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dLIIIT.TUSDAY,- hiet.Y 2nd, 1940
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alt.GAIiItUD OPPOSITION'
nee_
epeech; he Is Germany's most
adept and teost eoracienceleeS liar.
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Th16 aper., which has neve r faltered •
In its oPpoSition .t the Great Lakes, The - meesure giving Um' women of
deep.' Waterway echeine, isgra.tilled 1 ()xebec a vote in, Provincial elecileas
epee thatenn'essbeiation 1t been fortned has beco4s e law. Tim Federal frail;
teegaserereaeeeedoPpo'sition tie the pro- eldee was.- extended to efuebee women,
Pct.. This Movement comes not a Me- , along- wittt those of the' ee'et *Of, the
Ment too soon. Feom time to time Dominion; twenty 'Yetttes •agewomen,
press '081)4t.ehee carry the .,annonnee- of all paets of' Cantelti noW tite
:meat that a treaty ete about to be ague(' riglat to 'be called for on election tiny,
by the- Waehingtort. ead Ottawa Gov- • its. * • *
,ernenents to • bring the ,seheeee, beto • A Cleveland business man spent
effect ; but so 3.r J ha e not reeeined $83,80 and several!,:heurs ceiling tap
the: aPproval ettner aCongresS 'or of JEeropean head's' hes telephone, to talk
Parliament, although'itS promoters ap- peace. Nolle of the peop/0-e'alled, came
, Pear to haventhe ear of, both Govern- to the teienhone, awl the Cleveland
inents Man had to be content with talithag to
,Ites remarkable' that so 'immense a subordinates, Remind -s One Of Henry
-neePrepesitiett_seould make such progress -Ford's, atterapt in 1914 to "get the by
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as this deep Waterviity scbeni haS Ud-thicarcho-t-diehorh-rohriii-tiiiim. --
without becoming an election issuein
no eingle instanee in Canede, so far It has eliVitye halt said that a doctor
as We are aware, hai the schemebeen makes e particularly good parliament!.
e-ndersed 'by any. body. of electorse ary candidate; because he gets so close-
Itu'nlie opinion has been somnolent; too 11n• toucli with peoPle of all parties.
. realty- people have allowed themselves But it is said that In' an"Albetta•
to be Influenced by the Toronto daily where a countri. deotor was a' candle
press; Whieh is strongly favorable to date. for the • Ottawa House in 1935,
the senenie, as Tor,oato enerisheS the people voted against him, because they,
idea of ocean -vessels coming through felt they could not spare him from his
tne ,St. Lawrence canal's to its harbor practiceHe was a candidate again
and the city becoming, the 'terminal this year and again was defeated, 'by
VOint- forea large proportion a the' a: small margin, of votes,
eVeeted. treffie. No that the people
in • other parts of 'the Province :are
-waking up:to what bas„been ,going on
it should not be 'so ,eaetr for the pro-
s:teeters of. the :project to get their own
way. •
-,1Th•e: Huroe and Georgian • Bay- Lake
...Ports •Assoeiation in opposing the
itc,henie shateld net dwell toe Muchupon
antns"leeeln-einti;neeetiortalereffeets • bit
sh.ouici diteet publie•notiee te`; its bread
nationa, Itapeet. The scheme- would
eineen a ..needless and reekleas expennis
'lure o ptib1ic money, and 'that at a
tune : When; every available dollar' 1,s ree
-ttilired for the pretaeOution of the war.
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lioT A RAPIEDY,
Advocatingeimemployment InSerttnee.
, The Titront4 Stan ,sityee
he effects of unempleement are
,insidieus.' • The various wane. In
'which it underinines the pnyeicel
land niental stainina•of a. person. are
niseleg stiidied and. measured by
.nied.ieal and, psychological eXperts °
• • and it will,he senie lime beforethe
whole 'truth, will be blown. The
fats •vretieh are so far available are
disturbine. enough'.
,
True enough; but unemploement In-
surartce Oat going to get rid 'of.,nit-
, employment and its deleterious effects,
Instead a being on -relief people will
be rgetting. • unempleyntent lesuranee
• %benefits,. and. between the twassyStems.
*ere not.euch a great ,differeitee, inn
• :the difference is not WhollY to the ad-
' Vantage- of, unemployment liaser.ance.
'We are not alleging against unem-
• pl.oyment ineura.nee; but we do wish
• to emphasize the fact that it is no cure
ter unemployment—on the:eontrary, it
. &mat but by -inereaeing costs Of menet
factnre create More ;-• unemployment—.
and it distracts 'attention :from .the
Meens' be Which the euese. of anemplay---
. inent may be eemoved, :
Unemployment liesurance may be
described as an apiate which relieves
, immediate distriessebet. in .the long run
leare 'the patient in worse' 64-nanition
that t before. Mitch better Would- be a
ttenelhle eaerte of treatnient thatationi.
go to the root Of the trouble. '
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If we have fewer birds' in Canada
this sunimer we an attribute it to the
nnusual-ly cold .weatiter thet'visited tie
Southern States the peat wiatereer,e-
suiting in the death by,eXpesure or •by
Starvation of mane of -0apefeathered
friends who Ilene:4y spend their winters
comfortably nte etbe !Southern clime.
•SoneenneoPlenwhe vsatch the comings
and goings of the bird a say that so far P'Ti7evalketp antrdonvait ihtth threprink-
lin:g ..eae,the ,potent, green Mint--
their numbers hi Canada ara.. appreci-
. that spellands a short life for the tbirsty
ably •le,s,s than usual -at this date.
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It has not taken long for, the people
of Demark to realize what NaZi rule -
means. Their once welbstacked markets
l3ave, been stripped Of foodstuffs an
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the people. dailY -terror of the
'Gestapo,- Everything the Nazis Want
they take; Oaying: for• it in ,bIlls •of
-doubtful value. . 'Radio tranimittere
'have been confliCatech and the. people
EDIT014.1irt '14.0TES
Now for the May flowers!
- The telephone is &di years' old, but
thegeliaven't yet devised any way ..of
• getting 'rid of ,the. t"line's busy"
Mittel:Met •
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- They ceetainly are Liking, the ,ava
seriously in Britain. Inharder to save
Weod they are Making nrOom handles,
<pare, Iinagine
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A CORRECTION Berlin to the East Anglian coast.
, r ()TATO SPROUTS The onat,ssion a 6ctveral words gr -01,
the article, °The Two Wars," by Robert
There's ^something about' potato Pell in last weeles laaue gave all me:
sprouts that°. seema te usher in. the fortuna.te twlst to an important 4.sent
epring season tor me. 1 can't quite tence. What was actually written wae
fathom what it is, but every time 1 as follows:
See '119tat0e2 •Witil thoae snarly snags "The present war is not a elas'h. be-
projeeting from their ehte6 I know it's owen rival imperialist:1s. It is not a
epring. . ' , war for ileinoeraey, but a war forced. be
' QUite by chant() livlien I vtae coming. -the Englieh and French demoera.eies
out front dinner today I noticed a pan on their respective governments, which.
11116.1.w -1t1& petatoes sitting in the back yhided most unevillinglf."
kitchen. ' On several of the potatoes , .
there were these 'rough, pinkish ,snags ------.
sheoting out like bons from eyes. . . . • 'NV hat is tins llavY Qt ‘Yillebi g° Innen retitin the main adereatege 4)Je the
• THE BRITISH NAVY
and absent-mindedlyerplueked one and '
fondled it in my hand on the way to
the barn. ' • . ,
.,I noticed then for the first thee tile
softness cif the south, wind, 'Whooshing
gently up tbe hollow and running vel-
vetly-like over- MY .Cilea:,,, 'thearah Wind
. . bringing with it all life and
energy of a new season . . ,. and wav-
The stroug Franco -British fOreeS new
ssembled in Syria., Palestina, and
Egypt form a titifategic reServe far
bet•ter placed than when a eimilar •Brl-
tisit reserve, assembled In Egypt after
the Gallipoli eampaigee, They extend
frem tne Nile Valley olmast to the foot
of the Tauter, where they are in tett&
with the forees-ofe4 friendly Turkey,
theeports and railways of Syria and
palestine are at their disPosal, their
petrol is • brielght straight to ' .their
(tenets p,,, pipeline, and the Mediterran-
ean. iseuot now infested with hostile
submarines. On the otherelianti,, they
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old
is exacted? • ie is : iliffieult te say ise 1 Imperial -strategic -reserve, beeause the
plat -Meal terms. , Tne actual present :Suez eanal es ' there to bring them the
lighting strength is net known,' but. Pa•rnedang(cle, loffntl(!eeelilesaasrtya; nrdenodferAutheterxnalatselaa,
probably coesists of elevenehettleslaips,
three battle einisers, si-v aircraft ear- ‘•considerablettettent independent et sup -
tiers; sixtY -cruisers; 200 -Odd destroyeee, pGieletainfat.:Inse'.ViyZeic,eorautdheGriteuanatBanrilattinino.il, .,
and twenty -sit
Ile: istiltelat' tese. azaiddme,t7 ea:Ur:el:1e: threat
a4t
lag like a fairy wand over the ground, '11111t1211°tIrYt;°-dryhteabgrPecgildbc*mPrat:Qivalletes:61I519: 841:1PCilltYiQl3gb tVia:
to reawaken- the green grass and bring itl'iantkevres,s'felirslitaelrui.s:bstluinvdeeYee%hlaPps'enatthetn;14.- wafifielecht ''n1.-Giegellinte'nlicvtergrete:e'ttir Inefielltelaese°.hte6hr•
tateee . . . something akin to the life armed yachts, launches and minesweep- Russia - Shoeld she be inclined to aid
of wetted Merchant. eruitters, could :hardly fail to weigh heavily with
tne buds otit In tUil glory on the trees. areds
There's eontetaing earthy about po-
her ine the venture. Withont Passive
1•.1.1:112:adpsivoluLted,ilot _ta(.),„111, al4.6s,,n1, .,e tilinit,r: ,ing trawlers- Impressed into service
when dawn brake red en Sept. 3, And Rilssian aid the, operationewould n
the ehocolate brown of the furrows e,
Ittessiart aid it would- birtliihetil:r Teri(
. , . ee, .the new -cut potatoes . . . a 'finally there're --then tilerenuateentarinen-Yintilalliimpesseble withut active
n ee• Ia
ing up between the- toes . • . and of the one of the main reasons 'tor the whole -
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rhythiitie dropping of the slieeeS of strunture. In terms' of men the figures risky In ,the extreme., .
300,000- are wearing the uniform of
are etptally Vague, but it is probable' -:-/rile 'London Times Military Cor -
bare feet with Moist, soft earth squeez-
respondent.
tphoatat t.we osuid. (('hwithits ti
by at leastletanin-uktlegs. Britaints bevyneand this list is growing: " -----
5,000, a week. ,
WESTERN CIVItIZATION AND THE
ing uthrough the en,rth gradually , At the head of all this far-flung or ' UNITED STATES
veIop as the days. ticked off into a lust
glIaittibizawtitsten onnistne Board of AdmiraltY Three coentries have Maihly eoritrib-
inetarcltill as its political uted to the development a whit we
p d -
green bush . . . to caret,' on the rota:
-and
of a grandfather . ,. . a hardy, pioneer- .head and Sir- Dudley Pound as First
a,' te- of
Of seed to seed. e
Perhaps it recalls, too, the thongh. ts SeLord—a team of politicia
ing nsan with Erin etched indelibly ort teen Under them are We': other mem-
o. toil worn face . •.`". who would openly bers of the Board. From an oldenatild,
delight ae he mashed a plateful Of the ing in Whitehall go but orders, ques-
mealy wonders and say, "God gave us tiona. end suggestions to ships all over
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many vvontierful things,- but faith, the the face of the globe—faster and quick.
greatest of • all His blessings was the
potato." • .• ,
. A potato snag may recall the care
that's. taken With the rop. It recalls
the freshnesseof a summer's Morning,
befoee the sun has had time to collect
and concentrate the fury 'of Its rays.
The pleasant sound of the birds with
tbelr plaintive, early morning chirrup-
ing . -. . and the patteeing, swishing
sound of the spray -on the leaves as-
marauders so -Intent on destroying the
green feint& 'of the potato plants.
The potato patch always is a special
teeet o1and. Seedy . ; ye.h.%.• • .• just
enough to keep the potatoes clean and
easy to cultivate.. . loamy . yes
. . so that enough. of the goodness of .
tresn, sweet soil can be mingled with
the bursting- sprouts to grow -.into
plump, well-forined potatoes.
Perhaps the feet of. the 'potato snag
reealls my owe father Who often con-
fessed . . "When things were hard
4s,.e. been warned, again* Jistailer„ _to to &figure out I 'hoed • the potatoes.e.
Yes, it's true! When the; heat' of un.
'foreiga broadcasts., And all the ether reesoning human anger surges upward
tittle countries of Europe are -wonder- within you when keotty problems
ing if their turn'ivill come net .% come along to pester you . when
the going gets hard, theee's nothing like
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session in the poteeta patch. Perhaps
As this column has had soinething
yonr hoe at test will swing a little toe
to say abbet the possibility than ca hard nin p. too far into the grounda
adieu mbtals were .being used by eg- or slash unevenbut gradu-
ntertohic'.
ally it will ceme
gressor nations in their war operetions, the peronpier way.
Ann then as the weeds r at
makes note of the etafement a fee-. tne., ground -level , . . so go the weeds
daysdays ago in Termite of Robert C. Stan- eroiu your miad . , and the energy
-ley• President—et the International of temper serves to.a useful purpose in
Nickel CompanyStanley said hoeing the potato pateh . . . and before
,
you reallie it things' appear to be back
there was -"no ehanee• at all of any
Canadian nickel getting to Germane,” A potato sprotit can 'make you think
and further; -- • . of Many things. . •
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We .make `shipments whatever
MB KINGs. VACATION
-without a permit from the C'anadiau
Government, and the etpress-eanetion •rp'h(oTrocInptoniStacLtuberd.ly, Ind.)
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of the British Goveenment. -There
been a lot of loose talk about our ulekel Conservative. speakers and writers
whom the election results have( eailed
going to Russia and Sepat. We haven't
to COnVili1Ce that bitter personal attacks
very od yotea.
shipped a pound of nickel, fa Russia
-stn-ceslast MaYeantitemtle,only--one . _
wee eeeese the getters. The latesteaceusations against 80 6
;meat to Japan! That
war. Our relations with officiats that he1That, ieeeed, . the beet safeguard for
the ,Prime are (1)
Ottawa and London ire very eldse •in- ought not to take a vacation while the Ramaida' as she dottbtless knows.
deed and I don't 'think any 'ticket *ill From the military point of view,' toh,
war IS, on, ane (2) that• if he Must '
get past tus to the enenlyi" the Otieration is fat front easy. Germany
take vacation he ought not to out
of Canada., Sir Robert Pearden cantiot approaen (tiredly. An
the last -vvaie and took several vactition throttgh Hungary would be
eves Prinie..Ministee et Canada during aPijr"ah
trips -in the United States. We eannot faeed bY the -great, horseshoe of. the
recall that anyinkly ever- sug-gested at Carpathittua and Transylvenian Aips,
at the. 'poutheasternefoot of whieh the
in their proper proportions again.
er than in Nelson's day, •but still
whieh .Nelson, get leSssigni4eant. England has developed
Ithise ,soardeerSr.6-°Bratitiri)sillince th.e
word; on ' the trust 'inspired by the
navy is so the concept -of eredit *wed on the given
honestman. i$he was, besides, the fleet
and I am efrald, the ouly country to
understand that political letwee„nas,
to be something more than- a mere eit-
Pression .,,-Ota common interests, that
liberty and authority Are not gentradie-
tory tefins; that liberty -ehn be enJOyed
without diaorder and authority can lie
exercised •without tyrantie—in a ••woi711,.
"Eitgtend na.s tontribiered libeitaltathseand
the liberal 'spirit. °It was due to that
spirit that the nineteenth tentetY,
world ''''Ibeettine ea babttable Worldeeas
fact which the ewentieth century,:::alas,
inclines •zto forget AS , regards the
United Stetee,,,..I•do not think that its,.
asesending materiel progreSSeponste•
tutee its chief centrihnfion So:much as
the, persistent struggle 'of the American
people, eearried ant. In - a Profoundly
itlealehtle :spirit, to enhance the dignity
of • the -.human ,beingeby centinuallyerAis-
king. the plane on which the lives. Ain -
erica has stought to melte men:better by '
making -theme happier. America Is the
"countey'of '80,Cial progress. •
Wb.erever one looks inettikeetneee-pane
elled Picture; one .2nds the same ialUes;.
ei.-t*he nhassn:leniceonndeern-
the best policy, and it seems that trade,, energies that have enabled. .it te be
::iiisioinrens; 10
great. te will beepate a lifete.ss:mech-
foffel,thaaill.nd.i!n11131:prtutle'rnapsIbes$a mereretntaoto.1 to he
' • OERMANVAND RUMANIA :.
human being is -conSidered preeloua
oe•Srommneny, pweicipli gee,:iride ociocnvtlinie.cend-uiiitha;t_
-;;;„1,oninianth,
le? e isuirt:4aitcht—isthriPres..'1.)„elpnfioail
Lan oil to supply her , wants. It .may ' h
be so, but, it would reit . be a sitaPle gees the insistence on a' few necessary
'effete. SUpposing. 4 eeptured the libertieseefreedom for tneltunian 'being
wells -intact, she woUld'and herself in te judge.for himself, to argue tinen'tl'
possession of an OLitInit of . not Tanch
mo,re than 6,00Q,000 'ton (while , her
war requirements are estimated at 30,-
000,000 tons.)' Could She hope to do
so? In 1916 the wellsAvere• demolished,
perhaps less effectively than •would.be
.possible today,- with the result that
tbescseemerts, extracted Onis, sometliin.g
like- 500;000 toiis from then" in 1917*
and -doable as patieh in 1918e Falken,
-tdwuys-Maintabied that trade wastbreathes. It •will -lose •.tsie, creative
ythineg7nriwoubsiefharGinesrmofuntri;
aaism. Perhaps too late we shall nee-
*esuthirelil:nddll'Ilithll ..w tittrvitt*
eicnteelveethetennsSt perfent Wein:tine
plant imaginable -cannot •futibtien unless
it is aniMated by a seirit.
What would ',happen if 'a power le.
spired '; lin . the . totalitarian spirit\
'achieved world. ledderehip? Certainly
a- World conttelled and managed by
Germany •would s be, altogether .different
from the world We have IttiOwn forthe
past centnry under 'the tree syeterti cle-
perinee &neve e. . It is .hispiring to
picture all that German oegenizing ab-
ility might do in ethe werid if it were
given a. free hand'aep'Rut thete is a flaw
in the picture, and -unfortunately it 1.4
a fatal one. - The exorbitant Pelee :of
'Getman single-minded .61fidiency Is pre.
elsely the contlition•on which it is able
.tat..operiete-,--everything connected 'With
reedieing-mustebe. gliten hp and foie
gotten. All eneegiee are regimented
and Canalized . In a -single system of
conscription; ;.-The commie; of a free
.humanity 4n which -all -men are -equal,
Sir Robert had an new Cabinet , t 1 ' ' ' '
ContAining nine Liberal Members, and tween Germany and-LyvOweere• not first-. a eesst in , the. eespe. et owing to them
,ts human ,i)exags, is replaced liST. the
arofind of offices. But 'nobody seems to agalest an arirty of the strength of the ,
In that, as ea iSolated ventute, '
_ Iron °doctrine, that a few 's.unermen. have
there' had been a tteniendoug• shetrnee class
Rumanian, this does not aPpette preetne heen, created to exploit the massee that
have regarded it as improper that the ' . are ,boni eengenitally Inferior. The
Prime:Minister shoeld Seek a more eon- able.- , - peoeeeure increases )rod • ction "
genial 'climate for' three Weeks of the Ilefoi'e , clee'ding ' wh°ther or n6t* it inVolies, repadiatinLthIle .w40.1(?, Piudtecl'
It seense to uS -that Mr. Xing, Who '
- e • ' would •tlean isolated eenttire, One hag
Canadian winter. . of the'nth teenth ee • ' s with i
to glance first at' tbe situatioh of the . • 0 ntury and t
has very heave responsibilitiet; is en- "bane -note" of Aouthetetsterri Europe,' the deeller ideal elishrinc(l in ChriStiare
• ity itseV. ' • . • ' ', '
. - Thus stated, the choice to becipatle•
today between, two types ot elejlezation,
.
each'of them claiming world, leadership,
is not merely a Europeanequestion, It
luterests the Untted States else. A
foreigner has to speak eautiously if he
is to avoid giving the Impression of
Interfering in other People's family at,
fairs. But. iteeinaply ' is ImpoSsible to
discuss The •future of Angle -Saxon eivin; '
legion' or of Weetern eivilization as a
Whole, withont taking the Amerleatt,
factor Jute Account
Itrtish and American eivilleations
spying from the same eoureea, and 'even
today something like a family tie unites
them. The two peoples uee the same
language ithd therefore have no diill-
culty_in _understanding each -other; . . .
The eemoson. inheritance of Proteetant-
isin May teuteitimea, Perhaps, etlay n
part in addition to the . ;common • In-,
heritanee of language. But above all,
Is the tie of ,devotion to oilmen In-
etitutions. Dentocracy is not, I take It,
the main point of reSeMblanee between
Englialt people and Americans. . The
arietoeratie strueture of lingliSh society
differentiatee .the English , spirit ritillee
ally from the eqnalltaelan atmosphere
of the United 'States., The real thing
1
they have Sineerely and deeply In emu, .
mon is liberalism, the respeet for in- ;
dividual rights-sone'e right to eXpreet
and defend one's views and to ehottge
necti own form of government.
Wake now g ilfernaau, evelt an
educated one. Ile Innis it quite' no.tu-
rat' that a politleal eYstent anellid
imposed upon him without his being In
apy way consulted, If he happened to
venture- a word, his rulers 'wetelti, tell
Mn* that the matter was no voneere
his nand on eecond ithouglit he aveuld
decide that; they were righnreituglish.
mea and Amerieane eirapir cannot
understand that sort of :attitude even
remotely. In AnglenSaecon..countriee
eaternments represent comnaunitiet ;
they. are not conceived as entities, and
eeeuotale and cultural losees, or eta,
It would have :to. shoulder inereitaingly
onerous and eaetly political obligatione
outside IN own particular 8Phere- At
present the United States reefs eaeis,
ihreodall‘evnitilingbelitusg r:egeretilnoVrtio phoewr:er:
perhaps, 'but Uninterested in braltehing
out into the world at large, And tie.
tendency shrink, from enipire late
grotvn stronger, ife anything, dUrieg
these as years. Americans ere not
at all Irapa.tient te step into the shoes
certainly not as entities superior to the ic000tilnititlystahlreetievoepalYIntehmtiftarayildratthlieeirr tolalavrtn
oafut4tglioen:triiet.ish 'EmPite, 'Peeanse they
Peeple who are their reason for ex
hanerie'asis and itgliehmen' are deep t°one"dillespieQuildwoonuldESUer0OMP et: bbeee at hu se
istence
But though the resemblances between the' fate of Western ,eivillzatien eon.
andhasten tne superiletal eiffereneee letirope, ai.t.d Europe Ilene, -has an inter.
It:eveltenw.tittoetent4, ajreye innum,ereirtotenisz.ing .TehacertY 10,0en)stalleueotant,'International! fact
unt
other, and usually, I feel, with extta. eulturel reces;etut°sIiiniolfitillese'r'Pl.Ici;sittietaais'k"Acit*
ordivary Unfairness. 'Ilse books that this moment is to decide Whether
are written ,ttir""rliglantl about the totalitarian ideals .or 'literal. ideals are
United !States •ennest alvvaya. irritate to prevail. The fate of eur wnele
the Anieriean public. I „hate :an iraciyilization aet) be,fonglit but in our-
presSion that, three times out of four, nontinerit ',One may guess theCeooner •
the English propagandists- who go lee; ort later the United 'States Will decide
turing About tile United States *mild to accept' world responsibilites trans.
do If tbheetyterag ,shtiagyh, attig11111•Pataersiees$PeefeiatlitlYe' telertuednitu. trtes pitilitlyistiscaolfptobsevetillgiPeraensteigolle:
Church of •England and speak iwith an its wealth, its tmearalleled industrial'
,Oxford accent. Many of•the large equipmentthe feet that it la virt ap4-
towlis, too, are egowded with Irish, parcel of estern
Slevio and Latin eleinente end there- drive it in that direction. Itut Until
-rere-TSEOWIrilittekecilynenit-Englishanta it. -snakes -Its- deeision,nEtirelle--egeneene._ nen,
mosphere. But 'under all this instinct meet Uphold the world -Oder on which
,tive ",touchiness," is a oneness of in- onr„ civilization depends.
Wrests and of attituilee towardslife— Andre Siegfried (a great French
the' on.enesS, ehoet, of a •coramon autnority <in international questions)
to,- •
JJL
civilzat1ouutst . roieign Affairs Quarterit
A.
ericans tacitly admitthat the presence "Are you the girl who took my
of a British Empire ii2C the world isorder'?' asked the impatient gentlemen
in the cafe. "Yes, Sir," replied the
waitress, . "Well X declare,"
he remarked, 'you,,314On't look 41day
older." , •
cell Western civilization:'France, Eng. something -that is greatly to their ad -
land, 'and ^ the United, States. The vantage. The British fleet policed the
ehief contribution on France, as I see seas, kept -order en Asia, defended the
things,: has been her assertion of humen white man eierYwhere. Ariaerlea
values, her faith in intelligence, her tended to consider the worries of • im-
nneentPromiaing insistence on the perialism asINtaixestaWe effete. And
nay of the thinking humtie being. But the English went .on; acting as the
the British contribution has not been, world's •policemare diplomat, colonizer,
and mailman._ On their side the Eng-
lish undoubtedly made tempest ,by the
arieingeinent, end Were notfreefrera
certain amount of hypocrisy when they
groaned under "the white man's bur-
den." But the American Was .also the
gainer. The . interests of England and
the United 'States are therefore the
Same, though American Tar
as it is aeettie of the fact,does not like
to have a foreigner say so.„.,.rcesix91=`'
eible elerd.ents • In Anterice, the peeple
evinnereallyeehapeatheedestinteie-of-the
country, are not at all afraid to admit
the cbrepalialtyeof-interests-They knew
that, .if the British's Empirewere to
collapse, or merely beeimee unable to
fulfil its traditional mission easily and
well, 'the pesititaf of •theetrnited*-States
would at once be more diifieult and its
burdens Would increase. e Either thi
United States would have to withdraw
into ,the Ititieriean continent and Iii -
trench itself there, . with resulting
far-ihing, since inatant decisrons must
be taken in naval warfare, individuel
commaeders have a geed deal ef dis-
cretion. And so almost equally power-
ful with the Adniitalty Is Admiral Sir
Charles Ferbet,„ commander of the
Grand Fleet—the final' line et defence,
theetinal basis on ,which all British
politer rests. •
taWhatateethasJob. (Cell. this 'treniend-
ons___organization? It ''fs. in7t1T-iitst
doitlysis Command Oft -the sea on,which
rests sea power. Command of the sea
does not •inean that ,ftt any Oven mo-
ment In any. part of the world 13ritisn
-ships ,are all powerful. It means that
Britain -cart- send her Snips Where she
pleases despite enemy efforts to pre-
vent her. And in this sense e'ships"
not only; neekris warships but nterehtine
shies and teeopships it necessary. elem.:
mend_ of 'the sea meane. that ovet a
period of time Britain ean bring in the
supplies' by which she lives. ' ' i6omman
of the sea . means that Britain ean
transport her Men. and guns to France
or elsewhere. It is by .coramand el the.
.ea that Britain -lives. And fOr..tho.-
reason that sea power is sea -vital,' the
aavy =has a tradition of fighting;
—The, New 'York Timese
cuss, to exeress his views. These a
titudes are the things .whigle even more
than our te advanses; constitute
the real greatness_of the West; 'for
from them -our great technical advances
duive develeped.,
Thespirit Pi9
West is free, freeeai the flowhig stream,
the livieg• flame. Weetern civihzation
will die the .inoment it 'surrenders the
fieedom. that is part the' air it
1 1
•
"-Senator Cairine eays that If
-women Were in . power there Would be
'fearer Ware. She means, no doubt, if
women were poweeiti Gertnanye
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The progress of events in. Norway
illustrates the'difficulties of waging war
on front five hundred miles erom
home againet an enenly,wh:ose bases are that Laza that he ought to wbrk t 0111101(1o
L LUtbIL
almost next , door to' the "battleground' 'snout...A iit' the year or -t1 t
et he ought alternative Would, Ise by way 'of that
,^ dr
Until, tne, Allies can .devise someeheana t°
the' e - — ^ •
srentaitt in. (Canada' . twelve month el . s
•ee part of P and now in Rus Ian occupa-
• tion .througn the gare between the
of preventing the 'Gentians from pane- , The ar‘ '
. general election- of 1917 took
' Dneieter. and the •Carpathiaus. :This
ing men and equipment into Noeway '
, Place on December 17 anti Ove days line of tillvanthie, fOlkiiiesedlloy.tne,•Lw' owe
e.- later Sir Robert Ieft ior Hat Sp 'bi-- Bucharest 'le
almost at will any decisive d.efeateof
Virginia. He did not return. to Cartiadst;., that it avaidalt;Y-6aiapsattltietitVanitraugiiess
_the_enemy_eeempenbe.outief the ques- - political_ `situft...„ Parallel ' 'to the . course 4 of two great
tion. .- The, Aniesnef ...course; haVe th 1110 -till 1 -L111 -ill 10. ' 411econSiderably, mere ,rriver a "Whielleforrnedeptetverfitl- barrier
-advantage of being on friendly ground e- delicate, a'after atbywae.atasrel;eetrionewtlirit after -hes tile:. last war. Timee ate, -howeeen.
butatheeNorwegianiteare. Poorly, equipe the ane of -this g to the it _ ti a ventagett ,? Ph:testi is SOO
Torii-tittle .nneotstren-Unions-GOvernment, -annegens' mall tv°fla the Ii°11s/1 IrPritier
Ped, they.are tibiae- vvarlike people, tituf and the kalltetty cominunications tief-
ost of them live in St part- of the
eountiry pat Was overetin by th.e enemy
in the nest fees days of the invasion;
they were 'taken eomPletely by surprise
and are quite out of tile .picture' as
regards ' any a.esistAnce 'to the Allies.
Their peesettee, Ittdeed, is.A handicap to
the' .friendly troops ; for whereas the
Geemane can bomb' Ape destroy as they
Willethe Allies have to be Careful" of
the livet, • "mid , latoperty at tlut Nor-
.
wegians; ,
•, .1. s ,,,,
. • . • .
.Another oterWorked. word is "In-
A • •
spitattonal." ' Nineeyeitinestlinei out of
a hundred -the persoll'USing the word
meats "Inepiring," but 'has , teen. • or
heard someone else ute the lougee *reed
euad bellevee it to be More impreasine
and Itigh-eounding. . A SPeeelit 10 8itid
• to be "Insplra.tional," or a ptiblie gathe
ering is eeid to lie "inspirational," when
evidently what is meant is that the
tttled-to take his vacation at 'whatever .Bulgaria • reilleMbeink
time Ile finds. mese eeneeeeene tee een thet Rturtattia is the kleivg,P
tainly,,eannot have had much„relaxationpi "1111"82! 11Pigarht has Ple-agesin-862
will not have 'much. after Perlieerterti to postpone it eettlementiof het Dolirtijd
dttring the •laet eight months, andt
'tuts assembled, so. that we are not stir.
prised that he:1111dg the preSent
verileht 'time. And it must be adMitted.
that Canada this -side of the
.aingelarin ill.provided With. plaees suit-
able for a vacation in April, It 16 thle
sort a eritielem whiek the Can
adian electorate Igave eigne of being
rather tired only a few weeks ago.
, They may tot be on the ,firet page elailltS. and in any cage WOUld tot vere
these .days, but -.the Chinese are still tree to move. Hungary "has said, In
fightiag And eye • giving the letvadittg
-traps plenty. ef'•'tkoulde. Suceeta to effeet that site would not eek to t*e-
eove.r T,ransylvottia neless Rinnantahad
theta: alreetle suffered a decisive defeet—nOt
, *-- e - * , a very reassuring statement lie Ruin:tn-
.
Atattstice ehow ,tliat TerOnto WO the Ian ears ) The rape Of Russia Is More
- greatest density of population in On.! impart:tete Russie might deeide to
,
. gratify her old degire for' the return
tatter. it has heen more than susPected of Bessarabia. it a German, partnership
C,(wOrtiiPmiLaelfrOlk,sletaUrD) " ell'ered. the ehattee of etteing an
densest people people in the Proeinee. _ n . tremele didletilt military operation, the
fedi 1,a long tittle that Toronto had the
* * * C-.Ottattelo Vanderbilt ;Smith Davis, teutettge of the Dneister, :Two ppera.
lions, either at Whieh alone would tax
Reading. the war news la einem Job who die -arced Earl en Ta smith se ceder the- reepeetive Ruselatt fled .(terman,
these days, ;or Would be if oneLhad to 'spe°e11 'or th° meOting wag ingPiring in ,haa now divoreed aer I i . • es v if ism eh 1 eimultaaeously er
to marry Tienry Goes.aw)aayv giavvtaisioIyi: fc,!Zieg tni.,ft,,e'tiltine{06,,miot,be-iotitively
reed it out loud.. Why Cannot the it effects. A opeech might be said to vormGr
l ,ace Vande'
bilt in older to wIlit a gimr"nbmwal heflwPm them'
1
N'onvegians have ea,AY Pl,aee nanlea 'as be Inapitational It the speaker intended Marry Conclude. Maybe an tale wet , The Affiliation appears, howcrer• less
we have, in canada_snela .as Tehesin, his. address to be of a nattiii, to induce, latenderioalrdertitt Ity.;11u)erstbaentevaiarat yyoonurt Itioeeettli attraetive to the invaders if it he taken
1
tasoliation in.those who illeaitt it; if . into aeeount that the Dardanelles and
kut, Hiamika, Owakonee,
KazabsteUtt, tte.? '
ze
• Von Riblientrop made a speech thq
other day in which he. stated that the
AlIbo had plotted an invasion of Nor-
way And Germany hell only forestalled
them. It it not Without illgillite ance
abet Rilthentrop 'Ives put up to meke
he suCceeded effOrt•the address.
would rightly be described as InRAting.
If people wbuld say what they mean in.
simple language" instead of lutut.ing
around for fancy words, their .speech
would clearer and stronger' than
when. it is interlarded with litords of
four or live syllables with the evict
meaning of w1x1611. the speaker, fre-
quently, is not 'acquainted. In report.
Ing. a MAO addrene, say it Is insPiringr
if you like, bid don't deseribe it as
"inspirational" unless you intend to
create some doubt is to the effect of
the speech.
Itosporus would automatieally be open.
ed to the Allied fleetsr, and. if neeens-
rn. to their' a rules ; a 1 so th t the Ulna:
•flea ports, of Raton* and TuapAe form
the termini of the nii-helineA from Rug.
P3ak-1 014)1".1111 01,1110Idg, Datum it -
pelf nes-only a few miles , from the
l'orkigh frontier. and that the
centre of the oil' industry on the Vas-
-plan. Omer to the nearest point
011 French ,Syrtan territory than is
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Bad Blood the ause
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Blood•Bitters a ehaneeto bean& tbo
boilst Thousands have used it for
thia purpose during the past 60 mil.'
." Take It.B.B. and get rid of .thieleede
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