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ThURSDA.Y, DECEMBEB 11th,„141
JAPAN ATTAOKSI
Vi,r,hile her representatives were JAM
Wondueting neptiations- at Washing -
tonic -Japan on Sunday!, -without warn-
. lug, launched attacks uponl,laritain and
the United state in the Paseifie area,
and ll -fledged war Is. now __waging
there. United States territory and
'snipping were violentli attacked, and
Very considerable damage Av/1§- done
bete -Re those ID eonaniand realized that
Ira had 'begun. The British evidently
were on the alert, but the most IF
aroun(t aLponference table, can„ estab:
lish n DO4inion here with a status
unsurpassed by any other domain in
the irlritish Jrn,piro."
Such addresses', as thiS are eateulated
to stimulate awl 'lead public thought
in, A sane ana, intelligent direction.
The farmers a Canada. in their sowing'
and reapinf are doing a Work that
only they can do for the maintenaWte
of the Empire, :and in asking them to
look Ahead to the pat.war yeorSt ;,gr,
others and others ,who speak tin tile
same vein are helping their audiences
enemy -carnal, so far have been to realize that the farming cenemunite,
upon.' British teeritory awl. there ,have
been. -severe loses in meeting these
„esseulte. 'Naturally the initial ad-
vantageis with, the aggreseor in a
• auprise attack, and there may be
grievous set-backa before Britain, and
jthe United ,States -can make their full
weight -felt in this new war. Japan
. has been, preparing for years to enforce
her will in Eustern, Asia, and though a
•41arge part of her army is bogged down
in 'China she .has a powerf4 navy
whieh is capable a doing a great deal
of damage.
japan, of Course, is acting in cleee
collusion with -Germany. Foiled in
their purpose of crushing Russia, the
Nazie.. may be expected to 'renew their
• bombing raids Upon °Britain- and to
, intensify their _Submarine campaign
.designed to stop supplies of food and
muttitione from reaching Britain,
Japan's share tn• the plot, is to divert
United •States naval strength to the
PaCifte and to make it necessary fOr
s. Britain to keep in the East a portion
• of her „navy that otherwise would
be engaged in meeting the submarine
menace in the Atlantic. japan, too,
has her, own 'interests to serve in
weakening British and United States
power in ,the Pacific. She. 'has been
thwarted. in her designs upon China
- "largely through, the assistance given
to the ChineSe, in the supply of
e mechanical rear equipment, by the two
democratic powers. If she should
eacceed in her Purpose of destroying
—British and American •power in the
'• best, she would lord it over Eastern
Asia, as Germany is today, lording.it
over a great part of Europe. elt was
Japan 'which,: first' showed her hand,
ten years age, in a violent. attack upon
Ohina. If She had been checked then,
at the beginning of her eampaig,n to,.
subdue China, how much misery ''the,
world would haste beep:, seVed. Takip
couragefrom Japan's success in savage
aggression, Italy and Germany fellbwed"
suit, and as a result the world 4s in- a
state of disturbance and sufferieg
-Without parallel in history.- Encolfr-
agerneet is to'be-Ifound it the fact that
the enlightened nations are at last
fightingeencl, though the struggle may
be 16eg, the indastrialized power of
Great, Britain af,tti -the-United --StitteS,
with ' the manpower of Russia ad
-* ohina,), will win in the erid. The bandit
riation 'must 1* beaten. to their knees,"
their"poiver for.making trouble utterly
" crushed, and smile Means • found of
. keeping the •peffee in this. now terribly
distreseed eiverid:
t ,„s '
A USEFUL ADDRESS
not alone for the present -wartime, but
for the future- also, has. a'. serious and
worthwhile task -one a the great„
one might say the greateet, elements
in the make-up of this Dominion of
ours.
S. B. &Others, Hurt! old :boy, at
'present the Department of Agriculture
• representative , in ' Wellington county,
addreesed a meithig 'at",Listewel the
other daY and presen,tedhiS views utton
the a,grieultitral .sitifittion in Canada
in interesting style. -
WithsthoUsande sif•men idle before
• the war novr abierbed. in war work,
capridit's farmers, -handicapped the
lose --of sialled help their farms
because of the higherestege.e paid in
war industry,: have nevertheless, with
• characteristic resotirCefulness, made
'immense increakes in the peeduction ef
their holdings, particularly"rn cheese,
baeon and eggs," 'required for the
'feeding Of Britain's •besieged millien.s.
• Thie: iestlY„ increased production his
been reached with the aid of school'
boys and the active assistance. of the
farm women, 'together with a larger
hse of machinery., and by reverting to
"the old-time sensible wey of changing
Work."
Ettr. Stothers-P.Steve" to his old
• friends in 'Huron-eurged thLft the
Britielf market be kept flr 6nadiae
farmers after' the. war, ?•;So •that ;the
sgr4atly increased production, nhatild
not eausoi drugged 'market in Canada,
'The theese situation would tette care Of
Itselt he believed, einCe Canadian
theese lute no Peer anywhere, and
"Denmark must never -again superlede
Canadian bacon and 4e,ggs." The Ontario
farmer' alSo roust `4fatroich his wits"
*WOW) Alberti farmer in tbe matter
• toof. hog Production, in face of the ad-
, Vantage held by the Western tarnaer itt
a supply of cheap grain.
•*. The speaker also had" a 'word about
kenetal conditioro in this Country after
the War, when In addition, teller owls
detnObilized forces -.Canada will, have
an intlut front other,countries.*„"With-
. font -Sane ,finti serious co.operation
Poong all these element' e.Atnada Wirt
PkwarVed," 'he „declared. -"Snell
fOrces !as indtUdry, tV$titl, Ittber,
1010neth, *Kritulttire end geVernment,
*web, 'With it repreeentatives , sitting
, EDITORIAL NOTES
John Bull and Kacle. Sain—comrades
at arms.
* .
Buy war setvings° stamPs and help
whip the JapS..
-* * *
They may sink a few• British ships;
but before this war is over the Japs
will find themselves sunk.
* *
The boys and girls needn't -be afraid
about Santa Clans. Neither bombs,
nor mines, nor torpedoes„ nor shell-
fire, can sink him. • "
• , * . *
'hkalbeegh," 'and, his isolationlets are home . . our argumentative neighbor
would., finally be •pereuaded to stay. fot
swallowed up, in the greet patriotic the evening meal. The discussion' .on
surge that has swept .the neighboring .municipal.politics was continued, right
. ELECTIONS
Having elections for the,Counell iield
early in our rioWnshilevaay be a eQ11.-
venien(*. 10ertainly, it is handier to
go to an, election Poll on a line day
than it •is whei . tlaie now Is blowing
waist -deep on all the eoneessione and
sideroad&,-,Y.et, I am not in favor
early eleetions. 4 Prefer- the etormy
ones.
Eleetion day used to he an &Tilden
to look forward to. Our elections Were
'always held on a Monday, and Sunday
°white we toasted our stockinged feet
beside the old glowing pallor stoVe. . ."
the thought of the contindelectten was
an ineeittive for •argument, 'Neighbor
Higgins used. to come plovving through
tlae snow. on that dr -St Sunday. in Jaml-
ary . .,,. full of fight! ,--
, The tax rate . . the drain,en the
est Sideroad . the way Jena Cituttly.
pushed •throughthat by-law about does
--worrying sheep after -his flock had been
•riddled, the township 'clerk's ex-
pense account 'when he went to a con-
vention in aTeronto and $o ex
When the argument was 'dying down all
they. had to do was look up the fin-
'aecial statement The flames 'of argu-
ment would flare again.
About 5 o'clock 'Neighbor Higgins
would, etart'ttilkingiabout. going home.
He would ponderously' kneck the ashee
out of his pipe -and get up frein the
chair. You could -plainly see that with
each movement of his •bode •he was
racking his -brain for some excuse -to
etay and argue a little longer. . The
repairs tothe township, hall!
Father would rise to the bait and th4
argument would start all over again
Mother would get up from the easy
chair in the corn.er where she was
sitting and go to the kitchen.. When
the sounds of •the4 kitehen• fire-
d
etirre. started to come back to the
parlor, Higgins •would start talking
louder as if to cover up the Culinary
noisee. The argument would •wax
hotter and hotter, until finally mother
would announce that supper was ready
Witha greet show Of starting fm
Republic this, week. The Mane who
was too blind to see what Germany's
game wes has been , shorn of any
pretence to statesmanship.
* * *
A number of Canadian newspapers
are introducing the "Gallup poll" in
this country. It provides the answer
to many questions Of political and na-
tional interest, but utterly tails when
the great question of the day is,..What
shall 1 ge.t John'ty for ‘Christmas?
, • * • • -
War with Japanbrings a new lot of
stratigeaames into the news dispatches.
Whatever else it has 'done, the war
has given us all lessens in geography.
How many of us twO years ago knew
• there were such places as' Narvik.,
Tobruk, Rostov, and now- Kota Bharu?
* , 4 *
'One- thing4eek4ngeinethis new phase
of the war is an outstanding figure
representing Japan, as Hitler repre-
sents Germany and Mussolini Italy.
The Japs have about as `much in-
dividuality- as ia bunch of rats—and
resemble that loathsome rodent in some
other ways.. Individually they are net
initlable, but in the mass they' are
to be feared. -
,* * *
• The losses suffered •by the United
States from the •sneaking surprise at-
taek.s of the Japs will not be without
compensation. Their Unpreparedness
is a demonstration to the world of the
AmeriCans' desire to maintain peace;
and, secoedly and More important, our
neighborsare so angry over the trick
played upon them that theyliave united
in one great resolve to inflict dire
punishment upon its perpetrators.
fe` •••
The tiresent e conflict Is noeresnuch
more "'World, war" thantees- the
war of 1914718. Evety continent is
now at war; even some of the South
Americanrepublics haVe declared war
•Lbn Japan., though they may. never' en-
, -
gage actively in hoetilities. China was
through until -the dessert was finished
and the chairs pilshed out tfdrif the
table. Fipally .it would he closedas we
started to chore . .1 . and !Neighbor
Higgins went home.
Mother Nature seemed always to
manage to muster p e 'blustering
,da
enowstorm. foseleotion y. The drifts
would' be slanted fro • fence ,to fence
. . . . a smooth, white beerier. Early
in the morning the eand•idate from our
concession would have hi 4 team out
plowing the road. How careful ne was
on election. day not -to plug up the
lanewae of any of his, Wends! It was
said that he carried, a broom on that
day and he would top and Sweep.
out the laneways. .
Our voting place- was at the town -
hip hall. The women of the toWia-
ship didn't spend much time in politics
in thoee days. The township hall was
usually so filled With silloke of strong,
smelly pities .that one Of the faie sex
-
'would have a hard job to survive in
the blanket,of smoke fog."
Many of the older men will. recall
the scene in a voting place on eleotion
day. A box stove was kept at a red -
het_ beat all day. long. The poll officials
-ually smoked like demons. The
tholight of e whole day's pay sitting at
tables influenced the most of them to
;tele several -cigars and it -wee consid-•
ered more or less of a duty viith ,them
to smoke the whole lot.,
The . candidates' workere were kept
busy all day hauling in the Older men
to vote. ' We Ofteli-Woraleredeh�Wenam
of the electors who were drawn teethe
polling places voted for the canclites
who broughl them in Distant cousins
of the would-be councillors would totter
in to the polling boOtly, .. .,- el the •rights of its citizens by way ef
punishment ; but the State has thE
authority pray aS far as law -breakers
are concerned, whese guilt must be
eMablished by an impartial court of
justice. Any. state,wbich oversteps this
Current Views on the War
A ingwAN BisHors BOLD, AD- nuirniie commander, iln,a bas, bfen de
1)10,SS
t.iu July 13th Bishop Clemens Aligust
pthached in Altimeter, Westphalia, a
sermon trona which; the follqwing ex-‘
traet taken. . • -
"917he assault UP6h ,mana.-4teries.Whieb
has been ragtag f -or Some tinie •already
in., Austria; in Southern ,GermanY,in
the recently acquired 'territories of
Western •Poland,•detieeniborg, •Lorraine
prived, Of liberty for years now, is
known to you ell. (The reference
to the Pretestant Paetor Igietnoller.)
We 'have the greatest yespeet for hie
courage and the braSeery with which
this noble 'German eonfesees to Itia
Cheistian faith.
°Frain this example you See, dear
brethren, thewhat grn publicly
mending .todIty is not something de-
nominational or speeificallY 'Oetholie,
end in the parts of the Gentian Cm..
pire eas new been les eoeee weetst bet indeed, eeneertle p,11 Obrietians; it
pinata. we must be, ,prepareg, for a is a fundamental human,natural, and
repetition of ellen terrible aiewe in the religion$
n
"Juetiee is the foundation -of the ext few days, mac'. Monastery
CommonWealth. With the •greatest
after anOther, -. be eelied by the we see and sleffiore that today
GestapO, and their inmates, our bro.. anxtetY
this foundation, is being shaken.; -that
justice, a natural and Ohristiart virtue.
which indispensable to the orderea.
condition 04 every htunan community
is- not being granted .and maintain
for allenien, in itedearly recognieeble'
fashion, It iSe-nOt only. beeaUSe -the
rights of the Oburch, 'the rigfits of the
human .pereOnality„ Arethreatened,' bUt
'Also because we love qur people and
feel deep anxiety for our Fatherland,
thatswe, beg, we ask, ye, we demand
justide, Who would not fearjor, the
Atability- of a house When •he sees
that its foundations ore being under -
rained? - •• '
"My epthcopal ;office, which requires
that I defend the moral •order, the
oath, wbIcb 1 hair° Sworn before God
and ..the representative of the 'Govern-
thers and sisters, the children of our
fernlike, true Gateau patriots, will
be. east out into the streetelike Crim-
inal slavee and harried out of the
country like obnoxious vermin.
"And why? . We 'are told: for Volt-
tital reasons Other reasons have not
been Stated. No inmate of these .m.032-,
asteriee hasebeen aeeused of any ofs
fence or erime or summoned before,a
court _er sentenced., If any one of them
is guilty, let him.The brought before a
court �f justice. But should the in-
nocent be punished, too? . . .
"Several tithes alreedy, and quite re-
eently, we have seen the Gestapo im-
prison blaraelees and •hoerored Germans
withoutea verdict from the courts and
witheut an opportunity' to defend them-
selves.. They have been deprived of
their liberty, expelled front their native nlent, to prevent, est far as poseible,
places and interned in various parts of 'all harm which may threaten Jthe
State, forceS nie to utter a
the country., rn the last, few weeks German
publth warning Of the deeds of- the
two members of my immediate council,
Cestapo.,
"My brethren, people will perhaps re-
preachme with weakening the home
front of the German people through
using such frank language during the
war. To that •reproach I make the
following reply: It is not. who .am
the cense of any weakening of the
the Cathedral '-Chapter, were suddenly
dragged from their dwellings by the
Gestapo, deported from Munster and
banisheeto distant places, which they
have been forced to' accebt as their
flomicile. For the last few weeks I
have received no answer whatever to
the protests which I sent to the Min- ,
libme front, but thoSe who, dieregarding
ister of Ecclesiastical Affairs. Bat this
much at least was learned when I tele- 'the War, ditsregarding the -external dis-
tress of the ,peeple, here, in Minster,
phoned to the Gestapo. The reverend tress
are under no suspicion or ac- and at •the end of a week a terror
from fearful hostile. ale raids, InipOse
cusation. of a ,criminal act, . . And
yet they are punished with exile! hard penalties on innocent victims with -
And why? Because I, their Bishop,
did soenething displeasin,g to the Gov-
ernment—When, in the coulee of the
last two years, four vacancies in the
.0athedral Chapter were •filled,• the
•Government announced in three. eases
that ik did not approve of the appoint-
ments. Under the. terms 'of the Prus-
sian Concordat of 2029, interference
from the Government is expressly for-
bidden;. I therefose confirmed •two of
the four appointments. Let them bring
•me befort the courts, if they think I
have acted contrary to the law, .
Every , •German citizen. is utteely de-
fenceless when confronted, with the
,Gestapo. I repeat: utterly detente -
lees. Many of ourefellow-citizens have
experienced this personally during the
last few year; for instance, our dear
religictus instructor, Friedrich, who is
being held in prison without etrial or
sentence.. .
"'No one"of es is certain, even though
he is •co,nscious of •being the truest,
the most conscientious ,eitizen, e.ven
though he knows that he is completely
• innocent—no one of us, I say, is w-
eak' that he will not one day be fetched
out oth.is_houee, deprived -of .hisliberty
and shut up in the dungeons and, con-
centretion camps of the Gestapo.
"1 'am well aware that may
,
happen to me,- perhaps thday 'or °on
some futere ,day. And- it is because I
sbell then no longer be able- to, speak
publiclY that I will speakctpubliely to -
d'; I will openly warn them not t�
• continue oe this course, which I am
firmly convinced will call down God's
punishment on mankind arid bring our
people 'and country to misery and
•
"The right to life, to invielability and
to liberty is an indispensable 'part of
every moral social order. The • Stater
of course, has the authority to restrict
. The hour ortension came when" the
ballots were 'being counted. Men with
'.§aiowy fur -math would it around sin
the seats at the back -ofthe hall and
listen, to the droning.- of the voices as
the votes were tabulated. So many 'divinely imposed limit, and perraits or
P' e so and so . . and 'so many for causes the punishment of innocent men,.
this. mail and finally they were undermineset own authority, .
.
counted, ,The .hottr of quiet was . "Hove - mane" German" citizens. _fire
broken e The clerk would telephone to langeishine in ,police detentiOn4 in. eon- the strong dealt the weak a severe blow
1
the other polling plates, and the- elee- centration camIg;. how many 'have been- by' elos2„tes its markets -to •the .goode by
..,eareeeseetseeeer,wesee,selthtpett space.l.banish4, from their. native places and. which ti:one the. debts coulthhave been.
of about two hot -iris-. e . and theii. 'Welyerzhave-neverT,I',)een--condetaned. bYea repaid. 'Our' high tariff -plilicy," he
•out, a verdict off The collets ers..the
possibility of defence. It •is these men
who destroy the security of the Reich
when they punish our fellow -country-
men, our brothers and sisters, deprive
them of their airoperty; east them out
into the street and banish them from
the country; it is they who weaken
•the trust .in our •Government. And
therefore I raise my voice in the name
of She -German nation, in -the name of
The majesty of law, in the interests of
mace and the -solidarity of the home
front. Therefore, as a German, as an
'honorable citizen, as a representative
of the Christian *religion and as a
• Catholic Bleh6p, ery aloud: de-
mand justice!r. If this cry remains un -
ea an un 1
justice is not lestor'ed, our- German
nation and. eowitry will, despite the
heroism of our soldiers and their glor-
Ions viotoriese peresh from inter cor-
ruption."' •
seThe-,INeW Statesman and Nation
(Condon).
WORLD COMMERCE AFTER THE
• WAR
The text of a remarkftble speech
which. Me: *Sumner Welles, the United
States Under -Secretary of ..,..,State, de-
livered at the National Foreign Trade
vConvention in New York on October $
ba jeer reached.. London. It is the
'most outspoken interpretation of the
economic- sections. of the Atlantic
Charter. which has yet some from the
United States. • That' chatter expresses,
of course, only the milid of President
Roosevelt and does tot necessarilythind
the United States as a - nation. But
the members of the President's Cabinet
are evidentle-losing no time and spar-
ing no egort to bring th.e.full meaning,
of the declaration home to the Am-
erican public. " -
Mr. Welles first explained the dis-
astrous effeets of the.high tariff policy
on which his: countreeembarked in 1921:
The United States, he said, had sud-
denly become the world's neatest
creditor country and .found-•itlelf in-
eomparably .strong while other nations
were -weakened by war and debt. Yet
faced the trip bear hbaiefin. the teeth publie court of justice!, How Many,
of a January gale. It was fun, how- after being exonerated by the court,
ever . . . and saved to \ break the or afterscompleting their ten:a' of Pun-
monotony'of a bang winter. ishment-imposed by -the court,. have
ABERHART OF ALBERTA
. (Lethbrid,ge :Herald)
. ,
We hope the people of Canada do
• - .
not in the laSt wdr, wig though Japan not fake the • antle,s of Premier Aber s the last war, risked his life for Ger- 2930,
Was. thenallied twitil Britain and hart serionsly at this time. We hoeee mofficeretW
any as a deemen end sub-; • '
Mr- 'elles eXplatned thA
at American
can
were doidnued. after 1921 only
A - ., e .
Fraffee she, took pay 'a nilaor part in- beanie° Americen' investors, -by. lending
the struggle and the .1Sacific area. Was
saide,"ieached out tO vietually „every
corner -et the etfrth and brought poverty
andedeepair to innumerable commun-
ities."' -1!efor the world bad recovered
Once more been seized by the Gestapo- from the shock of the United ',8tates
and kept,- under arrest! I refrain from tariff inereases of 1921 and 1922 it,Was
mentioning further nemes today. The' literally pushed into ecenomie-and 'Aii-
nazne of an eviangelibal pastor who, in tincial .collapse by the Tariff ASt
thedo not measure the loyalty of the
Alberta people and their desire to de
everything po4sible to win 'tlie-war by •
actions, of the Alberta Goverthisent.
RECRUITING IN AUSTRALIA
(Windsor Star)
other countries the inoney tos,pay for
only slightly disturbed,' from beginning the gciodsexperted, in eitect; ,paid
to end of the war. Now It' bag. be•come We gre, moved te raakestbis statement Australia, like 'Canada, preSentS dif- American exDorters When leading
I N the resolution "of tile Social Credit feesof opinion on the merits of .ceased the resulting Saisery„ flder
.the most prominent -fighting- area on all
caucus at Edmonton last, week which conscription for overseas service. While Ment, and resentment paved the way
for the riselef•the dictatorships which
have Dinned' the world. into war. Irt
order to compensate for the 'closing
th proposed (tax) agreement . . . Trade Unions is warning that compul- of their marketsin the United States
ould impose. a tremendous nen- '.or y ,militarY training for other than other nations had to retiort to ttaile
at 'Upon the people of the province." borne defence would split national opin-, restrictions` and payMents agreernente
•
bop alid be disastrous to 'tinned War which were then seized upon .by the
OLD-TIME NEW YEAR ,SERIOUS• effoxt dietaters as'a-mean..s of political pres-
• Old-titne Ne*.Bngiand was serious
the wide -flung battle front.' This isthe I "deplored the action ef the Dominion
Greet War; the 1914-18 episode was boverhment in ereatiug *a situation
telly a rehearsal. which compels the provinces to accept
* , *
This. column hes said more than once
,that the comparative thactivity of. the
Canadian' trobps overseas was a de.
the Returned Soldiere league -approveS
conscription. of wealth, Manpower -and
industry, the. Anstrallen Council of
terrent to recruiting, Since Japan'A on -New Year's, as witness -the title 'of
outbreak and the. attack upon Hong a book published there hi the year
the thick of the fight, a •revival of inter- -1' lag rSagtoul:s ::'')it.
Kong, whereePanadieel soldiere are in lst, 02 Years
?neGgi;har;..inSttitind
a"littleeari:latulfel °orf :ordial coridorth
est in reeruiting, is reported .in this seattered thfough several tanSwers to
ProvineN Whatever -opinion one inaA1.11 questions and objections: As also
hold as to the best system of raising aon loubting Christians invited to ChrlSt;"
...... ,,............- -
army, the plain, truth is that the
voluntary 63..gt•eln has not had- a real
test. Ae• a recruiting conference held
the 0t1ter day 'at 'Stratford Major T.
George recruiting oilleer for mili-
tary distriet No. reported iIft
follows (vide 'Beat(nn-Herald)
Major T. George Tilly urged
• every civilian vvho i.vor1ring).0 in
' the interests Of recruiting to popu.
lax -iso the system, of vOlunteer re.
*trottingt mugh as Possible, point -
hag out that if everyone favored
the; volunteer plan and talked it,
it W`Ovild. nOt' be 'long before the
whole pation would be thinking in
'Write.) of voluntary enlistment and
• the quotas Would ',soon be ilIDA
)410°1,1111y valtli, 1)y the 'Way, that
the army has been able .tO' fill
every iltemanit' to date, AO. that
knocks, on the head any Idea that'
An Trish drill sergeant was„drIlling a
squad' Of men, but could not get them
As. a matt.er of recotd, conkcriptionsure. When the United States recog-
has beeett more of a football Aus-
tralia than it ever has been in Canada.
It -was .put into effect in 1911, but,
abandoned dA a means of ialsing over:.
seas forces when the world' War broke'
out. While that war still was on, it
was submitted to a vote of the people
and rejected. A.ustralia went through t me give security to men at& women.
t tl Ar istice with a Olantat en- everywhere That was. almost as es-
Ilstment system. sential to the. Preservation of free
The world war vote re,sult indieftes institutions, as the actiral winning of
into a straight line. At lag, he eried, that a dolorous division in. Autitrallan the war. the danger vvas that the
"1011! Your line is as eroolted as a opinion Would jjelve teen created had nations of the 'world might once more
cdricserew. All of you fall out ,,and conscription 'been, enacted by parlia. be tempted to .resort to the same tuts
-
1 have a look'.'at ,it." • mentary vote, thereby compromising guided, policies, and that sectional inter. '14 tartOttft
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the majority Of the electors. lierhapv,ests -In theTlated 'Mates and elsewhere ti4 mie;
nised Ha mistake and turned to Mr.
Cordell Hull's policy of reelprocal trade
agreements it was too late. -
Afterothe war, 'Mr.. 'Welles eontinued,
an economic order must the created
which would give free play to lee
dii-idual :enterprise and at tlae. same
,
You/tes sure of his, appreciation, when: yout-giVelittirorsyth
Pajamas . . . the'han,dsomestblend#4 of comfort and style
he Could: ask hi-.. See our.'dispky.novi, Think he'd
welcome such distinctivesarments.,:, . made of ,litocuriously
soft and. long -wearing fabrics. and styled the famous,.
, Forsyth mann.err tes, w gilt "kr the rest of, his: life".
einne now-i-Shap.earrry °wt.
• rang& is combietc -
°Wane ever regretted giving Quality?
ridharti's
The Squaw
en's Wear
worth studying in its- ftill text. 'The
basic toneeption, is that your Govern-
ment is determined to move'towards the
creation of conditions under which. re-
strictive and =conscientious tariff pre-
ferentials and discritninations tare
things of the past, under
nation. Should seek -$� benefit itself. at
the expense of ,letnotheit; and under
which destruetivelrade warfare -shalt
be replaced by co-operation for the
welfare' of till nations. We have al-
ready:40e match to. put our own COM-
nthrelal policy in order', So long as
persistentty imPlement the prin-s,,
ciples of the. Trade Agreement Act the
United •Statestwill not furnish, as It did
'hear Ole last ikar, an'exense for trade -
'destroying OA> trade -diverting -prac-1
• ,
These are promising ,words. Upon
their IMPlIcation, depends 'lathing less
than the queetion whetter the *United
States after ,the ever .witt take its
part in a new world order or wthether,
In spite .of all friendly sentiments, it ,
wilt once more beizolated feora.Europe.
--maaches_ter 'Guardian.
Gotterfn
'less meeting the ladies quilted- a q
Boxes vvere packed for boys from, t
church who are -in aetive serciv,ice. The
.1fostess served lunch.. . • .-
WOK. Woodfow Iloy, of the
Harahan, is home on leave for a -few
days. "
• The -children of .S.8'. .N,o. 1 wilt hoid
-ftieTFhilifilitTS concert on December ,
nth..
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PORT ALBERT
. PORT'ALBERT, Dec. 8.—Mrs. Grey 1°
'and Miss- Tena TrailVkins have gone to
Goderich for the winter months. -
Mr. and Mrs. Clove Myers left on
the Oth for Exeter. Ia. IMyers has a
posftion looking after the hardware
department at„ the Centralia air' field.
neat. IIoy has been on the Sick list
for the last two weeks.
• Mr. Gibson of Wroxeter ha44 the
' contratt for putting in a 'retaining wall.
,hold the river 6tulk from sliding
and destroying the newly paved road.
Tile Ladles'. Guild. of Christ church
Met at the home ;of Ms Vetrfe.; on
Wednesday last. After. a short bust,
astries...
“Cluistmas is in the air",
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They areareal treat.
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All special orders receive Prompt
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.Scientists are seeking a eubstitute it is diffeeent today. The Laboritesi
for gasoline, Only, one w, know of may' 'be cwrong. AnYwaf it is not a
Is a Pair Of polioes. •matter that can be settledby aseertione,
becaue. -both sides' are making them !
and -they are contradictory,
d.
recruiting efforts are not success- ,There .1,,s, possibly. not mu& Canada
fut. can learn from Australia's eiperience,.
haqk i/ai#1%,.thrbtyirig e4ld 6111C0 in manP,ranects' it •has been As
however, that • the
thuslastn, addtheeanse is deserving of fa1r17( "vi()113'
water 56 not qfie ,Avc,iy to Aronix, erloo ineonelusive as Our own. It seems
enthusiasm:" .2.o tar .the voluntary istenacil 3;,,,,(1ruv(it fc'ena::tierectlia3etrolvt1).7eHr6e1111foorilloy7br;
rystem*anada, and the syotem. adopted fo
It ghould nave loyal supr the voice •of the Wail)e.
4fl41 no
C. gronp or faction, in or out of
port. . went, has the authority today -to des1gt.
nate itself as that "voice."
would again eelfiehly and blindly seek
preference- for ,themselveti at the ex-
penpe of .otherc, illans were being laid
now for sueh measures' as agreements
for stabilising the prices of basic com-
modities., .Serious attention wn. being
given to .the problems' of nutrition. If
the dietary needs of the world's poput.
lation eoul'd: be satisfied so that, all
would roceivi enotill food to sustain
health, i 1.:ire. would he no more trouble.
some surpltwes edtislo products,
rinany \t4 rWelIes laldon.
inain prin&ple et a- future trade policy
which his !Government 13 recommend -
lug to the nation. This declaration is
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