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. nology. ' l Finally, the science of statistic-

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' rast few years. has combined with al i

.he other rehabilitated sublects, un-i

.il their united efforts are formidable.

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BACK TO THE SKANLEY

It is idle to spc i." ate, at '...ls stag), “on how ion; the Car Ferry will o: tied up in Haliiax undergoing re- pairs eceasitatod by the untoward accident of last week. We do not know whether the llailfas drydock ls immediately available for the ferry | steamer. We have no aEsumnceI that the spare propeller said to be procurablc will fit the boat, or whe- ther it will be necessary lo send for one from the workshops of Great Britain We do not. know definitely whether further damage has not been sustained to the steamer, which will mean a protracted period in drydock.

rival Sunday afternoon. 1t is obvious that we ‘cannot place dependence on a service of this kind. The mails, however, could be carried if two ice breakers were placed on the Pictou- Georgetown route. Failing this, we .nay aswell prepare at once for the re- astablishment of mail transportation by ice-boat across the Capes. Since we are gctting back to old times, ‘let us prepare for the worst. '

SOME CHEESE. PLEASE!

"Eat more cheese week" having been advocated at the meeting of the Western Ontario Dairymens As- sociation, the Toronto Mall and Em-

We do not know. tn fact, whether the Car Perry will be disabled frcm . service m; weeks or for months, or‘ for the season. One thing. howe.er,g is certain. We have been placed irrl a most flWIkWltd "mica, and what- ; ever remedial steps are now taken! be solve the difficulty, there will be.‘ a disruption of the transpc-tation, service to and from this Provlncel which will put our people to corisiri-i arable delay, inconvenience and ex-. pense. We are placed in a worse. ‘position than we were twenty or, thirty years ago because of our: steadily increasing traffic and bs-i cause we have been caught unawares. l W0 are in a position which would,‘ not be tolerated in any other Prov-j lnce ln Canada. If such a thing should ; happen as a tie-up in_ the freight‘ transportation service of any of our

sister Provinm for twenty-four

hours, the officials at. Ottawa and

Montreal would be deluged with pro-

tests and there would ensue a swift

and merciless search for the goat.

There would, first of all. be a prompt ,

‘resumption of service at whatever. ‘ !the mellow Canadian cheese which

cost, followed by a full and complete invmtigation into the whole matter.

A second car ferry has been ad wo-

cated for years in this Province gig-pupil the press, and by four Boards of Trade and business peo- pip generally. Strong resolutions have been passed, and eloquent speeches have been made by politi- cians and others on the matter. We have even succeeded in havinga sum of 81,000,000 appropriated by Parlia- ment for the building of a. second "steamer-re. belated measure which. m: it. been taken immediately “D011 the‘ recommendation of the Duncan Comnflssion, might have saved_us from the muddle we are in today. But what has it all amounted to? ‘another session of Parliament will he‘ held, another appropriation must be voted, another set of plans will have to be prepared. before the sec- ond’ cor ferry will everrmateriallze on paper. And here we are, in the lurch. in the middle of wtinter. with a disabled steamer and with trans- portation prospects which can only be described as intolerable.

I1 the S. S. Stanley is placed on ‘IQ Biliden-Tormentine route, as now suggested, what assurance have we that she will not become ice-bound 1n the Straits for a week or a month. following e. period of severe weather Iuch as we had at the beginning of last» week’! The Stanley was fre- quently tied upln this manner when lhe was on the service before, and we can recall the w. quences. ‘The plvper place for the Stanley, as ex- perience has demonstrated. is on the Pictou- Georgetown route. Another toe-breaker should operate with her, this providing a double service to handle freight as well as passengers. If the S. S. lid-antarctic not avail- able. let the ‘Dcp-trfmcnt get busy and ldpply anotherboat immediately. ‘this. is the ma: they can ab.

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pire suggested that householders bould have an opportunity to buy rrfllow, matured cheese instead of the fresh stuff generally offered to A readervwho saw the sug- t-estion wrote: "If there is any food more appetizing or satisfying than a piece of mellow, well-ripened Canadian/cheese I have yet to taste it. Pug’ like hundreds and hundreds

thezn.

‘of other people, I simply dare not

eat it. for it ties my bowels into

‘double hard knots."

To which the Mail and Empire replies: --Ccmpasslon is the or-

ithodox remedy for a complaint of

this kind and we would be inclined to offer it were it not for the pre- cept of Sir Thomas Browne, some- what to this effect, "By compassion we make mother's misery our own." And we very much doubt his argu- ment that, “by relieving them we re- lieve ourselves also." We do not. know personally our correspondent but r/e think that those of whom he writes suffer from sins of omis- slon. The trouble is caused not by

!they eat, but by the indignity they put upon it in. the eating. Too many people nowadays bolt their food. washing it down with some form of liquid, and do not chew it properly. There is need of another Fletcher to teach people how to chew. The present unhappy process can be seen in every hotel, restaur- ant and eating-house in the land. The person careful of digestion can- not obtain dry bread or bread a day or two old. Everyone is supplied with fresh, soft stuff, little better than dough, and the reason given is that such is the popular demand. It can be bolted in a hurry for so many people think they have no time to eat properly. Good Canadian cheese need not be shunned by anyone whose internal mechanism is in good ‘working order. On the contrary, rit is a valuable foodfor the strong ‘and vigorous regardless of age. Gout used to be prevalent in England, it may be yet, and cheese and port. got the blame for it. But cheese could plead innocence. It was the port which was the guilty partner for have we not the warning of an anonymous writer:

“Fair and the

erect Caledonian

stood; Sound was his mutton and his claret

good;

‘Let him drink port,‘ the English stsflcsman cried;

He drew!’ the poison and his spirit died."

THE BRITISH WAY

rt is well "r... us m be reminded occasionally of the rights of British citizenship. The point was empha- sized recently by the Chief Justice in charging the jury in a criminal case. The question concerned the admiss- ibility of certain evidence.

"You rave heard," said his lordship, "a great deal about ‘wringing cut. a confession.‘ That is not. admitted in any Bri- tt's‘! Court of Justice. The days of the rack and thuinbscrew are fer back in history. Today any rvwcncc admitted by the court is f-ec and voluntary. No hopes or fence must be presented. If an cflr-ir of the law should say ii a "acne" even “It would be Patter for you to confess," and he did confers. the evidence would,

' that is bottomless."

mention, is some means of pre- venting an indiscriminate indul- gence in kissing. Modern flappers who have been somewhat lavish with their circulations, it is now suggested by a writer in the Vancouver "Pro- vince," should be warned to curb their arder for a while. Married men should be careful, u». especial- ly those who have been married a long time to wives of acldulous tem- perament. Better ‘wait until sum- mer. The flu,wlll be over by then. and your wife will be away for her holidays. A very special warning should be directed at engaged cou- ples, and couples who ought to be engaged, though it is going to be very hard indeed to‘ make them see the error f their ways. Members ‘oi’ our energetic service clubs who are sq fond of doing things thorough- ly and well might even convince themselves that it ts their public duty to wear a bright red button with these words in jet black: “Please don't kiss me!" Somebody ought to start the ball rolling.

We have heard a great deal in the Liberal press and on the floor of the House about the advantage to our fishermen of the special course of instruction to be instituted by the Federal Department of Fisheries at Halifax. The course is now under way. Seventeen Marimite fishennen are taking the course, one of whom is from this Province. If the pur- pose is to have those who receive the course dissimlnate the informa- tion they acquire among their fellow fishermen on their return home, our lonerepresentative will have his hands full.

Premier Mussolini has had a spe- cial commission overhaul the ele- mentary textbooks used in Italy, and the commission has found ‘that "not it single history or geography now being used is fit. for the schools.” The history books do not give the proper emphasis to political develop- ments sirioe the march on Rome six years ago and the geographies do not present the proper facts about the populations and minorities along the frontier. Special textbooks, favorable to the Fascist ideals, are being prepared. This is one way of “improving" education and instilling an intense form of patriotism; but it is n. dangerous way. It has been tried before and u is being tried today for other reasons in cer- tain sections of the United States. It will always fall of its purpose. History, especially, cannot be cut in- to fashionable patterns or into any homogeneous design which would be satisfying to the political or so"lal refonner. There are a lot of em- barrassing facts in history but to dis- approve to the extent of censoring them is really an absurd attitude to take. We were not. sent into the world to air our prejudices.

When Robert Burns lay on his death-bed in Dumfrlas hc is said to have declared to his wife "I will be better known a hundred years from now, Jean, than I am today." lviore prophetic words were never ut- tered. The poet who died tonnent- ed with a debt of $50 hanging over him that he wasunable to meet is known everywhere today, while the sale of one copy of an early edition of his poems or the proceeds of one of the thousands of concerts which will be held this month in his honor. fumish enough money to have kept Burns in affluence all his life.

A correspondent in the Toronto Globe depicts the evils of tobacco smoking so convincingly that. it is quite evident our local reformers are derelict in their duty in overlooking the havoc wrought by this insidious vice. King James of England, who wrote on everything from theology to tobacco. is quoted as condemning the weed: “In the black, stinking fumes thereof it nearest resembles the smoke of that horrid Stygian pit It is pointed out that there ls only one passage in the Bible that favors it: "He that is filthy let him be filthy still." There is, it is stated, only one poison known stronger than the oil of tobacco. and there is enough of this poison in a single cigar to kill a man. One drop taken from the bowl of an old pipe and put on the head of a snake will kill it. The poison of tobacco af- fects the heart. Its use is especially injurious to the young. The habit so enclaves its victims that. they lose all respect for the rights of others. The loss every year from fires caused by careless smokers is incalculable. The money worse than wasted for tcbaceoinmevearwmildbuilda

' railroad twice around the earth of.

twenty thousand dollars a mile. Here, surely, is abundant material for an- other moral crusade. m our poll- ticai prohibttioniltl ponder the eug.

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. , : e Rv lilies W. Berton, ND. USING DRUGS FOB , snnoiunun, ram 1S DANGEROUS

The knowledge of the use of cer- tain drugs is now so common that it is not unusual for families to buy supplies such as aspirin. Plfflzorlc. castor oil, and epsom Salt-l. B5 they would groceries or fruit. That oc- casions arise for the use of these is only ton true, but these very simple drugs can prove very d erous un- der certain conditions. For instance you may feel a little sick at the sto- maidi, in fact may vomit, with pain right in the pit of the stomach.

Now these folks~with a supply of medicine on hand may do one,of two things. Either take some aspirin or paregorlc to ease the pain, or take some castor oil or epsom salts to get rid of whatever is irritating the sto- mach or intestine.

Easing or quietlng the pain, which maybe-due to appendicitis. by the use oi’ either aspirin or paregoric, will permit the inflammation to be- come so serious that. when the op- eration is performed the appendix may have burst, gangrene set in. and the operation be too late. U .

And so also with the use of; pur- gative such as uastor oil or epsom sal . Should the trouble be appen- dlci is. the use of a purgative very frequently ruptures the gaooendix. and is the cause oi’ many deaths. If. vou get. a pain in stomach and it seems to shift around from place to place, sometimes easing uo almost entirely. then it is likely due to gas, and will not cause anv f-emnerature or anypain on pressure. However if the pain starts at stomach and gradually goes down to the lower right side of abdomen and stavs there. with tenderness on pressure aver the soot. and hardening of the fiidomen over the pain, and some temperature also. then it is likely appendicitis and there should be no delay in r-allirv. your doctor,

There is naturally the tar-notation to ease the pain ox get rid of offend- ‘nit irritant. but. an enema. or lniec- tlon is the most that should be given before the. doctor arrives.

Remember then that drugs are dangerous in appendicitis, and abdo- vqaal pain is often due to appendi- c .

Daily Lessons f in English B! W. L. GORDON IO+ Q-O-Q-Q£QQ~O

WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: When two or more personal pronouns arc connected by "and," the second per- son precedes the third and first, the third precedes the first. "You and she and I are going.”

OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: dir- ectly. Pronounce the i as in "it," not as in "die."

OFTEN MISSPELLED baron (nobleman), barren (unproductive)

SYNONYMS: idle, indolent, lazy.

inactive. inert, slothful, unemployed, trifling. _.WORD STUDY "Use a word three times and li. is yours." Lei, us increase our vocabulary by mast- ering one word each day. Tcdays word: CONTRIVE; to plan lncen]- ouslv: scheme: plot; invent. "Their plans were cunnlnglv contrived."

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Household Scrapbook Bv ROBERTA LEI - Tan Colored Fabric;

Tan clothing and stockings are likely to fade to a sickly brownish yellow in laundering. To prevent this, add a very small quantity of dye. of the proper shade, to the lust rinsing water.

Gold Teeth

T0 (119811 Rold teeth. scour with prepared chalk and then polish with a soft piece of linen.

. Icing

Use one and one-half cups of con. fectioners sugar, with just enough 32am to spread. Flavor with van-

>e+e~ The Poet’s Corner

AN EPITAPH

Renowned Spenser, more nigh

To learned Chaucer; and rare Beau. mont, lie

A little nearer Spenser; to make room

Pbr Shakespeare -in your three-fold four-fold tomb.

To lodgielnall four in one bed mgko a s

Until Doomsday: for hardly will a fifth

lie a thought

Betwixt this day and. that, by fates be slain, _

For whom your curtains marl); drawn again.

If will‘ lrrecedency in death do bar, A fourth place in your sacred sepul-

chrc. Under this sacred marble of thine

own,

519W. fire tragedian, Shakespeare, sleep alone:

Th! immeiemd once. tn an un- shared cave. -

Possess as lord, not tenant. of thy

I11"! That unto us and others it. may be Bonodr lierelétsr to be laid by thee. &

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“In spite of all the new discoveries. zhere is a truth in the P!“ "mm 1* not and cannot be ignored nor brush- ed aside. Much ‘of the knowiedee 0* the past is still eternal truth. "<1 iii-ii as Einstein embraces all Newton, so presumably the truth of the Diesel“ rs merely a. supplement to 8nd an ex- wngwn 01 the truth of the past." So declares Dr. R. A. Millikan in lasl. Sunday's New York Times. Said Chan cellor Brown a year or two‘ ago, "Stu- dents must gain the power to render ‘change itself a factor in moral sta- , bllity." The scientist and the univer- slty president aim at the same thing. This is the great need of the pre- sent, to" discover anchors that do not drag. Somewhere in all the questions which have been illipermilsi if! V!“ past decade or so are fixed truths to which people can repair in times of doubt and unsettlement. Where are they?

A Real Service r

Dr. ltfillikan does a real service in stressing this fact. One of the most distinguished of American scientists. he has no fear that science, which more than anything else is responsi- ble for the rapid changes in our era, will leave us without moral and spir- itual props. Like Voltaire, he believes that ii God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him. Upon scien- tists with his oriented faith our age is particularly dependent fbr guid- ancc.

Indeed it would be well ii leaders of science would make a concerted ci- fort to instruct the public in the lim- itations of science quite as much as in its"vast possibilities. For as re- gards science the public has been do- cidedly “oversold? The greatest re- proach that can be brought against a person today is to say that he is"un- scientifldk It is small wonder that this should be so, considering the strides which science has recently made in mastering natural forces and applying them to the needs of man- kind. Miracles some of these would irave seemed not more than a quarter of a century ago. All the same, sci- ence is not yet everything and there are plenty of truths dating from far back which have not yet been over- thrown. Greek symmetry, whether in architecture or in life, still holds its own. Leonardo da Vinci is remember- ed for his paintings rather than for his speculations on aviation. ‘Shake- speare, who had but a smattering of science, has never been surpassed, or equalled, as a dramatist.

But today belief in the power of sci- ence is our ruling fetish. It has taken hold in educational circles almost as much as in less strictly trained minds.

Production, distribution, social reform, education, the writing of history all

show its effects, and it is headed up in the popular feeling towards pros- perity. In some way or other science supposedly, can furnish a technology

til the recent slump in stocks we doubt not that tyros believed that scl- ence was serving them in their play of the market.

History Felt The Urge

The spell of science has not. been easy to resist. If science was so pot- ent: in its own balliwick why could not. its method be transferred to other spheres’! This was the question first asked by scholars. History soon felt the urge. Since the scientific method meant ascertaining facts, as distill- gutshed from guessing them, and proceeding from one ascertained fact to another and accepting no inference not based upon such ascertained facts, the method seemed reasonable for the study and writing of history,

too. It did, indeed. help students of history much. Origins and causes of wars were examined anew, with some

surprising results, especially as re- gards Amerlcan history. Yet we have ‘this statement from the authority, George Trevelyan Macaulay, Begins ‘Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge, made late in 1927: "Sir Walter Scott, who was a great antiquarian before ever he com- menced novelist, did more for history I venture to think, than any‘ profess- ed historian in modern times. .» . 11 was he who first taught us to think of our ancestors as real human beings with passions and absurdities like our own.“