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Fd v 1%; birth rate, '"Iollows: is The majority of reviewers of the | 10 Simcoe St. 8. ¥ ti L RTS ST 4 = RHE SR Roan E Te boas UST DEVELOP EMPIRE MARKETS ~Empty Spaces of Dominions Need More British People London, April 14.--"The first ngilbe results of the post-war trend will be seen in four or five ears' time," says the London Faily Express, "when the recruit- 'ment of labor will be considerably decreased. At the same time, the new scheme of pensions at sixty- five means an inevitable cutting down in numbers at the other end of the labor scale." The immediate result will be a taking up of the slack in the um- employment line and a. sense of well-being throughout the ranks of the employed. Unfortunately, the situation will not be allowed to rest there. "uUn- der the pressure of the birth com- trol campaign, unless it is check- ed, the birth rate will continue to fall. Fanciful as it may seem, we might eventually come to a labor shortage--a consumnration to be hoped for only until the full con- sequences are seen. Even the pros- pect of imported labor is not beyond the realm of probability. But in the years ahead the pros- perity of .this country, and par- ticularly of the industrial workers, depends supremely on one factor --the power to develop and hold the Empire markets. To do that the vast empty spaces of the Do- minions must. be populated by a preponderance of the British race. There is no other way. We have carved our own destiny as a na- Stion-bearing people. We must send out from these islands not thousands but tens of thousands »0f our men and women every year, It is the price and opportunity and glory of Empire citizenship, Shorn of the Empire--and un- seless we can people our Dominions we will not hold them--we sink in o> importance and power and wealth until once more our industries will not support the population, no mat- Jter how the birth rate has redue- wed its numbers. # These are crude facts presented s=without elaboration or sentimental- ism. But as a people we have & never lacked the courage to think #=in decades rather than in days, «Jt is that sense of the centuries, #go markedly the British heritage, that should point the human and a national warning of the empty cradle, Statistician's views "H.F.H.,"" in the first number of {The Statistician, the organ of the Society of Statisticians and Ae- countants, writes about an over- Jooked 'fallacy' of the birth and death statistics published from ime to time. "Standardized" Aleath rates are those which would 'have been recorded if the sex and age constitution of the population had heen the same as in 1901, He 5 BAYS: Throughout the country, local authorities are reporting, with satisfaction, rapidly declining death rates. In England and Wales "the rate (standardized) per 1.000 of the population has fallen con- ;sistently, as the following figures , 'show: Average: 90, 18.6; 10, 15.2; 1871-1880, 20.3; 1881- 1891-1900, 18.1; 1901- 1911-20, 13.5; 1921-25, $30.9; year 1926, 10.1, Not so happy, though--at least $0 many people believe--is the comapartively rapid fall of the which has declined as . Average: 1871-1880, 35.4; 1881- 290, 32.4; 1891-19500, 29.9; 1901- £710, 27.2; 1911-20, 21.8; 1921-25, 19.9; year 1926, 17.8. vital statistics find comsolation in the fact that. the "survival rate" --that is, the births minus deaths --is still on the t side. This argument is all very well so long as the death rate remains at the pres. ent low figure, or further declines. Here, however, lies the fallacy. The Registrar-General's de- partment has calculated that the average expectation of life of every child borm is, according to the new life tables, $3.6 years for males and 59.8 years for females, which is some seven years longer than the experience fifteen years before and 12 years longer than a generation ago. Yet the death rate is 10.1 per 1,000 of the popu- lation "standardized," or 11.6 "erude." This gives an .average age at death on the present popu- lation of 86 years om the 'crude rate, and nearly 100 on the "Stan- dardized!™ How, then can the expectation of life figure be reconciled with the average age at death as measured by the present death rate. It cannot; it is only a question of time before the two figures be- come more nearly into agreement. The next forty years will prove this contention. More Deaths The death rate cannot remain at its present low figure; the greater longevity of the population is masking the true position, a longe- vity which follows a score of years of great health reforms, leaving so much less scope for similar im- provement in the future. The most remarkable improvement has been made in the saving of chiid life; for instance, the "standardized" death rate per 1,000 of the age group 0 to 5 years has declined from 66.0 in 1895 and 51.2 in 1906 to 22.3 in 1926. Even if specific cures for the principal causes of death, such as heart disease, bronchitis, pneu- monia, cancer, diseases of nervous system and tuberculosis, are found, it remains nothing short of a Uto- pian idea to expect an average age at death to exceed three score and ten. Eventually a 'standardized' death rate of about 14 per 1,000 for 15 to 16 'crude' must ob- tain by which time the birth rate will, in all probability, have fallen to that figure, if not below. ORIGINAL COPY OF "GRAY'S ELEGY" SOLD FOR LARGE PRICE London, April 14.--A copy of the original six-leafed edition of Gray's Elegy was sold here at aue- tion for £1,290, When first pub- lished, two centuries ago, it was sold at sixpence, The highest price yet paid for the Elegy was £1,500, at the MacGregor sale four years ago. 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When he fell to the floor they searched his pockets, but found only 13 cents. In a closed safe nearby was several thousand dollars which they were forced ta leave, Failing to get anything of value, the men left and started to walk toward Hoboken. As they swung under the Lackawanna trestle, they ran into Patrolman Joseph Gior- dano, of the Hoboken department, There was nothing about them to' indicate what they had been doing, but instead of walking on past the officer, they turned and ran back toward Jersey City. Giordano started after them and soon they were outdistancing him. He commandeered an automobile and from the running board fired two shots into the air. This stop- ped them and they returned the Giordano then refused to go om, so the patrolman abandoned the machine and went after them on foot. When he got into revolver range, he dropped to a prone position and fired a shot at Eason, who was struck in the left leg. Eason threw away one automatic pistol, apparently empty, and although wounded, he fired back at the pa- trolman. Giordano then fired one at Duff seeds that are veliable, suited bol ih as purity and high Fermination ww Steele, Briggs Seeds. Sold everywhere i in Canada Send for new illustrated Catalogue BRIG GARE HAMILT STEELE [Hej lel Be ATE IN Als RDEN SEEDS and caught him in the right hip. Both me uthen broke and ram up the railroa dembankment for the Lackawanna trestle. Meanwhile, the firing had attracted Patrolman Michael Crotty, of Jersey City, and mounted Patrolman Edward Can- non, of Hoboken, They boxed the men on the trestle. Crotty going at them from one end and Cannon, riding his horse up on the embankment, from theother. The mounted officer, his horse stepping gingerly from tie to tie, went out on the trestle and in the centre, Eason and Duff sur- rendered to the two patrolmen. 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