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MONDAY, AUGUST 6, 1928

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will cementum week in m“ province. On WednwlBY B!‘ ggmpqn, the fifty “young ambassa- dors of EmPiW" Wm "d" m Charlottetown and will be 8W9!‘ 5 reception worthy, we trust, o! the occasion and its purlwfle- The 7011118 men and women comprisinl m“ delegation are students seleflfid by examination from several thousands of competitors who were anxious 0° make this tour of inspection. Only those who proved by examination papers that they were intelligent, observant and in ever!’ WRY WmThY- were chosen, and we may feel as- sured that they will observe very closely everything they see and hear. It is of the utmost importance that they should form a good impression of what they see here. Doubtless they will be surprised to see that Prince Edward Island is big enough to walk around on without danger .of falling off into the sea, as the maps of Canada which they have no doubt been fervently study- jng during the past several months, show this Province as a. microscopic spot in the Gulf oi St. Lawrence. It is well that they should see “the Island” and learn for themselves why it is called “The Garden oi the Gulf" and "the Denmark of Cana- da." Their time here will be short

crime, waves waves of discovery and invention, waves of financial excitement and so forth.

out every day, every oceurrelwe l8 immediately recorded. This compar- ed with they days before the tele- phone and the daily press may make the multiplicity oi accidents more apparent than really unusual. Be this as it may, the number of fat- alities in recent weeks has been

startling and shocking.

And the fatal accidents are not confined to any particular locality or country. Our daily news col-

umns are practically filled with re-

ports of fatal accidents. The much abused automobile has

a relatively clean sheet in the mat- ter of accidents. True, it is respon- sible, as might be expected, many oi them, too many in fact. But there are other contributors. the railway, the occasional collision at sea, machinery, etc., etc., take their toll oi human life. With the increase of all of these factors an increase of accidents may beex- pected.

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We speak occasionally of waves of oi religious fervor,

Who can say that waves in all of

these activities is a. myth? Who can say that it is not? It would beuse- less to theorize, useless also to scoff at this idea. We shall do neither here, but thoughtful men andwo-

as they leave by the 6.45 train the‘ men, shocked almost daily by tragic

following morning for Borden en‘ route for Westem Canada. Arrange- ments have been made to drive them around the city and the near-i by country sections during the ail temoon and at night His Honor the Lleutenant-Govemor, with his un-g failing thoughtfulness, has arrang- ed a. reception and dance for them. Another outstanding event oi the; week will be the arrival on Thurs- day evening of Hon. R. B. Bennett and his sister, Miss Bennett. They! will spend Friday in Georgetown} Saturday and Sunday in Charlotte- town, and Monday in Summcrsldc, and will probably drive to other parts of the county. ‘ Their time also will be short, buti the best arrangements possible have been made to enable the people of the Province to meet, see and hear them. Mr. Bennett, through his Parliamentary career at least, is pretty well known, although per- sonally known only to o. compara- tively few oi our people. He is known to be a platform speaker of exceptional ability, a clear thinker, a thorough Britisher and a man who has distinguished himself in . his profession. He has been and is an outstanding figure ln Parlia- ment and in the public life of Can- ada. That his message to the peo- ple oi this Province will be worth hearing goes without saying, and we trust everyone who can possibly do so will make it a point to hear him. ‘ l,“ )1 Miss Bennett, who accompanied her distinguished brother, is spoken of as a lady of charming personal- ity, and she has captivated audi- ences wherever she has spoken. She will speak here and we feel suré she will be heard and seen with pleasure.

. ——-—-<o>i—- WAVE 0F FATALITIES.

IT _would almost appear as if we

were at present at the mercy of_ a wave oi fatalities. The number of deaths by accident in this com-

has boon appalling. There is some consolation in the fact that in no can, with one possible exception. has blame to other: been attached. They were all accidents. pure and liuiplc. In c. small Province like our: the unusual always stand; out Mlllflfl-Iwllv and, possibly, the Province may have had similar ex-

occurrences may well wonder whe-

ther, after all, certain classes of misfortune do not come in waves or epidemics which are beyond hu- man control, but may be influenced by natural causes whereof we know nothing.

TRYING TO FORGET.

UR Liberal friends, in anticipa- tion of the visit of I-Ion. R. B. Bennett. are busily engaged in list- ing things which he is said to have forgotten to mention. The list, giv- en in party colors, is supposed to look fearsome and to the discredit of Mr. Bennett. Naturally there may be topics which Mr. Bennett may have forgotten or did not think worth while mentioning, but one thing the people are assured of, he has not forgotten or neglected any topic or any point for the sake oi misleading or deceiving the public. What our Liberal friends should concern themselves over at present is to remember the things he has not forgotten. There are many questions which he has asked, which they have not yet answered, many statements which he has made which are a strong condemnation oi Liberal policy and Liberal prac- tices. The Liberal Press has not dealt with these and the people are taking note of the fact. It is use- less to try to hoodwlnk the people with reference to what Mr. Bennett has said or may yet say. The people B"! 098111111118 to think for them- selves and Mr. Bennett has set the"! i-hillkinl; as never before.

1mm EDITORIAL NOTES.

Of course, if there were not a few showers during the haymaking 5e3- son there would be nothing to com- plain about. Still, we are getting the hay saved.

Denial and misrepresentation will not alter facts. Intelligent people hi" I- Pfti-i-Y 800d grasp oi the facts, and they are forming their own conclusions.

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Twenty-nine persons were arrest- ed during the month of June for drunkenness in this City. No one

believes for a moment that thts number represents all the drunks for that period. Besides these there

were the not lnconsiderable number who were able to get home on their

pal-lama in tuna plot. Now with atciophons ineveryscctlon ofthc

own power and many of them with

, which anyone in Canada can “make"

Notes by the Way

SOME Ilflhllikllig t have

been Droclaimihl that the Rt. Hon.R.B_.Bennettlscoming to Prince Edward Island "to advocate protection for the manufacturersbf Gw- etown." This may be consid- ered smart, but‘ it really is poor stuff. It should always be borne in mind when considering the econo- mic question that it is the produc- ers‘ interests that deserve first con- sideration. Non-producers, of which there are comparatively few, live ofi’ producers. If there be money to keep professional and commercial men, who are indirect producers, in comfort, or in luxury, it is because the direct producers are having a profitable market for what they pro- duce.

There would be little money here for professional men, business men. bond salesmen, or insurance agents were our farmers to lose the market say, for their pelts or their potatoes. Any day this may happen so long as we are at the mercy of a foreign government and have an insufiici- cntly protected market of our own. 1t is ordinary foresight, ordinary, every-day business precaution to sec that we find an outlet for our produce, not only for today but for tomorrow as weil——hence the 'neces- sity for building up a large coll- suming and producing population within our own economic bound- aries which may be depended upon to provide the market for our pro- ducts, whether they be from the farm or the factory.

At this particular time it may be as well .to recall to our readers a few economic truths which they may ponder over in view of the ap- proaching visit of Mr. Bennett, the Apostle of Home Industries, and the advocate of protection for the farmer, the fisherman as well as the bootmaker, the blanketmaker, the broom-maker, the marine on- glne-maker, and all other local in- dustries.

1. Canada's federal taxes and expenses each amount to about $400,000,000 annually. 2. Canada's expenses under free trade would be the same as under the highest protection, therefore the tariff is not an extra tax, but mere- ly a form of’ taxation that must be lcvled either directly or indirectly. 3. The tariff ls an indirect ionn of collecting revenue, and costs less to collect than direct taxes. 4. The United States tariff is three times as high as that of Canada. 5. Production that takes place in Canada is the only source from

a living. Professional men, bond salesmen, insurance agents, clerks, mechanics, laborers, farmers, all must derive their livelihood from this one source, directly or indirectly.

6. Remittance men and foreign bondholders are the only persons .who live in Canada and do not “make" a living out of domestic production.

7. Everyone is a consumer, but everyone is not a producer, except remittance men and those who live on foreign securities. A Priest or Doctor is as much a producer as a blacksmith. The best proof of this lies in the fact that others pay them for their services.

8. The object of Protection is L0 protect domestic production, tho source from which everyone derives his livelihood. .

9. All consumers are producers, except parasites, spongers and beg- gars. Thereforc, to call a man a consumer and not a‘ producer is to call him one oi these three things.

10. Imports can only be paid for out of the proceeds of domestic pro- duction.

ll. Protection usually results in high wages, and on this continent it ls bound to do so, because United States wages set the standard.

12. If we do not pay reasonable rates of wages we must lose our population.

I3. If we payllnltod States rates of wages we must lose our own mar- ket, unless we protect our wages, and production, as the United States protects theirs.

14. A low nominal wage may be a reasonable real wage in the coun- try where it is paid. The wage is the basis of cost.

15. The United States, with a tariff three times as high as that of Canada, has increased its imports continuously for 100 years.

10. In 1330 the United States had 13.000,000 population, imported $74,- 000,000, and collected 49 per cent. in duty. Now they have 115,000,000 peo- ple, import $4,000,000,000 and collect the highest duty in their history. 11. The United States have made $330,000,000,000 entirely out of their own production.

13. Most of the Unltod States wealth has been produced in the Northem belt. ,_

19. Canada has natural resources equal to those of the United Staten.

very fist tires. Still we are told that

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at par only because of United States

own way, they would bankrupt in- dustry, that directly and indirectly pays 35‘ per cent. of our railroad charges, and 85 per cent. of our taxes: would bankrupt the govern- ment and the railroads and would

finally bankrupt the farmers. does our nominal trade balance.

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duty to talk about the great num- ber of lives that may be saved by the simple "prone pressure" method of resuscitation. _

The three great emergencies that require this treatment are drown- 1H8. electrical shock, and gas pols- oning.

The use of this method of resus- citation in cases of electric shock has proved of tremendous value, and the‘ Engineering Committee of the Conference on Electric Shock is able to show that, of 265 cases of electric shock in which the prone Pressure method of resuscitation was carried out, the victims lived in 200 instances. This amounts to 76 per cent.

Now. although you can learn the method and actually try it out on someone in two or three minutes, nevertheless if you do not take that two or three minutes to learn how to do it, you may stand idly by some time: and see a fellow-being die, when you might have saved him. The Journal of the American Medical Association tells us that 525,000 persons are being instruct- ed annually in this method in the

Thus with the great increase in the use of electricity there is this increase in the knowledge of how to treat these cases.

Although I have described this method more than once before, I do so again because it is so simple that a ten-year-old child can use it, and as mentioned above, takes about two or three minutes to learn. ‘

The patient ls placed faced down- wards on the ground, and you get busy immediately.

To start patient breathing again, put yourself astride the patients body in a kneeling position facing his head. Kneeling on one side is all right if the patient is too big for you to kneel astride.

Placing your hands flat in the small oi’ his back, with thumbs near- ly touching and the fingers spread out on each side of the body over the lowest ribs, lean forward, and steadily let the weight of your body to fall over on them, and so produce a firm downward pressure, which must not be violent.

Immediately thereafter swing backward, rapidly releasing the pres- sure, but without lifting the hands from the patients body. Repeat this forward‘ and ‘backward movement (pressure and relaxation of pres- sure) every four or five seconds. Keep this up until natural respir- ations are resumed. If they tend to fall, the process must be repeated. So this is all there is to it, press- ing on patients back at the short ribs, twelve to sixteen times amin- ute. ' Try it out on somebody. and let somebody try it out on you. You will thus get an excellent idea of how air can be pressed out, and drawn into, the lungs.

tectlon, build up great industries. for which they have to import all the raw material.

21. The United States manufact- urcs ‘l5 per cent. of all the silk and rubber goods in the world, but does not grow silk or rubber.

22. The United States has had a legal and banking system inferior to ours. They have had a negro question and a civil war, but in spite of these drawbacks Protection has brought them wealth, prosper- ity and population.

23. Canada has debts. municipal provincial, national and outside, amounting to $8,000,000,000, being the greatest debtor nation per capi- ta of all time.

24. Canada's outside debts amount to $612.00 per capita.

Z5. Canada's total debts amounrt to $940 per caplta.

26. Canada buys $200,000,000 worth of goods on mortgages every year from the United States. The goods go on the rubbish heap in a few months or years, but the mort- gages go on forever, and it is this process that is drawing us towards bankruptcy.

27. Canada's trade policy has thrown her into debt in 10 years more than the Great War cost her. 28. Fanncrs cannot make a living selling to farmers. they must scll to towns and cities.

Z9. 300,000 farmers‘ customers have been driven out of Canada in one year by lowering the tariff.

30. Every person driven out of Canada increases the taxes and rail- road deficits for those who are left. 31. Canada buys more agricul- tural products irom the United States than she sells to the United States, owing to our low tariff and the United States’ high turii.

32. The Canadian dollar is kept

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purchases of our securities. which ls increasing our financial servitude. and, if continuedwlll impoverlsh us. 33. If the free traders had their

34. As smuggling increases so

35. Sectional Ind lelflsh politi-

lnventive skill under tariff pro-

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MAY SAVE A LIFE At least once a year I feel it my

New Heights in American Architecture

(hmdeuscd from the Yale Review, (July. ifl-i-llnrvcy Wiley Corbett.

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Each year brings a crop of taller buildings, and, since no one enjoys seeing walls tumble down, everyone wants to know how tall a building can be. The sky is the limit. It is safe enough for buildings to go high- er. Only they must never losetheir usefulness. for if a. building does not serve the purpose for which it was intended, it is architecturally bad no matter how splendid it seems.

For six thousand years Egypt, in building, had only one structural principle-the post and lintel; Greece, following, used the same structural principle, though with a refineme ‘ of detail that has never since been equalled; Rome intro- duced the masonry arch in combin- ation with the post and lintel; and until fifty years ago, in spite of all its changing styles, these were the only structural principles employed. Then came steel, with its skeleton construction, permitting the piling up of storeys to great heights; and the machine, allowing the erection ln one year of structures surpassing in extent those that resulted from centuries of slave labor. »

It is fortunate that size can be achieved more practically by piling masses up than by spreading them out. The vertical is always more at- tractlve than the horizontal; it pro- duces an effect of slendemess that is more pleasing. We wear vertical stripes in our clothes. but when we want ugly uniforms for convicts, we have broad horizontal stripes. In building, man has always been fas- cinated by the majesty and pleasing lift of high buildings. In the Go- thic, dcsigned to raise all eyes to Heaven, he realised his ideal with marvelous feats of engineering. When architects with steel at their ‘command first designed tall build- ings, they turned, naturally enough, to Gothic, which they adapted as best they could and with some re- markable results. But when Gothic is merely slavishly copied, it ls cold and uninspiring, Moreover, Gothic, being primarily an ecclesiastl al style, is not expressive of industrial structures.

When architects had found time to study their problem, they .trled to evolve design in character with the new building structure (steel skele- ton). with the new ‘proportions (vertical masses), and with the new purposes (commercial enterprises.) The steel skeleton is a thing of straight lines and right angles, and American architects now attempted to keep the facings and masses of their buildings truetothe structure underneath. Verticallty was empha- sized; masses were made symmet- rical; the whole was treated simply. The best examples of the new architecture carry the eye upward as inevitably as the avails of a cathedral; yet they are lacking in much embellishment und arestrict- ly considerate of the prrtctlnll re- quirements oi tho building as re- gards natural lighting and conscr- vation of space. The building ril-es in a series of simply sculptured masses crowned by iill nslzirillg pin- nacle. The clcall lines and simplic- ity of such structures are imposing; their monumental proportions re- flect contemporary society whose extent surpasses any other.

The machine ls tile outstanding tool of the period. Nevertheless it is still to be so directed that its artistic possibilities may be develop- ed. Its function ls mt merely to manufacture 1I1'it3;'lil|5 that appcsr to be what they are not-like rub- ber simulatlng marble; but mach- ines can give materials fresh and native beauty as raslly as they can produce gaudy counterfcits. Design- ers are more and more considering forms in terms of their stwctural function and the machines that will shape the material.

The Telephone Building is the most interesting modern building in New York because the designers ap- proached their problem by thinking what could be done in terms of con- struction and machinery of today, and by giving to each material the form, decoration. and color dlstlllct- ly its own. That spirit was curried throughout the construction. In matters of detail, the old-fashioned cornice practically disappeared, for, when raised 20 stories, it ‘neant no- thing. The marble work, instead of being cut in piiasters with flutes carefully chiselled out, was so dc- signed that machines could shape it. In the Middle Ages, the designers worked with the tools available. The modem architect must do tile same, if his work is to be indigenous to this period.