721

Date 1912-10-19

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L Th ee Pie DOMINION Een UN SUMMER SER ICE Montreal, jMasbec, Liverpool it. 5; Sat, Nov. 8 Oct. 12; SU Teutonic, St., Oct Laurentic, Sat., Megantic, Sat, Oct. 26; Nov, 23. CHRISTMAS SAILINGS Portland, Halt Fro Portland Halifax - Dec. 7, Dec, 8 Dec. 14, Dec. 15 + Dec. 21, Dec, 28 WHITE STAR oo ss. aioe pie ln OCEANIC, MAJESTIC, THUTS IO, sailings every Saturday. Queenstown, Liv io Cone cise cabas) Tuesdays, iC, aailings, (fortnightly. eismcas 7 ings Saturdays. Atlantic Transport New York-London direct, Sailings, Saturdays. Red Star Line New York, Dover, Antwe: Sailings Saturdays to Osh 39, Afterwards Wednesdays, Berthing-tists for Fall and Winter Sailings are now open. Book early and secure best lo- Nov. Cangas, Sat, Oct 19; sat, Nov. New York, Queenstown, Liver MTIC, BALTIC, CEDRIC, IG, sailings, Thursdays. oni, Chere New York, Pi; Cher. eure, Sovinenpton YORK, PHILADELPHIA, sail- A most vigorous campalige againet the use Of tobacco Is now im progress fn the United States. z Acording to a report from Wasb- ingtom, of the 000,000 children in the republic, 15,000,000, or 75 per cent) are defective and require medical af) tention. Dr. Chap..G. 1 resident of the ion-Smokers League of. America, gives an explanation.of-this remark- able state of juvenile health. Th Washington report, he explains, is no, surprise to him. merely con- Tt firmatory.of what he has been trying to drive home for the last five years that there is an alarming condition of degeneracy spreading through the gountry and, that the-race is under- going a process of gradual poisoning which must ultimately end in ann - hilliation, What be expected. ot a race which ha made a yogue of suicide, physical and moral, by subtle velf- poisoning? asks Dr. Pease. The con- sumption of liquor, tobacco, tea, cof- fee, choodlate, cocoa, opium and co- caihe has increased enormously. Take example the tobacco figures; Colossal Figures. In 1911, 11,240,000,000 cigarettes were sold in this country, an increase in a single year of more than two billion. Think of it. And this figure does not include cigarettes rolled by mokers-themselves. In 1910, 7,500,- (00,000 cigars were consumed and j pounds of Tobacco for pipe and chewing were sold. This enormous quantity of poison w for The Daily News. 1 s Female Pills ETE WORK. LAIT TREAL SCREET 1one 260: the we in Reg uit. he me BS a d. ly cations. Sailing lists, M. M Leod, . W. Phone, Main 1924. Assessment Rolls Assessment Notices Tax Notices. Tax Reminders: - Receipt Books Letter Paper Envelopes, etc., etc: Friday, Nov. 15, Sunday, Nov. 24, Choice. any Railway Tran MEDICINE HAT LIVERY COMPANY Horse Repository Rear 12 Fourth Ave. Dreamland Theatre.) Beg to annotince that they have com- for carrying on the business of Livery Keepers and Single and double outfits of ali descriptions for pleted arrangements General Feed Stables. sale or hire. The. Company undertake all descrip- tions of express delivery by borse or snded fatally are namersue automobile. Bhauiries solicited by day or night. Phone 708. plans, ete, on application to railway or steamship agents or to W. Passenger Agent, 333 Main St, Winnipeg- SCHOOL FORMS Empress of Ireland Lake Michigan EXCURSION RATES On Sale Daily, Nov. 7 to Dec. 31 RESERVE BERTHS NOW Early Applicants Get Greater Bates, Beields Tierstare from Ave., Winnipeg 210 hg aad Winnipeg. 1, A. DOBBIN, Ticket Agent, Medicine Hat. R. B. Taylor s AONE NO. 349. i is now circulating in the blood ves- sels of the people and is it to be won- dered that the result is so distress- ing? Tobacco has become the opium of the west and it is threatening to undermine the manhood of the nat- fon. Passing over the harmful effects of this poison on the adults of the eountry, the result as shown in the ehildren isvastounding. In my inves: tigations of the past few years and in my association with the child wel- fare movement I have found an al- arming condition of degeneracy am- ong the offepring of this poisoned race of-mren-and -women Degeneracy Evident This degeneracy makes it evident not only in physical defects, but in mental and moral weakness, Teach- rs tell me that the boys and girls of today have gone to: pleces, They can- Rot concentrate their minds on any-' thing and it is impossible for-them to continue in-a-train of thought for the briefest time. Morally too, they are inferior to the children of former. days. Dr, Fowler, former head of the Columbia school, gave up educational work leapair recently. He told me ie. was completely discouraged and declared that it was impossible to teach those who day by day were be- coming less teachable. Many well Der of cases tnvelying yery promi- Tent men. McKinley s physiclan told me that if he pad not had tobacco heart he would have been able to eur Vive the unfortunate shooting. Gen- eral Grant died of excessive smoking which brought on canoer of the throat and though bis family have Suppressed the fact his son was car ried away by the came Mark Twain died of tobacco heart and: Bis- hop Potter's death resulted ftom the, excessive use of tobacco. There is no end of such examples and the world has lost many a genius through the fatal habit. 3 Ts the man whose sallyg Gan pols- on Cat, whose system is saturated withspoison, a fit progenitor of st- perlor race? 1 should say mbt The child does not inkerlt the tobacco Poisoning of the jlavents, but the re- sults of abnormality in the parents re shown in the moral and mental iain becomes ns warming ax it oil TOBACCO IN THE UNITED STATES Health and Stamina of a Great Race Threatened. disgraceful. Health fireatened. Something must be done to put an end to this periiielous use of the opi- um of the west The health and the stamink Of a great race ts threaten ed. But what can Be done when those who are expected to inform: the .peo- ple of the great danger in the habit- ual wie ef the poleons we introduce into the-syates dally are themselves slayes Of the haBIk? Doctors, clergy- m n and teaphehl, those who s rve as examples amd riterions for the rest of the popiifation, are sometimes guilty of the poison habit and im their powerlesaness to point out the: menace gre meinies instead of friends of the PAGEL As for the oetors and teachers who themselvemolse tobacco, it hae been suggested t6 the Non-Smokers* league that we Publish a list of phy- sloians who ot slaves of the Polson habit. RSs whom the public It was The we publish alist iversity of Sot interesting to has taken a firm weakness of the offspring. It was bad enough once when the use of to- bacco was confined to men. Now that women have adopted the vice the Tt seems to mo that the greutest lack in our puljlic life in this country is the individual member of parlia ment. I mean the man who stands out distinctively from his fellows, and from whom the people want to hear on every important issue. He can be a perfectly. good patty man, and still be individual. That is, he can, give his party a general sup- port on general questions; but he ean add something to the discussion of them himself which comes from no other member. To illustrate what I moan take the late Lablby. He was a Radical and a supporter of a Liberal government: But. no one could tell in.advance just what Labby would say when he got up. He was individual. He was no echo of the front bench. His opinions had not been expressed in full when the minister in change of any meas- ure had spoken. The consequence was that his support of a measure added strength to i He was eyphet he was an integer, an indi ual. + S55 Gea We have had and we still have some individual M.-P.'s. Dalton Mc- Carthy was such a member, and Billy Maclean is such a member. Tt is not necessary to agree with everything. your individual. member says, to appreciate his importance to the debates: of parliament. Thete ought to be enough individual mom: ers for us all to. be able to disagree with some of them. But there is a wonderful barrenness of indivuality when you come to look over our parliament and our legislatures. The average reader can name I bers of the far-away Imperial Parli: known educators have expressed the Sravest apprehension in regard to the future of the race. The use of tobacco has become so gener That poopie no Tohiger regard it as a poison. The same people-think and that its) use is a sign of degeneracy. Yet to- bacco is far more poisonous than op- jum. Death hag resulted from plac- Ing tobacco upon the unbroken skin, People have been known to commit suicide by putting tobacco leaves under the arms and keeping them there over night. This applies, however, only to people who ate pure, that is, who: haye none of the Poison already in theiy system. Nicotine Poisonous. Tobacco is no longer used - medi- cally because of the danger, nicotine being next to prussic acid In its en- ergy and-in the rapidity of its pois- onous action. It has been kicked out of the pharmacopoeia of every civilized country. It is scarcely ever Used now as a poultice for horses in case of a sprain lest there b a break 4ir-the tissue and the horse die. In the National Dispensatory tobacco and nicotine are placed under the; same head, as there is no difference in the action of tobacco and this alk- aloid, 2a 5 As for the pathological results, the weakened condition of the heart 1s well known. Cancerous conditions of throat and mouth frequently result from the use of tobacco, or the arter- Jes suffer and arterial sclorosis, or the hardeuing of the-arteries follows, Stomach, liver, spinal cord and brain ;every tissue and fluld of the body are affected by the poison. The saliva of an ordinary smoker will Kill a cat, Some will ask If tobacco is so polsonous, why are so many smokers living? I might reply by asking the auestioners, why a friend of imine, a well known manufacturer in this city, who daily takes between five and thirty grains of morphine - hyodermi- cally continues to live. This man con- tracted: the habit from his physician, who was himself a morphine fiend, and in spite of his habit Is able to look after his large business and dir- ct it successfully. The average to- bacco smoker would conclude from this that morphine is not a poison, but such a Conclusion is, of course, false, Fatal Effects. Instances where the tobacco habit but death 1s always attributed to other causes, Yet- an mention any num- ment outside of the Ministry and the Opposition front bench as he can of private members of the Canadian Parliament whom he would think of as standing out distinctly enough to he seen across the Atlantic. There Westminster whose opin- fons are waited for by the country, by the house, by the ministry; and yet there is little doubt how they will finaly vote. That is the sort of party man we need today at Ottawa, The French system of government- making leads to the creation of lots THROUGH A MONOCLE tion for himself. to say three times ae tesa met I were. member of parliament stand in this , and only men who are free from the habit may Consider offers: for positions as in- structor wane Younfi:men entering polttics in this country should Fealize as there is no road to prcagobion like the eul- tivation of individuality. Older men turning to politit as an occupation, after they have made their pile, should take note of the same princi ple. Premiers, when they are mak - ing up their cabinets or filling va- caneies in one alreaily made, always prefer the man who will add strength to. the government, ard that ia in vartably the man best and most favorable known in the country. This lack of individuality in the men be- hind most ministries at Ottawa is the compelling reason who 90 many prime ministers go outside of the house for their edlleagues. When Sir, Wilfrid formed his government, he brought in novless than five out- sidgrs if my hasty count is right. Ewvery one of them was individual Mowat, Sifton, Joly, Blair and Wielding. Not one of thend with the possible exception of Sir Oliver Mo- vould have been chosen if there vate member from tho provines in question, behind Sir Wilfrid in the House of Commons of equal individuality. But Sir Wilfrid htingrily used up his federal individ- ualities. He took in Mulock and Cartwright and Paterson and Mills 4 and Tarte and Fitzpatrick and Fish- er. To apply the saifie test to the formulation of the mimistry of - Mr. Borden would be coming closer. to persomalitics in a. mixed company than I am allowed to approach; but any gentle reader ean retire be- hind the door and make the applica- I would reve a hobby if I could get my individuality over the footlights as they say on the stage in any other way.. It is better to be known as the creator of the Plimsoll mark than not to be known at all- Good old Adam Brown, of Hamilton, used to: have a pigeon Mill that kept him before the public; and it was a big help to Adam. MoNeil, of Braco, came to the front asi am Imperialist; but there does not stem today to be any member capable of mounting this safe'and easy steed a steed much more Popular today than it was- in of such individuals, There are ustial- ly half a dozen ex-premiers in the chamber; and it is always import- ant what an ex-premier has to say on a measure, even when his sup- port of it is assured. Ex-ministers usually have distinction. The very fact that they rave served in pro- minent offices helps them to gain this distinction it encourages the growth of individuality. You may put this down as one of the advantages of the French group system which it was once the fashidn of Hnglish writers to criticize so arrogantly and so foolishly. They said that it led to instability of, governments. As a matter of fact it is the surest guar antes of stability, just as any broad basis is more stable than a natrow one. The proposed schame of establish- ing under - secretaryships at Ottawa would tend to nip buds of individual- ity which might be venturing fortli on the ministerial side. Under'seo- retaryships would go to the faith- fal ; and dumb fidelity would thus. become the paramount virtue in the eyes of an increased number of the more promising members to the right of the Speaker, We do not want to multiply th plums which would keep the mouths of politicians watering so constantly that they cannot talk plainly. Then we. need under seer taryahips about as much asa cat needs flag. Under secre- taryships are a device to enable a department to be defended in two houses at the same time. The un- der secretary should never sit in the same house with his chief. But at Ottawa we should probably see no such distinction. They would never pull all these fat under secretary- ships in the senate nor would they appoint senators to half the posi- tions in the ministry. We should see secretaries and under secretaries sit- thing, check by jowl, and drawing two salaries for the work of one, sor Weldon in the house of other days who impressed his individuality upon us simply as an honest and out- spoken critic; and he could have had cabinet rank had he been willing to accept it. country that there is something be- hind the front benches except Bil- ly Maclean and ranks of voting automata. The Monoele Man.- Loose Leaf System The News Job Department has every facility for sup- plying the most satiatactory. READY FOR DRY FARMING CONGRESS (Special to the News) Lethbridge, Alta, Oct. 19, Prepar- ations for the entertainment of dele- ates and visitors to the seventh In- ternational Dry Farming Congress have been completed, and Lethbridge expects to entertain record-break- ing crowd next week. An elaborate exposition of dry farming products and of machinery used m dry farm- Ing work will be held tn connection with the congress and is expected to attract many additional visitors. PROGRAM PROVINCIAL SUADAY SCHOOL. Convention Medicine Hat District, to be held in St. John s Presbyter- ian Church Wednesday, October: 23. 2.30 Devotional service led.by Rev. N. McDonald. 2.45 Appointment Committee. of Nominating 2.60 Address, The Unfolting Life, a study in child mature and na- ture: Speaker Supt, W. Bz Hay. Discussion, 3.90 Teacher s work between Sun- days. Speaker Mrs, Rankin. Discussion. 4.00 Solo, feinintnt THIS BEAUTIFUL 400 PIANO Given Away Absolutely Free + THE MARSHALL-MITCHELL HARD WERE Cc the DAILY NEWS have made arrangements 7 will give away absolutely free a beautiful Upton Votes are given with all CASH PURCHAS: : either place, and the Contestant having the largest numb votes on MARCH 17th NEXT will receive the piano. A feature of this contest is that nambers are testants, and their names are not published nor known general public. Those who Want to get into the g: call on MARSHALL-MITCHELL and get a denen Ash for votes on every purchase at either place, 1. Name of Contestant will not be known. 5 : 2. Name of Contestant will not be published. i 3. Every Contestant is credited with 2,000 Votes to start with. Every Contestant gets a number. 22 Standing of Contestants numbers published weekly. 6. All votes must be brought in for record on Wednesday. - 7. Votes must not be written upon. ; 8. Tie Votes in packages with Contestant s number and the amount on top slip only. 9. Cglor of Votes will change and must be recorded weekly. 10. Votes are transferable only before recording. 11. Contestant having the largest number of Votes on aan 17th next;-wins the Piano. 12. Candidates not bringing in personal Votes will be dropped. For farther particulars and all information call. on Maarshall-Mitchell Hardware Co. TORONTO STREET new local unions, the OPganization now having ou local unfons in good standing. What it is and wnt ib does. : val union of electricians. It ig said Speaker F, E. Werry,. Provin- similar action is contemplated in sev- cial General Secretary. cral Minnesots towns. 5.00 Closing song. EVENING SESSION. 7.46 Consetration Service, conduct- ed by Rev. J..A. Haw, assist- ed by Sunday School Orchestra During the six months ending June of Methodist Church. 80, 1912, the Brotherhood of Painters 8.15 The Sunday School, the Dyna-)and Decorators organized forty-eight inie of Religious Bdueation. 5 Speaker, Curtis Hollinger. Solo Miss Sinclair, 8.40 The report of Nomin ting Com- mittee, election of officers and amouncements, conducted by Rev. EB. BE. Hench. Duet Me. and Mrs. Caldwell. 9,00 The Adult Bitile Class, What it Is, and What it Does. Speak- er F, E. Werry. Musio, Everybody welcome. WS NO FROM THE LABOR me wou. The British oulatist party, in con- tish syndicalist Tom Mann. is Tanging protest Decatur (Il) colored women, wives of union me, have organized an In- dependent Women s union label league, So far as is known this is the first auxiliary of colored women in the country. Twenty-four States have enacted laws safeguarding machinery, FOR Miotor Accessories AND Supplies GO TO THE Glovannitt. aA Association Work; 4.10 Distriet

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