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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1925-12-23, Page 3Here and There 1 MP Lloyd George Resurgent Whether they like it or not, in* formed persons are aware, or ought to be, that Mr, Lloyd George has re- covered the full force of his geniue, writes 3. L, Garvin, When he went out after seventeen years in office— eix of them a load such as few Shoul- ders in history could support.—she was, humanly or inhumanly fatigued. He had ben much unlike the indomit- able, wide -judging leader to whom in the war we contracted an imperish- able debt. He took some time to re- gain all his powers. The resiliency was there, and only normal rest need- ed. For three things he counts again for much more than any other man. The three things are: perceptive en- ergy, originating force. and sustained driving -power. His address to his vast gathering at Killerton, in Devon, was the most striking speech on the land question in our generation. If funds allow, it ought to be reprinted by the mil- lion after the old manner of the Na- tional Liberal Federation. Where newspapers are destroyed after the day, pamphlets are preserved. Hix broad merit is to visualize and force. upon all our imaginations this truth —that no issue is more vital for any existing people than is the agricult- ural question for the future of this country, It is not a matter for ab- stract economists recommending im- mediate cheapness orprofit without regard to the effect on the physical and moral basis of Britain. It is not an affair of how to make most money from selected acres while employing i the least labor, It is a question of" national life and death. How to stop the waste of our good soil and decay of the human stock it nourished? How to increase, on the land, population and cultivation to n rational degree? How to check. the blind overgrowth of the consum- ing cities living more and more upon foreign supplies without any corres- ponding assurance of a foreign de- mand for our goods and sorvices? IIow to produce, more of our food in post-war circumstances and import less? How to bund up a broad home market by increasing those exchang- es between town and country which are. the best and surest of all? Above all, how to augment, establish, and secure the diminishing country breed the rural race to which originally our national character and temperament owed almost ever'y'thing? Lloyd George vividly depicted the living aspects of these problems. Ex- - cepa saying that we shall discriminate about landlords and test nil'the mice, we are not going to commit ourselves now to a single detail of what he proposed, nor to discuss the. detitils. There will be time enough. A creative task such as only the con- tinuous national policy of a genera- tion can accomplish must ba founded upon solid thinking. We must wait for what .we are told will be the ex- haustive work of the Liberal Com- mittee at work upon the subject for two years. Buying out all landlords, good and bad, by giving them an- nuities—substituting the credit and control of the State—creating a per- petual system of assisted tendency instead of plain individual ownership and responsibility as elsewhere—all this is a vast intricate matter of fin- ance requiring the most thorough ex- planation. Because human nature and a thee - sand complex factors re involved, we confess that we see more difficulty' than in the "Coal and Power" pro- gram. But there must be no timid- ity. Those Conservatives are foolish who suggest that Mr, Lloyd George's speech at Killerton kindled a blaze of straw, We think something big Wheaij Peas and Wats N A NTE 1° FOR MILLING owimandroame Ali Rinds Flour and Peed on hand. T. G. Hemphill Phones WROXETER view. Mill , 21 guilt Port Mal sty noNadonrt, 80 0* 02 and permanent will come out of it. Amongst all questions this is one which no single party can monopolize or dominate. Liberalism after all cannot supply all the lights, nor by itself can succeed in this or any other matter. Conservatism alone .is in- capable of drastic efficiency. As for Socialism and State -control, there is • e. nothing which the rural mind repudi- ates more stubbornly or defeats more certainly. • Bolshevism itself ha been 0} forced to surrender to the Russian peasant, What ive want is general agreement on a determined policy of agricultural revival. For this island that will be the ultimate question of vitality or decay. In this sense Mr. Lloyd makes his appeal with tho vis- ion and breadth and nerve that we get from no other statesman and leader. We know not when or how, but, in some national emergency of the time ahead he will come to the 'top for just the same reasons that brought him there before. ARTIFICIAL' FOGS. Smoke (erne Into Its Own During the Great War. For the first time in racing history smoke screens have been used for the parpose of hiding racehorse trials from the eyes of touts. The experi- ment was made on Newmarket Heath, Eng., and was quite successful. Smoke, formerly looked upon as a nuisance and a fog -maker, came into its own during the war when smoke screens saved many a rich cargo from being torpedoed and enabled success- ful attacks to be made upon such Places at Zeebrugge. Smoke was also used by airplanes for the purpose of hiding themselves from enemy ma- chines and from aircraft artillery below. - We are told that, if another war should break out, says a writer in Tit -Bits. smoke will be used to form vast areas of artificial fog which will completely conceal arsenals or cities from bombing aircraft. So wonder- ful are the new methods for produc- ing roducing smoke that a .square mile of country can be entirely hidden in leas than half an hour, and at a cost of a few pounds. ' Another use to which smoke is ho- ing put is that of saving crops.from frost. The originators of this device were' the orange growers o1 Califor- nia, who lit bonfires on the windward side of their plantations when frost threatened the blossoming trees. This rough idea has now been de- veloped, and Is used not only by fruit growers but by market gardeners in California, Florida, the South of France, and e'en in Italy. Iron braziers are set at regular intervals 'between the trees in the gardens and tilled with a mixture of combustiles which is . calculated to produce a very dense and heavy smoke, A therniemeter arrangement rings a warning bell when the"tem- perature reaches danger-poiut, and the braziers are lighted. These arti- flcldl logs will defy frosts of six to' eight degrees, • 1113AD' HUNTERS OF Nt71tMOSA. Collecting (:aamphor Is a Dangerous Occupation, d There are few'more angerous occupations than the collecting of camphor. Formosa, which practically pro- duces the world's supply of caalpitor, Is inhabited by a race of - head- hunters whose intractable savagery is without equal'to-day. Thousands of camphor gatherers, chiefly import- ed Ch4nese, have paid toll with their heads. Scattered through the island; for the purpose of distilling the drug from logs, are approximately 8,000 stills, run by small communities of workers and protected by .iapa1090 u troops. This measure of protection is not always enough to awe tho head- hunters, who, without warning sw0011 out of the forests and fall upon the villages on their errand of destruc- tion. Formosa 1s the ohly country In filo world where large forests of camphor trees still remain. An idea of the tremendous wealth contained In these forests may bo gained from file fact that front ane tree alone, with a girth at the foot of 12 foot, cam- phor, to tho value of $8,000 has been distilled. ' The Japanese Govornnionl has no Intention of slowing the aborigines' tasto In skulls to continue to Inter- fere with ono of the most valuable monopolies. s it addition to the sub- sidy of $6,000,000 which if has voted towards tho industry's more rapid development, it is adding ovary year more troops to the Largo number rest - dont in the island. Ilninsa the head- hunters accept olv111aod conditions to the near fissure, ihoY face invasion and summary defeat, 1..f not Menem Allton, nto Us a Soy Is Given ALICE MEYNELL .E' IVEN, not lent, And not withdrawn—once sent, This Infant of mankind, this One, Is still the little welcome Son. V XTEW every year, l N New born and newly dear, He comes with tidings and a song, The ages long, the ages long; tt IP EVEN as the cold Keen winter grows not old, As childhood is so fresh, foreseen, And spring in the familiar green. V 1 SUDDEN as sweet Come the expected feet, All .joy is young, and new all art, And He, too, whom we have by heart. "Say, Jim, do you know the differ - once between Capital and Labor?" I "No, what is it?" "Well if I lend you ten dollars, that is Capital, and it I went to get it back, that is Labor." Large bird resembling eagle wtic shot near lock 9, St, Catharines. r bin Largo number of cattle ate being fattened for spring delivery in iirucc County. Total of 64,789 immigrants enter- ed Canada during the seven months ending Oct. 31, last, Listowel "Santa"' distributed 1,500 generous packages to children around commilnity Christmas tree, •+•,F•+•i'•+•+•+•+•+!'•+•+•+••t• oE s • • WANTED • • Highest market prices i p aid. :, F • !lea rite or Phone No. 2x, Hrtrs• sole, and 1 will Cail and get symtt' il.ides. I M. YcI1ick I 4444+.444.41+444+41+.4.01441444 Timber exported from British Coe lumibia during the nine months end- ing- September 30, 1925"was 36,668,- 000 6,668;000 feet, compared with 50,500,000 feet far 1924; 46,043,000' • feet in 1928; ani 49,3.0,600 fact in 1922. A project is under way at Toronto for the construction of the, largest hotel in -Canada, which also, means the largest hotel in the British Em- pire. It fit understood that the new structure will be even larger than the Roosevelt in New York. The apple crop in the Okanagan Valley, $ritish Columbia, this year "is estimated at 2,300,000 boxes, At a fair estimate of a dollar and a half -a box, the return to growers in this district will be approximately four million- dollars. The Eastern International Dog Derby will be run at Quebec on Feb- ruary 18, 19 and 20. The course provides for a distance of 45 miles a day for three days, irrespective of rain, snow or storm. The winner will receive 51,000 and a gold can. Other competitors will be awarded prizes aggregating $2,200. Immigration to Canada for the six months from April 1 to Septem- ber 30, 1925 totalled 57,086. Of this number 25,072 were from Great Britain and Ireland, 11,199 from the United States and 20,815 from other countries. bIn the same period 18,- 282 Canadians returned from the United States, ,With Canadian ensign flying and all her gala bunting aloft, the Ca- nadian Pacific liner Empress of Scotland left the harbor of New o York sharp at noon on December 3 on the first part of her jour- ney in the course of which she will completely circumnavigate the globe, covering approximately 30,000 miles, visiting nineteen different countries and making twenty-four ports of call. Canadian Pacific Railwgy gross earnings for the month of October were $19,569,188.43 an increase of $216,847.93 over the sum for the corresponding period of 1924. Net profits were $7,444,027.08 or an in- crease of $421,849.85 over $7,022,- 177.23 for October 1924. Net pro- fits fbg the ten months ending Oc- tober 81 were $29,079,949.01 an in- crease of $1,611,889,52 over the sum of $97,468,059,49 for the same pe- riod of 1924. According to advices from are- liable source, conditions in the West, have shown consistent improvement this year. The crop has been gath- ered, threshing is finished, and the grain has been stored in elevators. With the astoundingly sapid de- spatch of wheat, money is steadily coming in to farmers, giving them an opportunity to clear off debts and leaving them enough to extend their purchases. The first Christmas holiday spec- ial over the Canadian Pacific Roil- way ailway bearing three hundred happy Westerners bound for the Old Coun- try arrived at St. John, N.B. in time to connectwith the Canadian Pacific liner Montrose which will land' them in Great 'Britain in time for ' the Christmas holidays. The special, travelling as the second section of the Imperial Limited, was composed of eight sleepers, one from Edmon- ton, Calgary, Moose Jaw, Xerrobert, Sask,, Shaunaven, Sask., and two from Winnipeg, Exceeding anything before shown in the Dominion of Canada and in the world, figures of marketing of all grains and of car loadings in the month of November furnish a don- bio record for Canadian Pacific Rail- way western lines, for Canada and for the world. Marketing of all grains totalled 00,310,780 bushels and car loadings were 89,522 cars Per figures evert distantly approach- ing the above, the statistician mutt go back to November 1923, when 57,608,000 bushels of tall grains were Marketed tend APS Tsars *oro kukted, 1 Cream Wanted We pay Highest Cash Price for Cream. 1 cent per lb, Butter Fat extra paid for all Cream delivered at our Creamery. Satisfaction Guaranteed Brussels Creamery Cu. Phone 22 Limited NaMMENSMIIIMIIMIMEW when Lotteries Were Common. The last big lottery to be stain operated was drawn in England In 1827. State lotteries were par- ticipated in by all classes of people, and were held at intervals tor ' all sorts of objects. Westminster Bridge owes its existence to one such lottery, the British Museum to another. is wally the drawing, which took place in public, was performed' by a d,oY chosen by lot from amongst the. scholars of the Bluecoat School, who received for his trouble the suns of one guinea. The coin was solemnly handed to him on a small silver salver by the senior presiding o&cer. Some- times, however, the proceedings were varied by getting a little girl, brought is at haphazard from the street, to draw the numbers. At one lottery, held in 1683 for the disposal of Prince Rupert's jewels, Charles II. himself took the leading part. The novelty of a king presiding over a `"lottery wheel" drew crowds of in- vestors to the Banqueting Chamber at Whitehall, where tisc ceremony took place. The first prize was a pearl necklace valued at 28,000, won by a pont' washerwoman, Both Were Mistrken, A pompous man missed his silk handkerchief, and licensed au Irish man of stealing 1t. After some con- fusion, the man found the handker- chief In his pocket, and apologized for having accused the Irishman. "Never ntotnd at all," said the lat- ter. "Ye thought I was a theta, and I thought ye was a gintloman, an"' we were both mistaken." me 15 a n0 ty pro lem, ' Whieh we have long nursed. How can we snake our money last Unless we make it first? The luck that I believe in Is that which comes with work, And no one ever finds it Whos content to wish and shirk. The men the world calls "lucky" Will tell you, every one, That success comes not by wishing, But by hard work bravely done, Letterheads Envelopes Billheads And all kinds of Business Stationery printed at The Post Publishing House. We will do a job that will do credit to your business. 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