The Axe, 27 octobre 1922, vendredi 27 octobre 1922

[" \u201c dered in the city of Quebec two \u201c Blanche Garneau was but a ~ _ girl but she was entitled to the \u2018protection of our institutions || Le x her.She was cruelly m murder i ue, \u2014 \u2014\u2014\u2014 CRITICAL PLAIN COMMENT SPEAKING WITHOUT CONCERNING FEAR OR PUBLIC FAVOR.A JOURNAL OF ACTION AGAINST REACTION | Questions.EDITED BY JOHN H.ROBERTS | \u201cLAY THE AXE AT THE ROOT OF THE TREE\" | Ne as = mo ét de FRIDAY, OCTOBER 37th, 1932 Annual subscription Twe dollars.Price: § cents, $5,000.00 REWARD!! THE STORY OF THE FOULEST CAINE IN ALL QUEBEC The rumors and accusations that are flying around, and the action of the Attorney General in publicly branding two men declared innocent by the Courts as guilty of Blanche Garneau\u2019s murder, make action imperative.\u2014 Blanche Garneau, a French Canadian girl, was foully mur- years or so ago.There is no need for particularity of date and time, the story is so well known to every intelligent person in the Province of Quebec and to many outside it3 beundaries, So far, no person has been Tr ne EE PREMIER TASCHEREAU Quebec's Attorney General, who declared Binet \u2018and Palmer, guilty |}.- of Blanche Garneau's murder, after a jury had found them innocent.He |} ~ must tell the people why he beliaves them guilty or find the real murderers.convicted of her murder; her | murderer or murdérers remain undiscovered, It may be that simple little French Canadian |] &nd those institutions failed And it is her BLANCHE GARNEAU'S BLOOD CRIES ALOUD FOR VENGEANCE! THE GREATEST ADMINISTRATIVE SCANDAL IN QUEBEC'S HISTORY IS THE FAILURE TO DISCOVER THE MURDERER, OR MURDERERS, OF BLANCHE GARNEAU! - THE AXE IS SATISFIED THAT SOMEBODY IS BEING SHIELDED.WHO IS IT ?IS IT THE SON OF ONE OF THE HIGHEST - PLACED OFFICIALS IN THE PROVINCE, AS IS FREELY STATED ?IS THE SON OF ANOTHER PUBLIC OFFICIAL INVOLVED IN THIS SORDID MURDER DRAMA ?: WHAT TRUTH IS THERE IN THE.RUMOR THAT TWO MEMBERS OF THE PROVINCIAL LEGISLATURE ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR BLANCHE GARNEAU\u2019S DEATH ?/ WHOEVER MURDERED THIS FRENCH CANADIAN GIRL SHALL BE BROUGHT TO JUSTICE, IF THE AXE CAN DO IT.IF PREMIER TASCHEREAU KNOWS THAT THE TWO MEN, BINET AND PALMER, WHOM HE DECLARED IN THE LEGISLATURE TO BE GUILTY AND SAID SHOULD BE HANGED, ARE GUILTY, HE MUST GIVE THE PUBLIC THE PROOFS OF THEIR GUILT OR, OTHERWISE, BE HELD GUILTY OF DELIBERATELY DECEIVING THE LEGISLATURE AND THE PUBLIC.- WHO PLACED THE DEAD GIRL\u2019S BODY IN THAT LONELY PARK AFTER SHE HAD BEEN FOULLY DONE TO DEATH ?ARE ANY OF OUR DAUGHTERS OR SISTERS SAFE WHILE BLANCHE GARNEAU\u2019S MURDER REMAINS ON THE LIST OF UNDISCOVERED CRIMES ?THE PEOPLE OF QUEBEC LOOK TO PREMIER TASCHEREAU, THE ATTORNEY GENERAL, TO FIND BLANCHE GARNEAU\u2019S MURDERER OR STEP ASIDE AND LET SOMEONE ELSE TACKLE THE JOB.THE AXE CONSECRATES ITS POWERS, TIME, MONEY, AND WHOLE ABILITY TO THE RIGHTING OF THIS GREAT WRONG AND APPEALS TO ALL LAW-ABIDING CITIZENS TO ASSIST IN THE SEARCH FOR THE MISCREANTS.; - $5, 000.00 REWARD We hereby offer a Reward of Five Thousand Dollars ($5.- 000.00) for such information as shall lead to the conviction of the murderer, or murderers, of Blanche Garneau in the City.of Quebec during the year 1920.This reward will be paid to the person whio furnishes the actual information leading to a conviction, as aforesaid, including H- the officers or members of any police force, detective agency, or other official or semi-official body.All communications referring to this matter, should be ad- ~ .dressed to \u201cThe Editor, THE AXE\u201d, 20 St.James Street, Montreal, P.Q ., in strict confidence.1 ; \u2018 (Signed), | ras Axe PUBLISHING COMPANY, LIMITED, | Par John.H.Roberts Prati, ; ka 3 hough she ls, thas thos Whol boo A ¥ 5, PoE \u2014 episode page o' ile 2 : eu ES sw aime, ee TE 1 SR a a LR A 1 We have the honor to be, _ WE APPEAL TO THE LIEUT.- GOVERNOR 10 TAKE ACTION In the circumstances, either the Attorney General should be replaced, or a Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the failure to discover the murderer, or murderers, of Blanche Garneau.Right Honorable Sir Charles Fitzpatrick, P.C., G.C.M.C.Ligutenant Governor of the Province of Quebec, Quebec, P.Q.Your Honor: \u2014 In the public interest the proprietors of this journal, THE AXE, have decided to offer a reward of Five Thousands Dollars for the discovery of the murderer, or murderers, of Blanche Garneau, in the Capita) City of this Province, Quebec, the seat of government, some two years or s0 ago.We respectfully suggest to Your Honor that the discovery of the perpetrators of this crime cannot be left to private \"| individuals or a public joure nal! and that you should exer cise your Royal prerogative either to supersede the present Attorney General and appoint another Attorney General in his place, (the present incumbent of that office having 80 » | far failed to bring the guilty persons to justice), or appoint a Royal Commission for the purpose of inquiring into the reasons for the failure of the Attorney General\u2019s Department to bring to justice the murderer, or murderers, of - | Blanche Garneau.Fully realising all the constitutional issues involved in such action as we respectfully suggest to Your Honor and being sensible of the delicacy of your position in regard to taking any such step as we urge upon you, we yet say that no questions of official dignity, etiquette, or custom should be permitted to prevent the bringing to justice of the au- \u2019 thors of one of the foulast crimes ever committed in the .Dominion of Canada.We, therefore, urge Your Honor, to give immediate and favorable consideration to these representations.Li do Sa de?Page 2 a Why I Publish The Axe A friendly correspondent writing me last week had this to say :\u2014 \u201cOn Friday evening I was buying some papers from the street stall, on the corner of Peel and while there, two girls stopped to read THE AXE contentg bill.\u201d \u201cJust look at this,'\u2018Gir] Slaves at Goodwin's\u2019.How much is THE AXE?\u201d \u201cFive Cents\u201d.\u201cOh, dear, I didn\u2019t think it was as much as that; never mind\u201d.This letter followed one in which another correspondent suggested that 1 was making a fortune out of THE AXE.So it is just as well for me to tell my readers how things stand in this respect, THE AXE sellg for five cents at the newsagents, But the newsagent only pays three cents per copy for it.We want our news- agentg to be well paid, believing they should be paid well for one thing, and also recognising that they will have more interest in pushing the sale of THE AXE if it pays them well to do so.Then we pay our distributor one cent per copy for which he relieves us of the whole trouble of distributing the paper, collecting accounts, etcs.This leaves us two cents per copy, out of which and the advertising revenue we have to pay the cost of printing, salaries (our staff numbers five), office rent and all administration expenses.We cannot, therefore, sell THE AXE at less than five cents and make it pay.This is not said by way of apology but as an explanation and to free ug from the suspicion of profiteering.THE AXE is likely to develope into a splendid property but it takes a long time to build up a newspaper, Whatever surplus the paper yields for a long time to come will be put back into it to improve it and give our readers the benefit.As to the value we give for five cents compare it with any local paper from the standpoint of the live, up-to-date, news and comment it gives and you will find that in actua] news, I don\u2019t mean features, cables, and similar fil!ers, but real honest-to-God NEWS, and you'll find that THE AXE beats the others by a mile.The proof of this is in the fact that, while people take other papers, they read THE AXE.This paper is read from start to finish, and passed from hand to hand as no other local paper is.If you don\u2019t believe this, ask your friends who take the paper; you\u201d}1 find it is so.This, incidentally, is what gives it its great value as an advertising medium; it is read while the other papers are mostly.only scanned.In estimating the value of THE AXE readers should ask what they get for their five cents.They get the truth, without fear or favor.They get the news that other papers often suppress (remember how Shirley Ogilvie had the mantle of silence thrown round about him by the loca} press).They get exposure of wrong conditions and actions that would affect them or their families to their great injury, it may be.They get honest and fearless criticism of public men and institutions.They get a paper that fights the battle of the under dog and never truckles to the people of high class.They get a people's paper which is of the people and for the people first, last, and all the time.I guess its worth five cents.JOHN H.ROBERTS.ee egg vey Po a se GIVING CANADA [0 THE YANKEES The litigation which is now proceeding in Quebec with Colonel B.A.Scott and James B.Duke, the American Tobacco King, as its principal characters demonstrates once more the manner in which this country has been, and is still being shameless exploited and given away to foreigners, by the men we elect to guard our national and provincial interests, our government.In 1914, this Colone] Scott and the American, J.B.Duke, received a large tract in the Lake St.John district as a government grant, Duke supplying cash while \u201cScott's in.huge slices of Canada to any Tom, fluence (the reports says), enabled.him to secure lands and water pow-! erg from the government by order- in-coungil\u201d.courts is none of our affair, who have been sent to Quebec or Ipegple for their betrayal, and their [tation of Canada.They undertook to ment at Quebec has nothing better build up a great industry on the to do than to.give _the Province shores of Lake St.John, but have [2VaY, let them at least make their > never done so; Their quarre] in the donations to \u201cBritish \u2018citfzens, not to A It is [toreigners.\u2019 simply a case of \u201cadventurers falling out\u201d, but the wholesale granting of lands and water powers to aliens by our government is very much the People's business, Canada belongs to the people who live here, and not to the men Ottawa, as the representatives of the People.Theii\u2019s fs a public trust, and one which most governments have abused vilely.To give away our country\u2019s natural resources to any man or group of men from a foreign country is a gross maladministration of public trust.Those who betray their trust should answer to the acts of folly should be rescinded and governments placed in a position where they cannot give away Dick or Harry, We want none of Mr.Duke and his American exploi- If the Govern- THE AXE, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27th, 1922, st mn rte mtn G \u2014 = mem rt ee ett er A=.3-4 Sn.mre te PRIVATE Summary of preceding instalments: \u2014 Agnes Marchbanks came to Montrea] a girl of eighteen, and after taking training in a business college for six months, secured employment in an insurance company's office at ten dollars per week.After six months, she got a similar position with a large commercial company through the efforts of her friend, Elsie Munro, who also worked there and whose place she took as private stenographer to Mr, Brudenell, the manager of the concern, The mother of Agnes Marchbanks had been left poorly provided for at the death of Agnes\u2019 father and there was a younger sister to be educated.Learning of the struggle Agnes Marchbanks was making, Mr.Brudenel! offêred to help her to pay the expenses of bringing Mrs.Marchbanks in from the country village, where her home was, to be operated on in the Royal Victoria Hospital, in Montreal.Mr.Brudeneli\u2019s kindness led to closer friendship and finally ended by his asking her to give herself to him, to become his mistress, which, loving him, and being grateful to him, she found hard to refuse, Agnes Marchbanks installed in a rich apartment on Esplanade Avenue, where she had become the \u201cprivate wife\u201d of Charles Brudenell, her employer, was not long in realising something of the penalty for wrong-doing and the last instalment concluded by telling how she discovered herself \u201cin a certain condition\u201d and took steps to avoid motherhood.Ro + The long winter wore on and I had to look forward to the return of my mother and sister from the South to which I had been able to send them through Mr, Brudenell\u2019s generosity.The thought of their return troubled me rather much, not that I did not want to see them again.Oh, no, I was longing to once more see my dear mother and know for myse!f that her sojourn in a warmer clime had fully restored her to health and strength.But always before me was the fear of mother discovering what I would rather have died than she should know, my relations with Mr.Brudenell, 1 had taken taken great risks for her sake, to help restore her health, True it is that Mr.Brudene!l had won my love and that I had given it to him fully and without reserve.I could not have lived with him as his mistress unless I had loved him.But \u201cfor mother\u2019s sake\u201d was the supreme temptation for me, Yet I knew that my mother rather than accept what I had given her, the trip South, the means to live, anda:lthemany good things I had been able to do for her since .she had gone away on her search for health, would either have died or lived in suffering and want.And the fear came to haunt me that I should not be able to hide from hey the manner of my life.My only hope was that she would not pass through Montreal .on her return journey and that I should be able to keep up the pretence of working so far as she and my sister were concerned and keep them ignorant of the truth, Charles, my lover, and I would often diseuss the matter.He would assure and reassure me that all my' fear and anxiety had no foundation and that I was worrying over a chimera, \u201cYou must take a holiday as 800n as possible after your mother returns home and spend the time with her,\u201d he said, \u201cand yoy wil} then see how little you have to fear.re Sa = \u2014\u2014 \u2014\u2014 ep 0 SH Your mother wil} never sua.pect anything.\u201d \u201cI shall fee! guilty when 1 face her, for 1 never had any secrets from her before.\u201d Then my lover would say to me, \u201cThere ig no guilt in what we are doing.You are my wifo in very truth, What is my wife to me?She might as well be dead so far as the relations of man and wife are concerned.She does not love mo and now my heart is dead to her, You and I love each other, Agnes, and love justifies everything.There ig no true marriage without it but with it, as in our case, we are man and wife in the aight of God.\u201d XY: heart told me he was right ; but my head told me he was wrong.Society had laid down its code .and that code must be obeyed.Moreover I had been taught in school and Church that sin was ain, that what was forbidden in the ten commandments could not be done without sin, and in spite of Charles\u2019 arguments I knew in my heart that what I was doing was wrong not only in the opinion of the world but in the sight of God.There is another fact of which I must tell just here, for I am anxious in telling my story to give as complete a picture as possible of my life as I lived it during those days in which I was a \u201cprivate wife\u201d.This story is not being told merely for the sake of telling it but that it may serve as a warning to other girls and perhaps make an appeal to men to refrain from the desecration of womanhood for the satisfaction of passion and desire, or even of love.Soon after my lover had established me in my apartment I commenced to take a glass of wine, I began it more as company for my lover when we were dining together.I began by taking just a little port or sherry, and then I would take an occasional cocktail and gradually I grew to look forward to a drink of some kind or other.I had never taken drink before, except it might have been brandy during an illness and knew very little about drinks of any kind, And now, when I began worrying about mother and her return from the South, I found that a glass of jiquor would induce sleep and bring with it forgetfulness, Only too many nights I fear I took far more than I should have done, especially when my lover was out of the city and I lonesome for him.Of course, this did not help me but at the time I thought it did.Truly, one drinks to forget sorrow but the sorrows remain.What a foo; I was! My mother came home a iittle before Easter.I managed things so that she went to our home in the Eastern Townships without touching Montreal on the.journey.At Easter I went home to see her and sister.I need hardly say that I did not go home dressed in the finery that was my constant attire since becoming Mr, Brudenell\u2019s mistress.I had kept most of my former clothes and bought one or two fairly cheap new dresses and things so that I should not make any great splash and awaken any suspicion in my , mother\u2019s or my sister\u2019s minds.They were very innocent and seemed not to have one thought of there being anything said to me in my sister\u2019s ab- wrong, True, dne day mother sence on some errand for Waa - \u2014\u2014-\u2014\u2014mame = = WIFE'S STORY \u2014 mere ce ce 0.mother at Sherbrook, not many miles away :\u2014 \u201cIt must have been ver hard for you to do so muc for me, dear, as you have done.\u201d I fear I colored up but her failing sight must have prevented her noticing it.\u201cOh, mother dear;\u201dI replied, \u201cdon't let that worry you.Mr.Brudenell was most kind in advancing me the money for our travelling and I have ad a good increase of salary, I am really doing very well, mother, and I am wel] able to do it for you.\u201d Mother was a!ways unsu- spicious by nature and had such perfect faith in her daughter that not for one moment did she think of the possibility of my selling myself, for so I had done, as I see things now, that her life might be spared.I had a little more trouble in answering some of my sister\u2019s questions but always managed to evade them and to make her feel that all was right.One difficulty though that faced me was that my sister wanted to come to Montreal and find a position.But this I talked her out of doing on the ground that mother needed hey constant care at home, So life went on.I came back to Montreal at the end of Easter Week, and somehow or other I felt glad to get back to my cosy apartment, my home, my love nest, where Ï could find sanctuary from the searching hearts and accusing eyes of my dear mother and sister, little though they knew that every glance they gave me in love was an accusation and scarred my soul and every expression of their love for me a rebuke to my sin.The summer passed by.I made several trips into the States and Western Canada with my lover.They were business trips for him but he could not bear to leave me.He Was terribly in love with me, as I with him.This is what made him take the great risks he ran in having me with him on these trips and our living at hotels as man and wife, though always we used an assumed name.But on one of these trips there occurred something that was to have a marked effect on our lives in later days.We were staying at the Hote] Commodore in New York, We always dined in our room and never in the public dining room.But going out to the theatre one evening and passing through the main entrance to our taxi I noticed Mr, Brudenell give a start.I asked him in the taxi what had caused him to start so.He tried to puf me off, saying it was nothing, but my woman\u2019s intuition told me better and finally he told me.He had seen a private detective from Montreal as we pased out of the hotel, a well known man of his class, who was either the head of, or held a leading position in a detective agency.I persuaded my lover to forget and he seemed to do so then.\u2018But a week or two after our return to Montreal, he told me that this detective had heen to see him and that he had had to buy his silence.I am simply relating what ig true when I say that for years my lover paid blackmai! to this fellow.He must have got many Lhousands of dollars out of Mr.Brudenell during the years that followed and, ultimately, he was one of the factors in ending our dream of love and bringing down our temple in ruins about our heads.(To be continued.) Ja du ~ THE \u201cCHARITY TRUST\u201d EXPOSED PUBLIC WILL BE ASKED TO GIVE THOUSANDS TO HELP SUPPORT TRUST WORKERS WHILE NEEDY STILL WILL NEED Will the Financial Federation of Charities give the public a list of its Expenditures before asking for more money to spend ?Next month the various organisations which form the Atho:stan \u201ccharity trust\u201d will appeal to the public of Montreal for funds to carry on their good (7) work, Tackling their enterprise very much as though it were a question of merchandising so many souls, they appeal to the public as though they were trying to sell us oil shares, with the warning that their's is the only bona fide company of its sort on the market and that all others are imposters \u201cLet us handle all your charity money\u201d they say (their biggest contributors will probably call it conscience money, inwardly), \u201cand don\u2019t give it to other societies which we tell you are undeserving.\u201d It isn\u2019t charity.It is business, and the big business is doing its almighty damndest to squeeze its little competitors out, Charity ?As such it makes the very name of charity stink in the nostrils of decent men.Too many of these charitable societies of the financial federation are not charitable organisations so much as co!- lection agencies, manned by men and women who should be selling \u201cblue sky stock\u201d and not engaged in uplift work, if such it may be called.And when it come to \u201cheart\u201d or the helping hand extended to the poor and suffering\u2014well, there simply isn\u2019t any, In the office of THE AXE .we \u201cSee too much of it not to know what we are talking about.Not a day passes but these cases come into our hands or are brought to our notice by good people who want us to help.There are sc many cases of such unutterable stupidity on the part of these so-called charity workers of the financial federation societies, that we shrink at the mere: mention of the name.AMATEUR \u201cTECS\".Apart from the raising of money for salaries and expenses, \u201cinvestigation\u201d and \u201ccard indexing\u201d are the main pursuits = of these societies.Business systems have become so thorough, that those who are not engaged in collecting subscriptions are acting as embryo Sherlock Holmes\u2019, ferreting out the history of these sad \u201ccases\u201d.By the time the bloedhounds have\u2019 returned to the society kennel and made their report (a sort of Bradstreet rating), the \u201ccase\u201d in question has probably died of starvation.To elucidate this statement: If \u2019an unfortunate, deserted mother calls at the sociely which exists in the \u201ccharity trust\u201d to spend money investigating such cases, and asks for assistance, she -is- first asked where she lives, her re-| ligion, and other details.: If she does not live in'the zone in cuit 4 8 aad aff Rei Catan ot doo LP, | \\ \u2014 7 which that particular society] operates, or if her creed does not comply with that of the society, she is told that she has come to the wrong dcor, and that she must look eclse- where for help.If, on the other hand, she is able to meat these requirements, she is told that her case will be \u201cinvestigated\u201d and that a \u201cworker\u201d will bs round to see her.She goes away in hope that relief wil} be given to her.But hey time is not yet.The investigation comes first.Then the workers ultimately get around to it, and the case is investigated.This may be a matter of days or weeks, It does not hinge on the fact that the woman and her family may be starving, or that the landlord may be about to evict.There's no hurry.A proper investigation must be held (this is ths trust's viewpoint, not ours) to make sure that fifteen or.twenty cents wil] not be spent on a ma!- ingerer.In the end, if she is | so fortunate as not to die in the meantime, she may receive soma bread, possibly a few quarts of milk, or the landlord may be staved off, providing, of course, that in the opinion of the \u201cinvestigator\u201d it is a \u201cdeserving\u201d case.EXPENSIVE \u201cCHARITY\u201d, We could tell you tales of mothers and babies in need of a helping hand, who have they lived in Verdun, or because they were Catholics and had applied to a Protestant society, or God knows what.And in the meantime \u2018 huge sums are taken from the public for the relief of the poor and needy; the societies of the trust run up tremendous salary and expense accounts \u2014 and the poor and needy go on suffering.We tell you this because, for our part, we prefer to help lame ducks over stiles, to reach out and shake the hand of a brother who is down on his luck, or provide food and clothes for the widow and her baby \u2014 and.even be \u201ctaken in\u201d now and then, rather than give one penny to this highly organised \u201ccharity \u2018trust \u201d which wil} come to you next month and tell you of the wonderful work it is doing\u2014 \u201cinvestigating, collecting and spending\u201d.Bah! It makes us sick! \u2019 We challenge all the societies for the relief of distress and want embraced in the \u201c Atholstan\u201d Financial Federation to tell the public what proportion of their income in the last five years hag been spent upon \u201csalaries and adminis - tration\u201d and what percentage has been spent in actual re- | lief of the cases of\u2019 distress comin ore them.The public whi asked to con- saad SARA te EL ai COE egg Ch this sort without end; of: Page 3 - \u2014_ \u2014 ll The Board of School Commissioners, Westmount, P.Q.Gentlemen :\u2014 A local minister told the members of the Kiwanis Club last Thursday that the garbage men of Westmount receive more for their services than do your school teachers.While we are quite in accord with the idea of paying a living wage to the good fellows who gather in the garbage, we scarcely count them as the equals of our school teachers from the viewpoint of civic importance, If the statements made are true, you should all be thrown out of office to make way for men, not labour sweaters, If you continue to pay your teachers less than you pay.your garbage men, don\u2019t be surprised if some fine day you wake up to find that your teaching staffs are equipped with nothing but so much mental garbage.You ought to bow your heads in shame.THE AXE.A LITTLE JOLT FOR THE C.P.R.E.W.Beatty, K.C., President of the C.P.R.Sir: \u2014If there\u2019s one thing which pleases us more than another, it is to see someone come along every now and then and tell your tremendous corporation where it gets off, as is the case with the Conciliation (Board report which informs you and your co-directors that there is no reason to cut the wages of your clerks, freight handlers, baggage- men and checkers at this time.\u2018vudging by the efforts which the IC.P.R.is making all along the line to reduce its staff and cut been turned away because down the wageg of those who are left, your Board of Directors must be worrying consderably about the sacred dividend.In any case, Mr.Beatty, which should come down first in the C.P.R.\u2019s point of view, the cost of living or the wages your men receive?If the former, why do you want to reduce pay?It must be\u2019on account of dividends.Isn°t it?: THE AXE.\u2014 \u2014\u2014 2 \u2014 TAKES À LICKING Alderman Brodeur, Chairman of the Executive Committee, City Hall, Brodeur :\u2014The efforts of yourself and your fellow nincompoops of the Executive Committee to break the police union have bzen torn to pieces by the courts and the union stand hag been maintained.If you want our candid opinion, the police force of this city has behaved more than splendidly in the face of dastardly treatment at the handg of the City Executive, and it is greatly to the credit of the men that they have not marched in a body to the City Hal! and bundled you and all your tribe into the river.The electors will do that and more if they ever get \u2018a chance at the polls, -Wait dèv- ss 5 ras 41 \u20ac 7 THE AXE.ent it 4 pi gd BE uy A iv until the next election, Bro- |; WESTMOUNT SCHOOLS {ROGERS CALLS TURN \u201cSWEATING\u201d TEACHERS| ON PARTY SYSTEM Honorable \u201cBob\u201d Rogers, Former Minister of Public Works.Sir:\u2014You remarked in a speech on Monday last that party politics have made Canada what it is to-day.Our opinion coincides with yours to some extent, for if it had not been for the two groups which have been at each other\u2019s throats since Confederation, each one seeking power so that it might get for itself the sweet plums of office, with first one party and then the other exploiting the people for their own gain; then Canada might not be as it ia to-day.It would be a whole lot better.THE AXE.\u201cLOST SENSES\u201d IN QUEBEC CABINET A dispatch from New York says that a gir] there has found a substitute for her lost senses.It would be well if the Quebec Provincia! Government were to avai] itself of such a discovery, AN AGREEABLE SURPRISE Alderman Lyon Jacobs, City Hal, City.Dear Alderman : \u2014 Your idea of providing proper police protection from traffic dangers for Montreal\u2019s school children, is ons of the few bits of common sense which have Éloated out from the City Hall talk-shop for a long time.Particularly do we like your viewpoint that cost is nothing when the protection of kiddie\u2019s lives is at stake.Can it be, Mr.Jacobs, that Montreal has one alderman who is equipped with ordinary human intellect, and a desire to work for the people whom he serves?THE AXE.VE LIKE MEN WHO STAND BY THEIR GUNS! Rt.Hon.Sir Robert Horne, Lords Balfour and Birkenhead.Gentlemen: \u2014 We admire you because you have taken a firm stand with Mr.Lloyd George, and have placed your political honor before the bossism of the Tory Party.We like men who stand hy their guns.: THE AXE.WE DONT LIKE THE WAY YOU GOT YOUR JOB, MR BONAR LAY Rt.Hon, Boner Law, 10 Downing Street, J.ondon, England.Dear Prime Minister \u2014Wa are glad to see such an honor Gs is yours conferred on a Canadian, but we don\u2019t think mucn of the way in which you have \u201cratted\u201d on your friend and formep colleague, Lloyd George in order to win your present position, The political tide which has washed you.in to power is nothing more nor less than a wave of political opportunity which you and your crowd have availed yourselves of in order to win pluma for your party.The meeting at the Carlton Club which resulted in the resignation of the Lloyd George Ministry ap- peais to us as having no motive other than party selfishness, and party selfishness will never carry any of us through the \u201cpeace\u201d any more than it could carry us through war.Our hope and opinion is that you will not be at Downing Street long, Mr.Law, so make the most of it while the sun shines, THE AXE.TO À REAL FIGHTER!- Rt.Hon.David Lloyd George, London, England.Sir:\u2014We do pot agree with everything you do, nor are we opposed to everything which has \u201cLloyd George\u201d tacked onto it, but we do admire a scrapper, and whatever else you may be, you are always that.It has always been your habit to fight in the open, and we believe that ÿou have the Empire\u2019s good at heart.We would rather lose as you have lost than win as your victors have done\u2014temporarily, THE AXE.COME OFF THE FENCE \u2014 es Rt.Hon.Austen Chamberlain, Ex-Leader of the House, London, Dear Sir: \u2014At the Carlton C'ub you came out strongly in defence of the policies of the Lloyd George government, We notice now, if press reports can be considered accurate, ! that you seem to vacillate.Stickl to your guns, Austen, and don\u2019t sit on the fence whittling sticks.THE AXE, THE VALUE IN'BEEF AT MARTIN'S STORES IS EXTRAORDINARY.Roasts and Steaks of Beautiful Front Quarter Beef going at .You must taste this Beef to appreciate its value.as Chicken i bw A.MARTIN, Limited CANADA'S - GREATEST CHAIN OF STORES BRANCHES EVERYWHERE Visit the Great Quarter Million Dollar Food Emporium 368 ST.CATHERINE STREET WEST WE > or _ \"Phone the up-to-date order Board, UPTOWN 7726.9s.Ib.Its as tender se ve EE um ge Te, ; 3 7 = = 5; Za, mn i; ; k Page 4 THE AXE, FRIDAY, OCTOBER Zitn, 1v22 WHERE PLAYERS AN D PUBLIC Holidays Continuous from 1 to 11 p.m.Mondays and Fridays (Ine.) ! 1.00 .5.00 7.00 .11.00 p.m.WEEK OCTOBER 26th «THE LOVE CHARM\u201d Featuring WANDA HAWLEY 6 ACTS, B.F.KEITH VAUDEVILLE Afternoons, 22c.Evenings, 40c., 80c.SE \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 T= PRINCESS THEATRE Montreal's Amusement Centre, Next Week, Starting Sunday Matinee The Famou; Dramatic Star William Faversham In \u201cA MARRIAGE HAS BEEN ARRANGED\" THE CHIEFTAIN CAUPOLICAN MARY HAYNES JAMES DOYLE AND EVELYN CAVANAUGH GUS FOWLER PIERCE & RYAN RAYNOR & NERRET FRANK & ETHEL CARMEN GAYETY BURLESQUE IS PLEASING SHOW \u2014 A really high class Musical Burlesque Show full of mirth, melody and graceful dances is what the Gayety offers this week, Nat (Chick) Haines is a comedian from the soles of his boots to the crown of his head and keeps the audience in one long roar of laughter whenever he is on the stage.FayTunis,who plays the vamp, vamps as vamps should vamp al! the time, She ig perfectly delightful, her songs, especially \u201cCrazy Over Daddy,\u201d going great and the entertained were most re:uc- tant to let her go; her dances (are finished terpsichorean treats and withal she is beau- : tiful.Pear] Briggs and Louise Wright both play their parts with chic and aban- \u2018don in both song and | dance and their dialogue is i rendered with a complete un- | derstanding of She require- | ments of the play.Vic Plant is a Hebrew Comedian, always funny and never vulgar, His quips and cracks get home every time, The chorus is a garguantuan galaxy of grace- | ful girls who sing and | dance and wear costumes jin a most intriguing man- | ner.The settings are artistic i and the costuming of the en- l tire cast colorful, pleasing and in keeping with the spirit \"of the offering.The show is { one of the best of its kind and + ghould easily score a huge suc- ! cess.J.M.ALLEN In what measure is for the mad jazz of the answer.Don\u2019t miss it.~™ A Wonderful Story, STARTING SUNDAY Whats Wrong with The Women?Is she alone to blame?Or is Man, with his elastic moral code, the Greater Offender?Next week\u2019s picture at The Allen, supplies the NOW SHOWING 77 \u201cKINDRED OF THE DUST\u201d AT THE CAPITOL NEXT WEEK.nk 2p R À +, A nab el.AW 5 ar a R- NRL MP 5 ARE, Aad # Skt * = HOUSE PETERS wv Tbe STORM a uviversaL, THE ORPHEUM STOCK SEASON We are very much concerned about the season of dramatic \u201cstock\u201d at The Orpheum, Mr.E.H.Robins and His Players have not met with the full measure of appreciation that the effort deserves.And we want to see their experiment succeed.While we say this with a view to encouraging and strengthening the hands of Myr, Robins and his associates we do not primariy have their interests in mind.A theatrical stock company is a community institution.1t provides the people not only with entertainment but with education.It has distinct literary and artistic values.It brings into the life of the people new interests and widening horizons, The people who attend the performances of a dramatic stock company from week to week become richer in the possession of the higher and finer things of life.Nobody can make the acquaintance of the dramatists, hear their message, and catch their inspiration without adding something to their own mental and moral equipment.We don\u2019t say that every play presented by a stock company consists of \u201cthe utmost for the highest\u201d \u2014 but even a boisterous farce may have its spiritual \u2018values.For if God created us with the capacity for laughter surely we honor Him with our laughter, when it is cleanly induced, Our attitude to The Robins Players from week to week has been determined by the quality of the play produced, the ability with which it has been presented, and the mentality of the individual reviewer, We have praised; we have condemned.This we shall continue to do, quite impartially and fearlessly, having only the public interest in mind.Mr.Robins has done some fine things already.He will yet do better things if we-who love the Theatre and The Drama cooperate fully with him.His efforts have suffered much from poor exploitation for one thing.The fact that he came here from Toronto with a big Toronto reputation, and that much was made of it in bringing him before the public of Montreal, has not helped him, we think.Montreal, even English-speaking Montreal, does not place the same value on Toronto opinion that Torontonians do, In fact, we are somewhat inclined to resent the superiority of Toronto, This may be parochial] and all that, but it is a fact that theatrical managers cannot forget or overlook without endangering their bank roll.Some of the Robins plays have not appealed to us, but there has been some splendid work done by the whole company and good work deserves recognition and support.60D FILM, BUT POOR STAR AT THE ALLEN There is one fault with \u201cKindred of the Dust\u201d, which is the feature of the program at The Allen this week, and that fault is the star.In this picture, Miriam Cooper is cast entirely out of character, and as a result she misses much of the charm and character which justly belong to Nan of the Sawdust Pile, There is too much pathos about Miss Cooper\u2019s portrayal of the role; too many glycerine tears.Nan was never like that.The other characterg of thy picture are very cleverly portrayed, particularly that of Hector McKaye, the old Laird of Port Agnew, Seldom does it fall to tle lot of the public to see a more thorough bit of workmanship than is given in this art, The Laird is at once the ard headed business man, \u2018whose hard headedness and respectability are often swept aside by his love for his son.In the main Peter B.Kyne's great story has been very kindly treated by the producer of the film, though there are spots where the narrative has been dropped at the expense of continuity.This induces jerkiness into the weaving of the screen tale which could have been avoided if the narrative had been adhered to more closely, Photographically nothing better has been sean here in many a day.The forest scenes and seascapes are particularly fine.\u201cKindred of the Dust\u201d is a picture which can be rated well above the average.L.M.R.THREE CLEVER PEOPLE IN \u201cIRENE\u201d COMPANY \u201cIrene,\u201d which is playing \u2018at His Majestys thig week, falls under the head of musical plays which are either made or marred by the cast which presents them.To criticise the book of the play, or the songs, is superfluous.Its success is entirely in the hands of the presenting cast.In the company which is now playing Montreal one finds an assortment of ability, some of it good; some of it but mediocre The good part is provided by three people, Miss -Dale Winter, Miss Emma de Weale and Mr, Bushby Berkeley, and of the manner in which they deport them- Since Mr.Robing opened his season, he has strengthened his company greatly.It has gradually developed into a first- Modern Woman to blame present?OH Wonderfully Presented.SPECIAL MONDAY NIGHT AT 8.485 OC.Allen Symphonic Concert 88 \u2014 MUSICIANS \u2014 35 SPECIAL THURSDAY NIGHT AT 8.30 OC.\u201c JAZZ - NITE \u201d class stock organisation.He has secured the rights of.some\u2019 of the best New York successes, and Montreal stands in the way of getting.richer dramatic treats than it has had for a long time, and that at prices that will enable_the family to attend the theatre where only one or two could attend the \u2018higher-priced \u201croad attractions.\u201d So let's try to boost this experiment.The Orpheum is on St, Catherine Street West, very centrally situated.It is open from Monday to Saturday and gives matinees on Wednesday and Saturday afternoons.The top price is one dollar.Very good seats can be got at much liver prices.To the common people we say : The Theatre is a part of our common heritage.Let us do ourselves good by getting all the good.out of the Drama we can and by feeling a deep personal interest in our players and their work.The community (which is ourselves) will benefit richly.Taken by and large, it is hard DANCER AT VENETIAN bo Che class of amusement _ which Manager Beal is providing at Miss Dora Duby, at present feat-| Venetian from week to week, and ures the cabaret side of the enter-|that Montreal approves of it fn tainment at the Venetian Gardens.amply demonstrated by the steady Miss Duby is a dancer possessed of patronage which.flows to the Garcharm, grace and true terpsichor-[dens.It proves that the people ean ability, who bas been affordingilike high grade dance musie when true pleasure to those who drop in it is given them.The Ÿ at this populat place of entertain- this respect is In a/lass almost by mant, on St.Catherine Street West, itself.7 a EIR selves, too much cannot be said, Miss Winter is a most charming and vivacious Irene, who shows genuine ability in the depiction of the name part, and who sings her tune- fu] numbers delightfu'ly.Miss de Weale, as Irene\u2019s mother plays her Irish character most ably and brought down the Monday night house on many occasions with her broad comedy.But it is to Mr, Berke that the crown should be given, for his play- man-modiste is beyond criticism, He is a clever dancer.He sings well, But his real merit Mes in his personality, a sort of stage-presence which is only found in top-notch artists.With the exception of these three people and a pret- tily-gowned chorus which sings fairly well, the rest of the cast ig a disappointment.ing of the effeminate gentle.sie when| The bulk of the mediocrity is \u2026 metiax If) supplied by the tiale charse-.~~ Iters, who hava nothing in, -.\u2014 : particular to commend.them, so > touch to the THE AXE, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27th, 1¥Z.MEET AS PARTNERS ALL pr pp pe RUBE WELCH AND GANG MAKE - MERRY Rube Welch's \u201cgang\u201d of entertainers romp on their merry, mad way at the Theatre Français, otherwise The Court, this week.\u201cThe Fen.ale Form Divine\u201d, though not perhaps quite as much in evidence this week as last, is still there, This week's program includes three diffarent reviews, \u201cSchooldays,\u201d which is ful] of good boisterous fun; \u201cTen Nights in a Bar Room,\u201d a merry Travesty, and \u201cSeaside Belles,\u201d which is the principal item on the bill of fare.The audience enjoyed them all immensely on the occasion of our visit, The singing is good.I liked Alma Mack and Gertrude Dyer in their duet: \u201cDown in Avenue A\u2019 very much.Caro- :yn Jose, that fine prima donna, did justice to \u201cKiss me again\u201d and adorned it as she does all her work, The ensemble numbers produced by Katherine Byron were everyone well done and reflected great credit on this young producer who is quite a big favorite with the Français audiences.JAY AITCIL \u201cSCANDAL\u201d IS WELL DONE AT ORPHEUM \u201cScandal\u201d at the Orpheum Theatre combines many things.It is for one thing a preachment against scandal- mongering; it is almost a tragedy, it is at times uproarious farce.There is one \u201cdaring\u201d scene in it, splendidly carried off by the principals, Mr.Edward H.Robins and Miss Claiborne Foster, but marred.somewhat by the overplay of David Rogers, whose lascivious looks at the supposed newly weds\u2019 marriage bed were offensive to delicate sensibilities.Edward H.Robins made a manly, sincere and convincing Pelham Franklin, the sportsman who was made a husband in spite of himself.He has not done any better work in Montreal than this.* Miss Claiborne Foster, the pew leading lady, bears out al that others on our staff have said about her.She has youth, a sense of humor, some tragic qualities, and is.a sound actress, evidently experienced in spite -of her youth.She was \u2018the madcap, Beatrix Vanderdyke, to the life, and led her pseudo husband an awful dance.She has manmerisms that she subordinates to the - character she enacts and given good roles in good plays she should soon have Montreal at her feet.Robert Craig, another recent addition, had not much to do as the faithful friend but did it well.He seems to have \u201cthe goods\u201d.The other men had not much to do either.Those two sterling actresses, Maida Reade and Margaret Lewis displayed fine technique while Joan Tabor gave a very satisfying |e art of the £m - Panton, Mok.Brown.AT THE GAVETY PRINCESS SHOW IS FULL OF CLASS The program this week at the Princess is a perfect Vaudeville chow.Top of the bill are Maryon Vadie, a famous American dancer and Ota Gygi, Violinist to the Spanish Court, who present classical dances and music with the assistance of Mary Izant, at the pisno, and the Portia Mansfield Dancers.Of the dances one cannot speak too highly.Waltz C.Sharp Minor was a perfect picture of grace and beauty in which Miss Vadie proved herself a veritable Prima Ballerina.The troupe of dancers in the \u201cSlave Dance\u201d and \u201cRondo Capriccioso\u201d, the latter led by Miss Vadie, were gnome;like in their gambols, With regard®o Ota Gygi, there can be no doubt that he is a violinist high up in the musical world, but why did he play the Faust Fantaisie and Concert in E Minor?They failed to do justice to his ability and his manner of playing showed clearly that he regarded them with contemptuous indifference, Valerie Bergère and her Company present, \u201c0 Joy San\u201d, which is described as \u201cA Dainty Japanese Comedy Drama\u201d.It is based on the Madame Butterfly theme, but has a happier ending.It contrasts the advantages of having an Oriental wife in preference to an Occidental one.The acting was extremely good and con\u2026 vincing and the Japanese.setting true to life The Japanising of American colloquialisms was rich.The, - Hartwells provide a great sensation on a double swinging rope, causing| the audience to -gasp again and again at their temerity.W.C.Dornfield is a bright magician and a clever talker, His subtleties got ly delicious.Aileen Stanley, \u201cThe Phonograph Girl\u201d, made rag-time songs classical.She sings and expresses herself in a most pleasing manner and the repeated recalls she received were more than richly deserved.Claude and Marion consist of a hen-pecked husband and an Amazonian wife \u2014 the latter has a wonderful voice, covering the complete range from & child\u2019s lisping squeak to the deep chest notes of a basso profundo.Her songs and humour were all.of.the low omedy and (got over well with pT) 5 SEL Te , wink wo A scene from \u201cMaids of America,\u201d attraction NEXT WEEK next week's burlesque PLEASING SHOW AT THE IMPERIAL A good picture and vaudeville show is running at.the Imperia] this week.The feature picture which stars William Farnum tells a brilliant MORE \u201cVALLE FOR MONEY\u201d AT LOEW'S The mad days of '49, when men killed for the gold of the Yukon, are seen on the screen at Loew's this week, where Dorothy Dalton and David Powell are mushing around with \u201cThe Siren Call\u201d, as their film stamping ground.It is one of those action films which keep bringing you to your toes, full of action, fight and the right amount to romance to make the recipe a sure-fire hit.Its an interesting picture, On the Vaudeville side of the bill, the Mabel Blondel! Revue was accorded the beat reception by Sunday audiences.In this act two ladies and three men pre- gent a collection of songs and dances very ably.Senna and Stevens\u2019 Chinese Laundry stunt is eomical and eccentric.Carle as the Doorstep Romeo, and Inez as his Juliet are amusing.Nick and Gladys, \u201cFrom Sunny Italy\u201d, ring the bell in a well-balanced show, which is closed by some clever tumbling stunts on the part of the Bailey Duo.A darned good show, which you can't beat at the price anywhere, Good picture: good vaudeville; and good work on the part of the orchestra.What more do you want?J.M.GREAT PICTURE OF UNCLE JOSH, BY THEODORE ROBERTS \u2018The Old Homestead\u201d, the feature film at The Capitol this week, based on the old-time stage favorite of that name, is a well acted vehicle, in which Theodore Roberts gives a fine characterization of Uncle Josh, supported by a cast which renders first class support.story, well acted and magnificently screened, entitled\u2019 \u201cMoonshine Valley\u201d.Ful] of adventure, and thrilling gun< play, the various incidents hold the audience from start to finish.The vaudeville program is headlined by Richard Kean in characters from famous plays.His conception of Shylock in his vindication of the Jew, as well ag that of Cardinal Wolsey, in the soliloquy from Henry VIII were splendid bits of real acting.Mabel Barra, who was accompanied on the piano by Albert Vernon, has a good voice and stage presence.Ross and Foss are instrumentalists There is a plenty of romance and action, and spectators will be pleased as well as honestly entertained.Photographically the storm scene is one of the best bits of work seen in many a day, A comedy efforts of Conductor Shea and Manager Thomas, whom we euspect of collaboration.If anything it is even better and more entertaining than the picture.The program includes a comedy .and orchestral music, which, under the able diree- tion of Mr.Shea, makes for true pleasure.The show is of very high order and Manager Thomas should wear the come off as crowds flock to the Capitol, as they are bound to this week.whose offering gave much Sa- | rumemmemennmnnnmnnn tisfaction to the audience.\u2018ville Past and Present\u201d, Lowe over every time and were perfect-| - James F.Kelly and Emma Pollock were seen in \u201cVaudeand Stella in \u201cSea Lots\u201d, and George Damerell and Myrtle | Vail, assisted by Miriam Alpresents \u201cA Musical Satire\u201d, completing a typical Imperial program, which will.doubtless attract and satisfy the usual big audiences, that Manager Conover packs in week by week, .J.M.EE RR ?\u2019 ner inimitable.Their act was full of originality and weepy humour which the audience enjoyed to the full.Harvard, Holt and Kenderick rounded off a big and interesting program with \u201cThe Big Game\u201d, a strenuous cycle act, which had the same effect as a big football game and keyed the onlookers up to a state -of great athletic excitement.The management is to be heartily congratulated on the magnificent show it pffers \u2014 one of the best teen in Montreal for many a long THE VENETIAN Arrangements made fer Banquets, Bridges, Teas and Club.Parties.Special arrangements made for the exclusive use of the Venetian for private Luncheons, 13 neon - 3 pm each day, and private dinners, 6.30 - 9 p.m.each evening.Featuring |; DORA DUBY Novelty dancer.Dancing and Cabaret.9 p.m.till closing.¢ p.m.DANSANT 6-30 p.m.Saturdays Only.602 St.Catherine St.W.EET EE.- Théâtre Français (COURT) Friday Evening Oct.27 In addition to usual burlesque show, there will be a GREAT WRESTLING CARNIVAL BIG BOUT CHARLES CUTLER GEORGE WALKER NO INCREASE IN PRICES.smile that won\u2019t|(} musical setting, offered as a pro- © logue, bespeaks praise\u2019 for the able { TS Starting Sunday Night Oct.29 THE TALK OF BURLESQUE MAIDS OF AMERICA With AN ALL STAR CAST and a SILK STOCKING BEAUTY CHORUS STARTING SUNDAY, OCTOBER 29th for life.+ GREAT AS A PLAY.GREATER AS A PICTURE \u201cThe STORM\u2019 WITH HOUSE PETERS, VIRGINIA VALLI AND MATT MOORE.See the most spectacular Melodrama of the year! The greatest Forest fire, the terrific leap CHORAL CHOIR CONCERT : Every Monday Evening, at Nine TLE re | Shaw.and Lee can dance in.man: ; .nn .fas .14 v Fa\u201d ta Lee { c J.Wy \u201c.\u2014 Le - mess = TPE ERE, WE ir ote pr fpr ms Page G TUE AXE, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27th, FEATURE EVENTS OF THE SHOWS AND THE PICTURES FOR NEXT WEEK NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC :\u2014~ THE AXE'S advance notices of shows and entertainments ave written by members of its staff from material supplied by the management of theatres, supplemented as fat as possible by facts within the writer's personal knowledge.The AXE does not print any advance notice supplied by press agents, although it does not criticise any other papers which do go nor condemn the system of supplying such notices to papers.+ THE PRINCESS That distinguished and sterling actor, William Faversham, wil] be the great attraction at The Princess next week.He will appear in the playlet, \u201cA Marriage has been arranged\u201d.This announcement should of itself be sufficient to pack our , big time vaudeville house to capacity at every perfomance.Faversham is one of the stars of the theatrical profession.He has done sone finely big and ambitious work in his time, been a star in his own right, and is personally no end of a good fellow.Supporting him, will be found a bill of unusually high class, Often when a big star like Faversham heads a bill, his support is weak.But such artists as Mary Haynes and The Chieftain Caupo- .lican, not to mention the other good © acts on next week's bill, show that Manager Abbie Wright intends the whole menu to be satisfying to the appetite of his patrons.We suggest the early reservations of seats for next week's Princess show, and say this to our readers, \u201cIf you don\u2019t like next week's Princess Vaudeville, write THE AXF and give us \u201c Hail Columbia.\u201d LOEW'S THEATRE \u201cFreckles\u201d Barry will be the star artist at Loew's next week, when \u201cPenrod\u201d, the boy character immortalized by Froth Tarkington, will be presented as the feature picture.The story of \u201cPenrod\u201d is well known.It is not merely the story of a country boy or the tale of a city boy \u2014 he is every boy.In creating the character of \u201cPenrod\u201d Mr.Tarkington has reached down into the fundamentals of every boy and has pictured charae- teristics immediately evident in all youths, With Wesley Barry, there is a good cast of stars and featured players and the film should have great vogue with old and young alike.The vaudeville items appear full of promise.Mabel Taliaferro, in person, and hor Company of players will present a Spectacular Pl-ylet in Three Scenes, \u201cThe Rose of Italy\u201d by Kenneth Webb.Quinn & Caverly put over.\u201cTown Topics\u201d.Roma Duo are featured as the world\u2019s champion skaters, Mack and Deane offer a gketch \u201cSomewhat Different\u201d, and Chas, Ledegar gives \u201cA Laugh On the Line\u201d.There will also be the usual Comedy Picturs and Current News.Miss Taliaferro should receive a great welcome from her many Montreal admirers.THE IMPERIAL The vaudeville top-liner at The Imperial next week will be supplied by Alphonse Berg who offers an act which he calls \u201cCreations\u201d, which is in reality a demonstration of the latest fashions from Gay Paree.Charles Irwin, a comedian, occupies second place on the bill, while Tony Hunting .and Cortnne Frances wil] offer a song and dance stunt which they have called +\u201c The Photo Grafter\u201d, Then there RHEE will be Tabor and Greene for those who like colored comedians, Lindley\u2019s Serenaders will serenade you, and Maisie Lunette wil] display her gymnastic ability.The feature picture \u201cThe Love Charm\u201d has Wanda Hawley for its star.It deals with love adventures of an amateur vampire.THE GAYETY At the Gayety next weeek there wil be presented \u201cMaids of America\u201d which is described as being \u201ca musical piece conceived, written and produced with the thought of giving the theatre-going public the very best.\u201d It ia suggested that \u201cMaids of America\u201d is a musica] whirl through laugh- land.There ard fourteen musical numbers in the show all tune- fu! with irresistible rhythm \u2014\u201cJazz Band Mad\u201d; \u201cThat Swanee River Melody\u201d ;\u201cLove\u2019s Littl: Journey\u201d; \u201cDancing Mad\u201d and others in the same category.The cast inc:udes Jack Shutta, a tramp comedian, with Alfreda Simons and Florence De Vere, two charming young women, very popular with patrons of this class of attraction.Fred Rebe, George Leon, Mildred Franklin, Don Trent, Sidney Page and Charles Legert complete the named artists, THE FRANCAIS A markad change wil] be observed gt the Theatre Français (Court) from Sunday next, On that day there will be a Matinee and an Evening performance and the same routine wil] be observed during the week (except Monday Night when Tex Rickard will stage his weekly boxing bouts).Rube Welch will present what he claims is the most wonderful show ever seen in Canada, It will be a special Ha'low\u2019een offering titled \u201cA Night at the Circus.\u201d It is a real Musical Burlesque with an augmented Star cast.Special New Scenery and Costumes and the very latest musical successes will all add to the enjoyment.The Chorus has been further strengthened and for beauty, talent and grace wi'l take front rank.On Wednesday Night will be \u201cAmateurs\u2019 Night\u201d which will afford budding vaudeville artists an opportunity of realising their ambitions.On that occasion two New York Managers will be present.Entries should be made at once through the manager, On Fri-| day night a Wrestling Carnival, in addition to the usual show, will be the great feature.THE CAPITOL The eternal triangle scores another goal in the picture which will form the piéce de résistance of the Capitol program next week, \u201cThe Storm\u201d.The propinquity of isolation is responsible for al! the trouble in which two men friends find themselves as the result of their mutual love for one girl.The picture shows the fight which each makes for honor .and for the protection of the Coram ipl | \u201cPHANTOM SHIP\u201d AT THE SYSTEM The picture which the genial John Fiddes is showing at the System for the remainder of the week is \u201cThe Phantom Ship,\u201d an adaptation of Captain Marryatt's tale which we all r.ad wjien we were boys (no offence, ladies).The cast, while it includeg no outstanding stars in its ranks, is an able one which gives a very good presentation of this interesting sea story.Coupled with the Marryatt film, there is a melodrama of the old school.It's title is \u201cDon\u2019t Shoot,\u201d and the action aptly fits the title.The star in this film is Herbert Rawlinson.Altogether a first class double bill, particularly when one considers the cost of admission woman whom each has sworn to guard, the gradua] weakening of the one, and the strengthening of the other, and it all ends happily, which is more than can be said for some of the triangles of real life.House Peters.Matt Moore and Virginia Valli are the three sides of the triangle, and Reginald Barker is the director.There wil} be the customary comedy and musical features on the bill as well, and on Monday evening Manager Thomas will inaugurate his \u201cchora\u2019 evenings\u201d, which will be held each Mondav henceforth for the season.THE ALLEN Ladies will learn all about their faults, and fond husbands will gee their wives\u2019 weaknesses exposed at The Allen next week, if they go to see \u201cWhat's Wrong with the Wonien\u201d, which George Rotzky will offer as his special feature picture.Al: of us (referring to the weaker male sex) have entertained opinions of our own for a long time on this subject, though some of us have never had the courage to air those opinions, at least not above a whisper.Whether the producer of this picture knows what really is wrong, we don\u2019t know.Perhaps there isn\u2019t really anything the matter at all.It simply remains to be seen, as Caesar or some other silly ass, was wont to remark.So you'd better go and see it for yourself, but in any case you will see a firat class cast and a super production.In the cast are Wilton Lackaye, Constance Bennett, Montague Love, Mrs.De- Wolfe Hopper, Baby Helen Rowland, Barbara Castleton, Rod.La Rocque (who looks like Rody Valentino), Julia Swayne Gordon, Huntly Gordon and Paul McAllister.It is an \u2019Equity release, well spoken of elsewhere, and it has been doing tremendous business wherever shown.SYSTEM THEATRE \u201cTrapped by the Mormons\u201d bobs up again next week, this time at The System Theatre.The film, which has already been seen in Montreal, is an expose of the corrupt practices of Mormonism, which are conducted under the guise of religious rites.The film shows it up as so much white slavery, and preaches a sermon which everyone can well afford to take in, particularly in the light of the perpetual house- to-house Mormon propaganda- preaching which.actually exists \u2018in Montreal to-day.\u201cTrapped by the Mi rmons\u201d is -rorth & visit, © At SFr int Ran ide Last of wil af ato dis Pismo 1922.| BOXING AT FRANCAIS EVERY MONDAY We aye authorized Lo announce that Tex Rickard will in future etage his Weekly Boxing Contests every Monday Night at the Theatre Francais (Court) instead of at the Arena as heretofore.This will be in substitution of the usual Rube Welch Burlesque Show.We believe that this is a very good move on the part of Tex Rickard and should attract a larger audience to these exhibitions of the manly art.In all sincerity we wish Tex Rickard every success and feel sure it will do much to further popularise this class of offering amongst sportsmen of Montreal.HONEST CRITICISM Dear Mr.Roberts: Thanks for the copy of THÉ AXE, which seems to be getting better all the time.Personally I am particularly pleased with your criticisms of the various shows and picture plays of which I have heard favorable comments on al sides.Apparently the public appreciate an honest opinion as far as they are a safe guide ag to what they may expect when they are looking for amusement of this kind.With kind regards and best wishes for success, :à STARTING SUNDAY Oct.29 PERSONAL APPEARANCE The Distinguished Stage and Screen Star.Mabel Talliaferro Supported by a noteworthy cast in \u201cTHE ROSE OF ITALY\" A 3 scomes Dramatic Playlet Aloe Other Vaudeville Novelties In addition te WESLEY (\u201cPRECKLES\") BARRY in a plsturisation of Booth Tarkington's Story of the World'e Worst Boy \u201cPENROD\u201d Afterneons 2000 0088 Ree vos.15e Evenings \u2026 wee \u2026.28e, 40s.Except Sat, Sun.and Holidays concerned, which they can take as, | Very truly yours, G.L.F.Montreal, Canada, October 28rd, 1922.PLAYED STOCK HERE Richard Dix is now a famous moving picture star, probably getting from $700 to $1,000 per week by way of salary.In 1916, he played in \u201cstock\u201d at His Majesty\u2019 8 Theatre, Montreal, under the management of \u2018George Driscoll, at a salary of sixty dollars per week.And salaries were not so high then; he would; probably get $125 a week now for the same work, thank: to unionisation amongst actors and other things.But what a difference the pictures have made to Richard Dix.And he deserves it for he is a hard and conscientious worker who has toiled to secure success.EDDIE'S NEW JOB Ottawa.\u2014 James Moxley, lessee and managing director of the Russe]! Theater, has appointed Eddie Charlton, formerly of the Princess Theatre, Montreal, as resident manager.Mr.Moxley will continue to be closely associated with the Russell, which promises to present some of the finest legitimate productions this season.\u2014\u2014 ge The Axe is published by John H.Roberts and printed by The Axe Publishing Company, Limited, 20 St.James Street, Montreal.BE SURE AND GO TO THE Théâtre Français (COURT) Thursday, Friday and Saturday A GRAND NEW BURLESQUE | \u201cSEASIDE BELLES\u201d - \u201cSCHOOL DAYS\u201d A riot of exotic colorful scenes and a super-abundance of feminine beauty.Something Exceptionally Startling.A Travesty of \u201cTEN NIGHTS IN A BAR ROOM\u201d By Earl Kern & Co.2:15 Two Shows Daily 8.15 Afterncon, 25c.Evening, 28c., 80c.THEATRE FRANCAIS (COURT) Commencing Sunday, 29th October, and all the week, excepting on Monday Night, when Tex Rickard will stage his Boxing Contests instead of at the Arena, RUBE WELCH Presents a Special Hallow\u2019een Number With an augmented cast of Stars.\u201c A NIGHT AT THE CIRCUS\u201d A Musical Burlesque of unexampled magnificence, never before seen in Canada.New Costumes and Scenery.New Songs and Dances.A Beauty Chorus of Talent, Grace and Song.2.15 TWICE DAILY 8.18 \u2014 \u2014 A a DON'T MISS THIS CHANCE TO SEE A GREAT PICTURE \u201cTHE PHANTOM SHIP\" FROM THE GREAT STORY OF CAPT.MARRYATT, SHOWING AT THE SYSTEM THEATRE TO-DAY, FRIDAY AND SATURDAY.ALSO SHOWING: \u201cDON'T SHOOT\", WITH HERBERT RAWLINSON.ENTIRE CHANGE OF PROGRAM ON SUNDAY.\u201cTRAPPED BY THE MORMONS\u2019 hp .CUEING Mt po a ~ caf, - alone, THE AXE, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27th, 1922.PUNISH THE DRUG IMPORTERS AND STOP SENDING BROKEN VICTIMS \u201cUP THE RIVER Some Plain Unvarnished Truth about the Drug Scourge and the Present Methods of Dealing with it.Stop sendthg the dope fiends to prison.Send them to hospital and send the real criminals to gaol, The real criminals are the big fellows, respectable and highly-placed, who import the drugs under license from the Canadian Government, The authoritieg are striking in the dark with little or no effect against the traffic in drugs.Every day men and women are being sontenced to long terms in prison because they have been found with small quantities of narcotics in their possession.But the traffic in drugs atil: flourishes and no effort is made to curtail the scourge at its source or to remove the cause of the drug misery in our midst.While the poor unfortunate who has been caught with a \u201cdeck\u201d in his posseb- sion \u2014 perhaps a \u201cplanted deck\u201d \u2014 goes to prison the wholesale merchant of drugs goes his way unmolested.When the whole truth about the traffic in drugs is known there will be such a scandal that the very local heavens will totter.Men of high standing in the community will stand convicted before their fellow citizens, branded for the lives which they have wrecked in their fiendish lust for money.Every one of the steps which are being taken with the alleged intention of curtailing or stopping the traffic in drugs are shots in the dark.They do not so much as scratch the surface of the traffic.They strike at the effect but they leave the cause Why?Because it is a very simple matter to send broken men snd women \u201cup Sw _ the river\u201d, but an entirely different thing to expose and punish those who import and sel] the vile stuff which has broken the victims, THE WHOLESALERS.It is not difficult to obtain narcotics in Montrsal.On the other hand it is extremely easy; simply a matter of knowing your way around.If you have the money, the rast is easy.The price is high, but the supply is plentiful.And the supply cause our Government is either criminally negligent or has no desire to prevent the genera! importation of the deadly poison which threatens to undermine the very vital|- organs of the community.Every ounce of narcétics which finds its way into Canada through the routine channel of the customs is directly traceable and accountable for by the Government officials at the ports of entry.Then it disappears.Consigned to the great wholesale drug firmg it passes into their hands, Then it passes out of sight so far as the Government is concerned, until it reappears in the courts in the shape of \u201ceffects\u201d, and poor unfortunates who have purchased the powdered damnation on the principal streets of this city are sent to jail for long terms, to serve the time which shou:a rightly be: served by those; who have: permithed the stuff -, to be passed from, hand to ~~ hand until it has reached the \u201cdope fiend\u201d himself, The - Government and its pra.is plentiful be.minions wil] proclaim that the drugs which are sold to ad- dicta are smuggled drugs, and we will grant that in some measure this is true.But here again is a crime \u2018which can be laid at the door of a negligent Government and directly at the door of incompetent and crooked petty and major officia's, who on the one hand do not know enough to keep their eyes opened and on the other keep them open wide enough to let the drugs slip through while a portion of the profits stick {0 their slimy fingers.It may be impossible to stop smuggling in its entirety, but it is possible to curtail wholesale smuggling and there are public servants who wil! know what we mean when we make this statement.\\ But there are far more drugs being imported into Canada through \u201clegitimate\u201d channels than could ever necessary for the ordinary demandg of the medical profession.These drugs from the customs come into the hands of the wholesale drug firms, and there are many such firme whose importations are greatly in \u2018excess of cinal purposes by retail druggists.¢ The responsibility lies at the door of certain wholesale firms, a number of retail druggists and with a coterie of medical practitioners who have abandoned legitimate practice for the more lucrative calling of supplying narcotics \u201cto the trade\u201d.There, and in the hands of Government servants who are either crooked, or negligent, or both, lies the crux of the whole question of the drug scourge, and not in the Recorder\u2019s Court.The strictest surveillance must be kept on all firms and rsons who are permitted by aw to handle drugs in any form op quantity, whatsoever.Watch and ward must be kept at all our ports of entry, so that the damnable \u201csnow\u201d and its sister curses shall not enter our borders.When thse things are done the traffic in drugs will disappear.It wil] never be curb>d by sending its unfortunate wrecks to fill our overcrowded prisons.Prevention is the great necessity, not cure ! : TWIST STATISTICS the demands which could ever be made on them for medi- OR OWN PURPOSES The C.P.R.when it comes to making a reduction in their employees\u2019 wages are preapar- ed to quote statistics by the yard to show that the cost of living has gone down, On that ground the girls who serve in the lunch counter had a substantial cut made in their wages sometimes ago, but how much of the reduction has been passed on to the public?Prices still stay as they were, so that unless the C.P.R.arc robbing the public the cost of living has not gone down, in which case they are liars when they go before Boards and say that it has, It is some choice between robbers and liars, but you cannot have it both ways.Their expert, who is always ready to prove that the cost of living 18 so far down that a man should be able to live in luxury and keep a family on $75 a month, is named Hodge.Used to be a stenographer or something for Sir Thomas, was made a Superintendent, They gave him the job of proving that the cost of living had not gone up when the men said it had, and now proving that it is so far down, it is out of sight.He gets $1000 a month for doing it, so that he won\u2019t fee] the cost of living himeelf.I was present at the recent sitting of the Government Board when the Railway Strike threatened, and you should have seen Hodge dodging the awkward questions.They nearly got him cornered .once but he got out of it by saying that he would have to go back and see Beatty about it.Why does not the Axe introduce this man Hodge to the man who is running the lunch counter ?After he had given the lunch counter man some of the statistics he quotes on the cost of living, it would be interesting to watch if the price of the meal cones down.Either that, or the C.P.R.should fire the lunch counter man for being a robber, or the other man for being a liar.J.LARKIN.What The Man Who is the boss in a downtown office who was caught lately with his typist sitting on his knees and how did he explain the matter?de oom À What sort of rendez-vous does Mr.D.keep on Mayor Street ; is it just à bootlegging place, or something worse?x KE I What was the sensation around the Montreal Court House this week involving an incident at Plattsburg affecting a high legal dignitary, and making an interesting story?- xx x Why should policemen in the City of Quebec rough- handle, bully, and kick a quiet and respectable prisoner who, after being falsely arrested re:zently insisted on using the telephone to procure bail?Bok A Will Recorder Des Rivieres, of Quebec, who knows the facts of this case investigate the matter and, if the facts are found to be so, see that the City of Quebec is not run as if it.were St.Petersburg in the days of Ihe Czars?d with our money,the money which the people of Canada are called upon to donate in the shape of taxes each year to Sir Montague Allan was the support of these governments which exist to pick up plums for themselves and their friends.It seems to us that we might at least have the privilege of selecting the men to whom we are going to pay salaries, and who are going to sit on the bench and administer the justice of the Dominion, What do you think about it?CONGRATS.TO TWELVE GOOD MEN AND TRUE Sincere congratulation is due to the \u201ctwelve good men and true\u201d in Kansas City who have acquitted Peggy Beal of the murder of her \u201clover,\u201d ona Frank W.Anderson.The gir} testified that she had come from Springfield, Ill., to Kansas City to marry Anderson, only to find that he already had a wife in Camden, New Jersey.\u201cHe told me he could not marry me,\u201d said the ac- killing her \u201clover,\u201d the woman\" turned her gun on herself and attempted suicide, sending a han, KC: acting for Logan and| Bryan, presented to the, Court-of! the King's Bench, a motion to quash; bullet into her breast.With a!] due respect for tne dead, it sometimes happens that thes= curs, .who seduce innocent women, get their due.EERE EEE TRA the, Chief Justice to discuss the matter with him afresh, 7 After hearing arguments on both sides, Justice Archibald fixed No- objected to thig and stated that he had that morning seen Chief Jusinformed him that he would fix next Monday at 11 o'clock, for the hearing of the Justice Coderre Mr.Théberge protested agminst Mr.Cahan having made any such application to the Chief Justice without notifying either Mr.Roberts or his Coun- if vember 7th, as the date for hearing health, Mr.Albert Théberge, K.C, the motion on _the underttanding - ;that Mr.Alban Germain, K.C., will [have returned from Europe by that date, - We shali not be the least surprised if Logan and Bryan's manager, Mr.Willard E.Brunson, has \u2018the Editor arrested again for print- - ing this report of Court proceedings, ; .LAW OFFICES sel and, in view of Vis protest, Mr.LP Justies Coderrs ordered both Coun jf.: = FROM \u2019 6 | o .RSR TY railways to the C.P.R,, 30 in cused \u201cso I shot him.\u201d After J.MacNAUGHTON,, |- "]