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ti. Annelise ldlhI-D. I. Curio.

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1929

= I ELUSIVE STANLEY

v! a month ago yesterday.“ the, '8. Stanley, which was lying; in Halifax, was orderedgmessenger

I Governemnt

to Tormentine to take up

there when the decision

- Railway authorities to place nicalm 0n the Georgetown-

‘ u route was rescinded at the sol- ion of a Prince County politi- The order to the Stanley was

an Friday. Jan. 18th, and it

‘ioped that she would be able to

Halifax "either Saturday even-

. Sunday morning. so as to be- , - on Monday morning, or at vnot later than Tuesday.”

v next definite information was i, dated Jan. 24th, to thecffect ‘the Stanley was stuck in the ice g‘ e Gut of Canso while proceed-

.o the assistance of S. S. Terrie, ~ - also was icc-‘czlnd. Further

as to her movements were re-

- at. intervals for the next two i; 8 by the agents of the "Terne." ﬂlly it was announmd that the

e had been released and would

to Cuba, her original destin-

, after bunkering in Sydney.

gQhduyQFeb. 11th, 1t was cn-

ed in the local Liberal organ

l “the Stanley, now coalirlg at

H1 Sydney, h ordered to proceed

co to Borden. On her arrival

on Monday evening. the car

t will leave for Halifax. to have propellor replaced."

0e days later a news item from

lfax paper announced that the ' ywould accompany the Terne l she was clear of the Cape Bre- , ‘ice fields. On the same day

w 13th) it was reported that the » iley was on her way to the vil-

I of Dingwali. on the northeastern

, II of mverness County. Cape

-- to remove a sick person to nearest hospital, the location of I- ’was not mentioned. A Can-

Press despatch of Feb. 14ml

irmed this report and stated that

_Stanley had reached Dingwalli

Ihad successfully transferred the 4 hat; that the steamer had later ‘I at North Sydney and "alter frgolng minor repairs" would

for Tormentirle “to relieve the’

erry." A later despatch from ‘In Sydney, dated Feb. 16th, stat- _ t Captain Rhude of the Stan- 1 presented with a gold-headed : cane. by the business men . {is town, "ln token of being the Captain to bring a foreign ship port for the year 1929." , uiries up to last Sunday night , the Canadian Press at l-lal- _-and from the railway author-

.’ I‘! here, failed to elicit any _ fmation as to the whereabouts .' ‘e Stanley-whether she was again q n ed towards Tormentine. whether I Jwas once more stuck in the ice. w} been commandwred for some “,4 t errand by the Dominion Gov- ‘ ‘lent. Yesterday it was definitely

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U ‘ hmccd that the Stanley is not.

i; -: and the service at the Capes III carried on by the Car ferry ‘that the latter will not be re- ‘ until she is ready to leave for . ﬂinary spring repairs.

l’ is an extraordinary fact. Q during the past month. when t

I I- Stanley was presumably under to proceed to the Tormen- ilorden route, the railway auth- hero had no information as l movements. The only in- - - - came from outside sources. t, - , as in the case of the con- ' roams of rec. 13th, reported one and the same time ac- » v: the Teme till clear of Breton ice fields and mak- " lpeod for Dlngwall on an er-

"c! mercy. ~ meantime the car ferry was rte be relieved by the Stanley. been doing excellent work , "IIPNIIIY crippled condition, so on extraordinarily mild ' and it is quite probable that ' ' bu been much better than It would have been

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in a Canadian Press dcs-r

has definitely concluded that the trip to Borden is out of the question for the Stanley, remains o mystery. The Stanley seems w be the only steamer available for and charitable er- i rands 1n these waters. In any case, ‘it was surely not unreasonable to ex- ,'pect that the railway authorities here I should be informed as to the move- Iments or expected movements of to! the steamer which was tole- jlieve the car ferry and enable the gurgent repairs to be made before the ‘rush season began and the usual ice ;movements became serious. I For the first tum since the accident I to the car ferry, over a month‘ ago, 1 we now have definite news as to the i Department's purpose with reference to our transportation,-the news. ‘namely, that there will be no relief .for repairs to the car ferry before spring. The Stanley, which has bob- ‘bed in and out of the story like the old uncle's will in a melodrama. is ‘now definitely out of it, and may again be “dIsl-nantIed" and shelved l for the rest of the winter. During all the time m which her movement-s- lwere wrapped in myitefy- when m‘ lbody seemed to know whether she fwas going or coming, it was of course, a great, consolation to have the as- surance that. Messrs. Sinclair and iJenkins were "keeping in close touch iwith the situation.” 1t will doubtless ‘be a relief’ to those gentlemen to be Iable w relax their vigilance now that the Stanley has been definitely located. They. will now be able to re- sume their parliamentary, duties with the self satisfaction that comes from {public services heroically performed.

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‘» No subject is more widely discussed

,' than the fate of Democracy, and none.

“says the Montreal Gazette. None is >of more vital importance. The early

ipredlctlons made about the possible Ibenefits to society of the democratic ‘,suffrage have vanished like morning ‘mist. Nations are undergoing a se- gvere process of disillusionment. It I has been discovered that in the realm ‘of social affairs, evolution can oper- ‘ate with a downward curve as well as an upward trend. The hidden ‘factors of a complex problem have ,lslowly but surely worked their way Ito the surface, and in these times ‘we are much less confident about political panaceas than was the case half a century-ago. The reactions, ykeeuly felt, are variously stated. Dur- Iing the Great War it was said there Iwas a break-down of statesmanship. fAfter the Armistice came the cry for peaceful method anddefinite leader- ‘ship. At this hour we are somehow uneasily conscious that democracy has missed or failed to make its pro- per connections. Horizons have wid- ‘Icncd. The orbits of human influ- lence have immeasurably expanded. , We live in a supersensitive age and iworld, and no thoughtful person can ‘fail to note the tremendous issues suddenly ﬂung into the scales, as ‘compared with the heavy and un- ‘wieldiy instrument, the ill-organized and very poorly educated plebiscite, ithe democratic idea. presents. Said Ramsay Muir: “No people can be cal- led fully civilized until there is wide- ly diffused among its members the sense of their obligation, not merely to obey the law, but to obey it’ wil- lingly and co-operate in maintaining and enforcing it." Can this really be said of the democracy of today with its vista of largo relations, world-wide in their scope? Can this expansive vision of world affairs be met Iiy groups boggied in party squabbies or trivial animoliticc? Bu democracy in mywisc moderated the selfish and disruptive force of iron dogmatism?

Such questions are not of a fict- tering sort. They will not down, however, and upon the whole it is well that a healthful spirit. of ul- criticism should prevail rather than

." Whether yesterday's that other emergencies 4r FM til Qeektinm

that men should cit ‘down in idle contentment. the hypnotized dupcl 0! Q4001“. 3971.391!- ‘

llanylfnforsﬂng mu concerning Cmada’: trade with China. are con-

curred in the monthly circular letter

oftbeRoyalBankforhbnurinOnc of the facts stated is that Dominion trade with China is increaing more rapidlyithan with any other counﬂ’! notwithstanding the distracted state of that country throush civil W"- Prlor to i915 there were only "f0 years in which Canadian elports to China had exceeded a million dol- inn. and in that year their value was only 8250.000. 1n the last tmlvc months the value of exports to China was in excess of $14,000,000. And Canada is selling about ten times as much goods to China as it is buying from that country. Few Canadians realize or appreci- ate the trend of Chinese culture and thought, or the fact that in ages past China was far in advance of Europe in the manufacture of paper, in printing, in banking and the issue of bank notes, which they called “flying money." We are now told that there were "billions of pieces o! paper currency in circulation in China about 800 years ago.

It is pointed out that hitherto the West has expected the Chinese to adopt Western ideas. Western methods and Western Machin- ery. as well as to communicate in Western languages.‘ Without the appreciation of the viewpoint that Eastern customs and Eastern thought are probably far better adapted to Eastern conditions, the West will seem lacking in both sympathy and understanding. Those who are well acquainted with the Chinese state that, there are few countries in the world where friendship and respect play a Iargepart in determining the channels of trade.

The consumption of electric energy in Canada is rapidly increasing. About 80 per cent of the productive power is located in onﬂirlc and Que- bec and the increase in 1928 over the previous year was 16 per cent. The horsepower produced by electric plants in 1928 was twice as great as that of 1924. On every side, in town and country, the uses of the electric current are extending and multipwing. thus calling for increas- ed production. Ours is the electric age in world history. with every pros- pect of becoming more so in the years of the near future.

The aeroplane is becoming a com- monplace thing and is also multiply- ing its forms and proportions. There are both smaller and larger planes now than ever before, and their names, purposes and performances are legion. There are, as at first, bi-planes and mono-planes. And there is the hellcoper, capable of ris- lng perpendicularly in. the air to a great height and either making pro- gress in any direction while it is up or descending on the spot whence it had ascended. And now we are told of the gyro-plane capable of doing still more wonderful things. The helicopter and gyyroplane have not yet come into common use, but. that is only a. matter of time... .They are coming. t

The Earl of Birkenhcad has been Pccrln: info the future and trying to forecast some of the miracles of the coming century, what the conditions of life on this planet will be in the year 2,029. There is no doubt, from the pace at which new miracles have been enacted in the past quarter or half a century that other remarkable achievements and happenings await mankind. They may, however, be very different from what Lord Birk- enhead expects.

He anticipates cheap power from harnessing the winds, the ocean tides and even the atoms. He tells us that a pound of coal can now be made to yield only one horse-power for an hour. "Yet locked up in the atoms which constitute a pound of water, there is ten million horsepow- er hours." This colossal energy exists but science has not yet enabled us to turn it to useful work, but he confidently believes the problem will be solved before 2,029.

With such power man will be able w 11W the seoernphv or the clim- ate of the world. "Telephony and television will be developed beyond =11 present imagining. and epidemic 111868-568 lbtllllhﬁd. Cures 1'01" guph lfwllflel as cancer and tuberculosis, 110M with the, abolition of epidemic maladies are fairly certain. The aged will be mode young again..."py m ordinary and well-recognized 1mm;- of a few injections at apprcpriau in. tervall.” -

' In such cue octagonal-lam may be. come "an established part of the bu. m!!! race," and Lord Birkcnhecd tellsucthatﬁho results wlllbe shottcrinl. Marrlblo will be wholly chlﬂced. The character of the in- nnbitiliiib ‘could be determined by Ioverhmcnt. Production will beams 4° "h"? and wealth no abundant that men will work u machine mind. m for one ortvvo hours o day and be free to devote the rust of their

h; gym-v‘ ‘

energies to’ whatever form of activ-

Notes BLTTIe Way’

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Since so much has been written already about the pleasures of winter sports, and since the pamphlets of Wouriet agencies, railway poem-o, and the paeana of our unbroken friend: aiirefcrtotbcpleasiuesofiifcina land of willow-pattern blue and white, it seems Just that the pains should also be taken into consider- ation.

Before we are worn by skis, we imagine thairthese are helpful as the wings of Mercury. Those of us to whom the "ﬂying dream" is a joy that is shattered by the morning, think that in Switzerland we shall realize, by day, a glorious skimming over fields magical as samite, that we shall swap and swoop and glide in a rhythm of ecstasy ‘ffrom har- mony to heavenly harmony!" But. alas, ‘Drydenk poem attunes to the feelings of the novice not only in its ﬁrst line but in its continuation:-

"Frcm harmony to heavenly har-

mony,

This universal frame began;

When nature underneath a heap

Of jarring atoms lay,

And could not heave her head,

The tuneful voice was heard from

high—

‘Arise, ye more than dead.’ "

The pamphlets of the agents are full of eulogies of the shimmering beauty of the virgin snow, but no mention is made of the fact that this substance, when frozen and splinter- ed, can cut deeply, that it is as hard to fall on as a concrete pavement, that it invades the ears, pockets and breechec, and forrg; lumps of ice be- hind the knees. Railway posters por- tray ﬂights of girls skimming (always skimming) down unbroken slopes. Na artist has yet had the courage to llmn the "skiing face" with its mouth contorted in terror, its eyes blinded by snow, its scarred nose, its cut lips and its iclcied eyebrows. Our friends say, “Switceriand is glorious. You must go there. You will be bit- ten by Winter Sports!" Their last statement is correct: skiis can behave sharp.

And, yet, even in the earlier stages of our martyrdom, there are certain pleasures, though these may not be what we have anticipated. There is, forinstance, the joy of ﬁnding that we can. in spite of knocking knees. hurl ourselves from the top of the slope, and there is the pleasure of ﬁnding that we are not utterly brok- en, when we emerge from under the heap of "jarring atoms" at the bot- tom. Later on comes the thrill of achieving our ﬁrst turn in an emer- gency. And, later still. we really do experience the “heavenly harmony"; we almost glide, we really swap in an effort to retain our balance, and we swoop down one small valley and up the next. All the while the wind has‘ been whistling past our ears, the tears have been streaming from our eyes. We have worn our skis for the first time: they have been kind to us and companionable to one another; they have not scissored at the turn or skidded on the icebank.

The peculiarity of this shattering pastime is that we are perpetually hearing the summons of the tuneful volce-“Arise thou more than dead." We cannot for long be content with the gentle slopes of our ﬁrst day's skiing. We must always go a. little faster and we must always be a little more frightened. The pleasures of our ﬁrst triumphs are ﬂeeting. We pass from pain to pleasure. and on again from pleasure to pain. Like greedy children at a. party, we de- mand more and more of the snow

The above outlines are only a few samples from the many in Earl Bir- kenheadb risky forecast.

Pride goeth before destruction aml a haughty spirit before a fall. Na- poleon aimed at universal empire and ended his career at Saint Hel- ena. The Kaiser of Germany had o like ambition and his imperial throne tumbled in the dust quickly and he now spends his latest years as <0. despised exile from the land where he once ruled in despotic power.

1k there not in these exam, come lesson for the ruling ,. were at Wash- ington? They are building a navy strong enough to ruic the seven ecu. not for national defence-n- Amer- ican citizen fears an attack-but solely for woﬂd dominance. its ad- vocates demand that it shall be strong enough to smash any possible combination of other naval combat- ants.

And not since the days of Nebuch- cdnezur has the world contained a notion at once so rich, co powerful, whose naicrc are so boastful of being able “to lick oil creation," and co am- bitious to dominate the world. Not by any menu are all the United Stain people of the name way of tbinkinguthcirrulen. ﬂinch: 1N1’! minority who are in their way oppcled or indifferent to what II go- ing on. But the lllrlndiling "big

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i our hostess, although we know that we shall suffer from the i011 v1 m- fiiments ' T

Our dreams match tbo emotion! of the dayzoncomcnightl I009- , '- p. lpiccc, hurﬂc down n- vines and bestrldc crevasse: with our trembling skis. On nicht that follow ﬁflumphgnt days, we float gently over mow that is domestic as coolmld-I. and we glide hand in hand with an lcc Maiden, who has added to her charms by wearing the red ch00! 0f Karen and a pair of scarlet akiis that are swiftcr than seven-league boots.

There are times of respite, a day's snow or thaw gives us time to go to tho village and buy embrocation for our sprains and plaster for our blis- temweareglcdoftbeexcusoto rest, but by evening we are fretting again. Battered youths collect round the radiators, and sing, “I want. to sell my little farm and go to ski!" Children nurtle themselves up and down the corridors on the luggage trolley. Bandaged martyrs rend up the technique of skiing and describe the details of their latest runs.

From being the “favourite thing we hate" skiing becomes the hated thing

The Pleasuralble Pains Of Winter Sport

(B. l. Todd in tbc London Spectator)

to over Ix. '._;- *7

we love, and only when we are feel- ing too tender to ski do we turn to: the kindlier pastimes of skating, lug- ing, tailing. or skioring. ,

On Sundays we experience other] emotions, as we watched the ski-i jumping contests, and sec mcn~as§ birds ﬂying. The whirling of their; arms as they take off from the Jump, the soaring rush through air, the clap of their skis on landing, the} skimming down the precipitous slope, and the lovely turn at the end of the, run arouse strange feelings in the; minds of the spectators. We become’ filled with a pseudo-courage and a pseudo-fear. Alternateiy we exper- ience the glory and the terror of it. The normal perspective of our lives grows dim, our boundaries become skis, our horizon becomes a ski.

On Sunday night our flying-skiing dream is a heavenly harmony, and we awake from ecstasy. But on Mon- day morning we continue our silly little funk falls, and sandwich to- gether our pains and pleasures, as our pride and limbs are alternately hurt and salved. It is all very sad- as sad as England is fiat.

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During my early days in medicine a. patient came to my office and dur- ing the examination fell from a chair to thef loor.

She was not in a faint, the pulse, while fast, was sound and regular, and I was at a. loss as to the trouble.

I endeavored to lift her, but she said she was powerless to‘ move. I told her that her heart was quite all right and that there would be no danger in getting to her feet.

However no persuasion on my part had any effect, so I telephoned for a medical consultant who was a profes- sor of medicine.

On arriving and making a short examination he ordered the patient to get on her feet. She said she was absolutely unable to get up.

I endeavored to help her. but the consultant motioned me away and said “She can get up all right, can walk, in fact can walk home; there's really nothing wrong with her.‘

And the patient did get up and walk.

What was the trouble?

Hysteria.

What is it that makes some indiv- idualc want to behave in this man her? -

Simply that they do not adjust

themselves to their circumstances, and do things like the Above ll a sort of pfntect .

Acting in this manner gets them a certain amount of sympathy and attention, which they seem to want or need. _

3011x111! this is their method of "getting back" at folh and circlin- atmccc. -

Sometimes without any loll of dig- nity it may be pouiblc co change lur- roundingo to luit patient,

In the army, wbcnno organic rca- m wu foimd for the hysteria, the sudden application of Ill cicctic our- renttothcplticnt’: bodynmbouc hi! knowledge. made bun leap from a-oot when no bod been lying “powulcu” for wash. »

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