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A; reported in yesterday's Guard- iaryluthere. has. been a noticeable in- creessin ‘the value of exports from _Pmvince to the United States duringlliit), the total of all commod- itieaelrported to that country am- bunting to $3,561,018 as compared with $2,025,062 in ma. This is a most encouraging report, allowing as it doesthst our trade and commerce is developing and that the prosper- ity of this province, which is prac- tically a household word in other parts of Canada, is being still fur- l tnherlenhanced by the energy, and enterprise of its people. The increase as indicated in the statistics furn- ished by the American Vice consul. has been due largely to increased po- tato shipments and higher market prices; but the trade in other agri- f‘ , cultural commodities has been well ' maintained.

Our natural resources being con- fined tbtho brain and brawn of our people and to our soil and climate, it i1 natural that we should look to ag- riculture as our great source of de- velopment and prosperity. It was from agriculture m» ’ the present prosperity of the Province grew. and it is to be hoped that every means within the power of the local and federal governments will be tak- en, not only to preserve but to en- hance this prosperity. or increasing importancethisyearwiilbethspro- teoting of the.markets of our farm- II. At any time the United Stems may impose tarifls which will prac-‘ tieplly shut us outof their markets, and ourhfermers, unless they are able h} market more of their products at h9g5‘ be losers to the extent of millions of dollars. The markets of eastern and central Canada, were it not for tbs competition of cheap New Zealand butter. would have offered pworldel-‘ul opportunity to the dairy- Prince Edward Island dur- ‘, mg the past few years. We are only ‘~ V, beginning to develop our potato > trade in those Provinces, arid the game could be said of other of our agricultural products. Welcoming as “ we do the increased trade with Unit- ‘ e4 States last year, we have always tn beer in mind the tariff sword that fa banging over us by a slender thread, which, if it fell, would wipe outlllolcl-ddc completely. '

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_'.‘i_'l_lew suggestion, which has fre- quently been put forward, of a na- park for Prince Edward Island is i... which might well no consider- ed at the present time by the Ficder- al Government. The construction Oi’ tllb Canadian National hotel in Charlottetown and the eontemp‘ ted- improvement in transportation fa-‘

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' N ‘our shores; and in the circumstances v provision for a national pm would‘ be ya sound ‘ proposition» ‘flplhitifiwm this consideration, it was recently by ‘Hon Charles Minister of the Interior,‘ ‘ liisfaim was to have a national

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{Bahia being made for a

and Government pond could be made a veritable beauty spot. All tbs mt- ural advantages are there, and the

, use of maintenance would be a mere begatclle compared with the money expended for similar purposes in other provinces-

Another favorable site, of much historic interest, would be ‘Port la. Joie, west of the entrance of Char- lottetown harbor,‘ where there still remains one of the few relics of French occupation in the Province. A bus service could be operated in connection with the ferry from Char- lottetown, and that service could ess-

‘lly be extended to Summersidc and

Borden.

Another suggested site is Scotch- fort, the historic landing place of the early Scottish settlers Here also,-a bus service from Charlottetown and other centres could be operated with- out difficulty. ‘

1n Western Canada thousands of square miles of public domain have been set apart for national parks, and large sums of money are expend- ed annually in improvements and upkeep. In Alberta alone this 8N?- comprlscs over 8,000 square 1111168- British Columbia and Saskatchewan each has over a thousand square miles of national park. We, as a Pro- vince of Canada. bear our share of the expense involved in these under- takings from which we receive little if any benefit. .

We have a right to expect liberal treatment in return, and the Minis- ter of the Interior is evidently in- clinsd to this opinion. The present

.occasion is therefore a most oppor-

tunrone. The local Tourist Assoc- iation has already taken this matter up on several occasions, and is Dre- pared to do s0 again. with the eo- operation of _the Provincial Govern- ment and federal representatives, they should now be in a position to make out a very strong ease for the establishment of a national park in Prince Edward Island.

A Wet National Anthem

The National Federation of Music Clubs of the United States has start- ed a movement for the abolition of "The Star spllnglsd Bannerhas the American national anthem.

They have made the ghastly dis- covery that the tune of this anthem is the air of an old English drinking song- As may be imagined, hundred percerlters are not likely to look kind- ly upon a national anthem the mus- ic of which was written by a Brit- isher, and u John Stafford smith. who is credited with bdlng the com-

poser, was a Tory, resolutions. prop-V .erly indignant. Will be iorthcomin!

from the curators of Revolutionary memories. An exchange suggests ~'that when

cilitica are expected t.) bring thousw a. mgbody discover; that nog only is ands of‘ additional summer visitors to; mo musk; oz English origin, but that

the very words are written in the English language, then goodbye w "The Star Spangled Banncrl"

Editorial Notes

Hon. Mr. Saunders, Premier and

the Federal Gov-‘ Attorney General, has gens to Ot- tawa. Mr. George H. Barbour, chief

customs preventive officer fol- the

something doing at Ottawa.

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Provincc,_l1ls gone to Ottawa. lion. John n slnclair. ll. P. for Queens, is already in Ottawa. 111m must be

In woodman. Ontario. during the) month of December mt. only me man was arrested for drunkenness;-

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Notes By The Way j

‘Within the current year certain federal appointments are sgpsoug m be rnade‘in this province which are of especial interest to a considerable number of more or less prominent Liberals. as well as to others who are, not seeking or expecting any favors from the powers that be at Ottawa.‘ One of these plums is the Lieutenant Governorship of the pro- vince. The onice is one of high hon- or and distinction but the salary is comparatively small, and the de- mands of official hospitality are pro- portionately largc. I

No citizen who has due regard for the dignity an traditions of the Governor-ship afford to take it unless he is possessed of a " able private fortune, as is the hap- py lot of His Honor,» the present holder of the office whose first offic- ial term of nve years expired some months ago. The low salary of seven thousand dollars is much below that of any other Governor in the Dominion-all of which range from $9,000 in Nova Bootia and New Brunswick to $10,000 in the larger provinces westward These conditions naturally influence the Government in making its choice. Also there is the fact that many ci- tiscns would like to have a change mflde every five years on credal grounds or for other reasons. . The oflicial term of Judge Stew- art as Judge of the County Court of Queen's County will expire later in the year. It is understood that this expiry does not include the office of Vice Admiralty Judge which carries a considerable salary quite apart from that of the County Court.

Other offices that may or may not fall vacant during the year are sub- jects of lively speculative interest in various sections 0f the local Liberal camp to an extent that rivals that which in Ottawa is concerned with the shifting of Cabinet portfolios.

A strange new disease commonly now spoken of as parrot fever, has spread widely over the United Stat- es and caused grave concern to the health authorities. Its origin is sup- posed to be from parrots which are imported in large numbers from Af- rica. Press despatches do not tell whether or not the malady is con- tagious or infectious or how it is oar- ried from one person to another- '

It is admitted to be dangerous to humanbeings and has in many cas- es proved fatal. ‘The health euthorlh les are onlthe aisrt- to find a reinc- dy arld also a preventive that will make people immune and hope is ex- pressed that these may in due time be discovered.

Before the war Russia was a lead-

ped abroad more wheat than Canada. Under Soviet rule these conditions have been reversed. Canada has be- come the largest exporter of wheat in the world. Russia ships away but little wheat at any time now and frequently has need toimport wheat or wheat flour to feed her own peo- ple.

For the Junction of peace in the world. what more influential _, exists than the lfiflille of Nations’. And yet since 10M Great Britain has contributed $3,500,000 toward the working of the League while the United states has paid 822,000 toward some special conferences and com- missions fevored by the League. This statement, which is going the round of the press, indicates a wide con- trast between the two great English speaking nations.

British immigrants settled in New Brunswick in recent years appear to be doing well. It was by an arrange- ment between the Federal, provinc- lel Governments that some 200 fam- ilies from the Mother Country were located on farms in the province and of these seven have dlverud the’! attention to other lines of labor than farming and two have rscrossed the Atlantic to the land of their birth. with the exceptions the remainder are reported to be doing well.

_Wllile this experiment is not on a

proportionately better than in any other province of Canada. What is trisaofN. nwoulddoubtissiprm true of Nova Bettie and Prince Id- ward nuns is cm: trial on simi- lci-plcnwslcovvliei. masculini- es alejtbe provinces nearest to the aedmcirmcny mud- ble slammed. climate and in the o! their utivcbcrnpaopies-

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NOISE TIRES

Thsressenthatyour: brain and

body get tired is that they are sen-',

sitive to their surroundings, and noise, by actually striking the brain and nerves, little or large repeated knocks, actuallyelihausts them.

In other words if our brains could be free from excessive jars or knocks during the day, we could get along with seven or eight hours of sleep and keep efficient.

That this noise buslnus is ascr- ious menace to health is being re- cognised in Europe and Great Brit- airl.

It is certainly refreshing to see what the British minister of tran- sport is doing to reduce motor noises. The new regulations apply to all heavy motor cars and motor cycles.

It is an oflence to use a motor car or a motor trailer drawn by a motor csr, which causes excessive noise owing to defect in design, lack of re- pair, or faulty adjustment. If the load is not packed properly and is thereby noisy, this constitutes an of- fence also.

Sounding e motor horn when the car is standing, except when neces- sary on grounds of safety, is also an offence.

As you know the three essentials

to health are food, rest, exercise, and as I frequently talk about food and exercise, I want. to say a word about rest. Rest is really food. When an in- crease in weight is needed, the treat- ment is not only good food, but rest, which allows the tissues to store a little fat. A little fat is essential to health, .

Onrof the first things to cause a ‘breakdown’ is lack of rest or sleep. The tissues need these precious hours of rest to get rid of wastes and re- build themselves.

Accordingly all of us should get from 6 to 10 hours of sleep according to our age, and what we have leani- ed that our bodies actually need.

However with our modem civiliza- tion with the tremendous amount of rlolsc everywhere present, it - would sccm that if we arc to keep efficient we must have rest during the day as well as at night. , ‘ _

I do not mean that there should be couches or beds everywherq-but that, our brains and nerves should not be subjected to unnecessary noise;

Horns with an ‘unpleasant or strid- ent‘ note are now being us estlgated and will be the next thing prohibited.

Noise tires and nothing is gained.

If you and I are to keep efficient we must do all in our power to m; that unnecessary noises arc pm- hlbited.

EVENmG IJGIIT

This is the hour of evening where we come

Between the sunshine and the sol- emn stars;

When ‘flowers are closed \nd birds are flying home,

And, like a golden lily in a vase,

Day drops on the jade edges of the sky- ’ \

The hour of sleep is nigh.

Aquietwindisstirrlngintbeweea,

Boon to be silent, and the birds are still; ‘

And silence comes upon the shore and seas,

And, like a child upon a loving Mt’ Earth nestles down to rest.

This is the’ hour of evening, ‘when the @011

or day is dons wilh,;cnd'tlic Weary 54ml

0f labors ended, and the stubborn soil

ml’ we have striven with the whole

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éwaves of literary inanlty which in-

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‘considerate of mats: i: but béwiw --their books are not

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Jllalllbh has Pun) ‘nu latest ‘advocate of the apdwater sehoolof writing is the Montreal Gentle. About mid-Docent, bcr on‘ .,ouclln had . a beautifully- , intentional and mildly-severe alt-l icle entitled- “The Critical Faculty,’- in which an earnest plea for kindness to authors. Crtics wore,- ssked in the interest of humanity to blunt $119 Q1186 of their comment on the literary offerings which come be- fore thsm for appraisal.» The critics were graphically represented es ghoulish anatomistsstanding around the corpus of the author slashing it brutally into the bucket with a to- tel lack of what the Gazette terms "the quality of sympathetic intelli- gence!’ To give a tincture of schol- arship to the discussion it was point- ed out that critics in the past had made dreadful errors of judgment; Wordsworth had been “pronounced too prosy for endurance?‘ Person had spoken slightingly of "The Decline and Fall," and to clinch the matter Dearl Swift was cited to show of- fending critics what offensive ani- mals they are. 1t might have given the reference from Swift more weight had it been properly quoted; the Gazette, however, butchered the dia- bolic Dean's tcxt as ruthlessly as the most savage critic of them all ever vivlsected a shom spring poet. One thing the article does do, one useful purpose it serves, is to show who- ever may be concerned in the maths‘ that writing and criticism are not gentle, friendly social conventions, but a bitter, vigorous, i t and often vicious manifestation and in- terplay of human passions. Imagine anyone in their senses quoting Swift as an advocate of compromise and consideration for people's feelings. Imagine anyone so sunk in fatuity that they think it inaccurate to call Wordsworth-the most interminable of pcets-prosy. There never was a critic who slashed so furiously and had heads, limbs,‘ and dismembered trunks strewn around him, as Swift; And it was not only wriicrs he crit- icised; it was life and men and man- ners: a gigantic frenzy of repudiation and scorn for all of it possessed him. Did‘ not the Montreal Gazette ever hear of Gulliverb- Travels; or of Thackeray's violent assertion‘ that giant and great as this Dean owes, we should hoot him. A queer witness indeed to produce in evidence for a theory of complaisant literary crit- icism. l ' fifhis is an age ofgoodnatlirc so far ea criticism gem. and» ‘it is also arl age in. which few capital-works of literature are being produced-Soft books-soft judgments. It-was not-so in the periods to which the Galactic goes for its examples. Byron devas- tated Southey; the Edinburgh pc- view (which 'the Gazette misnames the "Edinburghfluarterlyfi devas- tated Byron; Johnson dealt faithful- ly with the poets; Dryden did the same by Shadwell; Bwift dropped vitriol on Dryden, and Pope hung Culley Clbber up in dry. Literature in those days was no game for ner- vous amateurs to tangle with. And what any one of the Ireatfwritcrs whom the Gazette quotes would feel called upon to say about the tidal

undatcs would un- doubtedly be surprising.

The Gaaette takes the line that authors should be treated as shy, re- luctant souls who pine w be under- stood; that the critic should try to put himself mentally in the author's mood; and judge him from that standpoint. This is the last peak oi absurdity How could I. critic in so many cases put himself into the author's mind when the _ lllthflf’! mind is practically a minus quantity? How, in full view of the spouting presses, can anybody entertain the curious notion that authors are eith- er reluctant orshy? How. with miles of amazingly good-naturcd Ind 11l- tient literary notices rolling endieslli on, can it be considered decent even to come out with a plea for kind treatment for authors? They are get- tingthe kindest orb-cement. ‘I118? are getting the most ruinous w!

variably bailed asspiesandworksofgeniusaomo of tam snort like mailed. oolltiqt children andths Gaaettezwrites I solemn exorcism mlnlt the nullity‘ entice yinh-wblslr-ft-psisqufiotcl swift. misrepresents Johnson and ‘nluddies

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one of the influences» we cannot l‘. 1101's.. m. ptnnsvlr enough. libs elements, which no nuld in their WW0 and never continue in one ItI-r. affect ourdives. just as much u thinss we have been able to fix solidfasion or are so fixed for us.. And Idain it ispa olsrlolu ‘fact that the impact and power of the weather moods ovcr our fortunes and lives are out of all proportion to any in“. Ivdlcwepoesesssstocauseorcauses of these disturbances. We have weather charts. jlbermos tests, ber- omflinrs.‘ maps upcuwhich arejlnarkod’ thecurwature oftrade windsorof storms. and we halve segmental col- ored patches uponthé map which m wronged to indicate what iooel ltiesiniihseerhls are most liable-bobs visited by cloudburstr cyclone, typ- hoon. eerthqmke and other undesir- ables which occasionally make their fearaome-stflike felt. But still it leiminsitrlse that altbelt weknow very little about the of the weather.‘ ~ We certainly have no science of its freakish ‘outbreaks, no such science as inspires our confid- ence or makes for the knowledge which in tin-n makes . for control. And, truth to tell in this respect we are but slightly in advance of the folk who lived dim milienniurns ego. and gave the elements the‘ names of dcmigods; because of m. ‘ ‘oils PW- ersbeyond ir lulu-u ‘ ding and their reach. To them the demons soared and fought deep down be- neath the root ofthe dark 11ml. 01'. if tempest, suddenly leapt irllo~ the atmosphere, rolling its 10nd drums. W wllsasignthatthestufswerewrath- ful, and men cowsred down in fear and trembllflt. ’ Psi-chance the shock does not effect ourmlndsinibesameway-dlvshave the opportunity and refuge of mine it is nature docs this or that. And sonic day we hope to not I Ilium.» the underlying cause of these tslriflc increments. M yet. however, we live like children in worlds unrealized. We confront sucm wectlnr outbursts as the great storm which has littered the coasts of the British Isles with’ shipwrecks. 0r again, we duly note the shook of the travelling

larder-sees about six hundred“ miles outside Newfoundland and-fromithfs selsmiok centre sent out reverbera- t-ions which were felt on both sides of uic slilmtlc. such visitations/bfllfit in us a sense of the stupendous forces fem, arid-with ‘ iqPNBlW ,1!!!