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Delivered by carrier: 10¢ a week. mail: in the a BA Ontario, Durham and Be | a year; elsewhere in Canada, $4.00 a year; nited States, $5.00 a year, TORONTO OFFICE: 407 Bond Building, 66 Street, Telephone Adelaide 0107, H, aon representative, REPRESENTATIVES IN US. Powers and Stowe, Inc, New York and Chicago. I hk MONDAY, APRIL 9, 1928 COMMUNIST MISREPRESENTATION According to a Toronto Globe report of the sessions of the Canadian Labor Party in Toronto on Good Friday L. R. Menzies, prom- inent as a communist, made some statements with reference to the recent Oshawa strike that completely misrepresent the true situa- tion, Apparently Menzies is determined to discredit the Department of Labour at any cost, The Globe report says: Mr, Menzies's subject was "The Oshawa Strike." Said he: "The function of the De- partment of Labor officials was to split the ranks of the workers, and it nearly succeed- ed." He poured his censure also on the "capitalist press." In the newspaper ac- counts of the strike, said he, were embodied "direct misstatements" with 'the objective of splitting the ranks of the strikers." He felt that the workers needed a 100 per cent organization to get an even break with a Board of Conciliation, such bodies being "generally packed against the workers." Fortunately there are others who know the facts even better than Mr, Menzies, Following the publication of the above re- port The Oshawa Daily Times got in touch with A, C, Phillips, President of the workers' organization here, and Mr, Phillips unhesi- tatingly repudiated the version given by Menzies, The interview with Mr. Phillips appears on another page and speaks for it. self, As a matter of fact it was the com- munists--chiefly Menzies and McDonald-- who almost succeeded in splitting the ranks of the men as well as making impossible fur- ther negotiations with the company, The Oshawa workmen concerned in the strike owe less than nothing to Menzies and his fellow communists, They owe a great deal to the representatives of the Department of Labour--the Hon, Peter Heenan and Mr. M, 8. Campbell--who by their sane advice and impartial dealing succeeded in bringing the company and the men together in an entirely satisfactory and honorable manner. Menzies is not only wrong about the strike situation here, He is also wrong in his references to the working of Conciliation Boards generally, Like other eommunists his sole object appears to be to spread sus- picion and mistrust wherever he can. Of course this policy may work in Russia, but in a democratic country like Canada it is sure to defeat itself and in fact that is what is actually happening. Honest, decent labor men have already disassociated them- selves from the communists and their in- fluences and ability to make trouble are re- duced to a minimum, IF GENIUS LIVED LONGER A scientist has completed a series of in- vestigations having to do with the life span of famous men and the age at which genius reaches its productive peak. Two of his findings stand out--that the famous men of the past, on an average, died twenty-five years younger than famous men of this age, and that the practice of retiring men at sixty is a waste of their best brains. Four hundred of the greatest dead were considered in the study, Among them it was found that the average productive peak Was reached at forty-one years for chem- ists and physicians and fifty-eight years for naturalists and judges. Of the living, how- ever, he was unable to strike an average age for their best work, because it is ever left to posterity to decide what is the great- est work of a man. This much he was able to prove--that if \ Keats, Alexander, Poe and others had be- longed to the present they might have lived perhaps twenty years longer to continue doing great things. What it would have meant to the world if its great men and geniuses had had even five more years of life! Literature would be enriched with countless additional trea- sures. Art would have numbered in its pos- sessions masterpiece the execution of which was stayed by death, Science would be farther advanced. Knowledge would be considerably greater, Five additional pro- ductive years added to the lives of the great men of the past would have meant more to the world of today than can be imagined. Lengthening of man's life span is of im- portance not only to the individual. A longer useful and productive life has a po- tent effect on the world, GRAB IT--HOLD IT" A great many of our readers know Dick, only that is not his real name, He is a bright-eyed youngster who plays hard every day. A few days ago we watched him and his playmates having a game of baseball. The score at the time we stopped to look is an unimportant detail. Dick's eyes were never off the rapidly moving sphere. Suddenly a hard and fast fly was batted to his field, Out in this field was a great puddle of muddy water, left by a recent rain, and the ball went straight for that puddle. And Dick went straight for the ball. Perhaps he saw the puddle--at least he knew it was there-- but his eyes were on the ball, As the ball shot for the ground Dick leaped into the air, caught the ball, and--splash! he went flati n the dirty hole. But the hand that had nailed the fly never touched the ground. He waded out, covered with mud and soak- ed to the hide, two facts of which he seemed unaware, because he had caught the fly-- and had held it. Some boys would have started for the ball and stopped at the edge of the puddle. Some others would have lost it when they fell. Dick held on. That particular ball game soon will be a forgotten affair, or at the best only a mem- ory, But we can picture Dick when he gets into the real game of life, as being classed among the star players, He will not look for the little unpleasant things but will hurl himself at the ball and hold on for dear life. He may fall in the mud--he may even have to be fished out--but when he comes to the top, in his hand you will see the ball. One great affliction of so many of us is the tendency to first look for the puddle instead of the ball. And by the time we have figured out every little chance against a successful catch, the ball is gone. When the hall of life is batted into your field, grab it. Don't fumble it--hold it. MARBLES AND SPRING There is a time for all things, and this happens to be the time for marbles, One of the positive signs of spring is the advent of the marble season. No sooner does the warm spring sun melt late winter's snow from pavements and sidewalks than there appear on them mystic chalk marks around which squat boys like Indians about a camp fire, "Knuckle down," "Trade you two shooters for a glassy," and "Your shoot" now become the language of youth, and the tell-tale signs of the season are bulging pockets, cardboard boxes filled with something that rattles suspiciously and having a hole in the top through which a marble might be dropped, and the clatter and roll of marbles on schoolroom floors as sorely strainted pants' pockets let go. In his games is the boy "the father of the man." The marbles of youth prepare the way for the tennis, billiards, golf and other sports and pastimes of maturity. Mar- bles is the kindergarten of good sportsman- ship. One wonders if there is a normal boy today who does not feel the irresistible urge to play marbles or a normal man who did not as a boy "shoot" the little spheres of colored glass and clay. So inseparable is the boy from the marble one sometimes thinks to deprive the boy of his marbles would work an irreparable loss, EDITORIAL NOTES Sometimes a man gets so mad he quits being a hypocrite for a few brief minutes. Middle-age is the time when the average man is going to begin saving next month. Summer is called the foolish season, but of all the months April is the most dizzy- headed. At times we fear that whatever killed the dead civilizations was something inherit- able. A husband's spirit isn't really broken so long as he thinks he gives in because he is chivalrous. About the easiest way to teach a boy the machinery of law works is to give him a large allowance. What Others Say A RUMMY QUESTION (New York Evening World) "Do they call it Scotch," asks R. K. C, "because it makes yom tight and keeps you that way longer?" SAFETY FIRST' (Navy Log) Henry and Sylvia Were out driv- ing. Henry had one arm around Syl- via, when the car hit a bump and skidded. "Oh, Henry," gasped Sylvia, "use two hands." "Can't," says Henry, grimly. "Got to drive with one!" AS WOMEN LOVE---WOMEN (London Daily Graphic) A new mot about Sir Austen Chamberlain has just been told me by a well-known public man. Sir Austen said solemnly on a famous occasion that he "loved France as a man loves a woman." "And France loves England," said the author of the mot, sotto voce, "as a woman loves another woman." International politics. NEW YORK'S WORKING GIRLS (Herbert Corey) This is a monstrous big town. Some one estimated that there are one million working girls in town. That seems a low estimat® at first, for the town is absolutely saturated with girls. But it may be right. * At 30 girls to the car and 10 gars to the train, and the trains running at the conservative distance of one mile apart, the working girls of New York would make a continuous { train line to Los Angeles. | THE AIR AGE (Spectator, London) In view of the fact that we are spending 115,000,000 a yéar as insur- | ance against possible war, and only | so little of that vast sum on what is | admittedly cor first line of security, | we should reconsider the whale prob- lem of defence. Is £15,000,000 enough for civil and military aviation? Could we not have a considerable sum cach vear on the other Services and yet strengthen our Air Force, so we shall be yeady to devote these ma chines to the productive purposes of peace. ROYALTY (Wickham Steed in Review of Re- views) The preiound difference between the relationship of the people to the Monarch during the "Victorian Age" and what it is now 1s that Queen Victoria held, in principle' and in practice, to the ancient idea that the people were her people, the country and ruled over them in virtue of a scarcely mitigated conception of Di- vine right, where look upon the the Royal family and are fonder « r, the Queen and s their possessions them and prouder of them than of r other national institution. The s f ownership has ceased to be autocratic or semi antocratic and has become democratic Unlike the railways and the coal mines, the Monarchy has been na tionalized. CANADA AS A HOLIDAY RESORT (Glasgow Herald) Canada is fast developing into a play ground of Empire. This year it 15 anticipated the numbers who will leave Britain to spend their holidays ion will be increased m the Clyde, it is ex- al thousand will sail to with Miller M'Cou c, who has had mat of Canada from the point of view ot a holiday resort is at present here for the purpose ol estimating possi- bilities. Teachers. and clergymen, he tells me, form the largest class of tourist travellers, their extensive va cation enabling them to penetrate even into the Far West. A three- week's trip to the Dominion can cas- ily be accomplished at a cost of WHERE HE IS RIGHT | (From the Hamilton Herald) | Hon. Lynch-Siaunion | masde an immpcriant contribution ro | the debate in the Scnate on | St, Lawrence waterway question, | Mr, &iaunten diseussed the sub- ject from the legal angle. He contended tnat the provincial gov- ernments have entire control over flowing water within the cial houndaries, and that the Do- minion government has no rights Georpe sary to assure the maintenance of the canals. which Confederation. In fact, he had given an opinion to this effect to the Ontario government, and (this is important) the justice at Ottawa that his contention was right "in its entirety." Moreover, the states of the American have control over the lands bor- dering on boundary waters, and the U. 8. government has no such control. For these | treaty between Canada United States which affects the disposal of boundary waters would afford no protection could not enforce it. | Staunton made mention ~--the 1. 8. government being gross injustice to Canada." Chicago claims the right water and tration. to divert secretary of war, expressly gave GRACE AND GLORY -- Wisdom shall give to thine head an orna- ment of grace; a crown of glory shall she deliver to thee. -- Prov. 4:9. PRAYER -- Lord: trust Thee and not own understanding. we would lean on our that on | the glad day when disarmament comes | her eountry, that she possessed them | 1s now the people By James W. Barton, MD. WATER PREVENTS WEIGHT RE- DUCTION (By Jas. W. Barton, M.D.) No fault can be found with health writers who advise the drinking of plenty of water by the average individual. However, the advice given that water does not make or retain fat in the body is hardly fair to our overweight friends. Water is absolutely essential to life, and its withdrawal produces death much more quickly and pain- fully than the withdrawal of food. As a matter of fact a large propor- tion of body weight is due to wa- ter, about 60 to 70 per cenmt. Water dissolves the food stuffs and helps to distribute them throughout the body by means of the blood, removes injurious waste from the cells of the bedy, and keeps the temperature within nar- row limits, about one or two de- grees, 97 to 99 degrees F., by its evaporation. The body uses every day a great deal of water. In digestion alone the municipality permission to di- vert the water, and Charles E. Hughes, acting as examiner for the U. 8. supreme court, recently decided that the Chicago diversion is legal because it had been sanc- tioned by federal authority. Un- less it be admitted that Lake Michigan is not bouudary water, Mr. Staunton's illustration hurts his case instead ¢' helping it; and if the lake is not houndary water the Chicago diversion has no bear- ing upon the waterway question. The important point which Mr. Staunton sought to make was that this country should be very careful not to enter into any agreement with the United States with regard to the use of houn- dary waters until it is made quite clear that the U, 8. government has the power to enforce any agreement into which it may en- ter. Of course he is right, pancreas, inal juice itself, about six or seven pints of water, practically all of which, 98 per cent, is absorb- ed back into the blood again be- | fore the waste of the intestine leaves the body. The average individual in his daily food including Mquids, takes in about four pints of water. If he takes more tham this Nature will take care of it for him. It does- n't dilute the blood, but in many cases gets stored in the muscles and the skim. Now when he exercises, this mus- cle gives up this water. What would happen when he ex- ercised if he dia not have this loose- ly held water in the museles and skin? The exercise would use up some of the fat of his body, instead of this water, thus actually reducing weight. Thus you see water actually pre- serves the fat in many individuals. I mentioned once before, that the winner of the diamond skulls at Henley decided to reduce his weight by boxing, with the idea of trying for the honor again. . After strenuous workouts, the scales showing a loss of three pounds daily, he was the same weight one month latér as when he started. Why? Because he drank a couple of quarts of water after his workouts, and kept a jug of water at his bed- side and drank another couple of quarts during the night. What is my thought? That while most of us can drink all the water we want and more, and it will be of help to us physi- cally, overweight individuals should cut down not only on their water intake, but on salt also, which thus lessens thirst, and helps to increase the outgo of fluids from the body. 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