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Three students of French blood from small Canadian towns last week fired their fellows at Laval University to take up walking sticks against Vice in the big city of Quebec. Laval's Three Musketeers, Gilles Ayotte, Paul Emile Brazeau and Jean Paul Tremblay, did not act until they had on their side a recent angry declaration in the Quebec Court of Sessions by Judge Laetare Roy that the authorities were "flagrantly failing in their duty" to stamp out Vice. After reading this the French-Canadian students sallied forth one night last week, broke into eight houses of prostitution...
...this time Quebec cohorts of Vice, in the persons of the city's taxi drivers, had gone violently to the rescue of girls and madams, swinging monkey wrenches and auto jacks in their onslaughts upon Virtue's students. In the thick of the battle Quebec patrons of the resorts attempted to preserve a neutral attitude, diving into closets and under beds. When finally police began to arrive and make arrests the students were nearly victorious, shoving the few remaining girls out of doors into the cold autumn night...
...there was one insane person in every 535; by 1927 the proportion was down to one in 312; by 1929 it was one in 150. Some psychologists hold that everybody is crazy now. Dr. A. J. Desloges, director of hospitals for the insane for the province of Quebec, said that "the whole world would be insane in a quarter of a century," later revised his figures, made it ten years. He added the doleful news that the population in mental hospitals is increasing, but ''there are more insane outside of the hospitals than in them...
...three centuries and more of Canadian history, this ancient capital has known but two flags, the French and the British. Today, Mr. President, in your honor and in honor of our great and friendly neighbor, the flag of the United States is flying over the Citadel of old Quebec." When his turn came to show whether he could outdo his hosts in graciousness, President Roosevelt moved forward on the arm of Son James, warmed Canadian hearts by saying: "While I was on my cruise, I read in a newspaper that I was to be received with all the honors customarily...
...late George V as "a great King and a great gentleman." He added: "It has also been my privilege to know His Majesty King Edward." And then as the supreme evidence of his ability as a statesman, President Roosevelt turned without warning to Premier Joseph Adelard Godbout of Quebec Province and Mayor Grégoire of Quebec City and said: "Monsieur le Premier Ministre de Quebéc, Monsieur le Maire: "Ces aimables paroles que vous venez de m'adresser au nom de votre grande Province et de votre belle ville, et que vous adressez, par moi, au peuple...