The Axe, 11 mai 1923, vendredi 11 mai 1923

[" M PLAIN CRITICAL SPEAKING \u2018 COMMENT CONCERNING WITHOUT = THE AXE | PUBLIC FEAR OR of A JOURNAL OF ACTION AGAINST REACTION FAVOR, .QUESTIONS.EDITED BY JOHN H.ROBERTS \u201cLAY THE AXE AT THE ROOT OF THE TREB\" meer \u2014 fr Vel, 11 \u2014 Ne, 18 Annual subocription $2.50 Price: 5 comte, MONTREAL, PRIDAY, MAY 11th, 1923 1 15 § CS \u2014>\u2014.EM cad 4 ' \u2014 [SEE PAGE 3] be » fs 2 os PE rg a PES nl A es a ok: x Ro 5 3 it 55 8 a ONE os & cr a Ne a 2 se au ou Se io S £2 33 A 3 = x $ 2 2 a ANA Se 5 es 4 ¥ Le i i Le > SES se ne es 2 se 2 Œ So 4d or = = 5: 2 A sn I se Re: a ue A ¥ Le 2 2 ME) \u20ac Des Nn a À © 3 2 os sa 0s 2%: .i HE 2 a 2 a es 3 je a ee , a 2 48 LES ape SL ana 0 hase, # Ë .3 3 > A: 4 a se + .ï gage À ñ = us ¥ 2 ot $ - og 4 A ; > 35 : ee F 3 = hh + : s CS, t pd Was, = * 2 7 oF i oi = x se 2 = ik = os se 4 os DES Be GE .È 3 x 29 me .FR Le Hy Se x 3 2 êtes ue = \u2014 - es \u201c 2 5 \u20ac.7 J 7x Prey + se = \u201c i .i es 4% = Is - > - i ad 3 k $e pui - JOHN: H.ROBERTS, Editor-of \u201cTHE AXE\" 4 £2 ie - - OFF FOR À LECTURE TOUR OF CANADA.Is Page.Hie | See 3 3 Le n 4 7.s- & \u20ac x PE Ve hE PEN : ya + ! o or ~ at! ; A a.os SRC, 5 H ae Ie ~ va he * « 2 a 2X La Es 1m.2 2 a, A os cate ey Ee Why I Publish.The Axe John H.Roberts\u2019 Weekly Editorial This is a man's tribute to his friend.Than friendship there is nothing more wholesome in life, True friendship has all the enduring qualities of love, In its essence and spirit it is love, It has love's spiritual quality, the quality of believing all things, hoping all things, bearing all things, enduring all things, and of suffering long and being kind, Such a friendship is the one of which I write, When one goes to one's friend broken and \u201cbust,\u201d and tinds, not money, nor gifts, nor the bestowal of charity, but understanding, sympathy, readiness to serve, and willingness to share one\u2019s burden, that is better than being left a fortune.For a fortune may soon take to iteelf wings and fly away.Bw the friendship that stands the acid test of adversity, that says when there are few others, if any, ready to help, \u201cI'm with you,\u201d and that never changes no matter how others ~hange for the worse, that is a fortune greater than any wealthy parent or benefactor can bestow upon one.+ # + I returned to Montreal about three and a haif years ago after my trip to Australia and New Zealand to find myself in the city of my adoption, in which I had labored in reform work for many vears, without a job.It's not easy at fifty to strike out in new lines of activity, to start in a new career, or to fina any man or firm willing to believe that one of that age can succeed in new endeavours, Personally, 1 hold that I am at my best just now, Whether it is due to my six month's vacation in Quebec under the tender care of Premier Taschereau, or not, 1 cannot say, but that I'm \u201cin the pink\u201d cannot by disputed, Yesterday one of Canada\u2019s foremost citizens, a Cabinet Minister, told me that I didn't look one year over torty! Anyhow, I don\u2019t feel a day older than that, But when the hair is silvering as mine is, and the thatch gets thin (this week my barber, cutting my hair, asked, \u201cShall I take any off the top, sir?\"\u2014What a delicate compliment!) few business men buying a man\u2019s services are inclined to think the man of fifty is worth much.I saw a good many of my old friends.I asked for no job.1 fell my way around and in virtually every case sensed a feeling of being \u201cnot wanted.\u201d Times were hard, the business depression was hindering things all \u2018round, and there were tew jobs going.Last of all I sought out one old friend.He had been away in the eastern part of the Province electioneering and I was unable to see him for nearly a month after my return.When I \u2018phoned his house, the answer came, \u201cYes, he's at home, sick in bed, but said vou were to come right up to see him.\u201d So to see him I went, For a month or so he was confined to his house, but I would go and sit and yarn with him day by day, telling him my troubles and taking counsel with him.Then one day came the idea of THE AXE.I distrusted my own ability to \u201cput it over,\u201d I knew that in the boy, my boy, I had a born newspaper man for a colleague.But I had no money, few friends, many enemies, and that gosh-aarned streak of cussedness in me that makes me more willing to fight than to eat, \u2018if the cause be good.And I knew that to establish and successfully build a weekly newspaper in Montreal with my poor equipment was a monumental task.¥ % À But never did my friend waver.I sometimes wonder if he really believed all the things he would say to me about myself.\u201cWith that name (THE AXE) and the name of John H.Roberts the fighter,\u201d he would say, \u201ca paper cannot fail, With any other man, yes; but with John H.Roberts, no.\u201d He had more faith in me than I had in myself! And, do you know?\u2014 that\u2019s the true test of either love or friendship.A wife has more faith in the broken husband struggling against temptation or adversity than he has in himself, and it\u2019s her faith that puils him through, more than conqueror.That prodigal son, the black sheep of the family flock, is believed in by his mother when he no longer believes in himself, and it is her faith that brings him back along the prodigal road with torn flesh, and bleeding feet, and streaming eyes, and aching heart to home and mother.And this friend o\u2019 mine believed in John H.Roberts more than John H.Roberts believed in himself! All through the struggles we have made, the vilification we have suffered, the persecution that has come upon us he has stood true, never faltering.His faith in THE AXE and in me is one of the most wonderful things I have ever known.It is almost idolatrous.Over and over again evil things have been said of me to him by enemies of mine, working insiduous- ly to separate us so that, weakened by his defection, I might the easier be overcome.But just as the Rock of Gibraltar stands, The waves that beat against it ever receding, so this man\u2019s friendship has stood calm and unmoved by the fierce waves of hitter abuse and misrepresentation that have assailed me and, through me, him.© That man is Alphonse Moisan, Business Manager of THE AXE, a man amongst men and a friend in a thousand, .JOHN H.ROBERTS.THE AXE, FRIDAY, MAY, 11th, 1923 \u201cTHE HERALD\" FOULS AMATEUR POLITICIANS \u201cFor the same reason that mombers of the Legislature, Judges of the courts and othr persons engagod in certain The fute of the United fields of the public service er | Farmers of Ontario as a poli- the administration of justite® | tical factor.has been brought are absolutely immune frem | to the deciding point and the actions, civil or criminal, for | result of the Ontario provin- libel for words published in the | ig] elections next month will discharge of such public duties, | ho followed with an intense the individual cititzen must b° | interest from coast to coast.given a like privilege whoa he Ontario was the first prov- is acting in his sovereign capa- | 1100 to experiment with an city,\u201d eays The Montreal Her- | agrarian government.Similarall quoting the judgment in & | ]y it is the first to be asked to case in which the city of Chi.renew the mandate.to the cago sued the Chicago Tribune | farmers.for libel.Since Premier E, C.Drury How different is this expression) assumed office in 1919 he has of opinion from the editorials which| directed the most colorful TOO MANY INITIALS NOT ENOUGH HEART IN J.HOWARD T'S CASE J.HOWARD T.FALK, Secretary, Montreal Charity, Trust, Dear SJ Howard T.:\u2014We hear that You and your satellites are looking forward with keen anticipation to a Junketing party to Washington and another to New York in the near future, which are to he joy-trips in the sacred name of charity, hot-air parties at which you and yours will spout of the splendid charity system which has heen evolved in Mont- F 6, where hundreds of thousands - v ie are given annually by \u2018a generout public to enable you to investigate suffering, but seldom to relie@ it!\u2018 \u2018e are told that the expenses of these jov-rides will be paid out of the funds given by the public, probably totalling a couple of thousand dollars.This may be your idea of serving the suffering, J.Howard T., but it is not ours.You evidently cling to the view that \u2018chhrity be- ging at home\u201d, b#t \u2018\u201chome\u201d_is yourselves, not the popr of Montreal, If you had fewer fantastic initials, Mr.Falk, and more heart for the needy and suffering, you would be a better man for your job, \u2018 THE AXE.Sy be appeared in the selfsame Herald| legislature and faced the fierc- at the time when John H.Roberts pot opposition ever brought to xas in process of being railroaded F ar do na Coe Be to jail because he insisted upon his igh n oe as a pa own sovereign rights.At the time or y anc EE Piotr the Herald could seq nothing but £ tof the | Yo e - good in the action of the Govern- he has faced obstruêti E ou ment.\u201d attack not only from the Li\u2014 beral and Conservative groups ASHTON'S BROTHERS| [ut ple from the insurgents PASSED BY ON OTHER | those of the Laborites, © SIDE OF THE ROAD Hon.Mr.Drury faced oppo- sition from the elected farmer | members at the outset for the Clifford Ashton, a young|simple reason that he had not married man, father of a child,| been returned at the general was discharged some time ago, | election.His opponents urged from the Western Hospital| that he had been afraid to en- One leg is six inches shorter| ter the lists until success was than the other, and his capabil-| assured.Immediately this ities for work of a heavy| trouble was smoothed he was nature are alim, Since his dis- | Plunged into negotiations with charge from hospital he has|the Laborites with the view to been unable to secure any em-| forming a coalition, The coali- ployment, and because of his tion never proved a success.want, has been taken into the| From the very start the Labor home of a young chap who | members, at the constant urg- was his fellow patient in hos-| ing of their own supporters, pital and that friend has been| insisted upon social reform caring for, feeding and hous-| measures which alarmed their ing Mr.Ashton, his wife and|allies, the highly-conservative child ever since, despite the| farmers.In the series of dis- fact that Ashton\u2019s two brothers| appointments | which Labor both have good positions, one| Met, the government lost fur- as a telegraph operator with| ther support.One member, Mthe C.P.R., but refuse to aid| M- MacBride crossed over to him in his suffering.His bene-| the opposition benches, and factor, himself an invalid, can.| While he did not attract any not afford to maintain his| considerable following with guest but is doing so.And him, he nevertheless has re- meanwhile while the friend|ceived a hearty and frequent plays the good Samaritan,| support from his former com- Ashton\u2019s own brothers pass by | rades who nominally remained on the other side of the road.| behind the government benches.KNIFING THE C.N.R.TO HELP THE C.P.R.| Fortunately for the premier, however, the bitter feud which The well-known patriotisni| has prevailed between the of the Canadian Pacific Rail-| Liberals and the Conservatives way is again to the forefront.| has extended to him a sort of Central Canada after emerging| left-handed support, as neither from a winter of incessant|of the former parties would hardships, the result of the agree upon any general attack acute coal shortage began to] which might have led to the look to the western provinces|government's defeat.Incidentas a possible supply source.Im-} ally, the desertions from the mediately a delegation, headed | Liberal ranks to those of the by Premier Drury of Ontario| farmers tended to weaken the came to Montreal in quest of! cpposition, lower freight rates, At first| Throughout each session the meetings had.been planned] spotlight has been focused on with both President Beatty, of [the fiery attorney-general, the C.PR.and Sir Henry Hon.W.E, Raney, whose re- Thornton, president\u201d of the|signation from the government Canadian National Railways.| just as it is to appeal to the But the tip was passed along] province is not entirely unto the delegates that -Mr.jexpected.From the day he Beatty's office would be empty, first entered the house, Honif they called, Mr.Raney has deen*the target \u2018Why?: of thé most violent criticism The answer is obvious.If! not only from the Liberals and the C.PR.,\u2019could shunt all the! Conservatives but.also from unfavorable or losing traffic|the Labor and Farmeregroupsover to the C.N.R., \"it would! A stern defender of the Onhelp swell annual deficits ontario Temperance Act his un- the National lines and leave| compromising attitude on the the cream of the better paying| subject of its enforcement, traffic to the C.P.R.Mean-| regardless of whom it might while, the clever army of prop-| hit, made him decidedly of- aganaists in the C.P.R., serv-| fensive to the \u201cwet\u201d or \u201ctoler® ice.both officially and unoffi- ant\u201d faction.- cially could get in their work.The C.P.R.\u2019s abstention could ONLY ONE' LAWYER .be explained away .on the claim! Raney, while the storm that it did not care to offer dif.| centre of the government, was ficult competition to the| generally regarded as its C.N.R.It is doubtful, however, | brains.He was the on]y lawyer, whether the propaganda could|on the government benches; a LEFT HAND HELP.APPEAL FOR RETURN TO POWER IN ONTARIO, DELUGE OF INTRIGUES AND PLOTS tacking, and, sitting at the Premier's right could be seen in constant consultation with the latter throughout the sen- sion.He was also constantly being called into the breach when his inexperienced ministerial colleagues went beyond their depth in crossing words with their veteran opponents of the opposition, The farmers, with the exceptions of Hon, Beniah Bowman, Minister of Lands and Forests, and J.W.WiYdifield, were all serving their first terms in the legislature and the two who had been there before had entered in bye-elections and were not of outstanding calibre, Bowman hag been, perhaps, the most unfortunate choice the government made in compiling its cabinet slate, GOOD ACTS Ontario, however, was benefited by several notable social welfare measures, outstanding among which is the Mothers\u2019 Allowances and the Minimum Wage Laws.Workmen's compensation was raised to a considerably higher degree and technical education made more accessible to the workingman.Unfortunately, while all of these measures represented labor ideals the Labor party freely attacked the government saying that it had taken only à half step forward, The farmer road policy, which has been rather expense ive and not altogether free from scandal has brought injury to the government while the sale of Crown timber lands to American interests has been vigorously assailed, Coupled with the \u2018heavy handicap of leading a cabinet of political amateurs, Premier Drury ineurred the unbending and hurtful opposition of J.J.Morrison,the U.F.O.secretary, on the question of broadening\u2019 the farmer party to include urban voters.The \u201cbroadening out\u201d was one of Hon, Mr.Drruy\u2019s ideals and it was, incidentally,an essential political need ag in this greater party alone could the farmers hope to retain power, On frequent occasions when the premier pressed his views signs of a wide gap became apparent in the agrarian ranks though it usually closed when- the proposal was laid aside, THE HICKS CHARGES The last blow to the government, which will perhaps wreak the most harm, was the defection of A.A.Hicks, the former farmer whip whose sensational resignation was coupled with charges against the premier of having sought to effect an alliance with the Ontario Liberals and wlk® fur- King federal cabinet.- That Ontario will renew its mandate to the agrarians is generally believed doubtful.Still, with the multiplicity of groups, which jncude Cone servatives, Liberals, Farmers, Soldiers, Laborites, and Tndependents, forecasts of the result caf only be the wildest conjecture.It is generally accepted, however, that should the Liberals make any consi- In any event, the results will be highly significant as they ince semi-industrial and semi.agricultural towards farmer even convince a C.P.R.share-| ready \u2018and vitriolic debater holder, La 180 who gave no quarter when at- Le government after the experi- mertit.= ui > i Le sali er ; ther having wished to enter the .derable gains a general federal election wilk most likely follow.will give the views of a proy- ° | | - TOO BAD TO LIVE! WHY NOT POISON ALL [7 PROSTITUTES AND BE.fF DONE WITH THE JOB?FA Women's Societies overlook the fact that \u201cfallen| E = 2 women\u201d are their sisters in seeking legislation to imprison prostitutes for life.\u2014The double- \u2019 _ fe .tims of men\u2019s lust.moral-code again.Poison all prostitutes! Slay the street-walkers| + Establish's lethal chamber and put every scarlet woman to death! ) \u201c \u201c #» .Thus will you destroy the Red Light District; stamp out prostitution, and banish venereal disease.® Kk & - Perhaps! pe K % % During this week _a deputation of ladies representing the Montreal Local Council of Women has waited upon the Minister of Justice, Sir Lomer Gouin, K.C.M.G., and has asked him for stringent legislation in regard to women prostitutes.The adoption of the principle of indeterminate sentences and the placing of such women in reformatories to be established by the Government and main- , tained at Government expense, were.points that were urged upon Sir Lomer.But of all the strange things that were recommended to the Minister of Justice was the proposal seriously advanced by these doubtlessly earnest-minded women that, where or when a woman prostitute cannot be re- .formed or cured, her imprisonment in one of these suggested reformatories should be for life! .-TOO MUCH ZEAL NOT ENOUGH CHARITY Did the zeal df the zealot ever carry any reformer farther out of his, or her, course than this?Here were women of refinement, of culture, and presumably of heart, women many of whom are probably mothers, women whose very membership in reform organisations argues that they have some desire to see the Kingdom of \u201c God established on earth, yet they are so futilely hopeless in their \u2018outlook on life, so pessimistic 4s to the efficacy of the reforms they propose, and so callously indifferent to their more unfortunate sisters\u2019 welfare that-they calmly advocate life imprisonment for the vic- Had they been men their attitude would be understandable.But they were women, and the prostitutes they were prescribing life .imprisonment for were their sisters, sisterwomen, probably, \u201cborn of mothers as good as _ they themselves had, but broken on the wheel of a vicious social systém, WHY NOT KILL THEM?Why did they not recommend * the Minister of Justice to have * every fallen woman asphyxiat-| ed, placed in a lethal chamber, ang pleasantly put tg death?It would be infinitely more merci- = ful,- more sanitary and, which would be a great recommenda- THE AXE, FRIDAY, MAY, ith, 1923 \u2014\u2014 - \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 er \u2014\u2014\u2014 Page 3 tion to many of the deputation, much cheaper.A more heartless, brutal proposal has seldom been advanced, It would not be suggested in regard to an incurable dog.It should never be urged in the case of women, no matter how great the depth to which they have fallen.This proposal implies a complete loss of faith in Divine Grace to restore the most degraded, a fact in spiritual things that is still gloriously true, To believe that the fallen woman is hopelessly incurable is a slander on medical skill and a libel against the name of God.- .It comes somewhat hard to us to even appear to belittle the efforts of women reformers, for we of this journal have always stood for woman's work for woman and are pioncers smongst men in the cause cof woman's suffrage.But what we want to see these worthy \u2018women doing is t) advocate life imprisonment for the men who THE MAN WHOM FRENCH AND ENGLISH DELIGHT homes because they are not receiving the fruits of their toil, underpaid and overworked, and so long as women can be found to stone the woman who has fallen and let the man go free, just so long will there be prostitutes.The male victim of venereal disease is a far more active propagator of those diseases than the woman prostitute for he hands down.to posterity the scarlet stain.It imprisonment for the woman, then equality of.treatment for the man, partner, her mate.And, for God\u2019s sake, let good women go SALVATION ARMY \"1 HOSTEL DECLARED 9 À FILTH BY READER, Cae bs LEM, » fi Vermin in wholesale quantities is found by returned soldier sent to Metro-| pole by Red Cross So ciety.In last week's AXE we published an exposé of conditions prevailing at the Salvation Army Metropole, The Old } #3 | Brewery Mission, The Home of ii a Industry and Refuge and SIR LOMER GOUIN other \u201ccharity\u201d hostels and cheap lodging houses, from the pen of Dr.A.Harcourt Anderson, a former member of the which requested legislation aim-| Staff of New York University, \u2018od at prostitutes which, if passed,| Who has investigated health would carry us still one step fur-| conditions in Montreal by liv- \u2018ther backward in our headlong| ing in such places as one of the dash toward, the Stone Age.\u201cdown-at-heel unemployed.\u201d The facts given to the world by the doctor were too frightful for contemplation.They told of \u201cHostels\u201d and \u201clodging houses\u201d acrawl with vermin, subjected to no visible health or sanitary regulations and of the menace to the public health which will exist so long as these places are permitted to go unclean.The article was written from the medical standpoint and that alone, though Doctor Anderson made no bones about the fact that the administration of the Salvation Army Metropole is \u201cgiving a black eye to the best liked organisation of its kind in the world.\u201d Minister of Justice whe, this week, received a deputation from Montreal Women\u2019, Organisations her destroyer, her create fallen women ; the beasts of prey who ruin young girls; the employers who pay girls out in love and sympathy and prayerfulness to their fallen sisters of the streets and win them back to decency and God DID NOT CLEAN UP A few hours after the issue such wages as are an incentive to vice; the mistresses who treat domestic servants so inhumanly that the brothel seems Paradise in comparison with the living conditions that a housemaid has to endure.Imprisonment for life is the easiest way to take in dealing with FOUL OF MANN ACT these fallen sister of ours.Our .ing niece has wrecked the homa of belief is that they have been |!\"\u20ac niece ! sectes realty speculator, \u201cmore sinned against than sinning\u201d and that society owes them a debt which it must pay-{of Violation of Slave act, and has regulted i 3 Hs der for the impracticability, and folly of| girl, Binghamepton oct such a proposal let us ask, what notitied fon police hive been To show the utter inhumanity, do these ladies of the Montreal nai | .|authorities in Newark N.J.toilow- Local Council of Women pro ing conviction of crossing the State border with olive-skinned, glowing- eyed Glovannina Mastrianni, - The girl is awaiting deportation to Italypose to do sth the men who were primarily responsible for the downfall of fallen women.Marry them to their daught- homes as welcome guests ?Forvices with the old bromide that men must sow their wilds oats (even though .women must arrested on a charge of infidelity, naming her own niece, had harbored in her own home.reap them) ?TOO MUCH FLUB-DUB There is too much \u201cflub dub\u201d our reformers (and we are not ashamed tobe counted amongst the reformers).~Too little wil-|fuititted his promise.Regaining his \u2018lingness to go to the \u201croot of questions, to find out causes of social evils and remove them,|voiice were urged to find them and they -were P.A.; to Paterson, N.J., and Newarkto lay the axe at the root of the tree, It's mighty easy to lock up all the prostitutes in a jail or reformatory and think we have cured prostitution, but 8o{them so she might give her hus.long as we have a vicious eco-| band a chance to return with her,{ filthy state of the bed | nomic system that.underpays|pivittinely sw ve adie to the Morlando for a Mann act violation.women so that they are forced to supplement their meagre earnings by offering their|the time.She had found the run- -adjutant wanted to see awa, i + bodies for sale,so long as young bad gone do pial traland and men are unable to take unto themselves vives\u201d and build me Feat SEE Sra oo bk car HA 3°] by the all-powerful force of Divine Grace, rather than in hopeless pessimism call upon the Government to banish them to a bastille for life, : + {and fell into Federal tolls when the ers?Receive them in their grieving wife began efforts to find them give them and dismiss their|return to her.lando pleaded not guilty, case was adjourned.ment Mrs, Morlando withdrew the 1 nd believed by a lot of | charge talked and y a send the pretty niece back to the old country.freedom, Morlando increased his attentions to the dark-eye beauty.avert a culmination .of the tragedy she was seeing.euaoted.\u2026 went on sale, representations were made to us by an official of the Salvation Army Metropole as to the article which had appeared, in which interview he virtually admited the truth of all that we have said.The article was published on Thtrsday.If the officials of the REALTY MAN RUNS Infatuation for his wife's charm- JOHN H.READY FOR NATION - WIDE TOUR ON LECTURE STAGE \u201cMy Struggle for Justice in Quebec\u201d will be broad: casted from Atlantic to Pacific.Campaign opening in the Nation's Capital.Next Tuesday, May 15th., I start out on a Lecture Tour of Canada, which it is planned shall take me into every important town and city from coast to coast.In my lecture I shall tell the story of \u201cMy Struggle for Justice in Quemec.\u201d I have two reasons for undertaking this speaking tour.First, I have suffered heavy losses through my imprisonment at the hands of the Quebec Legislature.If I say that the losses may be estimated at between twenty-five and thirty thousand dollars I am not over stating the figures.Legal expenses,losg of advertising, and other things account for it.I hope to reimburse myself through my lecture tour and pay my debts thereby.Secomdly, there have appeared in every newspaper, daily and weekly, in Canada, the reports of the debates in the Quebec Legislature following my ar rest for violating the dignity and honor of that assembly That campaign of vilification and abuse I was unable tc answer at the time, being à prisoner.TO STATE MY CASE; I am known throughout the length and breadth of Canada, through my long association with reform work and have in the years gone by been a platform figure in most of Canada\u2019s provinces.I now go out tg place my case before the people of Canada and clear my name and reputation from.the slurs Metropole had really been anxious, as this man contended to \u201cdo the right thing,\u201d there was time for them to make a start within twenty four hours, That they did not do so is clearly shown in the text of the ensuing letter which was written by a man who was given a bed in the Metropole on te following day.Says this etter:\u2014 - New York, It also has caused his conviction the Mann ite in an deportation of the Morlando is held by the Federal x = x Dear Editor:\u2014 Having read the article by Dr.Anderson in your issue of May | fourth referring to the dirt and filth at the different charity hostels, 1 would like to state that your facts about the Salvation Army place on Alexander Street are quite correct, The pair eloped from Endicott and to induce her husband to WIFE NAMES NIECE Mrs.Morlando had her husband whom she [and \u2018that conditions are absolutely -|awful, as my own experience will Arraigned on that charge, Mor- | prove.and the| | was gent with six other men After adjourn- | fyom the Red Cross Lodge at Ste.Anne de Bellevue on Friday last to Montreal, owing to the fact that the Lodge at Ste.Anne was flooded out.After visiting the Red Cross headquarters in Belmont Park, Montreal, three of us were sent to the Salvation Army place to stay, and on arrival | was allotted to Room number 79.On examining my bed, | discover- od to my horror that the mattress on it, as woll as those on the other beds in the room, literally crawled with bugs, \" | made a complaint to a bald headed fellow in charge at the of- fico telling Mim that, owing to the could not sleep in it.He said that he did not folieve me, and 1 left the place ext morning ! returned to get my meal-tickets, and was told that the me.He came along and asked me if | was the Man whe had refused to stay upon condition Morlando This he promised to do, but never Later the pair disappeared.The traced ~ to Greensburg, MANN ACT CHARGE Mrs, Morlando, striving to locate Mrs, Morlando was on the apot at adians are my people and slanders that have been cast thereon, It is due to the people of Canada - that the truth regarding my imprisonment and the whole background of the episode ghould be told and told to them at first hand.Without malice or bitterness; with no desire to revenge myself on anybody; and with a desire to exalt truth and Justice I go forth, It is no concern of mine if the Quebec Legislature is placed in a bad light before the rest of Canada; this should have been thought of by my detractors and persecutors before they cast me into jail.I shall make no attack on the French Canadian people.English and Protestant as I am, the French Canand I have never uttered one word or done one deed that could be construed as hostile to them.They are my friends and fellow Canadians and the great body of them is not to be confused with the legislators who passed ) the infamous Roberts Imprisonment Bill.My tour opens in Ottawa, the Nation's Capital, the most fitting place to make a beginning and will include all the leading cities and towns of Ontario.Following, the Maritime Provinces will-be visited and afterwards the West.My friends can help the tour .by dropping a line to their friends \u2026 (Continued on page 8.) Fes Hy IN Fog dE en De ey aes \u201cBe en JES Ea in other provinces asking them e H.R.ol te to hear my story.\u201cè .HER GEREN og al .} 2 ~ di x 4 = 419 mage ê vi + ° \u201c than that, \u2018the dancing, age 4 v \u2014\u2014\u2014 .- ATHEAIRES4 \u201cMAID OF WISTARIA\u201d IS CHARMINGLY DONE BY YOUNG MONTREAL \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 1 addom attend amateur performances.Not that 1 despise them.It is a matter of time mostly, 1t is years since 1 sat through such an entertainment until ast Monday night.I imagined the presentation of \u201cThe Maid of Wistaria\" would be 800d, perhaps like the curate's egR.\"good in parts\u201d.1 found it uniformly 800d and, In many features, excellent and far beyond my expectations, The joy of lle is a something we are ever chaning, perhaps seldom finding.\u201cThe Maid of Wistaria\u201d has it, Acting always takes me out of myself, which is one reason why 1 attend the theatre.But the show of the Elks on Monday night did for me more in that way than most shows have done for a long time.1 don't think I can pay the performers and producers a better compliment \u2018' Of the musical comedy itself I say - dite except that it is well conceived, -, Bas à plot, and contains much tuneful music.The acting, the singing, all were good.1 have pMa@ my good two doHars fifty often- .Mmes for something very much .worge.Mrs Walter Mathewson was the star of the evening, though for vocal honors Mrs.Charles BE.Delage \u201cvirtualy tied with her.But Mrs- Mathewson had the most work to do and had to carry the burden of the feminine acting part on her most \"capable shoulders.She acquitted herself wonderfully well and, though I hope she will remain in amateur ranks, she would grace any musical comedy performance.Mrs Delage won her way to the hearts of the audience by her beautifu! singing, especially in her duet with Mr.Arthur Saucier, who made an idea: Captain Gilroy, manly, robust, and sincere.His fine voice was perfectly handled and he scored heavily, Mr, James A.Beal and Mr.Walter Voilick were to the fore the evening through as the Emperor and FExeou- tioner respectively and, as some other critic has sald, gave the\u2019 true Gilbertian touch to their presentation of the characters they rapresent- ed, Mr, Beal is rich\u2019'y unctuous in bis fun-makirg and Mr.Voliick invested his part with that grim, sardonic type of humor that appeals to the child in every man and the man in every child.One of the gems of the performance was that of Mrs.Lavine Somerville Sloan as the Duchess of Rosedale.This lady i8 no amateur, surely; if she Is she seed not be much longer.She is a comedienne of very high merit and every moment she was on the stage was one of undiluted joy.The Carl Neville of Mr, Lenny.who 1 understand {ls from Hami't: and bopped into the part at hort rotice, was a plece of good work, although Mr.Lenny gave evidence of nervousness, quite understandable under the circumstances.He played the lover well and in his duet with Mrs.Mathewson won many a malden\u2019s heart besides that of Sang Foy.Of the others I single out Miss Genevieve Finney, of Hollywood, whose dancing was one of the marvels of the evening.Slight of figure, beautifully formed, she danced with a grace and an abandon that were artistically perfect, Her partner fn this dance, the ido} whom her dance brings to fe, was well done in the hands nf Mr, Ross Maicolm.Vincent Murphy as the Court Jester made a good \u201cfool\u201d of himself and gave much delight to his many friends in the audience, making a host of new ones in the bargain.To Miss Alma Milne for her Mausette in \u201cA Summer Phantasy\u201d must also a large mead of praise be given: she made it one of the features of a notable performance by her undeniably clever presentation, ; K % x .But frankly, it was young Montreal that gave me the greatest delight.Those young folks, the boys and girls who appeared as Canadian Beauties and Yachtsmen, Geishas, Poppies, Happy Jappys, Chrysanthemums, Promenaders, and Country \u2018Yokels (that Barn Dance was great!) \u2014they were the elephant\u2019s eyebrows, the cat\u2019s whiskers, and the canary's toe nails, all right.It was they who took me out of dear old, dirty Montreal for three hours, or thereabouts, Once I found myself feeling the top of my head to see if the lost hair had come back; I felt young again.And as for the lady who goes to the theater with me, well, we were both back in the old courting days, in sunny and shaded English lanes, walking hand in hand inhaling the scent of May Blossoms, and we both came away feeling that some - 1 HE AXE, FRIDAY.MAY, 11th, 1923 LET'S HAVE MORE ENGLISH FILMS A most significant experiment is being made in Canada, one that is fraught with great consequences to the moving picture industry and to all of us Canadians and, especially to Canauian playgoers, We refer to the importation and exhibition: of English-made films by the Allens, the pictums having their first local run at the Allen Theatre, under Mr.George Roteky's aggressive management, During the current week \u201cDick Turpin's Ride to York\u201d, one of the old country\u2019s classical stories, the delight of our boyhood days in the circus, is being shown, This follows \u201cA Royal Divorce\u201d and many other standard English favorites which have been filmed over there and are now being presented to us in Canada.Mr.Rotsky is authority for the statement that his principals are prepared, if necessary, to lose many thousands of dollars in introducing and firmly planting these English-made films in Canada and that so far their experiment had been a great success, That there will be no loss on the experiment, we are satisfied; that the artistic and sentimental, or patriotic.if you will, gain will be great, we are equally certain.ENGLISH CATCHING UP After all, it does not much matter where a picture is made 80 long as its theme, photography, and acting are artistically satisfying.We should prefer American pictures if they were better than British-made ones.Until now the American producers have had a handicap in their favor becauses war conditions have prevented the English, as well as other European picture preducers, developing the moving picture, Now the war is over and, undoubtedly, earnest efforts will be made by old country producers to cater to their own people and place the moving picture industry there on as high a plane as it has reached in the United States.That they will reach and surpass the American producers we have no shadow of doubt.England is more inherently artistic, more thorough and painstaking than America and its acting on a very much higher level than acting is on this side of the Atlantic.As for the atmospheric conditions over there proving any serious obstacle to the production of good pictures, a plea we frequently hear, there is nothing to it, The English have a way of overcoming difficulties and turning them to advantage.For proof of the little hindrance to the filming of good pictures in England an examination of the Dick Turpin film at the Allen this week will suffice.OUR BRITISH HERITAGE Wiat interests us mostly in this matter is that her Canada we suffer too much from the prevailing and almost unavoidable Americanisation that is incessantly eating into the fabric of our nationalism and our Britishism.We like America, we of The Axe, and we like the American people, But, after all, we are Britishers first and our loyalty is to our own people, our own institutions, and ideals.Canada is not made more British but less by the never-ceasing propaganda of American-made films, We prefer to see the British Flag to the Stars and Stripes in our moving pictures, if there are to be any flags shown at all.In other words, if Canada is not to be a mere adjunct to the United States, if our people are to rema.n Britishers in spirit and purpose, and if our attachment to the Motherland is not to be a vague and nebulous thing we must counteract propaganda, however little it may be intended as propaganda, by something more effectively British.There is so much that is fine and strong in the British Theatre, so much of its tradition that is a part of every Britisher\u2019s heritage, which the moving picture can convey to Britain\u2019s sons and daughters across the seas that, apart from the ties of patriotic sentiment that shonld make us ready and glad to encourage British-made films, we shall all be enriched by being able to share with the old country the masterpieces of the screen that are now at our service, So here's wishing the Allen experiment success.~ GINGHAM GIRL MOVES \u201cTre Gingham Girl\" will have several changes when that musical comedy moves from the Earl Carroll Theater, New York to the a Central Theater next Monday night.Jane Richardson will succeed Helen Ford, who is to appear shortly in \u201cHelen of Trey.\u201d Midgle Miller replaces Louise Allen.Rita Bel} wilt also join the cast.Russell Mack will close his engagement with this company at the end of the week.MORE ACTS THAN PLACES TO ACT IN \u201cFOLLIES\u201d ADDITIONS From a reliable source it Is iearn- ed that Ziegfeld is prepared to replace Will Rogers and Gallagher and Shean if these players leave his \u201cFollies.\u201d It 1s said that he is angling for Eddie Cantor to take Rogera\u2019 place and that Walter Catlett and Leon Erroll are slated to Join the show when \u201cSally\u201d closes on May 19.OE \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 of the burden of the years had falien from us &nd we were young again.Those young people will never be able to estimate how much good NEW SHOWS DOWN IN NEW YORK \u201cSYLVIA\u201d TRIBUNE: \u201cWhile we feel sure that \u2018Sylvia\u2019 is pretty Lad, we shall not MY se.considering the opposition of its circumstances.\u201d \u2014Percy Hammond.TIMES: \u201c11.much a play there is in| they are doing \u2018this week at His Majesty's.They are not only helping the Crippled Kiddies and the Elk\u2019s Charities but they are lighting up, for many of us with touches of golden sunlight the dull grey lives we live.Oh, to be young again like those young Montrealers, to have their grace, their spirits, their sheer love of living! !Go and see them, young and old alike, and the young who go will catch a something that will sweeten and broaden their unfolding lives, while the older ones will wear the mantle of springtime, if for oné night only, and renew their youth like the eagle's.JOHN H.ROBERTS.\u2014 TT Hundreds of vaudeville acts have left show business in the past two years as a result of the congested conditions which developed when the post war slump set in, a survey of this particular branch of the amusement industry shows, A prox minent vaudeville executive said this week that the great overabundance of acts which was disclosed by a semi-official research last year has been reduced to a noticeable extent since then.A survey made at that time brought to light, the fact that there were approximately twice as many acts as there were spots for them in the various theaters employing this type of entertainment, \u201c 2 of .7 im 1 Be ».ip ATER ia tan obviously no acope for acting of note.For ence it may be sald without hyperbole that the cast was adequate.\u2014 John Corbin, SUN: \u201cEven at a spring showing, when the standard of new plays is hardly un high as earlier in the\" season, \u2018Sy)vla\u2019 makes little impression.\u201d GLOBE: \u201cA poor, thin, little piece of artificiality, badly acted.\u2019\u2014Ken- neth Macgowanx nN wm \u201cAS YOU LIKE IT\u201d TIMES: \"It was in many ways an Mnpressive occasion and In some ways highly notable, but dy and large it seems likely to be the kind of Shakespeare production that is plaised with faint damng\"\u2014John Corbin, HERALD: \u201cPhe piace was \u2018As You Like 1t', which, with earnest of- fort and Mberal expenditure, has for this occasion been made into a mighty good-looking bore.\u201d\u2014Alexan- der Woalcott, GLOBE: \u201cAn ambitious and skillful revivi] which tapers off like the play into something rather tedious.\u201d \u2014Kenneth Macgownn.POST: \u201cExcept in occasional details, it was not a satisfRatory re- presentution of \u2018As You Like It'!\"\u2014 J.Rinken Towse, .# +8 \u201cTHE DEVIL'S DISCIPLE\u201d GLOBE: \u201cAn excellent play, tho not Shaw at his best, slowed up a little and then breezed into success by a splendld piece of acting\u201d \u2014 Kennetht Macgowan, TIMES: \u201cThanks to an admirable performance by the Theater Guild, it scored ore of the few comedy hits of the seasen and seems likely to run merrily thru the summer.\u201d John Corbin, HERALD: \u201cIt is an exceedingly competent production that the Guild |] has managed of this genuinely en- (tertafring play.\" \u2014-Alexander Woolcoit POST: \u201cThe Guild has assembled a competent cast for the play and the production is generally satis- fa: tory *\u2014J, Ranken Towse, *|MR.HERBERT MARLER, M.P, 8T.LAWRENCE-ST.GEORGE, MONTREAL.labour unions, your idea, sume, being to so arrange that it would operate to the detrie ment of the working man and pres clude him from the right to organe {sation which he now epjoys.lé that is your view we are glad tg see you place yourself on record to that et- tect.But do not be surprised if you find that the working men of your constituency have formed s combine against you when next you present yourself to them for election.that's that 8Sir;~In speaking on the Combines Bill in the House at Ottawa you made your attitude Labour very clear when you asked that the Act be so constructed as to bring within its scope the various to Organised we pre.the law Ang THE AXE, \u201cHOW COME?\u201d TIMES: \u201cIt was simply a bad snow, and.despite the all-Negro cast, no more à Negro show than \u2018Blue Jeans was à study in sawmills.* ; .HERALD: \u201cTre whale \u2018enterprise seems to be depressed Ly someone's effort to make it more like the average Broædway musical comedy.\u201d \u2014Alexander Woolcott.EVENING WORLD: \u201cWe think \u2018How Come\u201d is in mary ways as good as \u2018Liza\u2019 just by way of comparison, and better than a good nay other colored shows we, have seen.\u201d EVENING SUN: \u201c \u2018Bow Come?as it stands pleased an overflow first-night audience so thoroly at there were far more encores than scheduled numbers.\u201d SALLY CLOSES MAY 19 \u201cSally\u201d will play an extra week in Milwaukee at the close of its engagement in Chicago May 13, making a totad run of 123 weeks, With the exception.of Marilynn Miller, who will go to California for the summer, the entire\u2019 company will return to New York.\u201cSally\u201d will reassemble September 3 for another season, \u2019 ILLINOIS MAY BAN ALL SUNDAY SHOWS, The IMinuis legislature has before it a bilk to prohibit Sunday Pperformances of all ekinds except \"sacred concerts\u201d and \u201cservices of a moral \u2018or religious nature con-] ducted in good faith by a religious organization\u201d on Sunday and providing a penalty for violation of fines up to $500 and imprisonment of six months.After ene conviction the manager's license would be suspended for 30 days ahd his theatre closed for that period.' The prohibition covers any entertainment, show, carnival, dance or sport entrance to which js paid by admission fee or at whith a free-will offering is asked or accepted and the violation operates against any person who uses or permits to be üsed for such punposes, Three Last Nights \u201cMaid of Wistaria\u201d IN AID OF THE Charity Fund.250 Cast.Box Seats, $2.50 Acclaimed by.Critics Wonderful Entertainment.His Majesty's Theatre School for: Crippled Children and the Elks Montreal People in the Tickets from 50c to 1.50 \u2018 any property under his control, Ÿ \u201c., 2 SALE [ am overstocked with with Spring goods, and to make room for my Summer goods Twill sacrifice every suit and coat\u2019 at less than cost price, \u2018This Week STYLISH STOUTS Sizes up to 52.from 12.75 to 19.75 HELENE .BROWN.732a St.Catherine St.West Special Silk Dresses .Near Guy, \u2014 RAMA=VAUDEVILLE=PICTURES- MAY BE A COMBINE AGAINST MARLER NOW À TRS AXE, FRIDAY, NAY, 11th, 1923 Pige 8° CHIPS FROM THE EDITOR'S AXE THE PARADOX OF CHURCH UNION, Boy\u2014\u201cWhat ls \u2018Union\u2019, father?\u201d Father\u2014\u201c \u2018Union\u2019, my son, is what divides the churches.\u201d THE AXE AT HIS MAJESTY'S, |m di There are no less than eight axes displayed in the performance of \u201cThe Maid of Wistaria® at His Majesty's Thebter, Montreal, this week.If the eight young ladies who are entrusted with them could only be induced to display their charms and The Axe together at the city newsstands, gee! what a circulation Wwe should get.The theatrical crit.fcs of the other local Newspapers, we understand, are a little sore that Montreal's youngest live newspaper should have been singled out for this large ameunt of free - advertising.But, we should worry! THE.NEED FOR \u201cTHE AXE\".\u201cConditions in Montreal seem to justify the publication of such a fearlessly outspoken paper as \u201cThe Axe\", says the Richmond County (N.8.) Record.We go further ourselves and say that conditions not only justify it, but necessitate it, as our esteemed contemporary from Cape Bgeton would soon discover if hy were to Mve in this community for a few months, A STANDARD JOKE.From time to time \u201ccampaigns\u201d are started in Montreal, and whenever these campaigns show signs of having caught on with the public it iy noticed that The Standard promptly appropriates them, and in fact, lays claim to parenthood.Thus .Standard accepting responsibility for the crusade against the Vice Dstrict, which is now boosted in print as \u201cThe Standard\u2019s Campaign\u201d.It would not surprise us, a year from now to see the Atholstan Saturday Rag talking about the success of the campaign for the five cent carfare \u201cfought by the Standard\u201d.It is to laugh! THE KRUPP SENTENCE.Francé took upon herself to invade the Ruhr because she feared the possible \u201cGerman menace\u201d \u201cfof however.WHERE DID THE CASH GO?-the future, In imposing imprisonments such as that given Dr.Krupp von Bhlen and other directors and managers of \u2018the Krupp von Bohlen and working upon the basis that hard feelings and racial enmity must Peace and understanding will never come to the peoples of Europe as long as revengefu! asininity such as this continues in the name of treaty-enforcement.lla THE BANK ACT.While the solons at Ottawa are engaged in considering changes to the Bank \u2018Act we trust that the / TAR AND FEATHERS 00 600 FOR HM The age-old story of two kinds of justice\u2014one for the rick and the other for the poor found a fresh setting this week at the-loca! morgué, A gray little woman, bowed under the grief and shame of the death of her only son, another victim of the dope traffickers, appealed to the morgue staff to learn what disposition \u2018had been made of her son\u2019s body.The coroner\u2019s jury had, only a few hours previously returned its verdict in the case, To hèr timid question, here is the reply she received i= ax Be + former the visitor deaux other di-jof her responsibility will not be overlooked.We want no more Bank scandals with investors losing half thy value, or worse, of their holdings while rectors and officials are described by the courts as \u201chonorable gentle- en.\u201d THE NICOLET \"ELECTION.Mr.Joseph Descoteaux has been handed the liberal nomination for the Nicolet Federal bye-election to be held to select a successor for the I member, now Judge Trahan, He is a farmer which makes his selection significant.The Liberal Party wants - EAUTIFUL BORDEAUX, ~A \u2018visitor to Montreal\u2019, when interviewed, has declared that Bor- 'deaux Jail is a palatial hotel when compared with some of the prisons across the pond Taking Pentonville in comparison, in our midst attempts to show that in every way Boris better.He did not say how Bordeaux compares with Pentonville in the quality or quantity crop, the -vermin and bug And while we are on the subject anyone know how much it cost.to build our \u201cshow prison\u201d or why?be fanned into flame at all costs.|have already asked many pertinent questions on this subject but have never received a satisfactory answer to our queries.posed to cost half a million dol- We know of at least four million dollars thdt were spent on the job._ TRUSTS INEVITABLE.The sanest contribution to the public demand for allocation of-debate on the Anti-Combines Bill Bordeaux Jail does rs \u201cDON'T STAND PESTERING ME WITH YOUR QUESTIONS.YOUR SON IS DEAD.YOU HAVE NO MONEY TO BURY HIM,AND IT IS NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS WHERE HE WILL BE BURIED.GET OUT AND DO NOT BOTHER ME.YOU WILL NEVER SEE HIM AGAIN!\u201d \u2018 The dead boy was Lawrence Dennery who had died in The Montreal General Hospital a day or two before.They say that in Canada rich and poor are treated alike, But we say and solemnly declare that had the visitor to the morgue been the mother or wife of a prominent Montrealer over whose dead body an inquest _had just been held there would have been bowing and scraping, mock sympathy and\u2019 crocodile tears for her in grief, whereas all that no Progressive movement in Quebec.\u201cCodlin\u2019s your friend, not Short.\u201d THE WOMEN'S VOTE.The Montreal Herald proclaims that it will be a long time before Mr.Meighen is forgiven for having saddled the country with women's suffrage.In other words someone must be fearing that the women's vote will have much to do with the next elections, It's 4 darned good thing for some people that the women of Quebec did not have votes in the last provincial general election, as the so-called proprietor of the same Herald can tell to his ser row.WEBSTER AT WORK.Senator Webster, of the Nova Scotian Steel and Coal Co., has been calling attention in the House to what he terms \u201cdisloyal statements\u201d made at public meeting at Calgary and at Sydney, Nova Scotia.We do not know the text of the statements referred to neither did we know that the Honorable Senator we see the Montreal|jhad any business interests in Calgary.in England.We It was sup- THE SANE VIEWPOINT ee MR.J.S.WOODSWORTH, M Pp.The Labour Member from Wianipeg struck the nail en the head when he dclarod that under existing coonemic conditions we are bound te be vie.timised by trusts.\u2018 wag that of Mr.J.S.Woodsworth, one of the two labor members, who recognised and afserted the inevitability of trusts and combines.If it were not for the false and misleading political economy taught in such institutions as McGill, where private enterprise is deified and worshipped, and where all economic teaching favors the exploitation of the many fer th, benefit of a few, our alleged statesmen would be well aware that economic evolution along competitive ™ lines\u2019 can have no other result than the trust ification of all industry.The consolation of the process lies in the fact that trustification when it faily will have readied the system for public ownership.LABOR AND IMMIGRATION, The London \u201cTjmes\u201d blames organised labor in Canada for the lack of immigration into Canada.Perhaps the London \u201cTimes\u201d does not understand that the \u2018workingmen of Canada are trying to protect their own jobs and wages and that they oppose immigration only because they do not want a lot of unemployed men dumped in Canada to compete for their jobs and lower their wages.Who can blame Canadian workers for this attitude?Certainly no man who believes it to be men's duty to protect and provide for their families, .It is of interest*to note that the barristers of England, according to cables dated the same as the \u201cTimes\u201d dispatch referred to, object to the Hon.J.M.Beck, former Solicitor General of the United States being plead a case on the ground that to do s0, is \u201cto take bread out of the mouth of an Englishman\u201d.Canadian workers object in like man- of Lawrence Dennery ,ih her hour of trial was a snarl spitted in her face by a human cur who should swing from the topmost strut of Victoria Bridge for his words.Jet Mrs, Dennery tell her story as she told it in our office, - \u201cOn Wednesday -we were moving from Vallee Street to 50 Dorchester Street West, and \u2018my son Lawrence was looking after the moving as I was out on a day\u2019s work\u2018 in the west- end of the city.When I came home at night I could not find Lawry, but I did not worry until late in the evening.At length someone came to see me, a chum of Lawry\u201ds to say that I was' wanted at the General fie that my boy was ill there.I went right over to the hospital and found my boy in ERT 7 \u2018 Ca 47° admitted to the English Bar toi out of.the mouth of a Canadiangored.\u201d ATHANASE FOR PARIS, Nr.L.Athanase David, K.C., Provincial Secretary, leaves for a (five weeks\u2019 holiday in Paris, France, next week, The most we can hope for is that our Editor may his lecture tour.Bon voyage, you'll get it, RACE TRACK GAMBLING.So long as race track gambling is permitted it seems to us that the Government should not try to strangle racing by excessive taxa.that may have something to re cult to understanding hands out of the race case stigma resting on it.WHERE ARE THEY BURIED?Athanase; THE AXE will be wait.[Quebec ing to welcome you back.We hope |Which went up over the rawnem tion, If the taxation imposed is|Who is doing something in the intended to be restrictive and to lic, or 4 sectional interest, of crush out racing, that is a policy|ing to the gallery.\u201cRed Pa commend it, But, so far, we have [on Monday, in regard to the pic not seen any desire on the part of [ing of thy Pensions Bosrd off the Government to prohibit racing, |by MacNeil of the Great War V.As it is the evident desire of the/rane Associationpowerz.that-tax to see racing con-|Patch\u201d, \u201cAnyone whe knows tinue it makes their policy of taxa-|nel Thompson, knows that he tion to extinction.the more diffi-[not to be stampeded by thea If the Provin-|actions of this nature\u201d.The jok cial Government had kept its grasp-|is that two days later the press track [ported that hte gallant colonel \u201ctill\u201d it would not have the Dunn been stampeded and had glorio Premier Tascherean has received [Batters is that it succeeded.ner to somebody taking the bread NEW JOBS FOR OLD.The Hon, William Pugsiey Its all a case of \u201cwhose ox is had a job ereated for him an cond - | missioner for investigating Wad Claims at $9,000 per year.Hon, Aurdle Lacombe, late M ter without Portfolio in the Q bec Government, most ingloriovel rejected by the people of Mon on February 5th, was mentioned the press as being slated for am visit Paris, Ontario, when be is on other new job, \u201cManager of Au mobile Traffic in the Province © The bow] of lau this appointment seems to ha killed it, Let Mr, Lacombe go to work; the people don\u2019t want Why should we have to find 4 for him?\u2018 PLAYING TO THE GALLERY, ! It is always easy to accuse a mag in the Montreal \u201cHerald\u201d, did Said\u201c withdrawn his forces to a safer st tegic position.What the picketi was about doesn\u2019t matter: w a deputation in reference to a pro- NEWSPAPER MONOPOLY.à posed Jewish.cemetery on Sherbrooke Street Eastwhere to bury the corpses of Febday.WHO PUT THE CLOCK BACK?mayor of Montreal, WREATHS ON SOLDIERS\u2019 GRAVES.wreathes of flowers are to be placed on the graves of soldier heroes in Montreal, as probably else- sleep their over the heroes who sleep would turn neglected by the grateful country they helped to save.could be accorded to the mother; less and often less.a ward there, unconscious, 1 stayed with him all night and all next day and, though he regained consciousness for a little while, he died that night.To-day I went to the morgue to see my boy, to kiss him once more before they took him, away from me forever.I wanted to find out where they would by burying him, for I haven't a penny myself and so cannot buy a grave for him, In the office at the morgue I found a man at a counter and I asked him where my boy would be buried.He told me that it was none of my business and that 1 should nevet see him again, As I had no money to bury him myself the man said that it was none of my-affajr.any more and to get out and not bother him any more.Can\u2019t you help me?\u201d \u2018 a N pe Wig 1 7 Suffice it to say that we are > When this question is satisfactorily disposed! of, the Provincial Cabinet will turn! its attention to the question of Bill, ruary 5th, the provincial election 000 per year by the Govern Médéric Martin is reported to be less than scandalous, There is \u201cvery angry with those who put the much desire for monopoly in C: clock on.\u201d The people of Montreal ada.The country looks to the Lilfh are very angry with themselves for eral Party to do justice in ruc \u2018putting the clock of progress back cases as the one under notice, p when they elected Médéric Martin, lic funds being involved.- \u20184 -joccurred in Toronto In connection with\u201cVictoria Day month of April.Let us hope the | | where.It is al] right to do so, but junhappiness and shipwreck of live long in every case but that there is in their religious separation of the graves if they could but know how bers of the family which should hd some of their living comrades are as one in spiritual matters.Bi (?) {there is one God and Father of Let all, and only one Heaven, and us give the living wrecks some these complications will get straig flower-like treatment and cut out ened out in another world if n this damnable hypocrisy of feteing here.The fact that it is in Toron the dead while the living go work-'that so many mixed marriagas ha hungry and home-joccurred is significant.Mr, H.C.Hocken, M.P., did w raise the question of news monopoly in Parliament during discussion of the Anti-Combin| That any news associati subsidised to the extent of $5 should be able to say whether city like Ottawa should ,or sho not, have a new paper is not MIXED MARRIAGES.Twenty-eight marriages betwee; Protestants and Roman Catholic during thé » 4, = turn out well.Some mixed ma riages do, but others, the majo we fear, don't.Not that there men That {8 why we mention it.At doing our best for this poor mother, to ascertain just where the body of her son lies, and what can be done to prow.ide for his burial in a place where she can visit his grve and pour on the little mound the grief of a mother\u2019s heart.All that can be done is being done.But we cannot allow the occasion to pass without committing to paper, so that the record of it may live for al time, the wretched infamy of the cur who told that poor little mother that it was none.of her onyy boy had been laid to of her only boy been laid to rest.: There is no need for further comment, If this is the best we.can do for bereaved mothers in Canada when they happen to, be penniless, then pity help us for the complacent smugs we © must be.\u2014 We pue pes Page 6 PUBLIC TIL TAPPED DIVIDEND JRC.COMPETING ON NATIONAL RAILWAYS Dominion Express Company allowed to compete with! Ca Canadian National Express in Maritime Provinces.; LH ANE, F 10 PROVIDE P.À.SUBSIDIARY RIDAY, MAY.Hh, 1928 \u2014 1923 'WANTS LABOR UNIONS PUT UNDER THE BAN for four years, \u2014 Thornton hands rude jolt to\u2019 WF Beatty in serving eviction notice.Of course the C.P.R.ia not in politics, E.W, Beatty, K.C,, has said 80 But can Mr, Beatty or anyone else explain why the C.P.R.was permitted to keep its fingers in the till of the Canadian Government Railways for more than four years?À taxÆroaning Canadian publie was quietly informed during the course of the past few weeks, \u2014very quietly informed,\u2014that the Canadian National Railways had evicted the Dominion Express service from its lines.The announcement caused a considerable surprise not because of the fact that the Dominion Express Company had received a rude jolt, but because it was the first intimation that the great majority of the Canadian public was given of the fact that the Dominion Express Company, or, perhaps better, its parent the Canadian Pacific Railway was actually drawing a rich revenue from the public.owned lines.This, in competition with the Canadian public\u2019s own express service, NEVER EVICTED In 1918 the Intercolonial Railway became a part of the Canadian National system, which included the Canadian Northern Railway and the Canadian Northern Express.At that time both the Dominion Express Company, a subsidiary of the C, P.R., and the Canadian Express Company, a subsidiary of the Grand Trunk Railway operated their services in competition: Why did the federal authorities not immediately evict the Dominion Express Company and the Canadian Express from the lines and turn the business over to the Canadian Northern Express ?The inestimable value of having the Dominion Express service on the maritime division of the Canadian National Railways is only too patent.It broadcasted the merits of the ultra-service which the C.P.Rcould render its patrons.It actually placed the public lines in the position of actively advertising the merits and superiority of its competitor.PART OF THE PLOT -Why the outrage was permitted to continue for years is, to put it mildly, inexplicable, unless it is to be constru- eddn the plot which reached some considerable development at that time to turn the National railways over to the C.P.R.In the latter event the pro-C.P.R.gang evidently felt that the C.P.R.might just as well enjoy this illicit revenue a little while in advance, as it would ultimately enjoy it all when the lines were all handea over for the munificent dollar, Of course the C.P.R.was not in polities, as Mr.Beatty has given assurance but its interests were nevertheless carefully safeguarded by its ' Api iendly politicians while the anadian public was digging : fleeper and deeper into its.ST Eas pocket to pay C.N.R.deficits] | and C.I\u2019.R.surplus profits.SHEER INSANITY?If a business man invited his competitor into his store, | handed him the key to the! vault, and urged him to make\u2019 himself quite at home with\" everything\u2014even though he! knew the competitor's business.conscience and morals were of | a dubious standard\u2014he would be branded insane.Those who were responsible for the management of the Canadian National Railwavs could hardly be called insane.They were a well-known group of ardent anti-public ownership operatives of high reputation.Is there any connection?Is it still another piece of evidence of the conspiracy to eiiner dispose of the public lines piecemeal to the C.P.R,, or to wreck them and make their gift, holus bolus, to the C.P.R., more plausible?EXPLAIN PLEASE An explanation is due the public, If its till has been tapped; if those who were entrusted with the administration of the national service were unfaithful to their trust; if the C.P.R.was permitted to pick the public's pockets with impunity, then the public should know.Not perhaps that the knowledge will help reduce deficits but that the Canadian public may be on its guard against the giant octopus \u201cwhich is not in politics\u201d but which apparently has learned how to profit hugely by its abstention therefrom, The only consoling feature of the entire rotten business is that it gives the public still more confidence in Sir Henry Thornton.Sir Henry became the active head of the Canadian National Railways in December 1922.Since that time he has organised the Canadian National Express service and scrapped the duplicative Canadian Express Company, the former G.T.R.subsidiary, and the Canadian Northern Express which wasn\u2019t good enough to take care of itself, Sir Henry has given E.W.Beatty and the C.P.R.the first jolt they have ever really experienced in regard to the Canadian National Railways competition.It is to be hoped that it is but the first of a series.The C.P.R., for some time back, has been denouncing the campaign urging the public to patronise its own lines.The C.P.R.will doubtless denounce Sir Henry for daring to insist upon administering the lines entrusted to him.But.the Canadian public will do the judging, just as it has hitherto been doing the paying.WHERE HEADLINE AND NEWS ITEM DIFFER BRITISH RETALIATION Effective Counter-Blast to U, 8.- Liquor Ruling, As a private bill, however, it hag only the slightest chance of approval by the House.\u2014 Montreal \u201cGacette, May\u201d 9th, 1023.4 HERBERT \"MARLER, M.P.The member for the Montreal Constitueacy of St.Lawrence.St.George says that the Combines Act should be extended to include the unions of Organised Labour and as a result may expect to be the victim of a Labour Combinee himoolf on the cecasien of hi, next request for election.SALVATION ARMY HOSTEL DECLARED FILTHY BY READER Vermin in wholesale quantities is found by returned soldier sent to Metro-pole by Red Cross Society.(continued from page 3) the night, and | replied that | was, telling him that | had gone away because the bed bugs were too much for me.He said that he would like to see for himself, so | took him to my bed and showed him the condition of that mattress and all the others in the room.He admitted that \u201cthey were bed bugs alright\u201d and said that he was glad | had called his attention to them.It would take up too much valuable space for me to enlarge upon my visit to this \u201cRefuge,\u201d but | want to compliment you and Doctor Anderson upon the exposure of conditions in these places.There is only one way to remedy such things; by a complete change of staff and the employment of an efficient administration, and by closing the place up for fumigation and a general clean up.In any case | hope you are successful in having this disgraceful condition removed.Yours truly, i A.M.G.: # ou + Let us make ourselves quite clear in our attitude to the Salvation Army.We believe in, the Army, and know from our! own experience of many wonderful works it has performed all over the world.But itis our belief that the Metropole in Montreal-is not being conducted along true Salvation Army: lines, that the Army spirit of Brotherly Love and true charity is missing, and that those in charge are dealing a black eye to the finest \u201cwhite man\u2019s\u201d organisation on the face of the gloha, We are not \u201cdown on\u201d the Salvation Army,but we are \u201cdown on\u201d the manner in which the Metropole is being administered, and shall be un- ti] there is a change for the better in the mode of treatment accorded to those who come in search of succour.\u2014THE AXE, SPEAK UP, BARON!! | A \u201cdisinterested\u201d editorial on the abolition of hereditary titles is now due-from the Star.Arthur Ponsonby, a member of the British House of Commons, and of aristocratic lineage himself is sponsoring a movement to curtail the number of high- sounding titles.Naturally Lord Atholstan will disagree as he could not by any stretch of the imagination place himself in the position of Mr, Ponsonby who is a geritioman without an axe to grind > ne 1 MONTREAL BOXING COMMISSION GRANTS PERMITS TO PROMOTER WHO ALSO OPERATES HANDBOOK.'Solons of Fisticana would be well advised to ascertain class of man promoting prize fights.It is small wonder that the, \u201cfight game\u201d has fallen into such low repute in Montreal when one considers some of the people who have engaged, and still engage in fight promotion hereabouts, What, or who, could be more odious than the snivelling Moorehouse, for instance, who, thank fortune, has dropped out of the picture in recent months,and has since confined himself to the sale- and distribution of racing information from his headquarters on St.Denis Street not far above Ontario, .where he appeared to operate in total safety and without molestation from the authorities.A new arrjval in the field of fight promotion, however,, is one Moore, by profession a bookmaker, whose gambling headquarters is located on St.Denis Street not far from the abode of the Moorehouse milk- ing-station.Many complaints have reached us in the past few days, which in the main originate from our readers of French extraction, though letters have been received from many English-Canadian fight fans, who regard the dual- personality role of Mr.Moore as one which is not conducive to the good health of fisticana.In the Roy-Wilshire fight, for instance, which was the last show held under Moore\u2019s banner, Wilshire entered the ring a heavy favorite, the betting\" having opened at two-to- one in his favor, and closing at twelve-to-ten, largely, because of the excellent record behind him.Wilshire went to the mat for the full count in the second round and, it is ! said, a great amount of bett- ing-money changed hands after the tumult had ceased.AGAINST THE LAW Our attitude to bookmaking is well known.As a \u201cprofession\u201d it is against the law, and anyone engaging in that \u201cprofession\u201d is liable to, and should be accorded, the full penalty which the law provides.That rests with those whose duty it is to bring bookmakers to heel and see that laws are enforced.But when it comes to a bookmaker engaging in other businesses in which the public wagers heavily, and when that bookmaker- promoter may himself be holding large bets on the outcome of the event he promotes, it can readily be seen that, fronr the attitude of the interest of the sporting public, the two jobs do not fit; so that, even though bookmaking were legal, a man such as Moore should be forced by the Boxing Commission either to refrain from one job or the other.If the Boxing Commission is really out to protect the interests of the sport loving public, for which purpose it came into being, its members must assure themselves of the class of man to whom they issue fight permits, To give a permit to a bookmaker who might accept bets on his own fight, constitutes a grave scandal and leaves too many opportunities for public flim-flamming.If Moore is to remain a fight-promoter let him cease bookmaking.If he is to cease promoting boxing bouts the job of closing up his bookmaking establishment rests with the authorities, | Tuesday May \u201cMY STRUGGLE FOR May 17.Smiths\u2019 _HE WILL VISIT YOUR TOWN THE ENEMY OF GRAFTERS AND CROOKS FIGHTING JOHN H.ROBERTS THE ONLY MAN EVER JAILED BY SPECIAL W .JUST RELEASED FROM QUEBEC JAIL WILL OPEN A GOAST-TO-GOAST LECTURE TOUR IN THE NATION'S CAPITAL.OTTAWA (FAMILY THEATRE) May 16.Pembroke Town Hall ~ Kingston, Brockville, Oshawa, Toronto, Hamil \u201c \u201cton, London, etc., to follow.; {'WATCH FOR THE DATE ! | .+ HEAR TRUTH FOR A CHANGE !.15th, 8.30 p.m.JUSTICE IN QUEBEC\u201d Falls Town Hall. 4 censured for gross .had taken to discipline Lajoie, \u2018murders may be committed in .less \u2026 to deal promptly with Lajéie\u2019s i When Chief Belanger wgs 2A THE AXE, FRIDAY, MAY, 11th, 1923 WHY MURDERERS GO FREE MURDERERS SNEER AT POLICE FORGE: DÉTEGTIVES TOO BUSY WRITING THEIR MEMOIRS TO HUNT CITY S CRIMINALS Why is Lajoie given Special Protection when guilty of gross fails to take action.\u2014 insubordination?\u2014 Executive Committees Strange soar] at Head: quarters.precipitated by detective\u2019s pamphlet.Montreal detectives are vestea with powers which exceed those the late czar of Russia conferred upon his dread secret service.* % ¥ In Russia the police had the action would be taken, he volunteered :\u2014 \u201cIf the book is in circulation, some action MAY be taken later on, But, I am not in a position to say as I must consult the members of the Compower of life and death.- | mittee.\u201d Pa mE» Now, here is the strange bets jontreal they go one| \"Cf the situation.When \u2018 \"Ne the Chief was asked whether They enjoy the right to prejudice the true course of justice with apparent impunity.A Montreal detective enjoys the right to investigate a case.From his personal judgment, he may then publish pamphlets on the merits of the case, condemn the suspect\u2014 and all of this even before it is heard in court.Of course police regulations specifically prohibit such acts and the chief is fully authorised to summarily dismiss any public servant guilty of a breach of regulations.But then, regulations when broken by the police mean something totally different to the breach of an unimportant bylaw by a citizen, as the police are their own judges.# % à ] When Detective George Fa- rah-Lajoie published his version of the Delorme murder, the public was astounded that Lajoie should be permitted to remain in the service.At least he should have been publicly insubordination, for contempt of court and for criminally defamatory libel, Instead of this what has happened?.Lajoie is now specially attached to the Chief of Police, having been removei from the jurisdiction of the Chief of Detectives Lepage When THE VE asked Chief Belanger what action he he replied: \u201cWe haven't taken the matter up yet.\u201d .¥ mW If detectives may devote their timé to the writing of memoirs then, perhaps, the Montreal public .can discern the reason why three] n\u2019one-month in the heart of the city and the mur- Cerers in evety case escape scot- free.BE x \"an .: Is the Executive Committee ignorant of the fact that the Lajoie book been on sale for more than one month in public bookstores?.If it is, it is up to it either to resign or to fire the detective force, for incompetency.*Or is the failure of the lice offence simply.fresh evidence of unpardonable procrastina- tion\u2014perhaps the most flagrant breach of police efficten- cy?- y x Na ae pressed COREY iment ne ed to do anything of the appearance.- Lajoie had any justification in publishing opinions or facts which he gathered while on duty, the reply was:\u2014 \u201cOf course he should not have done it.He is not su por nd.WE DO NOT ALLOW OUR MEN TO DQ THINGS LIKE THAT.IN FACT IT IS STRICTLY FORBIDDEN.\u201d Certainly it is, but why Lajoie specially protected?x ¥ + is There is no question of THE AXE seeking special punishment for Lajoie.This detective has been rightly estimated as one of the most efficient in the service, But there is a greater principle at stake than the capabilities of any individual.It is a question of whether any innocent person may be défa- med by any detective without the least chance of the injured person securing redress or the author of the wrong being punished, \u2014 * Xx There is some mystery.about the whole transaction.= \u201c « *# Lajoie was forbidden in September last by Chief Lepage to publish anything concerning the Delorme case, At that time the Chief of Detectives learned of his subordinate\u2019s intention fo compile a booklet on the subject.What happened?The next thing Lajoie was tfansferred to the Police Department, immediately under Chief Belanger.Then the book made its \u201cna + Chief Lepage himself has personally denied concurring with \u2018any of the statements published.in the - book which concern either-himself or the other two detectives, Pigeon or Des Groseillers who also worked on the case.Furthermore Chief Lepage states flatly that he would .never have tolerated publication of the book had Lajoie been under his jurisdiction, In an interview the chief is \u2018| credited with saying that he has not read the book nor \u2018would do so unless ordered by the court when the case comes up for trial.-He add had, never Made any statement except-in court tegarding the | Delorme casë as Delorme had] not beer tried and .any statement made by the police, ex-| cept in court, might be highly | prejudicial to the interests of justice, He would not, further- t to say whether or not more, tolerate any such In.| American employer, \u201cbosses\u201d ed that he - or ti a # l\u2019age | \u2014 discretions in his department.a.Instead of spending their time writing memoirs might it not be well for public servants to devote more of their time and intelligence to their duties?The solution of the BEAUDRY, BARCLAY, ROY murders will be more highly appreciated by the public than the colored rehashing of evidence which had already been reported at extreme length in the daily newspapers.THE AXE has great confidence in Chief Belanger and believes in his integrity and his earnest desire to have efficient police administration.Believing in him, it is the more arxious to see him remove this blot from the police escutcheon, OMINOUS \u201cNICKEL\u201d \"ALARMS TRAMWAYS Montreal Tramways Company offices are flooded with the tears of Col.J.E.Hutcheson, the general manager, as a result of the fact that the public is actually threatened with being supplied with a slightly more efficient service than formerly.Between sobs, Col.Hutcheson, in an inspired public statement tells of the \u201chardship\u201d under which the company is laboring since the advent of the daylight saving fiasco.According to this official the company is losing between $1,0000 and $1,500 daily by supplying a more adequate service during the rush hours which are lengthened one in the morning and one in the evening by the clash in standard and daylight saving time, Isn't the colonel\u2019s wail timely, though?Doesn't he discern the wave of public opinion which will soon force the company to establish a legitimate FIVE-CENT FARE, and in his discernment begin, ever so astutely, to prepare the company\u2019s plea of near-bankruptcy under the present piratical fare?SHOE KING FLAYS BOSSES\u2019 TREATMENT OF OUR SOLDIERS.mn George F.Johnson, Yankee multi-millionaire, president of the world's largest shoe factories, scathingly denounces the money kings for what he calls cowardice in war and ingratitude to the returned soldiers.\u201cThe * ingratitude we have shown our soldiers in our treatment to them since we rhave felt safe and secure\u2014aft- er we got over our fright\u2014 seems to me a blot grace on our civilization,\u201d says in a letter to a friend.\u201cWe promised the boys consideration when they went abroad to fight our battles and save our skins\u2014incidentally our wealth, ; 0 .\u201cWe were frightened then.Capital was alarmed.We fear- he to Germany.We couldn\u2019t find a wealthy man who wasn't pa- triotie, full of love for the soldiers, willing to do anvthing to help buy the things the soldiers needed to fight with, \u201cIt\u2019s a fine talk, this dying for .others, provided someone -else is doing the dying.\u201d : * ih .So speaks Mr.Johnson.That js how he feels \u2018towards the \u20ac =, x * a and a dis-.ed we would be paying tribute CANADIAN BANKS FORCE CANADIANS OUT OF BUSINESS These are hard times for the \u201clittle fellow\u201d in business.He hasn't any money, and cannot seem to find any anywhere.As for his banker, the job of financing through that legitimate source has failed almost entirely, for the banks which, ostensibly, are in business to make money by lending the publics savings to finance timate business enterprises of their clients, have closed the door to the small merchant or manufacturer who seeks to finance his turnover through the customary financial channels.The result has been that many small and medium-sized firms have been forced to close their doors or reduce production and sales to the irreducible minimum, because the banks of Canada are using public money not for the legitimate financing of Canadian enterprise, but for the financing of huge corporations in which their own directors have an interest and to assist in boosting the business of the United States by lending millions in New York which should be used for the devel- opement of Canada, and for no other purpose.What is the result?Despite the fact that \u201cboom days\u201d have come again to the United States Canada is still in the throes of business pessimism with no signs of a rift in the lute.If it goes on, the day is not far off when there will be about five corporations in business in Canada whose products we shall be forced to buy because they will be practically the only products on the market.Competition will be dead, and we shall all be working for the small few huge groups which are strangling the industrial life of this country with their policy of \u201cgrab, grab, grab\u201d.Which is fine for the banks and the aforesaid economic groups, but a mighty dangerous thing for Canada\u2019 DIVORCEES MAKE POOR PARTNERS, SAYS JUDGE If yeu marry a divorced person.the chances are your matrimonial bark will hit the rocks, according to judge George S, Addams of the Cleveland Juvenile Court.Judge Addams has passed upon thousands of cases of conjugal infelicity In his vears on the bench.\u201cIf a woman can't live with one man, she isn't going to make a success of married life with another in most cases,\u201d Judge Addams said.\u201cOf course, in cases where the husband desegs his wife for no legitimate rensdn, the rule doesn't apply, but most divorces are the result of petty guarrels in the home.\u201cThe rule applies to.man as we'l as women.The practice of jumping froin one mate to another immediately after- the divorce decree is granted is growing more common and \u2018is disastrous to the home, | .\u201cNames on aur divorce docket are duplicated not once DIt Many \u2018times, I always ask whether the contracting parties in a \u2018divorce suit have been married fore.and \u2018he is astonishing rumber whe have Ee _] of a country whose troops spent only a few short weeks at the front.Canadian-born lads spent four vears and more to beat the common toe.When they enlisted flags waved and \u2018promises galore were made by those whosg skins our soldiers went to protect.Few of those promises have been redeemed.| \u2018necessary?» = pese rm To-day there are few Canadian employers who want to hire returned men! Jo comment VERDUN MOELLS WRECK SOO Is Trustees\u2019 Spleen Cause of Smith Tangle?The Verdun school muddle adds another chapter to the indictment of the Quebec system of appointing schoo! trustees who are not directly responsible to the public which supplies the money for the operation of the lower educational institutions, The Verdun trustees, without giving any explanation te the taxpayers summarily dis missed Principal Ernest Smith under circumstances which point to extreme high-handed- ness, Mr.Smith was given some five minutes notice to vacate the school building and forbidden even to say goodbye to his subordinates.This was the reward of fifteen years of reputedly efficient service.Unless the trustees can prove serious charges against Mr.Smith their action remains open to the suspicion that it was prompted by motives of tvranny and petty persecution of a zealous official who refused to be subservient to the whims of an arbitrary body.Meanwhile the Verdua school is to continue without the services of an active head, although the trustees have ve- ted Mr.Smith the salary he would have received had he continued to the end of tie term, Would these trustees have acted in a like manner had they been handling their own money?Or, again, would they have dismissed Mr.Smith, apparently without reaso:., and pay him for services which he is forbidden to render if the trustees had been electea instead of appointed?School trustees are entrusted with the expenditure of huge sums of public money.Why are they not elective here as in other provinces?Why are the provincial authorities permitted to usurp - control of an administrative department which is purely / local in character?The .community which establishes and maintains its own schools should surely be allowed to control them.Had this been the case, Verdun ratepayers would not have had their school system suddenly disorganised without good and sufficient reason.NO TYRANTS WANTED The following wisdom war uttered by the Manchester Guardian in reference to Mussolini, the ltalfan tyrant.It might be studied io great advantage Ly the ex-members of the Quebec Legisiature to say ,no- !'thing of the Government:\u2014 i\u201d \u201cThe common man or woman may not have a scientific definition of à iyrant to offer offhand, any more than he has ready a scientific\u2018definition of an elephant.But he knows an aephant when he sees one.and when he sees somebody smash \u2018to | vieces whatever little machinery à \u2018country possesses for governing itself in peace.and govern it himself ' , with a big stick and the aid of a few | | we'l.armed friends, he knows pretty well that a tyrant is once more the | object before him.And, whatever beautiful and untyrannical senti< | ments the new tyrant may profess, + he will remind himself that, with the doubifui exception of Nero, none ot | the od tyrants ever failed to do the | same.\u201d ; re, The Axe is published by Joha Mar Roberts and printed by The Axe > Publishing Company, Limited, 20., + St, James Streot, Montreal, =\" os LOVE NOT MONEY FOR MARRIED BLISS ey 0 com pme THE AXE.FRIDAY, MAY, 11th, 1923 Tore 8 FLAT OF OFFICER'S WIFE WAS RAIDED these -girls, surely you would realise | vasn't easy to remain pure and un- (from prison, if convictd.- dpat they.above all others in theldefiled, By no means.\u2019 Indeed they [everything is made certain that the .a : 4> > ,yorld, are the girls se should Je had fearful struggles.fesisting the women will be available for houses ADMISSION, including tax - : $1.25 XW _ @fate to harm?Few gir:s go OUL tOlovertures of vile and Déstial man- of ill-fame upon their liberation Child d 16 not admitted : i work for fun these days, you know.lkind.Life was just one great strug- \\ ben yhiidren under not aami ea.% \"Hundreds of girls are slill either gle.The names of the self-respecting ; oo ; \u2018 ; Precariously holding their own in|\" And so on: high falutin' on.men of affairs who are caught with - \u2014 .- ;, WORKING GIRL PROTESTS BUSINESS MEN =2:\"5.-4255 2 NOT ALL CADS AND DECLARES GIRLS * ACCORDED TREATMENT THEY INVITE Every business woman subjected to occasional insult, va says woman journalist, who brands stories of ever- .lasting caddjshness as piffle.BY MISS JANE DOE Goma along the Strand the other day, | carght sight of the .ollowing wheerCul poster of à certain magasine es to phyaical culture.little piece, or awe she's Naa ak ing bad luck, which later ' vun hardly believe possgbie One or two unfortumtis cmeount.ors, yes, But six years of them vi Kind, a decent gel would I doorsteps or tke in washing.| +* + | In any case its no use writing {wub letterw tv business men, Haug- 10K About waiting for chivalry and jdecency to sprout in the hearts of philanderers and cads won't do the | triok.* | And the only independence and dignity in business life is à noddie full of useful, marketable accom- phishments.Let these young women spend (heu Ume to better advantage, and limprove themselves.Read useful books.Cut out wishy-washy amuse- | ents and useless friends Let them (ut jazz by night and stack by day.; And any of tham who are \u201cpre- variously holding their own in business life\u201d had Letter do a little serious thinking.The real problem, as far as ! can see it, ls not that these men are so benally but that tho office girls are clean Frans Otto Willenbucher, U.8.A., attached ¢o the battleship Arkansas, at the Brooklyn Navy Yad, wna tho star witness before Supreme Court Justice Leonard A.Glergerich for his brother officer, Iieutenant Rolin V.A.Falling, at the trial of the latter's action to divorce his beautiful young wife, Marjorie W.Fulling.His bushand's charge Hnked her name with that of étuart Bell, who she sald in an affidavit, rent- cd a room in her apartment at Noil Tiemann place.Ehe agplied to Justice Bijur for mitted affidavits contradicting l.leu.tenant Faikng's charge and bearing out her own accumations against ber husband.Among the latter was a sensational story of the alleged court-martial of lieutenant Iwiling in 1919 on charges af intoxication and conduot urbecoming an officer, following his visit to a cafe on the Axore Islands, alimony and counsel! fees and sub-| lave and dove alone ls the bait Wharantee of a bappy married lity, in the opinion of Miss Jose (\u2018ollinx, noted actress and star of one of the most suocosaful plays now being performed on the londom wtage.The advice given by De.J.C.Main, a New York ghyalcian, that people should \u201cmarry for money or social poultion-but not far love,\u201d led Miss Calling to fly to the defense of the marriage that is founded on the deepest affection.She ridiculed the idea that the banihook showdd re- piace the wedding ring as the symbol uf succesgful matrimony, \u201cThe advice of Dr.Main seems reminiscent of that given by the canny old ficot to his son\u2014only mors so\u201d said Miss Collins.\u201cThe Boot said: \u2018Don\u2019t marry money but marry where money ia\u2019 Dr.Main goes oe better, He mays: \u2018Don't marry for love, marvy where money is.\u2019 LAUGHS AT THEORY, \u201cAnd the laughter of all the happy IMMORALITY IN CITY OFFICES.\" { end?Oh piftle, 50 8 mar orèd AL ) .pineless.\u2014Jane Doe in the Manf bought a copy, and was concern- \u201c *- chester Sunday Chronicle.where he flirted with a native gir! Ticd lovers ait the wockd over vil i : and got into a disgraceful fight with [drown this truly ridiculous theory.jea to lind that the genesls of it dat-| You do hear of thks happening her eacort.He was sentenced to be| \u2018Don't enerry for love! What ad- bach to a letter to the e@itor [In offices.Thers tres oversexed reprimanded by the then Nocretary |Vice to give to a young girl who bas creatures all over the place, Bul of the Navy Danieds, according to|found the most wonderful boy ia om 4 young woman whom it would Eo flattering to call à poor ~ Her plaint was that during the x of the six years she had been her own sbe had not met one decent man, and bitterly asked the \u2018Wuestion, \u201cAre ali men rotten?\u2019 This latter, iL appears, attracted e interest among the readers of 6 magazine, \u201cwho expressed sym- y with this lonely girl and of- her the right hand of com- there events generally mean someot.getting pitched out ad very pulck- y.: And if men ace aometlimes weak fools where their passions are concerned, they are.very rarely fools where their business iutarasa are al stake.Few cun afford to foui their own doosteps, If they've a funey for ilitojt philandering it's done outmide, not inside the offive.It is true that there are males who are not to be trusted aibne with a yourg girl but 1 don\u2019t helieve there are enough of thase ovea in the big cities to enable one to say that RED LIGHT PENNIES PAY STAR DIVIDENDS Commercialised virtue in Montreal is rapidly forging to the forefront ag a worthy rival of the muéh- advertised commercialised vice.It is a case again of history repeating itself.Every honest, sincere reform movement ever launch- Mrs.Fuiling's affidavit.Justice Bijur denied alimony to Mrs Fusling, When the case was called for trial Attorney Harry Steinhardt asked à postponement because Mrs.Failing was not in caurt.4 Lieutenant Willenbucher told Justice Glegerich a very sprightly story of how he and four others, including Failing, raided Mra.Fulling\u2019s aguet- ment at about § o'clock in the mor - ing of January 29 last by breaking down the door.The fact that the \u201cunknown man\u201d found there was Mrs.Falling\u2019s roomer, Stuart Bell, was not broughh out by Lieutenant the world! What advice to give to a young man\u2014dfather to a son\u2014when all the world has been transiigured by eomebody's eyes, somebody's voice, somebody's Wipe! \u201cMarriage ao far as is humanly possible, must be based on something salid.Which is better, money or love?Money wan de lost in a thousand ways, and if the marriage haa no other sanction, what an ap- paling plight, then, for both partners to it No sympathy, no gen- tlenemp\u2014in ahort\u2014no love, \u201cIt would be cant, of course, to pretend that money has no place at al) in the scheme of things.Money whip.\u201d she's had six years oxperience of But sinc iti t \u2019 | \u2018 î Falling\u2019s counsel, Carl J.Mengel, al- 4 aince writing that first letter | same, « +4 + ed has soon found itself hobbled though Bell himsex Eg thes out diéricuitios.But 9 has again \u2018suffered an expe.AR and shackled by \u2014 undesirabl@ |aéridawit previously filed in court |it cannot give us the greatest thing ce at the hands of an employer 0 triad to encompass her moral ,\u201d with the grievous result that baz now lost whatever faith she seased in men, She has \u201cbecome hearitsiok and weary with her ex- ences that she feels she can \u2018Bfver vecome intimate with any K and does not wish to marry.\u201d sho desires to do is just \u201cto » pern her own living and preserve her WEnity and independence.\u201d Wear me, this a grave matter, 3 J£ this girl has had six years of Waist she is likely to have six, even Sixty.years more of it, i { #*® *% Xk ¢ 1 feel genuinely sorry for the girl evertheless, hut befc \u2018 I go round th the hat ior the wherewithal to tgpatoh the disillusioned one to , e desert isle or an Adamless Men, 1 have two more quotes for from the same source, 0.1, From the district organiser Sheffield of the National Unlon Clerks and Typists.© muakos serious allegations the treatment of women and typists, \u201cRecently,\u201d he Ays, \u201cwe have had more complaints than we should like to think about from voune girls of base and \u2018m- suggestions made to them, and yen attempts at \u2018molestation.We @gadise !hat these cases are the ex- ,&éption and not the rule, but unfor- Hip such cases are growing far ço numerous, Many girls are afraid tô report the offendens because of alse maiesty.fear of losing their positions.and also hatred of pub- ficity.\u201d or Js an extract from \u201cA ht Talk to Business Men,\u201d Mpropos of all that's gone before.fori won't you business men eave business girls alone?If you had a little imagination, just a grain of chivalry, in your thoughts about iness life, or else seeking to get again, simply because the boys y would have married by now t under in the war, to keep you, iness men, afloat.Doesn't a t to\u201d .undreds more of these girls are or widows They ought, you will pt y.to know what they are doing.| A : ._ or - They do.and many of them have to Falling the desort isle or the ing them with the names of addicts A - Montreal, PQ.A : ; Adamless Eden, she'd best get her to th : à.h Foe | Co \u2018 Aa Ve way to theXsolicitations of em- a nunneey for the rest of her days.and at the same time Bives the so SIR, .Se .y called ring.full warning of those tons d me a copy of \u201cTHE AXE\u201d every week for ene year, i@lôyers in order to supplement the sagre Ciovernment pension which politicians talk so glibly about re- « + * And now I think we'll go round the hat, leaving our bestial ness man sobbing biterly with orse on his roll-top.course, it's -a bit difficult to a girl seriously who has had \"years of city life and swears Phe is either, à curious-minded Loo a found not a single decent man.r ses fear of losing her position, and Every girl born into che worst is liable at some time or other to clash with this horrid type.Just as every boy born into the world, is itable to the perils of fast women and \u2018dack- mail.And this unhappy \u201c\u2018ulventure van happen anywhere.In affbres.In homes.On the stage.In the studio.In no walk of Life and work \u2018se a woman immune.Her chances of :n- sult are just as great as she crosses the village green to buy a loaf - of bread, as if she closeted herself with a man in an office marked Private\u2019 But there are not s0 many 4 ham that it's hard work to steer lear of them, Jf this were not so, why, sood Heavens, life would not he worth living for nine-tenths of uw.It's been my experience that men in the main treat a girl the way she wants to be treated.And that\u2019s about all à girl can expert.The rest ls up to her.x\u201c mo It is rather difficult to understand the mentality of anyone who, suffering such horrible thinga, writes to an editor about it.Most business women could tell an unpleasant tale or so, but they don\u2019t, because they know very well these things are not everyday oovur- rences in the life of anyone, and fur every bad job of this sort there are a thousand good ones.I remember an article I ounce wrote for these columns on the work - ing girl's virtue.I said something about virtue coming easy to her because she never thought of anything else.She was virtuous because it was natural for her to be virtuous.There was certainly no stroug- gle about it.My! You should have peeped into my posibag the days following that issue.Scores of indignant and virtuous spinsters wrote to inform me that it They protested, so I thought, ike Shakespeare's lady, à bit too much.What did they want\u2014meduis?These gins who wrote to me were no doubt virtuous and sweet, and all that, but they crowed about it.Which was very second class of them.So much for our six year\u2019s martyr.The world, particularly the business world, is not made for young ladies who say with their Now the most pathetic part about the letter from the Sheffield gentleman fy not that the giels who've made complaints are in danger of getting the glad and bad eyé, but that \u2018they appear to be in far more danger of getting the sack.No clerk who \u201cis afrald to report e offenders because of false mo- -_\u2014_ , J & morning: crews of opportunists, self-seekers, sycophante and other gentry of the ilk who pervert the efforts of others for their own capital.After having conquered the fields of commercialised charity we now see His Lordship, the Baron Atholstan, proprietor of the Montreal \u201cStar\u201d entered into the lists against Commercialised Vice as the champion of Commercialised Victue.The \u201cStar\u201d is \u201cwaging a campaign against vice\u201d with the same lofty motives that have always inspired the \u201cStar\u201d in its previous campaigns.The anti-vice crusade of the \u201cStar\u201d is a peculiarly profitable one to the \u201cStar\u201d.Ita editorial writers are splashing much ink and wasting much paper in their fulminationg against the Red Light District.Meanwhile ite business offfice is collecting harvest of pennies from the residents of the vice area who have been educated to look upon the \u201cStar\u201d as the Diary of the Red Light Section.It is certainly filling a notable role, Procurers and panderers have been provided with the names, ages and addresses of the unforjunate women who are caught in raids; further information is given to fully warn those interested of the date when the women will be released In fact, that he was the party alluded to.ROTARY HEAD\u2019S WORD WAS BADLY CHOSEN.DR ALEXANDER W.THORNTON, President, Mentreal Retary Olub.Dear \u201cAlex\u201d : \u2014 We congratulate you on your sled tion to the presidency of the Jocal Rotarians.But why go out of our way in your inaugural addross to say that Rotarians wilh not adopt \u2018cheap vaudeville methods\u201d?The next thing you may know is that some worthy vaudeville artists will be entertaining your members.In any case vaudevillians are amongst the Hfe has to offer, it cannot give ue love.\u201cLove, the real thing, stands fous square to the world.It laughs at bank amashes, at war, at every disaster of our scheme of thihgs For that reason it is best to atart the journey which begins with the wedding bells with love in ones luggage.True it maj be mislaid later on, but generally it survives the buffeting of lite's journey.CEE EER earth, like the Rotarians.Indeed, many of them are Rotarians, We would prefer you to say that \u201cRotarians will not use organised charity methods\u201d.That would be more \u2018in keeping.Vaudeville is at least human, most charitably disposed people on\u2019 J RACING RACING RACING THE AXE.1 ô Las Maisonneuve Race .Course From MAY 5th to MAY 12th SEVEN RACES DAILY the ladies ar, always withheld, however, this list evidently not being necessary to the daily chronology of the Tenderloin, But this is not the sole~field of endeavor of the \u201cStar\u201d.It gives a suppleméntary free news service to the \u2018narcotic peddlers by supply- who \u201csnitch\u201d.All told ,it is a rarely rich enter- proscribed' \u2018area are detailed with the most minute faithfulness in both the \u201cStar\u201d and the \u201cStandard\u201d and purely not for the edification of the decent reader.There iy a deeper \u2018motive in supplying Sunday, reading to Cadiéux street, Ask the [\u201cStar\u201d business office.fy Send Your y | etl & 70 THE PUBLISHER, \u201cTHE AXE\", 20 St.James Street, Please sen Date.0008 agen S500 0008 G08 1400 8006 ONS beginning with the next fssue after date, 1 enclose Two Dollars City: OF TOWE tiie cue some sere vous 000 sete sous seca seen som sate Provines.sooo core cou GUIS SONS SUD CONE 0000 vous 0300 408 SUI SIN United States and abroad, $3.00 per year.All cheques payable at par, Montreal, X Subscription .Lt 7 Tn \u2018 - \u2018 ex tom pme mures men.= i \\ Ey Fe of ng.And these are the types of : AC lL 18 te in payment.> Tr ip PL.\"gta of whose necessity some busl- ali the pneus Dam about 0 £37 (prise this picking the pockets of Fifty Cents in pay CET x \u201c1j eus man will take advantage to ceive.\u201d 1° the prostitutes and panderers and (Signed) Name.vont S0UB S000 0000 S000 S000 $000 \u201cee 0.0.see wee - vou ve ; Métisty his own bestial lust.\u201c+.really clever.AH the doings of the N 5 \u2018 Street secs 6300 SUID 0040 0000 0000 2000 epse eccs 0008 #000 0008 sony moon Sa "]