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of" the birth of Oliver Goldsmith has recently been noted in literary cir- cles, and the Toronto Globe recalls

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the fact that a grand nephew of that distinguished author and poet and bearing the same name, was born in Annapolis, Nova Scotia, in 1781 and

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died in 1861 in Liverpool. He was also a man of considerable note, and became Commissary Generalof Nova Scctla. removing later to Hong Cong and thence to Liverpool.

The fame of the English Gold-

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.\ - . :\l~l'.. rn .. (lur Men! i\:"xl'\\i'|"l lp'IlI“1-\\' m ' smith may be said to rest largely ":.-.::;.""' m» u- mber-m» or "m vim

of Wakefield." and “The Deserted Village." The Nova Scotla Gold- smith. who was also inclined to court

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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1929

the muses and was a devoted loyal- ist. wrote a poem entitled "The Ris-

QAAARDEEERG DAY.

. story oi the South Afriqiiii urn- i and shadowy l)e§.'oii(i that of

- y as one of the stirring; C\(‘ili.i ' . opening days of the Century. I 111 have with u". living remind- i the glorious part tzikcii by: Cin- x» nd by our own pruvliisc in tiic g sting battles of thc str l: Paurdeberg, on

at

e surrendered. In a ,_ lG. Company of the Royal f ian Regiment, in which Com-

reat War, but it will iigtzrc in

Fcbrmry by the speaker of the opposite party. V‘ 1900 4000 Boer prisoners under flnd- inany Case’ the wireless d0” " this‘

ing Village," which contracts in thought and sentiment with the mournful picture oi a decayed ham- let in England, portrayed by the Eng- lish Goldsmith. The coming of the United Empire Loyalist: had caused villages to rise in Nova Scotia and one off-these was in his mind when he wrote the following lines:

There smiling orchards interrupt

the quiet of iris own home, a reason-

cblc debate in which his opponent-s

ucll as his own leaders, will state

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‘ "It would be difficult to think of

. any more subtle and certain method cl’ encouraging voters to think. For the case stated on the microphone

illlllfii. be u reasoned one; it will he or gtfrzslfseféunded by some hedge lsubiniLtcd to immediate examination o! green:

The farmer's cottage busomed ‘mong the trees Whose spreading branches shelter

from the breeze

The winding stream that turns the

not lend itself easily to propaganda. “The art of politics in the past has been largely the art of persuading an

busy mill, <1 ‘ the Prince Edward Islzml coii- audience by rhetoric or by personal- who“ charming echoes o.” the ‘i f». fwgm» dmi“9“i‘5hed we“ ily. The microphone gives compar- distant hill: ‘ . The South African war

.1 Y‘ com-

ent Charlcltrtcivii "i crates he hercic dmih cf two Vi rs of the Island contingent. i ,- ‘ Riggs and Roland To.) \ by our gallant soldiers during ' r, oi whcm only twelve remain _-.Pwvlnce. Sunday next Paardebcrg Day -. commemorated by a pared?

South African veterans, in _ .1 the Great War Veterans are ,- to join, to St. James Church, . an appropriate service will be . tgd by the minister. Follow- ‘. . there will be a short service - South African war monument. ednesday evening, Feb. 27th. -- versary of the battle will be ~ - with a. banquet, and an ex- t programme is being prepared . event. We trust that our will join whole-heartedly in eminoration of this ilotoblo . toric anniversary.

DENNETT ‘SAVES IWONEY

, r since Confederation has Par- t acted with such dispatch and iency as in the debate tin-the bAddress, says the Financial and if it is true, as has bccn jnded by so manyldistluguisihcd

go Qpgrate the House of’ Com- ', then in this single act they .. the trcasuri; of this country ithing over 320.099. full credit for the spec n of this debate, i?» MRO , be Post to Hon. R. B. Bcnnctt. of the Oppcsiticn nnrl it is. aps, the clearest of llil inflict‘.- n . that the conduct of one ci ill? test political parties is nozv un- Lhe guidance or c tjshiiicd busi- ‘vman. Not only did M1". Don- .bflng about the end of tlic dc- ‘ but he prozntvsd in his Prim ._ - contribution to it, that the clay a . i; drawn cut, vnzistcfill dlicitii- i l’ and unnccesxary controversy i‘ ‘ended’ Pnd that. in future tlic ' I ative party would concentrate 1i. two objects -1. putting their it oi view clearly and briefly = the country. nnd where ncccs- ‘bringing u vote in parlinmcnt iat the rec-card might bc comllllftfi.

dy con-

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2. allowing non-contentious i. to pass with a minimum of f .. on.

3 namo sun romrzcs

b psychological resulisof intro- ‘ the mechanism of brondmst- ‘to elections Ere dricusz<ed in fllanchester Guardim. tvliilc results are not, of course, cer-

predictable, it secms probablmi

.7’ that journal. that they will l-for more reason find less lrrclc- efllotlonalism in political cam- The art of the dcnmgcgtic

I h: these circumstances. decline. of going to a fcw political “llvotcd to increasing the‘ tlime whose minds are a1-, up. the voter will intimc ,

i tamed to renewing in!

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mists that it requires $3.000 pct"

atively‘ little play for either. In fut- The neat white church beside

yure the politician will be forced to wh°s° walls “e smead i("llii\"<ii(‘ not only a newspaper man- The grasbdad hmocks o! the s“?

l red dead. lner and a platform manner, but also

. ,. , The fines extricted from "nie Ills- , ‘ l ll microphone manner. ye lasting tribute to tlu- part?

ing Village" apparently visualise the village of Annapolis Royal as it was in the days when the Goldsmith of Nova Scotia. lived there long ago.

“And anyone who has suffered the jiCXpEflCHCE of speaking into [the darkness of that sensitive but unre- |sponsivc box knows well that there ‘ ‘.3 little opporunity here for the rous- ilng inflection of voice, the deliber- . ate passion and cheap jesting of the platform. Wit, which is the pointed expression of argument, is as effec- tive on the microphone as on the platform. And a clear enunciation and coherence of argument are more important than ever."

Personality and direct contact will oi course, remain important factors; but their part will be a diminishing one if the habit of radio discussion growsf And, though the change will involve some loss of color and ex- citement, democracy as a whole, it is predicted, will gain and flourish bet- ter if politics becomes less of a game and more of a science.

Insurance for airmen has been brbillht to uis consideration of the Ontario Legislature. Both the Do- minion and several of the Provinces have considerable numbers of avia- tors empployed officially. They carry mails, make surveys for topogra- phic maps‘, protect the forestsagainst insect pests, discover and extinguish forest fires, carry food and medical aid to isolated and suffering com- munities, and convey ‘to hospitals patients in urgent need of immediate surgical or medical treatment.

Among their multifarious duties they are exposed to great perils, from storms, fogs, disabled engine power and other causes, compelling forced landings under moit difficult and dangerous conditions. It would seem desirable that the authorities which employ them should insure them against fatal ordisabling alc- cidents.

HOPEFUL SIGN The intense cold which caused so much suffering throughout contin- ental Europe and the British Isles. with heavy falls of snow, has now moderated and floods are feared. Here, where the snowfall had been very light during the early winter months, with mild or moderate tem- peratures, colder weather and a suf- ficient snow have come by way of change. Just why the shift of weather conditions between the Old World and the New should come about in mid- winter must puzzle the folk who think themselves weatherwise. Of course it may be only a temporary change.

According to statistics compiled at Ottawa for the Financial Post, the lliaritime Provinces made a gain of 15 per cent in business during 1928 ovcr the preceding year, as compar- .06 with an increase of 13.5 per cent i for Quebec, 10 per cent for Ontario, 16.2 per cent for the Prairie Provinc- rs. and 12 per cent for British Col- umbia, These figures show that the business strides made in the bfciritimcs since the partial imple- mcntution of the recommendations of lhc Duncan report and, as the

Halifax Herald points out, are an icnrncst oi what can be done-when t the will to do is present. Just what iprcporiicn of the increase is to the 5 credit of Prince Edward Island is un- irnrtunatcly, not known. Undoubt- fcdlv srmc progress has been mdde. i Vvilh the new Maritime Trade Com- ioh in Ontario, a fruitful field for Mu-lilnic products is opened out. ir. which this Province,should share.

In Ottawa, the politicians are hop- ing for a. comparative-y short session of Parliament, with prorogation in May. But this soothing hope may yet end 1n disappointment. If the world disturbance and cataclism pre- dicted by a California astr

from the configuration of the plan- ets, should materlalire on April 2B. who can teli what may happen Par- liament? and elsewhere? It has be- come proverbial that pi-n ” ‘ fail, especially in regard to politics and the weather.

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EDITORIAL ' NOTES

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The present, style of winter, enab- ling nut sts, sleigh drivers and ped- estrians a choice of locomotion, is quite an improvement on the former blustcring winters when neither rall- vny trains nor sieighs could make much progress. It is hoped that this is the beginning of a new clim- nlic era, '

The first division on party lines during the present session took place “Wednesday last, as noted in The Guardian's oorrespodence from the capital. The division showed 85 to '12, a majority of 13 for the minister- ial side. It was not a test of the full strengh of either party, only 155 of the 245 ‘memb voting. On a direct want of confidence motion the number of members voting would be considerably greater and the major- ity on the side of the Government, also larger.

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{Ihcre is to be a full dress debate in the House of Commons over a C. “B. R. branch line programme of 1,200 miles and a C. N. R., one of almost equal proportions, says the Sydney Fast. The crux of the discussion \vill be the legitimate spheres of in- flucme of tlicse great railway sy- slems-surely a curious point of con- troversy in acouiitry with In area iargcr than that oi the United States. There is rocm in Canada's broad do- main for all the branch line! both railways can build in the next fifi;

In the senate so ‘many vacancies have occurred by the demise of aged members and have been filld by the appointment oi Liberals lines the ad- vent of the King Governmen that the strength of opposing parties in that, House isapproximately equal. As a consequence the reform ofthe shim, muelrm so prominent ID the party platfcrpi of the Liberal party when itwu in opposition i| no

c1. Mint £0112 of fiours

Ba Iona W Barton. MD.

NATIVIIS FREE FROM ABDOMIN- AL AILMENTB

When we read that in nine years pratics in the Himalaya Mountains, a British army surgeon. McCarrison performed 2600 major operations, and did not see a case oi stomach or in- testinal ulcer, appendicltls, or iii- flammatlon or iage intestine, and compare that with the fact that 25 percent of the patients in the hos- pital ln the United States are ad- miteed because of abdominal infec- tions (appendicitis, gall bladder dis- ease, ulcer of stomach and intestine, and inflammation or loge interstine) we must pause in astonishment.

Why are these natives free from stomach and intestinal ailments whilst our “enlightened" folks are so sifdly afflicted?

There is only one answer. Too many of us are eating the wrong kinds of food.

We are eating foods which are de- ficlent in valuable vitamins.

as Dr. Beale Harris says "Even cas- ual observations of the eatbig hab- its of people in cafes, hotels, dining cars, and their homes, will reveal the fact that the starches and sugars and lean meats, which are devoid of vit- amins,‘ make up a. large proportion of the dict of all closes of people, and that fruits and vegetables and milk, which are rich in vitamins, are eaten sparingly by the masses." '

The prevention of stomach or in- testinal ulcer is really a. matter of diet and the vitamins are the impor- tant factors. Vitamin A stimulates nutrition and ls found in milk, cream. and butter, and green vegetables. ‘These ulcer patients are usually ner- vous so that vitamin B should like- wise from a part of the daily diet; that is whole wheat bread, vegetables and fruits. .

Vitamin C seems to protect against infections of the intestinal tract 80 that strained orange juice, strained tomato juice, or the strained juice of other uncooked vegetables, should be used.

I have spoken before the McCal- lum‘; suggestion of a. daily diet for all of us" a pint u» a quart of milk I- day, one raw fruit, one raw vegetable, and two cocked leafy vegetables. 131 addition we should eat a refl-sonflbl! amount of meat or e886. one pleoe 0f broad, liberal quantities of butter."

These foods, well“ chewed, with meals six hours apart, should prevent ulcer.

Remember also that most of thes’: ulcers get their start from infection from bad teeth, tonsils, Bill bladder- sinuses, and so forth.

THE LAND WE LOVE

By FRANK LEIGH

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dimensional ex’ on a spherical surface instead of on a plane. The flat beings with their measuring rods and other objects fit exactly on this surface, and they are unable to leave it. Their whole uni- verse oi observation extends exclus- ively over the surface of the sphere. Are these beings able to regard the

Einstein And Relativity

(Specially written for The Guardian)

Einstein ‘Theories of Relativity.)

THE UNIVERSE l Einstein has pointed out that the picture oi the universe, according to

a somewhat unsatisfactory one. One

gards space (and time) the universe is infinite. There are stars every- where, so that the density oi matter although very variable in detail. is nevertheless on the average every- where the same. In other words, how- ever far we might travel through space we should find everywhere an attenuated swarm of fixed stars, of

density." (Einstein)

Now, the Newtonian theory cannot admit this conception. and according to it we must suppose "that the uni- verse should have a kind of centre

in which the density of the stars is a. maximum and that. as we proceed outwards from

this centre, the group density of the stars should diminish, until final- ly, at great -" ‘ it is by an infinite region of emptiness." This conception is, on general principles not very satisfactory, and becomes less so when we reflect that,

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according to it, the light emitted by

the stars, and also individual stars

of thd stellar system would be passing of! into infinite space never to return.

“Such a finite material universe" says Einstein, "would be ‘estined to become

gradually, but systematically impov- erished" "But," he continues "spec- ulations on the structure of the uhi- verse also move in quite another di- reciion. The development of non-Eu- clidean geometry led to the recogni- tlon of the fact, that we can cast doubt on the inflniteness of our space without coming info conflict with the laws of thought or with experience."

A Two-Dimensional Universe. "In the first ‘place we imagine an

existence in two dimensional spaces. Flat beings’ with flat implements, and in particular flat riged measuring rods are free to move in a plane. For them nothing exists outside of this plane: that which they observe to happen to themselves and their flat ‘things’ is the all inclusive reality of their plane. In particular the con- struction oi Euclidean geometry can be carried out by means of their measuring rods. In contrast to ours, the universe of these“ beings is two dimensional; tends to infinity. . . . .

but, like ours, vit ex-

n

"Let us consider now a second two , but this time

‘ y of their universe as being

THE BATTLE OF STE. FOYE

Q. When and where was the battle of Ste. Foye fought?

plane geometry, and their rods withal as the realisation of “distance”!

A.‘ The brittle of Ste. Foye was» fought on the outskirts of the city oi‘ Quebec, on the road that still car- ries the name. It followed a few months after t1 c taking of Quebec by Wolfe in 1759, and was the last at- tempt of the French forces to re- deem that defeat and to recapture the ancient stronghold. While the battle was successful for the French forces, it failed to change the course of history by which French Canada was transferred to that of a British __ A mm ‘, stately in its proportions marks the spot and commemorates the dead of this coun- try.

[THE POET'S CORNER‘

REQUIESCAT

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Btrew on her roses, roses. And never a spray of yew. In quiet she repwe-‘II Ahi would that I did too.

Her mirth thee world required: she bathed it in smiles of glee. But her heart was tired, tired, And now they let her be.

Her_life was luring, turning,

‘In ‘mixes ofheat and sound.

nut for peace her soul was yearning. And nowlpeace laps her around.

Her cabined, ample spirit,

It fluttered and failed for breath. Til-flight it doth inherit

- The vasty Hall of Death.

--Matthew Amol.

meilutd, ones prominentin the party program isPropoi-tionai Ram-aunt's-

longer mentioned. It is as dead he years.

Juliuroecaar. Anoiber-deldjlilbttai ‘ibort, but nobody Inn-h of it new.

“They cannot do this. For, if they

attempt to realise a straight line. they will obtain e. curve. which we "three

elem.- "they- called it "-2. a: for

dimensional beings“ d:signate as a great circle, l.c. aself contained line of definite finite length, which can be measured up by means of a meas- uring-rod. Similarly, has a finite urea that can be com- pared wl;h the area of a square con- structedwith rods. The great charm resulting from this consideration lies in the recognition of the fact that the universe of these beings lg nhiié and yet has no limits.

this‘ universe

“But the, spherical surface beings do

not need to go on a world-tour in, order to perceive that they are not living in a Euclidean Universe. ‘Ilia-y can convince themselves of this on every part of their "world," provided they ydo not use toosmalla part of it. Starting from a point, "straight lines" (arcs of circles as judged in three-dimensional space) of equal length in all directicns. They will call the line joining the free ends of these lines a "circle." For a plane burface, the ratio of the circumfer- ence of a circle to its diameter, both lengths being measured with the same rod, is, according to Euclidean geometry of thepianelequal to a con- stant value "Pi' which is indipendent of the diameter of the circle. 0n their spherical‘ surface our flat beings would find thia ratio to come out to a smaller viiue than "e1" the differ- ence being the more considerable the greater the radius of the circle they tabs in comparison with tin radius ' of their "wand-sphere." By melnl_0l_