appointed by the King Government, the Canadian National rallways are doing wondrous things. WHEN WE BECOME OLD. The question when a' person can ! be classed 'as old has been politely | dodged by various observers, some | of whom have professed to believe | a woman as old as she looks. 'But | now a statistician of a big insurance i company assumes, says the Oswego, | N.Y., Palladium-Times, "to fix thé | time of transit into the aged category | of 65 years. A trifie less than five | per cent. of Americans have passed that line, an incréase of two per cent. since 1890. But about two-thirds of them are self-supporting, omly one- third depending wholly or partly on persons, relatives, public or private | relief. . The death-rate has been materially reduced during the past generation, | and so also has mortality from many | 3634| discases, which formerly took big] toll of lite. Not so well known, how- | ever, is the fact that mortality, from | most diseases has fallen as much in| very backward lands as in our own and the few others where science | his made greatest progress in com- batting disease. It thus appears to be a racial phemomeon for which medical science can not claim all the credit. As Dr. Pearson, a physician of celebrity, puts it, five marksmen, on for each period of life, turn their iat | destructive batteries on humanity. Infancy is subjected to a deadly fire. Childhood is sprayed with a machine gun, with less mortality. Youth is shot at with a bow and arrow with ho great loss of life. In, the fourth oO atly Bateson year, in iy sasiens Fear: to Danred Mm *iaseee BTH0 ehtices, 3a OUR NEXT GOVERNOR-GENERAL. Lord Willingdon is named the next or-general. His name indi- 'estes. his character--willingly done. rei long and brilliant train- ag for the high post in Canada as the King's representative. He was r "at Eton school and the foun- . of his great past was laid on school's playing field. As Free Freeman-Thomas he played ericket and captained the school . His prowess in the national game won him greater fame at the alversity, for he led the Cambridge nm. - A member one of the families in Sussex, Lord Wil- pr. married the daughter of Brassey and served ss aide-de- to his father-in-law during the term of service as Governor of Victoria Australia. In a score of ys he brilliantly performed the na- business, and as governor-gen- al of Cansda his success is assured: % with a blunderbuss, making scatter- od hits; but in the fifth a sharpshoot- er of deadly proficiency picks off one by one all who have run the gaunt- let that far and never a one éscapes. As for the old age line, it may 88 well be put at 65 as anywhere else, though many persons reach senescence long before that while others are sufficiently youthful old- sters for two decades more. The line is as arbitrary as that where twilight ends and night begins. But for all discoverable practical purposes a person is out by age, out of the run- ning, when life has ended whenever and however that octurs. - The proxi- ' @ cause which puts a period to) living is often apparent, but that! leaves a lot to be éxplainéd. It is no more explicable than the phenome- non noted by Professor Dorsey, late ---- of the chair of anthropology in the FERGUSON'S HESITA- | University of Chicago, in his recent TION. : remarkable book, "Why We Behave s { Like Human Beings." Nor than that Uncomfortable as is Mr. Fergu-{all over the world there has been 's position on the fence, he ling-|a drop of late in mortality from the trembling there fearing to jump | non-preventable d 'which medi- wet side. He has no thought, | cal science can her forefend, ar , of climbing back. Yet combat successf or cure. BS cannot remain where he is for- , says the Montreal Witness. He given his word that he will stand fall by his liquor policy in the it election. That cannot be de- fed for much more than a year. It is a foregone conclusion that Ferguson must commit himself n that time. Nor is it easy #00 how the Ontario premier can 0 any other course than to bodily into the wet pool in 'has been pud@ling since his pint-four adventure. Another 'might take refuge behind .a 'referendum. But that would be ble fn the case of the man { read that Walter Johnson, now pitching his twentieth year in the big leagues, won his 400th ball game the other day. You read, too, that the victory was his sixth out of seven starts this year. 3 How long, you wonder, will the ald master go on. They said he was through years agd, but his twenty three wins in 1924 were the biggest factor in Washington's capture of thé pennant that year. They said he was through after losing his first two world series starts that fall. Yét in the final game with the Giants he wen! in as a relief pitcher and a for- lorn hope and won imperishable glory by setting Meclraw's mer "on their heads. They said he was through after the Pirates had massacred him in the deciding game of the : world series; last fall. Yet here -he is; in his "1 39th year, still the pitching ace of the Washington team, still the big- gest hero of American boyhood. And further thas that, you have it on. the word of every ball player who has played with or against him, every umpire who has known him, that 'Walter Johnson is supremely a gen- tleman. Billy Evans, the famous um- pire, says he has called lots of bad balls on Walter without the big fel- n, escape from his ent * by going to Ottawa. 'the happiest of ,all ness party that much as murmuring. Day in| and day out he that a man is as old as he feels and period death fires slowly at maturity | 'industries there. 'r- WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: lamp 7" say "lighted." OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: "day." SYNONYMS: part, particle, rules." \ terest he favors may go unrepre- sented. An effort is béing "altempted in certain places to arouse the voters to a greater interest in their civie duty on election day. The indifference of s0 many people to their privilege and duty fn this respect is a recurring subject of reproach, and it ia in the hope of correcting the evil of neglect at the ballot-box that the Kiwanis Clubs in many centres have in some instances directed their organization, not of course with party, but with patriotic motive, to increase the per- centage of the popular vote. The co- operation of all available classes is enlisted so that on election day the citizen is greeted on the street, at his office and elsewhere with the question; "Have you cast your vote?" And it works out well, EDITORIAL NOTES. Man gets a slight shock when he sees two dandelions coming up where he dug one out last season. A New York auvoist hit a pedes- trian and settled for fifty cents. What a whale of a claim agent he would make, Beecher * Parkhouse asks the Farmers' Bun for a cire for earache contracted by straining the ears to try to hear if some protectionist Is pleading to be allowed io pay duty on his raw material? : In his Memorial Day address 'at Arlington, U.S., President Coolidge declared that. it was the mission of the United States to aid in preserv- ing world peace. He urged Europe to reduce her armament The Briand government of France is in.a far more advantageous posi- tion than it was a few weeks ago. The surrender of Abd-el-Krim and the improvement in the value of id Oshawa is reported as - coming back to mormal. Will its political @ebtive, of resentment to tariff changes, hurt the government as much as it has the motor industries and the ¢ity? Beware of monkeying with boomerang$, is the St. Thomas Times' 'éxpression. . * Washington's population has pass- ed the half million mark. One wonders what makes Washington in- orease in population. There are no It is not a manu: facturing city. - It is a capital oity and nothing more. The great bulk of #ts population consists of govern. ment employees. ! The decision of the Federal Gov- ernment epdorsed by the House of Commons, to remit to automobile dealers the excise tax paid on auto- mobiles remaining in their hands at the time when this tax was repeal- od by Order-in-Council in December, 1920, will be generally approved a simple act of justice, : Canada 1s looking forward Yo a very, large tourist traffic this year. Even if last year's figures alone are reached, the aggregate of. foreign cars entering the country will be enormous, but the probability" is that those figures will be greatly excedded. The total in 1925 was 2,429,144 of which 1,521,277 visit. Ontario : DALY LESSONS IN ENGLISH BY W. L. GORDON Aye (yes), pronounce as I in "tie." OFTEN MISSPELLED: recognize; ze. element, member, ingredient, section, segment, instaliment. WORD STUDY: "Use a word three times and it is yours." Let us increase our vocabulary by mastefing ome word each day. To-day"s word: ARBITRARY; depending on the will of the arbi. ter; absolute; despotic. 'They transgressed several of the arbitrary Don't say "have you .Iit the aye (always), pronounce' as a in plece, portion, fragment, atom, \ J |] an, Ra. News and Views. i ------ The Easy Mark. =Lebahon Reporter: The man. who tells himself he can't be fooled is fooléd already, ---- Has Been Warned. Border Cities Star: Telegram from the Sphinx to Premier Fergu- son: "Quit stealing my stuff." Semis There's No Shortage at All. Lake County Times: There's Bothing wrong with ' the weather this year except faulty - distribu. tion. %: To See the Changes. : Ottawa Citizen: Peace again reigns in Britain. Tourists may now stop over in London to see the changing of the guard on their way to Paris to see the changing of the premier. The A veness of e Ottawa Journal: University of Michigan stadium will be built to | Business Stationery Well- printed, nicely designed Station is an asset to any business. The Briti Whig Commercial Printing Department is equipped to give you first-class print. ing at the lowest price comparable with quality. ' | : J = : ; Place Your Next Order With Us 5 ei MEMO HEADS LOOSELEAF FORMS FILING CARDS ~~ LETTERHEADS ENVELOPES TAGS BILL HEADS The British Whi Commerrial Frinting Bepartment hold 70,000 people who will be at- tracted there from time to time, we are assured, to hear the lectures in higher mathematics, materia medica and anatomy, The Polite Men ot Hanover. Hanover Post: "I have never seen jsuch. polite men as they have ia | Hanover," sald a fair visitor, "for {every time I go down Main street al} ithe men bow their heads." "Don't kid yourself," sald her husband, { "they're not bowing to you, théy'rp iducking_the low awnings." ------ Cadet 5 < Oshawa Reformer: Cadet train- ing appeals to a well-defined youth- ful instinct. It sets boys up in body and mind, counteracts the youthful tendency to a slovenly carriage, im- parts discipline. But no one can say that it induces boys to seek careers Cunard and Anchor-Donaldson Cabin Vacations promise to revolutionize all our ideas on foreign travel. $170 round tri Plymouth, Cherdours, London, June P 26, July 10, Aub. 20. Liverpool, July2, (Established 1871) Ld Steamship pamges = booked to TA ON Office, adidn National Station, corner Johnson and Ontario streets, , Ont. Oper day and night. Kntnton, < or 3887 - Parlioulars The Robert Reford Limi dorner Ba Wi as soldiers, Beautification of Grounds. Tillsonburg News: The Canadian Horticultural Counctt Nate earned the gratitude of every public-spirit- ed eitizen in fostering the ornamental planting 'of the school grounds throughout the country. Commenec- Ing last year ten silver cups were offered for competition in various districts of the Dominion to the {rural' schools aseccomplishing the [greatest degrea of beautification of the grounds during the year. : -- GetaH plate for the Summer. We have them at all : prices. The Saunders Electric Co. i ---- | Quebec Viewpoint I La Presse draws attention to the editorial declaration by 1I'Unfon of | [i Edponton that "the fissure is widen- || ing," the French-Canadisns of West- Ii ern Canada being inclined to forget |i the Province 6f Québec. "It is more than time for action if this misfortune Is not soon to be |i consummated, declares our western | contemporary. These views are very { pessimistic, and perhaps they do not |i correspond 5 reality to the extent the writer believes. In any event, the sole fact that they have been publicly expressed constitutes a warning of which we ought to take heed. Tt is Important that we should: study 'the situation as it exists eo tha' we may not have occasion to sd mit to reproaches of tha kind contained In the article of i'Union. Nobody wishes to become respon- sible, through indifference or otler- |" wise, for disunion amon ferent groups of the GOOD MEALS The CAPITOL CAFE interest it has m ticularly in Alberta. We have sent the dif. ™ a WELL SERVED Vv our Restaurant and enjoy the good things we serve. oe en ep Ee novas Suing Bum Mo: Jas. REDDEN & CO, | ---- PHONES 38 4nd "| the West, par- when union is so necessary. For the |" rest, the province of Quebec has for a Tong time past given proof of the