Infant: A noise done up with a safety pin. : Hard work doesn't kil. Look at the word "don't." Modern version: Where there's a will there's an investigation. No war is over until allies again feel friendly toward one another. Another obstacle to thrift is that we always feél richest while spend- ing. No real sportsman "will shoot more than two spring poets in one day. Be getting your Christmas gifts in shape to give as wedding pre- sents. When you are lonely, and want the door bell to ring, try taking a "bath, The crying need of out female 'population seems to be spring clothes, Relatives are people who wonder how you contrive to keep on fooling the world. Woman may get the last word, but how man does enjoy slamming. 'the door. -------------- Every day is too warm for a light spring overcoat if you have a new spring suit, ------------ Yet there are cases in which face 'peeling won't help unless it is dope with sn axe. ---- The salesman is a useful man. Think how many jobs he provides for bill collectors. If it's a hick town, the gentleman * Blossoms are those little colored things that make automobilists stop disfigure a tree. And it may be that the still small volce is unheard because desire fur- too much statie. ------------------ The weather is discussed more of- than any other subject simply ase it is the closest. : ---------------- Wouldn't the farmers be a happy if they could find an insect eats nothing but weeds? » i ns Sail) Correct this sentence: *I don't what the style does," sald she; | never let mine grow out again." iy HIGHWAY BUILDING. Acroes the international boundary the various state highway depart- ments have planned to build 24,000 miles of high-class roads during the current year. The money involved will be $405,000,000, which figures out at an average of a little under $17,000 per mile. What Canada may do in 1925 in the matter of good roads is not definitely known; but we should all be agredd that she cannot afford to lag. The whole pro- position as respects highways up to a specified standard reduces itself to a sum in dollars and cents. In other words, it pays to have really good roads. It pays both directly and in- directly; and, looking to the tourist travel, which has now attained to such tremendous proportions, Can- ada's opportunity to share in that swelling and profitable business is almost entirely a matter of the right kind of highways. THINKING IN UNISON. The current session of Parliament at Ottawa has brought about a situ- ation as promising as it is unpre- cedented. On.two questions, both of which have in the past taken on a partisan complexion, there would appear to be unanimity of judgment. A score or more of members have spoken thus far on the budget, 're- presenting Liberal, Conservative, Progressive and Labor aspects of thought, and yet all have agreed that We cannot go any further in the matter of public debt, and that some- thing must be done at once to eut out competition as between the two Egeat railway systems of the country in districts where they operate along parallel lines, Nothing so novel has hitherto oc- curred in oiir political history. Thinking thus in unison, it is reason- ably certain that a constructive pol- fey will be evolved. As to holding the debt stationary, or taking steps looking to fts reduction, material and positive results will not depend so much on the wMl to bring them about asfon conditions governing the volume of consumption. That is to say, fully half of our national revenues come from duties on imports. In times of prosperity imports are disposed to swell. Just now they are showing a tendency to contract. Much would therefore de- pend on what happens to stimulate or depress popular purchasing pow- er. Nevertheless, irrespective of fluctuations in income, borrowing may be shut off and rigid economy applied in all departments. The cutting out of waste by our railways, and especially the Cana- dian National, is almost wholly a matter of proceeding to do a definite thing. That definite thing 1s to re- duce main-track mileage by substi~ tuting branch lines to points now be- ing served. "If, however, such points are served by both the Canadian Na, tional and the Canadian Pacific, par- ticularly in"the West, then one or other of the systems must withdraw. The question of priority would at once be raised; but that might work out unfairly to the Canadian Na- tional if rigidly insisted upon. Up to this moment nothing has transpired to show that a satisfactory agree: ment could not be reached between Sir Henry Thornton and Mr. Beatty. Without attempting to discuss the merits of that issue, there should be general rejoicing over this disposi- tion in Parliament to look at na- tional questions apart from partisan interests." When men get to think- ing in harmony they are apt to act in harmony. These are two very big questions, and if they can be dealt with in. a broad spirit of mutuality, with patriotic considerations upper® most, some of ouf old hard-shell politicians will begin to suspect thdt the millenium is at hand. After all, however, it would simply , be the triumph of common sense. CAURTESY. We Canadians are not the most courteous people in the world, and we might as well confess it. Many a humbler people have much to teach us in the grace of urbanity and the fine art of gentle manners. We are & young nation, and in spots at least still raw and a little crude. We have not yet learned that conduct is nine- tenths of life. But if we are wise, we will improve our mant.rs and form the habit of cotirtesy in all the contacts of life. THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG Hughes in Parliament in relation to the expediency of bringing the Cana- dian National and Canadian Pacific railways into a comprehensive work- ing agreement looking to the saving | | modern progress. of the waste which now attaches to the operation of both systems in ter- ritories' where there is barely sufii- cient traffic for one. These gentle- men did not leave the House in any doubt as to their main purpose; but they did not present a clear-cut plan, nor did they challenge the judgment of Parliament by offering a substan- tive motion. Mr. W. F. Maclean, representing South York, has now gone a step further. He has not drawn up a resolution, but he has laid before fhe House a number of positive sugges- tions, which no doubt at a more fav- orable opportunity will be hay in shape to form the basis of a ¢on- structive debate. Mr. Maclean's plan, which he presents under the caption of "proposed consolidation of the Canadian Pacific, and subsidiaries with the adian National," covers the follo und: 1.--8uch re-routing of main lines and branches as might be dictated by the better grades, mountain passes, bridge-crossings, tunnels, approaches to stations, etc., held by one or other of the companies; 2.~The consolidation of the cartage, telegraph and express services of the systems, (perhaps taking over the parcel post, postal and money orders of the post ot- fice), thereby cutting out all un- necessary services and buildings, rents, etc., and perhaps using local Post offices at places as aids td these national services; 8.--The cutting out of all un- necessary trackage, bridges, tun- nels, stations, buildings, tanks, plants, etc., and thereby releasing material for any double trackage required, or other additions that the traffic thus re-routed and con- solidated might call for; - 4.--Also cutting out all' un- necessary executives and staffs, officials and offices, headquarters, and attendant expenses; 6.--Also cutting out and sel- ling any unnecessary engines and unnecessary official sleeping, din- ing, passenger, postal, freight and other cars and equipment that the consolidation permitted; 6.--Also cutting out al un- necessary printing and advertising charges and other propaganda; and all unnecessary solicitation and canvass for business caused by the present needless rivalry of branch and main line services. In his remarks, Mr. Maclean made it quite clear that he expects the Government to take the initiative, and also that his plan of consolida- tion alms at the extinction of the Canadian Pacific. Neither Mr. Forke nor Mr. Hughes gave the slightest hint of any such thought on their part. Their object was to bring about a re-casting of railway terri- tory which. would put an end to wasteful and quite fndeferisible com- petition for traffic, under which both systems were losing money. Mr. Maclean proposes the absorption of the Canadian Pacific, although he was silent as to how the financing was to be done. Since that is vital, and absolutely fundamental, his scheme falls short of being complete. In view of our exceedingly heavy capital liabilities at the present time, public judgment would scarcely be prepared: to sanction 'a plan which would carry with it something like an addition of $750,000,000. But it probably would look favorably on a well-digested proposition for the elimination of the enormous parallel railway mileage in sboth the West and in Ontario which at present ex- Ists. It may be that a perfectly friendly arrangement could ' be brought about between the two sys- tems which would have that desir- able result. Certainly something will have to be done to reduce unprofit- able duplication of mileage in the West, which accounts in large degree for the high operating ratio to gross receipts of the Canadian National. The very core of our railway prob- lem' would seem to be excessive mile- | = political problem. It is an economic problem. : JAPAN ADVANCES. Japan takes one more - step in Both houses of the Diet have passed the law fof universal manhood suffrage. Wo- men suffrage is, of course, still for the future, but probably not so far in the future as it was in our own country when manhood suffrage was first adopted. Japan thus acquires at least the external basis of demo- cracy. Its lawmakers will be electe® by, and responsible to, all the peo- ple. Whether this will mean real démocracy, and whether democracy, even if attained, is what Japan needs, only experience can show. Certainly in these days when foreign rather than domestic problems are the major concern of every nation, and the capacity of democracy to handle them even in older demo- cracies is still undetermined, it is at least debatable whether a people not already democratic should be in a hurry to become so. But Japan has succeeded in every other western ex- periment, and must inevitably try this, > Shi April 14th. It is a far cry between the log canoes, the first ferries which ran between Detroit and Windsor, to the powerful vessels which now run sum- mer and winter between the two cities. Windsor has a long history, for the vicinity was a mission to the Huron Indians as long ago as 1728. French disbanded soldiers were the first settlers, and up to a century ago there were only two hundred houses in the township, ranged along the river front. The growth of Wind- sor has been rapid since. The site of the city was selected by Governor Simcoe, with'an eye to futurs com- mercial Intercourses with Detroit. It was from Windsor that General Brock set out on his memorable ex- pedition, when Detroit and all Mich- igan fell to his arms. In 1839 four hundred raiders from Detroit, sup- porters of the rebel MacKenzie, in- vaded Windsor. A settlement of ne- groes in Windsor was founded by escaped slaves from the U.S. On this day in 1892, Windsor was grant- ed a charter as a city. a -- That Body of /s 'Berton, M.D, | Too Much Acid. One of the words you hear almost every day now is acidosis. In former days you complained about certain pains in abdomen, perhaps a "sour" stomach, or intestine, perhaps spoke about heart burn, billiousness, and extra desire for air; and so forth. In former days also your parents very wisely, although ignorant of the causation, gave you some baking soda, just to "sweeten" up your 8ys- tem. This condition is now so well un- derstood by your physicians and by yourself, that you know that there is too mucke acid in the blood. The blood in its normal condition is slightly alkaline. It will handle a considerable quantity of extra acids, in the system, because it has what is known as an alkaline "reserve." When however this reserve gets used up, then symptoms such as mentioned above ensue. Our research men are now in a position to estimate the amount of acidosis in the system. The acids are removed mainly by the kidneys and the lungs. An apparatus that meas- ures the amount of carbon dioxide in the air in the lungs, estimates at the same time the amount or degree of acidosis. When too much acid gets into the blood, .it naturally attacks the alka- line contents, and the result Is an overdose or increased amount of this 'waste gas, carbon dioxide. Now. this gas must be thrown off because it is very poisonous. There- fore the centre in the brain that con- trols the lungs, immediately notifies the lungs to get busy, and throw this HEHE chilli] i om pees TTI Suit and Overcoat Specials! : The Well Dressed Man Must Consider These Models Out of a great variety of correct that we are showing in Coats, the two models illustrated above models" Spring Suits and Top are placed above all others in the style edicts, We have placed much emphasis on them in our showing--the smartest fabric weaves and choicest patterns are in these groups. 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He alludes, however, to-an article which I wrote for an English perio- dical sbme time ago, and says: "The Bishop, among other things, stated that prohibition fostered the use of drugs." The paragraph to which he refers reads as follows: "Asked whe- ther in their opinion the use of dan- gerous substitutes for liquor was prevalent, and whether the drug ha- bit had Increased under prohibi- gon, the reply from Toronto (chief of police) is that a habit of drink- ing vile liquor concoctions, such as green alcohol, bay rum, Florida wa- ter, and even shoe polish, has de- veloped, with disastrous results to those who use such poison. About the drug habit nothing is said, but the 'Kingston magistrate writes that he has observed no proportional in- . Other reports however al- lege 8 dangerous increase in this vice." 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