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‘HISTORICAL SOCIETY

‘In tel-day's Forum appears a let- ter from Professor Harvey, Archivist, flaiifax, in connection with the Pm" posal that the Prince Edward 1s-

land Historical society be revived.

Professor Harvey attaches to llll letter an extract from a Halifax:

paper of 188i giving a rePOIt 0! i116 first meeting of the original Hie- wylcgl society including the mem- u... who enrolled. It will be seen tba Original membership was rep- resentative of the proiessbns and public leaders of the day. The necessity for the continued existence or"... Historical Society must. be obvious to all who know the value of the systematic reoordmgs of cur- rent events and happenings. The use of history is to give value to the

present hour and its duty, to dis-i

play a chart arui compass for the rising and succeeding generations, and it is the main object of an Historical Society to give the facts and events themselves, leaving com-

mentators to draw o-nclusions and,

adorn the tale. Of course, to begin

with an Historical Society here. would have to go back over the‘

past and attempt to gather the data that has been left uncollected. As Professor Harvey mentions,

there must be someone here havingl

possession of the minute book and records of the original Historical Society. It would be an act 0f pat- riotism on his part to hand these over to the Public Librarian, as suggested by Professor Harvey, or hand them over to the re- suscltated Historical society. But whether these be in existence 0r not the aims and objects in the first instance of an Historical Society here would be to collect, as far as possible, the necessay information on which history could be based. We commend to the citizens the suggestions contained in President Harvey’; interesting communication.

CONFERENCE REPORTS

No admission except to delegates will be permited on the occasion of the Economic Conference at Ottawa. This is following the rule observed ,, at the Imperial Conferences in Lon- y. don since 122s. Reports of the pro- ‘ ceedinss will be supplied officially. The official announcement reads:

“The meetings of the Conference

committees will, be private. Arrange- ments will be made for public an- nouncement through the press of the general progress of the Con- ferance. and of the conclusions reached. These publicity arrange- ments will be under the general direction of Hon. R. J. Manion." '

“It. is proposed to make an ex- ception to the general rule by pro- viding for as large public participa- tbn in the proceedings of the Open. ing session of the conference, which [to be held in the House of com- mons oh ‘ffhursday, July, 21st, as the circumstances permit."

The arrangements for this session will in large part follow those adopted in the Indian Hound Table Conference held in mndm 1n 1930, ‘nab coferencc will be opened by His kcellency the Governor-General, who will read a message from Hill Mhjesty The King. ,

Provision is being mad. for ad- mission to the galleries of privy, Wimeillefe. Senators and members of Parliament, together with such: guests from overseas countries as‘ ah, limited facilities will permit. m" view of the interest of the public, provision further is being mm to broadcast the p. “ gs, grid a‘ sound film of the opening is being arranged. i

The Conference is a Business:

meeting and it is the unanlmouslths mg o; y,"

wish of its members to concentrate attention on their difficult and im- portant taslu. so for as consistent with this object, provision will. how-

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ever, be made to enable the vfltifll delegations to become acquainted ‘my, m; capital and with sue-ll 0am. 90mg g moi; engagements will permit them to viltt.

TIMELY ADVICE

nun simmer been an swelling itoll of deaths mm drowning. Bush ‘a -u. hsplnn here M i" “h” lnovinces, and the worst p!" 01' i" is that many of these tragedies could have been avoided. You!!! pgoplq especially too often have an exaggerated idea of their slllll m‘! "prowess in the water, and do fool- hardy things as l. oonseqiimm Th5‘ point is emphasised by the 0"!" ;Journa1 in a recent issue. which ‘quotes some good advice by J°h°BY wsusmlul... one of the greets"- swimmers on the con“ ". M1‘- Weissmuller sI-yl:

"I am a champion swimmer. y" I would no more swim a half mile from shore alone without l. Nit ' in attendance than 1 would but l loaded gun to my head and pull the trigger. It is as dangerous as that. Don't show off, and just I keep cramps in the back of W"? ‘ mind when you are tempt-ed to swim out of sight or aid of others."

g This is but common sense. lmrle ‘who can swim but a little or not ‘an. all should never swim beyond Ttheir depth; and the stronsefl swimmers dice with death when they go long distances from .the shore. Swimming, after all. is but |good exercise, and there is no need ito go hair s. mile from shore. or imuch less than that, to get all the Exercise that is necessary.

FOX FARMING

In the current issue 0! United iEmpire, Mr. T. T. Meinoss, Presid- ent of the British Fur Breeder!’ As- sociation has an ill-formative article ‘on silver fox farming in the Mother .country and British Dominlons, in which credit‘ ls given to Governor Dalton and Lord Btrathcona as the originators of domestic fur breeding. Discussing the present markets and the prospects of silver fox farm- ! ing Mr. Melross writes: '

l It can be estimated that practicum- ly the whole of the largo quantity Iof silver fox pelts which are now ’marketM. annually at the Inudon Ifur salea is produced from animals bred in captivity. The sliver fox, ibelng originally the sport of the common red fox, is not produced in the wilds by nature in any large quantities than in former years, when the finding of a black fox in ‘his snares Wls a red-letter day in - the life of the trapper. In those days I the market price of a natural silver- ihlack fox was anything up to £500; now. of course, in view of tho in- creased quantity which is made ,a.vailable, the prices are very much ,lower. but at the same time it can be said that the silver fox pelt is one of the few raw materials the price of when has not sunk below the cost of production. Prices have been low, but at the last sale of the Hudson Bay Company in London an increase of 50 per cant. was re-

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IUTES BY TIIE WAY

hum Saskatchewan comes the latest lesson that banditry-il folly in Canada for the reason that el- cape of the consequences is well nigh an imweaibilliiy. Last week Corporal " Ieonard mus, of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. stopped an automobile to question three men Iuspecwd of being crim- inals and one of them deliberately shot him dead. The story has been told in the Guardian. The whole country was aroused and people flocked to aid the Police. The ban- dits were reduced to two and fl-i nally to one and he shot himself. The two remaining ones will be tried and will receive the punish- ment they deserve. The Saskatche- wan affair is a " ‘ example in proof that crime is futile in Cana- da.

Mr. Magi-nth, Canadian chair- man of the International 00m- miaslon, in a recent letter said: "In I your case many still hold to the advice of that great Americanl George Washington, to keep clear of Europe. No one can interpret the needs of the future much be- yorld the period in which he iivoel Washington's views were unques- tionably sound in the earlier years of your country. Yet the power and prestige of the United States today in a “ of nations would be a. tremendous influence for good throughout the world." Proceeding from these introductory remarks. Mr. Magrsth suggested that the two great political parties in the United States co-operato in an ef- fort to assist the nations of Eu- rope to come back economically and to arrive at a real measure of actual disarmament. In his view. it is difficult to see how there is much likelihood of world peace un- til the powerful American republic assumes its share of the burden.

Senator Borah offers a atrong hint to the united forces of morali- ty fn the United States to nominate him as President, since he is not willing to take chances merely with the prohibltionists who asked him to lead them. T‘ ubtedly the united forces, of morality in the United States could elect their can- didate. The trick would be to get them out of the Republican and Democrtic parties, where they have resided for so many years.

Canadians are 890d eaten. "y! the Farmers‘ Advocate. In addition to being the world's largest eaters of butter and eggs, we make a very good showing in respect to meats. In 1931 we consume‘ 148 pounds per capita. If we can stand ft~we may be able to eat our way ‘even- tually into better times. ~ » Whatever tentative conclusion» may be reached in an examination- of the present situation, the funda- mental goodl sense of the British people may be counted on in the long run. They may be apathetic, stolid and “egmatic; they may glory in being thought stupid; but in this baffling and probably for- ever insoluble problem of the orga- nization of human society they are not unlikely to assume the leader- ship in the future as they have in the past, deriving from experience and from the experiments of others the methods best adapted to their own particular character "and tern- peramsnt-Lord Ponsonby.

The American people are looking for new leaders, for men who are truthful and wsolute and ‘ uent in the conviction that the Ameri- can destiny is to be free and mag- nanimous, rather than complacent and acquisltiye, they are looking for leaders who will talk to the people not about two-car garages and a bonus, but about their duty,

corded for the better grades, while the cheaper quality registered an increase in price even more spec- taeular.

This in a time of depression is ex- tremely encouraging to fur farmers, both here and in Canada. ‘the Brit- iah-bred fox is approaching a stage

,in its development where it can "successfully compete with those ‘reared in the Dominion, but it is still necessary. and in the opinion of the writer it will be advisable for a long time, to import fresh blood from Canada. Upon regwtration in Canada a. certificate bearing the breeding and petigree details and carrying the seal of the Department of Agriculture and signed by an of- ficial on behalf of the Minister is furnished in respect or each for, spaces are provided for the trans- fer of ownership, each transfer be- in! recorded in the books of the Assocation, after the manner of ordinary shares in a company. The same system has been followed in

that there is no Government con- trol. By this means, owneluhip of a fox is u wmpleh as the on". Ihlb of shares. This allows of silver foxes being owned by those resid- illl iemnenrily in other pas-h o! W! moire. who are due to retire in I Y" years. and as insurance of

by death can be effected a0 Lloyd: for a reasonable premium. it provides obs of the

and about the sacrifices they must make, and about the discipline they must impose upon themselves, and about their responsibility to the world and to posterity, about all those things which make a peo- ple self-respecting, serene and con- fident. May they not look in vain. —Waller Llppman.

The Prime Minister, Rt. Hon. B. B. Bennett, has reiterated his con- viction that the Imperial Economic Conference will result in Canada. and the other parts of the Eln- pire leading the world out of the depression. This indicates that Mr. Bennett and his ministers will do their utmost to make the confer- ence a success, and contrasts pleas- antly with Rt. Hon. Mackenzie K108’! rlther gloomy speculations on the event.

When a British soldier consumed American munitions he served America as he served his own country. Is it not obvious that while the Americans were preparing an army which only fought in ths concluding phase of the war the munitions they lent to the Allies wan really saving the lives of the

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Ono of the tests for thou wish- ingtoenter theairaervicoisbold- ing the breath.

After taking a long breath, the candidateholds it as long as pog- sible, and with the ordinal‘! hell- thy man this is about 46 seconds, and with a woman about 40 sec- onds. You have perhaps seen a pm- foastonal swimmer in vaudeville stay under water a number of minutes which shows what actually can be done by training. Anothertestisboblowtheairall out of your lungs, and see how 1on8 it takes before you have to take in a breath. This takes as seconds in

la. normal man and about 20 sec-

onds in a normal woman. However you would be surprised how you can increase the length of time you can hold your breath, or do without breathing in some air, by exercise and training.

Opera singers have so trained their lungs or breathing apparatus that they can hold their breath two or three times as long as when they first began singing.

Even the average individual can soon learn to hold his breath for a. minute or more, by brisk walking daily, or slow jogging.

It is this slow Jogging or ‘road work’ as it is called by boxers. 100t- ball players, and other athletes that develops the strong heart and the strong lungs needed in athletic contests.

Physicians are now making use of this simple test of holding the breath, in estimating the condition of the heart and blood pressure, and also in severe cases of thyroid trouble or goitre.

In all these conditions the length of time the breath can be held is less than in normal individuals. The physician thus makes a test and then advises certain treat- ment, rest in some cases, less food in others, omitting certain acid

foods "in others. ‘After some weeks the pfitienf."'.l'0p6l‘l5l again, or the physicfanvisits the home, and an-

other breath- holding test is made. In cases of severe goltre where

“ is necessary, the physic- ian can, by making these tests fromtlme to time, finally get the patient into such a condition that

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Lond0n’s 8,000,000

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The first of the reports compiled from the census returns of last year is published. The area dealt with is the County of London. The population of the area within a fif- teen-lnils radius of Charing Cross has increased in the past ten years by 723,741 persons.

This Greater London's , pulatlon now totals 8,203,942.

The increase in the population of Greater London is 9.7 percent. on the figures for 1921. This is nearly three times as great as it was in the preceding decennium and nearly twice as great as the current in- crease for the country at large. This Population was divided into 3,982,- 916 males and 4,371,020 females. The largest contributor to this in- crease is Dagenham, with a pOpull- tion of 89.368. which is an increase during the ten years of 80,285. It is one of the few districts in which men outnumber women, the figures being 44,870 males and 44,492 fe- males. Ilford has an increase of 45.867. with a total population of 131,001.

The population of the City of Iondon and the 29 Metropolitan boroughs which comprise the ad- ministrative county of London do. clfned by 87,520. In the administra- tive county lthe population numbe - ed 4,897,008 persons. ‘This is the third dec um in succession in which the county population has shown a decline. Population h“ declined in 21 of the Metropolitan boroughs. The greatest deer-eggs h“ been shown in the City, with a pop- ulation of only one-quarter per cent, of that of the whole county, the figure of decrease being 19.8 percent; The dwellings in the county now number 746,980, as compared with 720,004 in 1921, so that the net ef-

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We take much mfllfijwedle 110k or tbs seasons in thala- transitional mo.“ m4 gnu-p comb-ash than when nature. by 8814M "=4 m‘ perceptible degflee. mounts Wu" full orbed richness and beauty a her summer festival. ‘rhera are vast- 1y more poems about the hells young charms of May and the flam- tug hues of sertember the“ elm‘ m, pgggantry of June and JlllY- Nor should this be a matter of sur- prise. For all words drop down in?» prosaic luv, fence beside the won- dzvus picture that 8R6" W1’ "'9 m tbs midsummer solstice of the y"; Am 1g 1g very much better to w; mo; oompanionablgtouch with m, my,“ that grow and blow than to brood over botanical diagrams and scientific tomes. Better it is b0 feel ourselves c8118“ by “l9 d"? pulsations of the world, with lie Eontan music melsuring out the mp; of time, than in pore grub- bingly over the most learned dis- quisitions about nature ever set down in cold print. For nature in he; suminl dress is instinct with a vibrant emotion that overtolle all the gtilted school jargon about laws. unlformities, pmpulslons and nflftle- les. as much as the sunflashing waves of a. singing brook overflow the fixed pebbles in the bed of the stream. The gamut of light can no more be put into a desk-made formula than the soul-stirring strains of a musical symphony, with its effect upon the imaginliiiflll. can be bound up with the inked score. "One impulse from the ver- nsl wood will teach us more than all the sages can." And nobody in his right senses will wish merely to match his wits against the variety, wealth, wonder and superabound- ing charms of the summer lands- cape in order to fashion out some pet theory about nature's constitu- tion and method. We may devoutly thank heaven there is something on the universe that cannot be stan- darized to suit our pedantic whims. Alt midsummer the impulse comes over us to get away from the whole drabcyele of dry-blottenimpres- slons, and to breathe inrhythrn. with all clean things that rejoice in the fulness and beauty o1 their ex-

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