-_/-~ ful bes con ea] irro sun sut ' i-m lyea’ iien i‘ bus er, {Olin refi" iarg and Hi‘ 1 i; pr sold star " 119i: c: mi to! ' on do Ml PAGE FOUR T‘ ETOWN BUM I m", (“"1593 1997) “~00 per ye‘nr (delivered) In advance; —'~ i“ I'll (nailed, In nominee, ll clllllfllalllfl 33.50 my u, g. 4, ._...__ ¢ ' llllltliq diploma. J. ll. Bunsen. Editor llllll n uhlinncn I). K. Oun-le. Auoelutn IP-dltor. WEDNESDAY,’ FEBRUARY 11, 1920. i: _ most interesting experiment iii newspaper ownership in its history THE POLI'I‘I(‘.\ I. ..\ XE country districts. _ The latest victim of theiaxe is Mr. James Lan- drigan, Manager of the Government School Supply. ’ He has received intimation that his services will not be required after March lst. No cause, so far as we can learn, has been assigned for this dismissal. Mr. Landrigan not only inaugurated the School Supply but through the several years 0f its existence has con- ducted it successfully and to the entire satisfaction _ been regarded as especially qualified for the position, his long and suc- cessful career as a teacher and his intimate know- ledge of school books and school requirements being one of the essential qualifications for such a posi- tion. During his incumbency, so far as can be ascer- tained, he attended strictly to his business taking no part in politics or otherwise meddling with affairs of of the public, government. His successor is Mr. F. W. Hughes, former pro- prietor of the well known Hughes’ Livery Stables on Grafton Street. Mr. Hughes is one of our best known citizens and has the reputation of being a good horse- man. He also has the reputation of being an ziggres- sive political speaker and is much in evidence during the strenuous day's of’ a political campaign. credited with having handled a considerable share of the wool pulled over the eyes of the electors dur- ing the last campaign. What he knows about school books and school supplies has not been revealed either by himself on the stump or by the government. Whether his appointment to the important position of Manager of the School Supply is in recognition of his success as a horseman or the natural evolution . from the stump to a political office we are not inform- ed, but why in this particular instance, if a change was necessary, should not a returned soldier have received the appointment? In this connection it may also be said that prac- tically a clean sweep has been made in the Depart- ment of Agriculture. Of those in oflice when the pres- ent government came into power not one remains ex- cept Mr. Shaw and he, doubtless anticipating a like fate, has linked up his fortunes with an agricultural newspaper in Moncton. Both the-Department and the province are losing a good man. Mr. Boulter, for merly Inspector of Schools and for some time con- nected with the agricultural department remains. Mr. Scales and Mr. Richard Creed, both graduates of agricultural colleges, were dismissed. A (‘OMINGl 'l‘lil‘l-\'l‘ Another season of rare enjoyment is promised the citizens of Charlottetown in the “Follies of 19_20" to be presented under the auspices of the Knights’ of Columbus on Thursday and Friday evenings week and “The House Next'Door” on Monday aud Tuesday of next week. The programme has been so arranged as to give pleasing variety throughout, the first two evenings to be devoted to light opera and the last two to comedy. These productions are being staged by Messrs Hurley and Buckhart of St. John, two gentlemen thoroughly conversant with and experienced in theatrical requirements. Two features especially in connection with this presentation should commend the undertaking to our ‘citizens, namely, the proceeds are for charitable purposes, and the programme is carried out by local talent. i That Charlottetown possesses -local talent, both musicalhand histrionic, has been proved on many occasions and, judging by‘ the pre- paration being made for “The Follies of 1920" there is going to be a display of talent that will be worth witnessin g. The purpose of the entertainments, to provide for the poor, will not be lost sight of in charitable Charlottetown. “The poor we have always with us” and the fact that they are to benefit by these per- formances will add to the enjoyment of those who ’ attend. Give them a bumper house every evening and prove once more that Charlottetown encourages loc- al talent and is always ready to boost charitable un- dertakings. The Strand Theatre lwill accomodate large audiences but it will be well to secure tickets in advance. EDITORIAL NOTES. The influenza epidemic in New York has raised a row betweqythe doctors and lhe Women's (‘bris- tlan Temperance Union. Dr. Royal S, Copeland. who seems to bo o phydlqlln or some prominence, ro- comomnded whiskey both as n pre- ventive and as n remedy for in- fluenza. The W. C. T. U. promptly Mlfllfllllllfll warning the . qqqpw. I r, i The political axe is still swinging merrily. For some months past its activities have been confined largely to Road Masters who had received their com- mission from the late government. So far as we can learn the former Road Masters, efficient and eneifi- cient, have become an extinct species and their places are now filled by a new generation, also efficient and inefficient if we are to judge by the reports from He has Muiisey Money New York is about to see the This is the result of the purchase oi the New York Herald by Mr. Fiauk Munsey,_\vlio is also the o\vn- f)‘ of the Sun. For u newspaper owner to buy u second competing paper and merge it with his own properly is an almost everywlay oc- currence. When Mi". AYuiist-y bought the Sun in i910 he wns al~ ready lhe owiici" of the New York Press, uiid he merged the Press in the Sun. Thut he woud sink the powerful iiidividuiuiity oi the Sun iii the Herald or extinguish the lame of the Herald in the Sun is not to he thought oiIFor more than a gciicrailon the. ilerald was the best known abroad oi’ any Ameri- can newspaper. and it has not Wllirll)’ lost llils earlier ilistinction. Thr- Sun, on the other hand, has 1x distinctive genius oi its own. Readers who like the Sun methods would no: like the Herald meth- ods. and those \\'lio have been brought up oii the licrairl tradition would not read the Sun. The pup- crs are as distinctive as the Globe and The hiiil and limplrc. So wi- are likely to see the cxprriiueni oi‘ two llrsi-cliss nu-tropolilaii newspapers, both owned wholly by our mun, in strenuous coinpeili- ion. . Mr. Munsey’s Career Mr. Muiiscy is a publishing gen- ius. He lit-gap life as a telegraph operator, went to New York as .zi ynulh and started the Golden Ar- .-,os_\', a boys’ magazine, to which he \was a large contributor. lie iizid no capital, nu tucking. bu! the venture prospered and contin- ues torlny as the Argosy. Later on he csiablilieil Ml1ns|>_\".s kiagzizlnc. for a long" time the leading lcii- ceut American inaguzlnev, and a1 the present time he owns lhe Rail- road Alan's Magazine and the All Story monthly. His first venture in the newspaper ilelil was when he bought the Baltimore News, and this abundance of As about ninety-nine per- cent. of prescriptions for liquor are given on the advice of the patient himself, not the doctor, it is doubt- iul lfelther Dr. Copeland's advice or that of the W. C. 'l‘. ‘i. will mn- lerlnlly affect the slllllltlflll. Jsnuary has always been the har- vest time of ‘the plumbers And this greatly improved it. Later he be- Buys The Herald, P!" THE CHARLOTTETOWN GUARDIAN‘ ' to read about what they hnvc seen. The idea which he' shattered" was that ii a niau saw a iii-e he felt he knew all about lt and woulq no! other reading about it in the pap- er next day. it was in reporting a_ fire that Bennett discovered that’ the mos-t eager readers of his story were the people who had been eye- witnesses. ' The Greatest Reporter He was the first of lhe sensat- ionalists. Hisjournalism was in- tensely personal. He was-contin- uailly attacking, exposing and iii- giiltliigfWheii he was chastised for his articles he faithfully reported the encounters, which must have been painful to him. He had no respect for the editorial page, and was just as well pleased if in the hurry of gelling the paper to press the page containing the editorials was left out. _'l‘he result WilS that for many years the editorials oi the Herald were indescribubly lerhle. indeed ii is only in. the past ilflcen yeilrs Di‘ so that they have been worthy ol‘ an important ll('\l'bpilili‘l'.lllll us a newspaper ihc Herald was great, and even today it has the most shipping news oi’ uny American paper. The i-leiuld would pay more for news luuii any of its rivals, uiid consequently for many yearn the licrzild llilll more. news. 'l‘|ie circulation went up, and up Weill the zidvcrtisiug rates. From firs! lo last Hnncit made mil- ious out of the Herald. From Fatncr to Son ills son iuln-riicil ihc pzipci", and for many YLJFS i-dltrd it from France by cubic. James Gordon Bennett. lllc second had much of his futhr-rs genius, but gradually he zilniznloiied personal journalism for lhc impi-i's'oiial. He also estub~ llchr-d ihc Paris million oi’ the llvr- uld, u unique and vuluzihlc contribu- .ioii to Jouriiilisni. lie founded a London edition, but it ivas short lived. The second Bennett rarely visited [he llnitml States. lilo be» came a Frenchman in all but name. 'l‘hrough lhc war he and his pup- ersers were fiercely pro-Jilly. Hc died in blay, 1918, nnd the chief item in his will; the Herald ‘proper- ties, was left to iiuiiiitniii zi home for broken down, newspaper work- cunie the owner of the New York News, but ubqndoned it in a few months after vainly tiyvlng to make it pay. Shortly afterward the paper went out of existence. Previously he had owned the New York Star, whose mine he changed to the Con» iinent, and this he sold us u going concern. its name was changed to the Advertiser and later oii it was merged willy the New York Amer- icon. For u number of years Mr. Munscy owned the Washington Times, the paper whose sale to Ar- thur Brisbane, oi the Hearst pap- ers, financed by a number of Ger- mzin-Ameriean brewers. was the subject of a Congressional investi- gation in the course of the war. ‘ The Famous Herald The New York Herald is one oi the most remarkable of American newspapers. ‘The s-tory of its foun- ding and career is a romance. it was established by James Gordon Bennett, an American of Scottish. French descent, eighty-five years ago. in its early issues it was a four-pogo impel", smaller than u handkerchief. and ‘was written al- most entirely by the proprietor. it sold for a cont but such was Ben- nett's amazing industry and sense of news that after five years it wus netting the proprietor 3199-000 il year. Bennett was tho greatest oi iicivu experts, though he was by no means ll great editor in the sense that Gri-vlvy and Dana were great it wus liennril who made one of tho greillvsi oi‘ newspaper dis- coveries, naniil-y ,th'it people like QQ-Q-OQ-OQ-Q-O O6 OQQ-QFQOQ-QQ Q49 Daily Selections For i Guardian Readers Furnished by W. 8. Louoon v++O4§§0§v0o+Q0§++O++§+< SOMEBODY 5AID "Somebody snld that it couldn't be‘ done. ~ Bu! he with o. chuckle, replied: That ‘maybe it couldn't.’ bill he would be one Who wouldn't say that till he tried. 8o he buckled right in, with o trace of a grin On his face-if he worried ho hid it. He started to sing as he tackled the thing That couldn't be done —- and he did it! "There are thousands to tell you it cannot be done. There are thousands" to sly ‘ll means failure: There are thousands to point Ol-li » to you, one by one, The dangers that waits to assail you. But you buckle hi with a bu of a grin, Then ttlie, oii your cont and go to i _ . ers. '.l‘hc will did not forbid the that Mr. Munscy paid for it——scv- eral million dollars. it is said-will be used io found and maintain the home. Uivic Election Sirz-li the man who wrote the letter to the Patriot yesterday ud- vocatliig the scrapping of the cliy‘s street making plllnt—\\'lilch by the wu) is the most up-to-iliitc and economical _iu (Jaiiada ioday-—ls a true exponent of the policy to be pursued by Mi‘. Riley, if elected Mayor. ihen citizens will do well government. The writer has slud- ied civic govuriinient for many years and is well inioiiined 0n 0on1 struct on work. ‘He. makes the fol- lowing statement knowing it to be truez-Our city streets laid down in 1919 were constructed’ at a low er cost and of u better grade oi ma terial than any similar work done in (fauaila last year. Our thinking citizens must be aware of the liici that good streets are a necessity in uuy progressive city. Our Amer: can neighbors are rightly, we think regarded us clover business men. There arc few cities in the United Slates the size oi‘ Charlottetown thin are ivitliout permanent slrcr-ts. Good streets will bring added trade to the city, will do away \v_lth the dust nuisance making your city sanitary, thereby preventing dis- ease. It is u well known fact that in cites where permanent streets iiru lnid properly enhances in vul uc icn to twenty five per cent ant‘; often 100 per (rent. ll‘ you doubt this go to ‘MOiIIElOII whore perinnii ent slrccis were made about a yeaii" ago and will bc cnniiiiuieil to he made. 'I‘heii' [rude lids increas- ed wonderfully, their hotels are full, their rsiiorcs are busy iiud labor is the best paid and in great- er demand than in any oi the smal- ler cities. Manufacturers are also being attracted owing lo the pro- gressivencss of the (‘lty and (loun- Cillzous oi Charlottetown fro not he misled by any propaganda direct ed ngnlnst iho improvement of your city. (lharloltetown is now coming into its own and if n progressive man like Mayor Wright is elected along with u progressive council wo will see the greatest boom ever experienced in our city. This is no time for standing still. Every city in Canada. is forging ahead be- cause its citizens ‘are imbued with ambition and the spirit of improve- ment. Let us muke (lhnrlotletowu one oi the banner ones by elect- ing a progressive Mayor and Coun- cii. I nm sir, etc, CITIZEN. FUR MARKET Funsten Bros. 6t Co., internation- nl Fur Exchange, St. Louis, U. S. A. We beg to report the following result oi our auction sale today: Alaska Sealskln; ($100.) Dress- ed, Dyed and Machined, for account of tho United States Government. 55 per cent higher than September. Persians ($500.) 30 per cent high- er than Se temiber. er thanrsensiianimer" u 20o ooo oo Run as I u r ‘ .) percent Miller . snle oi the paper ,ond the money to leave Mi: Riley out of the civic 5K Moles (8 0.000.) 75 per cent hlgh- _' STRAND O-O-Q-@O-OO-O-QfO-OOOQOQO0O 00-044 9000 O-O-OQQ-O-OXOQOOO-GOO-O-OO "nu nouns OF 19620” Thursday and Friiliydlebruary 12th and 13th‘. i “THE HOUSE (J. ‘Hartley Manners E i E i l Specialties) Monday and Tuesday February 16th and l7th Both Under Direction of Messrs S. C. Hurley i and J. Burkliart ' Auspices Knights of Columbus To be Staged by Local Talent at the On Above Dales Get Your Coupons Now. All Seats Reserved at 75 cents—Coupon Holderswill have First Choice of Seats Plan Opens Tuesday Feb. l0lll at Reddin lBros ooomo-omow 0o o-omvowoovo-wowom o-wvooo o6 vow-ova‘ l NEXT noon" z=m Eastern Canada ‘individuals in Eastern Canada. a FEBRUARY 11, 1920. 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BROW 146 Richmond ‘St Qhartottetown ll- ol‘ use can see "in the children's pleasure something of the beauty lliat never was on land or sea, and something ol‘ the fascination ofihe wonderful adventures that never ‘I hiflipen. The stage, perhaps, with ' its emphasis, with its inevitable strong colors and insistense on sol- id reailiy, is the last place in which _\ou would expect to find fnlry . muglc, (he soothing sovereignty of fantasy. Bu! there is no denying its presence or ifs power. While the theatre can for a while give us that, whatever its bunaliilesi: yesterday and its cruditles of in morrow, the theatre is one the side of lhe angels. The Lure of the Stage. (London Dally Telegraph.) Even the tired short-sighted eyes __r:-_:——-_ > ~ _\\\\R \\ X‘ / , .1’ \ / . 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