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ii 33 | the scene, This most natural tendency to rely on sensations instead of instruments has probably sible for the fallore of many transoceanic flights. of these 'was the fatal attempt At night, 600 miles out, his Into heavy fog. Then, "We are ina spin." Next came a reassuring report only to be follow- ed by the last one heard. "We are in "another spin. 8.08. . , Flyers ashore easily reconstructed Tossed in the bumpy air, ithe plane started to turn to one side. The pilot checked it suddenly, and at _onee his treacherous senses told he was turning in the opposite dfrec- tion, so he pushed hard on the rud- der, and in the wrong direction. The ship skidded, stalled and spun. On getting out of the spin he had the same Eensation of those tested in the chair--of turning in the other direc- tion and falling. Believing himself in another spin, he nosed down to re- gain control--and dived straight into the sea. = Later, a pilot tested under identical 8 went through precisely William Edwin to rescue| Opens In Germany | Onitcome of Attempted Ship- ment of Ammunition to China Kiel, Germany --Whether the Ger- man Rel¢shwehr and Navy permitted of had knowledge of an attempted shipment of 8,000,000 rounds of rifle ammunition worth over $100,000 from Germany to the army of the late Man- churian War Lord, Gen. Chang Tse- Lin in January, 1928, is likely to be determined at a sensational trial which fo ie y VIEW OF PROVINCIAL LEGISLATIVE BUILDINGS AT QUEBEC The photograph here shows an aerial view of the parliament buildings at Queheo City. Se cu m-emorTmn The Peasant Population of Beating of Human (¥ in the Atlantic Monthly (Boston): Even after a cen- tury of intense industrial life, the social structure of France Is essen: tially built up of peasants, artisans, and bourgeois. In spite of the drift to the cities, which seems to be part of the normal development of our Western civilization, the mainstay or French life is still the peasant. The ran Andre Siegfried cent. the rural population of France! as against 49 per cent. in the United | States and only 20 per cent, in Eng. land. In contrast with the English farmer and the grain grower and stock raiser of the United States, the | Heart is Exposed | Chest Incision Reveals Many Wrongs in Diagnosing Ailments Ann Arbor, Mich,--Four University of Michigan surgeons recently an- | nourced fesults of their observation of the beating of a human heart, view- census of 1921 estimates at 54 per|ed through an opening in the chest of Ia patient. Through the ine wound which neceesitated removal of a section of the chest wall, the four physicians recorded the electric curs! ion made by a Mrs, Rose G. Dorsz at her Detroit home on Bpworth Boulevard. Young Dorss first worked as a tool maker, then as a clerk fn a brokerage house, always filling his spare time with study. After two unsuccessful attempts to pass examinations to en- ter the foreign service, he signed on as a patrolman last August and re- mained on the force until October 16 when he once again journeyed to Washington to take another consular test. Success in the examination, fol lowed by a brilliant few months of work in headquarters of the foreign service resulted in his assignment to Ottawa. Find Fishi Banks Are Not Disturbed Gowernment Reports Do Not Bear Out Shift in Ocean Bed Ottawa. --Officials of the Marine De- partment here are not unduly alarm- ed over reports filtering through the newspapers from trans-Atlantic ship masters to the effect that the recent earthquake bas disturbed tbe bed of the ocean off the American coast. The previous report that the fishing banks had disappeared bas been en- tirely digproven by Nova Scotian schooner cap'eins who have reported i to Ottawa thot nay svel dlsplacoment bas taken lace. At thy some: time thé masters of the varlous cable ships): ati] rampant in that republic. The Units States was one member on the com mission, the League one, and Liberia has appointed the third, 8 28 Signatories peta The slavery convention adopted the League fn 1926 and which so far has been signed by 28 nations, seeks complete abolition of slavery or en- forced labor, which Is known fo still exist in certain colonies of Africa. The United States, whish early ratic fled the convention and has heen one ot the prime movers in its enforce- ment, has taken such an interest in the Commission's work that it recents ly appointed Henry Carter of the state department to become Charge d'Affaires ad interim at Monrovia, Li beria, to observe and assist the work of the International slavery commis~ sion. The League hopes that the work of the commission can be started soon after the first of the year and finished before June 30 in order that a report can be made during the summer to the League, It appears that Liberia is withholding her ratification of the convention until the investigation has been completed. In Colonies Since the adoption of the League convention there have been numerous reports that both slavery and forced labor still exists in several African celonies among which are colonies of France, a The League has repeatedly shown appreciation of Great Britain's efforts rents generated by the heart's opera- | tion. They discovered important in-! occuracies in the current methed cf! opened here last week. The trial is the result of a sweep- ing investigation which lasted nearly wits duty was to repair tbe crac | to stamp out forced labor and slavery tured tomreunication lines south of in her colonies, but regards France Newfoundland, hove similarly report-' as somewhat refractory In this re that maneuver. Frenchman may be considered as the Out of these experiments one im- re ent ¢ very type of the peasant; a small wt development of Moose = Fastory, 'Ontario's only salt-water port. Many millions must te spent in harbor im: ean go to Europe via the northern route. The government is confident, however, that a new fishing industry will spring up in James Bay and Hud- son Bay when the road is completed. France to Build Net of Gun Pits ~ Forts Will Stretch From Belgian to Swiss Border" 2 "It 1s 'no longer a question of sink- ine billions of francs in obsolete fortl- E 53d g 253s 8 cq portant fact has come to light, Once a pilot has been shown that he must trust Instruments and mot his own senses, he can learn to fly blind--in- definitely. Lieutenant Doolittle re- cently took off in a plane with a hood- ed' cockpit, flew a 16 mile course, re- turned to the field, and made a' per- fect three-point lanling--without see- ing a thing but his Instrument board. The final step will probably be tak- en soon when the automatic pilot is adopted. Such devices have been 1 y tested. t 1 two years. The case has attracted in- ternational .attention. Representatives of the press and public were excluded from the court "to safeguard interests of state" on the motion of the progecutor. The accused, who are alleged to have engineered the giant internation- al smuggle which was halted just as the ammunition was about to be loaded on & Norwegian steamer here, are a former German army officer, a naval officer and five Berlin merchants. successfull 0 pilot keeps the plane level without at- tention from the dumgn pilot. This completely frees the pliot from. the strain -of tly reading two or three shifting instruments. --The Sat urday Evening Post. 4 - Britain's Wheat = Supply Brig-Gen. 8ir Henry Page Croft in the Empire Review : (London)s (Though harvesting the finest wheat crop for many years in 1920, the Bri 'tish farmer found himself deprived of all profit by the dumping of bounty- fed wheat from Gérmany.) The Bri- Ugh farmer does not need a high artl- ficlal price; what he needs is a stable price which gives him an economic return, The hard wheat such as comes from the Dominions will al- ways be required in Britain but wheat | which comes' from Germany and oth- er Ruropean countries, or from the Argentine, directly displaces British grown wheat, ana, Jf our contention is Ha that we can grow what re re ire in the tish Prapive is clear that a {ho Bien duty on foreign cereals need not raise the price of 'bread to the British consumer, but would make #t possible to continue fo produce wheat in Britain. ) The Government's Blunder London Daily Express (Ind): Mr, MacDonald i badly in Tet- ting tho "bigger and better dole" bill .t| 08 thie light of day. He never should have countenanced it. Its very xis of everything the nation. The entire shipment was seized by customs officers after they had exam- ined cases which had been declared as containing articles of brass. The shipments came here in 16 freight cars.- Investigation showed that the entire cargo had been purchased by an Italian agent: It was also learned that the cargo was to be shipped to Oslo, Norway, and thence to China, The ammunition came from a scrap. ping plant maintained by one of the accused merchants at Sueplitz, near Torgau, ---- ef -- "Women don't marry geniuses," says a psychologist. No, it takes a genius to escape. ste A nner A. prehistoric skeleton has been found with its legs almost round its neck. Evidently even in the old days there werg mew dance steps.--The Passing Show (London). ADAMSON'S ADVENTURES-- landowner and solitary worker, who lives by cultivating his own plot of land. Out of 8,591,000 farmers in France, 5,000,000 are their own mas- ters. This is a fact of supreme im- portance in our study of the French point of view, for the peasant herl- tage is always close at hand even In the heart of the cities; and although they may be far from the land the French continue to feel and react like asants, semen The Sneak Guest Y.¥. in the New Statesman (Lon- don): Several correspondents have been writing to the Times during the past few days on the subject of the "sneak guest." This is apparently, a newly invented term describing a per- son who visits any house as an ac quaintance and afterwards sells any interesting private conversation he has heard as gossip to a newspaper. It is clear that if tbls is done on any considerable scale it is a very grave threat to social life, If there is a spy at every dinner table, there will soon be an end of conversation, and the strong, silent Englishman will be- come stonger and more silent than ever, ------ ities Luckily a woman doesn't have to wait as many months for a long dress to be delivered as she has to wait for diagnosing heart ailments, they said. Certain fluctuations, in the. inten- sity of current which had hitherto been believed due to disease on the right side of the heart were found to be caused by diseases of the.opposite side, a ---- ed no change. However, the Government Hydro graphic Service -intends next spring to send the C.G.S. Acadia over the banks with its echo-sounding appara. tus, in order to determine whether the depths within the national juris. diction of this country have altered or not. Games in a Better World Bernard Darwin in the Spectator (London): I suppose we should all in a better world be much, much bet- ter than we are now, though I trust we should never get to the pitch of wishing "the best man to win," except on the understanding that the "best man" was ourselves. We should never throw our clubs about, of course, nor say that it was our partner's fault, nor call gods and men to wit- ness our ill luck. I am inclined faint ly to hope that we should not talk about games quite so much as we do now, or that, at any rate, we should talk about them more impersonally. I am sure that, when we wrote about them, we should not call a ball a "gphere," nor a club an "implement"; neither should we call people whom Bunday-School Teacher -- "Tommy, who made the trees, the flelds and the mountains?" Tommy--*"1 don't know, mam, only moved here two months ago." We a head of bobbed hair to grow out. we do not know by thelr Christian names nor describe young guardsman" or "the forty-five year-old-stockbroker," and we should never say of a lady player that she looked dainty and "petite" in a blue "bandean." them as € i GOT TO GET HER OUY OF THE HOUSE SOMEHOW]: 7 By O. Jacobsson "the and is not confined | hortations, will make any difference, teatime en Are War Books True? Truth (London): War is an emo- tion at least as old as Euripides, who trampled on the Homeric glorification of it. But Euripides, being a Greek, avoided overstatement, a pitfall into which the Remarques and the Graves fall headlong. All war is foul, and the men who wage it, according to them, are reduced to the level of beasts. Courage, self-sacrifice, en- durance, self-control, and honor, these have no part in it. From first to last it is swinishness unredeemed. And if we recoil from the picture, we are derided as sentimentalists who will not face facts When they are pre- sented to us with fidelity at last! But the point is: Are we getting the facts? It we are, then we are at a loss to understand how flesh and blood en- dured the abomination that never Mfted, and why the fighting men did not return to peace, not as human be- ings, but as raving lunatics and ravening wolves, nlp Mr. Hoover afd Mr. Thomas Nation end Athenaeum (Londen): (Mr. Hoover has been biolding con- ferences at the White House with the object of ensuring that every avall- able form of constructional work shall he pressed forward as rapidly as possible.) It is too soon, of course, to my what degree of success will at- | tend Mr, Hi rate, these efforts are taken very seriously, mot only In America, put in the comments which appear in the British Press. We all find it quite easy to believe that Mr, Hoover's appeals and exhorlations American economic situation; and yet, in our own case we have almost who has an essentially similar task, to appeals and ex- worth connldring. There hasn't been for several a bombhig tn ° ver's efforts. Buf at any} 'abandoned the hope that Mr. Thomas, | gard, Certain French quarters are fights ing the efforts of {he international convention because they belleve ft detrimental to the Interests of the colonies. They point out, for years the colonists have been able to put new estates under cultivation and modernize Africa only through fores ing the natives to work. The nativess according to reports, are sometimes captured at the point of a gun and forced to work for a certain period after which they are released and paid a smal sum for their labor. + moat nim English Reserve @. K. Chesterton in the Illustrated London News: What is the matter with us: too much with everybody. Tt will not leave ur nan Tong Sogn" by himself for him to discover that he 1s himself. Therefore, we have & perpetual out-pouring of gifts from the State to the Individual, but less and less given back by the Individual te the State, This is hard on all hue manity; but it Is especially hard on the English. They are a nation of humourists, in the old sense; which Is the very opposite of 4 nation 'of Society wits, Their wits have work ed best pon poetry and leisurely fie tion, which grow best in lives of quiet and detactment. And I do seriously think that Englishmen ought to make some fight for that right of ancient sanctuary, before it is broken down by the mere American herd-insiinet, X bave never heen a Jingo, or uttered political boasts about the Splendid Isolation of England, but I would do & # good deal to presurve the Splendid Isolation of the Huglishman, ' riot The Warrior What word did Duty say, As he passed by to-day And found me helpless, lying prose trate by the way? My sword was red with rust, My throat was choked with dust, But Duty locked and sald unpityinge ly, "Thou must." ip Then straight a burst of fire ° Rekindled my desire, And I sprang up iron-willed, dete mined to aspire. Se --Frederick Tene bl ee st--