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Anoolnto Editor-D. K. Onrrl

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1926

THE EXHIBITION.

The Provincial Exhibition opens on Tuesddy and all preparations for a successful show and a good time have been completed.

The great attraction no doubt! will, as usual, be the horse races. Everybody loves a horse race and almost everybody who attends an exhibition keeps the race track in view. Between-heats attractions of more than usual promise have been provided so, that the whole period of theraclng will be very enter- talningly enjoyed.

A Mldwayof exceptional attractive- ness and amusement will be a bill.

and old. The educational features will of

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course not he lost sight of. farmers of the province. the fisher- men. the dairymen, the mechanics.

be the best that the province can produce. This will be the island's greatest advertisement; will enable our neighbors ot‘ other provhiccs to see what "The island" can do and there is good reason’ to believe that our people will have no cause to complain in this respect.

The Provincial Exhibition is a provincial duty as wcll ns a ‘provin-i cial privilege. It is OU'RS anti WI.‘ owe it to ourselves to make it the best/possible. City and country nrc alike interested. alike to be profit- ed, owe it to themselves and :o cach other to make the 1926 Exhi- bition the best yet hcid. lfniess our stock and fit-id products arc better this year than in previous years. the inference is that we have not made the progress we should have made. it has been the unthi- tlon of the managing committee of all exhibitions to make each years show better than the preceding one and, generally speaking, this has been achieved. It is expected that this year's show in every line will be an advance over previous ones.

The success the Exhibition

will depend largely upon the entitli-

of

siusm the people will put into it. The weather. of course, will also have something to do with it, but even if the weather should be un- favorable. and there is no reason to fear it. a willing and enthusias- tic people can make it a success.

Everybody that is anybody, from all points in the province and from our sister provinces will he at this year's Exhihition—or tiught to b-;~. 1'l‘he occasion will make ll. grand holiday, friends, of general‘ enjoyment. Let everyone think and talk Exhibition from now tlll it is all over, and lt

a time of rc-unlon of

will -be the success it ought to be.

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‘POLITICAL FORGIVENESS.

it is an old saying tlial. the [sib- erals arc anti-nrotectlonists out of office and protectionists when in office. The fact that an outof-ofllce policy should secure success atthe polls is not either to those who take advantage of it or to those who become the victims of it. But the fact must be admitted thut the electorate influenced

creditable

is

more by profession than by per- formance, more by promises of fut-

ure favors than by the fulfilment of past promises. in the political world the past rarely provides a guide for future action. A party may, in a previous existence, have broken every commandment ln the dccalogue and every pro-election pro- mise; it may have permitted the trea- sury to the robbed and rewarded those who robbed it with senatornhip and other emoluments; but if it de- nies having done so and declares

passed away and Autumn is here. The The ground is strewn with leaves; the grayncss that betrays old age has fallen upon field

point has been browsing for sugar.

The rich, ripc tints of cornficlds

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conditions attached. which. if not fulfilled, make the forgiveness im- One of these is repent- ance. in the political world this condition Simple and repeated denial, denial repeat- ed uiitll it fairly blisters with suined indignation and protests vof absolute and unadulterated inno-

possible.

is exacted.

fllSr

eence, will do the trick almost ev- ery time.

_ Consideration of these and slini- lar paradoxes in the political world. led a worthy and astute politician to remark “The people is a queer

lDeny it as we may, Summer has

seat members elect have

1 Notes ‘by the Way

Thorn are current reports of cor- rupt practices throughout Canada, in the recent election. How far these reports are true we do not know, ‘but the reports are wide spread. This is not a new thing, but there is reason to fear that the evil has increased ln recent years. ‘Some election observers are quoted as saying that there is a marked in- crease not only in the number of electors, both men and women. who frankly demand a price for their votes but thllt the price has ad- vanced five-fold in the years since the war.

Of course, each party blames the

other as an equal or greater sinner.

This might occur if only one ‘party were guilty. And yet no candidate who is not very imprudent would‘ personally violate the law against

corrupt practices except under se- crecy.

in such case if proven guilty in court he would not only forfeit his seat but would be disqualified.

This has very rarely occurred in Canada.

in many more instances mem- hers have been unaeated for cor-

fewer in recent years. in the first place the petitioner must make a large deposit in the election court as security for costs in the event of fuilure to unseat the member

and forest:

‘and

show that cold near the freezing 11101111111’ against whom a petition is pending

"A haze on the far horizon.

The infinite tender sky. And the wild geese sailing high;

And all over upland and lowland The charm of the golden rod;

Some of its cull it Autumn. And others call it God."

‘immi- EDiTORlAL NOTES.

‘ l Thc cud of another week and it, was a hectic one, and at hock of at one. for the Conservatives and for»

the country.

(if the Rt. lion. Arthur Meighen

King it ltas been said publicly anti privately that the former is truth- ful and honest.

Arc the Progressives who are go- ing to help Mr. Mackenzie King form a government any more Lib- eral with the prefix Liberals titan they were when they were just plain Progressives? ls there any more chance ofa stable government con- sisting of three ‘brands of Progres- sives, Labor, independent and pre- sumably ‘straight’ Liberals. ls there anything to prevent some of them jumping the fence?

lt is a distinct credit to Charlot- tetown that such splendid audi- ences greeted the Master Interpre- ter of Scottish ‘Song on Thursday and Friday evonlitgs. Such singing as Mr. l-ieughan and such playing as Miss Sayer treated them to arc not often to be repeated and their audiences heard with regret that they are not likely to he here again

within five years;

We have said that the outcome is not one on virhichlthe country is to be congratulated. says the Tor- onto Mall and Empire. Tiiore is in it no bright promises for stable government. We cannot see that it settles any of the questions that awaited settlement. A policy of tariff ‘protection that can -be depend- producers the

At worst this clectionimeans no more than that establishment of such n policy is deferred. It is bound to come. Has not the country gone through stifli-

ed upon by our country must have.

clent tribulation to prepare lt for setting up such a policy? if not, it will have to bide its time a little longer. suffer a .furtlier continuance of the drain upon its population, and bear some months or years more the subjection of its home foreign competitors. These experiences will finally do their work, and the country will come to the one remedy that can

market to

that all its acte were for the ‘glory of God and the good of its country, its past is forgotten and it in given another chance.

(Forgiveness is a divine instltu-l tion and a virtue that should be'

save its national life. There is a grave situation. it remains to be seen whether out of conflicting ele-

Iments can come a combination of

Canadians capable of taking the affairs of their country in hand and

‘shall also

session, the member sits in the llouse and draws his- sossional indemnity. And in the

third place comes what is common-

lyspoken of us the "saw-off.“ ‘

Suppose that petitions have been entered against one or more Con- scrvtitlvc and Liberal mcntbers. those ‘members are mutually desir- ous to avoid litigation and to linld the seats to which they have been clccted. Then by agreement" the Liberal petition agaiist Brown lll

1011c county is dropped on condition sition redlllfes

that the Tory petition againstJones be dropped and both members retain their seats undis- turbed. That is what is callcd a “szuv-off." 1

There have been cases in which

the chance of being unsealed for bribery by agents. knowing that- with human nature as it is the ‘pur- chaseof votes is considered as only a venial offence and that his re- election ls assured." A candidate who spends his money freely amonl-‘f the voters at election times, whetli- er legally or otherwise, is always popular for the time.

When the ballot was introduced in elections fifty or sixty years ago, many good people hoped that it would operate as a check upon clectofal corruption. That hope has not been realized. in many n close election the purchased votes de- cide the contest, and this well-

- known fact has added to the temp-

tation 0f politicians. The large iii- deinnity of $4,000 paid to members of Parliament has ttlso tended to increase the number oi those who want to hc paid for their vnttds and the price they (ifillliillti. '

stricter laws. higher penalties and firmer enforcement of such laws to secure electoral purity are obviously needed. But how are such laws and such enforceinenttn be obtained? If one party were to set up a claim to ‘-be holler than un- other in such matters would not its

Politicians make our laws and they have left some loop-hole in overy ‘law pertaining to elections.

There ls a corrupt element in every electoral division in Canada. and an equally corrupt and cor- rupting clement in every Parlia- ment the people elect. We are far from saying that this element is equally divided between parties. \Ve have our own opinion about that. 'But this element in Parliament and among the electors do not want stricter election laws, or het- ter enforcement of such law's. or of existing election laws. They do not want the loopholes of escape closet] up. Under pressure they will amend the election laws, and have amended them in the past by clos- lng up one loop-ltole and opeping another.

And yet, generally speaking, the people have about n good a Par- liament as they deserve. Democracy is yet on its trial. There lsagrow- lng conviction that the voting fran- chise hns been fur too widely ex- tended. but the gift once bestowed cunnot he recalled. No Parliament would dare attempt to recall it.

There are electoral division: In Canada In which barely 50 per cent of the qualified electors voted on

practised to the extreme llmlt,biit"lll11Y1"R w them "10 ‘"11" 1"'"°"1~..e.<tey an. That s0 per 080L111-

ovnn in its divine form there are

pics of nntloiinl economy.

chided nearly all the purclutsenble unfortunate condmons in “M”, ‘El; of p930; Qt 5 v9” 2&4"! er'e non, lMr. 1B. it. Iloopor.

pretensions be laughed to scorn? 1

What $0112 of Quilts

flying: W.Bqrlno.M.D I WHY PHYSICIANS Q0 NOT LlVE LONG.

The United States Registration Bureau tells us that the general death rate 0f all classes is now about 12 to the 1000 every year, but that the death rate for physi- cians is 17 to the 1000. in 1880 the general death rate was 20 to the 1000, but in reducing it to 12, the physicians have not made a good record as far as their own lives are concerned.

Why is it that physicians have such a high death rate, when they

iknow more about how to preserve

health and to prevent and cure disease than any other class?

The natural inference is that it ‘is contact with the sick that causes the trouble. because they spend their lives in the midst of all kinds of infection. ln all the epidemics that come along the physician works with patients in their homes and in the hospitals. Yet records show us that it is not these acute

thing." And he was right. mp, practice‘ by the" aqenm Bu! lngectlons that carry physicians o . <" for several reasons actions‘ to iin- I remelnber one hon-Una] during AUTUMN become

the 1Fiu epidemic in 1918 where nearly two thousand patients were treated. There were thirty physi- clans in attendance every (lay, some of whom. treating the Flu-pneu- monia patients, worked night and day and yet only two of their

elect. Secondly, as Parliament tisu- 11111111181" wcre stricken with Flu, and V v ally moets very shortly after a gell-

will show their best and this will mm‘ 5111351103 or Scarlet m nwicrnl election. and election trials ' green of the trees

their stay in bed was about four days each. What are the ailments that carry offunost physicians?

1116 11111$luri- suspended tluring the Parlia- They m-e hear; (itsease and pneu.

monia.

This is explained, and rightly l believe. by a writer in one of our medical journals. He tells us that when a patient has heart trouble he is put to bed, and freed as far as possible from worries

‘and anxieties but. the doctors hav-

ing trouble with his heart. still sticks to his post and is lost in his care for others.

Fuutiier, if he should have any other infection, no feels that his duties call him to them, and that he gets out of his sick bed sooner than he would permit a patient to get up.

As you know the iyillg down po- only one-fifth as much work from the heart as does the actual getting around to visit tiatieiits.

And a weak heart is t1 real liabil- ity when pneumonia comes along. Oi‘ course the remedy is with the physicians ‘ihcmselves.

Statistics tell them the story, which they know only too well.

and the Rt. lion. W. L. Mackenzie i1 candidate has dcllberiwl! 73°94 The 1055.011 rm- ym, um] me is the

same old one. and that is to get to bed it‘ we find temperature and pulse up. and to stay there iintll they come down, and stay flown. ‘ +o+oo Daily Selections FOR Guardian Readers

VO-I-I-v-O f

September 18, 1926

COD KNOWS M‘E—“TiliJ1l Lord God. knowest Thy servant." 2 Sam, 7:20.

BEAVER-l) 110111. Thou knowest my down-sitting and mine uprising, and understandest my thoughts.

September 19, 1926 THERE ‘IS BUT ONE GOD— "Thou are great, () Lord God, for there is none like Thee, neither is there any God besides "ffhee." 2 Sam. 7:22.

l’.ltAY-Elt~“t) givn thanks unto 1110 1111111; to llim Who itlone (tooth great wonders.“

HASTY WORDS Full oft a word that lightly loaves the tongue. Another's breast unconsciously has wrung; And were the wound but present to the eye. We'd mourn the pain ‘that solace might defy.

Was it a taunt-perhaps a thought- less ‘jest?

An idle ripple on the vacant breast?

But thy shafts may yield a venom- ed death.

What. need, to speed them. but a

‘f. avian

Happenings of .'l‘he. Week Queen MaryTtr-jolned the an- tique-hunters.

to the lure of things that are old. and now frequently visits out. of the

praielngdthe age of furniture and furnishings that are offered. With Princess Mary-Viscountees Las- ceiles-Queen Mary suddenly des- cended on the shop of rs. Shaun, here, on Royal Parade. When the Queen emerged sometime later, she had purchased two pieces of an- tique French furniture. a pair of French candlebrae, an old Chinese carved ivory figure, an old painted tea caddy, an old glass hanging lan- tern, an old Chinese ink vase, a crystal chandelier, two blue wedge- wood vases. a Florentine bronze candlestick andaChinese jade ele- phant and monkey. Princess Mary came out of Mrs. Shaun's shop with an old needlework fire screen, a Chinese agate bottle, a Chinese rose quartz Buddha and a white agate bottle as her purchases. Vis- count Lascelles contented himself with buying an old grandfather clock and a green ash tray. I I I - .

Rev. E. L. Tuck and bride of La- Have. N.S., who are here on their honeymoon, are being very cordial-

ly welcomed. I I

lMiss Bingham, 0f Ottawa, who has been the guest of Miss Eileen Longwortli, returned home on Thursday.

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The early departure of Rev. (l. S. Mitchell untFMrs. Mitchell. of Sum. moi-side, for their new home in St. Stephen, N.B., is looked forwarl to with deep regret by their wide circle of friends throughout the PTOVHICE.

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Miss iBerna l-lucstis was ltostcss yesterday afternoon at a iniscel- luneous shower in honor of Miss (‘tmsttint-e WVliear, when about thir- ty of the younger people gathered for the happy event. The gifts were presented in a most original manner from a centre piece on the lovely tea table. the color scheme being in white and yellow. ..\lrs. F. l3. Conrad poured ten and was assisted in dispensing hospitality by Miss Davida Baker. bliss Doro- thea Stewart, Miss Dora Mathiesoii, Miss Marlon Whear, and Miss lillicen Longworth.

I I Miss Edith Brown, who has been renewing friendships here, has gone to Sydney on a short visit be- fore returning to New York.

I I I lllr. Adam Andrew. President of the Shasta hliifcral Water Co., of San Francisco, leaves this morning on return to his home after an eu- joyahle visit to his native province. Mr. Andrew has never lost touch with the island, notwithstanding that it ls upwards of forty years since he left for the ‘States. lt will be recalled, that .\lr. Andrew re- cently presented the city of Char- lottetown with the old and valuable Dfllntlng of the old market and sur- 1‘0111111111B8. i1 Picture which included old iSt. Paul's Church, Queen St.. and tiio Market Square. an historic and artistic heirloom which the citizens appreciate and will cherish. At the last meeting of tho City Council, Mr. Andrew was formally presented with the -Frecdont ofthe City by HlsWorshlp ‘Mayor Miller on behalf of the City Council, and his name will thus be forever asso- ciated with Charlottetown on the Roll of honored and distinguished hurgcsses. Mr. Andrew talces an active and personal interest in many of the city's institutions, and ls especially interested in the P. E. Island Protestant Orphanage, oi which he has been a frequent visit- or since ‘his advent to the Island

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She has succumbed

way shops and ancient. cottages. ap-

arranged shower at Smith's home, when Mrs. emltlr d Miss Edna Gordon were joint hoe- tesees. The miscellaneous xlfte showered on the P09111111’ 1'0"“ bride were examined amid Bales of laughter and £0011 "151165- "lid dainty refreshments were served before good-byes were said- > I I I

Mr. William l-leughan, the noted Scottish singer. and his accompan- ist, Miss Gladys Sayer. 011 111811‘ return visit to this city are receiv- ing a cordial welcome. ‘Major and Mrs. K. S. Rogers met the talent- ed artlets at. Borden and after their performance at the Strand invited a numlber of friends to their home for a social hour, which was very

pleasantly spent. I

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The ladies of Zion Church enter- tained at a social hour after the induction service on Wednesday ev- enlng, giving everyone a delight- ful opportunity to meet their new pastor, Rev. ‘M. Scott Fulton, who was cordially welcomed bya large number of citizens besides the con- gregatlon.

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Invitations to their biajesfles King George and Queen Mary, to visit Canada next year in connec- tion with the mprojected diamond jubilee celebration of Confedera- tion throughout the Dominion will

m, we w’

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