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The Huron Expositor, 1930-09-12, Page 6is ii `'IIAVE TO BE GOOD TO HANDLE DEACRMAN ticcording to a news item from Ot- w'etra, one thing the new administra- !,. Gia is certain to do is to investigate t'he status of R. J. Deachman, who during .the past few years has appar- ,eptly constituted .himself the spokes- man before the tariff board of the consumers of Canada, and who, inci- dentally, has caused manufacturers hoping to secure increased tariff pro- tection to spend, in the aggregate, huge sums in the preparation of briefs, not many of which even then were entirely capable of -withstanding the shrewd analysis and biting criti- cism of this foe of protection. Deachman was born some 50 years ago in one of the counties of Ontario bordering on Georgian bay, and after taking a course at the Ontario Agri- cultural College, Guelph, he drifted westward and eventually settled at Calgary, where, strange as it may seem, he published a commercial jour- nal devoted to the interests of merch- ants and manufacturers. Five years ago he sold his Calgary publication and removed to Ottawa to n`p }Hj t? "W'TtaSTIPATION !Y t e F ' NAI itu rr- orivEsk writes Mrs. W. Walker. Thousands save caastipetion, indigestion, gas er•d overuignt with "Fruit-a-tives". •.r�et ruietrs rs magic. rudrugg today. Samuels? I Elidn't know what Sam- uels he meant. Har har, that's a good one. Sure is. Wow! I mus' tell that to Jimmy. Sure is a good one, all right." Then another took up the running, "Give us a grass cutter," he roared, "Nice ole two bagger." The home team was two runs behind and there were two men on bases at the time. This critic evidently thought that a two base hit was de- manded by the situation, though a single would have served. But Faulk- ner thought otherwise, and for the moment he was disposing. His downfall, however, was rot far off, and presently after failing to field cunt. he was waved from the mound. act as correspondent fur a str.ng of i'!^.t n the tumult broke out in a fresh Canadian newspapers mostly in the ;carter. "The showers for yt.u. You west, which were in accord w'th hi save time to go to the Exhibition. Oh! own free trade principles. Of course yes, and this is children's day. I ou're he anon became familiar with the workings of the tariff board; many of his papers were interested in the ap- plications before the board ..nd its •nly a child, Elmer. You can get in ,-day. It's children's day and Elmer .an pet in, Yah! Elmer." At this mo- :.:ent a spectator fell through the seat • it< ' with a thousand faces."' 'Witten it was. announced that he had signed a con- tract along with several legal docu- ments, stating that it was actually his voice that he would be heard in his forthcoming films, widespread inter- est was aroused. With his portrayals of almost unbelievable characters, Chaney himself slipped into a se- clusion that well might have fitted in with the life of one of his screen impersonations. He utterly refused interview—"None of the public's darned business," he would say—not with any hard feelings of course, but 'one could not help but sec that he wished to be left to himself. He shunned personal appearances and ab- solutely refused tell attend premier showings. Among his close ac- quaintances were General Smedley Butler of the United States Marines, and Eddie Griffon, the comedian. Wholly self-educated, he was a vor- acious reader and a student of many subjects. He wrote the Encyclopaedia Britannica's chapter on screen make- up. Though he was often portraying the cripple or deformed character, Chaney, off the lot, was athletic and strong. His hobbies were fishing, football and prize -fighting. His best work, from the List of starring vehicles in which he appeared, is found in "The Miracle Man," "The Hunchback of Notre Dame," "Phantom of the Opera," "Laugh, Clown, Laugh," and "The Unholy Three." Incidentally, it may be said at this stage that his favorite bit of music was the theme news eslource forings nhiim. But awhat ialis- ':fetrt'ot his friends. chair, much tt'1'a the ecthelchair tain- song to "Laugh, Clown, Laugh,'' No turbed him, as an ardent fre,a trader 'p to the auction room, Tommy Yoa sacrifice was too great for he actor was that whereas thine desiring tarifa an fix it up and sell it for an to undergo if it meant better portray- � al, and frequently he suffered painful - increases were usually wealthy cor- _ ntique." "Fix it up?" echoed an - 1 while the camera ground away. poratiuns able to employ expert Advo- thee. "What does he want to fix it An interesting figure at the funeral cates to plead their cases, the chief "•p fir? He wants to wreck it some of Lon Chaney was Sergeant Frank beneficiaries, as he believed, of hiwe• acre and then it'll be a genuine an McCloskey, a disabled and partly par - tariffs were without reprossntatiun. !que. rich, heh." Hargreaves, the al red Great War veteran. A keen Rallying to his aid a few t,:hcrs who 'laxly catcher, stopped a fast one friendship existed between these two, shared his views, he organizet the i with his ungloved hand and probably and _MeClosky would have given his very life to have been able to help the noted actor in his dying moments. mo- ment or two 0 obvious agony made story is simple. Chaney helped for the dugout• pelted by the jeers of the veteran when he was discouraged manufacturers. and destitute from war wounds and Naturally, during his years of free some of the spectators. "yah! you made it possible for him to earn a trade advocacy in Calgary. he often are a quitter. Hargreaves. You're living selling flowers. And so,clashed with that most eminent Cal- not man enough to come out!" i other great actor has passed away. an- garian and champion of protection "Shut up, you kike," retortrd the' The future alone willhrevealas d a will who is now prime minister of Can- catcher with plenty of spirit but no I Th the gap createdloneby his death. ada. Once, some years ago, in a great originality. But the other jock - speech at Ottawa, Bennett, in refer- eys seemed to think that he was be - ring I ----�'-- to Gladstone, made some mis- statement. Deachman immediately- wrote suggesting that if Bennett would consult Morley's "Life of Glad- stone," such and such a page, he would find the correct reference. Ben- nett, somewhat nettled, answered ra- ther illogically that he fancied he had read Morley's "Life of Gladstone" be- fore Deachman was born, to which the latter replied that this was the first time he had ever heard to al•gu ment seriously advanced that priority of reading constituted evidence of greater insight into the context!. Consumers' League. named himself secretary, and singlehandedly entered the lists against the formidable array of expert counsel provided by the .oroke a finger. He said not a word, but the injury was so painful that he could not continue and after a f ing unjustly abused and swelled the chorus of "Shut up!" which abashed the kike, if kike he were. These were one afternoon's glean- ings on the parched field of repartee and on examination they prove mea - NOT .M1"CH HUMOR AT BASE BALL GAMES Maybe it is because of advancing years, but it seems to us the there isn't as much fun at the hall games as there used', to be. The players may be as smart and the umpires just as comical, but the spectators are far less amusing, especially those spec- tators who are properly described az rooters and who seek to enliven an essentially tedious pastime uy their shouted witticisms. Time was when some amusing repartee was bandied about between spectators or between spectators and players. That was somewhat later than the time when the first bounce was out but it never- theless was a long, long time ago. Attending a ball gameeit s difficult to imagine that there ever was such a time. Where are the wits of yester- year? The habit of cracking wise jokes is much more prevalent now than ever it was, and thanks to radio, a joke gets to Toronto in the same split second that it is originated ir. New York. But rarely does it get out to the ball park. We questioned almost entirely by his screen appear - a connoisseur in such matters the ances. Away from the motion pictures it is said that he was accustomed to wearing a pulled -down cap, dark glasses and plain clothes. He com- manded a large salary, made renter- ous i'rivestments and reputedly was wealthy, hut made few friends. He was horn on April 1st, 1883, in Col- orado Springs, the son of deaf and dumb parents. He left school before he had reached the fifth grade to be- come a tourists' guide on Pike's Peak. His introduction to the theatre was the spectators are not the keen atu- as a property boy. He became a stage dents of the pastime they used to he. hand later and to his death carried a card in a stage hands' organization. Behind the wings, he used to study the regular actors and learned with- out a teacher the fine points of acting which later in life won him fame. He was given his first "break" as a song and dance man at a stage hands' bene- fit affair when he was but sixteen years: old. ltiYy14. ,h,4,1.i,A Tv; THE*IRON EXPOSITOR , She said that she had known Robin- son for the .past six years and that he had visited her practically every day untiil" ast January. Often when he came her husband was upstairs in bed, recuperating from his arduous labors as railway stableman. After Robinson had been visiting her home for seven months or so he began to fnake improper overtures. She resist- ed. But he persisted for three weeks unremittingly and finally her reserves of strength gave way and she yielded. These odious relations continued for five years, and she seemed to think there was no reason to doubt that Robinson was, in fact, the father of the three youngest children. They had several narrow escapes and both judge and counsel expressed astonish- ment that their raptures were not marred by the presence upstairs in bed of Winfield, breathing heavily. On one occasion Winfield lying in bed heard some conversation between them which aroused his suspicions and he challenged his wife. She de- nied all misconduct but told Robin- son when he came the next day that she dared not "mash" him any more tea. This exasperated Robinson, and to bring hint to a more reasonable frame of mind the practice of "mash- ing" the tea was resumed , and all proceeded as before, with Winfield occasionally giving signs of a grow- ing irritable jealousy. The witness said that she had resolved to tell the truth because her husband continued to thrash her daily. She went to Robin- son to explain that she was being abused on his account and to urge him to do whatever a man might reasonably do in the circumstances— whatever that might be. But Robin- son refused to see her, and we fancy we detect some notion that the Win - fields might have given birth to the idea that money could be made out of the affair. Winfield denied that he had thrashed his wife but admit- ted giving her a good shaking every morning before repairing to the com- pany of his horses. The wife said, however, that he had forgotten her and that it was her duty to stand by him. On that strange note the case went to the bewildered jury with the result already reported. WIFE CONFESSES SIN TO HELI' HER HUSBAND If the United States is the chief home of freak laws, it seems to us gre. Unfortunately for us no spec- that England is the home of freak lawsuits. Whether the people are more litigous or more law-abiding we do not suggest, but it does seem that many of them have a habit of taking contrast to the old days. We iamem_ "Tatters to a court that most people once the a lady to a game in would either settle privately or for- bera season when the team was not go - heard One of the oddest suits we have ing very well and noting the name of ,heard of in a long time concerned evi- a starting pitcher, remarked: "You charges of slander and produced haven't seen this pitcher before,lraveidence the defendant be used in a divorce you?" To which she replied, "I see suit by the defendant against his wife, all the Toronto pitchers every time I The jury finally disagreed, becaase of come." But so far as our awn ex- the unexpected evidence, . and it i announced that as there is no chance of settling the matter out of court it will be heard at the next assizes. The parties in the case were George Robert Robinson. 57 years old, assistant sec- retary of the Hull branch of the un- ion, and Albert Dunn Winfield, a rail- way stable man, both residents of Hull, and no very high grade dramatis persona for a fourth column, as we will he the first to admit. Rubinson sued Winfield for slander, declaring that Winfield had said that Robinson was the father of three children who called Winfield daddy. He made this statement at a committee meeting of the union, with the avowed rurpose tator in the course of the afternoon caught a foul hall in the stands and so we did not hear the old familiar, but nevertheless welcome, shout, "Sign him up, Steve," It is indeed a perience is concerned high water mark in spontaneous humor was reached at an amateur game in Stan- ley Park one Saturday afternoon. Two pitchers had been hatted out of the box and as the* third walked out, a spectator yelled, "he's going to pitch when you get through, Bill?" We have now definitely abandoned hope of hearing anything as spright- ly as that again. MILLIONS OF ADMIRERS MOURN LON CHANEY TOMATO CATSUP RECIPES Now—avhile tomatoes are cheap and plentiful—is the time to make up your winter supply of catsups and sauces. Tomato sapces are very easily made--. and they will prove invaluable during the winter months for adding zest and flavor to numerous low-cost foods us- ed in the winter diet. As the sauces are quite highiy sea- soned, we suggest that the salt, pepper, mustard and other seasonings be added gradually, tasting the mix- ture between additions. Season the sauces to suit the tastes of your family. Tomato Catsup. One peck ripe tomatoes, 3 onions 1/2 cup salt, 2 teaspoonfuls cayene, 2 tablespoonfuls paprika, 1/2 cup whole spices, 1 clove garlic, 1-3 cup dry mus- tard, 1 quart vinegar, 1 cup brown sugar. Slice the tomatoes and onions and cook slowly for one hour, then press through a sieve. `, Add salt, cayenne and paprika. Tie the garlic. mustard and spices in a double •heese- cloth bag and add, cooking rapidly to- gether until the mixture begins to thicken. Boil vinegar and sugar to- gether while tomato is cooking, then add to strained tomato and cook all together until thick. Seal. Stir of- ten while cooking. East Indian Relish. Twelve large ripe tomatoes, ten onions, 8 sour apples, 1 red pepper, 1 quart cider vinegar. Boil together until soft; strain through a collander, then add 1/2 cup mustard, ,one dessertspoonful ground ginger, 1 pound brown sugar, 1/2 cup salt (or salt according to taste). Boil until thick—about twenty min- utes. Tomato Mustard. This sauce is rather like catsup but it is made with less trouble. One basket ripe tomatoes, 3 red peppers. 'Chop and cook together un- til tender, then rub through a sieve. Take a small quantity of the atrainel juice out to use for mixing with the flour—later on. To the tomatoes, now add 1 quart of vinegar, 1/2 cup salt, 1 pound brown sugar, 1/2 ounce each of ground all- spice, ginger and cloves, % pound mustard. Finally add one-half cup flour mixed with the cold tomato juice. Mix well, boil for 20 minutes, stirring frequently. Bottle while hot. Use only 1/a. pound of mustard if the sauce is liked less hot, Tomato and Celery Sauce. Thirty ripe tomatoes, 10 large on- ions, 5 red peppers, 5 tablespoonfuls brown sugar, 5 tablespoonfuls salt, 4 heads celery, 6 cupfuls vinegar Boil for one and one-quarter hours. Seal while hot. Favorite Chili Sauce. Thirty ripe tomatoes (large), four green peppers, 10 large onions, 3 cup- fuls vinegar, 4 tablespoonfuls salt, 1 cup white sugar. Peel and chop the tomatoes; put the green peppers and onions through the food chopper. Mix all the ingredients together and sim- mer for one and one-half hours. Tomato Relish (Uncooked) One peck ripe tomatoes, 5 cupfuls cider vinegar, 2 tablespoonfuls brown sugar, 1 dozen onions (about the size of walnuts), 5 green peppers, 2 cup- fuls celery (the last three ingredients to bei chopped), 1I2 cup salt, 1 ounce white mustard seed. Peel the tomatoes and chop very fine; drain through a bag over night. In the meriting add 5 cupfuls vinegar and the balance of the ingredients. Mix thoroughly, and bottle in sterilized air -tight jars, No cooking required. The drained tomato juice should not be washed. Pour into pint jars and add 1/4 teaspoonful salt to each pint. Sterilize the late in hot water', bath for twenty ni mite.. This makes a wholesome biealtfast ju flood.: to' be us- ed in the plate df orange, O. • Spiced.;,Tttniato MVMartmatade, iScaid and peel six Sato ds' .of ripe The theatre -going public was start- of having Robinson given what they 'ed the other ay-, by -the report that call in England the chuck. Winfield denied having made the 'statement. Lcn Chaney, whose grotesque screen He also asserted that, if he had made characterization won him the sobri- it, it was true, and also privileged. quet r.f "thc man with a thousand There was little doubt that he had laces," had died after a valiant bat- made it. In Robinsons's behalf it tie against rnaemia and congestion was said that he had been .sappily c f the le onehial tubes, The death of married for 35 years and had two Cheesy has removed from Hollywood's married one of them being 34, ranks a veritable mystery man, known though what bearing this had on the matter we are unable to say. The story Winfield had taken to the un- ion officials, and his assertion. that Robinson was not a fit man for his position. despite his 34 -year-old daughter, came to Rdbinson's ears and apparently there was a family gathering of Winfields and Robinsons when the matter was discussed. In the course of the debate Winfield. had repeated the remark about the chil- dren whereupon his wife had retorted, "You are a liar." At the end of the conference Mrs. Winfield asked her husband for her "wages" and re- marked: "He promised me that if I would come with him and admit all he said was true we would live happily and comfortably together," not, as it would seem to a Canadian, a very promising foundation for happiness and comfort in married life, She con- cluded. "But how can I admit all this stuff when he knows very well it is all lies?" other day and he said that the supply of humorists among baseball addicts had disappeared. They are just as noisy as ever but they are no longer funny. As we have suggested before, hum- or must he founded on understanding, and the vital spark in even the wild- est nonsense is sanity, We presume, therefore. that the reason' tiny- need not expect to hear any humorous comment at a hall game k becaus. Their critici'm is not informed. Their barbs are wide of the marl:. Their roars are mere buffoonery, consisting mainly in such ejaculations as "Yah! You're rotten; Get a pair of specta- cles! Well, for the love if Mike, what d'ya want? Call that a strike? Robber! Yah!" Sitting anywhere from fifty tr, a hundred and fifty feet from the plate, from ten to 4i1 feet above it and at any one of some 180 angles from it, the critics continue to determine whether it is a hail or a strike, and to deride the ability of the umpire, who, after all, makes a liv- ing at the thing and might reason- ably be accepted as an authority. That may be part of the fun of going to a ball game ,but it does not presage any particular degree of intalltence on the part of the volunteer umpires. A pitcher named Faulkner seems to arouse the hostility of the rooters, chiefly because he is a pretty good looking pitcher. 'Watch me get Ms goat," confides a stranger who can- not remain too utter and total so far as we are concerned. "Yah! There goes Elmer. Elmer the Great. Yah, Eimer. He hates to be called Elmer. Don't you Elmer ? I say you hate to be—Well, what d'ya know about that? ' The stiff • called it a third •stirdkel7° His sense of a grave miscarriage of justice perpetrated be- fore his eyes rendered him mute for a short 'time, but presently he resumed his running commentary en the game which consisted mainly in calling the pit Slier) Ebner .the Greats end asd'utring him' that he was presently designed far ti1e shewers, '.Chen his mind 'stray- et3 from' the immediate struggle and ,.'lli& denialill2fiid of a neighbor, "y•ere!s• the' ?fellow $afnuels 7 afti,.) hal }tile bo c office of the •diea•tie;�y ti other. `Wh'at'1 'Ain't he dei ti le Together with his brother George, Chaney drifted into the meandering life of what may be called a "ham" actor and in this way toured the country. While with the old Hart- mann Opera Company in San Francis- co, he met and married Hazel Hast- ings, another member of the troupe, who was to be his companion for some 2 years. Of a previous mar- riage little is known except that a son was horn. Chaney's entrance in- to the motion picture world was through the slapstick route, but in 1912 he was given odd jobs as an ex- tra in western films. Later on he directed Warren Kerrigan, then a western star, in seven productions. He received his first screen credit in 1914 from Universal for appearance in a leading role in "Hell Morgan's Girls." lHiis'shift from slapsticks and west- erns to the weird and grotesque char- acterisations that made him famous in every corner of the civilized world, came with his portrayal of The Frog in "The Miracle Man," Early this year he signed a live -year contract. The speakies, bane of many actors and actresses appeared to hold no terror to the former mu'aical show comedian, : l r -the peg few months it appeared as if Chaney bail; adopted the smile i odea Charlie O lith regarding att t , �, g i his u an s ' of' sl ka:lkiies'.• 'T°hh g d' mirex 'Were under this itrilitressioid that „r ..tis last' of the int' ea they �l�py�,�, i� . e at�it't i 1j 1l]f1s?li;`i alt ;if ALL, SHE WAUTS FOR TRS SOUR ry SEPTEMBER 12, 1930. Iry How excited — and how happy -- she was the firsttime she heard her son's voice come over the telephone from a distant city. Talking ' th him was as easy as though he were in the same room. It was something to remember and to cherish for days afterwaids. And how much happier she has become, because Fred comes home by telephone now every week. 1 -le calls ger every...Sunday evening at eight -thirty. It is an hour she waits for and looks fdrward to all week long. It brightens days that had become a bit empty and lonely with the family scattered. Fred is happier, too. nor the price of a movie he gets something no money can measure — his mother's voice — a touch of home. It's a fine way to start a new week's work. Evening rates on "Anyone'? (station -to -station) calls now begin at 7 p.m. Night rates begin at 8.30 p.m. Just give "Long Distance" the num- ber you want—it speeds up the service. If you • don't , know the distant number, "Information" will look it up for you. tomatoes, cut in quarters, add three beyond the blue secrets of heaven! pounds brown sugar, and boil with a Sunrise and sunset, birth and death, cheesecloth spice bag, containing a promise and fulfillment, the whole generous teaspoonful of whole cloves, drama of humanity, are all in this book!" No finer tribute was ever paid to this Protestant English Bible than that of Bishop Faber, a Roman Cath- olic, who said: "It lives on the ear like a music that can never be forgotten. Its feli- cities seem often to be things rather than words . The memory of the dead passes 'into it. The potent traditions of childhood are stereotyp- ed in its verses. It is the representa- tive of a man's best moments; all that there has been about him of soft and gentle, and pure and penitent and good, speaks to him forever uut of his English Bible." Dr. Joseph An- gus,,says: "The Bible is the richest specimen we have of the beauty and force of the old Anglo-Saxon speech." Said Eugene Field, "I would not now exchange for any amount of money the acquaintance of the Bible with the Bible which was drummed into me when a boy." Robert Louis Steven- son: "Written in the East, those characters live forever in the West; written in one province they pervade the world; penned in rude times they are prized more and more as civiliza- tion advances; product of antiquity they come home to the business and bosoms of men, women and children in modern times." Hall Cain made this interesting confession: "What- ever strong situations I have in my books are not of my creation but are taken from the Bible. The Deem- ster is the story of The Prodigal Son, The Bondman is the story of Esau and Jacob. The Scapegoat is tree story of Eli and his sons; and the Manxman is the story of David. and Uriah." - Coleridge, author of some of the supreme lines in English poetry and one of the greatest critics of litera- ture the world has produced, said: "I think St. Paul's Epistle to the Rom- ans is the most profound work in ex- istence" and "perfection beyond com- pare" is what Tennyson said c.f the Sermon on the Mount and the Par- ables of Jesus. Returning for a moment to Watson and calling atten- tion to more particular passages, he called David's lament over Jonathan the most perfect elegy in all litera- ture, and the song of Deborah and Barak "the most superb expression of the intoxication of triumph." T h e writer might say that the passage in which David mourns for Absalom he has read a hundred times and always, toward the end, with blurred eyes. Joseph Addison observed that Hom- er has innumerable flights that Virgil was not able to reach, and in the Old Testament we find several passages nave elevated and sublime than any- thing in Homer. After perusing the Book of Psalms, let a judge of the beauties of poetry read a literal trans- lation of Homer or Pinder, and he will find in these last two such an ab- surdity and confusion of style, with such a comparative poverty of imagi- nation, as 'will make him sensible of the vast superiority of the Scripture style" and the prose style of Addison, critics affirm, is one of the loveliest in Engglia"h literattire. A column would not be sufficient to hoid the names of famous men, some of them infidels, wird have been enthralled ley the; nobility and beauty of the Bible's prose and poetry, but we shall .give no - mere. -!Merely we suggest that to approach the Bible in a desire, to al)" prediate 'its loveliness as literature one should put out of mind ter the bene 'being its religietiia assech`atteili y axxd forget its suPer'netilra SItiims, i and a teaspoonful each of crushed stick cinnamon and mixed pickling spice, Cook until thick, then remove the spices, add a pint of cider vine- gar, and boil for ten minutes. Store in small jars, and use for a dinner relish. Tomato Conserve. Five pounds tomatoes, two pounds raisins, 1% pounds apples, small piece ginger root, quarter teaspoon mare, 16 cloves, 1/2 teaspoonful salt, 2 cupfuls vinegar, 3 inches stick cinnamon, 2 pounds granulated sugar. Peel tomatoes and apples and cut in pieces. Put in saucepan, add sugar, vinegar and spices, tied in a cheese- cloth and cook gently, stirring fre- quently, for three hours or until the mixture is very thick. Seal in jars. Stir frequently to prevent scorching. Later on Robinson and Winfie,d met in the street and when Robin- son declared that he would take the matter to court Winfield struck him. On cross-examination, Robinson ad- mitted that it was his habit, in con- formity with a good old English cus- tom, to drop in on Mrs. Winfield for a cup of tea at breakfast time very frequently. This occurred between 7,30 and 9 a,m. an unfavorabie hour for amorous dalliance, as it would seem to outsiders. He denied all sug- gestions of misconduct, even when confronted with a picture post card he had sent Mrs. Winfield from Horn- castle bearing the significant words, "Weather wet and windy," which is reminiscent of Mr. Pickwick's famous communication to Mrs. Bardell con- cerning "chops and tomato sauce." Mrs., Winfield was then called and testified that she was the mother of nine children. She was told that she need not testify, for if site admitted misconduct it could be used against her as evidence in divorce proceed- ings should her husband choose to act. It was further argued that testimony of this sort should not be accepted by the court .ince there was precedent forbidding parents to give evidence throwing the stigma of 11- legitiniacy upon ebildiretn born in 'wedlock,, 11o*ever, Vire, *infield persisted and threw a bombshell ,into the court •witlit the vo dal f 'e11, it's all true." BIBLE IS THE SUPREME STORE- HOUSE OF LITERATURE We have read a good deal of bibli- cal criticism in our time, but, shocking aa the statement may be to the de- vout believer, it was all directed to the matter rather than to the manner of the book. In calling attention to its supreme literary value, Sir Thomas White is in the company of practic- ally every competent critic who ever sought to pass upon it. Saiid and sinner, martyr and infidel, are agreed that however obscure and dubious some of its doctrines may be ,it con- stitutes on the whole a body of litera- ture unapproached in any language. We speak now chiefly of the King James' version, the chief ornament of English prose. If there are people blind to its beauties it is for the same reason, that so many adults never read poetry, mainly because in youth they regarded it as a tedious exercise which they could not understand. The Bible remains the most widely -read book in the world, and we do not doubt it would be read by as many, though perhaps read by different ueople, if it were recognized that it had no supernatural claims upon mankind. That, indeed, is one reason why many readers shun it, and because the un- critical maintain that one book or one verse in the Bible has precisely the same valise as all other books and verses. Nobody can regard it as lit- rature who takes this view. To quote opinions on the Bible as a piece of literature may savor some- what of the wasteful and ridiculous exeess which Shakespeare had in mind when he said, "With taper light to seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish," but now we are addressing not the great host of Bible readers, but the great host of non-readers who would not more naturally turn to the Bible for literary delight than they would turn to the Koran or the Talmud. William Watson, the poet, said "every kind of literary excellence is supremely exemplified in the Bible." Froude said: "The Bible, thoroughly known, is a Iiterature in itself, the rarest and richest in all departments of thought or� imagination which 1 exists." uslcitt• e generally accepted as one•of the great roasters of prose and he has said: 'flit ;is the grandest grbup of 'writing 'ids the 'world put into the grandest - ihnguages in the. world." ltusk43Y;: es •eb{lie;,�as a re- ligidiis man, brut ''4t y' be y. 'atould say that Of Whitt& 41 'wbe; one afi• tertioon When he was all, 04 01 up the'Bible in desperation, .and after. Wards exclaimed, "Y!''hat` a book l 'V`iaeet and wide as the world, rooted in the: itt''sties ,of creation and tivw3ting ul'p Consider it not as a translation but as a collection of stories put together sometime before 1611 by a group of Englishmen, some of whose names ev- en have been forgotten. THE USE IT Canadians make approximately 240 telephone calls a year per person. Canada is becoming distinctly "tele- phone conscious." A SCOT AND MARRIAGE . The Scot and his wife is a well- known subject for humor, but few jokes exceed in wittiness the story of the offer a certain Scot ,made to his daughter: "Marriage," as the old elder said to his daughter, "is a solemn thing." The grieve at Broom Knowes may have thought so, too, but he was, nev- ertheless, very pleased with himself when the farmer's son asked his daughter's hand in marriage. After the young chap had gone the grieve had a talk with Jeannie. "Jeannie, lassie," he said, "I've just had a veesit o' Tammie and I've consented to your marriage." "Oh, but faither," she blurted out, "I dinna want to leave my mither." "Hoots, lassie," replied her father, "dinna let that trouble yo —ye can tak her wi' ye!" JUST ONE FAULT "Ah, old fellow," said a man meet- ing a friend in the street, "so you're married at last. Allow me to con- gratulate yop for I hear you have an excellent and accomplished wife." "I have indeed," was the reply. "Why, she's at home in literature, at home in music, at home in art, at home in science in short, she is at home everywhere except—" "Except what?" "Except at home," ENGLAND EXILES HER SPEED LIMIT England'p new road traffic act, which, among other things, abolishes the speed limit, is being hailed by motoring authorities as the greatest milestone in Great Britain's autmotive history. The exile of the speed limit, an ac- tion o-tion long advocated by the majority of highway authorities as the most important contribution to highway safety, has received most of the ap- plause. Under the new act the only offence in this respect occurs when the motorist drives without due care and attention, or without reasonable con- sideration for other road users. The penalities for reckless driving under the new act are much stiffer. A person now convicted of danger. ous driving may be sent to prison for four months for the first offence. Among other clauses of the act la one that decrees that on the first of- fence for driving a car while intoxi- cated or tinder the influence of drugs, the fine is $200 or imprisonment up to four months. For the second of- fence the penalty is a fine of $500 or four months imprisonment, or both. Also, on the second offence, the mo- torist's driving license is cancelled for a year. Another important clause is that ruling that every applicant for a driv- ing license must make a declaration as to his physical fitness and persons who are reused licenses may slain to be tested. Those who have driven for sirs months prior tib their first app'licatio'n for a license under the4 new act are not barred by their physi-, ear. disability If it hag not afreetett their driving ability in the past. (F. if 1 at 17 11 lc 0 it 1E I Malta Sole 11 ET] t f4 6.0'0,46 dr— T as es 11 do is is 1 02 Ol'd �"' la la ea fc 0 T: •tlh 0 k 0 c R E dt as er Vi 1t! 01 S fl B a r •