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Pub $ignal-Ster Peeee, Limited,
Wt $treet, Goderieh, Ontario
IIITRAIlAY, BlIVAILY 29tia, Jetele
CONARATULA:irIONS Adminiqration plen to extend ,the re
eipeeeill trade eereemente fees ti• fur -
',the 04,einly ,Connell le to Ile "con- ther period of , three year,e. The gues-
grAtulatCd. upon. tigkpromptneso and tfl TIOR 'O(s. now to qte, Seautte. Canada
sioanimityot k action in voting 'one of the countries interested he
eepte-mee Ito Voovernment propesal to valise of its trade egeeement with the
take, over Sliy 'Haber airport as a robed States. Reelproi;lty, as the
•heiliainsr centre 4.)r military vi to term belieles, give , benefits' to, both
jia tees, the Optanty Cenneil throughout partiee tothe agreement, am/ •Can-
.
takset forwardeiooking 'attittidd
adieus notewith ekatiefaction. that ,tee
in tho smatter • of the • airport, toed advoteatee of trade reetrietion are le
V, rden U tacies, Turner and Vettgan the minority at Washington,
have in tun, given valued leadia'slaip
in ,relation to tile .proJect. To 'County
Clerk. 3. Menolierte and thosaessoelated
with him in the initiation •oi the project
the lafeet. development ImiSit give =-
bourn:lea gratification, for without their
• oresight ' and.' energy in. ,laurtchingtile
enterprise there would be no` Huron
Courity airport.
The County takes unen itself a small
!fineuelal obligation, but as one a the
• VOulitY COunellieues Stated -le -le
diver in, the buCket 111 eomicieratiOu of
the purpose to be served._ -•
es) • es •
• eturoil, ,County' will ne prone., to he
eseoeiatecl with Canada'e' and the
•Vmpire's program for the training of
the army of,stise air „
STRAWFIWIT
we have net been greatly impressed
with the proposal of the -Conservative
leader to form° a 4.13.,ational" Goveen-
arinists - }Hs party ha.s taken it UP in
only a halt:hearted' maneer, and, the
results So far'zire'not.' grea.t import:
anice, n._ e s#11 e y .
,dpfectio,ns froxn tile Liberal party, the
'1.1111.°st-that Pr, -Manion. can -.hope for is
to himself men who in the
pat halm not been associated' with
antsseeetyesmien sueh as Iloa.,Pr.
-the .-formit Lieutenant -Governor ef
Ontitflosi-estite. is to be a cendida,te eu one
• . • - „
.of .the Toionto. ridingW
• In'sortie Comititueneies, a 'National"
. . . . !goztventiSp, litieen.. Called.; under, 994-
1.Perx.p.tive „assiite:4-,bue-74K.,,na.te4lle
naafi already-choSen'as tiTe Conservative
candiclete, This. is rather a. fereleg:
'proceeding and we Ongratulate the
• isilOrth Huron Conservative§ • opj, their
avoidance of such procedure. Their
candidate, needs tomake no apology
'tforpreeeilting himself as the nominee
of the •Con4ervative 'Party, which, has
• had a very ,eonsidpeabie. share In the
gevernmeet of Canada since and before
• ?confederation.. We are thtts to haveit
straight:light in lgorth Huron, without
it hafilbeen discoveretrthat beginning
with 1840 •every man elected to the
Presi:cleneY' c)f the Unitgd eStates in a
year ending with a ',zero died in
WilliaM 14 Harrison, Abralleuitineolo,
James :Garfield, NVilliana.
and Warren G. Harding were all elected
in a, year with the fatal "0", 1840--
1800-180---1900-1.M. This is 1.940,
and siiperstition' mai attach an omin-
ous' significange to the date. But if
President Roosevelt breaks tradition by
running for a third term, his daring
mayhe sufficient te break the fatal
spell of the zero year,
* *
followlhg 45.4 ftrom the (*lupin in
• The St, Mayers dournal-Argesepresided,
ov‘r GraeeEedy - •
About the middle of Janeiaey, it
.was recorded in. thie Colunni that
Muter waS half one, Ourtrusted
friend, the edleor• of The Goderieh
;Signal, wishes to know 'how we
• arrived at that eonclueion. We
wonder at him. for; while we were
'I 'Ali b of an notable not in the game. schools. at the
ED/TORIA.L. NOTES-
N�rway'arni.Swedeia have "deeided to
preseive, their_neutrality, eau -Sing te
ithrow in their lot with, Finland. They
may,regret the decision later on.
* *
"What kind of political campaign is
' the Saltfprd' Sage -Wants 'CO isn,ow.
be „ snorts-- - indignantly, "the
GritS`r and •TerieS. are still speaking
f('‘x) each ethere!' . • -
Opposition to the,,,tivo-year term- for
• InAlni,eipal, colt.incils Was expresded at
:the me'eting of the ASsoclation of Rur1
Municipalities. laSt week. !‘A • poor
, can do a lot of daMage'in One
observed the president of the,
- Msotlation,
.• 'The To,routo Women'se-Liberal Ask-
2...gociation_ilsirs' P./1rue im-fuiste.,r Kingto
giVe wOmen: representation in his
.4,eabinet, Mr. King 'Might reply that
before be can take a • woman into 'his
Oattinet she will haVe to l'he elected to
;Parliamegt--and we dOn't . hear -of
many' women%candidates:: • • •
' * . -"*
The bill proposed by 'Ion'. elric.Cross
'ta. have the salaries of .municipal. coup,:
, pieced. lit, the control of Ids Departs
• ment wee dropped after cold water had
- -been threwn _upon it sin :cOututittee of
the i,egisIeture. The metnielpalities
, pito* more. vigilance' in looking after
theft* money:lb-art -the "Petivince clees
_m it% expendituresVti.
ler,', Minister ef"Traile
and .Comnierce, in an • addreee at
Waterloo ,Saturday stated. that, if
teturned oilice in the 'coming election,
the King Goverrnoent would introduce
an unemployment Insurance 'Scheme.
The should lcnow, something: as
•• to', the ,nature of the preposed4 "seleeme,
,so that it Might. be considered and dis-
'4Aissed. • it, Is doubtful: it kr#Iiiii`10ion
rot114 'fraVO'r anything ,ieSembling •the
g'iloleYr"eysterri. WItatlha'vy .the aiith
dates to say abont It? ••
•
same time, we did both attpud the
sauxe school, where we-lened that -
-the- -winter- months are Pecembejr;.
january and ' February, Hence,
when Anuary is half gone, winter
is half gone. lYfarch may be 'wintry,
but it is not
Our question. is answered.
11‘- 4,
The Stayner -Sun, Temarks_upoa th
fact that insits town of:one- thousand
population -there are I57. eligible to
SPRING TOPICS
WU the out; IteePtit!I over to
moratina and linStr:Ing
longer in the afternoon elq, a person
on the farm' just uatnrally Woke to-
n -aide spring. I'Ve Lound u160 that it'd
wise to in PreP'Aratione now for the
balmy ezaKoil, rather „than wait foe
this days When tW;Arja min and soak
pleesant weather make you want to curl
up on'a sweet-smelling bundle of hay.
in the mow and lazy in a I:14V a a.
btreteh.
rTia,re's new life on the tf‘trni these
days . . . with Vaunter,. our dIseon-
tented Berkshire eepectine :r litter awl
file `Owee bringiog bleating laniltS into
lite world cqt,e11 day. IN e ewe, look foe,
ward to the foals and eoou ..Urs. Phi
vill be worrying. altinet eglesefor settin,.
and the paseageways%witl lus elutterea
up with. "elueleing" hens.
The ibitruyard must also he cleaned
out afiii its -•aecumulation ' digPLIre•Cd
over the fields for the benefit of.,•the
erope that we will grow this. summer.
With hay 'going down in the east mow
. ; plane•mustke-:made for ,the,staek
at the' first meadow fence to be tilrawn
up before our supply gets down too low.
Odd hours eau always be used in
leaning §eed, ;grain wad hagging, it up
to eWait the formaldehyde treatment
I, IVentuat-sowing.---If-a-inail--
Nyaited to.cOunt the jobs in eernest he
mustn't forget .the potateeis and the
roots that need 'picking over and- the
harness .tlfat needs mending to with,'
stand the strati of hard work. - -
While-• we shall, no doubt, have ut4eig
stems. in the days to come they -will
not seem like'mull when we have al-
shui rule, if little loved, was althost '
or angry in varying degree. The
Of former days are hert, bewildered- trainieg for,twei. years
eepeeeeEaleer's Germany ' during the World
-haelseetaete. ofetliegiortoue wea- or -12110t0 -III -the-
ready,
of,fine i lush subaects of his time, whey Itus-
ther . to come. - And speakint-
weather reminds me not to Porget the ' . They "are harct-headed, severely.
benign, , he tittered, the Riissian army. that Sof many placed- in the Russian- WavY
Ausso-Japane•ee War (1904-5), he car in expeehnent" hafe' been idutttered, and efteltlit officer& 'There =le little. that
in their place Russia now &fag herself . Is der"qatiC
t.411P pails end pan and'a trip to the bush
distinguishing himself in in their hearing or psY-
to S'i'T how °Air sngar house has, After
etiology, yet by 'some 'limy' they. are
wintered. When spring first comes and; '
the birds start returning -then we will, desPised 1 in • every" seuntry thas,t still
ried out; at the request of the general ,fighting with great tenacity for a demi)-
, staff, a journey of eiploration across . calls itself free and. civilized.
crony which is theirs -by blood and: cire
be hitsy with maple syrup and s'ugar.
Central Asia. Ile travelled (.),000 aniTes: F:ven the small nations that once
curnstance 4f nor as 41,, spiritual in,
to Peking. }Ds duties were military, looked to Russia :for leadel•ship an -a
With the best intentions in the world
beritance, This 'officers' corps is , an
I wseitetoethe driving shed this after- protection have turned against her, now.
and eartologicAl, but interested him- inner autocracy, but it is shaped hy
noon I do 't remember what I was
zifter,.. but I intended.working no matter self Aso in art, archaeology,' andAothno- The' ea)201) e
kable exaMpi.e. ' i or.. if Soviet Russia could'
of ,Tur17e I" a dremetic
the uncompromising ,indieiduallem and
tgeriltiliti!clivi;nreetf"tirlil, lirweletti.w4hi er4elli 6 r
What actually:happened. Rummaging ,kre now 'Call any country a bent friend" It was ••■•••••••••••••••• ''''
in au oid box-,1 'came upon. a tattered
and: dog-eared pm of a 'book that Must in tilL,111 beums o lb eoun 13. 1,, „, Turke.f .
c,
of Afustapha Kemal.% : ..
have been .chticked in there yearq, be- •career in the war Of 1914-,13 was bra. 1 IN ow 'the Turks are hangingwith the
1 shellfire in , Finland throbbinig in their
fore. On closer examinatioi I
1 Aanee , ona 1 e ( s p
4. Rant and with the pers I f .1, ill hi
,
to find that it was -P'eck's fladz.B0Y," of, the Tser to back his own milltar !ears. , •
You ren*.mbeethat book. Yak'. ednea. skill he res*e high. ' He began in corn -
Y They are hurrying to improve
!their • rail and ,road communications
with the-Caucaius in case of that war .,•
n--was't Lirely-negieeted-4f: you hav; man' of a „guard, eavalzy brigade and ! insteRtessia--witich-
ane
-
Current, Views on the War los? If they filially defeat Fitland
over carPete of Ileteolon deed, will a
few square whee of territory, g. hand,
fill of uaval bases for a. hopelessly in,
tiNNERIIKIM A GREAMNATION•Iccedillg tondotseifttehtearlisme Rua 'Inadequate JeavY anY
LE,Apkx Perie, be Wee ereated itNcnt 4.0aqionsation?- It be worth -MAI.?
1;41,11/(/' el'tYL:Is'tel:latTtitht°3 fgertf"sviiLltl.)eor-711P)11.•ditlilIT:,M;,`i
-r5-"L13* "ar"1 -115`av taf3k, coneltieetip be weni'litto retir'ement aCtite cost of thtl) laet unreel of rcepeet
'Rem love a liberty of the Vhnle. The
courage Una patriotle devotion Of the
Commen eoldiers knew no RIPerior
where in 610 ••
,Nation (New Yorke.
for [be lilvi.)1li)2 lawi and It is tuRlCl ontwide -We own eountrymainly' to of the 4.'!okuteill: of Defence. To the eau only ;Nage by the prodigioue effort a having befeee hiin e
4`11311(414e541 Inght Illve bee" L'';'*w.4 until i'aUcd back in 1031 aPiPteoldent for Ruesia, in the outer world?, oae 4:leeks1 ppeTer rl:tge"rsf4ttatl;fre'Iiing ae
NOT A PARALLEL 'WITII 1917
"the 6plesdrid es-."
,
eohleere itell, etutleate Itif Finnish affaire. (Plante' ef hks work. in that eapaelty the Russia ade in former Yeara to Win wing() of the patriotic, action of Sir
Hie greateet exPloite were achieved in preeent eavapaign beara witneM In the friendshipe that oite ban now so Robert Borden, in, loll, who; a/though
a country off the beaten tract, di i11 hour of adversity this great eenseleesly deetroyed. It is fashionable at tee head of a ,powerful government
the crueig hourk of" the World Virar.Tflgelre typifies pat* victoriee as\sainst in totaliteria capitals' to sneer at the e Nvuidt mioyed the confidence of •the
Mines leisure to emitemplate hint. To : etill -in hodY and mind though not in foreign eaeliange to equip Ike lavleh on- 'lave a , metedeeeamela itt-tite last
teilled in leading4Jiberaljli'from
Now intheinitist, of aeother great \late wide ,as heavy as those ber trOOPs, are vahre of friendshipe; hut the Soviet 1 peoiee,
. • , ,
e tits isetppeared, and present Coutli; facing today. It is an• inepiration to regime felt very ditfereutlyewhen it au parte of c aeada to :Orin a ihilo
it 1 Y"-'• •
Ids own PeoPle helms been for twenty i YO•iirs, is still in his place. ' i hasslee, ' to subeidize propktganda and 'e(Irti:II:111.e.lit 11t„ 71" [hat
we 111411t
tions allow -even tile wetrring nation's , them that, the Field-Mareitale young Was opending inutteme sunki of precioue
Veers a national lit10national . _The Tims's (Lou'don). i "eultural relations" abroad, to.fwin the Teo fu ['4 are quite 'etherwiee. Sie
.1 help of foreign leeheicaa shill: he Pl- Robert Borden headed a:•,etraigitt Con -
here, rathereeand. foteignere who lutve .
1 •dustrializing it* ' eleantic territerv r . tive uovernitiont throughout the
• - 1 • I- ' .1 h '
t onto tut° estese con etet \NA_ laIll, ale -c
re:nly to take him et hie countrynien's 'What gOcel :have friends done Finland?
e 0 • ‘. • ee Yi, a .
WIIAT RUSSIA LOSE,S
Belgium, or Serbia, or Rannahla in the Gre.et War Until his term, expired. Then,
.stunate. . .. , L... .. Itassia Once had friends. •She Wan 1 a . ne in g t US this party (J. 111311 of his was given
. , the Kremlin eeigi t Sic `0 i I t
• 4)r of the ' almost equally hand- of sympathy , end' understanding in 'last war? Because thee oeuntries had 41.(tTal0Tneele-Ile.'1,1':ollrfi,eiltteehleli6.411(11elor:afeirntleEltkl*7111avvittllitehtnoe's,
. , . ti ut ,,ie ereet boy og lib. friende, they were'lkoinsht-b-aeleto life,
The ()awned presenee, whether of net only great ,and „Supposedly. power- ,' we.11, ask . , what ewe). Rem frieuds to
,
, . • , . , , .
extraordinarily baudsome. young 01, but she Vould count on. a measure
O1
• begins by 'cepturing evety sympathy. et tis, in most Lai
the' friends eould not save them feom ConeeriptionA was
eom end Mete diguitiesr,liell-marettals . , 0 t
more vigorous than „ before's, althoug,is go to tile emmtrY.
s war em s . t •v c ry,„ proposede and a Seetion of the Liberal
ropean countrieseand
ill ,he mother resurrection_ of Party was 1.)ehlna the propoai. ju
tween the situation in 1911 laid the
seeeeseemeses. - ,
,
Fetttneee, physique, air of isreedinte and our own, were so •Triendiy thatl they •
temporary extinctior4 h3r their euenties. '
Who set Stere hY 'Social accomplish- the YoutheCengress the other 'day,
heels. But the smell of blood will be order to get it favOrIthie verdict • from
r rill xi t eveu the virile dandyism of turned a blind eye. to cruelties within,.
, , e,
' 't ' ii-iett e. h • .' led eon Yersa
A . • i ' d that t n leaders in Rue -
the oppressors'Ineeds, and not all to enforce conscriPtion, Sir Robert
tile electors' and enahle his, Govermnent
a uniform. worn to perfection, all eon- Russian boundaries, They felt as Pre- • .
be: told. there w
tribute to the effegt, ,whiele to those '.Went Roosevelt did when,, ae'•
„ formed a new ealeinet including eon -
country it.9 bead a. MS
41 uteny peopleS now wider the OPpressore'
eloh; ' horsemanship," and exceptional sia 'Were bringing' better health, and., P1,1.• •seriptionist Liberals arid went to the
Unionist ad-
. ,
Ministratien. • . • -- ,_* , .
' There is no parallel whateyer be.
1111940.
skill, with the- sporting eine. 'Behind
this agreeable and iMpreesive figure is
the mind ,ot a dashing and brilliant but
'eborand- ealculatfureoldter,Uagad
ions and prudent couneellor, a states,
man loo4ing far ahead into the future
aud far beyond the frontiers of ,his
oWn country and ite pumediete neigh-
bors. ,
• Mannetheirn was born in 1807' of an
ancient , and honorahle Swedo-Pinnish
house. Like many other young Fin -
above all tettersoPPertunity, to -Millions the Perfumes or Arabia will be enough'
whe liad been, kept ignorance and to' wash away.
Russia's. . internotionalerecord-wassgoodseaL
Prusslan
she stood consistently at Geneva 'for
good faith. and fair dealing, and for • Field Marshal gannerlielnyis a tee -
peace. Today the bombs' that 'haVe one-marital:Ole ability. His gen.-
..rained dea.th en' Finnish cities -have erals and superior officers are all vet-
tuened these friendships to dud and
erans Of Finland's war of luclePenaenee'
.ashes. The Pommetniet`parties in au
61,111triiks, including the IJuited States, tChle,918, ) alsoaga inre.setelvileeRed. Ma�y of
d et
'are in rules. The liberal sympatiaizere
serfdem under the imperial 'regime . —Tee New 'York Times,
- i ----trga -seen* t
Ile old buggy seat was handy 'and in Itnmaiu,a. . • , - ,,, ! ,
;thinkable not long ago. They have ,
!tightened their alliances with the -Wes
having. a pocketful Vyf - apples fioni. the . After, the Russian. revointion Man- I their' army, is in readiness, their_press
Whichl had intentledctalcing.to "the nerheim returned- to his 'own country 4
''''l ShOWS ft. deepening hostility to the
honse, I relas.ed for a moment to per- vhere-he• fOntid ..a. crtrions Situatiow'
be„,gonoe.„,p1 the,;polt.
tion I adopted, at,- the Tiegnining of this
•Ceittlfry; which had aroused, in Finnish
-breasts intense indienation andea pus -
never read tb,at amazing tory. (nded .eo,na thand of a cavalry cerps .
t • ti•se.•on&ore-t4herthri-14.of,..a-b001thf
he
PoPalation. The Percentage of -adults in My younger days: father frowned
is not so large in -Goclerieh, but we upon- as being frivolous and ..servillg
fancy that many of -our peePie-iire no useful Or. educational purpose..
rejtained desire in *very man's',heart
hat a boy! I suppose.tha half -
surprised to lettret that of our poi:it:11a-
tion of about: 4;4500 4:reer 3,00G are of to be Just a trifle of the daredevil
voting age ---two out of three: - The makes this book a favorite, The prenke
proportions must have been very die. of that-btly-and,his devilishness in tor-
menting his father and'othercharacters
ferent in the earlier'daks of the town,
ilre enough to -delight Anyone's.teste for
when there were half-a-dozeo,iii more literature. / mut confess that I forgot
y'oungster0. in ,nearly evferrhonse. The everything but skimmed along throug;h
the pages' of the 'book, living once more
the days ,when I managed to lie .on my.
stomach in the haynroiv With one eye
C6ifFec-rThrough. a knot; „9, T ing
for father to came. out from dilma to
-de the chores and the other folloiiring
the antics of "Peck's Bad Boy."
shadow loomed up over the driving
'truth is that in older Ontario we are
becoming an adult people, and this
ettlement-of-the-Provinee-)4-:
notmuch more than a (lent did,
One drive for War funds _Is -hardly
''.4tit of the way Wore anothet begin.%
and the inueh-canvassed citizens thinke
:AO Is heginning to get 80/tle idea of the
"horrors of War." Theyare all geed
tit1lge$0, 'hoviievegiAbgt have been OPPeal.
tone; matheir Value *ill be
motet apparent a few months hence
than it may be today. It takea a lot
of money to run a war, and tile greater
the effOrt made now, 40 well
as In (Aber ways, the sooner Will come
the fray a victory and pettee.
*
The Itotioe of ItePresenta irea at
Washingtoa has 'voted in favor of tht
• •• • -
•
Trendel Aberha,rt 4.iberta is an
astute polititian. In order to head off
.-
friend of former years, 'The .11,Ussiank
theinsel*es;care-weitried'-ain,iit.Zuritey.
how, and with good reason. Foi;aur-
key•is the symbol of all the friendships
,, Russia , has forfeited' by one ''of 'the
sionate desire for freedom, the Flemish that, bruter-and unjustified attacks iii'
army had been dissolved , -and the FilMS the hietory of military aggression; To!
as a people had 'taken no part in the day Russia cannot turn anywhere
. war. But in the hope of providing.m•-,-along lier vast frontiers and find . a
nucleus of trained officers for a force friend, 'except IR the headquarters .of,
to be employed In the cause Of hide- her partner -tyranny in Berlin,
pendence; the, Finnish- patriot s had in • Is it 'worth what !the Russianee havQ .
1 915,.sent 2,000, young neen .0 ,Germany, ., "
where, ill itdditiOli tO, long and &refill
. ,
traMing,. they SillW gOMe service on the •
Eastern 'front: s'atese now • began to.
,return to their '''',dwn?-country, . They
were to -p
with his young oflic,ere in the War of
Independence, _ but with' hissenior of
11(.( of ;today. • - . .
RuSsia recognized the inclePendenCe
... , shed dobr recalling rey niind to the in•n- of Finland,',bdt :heir garrison left be
Milted. attack uPon his GOVernment .sent, and Ed. Higgins said, `,,What yell hilld it-. "reddest"-elernents, who spread.
. , , ,
by the 'Various 0PPosition parties he
, ,doing, Phil?" I ,fairly smothered the the 'seeds 'of Bolsnevism inouthern
begk.,under the end of the buggY seat Finian_d. . When iMa,nnerheim estab,
has'calted a general, Provincial election. and lied quite blackly, "Just looking p lished his base at -Vaasa in Ostrobo,th-
for liCareh 2.1, five days before the . a few pointers in a veterinary book." nia his venture appeared hopeless. The
ly, outnumbered his
tha,t--tilrerat -and Conservatives will: xnyself„ but it was top lecteto recall the force.andwhile t ey Were hilly .armed
..,
• 1 bd. is one a that type who ..prbbably little band, of peasants, 501)10 of who
41(}47, To r
eleetion. fie figures, doubtlesS, In the next minute could have Meked. Russians cOmplet
!T€1 equipped be as Tit file .head of 11
be ,too much occupied in fighting each I statement' • --
, • SA,
other to be able to wine 111 opposing forbids his own.boss from reading any- had, no, weapons • but Shotguns. He
his candidates, and so Social- Credit thing, but a good Tory paper and the attacked garrison after garrfson, and
will have -another five, years ,to show"
*hat it Call do. • Ilowever,• reports
from Alberta are that the ProVincial
election is uppermost in popular -at-
almanac, And it worth' IlaYe been hard WOIT S11,Caeg§ after. success. NoW arms
to explain my 'reading of Peck's _Btl'd began to „pour in; and whdn the Rus
Bos when the spring work Ls beginnino sians 111 Ostrobothnia cracked the P10
to pile up. cess was accelerated. One of his corn.-
panions used afterwards to relate that
he bought a battery, complete with its
otticars, frons, the Reds at the cost of
about one soiereign; ° •
Meanwhile, howekert revolution- had
broken out in sOutherrt Finland and the
Finnish *Government liacrifed to the
north. Without Afaneerheitis's know-
ledge and • against his instinet they
called for German aid. Mannerheim
belleved.f,that he, -could beat- 'both th
Red Finns and their Ruseian all
end when he learnt in
isierele 1918; that ;German troops were
,about to land he -was'-eager to win a
see -
Wjien something ears ont Or breakittdowri 611 70_111' ina,chlt1-
. • •
'
seeseseeryseler heifaits-t.oli.gti,f--its-frxtvhler-wa4-4r:_
WELDING_ PY,PAIRING
tention, and that in many ridings- anti- 4 WESTERN VIEW -
.(Calg,ary
Aberhart ea.ndidateS- are. apPea.ring There has been a renewal of negefia-
the .support • of, all the' parties oPPOSed lions between, the Vanadian- and United
to the Social:: Credit ideas. To most, • States. GOvernMen' ts on the' St. -I.iawr-
qasterners, Socittletedit es as .much of' , ' ivitffiwaSti project. ---An interna-
tional commission .is also studying the
a uzzle as it was when first ;, proposal' to construct .an 'international'
.khe five. years' Of Aberhart administra- highwIly through 13ritish Columbia to
tio
tha
ha.e, not -done -much to elueidale
•heory.
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Municipal statistics for tii?,y.ear 1938
(the.:latest published) 'ellOW. that the
aggregitte debtof the municipalities o2.
onlarid was at its: lowest, since 1923,
having* beerxreauger by $21,000,000
from the precedieg .year. •Thus' while
the WU-brat' ,and. Proitincial , GoVern-
merits are adding-y.ear by year to their
endebtednesS, the - inunteipaliiies-.'are
sfeadilY Improving their financial posi-'
Alaska. Both 4projectsewould involve
the expendittire oft` huge sums tog:
money, and the Canadian share woula
rein •int -o- many millions. 4--
The general feeling in Canada will
be that these twO expensiVe ProJeCts decisive battle Arst.n By April 6, when
can well be delayed until after 'the war.
Th,e rnited States is not ,in the war
and. Ainerican urgency to get these new
schemes under way ,before the presi-
dential election this fall ean be peeler-
steod. But tliere is no ubi1ar urgency.
in this country, which has a more
important undertaking in haiid.
The SL, Lasvrence waterways, project,
has hung lire torten yeats. No harm.
• will he done by:leaving it over for ane
,wmtr'rmsoiumu other ,tive -years mt, _"As„,for. the
Ways contended, that, the closer , khe Alaskanehighway:atS chief value seems
spending body is to the taxpayer the, tee'bet to provide a snlyteey, made be,.
,- s .
more careftil is the eCrutiny of expenditweenthe UnitedSrgealid Alaska
e
tures: 'When people ask', foe .larger
grants .from1.)Om1n1on or Province for
one thing„ nd another they' are en-
couraging, extravagance., if they eau.
-
not afford to make tile expenditure
.directly, theye,ltre only fooling tli6n-
selvee by seeking the indirect method
of a Provinclat or rederitl grant, for
the money eventually: t011leg from the
_ _
same souree-e.the pockets of the people.
AN ERA OF CRUELTY
.(Listowel Danner)
,probably When hietoriano look back
.
on ;the Present period ther Will call it
.one of •the most cruel In the history of
the world. When We heat of bombs
being dropped on civilian populations,
destroying wemen aml ehildren who
•never did a bit ,of harm to • anyone,
when the people of temiliered nation
have their property , coriflecated and
gIVEll to the victors, when eonquered
people who object to tyranny are shot or
imprisoned; when prieonere, of war are
kept in the holds of vessels without
proper Rare or food, it ,would seem as
if the world never heard anything like
it, at least in. inedern tittles. Cruelty
end revenge, will not )ee permitted to
rule 'the World indettnItOy.
The people in the other provinces are
insno mood.tle contribute to such an
undertaking At the present time.
•
IIAS.ITS POINTS
(Woodstoek Sentittel-RevieW)
ObviouSlyi the newspaper fleld in this
teoantry 'Presents feWer openings than
la ..realized by Most peeing People seek-
ing admittanee. Many, feel called but
few can he choeen; and not all of these
.WjIj Stick IL: Those'Vehoile.,Will openly.,
condemn the,calling; but privately they
will love It, efor printer's ink gets in
the blood, ail the Saying is, and for
all the routine, the daily, stint isc not
altogether ,swallowed up itt it untie of
anonymous detell,as, that of 'a' man
In a bank or insurance or railroad of-
fice is likely to he,but le Spread upOn
the printed page. little world
measures- the thing he has done and
frequently eritleizee with extreme
frankness, Mut occasionallycalls" it
good, and that„oompensates„ for ha8tY
meals and lost sleep and not infre-
quently personal. risk.
THE USUAL TIIIN'O
(Brockville Recorder and limes)
When Nitimates of the 'cost of de.
veleping the St. Laevrenee for power
and navigation ere being advanced, At
Is well to remember that the Welland
Canal, which 'wee to have mist •$56,000_•-
, Was itot eompleted until $131,0000
had been spent.
The Germans had °nip, just ,set foot on.
Pinnish'-soll at Hangee,. he won his big -7
gest and hardest/fought battle at Tam-
pere, ptitttng OW of aetion a Red force
25,000 Strong., of whom. 13.000 were
eil 01 taken prisoner. However, the-ald
Of the Gerrnarie was invaluable in mit-
Mg itswift end to ehe campaign
!any great destruction of -properey. Gen,
eral Yonaler Goltisand troops, who
were •byenoseneanseeroeceel
enifiaiiluising.,and,-were not get, rid
of until the autumn.
There followed a' period in which
•Mannerheim faced difficulties of recott-.
struntion es great as those of the war.
He had to allay the suspicions of the
Allies; who looked upenWhite Finland
as pre -Germans: •liad.' to peretutde
them not only toerecognize the Govein-
vent' bureetestr-toe aid In 'averting -life
menace of famine. Ile had to heal
the wounds of it country in which bro-
ther bad fought against brother. 'Sue -
• Worry Saps
The Nervous System
,
Worry over 1)05111115!) or ho11 behold
duties, midden Abele, ” the inearie
_quest for pleasures the foolish at-
tempt to put n. week of normal life_
into' twenty-four hours, fev6riaii ae-
taivg doefmwaneadr 1,4ottar tgetoo
mmtiliotithale
gravftti011
litqatute are all conducive to the
nervous. system., .
If you ,are tired, listletio, nervousi
md worried Why not give litilburnia
Itealth and :Nerve killa a chance to
help put you on your feet. again.
They st6 ,,04, hoar ,,bttilaitlit, n6ro1
strengthening onto containing the
essential elements for the. Merest**
lyeteln. ' •
tier7 *Atm treteeio,
and put me to shatete I." A MO..
station.'niile to ...station caR after 1
p.m. (and alt day Sunday) -usually
costs no tuore than a couple Of movie -
tickets. With rates that low, It fellow
on 'cagily keek in touch with his
family when he's away from home.
Why not call them up... tonight?