l missus-mm‘;- nwpbwvr-n‘... .,_*.. -<p— =1=':=-:ZI.J "ill reserves and created a line they could hold. PAGE 110m!‘ TIIE‘ BIIARLOTTETIIWN GUARDIAN Mornlng Dally (Founded In I881) Pruldenl: Maul. Cal. W. Chute: S. McLuro Vlc -Presldenl.: .l. It. Burnett, F.J.L Secretary: Llcul. Col. D._A. Mnclflnnon, 0.5.0. Editor and Managing Director: .l. B. Burnett. IPJJ. Amount: Editors: Frank Wulller and Lleul. lun A Burnett, ll-(LNJHL (On Active Servlcel ‘The Strongest Memory i8 Wmli" Th" the Weakest Ink." wEnNEsDAY, Jim. 1:, 11m [he Bench Suggestions From Sonic Iilnvlv c11111111cnts 0n the qucstiotl of l-~Us['\\k|l' rchabilitatiotl \\"1.'1"1: lnadc h)’ -\ll'- _lll>" lice Arsenault in addressing the Lirand 1111')‘ yesterday in the Supreme Court. Hts stiggcs- lion of encouraging returned 111e11 to settle or. farms on a group basis merits serious consider- ation. Farming is hccoiuing 11111rc and more a. spccinlizcd industry". and l)ll.~.llll'>s 11111111111ul11c11t- 111111 \.'lU>C cooperation are e>seutizll to Mitch-- lislcciztllv is this true in the case of young 1111211 r!Ell'lill§_I 1111', uith litllc or 11o llfllliliclll experi- cncl. l'11" reducing lucrhvzul Cf1>l~ tl1r1l11;.;l1 u>(‘ 111 11111 >11 .- ~1=1 11f 111:1- work .1111] c11-.1111"1li\1_' buying and selling. ‘.11; chances 11f avoiding 111.11 failure attendant in too 1111111v cases 1111 the snlillc. scttlcnlcltt SCl113lllC 11f tl11~ last 11:11; would surely" ht- nntch grcatci". 'll11-r1- 111i! ..l-11, 111' 111111-15 rcutlirt" l11 l11: '.\l1l1i 111111~1gl11 .1111l ~t1|11t1i-11111, uhirh is :1l1'1211l_\'1111l- 1r-l1111l1111l 1n the f(’tl"|1ll 11l.111. 'l'11nel1" lllwL) wvre ludge .\rs1?u."111lt's r1111- nmnl, on the need of tnilizing wartinlc pros- perity‘ to t11.'1l;c 11r11vi-11.11 for the future. lfverv i111l11c.1..c1:t i111" doing this should be held 11111 in the ca» of \‘.l\B.\ with young families, whose husbands are at the front. and whose allow- ance enables them to accumulate a modest stir- plus. Tax Arlomalies 11 will startle most Canadian taxpayers to discmcr that their incolne tax account \1"itl1 the ,1§1,1\'Cl'lll1l\‘l11 is practically" nc1cr closed, 111-nus l-lruce llulcilcson in the Yancolircl" l’r11- 1:11.12 1h: g1111-r111nc11l can come hack 1.41 the taxpayer for 20 years after he has paid his taxes l11 Qullll faith and proceed to re-asscss his in- 1111111‘ and lcvv tnorc taxes on it. llut, under 1hr 11.\'tra111"rli11."11"_v ]Il'f|\l.~l1t|l of our taxation laws, the 1a.\11a_',cr has only one year i11 which t0 ap- peal against a government assessment. _ in building a satisfactory taxation system fol the rmst-yval" period Parliament should certainly c1111si1l1-r Section _=_; of the luconle \\1'ar 'l‘a.\' _\ct which sa1s that: “Xouvitllstanding any prior flébtfvSllllflll, or if no assess-atom has been made, the taxpayer shall ("rlllillllfi to be liable for any lax and to be 11s- se c1l therefor and the .\lilll5lf‘l' (of Nation lift-value) 1.11211" at any time a-sess, TP-lhwwt; 1-1‘ lllakc additional Jl§5lfl~$lllClll5 upon any person for tax, interest and penalties." liven though you have filed your income tax return. received your tax bill front the govern- ulcut 111111 paid _111ur t:1.\" fully, the guvcrnlllclli 0.111 -11l! ("1-1111- l1>1cl1 1111 you, say that it nladt- :1 llllslilht‘ in the first place and collect additional anlolnlls. .\nrl, even though the delav was the fault of the 111111e1"11ment, y_ou 1111151 pay interest 1111 1l1t':11l1liti11n;1l 111111111111». llu’ ii the 1:1.x11z1y"cr filtds, eighteen mouths af- 1111" l~1- has paid his taxes, that he has paid 11111 nnlch, he has no redress at all. Section 56 of the act :11_\'5 the lzovernlnent "tnay" refl111d any overpay 1110111 by the taxpaycr, proyilled the tax- 1.-:11cr zlpplirrs i11 writing within twelve months aflct" 1l11- dztt: when his tax :1ssc~:~.111c11t 1111s is- Sllctl. The golernlncnt is 11111 actually" cuillpcll- e1! 111 make a refund even within the 1111111110- 1111111111 111=1"io1l. lf 111r11"pay"111c11t is made through a lnzslalce of law rather than of fart, it is1l11uht- f1'l that the l;l.\11.1\<‘|‘ c11ul1l 11~r111"erat all. as the courts generally arc 11]1]111scd fr; 35111,“, {01- H. covery on purely leval gyotlnds. Post-War ~____i.__ Food Demands l'l111 lnlcrallicrl (fonnnittcc 1,111 l'11sl-\1ar 13.n- uuiruments. which was constituted i11 1941 un- der a l-lritish chairman. Fir Frederick Leith- Ross, llil> published its first comprcltensive esti- mate of the needs of liuropc after its emancipa- tion fr11n1 X1121 t\1"a1111_1". l11 its" c-tiltlntc it lakes 111,1 a1:cr1:111t of the tlccds of Rmsia, which are certain to be large. It assumes that free charit- able relief will he given only to individuals who arc destitute, and ha- based its CIllCl1lJlll0ll> on f11111lst11ffs 11111111 an :1ll11\1':111cc of 1,0011 caloric,- Iwl‘ day 1101' person, wllicll is a very low nutri~ tional standard. Moreover, no consideration was taken of the 111-eds of nctural countries like Spain, Whose food rcs1111rcvs are verv slraitencd, or 11f cnolrv cutlllllics like llalv. i ‘H1111 with tho-v limitations imposed, the c0111 mlttee cstitllatcs tllat in the first six 1110111115 m’ peace Europe will require for the satisfaction of its urzetit needs 45,855,000 tons of “food- stuffs, raw nlateritlls and articles of prime n1- ce~>il\'."a111l the 11111111 hulk of tl is forldslttffm Pllllcipztlly" gr. n, Now. the visible stocks of (Qanadizln wheat are today placed at roughly 3110 million l1u-l11~l~". and domestic consumption will probably :1l1~11rl1 100 111illi1'111 hushels (luring the balance of thtr crop year. The demands of the llri1i~l1 nlarkel would h:11"1- 111 l1t- provided for, and s11, wl1c11all1111a1lcc is made for stipplies still in thc l1.'1n1ls 11f farmers, there lniglt be available for the rclicf ileerls of Europe 20o million l111<l.cls of wheat. This would hr» {hp equivalent of six 111illi1111 tons of wheat; and !1lcl1 a figure is prnhablv less than one-fifth of the quantity of foodstuffs prescribed bv the ln- lerallicrl Committee 11s the essential mihimtiln. Thlrliussians RolltOn 1Tc1"111:111_v, a frw yyceks ago, launched a mighty offensive of her own west of Kiev, probably hoping for a break-thrntigll. The Russians gave up a fcw touns, retreated a few miles, moved The-u they mtthcrerl their strvngfh and rpnmvcd their own attack, tr1 recapturr in a few rlavs all 1i1lt'l'_\1 l1y c11111.<~r.11i\c. German adventure was a complete and costly failure. Apparclltly even with the years they have had to build fortifications and defence works there is no safety for the enemy anywhere or. the Eastern front. 'l'h:1t is, the Germans no longer are strong enough to hold any position or town when the Russians come tip ‘against it in forntirlablc weight. The German army today is an inferior army and a beaten arlnv, and so the battle rolls across the old Polish border, rolls to the doors of the Baltic states, i11 the smith approaches the gates of Runlania. The combination of Russian inau- powelrand resources a11d Russian valor, plus highly imponanr material aid from Britain, the United States and Canada, have shattered for all time the Hitlerian legend of "iuvhtcible" (Jcrulau hosts destined lo rule the world. — EDITORIAL NOTES _ To correspondent: Yes, the citizen you men- tion would make a good Mayor all right, if only a safe filtancial guide is what is wanted. But is if? - 111 a1 1a The Windsor Star ca11vas>ctl at random 120 Ifiianttdiatns as t0 their t1pinion of Mt‘. King's lat- 11-1 radio hroatlczlst. with curious results: ll," hadn't bothered to tune ill on it. 2 had hun-ll a part of the broadcast and lllen tuned it out. l had stuck it out to the end; btlt couldn't l'L'1|l'».‘llllJL'l' what it was about I I3 l i Synthetic ploduction of penicillin on a scale large cnonph to sttpply all civilian as well as unluarv needs 1s seen as an early possibility bv llr. 1.11111 l‘. Strcan, chief bactcriologist of the plnlrlltacctttical firm 11f Averst. .\lcl\'cn11a 1's llarrlson, Limited, Aloutrcal. He also a11- nounces that the new drug had been used with great sticccss in the treatment of tooth-root zllrscessc". Acidrcssitlg a ineclitlg of the Desala- hcrrr Chemical Society Dr. Strean, a graduate 11f Klctiill Cniversitv, hinted broadly at the stic- ccssful synthetic (levelopnlent of a crystallized form of the wonder drug. a goal which so far has evaded the world's greatest research men in this field. n u v 11 . _ The School Board and City Council are get- ting together on financial tnatters and educa- tioilal policy in general. As the Colmcil has to raise the money for the Board's expenditure it “alllltl be ‘the purl of wisdom to have frec1ucut confcrcllces to attain general agreement. The Water Commissioners also might be in confer- ence with the other civic atlthorities over our water supply, as it seems more or less inconsis- tent to warn in summer against waste in water- ing gardens and in winter to avoid leaking taps while at the sanlelinle i11 summer dumping wat- er by the hundreds gallons on the streets, and i11 the winter to suggest its utilization fol" chil- dren's slides. The Water Conllnissioilcrs should ict us k1101\" where they stand in the tnattcr of >1111ply and demand. Ii Ii Ii l: Abraham Lincoln, sixteenth President of the lfnited States, born this date 15x19; farmer's boy, flztlboat hand, clerk" of store, dtlritlg \1"l1icl1 per- i111l hr rductttcwl hinlself, turned to law and pol- ltzcs, became a tnilitia captain, defcatcd o11 first attempt to enter the House of Representatives i111‘ lllilvli- l11 1832, but elected two years later; ruhnitlud to the bar in 18341, became lllClllbCl‘ of Lotlgress ten year; latcr, rclircd ill 185.’, hut rc- turncd as leader of oppvsitiorl in Illinois; 110111- inated for Senate in 1858 but not elected; hi; anti-slavery speeches gained him Republican nonlination and election as President in 1860; thcrcztftcr he was the centre and forefront of the anti-szllvcty nmvenlcnt which lcd to the Civil war ending in April 1865; he was simple and unaffected i11 manner, tolerant and honourable 111 rharactel", he was assassinated at Washington nine days after the wal" ceased: "l claim not to l1a11- cutltrolled events, hut confess plainly" that cvents have controlled me." - 1~ 1a a I I I I There is apathy and depression of spirits, a .~.1.1ll<-n, bitter lnood in Gcrtilatlv, says Brooklyn liwgle, but 1hr people, 111th utuli ~11." 111-1 w11-11- ly 111 nlany ways, are going about the business of living in a grim, stolid fashion. 'l‘nev are not at the breaking pyint. Their home: disap- 111-at‘ 111 a flaming night; the factories where they 1v11rk zlre transformed into ruins after the passage of planes in the sky; they dig the bodies of their fathers and mothers a11d sons and rlatlghters and friends froln the rubble. They lahol" lung hours and eat lhc tneztgcl" fare of a 112111011 beleaguered by enemies. Cold and hun ger and fear and had news are their columon portions in daily life. There is no clenlent of cheer 0r comfort. B11; still, according to fllllll- oritative quarters from inside Gerlnany, there 5s 111111111111 upon which to pin the hope of an Hflrlv collapse of the German people 111" of the armv. Having StllljCClCd the morale of our c11- emies to critical study and analysis, it seems in order that we should turn an itiquiring 1111111! upon our own spirit and ask l-lmv it stands 1'1, comparison 1v1tl1 that of thc German people. i i I I _ Mr. I. \V. Defoe, whose passing has occas- ioned so much favourable Press and other com- ment. was_an ideal newspaperlnan ill so far as he kcpl his nose to the journalistic grindsmne .1111! avoided outside eutanglcnu-nts un- 11l his retirement lll I937. Mr, firm-st Mac( ready, when editor of the 'l‘clegraph- Journal, described him succinctly in one sen- tence: "A clear thinker, a hard worker, g fir,“ rate executlve, a man not afraid-of creating pre- llntos By Tho Way For several thousand they've been telling us that; roads lead to Home ever salcl anything before abo. emsm-Stratlorcl Beacon-Herald. are salcl to be pan itself. the expanded national income- bent time. caertalnly lt must enrnlm rrocd wages. The total re- suit will be support. of the nation- al income. and 11 definitely higher standard of llvlzig than in the past -Wi11dsor Star. Most gratifying ls lhe flfm dec- isicn 1o preserve lather 1.111111 des- lruv London. "Breenle-Ls,‘ or ls- lunds. closed to allbtzt local 11111111: will protect Wllzteuall nncl Vic-st- nunstcr. the ‘university 11nd the Nluseunl. [he Qclnpie and the 111115 at Court. Ancient. v1.1lages_ ub- sarbczi by London's WWW!“ W111 l"? reklentlned as local points for try‘;- dlttonul loyalties. Advantage 11.111 be taken o!‘ the Nazi thouglltttllness l11 bombing away the environs o! St Paul's and tut-flier but, humane demolltton—suc.11 as, that. of the vlu- duet. at Ludgatc Circus —- will af- ford new and tulimocded views of the great. dome. The most popular proposal i11 London the l)(".ll'.,l._\1'!!‘lfl of the south b11111; of the Thames. will find an echo l11 New York, We have t.\vo rlversef otu" own and each has _t\v0 oanks~New Yolk Herald-Tribune. Hawaii has surpassed the lnarn- llllld as a lneltlng pot, and racial intelmarrlage at the Pnclfle ctlpss- roads. with the birth rate, the greatest among all the races‘ Pm‘ vides a proving ground f0!‘ 111e- orlcs of heredity according to Col- lierls. Tile Hawaiians were of one shock until industrial development on the islands brought. 1n alien groups under a “desirable citizen plan. At first, disease. 88113155 which pure Hawaiians had no m1- munlty out down the population. "but, the new part-Hnvrallap P0911‘ 11.111011 5110111111 great vlsmw’ with the children of mixed marriages holding their 01111 socially and "i" onomicnlly and maintaining a very high birth rate. One of bhe most complicated herltages ls that. of a. "bealzue of Nations glrl" who has the blood of Hawaiians Spaniards, Chinese. Japanese, Englishmen, Germans and Scotsman. After exhaustive tests the minis- try of war transport has completed arrangements for the mass product- ion of a new design of steel lite- boats for oll tankers. An initial order has bcen placed for 530 boats. They 111-11 28 fect 101111 have a beam of 9 feel. 6 inches. and a depth of 3 feet. 9 inches .'I‘he total weight fully equipped and manned ls a- mut 7 1-4 tons The boat 1s_l>T0~ pclleu by Diesel engines or bv the Fleming hand-near. The boat. has 11 sliding canopy of asbestos over the cockpit proviffr protection from fire and water. and a num- ber of sprnyers worked by hand pumps to throw 11 screen of water over the entire craft: There ls seating capacity for 33 persons. When f11llv loaded. the boat has a speed of 5 5 knots 01' 3.3 knots when only the hand- propelling gear 1s used The boat has been subiect to fest< of intense fire cnd smoke for four lnlnutes. durlnlz which 1t was esllrrraled the craft. could have been propelled at least. a quarter of 11 lnile-tlp wind. either bv motor power or hand gear, a distance which. ll l5 believed would generally be more 1.11m the llmfl; of blazing oll on the see. -- london Times. Mr. Churchill has become more than n tzrent, political and lnllitary leader- He ls ln 111.5 own lifetime, legendary a symbol. the personifi- cation of his people. When one thinks "Britain." one sees his face, and hears his volcr, 11nd the word uttered l1_v that voice It is that which milkes l1l1n tmlquc as no other leader is tmlqttv, For lie is not; merely the leader of his na- tion; be ts a timeless apotheoslq of" the nation Ho ls subject to mis- lake and error as a nation ls His virtues, thnvgzh arr- the virtues 1.1m: every Bri‘ sh chllzl has been taught bv his lllsoly and his great personalities to admire. flbOVn all, and as the parent of all virtue. courage generosity and ehlvnlrv. 'I'l1us Churchill appears to his people ns they would wlsh to ap- penr thrmstlves 11nd 1111 his char- acter they find that which they would tinconscloitsly emulate. He has exactly the same faith 1n 111s nation that he has tn himself. nef- ther more nor less. Certainly no other conservative would say of the Communists of his countrv. “They are Englishmen, 11ml I fear no Enellsluntln " At the time of his greatest grandeur when Britain under his last minute leadership stood alone and staring Into the terrible eyes of defeat. hg seemed tn rlrnlz the dead out of their coffins and stand them on t-helr feet. 1.11 support him 11nd Eivzlnnd —E1lznbctl1 11nd Welllnqtcn, Drake and Nelson. Cromwell and Pitt. — 11.; though to ray,- "these are Enz- land- those are x011: these llve on and ffqhl ln and through you." - lfzglréothy Thompson 1n New York cedenls, a person of_cultur_e and of a wide ac- quaintance with public affairs." Apart from his fellowship of the Royal Society and his mam. bars-hip of the League of Nations, his interests were exclusively almost journalistic. lll; was a promoter of the Canadian Press News .~\;,11-111:y, a member of the. Empire Press Union, and a, member of the Department of Public luforlna- lion during the last war. lle made the Win11;- pcg Free Press the power it is in the Prairies today. and up to the last insisted that there was nothing to equal, far less surpass, the printed word 111 the advocacy of reform and the ad- VKIDN EY , i‘: "t. “1N"/\<u/\1r<' ,1 in". I . ' the ground lh1'_v had lost and much lnorc. The abroad. _ , -- vlmrentertt of the commonweal at home up "xii .-.~y work and Lravcl m entertain but nobody all those mountains and rivers they bflflhry uperu In Chuuklng giving close ltudy to the possibility that. should Jup- anese resistance be crushed In Ja- Jupiinese armies might continue 1.0 resist ‘ln Man- churla. It. is wise to be farsighted. but: let's leak after 1h; Mfhdds island emplre flrsb-Brantford Ex- posltor. Today we have a lermendouuly ‘ Our problem wlll be to keep that ln- come nearly as high a: lll. the prta); r3111 ‘flycyaanbcm wrowlg 00111110111111 -Whistlers All 1.2“’“°°“ ‘J3’? mum v ~ r r I1 reicliiiiexiceobfaltltlie habit of whistl- lng. Perhaps the patrlctlc heart N should rejoice. People ready whllq themselves and each other with music, "as they did l11 the golden world". must: surely be 1n 11M fettle. But such self-con rattlin- Mons would have u decided y Goe- bbels-llke 1111a. _'I'he 111111 truth 1.: that. whlatlera, "vhouz they are disposed m encore themselves, rarely entertain those them. It may be doubted l! they succeed even in entertalnlxlg each, other, elss why shoulc the , on hearing acme one else w utlfnl. so often pipe up a rival tune? No- body from Chaucer's day to this has found much good t'.1 an of, them, and one of the few d ad-; vantages 11 modem can now discov- er fn Victorian life la 1.11111 1t seepml to have been lntemenetratqd wit?‘ higher than pre-war levels. The who sound of the penny whlst slflhl. ‘ . _ wise tlse of the accumulated buy- Even so—lf bhe narrator of The 0d lng power can be the chief factor lvrong Box ls u-uly judlctctu ln hla| B99015! r "Si! “my 1n supporting it. This money now levlty-q; certain standard of pllblleflli It 91°11!" vigcl-lwlt m‘ i“ d being saved can go to buy lner-lproficleney was required. Asking 1n —1934-35-'f1° “i” f‘ 91692;,‘ fhandtlse. This Lin tiara wig kifip alhattdedzllficphtacomb, lnbewllt‘?! earlesijgiilaglzrumliillldleuill w o! such ndusry opera ing ‘lLlS eep g eser, e Y0 t! ner P“ , people gainfully culployed and the excruciating lnervu! of his high density. 1111s eflNl f6 i319 lsfled assured “the observation." But then all instru- ments, eveu_the Jews harp, even the penny wnlstle, have an unmis- play me ad better leave me alone"; gift of nature. Those who exercise lt. must. know in whni. low esteem they have been held through the ages; and that they continue to fly ln the face of proverbial wisdom speaks lll of ‘titer natures. . ‘Ille universal anfliplvthy w whistling seems to need more ex- planation than offence to musical explanation than offlcs to musical sensibility can of itself provide, irritating 11s 1t undoubtedly ls to bear a bar of Flsaro fixed to lntm- duoc some extrnvnganza wrlften for Hnvviian guitars. It 1.5 perha slgnlficant that most of chose w 0 whistle about tlle place would hes- itate to slnB ln public. Possibly 1' the sound of their own voices awakens in than a care for the feelings of others; but: about whlstL 111g there ls soulcthlng utterly 11n- personnl. uncle ‘folly would always reply to a certain argument by whistling 111111‘ a dozm lines of Lillibulero. A whletled insult 1e almost; beyond challenge. It seems to proceed from an absence of mind. Jack and Algernon 1n the play, wishing to make 1|: plain that they will not be the first to speak to the offended ladies, nzalch Into, the morning-room whlslllng "some dreadful popular air from. British opera." Bob Pietty would whistle as he passed the Eamelreeper after what they both knew had been a successful nlgltt’; poachlng. It’. must. be the snrllly insistent. sug- getlon of mfndlessness, either aa- sumed or real, which makes the. sound of whistling abhorrent. tn mankind and thus enables it t0 bn used, crudely but n0 doubt effect- ively. to set a man down. to rub it. l11, or to pass 1t off. Why should any but. music-hall pslforvnera trained to perfection 1n ae-af cata- combs ever use ll; except. w thee» lowly ands? Sirius, The Dog - Star (Exchange) Sirius bears the distinction of being bhe most brilliant eta! ln the heavens and ls conspicuously vlalble during winter evenings 0111' southern heavens to the southeast of the constellation o! Orion Sirius ls often referred to l11 my- thology as the Nile Star, or its tho- Doz star and ls 1x1 the constellation Cunis Major (Greater Dog). It! history dates uaclt many hundreds of centuries 3.0 To the Egyptians Sirius was of special interest, lts first appearance as a. ntornlng star marked the beginning of a new year, which occurred neur the time the river Nile was at. flood tide.‘ This event was regordod a: a her- ald of the waters which overspread LhL-Janrl, renewing 11s fertility and promising good harvests for the coming seasons. It was believed that the rise of wamr was foretold and the weather 1,. feted from Sirius. The ancient Greeks borrowed moat of their utronpnllcll know- ledge from tho Babylunlana. The hellncal rising of Strum to them who hear ' _. apllrenglpeilélll. Slevensonhyytas sat- ifglféhglrlllfig gallggmvefaytfgfiflgaag vouns of the l-‘enny Whistler 1111111ptnrllshlsrv-v-tatlonal mwntla, u- that. of the salmonl 1s occult. from dlilspllgged" £13m foregoing dlmz-nslom are 1:116 the Elm 1 m m 1 bserved n the time of takable 1:1‘ of sliyllllf. ‘Who clmrwl . ‘Halts, Llama or and whistling 1s, unfortunately, u. guns in spite or arising frcrn laintness of the com- panlon and brightness of Slrll-w The density of the 110-1115111911 l! 2,000 time; than of Hf: bargam n. heaviest of all the e llnezits. If ft When 1's done? were possible for man '11 be l ported lg thelsurléaced of this d t , an hffritntiiut gillhilnflbo me force £1; I have her-111 the We lmw y It 11.1: 51" "B, a mm W 35°11 - d fl- m; And on 11m last bu? $f1i§.l‘“1115e oéffiflfuagrefvlt- They have all t In. atlonal pull 11101111111 welm 2.6%? 111111.; and he would nd hinnse on crushed by rus own weight, but when Yomh f‘ m’ flattened more erfecmvelv than lf he had been passed over by a steam of the most remarkable discoveries of the present day, and Presented one of the moat of astrophysics. ” HICKS—CHICKS-CHICKS i l l l l — " u; u. ‘mum; B§."1;'i°'11.§'1111 M“ ma?‘ constellation O 1n the atom under t - I pfratutror 1n 1.11.11 tntnrlnr Orton. It 0 l 5 l . I m; mum t hlxh year and will be éfipflffffon that efemcu-elsl ‘inatm southern sky durlnz do“ and mat. densities mliht. be attalned 1n stun far trnnacen the greatest known torrent-rial don- s lral lllles being the rncl. If tho teln effect ls 90 nlnlal WWW‘ the sun Adams fit definite re. M w11 Wm so“ e dlfflctlltles With As a his youth-ills vouth s“ thin: ho can mend- And wlwt will he have for t the and latlnuln, the trans- wa-rf I have asked old men its terrific With their eumtv P111196. They have all t ma, A penny at a fa , The old men bell Of the bamalna there. There was this and that For a. nrfoe and a1 ware. But when the came away They had all 11am am- oller. The companion of Blrlun fa om puzzlln: problems 1 l 1 x 1 m-"lflfll to lll. l halliigsnlixy filfzhtllgi ‘White Lllly. Mvnmn. N l Farm, Truro. N. 8.: flllllldu Flflll, Ontario; Ontario. Wrlte for price llsll. A. H. BRYENTON 2a Richmond sum. ' - more: sous-r. 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The Romans adopted Greek ideas, named the hottest part, of the year with hellacal xlslng of Strum, a phrase which nas survived l11 the modern expression of the present. dnv “dog days" and 1.1111 pestllences whlch men prevailed occasioned the offerfng of sacrifices to placate this lnfrnlcal afar. To this generation. Sn-lus has an entirely dlffelent interest and at present the D057 5111.1‘, and its com- panion have created 1:11.111": scientific interest. and is perhap; the most ulflque double star system ln the heavens. It. was ln 1M4, Bessel found that Sirius was irregular ln lts movements, sometimes ahead and sometimes behind the mean position. He deduced that it had 1 a. motion l1 111i elliptl; crbll l11 11 period of years. This ave rise to the idea that. Slrlua 1111 a smllll companion. 1n 1862. Alvan Clark. telescope maker, t/eatlng a large new object glass dezected the compan- lon as a falm dom of light. amid the mare of Sirius. The brllllancy of Sirius 1s due to 11.11 neameas, being 8.11 light yearn away. It ls only 28 times brllhter than, our sun and 2.1 time: the sun's man; m temperature l; 10,. 000 degrees cenllgrade. The oom- panlon ls as i111 from Slrlua a: Uranus ls from Lhe 111.111 1n our solar system, and travella around Slrluls 1n 40 yearn. It was one-third the mass and gives 140.000 of the light of slrlua. Couipared wlth our sun. B5 percent, of 11a mus and l-200 of the light. From examination of this ln- fomlatlon the companion of Blrlu! beccmea a moot lntereatlng star frcm s, sclentlflc poln; of vlow. In 1014, ll. was found mat the com- panion of Sirius gave the same spectrum as Sirius, which lndlcatea n. white light comnlg from _n sur- face of high lanpernlure and rad. latlng more intensely than the nun’: . If tho small w frcm the connmnlon la low emitting power, due to small dimensions. 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