PAGE FOU_R_ THE GIIARLOTTETUWN GUARDIAN l'relldent—W. (‘limiter l. hlcLuni, M. l‘ xéi-cri-tary-Lleun-Cul. u. A. bluliinnon. D- l 0- Ildilur uml Slunuglng UinnhliurQI-“Bb Darby's". Ascocnatu El|ll0fI—-l mink “u rr an - - llurnln] lm-ly (luullllrll mm $3.00 prr yc-uritlll fiifiviieldflgilafri “.30 per year \ln admin-e) uni-led in Lunmu n 1931 _— ER, 10. T ---“‘_ THURSDAY. DECE -.' . A FEW OJIISSIONS So man," romantic incldcnts are to any mention or the estaiiiisiimeii be mud l“ me early “Mo”, or m“ of thc silver fox industry. Maritime Provinces that it Ls. not to a form suitable for school tcxt- “mm as iwentihiive thousand dob pool; purposes has now been made Lars}, by Prof. V. P. Scary, M. A., of l-iallrl only three Prince Edward isiflm-i 1B1. N- S» “h” h“ published‘ scenes are shown in the bwk- 0H9 through MEWS» “V J‘ Gm“ L“ Cm‘ is from a sketch, familiar to many P511)’. Limited» n“ cxcemmgly inter‘ of ou": readers, o.’ Charlottetown in estlns find W“ Wmte“ “Omme m" 1843. Another is a somewhat ether- titlcd “The Roman“ "5 m“ Mmi‘ ealizcd view of the Experimental time Provlrwtfi!’ The “of” of ‘he Fox Ranch at Summerside. A third voluuc may b! Judi?“ ‘mm the shows the shore of Malpeque Bay. chapter hmdinsi. which a" as W" This iimiu-d SCICCIIOIPCGH only be lows: The .\l.ii'it".mc Prtnimcs long “Mounted for on [he ground that BS0; 0411i)‘ Sfmflllmlt? m" Imliims the publishers were unacquainted of ‘the lliaritllllfl PiiflllllT-‘i AYMU“ with the excellent available mater- bccomcs NOV? SCOUT» m" Emmi‘ lal with which they might have en- settle the Nlaritimcs: Port ROW! ‘mlicd me volume, 80d LOUiSbUUTT-il m" wmldmg “if Tiic deficiencies nbo\'c noted are Halifax and LUXWIYJ"??? the 135i ‘the more regrettable inasmuch as ' struggle of the French in thc Mnrl- the book is bound i0 make a strong times,- the exilc of thc Acatllaus; ‘liippeai m young Canadian Feb the coming of the New‘ Engluntlr-rs iiiaps, in a subsequent issue’ the aw and tlic wzir of 1776: thc Loyalists iiim. and pubiishers wiii iimi more come to Nova Scotia and Prince Ed- ‘Space ioi. Prince qdward Island ward Island; the birth incidents and pictures» Bmmwick- "The Lolmi-‘t Pmfilwcfi That there will be subsequent issues "10 wmlng 0f H" Scms? m? P"1"“' jWC have no doubt. The subject mat- lccrs; thc ltfnritimc Provinces a. ‘mi. is so interesting in use", the hundred {wears ago; the lvhitc ships; zauihoris Style is so ciem. and ex_ the New B?"""5"'1°k@1'55 71m” m" ccllent, that "The Romance of the M~'"ih'm° Pr°"m“"5 151T“ "l1 =Marltimc Provinces" bids fair to be- In his preface the author says: lwme a schooimom ciéssim It is ‘ivith this thought in mlhd that we have ventured to point out certain of New names “Practically no account of po- litics in thc Maritime Pcovinccs Vloe-Prouldenl-d. B. Bus-no“ ii _ Governor of this Province, who isi surely deserving of equal credit in i With present conditions of the in- "(prmng W" the subject has a dustry the author is so completely perennial attraction for students. An out o! touch that he wines; “A pa“. attempt W 3am“ m“ mmtviia! i” oi’ fine foxes is sometimes worth as ‘nines av m: wiiv proportion of it lacked the com- forts of life, and was not in a state to contribute much to the wealth or the well-being o! the State. There is little of strength in over- crowded clties, or in battalions of unemployed. As it is. our growth is steady and substantial, keeping natural pace with the development- o.’ our resources. Artificial ct- tempts to force that growth, or to folst upon the country more people {hill it can immediately support. could produce nothing but hann. t i Britain's Prime Minister, Ramsay MacDonald, will head a British delegation, including six Cabinet ministers, to the Disarmament ‘Conference at Geneva, in February. Among those who will accompmy‘ him will be Sir John Simon, Foreign secretary; J. H. Thomas. Secretary for the Domlnions, and the Secwtary of State for War and the First Lord of the Ad- Imlrality. With delegates of this istandlng from Britain, Canida ‘cannot afiord to send other than the strongest representation she can summon. Mr. Bennett himself will be unable to go (for Parliament will bcinsessionl but the delegation should be headed by such a. figure: as Sir Robert Borden-Ottawa iJoumll. Let us not be carried away by the fetish of size. We could have, a much larger population, but that would avail us nothing if a. large THE CHARLOTTET OWN GUARDIAN 031st fiubp % at Quanta \. ' Ry [mun W. Bnrlnn, M.D THE COMIVIDN COLD . . PUBLIC FORUM —1¢-—n This column II upon lot lhc discussion by eonacpcudclll o; quclllolll oflulcnct. The Charlottetown Guardian doe: not necessarily endorse the opinions of commudculc. "OTIIIEB DAYS” 1 speak of rheumatism as a, com- mou ailment and one of thc oldest, and likewise indigestion, but the one ailment that affects most people and affects them most often is the com- _‘ About the only accurate ‘atcmcnt "m" °°1d~ Am this wmml‘ ‘Md a!‘ of the incidents in O’Lea:y that day fects them whclhcr they live in a _ l6 that ii “med mil the pbople got warm or cold climate. [wet . , - ‘ i While there is no question Flt that Th, sgatemgnt; o; m; mhoyplhl. Jthere are more cases of common cold m. o; the people, m} gtoreg closed during thc cold or wet weather than and the 1mm“ ghul’, glpinsb the when the weather is fine and warm. i visitor; "e jugfl pct, correct. The nevchhcless it is not the weather it- lipeop], hem ghen a; now, n," noted Se“ ma‘ 15 m blame- but m“ °wnifor their kindness and generosity. malmm‘ °1 “vmtg- t b I in i There were homes that. day so M“ w” “° mean l" ' crowded that the owners were afraid d°°rs and y“ with the m” breath 'the floors would not hold up under of cool or wet weather, life indoors Tim weight 3d mom,‘ P5719", becomes the rule, and immediately kitchen, we“ m gull 0| drawn“; w?" 2°81: ”°t°°°“1'é:“d "5 2mm’ people that, after they left, thé rugs as wo o wen y co are no un- d m Wei-e “ken “i, and known to many individuals before grieiifam they begin to live outdoors again or The vanities were w depleted o; apenhup the doors and windows of {cod m“ ma women had ‘ bu” e mm‘ night cooking further supplies for .f‘I.';“ZiZ‘§§..“.I§°Z.§‘5;'L"Z.‘f. :3: 5 The stores were open and crowdfld “tvazfihzgegmfil: 5am; iggivldual‘ with those seeking shelter. In my l‘ c“ tor every chair box and all That while the organisms are in ‘iamripaze was iuiiy ozicupied’ the same condition, the individual is n might be pouibie m“ some on. “°'=~ i ht hi. looked so evil and du- wh“ is likely me reason that the i-Xélfutcblevshat a lone woman would w“! gets “s start? shut her door, but it would be the Sin-Jean Autumn undertakes to describe what happened at an Or- ange tea some thlrty-twoyears n80 at 012817-- mhuw“ “uh F““'°°' whhhi Usually because the individual is “we 9°‘ lmprwed when we 1e" living more indoors, eating c. little m‘? 3°1d smndardi Wm be further. more food because the weather is a “Wed by m‘? Fmmh Surmx °n B“ little cooler, and getting even a little lmpflrts frvm Great; Britain Bndiless exercise because he is not out- other non-gold countries. It‘ doors to gel, it, amounts in our case to i5 percent. what, happens? 0H WP 0! existing tariffs. In the The wastes from the food because city two flcts are stressed. First. they have not been used up by ex- that it was gold hoarding by France ercise, are making the white cor- that was largely responsible for puscles of the blood, the disease driving us off the gold standard, fighters. 01W 10°51? 01' 011°! the" and, secondly, that our Ql-gdg attention b0 taking CHIC 0f Q1688 exception and not the rule that day. If the other tales of this writer are of the same tenor they are hard- ly worth the space they occupy. ‘ I cm, Bir, etc., i A. l. MATBESON. London that this policy, is to be enlarged and the question of Eur pire wheat purchases on c. quota plm is to be tried. It is the in- tention of the Government, pro- has been included. in spite of thc shortcomings which detract from its ' federation could be clcscribcd in ‘Maritime Provinces. Onc may sccki fact that responsible government in Canada hat-l its birth H1011.‘ that Confederation was insuirctl and matlc possible by Maritime Province statesmen. and that these provinces have givcn four prime ministers to thc Dominion. Tho reason for this omission is that. in my opinion. thc children I'm‘ 3111110. and which might tend to ln- flucnce adversely its popularity in _this Province. A MILK MYSTERY suffered severely from ‘ French competition during the I period when the franc was slump-i scope in international economics! and thedirect result of the French‘ whom this book is intcudcq arc ton immature to unclorstan-l thc princinlrs involved in political questions." How is milk made? This i5 one of the unsolved mysteries of science, ‘according to Sir William Dampier, . 1t is hcrc that one must take cx- F. R. S., who reviews, in the Em- icption to thc author's attitude. iPirc Marketing Board's latest re- in thc treatment of his subject. 1110"’ the EXT/Elli Mid objects of Surcly the story oi the birth Of coh- idahv research. The cow has a closely-kept. secret language as interesting to a child as Fm‘ the 5919131555 B"! filling VJ find any account of the founding and i H7 ("m It 15 o! IY5V°1555 imlimt“ settlement of trade ccntrcs. To omit lance t0 an Wm) P79011199, 5611 0!‘ an reference‘ as Pr“ Sea“. docs. idrink milk, for it will explain why to the first meeting of thc Confcd- 1mm‘ L‘ always °hlmBlnB and "We? station Fathers at Charlottetown i twice the same- Milk varies 11°‘? only and the momentum; conscqucnccsifrom brew m Need and day m which resulted from that mcctizig, is idw’ but fmm °°w t° °°W and 11'0"! morn ng to evening. to leave untold the most romantic l episode in thc whole history of thc Canada is particularly mterested in the Droblem now that every ef- fort is being made to increase her ' “ck production and export Variation in milk wmllfisition may cause farm- crs to find themselves the innocent victims of a legal prosecution, Sir William Dampier says. But it has in vain for any reference to this meeting, or to thc Confedcration Chamber in which the mcctini! took Not cvcn a picture of this liv: mor; dairy produce, place. historic chamber ls given, , the book is embellished with over a hundred illustrations, many of them of much less romantic and historic i _ _ interest. iquakty of milk and cheese which There are other omissions which m‘ tum dehrmines the market‘ cannot fail to give displeasure to Hzurgges B; fgrthler “udy o‘ readers of the book in this Province. herltailce etc“ will; cnilnyatzzlitil; In a chapter devoted to thc story of mm ivaflgnon" the French settlement of the Marl- ' times thc reader interested in this phase of Prince Edward Island his- tory is fobbed ofl‘ with the statement that “Doublet and Gom built a few EDITORI4L NOTES This is the season when everyone looks forward to reunions and soc- the most convincing argument yet' adduced for a tariff policy on our part-London Bureau. . If we follow a. policy of incom- prehenslon of the live forces of‘ history, there will always be peoples driven by despair to have recourse to arms. Dissatisfaction and un- rest are as dangerous to inter- national as they are to national llfc,c.nd they can be disrpelledby obeying the spirit of justice, and not by stiffening the material forces of repression. We must fortljy Justice and not Justify force. _If justice be the foundation of States, it is also the foundation for their peaceable co-opei-ation. Nor do I mean by justice a mere systcm of treaties, of written or verbal agreements, of international courts. I mean justice as a standard of conduct as a moral Chelpl wastes. with the result that the or- ing heavily. But sentiment has no ‘wrkr a little more exercise to burn up the surtax in the city view, is to afford w: o year, has become the largest wheat vided that it has the support and backing of the various Dominions. to secure a guaranty that an in- creased proportion of the wheat milled in the United Kingdom is of Empire gwwtlu This is somewhat vague and indefinite. The amount which cause thc common cold are thus left free to do their nd the cold results. Getting outdoors more, ganisms taking a stes from food, is the best method TO A CERTAIN MYSTIC Sometimes you saw what other! could not sec, sometimes you heard what no one else could hear: A light. beyond the unfathomable dark, A voice that ear. untied only to W1" And did you. voynsins thc tides °‘ vision In your lope shallop, steering by what star, ’ rance, breathed On winds impalpcble, from who knows how far? But; did you once, Columbus or the spirit, Essay the crossing of that unknown sea, Really touch land beyond the 11115?!» of rumour And find new worlds who" IN! were dreamed to be? All, why brought you not back the word of power, The charted course, the unambigu- ous sign, Or even some small seed, whence we . might grow A flower unmistakably divine? IF?!FIIIPIIIHIIHIIFHIHIIPIFHIFIIFIFHFHIFIIHIIPMRIFHFHFRFMPTIIPIIF qElUdllldliidllldilndlikdJlit=fllélllciliidiiididIUdlUdUsflUdUdliEJihflIEIUEJUdlDdllLdJl-fllidiudfld But you came emPW'h5nded' ‘md your tonal"! Babblcd strange tidin85 none will“ wholly trust. Arid if we half believed you. it W85 only Because we would, and not because we must. _c, G. D. Roberts. nliiHllélIPlIlFMiF-1IIH1 wheat are moire mwn- The best qualities of Canadian wheli are oontinulnB u, ehiw a sushi preference in price owing to their higher milling qualities. But the Catch hints of some Elysian mc- {l DECEMBER 10, 19313 An Excellent Display of PEARL I VOR Y Decorated and Plain in _ Various Colors. We have always given s l | A Ilnc of goods for the Chrlstlliiegntradsnutallznfielllflzcfi 1:1 l: 33mg?“ "Ill Your than ever before to cater t4; your Our stock isvull new and procured f makers. It includes Toilet and Manicure matzhebxzilm cased, Brushes, Combs, Mirrors, Nail Files, Butlers Scissors, Cuticle Knives, Photo Frames, Aicmizers, Pcwdelr Boxes, llair Receivers and various other articlu, tango‘; otgiyis year are lower than over, and will“; Now is the time to make your selections _ Y any article put away till required. ' o“ c“ h“. w‘! Will b8 818d to have you call and inspect our good; Without my obligation t0 Buy - can. EARLY. ' a I! E. A." -—Druggz'st l"; " Headquarters For Toiletries, Smokers Goods, Chocolat , eh. Christmas advantage .of having a quota volume while the market remains free is one which might commend itself to the Dominion of Omada. “Did you give the penny to the monkey, dear?" "Yes, momma.’ "And what did the monkey d0 avoiding the common cold. o‘ the quota Muzak“ is 7o p" cent, but this must surely include t (h! ta thc British quota as wail as that of ea o s thc Dominicans; and there is no (Monireai Sm.) assurance that fixrtimr shipment; Great Britain, which fifteen °t mp1” “hut-Wm “Puck.” centuries “so used in export under the plan than JVGN pur- 20,o00,o00 b his r h t us e o w ea every question of a specified amount of Empire wheat at a. fixed price could be entertained by Canada. Nor would it be possible to con- vince the British ‘ntiller that he should pays higher price for the wheat grown on thcCanadim prairies than for other wheat sell- ing on the Liverpool market im- ported from other countries. Moreover, c. fixed price for quota purposes would involve competiti-n between Empire producers and foreign suppliers o.’ the British market for the remaining amount of British requirements. It is hardly conceivable that any large amount of Canadian wheat could importing country today. It was when Great Britain started on her great period o! industrial expans- ion that her decline as a. wheat- produclng country began and the repezl of her protective tariff on wheat in 1846 definately indicated to the world her intention of plac- ing industry before agriculture and transforming her cities into market-places, not merely for the country in wh‘ch they were situ- ated, but for whole continents. Tcday Britain imports of wheat "rid flour a. total of 225,000,000 bushels, which is 80 per cent of chased without it. Obviously no] a. w dcr significance—it affects the i habit, as a spirit of co-opcratlon; he, ammai supply o; 2313309900 I mean 015"“ wmlwunded O1 bwhels, derived from twenty differ- huma“ sympathy- ient countries. Th'sliuge importation ‘amounts to one-third of the .WOl'ld’S total movement of wheat and 60 per cent of the total ex-i parts from Canada. It is a truismi to s"y that the price o.‘ world wheat is fixed at Liverpool. But Britain is a buyer only. Montreal and Chicago, Whrilpcg and New York are constantly buying and selling grain, making sm‘ll profits out of rising or falling markets. Not so Liverpool. Britain I've: be- cause she can purchase wheat and other foodstuffs cheaply and her long experience of trading in this tin has made the corn broker of While numbers of Ameriotn banks have been falling, there has been no falliu-e in Canada, and, in fact, the lust time that c. Canadian btnk cltsed its doors was as far back as i923, when the Home Bank collapscd. Advocates of branch banking say this is the reason for the immunity that the Dominion has enjoyed. But the experience of Canada is not nece-sarily a tribute to branch banking. It ls a tribute to wisdom of administrat- fishing posts in Ilc St. J can (Prince Edward Island)" l“ ‘=“1°Y""“°- Members 01 We fflm- has $10,000 or $10,000,000 of capital, ily who have been apart for months, it will never succeed unless it bases be sold at a fixed price, while other Canadian wheat was offering at a. world price, which might vary considerably from the fixed_ figure. There is no reason, however, Why some form of quota. for Em- Plre wheat. so far as volume is confierhed. should not be pracFcali Pfllmfl- M present less than 50' per cent of British imports of Extensive references, with accom- panying illustrations, arc lllfitif! to perhaps for years, make their ar-iits conduct on the old rule that ion. No matter whether a. bank Britain pwbabiy shrewdeai trcfficker o.‘ agricultural produce in the world. ‘the rendering o.‘ service must take Ever since the w“ the" h“ Fort Beausclour. Fort. Lawrence, rangements to get together at the time of Yule. precedence over the gathering of profits. Much of the trouble in been a constant outcry that the land under tillage for whex‘ in Brltifn has been continwlly de- Loulsburg and othcr Frcilch strong- holds; but none to For‘. Iii Joie, which might wcll have tcmptod the historian seeking a romantic setting for a description of the French oc- cupation of this Province. The story of the early shipbuild- lng days in the Maritlmes is well told by thc author, though his be- stowal of the Nova Scotlan nick- name of “Blucnose" upon the ships and seamen of all three Maritime Provinces is rather confusing. Prince Edward Island ships and seamen had a rcfu‘. '..;n and appellation of their own. Fox farming is stated to have been lscgun in Prince Edward Island by Iwbert Culton in 1887. There is no A curious story comes from Chi- caso about a Judge who donned old clothes and was accepted as aI gangster. "There surely is some error here," says a contemporary, "for whoever may be forced to wear old cloths in Chicago it is surely not a gangster." The monthly Mmmcrcial letter for November issued by the Canal. inn Bank 0! Commerce notes a slight expansion in the heavy in- dustries and a rise of tcn per cent. in the level of prices for farm pro- ducts. Jmprovlng the purchasing power of the farmer and reflecting in the greater activity of cei-tgln the bi er Amcric they agave lost tgiicifariziviiihis ttlileai: cwwmg‘ Efforts have been made raison cfetre, which is commercial to stimulate greater production ma banking. They have become 1m promises put forward by politicians veatment bgnkersraofiwn “Uta encourage wheat-growing. But changa ‘until recently the policy of "no tux- ation for food", which defected Chamberlain before the War, has with the holiday two weeks been a most potent factor in re- distant the spirit of Christmas is JIIUIIB artificial stimuli such u abroad and active. ‘The stores arcltarlffs 0r quotas. It was Mr. in holiday attire, show windowfiflhflwdflfs emphatic statement counters, shelves, are attructivclyiihlt the footl of the people must filled with goods utilitarian, enter 00¢ b9 tampered with that. went g tciningflplecsure-glvlng. Old 121N110!!! Why toward stifling Lord depressid: as he walks grollchllyifielvflrlrooks labours in 1920. along thclsti-eet is not even givcu With the return to power- cf thc a passing _‘ . His mime av!!! "W011 Government the problem is forgottm. Christmas mi will of the British wheat-grower h» be as Joyous c festival us any that become a? definite issue, and lut has preceded it and business will "F! it WM announced that the boom with its accustomed 0M9?‘ owmmenl would bring in g in Isigoing to “click”! the sales that were lost ldVéflifling. The 53mg ness. It is already booming uldJhecsure which would providc g reference to Mr. Cullen's Island partner, the present Lieutenant industries called upon to supply thc farmer's first needs. will boom more lively as the will“! quote of British when; m- IPPPOIOIW ’ Bfmlh millers. Wad comic from with it?" "He gave it to his father played thc organ." who IDEAL XMAS I I [T 1s HARD TO EQUAI. THE FLAVO AND AROMA OF BRA HMIN TEA _ TRY IT Sold only m Red, airtight packages. i PERIL ! GIFTS We curry a. compleu; Ilne of Hudnut. Toilet Articles. 3 Flowers Combination Gift Sets. Price $1.50 up to $0.03 3 Flowers Perfume. Price- . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 50c up to 86.00 3 Flowers Toilet Water. Price . . . . . . . . . . . . . $1.50 3 Flowers Dusting Powder. Price . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . 3 Flowers Bath Crystals. Price . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $1.00 3 Flowers Compacts. Pricc . . . . . . . . . . . .. $1.00 un to $6.00 Deauville Double Compacts. "Fe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $3.00 Narclssi Perfumr Price 51.00 Narcissi Toilet Water. Prior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. SUI“ Nurcissl Bath Salts. Prie» . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 51.00 Duborry Cnmnacts. Priv- . . . . . . . . . . . . .. $1.50 uh to 360" Dubarry Toilet Water. Pric- " .0" PHONE 315 in» 4Q This is no time for y long drawn out I experiments TODAY no advertiser can afiord to wait two or three "months to find out whether or not an M” By then it may be too late to do anything about ll! "l! meantime l Th‘ "It Y0"? 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