!___ THE CHARLOTTETOWN (‘SUARDIAW MAY 30, 1935 \. f EBIIAIILIITTETUWIIGIIAIIIIIAN t-I. Chalk: I Isl-Ian, I P lwntlfi-Linn -Col II A Vin-President, d I Iona“, I‘ l.) Iiu-llnnnn. l) D 0 ldllle and Iunaglag Dlrrefor—J ll Burn-n. I J l. Luau-lau- amino»- t- ranl \VIII1II llld II K Pnrrlr. ll"l|'ll "I"! ("Illlifll l"?! l5 0° oer III! (in advaaae) ddlivolbl. ll I0 be: you lln advance) ‘mulled In Canada and United Stain. TIVIIIRSDAYL May so, was. WORTH Y CA USES i ‘ti? Since its organization a few years $80 the Charlottetown Male Chorus {his given many excellent cone-arts, flu the city and in other parts of the jkovince. The varied nature of the programmes and the high musical "standard maintained have been the Those best qualified to judge have "hbted a continued improvement in “ll choral performances; others, “Blflwdhmercl? with a normal liking ‘:10! good music, have found a corres- lpondlng improvement in ihm- own ‘powers of appreciation as the con- certs proceeded. For there is an art ‘in listening intelligently to music, ‘which. like every art, must be per- 7lected by practice. The l'£'\\'.\l‘.I lo 1ihfle who have made this. cf" land it requires no tcclmical tr." 1,; ‘-— is enrichment emotionally and ' spiritually, ‘ ‘There ls profound meaning in the comm m bclief that Hcaven is same- Chow associated with choral singing and harp-playing. Music is inzlecd the highest form of praise, the pur- est embodiment of beauty, the near~ on of all the arts to the divine m I)! the Creator. Its practice and fir‘ enjoyment in the noblest forms were never intended to be a mere fash- ionable fad, an exclusive possession of the socially or culturally elite. In Germany and other countries whore music has reachsda high stage of development the compositions of Beethoven, of Mozart, of Schubert, in as popular in cafes and on the Itreet corners as in the concert hall {Q drawing room. And why not? It is to the credit of such organ.- ‘Lntions as the Charlottetmm Mule ‘lOhorus that they stimulate public .mt¢ for the better class of music: every conscientious efi'ort in this (‘direction creates further and more dtacting demands. One may hope ‘no see the time when the lamest {auditorium in Charlottetown will ~ he inadequate for any rplaas choral or orchestral per- of much favorable comment. ‘ - . could be lntzoduced into Canada to make use of waste flax fibre or, on the other hand, it could possibly Ilead to an export trade in the ifibre. By means of this process a ;fabric is produced which looks like din-en, and which has many of the zllatters good qualities. It is clam- fed for it that it is less liable to ‘ crease than linen." A MERITED TRIBUTE i The Halifax Herald pays the f0‘- dowing tribute to Premier Mac- , Millan‘. “Among those receiving honorary degrees from McGill University this year is I-lon. W. J. P. MacMillan, Premier of Prince Edward Island; and the Maritime people generally will applaud this “well-deserved rc- , cognition. ‘ "Pyince Edward Island has always been distinguished for the quality and capabilities of its public men. and of IIICSL‘ Dr. MacMillan certain- ly is not the least. He is leading an table Government ably, and he and his colleagues are giving the smallest Province of the Dominion an ad- ministration that ranks with the best. "It is always refreshing to visit The Island and to come in contact with the public men of that Pro- vincewho have such a thorough grasp of public questions, and who always appear able to discuss in- telligently and usefully any public matter, whether of Provincial or Federal concern." l i EDITORIAL zvorzrs This is Ascension Day. If the Bennett government gives assistance to farmers- ln buying fertilizer it will come as a blessed relief to many. The five men who frightened the Tl1'5¢',~Prlncc‘s horses in Glasgow by wav- , ‘mg a. red rag in front of them are fiormance, and when weekly or avenlabout of as much importance as ?ierru-week1v concerts of this kindnre three tailors of Tooley st. "ll be regarded as a. necessity- Qln the meantime-for this is looking Jihead, somewhatl-those who love hiuslo have the opportunity tonight hearing the Male Chorus in a yncw and well-balanced programme ~it the Prince of Wales College hall. Another organization deserving of , verysupportisthe Boy Scouts. To- ,‘ orrow evening, in the Prince of Mala College hall, the annual dis- l." ay and entertainment of the l. Edward Island Boy Scouts falaoclatlon is being given under the btronage of Lieutenant Governor 1a and Mrs. DeBlois. 200 '» u, 12s Cubs and Rover Crew a1 and interest. The PW- ' participating, and the occasion is unc for showing Publlfi W" fioda will go towards camp and Scouts are forbidden. , their regulations, to make begging t. ypgglg; they must-earn every cent Hence the PRYDDSQ tonight's entertainment, or at flow funds. of their funds. “i-hast one of the purposes. All 0111 ‘citizens hm e a strke in the Patriotic éyorl: which these boys are “villi!- nd a. large attendance tomorrow tight will make them feel that their glflorts are being “Plfleclflwd- FLAX PROCESSING c experiments being conducted in own flax. v "entirely successful." J-“Phc importance j .2- to Mall and Empire'- ' HA new fabric recently dill/QM)- . has a very inwifltlnz Wm‘ are 9f flax fibre and raw co:- Fmc process consists first in ting the fibre from flax. P. and similar plants by mach- moans, thus obviating the " cy 10: netting. rm fibres than refined/mixed and spun- vvhish the otirnr parts of the such A's weaving and aye- mown as the . Jaanftisuaderstoodnnnire llnlhld fibre whlchfliould . ’ p to vnate. The m: bldocortloatcd our i0 ammonium mole." Rlefizrence was made last Feb- ary in The Guardian to import- land by Mr. Franklin D. Smith. " onnerly of Charlottetown,‘ in the uction of linen from Omarlliifl A Canadian Press des- tch from London m today's ‘awe tes that me experiments ha" of Mr. Smith‘! invention is thus noted in the To- n by a large Mmchestnr will“! lion in that it is made £10m a' ioourt when lvifhicc was heard in i ‘The proposed new picture house jfor Charlottetown is not likely to materialize yet awhlk». The 01'0"“ oters stipulate for a 1012 in 5mm?- side‘ and at present there ls not one obtainable at a reasonable I figure. ; Under date 0f May 13th. the 18W lrvrr. William Reid, FS.A., of Frenchfort w.-otr: from Dundee: “Had a delightful motor drive in brother Jim's ca: from Dundee to Aberdeen on Saturday last via Cooper-Angus through Blangovwrie up to Gleashee and down to Braemer. After lunch we Visited Bulmoral Castle, the King's Scot- tish home, and along by Deeslde tr that great city of the North, Aber-i deen. A very busy place and lilting signs of depression there. Through-i out the country, meadows and’ grazing are all dotted with lambs and ewes. Flowers M’! all i1b100m in the gardens, and all grain crops are above ground, probably as far advanced as in the middle of June in P.E.I." It will be recalled that Mr, Reid regrettably, suddenly pas- sed away two days later, on May 16. Men who quit the ‘ellef camps organized by the Dominion Govern- ment lri British Columbia have been receiving the straight advice from Ottawa, Victoria and Vancouver that they had better go back to the camps pending consideration of their complaintsAt the scene of the troubles on the Coast it is gen- erally admitlfld that ‘the strikers have been misled by Communist agitator-S, whose mission it is to destroy the system of government as constituted in Canada, as well as to destroy prope_rty\owncd by companies and individuals. Proof of the latter fact was given in isome of the disturbances in Van- couvcr, when the mob entered stores and sr-q shed showcases and scatt-emd goods about. In cane in- stance, so unruly and defiant did the strikers become that Mayor McGeer, of all persons, was com- pelled to read the Riot Act. A great deal of int/crest is being evinced in a iiffllch dispute It Kentvllle. The united ," ‘ con- vention of the Maritime provinces. embracing sea clutches and 150,000 members, was ‘ ed by two out- thelr legal iiattldwver a panomge between ptfstl of Kinsl- Ion‘ and ' , dent Baptists of Ifngotorrlhd; clvarn square. Dr. dean of tho De- pmmm , u llama uni; virility and chic! examiner of the convention ordination council, and “nr.po.go. was. mu- u m icupe notoriety that was distaste- standing enurmiben m Supremction or the pmoeeb. me rmwn- Notes By The Wayi A soon of years I-go won-y stories 1 were among the surest sellers to‘ certain magazines that made highbrow pretentious by includ-j ing in each issue at least one ar-i tlclc discussing economic ques- tions. The besetting fear of the t-lme was that humanity would run out of something. We were rapidly going short on necessities in those days. if the professional prognosticators were to be- lieved. They had it all figured out. Coal was to last 20 years; oil would trickle out in 30 years; the forests would be used up in i) years, and the population would increase to tax the re- sources of the farms at no speci- fied time, but soon. It is a pleas- ant thought that perhaps the wor- ries of the present year may prove as baseless as were those of 20 years ago. — Sarnia Canadian-Ob- SCIVGI‘. In the old days when brave youths to tire flaunt of banners and the beat of drums volunteered to go abroad to b: shat for the hon)" of their country there was something in the loyalty and valor of us all, but it is a bit different now. A war will largely ignore arm. -—tl1ey \\'lII air and blow tlicin to p‘e:c=. It is not easy to advocate or invite such warfarc.—Excliang2. Let the weakest, let the humblesi. cmember that in hi: daily course I: can, if he will, shad around him almost a heaven. Kindly words. "vrnpathlzirrz aitnntious, watch- fulness against wounding men's sensitiveness-these cost very little, but lhev are priceless in their value. Are they not almost the stap‘.e of our daily happiness? From hour to hour, from moment to moment. we are suppozted, blest, by small kind- ncsses. By some, he, (Lawrence) was looked upon as of Messianic strain, .up;-cm2ly qualified to lead ‘stum- bling humanity" and esprcially youth in this time of disquletude. One near him discovered in’ him at close range the "understanding" that is more than wisdom-an in- dividualism that springs from the wisdom of the ages, the wisdom which “reveals that life can endure and mankind develop only in an atmosphere or freedom." I-Ie had the ability to “adjust his opinions to his knowledge." Some of his acts were baffling, even “exasperatin-g,“ to his friends. Ills confidence "sav- ored of arrogance." But in him the spirit of freedom “came incarnate to a world in fetters." The voice of the desert, “never dumb," spoke through hini.—New York Times. Canada is a “travel Wealthy" country, having over 1,100,000 motor vehicles-one for every 10 inhabi- tants. Ii’ the motor vehicles of Can- ada were mustered out in one mon- ster parade with l0) feet of high- way allowed cach vehicle they would form a procession over 20,000 miles in length, and wit-h a little crowding, utilizing tzucks and buses, th whole population might be car- riedCanada has about 400,000 miles cf highways, which provide o spending place of "travel wealth" and in addition to her own heavy motor traffic, an even greater motorcade of 3,061,848 automobiles from other countries travelled over the Domlnions highway system during 1934.~Canada Week by Week. - Brliflili treats almost. as a national catastrophe the death of Thomas Edward Shaw, "Lawrence of Arabia," after his motorcycle ac- cident. The man who held the world's eye by his amazing achievement during the World War only to hide himself after- ward as an alrcraftsman to es- ful to him. is extolled by Eng- land's leaders. Winston Churchill calls him “one of the greatest be- ings of our time.“ Gen. Sir Ian Hamilton calls him "one of fifty millions . the soldier who, absolutely selfless. risks everything for nothing tangible-and raises thereby the whole level of human existence.“ - Christian Science Monitor. Tn Syria, Algeria. and Morocco. the French authorities see to it and quite rightly. that no foreign language is allowed to compete with the French language. as they con- sider that the very basis of a man- datory or protecting nation's in- fluence ls the exclusive use of that nation's own language. In Cyran- alca. ‘Irinolitanla and Eritrea. the Italians have so spread the use of Italian. to the evciuslon of ever)’ other tongue. ‘that the natives can all carry on business in Italian. and they gaze in wonder at the visitor who uses the native or nnv foreign language other than Italian. For Maritime Baptist, both declared the. convention upheld in every respect the true Baptist doctrines and had never interfered in any manner with self-government of individual churches. Their evidence was given in rebuttal to charges of the inde- pendent Baptists that rights and privileges of the Baptist doctrine, calling for independent self-govern- ment of each church, had been vio- fated. The suit was brought by trustee! of the United Baptist of Kingston against trustees of the independent Baptist churches of’ Kingston and Melvsm square. f0? sale of the parMhIUQ I114 fimflbll‘ ugcia occupied by rm. Dr. J. J. will not be fought at a front wiihi’ ,only soldier." present. The enemy‘ swoop on the grcnt clll a from the‘ , l; [um W. flj), uJEBWEIGHT amass you om ANU IYIAKISS YOU lfi)Ul\ ULD "Observers are agreed that ob. dity (Overweight) is u. subject hav- ‘Li; a widespread ilppchl among all \-akiceb 0f Kilt: pullllmntsll. blfice 4:11;- a-lAlAe fashions have u‘ "ed slender faults‘, medical quacss, quick". to arise one imbue pulse, have seen In; t.) COlIUlLfclEiliM the lad by Séiilllg r..¢.g.u kiIl-ALIL cures to a gullible public, who IlLl-l.’ 5\.ilil0rv€u liolus o.us the most preposterous claims udvanoeain bell-all of me most in- put (of no effect) remedies." I um quoting Dr. W. A. L. Styles 1.1 i1ygcia, inc popular health mug- glue DLIJAISIICQ uy the American A-~11IU§1I Association. fire uarnuuaiess of many of these slvcrtiscuieilts is in stating or sug- Lsting that it is possible for human “digs to eat as much as they like x.» “Hub Lacy ll-cc to cut, and yet the will come oil if their rcmrults .. r .:. fro... tirllllili. remedies arc ol tuio Linds; those that contain drugs SLICAI as luxanves or [he more dangerous thyroid extract or uiiritropiiunol, and are capame of reducing weight und.r c.i't.iin conditions; and those that do not CCclttlill active drugs and ase pocvcricss to effect a given loss of ilciglit. “If these products contain tny- rold extract they may reduce weight oy rapidly burning up food and tis- sue instead of storing them, only at the cost of an iucrczistd pulse rate, palpitation, fever, tremors, sleep- lessncss, and general lassitude or tiredness. Such a. powerful drug shoun never be cmprgvcd unless under medical supervision, as its use without supervision has led to some serious consequences." While the ideal method of reduc- ing weight is to cut down on food and increase the exercise, Dr. Styles points out that violent exercise for the middle aged may cause irrepar- able damage. “An ovcrulcightcd body is like an overloaded trunk; something is lia- blc to happen at any minute. Heart strain, poor dlgestioikarrd high blood pressure commonly follow over- weight. The only safe way to reduce ls by dieting along the lines sug- gcstcd by a quaiificd physician." "In the ambition to shed weight, A t. men and women have never pMlScfZ to consider what may happen by their misdirected efforts. As a 2on- sequence, death has been the end results of numerous treatments for overweight." Remember, there is no royal or easy road to reducing weight. It calls for sacrifice; that is the cut- ting down on the daily food intake. FR-(IM "Tin: wssr" Comrade, loci: not on the west: ‘twill have the heart out of your breast; ‘Twill take your thoughts and sink them far, Leagues beyond the sunset bar. Oh lad, I fear that yon's the sea Whore they fished for you and inc, And there, from whence we. botl- were tzicn, You and I shall drown again. Send not on your soul before To dive from that beguiling shore, Ami let not yct the swimmer icavc His clothes upon the sands of eve. 'I‘oo fast to yonder strand forlorn We journey, to the sunken bourn, fo flush the fading tinges eyed 13y other lads at eventide. Wide is the world, to rcst or roam, And- early ’tls for tunuing home: Plant your heel on earth and stand, And let's forget our native land. When you and I are spilt on air Long we shall be strangers there; Friends of flesh and bone are best: Comrades, look not on the west. —A. E. Housman. i__7___.i__,i the maintenance of Italian linguis- tic lnfluence in Malta, the Italians gallantry contested every inoh of ground when the first hint 0i a re- placement was given, despite the absence of any official Italian in- tcrests in the island. We are the only nation who allow others to ride roughshod over our susceptibilities. —-Th® Sphinx, Cairo. ENO’S "FRUIT SALT" HANDYSIZE 47 ‘E Bfdey, formerly identified with the United Baptists and now Pil- tor of tiic independent Baptist qfiumlga, » Icivom . 4f The Qaalmfbruoalora Johnson If Johnson. ‘jig Coruar Kent Prince Si.‘ moons vs. ANCIENT Bug-Prince Edward Island you not making c. mistake? We read with a first thought of pride that we are going to have, permanent roads on Prince Edward Island and what a great thing this is going to be to make good motor- ing but especially the added attrac- tion it will be for tourists, but is it? What do we go to the Island for. We don't leave New York to drive on pavements, nearly every State in the Union has miles and miles of better paivcment than the Island will have. We don't 3'0 there to see superficlallty. The Island has no Thorwaldsen Museum to attract the masses, but“ it has something better, it has just the peace and contentment we are looking for away from the hustle and bustle of our modern times, a place to build lI-p that added bit of energy we re- quire to carry us along, a place to relax and take it easy. and with all this there is a deeper love that takes MUSI- of us there, its home, we love those old crooked roads, and the trees and the fields. the brooks and oven the fences, they all have an appeal that touches the spot no? matter whether we deny lt or not, and we intend to go back just asi ‘ong as we possibly can and we! think secretly that if we could only I» go back at the end of the race to j lay our bodies down, how happy we would be. This is what takes us old timers back. but what takes the genuine tourist to Prince Edward Island. I-Ic is looking for and hoping he will find something different. Why does he go back year after year if he ‘oesrft like the crooked roads and the dust which he so heartily curses. Ah there's the rub. Wat's just what he wants, the little bit of pvlmitlve so well blended with the iviell known hospitality for which the Island is noted. take these "way from him and the Island just becomes another place of good i roads, he misses the klok of negotl- l wting dusty or muddy roads. he doesn't know he's been places it he don't get a. jolt nowand then, it "Aves film an appetite, makes him sleep, and gives him something to talk about. Stav original Island. stov original. What a shame to spoil your homely beauty with the vagrancle: of modern times. I am, sir, etc.. OLD TIMER. B19 BANKING IDEALS THAT LIvE ON i The Bank, now well on in the second century ofl its life, still wishes to be measured by the cone sidcmions mentioned in the foregoinfquofi ration from "The Centenary of the Banlcoi‘ Montreal," published in 1917. "The value of that enterprise (the Bank of Montreal) ought not to be measured by its success as a joint-stock undertaking, by the amount of its capital or the size of‘ irs divi- dends, but by the srrurity i: has given to those I who have trusted it, the fari/i/ie: ir has fur- swan-b,’ fad/jg”, 4m',;a,,,,_:;h°5¢<hve1b¢m the objectives of the Bank since its foundation in 18l7._They are the objecrivcsrodny and) will be in the tomorrows of Canadian lifea BANK 0F MONTREAL ESTABLISHED i817 HEAD OFFICE - - MONTREAL MODERN, EFFICIENT BANKING sliRvlChuuthcOillcomc of 117 Years‘ ' ' Operation nished for the exchange and the increase of commodities, and the arrirmnre it has con- tributed to the development of the country." Charlottetown Branch: A. 1. BfBELCHER, Manage! 1 Romantic History Of The Eel.I.s Told (By Major John W. l-Illls, M. P., in the London Spectator.) Urvprepossessihg in appearance, often looked on with dlgust, eels have a history of romance. I They had crossed the Atlantic from Europe to the Bermudas and back for untold ages before Colum- bus was born. There is not one single eel in the Thames or the‘ Severn, in the Po or the Elbe, in the Danube, even in the Nile, which was not bred thousands of miles of.’ in the West Atlantic. So, let, me give their history and let; this history start at some pond in a. quiet English meadow, on an Autumn evening, warm, still and dewy. . For some time before. an eel l~ that pond has been changln From being yellow, it has becor; silver, its eyes bigger. its snor sharper, its movements more res.’ less, it has ceased to feel. On this nigh; the moment h." come. It "pushes out of the pon through the dewy grass, until l reachcs a ditch, wriggles down thl tlll it comes to a stream, then to r river. then to the sea. 'I‘he.'e it will find other eels. from Morocco, from Spain, from Egypt, from Italy and, from Sweden. All star-t to cross the sea. to their distant breeding wound. How long they take over the journey we know not: all we know is that they leave in Autumn and that their eggs hatch in Spring and Rival Pin lmalinf Tnhaccu From the Finest Ontario Burley its AN rxrnn coon smoxr “ Peerless at the Prico " Hickey a ua.|..|... that males who may enter the sea at five years old do not breed until they are in their elgth to tenth year. The females are always older. They breed at a depth of about 400 meters in water of fairly high tem- perature, probably guided to it be- cause its saltness suits some chem- ical necessity of their being. Anyway. they all go to the some spot. southeast of the Bermudas. After breeding, the parents die. The Adriatic, some to the Baltic, some to the Mediterranean. What directs them? They have never seen these seas. nor the rivers running into them. There can be no memory, and instinct is only a name. Yet the fact remains that eel-bearing rivers always have eels the elvers never seem to miss them. USE (ll-ANGIE PIIOI QPIII GBOWN I Sold only in rod airtight pigs. ’ eggs float and hatch near the sur- face, and here the young begin to feed fast and grow rapidly. And now their real romance starts. At once they begin to cross an ocean which they have never traversed to reach homes which they have never been. Most of them travel northeast with the Gulf Stream. floating at a depth of about 100 fathoms in wafer of about B0 degrees temperature. They grow in sine. By their sec- ond Summer they are in the mid- lttlantlc. They are then ‘about one and three-quarters of an inch long. After two and a half years, fully . grown and three inches long. trans- parent. flat and leaf-shaped, they mach the west coasts of Europe and Africa. they undergo a change: ‘Ilhem their more: shriri: in breadth, they lose half an inch in Iencth. they a. Gym... . m, . t r , They are now called clvers or glam eels; and in their fourth Spring, time years old, they enter our do. They push up whims-lea, rivers in thousan Just Received A large quantiry of FORM- ALIN, one of the best preven- tatives known for Smut. or Rust on Grain. A cheap but thoroughly ef- fective remedy. Grain growers would be wlsc to act prmnpfly in order to have seed properly treated before lowing. 0m pint u; over-y 40 gallons of water. Full directions given with every order. P3108 l0 CENTS PINT. MAO! HAIR B88101!!! A delicately perfumed pro- " which ‘ and inanlilllcl the hair. It will micro Gray Hale 1a lb original color. Induce: a rich and abund- ant growth of lulr. Dlltrlm and prevent; n“. Oral. 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