' jealth has been preserved for the - “ice-Flt is but a few years i120 111M _ Q5 1.151"; for many weeks, at death's ‘ ddor, while the prayers 0t‘ millions ,' Q32 his loyal subjects ascended night

7 ' ti tomorrow's anniver- 3 qqmmemcia ng

‘ 93d import.

'1' f6;- the purpose of nmking changes

V? (dd in the press. This is good news

l. gulch wider range of literature than ,5 Pnblftflilbrary ls now being made. L; while modern works, both of fiction

j p11 represented, attention should _ go be given to supplying any de-

' lfiture. There have been many ‘ “ch deficiencies in the Public Libr-

, .. 31m the question of the merits res-

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eras KING'S BIRTHDAY pie-rm m m- ww iik- M o!

. - _______ reading some favourite author. Des- !“ “u: human, mmwemry o; pitc all that may be advanced in deity Km; George v mus on favour of modern writers, it re-

. and its celebration on m“ "“- "mml "°m"°“ “m ,‘._._ay_ A“ muons o, the Empire that “the voicesof the day must

\ n .- 1y , u I w in ommemora m‘ wait for their - q gnégry w"; ma, Ind New and confirmed applause till Time.

the Just, shall please." Books bet-n! . ...TZI’..T‘.‘Z.‘L‘I.§§."F.ZS.Z“3.ZZ 11m mo» rt»- w- "w =11»- '1~ ha! the present British but’ like buudm“ “d u” greater “m, who during me twenty, trees, 1n the spaces of time, bale: 1 yea" o! ms m!“ has devowd the medlocrltias of the Past m! ' lftwholeheartedly m the inter- 111°" “ab” m“ ‘m’ °' ° a the vast Empire over whim present, for their blunders arc oz: flaps been called to rule. The 21nd dmmlgznkflfilll? onhwhdlrh": “imprint” o‘ kings is not a mm unders 0 e I ill‘! l are: political mm in democratic “d " n““““°°- 1 tries but there has surely been Bu‘ w ‘um up ‘m ' 1°“ “m” “uni-- ’ m m the note, we may quote Lord Check!‘- °Xm°n°° °’ mfg"; gamma; .5, .8 field's advice u» his son, which all ‘WW m “ m a’ y beck-lovers will find wise and ser- viceable: “Speak of the modems without contempt, and of the anci- ents without ldolatry; Judge them all by their merits, and not by their ages."

MACHINES VS. CULTURE

Professor Whitelaw of MoGill University, (whose book "Before Confederation" was recently review- ed in these columns) points out that civilization and culture are not the same things, andthat the assumption that culture necessarily advances with civilization is an il- lusion. from an article in the Montreal Gazette it would appear that what is meant is that culture does not necessarily rcsult_ from mechanical progress. That is true. But neither does civilization in the true sense of the word, result from that cause. Mechanical progress has done a great deal for mankind. Men were undoubtedly more civiliz- ed when they developed agriculture than when they lived by hunting and fishing alone, when writing and afterwards printing were invented, when they lived in houses instead of tents, built churches and school houses and structures intended to serve the ends of manufacturing commerce and charity. But is true that mechanical progress alone does not advance either civilization or culture. Mechanical progress is merely a means to an. end which is the development of the intellect and spirit of men. The pagan H.0- man Empire at its strongest was an imposing structure, but its civ- ilization was lop-sided, as is shown by the existence of slavery, the slums of Rome, the cruel punish- ment of crucifixion, and amuse- ment as barbarous as those oi’ the most savage tribes.

jgdubus- and responsible duties cf his

flid day for his recovery. Those fir-ayers were answered. It is fitting flint {his should be remembered in

nary, so that the words of the Na- bionafAnthem may be sung with trpgLgppreciation of their meaning

X ~ \4 A tfsoolcs zvmv AND OLD . I’ a Mi.

closing of the Public Library ta, accommodate the Carnegie books which‘ will be installed to the num- hér of some 4,000, has been announ-

fgi library patrons, as it means that fiicy will shortly have access to a

75s heretofore available. The selec- c1811 of the Carnegie volumes for the

‘pd non-fiction, will doubtless be ‘ iencles in the way of classlcalrlit-

, for example covering the Eliza- fiithan and Restoration periods, ‘I ch should now be supplied f0!‘ “benefit of the serious literary

ively of old and new books, au- thorities have disagreed from time fiyunclnoriiil. Many noted critics imud only read old books, 8s if Qgeremwere no valuable truths to be discovered in modem publications. Ivimuel Rogers boasted that “when p new, book comes out, I read an old one." TEmerson advised, "never rend Any but famed booksf’ a rule, how- qver, which» no voracious reader would think of following. .DEQuincey complained: “One of the misfortunes of life ls that one tltfust read thousands of books only to discover that one need not have CQd them." Long since, Bacon Knew this when he deprecated such "flashy things," comparing them to fidistllled water." Dr. Johnson held flue same opinion, that modem writ- arebut “the moons of literature," shining with reflected light borrow- dd from the ancients, among whom he ranked, first and foremost, the Greeks. Montaigne, (who read ev- orything), preferred old books be- cause they were “more full and pithy?’ Hazlett confessed that he "hated" to read new books. “There are twenty or thirty volumes," he ddys, "that I have read over and Over ‘gain, and these are the only ones that Lhove any desire ever to read it all: Rather than follow in the tiicin-‘of "the insatiable monster of Modem reading," Charles Lamb wpuld "forswear his Sllfifilflcles. D181’ jg put, mend pens, kill fleas, stand one one leg, shell peas." or in short undertake any "ignoble diversion" Miatsoever, iZJames Russell Lowell found not yifllg-mgense of security in old books. but ‘Rltecling of seclusion in having ‘fii defile wall of centuries" between ‘llierfind the heats and clamours of contemporary bocks. He loved “ripe 01:11 authors", and took a sensuous delight in tasting "the pure old wine or sfifilarship that 11115 been settling {o} s; many generations in those sil- gft crypts and Falemlan umphotae of 1Q Past." .7 Qg-the other lmnd, Lord Beacons- fllld was not afraid to admit that ‘i preferred a new book, “even if “d, to a classic?’ and l-Iammcrton Qotitended that a man who never toad anything but the classic auth- "would live in an intellectual ‘fimaskeryf’ and "would not even ‘dersiand the classic authors them- ‘ veg," for we judge the past by the jiasent. “Do you want to get at xii-ideas?" Lord Lytton asked his do, and answered, "read old books;

" t t find Id ideas? tend , $215?“ o o the complicated system o! boog-

[Qhakcspearc reconciles these di- kupm?’ the “udu” W" ‘mam? W "he 0pm,)“ m m,” words, "mph submit (without further investiga- fls is all." That is the character- kw") u" 317795‘? between "h" iotfc of a true book, be 1t ancient or the comPimY PM‘! the “"11" 1°!‘ mfdcrn. That is what all the critics his animals and what tho Public jam when they claim that there is paid for butch" mflt-fn-ih 1nd

EDITORIAL NOTES

The announcement that the Car- negle Corporation has voted an annual grant of $5.000 to the New Brunswick Museum is a reminder that we here are still among the few provinces without a. home for our historical documents and heir- looms. It is time a beginning was made to assemble and house such a collection.

ED NOTES ... . stratfcrd (Ont) City council went on strike because the Mayor failed to keep order. His Worship permitted the chairman of the un- employed, contrary to the wishes of the Council, to address the Council at its previous meeting. While the Mayor sat alone in the Council Chamber, the Aldermen re- malned smoking and joking in the committee room. The meeting had to be abandoned.

A Jacques Cartier three-cent qu-adrlcentenary commemorative stamp is tobeflssuedlon andjafter July 1, and a 150th anniversary Loyalist l0 cent stamp (with a. Hamilton, Ont, design) in connection with the Toronto Centennial celebration. The saint John Telegraph-Journal enters a mild protest against the latter issue, contending that it should have been made simultan- eously with the celebration in New Brunswick. ‘Prince Edward Island should take warning and see that this Province has equal prominence with, o1" even precedence to Que- oec in the Cartier stamp design.

After providing 51 per cent for depreciation, Canada Packers Ltd. was able to make net profits of $13,007,137 during the four and a half years ending with March last, according to an auditor's statement submitted to the Stevens Price Spreads Committee. Over the past five years, on an average invest- ment of $10,008,477, the Company had an average net income of p1,. 111,740, or 10.56 per cent. Owing to

Notes By 771a Way?

iiah literature when wa meas- fiit alflinst any accent-Ed literati

the Socialist Review.

Man made storms an no novelty to engineers who use wind tunnels to test airplane and automobile da- signs. Man-made lightning ls pro- duced at an elecricallahoratory in the Bat. Man-made earthquakes. however, arc more unusual. They lrc ,. ‘ ’ at the " “ ‘ Institute of Technology, where a group of seismologlsts and angin- eers are seeking ways to mo" multi-swry buildings proof ‘

from such dismrba-nccs. The earthquake machine looks lihc a. table. When a miniature eight or ten-story building is placed upon it, and delicate w; instru- ments attachcd, a few carefully cal- culated shakes fmm the machinery underneath will disclose more abzut the oflects of , -u1 stresses and strains than months of steady figuring could.

Ono independent citizen of Ger- many, Willy Busse, who criticized the Berlin ‘n-ansit Company's fares and service, while riding in a street car, has been sent to prison for four weeks. As the tramways is a municipal affair, this conduct was unpardonabls in the eyes of Nazi- dom. People who dwell in more lib- eral lands can relieve their out- raged feelings without being jailed.

Montreal police accm lo havo made a big haul of gamblers in the city's central district. Presumably it will stop the practice until the effect wears off, when it will be revived. Bo long as there is good profit for the proprietors of gamb- ling resorts they will continue to do business. The only way of stopping it is by taking every cent of profit out of the thing.

We grumble ferociously because when national statesmen meet tn- gether at Geneva they are unable to lay aside their countries’ sm- bitlons and evolve s. workable plan for world peace and disarmament. But We ought, if only occasionally, to temper our grumbling by re- membering that all through the year committees or permanent of- flcials of the league are engaged in useful activities on behalf of all. the member States.

Them is something ironic about the outburst of Louis Barthou. the French foreign minister. Housed to anger by talk of war, he as- serted that the French do not want war, will do everything they can to avoid . it, will avoid it. ‘rhereupon he clinched the refusal of France to disarm or to coun- tenance a. measure of German re- srmament, and at the same time issued a sharp warning that France would view border clashes in the gravest light. Perhaps that is the way to avoid war if one feels strong enough to cow the other nation into keeping the peace, da- splte a feeling of angry resent- ment. The question arises, for how long can peace be kept like that- Telegraph Journal.

The do; ls his own enemy. Yet through no fault of his own. The blame falls upon his owner. He who allows his dog to become a nuisance to his neighbors, that is,

garden or flower bed or frighten children or chase chickens, or start a fight with another dog, is inevit- ably creating c. prejudice against dogs in general. There are already enough psople who do not like dogs, and even those who do, do not like to have one belonging to someone else become a nuisance to them. The owner of a dog should care enough for him to keep him under proper restraint.

Last week the llouse of Commons in England laughed out of consid- eration a. bill designed to keep Fas- cists wand Communists from wear- ing political uniforms "for political purposes.” The Commons took the position that if an mgltshman choose_to rig himself out in a comic-opera. costume, to give ex- pression to his support for Sir Os- wald Mosley or Comrade Stalin, there is not much sense in trying to stop him. The opinion prevail- ed that it is the inalienable right of every man to make an ass of himself according tr.) the dictates of his own folly-J-Lamllton Herald.

' French newspapers are won-led Just now by reports that Germany is constructing a chain. of rocket bases along the frontier, ready to shower a vast number of explosive rockets all over France. One news- paper says that projectiles capable of travelling 125 miles have been developed, and it 1s estimated that with a. large chain of rocket bases Germany could hurl 50,000 tons of high explosives On French soil in one nIghIL-Quebec Chronicle-Tele-

graph.

Dcan Inge says that the only persons who have a right to gov- ern their neighbors are those who are competent to do so. Those are

5-1310!» no comfort, no swectnon, no 61111104-

the kind of people who either do not run for office, or, when they do, are defeated.

A most suitable and very charm- ing memorial to the author of "The Maple leaf" national song, Alexander Muir, is being completed 1n Toronto. Every one will not see it, but so many peOple g0 up Yonge street north to the holiday country of Muskoka and the Lakes and other northern districts, the mem- orial is sure to attract the atten- tion of many travelers as they pass it.

M. the last counting some 2,900 governmental and municipal units within the United States were in default upon their obligations. None of them has been held up to spec- ial scorn. Instead, Congress has devoted much of its thought. to easing their debt burden, in the interests of the “common good." But the "common good," it appears. does national

not extend beyond boundary lines. Wham a foralgnor

“The m: defect of oontemtflll?! -

classic of any period. is lack of visg _‘ ion," writes Mr. Jolui Gatehcme in v

HOW A GREAT NUMBER ,0!‘ ' MENTAL PATIENTS ARI RE- STOBEI ‘I0 HEAL!!!

Notwitli ‘ the fact that the mental hospitals of the country con- tain more patients that: all the oth- "er neg-pita}; put toga er, and not- withstaudins that 118mm snow that at the present rate of progress fifty years from now one half of the world will be in mental hospitals, the outlook for the prevention and cure "of mental patients never looked so encouraging.

Why?

The encouraging thing in all these statements 1a that they draw atten- tion to mental ailments-how they begin, the early symptoms, the bene- fit of treatment, how they may be avoided. -

In former days medical students were taug‘ the classical or typical symptoms of the different mental ailments so as to be able to recog- niso each one, and in a few cues give treatment.

To-day there is less tendency on the part of physicians to try to place a patient’; symptoms as be- longing to any one ailment. In fact symptoms are treated without giv- ing any name to the ailment.

Dr. Arlle B. Bock, in the New Eng- land Medical Journal states that in an examination the patient should be considered as a. person. He should be offered the opportunity to dis- cuss his problem. The average gen- oral practitioner can usually get the full story with complete details.

Thus, instead of the mental symp- toms receiving treatment by labora- tory tests, and an endeavor m fit the symptoms into some definite ail- ment, the patient himself is treated. This means that he 1s allowed and encouraged to tell all about his "troubles", difficulties, financial rev- erses, fears, and disappointments,

In addition to these things that are 0n "his mind',, the patient may complain of chronic diarrhoea, con- st1pation,,a “steady" pain in the buck or elsewhere, indigestion, sleep- lsmiess, severe headaches and other pains.

n.

If a thorough examination shows no real or organic trouble, the phy-

permits him to tramp over mothers I

sicilm explains to the patient that his symptoms are entirely due to his mental attitude, his outlook on life, to a. tired nervous system, and that he can get back to normal health if he follows the physician's directions.

"Reassurance and establishment of self-confidence are essential."

Dr. Book's final statement is, "It is important to give the patient a. bet- fer understanding of the machine- hls y-in which he is living,

a point of view about meeting his problem."

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A fVitamines And Swordfish

_, .____ (Plsfieries News Bullltin) Research. workers are per-gig- tent chaps

and the vitamins are m it o hard 10b to hide from

of thorn in Nova Booths-since 1t may mean a chance will be opened up fo r them to market fis-‘n livers wltioh hithteno have been only so much waste material.

Cod livers have had commer- cial value for years because of their vitamin content, although it was not until comparatively recently tlutt it was discovered that the me- dicinal virtue of cod liver oil is due to the bdtamlns it contains. Halibut liven. formerly valueless to the fishermmi, 000k 0n a meaning in dollars and cents several years ago when research found out that they, D00. are rich in vitamins. The some thing is probably likely to happen now in the case of swordfish livers, bhougih some further work may have to be done on methods of pro- cestng them before they are used in oil making.

The swordfish research docs not happen to have bun done in Can- ada but in the United States. Fcd- eml fisheries scientists in the Dominion have accomplished a good deal of valuable work in ithc rcseoich field but not in this p:ir- ticular part of the field. The Uuitcd States investigations were con- ducted under the federiiTBurcau of Fisheries which states that they have shown that the swordfish liver oil has "a remarkably high vitamin potency content." Indeed, ‘the content of Vitamin D, the unti- rnohltic vitamin, is stated to be much greater than it is in other fish livers. The vitamin A content is also hig-h. So far as the size of the livers is ooncemedthe United sta- tes i... ‘igatozs estimate that a swordfish liver "represents about five per cent of the weight of the =::;-..;___._i____———————-——-—_._._€_r—. ~—~ defaults-well, call out the police. It is time some person should go to jail.

I have heard people my very mean and unkind things about others for no other reason in the world than that their success was greater than theirs. In a way we are all uiifques. Each human being is of a kind, with his own personality and char- acteristics. There is no reason why another, with different talents or abilities, should arouse envy. There are human beings however, who arc not happy with their own sta- tion. or success

For Full Strength

People I Krlélil

who did not pecans-I'll! h" mo. A Jfllllrlllll Iwhdfl‘ ally meets and knows many pcoplc who mlf. W’ "W! l“: m" hlm thonor afterwards.

BY I‘.J.I.

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HIS MAJESTY

Tomorrow His Most 01101011! Majesty, King George V celebrates his sixty-ninth bilthdsy amidst the lions of his 661M811 es is an ideal soverelzn. I “WW4 haze-lover, a. 00118611131 11911111151011- and a courteous and considerate host, 1 first reported him when. as Duke of York. 1w 9195149111‘ t!“ opening banquet in conneodon with the Royal Highland and Asrlcul- turlst Society's show in Aberdeen. 1 discovered then for the first limo that His Royal Highness W88 Ill abstainer. cfiampazflfl WM wmd at the banquet, but his glass was charged with ginger ale-though the onlooker knew not the difference. The caterer, the late Mr. Hay, let the press into the

Prince's

personal total abstinence for him- self and household during the dark days of the war.

visited his subjec for the first time,

ts in Edinburgh I was in the Jour-

cnce the King WON. Literally, his smile “never came ofl" .

Many Opinions

1. icing o! mil- 800d ms es and m” subiects

throughout the mplre- H" MAJ-

ccntinuing to pose on Germany a. status of inferiority means ulti- mate war, and is therefore unac- ceptablc.

llamas

scent. and I heard later that that was the usual custom at public banquets. It wasoonsequently no hardship, or any great sacrifice for His Majesty to set the example of

amcnt Convention, a. Franco-British defensive alliance means an in- creasing and intolerable liability for Great Britain and is therefore un- acceptable.

Britain is prepared to underwrite is one which provides for immediate limitation and ultimate of the armaments of the heavily- armed Powers, while admitting as