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grandeur and awe inspiring scenery.
Its perpendicular cliffs polished by
land and snowslides its extraordi-
nary formation on the north side
and the two rivers flowing into the
head, one from the east and the
other from the southwest, with tb lr
mouths within biscuits toss of one
another, make it an exceptionally
thrilling experience to penetrate to
its headwaters. The anchorage there
is safe and excellent. These mag
nificent waterways will some day
prove one of the chief sources of
income of the Lonely Labrador. .
While we took salmon and large
trout on the fly the former need a
lot of tempting to rise, though each
fish was worth catching. One could
see hundreds in the pools There is
also hunting in season-deer trails.
bear footprints and other signs of
wild animal life being very evident.
VI 'hS Oe'iVi poJ ., oedSAeh uiiS III
forty miles, between cliffs averaging
1000 feet in height and i'm places
reaching to over $500. For the last
twenty miles these cliffs are only
separated by a narrow mile of ford
and give an impressive sense of
grandeur as one sails up. In
Kanairiktok Bay-running in about
thirty miles from the sea coasts a
beautiful fall thirty feet high. the
foam of which can be seen miles
distant. In Adlavik Bay are several
rivers, and in the pool Of one of them
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Labrador: Lorn Widow Of Civilization

which is in operation in some parts
of Labrador. The machine will take
seventy fish in a minute and might
be made to do even three times that
quantity.
There is also modern plan for
converting the immense bulk of offal,
heads and general wastage from our
fish, into food for chickens. This has
not yet been perfected, but is being
tried out. AS the matter stands at
present the waste is appalling. The
large amount of gelatin now lost
promises to produce a bi-product
that will again add greatly to the
incentive to engage in the fisheries.
Even before the war Germany was
using over 250,000 tons of fish meal
made from waste fish and fish waste,
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came into use they found it SO easy
to go to and fro from the fishing
grounds that we again prophesied
that every man would be selling his
farm and buying schooner. But
again the reverse was the result. If
ever the price of fish were to reach
$40 quintal we prophesied plenty
and ease for the fishermen. But once
more we were entirely wrong. Even
now the fishermen get nearly three
times the price for their catch that
used to satisfy their forebears, but
they are poorer than ever, so poor
that many are literally starved out of
fishing. All along the line the coun-
try has made so-called progress, but
the average fisherman is if anything
less able to wrest his bread and but
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of Labrador" Newfoundland still
holds jurisdiction over an unknown
quantity of it, as if she were some
sea rover granted all she could get
out of foreign parts abroad"
Canada in 1921 sent the S. S.
Acadia to make a complete survey
of Hamilton Inlet. which she claimed
directly lumber mills were erected in
the Grand River district. AS a result
the big companies trading for fur in
the Bay have refused to pay duties
to Newfoundland. If justified in this,
it looks as if those which have long
been paid under protest would have
to be refunded by the Colony.
As Labrador has no representation,
it being too expensive to collect the
votes of the widely scattered inhab-
itants, it was proposed in 1919 to
appoint the Governor of Newfound-
land ex officio as Commissioner for
it, but nothing resulted and there is
still no one to care for her interests.
The first protector, the Governor Of
Boston, refused to look after her,
Newfoundland neglected her and
Canada got tired of her and returned
her, till now she still drags along
unrepresented and uncared for. This
is so much the case that close as she
is to the United States many of her
marvellous fjords are as yet un-
charted. Thus the only chart extant
of the approach to Main from the
sea was made in 1912 by a German.
My own copy was presented to me
by the author. captain of the battle
ship Bremen, later SO famous in the
great war. The captain of the mail
steamer patroling the northern three
hundred miles of coast says that he
never uses chart, as there is none
Of any value. except for the general
direction.
The bays Of Labrador are mar
velously wild and interesting, many
still untrodden by the foot of civilized
man. In the Labrador Pilot, volume
III. of 1917, are our descriptions of
three of these bays. In addition, we
have explored three more. Jeanette
Bay has fine harbor for yachts at
the entrance, and a vessel of ten feet
draft could easily pick her way up
thence, following her motor boat to
an anchorage close to fine salmon
river. The seals and birds which we
saw in the bay also made US feel
that it would appeal strongly to
sportsmen. Mr. Paul Rainey in the
S. S. Surf visited it about 1912 and
secured excellent hunting and fish
ing. Adlatok Bay is also a wonder
full piece of water, uniting half way
down with another great bay called
Ugutok. OF all the fjords visited by
us and as yet undescribed I would
place Tikkoaktokak Bay first for
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ter from his hard environment. Here
and there a stalwart lad has returned
to the hook and line fishery, avoiding
the gamble Of huge and expensive
net liable without a moments notice
to be lost owing to heavy seas or ice
and leave the venturer with debt
which he can never hope to pay. The
"hook -and-liner" has to work harder,
to fish during longer season and to
endure more physical hardship, but
he gains enormously in mental peace.
Not few of these same men even
scrapped their motor engines when
the price of oil mounted to a dollar
a gallon. They thus inadvertently
avoided the result Of the motor habit,
the symptoms of which seem to be
marked by the atrophy of both
physical and moral muscles.
Mr.. William Cabot journeyed from
st. Augustine to Paradise rivers in
1920, and his almost annual visits to
them have demonstrated that our
ancient Indian aborigines are rapidly
approaching extinction. The high
selling price of fur during the war
lured the white trappers to penetrate
eve? further than ever into the in
terror and SO curtail the Indians
ground. The Indian will farm the
valuable fur bearing animals on his
presumptive territory as carefully as
a farmer his stock, while he will de-
stroy all the caribou that he sees,
though they are equally necessary
to his life, since he depends on them
for food. But he knows that the
caribou is vagrant, and that the
white settler will shoot it if he does
hunting grounds he has no reason to
spare anything. Cabot, who better
than any one knows these people
from long personal acquaintance, liv-
ing and travelling with them, and
having helped to publish book of
their language, describes them as
very charming race, friendly, peace
full, generous and real sportsmen-
but doomed.
The native Eskimo and half-breed
population were almost decimated in
1913 hy terrible epie emic Of in
f1uenza. In one village of 800 people
in three weeks $50 died-which toll
included every adult male. In some
white settlers homes every soul died
in a few hours; and some, isolated
and enfeebled, were killed by their
own famished dogs and partly eaten.
there being literally no one left to go
to their assistance. The chief Mo-
ravian settlement at Main, on it's
150th anniversary, was destroyed by
fire the very day after their steamer
Harmony had landed all their winter
supplies. Everything was DESTROYED.
including the valuable fur catch of
the year and the personal belongings
of the missionaries. For the last $50
years the Moravians have been the
champions of the Eskimo people.
Still there is future, and a great
future, for Labrador, as there was
for Our Lady of the Shows" for
Alaska, for Australia. New Mexico,
Florida and other countries that
have but recently come to their own.
Personally 1 can see the day ever
clearer as the years go by. 1t may
not be in my time But the world
needs now what the Labrador can
give-this great, lone land of silence.
In body and spirit it has great things
to offer. During the years that have
passed since this volume was first
published our faith has become only
more mistaken in the future of "the
Labrador"
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BY wILFRED T. GRENFELL.


URING the years that have
j elapsed since this symposium
was published good deal of
work has been done on the Labrador
Peninsula and new facts have been
contributed to our knowledge con-
cerning it that are of interest to the
public. The deductions of all recent
observers is that the country has
been too harshly judged and that it
Is far from being the awful desola-
tion pictured by Professor Hind, or
necessarily the home Of starvation
that Professor Sterne would have the
world believe.
Labrador has continued through
the ages the lone. lorn widow of
civilization. The possible values of
its half million square miles are still
almost unknown. The Canadian Geo
logical Survey has done splendid work
on it, though no industrial develop
ment has resulted from it's discov-
cries. Due to it's work, however, an
immense amount of light has been
thrown upon this vast peninsula with
its waters draining into four seas.
Geologieally it forms part of the great
Canadian Shield-a vast complex of
pre-Cambrian rocks. which in its
well known parts has furnished i'm
mense deposits of valuable minerals,
such as the iron and copper of the
Lake Superior district, the magnetic
iron ores Of the Adirondacks, the gold
Of the Porcupine, the. silver and CO.
bait of Cobalt and the nickel and
copper Of Sudbury, Ontario 1t is
reasonable to suppose that treasures
do lie still untouched in Labrador's
rocks. For beyond the mere analogy
with the rest of northern Canada,
gold was discovered "in stu" a few
years ago in the Mealy Mountains, a
range running northwest and south
east about the center of the east
coast. The furore created at that
time ended in a small expedition
whose efforts are marked now only
by a heap of abandoned machinery
on the sandy beaches between Sand
wich Bay and Hamilton Inlet. The
long winter, which prevents COM
munication oy water with the north
ern part of the seacoast for eight or
nine months out of twelve, also broke
the Syndicate which was mining
pyrites for the sulphur one hundred
miles south of Cape Chidley So fax
nothing has been done to develop the
large iron deposits known as mag
netite and hematite in the Grand
River Valley. Like some sulky vir-
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for feeding hogs and cattle. In Ice
land cows are fed on salt fish, and
they even seem to like and thrive
upon the gristle and tail fms of large
fish. There is no reason why We
should not make farina-the dry
powdered product of the fiat fish now
wasted, or of other fish-seeing that
it has a protein value over 60 per
cent. All that is needed in Labrador
is to wisely utilize its natural prod
ucts.
The onslaught with gun harpoons
and fast steamers has to some extent
told on the number of large cetaceans
that come within striking distance
of our shores. At the present mo-
ment every whaling station is closed.
For our dog teams in winter we are
already lamenting the loss Of the
generous supply of fat and protein
food that was formerly furnished US
by that industry, for as our sole
means of transportation during at
physical welfare of our dogs is of
vital Importance. Our seals have
certainly decreased in number. The
great steamers with their large crews
and modern rifles give unprotected
mothers and their young little chance
to escape: and many of the old
fishery stands, where the seals in
spring and fall regularly trimmed
the shore" and were captured in
large numbers, are now hardly worth
fishing. The greatly increased diff
ficulty of getting sealskin moccasins
which are a necessity to life in the
North emphasizes the fact, and calls
more loudly than ever to have ac-
corded to these valuable animals the
protection, when breeding, that every
other mammal on earth useful to
man has to have in order to save it
from extinction.
The scientific study of the move
ments of our staple food fishes, like
so much else. is still quite neglected.
A big fishery will be carried on all
summer on one side of headland
and not catch enough fish to eat,
while on the other side fish are so
plentiful that the fishermen are un-
able to haul their nets or salt their
catches. Why? No one knows. Can
a fisherman find out if he should re-
main waiting or move to another
berth? Every year empty boats re-
turn with impoverished breadwinners
from the coast, due to this peculiar
fact. Yet no one knows what the
cause is, nor how to avert it; and
no one is seriously trying to find out.
Temperature of the water is said to
be the cause. In rivers heated by
forest fires trout die at temperature
of 6S degrees Fahrenheit. The bait
fish in the sea appear to be even
more sensitive. Caplin, on the move
ments of which our cod fishing de-
pends, seem to die at much lower
temperature and to be sensitive to
even one or two degrees rise. If
fisherman, by lowering a thermom-
eter into the sea, knew that he could
not find fish in one place he would
move to another; but no one is even
trying to teach him how to find out.
Labrador is affording the world
most explicit illustration of the fact
that impulses radiate in every direc-
ton. When trap nets were first
evolved and it was found that cod
could be caught in immense guam
titles at one time. fishermen worked
for an earthly paradise, and we
prophesied great increase in their
numbers. But the contrary has hap
pened- AS soon as motor engines
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gin, Labrador is still wrapped in the
garments of isolation. While her
lovers seem for the time TO have
turned dejectedly away Probably
the best overture made for her favor
has been the quarrying of some of
the precious iabradorite which ap-
pears in large quantities near Main
and also near the Northwest River.
War and Industrial unrest nave
prevented the settlement of the ques-
ton of the boundary of Newfound-
land Labrador. 1t is still an unde-
fined strip of land along the Atlantic
coast and the Straits of Belle Isle.
This fact as far as the development
OF. the country is concerned, is a
serious handicap. However, events
In Newfoundland seem to point to
the probability of confederation with
Canada in the near future, when the
point at issue could readily be solved
even if the decision of the Privy
Council. now under consideration,
never materializes. In 1912 all the
rest Of the large peninsula formerly
known as Labrador" was added to
the Province of Quebec, an area re-
puted to contain S54.s61 square miles.
This article is the Introduction
to the new edition of DR.. GrenfeRs
Labrador" and is here printed by
the kind permission e the Mac
milan Company. the publishsrs Of
fhe book.
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"The Fast Mail" the William Fox photoplay, operates on the general lines of Kansas tornado. Nothing is impossible in 1t. It sweeps everything before it. lays barren everything over which it passes. travels at the speed it's name would imply. and after all is said and done. Is of value to everybody. It is meller melodrama. with the great central scene terri flying race, automobile against train, with tho hero on board the fast mall. the villain In the machine. each of the two men bent upon reaching Vicks- burg first, and once there, battling for dear life over the prostrate body of the girl.
 The Fast Mail" is one of those old time melCdramas which thousands of people have seen on the stage. and which has for the first time been made into picture form. and 1t Is
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Constance Talmadge winking with a mighty "come-hither" in the Hit of her eye brow!
 Constance Talmadge in love, wor- shipping Billy Bensoni
 Constance Talmadge. rampant, stamping her way to freedom over the feet of the vendor who insisted on trying to fit her with the tiny shoe of a high caste Chinese grill
 Constance Talmadge, defiant, bray ing death at the hand of F'ifty-fifty Charlie Yong fer the man she loves!
 Constance Talfnadge strumming the samisen with the nonchalance of the American flapper hitting the uke- lele.
 Constance Talmadge chewing gum in the grand manner!
 All these, and many others, go to make up Constance Talmadge as Ming Toy. the heroine of Fast is Vest the stage success, now First Ma tional attraction, in which she will be seen at the Trianon theatre this week, beginning Monday. Christmas Day.
 Ming Toy . Charming Heroine
 Ming Toy is perhaps the most be- witching character presented to the American public in the last decade. It Is role like a many-sided diamond with Constance Talmadge adding her own luster to every facet.
 As Ming Toy. Miss Talmadge is seen in the varied phases of the life of a Chinese girl oppressed by the weight of a tradition which makes woman the slave of mans whim.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-12-24
ELSIE F ERG USON IN STAR RULE IF "OUTCAST" GALAX

Women motion picture patrons will get moro than drama when they see Elsie Ferguson's latest Paramount picture. "Outcast," on the screen at the Galax theatre next Monday. Tues day and Wednesday. They will see fashion show. the equal of which probably has never before been filmed for use in a dramatic picture. One of the scenes shows a fashionable mod iste shop in New York city which is modelled after the big shops of Paris.
 Gowns for every hour in the day and for every occasion are shown in this scene. For the purpose, ten beautiful manikins with complete outfits were obtained from a large Fifth avenue store. These girls wore sport costumes, motor coats, Ioung- ing robes, negligees, silver and sap phire blue evening gowns, gowns of jet black velvet, riding habits, and bathing suits.
 For this scene Miss Ferguson wore a gorgeous creation of silver and gold. modelled after the Louis Six teenth style, with a black picture hat and black lace mantilla. The dress was designed for a fancy dress cos tune and not for ordinary wear. Mary MacLaren, who plays che of the principal roles in the picture with Miss Ferguson, wears lovely evening gown of silver and lavender georgette in this scene, which Is sure to give every woman who sees it big thrill. Many of the models shown are direct from Paris.
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surroundings; more eager to work, more amenable to discipline, happier and more ambitious to do right.
 Convicts are prone to hiss the vil- lain and applaud the righteous hero.
 Most of them dislike crook plays and are always eager to see right triumph over wrong.
 To use the words of Warden Lewis p. Lawes of Sing Sing prison, who delighted his charges with "Oliver Twist" as a Thanksgiving film treat "The cinema undoubtedly is the greatest blessing mankind has been given since Magma Charta. The power of the film is enormous. Con- stant picture-going creates brain ac- tivity which leads to a knowledge of things along other lines; 1t creates demand for books. a wish for thorough scientific knowledge"
 Warden Robert J. McKenty of the Eastern State penitentiary writes:
 "We regard motion pictures in this institution as the highest type of entertainment. The benefit de- rived for the men therefrom cam not be measured. The motion picture has brought the outer world. society, into their midst Hence stone walls do not a prison make.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-12-24
DeauuilLe Scene of New
 SUanson Play at Strand

Deauville, France, where the beau ties of all the world congregate to display the most daring of beach costumes; Deauvilie, home of the one- piece bathing suit and the liveliest summer resort in the world. Is tho background for many of the most important and colorful scenes for The Impossible Mrs. Bellew." Gloria Swanson's latest and most glittering production. which will be the attrac- tioa at the Strand theatre all this week.
 A feature of the Deauville scenes will be the appearance of Gloria Swanson and hundred of the most beautiful California bathing beauties in the sea costumes of stripes, polka dots, jerseys, silks and satins. all of the oceanic sartorial display which has made Deauville the best known bathing resort in the world.
 It is to Deauville that The Im- possible Mrs. Bellew" flies when gossip in America has so blackened her name as to make further resi- dence impossible. And 1t is in Deau-
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LOEW'S TO GIVE 4 PERFORMANCES t H R|ST M AS DAY

With a specially arranged Christ mas program and four performances scheduled for Christmas Day. doors opening at 12:3o p. m.. patrons and friends of Loew's Bijou are assured some good entertainment by the man. agement for the first half of the week
 There is comedy act. said to be full of laughs, entitled. Morning Glory" which will be presented by the Reed and Bernard company. fol- lowed up by an original laugh skit. "The New Floor Walker" full of comedy chatter and songs by Holly and Lee, and the merriment is aug mented by Elliott and West, well known vaudevillians. who promise something unique in Somebody's Children" into which act they are said to inject some of the best com edy talk, songs, novelty and eccentric dances.
 By the way of .balancing' this bill the Patersons. marvellous opponents of equilibrism and sensational gym nasts, promise some daring feats and hand to hand and ground acrobatics; and more pep" along with music, is to be injected by Charles Wiles, termed premier exponent of the xylo- phone. offering classical and popular selections.
 Bert Lytell in Sherlock Brown will be the motion picture feature with this bill. In this Metro pie ture Lytell plays the role of young clerk who has ambitions to become a great detecttve His efforts to solve mystery in which he becomes involved provide one of the most amusing pictures in which this clever star has been seen. The picture is pure comedy and Lytell. as the shy, earnest young clerk, filled with a great ambition, makes the leading oh r otor scrao v,fp o1v funny
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-12-24
PH0TOPLAYS FIND NEW FIELD OF ENDEAv0R

Following the release of "Skin Deep" a crook play, First National has made a survey by Questionnaires to learn the effect of motion pictures on persons whose moral fibre is not of conventional strength. These cuestionnaires were sent to wardens and chaplains of penitentiaries throughout the United tSates and the opinions, without an exception, were to the effect that:
 Motion pictures tend to make con- victed men more patient in their
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scenes of "The Broad Road" the first of the productions of Associated Au- thors for Associated Exhibitors. May Allison is starred in this picture. which Is from the well known story of the same name by Hapsburg Liebe.
 Before coming to New York the company spent six weeks near Or lando. Fla, where the exterior shots wore made. Miss Allison's support ing cast included Richard c. Tray CTS, Ben Hendricks, Jr.. Charles Mac Donald, Joe Flanagan, Mary Foy, Alicia Collins and Emile La Croix.
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vile that she has to make & choice between the lovers. Count Radisleff a titled Don Juan, and John Hell stan, q young writer of advanced ideas, a situation that brings strongly dramatic situations.
 The Impossible Mrs. Bellew" was adapted by Percy Heath from a novel by David Lsle. The male lead Is assumed by Conrad Nagle, while others in the cast, all members of the Paramount stock company, in- clude Robert Cain, Richard Wayne, Frank Elliott, June Elvidge, Herbert Standing, Mickey Moore, Pat Moore. Helen Dunbar, Arthur Hall and Clarence Burton.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-12-24
NAVY HAS PART IN
 NEW HISTORIC PLAY

The United States navy department has promised Vitagraph it's full CO., operation in the filming of the sea scenes for the forthcoming feature, Masters of Men," adapted from the story by Morgan Robertson. The ar- arrangements were made recently through Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt.
 As one of the important seauences
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East Is West' at Trianon,
 Constance TaLn7adge Is Star

Constance Talmadge. the wild girl
 Constance Talmadge, the demure and alInring!
 Constance Talmadge biting the finger of the wicked Chinaman who would buy her from the Hove Doatl"