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THE DIAMOND JUBILEE OF THE CONFEDERATION OF CANADA BY NORMAN R. COLE (UNCLE DICK). 'eztendinc into and iocludlng th* U- Happily. In 1S66. the clouds that had I>i>(l( of the Arctic Oc«*n. Thia la the ©T»r8hadow«<l the political horlxon be- Canada of th« preient day, extendlDf (an to clear, and at the end of the year the delekates from Upper and Lower Canada, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia, met In London, Knilaud, on December 4, 1866, and held numer- ous conrerences. Anally drafting the revlaed Quebec Keeolutlone Into a BHI. from oce«n to ocean, even unto the waters of the Polar Sea. LKtle won- der, Ih'm, that we are so fond of, so proud of, «o jealous of, this Canada of ouri! This ten. Is the story, in brief, of the renvarkable conception and blrtll It la only right and fair to say here, I o*" our great Dominion of Canada. I that, during theso very Important daya, ' ''ay* on'T been able to touch, in pass- the lirltUh Government took the ' Ing. the vea-y outllnee ^f thie immense keenest Interest In the 'deliberations, subject. It Is a story to thrUfc- thp •nd rendered every posalble help to mind ^ the mo«t unlmaglnatlvf; and the dolt«ate8;^at the jame time re- to nil with pride the heart of, every training from Interfering. In the least truo,cltlien of Canada. Dwarflng all with iho freedom and rights of the.o'^er movements of aj^Jlke nature, dolegntts to shape the dMtlny of their 'overcoming difficulties ffiopht to be own country I Impossible, the "Pathors ot'Confedera- 1 At lost, after years of toll and diS-'t'""'" ^^ ^^^^' patlenco, Murage, con- ^ cu-Klon. the (liial draft yaa made â-  ready, Flgnod, 8Paied, and dellvf r(:<l to the llritlsh Ilouco of Coramuns, where, t on March tho 23th, 18C7. ths Imperial | Parliament pcssod tla* Urltlsh North .America Act. On July the \nl. 1867, It i camo lnU> force, and on that ylato the i »taiicy, solf-sacrlfice, and patriotism, achieved results of which we do not even now see the llm^t. *Beyond the expectations of even the greatest of the Statesman of 1867, Canada has expanded and prospercif until, in this year of Grace, 1927, her four provinces cf Upper OariAla, Lo^t' f h "h^^"' *'"f"'''"^- !'''' ""/""'^C; er t', n.vla. Nova Scotia and New ^"'- f" discoveries, and the fame o ?, by KoyaUProclam^ 'â- Â» ^^l*""" «' ^"^ S°"«- ""^ Penetrated .\10N OK C\N.\dJC| ^ ^^'^ ®"^' °' "'^ earth. Brunswick bec.nme, ation. TlIK IJOM! with Ottawa au the Capital, and C6n-|., ,,,.,_,., federation «n acccmpllshe.l fact! lJi".^''"«,.'."_^'l''_.y*:'j'\°' '!'«'"?.«' "^'^ 'C-A-N-A-D-A is a name to set the blood _^ :tant peoples, and the beauty and' great Such a huge undertaking as Con- ^em of the Dominion federation could hardly be L has been ac- '"^'^'""' kncwledged, even In the ancient plishcJ without some little misiinder-.. ,, aunts of beauty of tho Old World. •tundlnsH and unforeseen illfflcultio^ : p^om every quarter of the Globe, ' fiendish devices of the enemy,â€" "the The transfer of tho Hudson's Day Com.- nien and women flock to Canada to Canadians held the lineâ€" an saved The pany-s territories to tho new Domin- ^^le,v the grandeur of the Rocky Mcun- .Day!" Jon, in UBS, indirectly led to the North- tains and the beauteous Lakes of I Opportunities? Why, they are Just Wtst I{ile!!ion of 1870; but en July Banff, Alberta. Every winter the tumbling over each other to be graap- 15, of the same y?ar, the transfer be- gports of Canada attract the attention ed by the strong young hands of Can- came effective, and Manltcb.-i, the 5th ^nd presence of thousands of tourlsU, ada's boys and girls. You young peo- proviiice to enter, was admitted to and In summertime the hunter and the P'« '^ave a heritage that no other Ccnfcderation's family. Ishermau find In Caneda their greatest PeoP'e on earth can claim â€" or gainsay. Owing to the dtir.Hatlsfactlcn which Joy. Yea, yes, we have a country sec- And It Is all YOURS â€" to enjoy â€" to de- the people of Nova Scotia at fir.st felt ond to none In the world, and not all velop â€" and to hand on unsullied, yet tor the terms of Confederation, some the words In the English language can ^'*'" more glorious â€" to those who come of lior leading siatesmen soujiht to tell the full story of Canada's beauty ^after you. Think upon the splendid r»real her inclusion In Iho Union, but and Canada's magniflceace. [men and women who have gone be- ev:'r.tija:i.v btttor ci>UR.sel8 iirevailed. While all Cauadiau citizens are not ^"""e yo" â€" to show you the way to the On July the lal. 1873, Prince Edward mlliionalrea, though many of them are, ^ery heights of human endeavor, lal! nd, tile smallest of tho (Colonies cf Canadians as a people are worth the Think of the thousands upon thou- Dri;i.''ii North America. cxpresHod will- staggering total of 22,195,302,443 dol- sands of Canadians, heroic and unael- Ingi.'c-.'-s to join the growing family of lars, or over 2,500 dollars for each per- "^h- ^'^" have blazed a trail â€" for YOU the 1)1 n-.inion, and ismid great rejolc- son in Canada. I do hope that you â€"across the mighty reaches of this Do- Irg? "The Garilen of the Gulf" was ad- will be careful not to spend your little Iâ„¢'"'"" 'â- ' Ours! Look well to the RINGS ENCIRCLED OLD SOL "A solar' halo" of two large rli«gs endrcled the sun Monday a« shown above, the smaller one encloeing what looked like ap area of cloud. The meteorological observer statea that It was cJlused By loe odjrstals floating several mUea up In the air. The two rings were different layers. Tnis halo Is sometimes called a eiun-dog or parhelion and has been described as a mock sun appearing In the form of a bright Hgbt near the eun uaually tinged with prismatic colors. ,De levlews tho cKiffigM ^Jajf musical ^"Vi'^^^S^^^^^^^&'^a^^^ixicdU^ ii the Ust^ilftX Toars. But IP'reftafftfytHqfB^ P^IW '^ ^ny^ wli'at' l^^'SF m'orjj^ift'Uclng is the An 'Mtfd|l||iy*ffil*ttj|p''ltt^l- llfi>vliion Wat la tnJia«^Mn-e and thera readr Jii^PSyfiunpiMB^ teacherai||i44^^ equip them with taort^^^gjjjjjUjIiSS -l£^Bjl^*t>- with >^ som jthlpr^^f .-than a know- bated long ii,Jp^^^|^m;3Eeni^ii atiU k^jte'of how to use'iMrtaln books and far from closedT'^^?^ .' ' |( ' ^Hu»rclally^-f produced materials. The sanest of 'tlie' chaiaplons say,''^Bo^H^ttid niechanjcal recordings will In effect, "We ar^ trying to do sotiifi- not mltlgat* tfie^Jagk of musicianship [thing that needs tilhbe done. We^^re' in t'eachers^j:/''' , not bent i!i>on reaching the musically Together sJth the growth of stut^Jes jglfted student. We are.jiot teachlngj'cnlied ,'a^eclatlon (unfortunate I the technlc of musical^erforinance word, with Its sentimental coanota- ;nor are we 'training composers. We tIoiil^$iniapd praise and pretty com- jhave In mind such students as pos-, p^lmen^^yhere has developed a study Isess the equipment specified by Mr. of the ifttstory of Music. Here v.'e are iHa^jpw, 'Ear enough to perceive one jjn solid 'ground. We know what is 'tune from another and wit enough to meant by.jjjptory. It la like "Ap- prefer order to Incoherence.' These preclatlon",;a blank-check word, to be students may acquire the useful canned out V9^he user as his intellec- paclty to distinguish Bjich from Verdlftual creffll^eVmlts. "History" is,, and a fugue from a Bme In the wallF^ speciflc, so specific Indeed that one j This Is modest enough, and •t^oald b^urprlsed to discover how often it seem both possible and worth •dolng^MT misconstrued . The "Hiatory of •?#' - â- ^-- ^ut the crltlc#vlew the whole under- ded to the rest cf Can.ida. It Is very Interesting to notu here that only a fe.v months ago. most cf tho didlculllcB and ilisappointments under which the Maritinie Provinces have been labor- ing for years, were linally settled by the awards of the Federal Government, choo«e from, for in Canada there are fortune too quickly! deeds and lives of those hardy pioneers No doubt a great number of young |*'''° opened up the tractlese regions of Canadians are wondering what theyl"'® far West and North; and take are going to do for a livingâ€" when ''eart, O Sons and Daughters of Can- they grow up. Well, you are certainly jada, from their unselfish examples, and going to have a very wide range tolstrivc, with all your great talents and Human Exceptions. "Georgette, Isn't It wonderful how Nature clothes Itself in the spring?" acting un the Qnd.ugs and recom- mendations cf the Duncan Royal Com- mission. ~On July the 20th, 1871, the faraway Pccillc Colony of British Columbia Bgr<-:d to enter Confederation, upon the Kedaral Gove'runient at Ottawa uu- endlesji fields for service. There are openings In agriculture, mining, sur- A Spelling Match First Mesa Cockâ€" "Wot'll we give with all your might, to emulate their, 'enj to-morrow tor afters? Taploker?" heroic deeds! Freedom! bought by conflict* glory. veying, engineering, fox-farming, trans- Freedom! bought by conflicts gory, I'ortntlou, livestock farming, building. Passed from Father on to Son, textile industries, manufacturng, news- Come to US. all wreathed in glory, paper work, literature, teaching, fine Crowned with peace our Sires have arts, pulp and paper Industries, for- won. do; four dortaking to link up that province to estry. chemistry, exploration, medical Let us then be up and guarding the Eastern parts of the Dominion by some means of transpcrtatlon. At first only a wag^Miroad was contemplated, but l!:i» WD* changed to a railroad, much to tho satisfaction of the Pacific science, navigation, government ser- This, Our Birthrightâ€" ^LIBERTY! vice, and a host of other professions With high purpose, none retarding, far too numerous to Groat In name and Charity! and industries mention. Her universities, her educational In- High Enough. Coa.^t p,«yio, and eventually the great stltutions her electrical developmeata. a doctor had Just finished Uklns Canadian Pacific Railway was organ- her manufacturing plants, her natural the temperature of a stockbroker ized, and, after many unavoidr.ble and resources and potenlal wealth, aye, ^ho ^as suffering from unforsPxn delays, the 3,000-mlle Iron and hor Christian homes, place Canada fever road was completed, and on June 28, in the forefront of the Nations of the 1880, the first through train from Mon- world, and so long as her citizens â€" a raging Second Mess Cook â€" "That'll write It down; you'll want pounds." First Cook (spelling audibly as he writes) â€" "Four pounds t-a-b-aâ€" t-a-b-1 â€" (he- hesitates)â€" We'd better have macaroni!" Second Cookâ€" "All right; write It doijrn, then." First Cook â€" "Four pounds m-a-k-a- m-a-klâ€" oh, we'll 'ave rice! Four pounds r-l-8-e!"â€" From Forbes Maga- zlns. _ Ic is," as -Horatio Parker put it, taking with grave 8uspi||pn. |w7ltten in notes, not In words." It ia I "Music," they contenoT "la an ««- a subject to be studied from scores perlencf which essentially cannot bo und performances t&d only incldent- j taught. Information about music ^ny from biographies and essays. By may appear Impressive, 'but the jta nature, ftls Is a subject for spe- j chances are heavily against the stu- clallsts, and when It Is glveii,.io un- dent's being able to make any use of trained students and when It deals it." ^ iwlth tabloid biography and categorl- "You are superflclal," say the critics ^^1 second-hand opinions. It Isn't the to the teachers of this subject, "You History of Music. Such courses must deal In talk about music and in ver- j,e an offence against musical scholar- bal Interpretations, and yon do your gjjip. best to keep studenU from under- ^ j^^^, scholartihip in the arts may standing what Tagore meant by his gponi to many sincere persons â-  maxim, 'Appreciation is not easily nor dreariness of the flesh, but It is not cheaply acquired but must be slowly honestly to be faked, if we assume sought and won'." |to teach the History of Music we are' One caustically-minded opponent of j^ go^e measure, and Inevitably, com-' these studies pleads through the 'fitted to the scholar's point of viaw. length of many satirical pages to be'^ye muEt study the documents first; delivered from the "appreclatlonlst" g,, ^ther relevant material then falls and declares that a student would j^q its proper place. If we do not* know more about the fugue from ' .,gfj to do this, let us not call the sub- learning to play any one of the Bach ^^^.t the "HlMtory of Music." fugues than from hearing and analyz- , progress in musical scholarship Ing and discussing many of them. j makes haste very slowly, and If wa Value in the Controversy. have but little of It In this country wa" This controversy, and the heat have at least como to know la the whclh It engenders, is the most satis- last few years what It Is. Professor factory development that the teach- j Pratt's books, The Musical Quarter- ing of Appreciation has brought to ly, a growing taste for such concerts light i nthe last several decades. For as those which are provided by The the moment we are not concerned ; English Singers are giving us a sense I nave In my time written a novel or two, but never cease to wonder how It Is done. â€" John Gatoworthy. At the railroad station a nice old with who is right and who is wrong. In this matter, as in many others, the wish Is often father to the thoughL It may be that we shall have to work another fifty years before we shall agree either to dump the apprecla- tlonlst and all his w'orks overboard, or so to Instruct and cultivate him that he shall become a harmless mem- ber pf musical society. But the con- troversy itself is all pure gain. It is of what is to be learned and how. Students Like to Think. One last word, and a purely psr- Lsonal-one for which 1 ought to feel I some embarrassment. Some of us have discovered an amazing fact. Contrary to the conventional opinion about the American school and col- |lege student, we have discovered â€" or ;is It an Illusion â€" that our students do . . . ...^ .._ J . . ^, like to think. We have given them so ^•'"?J!5"!^-r''Vi*'.^*l™™'"°!?in»"<:l» to learn, and made them so anxious lest they should fall to re- peat our best stock phrases back to us. that they have had no time and made a place for some kind of musl- "It's gone to 102," he announced in ,.,. ,,,.„ ,,j. a hushed voice, eyeing the thermo- 'lady left the train and got Into a cab 'cal Inntruotlon We sea this onenlne treal to Vancouver Ilnk<;d Eastern and J'cung and old-^keep ever In view the „eter. jThe cabman said, "Gimme your ^g ^ a chance too good to bo squander Wes ern Canada together. ^f^Ti*',"' '^^ *'°"°"' """â-  â- ""* * "Se"! Sell!" he shouted. lady; I'll put It on top o' the cab^^ " fhe day of pioneering for mu- When, in 1870, the Province of ManI- VISION of a more glorious future, this : o ,"No, Indeed." answered tho dear old slCs p!ace In the a^demtc sun "s tcba w.s created, the remainder of the fair Dominion will grow from strength One of the mo.t difficult thing, about lady, "that poor boss has enough o nas? -^ho mnorLnt Iss^e now Is vtst ..rairl^ lands that lad been ac- to .strength, until all tho world will be a town child is his dreadful and dreary pull. I'll Just hoi' It on my lap "-The whai sLu t7do wUrthat p^ace' of earnest men. We are aware of a challenge, and wo are prepared not to funk It. American school and college life has m these last fifty years, "teadlly ';',";^-â- -^7^;;^;;â„¢-• j^'j^^^^i:;;-;"-: I no courage to think. The application • * quirt d by t!io l)uininio;i from the Hud- compeiled to acknowledge tho great- aon 8 Kay Company v.oi-p formed into ness and t!ie pre-eminence of this Na- the*Kcrth-V.'ist Territories; f.nd in tlon wfcos^ 60th Birthday we keep this ' liS2 thfr pror.'sinnal d*i;.ricts of As- happy year, and tu pay tribute to those â- Iniboiii, Sankuttlicwaii, AlbVrta, and ">tu of courage and foresight whom wo Athiil.uska wt'to eitabli.sli^d. ^ In 18D7, "re prcud to cull the "Fathers (jf Con- • certain m-.asuro of resyo'nglblo self- ffderation." goveininint was gianteU to thMe di»- And what words of mine are fitting trU-ts, and in 1D05 the Dominion Gov- <;r goftU enough to tell of the valiant. ernm. Ill treated out of Ihefo four dlsj^ iiarla tlm have so heroically b^n I trlcts the two Provinces of Alberta.i.nd "^j'aycd by tffe Soldier-Sons of rtur land ^ SaskatcI.ewan. "Theae two new i)rov- 1" the defence of llanada and the Em- Inciti'^fflciaily took their places with Plro on this continent ahd lu- South tho seven older i>rovinie« on SeptLin- Afilca. Ten years at,o, in Franco and her- the iHt, 1105, thus making a eon- Helgjum during the Great War, the tinuoiis Dominitn from tho Atlantic to ""'en from the Land of the Maple Loaf the Puc'fii : steniintd tho tUIe of the world's great- • In 1912, a 8ti;i further extension of ^«' tyranny and brutality. Who will . Jjoiindarlia for Manitoba, Oatario, and ^^or be able to fully chronicle the val- ^u( l.f'c wc^ agrstd- on, in order th.u.orous deeds of thut mighty 500,000 iBpy might conform mere closely to ""•". as the Canadian Army took it« the territories of Alberta and Sa.skat- Pla<o b.v tho Hide of tho veterans of thewaii. tCanadlan Territory North of ""any wars, yet without sulferiiig by the COth paral.'cl has, for administra- f" '^°'"P'"''so"' Nay! They oven out- -tlve' pur4)or?-', been formed Into the.; "hone yes, and oat foughtTftlie 'pick Territories of Yukon,' Mackenzie. Keo*',"' the most perfect war-machiBB ever watin, and Kranklla, the latter district .devised by man, and, despite the most Eophlstlcation.- -Lord Eustace Percy. Outlook. BURIED 2000 YEARS V. â-  .. â-  â-  :,â-  ' â- ; .-rn «E,' â- \ " - 1 fl' â-  |^^>.vi^^E^M^ iJ ^^H ^^^^H ^H^^^^H H x^^^^ut£ IM^^^H^^^I^^^I^^^HS IB a Ab^e men and women are convinced that school children aud college stu- dents can learn of tho existence of great music as they learn of great literature. They know, these men and women, that literature Is often hopelessly ruined by tho Ill-advised efforts of teachers. They can hardly hope that music ^111 always escape the same deplorable fate. But v.-hat- ever Ill-judged and superflclal meth- ods may flourish here and there, they are being exposed to a pttltess criti- cism aimed to supplant Ignorance with training and Incompetence with ability. Appreciation An "Educational Industry. pie. Leave the student alone with music; It needs no explanation, uo missionary persuasion, no apologia. Those who like music do not do so because they are persuailed or cajoled into It. Our very eagerness' runs tho danger of defeating Its own end. All that the sinccrost advocates of Ap- preciation hops for, all that Its sever- est critics wish It might prove often comes quite naturally to Its finest flower when teachers can psrsuade themselves to atop talking and can cease to Inrude beween music and the listener. Pompolt excavations -are now J|uctically complefe ] Damon Runyon (N.Y. sports writer, murder trial reporter) described Col- onel Charlos Augustus Lindbergh'^ appearance during the ceremonies at Washington as follows: "He looked so frightened, and so very, very young that you felt your old Adam's apple working, and you wished that you might get to him, and put your arm That Is the case as It sUnds to-day. around him, like you would do with Statistics and questionnaires, which the lad at home, and say to him: are dally multiplied without number, ' Now, looky here, sonny, don't you be only prove what most of us already ' scart, these follts are Just trying to know. They make the case no better and no worse than we feel It to be. Schools and colleges arO'.-everywhere taking \w this, as yet ill-defined, sub- ject, and taking It up tor reasons that let you you.' " know they're glad to soe A Chinese Puzale â€" Has Cben ten off more than he can Chew? blt- REG'LAft FEl^LERSâ€" By Gene Byrnes ^ •A Wild Tale From the Equator. ME JUS' UAFFEO AM DIDN' EAT ANVTHIKWJ OM ACCOOMT OP "E& A CANPY . jn - r ^S < { V- â- ;. »^ « ^V-^^^^i B^ IS" \* _^*-**^ â€"^ "^Amia* * * r^ -â€" < _r" ^V ? • t