THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG SATURDAY, MAY 9, 1085. _--= THE BRITISH WHIG)| S3ND YEAR. | pot i=} SIREN IEEE i ~~ 50 life, "TOWN REPRESENTATIVES: se 33 St. Johm St, Montreal. 198 King Street, W., Toren x to the Editor are published over the actual same of the of the best job Caaads. $t get him up a tree. . The modern Cinderella completes her happiness by getting alimony. Many a young daughter resembles mother because they paint alike. The radio set keeps some at home and so does the onion set, but the soc- "dely set doesn't. When the Ford air flivvers beccme universal we can find parking spaces on the clouds. Princess Takka-Takka of Siam says that she never chews gum, yet her name sounds as if she did. We had rather fish than read. Then We learn what we think instead of what some other man thinks. The king of Bulgaria has a very 'hated job. He.has to get up carly every day and foil a few plots. Effort to make silver dollars popu- lar in the United States has been aban- doned. They made wealth too much of a burden. When Babe Ruth read in the papers that Ty Cob had hammered out three home runs in one game, he must have had a relapse. The early bird gets the worm, but Portsmouth philesopher says he 'had rather get the sleep and go with. the worm. Toronto Star: An exchange says that everyone should show a happy face. Bat what is the fellow to do who Basn't got one? a eic-- We are promised a mighty influx of American tourists as soon as 4.4 beer is placed on sale. More ferry ac- commodation is being provided at this port. The home merchant, who is he? He is the man who gives you credit when you are financially broke and carries your account until you are able to pay. Kitchener Board. The Ottawa Progressives have ar- rived at the Forke of the roads, and decided to follow their leader "down the lower taxation sideline-- intford Expositor. the tourist season draws near. hat about a decent tourist camp in Ingston? The one at the fair grounds t summer did not add to the city's on. Something better than that d. ' the way Attorney-General ie is safeguarding the sale of his ber, one surmises that it must be than coffee, although he told province that it was not. 5 Board of Works should get repair the pavement on up- ess street. It is full of ruts which are constantly gett- and larger. Before laying pavement, why not look af- t already hid? THE MOTOR AGE. They are making a new synthetic alcohol, resembling wood alcohol, in Germany, out of coal and water. It is zlready cheaper than any other form of industrial alcohol, and will, of course, become much cheaper. For the moment this means that our manufac- turers must also acquire the method, or devise another, or else yield the field to the Germans. But in the long run it means that we can contemplate without uneasiness the certainty that the world's supply of petroleum is nearing exhaustion. Before the natural oil becomes too scarce and too dear to use, the synthetic alcohol will be plen- tiful 'and cheap enough to take its place. The motor age will be perman- ent. HIS HORSE AND BUGGY. That charming and picturesque in- ternational figure, Chauncey M. De- pew, says that one of the things he most misses at 91 is his horse and buggy. We don't blame him. The prac- tical disappearance of equine life from 3| sur streets has. little compensation in the swift-moving and inanimate auto- mobile. The horse was a thing of beau- ty, even if the buggy was not. He had and character, and a winsome faithfulness. He was not entirely safe; but he was infinitely safer than is the motor car. "The automobile," says this philos- ophic octogenarian, "has wiped out one picturesque, charming and delight- ful featur of American life, and that is the family horse." One' feels the pathos of that undeniable fact. The loss is real. || "The family horse and buggy did more than any other one thing to promote matrimony and happy domestic life," adds Mr. Depew. We catch his point l| of view, and are disposed to concur. There was a deliberateness about the old-fashioned method of locomotion, and a coziness too, which made for broader and closer comradeship than does the modern auto. We are losing more than the old family horse and buggy in these days of constant ghange. There are some people who very clearly discern a dim- ming of that thing which lay back of the horse and the buggy to which he was attached--the hearth and its hal- lowed associations. We had better get back to slow and prosaic ways if the price of speed is a weakened home cir- cle. That would be too high a price to pay. GROWTH OF COLLEGES. With a budget for next year of $10,- 177,860, Columbia University affords some idea of its own great financial strength, as well as of the growth of colleges in general during the past two Op three decades. Nearly half of this 13k expenditure will be met out of the income from endowments and gifts. This suggests two things: The wealth of the American people which makes such generous contributions possible, and the public interest in the cause of education. Nearly all Ameri- can universities are now handsomely endowed. Forty years ago they were not. The primary result of adequate means is to enable the governors to widen the curriculum and take up highly specialized work. Thus the pub- lic is served. We may feel some de- gree of envy for the advantages ga- joyed by American colleges as com- pared with our own in this matter of monetary resources; but our day is coming. In the meantime the work of our universities is in every respect sat- isfactory. It is contributing richly to the culture and efficiency of the Can- adian people. CANADIAN WILD LIFE. A pathetic interest will be aroused by the announcement that the herd of antelope in the Nemiskam National Park in South-eastern Alberta now numbers 235. It was increased by 55 during the past year. This gentle and beautiful animal was fast becoming extinct, when measurés were taken by the Government in 1922 to get posses- sion of as large a number as possible and segregate them under conditions which it was hoped would make for their multiplication. The experiment has happily been successful. The history of Nemiskam National Park is an interesting chapter in the story of wild life conservation. Over- coming what appeared to be insur. mountable difficulties, forty-two an- telope were enclosed in a fenced-in area in South-castern Alberta in 1915 and, in contrast to previous experi- ments, continued to thrive in capti- vity. Their welfare and propagation, which was at first a matter of specul- ation, now seem to be definitely as- sured under the plan adopted in 1923. The antelope of the North American Continent, as the prized trophy of the hunter and from the ravages of preda- tory animals, suffered such depletion in numbers that the extinction of the species was freely predicted by natur- alists and conservationists. Dr. Wil. liam T. Hornaday, in "Our Vanishing Wild Life" published in 1913, pro- phesied. that the antelope would be "ore of the first species of North American big game to become extin- ct. . : One of the chief obstacles in the path of the conservationists was the natural temperament of the animals. They are delicate, capricious and cas- ily upset. Of a highly nervous dispo- sition, the least excitement is apt to have a deterrent effect on them, and in a great many instances the shock of capture, even when this captivity meant enclosure in spacious areas, wis as to result in the early de- mise of the captives. Their fleetness of foot made capture by pursuit imprac- tical, and weather conditions impair- ing speedy flight were sought as an aid. Canada once teemed with four-foot- ed game. There were no antelope in this section of the country; but deer were numerous. Venison was the fresh-meat food of the early settler. At the same time wild pigeons were so plentiful that in their autumn mizra | tion the sky would often be darkensd. Jdo-day not a wild pigeon of the North American species is known to be in existence. We do well therefore when we seek to conserve such game | life as has survived the destructive march of civilization; and what is be. | ing done in Alberta is in every res=4guarantees. The same thing became pect commendable. LIBERAL WOMEN ACTIVE. | The Women's Liberal Association | of Kingston must be commended for | its enterprise and activity. Its mem- bers are enthusiasts in the cause of | Liberalism. Just now they are spon- | soring the formation of a Women's | Liberal Associafion to include all wo- | men 'voters in the counties of Hast- | ings, Prince Edward, Lennox and Ad- | dington, Frontenac, Leeds and the | city of Kingston. Arrangements have been completed for a big organization | meeting to be held at the Frontenac | hotel in this city on Thursday, May | 14th, at 11 am. Promient Liberals, | both men and women, will be present and deliver addresses, and an extra | fine programme has been arranged for | the occasion. The ladies have been suc- cessful if inducing Hon. James Mur- dock, federal Minister of Labor, to come to Kingston and deliver an ad- | dress. Representatives from the On- | tario Liberal Women's Association | will bring greetings from that body. so | that an excellent list of speakers is | assured. All Liberal women voters are | cordially invited to be present and] take part in the proceedings. A lunch- eon will follow the business meeting. | This is a splendid opportunity for the | women of this part of Eastern Ontario | to get acquainted and to help in or- | ganizing an association that will play | a prominent part in the next Domin- | ion election. The ladies have kindly | extended an invitation to the men to | be present at this meeting. Gallantry | requires that they respond whcle-| heartedly. This is an important event | that the ladies have undertaken, and | the rank and file of the Liberal party | are in duty bound to lend them every possible assistance. THE HEROIC HOPKINS. Parliament has its surprises. Some of them are pleasant, and some are not. The latest partook of both emotions. "This," said the Minister of Railways, "is the most, remarkable scene I have ever witnessed." Coming from an old Parliamentarian, and also a seasoned politician in the best sense, it will be at once assumed that something most unusual had happened. The Minister had introduced a reso- lution respecting the building of a ra- ther lengthy branch line in Saskatche- wan, the cost of which would be in ex- cess of a million, when Mr. Hopkins, the member representing the consti- tuency in which the work was to be done, said he could not approve of it. It would cost a lot of money, which could be put to better use in other sections of the province. The house gasped. It completely lost its breath when several other members followed Mr. Hopkins, they also being political- ly interested, and voiced their disap- proval. The motion was held over. Amazing and extraordinary as was all 'this, the thing did not stop there. Mr. Hopkins went on to say: -- "And now they ask for a line to go across to Regina, a million dol- lar line running right through my district, and a number of my con- stituents send me letters and tele- grams saying, Mr. Hopkins, sup- port the line. We gave you a good vote last time. I will tell those people that we have got too many lines in too many places, and I will also tell them that they have been built because of just such letters being sent as those sent to me. I will tell them that I con- sider it a crime for me to support that line when there are people in that country drawing their grain for forty and' fifty miles. 1 will tell them that if they put that line across that territory to Regina, that will be another million dollar white elephant. We have put on six hundred of them in the last five years, and Canada cannot stand any more. Now, I know that that is not going to get me any votes, but I am going to tell you that it is not necessary that I get votes, it is not necessary that | come back to this House, but it is necessary that some men in this country stand up like men and de- nounce such projects." Mr. Hopkins has at\one leap reach- ed the rank of a living héro. We have plenty of dead omnes; but what the world needs to-day as much as any- thing else is heroism on the part of living men. In the whole history of Parliament, it is doubtful if a braver or more unselfish utterance has been heard. The man who can take his poli- tical life in his hands, tell the truth and calmly await the consequences, at once places himself on a pedestal among his fellows. Had Parliament and the western le- gislatures been filled with men like M+. Hopkins during the years between 1900 and 1910--that fateful decade-- hands a baifling and terrifying railway { problem. It was in considerable de-| gree because the building oi lines in | j the West enabled politicians to win | { votes that thousands of miles were { constructed which could have been | | done without. Indulgent legislatures | |and an equally indulgent Parliament | did not use an appraising and unsel- | ! fish judgment during that feverish per- {iod of unreasoning optimism. "It is costing the country nothing," | | they argued. "The money is being pro- | vided out of guarantees, and Macken- | zie & Mann will look after them when | they fall due."" But Mackenzie & Mann | { were not even able to look after the | | interest within eight years after the} copipletion of the first road built on | true of the promoters of the Grand { Trunk Pacific. By 1914 every penny of principal and interest lay as a na- tional liability on the doorstep of the federal government. There it lies to- day, along with an insistent challenge to the sagacity of the Canadian peo- ple to find some way out from the bur- den which threatens to overwhelm them. A world of trouble and loss and dis- couragement would have been saved if, instead Hf blind optintists holding the reins of political power in' the west and elsewhere, there had "ben men like Mr. Hopkins to say "this will not get me votes; it'may even cost me say seat; but I prefer to tell the truth" The need for such men is actually as great to-day. A pressing and vital problem has got to be solved. The solution will mean loss of railway mil- eage in many parts of the prairie pro- vinces, as well probably as in Ontario, and selfish interests will be brought into the issue. Unless members of Par- liament are prepared to show the Hop- kins brand of courage, we are got like- ly to see a clear sky over us in so far as our railway perplexities are con- cerned. By James W, Barton. M.D. A Thought on Goitre. Many of our surgeons are now sug- gesting that there are forms of goitre that do well without the use of the [knite, and that care and close super- vision may cause the disappearance of the goitre. They point out that many of these cases are due to infection from something that has got into the sys- tem, or something that the system itself is manufacturing. Usually from the waste matter in intestine. They point out further that these poisons, being in the blood, that when the blood goes to the thyroid gland, thyroid has to do two things. First, it has to get from this poisoned blood the materials to keep up its own structure, and second, it has to manufacture its secretion or juice, also from the poisoned blood. It is net surprising therefore that the structure of the thyroid gland it- self becomes changed. Instead of having its 'normal walls, or cell walls, it has inflamed walls, which when they recover from the inflam- mation, have a lot of fibrous tissue replacing the natural tissue. This means that less of the juice making structure is left. And then with its structure made imperfect, the imperfect or poisoned blood from which to manufacture its juice, you can see that the juice itself will not be normal, and therefore will not do its work properly, its work of regu- lating various functions of the body. Now what I want you to get from this is, that not only is the thyroid getting this kind of blood circulat- ing through it, but also every other organ in the body is doing likewise. What kind of muscle tissue, bone tissue, liver or other tissue is likely to be made, when the blood is in this condition? I am thinking even more seriously of the brain tissue, which guides everything, and yet must have its delicate cells manufactured likewise from this infected blood. It is wonderful to think that Na- ture carries on for you just the same and everything functions to some ex- tent. But you can readily see that with a handicap like this, a little trouble is bound to occur, and this place. R.C.H.A. War Honors Completed. Four bronze tablets bearing the names of the battles of the late war, in which the R.C.H.A. of this city were engaged, Have been placed on the R.C.H.A. Memorial in the City Park by the McCallum Granite Com- pany, Limited, the original contrae- tors of the memorial. The tablets are placed on the wings of the exedra, two on either side of the main shaft. They are made of fin- est statuary bronze. Roman letters in harmony with those on thé large tablet are used. These new tablets complete the memorial as originally planned and in a permanent and leo- quent way tell the story of the heroie work of the R.C.H.A. in France and Flanders. 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