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When We Stop Growing Since colonial days the population of the United States has been growing like a fattening calf. Not infrequently has it doubled in a couple of decades Not a few exuberant worshipers of bigness have predicted an ultimate population of hal* a billion by the end of the century. Quite a different line is taken by Professor J. J. Spengler in an article on ' When Population Ceases to Grow," in the New Republic. Following the more recent trends and studies in population theory, he holds that- the population of the United States will become stationary at about 150,000,000 in 1960-70. We no longer shall grow in numbers by leaps and bounds. These changes In population growth will be accompanied by an even more striking alteration in the age classes of the country. We shall become, ss Dr Warren Thompson pointed out some time back, a ‘ nation of elders.” Youths will fell off by 20 per cent. Those of 45 or older will increase by 50 per cent. These of more than 65 will gain by 200 per cent as compared with 1920. t What will be the social, economic and cultural consequences of these astonishing transformations? Dr. Spengler suggests what he believes will follow. The products used by young people will fall off, while those designed to meet the demands of comfort, serenity and other desires of the older people will increase. We shall sell fewer toy balloons and more golf balls Toys will suffer that footwarmers may flourish. It will be wiser to manufacture smoking Jackets than bibs. We shall give more attention to quality production. The volume of goods produced will need to be planned carefully in relation to actual demand, instead of trusting to God that more youths will need to be fed or more backs clothed. Industrial processes will have to be adjusted to the habits and capacities of older workers. The labor supply will be reduced sufficiently so that factories no longer can be manned wholly by alert and vigorous youngsters. The evils of old-age unemplovment will be curtailed. Labor will become less mobile and less easily shifted. The community will have to depend more and more on providing and training its workers. The industrial workers will profit most by these changes of any class because the labor supply will be cut. down sharply. The farmers and real estate men will suffer most, for there will be a relatively lessened demand for farm products and housing facilities. Farmers already produce more than we can consume at heme. Religion will pick up, Dr. Spengler believes, ‘‘since homo sapiens, as he edges toward eternity, still is prone to commit a shaman.” Christian Science and other cults which make an especial appeal to the ills of the aged in the population will grow rapidly. Conservatism will flourish. “The upraised hand of the patriarch will stay the rash march of youth.” Prudery and censorship will be likely to increase, since the aged will rule and will be likely to disapprove of those things which they no longer can enjoy. Tire only safety valve will be “the revolt of youth”. “In a stationary population, with senility in the council chamber? and virtue in the air, civilized man will probably find life onerous. Still, there may be an escape. Fascist youth, noting and fearing the dynamic vigor of the Russian Colossus in the east, may rise against conservatism, boot out the graybeards and restore vision at the helm.” Suppression and the Press Action of the government of Ontario in placing a news ban on the Toronto Star as a measure ot reprisal for the Star's action in refusing to retract a certain news story about the cabinet's reorganization will interest newspaper editors below the border as well as in Canada. Just how great the provocation was in this case is not clear, at this distance. Nevertheless, it can be said that any government—national, provincial, or municipal—that tries to gag a newspaper is taking a. serious step, a step moreover which hardly can end in anything but failure. The thing has been tried before, and it never has worked. A live newspaper will get the news, regardless of opposition; and in the end toe agency that tries to suppress it suffers from a recoil of its own autocratic methods. A Wise Withdrawal When Nicholas Roosevelt of New York wac named vice-governor of the Philippines by President Hoover, this newspaper and many others said that he was a man of good sense, but not fitted for that particular Job Roosevelt has proved his good sense in pretty conclusive manner by resigning from the job before he started to work. This not only shows that Roosevelt is big enough to rise above the personal stubbornness which afflicts smaller men under the sting of public criticism, but it also gives President Hoover an eat out from a very bad situation. The Filipinos had held large public demonstrations at which Roosevelt's writings on the Philippines were burned, and had protested officially against his appointment. The senate had held up his nomination and doubtless would have refused confirmation in the end The bitter feeling over the appointmfnt was endangering the administration's program in the islands, and rapidly was destroying the spirit of mutual respect. and co-operation upon which any solution of the Philippine problem depends. Bv resigning. Rocsevelt has undone the harm caused by the President’s action in making the interim appointment in the face of protests and their costly consequences. We congratulate Roosevelt on his new appointment as minister to Hungary. His government experience in that country immediately after the war. and his recognized ability as an expert in international affairs, should flt him for able service at his new post. Another Censorship Blunder The motion picture censors usually can be counted on to supply at least one good argument, every year, for their own abolition. Just now it is the Ohio board that has been thus obliging Some time during the last few months a moving picture named “The Big House’’ was issued. It has to do with events in a big penitentiary, and there is a riot in it. with considerable unpleasantness for all concerned, end a bit of implied criticism of the way some penitentiaries are run Thin movie. like all others, was distributed through the regular channels throughout the country. By this time, probably, it has been shown in practically every large-sized city outside of Ohio. In Ohio, however, it hak not been shown at all

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The state board of movie censors held it up for several months, refusing to hand down a definite verdict cn it. Now, finally, they have barred it, ruling that it can not be shown in Ohio, because it would be harmful to the boys and girls of Ohio. The boys and girls of Ohio are no more impressionable or corruptible than the boys and girls of benighted states where the picture can be shown freely. But, by a peculiar coincidence, Ohio had a very terrible outbreak in its own penitentiary last spring; an outbreak that came on the heels of a fire that killed 320 convicts. And “The Big House” shows prison conditions somewhat like these in the Ohio penitentiary. Lest any one should put two and two together and get four, the state board hastens to add that all movies of gangland and racketeers hereafter will be barred in Ohio. But human nature is grossly suspicious, and there are people mean enough to intimate that “The Big House” is banned in Ohio because someone does not want the voters unduly reminded of last spring’s frightful tragedy. Very likely that suspicion is base and unworthy. But it Is worth while to meditate, for a moment, on the singular obtuseness with which censorship operates. If you own a movie theater in Ohio you can show any kind of film which will give children the idea Chat right always triumphs, that virtue always reaps a cash reward, that evil-doers are always brought to book on this earth—and leave life to disillusion then as cruelly as it pleases. You can show them any kind of half-baked “collegiate” picture and convince them that a university exists solely to provide witless scions of wealth with a four-year holiday. You can fill their childish minds with rank nonsense about marriage and divorce and love in general, with propaganda about armies and navies, with sentimental goo and half-veiled suggestiveness and a whole-hearted materialism that worships the dollar almighty But you can not remind them that successive i governments in their state ran their penitentiary so j wretchedly that, a fire there killed 320 men! The Cleveland man who drank eleven tumblersful of water and then invited all comers to compete for the water-drinking championship, must be credited with some discretion. He might have issued his challenge during the drought.. As lowly as his job is, the road laborer takes pride in the fact he is paving the way for future generations. Who can tell but what those Boy Scouts competing in a baking contest in England are planning to become husbands some day? The Scout motto, you recall, is “Be Prepared.” “Thieves Steal Sheet Music"—Headline. In doublequick time, probably. Football players at an eastern college are charged with having the low-est marks of anyone in the school. Small worry to them . . . They’ll kick and pass. A Chicago judge has ruled that adding water to good whisky does not damage it. The decision, without question, reflects on his poor taste. The 100th birthday anniversary of the discovery of the match will soon be celebrated in France. Out of sheer gratefulness, every user of a cigar lighter will send along expressions of congratulation. Parents of the kidnaped 16-year-old New York girl who were ordered to send SIO,OOO ransom money by carrier pigeon have a right to say, if anyone has, that money has wings. “This is just another hot wave,” said the jazz 1 orchestra leader as he beckoned his musicians to be- j gin to play. Now that a man trained in the United States ; marines has been made president of the Dominican j Republic, natives there will feel they have someone to tell things to. Fall is the time of year when the hunter as well as golfer can brag about his game.

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IN his radio address at Mexico City, Ambassador Morrow said that this country should be meeker in ts international relations, but we fail to find anything in the record that justified the statement. * a a We have not been very militant in our relations with Mexico, so rduring the almost unbroken turbulence which has existed south of the Rio Grande since President Diaz was overthrown we' have pursued a course which measured up to the patience of Job. BBS \ ND with reference to Central and South America, we haven't done much high-hatting; instead of it we have stood guard over all that region with the Monroe Doctrine, and on several occasions it has brought up close to conflict with Europe. BBS When the Civil war was over we were getting ready to chase Maximilian out of Mexico when the Mexicans made intervention unnecessary by handling the situation themselves. We didn’t plan to chase Maximilian out because we wanted to gram Mexico, but because we wanted her to be free. We were not very oppressive in that case. B B B Then after the Civil war we would have been Justified in taking Canada because Great Britain had permitted the building of southern privateers in her ship yards, but instead of this we settled it at Geneva and took a sum of money. That wasn't very imperialistic. B B B \ FTER the Spanish war we not only kept our \ word and made Cabu free, but we fed her and gave her a bath and drove out her yellow fever and wrote her organic law and agreed to protect her. and for good measure we gave her the Isle of Pines. That wasn’t terrible, all in all. a a a We were exceedingly meek at the Poris conference after the World war. when we did not ask nor gt one dollar or one inch of ground for the part we played in that great conflict. And we did not even collect the debts Europe owed us! This was meekness for your whiskers. We have policed Haiti and Santo Domingo for v?ars, where any other power would have grabbed them. Annually we admit hundreds of thousands of foreigners who can not make al ivtng in their own country. We have scrapped warships, pursued other nations with plans for peace and failed to build a national defense. Just what would Mr. Morrow have us do?

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!F SCIENCE" BY DAVID DIETZ Accurate Records of Eclipses Were Kept by the Maya Indians. EIGHT centuries before the dawn of the Christian era, the Ma.a Indians of Centra] America kept accurate records of eclipses of the sun and the moon and were able to predict their occurrence. This fact just has been brought to light by Dr. Herbert H. Spinden, curator of ethnology of the Brooklyn museum. New York. Dr. Spinden has spent many years studying the remains of the ancient Maya cities | and attempting to decipher in- | scriptions on monuments and buildings Although the Maya Indians were terror-stricken by eclipses, beating drums and making loud noises to drive away the demons supposed to be devouring the sun, it develops that their astronomer-priests had an excellent knowledge of the 1 phenomena. It is interesting to compare Dr Spinden’s discovery with recent discoveries in the field of old-world astronomy made by the German Jesuits, Fathers Epping, Strassmaier and Kugler. Their studies have shown that much detailed information of motions of the sun and moon which previously was thought to have arisen with the Greek astronomers, really was transmitted to the Greeks by earlier astronomer-priests of anI cient ChEtldea. a tt a In Ancient Chaldea THE Jesuit fathers have shown that Greek astronomy had its ! roots in the work of two Chaldean i astronomers in particular, Naburiannu and Kidinnu. Naburiannu arrived at surprisingly accurate values for the motions of the sun and moon in 500 B. C. These were improved by Kidinnu in 383 B. C. The work of Naburiannu was possible, how’ever, because the Chaldean astronomers had kept accurate records of eclipses since 747 B. C In that year the Canon of Eclipses was begun. But it is believed that the Chaldeans studied eclipses at an even earlier date. It is surprising to think of care- , ful scientific work being done so j many centuries ago in ancient | Chaldea, of in the old cities of the Maya Indian empire We are accustomed to think of those ancient centuries as days of superstition and ignorance. The situation probably can be compared in some degree to the situation today. The world today contains astronomers who can measure the distance to 8. far-off star. But also it contains men who believe that it is bad luck to light three cigarets from the same match. There are great research laboratories devoted to the investigation of disease But there also are individuals who believe that carrying a buckeye in your pocket will ward off rheumatism. a tt tt Maya Indian Cycle According to Dr, spinden. the structed a peculiar time cycle of 260 days, which later was built into many of their calendars. They were able to predict eclipses from a table containing multiples of this cycle Dr. Spinden believes that knowledge of the Maya eclipse symbols will lead to a better understanding of the Maya written language. There still are many baffling problems to be solved with regard to the Maya empire. Apparently, there was an “old empire” which flourished in Guatemala, western Honduras, and the southern half of British Honduras utnil about the fourth century A. D. At that time, a migration started into the Yucatan peninsula, and the “new empire” was founded. This flourished until the arrival of the Spaniards. No satisfactory explanation for the great migration from the old to the new empire has been given. One theory is that intensive cultivation of the land wore it out and forced a migration, to prevent starvation. Another theory is that epidemics or plagues made the move necessary. Scientists from a number of institutions are working on the problems involved.

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THE HOLY ALLIANCE Sept. 26 ON Sept. 26, 1815, the holy alliance was formed by Russia, Austria and Prussia. The league was formed after the fall of Napoleon, at the insistence of Alexander I of Russia, to regulate the relations of the states of Christendom by the principles of Christian charity. Alexander drew up the document, which was signed by the three rulers in Paris. In addition to the original signatories, Naples, Sardinia, France and Spain acceded to the treaty. It received the commendation, but not the signature of the prince regent of Great Britain. The document was made public formally the following year. As formed in the mind of Alexander, the league was the scheme of an idealist, but it was utilized by Metternich as an instrument of his reactionary policy. It was in the name of the holy alliance that Austria in 1821 crushed the revolutions in Naples and Piedmont and that France two years later restored absolutism in Spain. Apart from this use, one writer has said, “no one of the princes who adhered to the holy alliances, with the single exception of Alexander himself, ever took it seriously.”

Daily Thought

Watch and pray that ye enter not into temptation. Matthew 26:41. No man is matriculated to the art qI life till he has been well tempted. —George Eliot. Has the government of the United .States recognized the government of Soviet Russia? NO. What, do the letters C. D D on an army discharge stand for? Certificate of disability discharge.

All the Heroes Aren't on the Gridiron!

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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Football Most Perilous Sport

BY DR MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hreeia. the Health Max&zine. npHE common notion that foot- •*- ball is most hazardous of all college sports was substantiated last year in an investigation made by the Carnegie Foundation, The investigators studied athletes in twenty universities and colleges in which almost 44,000 students were engaged in thirteen branches of athletics. Among the 44,000 there were 1,320 accidents, of which 649 were due to football. When the study was made in more detail it was found that intercollegiate football is three times as hazardous as interclass football. Twelve of 100 football players are injured during the season. The most common injuries are dislocations and sprains, which may disable the player for more than three weeks. For many years it has been known that football is a dangerous sport. It is, perhaps, not as dangerous as boxing, wrestling, or .even rowing, but it does carry with it constant and. definite hazard. One of the most common injuries of football is the. dislocation or

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MANY people whose judgment I respect have applauded President Hoover's request to the Department of state to cut down immigration by ordering consuls to use greater strictness in granting visas to foreigners about to emigrate. Yet I think this new policy will bear much more scrutiny than it has yet received. In the first place, the method is devious. It adds one more item to our national toll of hypocrisy. Consuls are asked to refuse a visa to an applicant who they think “may be a public charge at any time, even during a considerable period subsequent to his arrival.” This is loose language and readily can mean a complete stoppage of immigration rather than a greater process of selectivity. We know that skill and character are not necessarily safeguards against unemployment here in a time of industrial depression. We also know that no financial backlog, save one of enormous size, is safe against being swept away in a crash. Within the year it has been no rarity to see millionaires go broke overnight. a a a Fails to Consent OF course, it will be said, and it has been said, that at a time when millions are idle here it is common %ense to bar additions to the labor market. Yet it is not entirely evident that our national legislature is willing to commit itself to such a draitic j step. Indeed, the last congress failed to heed President Hoover’s request for a bill to cut all quotas in half for one year. The recent exeautive order seems to me an infringement of a legislative right. And we should not forget that already immigration has been cut down to a trickle. Last year we received 150.000 quota and 60,000 nonquota immigrants. So small a number of newcomers : can hardly' be a vital factor in the i unemployment problem. On the other hand exclusion is destroying ! an American tradition which does seem to me truly vital. 800 Cabots and Lowells IN the past we have profited prodigiously by the admixture of foreign blood One deals in mere fantasy when he undertakes to say what sort of nation would have I been evolved if our development had I been left largely to the native-born. The best that we can do is to look at communities where foreign | infiltration has been slight and i make the surmise that here is the land we might have seen had America always been a nation walled up against immigration. In that case I fear there would have been little to mitigate and mellow the acidulous New England strain. We should have been a sort of vast Vermont. To one who would like to see an even greater amount of bubbling

breaking of the cartilage in the knee called the semilunar cartilage. When this occurs, the knee tends to lock in a fixed position and it is impossible to extend the leg without great pain. After the swelling and inflammation associated with the injury disappears, the knee gradually becomes usable again, but repetition of the stress which caused the first accident is likely to reproduce the condition a second time with greater ease, and the third and fourth times with still greater facility. Not infrequently the players are incapacitated completely by this injury. If the knee is put at rest until it recovers and if the strenuous life is avoided thereafter, the man is likely to have a good workable joint for the rest of his life. If, however, he tends to persist in athletics of even a slightly strenuous character, it will become necessary for him to be operated on to nave the piece of broken cartilage removed before he will be able to realize his ambition. One of the saddest spectacles associated with intercollegiate football is the attempt to win the game at any cost. Asa result of this effort, men sometimes are played

water poured in to dilute puritanism, the prospect hardly can be called pleasing. 808 Promised Land SURELY it Las been no small thing that America once stood as the land of opportunity and hope for all the world. We were the haven of the afflicted and the oppressed: Not lightly should this all be put aside and “Keep out!” scrawled upon the gate where once was written “Liberty.” President Hoover’s brusque action is hardly one calculated to win us friendship abroad. Our latest move toward isolation comes too hard upon the heels of the tariff bill to make it anything but unfortunate. Moreover, our isolation is somewhat one-sided. We live behind affiigh wall through which no foreigner or his goods are suposed to pass, but in this barrier we have left small slots through which the peoples of Europe can thrust their hands to pay us interest on the money which they owe us. This is hardly a situation likely to inspire friendliness. And the American who says, “Well, what do

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Editor Times—lt is unfortunate that the controversy raised over the Plaza proposition has caused so much ill-feeling among ex-service men’s organizations. However, there seems to be at this time ample cause for some of the opposition voiced by the Veterans of Foreign Wars. At this particular time, when the Industrial outlook and the labor situation seem none too promising, it is outrageous that the American Legion should sponsor a movement to compel the Marion county commissioners to attempt to float another bond issue of $1,285,000 for purchase of the two church edifices which now occupy the two comers of the main shrine block on Vermont street. As I understand the situation, the Legion proposes to force the issue to have the site entirely clear so it can invite the national convention here in 1932. This is a good idea, but for the taxpayers to cough up an additional assessment to carry out the project is another item to consider. To dig up $1,285,000.00 for a convention is, in my estimation, quite a drastic departure from the usual procedure. Furthermore, the necessary outlay for two grass plots situated as they are is indeed comparable to property values on Fifth avenue In New York City as to front foot valuation The public has no conception of the necessary running expense of the whole project as it now is, and it is in no way near completion. There are some few salaried positions held by various "soft berth" seekers, who, in one month alone,

who are not in proper condition, and not infrequently a man who is injured is not removed from the game, but is permitted to take part in three or four more plays before a substitute is sent in. Because of the terrific demands which intercollegiate football makes upon the human body, college and particularly high school coaches should be certain that every player is in good physical condition before he is permitted to take part in a contest. Any player who shows apparent signs of having any accident in bone, muscle, ligament, or joint should be removed promptly and given opportunity to recover fully before he is used again. Some colleges, notably Notre Dame, the University of Illinois and the California institutions, have great amounts of football material on which to draw. Other institutions, particularly ‘he small colleges and schools for graduate training, must choose their football material from twenty-five to forty players. The responsibility in these cases is far greater, because the coach is confronted repeatedly with the necessity for removing a good player to substitute one much inferior.

Ideals and opinions expressed in this column see those of one of America’s most interestine writers and are presented without reeard to their agreement or disagreement with the editorial attitude of this paper.—The Editor.

we care about them, anyhow?” is hardly a person versed in the news of the day. The German move toward Fascism and Communism, those twins called Right and Left in order to distinguish them, has put our own markets in a state of flutter. 808 Common Concern NOR is it true that we have no responsibility for the unfortunate ferments now sizzling across the Rhine. The foes of democracy in Germany have won support by their protests against thp reparation burdens. We could clear up the whole muddle by bargaining with our debtors and lifting loads upon the condition that they should do the same toward their vanquished foe. The most practical common sense I know is that humanity never stood in greater need of mutual friendliness than it does today. Depression is not a national problem, but an international one. Pigeon-hole prosperity is no longer possible. I’d like to see that old familiar mat upon our doorstep. I mean the one which said, "Welcome.” (Coorrlcht, 1930, bv The Times)

; drew in salaries a sum in excess of $1,500. The main shrine is not finished, nor has the building been built on the southwest corner of St. Clair and Pennsylvania streets, which building the law specifies is to house other patriotic organizations, comI posed of persons, who by reason of ’ services rendered in time of conflict, taxpaying citigens, who fought and : bled and suffered for Old Glory, are | entitled to the same consideration as any other organization. It seems unjust to me that a national headquarters of one organization should be privileged to enjoy free housing when no provision is as yet made to care for local or state patriotic orders, members of which ! are the taxpayers who have made! | the building of this memorial pos- | sible by their financial support. I am a veteran of the World war, with just about as much oversea service as any veteran proudly can j boast about, and am a taxpayer I who is not and never was in sympathy with this vast expenditure of : money for this memorial proposij tion. I There is not one of my buddies | who ‘‘went west” in France, were I he in position to talk on the subject, who would not say he would much rather see this, money spent in helping his comrade of those terrible days, who now is walking the streets looking for a job, and,these buddies would say that to take care of the families of the comrades who are actually hungry, would be the most beautiful memorial to their valor that could be conceived. Many no doubt will say that I am a Bolshevik, but there is no

.SEPT. 26,1930

M. E. Tracy SAYS: The Chances Are That Both the United States and Canada Could Gain by Borrowing Some of Each Other’s Ideas. TORONTO. Ontario. Sept 26 The life insurance men are holding an international convention here There are 2.200 present, of which 1.400 are from the United States. The prevailing idea is that Canadian cities have become popular convention centers, especially with Americans, because of prohibition Maybe that’s the reason, but. if these insurance men came to get a drink, they certainly carry their liquor well. I attended a banquet Thursday night with 1.750 at the tables. It was not what you would call a solemn affair, but from the standpoint of sobriety it would compare favorably with any similar function I have attended in the United States since the eighteenth amendment was adopted. Say what you will, but the absence of prohibition seems to be more than offset by’ an atmosphere of poise and decency which is sufficient to discourage even those long-suffering Americans who come with the sheerest intentions of making up for lost time. 808 Another Prohibition Fable TWO many Americans, and particularly those who never have crossed the border, think of Canada as just beyond the rule of Volsteadism and, .therefore, an excellent place to slake a thirst. We all have heard a lot and talked a lot about this aspect of relationship between the two countries. We have a. distinct impression that Canada is getting rich at our expense on booze, and there isn't, much to the country except breweries and distilleries. Only another example of prohibition's evil effect. 808 Beauty and Industry WE could learn a lot. from Canada if we would, and that, too, without giving prohibition any thought. For one thing, we could gain some very useful information about the effect of a public policy which takes account of the people's right to live comfortably as well as their right to earn a living In Canada, the home comes first. Tliis is reflected not only in the management and distribution of credit, but in what the provinces and cities are doing. Niagara river epitomizes the difference between the American and Canadian viewpoint. The American side is all business, all cluttered up with grimy plants and belching stacks. The Canadian side is all beauty. Even the great electric plants are clean, artistic and well located, while the river bank has been landscaped for miles and miles. One can look across from the Canadian side and get a good idea, of our engineering and commercial superiority. , One can look across from our nd<* and get an equally good idea of Canada’s concern for the beautiful. The chances are that both countries would gain by borrowing a little from each other. 808 The Home Is First THE same difference is brought out by the way in which the two countries approach the problem of making power rates. The American idea is to give manufacturing establishments every advantage, while the small home pays more. The Canadian idea is to give the small home every advantage, even though the manufacturer pays more Americans argue that if the home owner gets work, he can afford to | pay bigger bills. I Canadians argue that he can be I given a square deal without hurt- ! ing industry. i Thus far, we have bested them in I the development of large manufacturing enterprises, but they can show a larger percentage of heme owners. 808 Toronto Beautiful ALSO, they can show a type of municipal government which is more considerate of popular health, comfort and recreational facilities. Take the city of Toronto, for instance, and there isn’t an American town of the same size that can exhibit such a splendid park system, as many playgrounds, or such beautiful approaches from every side. When you enter the aver ago American city of 500,000. you enter through a no man's land of shacks, dumps, unsightly tenements and unkempt back yards. When you enter Toronto, no matter from what direction, you enter on a boulevard, flanked by parks. Even factories have caught the idea and lived up to it. Instead of being an eyesore, as it is in most American cities, the water front of Toronto not only has been beautified, but conserved for public benefit. ■ How long is a man’s shadow as compared with his height? The length of the shadow depends upon his position with relation to the light that casts it. If the light is directly overhead the shadow under the man’s body and practically has no length, but it increases as the angle of the light decreases. What is niton? A chemical element continually generated by the element radium, ft is known to be a monatomic gas. foundation for such assertion, for I am willing again to facrifice, if need be, when duty to my country and flag beckons me. If we had to have a stone structure as a memorial, it would seem much more suitable had a coliseum iof monumental architecture been erected, in which case a continuous flow of revenue would her derived and the cost of such structure soon would be repaid. The design as planned has been duly authorized and no doubt will be carried out, but time enough should be allowed for raising fund* so as not to place such a border, on the citizens’ treasury as to jeopardize our financial resources Wake up, citizens, and for your own interest, learn what it's all about. J. F. A. L