throughout the Island, a man was appointed to keep watch over the visitors during the night. They left early next morning. The Gypsies, in spite of Hitler and the vicissitudes of their nomadic way of life, are a very durable people, and it is said that the last of them Will be seen when they return to India, picking their way “amidst the scattered

ruins of the world.”

United Farmers

The great wave of agrarian discontent which swept Canada after World War I reached Prince Edward Island in 1920. At a farmers’ meeting held at Morell on June 9th, Mr. Paul McLaughlin of Peake’s Station declared that “profiteering politicians” and “scheeming law- yers” had too long been using the farmer votes as “stepping stones” over which “they stepped into fat offices, judgeships, senatorships and gov- ernorships.” “They have the people,” Mr. McLaughlin declared, “divided into two hostile camps — Grits and Tories” and, by means of “a well subsidized press keep their minds inflamed with the party mania.” The speaker was of the opinion that the time had come “to desert the ‘party idols’ and unite in a farmers’ party to elect farmers to carry out the people’s will and not their own.” Another speaker, Mr. Perry Coffin of Savage Harbour, felt that the existing representatives “had failed utterly to do their duty.” The meeting ended with a unanimous decision in favour of the United Farmers of Prince Edward Island of which, incidentally, Mr. J. Walter Jones, later a Liberal premier of this Prov- ince, was secretary-treasurer. Although at this and other meetings throughout the Island, the government of the day was regarded as being guilty of practices “utterly dishonest and tyrannical and intolerable to a free people,” these sentiments were not reflected in the Island vote dur— ing the Federal Election of 1921. Although the Progressive Party, of which the United Farmers was the Island wing, won impressive support in Ontario and the West, Prince Edward Island went Liberal.

Women’s Institute

On November 9, 1927, with the Misses Windsor and Saunders, representatives of the Provincial Government, in attendance, a meeting was held in Mount Stewart School for the purpose of organizing a Wom- en’s Institute. Out of the fifteen local women who were present, Mrs. Harold Hall was elected President; Mrs. (Dr.) A. B. Martin, Vice-Presi- dent; and Miss MacDonald, Secretary—Treasurer. Mrs. R. C. Clark, Mrs. M. K. Charman, and Mrs. George Clark were chosen directors and Mrs. Fred MacDonald and Mrs. Edwin McAssey, auditors. The new organiza- tion’s first regular meeting was held at the home of Mrs. Charman on December 6th. The committees appointed at that time, sick committee and school committee, are indicative of the work which this estimable organization has been performing faithfully and well for almost half a cen ury.

Airplanes

Mount Stewart’s introduction to airplanes seems to have occurred early in 1928 with the inauguration of an airmail service between Monc- ton and the Magdalene Islands. The seaplane used followed the course of the Hillsborough River as part of its regular route. The great squad— rons of planes which passed over the village during World War II cer- tainly dispelled any novelty which planes in flight could have had for

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