<3 -- BY W. L. GORDON _ . | WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Don't say "we are going to per- manently arrange it." This is a split infinitive. Say "we are going to arrange it permanently." OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: address. Both noun and verb are accented on last syllable, not the first. OFTEN MISSPELLED: nucleus. SYNONYMS: history, biography, record, account, memoir. WORD STUDY: "Use a word three times and it is yours." Let us inerease our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. To-day's word: INSCRUTABLE; that cannot be searched into; in- comprehensible. "Her inscrutable face was deep in concentration." worthy of serious consideration by |" all Canadians. MAKING GREAT SACRIFICES. - Dr. F. H. Baetjer, Johns Hopkins | University, is certainly a martyr to his profession. He is concerned with | roentgenology; he loves his labora- | tory work and has just had his sev- | enty-second operation made neces- | sary by X-ray burns. All but one fizger and a thumb have been cut | away piece by plece, yet he carries | on in his desire to &xtend the use of | the X-ray and make it safe for pa- : ve last- : ET. en at ot He marched them up to the top of the hill, in death, and he knows it. He chose : And he marched them down again. this course deliberately, ready to|\ | / 5 sacrifice his own life to advance the cause of science. Some men might have quit and left it for some one else to do. But Dr. Baetjer is of a different sort. He is the sort of a man of whom soldiers and heroes are made. It is impossible to estimate the importance of the X-ray to human- | ity. Scarcely an operation is per- formed when the X-ray does not first locate the source of the trouble, The X-ray enables the surgeon to chart out his course and thousands of un- ne ry operations' have been wyoided because the X-ray has shown that operations would be needless. The Duke of York's Army The noble Duke of York He had ten thousand men, chronicle, space when the total tonnage of ships for the season is 'reckoned. Chicago, no doubt, is willing to give compensation. the path warm and gaining, experi- ence. § These ten thousand men had to eat three timesa day. They had to have clothes to wear, boots for their feet, and hats for their heads, as well as the implements of warfare. These necessaries all had to be purchased from somebody. : The British Whig has an army, too, a larger army than the Duke of York had. It consists of 40, men, wo- men and children, reckoning ari average of five people to every home into which The Whig is read every night in the trade area of Kingston. . : EDITORIAL NOTES. ; A young man in Paris is suing that city for 100,000 francs ($3,500) because a municipal employee has thrown away the ashes of the young man's mother-in-law. The ashps were in an urn, and the cemetery caretaker threw it out. It may be easier for him.to get the money than to recover the ashes. Every time there is a fine day the people rejoice! An exchange opines that the only branch of the air service that hasn't bad any serious accident lately is parliament! The Baltimore Sun is of opinion the some man has a chance to win fame by going forty-four days with- out gasoline. nn News and Views. Those Billboards. Alliston Herald: When the E. L. In the United States a woman » . Tm These men, women and children also have to eat three Said game does get an awful the Kditer are published! pup DRIFT OF POPULATION. ihe actual name of the ' The drift of people from the smal- "The sireviation of The Beith Wii Bmaiacated by the Autit Buresu of TALKS GOOD COMMON SENSE ler country to the greater has been going on all through our history-- and not only throughdut our history, but that also of other countries simi- golf. hold on some devotees. A United States Byrd which can Ruddy Co., of Toronto, commenced |} to erect sign boards along the front street of Acton, they were stopped and hats. by the town authorities, and later ll In addition, too, in this modern age their necessities are times a day. They also have to have clothes, shoes fly over the north pole is not half so interesting to the world as a bird thit can lay two eggs in one day. . en-- . Mr. C. L. Burton, general manager and vice-president of the Robert Simpson Company, is a rising young man of good presence, kindly mgn- ners and a brain that is full of Strong ideas and convictions. He is # great lover of Canada, and its ad~ yenturous youths. As president of the Big Brotherhood of Toronto, he fits helped many an over-adventur-) ous youth into safe and same chan- nels. He has won a fine place in Ca- nadian activities and his addresses ate replete with good sense and well | Will be a basin that has filled, re- reasoned. + In a recent on Educa-| marks the Toronto Star. It begins tion, he took time to say: Pp Jos woe, Supuey or later, too, "We want adventurous youth in |C*08da will find the flood of popula- We want such education as [tion flowing back to her across the will prepare for the job that is ahead | border. It wiil be so in the nature Of us. Give our youth the spirit of | of things, 'and already the situation fs asader a day ot adventure is shaping for it. The tremendous 10 be as Sir Henry Newbolt sald af. | 8TOWth of this country's trade is for visiting various countries, 'The {bound to have its effect, wg t country in the world.' pha r educational life needs exam- when the matter came up before the municipal council the action of the reeve and constable in preventing the billboards from appearing in the heart of Acton was confirmed, and a decision reached that no billboards may be planted along the front larly placed. Lord Durham in his report nearly a century ago perceiv- ed the problem even then. The United States census returns show the net exodus of Canadians from 1850 to 1910, as follows: 1850-60 more numerous than those of the Duke of York's army, and then too, they also need many luxuries to make life happy and complete. The modern army of household- ers need drugs, toilet articles, jewelery, books, writing STOOL Of She town. Tt 1s Testo paper, hardware, automobiles, tires, refrigerators, find one town that refuses to sacri- » tice the aBsthetic to the commercial. stoves, furnaces, ete:, etc., etc. ---- Smearing the Landscape. New York Evening Telegram: Smearing up the landscape with glaring billboards is one way of mak- ing America hideous. Signs are taken as a matter of course, in cities, but they are nothing to be proud ef in rural sectlofii. It's up to eacw local- ity to clean up. Long Beach, L. x. has done it in a very efficient way. An ordinance providing against ad- vertising bill boards has long been neglected. The police made it effec- tive by chopping into kindling all the offending structures. Direct action sometimes is the shortest way to Marconi, declares a British com- mentator, made the radio possible, and a lot of amateurs are apparently doing their best to make it impos- sible. | Hon, 8. J. Latta, of Saskatchewan, advocates uniformity of school text books throughout Canada. A good thing if the best text books would be selected. 1880-90 This modern army of hotiseholders is human. It tries to provide for itself as cheaply as possible. It knows that the way to save money is to watch advertisements, to read them carefully, and to take advantage of the bar- gains offered. 1900-1910 Sooner or later the United States A porter captured a bandit who tried to hold up a train and now they don't know whether to reward him for protecting passengers or re- moving competition. Mr. Merchant--can you afford to be without your message in The Whig ? Every day has 40,000 chances. Half a dozen small sales will pay for a good-sized ad- q In Kansas the most wheat ever raised was 180,000,000 bushels, in 1914. With conditions now above the average it is possible that Kan {aation and perhaps radical 'reform. tario high school courses are ham- pered by a lack of interest on the ont of parents in the higher grades, Jose 2 opportunity for the teacher } personal interest and bave _gontact with the student fvidual problems. Ou se boys should 'find' them- 'In & way that is not character- of them to-day. Lel the stu- enter the university with evi- of real purpose along with his pie qualifications. There d be a genuine desire for per- hal accomplishments, a desire to [@ a real contribution to Canad- "Professional lite is deteriorated worn-out methods which neglects oun, I think: it may well be uest if students in law, stu- 8 in medicine, as well as stu- 4 in other professions, should be wed to enter courses unless they fe sufficiently. promising that upon uation, each one could be taken / 'partnership with other practi- of industrial life, Mr. R ontinued; "The natural in- a the worker is to grow, to 1 and to create; it is this in- inet which causes him to rebel gainst the dullness of monotonous ork hours and higher rages provide real cure to the Intent of the worker; nothing '# Sense of service will do that. have a full belfef in the ly of industrial life. We must our wages in the shops and and life outside. The re- i of industry must be first condition upon. the t of the worker and not Bd ard as a output. maintaining of business or life is pride in the ser: no pride in the pse who work experience ishment----lose mental stimu- work ought to afford and lon lose their happiness 'their health. Ontario, north of North probably the only part of fo which "the ty during the continued Mr. ir bank clearings no joy in its characterized by FINDS FOUR REASONS, A British: economist, Sir Leo Chiozza Money, has been investigat- ing conditions in America to dis- cover for himself why industry Jn America '18 superior to industry in England. He finds four reasons for it. "They are, good machinery, good factories, considerate management and in the jncentive of just wages. He beljeves that industry in Fingland (or anywhere else, for that matter) could equal American efficiency if those four conditions were met. Per- haps he is right. HISTORY AND THE SCREEN. The offer of a British firm to sup- ply Quebec Province movie houses with films, occasioned by the hitch which has occurred -bétwedn Anteri- can producers and the Board of Cen- sors im this part of Canada, leads the Montreal Gazette 4 to note how closely the film industry is connect ed with national life and manners, and, considered as a medium of his- torical presentment, holds to-day, a position of front rank. The olfjec- tion to the Americanization of Eng- land by the plethora of Hollywood scenarios is not so much that these films are 'picture made" and arti- ficial productions with, little attach- ment to actual life, as that so many of them misrepresent the genius and spirit of the peoples with which they presumably deal, and give a false twist to historie record, placing' the Incidents out 'of proper focus and putting the emphasis on the wrong however, the-position and, power of the modern film 4n relation te his tory are facts of great moment, re- vealing possibilities ! the silver screen took 'possession' of the modern stage. 3 --- ---------- -------- by ae WHAT FUTURE WILL SHOW, accent. Aside from this discussion |. ' undreamed of | sas alone will produce 200,000,000 bushels this year. The forecast is assuring. Dr. Bilas Hemingway says the let- ters of our alphabet can be arranged this number of ways: 620,401,448, 733,239,439,368,000. Even at that, they lack the power to emable one adequately to express opinions about the weather. As the maritime provinces are purely agriculture Bishop Richard. son, Fredericton, N.B., thinks the thing to save migration is an agri- cultural education which will de- velop in the people a knowledge of and an appreciation of the value of the land. . nS S-- Vv Vernon March has been awarded the contract for Canada's war mem- orial. He sald he had been told by a "fortune-teller" in Canada that he would soon be back in the dominion to do better and bigger work than he has already done here, The fort tune teller had probably seen his ad- mirable work at Orillia. t Lord 'Hugh' Cecil (how many péo- ple pronounce it "'Sessill" instead of, correctly, "Siesell"?) has long been recognized as one of the most bril- lant brains in British pelifics. He always commands a parliamentary audience betause his speeches give] shéer intellectual pleasure. The draught of the Welland canal will be 18 feet six inches this year, six inches lower than formerly. That means the logs of an immense cargo public improvement. Freedom or Sovietism? Montreal Star: Premier Stanley Baldwin . emerges from the first stage of the struggle with an en- hanced feputation and with added strength. It was with a heavvy heart and with a full sense of the serious- ness of his responsibilities that he pleaded in the house of commons last night for some step that would avert the géneral strike at the ele- venth hour. Mr. Baldwin told the country that the only people who rejoice over the trouble now afflict- Ing Britain are her enemies, because they see the very fortress of demo- cratic freedom challenged by a pow- er which, if it is ful, J vertisement. \ | ren | Quebec Viewpoint the overthrow of a system that has withstood -all assaults. ee te ---- Oh, Learned Judge! : Magistrate: The idea of 3 'man of your size beating a 'weak>woman like that! . Prisoner: But, your worship, she kept irritating me. She kept saying "Just hit me once and IN have you hauled up before fhat bald- headed old reprobate of a mag- istrate and see what he'll do with you." Gv : Magistrate: Discharged. -- Staf- fordshire Sentinel. Change of Heart. "Just fancy Jim refusing to marry you! Didn't you tell him about your rich widowed aunt?" "Yes. Maybe that's why he's my uncle now."--Bulletin (Sydney). ee lo---- And Not Jones. Black: father's honesty. White; Well, I always thought somebody had it.---Answers, That Jones boy has his La Presse agree with Hon. Atha- nase David as to the value of a sane education as a protection in times of industrial disturbance. "Very opportunely the Hon. Atha- nase David recalled in the speech he delivered at the Lions' Club' the fact that the best protection against a strike of the nagure that is now in- flicting Sat. in lies in an edu- cation that is sane, based on religion and love of country. A people brought up in such an atmosphere has no reason {o fear conflicts be- less between citizens and the State. Difficulties may arise, of course, but they will soon cede before the good faith and goed will which animates the two parties in question. Spec- tacles such as those daily reported from Great Britain serve to bring into into relief the excellent mental- ity of our working population in the province of Quebec, and generally throughout the Dominion. On many occasions agitators, who more often are foreigners, have attempted to rouse the passions of the artisans and start war between employers and employed, and paralyze national in- dustries, but they have always tween patrons and workmen, still Kt stumbled against the better will of or The latter have re- HANLEY 9 (Established 1871) 8 Steamship passages ing the world. ports, Through tickets issued over all Trans-Atlantic, Trans-Pacific, Alaska, Bermuda, West Indies, Mediterran- ean, Round the World Steamship Lines. Prepaid passages arranged for if you desire to bring relatives or friends from abroad. For full particulars apply to or write J. P. » C.P. & T.A, CN. anadian National Of Cc Rlys, Station, dare: Jotnsdp and streets, Kingston, Ont. day and night. 'Phones 99 or or alized and continue to realize, that strikes and especially general strikes, are a calamity that. results in irre. parable damage to the country, We must continue to avoid them by every means possible; and it is be- cause our workmen remain faithful to this policy that the province of Jiebec enjoys such great prosper- ity in spite of the bad years of the War, An sixty years, jumped into the Niagara and swept over the falls "Sarwar ---------------- EE ---- ts ttt + THINK IT OVER DR. J. C.W. BROOM own woman aged about |.