..,H, l‘. J l. llllrllllllllwll lllllllllllll l . I-I- ail-pa ‘- I!!! ~nllofllnodvnaoo lanllflanala. all nus-a. luau us run-an. lo Illhr- ' ' l you“: lnalvoav . loll-LA- ‘wlaiollEsnilY, JUNE 15, 1921 i rill llllllc lolllll ‘fills. column lropon fol-tho dlgaupotpp b? oorroapond “t. flvQllfillOlll of Infill»- aat. The IOharRMIQQWII Guardian don normalis- arily. onion-n the WW9" cxllrmod by "l "F?" ‘political:- Q. . ‘A wan mgmoal-AL. v Melilforial to our _ , ‘War. Weilieednot repeat ‘ e nhd now the voluminous tri- ' _es, spoken and fwrittengexpree- e of our appreciation o.’ what e men living and dead have _ no for the cause of liberty and. - - oenity, and the honor and fame. hey have achieved which will be all‘, heritage for all future time. " l must agree that we owe tlielll _ debt which can never ilc repaid. "The best that we can do is to cx- press our gratitude and loving ad- inlratlon in some enduring forln. "' And the time for action to this it is indeed already over ripe. We have alreadyl delay- Qti too longl Niluch more promptly we moved after the little war in] South Africa, in which our losses. 9nd is now. were small ftnd the siladow of mourning which fell upon our pro- vince was limited to asnlail num-t ber oi homes. for a public monument took shape Then the mnveinentl and Iwas carried into effect almost immediately after peace was de- clared nad while the glow and ar- llor of the war spirit was warm in our hearts and the events of the struggle, and the vzllor and endur- ihce of our soldiers were still fresh in our memories. We have greater occasion now. a higher and more urgent call, a more obvious and important duty. A-ction has been delayed; present duty is none the less lbut rather the more urgent on. that account. Year by year the events of the Great War are already flltiin! but in the "distance. We are busy With our varied cnlllngs. Surely it is‘ high time that a decision should be reached as to the form which our Memorial shall take zlnd how the means are to bc provided for, its erection, lest we forget, this yo goldiers fought. in the! ‘year what should have been dons lalltrytar. gafmdp °t m“ 1nd” ' "We quite agree with Citizen ill ‘flei-w‘ ‘l! Cmwm what he says as to the single ob- lim flmmy Bub‘. ject and purpose of our War Mem~ orial. in what has been dune to this end in the iBritish isles, and they have not been so dilatory in the mutter as we have Jbeen, the utilitarian idea has l-een reléféfll?" to the background.‘ l-lcre some persons have expressed approval oi what British opinion seems l0 have discarded. A public llbrarl‘ building has been suggested either separate or as an addition to the Provincial Building. The latter building complete in itself, would he marred in its fair proportions by any attempted addition. A new and separate library building would at the outset be more distinctively a library than a memorial, and in the future the memorial idea would be completely overshadowed. We must also bear in mind that ‘the Memorial should be provincial rather than local. Our soldiers dead and living came frolli all parts of the province and all sections of Prince Edward island will be asked and expected to contfibute to its cost. Would they do so if the proposal were to erect a memorial building ‘here to be of use chiefly by the people of Charlottetown? To ask the question is to supply the answer. Mlc-reovcr there is al- ready available the considerable nucleus of a fund for u. Melliorial Monument provided, it shall he ex- clusively devoted to the one oh; ject, a soldiers‘ monument. That object is provincial in its scope. not narrgw, r/r local, or dominantly for ‘local utility. We believe this pur- pose wil ‘prevail. it may take the form of an artistic and imposing monument. or group, or n memorial arch. After hearing the views of all who may desire to be heard on tho subject, a decision should be promptly made as to the site of tllc Memorial. the form it should take and the estimated coat. Current Comment The Bell Government prison has-i ‘ket is increasing in leakiness. it was surely insecure enough ill its former natural, or rather unnatu- ral, condition. but now its retain- "Ing value‘ as a place of confine- ment is dyeing further impaired by the deliberate acts or those W-ilOSD‘ ‘duty it is-to maintain law and or-l der in ofur Province. Wblic the; House was in session we had oc- casion to refer to the shameful re- lease upon the community of a prisoner whose term of sentence as a, prohibition act offender hall not expired. Premier Bell in his efforts to discredit the Guardian, and eifculpate his Government at- tempted to throw the responsibil- ity upon the Prohibition commis- sion, reflecting upon it as an ac- tion of theirs. We claimed at that time that releasing of prisoners was not a prerogative of the Com-I mission. and are surprised that they‘ halve not yosented the aspar- llon. Their duty is to enforce. anti not to defeat the purposes of the get, and we cannot believe that. ev- en if they had the power. they would be parties to tllol-le whole- nlo releases of offenders which lion seem to he the order of the day. in point of fact no one but the Lieutenant Governor in Coun- cil -has any power to pardon‘ pro- hibition m offenders. and THE KIOVIIRIMWJJNYI‘ M-U-ST ASSUME "Ill-IE!!! [FULL RiDSPONlSIBlLITY lion ririllal-z RELEASES. , I ggt has been admittedly prisoners to escape through the flimsy or unguarded “doors or windows, this method . nil to be ‘becoming obslete, ll liiing- just as easy, and more con- vqgm, to waiktout with a Govern- lfllt pardon in the hand, which the advantage of freedom from Jotslble annoyance of a recap- rQ with the addition of more or 4! newspaper ‘publicity. The‘ lion in now assuming a tensity ‘ ounnou, involving as it does ion u to whether we are do day regard for llwor any on o! justice 1n this Wears fnlly" timeless ment circles to our prohibition laws and of their sympathy for the liq- uor traffic. bllt this tines not just- ify this method of defeating the purposes of the act which is the ac- cepted law of the land. They have not had the courage to attempt its repeal, knowing the power oi pub- lic sentiment behind it. but by a system of taxation-license. and by repeated release of convicted of- fenders. they are doing all in their power to nulflfy its provlsiona.and its far as they are able to bring its working into disrepute. There have been more than one of these releases by Government pardon. but the. last reported is the ‘most reprehensible. One acting as Deputy lSlieritlf in Queen's County was convicted for liquor selling, and because he was an officer of the. Supreme Court, whose -sworn duty, we presume, was to enforce and uphold the laws of the land. his honor the Stipendiary Magis- trate very properly imposed upon him the maximum penalty. lPublic opinion and all sense of right and Justice will applaud this, -but not. so the Government whose sense of right or wrong. in its pliancy, has become the bye-word and reproach of the community. By their com- mand this Deputy Sheriff violator of the prohibition laws, after serv- _mg only a very few days. of his sentence, is permitted to walk out .to liberty with the ‘Government par don in his hands. When lpublic of- ficials. those holding positions as peace officers of tll'e province, are thus encouraged to break our laws, and thlus pardoned for their oilfen- aeQ, how can we consistently keep the less guilty offenders behind the bars of confinement, or with any show nit decency punish them for their wrong doings? We have a Prohibition Commis- sion to whom the people are look- in; for the enforcement of this low and whom, we fear unjustly, will be too tifien saddled with the blame for. these defaults ‘which they are apparently powerless to til-mm. Orwht avlllilltif vwvrv wv A Miblllilill. F0 there was something doing, some- thing reall and effective, to provide I a public memorial for our brave Soldier Boys. dead and living? High time, i have said. it is years l since the armistice was signed, years since the survivors of the Great War returned to us" and yet nothing effective has been done toward this much desired end. More and more the war recedes in- to thedistance; lnore and more we become engrossed in our daily oe- cuplions of farming, trading, busi- ness and professional life. ls there not danger that we forget our great dill-l‘ B! providing a lasting public Memorial for ali~tllat our brave llovs have done and sufferedl it was not always thus. After the war in South Africa in which only two of our brave lBOyfl met their death an immediate and strenuous effort was made to sign- aiise in lasting form the public - appreciation for all they had done and suffered. The Guardian lent its hearty and earnest effort at that time to awaken the public ill- lerest and carry the movement forward. A public subscription W“ Sltefidlly set on foot to which the people of the city and province contributed liberally. This was done almost at once after the war had closed and while the incidents of the struggle were still fresh in the public mind. the Iworthy and striking memorial mtmument whicll now stands upon our central square, and which has been. is and will continue to be an object of prime interest to our cit- izens llnd to visitors from abroad. lFor the fcw who died or were disabled or maimed in the Boar War there were hundreds who made the great sacrifice, or suffer- ed severely in the Great War. Those whom a kind Providence spared to return unscathed had made a great sacrifice, had suffer- ed lllllcli. endured greatly in the cause of liberty and - humanly. What they did, the living and the dead, nemands public recognition on a scale in some degree propor-| tionate to the magnitude cf their great services and the number 0f those who tookpart. The Great War was a mllch more colossal I and momentous stqlggle than the war in South Africa. w To my mind there is no place so fitting as our central square for suchu memorial. it is the one] nlost public place in our city and‘ province. There was placed our There the sclz-ontl memorial, larger and morn imposing, as artistically beautiful and impressive as ii can he madeg-hould also he placed. Let it be. in its ailli and object purely a memorial as the first lllonllmont is. i would discard any utilitarian. Lot. our lliemcrizll express our lid miratlon and gratitude for the hel- oic spirit, thc noble self-sacrifice. ihl- valorous achievements of 0lll' Flfllliers rdcad and iiivtingw "Phat should he. in my opinion. its one,‘ all-sufficient object. ‘ I alll. etc. CITIZEN illicit sellers in the provincial pri- son basket, if by these simple pro- cesses the culprit ls to be ilnnlcdi- ately set at llhcrty ‘by the fiction of a government giving ovcl‘)! hvid- encc .of being hostile to the act? Of what use is it law lllpfiil our stat- ute books when those who are elclz- ted and sworn to protect and cn- force it. become the prime instru- ments to nullify its provislonsand prevent its successful operation? We hear on every hand that lprohih- ttion is a failure, and that it does not flrohilbit. but is this prohibi- tion or is it the embodiment of free liberty to sell and violate as the law breaker may please, assured that their friendly government will tide them over their difficulties. and Drvtect them from the penaltie! of their wrong doings? it isitime that our temperance people, and those who are not of the temper- ance clans, but who believe in law respect and law cnforccmentdo get a move on to save the wrecking of our legal systems by those who have devastated everything com- lag within their reach. Daily Selections Guardian lleaden Iurnllbod by W. l. L°IIUOI_ IIOIOIOIOI REST A WHILE Men seek out retreats for them- selves, cottages in the country, lonely seaahorcs and mounts‘ . Than too art disposed to banker greatly after such thins; and yet all this is the very commonest stup- idly; for it is in thy power, when- ever thou wilt. to retire into thy- self: nowhere is there any place whet-etc a man may retire quieter and more free from politics than his own soul; above all if he have Within him thoughts such u he home of a minister in Loo Angeles recently and applied for a position Now it happened that the house- hold vras already well supplied with servants. 5o the minister's OUR SOLDIERS wife said. "l am sorry, but we real- ly haven't enough work another ~Slr.-ls it not high time that Barbary!‘ have You may not know what a rne employed.‘ fish Empire's troubles. of church union (4 to l) register- ed at the general assembly of .l"res- byterians in Toronto yesterday is event of recent times. OBSERVATION, NOT ARGUMENT The result was i’ _ i-ied, a Port Arthur woman. resid- ent oi the section where most of the. foreign born her of four children, answered: lets me keep boarders and I make plenty of money." that many other and other countries would receive if she were not bound to him by the legal ties constituting marri- age. ISelf-satlsfied possession ‘is in many cases. not conductive to pro- per appreciation husbands. tions become seem to have much the advantage first :ln:l only public lllonllmenh|w°uid lllliliy t0 $07119 me"- ument merely an observation. ent question when it queries whet- ; ‘i rne outcome. ~ s 0M8’ i... 1a.; Experienced ( Christian Register) A 189311939 "b0!" clllle l0 the “Madame? said the Oriental po- itely, “~i am sure that you must lttle bitvof lwork it takes to keep NOTICET) Amman (Columbus, Ohio. Citizen) The nun never sets on the ‘Bri- “mosr lvlomewrousi" (‘Hamilton Spectator) The overwhelming vote in favor nl ument-cue the most 1911810115 (Port Arthur News-Chronicle) When asked by ‘one of the Pen‘ -us enumerators if she were mar- reside and niot- "No. but the man l live with is better to me than n husband. l-ic And it is more than ll possibility women in this better treatment fronl "her man" on the part- of The woman who can whenever condi- unhearable would ‘up and leave" of the woman who is “tied for life" and, ipursuiug the idea further, it might be found that the same thing Please Note——This is not an arg- against marriage. It ‘is __-_ WHAT IS A BETTER WAY‘? (Guelph Herald) Tile ‘l‘oronto star asks a pertin- her the Province of Ontario is pill- messed of a fair, honorable or sat- isfactory method of disposing of its timber-wealth? We inlaginc the answer. if truthfully given from all interested, would he that it has not. ~ There appears’ to be ton muc guess work about the value of ltlle timber lilnits offered forsaic from time to time by the-various govern- lltcnts who alplpear to ‘be in power, and it is this lack which has given rise to much of the auspicl u. which prevails over the disposal of tim- ber limits in Ontario. This might have been permissible in times gone by, when timber was so cheap, but it is not‘ so any longer. lScrne better methods than the one now in use. which plays into the hands of the "interests" could surely be devised. A better pol- icy. for the time ‘being at least, would be to put up only such tim- "ber lands for sale as have been thoroughly cruised ‘by agents of the province. Were this done and the data put at the disposal of poss- ible buyers. a larger [Gllelllleiiilflilill inure to the province. Under any other system the public will al- ways be suspicious that it is not getting full value for its forest wealth and that privileged persons are getting confidential tips as to the nature of |the information _ln the possession of the government. POLITENIGB A OIVIO DUTY (Cleveland Plain Denier) t ‘If visitors are treated with, cour- tesy by salesmen in the stores they patronize, if the questions they ask of pedestrians or 0f traffic officers are answered as if It is n pleasure to impart information to strangers. if street car conductors hotel clerks and taxi driverlrre- meniber that civility is not only a mind. Constantly then ruse this retreat. and renew thyself therein and .-be thy principles brief and elementary. which, u mil ll ov- 0r "Wu recur to them, will suffice to wuh thy soul entirely clean, d send thee back without vou- but a civic‘ amt u well, than thousands will re- turn to their homer ready to sing the praises of the city and to some again when opportunity offers. _It at it; (-1.. -___. ~t _ "m: aAcKus case‘ "- don Free Press.) ,_ Mr. Backus has huge pulp and paper interests in Minnesota and Northwestern Ontario. lie con- trols a‘ big paper mill at Fort Francis. Most of the paper he manufactures goes to Chicago and Western American papers. Dur- ing the war he openly defied the orders of thc Canadian papercon- troller and refused to supply his quota of paper to, Western Cana- dian publishers. Recently he was granted vast timber limits in the Kenora district by the Drllry Gov- ernment. Along with those limits have gone valuable water power rights on the Lake of the Woods and tributary streams. Such pow- er sites should have been earmark ed for the ‘Hydro-Electric Commis- sion. but tile Drury Government ls ‘evidently following in. Northern Ontario the policy of the old Roz-ls administration at Niagara and ir. lnvingaiwayppower rights to priv- ate interests. iP-he City of Winnipeg has a great public ownership power dc- veloprnent scheme and feared that control by the Backus interests would‘ seriously affect its power project, the waters coming froln the Lake of the Woods drainage basin. It was supported in its pro- test lby the Province of Manitoba. Rt. Hon. Arthur Meighen held a conference with Preirier Drury and Premier Norris, when it. was decided to appoint ll. control board. ‘the Ontario anti Manitoba Legisla- tures and the ll-‘eileral Parlilllnent passing concurrent legislation. Mlanitoba did its part, but Premier Drury failed. Now the Dominion is fulfilling its compact lwith Mani- toba, by flasslni; legislation which Premier llrury admitted was nec- essary. ll‘ there is invasion of pro- vincial rights in the l)olllinion's legislation. it is -nlercly invasion 0f the right to hand over to all American plllttlcrabwho has shown callous indifference to Canadian interests. tllc control of Ontario's bqupdary waters. \ OLEOMARGARINE "Tibia-lord Free Press) iTllr Filflilfifil Sun is protesting with vigor againstr- the bill of tho Govrrnlllont extending for llntitllcr your permission to manufacture olrolnzlrgilrlne in Cflllfliid- The 511" nlzlkl-s its usual attack 0n the ‘Tim- la wort-ll while. any way one looks}. _~ - ada. Queen Street -i _ phate, hem-oi. and tarp-were worth $115.60. it is a mistake, these scien tists_ state in a Government bullo- tin entitled "Coal The Resource and its full Utilization,“ to belive that a cut in production costs would greatly cheapen ‘coaliii these costs were annihiliilted coal would be. only a little over a dollar lower. The real remedy for th¢ high prices of coal is t0 eXti/QCI. all the treasures locked up in it. Our city should set up huge plants for manufacturlngmot coke, but either gas and byproducts of eoni or a non- celular "artificial antrncite" with gas and ‘by-products. Some day the nation will sec a better uttiiiation of coalrs byljproducts. But the slow growth of the coke. benzol, and toiuol industries shows that the advance will take time. rcprcslinlat-ive Parlinnlent.“ it plight liiterest the Farmers’ Sun tt. know that every member of tile FHITIHPFB’ party in the HD1188. from l-lon. T. A. Crerar down. voted for oleomsrgilrlne. in- sitoiltf of attacking the Government. Tile ‘Sun might wcll turn its bulli- eries upon its own leader and his followers. including the recently- olected memelir for West Elgin. Oleomargnrine is recognized as a fit. and pro-per food product in every country in the world except Canada. Even Denmark, the greatest European dairy nation, ai- iows the use of oleomargllrinc. At the present time, with butter at it low figure, htere is little likelihood a substitute for butter. hut olco- margarine proved a boon to tilou- sands when tprices were soaring and may again. Utopia and “Coal. (New York Evening Post) “The householder would wol- come a ton of anthracite for $11 ——ln fact the householder would think the coal dealer insane if he quoted that prlrze. Yci for $10 wo might begettlng ii ton oi smokeless coal without slate, a month's sup- ply oi cooking gas. fertilizer for a garden, tar enough to keep the street fbefore the house dustless, and 40 miles of motor fuel. The Government's scientists insist that this is no fanciful picture. In 1915 they point out,'a»ton of soot coal was worth $1.15 at the mines. The products which the coal contained 1500 pounds of smokeless fuel, 10.000 feet of gas, ammonium sul- .- \\\\. lonll's'” Hi‘! \/f‘1/~Y‘ yo. ‘a, [,1 t. hood only regard attentively to b0 It. N! ._ . - - q to wliat sofa:- awaitoth thee. i Feilelfl“ roscate dreams: of anyone using ooleolnargarlne as ' (in its final page tho Govern- lncnt bulletin publishes a footnote one sentence of which dispels all "Unless a type of public management superior to ltnythlllg this country‘ has devel- oped in the past can be put forth. the whole matter might better be left in its present state of inade- quacy." lf only science could fur- nish us stateless, smokeless and 100 per cent efficient city govern- ments. ' A Great Falls Hampden. (Chicago News) -—-——<ln refusing to pay tllc state tax on bachelors. a prolnlnent un- wed of Great Falls, iiviontnna, says "Spinstera are responsible for my not being married in their refusal to my (wooing in the past. Tax the spinsters of the same age andll will gladly pay, but otherwise it is class legislation and l stand upon my rights. Furthermore, l refuse to get. married to escape jail and l refuse to pay a tbacileior tax to es- cape jail.“ ' ii. - Experienced. ‘ . I . Christian Register) ——-—A Ju-Danese "boy" canto to the home of a minister in Los An- geles recently and applied for a lJOBIV-IW- NIIW it happened that the household was already well supplied with servants, so the minibter's wife said, “i am sorry. but we really haven't enough work to keep another ‘boy busy," wmsrlilms." said the oriental poi- ltely. "l em sure that you must have. You may not know what to keep me employed." a m: out cllllnrllrlt srrs iKeap sf sharp lookout for rose hula. [tolnelnber that the like grapes almost u lwel u roses. “Remember also that role bugs are fatal to chickens. Keep the Ilt- ter yarlled while they. abound. About the best way w I61 flfl df roldbnll is to shake than m6 q pill of kerosene. The loom lnl- ;‘ Destroy Insects and Caterpillars.‘ 50,000 lbs. in- "i 1 secticidesin stock. ' ' i i‘ ,1 Berger’s Paris iGreen * - s, - ' ' Arsenate of Lead in Paste r - ~~ l‘ Arsenate of Lead Dry Lime Sulpher Bordeaux Mixture Bluestone Sprayside ~- ' Arsenplte of Lime ~ Sprayers ‘ Now isthe time to spray and save your fruit. Our new addition isnowtwellustocked with depend- able goods,land we cordially invite you to inspect the goods displayed. Whether you purchase or not our em- ployees consider it a pleasure to show you around.- We meet (any price by any Catalogue house in Cait- Our service is very efficient. iii Rogers Hardware Bu. Liii. y SPRAY! i t . SPRAY l t ti . 1. ‘spa-v i.‘ Grafton Street THE STATELV HOMES OF I ENGLAND (London, Ont., ll-‘rec Prcas —Taxation having overtaken cap ital in the iandowning classes of England castles and great houses are ‘being shut up, first because the territorial owners cannot af- ford to live in them; secondme- cause they connot rent them if they would. _ lThis state of afaflrs cnhses the ‘London ciirreapondent o! the Man cheater Guardian to excialm: “The evacuation of the '- larger houses, of course will materially change the whole face of English social life. The new people with a few exceptions are not, aeeklni: to buy estates and most of,the great houses that survive will doubt less lpass into a new phase where they will have no connection‘ with tile country that surrounds them except perhaps in it sporting sense. “One sees in tho lint generat- ion than. the houeob oifithe rich in the country will ee much like the houses of the zlch in America —-littie islands beautifully kept in a countryside that only knows them "B ileollle who come amigo in mot- ors." L “People who collie llnli go in motors,’ What ll. social-revolution l! Plummet! Hll in those words. By l-‘Qllllflrtsbni fvtith [the ineighboril- ncss and the interest which have so ions subsisted between the cot- tage and the castle, how unfriend- ly they sound. Yet. if the pauper. iza-tion and the patronage erstwhile back of the "neidhborllneslr add the "interestflour sentimentality admires are to go with the going of country houses, who except for Otlilfi l! ......... .. White Pumps at‘ White 2 Strap from 4 Walker, Parker, Slater, .. " Hbleprbof lnnno to innit sou. . White Footwear Time? And we are well prepared for it A 009d "n0 of Ladies White Oxfords at ...... .. $1.06 . Y We are new receiving daily new gulls bought till: spring n lower prion than was possible three months ago, in mm style of amp punt lords in grey or blunt: anode, tall Mlfiiwll eta, from, the but ulloomakara. llltblllord aesthetic reasons can regret them? Between the years 1882 and 1335 Felicia liemans wrote her "Nation- al Lyrics and Scenes and liymns of Life." The lllost popular and tho best known single selections out of these works, perhaps, are "Casablanca" and “The Homes of England" and all of us remember the lines. ' "The stately homes of England, How beautiful they stand-t ; , Amid -~their tall ancestral troop,- O'er-all the pleasant land, " The deer across their greeti- sward hound. . - Through shade and sunny gleam, ' And the swan glides past then: to the sound _ ‘ Of some rejoicing stream." - * a it is a fair picture» ‘in certain senses the world will bopoorer for‘ its lpassing. lf, however, that pass- ing contributes to the greater up. building of the “merry homes of England." of whatever estate, around whose henrths a household love is gathered; to the strngth; ening of "the free. fair hflfllufl of aliglimrw-ll the fall of the "h/ilii: means the fall of the "hut." as we". what matter? Hearts of “natifie proof‘ will still be reared in Engfl 'land. There will still be hollowed Walis and let urfliope bright grov- es and lInwery sod: . "Where first the spirit loves lIts country and iill God." child's glad ii Knows No Bounds lBcbby~"Whllt does ‘knows no bounds‘ nlean. dad?" ' DB‘! (buried in newapaper):'i\'a xaroo with rheumatism." 88 up. MM up. ......, $2.10 up. ‘fidfil. .. Ytilnyaapr" l‘ in rd Golly a agar, shale?’ n neutral-sis ‘ “ .