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The Huron Expositor, 1929-02-08, Page 3NI , 4M M� ,, ',, UN'. , ly; ki ,�•m' 'Y, y } f: `F A k i'' t , r, . . .. 1::! ter ). r., fns±' i'• �r :' • -, . ., A dr& �I ' dr6 r 1. h : ;. x , I -- 1 l �1 � C h 'k ,, �7 1111 , R, I ug'FI 1 r f tI. + veci; I : :'i. t `� p� i 4. A: it �" ✓n r , ,r !i? f . -.r 4 :M• � .. ., -A: _ � it , . .. , o: ,�gypp ��iiII � a ', :.:., w...,. .. '.: .:.. :.: .. ... _.Er.. F" :. y': A L Y W 4 3 MI �. t �� r t° 5 E. A 1iTi r •J % '1 .a r Y,k, Q Qal: '� irM""" to � � Q' r i � L �C,�•. wI� as �i. tt� ^� ,. , i �k � iIa P 1 >3 ' A4 �.,, a �i � $1k l 4W 1 { 0. - I I a .aadieRi�cre lC i a, ,� � � lilt Test, �, �11n elt'w to oaaa i • ZU4 r es fill u l O ' . .r' t• C U! $. U - �. h IV s,. . :, t 1 i , - O - YD �L.d R w � Your valuable* at their Mmol,©,.' A �.... a�' a � �. dt4Isa1!snrr ban costs s,ID Ilntaie tbat no one ,`neem :Mie the mist` of , 'ow ng ibo4d8a ' i3ro certificates, coin. fists, Will or�6their vzlluua�Ib1.epapers. Ask ins about this 6errvice. i I THE L1L:L9- ( DOMINI � A \ SEAFORTIE BIZANCTpT R- M. Jaws - lU mEger 227 ADVISES STATE AID FOR entitle them to benefit. It is indeed • PLIERS the large number of the men who are without benefit that mainly accouxnts The Canadian press hascarried 'both for the physical distress and for groin time to time stories of the Iter- the almost intolerable strain which is mible suffering :being endured by the cast upon the rates in the mining Welsh miners. A few excerpts from areas. well known British papers• will serve "It would, we consider, be 'the course t use both o focus of humanity the attention of Canadians on inanity and wisdom what is' a truly appalling situation. to waive, as regards the miners, ail. 'Says the Welsh Outlook, for 'example: ordinary restrictions on unemploy- "What are the facts? Orf the min- anent benefit, and to pay it, for the ing Population of something over two time being, to every man who has ev- ihundred thousand in South Wale's er worked in the pits. It is 'true that nearly 80,000 are walking the streets there would be no justification for in compulsory idleness, and 30,000 throwing this additional burden on more are only able to obtain, work for to the employers and workpeople in two or three, days a week. And the . other dndustries in .their capacity of worst is not yet. Owing to theeconi- contributors to the Unemployment omic impossibility of carrying on, col- Fund. Iieries are closing down one after an- The cost of relieving the perman- Other.. The number of unemployed en't unemployment in, the coalfields grows with every pit closed. ought not to fall upon thein; it is "Get hold of that figure. Eighty wrong that so large a part of it thousand! Try to realize it- per_ should fall on them now. The sound haps you live in a town. How big is policy would he to meet all claims' for it? Ten thousand inhabitants? Then uncovenanted benefit under another your unemployed fellow countrymen scheme financed entirely by the would fill -eight such towns—the men State." alone. If you allow an average of C two dependents—a wife and a child— to each man, they would fill twenty- 'SAYS HARRY HOUDINI SENT four such towns as yours. Every - lhousehold in those twenty-four towns SPIRIT MESSAGE will need food and clothing and warmth, but not man among them It has been the ironic fate of the ed can earn a penny. late Harry Houdini Think of it. Does be e o dragged, that bring it hoarse?" figuratively, from his coffin to testify to the truth of spiritism, which in These people have no hope in his lifetime he did so much to dis- themselves," says the Times, "until they can be transferred, one by one, credit. 'Ht's widow is reported to have t to what are areas of hopefulness just said that she has received a message , because they are areas of employment, irom the dead which has proved to her The field of industry which formerly that her husband himself communi- I sustained them is barren, and never cated with her. Her statement is again will miners, to the number per. somewhat marred by an accompanying 1 haps of nearly 'a quarter of a million, statement in a New York tabloid pa - be able to gain a livelihood from their per that Mrs. Houdini and Arthur' former employment. Ford, an editor, pastor and clergy- ' "Until the time comes when they man, who was the medium through 1 can be given a new place in industry which the message came, have plan- 1 they are powerless to help themselves ned a lecture tour throughout the t or their families. Their idleness is United States, and that the supposed t revelation is to ' be' con -strained, and Elle best gift to thx�inregarded as merely ( would be the opportunity to -work. For valuable advance publicity, Mrs, ( the time being they have to be main- Houdini and Rertr. ,Ford have threaten- ( tain'ed by others, and they deserve ed suit for damages, but the paper € something better than what either the asserts that it told the exact truth. t ,Poor Law or the Unemployment In_ Thus the issue has been immediately surance Fund can do for them. clouded, doubt being cast upon the t "It is not merely a temporary em- good faith of 'Mrs. Houdini. In this t ergency that ,has to be bided over, but case suspicion is almost as fatal as t a continuing and increasing distress. actual proof of deception. All that c How 'acute individual hardships may spiritism needs at the moment is one c be can be gathered from the state- incontrovertible fact that there is any - anent of last year's Lord Mayor of thing in it. The clear call of a single 11 (Cardiff that there are women who voice from beyond the grave would E must 'borrow another woman's boots be much more valuable than an unin- 1 .before they can go shopping, and that telligible hubbub of ghosts, subject to .I hundreds of men stay in bed in order various interpretations. to save a meal." It is said that before Harry Houdini t "The rules for the administration died he left with his wife a secret code of unemployment benefit," asserts the and told her that if by any possibility Nation., "were drawn up to meet con- he found himself able to communicate E ditions altogether different from those with 'her ,he would use this code so E Fiche prevail ha th<a coalfields. They that she might be absolutely sure that c 170're frankly basod on the cast' a no fraud was being practised: Now 1�jon that a man mho really exerts we know well enough from the most 1 Nitmeelf in seeliing for a ,job can us- importantevents of IH[oudini's life that t Bally mamage to and one himeteu PCs- he had no more TAeltef in spiritism t 9bre the Employment Exchange; can tha7tt the master of an Orange Lodge is dnd it for him, has in purgatory. The 'imfereneo is t "Therefore, it is not enough for a plain that Mrs. 'Hovdin'i h'aad come c man to say: 'I have registered at lingering doubt on the matter. Hou- 7 the Exchange. They have not been dini, a loving huscband, left a code to E able to find men job. I claim( unem- satisfy her and. perhaps protect her, f gloyment relief.' He must give evi- and not for any public purpose. We 1 Bence of active efforts in the pursuit infer, not unreasonably, that he T Of work; and, if he fails to satisfy though she needed some protection. 3 b14he Court of 11 derees that he has If she ,had been as hardheaded in the I Made such efforts, he is debarred from matter as •Hio+udini himself she would 's Casnefit, and thrown, back upon the not have sacrifiestrd pier time for spir1t- I 1poor law. To apply such regulation's ist seances. 'So far as investigating s to the surplus miners at the present them is eonce'rlied, her brilliant hus- I time is a grobea'que absurdity. band had completed that task. His t "Yeti large numbers of 'minrara we mind was sealed', Mfrs. Houdini ap- v MAQ,Out unemployment benefit, either parently `had an open mind on the c gnus, they have been disqualified' on question'. C such grounds. or because they have Mrs• Houdini now says that a few ,I Hever paid Fsuffacienit contributions to days ago she received' a letter saying that a 'medium under the control of i a wraith named Fletcher was ready to o give her the ten word code which her fC(B�Y H(Ball&] husband had left. She consented and k Arthur Ford turned up. He went into a trance and l]is astral spirit was at i / �� � �j �� �f5 o once ta>flen possession of by "Fletch- er." Soon the supposed message from - 0' . Hkitidird came through. It addressed �, Mrs. Houdini by a pet name used by e�'7R5�� � her husband, and then there came a communication. in eodbe. Wihen decod- I. ed it turned out to be the word "'be- , (may Bowels lielve," which. 'Mrs. Houdini says was The �l� mr2�g�ble cG�ll� lnev9the word agreed upon by her and her n a husband. This Word had been written ?7a nic and ,,ahem Builder out 'by •Mrs.-Roudini,, who 'herself had ®11 the oddness and healin virtuas of s'e'aled it in, an gtttrelope and' placed it In a vault. At ones, it is suggested herbs,Nature's, own medicine, are in that the word futTslit ,have been ex - this tonin. No mineral drugs. Sets tracted from tier ibis mliental telepathy, e'my organ working 1tl0'r/0. Brings y� the old toy of h'v1ng. Q ood for the 'although we are not Pkepared to say nsa•7es. Cleat's up skin troubles ---even there is such a thisa'g'Sss t1ind reading, Rezema, Bads you up. Sold, As It is, bowe'ver, 4 Yitilp sagier to be- e2ber Gallaghst!o nerhsHouaihold helve than spirt in. , There It, also ]lta sdiw are, iii the possibility that Virs, iRImas&I ley & A�� ' ,� 'Trhve mentioned the word her glee Y off... aaftabh,wMe� hr�hwo d ,;,,I, 1". 1 1 i m,ii. -.. I -1 q R°�. °K '- 1 Ill ,,. ,. .. P v. ,,.u„�1.. .,.,.. �, ..It i S .i who reso, IMB Q go, V11v eviaielaee 4*46r 6r ft eoa 1 i c us ve the oco'ti�.fliou plairlt�nsl will • no 4dou'bt se1zp '(fan ; laopofpli and we may be prepared lta the fat= to ,re44 tlixt n �F4.3 at ',astir was anabsolutely 4tbptati-e ]nessege .'Rblel Of a ur it p �. i s ot. � � Ia � e are rathe h astoruished that the astute Zpudix did tit t R o oke greater oars ttr.prevens fraud. If he had himself written.' th word Uitiknetwu to anybody, and seal ed it in a vau9lt, any I theory of mina readin'd or mental telepathy would ,have been impossible. Now there ar a score of pos'si'ble explanations in eluding the ugly. one .made by the tabloid, neviispaper, The key word it self, is not Such a, strange word, es pecially in this conneetion, that i Wright"not have been hit upon in 0:111 or a biunadred or a thousand' guesses Moreover, we .still remain in the darl supposing for the sake of argument that this word carne through as ra ported'. ',If a friend adventures int( an unknown country, if one certainl3 kn9w-s that he is gone, one does not expecit him to send back a mlessag( "I'm 'here." What one wants to knovi is "What's it like?" There is another coicidence to be explained. Ten month's before (Mrs. Houdini says that she received the message, New York, newspapers car- ried the following despatch: "London, March ,5th,(U!P)--S1r Arthur Conan Doyle announced to- day that he had received word from the widow of Harry (Houdini that she had received a prearranged code word from her late ,husband. "Sir A ilii` said the word was left to Mrs. Houdini by the magician as a test of the authenticity of spiritual- ism. "He said the word was received in a test held under the presidency of the New York spiritualist, Arthur Ford. He said the word was' com- municated through a control known abs 'Fletcher,( "'I understand' the experiment is not yet quite complete, but that much has 'been fulfilled,' :Sir A'rt'hur said." 'D'oes this mean that Ford occupied ten months in making guesses and experiments? Does it mean that for ten months Mrs'. Houdini held :back from the world a message which she might well suppose to be of the most tremendous' interest and, importance? Or is there anything in the story of the proposed lecture tour? DISASTROUS SEASON FOR BROADWAY SHOWS New York theatres are approach - ng a crisis. They may be even ap- )roaching dissolution. Never has i17,siness been so (bad, never have the heatrical offerings been so fiercely at- a'cked•, never has the incompetence of ,he managers been so rudely assert - :d. Our friend 'St. John Ervine says ;hat the theatre managers are almost manimously asses. George Jean Nath - in, our moralist, says that the New. fork stage is the filthiest in the Porld, and perhaps the, filthiest in the istory of the theatre. Joseph Wood ' Crutch, dramatic critic for The Na - ion, says that there are -only two or , hree producers and two or three the- - tres t hat'ata • nd for anything. Most f them- make, no attempt to 'build up onfidence in their integrity or to 1 'ain a following. Official action has i 'ready been taken to remove one of he distresses of the theatre, and na- 1 urally, it is on'e of the minor ones, 1 hough important enough. The Police 1 ,omm•issioner has given new orders i oncern'ing the traffic in the theatre ( istrict, the -idea being to make it 1 asier• for people to attend a play. , hould it work out, people will be t ble to reach a theatre with much t ass inconvenience than at present, 1 ut there is no guarantee that when ( hey go they will find anything bet- �r worth seeing. ( One of the troubles with the New 2 •ork theatre is that the. theatres are I 11 packed in a certain district. There re about eighty of them on and round Broadway as, near to 42nd treet as they can be built. This ex- l.ains the terriffic congestion to the ime when people are going to the heatre or going home. 'Mfr. Ervine says that at those times, those who ! axi, pay about a third of their fares I then the car is stalled in traffic jams. ( 'hose who drive their own ears have ( new and - terrifying problem about I arking, Because of this difficulty of t etting to the theatre, thousands of i eop,e now stay at (home, who a few ears ago attended shove's more or i >ss regu'lar'ly. Another reason they tay at home is because they do not t now whether they can buy a ticket then they do arrive. Naturally they I refer to go to the movie palace round t he corner where seats cost little and f here accommodation is' certain. of ( nurse, the reason the theatres build ,( bosely together is because if a would i e spectator cannot enter one theatre t e will be able to try his luck next t nor, instead of chasing to an, -enter- i ainment a mile or so away. The suggestion has been made that ( i the future when more theatres.'are € uilt, they shall be scattered, but it s said that two or three experiments . c I r although this week is generally a bad Engineering, Auto one, nearly twice many houses -,,, o 1� wK "" i`,��`, -1 and also Barbering and Ladies' dressing. Barn �2 20 $10 ,Fina �, � .;' i. a week appeared, but most of them I flopped before something else Shad .. .1 . - r 1 , ,. ol- a' 4� A k i'' t , r, . . .. 1::! ter ). r., fns±' i'• �r :' • -, . ., A dr& �I ' dr6 r 1. h : ;. x , I -- 1 l �1 � C h 'k ,, �7 1111 , R, I ug'FI 1 r f tI. + veci; I : :'i. t `� p� i 4. A: it �" ✓n r , ,r !i? f . -.r 4 :M• � .. ., -A: _ � it , . .. , o: ,�gypp ��iiII � a ', :.:., w...,. .. '.: .:.. :.: .. ... _.Er.. F" :. y': A L Y W 4 3 MI �. t �� r t° 5 E. A 1iTi r •J % '1 .a r Y,k, Q Qal: '� irM""" to � � Q' r i � L �C,�•. wI� as �i. tt� ^� ,. , i �k � iIa P 1 >3 ' A4 �.,, a �i � $1k l 4W 1 { 0. - I I a .aadieRi�cre lC i a, ,� � � lilt Test, �, �11n elt'w to oaaa i • ZU4 r es fill u l O ' . .r' t• C U! $. U - �. h IV s,. . :, t 1 i , - O - YD �L.d R w � Your valuable* at their Mmol,©,.' A �.... a�' a � �. dt4Isa1!snrr ban costs s,ID Ilntaie tbat no one ,`neem :Mie the mist` of , 'ow ng ibo4d8a ' i3ro certificates, coin. fists, Will or�6their vzlluua�Ib1.epapers. Ask ins about this 6errvice. i I THE L1L:L9- ( DOMINI � A \ SEAFORTIE BIZANCTpT R- M. Jaws - lU mEger 227 ADVISES STATE AID FOR entitle them to benefit. It is indeed • PLIERS the large number of the men who are without benefit that mainly accouxnts The Canadian press hascarried 'both for the physical distress and for groin time to time stories of the Iter- the almost intolerable strain which is mible suffering :being endured by the cast upon the rates in the mining Welsh miners. A few excerpts from areas. well known British papers• will serve "It would, we consider, be 'the course t use both o focus of humanity the attention of Canadians on inanity and wisdom what is' a truly appalling situation. to waive, as regards the miners, ail. 'Says the Welsh Outlook, for 'example: ordinary restrictions on unemploy- "What are the facts? Orf the min- anent benefit, and to pay it, for the ing Population of something over two time being, to every man who has ev- ihundred thousand in South Wale's er worked in the pits. It is 'true that nearly 80,000 are walking the streets there would be no justification for in compulsory idleness, and 30,000 throwing this additional burden on more are only able to obtain, work for to the employers and workpeople in two or three, days a week. And the . other dndustries in .their capacity of worst is not yet. Owing to theeconi- contributors to the Unemployment omic impossibility of carrying on, col- Fund. Iieries are closing down one after an- The cost of relieving the perman- Other.. The number of unemployed en't unemployment in, the coalfields grows with every pit closed. ought not to fall upon thein; it is "Get hold of that figure. Eighty wrong that so large a part of it thousand! Try to realize it- per_ should fall on them now. The sound haps you live in a town. How big is policy would he to meet all claims' for it? Ten thousand inhabitants? Then uncovenanted benefit under another your unemployed fellow countrymen scheme financed entirely by the would fill -eight such towns—the men State." alone. If you allow an average of C two dependents—a wife and a child— to each man, they would fill twenty- 'SAYS HARRY HOUDINI SENT four such towns as yours. Every - lhousehold in those twenty-four towns SPIRIT MESSAGE will need food and clothing and warmth, but not man among them It has been the ironic fate of the ed can earn a penny. late Harry Houdini Think of it. Does be e o dragged, that bring it hoarse?" figuratively, from his coffin to testify to the truth of spiritism, which in These people have no hope in his lifetime he did so much to dis- themselves," says the Times, "until they can be transferred, one by one, credit. 'Ht's widow is reported to have t to what are areas of hopefulness just said that she has received a message , because they are areas of employment, irom the dead which has proved to her The field of industry which formerly that her husband himself communi- I sustained them is barren, and never cated with her. Her statement is again will miners, to the number per. somewhat marred by an accompanying 1 haps of nearly 'a quarter of a million, statement in a New York tabloid pa - be able to gain a livelihood from their per that Mrs. Houdini and Arthur' former employment. Ford, an editor, pastor and clergy- ' "Until the time comes when they man, who was the medium through 1 can be given a new place in industry which the message came, have plan- 1 they are powerless to help themselves ned a lecture tour throughout the t or their families. Their idleness is United States, and that the supposed t revelation is to ' be' con -strained, and Elle best gift to thx�inregarded as merely ( would be the opportunity to -work. For valuable advance publicity, Mrs, ( the time being they have to be main- Houdini and Rertr. ,Ford have threaten- ( tain'ed by others, and they deserve ed suit for damages, but the paper € something better than what either the asserts that it told the exact truth. t ,Poor Law or the Unemployment In_ Thus the issue has been immediately surance Fund can do for them. clouded, doubt being cast upon the t "It is not merely a temporary em- good faith of 'Mrs. Houdini. In this t ergency that ,has to be bided over, but case suspicion is almost as fatal as t a continuing and increasing distress. actual proof of deception. All that c How 'acute individual hardships may spiritism needs at the moment is one c be can be gathered from the state- incontrovertible fact that there is any - anent of last year's Lord Mayor of thing in it. The clear call of a single 11 (Cardiff that there are women who voice from beyond the grave would E must 'borrow another woman's boots be much more valuable than an unin- 1 .before they can go shopping, and that telligible hubbub of ghosts, subject to .I hundreds of men stay in bed in order various interpretations. to save a meal." It is said that before Harry Houdini t "The rules for the administration died he left with his wife a secret code of unemployment benefit," asserts the and told her that if by any possibility Nation., "were drawn up to meet con- he found himself able to communicate E ditions altogether different from those with 'her ,he would use this code so E Fiche prevail ha th<a coalfields. They that she might be absolutely sure that c 170're frankly basod on the cast' a no fraud was being practised: Now 1�jon that a man mho really exerts we know well enough from the most 1 Nitmeelf in seeliing for a ,job can us- importantevents of IH[oudini's life that t Bally mamage to and one himeteu PCs- he had no more TAeltef in spiritism t 9bre the Employment Exchange; can tha7tt the master of an Orange Lodge is dnd it for him, has in purgatory. The 'imfereneo is t "Therefore, it is not enough for a plain that Mrs. 'Hovdin'i h'aad come c man to say: 'I have registered at lingering doubt on the matter. Hou- 7 the Exchange. They have not been dini, a loving huscband, left a code to E able to find men job. I claim( unem- satisfy her and. perhaps protect her, f gloyment relief.' He must give evi- and not for any public purpose. We 1 Bence of active efforts in the pursuit infer, not unreasonably, that he T Of work; and, if he fails to satisfy though she needed some protection. 3 b14he Court of 11 derees that he has If she ,had been as hardheaded in the I Made such efforts, he is debarred from matter as •Hio+udini himself she would 's Casnefit, and thrown, back upon the not have sacrifiestrd pier time for spir1t- I 1poor law. To apply such regulation's ist seances. 'So far as investigating s to the surplus miners at the present them is eonce'rlied, her brilliant hus- I time is a grobea'que absurdity. band had completed that task. His t "Yeti large numbers of 'minrara we mind was sealed', Mfrs. Houdini ap- v MAQ,Out unemployment benefit, either parently `had an open mind on the c gnus, they have been disqualified' on question'. C such grounds. or because they have Mrs• Houdini now says that a few ,I Hever paid Fsuffacienit contributions to days ago she received' a letter saying that a 'medium under the control of i a wraith named Fletcher was ready to o give her the ten word code which her fC(B�Y H(Ball&] husband had left. She consented and k Arthur Ford turned up. He went into a trance and l]is astral spirit was at i / �� � �j �� �f5 o once ta>flen possession of by "Fletch- er." Soon the supposed message from - 0' . Hkitidird came through. It addressed �, Mrs. Houdini by a pet name used by e�'7R5�� � her husband, and then there came a communication. in eodbe. Wihen decod- I. ed it turned out to be the word "'be- , (may Bowels lielve," which. 'Mrs. Houdini says was The �l� mr2�g�ble cG�ll� lnev9the word agreed upon by her and her n a husband. This Word had been written ?7a nic and ,,ahem Builder out 'by •Mrs.-Roudini,, who 'herself had ®11 the oddness and healin virtuas of s'e'aled it in, an gtttrelope and' placed it In a vault. At ones, it is suggested herbs,Nature's, own medicine, are in that the word futTslit ,have been ex - this tonin. No mineral drugs. Sets tracted from tier ibis mliental telepathy, e'my organ working 1tl0'r/0. Brings y� the old toy of h'v1ng. Q ood for the 'although we are not Pkepared to say nsa•7es. Cleat's up skin troubles ---even there is such a thisa'g'Sss t1ind reading, Rezema, Bads you up. Sold, As It is, bowe'ver, 4 Yitilp sagier to be- e2ber Gallaghst!o nerhsHouaihold helve than spirt in. , There It, also ]lta sdiw are, iii the possibility that Virs, iRImas&I ley & A�� ' ,� 'Trhve mentioned the word her glee Y off... aaftabh,wMe� hr�hwo d ,;,,I, 1". 1 1 i m,ii. -.. I -1 q R°�. °K '- 1 Ill ,,. ,. .. P v. ,,.u„�1.. .,.,.. �, ..It i S .i who reso, IMB Q go, V11v eviaielaee 4*46r 6r ft eoa 1 i c us ve the oco'ti�.fliou plairlt�nsl will • no 4dou'bt se1zp '(fan ; laopofpli and we may be prepared lta the fat= to ,re44 tlixt n �F4.3 at ',astir was anabsolutely 4tbptati-e ]nessege .'Rblel Of a ur it p �. i s ot. � � Ia � e are rathe h astoruished that the astute Zpudix did tit t R o oke greater oars ttr.prevens fraud. If he had himself written.' th word Uitiknetwu to anybody, and seal ed it in a vau9lt, any I theory of mina readin'd or mental telepathy would ,have been impossible. Now there ar a score of pos'si'ble explanations in eluding the ugly. one .made by the tabloid, neviispaper, The key word it self, is not Such a, strange word, es pecially in this conneetion, that i Wright"not have been hit upon in 0:111 or a biunadred or a thousand' guesses Moreover, we .still remain in the darl supposing for the sake of argument that this word carne through as ra ported'. ',If a friend adventures int( an unknown country, if one certainl3 kn9w-s that he is gone, one does not expecit him to send back a mlessag( "I'm 'here." What one wants to knovi is "What's it like?" There is another coicidence to be explained. Ten month's before (Mrs. Houdini says that she received the message, New York, newspapers car- ried the following despatch: "London, March ,5th,(U!P)--S1r Arthur Conan Doyle announced to- day that he had received word from the widow of Harry (Houdini that she had received a prearranged code word from her late ,husband. "Sir A ilii` said the word was left to Mrs. Houdini by the magician as a test of the authenticity of spiritual- ism. "He said the word was received in a test held under the presidency of the New York spiritualist, Arthur Ford. He said the word was' com- municated through a control known abs 'Fletcher,( "'I understand' the experiment is not yet quite complete, but that much has 'been fulfilled,' :Sir A'rt'hur said." 'D'oes this mean that Ford occupied ten months in making guesses and experiments? Does it mean that for ten months Mrs'. Houdini held :back from the world a message which she might well suppose to be of the most tremendous' interest and, importance? Or is there anything in the story of the proposed lecture tour? DISASTROUS SEASON FOR BROADWAY SHOWS New York theatres are approach - ng a crisis. They may be even ap- )roaching dissolution. Never has i17,siness been so (bad, never have the heatrical offerings been so fiercely at- a'cked•, never has the incompetence of ,he managers been so rudely assert - :d. Our friend 'St. John Ervine says ;hat the theatre managers are almost manimously asses. George Jean Nath - in, our moralist, says that the New. fork stage is the filthiest in the Porld, and perhaps the, filthiest in the istory of the theatre. Joseph Wood ' Crutch, dramatic critic for The Na - ion, says that there are -only two or , hree producers and two or three the- - tres t hat'ata • nd for anything. Most f them- make, no attempt to 'build up onfidence in their integrity or to 1 'ain a following. Official action has i 'ready been taken to remove one of he distresses of the theatre, and na- 1 urally, it is on'e of the minor ones, 1 hough important enough. The Police 1 ,omm•issioner has given new orders i oncern'ing the traffic in the theatre ( istrict, the -idea being to make it 1 asier• for people to attend a play. , hould it work out, people will be t ble to reach a theatre with much t ass inconvenience than at present, 1 ut there is no guarantee that when ( hey go they will find anything bet- �r worth seeing. ( One of the troubles with the New 2 •ork theatre is that the. theatres are I 11 packed in a certain district. There re about eighty of them on and round Broadway as, near to 42nd treet as they can be built. This ex- l.ains the terriffic congestion to the ime when people are going to the heatre or going home. 'Mfr. Ervine says that at those times, those who ! axi, pay about a third of their fares I then the car is stalled in traffic jams. ( 'hose who drive their own ears have ( new and - terrifying problem about I arking, Because of this difficulty of t etting to the theatre, thousands of i eop,e now stay at (home, who a few ears ago attended shove's more or i >ss regu'lar'ly. Another reason they tay at home is because they do not t now whether they can buy a ticket then they do arrive. Naturally they I refer to go to the movie palace round t he corner where seats cost little and f here accommodation is' certain. of ( nurse, the reason the theatres build ,( bosely together is because if a would i e spectator cannot enter one theatre t e will be able to try his luck next t nor, instead of chasing to an, -enter- i ainment a mile or so away. The suggestion has been made that ( i the future when more theatres.'are € uilt, they shall be scattered, but it s said that two or three experiments . c I iv V vy 1or ni(etper gay and a bright future. rite or ogli for c ®aecial otter Chid a ee ffiookm s madmion, Iraado Sch..no a im BEng street Wes4, voronto t i v 7 i" tap wry. � W, V as . �'' . u lbealo:,; ; Y. x��P WMM prod aeo 0 si c."q+ .13'ie^y,,>n if lwra f- G8l 1• , -tally _4 tot r4$ e 'rLOEO I9, pity Iterulator #qi. aR' �42Fi. , is "- -' k '1$rE&D-^if im a''gT0411 41taYli�T' anameit b°dSF p&�deeLealsea: ltveae A e A4 & A + Id IfY r y -J iY^ ,Wella` c�m� r?lua u MIN r A a a szs na�� �h ____ a • - ,that have been -made in: this d-ire'ction t have not -been- successful. It is a agreed on all hands that if the offer- ' Ing' is good enotigh, People will slab- ` mit to many inconveniences to see it, , But again t3he smartness of the man,- • agers defeats its ov4nn -purpose. If a ' show gives any sign of (being a hit or even of being moderately successful, immediately the effort is' made to stag- ` gest that New Yorkers are breaking their necks to see it. This. may in- crease the desire oif'the average per- son to attend, but it obviously in- creases his difficulties for he is prone to take it for granted that he will have to 'book seats weeks' in advance. This perverted idea of advertising has gone so far that frequently the ticket sellers will refuse to 0;014 vacant seats, choosing to sacrdfiee the sale and magnify the delusion: in the mind of the would -'be purchaser of the tremendous importance ort ante am unP arat= leled brilliance of the performance. In these circumstances it was inevitable' +hat only the most dogged theatre goers would enter the theatre, and there are not enough of this class to support the New York stage. It has been s'0 frequently said that one might well have suspected the sense of it that the New York theatre is not supported by the New Yorker but by the visitors, the people of the provinces, the butter -and -egg men. It is, of course, people -of this class who do not care whether they pay three dollars or twenty dollars for a :seat, and can afford to lay out a hundred dollars for an evening's entertain- ment. -But this is a small class and certainly e annot support eighty theatres. Moreover this class' exists , now as before, and probably in large I numbers, yet disaster, even ruin has' d?scend•ed upon the New York theat- rical season. In the week before Christmas nearly half of all th th . �, W l g,W. ry} u F ;- I S ,. : :,.:, f - �. �� Y r :r w �3 .. T M. nk 4r''nr l� �, s �+n 1, : I 1 rW- . -- —, KII ir, � � 1'f r ri.' „.;' �Ia W sb k4� . .' 4: �'I. � W �i' q� 't. Wli r �•• .It ..: : l - y d : r {n L " >. .4. � �yrY tP" li > 7 '� 40 '00 , �y, ,/� t r see' yin "N �dI ... .. ,iy 4 Y.r. k� , k .. . 0 k.+:� ppyyo, ��yy 1 '.. t My W " 1 � r t4. Gd �rn !, , „ ?haat fi"r?9 G' «� why x n, iv''U y r•- i f " a L' • . n, ::.,� .:r :1 v r .. ua re ,. .. t�l• �Anm r, , , �. r I� 1 .,.. t4inptAtio� I. r' r •hlu:B�+:be ?�,' 1s .. �O�S 7 would ufry zl luso; .. (p k A.a*% '9Ppd v .we ,bo modify . ��dfn" h � ,`ilia• law w "8y�t,? � ng ens-o�narlrle' � by P,arinittiarg suitable traria �,.. menta to fire l+e�pily' re�e,d dntt��A .��11 number of m'ergero would,,lsi� eta1 m. tiher reduced. `Bemuse t'he tiro. c¢ i. tions thus 'rVfexred, to arra both 'their . 0 u hl artifa '. g y elu$ in oliara,ctet, ' '�s merger moRemeant "is fairy` to be � ,else, a Ift shiny be ha: than liv4:zd fashion or not according to whe�i ser 'Congress furnishes the neceseaxy amendmrents to the Sherman Acta air lets that measure alone. "Probably a .good' many of the mer- glers that are now being undertaken will be futile. Where there is no good reason for them, new competi- tion will spring up, as it should. "•Soametimes it will be found expedi- ent to sell portions of the merged property which had proved a handi- cap, or at least have furnished no ad- ditional economic strength. This has happened in the past and will un- doubtedly present itself in the future as a process designed to rectify un- necessary or unwise changes in busi- ness organization." WIT AND • WIISDOMt So Does Mdne--Wives are people who kick you an the shin Y h]n w hen you start to pick up the wrong fork.— Sherbrooke Record. 'Selling Out.—The man who declares ``every man has his price" has his al- so, w'h'ich is) about thirty) cents.— Ridgetown Dominion. They Often Smack Lips, Though— Wen may have their failings, but :hey don't kiss when they meet on :he street. Calgary Albertan. The Latter Soon Takes Lead. --C. . R. remarks—"The two stones most omunonly associated with matrimony .re diamond and the grindstone,"— Vindsor Star. e arras an Broadway were dark, and IL EARN although this week is generally a bad Engineering, Auto one, nearly twice many houses -,,, Mechanics. Eleotri- eat Ignition, gaff eryor U/elding Experts House � Wir[ng . 164.klaying Plastering `' �. and also Barbering and Ladies' dressing. Barn �2 20 $10 ,Fina . Hatt+. a t a i ; (map ,�, "1C iv V vy 1or ni(etper gay and a bright future. rite or ogli for c ®aecial otter Chid a ee ffiookm s madmion, Iraado Sch..no a im BEng street Wes4, voronto t i v 7 i" tap wry. � W, V as . �'' . u lbealo:,; ; Y. x��P WMM prod aeo 0 si c."q+ .13'ie^y,,>n if lwra f- G8l 1• , -tally _4 tot r4$ e 'rLOEO I9, pity Iterulator #qi. aR' �42Fi. , is "- -' k '1$rE&D-^if im a''gT0411 41taYli�T' anameit b°dSF p&�deeLealsea: ltveae A e A4 & A + Id IfY r y -J iY^ ,Wella` c�m� r?lua u MIN r A a a szs na�� �h ____ a • - ,that have been -made in: this d-ire'ction t have not -been- successful. It is a agreed on all hands that if the offer- ' Ing' is good enotigh, People will slab- ` mit to many inconveniences to see it, , But again t3he smartness of the man,- • agers defeats its ov4nn -purpose. If a ' show gives any sign of (being a hit or even of being moderately successful, immediately the effort is' made to stag- ` gest that New Yorkers are breaking their necks to see it. This. may in- crease the desire oif'the average per- son to attend, but it obviously in- creases his difficulties for he is prone to take it for granted that he will have to 'book seats weeks' in advance. This perverted idea of advertising has gone so far that frequently the ticket sellers will refuse to 0;014 vacant seats, choosing to sacrdfiee the sale and magnify the delusion: in the mind of the would -'be purchaser of the tremendous importance ort ante am unP arat= leled brilliance of the performance. In these circumstances it was inevitable' +hat only the most dogged theatre goers would enter the theatre, and there are not enough of this class to support the New York stage. It has been s'0 frequently said that one might well have suspected the sense of it that the New York theatre is not supported by the New Yorker but by the visitors, the people of the provinces, the butter -and -egg men. It is, of course, people -of this class who do not care whether they pay three dollars or twenty dollars for a :seat, and can afford to lay out a hundred dollars for an evening's entertain- ment. -But this is a small class and certainly e annot support eighty theatres. Moreover this class' exists , now as before, and probably in large I numbers, yet disaster, even ruin has' d?scend•ed upon the New York theat- rical season. In the week before Christmas nearly half of all th th . �, W l g,W. ry} u F ;- I S ,. : :,.:, f - �. �� Y r :r w �3 .. T M. nk 4r''nr l� �, s �+n 1, : I 1 rW- . -- —, KII ir, � � 1'f r ri.' „.;' �Ia W sb k4� . .' 4: �'I. � W �i' q� 't. Wli r �•• .It ..: : l - y d : r {n L " >. .4. � �yrY tP" li > 7 '� 40 '00 , �y, ,/� t r see' yin "N �dI ... .. ,iy 4 Y.r. k� , k .. . 0 k.+:� ppyyo, ��yy 1 '.. t My W " 1 � r t4. Gd �rn !, , „ ?haat fi"r?9 G' «� why x n, iv''U y r•- i f " a L' • . n, ::.,� .:r :1 v r .. ua re ,. .. t�l• �Anm r, , , �. r I� 1 .,.. t4inptAtio� I. r' r •hlu:B�+:be ?�,' 1s .. �O�S 7 would ufry zl luso; .. (p k A.a*% '9Ppd v .we ,bo modify . ��dfn" h � ,`ilia• law w "8y�t,? � ng ens-o�narlrle' � by P,arinittiarg suitable traria �,.. menta to fire l+e�pily' re�e,d dntt��A .��11 number of m'ergero would,,lsi� eta1 m. tiher reduced. `Bemuse t'he tiro. c¢ i. tions thus 'rVfexred, to arra both 'their . 0 u hl artifa '. g y elu$ in oliara,ctet, ' '�s merger moRemeant "is fairy` to be � ,else, a Ift shiny be ha: than liv4:zd fashion or not according to whe�i ser 'Congress furnishes the neceseaxy amendmrents to the Sherman Acta air lets that measure alone. "Probably a .good' many of the mer- glers that are now being undertaken will be futile. Where there is no good reason for them, new competi- tion will spring up, as it should. "•Soametimes it will be found expedi- ent to sell portions of the merged property which had proved a handi- cap, or at least have furnished no ad- ditional economic strength. This has happened in the past and will un- doubtedly present itself in the future as a process designed to rectify un- necessary or unwise changes in busi- ness organization." WIT AND • WIISDOMt So Does Mdne--Wives are people who kick you an the shin Y h]n w hen you start to pick up the wrong fork.— Sherbrooke Record. 'Selling Out.—The man who declares ``every man has his price" has his al- so, w'h'ich is) about thirty) cents.— Ridgetown Dominion. They Often Smack Lips, Though— Wen may have their failings, but :hey don't kiss when they meet on :he street. Calgary Albertan. The Latter Soon Takes Lead. --C. . R. remarks—"The two stones most omunonly associated with matrimony .re diamond and the grindstone,"— Vindsor Star. e arras an Broadway were dark, and Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!—Correct this although this week is generally a bad sentence: "Well, well," chuckled the one, nearly twice many houses amused householder on his way back a were vacant as in the same period the to bed at three a.m.; ''wrong number." year before. Through the Autumn', —,Saskatoon Star. six, eight or even twelve new pieces 0. a week appeared, but most of them flopped before something else Shad Serve 'Em Right. — The Russian been tinkered unto take their place. Government has banned kissing as Just -before Christmas there were unhealthy. Several persons kissed nineteen new dramatic productions, recently in Russia are reported to which had been held' on for six weeks 'have been tickled to death.—London or longer, but among these were Free Press. "Strange Interlude" ;and "Diamond Ul," which had held over .from the previous season, two had, already an- .tounced their approaching demise, Reasonable.—If a woman won't tell ' and all but five had sold. tickets her age when she votes, she should, ;hrough the cut-rate agency. With at least, brush awn the Y powder so Ulster frankness, Mr. Ervine lays that the official can see the rings un- most of the, responsibility for t`he der her eyes.—Stirling News -Argus, )arl'ous state of the New York they etre —at the door of the imbecile man- ll tgers, He tells them that they Those Tiller Girls.—The Dean of should organize. Authors are organ- Chester, addressing mlembers of the zed, actors, from starts to the per- Girls' Friendly Society, said: "Such .'ormer. who plays the part of the violent sport as rowing is unsuitable i iump in "Hum-pty-Dum'pty," music- for girl -hood." Too much of an oar- 1 an, scene shifters and even the hat deal.—Montreal Gazette. i +heck pirates are all defensively sanded. The managers are waging var against each 'other instead of inding grounds for co-operation with t he result that the New York theatre a vil'l suffer the fate of the Kil-kenny O ats unless radical ehang,es are made. r )ne of these would seem to be an Irganization which will include the o nana'gers as well as the substitute pass drummers. SEEKS REASON FOR MANY MERGERS The United ,States apparently ihas roken out in a rash of mergers. The dew York Journal of Commerce won- ers why this is so and proce`ed's to xami'ne the field of modern. business. is editor finally manages to discover wo elements of "widely controlling mportance." "One is the -belief that such merg- ng of enterprises will make it pos- ible to put out of business concerns hat are not being economically oper- ted, and to get the advantage of urge-scalle or mass production in hose that survive. The other is the act that fin• mergers of this kind a hang, of (capital structure usually ccurs which gives opportunity to the ri•siders to make extra profits for hemnelvee, 'either at the expense of he old security holders or prospective ew ones. "From' the standpoint of the gen- ral public, one of their influences is boo, the other is injurious: "It is desirable that production, hould 'be economically conducted—so esirable that the mmmi pity as a rhole, can afford to undergo some erious ,sacrifices, 9urh as are neces- arily incurred when enterprises are ut out of 'h1]ginP.9R seen for a good urpo.-e. Indeed we nin - go consider - MY further and affirm that it would e a very wise policy if aomie Indus - ties could he put thrmlgh the mer- -er process even more extensively Tian ,has been attempted thus far. foal is one such, and it would he pos- ible to mention, variou9 others, even hough they might not. furnish no hiking an example. "As for the second factor in the ase—the profits to he made through bock Manipulation and the swapping f securities, it may be auM,elent to IV that our present corporatiafi laws o not afi'ord •adequate p+'i etfoyn to he small investor, and that nc&ord_ 1617 in Q ecod Maur c ;t `her 11M go He's a Tape Worm. .Rushing times hese on the Stock Exchange. Brokers nd their clerks are tired to the point f exhaustion. As one broker's wife emarked to -her caller: "Poor Jinn! He comes home evenings all tickered ut."--(Montreal Herald. Sound Reason.—The folIowin'g was ound pinned on ,the door of a desert - d shanty in North Ontario: "Ian )ilea from a nabur; twenty-five miles rom a post office; twenty-five miltAs rom a r.r.; a mile from water; God less our home, but I'm glad I'm leav- il-"—Trenton Sun. .� We All Work Hard,—H. A. Scan - reit, president of the Chicago, Mil- raukee-, St. Paul & Pacific Railway, uggests• a novel method for determ- iin'g whether a man is giving enough f his time and energy to his work. ays Mr. Seandrett: "If you play olf with a score of more thian ninety on are neglecting your golf, On he other band, if your scorg is un- er ninety, you are neglecting your usiness. I Mope the directors- of the Idlwaukee road will judge my work y my gold 'score.—+Fredericton Glean - r, Th'ou'ght For -Every Day.—About 1 the only thing that is foolproof is success.—Toronto Star. Detours Common..—Far most of ue Easy Strebet seems to be marked:— No thoroughfare,—Calgary Herald. Sometime Two of 'Em.—The aver- age man will buy when he can afford it but he'll buy a new automobile any trine,—`Brandon Sun. My Dear Watsont—An official re- port staites that 500 kinds of material are used for men's shoes. No leather one of thenl.--Ednionton Journal. 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