The Axe, 18 juillet 1924, vendredi 18 juillet 1924

[" THE HEATED ARGUMENT ABOUT THE KING'S LEGS HE AXE: CANADA'S LIVEST WEEKLY PICTURES No.28.VOL.III.THE CONSCIENCE OF CANADA IS SHOCKED King Cabinet's Refusal to Reprieve Walter Muir Is Itself a Capital Crime.\u201cWhat one can do that one must do, if by doing it one may save a life or save a soul.\u201d ~\u2014Running Water (A.E.W.Mason).IT is no misuse of words to say that the conscience of Canada has been shocked by the judicial murder of Walter Muir.I use the word \u201cmurder\u201d with a full sense of my responsibility in doing so.NEWS MONTREAL, FRIDAY, JULY 18, 1924.SEE PAGE THE PAPER THAT TELLS FEATURES Annual subscription, $2.00.Price: s cents MURDER OF MUIR There is no other word that fits the case.True that a jury found | Walter Muir guilty of murder and | that a judge sentenced him to death.True that ie was \u201changed | by the neck until dead\u201d in accordance with the provisions of the Criminal Code \u2018of Canada.True that a public functionary known as Hangman Ellis duly executed Walte: Muir on the instructions of a Sheriff.; PUBLIC IS NAUSEATED All true! Nevertheless, I brand the so-called \u201cexecution\u201d of this boy, Walter Muir, as nothing less than murder.1 have spoken with scores of people about the matter.Every one to whom | have spoken has declared that a dreadful miscarriage of justice has taken place.Not one person have I found to de-, fend the doing to death of this boy.I- don\u2019t know who failed in the Court proceedings to see that justice was done but | do know that a verdict of murder should never have been brought in.That much has been admitted by Judge Greene shields of the Court of Appeal.There was a clear case of manslaughter, nothing more.Either the ignorance of the jury, the carelessness of the lawyers engaged in Muir's defence, or misdirection of the Court are at fault.But murder by Walter Muir there was none, Here are the facts: \u2014Muir was drinking in a tavern in Valleyfield.| He had consumed about eighteen glasses of beer.His mind was clearly not able to function aright, considering the amount of alcohol affecting it that was in Muir's body at that time.There was a quarrel and in the brawl Muir pulled a revolver and fired several shots at the floor.Two richochet- ted and struck one of the brawlers, and as a consequence he died.His death was probably super-induced | by the effect of the alcohol on his own tissues robbing him of ability 40 recover from the flesh wounds resulting from the bullets from Muir\u2019s revolver.Muir did not attempt to kill the man.He did not fire at him, nor at anybody else.There was no attempt on Muir's part to wound or kill anybody.All this has been clearly proven in evidence in the case.At most the boy was guilty of manslaughter (Continued on Page 12.) MISS DALE WINTER As \u201cIrene\u201d herself, Miss Winter gives a charmingly piquant characterisation as the Ninth Avenue beauty who rises to the heights.Miss Winter, thank Fortune, will be with us all summer as leading lady of the Orpheum\u2019s season of Musical Comedies.CONTROL OF TRAFFIC IS A DISGRACE Pedestrians Must Shift foi Themselves When Control Constable Blows his Whistle.WH every passing day i becomes more and more difficult to find out just wha interpretation the local Traffic Police Squad places on the phrase \u201cTraffic Control\u201d.Despite the fair sized army of minions of the law who wig wag their arms and toot or their whistles the average ped estrian still cross busy city in tersections at risk of thei necks.What is Contre]?Traffic Control, according te things we sce on the streets, ap barently exists to give constable: the privilege of telling drivers o: wheel vehicles when to go and when to stop, to provide a peculiar set of calisthenic exercises for the men on point duty, and to distract the attention of the pedestrian from the matter of crossing the street, thereby not lessening but increasing the margin of risk he takes on every time he steps off the curd.That is not what \u201cTraffic Control\u201d means, but it appears to be the local interpretation given to it by the police department.In London or New York the Traffic Department takes equal cognizance of foot and vehicular traffic.The man or woman crossing a street gets every bit as much consideration as the fellow with the Ford or the Rolls.Here the \u201ccop\u201d on the point usually blows his whistle for cast-west traffic to ga while the north-south footwalkers are still in the middle of the street.Rush Hour Risks Another peculiar fad of the Traffic Squad appears to be to remove its traffic-control officers just at the hours when they are most needed.Thus at the height of the noonday rush you will find such corners as St.Lawrence-St.James and St.Lawrence-Craig left uncovered, while road-hog motor and truck drivers from all four corners endeavour to pass a given point at the same time, and an employee of the Tramways Company\u2014on what authority we do not know\u2014 wig-wags the traffic to \u201ccome ahead\u201d down St.Lawrence Hill from St.James Street across the intersection at Craig.But in mid-afternoon or mid- morning, when only ordinary traffic prevails, there are showers of policemen in sight wagging their arms off and blowing on whistles in the manner of small boys after a visit from Santa Claus.It occurs to us, incidentally, that the proper direction of traffic \u2018fat those corners at the rush hour is of far greater importance to the public than is the copper\u2019s noonday sandwich or engagement to sip afternoon tea.Relieving of officers should be done at the quieter hours, and if it is necessary to leave those {Continued on Page 11.) TWO Why | Publish \u201cThe Axe\u201d Jotin il.Roberts Personal Column WHY 1 RENOUNCE FREE TRADE 1 hate to sal T BEht someting bom sax 10 put myself right, at 1 fase auteurs, For nearly all the years of my political life | Bove held Free Trade views amd have expounded and defended shem.Le das 1 hve came to see that there is something greater than Free Pode ond os mist happen always wand everthing, the lesser must | become certe din the greater.The dritt of things in this Canada of ents tow gas the Umite d States has caused me great concern and much seateheus of heart, For 1am Canadian and British, incurably British, ton old to Jhange my allegiance, and too firmly devoted to British ideals | and nse utons to desire to change And 1 fear the growing Americanisu- i tion of Canada and what at may involve.In the famous \u201cReciprocity | Election\u201d ef 1011 | stcod for reciprocity between this country and the | Unuted States.1 still stand for it but not for the condition that now cnists, under which we admit the products of our neighbouring republic at low tart rates while our neighbour has an almost insurmountable turiff wall erected against us Our wall should be as high as theirs.That is true reciprocity ° ° | 1 know and understand ll the Free Trade arguments, having used them so often and so long.1 fuliy understand that if the United States people huse à high duty on goods going into their country from Canada 1t is they who have to pay the duty.not us.But if their hich tariff heeps out our products they don\u2019t have to pay at all! And ! a: equally well aware that if we have low duties on U.S, products coming into Canada then wu get the advantage of that low tariff, paying less then if the duties were high, Bui there is something more than cheapness for me to consider.Suppose 1am able to buy goods cheaper in Canada by importing them trom a foreign country than if à tariff were imposed so high as to keep those things out, and compel me to pay more for a Canadion product.What dees that matter to me if.gaining cheapness on the one hand, 1 weaken he industrial fabric of my own country on the other hand and, consequently, interfere with my own purchasing power, and destrev the market here for Canadian products.thus directly and indirectly.ftevnng my own prosperity and that of all my fellow.citizens * * Fer weal or woe Canada is Canada, a country separate, ; di-tinet, and different from the United States.The closest resemblance is in the common language.In all else we differ.i Cur institutions, our system of government, our political parties, [ many of our ideals, and plenty of our ideas are radically different.\u2018The Americans are a wonderful people.My daughter was \u2018 born beneath the Stars and Stripes, my son received part of his education there, 1 have lived in the land of Uncle Sam, and found there some of the finest peop'e | have ever known.If 1 were not British and Canadian | should want to be American; | that is.United Statesian, But | want this country te remain what it is.Canadian and British.To do so, it must be self- conscious.self-contained (so far as may be possible) and self- developing.Canada must have and preserve its own national | identity, work out its own national destiny and reach out to a nationhood as supreme within its sphere as that of any other nation on earth, the whole I firmly hold, in association with \u201c its sister nations forming the British Empire or Commonwealth.That is my ideal, my vision for Canada.* The manner of developing a nation has been shown to us by our big neighbour, the United States, not that it is perfect by any means, nor that 1 think it so.But, by protecting Its industries and its workers against outside competition, the United States has become a nation, a people with national consciousness, virile, progressive and prosperous; probably the richest nation on earth, and certainly one of the greatest, Had the United States remained agricuitural, say, it might have been the granary of the world; it would never have held the high position amongst the nations of the world that it occupies to-day.Nor would it have arrived at nationhood.Its thought would have been influenced by older countries, its literature and art undeveloped, its world power nil.Just as Canada\u2019s, largely, is to-day.If we fail to adopt similar methods of nation-building, if we import manufactured products instead of making things for ourselves, and build only a lop-sided life, changing the products of our furms, forests and mines for the products of other countries\u2019 factories, we shall merely be \u201chewers of wood and irawers of water\u201d for the rest of the nations and never ourselves a nation.Our water powers will drive United States machinery, our forests will go to build American houses, our sons will drift South to find employment and success, and we shall be but a pastoral folk, in peonage to the United States.This is as I see it.1 may be wrong but I believe I\u2019m right.The theory of Free Trade is a very beautiful one but, in Cleveland's phrase, \u201cwe are dealing with a condition not a theory.\u201d * .My chief political and socia' interest is in the well-being of the working people of Canada, the vorkers by hand and brain.I believe we must as a nation provide every willing and able man and woman with work at sufficient wages to enable him or her to maintain a reasonably high standard of living.To do this I am satisfied we must build a Canada for the Canadians, manufacture for ourselves, maintain our own factories, develop our own country, employ our own people, buy Irom ourselves whatever we produce, or might produce ourselves, and only bring In from the outside what we cannot ourselves grow or manufacture.That is how nations are built; that is how Canada will be built, and because Free Trade would prevent the upbuilding of Canada into strong and virile nationhood I cannot longer hold its tenents pr profess its faith, Only fools never change their opinions; honest men \u201cfollew the gleam\u201d.1 am .rying to be honest with myself and Lsrada., i THE AXE AXE-L GREASE \u201cTo Lubricate the Wheels of Life PROMINENT \u201cstar\u201d says à sheik can get by with 180 suits.And the divorce suit frequently makes it 151.ANOTHER speaker hax (old us \"what Lincoln would do if he were here to-day.\u201d Isn't it remarkable how many persons coin?MAN of 70 years has decided 10 return to the stage after anj operation.Perhaps he is going in for \u2018gland\u2019 opera.A bridegroom of three months took his wife's rival into his Brooklyn home, and we can well believe the published announcement that his mother-in-law was shocked.A writer says taxicabs should be abolished.\u201cThey encourage laziness\u201d.But if taxicabs were abolished the street cars would have nothing to collide with.li isn\u2019t no wonderful.Chiekens frequently are seen smoking cigarettes in local restaurants, The crook who used to steal pene nics from blind beggars now has a son who schemes to exploit disabled soldiers.Turhey is now à Republic, but that doesn't change the Turk.You never can tell whether the sun of Sun Yat Sen has risen or \u2018set\u2019, A divorce applicant com plains that her husband sleeps in the bathtub, the garage, on the kitchen table and under the bed.Perhaps the poor soul has spent most of his nights on a Pullman and ean\u2019t accustom himself to home ways.GIRL SHOOTS HERSELF AFTER GETTING LETTER.\u2014Head- line., Those \u201cIf your remittance is not received by the tenth of the month, the matter will be placed in the hands of our solicitor\u201d do upset one, ONTREAL it is estimated, entertains year.complete, however, unless it were ; added that the entertaining is invariably done at the visitor's expense, An English woman married to an American, it appears, remains British under American law but becomes American under British law.It would be difficult to illustrate more strikingly the necessity of international agreement.66 YHECKS\" are in vogue in the world of fashion if not elsewhere.A Swiss Inventor has devis- ed a typewriter which spells correctly and doesn't chew gum, A London restaurant is to try serving grand opera with it's meals the coming winter.lt does not follow that it will be a case of the better the opera the better the food; but perhaps it will taste better.OUR HUNDRED titles have become extinct since the beginning of the last century through deaths of British peers.The passing of the \u201cfour hundred ?\u201d \u201cNegro taxi driver gets ten years for killing,\u201d is a headline over a New York news story, All taxi drivers, please notice?Some guys haven't any peaceful moments even when asleep.There's a Philadelphia man who complains that he dreams of his mother-in- law.\u201cYouths break into school\u201d, is a startling headline.But, alas, it was not during school hours! : They eloped by the 8.40 train.JOHN H.ROBERTS, News dispatch.Love will find railway.100,000 visitors 2! The estimate would not be.Friday, July 18, 1924, The Editorial Point of View A Scrutiny of Current Events \u2014 A PECULIAR CORONER'S JURY TH: ways of coroner's juries are peculiar.At Richmond, this province.lately a girl of twenty years, Irene St.Germain by name, went out for a ride on Thursday night of last week with a young fellow named Girard.She died during the trip and the young fellow brought [the lifeless body home.Dr.Derome, of Montreal, held an autopsy on {the body and, after hearing evidence at a closed inquest, a coroner's jury returned a verdict of, what do you think! \u201cheart failure\u201d! Public feeling, however, has been so deeply stirred in Richmond that the .authorities have been compelled to move and the young fellow was arrested on Tucsday on a charge of rape and taken to Sherbrooke to .appear before Judge Lemay.lt is cvident that public opinion has not been ineffective in this matter and the citizens of Richmond are to be congratulated on compelling action to be taken.But there is not much \u201cto be said for any coroner or jury acting in the way this one did, and perhaps the less said the better.We shall watch the case with interest.Many Richmond people have writen us about the matter and we thank them for so-doing.1 \u2014 \u2014\u2014 \u2014 se.tri mgm | A NEW KIND OF PRESS AGENT HO would ever think of a police officer employing a press agent.A movic star, a bank president, a company promoter, yes, but a police official! Well, well.This kind of press agent differs from the ordinary type, in that he is employed not to \u201cboost\u201d his patron and employer but to \u201cknock\u201d the other fellow.For instance, here are two | police officials who want promotion to a higher job.Both have their leves on the one job.What so easy as for the press agent who has | access to the columns of a newspaper to write a story dealing with crime and criminals and, incidentally, accuse the \u201copposition\u201d police official of failing, say, to arrest criminals when he had the opportunity lot doing so: That is one way the game is worked.This little game I that has been worked in a local paper lately: the joke being on the | paper which pays the press agent for his story.It is almost as laugh- \u2018able as an expose of the \u201cthree-card-monte\u201d men which netted a reporter quite 4 sum not so very long ago not to continue printing the stuff.THE NEW SOUTH SHORE BRIDGE | gT will be gratifying news to most Montrealers that the long-con- templated bridge to the South Shore is at last to be built.Our chief pleasure in the matter comes from the fact that the bridge will open up | St.Helen's Island to the children of Montreal.The island is one of | nature's beauty spots, it is a part of every Montreal child's heritage, and tit should be as accessible as Fletcher's Field.We hope there will be no tolls to be paid by the people old and voung, of Montreal who pass | over the bridge to visit their own park and that the city will run free street cars to the island when opened.While not insensible to the commercial advantages of the new bridge, we hope Dr.McDougald and his fellow-members of the Montreal Harbour Commisioners, to whom great credit is due for the initiation of the enterprise, will push on with the project at rush speed for the kiddies\u2019 sakes.And the City Council i must show no niggardly spirit in cooperating with the Harbour Commissioners in all essential ways to further the building of the bridge.| + ANOTHER LANGUAGE DIFFICULTY UR French Canadian fellow-oitizens have been able to secure printing of railway tickets and other things in both our official languages, which is a right and necessary thing to do.We appeal to them now to secure a like measure of justice for English-speaking people, resident in this province.It is a common occurrence for Englishspeaking people, who do not speak one word of French, to receive summonses, writs, and other Court documents printed and written entirely in the French language, which they cannot understand.As a consequence they suffer grave prejudice and do not know what means to take to protect themselves.Many heartrending experiences have resulted.We are confident that nobody among the French community wants to see any injustice done in this matter and we commend the matter to the Premier and his Cabinet to see that next session of the Legislature a bill is introduced, providing for all legal documents, such as summonses, to be written or printed either in the language of the person being served, or in both languages, in duplicate.Mr, Taschereau, we are sure, will see the need for this reform and the English-speaking people will appreciate his offices.i placing them on a high plane of ; Popular approval.The position of women in the world, in various callings and professions, where .they have gained prominence is a Se great an authority as County sound argument for their inclusion Clerk Phillips of Ontario, be- in the ranks of the police.Sex is lieves that women police officers ho longer a er Women have i .service in many can work \u2018more effectively than).of Jife in the past, and they men, in some localities and situa-| have the ability to render a amelior- tions, and that it is within the pos- | ative social service in the future.sibilities of the near future to have | Although many branches of police , | work are naturally barred to the police women added to the strength gentler sex, they can deal effect- Women Police Scotland Yards has of course tried | their wayward sisters than can the experiment with the happiest re- | men, although there are depart- sults, and is much pleased with| ments of police duty where it would .|be nothing short of disastrous to the good work done by the police employ them.The power of any women of the metropolis who are police force depends upon its con- accredited with much excellent! stitution, and its responsibility to service combined with an exhibi- | the public \u2018 tion of character and intelligence ! in the execution of their duties.Women worked self-sacrificingly| Professional bondsmen in Washduring the years 1914-1918 in muni- | ington threaten to go on strike.tion factories and elsewhere, their | Let us hope professional bondemen strenuous efforts at that period in Montreal will go out in sympathy.of the establishment everywhere.!jvely and very much better with pg | = ) , inate conce: skillfi pads ¢ to ma shape But, earth te EPS AE ORE.er rar a P\u2014 Friday, July 18, 1924, KING GECRGE\u2019S LEGS CAUSE CONTRGVERSY: WAS ARTIST RIGHT?Portrait by Sims Gives Grotesque Appearance to His Majesty\u2019s Nether Limbs.DECLARED LIBEL ON CROWN.HAT\u2014if anything\u2014-is the matter with the King George's legs?This is the question which thousands of his loyal subjects are asking since they have had a glimpse of the portrait of him bv Charles Sims, now on exhibition at the Roya! .such radical departures from what: Academy.CRUEL INJUSTICE According to advices from London, it is rumored that even mem-, bers of the royal family are moved to wonder whether there really is something radically wrong with His Majesty's lower extremities or whether the artistic talent of Mr.\u2018 Sims has done them a crue! injustice.The artist has portrayed the King sitting at e.sc in the elaborate robes of the Order of the Garter.! But what dominates the who'e icture in the eyes of almost every cholder are the King's legs.They are most decorously clothed \u2014~qin tight-fitting breeches down to the knee and in shimmery white silk stockings the rest of the way.The manner in which they are crossed strikes some critics as a little stiff, but this is not the most unnatural or disturbing note.i What disturbs everybody who views the picture is some indescribable peculiarity in the legs themselves\u2014in their size and contour, in the way the absurdly slender ankles round into the ugly calves and the manner of the calves\u2019 recession as the; reach: the unshapely knees.: It is true that the white-s:ocking-! ed legs are shown just above a bril-' liant crimson, but this contrast cannot account for the way they dom-! inate everything else in the picture \u2018 and distract attention from the; royal face, the various insignia,' the voluminous robes, and every-! thing else on this extraordinary can-' vas.LIBEL ON KING | \u201cThe legs are not to be taken\u2019 seriously.\u201d | \u201cNo human being ever had lower extremities quite like these.\u201d ; \u201cThe lower limbs in their effeminate white silk casings seem com-; posed of such stuff as dreams.\u201d \u201cThose awful legs\u2014really a cruel] libel on His Majesty.\u201d These are some of the scores of criticisms leveled at the legs which: Mr.Sims has put on his canvas.And, naturally enough, everybody is curious to know whether King.George is really the victim of a painful misfortune to his lower extremities or whether the artist has done him a gross injustice in this respect.Of course, the public very seldom gets a view of King George in a short-trousered costume such as he wears in this painting.And, when it does, the glimpse it gets of his legs is usually a flecting one and taken at long distance.Yet it seems as if such defects in the legs as this picture shows\u2014| we thought normal legs for a fuil-i grown man\u2014would be bound to reveal themselves even under these conditions.In his ordinary, every-day clothes or in one of his imposing military uniforms which he so often wears, there is nothing about the King\u2019s legs to suggest the spindly, ill- shapen ones shown in the painting.And when he bestrides a horse his legs not only look perfectly normal but seem a great deal more.effi- clent in keeping him safely in-the saddle than do those of his son, the Prince of Wales.Still, it may be that nature has dealt unkindly with the King -in the matter of his legs and that he conceals their glaring defects by a skillful use of the same short of pads scrawny chorus girls often use to make themselves look plump and shapely.ARTIST EXPLAINS But, #f this is so, then why on earth did not Mr.Sims paint the , Most of the public and many of the .art critics are unable to see any | choose for a model one with a more King's legs with the saving pads in pace\u2019 Why did he not hide them || behind the Garter robe or use sone |, other subterfuge to prevent this long-conccaled royal misfortune from becoming public property\u2019 And il there is nothing wrong |.with the King\u2019s legs, il they are! really quite like other men\u2019s, then |: what could have possesed\u2019Mr.Sims to inflict on His Majesty such a ridiculous pair?\u201cIt has been said that | was given only two or three sittings by the King,\u201d said Mr.Sims, \u201cand that 1 only made sketches from which to make the complete portrait.This |! is true to a certain extent.But as far as the King's features and expression are concerned, | would no: have asked for further sittings.\u201cThe legs and Garter robes were painted from the figure of an THE AXE [The Newest Game! \u201cKiil the Pedestrian\u201d THREE {| Knock em over Bil thal teach em Academy student who sat for me | Sump wearing them.| have painted the | King as a human personality, not as a legendary, flamboyant monarch -\u2014a manner in which sovereigns are too often portrayed.\u201d But this statement only deepens the mystery of the King's legs.suggestion of \u201chuman personality\u201d in the pair of lower limbs which Mr.Sims has painted.One of the picture's severest critics declares that the only requirements of good legs which Le Io id a © ay Le\u201d Ww 0 HE oY hogs! heyd do these painted ones meet is in their covering the distance from the |, King's body to the ground.Why was the artist unable to induce King George to have his legs drawn from life?And when this proved impossible, why did he not\u2019 presentable pair of lower extremities?QUESTION UNANSWERED These are the questions which Mr.Sims has failed to answer.His silence concerning them and his continued insistence that his painting is really a most life-like portrait strengthens the suspicion that perhaps after all there really is something wrong with the royal limbs.And legs are by no means the only features of the picture that come in for condemnation, as will be seen from the following extracts from recent criticisms: \u201cA merciless and pitiless caricature.\u201d \u201cThe expression of the eyes is that of a shortsighted man who has mislaid his glasses.The features are pale and undistinguished and the impression given by the face is that of weariness and dejection.\u201d \u201cFails to recognize the attractive personality of His Majesty.\u201d \u201cThe King seems to be almost overwhelmed by his mantle and to end at his chest and begin again at his knees.\u201d \u201cHis Majesty is ivoking extremely uncomfortable, wearing an expression which none of us, thank God, has ever seen him wear in real ife.\u201cIn his desire to be human, Sims has succeeded only in being unkind.\u201d It is significant, however, that there is a wide difference of opinion among the critics concerning the artist\u2019s treatment of the King's head and hands and the whole upper part of hsi body.Many distinguished ones find it highly praise-worthy, a really marvelous example of the painter's art.NOTHING TO ADMIRE But concerning the legs theré is no such- agreement.Nobody sees in them anything to admire and the wonder grows às to why the artist s about lime GENERAL HOSPITAL ce E 7%, ne pair of legs that seem grotesquely out of piace on him.The portrait of the King is the most discussed picture in this year\u2019s exhibition at the Royal Academy.It is evidently intended to take its place in the long line of famous paintings of English rulers, but, judging from the present state of public opinion, it will never be allowed to do this.It is singularly unlike the conventional pictures of the sort in the way it belittles the brilliantly colored robe: and blazing jewels which painte- usually emphasize when they with royalty.The os the King wears in this picture are thrown back to reveal plain white satin and linen.The general whiteness of the picture is emphasized by the light background tinted with pinks, greens and other delicate shades, and by the prominence given those much-criticiz- ed legs in their white silk stockings.- There is no doubt that Mr.Sims has achieved a decided novelty in this picture, but as for his people liking to see their King portrayed in this way\u2014well, that\u2019s quite a different matter.THE KAISER'S PEW, OME \"English women who travelled extensively on the continent before the war are authority for the story that in the kaiser\u2019s pew in the imperial chapel at Potsdam was a push button which rang a bell in the pulpit.The minister was alloted a certain period for his sermon.When the time limit was reached, the All Highest would ring the bell.The preacher was Phone PLATEAU 3977 MERRICK R.NUTTING Imperial Theatre Bldg., Montreal.Entertainers and musicians, furnished for banquets, clubs, dances, etc.Let us submit a programme for your \u201c next social affair.saw fit to paint the King with a Phone PLATEAU 3977 expected to finish his discourse, tenor, Amedo Burani, baritone, forthwith, even though hc was in| Felice Belli, bass baritone, Maestro the middle of a sentence.Eugenic TTironi will conduct the _\u2014 Sistine Choir Soloists.SISTINE CHOIR comme pack ||| Steele\u2019s Bowiing Alleys 351 BLEURY STREET Drop in and bowl a string!\u2014 You\u201d) come back! Intense interest ataaches to the forthcoming Canadian tour of The Sistine Choir Soloist under the direction of Mr.Emmett Moore and Theatrical Enterprises Ltd.Among the feature artists who will appear with the organization are Adolfo Facchini, lyric tenor, Giuseppe Pag- anelli, Lyrico Spinto, Glovanni Rufini, lyric tenor, Alfredo Auchner, baritone, Spartaco Morgina, robust BELGO BOWLING ACADEMY Belgo Building, St.Catherine and Bleury Streets.Main Entrance, St.Catherine and St.Alexander Streets.WHEN YOU WANT SERVICE CALL MAIN 3291 McDERMOTT\u2019S MOTOR DELIVERY will give you the iind of service you want, CONTRACTS TAKEN 85 Cathedral Street, Montreal.24 Alleys.Best Equipped Bow]- ing Academy in the Dominion.PHONE: PLATEAU 6184 KRAUSMANN'\u2019S LORRAINE CAFE AND GRILL 431 PHILLIPS SQUARE \u201cFamous for Food\u201d STEAKS \u2014 CHOPS \u2014 SEA FOODS BUSINESS MEN'S LUNCH DAILY, 75¢ A FULLY LICENSED RESTAURANT ORCHESTRA IN ATTENDANCE EVERY EVENING FOUR PEPPER and SALT By David Campbell DIGGING HE history of industry as filled with true tales of men who struggled tor a long time before they succeeded.There is more in- aspiration in reading about those who made stepping stones of their failures than there is in the stories of people who got what they wanted every time they tried for it We hke to hear of prospectors who were not easily Jaunted: wha kept en digging till they found the gold.We take heart of grace again when we come upon members of our race who persisted in any quest till they vame to the haven where they would be.It is easy to give up, casy to let go.When we are hard beset, it nerves us to look to the example of those who held on and did not quit.GS\u2018 CCESS comes by persistent digging, not in the mining in- Justry alone, Any builder knows that the superstructure will come toppling, unless it has a sound toundation; and to Ly that foundation he must dig deep, perhaps through treacherous, soil, perhaps through atstinate flint.In thirsty lands there were faint-hearted pioneers who found no water and who went their wav, Others of stouter fiber remained and \u201cvar- ried on,\u201d sinking their wolls to lower levels till they came upon water.Thus they made the wilderness blossom as the rose, and reaped a fortune from the arable- land that was nothing but a desert to those who did not stay there and dig deep.The scholar who has set himself to \u201ctrack shy truth\u201d has spent laborious days and nights in research, sublimely oblivious of the dollar, The business man who has developed a new and profitable field took off his coat and hestled: he did not gaze out of a window at his horizon, but he marched toward it, Homage goes to self-denial and hard toil.It is not bestowed on those who took the easy path of dalliance, the line of least resistance.Youth has it's right confidence, but youth must learn\u2019 of \u201ctoil and the end of toil.\u201d It must not suppose that the rewarded ones it sees came easily and swiftly by their places and their possessions.The successful were the survivors from a host that quit too soon.OATMEAL ETIQUETTE, HE troubled reader of a contemporary is anxious to know.the best wav to eat oatmeal.Problems like this are always cropping up.Some gourmets say oatmeal should be eaten with a knife, the: knife being raised carefully from the plate and thrust sharply into the mouth\u2014much in the same wav as with peas in fact.Care should be taken not to spill too much milk, if milk is used.On the pther hand, there is a' certain juvenile schoo! which prefers to lead off with the right Fist well in the centre of the plate, transferring the contents to the left.and while eating some of the, porridge to distribute the rest on the top of the head.\u2018 It is all a matter of taste, so to, speak.HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF TARVING Silesian are burning the castles of the! landed magnates, as the hungry! peasants burned the chateaux of the French nobility during the Revolution of the eighteenth cen-' tury.The French nobility learned; their lesson, but the German Junksrs have been taught nothing.| to happy I've forgotten just what kind of wine it was which Byron told her \u20180 dash down, and anyhow it\u2019s not good form to advertise the stuff nowadays, but after viewing the lunch-hour parade on St.James Street | endyrse the poet\u2019s firm resolution: \u201cLips that touch sever touch mine.\u201d lipstick shall A course in walking is to be given in a Northwester university, To make walking attractive it will be necessary also to provide paths where the hiker will not be always dodging automobiles.\u2014\u2014 Pedestrians are sometimés reck- less, but is the death penalty not à drifls severe?\u201cHONOP* DECLINED UE \u201cWhite Protestant and Gentile™ students of the University of Pennsylvania are fultil- ling the best traditions of this an.cent and most democratis of soltools in reijecting as an insult the \u201chonor\u201d offered them of membership in the Ku Klux Klan, The \u201cPennst hvanian™, the University's student daily savs in an able editorial: \u201cAll the highest ideals of Pennsylvania - democracy, toler - ance, broad-mindedness and faith in those things which are open and above-board\u2014 are directly opposed to the very principles of the Klan\u201d The University is or should be holy ground, consecrated by many gen- ertions of service to liberty.If the Klan purs down its foul roots there, it simply will be extirpated the any other chance-blown weed, THE BOLD ROWLER, Tr HE soft hat, having killed the now in turn being come-hack the bowl.STTAW, Is ousted bv that fr The Prince of Wales has given the lead bv preterring the bold bowler to the tiring topper for ordinary dav functions, There may be a chance even vet tor the straw\u2014who knows: Meanwhile there is serious news about whiskers.At first a mere hint in the \u201cBarbers™ Review and Chiropodists\u2019 Gazeteer,\u201d there is now quite general talk about them.Shall we return to mutton-chops and Dundrearys- With the girls expressing a liking for matted males the possibility is distinctly able.SHAKESPEARE STUDENTS HAKESPEARE, whose stuff, as everybody knows, is rather spoiled by the many quotations in it, has now come out as a publicity punch writer.He seems to be especially useful to firms specialising \u201cin Kitchen fittings and also engin- cering\u2014things which the bard knew very little about.As example\u2014a leading firm of welding experts, in advertising a new method.quote: \u201cThere is a tide in the affairs of men, which, taken at the flood, unc.\u201d Advertising a new clothes-drying machine, the proprietors say \u201cthat if Shakespeare had known of this particular invention he would have\u2019 waxed eloquent and commenced writing plays and poems about it.\u201d Little doubt that William would have made a hit had he delayed being born for a few çenturies.HE belief that man\u2019s hair can turn white in a night is doubted by scientists.But man's grey mustache turns or brown in a barber\u2019s shop.black HY not have an ice week?From the remarks of those around us, these days such a departure should prove a great success.HERE are ten thousand murders every year in the United States, as against two hundred every year in England and Wales, allowing for difference in popula- , ; ; , townsmen | tion a ratio of eighty murders to; men, when debts and Monday morn- one.Why; Broadly speaking the reason is that in the United States, few murderers expiate their crimes.In Britain nearly all murderers are found out, tried, convicted and ex- ecuted.And that\u2019s that! How many civic employees are living outside the city limits?Surely they should be required to pay taxes to the municipality, from which they draw their salaries.O railway legislation of recent years has been subjected to such close strutiny as that of the recent Branch Lines Bill in the present session, The tuberculosis germ is highly flourishing in this city.In Ontario the authorities are putting up a splendid fight against this dread monster with considerable success.Surely we should be able to considerably militate the evil in this community if we earieusly tackled the problesad leads to fort-! sometimes a\u2019 tHE AXE \u2014 Members of a Hanwell church are addicted to telling the following anecdote ;\u2014 A lady's wrist watch having been left in a pew the previous Sunday, the vicar announced that the owner conld have it by applying in the vestry, He then gave out No, 362 Ancient and Modern, and read the first line: Lord.her watch Thy Church is keeping.It is understood the vicar did not notice the connection, FIRST-AID REMEDY HE tirst-aid remedy for any artificial commodity famine is, cf course, publicity and the boycott, Thercfore, the women of Chicago are being organized to meet the \u201cJollar-cgg\u201d™ campaign which it is charged speculators have inaugurated by abstaining from this succulent fruit of the barnvard.It is hard to prove a \u201ccorner\u201d however and conspiracy; comparatively casy, ruin food speculators to buy at their prices.Cold storage, which is ordinarily the food geuger's tool, becomes in time of boveott a weapon against them.For the speculator can't put his credit on we: it will spoil while the eggs \u201ckeep\u201d -to be sold at tumble prices, The boycott is a dangerous expedient, yet every cold- storage \u201ccorner\u201d emphasizes the need for a remeds.PALATABLE DISHES EW of us who dine out at five dollars à time realise the amount of care and forethought the chef gives to the cnlours of the various items in a menu.No chef with a temperament our own Culinary Correspondent assures us) would think of serving.white fish and white sauce imme- | diately after a white cream soup.His soul would rebel against such by refusing fact that a cream soup and a cream | sauce should never follow each other in quick succession.| ! Colours, taste and garniture .alike must be employed to excite the jaded appetite.A dish may be perfectly delicious in itself, but if it fails to make an appeal to the! diner it may never be submitted | ;to the final test.OUR CHEERLESS l\u2019ROPHETS ! NE of the world\u2019s most pres sing needs is a Society for \u2018the Development of Cheerful Prophecy.At present our practising pro- | phets are a gloomy lot, running to | , beavers at considerable length and apparently having been quite old \u201cfrom their birth.| The latest star performer in the role of gloom is \u201cProfessor Raymond,\u201d a Hungarian gentleman, who got early information of the French occupation of the Ruhr and also predJdied the Japanese earth- | quake.Professor Raymond now predicts :\u2014 1.The decay of the British ; Empire in the face of a new Continental Alliance.© 2.America to continue dry until 1928.| In justice to the professor, he i waxes almost cheerful on the sub- | ject of war, There won't be an- | other until 1942, he says.The sons of men who fought in the last will then be of nice military age.When our Own Cheerful Predicter comes along he will change all this.He will tell us the year when the i farmers will cease to be ruined i ing will be abolished, and when income tax will go out of fashion.Other things will occur to him, but these glad tidings will carry us all on for a bit.ROUGH ON STREPTOCOCCUS The latest theory is that good warm weather favours man's enemies as well as himself, so the only thing to do is to strike the lyre and sing: \u2014 Blow, blow shrewdly blow, Boreas and Aquilo, Buffet, pinch and chill us; Be as brutal as you please, Heeding not our cough sneeze, | Strafe the brute bacillus, and Nip, nip, tightly grip.Tweak the nose\u2019s naked tip, Shiver, shake and shock us; Come ye winds from hill and heath, Bore your way into the teeth Of the streptococcus! rere 1 however, to! ARNI BERNTEARDE, the ein wh aterions and temper, Sarah oor the Divine was ali chionatels ske, mental Sarah\" as she Called th her cd pers nd versTap =, ts en tuo contmaent-, lues at Lust Found Her Boswell, Mme rene Barton, ha fie long retiens and coe associate, and wire ot the man who was mono small way A dote an soit the cdlelratad atress on fur disnnguished career, Las written, at Pont and Eucrreht has published a biography which males the wortd their debtor.Oue ol the ontstandmg tacts ol Sarah Bornluardt's hie was her on rome