Laudable Mov - Its Objec British ws as bee tag ne 2 ue a8 had much to d concert is that of ture, the total value of the - “i, lo with th * e is hat o! "a 0 he commer: me British music. Until the eee of Stanley Maxstead, brilliant tenor of| cial food products of Canada for the Ri the seventeenth century ait § Of Montreal, and Mary James, soprano/last calendar year, amounted to music was celebrated wie oat star of the Banff Scottish Festivals. | $19,824,833, comparing favourably Lurope. John Dunstabte ushout’ The third group is composed of| With the 1927 total of $17,605,995. Sreatest composer of the if century, while in Elizabeth's » on P SUstts AN Af ATSQUL NEW * Vv ement Fins For baa Fruit and the Interpretati and Canadian Music harmony at the Royal Academy. The second beet the] Florence Hood, an English violinist, seenth| now living in Montreal, and Jean Flower Production CONSIDERED JAIL THE BETTER Leads World In Livestock ‘8 Prize List Proves on Of Value During Year Ending May, | 1928, Was Well Over Two Million According to the official figures collected by the Fruit Branch of the Dominion Department of Agricul The respective figures for the five provinces listed were reported as fol= lows Province Is In Front Rank The Province during the past year has again demonstrated clear- ly that it contains some of the choicest live stock in the world, At the 1928 Royal Winter Fair, Toronto, Saskatchewan won twenty champion- ships, reserve championships and trophies, and in addition fourteen first prizes and sixty-eight other prizes. A notable and unique triumph was the winning of the three grand championships for draft horses, a feat never before achieved by an; Western Coal Operators Are Interested In Railway Board Hearing On Freight Rates Western coal operators, according| sessed against the coal movement. to their head, W. W. McBain, are| particularly so, since the coal would whole-heartedly behind the joint ac-| be carried during the off-peak grain tion of the provinces of Alberta and| season, and in cars Which Wwou's Ontario in requesting a further Rail-| otherwise be lying idle on the sid- way Board hearing on the subject of| ings. freight rates. “Naturally, any such rate must Formal application for this hear- also be fair to the railways,” Mr. day) Rowe, lyric soprano of Toronto eee Plamondon, French-Cana- courts. dian tenor and hi i cl Then patie: i is Son Lucien, cellist Cee " t ba ot Ratian ae will be another pair, the Hart House | Seca el mM quartette the fifth, and John Goss, Fran itanic genius of Ean) an English baritone, will complete made) the series, rr Prov-| Marjory Kennedy Fraser and her John Dowland and John Bull musicians coveted by foreign ; England musically a German Nova Scotia, $3,228,050 and $2. New . Brunswick, $190,- 660 and $261,300; Quebec, $848,400 and $729,525; Ontario, $7,620,121 and $6,619,930; British Columbia, $7,937,- 102 and $7,116,675. Although British Columbia is usually regarded as the banner fruit province of the Domin- 78,565; vand as Germany and Austria pro- duced a marvelous succession of, composers, it was difficult, indeed, | for the British musician to raise his head. Then came a deluge | years, sister will start their tour at the jon, the report shows that only was sent to the Chicago International pof this exhibit, however, is shown by ing has just been made by J. Earl Lawson, of Toronto, counsel for the two provinces. “Considerable quantities of domes- tic fuel were shipped to Ontario dur- ing 1928," Mr. McBain says in ex- plaining the situation, “under the Order-in-Council providing a tempor- y one province. A very small exhibit Live Stock Show. The high quality the winnings, ten horses nine championships, reserve cham- pionships and’ specials, eight first securing Empress Hotel at Victoria, Septem- ber 12, after the Banff Scottish Fes- tival at which she will be one of the principal artists. Her other concerts | slightly over $300,000 separated the, Pacific Coast province from the Great| Lakes province, a striking testimony | to the general agricultural wealth of prizes and seven other prizes. Sas- katchewan exhibits won a total of 160 prizes on their Eastern tour, which included the shows already mentioned. Such splendid results, in ary freight rate of $6.75 per ton. The McBain said, “but the first necessity preliminary to the consideration of a permanent arrangement is definite knowledge of what it does actually cost the two great transcontinental roads to bring the coal east. That is what the two provinces are asking » the Board of Railway Commission- ers, at Ottawa, to find out, and an of Slav/in the trans-Canada tour will be Ontario. the face of the most form'dable com- investigation, with that end in view, was requested by the Order-in-Coun- cil of last year. “When Mr. E. P. Mallory, the ex- Federal Government undertook to secure .the railways against loss in hauling the coal and the Order-in- Council authorized the Board of Rail- musi . ic & recrudescence of! given at Vancouver, Sept. 16; Cal-| 1 uence to swamp any Bri-| gary, the Hotel Palliser, Sept. 21;/ ; renaissance, Regina, the Hotel Saskatchewan, | wW ith the twentieth century, how-| Sept. 23; Winnipeg, the Royal Alex- ever, the situation has changed. The| andra, Sept. 26, and the Royal York = madrigal, _lutenist and | at Toronto, Sept. 30. church music of the Elizabethan a Period was unearthed and made, Skeleton Of Prehistoric Buffalo | known through the enterprise of} scholars such as Dr, B. H. Fellowes. | Interesting Discove The immensely rich field of British| folkmusic was at the same time| What is believed to be the intact] coming to be realized, and in this | skeleton of a pre-historic bison which} field the British musician found an| may have roamed the plains of Al-| faspiration which has resulted in| berta millions of years ago, before! compositions of new vitality and dis-| the advent of man, has been found in| tinction. uae. Kennedy Fraser, for) a test pit, near the Ghost River, by instance, in her arrangements of the workmen on the power project. | “Songs of the Hebrides,” has done; G. A. Gaherty, president of the} work of intense appeal, while in Calgary Power Company, said that) compositions based on English folk-|/ the discovery was made in a test! song the name of R. Vaughan Wil-| pit a short distance from the dam at Tiams is internationally known. In- a depth of about thirteen feet. deed, the firmament of modern music} is dotted with British stars, whose the pit immedately and not to at-| names perhaps have sometimes | tempt the excavation of the remains! Continental ring, but whose | Is Made Near| Ghost River, Alberta | yey of Canada had been notified, fol-) birth until. officials of the Geological Sur-| gether, both in volume | The value of the cut flowers sold, 9! time. During the month cf June th Taking commercial apples alone, the total production for the Domin- jon is finally estimated at 3,325,970 barrels, valued at $11,290,867, com- paring with 2,610,600 barrels, valued at $10,411,035, the finally revised 1927 estimate. The average value per barrel was $3.49 in 1928, and $3.70 in 1927. Total nursery fruit stock sales for the year ending May 31, 1928, are valued at $351,737, against $317,- 661 for the corresponding year 1926- 27. The total value of the floricultural and decorative plant production of Canada during the year ended May $1, 1928, as represented by these statistics ,is given as $2,680,130, comprising $491,965 for outdoor roses, $54,462 for other outdoor trees, | etc, $342,585 for specific indoor; plants, $19,523 for other indoor plants, $73,415 for flowering bulbs, | Strict orders were given to close) and $1,693,180 for cut flowers, Clear- ly, therefore, the cut flower industry! exceeds all the other categories to-| and value. record is unimpeachably British ~ =I such names as Elgar, Stanford, Patti, Delius, Holst, Cyril Scott] Arnold Bax and Dame Ethel Smyth. Music in order to live must be performed, and therein lies one of the handicaps of the British com-| poser. So many players and singers) have been schooled on purely Con- | tinental European classics that con-) cert and operatic audiences do not) get much opportunity of hearing anything else. New York is the mecca of the European concert and) operatic artist, and Canada gets its’ quota of New York artists on tour.) a This gives us a great/deal of good music, but mostly music of Conti-| nental Europe, the percentage of British music being almost negligi- le. It is, therefore, in the national in- lowing which the skeleton will be re-| represented, in fact, 63 per cent. of moved under the supervision of sci-| the total. entists. Fer se : A portion of a thigh bone was Value Of Sleep | taken from the pit, however, and Mr. | Gaherty stated that this has alreeady| Possible To Live Longer Without been examined by University of Al-| Food Than Without Sleep } berta officials. Mr. Gaherty now has| Science has eyolved drugs that this specimen at his office. will put one to sleep, but just what Dr. Sternberg, geological expert of| it is that brings natural sleep is as Ottawa, has been communicated) great a mystery today as it was to with and he is expected to arrive in| the cave-man who curled up on his Calgary shortly to make an examin-| rock mattress with his flowing befird | ation of the skeleton. | spread over him for a quilt. It is a | ary on human nature that! |we are more particular about our food than we are about regular hours of sleep, yet it is a fact, definitely established, that it is possible to live much longer without food than with- out the benign embrace of Morpheus. Winnipeg Newspaper Union terest that Canadians should have) more opportunity of hearing the) music which is their legitimate heritage, and with that end in view] the music department of the Cana- | dian Pacific Railway has organized a series of concert tours with} artists of distinction who will inter- pret British and Canadian music to} Canadian audiences, For practical considerations, Canadian Pacific) hotels in six large citise have been chosen for this series. The scheme has the warm approy-| al of leaders in the Canadian musical world, such as Dr. Ernest MacMillan. - Principal of the Toronto Conserya- tory of Music. 2 Canada has so recently emerged) into nationhood that any large out-| put of distinctively Canadian music could hardly be expected. There 1s,, however, a rich store of folksongs, | particularly in the Province of) Quebec, retained by tradition from : the early settlers of New France and| so adapted to Canadian life as work- | songs that they have assumed a colour and quality “of their own.| ‘There are, too, a number of young Canadian composers whose work is) oO recognition by interna- tional publishers. Among the inter- id preters of music, Canadian singers and players are to be found among | the foremost in London, Eng., Paris and New York, while the Canadian ensemble known as the Hart House Quartette, is second to none. . ‘The first recital of the series will be given by Marjory Kennedy Fraser, the gifted woman who sings in beau- iful fashion the lovely songs of th TINON 2 SMART COTTON FROCK Of course you'll want several cool | comfortable frocks for town, travel or office. Here is one that is ado- le. 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The Bride—Are you sure your marriage service is just as valid as | any other? The Justice of the Peace — More | so. Remember, you promised to obey | this man, and if you don’t I can fine | you for contempt of court. New York City now has than a million school children. more | | | A word to the wise should be Leonard French, 68 who ran away from the poorhouse, after his first night there, to the Toronto jail, where he asked to be committed be- cause he considered the jail the bet- ter place. ~ Plenty Of Employment New High Rate Of Activity “Is Shown Throughout Canada Employment in Canada has reach] ed a new high rate of activity for alone, 23,109 workers were added, bringing the total on July 1, to 1,- 069,700. Figures were compiled by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics, from 6,819 firms. i Every month this year has shown larger figures than last year. Since April the trend of employ- ment has taken a sharp upward turn. On July 1, all previous recerds had been broken and the movement still continues upward. | j Not Looking For Business A Man went into a small country store. The only man in sight, pre- sumably the proprietor, was enjoy- ing his ease at the back of the shop, chair tilted back and feet on the counter, and made no move to come forward. { The prospective customer waited a few minutes, and then called: “Can’t} you serve me? I am in a hurry to get home.” The proprietor shifted h‘s position slightly and drawled: “Could you not come in some time when I'm stand- ing up?” | Many a man squanders a dollar's worth of energy in an attempt to save a nickel. = | It is estimated that 5 per cent. of men are color blind. 1 way Commissioners to name what amount, if any, was due to the rail- | ways after the conclusion of each petition to be encountered on* the North American continent is a strik- ing testimony to the skill ard con- structive ability of our breeders, Ac-|S@48onal movement, of which the cording to the latest figures Sas-| 1928 one was the first. “Now, as we understand it, the katchewan has gver 400,000 more) horses than any other province inj Tailways are applying to the Board the Dominion. Saskatchewan is also) for definite payment per ton on the) coming to the front rapidly with| coal hauled last year. As the coal op-| beef and dairy cattle and other’ erators view the matter, the pars branches of the best diversified farm-| reason for carrying on these experi-) ing. ments in coal transportation is in order to ascertain over a period or years, exactly what it does cost to bring coal into) Ontario from the west. The Order-in-Council, as we read it, states this in the plainest Slaves To Fashion Contrary To General Belief Men Are - Worse ae Women 4 ‘arma; ‘en are such slaves to fashion} ,, en they dare not break the rules of re esta nine eeenee pid old funereal ideas of clothing. jo \ y | Bai. tinued, “ tly take a that a foolish male carries cight| Ferecr cine Cf the matte ania | different view of the matter and dis- pounds six ounces of clothing, while Ue NeG oo | the female of the species goes about | regard the actual or out-of-pocket coolly in two pounds and ten ounces! ff clotht Th fen ,,| Alberta have made a submission to Of CIOLE DS an nee ele o Uo men's the Board, to this effect, asking for clothes is thus about three times t of women's. The man of brains! cost of hauling the fuel. Ontario and | a hearing on the question and re-| pain concluded, “that, on the basis pert of the National lines, appeared before the Senate Committee in 1923,” Mr. McBain declared, “he gave $8.91 per ton, as the out-of- pocket cost and, subsequently, @ tele- gram to the Committee from Sir Henry Thornton, made the offer to carry the coal at $9 per ton. At that time, operating costs were higher than they are today, as the repor:s of the railways show, so that it is logical to suppose that the cost now is less than it was at the time the suggest of a $9 rate was made. “In September 1927, two reports on the out-of-pocket cost were made by the Board of Railway Commission- ers following an official inquiry into costs. The majority report found the out-of-pocket cost of coal trans- portation to be $7.22 per ton, while the minoriy report gave a figure of $6.50 per ton. The operating costs on which these calculations were based were also higher than those | of the present time. “But we are informed,” Mr. Mc- is 4 See overclad. For the sake of statistics, cloth- ing worn by a dozen men was, weighed and compared with that! worn by a dozen women, examined at the Life Extension Institute of New York. A letter scale was used to weigh the clothing of womén who varied in type from a modern’ girl of 18 years, whose clothes weighed one pound six ounces, to an| “old fashioned’’ woman of 61 years,| whose clothing weighed three and a} half pounds, The weight of the men’s} clothes varied from 6% pounds to 110% pounds,’the shoes in the latter case ghing 3%, which 1 by a quarter pound the weight of the entire raiment of the most con-| servatively dressed woman in the group.—Brandon Sun. questing that the two roads furnish! o¢ the 1928 coal movement, one the Commissioners with this further! statement gives $15.03 per ton as the information.” | amount claimed or, in other words, Mr. McBain pointed out that the| the difference between $6.75 and stand taken, both before the Senate $15.03 as the sum per ton which the Committee in 1923, and the Com-| government should pay. mittee of Mines and Minerals of the! “This is not only much higher than House of Commons, was that a dis-| ejther the $7.22 or $6.50 Railway tinctively Canadian fuel policy, which| Board out-of-pocket ‘igures and well would tend to provide for the needs | above the $9 offer of 1923; but it is of Canadian consumers from the out-| even $3 per ton higher than the aver- put of Canadian mines, would be very| age rate for all commodities for the much in the national interest. Al-| distance which the coal was moved.” berta has sufficient coal resources to . ee provide for the Dominion’s needs for Like Holding Public Office eighteen centuries. Ontario pays into the pockets of American operators statistics Show and railroads approximately thirty) millions annually sas’ a /ReSUlbsDEAHEl se Teanere he persons whollike hold- purchases of anthracite in this for-| ing’ public’ office “better than ithe eign market. It would be greatly in) iF ‘h, } {helnationallunferest to! Keep) thin rench, statistics have not revealed French Are Fond of Oficial Positions their identity. Of the 10,000,000 money in Canada, and the problem of doing so boils down to one of transportation. ‘Tt has been taken for granted,” Alberta Pool Interim Payment One dollar a bushel will be the in- terim payment on wheat for grain delivered to the 1929-30 crop, accord-| Mr, McBa‘n stated, “that the great ing to an made at the importance of a national Alberta Wheat Pool offices in Cal-| fuel policy put the matter on a dif- gary. Last fall when a bad slump ferent plane from any ordinary dis- in wheat prices occurred the initial) cussion of haulage costs, and that payment was lowered from $1 to 85) some scheme might cents, but the previous interim pay- ment will be issued this fall. London's Tube stations now have eighty-three escalators. es, which the railways must meet in any case, and which go on just the same, whether fuel is hauled or whether it is not, would not be as- The British artists who will tour Canada during the coming fall and);0f Montreal; (2) Marjory Fraser, farmous collector and interpreter of winter under of this series is to show Canadians . the auspices of the Canadian Pacific Railway. TO TOUR UnuuuuuUY The object the vast amount of splendid British music available and familiar in the Old Land. (1) Florence Hood, violinist CANADA Hebridean music; (3) Mafy Frances James, young dramatic soprano; (4) |Stanley Maxted, English tenor, now resident in Montreal; (5) John Goss, | Stockholm. of Chanteys and modern English songs; (6) bass, English exponent F ll-k French C tenor. properly be} worked out under which fixed charg-| voters in France, 1,200,000 were candidates in the recent municipal elections. Every village, town and city in France, 37,984 communes all told, elected a mayor and a municipal council. About 400,000 men got jobs as municipal councillors or aldermen. The minimum number of councillors, no matter how tiny the |commune, is ten. In some places fevery voter is an office-holder, and |in hamlet of Riboux, in the War De- partment, where there are only eight votes, two officeholders had to be borrowed from a neighboring vil- lage. The municipal jobs used to be good for four years, but the new incumbents were elected for six. The longer term is presumably more agreeable to men who like the dig nity of little titles. Swedes Are Original The Swedes have made great ad- vances recently. Unlike other na- tions they are not slavishly follow- ing Anglo-Saxons. They are devel- oping a civilization of their own. A Swede controls the world match mar- ket. Another Swede, a lady, has won the Nobel prize for the best novel. Another Swede is one of the two chief radium experts in the world, and still another is recognized as one of the greatest modern archi« tects. The Marvellous Reaio Isn't v the j freless wonderful? Think of bands, the sopranos, the bedtime stories, the speeches, the poetry, the thousand and one things you can silence with one lit- tle turn of a dial. Maraulken (finding friend ing to eat bread and cheese without any sign of anything to drink): “Are you mad, man, eating on an empty | stomach?” Sondagsnisse -. Strix, Prepar- | W. N. UL 1797 Ta Sie atts a thcee Wie