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b0 000000# 04000000040 % 0046460064 ;000000000000 6064 06044648608 96046 % 80090980 Italy Honours Her Great Men glance through the stamp catalog reveal that no country in the worla has been so lavish with postal tribu‘es to hor groat men as has Italy. This is not surprising, for fow countries can boast of such a long and evenitful hisâ€" A will tory as Italy‘s, crowded as it is with brilliant, colorful figures who have disâ€" tinguished themselves in Cvery posâ€" sible {fieldâ€"soldiers, statosmen, zeligâ€" ious leadeors, artists, pocts, musicians and scienilists Thi: Italian commemorative stamps â€" adds ive more subjects to the philatelic o musical composters, a poet, an and a craftsman. Spontiniâ€"a Forgotten Composer Gasparo Luigi Pacifico Spontini, whose portrait appears on the 10c dark falim ty +# t $ hall of | ) $ | \| : Like many other fTamous Italians, was the son of simple peasâ€" ants. His parents infended him for the priesthood, but secmehow the boy managod to obltain music lessons inJd his brilliant talent caused him to be appointed court composer to the King of Naples An intrigue with a royal princess foroed Spontini to leave the court hurricdly in 1800 and he fled to Paris, where his opcra "La Vestale" won a prize offered by the Emperor $ r‘ * s latest series of | Napoleon. Sponlini‘s character has been deâ€" seribed as "graspingz and treacherous, indolent and spiteful." but throughout his life he succseded in winning wealth and honours from princes. In 1819 his quarrelsome disposition led to his dismissal from the post of Italian opera brown and 1.75L redâ€"orange stamps of | director at Paris, but he was prompily attractive set, was born in died in 18f531. It is not quite clear his centenary should be honoured this year, un‘ecss it is intended to be the ceontenary of his bestâ€"known opera "Anes von Hohenstaufen," which was first performed in 1837. LJ1] * and 4 . 0 tb is 44 VV 14 V POSTE ITALIANE @L i; 10 STE. JTALIANE 27 ~G#MTt N uS 4 ' % 1774 | css invited to Berlin by the King of Prusâ€" sla. Here he soon embroiled himseif an:w,. but thrcugh the favor of the King he retained his position until 1Ml. In that year he left Germany and spent the rest of his life in obâ€" scurity, Like so many composers Oof ‘hce talian school, Spontini loved the granâ€" diose and aweâ€"inspiring. "His ‘forte‘," said one critic, "is a hurricane, his ‘piano‘ a breath, his ‘crescendo‘ made everyone op>n their eyes, his ‘diminuâ€" endo‘ induced a fseling of deliclous THUREDAY, JUNE 2ND, 1933 POSTE ITALIANE ,POSTE mu.wl! -,')‘DA‘H".N FROM 4. E. HARRIS C0., FIGURES IN A BOOK? I{ you could, then bankers in any country. would need no more than a fountain pen to prevent bank failures, During the last ten fiscal vears Canada‘s chartered banks have pdul more than $397,â€" 000,000) in interest on drpnens. [{ they could create deposits by the m.nvu process n'j \\rltmf' hgures in a hbook,. lllPV uml(l lmu saved that $397,000,0001 And if banks could lend ten times the amount of their deâ€" posits, collecting interest each time, bank prnfils would beâ€" comeâ€"a national seandal, diviâ€" dends would be paid in astronâ€" omical figures, people would be selling alrlho.\fi |}|):d to buy bank shares, and there would be a land office rush on at Ottawa for bank charters. Bank profits last year averâ€" aged less than half of one per cent. on total assets â€" a lower margin than that on which any other class of business, corporâ€" ate or individual, can succeed. Dividends are less than per cent. on shareholders‘ inâ€" vestment; nobody is scrambling to sell all he owns to invest im bank shares, and there is no lamnd office rush at Qttawa for bank charters â€" though no application has been refused in the last fifteen vears. Timmins Stamp Club Column Few stood so long or so resolutely in the forefront of public controversy, or aroused such fierce opposition by vigour of opinion or severity of tongue â€" and none passed to his rest having carned greater public respect than Viscount Snowden. His career was a triunmph of sturdy British character. He took an unpopular course during the Great War, but later became one of his country‘s great figures, standing firmly for his convictions and for soundness in the financial struc» ture of Great Britain. His words quoted above apply to Canadian banking today with all the force with which he applied them that day to banking in England. The Canadian banking system is a British system, adjusted from time to time to fit the needs of a developing nation in the changing scene of this new world. That was written by one of the greatest of Socialistsâ€"by the late Viscount Snowden of Ickornshaw, Philip Snowden, in 1935 â€" little more than two years ago. Banks perform no miracles. But what are the Your local branch bank manager will be glad to talk banking with you. He will be glad to answer your questions from the standpoint of his own experience, The next article in this series will appear in this newspaoper, Watch for it. as true today as ever,. You cannot create credit by writing figures in a book. You cannot make loans regardless of deposits, collateral sor repayment, then write the loans up with a fountain pen as figures in a hook labelled "Deposits"" and lend them over and over. Credit can only be issued against actual assets. That is "Credit can only be issued against real assets . . . The amount of credit must always be limited to the amount of free money . . . THE CHARTERED BANKS OF CANADA What gives rise to a loan : E. HARRIE C0., BO%1T0M facts? diose and aweâ€"l said one critic, ‘piano‘ a breath everyone open t endo‘ induced ; languor, and enough to wake triumph of the ; Von Weber, hoy but superficial but superficlal music S eclipse, and toâ€"day his most entirely forgotten They keep cash reserves more than sufficient to meet. the average daily withdrawals. They keep much more in forms read. ily convertible into cash, should any emergeney ever arise. By reason of their substantial liquid assets Canada‘s chartered banks have money awaiting demand â€" just awaiting safe loaning opportunity. Banks cannoi lend money unless people want to borrow it. They have no monopoly of the business of extending credit, for the cash reserves of many other corporations find a useful earning outlet in the same wayv. Some loans directly give rise to deposits; but have you ever consi«icred what it is that gives se to a loan? A man‘s realizâ€" able assets accumulated from his own work, plus his own character, ability and willingâ€" ness to repay. All deposits are not the direct result of loans. People do not borrow money and pay interest on it to leave it on deposit at a lower rate or no rate at all. They borrow money for use. They draw it out promptly and use it in the expectation of making a profit over and above the banL charges. let us remind you that deâ€" posits of any kind are always vyable to the depositor, or to [\?s order, in cash. tic, "is a hurricane, his ath, his ‘crescendo‘ made n their eyes, his ‘diminuâ€" d a fseling of delicious d his "sforzando‘ was ake the drad!" With the an great German composer however, Spontini‘s showy al music ‘suffered a total toâ€"day his operas are alâ€" Stradivariâ€"Master Crafisman On the 20¢ carmnieâ€"rose and the 250L 2L grayâ€"green is pictured the sroat violinâ€"maker Antonio Stradivari, whose matchless instruments, made over two hundred years ago, have neveor been ecualled by later workmen. The desizn shows the old crafisman workâ€" inz on one of his violins, but the sceeone is entiroly imaginary, as no authen‘ic portrait of Stradivari is known to exist. Stradivari was born in 1644 at Creâ€" mona, where the art of violinâ€"making had already reached a high degres of perfection under the celebrated Nicâ€" colo Amati. After serving as apprenâ€"| tice to Amati, Stradivari opened a workshop of his own and gradually| developed the violin into the form in which we have it toâ€"day. Littos is known of his personal life and the only descripticn of him imat has come dow»> to us is that "he was tall and thin in appearance and invariably to be gsen in his working costume, which changed rarely as he was always at work." We also lsarn that he "wore a white woolen cap in winter and a white cotton cap in summer"! Peyond these meager details .his personality is cntirelvi ierged in the beautiful violins that he turned out year after year, bearing the Latin labs} "Antonius Stradivarius." In the light of presentâ€"day opinion that a workman has outlived his useâ€" fulness at the age of fortyâ€"five, it is interesting to note that some of Straâ€" divari‘s masterpieces wrre producefll when he was well over eighty! Dm‘ing! ‘ | his lonz and busy life he made a tolal) of 1116 instruments, of which 540 vioâ€" lins, 12 violas, and 50 violincellos stili survive. Over $10,000 has been paid for some of these in the past, and toâ€" day many of them are wellâ€"nigh priceâ€" less. â€" No two Stradivari violins are exactly alike in tone or appearanCti, but all poassess an unmistakable quality that defies imitation. Strangely enough, cxperts say that the secret of thair| marvelous tone lies not so much in the workmanship or the material as in the varnish and the lovingz care with which the old crafisman laid it con. Leopardiâ€"Poect ~/ Pessimism The 25¢ dark gr.cn and the 3530c purple stamps honour ore of Lhel greatect lyric poets of the 19th cenâ€" turyâ€"Count Giacomo Lsopardi, who was born of an aristocraiic family in 1798. Leopardi‘s strange genius was developed only at the expense of his physical and mental health. He grew up nervous, sickly and deformed; his parents showed him no affection, and life in his native town was dull and. ininteresting. Friendless and alone, he passed the early days shut up in his father‘s vast library, which happened to be one of the finest in that part of the country. Solely by his own efforts, the preâ€" cocious boy mastered Latin, Greck, Heâ€" brew and several modern languages so well that at sixteen he was one of the best classical scholars in Italy! At that age he wrote a Latin essay on the Roman rhetoricians, at seventeen he composed a ‘ treatise on the popular errors of th» ancients, citing more than 400 authors, and at eighteen he wrote imitations of the Greek poet Anacreom that. deceived even experienced sclhoâ€" lars! Excessive study and an unhappy love, affair permanently shattered Leopardi‘s fragile health, however, and he passe the rest of his life halfâ€"blind, deaf, and tortured by incessant â€" pain. â€"Under these cireumstances it is not surprising that he soon adopted a philosophy of despair. This philosophy he expressed in a spries of poems whose antique style and austere beauty rank with the great masterpieces of all time. Worn out by suffeoring, he died at Naples in 1037. Pergolesiâ€"a Genius Who Died Young Proudly refusing to marry anYone but Pergolesi, the beautiful Maria enâ€" tered a convent and died of a broken heart within the year. The youthful composer, already stricken by . conâ€" sumption, retired to a lonely monasâ€" tery where he wrote his great "Stabat Mater"® as a tribute to his Jost love and then expired. This work has been called "a divine poem of grief" â€"and Perzolesi is still venerated: in Italy as a composer who would. have ranked with the greatest masters of the cenâ€" tury if only he had lived.. . .â€" Giottoâ€"the First Modern Pa.inter The robsd and hcoded figure on the 1.25L deep blue and the 2.75L plus 2L dark brown is Gioito di Bondone (1266â€" 1337). whoes> sixth centenary has been widely celebrated throughout Italy tius vear. Giotto is famous as the first Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, who is shown on the 30c brown and T75¢c deep carmine values, was born in 1710 and died of consumption at the early age of 2%6. Yet during his brief life this gifted composer wrote less than 12 operas (of which "La Serva Padrona" is the best known) 3 oratorios, 30 trios, Pergolesi played a brilliant, dissipatâ€" ed part in the court life of the periol, and the tragedy of his early death has made him aromantic figure to his impressionable countrymen. / It is saila that his last opera was greeted witn catcalls and rotten oranges, and while the composer sat alone and dejected amonz the audience, aâ€" titled lady named Maria Spinelli came up to him and whispered words of encouragement. An ardent love affair soon sprang Up between the two but one day they were suddenly surprised by the lady‘s three brothers, who offered her the choice of marrying a man of her own rank ar seeing her lovter slain on the sput. a number of masses, cantatas, etc., and the celebrated "Stabat Mater." THE FORCUPINE ADVANCE, TIMMINS, ONTARIO great modcrn painter, the precursor of that dlony line of illustrious Italian arâ€" tists that culminated 300 years lator in Michelangelo, Lecnardo da‘ Vinci and Raphansl. Little is known of Giotto‘s life, but tradition says that he was discovered as a shepherd boy drawing piciures of his sheep on a pirce of slate. For cenâ€" turies before his time paintors had slavishly copied Byzantine models that showed the Virgin Mary and the early Christian saints arranged in stiff, unâ€" natural poses; Giotto had the couraze to break with these paralyzing convenâ€" tions and make his subjects look iike living, breathing human beings. His greatest frescos are at Assis! and Paâ€" dua, and he also designed the famous campanile at Florence which is still known as "Giotto‘s Tower. Abbe Maurice Roy, RIGHT, of Quebes, is shown with Father H. J. Markey, of Detroit, as they attended the first annual conference of the Catholic Youth Organization in Chicago. Attend Conference Giotto was a friend of the poet Daiite and the storyteller Bocaccio, and many anecdotes are told about his shrewd humour. In a playiul mood the King of Naples once asked him to draw a pictur of his kingdom. Giotto imineâ€" diatoly sketched the figum of an ass pictur: of his kingdom. Giotto imineâ€" diatoly sketched the figum of an oss b:arint: a heavy pack saddle on whic‘h lay a crown and scepter! More fam‘lâ€" lar is the story of how the Pope son. a messenger to the gimat artist askin: for a sample of his skill. With one swezap*of his brush, Giotto merely drew a circle on a piece of paper, and this circle was so perfect that the Pops cffered to take him into his service. Eveon toâ€"day the Italians still use the expression "As round as Giotto‘s O"! How Hay Fever May be Made Less Serious Xp auses of the Disease and Suggestions for Some Reâ€" lief. whic‘h mences, to give the person about 16 injections of the "desensitizer‘"‘ at inâ€" tervals of five to seven days, the time of the last injection with the beginning of the patient‘s "season." If successful, this treatment lasts for the season only; it must be renewed the followinz yvear.. About twoâ€"thirds of those treated will obtain considerâ€" able relief from the treatment; oneâ€" third will have slight ‘or no rglief, whil> a small proportion will be made worse. Certain drugs are more or less successfully used in the treatment of this disagreéable complaint. No ne should be used by the patient without thre direction of a doctor. CANADBA DRY PURE AND WHOLESOME*‘ Now Judy Kane would oft complain her pep was surely on the wane. But what to do she always knew she‘d Ginâ€"gerâ€"vate* for pep anew. picks you up . . . soothes and refreshes inwardly ... and aids digestion. In a word, "It‘s Gingervating." Save money by getting Canada Dry in the easyâ€" toâ€"carry, handy home cartons. Canada Dry is by far the largestâ€"selling ginger ale in Canada and worldâ€"famous for quality. DRY Anthony Campbell, 155 Pine stree} south, Timmins, was sentenced to fifâ€" teen days in jail when he was convictâ€" ed of drunk driving in South Porcupine polics court before Magistrate Atkinson on Tuesday morning. He was defended by Dean Kester, K.C, St.. Jolhun Telegraph:â€"Ths most casâ€" ual observation will prove that nearly every instance of soâ€"called bad driving is really an exhibition of intolerabic bad manners. + Sentence Timmins Man for Drunken Driving