,,.- .
f£!B¥&\:
PAGE Ft mic
THE CHARLOTT
crown GUARDIAN - g gp
f ,
i
MARCH 17. 1936
gum. mi
i _.Lam ,'
The Charlottetown Guardian
Praaidant. I-hat:-Col. W. Ciaetiu I. llelmro. Vina-Proallllll. il- I. liltltil. Y. J. I. loarotary, l.iaal.~¢ol. D. A. la¢Klalaoa, D. l. 0.
' norm -aa uomiu Dimroé. 4. a. ia-mn. if. -i. I.
Aaaoalato ldltorl. [rail Walker and D. H. Currlei
lloralng Daily (handed ill?) ||.ll Dar you (la advance! delivered In City. ll-ll par your llia advaaea) mailed to la-laoo lldwul Iaiaail. 84-U Der year (Iii advaaeai lalloel to Canada all Uoliod Stahl.
"ruii.sDAY. muon ri. im
St. Patrick's Day '
The Scotchman has his St. Andrew’s Day
and the Englishman St. George`s, but to the Irishman St. Patrick’s festival is the banner one of the year. No matter how long an _Irishman has lived abroad, no matter for how many gen erations descendants of Irishmen may have lived in other countries, love of the old land comes down as an unbroken chain. He hears again the ballads of the race, of its past and new glories and he is proud that Irish blood runs through his veins. He will be a bold Scot \vho on the Seventeenth of March claims that St. `Patrick’s early dwelling place was S0rne\vl1er€ n0fih Of the Tweed!
The celebration of St, Patrick`s Day comes
at a suitable season of the year, just as the rigors of winter are being weakened by the ap- proach of the verdancy that is spring, when hearts are lighter, and when “The VVearin’ of the Green” comes as an acceptable addition to the songs that are sung.
A House Divided
For sometime there has been apparent
difference on the staff of The Patriot with re- gard to the advocacy of the Brighton and West River bridge projects. One member of the staff has boldly advocated an immediate forward policy regarding these schemes, while the other has suggested caution and retrenchment in ex- penditure until such time as the governments here and at Ottawa get out of the "red" finan-
> cially. This divided opinion gets the scheme no-
where, as locally the Liberal organ is supposed to voice the views and policies of the Govern- ment. And how can it do so when it is a house divided against itself ?
Under the circumstances, evidently, the
Premier has found it necessary to call to his as- sistance his “second string", the Liberal organ of Summerside. In its last issue, as was slioivn in yesterday’s GUARDIAN. The Pioneer comes out -flat-footed in opposition to the bridge schemes. It thinks the enterprise not only inopportune, but ridiculous, and if persisted in will necessitate Prince County pressing forward similar claims.
This may be considered in the nature of a
family row, and it is for the “divided house” in Charlottetown to decide whether it will close its ranks and espouse the cause wholeheartedly, or let the schemes go by default.
In _this connection it is interesting to note
that our evening contemporary as a newspaper is a law unto itself. A newspaper, so far as pub- lic opinion is concerned, is an institution of the same nature and characteristics as a Govern- ment. All its members are supposed to be of one mind in advocating any principle or policy. If any member disapprove, his business is to re- main silent or withdraw, and urge his views else- where. This is the law with regard to Govern- ments. On any policy the Government must speak with one voice. A member differing from it must support the majority or get out. Hith- erto this has been the rule on newspapers as well; but our contemporary is the proverbial excep- tion, and the consequence is that the Govern- ment which it supports has to_look elsewhere for the public expression of its views and policies.
Another Scrap Of Paper
I
" ' Few American newspapers have taken the _irouble to remind their readers that when Ger- many sent her soldiers into the demilitarized -Rhine zone she violated not'only the Versailles and Locarno treaties, but the separate peace treaty made in August, 192|, with the ,United 'States itself. The existence of this treaty seems to have been pretty generally forgotten. In it, however, was incorporated parts of the treaty ,bf Versailles, including the naval, military and air. clauses, and the demilitarization of the Rhineland zone. In the past two or three years the .milita clauses have been openly violated, and now iiie demilitarization clauses have been born into scraps by HITLER.
Legally, therefore, the United States ought
to be as much concerned about treaty violation as any European power. But not ii word of protest has been made, although conceivably it might have been made with particular good grace by a power which is not actually injured by a treaty violation. The United States, had it chosen, could have protested with force and dignity against what Hrrneri has done on the -Rhine without being suspected of any special interest.
, I The British Way ~
Drunken drivers get short shift in England.
The following anecdote, illustrative of British police-court proceedings in this matter, is related in a mainland exchange :
“You are fined ten pounds," pronounced the
Court after hearing the evidence.
“Ten pounds! That’s easy,” sneered the
prisoner, reaching behind him. “I’ve got that in my hip pocket." _ _ _ _
"--and three pihonthe in lail,:i_Ic{ont1i`nued the
udge, smoothly. " ve you got A in your ii' poeliet?" ,
‘-i.
_ Notes
from the froiit
ills 'immortal sown’ .ti1.“.e\i\\ fin.
. =- i E
“a party song written without the rancour of part in the year 1795.”
y ilt iii JK
An Irish mile is 2,240 yards-a little more.
than an English mile and a quarter, hence GEORGE l\looRi-;'s idiom-“Nothing in Ireland lasts long except the miles."
iii JK il
Farmers are complaining of impassable
snow conditions for a distance of some three hundred yards on Tea Hill. Where is the gov- ernment snow-plow?
if * X
What this Province needs more than any-
thing else is the realization of the fact that \ve are not getting a fair deal under the Confeder- ation pact--the letter and not the spirit is being observed by the Federal government,
# ilk SK
A resolution sponsored by Montreal City
Council, asking the federal government to as- sume tlic whole burden of direct relief, has been endorsed unzfniniously by Sydney City Council. So say we all of us.
Hi BK BK
\Vhat the world is up against today is two
great nations struggling to assert the undying spirit of nationality and refusing to be put off withf the substitute of internationnlisni. The world is not yet ripe, unfortunately, for the brotherhood of man. `
iii iii ii:
Among the signatories to the communication
f roiu the heads of their respective dioceses to the Roman Catholic Clergy of Quebec, in regard to their conduct in political matters, is that of “Monsignor _]. A. O’SUi.i.1vAN, Bishop of Charl- lottetown,” with respect to the Magdalenes. ` sie sie -as - _
While President Roosizvl-:LT is proceeding
with the St. Lawrence deep water scheme which is estimated to cost billions, Congress has halted the much less expensive Passamaquoddy scheme now under way. The vote for $9,000,000 to com- plete the work was rejected by the Se1iate's ap- propriation committee by a vote of 6 to 5.
British Columbia, which has been possibly the
most outstanding “Gie-nie” among the provinces; has budgetted for a surplus of $119,947 on cur- rent account. This is apart from unemployment costs. On the strength of this estiniatecl surplus. Civil servants receiving less than $1,800 will get full restoration of salary cuts, and those receiv- ing more than $1,800 part restoration.
9|? ik 'Jls
“An Ontario juvenile court judge recently
commented on the fact that lie had never had a Boy Scout before him,” says Saint _lolin Telc- grapli-loiiriial. “Now comes word that of 67,ooo lads brought before the juvenile court in St. Louis in the last twenty-tive years, not one had ever been a firstclass scout. Is it any wonder the
movement is well supported?"
' The GUARDIAN has received from Mr.
]AMi~:s TA1'r, florist, a magnificent bouquet 11 gift from Mr. Howinm W. jackson, Mayor of Baltimore where the seveiitcciitli National Flower and Garden Show was held on Saturday. The flower token was fnade possible through the world-wide organizationof bonded members of
the Florists Telegrapili Deliié/*pry Association.
I1 5l€ .1
Rev. J. R. Slzoo, Washington, has been
called to succeed Rev. Dr. M.\i.coLii MAcLcoD (originally of Belfast here) as Minister of the Collegiate Church of St. Nicholas, Fifth Avenue, New York. It is not stated the salary to be paid Dr. Sizoo, but Dr. MAcLEoD’s was $18,000 per year, and last year Dr. Slzoo refused a call to Marble Collegiate Church, New York, where the salary was $15,000.
ik 9|! 5K
New Brunswick is regretting the death of
its Clerk of the Legislature, Mr. GEORGE Bin- LAKE, whose funeral took place at Fredericton on Saturday. Mr. B1DL1ixl-: was a Devonshire man, a solicitor by profession, and former editor of the defunct Saint John Standard. A sister is Lady Mr-.c1<soN-MooRis, and a brother, Rev. \/VALT1-:lt B1Di.Al<i~:, both of England, while two sons and four daughters are left to mourn in Fredericton,
it il( iii
"Jobs or Doles-Which ?” was the Liberal
campaign cry in the federal contest. And now Mr. J. F. Pou1.1o‘r, Liberal M.P. for Temiscou- ata, complains in the Toronto Saturday Night that “when a man gets, in one month, two thous- and letters from constituents who w`ant work and when he can find for them all only ten jobs, then it is no fun but a serious business to be member for Temiscouata.” -
il! lit il
This is the anniversary of St. Patrick’s
Birthday, but it may be recalled that there was not always agreement upon the exactness of the date. In his poem “The Birth of St. Patrick," Samuel. LEVER, the Irish novelist and song writer, declared that some Irishmen claimed the date to be March 8 and others March 9. So Fath- ev MULCALY, “who showed them their sins, said No one could have two birthdays but a twins. Says he, Boy’s don’t be fightin’ for eight or nine, don’t be always dividin’, but sometimes combine; »combine eight and nine and seventeen is the mark, so let that be _his birthday. Amen, says the Clerk.”
¥ X X
The announcement of the death of Mr. W.
H. DEV!-:Ria Cots in the south of France recalls the fact that he was in his younger days the prince'of practical jokers, Posing as "the Sultan of Zanzibar,” Conn once deluded the authorities of Cambridge University into according him the official welcome due a visiting potentate. Once, disguised as is road laborer he roped off a large section of Piccadilly Circus, interfering with the heavy traffic of the section, and once as “the Prince of Abyssinia” he inspected' a British bat-
Cou: bore a striking resemblance to for-
Miriister R/iirs.\‘v Macbomw and to have once made an unauthorized
in Mr. M.\cDoiv/iulfa behalf. However, Cor.; in 193|, he took pre-
vlctimized by fellow hoax-
|1101'
for the; ceremony at ri
and tliemquiotly slipping registry ciao for the event.
Notes by the Way
We have In Nova Booth
dustry supplying yeast of wholesome and. satisfactory fmm B pulp as ii bye-product or the Paper-making lndustry. Gel' many in its struggle for self-ooo
lfiilllnenl-. ho-B Pwduoed sugar $0.111 waste wood, and sugar o.' tlig at kind. Germany is deficient, ln raw materials and owing to tb; algm. cies of one present day, when fee.: of war and econonucxllslocatfmi has thrown the gears of the world into disorder, the nation ls doing its ug. most to make the most extensive use of tl-ie raw materials lt has. Hence its scientists have su ed fn producing all sort of unexgct- ed things from the wasbe product ol the forest. By the new process the German people wlll henceforth be able to make cake-frosting from i.!`€€-IIB-!`k, IBIWD iihéll' pigs 01') gug. culent. meals of sawdust, pour resin on their salads, and ful their gas. tanks with old twigs and branches. -Halifax chronicle.
To sum up the matter both
bluntly and concisely, we should like our foreign omoe to inform Europe ln general, and France in particular, there can be no collec- tive security while Europe retains its present frontiers, and that until these frontiers are altered we do not propose to fight. for them. We should like our Government to ln- form the Germans that ln their case there will be no iectlflcatlon of frontiers until they behave themselves like reasonable human beings. Lastly, we should like Great Britain to show her sincerity by proposing outright that the front- lers of Austria and Hungary should be subjected to_ immediate recon- sideration, and that both’ these countries should be absolutely free bo adopt any form of govemment that seems good to them.-Truth.
ri?
The police of Buffalo have begun
a. drive to give pedestrians the right of way at lntersectlons con- trolled by lights, and the walkers are being told that they have the preference over motor cars. In ex- ercklng 'these rights the person afoot should keep 9, wary eye on the vehicles as well as the lights and bs ready to leap lf necessary.
Makers of one of the popular.
low-priced automobiles have set up a fund 0.’ $l.000000 from which dealers wl‘l be paid $20 for each old ear of that make taken ln trade and junked during the present month. The reason for this step ls both selfish and public-splrlbed. The company hopes, of course, that the plan will lead to the sale of more new cars, but also that it will re- move from the highways mimy dilapidated old-timers. Since, ln many states, there ls no law to keep such dangerous vehlc`es off the road, lt is to be hoped that other automobile manufacturers will follow the good exarnpie set and help the junklng process.-Ohh calo News. _
They seem to be geliing their
generations all mixed up in the central states. A Mis ourl despatch tells of a mother of 91 and a daugh- ter of 71 both qualifying for old age pensions. At the same time a news story from Arkansas te1`s of a farmer, unable to read or write .who has started to school with his grandchildren.
What. the lnexpert man on the
street cannot understand about the expertfs cry, “Reduce crops and crop acreage." is that millions of peo- ple aie still undemourlshed. Sir John Orr, a. _noted Brltlsh author- ity, said recently that “ln order to provide the (British) people with proper sustensxioe, consumpdon of milk should be increased 42 per cent; of fruit and vegetables, 53 per cent; of butter and eggs, 25 per cent." Yet. on this oonunent we hear the cry of "over-production," and millions of cattle and other farm animals are destroyed, tons of wheat burned and larm lands re- lrumed to the forest. In the true sense them has not been any over- production.-Goderich Signal.
The Nye committee showed that
the danger to peace lies in the conflict of interests wlthln this country itself; the interests of the millions who want peace and the interests of ii, few who will blind- ly pursue the profits of war trade to the point. where American neut- rality ls endangered. Ultimately, that lesson will be translated into real neutrality legislation that will forbid the war proflteers from en- dangering the peace and security of the whole nation.-New York Poet.
In the “War Against War" Pro-
fessor Zuiettz of Columbia Univer- sity calls the two-pound file-bomb “the worst. peril of tho next war." Ho explains its contents as "a liizh- ly fnflammablo mixture of fron oxide and magnesium” and says that an ordinary bombing plane could rain down 2,000,000 or them on n city. "Each of these small bombs," he says, "embodies within itself the devastating possibilities of Mrs. 0'Iieary's cow." The reference ls to the terrible Chicago ffm which was caused by a cow kicking over a poor woinan'a lantern.-Bt. Tho- mas Times-Journal.
The immense value of aviation fn exploration is doinonatiatod anew by the Ellsworth expedition. wntle the help of wtieleaa proved of the highest importance, even though Hr. lrlewortlfs instrument broke down. Because of a radio mousse. showing that the two were alive the Discovery was ordered to their aulatanoe.-_London Daily Mail. '
In Ita origin, Canadian iiaekay
borrowed the skates from Holland and t.he‘atloka from llnlllsri field lioek ao that when an Eriilfah
trained players wine the worldtaue taenoaaada,itmaubet-liepoetto
- l '-.-_
what our
Qilgiaa iD. Barlow. NLD.
HEADACHE AND FACE PAIN FROM IMPAUYED OB. INFECTED TEETII
Young woman complained of
pain ln the region of the ear but careful examination by her physic- ian and an ear specialist failed to reveal anything wrong.
As she also complained of tired-'
ness the physician, looking first' for the commonest cause of tiredness, had an Xriiy examination made of
l;el» teeth. The ftlm showed that her l t grinding or molar.tooth was growing ln the wrong direction,
|belng pointed toward her ear. This was the cause of the pain about her ear. , Further exainlnatlon of the "lm-
pacted" tooth, as lt ls called, showed that lt. was also Infected. Removal of the tooth cleared up both her pain and tired-out feeling.
During the war it was found that
the eyesight of some of the mem- bers of the flying corps became so poor that their landings were not accurate. The removal of infected and impacted teeth. and the gradual ‘removal from the body of the pois- ons from these teeth restored the eyesight to normal ln ii. few weeks.
Dr. Oliver T. Osborne. New Hav-
en, Conn., ln Medical World says, “I have seen instances of most intense headache tn the region of the eye, for which several eye specialists had given prescriptions for eyeglasses without beheflt, when the pain en- tirely ceased after the removal of an impacted or infected tooth. With chronic head pains or head pains that occur frequently, X ray plc- tures should be taken of the whole face, to study. not only the teeth and the antrums (cavities or sinus- es ln the cheek bone adjoining the nose) and also the frontal slriuses (the cavities ln the forehead lm- medlately above the eyes.)
Older physicians will tell you that
serious operations on the large nerve whose branches supply all the teeth and face, were frequently done for severe pe..tn about the face and head, before the Xray was brought lntogeneralause. Infected or lm- pected teeth as the cause was not known then. '
Now that an Xray of all the teeth
and the way the teeth of the upper law meet or do not meet those of the lower jaw, and the oondltlon of the slnuses can be obtained at a reasonable price, lt might be ii good investment, should your doctor ud- vlse lt, to have this examination made when head or fe/ce pains per- slst without any knoiim cause.
ocllédauvb
THE GREEN LITTLE YSHAMBDCK
'I‘liere's a dear little plant that
grows ln our isle,
"I‘wBs St.‘Patrlck himself sure
that set lt;
And the sun on his labor with
pleasure did smile,
And With dew from his eye often
_ wet lt.;
It thrives through the bog, through
the brake and the mlreliuid;
And' he called lt the dear little
shamrook of Ireland-
The sweet little. green lime simm-
xock of Ireland.
This dear little plant that springs
from our soil,
When its three llttle‘leaves are
extended,
Denotes on one stalk we together
should toll,
And ourselves by ourselves be
befriended;
And still through the bog, through
the brake, and the mfreland,
From one root should branch, like
the shamrock of Ireland,
The sweet little, green little sham-
rock of Ireland.
-Andrew Cherry. (18th Century).
end of one of those vicious circles. -London Advertiser.
What would be the reaction If
Canada and the United States of- fered to ceds territory to Japan for her bulging population? What would be the reaction ln the Old Cvllntry lf Britain were to offer to restore the ,colonies taken fl-om' Germany in the World War. or were to offer Italy ii. slloe of her MUN possessions Could such be arranged? Peace on earth, ff the people really want lt. may nqulro tremendous changes ln the present national outlook of nearly every
psig; ond woman.-Regina Leader-
St. Patrick
_.___
(Monteal Gazette) ,
Much as may be deemed doubt- ful concerning the antiquities of sooto-Mllesfans, than fs enough to show that the Irish race ls one of tho oldest and noblest in the an- nals of European peoples. having traditions traced back to the seventh century. B.C. Buch literary memoirs as escaped the fury of the Danes, the .Psalters of Tuna and Cashel, show that in the alxl-b century of the Christian em Inland was a light. in Europe when the rest. of the continent: was plunged ln bar- barian gloom. At a period when Scotland was yclept Albania. and Brit/ons were driven into the Welsh hills, this man Pa/0'i‘lc'l\l.s labored as a missionary ln Ireland, and the record of his evangelical en- deavors fornis one of the most fas- cinating and enuobltng memoirs ln the lives of the saints. Your of his disciples, Secundlnus, Benlgnus, Mel, Lumen, have written the story; and in the twelfth century, Jocelfn t-he Cembro-British monk of Fur- nes made his contribution, select- ing from the early MBS. of Sli. E1- vlnus “any part I deemed worthy of posterity." The romance reveals plainly enough that the salnt fs rio stiff effigy to be inset upon some stiilned-glass window.
There may be folk who think of
Ireland as n. witty saga of.blie blackthom and the Kerry dance. They have much to learn. A sure cure for such llghtsome notion Ls a study of the man all Irishmen de- light to honor. Patrlclus was not his original name. It. was Buocath, son of Calphurnlus, a deiwori who lived at Banaven Tabemla. noi-them extremity of Britain. The mother of Salnt Patrick, Conchessa, was a niece of Bnlnt Martin of Tours. At sixteen years of age he was taken captive by ii robber band of Scots. carried to Ireland and sold a slave to Mllcho-Moe-Huanan, a. petty prince of Ulster. Assigned to shep- erdlng, this lowly serf ls .sald to have reoelved visions from God which determined his future career. Seven years he endured bondage. l-le learned the Sllev-Mis dialect. The slave dreamed high dreams. “Every day I fed the flocks and prayed- Nelther did I feel pain or lassltude. My soul was ardent." So rims the me or his "confessions/’ A i12r1°d of travel and education st. Auxerrg and. Lerlns, under instruction o. st. Honor-atus and St. Germain. resulted in his reoelvlng the name. or rather title, Pat/rlclus. and tho erstwhile ser! became apostle to the Irish mit at a time when the country had lapsed into barbarlsm. In 432 he set sail for Ireland as an apostolic envoy. Within the next flfteen years. Christian missions were established in Wicklow, County Down, Connaught and Meath. Chfeftalxis were persuaded of the error of their ways Rnd Were DHD' tlzed. Schools and monasteries were founded. The common folk were Laugh; 4,-he gospel. At. Tara.. ancient seat or druldlcal lnf.ueuce and cen- tre of archivist. annals of Boom- Mlleslan nobles and- kln¥S» -IWGYBIY iictlvltles were revived. Gradually, the manners changed. The harvest became great and laborers few ln oomparlson to the number of churches founded ln the Irish
provinces.
The shepherd achieved s, wonder- ful work. It was superior to all the mclent monuments preserved ln books dealing with the early SCY- thlan traditions of the green isle- Salnt. Patrick ls credited with hav- ing introduced me iuiowiedse and use of the Roman alphabet ln Ire- land. Certainly he kindled is light the beams whereof shone afar and have shone all adown the ages. He ls .said to have lived to the ex- treme age of 120, ia patrlarchlal figure. reminding us how history ls the lengthened shadow of some few great men. Perchenoe the best. ac- count ol his life and labors ta that: contained ln his own "Confessions" The "Ego, Pistrlclus peccator" dis- plays modesty and retleence, some- thing being said about the visions he remlved, very little about the miracles. others have attributed to his name. Corioernlniz Saint Pat- dck. 5\1l’¢1Y. we may llttlngly adopt the language Shakespeare uses fn tribute to is world-renowned em- peror- _ "1-le, only, in a general honest
thought. ‘
And common good of all, made one
of them,
His llfe was gentle; and the ele-
ments
Bo mixed ln him that Nature might-
st.a,iid up
And say to all the world, This was
a man."
\\\\\\_\\ - I
.fDoDos"¢
e kinuev; ,,PiLLs/3,.
v \ _ .-
,,'\\\_\,/:J/Y i
i,.,‘ ’\`vy.,1| 'rf'
» i
» \\ \\
\
_ i,,, -I
."ri,`h i uni HI,
'~‘,l "I u v|1\\\
'. .
.1 C
l
a:.= -1 -q ____.. _._ _ __,_ ____ _.i
TllE BEST
ment. It serves as an a
The Great-West Life la and the Guardian of Homes.
Life Insurance in force
D IIYIIDHM s&
‘**""’°""‘*""°" ""”“’°' °‘““““. .. .. fl’.r°vii\¢!il »1l.=o~¢er_»-_»Cli:'rl¢>1_\'t¢',"1\ _ .
. »
Llfeylnsuraiiee is the young liiaii’s beat Invest-
ure career and responsibilities..
' 'rits crest-wot Liu em-in one-iaiiiii of nie
Opeizlpga for a few .good aaloaiiiaa iii Prince Eilw Island. - -
IIYESTII EIT
iichor for lils entire fut-
tlie Champion of Thrift thousands of Canadian
la Canada*
00. tiiiirro
I
Y
, for sterling. The butcher of course
. E lm
)/ ...L
~ 5' Mr. Tea' Pott Says:
' ' For a. Delicious Cup of
so \
Full Flavoured Tea
.1 Q use~BRAHMIN
U Orange Pekoo Tea
H f _ la; i
PUBLIC FORUM
This column ll apaa for obo
dlaoiaaalol by oornapaiidaata af queaolola of Iiitsraat. 'liao Charlottetown Guardian dna not aaouaarlly anrlurao tba olilnfoaa of oorraapolilelatl.
ESKHIO EXAMPLE
Si-\‘.-Recently s. friend sent me ° °°PY °f “U11”-v." published in Ohlvsro. .im ao. less. In ii. than Bppesred the following item:
“The Esklmos of Alaska, accom. ins to Associated Press, have be- sun ‘a new Prohibition co.mpslgu.' Thus. the natives have petltloned for a re-enactment of Prohlbltlon Statutes making lt is crime even tio sive an Eskimo a drink of liquor, for 'the excessive use of intoxicat- ills liquor _by Brkfmos ls highly de- m°l'31iZiI18 to the moe!
"This strikes us as good logic and-
sound morals. Liquor is 'demoni- iZlY1S.’ therefore, get rld of lt! The white mon may well imitate vhe wisdom or his mklmo brother.” (End of quotation.) It. may be Dolnted out that the Fskimos of Alaska and the white l>¢0Ple of Baddeck. C.B.. have corrie to the some conclusion, alsothat there are a great many people and communities ln Canada today who would like to throw Government Control overboard and go beck to Prohibition, but lt fs easier said than done. votes may be taken fre- quently in an effort to get rid of Prohibition. but lt fs no easy task to secure another chance to vote after nve years or, so flnd out lf t-he people want the Govemment Sale business continued or not.
I am, slr, etc.
' 'I' .n. Govoc-E
*AND THE BOOTS”
Sir.-Sitting beside me at the
Sunday evening repeal. a lady, who I believe ls is non-fmblber, said “I wish you would write a. letter to the Guardian"-"Yes", I sold, “and what about?" “Oh anything, just to crowd
out those temperance letters.”
Now, whlle I realize that a request
from the gentler sex ls a command, I want lt specially understood that I am not venturing to express an opinion as to whether the Prince Edward Island or any other non- Mahomedan Legislative body ls en- dowed wlth sufficient wisdom to en- act laws that would solve the pesky problem of the use and abuse of‘ what Paddy delights in calling "spiritual" liquors.
So with, this proviso, here goes!-' After learning from your account ln last Thursday's Guardian of how ‘ Lord Tweedsmulr's recently elected successor ln the British House of Commons puzzled that astute body by asking is solution of the riddle of the shoemaker, who gave ii. custom- er a pair of 16 shilling boots a-nd 4 shillings cash ln exchange for a worthless pound note, it will per- haps amuse your readers to be told that ln my high-school days ln Que- bec there wasn’t. a boy ln the school who wouldn’t cry “R.at.s" if so out- ‘worn is eonundriim were offered to him. The story then'was exactly as recounted by you, except that Canadian currenc was substituted
was brought into the picture simply to confuse, for he paid the shoe- maker a pound and received that amount ln return, and was there- fore in reality eliminated from the story, leaving the latter simply a recounting of how the ahoemriker had given his customer s pair of shoes and 4 shillings and received ln retiuin s worthless "scrap of paper."
when is correct reply was received
as to the shoemaker’s net loss, the rejolnder was at once given “and the boots"-To the story was also sometimes added the fact that the butcher asked his neighbor the bak- er to cash the pound note and that the latter did not make the dtscov- ' ery of the forgery until lie deposited the note ln his bank, to all of which was added ii recoiuitlng of the ro-
very lenient with him. The Passengers in the ear uin-
wii.s struck and considerably damng_ ed were not seriously injured. The
dalver was the most seriously lnjur. e
My brother also states that the
vlctfm’s mother received five liun. dred dollars compensation. l-low °fl=°11 this happens. offenders getting of! too easy where money figures ln_ But money counts.
The only obstacle or drawback
keeping this Province from being U19 ii'l’9Bi68i Paradise on the contin- ent fs our notorious one-horse sys. tem of wlnter roads, with the abom_ Buble. Ditch holes and sides. if nie good winter road system were milv adopted here, and our pronlblllog uw properly enforced this would be a paradise indeed. My brotlier writes that this has been their sry. erest winter for very many yin,-_c_ The lee ion Lake lin-le around san. dll-Sky Md Ke11ey’s Island ts tlilrly- three to thirty-five inches limit, sold to be thickest for over fifty years. Here we have had no l-ml wld days vet. and only one serious storm to speak of. blocking roads for a,few hours only, where nearly all other parts of the world have had the worst ln their history, very severe storms and cold. Surely we should be contented to remain here, and try our best to make everything '35 much B5 We POSSlbly emi more attractlve to all comers. I-'el me Telleat. that ln my seventy
YEHTS. Bbollt i°I‘l-Y-nine years of tliat. travelling considerably ln mile,- parts of Canada. and ln New yolk State, and later years ln this Pro- vlnce, I never once wltnemed any. thlng so ridiculous as our lsland winter roads, and never dld I ever 59° 0” 5115' Public highway. the horse in between the runner tracks, mv-klna s. third or center mei; with the horse punching deep holes every SWP. as here. Recently, I met. mio of our Island farmers who stopped me on the street to tell me that he had spent is few winters in weslml 0ntB1'l°. and he was more than .snr- Pfl-SGCI When 1142 SOL out onto tha Wlnl-er .foods that they have there. Bo much fast clrlvlng, no pitches not slues, and snow as deep as we have here. But at once he could see why, The horse travelling on trlwk ln front of the runner which follows, keeping the track sinooin and firm, Dfevwtlns the sleiiih fiom cutting down, or starting slues. This farmer partlcularly noted the pleasure Whw Sinsle outfits meet; each horse Just steps over on opposite track and the outside runner only of each sleigh leaves the road while they D8-B5. then step back on their own track. Ls there a member ln our 1»€8lslature interested enough to brlns this sublect up for discussion?
The cost for the shift would be
so trifling that a. mlser would hard- ly refuse to have the change. Any Other system would be better than what we have had since the fir.~` settler landed here.
I un, Slr, etc.,
S. F. TARBUSII.
"MIXED" LAWS
Sir.-While lb Ls true that I dld 11°" 3'1" "Pm L¢8€" much credit for his theological Attainments, yet I "elf" BU-‘ipected he would fall to llillreclate the Irony of the opening remarks fn my letter of the 'ltli lnst. Therefore to dissolve the valnglori- ous halluclnatlon of victory that “OW fills his mlnd. I assure htm that at no time in our controversy hi!-B ml' vitality been lowered by lils bombastlc onslaughts. In fact, I would have been justified ln ignor- ing his contributions on grounds of lrrelevaney. The lofty views he lms, ln theory at least.. on the
(Continued on Page 9)
Deai'\ ale up uhhh. obo wheezing, in care- i~.~.-.».:.~ii~*“"£- i-.W 'il-:A breathing may and atop’ resistant bronchial ooullia ovamlalllg Em NIE:-lpiUi':i'nkes,no
lil 0oodfIl’Chronio Bmnchitla, too. in o|vi»|com'a RA!-MAH Caaaulaa
tum of the worthless note by the; bimk to the baker, by him to the, butcher and finally to the soriowlng
shoemaker.
In the present. instance the sur- prising point. ls that the story should have been so entirely obliter- ated ln a single generation and that the distinguished members of tho Mother of Parliaments should have found it necessary to don their thinking cape and even seriously to discuss the problem ln the lobbies of the House, and yet we ln Canada usually credit these same gentlemen with being able to give aces and spades to our own Commoners ln Ottawa, and possibly, for party or other reasons, some Islanders mllht include our representatives in this Cradle of Confederation aa in the same category, while friend Aber- liart ln Edmonton ls by some said to be capable of taking lessons from Westminster.
I am, slr, ew.,
ll. K. B. BIINING.
UAB! AND ILIIGIIS
Str,-I have reoefvod a latter from
my brother near Cleveland, Ohio, whose grandson was one of t-he nav aangara in an automobile atriiok by
with several drunks including driver. , This oar - with tba
a , -
win. oi°'»si'»°iin win °&iiiii° fn; the oar audniiaaely all hurt. one
rt
iii Er' .E ig; till irri
i
Si gi
- ,M A 6 S Pig Worm Powder
This is the season ui use
Pig Worm Powder. Just re- ooivoll a large shipment
_
MAGS CONDITION POWDER FOB HORSES AND CATTLE
Tories up the lyatem, cures
» all akin troubles and live! ‘ glosy coat of hair. For swal- loal |00. Ililrlfylng the blood and aa an eradleat-or of vom! It ia an emfalltng remedy.
MAC! HAIR BESTOBER
xi win mem my Mir 1°
lia ortlillll color.
An exoalleait hair food ion- Iag ap and liivlaontlnl I" the glalda, blood-vemela and
halt alll lolilli
rloh Hifi hair. PN- hofg the rmaark-
ins
pegs
:3 - a lsilili'
TH
Great -" 'irlaw 0. 0. ll. Given
. -Plilll Mission. .. Praaori|ilalaa.lyaolli1-
liquor
BU .ll B. I Wm!!! .
Q-or men mir. we and ai at .'li.
-r-';n.»zi.;~_. _ .