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f ' THURS., SEPTEMBER 24, 1936 we yet HAILEYBURIAN Page 7 Ottawa Spotlight By Wilfrid Eggleston : The i e Ottawa, Sept. 22--Radio, the Canadian National Railways, and the Bank of Canada are all away to a new start, with new blood in the management of affairs, and some changes in general policy. Broadly speaking, the govern- ment is carrying out election pledges, and is seeking to cor- rect some weaknesses which the experience of recent years dis- closed. Take radio, for instance, For three years we have had a com- mission of three, with the chair- man acting as general manager. Many improvements in_ radio broadcasting have resulted. But a parliamentary committee last session concluded that the three- man commission was a faulty set- up. They recommended a change to the British system. So now we have a Board of Governors, nine in number, with the witty Leonard Brockington of Winnipeg} as chairman, and such well known persons as Nellie McClung, Wilfred Bovey and N. L. Nathanson on it. Also we are to have a genera! mana- ger, almost certainly Major Glad- stone Murray, a Canadian who has reached the top rungs in British broadcasting. Division of Duties The Board of Governors will appraise and direct public taste in the matter of programs; the general manager and his assistant will seek to give the public what the governors think it wants. The control enjoyed formerly by the commission is divided. There will be, also, some build- ing of stations and some increa- ses in power of existing stations. The Canadian Broadcasting Cor- poration won't have the money to acquire all private stations, but it will gradually extend public own- ership as funds permit. It will try to reach some of the 'dead spots' in regions of Canada which cannot now hear our own prog- rams. The chairman has a deep faith in the possibilities of radio broad- casting to bring and bind to- gether the diverse far-flung parts of Canada. He is a man of cul- tured tastes, and will seek to raise the standard of programs to a desirable level. Not too high- brow, of course. But sufficiently high that those peeple who want something 'a bit better' on the air won't be disappointed: Changes on C.N.R. What about the 'new deal' on the Canadian National? / We have had three years of three-man trustee government with the chairman all-powerful. It was to be a sort of receivership for a bankrupt system. The pre- sent government doesn't believe that it accomplished any more than a good directorate would have, in concrete results, and that it had a depressing effect on the morale of the employees. So now we go back to a board of direc- tors--but not the board as of Sir Henry Thornton's day. That was a large (17) and scattered direc- torate, with limited powers of supervision. Now we have a small, efficient (so it is hoped) board of seven, embracing some outstanding lawyers and mining men. The president, S. J. Hun- gerford, is also the chairman, but before long it is proposed to sep- arate these offices, Its first job is to make the system pay its bond interest; if that is possible. It will go out after business, maintain econo- mies, restore the morale of the workers, resist political pressure. That is the theory, at any rate. We are all interested financially because it costs the average man. woman and child five dollars a year in taxes to meet the deficits of the railway. Say $25 per year - for the head of the typical family. With business rising to better levels, it should be possible to pare down the annual deficit. Public-Controlled Bank The change in the Bank of Canada is not drastic, but in ef- fect it turns a privately owned and controlled institution into one which is potentially under the thumb of the government of the day. The choice of directors sug- gests that the government is not hide-hound about monetary pol- icy. George Coote is one of the monetary reformers, and Profes- sor McQueen is a young vigorous minded chap who has little use for stand-pattism. The govern- ment purchased a majority of shares last week also, and so the majority of ownership is vested in the people now. The National Employment Commission hopes that 45,000 A HEALTH SERVICE OF THE CANADIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION AND LIFE INSURANCE COMPANIES IN CANADA MY MACHINERY "TI will praise Thee: for I am fearfully and wonderfully made."--A Psalm of David. We are the marvels of the ages, with minds that span space and time, with capacities beyond! the strongest engines, and nice-. ties of adjustments beside which hair springs of watches are clum- sy as cave-men's clubs. The strong, smooth, adaptable, sweet running of such systems of intri- cacies is Health, and anything that mars the strength, smooth- ness, adaptability or sweetness of the running, or wears out the works unduly, is either in itself a disease or something that will lead to disease. An accident is a monkey-wrench thrown into the delicately-adjusted works. In life's first half organs and elements are at their best, except for hang-overs of heredity which are like old parts put into new cars; the gloryof young men is their strength. Yet in this glow- ing first half germs make mass attacks, and gross infections be- set, that can destroy a machine so utterly or do life-enduring damage. Measles, whooping- cough, scarlet fever, tuberculosis and all the colds and 'flus are rampant. By the second half, while most of these may have spent them- selves, new ones wax as the others wane, pneumonia, bronchi- tis, eardiac, renal and rheumatic types. And older tissues may get a craze of untimely ycuth and growth and go on the rampage in a group of diseases called cancer, the crab. In the second half al- single men will be taken on to farms under the farm improve- ment scheme, which bonuses the farmer as well as the worker The Youth Employment Commit- tee is also preparing schemes to absorb smaller numbers of unem- ployed youth this winter. Trade and revenue figures con- tinue to rise. ' so, whether specially damaged or not, the tissues begin to show signs--that is symptoms -- of wearing out. It may be that some one organ gives special trouble and an oldish man will tell you he would be all right if he could only buy a few spare parts. Or the whole mechanism may wear out fairly equally, like the deacon's one-hoss-shay, built in such a wonderful' way that no part was stronger or weaker than any other; so, naturally, it went to pieces all at once, all at once and nothing first, just as bubbles do when they burst. And that was the end «of the one-hoss-shay. One may come to the end in a full age, like a shock of corn cometh in in his season. Touchstone, the clown, had a good idea of the two halves of life. The melancholy Jaques, the crabbed philosopher, thought, "all the world's astage"', and drama- tized man socially, "his acts being seven ages, at first the infant, mewling and puking in the nurse's arms," and finally: "Last scene of all That ends this strange event- ful history In second childishness and mere oblivion: Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything." The clown, thinking not of the social actor but the physical man, saw two stages, development and decline. "And thus (first half) from hour to hour we ripe and ripe; and then (second half) from hour to hour we rot and rot, and thereby hangs a tale." ' When Pasteur found disease germsand the age of the micro- scope began; when Lister built on this foundation a new surgery and men like Koch a new preven- tive medicine: and wher these mysteries became popular know- ledge, so that every housewife applied them hourly, death-rates were cut and life-spans lengthen- ed almost as though we had at last eaten of the tree of life in the midst of the garden. - Surgeons think of the Pasteur-Lister-Koch jnew dawn as an incalculable ser- |vice to mankind through the new .surgery; physicians as an almost |greater service through new prin- ciples learned about many dis- ee see. their care and cure. But Ithe greatest service of all was the jincrease in knowledge of disease prevention and cure that came to ordinary people, to mothers and teachers, housewives and city @ FANCIFUL FABLES @ DOGGONE !! TAIS 1S A SWELL MYSTERY councillors, butchers and bakers, | of life has been indeed transform- and candle-stick makers. A good ed by the new knowledge, but housewife today, without special second half much less, except for instruction, but acting on what,the advantages of new surgery- she knows and applies at home| The average life-span may reach every day, could prepare a room new heights each decade because for an operation better than the'infants do not die of summer best of surgeons or the best of, diarrhoea, or children of diphth- nurses could have done it before eria, and yet the middle-aged Lister. This widespread intelli-- have not gone on smotohly to gence about the ways of disease|Methusaleh ages, even when they and health (and of course it)ate what was put on their plate. should be much wider) is the best} Questions conceining Health, addres- result of the new knowledge. sed to the Canadian Medical Associa- TI ear Ba tion, 184 College Street, Toronto, will he first infection-ridden half! be answered personally by letter. MAKING UP A SHOPPING LIST The hall needs a new rug. More towels are needed for the bathioom, and the kitchen floor could certainly Stand a coat of paint. The children need shoes. The car will soon need tires. Well, we buy a hundred new things every year. Scattered throughout Canada are manufacturers who "make the very things we need. Their products are on sale in certain stores within easy reach. Certain of these products, aad certain of these stores, are espe- cially fitted to take care of our special need. But which products and which stores? Which can we afford, and which do we think best? We must look to advertising for advice. Advertising is the straight line between supply and demand. It saves time spent in haphazard shopping. It leads you directly 10 your goal. By reading the adver- tisements. we can determine in advance where the best values can be found. With the aid of advertising, shopping becomes a simple and pleasant business, and budget figures bring more smiles than frowns. From the pages of this paper you can make up a shopping list that will save you money! eSNAPSHOT CUIL DO OUR EYES BETRAY US? ICTURE-TAKERS are often sur- prised to discover that, although the camera lens is just a piece of inanimate glass, it sees things the human eye does not. Actually, in a given scene same images reach the eye as lens but while they all reach camera film some of them do register on the brain. Does the eye betray us? No, it is because the mind tends to select from the images received by the eye those in which it is most interested and to reject or disregard the rest. This is something to remember when you get ready to take a pic- ture. Neither the lens nor the film selects. Together they record every- thing the light transmits. Hence, the disconcerting things that often appear in a photograph because the mind disregarded them when the shutter was snapped--objects that in the print stand out with startling emphasis and which you would al- most swear never could have been there. For example, so many snapshots of landscapes are marred by the ap- pearance of telegraph wires streak- ing across the sky, not to mention "the telegraph poles, or by sign boards and unsightly buildings that » went unnoticed when the picture was snapped, jarring a composition that would be otherwise appealing because of the natural beauty of the scene. Or, often in interior views of a home, objects in disorder that were not particularly notice- able when the picture was taken, will make themselves startlingly evident in the photograph. Such a thing as a table cover slightly awry, or a newspaper underneath a chair, or mantel-piece objects thut may happen to be disarranged will attract unexpected attention in the print. And who has not seen a charming likeness of a person al- most made ridiculous by the appear- ance of an incongruous object in the picture, such as a sign on a store window, some animal that has wandered into focus, unnoticed, or some grinning spectator in the background? One of the things that often give us surprises in snapshots of persons is a strong shadow across the face, which in the print spoils a good like- ness. In taking such a picture, our imagination fills in the dark arga satisfactorily, but remember that the camera lens has no imagination. the the the not Shadows will fool the eye, but not the camera lens. The photographer's own shadow did not seem important when he took this picture, but look at the result. Again, we often let our own shadow barge into the picture, as in the snapshot of the decorative lady aboye who appears to be standitg on somebody's head. The moral is that when you take a-picture, first make your eye the camera lens and your brain the film; then you will know before you shoot exactly what is going to show in the picture. | texture, judging goods. | Advertisements Are a Guide to Value I *% Experts can roughly a product by looking at it. handling and examining it. something to their trained eyes and fingers. % But no one person can be an expert on steel, brass, wood, leather, of the materials that make up a list of personal purchases. by concealed flaws and imperfections. % There is a surer index of value than the senses of sight and touch--knowledge of the | maker's name and for what it stands. most certain method, except that of actual use, for Here is the only guarantee against careless work- manship, or the use of shoddy materials. % This is one important reason why it pays to read the advertisements and to buy advertised MERCHANDISE MUST BE GOOD OR IT COULDN'T BE CONSISTENTLY ADVERTISED Buy Advertised Goods estimate the value of More accurately, by Its appearance, its the "feel" and the balance of it all mean foodstuffs, fabrics, and all And even experts are fooled, sometimes Here is the the value of any. manufactured goods. The product that is advertised is worthy of your confidence. 96 JOHN VAN GUILDER