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WHINESDAY, DECEMBEI I, 1038.

Insanity In High Places

.1 ‘ That the dictatorship obsession is just a form “(of insanity is realized in democratic countries; , but few writers have been able to express this conviction as satisfyingly as Bertrand Russell does in his latest book “Power” from which we quote: - “Men who allow their love of power to give them a distorted view of the world are to be ,, found in every asylum: one man will think he is the Governor of the Bank of England, an- other will think he is the King, and yet another will think he is God. Highly similar delusions, if expressed by edumted men in obscure lan- guage, lead to professorships of philosophy; and if expressed by emotional men in eloquent language, lead to dictatorships.

"Certified lunatics are shut up bemuse of their proneness to violencrwhen their preten- sions are questioned; the uncertified variety are given the control of powerful armies, and can inflict death and disaster upon all sane men within their reach. The success of insanity, in

‘* ’ literature, in philosophy, and in politics, is one of the peculiarities of our age, and the success- ful form of insanity proceeds almost entirely from impulses towards power.”

The Alaska Highway

A large-seals discussion is going on in the English press just now about the construction of the British Columbia-Alaska highway. Sir Evelyn Wrench, who estimates the cost of build- ing 60o miles of road through mountainous coun- try at about $25,000,000, urges its construction as a gesture of Anglo-American friendship, the financial burden o1 which could be borne by all concerned. Others suggest that the British Gov- ernment should loan part of the money, because of its importance as a hands-scross-the-sea token. The uses to which the highway could be put are twofold. One is for the benefit of tourist traffic. The other is for military purposes, de- signed to assist U.S. military movements in the event of a war with some country in the Far East. - If the road la purely "touristic", says the Win- . nipeg Free Press, it will not matter if it is not » 3m, kept open in winter weather, though it will have to be a good road, expensively built. Tour- ists won't use any other kind. But if it is main- ly a military road, then it must be wide, extreme- ly well built, and it must be kept open, cost what it may, for 12 months of the year. Main- tenance charges will be enormous. Who is go- ing to pay that maintmance?

Apart altogether from the very difficult problems involved for Canada in having a U.S. military highway built across its territory, it will be lnterwting to know just what real in- terests are involved in this most ambitious un- dertaking, and how real the support for it is from the British Columbia Government, whose premier, Mr. Pattullo, has publicly favored con- struction. Ir the Federal Government suppos- ed l0 take a hand in the work?

‘The Buslest Season

r “leeaernls ueucea of Santa Claus" is [he subject of a timely and informative article in the current monthly Review of the Bank of Nova Sootia. It is pointed out that a relatively large porportion of every year's retail turnover in all Christian countries occurs in the last i. morith of the year, stimulated by the custom of gift-giving and by the extra expenditures on food, decorations, etc. Indeed, indices of re- tail trade, when placed on a chart, resemble rather lopsided Christmas trees whose tops are represented by December sales, accompanied by small satellite trees with their peaks 1n the Spring. December retail turnover is usually . 379i higher than the average for all months of ‘" the ear and more than half again as large as ’ i in anuary, the low month. Indicea for the United Kingdom and the United States are very similar, the December peak for the former be- lng somewhat lower, and for the latter in about the same relation to the average for the year as in our own country, ' Of course, every sort of commodity is not equally affected by the Christmas rush. Many consumers’ demands-as for the more staple articles of food, clothing and furniture-either must be satisfied at a relatively even pace the whole year around, or are related primarily to climatic changes or to other conventional dates such as Easter. Thus sales of clothing and foot- wear (as distinct from the accessory item) tend 1:0 be heaviest in the Spring and Autumn. Furni- ture purchases are largest in August and Sep- ’ ternber when new lines are introduced and when . it has become customary to hold sales. Hard- lyvare stores sell more in‘ the early Sprin and , Autumn when planting, harvesting, and [build- ing and repairing are dpne. Restaurants experi- ‘ ante the most active period of business in the Summer when tourists are numerous and when "husbands are left to fend for themselves while “wives and children are holidaying. "Sales by g ‘grocery andmcat stores are relatively stable throughout the year until, as might be expected, ~. " "they rise at the time of groaning Yuletide tables. Total sales of department stores, for instance, fir: normally 60% greater in December than the "dverage for the yenr and more, than twice as

Wendy stores sell 86% more in December than . ‘ average for the year and nearl two-and-a- f times, as. mucltas in June. ariety stores

‘ tli most pronounced-Christmas peak, being twice as large as in the

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lirge as in July, when they are seasonally low..

average month and more than three times those of January when business is least active. The December turnover in women's clothing stores, reflecting the demand for the “accessory” lines which they carry, is 55% above the year's av-

ber when expenditure on staple articles of cloth- ing is heaviest. Men’: clothing stores show an even larger Christmas peak—66% above the av- crage for the year, and 33% greater than in October when purchases of heavy clothing for Winter are at their maximum. Shoe stores also experience pronounced activity in December, owing in part to the popularity of bedroom slip- pers as a gift. Music and radio firms also do their largest business in December.

Probably more of the average consumer's gift dollar is spent, however, upon accessory articles of clothing than upon any other type of goods, and sales rise sharply in December. Importers, perhaps in the Spring or even sooner, are ne- gotiating with foreign manufacturers for goods which must soon be fabricated if they are to make the long journey from say, Czechoslovakia, China or japan. In the heat of Summer, Christ- mas-card salesmen carry heavy cases filled with printed reproduiions of lVinter scenes, flam- ing Yule logs and prancing reindeer. In New Mexico the mistletoe harvest begins and 0n Canadian farms the turkeys hatched the previous Spring begin to fatten to prodigious size. By December, when everyone begins to turn at- tention to gift shopping, Christmas activity is long past for many businesses in many parts of the globe.

That each year this long chain of transactions is successfully carried through to conclusion is an outstanding example of the achievements of present-day merchandising. But it is perhaps not entirely sentimental to say that the Christ- mast spirit to some extent oils the wheels of-the process, for “sales resistance" is notably low at Christmas '

1 Editorial Notes I

InnocentfDa. y: a e a

Macaulay died this date, 1859. i Ill U i

Now the Pelt Show is the centre of attrac- tion for everybody who admires furs or who has an interest in one of the Province’: primary in- dustries.

e s a a A cold spell has been prophesied, and at this, there can not be so much to complain about sec- ing the long period of comparatively mild weath- er the poor coal merchants have had to contend with.

a m u , An Ottawa correspondent says the breach be- tween Ottawa and Toronto Liberals has been healed, but that Prime Uinistcr King did not know even that fhcre had been negotiations to bring it about. Happy ignorlance!

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Demand for agricultural products in Canada should be better in 1939 than it was in 1938, the Dominion Department of Agriculture claim in an advance sun11nar_y' of its yearly pub- lication, “Agricultural Situation and Outlook for 1939", to be released early next year. The betteremcnt, it said, “docs not necessarily mean that all farm prices will he improved, because supplies of some commodities may be larger and also farm prices are in many cases influenc- ed by foreign demand.” However, it adds, “the domestic demand section of the agricultural out- look for 1939 does indicate general improve- ment in the Canadian market." e e a Clifford Robinson, aged 12, had been warned by both parents never to use the automatic ele- vator, but to take the stairs in Argyll Mansions, Hammersmith Road, London. He disdbeyed the other evening just as the elevator was most in demand by city men looking for a home dinner.

ford was lodged between floors imparted the information to Mr. and Mrs. Robinson; the father took the floor above, the mother the floor below Clifford, hearing a medley of “Clifford. you come down", and “Clifford, you come up," knowing the impossibility of being in two places simultaneously, naturally responded: “I can't." As the negation was interpreted by the rapidly gathering crowd of dinnerless tenants and phyi- cal inability to budge the car, the fire brigade was called; because it was feared that the physi- cal inability extended to Clifford's own person, an ambulance was also summoned. Meanwhile, the constable on the beat came in and took charge. While on the first floor a conference was being held by him, a fireman, and an in- terne as to the best way to rescue the boy with- out undue injury to the building, the elevator descended, stopped, and Clifford, who triumph- antly waved a sheet of paper, stepped out. Un- dismayed by the gathering, unmindful of his mother's tears, his father's frowns, he cried: "Seel I've dons it: Thacross-word puzzle."

According to preliminary calculations made by

57,480 live births in Canada during the second quarter of 1938 compared with 58,815 in the same period last year. The equivalent annual rate was 20.6 per 1,000 population as compar-

Deaths totalled 26.234 with a rate of 9.4 as corn- pared with 27,937 and a rate of 10.1. The na- tural increase for the quarter was 31,246, giv- ing a rate of 11.2, as against 30,877 or a rate

ed, giving a rate of 8.6 as agrinst 22,964 and a rate of 8.3 in the second quarter of 1937. The number of deaths assigned to certain causes in

the figures for the corresponding period of 1937 in parenthesis in each case: Typhoid and paraty- phoid fever 39 (42), small-pox nil (1), measles 62 (253), scarlet fever 41 (67), whooping-cough r28 (176), diphtheria 73 (49), influenza 544 (981), infantile paralysis 11 (12), tuberculosis 1,651 (1,918), cancer 2,908 (2,990), cerebral haemorrhage; cerebal embolism and thrombosis 463 (483), diseases of the heart 4,280 (4,210), diseases of the arteries 2,534 (2,435), pneumonia 1,828 (1,965), diarrhoea and enteritis 492 (48.4). nephritis 1,618 (1.714), suicide 26o (265), horn:-

cide 36. (-32); automobile accidents 304 (363);- olher violent deaths 1,099 (1,147), .

des y erage, and 25% larger than in April and Ooto- wmm

The city men who made the discovery that Clif- fi

the Dominion Bureau of Statistics, there were ll ed with 21.2 for the second quarter of 1937. no

of 11.1. There were 23,887 marriage perform- °°v

the second quarter of 1938 was as follows, with In!

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NOTES BY TIlEVIAY

The Belch baa renewed ‘its de- mands for the return o! its colon- les, 1n accordance with the rule of modern wsrefare, "Loser tak -Sherbrooke Reeonl.

Mother Nature la forever “s -

"t something new. The ties: Nex sprlnfs pussywlllowl sale in a Boston florists’ store the last day 1n November. A noted woman movie told s Court the other day sensed some was unis when her bank book was short $16,000. Then people ssywvcmen have no business sense. —Quebec Chronicle flfelegraph.

‘ ‘dukQOttobasbessamadea double Pretender by the turn of events. I-Ie ls the pretender to tbs throne of the pretended Austria.- Quebee Chronicle-Telegraph.

President Cody of Ire University of Toronto suggests sskln the City of Toronto for a “lit e an- nual zrant of, $100,000," in view of the fact at Varsity is responsible for brlnklna the city annually 841100.000. - Kingston Whiz-Standard.

This conception of the Slate as a means of safeguardl human rlflhte: and conserving rty for the lndlvldual ts now challenged by the dwa that man was mule for the te and not the State for man: that the problems of the twentieth century can no longer be solved within the framework of democratic government, and that personal liberty and freedom of speech and freedom of word-tip are mere shlbboleths which time has brushed aside, unpty ideals tn be sacrificed to the larger and com- pelling and quite ruthless interests of the State itself. Mr. Eden flnds in the rlse of this new ideology a threat to the deanoe-ratfe nations Europe. and, es his own record shows. a barrier to appeasement. M1‘. H ll concerned about the defence of our own trad! of democracy against the same source of danger. For while the centres of this new faith ln the totalitarian dogma are separated from us by two oceans. "Let there be no illusion. The a1- ternatlves are real and concrete not only ln the portions of the world lyln in the immediate vl- clnlty of e countries 1n which these resurgent forces find their organized oXPNSSlOXII they loom threatening! throughout the world. Their om nous adow falb athwart our own hemisphere." - New York Times.

"What ‘an appalllng sltua- tlon ft lsl" I said to a friend. “To support rearmament and contem- plate a war makes me feel like a murderer: to be a pure pacifist and argue that rather than run any rlsk we ought to hand Hitler any- tllllll! he wants, including people who have trusted us and whom he wants to make slam of. makes me feel even worse. ll; better to feel like a murderer or a skunk?" "Yes." said my friend, "the choice does look like that. because Hitler shows no signs of wanting any form of genuine settlement or economic conference such as I have always advocated. We all know the way to the peaceful and international state-Jail. ft 1s not easy to see how you start there from the point we've reached. l‘ em reminded of the reply I got in Ireland lately when I asked a man 1f he knew the way to Bsllygoorlle. He said: "Sure. I know the way to Ballyxoorlle, but ff I were going to Bally ocrlle. ft ls not from here I'd be sartilnsl"— Critic in bon- don Spectator

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examinations

co ed in other parts cl the 1n nlon, the same rule will perhaps prevail elsewhere in Canada be- ore long and much suffering and misery may be spared innocent peopg-Bmekvllle Recorder and

A Vancouver girl and a Cowlehan girl submitted the l est maple leaves in" the con- tes held b the Canadian Travel Bureau an the railways. The Vancouver rl was first, with a leaf which ad a surface of 240 square inches. The leaf from Cuwichan was on an Inch amal- ler. The prize for e b leaf always coma

Columbia. No other province has a chance. Most of them have their maples. but none that can pro- duce leaves comparable in alas to forest maples of Brit- lah Oolumb a. when it to other qualities, however, the Brit- ish Oolwnble maple don not stand up so well. we have no maple sw- sr industry. Our maple ls not v useful for lumber, whlle

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leaves. too. al off the prise for color. maple makes

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seconded by the doswood. B t- wos

thetpmsi-e the A Eastern Canada and, of Vancouver Province.

er uses efthe ms a land m uee is a [rest _ site- day. estern “a u .2... w. miirtwflnd if; A as well abanuteh fra- our cannot wltlamxt will more. are the most stable ooun . 17s- gasslons follow economic world-fumes “on Pflflllllui

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IIAAT l8 VIIY HELPFUL IN IIIUMATISM —- ARTHRITIS

also to ent

the besriwdivsease which frequently follows rheuma

"While a vast amount of good was accomplished it was never- theless discovered due course that all eases of rheumstinn did not recover when tonsils and teeth were removed."

A little later ft was found that bad food habit: defects ln personal hygiene, exposure tn dampness and co , poor housing conditions, worry and fatigue could all be factors in‘ causing rheumutlmn or artbrltls, and that these condi- tions must be corrected or re- moved as were infected grad

takes almost as long as lt took the infection or conditions to develop the symptoms. _

Among the great helps in arth- rltls. as la many other ailments,

is heat.

. Bernard ungdon Wyatt,

‘Lawson. Arizona, ln Medical World, says; ‘The benefits to arthritic patients of a warm, dry and sun- ny climate with but slight chanles in atmospheric pressure, are be- yond question." “First. heat expands and softens the tissue of the body while eold tightens them. APllllTlbl-Ol, there- fore, suffes- less 1n summer time as a rule." -

“In the second place, a warm climate not only makes these patients feel better but also aids in their recovery because it makes pouible direct sun bathing." "Finally, in the case of those arthrlt-lcs whose arthritis is kept active by throat, sinus, and bron- chlal infections. the organisms causfn these infections disappear, asarulewllltilnsfewweeksln the warm. dry climate."

Now all arthrltlcs cannot leave their homes to live in a dry hot climate. but there ls some sun- shine everywhere and what la present should be u .

As ft ls mostly the heat and dry- ness. not any special rays of the sun, the use of heat ln any form ls helpful. It should be remember- ed. however. that the cause of the arthritis should be sought arr! re- moved before and during the treat- ment by heat.

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and the peroelitiase of decrease are: Austria, .0; Poland. 45; Canada, 18 5 cslo 18

. O vakfa, . the Netherlands, 18.6; Rance, 2.18, gnu?!‘ Belgium, SUP-Brandon Dally

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and so on. then lt would invariably lead to the production o! foxes with indifferent silver colouring‘. pale silver foxes that are not fu silvers, and darker fbines that are neither medium or any other par- ticular colour phase. The policy o! retaining blindly the pale foxes ln the ranches as breeding stock has led fox breeders into innumerable dlffleugilaep, dtfifeahlng the very ob-

ey are trying to achieve m view of the present market. conditions the Department

t question, gocd full silver pelts. e ortage of desirable three-quarter Ive-m and half silvers. The de-

d ls not confined, to any one

. But for Canadian fox breed-

to maintain‘ their tlcn in

silver fox world 1t very nec- e_sar,v that they should taksatens to increase the concentration of the silver ln all types of foxes they are producing, which can be done without the silver losln: a desir- able black veillnn and character.

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half silver to black the silver ls d-sfloleut in the silver area and this can onw be remedied l1! breeding alum fundamental lines. (To Be Continued)