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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1920-1-1, Page 32. 4 relleilesuree. HOW tHE NATIONS STAND IN * RELATION TO PEACE TERMS Several arellYerearlee celebrated re. Gently by gam' retnine es that, Mere then twelve Menthe -haVe passed since the armietiee and that the mew governmeeta instituted as n stilt of the war are beginning to furte- thin, At the new year it lethere- fore, to tali etetels of Nola has been riccomplished aud to Mid juet how the world stands under the arrangements Dompleted er In progreee oteffilineet, While some governments havo dieep, petered, several now ones have been micled to tife world's community of nations, and more Are to come. 'Chief of the new states are Pcffalad and Finland, oreed out of Russia; Czocho-olovekle, taken from •AuStria- , Hungary; angeglavia, termed trent Austelaaungary With the absorption of -Serbia and Monten.egro; Hungary, herself, divorced from Austria; Al. the Velga, bade and the HedjaZ, separated from The Caucasus region is full of rival TerkeY, end Iceland, which has quiet- communities, the Kuban republic, ly become an independent nation by Georgie, the Tereks and part of Ar. mutual 'agreement with the mother menia, with Turkestan '7'. farther east country, Denmark. These eight !states and Bashkir on the north, while in the are likely to remain iadependent and Crimea the Tatu'ide republic had a bring the number of governments in brief exiiitence. 511 North-eastern SI - the world up to sixty-five it we count beide was the Yakutsk republic, while Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South the Siberian republic was the largest Africa and India as separate, which of all, with. a President and National should be done if distinctive tariffs Amenably, which were ousted by Ada and postal systems are taken aC,a eri- "Meal Kolchalt, who called himself the terion, • All -Russian government. All the smaller States were- constanly Five &Mira' Powers, Germany, lirs. ing boundaries and allegiances and chang- trla, Hungary, Bulgaria and Turkey, were by their war on civilleation, beouglat evidently ephemeral in eharae- ter. There was no real Russia left, e Woe to the world and nom, must pay very good reason why she could not the penalty. Thirty-four states were be admitted to the peace conference. arrayed against thesis, of which thirty. two their part in the peace conference. Eight Isolated States. San Marino, which declared war against Austria to prevent her terri- tory being used as an aeroplane base, and sent 200 men to fight with the Italian armies, was not represented at the confetence, -her interosti: being looked after by Italy. San Marino is the smallest republic in the world, naving an area of only thirty-two square miles and a population of 9,500. Afghanistan, which tried' to stir up a Her small' size was probably a bar 1 revolt in India and failed. Two are • to representation, as was the ease Of in Europe—Luxemburg, which the Monaco, with an area of eight square ,miles and a population of 5;120, al- though the Prince of Monaco was firmly pro -Ally, and the Germane in revenge burned his chateau in Franco atter stealing his furniture', which caused him to write an indignant let- ter to his brother sovereign, the Ger. man Emperor, to which the Kaiser did not reply. Andorra, with a population of 5,500 and an area of 1.75 square miles, also took no part in the war. The smallest country of all, Kahn's or Morasnet, ouly two and one.quarter square miles, with a population of le800, between Germany and Belgium, • was. grabbed by tho German at the beginning of the war 5pr its one indus- try, the Mining of Zinc, and by the_ peace treaty has been awarded to Bel- gium. Another small et -ate, Liechtensteiri; geographically part 05 Austria, refusal ^ to Join the Teutons in the War it has an arevesee sixty-five square miles and itspopulation of 10,716, and 5 entirely owned by the Lieehtenetein taetilY, whose reigning Prince, John II., is severity -nine year old. Recently the people were reported to have revolted and to be clamoring for representation at the peace el:inference. Divided Russia. commander, has been subsidized by funds froet Germany, receiving mouey by aeroplaue qnite receittly, 15 alis Sinnily remalus Independent illcreinia would be the largest of the Ilmielan States, with a population of 30,000,000: in the north there are two republics, one the northern Russian government at Archangel and the other managed by the Merman region =Neil. Below thein is the Eastern Karelia and east of Lithuania are the White Miamians. 111 the Don ,country ie the Cossack government, with General Denlkina at Its -head. He had greet success in driving the Bolshevik' north, freeing his own land and also the 'Ukraine •until General Putlura at- tacked his left flank between the Dniester and the Dnieper, while the Red armies advanced agaInat him on There are eight states which took 110 part in the war and havo notffieen invited to join the League of Nations. Two are in Africa—Abyssinia, which. sent a mission to Wtshington after the war and annoencecT sympathy for the Antes, and Morocco, now under French protection. Two are in Asia— Oman, under British protection, and Russia was the most conspicuous tib. . Bente° at Paris. She' was hopelessly divided and distracted. by civil war. Lennie and other anarethlit agitators had been sent -in sealed -cars through Germany from Switzerland two years and a halt ago by the Kaiser's govern- ment with the avowed purpose of de - benching the new republic, and did their work well. After overthrowing nerensky they set up Soviet rule, ter- rorizing the people by wholesale mur- der. Their aim is edonomic and politi- • cal revolution' throughout the world, .aud they havo many followers in vari- ous couutries. They would gladly . part of' the Austrian treaty, while she make peace with any nation and then 1 was still technically at war with Ger- proceed to debauch it. The chief elan- I many, and, like the 'United States, had ger from them is that they may melte 'reverted to the conditions et the arm's. tree. But on •September 24 she form- ally. declared her -adherence to all the Provisions of the Germany treaty ex- cept the clanSe relating to ICiao-Chou not be admitted. Poland, 11-eweve1', and declared the state of war with was an exception, for she constantly Germany ended. fought against German reaction anti Great Britain ratified the peace •Ruseicuiterrorism MO became a mem- ber 05 the conference and the League -of Nations, Finland was another coun. try that achieved independence of Rus- sia, and filially succeeded in throwing •-off German dictation, after having pro:, raised to accept it king at the hands 4:4 the Kelso'', There are moro women In the Finnish Legislature than in any other iii the werld. Finland has been reeognized by many countriee, 'hut. did not take part in the peace con- ference and was not invited to join 'the league, Besides Poland and Finland, there were seventeen other alleged repub- 1 lies that spraug up out of the ruins of Russia. Chief among them wore the three Baltic States of Estbonia, Liven. ' I 14 and Lithuania, with whom the 13oi. allevilci are trying to melte peace. • Rival Repubi les. - Iu the south there is the Ulsvaine, I which first split oft from Russia, under -i• •Germataespices and is halt Bolshe- : •vist. General Petlura, tile Ukrainian Germans occupied, and Albania, whose disposition hes not been determined. Two an in North Americe. Mexico and Costa Rica, Of the remaining forty-five govern- ments the followlag thirteen, which took no part in the war, have been in. vited to join the League—Argentina, Chili, Colombia, Denmerk, Holland, Norway, Paraguay, Persia, Salvador, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Vona - moles Thie leaver'thirty-two states taking part in the Peace Conference. China declined to sign the treaty and the United States rejected it. 'With- out China, with bier population of 320, 650,007'; Russia, with 103,750,000, and the' United States, with 107,000,000, it will be seen that more than oue-third of the inhabitants of the earth .would remain outside subsequent pence ae. rangenients. There remain thirty states which niet in the Peace Confer- ence and signed the treaty agreeing "to achieve international peace and security by the acceptance of oblige dons not to resort to war" and thee tar have not withdrawn, although many have still failed to ratify the treaty. Of. these thirty, ten aro in Europe — Belgium, Czechoslovakia France, Great Britain, Greece, Italy, Jugoslavia Poland, Portugal and Ru mania. Seven aro in North America— Canada, Cuba, Guatemala, Hayti, Hon clues, Nicaragua and Panama. Five are in South America—Bolivia, Brazil Ecuador, Peru and Uruguay. Four are in Asia—The Hedja.z, India, Japan and Siam. Two are in Africa—Liberia, and South Africa. Two are in Aus trailer:lie—Australia and New Zealand, China's Doubtful Position. • China was in a peculiar position be- cause she signed the peace treaty with Austria on September 10, giving her the right to enter into the League of Nations compact, which also forms Chinese coolies returning from the European war zone via Canada, on Shipboard at Halifax. These men did a lot of uspful work iu the way 05 heavy labor hack of the lines. treaty, on July 81, Italy by royal de- cree on October 7, France on October 13 and Japan by imperial assent en October 80. Other ratifications were as follows:—Uelgium, August 8; New Zealand, September 2: South September 104, Onnada, September 14; Guatemala, October 2: Czecho- slovakia, 'November 7, and 13razil, November 11. Five out of the thirteen nations in- vited to join the original cherter mem- bers of the league already' lee ac- cepted, as follows:—Chili, on Novem- ber 4; Columbia, November 10; Para- guay, November 12; Holland, Novem- ber 15; and Switzerland, November 19, the latter subject to a referendum. Of the new nations mentioned above as likely to be created, Palestine and Armenia are practically certain to be carved out of Turkey and perhaps Azerbaijan, while Mesopotamia will be administered by Great Britain and Syria by Franco. This co/upletes the rester of the sixty-five governments .ruling the .world; five enemy nations; fifteen not considered in the arrangements; two in doubtful positions; thirteen invited to join the league and thirty signore of the treaty 'presumably mem. bees of the league, an alliance with Germany. Many Russian factions were repre- sented at Paris daring -41m sessions -of the conference, but, of course, could R, W. E. BURNAEY New President of the U.F.O. CANADA GETS . $5,000,000 GIFT ROckefelier Donation For Pelee motion of Medical Education. A despatch from New York sans:— John D. Rockefeller has given to man- kind a Christmas present of 5109,000,- 000—half to tho General Educa- tion Board to raise the ..,1.,. •eseetee: c Weekly Market Report iheadetuffs. Maple Syrup—Per 5 -gal. tin, 34 per —No. 1 Northern, $2.30: No. 2 North- xi Toronto, Dec, SO.—Manitoba wheat gaLlon; do, one -gal. tin, $4,25. ern, 30,27; No, 3 Northern, 32.23, in 211 to 27e; 5'0, 27 to 28e; buckwheat, Honey—White, 60's; 25 to 26e; 10's, store, Fort William. - 60's, 19 to 20c. Manitoba oats—No,'2 CW, 930; No. Provisions—Wholesale. 3 CW, 89%e; ,extra No. 1 feed, 89%,e; No. 1 :feed, 881/2c; No. 2 feed, 841/2e, in store, Fort William. Manitoba barley—No. 3.0W, UM; No. 4 CW, 51,66; rejected, $1.3551; feed, $1.34%, in store, Feet Wiltiam. American ecien—No. 2 yellow, $1.82; No, 3 yellow, 31.79, track, Toronto, prompt shipments. 'Ontario oats—No. 3 white, 95 to 98c, according to freights Outside. Ontario wheat—No. 1 Winter, per ear lot, 32 to $2.01; No. 2 do, $L97 to 52.03; No. 3 do, $1.93 to $1.99, f.o.b., shipping points, according; to freights. Ontario wheat—No. 1 Spring, 32,09 ard grade, $11 to $ .1 , ro ,e oa s, 1.1 0. 11 d 1 to 32,08; No. 2 Spring, 31.99 to $2.05; bag 90 lbs. 34.75 to $5; bran, $46,25; No. 3 Spring, $1.96 to 32.01, f.o.b. shorts! 352:25; shipping points, according to freights. car lots, $24 to $25;.eggs, fresh, 31 to hay, No. 2, per `ton, Peas—No. 2, $2.75. $1.10; eggs, selected, 68e; eggs,No. 1 cording 10 freights outside. Barley—Malting, $1.60 to 51.65, ac. stock, 57c; eggs, No. 2 -stock, 68 to 55c; potatoes, per bag, car lots, . 32.25 to ingButcokfwrheeigehtt$011.13t2siateo $1.35, accord- 52.50; dressed hogs, abattoir killed, 324.60 to 525; lard, pure, wood pails, 20 lbs. net, 29 to Sle, Live Stock Markets. Toronto, Dec, SO.—Choice heavy steers, $13 to 513.25; good heave steers, $12.50; to 313; butchers' cattle, choice, 511.75 to $12; do, good, $10.60 ronto, in jute bags, prompt shipment. Millfeed—Car lots, delivered Mont- $6.50 to 37; bulls, choice, $10 to 311; to 311; do, med., 59 to $9.50; do,,com., reatfreights, bags included: Bran, per do, med., $9 to 59.25; do, rough, $7 to ton; $45; shoyts, per ton, $52; good 57,05; butcher cows, choice, 510 to $11; Hay—No0.1, per ton, 527; mixecl,Ito $8.50; do, come, 36.50 to 57; stock - feed flour, 53.15 to 33.50. , doegood, 59.25 to $9.50; do, med., $8.25 per ton, $21, track, Toronto. ers, $7.50 to $10; feeders, $10 to Straw—Car lots, per ton, $14.50 e $11.50; canners and cutters, 35.25 to 315.50, track, Toronto. 156.25; milkers, good to choice, $110 to Country Produce—Wholesale. 3175; do, com. and ined,t $65 to $75; Butter—Dairy, tubs and rolls, 431springers, $90 to $175; hght ewes, $7 CREW HUNG BY m' -' m"--`'-* ROPES FOR $ HOURS SCOTLAND.. Survivor of..wre4koa Vessel Tells of Terrible E*,, perience. Rev. Dr, George Walker, emeritue ee deapatou from Charlottetown mi -its el Castle-leoughte, has pesisoa saysi—Af ter a reiraculons escape away in Aberdeen., from death when tho now three-inaeted Jones B060, deputy chief of the echootier "Barbare MacDonald" was Argyllehlre ConstabuierY, is dead at dashed to pieces on Cape Thine, on the Ids reeldonce, LoeligliPllead, rockbound coast of .Newfoundland, j. Wood, postmaster at C/ampbele, Hoe, J. A, IVitieDonald of Oardigare town, lies reeeivee ilie eel/ointment 04 P"Mie the owner og veseel, eteti postmaster at Lanark, surviving members of the erew reeen. A Crimean veteran passed away ro, ed the island on,Christems eve. Mae. ing and hardship, and what hie eegards Delude tees thi,iffing tele of suffer. recently at Armen in the Person of as Providential intervention, for on Mr. 'and Melee Robeet McDonald, of Waltei"nornburn. this section of the coast, the seem) 76 Foreet ;Road, Selkirk, hays oele- of past disasters., no other ship -wreck. brated their golden 'wedding. ed crew has ever reached shore alive. The Argyllshire Gathering Gamest They left Cardigan on December 4 M abeyance during the war, were held with a cargo of produce foe $t. John's, thle year s„,„temaee. Nfld. Alt midnight on the tenth the A:* noeth'-west hurricane caught them ei Nip Payne, of •the Murray Arree . Hotel, has been. elected a member Of whohveenttoenunmdiLeerfoireiemsaiOtape Pine. They the Gatehouse Town Council. The wind increas•ing, they started Peter Taylor, Crews, Glealuce, has to take en the one remaining %ail Preeented the Old Luce Parish Church when Captain Thomas Whittle was with a war memorial tablet. ' swept overboard and drowned, and John Itobrzoa, county clerk, has beeil the sail blown to ribbons, This was appointed clerk and treasurer of the in the morning. The captain'e brother, Dumfriesshire Bducation Authoritee Joshua 'Whittle, the mate, took eherge. A colony of guillemots have taken For 52 hours the ice-euerusted vessel, with decks ewept clear of cargo, ran up their abode at Needle Eye; Ber- wick, for tree Become year in inicces- .guaniciee, rofbtaenre ivnoitale. elm beleit°o4totrhme, Phey were out of slight of land Erna had to The death has occurred Oban ot stall reekoniug. The temperature rose, Mr. Symington, grandson of William the wind fell, :but a think fog came emu -extern, adapter of steam to nave, on and the vesselerolled in the trough eallem of the mountainous seas. Finally lier, York, of Barnard Castle, hail sails were set and slie WaS heailtd, Purchased the mansion house of Lid. for where the. land was supposed t o be, but at seven o'clock on the night River Liddle. dlebank, on thee Scottish side of the of Sunday the 14eh, she crashed on The Imperial Service Medal has been: 'presented to R. G. Wilson, foe thirty-two years a postman in the Hawick district. John Cannon, for over forty years a tenant- of the Collin Parra in the Stewartry, Rirkendbright, has died at the age of 96. At a meeting of the Strangraer Council the provost presented Sergt, Peter Cavan with the Distinguished Conduct Medal. The congregation of 'Wallace Green Church, Berwick, peoprese erecting a memorial to their late minister, Rev. John Macaskill, Henry Augustus Payne, preminent member of the Berwick Naturalists' Club, died recently at his home in Aluwick. Lieut. John G. Barelay,,R.F.C., son . of Mrs. 13arolay, Balgownie, is report. ed to have been killed erege eying in France. The Selkirk Common Riding was again celebrated this year, James RI, Pollok, Hoathorlie Hill, acting aft s tan dardbearer. Smoked meats—II-his, med, 34 to the rocks. With their boats dee 86c; do, heavy, 29 to 80c; cooked., 47 mo'lished, MacDonald and the others to 60e; rolls, 30 to 31c; breakfast hung, onby ropes over the leeside bacon 40 -to 440; backs, -plain, 47 to of the shattered hulk for five hours 48c; boneless, 49 to 52c, Cured meats—Long clear bacon, 31 to 32c; crier tellies, 30 to 310.- Lard—Pure tierces, 29 to 29%e; tubs 291,4 to 80c; pa•ile, 2934 to 30Yee; oontinually drenched by breakers and expectling death in the surf every minute. At midnight a portion of the vessel's stern twisted off and drifted between them and the beadt. Over prints, 30 to 30,e,e; compound tierces, this miraculous gang-pia/1k they &eh - 27% to 28c; tubse 28 to 28eee; pails, ed to the shore. 28%, to 28%e; prints, 2931 to 30e. Overhead towered a perpendicular Montreal Markets. clife, 350 feet bight. The climb was Montreal, Dec. 30.—Oats, extra No. a seven -hour nightmare and it was not 1 feed, $1.03 to 31.04' flour, new stand- daylight that they reached the summit, with bruised and bleeding limbs and tattered clothing, and saw far below fragments of what was once a thirty -thousand dollar vessel, with her fifteen -thousand dollar cargo. She came to grief on her maicien voyage six weeks after her launching. Rye—No. 3, $1.60 to 31.65, accord- ing• to freights outside. 'Manitoba flour—Government -stand- ard, 311, Toronto. Ontario flour,Govelmment stand- ard, 39.30 to $9.40, Montreal and To- to 44c; imints, 48 to 60c; ceestmeryd $8,50, e eat ngs, 59to les • of college professors and fresh made solidS, 60 to 61c; prints, 621spring lambs, per cwt., $17 to $18,25; hall to 'the Rockefeller Founda- 030' calves, good to choice, 318 to 521; news—Held 52 to 54e) new laid, 80 hogs, fed and watered, $17.50; do, tion to aid in its work of combetting to 8-5o. ' I weighed off cars, $17.75; do, f.o.b., disease through improvement of medi- Dressed poultry—Spring chickens, $16,60; de, do, to farmers, $16.25. cal education, public health adminis- 26 to 30c; roosters, 25e; foivl, 20 to Montreal, Dec, 30.—Butditer steers, tration and scienteeic research: It 4s 26c; geese, 28 to 30c; ducklings, 30 to con., 37.50, to $9; butcher heifers, med, estimated that Mr. Rockefeller's pub- 32c; turkeys, 50 to 53c; squabs-, doz., 38.28 to 59,50; corn., $6.50 to 38; bat- ik gifts now approximate $160,000,000. 54.50. cher cows, med., $6 to $S; canners, $5 While leaving to the General Educe- , Live poultry—Spring chicken'i. 19 to $6.ge; cutters, 3525 to $5.75; but - tion Board the task of selecting the -to 20c;. roosters, 20a; fowl, 18 to '22e; cher bulls, com., $5.76 to $7. Good colleges which shall receive awards for geese, 22o; ducklings, 22c; turkeys, 87 their teaching' etaffs.and the amount to 49c. each is to receive, Mr. Rockefeller , large, 3151 to 32e; twins, 32 to 323ie; triplets, 33 to urged that the principal -as well as the 33e4c; Stilton,34 to 350. income be used "as promptly and - largely as may seem wise." The trustees of the Rockefeller Foundation also are authorized to util- ize both the principal and become of their gift, in connection -with -which Mr. Rockefeller added that if the beard "should see fit to use any part of this new gift in promoting medical education in Canada, such action would meet with my cordial approval." Such action will bo taken, according to Dr. George E. Vincent, president of the Foundation, who stated that the trustees, weillcl be asked to set aside 55,000,000 for this purpose, In asserting 55,000,000 would. be set aside for Canadian schools, D. Vincent said: "From this sum appropriations will be made by the Foundation to medical schools on condition that they raise additional funds from other sources. It is hoped that 35,000,000 thus em- ployed by the Foupdation at this time will give a distinct impetus to the del- velopment of medical education in Canada. "The new gift will also enable the Foundation to extend work already in progress in the medical education and public leealth in many parts of the world." 700 Soldiers Frozen In Omsk', Hospital A despatch from London says:— Seven hundred soldiers of dr.' army commanded by /111.1rat Kobchak, head of the All -Russ -V. Government in Si- beria, have beet, frozen to death in a hospital near Omsk, according to a wireless despatch received here from aloseow, veal; $14 to $17; med,, 59 to 514; grass, 37 to $7.50. Ewes, $7.50 to $9; Columbia 15,820. lambs, good, $16.50; com., $14.50 to 515.50. Hogs, off -cat' weights, selects, $18; lights, $16 to 518; sows, $14. Raise $3,000,000 121,708 Cars Owned in Western Canada A despatch from Winnipeg Despite the tact that one person out ot every fourteen in the Province of Manitoba already owns an automobile, up to very recently applications for licenses have been received in Mani- toba at the rate ot forty or fifty a clay. The Municipal Commissioner has estimated that from eight to ten thousand automobiles were seed in the province. Provided the present healthy commercial conditions are sustained, next spring" will, in all probability, see an unprecedented boom in the motor car and truck busi- ness. The automobile statistics for the West covering the year 1919 will show a marked increase over the previous year. At the end of 1918 there were approximately 121,708 motor cars in use in Westrn Canada. Saskatchewan had 46,880 -of these, Manitoba about 80.000, Alberts 29,500 and British 6,190,000 Officers and Men in British Army in War A. despatch from London says:— The total number of officers and men who passed through the British army during the war was approximately 6,190,000. Between August, 1914, and October 31, of this year, 236,035 hon- ors, exclusive of those conferred by the Royal Air Force, Were awarded. be theBeitish War Office for services in the field, and 13,352 for other services in'connection with the war, There were 577 recipents of the Vic- toria Cross, Britain's highest war de- coration, First .144•• • Innen it !IOW Woman Barrister in England ••••••••••••••••• 4. despatch from Lobdon says:— Britain has now a woman legislator and she recently acquired her first qualified lawyer, one who can plead in the high court, for Miss Helena Normanton, the first woman barrister in England, became a member of the Middle Temple just before Christmas. Her admittance was, of course a great break in the tradition of the English bar. - Miss Normauton is a young, attrac- tive -looking woman, who made con- siderable reputation as a speaker as' a nonenilitant advocate of votes for women. She comes of an old legal family and is already well known to many members of the legal profession as an authority on constitutional law. \Alberta Farmer Busy Seeding. A despatch from Lethbridge says:— James Irwin of Cowley was seeding fall -wheat on his farm 'last week, when stopped at noon by a heavy shower of rain. Summer weather pre. veiled for Christmas throughout the whole at southern Alberta. • A Son is Born to Lady Ramsay despatch from. London says:— Lbely Ramsay, formerly princess Pa- tricia of Connaught, gave birth to a - , - son on Dec. 21, Princess Patricia was A. A. POWERS • married to Commander Alexander New President of the United Farmers' Robert Maule Ramsay of the Royal Co-operative 00. o"t Ontario, , Navy in. 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A. despatch from Berne says:— Seven persons have been buried and killed in an avalanche that covered several chalets at the mountain _re- sort of Davos. A. series of avalanches has been caused in several places bY the thaw after a heavy snowfall, Pert of the railways and many roads havo been blocked and villages isolated. Many of the world's .great men aro unknown to fame. They are great because they share their pleasures with others and keap their troubles to themselves. The 'inhabitants of Heligoland make money in teapping larks while grating -for the winter; 15,000 of these birds have 'been caught in Tyne night. As to the tomato: It is commercial- ly a vegetable; botanically it is not only a fruit, but lit is also a. berry, ,...... • OT I ftl ‘..)0Rik"f• DEAR S (6 gi couLowr 4ry i\viiN'f F'R°m _ ' -I* THE orric. toet Sea-Ore5x+,7-, , . , ,,,, , ..e...-..--,-- ,-- Wril-,1-*Nt __. L "°114' ''''4 1 KNew -i•ouve Q;ffErt WORKIN4 LO . 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L, - -....4%.,:-,,w''• a• ( r ) ) ::7-71EZ7.1 i N 1 , " d5;:'25.1,-/ • tt4 , '. , --: .1---,.. .1, 01 .4 -4 r N. • f,, de..., I ./_31.. • ,?, r.::-.._ '.. , . --,, '",,,•;,:;, . , i ' i ill .,41* pt.' ... .,..,,.._.. IP f 61. 41' et •• • .. , ' 1-' ° . ......___ .....__ The United Fara Women, In introduoing to our readers the work of this Farm Organization as it concerns us women, we thought the first thing you would like all to have an idea of Is, who are we anyway? It le really too bad that more of the 176,000 women of Ontario could not have :net at this great convention, but we'll do our best to get acquainted this way. There were at least 150 members present, and visitors besides, and ze group they were to which one wee proud to belong. Mr, Brodie, the President, is ae ideal Sarni woman. Her interest end, work for our U.F.W.O. has never made her any less the good wife and mother, and elle has ail the zligniiiy and ease in her public work that we country women used to think belonged only to the women of the town. We know better now. No class has more ability than we of the farm poesess. The trouble is we have only begun to realize that fact, much less to develop our talent. But our convention was 5 revels,. tion to us, We found that 150 had ideas, every one of us, and could ex. press' them. From the women who had had some experience, gained per. haps through W. I. work, to the young girl who gave us her Ideas when we asked for them, because the rule of our Club is, "When you're aelzed to do anything, try and do it," everyone spoke to the polut and each had her 01005550, One of the principal discussions centred around the question, "How shall we keep our youug folk an the farm?" All gave splendid addresses —talks, rather—and some of the best thoughts were these; "Make a cons. panion of your young folk." Thee is - your business. This Woe Mrs. Buck- ingham's message: "My children all aro on the farms," she added, showing that her method had been a success- ful one. "Provide educational recreation," said Mrs, Amos. "Give them a bust. ness interest," said a delegate; "open your house to their companions," said another. "Plan for labor-saving do. vices and make farin lite hiTss of a drudgery," said someone else. The President said In her address; "Asseme the responsibility for present conditions and seek each of yen to find the remedy and help to apply it." She said other worth -while things too. "If we Cannot show a reason for existing die,"kwarned !mother. But space fails. Irrom time to time 'we want to tell you more about theee women and what tbey are doing, but bear in mind, each et you, Unit they are farm women, all welling for a better OntarioAtlarlory Mills. Britain's Meat Supply, Great Britain can becenne self.s.ue porting, no far as mutton and WA 49 Cenceenetb, in a few $eurs, but mug for a considerable time he depeadent upon South America for be-ef, aecord- ing to a report just issued by the Beard of Trade committee, appointed last April to considee eleacie or tt.vic- NA' the kinittlem's moat supply. "Om report says that .in. view of the etrong position hold by American eompanies in the South American neost trade, it le agreed that 502115 315. 11011 33 d552P01.10 50 sure,Inard thy in• tPrc!!1:.•! of, firilith preclusere and tends ors et home and abro,vi. Th,N stop, the report snys, ie to preitet ene. 1 ernicre from the reenaee et mote - ply."