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The Huron Expositor, 1930-01-31, Page 614a1.,•••44 '4 ';'! ee",,,e,e;eae-eraiseles eVree'000."44.,4-S4t,!,e-eres. 414^90.1.4g4,4n7rUeg.p Woh. ,furmicluble: statistics, showin: the number of people arrested, the number convict - e, the /cseeil value of liquOr seized, I - 'the amonnt -Of fines qst boo of °there etting only the surprising disturibance -which !slain victims of enforcement cheers would reach if laid, end to end. Rather startling is the admission of Prohibition Com- missioner Doran that a will require $300,000,000 a year to enforce the act properly. There seems to be no chance whatever that congress would appropriate so huge a sum. From time to time the wets have challeng- ed the drys to vote the necessary money. The drys, fearing a revul- 'ion of popular opinion, have not dared to press for the amount the prohibition commissioner says is necessary. It is difficult if not impassible to say what is the prevailing opinion on the subject of the Volstead act and the Eighteenth amendment. The peo- ple have never been consulted -..n pro- hibition. There has been no refer- endum In the last presidential elec- tion it was hoped that there might be discerned a clear expression of public sentiment since Governor Smith stood for a modification of the Volstead Act. But so many other factors entered into the campaign that it would be rash to say that the voters and states that supported Smith were the wet and all the others dry. It is quite possible that if Hoover had represented the wets and Smith the drys, the result would not have been greatly different. But this is idle speculation, and as we hove said before the debate rages. In the past ten years, so far as we are aware, no conspicuous public man or influential journal has changed sides. Those who originally supported pro- hibition continue to do so. The wets remain hostile. That there has been corruption of such wholesale dimensions that it liiight almost be called universal in the enforcement arm is not to be de- nied. There have been more chief prohibition commissioners in a decade than there have been premiers of France or managers of the St. Louis baseball teams. There have been grave scandals in the release of alcoholic liquor from government warehouses, and there are those who say that this leakage is doing more to supply drinkers than importations from Can- ada. On our own border there have been incidents which, had they occur- red say in the Balkans, would have Prohbition's tenth birthday in the precipitated war. Canada has been United States sees the experiment as asked and has refused to enlist in the hotly discussed as the day it was American enforcement service, though adopted or the year after or indeed there are hints that the refusal may as on any other date in its history. be modified. Liquor in the United It finds President Hover and per- States continues to be plentiful, bad haps his most important supporter and expensive. It is as easy to buy in public life, Senator Borah, at log- a drink in a large American city as gerheads on the subject of enforce- it is to buy a magazine. In the ment. The senator %from Idaho says country districts where there never that there never will be enforcement was much liquor and where senti- until the staff is overhauled from top ment was generally in favor of tem - to bottom, and when he says "top" perance there is little drinking, and be may mean Secretary of the Trees- the law is well enforced. Deaths ury Mellon, in whose department the from alcoholism have increased. administration falls. It sees also the Probably there is less drinking but president receiving the preliminary more fatal drinking. With the exist - report of a specially appointed corn- ing situation nobody is satisfied. A mission which is to examine the change of some kind is certain. whole problem, with the exception of the really vital question. This report is, iri effect, a recommendation that more special courts should be e.onsti- tuted to try liquor cases, and more jails built to hold offenders against the law. The vital question which the commission will not consider is whether prohibition is workable, whe- ther, in fact, the nobly intended ex- periment is not doomed to failure and some other solution of the liquor problem should not he attempted. But if thprohibtion acts can be enforced v;e think it reasonacle to believe that President Hoover is the man to enforce them. He is fresh in office after the most tremendous popular victory in the history of American presidential contests. It is true that he seems to have no fu -mer grip on congress than President Coo- lidge had, but he is a man of great force of character, and unusual ingen- uity of mind. He is, furthermore, dynamic whereas his predecessor was static. He is also a practising ab- stainer. In the old bad days Mr. Hoover used to take a drink, but it has been officially announced that from the time he entered the Coolidge government he has resisted whatev- er cravings he might have and drunk nothing stronger than stewed tea. What Mr. Coalid,ge's personal tastes are we do not know though it is prob- able that his palate is not an utter stranger to Scotch. President Hard • ing, the first president called upon to enforce prohibition, was inclined to- ward alcoholic conviviality. In short, he drank and enjoyed drinking. It is Washington gossip that the head .of the Anti -saloon league with threats made him quit and this forced absten- tation after a life -time's indulgence contributed to his sudden death. It has been almost forgotten that Wood- row Wilson vetoed the Volstead act -which was passed, over his opposition. Has American prohibition been a success or a failure? It is not for an .outsider to say. Americans differe on the question. Prohibitionists say that it has reduced drinking, increased prosperity, improved industrial effici- ency, and made a fairer distribution of the country's wealth. They admit hevrever, that enforcement has not been general and that it has produc• ed grave scandals. They contend, 'hewever, that enforcement is better now than it ever has been and that the general situation is steadily im- . liPPIVVIAILIB Working in a - quarry as a driller," W.ritts, Mr- John J. 11-logan ot'Soutli March, Ont., "I was seized with rheuima- t15,11 m the4/pft shoulder. I followedtieatments for 11 some time without relief. I had hearci so much con- cerning Dr. Williams' 't Pink Pills that I decided to give them a trial. They ' were certainly the medi- cine that I needed for it was not long before I was as well as ever. Now I take them every Spring as a tonic." This is one of hundreds of cases in which these blood - enriching, pills have proved effective in eradicating rheu- matism. Bay Dr. Williams' Pink Pills now at your chug - gist's or any dealer in medi- cine, or by mail, 50 cents, postpaid, from The Dr. Wil- liams Medicine Co., Brock- ville, Ont. 3.36 see 41, • DrIfl PINK PALS PER BOX 6‘11 HOUSEHOLD NAME S.4 COUNTRIES' ANGRY QUARREL MARKS PROHIBITION'S lOtli YEAR "AftAriaY*441g; iii*Gairiedtlthe WIMPOPROR and we haveAways thought that this was 41‘tbin,10(bk, At fhe Mese* moment AM 1,44.tre1 States has1i'battleships to Britaan's ittql*134i`Yeaat r /Mgt have 19 among them. Thew pi. IA while Fance, Japan and Italy viza 3` emit. baleen secy. Qe tors cost in the neighborhood of $40,- liceizeitvienarta. groce:el:Er l'ikilsres'escmagteTssit 000,000 apiece, and since there are 6 eses. Ne many experteewho think they will be uselese in the next war there is some sentiment in favor of abolishing them ea, ts of violence against prisoners. The altogether. Indeed a semi-offieial Ganadians were supposed to be tak- , statement to that effect has come ing revenge for a Canadian crucifieFfrom London. But the United States with bayonets through his hands and I is not likely to agree and we should feet, found in a German trench. This be astonished if their total scrapping story was not believed, however, nor would be seriously suggested a t tbe was -the companion story of the Can- forthcoming conference. What is ex- adians similarly treating a German. pected is a continuance of the holiday By the way, is there any truth in this in the building of battleships whie. tale? It was generally accepted in was inaugurated by the Washington Canada some fifteen years ago but conference in 1921. There have been may have been propaganda and now no keels of battleships laid down by is treated as a legend. The writer the great powers since then. The holi- admits that it was diflieult to know day, however, will expire next year whether the stories of atrocities, and it is expected that the United which, among the overseas men, and States will suggest tIntat it be con - even among some British troops, was tinued another twenty. Should it a boast, and not a confession, were last that long there is little doubt due to bragging or kidding, in both that no more 'big battleships would DI which departments overseas troops ever be built, and all those now in were extremely proficient. If the commission would have become ob- Australians were really as blood- solete. thirsty as they represented them- Under the terms of the Washington selves the reason is, according to conference both Great Britain and the Gravea, that they were only two gen- United States are authorized to build erations removed from the days of two battleships next year to take the Ralph Rashleigh and Marcus Clarke, place of two which are now 20 years who, we infer, may have been illustri- old and fit for the scrap heap. Japan ous criminals banished to Botany is also authorized to build one, and Bay. in the course of the next ten years Later in theawar he heard this first Japan is scheduled to build nine. Great hand account from a Canadian Scot: Britain and the United States 15 "I was sent back with three bloody each, iwth France and Italy building prisoners, you see, and, one was limp- three apiece. That is to say, accord- ing and groaning, so I had to keep on ing to the Washington conference, kicking the sod down the trem h. He there may be built in the next ten was an officer. It was getting dark years battleships costing an aggregate and I was getting fed up, so I thought og $2,000,000,000. The United States I'll have a bit of a game. I had them and Great Britain would each spend covered with the officer's revolver and $600,000,000 on ships of this class. I made 'em open their pockets. Then Here is a terrific outlay which might I dropped a Mills bomb in each, with be avoided, in addition to strength - the pin out and ducked behind a tra- ening of the (bonds of international ,verse. Bang, bang, bang. No more good fellowship, if it is found pos- bloody prisoners. No good Fritizies, sible to extend the naval holiday. It but dead ones." This shocking langu- is expected that at least the renewal ,age, we suppose, was not uncommon of the building race will be postpon- among the men at the front, and ed until 1936. The United States is readers must make allowances for it. willing. Britain is willing. That is Was the story true? We have no idea. But we have read letters and from returned men tales of atrocities quite as horrifying, though they lacked the grim humor of this sol- dier's method. Why should it be said or thought that Canadians would be incapable of killing off a troublesome prisoner? Is there anything any man would do that a Canadian would not do? By universal consent, there were no better soldiers in all the war There were no braver men. There were no tougher. Let the reader think of the hardest -boiled customer he ever met, and the odds are about ten to one that it will have been a Canadian. They,,don't come any bet- ter or any worse than the Canadians. Wc see it in everyday life. It was proclaimed to the world by the fight- ing men who left these shores. If we claim a share in the glory they won then we must accept equal responsi- bility for whatever terrible things stand to their account. If they killed Germans it was not at all a personal matter with them, but part of the day's work. In any event if they shot prisoners they did it without hate. How many who stayed at home were murdering Germans in their hearts DID CANADIANS KILL THEIR GERMAN PRISONERS? Those muffled roars that have been heard for a few days are being emit- ted from indignant officers, formerly of the Canadian high command, and are understood to be wrathful pro- tests against what Robert Graves has been saying about Canadian soldiers in his book "Good-bye to All That." We have read the book with reason- People who suffer from indigestion able care and though we are not a usually have tried pepsin, charcoal, literary critic either by nature or drugs and various digestive aids and training it impressed us as an unusu- got little more than slight temporary ally fine piece of work, and its ref- relief—sometimes not ,even that. erences to Canadians extremely corn- But before giving up to chronic plimentary. Its merits are discussed dyspepsia, just try the effect of a today in the literary department, and little Bisurated Magnesia—not the here we shall comment only upon ordinary commercial carbonate, cit - what is said about our own men in rate or milk, but pure Bisurated Mag - the war. It is to ,be noted that he resia which you can obtain from puts the Canadians corps among the practically any druggist in either .best fighters in the whole army. He powder or tablet form. says it was a matter of pride to be- Take a teaspoonful of the powder long to one of"the recognized best or four tablets with a little water af- divisions—the Seventh, the Twenty- ter your next meal, and see what a ninth, Guards, First Canadian, for in- difference this makes. It will instant - stance." But these, regiments had ly neutralize the dangerous, harmful probably more than their share of acid in the stomach which now cans - hard fighting, simply because they es your food to ferment, and sour, could be depended upon for hard making gas, wind, flatulence, neart- fighting when others failed. House- burn and the bloated or heavy, lumpy man's lines would be their fitting feeling that seems to follow most ev- epitaph: erything you eat. You can enjoy -TIMIS your meals without a fear of indiges- "Too full already is the grave tion. Of fellows who were young and brave, And died because they were. to say, looking at each other they are willing. But if Italy and France have ideas of their own, if they see special problems, the whole situation will be altered, for it has long •been a prin- ciple of the British admiralty that it must be able to have a fleet in the Mediterranean equal to any other fleets likely to be assembled in that sea. The question of eruisers promises to be more difficult. One of the unhappy results of the Washington conference was a new race in cruisers. This was brought about by a blunder of Hon. Charles E. Hughes, then United States secretary of state. When the conference came to the discussion of cruisers, Mr. Hughes, aware that Bri- tain had laid down four 9,700 -ton cruisers with 7.5 -inch guns, proposed that no nation should build a cruiser greater than 8 inches. Up to that time no other nation had. But this agreement was understood to mean a permission or indeed an invitation to do so. Therefore nations great and small began biulding these cruisers. The naval competition was simply diverted from the battleship to the cruiser, larger, swifter and more formidible than ever. The danger of this race was soon perceived and the Geneva conference was summoned to correct it. This conference collapsed because of disagreements among the nations as to their need of cruisers. There were those who said that total tonnage should be the criterion. Bri- tain said that she needed a great number of smaller cruisers for the protection of trade routes and for the miscellaneous business of policing her vast empire. She argued that one large cruiser was more formidable than two small cruisers half its wcight, was in fact equal to two and a half small cruisers. She contend- ed, therefore, that total tonnage was a fallacious standard and she could not adopt it. The failure of the con- ference led to renewed building riv- alry in the matter of cruisers. It is expected that the present conference will come to an agreement about a satisfactory yardstick applied to cruisers. Destroyers and submarines are subsidiary problems. Britain and the United States would probably be willing to abolish submarines alto- gether. So would Japan.. But it is here that the interests of Italy and France may clash with those of the other powers. The chief interest of Canada, of course, is in a satisfactory agreement between Britain and the United States. This once reached, other adjustments will surely follow. Try Magnum For Indigestion SAFETY Ver$US HIGH RETURNS Many a man has lost his harclrearnecl savings because of the fatal lure of high returns. A safe general rule to remember greater the prospective rettn-n, the greater the risk KT YOUR SAVINGS INTO A SAVINGS ACCOUNT in the BANK OF MONTREAL Established 1817 There they will earn a reasonable interest and be safe Hensall Branch: L. R. COLES, Manager Clinton Branch: H. R. SHARP, Manager Brucefield (Sub -Agency): Open Tu esday' and Friday 43111MergZSE, The memory of the Lusitania is in that the Lusitania would remain a - all British and American hearts. Even float and that she might even be man - the Germans remember her, a n d oeuvred to shore. This news was thortly after the sinking issued med- communicated to the passengers, and as a result life preservers were at - als to commemorate the event. It surely is time that those more nearly affected should, after the fashion of the race, erect a stone or shaft so that later generations can call to mind one of the great events of history. That the sinking of the Lusitania had a tremendous influence upon the Am- erican people in making their final de- cision to enter the war nobody doubts. It did not, it is true, greatly alter the immediate course of President Wilson but it solidified anti -German feeling, and made it certain for all time that there rould be no quarreling with the Allied ships for their interference with American cargoes which might eventually reach Germany. In this sense it was an. epochal event. It is as ugly in retrospect as it was the day when the world was ringing with the news. No later revelations- have modified it. No pacifist or friend of Germany defends it. The idea of a statue appears to have originated among the people at Queenstown. The sinking of the Lusitania was one of the most stir- ring events of that town's history. It was there the dead were brought and the survivors nursed back to health. Eventually a committee was i.ormed to consider the matter arid this com- mittee in turn \vent to Dublin to in- terview Jerome Connor, the noted sculptor. But he pointed out that while the project of the memorial was one which stirred him deeply and would call forth the hest work tha,. was in any sculptor, it could 'not he de -alt with satisfactorily in any small way. It was a great event, and there should be something great in the, spirit of the memorial. In fact, it was beyond the power of the people of Queenstown to build something that would speak adequately for the Lusitania. It was after this that an appeal was made in New York. The response' was swift. A powerful com- mittee was formed including Gover- nor Roosevelt, Charles Evan Hughes, John 'W. Davis, Clarence H. Mackay, Frank L. Polk, Morgan J. O'Brien, Daniel Frohman, Owen D. Young, Kenneth O'Brien, Edward N. Hurle& Elbert Hubbard Jr, and Claude Bowers. Some of these men were relatives of victims of the Lusitania, for it will -be recalled that among the Am- ericans who .perished were Charles Frohman, Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt and Elbert Hubbard. Mr. Connor has visited the 'United States and his plans have been approved. His work is already well known on this contin- ent. His "Nuns of the Battlefield" is in Washington, and his Soldiers' Monument was rrecently- dedicated in the Bronx. A full-size model of the memorial has been completed in bronze mounted on an Irish marble base. The chief figure is that of a woman, garbed in a robe which forms a sort of hood over the head and part- ly shades the face. One arm is thrown across the breast -and the oth- er is raised in a beckoning gesture. The symbolism would no doubt be un- derstood better from a study of the model than from a newspaper repro- duction. The monument will be rais- ed in the Old G urchyard Of Queens- 1flivi.., Cat :111.--__,..,,,,--- yK--,---.\--‘ 1)0 OD' (it DN EY ir1 p fL L S4 .t.':,—?'''sP _, qd,.t- 4,;-,,,,1-,--,,,41,,' •,, .:,„,?'" in,,‘ 1.‘,., kr---0-r c. 6 ' eise%1E'5IF 0°, 4 rr141' ' RH ''). I ' I" 14 'oe it, r4l 4' fig , I I, • Wi •f0,iir4, • 0404' "The mess agreed," says the author, "that the most dependable British troops were the Midland county regi- ments, industrial Yorkshire and Lan- There opened in London last week cashire troops, and the Londoners. a conference which will be remember - The Ulstermen, Lowland Scots and ed in the future with such events as Northern English were pretty good. the Council of Trent and the Diet of The Catholic Irish and the Highland Worms. Indeed, whether it fails or Scots were not considered so good— succeeds, it can hardly fail to mark they took unnecessary risks in trench- an epoch in world history. If it fails es and had unnecessary casualties, and and the assembled nations find them - in battle, though they usually made selves unable to agree upon a formu- their objective, they too often lost it la which will reduce naval armament, in the counter attack; without of- future historians will mark the date fivers they were no good. English as that on which the preparations for southern county regiments varied the next war, the war which it is be - from good to very bad. All everseas lieved will destroy our civilization, troops were good. The dependability got under way. Should it succeed it of divisions also varied with their may become in the future an inter - sere rity in date of promotion.. The national holiday, for it will be a sig- lateet-7ormed regular divisions and nificant and never -to -be -forgotten the second -line territorial divisions, milestone on the road to perpetual con - whatever their recruiting area, were peace. Strictly speaking it is a usually inferior. Their senior officers ference about ships of four kieds— and warrant -officers were not good battleships, cruisers, destroyers and enough. We often discussed which submarines—but the general questimi were the clsenest troops in trenches, of reducing armament a all kinds in taken in nstionality. We agreed on eluding standing armies will be peel a list ' • In descending order: sent in the minds of the negotiators English s German Protestants; if not en the agenda paper. If it is Northern Fee-- Welsh mid Caned- found possible to reduce naval arm - inns; Trish and German Catheliea ; ament it can be predicted-- with all Scottish; V ,fammedan Indians; Al- confidence that there will follow ens geriaris; Teetugnese ; Belgians ; other conference to reduce °thee Freech Tee Belgians and Frifigh Wenches. of the military establis,h- were rat or §-pita; 'they We ment, nut as a mstter of fact the not reslly "i tier than the 'Aligetiene five great powers involved — Great er Porte ger re." Britain, United States, Prance, Itak# We do net know whether any dug- and Japan—could not go to war Wit •E Out kings will object to thise What oift &Wits. If mere of theta bad a aeons to oboek sad outrage, Item t. ?AN*, laritted` conflict between thein void ie impossible physically, e4 apt, it might -be- that -nadawould iron& tVillaitt4 StateeTsa NAVAL CONFERENCE EPOCH - MARKING EVENT tached calmly and there was no dan- gerous excitement. Even when it be- came plain that the vessel was dooni- ed there was no panic, though there was confusion and despair. There was difficulty in launching the boats, and when the vessel finally disappeared under the waters there were hundreds floating and swimming on the sur- face. Many were rescued, including some Toronto people, but no fewer than 1,198 lost their lives. IF YOUR EARS RING WITH HEAD NOISES If you have roaring, buzzing noises'in your ears, are getting hard of hearing and fear Catar- rhal Deafness, go to your drug- gist and get 1 ounce of Par - mint (double strength), and add to it 1/4 pint of hot water and a little granulated sugar. Take one tablespoonful four times a day. This will often bring quick relief from the distressing head , noises. Clogged nostrils should open, breathing become easy and the mucus stop dropping in- to the throat. It is easy to pre- pare, costs little and is pleasant to take. Anyone who has Catarrhal trouble of the ears, is hard of hearing or has head noises should give this pre- scription a trial. MONUMENT IN HONOR OF LUSITANIA'S DEAD Fifteen years will have passed on May 7th since the sinking of the Lusi- tania and we are interested to learn that the plans for rearing a monu- ment in memory of this supreme tragedy aa -e almost complete. The model of the statue which is to be unveiled in Queenstown has been ac- cepted, and a great part of the funds required, estimated art $100,000, has been subscribed privately. In the United States the public is now be- ing asked to make up the balance, anti that a satisfactory response will be made cannot be doubted. Since there were Canadianis on the ship it seems +Ito atm" of atrOcities. Oraves ear that the Cariadirtna,,.andlatez the Au& &aliens, had therlit topittation far , . • • «1 -,e'eeedeerceleeekief tion is well founded. Visitors to New York are well aware of the difficulty of buying seats at the theatre for a popular show, and of the ease with which they may be bought from a scalper at double their face value or more. In fact, we have heard of a man who walked up to a theatre box office to buy tickets for as show which he had heard a good deal aboet, and when the seller reached for a couple of seats well down in front the pros- pective purchastr turned and fled, be- lieving the show must be a flop when admission to it could be had at regu- lar rates. All the theatre managers in New York City with the exception of Chas. B. Dillingham and A. B. Erlanger have come to an understanding where- by after March 1st tickets will be kept out of the hands(I•of speculators sa far as it is 1,n their power to do so. A Canadian might think that a law making ticket speculating illegal would end the matter, but New York- ers know better and in all probability they already have numerous laws fully covering the crime of scalping, and providing penalties un to elec- trocution for offenders against them. The scalping evil really grew out of a laudable desire on the part of the- atres to make the purchase of tickets handier for patrons. Instead of in- sisting that one should either line up at the box office and buy a ticket, or, if he was known, tele -phone to have tickets reserved for him, the custom of sending them to various hotels and other places over the city where they could be more conveniently secured, was adopted. The theatres received their full price for the tickets but the redistributors of them were allowed a commission, which is supposed to be 75 cents, and this the patrons were willing to pay. But when it was found that where- as the hotel and cigar store brokers were willing to buy in advance tick- ets for good shows, they were natur- ally reluctant to buy tickets for poor shows. In other words, while they co-operated joyously in helping the theatres to distribute tickets that could probably be sold at the theatre anyway, they were loath to buy tick- ets which were hard to dispose of. Then arose the secondary practice at the theatres insisting that the brok- ers -should buy a certain number of tickets for every show. This reduc- ed seriously the net profits of the brokers, who, to recoup their losses on unpopular shows, were willing en- ough to sell tickets for the good shows to speculators at an increased price. The speculators in their turn, raised the price to the 'public and the vicious circle was complete. The new regulations will do away - with this wholesale distribution in advance to legitimate brokers. If they are to have tickets the number will be limited and they must buy them from night to night. 'By stamping the tickets thus sold or by. some other method the managers expece to be able to race them, so that if one finds its way into the hands of a epecula- tor the manager will know which broker sold it. Presumably that broker, unless he can give a factory explanation, explanation, will be di -sieved of the privilege of buying tickets at all. Of course, it is not expected that the evil practice will be wholly done away with. But it may be re- duced perhaps 90 per cent,, --ed the general public will know that one man will have as good a chance as another to buy a ticket for a nopelar shovi. As matters now star. theatre receives from a ticerf - it at $4.44, just $4, the other 44 eee's be- ing a government tax. If a legiti- mate broker sells the ticket he ehneg- es 75 cents octet. ff a scalper gets it, the show still gets its 4, the legitimate agent gets 75 cen:-, the government gets 44 cents if the scal- per is honest in his returns, and the scalper himself gets $4,01, er a cent more than the theatre itself receisetts. The. total cost 'to' the et:Wine* tete 'a tibkist ?meth $4144 littliulik Win irtt,,drzettiorprieS,T Stinebeirih three times as ranch, THEATRE MANAGERS WAR ON TICKET SPECULATORS New York theatres being pretty far on the road to ruin, an effort is being made to deflect their downward course and restore public confidence in them. They are being ruined, we suppose, mainly because there are few import- ant American playwrights and few good American plays. The general reason given for their decay, namely, the competition of the movies, the radio and other entertainments, is logical only if the theatre itself is inherently weak. If such plays as "Rain," "A Texas Nightingale," and "Strange Interlude" came along each season, the movies would not do any damage. The trouble is that perhaps one of this calibre comes along every three or four years. When it does arrive it is faced with the embarrass- ing circumstance that utterly worth- less plays harve been ballyhooed so often that the public will be naturally slow to believe that the good play is any more than a lavishly advertised one. Its chances of survival, there- fore, are about equal to its chances of failure. It may fail before the news gets to the public that here is really an important show. That has happened many times in the past and is likely to happen even more fre- quently in the future if good plays continue to be written. But if the theatres do not take a sharp turn to the right the chances are that good plays will cease to be written by American playwrights. Naturally it is not within the power of associated managers assisted by Equity, the actors' protective associa- tion, to guarantee the appearance .of good play. That is a matter for the authors and the will of God. But the Managers have to start some- where; and they are trying to start by eliminating the ticket scalper. They belieiethat the scalper is large- ly responsible for the general distrust of the theatre manifested by the gen- eral public/ It is the ticket scalper - who 'heel' ceeated the general belief 'that if there is a good show a patron willhave to pay exorbitant prices to see It; and,that tkopyerserly it the tick - AAS ire not-Ingthbliaiidtriorthe scalp- ers Ale. ahoris an good. Tito. assump- rather odd that no appeals have been - Whera 2 victims are buried, made in this country though it is quite . tern possible that Cai4adians hive subscrib- "'nest of them riving been washed a - ed privately. ' Perhaps the sinking of , shore on the Ash .Coluit some days the Lusitania and the execution of after the 1..moitesde was sunk. }Edith Carvell were the meat Sheeting The disaster occurred 4ust five miles events of the war ao far as the Bilge from the Irish.Goes4.and at 2 o'clock Pah-speaking people were concerned. on a beautiful sPring, afternoon.. Tice They were horrified by them. We are periscope of the sitbrfiatine was plebs; 'never likely to forget tie Staggering ly seen; and, likwa,• it. was not unex: blow it was when the news of the, peeted by some, for the Gentian AM- sinki ng of the British ships' at Car-. bassad,oz,i4 ,,the United States had oriel was announced but thiswap a wOrnetrall paileengers by a prolama- difte-retrt feeling tObtie Which. griPned On .thirt 'their' Were *tins their lives us when the tiewi came, thattlteXelei- ml thelf haide If 'thee" eaited. on the 4-arrla with its non-edmbetants audits' Vessel. Prem., this it. wss plain that women and ehildtenhtd, been genic by If ht tone..iutrined and a Gerrn en enbratirInte. . 'n4 .....tet 'e W ' a not the Snipetuone, Tie o a. un- Seard that Nurse -Meet had beet shot- ' (1ling wheffthight net`liaVe'itingtiti- Te awogiovpy.histi: ,:t..0 4.461141voirtsta,,Ittf the ship., After the torpedo struck Igliadet.„,-,01400 _ tO,,,tha .c4nerluSlos, atest. hies Strateii/ tie -Were by' ft51fone fame,- 'ticbrielientebt. vessel immediately listed to straw ra. Butgitg '17edroelikt s ot en s) t , 404 .4.44,!'•,;•ie,,, „ , ,,„ • , A '1 ly