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Friends: Pedple who like one an- her and dislike the same people. eS fe And to think that the nations at 'one time almost tought for Morocco! i -------- I you can't respect thie gray hair age, you can at least respect dis Fewer laws, "fewer APP ------------ , you can't call ' Trotzky a until Russia is reasondbly nin » The farthor back he sits in th, the closer up he sits at a show. erything is useful. Fool drivers ge the use of better tele- poles. The proper study of mankind is |& Way the rug is worn in froat of : the only soul-stirring mu- pically 'Canadian is the Tung h "Atta boy." to the mehow it is always easy out the station that has programme. t this sentence: *I want pajamas," said the bronzed er, "silk ones." 18 better to be a poor relative. examines your 'stomach 'you die suddenly, ybody works up there, as says, we shall the reformers at it. ng the nations all one' fam- 'help, It's even harder to 4 fabt for existence why it be possible for us, too, the Suit ie wostutier? rem to trade your old | instance. Britain and Egypt both &| the Jvater side. Britain should gov- || Rhine will not stop the Nationalists .| the formation of a government that «| lesson with both eyes open, and not "own operations, he is sure to miss stand and{ { and the railways which ™WO SEs 10 A CASE. 'Somietiies there are two sides to a case; both right. Take Egypt, for claim the right to govern the Su- dan. If 'we ¢onsider people, the British are right. If we consider water, the Egyptians have rights. The Sudan is not Egypt, its people are not Egyptians, and they cannot govern themselves. The only ques tion is which foreigner shall rule them, and the British can do it best, ' This is the human side. But all the water in Egypt flows out of the Sudan. Whoever controls the Upper Nile can starve Egypt. Or, even allowing the Egyptians water 'enough for their own fields, who- ever develops the cheap lands of Gwzirch can underséll the product of the dear lands of Egypt. This is ern the Sudanese people; Egypt has a vested interest In Sudanese water. Both are right. Or, take the renewed quarrel of Unquestionably, there are forbidden arms in Germany. But if the Allies are to hold Col ogne until Germany's disarmament is complete, they will wait until the last bootlegger is jailed. If the government itself shows good faith and is reasonably emcient" in em-! forcing compliance on others, that may not he enough, but it is all that anyone expects to get, Meantime, the practical problem is to use the sort of pressure that will produce results and to avoid the sort that will prevent them. Holding the and the Hitlerites from bootlegging arms, Rather, it will encourage them. And it renders more difficult can leave the Nationalists out. The British are right in staying, to keep the French from taking thelr places; the French are doubt- less correct.in claiming that all the treaty conditions of evacuation have not been met; and the { Germans arg right in objecting. Doubtless all three are chiefly engaged in bluff, for home consumption, while preparing privately to agree to something practical. 4 WHEN ONE EYE IS SHUT. Wheat is now selling at Winnipeg and Chicago around $3 per bushel. A year ago the market price was $1.20. It is to be hoped that the western grain grower, who at least listens to Mr. Hoey, M.P., talk about smashing Confederation unless cer- tain things are done, is looking at this exceedingly instructive object with that eye shut which takes in the play of econdmie forces in the matter. If only that eye is open 'which covers the small fleld of his a great and fundémental truth. "Wheat 8 commandidg a high price this year because two things have happened. In the first place, Burope, under better conditions as to purchasing power, is prepared to buy on a larger scale than for some five or six years past; and, in 'the second place, the world supply of wheat is about 450,000,000 bushels below normal, Demand has increas- ed; supply has diminished. An in- exorable, and more or less con- stant, law has at once been brought to bear on the market. The price of wheat has gone up---logically and unavoidably. Precigely opposite conditions ob- tained during the years between 1919 and the middie of 1924. The supply of' wheat was abundant, in the face of either a declining or sta- tionary demand, The same law which has now sent the market price of wheat soaring, during those years held it down. But the western grain grower had one eye shut during that long and rather trying:.period, and it happened to be that particu- lar eye which would have seen eco- nomic forces at -work adversely. With both eyes open he would have been enlightened to the point of at least knowing why he wes in tribu- lation. That disposition to close one "aye has made the western grain grower needlessly miserable for a long time past, and has also Drought the whole country to a point where very serious harm may be done; for it led him three years ago to seek re- lle from his disabilities by leaping into politics. Had he taken the jump with both optics co-ordinat- ing and properly focused, he would have promptly made two discov- eries: First, that everybody else was « | suffering in some degree from the unequal play of deflation; and sec- i but it would seem he didn saw only the wheat Be aad to wheat 10 the market; an blinded, he believed these catFieRs. should be made to divide their tolls with him. Of course, there was no possible way by which such a thing] could be done, without cyippling or destroying the agency which was serving him so efficiently and unsel- fishly; but he thought otherwise. A man with one eye shut is likely to make any kind of a mistake. So the western grain grower, if Mr. Hoey, M.P., is to be taken seri- ously, is going to break up our very comfortable and smooth-working confederacy unless he can have his way sbout freight rates. This ugly situation would, however, be very quickly composed ¥ our excited ag- rarfan friends of the West would but open that closed eye. They would then see that freight tolls are governed by economic laws as exact and unavoidable as are those which move the price of wheat down. They would also discover that, while grain, prices havefjgone up over 70 per cent, /freight charges are 40 per cent. lower than they were in 1921. They are even lower than they were in 1924. Transportation in all its aspects would open up to his vision as a structure resting on a broad econo- mic foundation. With both eyes open, the wheat grower would very certainly make two further discoveries: First, that what is his gain, through a high market value for his product, is the loss of the bread consumer; and second, that the latter has \ not worked lyimselivinto a fierce and mil- itant mood over the matter. He is patient about it, knowing why it is 80, just as he was during those tra- gle years when the farmer 'was, get- ting $2.40 per bushel for his wheat and people in the cities and towns were paying proportionately more for their bread. The example of the philosophical. city ¥ dweller ought not to be lost ow our friends of the West. It is nearly always a bad thing to close one eye, It is particularly unfortunate to limit one's vision at a time like the present. We are emerging into a period full of pro- mise for Canada; dbut bright pros- pects will mean nothing to a people who are not disposed to pull cheer- fully and energetically together. The country is nearly equally divid- ed as between those who are official- ly classified as "rural" and "urban." If the former are discontented and rebellious, shirking the imperative call for co-operation, the 'Dominion is not likely to forge ahead as it would do under the propitfjus con- ditions which just now obtain. But nothing so tragic and insane is going to happen. Our safety as a nation will be found in numbers. There are between four and five mil- lions of people in Canada whom the census emumergtors rank under the head of "rural." Mr, Hoey, M.P., may gpeak for a majority of the or- ganized grain growers of the prairie provinceg; but it wou be unreason- able to assume that he carries with him the judgment of the 'entire West. He certainly does not hold a brief for the'sober common sense and vision of rural Ontario, rural Quebec or the rural East, If the truth 'were known, he probably is the mouthpiece of a comparatively small group, and even that small group msey change its mind before it answers to his tocsin. Every) grain grower has not one eye shut. GOVERNMENTAL SYSTEM. in an address last week at the Kingston © Rotary Club lunchedn, Mr. H. 8S. Ross, K.C., of Montreal, expressed regret at the criticism of- ten levelled against members of the governments. He declared that they were patriotic and were doing their very best for Canada. The system, he said, was wrong, and he outlined a ngw plan of economic reform. His scheme was thoughtprovoking. In business methods we are generations ahead of our ability to govern our- selves. So it has frequently been (stated, and in a good many ways it 'is true. The public admits as much when it longs for more businesslike administration of government. Bu- siness wants results. It has no use for precedent. . Nor is it inclined to cling to the traditional just because it 'is ancient, except for advertising purposes--as when it gets profitable publicity from an old establishment or. charming or sturdy quaintness old as soon as it is convinced that the mew will give better results. Government hesitates. Teke the matter of delivering goods. For thousands of years this was done by generation, business has largely [by the' motor truck. Wheto 16 a reason for SvArything. Tho reason we are not as progres. up and} ot product. Business discards the- using the horse. In less than ohe| ing the old. You cannot do that in a governmental system that is not flextble--where discarding is almost as slow as acquiring. Government is shaped with an eye to lastingness, to many genera- tions yet unborn. Business, despite its future plans, exists more for to- day. But we might, at least, adopt in politics the mental attitude of open-mindedness that has put out business' results centuries ahead of government results. As a safeguard against calamitous changes, it is a' good thing that our present func- tions of local government are not centralized and directed in unison from national headquarters. An individual community can try out a new theory while the thousands of other communities sit back and watch. Thus a mistake is local, not national. By James W. Berton, M.D, | COMING BACK. In the early, days of healing tuber- culosis, it was customary to rest the patient, keep him outdoors, and feed him well, He returned home "fat," but in a short time began to lose weight and strength. This brought abouf the "exercise" treatment in sanatoria, and as soon as a patient was free of tem- perature, and gaining weight, he was instructed\to walk five to ten minutes dajly. This amount, was increased as the weeks went by, and then he Ly given light employment about the in- stitution, Before he left for home, he was able to "waqrk" five to 'six hours daily, without chdve fatigue. In the treatment of "nervous" cases in. form- er days, the "rest" treatment was the big factor. In cases where the patient was supposed to help maintain him- self by light employment, the percen- tage of recoveries was greater, than with those cases wherg they rested all the time. This was really the starting point of what is called 'occupational |* theraphy," which was used so success- fully with our returned soldiers," suf- fering with nervous disorders. How- ever, there is just one point that should be watched here, just as it was found necessary to watch it, in the case of a patient recovering from tuberculosis. That is when he returns to home, his business, and his associates. If he plunges right into the regular affairs of life, he may bring on another attack of "'nerves,"' and all his¢ treatment which' may have been weeks and months of cave, is practically Jost; be- cause' he will then have to go through it all once mote. Ard just as the tu- berculosis: patient ~learns to live at home; as he lived in the sanatorium, with good 'regular meals, plenty of rest, and light exercise, so must the nervous patient go back into business or professional life slowly, and. gra- dually increase the amount of work he attemptf to do. es a 2. When the Unifed States purchased Alaska from Russia. in 1867, Great Britain was anxious for a boundary survey which would settle any possibi- lity of dispute in years to come. When a survey was suggested for 1872, the | United States put-it off on account of the expense. Thus, while 'dilatory' ne- gotiations were gofhg on, gold was found in the Yukon and tens of thous- ands of people poured into the district: It mow became imperative "that na- tional boundaries be properly estab. lished, and on this 'day in 1903°a con- vention was concluded by which a commission of 'six judges, three from the United States and three from Can- ada,' would settle the matter. Canada's representatives were Lord Alverstone, Sir 'Louis Jette and the Hon. J. D. Armor. On the: death of the later, Sir Allan Aylesworth was appointed. The Americans were Elihu Root, Henry Cabot Lodge and Hon. Geo. Turner. The Tribunal met from September 3 to October 8, andl its decision was handed down October 20, by Lord AL verstone, Aylesworth and Jette disag- reed and refused to sign the docu- ment. 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Séiefice Would be cruel, indeed, if it robbed the sigh of its beauty or sigai- ficance, so instead it only explains what causes the sigh and leaves for it all its mystic meaning. The mechanical part of the sigh is due to a sudden rire up of the dia- phragm, a muscle which makes the floor of the chest. In ordinary breath- ing this muscle works with another set of muscles which lie in between the ribs. The latter muscles draw out the ribs and the floor muscle of the chest { flattens out. This makes more room in the chest and the air rushes in to fill up the space. Now, when we breathe out the air, the process is reversed. The set of muscles between' the ribs pull inward and the floor muscle moves up. This makes the chest cavity smaller and forces the air out. When both sets of muscles work to- gether we have perfect breathing, but when they do" not 'work together we breathe as if in spasms. What causes lovers to sigh? Bécause something gbes wrong with these muscles. In this particular in- stance it is the floor muscle of the chest, the diaphragm. The reason is simple. All muscles are opesated by nerves, This nerve runs from! the back part of the brain. Lovers have things to worry about--real or imagine. Or perhaps it is simply because they are so wrapped up with the thought of some individual or with love itself that their' minds are considerably active, This causes a flush of blood to the TO LOAN We have considerable funds to loan on Farm, Village and City Properties, at lowest cur- rent rates. We have some good farms for sale at present. also some hapgans in city progerty, T. J. Lockhart Real Estate and Insurance Agent §8 BROCK ST., KINGSTON Phone 323J or 1191J. thinking part of the brain, over-excites the nerves which lead from there and throw the breathing muscles out of rhythifi--the result is the sigh. We breathe slower or faster, accord- ing to the thoughts in our mind. An apparatus has been invented which re- cords just how our heart is beating and how we breathe because of certain em- otions. It was thought for a while that this would be a good method to determine the guilt of prisoners, but it was found that it was almost impossible to tell whether the particular breathing was caused by the real guilt of 'the person being tested or because of a righteous ed. The time may come when these things will werk out practically, when we will be able to ascertain one's part in erime or good, hate or love and response to all the finer emotions. Denied pernifssion to go to a mov- ing picture show, Margery, fourteen, 'daughter of Patrolman Denicolo, of the Camden, N.J., police force, shot herself with her father's pistol, Em a HARMLESS LAXATIVE All Children Love Its Pleasant Taste » For your sick-room needs: You will -re- ceive. prompt, effi- 'cient and courteous service. » DR. A. P. CHOWN 185_ PRINCESS STREET 'PHONE 348. 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