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. House that Russia. would obtain no

I of ‘large orders‘ faded into subdued

; now as they were six months ago. Moscow is irritable.

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U. S. AND RUSSIA

Guardian readers will reel-ll the ~‘ Irticism to which the mm: ‘ Suva-lament wls subjected in s section of the Ubersi press beesius -lffllref1is&l.l0memonthll80.l0 5 go lunty for the Soviet end of s . cattle deal which m orsanizetion of Western f‘ '“ shippers was Jeeking to promote with Russia. Sulnequently s diplomatic sneake- .;- fnent was made between United States and the Soviets, and the same Liberal newspapers in ihis country were es loud in preise of the initiative shown st Washington u they were in condemning the alleged lack of initiative at Ottawa. in failing to promote our trade in- terests with Russia.

The present situation, es summed up by the Toronto Globe (Liberal) is therefore not without ironicsl significance. The Globe says:

“Somg six months have passed since the joint statement was is- sued by President Roosevelt and Maxim M. Litvinoff, Soviet Oom- missa: of Foreign Affairs, announc- ing resumption of diplomatic rela- tions. There was public talk at that time of large orders about to be placed by Russia for United States goods. But omclsl expressions were chiefly in the form of mutual hopes for ‘e speedy and satisfactory sol- ution oi outstanding questions of indebtedness and 61001183

"Russia apparently was prepared to buy on c Gergentuan scale, sl- most without stint or limit-if cred- its were provided. It sll seemed so gimpis grid easy until Uncle Sam was reminded of s. trifle that Adam- zed had overlooked in his accounts. There was that paltry swmmm Kerensky debt to the Treasury; lnd another consideration of $15.- 000000, loaned by private bankers to the Czarist Government; and, lg-ainst certain countercleims aris- ing from American participation in the Archangel military operations, was en item of some $600,000,000 which was involved in the confis- cation of American property by the Bolsheviks.

“flies; irksome preliminaries deslt with, the brisk and business- like Uncle Sam would be ready and willing to talk about credits. There was a. slowing up of proceedings

end less talk of ‘large orders.’

"Then across the conference table fell the shadow of the Johnson Act. In this piece of legislation Congress decreed that an end was to be made to public or private loans in the United States, except by Government agencies, to nations in default to the Washington Gov- ernment. From the State Depart- ment csme on assurance to the

further loans until the Soviet Union had agreed to psy its debts. Talk

tones. "Relations ere not so pleasant

Its hopes of credits and large-scale buying have

the Soviet Union is s. defaultcr un- der the Johnson Act. Its credits definitely out off until debts are of retaliation instead of ‘large ~orders.'

“Uncle Sam probably is begin- ning. to realise that his/wry is only y-epeqting itself in the old-fashioned way. Thinking backward s. little, lhywm be reminded that John Bull's experience, after looking in- to Ronald's proposals, was not dis- similar to his own.

"Ihymorei seems to be that money talks louder than doubtful 1,011,’; in, ‘ stionsl trade."

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I I SHAKESPEARE‘ AGAIN

*~ A1 mnkuvlrey of much literary “ma; is discussed in s. recent is- sue‘ of‘ the Edinburgh Scotsman. 1111s is with regard to the question of Shlkespeere‘: showed V181‘ "1 mmyuyfl; g5 s comic player. The

lfosi ere ls follows:

mm - visited Edin- bmih M“, ghgy hm performed some the KIM. new DAM 011d"- “04; m in; "Historic of the Kirk of 93M," they purchased l war- gmm u” "bsilliffel" of Edin- ' h whjgvh permitted them to lct l. house in the Bluckfriers Wynd- g t» mam-rm‘ convolved m. lo-

rm-k Bsllionl mu 1mm! I ‘mosque Iorbfddhg their 00118118!-

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King Jlmel the girth, who had in- vim the mllllh n11?!" *0 h“ madam. W" W111"? m'"‘°“'d‘ st this lotion. end summoned the ma: llillnla to mm 1M0" *1" seem 0011MB for momma: with his repel wen-sat I411"! "1 m‘ pique, ‘the ministers llserwd i118‘

edtbsmtoproteetegelnltflieper- formlucs wls the flat tblt the

_ comedians bad mimicked the King in their plays! In tbs end both sides wisely allowed the met- fsr to dzpp.

A correspondent in Edinburgh. writing on the lbove matters to Sir Robert Cecil. Queen Elisabeth's secretary in Landon, on 12th No- vember, 1590, identifies lt least two of ‘tbs players concerned ls ‘Fict- cber end Martyn with their com- pany." That the first-named was l certain Laurence Fletcher, whose name stands first in In English patent of 1603 to u. company of players there is no reason to doubt. and from this it has been inferred that the travelling company in question was what was then known as "the Ohsmberlsin’: Men," that is lard Hunsdon‘: company of. sc- tors. Now William Shakespeare was most certainly a. member of the Chamberlain's Company st this time, ss hh name appcl-rs among the list of members in more than one document, end in the first folio of Ben Johnson's "Every Man in his Humour." published in 1616, he heads the list of "principal comed- fans" who took part in this play in 159B, just a. year before he may have visited Edinburgh. 0n the other hand, it is put for- ward, by competent authorities thflt the “Chamberlain's Men," ls s. body. never visited Scotland at all, and that the identification of them with Fletcher's Scottish touring company rests merely upon the presence of his name in the patent of 1600, sn insumcient argument on which to base such a. statement.

The "Scotsman" writer concludes. somewhat regretfully, that there is no definite proof to substantiate the Edinburgh visitation. By the year 1601 Shakespeare was certainly a. well-known dramatist, end bad he actually appeared. in Edinburgh it is probable that the civic author- ities would have accorded fa him the honour of s. reception such u they gave later to his friend Ben Jonson, and es those st Aberdeen accorded his fellow-actor Fletcher. “On these grounds clone." sys the " ‘ =- "we must discount the tempting theory that the Swan of Avon strutted the boards somewhere in the old Biackfriars, and in any case some mention of his sojourn in the city would surely have been on record."

A passage in "Macbeth," demip- tive of the castle of Invemess, hav- ing been cited as evidence of the author's personal knowledge of the district, the Scotsman comes back with the rejoinder thsIfShlkespeaz-c "notoriously searched for such in- formation while engsged upon s play, conversing with sll sorts of people to extract the information he wanted." It adds: ' "Any student of the liflissbsthen playwrights will admit that they scarcely ever allude to Scotland or Scotsmen. Welsh and Irish charac- ters ere very frequently to be en- countered in their’ pages, but Scotsman almost not at. all, and this Is the more strange when one re- calls the enormous number of Scots of all ranks who visited or settled in London. shortly before end after the Coronation of James First and Sixth. when Shakespeare and the majority of the great Elizabethan: were still living.

"The play of ‘Macbeth’ was writ- ten by Shakespeare as s. compliment to the new King of s united Brit- ain. It described his lineage, dc- scendlng from Celtic times down- ward, narratinz how it had wme down from Benquu to the British Solomon. But it was based on the cslumny of Macbeth to be found in l-lolinshedk ‘Chronicle.’

"The only Scottish characters in- troduced by Shskeepesre in his plays other then ‘Mccbeth’ sre Douglas and Captain Jamie, both of whom appear in ‘Henry 1V.‘ The Scots Earl speaks the purest Eng- lish, and only one Scots word, ‘gude,’ escapes the mercenary cep- tain. Shakespeare must have hesrd a good deal of Scots from his fem- iliar friend Ben Jonson, whose sIEer was Scottish and who wrote the language fluently, as can be seen from the use he make: of old Northern English (practically the some tongue) in ‘The Sad Shepherd‘. “But probably the Swan of Avon, unlike most Englishmen, was too clever by half to ttempt l bashed and broken travesty of it. He would not venture even upon s ‘hech monl‘ "

EDITORIAL NOTES

There ls something sinister and even sadistic, lays the Mail end ‘pupil-e. in the persistent hostility of Old Country Liberals to the Ot- tewe trade trelties end to other qgvglopmsnts which mllre for 1m-

" mlmnpvmunuiwv-

L? i.

School Liberlls bed their way little

~ e Way n. ‘ sun I-l-ll-

trisl which uses wood Ill for fuel. Iftbetrillslrqcomlderedssuc- cssnellluohcergnowfnusewould be equipped with wood-gel genes-lt- orllndtheussofgesolfnediscon- tlnued. The ooun hll plenty of suitable wood lv lble, end it is poufble thlt old cross-ties could be burned for this purpose

Some one hll dlsoevervd that the atom is merely s pulsating cloud of electricity. it woulq seem ls thoush this reported scientific discovery concerning the stem lelvee some- thinl yet t0 be discovered. Evidently there is plenty more to be learned both shout electricity lnd the atom before vle shell know anything very definite lbout the mystery of cre- ltion. The whence and the how hlve not been touched.

Hon. C. F. Deluge, superintendent of public instruction, was well in- spired when he recently invited the teaching stuffs of his depsrtment to recall and teach the great divine, ecclesiastic and civil law of Sunday observance. It is no secret to any- one that Sundry has ceased to com- mend the general respect it once

WIIIhIVIIIHDIDI-Tllldl-rllndl!‘

out business men begsn queeriy-buttons on his vest not fastened evenly, complete forgetful- ness about business appointments. end serious mistakes in the hand- ling of his business.

Quilts

m1..- une-eum. . THE BODY MAY CONTROL ‘I'll! BRAIN

A number oi years lgo l. promin- to lct

l-ie was rushed of! to l. "health

farm," where he was pieced under guards and forced w est, take hsrd exercise followed by hot baths. and given plenty of sleep,

In three months he was lt busin-

ess‘ again. and was his own keen sel .

He hsd simply been treated like

an animal-made to work, est, and rest, with no use of the brain what-

ever. The reason that he was cured was

did. In big industries, first, and in certain commercial establishments, and then in the domain of com- mercialised amusement, our society is coming to consider Sunday more and more as just another dsy.

Diphtheria toxin, commonly be- lieved to produce its often deadly effects by poisoning the nerve-cen-

tres in the brain. is actually pre- vented from reaching the brain by a ‘ ‘ 1 mechanismjermed the blood-brain barrier. lccording to s theory published in The Lancet. British medical Journal. Although nothing definite is yet known of the physical or chemical nature of the barrier, the doctors say it must be localized in the WEII5 of the minute vessels that supply the brain.

Wlshlnglon Post: The spoils sys- tem is at all times inimlcsl to effic- iency in government, but it jg g5_ pecially costly and dangerous under present conditions. A Nation which is seemingly dedicated to a "plan- ned economy" certainly cannot af- ford to rely upon politicians to se- gscti its civil service on l. patronage

as s.

It is about four months since Hon. H. H. Steven, uttered his first denunciation of unfair businem practices. Since then a. commission has been gathering evidence and Mr. Stevens has repeated his charge and his warning armed with more specific knowledge. It were well for all to pay heed to the minister‘ of trade and commerce. The country stands behind him in hi; intention to insist upon fair play. That means fair play all round: for Capital and for Labor, for employer and for employs, for friends and for com- petitors, without fear, favor or sf- fection. There can be no faltering with this question, no sldestepplng oi- evasion. Right. Justice and sound ethics must prevail sud there must be no shielding oflenders against the principles of business morality.

' Wsr in itself fs-a. force which ls Millie!‘ 800d nor evil; it is a. human activity which, like all other such activities, depends for its goodness or its wickedness upon the goal set before it by the mind of man. The anathematise war is to sink back into witchcraft; to outlaw, to exor- cise, or to lay it under interdict is to deiude ourselves with spells and rely upon the barbaric invocations of sorcerers. We cannot exorcise a human activity unless we first exor- cise ourselves. our minds. Bumings, drownings and makings, carried on for centuries, through their insanity stimulated the insanity of witch- craft, and it was not until the hu- man mind could think ssnely about this more! pestilence that sorcery grew thin and ultimately faded away. It was the light of reason, and not the magic of ignorance, which accomplished this miracle. Love is s human force. and, like war. it can create and it can des- troy. It is the foundation of our lives, yet also. like an earthquake, it can shatter them. It is not in it- self good or evil, but powerful, full of nergy.~Major-Generai J. F. C. Fuller, D. S. 0.. in The Nineteenth Century, London.

It is interesting to note that while Great Britain is constrained to pro- tect her market end those of her Crown colonies from Japanese com- petition there should come from Balboa, on the Isthmus oi Panama, the statement that Japanese manu- facturers sre over-running Central and South America. with their pro- ducts. Complaint has also come from thy United States. Japan is becoming formidable in commerce. Low wage; and bed labor conditions give her en ldvsntsge, and her manufscturers end merchants are very clever. Other nations must protect themselves, and Greet Bri- tain proposes doing so.

There ls en eloquence to elmple things that no wealth csn embel- lish. In nature there are creations that no hand or mind of man. has ever been able to approach. The smallest flower is a miracle. The simple wild violet that springs to life in the Springtime, has more wonder end glory to it in its simp! r heart than the most intricate ma chine of man's design.

v would be left of the world-wide Britl,

ish Empire after a few years. The manifesto issued from the Bourne- mouth, England, Liberal convention holds that Empire consolidltirt may best‘ be schieved on‘ politic

lines by centralization, and by the abolition of protective and Empire tariffs. 1n contending that the agreements have done nothing for the Empire countries the resolution ignores the relliy p.“ omensl gains in ultra-Empire trsde which have

pgrig] unity. If the old Mlnchestsr-I

occurred during the present fiscal yesr-

Ls helpful patients with thin blood is reported by Dr. Fritz Kessier in one of the German medical journals. ports three cflses in which the men- tal ailment differed from the other, but all three were anaemic.

because the poisons were removed from his system by hlrd exercise and hot baths, and new rich pure blood was manufactured by the good nutritious food he ate. i-iis "mind" was given a complete rest.

In these days when much of the treatment of mental ailments is by the use of spycho-anelysis-getting the patient to "unwind" himself by answering the doctor's questions- this method of treating the body t0

cure the mind is sometimes forgot- fen.

However sn outstanding New

York nerve specialist is now having considerable success with his men- tal patients by building up what he calls "good" blood by means of preparations of iron by mouth and by injection into the skfnbnd s1- so by the use of liver by the mouth, and liver extract by injection.

That this building of good blood particularly in mental

HEN-

On had 'blg" ideas about him-

self, the second was inattentive, with s. poor memory, and the third

was melancholy and. anxious. In s11 three cases the use of liver

or liver extract greatly improved the blood and the “mental symp- toms" disappeared entirely.

The thought then is‘ that while

the brain directs the body, the body can get into such s run down con- dition, the blood so poor in health giving products poison producu, everywhere, the brain included, are built up of this kind of blood.

and so full of that the cells

You can thus see then that in

many cases the body and blood stream really control the brain.

MAXIMs FROM THE SANSCIIT Before the

Ender comes whose charioteer

Is swift or slow Disease. lay up elch

3'85!‘

Thy harvests of well-doing, wealth

that kings

Nor thieves can take swsy. When

all the things

Thou callest thine, goods, pie”-

ures, honors fell,

Thou in thy virtue shslt survive em all.

th

Heed how thou livest. Do not pct y day .

Which from the night shall drive thy peace away.

In months of sun so live thgt months of rain

Shall still be happy, restrain

Evil and cherish good, m 511311 them be

Evermore

Another and s happier life for thee. -—'l‘ransls.ted by Whittier.

Wildcats In The Highlands

(Weekly Scots/man)

111110 a few were ego the British wild cst was l. rare animal. existing only in few numbers in the High. lsnds north of the Caledonian Canal. Now it is on the increase, 1m- what reasons it is impossible to ssy; but if the 100N058 80H on. it may, and will. become a. serious menace to the upland sheep farmers. A full- Brown wild cat may measure three to four feet from tip to t'p-. the fur 18 dB-Tk RWY. with heavy bars rump. ins across it; the oars one wide set. and the tail sn even thickness all time wsy down.

1X1 19M prime of life the wild cot is a ferocious and deadly creature; it Wm Kill RUN-hilt that comes wlfllin range of its yellow eyes-birds rab- bits hsrw, and lambs, end st g, pinch. if cornered. it will attack human beims.

Wild cots one death to all the creatures of the moor. not one of them but fears the sight of‘ the grey form slinking among the boulders on the lfllsides. Even the big, grey foxes avoid him.

Besides the true wild cat, we have the "domestic" wild cat-s renegade an ordinary domestic eat which has been left to survive on its own end takes to the wild life. Gradually, as generation succeeds generation, the family becomes more and more wild, till it shuns human contact ll- thougher. Such creatures are twce as formidable as the true variety, and it is not unusual to find speci- mens of them shown ss genuine examples. But the real wild cat is larger, heavier oi bone, and thicker of lmb. Its earl are wider sport and ifs fur is generally thicker and closer. The till is the infallible sign. It is of the acme thickness from base in extremity; it is heavily ringed with dstlnct block rings, and ends in-e blunt bleak tip. 1n the renegade wild oat it invariably tspers to s slight point-O. James.

Iliiterste Arab Prodigy

(ED118113!)

A boy of uriusull lritbsmetioll ability named Mohlmmed Innsll Turki El-Attlr hls recently died in a government “$111111 I“ cw“- m‘ wssthelonofl-lwmlll"m'u country village neer Tel e1 B81111 111 m, Nile Delta, and when first dis- covered used to mlks l. preclrious l exhibiting his powers as Lvidlulclfitor in cafes in Cairo. He wls unable In reed or wrlh Ind was obviously l. boy 01' P001’ 80119111 intelligence. His powers were tested 9n vgriou; osceaions. The following is a summery of some of the calcu- lations he performed mentally: The squares of numbers of twfl. digits were given correctly. almost instantaneously, but there was oc- casionel hesitation in eivins tbs products of pairs of two digit num- bers. Products and squares of three .1131; number; were given in, times varying from eight to forty-five se- eonds. Cubes of 2 digit numbers were worked out 1n from two to three minutes. while the product oi’ two numbers of l0 digits Mrs worked out correctly in twenty minutes. 8-10 was corrnzztijl ccm- puted in five minutes, 5-10 in twenty seconm and 6-10 in seven- ty seconds. Division Wis s. slower process and 9 digits divided by 3 wok times varying from two and s hslf to se- ven lnd three-quarters minutes. Square roots of 6 digit numbers were extracted in lees than l min- ute while cube roots took 1on8?!‘- Curiousiy enough, the memorizing of s number of 2v dizlts was nul- done successfully, although he could repent questions which 118d been put to him and their answers after some days had 21511595. 111111 would break off calculations in the middle to ask for milk or 0188199996. taking up the calculations again where he had broke-n off. His me- thods of working were not discov- ered, but he had obviously 111611101“ ized the squares of 2 digit num- hers, and less completely the P10- ducts of 3 digit numbers. The boy w“ a good illustration of cases of arrest of mental deve- lopment in which normal or W611 phenomenal mental capacity is 0b- served in certain limited directions such as memory, calculating ability and musical ability. He was so de- fective m resPWl? 1o other 111M“ faculties that he was unable to ad-