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AlIONAL,
liptal-Star Pewit atiwited,
eledeelele Otitatio
*titles fo tereateuea igViSYAL
et Brit** wItielt the Nazis fOndlY hoPe
will vomplete their onquest of Europe,
the Briti$U Prime Minister threw down
the ehitileap to Germane., -
"We obeli no ternis, we Shall
tolerate ea •parleys. We may seow
• snerey-T-VisbttU none"ask none"
Hitler', Mr. Churchill pointed out, has
not 'et -been. vettlistood by a great
$00,tion. NVith, will 'poWer the equal of
le
, e own. litany et the countries Male)),
- *eve beceute victims of be Nazi terror
"%see beea rottee from within before
tbey Were-emittett frdm without But
• Li* etrttiiili people, lie declared, are "
good eeelth and in good heart.'
• "N'eyer berere, in the last War or *
teetve we bad in elute ieland an
*tray eomptsrable in quality, in equili-
, ment numbers -with that wheel/
...tettleitteelteretteattietletteleteitiateette
These eflicere end Men, a large propo-
titai et- Whom bare time. through the
lest war, have the strongest desire to
attack and, got to cleae quarters with
f the enera, veherever be may appear.
. Should' the *Vatter come to Britain
- there will be no pleeitt. leine down. by
Itbe Pee*, no submis_sion before 'him,
" Sta Nire
have Seen,. "Ales, in other
coentries. •
•'"We. shall dermal every village, t
every town .and ettery eity, The
vast *ass Of Pindon,itself, fought
etreetby etteet,oata-0,47811rdeyour.
entire hostile army,- and we
would rather see. London Leid in
vitae and asttes than that it should •
be tamely and abjectly' enslaved.'"
,"ArOund"' all," Mr. " Chureltill eon -
tinned, "lies the power of the, noYal.
Navy, 'with over 1,000 armed ships
under the ‘white ensign, Patr011ing, the
Seastellieettareetethieteis eapable ,ot
transferring. its foece veryereatilly to
tee pratection Or any Part of the
. . • ,
British Empire wield). mei be threat?,
• Which Ls extexible else oe keetiing
,open,-Oer • eommunieitiens with the
New World, from whom, a$ the straggle.
" deepens,- inerease in aid. wili *tine."
Is it not remeteable that .after
ten months- or uplintited teboat -
and atr attack upon' Our equine -fee
our tood reserves are bleier than •
they •hyre ever, been, . ant .we erre
substantia0 elager . tonnage
ender _ our • own,. Ba,. aeatt front
great numbets or foreign 8111p8 a
Ottr eontrol, thane wethad sit the .
'United Statee• bald; the determinattott
tr
of the fOunes policies in lila hands
during' his terat or office, would
It not be the Part ot wisdom for
a supposedly aelt-governine people to
elter the system which, it The Uoultor'e
fears of tile eettleg up of something
like a kiastap aro Well" toraelek
evitably gives the destinies, or the
people into the hands we an absolute
monarch for .rour years, perbare tor
eight years? •
-If the Prealdent of the I:tatted Statee
holes deteretinatiee. of '. .the
counters policies, including its foreign.
Pollee*, in bit bands, where does ,the
direction or those polieiet bY the
Amerlean people come ine At a party
convention eittete for 4 feva days . at
Philatielphia er Chicago" it willett the
people" have about as Much voice as
they do at, say, Party conventions in
Cenada? "' •
The PetiPle of the Prated, Statesit
tseeniseteeekelteve---aneoppoetenityete.
Prove that they ilte in reality govere
themselves,* smashing 4 tradition that
hes heitlehera, le boedage foe more than
centarY:
EDITORM NOTES
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aterseal Petain's Faseist France,
we are told; Freud), children are to be
trainee from infancy on.' the lines used
eta.zi ',Germany', That would be
France's uttermose,degradation.
*
"
, Tallting about the home guards to be
formed, the iSa.illord Sage ,says , that
if be is 'allowed chelee'ef weapotte
he ealli ehoose a ,eleb. , He says het
would enjoy ereekang a Nazi ekull.
beginning of tbe !war?"
ereet-ea nte.iirwii? of 4,•&7#144,', YeATA ago, "Kea, Coal with Coolidge."
priit:etTs: ;;;;b7 y or ef the Presideetethould be .re-noinen' tiled
tiees. It is a war of Peeples and of we may hear the welkin' ring to the
causes," the Pr'ime Minister continued. RePublieall sh°.4,t'.41/"sevel Riii".4/he
.core are vast rjtiimixts„.• not9aiy, Republic,"' along with the Conquering
. Wand, bet In eterY land, who erl' "WendellVillkie will Win."
lut
Aja. bity,e1 retheMber a_ cousin of my
is theDemocratic slogan, father's 10 often -droppee in Cor Sure
Winkle Wilt." Almost as conveicihs dee 'etaaieg dinner. Be , was banker
as the Republican. war cry a some and a POMPons gentleman who
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looked. out from white whiskers, oer
a wejl-fed stomach arid. Ate with ,, a
emecentration test was Amazing:, After
dinner he would- reach into his vest
Pocket select cigar and then
,after biting end, off it . and
lighting it . . . he. would dip in and
bring one out for father. We used
wenderfult,vhat a clever slogan willto sit and watth him smoke and •• be
••wul render u$ faithful Sett/lee ixt this
CIGeltia
Tide be called a eigar-smalie
reverie. tualeit4 MIA ett
ternoou — aud haviug teat ter, *a
exeelteat exyo
euse urs truly is iestelled
in a tociang chair on the side verandah
iiihaliog and evlialing •ou a tigar that
an implemeet talesman left.
"Wateiting the textoke eddying up in
blue.grey magees . anti then gush -
1112 upt under the eaves to be Pelted
bate nothiegness by the driving force of
the rain . the idea Is sitJggested .
"Why not write a eolnum - about
'cigars? '
Where and how they're 'made is for-
eign to me. Cuba . . or Seine Strange,.
far-off place. Wrapped by dusky,
hrOwtesigineed men singing native
stings as they rock back and tore'
but eueuge Of that.
Where's semeteine about a cigareirat
ntekee men feel ireportaut It meat -be
terowbaek to the days when all
bankers amoiced stogies and the dasey
gantblers with image thin cheroots and
derbies stood inside -hotel. windows and
watched the Parade of men and women
go by. • • •, , ,
Have y4u ever noticed bow the amine
of a agar lingers on. in a room? Walk
into a room •aed notice that epse-
tingling sensatien of tobacco, Savor,
SIGN
Carrot
oa the u
_ 1:111g OLLAPt•
The liontlea Thee. Pulitiatela thettalt
lowing teem its correepondent
in Parise . • : - _
i*Wbitt how - tothis
voeutaye" wipeout eskedn Warta the
tender which was to take' us out from
Bordeaux.. Tie 6anle question Mast
haunt the rainee of 1111 whit lit4Ve. 1k4OW4-
and loved Frence with her great
tie& or Courage, intelligence, and pat-,
riotisxn. No outsider has tee eight tti
reerireination agalutit France in her
21011r of agoilte followieg a titaute
struggle against, ,everwiteltaing Massec.
of menand material. Before :settilte
forth' the melencholy tale of, ithert-
comings. bath the civil awl ealltliarY
ettheres it IS the duty of any lair
-
minded oittiet rver to pay a heartfelt but
wholly inadequate tribute to the PeoPle,
:the real 'peoille Of France; The Wee
wete reedy' to Oahe the people to suffet
and -endure. But the tniptee$e leaeer-
shiP Nieto liteklute
The 'collapse . eente tem the top.
Leek or foreaight, teak et iesponsibility,
divided counsel, outmoded .military
thittkitigt and, in one eases,. a total;
inability to ilielerStaed what Nazi -Ger-
many stands for and inteede-eall
played their pert la :bringing 'Prallee
to her *tree, 'Week after week ;meal
failure ted, to material faibire ; material
that niece eteristif would be *Ilowed
ineepeseidome exittenee, Ttiey know
better now—too late.
Wee tuelt a tragedy eanuot obeeure
tee -lama coolities tlie, Freud). people
es 'Witole, though they thertioeivet
'admit that in part they are payiug for
Years of itteitY and indlifereece to the
manner or their governing. AlattY
eivilians were brave beyond the asking.
AN VIEW
With the signing iof the Italian arm-
istice Ftanee's humiliation is tomplete;
her national existence Is 'given up in
pawn to thetttesi dictators; her war Is
over. And' tae whole- swift, appal-
ling story, perhaps no aspect is Mote apt
Palling than the utter collepse in -which
telt end hag come.- ,
Sow tbe evelenee$ of this eollapte
are pathetic, at who. a Cabinet 'Min-
ister weo will ttot'eveit give his nem°
ateuses the Braise , of violating a
promise that they Would "uhdetstande
the eurreeder. Some are bitter,' its
when the Botdeaux ,government eash.-
lers General de, Gentle for issuing a
suro.roons to the sort of , resistance
which contd. alone entitle any goverat
meat of Franee to, the name. eome
are fantastic, as teem Laval declares
Abet Frente has "not lost, •rank as
major power," thus seeking to exercise
the overterovvIng trete that France -4
YonYou'llnatIee, ,too, hOssi, welders, will ,ellutereetea Wain moral resistance;
sort the France ,of the oilichtist the politic-,
,et„trilLanCely,_,,P2ily,',.but_l_like the until at last the viaious eirele of defeat 'Wis., the atetty staffs and big business
smell ,of a goodcigar," r, if they're' vtig-coltiPlettet`e teee - -mtarten leewsPaPettrtandt dipitimiteet-
.1.
ultrasophiaticated, they'll say "tbe odor tehett the war began Itraneewas
of a good eigatte , , • still- in the :throes of Internal Political
' A. elear belegs. to tnitild What Auntdlt"atetneslocittuestaitidoon!more. a4hotgiiietrtitwas, Appleby always said. All her life she ea
-meet a really' important man and. one
had pized for the tlay when she could cianipi.riteciscotutto!wViboillanmat:tahvalliiiitsgtgian8eethaentifiarariliii,famyFortevnininehi.
who would, keep her ett'nfort for
the remainder. of her life. Then ;Tim her in suPPort. of Poland. The eight
MeIlwale. tame . . with his shiny Inentha of-Moixttess' war.: that' drole
de guerre, As the soldiers called it,
traveller's case . checked
tweed suit and his derby*.afl4l cigar lett the troops gruralgiug at their *-
and , gold wateh-chain. .She was elete- activitta the generals ownfOrtablY
the-MurPhY Emporium . • i and vlileed that their strategy—which had
first thing the folks knew she 'was going ignored the Iesson'of Poland—was foOl-
twitha"traveliing$.esthan9A:4a-PlvC4ant the o1itieians '4441y
r"
elalInshinyblaek taffeta and meek- 1- steei
looking uncles with side -whiskers borelonga strong man, olobringlbe
teades, to
ocrudk 31.as
down one her father and mother
"deck -clucked" , and Aunt Appleby ateteleed into his Cabinet. as Minister
teem all•tal with the one answer ofFinance—for thetlittle deputy for
'I kneel; by the smell of his cigar Parts had ehoWn tee much *1st= and
.uuat he was a real gentleman:, Con!. .eburag6 to be Ignored. The to men
arary to general propeety,ethey were "were never at :eaSe, with one another,
and, When M. ateyeau.d'a straight pro -
grant of work and sicrillee produced
eomeelnevitable grumbling:, from the
„selaslir.anie fainthearted, M. Daladier
began preparing the ground for 'els
,remotaL A few days later the Nor-
Wegian storm broke. M. Reenited was,
uneasily , in thn Saddle, te be eayed
for the mOM'iiit by theaCtieman on -
sl -aught at Idaysate •.•
On that dal- thewriter called on.
M., Rep:teed and rice' ived yet -terther
proof of . a clear -mindedness, Which,
had it beenjotned to the ferocity of
'sent of a Cienienceau, would almost
certainly, have ewehim the savior of
his country. 1 found him greatly dis-
turbed, and asked what was the matter.
He tale -Metthat three orour days
Were hello, With expert assistanee,
gee -elite, the tonduet of the Freiteh
operations in Noway and. had dis-
covered extouglita eenvitiee elm that he
zeouldno ,gi.Iter,rittala,Gehor41..04*144,
as 'getterito7; summoned
rather than Potting • a fellow a mile 'Married and , lived quite ea.ppily
away with a gun. •
• prince _Edward. Island his decided
by plebiscite retain its Prehibition
law, s, having by . dectsive. majority
voted down A .Proposition for the sale
Of -beer -and wine as beteragee. Ontarloitf•::arCd havng e glitaT,rs-leaelne treki
Plight vote the same way in 'a plebiscite, your nostrils. �n the other hrtnitl, of
but. teeTtees are not given an. op- a salesman gives you a cigar yeti" are
portudity to express themselves in that !oo bust' concentrating on how te intoke
. . • . withoet choeing, ancitreinein in ap-
manner.
too. • A.s a resttlt "trattelleig salesmen
are held -in-Much higher esteem now.
Ithati-torliler/T our -family; -
Salesmen who ceme to sell farmers
various articles are 'foolish to smoke
eigere There's simply nothing quite
as irritatinFartot-have ° tie sit .roxt a'
p,ettrance as if. eon smoked one after
• every meal, to concentrate on what he
An: edho front the Chicaeo conventiew saYing.
* • • "Wet
-7,:,7-*---t''''''''taitteeltitt:tiatftWeetteMetettvaillettteeffebe
known,' Whose deeds will never be
sectirded.
,oThis 1$ a war of tee unknown.
warrior. But let .111 strive, Without
failing • in faith or ,in duty, and the
dirk curt* of Hitler will be li'fied from
per Age." •
'TS TES minim. STATES
GOMIndi. BY TRADITION?'
, we 'Write the Itemoeratie conven-
tion, at 'Chicago het not Tit eltosen a
Candidate for the pTesidential election,
10Vember, but it ia abundantly
manifest that the only telteteele to Mr.
.1teicieerelt's re -nomination: is the feel-
-bag .4galust-i-thir& erxn. oete-
veleta beyond 'question the outstanding
Man int the public life tif• the Hatted
States. /he Republicans thought so
little or the presidential VI:abet-in their
party that they turned down all
the men Who up to .a fete menthe age
had been recegnized a; the patty lead-
, .
ets and chose as their •eandleabt
former Demoera.t who Is utterly' with-
out expertettee as a legislator ot public
*drainistiator. There.. are no doubt
good. men, In the Denteciatie partY,
other than ill.r..400sevelt,, available foe
nomination, but to Oanadiane, net
teestOmed to•teeing mee With exwrience
pUblie life, valued for that very,
'txperience, it $tieras ,strange that any'
*tan eltielid be laid on the shelf simple
because of it etotont which. tlisbcomtt
-experience, and the intimate enevaledge
et affairs which -Must eonie to,..one who
holds thet °fate of president for even
one term.'
The Bolitott, Monitor, liberatqatudea
in moilteitings, opposes Mr. Itooseeelt's
ne.noruination and states its belief that
'ea fundameetal eoiteept of self-0*cm-
. ment le involved." To our meldit is
not self-government that ties the people
of the United tatates • to a tradition
eetablithedGeer -a hundred. Teem age.
In tbelr Werelte) of this tradition the
people of the 'Vetted Stetea,lasteld-af
- governing literaseliee, are allowing
•
themselves to be geretned by the deed
heed Of the Peat.
• letitting that no Irian, is hulisPertaable,
The Monter argues: "We atereonvineed
gait the governMent of the '11-nited
ineleding ite foreign potter, tit*
and ahoule be beyond aetermituttext
by One Man. We believe, , the baffle
direetioii ef polley ten And, Will be
net by the American, people .° The
Wolter is Afraid feel * third tet*
trotild &eel* late * &mod for "Pier.
aortal rule If the President of the
„fiffr. T L. ;fascinated 1)y thesmoke rings -he 'was
•
tsoc...profideOWORb101-:, .
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•
We never knew why father disliked
Expectations of this year's Western' him. He just didn't' seem to like any.:
wheat erop are so big that the Can.- thing about him.- In later years as.
adieu fitain authorities are worrying heel! of A household of tny own, the
fitaerittion came at to why father dis-
about what theav will do with it. With himThat, was a condescending
a large earry-over, still in tee couetry, attitude he had in -handing the cigar
and some important outlets plugged up, over, just 0 much as te say..
It Is fearedthat present storage facit4 "well, Yee don't very, often get a cigar,
so try tins one." , - •
ides will not be ,suflleient to accom-
modate the /flood of golden gra* that PRord,EX-OOT,TNTY
win twee 'souring' froni the prairies
' OONSTATILE J. PEASE
in a few• months. • However, Canada • , -----e- - •
•
. Former County Constable '.J. Pease of
will still be considerably better off than
the conntries of continentalEurope
Bayffeld Tinli writes regarding • proeeedlegs.
which are t threa.teited' With fel:nine ii Jul -eat: 7--- -----7 — --- ----
the contingleintert Whatever else May "Editor The Signal.star' . . • -
' . t t.h. Inpoting ilt offtfen:Atthoen:Reev::
'Il,a*PP:nbe'to,,,,__,..7,_,E, niet,,,..odY:ii,htticli.din..:setaair....v!. towit:ea.ottrinsa„evaSsirkin:rpmeatthdimitstn°01,:seetr7t In a claini
nine commission would bay the equipment
Ile. vy vate"
News, that "the. policy of 'diseontinuing Which wouldbe of no use to me, and if
sPorts, and other' events, which . have they' would, it Would help Me fuiancial-
le. '
been enn• ual affairs ter years, because . 'Another point_ is 1 have 110 phealeal
er the war, is a nttstaken oneattatterbag disability, mid,' as '1 was appointed for
the last, itar the people were Urged to one year he a part-time constable and
carry on—business as usual" was, the vapapos.ninatmet agkritedtou'rourtszlnentelniooantbsmeadfineateri
motto—and not to let the war .disturb examination, 1 refused for the reason'
too . much their everyday life: The- that I was the. OnIteitite that was teed
Present War, is somewhat nearer --but a .reedieal Inspection will be needed.
Were -the eeneteblet now on duty ex -
do we not adinite the Eiltish people
. .
amined (before
for their ttoical tietermthey were re-engagedtinatioa to allow. I will answer this, N'o. „ A$ ter as
the war to interfere as Mile as Possible three months' salary .they • claim. to
•
With their besiness, or even with their have Oyen Ine, I do not see it in the
eportea It wilt be tune eneegh to pull. saatia.t. eealtrghtti,r'alki.11eacerataattel_.7s.%.74.8art.
., .
down the 'curtains when the 'Nazis get etre&
Italie' and I finished, out tile yea -r;
control, of Canada---whiele please God, .41 Was a,,I0oinaty constable for over
- .
will never. bet, , . eleven ears'', and when. the County
Council- called,' Int -all polke badges 1
11(."Valadlei; goie overthe• evidence
with him, and Announced, his deeisiou
whereupen M. Dalteller utterly refusesi
to agree to the c.hatige, saying that he
would resign and. provoke pOlitical
crisis. The. matter had been Placed
before, ateiabineet meeting., ,the „do
foreiMay tteattd-eafter• heettarge-
nient ministers reraciined undecided. 4-
Iteynaud. was thielting of resignation,
but few hours later mine the eiernaen
general offensive. The President of
the Itepublie-44410 upon him to re-
main at his poet' and enlarge his Cab-
inet, whie.h he did Ity, the inetusien
M.M. Math*, atid Ybarnegaray. But M.
,Diattdiet wee still raising difficulties
about the removal of Omelet. • M-
any *mud decided. that it Would
eerheps cause more harm than good
to mate such change at such a
critieal hoer. ; —
The break-throUgh*oxi the Meuse, te-
;reeling the inadequacy -of.the Fiend'
military ,,.proarations, was Gamelin's
death-warearte teynaud 'called, in
eV ,
-General eygand and entrusted 'Rim'
1.veth the well-nigh :impossible tisk of
. stepping the rdt at ottee. That was
fair enough.: - Bet he-eleo -ealled'in the
eighty -four-year-old' ". Merahat retitle,
and a fresh and most grievous joint -in
ehe Freitelr armor lay topen. Marshal
Petain had 'rightly won a great reputat
tion" In the last War. ' But that was
over twenty Yettra ago. Now he was
old and tire, yet stubborn, none too
frlendly. to tim Britise, and, above
all, steeped in a military tiadition of
the past He had been, launehed a
figueehead to breast the seas of suceess-
ful resistanae; ' be remained to.' cern,-
Maud a wreeked` hull' on the bitter
waters ,of defeat„
Nevertheless, for a time .things
teemed -to go ibetter, ; the' Weygand
syaterci. of defence in deipth slelyed the
enemy advattce and exacted a heavy
toll • Gradually, Vowevere. the weight
of, numfbeis and meterial, aboveteli
material, began to tell,. Tanks, artil;
lery, machine -gins tantiet be handed
over in the Middle of a hot engagemeat.
The result was that the same rate
day sifter day had to light *eta sleep -
' ••was not requested to turn mink In, but;
The friendly Brantford ftpositor re. mist as. soon as there is a salary at -
marks: "That Mr. Mile did. not go tached the Old. Pal system •comes in. less, nerve -racked, an ever -dwindling
farther and admit. members Of other] r pot in many. an hour and over 1000 but 'glorious (band, 'while -fresh troops
parties directly as minister a is, imfor- miles. on my tat driving the, year of by the hundred thousand were held
tunate, but it IS, nevertheless, consitent1 1930 and this .came out of the t.409. idle behind. the lines." .
With the Liberal leader's* repeated
baa ceased' to be a power of any ,kind.
And some—in the form of sudden
flood of stories of treachery, defeatism
and,inertia in high- places coupled'with
disillusion and despair In. the ranese....
. are terrifying. '- •
The stories may be exaggerated; the
Moral collapse itself is obvious and un-
aretieblet How far it may extend
through themassof the Vrench people
we do not know; for the Vretich people
are. now eut .oft..teora the eivilired
World behind the,. wells of militereote-
ettpationt tensorshiP and fite-,teitid. elite
ritessitals Of their ewe leaders.. How
far it was unavoidable under the ham-
mer biows of the blitzkrieg it is not for
. then who •did not ,feel: them to Baty.
But the fact is that in her extremitY
France bend liereelf suddenly under a
government Without . cerreietione with
no hational will to resistatteei with no ,
policyebut to. -surrender everything as
quickly as possible in the illusory hope
of saving+ something out of a wreck
which the atom* matte • only more
erretrievable.. e •
The . Bolshevists ' Made their, bitter
peace at Brest -Litovsk in 1918 in order.
to free themselves for new beginnings;
the Paella Betnibile made its!peace at
Compiegne only. teat, 'fragments
migh"tCompiegne
'submission be permitted to
cling to some prerogatives out of `'a
past which they , had tailed to defend.
'Like that Of Napeleeneeeliande Ai
the republic's career ended not simply
in a defeat but in a `tsetere tee peat!"
and it has as -little chanee ,of revival
as had the Grande Armee. If France
herself ,revives it will not be the France
of theeetlifictaxis and eatliamelitar*tie,
the precrastinators and half -measure
men; ,the partly Pro -Hitler aristocrats
and partly protStalinist agitators,' the
eynics and the recalcitrants ane the
disillusioned. Whol!'steP by step guided
her to this disaster., . There will be no
revival unless France 'dada' herself
agate ase nation, capable of reepending
affirmation that he would; not tolerate,
much- less form, a national govern-
ment". Is Canada, then, that fax cm
the road to Naziism? --Stratford
Beaeonaerald.
The B.-11. should label its jokes. The
first Move towards' a Nazi or. :Fasciat
government isto, abolish parties, or
ll parties but One. The British
system Of parliamentary government,
to which Urging, rightly or Wrongly,
contistently adheres, is ,the antithesis
of Naziism. The people Voted lege
than four itiontht ago agahlst "natiOn-
ar, government, and Mr. King, rightly
or wron'ilYt believes that they were
sincere in voting that way'. Does The
Beacen.lierati know of ally Nazi or
raseist tountry in which issues are
decided by a vote of the peoplei'"
WOrtlifte it like glass -teethe brighter
the glitter, the more easily broken.
teen& Streit
"The Council eould grant- eie) to
other eonstables whose salaries, were
$1000 and over, and becanee I ask them
to teste a. smell anemia et' equipment
they bring in the excuse of ,giving
three montete ealaty axle a Phisical
disainlity 115s 15 taken 'twelve years
to find titt$ out?' '
BELFAST
nvinrAsT,„ an,ly IWe are sorry
to hear that Mrs. Zoe Lawson has gone
back to Toronto for treatment. We
hope to hear good news =soon.
Miss Hilda Twamier, near Nt afailigf
has been engaged to teette in the Del-,
fast school.
. Miss Dorothy. 'Wilkins, of Paisley, Is
visiting With her sister, Mrs. Bert
Altort.
Miss Ina CaraPhell hits One to
eittelpe to take a smuttier mutter.
' Mr. and Mrs. eepertee Trifle elid Jam -
II spent Sueeity in Ustnoter.
The logrontiAt* anniversary of
elotreh Will be b.
served next 8iitidaY, July 2.1. teetirleett
tit 11. cm, and 1.4()
Meanwhile, on -,.the home front an
atmosphere ef fer,.eonfusion, and de-
featistrt began to -close in. ' It.started
fest where it ehould have come last.'
among certain members of the Cabinet,'
-officials, ahd many who by birth, or
eireumstaace Wed it to their ecnintry
to set an exemple. And while the
politidal defetttists Wetapered away
each others' merit', the peOple Were
!kelt in comfortabte ignotence of events,
so that the •firtel eewa of an impending
.capitulation galt them no time for
reaetion other than stupefied, griefs
in the Cabinet ..,itself 31 Iteratted
and that great-hearted tighter, M.
Georges Mandel, the Minister of, the
Interior, were Putting up a etruggle
tor eontinued resiStanee, but 31 Bey -
nand had unfittingly loaded the dice
against himself. And the new Petairt
Cabinet seemed to neglect The ebanee
of cutting ite own threat and that of
the cottntre with It, retain, oeltde.
luded Into the belief that a nice, honor.
able **M. -e6blid be made between
soldier*, overlooked Ifitleets deelared
*In ef annibiletirig Fame& Ile ane
his advitere kept up their pitiful belief
saon and unbl
uolesik illoriirssofet *
to a utlostal
natiosal tisemOur.
No kraorielta eau say mit things
iu score, for tbere Is Ito American who
has # right to foel anyildsc but humil-
ity lu face ot Irranee's trial. But Am-
erleans can look at this moral eollapoe
in whicli tbe trial ended and uuder-
ttaue from it, perhapa, something 'of
the tlepthe -Or their owu morel unpre-
perednes$ for the world in which they
now And themselves ls1ng. Have we
the inner conviction, the confidence la
our institutions and the ability to work
them despite all their faults, the com-
mon ideal, the unity or purpose, which
conld have saved us In ouch an extrema.-
ity from a similar fate? If not we had
better get them, for they will be needed.
--New Ifite Herald Tvibutie.
MB. IIANSON'ff LAtfifiN
(Toronto .tar)
All political leaders have their lapses.
There is not one but has said things; ta
a moment Of irritation which 'he heti
later hed cause to repeat. Tbe usually
urbane Mr. Ilaniion, House leader of
the -Conservatives at Ottawa, usee an
exeressioe the other dayeeeted it twice
in the space of a few minutes—whieli,
if • he were *cerapaigieng asta itarty
leader, would hardly gain him favor in
Western , Ontario. etr. Mason was tice,
dressing the %louse of Commona when
Goldiogr Qt Micron Perth, bust.
ruptod, with, secording to ihmiard, tgo
following result:
Mt\ Golding: "Don't forget—JP
Mr. Ilan:ton: "Will the hoemember
from the brushwood couutrY Plea** '
keep quiet for a little weile."'
A minute or so tater, atr. Golding
*pia laterruptee when MrBait**
was attacking !dr. Gardiner, itud flee,
sard records tbe eichauge as follows:
Mr. Golding: "Don't forget that Is'
had four brothers put out of action in
the last war."
Mr. Ilauson: "I wish the ho11. Ines*.
ber from the brushwood country would
/-,e4 qulet.",
it is true that the district from which
Mr. Golding comes, one of the iineat
Ceitario, WaS in the early days know.
as the Queen's Bush. That term, le
fact, covered territory froxu Goderleb
right up to Georgian Bay, and in even
earlier times was applied generally te
uncleared lands atilt in the Crown's
?Possession. But Mr. 'Hanson would
bay° a *hard time explaining "teeth.
wood eountry" referenceS te an Cull-
encet at, for example, Searortle Theae
fine Western Ontario counties, are Ile
C0141trY" now "
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