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P vuon. mulled In onu- and Lllted staun- nett with her distinguished brother n8

inter‘! lcLuro. J-Ucnt. Cal. I). A . . ‘. B. Bans“. Asuncion Editor-D. K. Onrrlo

Vice-Imelda‘ '- L Burnett. . IIBKIIIIIII, D. 8 0

fx-iioivoar, JULY 30,1928

manna. '

about the visit here of Miss Ben-

next week. .There need be no doubt whatever as the Rt. Hon. R. B. Ben- nett has assured Hon. J. A. Mac- donald that his sister will accom- pany him, and that she is looking

_,/rr.\'ro DUTY.

epresentlilg the

is Province. Their missio

rind reasons why the United :s duty on Canadian potatoes

is ; .uld be lncrsased. The Unite

tleeatts’ claim is that the present] clduty of fifty cents per hundred y‘ pounds on Canadian potatoes is no

protection to the United States far

mers as the cheapness of wate

transportation as compared with. rail transportation more than off- szts the duty. Their purpose is to discover that tlle cost oi production‘

in the Maritlmcs pills low transpor

tatlon and duty is less than the cost of production in the Northern‘

States. plus rail transportation Should they succeed ill finding thi

reasons they are looking for, ill

. few days commission- Potato; ‘of the United States will!

and thanklessnes. Last Friday 6V‘ ening an excellent band concert was given on Queen Square. There WBSIthis column about the Chignecto a. large attendance; some splendid Canal, the Editor of the Montreal selections were rendered and ‘Vere Herald has sent us a. copy of an no doubt greatly flllllfwlaiied by ‘he

n many who sat aroundfinloylnl; ‘l0!

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ence sat or stood in silence. here and

Onl

in small groups ther rphroughout the audicilcc were their any signs of appreciation by up plause or otherwise. have been discouraging to thc per

ifcrlners who must

{$01118 evidence 0i‘ appreciation. Wi- are naturally all iliidemoilstrative!111i; DENY 110mm‘. 1W8 Slwwilll; 1111i‘- lot but suy

‘,.-L'fll)|€. We think a .1iuic

-ti~:iailling us by speech.

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the music and the mild summer ev- eriing, but if the music was uplift“ aimed no evidence of such appmclwnot go back fifty years, to the time

[anon was given. The large audi-I

This mu»;

have expected

Whether those who are cu- mnslc or r-iiirivisc know what we think of

they have to do is to report their finding to thc President. and hc has parent.

the authority to increase the tariff‘ as he may deem expedient. As to what commissioners‘

give no sign. Wm find when they come we hnvelillld regrettable. We have a right

They grind through

the

no means of knowing. but doubt-

less all the information they requircgplausc H. “at even by cheers’ will be placed at their disposal, The

information they want and the in-

formation they will get may be two entirely difierent things. but wheth- er it pleases them or not, or whether

they will interpret it to suit them-

selves. the incident shows us, or should show us, that the levying of duties should not be left United States alone. True, they have the power to levy such duties as they see fit and they have afller- fect right to do it, yet we do not believe that they would act arbitrar- ily or unreasonably if properly ap-l preached from this side. I

know that we

United States and Canada are: . ‘riendly nations with much in com- h AOII, their trade with us has been profitable, more so to them than toll that is due to m us. We have much that they re- quire, much that they cannot very; well do without. notably our hard‘ wheat, our lumber. and many of our, minerals. In short, the United States is more dependent upon Can- ada than the latter is on them. In this case there should be room for an adjustment of tariff, which would _' be of mutual benefit. It would be a hardship especially to the Mari- time Provinces to have the duty on r potatoes increased and particularly ‘Li! it were increased without a suf-

was listened to

and talking and paying no attention

is not as it ought to be. It is ex- pected that during the rendering of the National Anthem gentlemen will stand at attention with uncovered heads, and that their lady friends will wait for them until the Anthem is concluded. Let us hope for n better observance of these big little matters in future.

TIIE B. C. ELECTIONS.

flclently long notice to enable our

l farmers to prepare for it. If pro- perly approached we have no doubt that an amicable arrangement could be made. If they prove unreason- able we are in o. position to prove to them that they do not hold all the cards. We still trumps,

There should at the earliest pos- sible date be an International Tar- iff Commission appointed. a com- mission made up of Americans and Canadians who know the whole sit-

HE significance of the result of

the British Columbia election. says the Sydney Post, is the proof it affords that Conservatism con- tlnues to gather strength in that Its political reflex is mor- ally certain to strengthen Conserv- thc Prairie where a strong Federal organiza-

liave a few

province.

atlsm in Provinces.

,tlu-ir performance or not is not tip- ‘their ilitle pieces hoping no doubt that 11.110)!‘ are entertaining us, but we This is unfortunate

tn express our appreciation by ap- We jhive it to our entertainers and if v.0 cxpcct open air blind coi:ccr‘s we must let those who entertain us are appreciative, otherwise probably they will discon- tihue their performances. Nothing is more distressing to entertainers than to feel that their efforts are m the falling upon deaf or unapprcclative ears. Let us get out of our stolidity and when we appreciate perform- ances, be they musical, histrionic, ‘athletic or otherwise, let us say so iby applause or by such other means as may be at our disposal. Also a Iword with respect to the National |Anthem. This national conclusion to our various entertainments is not always regarded with the respect In a large audi- lence such as was present on Fri- day evening, the National Anthem with uncovered heads only by a comparatively few, while the others stole away chatting

to the sacred British Anthem. This

nation. The Canadian Parliament has at its command many well in- formed buslness men who could give good counsel on such a Board. We do not refer to the handpicked tar- iff‘ Advisory Board now function- ing. A commission approved of by both sides of the House, in co-op- oration with a similarly appointed body from the United States, should be able, and’ we believe, would be able to arrive at a mutually satis- factory conclusion regarding the tariff. Bo long as we play info the hands of the United States. taking what they choose to give us. we shall remain at their mercy. An Infom- ational Tariff Board to function temporarily at least, should be ap- llointcd and the two Governments approach each other with l. view to amicable trade relations, we trust this shall be done and so end the present factory tariff rela- tions between the two countries.

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tion of the forces led by Mr. Ben- nett is being carried out. Last year's provincial election in Manitoba re- sulted in a marked improvement in the position of the Conservative Opposition which trebled its strength in the Legislature, and virtually divided the popular vote in the con- stituencles with the Bracken Gov- ernment. Mr. Bennett's great per- sonal prestige in Alberta, coupled with the growing strength of the Conservatives in Manitoba, and their overwhelming supremacy in British Columbia, should ensure three of the four western provinces for the Federal Conservative party in the next general election.

<0>-—-- EDITORIAL NOTES.

The Liberal press has not recov- ered lts breath since the British Columbia election. They recall the cartoon published in Punch during the war when the Germans realized there was no longer any hope. The Kaiser and two of his war 10rd:

APPRECIATION when nbt ex-A

ma," h, '0,“ o, “new!” “each lmplorlng the others to "my little bettl than plain ingi-atltud¢°°m¢"""I-"

‘f

were pictured sitting in stolld silencr

forward with very great pleasure to her visit.

In reference to the remarks in

article by him on the subject in which he recapitulated the points

h stressed here: i

“The memories of most cf us do

when the Bale Yerte Canal project was a live political issue," says the writer. “We venture to prophesy, ltowc-ver, that before a tiny portion e of the next half century posses. the _ pcnplc of Canada will become aware

1'01 wllcrc and what this canal pro-

‘ject was and meant. Ill short. the ‘FBuic Vvrtc Canlll scheme is now re- christened the Chignecto Canal pro- posal and the Maritinles, discard-

v1 r

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teimined spirit to demonstrate to the rest of Canada its advantages and to stir the Federal Government to father thc project.

“II. J. Logan is one of thc active promoters and one need know no- thing more about Mr. Logan than the success of his efforts to revive our West Indies trade to realize that there is likely to be a stirring of the . waters in good earnest. Our rend- ers will want to know what this Cllignecto Canal project is and means. We cover tile subject brief- ly. Chigilecto Bay and Cumberland Basin give into each other at the head of thc Bay of Fundy. A frac- tien over twenty miles separates these waters from Bale Verte, an arm of Ncrthumberlalld Strait. The Chignccto Canal will connect Cum- teiland Basin 1rd Bale Verte.

“The country through which the ionstruction would be carried on would present no great diificulties. and we believe the cost would be but a small fraction of any one of our other canal expenditures. We would iiut ire so greatly interested were the idea one that would be of sole Lenefii to the M-IIIUYFES. Brief study only is heeled. however. to convince that this ls not a local or provincial concern, but one of na- tional impart. It would shorten the (istance by water from Prince Ed- ward Island ports to Saint John and United States Atlantic ports by six hundred miles, and save the costs of lreaking bulk and reshipment by rail. '

"It would shorten the distance by water from Montreal t0 Bay oi Fundy by fivc hilndrcd miles. and to the West Indies by 400 miles. These distances mean a saving of two days-an important matter. Ap- i165 from the Land oi Evailgcliilc: coal from Cumberland and gypsum froln l-Iants; olive freestone from llorchestcr; the grind and scythe stones from Cumberland; and alber- tite, unsurpassed for illuminating purposes, from New Brunswick. ronld be carried to the markets nf central Canada at small cost.

The Saint John, N.B., Chamber of Commerce sums up the advan- tages as follows:—

This Canal would not only af- ford the desired facility for trans- it by rendering it unnecessary to break bulk between the points of shipment and destination, but would remove a great barrier to cheap frcights by enabling owners of vessels to secure return car- goes to Ontario and Quebec. and thus build up a mutually desir- able reciprocal trade, which may be increased to almost any extent.

0X1

IIOW OPERATIONS I-IAV

of

5. 9B1jlnu W. Eldon. MD

MADE SAFE;

One of the conditions that has been a source of worry to thc paLi. ent and physician is w eration is found to be n the patient has some vessel. or kidney render the aria ation dangerous. HOWI-‘VCP. medicine doesn't stand still, and so if the patient is not fit for an operation, steps are now wk-

to make him flt.

Accordingly where there is a low blood pressure, loss of weight, and a general condition of weakness, the physician endeavors to build patient up to a degree of strength that will enable him to withstand the operation. If the patient is much overweight with a “finbby" heart muscle, he is put on a "reducing diet,“ and a little later is given systematic phys- ical exercise. Where there is need for an oper- ation for stimach and food cannot be taken in the regular way, sugar is given hy the lower bowel and thus absorb- ed into the blood. Whcrc thc blood pressure is high. liver extracts are given for some

ulccr or cancer of

out: 18am’

~ £011 rs E BEIEN

here an op- ecessary, and heart, blood- ailment that may esthetic or the oper-

tile

DISCOVERING THE “COSMIC RAYS"

Condensed from Popular Science Monthly (July, '28.)

Alden P. Armagnac.

The other nlgzlt at tile National, Academy of Sciences at Washington,’ the nation's greatest scientists ap- plauded again and again the stocky, white-haired man on the platform. He was Dr. Robert A. Millikan, will- ner of a Nobel prize for physics, and of the Edison Medal. He was. telling of his crowning achievementl —the discovery of “cosmic rays"; which pour upon the earth from outer space. “These rays," said Dr. Millikan, "are the invisible messengers -of creation!" . Creation. lie said, is still going on‘ ——thc birth of the very substances from which the earth and living} things are made. His studies have‘ shown that four of the universal simple subs ccs are daily being] born from hy rogen and helium gas] These substances are oxygen. the: life-giving gas; magnesium. wllosei blinding light makes night photo- graphs possible; silicon, of which‘ the earth, glass and sand are large-i’ _ 1y made: and iron. The new rays. nre simply energy hurled forth from‘ lllc atoms in the mighty travail of. now creation. Dr. Mfllikanls dis-l covery of this transmutation is llotji one whit less astonishing than if he 11ml seen silver turning into gold. , Dr. Millikan first startled the‘ world by pulling loose from the rzst of matter for inspection tile in-, uulcnivably small electron — the iiisl. time it llad ever been isolated. For this he received the Nobel prize

the

weeks before the operation. Wllcn the patient has lost coil- sid-ernblc blood by ilijurv or iby Illrcding from lungs or intestine. a pint or more oi‘ blood is injected into his bloodvessels. There is an immediate improvement in the pati- clit's strength after this transfusion of blood. As you know. it is customary now for the anaesthetist and the sur- QJCCII lo examine the patient some days before tllc operation so that the, patient may be put into a “safe“ surgical condition. Of course, there are times when an operation must be performed oil the instant. and must be done ir- respective of the patient's heart, kidneys and blood vessels. But the point is that where you know you need and must undergo an operation and have delayed it for perhaps months. it is always wise to have another thorough ex- amination of the entire body by your physician. so that any unfay- orable condition may be improved. or so guarded against during the operation, that the danger will be lessened.

"yymx- a ‘A ‘.4,

The Land We Love

By Frank Yelgh O §O+§+Of+§§§+§4£ 094-04904

CANADAKS FLOUR MILLING INDUSTRY.

Q.-Wllat is the extent of Cana- da's flour milling industry? A.—Canada‘s flour milling indus- try, for the calendar year 1926. in- (licated that it was holding its own, especially ill its production value, which totalled 189,580,741 from 1,291 establishments. The capital in- vested was nearly $60,000,000 and 6.348 employees were paid in salar- ies and wages, $7,222.464. During the year mentioned, tile quantity of flour produced was 19,000,000 bar- rcls, while 86,000,000 bushels of wheat were milled. These figures show substantial increases during the last ten year period in the num- ber nf plants. especially. Canada's flour is exported to over 50 coun- tries nnd is becoming increasingly popular in many foreign countries.

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06-§O§O0O-OO400§40§0-04400* DAILY LESSONS

IN ENGLISH

B! W. L. Gordan HOQ-O-Q-O-O-Ofi-OQQOOOOQQO‘ 9W0 WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not sriy ‘he owned that lie took the money.“ Say "he admitted."

OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: ag- nostlc;; o as in "of," accent after the

S. OFTEN MISSPELLED: abdomin-

ill shot-k of 5000 volts.

icon, had found

those of radium.

trato that high.

down from above? possibility! ‘

top.

wrong track."

powerful: rays through that wall.

net. ‘cosmic rays. Probably eyeryoile 011mm “mm is for scielllififl reasons. “Thcn,“ said Dr. Millikan, “wqornih is inilncllccd by them to some_!T{'"-"l~'_"°"i the 4°00 mile cruise saw the foolishness of carrying extent." ipmgre” °f u"? EXlJBdlf-lotl will be

building materials up o. mountain“ Wily build it wall. when you callIcsiltI bury all electroscope lit tllc bottolnhvitv

other rays, likc radiums,

l023—:tlso an accidental electric “It should have killed me." Dr. Millikan told inc as lie exhibited white scars on his thumbs. “but it didn't!" 1 It was in 1910 that Dr. Millikan read that a German. Dr. Gockcl,‘ s-tvrrnl thousand feet up in a bal-i streaming through the air-very sllort rays liko_ Dr. Millikan knew that radium rays, plentiful at the earth's surface, couldn't pene- Could there be piercing A fascinating ' \ 1

HIYS

If tlle rays‘ came from outside} they should be hundreds of times stronger at the top of the earths air than at the bottom. He resolvq the strength of the rays according ed to send up balloons with record-; to this heory. using a formula first lllg instruments. The war intervcn-y worked out by Einstein. In changing ed, but ill 1922 he sent up a set DIiIIYCIYOQCII into helium, a ray would small balloons with diminutive elec- be loosed with ‘penetration power.

"You can imagine our surprise- alld disappointment." Dr.

In other words, the cosmic rays.!iailcd to see it if they existed, must be so penetrat-l ing that only slight variation in their intensity could be detected cv- fill 11ml!‘ P11551111; through theeartll's‘_silppose hydrogen turns iilto hell! blanket of air. How then could they um, be recorded? Dr. Millikan decided times as heavy as one of hydrogen.‘ the only way was to build a wail it that would stop radium rays, themnke one of helium, and, like the nlost penetrating known; find whether there existed any more titer which

tllen to

could go

So lie went to the top of the l-lmisa 000-foot Pike's Peak, and there 1Hb-:(‘Hl'lll as a radiation. is criously constructed a lead wall. lay,

Tile results were indefinite. ‘ learned later, the rays penetrated fol-y gigantic enough the wnll so easily that it was like. frying to trap minnows in o. sharkl

of n mountain lake with similar rc-l

stills?"

Whitney. Lake.

scopes. mic rays that pierce

to Muir, l d the water to

a certain depth, mid then stopped.

Where did tile rays c stars? Perhaps not.

omc from? Tile

Perhaps. flS some

critles silggcsted, the air was full

radiating power. way Dr. Millikan a Arrowhead lake was

in altitude than Muir Lake.

1 of radioactive dust of extrriordlnal-yi"‘”*“*”“*”“" """WI In an ingenious‘

nswcred tllcm. 6700 feet lower. Tlilit‘

thickness of atmosphere was equiv-

nlcnt to six feet 0f vmter.

Hence,‘

if the rays really came from the‘ heavens. electroscopcs u foot deep

Mlllikarf closely did other cosmic rays that said, "when our electroscope showed lie had observed compare With the. not many more rays at the top birth of other elements. ' than far below. We were on the

As he]

excitement he set about computing if filling all tile air

troscopes. Three were found and‘ he found. He compared it with returned. One had gone up ten a cosmic ray actually observed‘ miles-—92 per cent. of the way to the "Penetrating power, .35." Un-

idoubtedly the same, allowing for‘ ‘slight exilerlmeiltal errors. Just as

"New it all seems so simple.“ Dr. ‘Millikan Sflid. “I wonder that we; sooner." i K Tile lays. Dr. Millikan explained. ‘are the left-overs. the waste, when‘ one element changes to another.

A helium atom is almost four

lakes four hydrogen atoms to

pro “D1511 apple of our school days, a fraction of ll. hydrogen at- om left over. What becomes of it? It tilrlls illto energy. Dr. liiiiiiknn‘

“flit-re is no force of thc labora-

Wllcii one thinks of how other rc- violct mys—llavc changed ourlives.‘

world? -j--<e>—-€-

Daily Selections FOR Guardian Readers

July 30, 1928.

OVERCOMING ENEMIES. — If illlllt‘ enemy bc hungry, give llim ilrciid to eat; and if lie be thirsty, give him water to drink. For thou shlilt llcap coals of fire upon his head, and the Lord shall reward