The Axe, 20 janvier 1922, vendredi 20 janvier 1922

[" Von -dong -of the Liquor ing part in local elections.But that you say that the Editor of this paper ed the Country-Club at St.Lambert .-quor out of it, and you know who \u201cout a license, he was doing more \u2018Liquor Commission.\u201cAn old poach- or makes the best po per.\u201d | - .into the light of day; 4 telling; = \"Uptown 3063.vs Ie READ « READ \u201cThe Liquor \u201cThe Dance- Hells of Cote - Commission a Gol\u201d St.Michel\u201d.o mt | A JOURNAL OF ACTION AGAINST REACTION | on pues page ; | EDITED BY JOHN H, ROBERTS \u201c LAY THE AXE AT THE ROOT OF THE TREE\u201d Ne.3 MONTREAL, FRIDAY, JANUARY 20th, 1923 Price: 5 cents.Annual subscription Two dollars.HANDS OFF MONTREAL An Open Letter to Mr.G.A.Simard To Mr.G.A.Simard, Chairman of the Quebec Government Liquor Commission, Montreal.Sir: | In an interview you have given to La Patrie refering to the Hull elections you go out of your way to administer a rebuke to the Editor of THE AXE as being of a class that is not necessary in this province and say that he does more harm than good.Well, you have been successful in your efforts to defeat Mr.Louis Cousineau, the ex-Mayor of Hull, and the work,of the myxmi.mmission in bringing about that gentleman's defeat entitle you to crow a little.We think it a shame that the time of Government employees ghould be devoted to fighting municipal candidates and interfering with the autonomy of municipalities by tak- by the way, Mr.Simard.When does ere harm than Sood, we retort that that, , is a mere matter of opinion.You are entitled to r opinion but the people of this province know what my work has been in their midst.Your Fifteen Thousand Dolars a year is easily earned.No wonder you defend the Government - Liquor Commission when you get so highly paid for it.But look, Mr, Simard, when the itor of THE AXE personally raid- some years ago and took nearly two Thousand Dollars worth of li- were concerned in selling there with- good than harm.No wonder you were appointed Chairman of the crus ustice; : 4 \u2018 If you have a story to tell that the publle would be interested in; \u2026- LE I you have anything to drag ~ If you know anything worth If you want to ventilate any grievance, EN | \u201cTing -&Ling,\u201d A Bookmakers\u2019 Directory.Our article last week on \u201cBetting and Beokies\u201d has created widespread interest.There will be much mere interest in the Bookmakers\u2019 Directory which we hope to publish shortly in \u201cThe Axe\u201d.If this business of hand- book-making is legal, as would appear \u2018by the open way it is carried en, the use of telephone and telegraph ser~ vice, and the comparative freedom from prosecution, surely a correctly compiled list of bookies, with addresses and telephone numbers, amounts of bets they are williag to | at lasst be informative.| - \u2014-\u2014 \u2014 LEGS AND LAUGHTER A little boost for The Orpheum Mr.Harold Hevia has deserved well of the Montreal theatre-going public in the past.His stock season at the Orpheum was deservedly suc- cussful and it is a distinct loss to Montreal to no longer have the opportunity of week by week witnessing his clever players in_ passable drama.But if Mr.Hevia wishes to retain the good opinion of the Montreal public he must get rid of the ditry thing called burlesque which now holds the boards at the Orpheum.This week \u201cTing-a- Ling\u201d occupies the stage.It \u201cA Joyful Jingle of Merry Nonsense.Punctuated with Legs, Laughter and Lively Tunes.\u201d - The official programme also says it was \u201cConceived by John J.Black.\u201d Well, Black is a good name to indicate the source of origin.It certainly gives ithe Orpheum a black eye.If it were \u2018merely \u201cmerry.nonsense\u201d it might be enjoyable, but apart from two or three spots in the performance in H which there is real humour and fun It is a compound of suggestive stories, jokes and innuendoes.\u201d The episode of the closing of the old Theatre Royal, where formerly the \u201csacred lamp of burlesque\u201d shone brightly is not forgotten by Moatpeople.There is one sure way to clamp the lid on such shows as able to the moral sense munity and that is to patrol wagon to the st time, bal finally its doors Coe = never Ter, pract od Le open again to ic lly, \u2018to anythin yi - SC take, hours of busimess, ete, would.f Royal sway for a long, long elos- Speech, at Quebec last week.With this Montreal of ours.There are too many The people of Montreal are being robbed by the Government at Quebec.Their money is being taken from them to feed the other parts of the provinee.Our money, fellow citizens, is being used to make good roads for millionaire mptorists, to enable the Minister of Rooads to place fat contracts for road-making, to bolster up this section of the country and that, te build bridges here and there, and in general Montreal is the milch cow that is being milked to provide cream for the down-the- river people.And when Montreal, with the huge demands on it dares to ask for some of its own money to carry on its own administrative services it is insolently refused as an upstart refuses help to a beggar.So we have to reduce the wages of city employes, deny eur policemen their hard-earned vost days; and starve the Civic service so that-Mi Taschersau may proudly boast of the millions of surplus revenue the Province has.So much more to waste ; Mr.TASCHEREAU! We Have Enough Pickpockets Of Our Own That was a very pretty epeech made by the Premier of the Province | of Quebec, the Honorable Mr.Taschereau, in the debate on the King\u2019s its content as relating to the Liquor Commission THE AXE deals with in another column of this issue in the form of an Open Letter to the Premier.But there was one phrase used by Mr.Taschereau in that speech that was striking and significant.Addressing the people of other provinces he grandiloquently cried, \u201cHands off Quebec\u201d.Doubtless the honorable gentleman believes that the people he referred to will be quiet now that the Great Mogul has spoken.With that matter we are not concerned but we have to say to Mr Taschereau in his own phrase, \u201cHands off Montreal, Ms.Tas basgan lr\u2019.That's what's the treshie fr with outsiders who have their bands on Montreal, and not only on Montreal but in Montreal's pockets.Think of it, that a lot of farmers, notaries and country lawyers should be able in the name of the Government, and to keep {ts Treasury full; should be able, we say, to take millions out of the pockets of Montreal taxpayers, and pleasure seekers, every year, Millions of revenue from Hquor licenses and the sale of Government whiskey, automobile licenses, aniuse- ment taxes, and the Lord only knows what besides.Even the little children of Montreal attending a picture show have to pay a tax.And this man, the defender of the people\u2019s liberties and rights has the super- audacity to cry aloud.\u201cHands off Quebec\u201d when there\u2019s nobody pdtting their hands on it.This is an old game.\u201cThe eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth\u201d, sayr the sacred Book.Mr Taschereau probably thinks that if he can keep the people of this province, especially of Montreal, looking to the ends of the earth, to the other provinces of Canada, he may be able to get away with the enormous sums that his Government requires without their knowing who took it from them.so much more to spemd; so much more to bestow in the form of patronage to cons solidate the position of the Goverament and give them a lease of power in perpe« tuity.Hands off Montreal, Mr Tascherean.We have enough pickpockets of our own bere already without any Government picking our pockets to the tune of millions a year under the guise of taxation.We demand Home Rule for Montreal.The taxes of Montreal shall be used for the service of Montreal and to pay only its fair share of provincial upkeep.You'll get a rude awakening on of these days when the people wake up \u2014 and well \u2019 wake them up.This city is competent to administer its own affairs and this faree of taxing Montreal for the benefit of the rest of the province has gone on long enough.Its high time the curtain was rung down on this shameful business.Evidently the time has come for an- \" lother cleaning up of.burlesque.If those responsible for it in Montreal will clean it up, so much the better for everybody.If they won't, so inuch the worse for themselves and burlesque.We would prefer to see the cleaning up done by those who operate burlésque.But if they don\u2019t do it it will fae, to be done.The pity of \u201cTing-#Li some actors had real ability and given clean stuff to'handle could have \u201cput it over.\u201d We're sorry for the decent player folk whose managements pres vide them with such rotten lines SE._ all for laughter, and wit, and jest, and humour, and everything that will help.the people to forget the struggle for mere existence in these hard times.But, for God's sake, lets have clean amusements.THE AXE will help every manager who is making a brave endeavour to give the public real honest-to-God amusement and entertainment.We shall not be squeamish and picayum.\u201cAmusement is a necessity, not a luxury.\u201d That's eur creed in-t mater.But we have a right to mand that amusement shall be clean and we're g to see that it is if OÙ ; - it it 8p, wr gr .Et CF art\u2019 ir 0 age Chips from the ©: \u201cHew to the line, let the chips fall where they may\u201d.The Prime Minister is Opposed Well, after all, the new Prime Minister is to be opposed in seeking re-election on taking office.In a democratic country it is the right of any individual to present himself to the electors in any election.Our Progressive friends are strictly within their rights in opposing Mr.King.But the General Election was so recent and the Prime Minister\u2019s majority over both his op- nonents so decisive that, apart from any custom in the matter, we believe the Progressives are making a bad ilunder in preventing Mr.King\u2019s rofurn by acclamation.What makes it look worse is that the Progressive ~andidate has made it appear that lie is only opposing the Prime Minister on petty, personal grounds.Pensions {or Mothers A large deputation has waited on the Premier of Quebec asking for the granting of pensiong to mothers.The fact that Lord Shaughnessy was one of the deputation should Felp the cause which was presented.At least we hope so.With the case \u2018raented by the deputation we are + the fullest possible sympathy and +r phatically say that nothing can To too much nor too good for us to do \u201c4 the mothers of the Province.But « » regret to see that the Convenor of «>e special committee on mothers\u2019 : \u2018owances has disclaimed all thought : : deserted wives who are mothers coming under the scope of the prop- cent, We quite realise that this spe- « =! committee is not without sym- kv with such deserted wives and \"hers but we make no hesitation 1t saying that these who need -» most should not be excluded.it's have humanity.And this goes > the unmarried mother, too.To jnse who need it most, should be the vniding principle and we hope the vo men and women back of this vroposal will be fearless and wise «tough to take this stand.All honor to them.The Policeman\u2019s Holiday Tn the new craze for economy at the City Hall our policemen are to ~»ade \u201cthe goats\u201d, The one day off \u201c1 every two weeks that the force has cioyed for several years now is to le taken away and, henceforth, our \u201colicemen must work seven days a week.What is saved in this way will probably be lost in health and morale.There will be days of sickness instead of days of rest, while there will be a growing discontent smongst the members of the force such as a few years ago led to the Policemen\u2019s Strike in Montreal.You had better go slow, Executive Committee, or you'll have trouble on your hands.A cheeseparing policy may make both ends meet for the moment, but there may be no meat on the bone before long.M.L.A.Refuses Indemnity Canon Hinchiffe, Conservative member for Victoria, B.C., has spent his sessional indemnity in travelling over the Province for information and returned the unspent balance of it to the Provincial Government.To us, this appears quixotic.Or maybe 01922.3 Y, 2 = pee 9.N's Ax The shooting of American soldiers.The revelations now being made before a Committee of the Senate at Washington regarding the treatment of American soldiers overseas during the war are disquieting, to say the least.War is a brutal thing at the best and cannot be carried on with kid gloves.Discipline is something easen- tia] to the successful administration of armies.But, if half the outrages alleged are true, Uncle Sam's officers, or some of them, rather, out-Hunned the Hun.We would like to see every one of these charges disproved to the hilt but if one American soldier has been shot to death by an officer, or executed without trial, as alleged, the worthy Canon has a superheater | ve hope that the responsible parties will conscience, Itlooks tous like black- legging on his colleagues.The members are entitled to their remuneration and a man who submits himself for election and gets elected should accept and loyally abide by the rules of the game.If any M.L.A.wishes to travel and see the Province he helps to administer he likewise get their\u2019s in the neck.If, as some foolish, loud-mouthed Americans have claimed, America \u2018won the war\u201d, they are welcome to the winning if this is how they won it.More power to the Mayor! The Executive Committee of the Monshould be provided with transporta- |treal City Council have refused to ask the tion by the Government.We believe that all members of Parliament and Legislature to confer greater powers upon the Mayor.Now, His Honor will presuma- Legislative bodies should have free bly use other means of achieving his pur- passes on all railways, not as a favor from Railway Companies but as a legal right.This principle should be embodied in law.Don\u2019t Surrender Bullock The colored man, Bullock, whose extradition or, rather, return to North Carolina is sought by citizens there, presumably that they may hand him over to the tender mercies of Judge Lynch, should be kept in Canada.This was ever the soil upon which slaves stood free in the old slavery days and, in those days we never gave the runaway slave back.His fellow negroes have loyally stood by poor Bullock and so have many white people in Canada.We trust that the Honorable Mr.Stewart will cut through all the red tape that may surround the matter and refuse to deport Bullock.Law's law, tis true but an ounce of humanity is worth a ton of law.We Thank the \u201cMontreal Star\u201d The \u201cMontreal Star\u201d deserves and has our gratitude for the kindly reference to THE AXE in its columns of Monday last.Of course it could not resist having a little fun out of the fact that our first number was published on Friday the Thirteenth.But we have no superstitions.And, moreover, we recognize that the date of our first publication may prove unlucky for quite a number of things around these parts.All hail to the Star! May we be as big as you some day and you none the less.THE and want to be sure Year\u2019s Subscpiption.Uptown 3068.GET TH IF YOU LIKE larly order it from your news-agent (5 cents) or, better still, send us Two Dollars (Money Order or Currency) for one Address: Publisher \u201cThe Axe\u201d 104 Coronation Building, 121 Bishop Street, Montreal.AXE of getting it regu- E AXE] cleansing of the moral back alleys of ever in a more flourishing conditio : now, and vice js flaunting itself mord boldly than ever beore.The inpourir scum of American cities, due oasis condition, is not helping Montreal by Lets go?[A LT .any means.oH; Hern q éme TE HH pose.This means that he will use his great influence with the Provincial Government to that end.And make no mistake that influence is greater than people commonly realize.It is not the influence of love so much as the influence of fear.We are not out of sympathy with Mederic in his efforts to secure more power unto himself.It is natural that the Mayor should desire to be more than a rubber stamp or a figure head.The Mayor of a city like Montreal should be armed with great executive authority and held responsible, just as the President or Managing Director of a great business.A lot of people and many newspapers have chosen to regard Mederic as a foo! and a joke.Its about time they awakened to a realization that the Mayor of Montreal is one of the shrewdest men this city holds.Why not fully utilise that shrewdness and native ability in the City\u2019s service?Who is the nigger ?The Merchant's Bank scandal is still before us at this writing.A big pother has been made by the attorney of the Bank during the hearing of the Colin Cameron case.\u201cIts a damned shame\u201d, the Honorable Mr Shaughnessy is reported to have said when certain questions were being asked of Sir Montagu Allan, as if the latter were sacrosanct.What bosh! It is in Sir Montagu's own interests that the suspicion and resentment that now hangs like a cloud over the entire directorate of The Merchant's Bank should be dispelled.Rightly or wrongly there is a feeling abroad that if there has not been criminal conduct there has been criminal neglect and that it is only the high social status of certain people that is preventing tuzir being dealt with somewhat drastically.Sure \u2018its a damned shame\u201d that social position should be permitted to shelter highly placed bank officers and directors, if this is .| being done, while their underlings when delinquent are treated with all the severity the law, administered in the interests of wealthy banks and bank directors, contains, Certainly \u201cIts a damned shame\u201d if the rich can go free while the poor go to jail for similar deeds.It is absolutely \u201ca damned shame\u201d if The Merchant\u2019s Bank crowd are able to get away with this thing without investigation of the most searching kind, leaving in the minds of the people unallayed suspicion, and indirectly uprooting the very foundations of the people\u2019s trust and confidence in the Canadian Banking system.A veritable \u201cdamned shame\u2019! Wanted, a clean-up in Montreal Taking stock of Montreal we cannot but feel impressed with the necessity for a thorough cleaning.We do not refer to a Clean-Up Day when the back alleys will be subjected to a little disinfecting but to the ite a few.I city, of which there are ght District were questionable if the Red Wg of the Montreal's J ) re arn | 0 mm tt ES Boxers And The Boxing By-law Let's have a Boxing Commission We note with a great deal of interest that a by-law has been introduced providing for a Boxing Commission for the City of Montreal.This action would seem to be in line with the way boxing is being handled elsewhere, notably in the United States, where boxing Commissions have eradicated many of the evils which had gathered around the fighting game.There is cer tainly a large element of our people who believe in boxing and we shall welcome the establishment of a Boxing Commission if it will help \u201cthe manly art\u201d to be carried on under right conditions, It was the bad features of the business, and its patronage by slackers who refused to fight for their country, that used to raise our ire about the game.Under the proposed by-law, there is to be a commission of five persons and, from something said by Alderman Tom 0'Connell a few days ago, we understand that these five persons are to be officials of the City Hall, including the Chief of Police.This, would be a mistake.The chief of Police already has a big enough job in hand dealing with the Crime Wave.While the murderer of Delorme is still at large is no time to heap outside duties on our worthy Chief of Police, Not that he would not make a good Boxing Commissioner but that for that job men are required who are not overburdened with civie duties already.Moreover, we don't want to treat a sport as if those interested in it were criminals who required to be watched and supervised.The Boxing Commissioners should be men who have a love and knowledge of the game and not civic officials.They should be paid for their work and paid well.They should also be held strictly responsible for the proper conduct of all boxing exhibitions and the sport in general.Mr Raoul Grothe would make and ideal Chairman of such a Commission while Alderman Tom O'Connell would make a good member.It is a pity the City of Montreal is doing this; it should be done at Quebec and the Boxing Commission made effective over the entire Province.The sphere in Montreal alone is too limited but if the whole Province came under the jurisdiction of the Commission good men could be paid for heir services as Commissioners and the port itgelf could be made to yield sufficient return to pay the expenses of the Commis sion.In this connection we suggest that the boxers, the managers, the referees, the seconds, and the promoters should all be licensed.Then if any of the fraternity failed to play the game straight and honorably they could be fined and their licenses revoked.This would keep the game pretty clean, It is to be seriously hoped that should the Provincial Government adopt the suggestion of a Provincial Boxing Commission, which is not original with us, it should not be looked upon as a money-making business like the Liquor Commission, The Commission should be established purely in the interests of clean sport and, if necessary, should be subsidised by the Governement.This would be a piece of real constructive work for the Government to undertake and would earn them many well-dones.The Gambler's War At this writing, there has evidently been no progres made with the prosecution of Billy Moorhouse et al, for supplying racing news information.Is this case to be dragged on indefinitely and those concerned permitted to carry on the same old business unhindered while the law drags its weary length along?We suppose the public utility corporations are still supplying service and the bookies still have their telephones.How the handbook harpies must chuckle at the law\u2019s delays.Boy, page the News Bureay, Troy, N.Y.: \u2018 P'raps he drank it! \u201cHear about the joke the gang played on Mae?\u201d ; \u201cNo; what is it?\u201d vo.\u201cThey gave him a prescription from a veterinarian and he never discovered that he had a half-pint of horse liniment until he home, New-York Sum. t metres amas arme mai a ame armee ne me a Quotations of the Week.\u201cThess chaps are all engaged in politics \u2014 in a regular shadow game.What else is politics, anyway?No patriotism about it; everybody's trying to grab.We're trying to keep our souls in our bodies, and that's reality.\u201d From \u201cShadows of Saffron\u201d, February Blue Book Magazine.RANDOM REMARKS BY ROBB JUNIOR A bas les killjoys.\u2014 The Sport of Kings and its Crooks.There are many killjoys in the world.And we don't like \u2019em.They are a drain on the good humour and good feeling of the community; a source of annoyance to the man in the street.They sit in prayer and call for the removal of an evil.Then they pass a resofution to the same effect and go home to their respectable beds convinced that the evil no longert exists.As \u201cD.D.H.\u201d said ae the Princess two weeks ago: \u201cThat's Bunk.\u201d We need Action.And we are getting it!! In \u201cThe Axe\" you will #: read a lot of things about a lot of things \u2014 the things that need The Axe; and there's a lot of them.Take a specific case.quor.Whether you have your bottle of ale with your lunch, or your peg of Scotch in the evening is not the business of this paper.That is your business.But down with Chief-Bartender Tascbereau's private monopoly, under whose regime you go into the respectable Government retajl-shop to buy respectable goyernment liquor and the respectable government heeler who sells you your respectable bottle sticks fifty or seventy-five cents on the purchase price and sinks it in his jeans.But down with this Iraud operated in - the name of respectable people to raise Government revenue.- Let the people of the Province of Quebee make their own decision about the retention of Ales, wines and spirits.If we are going to have this business let it be operated as private enterprise again, for it would be ten thousand-fold better.Clean up this cesspool operating under the cloak of so-called respectable government.The people of this province of Quebec are decent, respectable; people.But this Government Liquor monopoly is all \u201cbunk\u201d.Government Li- \u201cFollowing the Ponies\u201d Horse racing is the Sport of Kings.To back your choice and watch your favorite boy bring him through the stretch under a clever ride to win \u2014 that is Sport; just as long as the game stays clean and you get a run for your money.: But how many horse races are run on the level?Not all.Not all by a long shot.(Do' you remember \u201cFair and Warmer\u201d?) ; There are too many crooks in the business.How many times have the boys framed.a race only to have it framed right back on them?Has the boy they forgot to fix ever slipped through to win right at the time when the race was \u201ccold turkey\u201d?Many a time.The old game of dog eat dog.Crooked races have heen run on this island every season that there have been races.They will be run every season just so long as the race going public \u2018will pay their good money whether they are getting a run for it or not.Lets\u2019 consider: the bookies for a minute.In Montreal to-day there are Closs to a thousand men making their living as bookmakers, These follows \u2014 non-prodicing | irasites as they are \u2014 are making.their bread and butter at the expense of the bank olerk, the lawyer, the barber, tha dnetor and the hardware sslesman, | 4 /.9 Le TEE AE A The Liqu&cormmrssion Must Go! j À reply to the Hon.Mr Taschereau.An eloquent defence of the Quebec Liquor Commission was made by the Honorable Mr.Taschereau last week in the Legislative Assembly at Quebec.The very fact that the Premier felt called upon to defend the Commission and the system of selling alcohol in the Province of Quebec is in itself a condemnation of the Commission and the system.quickly.Already the Government is on the defensive.The Premier claimed the Commission was an economic and a moral success.One does not need to defend what is right and true.It has come Soon it will be on the run.Well, Mr.Taschereau, if you judge economic success by the four millions of dollars, every one with a splash of human blood on it, that will represent the yield from Government whiskey this year, all right.You can have such economic success.But, watch your step.It is poor economics to kill off the taxpayers with alcohol in order to raise four millions of revenge.: No, we are not extreme.We simply deal with the facts.Last Monday fifty per cent of the cases in the Recorder\u2019s Court of Montreal were case of \u201cDrunks\u201d.The exact number was 24 drunks.They were| fined three dollars and costs each for getting drunk on Government whisky.So that your Government made a big profit on the whisky first of all and then collected three dollars and expenses from each of its worthy customers.No .wonder your system is an economic success.Your Government gets it going and and coming.It profits on the sale of booze and on the consequences of ooze.No, we are not fanatical, Mr.Premier.On Wednesday a woman wag convicted of manslaughter at Sainte-Scholastique.She testified that her crazed husband threatened her because she would not give him two dollars for whisky (Government whisky, Mr.Taschereau).She shot him.The husband is dead.The wife is Par Example A man is fortunate enough to know a certain telephone number by calling which he can always make a little bet.Just about the time the third race is to be run at New Orleans he gets a tip on \u201cSweet Cookie\u201d.He calls the number and.aske if it is too late tc place a bet.Bookie gays, \u201cWhat horse\u201d.And you tell him \u201cSweet Cookie\u201d.And he takes what you consider to be an honest-to-goodness bet.It isn't.For thanks to the Long distance telephone and the speed with which this service can be expedited over an open wire, he already has the result of the race, already won by \u2018Old Dear\u201d.What a hope you have!!! This is not bunk! And what a fine gystem it is which permits these fellows to exploit the sport-loving, _race-following public in this fashion.For me I say \u201cOut with them.\u201d Here and there among the thousand you may find an honest bookmaker; a fellow who really gives his clientele an even break.But now many bookies are going around broke?And by the same token how many nice young men have gone to the cleaners just to fatten the scurrillous bodies of these parasites?The answer is evident.LESLIE M.ROBERTS.The Paradise of Cabaret performers What Government Ownership of Booze has done for Montreal Says \u201cVariety\u201d, a New-York theatrical journal :\u2014 \u201cIn New-York the cabaret situation the past season has been terrible.There is no appellation in the lexicon to describe just how awful the cabaret and restaurant business has been.Out of town and up in Canada it is another story.They are making money, everybody is prospering, carbaret artists are geting twice as much for their engagements as they do in New.York and things are wider open.\u201cWhere girls a couple of years \u2018ago would.never think of leaving New York for Philadelphia or Baltimore fox a cabaret job, they clamor to town-and paradoxically prafer 1\u201d or some other Canadian is to-appear in than here., even in these \u201cdry\u201d , there is a little free- ( gum.\u201d \u2014 Birmingham Age LHsr- With, Naw.York) ed, HAE ar aa ET in prison.Your Courts have branded her as a criminal.But, by God, Mr.Premier, its your Government that ought to have stood in the prisoners\u2019 dock and been convicted of manslaughter, not that poor woman.We don't hate you and your Government, Mr.Attorney General.We hate the black damnable system you have introduced by which you have made all of us partners in your \u201ceconomic and moral success\u201d, as you term it.This week in Montreal a man and a woman unmarried were found dead in an apartment house.There was a bottle of Government gin and a bottle of Government whisky in the apartment.They were probably asphixiated because of their whisky-induced neglect to attend to the gas heater out of which the fumes came that killed them.Government Gin! Government Whisky.There ought to be a Death's Head printed on the label of every bottle your wretched Liquor Commission sells, for your system that deals in death.The Government Liquor Commission must Go! That's all there's to it.In the old days it was bad enough but we made some improvements in the law and conditions.Return the sale of liquor to private hands and let the people deal with the matter.Your Government, Mr.Taschereau has tremendously in- creaged the number of temptations.The facilities for getting liquor are greater in number than ever they were.Formerly the number of licenses was strictly limited.To-day the number of drinking places where alcoholic liquor can be bought is practically double what is was in 1918-1919.That\u2019s what your Commission has done, Mr.Taschereau, increased the number of drink shops in order to get more revenue and secure an \u201ceconomic success\u201d for your Government.Let\u2019s retrace our steps and the first step is to take the sale of liquor out of the hands of the Government and place it in the hands of private dealers.The Government Liquor Commission must go! The Dance-Hells of Cote St-Michel WHAT IS THE QUEBEC LIQUOR COMMISSION DOING ABOUT THEM ?The Delorme murder case has been the burning topic of conversation in Montreal during this past week or two.With the family and friends of the murdered young man we have deep sympathy, especially with Father Delorme.It is the sincere hope that the patient and continuous efforts of the Montreal Detective Bureau will be crowned wih success .-nd the murderer brought to judgment quickly.References that have \u20ac - » made in the press to the alleged visits of the unfortunate young fel- \u201c.w to the notorious road-houses of Cote St-Michel lead us to say that there are more young people being murdered than young Delorme by such haunts of vice and depravity.There are young girls of tender years being taken to the dance-hells of Côte St-Michel, and to one notorious place there in particular and, as a consequence, being morally murdered.These places are the haunts of Montreal's riff raff, pimps and procurers.When the night life of the city begins to pall on the jaded appetites of the roués and débauchees that frequent them they hie themselves to the Côte St- Michel rendez-vous, where anything goes, and nothing is too vicious or degrading to be tried.Here are places licensed under the authority of the Quebec Liquor Commission, whose duty it is to exercise supervision over them, gee that they obey the law, and above all, make sure the moral code is not trampled in the dust of all-night cafes.It is not a matter for the Montreal Police to handle, Cote St.Michel is outside their jurisdiction, If the Government will take a revenue from alcohol, all right, for the present.But we are not going to be silent while the night hawks of Montreal, and the scum of New York, which has fastened itself on Montreal because of Government booze, takes a toll of young life, the lives of young girls.Clean up the Dance Halls of Cote St.Michel, Mr Simard; likewise you, Mr Taschereau, Attorney General of the Province of Quebecbe likely, stop this slaughter of the innocents and do it now.where there's an officer stationed in public haunts; where even the illusive \u201cspeak-easies\u201d have to come across for protection.The Canadian job is really the Mecca of all cabaret performers these days.They prefer to get to a country where they can get a drink for something less than a king's \u2018ransom.However, for all their willingness to leave their native Broadway the prime obstacle now is that so many others are just - as willing.\u201d Pra>ps She was out of order! \u201cThe projecting machine must be | out of order.\u201d \u201cI hadn\u2019t noticed it.\u201d \u201cI hear a constant clicking.\u201d \u201cA flapper behind you is chewing If the murder of Delorme can never be avenged, as may | He Gave Him TI he Poor-Box! A colored preacher in Alabama had at one time served a short jail sentence and was fearful lest his congregation discover the fact, as in his later years he had been a model of rectitude.One Sunday, rising to begin his sermon, his heart sank to see a former cellmate stitting in the front row.Quick thinking was necessary.Fixing his eye on the unwelcolme guest, the preacher announced solemnly: \u201cAh takes mah text dix mo\u2019nin\u2019 from de aixty-fo\u2019th chaptah and fo\u2019 hundredth verse af de book of Job, which says: 'Dem as sees and knows me, and says nothin\u2019, dem will Ah ses later.\u201d \u2014 American Lee 1 aio, Weeklype a 15 5 \u2018\u20ac gn Ea port Splinters and Shavings \u2014\u2014\u2014ntrt=s 0e \u201cOne inch of joy surmounts of grief a span, Because to laugh, is proper to the man.\u201d \u2014 RABELAIS.The census report says that 519,- 290 persuns live in Toronto.We were not aware that anybody lived in Toronto.Its certainly strange what the human frame can endure and live.Perhaps this proves the theory of the survival of personality.Horace Goldin has been sawing a woman in half at The Princess this week, but the woman has lived to do it again.There are several women who might be sawed in half for keeps to wit:\u2014 The curtain lecturer.The woman who ever talks of her rights but evades her responsibil ties.The woman who's fonder of dogs than of bahies.The giddy flapper.The woman who can\u2019t cook a decent meal for hubby.We note that the ladies are going to Quebec early in February to make certain demands of the Provincial Government.The rumour that they will ask for an open season of twelve months for the family rolling pin has been denied.We see that one Claus has been acquitted of a manslanghter charge.If this is Santa \u2014 the children will surely be pleased.The \u201cOpen Door\u201d Policy is feared in China.How about the closed-door street car we chased this morning at our corner in N.D.G.?And while we are wielding \u201cThe Axe\u201d we sometimes wish we had it with us in the morning for the conductor with the Go-to- the-Devil look in reply to our morning greeting.We note that a gentleman, Steele by name, has been appointed constable, street commissioner, sanitary inspector, school attendance officer, poundkeeper, dog tax collector, O.T.A.Enforcement Officer and caretaker of Municipal Buildings of Westport, Ontario.Mr.Steele evidently does not play golf.What a lot of New York and Toronto, business men have business in Montreal now.Perhaps they come here to study conditions.\u201cDry Agent posed as a corpse to capture fake enforcement officer\u2019.Perhaps this corpse lived in Toronto.Mr Westmount: \u2014 \u201cWell, a woman will have the last word always.Mr N.D.de Grace: \u2014 That swell dame from Montreal West to whom I gave up my seat on the street car last night said never a word.\u201d It is reported that household tasks are in future to be done by wireless.Invisible waves are to open shutters, draw curtains heat water and cook meals.We fear these invisible waves will be the precursor of invisible wives.Enver Pasha has been captured in the Caucasus.Who cares?The dispatch adds that he is being handed over to the Turkish Nationalist Government at Angora.Enver must have got their goat.\u201cThe price of shoes will never be lowered while women insist on wearing the crazy styles whicli are the fashion at the present time\u201d, says P.A.Doig, shoe manufacturer.\u2018What is responsible for keeping the skirts high?Cabaret proprietor pleads the liquor was sold by telephone.(Keep your mouth off the receiver, you).\u201cTrouble brewing in Abbyssinia\u201d.\u2014May be you need some hops, Abby.\u2019 Let us then be up and doing, Fearless in the battles strife; All the crooked guys pursuing With The Axe sharp as a knife.RY, 20, 1022, g-The Axe II THE AXE has started off well.From all sides have come words of congratulation and bon voyage, so to speak.From some quarters have come mutterings and threats, So far, so good.There has been a lack in Montreal of such a journal as I have set out to make THE AXE.A plein-speaking, hardhitting, and fearless medium of expression was needed, This is it.What battles there are to fight to-day! Never was there such good fighting for the public weal to be done.It\u2019s good to be alive.Consider only two facts in which the public at large is vitally interested.First, the Merchants Bank collapse.Here not alone the shareholders\u2019 interests, but those of the country are at stake.We say nothing of the absorption of the Merchants\u2019 Bank by The Bank of Montreal.If the latter has driven a hard bargain that ig one of the rules of the game and its Diréctors are entitled to what they have won by their business acumen.But that an institution wh'ch only operated by grace of the public authority should have held its responsibility so lightly as to impair its tremendous reserve funds, amounting to millions of dollars, almost to the point of extinction, is a matter for which the public through its Government should hold the responsible parties responsible.Nor should high position give shelter to any.\u2018 This seems to be the only journal that has taken this stand.Next think of the notorious Shirlie Ogilvie Vs.Martin case.Here, because of the social position of those involved, and for no other reason that we can see, the case is hard in CAMERA, with the public barred admission.I have recollections of my own case three years ago when the evidence of a prostitute was given the widest possible publicity.But I was poor and there were many who were glad to see me defamed even if out of the lips of a woman of a class whose uncorroborated evidence is not accepted in Courts of Law.No proceedings in camera then.I DID NOT HAVE THE OGILVIE MILLIONS BEHIND ME.Please God, there shall not be defamatory publicity for the poor man and the cloak.of secrecy over Court proceedings for the rich man in this city of Montreal any longer if THE AXE can prevent it.Let's have fair play all round! Don't you think, Mr, Man and Mrs.Woman, it was time somebody started something?THE AXE has been started to help defend and vindicate anybody unjustly treated in this city and country, whether by the Courts or anyone else.It\u2019s going to be a medium for the ventilation of all real grievances and the securing of justice where justice is possible.Wherever the people suffer, and whatever they may suffer from, I intend THE AXE to be on their side and I'll wield The Axe unsparingly.The rotten, dirty politics that in Council; Legislative Assemblies and Parliament alike are at work to the detriment of the common people will get short shrift in these columns.Even the party we are most in sympathy with will be criticised and opposed when it is wrong.I've shown as much already.Constructively, THE AXE will stand for all that is best in the community and country.I've broadened out a good deal during my three years\u2019 silence, you'll find, though I haven't lost my grip upon basic principles.What's best in amusement and sport will find encouragement here; what's bad I'll fight.If I can encourage a love of the beautiful and true, the manly and womanly, in Art, in.Amusements, in Sport, and in all our daily intercourse, I'll do it.Nor will I be narrow but, on the contrary, I'll be humanly tolerant of human weaknesses ; not censorious- but constructively helpful of all that forms part of our common life and is worth retaining and fostering.Withal, I want to inject a touch of humour into our prosaic existence.Laughter! Why, God created us with the capacity for laughter.Then, let us laugh and be merry; the eating and drinking part we have never neglected.There\u2019s nothing like a bit of humour to deflate swollen heads and expose pompous pretence.The big-wigs who take themselves seriously hereabouts are legion in number.We're going to laugh at them together and, folks, ultimately perhaps they'll be able to look back and laugh at themselves.d purpose animating THE AXE.Help me keep Such is the spirit an it bright and sharp.JOHN H.ROBERTS.ee Our happy relations with \u201cthe French people of this province will be cemented and strengthened as the years go by.Sport, Montreal.\u2014\u201cWhy not make a fight for clean sport?\u2014That\u2019s just what we are doing.Every branch of sport will have our help but we'll work hard to purge all sports of the vicious features and elements that surround them.Answers to Correspondents (Note: \u2014 We invite correspondence from our readers on any subject.All letters should be written legibly on one side of the paper only, and have the name and address |- of the writer enclosed, not necessar- b \u201cThe Axe\" is published by John H.Roerts, and printed by \u201cLe Matin Ltée.\u201d J | ~ PO | mr te i What the man in the street would like to know.What is being done with the poo! room right in \u2018the shadow of the Windsor Station?Is it true that while hair gets trimmed in the front part of the place, suckers get trimmed in the back room?What does the Cabinet Minister who uses the word, \u201cImage\u201d, mean by that word?Hag it any reference to four tickets for 25 cents?How comes it that the General Manager of a Bank has no knowledge of loans amounting to hundreds of thousands of dollars to an insolvent concern?Is Jesse James really dead?What interest has the Gazette in fighting against the appointment of Government auditors of Banks?Is it not rather underrating our intelligence to say or suggest that merchants and traders would not be able to get necessary accommodation if there were Government aude itors?Would it not have been à good thing for the shareholders of the unfortunate Merchants\u2019 Bank if eome- body had prevented the lending of money to Thornton, Davidson and Company?What \u201cbookie\u201d would venture to lay odds of five to one that the Liquor Commission will live another year?(Call up THE AXE, Uptown, 3068).If a tenants\u2019 strike would not ba quite as guccessful as the recent buyers\u2019 strike?Whether the license numbers of the cars standing outside night cafés at three am.any morning would interest many people?Do the people of Hull relish the Government taking a part in their municipal election ?What would the friends and acquaintances of a certain Toronte - merchant think of the lovely drunk said Torontonian has been on in Montreal this week ?\u2014 If said Torontonian is a devil of a saint in his own home town?Is it always wise to register in your own name?Is a fire the hottest thing that can be discovered in a cabaret?ily for publication.An assumed name may be give in addition and will be used by THE AXE when so given.) I, J.L, Westmount.\u2014\u201cGood for you, Mr.Roberts.My very best wishes, You were always a TO THE PUBLISHER, good scrapper\u201d.Our thanks \u201cTHE AXE\", _ for your kind words and subs- 7 104 Coronation Building, cription (one year's) enclosed._ 121 BISHOP ST, You'll see some pretty Æcraps SIR, \u2014_ soon.: Franco, Quebec.\u2014 \u201cFélicitations, Monsieur THE AXE,\u201d Please print your bright journal in| City or Yer French also\u201d.Al] in good time, Countal friend.It is part of our plan ou to print à French edition when \u2018 Pre the English one is properly go- Datsun ous vise suis ue sow ing, which promises to be soon.} EE : (Signed) Name.CUT ME OUT! ; Montreal, P.Q.Please send me a copy of \u201cTHE AXE\u201d avery week for ene you, : beginning with the next issue after dgte.1 enclose Two Dollars In pagent; Sr at ead 200 sstonns os voor ren avers soe 000 oups case aon sore we wo sue 0500 4000 oven BBW.000 aies 100s moon gone.saee J ous oe itn sere pep sp0g Fe : er , ; - 4 ; .-* 2 4 "]