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, Banff to CtiebraU Seven Centuries of Stwftbh $tm § T From its mountain setting In the heart of the Canadian Rockies the town of Banff has Just sounded the call for Its third annual Highland Gathering and Scottish Music Festival. Scheduled to last from August 30 through September 2. with headquar ters at the Banff Springs Hotel, the occasion will show anew how seven centuries of Scottish song have sur vived in the keeping of the Scots who have largely peopled the Canadian west. i . m Arranged as before by the Canadlon Paciffc Railway under the patronage sir ' * __ GA/YFF XPFA'GS tfQTGC. FGGr/SAL /t'G’AOQUAATeAS lot the Prince of Wales, the Festival f oromises to convert Banff for four days into a miniature Scotland. Every crack Highland regiment in the Do minion has entered lt« best pipers to compete in the piping contests for the 5. W. Beatty Trophy. Lads and laaales from six to eixty will show how the reel and the sword dance should be danced and how the highland fling should be flung. In addition to tra ditional Caledonian games like putting the stone and throwing the caber, Canada’s Amateur Track and Field Championships on September 2 (Lahpr Day) have been made part of the Festival. Harold Eustace Key. music director for the Canadian Pacific, has arranged a series of concerts of Scottish music, starting with the ballads of the 13th century and continuing through the periods of Mary Queen of Scots, the Stuarts and the Jacobites, followed b7 selections from the songs of Burns, Sir Walter Scott, Lady Nalrne, Christo pher North and the Hebridean music recently made popular by Marjory Kennedy-Fraser. Other features are "Flora and Prince Charlie,0 a ballad, opera by Dr. Healey Wlllan, and a Gaelic fisher folk play by Hebrldeaaa from Vancouver. Besides notable Canadian artists like Finlay Campbell, Catherine Wright and Frances James, Mrs. Kennedy Fraser herself has been brought over from Scotland to sing several groups of her Hebridean songs. She has achieved world fame as redlscovefer, editor and singer of the long neglected songs of the Scottish Isles. This mifilb, preserved In its original character by the simple crofters Of the sequSstMed isles, has beefi tWdeiy accepted jfyfi truest measiffS 6t ths G&elid ^ -• *• —^ -’v- ---- Safety Traffic Signal Factor in Accident Prevention , j A Jr tO t- S T «***/<. H C.A. ^ * i WICHITA. Runs.—More than 189.569 Americans have lost their lives In automobile accidents In the last ten years. Thl3 Is a death total equal to more than twice the population of Nevada, or nearly the population of either Wyoming or Delaware. It exceeds the number of inhabitants of Memphis, toiin.. Grand Rapids. Mich., or Salt Lake City. Utah, according to Clay S. White, safety expert and president of the Standard Traffic Marker company of Wichita, in an address here. An increase of 150 per cent In the ▼early automobile fatality record oc curred between 1919 and the beginning of 1929. Here are the year by year motor car mortality statistics for the last decade, as disclosed In Mr. White's address; __ > 1913. 11,154 1920 . 12,577 1921 . 13,956 1922 . 15.344 1923 . 18,416 1924 . 19,356 1925 . 21,926 1926 . 23.503 1927 . 25.851 1928 . 27,500 “In spite of the tremendous rise In the number of automobile accident deaths,” declared Mr. White, “the American motoring public is growing saner and the effect of safety devices and traffic markers is being felt. The number of deaths by accident In pro portion to the number of automobiles in operation is actually decreasing. In 1919 there were 7.565.446 automobiles in use In the United States and an average of one fatality to every 678 CLAY S WHITE" ' -j motor cars. At the beginning of 1929 there were approximately 25.000.000 automobiles in operation and an aver- , age of one fatality to every 900 cars. The number of automobiles has tripled, while the accidental death total has increased only one and a half times. Improvement In safety devices with the introduction of the flexible rubber traffic signal set Into the street directly in the path of the motorist’s vision is a potent factor to accident prevention/*- q j Fmt$ffl fyJots to 'Take Fart In Air "Races f Lovely Old Quebec, Only Walled City in the Net# Worts'* m- __y’ja >■■■ ■•«■ mmjo mmm ■ ■» • mm —^ » . - - --"■nil i m I i ■» «iii>niiii' ' ’I I CANNON ON VUFFWlN T£QRACS • • ^***4 C*J***t * Landis Honored vv' KenesaW Mountain Landi- "Czar ! -of^Baseball,”. Chicapo, is tK third American to receive the Distin jpjjisj 'V v-» «'**}. Amer I j !l DON'T BE FOOLED! , !| jfi ONCE BAB—ALWAYS BALD! WM 9 * — DON’T GUESS AT IT —TB If mm I , AGENT* WANTED EVIRYWMEES. T / )l fyuVmid products company ,r A PITTSBURGH, PA. J Quebec's Island of Orleans, Which Cartier Called ' “Isle of Bacchus'*—Where Dwells Peace of Centuries I ... i. . a. a a. >-1, ■ -S vv/*vS/£>£ SHvtrvti - L—Sr HAY/H6 T/ne Ofif T*e r*e.e o'o/ZLe**/* o- > * q- / ,5te p ^alsans A. [r MWe likewise found quantities of vines such as we had seen nowhere els^ in the world and which led us to call this the Island of Bacchus." Thus Cartier, the St. Malo mariner, who discovered the Isle of Orleans in 1535, first named it. In the ensuing four centuries have come the ships of the adventurer, the explorer, the pio neer, the builder of empire, followed by the great ships of commerce; but the Isle of Bacchus has not known them, and has slept before the portal of the new world for many genera tions. Not that It has been forgottsd _ but that the bigger ships have gone by. Industry has not destroyed Its charm, and today It remains, If not the pristine Isle of Cartier, a piece of Old Prance as translated by those who shortly followed him. Progress has been slow. Its people have learned the secret of content. Their tongue, their modes, their homes, are of a century ago. They weave their catalogue, a relation of our hook ed rugs, and they live in homespun. They are blessed with old people. Yet, a short ferry distance away, Quebec, with its ramparts, its Chaieau Fton tenac and its ocean shipping, keep* pace with the advance of the times. : At Ste. Petronllle, one of the quaint little villages where wealthy Quebec ; has Its summer homes, an inn has re- I cently been opened, so that It Is now possible for the visitor to rest for 1 awhile and absorb at leisure the charm ; and beauty of the forgotten Island. But he must be prepared to eat of the good viands of the habitant and to live a little closer to homespun. The people of the Island will welcome him with good natvee, but they have little liking for the modern. They have the secret of content and good living ' on the Island of Bacchus. The new inn, called La Catalogne, was once a selgnorlal manor.