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,NOVECUOZS tirtVtDED-
:Some pulpit eitterencee 'Ola this
eitentry exhibit a tendeney melee
eseuses ref the Wart with Petutane„
"trate wee was foece4 Veen ne'ateeneh,
aexpeessloee ae titie exhibie` , a S:PiritL
watch in otle oplaton ie entirely
etretret,
. Tee war was •not ,"r4reed alma tiqa.e aPPlied to th,etteielves; they tyteh to
exeept as Mee/eta*" was the,eo .pel-' eelleel "Netherlatadeze," or `111ole,
' force. Oteet Itritaitte Itranre and tendert." .1t Weald be a, little ati1g-
Vanada. deelared,,wax on Germany be- tward , to tale *ihe Setheelande
Muse. Permanyte attaek Wont the Twine,'" eve a. "41Velland teat" but,
eteedoM wet independeeee ,the small Unlese, you want to get in dateli,
ilt4iO;i3 .p1LFKle. ,tttab etand by. tuid. eareful.
a;pain when Feo
ran, ' nate had four
eoldha
eans advancing upon tleid, wee
etaa to ba D. 'QM column', a avul-
pthlzers within that city. Itla used
no t+ to. aesceibe any subversive enemy
aeuhtry.
Tlc peoPle a Holland, *eye an Ot-
"tatva paper, dislike the. word "Dutch".
alloW GeeraanY to have its waY would '
_
itave been te at as did, the Levite la *Gardeners are .warned that tullie
ctete parable et 'tae good Saineritan. and other bulbe will PrObahly eost theta
To pase by and pay ito. attention when more Weal normal. einidltions are re-
elbe (oppressions and erneittes of Nazi- stored Holland. Large amportatiens
' were being irapoSed upon helpless. of tulip betties ba.ve come au/inane frees,
peoPle woad, heve been te etehtt. the the 'Netherl)nd% where' their produc-
eat aam 1 my brothet's keeper?" tion is a large industrei and it is hard-
atalartattereMetraenteeneneeetretainattaesea 1 to be expected that ('Wat win -leave
oar cauntry's participation In the War„ tUe mdustuedisiiirW
It le a righteeus war the Allies are
Ifighting-a war 402 which. succeeding From- Boston poet, tee statement
generatione: pritish and remelt. eau -that back 'in 1784 'Betijamin. Franklin
proud Our prayers should be, not advanced the idea of ueing parachute
peace, but for Vietery over 111- troops in war, though in eis.plan they
justice, eruelte, inhumanity, ruthless.' Were 'to be dropped! from. balloons
gess, barbarism. 'Maga thee* are cell- rather than front airplanes Titus :
altered Peat* will he here. - "Five thousand- baloons, capable of
RAIN. REMESAZONS
Matta. Maui Wails* aaVe been written
about a eptang eau. . . bnt, fraekly,
don't*belleve that anyOue has ever
adetexitely (Jewel/tea rain a t acteella
te in the eprineason. , beyond
wordst' ,tthit eaeu1 lnlUageaund
of the pattering rainattops oz earth
• . the asi est tmperceptible sound ht
the Vaeth soakiee the rab nor future
use.
'Mother . Nature is a good mother.
Equipped - with vision beyond mortal.
knowledt3e,•she'S Peetnring for blister -
lug hot days ehea.d . she' e nursinte
the tiny seedlings now pushine forth
from her ,bosom . repa.eingeman for,
hie careful cultivation !by giving his
planted Seed, a start 011 tbe way to lie
‘SittilIg here inside the hack kitchen
door, watching the :can coming dawn
in a Cele reseelbling the old "push and
pule' .exercisee in school, therete en
interesting panorama to behold. •
' Old Biddy, from the eeeurity or her
coop in the orcha.rdnis chiding the way -
Ward clacks for, not having etiongla
'sense to 'wane in out of the rain, • n-
raising two men er, could not cost
DEUCE SIGN
Cerrest Views os 'Ike War
WAKES VP
ruder the above lieadifig,
braitian Soienno Moutter tileeteite-
e ot the leadine jearnalet of the
Vnited Stateetehaa the ronowingli
teela arttele:„
Tee Naeie !lave eonquered Ileiland
'anti lost eaneaiea. , Of cOuree, they
tiever conquetea the Mated etatea, but
the Vale Column of apathy had held.
America enthrelicti, tu tee .great act -
vantage of aggreeeive Powers. The
trampling of Holland and elle drive of
the Nazi war machine. througe Belgium,
bee liattered the isolatiouist dream,
The enthusiastic arid united r•eapotese
to President 4, ltooteveit'e new
donee defence program te eleareat elad.
ence oasehe awakeuing.
The applause hi Congreee aria in. the
preee Insures raphidire.atioption of the
pregrtan's easentialsn Ineeed, in the
new temper of tthe country' the main
dialculty tviirt)e to obtain, 'adequate
coeeideration plaits and' linanees.
But speed is the main requisite and
the country is 'ready for ePeed. ,Some
minor mistakes can be absor'bed if only
the most costly mistake of delay de
avoided. , • ,
One thing to understand first of all
in the whole defense field ie that ithe
resell by the rain and her inceasant protectioe of America begine at the
-chuctechiclge" they wander around
aitaleeslyeteelr sparse covering wrinke
line 'up With the moistere. •
,Suchatauch, the collie pup, after a;
eauethe eriving.slied, steeds watch-
ing the rain e-Te'airletelingettratt
it may not let up all afternoon .
eontee trottiug up the leneway ha the
security of the back kitelien verandah.
Having reachedeit, he proceeds to shake
himself and the drops of meisture
spray out In a, wairling circle. Then
ly stepping over. the damp emit
e -float', he curia up en an old grain
and, with his jaw tucked betvieget
his front pa.ws, proceeds to enjoy his
eisnre '
lebby,,, our feline mouser. who has
.b'e n dozing on the window -sill, blips
down nimbly", ;and, 'after a careta
stretching,..,geps demurely , over to
where a letk in the eavestrough has de-
Peskted a pool of frtsh ra.in-water. A
slick tongue 41ap:lap" until 'she's had
her fill afresh reln-wateit She pauses
eti her way back to see if anyone ogees
encoaragement for her to enter the
,kitchea gets none, arercurts up on
the cushioned seat of the old I -reeking
chair and soon, is dozing in a faintly -
• AIDING TRE ENEMY more titan ave ehe of the line; and
where is the prince who can afford' so.
to eover his country with trove for its
The Toronto PIO:be and. Mail on defence as that 10,000 men descending
Tnesday,, ,published oil its from tIte clouds :aright not- in many
gleaiceores dac., anoite deal of mischief,
editorial page a tworcolunin article. euld be, broughtW
-
eb-Wing ingreat detail how German gether to repel them?"
Peer ecoild mo.t'reatilly invade :Can- & wonderful' 'man Was Benjamin
edit. We are anatmbeh?-suivriSed at Fienkliet _
anything we 4ee in The.' Globe afta -
Mall thee days, tut surely it # going The success wit
-iloo far to Use. a knowledge of Canadian bevadeee f:Nom
getegreilte to aseist the enemy be at laude have met•
tackingeoattottmecountreee If tee same
erttele -wee& .printed n a peeman-
lage paper •InaCaniiiii'lis
. . •
rtioiild` be indicted in the' courts for
.. treason. . • ,
-Copies- .of this Isene ,of The' Globe
and gall are probably already on their
Way bY secret channels to the Perini=
flitarr strategtsts.,
me reit, A gALT
, That Mere "asing Provincial Centraliz-
ation is underlain:Mg the independent*
efmunietpal governments in Onta.rio
was tee btirdeentfate address by K. gr.
:Pro:410rd, o4y ale& e.t London, at a
lacking cce the Cana.dien Politiea
($eiende Aesocialert ia that cite last
week ixtici$T esetiecils, said Allie
Orivefoedt were becoming "merely
agents for other local units of govern -
ilea' and for lite cetitral Provincial
Governmeni," .
'LoCal goeermiene in communities
20 widely spread geograPhicelie and
divergent 'socially as are the rituiiciina7
ities in OntariO cannot Mcrepeingly he
isextrollect by one central' authority
'without giving rise to that condition so
iptly.',desoribed as 'apoplexy at tee
centre arid paralysis at the extra-,.
Aerie " sad Crawford.
' Wet ote1e7 is ;Ole proess o2 centraliz-
Silim. wealeaning tee authority: Of the
Wel council, - it Is provini to be
ererdensinne ,ahancially. While the
eatinleipalities of Ontario have reduced
fllUlbtQdttOSS b3T ratiny millions in
recent years, the -,Profincial_ QeVerni
• Anent has ma,'dea very large addition
ettstee Provincial deet Altaost any-
eeettig can be One, m•ore cheaply, under
local muntelpal supervision than by
dte Pree1n4 eta the Province goes 'on
flaking more arid, Mere services to it-
self, With injure to the finaneee of the
letreYinee and at the expense of the
,taxpayers.
- •
which the German
y and the Nether -
tee use of "fifth
coluran" activiti s• has aroused the
people of Gteattleritain; and 'a -general'
tonntizairlias been: .matle-e:f perso
suspected of Nazi or Fasclie sym.-
pathies.- One of those' who .have been
so gathered In is Sir •Ostwald Mosley,
who far setae -years has lAell the leader
of a. ,band of F.atglise Fascists. , Sr
o
Oswald has been 'successively a al
servative, an Independent, a , Laborite;
and finally a •FeseistHe outfitted* his
eallowera, Witb. black ehirts, taught
them the Hitler salute, and made him, -
self and axis gang as obnoxiens • as
passible. It is a tritaiite to the -re-
straint of te.e British people Una he
WAS allowed to: continue his aeti/aties
so Iong. Possibly he was nO there than
alt unbalaneed crank, but patience with
euca-peeple edasesetoebe aettirtue
times like these, and with els money
and social cenneetion.s Mosley might
'have been a distinct danger.
'WILL NOT ENFORCE C.T.A.
(Brampton •Conservator)
, Liquor 'licenses are to be continued
alaghtoe Line and beghte now. Tee
2,000 Planes .Am,erica 'Wiese/tipp4 to
the Allies may count more than the
00,000 President .Roosevett urges for
the Army and Navy. Coegress "ap-
trilaudeetteleaRooeeeettteameeeeha.t noth-
ing should. stand 'in the *ay of fetal:she
imonore planes to Brttain aed France.,
Such speeding of -sepplies eitS iri pee-
fectly with the United States' defence
program, whiciCis primarily' one of
equipment.
elodeta war is demanding 11=cl:tines
and more machines. Quick increases
in American capaeity to produce ma-
chine.* le ett once the best aid to the
Allies and, the necessary step toward
equipping American. defence. At ebest
it will be -many months before tee new.
defence program will put the United
States bat shape to face the kind of
world an Allied defeat raight leave. But
the- soonera start is made the better.
And if •in the peotess, more niaehines
can be speeded to the Allies, so Much
the better. 'Beth effects or this pro -
Irina should. encourage the resistance
ta aggression,and discourage those
who may be tempted, to becomeAggrea-
sors.,
Indeea, the Most immediate value a
the program will be psyettologica,l. This
effect is vastly increased by tae spirit
whice tee American people are re-
sponding.,-Twe weeks -ago -this Pro -
in
gratavotaldehave been, politically nn
possible ; today it Is inevitable, Two
weeks ago Most •Americans were on -
joker, very free to criticize Allied
sleepiness ill Norway as a jutteation
for net Waking up themselves; today
Amerleafte are ao longer in'the. grand-
stand, • If not bodily on the„ field of
combat they are mental participents.
• No mores head the statement: "This
is Merely eamather Vurepeati ,quarrel."
Not yet, PernaPS, have Americans
fully sensed- tbeekind of weeld,„at will
be 1.2 anarchy continues to spread. But
amide 'there: Is some realization that
a desire to keep out of waf is -trot
enough. So one expects the United
noise waY.e e ' '-
Across theBig gm at the Higgins
place, Ed. is yellixtg instructions from
the bace kitchen 'door .to the boys en-
gaged,'no doebt, in that.favorite rainy
dayworkof cleaning out 4 stable."--'t-
The maincarrier'e car squeals with
protesting brake bands as he stops.
The pail leix tepees with a eeraping,
rasping sound ./. . and then/. 'closes
again and the ear splashes along its
way of duty. ' • ' 1,
Down in the stable borees 'stamp. in
an itapatient way. 'Grunter, the die;
emetented- Berkshire, departs from her
used out -of -humor mood, and squeals
Melelight at,the Mauro.' mud bath pro-
vided itt thearnyerd by the r'ettte
Ethiopia, our fighting blaele'rrooster;
:wales around tree in the orchard -in
lie impatieet w1ty. He was caught un-
aviares by tee rain, and. seeme to be
feryeetly 'hoping for a let up so that
lie can -return to e18 realm in the ben -
house. The lades ofthis court mean -
•.while -aremoping in the shelter pro.:
•--vided-by the Wagon -and other iniple-
merits in the Upper barnyard just out-
side the - driving shed.. -
Bolt in the -bouse, Mrs. 'Phil whigles
in a - cheerful way. . . and Patricia
Ann ehuckles in het' carriage ds she
plucks at her neWestraitle. ...*
Everything seems; to be touched by
the wand a peac4u1uess in the hands
of Jupiter Plevinee . . heaven: forbid
Hue auci motor aubbuteunge, There le
wailer elaes wianiu who are
g h•kijike raiglet-eaulettiti
dicappointmeet I mean those vol.
tintere wile are eMployed upou 'passive
defense. Antoine them aro ixtani W110
have been eehooled in highly dangerot
work. There L'3, for instance, a eorpe
eate
ef .tor drivete, ehereiste, and gas
deteetorD, w/Wse eliettrein ease of bemb-
bardateut, would be to drive etraight
the epot whete 'bobcat. boMbe had -ex.
Ploded. The mem:bore of this new pro-
ressiou, boro. of the war, are •ealled
'01iltrereeeelee ilaireusee. Tbie is their
offetal liam*. Up to,' now they have'
Passed =1st of their time on ditty, hi:a-
t-lug or reading, to tlie eoneternation
of theee seeliere after sensed= weepee
appetner
ite ieasee in Proportion to the
distance separates theni from
,the eeene of daugett
War doe: net only can for von
unthere. , It enlists . women whom it
'paes-wonten rectory workers. in ono.
of the fectories_ Of ;gene and 8liellS
Nvjliell I ViSited, StIM indnY Wolnea
at work as there were men. They
stood . in lines before, the drill's, the
moulds, and the machines which Me
down the steel to the, exaet gauge. Far-
ther ore, women were feeding un-
poliehed steel bate to the jaws of an In-
satiable monster, and taking away, at
eegelar intervals, heaps of 'fine steel
shavings which gradually mounted
around it. • Nearly all thee women
wore clogs and thick woollen stockings,
to protect their feet from the oll and
the metal shavings.'
ititUon-atteateektertlemeloubtatilytfth
e
sorb an ever-increasing number or
women. . During the -1914: war, the
ntunber of French women , at work
reached 400,000. alarshal Toffre, at a
critical moment, said: "If the women
in the factories 'stopped work tor
twenty Minutes, the Allies *would Wee
the war."e ' The. .women did not stop
for twenty, minutes'. They hardly,.
stopped for three and • a half years.
They er'arked. day and night,Sundays
and holidays and. weekcia.ys, ten, eleven'
eoraetinies fourteen hours a day. The
Allies woe the war, tett the women, in
many cases, lost their health. It was
a lesson to. us, and we Intend to profit
by that lesson. Our 'Minister of Muni-
tions has made a special point a. bar -
boring the strength of women factorv
workers. In the -factories have
visited; these women Who have ex-
hausting work to do .and• are kept. on
their feet ha.ve their time split up in
the following manner one week Of
day shift, one week eight shift, one
wesek- rest. Other systems are .'also
being tried out, 'such as shifts of five
hour, or again eight hours a day for
Arte. daye,„ folloivecia. by teine day eff.,
But _women who harite-less tairifigtaabs,
normal Jobe, work eneclimettere.---than
that, 'up to sixty hours a week.
When . am naked. to say what
woes War effort eortiists fat in
France, am tempted to reply: "It
eousists a tbi.s : -we, have five million
men' mobilized, one eighth of our total
population, on.e., third of our active
workers.. .Yet France continues to
thrive, the daily round goes. on." It
happens tha.t I can give tyou a perfeal
example of this replacement of men by
women; .OJI the west coast of Brittany
there is a small rocky island called the.
Isle of 1Violene, haying 6q2 inhabitants.
.States to stiffer the fete- of --Holland. 'On the day of mobilization, every man
But aearle, everyone . now sees that
there is nonoraoln for moral' isolation.
...There has been ,a.' revolution in Am-
erican ' opinion almost as sweeping as
which occurred in Britain, °when
any etre -up thee Munich agreee
t and seized Prague. 'Anger over
unprovoked assault, on the Nether-
landsIs linked with new appreciation
Of Nazi ambitiOns and new apprehen-
Sion. over the rapidity, with which the
iGernian ArmyrmY carries thein out.
•'he defence program is only the
first step. But itecerriect through with
the Unity and spirit already manifest,
it should make the United States ef-
fective In, some measure for the de-
fence of the icfealS and interests which
it now seei extend. far beyond its
borders. '
11.4.1' alatia, •
Ijerk te, with wait* Ube eaterarealt !wee eterted with. the Mule* tea***
waimies's eonaaltusei tor ir work ere Mobilieed td etateeetrittad.
ij doeety eatirbotlitug. ., 0044 wielee,104, la 1014 itie
WAS till dog: itiftit,eriv,704,
bad la bleginnin# in rrarRio during tlie fermal war deeiarationi *hrifere flu/
101.4 war. Twenty year* have gone yreueli, and (11'ermans eetae ifito *doe*,
by, awl alet, welfare SerVi(*.a, hate eoe,, eeemee it, wart em Aii
puttiue them `tin 'rhea- "M`Warl'ae•Iita'eltb Teat Weetattteeeeti/a-1914,/1/3 ilile-,(14'' --te-
ttfitted to tletialeta . *tag,. ligiii) War is that the nattie .of the: Frontiers hegae,
demonstrating the eflicieney of tee uet- responding t31eriilay two wecale ego
envoowttegeheeesnetto.eiveooryrecaourilieeartioer
atierrwaliniceelt. nitedii, titta, jortreezLndehliegarteolietilmiin ptoresiletli
•
Our women have Seen the tide or date, May aita 1%00 the P°l'it lat the
pp .n advancing farther 'eaeli date other crisie WellidueliteriaAansug,V t3L3.041.4r.,,,
sargleg eVer tee Weali. then treaeber- Where Were. tile
ously r& in towards the strong., . . . le 1914? '.
Then, lbefOW the' sitee't gage of eur- Teae was the day when trou Kinek
Li) inding' nation5 that seemed as if made bis. historie eivervee away ' front
hYPnetized, France and Bugland took parts to the east; awl his s!euta 'were
up. arms. And our men began t� speak less than ;twenty •miles from the
those Injupt, very 'ordinary .woree wiriell It:conch capital.; ,Iii thoee daye 'before
are now on the lip* of every mart in tee nate lerleg, the CrerMan ktriny per.,
uniforra, net raatter what mat" be hie %need oarac extraordinarte-Pata.reheeres
social ' standing Or Politieal elgilica: on foot.; as rOf that matter they. -did
"WO intve had enough. We ean't go last September in Poland, according to
oil living like thee. "We've got to firath Bernie's proud claim;. Roughly 04
With, tt.' Ana every worn= .Said, too t raight oily that in 1914 the' Germa.
it
"We liatre , had enOugh. II fent ea betweeu Brussels ana Park/ ntade al
fixtir." . ' •-' " most es good time as the NitZt nIttOre
PlePanmSeihtileth:itrAp't.heeacefr,aeotdaOrimy price'
,eisnjozyw. tizh'ekercin°:shcintis 1 Itraae:15. et habert8":Fele; t
ni
le need e
d';41teeat:rey; at: net: ,
In the last year or tvvo they have argteneet. et %nay be that ',littler by '
Frenehmen and Frenchwebien, being
the citizens Of a free eonattyt reel eft.
'peace at all that life at any Price bas '118061Vettahlgwt°11natI:liosnevvera;111:1;11rte'dlealste 11 01411
without', the privileges, the Joy, , the the ntere 'beets of his blitz tempo.• The.
no veltie • Whatevett for life Is nothing ,
also worth. giving., ., They, have d19 in
sin ale iliydatilligeeirr OtetehtweetorlieeeyelAti4varvveerein
irlavirig to choose between defending g*irell:ttrb
pride, cwhich make ,it worth living, and
covered also that there ls something , t war, but it la• not because
more ugly, mere atrocious .,than war ,
they are: confronting an enema' sPeed
andnotdefending, our very eenception with wirich, there has hitliert0 been no
have left us, ha.ve vanished. StrangelY
it_vie _m___Ax,, , dr_tia,„4„,00.L.e.,_4114/4.4 4dhae,__ysafter :1wat-01:11;tvgrebaetgaelans,itsilorii)fritinhge
armies, the Germans thought thee had
rsmtePrartIshe("Ideelaillratirli14oif t'liwiaere, eleven
or death, and that is et live In fear. -
Of Me, we ehosetto defend it and niake
' CE :Russian front.
array divisions eroni-lreaWrifo'qbereter.--
THE
reeter th -
ligerente. It is with the neutrals. - .
enough, fear now is not with the bel -
of littler's lightning war it is still per -
1 But the German impact le not Incom-
asTa:,:ou,esate, G:t'elarpa: tO.a:nii_e...splaseetrceinabadinyldng
ably greeter than anything hithert9
....ohne. Curie lit The Atlantic Monthly. mgrOareveenPetumril.
At the beginnbie of thetthied Weelit
In other words, the Allies are in great
one's duty -to IcnoWn: not meow an
it is not a case of star/cline around, say le
the ,German rush of 1914, which. in
the end broke down. This. is all that
mittecie=in. fact it is
Waiting for a miracle on the battle-
d, ,e0.11 be said, but it is permissible to
. -The New -York Times.
. -
keep me heart. For us, the watchers, : -
battle-
field. .Theee, is nothing else we -out-
eiders can do in' the next few: data;
except wait and hope; and perhaps
the thing we hope for is something
less Man a miracle. 1
- One way to keep up 'heart is to argue,
bad as it may seem oh the Take of the
retnttis, that the 'German Blitzkrieg is
net quite 1•• as "blitz" as in the , crisis
of the moment. we are . apt to assume.
danger, but after all they are not
pitted against an enemy incomparably
more powerful and more • swift than
were the 'Germans in.' 1914., Those
motorized eatinies'of Hitler have made
-good .tinte to the Channel, but the pace
r-the-Germint enereitton,P-atle3M/1014
, was very fag too. The Nazi 'army
maybe travellMg orie half as feat
again as von Xluck's army did in
August, 1914; but. the Naels are not
moving 'five or ten times as fast as
they did Itt. 1e14; which is the state
of mind into Whieli we are apt to fall
- when the news is arits worst.
One difference between the 1914 time-
table and today's - Is that, the present
in. .the 'four counties that have, voted that the earetaly, greedy ambitions a
against them, ,Premier Hepburn has
• a lanclemn ry dictator should ever rain
'bombs on LazyMeadaws.
so decreed and that ends the matter.
'The Canada Temperance Act eas been
declared by, the courts- ef the land, in-
cludintg the Privy Couileire to be con-
stitutionalt It was adopted by vote of
the, people in Peel More than twenty
years ago and in Perth and Huron
more teritly. From the elate of its
endorsement by popular vete it was
respected by the Drury and Conserva-
tive Governments. Then came gr.
Hepburn and Mr. Conant. What cate
they for the Votetof the people? They
need increased revenue for increased
spending. More licensed places ; more
ilittior sold, more mono...tot the trees-
ury.
Although the validity of the Let had,
been decided by tee courton several'
occasions hr. Hepburndeeided to de-
stroy it le possible. The GovernMent
at Otta.vta was asked to repeal the
Act. This was' refused t An. appeal to
the ISupreme Court was theli made and
the validity of the Act again affirmed.
This was thought eufficieat to satisfy
the Government, bue not eo. Mr? Hep -
bun decided to make a further appeal
to the, Privy Council in England. This'
would. 'cost conSiderable .6/ the peeele'S
#ZDITOBIAI. NOTES
The Neile have taken Vinia 'Ridge.
To telte'ittbatec•again wilfbe Lattola fee
tee, Canadian,s when. they, get into the
tight. •
. • .The' Canadians are said o have the
best dentat3eservice am. ong alle. the.
%aemiett• of. the world:. And how those
Ciatitieks eel 'bite t,
, att • •
P. O. Wodelibuse, the.V.Inglisli humor -
oda Writer, itt said to, have been caught
fit the German ad.vanee to the French'
eoaste Wonder if P.' (sees ane humor
at the situation.
•MAY BE A NEW BURDEN
(Port Eigla Times), •
° In the slieech from the Throne at
the opening of Parliament an Dikling
was conveyed that, the British North
America Act might be amended to al-
low for the passing of legislation moti-
vating an unemployment com-pensaaen
'division • of the Government. -
With no better examples along the
line Of recent enactment in such an
endeavor than ,that set up in the United
States, It is our hope thatteo abortive
nor hasty step§ be taken. ,
the' ettnited States professional
baseball player; drawing. fiT 3rearly-
stipend of several thousand dellars, but
working' only during the summer sea-
son, were allowed to draw conipensa-
tion for unemployndent during the
Winer months While they " were spend-
ing the summer's wages on shooteag
expeditions and such.
More recently, nearly,. fifty thousand
employees of the Chrysler Corporation,
itia.ctivedtbecatise a a strike in progress,
a strike c;alled by the union to. which
that
Ger
me
the
money. , The case was to be heard ni they were payino., supporting dues, were
„ ,, „
June-, Tee Privy Council decieed to dedlared entitle71';,to collect frau the
adeittrie 'lite hearing- 'until -after t the CoMpensetiort -.Board - -fat -their idle-
,
War. 'The Governnient consented. In tbne.
I
view of this decisiolt the temperance Canada is preperiderantly.agricultur-
people asked that liceeees be cangelled al and we do rtot !believe eCariadiau
farmers have ane desire to pay' in hard
earned dollars foe compensation, settle-
ments which , may • foster striltes and
raise the cosi of the necessities of' the
'They're ittaltielg progress itt their;
pre-war caMPaigi1 aeroee, the, border.
Nenea Reptibllean eandidato for the
Presidential nomination charges Pte -
+Went ItoOfteielt with. ulatreaetedlleaS
for hoetilitiee
s ,
areeDenalci., Bad:Wilt teed Oltamber-
litire as. prime ranieters, acted in the
interests of "The the financial
tare02 tondon• rater if teee lead.
**keit advice from the Admiralty and
itte Niro* Ofede.--liontion, Free Pretna.
or witiiheld in the districte affected
petit the decision was received. ,
this aPPeed hr. Hepbuna's obedient
Attarney-General advised, "We will not
'enforce the. Canada Temperance Act,
but will enforce - tee trawler Contra
Act aggressively." "
If tee tette base arrived when the
Goverakent a the- Province insists,
iiport vielating the law of the land it
will be increaaingly ,diffienit .to eon-
tvinee every -day. eitieefie that it as their
duty to observe the same laws that
the Glover ment disregards.,
riar * *AVOW
(nxeter TimeseAdvoCatp).
joh insurance le to be another
form oe• political graft we are eet'in
favor of It yet that le the eery thing
that such eistiraiice 18 itigety to be.
Under the guise of sweet ellarite, the
keen•eyed politicien, eeee auother way
to. put workitig mn under-ehis teem%
Next, if the men wlio have toiled a
lifeethae, taking slice Jobe ae 'they
efiuld find, are to be taxed that the
datray pickers of Jobe ehould be main-
.
Well, the, Admiralty an the War tained in a genteel form o men Lc -
Owe are! havbig their innkt, gs- roiretel alley, we're not le favet •of the propeeed
. scheme. We do not like this thing of
trier beletedly,
aving the Politie4n seiurebfs eeat,, itt
`• 0., 0 '1 .,„„, • power under thea
gme of somethwg
reopie etre pking what the, tlikermvenomou 9ililxV•thr°1'7•1•
0fisrth, colutnte means.'phrtaleH '
A • rose sometimes fall3 to tho ,Browil aro remodeflIng the hotne of.the various h.ospitals distributed over the
cap ble of work left the isIanda-every
be 1 The women had to take over
-eye thing -=-the cue of , the childreii
and the aged, as weir as the local goV-
ernment. Se . now, oe the Isle of
eleimie, the, "island without men it is
the wOmen who go fishing among the
ehannels beset with reefs. They-014in
and prepare the'boats, repair the net§
and the lines.. 'Standing -waist-deep, in
the ' water, they gather. the seaweed
which is dried and burnt to Make
• iodine? One 'woman kneetis and bakes
the, read;t:taeother pushee the barrow,
,loaded With great round loaves, from
,door to door. / Sine* the postman, is
gone, his daug.hter, puts on his cap,
buckles' on. his satchel, and delivers
the. letters. The wife of the engineer
looks after the dynarao on which the
Island relies' for its. electric light. A.
-sister of Saint Vintent de Paul. has
taken over the „chemist's shop' she
bandages wounds, pulls out teetle
heals the sick,' and prays by the dead.
The lifeboat is 'manned' by the daugh-
ters af tee, fish,ermen. The men, of the
Isle i'off moieue ,have gone to the war,
its evonien. fight the sees, and all is
well. 'Pie mayor (or rather the sub-
stitute"' for the ronyor) wears a black
frock and , has gray :hair. Onle one
man has not been replaced : the bar-
keeper. The -bar is ClOSed.- - , -
'Overnight some 'women *have under-
taken executive jobs. / could mention
women who ate directing factories,
running /Jaw offices or important 111-
dustriat omn
e's. ,r am thinking also
/ .
il
of wom n shinopkeepers, left cb,arge .
of the shop ; they do the. buying. keep,
the aecounts, have_a ready snille for
customers', and., are prowl that they
.have kept things going mudded, proud
to be able to tellt,theittiiiiebands that
all Is Welt, Then th,ete is the potal:
eerried out in France Is eora on eintw.. eeevice, Which:, was suddenly paralyzed
ledge. ' lror ateeetal Claaataaie...tatid- tee at the- outbreak' of war by lack Of
times the normal Medea . of trains Personnel, Woraeu were demanded for
were ttinning bit oer railroads. Teen sorting tee mallentparticularty arduous
over,'
it was over, and five minwork given, in normal Ones, to young
ion Frenea-
men had left their homes_ artd gone and energetle men. It Means standing
to the. Wire Frame wee cut in two; on eight beers, with a break of only one -
eine 'side Were the inane on the other tahlleatwteonir `eitof vaann,h4oruiri.eisT, hwereho. day
st tianisd
oldiers, united be discipline, by o
the women.' On one side five million
corn. night drive the' mail to and from the
s - • .
'itacieehipt eat* with hie particultie Joie railway' statioes and the aerodroinee
'each obeking some special order. On At the present tirok, of the total em
-
tee other side= army of erobieintlack- ployees in the pastel service fifty-eight
ing direction or eolfegon. ,Each had per cehante maraiewsoratheett. reortmaitz'ation of
awn responeibilitieswage her
to make' tier own. decisions,- accept her
labor difficult in Franee Is the evaete.
, . own.
war; each. was, a soIdiere in an army ation Of the civilian population. Until
oe eotteenese the firet of Seritembere 't,400,000 People
Itehlrid the buivraelt fittmed beefier
wabeettretlivthillefr in, ordntineiary.owtinallhrro'rkg.°1111
armies the. whole Ilfe 'of the co/ultra
FRENCIt WOMEN AND WAR
,In the first _days of September, 1039,
In eitery village In France, tite Woinen
gazed at the grate -stacks, stretching
in neat rowsecteross the distant 'fields.
And In each woman's -mind wasethe
"T
same thought: he army has taken
my hoeses, cattle, my lorrieS, my
work/aerie my husband., The haveet 18
not yet in -sand I am alone."
'
Or second war' had begun, the
second War for every Frepehman and
Prenehweanan-for some, the third. In
eaeh old, sensations awoke, old
pietures came to life -those 'we, had
felt and seen twentytfiv,e years ago.
Soen. •fitS I 'get back ^to. , Paris my
grocer offered me, almost by habit,
,those rolls of gum -paper we paste on'
the win.dows, in wartime,itn
ively 1 found -Myself tr,ie
my, Windows the same eris
terns through .whicir had
aeon the world in chlidlioo
Tee .Way vrhIch mobiliz
This is a War Parliament and in
the press of things poorly eonceived
legiaLttiozt patthrned after that existing
in the U.S.A.. taay !find its way to the
o_etg of record, a stop most difficult of
eetraetion. •'
If farm organizations do net ask to
be heard, if they do not ask teat this
weighty preblem be given fullest con-
Sitieration, as teeir ihtere8tO are con-
cerned, the farmer mate be omission
adil a new burilea to his Yoke. "
CIt'ENVE
d instinct -
g out on
eross pat-
ooked out
tion was
11118Mgaank .
ehildrei's Coughs. .
uickly Relieved
It 'is herd to keep A° children.
from taking cold; they willenn Out
of doots'not properly clad; have on
too. much clothing andget overheated
'rind cool off too suddenly,. they get
their feet wet; kick off the bed
clotheght. The mother tannot
?tviatchtthem-alletheeingejer Whst is
she going to dot
Mothers should never neglect the
eitugh or cold, but on its in-
ception should procure a. bottle of _
Dr.Wood's Norway Pine Sirup. It
is so pleasant to the taste the
yoimgsters take it without any fuss,
ae- T. Min= Co. Ltd., Toronto, Ont.
••••••••,
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•
eilttAvkl, Ntay 2T. -11r. and Mrs.
Palmer Xilpatrick of Toronto spent the
lthliday and week -end with 'Mr. and
Sirs. S. J. Kilpatrick and other re-
latiVes. ,
Mr. and Ittre. Zamee Culbert, Gerald
neld ShirleY. 6f, Ieteleaaw, *visaed. on
teurelay with Mr. and Mrs. Mit
nigan.
lir. and, Mrs. Nettneth•tlamphol arni
dauglitera, Marilyn, Doreen and Lil-
lian, of Detroit, visited during the
week -end voith, the lady's iAt.rents, Art,
and Mrs. John Menary.
Nre3Srii, laek Curran, gr.. and Arthur
had gliddenly stopped, azg if paralyzed 'tow ola0'. later these value PaoPle fatind
by• the deehvatiou of Irak_ Fee a ado., themselves transplanted. in. over-
erowded, country villages, ,flyeaor six
Ment the Beide Wen' empty, the. p$
„neves eteeed, the leeme •were gnent. huitdred miles awae, 'with nothing to
live on but what, the government pro-
Franee had to be reorganized. It Ilea
'be malatairied itt health, moral and vided. The 1.battiest task of oalt
pletreleal, economic and soda.. Here, fell to the primary-sehoot teachers.
then, was a task tot wobeeia here 1844 litheY aeeatuPanted their PaPilet who
Were evaietiated by elaeres, into' the
Work they could do. Without the Wear -
Ing cit uniform; without any marchingrefugee area. Thee sleep, very often,
or -satetteex, without seated military in the doretitoriea with the children,
• wash them, mend their. cadthea, and
ordeee
mien,. tile fleet months et, „the tear eupereiee Ulcer feod. They -often hAve
,there have beee he prance, nettiwr eut the elaildretealkair and bandage
aerial bombardments nor immense etit5i• and briaties, let alone finding eel
easataltieelli !the, field, With! the rPeUlt cupation for the unateciplieed little,
'that thoec women who *ere best pm. monkeys dining playtimea never -end -
pared for war have had, the 'least to tag .
do. The thirty thousand voIuntarY zell of this oatitiat of frontlet energY,
UM Cross nurses are at their posts in tlieae efforts oetwartily so dislonneeted,
have a eommon foundation:P4,.tnesn.
our welfare Services„ both °Aida and
iariglostod diitiog the eteft weir Jul. of a, frtonke..i., 1 Blake brothere4
country., itt hospital trainl, in front
.4 direet.obligation of the Dominion of Canada,
"Since,the momentous day of last Septemberelnindreds
of thousands of Canadians have"been asking themselves,
'What can I do to help win the war?' -
,
"Oneanswei is; 'BY, saving!' Every man, woman and
child ,in the Dominion can now make a direct and cone
tinuing contribution to Canada's war effort by saving
•not only tie dollars, but also his nickels, dimes and
quarters to buy -Ctteada's
War Savings Certificates."
MINISTER OF FINANCIi.
WAR SAVINGS CERTIFICATES: are repayable itt...
seven and ,one-half years. If You hold them to maturity, you
will receive 3% on your money your investment will in.
. crease by 25%. They are soldtas follovesee. - -
1..Foror_a_a 4,18m$5 cceerrtitific4ficat: yy06nu pp4ayy 5 • $48
ete_
-
For 'a- $25 certificate -yoU-vay_s241
For a $50 certificate you pay -.54O
For a $100 certificate. you pay i$80 •
TO FIT ANY BUDGET: YOU can take idvantage of this
patriotic and profitable savinge plan, whether your savings ,
are measured in dollars or in occa.aional nickels, dimes and
quarters. Canada's War, Savings, Certificates -are expressly
• designed to appeal to theman or woman of modest means
who cannot afford to subscribe to war • bonds of larger
denominations, but who debires to do something tangible to
assist the Country's war. effort
-CHILDREN TOO: Even _children- .-cart purchase ---War.
Savings Certificates, using their coppers, nickels and dimes
to buy War Savings *Stamps, at 25c each. Sixtece of these
DEVELOP THE SAVING HABIT: You Can purchase- as
stamps will bly one $5. Certif. icate.
• •
many. War Savings Certificatesasyou like, up to $500 ma-
turity value in any calendar year,. ThiSt them when you wish
--- bey ttliem often. Remember, Oystematic sevitig is success -
:fel saving and :your 'Country needs your money.
REGISTRATION: Each War Savings Certificate ie regis-
tered'in one name only, and is not transferable:
REDEMPTION: War Savings Certificates cannot be called
for redemption 'by the Govern ent priot to their date of
maturity. The owner, 'however, *hag , the orttion, - after six
months, of redeeming his certificates, for cash at fixed re-
demption Valuate In urgent eases, advance otice wilt be
waived.
°III- 4111/16
bq
Cot poor Woe **ohms
Cortiftrotoo or Selo* Corti
today., Yew ovooloyor,vsat
%loony arrange to mak,
wookty tkokections from your
*tow to,lory Woo Sovlop
Coalikotoo•
Comptete information and applieation forms at
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