~~ 12 PAGES | -- YEAR 84. NO. 114 ONTARIO, TUESDA: « MAY 135, 1917 SECOND SECTION ¥ 8 Ottawa, May 15.--Premier Bor- den's friends in these parts express 'the wish that he eomes home by the next boat, If he can't get a boat he can swim, The reason is that in his absence things are getting no better fast. All the bluffs the Government has pulled in the last three years are being called and there is the deuce to pay. - §! Premier Borden's supporters at Ottawa take it ill that he shoula stick around in England, after his business is through, soaking up L.L. D, degrees and such. It's all very well, they say, for Premier Borden to get little gold boxes with the free- dom of British cities inside, but meanwhile what about the freedom of the Conservative party in Canada to do something better than mark time? If Premier Borden comes home now, all will be forgiven and the re- construction of the Government can be gone ahead with, Those who are to be reconstructed out of the Cab- inet into safe government jobs are Just as anxious to have him come back as those who are to be recon- structed into the Cabinet. As 'the poet says, the sooner it's over the sooner to sleep. Among the smaller omens of approaching Fate is jthe translation of Mr, Blount, the e- mier"s faithful and efficient private secretary, to the clerkship of the Senhte, Major Chapleau, the aged ja- cumbent, being superannuated to make room for him. Thus does Mr. Blount get in out of the wet, hav- ing earned a safer and more perman- ent job than secretary to a premier who does not know when his hou cometh. ; Sir Edward Kemp, the present Minister of Militla--I wonder how many voters kmow that he has got Sir 'Sam's job--is up against it in the matter of recruiting. Overseas or Home GQGuard---mnobody jumps, Major General Newburn, who is managing the Home Guard move- ment, said at Winnipeg the other day that he was all through if the Government didn't help him out by enforcing the compulsory clauses of the Militia Act or adopting some Music in Music-Halls nr Thence. The music-hall first came into ex- istence in England about 1850. In ten years these halls had become a . very important institution in the public life, 'Generally they were at- tached to public<houses, w.th separa- ate entrance, and frequently had a seating capacity of from one to two thousand. The admission prices in London were 6d and 1s. Food and drink were served visitors if orderéd, and smoking was permitted. The class of performance reached a high level; | and the audiencé-as a rule was or- der'v and well-behaved. The music-hall of to-day is an evolution from the halls and enter- tainments of three score years ago. It has become a separate business en- terprise, in which much capital ig in- vested, and business methods all through govern. The management is strictly business, and performers must adapt themselves to present- day ideas. To-day smartness or celerity is the essence of the music-hall. One act or "turn" must follow its predecessor without appreciable interval. Even a single minute's delay annoys. In- deed, every member is definitely timed, and must conform to the time-table set. ; Musicians must be wide-awake to have the music of the following turn ready to play. The method usually adopted is to have the books of the "turns" opened each at the first number to be played, and placed one above the other in proper order on the music desk. As the "chord ofr" to which the ist retires is being played, the ore ral player places the book in its open position on the floor, leaning it against his music desk, Similarly the next book removed and peed on the floor open, over the book before it, so that when the Ottawa Glimpses BY -H. F. GADSBY J 3 sort of conscription. And all the) other colonels agreed with him. They. said the voluntary spirit - was | quite dead. 1 And may be it §s. At any rate, | Sir Sam is convinced that he got out | at the right, time. | He tells his friends so. Whetheérjceident or pol- | icy was the cause, Sir Sam seems to | have got from under just whey the | slump came. At his nomination | meeting in Lindsay Sir Sam repeated his statement that the Government had issued orders to ease up on re- | cruiting almost a year and a halt | ago, thereby starting the chill which subsequently killed the voluntary spirit. Sir Thomas White says the | charge is absolutely without founda- tion and there the matter stands-- | Sir Sam's word against Sir Thomas's, | You can take your choice. The fact * remains that when the alleged order | to ease up on recruiting was issued recruits were pouring in at the rate of a thousand a day. Something | happened to put a crimp in it. { Sir Sam considers that it is his! turn to laugh. After all the personal | equation does count, Moreover, as the poet remarks, sweet are the uses of advertisement. Sam never dodged the limelight. The Ottawa corres- pondents were always welcome at his headquarters. 8ir Edward is not exactly the kind of flower that is anxious to blush unseen, but he has no knack with the newspaper men and there js a great abatement of publicity for the Militia Department in consequence, It is conceded that Major General Mewburn had a superman's job to get recruits for the Heme Guard, It was not in human power to beat the game they gave him to play. No wonder he got sore.. The Home Guard is said to be Sir Edward's own particular happy thought. If he could get fifty thousand men who would be content to advertise them- selves as willing to defend their country anywhere except where bul- lets were flying it would look as if the Government were doing some- thing. What's more, it would, by a little oblique reasoning, bring Pre- mier Borden's limit of five hundred Dear Sir: -- column in the Whig. al value to students of music ally. the drama. 1 shall be pleased cal Hterature, ete., from time WAITING AT THE BUNGHOLE. rm thousand that much nearer, The only thing wrong with the scheme was that the fifty thousand mén stayed out. Sir Sam might have got away with it. But Sir Edward's personality does.not inspire fifty thousand men to label themselves yellow for a dollar a day, The best guessers in Ottawa pre- dict that Major General Mewburn will get no help from the compul- sory clauses of the Militia Act, be- cause the Government is pledged not to adopt conscription in.any form. Macdonald of Pictou brought this point out in the House of Commons the other day, when he produced ad- vertisements published by the Inter- {or Department! in United States newspapers, promising prospective settlers or farm laborers from the United States immunity from mili- tary service. Sir Edward, being questioned, replied that the Govern- ment's policy bad not changed since the advertisementy were printed. This makes Canada a safer coun- 216 Frontenac Street, May 11th. To the Editor British Whig. Allow me to compliment you on the music and dramatic It will certainly be of great education- as well as the citizens gener- There is no news, in my opinion, that is more uphte. ing in the refinement of a people than that of music and to contribute articles of musi- to time. Respectfully yours, O. F. TELGMANN. tion of a minute or two at least. For the needs and, requirements of moving picture theatres special al- bums are printed--albums of inci- dental music appropriate to varied situations, The class of muaie played by mov- ing picture theatre orchestras of five or more members is often of a very high order. Selections from the lat- est operas are nothing out of the way. Playing Wagner, Mendelssohn and other classic is com- mon. Apart from the constant play- ing required of a "movie" hestra or musician, which makes it the hardest musical occupation, really excellent musical ability and talent are required. It is no infrequent thing to find members of fine or- chestras playing In "movie" or chestras. Chamber music is played at all first-class picture theatres, though there is not much music of this type suitable for pictures. It is the heavy dramatic picture that presents the best opportunity for classical music. The Music Maker. A Baltimore mathematician has culevlated 1 Lh 8 prés -- tively enlightened so many people are fooled by Royal Roads to Learn- ing. "Learn to' Play Rag-time. 1 teach you how," says the advert se- ment. Perhaps King David had just finished such a course, on the harp, when he said in his haste, "All men are liars." A Remarkable Musical Memory. Arthur Middleton, the eminent baritone of the Metropolitan Opera Company, New York, has one of the known in the entire profession. sings more than fifty oratorios with- out notes, and can recall both the words and the music of any one of them, even though he may not have sung it for years. IK is not, of course, so surprising in the case of "The Messiah" and "Elijah," as Mr. Middleton has sung, all told, in near- ly 400 performances of these works; but it is phenomenal to remember with equal facility dn oratorio in which he has sung but twice. if i ] ot § i BEIT dit i Te | ! Blondin as the Militia Department's*the enemy which { J 2 --New York Commercial. ma try for the slacker 'to live im than the United States, which is going In for selective conscription. The peo- ple whom Colonel Blondin advised to slip over the border can now flock back again. The United States is going to do her bit and, being an undiluted democracy, is going to show how arbitrarily she can do it. At the same time, Sir Edward will find small comfort in the thought that Canada quits because the Unit- ed States is beginning. That is one of the ways they explain the failure of reeruiting--ynot any fault in the Gowernment or in Sir Edward--but general feeling that it is the United States' turn. Colonel Blondin, known to fame as the verbal perforator of Union Jacks, is messing up the recruiting | tactics in employing dollars each. The truth seems that the simple-minded people of Quebec do not trust Blondin the Colonel, having heard Blondin the Nationalist talk with the other side on his) face. They regard Colonel practical joke on Quebec. Surely no one would take Blondin seriously as a fire-eater! - other colonel Quebec cannot un tand is Armand Lavergne, whom Sir Edward Kemp is now util- izing as a source of loyalty and en- thusiasm for the British cause. With such a pair as Blondin and Lavergne doing the missionary work, Quebec would appear to be justified in dis. believing the message. Sir Edward's vergne have earned him the anger §f some of the! hands. most influential Conservatives in Montreal. They fully expect that Sir Edward will call in Hehrl Bourassa next. --H, F. GADSBY. WANT "PEACE THAT PAY FRANCE WILL NOT BE CONTENT WITH ANY OTHER " Paris May 14.--The report of the Finance Committee of the Chamber of Deputies on the bill proWding for & new income tax, as a substitute for all other direct tixes, shows that the war has caused only a-comparatively Small "increase in taxes in France thus far, It emphasizes the purpose to effect a peace settlement which will impose upon Germany the chief burden of meeting the enormous ex- penditures resulting from the war. The report shows that taxes in &Eng- land increased during the war from 95 to 265 francs per capita, while the increase in France was from 90 to 103 francs. "Finally," the report continues, "let us remember that we must im- pose upon our enemy a considerable part of the burden of this horrible conflict, provoked by them alone, We must have a peace that pays. Reintegration into our country of territories wrenched from us in the problem in Quebec, Colonel Blondin is not having much success with his special train and hig entourage . of seventy-six gorgeous officers. It has been estimated that what recruits he war of 1870 will aid us in repairing many ruins. We should know also to what extent the Central Empires will be able to pay us in money the indemnities they will be compelled to render to us and our Allies. It has got have cost abaut five thousand going fine. I feel gure big feeling so happily situated is almest entirely due to his able to play the piano so nicely" I teil you a boy who can sing or play has the inside track when it comes to taking up residence in a new place." Certainly boys do not see these deeper advantages of a musical edu- cation. You would not expect them to. When parents undertake to keep a twentieth century boy at piano practice for an hour or so a day, they are undertaking a task of no small magnitude. But if they. will some- times glance ahead at the'time when many boys leave the parental roof, they will see the possibility of the love of music fostered and developed by that practice; standing between the young man and perhaps a life of bad habits, or at least of indiffer- ent accomplishment, When thé Censor Isn't Musical. Every one knows the heavy burs den that rests upon the shoulders of the nations' censors. Like most great men, the censors generaly are fond of music. But there is a re- cord of one who is not--and he an Austrian. William G. Shepherd, the war correspondent, has been re- counting body's Magazine Mr. Shepherd this incident antong others: "In a little chateau on the Austro-Jtalian front, not many months ago, the In the matter of military bands, Austrian staff-officers ihe an after- dinner concert for a few correspond- ents. "The staff-officer who acted as censor was not a music lover, and he departed from the gathering before the programme was ended." The fin- ale was an 'Ave Maria' exquisitely played by Sans, 'cello and several violins, and the effect was highly The next f | posed Franck' ---------------------- interpreattion. Mr. Fred. Pelletier, writing in Le Devoir, says of Mme. Thibaudeau's work: 'For finish in phrasing, brilliance of execution, and sympathy with the concerted parts it would be difficult to tind any one Mr. Pelletier was nat dis- to be enthusiastic over modernism, ARNOugH A adays some people imagine that com- poser in the rear of the procession, He said that after Franck, Schu- mann came like an oasis in the de- sert. 'Mauy musicians who have dis- covered great things in the modern Erench organist who dreamed away his life, may not be disposed to ghare Mr. Pelletier's opinion. Quartette consists of Mr. Chamber- lain, Mr. Chartier, Mr. Schneider and Mr. Dubois; For many years it has been a factor in the musical life Ofy Montreal, and it is deserving of lcng life and prosperity. Now York as a Musical M 5 New York is declared by some to be, not only the musical metropolis of this continent, but of the world. In support of this claim it is pointed out that not only in the quantity and quality. New York is superior to any of the great European capitals, more particularly since the war. In the matter of chamber musie, and In the number of piano, violin and song recitals, Berlin takes--or took----the lead; but with reference to opera, New York stands above '®emparison in the. number class performances. . Many great artists now make Now York their home, among them Pader- ewski, Hofman, Ysaye, Kreisler, and a host of others quite too numerous to mention. better." given in hotels, and for performances of great musical works in some the prominent churches, where tists of the highest distinction fre- quently appear, New York is distinctly inferior to even the smaller cities of Europe. o_o sma The Asrieultpral Committee . of the Eastern whships Assogi Boards of Trade want the i Xi to make its pro legislation to aid soldiers settling on land as in 3 London Men's Federation strongly dem race meets in Canada during the war, and asked the Gov-~ ag 2 ernment to prohibit : t % ¥ REA Ps to ve! will be necessary to have compen- 'sation in kind, such as the mines of GERMANS PERFECT DEVICE To Raise Sunken Ships When the War is Over. Amsterdam, May '15, via Lon- Hon--The Problem of salving ships sunk by submarines is solved, ac- cording to The Hamburger Frem- denblatt, wilich says that German naval engineers have perfected a pro- cess of raising ships from the bot- tom' of the sea. Details are withheld, except that especially equipped salvage vessels will be emploved and that they will be able to operate even in stormy weather. The Fremdenblatt which, as an example, puts the value of the ships sunk in February alone at what it call the moderate figure of $180,- 000,000, says that the number of ships 'sunk and their favorable posi- tion in most cases for raising guar- antee for many vears after the war plenty of work and a rich profit. Sarre, in German korraine, and guarantees such as financial control of customs, pots, forests, railroads, mines, and other national domain of will serve as pledges for annual obligations we should require in case insufficient indemnities are paid in cash, "In reparation for the damages caused in the invaded sections we will require of Germany immediate restitution in kind of machines, stocks, merchandise, lumber, ang material of all kinds that have been Stolen from our unfortunate people, and also that the towns and villages |" destroyed by a criminal race of bar- barians shall be rebuilt by German We shall insist, if addition, that ships of the German fleet shall be delivered to us to replace those sunk by the pirates." W. A. Sherwood; St. Catharines, died suddenly at h's home. Omar Khayyam won the Kentucky Derby on Saturday. 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