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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1928 We confess to have always had a measure of sympathy for the wives of geniuses, And now comes the widow of Joseph Conrad, most famous of modern novelists, with a con. fession that he was not exactly easy to live with, especially when he was finishing a novel, He had to be coddled, waited upon and humored a lot. It is recorded of Thomas Carlyle that he once suggested to his wife in the presence of literary guests that she should not "breathe so loud," Charles Dickens became wrought up after depicting emotional scenes in his novels that he paced the floor and wept audibly, We have also heard of a poet who used to think out some of his best lines after he had gone to bed and then awoke his wife and had her write them down, Oh, well, men are pretty much all alike, whether geniuses or not, We once knew a man, neither a poet nor a novelist, who, when the girl of his choice refused him, went home, took a shotgun and killed a cat, NEW NAMES FOR OLD CALLINGS The effort to contrive appropriate new words to describe new occupations and to rename old occupations is never-ending, Bar- bers want a name to distinguish themselves from the beauty expert and to dignify their profession, Electrical contractors and deal- ers have adopted a name for themselves, When the dismantling of old buildings to make room for new structures became a dis- tinct profession, it presently became neces- sary to find a name for it, London, a few years ago, introduced the word "housebreak- er" to describe the mew occupation. But housebreaker has unpleasant implications, 'being also a synonym for "second-story man." ¥ In this country the title "housewrecker" fs familiar, but possibly because "wrecker" fis also imagined to suggest something un- complimentary, there has of late appeared, on buildings in process of being razed, the announcement that this work is being done by "demolition contractors," Although there is something Johnsonian fn the revised name, 8 hint of *tonsorial parlor," and architects say that "demoli- tion" has long been the word with which a formal contract describes the process of tear- fng down a building, common speech pro- ceeds by rules of its own making. Even with all this authority in its support #demolition contractor" will probably gain po wider usage than on contracts and con- tractors' placards, while "housewrecker," be- cause it appeals to the public's imagination, . shows promise of general and permanent HE -~ , How many say "funeral director" for "undertaker" or "tonsorial artist" for *barber?" § FODDER To many persons breakfast does not seem genuine unless they have coffee; to others coffee is a poison that causes insomnia, loss and social unrest. 'These latter however, need not eat their rations There are substitute beverages that them no discomfort, and they can freely and contrive to live happily in imperfect world. Every man to his ra- The savage in Africa delights in hot whale blubber; the Chinaman enjoys nests and devil fish. mortals, who are simple folk and old-fashioned ideas, are prone to they come upon the writings of the public prints, and yearn to im for the glory of God and the pro- the pure in heart. In this, as in matters, they are quite unfair. cynic whose clever phrases irritate the majority serves a select cli- E fj; gsilE- | : § g : ha GONE IS THE "BAD MAN" The latest indictment of present-day modes and manners is that we take our vil lians too lightly, If a halt in the current trend is not soon called, fiction and drama, at least, will be without them altogether, The crisis is brought to attention by a book on "Some Rogues and Vagabonds of Dick- ens," Certainly, Dickens offers black-hearted villians in plenty, But writers today are not so generous, and modern readers are moved to ask for more, Fear that scoundrels are disappearing from literature seems well founded. Realism is the fashion of the day, yet a change has come over the realist. Once he was down on people; then he became sternly impartial ; now he is infinitely tender with his unfor- tunates, Things have come to such a pass that often enough it is hard to tell hero from villian, The poor fellow whom heredity, environment and author have pushed into a life of crime gets all the sympathy. There is danger of falling into soft ways if all villians are to be explained, analyzed and denatured, There is a certain elevation about the villian, he does the thing hand- somely, If this meat is to be'stricken from the literary diet, there may soon be a genera- tion of flabby and anaemic readers. What writers are doing to fiction and drama, lawyers, psychologistd and crimin- ologists are doing to the criminal. The modern murderer is no longer a "bold, bad man' who does evil on a grand scale, but a poor unfortunate victim of hergdity, envir- onment or temporary insanity, The male- factor is shorn of his former glory and de- nied the hero-worship he craves. EDITORIAL NOTES A wild ride goeth before a fall, A soft drink turneth away headaches, Men are the most foolish when they are laughing at women, What we need is a child labor law to keep them from working their parents to death, Scientists say the earth is an accident. So don't kick, They are bound to happen, Some one asks why the air is more dense near the earth, Probably gets that way by associating with folks, When the maid says her mistress is out, at least she doesn't jerk an insulting thumb the way an umpire does, After the Great Statesman has backed and filled, hemmed, hawed and chewed his cigar for 50 minutes, he tells his interviewer that the information is strictly confidential. Bit of Verse | EE -- LL - THOU CANST NOT DIE Thou canst not die! When all around thee live, For thou are part and parcel of the whole, And truth and love are fashioned of your soul, And it must live; Thou canst not die! Thou canst not die! Though mourners pace the street And sobbing earth distorts the purple ray-- That shrouds the cruder temple in the clay-- To make it sweet; Thou canst not die! Thou canst not die! Or it were vain indeed, That all the attributes of gentler worth, Your soul has wrestled from a scared earth-- Should €'er be freed; Thou canst not die! Thou canst not die! Yet through your lips be dumb, And when, perhaps, I deed you through the years, To bear me up and calm my lonely years » FIERE i : All the ignorant shouting against the history books has had one good result; writers of history are closing their ranks and getting ready for battle, The American Historical Association has passed a resolution, not one of those merely perfunctory declarations, but a resolution which shows its teeth. It hotly resents the charge that many scholars are conducting treasonable propaganda, and as- serts that genuine patriotism, "no lesa than the requirements of hon- esty and sound scholarship, de- mands that text-book writers and teachers should strive to present a truthful picture of past and present." The association goes on to in- sist that the criticism of history books should not be based on pat- riotism but "on faithfulness to fact as determination by special- ists." It denies that the general public which cannot know the facts should have the right to choose between those facts which are pleasant and flattering and those which are not, History Is the business of those who know something about it, and not the business of some who think that skeletons in the nation's clos- et should forever be kept under lock and key. NO NATION IS POPULAR (From the New York Times) Lady Astor's Lincoln Day Speeca In London went into the percen- tages of patriotism, She is against the 100 per centers, whether the) be English or Americans. Speaking as a strong advocate of a good un- derstanding between Great Britain and the United States, she found the 100 per centers on both sides of the ocean the greatest obstacle, and declared that they ou~ht all to be locked up as a public danger, This raises the question of the "popularity" of one nation among the citizens of another. Lady Astor frankly admitted that Americans, except as profitable tourists, are not very popular anywhere in Eur- ope today, But she neatly turned the point by declaring that, if one stopped to think of it, *BEagland has never been a very popular coun- try." In times past England did not particularly wish to be. The motto of many of her public men was that they would rather be disliked than despised. That feeling ac- counted for frequent displays of bad manners nog only by British travelers but by British diplomats. However, those superior airs are no longer In favor in England, or in any other country. All nations are today most anxious Lo please. The desire for foreign trade would account for that, if nothing else would, Yet England was reproach- ed as being "a nation of shop- keepers," long before she began to insist that all her representatives and agents abroad should imitate the ingratiating ways of a head floorwalker. NEGLECTING HOME HEROES (From the Halifax Herald) The first Canadian flying field to receive a name is located at Ottawa. It has been named *Lind- bergh," and we are not surprised to find such a serious-minded pa- per as the Financial Post register- ing dignified but emphatic protest. No one In this Dominion desires to detract one iota from the splen- did exploit of this fine young air- man: he has had a world of praise in this country. But surely this is carrying "hero-worship" just a lit- tle too far. Why not the name of one of the British air pioneers, Ball, Robin- son, Alcock Brown--or coming nearer home, the name of a Can- adian like Bishop or Barker? We Canadians do curious things at times, and this is one of them. Is it possible that we are for- getting 80 soon the heroism of those gallant gentlemen who flew their rickety old "busses" over the lines in the earlier days of the war--going out more than halfway to meet whatever Fates had to send? Or those intrepid trail- blazers who spanned the Atlantic with their hit-or-miss equipment in 19197 Let us have hero-worship, if we must, but let us remember that our own heroes led the way. MARCIL'S SECOND THOUGHT (From the Hamilton Herald) bas withdrawn it. His explanation is that since he gave notice of it he learned "new » lt 2380 system, Had this resolution come before the house, it would have beem the the house, but would have spread throughout the country. And noth- ing would have been gained by it. The government of no other coum- try in the world has taken the course which Mr. Marcil demanded of the Canadian government. By taking that course the Ottawa gov- ernment would certainly have tak- en sides in a purely domestic quar- rel in a foreign country. War has frequently sprung from less provo- cative action than that. It is well that Mr. Marcil's friends have suc- ceeded in convincing him of the folly of insisting upon pressing his resolution upon parliament. ONE WAY TO USE ALBERTA COAL (From the Detroit Free Press) Over in England the "Oxford dictionary," begun in 1859 under the editorship of Herbert Coler- idge, has just been completed. It will be published and presented to King George on April 19. There will be 12 volumes containing 418,825 words, 500,000 defini- tions, 1,827,806 quotations and columns of print that would be nine miles in length if laid out end to end. Stupendous as the labor involv- ed ip the mere listing of all this massed information appears to be the history of the dictionary it- self is even more remarkable. without having seen the work in its entirety, scholars have already oroclaimed this "New English dle: tionary," published hy the Oxford University press, 'one of the great- est achievements, whether in lit- erature or science, of modern Eng- lish scholarship and research." The initial impetus for the New English dictionary came from the philologists. The Phiological so- city 70 years ago suggested the plan of completing the vocabula- ries of dictionaries in existence in the middle of the nineteenth cen- tury and supplying historical in- formation lacking in them. Her- bert Coleridge, the first editor, ded in 1861. He was succeeded by Sir J. A. H. Murrav, then Dr. Murray, More th~n 2 000 000 aqun- tatlons were co'l~cted, hunt 1'tt'a e'se was done until 1878, when the exren-e of printine and prhlighire was afsumad hv the Univere'ty nress. Dr, Murray was named ed' tor of the new dictionary; and within 10 years a sin~le volume was ready, undonbtedly made un of small prerts first pohlished in 1884. Readers from all over the world became interestad in the nrofect; the learned In every sphere gave aid gratuitously, The philolorists chose the mid- Ale of the twelfth century as an "istorical starting point. Words ~hsolete at that time have not heen Included, thou~h their his- tory is given. A veritable history of the race lurks in the dictionary which will serve as an authority for future smaller editions adapt- ed to ponular use. The new Kne- lish dictionary is not a mere list- ing of words; It is a record of a 'anguage now spoken in every quarter of the globe, a language which may somet!me come closer than any other to being universal, ELECTORAL LAW INITALY PASSES Premier Mussolini's Meas- ure is Approved by His Ministers Rome, Feb. 22.--Premler Mus- solini's measure for reform of the electoral law was approved by the council of ministers Sunday. Mus- solini himself presided. The number of deputies fs re- duced to 400 (previously 535) and the candidates will be proposed by the 13 national guilds--two names for each seat. Organizations ap- proved by the state other than cor- porations may also pominate 100 candidates in all. Names thus gathered will be passed on by the Fascist grand council, which will form a list of respective deputies, choosing them freely from among those proposed, or the council may take others, in order to include mnotabilities of the scientific and literary world. The list thus formed will be submitted for approval to the electorate, which may vote thereon "yes" or "no." The same list will be pre- sented throughout the country, Italy, thereby forming a single constituency. The Ministers also approved a bill intended to exempt about 35,- 000 large families practically from all taxation, State employes, sold- fers, sailors and those on pension must have seven or more children living and of [Italian nationality to benefit by this measure. MONTREAL CRIME HOLIDAY LASTS ONE WHOLE WEEK Montreal, Feb. 21--Montreal fs of appropriating the title ly awarded to To- One of the explanations of mo- tor car accidents is that a number of individuals have defective eye- sight and do mot know it. Since the system of issuing per- mits to drivers has come inte force, the examiners tell us that some motorists seeking licenses cannot estimate correctly the distance from the curb, or a point a few yards distant on the road. A telephone inspector states tht while the dial system has its m@- its, nevertheless some folks can- not see distinctly enough to use the proper letters and numbers, and many complaints of "wrong num- ber' are due to these cases of poor eyesight. Now, you can readily see that with eyesight so defective that these folks cannot drive a car safe- ly, or use a dial teiephone correct. iy, that besides accidents and mis- takes happening, the individuals tnemselves must suffer to some ex- tent from the mervous strain due! We Sell and convenience in carrying money while travelling and are negodiable every- where. For sale at any «0 de.ective eyesight, And so it would appear to be only common sense to have your eyes examined from time to time, Perhaps you wonder what the difference is between an optomet- rist and an optician. | An optometrist is one who ex- amines the eye, with the idea of prescribing lenses of prisms for correcting errors, not only of the sight proper, but also where one eye is turned slightly inward or outward. The optician is really the manufacturer of the lenses. He 11 King Street East, Oshawa SroBIE-FORLONG &(0 STOCKS BONDS GRAIN d anid Office: Retord Buil ind 8. F. EVERSON, Local Manager Private Wire System Phones 143 and 144 grinds them according to the pre- scription given by the optometrist, An oculist is different from el- ther of these in that he is a phy- g.clan who has specialized on the examination or treatment of eye ailments. Now, your first thought, if you have pin about eyes or foreheaa, ' wou d be to see an oculist, because there may be real trouble in the eyes. Mo:t oculists pres-ribh« lasses whee they are needed. I* you wish to have a scientific meas urement of wahat your eyes are really doing, the optometrist can do this for you. That is it he is a duly registered to do this optometrist, licensed work, If not, you are taking great chances with that precious gift-- eyesight, It would be worth while just as you go to your dentist and doetor periodically, to also consult your oculist or optometrist regularly. The latest schoolboy *howler" tells us that "the function of the stomach is to hold up the petti- coats." -- Ottawa Journal, ~ A.L. HUDSON & Co. 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