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TIWIttiDAY,,APItift 4tIla 191D
AFTER THE BATT'S, license tees, end after April let they
are eget paiable. A.Ctee settling for
The Toreate Globe dad Mall com-
pletive that an "Eauteeeesary •itleetioa
campaign" has t ciet several million dole
tars and that it "leaves the pre-electiog
atatuat unclienged for praetical part
Poses." %late iTa,veag. euPerfielal
Tae fact tv as liar. Eing and Dr.
Manion 'and their respeettve folloWers
iery well know, thet the. "pee -election
5tattts" is tatiterial4.'t altered. Without
'an* eleation -eonearmilig -the, Gevernment.
idaretver for definite Period, It might
have `eoeititi4detttee toffiee eubject to
agreement ,witic the, Opposition, Which
agreemeat.might ,aiare been terminated
at any time at the will of the Opposte
aim. This ineane that the Gove
ment Would have been_ eat on a Limb,
never knowhig when the limb mIglit Ite
. 'tut off, Any situation more inteatical
*a-ilib-t-ei.ighitaltiriV-attffoll'hrthit
Government it ;could, be 'ditilcult to
imagine.•
This leaves out Of -consideration the
suggested fusion of the °Partleittor the
duration of the wee. Bet -with memt
'Dries Of the Union Goveram.ent of 1917
Stilt in men's Minds. Such, a fusion was
,
practically impeSsible. The union of
1917 certainly did not bring political
Peabe; but even if all the parties had
agreed at thia tune to support a coati-
• .tion Government would such a Govern-
• ment, without the effective criticism of
• an OPPosittoe, be likely function
more effectively .than , the . present
Getvernmeat with a vigilant Oppeesition
watChing its every _mote? Herie could
Zar.• King., Mr. Regere and other
Members of the preeent Cabinet be-ex-
pieted to 9e -operate -with men who had
unsparlagly attacked them in Parliat,
'Arent and on the platform? Or .is It
in the mind eof The Glebe and Mail
_members of the,present Cabinet sitoilld:
.retire t end • make -Or.i.k for other men
who had not been the Objecte, of Opt
position attack? . Taere are other 'eon-
sideratione that 'weigh mainst the Idea
Of a coalition Government at this time;
but theme Mentioned should, we bellette,'
. .
be sufficient.., Tae King Government,
ttivith.atfresh .mandate from the, people,
an now go ahead With its ewe; pro
-
grain yirithoet the, neeess.ity of divert:nig
any` nortion •of' its anekgy to political
fence -mending, knowing that it will be
e • •
ju.clgea by the merits ef its raeapures
for the catryhig on of its ehaek in the
war and -the vigor and teffectiveness
with whtch these measures are carried
Out.
The value of, a Perliainentary' Op-
position is well understood:, in ' Great
Britain. • There the leaders of the
Labor and Liberal parties h,ave wavea
aelde.suggestiens that they„,saould enter
coalition G14.)vernnient ; they believe
:they, can iiettereservice in direet-
S-Aig../*a vigilant Opposition. „ So Dr,
etlfanion or. whoever Mai, be the Opposi-
It had been titorthieg eer a week and
winter gave as °Icily an odd peek at the
cloudy elty before pouring down more
snow to swirl up atross the roads and
make impassable drifts. We haa spent
the ight doctoring a sick horse .
the radio a d the Meter ear licereee,1 the baby •rvee croes with hot teething
the chap who has anythiate jot wat I problems . . end 1 lied gone clown to
taatee to eataa.a. aleetineomo tax., the rofelway to see it by eay chalice
the mailmen lead made it through with
e • • twd dass' nlail.` °
Toronto Saturday Night in • ate, come
meats on the election remarlts. that alie
hdphurn filow has the "distinction of
-hoeing teviee' swept .Ontatie for. the
Liberate by leading them' and wit by
tea.ding the light ageinet them."
A Stratford ten -Year-old has taken
to writing poem's and bas produced
quite a number. He says it takes about
twenty minutes to write a good poen.
Wordsworttiaad, *Xeate and those fel-
lows must have loafed a lot on the
job.
et •
The count for the latetylacial.....eleett
*Ions In Alberta. atittayet cOmpleted,
but it has gonbrfar enough, to give Mr.
Aberhart a Sure_ Majority in the new
Legislature. The Opposition will have.
about twenty seats in a House of Arty-
:.40Yep_., •
•lie hadn't- evelein one a those moede
•
ItitITRSDAY., APRIL 401,1%0
•AllIttRICAN CRITICISM
I ena a man lapt Monday who lied
iust returtied • from lecturing to the
univeraitlee America.. Ile had trav-
elled firma Maine to Florlda, and erom
Chicago te. Atlanta, Ga. t Ile had re-
turned (as any sensible person tmust
return) captivated by 'fl:thii good man-
ners, the zeSt, and the, ltitallinese, of
Young, America, ltitt lib had fleeett be-
wildered by the gap which Mee be-
tween their knowledge and their Ignore
ence: . . I netted. ietia to give nee
instances. lie said that on many Points,
the AnierWans undergraduate Wae better.
1 the world, looked , black and de- inforraed
Pressing .I •lingered to light my pipe.
EV erything was quiet, as if .the noLtes
of -the world had been smothered by
the blanket a Mow that lay Se (Vet)
°vett .eyeeyatiege The, silence was
eteeeed bY the and not altegether
elinnieledhatie eotitad. of whistling, a. .
.•Wheeee . .* Then
in a•monaent the Iligeina by aPPeared
over the hill. • ,• • t
They sa,y •thet there's something •In.
whistling Jest like, there is. in ta coi
tegious• disease. Taat .certainly applied
te the whistling a ,the•Iliggins boy,.
as be came „up beside met grintied
and stopped his wbistling long enough
ett-Veatenteethrotigheetheettlayeeiviristli
,dtoa3,sr.ay, :Pre, tty day; len: it'd'
make sense. • But sontelaow it was
that odd little tune that -didn't eeea
less 1 thought about the troubles of the
cheering and the more I whistled the
•
Watch for the Man 'who's "*wh%tling
and Ill'venture to say that You'n find
that he's h.appy.
I .always think that spring a time
foe whistling. (Gro around a farm on
these days and you'll find men doing
anything • from repairing harness to
cleaning grain, whietling away merrily.
Sugar bushes are cheerful places too
and the bubbling of, the liaitid syrup In
the dark kettles stiepended ever the
crackling tire, •the clanking -clinking
sound of tire sap pails and the sound
Pon European , affairs than.
the Itrialsh undergraduate. An ellen
sacIdenly 'Would eepae a Question whieh,
evtthoet arousing eeen momentary, cone
sternation in the audlenee, showed. that
the true proportions of ,the world situ,
ation were in no way understood,. For
iliertallee," Ale Said,' t'at three -or Lour
pliteee 1 vvoe pecked .wliethea the. mo"
meet had mit come for Great Britain
to grant independence to Canada.t They
only smiled if knoWing mane when I
'explained to thorn the true nature of
Dominion status?", hew well reecogs.
niee that ItriewIng emilit. It is the
smile which fiickera across the fitee of
a Soviet school-teachet when SU in-
form. ber .that education In Great Bri-
tainaiseunteersateetteleetheesndlo-whiche
illumines the Aryan features of a NaZi
i;o4th-leivier-wheu you essare hien that
the British Conservative party are not
iIn fact instruments in the /hands of
international Jewry. 02 Afo_VmS of
tac1al*expre5sion4t is perhaS. qtrfiard-
eat to bear. ..,
And itheaa.? 'illy friend centinued,"
-there was 'somethine else.which Is dif-
ficult to identify or ilefene.t It Was a
g,enereil conceptten that Europe consti-
tutes nu . entity ekeown tis ..the • Old
Wold' which is -more .• or less of • a
homogeneous . nature. Thee young -
people areInclined to speak of 'Europe!
as we . used, before 1914, tor spelik• of
the Balkans' namely as a small, pug-
naeious. backward aed"extremely cmar-
military aid to Finland or permittleg
the Allies 19 f3end an expeditionary
force. Moreover, it appear e to have in-
thatereed the') Vlime against asking form-
ai assistance from the West by hinting
that it wee prepared to Join he thellna.
elate fitteeke . . Whether„ in these cir-
curastaneeS, the • Allies • should • have
brushed aside neutral protests and dist
patched the largest force available to
Finland without awaiting a formal in-
vitation was 'and Is a subJeet of heated
debate both Imre and In Eutope. . . .
Nor was If easy for countrlee fighting
under' the Ibenner of democracy to de.
cide to violate the, neutrality of demo-
cratletitountries. ' It la hardly becoming
for Americans, . who have criticized
Much breaehes of. Inteenational
lave litsellie- Allies, to complain._ .of
hesitetion about such a major tees -
pass. •
But 'whether the Allies were right or
eveonge the fact rentable that •Gerneany
bee' scittedtbeavilta It lute eut eff the
northern countrieS' as a possible avenue
of attack, demonstrated, 'onee again its
'Power to excite. anning email neutrals
the- seine kind of fascinated terror
wieleb. the snake inspires in rabbits, and
helped '4ussia to end a campaign 'whieh
wee curtailing siipplies needed to offSet
the Alliedtblockade, 'Considering, then,
that 'Germany's diplomatic and etraSe-•
tgleetepositierreelettsteatreeireeattrepretin
strepgthened, it may seem; strange that
this moment sheuld be chosen in Berlin
for a peace drive. For that, indeed, is
'what appears to be going on under a
heafy smoke ecreen of bluster, But it
must never be 'forgotten that peace on
aey terms whieh euabled. Germany to
jat-ttlie -"iktatitillite *Pettey
tomtit ueerat inspiration in the e*artiPle
of Aaneriea, where forty-eight sovereign
states, free to organize themselves from
the politieal, adminfletrative, and Judic-
iary point? of view, form uerertheless
the greatetst area of tree trade opened
to Int an activity that exastsetn the
-
.1t. Is in ifhis dIreetion 'that lOuaope
must tilint its orientation If it does not
want .te perish.
IteyeAtal in the April' Atlanto
MOnthly. •
-4mc----...7-7••••
ralider . . seem possible while it is strong and un- (,wha ct-tt'rib6u°teittAililleiNr sit11)ffir5Tlierings solely to
Many- Germaffs disbelleye what their
'Government tells theta, and the- take
exti.aordlnary risks' IA order to listen
to foreign. broadcasts, although it ite a
caPital came to listen even to neutral
news. But beyond' that, they ean Seam.
ly,expreseatliellt"dieeententainside their
Own houses or fiats, fled certainly DO
farther • afield:- -Otte of the most ter-
riblo -things about. hiaerist Germany
IS theeeteetelialtteit117-organiged es0-9llt-
age, pot only by• servants, bet by the
Children, le each 'heat.. All, maid,
servente seem to be Nazi entlaislasts,
and their eranloyeretare not free to dis-
miss- them. As 'for the ',children, they
are systematically broughrup to believe
that they wee God, hitter and Ger ,,,,
etailY by betraying' their parents. .a.t I 4:Mey're hieing sales eve7 deY. My •
man, on returning from A concentra-
Lorrach, near the., Swiss front*, a .ease is. Just. an exemPle." •
tioneeemprISSItertlirnalW„tit Teigrat
tell him. Who had denounced him for
listening to foreign breadcaging. They
told him his daughter, a child ten o
elerato years old.' De went' borne° awl. 1
shot !first the child and theA himself. T
' That is one -side or the picture. On 't
thee other ore all the people—and per I
hold on to its•loota-and no other terene haps they are the matority after all—
,
Ottawa reports that the cog to the xlefeated—would be the eettivalent of the eneety and bia bental blockade, the .
Canadian Treasury of the general elec.. victory. Such a peace would email the unworthy wennon with -which he won
tion was three Million dollars—almost Abdication by the Allies •eftall authority the last war. The less food and clothe
east of the Rhine and would provide ing they have) the readier they are to
1935. And at that e Conservative was Meter with the opportunity -to organize accept the •offielal view of Britieh vile'
Central and Southeastern Europe as a lathy, and to decide that they will en -
one million less than the election af
heard to exclaim that it was three coefederation of dependent states. Tbat dute anything in order that this vil-
milliente too made . ,-, accouipliehed, lie. could :obtain, all he- Wiest titian be vanquished once for all.
e * et I -. , wanted froth the :Street step by step Tbey believe, moreover, that England
ueit. -. e . So also Withput risk of armed resistance. , Is beteg starved by the sinking Of m'ost
The Natienal Goverement of men whistling everything from tend 1 relsome geographical
9 Black Joe. to- th"e Blue Danube -Weitzel do the Americans•tod'ay seek to blur, The Present ProPaganda and. diplo- of tbe shins width •approach her her-.
regime Were, thage end the People or
itermany another. lie frankly week
nizee that 'German youth has been the '
driving (force beland -the Nazi move,
tift'att---a, youth society which haa ideas
and ideals of its own, distorted' and
deformed, which are In stark oppoeit
tion to .theeee of the youth of ,Britaie.
That, it 'Lord halifati is right, givesao
the war a hied a fundamental neeeet
eitya it is seen as a war betateen two
tontradietorY standarde a conduct
whose 'opposition constitutee. a terrifY-
Ing challenge to the very foundations
thoueht and action; it is a. war. .
TiPoctirnisnte atulosetinveet fin4aeleteavitheewl'inTelinise
of the war easier, but tt makes it more
netteSsary. •-•
—The 'Spectator Moncton).
• wiru7„I'VuEinLte:16 sTuOur.3:1(4
A citizen made confession to The Sun',
last week,' and his good lady had
purchased an article for houeehold
utility worth perhaps $150, out of town,
,believerig the 'wbile It could not he pile.
elftlaaidaln Trento -ire -The ritiaen le- verve
loyal to ,leitirietae town „merchants, and waft
mcellueldh ldiaffvliellY:addewilheien` plrcilie:Srell!rdighhet
here. Hence his eat]. to The $un.
"Why," he asked, 'ale not our mer-
ehants let us Meow What they -Zell?
• having • been defeated, Dr. Manion an makes a sYmPtianY of sound that in be adsusing the term- -Europe,a- what - -nia tic , efforts- of thee -Nazi. kovernenent hors; while there is more ad r,a,ore talk'
nouneetief...hatetheedemberteekeeedeender myeestimation is mighty heedto beatseems to ea the teeniendoustalletlactions -aPPear tobe directed towards impressof the grand , Offeeetee which Is 'to
that nanie will no* be knoWn ae Na- -
Whistling came into beingtwhee•-we between...the -democeacies and the tote/i- ing .011 the Alires, and :incidentally, on, sinash ,her this, spring.
were lads. of about ten year's of age. Metall etates." 'But," I objected, "they Sumner 'Welles, the hoPelessness .of 'The N'aitniy.th,thet Germany lost the
A •-, • .• • •
'about make a record for a shert-liVed .
dons -at the time of Muuieb, wathi they Meeting on 'the Brenner between hitter popplatien became— dentorallied heel
political movernt•. • ' ' 0 ourselves forget that ehe was first de-
- I- * feeted In battle:, Today, lust as raucli-
The • Barrie Advaneee : said .to be whistle- sealed to come .to our -11Pa. 'Germany's civilian morale is relatively. ..•
•
cic'llserFatives, -114-ust just We hadn't ibethered much witb...11 in were acutely, aevare ef these elistme• their position. The hastily arranged wa 19 8 on et 'because c v
younger years when eur lips seem d too
dry and our control of the whistlieg
ability wastvery poor., Going on a fish, -
leg tele on a 24th of alay a eulltlinped
were so angry witloustfor not going to and Mussolini, obviously. timed ,to but
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were' *Todayt” he said, sadly, this tress, the. reactione to the Finnish de
has altered. They know that we are in ba le as :well as to influence alr.Welies
the right and they want us to elii. Is, being Played up in Berlin as a "sign
been .so. successfully. cieciflatea that we
cl ol c hints aere unimtiertante - Of the soldiers, one can -a
teeteee e......... -
ninety -three years old, has lieeeClt 'Via. -foe the Whole—filtrItte-Tritglireced. -Buttherrealize thatittwouid all betsa—o a .rem orce a is p . i y.,
sorbed be ihe Ettain' r, and Barrie the'timid fish away frona our lines by much easiet-ter -them if .Vee Were in 'broadcast of. pending agreement be tinues to hear - that the younger once
- * - ' the'queerly discordant sounds which we the wrong. They atelcome with delight, tkveen Rome, Berlin. and Maseowe sugt 'are keep and tbe oldeareepteagulet,. In
Tunes duin t thean day.- any -argument Which seems to suegest gestions flee treitoten ,,,met of ,milimry deed, the accounts ,one receives.' of tee
a town nearly twice the size ,of Gode- ' : • , • .
. e ad al trattun—e of ou---r-own li.nsInceritY on onr.Part, or which throws assietance-from Italy when the thne is young mentare euch as to force one_to
_
'terich,. tele D,OW wily one newspaper, .a. theta. '
weekly. At one time the . town. .pad doubt upon our 'democratic •perity.- rine. . . ..It cannot be said, hoevever, , conclude that they a:re indifferent to the
fleet aooletne great deal. of improtasing,
Grown men ,who could whigle were
greet subjects of Interest and the ques-
tions 'flew thick and fast .as to hew a
four Weekly publications. Times „leave sufferings of their parents at home„af
the cense pf the FuhreeregaireS these
• things. it Is Signifieant that the Sea.
changed: e
There Is, an enormous: ainount of min- that thee are any signs in Loudon or
sense' talked. a:bout 'Finiiish imperial- 'Paris that these scare tactics are under -
ism ' about the 'British governing mining the determleation -to continue
person could get a whistle that sounded I classes,' - or the 'Influence of big busi- the witr.
like something. Our elders seemed to nes upon Mr. Cb and al- - e --The Natien ' ,t,New 'York).
impress the tact that you had to lee ways, insistently, there is --this preoc-,
here With atmuslcal instinct beforeyou &pat -ion, with India." . BY ThE NEVV FREN R
. - '- — ell intimm
could ever.. get anywhere as far as "Thea" 1 repliecl, is no new thing. At aletend .cif January IMO, 'es it the'
athistling Was concerned. Ten- years ergo I also lectured in the te •
eed of January 1940 Germany had, . • 1
•• Back in those days every community United States and was constantly being .... - • - ' . stilled Into the. youth of Gerniany since
had at _ least one lady or gentleman faced by this Indian bogey. For Some knoevn success in tee, Bast. The vic- fen, and whieh, in the opinion of man--
NN.leo enter -UMW -at e'arden Parties and thirty leetures 1 bore this question with tory of Tannenberg,was a terrible 1 bete)! welltinformed observers can only be
'awe. socials by whistling thx•ough one latightt-charitta -atieWering 'with polite ntoev
etilrei:enconsveleada..eteamilnipYletfer, thRU'Shieenhebilte a ffre.;oe tr6dd: '11bY'arifialixtaraYt: •-dOefi-fe4otr.d.,'.s.'peakire.
or tveo : seleettees. *They -always lad and incleive liberalism. Yet I recall
frills -0*. their whietling and trilled off that on. one evening at Dayton, Ohio, ing .Germany. to maintain on the West- primarily to the Anclergeaduates in his
into.liale side sweeps that were glib:0st my patience 'failed. A woman rose ern :Front .during the whole duration audience; - reminded -them that there
enajestiate tt_Vore. cleyg.„ afterwards' the from the audience, and in a voice pal- of tae . war three-fourths of.eits toeces... ,
Half of Poked was ocettpled by Ger- youth In this eceintry as there was be no conflict So real between age and
back fifties rang with the sound of their pitatieg with:uplift asked fhe Inevitable
:man troops, Turkey and Bulgaria had tween,the youth of today In Britain -and
1
imitators. • . ' . - question about India.' 'Mr. ,Nicolson,'
outh. of i0ermany, Here ther
'Whistling" was always a Pastime, on she said, 4when you return to Europe sided. with the Reich, and Rumania had the y
the way back for the coWs. It seemed cannot you do sothething to ease the adopted towards it an attitude Of be 'eight be a breakink away from old con- -
tventions and from -the . outworn, but
nutmeg the ,t4lerMan youth there was- a*
breaking away from all the moral and
social sthedeeds tint of which conven-
floes spring, ' Loyid, -Halifax. did not
take. the eangnine view that the Nazi
weekly', the rSchwarze Ittornse recently
There are new three vacancies in suggested thatold and ill peoPleamight
the Ontario- Legislature: Kingston- and 41-)0 speeded' out of the world in order
to relieve tbe grain on "resources. This
•Toronte Bellweods, ,• where the sitang Wcharatteristic of the brutal fanatic
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members, T. A. Kidd and A. W. Itoe-ism 'which has beCtid deliberately. in -
'buck, resigned to cot:I:tett seats* in the
Federal election, anti, Huron-Bruee.
Premier Ilepburn is emoted as saying
there is "no rush" to holq. hye-elections
for `these seats, theho'ase not being
in session. ' • . -
• * *
• Even a . pretentious .Paper like The
Financial itok; which aesthetes an air
of continental 'wisclo;n, •wes, conaider-
ably • "off" In its election predictions.
It said the King Goyerament would
lose far More seats than. it expected.
and, getting down: to. figures, -forecast
regillte "about - as .follows": Liberals;
140; Coneervativeie S-C.O.], 15;
tion ie-ader at !Ottawa may coettibute doubtful, 12.
greatly' to the value of 'Canadats effort
• en the:tear. •
" It is not neeessry that, as The Globe
and Mail fears; the "unseemly mar on
%he,1•7'
.1.1.astiegs" sheteld be carried into
Hitarliametilet-We -belteve-theaneopleeh
anada 'would like tosee aiming the
war e. eublinergence 'ow both sides of
'party differeeeeS. . There .is nothing to
prevent tlfe- Govermaieat itOM. ealhng
in Conservativee, is already it hasedone
tit" sale* extent, to till executive posi-
tione in prosecutiag the war effort In
tact., there shonidtbe a general lettiag
dOwn of the party bars, As Mr Car
said durieg the election caraneignethere
are .not Liberal solelteri azi1 ConServa-
, aye soldiers, et Liberal Red Cross. and
• Censervative R,ed dross. All: tate
Canadians, whosesupreme aim for the
te.preseeitet late ,prosemitiontof et, sueeese-%
t fel War and a vietOry for 'freedom and
justice barioxlietnatione.'
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21:11101a.AI1OTPS
Dr. C 'Manion, has denied the report
that immediately after the election he
gave noticeof hie retitenaent *from the
Conseevative leadership. If he &tee
resIgualt-willenot be-untileatterthe leae...
hadan opportunity of, consulting • the
elected ,members of his party. This is
not by any means the first time a party'
leader ,has bee b defeated he his ,own
ln,fact, nearly all the leaders,
from the great Sir John Attalacdonald
en, at one time -be Another suffer a such
a personal •defeat. It is, perhaps, an
e'sseneiel part- of the traininge 41!.. a
lettelefettr. latei suceees.
'TAP pOIVIINION ELECTIONS
•Editer The sSignal•Stare
Sir,—The :flomitilon elections.: ere
over and j suppose len:night great .surt
Prise to us all Despite the strenuous
efferte 10 unseat him; 'the hon. W..1.0
alackeezle king watt retail -led to 'guide
April. •
- •, *
• What a grand feelitig, after all the
. lee and' eneW, to .• have one's feet on'
eonorefe again!
nolkl
Now that the ii010w, is gone' and we
have a clutuee tte toekt'et it, We .firld
it isn't such a bad, old earth after all.
O
One n 'travel from OWeite-Settnd
antee„,to Stieela, without traversing Tory ter-
• ,ritoryeablet not down the Blue Water
highway.. , * •
*
,Supporters of National (4,*om
verneirt
have one consolatien, in, their defeat
the majority of the soldiers' vote watt
...With them.
• ;k
It 18 sfigge.;ted that Miss Macphail
be given a 8e11 in the Senate. It would
hardly do ; she might wake edm
. soe
of the old boys:
• •
• Moscow complains that an attemiit,
1.4 being Made to "blaeken (SevietItussia
in the eyes, of the 'Iiritish people and
tlie affairs' of the country with a swe4--
Ing. majoritta. 178 seats. Mr-. Manion
was defeated in his own riding, and has
follovving of 381 at present. The,
election 'totems are net lit accord With
the pre-election prealetione of the op-
position mete'. We think. tile .eandid
opinion of Dr. .Manion, Mre lienburn,
Col. Om tarew, Dr, Herbert Bruce,
Denton 'Massey ahd many ethet ntal
Warts of' the eotcalled,Natithial (overh-
merit, expreesed in plain terms today,
Wotild. bee "The best la.ld plane taice
tena men gang. aft agley." In ,theii
*fat for the tiveIfaee of the cimntry.iind
their efforts \to (Win the war they over-
did it 'Many of their vituperative
sPeeches lacked distretion. They were
'rash in' the extreme. Many of theta
were ' 0110411)0110411)speeches, evidently gotten
up on the spur Of the moment. Theta
lacked sterna Judgment. They lacked
'foundation in feet; and they -clacked
ramentahly the teaching of the Golden
Itule in temeeh• as Well as in, action.
There Is a little flietthet
0 wad some power the giftie gie
•00 1
flet margelq.ag ithere ette VA
It wadafrae mony blundett free ue
And fooliali-notion.
SPECTATOR.
to go with a summer evening with 'the
crickets rasping away in the hayfield
. . the bullfrogs croaking, out a song
to the sun sinkingein ,,the -western sky
. . . antt all the other sumraer. sounds:
.1 never thflik of -as
fate* of the poor Indians' 'Which In- nevolent neetrality. From Hamburg
diens?' I rejoined, unpardonably; 'yours to Bagdad, the 'German and Austrian
or. ones?. Yea must realize that the Empires formed a political; military,
two problems are dietinct. For where- and .06onomic bloc under the indisput-.
as we educated and multiplied our , able supremacy of Berlin. The Getman
whistlieg Sir
Indians you practically exterminated general staff directed the operations of
Harry ,,Lauder ,did when he said he Years It Would be tvery difficult for the coalition and controlled closely the
first worked:It -a place where the own- W._ .at this. date 10 adopt the solution execution of every move. .The 'Reich
-- e
er made all his help 'whistle while they which has proved .so suand its allies had free accesstotend
ceeSsfui yoUt-
country and to confine the aborigines disposal of, alio the resources which are
of India to reserves' It is Only fail- to be foend In the. territories which
to the citizens Of Dayton to add that are new 'Called Ozachoslovetkia, Yugo
they appreciated this rejoinder." slavia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Rumania,
"pit yet' can have neetemeseeption," Turkey, Irak, Syria, Palestine, and the
trey friend continued, 'Iota large a plaee Arabian Kingdoms.
this Indian problem now .occupies in • In ,the WethA.
st e liles had Suffered
the feeling -of the-UnitedeStataeaThey yery serious reverses. In spite of . the
are almoet 'totally ignorant of the real extraordinary comelfack-Orth-e-lren
proportions of • the problem, and they at, the Battle of the Marne, eleven
Imagine, for Instance, that the Congress' French departments remained ypecupled
party is the duly elected Parliament bY ,Germcin troops. They included the
of all India and that its views represent major Part of . the metal and .textil
the whole people of Indite tin Congress induatries, ,eighty per centof the peal,
assembled' We eeem to be doing•noth- end all, the ore supply of France.
ing whatsoever to place the real faets France. had' lost 400,000 killed. , The
e. • • - .
called the ',traditional couple of beerse, of- the Indlau .situation.before the Am- British Expeditionary Force was par
-
There was no evidence betoke the cant •erican' people." "But we , couldn't .dodente destroyed (12,060 .kiuga out of
that his condition because of the beers •that," 1 protested; -it would be very 73,000 enlisted). On 'the seas, Greae,
worked. They were picking. Straw-
berries: • t
• Humorous aspects of whistling In-
clude" the "eating 'a soda -cracker" and
then whistling "How Dry I Atn" con-
test •. . which' is a regular feature of
ouf
Whistling ranee you happy.
it some- time.
A POOR,: RISK
(Orangeville Banner)
•.1n, pronouncingelfidgment „in a civil.
stilt the ,ether 'day, Judge Coeltrane, ef
Peel, -stated that time plaintiff hard ad-
'flitted- that he- had had what tbe court
paummawasituariiftwommarrommorsorgli*;, •
.ceused • oe contributed to the aecideneta
rfeitertheless Ills eonstrained
to state that they..Certaiiily would not
and evidently did not iniprove his ludgt
Menteas a driver. "In My opinion,"
declared the coek, "tt 'roan With a
conplo of heers 'In Alta sYstora_is_a_poOx.
risk to drive a car at .any Hine." It 18.
net surprising to learn that the-plaintle
og his ease and that the defendants
were Allowed a counter -claim for $120.
The _Plaintiff 'nay have thought he had
a good ease, but his Pesition was pre-
judieedtright froni. the start by the fact
that he hadtaken, a couple of.beete—
one more peoef of the soundness of the
contention that if t man is bound to
drink he should not driye.
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SEAWAY AND THE .
(ett tithomes -Thries-Jodrnal)-
a The annual report ok, the Canadian
National -Railway& shows. that operat-
ing revenues during 1939 were alt-
ercated . by $14,788,00/ conipared with
theaprevioutt year, but the •delleit fore
he- Yeai tker- -,54(000,900.- A
,bigger harvest and prObably extra
At the zoo a generously proportioned
lady Was watching the lionter being fed."
The hoepot gave. one beast what she
' of
the world," Mescoiv is wrong:, ittria, °il" 3 "IT '21113111 D°41°11
fild that hermelf by her treatment, of
Finland, "
The elttef fon
West abolleh rad
meat. 'I beg your pardon," elle said,
"isn't this a ver,y Inadequate piece of
• meat for a lion?"
The Reeper replied, "It may etein
small to you. Militant, but it is plenty
for the non." ' t say hoW that may be atolded.
dangerous. to Put- theateffe facts of any Britain 'superiority• over the 'Permate
situation abetdre the Aiueric41n-public: navy- was-notevery-great; tuitIttlee-bletelt--
It would he regarded as propaganda ade was far tfrom being as methodical
and aseffective as itis today. •To the
solid blec. of Germany, Austria, :and
'Ittirkey, firmly Ica by-theReich, the
.could only „Oppose, as yet,' a loose
riebelation, Nvithout unity of thilitaky
.conimana, , without Lettoneration ii the
inteekttes-of eeonomtes andtaaance. With
the Itussitiii.Ft'ateritittintenattee of con-
tact was difficult., Between the British
.aridtethe Fremieb, co-ordination was dif-
dichlt •tmet limited.
Today the Situation le entirely differ -
eel. The 'Maginot Line assures the
inviolability of the,. Preach frontier.
France therefore reteelnit ,the totality
of its Industrial end mining resources,
which have been considerably Increased
since the ret uen of Alsace'and Lorraine.
. But it Is 111 the 'field ofainterallied
co-Opera,tiou that . the" change 14 most
important 1111(1 111 certain respects.—
teeny ..astonisbing. 11 caa indeed be
said, and without any exaggerattea,
thee the British and French democrae-
ies have, started this `War there C1ots-e1-3i
united Than they Were. In 1918eit the
end. of. ".the leg conflict... the
same thee it is. the 'fleet steptowards
the future that hag been taken -in tido
war., It shoulereerve, as. a precedent; 12
not as the finufdation for the econonitc
reorganization otEurope atter the vie;
tory. Of the Allies.
. and tbe American people are
ticetely sensitive to an attempt ae our
pert to contradict the lies whlch are
told agaltise us." "I know," he said,„
but there is something behind it all:
something which is difficult to explaln.a
"You mean," I said, "the American cent
science." • '
• he answered,..0"you see the
Amerleaus are in a Spirited dilemma..
They •loathe War' and they detest eville
They dread. that the da Y come
when, unless. they go to war, evil Will
triumpht They thus „seek by. every
means la their power to reconcile their
idealism with •their iselatio,nierel .Th.e
+German and the left-wing propaganda
agencies have beeen quirk to provide
them with .the excuses which their souls
desire. They weleome anything' whicb.
suggests to them that this is not :in fact
a •elealecut donflict betveeen right and
-wrong, hut some complicatdd'Europeau*
oretimperialight struggle for Titterer;
that It is not an issue between de c -
teethe tide to Military preparations rail* and tyranny, but the final etrug le
Shortie. before Parliament was die -
Proved earninge. or capitallem In • Prance and tngla
The sad thing about it le that, even 14
brought aboutethe
solveitt, Premier alaelcenede Xing let it they make these expuses* they know
be
the teat they Lae not quite .trite."„ known that an agreemeut with
United. States for the deVelopment of —harold .Nicolson he The Spectator.
tIIA St.- Lawrence waterway wherould
f.•
•
shortly be completed. Since te is t A GERMAN VICTORY .
fieeParliament to iatiti. the agretheent, The defeat of ItInland was a 4lerman
the „matter has dropped out of sight; even more than a Itussian victory, and
antl so . far as we hivee noticed, Mrthe intangible' ,gains which accrue to.
King has been, silent about it . , (i,ermany are even morein1Portant than
We have never heard anyadvocate of the teeritorial ipolls which pass to the
the St. Lawrenee waterway.satisfactovl Oerietet. Ittlesia has not , won a (heap
liy explain how the iSt. Lawrence can Arietory. It has ball to pay heavily in
be made.' na.v.ilableriVer for oc,ean casualties, and it hare cantered a loss.
ships without having a serious 'effete in preetigeboth beeautte of the ;pre. -
upon the failways. The railivaYs are lifninary defeats,: experienced- by WI
hound to lot.,;e a lot of traffic, .grain and 0.11ny and lieiquse of its. Abandonment
general niorehinthe, and eniployment of afr.:'Kuusinen and its enforced.redis
will be serieusly affeeted.,
covery of a PinniSli government 11 1141(1
, And 10,a good, yet& the canadiaillial pronouneed tion-erietelit.
tiorial rtailways have lost -another $40,0 f;ermanY's rieterY was gained (With -
090.09. out the Uwe of a single manand, the
Tko railway workers, of „et. Thomas Iteleh is left with heightened prestige.,
wot114,I be relieved if the Prime Minister Its threats to Sweilen,and NOnwaY Pre-
nother
Cpujit Get No Rest
•the thousands who toss, night
afehattetisht, on sleteplesseltede and to
whose eyes slint-b-e-r-Writatue-----_
•To those Who Sleep in -a kind of
way,' but whose • rest is 'broken by
bs.d.fireams and nightniares,,t-
To those who wake upe in the „
morning as tired as ofl going to bed,
WO offer in rlbirnat Etealth. and
Nerve Pills a 'remedy to 'help soothe
taid calm, the nerves, and bring theth -
back to - o, perfect: condition.; and
—*hen -this -1, donet•tlierte should -be ne --
more Bleeplerig nights, (Inc to shat-
tered nerves. —
r.010., T. Milburn Go.
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Washing IVIachines. or VacuumAleai'ers.
An ele'etric coffee percolator, toaster, iron, or floex..politih.er
' is; always' acceptable,
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time agreed Upon;• —
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In reatity, authore of the Versail-
les Treaty. did not column injustices
When' they defined the political fron,
tiers. -From the ethnological Point of
view the boundaries set down at Ver-
sailles were au fair as any that ever
existed In Iluvope, and itis difficult for
an arbitrator of good faith to imagine
any that could be much better. The
error of the Versailles statesmen was
• In Making the customs boundaries coin-
cide with the politieal frontiers, and in
giving to the suivessor states .of Austro
tr-
Itaoary and iltussia total sovereignts'
in the matter of eeonOndeS. When it. •
would have been possible to impose
upon them—at least within certain
yented thele countries from sending limits-- a customs union. The makerti
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