The Brussels Post, 1927-4-27, Page 3fi
Mr. F orketu
Lucky Smile
Story of One Cabinet Member Whose
Face Was Itis Fortune
Ily V,'M. Kipp
Hobert 1''arke, of Pipe -tor(,, *lupi •
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tuba, is Minister of Immigration in
the Cabinet of ear. MacKenzie King,
because he smiles easily, )iycause of
his aspect of bland benevolenc.e and
his utter lack of personal enenmies.
Thie statement is capable of ready
proof. To -day he is one of Ills Maj
esty s advisers in 11118(111 for the roa-
son that T. A. Crerar chose him as
nominal head of the Progressive
party in the days when the Progres-
'rivra were a more rmi 1 ilbe ro•ce
than in tide time, Are., .,ie. C e ar
selected Forke of Pinestone strictly
because of his negative qualities,-- he
was sate, he was about as radical as
the Archibishop of Canterbury, he
had no ambitions worth mentioning,
and he was content to let Progres-
sive party sock its own -level without
too much guidance or intcrfereece.
Mr, Forke held the leadership of a
Party, which defections and elect°,ans
reduced to a Group, because of those
same qualities, and in the fulinees of
time that leadership carrsea nim, au-
tomatically into a portfolio. It is a
HON, ROBERT FORKE
simple story, but all the gods of the
Scotch must have guarded the for-
tunes of the Honorable Member for
Brandon. •
The Progressive party lust missed
greatness. It was born of post-war
discontent in Ontario and the Prairie
Provinces, and disintegrated largely
through Iack of the right leadership
at a critical time, which was during
and after the general election of
1021, Crerar had been a member
of the Union Government, but he was
THE BRUSSELS PAST
Wolfe Leading the ritish
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WEDNESDAY, APRIh 27, 1927.
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Many incidents of Wolfe's siege of
Quebec reveal the immense contrast
between the methods of warfare ot
to -day and those of • two centuries
ago. The story of the battle en t1i
Plains of Abraham, in particular, il-
lustrate, in "many curious details, the
way in which our soldier forefathers
fought.
By surmise on the 13th September
1769, Wolfe's army had gained its
position on the heights to the west
of the city, and taken ground in a
line extending from the brink of the
cliff above the St, Lawrence to the
edge of the slope descending to the
valley of the St. Charles. Out in the
open, in front of the line of infantry,
were placed two six -pounder guns,
not a politician and had no fondness two men deep, with a slight interval
for public life. He was --..nn is --a by the sailors of the next. Tho six
very able business man, trusted and British battalions were drawn un
respected. He sympathized with the two then deey, with a slight interval
unrest in the West he knows so well, between eac11 battal
and almost without conscious a,et on man rubbed shoulders with his com-
his part he found himself at the head rades, and the rear rank was but n
of a third -party movement. The op- pace behind the front. This dispose
portunity was there for changing. the tion, Wolfe's own invention and an
political history of Canada into new absolute innovation at the time, war;
currents, but the leadership was lack- the first "thin red line" in military
•lag, A Ieadcr with more evangelical history. Conspicuous in the line
'ervor and more organizing genius were the Fraser Highlanders, with
night have welded a party to serve kilts and Scotch caps, and the Gren-
-s a nucleus for all the Liberal (tellers, the bombing section of their
bought of the country. Crerar was day, the tallest and heaviest men in
sot an evangelist. Ile had no organa-
ration and no party funds. He was a
leader without authority, a driver
were agreed only in the determine -
without reins. Those for whom he term that there was something wrong
purported to speak in Parliament with the scheme of things and that
vvmn,,e niN naso touame. m1rAnvAmmmoargura rimae.srminwoolR•s twomaysy,r...-mv
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each regiment, wearing high coni
cal hat:, who, in addition to the us-
ual infantry weapons, carried gren-
ades, small cannon balls with fuses
attached which they tlghted and
threw by hand as they advanced. All
wore tel coats with facings of yel-
low, butt or blue, with white knee -
breeches and stiff pipe-clayed belts
and gaiters.
The. French army poured out from
the city gates and formed about half
past nine o'clock on the rising
ground about a quarter of 11 mile
from the British. Montcalm, hoping
to bo able to break their thin line
before they had time to entrench
themselves, arranged his men sig
(tanks deep on a narrower front, five
battalions of French regulars in the
centre with tree battalions of Can-
adians and some Indians on the
flanks. Both armies carried their
flags into battle, and all along each
line fluttered the colors of each regi-
ment, the blue and white with gold-
en fleur-de-lis .of the French and the
i red and white crosses of England
1 and Scotland on the blue field of the
f British ensigns of that day, forty
' years before the cross of St. Patrick
was acicled.
Conspicuous in a new uniform,
', which be had put on that morning,
Wolfe walked along Itis line, giving
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- his final instructions. The British Nearer and nearer• ,time the ;n'tant battles in the world.
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JEWELER WROXITER
farmers were not getting a square
deal. • They were individualists, and
he was not the man to "take of bleu
a united aucl n0'ective fighting forco,
! Then the Alberta members, always
more faithful to Henry W. Woods
than to any nominal leader, began to
male trouble, and Mr. Crerar un-
doubtedly saw clearl' what would be
the end of it all.
Shareholders of tine Gated Grum
Growers, Limited, of which Mt Ctcr-
ar is president, opportunely discover•
ed that their chief 1011 git-rng ton
much of his time to amities and he
Was faced with a dilemma which did
give Trim much concern. He could
not afford to sacrifice his business
career on a political altar which had
nothing of promise and little of hope,
Ile called his following together, ten-
dered
his.,r• ''
0,t •satin
n and proposed
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Funis( as his successor,
Forke, born in Scotland, had lived
111 Pipestote for many years. He
had made a modest success as a ter-
mer, anis his public life had been eon -
fined to the 1te.vrship of 111s township.
He was a Liberal and a lotted ver-
nier, nod when ting, new panacea for
all national ills burst upon the 'cheat
provinres he and all his uctighbora be-
011md Progressives, The farmers, he
ngteed, were getting too little for
thea, ((heat and paying too 111110/1 rot
their supplies Something should ase
done ahollt 11, he agreed, and if i•all-
in,g himself •t Pro,rresrive would 11 11)
x1.1111 he would tali himself a .I'rorres-
• -mn.e;;..r>• sive, Particularly when his neighbors
rs..anri:u *.IW nsmOAIX,V1 Vf .lrnn•MinauCsae M IA,tm.' IA,`.1mao r1 111,...^inV1Vm.0
were ordered to stand firm, without French, till but forty 1,tc0, •etagereI
firing, till he gave the word. They the opposing forcee. y; otf•
c
e gave t}r
were armed with muzzle -loading flint order to fire to the Louisburg Gren
lock muskets, and for this engage- diets, at who_e side 011 the right 0
gent each man leaden his musket the line he stood. Down the tlti,
with two bullets. Beginning at the
right, each battalion was to fire a
volley in turn all down the line, the
rear rank firing over the shoulders of
the front. As each battalion dis-
The picture shows Wolfe at the
moment of The 11 )0nnc,e of.theGren-
dirrs. E: figure le long -bodied,
t meagre and ungainly, his profile odd-
';- triangular, with Corned up nose
and retreating chin; his red hair is
iced h' a 1011_, SIl'ai,d1t pigtail. Sueh
are the details one-, gathers from con-
- 1. inporm y p/) trv.its end descriptions,
o He wears a sharply cocked black hat,
laced with gold braid, a new bright
rod coat with lone, skirts looped back
.howi-ncc the inner lining of blue sat-
in, tight knee-bi•ecchee over which
are drawn gaiters reaching to his
mid-thigh and ,gartered below the
knee. 11 curries a short, straight
ci'oc-lilted sword or hanger, without
a guard. The actual sword, of this
shape. said to have be0 carried by
hire on the day of battle, is preserv-
ed in an English musculo, The
Grenadiers wear }sigh carr.: with a
.tuft at the peak, decoeased in front
with a crown with the royal mono -
ram, b,.-neath it, and immed-
iately 151000• tae brow the figure of
the running white horse of Hanover
on a red ;_around. The weather of
the moraine: (0110 clta 1;-;•aele and al.
ternated b,.twee•n ennehine and rain.
Showers are falling :r. the distance
over the valley of the St. Charles,.
line ran the double -:hotted volley,
from battalion to hattalient, in quick
succession, delivered with such pre-
cision that each discharge soun3--d
like that of a single great gun. Un
charged its volley it was to advance der this terrific fire, poured int
twenty paces, loading as it went, and then( at so short a distance, a,
then halt and fire continuously and crowded six -deep French battalion
rapidly until the order was given to were shattered to pieces, end when
charge with fixed bayonets, within five or ;ix minutes the smoke
These orders were obeyed to the had cleated awacy-, they were seen to
letter. The French regulars advanc- be in hopeless confusion. Wolfe
ed in perfect parade -ground forma- rave the order t o advance, and be -
tion, halted and fired a heavy volley, gen to lead forward the Grenadie re.
and again came forward, while the Almost at the same moment he re -
Canadians and Indians fired continu- ceived his third and fatal wound,
ously on the flanks, from under coy- and was carried dying to the re•:1r,
or of bushes and hollows in the while his troops rushed forward 5
ground, Not a shot came from the complete the route of the broken en -
silent ranks of the lamest infantry emy. Monte/dm, in a vain effort to
in return, though many mon fell all stem the retreat, received his mor
along the line and Wolfe himself re- tal wound, and was borne along w° .3
re}ved two wounds which he con• the fugitives within the walls of the
cealed from the knowledge of his city.
troops. Only the two small guns out fifteen minutes sufficed to decide
!in front fired grape -shot into the ad- the issue of the encounter, with con-
- vaneing colmnns, until on the near• sequences to the destiny of our counn-
er approach of the enemy they were try and the course of human history
dragged back behind the British line. which mark it as one of the most 1111 -
nominated him for the House of Com- ernment, Shrewdly enoueh he bar-
ntons, and ho was elected on a wave gained with Mackenzie King for eer-
ier terrific enthusiasm, tai" tariff concessions of particular
So Bob Perko went to Ottawa, it interest in the West, and the elections
is difficult to believe that he was ex- proved their political wisdom, But
cited about it. His was not the age always it was tsar olive bracirh le held
nor the temperament for thrills. He: out to the Government, and not the
was content that things should be
bludgeon. Hc, knew, as a matter of
done if they did not put him to too fact, that the l' ogreesives no longer
' 11111/11 trouble, or cause other people had any formidable place as an in -
too much inconvenience. His benign dependent party, and he excels to
kindness, hies gentleness won hint have felt that whatever of their plat -
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many friends. As a bark bencher he form he 00111.1 -/0110' eta- aelePaelMae
spoke infrequently, 0116 while he was so much to the peed when 71r.
earned no laurels as a gladiator -of King had to go to the people again. -
debate he revealed the presence in' Then the election, and Mr, Forke
his intellect of 11111011 bard, sound, out in the open US a King supporter.
• Scotch common-sense, �• Al
The Progressives, except in Mimeo, I
Then he became loader of the Pre- were scattered to the four polii.iral
gressives, with no illusions whatever winds, The Third Party movement'
as to the extent of his authority, If 'vas clone ---unless a110±11er national
YOUR
wantedn AT
he0m r 0 1A13'
to doanyc .nr sh til1;L
organizing o d brie • o
tzm * hda g S ab tri it.a r r- ,
Wright do it.—with his own looney, v}vtci. i41r, Forlcr Ira the little baud f
TTe
might speak in behalf of the group of tamed Progre' Heel tape full cunt- 10,. •M, a1/ , a.�,y g hti Aq t f
but he never know quite how many of Mullion with the Liberal party and 1a•
the group were behind him. Actually emerged with his portfolio.
he was "House leader" and hc•had no And env Ilia fortunate Mr, Iearke, e
nut:horIty outside •of 1t, Nationally- having smiled his way into tine places i of
streaking, he was unknown. He semi- of the great, has to demonstrate his - c
hague, the Minister of Itililtvaye. Ho
is perfectly well ware of his own
limitations, and he 14 not averse to
seeking advice and what is more
important — to taking it. He is not
likely to be led astray by visionary
schemes. He has not the broad vision
of a Clifford Siften, whose tenure. of
the same portfolio 10 memorable, but
' he will make progress in his own way;
slowly, cautiously, always sure the
.round is firm before he advances.
With Ida me t ntiorkal feet faredi'
�ilanteel on haw Pipestoue farm, his
Ihead well below the clouds and his
sense of humor m1;11110(1 the new 7lin-
ister of Immigration should justify
hi appointment and the faith of his
friends.
e d to be 1110 typieal bird --bencher, the own fitness, for the poet of 1,111 sten I 0
accidental and fotlon leader or a of lnnnigretion. Fate can carry hilt �
group which had no pride of ancestry no farther. With ase special mediaea•
nor hope of permanency. • (atrnne. he tet has many of the c}l,) A
Mr. Forke was censlstent its one r t. r a •tis wine -ft go to mak, an ui
thing,thieg, had been it Liberal, he was mnabl• Mmieter, though levet 11 Mai.;
at Pro, teseive, he was to he a Liberal- Tient one, He knows from prr,;onn11 On
Progressive with the accent on '(Lib- experience. what Canada c1u1 ti,)for
erns," but never had he clerked 0,0 at the 11011171e settler who is wiliiatg to a'
leniptud to do anything aa•riously to work, and for corroboration he need
imperil the chances of a Liberal gev- ' Iook mo fettluu ase lei 47 ,n .o lies cm
NEW LAWS FOR
PUBLIC HEALTH
Strict Regulations , For Lodging
Houses, Barbers, Etc, --Announced
For Ontario—Designed For Pre-
vention of Communicable Diseases
Toronto April 20 New ie.gula-
t i e e inti i. the i cture. its the
alar 114111411 1100' of the province.
amt to eel h lion Ib- Forhos -s God-
lliw 1 i of Health for Ontar-
teate u, Tim d rt t11 l'i ,veti-
r1 eon:in ii hi
With it I' ... tlti to 4/14''. n' la -,(yes the
ul itir,n a e. paid 11 r1 1/001&11.
i elder,
eon for a einele niget, most be lie-
11ed 111 addition,411/11 )(vigor mint
le1 separate ate b r with b detead.
,Asa mettreesee must 1t ee waterproof
coo-Orli;r. comibrtrrs will not he por-
nlittg•d on beds. Wood. bedsteads will
he t.abno and there must be a shower
bath provided on every floor. holler
towels "in common nae” are banned
under the regulations. in all busines,
and public washrooms.
Barbers will be compelled to stela
ilizs all shaving mug's, lru±hes, raz-
ors, clippers, shears, needles, for-
ceps, combs, brushes, etc., and must
themselves wear washable coats. B,;
fore shouting "next" he must wash
Itis hands, and he will not be allowed
to use powder puffs or sponges.
SAVE THE FOREST
During the week of April 24-50,
Canada and the United States will
jointly strews the need of forest con-
servation. The, gospel of economy
will be prearh.d and the dangers of
willful extr vagane sans thought-
lesues, sounded. 1 recent survey
revealed that the timber supply rf
the. United State, is being used up
four timer, as rapidly a growth is
replacing it and that consumption is
expected to keep on inereaeing. Con-
ditions in Canada are not so depres-.
sing as that, but they are serious
enough to be alarnun nigger and
better timber crops, of cour,c•, are
the solution. The conservation ser-
viee of the United States declares
that the entire 470,000.000 acnes of
forest laird in that country must be
out to the task of growing tress.
Here in Canada, federal ani provin
tial levernrnents are not lackadaisi-
cal in their attitude towards refores-
tation, but much of their work is Un-
done by the car•:,i, eene.ca of summer
tourists and autumn punting parties.
Ore of the bits of advice to be dis-
pensed during Forest Conservation
week will be: "If you can't plant a
few trees, at least step on your cig-
arette stubs before you throw them
into a pile of pine needles." ,eaan-
made fires, it is pointed ou., burn up
millions of acres of forest land every
year. Within the last few years air-
planes have been added to the equip-
ment of the forest ranging service in
Ontario and because of the watchful.
Hess of the pilots who cruise above.
;he big timber reserves, many )res
that otherwise would have caused
enormous loss have been stopped in
their incipient stage. So successful
has been this airplane branch of the
service, the minister of lands, forests
and mines in the Ontario govern-
ment, proposes to substantially in-
crease the appropriation for this pur-
pose this year and provide addition-
al aircraft. Wood is scarcer than it
was ten year,/ ago and it was Seale.-
er then than in the decade: before
that. As an attirl.' becomes scarce
it becomes deal Synthetic materials
are being largely lis: d as substitutes
for lumber and the preen gas not
been seriously felt yet, hut the nay
is not far distant when it will be—
unless forest fires are guarded
against by all who enter the bush
and reforestation programs keep
pace with the cut.
CHIEF SAYS REPORT I$ SATIS-
FACTORY
Fri•„h st 11 sheet prieee for 0th- 'e
Sir Henry Thornton, who::+ report,
11 w• r pries nte•d1 nt. tttts vin,. shows tint the
'1 "t Of'LLm-ART.?. Cl•N,le, ie Meeting all fixed charges
,, c larges.
-3.9,1. against it,
el• stens,
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