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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1931-01-30, Page 6�..i`zT.+fit:'t�'4�l'�'"'l•..'.i'i'aS'A �iT l.. ,. �,;•: '>?'�h� x�i •�' it 1+' D. 1 oyal urple PoultrySpecific ep S Poultry Free fromWORIVIS Mr. Wm. Jarrott, of Brigden, wrote us a year ago stating that his poultry had 'b come badly infected with worms. We advised him to use 2 Lbs. of Royal Purple Poultry Specific in each 100 lbs. of Laying Mash for two weeks and continue, throughout the Winter with 1 lb, After using it for three weeks he wrote us stating that in three days he noticed blood streaks in the droppings, and that his egg pro- duction had gone up 100%. During the Fan, Winter and Spring months he pur- chased 600 lbs. of this Poultry Specific. We received a letter from him the latter part of August, stating that he was amazed at the results he obtained, that his poultry were entirely free from worms, and that during August of this year his production was 100% larger than last year. 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Home- ward they find their way through the darkness, through danger, through rain and fog, through visionary moon- light. How they do it I cannot tell, any more than I can tell how we shall find our way Home •through the Dark. But I know there must be a Home, and I believe we shall find it. ' MYSTERIOUS COMPASSES GUIDE WILD CREATURES HOME Nothing in nature is more common —or more marvelous --than the exact -1 ness with which creatures. wild and domestic, pursue a persistently confi- dent course, 'whether down the sea coast, over the :boundless plains, or into the wildest forest. The fact is, they all carry compasses; and while Ezra from Shrimpstown is almost sure to get lost on blazing Broad- way, the wild goose knows his course from Athabasca to the Rio Grande. All my life I have watched, fascin- ated, the extraordinary ease with which wild things find their way; in- deed, this mysterious and infallible sense of direction appears to be con- ferred upon all living things that are not human—and upon some mortals as well. Compared with it, even the most sensitive mechanical instru- ments conceived by human inventors —dle sun compass, the earth induc- tion compass, and others—seem little more than makeshifts. About twelve miles from my home there is a resort for 'bald eagles --a lone and savage coastal island where several pairs live. The place has been their haunt ever since I can remember. And whenever I see an eagle over my woods at home (except in migrating season) I am .sure that it has come either from Cedar Island, the rendezvous men- tioned. or from some similar haunt even farther away. Fifteen, twenty, thirty miles they cruise in their indolent. splendid way. These black Lindbergs know the earth and the air; the glimmering pine forest above which they sail, the lonely reaches of the river, the lost chaos of the abyssmal swamp. One day I was far out in the pinelands talking to an old negro who was cutting wood. Far above the pines we saw a huge eagle, executing some imposing aerial man- oeuvres. "That ,old bird," I said to my com- panion, "belongs down on Cedar Is- land. How does he know his way about up in this country?" "God done guide him," said the woodsman. And his answer seemed to me final. It may 'seem posseble for (some: people to devise and to -follow a system •of philosophy 'which excludes the divine; but no lover of nature can ever leave God out of the scheme of things. Nature wears, now her gay cloak, now her sombre one, but all these material things are only her vesture. Something's behind it all. It is that mysterious and infal- lible Being and Power we call God. Such a !belief is the compass all of us must carry if we are going to get home. At any rate, so I am compel- led to believe. Any man that has done much riding especially in solitary country. can testify to the capacity of his horse to find his way home when the rider is at a loss to know which direction to take. Who being familiar with horses, can say that a horse does not carry a compass? As to the sense of direction pos- sessed by the domestic eat, it appears ancient, infallible. Egyptian, meta- physical. For some reason to dis- pose of unnecessary cats for the peace Of mind of my friends has been my tnibappy lot, but since the personality Of the eat has a decidedly oriental „hand supernal cast, I have never wil- yingler molested one. However, some ierfinnine friends ,prevailed upon me One glorious Spring morning to take theft old "Tiger" far out into the `iedeels, tied up in a !bag. I travelled 'n re ten seven miles in my old bug- gfy, ai►d there I left him, after hav- eing iit the top of the bag, regarding d wit>i eentetthing very like pitying „;'That evening when I returned e wiliage, I visited my friends' tli. them that I had left weiidee There wad ne dent r'riiggi" liinvtelf was l framll+ Por.ch: wearin t! pfAn te1 i IOW wa:s in his a Iilidln. his Way THE HURON EXPOSITOR Wonderful For Indigestion. 'When your stomach feels bad; when stomach acids. gas, sourness,. nausea or after -eating pains make you miser- able, just a little Bisurated Magnesia --tablets or powder --IMM 'bring safe and instant relief. It neutralizes the acids that have upset your stomach and permits normal painless diges- tion. Druggists everywhere sell it with this guarantee. Its daily use 'means real stomach comfort. MODERN MIRACLE LAMPS No one in the Arabian Nights un- derstood the Lamp. All that was known was that when one rubbed it an omnipotent genie appeared who would do whatever was commanded. Beyond this all was dark deep mys- tery. The change that has come in our day is the discovery of the principle of the Lamp. 'Hutting upon the thing by lucky accident, our modern Aladdins were not content to let it work in secret. They had to explore; they wanted to see how it worked, why it worked, just how many slaves it controlled, and what jobs could best be entrusted to each slave. Out of these laboratory explorations have come new types of lamps, new refine- ments, greater power, more specializa- tion, wider diversity—and miracles.. There is a lamp that can carry you. as on a magic carpet, far away. Re- cently I saw and talked to a man two miles away by the magic of a glow- ing lamp. I had been transported to his sight and hearing by the same magic of glowing lamps that had brought him to me. That is just the beginning of television, but the day after to -morrow it may be a 2000 - mile broadcast of a whole opera troupe and orchestra in performance. There are lamps that can carry your command around the world and put it into effect anywhere you will. One day last 'March Marconi sat in his yacht in the harbor of Genoa and touohed a button. Instantly thous- ands of electrical slaves leaped into action in Sydney, Australia. It was a lamp on his yacht shaped to pulse in harmony with other lamps in Aus- tralia that made his will effective el- even thousand miles away. Similar- ly the head of a large steel mill sat at his desk in New York and turned on the power at the plant in Pennsyl- vania, hundreds of miles away. There are lamps that can hear. One of these electric ears was demon- strated 'at the Newark Airport re- cently. It is so attuned that it will respond to the peculiar note of .a cer- tain siren. An airplane came circl- ing out of the darkness and sounded its call. The electric ear heard, in- stantly summoned its slave—that is, operated a switch which turned on the port's floodlights—and so the avi- ator was lighted home. Lamps which can see and report what they hear have been installed at entrances to the international bridge at Detroit. They count each vehicle as it passes and keep 'books on the day's tolls; they report to the' central office any congestion in traffic. Similar lamps detect an excessive smoke density in the Holland Tunnel under the Dodson River, and turn on the electric light in a New Jersey school room, when the sunlight dims. Another type of lamp can look through a solid and reveal its con- tents. It is used to detect defects in woods and in the steel for big ar- tillery. It is so sensitive and yet so penetrating that it can be used to de- tect the hidden pearl in an oyster. All of these magic lamps are "merely" vacuum tubes, of course— eariaticns of the familiar radio tube, that strange new device of the laboratory which broadcasting has brought into our homes. Science is rapidly harnessing it to a diversity of uses, A recent tabulation in an engineering journal enumerates 178 existing applications, of the vaceer.1 tube to industry, art, surgery, ee Jicir.o. navigation, aviation, rail- roading. And yet, say the experts this is but the beginning. This modern vacuum tube is the product of many minds. Edison was the first to glimpse it when he was working on his incandescent lamp in 1883. But he had other projects in mind at the time, and merely made a note of a strange phenomeno which has since been called the "Edison Effect." Many years passed before this electrical emission in a vacuum was under- stood. The professors had to de- velop a new physics before• they could explain the curious glow in terms of what it is now known to be: namely, the result of a boiling off of electrons, or particles of negative electricity, from the hot filament and their flight through space to the positive wire. In 1905 this flow of power was tried as a detector of radio signals. Radio was still in its infancy then, Marconi had succeeded in signaling across the Atlantic, but his apparatus was limited. Radio began to reach out for greater distance, for some- thing more dependable; inventors were trying to substitute for tele- gt'aph the more delicate and elastic telephone communication, and a sensi- tive detector became absolutely neces- sary. (Radio waves are energy swinging first in one direction and then in the opposite, Intl the frequency of re- versal may run up to millions of times each second. Marconi's first detector or "coherer" had been a thimbleful of steel filing in a glass tube. These filings were caused to cling together when the oscillations from a distant wireless station surg- ed through space. Wireless tele- phony needed something far more sensiteve than this 'halfeme'ehanical device. This was . discovered by Pro- fessor Fleming in England in 1905. in the woods when the pressure of peril demands incisive action, the huge old black -horned buck that I pursued for many seasons stands without equal in my experience. More than once I tracked him; again and again I started him from his bed in the deep, golden brown sedgy of the wild borders of Fox Bay. A dozen times I was sure that I had him hopelessly cornered. But in this world nothing (after a secret) is so likely to escape as a stag that is cornered. His salvation really lay in the thrilling precision with which he knew the wide stretches of the lonely woods, the dim fragrant trails through the darksome thickets, the morasses, and the jungles If cane along the river. A forest i gat I had observed for thirty-five years, he knew with a far more certain sagac- ity than I. My knowledge was, after all, only of a quality to keep me from getting lost; his of a kind to keep hien from getting killed.. All wild animals seem to possess this life -and - death surety of information. One day, with nine other hunters forming What we thought was a fa- tal semi -circle across a long, wooded peninsula that jutted into the river, I started this great buck into a wild jungle. As soon as he got up, I felt sure that at last he was ours. Un- wounded. he would hardly take the water. There were the standees, good men and true. But as I followed his sprawling track through the half - dried mud of the swamp, shouting al] the while to the standers to be ready, I noticed that the wily stag was mak- ing a most peculiar turn. In my heart I was somehow with him in his mas- ter tactics. Apparently safety lay straight ahead; but he knew that the standers were waiting for him, though they were a mile away. He detected them, not by any of his physical sens- es, but his prescience. Insteee of going to one of the many e • ectant watchers, the black - horned stag coursed parallel to their entire front. Taking a ghostly lane through a cane -break on the river ledge, he slipped round the corner, as it were, crossed far to the southward the old road on which they stood, and at last entered safely a wild and lone- ly sanctuary, where even the most in- defatigable hunter is quite willing to conceded the fugitive's escape. This business of finding one's way has far more to it than the mere con- sideration of being able to get about. With wild creatures the question al- ways is: Where can I safely go And on this question some of these wild things do remarkable fine thinking. It is not merely instinct. The wild creature is the true native of the earth, the true citizen of the world who knows his Land; who knows his fellow countryman, wild as well as human; who regards all living things as inhabitants of his own country. I once observed with curious in- terest the journey of a tiny traveller on life's highway. One day, about the first of April, I was resting at the edge of a sandy road, letting the kindly, reassuring springtime sun steal over me and through me. • Look- ing down the road I saw an ant man- fully tugging the wing of a beetle. The old road was very rough from the winiter"s traffic and the hollows and hills must certainly have looked to the ant like Sierras and: Alps and Himilayas combined. I wanted to see how far this little traveller had to go. I walked down the road to see. Lt was exactly 32 feet away. Going back I found him on the to of a big clod that must have been the Matterhorn to him, while across en abyssrnal gulch rose the perilous steep of Mount Everest. But he boiled on. I watched him for what must have corresponded to months in an ant's existence. But he toiled valiantly on without any chart or mad map. It is an interesting fact of wild life that raccoons are excessively fond of oysters; and when i'ew tides expose oyster banks, among their chief raiders RTC these quaint p'hiloso- phears. Often the tflp front the tettooi& honie to the banks is a convert a direct current into an al- ternating current. Of course, this did not all happen at once. Years of ex- periment by many men went into the tubes which we have to -day. The vacuum tube gradually edged its way into the home. There were other uses for it than the radio. For years engineers had been struggling to devise a meants of telephoning across the continent. Prior to 1914 it would have required hundreds of millions of horsepower to talk over a direct wire of the usual size the 3,400 miles from San Francisco to New York. Long-distance communi- cation was made possible by means of repeaters, electromagnetic devices stationed at intervals along the line to pick up the weak impulses and send them forward renewed and strengthened, but this was orally from New York to Chicago. More power- ful repeaters were required to send the current through to San Francisco. At this stage, along came the vacuum tube with its growing radio reputation. Why couldn't it be made to perform the desired service for telephone waves, since it was doing so well by radio waves? It was developed and adapted as a re • peater, with such success that 1915 found New York and San Francisco on easy speaking terms. The power of the vacuum tube to magnify fragile waves without dis- tortion has. been harnessed to many uses. By means of its physicians are able to detect the slightest mur- mur of a beating heart and to listen in on the lungs and other inward parts. Ship officers now take sound-. ings by an echo process while the ves- sel steams onward, and sea -bottom surveys which formerly occupied months are now completed in a few days. Modern prospectors for miner- al's are probing into the earth's crust electrically and feeling out the hidden ore. A relay provides not only magni- fication of the original waves and the control of power as well. The vacuum tube has proved itself cap- able of turning on a larger flow of electricity, through its quick and sensitive control. In this way it is able to act as an excellent watchman, ready at all times to give an alarm. There are many other uses for the lamps. Tubes are arranged in cony' binations of frequencies to embrace the musical scale and to stimulate certain orchestral instruments. Or again they are used to generate high -frequency radiation. to bake the tenacious moisture out of porcelain, to operate electric furnaces, and to stimulate in the human body artific- ial fever. There are endless uses for the photo -electric cell which "sees” various operations, detects colors, counts articles, 'measures temperature and controls heats. The talkies and television come under this control. Plumbers, as well as physicians and surgeons, to -day use the X-ray; with it they explore old walls for hidden pipes and forgotten wiring. Manufacturers use it to inspect golf balls for symmetrical cores, to ex- amine rubber, for nails and other foreign matter, to look through steel castings for inner flaws. Chem- ists use the X-ray tube for chemical analysis; within recent years two new elements have been discovered this way. Geologists use it to peer into fossils and botanists to examine the inner structure of living plants. The Lamps may have brought noise end publicity, but they have also brought rescuers to sinking ships, aided physicians and surgeons. given the world an international voice, which may yet prove the surest wea- pon in t'he peacemaker's fight for a warless world. tion.. It employed the Burne agency„ giving it instructions to ape no ex- pense in guarding Miss 14fgrrow and in running dawn the blackmailer. The Burns people notified the various po- lice bodies which might be concerned and a swift conference was called to consider a plan of action. One of the officers at this conference was James R. Travers, chief of police at Milton, who has told the story to the Mac- fadden magazine. A few days later the second letter came from the blackmailer. In it he gave Miss !Morrow explicit directions as to how she was to handle the mon- ey. On the following Saturday even- ing she was to leave the academy at about seven o'clock, and then take four different buses. Leaving the last one she was to walk along a certain country road, counting the arc lights as she walked. At the sixth she was ordered to throw the package con- taining the • money over ;a wall and then return home. Her safe return was guaranteed, but nameless horrors were hinted at if she was followed by police. This letter was handed ov- er to the detectives, and the first step in their plan of campaign was taken, It involved the secret spiriting away of Miss Morrow to her home in New Jersey and the substituting at the academy of another girl who was to impersonate her. There was some dif- ficulty in selecting this girl. No fe• male detective would serve because none of them was young enough or innocent looking enough. The girl had to have the appear- ance of a fifteen-year.old, and the nerve and courage of a man. She had also to be an actress. The exasperat- ing Mr. Travers, who never will make a good newspaperman, neglects to say how this girl was eventually found and how much she was: paid for her impersonation. But he does tell 'us that it was not until the night before the tryst was' to be kept with the blackmailer that Mies Morrow was secretly removed and the other girl smuggled into her room. This opera= tion was smoothly performed and a- part from the principal of the school; the police and the two girls them- selves, nobody in Milton knew what had been done. The other girl remain- ed in her room all day until the time came for her to sally forth in the evening to keep her rendezvous. Of course she was watched every step of the way by scores of private de- tectives, each one of whom immedi- ately reported by telephone to head- quarters when she had passed a given spot. The girl proceeded on her way, apparently nervous, and now and then studying the map which the black- mailer had sent for her direction. .In the meantime the police kept watch over the spot where the pack- age was to be delivered, and where it was delivered presently by the girl. They continued to watch for three days, but it lay where it had fallen. Apparently the blackmailer had dis- covered that something was wrong. He must have known at least when the Sunday papers_ appeared, for they announced that Lindbergh and the Morrow girls had gone by .plane to the Morrow summer home on an is- land in Maine, Immediately reporters swarmed to the island. The problem' for the Morrows then was to keep secret the fact that Constance was with them, in order to give the po- lice a chance to trap the blackmailer. But the place became overrun with reporters and photographers. The family then secretly returned to the Morrow home in Englewood, N.J., but the reporters and photographers con- tinued to infest the grounds. Mr. Mor- row had unexpectedry returned from Mexico. Anabherrconference was held, end it seems to have been decided that Constance could not be properly guarded while hundreds of strange men and women, purporting to be col- lectors of news ote pictures were in- vading the premises. So the hurried marriage was decided on and when Colonel and Mrs. Lindbergh took flight they naturally drew all the strangers after thein and permitted the police to snake their arrangements for the safety of Constance. Scmc time later a man was arrested on suspicion of being the blackmailer, bet there was little evidence against him and he was turned loose. The case is not yet closed officially. The vacuum tube has turned out to be not only the most sensitive de- tector. but an all-powerful amplifier, a relay, a generator. It can rectify an alternating current, or vice versa, 11 kY JANUARY 3t1, .pp.. 1 Internal and Exte,rnaI are promptly relieved bar De THOMAS' ECLECTRIC AIM 1{8 TO HA8 BEEN E GRENALTERo& SELLER THAN EVEYR BEFORE 18 A TESTIMONIAL THAT SPEAKS FOR 1T8 NUMEROUS CURATIVE QUALITIES. odds the most important step, is to Canadians would agree a s to who is make Russia independent of the rest the greatestCanadian, There would of the world, and solve the greatest be no unanimity in the United States, of modern economic problems. The in Germany, England or France. But modern world has solved the problem there was, apparently, this agreement of production, at least so far' as this about Nathan Stratus, which argues generation is concerned. It can make an extraordinary •man indeed. If he geods cheaply enough. The trouble had not been a wealthy man he neve is to enableenough people to buy er could have accomplished for the them. The Bolsheviks believe they Jews of the world what he 'was able have found the answer. to accomplish. But his money was The five-year plan is the fourth the least important thing about him. plan that has been tried in Russia. That is the way he looked at it, too. The first plan which flourished under On one occasion he said: "It is my the czars was a savage and unasham- ambition to'die a poor man, for then ed capitalism, whereby the masses of I shall be rich in, happiness and good Russians were kept sweating on their work." We believe that he died poor, farms while the landlords spent their but unlike Andrew Carnegie, whose profits in Paris, or imported whatev'- loudly expressed ambition to die poor er articles they needed, except per. seemed" to presage a pauper's funeral. haps samovars, ikons and moujiks, As a matter of fact, he was one of from Europe. This was a good en- the wealthiest men of his day when ough plan while it lasted, but the war he did pass away. intervened and there came the revo- Nathan Straus first became a 'pub- lution, followed: by the Communist lic figure some time in the days when coup Which seized the reins of gov- the driving of trotting and pacing ernment and placed 'Lenin in the driv- horses was a favorite sport of rich er's seat. Lenin, at that time a coin men in New York. He was called smoking from the mint of Marxism, "King of the Speedway," and some proceeded at once to put into effect of the fastest horses of the time were the established theories of Commun- in his stable. He was also an inveter- ism. So far as the cities were con- ate attendant at other sporting ev- cerned he had some success, but he ents, and seemed designed to win a had no success with the peasants, name as a man -about -town, though he whose profound' ignorance, allied with was fast becoming a merchant prince, a kind of common sense which they being a member of a great firm of de - had acquired through their centuries partment store merchants. Then one of serfdom, made them extremely un- day his cow died, and it eeemed that likely converts. 'Since Russia on the the whole course of Nathan Straus' whole is probably agricultural to ev- life had been changed. He did not en a greater extent than is the prov- know what had happened to the cow. ince of Saskatchewan, it became rob- She had been well looked after but vious that a plan which the farmers seemed gradually to waste away, and would not accept could not succeed: perished despite the ministrations of In 1921, therefore, the original a veterinary surgeon. Mr. Straus de- Marxian doctrines were modified or minded that an autopsy should be held withdrawn and what was 'called the on his cow. It revealed the fact that New Economic Policy was put into her lungs had been eaten away with effect. The N.E.P. was a reversion tuberculosis. Mr. Straus first shivered to the old order in certain respects, to think of the peril his family and and it was regarded as a mere tem- himself had escaped through the con- porary expedient until the peasants suinption of tubercular milk. Then could be educated to the beauties of his thoughts turned to the public. communism. It restored private If his cow which had .been most trading and, in consequence it became carefully fed and kept scrupulously apparent that in a few years the old clean could produce tubercular milk, aristocracy would be succeeded by a he asked himself, what must be hap - new and even more 'objectionable rul- pening in the million odd dairies of ing class, the kulaks or wealthy the country where cows were not so peasants, which through private own- watchfully tended. About this time ership of land and money lending Pasteur had called attention to the were 'becoming rich and influential. tubercle bacilli, and had said that raw On the surface this plan seemed to milk was not a .suitable food for ba- be working well, for in 1927 produc- bies. So Straus embarked on his tion had reached pre-war levels. In campaign to provide pasteurized milk fact, nothing was wrong with the N. for babies. He established a pasteur- E.P. except that it, threatened to eat izing laboratory and a depot from the heart out of communism, and ab- which pure milk could be distributed sorb the communists much as the to the city's poor. Hland in hand with English had absorbed their various this remedial measure went his crus - conquerors, leaving here and there ade to make the health authorities merely an old bone to show that they wake up. At first he was regarded ever had been.as a sort of crank and obnoxious re - We suspect that the Communists, former. Graft and politics were ar- much as they may have wished for rayed against him and half the medi- the material success of Russia, were cal profession condemned him. But even more concerned about the sue- statistics kept of the babies who hal cess of their own theories and so they been supplied with' Straus milk and met to consider the new problem. In babies supplied with the ordinary milk the meantime Lenin had died and revealed the startling fact that the Trotzky and Stalin reigned in his death rate of the former had dropped stead. They were men of conflicting sharply. views. Trotzky's idea was that the N.E.P. should be abolished and the farmers forced into accepting com- munism, even at the point of the bay onet. Stalin, not less stoutly main- taining the doctrines of Lenin, said that there should undoubtedly be a return to Communism but it should be less drastic. In fact it should be the five-year plan. So Trotzky was banished and Stalin and his advisers proceeded to frame the five-year plan and later put it into operation. As already noted its chief feature was to change 'Russia from an agricultural into an industrial nation. The idea was to manufacture in Russia every- thing the Russian people needed. If at the end of the five-year plan the rest of the world refused to trade with Russia, she would be independ- ent of it. Vast expenditures upon manufac- turing industries, railroads and the development of hydro -electric energy were basic features of,the scheme. But tremendous sums hacr to be wrung out of the country to enable the Soviets to purchase abroad the machinery they required, and import the experts who would teach the Russians how to use it. The fact that Russia, unlike other nations which had vast plans for re- organization, was unable to arrange long term loans abroad, made it nec- essary that the capital expenditure should be made out of current income. Here came the first test of the si:heme —would the Russians submit to the hardships necessary to stint them- selves, and, while working, like hors- es, save up the money, the government required for export? Apparently they hive accustomed themselves to tight- ening the belt. This explains also the fact that vast quantities of Russian grain were exported at a time when millions of Russians were insufficient- ly fed. They are stimulated into re- newed exertion and accepting addi- tional hardships by the promise that the land of their dreams is but two years away. If they can hold out, the probability is that they. will reach it. Their eyes will then •be turned on even higher peaks. PLOT OF BLACKMAILER AND LINDBERGH NUPTIALS Why the Lindbergh -Morrow wed- ding was hurriedly advanced a couple of months and why it was performed almost in secrecy with only seven persons present are matters which have greatly interested all persons likely to be greatly interested in such matters, to wit, the Nosey Parkers, male and female, of the American continent. What purports to be an eb- planation is given in True Detective Mysteries, a Macfadden publication, in the course of a story which des- cribes the attempt to blackmail D'wigiht B. Morrow to the extent of $50,000. The threat was that unless the money was paid,'his young daugh- ter, Constance, then a 1'5 -year-old pu- pil at an exclusive school in Milton, Massachusetts, would meet the same fate as Dorothy Arnold, Alice Corbett and Frances St. John Smith, all young New England girls who vanished from the face of the earth, and whose fate nobody has been able to explain until this day. On April 24, 1929, Con-_ stance received in her mail a letter from an unknown blackmailer who said that something terrible would be- fall her if she did not get $50,000 from her father and leave it at a spot to be designated later. Though threatened with death if she told of the letter—and we are curious to know how she could) be ex- pected to secure the $50,000 unless she told about it—she eommunieated with her school prineipal, and Mrs. Morrow was immediately tett/led. At the time Mx. Morrow Was in Mexico City serving bis ambaesad'orial term. He was expected Borate rn a few weeks for the wedding of bus datxghter, the date having been tentatively set for some pleasant :lune horning. Mrs. Morrow at once sent the alarm to the firm of J. P. Morgan, in which her husband had 'beet a partner, and the great 1VVorgan maotili a AVtllg bitO w MIDDLE AGE A Critical Time For All Women. "I am beginning to feel my age," is the confession many a woman has to make when she reaches the criti- cal time of middle life. There is no need, however, to think you are too old to be well and happy. Perhaps you have lost your grip on thing's; perhaps the old vigor and energy is lacking; you get tired eas- ily, and your limbs ache terribly. Often your back seems ready to• break and the pain is unbearable. Your blood is at fault—it has be- come thin and impure and does not give the health -giving nourishment to the 'body. What you need is a treatment of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. They will set you right. They actually make rich, red, health -giv- ing blood and this good blood will drive out all your aches and pains. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills will banish headaches, backaches, nervousness and lack of appetite, and in their place will come new energy and happiness. You can get these Pills at all medicine dealers or by snail at 50 cents a box from The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Brockville. Ont. THE FIVE YEAR PLAN, RUSSIA'S GREAT DREAM "What is this five-year plan in Rus- ehces?" To give a comprehensive an- swer would require a complete issue of this paper for, fully to understand it, one must also, understand the plans that went 'before it; why they were discarded, and why the five-year plan was adopted. But it may be pos- sible to give a sketch outline which will help our readers. In brief, it is a plan to change Russia'frotn an agri- cultural to an industrial nation in the course of five years. It was adopted in '0!ctober, 1928, and was expected to be completed in October, 1983. As a matter of fact it is more likely to be completed in 1932, and for several months past -the slogan of "The five- year plan In four years," has bee -i ringing through Russia. • `ire essence of the schenne, of. which the five-year ip tn'ereiy, tb<l Ai$t but by, all LATE NATHAN STRAUS ISRAEL'S MIGHTY( MAN "How account for the fact that no living Jew, rich or poor, statesman or scholar, or p)lilanthr Inst, command- ed the love and the honor which qn every occasion Jews everywhere de- lighted to show to Nlathan Straus: that Jewish opinion, habitually, con- stitiitionally divided, knew no two opinions concerning him 'save those rich Jews whom: his ro2ords indicted, whom his life reproached?" The ques- tion is asked and answered by James' Waterman Melee in an article in the Jewish • Standard. Nathan Straus' p a9at a 1 it4 Pat*. Ito &NIA it Convinced that he was doing a use- ful work, Mr. Staus redoubled his ef- forts. He spent his money freely. He wrote and spoke and agitated and or- ganized and in the end he did suc- ceed in giving New York a pure milk supply and in furnishing an object lesson for every other city where the infant mortality had become a prob- lem. This reform, which became in- ternational in its scope, was brought about by Mr. Straus almost single- handed. It illustrates a peculiarity of his character. The reforms he un- dertook were his personal reforms. As a rule he neither invited nor accepted assistance from others. He wanted to be in control of any remedial move- ment he started, and his theory was that if others wanted to do good work they should follow his example and find out for themselves something that needed to be done. In this respect he was, as Mr. Wise says, like the financial magistrates who will not in- vest in any enterprise in which they cannot control 51 per cent. of the stock. But we suspect that the reason the Jews so universally honored Mr. Straus is not because he was such a philanthropist, but because he was such a Jew. He had the quaint the- ory that all that was necessary to remove Christian prejudice was to show them that the Jews were really admirable people, and neither .Shy - locks nor the comic characters of the vaudeville stage. Certainly his own life was an object lesson in this re- gard, and must have annihilated any racial prejudice among those who came into contact with him. His su- preme service to his people was his interest in the Zionist movement. Cur- iously enough, he came late into his field. Apparently a chance visit to Palestine, when he and his wife were touring the world, touched his heart and turned his energies into the chan- nel where they' were to flow so abun- dantly in the closing years of his life. At first he found himself in a minor- ity, for most wealthy American Jews were but slightly and sentimentally in- terested in a land where none of their ancestors, perhaps for a thousand years,, had dwelt. But his fiery en- thusiasm kindled the enthusiasmof others and set an example in Pales- tine as it had set in New York thirty years earlier. There have been more prominent and wealthier Jews in one time . than Nathan 1Straus, . but we doubt if the name of any one of them will be so long held in affectionate remembrance.:, No good artist copies to imitate, but because form ie the discipline im- oosed civ, •the universe by they hidden Gcidb"Thy will, tot mine," iq good aesthetic, gas it is good moral law.--- li 'f . K tlitotI , 4 1 02 tnt*a tr r p