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Ave a"ot ple to them. Lk, George! like blue glass, "Do you know that--that man, 'George? she asked stiffly, + "Know Alf Jennings answered 'George, with a laugh. "I should think Ido! We've been pals for dlong time, told you about my lending him a bit of money to start in business." "But you 'Said that Mr. Jennings "Well, isn't selling bot pies cat- ering?" kled George. Grace remained silent and held her- sell very rigid. She felt she Mad been grossly tuisled. "It's 'mot what I call catering," she 'sald presently. "Selling hot ples in the street, It's low!" = | George halted, 2 he sald a little ~ "Look here!" angrily, "Don't you be narrow. You told me that they taught you at the political economy class that all pro- ductive labor was dignified. Alt makes all his ples himself, so he's got something up on a bishcp, And they're good pies, too!" Grace saw the strength of George's orgument, but she was stubborn. "That's an extreme view!" she re: torted. "There's the reputation cf the "to think of, and unless you are wil to give up your low ac quaintances I must give you up." George was hur... He was 'also a What was the good of all the thecry Grace had preached to him about capital and labor if the moment it was put into practice it fell down? Ee "I'm not going to give old Al Jen nings up," he sald defiantly. "Then good-bye!" ped Grace, with a suspicion of dew round her eyes; and before George could stop _her 'she had turned on her heel and walked away. George was tempted to run after her and continue the argument; but he was a bit stiff-necked himSelf. So; instead of following Grace, as she expected to where Alf Jennings was 6till pop- into paper bags. he sald. "How he would, he strolled back| "SHERIF Lies £3 of him 'a very great deal * One wet day in November she was the presses round her fee coupe slithered to a halt at the curb, and George Andrews' face appeared at the lowered window. "Hallo, Grace!" he called. a stranger you pu Grace's heart gave a great bound, and for a second she feared she was going to-make a fool of herself and cry. She was so very miserable. "George!" dhe exclaliied, "Oh, L George, I--I--" she stopped 'speak- ing, not knowing what next fo day. Then, seeing the beauty of the car, she asked: "Are you a_commercial traveller?" "No, I'm on my own," grinned Gecrge. "Do you mean this is your car?' asked Grace. A "Every nut of it," George assured her. "And there's a '16t of empty space by my side here, If you want a nee" He flung open the door as he spoke, and without mentioning where she wanted to go, Grace stepped in. George didn't inquire her destination. In a sort of dream of well'belig at having Grace by his side again, he let in the clutch and drove forward. For a time there was a constrained "What him, - "Thiigs seem to have prospered with you Gecrge," she said. "Made a bit of mondy," answered George. "Heard a month ago that your dad was dead and that your shop had gone bust. Looked around for you, but couldn't trade you. I cut adrift from those Téchnical School ¢lasses. when we parted. They taught theory; I went in for prac tice." Being stubborn, 'Grace looked at him squarely. . a a ' "It yon've made @ money say you have withtut tollowing theoretical teaching, George, what would you be if you'd stutk to it?" she asked. - George grinned. « "Maybe I'd be keeping a booksell- er's shop on Deptford Broadway, Grace," he said. "As it'is, I'm keép- ing a model factory and finding five hondred men and women productive "Alt Jennings looks od notion and I Took after the business a" silence; then Grace looked shyly atf Ancient mortars ast as sentries Halifax, N.8. MUTE SENTINELS OF CANADA'S ROMANTIC PAST chants and Saves Money To all intents and purposes, there is a town in Nebraska where nobody in is debt, observes the Norfolk Vir- Pilot. This town, Bloomfield, a population of 1,431, according to the last census, and is an agricul- tural center with bank, flour mill, and butter factory. Bloomfield, to quote the Virginia paper further, "has light- ed a beacon of hope that probably "] tew towns will have the hardihood to at massive entrance gate of Citadel, ; # The Problem of Narcotics ! > The Evil of Narcotics is One That Strikes Both Directly andIndirectly at the Home There are about 8,000 drug adbicts ~--or dope flends, as they are more commonly called--in Canada. They éonsume--and here is an even more startling figure--about $80,000 worth 'of drugs every day. The danger from the. widespread 'use cf narcotics in Canada fis that drug adbicts breed drug adbidets; eath one Is an agency of evil who will try to pull other victims into the mire in which he finds himself. The four main drugs that have as- sailed Canada are opium, morphine, cocaine and heroin. Opium is the Juice of the white poppy, cultivated matnly ih Hindustan and Asiatic Tur- key, and thickened by evaporaticn. Opium would not be so important to us; but for the fact that other 'drugs that are used most extensively in Cgnada, come from opium. About one hundred and twenty-five years age, a French chemist found that he could produce another drug- niorpliine, which was named after the god ot sleep, Morpheus--from opium. Sixty-five years later another chem- ist, this one an Austrian, found by ex- perithenting with cocoa leaves that he could produce cocaine. 2 Just thirty years ago, a German chémist found he coul take from opium still another drug, which was called heroin. It is three or four "tities stronger than morphine, and is blamed largely for the increase in drug usage on this continent since 'tHe war. At first-heroin was not be- ifeved to be habit-forming, and was uséd on that assumption. But two years after its discovery, it was found to be as bad if not worse, in getting a grip on its victim, It has peen re- nouficed by the medical profession as not at all necessary for their pur- pose. Fut it continues in use through- out the world, a dangerous drug, | witholit and redeeming feature or excise for its existence. «All these thrée drugs, morphine, cocaine and heroin, are white pow- ders, bitter to the taste and soluble fn water. All afe delétericus, both 'mentally. and physically. The habl- .| tual use, of any ol them will bring ath wif ) inexorible ~ certainty. Opium fs the slowest to kill, shine, the next, while heroin is {he most Where Snow Shovelling is For example, to compare the drug follow, but that Bloomfield finds no reason to regret': Recently the Bloomfield Chamber of Commerce persuaded all business houses, in the town to stop credit to retail purchasers. The shoe pinched, of course, as was to be expected. Old customers - left their favorite stores, but if they, crossed the street, they only coltideh against another good-na- tured wall of "cash only." Bloom- fleld reports that they have gotten over their initial irritation, and that as a result the merchants of the town, freed from the nightmare of old debts and bad debts, have so cut their prices 'that far from business leaving Bloomfield, business is com- ing to it from near-by towns. The news from Bloomfield also brings a word of comment from the column of editor Glenn Griswold of the Chicago Journal of Commerce. He understands that the cash-only plan, which was tried out as an ex- periment last year, has been adopted permanently: "not cnly stores but habit with the liquor habit; Five ounces of alethol is considered a fatal dose. Five ounces of morphine taken at one time will kill fifteen hundred 'men. : ? Chemistry has given us these drugs, and passed them on to the medical profession. . with the exception of hergin, to as- suage pain. But mankind was not satisfied with that, and the use of these drugs spread to people who did not need them. Now the combined wisdom of chemistry, medicine, and governments, is not sufficient to strike down the peril, There are fantastic stories at times of people who have become drug adbicts 'because they were given one of these drygs in a time of need, and that one administration made them adbicts. Those are very rare cases, and hardly need to be taken into con- sideration. The use cf drugs is spread about almost entirely by peo- ple who profit greatly by creating other adbicts. Thousands, of tons of poisonous drugs are consumed every year by the human race. Less than one percent. of the total consumption is necessary for medicinal purposes. Before heroin came into such gen- eral use, adults were, in the main, the only adbicts, The dealers in heroin, however, recruit among their cus- tomers young childrgn. The average age of the heroin adbict is about 22 years of age, which means that he must have become adbicted some years before he was twenty. in to compare the drug habit with the liquor habit: It takes some time of regular youth becomes a regular drunkard. Not so with heroin. An ounce of heroin can make two thousand ade bicts within a week. As well as that, a drunkard sometimes serves as a useful example with which to point the warning finger. In fact a drunkard as a general rule, will ad- vise others to keep away from the stimulant that caused his downfall. gins right away to drag others into the net. He is used as a recruiting agent for the operators who are malk- The doctors used them, ' drinking befor a; Not so the heroin adbicts.- He be-p. | barbers, dentists, and doctors as well, are said to have thrown away their books and to be doing their business 'for cash only." Mr, Griswold goes on: Just how it is possible for all the housewives of a town the size of Bloomfield--no matter how blg Bloom- fleld is=~day in and day out and from one week's end to another, to main. | tain the Spartan fortitude that 1s | necessary, to say no to a partial.pay- ment salesman, is difficult to under- stand. { The Chamber of Commerce at Bloomfield says that "results have surpassed the fondest expectations"; Boy the system is working perfectly; and the inference 'is given that it Is working 100 per cent. It is sald that no business has permanently left town, but that, on the other hand, the low prices prevailing as a result of cash trading are attracting custom- | ers from all over the country. It is not made clear whether this rule applies to retail business only. ! The presumption is that the store- | keepers still talk about sixty and ninety days and ten and twenty off | when they do business with traveling salesmen. It this scheme works in Bloomfield, why shouldnt it work elsewhere? Why doesn't some live Ontario village start the good work? | Pirst Stude--<"The Hue un our is like a stone wall." Second Stude--"It sure ls--and every fellow in it's a brick." team a Real Problem A year In the wilds of" South, America is a sure cure for "trying to keep up with the Joneses." N This, in brief, is the simple but startling recommehdation cf Mrs. Her- bert Spencer Dickey who has just returned from four, years there with her ft p husband and who left Montreal recently after a brief stay there. The trip made a philosopher of the debutante girl Mrs. Dickey was, and incidentally furnished plenty of ma- terial for her husband's new book "The Misadventure of a Tropical Medico." "I love gay and prefty clothes, lovely surroundings," this smart and charming lookify woman joyously told a reporter just befcre she went to the train bound for New York. "But I know now that one costume is all you can ever wear atone time, one bed and sufficient food is encugh. I know that all I really need is a roof over my head when it storms, warmth when it is cold, shade when it is hot and a few friends of whom I am fond," she added. Neyer Roughed It Mrs. Dickey, she confided to the reporter, met her husband four years ago when she went to Guayaquil to visit relatives. There she met Dr, Dickey, who has speni the past 31 years in uncivilized Central America. Born and brought up in New York, she had never roughed it, never even been camping. She didn't know how to cook and had never kept house, But they fell in love, and were mar ried at Panama and thus her ro- mance started. Their honeymoon was a year's ex- ploration trip, the hardest Dr. Dickey had ever undertaken, a great search inland for the unknown source of the Oronoco River, They tramped on foot for 400 miles of the 3,000 mile trip, from Guayaquil to Brazil, from the Pacific to the Atlantic. "I learned to live, when necessary, just like a savage," Mrs. Dickey said. "I learned to cook as they do, eat | what they do. Now I even like stew- ed monkey! "The woman savages were very curious about me at first," she con- tinued. "They thought me worthless be- cause I carried no cargo on my back or head. And they thought I was pathetic because I was an only wife and thelr 'husbands were rich with five or mniore. They used to put their arms alongside of mine comparing their dark skins with mine. Obvious- I¥ they felt sorry for me! They took off my hat and gloves and tried them on, just like children. And they bad a perfect circus making up with my cosmetics. "The savage women we enccunter- ed are virtual slaves: Yet they are at the bese of all tribal wars and disturbances. And while the Indians are communists, the women are in- tensely personal property. Mar- riages are arranged between infants. Girls' fathers pay dearly for boy hus- bands for them. Marriages take place when the children are 10 or 11. Then the husband goes in for kidnapping other wives, the number allowed him depending on' his importance in his tribe. A chief of any siven tribe Is a modern Solomon. Peaceful Old Age "One of the most consoling things about these sagages is their peace- ful old age. Savage women, too old and toothless for carrying burdens, occupy themselves with manufactur ing chica, the national intoxicant They sit and chew the root of the yucca or mania all day long, enjoy- ing a peace that is enviable. Mrs. Dickey made friends with many of the wild animals and Dr. Dickey watched her with amazement apparently, Her monkies snapped at him, but when she left camp they wrung their hands and cried. She brought a green cacique and some hooded sapajous, rare specimens back, and was only able to keep the cack que alive on the boat trip by taking it to bed to keep it warm. "When we started, my husband of- fered me a4 many months in Paris as we spent on the trip, at the end of the exploration," said Mrs. Dickey. "I was to have a mew frock or hat for every hardship. And I thought at first that I could never walt to get there. "But when 1 finally' walked along the Rue de la Paix, looking Into the shop windows at gowns, hats and jewels, I surprised myself by realiz- Grew Homesick ing that all women are just like sav- : Broad 0 tion here recently, when Sir Am Flemming and John L. Baird, invent of the apparatus, opened the first. A t of the regular bread. casts was made soon after the Baird Television Company and other mal ers of television apparatus reve 'saf that they had kit receivers available to the public. The apparatus was first demonstrated and exhibited at the Radio Olympia, the annual Great Britain radio exposition. Sir Ambrcse, who officially inaugu- rated the television broadcast, was as- sociated with Senatore Marconi when he successfully transmitted the letter "S" across the Atlantic in 1903. Mr. Baird is one of the best known European television experimenters, having been working on his system of transmission fcr the last six years. He is the owner of many important patents bearing on visual transmis- sion. Since the British Broadcasting Com. pany announced its inteaticsss of broadcasting television on regular schedule several months ago, several thousand radio listenérs are reported to have purchased television recelv- lg apparatus to listen in on the tests. The programs will be broadcast twice weekly, and additional time will be allocated should the service warrant expansion, Present programs are brcadeast simulutaneously with the vocal ac: companiment of the performers. The sounds are transmitted over the re- gular channels of the company The kit television sets available to British television listeners consist of the essential parts fcr a vision recely- er, They are a scanning disk, neon lamp, motor and controlling apparatus, The equipment is designed to operate from a standard radio receiver. The disk revolves at precisely the same speed as that used for transmisskna and literally paints a facsimile of the televised object within an aperature two inches square. While reprcduc: tions are orange in calor and tend to show mainly silhouettes, they are said to be surprisingly sharp in definition, Synchronization of the receiver disk motor is maintained by ccntrolling speed by means of a rheostat in the back of the motor. The unit consist ing of the motor, disk and lamp are mounted on 3 compact base and hous. ed in a small cabine:, with the visica aperature at the righy, The syn- chronizing control Is in the center of the cabinet, a-- Possession The. flelds resent. intrusion. you leave A wagon rut clover buttercups and Queen Anne's lace. They weave A tapestry of vines and throw It over The fences that are near. dow looks So lazy as it stretches in the sun. So peaceful with its grazing cows, its brooks, Its languid willows; hardly any one Would ththk a meadow restless. Yet they scheme-- Forever crafty, eager to regain Some old abandoned garden cr redeem The winding beauty of o country lane. The fields resent intrusion, would grow The way they did a thousand years ago. --@Gertrude Ryder 3ennet in the Commogweal. -- Crowding Us Out Cork Evening Echo. Our Govern ment is busy in America at present, and nobody seems to be taking any notice. Since the day that our Minis- ter for Defence landed in New York and reviewed the New York police, he might as well have dropped through a hole in the ground for all we hear about him. . .. I blame Ram- say MacDonald for it. He's crowd- ing us out of the newspapers, It is, of course, the Inherent and insatiable right of a démocrat to hog all the news- paper space that's going, but there's a limit to that sort of thing. The When they fill it full of And A mea They