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”Ih staged nolnory trunk" than ' tin weakest ink.” FKGI I SATUIIDAY. JULY 27. I357

Women At Work

A suvey-the first of its kind- conductcd by the Women's Bureau of the Federal Department of Labor discloses that women are taking an increasingly prominent place in Can- adian industry. At the present time

. - they make up about Bl per cent of T the nation's working force as coin- pared with less than if) per cent at I the turn of the century. At the end I of 1353 year 1,;l,fitl,(l(ltl were gainfully employed. Of this number :38 per , o cent were married. compared with ' 10 per cent in 1031. The report . points out. however. that the Hunt- ber is still much below the figures in Britain and the United States. In Britain women make up ."-2.7 per cent of the working: force anti in the United States .'l2.l per cent. l : The major factor contribulim: to this situation is, of collrse. the great expansion of job opportunities in recent years." In many cascs female f , operators have taken the place of A . skilled craftsmen who under modern industrial techniques are not in as -; great demand as they used to be. The shortening of working hours and the development of household appliances which reduce work done at home are other factors. H Commenting on the report, the Canadian Bank of ('ommcrce stated that. while in some industrial areas '. women may be competing success- fully with men. the outlook for equal pay for women. in Canada at least. is not bright. The reasons for this, according to bank officials. are the fact that women cannot be de- pended upon to remain in their positions for long periods and the fact that they do not as a rule- there are, of course. many excep- tions-take the special training that l V would enable them to become skilled

rg - workers. 3 ; Whether or not the expanding l ' role of women in industrial employ-

i I ment is a good thing is a question V for which there is no categorical answer. Obviously, the practice is of considerable economic benefit to many families. There are many sociologists, however, who blame it (especially where young mothers are ,; concerned) for much of the unrest J , and psychiatric confusion among T young people. Be that as it may, it is certain that the old saying "a i women's place is in the home." while it is still honored to some extent, Is not the popular belief it once was.

500 Pounds

Dispatches from London tell of a "scene" in the House of'I.ords when actress Vivian Leigh rose in her place in the gallery to protest the impending destruction of historic St. James Theatre. to make room for office buildings. and to dcmimll that Parliament do something to stop it. Actually, it wasn't much of a "scene". Miss Leigh stated her views in a couple of short sentences and u as courtcously led out of the chanilicr, that's all. But it was Qnouizh to draw attention to some- thing new and a little disturbing In gritish governmental thinking of Abe place of the arts. St. James Theatre is one of the w gtujor historical institutions of the ”vQueen's realms. To consent to its 9” &truction, to make room for count- s houses and the like, would seem - be foreign to traditional British ' ” t. . A letter from Sir Winston . II to Miss Leigh suggests & Hunt! in a little usensy it. "I hope you will succeed In '" W of St. James Theatre." igutn, "an! if I fund is needed. ' r to It! possible. I shall be

butter. on nuild about august that his offer of 500 pounds was just as much a commendation of Miss Leigh's dramatization of the need as 1 financial contrilnition to the preservation of I landmark.

Canada's Defence

Those who expected Defence Minister Pearkes to slash away at Canada's military commitments in an effort to reduce expenditures in his department are going to be dis- appointed. judging by statements ho has made recently. And rightly so. It may be possible to save a few million dollars here and there by trimming administrative costs and carrying partial integration of the three services 1 bit farther than it is now. Doubtless. every government department could cut down on ex- penses without impairing its effici- ency and usefulness. But, as Mr. Peat-kcs has pointed out. more than half the defence budget is accounted for by fixed charges. such as tr0ops' pay and allowances, contributions to the pension fund. costs of operations and maintenance. It is, apparently, only in the fields of construction and equipment that any appreciable amount of money could be saved. In any case, these together make up only about 35 per cent of the total budget.

It seems clear. therefore, that in order to bear down heavily on this country's defence costs. our commit- ments to NATO and the joint American-Canadian Continental de- fence plan would have to be serious- ly undermined. And. until such time as the world situation has greatly improved, any such tampering would be very foolish indeed. It might save a few dollars, perhaps a good many, but it would be money saved at great risk to our security.

EDITORIAL NOTES

An American comedian says that "comedy roles are no joke." They are sometimes a little less than amusing to the audience, too.

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Electronic brains may be just as efficient as the human variety, even more so. But they cost a good deal more to begin with. The average medium-sized computer has a price tag of around a half-million dollars.

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A news reports says that the new Aga Khan is not likely to in- herit the bulk of his grandfather's wealth. Since the estate is reputed to be worth more than a billion dollars, it seems reasonable to sup- pose that the young leader will have enough to come and go on.

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Japan is the latest nation to join Britain in loosening restrictions on trade with Communist China. The Government recently removed 272 items from the list of goods which had been banned because of their strategic value. This is just one more step in Japan's intention to act independently of the United States.

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In a recent address Secretary of State Dulles warned the Russians that "as matters are going. the time will come when the pettiest and most irresponsible dictator could get hold of weapons with which to threaten immense harm." That is a danger, of course: but no more seri- ous one than is now within the scope of the Soviet leaders if, as seems likely. they have no intention of making any worthwhile contribu- tions to disarmament.

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The Ontario Department of Health is sponsoring a new course designed to increase the number of hospital laboratory technicians. 40 students are expected to enrol for the first year this fall. It is intended to enable hospitals to cope with in- creased demands expected when the national hospital Insurance plan is put into operation. Other Provinces would do well to make similar prep- arations. for there will be a greatly increased demand for hospital serv- ices everywhere. '

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President Eisenhower says that, as far as he knows. Marshal Zhu- kov, Soviet Defence Minister, is "an honest man". So he may be in his own way. He is not likely. hownver.

WHERE TROUBLE ENTERS THE PICTURE l

in Quest Of A Quote

Grunt Dexter in the Winnipeg Free Press

The quest began in the winter of 1952-53

In the parliamentary restaurant at Ottawa .ilac('-regor Dawson. the official biographer of Mackenzie King, was seated at I table with Francis Hardy. Librarian of Far- liament. Kaye Lamb. Dominion Archivist. and Fred hit-Gregor. n executor of Mr. King's estate. Mr. Dawson called me over and ask- ed me who was the author of the couplet which appears on the first page of Mr. l)nfue'I study at Laurier.

He had been unable to trace the quotation and it applied so exactly to Mr. KIHR that he wished to In- scribe it on the fly lcaf of the "Life" would I find out who wrote it

Here is the passage as Mr. Dn- foe wrote it:

An l-innlish piiblir man. who was also I novelist. and .1 poet. wrote:

”Nc'er of the

living judge.

Too blind the affection or too

fresh the grudge."

At first, none of us minded even though all the books of quotations. including J.W.sl favorite Benhams were barren.

SEARCH BY SCHOLARS

Francis Hardy and Kaye Lamb added l..W. Brockinglon and Max Freedman to their number. he wrilcr added A third scholar. Rev. Stuart lvision of Ottawa. who prov- ed to have the kcenest scent of

living can thn

While there was no success it was felt, especially by Mr. lvc-son and Mr. Hardy, that Bulwer Lylton was our man. Mr. Hardy wrote in March. I953: "He is the only one who answers to pocl. Novelist and statesman.” More- over. l.ytlon used the heroic coup- lets of which the quotation is an example.

Miss Elizabeth Dnfoc and other scholars like the late Skull John- ston. of Manitohn'Univcrsily. were consulted. Miss name had no re- collection of her father mentioning the source. And Skull - his let- ter is before me as I write - was failed in l-Inizllsh but succeed- ed Iviice in Latin. Cicrrn said it in a speech to Caesar and Tacti- lus had it in the first chapter of the histories.

hunt and he. like the Oltavia men. fixed upon Lylton.

As a matter of routine. liliss Ruth Buggey, the Free Press Lib- rarian. wrote to all the leading "question and answer" columns in

the United States and the United

Kingdom without result. The Car ncgie Public Library in Ne w York, famed for its success in this field. also failed.

OXFORD T00

Norman Ward. of the University of Saskatchewan. heard of the search and. such was his confi- cnce in the English department at Saskatchewan that he believed the answer would be in the mail within a week. But Saskatche- wan University. also. failed. Wilson Harris, then editor of the London Spectator, took the couple! to Ox- ford - without success.

For some years it seemed as if Mr. Dafoe's secret would be im- penetrable. Everyone suspected Bulwer Lylton but no one could find the couplet In Lylton's works. You could come close, as in these lines from Miletusr

"Nor thou nor l the worth of these things now Can Judge; we stand too near them."

The amount of reading involved in Lytton was so great as to ex- clude complete certainty. There are a dozen volumes of poetry - much of it the worst poetry in the language. There are three volumes of dramas and some 40 volumes of novels. The novels could not be ignored because every chapter is headed with poetry. some of It by Lylton.

Last December, at the National Conservative convention. Max Freedman leaned out of a tele- vision booth. high up in the audit- orium. wnascd a long finger and said: "I've got it." He was refer. ring. of course. to the quotation. not the leadership. and his word was that the Library of Congress had found it in Lytton. But the es- sential detail of the poem evaded his memory and letters of enquiry brought no enlightenment. Max. no doubt. had the answer but. as he never divulged it. credit in not possible.

FIRST BREAK

The break came in month ago. An English librarian. Miss Will- iams. serving on exchange for 1

Prof. w.l.. Morton joined the - year in the library of the Mines A W' Old B' d National Geographic society The uhnslly. grim and ancient renew their courtship each year.

raven that crooks through folklore and poetry is really a wise old bird. tender with its mate. and en- dowcd with a sense of humor.

The first bird mentioned in the Bible, lho raven occupies an hon- ored place in mythology from classic Greece to the contempor- ary Bororos tribe of Brazil. it has been given roles as diverse as the tattletalc of the gods and the soul of man.

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found a passage from a poem by Lylton entitled, "St. Stephens." No such poem apears in his works and none of the searchers had ever heard of it. Miss Williams's passage was is torn clipping which did not contain any lines resem- bllnil those being sought. but which had somewhat of the mean- mg.

Mr. Ivisnn was now in charge. Ho searched for the poem. There is no reference to it in the Oxford Companion to English Literature. The Library of Parliament had no reference to it. There was no mention of it in the "Life".

Mr. lvison wrote to Montreal. asking his uni , 4 ... to con. suit the librarians at Mcliill un- iversity. The report came back. Lord Lytton in old age. years af- ter his works had been collected and published. had written a poem called St. Stephens. The poem had never appeared in book form. It had been published only once. serially in the January. February and March issues. 1860. of Black. Wood's.

THE POEM

st. Stephen": is A poem tracing psrlimentary oratory in the Unit- ed Kingdom from its birth in the civil wars to the death of Sir Rob- ert Peel. All the great men are there: Eliot. Pym, Hjmpdpn "Warm Without frenzy. wary with- out four. Freedom”: calm champ- ion and first martyr"i; More, Rg. lelgh. Marlboroulzh. Walpole, Chatham. Pitt. Fox. Burke, John- son Macaulay t”liE taught, he cbarm'd. he moved: Few Com. plus one: whate'er their fault; may be: Great Oratorl alone I- chieve the three"); and. at Inc Peel.

Lyllonrstopped with Pool - "Will! the dead" - rm,-..... h. felt unable to write about in. living.

The poem runs:

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is yet to run. Hun-a'd or booted. task is done."

my calm

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pi . ”Ne'er of the living can (in living Judge. Too blind the affection or too fresh the grudgp," Mr. Dafoc had road It in Black- Woodl Ions azo, and had not for- lollell it.

Vanishing Caribou

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five - lrllll upirin tablets are con-

year. - Aspirin can be used for allevi- ating pain. I'm sure most of you have used it many times to get rid of headaches and other minor pains.

if you have not used aspirin. chances are you have used one of the large number of pain-killing preparations which use aspirin as n mnior ingredient.

RIIEUMATIC DISEASES

Aspirins an aid in combating rheumatic diseases. ll is widely us- ed in treating rheumatic fever. rheumatoid arthritis and ilmlllf diseases.

In fact, many doctors say as- pirin is as effective in this field as are ACTH and cortisone. Aspirin also is used universally to help reduce fever, When you have a cold. your doctor general- ly suggests taking aspirin to bring your temperature down.

Aspirin has been around quite a while. For 103 years. it has been used to relieve paid. reduce fever and inflammation. but we still don't know much about it. SOME RESEARCH

This is another reason why I think I would choose aspirin if I could use but a single drug. In my spare time. I could do some research on it.

Frankly. aspirin still is n mys- tery to lI'lEdlCBl men. We know it works. but we don't know just why

i QUESTION AND aivswen i R.C.: I have been working in I

uranium mine. I wonder if there is any danger from the radioac- live substance?

Answer: The amount of radio- nctlivty in the ore being mined in very low. Therefore. the chanc- es of injury to you would be slight.

The Age Old Story

He mnkctli me to lie down in green pastures: he lendeth me be- side the still waters.

GARDEN This is our shining river rolling

Put.

This is at once our short. our sounding us.

For all that roots hold tree and flower fast.

This is our shifting acre, stretch- ing free.

Wide as the sun-filled day. the moonlit night.

our fancy plays upon it. Now A

pool.

Fringed 'round with fern, it lies upon our light.

its waters intermlngling, warm with cool.

And secret as I mountain spring.

reino As cold lake water: the wild wood deer knows. And bends above at dawn, stakes his throat- lierc too the very wood toward which he goose- This is our Summer. Every dream is here. Here distance fades, and every fur drnws near. -Alice Clcnr Matthews in the New York Times.

OUR YESTERDAYS

from the Guardian Files

TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO (July 21. I!!!)

interviewed on his return from Ottawa yesterday. Mr. Chester McLurc. M.P., was enthusiastic re- garding the pmnpccll of the im- perial Economlc Conference. What he collldered most striking was the elmeltnenmof the official ne- presentntives and at the "same time their optomism regarding the outcome.

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The work on the new annex of

tuned in the United States each.

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En n afar the uutlrs statesman ev-

cainnu-. Ion pulu Out for

hair-cuts, luvs, it is reported. fai- or-Ifstcrloo local 3 in into the practice of referring . to harbor nhopn us "Clip joint." In- "Cumulus In-ha. ii!-Ills and of tonsorinl pu'lorn.-CIIl-.- 0-0 dos and two cm.”

tum Daily News.

Fort William uler, drawn from Loch Lomand. is so pure. .nccord- ing to information at hand. fish do not thrive in it. That said to be the reason why the Illa of gold fish in Port Arthur are heavy and poor in Fort Vlliliul. -Fart William Tiniu-Journal.

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Apartment. buildings account for more than 40 percent of all new dwellings constructed in metro politan Toronto area in the put four years. The trend reflects the city's explosive growth. the Indus of newcomers into the nu. and the changing patterns of community living.-Globe ind Mail

Many experts on Asiatic nffnln think it. inevitable that China and Russia drift apart. The drift may be starting now. This makes it most unforlunato that the free world-because of nearsighted A- merican refusal to admit that Rod China and its 600 million pooplo exist-in unable to take ndvlntagn of. or encourage. any drifting :- part process.-Milwaukee Journal

"He flndcta God." wrote John Buchan, "who finds the uni: be made." on July I mankind began its greatest concerted effort of to find out more not only about lilo earth itulf. on which it lives. but about what lies nbovo, below and around. The international Geophy- sical Year. which is the name jiv- en to this plant study, is not. in fact, a year at all. It will continua until the end of "50. During that ill months some 5.ooo scientists of M countrlel. backed by many thousands of technicians snrvicn personnel, volunteers. pilots. ex- plorers and mountaineers. will stu- dy the earth. plumb its depth: and those of the oceans. and poor up- wants into distant spun.-Wlnnh peg Free Prom