fol- lows: “Belle River Harbor limprove- ments, $30,000, Belle River is in the The $30,000 estimate was so [much lb)’ way of redeeming 'tTlm's" promise to the electors “Tim" was elected.

Nova Scotia. The supplementary estimates contain 68 items for Nova Scotia, under the heading "Harbors

New Brunswick had no thy-elec-

some lbye- elections and a provincial election items were appropriated for. Quebec had

number of claimants and therefore consideration.

and looking them squarely. in the face the conclusion is unavoidable that the King government has been using the public moneys of this country for the deliberate purpose

Senator Turrlff, a life-long Lib- eral, and now sitting among the Progressives, commenting on the

“i am not usually pessimistic, but if we keep adding from $75,000,- 000 to $100,000,000 a year-anti the present Finance iMinlster has esti- mated that we will this year have a deficit of something like $90,000,- 000—~the condition of this country

friend brings down supplementary estimates 0f the most glaring political charac- ter that il have ever seen in sup- plementary estimates, and l have in one (Page 1408.

He also said in the time speech:

ernment advocate before they got into power‘! They advocated econ- omy, yet. they have practised ex- travagance on a scale never ibefore reached in the Dominion of Can-

bcurius upon the desirability of b- the island as a future home for Irish and Scotch farmers who for various reasons desire to migrate to Canada. visited other provinces and the western portion of this Province, and finds here many things to his liking.

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Although our willtert are colder and our spring season later, in ni- 1-. most nil other respects this Pro- to Ireland than any other provinci- in Canada. Our mixed population of Irish, Scotch, English and French descent, without admixture of ini- niigrants from foreign lands is well calculated to give to settlers from Ireland a honielikc feeling on their arrival here. The harmony in which all classes and crccdslivte appeals to the lovers of pence and order. Taxation is much lower here than in the Old Land. The less severe winters are preferable to the much lower temperatures of the cold season in the mainland provinces east of the Rocky Monu- talus.

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The visiting expert freely expres- ses his feeling that no part of the Dominion pleases him so well as the Island Province. Ile has been Impressed with the general condi- tion of prosperity and comfort which appear to prevail, although he linti not failed to notice here and there a farm which in unskilled or neg- lectful hands gives evidence of lic- ing "cropped out” as we say. No farm of this sort would appeal to the class of Irish farmers in whose interest Mr. Reid is making his investigation. They want good farms in which the natural fertility of the soil has been maintained and improved by careful and pru- dent husbandry.

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We need not say that this is pre- cisely the class of farm that set- tlers most desire here -- practical, thorough-going farmers who are prepared ‘t; purchase good farms with live stock and equipment as going concerns. Such farms have been are are being offered for sale in unusual numbers this year. In some cases the owners have died, 0r are advanced in years and dc- sire to spend their declining days in town, or with a son or daughter who has removed to the West. Too many of our native born sons and daughters have gone away in past years and others nro still going from sheer restlessness or love of adventure. Nothing could so well sufilcc as that their places should be filled by thrifty and industrious practical farmers and their famil- ies from, the British isles.

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Declaration Day proceedings for Queen's County took place in Char- lottetown on Wednesday. Only a few minor changes in tho state of the polls as first announced were made and there are no‘ changes 1, from previous reports as to the members elected. ln the Second District owing to the absence of any return from one poll no declar- ation was made for the time. Mr. Irvine enjoys the distinction of be- ing the one Liberal member elect- od in Queen's County, his majority being 27. As in Prince County the Conservative majorities were much larger, the total of the eight Con- servatives so far returned being 1,335, an average of 267 each.

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Queen's County thus returns nine Conservative .members .snd .onn Liberal, the average majorities for the victors being like proportion. This is quite good enough. it satis- flcs the individual Conservative voter and his party and tiiu Lender. We believe it to be eminently sat- isfactory to the Province at large. Even from our Liberal opponents we hear no complaints that the incoming party has not elected rc- presentatives enough, or that their average of majorities at the polls is not sufficiently large. Where- fore let everybody be happy.

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Edward island stood it for four years and the general opinion is that Canada will fbe sufficiently "fed up" ion it to stop thy the end of the present parliamentary term. w —-?<eo--- EDITORIAL NOTES ‘iihe new fleet of sail boats now exercising daily has given new lilo to Chl/rlottetown Harbor. They are of lpeeioi Interest to visitors and

liir. Reid has already: -_

vincc bears a. closer resemblance

THE CHARLOTTETOWN GUARDIAN

Emu? of Q0111}

.¢_-._ no»

BY JAMES W. BARTON, M. D.

' Wvnq-t -‘.»l\\' EATING PTOMAINES .

‘Some years ago a number of us celebrated some athletic successes by indulging in an elaborate ban- quet. Everybody enjoyed the menu and departed to their homes.

On meeting some of the ban- quciers the next day aibout noon, they shook hands and congratulat- ed me on my appearance.

They asked "liow are you feel- lug?"

I said, “All right."

They said "Are ylou sure?"

“Well? i said, "to tell the truth l did feel a bit shaky this morning. kind of weak l lithe knees."

And then l asked the reason of the questioning.

it seemed that very few had up poured at lectures and there was u history oi‘ severe diarrhoea ’ and weakness, and many were confined to bed unable to raise UIlBil‘ heads.

The xiizitter was so interc-stiilg to me iliutl made an investigation and found that only flvc of the Iillililfild that had 1iartakeu of tlio fond haul escaped some syuiiptoms.

One of these was the footvlizill captain, another was one oi‘ the older professors.

’I‘liese two stated that they li:iti'iit missed one course in the menu.

Now how do I explain it?

Well there was something in that menu. in the soup, the oysters, the meats or the ficscrts that had he- csme decomposed. _

\\'iicn it had entered the infes- tinc the juices dill Llielr bust with it. libelieve the amounts served would be practically the same to every diner. 1 ~

Why then did some suffer more than others? _

-l‘erha1ps two factors would enter into the matter.

First the ability of juices to cope with decomposed foods varies with different individuals. The football captain might have had something on the rest of us In ilnit respect.

And then tile condition of the in- testine itself. An intestine that has an excess of waste already lying in ‘it, is not going to have the power to cope with incoming material, particularly decomposed matter.

1S0 tlic degree of constipation at the time would lbe an influence.

Now the point is just this. When you know exactly whiit you arc eating as you do in your home, you take very few chances in the mat» tor of unsuitable or decomposed foods, but when you are dining out you IIYO at the mercy 0f the cook.

Xou can't- protect yourself against the food. but you can protect that hotly of yours against Itself 1by not allowing it to he constipated.

Thus its real working ability is not liuntiicuqiperl in any way.

The “good old summer time," has come. There are bright skies nhovc; the fields are green with luxuriantiy growing crops; the trees are richly clothed in verdant foliage. There is victory in the air; there is hope of better govern- ment nntl better times in the hearts and minds of the people. it is un- der scenes and auspices thus in- spiring that the people of our fair island meet and greet the honored Chieftain of the Grand Old Conser- vative Party and bid him welcome! For It was under Conservative lead- ership that the big things and the best things in peace and war were done for Canada and for Prince Edward Inland!

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Daily Selections

FOR

Guardian Readers ~++ THE paws RESULT:

L“ “Vilma? ilfllmier because

1 Diwsetl his way?

Does any one remember that you spoke of him today?

This dity is almost over, 51111 toiling time is tiimugii;

1B iilfife filly one be utter 110w a, k111i"? word of you‘!

you

its

Did you waste the day or 11,59 i1? Was it well or possibly spent? Did you leave a trail of kindness or

a scar of discontent?

A5 You close your eyes in slumber, do vou think that God can say

You have earned one more to-mor- Y°W by the work you did to- day?

LIPS OF GRACE I saw a little child with bandaged eyes Put up its hands to feel its mother's

face She bent, and took the tender, grop-

ing palms

And pressed them ‘to her lips-a little space.

i know a soul made iblind by its de- sires,

And yct its faith keeps feeling for

God's face-

Bend down, 0 mighty Love. and let

I ill

the fact that Housman was not ap-

_ iy void of decoration.

Literature Enriched By Housmans Pen

Did Kiplings comet quench Housman's star‘! We can think of no other reason that the name of A. E. Housman is not known wher- ever poetry is loved than the fact that "A Shropshire Lad" appeared about the time wbezi Kipling was the most famous and beloved of contemporary writers. His most

celebrated poein "Tho Recession- al," appeared in 1897, and it was

then that "A Shropshire Lad"made his bow. Kipling took a rather ro- mantle and religious view of the "Diamond Jubilee." Ilousmans first poem dealt with the theme of "God Save the Queen." but in a different vein. He suggested rath- er sourly tbnt God had saved the Queen because lads like the Shrop- shire lad had fought for lier. lie had a verse:

“And while the flame they watch not towers Above the land they trod, Lads, we'll remember friends oi ours Who shared the work with God."

The quotation is from memory, but conveys the meaning.

One Poet at a Time.

It would appear that the English people have room for only one poet at a time. Browning suffered bu- cnuse he WflS a contemporary of Tennyson, and n0 doubt Jonson felt that lic would have (lone bct- ter had Shakespeare been a con- temporary of somebody else. in any event Kipling was the great poet of imperialism. He had the greatest contemporary vogue of any poet in our history, and we do not suggest that it was unde- served, but if he is to blame for

preciuteti when he appeared, then he qualifies for a minus ratherthan for n plus mark at the hands of the subsequent examiners of poet- ry. Not in their glorious history of verse have the English produced muny like Housman. One reads his poems and tries to recall what English poet he resembles. The answer is that he resembles none. Ho is as invidlual as Blake or Kipling or llinseileld. His outlook on life recalls Hardy. I-lis amazing ilirectnoss recalls Fitzgerald's translation of Omar.

Long Silent

Most of his “Shropshire Lad" was ivi-itten in 1895, and it con- tained thirty or forty little verses which must have appeared at the time as the A, B, C, or skull and lionci-i of poetry. It was absolute- lt was al- most like poetry in Algebraic sym- bols. The book icll dead ut the

time largely as we suggest, because of Kipiings fame. Now a first

edition of this little work is a trea- sure eagerly sought by collectors. Housman spoke and fell silent. In _ the intervening years he has pub- llshed but one poem, and this, we understand. a sort of travesty of one of the classics. He has con-

bridge, and has edited or translat- ctl Juvenul. Then last October his little volume entitled “Last Poems" appeared with this preface: "I pub- lish these poems, few though they are, because it is not likely that l shall ever be compelled to write much more. I can no longer ex- pect to be revisited by the continii- ous excitement under which, in the carly months of 1895, I wrote tho greater part of my other book, nor indeed could I well sustain it if it came; and It, is best that what l have written should be printed while I am here to see it through the press and control its spelling and punctuation."

A Lovely Lyric.

This iden was thus rendered in verse as an introductionz~

“We'll to the woods no more, The laurels all are cut,

The bowers are bare of bay, That once the Muses wore; The year draws in the day And soon will evening shut; Tho laurels all are cut, We'll to the woods no more. Oh, we'll no more, no more, To the leafy woods away,

Aud the bowers of bay no more." All Gems.

The tendency of any reviewer of

Ri | Does ii Husband retain i at 40, the romance Iic i

knew at 20? Often. But does it lvomnn?

“TIIE DANGEROUS

tinned to lecture on Latin at Cam- -

$53115‘ %i

To the high, wild woods of laurel _

Housman‘ must be to piotc from his poems, and he can only be res- traincd by considerations of spaci- and the reluctance to choose mu- gem above another. There is not in our literature, we believe, un-

tlie first lim- of.

in‘

“The soldier's is the trade:

In any wind and wczitlici-

lic steals the heart of maid

And man together.

The lover and his lass

.Beneatii the hawtlioriio lying,

Have heard the soldiers 1iass,‘

And both are sigiiixig.

Ami (IOWIIVIIIB distance i110)’

With dying note and swelling,

Walk the resounding way,

' To the still tiwelllng." W119" (lid We have ii poet who

1 i‘ iiiittitioii or s...

other pout of such level excl-Ilene»; There is no other poet who t-vt-r,‘ ling-grim" achieved what he has uchievmi 111i morning in il list fight with Arthur timu 111101; his second volume. Ono critic says that it might appear thnt he lizuli fallen asleep tiller lic liatl written?’ the last line of "A Shropshire Lziil“i and waking a generation lzitci‘ had‘ proceeded with I “Last Poems" as though tlic iui0i'-‘ val liad been but of an hour. l-lvi-igv] reader of the volume will have his favorite verses, and It is only tho desperation of having to make, a choice that we select those tlirvc verses as challenging all poetry: