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The Huron Expositor, 1929-07-19, Page 67Z4ZR ;ON w esQ unravin0 EtVic; ededl our 1. v6, the is feetery of the bate, in wbidt We were as- ' acme enfant by the author ons the Waled, we are ea - tam snake the grants¢ atteaupt e of "Jack the Ripper," Who 76, subject of a recently pub- m4,- pr]',aa The author is Leonard ,i', at one time a journ ist in wee. His tale is based on u ,Sita made by the actual mur- `Nehela he wars on his death bed. a}assn went under the uame of tragaley," a widower, sad his con- eelated that he was a physic • it}n Seactising in Portland Square. He had . son to whom he was devoted, and .aeeee night after a festivity in the Vr'ect Wand this young man fell in with rgamau of the streets named Marie Within a year he had died groan a disease contracted from her. EIIS father learned the name of the woman who had fatally polluted his son and swore that he would kill her. Wrenn he had murdered her, his pur- pose was accomplished and he left London to make a new home in South America. But why did he murder the five other women who were the previous victieas of Jack the Ripper? Mr. Mat- ter's theory does not strike us as very plausible, but since it is the explana- tion of the murderer who was un- doubtedly a madman, we may not quarrel with him on this account. The idea is that it took the murderer a long time to fend the woman he want- ed. :' could not very well apply to the police for her address, so he had to pick up his information from her as- sociates. These he stopped in the street and questioned and after he had done so, he murdered them so that they would not survive to tell the de- tecthiss their stories about a strange man searching for Marie, and perhaps identiy him as the presumed murder- er. A madman can hardly be expect- ed to act with any great degree of commonsense and we cannot say that the notion of killing off possible wit- nesses against him is one he would not entertain. But why, if his ob- ject was merely safety, did he muti- late some of them in the most shock- ing •manner? As we ask this ques- tion we are pervaded by the uneasy feeling that our solution of this mys- tery is less brilliant than our per- formance with regard to the Marie Celeste. It has long been taken for granted that Jack the Ripper was a man with considerable anatomical knowledge. His work with his terrible knife indi- cated a skilled surgeon. The fact that his victims were all presumably prostitutes also suggested the probab- ility that he was a man who had sus- tained some grievous wrong from one of the sorority, and the moat probable wrong would be the contraction of some loathly disease. Mr. Matters' story thus fits in with theories gen- erally accepted. We have been in- formed by police officials that Scot- land Yard knew the murderer. One story was that he was a well-known surgeon who had become insane and later confined to an asylum for life. Another was that he was an insane member of an illustrious family, also safely incarcerated. But it is not un- common for police and other people to feign a knowledge of criminals whom they are unable to bring t;, justice. Nor is it unusual for the po- lice to know definitely certain crim- inals whom they cannot bring to trial for the lack of legal evidence. When there is an epidemic of crime eea Beet eently receive letters sunpaeaed to have been written by the a alraisraals uad theve is no wey tan say how Omni= rJome a them may be, Era the rale¢ fes* da Ps the hipper, London news agency received a letter purporting to have been written by the murderer in which he anniounced his intention of murdering two wo- men in a day or so, but asking the in- formation be treated as confidential. It was, of course, passed along to the police, but three days Muter, sure enough, London was horrified oo learn that two women had been shock- ingly murdered in the night. That day a post card smeared with what may have been blood, was received by the agency. It contained the following message: "I was not codding, dear old boss, when I gave you the tip. You'll hear about Saucy Jack's work to-moe- row. Double event this time. Nuntiber one squealed a bit; I couldn't finish. straight off. Had no time to get ears for police. Thanks for keeping last letter back till I got to work again" The reference to the ars was to a promise he had previously made t•i cut them off his next victim and Send them to the police. The ripper mur- ders occurred between August and November, 1888. Six women were butchered in the streets or in their rooms in the Whitechapel district, Marie Kelly being the last of them. The following July another woman of the same class was fatally slashed in the same circumstances, and the po- lice supposed that the ripper was a- gain at work. It is curious to note that before one of the murders Dr. Forbes Winslow, a well known crimin- ologist at the time, received a letter telling him the date of a contemplated murder. On that date Jack the Rip- per despatched another of his victims. Lated n6, foutnn>?ay. 4 But everywhere he went be carrle 1 z .pecbetflal Of apple areaads, Il3�a ai olm,, ped them into the deb Chid oars, > 4 lone, the eoadeureya. £t his home he reared one apple orchard after an- other, giving the young trees freely to settlers. To -day in a hundred widely seat - tared sections of Ohio the road are shaded 'with fruit trees rand the chil- dren eat of the fruit ]excuse Johnny Appleseedl once passed that way. Have you ever heard the legend of how the Mosque of St Sophia got its name? The iDmperor Justinian built It. lit was to be his monument, to bear his name forever. .Ie paid for everything and super- vised every operation, unwilling to di. vide the credit for it with any other living soup. The crowds gathered fpr the un- veiling. The emperor stepped for- ward and tore away the veil -then drew back, aghast. For on the tablet where he had ordered his nameinscribed was found the name Sophia. Angrily the emperor ordered the city searched. Let them discover the culprit whose name had displaced his. The second day they brought to him a poor, cringing washerwoman, who lived in a hovel near the wharves. Trembling and tearful, she had covet- ed a little share. Having nothing to give, she had torn the straw from her mattress, and held it out to the horses as they pass- ed, drawing their heavy loads of stone to the hilltop. The angels, witnessing her gift, had erased the name of Justinian ani carved the name "Sophia" instead. Johnny Appleseed and St. Sophia both remind us that the humblest hu- man being can contribute something if he only will. Here are three epitaphs of average human beings: 1. Here lies a man who establish- ed a clean grocery store and left it as his monument. 2. liere lies a woman who gave three sons to the world, all decent, all with a little better start than she had. 3. Here lies John Jones, who heli a succession of jobs, all of which he hated, and who died from heart fail- ure hurrying away from his work. FRUIIT PESTS Two pests are liable to be particu- larly active among the bush fruits ust now. Currant, especially those of the red variety, are often almost de- foliated in some quarters by the cur- rant worm. To control, spray with one ounce of hellebore to a gallon of water. Adding little soap to the wa- ter will help make the solution stick. If one has not a sprayer, dust the hellebore on in powder form while the dew is on the plant, or after a light watering. This poison which must be fresh will also control the worms which eat the leaves of roses. Ex- amine the raspberry bushes and if the tips of the new canes are wilting, one can be quite sure that cane -bor- ers are at work. These grubs make rings around the tip of the cane and bore down inside. Cut off the tip well below the lowest ring and burn these cut off' portions. To Get Second Bloom. bloom again if the first set of flowers are removed when about two-thirds of them are past their best. In doing this, it is important, particularly with the delphinium or perennial larkspur, to cut back all growth supporting the bloom. This may mean the removal of all stocks, but one usually finds when the first blossom of the season is nearing its end that second growth is well started from the bottom. With the phlox, remove the old bloom with a pair of shears, the removal of the stock not being necessary. Columbine is usually cut right down, leaving only the second growth which comes up from the roots. After this pruning, it is well to dress the soil about the plants with some good fertilizer and to cultivate well. Thin Vegetables. Too often the mistake is made of not thinning all the vegetables. Many people think that because they can use very small beets and carrots it is not necessary to give them any room, but beets will not develop even to the North. greens stage unless evenly spaced. It a.m. p.m. is only necessary to give an inch and Centralia 10.36 5.51 a half each way, and a little less for Exeter 10.49 6.04 carrots. As a result of this light ensall 11.03 6.18 thinning, the vegetables will grow K.ippen 11.08 6.2?I quickly, and quickly grown vegetables 1Brucefield 11.17 6.22 are always the most tender. It is not (163) (165) too late yet to sow a few beets, beans Clinton 11.53 6.52 and possibly corn, but the seed should Londeaboro 12.13 7.12 he soaked overnight to hasten germ - Blyth 12.22 7.21 ination and growth must be hurried Belgrave ..-.. 12.34 7.33 by frequent cultivation and plenty of Wingham 12.50 7.55 water. Timely Flower Work. If one wants a continual supply of flowers and a trim appearance in the. garden generally, all fading bloom and any suggestion of seed should be removed. The production of seed saps the vitality of any plant and it will not produce flowers and seed too. Alyssum and similar plants which pro- duce a profusion of short -stemmed bloom may be snipped with a pair of shears when the flowers start giving place to seed, and they will send up a fresh supply of growth in about a week. After each rainfall, one must remember to loosen up %the soil to conserve the moisture and let the air in. Just before the gladiolus start to bloom, it is advisable to sprinkle a a.m. p.m. little lime around the plants. This 4 oderich 6.20 2.20 will give more depth of color to the Holtmesville 6.36 2.37 flowers and will also sweeten the soil. Clinton 6.44 2.50 Dying rose blooms, and bloom on the Seaforth 6.59 3.08 spirea, syringe, and other shrubs St. Columbary 7.06 8.15 should be cut off so that all nourish- .,. Dublin 7.11 8.22 ment will go into the plants and pro- duce growth for next year's flower- eng. It is now time to ease up on cultivation around fruit trees, shrub- bery and woody vines as growth on these must be hardened so that it will not kill back next winter. It is a good plan to transplant a few well grown annual flowers around the rose bushes and shrubbery to check the growth while a cover crop of oats or LE vetch, or even -weeds may he used for the same purpose among the fruit Emit. trees and bushes. LONDON AND WIINGHAM rt �..J. C©IEl UNNY BUYING •DIRECTVIEY AND :1L1 'Through the eo-eppretiam of the a our¢ eep Rem Meted apI w, we c 114:. eel d e w.� erf to;oi er 6i 4$Ue� `4-Ocee e dci, ti? better hosinnese re➢ationnslufiu het nem reeidlemt auadl mere mtin the tao� c ;' t}'[4i npa 4e `i3 haCPWANDOXea0P.mxi WTYWARIC BROS. SIAIFOI, f■ SiENSAT1LGNAL DRIESS SALE Muslins, Organdies, Cambrics, Piques, Dimities - all printed materials. New patterns, new color, new styles. SALE ]FIBIICIE 2010 IVAp>liz9s Cllothing Wil Ila& 0 i19 Smut Summer Deess®en-v 3.05 AUL FtirgIge Geo. D. Ferguson & Co. GENERAL HAIaIIDWARIE We sell Gold Medal 1/, Binder Twine, a lb. . - . 2© TELEPHONE 61 1. A. VTESICCOTE Jeweller and Watchamaker See our Gift Carver when select- ing .prizes for sports or Bridge. Special line of Novelties and small popular priced gifts. Who J10 Yoga. EtQ`marat ? Do you realize what your merchant means to Seaforth? Do you ever consider the confidence which he has placed in the town? .He has invested his capital, in sr, is bueiness, stocked' his store with articles of every description to suite your convenience. l:' is money is tied up in his business as an asset to the community. If you buy in other towns than Seaforth his stock becomes old and out of date, representing .a monetary loss to him. Fla will be forced to retire from business, and ,probably to leave the town a failure. His confidence in your town would be gone. His trust in you would be shattered. You were unfaithful. Confidence among residents of the same community is the founda- tion of the civic structure. If confidence is destroyed, the community is a failure. The merchant loses money, but the resident loses more. The commmmity loses its good name and invites ruin. When Seaforth can point with pride to the stability of its business, then the merchant is safe in investing and new businesses are justi- fied in locating here. Think it over. You are personally responsible for the success or failure of your town. Buy in Seaforth. Cier �� //�� 7 supeom (may 1i 51JLlLlJ1`d29.AlipanST:{ Y y1 -CUM i0CITAIL W abasso and Silver Shuttle Pil- low sC ses-•42" and 44" sizes, m ,'e from seamless cottons, hem- stitched with 21/6," hem, $1:15 to $1.45 narir IFRED 5. SAtA G E9 IAD. Wateilouaak®r and] Jeweller Optomaetrist 'T3 GIFT SHOP" M. 1iWSS SAVAUGB, Opt. IID. Optometrist atoile's China, Storey ODD WHITE CUPS 6© for -Just another of -Our Specials- IBilEATTIIIE SELLS FOR LESS QUITS? Two Jews were invited to a big dinner. As they stood behind their chairs waiting for the chairman to be seated, they were impressed by the display of silver. Solomon whispered in Samuel's ear: "Look at the lovely thilver thpoons. I'm going to have one for a thouven- ir!" "For Heaven's sake," said Samuel in great agitation, "leave the thpoons alone. I've thlipped one in my shoe already. Two would be missed. Solomon was annoyed, and ponder• ed how he could revenge himself on his friend. Later on in the evening he was ask- ed to make a speech, and an inspira- tion flashed upon him. "Mr. Chairman," he said, "I will begin by performing a little feat of sleight-of-hand. You thee thith beau- tiful thilver thpoon! Veil! I place it in my pocket! Then I place my hand upon it, and I say 'Presto!' And you will find it in my friend Samuel's shoe!" South. Wingham Belgrave . Blyth Londesboro Clinton Br ucefield Klippen ensall Exeter Centralia a.m. p.m. 6.55 3.05 7.15 3.25 7.27 3.38 7.35 3.47 7.56 4.10 7.58 4.28 (162) (164) 8.22 4.38 8.32 4.48 8.47 5.05 8.59 5.17 LIE C. N. R. TIME TA East. Ia Dublin St. Colummban Seaforth Clinton ) olmesville Groderich ..,- West. a.m. p.m. p.mm, 11.17 5.38 9.37 11.22 5.44 .... 11.83 5.58 9.50 11.50 6.08-6.58 10.04 12.01 1.03 10.13 12.20 7.20 10.30 C. IP. R. TIME TA 1:i One Winnipeg druggist student failed in his exams because he didn't know the difference between a club and a western sandwich. - Brandon Sun. a.me. oderich 5.50 21,that 5.55 IEG[eaw ra 6.04 Aubaai4ft • 0.11 Myth 0.25 Walt= 0.40 rtegatght 61.02 ' "L t°07uJ0 .d.ae.via: ....•.• 10. 0.5 1YW' YYIS40�x a s s a a a a a ..... , .. . :62,,Sr+(�tt es 66a. a00•aa••.a �7j�{g6t. w4;1+ iasis aA d ry da a'0 a a'r•• 4,14 r aWa6 .•.bda'a Ca a. ad.. &d68ta06'ady'66,.. a 4i6 webs' a 6,0666 41686a'aaWab tl 5 6,4'ira4 d tf Yi'a b • • axe. /AS HAD lgrin 119.E gEle EPITAPHS BALDWIN TO "BILLIE" Tho m pson's gook Store BOXED NOTEPAPER zn,, Regular 75c, for Window Shades Picture Frames Made to Order Phone 181 �J. E. IliIEATING QUALITY -We have it. SERVIICIFe --We cheerfully give it. SATISFACTION -We guarantee it. -at-- I:, EATING'S PHARMACY Phone 28 - Seaforth w. R. MEM Groceries, Teas amid Coffees APEX :RAND VEGETA Fruits in season. China and Crockery Telephone 12 Ia LES W. Aa ORMME Quality I: aked Goods ICE CREAM, AND CONFECTIONIE Y Telephone 34 WALKER'S Each week this store will offer Special Bargains in some one line of Furniture. THIS WIEIEN-Sunroem and Ver- anda Chairs. FOI D S[ERViCE WE SPECIALIZE IN ALEMITEING, TIRE REPAIRING, BATTERY SERVICE, CAR WASHING AND POLISHING. J. F. DALY Canada's Oldest ]Ford! Dealer R. l;•3[. SPi1$oAi SIEIOE STORE SENSATIONAL VALUES Bronze Patent 1 Strap, spike heel, $1.95; Blonde Patent, 1 strap, apike heel, $2.45; Honey Beige Tie, Cuban heel, $2.95; Sunburn Kid, 1 strap, spike, $2.95. Oh Billie, stay by ruthless hand, Have mercy on our stricken land! And let 'Old John Bull' prove his might, By showing thee he can do right. A thousand years our country stood A monument of earthly good, And would thou with one cruel blow Lay all our pride and beauty low? Oh! do not in your irate haste Make all our land a bloody waste - 'Leave, leave our noble King his cropen And do not tear our cities down. Respect our statues and our age, Respect our name on history's page; 'Tis true that our offense is great But 'sweetest vengeance' is not hate. Forgive, Oh Billie, please forgive, And in thy mercy, let us live, Our poor old 'lion' is at thy feet A supplicant for thy kindness meet. His tawny mane is ashy pale - Oh, Billie, do not twist his tail, Look on us from thy dizzy height Of machine gun glory, wondrous night. And let our punishment be mild. A mother pleading to her child, Is our appeal, oh, take the earth But spare the land that gave your's birth! In Ashland, Ohio, a monument bears this inscription: In Memory of Ashland County's Pioneers Including Johnny Applesead JOHN CHAPMAN An Ohio Hero, Patron Saint Of American Orchards ' and Soldier of Peace. Who was Johan Chapman? A simple mat like you arld me. Horn in Neve Znglatild 115 ftd med to Ohio. WAITER G. wa LILIIS Dependable Shoes -Quer Special This Week - Arch Relief Shoes for women, Patent leather and blacken min kid; special at c� M. K. Pillman. z 1. I kOY S. PIINKNIEY read], (Cakes and Pastry TRY OUR CHELSEA BUNS Phone 70. We Keep the Quality Up. III1@IIlvkhze. allehasse KEATIIING'S PHARMACY. -This business is owned and carried on by Mr. J. E. Keating, Phm.B , Druggist and Dispensing Chem- ist. Mr. Keating has been in business in Seaforth for nearly six years, coming here after the war, where he served overseas for three years as an artillery man. He carries a large and up-to-the-minute stock of Drugs, Toilet Articles, Kodaks, Stationery, Tobaccos, Etc., and his business is one of the most successful of the kind in Huron County. Apart from business, Mr. Keating has only one hobby, and that is golf. T. G. SCOTT Wallpaper, Paints and l:, nnshes, (Etc. Telephone 62 CLEVELAND WEARIES OF CITY MANAGER PLAN Ever and anon, which is to say pretty often, when public indignation arises over some ineptitude on the part of the city council, suggest -Wes are put forward that what Toronto needs is a manager. No doubt a geed manager would be a good thing for the city, but so would a good mayor and board of control. Judging from the experience of Cleveland, the larg• est city in the world to have a: city manager, we would be no better off ander this system than under the present one. For Cleveland is likely to abolish the city manager the first time the citizens haves a vote on the question. So certain be it that this will be done that the rival political parties are already. grooming candi- dates for the mayor's oiliee. One of them will be the present city manager and the other will be a former col • league, who, however, split With his Bate held n6, palin al o e6,; he accumu- Mend when he bee<aTe city manager S. J. C LIEARY Groceries, Fruits, Vegetables -SPECIAL- g0 pounds PURE LARD irii) G1 g - for Delivery Service - Phone 117 FRED W. VV IIGG Bots and Shoes Quality and Prices See our Special Rack of 9C, sn Shoes at C� w V 0 4 u V CHRYSLER SALES AND SERVICE PLYMOUTH -one year old this week -is already a giant in fact and favor. Canada's Lowest Priced full size Car. S. SMNAN CLEARIING SALE DRESS GOODS Rayons at 55c per yard Voiles at 40c per yard Printed Broadcloths at 35c yard Prints at 21c yard REIGIER'S GARAGE Studebaker Sales and Service Repairs on all Makes of Cars. TIRES, I:,A'1"1'ERIIES, ETC. Telephone 167 Seaforth Creamery Dairy We aim to please our Patrons with our Services, and by paying Highest Prices. Phone 80 W. C. A. BARBER, Proprietor. 'Wolverton Flour Hills Co., Limited Millers of iBlour that's Dependable SILVERKIING for BREAD KEYSTONE for PAST r: Y Telephone 51 A. W. DUNLOP GAIRAG E We specialize in Body and Fender work. Make your old fenders like new. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Phone 187( The Robt. Mal (Engine Thresher Company Manufacturers of Traction Engines, Gan Tractors, Threshers, Power and )Beating Boilers, Sawmills, Etc, We offer a large stock of new, rebuilt and secondhand threshers and engines, very suitable for individual or custonn work. Buy at home where you are assured of prompt service. GALLOP & McALPIINIE Agents for Massey -Harris Imple- ments and Repairs. Beatty Bros. Farm Equipment Metallic Roofing Frost Fence GASOLINE and OILS CANADA IFU�'� N ff UII$IE MANUFACTURERS, LIMITED Office Furniture Sectional I:, ookcases. THOMAS JIDIICKSON Dealer in Flour - Feed - Seed Poultry and Eggs Telephone 13 and denounced him as a tool of the railroads. From an article by M.Irer- bert Wolf, in "Plain Talk," we gather that if the city manager is a good one the city manager plan works. In other words the poet was right when he observed: "For forms of Government let fools contest; What's best administered is best" The city manager idea is as Ameri- can as chewing gum. It was intro- duced by Staunton, Virginia, a town of 12,000 population in 1908. Other cities like Galveston and Dayton, stag- gered by disasters, turned to the city manager as an improvement upon the old-fashioned mayor and aldermen. There are more than three hundred cities and towns in the United States now being managed by a man speci- ally hired for the job, and the largest and most important of them is Cleve- land, whose population approaches the million mark. It was in 1924 that Cleveland adopted the new scheme and elected William R. Hopkins at a salary of $25,000 a year to take charge, em- ploy his own experts and run the city as though it were a large ranch or department store. Mr. Hopkins, though an able man, seems to have been rather a curious choice. A gen- eration earlier he had served as a councilman, and though a Republican, was affiliated with Tom Johnson. He obtained a franchise for a subway, went to New Yottk to peddle it, failed completely seed -then dropped from sight. It was, therefore, with a good deal of astonishment that the pile of Cleveland lea t04 One day that has had been elected Manager, as the u00anitm- ous choice of the political bosses, the newspapers and those business and social leaders who interested then - selves in municipal affairs. The moat notable thing about Mr. Hopkins' man- agement appears to be that practical- ly all his chief appointments have been .political. It was to escape from this blight that many towns have abandoned the mayor and aldermen in favor of a city manager, but if their experience have been like Cleve- land's they must have been disappoint- ed. The jobs have been pretty evenly divided between Republicans and Dem- ocrats which no doubt explains the otherwise curious fact that the rival political bosses agreed upon Hopkins. Some of the appointments appear to have been reasonably good, for it would be a rash assumption that a man politically active can be no goo 1 as head of the police force or the as- sessment department. But some oth- ers were obviously made as payment for political debts. Mr. Hopkins, by a judicious distribution of offices ha3 allayed criticism, and we gather that for some reason or other, which Mr. Wolf does not make plain, the news- papers have been extremely uncritical. It seems plain enough that although Mr. Hopkins is an able man -and Mr. Wolf says he is the equal of any Cleveland mayor with the exception of Tom Johnson, he has not given the. city a better administration than might have been expected under the old system, or indeed than he would have ,given had he beets mayor instead of manager. Certainly the near scheme hasn't worked out any cheaper than the old. The per capita coat of municipal government has i mrreaeed from $8.59 in 1916, to $17.12 in 1927. The increase has been steady with the exception of a decrease in the two years when Kohler, the former police chief, sat in the mayor's chair. It is argued that the increased cost is due to the fact that Cleveland has been launching out into new fields of ac- tivity, but at the most generous esti- mate this could hardly account for the fact that the per capita cost has doubled in a decade. Another serious consequence of the city manager plan is that the people do not take the s'tme interest in municipal affairs, as is re- vealed by the smaller percentage that goes to the polls on election day Cleveland still elects mayor and aldermen and the theory is that these constitute a board of directors to whom the city manager reports, and that this official, through the mayor, and aldermen, remains dieectity re- sponsible to the citizens, Nor World we suppose that as useful a type of citizen would offer himself for public oface now that it has been shorn of nearly all its authoript as in the old days when the mayor and aldermen actively, even if at times mistakenly, conducted the affairs of the city. As Mr. Wolf says: "As elsewhere the people of Cleveland have coma to the conclusion that improvement in muni- cipal government cannot be brought about by magic word or act. It must come from Within. There are good mayors and bad mayors. There ere good managers and bad managers. Not the office nor its designation nor the supposed powers with which the man or the office is invested, Out the character of the man it is that counts." HE ENDURED INSULTS TO WEAR SHORT HAIR Nowadays Kartar Singh has his hair cut every three weeks and the fact excites not the slightest comment. Eighteen years ago, however, the same simple operation caused a tre- mendous sensation among the 5,000 Sikhs who had recently come to es- tablish themselves in British Columbia for Kartar Singh, then only twenty- two, was the first militant Sikh to albandon long hair and discard the turban in favor of occidental styles. The custom has since become general among his countrymen, but the in- novator had to suffer many insults for daring to break his baptismal pledges. To -day Kartar Singh is publishing in Vancouver a pretentious magazine, in English and Punjabi, which, aims to be a journal of interpretation and information as between India and Canada, this being the culmination of an ambition he formed when first he came here as a priest to his people, whose history in the Dominion he is also engaged in writing. Fifteen years of Kartar Singh's life in Canada has been spent in Toronto and Ontario,. where his experiences ranged all the way from snow shovel- ler to office manager. He is self taught as to English, which he writes With ease and force and speaks with facility and hardly any accent. It is his ambition to see a better relation ship established between East Indians and Canadians, and his contention that the Sikhs and Hindus can be assimil- ated is to some extent borne out by the history of the past twenty years. u.'6