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The Clinton News Record, 1931-11-12, Page 2THORSDA,Y, "NOV MB5 R 12, ,193:1„'; THE ,CLINTON NEWS -RECORD Clinton News.Record With 'which is Inconperated THE NEW, ERA ereas : of Subscription -42,00 per ygr}r in advance, to. 'Canadian ad- dresses; $2.50 to the U.S. or oth- • er foreign countries. No paper • discontinued until all arrears are paid unless at the option of the ublisher. The date to which every subscription is paid is denoted on the Iabel. Advertising Rates—Transient adver- tising 12c per count line for first insertion. Se for each subsequenj. insertion. Heading counts 2 lines. ,Small advertisements, not to ex- eeed one inch, such. as "Wanted", eLost," 'Strayed," etc;, inserted once for 35c, each subsequent in- , Sertion 15c. Rates for display ado vertising' made known on appliea- tinn. Communications intended for pub- lication must, as :a guarantee of geed • faith, be accompanied by the name of the writer. ir G. E. u,ALL, M. R. CLARK, , Proprietor. Editor, M D. McTAGGART Banker A general Banking Business transacted. Notes Discount- ed' Drafts Issued. Interest Allowed on Deposits. Sale Notes Purchased. K T. RANCE, Notary Public, Conveyancer Financial, Real Estate and Fire In- surance Agent. !representing 14 Fire Insurance Companies. Division Court Office, Clinton. Frank Fingland, B.A., LL.B. • Barrister, Solicitor, Notary Public ,Successes to W, Brydone, K.C. • Sloan Block .Clinton, Orin CHARLES B. HALE Conveyancer, Notary Public, Comntissioner; etc. Office over J. E. Hovey's Drug Stere 'CLINTON, ONT, I B. R. HIGGINS Notary Public, Conveyancer General Insurance, including Fire Wind, Sickness and Accident, Ante,- mobile. Huron and Erie Mortgage Corporation and Canada Trust Bonds Box 127, Clinton, PM. Telephone 57. DR. L C. GANDJER Office Hours: -1•.30 to 3.30 pen., 6.30 to 8.00 p.m. Sundays, 12.30 to 1.30 pm. Other hours by appoletmenteonly. Office and Residence — Victoria St. DR. FRED; G. THOMPSON Office and •Residence: Ontario Street — Clinton, Ont. One door west cuf Anglican Church Phone 172 Eyes Examined and Glasses Fitted DR. PERCIVAL HEARN Office and Residence: Huron Street — Clinton, Ont, Phone 69 (Formerly occupied by the late Dr 0. W. Thompson) Eyes Examined and Glasses Fitted DR. IL A. McINTYRE DENTIST EXTRACTION A SPECIALTY 'Office over Canadian National Ex- press, Clinton, Ont. Phone 21 • D. IL McINNES CHIROPRACTOR Electro Therapist Masseur Office: Huron St. (Few doors west of Royal Bank). Hoare—Tues., Thum, and Sat., all day. Other hours ey appointment Rensall Office—Mon., Wed, and Fri. .forenoons. Seaforth Office ---Men., 'Wed. and•Friday afternoons. Phone' 207. GEORGE ELLIOTT Licensed Auctioneer for the ,County of Huron Correspondence promptly answered. Immediate arrangements can be made for Sales Date , at Tee News -Record, Clinton, or by calling phone 103. Charges Moderate , and Satisfactior Guaranteed.. CANADIAN NATIONAL RAILWAYS, TIME ' TABLE ;; 'Trains will arrive at and depart from Clinton as follows: Buffalo and Goderich Div.. Going Ease, depart 6.58 a.rn: Going East depart 3,05 pen, +Going West, depart 11,55 rem, „ " , 9,44 p•m. • London, Huron & Bruce. Going' South 3,,08 p.m, 'Going North 11,58 ,.inn•: -40=2* r t r THE11q STORY, OF A MISSING, ACTRESS AND THE q' q TAXING Or WITS TOS EXPLAIN ITER FATE. q 0 TUIE MARSH MURDER BY, NANCY , BAR.R •MAVITY SYNOPSIS - Don Ellsworbh's wife, the actress Sheila O?Shay, disappears. Dr. Cave anaugh, criminal psychologist, learns that their marriee life has been very unhappy. Peter Piper, a Herad re- porter; tries to see the doctor. Ina stead he meets Barbara Cavanaugh, the attraetive daughter, ,and finds she, was engaged to Don Ellsworth before his marriage, i en unidentified 'body found in the tule marsh outside the city, is iden tified by Dr. Cavanaugh as the body of Sheila. Barbara faints when she hears this, and Peter is eonvinced`she knows something,. Mrs..Kaine, Sheila's maid, is, ar- rested and, admits that her mistresq forced Don Ellsworth to marry her by threatening breach of promise, Peter 'and Dr. Cavanaugh search theboudoir of the murdered woman. The breach of promise papers have been taken, but they find a threaten- ing letter signed "David Orme. Pet -- 7 goes on the trail of Orme. CHAPTER "Gee, if the luck only holds!" he murmured once, and for, a moment his long face took on the look of ono who has uttered a prayer. "If this man Orme was mixed up in it,. Barbara wasn't Perhaps she was trying to shield Ellsworth—loy- alty, the impractical, incorruptible virtues." There were things about Ellsworth that certainly weren't clear; but Orem „eves another line altogether. There was no connection between the two .sten that Peter could see. It looked as if the mystery of Sheila O'Shay's death might be further complicated 'by the mystery of her life. if there were .things, that she herself had wanted to conceal, digs ging them out would not be so sim- p9e. Peter's eyes darkened as his mind veered from Sheila's picturesque and polychromatic career to Barbara, fighting her way ay gallantly, so foolishly, through shadows. "Gosh, I'lh bet that woman had a pastas Checkered • as a Scotch plaid," he told the wheeling .landscape with a°half grin. Then his wide mouth set in a grim line. "If I'd had the chance to marry a girl like Barbara, I'd have bumped off the old girl myself be- fore I'd have let her bulldoze me into marrying her. Eissworth is the fool of the world—unless it'' Peter Pip- er;' For Peter was coldly, dismally con- scious that if he got Orme, and if Orme cleared Ellsworth, he himself might he clearing the way for Ells, worth to marry Barbara. "Well, it-enn't be helped," he mut- tered through clenched teeth. Bare bat's, in the numbing chill of her orphan asylum childhood, hacl found the glory of life in the vision of an- other world, where honor gleamed a hove peril, where loyalty fluttered like a pointed banner at a 'spent head, where )nen rode into death with the scarves of their ladies bound to the sleeves of their coats of main There was nothing very kniglitlyal about the battered "Bossy" 'careening along an asphalt highway guided by a reporter in a torn sweater. And yet, in that world of Barbara's, if'a knight set out to rescue a lady, he tied no strings to it. He did not bar- ter for a reward, ever, in his mind, He simply did it. And -whatever the nature of Barbara's folly, Peter knew that he must save her from it. . For oniea split second,. Peter' saw Barbara in that barred room _smel- ling of whitewash in the eity jail. Never! If it came to the worst, he he would drive her himself to the Mexican border. He didn't know what he would do; But they should not get Barbara—never--aro matter what she had done. With a squeal of _brakes and a dragging of wheels on the pavement, Peter brought "Bossy" to an abrupt THE McEI.LOP MUTUAL Fire Insurance Company Head Office, Seaforth, Ont. President, J. Bennewies, Brodhag- en, vice-president, James Connelly, Goderich. Sec, -treasurer, b, F. Mc- Gregor, Seaforth. Directors: James Evans', Beech- wood; James, •Sirouldlce, Walton; Wm. Knox, Londesberce Robb. Ferris, Hui - lett; ,John Pepper, Brucefield; At Broadfoot, Seaforth; G. I''. McCart- ney, Seaforth. Agents: W. J. Yeo, R.R. • N'o. 8. Clinton; Jilin Murray, Seafort i James Watt, Blyth; Ed, Piinahley, Seaforth. Any onouey Id bo paid may be paid to the Royal Bank, Clinton; Bank of Commerce, Seaforth, ` re: • at Calvin Cutt's .Grocery, Goderich. Parties desiring to effect' insur- anceor transact other business .will be promptly attended to on applica. tion to any . of the above offieere addressed to their respective•post Tice. Loges inspected' by the direc- tor who lives nearest the scene. jr halt. He had almost driven .past the errtt'ance to the automobile camp. "Bossy" looped by no means out o place in the scattered company o derelict cars . parked in a field wor to dusty, smoothness I?y innumerabl tires. A hot dog stand on wheels fille one corner, and a strip of unpainte cabins at the rear offered shelter a twenty-five cents a night. But mos of the easnpers were contentwit tent like roofs stretched from th frames of their ears to stakes torus into the ground. A number had onl rolls of tattered beddingspread be side the running board: Then line of 'gray' smoke wavered upward fro rusted camp stoves squatting her and `there about the enclosure. Peter stretched..- his cramped leg and, tossing his pipe into a corner o the seat, lighted a cigarette. "Ard the romance of gypsying ha come to•this!': he .mused his gas drifting from a man stretched 1 sterorous plumber to a woman wit draggled gray hair cutting thic slices of bread with a clasp knife, t a girl in grease -spattered khaki at rey breeches' and high -heeled patent leatheredpumps, to a group of qua) reling dirt -smeared children. Gypsying! Green dells and wan dering tinkers, the singing freedon of the countryside. Perhaps it ha always been like this, really, just a Barbara's knights had ridden out a castles unblessed by plumping. Thes were the modern vagabonds, the un employed, the drifters, the pett thieves, the incompetents, who bund lel their families and scant posses cions into ramshackle Porde an roosted, rent free, at public earn grounds until they were periodical) weeded out, to rattle on again as fa as their gas would take them—with out hope, 'without pian, withou beauty, without even the clean orag of real disaster. I 'Like most 'buoyant persons Pete drownedutodieall indepths of p Y p motiveless depresesiou. He was sur that he would not find Orme. H was sure that Jimmy would fire hint that he would slide step by step down hill until he and the last fragment of the chugging "Bossy" would come to roost somewhere in a public camp- ground. Fre was sure that in some crazy, heroic, inexplicable moment Barbara had herself killed Sheila O'Shay and that he would have to stand •by, helpless, and watch that shining head betrayed to the gray turreted walls—not unlike a med- iaeval castle, in their way— of the state prison. That thought roused him to action "Not till I'm dead, anyway," he said aloud, and dragged his steps drearily hopelessly across the field to a corner where a young man at on the running board of a mud -spat- tered runabout munching a hambur- ger sandwich. Peter held out his package of cig, arettes and forced his stiff lips to a companionable grin. "What's the luck up this way, bud- dy?" he asked, as a conversational opening. "Rotten," the young man answered laconically. "There ain't no work for nobody no more, seems like l: gotta get sometbing before I can move on. And the next place it'll be just the same." This pessimistic view of the econ- omic situation chimed with Peter":/ discouraged mood; but after all, he had not' come to discuss generalities of unemployment, "I'd sort of arranged to meet a pal of mine somewhere around here," he remarked. "You been here long?" "'Bout a month. I got a week's work picking strawberries. But hell, it's enough to break your back iii two, I quit before my week was up, and been hanging around ever since, looking for something to turn up." "Maybe he ain't showed up yet. A kind of sickly looking chap—•" The man on the running board shook his head. "With part of the last two 1iegere gone off his hand." "Oh, that feller! Sure, I seen him. He -ought to be 'round somewheres now he's been sticking pretty close fir camp. Ain't that him, over in the middle with the woman and the bunch of kids?" • But Peter; having torted the re- mainder of the cigarettes into the lap eta his astonished companion, was already eressing the field in long loping strides. Peter slowed his vapid steps to an indifferent stroll, sold paused behind the group, to which ,the man had pointed. Several persona.were gath- ,i Bred about a table mmed of un painted planks laid trestle -wive ac- toss supperting end -boards, 'A fat middle-aged women in, a torn bung- alow apron was noakieg.a futile mass at two children who,,vere squabbling noisily ave ,a lice. tf Bread and but- ter. The man, whose:baek was turn-' ed towards Potet :finished btt,tteringi a second slice and, reaching across the table, thrustit into the grimy, hand of one ,of the contestants. • Peter's lips pursued in an inaucl- ble whistle. He hacc met too man Y criminals to be surprised that a man might commit murder and yet take a sympathetic interest in the feed- ing of two strange and by no means attractive children.. There flashed across his mind the memory of a holdup man who had lost his job in. a meat market because he could not bring himself to kill a chicken and who, six months later) had shot down in the street a newse boy whom he suspected of recogniz, ing him as a fugitive from justice. The man wito reached the bread and, butter across the table had the ends of two fingers missing fromhis hand. "I'd like a word with you, Orme," Peter said quietly. The man's shoulders quivered, but he did not turn. Peter rather wish-' ed that he would lay down the bread knife. Ho pondered the advantage of getting the table between them a- gainst the disadvantage of giving Orme that much of a start in case he turned and ran. Then, with a lift of the eyebrows as his sole tribute to what he deaignated as "the bread- knife angle," he stepped forward, and touched the man on the arm. "Your name is David Orme, I be- lieve," he remarked' conversationally. "Mine's Piper." His voice was carefully unemphat- ic, but his eyes were warily fixed on the long, keen blade of the knife. There was butter on it, and crumbs. His surface attention was all for the man at the table, but with an irrelevant, darting side -thought he wondered whether anyone had ever been stabbed with a knife that had crumbs and butter on it. Slowly the man turned and faced Peter. The hand holding the knife trembled, but his voice was quite steady. "Glad to know you," he said, "but you're mistaken. My name's Osgood —Daniel. Osgood." (To be continued). Page 2 • In Flanders' Fields In Flanders' fields the poppies. grow Between the crosses, TOW am row, That mark our place; and in the skyy The larks, still bravely singing, fly, Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the dead; short days age We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow Loved and were loved, and now we Ile in Flanders' fields. Take up our quarrel with the foe! `. To you from failing hands we throw The torch; be youre to hold it high! If ye break faith with ud who die, We shall not sleep, though poppies grow in Flanders' fields, , ' --+Lieut,-Col. Jolm Mc C C7 •e a SCIENCE OF THE DAY A clock that will go on forever without the attention of man has been invented by a Swedish manufac- turer, Theodor Dieden, of Carlslund. At first it' would seem that the- sec- ret of perpetual motion had' been discovered. But it is not this. Mr' Dieden has thought of the very in- genious idea of using the energy of a barometer. The aneroid type of barometer, which has a dial and'poin- ter indicating the weather, depends for its working .on the movement of a metal box, or a number of •boxes, which expand or contract with the pressure of the atmosphere. These boxes are slightly exhausted, and are corrugated on the top and bottom. They are very sensitive to changes in the weight of the atmosphere, and 'are arranged so that temperature does not influence them. By a very ingenious inventions, any movement of the barometer boxes, whether the pressure rises or falls, is made to force round a ratchet wheel that drives the clock. Changes in the atmospheric conditions are thus made to wind up the cloak continually, and as long as weather changes, and the bearings of the clock last out, ; so long will it continue to tell the time without human aid, r, L%KING*4EWS .i0Co1.Hu$hclr�3 "Prison Gates Yawn for Al Ca- pone." --- Headline. Got tired wait- ing fee hint, no doubt. One of the candidates in the Bri- tish elections conducted his campaign from inside a prison. The coward! It is a sad reflection that we would have very few wars if we had no neighbors. Of all Edison's inventions, which do you think the meet wonderful? We say the phonograph. President Hoover has got into trouble through failing to meet a ley of greeters from Indianapreis. Don't blame him in the last for not wart- ing to meet thehi. Greeters ars too blamed' cheerful. Someone said, many years ago, that the worst peace is better than the best war. Perhaps this is the best peace we could expect after the worst war. 01 a]1 securities you have The liquid ones are chosen, But when your assets melt away The bankers call thein frozen. His old associates still assail Snow- den as a traitor. As was ''said of someone else, if Snowden is a traitor then the lexicographers will have to coin a weed to take the place that the word "traitor" ased to occupy in the dictionaries.•• A high -brow is one who "Certainly, Michael," instead. "Sure, Mike." says of Architecture in the United States is being criticized by Europeans, and indeed, some of the 'buildings in New York must give Harry K. Thaw a disquieting suspicic,n that he shot the wrong architect, The very fact that history repeats itself is all we want to know to eon - elude that Henry. Ford was righii when he said that history is the bunk: Relief subseriptions now being raised divide the public into two sections—those who give till it hurts and those who are hurt' if they have to give. A. Jew who represents a Toronto seat in the Ontario legislature at- tacks fire insurance companies which discriminate ag(`at.ii s1 tris race; ant,' demands legislation to •prevent it, Another srlution is to organize e company which will not dieceeninate,' eiceept against Gentiles. Some who were really not jobless registered themselevs as jobless. That's what in olden days would be characterized as a job, The question of the hour: "Where can a fellcnv borrow some money?" Roosevelt and Smith are said to be at daggers drawn. Only the fu, tare can reveal which will be the happy warrior, but it looks like Roosevelt. As a M.osley candidate in the Brite isb elections, Kid Lewis, the pugi- list, took the floor and was counted 'out. He was not on to the ropes. A financier says we can't realize what a billion means. That's ono pleasing feature about national debts. There was nothing unusual abrut the presence of three women in a room in Phoenix, Arizona, but why the revolver? The means to do ill make ill deeds done, Girls, be very careful to whom you write rove letters. Think what hap- pened Ellen Terry's, 'Why doesn't someone go around the corner to see what' detaining prosperity? - School examinations are being criticized by a noted educationalist. The thing to dr, is to pass them—the same as dividends. A Toronto paper publishes a col- umn of doggerels, jingly stuff with the .maximmti of rhyme and the min, imum 1)5 reasoe, including Lewis Carrol's "Jabberwocky" but not in, eluding a rhyme that was current many years ago, which ran scene - thing life this: "A bloomin' sparrow went 'up a bleedin' spout, The blawsted rain came down and, drowned that, bloomin' sparrow oat; But when else bloomin' sunshine dried • up the blawsted rain, Up went that kilo/lain' eparrow to the bleedin' spout again." The communists -era disappointed in the results. They suspect that they did not get their fair share of. the silent vote, • The professed, who said that weds, tiers are morons should be condemn- ed and ordered totake it walk through a haunted graveyard . on ' a aero, :windy 'night. Hitch -hikers are .a nuisance all right, but give the birds credit for his—they 'look upon it as bad form Doings oi in the Scout to bo:backseat drivers. Cur idea of a cushle job is being paymaster' for the Chicago Board of Education. The duties of the Buy -in -Canada Bureau have been temporarily taken over by the Canadian Dollar -at -a. :Discount. Bernard •Shaw professes to be dis- pleased with the result of the elect - tion. But the election itself must have pleased him. It gave hien 'a chance to be in the minority. It would be a rude shock to discover that a lot of other people thought as he did about anything, :Col. Hooper assures the public that the depression has its compen- sations. In other words, slump hath its victories nob less renowned than boom. What' we should like to know is how an editor decides what stand to take on the Japan -China controversy. A Toronto man claims to have in- vented a car that goes' without a car- buretor. What is needed now is noel inventions, but specialists who will rent'eve the unnecessary parts. A newspaper recalls incidents in the life and times of Hon. Sam Blake. And that reminds: He was a noted lawyer, a brother and partner of Hon. Edward Blake (Dominick Ed- ward was his name, but Dominick was dropped by common consent.) They were both powerful at the bar and en the stump. 'Sam's speecheq were biting. He 'was a master of sarcasm and invective, and his speec- bes would "go" better than bis bre, thee's. Edward was classical and ponderous and his speeches were generally long and sometimes heavy, although one of the most humorous speeches ever made in parliament, was made by him in satirizing with- out opposing, Sir. John A. MacDon- ald's choice of IIon. J. A. Ouiment art speaker. The Honorable Sam had a bible Class in Toronto which was a Sunday attraction. If Monsieur Arehim- bault, M.P., had attended, he would not have said that he spent a week in Toronto one Sunday. He, the Hon. S. It seldom missed a synod and where he was were fireworks. Ile was the stormy petrel at eceleeias- tical gatherings. But that was mer- ely a sideline, His business was law and it was a successful business. One of his partners used to tell of a client who went to see him. A junior said he was too busy. Wouldn't some one else do? No. No one else would do Well, 'yeti can't see him, said the junior, he is too busy; he is giving prayerful consideration to a bill of costs. One of the stories they used to tell of the brothers was that the hatchet incident had its origin, not with George Washington, but with the Blake family. Their father, who was a clergyman, had come home to find that an apple tree had been tut down; Calling Edward, he demanded to .know who did it, and Edward always conscientious and straight -forward replied: "You know, father, I cannot tell a lie. It, was Sam," They were both ornaments of the bar in a day when they had to be dazzling to rank as ornaments, for they had brillient competitors such as the late Christopher Ro- binson, B. B. Osler, D'Alton McCar- thy, George Tait, Blackstock, A. B. Aylesworth. Since that time foren- sic skill has ,hit a bad market. Indi; viduals ansa corporations do not now pay tribute for defence. They give retainers and pay fees to be kept out of court. It is money well invested, but it does not rear Blake and Os- leis, Blackstocks and Robinsons, Mc- Oarthys and Aylesivorths. (Copyright, 1981) WORKMEN'S COMPEN- SATION STATEMENT There were 2,50 accidents report- ed to The' Workmen's 'Compensation Board during the month of October, as compared with 4,436 during Sep- tember. The fatal accidentsnumber- ed 33, as against 30 during Septem; ilea•, The total benefits awarded amount- ed to $575,006.25, of which $487,-' 715.56 was ' for; compensation and $87,360.69 for medical aid., as coin- pared with 441,431.30 awarded dur" ing' September. This year's record to date shows a arta] of` 44,498 reported accidents, as against 59,865 for the same per- ioll of 1930, and total benefits award ed ;$4,996,795,43 as compared with `)6.199,70326 .to' the end of "October,? 1930. I .• World } B. -P. No Thought of Retiring Recent inpuiries at London Head- quarters of the Boy Scouts.regar;ding a rumour that Baden-Powell was contemplating retiring: from the world leadership of the Boy Scouts brought a speeifie denial.: B.Y. was declared to, be "very fit," and hav- ing no thought of relinquishing• the leadership of the Scouts. Safe Camping for Boys Although a summer of many drownings and . other fatalities, not a serious accident oceurred among the 14,100 boys who attended the 588 Boy Scout camps held in various parts of the Dominion. Instead, the Scots, were credited with several res, cues from drowning and numerous cases of effective first aid. An Australian Bunyip A "Bunyip;" a monster 50 feet long, with caterpillar legs, a long red tongue and a cry Ike a bedlam of motor horns, was recently discovered in Australia, by Baden-Powell. In- side. he found a large number of Boy Scouts, who welcomed him to "down under." Office Boy to Bank Manager That Canada is a land of oppor- tunity for boys of purpose and char- acter was once again noted in con- nection with the death recently of David M. Finnie, Honorary Dominion Treasurer of the Boy Scouts Asso- ciation, and active in many other public service organizations of the Capital. M. Finnie began his busi- ness career as an office boy and rose to the position of general manager of the Bank of Ottawa and one of the city's prominent financial fig- uree. Scouting For Crippled Boys Scout training for boy patients in children's hospitals has been attract- ing the attention of medical author- ities. Troops at the Shriners' Hospi- tal, Montreal, the Sick Children's Hospital, Toronto, and the Queen Al- exandra Solarium, Vancouver Is- land, are credited with materially helping the boys concerned. Their acceptance into the great world bro- therhood of boys, and the discovery that they can do many of the Scout tests, gives the handicapped lads a new outlook on life, Great Britain Has Devel- oped Qualties World Needs 'Great Britain has developed the qualities that the world is crying for today, and she is the greatest power in the world today in spite of the wealth of the United States," declar- ed Miss Agnes McPhail, M.P., ad- dressing the annual meeting of the Toronto Public School Teachers' As- sociation in Toronto, recently. "I'm glad I'nr British; to belong to this new commonwealth whose growth is so magnificent, one which has been able to grow, painfully — but to grow, is something to be proud ed Miss Agnes M'cphail, M.P., ad- conrse of her address on "Recent Changes it the British Empire," traced the development of the present,. status of the colinies. In this fast -,growing world, the speaker 'found the greatest change to be the growth of nations within the Empire. In the march toward com- plete autonomy Canada has been a leader. Canada has been a sort of laboratory in which the new state- craft was worked out, and of this we should be justly proud. Tracing the development of the new status in Canada, Miss Macphail showed the concessions of Britain regarding tar- iff; secondly, the exemption from treaties. Following the work of the' Imperial Conferences and the persis- tent claims of the Canadian repre- sentatives, the speaker outlined the advances made until the present stat- us was reached arriving at the de- claration of the British Goyernment that this Dominion might sign her own treaties, making a Canadian .' Minister a plentipotentiary in mat- ters concerting herself, Miss Mac phail instanced the Halibut Treaty with the United States, which was signed by Hon. Ernest Lapping, for Canada and Mr. Hughes for the Uni- ted ni ted States Government. '.'That is what makes Great Britan, ff great," declared !Kiss Macphail "She has the qualities that make her the great mother of nations," Referring td India, which she re- garded as another great Dominion in the throes of biri;i, the speaker found the great problem within India her- self, in balancing of powers in her own oounttry, "This new Empire is resching- out to the end of the earth, "anti when we get security and peace for ourselves we are getting '11 for the world," concluded Miss Mac- phail. ) .,