page li-ouR_ _ THE cnARho'r'rE'rowN GUARDIAN ga _=__i_____- _ ,=,, . .==.. -as 1 »"" i. < , < i . 'Ha . _-_ _ me ciuntorrerowu aunnuun iN°feSB:;11=<= Way There Is more than a. prospect Prulrlont-W.”'Ex=t:;_Q-Jartilnnne v|':$|;‘a:;|:alt;. si Burnett, IJ- 1 i than one euect 0-I the NRA. Wm be Editor and Managing Direftor-J. IL Burnett, I. J. L n 1 bo L so 1f°rm'|; in Alanclute Eillturn- I-'rank Walker and D. B. liurrls to I-“sua u hm; and sung It prison la or int e n e lornlng Daily (founded lllllil M-00 ner ;ear (ilu sdvunoi) delivered has bgen discovered, perhaps M) ll-50 Der yslr (ln udvimre) mulled lla Canada und United Shui the general surprise’ that Primm 1- , Tl.. labor comes under the code. This 380112 i of Qnurs n MONDAY, OCTOBER. S 1933 has always been a problem. On thei B, In.” W' B°_‘M_ "L_ one hand is the demand of free la- THE COMPLETE EQUIPMENT UN10N N01' WANTED They are given several changes of bor that it shall not be exposed to _ Fon MFE K clothing depending on th, type of competition from the- product of Reference has been made ln these aolumns t/0 the gratuitous advice of- fexed"by the Hon. W. D. Euler. MLP. former Liberal Minister of National Revenue, that the Mari- timm and the Prairie Provinces lhould unite into two large Pro- vinces. The Maritime union idea finds no press support in this section of Canada, and it is interesting to note that the Winnipeg Free Press B equally skeptical of the alleged benefits which would result fromns. ldon of the Prairie Provinces. "How much economy,” it asks, “would there be if the prairie country were administered as one province? The new government would be on s. much larger scale than any of the present provincial govemments. There would be one Department of Public Works and one Department of Education, but all the depart- ments would be necessarily larger than those at present. The various boards would be cut down in num- ber, but they would all be larger. And could departments and boards covering a much larger field operate' with the same efficiency and econ- omy as in a smaller field under closer supervision? ‘. . . In the case of a union of the prairie provinces, what would be done with the leg- islative buildings 'cf two or the provinces? The capital charges would still have to be mot on the capitols at Wrmipc; and Edmon- ton, and extensions would soon be necessary to the capitol at Regina." Even admitting that cconomy would, in the long run, bc effected in local administration by a union of the Prairie Provinces, the Win- nipeg Free Press adds; ‘There is something more to be considered, however. . . _.It is because the functions of pl'o\'incial governments involve so many details and come -so close to the lives of the people that the government should keep in touch w.th the people and be acces- sible to those who wish to discuss matters of administration or the needs of their districts. Innumer- able delegations evcry year approach the provincial governments for this legitimate purpose. This would be .-nuch more difficult if the people had to travel 500 milcs or more," "Economy," concludes the Free Press editorial, "is a vital consid- eration at the present time, but ‘rue economy involves consideration. 11 public as in privatc affairs, not only of thc amount of money spent but also, of what is ditalned for the money. If the provincial adiminls- tration were not quite as good, of lf the people lost some of their i'i8hl¢ to approach thc government and influence the admin'st,l-ation, would thc economy by forming one ‘arse province be desirable?" 'IU/UANELY TREATED The trcatmcnt of C:mada`s wo- 'ncn convicts at thc Womcn's Pri- ion. Kingston penltentlary, forms the subject of a mcst interesting ar- ticle, contributed to the Canadian Home Journal for October by Norma l Phillips Muir. On the day of her visit there were 43 inmates, of whom 15 were there for murder or manslaughter. She was givenl every opportunity for inspectlon,i and she knows that the prison was not dressed for the occasion. "I saw much which left me amazed.” she says, "much which left me sad, but nothing which made me ashamed of the way in which my country is meeting the need of caring for her women convicts." The details of accommodation, routine, food, privileges and punish. ments given by Mlm Muir justify the concluson which she reachedu Personal possessions are not taken away from women prisoners. They are allowed to keep what they brought in with them. Clothing vom on arrival is hung in the cell. ,\ > Qven toilet articles, powder, a pho- `r work to be done. They s-N not forced to leave as misfits, unkempt. ill dressed, stamped as criminals. They are given a. complete new out- fit-not of prison-made clothing. but of apparel purchased definitely for them at a good store at a. c/ost of approximately twenty-five dollars per outfit. In addition to their freedom sul-ts or outfits, they are given ten dollars and their trans- portation to their home or to the place whore they are going to es- tablish themselves. Punishments such ps whlprpings. solitary confinement in the "hole" and chains and manacles have no part or place in Canadsfs Federal iprison for women. "Solitary" was labolished by law in 1998 and what has taken its place is a segregation cell without any daylight in it, a oell measuring three feet six inches by seven feet six inches, the door of which is all bars. The limit to which a prisoner can be sentenced to the segregation cells for pun‘sh- ment is thirty days. The limit has twice been imposed upon "incor- rigibles" during the past year and a half or two years, but as a. general thing two hours is the period in the Punishment cell. Corporal punish- ment in any form is prohibited. |Chalns and leg irons and manacles iare no part of the corrective treat- ment in the Women’s Prison at Kngston Penitentiary. One ex- conviot. a woman who had served a term in Kingston for manslaught- er, referred to‘the “dungeon." but ‘Miss Muir learned that it was imerely prisoner parlance for the segregation cells. Referring to demands for a. Royal Commission to investigate Ganade's penltentiaries, Miss Muir says: i"Knowing conditions as they exist actually in the Women’5 Pl-lgcp at Kifiiféton, one cannot feel that a mere difference ln sex between convicts would account for a differ- ence in administration and accomo- dation as wide as the difference be- t/ween daylight and utter darkness.” she declares that there is nc reason 'for her to make conditions out `better or' worse than they actually are in the Womenk Prison; and that her opinions as in the treat- ment Elven prsoners there have » A ibeen checked not by officials but by ex-convicts. TH E’ DOU K H OBORS According to the nuthin-:age ner- ald, a. breakup of the Doukhdbors of Westem Canada would not bc a. surprise to those close to the sect, Movrdinz to the report, there Seems to be a spirit of discontent among the members, which is be- i`°v¢d to be due ic the :wt that the powerful influence that Peter V€l'iBin I wielded is not in evidence under the present Peter Verigin, nephew of the leader who met death mYSf»€i'i0U5ly in a railway train ex. pie-ron. The leader nf today it sam to lack the sure grip of his png. cessor. The community spiritis rum- °1'¢d to be fast ebblng and lngtgad 5 general individualistic trend is vig. lble. The discontent ln the sect’s colonies is stated to be most pm. nounced among the younger cle. ment. the snowing spirit of restless- ness being attributed to g wool-meg; with community life. If this be the case, the trend might be called tl, the attention of those agitators who have been openly or secretly work- 'ing for the introduction of com- munism into Canada. EDITORIAL NOTES The new Liberal Government in Nova Scotia ia sending a ga;-we ifilYil8¢f 90 England to sell Nova Scotia lumber. He worked hm-l in the election a few weeks ago and DOIIINY deserved a trip' but some old-fashoned people think a man engaged in the lumber busincg should have been lent on tbl; pg,-. ‘°l\’*P11» i-imflrv wi “ken away-,iiievllr mildew ' . `mam, ° ,,,,.¢,,,, mm, W continent, .. sixth nm, and lu hmm; hw-a prison labor which can be tumed out more cheaply. On the other hand is the demand of prison auth. orities that convicts shall be per- mitted some useful toll. Nothing so corrodes character as enforced idle- ness or the kind of occupation that used to be provided by breaking stone, or moving a pile of earth from one side of a jail yard to an- other. then dumping it out and wheeling it to the other side. At one time convicts were restricted to such labors which did them little good, but which at least had the advantage of quletlng the protests of organized labor. there was a certain member of the, United States Congress who habi-' ltually made long, futile speeches' when there were vary few people\ in the House to hear him. This' voluble gentleman represented the County of Buncombe ln North Car- ol’na. On one occasion 5 fellow- member interrupted an angry har-l angue to ask him why he was mak-l ing so much fuss. to so little pur- , pose. before an almost empty, House. "I am not speaking to thel House but to Buncombel" retcrteai the pompous orator. His answer caused the name of that unfortun- ate constituency to be for ever synonymous with hypocrisy and humbug-though at first it simply meant "playing to the gallery." Accounts of the height, energy and destructive force of ocean waves in` scientific works on shore proces- ses would be hard to believe many of them, if read in less sober con- text. Some stories told by dynam- ometers especially constructed for measuring wave energy seem pretty tall talk even to those who have been rolled and scraped in a heavy surf. Dynamometer readings for a full summer on the Scottish Atlan- tic coast, for instance, showed 611 pounds to a square foot as the av- erage impact of the surf in its off season. For winter storms a maxi- mum of more than three tons a square foot was recorded. Is there a surfvbather who could take such a wallop in his rlbs.? ' ` Since the Europeans showed no sign of being so conscience-stricken over their debts as to give up their armaments, and since the United States has obviously at last to con- sider the question of the debts on their own economic basis (for al- most nothing of them is now being paid); lt is not profitable any longer bo pretend to connect the two questions. If, for instance, the United States were to say to France, “Unless you disarm we 'cannot let you of! your debt," the French. who do not propose to pay in any case, would remain com- pletely urrmoved. While Europe is disturbed by rlval ambitions and the atmosphere ls decidedly cloudy, it is worthy of note that Greece and Turkey, old time foes, have sgned ef ten-year pact of non-aggression, and seek to have it extended to some other countries in the Far East. They al- so are endeavoring to co-ordinate their economic policies so that trade may flow more freely. Other nat- ions mlght well follow their example instead of showlng their teeth with such monotonous regularity. It would be more reassuring in the understanding of the huslngsa men if they were able to believe that the improvement in business was, in fact, not entirely the pro- duct of Washington-made policies. but that, on the contrary, the foun- dation was laid on the sound basis of supply and demand. of which we have heard so little of late, but which, strange as it may seem, still is a factor. It would help confidence if God and the Forgotten Man were given a. little credit now and then. A press despatch from Chicago the other day reported the gratify- ing results secured from an experi- ment ln the glandular treatment of a group of 172 hitherto incurable mental patients at the State hae- pital at Elgin, Illinois. It illustrates the possibilities of active study and teatment “fforded bv recent ad- vances ln knowledge of endortrine disorders and their relation to men. tal disease that might prof tably be followed by more hospitals in con- nection with a particularly dim- cult class of patents, but it con- veys the impression unwittingly no doibt, that as a general thing pa- tients in mental hospitals seldom More than a hundred years ago,! In examining the boys in a re- formatory school some years ago I 'came across a b0Y Who was ei8h@" een years of age physically 9-nd 1955 than eight years mentalgv.. Hs was . transferred to a hospital .ur mental I detectives. f Thus there is always the mental .asc and the physical age in every boy and girl. ' There is now a feeling that even the mental and physical age do not give the complete picture of the in- dividual and that the emotional, the -social, and the moral age must also l be considered. | What we are. mentally and phy- socally; is usually what is handed down to us by our parents, but what we are from the emotional, the social, and the moral standpoints may be due more to our surround- ings and circumstances and the way our parents guide or misguide us. "If a youngster is not up to nor- mal ln emotional, social, and moral equipment' it is because the parents lacked the knowledge or the un- selflshness or both, to arrange for his social contacts and activities in a satisfactory manner and failed to teach habits of discipline of the body, the emotions, and the mind." “A youngster who doesn’t fit ln‘ with his school life, his home life, or his outdoor play life is always a problem." . All problem children are such be- cause of wrong handling and can generally be brought into better ad- justment with life by someone who has the necessary knowledge and intelligence to apply it wisely. Thus if the child in addition to attaining physical and. mental growth is to acquire emotional, soc- ial and moral growth, he must learn to 'mix with other children in all their social, emotional, and moral undertakings in social, playground, debating, religious or other organ- izations. It is for this reason that play gives really the best all-round de- velopment because lt gives strength of body, keeps the mind alert, makes for soclablllty, helps control the emotions of quick temper and sel- fishness, and gives the main idea of fa..°r play (of doing as you`d be done by) which is the highest moral emotion. Do Indians Swim ? After Mr. Helga Instad had lived in intimate contact with the In- dians in the Northwest 'Territories for four years, he concluded that the Indian never swims. Can this be so? Does the Indian not swim? The question might _be unwarrant- ed did it not, somehow, seem ap- propriate. It raises a doubt. If the Indian swims, how can it be that to pluck a. phrase l.n passing, a. swimming Indian does not swim into the mind's recollection? A swimming Indian does not stand out from all the tales read of Good and Bad Indians. Braves may be remembered who did brave deeds and Braves who did anything but brave feats: but among them all, not one Brave is swimming. You recall Indians sleuthfully gliding without tuming a leaf or flattening a blade of grass as they squirmed their greased bodies along river banks; and though they always seemed to be skilfully tracking an enemy or tactfully re- moving themselves with becoming haste, they always were on the bank and never in the river. They canoed but never swam. Caribou-Eater Indians who pitch yer who found himself at a loose cllned to be mated to their seven- when Mr. Instsd says in hill b00l¢. "The Land of Feast and Famine." that those Indians are never taught to swim. and never lfilfli |50 swim, acceptance of the familiar pmbabllii y is the readier for know- ing liow cold must be the WENT! 'of the region. - This is singular, for the Indians, perhaps most of all D¢0P1¢. U9-W on sticking to those l'iV¢r~tfli1-S not only laid their trails by W5” _ water courses, but the? We" bent steel structures' Commander Carylon Bellaire, naval officer, member of Parlia- ment, writer and poet, wonders why poets do not deal with politics. ,He write; in a recent issue of the Poetry Review as follows: If Mr. Alfred Noyes is right in saying that “true poetry deals with a real world." does it not follow that since a. real world from man's point of view is the intimate con- cem of politics, the poet must deal with politics? , . . Is there any inherent difficulty in marrying politics and poetry? Having approached the poets themselves on this question, he states that one and all have in effect made answer: My humble verse demands a softer theme, A painted meadow or a purling stream. To which he is moved to retort: 'I‘hey turn the page and let their senses drink g A lay that shall not trouble them to think. It does seem, however, as though Commander Bellaire is unduly harsh with the Weavers of words. He himself has published a book of poems called "The Ghosts of Parliament" which sounds political, at least. But he is not the only poet who has touched on economic and political problems. “In Mem- oriam” is filled with passages that might have come from the lips of a great political reformer and oth- ers that might even be accused of soclallstlc tendencies. The late Harold Begbie wrote some magnificent poetry of a sim- ilar nature. One could hardly im- agine a more lofty appeal for the success of an Empire economic conference than the following lines from hisglfted pen: And tho' we weave on a hundred shores, g And spin on a thousand quays, And tho' we are truant with all thewlnds, And gypsy with all the seas, We are touched to tears as the heart is touched By the sound of an ancient tune At the name of the Isle in the western seas With the rose cn her breast of June. Come, let us walk together We who must follow one gleam. Come, let us link our labors, And tell each other our dream; Shakespeare's tongue for our coun- sels And Nelson's heart for our task- Shall we not answer as one strong man To the things that the people ask? Fine as is such verse, no lover of poetry would care to see undue emphasis laid on politics, much less on a realism that runs to battered ash cans. His delight is 'rather to fare far afield "on the vlewless wings of Poesy" and quite forget The wearlness, the fever and the fret Here, where men sit and hear each other groan _ . . Where but to think is to be full of sorrow And leaden-eyed despaire. He prefers the spell of words and skillfully wrought phrases. What vistas lie before Charm'd magic easements, opening on the foam Of perilous seas, in faery lands fcrloml How the simple phrase "Childs, Roland to the dark tower came" spurs the imagination! Politics may be all right once in a. while as poetic fare but for lasting en- joyment in verse, the majority will vote for the “linked sweetness long drawn out" of a Milton, a Keats or s. Shelley, or the pageantry of passion, the cavalcade of events marching to Sha.keapee.re‘s sonor- ous rhythms. Time and time again it has been ing is aware that flashes which volts at times are drawn to the mast, only to be dissipated by the intricate steel structure into the ground. Once som¢ electrical apparatus connected with a weather vane on top of the building was fused. But probably the safest of all places in New York city during a thunder- storm is an office in the tallest of Not long after the Empire State » ¢§Li|a`.. . . VOICES What is not written, dies when it is said; The casual dust of lips is lightly blown - words are known Of those whose once indomitable tread Ten thousand muted years have hailed as dead. What laughter lightly bom, what courage flown. Upon a phrase, what dismal treas- ure grown From strata of despair, have facet- ed With their desires. the world they habited? ` The ears that heard them mingle with their own, The crumbled laughter with the crumbled bone They only, on their deep perpetual bed ' Untuming, speak, that reverenced . alone The sullen memory of the bitten stone. -F. M. Howard in North American R/eview. All the outer metal work glowed beautifully with what the engineers call a brush discharge. Generally the "fire" is seen at sea or on high mountains. Any physicist can pro- duce it artificially on a small scale ln the laboratory. It is simply an electrical discharge. less violent than lightning-an evidence that electricity is being drawn oil' from a strongly electrified body to a conductor. Mountain climbers are puzzled when they see it during a. snowstorm. Falling drops. hail- stones, snowflakes. all highly elec- trified, explain the phenomenon. Stroke a cat in dry weather and you get a miniature sparkling dis- play of St. Elmo's fire, says an article in the New York Sunday Times. It has been known ever since Franklin's time that an eleeric spark-and lightning is nothing but a huge spark-picks out the tallest of two points presented to it. So it is with the Empirg State build- ing, Its enormous steel frame pro- tects not only itself but all the buildings near by. A piece of stone may be knocked od when a. spark leaps between two isolated points. With the stepped-back construc- tion thls entails no great danger. The stone falls on a temice. Even lf it struck the street the odds are many thousands to one against its killing any one for the simple rea- son that everybody rushes for cov- er during a storm. Experiments which were made by Faraday and later by sir Oliver Lodge proved conclusively that the best of all safeguards is not a lightning rod (although that has its merits when it is properly in- stalled) but a. cage, And a cage is exactly what the steel frame and plumbing system of a skyscraper is. The energy must be divided and subdivided, something that a cage does very effectively. A battleship or a trans-Atlantic liner-in fact, any steel ship-is also a fine place for safety during a. thunderstorm, provided you keep away from the metal hull. WERE- REMV me von? The were or Mr. I-mind on this N W York’ Li htnin ‘ we are plcntnuuy nufpueu with point must be taken, for he has e Rsd g g ‘all kinds of high grade Coal. Place spent four yeals studying the 0 your order now, either for immed- iate or future delivery. Our well their topees between the Macken- (Th° T°"°“°° T‘_’l°3"“m) known Goals comprllea nie river and Amundsen gulf be- The Empire State buiidina in - - tween Greet slave luxe and the New York cltyl is thettallest. Am°r'°§‘,',‘,,/:,':f_hra°'t° Th l d Co s in rivers. elaborate an mos success u 1;: nlrlasxtad isp); rITor;egi.an law- lightning rod ever erected by man. SC(-“Ch Anthracite ‘ Egg and Stove Size. end at Edmonton. and bewmlnif struck. In fact, hardly a thunder- W9|Sh Al’\th|‘8.Ci‘|£9 bent 011 trapping, he l’0l.lfld him* gf,°|-mg gwegpg Qvgr lower Mgnhgt- Nllt llid BWYQ Sllb. lsrlf eventually living with the mn wand may doe, not ,msn gg Dominion Househom caribou-Eiieis. who save him out to hurl it bolt at its towering coke their confidence, even if he de- mooring ,nun No one |n tn, build, For mmm* teen-vw-Old "T-/iii* 3°”-" *"4 may have n potential of 1o.oo0.ooo md Syd"°Y S°"°°"°d Inverness Screened Springhill Screened Albion Nut stave me mme. above Coats, prleed low considering quality. mart he receives by the fellow who aaya his sheep Coal ia iv! ll good. speclal prices on ear lead lots. Phone 176. YI. D. GILLIS & 00. long mm. even the Wm" (nga-ug. building was opened "St, Elmo‘sn HS had sunk de” mg with their fire" could be seen on the eighty- On ageless highways. Ask what. OCTOBER 2. 1933 The Oxford Accent 1 Politics And Poetry __ .. ~ V mat crhe edmonton .mumaii I 7 1 ,n l ' ‘E*°‘““‘¢°’ _ I *$0 I ' ' 4 The records of Anglo Saxon speech have been searched in vain by mg expel-ta of the British nrouicuung comps-nv and pwfee- aan of phonetics to discover the origin of the so-called "Oxford ac- cent," or hybrid stage Ensllsh- It has remained for H. St. John Rum- sey. Professor of Anatomy at G\iy'B Hospital, University of London, to reveal its purely anatomical orig- in. He says it is merely a. misuse of the mouth. I-In even declines to call it an "accent," according to an article he has written for the magazine New Health of London, and asserts that "it u not the result or pm-' nouncing syllables differently, but of the basic vocal tone, which gives an impression or weary bore- dom with life in general and the immediate audience in particiilar. "This weary tone" he ccntinues,` "ls due to faulty technique in voice production.” Instead of relaxing the muscles of their throats prop- erly, in the healthy way demanded by nature, these weary young menl apparently keep them tense, with appalling consequences. Connoisseurs of the pronuncla-5 at that, gave to The Morning Post varying welcomes to this drastic theory of university speech, La/dy Keeble (Miss Lillah Mc- Carthy) said that she agreed thor-` oughly with the misuse of the mouth theory. ‘I am' afraid they get it from their lecturers," shel said. “It is at its worst among aca- demic people, because they have to! do so much speaking, and students and public school boys copy it from them, thinking it rather soft and n-I pleasant when really it is vile."` "The element of adequate recrea-f tional facilities cannot be left out of the picture in any comprehensive program of crime prevention." - Harry Elmer Bames 11' Y California or hopes to go there some time."-Aimee S. 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