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The Huron Expositor, 1929-06-21, Page 614,1.40,4 mrt;,;0 nal+9NtrItt.1141 .tn4e.Fl,ytw.a,+ ,t nix 2 1,4 411 +'dila 117147KIRDWoI wai t aztnt Nix WOril'1: Oplathal- Ae�a"real ll atitnte, Meone$'ielers 1.714 ¢olden qua `Menet BIoe- endon, Eng. At Commenereial Seaforth„ third Monday • in 44&nth from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. teriop Street, South, Stratford, 267, Stratford. RUPTURE SPECIALIST 'atpture, Varicocele, Varicose Veins, �a ominal Weakness, Spinal Deform - Consultation Free. Call or ai ite, J. G. SMITH, British Appli- ance Specialist, 15 Downie St., Strat- ?o4d, Ont. 3202-52 LEGAL Snelnaa No. 91 JOHN J. HUGGARD Barrister, Solicitor, Notary Public, Etc. Itis Block - - Seaforth, Ont. R. S. HAYS Banister, Solicitor, Conveyancerancer cid Notary Public. Solicitor for the Dominion Benk. Office in rear of the Dominion pinion Bank, Seaforth. Money to Loon. BEST" BEST Iirristers, Solicitors, Conveyan- oora and Notaries Public, Etc. Office in the Edge Building, opposite The aspositor Office. VETERINARY JOHN GRIEVE, V.S. Honor graduate of Ontario Veterin- Rey College. All diseases of domestic animals treated. Calls promptly at - Co ndeed to and charges moderate. Vet- erinary Dentistry a specialty. Office Cid residence on Goderich Stieet, one door east of Dr. Mackay's O ce, Sea - earth. A. R. CAMPBELL, V.S. Graduate of Ontario Veterinary etalege, University of Toronto. All 1i+euses of domestic animals treated foyy the most modern principles. Cliaarges reasonable. Day or night nulls promptly attended to. Office on Man Street, Hensall, opposite Town Moil Phone 116. MEDICAL DR. W. C. SP I•; OAT Graduate of Faculty of Medicine, t<irniversity of Western Ontario, Lon - do. Member of College of Physic - lane and Surgeons of Ontario. Office (lxs Aberhart's Drug Store, Main St., Ci'nuforth. Phone 90. DR. R. P. I. DOUGALL nor graduate of Faculty of Etedieine and Master of Science, Uni- versity of Western Ontario, London. Member of College of Physicians and Qurgeons of Ontario. Office, 2 doors c'�ant of post office. Phone 56, Hensall, Ontario. 3004-tf i DR. A. NEWTON-BRADY Bayfield. Graduate Dublin University, Ire - gaud. Late Extern Assistant Master fi3otnnda Hospital for Women and Children, Dublin. Office at residence lately occupied by Mrs. Parsons. Hours, 9 to 10 a.m., 6 to 7 p.m.; l nudays, 1 to 2 p.m. 2866-26 DR. F. J. BURROWS Office and residence Goderich Street, sat of the Methodist Church, Sea - Phone 46. Coroner for the ty of Huron. DR. C. MACKAY C. Mackay, honor graduate of Trine University, and gold medallist of •ity Medical College; member of Cilie College of Physicians and Sur - deems of Onta: io. tsl DR. H. HUGH ROSS Graduate of University of Toronto l h ulty of Medicine, member of Col - & of Physicians and Surgeons of tario; pass graduate courses in Q,$icago Clinical School of Chicago ; i3+oyal Ophthalmic Hospital, London, i"ngland; University Hospital, Lon- don, England. Office—Back of Do - 'on Bank, Seaforth. Phone No. 5. ll ht calls answered from residence, R7letoria Street, Seaforth. tem, „ DR. J. A. MUNN Successor to Dr. R. R. Rosa Graduate of Northwestern Univers- ts'tj Chicago, Ill. •Licentiate Royal College of Dental Surgeons, Toronto. 'ce over Sills° Hardware, Main St., t ^ orth. Phone 151. sirI DR. F. J. I: ECHIELLY Graduate Royal College of Dental I vrgeons, Toronto. Office over W. R. l mith's Grocery, Main Street, Sea- 2enth. Phones: Office, 185 W; resi- dlance, 185 J. 301.5-tf 6 CONSULTING ENGIINEEI S. W. Archibald, B.A.Sc. (Tor.), <JL.S., Registered Professional En- gineer and Land Surveyor. Associate Member Engineering Institute of Can- ada. 0 c Seaforth, Ontario. AUCTIIONEE IR S THOMAS l:. OWN Licensed auctioneer for the counties 02 .luron and Perth. Correspondence orspugements for sale dates can be made by calling The Expositor 0 iii„ &orttb Charges moderate, a n d e tisfaction guaranteed. PHONE $92 OSCA rc KLOPP ITonor Graduate Carey Joneel Na- tional School of Auctioneering, Chi- ciago. Special course taken in Pure aredl Live Stock, Real Estate, ]t![, er- echaaadlise and Farm Sales. Rates in I Ceimg with prevailing market. Sat- foaotion assured. Write or vrire, Hlopp, Zurich, Ont. None, num. 284, s;-52 R. T. LUKER sansed auctioneer for the Count}? 1)13t120111. Salesattended to in ell man. bi' the county. Seven yn° esc- in Manitoba and f ascalr,st ten eirMo MaInetablo. Phone 14o. 211 l e9,. , cower liti ?.0., ME. Urn ata left at acD e tae0- r Sz- e*, SdacDeaySm� y C"Strr 141 PR.45,41W ZWAUG2. YA11 ''ILLY fill: WOil In eighteen months 5,800 middle- aged people applied to a New York as ency for jobs and 200 were placed. at has become of the other 5,600? Why was it found impossible to get them work of any kind? The pre- judice of many employers, perhaps most employers, against taking on people who begin tie show the sign of age. That is a prejudice which is being combatted by many agencies in the United States. The American Federation of Labor has protested against it. So has Secretary of La- bor Davis. What does it profit a man if his span of life is becoming longer and longer if it only means that the period in which he will be unemploy- ed is being extended? The problem is a serious one, not only in the Unit- ed States, but to some extent in all civilized countries which shrink from the logical solution of leaving the ag- ed people out in the woods to be con- sumed by wild animals or throwing them into rivers to be devoured by crocodiles. The incautious and mis- interpreted remark by the late Sir William Osler that all the useful work of the world had been done by men before they reached 40 and that when they were 60 they might be chloro- formed for all the good they were, had something to do with this atti- tude on the part of employers. But even if Sir William had not spoken it seems that the trend of modern industry would work against the trained and presumably the older workman. So greatly has mass pro- duction become mechanized that a man can become a so-called expert, or at least a competent tender of a machine, in a few days or weeks. The older man's experience counts for nothing. His lack of physical power compared with his younger rival,. who may be unmarried and able to ac- cept a lower wage rate, tells against him and when anyone is laid off it is likely to be the veteran. In recogni- tion of the fact that older men were being discriminated against, Mr. Clement Sehwinges, a retired New York business man, in September, 1917, established an employment bur- eau called Action, described as "non- militant, non-political, non-sectarian, non-profit making, organized to enlist the good -will of employers in behalf of middle-aged applicants and to pro- mote recognition of experience, when accompanied by loyalty, zeal and ef- ficiency.' This organization does not charge fees and its resources are at the disposal of any middle-aged or elderly person who may apply to it looking for work. Its achievements in the first 18 months of its existence have been as stated above. In spite of the fact that Action does not advertise, nearly 6.000 people have found their way to it, which suggests that there must be several times this number who raver heard of it but who may be equally in need of help. An investigator for the New York World recently studied a hundred of the application cards chosen at random to find out the kind of people needing jobs, how long they had been with former employers and any other pertinent matters. The applicants ranged from 34 to 69 years old, and we presume that in some occupations the former figure means middle-aged. In the list were several who had made from $5,000 to $15,000 a year. The greater number were in the $40 to $ 7 5 -a -week class. Only 10 per cent. were manual workers who had followed trades. Many were clerks and people who had filled what are called "white collar" jobs. Ten per cent. had been in the definitely well-to-do class. About five times as many men as women applied for jobs and their previous earnings were de- finitely lower than the men's. The applicants for help were not required to say why they had lost their positions but many of them ex- plained, and most of those who did so reported that the firm had gone out of business, been absorbed by another firm, or a department discontinued. One man of 51 has a wife to support. He had been with a firm for twenty- two years and as 'bookkeeper was re- ceiving $60 a week. Then the owner of the business died. )Elis son had means enough to live independently, the business was liquidated and the employees turned into the street. An- other man is 48 and married. From 1904 to 1914 he was manager of a rice mill in French Indo-China. The war closed out this business, but from 1919 to 1927 he managed an export house at $400 a month and commis- sions. He made about $15,000 a year. He asks for "any kind of of- fice work. Salary—nothing." 'In this case it might be pointed out that the man had ample opportunities for sav- ing money and that he was foolish to neglect them. Yet here he is looking for any kind of office work. He can- not be allowed to starve. Another man is 64 years old. Hie began work for a firm at $5 a week and rose to be floor manager at $63. He was with this firm for 49 years and reports "just discharged." Others reported that they had been let out with a week's notice when the busi- ness changed hands. One woman, a widow, who lost her only son in France, was with a firm for 30 years, rising from $12 to $18 a week. An efficiency engineer was brought in and as a result of his recommenda- tions, she, with 15 others, was dis- charged. The firm, on being asked for further information, regretted the advent of the efficiency engineer, say- ing he had upset the business, but it did not offer to take the woman hack. it is gratifying to know that of the 200 people employed, 75 per cent. are holding their jobs and some have been given increases. They all agree on one thing—their main difficulty is to get a chance. None of them expects to he retained in a position he cannot fill, but they speak bitterly of a pre- judice which condemns them on no other evidence than that they are middle-aged. A Neat Inversion—"it's a wonder when people are.,, presenting gifts to newly married couples, they don't oc- casionally give them a clock," writes a sarcastic correspondent. Speaking of that, we recall a sign we noticed recently over the clock counter in a jeweller's shop: "Get your wedmldng,'pareeenne. hese now. No time. like the' present and no present like the time."—Toronto Globe. She'd Hear It—While not a com- munist, the o ce flapper says she would like to visit Russia to hear the community singing. — Toronto Fele- gram. We Don't—"Husbands should share the housework with their wives," says a woman's paper. We despise those selfish husbands who want to do it all themselves.—Edmonton Journal. do, t 66 a COMMUNIITY UYIING_ IHR ECTORY AND e 9$ C NSIINIESS GUIDE Through the co-operation of the Business Men listed below, we will reproduce a series off educational articles endeavoring to being about a better business relationship between resident and merchant in the town, and thus bring about a more progressive community in which to Rive. SCHOOLBOY ANSWERS WHICH DELIGHT EXAMINERS Are the famous schoolboy howlers really the creation of schoolboys or the product of the more sophisticated wit of their teachers? \Vho wants to know ? Well, the question is rais- ed in the London Spectator by M. J. C. Meiklepohn, whom we suspect of being a veteran reader of examination papers. It is perhaps not easy to give Mr. Meiklejohn the information he pretends to crave and the safest answer is that howlers are sometimes the fruit of innocence and sometimes the fruit of wisdom expressed in terms of humor. They are certainly not like the humorous stories usually told by public men which are invariably provided for them by professional wits. Some, of course, smell of the lamp, but we thing that a good critic would not be greatly puzzled to de- tect the spontaneous original from the spurious concoction. A good test we think, is that the howler that makes one burst suddenly into a guf- faw is genuine, and the one which provokes no more than a smile may be accepted as the work of a leisured humorist. Mr. Meiklejohn proceeds to give several admirable specimens none of which we have run across before and which we therefore assume to have been some which were' presented or- iginally to his own eye. But we should hardly class as a howler the answer of the student in literature to the question, "Under what circum- stances does the fourth act of Ham- let begin?" The answer was: "The fourth act of Hamlet commences im- mediately at the end of the third act." The truth of this is not to be doubted, and it may, or may not, be an example of unconscious humor. Mr. Meiklejohn finds that the genuine howler is more often found in answers to questions of geography than in any other subject. This we presume is because the world is so full of a number of things and the average boy can know very little at first hand about any other country, or indeed any other neighborhood, than his own. Another reason may .be that the sub- ject is not taught in such a manner as to make a deep and immediate im- pression upon the students. In these circumstances facts learned by rote will have a faculty of getting mixed with other facts. He gives as an example an Irish boy's description of the River Shan- non:— "The river glides through deep ravines where the wild deer and the fox, the panther and the otter find an almost unmolested abode, where the turtle dove and linnet, the grouse and the badger can sing and ramble at ease." This is the kind of humor which has an irresistible appeal to the English schoolmaster, but does not dredge more than a faint chuckle from anyone else. It belongs to the same class as the answer given by an Oxford youth who was asked to give an account of the Highlapders and wrote "People of the Highlands are keen sportsmen and are chiefly engaged in rifle shooting at the grouse in the forests of Scotch fir which cover the mountains." Better than this, we find "the moors of Scot- land are noted for the sport they pro- vide in .grouse shooting." Said an- other, "The Highlanders have no real occupation. They inhabit caves." Some, however, according to another authority, "go in for sheep raising or are hermits. Even now, unless there is a common danger, the clans fight among themselves and are very reserved"; but "the people are chief- ly old people and are proud of their race and their country and they do all they can to make it a success." Still another youth reported, but on what grounds we have no means of knowing, "They have not much in- telligence." Nor did the pupils show much more general understanding of Ireland, one of them writing that "an important mountain range in Ireland is the Kil- lie-crankie Creeks," while "in the Bog of Allen, where the bog is not very deep, the people cut out layers and make them into peat," which, we freely admit, so far as we are con- cerned, seems a perfectly reasonable thing for them to do. &peaking of the housing question in Ireland, one stu- dent said "the houses in the west of Ireland are made of mud and the pigs are allowed to run amuck in them." When the students were in- vited to consider more distant coun- tries their observations were even more original. "The chief occupation of Norway consists of cutting down trees in the carnivorous forests," says one, who probably meant to write coniferous. The height of the trees is to be inferred from the statement that "when trees are being hewn down the lumberers have to take care that there are no people in the way of it for at least half a mile in all direc- tions." Of the fishing industry we learn that "the men fish and the girls sell them." Says another, "the women are not able to work as much as the men, but have important political privileges," one of them apparently being a kind of slave trading. Siberia, we are told, is roamed over by the "lynx and the larynx." The camel is thus described: "The camel can carry enough water in a pouch which it possesses which will last it for a few weeks; from this by a pas- sage water is passed to its hoofs, which keeps them moist and prevents them from being burnt by the hot sand." Another somewhate flippant- ly sidestepped the camel problem. by writing: "A camel can go eight days without a drink—who wants to be a camel?" A cyclone is described as "a wind in which there is no other like it. When a cyclone appears, the STEWART I: ROS. SIEAIFORTIHI MEN'S CLOTHING AND FURNISHINGS LADIES' AND CHILDREN'S REA DY -TO- W EAR —OUR SPECIAL— Read our special announce ment of SHOW' I:, OAT D I.' S3.95 on page 3 ESSES The 66 1! o111J V!J SHOP " Men's Clolrhing and Ladies' Ready -to -Wear. This Week's Special—Silk Crepe Dresses, $8.85; Men's Silk Hose, 59c, 2 for $1.00; Extra Large Work Shirts, reg. $1.25, 98c; Pure Silk Hose, 98c; Wash Dresses, $1.25 to $9.95. Geo. D. Ferguson & Co. GENERAL HARDWARE PAINTS AND OILS Household Supplies TELEPHONE 61 J. A. WWFSTCO11T Jeweller and Watchmaker DIAMONDS —OUR SPECIAL— An Ideal Graduation Gift BULOVA WATCH 1l.® IE TY --I1 TY AT HOBE This is the first 'of a series of twenty-six editorials which will appear in The Huron Expositor on Buy -at -Home. These articles are designed to impress upon the residents of Seaforth the obligation which they owe to the community to purchase their needs from local merchants, a duty which they owe, not only to themselves, but also to every organiza- tion in the town. The Expositor is an advocate of community buying because it believes that in the theory of buying at home and supporting home industries depends the success and advancement of this town. The merchant is responsible for the position which we hold in the province to -day. Through his efforts our schools, churches and public institutions have been established as well as all civic rights which we enjoy. He has shown his confidence in the town and in you by establishing himself in business here, assuming the greater burden of taxation and com- munity responsibilities. The Expositor seeks to point the way to a greater and better inter- est. This series of editorials is designed to 'benefit the merchant by securing for him your confidence and support, and by so doing enable him to render you a more efficient service. If this task is accomplished, much .will have been done to place Seaforth well up in the list of pros- perous Ontario towns. Thon>rilpson's took Store BOOKS, STATIONERY, LEATHER GOODS AND WALLPAPER Window Shades Picture Frames Made to Order Phone 181 W. R. SMII 11 EI Groceries, Teas and Coffees APEX BRAND VEGETABLES Fruits in season. China and Crockery Telephone 12 W. A.CRCH Quality Baked Goods ICE CREAM AND CONFECTIONERY Thelephone 34 J. E. KIEATIING "The Rexall Store" We are in business for your Health, Comfort and Beauty. ]'EATING'S PHARMACY Phone 28 Jo F. DALY New Czn°s--(Ford)—Used CEUT Huge Reductions in Good Used Cars 1926 Hudson Coach $475.00, 1928 Whippet Sedan $600.00 )tac4A7ISffS A MOST UP-TO.IIDATE DRY GOODS, MELLI NIER Y AND LADIES' APPAREL SHOP Prices will bear comparison With any on merchandise of equal merit. F ED S. SAVAUGE, I" . Watchmaker and Jeweller Optometrist "THE GIFT SHOP" .0. M. ROSS SAVAUGE, Opt. D. Optometrist eattie's China Store Chinaware and Gift Goods "There are a lot of folk Who say, it is no joke." BEATTIE SELLS FOR LESS WALKER'S Furniture and House Furnishings. R. H. SPROAT Shoe Store Shoes for the Family "Economy Shoe Store" WALTE 1'; G. WELIIS Dependable Shoes Buy your Footwear in your home town, where you are assured of personal attention and prompt service. I.' ROY S. IP]<NKNIEY read, Cakes and Pastry —OUR SPECIAL— SUNRISE BREAD Pure as the Rising Sun We Keep the Quality Up. 'Individual Business Wait Up. STEWART BROS. have been dispensing Quality Dry Goods and Cloth- ing in Seaforth for practically a quarter of a century. Both members of the firm were' born in Seaforth. Not satisfied to merely serve the public, it has ever been their purpose to please as well. This has been accomplished by giving courteous, efficient service, and by offering a wide selection of the finest merchandise it is possible to procure at prices that not only makes home buying profitable, but attracts buy- ers for a radius of 20 miles around. It may be of interest to our read- ers to know that few towns in Ontario can boast of a store equal to the one conducted by this enterprising firm. FRED W. WI GG I:. gots and Shoes Quality and Prices —OUR SPECIAL— Blonde and White Kid Shoes for ladies; special *J u e��JeJ T. G. SCOTT Wallpaper, Paints and Brushes, Etc. Telephone 62 J. J. CLEAY Groceries, Fruits, Vegetables —SPECIAL— THOMPSON'S SEEDLESS apse RAISINS, 2 tbs Delivery Service : Phone 117 V. ANENT CHRYSLER, PL YMO UT.H SALES AND SERVICE S. SHIINAN Ladies' and Gents' Ready -to -Wear and Dry Goods —SPECIAL— Ladies' and Children's Dresses, ranging from 85c to $15.00 RIEJIGGIE 1" 'S GA AGE Studebaker Sales and Service Repairs on all Makes of Cars. TIRES, BATTERIES, ETC. Telephone 167 Seaforth Creamery Dairy Ask your grocer for our brand of Butter. You will like it. Open Saturday Nights Phone 80 W. The Robt. tell Engine & Thresher Company Manufacturers of Traction Engines. Gas Tractors, Threshers, Power and ]cleating oilers, Sawmills, Etc. We offer a large stock of mew, rebuilt and secondhand threshers and engines, very suitable for individual or custom work. Buy at home where you are assured of prompt service. CHARLES BARBER, Manager. GALLOP & McALIPIINIE Agents for Massey -Harris Imple- ments and Repairs. Beatty Bros. Farm Equipment Metallic Roofing Frost Fence GASOLINE and OILS Wolverton Flour Mills (Co., Limited Millers of flour that's Dependable SIILVERKING for BREAD KEYSTONE for PASTRY Telephone 51 CANADA FUrNIITURE MANUFACTURING CO. Office Furniture Sectional Bookcases. 4.1,.y,i+mksb!!Wd`w.w,a:rauckw..p tv.o. eteteetAISaaD140# W�,w°rn:;;a •a A. W. DUNLOP GARAGE CHEVROLET SALES & SERVICE .Expert service on all makes of cars. GOODYEAR TIRES Telephone 187 ;s THOMAS IIDI«KSON Dealer in Flour - Feed - Seed Poultry and Eggs Telephone 13 thermometer keeps going round and round and never stops; then the cap- tain of a ship knows what is going to happen," while "a volcano is a mountain with a creator at the top who pours out lava," also, "many mountains were formed by eruptions when the volcano through up its lather." We particularly like the an- swer to the question: "Say what you know about the Grand ,Banks of New- foundland." The cautious reply being "The Grand Banks of Newfoundland are very grand." MUST BE FIT TO FLY, HE SAYS What is the first step in learning to become an aviator? According to L. H. Bauer, M.D., writing in Popular Science Monthly, the first thing is to submit to a thorough medical exam- ination. Dr. Bauer gives numerous examples of cases in which physical • To reduce strained. puffy ankles. lymphan- 51 tie, poll evil, fistula, boils and swellings, use Abeorbine. This famous antiseptic liniment stops lameness. allays pale heals sores, cuts, bruises and boot chafer. Does not blister or remove hair, and the horse can be worked during treatment. 92,80—at or general merchants. Booklet on the horse sent free. 78 W. P. Young, &te c ,lar tiara Bidg.. Montreal disability has brought death to the pilot. Good eyesight he thinks, is the would-be aviator's first requisite. He says: "Good vision is vital to safe flying. The flyer must be able to distinguish objects clearly, such as the character of the terrain, or other planes in his vicinity. More than one flyer with defective vision has been killed be- cause he failed to sce a plane about to land as he was taking off, or vice versa, or because he missed seeing one in the air and collided with it. He must be able to read his instru- ment board and his map. All this requires eyes that can see at a dist- ance, that can change focus quickly from far to near, and that permit peripheral vision as well as central. "These terms probably require ex- planation. The normal individual, when looking straight ahead, sees clearly what is directly in front of him. This is central vision. At the same time he is aware of objects at either side, although they are not seen so clearly. That is peripheral vision. If a person lacks that peripheral vis- ion—in other words if his fields of vision are narrow—he is unable to see anything unless he is looking di- rectly at it, much the same as a horse wearing blinders. It also happens that when a man has these construct- ed fields of vision he is likely, too, to be suffering from what is known as `night blindness,' in which case he would better he home before dark. "But why cannot n person with de- fective vision wear glasses roGli le fly- ing, as he would if driving an auto- mobile? Some flyers do, but it is a severe handicap. For one thing, glasses must be worn under goggles, which means that the flyer is looking through two panes of glass. "Also the lenses of glasses are small in comparison with the lenses of goggles. So long as the flyer is looking straight ahead he has ade- quate vision, but when he turns his eyes to the side, his vision becomes blurred and distorted because his glasses do not cover his whole visual field. Now what about having pro- per correcting lenses ground in the goggles? This has been tried, but certain corrections cannot be ground into a lens the shape of a goggle lens. In such cases, a corrective insert is slipped into the frame with the gog- gle lens. This insert is open to ob- jections because it againe corrects only about two-thirds of th `eld of vision, giving blurred vision for the other third; _ it easily becomes dirty and is hard to clean. Furthermore, if a flyer wearing correcting lenses in his goggles should get a smear of oil on his lenses when landing, he would be in a dangerous predicament. Either he would have to tear off his goggles and deprive himself of his correction or leave the smeared gog- gles on and perform with blurred vis- ion one of the most delicate operations of flying. "So if you want to learn to fly with a view to becoming a military or com- mercial transport pilot, you must have normal, or 20-20, vision, normal visual fields, and a moderate amount of aceommodation (the power to Change the focus of the eyes from far to near). If you wish to become an industrial pilot and carry mail or freight, but no passengers, your vis- ion may be slightly less, or 20-30; and if you wish to fly fnr['sy'bur own plea- sure your vision may be still less, or 20-40. By these figures is meant the ability to see at .twenty feet what should be seen at twenty feet, thirty feet, or forty feet as the case may be.. "Flying is attended by a physical and nerv-ore strain. This may not show in a sound, stable individual whe takes care of himself and who flies not more than :'our hours a day; but in the unstable type, in the man who frequently dissipates, or who is flying five and six hours day after day, it manifests itself in irritability, loss of interest in work, morbid fears while flying, and even a dislike of going in- t,, the air. The man loses weight. sleeps with difficulty at night, and when he does sleep, dreams of air ac- cidents. There were countless such cases on record during the World War. Peacetime flying is less likely to pro- duce this "stale" condition, but even here it will develop in certain indi- viduals. "The ideal age for flying is the period from twenty to thirty years. You may make a successful flyer if you learn after thirty-five, but the chances are slim, and these chances rapidly diminish as your age increas- es. Flyers who learned when young and have kept in good physical trim and hnee kept up their flying remain good flyers, but lacking the keenness of youth, they are not fitted for com- bat flying, for example. There are flyers over ififty who learned to fly late in life, but such men are not fit- ted for the wear and tear of com- mercial aviation. Middle age brings a development of conservatism, a slowing of reaction time and a loss of physical resiliency that do not go well with flying." 6. C"' N