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THURSDAY. APRIL 9. 1088

P. E. I. Hospital “Black Cats for Luck"

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Have the younger generation completely lost interest in the art of public speaking? would seem to be the case, judging from the fact, emphasized at the Teachers’ Convention .this week, that not a. single entry had been received in the public speaking contest which was to have been held at the recent Provincial Hobbies Ex- hibition. Lack of interest, it was suggested, was due to one of two things. “either there is so much public speaking the pupils are tired of it,

or they are afraid to try

" Youth. we yenture to assert. would not be

afraid to try ’ if the standard of public speech- making were sufficiently high as to excite ad- miration aiid emulatioii. Indeed, up to a few months ago this scented to have been the case. as was C\'ltl€llCC(l by the tremendous success of the orzitoriczil contests held in connection with the Central School Fair. But recently there has been a sprite of adult oratory of a kind scarcely calculatetl to arouse youthful enthusiasm. The

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Yesterday a young man's fancy gloomily tumed to thoughts of sweaters and rubbers. i I 5 The Forum Motor Show in the week after Eastcr will help to put us on the map for the coming summer. X ill if It will be the part of wisdom this year for our farmers to restrict the potato acreage and also that of turnips. X RAPHAEL, whose great picture “The Trans- figuration.” is the pride of the Vatican, was born on Good Friday 1483 and died on Good Friday, 1520, aged $7. 3* 3“

The Gérman electors who were employees and failed to go to the poll to vote for the Fuehrer have lost their jobs and been refused unemployment relief. HITLER reality is even worse than the CAM‘1'B1-:L1. tsléireat.

The fourth Dominion Drama Festival will

most critical students of the political speeches delivered during the last federal and provincial campaigns were perhaps not the electors at all. but the generation not yet of voting age,

ive as vote-catchers must have presented a sorry contrast to anything recognizable as models eith- er of eloquence or high idealism. Such state- ments, for example, as that the public health nurses of this Province were being paid three times more than they were worth; that “most of the people at Falconwood only want to be

open at the Ottawa Little Theatre on Monday, April 20. There are 22 competitors from eight provinces, the Maritimes being represented by the Theatre Arts Guild. Kentville, N. S. with in our Schools and cone cs T m _. ll’ "1_-Cgenqy» and by the Saint John Theatre Guild the cam 3. I kg h‘ ° dcm cspflla 3 with “The old Trouper". The Judge will be Mr.

P '3" appcas Wm l"°"° m°5t ‘Hem’ GRANVILLE BARKER, eminent English play-

wright. manager and actor.

We did not notice it before, but we find from our English exchanges that Mr. l'IlTl.ER, when announcing his determination to smash tip the Locariio treaty, declared: “What I have in

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kept warm, they don't need treatment”; that for Prince of Wales College stove-lieated wooden

structures, with a fire—proof building in the

centre, wouldvhavc been “good enough"; that the then Premier of the Province was extrav- agant because, though he used his own motor car in discharge of his official duties, he did not “pay for the gas which is a very large amount"; that the then administration, in under- taking necessary repairs to the historic Provin-

cial Building, was “tearing down" fice;—these and similar utterances

that edi- by per-

sons appealing. and appealing succcssfiilly, for positions of the highest responsibility in the Province, must have made an indelible impres- sion on those of the younger generation interest- ed in "the art of public speaking." What wonder if they lost their enthusiasm, their fine dis- interested zeal and burning ambition to follmv in the footsteps of Porn and Wiiizi./in and Sir l.ovis DAVIES, when political laurels were now -1; easily obtainable by other and less worthy means? It is significant, and by no means iiii- praiseworthy in the younger generation, that it should turn with distaste from attempting to acquire proficiency in an “art" thus debased

and prostituted.

Radio In Canada

The issues now before Parlizinient in coiiiiec- 004.415 .1 year ago. The figiires for Toronto ant

mind is the permanent settlement of relations between the European peoples in the .ramc mmmrr a’: I have cslablirlicd ordcr wit/tin my own coini- fry." A fine prospect for Europe, indeed!

Nothing succeeds like success. Mayor GERRY I\lcGi:i:1t having roped in Prime Minister KING and members of his Government, the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs of London, to attend the Golden jubilee celebrations in Vancouver, has now got the consent of Ilis Excellency the Gov- crnor General to open the Canadian Pacific Ex- hibition on August 28. Lord TWEEDS/MUIR has also been invited to dedicate two totem poles in Stanley Park.

‘Miiiiicipal defaults are few in the Province of Alberta, according to a report from the secre- tary of the Alberta Institiite of Chartered Ac- cotiiitants which is published in the April issue of The Canadian Cliartcrcd /Iccomitaut. In Feb- ruary of this year, out of 162 organized ii1uiiici— pal districts, oiil_v one was in default and the amount was $1,400. Of 54 organized towns, one was in default, the amount of default being $52,- 411. Of 146 villages, one was in default and the

Notes by the Way

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The increased flow. of American Journals into Canada must. tend to spread the North American as against the lzinpliwe point of view. Can this tendency be successfully countercri? Will the publishers of British papers and periodicals thi it worth while to try to secure quicker postal delivery to Canada, to increase their Canadian circu- lation to try to present the wider view of the British world in the Canadian field? Until something of this kind is done. or until we de- velop our own really independent Journals. Canadian public opinion. especially in foreign affairs. will in- evitahly be coloured by the Ameri- canlsation that has been outlined in these note.s.—The spectator (Lon- don.)

Today Sweden appca . in 3 new role. Erithualsatic travelers speak of it as a country without slums. with-

out unemployment problems. a. country where housing is more or-

tistic and better adapted to low in-

comes than any other in the world.

where farms are electrified, where

government credit is available for social needs. where private enter-

prise is held to the competitive

staridards of great oo-operatives

without either going‘ bankrupt or destroying individual liberty. No set

theory of socialism or capitalism

can quite explain Sweden. and so we think of it as having success-

fully pursued 9. huddle path.

Sweden offers us a great. example., without plaguing us with a. formula.

—Sprlng Yale Review.

Considering the astounding things he has done in the pB.sl;_ Hitler has done nothing much to sstonish the world with ht; pro- posals towards settlement of the intolerable situation he has created. Hts methods of removing

ti-eatmeiit of Jews. his attempts to bend religion to political ends. his violations of the Treaty of Ver- sailles and of Locarno are all fairly astonishing; but the world is be- yond being surprised at a. mere evasion of the main question. Hitler broke a. treaty and claimed that an act of France justified him: that must be settled and France is will- ing that the world court, should decide. All Hitler apparently does now is to propose negotiations with a view to new treaties while he holds what. he gains by tearing up the old ones.

Sun-ripened fruit. and vegetables. according to the “Popular Mechan- ics and Farm Journal" are now being kept, fresh by a, thin armor of wax, so effective that in many instances shippers can dispense with refrigeration. Wax prevents scald. chief cause of rot in apples. and triplm their market life out of storage. Oranges and grapefruit are kept fresh six months instead of six weeks; lemons last eight months to a year. Toniatces can be picked ripe instead of green and remain twice as long. one Califor- nia. company is picking cmiteloiipes dead ripe and coating them. so that city people may at last. know what a. real melon tastes like. All this suggests that products of the home garden may yet be kept. “lres'n" for weeks, certainly well into the autumn montlu.—-Edmonton Jour- nal.

amount of default was only $300.

According to a preliminary statement issued 1 by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics there were 3,044,592 lbs. of crcaniery butter in cold storage warehoiises in Montreal as compared with 1.-

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tion with radio broadcasting are thus summed up i\\/innipeg follow, with last year's figures in ‘by the Vancouver Pro-uiuce : “The two systems of handling radio are ex- iiipcg 571,000 (496,212). Cheese stocks at 1\lon- and the Pact of Paris. and that the

emplified in Great Britain and the United States. trcal were 7.432.326 (4,496.86i) lbs.,

brackets: Toronto 1,227,964 (1,401,217); Win-

Toronto

In Great Britain the service is publicly-owned 2,469,437 (2,102,256), Winnipeg 157,221 (160.- and is operated by the British Broadcasting Cor- ‘ poration, which is responsible to Parliament. The service is utilized for national, educational and It is paid for by fees Ottawa recently discussions took place on what from the owners of radio receiving sets. There to give, and what to Wlllloltl, in the case of mg mg conditions that it doc; to United States the radio cliildren's meals. Dr. ROlJ‘l‘LF.\', of Toronto, told zirniing against their consCQ\lC|1Cl‘5-

cntertainineiit purposes.

is no advertisiiig. In the

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is privately—owiicd and operated. It is in the of the need for education on the. pasteurization h:iiids- chiefly of the great broadcasting chains and nutritive value of milk in rural comiiiun-

which are closely associated with the iiia1iiifac- i turers of radio eqiiipinent. but there are,

ties. “Many farmers feed milk to calves and

besides, not to their children,” he said. Col. J. Il. Bitztiaii, Canadlali

iniiiinieivihlc localstatioiis. The programmes are of Toronto, ineniioiied children's diet and told sponsored, that is. the cost is paid for by adver- of a. woman who fed an ailing child potatoes.

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pork, pickles and pie. She boasted she had raised

“fn Caiiadzi we have had, for some years thirteen children and buried six. now. a coiiiliiiiation of those two systems. The 5* '

Radio Coiiiniissioii has been broadcasting pro-

ii: The Washington correspondent of the Port-

grainnics of instruction and entertainment over land Press-Herold writes thus: “\\’hen a corres-

its iizitiouzil network and has been receiving lic-

pondeiit of a Canadian paper said the other day

c1ise..fees froni radio listeners. The local statioiis to me that there was a movement in Canada to

have been broadcasting sponsored prograiiimes, hut iiinler the control of the Radio Commission. “The stiggcstioii of ‘those interests opposed to :1 ptiblicly-ownctl rtidio service is that the Radio Commission should be wiped out and that. in its stead, a corporation should be set upgwhich would collect the $1.5oo,ooo fees cmitriliiited an- mially by radio listeners. using the money to help private stations provide sustaining programmes and to encourage the liroaclcasting of network advertising prograiiiiiics. in ii word. the proposal is to use the radio fees to subsidize radio adver- tisiiig. This proposal has not at single merit to support it. From ii iiational point of view. its acceptance would be siiicirlal. Radio affords an important means of coinniuiiicatioii and an im- portant means of projecting and distributing na- tional culture. Therc are only a few clear chan- nels and a few shared channels allotted to Can- Ida. and Canada, it she has any ambition to re- riiairia nation with national aspirations and ii na- tioiial culture, must retain thesc'clianncls_ for her-

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increase the duty on potatoes I asked how come. when the treaty, ratified a fortnight ago, gives potatoes free entry iiiio Canada. He explained. It's rather complicated, bttt in Canada they have thizee lists, General, Intermediate and British Preferential. The latter is the lowest rate, General is the highest rate. Potatoes were free on the Intermediate lists, but taxable on the General list. The trade agreement struck out the duty on the General list. leaving them free on all. But the agreement does not bind them on the free list, so there is a movement to put on a duty on potatoes on the Intermediate list. That would be lower than the old duty on the General, but still would be a duty.” I it ii!

Are the Maritimes to be ignored by trans- atlantic air interests as they were by the Railway interests when they made Montreal the starting point for trans-Canadian transport? The Mayor of Sydney, Mr. S. E. MUGGAI-I, evidently thinks so. “It is quite evident from information we re- eeived at Ottawa," said the Mayor‘, "that the Canadian Government intends to subsidize an air- plane landing field at Botvrood, Newfoundland.” Flie plan was, he said.‘ to pass over the Maritirnes and fly the planes from Newfoundland to St. H, bert Air rt outside Montreal. "The absurd- ‘ of the adian 'Governm,cnt-siibsidiziii an -- 1 Botwood la notu d€l'fitll‘ld_IblQ' de-

Iriiti-. 'l'1'etts«'-Atlantic ' field at d G0 -1

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Nothing effective can lie acliieved ”

withoiit the ready and iictlvc co- operation of the trade uiiions, and they will certainly demand two as- surances which the Government should have no difficulty lll givlmz —that. no war will ever be engaged in by this country except in accor- dance with the Leagiie Covenant

most rigorous safegiinrds iignnist profiteering out of armameiits shall be imposed. The cause of peace would not be served it this country bored itself to attack in the condi- tions that prevail; but the Govern- ment ean only be justified if it dc- votes even greater energy to chang-

—The Spectator (London)

After an iiiibrokeii sequeiii-r of deficits running back to 1921 . the Government Merchant: Marine bobs up with an operating surplus. It's not much of a surplus, to be sure. but it's better than a deficit. so with the Canadian Na- tional (W:st. Indies) steamsliips. For the first time since the coin- pany'.s formation they have some money above operating costs with whlcli to meet interest. The line has 11 vessels in operation now. in- cluding the five “Lndy" ships and steadily gains in traffic. The ships maintain Canada's trade and pos- senger connection with the British West Indies and so achieve some- thing worth while the vitliic of which cannot be astiinated entirely in ‘dollars and oents.—Ot.tawa Jour- no.

"The little girl once said that pins have saved thousands of lives by not being swallowed. so one might say that Ireland and other small nations are R. great. force for tread in the world just because they have no influence in shaping the course of events, like their bigger sisters. The more one looks at the course of intemiitionril events, the less one is tempted to admire the forces that are shaping them."- New York Times.

"Of course it- ,Il nrmcd by some that Canada should stay out of any future European war, but shall this Dominion do nothing ir the capital of the Empire is bombed: The war

European war and become an im- pire war. We cannot avoid looking fates. in the face. Nor cu-rye avoid the quation. What does the United states fear to cause it. to build up its defence forces in the my it ll doing? For whatever the Unit , States fears. Canada must. tear."-muiiioon ° Spectltor.

Use of mail coaches was stated in malaria inst 150 your ago. They

an hour and the journey

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WHICH IS THE WEAKIB 33'!

“It is a common observation that in almost every community there are more " than .windowerl. This may be explained in part by the fact that widower: no more likely to mmarry." .

"When the newspapers report I sudden death from heart discus, the deceased usually is I. man. Men are the victims of (out. of cancer. un'larnai.io and stones of the kidney more frequently than women. In 1921. It the no of fan years the average expectancy of life for males was almost. four years lass than females."

"serious diseases of digestion nt- foct men more frequently ‘hill '0‘ men. Ulcers and cancer; of the stomach, cancers of the lip. mouth. tonsils and intestine and harden- ing of the liver affect men men frequently than women. The single

caption in this group in disease of the gall bladder, including in- flammation, gall stones End cancer, all of which affect women and girls more than men." Former- ly tight. corsets were considered the cause of so much liver and gall trouble in women and there must have been some truth in it is the proportion of women to men some years ago was about four to one. The proportion now is considerably s .

Dr. Edgar V. Allen tells us in Hygela. that man ‘is really the weaker sex after an examination of 300,000 cases of disease observed at the Mayo Clinic.

Even in infancy more male than female children dle.iit. birth or during the first year.

However it must be admitted that men work harder, smoke more. drini more alcohol and live more irregularly as regards food and rest. This accounts to some extent; for the higher rate of sickness and death among men.

I believe however that Dr. Allen has overlooked one important point. and that is that man's work takes him away from his home every day- He has to be quite weak and ill be-

fore he will remain at home. The result is that lie is often on his feet and. at work for one, two or

even three days after the beginn- ing of an illness. This means that lit; heart reserve and vitality which he needs so greatly to fight the ailment are being used up at his daily work and he has nothing left with which to fight the illness. The greatest proportion of deaths in any community during the flu epidemic was among the "strong young men" who remained

on tlielr feet. the first few days instead of going to bed Women may be jiist as good

fighters as men when nttackvtl by ailments, but being at home there is always the chair. couch. or bed available for "rest."

In about another century. it is possible that the financial system will be similarly remodelled to serve the needs of modem soc‘iel.y.———Ot- lawa Citizen.

Whciicrer a business man tries to make plans for the future. he is sooner or later confronted with the necessity of trying to figure out whether the world as a whole is going to wreck and ruin. That. is to say that he cannot. simply look at his own line of trade. judge the future by the past, and lay his plans accordingly. Tliings may happen away off in Italy. Germany or Russia, that would completely upset such scheming. Any compre- hensive plunnnlg must make some sort of progiiostication of the state of world civilization as R. wliole.—

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EASTER I GREETINGS

We have n COHIDICIQ line of Fresh Moira Easter Wrapped Chocolates, ranging in prices from two to $2.50.

Also 1 complete line of Three I-‘lowers. Dernfs. Springtime in Paris ates toiletries. Thole III did make I Irritable Editor 0 C.