WHAT PRESENCE ,
g OEMIND MEANS
.. Dr. J. Arthur Thomson is professor of natural history in Aberdeen
University, Scotland. He was formerly“. lecturer on zoology and biology
in Edinburgh, and Gip‘ord lecturer at St. Andrew’s. Recently he edited
glhe outlines of Science, deem/bed as a"‘platn story simply told." ‘
Professor Thomson's equipment is unusual, but the snost surprising
fact is that a man. of his profound knowledge of the physical sciences
should be able to write with an agreeable pen, to the delight of the average
‘ r' indiridual without this training, and at the same time satisfy the-technical
demands of the physical scientists.
By PROFrJ. ARTHUR THOMSON.
M. A.. LL. D.. of Aberdeen University.
- HE enviable quality which we nature, but it also meant habituation
in an art.
call presence 0: mind means The negative side of this is that a
‘ alertness in answering back very Wise man, or a very good man,
effectively in illmcult situations. It is may be handicapped in his influence
displayed when the practical man for lack of savoie—t‘alre in unaccus-
averts a. double railway accident by
tomed situations or for lack of Ex-
, pc‘rience in dealing with human e-
hurrying along the “"8 to signaling, lngs very different from himself. Thls
distance; when the witness in a law does not apply to supermcn, for 3.9
‘ ~ . ‘ f Plato or Arlsto e,
court kee his head under selere cannot think 0 .
ps the director Shakespeare cr Goethe failing in pros-
hoice of once of mind in any company or any
' . ll‘cumstanco but for ordinary mortals
' l '. lull]? in a theater. “ ' . ..
:rSIS:()E;Q:k2;eOA the platforn] of a the enviable quality usually implies
public meeting comes \vell out of mm: ll-‘lbmmtlon- 'llm troublesome fact 1..
is c‘ullcd in Scotl'vld a “llm'kliuu”; “Ht some TGIHUVCIY "Willi novelty of
\vhcn the C'lllti'llll of :1 lincr maintains “m’mmnml. 8W“ as crowded streets
A or :1 30cm] strife of tongues, may make
a fool of a wise man!
cross—examination; when
of an orchestra by a clever 0
order utter It collision of son: when a
surgmxu. hurriedly summunml, per-
forms; :1 life or duzllh operation in the The Essential Qualities
nick of time; when :l gt‘llt'l'lll by Si; 0f Presence of Mind
rmm- tuvtiru wins, a battle that svomc .
£351.; when a politician by n witty 1T081lgillll’l: Drvsgnceloimindngngaxil:
- . m ‘ “N in good m‘r'oillll 1m ill ( ) Penance: (I- L (C \e leaf 5
' “\p'nh ‘ u 43‘1“.“ at q rulllii‘ mect- (llfiivult situations: (2) un all-round
I ‘ r I I ' ‘ ‘ I . . . . r,
' n.1tu.ul 1 m ’J I imaginative antlcxpation of probabc
, H... 1 ~ : 1 'Selflnll or :1 driver 1"3‘ , .
l’b- “ ” " ‘ 1m contingencies, and (3) an even less de~
i (luri‘v; done-I'll}; avoids what ul'prurrd
ccrmlu duslruc‘timl to himself and lmuhle OWNS)" “'lllt'h might (be de-
ntin-re; or when an administrator by a Sf‘l'lbfii “3 ‘1 .1500”.le Cull”? 0 atten-
ch“... “1,! llllhcsitutint: stroke cuts a tlou so that lrrclcmnt distratuons are
. f ‘ not allowvd to interfere.
"plum knot. “'0 cannot make bricks without
' ' ' o lvo to have '
thl‘:Y;::l-'tltl:"oy‘:ll‘gqe()r?c'ee Twit nftind.‘ Every 5‘17““ ”“7 ‘1 Silk PUT-“r? 0U! 0‘11 SUWS
. . . 4 . : . ~ . is hope of cum-
m- hns all admiration for the man our, “Mirth”? 19 ”it . V .
fvlm (luvs: flu" right thing so coolly and \lli'lllg'plils‘elfi 9 MPH?” m 1‘0‘1’1’4“ 7‘1")
conllxlvnllv when there is a S’ll‘Ci'l ach- “4‘” “hmgh‘h perceptions 81“ fl ‘0'”?
dent ul' tufirn or (1 dog light or :1 (“5- long “”0!” “GNU“. 1- 0-. ‘010 interval
orllcrlv public meeting or a bruin‘ ”WWW" stimulus “lid response, But
... .‘ , [r . (v the fact that people who showed, to
5|“ “NHL nrmumtn ' iwgin with, little presence of mind in
What IS Presence of Mind; quit-l; games may eventually become
In Sport, {or Instance? good players, proves that the Quality
In L'umcs that are (lollhcrnte, where m“ be C“i”""‘ted- 0UP mlcstlon is:
. How?
fhv' time factor docs not operate. :15 in . .
Eoli‘ or rill-us (if wither Pull in" (mill-«i a ' “0 are inclined to think that the
g'm'n-l t‘lurn lx' 1M (‘lull'rllh-rislii: op- cultivation “5 the quality demands
pnrlumtl' for prc-wm-c of mind. The some humxlityu—lenough t0 (Like. the
sun .. Jul ”,1, for billiards 1..” in trouble to nnilmpate probable. Situa-
: w min: v .. ,. H, .
um, 1‘ “WNW 11",. ”4‘.er Hum”, {041- toms. If one? gocs to give a ill-humble
bull no.1 luv-Hull ilxcri- ‘34 till leiulli“ 3;:"13‘i‘S-3 ““htmfl anticllmllllk probable
. quality 0 Ju lions one is not hkcly to respond
um.- fur-Mr, and tho 118)"'115i‘-‘H , . . . -
or "1”" Hum,” nl‘ lllllhl" counts my much. \I l) cffutlxcl) to the (list ussuon. f
This cows u.-.; .‘l «'l\ in rm‘uuulxints the {mp :flflrls (‘11 an ,P-‘il'V-‘dllli‘n. without
churn imam n-arun- ux' “lulu-xvuu‘ (.i‘ ”mwmm: the moraine contingencies
Inlml " it mwlnsa rapidity or ilu-lsion, 3“"? "‘“3’ ‘jl‘ifiv- on" IS rf'r‘mmly dlmln~
tin :nlo-rlllcss ni'J'ukn‘.‘ nt, :1 short l'lll-llt '5‘th (mos "hm"? of showing Dres~
l-v-riwl lu-ixvawn stimulus and l’r'.\'ph!i>‘i‘. ”W" “i mm“ “mm things K0 Hglee.
It is only common sense to say to
omsrli‘: ““‘lmt shall I answer if l
mu asked how this or that new dis—
mvcry affects my thesis?" it is only
common sense to say to oncsclf: .5'\\'hat
llur if we follow i'urlhm' ill“ ('ll'\'-' of
Ill"'~'t‘l|l‘«‘ of mini sump-sin] l»_v quick
v u.» ::"'t lanhl ut' :Inni‘nvr Hm,
:wwuw of illllltl implies an own
.‘x' in :I i'(‘il\‘l(l"l'.l'lli‘ rerun
ll nu-wns :m lllllit'l -
vlur'.‘vlm~'s~1. 'l‘hn tennis
l‘i.lll' in? '11! sorts of bulls; [é
vu- »! -: is Manly for all sol-H wl‘ (Illi'S'
films; llw physhl'nl or surcrnu is 7
rmldy (“or ull sorts of “cunlplivznions." Preparation Over Night
Tllvru urn 5mm: simple unimuls, like
(111- slimwr nnlmzllvulc is“ intmzllvly
rtmiiml lvv l‘rot'. \\'nmlruit' of Yale), that
.. mu \-
lhll 1:
[”17"
pm l'
, iM.
:1er . . v
w ”mu“ journey.” Successful dclullcrs and 0x-
plnrcrs have always been
(‘nnulfih to anticipate.
have to live crowded hours with many 0:
Possibilities Of
:XVSPAPERS,
erarlous other publicatlnns have
“ ‘ mntly told of the navigation
, Shall I (in if provisions run short be- 0’ the “1" by the helicopter. Few, how-
.luw-x- ,1. “W“ I rmu‘h the end of my proposed ever, have described a flight actually
witnessed or taken up the subject of
humble construction. In company with officers
of
Governments and civilian cnginecrs,
Smoothes Dificuldes the, writer was privileged a few weeks
For men of ordinary caliber who ago to personally witness a test of the
AMERICAN HELICPTERL- RISES , _
VVERTICALLYFROM: THE GROUND -7
* HIN ARMY TEST ’f‘MADE .AT DAWN;
MACHINE SHOWN IN AIR AFTER PERPENDICULAR RISE.
w
r
\
.r
knew-i
r
BERLINER -
THE.
BY previous arrangement the party
which was to witness the flight gath-
ered toggther about 4:30 A. 51., pro:
cceding at once by automobile from
“‘ashlngton to College Park, Md. The
hour, as described by Major K. M
Hicksm, chief of the Information Divi-
sion. Office Chief of Air Service. was a.
“wicked one." It was chosen, however,
so that the chances of finding the air
perfectly calm might be as great as
possible. ‘
Arriving at the Berliner hangars we
found that Mr. Emile Berliner had a!_--
ready preceded us and that the craft
had been prepared for t‘. :.:t and was
ready to he rolled from the sugar.
The machine looked'likc the conven-
tional airplane. in that the fuselage
and rotary engine might easily have
been that of a Nieuport. The rwlngs
were replaced by two well braced hori-
zontal duralumln spars extending on
either side sufficiently to allow the two
large nil-screws, mounted in a horl-
zontal plane on the outer ends of the
spars, to describe circles. circumfer-
- ences of which were only a short dis-
tance from the pilot located in the
usual position. Under the nirscrews on
each side of the machinexvereva set
of vertical control surfaces actuated
like ailerons by a stick in the cockpit.
fin the tall we found that the control
surfaces had not been changed and
that they, too, were operated by the
stick. In fact. the system of control
was identical with that of any airplane.
E m ile,,Berliner’s
Invention for
Military Obser-
vation and Com-
mercial Purposes
Are Expected to
Be Very Consid-
arable.
By L. D. SEYMOUR.
mn cnzlncs and
tho tinny. representatives of foreign
lly American machine yet to actually
‘llicve a man carrying flight.
HEl—i COF’TEE .
The only addition to the tall units was filled with, an experience _such as few
. -_. . a
. a 82mm ’
l: :7" V 712.1%!
, , , . ‘ . 7-" V »s" '
. ' . .
7 Debt Remusmn
, _ For Peace Only
'3’ Sir Charles W. M 3L T
N the controversy m
I the Question raised mug “mm“
.of Balfour’s note
, cancellation of war debt.
appears to me to have been a. Cu...
{gammy to grasp the true in“ “33“,,”
J a ’the situation, My an 5"
European side. 2"
’ It has been left for Sena 8
' in ,3 statement made at wig“.
to hit the nail fair!y and W ‘0"
the head. The Senatw pom. m if“
'13 so eminently true. that it y, «at
, simply a matter 01' than at a“:
that is in question; Amelia; ”den
. is to forego anything of What u 5"“
to her, wishes to be as“?
money she is giving tap in mg myth”
forwa fund out of which the t‘
game of piling up anus in tow
over again, with vm: as in 133...,“
. quel. ARM,
The people of the Unitas Q",
says Senator Borah, could 5.5;?“
greatly interested in any manage-:3
for the cancellation of any part cit}:
debt due to her 'unlesa the :3.ng
is accompanied by a definite WOT,
. taking for practical disarmament 1.,
land and sea, and adds that to mg,
.Ldebfs without such undertafidng We'd’d
be simply to encourage greater mg,
and navies, mOre wars and more debts?
In other words. cancellation of defies-
without guaran‘ties would he 22:1;3,‘
mount to provoking new stars. -
So that instead of charging
with a grasping selfishness and a, 3»
lens indifference to the Welfare 0'
allies in Europe it would grasp: =
as well if we readjusted our he; .
the whole situation, and tool: stack ‘
the position as it appears to thus:
think first of all of the future of 4:;
world rather than of the actual mo v
involved in our mutual debts. e: _.
whelmingly large as they are. 5
For, after all, the outlook to it 5:3
facts the possibility of war in the 51H
ture is of infinitely more lmaeruzzci
.a— L_--.--._ a .
a small variable pitch propeller. re- in this country, and probably none than “‘9 {550.000.090 Britain ears :
volvlng in a. horizontal plane Just for-
ward of the vertical stabilizer.
pitch of this small screw was
ment of the elevators.
The helicopter was wheeled out in
front of the hanger.
gave the signal for starting the engine.
Every one moved back a bit as the have on military
motor was tested in the usual fashion. said at present.
The two large horizontal propellers capable of rising
were revolving slowly while the small clearing in the forest. from the deck of fore any 5WD 3
one on the rear of the fuselage was a battleship or from within a secluded cellation 0f d‘i"
turning at a very high rate of speed. fortress. the possibilities may he too entire agrrem. 7i!
Suddenly, with only a slight increase great to predict new.
in the speed of the engine, we noted
the turning down of the elevators, ac-
nsual horizontal flying position.
the ground and thefmachine,
slowly,
ncssed the successful flight of a hell- how the strides of civilization and eqm'Valem, t0 the canceflatiaucn:
commercial development are dependent betvteen allies, and that I! it
Two early hours of the morning. with and coincident to the birth of 9055le9 to get dorm tothoexpadztnm
while most of the city slept, had been every new means of transportation.
copter!
abroad, had ever been afforded. Mr. the Emma States 01' the 5330-103
The Emile Berliner and his son had demon- . _
con- strated after a lifelong effort that ver- Brita!“-
trolled simultaneously with the move- tical flight in a heavier than air craft only
was not only possible but practical. Part Of EUTODERH and Asiaticm-
Certain refinements are now being to put “7:0
Mr. Berliner‘s made, after which public demonstra-
son, Henry, tack the pilot's seat and tlon may be expected.
invention, scene one has said that the 6, 1921-
companied by the tall rising to the commuter to the city may keep his COEferen-‘r t
But machine in the back yard under a twa proposa .
the machine as a whole was station- small shed, go to work and land on the at that timo 5LT ”mains back Bras.-
ary. The sight was most uncanny to roof of his office, from which at night 139m? ‘0 the
a. man accustomed to seeing the tail of he can "takeron'" for his home and
an airplane take the "flying position" land vertically once more in the back debts between Ames- ,
only after a speedrof fifty or sixty yard of his suburban cottage. His trip for my own part I doubted if eitheri
miles per hour has been attained pre- to work will be shortened by many means W011” be 38 effectual 85 ‘3,
liminary t0 "flaking OH." We watched minutes; he will have no Journeys to prompt and drastic cutting down ‘75
to see what would be the next move and from the station, and a new means army and Ila-"5' estimaiu by 6793‘
and were rewarded at once by seeing of transportation will have made him country in the world. A Wm
the wheels lift about three feet from independent in another way. Railroad I said. WOUId probably that that. a
first strikes. congested traffic and crowded TEdUC‘UOH in armament: nunhuought
and then someWhat faster, cars will no longer bother him. . ‘
start to} move forward; We had wit- more we see, even though just in part, Gum? equivalent, it not me than
M:
which her European Allies owe
Senator Born}: can see mt
that there is reluctance on its.
<‘
{02‘00 the (impugn-593:
agreements arrival at in Washington,
but that there is in his own coca
Just what effect such a. craft will 5““ a, Jar-‘19 $09150“ 0! people 2:...
aeronautics cannotbe are by “0 “397175 “HY Converted I?
It would seem that, President Harding's peace mm§3_l
vertically. out of a Therefore he - S for mantis -'
.nt‘n toward the es
and in {228125 is:
with him. 3
Exam arr.
i wrote by request for
As to the commercial aspect of this THE NE“: 3 m ‘
_-::~: *re e W:
llch were behg made
world—forming this
and Win;
I stated 13.3.14
German lndemnitlc—s
Once to be made to-day would prove to be
we had before the m w. Gould
quickly wipe the slate clean at 83:12:
haw only tmc nns‘m'r llr'v'k-io (\w‘i‘.“ a risk of hein'z hustled; there is un‘ w
an: i] nunlcut ll question. 'J'lzl-i inlllllf‘s doubiv-tlly wisdom in prcmmlitutlng tlln
Milo "l‘l't‘r'lhi‘ “f “1mm” “"11”?“ “‘0 night ilC‘fUl‘i‘ the tzm‘tll's of Ult' (lay \
rrv'lllu' ~ ll 1:: llrl‘rr mm'“ ”‘31“ “”3”“? simple Ilelt’t’" this, but with surprism‘g
of mind Ill any time. Ilm :1 mt. “111M." snmnlllinr: out results. especially if one
for unyihl" " 11.154 mm‘li prt-uvnvc of ‘ ' V
mu odd to. it an olwdlcnt-c to Na-
rninrl. :n- l :l l‘rimr» Minister l :‘:1 i'rrsl- pnlcnn's advice of always lwlng rcadl'
_,, l, \- u v.7 .
Lit .ll .. l. .on. ‘ | . .. ‘ ‘ '. the duy ll-‘lfnrc! It is in hurries: and
1: Just ”as ‘11)‘l'tl‘1m In 111: “lul'a'm_0.l Hrm‘rlos that nlcn lose thr-ir pr'cscnrn
[NI n 3 am "if” f” 31"“ M11.“ .- or mind most hopelessly. "i-‘vrwwarncd
put-m :1 stunn- of mm ulxnw confronting is f,,,~,.armm]-- and an imaginqtiyp an-
his "\‘wlllilml ”will". l‘l‘lijiW‘lll‘l'J Wm- ticipntion 05,0. concourse which will be
sell in MS slll‘li'lrrliuf i‘IIIMHI‘ “11” 1h" trying to temper us well as to wits is 1‘
[limillivll m‘ on ::‘:l::::»|llisi. no ”I" mm: bound [0 1,9 stcndylng. “a. do not ‘
with woman? of mind is not only rwcd modern psychology to tell us that
rczutly— he anticipates.
A third cnmplmcnl in ”DYT'RLDCC of
, _, .. _ ‘ (1115' heft-re that on no account will We '
mind l\‘ .sn u-pnsscsslrm. \xlllvh lnr-nllr“
lose our temper with our visitor, cx- a
NEW ‘
PATIENT COLLECTOR
According to' statistics just compiled
it may save :1 situation if “'c decide the. by
ll parts of the world in 1920; 2.137
STAMPS FLOOD
it is difficult to tell them apart.
Acmnling to the latest information
obtuluallli- from the Department the
nc\v United States stamps, instead of
being confined to portraits of Franklin ,
and \Yashluuton, as in the current
series. will show portraits of different
American homes or notables on each
denomination. Franklin and Wash-
lngton “‘ill be included, but the new
[TY the poor philnlclist. He has
exactly 5,625 more postage
stamps to collect now than he
ad two years and six months ago.
stamp experts 2.802 new stamp
aricties were issued by countries in
a. whim of attention so that it is nx‘por’ltl'l" as he ma ' ' .- ‘
‘ ‘ - , ' ‘ _‘ . . a ( _ ‘ . 3 prole himself to N . . , , e ., ones to be added, it is said. “All include
fp)(q,\_\l ., m. .llio‘r\.\‘.~lulltlvl lmsxnr-ss m be. The slmpln point is that morally 11‘“ ‘anehos were issued m 19"1 and Lincoln. Grant, Jackson. Afar-shall.
lm-nl, Ms“) uli onllndcd l-PUl‘l“. Sf‘lf- as well as intellectually we should an- 636 the first slx months of 1922' Hamilton Cleveland McKinley and
pnuscsswl in tllvlr ordinary environ-
ml'nl, um Ili<tl‘.1«fe"i and pe-rlurhul l-y
(flimvlwd stlw-cis or by the hum-sphere.-
of tho salon or by the huge (ms. xnllly
or lvy whatnot with .‘Ll‘lrélvwl‘dlfi
very limmus personoccs. “’hy. wlwn expcricnce them.
the \rrv self—pom Ssetl Hcluo \vnlkcd
from .Iz-nn to \Vcimrlr to visit (irwllm,
what would be say, at first,
the plums ml the roadside i
very good that year!
tlviputc our day's game of chess.
The second part of the. recipe is, we
are afraid, rather too obvious to be
acceptable. But it is sourld. \Ve must
A great German
philosopher of to-day once accom-
‘Annfil when n. ous strokes. which
closes some surprises not realized, per-
haps. even by the best informed stamp
. 0 r) - x '
and not only anticipate situations, we must fglliiaizzrs. Of the "'80“ \arlttlcs issued
cent, were Eur-charged stamps: of the
2
pnnlcd two golfers on their round and ' .
but that showed an extraordinarily intelligent “Cf“‘y 50 per (‘L‘llt.,o“'ere surcharged
”.05 were “"0“,“ in the significance of the vari- stamps, and of the 606 varieties so far
An examination of these figures dls- Roascvelt. The. new series will em-
brace the 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 's’, 3. 9. 10.
11. 12. as, 15, 20, so, 50 cents. $1. $2
and $5 values, the same as the 891195
now in use. V
The full ncmcsls of careless or un-
controlled llvlng is often long DOS“
pulled; our presence of mind falls us
at the critical moment. We have let
some grit into the machinery; we can-
2.033. or more than 72 per
187 varieties issued in 1921, 1,037, or
he witnessed for issued this year 312, or approximately
. contin»-ui;ll princess met a “’Hl‘lil 111- the first time. He put his big brain 50 per cent, were surcharged stamps.
mm”, ”1‘11”“,th w“. with a” into the business; . he attended his In l920 the number of surchargcc‘i
her wuumsy. dumb before him. mind thcrounto, as Sir Isaac Newton ““19th distributed was greater than
“ids: fill‘lL
aficruzl rt].
lost
Well as SUCH
altlon;
slim
mir
In
llly.
Calmness May Be Due
To Security of Position
Jt means, no doubt, a kindly dispo.
it may have behind
‘“”htWe no experience) the supreme self-
shake). and what struck us most was
.9111. extraordinary appropriateness of
the dozen or so words he addressed to
responding lympathetically.
{d the most successful and popular of experience.
mutant hosts, who contrived to
I lpleo of the "Arabian Nights"
pl. meal, it was said
. y that he managed to make
than.” that you were the only
in the room and that he had
” uniting for you all the evening.
' We a. quality of sympathetic
-on: it meant a big,
nichts cln"
occurrml to me to say). she admitted game
spite of all
peril-m ‘7 she had for the time helm:
Intellectually he mastered the the total number of postage Stamps
and many of the. Honorable ”sued in [my one your previously, ex-
Company‘s rules. But we were allttlc cent in 1902, when 2,212 surchargcd
amused' to hear him tell his wife in Varieties appeared. The overprintod
(nothing said.
her ex—
hm. prusence of mind, and here the evening: "Yes, I can now l‘lav stamps 0:19:20 exceeded in number all
We may note that the quality of never golf." .
being: at a loss, though not confined confidence would
to orimmrats, is perhaps seen in them holes when he began to play.
in its finest flower, provided that they
are lug intellectually and morally
It is needless to say that his the stamps issued by all countries from
not survive many 1850 to 1859 inclusive, or ten times as
many varieties as were put forth by
In a quick game, such as life is in- all countries from 1840 to 1849 inclu-
ns tr-llecnml anticipation will not suffice slve. Moreover, the surcharges of 1920
to engender presence of mind. There approximate the number of varieties of
must he actual apprenticeship and u. all kinds which the United States has
discipline not without its patience. A issued since 1842‘“ ‘1 1
friend of ours in student days hogan The major reasons responsible for
to swin by Jumping from a. bathing the flood of new stamps during 1920,
it (we pier into the
in nine cases out of ten the experi- are set forth in the following table:
reonfldgnce engendered by security of ment would have ended '
. , _ _ 1 1920. 192 . 22.
3 Milan; but presence of mind means, or in an lgnominious rcche drggnlglrg gurchalézes 20.33 1.0:;7 19312
. . ~ - - ccu a on ................
"for man), a vvlde experience of all dlnary mortals prQSence of mind in Pleblgcite ................. 3.31 123 23
.~ gag-hr of situations and a habituation difficult situations must be engende ed 0mm“ """" 208 202 20
.“(fl responding sympatheticall to l . , r C°mmem°mfive 17“ 1‘0 21
, , Y al by a progressive discipline. “’0 have Postage due“ 13‘ 205 59
, ports of stimuli. Vie once formed a seen one or the wisest of living men 3“" 13S “7 21
unit in a party of about a hundred miss entirely the opportunlt f 3“ £333“ 9°“ 37 2 «“3
Iodiotiutu who shook hands with P c i- - y o p'. ”amp" " 35 2° 7
g» r-5 ping a good audience—simply for lack “mum" 35 53 21
gamut Roosevelt (he could give B. good of humility 1n subjecting himself to Simul‘dwvery """" h 21 11 1
the discipline of platform speaking, United States Plans
A big man .may be thrown off his To Issue New Series
bearings by relatively trivial environ- And right on the heels of this avg.
mental conditions, which a short ex-' lanche of new stam 3 comes the news
perlence would have enabled him to that Uncle Sam is lannlng‘the issue
an entirely new set of stamps to
supersede the series that has been in
use for the last fourteen years. The
town: given by the Post Office De-
” pertinent, for the proposed cha are
t 011 .ourse we need not waste time that the present lack of diam“.
n earning to walk backwardfbefore nous among the different values costs
royalty, for the contingency in not the Government thousands of dollars
ukfly to was often, it °V°" “1 the in take- on the
life history of most of us, ' mi. part of Government
can and should discipline ourselves in
the presence of mind required in nit-
ustions which are bound to occur over
kindly and over again. . -'
Of
not. distinguish quickly between fully
that when the cancellation mark.
“obliterate the Bum rain on the stain, pa
sea—and he swam. But 1921 and the first six months of 1922»
But we employees in’ the post office: who can»
paid and partly paid man matter, and.
4‘10t ill-“13' W011: we fail to rise to the‘
.difllcult situation; and no "will power"
can put things right. We must begin
afresh. A countryman, suddenly 1151‘“:
a geographical question about his re-
gion, often shows a long latent period
or pause between the stimulus and
the response. This is partly because
he is not used to be questioned—
unlike a London policeman: partly be-
cause he is puzzled by what seems to
him a silly question; but it is. in CB?"
tain cases, because his “mental re-
flexes" have been allowed to’become
dull and slow. ‘ "
It need hardly be said that “absence
of mind" is on a very different line.
It usually means intense Dre-occupa-
nor" a. masterly concentration of mind
on a given subject, an abwrptlon so
complete that trivial stimuli find no
response. It is the very 01330838 0‘
“distrait”-ness, where the attention,
under insufficient control, 1&4de
hither and thither hy every stimulus
and away from the main .c‘ofiern on
which the mind should berfocuset' ‘
There is another and'su'btler quality,
which must be cultivated if presence
of mind is to find its highest‘exmr
31011. We must have our mtnd‘hi, good
order; Ye must have a: fortress'into
which we can retire. In other Words
we must have a philiso yr. The Wise
man may be puzzled a. ‘may have
to say. "I do not know”: hut'there 1'
no reason why he should be con-
founded, or lose his presence of mind.
Many American Mom'f.,Mrw
have been honored on .United1 States
stamps in the past. A 7'
’crop as compared ”with other years
' can think at nothingielse. But it avails
,- little to think .wheh or {population
SEES ‘NEW 0 F AMI-NE
THREAT
The following description of food that much paper money.
conditions in Eastern Russia is sent out of the question to think of buying
by a representative of the American h
Fricnds‘, Service Committee, who is
area, about 1.000 miles east of Moscow. d
Thirty days of drought have burned for winter to come and put an end to
Headquarters of the it all. . . .
American Friends” Service Committee like.
up the crops.
is at 20 Sail-thS'Twel/th street, Phila- c
delphia.
as
what I wrote twa weeks ago.
the American fed territory.
«on a famine scale will ha’ve to con- ing winter.
tinue throughout the coming winter. unmistakable famine. in this and other
There is no other way of saving the towns and volosts in Buzuluk county,
Russia. .
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population.
0! course. there will belittle grain
to plant this tall or next spring. But
even had they sufficient to seed a. larger
area they would be unable to plow
more than they did last fall.’ In some
towns they estimated they would not
be able to plow as much, so great
has been the death rate of horses.
The human population has dropped
from 11.500 to 6,000; there was one
horse to every four or five persons
last summer; now there is one horse
to every twenty-seven souls. >
'fl‘ake Pronkino, for example. We
have it on the word of both the village '1
priest and the President of the Soviet
thatthe millet'is entirely burnt up and
that the other amps. with the excep-
tion of thes'ye. promise almostnoth-
ins. Even the We williyield a. sickly
preo‘War. The President himself for—
merly owned thirteen horses. Th
famine has taken all ‘but‘one.
Then there is; Bashimv, a. dusty
Tartar village, where there was some
cannibalism lastiwinter. They tell us
that last yeartheyhad cows -and
horses «Skill. , They lived on . meet up—
patently—that of both man and animal.
But they lived; 'Iheygtell ustheir
chanceso! surviving tireless this fall.
Their inflict. is altogether dried up.
They are already going, out to_ dig
up weeds and» roots in- the field. saw the million dollar mark was “5' 3f“: “‘9‘me-
The? k w there‘wfil'benotmng, else passed. , . . ,-——---—, ,
t9 93‘ d 1116 'Wintegffiome fami. ' " Regina. 1 Edmonton, Moose Jaw, vaelmg F
lies. from the rye-they hive harvested.
will. be able‘to liven month, some six
weeks, none of them any longer. . ' ‘
, As for plowing fon'the future they -
ors
stationed in the heart of the famine plowing to do the population is re-
spects superior to some of the great
Russians who live in the nearby vil-
After a trip through some of the lages. But both Russians and Tartars , ‘ a, . a to a
southern volosts fed by the American- are human beings: both have their 85$: fignwéehgggflfi'gfmw fr
Friends' Mission I ‘can only repeat "right" to live and enjoy life even in p “
A new the face of a. hostile Nature. . same firm,
famine» or at, least a continuation of against"that hostile Nature that the 23311:}: degffisuanfoatmfi: m M;
the old famine, is now a fact in more Friends' mission. in ecooperation with .e po- e y
than half of the eighteen volosts in the Soviet Government. will be wag-
Feedlng ing‘ a struggle throughout the com- pa
'3 volume of construction unequaled in ation.
any year since 1914.
value of sl32,452,obo for the first six
"1011““.33 Compared with $111,768,500 the present time will be 3133193 *1
counted for 874,586,900, Quebec $31,-
294,200, maritime provinces $5,521,700,
and the western provinces ӣ049,200.
in reéidences, $39,660,900 in business
buildings, $10,050,700 in industrial con-g
cents and $29,305,100 in engineering
construction.
building «in
Toronto has led all
work orgthls kind.
coast. Fifty—six cities show an in-
crease in construction or 30
‘over last year. 'Quebec reports an in-
crease of 50 per cent, Saskatchewan
800 per cent. Value of permits in Win-
nipeg increased $1,000,000. .111 Cal; 3
Brandon, Lethbrldge and other west.-
ern centerSTeport more building than
: since before the wan Building in these
‘of’th‘ef
liabilities as are new opprensfng us.
To this opinion I adhere, and I 3::
also glad to see that Amer-Ia. is X:-
sistlng that we should eshbfish our
bonafidcs on this matter at disarma-
ment before we can entitle cassava
to any special considemdan. financial.
0r otherwise. ‘
The world, by hook or By crrr'"
must be turned from its wickedr
this matter of competitive arms...
and almost any means Justifles the em;
which it is so stupendously 1:333:23!
to keep in view. “Then we are esszred
that London's five millions could in a.
future war be almost instantly swiped
out by poison gas, and that t: is now
possible to sink the big-gut wfi?
by bombs dropped from a heat?» Ci
IN RUSSIA
It is quite
orses from itinerant horse speculat-
from Uralsk. Thus, with no
need to sitting—sitting and waiting
This the Tartars do not
Many of them are intelligent,
harming. alert persons, in many re-
s ’3
It is a halt in the canal-action of we:
earned wealth of the world to be dissi—
ted infprovidlng such senseless and
diabolical contrivances.
Senator Borah, therefore. will ‘53?!)
done the world a service it be can c2"-
suade his own people, by the exam.“
of the financial advantage the; at
present hold, to keep to their new the
countries subscribing to the disarma-
ment proposals. The questlon c! ‘56-
dueing armaments and the rulisz‘éfi
of the inhuman invention! anti 3:?-
baric practices introduced daring 35"
recent war are of far- more 65‘“
(mend? than any monetary cons
For there will be famine,
390m
Biggest Since War Began
ANADA is experiencing a build-
ing boom. Figures for the first
six months of the year show
. Above everything. we most 313:3
the future safe for our children 5313
our children's children, and any WI‘
fice we may be called upon to Ba? 93-
Bullding permits had an aggregate
n the first half of 1921. .omarlo ac- we can but free the world a! the 565’
of a greater and more W “31‘?
tton than was brought “m ‘5 3
1914.. 7
Pictures smiled .
By Clunatlc M815
Compared with last year Climatic - conditions M81 ‘12-
Ontario has doubled and fiuence photographic m print: eat
.Qanadlan cities in the ‘Weather Bureau of the W
States Department of Wax?
Much photographic m m 9'
spoiled or impropeflY’m m
theoperator was warm on! 6‘ 3‘"
accustomed climatic W A
successful camera man m 53“
t least a fair knowledge 1 We
Of the total $53,435,300 was invested
' This activity. extends from coast to
per cent.
Fights son Weevfl
A freight car flunk-flit I'm
having a. capacity of m 83!!!
esternéitiesistak' ’
,_ , en as a. barometer cars at a. time. . I We“
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