3s sisi ------------ et (DEATH OF FINN WHO Bh -- -- BCH OF AMERICAN PROGRESS DUE PROBS: Mastly fair and warm on Tuesday, with ~~ TO OUR EFFICIENCY IN BUSINESS | By S. W. Straus, President HILE we Americans as a le are more extrava- more wasteful of our than others, we have superiors in real business An exampic of this is shown the building and construction dustries. It takes ice as long, and Slictimes more, to #rect a building in England as it does . The result is "buildings over , generally paking, cost as uch as they do here although the ftsmen engaged construction only paid third as much as a heavy n is placed upon orking people through lack of ficiency in the building in- ustry. . When we look about us in this and note the great prog- being made on every hand, how our cities and smaller places "are forging ahead and how great building projects are going for- ward, we gain an appreciation of the value of American effi- 8. W. STRAUS American Society for Thrift ciency. Better standards of liv ing for the masses of the people are continually being developed, education is b ed, more amicable relations between em- ployer and employee are fos- tered, and higher ideals of citizen ship are brought into existence. xi American effi ciency means sim- ply the elimina- tion of the greatest possible amount of waste, in words thrift ap- plied to business. And it is to be said to our honor that European countries are taking note of our and are inni to follow As a nation we are often criticised for our commer< cialism. Neverthe- less it can not be denied that we have developed a type of industrial thrift that is a strong factor in Joltinn many of our t socia Let Ae that stand- ards of individual efficiency bring the same benefits to the indi vidual as business efficiency brings to industry. If we would --make progress in the world, we must learn to forego habits of waste. Thrifty ways, followed consistently from day to day, can bring us only to successful destinations. VISITING 1'05PITALS. d Doctor Makes a Trip--Death ' of Dr. J. 8, Quinn. Tweed, May 31.--Dr. Lake left last week to attend the Ontario © Medical Association at London, and will also visit some of the leading hospitals on the American side. Mrs. Lake accompanied him. 'The many friends in Tweed of Dr. Stafford Quinn, were sorry to H ATSATIS hear of his death which occurred in Preston on Saturday. He leaves an aged father and mother, four sisters and three brother, Sister Rose Quint, of the House of Providence, King- ston, is a sister, and Charles Quinn of Queen's University, is a brother. Mr. and Mrs. P. K. Newton are visiting friends in Watertown, N.Y. WANTED--A LEG James Tatom, forty-one, a Dayton (Ohio) machinist, lost his leg in an accident some time ago. Now he has broadcast an appeal for a human leg to be grafted onto his body. A dozen people, including two women, have offered to sell him their legs. He expects to get money to pay for the new limb by selling movie rights to the operation. Drowned Near Renfrew. Renfrew, May 31---Lewis Wright, aged twelve, who came to Canada three weeks ago from Leeds, Eng- land, was drowned last night when his canoe upset on the Punnechere river. His body has not been found. New Zealand has no desire for an enlarged status in the empire, says the new high commissioner, Bir James Parr. Brick and WAS SHOT BY GUARD Had Been Employed in Hotel Dieu--=8hooting Was Three Years Ago. Thomas Sale died at the Hotel Dieu Hospital on Saturday after a lengthy illness. Deceased was forty- nine years of age and was a Finn. He had no relatives. He had been employed at the Hotel Dieu Hospi- tal as an orderly for about three years during which time he render- ed faithful service. In commection with this death, it is recalled that Salo was the man who was shot in the leg by a peni- tentiary guard in McAdoo's bush at the time Red Ryan and other com- victs escaped and were supposed to be in hiding there. Salo, who was unable to understand English very well, did not comply with the de- mand of the guard who challenged him to half, not understanding what had been said to him. The guard shot him in the left leg. The unfortunate man who brought to the Hotel Dieu Hospital at the time and a short time later his left leg was amputated as a result of the shot. A subscription was takem up around the Hotel Dien to sccurc for him an artificial limb. After his recovery, he was em- ployed by the Hotel Dieu as an or- derly and since that time on he worked faithfully and well, The funeral took place from M. P. Keyes' funeral home on Monday morning to the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception where requiem mass was sung at nine o'clock by Rev. Father Lacey. WORKERS' EDUCATION ASSOCIATION CLASS Likely to Be Formed In Kings~ ton--Expense Covered by Provincial Grant. It is quite probable that a class of the Workers' Bducational Associa~ tion will be formed in Kingston next fall. Dr. Herbert Heaton of Queen's University ad Mr. A. H. Carr, also of Queen's, have just re- turned from attending the annual meeting of this association of which Dr. Heaton was elected presidént for the coming year, and Mr. Carr a member of the executive. Dr. Hea- ton, who is head of the Department of Economics at Queen's, has been in close touch with the Workers' Edu- cational Association both in England and in Australia, and the Ontario executive wished to have the benefit of his experience. The purpose of the W. E. A. is to interest the laboring man in improv- ing his education, and the work has been carried on in Ontario for the past eight years. Successful classes are held in the winter months at a number of the larger cities of On- tario. These classes are open to any adult who wishes 'to improve his education, and such subjects as fin- ance, economics, literature, history, civics, public speaking, etc, are taught by tutors provided by the uni- versities. The expense of the colirse is cov- ered through a provincial grant to the University of Toronto. These classes are working well in theslUniit- ed States and England, and 'it 1s hoped to get the Kingston class or- ganized and working efficiently next fall. thunderstorms in a few localities. The girl who marries a man to re form him often deforms him. CHILDREN RECEIVE FIRST COMMUNION At St. Mary's Cathedral Sun- day--62 Girls and 57 Boys. Sixty-two Catholic girls and fifty- seven boys received their first com- munfon at the 7.30 o'clock mass at the Cathedral of The Immaculate Conception on Sunday morning. The | girls and boys marched in a body | from their respective schools, and occupied seats at the front In the| middle isle of the cathedral, which was filled with their parents and friends. The girls were in white dresses and stockings with black shoes and a white veil draped over the head. The boys wore blue' suits, id white ribbons on their arms. A Sacred Heart badge adorned the breast of each girl and boy. The children were dismissed at the con- clusion of the mass and in the after- noon marched to the cathedral again for the enrolement of the scapulars. Death of Mrs. ©. F, Aylsworth. Another old resident passed away at her home in Madoc on Tuesday, in the person of Elizabeth Jane Gil- lesple, in her eighty-ninth year. She was the widow of C. F. Aylesworth, surveyor, who was also inspector of Colonization for all Northern Ont- ario for many years. When a child her parents came to Canada from near Clones, County Fermanagh, Ireland, and settled in the Town- ship of Tyendinega, at Roslin. She lived with her uncle, the late John Emerson. She had lived with her family in Madoc, since 1362, She was a loyal A san, She Is surviv- ed by one brother, Jai of Chicago, and four children; Charles Fraser James B. and Miss Jennie, all of Madoc, and John E., of Fort Saskat- chewan, Alberta, Capt. Bartlett Safe. New York, May 31---Anxiety over Captain Robert Bartlett, aide to the late Admiral Peary on his discovery of the North Pole, ceased Saturday when the two-masted schooner Effie M. Morrisséy, which he was pilot- ng here from Newfoundland to get the Greenland Expedition of the Am- erican Museum of Natural History, dropped anchor off quarantine, ten days overdue but with all hands safe. 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