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la not understood in the Central and Western Protvinoes that there

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Vlewflooldoflpl. I. Barnett. II. A. Illllmlnn, I. I. O- . t Associate Idltor-D. I. CKm

are some people in those sections who would strangle the remedies that have been proposed by the dlincan Commission. But there" are we believe a large number both in and out of Parliament who

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SQUARE PLUG, ROUND HOLE.

AT s square plug will not ilt'

in a round holo and that a square hole cannot be satisfactorily filled with a round plug are mathematical axioms which require no proof. The two are recalled by the repoHt of a meeting of busifiess mon repre- senting Canadian and United States interests held recently in Dayton, Ohio. The purpose of the meeting, a very commendable one, was to ~study out sortie means by which greater efliciency might be attained than present ex- ists, in business matters general- ly. Such conferences are neces- sary snd helpful, but eiflciency comes from other sources than conferences, in fact. it may be gen- erally said that it does not come st

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THURSDAY, JANUARY 27,"1927

Business men, as a rule, have prac- tically lost the art 2f writing, as they dictate their uns spondence to a stenographer who types it. and he has nothing more to 1b with it except to add-also typed-Fin order to cover any errors that may have occurred in the dictation or other- wise, that the lettcr had not‘ been read hy the dictator. ' Thoseywho have hsd an oppor- tunity to read official documents of pro-typewriter days will unhesitat- ingiy conclude that, whatever other merits our forefathers tmssensed, they were better writers than we oi today. We also could become equally 800d writers if we were caught young and taught to shape our letters carefully. School is the place in which to learn writing. lt is an art that may easily be sc-

all from conferences. Usually 1t begins in the young, partly from training but largely from naturail fitness. A man may be thoroughly, eillcient in one calling and a iam- entsble failure in another. To the former he is adapted by nature and the love of it; to the latter hens not adapted because it is not the

, vocation that appeals to his char-

acteristics or, if you will, his pecu- liarities.

The proportion oi the 11111113111 race which is good for nothing is‘ very small. There are few, except imbeclles. who cannot do some] thing wcii. Set to work in that par- ticular vocation they will by hard work become eificient. The ineili- cient, generally speakins‘. 8H1 111089 who have no love and no aptitude for the class of work into which. they were, in many cases, forced‘ by injudlcious parents or other advisers. The socalled “whitecol- lared ceilings," probably are more afliictcd with inefiicients than those involving manual Work and 118111 labor. The man naturally adapted to and fond of machinery and work- ing tools from boyhood to early nisnhood will make, if permitted. an cfiiciont machinist or carpenter or blacksmith and, in the majority of cases, would accept such s. call- ing if not turned aside by the mis- directed pride of doting parents or others who regard manual labor as less “respcctable" than the calling which permits of unsolled hands and neat clothing. All work is re- spectable, provided lt is honestly and faithfully donc, provided it is not exclusively selfish. Early train- ing is unquestionably a large fac-

qulred and ‘the proper teaching of which should be insisted upon. We trust the Ontario movement will become epidemic elsewhere, includ- ing this province. ln the mean- time our teachers would-do well to give the matter their careful atten- tion. -—-——-o-0->——-1— a A GOOD REPORT.

1'

E are in receipt of the report

oi the Minister of Highways of the province of Quebec for 1926. The report is neatly and attractive- l_v bound and its general makeup invites careful perusal. in addition to thc details regarding road con- struction and improvement the book contains many excellent cuts of some of the beauty spots of the province. in short the whole re- port is, without saying so, a warm invitation to tourists and the re- cord of the past few years shows that they are increasingly accept- ing it. Probably no other thc Dominion has done as much to promote the tourist business as has the province of Quebec, probably, also, no other 1irovince has profit- ed as much by this class of busi-

provincc of

ness. _ Statistics collcctcd at certain stations along the highways give detailed information as to the amount and variety of the traffic passing over the roads and the comparison with previous years shows that, in all respects, the traf- fic in commodities us wcii as in passengers. is steadily increasing. The tourist business has paid and

tor in producing efficiency. To in- sist upon doing well anythlng that is undertaken, to insist upon carry- ing it to completion is the begin- ning of efficiency and, if applied to s congenial calling will bring lt to maturity. The man or woman out of harmony with, their work is a square plug in a. round hole and can never fit or be efficient.

GHIROORAPHY

lERE is a movement on foot in Ontario the purpose of which is to improve handwriting. News- paper men, especially, will give the mo. ‘ their blessing as much of their time is wasted and their brains often racked in deciphering the illegible writing of some of their uuss spondents. The latter, also, in self-defence and to avoid errors in publishing their communications, should give it their benediction. lt is generally admitted thstless attention is being given to writing in our schools than formerly. Per- haps this belief is akin to the mytll that the childronlof the present generation are not as well behaved as when WE were children. Be that

so it may, it is quite within the-

is paying in the province of Que- bec. it provides a home market which could not exist without it. it gives employment, it brings the province into closer and friendlier relations with other provinces and other countries and in many ways makes for the betterment of the people. Tourists as a rule are de- sirable people, well worth cultivat- ing and becoming acquainted with. Everyone loves to hear kindly things about his own country, and the province of Quebec has much of scenic and natural beauty to he proud of.

What the tourist business has done for Quebec can be done for our province. We also have where- of to be proud, not only in quiet scenic beauty but in climate and in appreciation of our visitors and of their good opinion.

We trust our people in our city, towns, villages and country will stand by the Publicity Association which is doing so much and so ef- fectively to promote this profitable and agreeable trsflc.

-—-—-00->-i- EDITORIAL NOTES. ‘

take a broader and more srmllfl- thetic view of the matter and who would like; to see even-handed jus- tice extended to all the Provinces. Premier Ferguson of Ontario who is one of the big men of Canada. has incldentislly given expression- to this broader rview. in his home town of Kemptville where s hau- quet was given to himself and Mrs Ferguson, he referred to the great part which transportation must play in building up and unifying the Dominion.

. If he hsd his way." a substantial fprefersntlal freight rate" would be established for principal pro- ducts of the East and the West ‘shipped to the larger centres of population. if there were a deficit resulting he believed lit would be met cheerfully by a larger and more prosperous Canada. The money spent on coal imported from the United States would, as he believed in a short time turn itself over to meet the deficiency. This may appear to many Ontario people as an optimistic view of the case, but after all, what is more rational than that Canada with abundant Ihiel in ‘Nova ‘Scot-la and Alberta should utilise it, rather than buy her fuel in the United ‘$111165 Rt H Yearly cost of so many tens of millions.

The sooner a bed rock founda- tion for national unity\aud equal DFOBDerltY is established the better for all concerned. ‘It accords with ifarltime views that Alberta coal should be brought Nova Scotla coal -be carried to Que bec and that Western grain and other products should be transport- ed to their world markets ovor Canadian lines to Csnadianfltlan- tic and Pacilic ports for shipmeng, it will cost much to do this but the money will be paid out in Canadap giving employment to Canadian‘ labor instead of "being sent out of the country to give employment abroad.

Victoria/won in athletic sports have been celebrated and national‘ honors paid and rewards bestowed upon the victors in all ages of the

to Ontario, '

The Public Porum O gu- utm- u or! l" i: ll‘ l-‘F-“T” iii-lbs:

flours

van-summon.“ ‘

movmo rlcrunzs AND "m: eves

GAO IADVOCATEO

A few years ago our eye special- ists wele warning us about the had effects of the motion pictures on the eyes.

The vibration of the rapidly mov- ing pictures prevented a continued focus of the eyes on the screen, and the constant change the mus- cies of the eyes had to make to foi- low the vibrating pit-titre was in in- Jurlous to the eyes. 4

As many folks may be foregoing the pleasure of seeing a good pic- ture because theyxfoar the bad ef- fect upon the eyes, it will be grat- ifying to know that our moving pic- ture photographers have been able to so perfect their work, that this danger to the eyes has been plac- tically removed’-

Two Loe Angeles research men. Drs, lrvine and Weyman, have been experimenting with the effect of the moving picture on the eyes, as compared with reading the average magazine. ‘

They used university students, junior high school children, aged about fourteen to fifteen. and some business people of lLos Angeles. 150 ‘pe ns were examined. .

" fter making three or four tests on each person to get the normal degree of vision “the subject was sent into the projection room and the picture begun. The rest of the ,group followed at one-half minute periods. At the completion of the picture the subjects were taken out in the same order they went in. and immediate tests were made. Each subject watched the picture for an hour and a half."

For testing the eyes with reading the same subjects were sent into a well lighted room where they were required to read- current magazines ‘for a period of fol ty-ilve minutes.

a happy dsy for

this trade‘. is Browini

within the last six years-

lng rapidly.

Continental points

600,000; that this

in the British ‘Empire;

more than double;

fifty-three

capacity of 700,000 H. 1P.;

group reading for forty-five minu- tes. about 43 per cent showed a lessening of their vision, while of the same group viewing a black and white picture only about 2i per cent showed a lessening of their vision. -

in other Words viewing a picture for an hour and a half "is not as hard on the eyes as reading ~ior

acre in America ;

tario "which has $700 per

good lpicture thinking that it hurts the eyes. It is not only harm- less, but is. really n relaxation for

world. One instance among many occurred in Canada when Ned Han- lan won the world's rowing chain-l pionship at Philadelphia flfty-ono years ago and was presented with» a home worth $20,000 and given uI valuable free lease at Toronto as a further public recognition of his achievement.- Andnow with equal fitness to the occasion Sir Edmund, Kemp of Toronto has given a strong impulse to the movement to buy, a home for George Young and his motherp lSir EdmuntPs donu- tlon of $5,000 towards this object assures its success.

Every Canadian should feel grat- fisd that Young and his beloved nlothor shall be thus provided for. .Flilai love was the prime motive that inspired and supported him in his splendid achievement and it has ‘been well said“ the qualities of head and heart, mind and mus- cle which he displayed in his epic swim contain a lesson and a ser- mon to every Canadian-young and old alike."

The published news from home and broad has for a long time past ‘been so filled with the record of firesnlrownin-gs and other casual- ties multifarious in character and 1118M of them tragic, that it leads one to recall Mother |Shlpton's so- csiied Pfollhecy- As it has been handed down to later times it con- tains the couplet-

Carriages without horse shall go, Accidents fill the world with wo. ffhe statements in both the” "m" ‘"9 "l"? 911011811 in regard to present conditions, but as a prop- h°°Y delivered by ‘Mother Shipton they have been discredited and ai- legsd to be a fake, written long fir. ter her time. She lived in the 791811 of Henry Vdll. it matters lit- tle, however, by whom the prgqiq. "<11 Wu made or when n w» n"; llllde public. The chapter od sc- cidents seems to extend in length since the present century be“;

mark to say that present day writ- inggsneraliy speaking is not as goodalltought to beoruit might be. ' We have in many ways seqnirod the automobile habit: we!

he“ no time to.“ slowly, even in Prince

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+‘*e-00+o-o DAILY LESSONS IN ENGLISH y sy w. 1.. us... worms 0mm ulsnsm:

And pass forever from our sight;

I01‘ all its beauty and its bliss.

That al-l our dreams of love and

in “thy," not as in “thigh?

ilcstion. dedenaes. stronpholdrfsst- ness. intrenclrmsnt.

three time: and it ts yours us increase our vocab

raring one word each‘ ‘ word: DIIPUPATIGI: ‘

body and mqmy dollars; when we calmly consider the foregoing facts and many more

——-—<oa>--- we could nanle. We are forced to

thc conclusion that Vancouver be- e-Hwo-eeeoeo-wo-re-o-o-ewoo- 3011:" bme and mg {he next ten years w ' c one of the grestestship lng

Daily Selections ilflflfl. ll‘ indeed not the gresllest

FOR .' on the Pacific Coast, with a popul-

- . atilon or! morc than a million.

~ In uncowvcr IClty 80% of the (‘Harman Readers people are English, irish or Scotch

2% ll"rcncl1, 8% Asiatics and 7%

' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' other Europeans; and of these 90.1

January 27' 1927 ' can read and write and 9.5% are

illiterate.

GOD AND THE. HO0R:——Belloltl, God is mighty, and dcsplscth not any; he is mighty in strength and wisdom, He proserveth not the life of thc xvlcked; but givcth right to the poor. Job 36:5, 6.

buildings to be erected.

J IlIL-AVERw-This poor mun cried, and the Lord heard- hini sndaleiiv-

clcd him from all his icars. tion.

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tT CANNOT BE

To mic. it cannot be that lie who made This wondrous world ior our do-

FOR THE SCRAP BOOK A ssmzs TFu-rsnanv

QUOTATIONS FOR BOOK LOVERS

That all shall wither and decay,

And know on earth, no life, lbut this

With only one finite survey ’ r

it cannot be that all the years

Of toll and care and grief we live.

Shall find no recompense but. tears.

lNo sweet retum that earth can

give; That all that leads us to aspire And struggle onward to achieve.

And every unsttained desire Were given only to deceive.

Thursday, Jan. 27th.

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it cannot be that alter all

The mighty conquests oi the mind,

-Our thoughts shall pass beyond re- call

Andi leave no record here behind; replied Mr. WslierF-Dleksns

fame, And hopes that time has swept

B . Shell not return some other day.

maids to live together in,

it cannot be that all the ties

0f kindred souls and loving hearts, Are broken when this .body dies, And the immortal mind departs. Thai: no serener light shall breslk At last upon our mortal eyes,

To guide us es our footsteps make The pilgrimage to Paradise.

0 FT EN MIBPRONOUNCED: loathe (verb.) Pronounce the th as

ing howsoever to live liftW-Robert Burton

do they matter? the accidents and i

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QOIVERMEINT CONTROL OF

gin-The opening of tits P1111" amt (Banal twelve years 88° V"

Vancouver. Freight from European r0111" w‘ now ‘be deviiered by water Y“ palmmg and Vancouver to such in- land points as 1108111118!- 11 "WC" lower cost than via 35011591.‘: and reilidly- Seventy percent of the total 41'8"‘ sit through this cane-l has occurrrleg trade with the orient is also grow- lln ‘I996 about‘ 54 mil- lion bushels at min was shipped and olf this over 31 million bushels went to the United Kinfldflm and through this canal, and over 20 million to the Orient. The total snlpplus or 191-‘ was 19,028 ships of all classes with a gross tonsgefo! 14.915314 1011B- snd $19,967 passengers landed and 485,386 embarked in the same year-

‘When we consider the fact that» 55 years ago B. C. had a population of only 60,000 and today has about Province has shout one third of all the soft wood that the value of its fisheries on its 800 miles oi coast line is more 111811 half of that of all Canada. being that ‘Oi’ N0"! Scotia. which comes second; that the value of lumber sold -is over million per year; that its potential Electric power can- not be estimated-The B. C. Elec- tric Co., now supplies 390 million K.W.}I. and the Bridge river plant now under construct-ion will have that the value of its mineral production in 1925 was over sixty-one million dollars; that it is now the 3rd larg est producer of zinc in the world and the 4th .in lead; that 2-3 of all Canada's copper production is min- ed here; that it is second in the production of silver and gold; that the value of its agricultural pro- ducts in 1925 was over 05 million

Iaffl‘; ‘mm’ ‘he “me “s” “Vere dollars; that n has 21.973 occup- fine results showed that o‘. a led farms, 90% of which are own-

ed by the occupiers; that it has the highest yield of oats and wheat p61‘ that according to the “Financial Post” which is pretty reliable authority, its per capita. purchasing power based on product/ion is $690 per head. being exceeded in Canada only by On- head; this is far higher than the great widely advertised State oil’ Call-

-the first nine months of 1926 190i building permits were issued with a building value of over 13 million

Education is well at- tended to. -ln any new sub-division a good school is one orf the first

in politics thc people are natur- ally Conservative. only one Liberal was elected -to the Federal House at the last election: The local gov- ernment is at present Liberal ow- ing to lack of unity in the (Ionscr- Val-We party at the last local elec- This is now adjusted and at thc next election -the Conservative party is surc to be returned to power under tho leadership of Dr.

"Altogether, because of its majes- llc 'M01111~l11|11. region covered with

lights, luxurious forest growth; because Designed that all its charms should of its wild and rapid rivers destin. fade '

‘a

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(lilobert Burton, oi’ Anatomy Anatomy of lillldlancholy buried,

"Severe weather, 8am," observ- ed Mr. Pickwick, “Fine time for them as is well wrapped up. as the Polar Bear said to himself when he was practicing at the skating."

_ away; "Methinks some time or other, All that enthralled this mortal 1111011851 so many rich bachelors. gr me a benefactor should he found to