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FUNERAL SERVICES-The fun- eral of Capt. John Macmlne was held Friday afternoon from the McLean Funeral Home. where ser- vice was conducted by Rev. Carlyle Webster, Who "also conducted ser-

Harry Jewell. R._ B. Ramay, Murdock Ross, Herbert Anderson and Don- aid McKinnon. Interment was in ;he People's Cemetery.

NAME TOURIST COMMITTEE —-A committee of the Board o! Trade has been appoiritcd to deal with matters arising out of activity in the field of tourist traffic It is generally supposed that. next summer Canada will be visited by tacationists in greater numbers than ever and added numbers will un- doubtedly seek rest and recreation, in gid about Charlottetown. The committee under the chairmanship of Mr. T. W. I... Prowse is as fol- lcws: Lt Col. D. A. MacKinnon. Messrs. R. L. Cotton, A. H. Mould, J. J. Morris and P. W. Clarkin.

FIRE COMPANY MEETS - Th6 annual meeting of The Charlotte- town Fire Insurance Co.. Ltd. was hcld in the Y. M C. A. on Thuns- day evening, Feb. the 8th. and a large number of Shareholders were present. The chairman of the meet- ing was President A. C. Duchemin. The reports submitted to the meet- ing of the past year's business was quite encouraging. and showed the Company to be iii excellent fin- aiicinl position. with practically no liabilities of any account. The Company's business is done alto- gether within the City's limits, and none but the safer risks are entertained. The fire loss for the year was smal. mid irith this for- tunate condition. coupled with the fact that practically, every premium was promptly paid. the Company. after paying its usual Dividend to the Shareholders. was able to add considerably to its Reserve ac- counLThc old Board of Directors was tendered a hearty vote of thanks for their faithful services during ilie year. and were unani- mously reeiected to carry on for another year. The following con- stitute the Board: Messrs. G W. Ritchie. A. C. Duchemln, G. G. Hughes. E. S. Coffin. and Dr. J. W. McKenzie. who met later and appointed officers as follows: Presi- dent-—A. C. Duchemin. Vice- Presldent-G. G. Hughes 59C"-

xry-Treasurer --Dr. J. H. Ayers.

ST. JAMES CHURCH The Rev. Dr. R. Moorhead Legato yesterday celebrated the tenth an.- niversary of his first. service in St_ James church. He reminded the

Congregation that the primary ob- .

jcct of a minister should be to preach the gospel and that philo- sophic and humanitarian studies while important in themselves should not force religion from the gililpit. In the evening he spoke of

e relationship bet/ween God and man, and taking as his theme the story of the Prodigal Son. The special mu-ic at the morning service was the anthem “What Are These"- Stainer. by the choir. In the even- ing Mrs. N. D. Maclcan and Mn. J. A. Larwson sang e duet "Grant Us Thy Peace"-Verdi.

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. ‘IT IS ANNOUNCED by the M-utual Life Assurance Companly cf Canada that. Fulton Campbcl of Montague is now their representa- tive in that district. ‘Mr. Campbei is a well known business man in Montague and well able to capaply itct a5 their representative.

L-266-2-l2-li. ..'Mr. C. A. Beer and Mr. Crabbe of Charlottetown were in

Montague Thursday on business.

"Mia Claire Stewart who has spent the past three weeks visit- ing friends in Montague. returned to her home ln Murrav Harbour Wedneviiz-JI

In Memo riam

MRS. l/OUISE G. HENRY

The death took place in the Prince Edward Island Hospital on February 1st of Mrs. Louise G. He in her 66th year widow oi 01a atc Ahram L. Henry.

The deceased leaves to mourn one son William, also the following brothers and sisters: John Harper Maiden. Mass. and Roland of this elty; Mrs. Albert Watkins Biz. Imils, Mo" Mrs. Walter Over-ton Everette. Mass.

A member oi the Central Chris- lan Church. the missionary society

d which aha was treasu-er for the.

Ialt twenty four years. her in the activities of’ the will be lreatl missed. The tuners which took place lunday, Deb. 4 from McLean Fun- 1 ttcnldecgpmlhcefagewicri m; argely a . e rv we; conducted by Roscoe W. Nice Rotor, assisted by the Ohurcli Giolr and Indies of the L. 0. B. A. held their own funeral service

place church

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The pal bearers were the f0.- lewlng church officers W. PI- atevenson, Wm. L. Smith. J. H mlfiams. N. Pints. I‘. M.

Author. soldier and Lord Tweedmi

crowned by the higher when one takes into full account this“ comparative obscurity of his or n. Be was born a. Scotnnan. Nl-Nd the rolling hills. ti” - grown moor; end quiet. fertile val- leys of the Scottish Borderland. ‘His tat-her. Rev. John Mastei-wn Buoimn. was minister 0d’ the Free Church at Brougham Green. in

torate in a country whose his tcemed with theol tradition I 10nd Tweedsmulfs . Anna

human. once uuoted a familv friend ‘as saving: “It's not blood the Buchans have in their veins; it's ink." Of whatever consistency. his life-stream drove him to prodigious activities in literature. His writings are marked by diversity and sua- tained Quality. Before he became vernor-geneml oi Canada in 1935 i e had written nearly 60 volumes. Iran zng from biographies to his- lwrvubelles lettres and romances. This literary output had as its source a curiosity about things and people that led him to parallel and make possible his writing activity by extended and unorthodox travel. Ixss man three months nf-t-er his arrival in Canada. in mid-wintor. he visited mining areas in North- ern Ontario and Quebec. The sum-

t-lc rim. ouesti Eskimos. learning from the fliers W110 pilot- ed him north.

“No doubt it is necessary icr me to engage in a great deal of en- itertainment at Government House." he once confided. “But the |prospcct of entertaining repeated-i lly people whom I have met time and time again is considerublv less attractive than the prospect of getting: around the country and meeting the people who are work- ing to build up Canada "I want to meet the western ‘fanners. the miners oi the north. |the ordinarv citizens of both races. t and of all crecds.” He was not long ‘in putting U115 program into 0061" JLKIOII. and the outposts _of Canada 'soon know him—the first gover~ l nor-general whose distinction‘ was | based chiefly upon literary achieve- merit.

Wealth ‘of Spirit

g Oh Aug. 26. i875. John Buclntn {later to become Lord Tweedsmuli iof Elsfield. was born. I-fls child- ihood was spent on the Border where he imbibed that love of na- ture which was to express itself in his subsequent writings, and where

‘record the sto

affairs the keen- oi his own innetrating in-

tellect. War produced changes. The of his trnlversity davs. Nelson. wemt to France. l-IewaskllledatAi-rasonthesame day as the future governor - era.l's brother.

Alastair Buohan. This was on April 8. 1917. the dav

can which the Canadians captured v .

G trio troml had pireve icd Joni? Buchan from n on

active service earlier: and it was while he was confined to bed that he wrote the detective novel. "The Thirty-Nine Steps." He thought, it might amuse the soldiers." Later. his health improving. he {dined the British Headquarters staff. becom- ing liaison officer between G. H. Q. and th

h Dost. of

e director of information. under the prime minister,

Lord Tweedsmuir cherished warmlv the memories of his mili- tary seriice. "Nothing makes for deeper understanding among nxen than to have foullbt in a cam- paign." he said in one of his Can- adian addresses. He recalled mod- estiv that he had himself served "as a trooper in the Rand Mount- ed Rifles" diuriruz the South Afri- can so nil-Dov." he con- fessed on another occasion. "as when I am among old soldier.s_ with them I feel entirely at home."

He was wont to speak with pride oi his old regiment. the Royal Scots Fusiliers. whose Great. War history he had written. Oi all h literary tasks. he admitted that to rv of a battalion which had served in the conflict fYOm 1914 to 1918 “was the most baffling.”

“One becomes lost 1n the gigan- tic movements in the midst, of which those units operated." he said. "and compared with which they seemed s0 small."

Writing books became his ed- ucation. work. amusement and recreation all in one, His mind stored with the mos/t varied know- ledge, endowed with a, keen imag. iiiatiou and a facility of expres- sion. he wrote with great rapidity.

Some Things Unread

Oi his own reading he once made this interesting confession: “Though I am a voracious reader and pretty widelv read. there are wide gaps in my reading. In Eng- lish I have never been able to get near the end of Spenser-s ‘Faerie Quen‘; I have read comparatively little oi the lesser Elizabethan

Ihls romantic imagination was fed ,bv the legends and the ancient glories of the erst/While Debi-liable

Land.

The Buchans were not rich ma- terially. but the Free Church min- ister endowed his son with an iii- taflecitual wealth and a capacity for studv which laid the founda- tion 0i’ his future success. the aid of bursaries, the youth entered and maintained himself at Glasiww University. and passed on to Oxford. Here, again. he won

lseveral prizes. including the New- digflte Prize in English verse.

' His first attraction was wwards ilaw. and public life also beckoned him. Indication of his bent was given when in 1899 he was elected ipresident of the Oxford Union. ‘while two years later he was ad- mitted to the English bar. in the ‘Middle Tempe

He was destined, hovever. to ac- quire fame in a sphere other than law. He had alread/v published some works while aft Oxford. and he cnloved a certain prominence , as an earnest and thoughtful ischolar. However. prospects opened

up before him of service in an- |nther capacity; and in August. 11901, he went lo South Airiczi n5 sccretaiy to lord Miliier.

was associated Mth that. gieait pro-consul of E-mpire dllIiIlit the difficult years following the Boer War. and returned to Eng- land enriched by his experience. But hc had abandoned his desire for eminence in law, and. on the promptimzs of 5th Oxford friend. Thomas A. Nelson. he ioined the puhiishing firm of Thomas Nelson and Son. London.

‘This was his real metler. Instal- led in the active management of the company he was responsible for many of its successes. ivhile at the same time he continued to write books. Biographies, novels. history ticiired from 11L»- tireless pen. and the outbreak of the Great Wop did not do more than inter- rum his work temporarily.

work Extended

Liaison officer between General Headquarters and ,d"lrector of information fortheBri- fish government, he brought to his duties all the indefatigabe enthus- las/m with which he entered into all his activities. Hi5 business con- nection continued throughout and he enlarged its scone. He was a member of the committee sot up ivy the London Times to examine the typography of the paper, lic became a dir tor of Reuters. and. in general, Dill‘ cd ills course in the field of writing. of new; and publishing,

Member oi the British House of Commons in 1927. for the Scot- tish Unlverslties. lord high cum- missioner to the Church of Scot- land in 1933 and i934. governor- genera-l of Canada in 1935. chan- cellor of Edinburgh University in 1937, he was a man upon whom were showered manv honors. Unl- versltlcs and learned societies be- Stowe; urpon him standard marks of high distinction. In 1933 King 'Ge0rge V vested him with that ex- elusive badge-a Componioriwte of Honor.

In his career of concentration on literature. his achievements were the reward of diligence, of apoli- mtlon and conscientious work: and John Buchan-or Lord Tweedsmuir. as he became 1n 1935 —-a name synonymous with de- voted industry and honourable ac- liahment.

19M. to

comp He was married. in

Busan Charlotte, dalightcr of the late Hon, Norman Grosvenor, her- self a writer 0f considerable charm, Four children were bum. three sons and one daughter.

Changes of War

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miner of intricate difficulties

dramatists; or of Addison and Steele. I have never been able to finish a novel of Richardson: cannot read Blake. except for a few lyrics; and I've stuck in every- thing of Charlotte Brontels ex-

never read Prescott. I have never iiinished Carlyles ‘Frederic? and filiave onlv dipped info Ruskin In {my reading of contemporary liter-

ature the lacunae are not gaps but chasms." In spite of these modest neg-

ntions he wrote llluminntinglv on many topics. His biography of Sir Walter Scott—his favorite novelist -stands n; one of the best: he produced his classic life of Crom- well, pQfifflYCd Montrose in a manner that clevatcd this 111- starred nobleman high above con- temporary figures, interpreted Julius Caesar in a vignette that disclosed the ‘oiographers com- plete familiaritv with Roman his- tory and was introductory onlv to his greater work on Augustus. I-ie concluded "Augustus" when he was govcmor-gcnera..~a monu- mental wcil:. the manuscript of which he ended with the phrase 0f thanksgiving, “Laus !" It had engaged him for several years; nndits completion gave him the highest satisfaction, The manu- ,script he presented to the library of McGill University.

Many Other Works

He called his romances his re- creation. "Onlv in so far as the novel is a. development of and akin to the fairy tale docs it fullv suc- ceed." he said. Lord 'I‘weedsmuir's novels are an expression of a spir- it which the outstanding writers of his own nationality seem al- ways to have embodied to an uri- usual degree.

The spirit of the boy grown-up. who can srtill be thrilled with stones of adventure and high em- prise. inflected itself in those writings. His heroes are attractive. vigorous fellows. chivalrous, Da- triotic and fuil of resourcefulness. They become entangled in all man- and ‘conspiracies. and always emerge ltriuznphant. extrlcatcd bv their ‘piwn stout hearts and lofty duali-

es

"Prester John." "Courts of the Morning," "Greenmari-tle." "Hunt- ingiower," "The Three Hostages" and his manv other works of fic- tion are What: he intended them to bc%minenn.lv diverting. He once said the idea for was suggested "by the adventures of my friend. Lawrenctf-Iiawrence of Arabia. '

Of Lord Tweedsmuir a well- known Ernglish reviewer said: “JOhn Buchari carries a merrv

heart and wherever there is ad- venture to be found his imagin- atlon is first. He cares less for the adventures of the sou! port-raved in certain tvpes of modern fic- adveniures of ro- mantic warrior spirits."

Early Indmitriolll

Until he became Canada's gov- cmor-genei-nl, Lord Tweedsmuiris public career was devoid of the spectacular. if one excepts the oc- casion when he was elevaicd from plain John Buohan to the peer- age. His early life was one of in- dustry. A son of the mouse. he had all the youthful Scots eager- nesrfor learning. and the course he pursued did not differ from that taken by many of his fellow- countrymen, Bv winimiv bursaries he was able to enter and main- tain himself at Glasgow Univer- sity; and from there he proceeded to Briisenose College. Oxford.

In 195. at 80. he took his mas- ter's degree in arts. in succeeding years further IIOIIOTs were acouir-

Buchan had much to do with originating Nelson's famous "Seven-

penny Series". a venture which‘ gave ‘it tremendous fllllp to the‘ book-publishing business. and

cd when he won the fiianhope historical essav nrlrc in 1897 and next vcar the famous Nowdiqnte Prize of 2i guineas for English

"Grcenmantle" .

Biographical Sketch Of Lord Tweedsmair In Private And Public Life

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THE CHARLOTTETOWN GUARDIAN

ve . It was mt Oxford that he wrote flint hfificlio b.1196." a prose o oved ‘rweedssidc expressing n love of nature and I ualitv of writing

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which have been likened to Words- worth and Thoreau:

“The quietness of 115-60 great that the most- distant sounds fell distinctly on the ear and one heard the running u-mwav waters-was enlivened by the

. gor- geous s and the activity of bird and insect. The flash brown bees. the wavering flight of stripes. the dart of wawr-ouzels,

ave liveliness to the uuiet valley. glue hills out against the aadifron skv. great violet-colored shoulders and peaks looking re-

mote in the evening lair." Service In South Africa

Leaving Oxford. But-hon shaped his course for the bar, and in i901 was admitted in the Middle‘ ‘remple. In that year. however, cir- cumstances ntcrvened to change the whole course cf his career. The South African War was in pm- m. and Sir Alfred Mlincr, gov- ernor of Cape Colony. was called to undertake the g

Tr cal

State. which the British. England in May. was elevated to

the peerage and when he went back to South Africa in August he took John Buchan with him as his vato secre ,

He can tasks fo ed. chief among them the e1 of

remod

the administration in South Africa and the difficult negotiations for peace. Between times. Buchan found another outlet for his en- as a trooper in the Rand Mounted Rifles. With Iord Kitch- ener and Milner he was associated

the terms of surrender sign- ed at Pretoria. in May. 1902. and in the Peace 0d Ifcreenizing. which brought the Boer War to a cose

Returning to England, he was diverted to a fresh channel when he joined the Nelson publishing film: and for years devoted him- self tc the business of the com- pimv and to writing. The Great War. and the veins following it. saw him thorougihlv established as on author of unquestioned repum His monumental work, “The His. tory of tho Great War." several volumes temporary

conflict. it production.

He had acquired a love for pub. lic life. and in i927 he was elected to the House of Commons as Con- servative member for the Scottish Universities. As a Dfl-rliamentariaxi he did not. however. thrust him- self to the forefront: he was a backbcricher. SDeflklng rarely

One of the honors Scotsmen consider it worthy to aspire ls that of lord high com- missioner to the Church of Soot- land. This office embodies per- sonal representation of the sov- ereign atqthe general asemblv of the Scottish kirk. For i; few days Minuo-liv all the ancient glories of I-Iolyrood House-the old palace of the Stuart kings which nestles in the shadow of Arthur Seat. in EdiIlblllEh-Jilfi resurrected. with the lord high commissioner holo-

iiuz court In the name of the mon- arch.

Appolntcd to Canada

John Buchan was appointed lord high commissioner in 1933 am. again in 1934; and he adorned his high office to the complete satisfaction of hi5 compatriots This Dost was n modest. prelimii» arv to the next honor conferred upon him-his appointment as gov- ernor-general o Canada.

In 1935 the ‘l of Bessborougih returned to Ehigland. and Cana- dians. who were not unacouaintied with the name of John Buchan. were pleased when Prime Minister Bennett announced that Beu- borough would be succeeded bv Buchan For a. while there was some speculation on the problem royal representation in Canada being entrusted to a commoner. Tradition and custom had endow- ed this office as a prerogative of royalty itself. or. at least, as that of - the hereditary aristocracy. These speculations were resolved when King George V. elevated John Buchan dlieot to the peerage creating him first Baron 'l‘weeds- muir of Elsficld.

In his title were combined the names of his two homnv-Twecds-