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By John C. Kirkwood r
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Once `upon a time a man was pro- quality and importance the 1800 re-
posing a toast :to the ladies: here's search laboratorieswith their 59,000
what he said: "Here's to lovely wam- workers to be found on this continent
an. Once she was man's superior. ereate the new industries. The pro,
Now she is his equal." ducts of individual ;inventors are,
broadly ispeai4ng0 "gadlgete".
I' thought of this toast when I
read women chemists are beginning
to prove in industry that they are
as competent as ,men. "There will
be an increasing need for teachers,
research weakens, t e'a'h n i c i an s,
analysts, special librarians, and other
women with chemical training, in
educational institutions and in in-
dustry," said D. J. Kooyman, a mem-
ber of the committee which prepared
the programme of the 99th annual
meeting of The American Chemical
Society held in Cincinnati in April
of this year.
The majority of women now en-
gaged in chemistry or allied fields
are in bichemistry, many being lab-
oratory technicians or assistants in
medical research in 'hospitals.
In the foregoing is a suggestion
to women pondering the problem of
a vocation.
Garden enthusiasts will tell you
that one of the greatest thrills in
life is to be able to live with growing and nature lovers on this continent).
plants all the year round, and to At Washington was held last month
have flowers in bloom in both Wint bhe Fifth Annual North American
er and Summer. Also; they will tell Wild Life Conference, at which were
you that gardening under glass is
much easier than gardening out of present representatives from at least
doors. But what about a greenhouse?' 46 states and official delegates from
Well, you can have a portable green- Canada and Mexico.
Workers from the Biological Sur -
Important factors missing in early
days now control The introduction of
products. These are the huge in-
vestments in established industry
which might be overthrown by a pro -
chid. Then there is the question of
proper timing for the appearance of
new products, and also the matter
of the large sums required to test:
and market 'a product.
This is census year in the United
States, and in addition to enumerat-
ing and classifying human beings,
there will be an enumeration and
classification of wild birds and beasts
but not of fishes! Indeed, this cen-
sus of wild life has already been
taken — in part, The census has
been and will be taken by a number
of organizations deeply interested in
the conservation of wild life — such
organization associations and bod-
ies as The U.S.A. Bureau of Biolog-
ical Survey of the Department of the
Interior, and assecciations of sport -
men (there are 13 million sportsmen
house - one that goes together in
sections. Where once it took a carp-
enter, a mason, a painter, a. plumber
and pipe -fitter to build a greenhouse,
now -a -days a greenhouse can be put
up in your garden in a day of two -
if you uee a portable greenhouse -
one whose parts are all made up for
you - all ready to bolt together, in
two -and -a -half foot wide panels. The
heating is a simple matter - a simple
oil -burner heating unit - one provid-
ed
rovided with a thermostat control.
There is a growing demand from
both parents and students for what
is called "realistic" training - this in
secondary or high schools - training
of the vocational type. And educat-
ors, along with parents, are increas-
ingly friendly to the idea of "real-
istic" training. Here it what one
educator said in this connection:
"Public education must concern
itself less exclusively with the
business of pushing students up
a scholastic ladder which leads
nowhere, and devote more atten-
tion to training which will enable
our future workers to know what ' the play -place of our early days,"
they can do best and in what touch a responsible chord in the
fields there is a reasonable op- hearts of those who cherish the mem-
portunity for finding employ- lory of that childhood home of long
rent. The task is one of deter- ago.
mining the individual student's These lines occurred to the present
aptitudes and then giving him 'writer as he listened to a remarkable
realistic training which will en- I address by C. H. Hodge, editor of
able him to make the most of The Farnner's Magazine, Toronto, an
his ability in the highly compet- the occasion of a recent meeting of
itive labour market of the the Quebec Horticultural Federation,
in Montreal. The topic was the beau-
tification of farm homes in Ontario,
and with the aid of coloured lantern
slides the speaker described the
transformation of the homes of those
who entered competitions sponsored
by his paper. Indeed, credit for the
idea and its realization belongs to
Mr. Hodge.
As Mr. Hodge expressed it, we awe
to our children the enduring mem-
ory of an attractive home, one that
in after years they can recall with
pleasure and pride, and a child's Most
impressionable years are between 5
and 12. "With a -glance, backward",
by the late, highly esteemed Dean E.
A. Howes of Edmonton, records most
entertainingly and picturesquely the
scenes and events of his, childhood in
Ontario.
Mr. Hodge showed how marvellous-
ly the appearance of a farm home
can be improved by a little trimming
and painting, by tidying up around it,
giving same care to the lawn and
especially by planting flowers. The
other day the writer heard of a man
who offered a house for sale at
$3,000 and found no bidder. He then
spent $40.00 on a paint job and sold
the house for $4000.00.
Painting of another colour may
deplore the appearance of a silo 001
the farm because, they say, it means
to more pumpkins among• the corn
and poets may rave about the tumble-
down shack somewhere. Byron said
of Italy, "Thy very weeds are beau-
tiful, thy wastes more rich than other
clime's fertility". But surely more
beauty and charm attach to the home
of peace and plenty.
The Ontario Crop Improvement
Association has for its slogan: "Bet-
ter rural conditions' through crop int-
provement." It is a strange anomaly
that many a farmer who takes great
pleasure anal pride .in his thriving
field ,crops, cultivated and fertilized
with consummate care, is in differ-
ent to the immediate surroundings of
the farm .libuse. Thanks to Mr,
Hodge, it may tow be said that "the
old order changeth, yielding place to
new'a
vey are now engaged in tallying the
national stock of wild life. They
have already checked up on the nat-
ion's migratory waterfowl., A count
of the big -game animals including
fifteen groups, will be completed this
year. A record will he compiled of
the number of fur -bearing animals
reindeer round -up is under way; radio
trapped in this year. In Alaska a
and planes are covering 168,000
square miles of territory to establish
a herding programme for the Eskim-
os, For counting birds airplanes,
seaplanes amphibians autogiros,
Beauty For Farm
Homes
The oft -quoted line from Thomas
Hoed, "I remember, I remember the
house where I was born", and another
by William Cowper, "Be it a weak-
ness, it deserves some praise, We love
present."
This sort of training may tend to
break down the unreasonable pre-
judice against wearing overalls.
Statisticians cf the Metrepelitan
Life Insurance Company are predict-
ing that in the future there 'Will be
a surplus of women on this continent.
Women, it is said, are outliving men.
They point out that the proportion
of women in the population has been
growing steadily since the turn of
the century - that from 1901 to 1937
the mortality of white women im-
proved Isteadily
mproved..steaclily and at a greater rate
than that of 'man, The expectation of
life at birth has increased 14 years
for women but only 12% years for.
men. In 1901 a girl baby at birth
had an expectation of life 2.85 years
greater than that of a baby boy, but
by 1937 the difference in favor of the
girl had increased to 4.33 years.
Today the opportunity for "ven-
ture" money er capital is far below
what it was years ago — and this
because industry is increasingly
developing and financing all new pro-
ducts and processes within its own
laboratories. The long list of products
and processes which have been creat-
ed or which have reached commercial
success within the last eight years 10
regarded as being an effective ans-
wer to the allegation that individual
•initiative is being, stifled and that
'people with money are reluctant to
.invest in new enterprises. With few
• exceptions the new enterprises are
being financed completely by an in-
dustry or by a group of industriosy
and individual investors have very
little opportunity to day to offer fin-
ancial aid to the so-called "garret"
inventor.
Twenty-five'. or so years "ago in-
ventions were the products of in-
dividuals, frequently working alone,
rowhile those of the last alecade have
been, Ter the most pattsthecombined
fruit of research workers in labea.tor-
fes, ,Fromthe point of view of
GEORGE WILBUR SPINNEY
General Manager, Bank of , Mont-
real, Montreal, Quebec, was born at
Yarmouth, N.S., where he entered the
service of the bank. Since that time
his promotionshave been: steady. Mr.
Spinney and Mr. Jackson Dodds are
joint general managers of the bank.
Ottawa: — Twenty-four hours after
inauguration of French courses was
announced for Canadian troops in
England, two thousand men had vol-
unteered to follow lectures.
Mention was mad recently over
the air in Britain that Canadian sold-
iers lacked reading matter. TWO
days later 5;000 books had been don-
ated. Another generous Britisher
supplied 500 radios free of charge.
powerboats, blimps, motor cars and
observers.
Eire or Ireland is becoming in-
creasingly able to look after itself
becoming increasingly less dependent
on outside countries for its necessit-
ies. Thus, it is able to produce
nearly all the sugar it uses, and its
breadatuffs. It is' making more of its
wearing apparel. Its imports of
clothing have fallen from 15% mill-
ions in 1931 to less than 11 million
in 1988. Its imports of footwear
have been halved in the same period
In regard to agriculture and animal
products Eire has become a consider-
able exporter. All farmers are under
compulsion to bripg one -eight of
their arable land under cultivation.
New industries are being established
as fast as possible.
i
Anger andel resentment flashed from
T
his eyes, amid the roars of
EmptRon'sthat sroundedsurrounded
"See—,' cried the satisfied wearer -
of the people, "he will, not kiss his
',AUG "= 'r e ' k 16�' \I SDI iiL iii Get you back with your watchword,
Cas'siue—that Dacian of your will be
fretting and pining."
When they told the hideous EUnper-
or of the pale face, the swollen body
and the 'spindle shanks that the Sen
ator Nereus, Pisa was thought to be
Notting against his life, it pleased
the indignant Gaius to raise bis hands
to heaven and pretest against the
ingratitudie' of man.
"What!" cried he, "em I threaten-
ed by one whom I have shown noth-
ing but the greatest kin.dnoss and
consideration? Were any of his kin
among those 'guests whom I had
thrust from the bridge of the ships
between Baiae and Puteoli after the
great banquet which we held on that
Midge to celebrate aur feat of en-
ginering that dwarfed the little alley-
way cast by Xerxes 'across the Helie-.
epont? Not one -for the censors
made a list for me of those who per-
ished, and the family of Piso, was
not upon it. Moreover this villian
Marcus has long been a widower --
therefore I cannot have end'orsnd his
taste by rising from my couch at a
banquet and ordering his wife to fol-
low me. My personal contacts with
Marcus Pisa have been beyond re-
proach. r saw fit to, have the head
struck from his only son, did I not
permit, and indeed command, that his
father should be with him to the
last instant even until that head fell
in the sand? Did I not insist that
Marcus should dine with me immed-
iately thereafter, and do my utmost
to dispel his moody silence by the
charm and affability of the discourse
that I specially directed towards
him?"
The aggrieved Emperor of twenty-
nine years old raised hie hairy fore
arm and scratched the bald, head up-
on which it was a capital offence to
look from a higher place as he passed
through the streets of Rome.
"And is this the monster of base-
ness who now plots against me? Let
him die," said' the Emperor, sourly,
abut stroke by stroke anti more slow-
ly than his fortunate son. Let him
die rather as that Master of the
Gladiators who was beaten with
chain's day after day before me.
Strike so that he may feel that ,he
is dying. Of all sins against the
gods and, men, I loathe ingratitude."
"It is done, Caesar," said a freed-
man., who had been entering the sen-
tence swiftly upon his tablets. He
sped hastily and not unthankfully
from the chamber; with the Emper-
or in such moods it was well to be
away, lest in his indignation with hu-
manity he shouldbe moved : to act
towards those who were nearest on
the aspiration that all the world, as
well as Rome, had but one neck to
be severed.
"Good!" cried the tyrant. "If eines
the death of our adorable sister —
Dtusilla—to whom be all honour paid
as to the Venus whose arts she was
more than mistress — we cannot be
loved as we deserve, let ns be feared
as we have done our poor best to
merit. Let hint hate, seeking as they
fear."
"The tribune of the palace Praetor
fans for the day is here, Caesar," an-.
nounoed another of those who stood
by (and being only too glad of this
distraction). "He 'seeks the watch-
word for the guard."
"Ah -my good gentlemen. They
at least are faithful -or so I trust.
Let the tribune enter!"
Cassius Chaerea, tribune of the
Praetorian cohort for the day, ad-
vanced and saluted. He was a tall,
lean man, beyond rather than ap-
proaching middle -life, a mart of nat-
ural gravity tempered still further
by years and by service that went
back to legions on the Rhine under
Germanieus.
The Emperor broke into a loud
guffaw.
"What — Cassius again, you old
goat?" -
He turned to the delighted slaves
and freedmen, who were smiling at
this most welcome change of sub-
ject.
"Here at least is one who loves
me, for there has been naught but
jest and friendship between me and
the good Chaerea—no injury, eh, Cas-
sius? And naught but Laughter."
The tall tribune flushed in silence.
"The password, Caesar," he said, pa-
tiently, when the dutiful merriment
had subsided.
"The password,.Cassius? What
should it be for a barer such as you
but `Venus'? Come, kiss my hand
and bear it back to your cohort."
The Emperor stretched forth his
pale and clammy fist but, even as
Cassius Chaerea approached to take
it, cocked up the middle finger in
that reproach for whose publie use
in the theatre Angustus had expelled
the dancer Pylades from Rome and
from Italy as well.
The tribune stepped basic a pace,
dropping his own arm to his side.
The monster sank, back in his cush-
ions in 's'omething es near to mood of
content as he had ever reached. It
bad been noticed by Many that not
even death of the criminals, whom
he caused to be scourged and decap-
itated before him as he took wine,
left him better pleased than these
repeated taunts at the graveand
upright tribune Chaerea.
THURS., APRIL 11, 1940
•
It was the first month of the year,
which the •Christians reckon as 41.
Rome was seething. ' Hate and fear'
ran like a sullen •stream beneath the.
daily affairs of the city, for front the
highest to lowest the fife of none was
safe from the monste'r's incalculable
outbursts of lust and fury and neith-
er private or public estates were se-
cure against his insentiate extrava-
gance and -rapacity. His enemies were
not only in the grave or waters
whither he had flung their mangled
bodies; on every hand were those who
groaned under the iniquities that he
had inflicted on their persons, famil-
ies or fortunes.
Yet when the plot was shaped with-
in the Praetorian Guard itself to
serve the Emperor as he had served
soy many others. it was Cassius Chae-
rea who claimed as of the right privi-
lege to strike the first blow at the
slaying.
"Why," said 'his fellow tribune Cor-
nelius Sabinus (these two were the
ringleaders in ,the con, "what harm
hath the monster done thee, Chaerea?
But where are my two sons and my
aged father?'.'
"All the blood in his veins," said
Cassius Chaerea calmly, "will net
bring back thy kinsmen, Sabinus.
But my honour can be washed clean
by that flaw, come what may to me
and thee thereafter."
So it was arranged, and so, by the
likelier version of what happened in
the confusion of the attack (for the
other tale says that, after all, the
enraged Sabinue darted forth and
struck the first blow), it fell about.
The Emperor rose late on the moan
of the Palestine games, being still
sickened by a suaeit of the previous
evening, but would have fain remain-
ed within the palace. He was pur-
suaded, however, to show himself by
his sycophants, as he passed through
the covered' way he paused to speak
to some boy actors from Asia who
were to appear on the stage and who
were even then rehearsing their parts
for the spectacle,
It wasthen. that. the, Prost- fray..
conspirators, elbowing follow.,; and .
some Germans of the body guard out
of the way, closed round with cer-
tain ohoseti centurions who had been
made privy to the plot cutting• off
those of the household from contact
with the Emperor's person. The tri-,.
burse Chaerea stepped forward; some
say that he asked for the watchword:
Certain it is that the Emperor turned
with a lewd grinas he recognized his
questioner; and in that instant, "Hoe
age!" cried the pious Chaerea, in a
loud voice, even as the; priests earls
to the slayer who holds the axe at a
sacrifice. With those vlordghe struck
the monster in the neck with his..
sword and as he fell a dozen .others . -
rained blows on him, some even
thrusting at hili ,private pasts.
• Cassius Chaerea brushed the as- •
sailants aside and ,stooped over the
flood'strewn figure with gaping eyes.
"God!" he said, harshly; "the pass-
word for thy, journey, Caesar, is 'Phi-
aaus'—may it serve thee. well. And
my ]honour is avenged,"
5, * *
Thus on the ninth day before the
Kalende of February, and in the
fourth year and eleventh month of
hie infamous reign, perished Gaius
Caesar Augustus Gem -milieus, better --
known
known as Caligula. or "Little Boots"
from the jesting surname bestowed
on him as a. child by the soldiers
among whom he was brought up..
Many and hideous were his enormi-
ties, for he shared neither innocent
nor guilty in his lust for blood and
torture and would not hesitate t o
have the spectators tluown to the
wild beasts at a show if the display
of the gladiators seemed to him dull
and unexciting. Yet in the end he
perished at the hand of the one man
whom it had pleased him to indult
rather than the many whom he had
delighted to injure; his glazing eyes
closed upon the Chaerea of whom ho
had made a -laughing-stock and not
upon mutilated: ghosts of the many
living who had reason to mown his
infamous cruelty toward their fam-
ilies, The feeble Claudius it was who
ordered the death of both Chaerea
and Sabinus for their share jn the
plot that brought him to the throne;
had Gaius Caesar himself chosen to
slay Chaerea instead of jesting at
him to his own undoing, who knows
that .he might not have Lived to pro-
long the tale of his enormities, by -
months or even years Truly, as the
Florentine Machiavella was to write
centuries later, it is safer for the
tyrant to remember that men in gen-
eral should be either flattered and
cajoled, or utterly destroyed; since
for small hurts they may and will
revenge themselves, but for great.
they cannot.
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Canada and overseas, the "Y" does not neglect its peace time
job as witness these happy faces.
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the Y.M,C.A. Centre in Montreal, where are all the com-
forts of home and a girl opponent at Chinese Checkers.
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panionship of wholesome girls, the Y" arranges a
dance night at Montreal.
Those too old for the army can still absorb Y.M•C.A. fellowship
in the gymnasium, as part of the maniac program still kept up in
spite of war demands.
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