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"An Ode on the Dismond Jubilee of Confederation" is the oniy poom which has been written by an outstanding Canadian poet on this important national event. Mr. Wilson MacDonald, the author, has won recognition as one of the greatest poets that Canada has ever produced, his "Exit" be‘ng halled by English critics as the bost poem published in America in 1926. His recent work, "Out of the Wilderness," was likewise received by critics, both in England and America, as a lasting contribution to literature.â€"(By courtesy of Canadian Natlonal Railways). Arise then, O my Country, this great day, And light your eyes with that crusading flame Which burns all evil obstacles awayâ€" The pigmies of our malice and our shame. We have been cowards, traitors, fools and knaves; We have been fine, heroic, strong and true, So, in this purple hour, let us renew _ Our strength and bear our hatreds to their gravesâ€" A Kingdom, with crescendo of the sea Sounding the golden age that is to be. In the cold, hueless hearts of men will burn; For, as in dreams of night arose the morn So all our deathless deeds in dreams were born. Nor rich nor poor were found between her seas: She was of truth a lover, and a thrall Of Justics: fair ard tolerant to all." Such dreams are vain, but not in vain such dreams; For in their exaltation we arise; And, even as water from our lakes and streams, We are caught up in glory to the skies. And, girded for new vision, we return From the high, splendid clouds, l!ke April showers, And, at our touch, the flame of sleoping flowers Austere historian of this age of man! Would that your faithful chronicle might record: "She was a nation loved and wooed by Pan And beauty in her kingdoms was restored. Her frontilers danced with flowers and singing trees, Nor any gun was heard along her coast, Nor, on her highways, any armed host, In fog and rain, the sunlight breaking through; And their the seership and prophetic powers To sense the rise of these amazing hours. And there, in retrospection‘s darkening gleam, I see that vallant company againâ€" The Fathers of our Country, whose fine dream Welded a thousand leagues in one domain; And lit the ardent Saxon fires anew In regions where her purest flame now burns: Theirs was the probing vision that discerns, Emerge from these cold caverns of retreat: Maconald, Cartier, Brown, and Laurier Sstand there erect, expectant of this day. Now sixty years have passed into those shades Wherein nor sun nor moon shall light them more. And through these dim and richlyâ€"stored arcades I lift my torch with reverence and explore. ‘The startled grottoes sing around my feet, And stalactites of memory catch my fire; And all our dead, like one awakened choir, And yet the vastness of our lovely lands, The beauty of her acros or her climesâ€" Warm on the shining Juan de Fuca sands Or cool and fragrant in her northern pinesâ€" Are not to feed our vanity or boast. These are a splendid heritage; we made Not on> gold beam of light, nor dark of shade, Not one lone acre between coast and coast; And, though our mountains march in lordly ranks, The fool alone will boast, the wise give thanks. Your splendor is of midâ€"day, ours of light Just breaking in new wonder on me earth. Your wings ars strong and sure from @Mcient flight; We are young falcons at our jJourney‘s birth. Yet some of our strong brood are high in af, Trooping along the clouds abreast with thineâ€" On roads, above the murmur of the pine Where sunlight falls like showers of golden hair. Yours are great castles, dark against the skies; Ours are the quarries where new castles rise. Britain, my mother, rich storehouse of the mind! Your dnst is powdered history, your trees Are temples wherein ages are enshrined, Your rocks are scriptured records of the seas. Upon your head rests well a shining crown Fashioned by golden hammers of bard and seer, For all you gave the earth we hold you dearâ€" There is a glory in completed life, In rich fruition, and achievement gained, In sweet, harmonious refuge after strifeâ€" The glory of an evening crimsonâ€"stained. But there is equal wonder at the spring, And at the heart of youth, aflame with fire, And at the joyous paean of that choir The glory of a long and bright renown, Song, and the blood of martyrs, and those hands That led us to our own beloved lands. The richness of maturity has her charmsâ€" Dusk, and the peace of twilight, and red fruit Heaped in an aged orchard‘s sunburnt arms, And old men and old women sitting mute On sunsy benches by a shadowy door, And grasses yellow and brown and the burst pods Of milkweed, and the outflamed goldenrods, And seeds that break with richness at the cors, And mystic streets of cities dark with age And wisdeom of the philosophic page. Which, in the chancel of the morning, sing, And at the noew born moon, and April showers, And buds that light the tapers of rich flowers. OF CONFEDERATION By Wilson MacDonald JEFFâ€"By Bud Fisher. Ode on the "A mere sclentific toy," it seemed at first to the common mind; but the great electrician William Thomson, afâ€" terwards Lord Kelvin, welcomed it as Â¥From his new home in Ontario young Bell went to Boston as teacher of deafâ€"mutes, and two citizens of Massaâ€" chusetts provided the funds to perfect his telephone and make it available to the public. It was no sudden stroke of chance, this invention, but the culmination of long years of scientific thought and exâ€" periment, inspired by a keen desire to help the unfortunate. â€" Bell‘s father had devised a system of "visible speech" for deafâ€"mutes, who cannot speak because they cannot hear a voice to imitate. Young Bell introduced this system in English schools, long before e came to Canada. For years he probâ€" ."'l the mysteries of sound, especially ue production of sounds by the mechâ€" anism of the human throat. (He and his brother actually made an automatic speaker, fitting up a skull with a larynz, tongue and vocal cords, and driving air though them with the pedals of an organ. § ‘ _ There was not one telephone instruâ€" ment in all Canada when the Dominion 'was born, for the telephone had not been invented. Three years passed, and a young Scottish immigrant, Alexâ€" ander Graham Bell, came over in the hope that our bracing climate would restore his health. It did, as it has gor thousands more. He settled at Brantford, Ontario, and there his great invention was cconceived, The human !volce was first transmitted over miles of electric wire, between Brantford and aris, on the 10th of August, 1876. l Strike all our telephones dumb, and imagine what life would be like! We might as well try to run a machine without oil, as business without the telepbone. The wheels of trade, and even of gocial life, would suddenly slow down, creaking dismally. Much of our business, &nd much of our familiar inâ€" tercourse, would be cut off altogether. We shiver at the thought, and begin to realize the enormous increase and speeding up of commerce, the unspeakâ€" able gain of ease and satisfaction in private life that we and the whole world owe to this Canadian invention. The Canadian farmer and his wife esâ€" pecially owe to it their happy relief from isolation. wIRES TO WRELESS :s EORPPCETDT ENCY L7 Clear vision, carelessness and two deaths. Scene of : The apparatus of the Glace Bay {tranntlantlc station was, of course, materially altered and improved from time to time, and last year this staâ€" tion was discontinued and the service transferred to a Beam Station, the Since 1901, when 50 miles was a long range for a station, progress in radio has been steady. In ©1902, Sir Wilfrid Laurier invited Mr. Marconi to Ottawa, and as a result a transâ€" atlantic radioâ€"telegraph service beâ€" tween Canada and Great Britain was established. This service was inâ€" augurated in 1907, and has been mainâ€" tained ever since that date. The stations were built by the Marâ€" coni Company. Power for the transâ€" mitter was obtained from dry batterâ€" ies, and the receiving sets were of the most primitive type, using Marâ€" coni coherer of metal filings in a glass tube as the detecior. The last year saw an increaso from 731,740 to 781,623 in Ontario and Que bec,;â€"so that the total for the Dominton must now be well over 1,300,000. ‘ The Story of Radio Canada‘s first use of radio was the establishment of radiotelegraph comâ€" munication between stations at Bolle Isle and Chateau Boy on the Mainâ€" land on the north side of the Belle Isle Straits, as a substitute for a subâ€" marine cable which was continually being interrupted by icebergs. In 1911 we had only 302,759 telephones, or 4.9 per cent. of our population. Motorist Must Do Their Share one of the greatest inventions of the y t a recent fatal crossing accident TORONTO When it Comes to Teamworkâ€"They‘re Bush Leaguers | The Province of Manitoba has esâ€" tablished a provincial service, ard iti is understood that other provlm-es[ are considering the adoption of a similar policy. The lbderal Adâ€"] ministration Is fully appreciative ot'! the utility of broadcasting to this Dominion and will see that it deâ€"‘ velops along the linos which will give| the best possible result to our listenâ€"‘ ing public. | ‘"Well, you see, one of the guests at my hotel used enough of it to kill himself, and I want to send in a proâ€" per bill to his executors." ! The Great Lakes and East Coast "ship to shore" radio system consists of an intercommunicating chain of 26 stations and 6 beacons, extending from Port Arthur at tife head of tho Great Lakes to the Atlantic, and on the Pacific coast a chain of 14 staâ€" ‘tlons extending from Victoria to |Alaska. "That‘s a rather queer question," replied the doctor, "Why do you wish to know ?" "Doctor," sald the shrewdâ€"looking man, "how many feet of gas does it take to kill a person?" _ Canada has toâ€"day some 81 broadâ€" c_â€"~.ing stations, practically all of which are operated by private or comâ€" mercial interests for indirect adverâ€" tising or publiclty in one form or anâ€" other. * The Dominion, a country of vast areas and sparse population, lends itâ€" self to the fullest utilization of. broadâ€" casting, and thera are toâ€"day some 400,000 receiving gets in operation. latest development in radio, located at Drummondville, P.Q. Meticulous! (/ POoR ~ TEAIAWORK! | "That advertisement of yours was a | fraud," protested a guest at a mounâ€" ‘ tain hotel. "How so?" demanded the fproprictor. "Well, it said, ‘Trout are always to be caught here,‘ and 1 bhaven‘t seen any one who has caught a single one." "Well, then, they‘re | still to be caught, aren‘t they ?" Tho Methodist Church in America has just awarded a prize of $1000 for an oration on prohibition. One corld not precisely call it a dry speech.> Visib!s in His Caseâ€"or Casing. Hcâ€""He says he believes a man and his business are linked together by an invisible cham." Sheâ€""In his case it‘s easily seen â€"he‘s a sausage dealer." "The contents of the purse," said the mayor, "will in time inevitably disappear, but," laying his hands on the clock, â€""here is something which will never go." Shanghal. Kuomintang slions and marked the the Chinese tories of the have pow vince. Shanghal.â€"The Japanese Consulâ€" General at Hankow has reported that the Hankow Government has acceptâ€" ed the Japanese demands for comâ€" pensation for the damages sustained in the April 3 attack on the Japanese concession in Hankow. HMe says the Wuhuh Government bas also agreed to the formation of a joint inquiry commission and the granting of guarâ€" antoes regarding residence and comâ€" merce and industry of Japanese in the region under the control of the Wuhan Govermuent. The mayor of the little provincial town was noted for his unhappy choice of phrases. But he excelled himself on the occasion when a preâ€" sentation of a clock and a purse was made to a local resident who was leaving the town. Whiie Chiang Ka‘shok‘s adherents organized demonstrations, some unâ€" derground propagazda _ denouncing Chiang as a traitor to the Nationalist Government and aily of militarists and imporialists, and urging the peoâ€" ple to support thoe radical Hankow Nationalist Government, was surrepâ€" titiously distributed. The ambiguous attitude of Feng Yuâ€"hsiang continues to dominate the confused political situation. While the _ Hankow Government _ claims Feng‘s allegiance and announces that Honan province _ was _ voluntarily transferred to his control, there are persistent rumors that Feng will parâ€" ticipate in a miltary conference with Chiang Kaishek in Hsuchowfu to work out a common plan of action against the Northerners. "And what should I take now?" he asked a moment later, finding his ball in a terrible lie. "‘Well, mon," replied the caddie, "you have three alternatives. For a start, you might take me and get me something to drink; secoandly, you might take a‘ your clubs home and give up golf; thirdly, you might try throwin‘ the ba‘!" Good Advice. An absolute beginner was toiling round the links wondering if the game was really worth while and vowing, to his grizzled ‘Scottish cadâ€" die, that this would be his last round. Lantern Processions Held in Celebration of Recent Nationalist Victories CHIANG‘S ENTRY| INTO SHANTUNG .. â€" A lavish display of | fags, lantern proces theatrical performances week end colebration in | city of the recent vlc-{ Nationalist armies which | Invaded Shantung proâ€"| Too True. "But it shows that it had something to lose, and that was its prosiige with its own people. It had told thom that the capitalist system was absclutely without shadow of principle, and that so lang as thore was trade to be had, with money in it for the capitalist, the darker activities of communism in friendly countries cou‘d be carried on in comparative sofety, What can fairâ€" ly be calle4 the madâ€"dog development in Moscow indicates that somecne is in a tight corror, It is rid{cuious 1w suppose that the Mcscow govornmont is terrified of two sich ‘powers‘ as Poâ€" land and Rumania, both of which bara 'mbluot their C . * ments run."~â€"Los Angeles Times. . elege in a capital several hundrod miles from any conceivatble poirt of at tack. Indeed, the Sovict governm o nt. from sheer ignorance and a ceria‘n doctrinaire obtuseness, threw BWAY a magnificent opportunity. If the sever ing of diplematic relations by Great Britain had been accepted by the Boviet loaders with goodhumored patience and a touch of well brod amusement, it would nct have becn long before the extremists of the Engâ€" lish Tory government would have beâ€" gun to look fcclish, while the rest of the worlid would certainly have been rubling it in. sd,i(;;;.ns the chanâ€" nels of trade remained open, what had the Soviet to lose? l "Bxrecution of twenty artiâ€"comâ€" mun‘sts in Russia introduces strong evidence that the internal menace to the Soviet regime has aseumed much l greater proportions than censored disâ€" | peiches out of Moscow have been al |lowed to indicate. Certainly Russia, now more than ever destrous of win |nlu and bolding favor abroad, would | have declined to invite international | diarespect by resorting to wholesale | state murder unless indeed the Comâ€" | munist structure, was beginning to tremble under homemade blows. The Russian stage for the past few weeks bas been crowded with events which i reaveal a rising tide of antiâ€"Bo‘shevist | activity. Incendiary fires in Baku and | Samara, the bombing of a Communist | meeting at Leningrad, the blowing up | of a trolley car on which a Soviet ofâ€" [nciul was accompanying a Polish spy from Minsk, all bear witness to the | foment which apparently has thrown 'Mowow into a panic and prompted such an ugly retaliation as the execuâ€" | tion of a score of purported enemics | of Bolshevism, most of whom were not ,granted the favor of even a perfuncâ€" tory trial! Moscow bas made a disasâ€" |trous move in its worldâ€"wile chess lgame against Great Britain, a move | only too reminiscent of Czarist tactics !-t their worst."â€"iIndependent, Boston, *"Any shrewd observer of currort events, especially if he has investod some of his intellectusi capital in a background of history wil be impresâ€" sed with the panic at Moscsow. Th weakest thing about it is the demon stretion ¢f strength. A roally stmn; povernment takes its strongth io: granted and is accepted as such by its noighborse. But oniy a weak x;»;wn ment has to shoot political opponen is ylthout trial, or establish a s:tate o( "In no circumstances would Britain go to war with Rus:ia, but the latter might, with no great difficulty, pick a quarrel with Poland in the hope (that Britain â€"could be drawn in. The Bo}â€" shevist rulers of Russia are woukin‘ng whcoo ten year‘s undispeted po=«<« ston should have enabled them to for1;â€" fy thaomssives. One serlous donser is that they must do something dos, (â€" cte, and do it soon. FPeople of :i« charactor, or rather of no charset>, are a‘menace bosause thsir absoncoe o principle makes them uttorly imcs! c able. "There is an element of danger in the Russian situation which it would be foolish to ignore. There is littls doubt that the Soviet is nearing the !end of its tether and the colossal lootâ€" ing which it inaugurated at its incepâ€" tion gave it an astonishing‘ly long rope. The severing of diplomatic relations by Great Britain was only cne of a numâ€" ber of administrative failures, at hom» il.lld abroad. The Chinese policy has resulted only in calling the attention of 'nu parties in China to the sinister moâ€" tives behind Soviet interference. The Chinese Nationalists, when they fini themselves in Pekiq, will be no more cordial to Boisnpevism thin the Chinese governmcrt which they dis ‘plnce. Internal government in Russ‘a is a complete and incompetent failu:e, and it is not surprising to find that the Communist party, representing about one per cent. of the entire pepulation, is to some extent divided against it solf. Here is where the danger of war with somebody, Great Britain for choice, comes in, In such casos of disâ€" union there is always a temptation to unite conflicting parties by a patriotie appeal and the allegation of oppress!o® by some convenient nation outside. . Desperation Russian Govâ€" ernmentis liable to Unfor seen‘F oolish Action DANGEROUS ACTORS To the Heart of Nature. w far up the Huds:u did Moscow‘s Mad Dog SAY EDITORIALS A Threat of War é?flu‘l’!!lu ‘Vwk‘y.) und the Bvans northe Id4aho Bpring it +A Tra Ist may £o, Bismanck Somlils ." croshe U.S. HWIGHWAYS ARE EXC U @wirp.anc two wi childre; referen CGENTLEM AN Naples dur ing to tal must be c eand wiches tion to Am Megglethor me gle« led:; M PA ping Wy ding ‘he N.Y. Sun Offer: lowing as Likely to Soon in Our P;: Route No. 2 from Buffal improved °C TM The n Hig PI fr 16B Op tout 1 l wa y ty to Manito r‘ag Minnes millings . M 1 #4 nd the adian l1 farther through &