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The Wingham Advance, 1920-10-21, Page 2CURRENT COMMENT* - ' Price Reduction Tends to Stability Reduction in prices Will do more to allay the social unrest of the Present tinie than any Other circumstance. The -law of supply and demand," upon which some economists rely In normal times, has been shown to be Ineffective under the stress of war conditions, 'when necessity upsets every -consider- , ation. It should be fairly obvious that when the necessities of warfare upset the alleged ,,law," the necessities of peace cannot be gainsaid, There is unlimited demand at present for an enormous amount of material, food, clothing and building material, to go no further, and the artificial inflation -of price alone prevents the use of these things and stops the natural operations of labor and capital. If the ,,law of supply and demand" were a leal law, prices, in face of the imperative demand, would go liligher still; but as it is impossible to take breeches off a Highlarroler, Justice and equity must be recognized to be more potent than supply and demand. it is not permissible to starve a man to death because he cannot Pay for food, Nor is it legitimate to deprive a nation of the comforts and conveniences -which are actually the necessities Of our modern civilization, because another nation can purchase these at a higher figure. The "law of Supply and demand!' i a cloak for much greed, extortion and mercantile rapacity. Unfair dealing soon defeats its own ends, and it is in this respect that the moral factor enters into business relations and cannot be ignored. The cold, material basis for, business and commerce Tesulted in the great War. We must find a better basis for our peace activities than that which led to such disastrous failure previously. Events will compel the recognition of principles that make for perialinence and stability, whether we desire it or not. Prices are already yielding. Wheat and flour have fallen in price, and bread naturally follows. Forage will be found in sympathy, with a corresponding drop in the live stock markets. Sugar has been selling'at 12 Cents wholesale and less, a cut of fifty per Cent. Lord Beaverbrook has been telling us that paper must come down, Reason and co-operation will carry the day. . House Shortage and Rents ' No feature condition of social unrest is more significant :tty Of houses. During the war there was almost a Complete than the scarc ,many factors con - suspension 'Of the -construction Of new house% while tributed to the decrease in those -available ' P pulation also was increas- Ing and creating a greater demand. The usual shrinkage from fire, from decay from transformation into business premises and other ,Causes were respo�sible for a -considerable decrease in the number of houses in the last six years. The number built has also been much -below the average6 This has been due to scarcity and cost of material, scarcity of labor and high rate of -wages, and the reluctance of investors to put their money into house property in view Of the high rates of interest available in bonds and Other Instances are not uncomm wners gilt-edged securities. able war sold all their real'estate holdings and put their capital Into non -tax bonds. Some men like to be landlords and collect rents" -but at the best it is a somewhat thankless task, ,and the uncertainty of tenants and their unlimited demands, coupled with their carelessness in the protection Of I not invite to the ownership ,of renting properties. The property, doec but it the landlord landlord is Portrayed as a bugbear by many tenants, told his story there would -be seen another side. The present complaint of high and extortionate rents, it analyzed, will be found only occasionally to be justified. Any landlord who attempted to get as much return out of his property as the ordinary merchant does out of his -wares would be execrated. He has to -be content with comparatively low returns on his investment, comforted sometimes by the hope oi!,_,gaining some increment on the sale of his property. This is a good -deal of a Zambler's chance, and by no means Justifies the optimism Of the many, however fortunate the few may ,be. The owning of a home Is the most solid link that exists d the state, but one ,would never suspect that the state considered this phase of the question from the handicaps placed upon those who attempt to Own homep. In a new laud, like Canada, especially, it . .1 , 'might ,be expected that tenants would be in an insignificant minority, and ",# . that practically the Whole Population would Own their own homes, Henry George's panacea of the ,,Slugle Tax," it universally adopted, would prob- ably 'remove most of the present anomalies in connection with land values and home -owning; -but there is not the remotest chance of its universal adoption, and its partial adoption has no guarantee of success and is fre- , � quently a failure. In fact, there cannot be a partial adoption of "Single' tax. it mustbe complete or not at all. An alternative which has not been I tried, but vhich would be effective whether partially or completely applied, is for the state 01, community to own the land, and the individual to own the structure. The real difficulty about housing is the high cost of land In available locations. it the land was owned by the state and leased for f not more than ten years, so that readjustments of values builders would be I for taxation could -be periodically and equitably made, encouraged to put their capital and labor into house construction, being certain of a return for their pains, while the state would have the Con- struction for the security of its taxes, and control also of the districts It 11 desired to develop through its ownership of means of transportation. The state here implies the municipality or whatever unit ownership was in- �clentiflc method such as this, which would be -vested in. Failing some k and new, and ed. to by all owners becaifte it is sclentifw, equitable object � e good opportunities for builders Would provide fixity of tenure, there will -b in the next few years who take advantage of the scarcity of houses and get the market at the right moment for materials and labor. A New Lake and Ocean Route A new Canal scheme for the provision Of an ocean-going route from the Great Lakes is naturallyof keen interest to Ontario. The new plau emanates from Ottawa and was submitted to the International Joint Water -ways Com- mission -by �ohn Bingham, president of the Ottawa Board of Trade, and Noulan Cauchon, engineer, The Commission has no authority nor juris. , -diction in a plan which Is wholly confined to the Dominion of Canada, yet this may prove to be one of its strongest Points in its appeal to Canadians it is an all -Canadian route� The St. Lawrence project, with its deepening of the channel and use of water -power" is full of international complications which no doubt will be solved; -but the Ottawa proposals involve no one bui Canadians. Canadians, however, would also have to beat the whole cost but as this Is cheaper -by $10o,000,000 than the St. Lawrence route ane would give all the power developed to Canadians, the balance oC.advantag( Is said to be with the Ottawa scheme. The route is from Montreal -by th( Ottawa river, and then by a deep -water canal across to,, the St. Lawrenc( at Cardinal. There would be fewer locks ,by this route less engin6eriug and 2,000 square miles of swamp land in Eastern Ontario could be reclaime( by it for farms. It is not always possible to decide whether such proposal are not primarily Intended to delay earlier proposals. What Is needed fo Canada is quick action In the development of the lake and ocean traffic, aw ommission's Power plans. The country is Par also of the Hydro-Blectric C . ticularly short of power, and all that tends to maintain that shortage 1 against Canada's real interests. We can use all the power that call b developed by either or both routes, and the plan that gives power mos quickly will be most velcOme- The Presidency and the League of Nations History Is said to repeat itself, but Politics is the record beater in thi respect. Vie present contest for the presidency of the ;,Wnited States offer at least as exciting grounds for a wager as the great horse race betwee Man o? War and Sir Barton. One of them is bound to lose. There Is abou equal chances for a dead heat. But it is the repetition of history that w are occupied with. Four years ago Mr. Wilson was gathering in all th Gorman and Irish votes -on big record as a Pacifist. .Supporters of the Allie Indulged! their f8elings in all varieties, from bitter indignation to scornft contempt. But Mr. Wilson was elected, and a month after he was installe as president he declared war on the German alliance. This year he : fighting for the League ,of Nations, which is to end war and has alread done sc�mething In that direction, The last war it prevented was betwec Finland and her neighbor. It has done other things also, and with tl assistance of Hon. HI . thu Root has -devised a world court of justice, whei international Offenders can ,be brought to trial. The Republican party out against the League of Nations as fiercely as Air, Wilson was out again war four years ago. But tile "wise ones" declare that the Republican can� date ,,,vill be elected, and It is not for Canadians to say they know bettc At any rate, all the Gorman and Irish and other voters who supported W son four years ago are now supporting Mr. Harding, and it reports are to I trusted Mr. Cox has a slini chance. The opposition to the League Is alt gether based on misrepresentation, the favorite allegation being that It tl United States joins It her sons willbe compelled to go all over the world fight in wars In which the League will be involvedl This Is, of courE humbug. The consensus Of the nations in the League will have gre weight, becalase the wisest men will be behind its decisions, but eve - nation will be free to make its own decisions. After ballots have bei counted. the electoral college given its vote, -and the new president bei installed, thegreat 'United States will join the League of Xations like C ever body elt3cr—vill, indeed, take a leading part In It, and claim the cr dit )kavi-ng founded It. So will history repeat itself once more. THE WINGHAM ADVANC& 1.1 701WIM mm 0. i in! II Consider the wisdom and judgment I I of the HOME -SPENT DOLLAR. � In its pepful community -inspiring ", career it alway splays safe. Its busi- � ness transacti&i� are backed by guar- antees. Advertised goods are guaranteed goods. The merchants of this com- munity do not advertise their wares unless they are good goods. It doesn't pay to advertise merchandise that is not good. And it is the home merchant who advertises his goods that attracts the DOLLAR—makes it the HOME - SPENT DOLLAR. He in turn directs the dollar back to guaranteed firms— the advertising firm. � Follow the trail of the HOME- � SPENT DOLLAR for two weeks - 4 and you will learn that it enters the ( doors of the advertised firms. The jingle of HOME -SPENT DOL_ LARS is a merry tune—if we ALL � play it together—and business will - FIUM to that time, too I ADYIGE TO GIRLS By Rosalind ' Registered According to tho Copy- right Act � Ir — I I Just B5001ts . The Hand in the Dark, by Arthur J. Rees, author of "The Shrieking Pit." Published by The Ryerson Press, To. , ronto. People who read a great deal of fle- tion usually come to the point after a 1 4 1 — — - sur. . While where p o Is no ong I Because of it change in prises for them, Whore they know printing and other plans, what the ending of a novel, the solu- Miss Rosalind in future will tion of its mystery, is going to be ,as soon as, they learn early in the story have her mail sent tp 34 King the nature of the plot, the character of William Street, Hamilton. the mystery. But let no 'such experi- Young women who wish enced hand and sophisticated head en- , to receive advice from Miss deavor to foretell from the first hun- dred pages of this novel what the last Rosalind through this paper ones will disclose. For the chances are advised to make a note are overwhelming that he will be mis- of her new address, and to taken. In short, Mr. Rees has set be - address all inquiries in future fore the reader a mystery whose blind and baffling qualities are likely to to Miss Rosalipol, 34 King puzzle the most skillful of lovers of William Street, Hamilton. detective fiction. The scene of the story Is laid in a country house In England near the end Dear Rosalind:— of the war, a mediaeval moat -house, I have read your advice to girls some hundreds of years old, which several times in the paper and think had taken the place of a castle dating It is fine. I thought I ould give YOU back to Saxon times, and itself had my experience and hope to receive a a history beginning in turmoil and profitable answer. horrors. But in the Autumn of 1918 it I have a boy friend who lives some was, as the author pictures it, a de - distance away. I have been keeping light to the eye and a fascination, company with him for some time, but with its moat walls and bridge and ess about me old garden, to lovers of the pastr though I love him very much. When Gathered there was ,a week -end party, I first met him and for some time whose gayeties the young and pretty afterward he led me to believe he wife of the heir to the estate could not "'sought & great deal of me. engage in because a temporary Indis- What I want to ask is if I should osition confined hdr to her room. As give him up and not write P any more, the rest of the party was finishing or If.you could give me some method their dinner and almost ready to start of regaining his love:? for a neighboring festivity they were I am not twenty years of age. I can startled by a scream and the report of have loads of other company, but none a pistol, and the young wife was found satisfies the same. I -loping for all dying in her bed, shot through the answer In the paper. lungs. "BETSY." Three detectives are presently en - Dear Betsey:— gaged in the endeavor to find out who Perhaps if you did not write for a committed the murder, a local county time, the young man might get constable, the star of Scotland Yard, anxious and worry about why you had and a private -operative. stopped. If he is too sure of you and The complicated Ingenuity Witt for that reason, too careless about which the murderer had concealed WE keeping your regard, it might be well responsibility for the deed outwitE to give him a jolt. If on the other them all, and,will doubtless do the hand, he does not care enough to be same for the reader until the mysterN interested whether you write or not, Is solved for him. The book has othei it is time you forgot about him and easures in store for the reader asidE attention to those who PI . from its chief merit, for the autlioi will appreciate your friendship. YOU It s well, with a good, forceful, In are a pretty writer, Betsy, I sliall look wri e tereating style, makes graphic ol�� forward to seeing the hand -writing pleasing pictures of his background again.—Rosalind. . and puts individuality into the deline ation of his characters. -_ Dear Rosalind:— I ain a girl of 15, 1 have been read- UNFILABLE PRISON BARS. — I Ing your advice to young girls, and I I A certain number of daring escapei . would like you to help me. I have by criminals who have filed througl I been keeping company with a y9ung the bats of their cells are recordel . man. I used to go with him quite fre- in our prison annals, Such escape � quently, he grew very fond of me. The have hocome very Infrequent durin.1 . time came when we had to leave each' late years owing to keener superv!F I other. Before we parted he asked me ion by the warders. And now, I � how Would it be to correspond? It is types of bar ! I now three weeks since I have seen either of the now - adopted for general use in our priso' w ' him. lie said he would write the fol- it will take a very ingenious man t, lowing Thursday, but no mail., yet. break through. In the first type th Please advise me what fo do are of hollow metal, filled wit' Should I drop him a note and tell hi�; bars I have let enough time clapse9 water., These pipes are all connecte CiJTiE. with a central pump, and the -water I h ssure. Thus, th 9 Dear Cutie:— slightest break in any bar woul I Would not do anything at all, if I cause a powerful jet of water to spur, 5 were you, You are so '�rldicnlously I Young to even think about "keeping To continue filing the bar would be a t company," that it is doubtful if -,v'oll most impossible. Also the fact thn � will ever hear from the boy.­�-Rosa- there was a leakage somewhere woul ' lind. be registered o n a dial on the centr, 8 Pump, and lead to speedy investigi I I tion. The second type now in use 1 1 Deal, Rosalind: -- � certain U. S. prisons is simple 6 I am fifteen years old. I have been i�ough decided1v effective. This tyr living In -this town for eight months. also consists oi a hollow bar insif Y and haven't a girl friend. which is a solid one, turning on bal n I know quite a few girls, but they all a bearings. This inner bar turns at tl 0 have their own chums and I don't slightest touch. It the outer covi think I,Would want one of them anv. were cut through no impression con' Is way. I am very lonesome please tell be W ,ade On the solid bar as It wolf ;t me how to find a girl friend. turn with the file. The purpose I- VIOLF,T, the outer cover is to prevent the T r. Doar Violet:— volving bar being gripped. 1' It must be very dreadful not to have Io a girl friend to talk to and 90 Out The ordinary bamboo haa bei D* With. Have you really tried to be known to grow at the rate of 1%- � Le friendly with the girls you have met. �O perhaps they tbink you are hard to a day. e, get acquainted with and are, there. _�_— It fore, not natural whell they meet YOU. to each other and become r,o(),d pap 'Y just try to be extra nice and friendly friends. I oball be glad to exchaw In to one or two of them and see how it addresses for all Buell corresponden' In works. it may be that there Is an- I sin a great believer in tile benefits Y- other girl In another town who to Just be derived from expressing one's Op! )f in the Bame Position as Violet Ions on paper. who will be the fix Wouldn't it be line if they could yrito to ask for V141etln addrek,91—ROS61ir 0 Are you "sticking up for your what a dreary picture suolx a state ights ?- conjures up—a condition where none V Are you getting your "rights?" has any incentive to climb, to thrive, t It is strange what a fuss some folks where that "'divine discontent" which 9 take over this question of getting has made so many splendid characters, C ioir ri.-hts when the Issue is a com- would be missing, "Equality" in an 1, aratively small and personal matter Ideal world, should be the birthright t -though too often—in the larger and of every man, but "Equality" only of iore vital things which will Influence Opportunity. 4 ther lives, or affect the destiny of a An equal opportunity for all to ommunity, they are extremely slow achieve, to climb, to work. would soon 8 D take up what Is their right, often bring to the surface those who are C ot even troubling to consider their really worth while. Before men talk t ights. of equal distribution of wealth, what I "Rights" as they are called have Is tile matter with all equal distribu- ( wo aspects. Your right to live or re- tion of labor? t eive or do, as you see it and your It is not more creation of wealth f Ight or obligation, right In this sense that Is needed,but more labor to pro- I leaning birth right, to do your com- duce the good things of the earth In I clon every day bit In the world. sufficient plentitude that all may en- I Too many of us with our minds Joy. When all labor, then all may oil- I ipon the story of Esau and Jacob look Joy the fruits of labor. I tpon a birthright as some glft to us- if you "stuck up for your rights" I or our sole benefit and enjoyment, a you would be a producer of something. I elfish boon. But is there not another it Is your right to give, my right to I ,nd more far reaching meaning?—that give, something towards the general � rhich is given to I every man to pass sum of the world's happiness. I on, to use in the service of his fel- " The world lags, halts and goes lame, Ow men? because someone has failed to "do One of the "rights" which a certain diver the goods," to do that which it : Ilass of the community is fond of is their right to do. � thouting for is that of "Equality."' , "Equality" of sharing in the plans : Phis talk of "Equality" has been their and work of the world makes for : dea of Heaven, a state where all are "equality" of enjoyment. �qual in wealth, possession and rank. ARE YOU "STICKING UP" FOR Followed to its ultimate conclusion, THESE RIGHTS? During three months passed re- seductiveness of the vast, patient cently, as a supposed civilian, in Rus. force in front of them. They are all sla, I came Into personal relations the more appalled because they real - with Trotsky and with a numbcr of Ize that though the workers are tired the leading Bolsheviks; and this ex- the work has hardly yet begun, perience gave me a vivid impression The foregoing explains why Lenine of 7,hat I regard as one of the lead- and Trotsky tolerate, and will in all Ing characteristics of the Bolsheviks— probability continue to tolerate, ) such , nainely, their Intense suspicion and a mediaeval institution as the 1 xtra. great fear of what they call "the cap- ordinary Commission. Despite the italistic 'national, and "the great pred- dangerous wideness of its powers, it atory Empires." at least guards them from the anti - The Bolshevist G ' overnment now Bolshevist conspirators and the for - finds itself the only government of, eign agents who, in their opinion, Its kind in the world. The Govern- swarm in every part of Russia. ment of Lenine Is brand new, and has Most of the things we say about therefore none of the forces and sanc- them they say about us. tions of tradition behind it. It rep- 'We praise their intelligence; but resents a very small section of the they think that ours is of extreme Russian people and is menaced -,not only by powerful interests inside Rus- and deadly efficiency. They gave me sia but also, in the firm opinion of the to understand that more than 99 per Bolsheviks, by all other governments cent of the sympathetic foreigners to in the world, republican as well as whom they opened their. minds have monarchical. - turned out to be agents of their worst The Bolsheviks believe that these enemies. governments hate it intensely, and I Trotsky's "Nerves." are, some of them, In a state of acute Trotsl,� in particular has become so fear for their existence. But I have nervous and frightened at -what he re - seen myself that the countries which suffer most from t1lis fear—Finland. gards as the "disloyalty" of sympa- for example—are by no means in thetic Britons that he starts whenever such a state of panic as the Soviet he is addressed in English, and, Republic, which is convinced, rightly though he speaks English fairly well, or wrongly, that all the wealth of the conducts the conversation in Rubsian world and all the intellect of the or French it his Interlocutor happens world are working against,it cease- to know either of these languages. lessly and with supreme ability. He does not understand our insti- Wealth, according to Lenine, is natur- tutions; he is suffering from over - ally against him: and Intellect has work and nervous strain; he 15 even been subdued to the service of wealth afraid of his own life. by capitalism, religion, patriotism, and In the Extraordinary Commission at . militarism. Moscow I was shown a great collec- tion of reports which had, It was al- Lenine's Misgivings. leged, been seized on agents of the Despite all their bluster and all Entente or on Russian antl-Bolaliev, their military success, the Bolsheviks Iks. There was nothing to prove that therefore feel themselves at times to they were genuine, but Trotsky be. be nothing but amateurs in the realms lieves them to be genuine, and It 1,c of diplomacy, war, secret service, and no wonder, therefore, that he lia,� economics; and on more than one Oc- been frightened by them, for the� casion Lenine himself confessed to a deal with schemes for destroying rail. painful sinking at heart in view of way bridges, bribing Red -generals anc the mighty combination of forces that soldiers to surrender, and murderinx was opposed to him, and even de- the principal commissaries. Accord clared in public that his great experl- Ing to these documents, several Bol inent would probably fail. shevist generals had been bribed to . The leading Bolsheviks whom 1 Mot desert with their men during Yuddn I in Moscow are profoundly convinced itch's advance on Petrograd, and I that their enemies have a great ad* was the timidity of the Whites rathei . vantage over them in being able to than the astuteness of the Reds whiel . . offer rewards -which they cannot offer saved the latter from destruction —wealth, comfort, high and perman- Quite a large detachment of Redi ent positions, the esteem of powerful Which advanced to join Yudenitch so and ancient empires, the blessings of frightened the latter's troops tha religion. ,' all ran away; and when, with the her, ; The Soviet can only give its agents Intentions in the world, the Red de k hard work, danger, perni-auent dis- serters continued pursuing, the White I comfort. it cannot provide them even broke tip altogether, and even threN ; with good cigarettes or with matches away their arms. But the extremel: , narrow margin by which the Sovie , which will light, It can only promise . them the applause of a small clique, Republic was saved on several ocev E not the applause of a people. sions frightened the Bolshevist leaof ", the tre- I it measures so accurately ers extremely and has made them . mendous strength of the temptations morbidly suspicious ever since. ) to which they are exposed that when I need not say that there is n , it sends abroad not only an ordinary reason for this suspiciousness, ano! i agent, but even a leading commissary, that the British agents In Russia ar I it generally keepshis wife Or some there to find out the true state c 8 of his relations behind as a hostage affairs, which they havp a perfec � lest, corrupted by the gold of the caP- right to do, and not take part I I italists, he should grow faint-hearted , plots for the assassination of Lenin . , tired of the bitter, unending struggle, and Trotsky. ,_ and abandon them altogether. Working Against Nature. t Untrustworthy Communists. What frightens the Bolsheviks mo,c a J Lenine has himself confessed in of all, however, Is the discovery tho L_ moments of depression, that though the very nature of man Is workin 11 there are nominally 600,000 Commun- against them. All their attempts t r. ists in Russia, there are not 6,000 abolish capitalism, trading, and thf e who can be trusted implicitly. Only laudable desire for gain which, aft( e fanatics can be depended upon In all, all, makes the world go round are . I. circumstances, and fanatics are few, futile as cutting water with a swor ,e even in Russia. The average man ,and expecting the fissure to remal )r cannot rise to the heights or sink to open. Not a month passes withol A the depths of fanaticism, and (to the Extraordinary Commission oll A mention no higher Inducement) 19 covering that some new financial ( )f easily tempted -by the easy, normal commercial nucleus has formed c e. life which ensures hinA cigars, beer, the old lines; and, for the past s! soap, clean linen, and other coratotts months, a vast amount of speculatic which Bolshevism cannot give him, has been connived at in Moscow ar In not to spomit of nice dresses, jewelry, elsewhere. As much of this spocul .t e with sugar In It ton is carried on, especially in tl for his wife, an well as playthings for Moscow Food Control, by hit - his children. officials of the Soviet itself, the U, �r Even the fanatics In Russia have traordinary Commission lost heart . �e been kept at too tense a strain dur- together in April last and has praei ,8. Ing the last two years; Weak human rally ceased to contend against It ev, to nature Cannot stand It. Lenine and since. 11. Trotsky both realize this and are ap E thl natural developmer st palled by the Infinite atayffig-Power: I the' "3eillsbeviks put down, however, d, the long experience, and the extreme the Intrigues of foreign eapitalists, I candiliavian Labor Delegates Are Cured of Bolshevist Idea ,ife Has Become Absolutely Unbearable in Russia, Says Visitor . The Scandinavian Labor delegates ,ho have returned to London from ieir visit to Soviet Russia as the uests of Lonine may be put down as onipletely cured of any Bolshevist mnings they may have kad beford leir departure. The Swedish delegation has openly eclared in the labor prefw, -that hould Sweden by any chance ever be- ome Bolshevist, they would losie no [me In getting out of the country The rriter adds: "While anyone might riticize the Czar during the re;lgn of lie late Nicholas II. without Incurring ny risk, to say a single word against ,enine In Russia to -day means signing 'our own death warrant. Secret vot- ng does not exist, and anyone who ,otes against the Dolshevists Is im- aediately arrested. Lenine kas organ - zed a system of spies which is far rreater than that of the old Ochrana, In(( as spies are well rewarded, the tussian people are rapidly becoming lemoralized, Absolutely Unbearable. ,,Life has become absolutely unb.ear� tble to the working classes, and oirly ;he commissioners Of the people are ,iving well, and incidentally squander- rof, money recklessly on their mis- xesses and creatures. They are evi- lently great lovers of the stage, and many an actress who has nothing to recommend her beyond her good looks ind easy morals Is making a quarter :)f a million roubles a mouth fTom the State." A prominent Swedish civil engineer tells me that while the death penalty has ostensibly been abolished, exe- cutions are a daily occurrence, as many districts are declared to be In a state of siege and those condemned to die are simply brought into a'mili- tary zone, thus becoming subject to martial law In honor �f the arrival of the labor delegations, all the Bolshevist papers published revolutionary articles, and the delegates were received with fall military honors, The day following their arrival they were present at a meeting of the Petrograd Soviets and afterwards a grand review of the Red army took place near the city. Afterwards America. At a banquet at the Winter Palace the Bolshevist representative, Antzle- lowitach, declared In the name of the Soviet government, that "the hour was rapidly approaching, when the thunder of the guns of the Red army, would roll throughout entire Europe and when the red flag would be hoisted on all government buildings in England, France, Germany, Italy and the Scandinavian countries. Then the turn would come to America which was more than ripe for Soviet government." Present at the banquet was the former official reporter of the Czar, just as he Used to be durlug visits to the Imperial court of foreign heads of state, and altogether Lentne insisted on the full elaborate old court cere- monial being carried out In every de- tail. PERENNIAL HOT WATER. With./the price of coal 'unprecedent- ly high and still soaring, one reads with envy of the French village of chandesaignes, in the Auvergne Mountains. It Is built in the crater of an Inactive volcano. A number of stone -covered wells furnish boiling water, which flows through mains be- neath the rows of houses. Not a chim- ney is to be seen in the village, which is surrounded with snow-covered peaks from October to May. Neither stoves nor ranges nor boilers are to be found; neither coal nor wood nor any other kind of fuel Is used there. But the houses are alwan§ warm, even when the temperature outside Is be- low zero. In the floor of each house are several holes leading to the main . pipes. To heat a,house the covers of � the holes are removed; to prepare a . meal, a pot is lowered to the flow of . boiling water; on washing day all that . Is necessary is to go to the large pool I of hot water which Is always ready I just outside the village. , I ' : TRADE NAMES AND THEIR . REASON. S ' I The Company of Stationers existed r long before the invention of printing. L A stationer was a dealer at one time, . who kept a shop or stall, as dis- - tinguished from the Itinerant vendor, i whether of books or broomaticks. So long as the seller remained stationary ) he was called a "stationer." In 1622 . only dealers in books were called 3 stationers. A peollar, according to r Johnson, was a "petty-dealep," and the t word "Pedlarl, is said to be an abbre- i viation of the hyphenated word. The � Teutonic word, however, is "bodeler," signifying a "beggar." The Danish derive the word from their "betelere," which like -wise means a "beggar," so t most probably pedlars were once beg - t gars. A draper's name Is derived ' 'the French "drap" and "drapler" , from 0 —a "clothier." The word "draper" t once only referred to woollen cloth, r and, to make matters quite clear, the 8 word "linen!' was eventually added. d Hence, we now hear of "linendrapers.11 11 A milliner's shop was originated in It "Milan," from which Word 'the name ;' "milliner" was made. Ladles of r Europe at one time flocked to Milan, n that city being the Centre of fashion x In all matters of taste In womanlo 11, dress. Shoemakers were formerly d called "Cordwainers," and as Cor - 1, dovan leather was employed In mak- e Ing the finest shoes, and the French h shoemakers were once known an "Cor- Ic' dovanfors," it Is quite feasible that 1- "Cordwainer" In a corruption of the , - I' latter word. ,r . I A man's head, especially If he in a, It brain -worker, continues to Increase fit �o size until he Is over fortl, years of W U I 'hilk, I I01