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'._ THURSDAY, MAY22, 1924

‘willhot be issued on Monday. "fl ~‘ . l - .

, ,»Iurdn_y being ‘Empire Dayand a public holiday The Guardian

- .'.- » Y . _ _ '~ ' filAfiflilAflONb up‘... lllcetiililurtile Great wlu- ' Veterans Ansocipijop hold on Tues- dayr-‘niglit. coiled to discuss the nl iegcd wholesulg dismissal of return- ed soldiers by the Provincial Gnv. eminent. followed along the lines anticipated and unfortunately not. a View‘ exaggerations were ‘indulged in, The returned soldiers arc entil- lcd to all the consideration DOdBI-ill‘? to give them. and nothing i5 "l" sood for them. h‘ trouble is there are Liberal rbturhed soldiers and Conservative “returned soldiers- When the Bel-l tiovernment was in power all the returned soldiers w ceiving appointments were of the Liberal stripe. When the election came about last July the Conserva- tive returned soldiers worked for the mturu- of anOoncervativs 50's"! lllclltin order that they too nllglli have a share of the loaves and fish- es promised them as a reward for their services at the front. Unfort nuately there are not qiobs sufficient to go all‘ round. The state of the sxchoquer-when the Stewart Gov- ernment came into power was such thatrigid economy had to be pi-ac ticed in crrder to get t-he finances of tliqprovlnce back» to a solvent cou- dltiou and therefore it was not poti- sibio. even if it were desirable. to create ‘new positions to which the conservative doulri be appointed. What was the

' returned soldiers government to "do ill these circum- stances? Bolt and bar the doors against those‘ brave and deserving (‘Zonservaiive returned soldiers for- ever or until such time as the Lil» érsl returned soldiers saw fit to re- tire on their own volition or give iii! ills (boat? Only one side of the Questionmwas heard at the meeting. There are two sides to ovcry queu- tlon and the government no doubt libs-its side which husyet toubo ‘dial- closed. The-Conservative returned soldiers who have been ‘applicants for positions hove also their point of view. So long as wo have party Kcvornnrcut we shall have party patronage; ‘it has been so in the palm-ls so inf-the present and will bn-‘mors so in the future. " "i‘is pity, pity ‘th ‘tie true,‘ ‘but there it is. People who are not ‘politicians de. piore the state ofsiliairs and cannot undcmnllli wily it llhculll be so, but politicians, Liberal and Conserve. tivs, wlho rhavq to run elections know that their has; workers and most ardent supporters are to be ‘found ‘among those who desire to share in the patronage. Tia XBl-urned soldiers beck in ul- vii iifedlivo lined themselves up with ‘one or other of the two great parties-and the Conservative re turned ‘soldier naturally expects that his clslmsmre a/s worthy of Pfiilfillfltior ‘ssithdilé’ of. his fellow soldier. in arms wlhc has lined up with milliliter-sin A-ll this nlny lln- llcar-to be very mundane and very Wmlllllli-ifls but unfortunately it is mm" "Ii-lire and so long as we mi" ‘Qmfirlllllflllt on political lilies ‘@- "ll" h"! ivvoruments who will ‘r3 aid" liiilillllitn recognition to "d? "Whiter; and workers. We 1'1" I°~4ll46nli0u of discussing the W"! i5! milpocti... cones but W?“ ‘WW1! mint out that instead 0'1 there having been "q-‘hgjeafle d“ minis." or cvcu 40 or ‘Bil UIOYQ has lultbqon one doson and in cvory in

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" NOTES BY THE WAY

That ‘the Government Railway-s l9" Prince’ Edward Island should 'be all standardised lean urgent necessity is the opinion of every- body who lives here. or who has occasion to travel over them. That thr- work has been so long delayed is little to the credit of Government of the day or to ollr representatives at ‘ Ottawa who are its ardent supporters. At the bcsit we cannot hope that the work can now be done in time to help the tourist traffic of this year. That is of itself a serious drawback in view of the hopes that had been raised looking to a great enlarge- ment of thecnurflber of summer visitors during the coining season.

. Present condlnlonc on our railway are a bad advertisement not only for the island, for the Govern- ment and for attracting slimmer visitors but also for Government ownership of railways. From the beginning our railway has been under government ownership and control. it was indifferently built in. the first place. on very crooked lines, with many sharp curves and aflcr fifty years of operation it is yet by no means sufficiently bail- asted: This- of necessity involves slow movement of all trains——mllch slower than on. the National in the Mainland Provinces. it» is no blame to our conductors. engineers and tralnmen that this is so. They are quite the equal of other railway men elsewhere in. skill and efficien-

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Dunlng fifty your: past our Pro- vince has been kept Iln this position of inferiority in regard to railway accommodation. Our people have been compelled to travel in narrow cramped up cars, on. trains that run at only half to two-thirds of the

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KEEPING 1 AN av: on vounsetr

You sometimes wonder whetherit is wise t‘c give into little ailments and go to bed. or to stay on your feet and fight them off.

i.‘ you were sure it was a “littie" ailment tihen by all means don't give into it. v

But it‘ in addltoin to feeling tired.

Well. if you just seem to be a lit- tie lazy and don't feel like doiul anything mentally or physically then you just be "up and doing.’ l‘ts a mistake t0 coddie yourself.

‘But it’ i naddition to feeling tired. you ilnd your pulse rate is up ten to twenty beats. that you are breathing more rapidly, feel hot all over and very thirsty. their don't take any chances but get to bed.

These’ symptoms of tiredness. rapid heart and breathing. along with tihe slight fevcrishness and thirst. are the indication of some- thing "wrong" in your system. Now it may be slight. but you don't know the cause of the trouble nor its extent ,and you should take no chances.

As I've said before, some enemy has ‘invaded the system. usually but not always. due to your owll carelessness or fjhflllflilifleflllelli. This enemy must ‘first be thrown out. and so your heart beats faster and your lungs breathe more rapid ly to [help to do this job.

Then you aid the process by cleansing the bowel. and making‘ the skin more active by inducing profuse perspiration.

‘Thus with all the processes in your ibody that throw out waste mut- ter working overtime, that part 01' the work is being looked alter. Tho enemy is being gradually removed from your body, _

However there is one more thing necessary. ' With your body doing all this work for you, it is up to you to nurse its neug-th.

iif you keep on your feet. trying to light of! the enemy, you are ask- ing your heart to do five times more work just by keeping on~your

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speed maintained in. other parts of the Dominion and for this skilnpcd service have had to pay the some.’ rates as those who travel in] palatial comfort on the flnc cars cf| tho Maritime Express or Ocean. Limited. We are still "wearing. out" the old ‘narrow-gauge first’ and second class. baggage and post-I al cars of a past generation on half our railway mileage. As ii any-i thing were good cnough for the people of Prince Edward island.

This its humiliating to whet rc- mninn of our provincial pnide. iBut it is economical-Jay a. sort of economy thait is applied in th-ls Province only! Compared with the mainland we ride second-class here, while in other provinces they travel first class at the same cost, with this further difference that the motor cars on. the public high- ways rim. past the National trains when roiling along side by side. Visitors from abroad judging us by our part of the National system, naturally think us a slow-going people, for indeed we arc that. when on the National rtiis in. our home Province.

The Ottawa Government think it urgent to build Just now a thousand miles of standard gauge railway lines In other Provinces. Our four representatives give cheerful sup- port to the twentysix branch nil- way bills. They gladly spend a couple of millions to blly the Scribe Hotel in Paris, with a colossal rakeofi to the "go-between who negotiated the purchase. Half of the hotel price would have standard- ised the island Railway and put it in. decent shape from Tignlsh to Georgetown. But the King Goyern- ment and ‘it, four island suppor-

ters boughi. the Paris hotel and condemned us to go on with our unn-ow-gaugc track and worn-out

rolling stock till now.

Living in Ottawa on their swollen indcmoitlss and pulling wins for PWOOOQiYI salaried positions, as

common {sport has it. ' our ‘ rc- Drsseittbtivoo seem to have for- Iutton "or to be quits indifferent

to the humiliating position in quell our Pmvincclaas been left. surely they have foltbfuiiy served ti“, Kills Government! But they llid I udersd but scant and menu service m Prince ldwsrd island. Naturally ithcy duh-c to avoid again tubing support from the electors. Whose‘ member of Parliament '

feet, than it would have to do if you were lying quietly in bed.

it is the one organ that will car- ry you through your illness. wily not give it a chance to do its work’!

It‘ you rest quietly in bed, and the illness or infection as it is called, is lilight,‘you'li be up in a day or two, with only that much time away from your work. and flt to do your work_

"if the infection is slight, nlla yuul "have stayed at your work, it may he| a week. ten riayis or longer before you feel "Jllfit riilht."

If the infection should he a ser- iollfl 0119. U10 going t0 bed gives you your best chance to tight it sue-I ceosfully.

so if ‘any ailment comes along, use a little judgment in the matter, as suggested above.

Daily slltiuh? i Guardian Readers

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l am lord of the waterless waste, 1 _ am ‘king of the desert,

i till the lone spaces and sprinkle

' the iloor of the sea;

l sift and l crumble my atoms with passionless labor.

While the ages swing on to their goal and the centuries flee.

‘SAND

i am patient; ‘I wait while the times and ‘the season go over,

Ere l swallow your pomp and your pride, the work or your ‘hands.

l have hidden your ‘far-famed cities, your tombs. and your tem-

tiles. And their glory lies choked ‘heath the weight of devouring sands!

Ye are dragging the past from the deep of untroubied oblivion, And piercing the secrets of old‘! it is well: i can wait

Can ye conquer. 0 lpygmies, whose life ‘is a breath and a yapor? Nay, behold. i am ancient as Time, relentless as Fatal

MAY 92.—-Ycu Qossess great abil- ity. which will not awake unless you are so fortunate as to have your ambition aroused. lDo not let your bride Qlih too great a hold, You are lflltlo. kind and generally sincere m‘: vol unfortunate in secur-

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‘rile Public Forum

This-column. is. 000a for tho discussion‘ by 009N0- ponocnfs of IIIIIUIIII 9' '5 tcrost- The Charlottetown Guardian don not Mouton ily endorse the opinion s» proceed by .I\I col-routs».

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SAVE THE. WOIODiANDS

"i think that I shall never see A poem as lovely as a tree. . ‘A tree whose hungry mouth is pres. sed _ Against the earth's sweet flow- ing breast;

A tree that looks at God aill day, And lifts her lovely arms to pray: A tree that may in summer lvear A nest of robinslin her ‘hair;

Upon whose bosom snow has lain; ~Who intimately lives with rltin.

Poems are mud-e iby fools like rue; But only God can make a tree."

' —Joycc Kllmcr.

Sir,—'i\he substance of this artic- le wassuggested by a. proclama- tion recently issued by ‘His Excel- lency the GcvernorGeneral upon the better conservation of our for- est reeources, upon which subject a ‘literary competition advertised in Liberal papers only, open to the pupils of our pil-bile sellools. has, in. cidentiilly, been arranged by the loc ai liberal organ.

The proclamation of ‘ills lExcei- iency is particularly appropriate and timely; for. within the last few years, the losses by the different provinces on account of lfcrest fires along can scarcely be estimated, lu- deed the ‘time teams not far dis- tant when. l'rom an economic point 0i View rl-he Valuable woodlands of our fair Dominion shall have been completely ruined.

Many agencies contribute to this destruction. in this province care- lessness on ‘the part of farmers and w00dm€li when burning brush in the spring and slimmer seasons is one great source of danger. All pil es of brush silouid be isolated as much as possible from old fences and, growing timber. Advantage should be taken of the wind when blowing from a iavorable point. This, of cou-rse, is usually done by experienced woodmell, Damp cartlh silouid be thrown around the edg- es of the piles of brush so that the blaze may be concentrated; and a supply of water should ‘be within reach should tihere be any probabil. ity or the flames spreading. If these and similar precautions are taken, the danger arising from this source

Founder of ‘Quakers Born 300 Years Ago‘

One might soy that it is an amaz- iing thing that George Fox was born ‘only three hundred years ago, but ‘the thing that is really amazing is that rcllgilouls persecution and big- otry liourished so recently. ‘He was [one or iilll last lll tile niltlllgulsilnll victims of it in England. and today is honored with such men as »Wes- ley and Wyciif as the founder of a great religion. ‘in the days of Fox. tho separation between Church and State was nominal. ‘Men were put to death for their religious opinions. A men like dllox. so obviously to us nowadays a religious man. a man of good-will and kindness, spent years in prison and might, with a ‘bit of bad luck, ihave emlated his lleretic. ai opinions upon tho scaffold. Some of his followers were put to death; others were tortured. Gradually they wereabls tooonvince the pub- lic that they were not really a men- ace to existing forms of government and existing religious bodies. Then they were tolerated, and eventually came to be held in some such half contemptuous respect as ‘the Salva- tion Arlny in its early days. George Fox was the founder of the Quaker religion.

Dangerous Opinions

Those ‘hundred years ago, and ill- dced later. it was dangerous ‘for a man, even a free-born Englishman, to hold strong religious views un- less they happened to coincide with the views of tile majority, Tile maj- ority was ncw of one kin-d and now of another, so the wise man l'oilow- ed the expmple of the Vicar of ‘Bray, if he wa" called upon at all to make any public professio". When Fox

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' Famous Novelist . Farms Al; Burwash

Our readers will be shocked 0!‘ puzzled when we announce that "Rudyard Kipling decided to spend the rector his dnyg at Burwash. and tileywili bc relieved when we explain that Burwash is a illtf-IB village in Sussex. it is. the scene of some of his most charming fantasies which appeared in "Puck of Pooh's Hill" and “Rewards and Fairies." There he dwells in the ancient kingdom of the South Saxons» timid men who are almost as changeiess as the fields about them. and WhO have little desire to change. There a man who has tilled the 90“ 1°!‘ only a couple of generations is re- garded as a newcomer. and is as yet on approbation. News of the outside worlti penetrates slowly there, and of the most resounding literary fame them is, as a rule. the faintest echo. but the Burwesh people know that Kipling is a great poet. They consider hini tile greatest writer in the world, and. no doubt, ilave the idea that he was in some obscure way a contributor to the Bible. or. perhaps, to the Shakespearean plays. it is Klpiings great hope that in time he may be accepted not as a writer, but as a farmer.

Belongs to the Soil.

That Kipling should have become a freeholder. that he should till the soil even vicariously, and cu- gage in the breeding of live stock was it certainty. Nobody could love the very earth of England as Kipling loves it, and having the means, not become the possessor of some of it. From John of Greats to Land's End it is all more or less

was a small boy, Arch-bishop Laud was the leading bigot, and with the Episcopalians was doing what he could to stamp out Presbyterianlsm.

holy ground to him. lie would have been at home in any part of the country, but nowwhere could he have found lllore congenial

When the Preshyterlans got their surroundings than in Bllrwasb. lic chance. which continued for some has considerable holdings in farm thirty five yesrls until the Restora- land. and he has also established lion. they were quite a5 stem as a herd of pure bred Jersey cattle. the Episcopalians and equally con- N0 doubt hi5 “l” h“ cmckcug‘ v-incgd that they were dolng the pigs, and n dog or two. He does wgrk o1 Gog They 31d not take lo not pine‘ for the bright lights of

shall have been reduced to a. mini- mum. ‘Picnic parties are somcllnics| very careless when camping mule vicinity of wood-land or brush. 1'00 often a fi-rc is lit without any re-i gard-for t-ho possible consequences.. -in fact young people should not bel llermitted to organize camping par. ties without being ill charge of.’ some Person of mature judgment and experience. iii all cases- firesi should not be lit witilin twenty: yards of hrusii or growing timber; and the coals or embers silouid e completely extinguished before the ilillllliers leave the place. 13y taking these precautions they not only show a consideration -for the safe- ty 0T private property and lor the Personal feelings of the 0wner~g|. billllil. perhaps, llley know illlll not, but Jncidentaily, tJhcy assure til-em. selves a more cordial welcome should they return Ito the place on some other occasion. sllwkers. too. in their traniping lllld hurtling excursions through the WOMS. across the fields. and down country lallcs should exercise the greatest care in tiln disposal 0f lillllllh ends, cigarette tips, etc. Those. still ablaze. perhaps. are of. ton t-hrown among the dry grass, withered leaves, and brush. The or- igin of many disastrous fires has been traced to this source. Tramp- ors, themforc; and sportsmen in general should make the disposal of their waste smoking material a mut- ter of conscience. since they are practically beyond till-e reach of the law-should ‘the latter ‘be invoked by some irate farmer or woodman. ‘Children. sometimes. either through a. spirit of mischief or‘ through lack of proper training llgh‘t fires In fence corners and similar places. These very often get beyond their control doing consid- erable damage before they can be extinguished. Children, therefore. should be warned repeatedly against the dangerous habit of light- ing fires not only arodnd the burnes and premises but in the fields or elsewhere. in this way mllch annoy- ance as well as loss may easily be averted. ‘iihoso three agencies arre mainly r sponsibie for the losses on ac-

count of forest fires in this provin-'

ce-and. i believe. ‘in the otherpro- vinces as wail. Had persons only

heart the remark of Oliver Crom- -L°“d°“ m‘ whatever are the we", who upon one memmable 0c‘ equivalent to bright lights in that c8510“ urged h“, heuers’ w‘, the climate. lie docs not hnliker for. love o; mm“, M, consider the pmrlbrilliant conversation. lie is con- sibiiity of their being lllllltlllulll. .itl‘°"‘ '° “”““'°' “V” m‘ “m” “d [he age m, eleven. George To‘ hldlchat with his laborers, or with such strong religious beliefs Jmatithe nelghbors whom he meet! m he did not hesitate to declare ‘them the cuumry lanes‘ He loves m upon a" occaswm! however meow listen and absorb the ViiiSGOIIH ‘that veni-ent. lie was ‘not more tolerant fimiscri,‘ilrlalgegzgsralto:“LFZE “w” we others’ bu‘ perhaps he did stood that he has adopted as his not have the desire to be a tyrant. “worm, proverb an 01,1 gum;

saying. "Every time a sheep bans