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WHY: SYS IYE EE ,L Nr. ' X-Raying a Lioness, Hit cana «5A WH DAILY TIMES, SATURDAY, MARCH 31, 1928 TT iad -- FRANCE GUARDS WEDDING BANNS FROM FLAMES Si on a Mattress at the German Town Hall "to Thwart Enemies : MARRIED 4TH TIME by a Bullet, Proves Very Difficult Task village of Wansdorf of the Pal- I not to be deterred from taking the plunge a fourth time, Possibly because the numerous off-spring from the previous matri monial unions, however, were con- sidered a more sufficient bur den to the community, the banns for his fourth wedding, hanging out before the town hall, one night were surreptitiously set on fire. When re placed the following night, they | were again exterminated by fire. "The undaunted bridegroom, who is a very powerful man, now care ried a mattress to where the banns hung and on it reposed himself to watchful rest, This self-imposed guard duty he repeated every night for two weeks, at the exp o which his perseverance was rewards ed by hia Rartiagy A Lioness Locating a bullet in the body of a young and frisky lioness was a job which a party of Berlin veter. inary surgeons found little to their liking. "Furopea," the lioness, owned by a circus proprietor, got a bullet in her neck some time ago because she objected to being filmed, and had signified her disapproval by striking down and killing her keeper, The bullet which hit Europea on that occasion had since started "floating" about in her throat and was begin- ning to give her trouble in swallow- ing. To locate it, the doctor employed a Roentgen apparatus, but the lion ess did not like the look of it and for three hours could not be per suaded to keep still, but ultimately the attempt was successful, The obe struction will now be removed by an operation, Saves Berlin Mother A woman lawyer's pleading for a repentant girl-mother accused of strangling her newly-born baby was successful in moving the court to pronounce a much more lenient sen- tence than the one asked by the public prosecutor, At Moabit Criminal Court, Frau Erna Hasslacher defended her first case, In a dramatic appeal to the court for mercy, she said; "I am the mother of two children. Every wos man who has suffered the pangs of childbirth can testify that she is at that time bereft of will, that she Is seized by the most dreadful parox- ysms of agony and terror. How much more in the case of this poor creature who was left helpless, to face her shame alone?" The court reduced. the sentence, by two and one-half years demand- ed by the prosecution to one of four months, and paroled the accused for the rest of the term, ! Navy Wives Bar Bobs Bobbed hair does not conform with the regulations for the German navy, the commanding admiral the 'Baltic naval station has decreed, In an injunction to the naval officers under his command, the "big chief" censured "this objec- tionable form of headdress' favored by many wives and daughters of naval officers, who were ordered to induce their ladies to adopt a move benefitting method of wearing their hair---as soon as possible, Dress Suits of Blue ; The announcement that the Prince of Wales has launched a blue dress suit in London is the topic of con- versation in the world of fashion, One leading tailor says that he is overwhelmed with orders for blue evening suits of the shade called "midnight blue" and he predicts that it is going to be all the rage, Asked for their opinion by a local newspaper, male leaders of fashion here are all enthusiasm, and as modish women are joining heartily in the chorus of applause, it seems safe to say that the "midnight blue" dress suit has come to stay, But It Didn't Register A violent earthquake recently up- set things generally in Aix-la-Cha- pelle, A series of shocks about 1 a.m. though lasting merely a few minutes, dislodged the heaviest pieces of furniture and caused many nocturnal revellers to totter in their walk. Every one felt the earth- quake, every one talked about it, only the seismograph at the city's Polytechnic failed to record it. For the instrument has been out of ord- er for a number of years, as there are not sufficient funds available for its repair, A Taxless Town / (Manitoba Free Press) In spite of widespread hospitality in the United Staes to public own- ership and operation of public utili- gies, some large cities, including Cleveland, Ohio, have greatly re- duced electric light and power rates by building and operating muniei- pal power plants. Some smaller communities have been equally sue- eessful. The town of South River, N. J., however, has a municipal plant which is operated, not for the benefit of the consumers, but for the bemefit of the .ommunity. The vates are as high as they would be under private ownership and oper- stion, but the huge profits zo into the municipal treasury. Neil: "Well, if you won't marry me I'm desperate--I shall go Nora (nervously): "Go and ticker in bis office but even fit is what?" | quiet unobstrusive instrumen:; Neil: "Don't rush a fellow. I Which fits in perfectly with the] i have not decided yet." | Nero was an emperor, Who overdid a joke By playing on a fiddle While Rome went up in smoke. But mile our hero's character Is open to attacks. There's one redeeming feature-- ed spectacles if imagination. served his apprenticeship with one tele number some of the most out- standing Canadian financiers and business men, he is himself least known of any of Montreal's investment fraternity, scheme, nor does he operate active- {ly through amy of the recozmized brokerage media. True, there is a | Dodd atmosphere. tions, Mr. Dodd devotes his entire | energy to fostering the securities of {a company fallen by the wayside. Many Cana- . |diam companies and a few Aweri- ican public utilities that | om THE HONORABLE MAKING "LADY" WORD "WOMAN" VULGAR TERN "Lady" and "Gentleman" Hav e Fallen on Evil Times and "Mrs." Is a Blot on the Language; Is No Problem in France One is reminded by a little di- alogué in court recently between Mr. Justice Horridge and counsel that words, like families, have their ups and downs, Both lady and gentleman have come down in the world, I see, writes '"Candidus" in the London Dally Sketch, that even so recent a work as the Ox- ford Dictionary defines lady as 'a woman belonging to or fitted by manners, habits and sentiments for the upper classes," but the word in that sense is almost vulgar now- adays, Counsel before Mr, Justice Horridge epoke of woman, not lady, assistants in a hairdresser's shop, and the judge agreed with him in preferring the good word woman. The More Homorable Word "The word woman is seldom used in this court now," sald the judge, "They are lady clerks, lady charwomen, lady scavengers, and lady everything else," I find my- self in general sympathy with both, but I doubt whether Mr, Justice Horridge has got the distinction quite right, Except as the address of the wives of all titled people from knights to dukes and of the daughters of earls lady has ceased to carry with it any suggestion of social distinction, Still lees does it mean, as it used to mean, a woman who does not work for her living, On the contrary, it has come very near to meaning women who work for payment, The uee of the word emphasizes their professional or economic status, You may wit equal correctness speak of ballet girls and ladies of the ballet, but to speak of the women who watch their dancing from the box as ladies is nearly a vulgarism, and to say in so many words that a wo- man is a lady is an unequivocal vul- garism, Woman has become the more honorable word; so com- pletely has its meaning changed round that working woman are be- ginning to dislike the appellation of lady to a description of thelr work, Lady originally meant the mistress of the house who cut tha bread at table; it came to mean the woman who was too superior even to cut bread; later it became the woman who was earning her own bread to cut; and now ghe, too, prefers to be known as » woman, Fallen on Evil Days Gentleman, too, has fallen on evil days. Perhaps it is a pity, for gentleman had its uses not as im- plying distinction of wealth or birth, but of character and man- ners, But it came to mean a man who has no regular work to do and latterly a man whose work is of a shady kind. The word is rarely used except in a playful or eneer- ing sense. Another exampic of a word that has come down in th: world is respectable, The word éhould mean worthy of respect--a man who is worth looking rouna at--and in this sense it was re- gularly used in the eighteenth cen- tury of the most exalted person- ages, Now a respectable man means little more than that he has not got patches in his trousers' seat, or has never been to prison, or is so dull that there is nothing else to be said about him, The Worst Blot of All Worse example still is the word mistress, which used to mean the wife in her capacity as ruler of the house, and now only means tha lady of the house who is not a wife, This is a very sad come down for a fine word, all the more regretable because the substitutes are so bad, Mistrese 'is a beautiful sounding word;- as dignified as Mrs, ia fussy and sibilant, I suspect that Mis- tress began by corrupting the old Master into Mister, then corrupted his wife into Misiz, and then went to the bad altogether herself, By comparison with Madame, or Sig- nora, or even Frau, Mrs. Is the worst blot on the English language, No Problem in France Mr, and Miss are almost equally bad, and all three have the come mon drawback of sounding so mean that they cannot possibly be used by themselves, To call a mag Mis ter and nothing more is to insult him, for your hesitation makes It quite clear that you have forgotten his name, To say Mrs, with no name to it is to talk like a char. woman, and you never say Miss alone unless you are in a tea shop. and then the waitress will pay you out by taking no notice of you How happy by comparison are the French host and hostess who can say with equal propriety Monsieur without a name attached whether they are addressing a duke or the vanman, It is delightful to have one word which Is equally polite addressed to anyone, Our only word of the kind is Sir, which is a correct vocative to a king and to a bootblack, but cannot with equal propriety be used to an equal, Ia our modes of address we have made the opposite mistake to th: Ger- man, In Germany every raw young walter is addressed as Herr Ober (Mr. Superintendent), and an or- dinary middle-class man Is liable to get addressed as Mr, High Well- born, Assistant Factory Inspector Schmidt, In English we do try to address a man on intrinsic merit. so far as we can ascertain them and on the hasis of a common human- ity. Robert Dodd Has Worked a Seven Years on Big Deal This Prince Edward Islander, Wi (By Kenneth R, Wilson Superior Corporation, is Quiet Worker in "The Financial Post") ho Has Acquired Control of Laks Wend your way towards the back of one of the upper stories of the Transportation building on S-. James St., Montreal, and you will find a small office labelled with the simple caption---Robert Dodd, Quiet, unassuming, it is typ cal of the man who last week was, signi- ficantly, elected a director of Lake Superior Corporation, and who seems destined to play an import- ant role in the rehabilitation of this $45,000,000 Canadian indus- try. According to available records, you will find perhaps but two im- portant bits of information abou: this Robert Dodd. In the first place he was horn in Prince Ed- ward Island, and in the second he is an investment banker, Both of these are fraught with interest when looked at through rose-color- Still Rabid Islander At 45 years of age (although it is 25 years since he left his Sherry Valley birthplace) Mr, Dodd is a rabid Prince Edward Islander, Fur- thermore be is tremendously proud of his Canadian ancestry, Since the year 1775, the Dodd stock bas flourished on the fertile soil of that Maritime Isle, so that there are few who can more rightly lay claim to the title "Canadian." At the age of 20, Robert Dodd left Cherry Valley and found his way to New York. Five years he of the large trust companies fn that city, and then struck out for hime self in the city of his c2z7:20--- Montreal, Twenty Years in One Office For nearly 20 years now he bas worked in the same office and al- taough he bas been a powerful fac- tor in many major Canadian and American undertakings, it is typi- cal of the man that until recemtiy he has never come before the public eye. In fact, he admits that in spite of the fact that his clien- the The reason for this is not bard to find. Robert Dodd has never fea- tured in any financial promotion the possibilities, rescued their securities in times of depression and solicited on their behalt, from his clientele, the capital nezessary to put'them once more on a sound financial footing. His most recent achievement is the guiet way in which during the past two or three years he has acquired for his asso- clates, control of the Lake Superior Corporation and its subsidiaries which include Algoma Steel, Not Dome in a Flash "A fascipating busipess."' says Robert Dodd, of his chosen profes- €in, "apd it is not dope in a day. The way that these things are play- ed up in the mewspapers, leads people to think that a everything has been done in a flash, They sel- dom stop to think that the great majority of reorganizations comes only as a result of months or years of patient effort on somebody's part, As a matter of fact it's just about seven years since I first be- came interested in Algoma Steel." MAKE THE AIR SAFE (From New York Times) Colonel Lindbergh is as prompt and direct in speech as he is in flight, In his little address to th: New York Legislature on Wednes- day he confined himself to two or three simple points, but they ail bore upon the need of doing every- thing possible to facilitate and make safer commercial aviation, There must be suitable airports. The regulations governing avia- tors should be uniform throughout the United States. To have one set in one State and another in an- cther would be both confusing and bampering, All the States, in Colonel Lindbergh's = opinion, should adopt the system of Federai regulation. Then every flier would know exactly what was expected of him, no matter how many State lines he had crossed. The time for spectacular apd startling feats in the air bas pass- ed. In them there is evidene: that public interest is waning. But there is the highest possible in- terest in every development which gives assurance that airplan<s ang dirigibles, flying on p2aceful errands may be made as trust- worthy means of tramsportat:on as are ships and railroad traivs. Rather than dabble in promo- that' has temporary TRYING NOT TO (Chatham News) The grocer was busy serving cus- tomers, but he noticed a small boy standing near an open bhox of sweet biscuits. "Now. then, my lad!" said the are pow! public road of prosperity owe He night have played the sax. their sound condition te the wateh- ~The Glee Club. grocer, "what are you up to?" "Nothing? Well, it looks as if You were.trying to take a biscuit. "You're wrong, mister. I'm try- ful eye of Robert Dodd who secins ing not to." a A--ANI™ Hr Ri ' Tart Retort to Bachelor Who Wouldn't Marry Modern Girl A bachelor who signs his letter "Free Ben," has written to Dorothy Dix, the well known newspaper contributor as follows: "I read what you said about men marrying, Applesauce! 1 am a bachelor and 1 am a lo: happier than any married man. 1 sew everything, eat alone. travel alone, and live alone, and thank the good Lord I have not the fatal malady of feminitis, You say when a poor bachelor gets to be 50 he gets lonesome. More tomato soup! Men that are married don't live that long, and if they do, they have all the fifty-seven varieties of troubles, I wish that I had lived years ago, in 1850 or 1875, when women were right mentally. Then 1 might have tried marriage. But what is the woman of today composed of? One ticket to nc- where, one lipstick, one powder- puff, a package of cigarettes and a whisper of clothes and the devil's wind to remove them about. So I say to the millions of sane men who are bachelors, 'Never get married." " a very vigorous answer, as follows: I am not in favor of all men marrying, Ben, I think too much of my sex for that, and when a man is a natural-born bachelor, such as you are, it saves some women a lot of trouble when he elects to stay single, When I said that in the long run, men are better off married than single, I was talking about the common, or garden varlety, of the species, I meant the mau who is warm-hearted and companion- able and generous, who loves chil- dren and a home, with a crackling fire and a dog at his fest, and somebody across the table lamp at whom he can look up from his pa. per and say: 'I see the Premier is going to do so and so," or "Just listen to this about an old bachelor who disappeared three weeks ago and who has just been missed." But the man who is selfish and self-centred, and who likes to spend all of his money on himself, and who thinks children are dirty brats, and who likes to sew on his own buttons, and has fits if anybody disarranges the order of the brushes on his chiffonier, should never marry, He is happier single than married. And so is the woman who missed getting him for a hus- band! To which Dorothy Dix provides {that the average of life among married men is considerably long- er than it is among single men. Also that their health is better, You quarrel with the woman of today because she paints and pow- ders and wears her skirts to her knees. and you idealize the woman of the past, but if you had lived in 1850 you would have lambasted the woman of that day for her hoops and her twenty-yard-round skirts that were microbe ca:chers, and for the imsamitary rats that she wore in her hair and for her vapors and her fainting spells. And if you had been of mar- rying age in 1875 you would have knocked woman's bustles and tilters and wasp waists and trail- ing skirts that took ome hand to hold up when they took their walks abroad. For you see the good Lord made women to match men, They have always had their ab- surdities and their weaknesses and their foolish fashions, and there has always been plenty of things about women for a carping critic; to harp upon, But they have al- ways had their good points, too, and no matter what sort of clothes they have worn they have been the same woman from the days of Mother Eve on down. This present generation of wo- men, for instance, that you wouldn't marry, at any price, Is just woman with modern improve ments. She is her grandmother Girls! Pick Them Right, Then "Pop," Dr. Lent Urges A New York : Should Take College Head Declares "Superior Sex" the Initiative BLMIRA, N.Y., March 31.--Why should a woman have to wait un- tii some man asks her to marry him? Why should she mot have the same right to look for a good husband as a man has to look for a wife? These questions were put in a recent address by Dr. Freder- ick Lent, president of Elmira Col- lege, the oldest college for wom- en in the United States." And he gave fair answers. "A woman had better never be married if, to do so, she must tie herself for life to a man who is her inferior," said Dr. Lent. "There are other ways of b:ng happy and useful. Women are the strongest. Woman holds the place of power, the supreme place in the world. It was so in Biblical days. The first woman, Eve, is a real person. Be- side her, Adam is'colorless. It was she who took the initiative and led Adam by the nose. It is said that a rib was taken 'out of Adam to make Eve.. One wonders if hia whole backbone did not come out with the rib, because he seems to have had none left, "Sarah was more forceful than Abraham. It was the woman who decided that she would be mis tress in her house and, in doing so, she gave polygamy a mortal blow Compared with Rebecca, Isaac was almost a nonentity. He probably called his wife 'mama.' She 'com- forted him after his mother's death." But how she did manage him! He was spineless. "It was not Barak, but Deborah, who led in the great campaign which broke the power of Sisera. Jezebel was the original girl with a curl in the middle of her fore- head, only she seems never to bave been good. She was forceful, to say the least. Her husband was a great man, but, measured against her moral stature, he was nothing but a sulky, weak, indecisive char- acter, "Women of to-day can have busi- ness careers and be admirable mo- thers at the same time," continued Dr, Leat. "But the important question is this--do women really want to succeed in business? The general opinion is that they are more interested in marriage than in anything else. When the right man comes along--then, goodbye job! Before the situation can he changed, women must have more ambition to win promotion in busi- ness and both men and women must be taught that a woman can marry and have children and still, in spite of that handicap, succeed in her business career." WORLD OWES EDISON MOST, SAYS AUTHOR Also Picks John D. Rocke feller, Jane Addams and Orville Wright GREAT IN GOODNESS Eulogizes Miss Addams and Extols Wright's + Flash of Genius The four greatest living Amerie cans are Thomas A. Edison, Jane Addams, John D. Rockefeller and Orville Wright, declares Dr. Emi} Ludwig, the famous German biog rapher of the great, in the March issue of the Red Book Magazine. The list of America's greatest ls most spectacular and interesting, as it includes not one politician uor even one individual who has ate tempted to gain any important pubs lic office. In this "day of youth,' ig includes not one young person. Ur, Ludwig particularly comments upon that. "These four Americans toe gether are 202 years old, an average age of 73." Of one of this list of four--or of the fifth greatest American, whom he will select during his tour--he probably will write his next great biography to become a compan.on to his "Napoleon," which has reache ed a sale in the United States alone of 126,000 copies. and her great-grandmother pius. Consider Grandmother used to swoon on every occasion. Did you ever see a woman faint? I never have, Grandmother coudin't walk a! mile, Granddaughter thinks of hik- ing twenty-five, Great-grandiother couldn't have made a dollar to have saved her life, There are mighty few girls who can't make a living nowadays, There were ploneer grandmoth- ers wh. braved the wilderness and fought bears and Indians. All honor to them. But they had no more courage than their little granddaughters who go out to hrave the wolves of society, and og the world for their own liv- ing. Nor has a woman's abiliiy i love and her willingness to risk everything for love changed, as is witnessed by the number of girls who marry every year on a shoe- string, Will Canada Play Her Cards To Get U. S. Tariff Concessions? (Editorial in the Border Cities Star) Edison Above All Of Thomas A. lidison he says, In his Red Book article, where for the first time he ranks the living great: "If we speculate as to the living be- ing to whom the earth owes greatest gratitude, no one can compete with Edison, Let one dismiss from aie mind everything that Edison aas The reported decision of the Canadian Government to use the proposed St. Lawrence waterways development as a talking point in securing tariff concessions from the United States for the benefit of Canadian farmers and others who have products to export, throws a new and interesting ar- gument into the field of Canadian politics, Ottawa yesterday, our government does not intend to discuss the wa- As for being good wives and mothers, the modern woman could told an audience in Ottawa that the one way to make Capada grow is to provide two jobs for every man in the country. This would mean work for every man now in Canadas and for immigrants who would flock here to get the plus jobs. He sald that this could be accomplisi- ed through the coostruction oi the St. Lawrence deep waterway. Construction of the improved canal would mean the abandon- ment of any Idea of a bigger canal from Buffalo to New York, It would mean that Montreal would experience a decided increase in its grain handling and general freight business. While this is all good and 1s cal- culated to help bring the Govern- ment to a decision, there should be no delusion in regard to a very early commencement of work, It is not possibie that Parliament wiil take any action at the present ses- sion. It js almost certain that Parliament will adjourn in May No action can be taken until the courts have decided on the que:s- tions referred to them by the Dom- inion Government bearing on the ownership and control of water and land involved in the proposed con- However ,you are mistaken fin|teach grandmother things about saying that bachelors live longer, bringing up children she nevar than married men. 'Life may | heard of, and she still sticks to her seem longer to them because it [hushand, as a general thing, as is duller, but statistics show !lcng as he will let her. West Wants Canal, Too (Port Arthur News Chronicle) Charles B. Howard, member of navigation purposes; especially Parliament for Sherbrooke, Que.,|with respect to power. Nor is 1t likely that either the Provinces of Ontario and Quebec or the Domiu- ion Government will accept the de- a reference to the Privy Council, | This stage in procedure cannot pos- sibly be reachedbefore some time next fall. In the meantime Wash- | ington and Ottawa are not waiting for the action of the courts. Whe- ther the federal Government or Provincial Governments have con- trol of the water and land under the water the work of developing a deep waterway will be proceeded with in due time. The claim of the Quebec npposi- tionists that the agitation for the jcanal is confined to Ontario is no | longer of effect, There fe evi- dence that Western Canada is awakening to the importance of the project. Both papers at Winni- peg have heen favorably comment- ing on the canal scheme, a thing that would not have occurred bad the decision in regard to the com- pletion of the Hudson's Bay Rail- way been left in the air, There is little doubt that the whole West is convinced of the practicability of (with the matter in an editorial en- terways proposal with Washing- ton unless the following points are also taken up. 1. The reduction of the Un- ited States tariff on wheat. 2, The reduction of the Un- ited States tariff on livestock. 3. The reduction of the Un- ited States tariff on fish, po- tatoes, and other primary pro- ducts of Capada, Reactions to this suggested pro- gram, In the party press are in- teresting. The Conservative Loa- don Free Press, for instance, deals titled An Extraordinary Attitude,' and says that the St. Lawrence waterways capal and power scheme should not be tied up with any trade negotiations with the States. It should be decided an settled upon its merits, irrespective of the Ameican tariff, the Free Press thinks, adding: "It places Canada in the. position of an Inferior coun- try bartering its natural advantag- es for trade privileges." The Free Press, however, admits that it would be to the advantage of Can- ada to have a lower American tar iff on agricultural products, but asks, why should Canada obtain such a concession as part of a wa- terways scheme? The equally Conservative Toron- to Mail and Empire says that any reduction the United States choos- As reported In a despatch from' the Hudson Bay route, just as On- tario is convinced that an enlarged St. Lawrence canal is in the inter- struction of canals for water and ests of the country as a whole es or agrees to make in the ecus- toms duties on staple products of this country will be welcome, "but there must be no selling of our birthright for a mess of pottage.' Twenty Red Casks of Gold ! (From the New York Telegram) ther gold mor money, but merely "material" which costs $700 a day to keep? The answer is:--When the gold belongs to Soviet Russia and is locked up in a couple of New York banks from which certain Quixotic technicalities prevent ft getting into circulation. they twenty crimson casks of gold har to the United States to be used as a basis of credit for purchases in this country. After placing them in the vaults of the Equitable Trust and the Chase National Bank of New York the Russians left, no doubt. that they might proceed with their shopping. But they had reekoned without their host, the host, in this in- stapce, being the red tape entangle- ments which hairsplitting officials can throw in the way. Before pusiness could proceed it was deemed necessary to deposit the gold with the Federal Reserve Bank. But an embargo, dating back to 1920. stands 'against Rus- sia im this country. so after two weeks' delay--aud a loss in inter- est of about $17,000. or more than $700 a day--the Treasury Depart- ment ruled against accepting the casks. Russia's title, it seems, is not. quite clear and the millions might be tainted. Of course. after Germany, we get more Russian Trade than any other nation in the world. And in About a month ago Russia sent! Czar, owne £700 one way or an er--in bills of ex- nomic loss of about $3 anroximately $275.000 a That much money would pay for Making these zoods would keep a lot of people busy. And they do say we have among us considerable unemployment. a lot of goocs. seem to be different. r on demand. a day. $22.000 a year, When is $5,201,00) in gold nei- | change, for instance, bought with Russian gold in London or Paris or Berlin--we are accepting Russian money every day of the year. these casks of actual ingots--well, But Meanwhile the plot thickens and the $700 daily losses multiply. The Bank of France has just brought suit jn the federal courts of New York to recover the gold bars, on the theory that they are the iden- tical gold sent from Paris to Petro- grad in 1917 at the instance of the but to be returned to the Regardless of who owns the yel- low treasure, its .nforeed idleness is now petting somebody an eeco- olan hour, onth, or 4 | jeeture, of course, but it does mot if the government, oficiall erwise, can secure certain conces- sions for the dominion during the negotiation. of matter? ONE-SIDED (Life) Dusty: Aren't rosy cliecks sig of good health? Rusty: § should sy "ley are. | Dusty: In that case, I saw a| girl the other day who was a lot healthier on one side :haa on ihe getting along in years 'in addition to the tariff matters. is et excited avy louger said to bave insisted to Washing- other. A ---------------- We must he rr we can't over the results of the practice gam- es in the spriog training camps. -- New York Herald - Tribune. The Mail also quotes, a Toronto Star special despatch from Ottawa in which Premier King is credited with saying that yesterday's report to the effect that Capada suggest- ed tariff. concessions as a condition of the waterways treaty is without foundation. "But," the Mail adds, "The Star's special despatch re- peats the statement that Canada, through ils legation at Washing- ton, is in correspcndence with the United States on the question of tariffs on wheat live stock and other agricultural products. The concluding paragraph or sentence of the Toronto Star's special is as follows: "Canada therefore finds the time opportune to press for reductions, but it not usicg the St. Lawrence project as a club to get them. " From this it may be gathered that while the United States has not beem officially advised that tariff concessions are a requisite to securing Camadian consent to St. Lawrence megotiations, the sit- uation would be greatly- eased and the negotiations made much simp- 'ler, were Washington to offer {something of this kind without be- ing asked to. This is only a con- look like an unreasonable one. The Liberally-inclined Toronto | Globe is more finterested in the ipower aspect of the reported sug- | gestion than in'apything else. The government, as reported yesterday, the United States is prepared to waive all claim to the exportation of power arising out of the propos- ed development, and also to clear up the Chicago diversion problem. The only electricity which will pe avallable for use in the States, as a result of the deepening of the St, Lawrence, will be the 1,125,~ 000 h. p, to which the republic as part owner of the (international section of the river, Certainly everyone will agree with the Globe that it would be unthinkable ta permit the export to the States of electricity generated in purely Canddian waters, that should be used for the building up of indus- try on this side of the line, The London Advertiser, a sup- porter of the King Government, says that if it be true that the do- minfion authorities are trying to reap some advantage for Canadian agriculture from the eager desire in the United States for an outlet to the sea through Canadian terri- tory, they have 'certainly solid grounds for such claim. = The far- mers of the Western states would profit directly and substantially from the scheme, because of the reduction in the cost )f transport- ing their products to the European market, They should be willing in turn, the Advertiser thinks, to open their own market in some degree to Canadiap. farmers, who have been grievously suffering from the high tariff wall set. np by Washington, "Apart altogether from the waterways project," the London paper thinks, "the Domin- fon Government would be (fully justified in making representations at Washington against a tariff pol- fey which 1s injurious to 'he inter- ests of this country. It is possible the government is doing so and if such a step happens to coipcide with the discussion of the St. Law- rence project, the administration at Washington may be disposed to be more reasonable in its treat- ment of fiscal questions." Capadians will never forget the Reciprocity fight of 1911. It was ope of the most bitterly contested general elections in the history of the country. The treaty upon which Sir Wilfrid Laurier had banked so highly, went by the boards when his opponents seized opportunity by the forelock and turned an economic discussion into 2 great patriotic campaign. Mr. King, it will be recalled, was a member of the Laurier ministry that year. He was one of many candidates who went down to de- feat on this issue." In 1923, Mr. Fielding, one of the fathers of 1911 Reciprocity, was again min- ister of finance and once more he made a public offer to megotiate a reciprocal trade treaty with Wash- ingt There however, to bave been no response to the sug- gestion, the high tariff sentiment of the existing administration in the United States apparently stand- ing in the way of even a discussi- on of the matter. Now, with the States eager to proceed with the carrying out of the St. Lawrenee waterways scheme, it would not be at all surprising were Canada to revive, at the same time, the ques- tion of greater American consider- atiop for this country in the mat- ter of tariff, Everyone knows tariff attitude. the St." Lawrence Toronto has now more than three- |ton that mo St. Lawrence negotia- tions can lake place at all unless quarters of a million population. She {won't be satisfied till the million is [teen pounds stand between me and counted. which may be within less |the sale of a horse. than five years. yours." invented, and how much poorer ig the earth in happiness, comfort, safe ety and stimulation." Yet this great authority upon greatness ranks Jane Addams secs ond to none, saying of her, in part; "Jane Addams looks like Goode ness personified. Wat she has builg up in Chicago has never been ace complished by any individual in Europe, nor by groups or societies, When she was 20, in the days when Rockefeller and his pupils were starting up from below at the apex of the social pyramid and swearing to become like those half gods who stood at the very top of it, this girl = a Quaker's daughter ---- looked down from the middle of her pyra- mid and saw with horror what forms human existence took on, what suf. ferings guiltless beings must en- dure. In the epoch in which the Rockefellers are uniting all their imagination and energies to heap together money and make a power of it, the Addamses are assembling all the strength of their hearts and their heads to collect money tnd transmute it into human happiness, Yet Dr. Ludwig believes "Rocks efeller. is the broader intellect." What Jane Addams can accomp..sh "from an economic point of yiew is less value, for she cannot nourish hundreds of thousands of people, but only hundreds. She cannot bu.d factory cities, but only thirteen houses; and her kindergartens, charity kitchens and workingmen's clubs are surely not as rich and beautiful as is Rockefeller's splendid world-wide benevolence." Rockefeller he halls as "the first to organize on a vast scale both pros duction and disposal ., He invented nothing, discovered nothing, never threw his life on the scales, gave the world no new civilizing agent--and yet he appears a genius, although the richest man in the world, Fore he has founded a new world power, without being a general, a repres sentative of the people or a dictae tor--a power more mighty than many a State , . . , Such a being must be a man of great combining genius and flashing penetration, who bursts upon the darkness and suddenly illumines it," Orville Wright, who is selected as the surviver of the two brothers who together gave the world the wonder of flying. won by methods so orig- inal and bold that they might have come straight from the pages of Homer, *Here." writes Dr. Ludwig, "were heroes, beings who conquers and courage. *The sublime quality in Wright is, after all, not the lightning flash of genius; it Is the immensity of pers severence, the sure faith in reaching the sought-for goal, the courage te risk again and again one's life," MAPLE SUGAR (Sherbrooke Tribune) Of all the rural industries of Quebec few are more interesting or more important than the manu- facture of maple sugar and maple syrup. This industry is praetical- ly peculiar to the Province of Quc~ duction of maple derivatives in Capada is furnished by this prov- ince . . , The manufacture of maple sugar is pot only an agree- able task, but it affords the farm» er a very decent source of revenu9 at a time of the year when work on the soil is to a great extent paralyzed. J SCHOOLS AND ATHLETICS (Kansas City Post) The principle of sound minds in sound bodies is safe and sane in itself, but there is a !imit in the radio, and when collezes come to regard their students as so many warriors ready to battle for the honor of physical surremacy the cause of real education has been dealt a blow. It was market-day in the village. Prices had been high and the man leaning over the fence round the isale-ring was looking a little discon- solate. that we have suffered by reason |rode up on a very ancient horse. of the American Why," then," should anyone object {bag 0' bones?" asked a bystander, y or oty- (his interest awakening. Suddenly, a burly farmer "How much do you want for that "Just twenty pounds," was the answer. "Pll give you 2 pound." For a moment the farmer star- ed at the man in amazement. Then he slowly dismounted. "Young man." he said. "I ain't goin' to let a little matter of mine- The animal's * ed the difficulty of life by spirit , bec, since 9-10 of the total pros' TP EE * ------ i i ----_-- ---------- -- --------