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THE SEAFORTH NEWS.
PAGE SEVEN,
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THE GOLDEN��'vv �
TREASV RY
October 23.
1Vi'1i ye speak :wickedly :forGod
and ,talk deeeited'•ly for him? ;Ppb xiii.
7. Thy word is truth, John xvii, .17,
(When Moses saw, an Egylptian and
an Israelite s'triving'together, he .killed
the 'Egyptian, and saved the Israelilte.
IExod. ii. ^12, !Batt, when he saw two
Israelites ;striving together, he lab-
oured to reconc'ile theta, saying, "'Ye
are 'brethren; why do ye strive?" So,
When we tweet; in the volumes of hea-
thenism, ar of anti-Ichr:istian ,super-
lsk'i'tson, 'with seatin>lents hoslti'le to
'(those of the Bible, let u's (to b'orraw.
the language just cited) the. Rig-
ylp'-tian, but save the !Israelite."'B'iiit,
;when we notice a seeming 'contrad'ic-
tion in .the BIible,'let us avail ourselves
as "muchas possible, of those aids by
which we may the able to trace a ;real
agreement, 'It is said, e.g.' "5G!od
tempted ' Abraham; •'(lGen, rein.
yet .it is also said, "God temp•teth no
man." James :i, 13. II -fere, add in many
pother places, we mush be •eecon'clnlens,
and distinguish 'between a temptation
of trial, and a temptation o'f seduice-
anent; •thus, these two apparently dif-
ferring Ifr;iend's will appear 'to be bre-
thren, and agree' well.
Thy word, 0 God, with• hea'ven'ly
bread,
Thy :chfiddnen doth supply;
And those 'who by thy word are fed',
Their souls shall never die.
A'MERICAiN PARITIES ENTER
CLiOSING WEEKS OF TEST
With only three weeks to :go be-
fore the presidential election in No-
vember, there is great activity by both
par bites in the United S'ta'tes. Presid-
ent Hoover, the Republican candidate,
last week carried the story of his eco-
nom'ic reconstruction program into
the heart of the mid.western tier of
states, where the result of the forth-
coming election may be decided. The
chief executive spoke in Cleveland,
Ohio, on Oct. 115, on a trip intended
'to .still: further deepen the impression
given by his 'Des :Woines speech a
week prvious. With the President's
announcement word came to • Wash-
ington that 'Gov. Franklin D. Roose-
velt, of New York state, the . Demo-
•cratic candidate, would start on an
D. H. McInnes
Chiropractor
Of Wingham, will be at the
Commercial Hotel, Seaforth
Monday, Wednesday and
Friday Afternoons
Diseases of all kinds success-
fully treated.
Electricity used.
elitlhlt,d'ay torn• of, the ''iouth and West,
1)egiun'img 0etr 18.' Maio ugh fhe
IZr,osevel:i trip Is a southern ;tour, ,the
itinet'sry reveals that less than half
will be below the Mason -;Dixon line,
55(1 t4) at the Dengocintic canvd•iti'ate
will invade the same central area of
;the laidiwes't into which Mr. •TLoover
is penetrating. Governor 'Roosevelt
Will make a -speech at Spridngifield, Illi.,
(Oct, 23, and at Inddan'a'po1is •'the same
day. The belief that the Republican's
li5110(1d to hammer hoarse their 'econo-
mic ideas in frequent speeches from
now a titi1 election .day gains strength
from the speaking ,proigralm so :far oult-
lined, Mr, Calvin Coolidge delivered
a'speec!h in Madlison-Square' 'Garden,
IN,ew York, last week, which is re-
gardkld as one of the important ut-
terances of the cahnpalgn,
;Gov. Roosevelt is expected to fol-
low his swing 'through the Soulth'
and middle West with a w'hinlerind.
campaign in the rock-ri'b'bed Repub-
Sc'an'sectiones of Pennsylvania and
western New Yonk. A's tentatively
slated the Governor will be back to
his home State on Oct. 25 for stops
at Buffalo a:nld Rochester that d4.
GRAN CSACO.
Despite the appeals of neighboring
republics and the efforts of arbitra-
tors of five neutral nations, war is
again threatened between Paraguay
and IBollivia. An open clash is report-
ed. And in. La Paz and Asuncion it
is being claimed that the time for
diplomacy has passed and that wear
alone can settle the :boundary dis-
pute. !It was an the war of the Paci-
fic 'in 1'S79 that ;Bo'l'ivia lost her out-
lets to the sea, and in the tP'araguay
an war of 18165 that Paraguay lost
most of her man power and' gained
several ibound'ary disputes that were
settled at great cost.
The discovery, or alleged dis'cavery,
of oil in the area has enhanced the
future value of a vast 'region of jun-
gle and ,plains 'accura'tel'y denominat-
ed by J'u'lian Duguid as '`green hell."
The Gran Chaco is alm'ost •un'inhabit-
ed and unknown. It 'would seem that
the sen'din'g of military exped'itions
into it .might have more value as ex-
ploration than as warfare. The im-
portance of the Chaco is potential ra-
ther than actual. The ,problem of de-
termining the boundaries between the
two •nations is an exceedingly , diffi-
cult one. The difficulties inhere in his-
torical and geographic factors. Spain
l
and iPortugal never succeeded inde-
limiting definitely their colonial: em-
pires. Nor did ;Spain ever establish
carefully the 'boundaries of the 'vari-
ous; divisions of her American colony.
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TI -2E EVIL OF EXAM'PNATLONS
It is the season of examinations.
Many thousands of boys and .girls
have just been passed through the in
quini'tion and now await the results
which may perman entiy vitiabe their
future careers,
In good time conies another pro-
test of authority against the whole
system, Misa Gray, who, as,. the late
High Mistress of ,St. Paul's, should
know something about its,, reliability,
instructs fathers and mothers not to
measure • their children's abilities by,
examinations. She calls for .a crusade
against the rule which great firms are
laying down that 'boys and girls who
want to come into their employment
should•have .passed same public exam-
ination,
She does not stand alone. Head-
mistresses have long been •objecting
to whet same of them publicly call;
"the curse of matriculation." Head-
masters, loge it not_much (better.
I't was planned as an examination
for entry to the universities and the
profess'i'ons. It is used as a test for
every 'boy and girl who stays at
school to '1i6 or 117, say 70,000 a year,
who will go inbobusinesa or trade.
The Headmaster elf (farrow has pro-
nounced, and he 'has not a 'few sup-
porters, that for many boys and a
great many girls :the test and the
coarse which le'a'ds to it are unsuit-
able.
The particular argument against
this universal sdhoolalea'ving examina-
tion is that it demands competence in
five or six separate subjects'and that
there are lots of boys and girls o'f
very useful practical albility who can-
not reach the standard in alt these by
fair :means.
Is it not recorded that 'Lord Ran-
dolph 'Churchill, when he took office
as Chan'cell'or' of theeExcnequer and
was confronted wih'h some Treasury
'figures, asked a horrified official sv3sat
was the meaning of "those damned
d'ots," the decimal points The disa-
bilities of English statesmen and sol-
diers with the French tongtue and of
their opposite numbers with ours
make many an anecdote in the me-
moirs: of the W1ar.
IB'ut the objections to examinations
go deeper, to the validity of all exam-
ination results, even whenthe sub-
jec'ts are those for w'h'ich the candi-
date's mind is fitted. Sir Michael Sad-
ler has declared that "the examina-
tion system is oa'oalble of doing' more
subtle and permanent harm to Eng-
lisih wits than drink," •
11 -lis reason, I take it, is that exam-
inations in general do not test, and so,
tend to dis.courage individuality of
Mind, originality, and thus theyset
in high places peo'p'le who toed.
to
think on 'a pattern, and to do what
somebody else will think best..
Let us judge this Opinion by sante
of the recorded results. We have the
examining officer's repent on. Napol-
eon at the military school of BrienneI
The lad was distinguished in mathe-
matics, though he only knew "history
and geography passably," The . a'dd
deduction 'was made that "he will be
an excellent seaman." Nevertheless,
he was pronounced worthy to enter
the higher s:dhool at Paris, and there
and when he was a subaltern reports
on him were exrcellent. '
(Wellington, I suppose, 'never passed
an. examination in his life. Everybody,
even his ma'ther,,,found him a dull lad
with tea particular interest in anything
but music, though his elder brother
was one of the many Viceroys of I'n
die, from Warren Hastings to Lord
Curzaie who shone in the tests, for
school.
Many nineteenth-century states-
men 'began with a• great, shave ,in exa-
minations. Peel and 'Gladstone were
'both double firsts, talein,g.classics and
matthem'attics, Macaulay, ashom 'every,
one thinks of asthe typical prize boy,
was golfed 215 miethem'a'tics at Cam-
bridge, Ibult
ambridge,'bult his classics were ,:good
enough far a first and a fellow's'hip.
Asquith s examination prowess was
of the moat 'br•11'iian't, an d modern Ca-
binets still show Ghat first-class hon -
ars at the University are not necess-
arily an error elf somebody's judg-
ment:
IBu2 politics, it may be said, are not
the department for originality " of
mind. Imagination is not, except in
its humbler forms, a quality which ex-
omin'a'tions are adapted to test,
'Poets and men alt letters: have had
their difficul'ties' at the universities,
though, as with 'Shelley and Swin-
burite ,generally in Other matters than
examination's, and some of them came
away with prizes and first :classes.
ITh,e weight ofevidence seers to
be that in general a lad who does well
in examinations is rather likely than
otherwise to be a lad of more than
average ability. There can be no cer-
tainty. No one is always .in form. No
one's mind deveh.,os at a regular.
pace. Lord Iilirken,head, we have :been
told, failed For a scholarship at Har-
row arid went on to shine in a bril-
liant period et Oxifo}d.'
We are now told that pschology
can offer intelligence tests producing
Ear nvone acem•ate results than any ex-
am•laliabion. paper or viva vo,ee on the
it
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his answer will show you anore of his
mined than if he wrote out his op'i'n-
ion of her Majesty;,,
This simple faith I am ;not able to
share. I (lo not believe that any exa-
nninaition will give certain results. For
examiners are as fallible as examin-
ers. When it cones to framing ques-
tions whhichare more than demands
for facts and es'timatinng the answers'
there is no such thing as . ab'sdl'ulte,
fairness and; one. examiner's .judgment
differs from another's. How often,
have we heard in private, "So-and-
so was hardly tre,ated," "So-and-so
was the ;better man;" when the pub-
lished results were otherwise, But on,e
Of the merits of the examination sys-
tem is that it trains sensible people
not to expect fairness in this world.
Its practical defence is that you
mu's't have some general measure of
knowle'dlge and of capacityto ap'p'ly it.
The best quality of exarnina'bionis is
that which is often condemned as the
worse, their reward for a cool head
and a ready mind.
iMAERIAL CONFERENCE
TREATIES M'1 DE PUBLIC
•
New significance and new' under-
standing of the .character and ex'ten't
of the benefits Canada :may expect as
a result of the work of the Imperial
;Economic nCom'feren'oe was given Can-
adians fast week, when Premier Ben-
nett analyzed the 'work of the con-
ference for the House of `•Commons,
Itlfast startling ;was his disclosure'
of a paramount fact that was entirely
lost sight of in the en'thusia'sm engen-
dered' by •caneessiions 'given to natural
products. It is that the (Conf'erence's
work adds forty million people 'of the
'Un'i'ted Kingdom and ,more millions
in the colonies to 'the preferred mar-
kets of efficient Canadian industries.
iBy'rnargin,s of from 1:0'to S0 per cent,
they 'ha've a Tdirect preference over al:
foreign competition in these markets,
the margins being sufficient, it •is de-
clared, to more !than offset the mass
production factor which has operated
in favor of United 'S'tattes indius'tries 'fn
former competition for these markets.
As the significance of Mr. Bennett's
outline of 'this situ'a'tionbecame ap-
preciated a wave of enthusiasm spread
through the House and: galleries, Ar-
guments that 'the Canadian inanufac-
turer had, bleen sacrificed to Canadian
agriculture were vitiated and the 'be-
lief 'became 'general that the confer-
ence had pro'ba'bly achieved as nurch
for the manufacturer as for any other
interest,
;The 'range of preferences covers
pra'ctical'ly every important 'Canadian
manufacture 'arid its maintenance is
regarded as certain to stimulate in-
dus'trial employment and to 'extend
the establishment of branch factor-
ies ie the (Domi'nion.
Canada, M'r. IBenneft declared, is the
only part of the British Empire with
factories equipped' to manufacture
for export to the United Kdn'gd.otn
naany of the articles Theretofore sup-
plied to that market by foreign ,coun-
tnie's,
The possi'bil'ities of increased activi-
ties'in 'Canad'ian factories and . trans-
portation routes, .with corresponding
decrease in unemployment, as a result
of these •preferences, are unlimited.
ITIhhe advantages given to Canadian
natural prod'u'cts were emphasized
with cameo clarity Iby Mr. 'Bennett.
The quota regulation on bacon and
hangs assuring Canada a minimum
market •for 280,000,000 pounds annual-
ly is to be met with a'definri'te produc-
tion program that in five years will
provide an export volume of 300,000,-
000 and by '1942, a volume of 500,-
00'0,000 pounds per year.
Live Cattle . Exports.'
'Wiping out of restriction upon the
entry of dive cattle fro'1n Canada. to
Britain is 'expected to develop ,5,0 ex-
port market of at least 200,000 'head
per year, Which is approximately one-
third United Kingdom imports.
In! dairy products, tobacco, trui't5,
canned vegetable's, eggs; rye, 'barley
and oasts, the margin of preference
is regarded by the Prime'M'inis'ter as,
certain to improve Canadian trade,
On the subject of wheat Mr. Ben-
nett 'declared he neverrepresented
to the wheat growers that the effect
of 'a preferenlce .would be to stet up in
bh,e n favor a price d:ifferen'tial in
world markets, unci a4 the expense of
the •British consumer. It was, 'h'ow
ever, vital to Canada to find s seem
eel ura;rket.in the United Kingdom,,
which is now and is likely to conititnie
to he, the greatest wheat importing
market of the :world, With this mar-
ket secured, the problem of finding
other markets,for the balance of ex-
portable samples is materially lessen-
ed, while a preferential position in the
British market will be of immense ad-
vantage to 'Canada in maintaining its
wheat - growl n:g• areas while world
sources of supply are being compelled
to adjust their acreage to market re-
quirements.
Effective operation of agreements
with respect to timber and mineral
oradu:ots is fereoast by Mir, ;Bennett,
He has no misgivings'ras to the ef-
ficacy of the arrangement rear.hcct
with 'respect to' control: of unfair l,or-
eign competition.
" 1V:tthou't definite protection .again-
st unfair competition from abroad,"
he said, "tihe advantages ' under the ag-
reement t would be seriously impaired.
11 'remains 'with the United „King-
dom to provide the means by which
provision will be madle operative, and
1, for one, am 'content, that, when in
honor, ,the United Kingdom is bound
to ensure its effectiveness, 'that ef-
effectiveness will follow upon their
undertaking, as the night follows
upon the day."
What Canada Gives.
'Widened British preferential rates
on 203 items in the Canad'i'an list are
granted in the tariff changes, the re-
sult of th'e imperial, economic confer-
ence agreements.
IIran and steel in raw state, restrict-
ed for use for forgings, iron and steel
parts and ma'ch'ine 'for use in 'Canad-
ian factories 'o'nly, all forms of 'wire,
tramway tracks, ,mining machinery
are g'i'ven preferences, ' eithef• do the
form of reduced rates or a continua-
tion of the ;free entry with increased
intermediate and general rates.
Alcoholic beverages, including li-
quors, wines amid' ales, ane favored up
to as l jgh' as $2 a gallon as'compared
with the former rates, while Cigarettes
and tobacco share largely in the re
d'uationts.
iCotto.n, 'woollen, linen and jute fab -
tics in. a' wide variety o'f 'classifications
mill 'have' in'crease'd preferences rang -
ng from free to ode -third of the for-
mer rates.
'Leathers are .given wider prefer-
ences bath by reduced preferential
rates .and ,increased interme'd'iate and.
general rates.
(Hides and skins, whether dry, salted
or pickled, and raw pelts, will .bb free
.from a l countries. These were previ-
ously free from British sources but
had intermediate and general rates of
10 and t115 ,Per cent,
(Anthracite will have an increased
preference of 10 cents a ton.
iDiairy machinery, including cream
separators,; will have increased inter-
mediate and general ,tariffs and reduc-
ed 'preferential rates.
All kinds of autamebiies and motor-
cycles will have free entry, where the
preferential rate for fanmerly lar/z to
1:5 .per sent. In the case of 'motor-
cycles the genera'!' and intermediate
rates are increased a•I'so. 'Motor buses
remain unchanged, as do motor parts.
Increased intermediate and general
tariffs have been applied to scores of
c'henlical compounds whish enter free.
Radios and parts, including bat-
teries, get a preference of 1,5 per cent.
What Canada Gets.
.Free entry in the Kitbgdann market
for Canadian manufactured products
excepting in respect of a very 'limited
list of ,goods.
'Preferences in the United Kingdom
market on Canad'i'an goods ranging
from 10 per cent to 33 1.3' per cent.
Canadian manufactured g o.o d s
wihieh enter the United Kingdom free
under the a'greemen't number over 190
commodities.
The list includes certain kinds of
paper, alunttin'um, stoves, typewriters,
and a long list of 'hardware; leather,
furs, rubber and textiles, chemicals
and miscellaneous goods.
Preferences in the various British
colonies:
Preferences in Ttthe United Kingdom
market far practically the entire range
of `Canadian naturai products.
'Free entry into the United King-
dorm market for 'certain timber pro-
duces.
ICanadi'an fish products, includ'i'ng
canned vain -tort, •codfish, oysters, cod-
liver oil, etc„ enter the United King-
dom free.
(Free entry into the Bri'tis'h market
with preferences extending !from 10
to 155 poi• cent a,'d valorem on mineral
products including capper, asbestos,
zinc, lead, nicikel, gypsum,, feldspar,
etc,
Regulated Bacon Market.
Regulation of the British •bacon.
market and an arrangement whereby
free entry of :Canadian !hills and ba-
con of good quality up to 2,500,000
cwt, per annum Will be concluded.
Modiftcatihns of conditions at pres-
ent governing importation into the
United Kingdom 'C'anadian live
cattle,
.lFree entry (except for sugar duty)
to the "United King -clam market for
three years ;certain en Canadian sweet-
ened, condensed milk,_.
'F'ree entry into the United Kingdom
market en: creamery butter for three
years certain as against 1115 shillings
per cwt. (11112 lbs.) general, 'tariff and
a preference 'margin of 15 shillings
per cwt. during the life at the agree-
ment.
iFree entry for Oainadian cheese into
the British market for three years,
with preference margin 'of '115 per cent
to be maintained' during the culrreney`
of the agreement.
(Preferences in the British market :on
Canadian tobacco.
!Free entry into the 'United King-
dom-anarket on freslh apples as again-
st a duty an foreign apples of fuer
shillings and six pence per cwt.
(Canada also receives a preference
in the British market on fresh and
canned ,pears, fresh plums, canned to-
matoes and tomato 'ketchup.
. A preference of 10 per cent on Can-
adian potatoes. Alt present there is an
embargo in force.
Free Entry for Eggs.
'Free entry to the United Kingdom.
•market for three years certain, to
ICatpadliian eggs in shell as a'gain'st cer-
tain specific duties against foreign
eggs.
A preference of seven shillings per
cwt. on Canadian honey in the Br'itis'h
market.
A preference of 10 per cent in the
United Kingdom market on Canadian
b'ariey.
Free entry for following Canadian,
grain and grain products, with a 10
per cent ad valorem preference:
Wheat flour, rye, oats, peas, :clavier
seed, hay, 'brans, shorts and mid-
dlings, oatmeal and rolled oats,
!Free entry for Canadian wheat as
against a general' tariff of three pence
per bushel.
'Free ,entry of canned tomatoes in
the United' Klitngelam market a's again-
st a general tariff of '10 per cent.
;Canoed vegetables enter British
market free. Tariff against foreign
canned vegetables 20 per cent ad v'a•1-
orem.
Unsweetened 'condensed milk enter
(British market free. Tariff against'far-
eign co'mmo:dity slix shillings per cwt.
1Prelferenibial rates on 'Canadian con-
fectionery
onfectionery in United Kingdom market.
!Free entry ole unsweetened milk
.powders as against a general tariff of
six shillings' per cwt.
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