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The Seaforth News, 1923-09-06, Page 6GOVERNOR PINCHOT 'SUBMITS PLANS l GOA �,CA 1D A,: � TMON TO AVERT ANTHRACITE COA STRIKE Mrs. Smith, of British Coluan- bia, Bids Aimless Millions see patch from Harrisburg, Pa., necessary for` the rendering of prompt way (-1lovernoi Pinchot has submit decisions." A. despatch from London says s - rod torepresentativesr of the anthra-' In opening his address the Governor Among many distinguished visitors to said: cite miners and operators; to lolnt. My justification fdr proposing a Couloir ' is Mrs."Mary' Ellen Smith, conference, a proposed basis of_ settle -basis upon which I believe this strike Our Mary Ellen," she is called in went, providing for a 10 per cent. in- can be prevented; with justice to all British Columbia, who claims to be the arties, is threefold, first woman in the world to take her crease in' pay, recognition of the, p "First, that this controversy "has ' husband's seat in Parliament. This eight-hour day for all employees, and `continued until a chance of agreement happened during the war, when Mr. full recognition of the union by the by direct negotiations by the miners Smith, the Financial Minister in. the operators, without the check -off, but and operators has been lost. Government of British Columbia, died with, the right to have a union repre- re -and his wife, contestin • his p Second, that - the interest of the f , g lis seat in sentative present when the men are; miners, the operators and rice public: Vancouver, entered Parliament' by a paid. tall require that this controversy Shall majority of more than 3,000 over her The three mann points of the scheme of settlement were set forth as fol "Third, that the public is entitled to lows: I a voice in the discussion, and the (1) Reeogniton of the basis eight-' rights of the people generally deserve hour day for all employees. If longer consideration, at least, as, much as hours are necessary at certain times,' these of theminers and operators." or in certain occupations, the overtime Ile declared he based his proposals be paid for at the eight-hour rate. I upon information assembled from op - h settled without a strike • nearest opponent. Mrs. Smith is over here on a mis- sion from the Canadian Government to persuade more Britons to emigrate to thatDoniinion. "Canada" she says, "is the gem in, the British crown. When I see the teeming millions here who seem to lead aimless lives I want to tell 'them of the land of premise Sir Edmund Walker President of the Canadian Bank of u (2) A niform increase of 10 per orators, miners and Government ex- 'Commerce, which has taken over the cent, to all employees, this increase to beyond' the seas and to' remind them a ports with the belief that they affordBank of Hamilton. take effect September that in i p mber 1, I a basis forCanadaf which at present has settlement reasonable and 3 Full a population () recognition of the union Net. P Pu anon of only nine,millions )m10 CHANGF IN Ia@.7RAL by the operators, without the check- He then outlined off, but with the right to have a union tlement, adding, that he did not regard For several years Mrs, Smith has representative present when the men the question of the open or closed shop represented Vancouver in the British) Manitoba Farmers Rush the are paid.. Jas at issue in the controversy. A fourth point proposed complete', After expressing the opinion that Columbia House of Commons. In 19211 Wheat to Market Through thee bargaining. the principle of roller-# an agreement on the terms suggested shei Minister was of Education, hven a seat in i h position (should cover a term of one ear, G OrdinaryChannels. she held for a year before resigning, his plan for a act-, there e is room for one hundred_' and E y millions. I VATOR TARIFFS y , Gov- Governor also suggested that, ernor Pinchot discussed the ` wage as a method of settling differences in question in detail. case of disagreement between miners, "The whole body of wage rates in and operators, each side select a man .the anthracite field," he said, "is anti- agreeable to both to attend and take quated, haphazard and honey -combed part in discussions, but without a with inequality. It needs revision. I vote, and not as an umpire or•referee.' suggest that the Anthracite Concilia- If" then unable to agree, he proposed tion Board be authorized by the Joint the differences be referred to the Con-' Wage Scale Committeesto undertake ciliation Board, "which will bo pre -land complete within a year a thorough vided with whatever equipment is; revision." U.S. Secretary to Visit Canada Secretary of State Hughes, of Wash- ington, a visitor to Canada for the meetings of the CanadianBarAssocia- tion in Montreal early In September, will be one of the guests of honor at a banquet tendered by the Govern, ment. ;`Yamamoto Appointed Premier of Japan A despatch from Tokio says: - Count Gombei Yamamoto has been ap- pointed Premier of Japan, to succeed the late Baron Kato. The appointment )Followed a summons to court by Prince Regent Hirchito, who acted upon the advice of the Genre, or elder, . statesman. The new Premier is progressing toward the formation of a Cabinet which is Expected to be completed soon. FORESTS DEPLETED BY FIRES IN ONTARIO One Firm Lost Enough Lum- ber to Keep Mills Going 56 Years. A despatch from Port Arthur, Ont, says: -"Forest fires in Ontario during the past summer have destroyed five to ten timesthe amount of timber put to use by all the mills in the province," declared Robson Black, manager of the Canadian Forestry Association, who is at the head of the lakes arrang- ing details of a three months' com- paign in. Northern Ontario in the in- terests of fire prevention. Mr. Black states he had the report of one company that lost $500,000 cords of pulpwood due directly to carelessness of prospectors setting out fires in the woods. One other com- pany lost fifty million feet of pine. Perhaps the most serious loss of any was that in which an Ontario firm teat in one week's time enough pine to keep the company's mill going for fifty-six years. "We have come to the point whore we have got to face the cold facts with regard to forest fire prevention, At the present rate of waste the forests of Ontario will be depleted in twenty years," said Mr. Black. "If fires con- tinue at the rate of this summer, On- tario is going to free a large exodus of population attached to the wood risers. It will mean that scarce of towns in the province will cease to exist as towns which are nowdepend- ent on the product of the forest for existence." ti A monster electric light giving 60,- 000 candle power is used in motion picture making. PEACE OF EUROPE DISTURBED BY ITALY'S ULTIMATUM TO GREEK GOVERNMENT A despatch from Rome says :-The Greek Government has replied to the Italian ultimatum embodying demands for reparations for the massacre of the members of the Italian boundary mission at the Albanian frontier. Greece accepts four of Italy's demands. .with modifications, and rejects three of them. ' Greece is willing to present official apologies at the Italian Legation at Athens for the murder of the Italian members of the Boundary Commission, the: highest Greek military authorities to present this apology. Greece will "accord the victims the most solemn memorial services in the. Catholic Cathedral at Athens. The. bodies will be accorded full military honors by the Greek fleet at the Pir- aeus, which will meet the Italian naval division that is to bring the- bodies back to Italy, The Athens Government will "inti- Elite a.most severe investigation of the murders under the supervision of the Italian military attache, for whose safety the Italian Government holds Greece responsible. • Capital punishment is promised for `those' guilty of the killings. But the clause of the Italian note demanding 50,000,000 (about $2,150,- 000) indemnity fills the Greeks with Per'P1exity. The Italian note had demanded that : the indemnity bo paid in five days. It is said in Athena that the assas- sinations were due to Greeks from Epirus, enraged because the Council of Ambassadors had refused to include twenty-two Epirote villages in Greek territory. A French member of the mission, who proceeded to the scene of the mur- der, reports that while the Italians were motoring from Janina to Santi Quaranta through a thickly wocded country they were ambushed. He found Major Corti dead in the auto- mobile. General Telliri, president of the mission, had thne to run twenty yards. His body lay beside the road. The other three were killed near the car. No money was taken, so the assump- tion is that the crime was political: Furthermore, the Greek press had lately protested violently againstthe refusal to include the twenty-three vil- lages in Greece. General Tellini was held responsible and accused of favor- ing Albanians over Greeks. The Italian Government has warned the press against exaggerating the Greek crisis and also against alleged notices of military movements. The Albanian Legation denies the Greek insinuations that Albanian bands assassinated the Italian mission, The. Legation points out the scene of the crime was over ten miles from the A despatch from Winnipeg says :- thus becoming the first woman to be There will be no change in rural ele- a Cabinet Minister. She had better vator tariffs on the prairies. That was luck than some of her colleagues, for definitely disposed of at the adjourned every measure that she advocated be- annual meeting of the Grain Board, came law. when it refused the request of owners. The last time "Mary Ellen" visited of country elevators for an amend- this country was in 1911, but she does not seem to have found as much im- provement this time as she had. ex- pected. Englishwomen, she thinks, do ing grain. The present regulation not co-operate enough. provides a tariff of 1% cents a bushel "There appears," she says, "too for storing 'grade and dockage grain, meet to the regulations which would permit them to make an 'extra charge of one-half cent per bushel for clean - much of the 'we can leave it to George' sort of feeling among them. While some things have improved in and there is a clause that "grain spe- cially cleaned will• be subject to a charge of one-half cent per bushel for the country in others there has been a each cleaning." The Grain Act,how- complete standstill. ever, provides a maximum charge of "Women, in my opinion," she added, 13, cents for storing grain whether or "are resting too much' on their oars not the elevator has a cleaner,, and the operators asked that the word "spe- cially" be removed from the regula- tions. The board decided that the regulations should stand, but suggest- ed that the elevator companies make representations for an amendment to the Act. There has been mucic discussionof reports that increases in the present tariff' would be demanded by elevator interests. Hon. Geo. Langley has been mentioned as one likely speaker before the meeting in the interest of increas- ed charges. Elevator man assert that the tariff does not allow grain to be handled at a .profit, that if the ele- vators had no other sources of rev- enue they could not be operated. They make nothing, some elevator managers of the grain exchange assert, on mere- ly handling grain at the tariff for farmers. It is from grain bought that their revenue, which they assert is meagre, comes. Meantime, larger quantities of grain are being shipped under the ordinary system from Southern Al- berta, and at the rate it is now going to market any pool that is formed in Manitoba this season will have little, if any, grain from this province to handle. . at the present time and are too satis- fied with what they have achieved to achieve more. This is a great pity." The Canadian woman M.P. is an energetic speaker, and while here she will address meetings in several cities. Since her arrival she has been asked if she will allow herself to be nomin- ated for a British constituency, but it is unlikely she will accede to this re- quest. In her own words, she would rather "stay and blaze the trail in Canada than start afresh here." She will, however, meet Britain's three women Members of Parliament -Lady Astor, Mrs. Wintringham and Mrs. Philipson -and discuss international questions of particular interest to wo- men with them. Her plans also include visits to several European countries, in each of which she intends to "boost" Canada. FIRE HOSE AT WAWA CONDEMNED BY JURY Verdict Reached in Enquiry Into Cause of Death of Sum- mer Hotel Victim. A despatch from Huntsville says: - The following verdict was reached by the jurors empanelled to inquire into Pr • i the death of Miss Annie Leigh, one of rice Coming to Canada the victims of the disastrous fire. at as Private Person Wawa: "That Annie Leigh came to her A despatch from London says :-An death accidentally at the Wawa. Hotel, official statement about the Prince of Muskoka, on. August 19, while en- Wales' tour says His Royal Highness' deavoring to' escape from the burning plans are now complete. He will em - building." bark on the Empress of France on The jury deprecated the absence of September 6. On reaching Canada he systematic inspection of public build- will proceed direct to his ranch in ings for the'' purpose of testing fire- Alberta, where he will` reside during fighting appliances, and also made a his whole stay in Canada. He is due number of recommendations. back in London on October 20. The jury found that "there being at Allstatementspublished about the present no proper system of Govern- Prince's acceptance of public engage- ment supervision, inspection be en- ments while in the Dominion are with - forced to provide for •adequate fire- out exception incorrect. His Royal escapes, efficient firefighting equip- Highness has not accepted nor will Ment, the organization of a watchman he. accept any public.engagement of service, and for a general .alarm •sys- any kind in connection with his com- tem, either by means. of a power -house ing Canadian tour. whistle or for : electric gongs within"In the first place he will not ap- the buildings,.or for both. It further pear in Canada: as the Prince of recommended that all elevator. or hoist Wales but as the Duke of Cornwall. shafts in such buildings. be of fire- In the secdhd place he is not in any proof construction, and that in the sense making an official tour but is case of the building of new hotels or merely going as a private gentleman loo' g man fir to pend a gniet.holiday on his estate; ging-houses construction of a e- retarding nature be used within ma- ' son, and that where possible segregat- ed' units be erected, instead of one large building." No Vessel' Under 250 Tons to Carry Liquor A despatch from Ottawa says: - Hon. Jacques Bureau° states that an order has been• issued directing that no clearance papers should be issued to vessels under 250 tons which are carrying liquor to a foreign por':. This order applies only to liquor in' bald, the Minister stated, as the 'I.)epart- ment of Customs has no' control over duty-paid liquors. The purpose of, this order is to fix a standard of vessels to which clearance papers may be grant- ed. In the past, it'is stater, very small boats, even rowboats, have taken papers to; the transport of liquor Albanian border, out to ports to which it would beiinpos- sible for them to navigate. The order ie expected to ut an era P Greeks, it is said, have long been arming bands in this district and'en- couraging resistance to the frontier decisions. A' Greek element hostile to to th the Italian mission is reported to have of el received funds and arms from Athens., of m President of the Bank of Hamilton Mr. 'Cyrus A. 'Dirge, 01 Hamilton, rice is practice and to limit the ie,ue president of the ;Bank of Hamilton, cut earance papers to vessels capable which: ie being merged with the Casa- cen aking a trona fide voyage, dian Bank of Commerce. BOTH PARTIES IN ANT HRAC. °E CONTRO- VERSY SY REJECT SE TTLEMPROPOSAL A despatch from' Harrisburg, Pa., says :-When the 15$,000 men engaged in the anthracite industry laid down their tools for the day at three o'clock Friday afternoon, the strike of 1928 was one It was on because neither side to the controversy would accept Gover- nor Pinchot's proposals for' a settle- ment of the matters in dispute when they met him. at noon and, accord- ing to union leaders,'there was not sufficient time even if there was the inclination to cancel or set aside the strike orders already issued. Because he' knows the situation, Governor, Pinchot decided that the meeting muet'be in executive session. At this session -and it is not certain that he will not meet with each group separately after the general meeting -he is expected to use the proposal, and the objections which both sides will present to it as, a basis on which to trade for something that will put the men back to'work at the earliest The objections of the miners to the Governor's proposal are: That the in- crease in wages proposed while a step ENS" PR in the right direction, is insufficient and does not meet the needs of the men; that arbitration in any form is objectionable; that the form proposed by the Government would place every -1 thing in the hands of one man, Dr. Charles P. Neill; that full recognition'1 which the Governor says they should. have is but a phrase without the: check -off and the closed shop. I, The objections of the operators to. the proposal are thatit,makes ne pro -I vision for keeping the mines running: after the close of Friday's work; that it is vague,in that it. does not specify; what the phrase "full recognition" `l. moans; that the proposal to relieve the public of the burden of the increased costs the increases in wages trust mean in the price of coal by forcing! railroads and distributors to ;lower! their prices is impossible of execution; that it would require months, if' not:. years, of hearings by the Interstate Commerce Commission to force a re -1 vision of Yates; that the Governor's! estimate of 60 cents as the cost of the changes he proposes is too low and that generally the scheme is imprac- ticable. QUEEN OF ROUMANIA WINS POINCARE AID Persuades French Premier to Recognize New Regime in Greece. A despatch from Paris says: While he still refuses to be swayed from his stand in the Ruhr by British statesmen, Premier Poincare could not resist the determined appeals of a wo- man in the interest of her child While Primo Minister Baldwin Lord Curzon continue their unavail efforts to induce a ehapge in Fre policy on reparations, Queen Marie Roumania, the most diplomatic so eign in Europe, has succeeded in few minutes' conversation in indue M. Poincare to depart from his poi of neutrality.in regard to Greece, where her daughter now reigns next to her husband, George II. Careful manoeuvring by this wise woman diplomatist has at last borne fruit in the announcement that France is about to recognize; the sovereigns now watching over the destinies of Greece. The persuasive powers of this wo- man, of whom it is said that she has' a stronger will than any king, are in- deed extraordinary. She has played no• small part in the restoration of equilibrium to central Europe and the Balkans, and apart from her cam- paign to get Roumania into the war on the side of the Allies, though, her hus- band was a member of the Hohen- zollern family, she crowned all pre- vious achievements by marrying off her two daughters to Greek and Serb- ian monarchs. She is now planning a marriage between,her youngest daughter and the King of Bulgaria. To -day she is considered one of the pillars of the Little Entente -that bloc of nations resolved' to keep and'en- force peace in the Balkans and central Europe. Queen Marie also is famous as an author and playwright, her best known play being "The White Lily," which is now being produced at the Paris Opera, interpreted by Loie Full- er. The Roumanian Queen is a mem- ber of several European academies, notably the French Academy of Pol- itical and Moral, Science, where her contributions are eagerly received and bi usually approved.• ren. and ing $2.15 to $2.25, nch Ont.. wheat -No. 2 white, nominal. of Ont. No. 2 white oats -Nominal. ver- Ont. corn -Nominal. a Ont. flour -Ninety per cent. pat, in ing jute bags, Montreal, prompt shipment, icy $4.50 to $4.60; Toronto basis, $4.40 ':o The Week's Markets TORONTO. Manitoba wheat -No. 1 Northern, $1.27. All the above, track, bay ports. Ani. corn -No. °2 yellow, $1.08. Barley -Nominal. Buckwheat -No. 2, nominal. Peas -No. 2, nomnal. Peas -No. 2, nominal. Millfeed-Del., Montreal freights, bags included: Bran, per ton, $25 to $26; shorts, per ton, $27 to $29; mid- ngs, $33 to $85;: good feed Sour, $4.60; bu k seaboard, $4.40. Man. flour-lst pats., in cotton sacks, 86.90 per bbl.; 2nd pats., $6.85. Hay -Extra No. 2 timothy, per ton, track, Toronto, $15; No. 8 timothy, $13; mixed, $12.50 to $18.50. Straw -Car lots, per ton,ytrack, To- ronto, $9.60. Cheese -New, large, 24% to 25c; twins, 25 to 26c; triplets, 26 to 27e; Stiltons, 26 to 27c.. Old Stiltons, 33e; twins, 331,¢` to 84e. New Zealand, old cheese, 31 to 32e. Butter -Finest creamery printe, 87 to 39c; ordinary creamery, 35 to 36e; No. 2, 88 to 84c.' 42c; in 41 to g extras, 39 Ito 40c; it sts, 84 to 35e; seconds, 27 to 28c. - Live poultry -Spring chickens, 3t lbs. and over 36c • chickens, 2 to 3 lbs., 30c; hens over 5r lbs., 24c; do, 4 to 5 lbs., 22c; do, 3 to 4 lbs., 17c; roosters, 150; ducklings, over 5 lbs., 220; do, 4 to 5 lbs., 20,c; turkeys, young, 10 les., and up, 25c. Dressed poultry -Spring chickens, 8 lbs. and over, 38e; chickens, 2 to 3 lbs., 85c; hens, over 5 lbs., 30c; do, 4 to 6 lbs., 280; do, .3 to 4 lbs., 20c; roosters, 18c; ducklings, over 5 lbs., °4c; do, 4 to 5 lbs., 25e; turkeys, young, 10 lbs. and up, 30c. Beans -Canadian, hand-picked, lb., 7c; primes, 6%e. Roney -60 -Ib. tins, 11 to 12c per lb.; 10-1b. tins, 11 to 12c; 5.1b. tins, 12 to 13e; 23 -lb.- tins, 12 to 14e• comb honey, per doz., $8.76 to $4; No. 2, $3.25 to $3.50. Smoked meats -Hams, med., 27 to 29c; cooked hams, 43 to 46e• smoked rolls, 22 to' 24c; cottage rolls, 23 to 26c; breakfast bacon, 30 to 84c; spe- al brand breakfast bacon, 84 to 88e; acks, boneless, 82 to 38c. Cured meats -Long clear bacon, 50 to 70 lbs., $18; 70 to 90 lbs., $17,50; 90 lbs. and up, 816.50; lightweight olls, 10barrels, $36; heavyweight rolls, $83. Lard -Pure tierces, 15% to 15%e; tubs, 16 to 163,%; pails, 163/a to 17c; prints, 18c. Shortening, tierces, 14 to 1454c; tubs, 1414 to 14%c; pails, 14% to 15°hc; prints, 17 to 17%c. Choice heavy steers, $7 to 8.26; utcher steers, choice, $6 to $6.75; o, good, $5.50 to $6; do, med., $5 to 50; do, com., $4 to $5;" butcher ifers, choice, $6.25 to, $6.76; do, ed.,' $5.50 to $6.25; do, coin., $4 to 5; butcher cows, choice, . $4.50 to' 5.25; do, med., $3 to $4;- canners and utters $1.25 to $2; feeding steers, good, 5 to $6; do, fair, $4 to $5; stockers, good, .$4.50 to $5.25; do fair, $8 to $4; milkers, springers, each, $80 to $100; calves, choice, $10.50 to $12; do, med., $8 to $10; do, com., $4 to 87; bs, ewes, $12; do, bucks, $12 to 12.50; sheep, choice, light,:$5 to 6.50; do choice, heavy, $4 to 85; do, Ifs and bucks, $2.75.to $3 50; hogs, d and watered, $10.85;" do, f.o.b., 10.25; do, country points, $9.85. Hog quotations aro based on tho price of. thick, smooth hogs, sold on a graded basis. Select premium, 90 cents. MONTREAL. Corn, Aon No. 2 yellow, $1.041 . Oats, No. 2 OW, 6934..c; No. 3. CW, 51%c; extra No. 1 feed, 5734c; No, 2 local white, 55%c. Flour, Man. spring , wheat pats., lsts, $6.90; do, 2nds, $6.40; do, strong bakers, $6.20; winter 1 pats, choice, $5.75 to $5.85. Rolled oats, bag, 90- lbs., $3.25. Bran, $28.25. Shorts, $31.25. Middlings, $$6.25. Hay, No. 2, per ton, car lots, $16.. Cheese, finest easterns, 243/%. But- ter, choicest creamery, 3414c. Eggs, selected, 38c. Commercial cows, $3; good butcher' hiefers $5; coin. dairy bulls, $2.25 to; 92.50; calves, grassers, $3 to $4.25;' do, sucker, $6.50 to $9; good average quality lambs, $10.25 to 11. 25, `do, real good, $11.50; hogs, Government graded selects,, $11.821/x; ungraded lots of suitable weight, $10.75; sows, $7 to. $7.60. Quill Pens Passing Out of Use in Britain A despatch from London says: - Quill pens are at last succumbing to the march of progress here, as the Treasury has decided to dispense with them in Southwark County Count, al- b most their last stronghold. One of the chief' reasons for their passing is that he few workmen know the art of their m manufacture. $ Philip Cooper, head of the London $ firm whose predecessors supplied his c Majesty's stationery office with quills for about 100 years, predicts that the industry will be extinct in a few years. As the decades have passed, it is stat- ed, parents are more and more de- la•m °lining to apprentice their sons to this $ trade, believing that the resources of $ invention would doom it. cu All quills used to come from Rus- fe sia and later from Germany, but the $ war stopped importation. One of the' finest writing styles in the world is said to be the Hudson Bay quill, whose texture is harder than the ordinary goose quill, with, a black feather in- stead of white., Lord Beaconsfield used the Hudson Bay product when he was Prime Minister. But Queen Victoria favored the lowly. goose. That a much larger quantity o! pulp wood is being worked up in Canada than in former' years is evident from a comparison of the figures for 1022, as.,compared with those for 1921. In 1922 the total cut of pulp wood was •3,923,940 cords, of which 74.2 per cent. was used at hothe, and 25,8 per cent.,' or 1,011,832 eoi•ds' were exported to United: States. In 1921 of a iota' of 3,273,131 cords, only 67 per t. was used in Canada and 33 per t. exported to the Unified States. Natural Resourecs Bulletin The Natural Resources"Intel- ligenco Service of the Depart- ment, the',Intet ioi et 'Ottawa sae ,, IIS Ontario twenty-one differ- enir.species of wood are cut in the forests, These are spruce, White pine, hemlock, cedar, bale sein,, red pine, birch, jackpine, tamarack, maple, basswood, elm, poplar, ash, beech, oak, cherry, 'chestnut, butternut, hickory and walnut. Over one- half the cut of white pine pro- duced in Canada is taken from Ontario's forests. This is the most valuable of the softwoods species, the output of .the pro- vince in 1920 being valued at nearly fifteen trillion dollars. It will surprise many Ontario people to learn that 1,238,000 board feet of oak was cutin the province in 1920; also 631,000 'feet of chestnut, 164,000 feet of cherry and 13,000 feet of walnut. , ' "Blue Diamond of the Red Sultan" Lost Forever A despatch from Paris says: ---R ports that divers are about to b operations in an attempt to di the exact emplacement of the Egypt, sunk off the French coast year, and to recover precious gold that went down with the ship have prompt- ed a French newspaper to recapitulate the many treasures hidden away deep down in the sea. Although it is im- possible to estimate the amount of gold lost in such circumstances, there are other things, of which the average person is unaware, buried in. Davy Jones's locker in futile efforts to re- cover which huge fortunes have been spent. One of the most precious gems ever lost lies several fathoms deep off the Brittany coast, consigned to the sea when two boats came into collision in 1909. Known as the Blue Diamond of the Red. Sultan, it was once the pro- perty of Marie Antoinette, and others before her, who similarly met tragic fate. The last owner was drowned when the gem was lost. It was first the property of Abdul Hamid, who acquired it during the French Revolution. Although this stone is not likely to claim any further victims, it certainly has ruined many fortunes, as it is estimated that searches instituted to recover it a1 - ready, have cost close to 50,000,000 francs. Heads Retail Merchants Mr. T. A. Baniieltl, Winnipeg, who has Just been elected President of the Retail Merchants' Association at Canada for a second term. Mr. Ban. Reid has given special attention to the problems of retail merchants. and is one of the leaders in movements look- ing to the improvement of retail busi- ness generally. HughestoManifest Friendly Attitude Toward Canada A despatch from Washington says: -The ig Y purpose of the visit of Secretary of State Hughes to Canada is described at the White House as "a manifestation of the friendly attitude of this Government toward Canada." A high official said it was in accord- ance with.. the action of the late Presi- dent in stopping at Vancouver, and that it was deemed fitting from time to time to give evidence of the friendly feeling of this Government toward the people of the Dominion. Australia's New Capital to be a Garden City A despatch from Melhoerne Ans,, tralia, says: --The building of a pro- visional -Parliament House at the Federal Capital of Canberra has been definitely begun. Hon. P. G. Stewart, Minister of Works and Railways, turned the , first sod, and made a speech, in which he said the work would be speeded up so thst the next Parliament might assemble there. The new city, he said, would be a garden city, rather than a monumental one. Teachers Arrive to Take Positions in Schools A despatch from Vancouver, l t C , says:-eA Lumber of school teachers have arrived -here on the steamer Makura from New Zealand and -Aus- tralia to tale up positions in Cin- nalan school.% with the opening of the neat term