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SATURDAY, JUNE 27, 1931

. Vote Them Out!

To prove that it squandered mon- ey on the McIntyre highway, the 14:3 Government, according to yes- terday's issue of the Liberal organ. is going to build the same kind of highway on the St. Peter's Road at half the cost! This demonstration is surely unnecessary. The taxpay- ers have had too many evidences of the Rakes’ Progress that is be- ing made in the Public Works De- partment. Moreover, the order-in- counsel increasing the gasoline tax to six cents a gallon speaks for it.- uu. '

The astounding statement that

the Lea Government, in tearing‘ in m tmmmdmls “ski the“ “mlwhile the House joined in the mirth.

up the already well gravelled high- way on the St. Peter's Road to build a costlier highway for auto speeders, is doing so under the Federal Government's highway pol- icy, shows to what lengths political propaganda can go. The Federal Government's highway policy has not yet been put into effect. How then can the Lea Government be taking advantage of it? It is true that this Province will share in the benefits of that policy, but by that time the Lea-McIntyre-Clark com- bination, politically, will be dead and buried. The fact is that the Lea Government is mort- nging every farm in the Province. borrowing money right and left Ind spending it like drunken sail- flrl, in the frantic hope of making I showing in its Public Works De- partment that might compensate. in some measure, for its miserable fail- an to implement its prohibition Inforcemant pledges, and for the scandals resulting from that fail- ure which are now so evident, both in city and country, that no decent supporter of the Liberal party can speak of them without shame and humiliation.

And these are the politicians who went to the country in 1019, oppos- ing the Arsenault Government's proposal to take advantage of the Dominion Government's highway policy, damning it as "an infernal scheme" and appealing to the peo- ple with the slogan: “Vote out a Government that is attempting to bribe the people with their own money by spending thousands on the ‘roads Just before an election"!

Welcome Delay/ales

Charlottetown as city is establishing a reputation which, i0 is hoped, ulli be further enhanced as a result of the im- portant gathering here next week of the Catholic Women's League of Canada. This will be the eleventh annual convention of the organiza- tion, and will be representative oi Catholic women in all the Provinces, Questions of child welfare, immi- gration.

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education, social service vital matters will be discussed, and the moi-tings will be followed with great interest in the press in all parts of the Do- Iilnion. Since its organization in i020 the Catholic Women's League liar. done much to stimulate effort in all lines of women's work. The League has alp- proximatcly 30.000 members. 12,-, national executive is drawn from “every diocesan board, and in this way an unbroken line ol communi- cation with individual mcmborg is maintained. The League is now established in twenty-nine dioceses inflanada and in 192 Ccnirvs spread over these dioceses. It is pnrt of a world-wide movement of Catholic womanhood under the banner-oi tho International Union of Catho- lic Women's Leagues, representing 34 countries with 55 Leagues, whose combined membership is 25,000,000. The delegates who will. convene in Charlottetown next week will be usurd of a hearty welcome from all classes of our citizens. Many of them will doubtless be visiting the hovlnca for the first time, and it is to be hoped that their stay will

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Two Possibilities

Mr. Edwin L. James, 151103163"-

correspondent for The New York Times, has been in Russia lately- lln a series of uncensored articles "which he is sending from E0513!“ Qhe throws a great deal of interest- iing light on the Soviet situation. According to him, that one l)" lcent o; m» population which holds ithe other 99 per cent. in subjection 515 approaching a critical period in i,“ despotic regime. He says that if

the Moscow Government succeeds l,“ 11,5 gigantic Communistic plan, iall the capitalistic countries on iearth will pay the price. If it fail-S

be a counter-revolution and per- haps a turning of the Soviet Re- publics to sane democracy.

Speed Photography

Until the advent of motion pic- tures. no one knewnefinitely how, for instance, a horse gallopcd. Snap- shots were, of course, available, but the full continuity oi motion could not be observed. While this fact is of purely theoretical interest to the hundreds of thousands of persons in the world who are not interested in how a horse passes the finishing post so long as he gets there ahead of the others, it had intense inter- est for scientists.

With the advent of slow motion moving pictures which are taken with high speed cameras at the rate of about 250 pictures per second, great progress was made, and some at- tempt could also be made in study- ing bird flight, But the movements of birds were again so rapid that even the slow motion camera failed to record their filght accurately enough.

Now, however, Messrs. Magnan of the French Academy of Science, have invented a camera which Ls capable of 2,000 to 3,000 exposures per second. At a demonstration

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the wing-beats of birds and insects were clearly seen. In one film of a blow-fly in flight. the wing-beats, _90 per second, were easily counted, and the process is ‘expected to be of considerable value in studying the acre-dynamics of ‘natural flight and its application to aviation. Four sets of lenses are used. each covering a quarter of the film band. They are opened and closed by n revolving shutter, and 2,400 exposures have been attained _0n nine feet oi illm. it is believed, by 115ml! a ‘wider film, the number of exposures per raised to 10,000.

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Unemployment Insurance

A London despatch tells that Britainfis scheme of ilnemployment insurance (the dole) is now $400,- lemmas in (ivlli, fillfi um it is going further into dbl); at (he rate of 05.000000 a wrwk.

Canadians who talk lightly about Canada adopting a policy of un- employment insurnnce might study {hf-iii fillurcs. This country, con- "Pivilbly. could get along with con. "'ihl11°l'.'»' insurance; insurance, that is, that would be contributed i” bY "mlll-“ivclfli. cmlvloves and G0\- "rmlmm "like; but a scheme of non- Cmllliblllfify insurance would be mMmP-‘s- I" i‘ llcrlod of depression, it would be a. terrific drain on the treasury. ‘

Editorial N019;

The Len Government may get by in its own Prohibition Court but; the electors will soon have the op. lmrtunlty of sitting as judges and jury.

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A British pl. sician describes a kiss as "the result oi two sets of cellular emotional vibrations which attract each other and become har- moniously merlzed into a rich chord

‘rams av THE WAY

Unless Mr. Bennett i: vcf! "R" fully dissembling his motives say! the N. Y. Herald 'I‘ribilne retali-! 5.11011 plays a distinctly minor ‘role! in the present revision. It is true, that many American exports i0‘ Canada are adversely affected b)‘ schedules, but u; ‘s a question n her he would not have intro- ,d d them substantially in the game form had our own tariff 18W failed of passage. The logic of the economic situation in his 600""? demands 1 greater measure of 91'0- tection. though probably the D0911- larity of nu rrlicy is in Pm d“? to the example set in Washington.

Silent contempt ls perhaps the most crushing reply that can be lgiven to a bombastic speech. When a good-natured smile is added t0 the silence, it is doubly crushing. This was the reply given by Premier Bennett toihe four hours tirade delivered by Mr. Mackenzie King at the close of the budget debate, There was nothing in the speech worth replying to and the Prime Minister smiled good-naturedly

It was four hours worse than wast- ed by the voluble Mr. King and he has not seen the joke yet. The country, however, has seen it, and lvfr. King will yet see it.

A wayward person, says an ex- change, indifferent to the safety oi people who cannot protect them- selves from him is as dangerous as the criminal with a. gun and not as respectable. He should be subject- ed to the punishment given the criminal. One of the greatest out- rages society can permit is that in- nocent people keeping within the law and usage oi the road should be smashed into the grave or the hospital, killed or crippled for life and injured financially by the wan- ton act oi a driver who made them the victims of his own indifference and recklessness,

It is admitted that there is no possibility of the re-estabiishment of the Imperial throne in Germany so long as the exile oi Doom lives. But such papers as the Lokal An- zciger, which is the Berlin organ of the monarchlst party, assume a hopeful tone as to the prospect of being able to nominate the ex- Crown Prince for the presidential office, this programme being cu- phemistlcally described as "an im- portant milestone in the post-war developments of this country." May- b so. Prince Louis Napoleon ef- fected a famous and dramatic coup detat in 1851- But that was eighty years ago, and a great deal of water has flowed under the bridge since then.

Soviet Russia is purchasing pedi- greed cattle in the United King- dom and skilled workers are being sent to London by the hundreds to learn details of foreign industry and commerce. Evidently the U.S.S.R. is determined t0 make its citizens as efficient as those of hitherto more progressive lands and is proceeding along systematic lines. It will be interesting to see if the Russian character is equal to the transformation.

Never before in the history of England have so many thousands of young men and women set out every week-end to tramp the woods and highlands of the north or the plains and river valleys of the south as do today. One would have im- agined that as motoring became" more popular, walking would be- come less. But the very opposite is the case. Motoring has brought a new love for the Joys of the coun- try into the hearts of city dwellers. and those who are unable to taste of them by cur are determined to do it on foot. It is stimatcd that there are now 2,500,000 regular hikers in Great Britain, and a. Na- tional League of Hikers, complete with an official song, has been formed to look after their affairs. The movement is as popular among women as among men. A Glasgow firm put a women's hiking uniform on the market recently, and sold 16,000 of the outfit in a. few days.

A Toronto physician believes that there are altogether too many sur- gical operations performed and that the Civic Health Department should endeavor to keep records cl all op- erations, with the idea of checking those needlessly or improperly per- formed. Such statistics would be invaluable both to the profession and the general‘ public if they could be accurately compiled and made easily accessible to people in need of medical treatment.

The conditions north and south of the Tweed differ entirely, says the Duke of Montrose in the Spec- tator, London, and history has continually shown the necessity of separate legislation to meet the varied circumstances. Celt and Bax- on have independent ways of look- ing at things; and while their in-

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SUGAR AND CANDY HOOD FOR

CHILDREN

I sometimes wonder if doctors and dentists in their endeavor to save the teeth of children by advising them to eat less sugar and fewer sweets are really being quite fair to the growing child.

Now that candy or sweets eaten at various times may interfere with the natural appetite must be admit- ted. That where there is an inherit- ed tendency to tiny cracks in the enamel of the teeth it is agreed that excessive use of candy might be un- ‘. wise.

However for a youngster to be de- prived of a fair amount o! sugar with his meals, and allowed no candy whatever, is in the opinion of some of our research men, a big mstake.

Dr. A. A. Osman, LOHGOH,’ Eng- land, tells us that the strong liking youngsters have for sugar and candy is probably due to the need of sugar i0: the body's needs.

'I‘he activity of the child and his enormous output of energy made it necessary that he have plenty of fuel or food, and that food must be readily digested and made use of b)‘ the body.

And there is no food just as good as sugar because it is digested and made use of in the blood, in a short- er time than any other food.

One of the symptoms noticed in a

child that doesn't get enough sugar is vomiting or so called bilious at- tacks. The underlying causes bring- ing on the. attacks were mental fatigue and excitement, infection, and physical exhaustion. In the majority of cases it was possible to prevent such attacks altogether if sufficient sugar were added to the diet. A child that was "tired" all the time, pale, nervous, drooping, list- less, headaches, fiabbiness, fainting attacks, and constipation was not getting enough sugar, in the opin- ion oi Dr. Osman. '

He suggests lemonade containing two or three teaspoonfuls of sugar to each cup, bread and butter sand- wiches with brown sugar, plenty of syrup, honey and jam, and boiled sugar candies, as good methods of getting more sugar into the young- ster.

Another point that must not be forgotten is that although sugar or candy is a starch nevertheless candy is so easily absorbed into a liquid that the salvia or digestive juice of the mouth soon takes it oiI the teeth. -

' I have always felt that the sugar stick, the slice of bread and butter and brown sugar, or the chocolate bar, is a good thing afterschool for the youngster playing outdoors. It gives energy with which to play. -

FROM "SONG"

I know a little garden-close

Set thick with lily and red rose, Where I would wander if I might From dewy dawn to dewy night, And have one with me wandering.

And though within it no birds sing, And though no pillard house is there, And though the apple boughs are bare Of fruit and blossom, would to God, Her feet upon the green grass trod, And I behold them as before.

There comps a murmur from the shore, And in the place two fai: streams are, ‘ Drawn from the purple hills afar, Drawn down unto the nestless sea; The hills whose flowers ne'er fed the bee, ‘ ‘ The shore no ship has ever seen, __ Still beaten by the billows green, Whose murmur comes unceasingly Unto the place for which I cry. —Wiiiiam Morris.

ment would make for greater effic- iency in the domestic legislation of the two muntries. I do not believe that the great majority of Scottish people have any sympathy with the gushing sentmentality which seeks to throw back times to the '45, or the days of the Cavaliers. Nor is them any support for the suggestion of separation from Engianckor for the maintenance of an independent Army. Navy and Foreign Office service. But there is a very real opinion in favour of devolution of government, which will give to the Scottish people the right to manage with full responsibility their own

‘ THE CHARLOTTETOWN GUARDIAN

l Reminders l

and Reviews

We are told that imagination is‘ ry w success in the arts. but Velasquez, one of Spain’! $835955 painters, seemed to have been lack- ing in that quality- He painted real life Just as he saw it, selecting with equal impartiality models of beauty or ugliness; he was probab- ly the first realist in his lino. Hi8 portrayal of facts without embel- lishment makes his portraits of the Spanish court between i624 and i660 of great historical value. For the greater part of his life he was attached to the court of Philip the fourth of Spain. and a warm friendship existed between the king and his artistic biographer. It is said that Philip always carried a key to the studio of Velasquez and went there daily for distraction and relaxation. This romantic at- tachment gave the painter prom- inence apart from hLs art, and pro- bably influenced tha nature of his achievement in painting.

In a period and country exclusive- ly religious in artistic attainments Velasquez painted portraits, histor- ical scenes, and mythology. His two

outstanding religious works are "Crucifixion," and "Nativity", in the Prado Gallery, Madrid. His

"Crucifixion" has been compared 00 “a beautiful ivory crucifix on a background of dark velvet." Cold and serene, the passlonless portray~ al that one might expect from such a matter-of-fact nature.

Many of his portraits are painted against backgrounds of trees and streams. One, the young Prince Balthasar Carlos in hunting cos- tume, has a marvellous study of sky and mountains, proving that Velasquez could have specialized in landscape as well as portrait work.

We are told that every artist re- veals himself in his work; that in all artistic achievements, music, sculptor, poetry, or painting, we glimpse the soul of the worker, but in the art of Velasquez there is no key to the man himself. Nor does he go below the surface in his models; their cold faces tell noth- ing of their souls.

The portrait of Queen Maria Anna of Austria (in Madrid) is an excellent study- of the fashions of that period but you'd never guess from her face how she feels about the whole thing, though her clothes must have been uncomfortable. In his "Portrait of a Lady," in Berlin Museum. the gown makes the pic- ture. Evidently Velasquez gave as much time to painting the texture of the gown as he gave to the lady's features, and one may add the lady is generously clothed. '

This artist is known to most of us through his "Philip IV of Spain in Hunting Costume/Z his equest- rian portralt of Prince Carlos, Philip's son, and "the Forge of Vulcan.‘ If one may judge by a small print “Menippus" has more personality than any of his pic- tures; the model was, we suspect, a jolly old "rascal.

Velasquez was born at Seville in 1599, and died in 1660. He married the daughter of his instructor be- fore he was twenty. His two daught- ers were born before he was twen- ty-three, and he was appointed as painter to the court of Spain the following year, so that he had a comparatively easy existence.

Robert Schumann, whose roman- tic temperament is reflected in his

i810. His father was a successful publisher, and the young musician had every opportunity for study. He thought, however, that musicians were born ready-made and did not make use of his advantages, _

His life was shadowed by the fear of insanity. Science had not yet chased the heredity bogle, and the death of "a melancholy sister had a terrible effect on his impres- ‘ “‘ nature.

One biographer tells us that the music of Schumann is as variable as the man himself. Sometimes poignantly sweet and tender, at other times vigorous and spirited- but oftener sombre and gloomy. Ha liked to describe things and gave his compositions such names as “Butterfliesfl "Scenes from chlld-_ hood." and "Carnival." '

His early ambition was to shine as a pianist and he contrived a tiny machine of his own for exercising the third finger. but the machine injured his hand and he had to re‘- linqulsh that ambition and devote " f to composition alone. He edited a musical magazine, also,

role he helped Chopin, Brahms, and Wagner: nisn who became famous later on. As a writer, he emphasised the appeal of the romantic in mu- sic, and won other: to an apprec- iation of this style of composition. Among his works are four sym-

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(Toronto Globe)

Fate plays queer tricks with those who regard themselves as among‘ the world's great figures. The ex- perience of the former Kaiser ilIuminatLn; example of this. Recall the war lord of an earlier day, the man to whom the rattle of the sabre in its sheath was as sweet and stirrng music; the man who believed that force alone must prevail, and who, with his embattled hosts about him, set out to crush everything‘ that stood in his way. Truly, a world figure of a kind.