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NOVE It 25 1938. .
LEGAL
HAYS & MEIFI
Succeeding R. 8. Hays
Barristers, Solicitors, Conveyancers
and Notaries Puldla. Solicitans for
tbo DoMinion Bank Office in 'rear of
the Doralidan Bank BeafOrtb. Money
toloan.
12-48
DANCEY & BOLSBY
BARRISTERS, SOLICITORS, ETC.
LOFTUS E. DANCEY,
P. J. BOLSitY
GODERICH . BRUSSELS
12-s7
ELTVIER D. BELL, B.A.
nuceessor to John H. Beet •
Banister, Solicitor, Notary Public.
Seaforth - Ontario
12-33
MeCONNELL & HAYS
- Barristers, Solicitors, Etc.
Patrick D. McConnell - H. Glenn Hays
SEaFORTH, ONT.
Telephone 174
3601;
VETERINARY,
A. R. CAMPBELL, V.8.
' • Graduate of Ontario Veterinary Col-
lege, University' of Toronto. All die
'eases of domestic animals treated by
the most modern principles. Charges
, ireasenable. Day or night calls
promptly attended to. Office on Main
*Rivet, , Hensel% opposite Town Hall.
Phone 116. Breeder of Scottish Ter-
, rieaa, Inverness Kennels, Hensall.
12-37
MEDICAL
SBAFORTH CLINIC
Dff. E. A. McMASTER, M.B.
Graduate of University of Toronto
J. D. COLQUHOUN, M.D., C.M.
Graduate of Dalhousie University,
Halifax.
j The Clinic is fully equipped with
complete and modern Xray and other
up-to-date diagnostic and thereuptic
equipment
Dr. Margaret K. Campbell, M.D.,
L.A.B.P., Specialist in diseases in in.
tants and children, will be at the
Cflnie last Thursday in every month
from 3 to 6 p.m.
Dr. F. J. R. Forster, Specialist in
diseases of the ear, eye, nose and
throat, will be at the Clinic the first
Tuesday in every ntonth from 4 to 6
Free Well -Baby Mini° will be held
on the second and last Thursday in
every month from 1 to 2 p.m.
3687-
W. C. SPROAT, M.D., F.A.C.S.
Physician and Surgeon
Phone 90. Office John SL, Seaforth.
12-38
DR. F. J. BURROWS
Offlee, Main Street, over Dominion
Bank Bldg. Hours.: 2 to 5 p.m. and
7 to 8 P.m., and by appointment.
Residence, Goderich Street, two doors
*est of the United Church. Phone
46.
12-36
DR. HUGH H. ROSS
Graduate of University of Toronto,
Faculty of Medicine, member of Col-
lege of Physicians and Surgeons of
Ontario; pass graduate course in
Chicago Clinical School of Chicago;
Royal Opthahnie Hospital, ' London,
Ragland; University Hospital, Lon-
don, England. Office -Back of Do-
minion Bank, Seaforth. Phone No. 6.
Night calla answered from residence,
Victoria Street, Seaforth.
12-38
DR. F. J. R. FORSTER
Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat
Graduate in Medicine, ITniversity
of Toronto.
Late assistant New York Optima
mei and Aural Institute, Moorelleld's
Eye and Golden Square Throat Hos-
pitals, London, Eng. At Commercial
Rotel, Seaforth, third Wednesday in
eaeh month, from 1.20 P.m. to 4-30
ant. 53 Waterloo Street Smith, Strat-
lord.
12-37
DENTAL
DR. J. A. MeTAGGART
Graduate Royal College of trenta/
Surgeons, Toronto. Office at Bengali,
Ont. Pbone 106.
12-37
AUCTIONEERS
HAROLD DALE
Licensed Auctioneer
Spatial:lot in farm and (household
oaks. Prices reasonable. For dates
and Information, write or phone Hex.
old Dale. Phone 149, Seaforth, or
oPPIY at The Expositor Office.
12-47
"My dear," gushed the guest, after
dinner. "What a -wenderful cook you
have. I' -re never had a more delicious
fanner -haw I wish I could get a cook
like amine°
The boebess smiled. "Virbat a fun-
gal thing," elle said. "She's the cook
74311 discharged: last weals. I told her
MOO Were eallann 60 palter Weight."
tiq
apture Beyond
by KITHARME REM INT ‹t
SECOND INSTALMENT
SYNOPSIS
Jocelyn Harlowe, raiGed in a
French con -vent, at the age of
eighteen, joins her mother; Mar-
cella, in New York. Worried
about h.er safety, because she is
unfa.millar with the modern woad
and has developed into a beauti-
ful woman, her mother's first
wish is to get ber safely married.
Attending her first ball, Jocelyn
meets Felix Kent, rich, handsome
and nineteen years older than she
whom she had known at the age
of 'twelve and who tells her that
the has waited all those years to
marry her. Encouraged by her
another, he 'comes to the apart -
intent often and as the last instal-
ment ended he had jest kissed
her--ther fingt kiss.
''Oh, no," site whispered. "Oh . . .
no . . . ThO . . . no. I can't.
Kent came toward her, not close,
for her, arms were stretched out to
keep him at a distance.
"Darling, I'M se sorry. I beg' your
pardon. I kaow. I frightened you,
Please do forgive me." He felt as
though he had been sent back in a
dream to p4ay the part of a Victorian
lover. I want you so. I want you to
marry me." ••
After a considerable silence Jocelyn
composed herself.
"You won't do that again?"
"Not until you•wish it..Pleage, Joce-
lyn, give me just the tip of your silly
little 'convent fingers."
She let hire take her hand and kiss
it. She brushed the other hand across
her eyes and smiled.
"Then it's all right?" he asked her.
"I think so.. Yee. If my mother--"
"Your mother gave ine her con-
sent at that same costume ball When
I was Jack of Diamonds. Do you
mean, this, child? I am in earnest."
"Do I mean that I will marry you
you are asking?"
"Yes."
He had given her the choice, but
her freedom actually was not greater
than that of a caged bird. All about
her mind and her life and ber will
stood the walls of her inexperience, of
her mother's silent coercion, of the
unfair opportudaity that had been giv-
en to this older man.
"'May I have a piano?" whispered
Jocelyn.
The question sounded so like mere
childishness that Felix laughed out,
and3 again, but very carefully, put his
arm about her. She came to him but
not so softlY, so completely, as be-
fore. •
"You may have a piano, my darling.
You may leave anything you want in
all the world." -
"I want a lot," she said.
The piano was a symbol. All the
mateeal world was a symbol` . .
of some desire, some need, whose
very name sere did not know. But
how was suc:h a man as Kent to un-
dersta.rd?
seen have everything," prom-
i'sed the .Tack of Diamond's.
It was an engagement in the old
literal sense of that term for marital
bargaire; an engagement entered up-
on by one party in the blindest ignor-
ance cf the price expectedof ben
Early that mornIng, creeping into
her mother's bed where Marcella lay.
broad awake -- she prayed through
nights of fearful sleeplessneeo Joce-
lyn asked her in a quivering under -
tope:
"Why did I feel like that when
Felix kiesed me, Mother?':
"Feet like what?"
'Like . . . killing him."
"You are a foolis,h, wicked Child.
Go back to bed. Felix will teach you
everything you ought to know. It is
quite right and natural that you
should be frightenedby your first
kiss."
"I wasn't frightened, Mother."
"Yes, you were. You misinterpret
your own emotion. It was not Felix
Kent you wished to kill."
"Who then?"
"It was . . . ycurself. Something
in you that woke. You were fright -
5
•
won't have a runaway , bride on. otar
hands. As for her further education,
must nave that to you, to your
kindness and patience and- wisdein,
Felix. For after all, what can 1 tell
her that would help 'her to be a hap-
py wife?" • ,..
This wailing question did not star-
tle Felix. He gave Jocelye's mother
scant attention, being preoccupied
with problems of tutelage, and with
a vision of the educationsoon to be
given to an unsuspecting golden girl.
Mere were evenings, however, ev-
en now, when his role of restraint
was d.fficult to maintain,. On one such
evening he lett Jocelyn abruptly with
a manufactured excuse.
Marcella began dining the period
of JOcelyn's engagement to ttend ev-
enting services regularly. So It hap-
pened that when Felix left so early
Jocelyin was left entirely alone., Ev-
en the servant was away.
For a while 'Jocelyn stayed near
the window, leaning againet its frame
looking tirelessly at the wonderful
great city. A city of Mars. So
strange, so bright, so tall.
At last she went back int -o the room
and sat down by her piano, brood-
ing.
She planed her own music as she
had not been able to do of late. She
played for a long while.
The doer from the passage white
lea back toward the bedroom opened
softly. Jocelyn whirled about, sur-
prised. Stile could see no one. But
the door hed moved.
Then she saw him, ooming 'round a
great •throne of a chair, whicitt had
interposed between them. The crip-
ple. The little bent man, sidelong,
with bright eager eyes.
jooelyn eepuld have screamed but
be arrested eller with speech
"Don't be frightened, Jocelyn," he
said gently in a voice full of pleas-
aatness, "I 'wouldn't scare . . . I
wouldn't hurt you for the world. You
see, you poor little child, I am your
fatter."
And Jocelyn recegnized him.
"Pen not afraidof you." She said-
& queer first speech from child to
parent.
She put out her liana.
Nick eaugtht at it and tried to
straighten himself to his daughter's
level. Rheumatism had him in its
clutches and the motion cost Ihini a
grimace. But it succeeded and he
stood there, sidelong still, but at a
height even a little tallerthan her
OWTE.
"Thanks," be said dryly. "I'm grate-
ful for small mercies." His eyes ran
rapidly about the room.
"I'm glad my daughter is not afraid
of me. I thought by this time you'd
be made . . . of fear'-! Used to call
you 'Lynda.'"
"Sit here beside me cn the sofa. I
won't stay long. And you mustn't
tell your mother that I've been ,here.
I won't come here again1 saw you
at the 'end of that awning on the
night of your ,first ball. I read of' it
in the papers and waited there and
I caught myself in the stupid mistake
of falling in love with you. Then I
saw your engagement announced.
That scared me. somehow. Ws so
soon. You're only eighteen and you,
can't know anything. I'm ill."
Jocelyn, seated beside him,' a.
strange warm surge of welcome in
her blood, raised his hand gently.
"I'd lore to take care of you."
"Couldn't stand a woman's fussing,
Lynda. Couldn't even bear a woman
rotund' me now. I came to ask you
. . are you happy?"
"Yes. And thr-rilled."
"U -hum. I suppose so. Will you
get his picture for me?"
"Felix Kent's?"
"Sure thing. Your young man's."
She laughed. The whole eXperience
began to be an astonishing adven-
ture. This father had a way with
hiin that opened a door in her heart.
She thurried to her room to get the
picture.
Coining back lighttooted she found
,him returning to is place from some
swift furtive investigation of the
room. She noticed this, but in her
confused excitement it made on her
at the time no particular irripeession.
Nick drew her dewn beside him
"Don't be frightened, Jocelyn," he said in a voice full of pleasantness.
ened, furious, ashamed, at what went
through you under his kis,"
Jocelyn dropped her head and pres-
ently withdrew it and 'her soft cling -
Ing arms. She groped her way back
to her room. '
The engagement of Mise Jocelyn
Harlowe ef New York City to Mr.
Felix Kent of Chicago with all possi-
ble *then detail's of information was
presently in due form announced.
And Jocelyn wore upon her third fin-
ger a diamond as splendid as a star.
"You shall be married in the spring
after a four months' engagement,"
Maecella, promised and added to her
chosen Sort -in-law, alone, "I want her
to get used to you, Felix, fro that we
and -bent over the large handsome
photograph.
"Not bad looking. Well set up. Got
a tight mouth and a bi g eye. Gener-
ous chap, Lynda?"
• "Ob, feria •lie?" she showed her
ring.
"That! • He'd have to give you that.
I mean other presents]."
"He's tglivep me a ',lovely wrist
watch. Shall I get it to show you?"
"No. Sit still. I thought convent
girls were always composed. Did they
treat youi well?"
"Yes. They were lovely to nte.
"Bat I ain't teak about the nuns now, -
Father. Really. I was glad to leave
them and to come to America. To
„
New York. I waated to begia • •
to lire."
•
"And now you're ",
,. . . living, eh?
"1 soo.n shallebe.4,r•
"Poor kid! When Will you be mar-
ried?"
He was listening all the while for
the sound of an arrival in the build-
ing.
"In two ram:rats now, Father."
"U -hum. You'll be a pretty bride.
More than pretty. Will your mother
deck you out with all her jewels?"
Jocelyn thew back her thead and
laughed.
"M,otherls jewels! Oen you imag-
ine it? How you must have forgot-
ten her! Ste despises, the things of
this world. She wears dresses of
plain black with a 01106f3' here like a
eura She would think it a sin to
have jewels in her, possession, Fa-
ther. You mast really have forgotten
her. Do tell me about her and about
yourself and what happened to se•p-
arate you?
Her father stood up, catehing at
nis cane, smothering a cry at the pain
all sudden movements cost him.
"I can't tell you, Lynda. Anything.
mustn't even, see you again. Bub -
here' my address." He gusted. a
foIdedi scrap of paper into her hand
an•d bent her lingerie over it. "I want
you to have teat for two reasons. If
you ever need me you can send for
me or oome to me. But I advise you
unless it's a very serious besiness,
to forget roe and my whereabouts.
The atter reason . . . well, I won't
bother you with that. May I kiss
you 7"
She lifted ter face. She was in
tears. '
"Don't be a fool," he said roughly.
"Notthin,g to cry about. I'm glad you
aren't ,afraid . . . even of fathers.
"Yon keep me there, hidden, on
your heart. But don't let me disturb
its nice strong beating. I'm going
out the way I came. Dowel your fire-
cscape. It's a very simple arrange-
ment, teat fire escape. The ladder
at the end flies up twice a tall man's
height from the ground. Bat, if you
throw a weighted rope and: pull it
devai-there you are! See."
"So if you ever want to run away,
Lynda show you how. But don't
forget a rope."
She followed him into the small
back room, her own bedroom, Now
Sandal got himself painfully out a-
cross its sill and Jocelyn watched
him climb down, swiftly' and quietly
in spite of leis pairi' and his twisted
body.
Jocelyn shut the window, andwent
back to the lighted front room and
paced it rapidly.
She unfolded the little paper he had
given her. Nick Sandal . . . with
an address. She carved it into her
memory before she watched it burn.
Sandal, Sdielan. Was that her own
right name? Jocelyn Harlowe. Lynda
Sandal Another Pensonality seemed
to be taking possession of her, climb-
ing up out of some dark well inside
her as the bent twisted figure of
this man had climbed Up from the
darkness her home, into her
life.
Like every other human child, Joce-
lyn wanted to love and be loved. Loy-
alty she knew to be the very root of
such attachment. During the days
that followed her acquisition of a
half -guilty secret, therefore, her con-
science suffered: for loyalty was new
divided and her heart felt a dark be-
wilderment.
Said Marcella one morning turning
abruptly from the, desk at which she
sat paying her bills. "Why de you
look at me like that, Jocelyn, 'with
such great s,ad eyes?"
"Mother, I don't want to leave you
so soon," she said, trembling,
• "It is better for you to marry and
to go away and begin a life of your
0 Pal."
"But . . . wenn you be lonely?"
"I am used to being alone. It suits
nne best"
"Don't you love me, Mother?"
"I will tell you the truth., Jocelyn,.
I will not let myself love any one.
Human love has never brought me
t app 'nese. I have di-rected my love
elsewhere. I care deeply for you.
But you -must look to your husband
for warmth of feeling."
"Here's Felix now to console you,
darling."
Jocelyn sprang up, turned her back
to the room and swept the tears from
her eyes desperately. "Don't tell trim,
Mother. Mother, plenee nion't tell
'him," she prayed in a passionate
whisper. "Don't tell him I have been
crying, please!"
Marcella laughed and when, a few
moments later, a man's strong arms
ettned her about Jocelyn knew that,
by some signal or murmur, her
mother leaving them alone thad be-
trayed her confidence.
(Continued Next Week)
Many ShortCourses
It won't be the fault of the Ontario
Department of Agriculture if tbe boas
and girls of rural Ontario are not
trained to meet the changag farm and
bousethold condition of the p,rovitioa
Hon. P. M. Dewar}, Ontario Minister
of Agriculture, in addireseing rural
young $eopille from one end of the
province to the other, has continual-
ly stressed the point that the young
people of' to -day are tee farmers and
the farrrnens' wives of to -morrow. If
they are to compete successfully with
the farmers of other provinces and
countries, they must have the latest
and best agricultural knowledge ob-
tainable.
As It is Manifestly impossible for
all these young people to aftend col-
leges teaching agriculture and bome
ecotemiee, the Department each year
arranges to hold Mort courses in ev-
ery coitante, • where, free 91 ohtsurge,
these interested, young people receive
lectures from experts in eirety tifis of
British
Views
(From Christian, Science Monitor)
By Wickham Steed
The people of Great Britain have
been, and atm, pawing through (Or
pawing into) one ica the graves
crises ini•their bilge:ray. The prospec
teat opens .befone them is grim, grim -
mete Alan they yet understand. Those
who have foreseen it and foreead It,
if eartaite things were done and other
things were not doine in time, can
feel no eatlisfaction. Odle mean per-
sons can rejoice when they find ttem-
seleee be to say with truth: "I
told you se."
The Britiet Government, with the
emotional assent ef the House of
Ophrurriens and of multitudes of peo-
ple, hare been the a,ceompliees,
though penbaps not the leaders, in
a great betpay•al of barmen freedom,
democratic pininciptle and, it may
well be feared, of national safety. A
feeling of deep humiliation is already
widespread. The debates in both
Houses of Parliament, after the sacri-
fice of Czechoslovakia by the Munich
agreement between Herr Adolf Haler,
Signor Benito Mussolini, Mr. Neville
Carainbealatu and M. Edouard Dea-
dlier, beer witness to this feeling. I
blvin,k it will deepen and gather
streagtilf as events bring home to our
People a fuller sense of what has
been unnecessarily lost -honor, dig-
nity and all Dave the avoidance of
present mallet which some still call
"peace."
Was not Mr. Nevilie Ohamboliato I re-
ported to have said art a inacheen•to
wiltich Antenatal gamma:9,4 boa been
invited on May 10 that the frontiers
t of CzechoslovalFia could not be main
t taiaed?
* * *
The other day I' had a chance to
best public feeling at first Land. Be-
fore the calamity, had became irre-
vocable1 was invited to address (ten
days Later) a great gathering in a
large city of the Midlands. I went
to address It on the morrow of the
"thanksgiving services" ordained by
the Archbishop of Canterbury for
"the preservation of peace" by the
Munich agreement A warning was
'given me that meet of the thousands
oneeent would have attended those
thanksgiving services, and that
might be badly received if 1 criticiz-
ed Mr. Neville Chamberlain's adtion.
I resolved to teet the feelings of my
auchien.ce from the outlet
I said that orue of the principles
which lia-ci come to govera the religi-
ous; and to some extent, th,e public
life of England was the principle of
toleration of agreeing to differ upon
views and convictions honestly held.
I invoked this' prineiple in my own
favor and went on to say that while
nory conception of Christierrity raight
be unorthodox, I bad, held eloof from
all thanksgiving services because I
could not feet it a Christian duty to
reader thanks to the Almighty for
sufferings which we had helped to in-
flict upon others weaker than our-
eaves-
* * *
Something like a groan of despair
came from, the audrienee at these
words. And as I unfolded the story
of Czechoslovakia, of the crisis, of
the part w.hich the British Govern-
ment 'had played. itt it and of its prob-
able effects upon ourselves I bec.a,me
persuaded that were 1 to ask that
gathering for a reseleOnn of censure
upon British policy h would have
been voted by an eve: whelming ma-
jority.
If there be time for reflection in
the troubled days that lie ahead we
may find, in retrospect, that the ap-
parently headline cdurse of things be-
tween "Black Sunday," September 18.
end the blacker Munich Agreement
ef September' 29, was but the fulfil-
ment of plans long- mede a.nd of ten-
dencies that were revealed months if
not years ago.
Nay, more. Was not Mr. Leslie
Hore-Elelisha, the British Secretary of
State far War, reported -without con-
vincing denial -to have told Ameri-
can, journalists last' spring that Brit-
ish policy would be to "let Hitler eat
his bellyful of Europe" and only to
stop him if he went beyond' Europe?
am-fen/tore and borne economics and
take part in practical work and dem-
onetration. Diplomas are awaidedl at
the ccinelusion 01 eine ootir.se. The
only entrance requerement is a will-
ingness to learn.
Short course work is under the
general supervieion of R. S. Minoan.
Director of Agricultural Representa-
tives, with the agnicultunal represen t •
alive in eaoh county being principal
of the school.
There are five courses each lasting
three months' and 32 one-month cours-
es. In some countiee there will be a
series of sapecial meetings, and in
others there will be four one-week
courses.
Oast yearr 1,313 boys and 2,866 girls
attended and this year it is confident-
ly expected, the attendance will be
Over 3,000.
Following is a leet of the dates and
places of siliett emirses. Boys ane
girls interested serould get in touch
immediately' with their county agri-
cultural representative:
November 22, 1938 to Fehrtiony 26,
1939,- -Brit ce Con nt y, Tam; Halton,
Acton; Hastings, SO ne ; Peterboro,
Keene; Wert tweet h, Freelton.
One -Month acneees: Noveraber 22
to Deoem ber 16- Dun d a s, Osnabrucic
Oesitre: Gleege,rry, Baineville; Grey,
McIntyre; No rthum berIand, Wark •
worth; Prescott and Russell, St. Isi-
dore; (Note -Courses in A,g-ricu Ware
held- in December, Heine Economics
In January) Renfrew, Golden Lake; .
North Simooe, Mitchell Square.
January 3 to 27, 1939 - Durham,
Blackstoc k ; El gi n, Claohan ; Essex,
Comber; Fronterinc, Brewer's Mills;
Grey, Meaford; Huron, Dashwood;
Lambton, Medford; Lanark, Paken-
ham; Middlesex, Thorndale; Peel,
Trinity; North Si mcoe, Waver ley ;
Waterloo, New Germany; Weilington,
Palmerston; York, Victoria Square.
January 31 to February 24, 1939 -
Carleton, Metcalfe; Dufferin, Orange-
ville; Leeds, New Dublin; Lennox
and Addington, Tama -oral; Norfolk,
Langton; Ontario,. Breugbarn; Oxford,
,Drumbo; Perth., Kiekton; Sbuth Sine
coe, Thornton; Welland, Welland;
Wellington, Kenilxvorble '
* *
If this, or anything like this, was
actually said, what view are we to
take of the "mediation" *blob Lord
Run:almost was presently dispatoshed
to offer to Caectroslettdria? Even tfae
"ficen Power Pact'. of Munich was but
revival of the proposals Rianesty
MecDenald, awl Sir john Simon
brought back with tam hem Rome
in March, 1933. Thai- natural off-
spring was the antaarenintern Pact
between Gerinany: Italy sad .Tapan to
which the 'Munich Four Power Agree-
ment is a kind of corollarY-
Viewed in retrospect, British pol-
len' or impalecy since the end of 1931
appears as one of persistent defeat-
ism at the expense of post-war Eur-
ope, tbe League of Nations, demotora,
tie principle, and, even as the sequel
may show, of British security. For it
there Is only one adequate expiate-
tiene-ensensete feat' of Russian Bol-
shevism with its threat to private
property.
Witen our people tawake to the full
truth they will open their eyes to the
grimmest peoepeet that has, faced
there since Napoleon triumphed at
Austerlitz. Then, I trust, thy will
face it with a resolutionno less grim
than that which they showed between
1806 and 1815.
* * *
By Cecil Harmsworth
' Just ablaut a month, ago we in these
islands were confronted with a crisis
not less formidable than that which
ended in the World War of 1914-1918.
We seemed to be -we -Were, in fact
-eon the edge of hostilities with two
of the meet powerful military states
in the *Geld. In Louden we were
busy with belated preparations a.
gainet attacks by air -fitting our-
selves and our families with gas
masks, arranging gas .nroof rooms,
laying in emergency stores, digging
trenches in Hyde Park and other Lon-
don parks. Similar activities, were
proceeding in a1t the towns big and
small -and . even in th.e villages -of
Great Britain. Then of a sudden the
crisis passed. Talks by our Pnime
Minister in Germany with Reicas-
fuhreir Hitler, and later with Premier
Daladier and Premier Mussolini, cul-
minated in the agreement of Munich.
And in all oauntries involved, eaten
aind women thanked God and breath-
ed freela again.
What was it all about?
look back with bewilderment on
those days. What concern of ours
was the problem of the Sudeten-
deutscli minority in Czechoslovakia?
What had we to do with it? Such
practical interest as we thad in it de-
rived only from our alliance with
France and her commitments to the
Czechs. At the begiarring ef the trou-
ble most of my fellow countrymen
knew nothing of Czechoslovakia:
nothing about its history before or
after its creation as an independent
State, nothing about its treatment of
its minorities or of its gee en an hie -al
relation to its neighbors.They had
no idea, and most of them have no
idea now, why anybody should expect
them to interfere in any way in its
,affains.
*
I myself regard Mr, C ba.mberlai n's
swift and courageous action at the
fietiele of the crisis as the most im-
portant and Most beneficent stroke by
Beitish statesmanship of iny time.
eery falte.ritig on his part, any lack
of clear thinkin.g or imagination, any
disposition to take perilous risks
might, almost certainly, would, have
resul t ed] irk " disaster of irameasurable
gravity.
There is a, section of opinion in
this country (and outside of it I be-
lieve) 'that doesn't agree with this
opinion, and it ranks among its mem-
bers some highly respected names. If
I don't misunderstand them th,eir con-
tention is that Mr. Chamberlain ought
to aave "called the bluff" of the die -
Means, and they seem to .hold that
with the might of Great Britain and
France at his back he could have
done so successfully.
I have seen nothir.g to persuade me
that there was in fa.ct any elemeat
of bluff in the attitude of Germany.
It is not Adolf Hitler's way. And
suppose "calling of' the bluff" had
failed? Who can doubt that the out-
come would have been the loss of
milllions of ,human lives, the laying
Imaste as in. Spain 'of great cities,
and incidentallly, the disappearance of
Czechoslova.krita from the map of Eur-
ope? We have escaped war for the
time being at leaet. I don't see why
Peace shouldtet be indefinitely main-
tained. •
There is one comeide.ration that has
received very tittle attention in the
whir) of words tshatt has enveloped
the recent dispute. I mean the,
f r endli r ,e s s thsi &Ili hstists between the
people of thf,,sto isltinds and the peo-
ples of Germany and Italy. Of this
good will there is abundant evidence.
No British tourist of my acquaint -
bus i-eturiiisti this past seasen
from tholidey-making among the Ger-
mans .atiel, Italians who hasn't testi-
fied to the spontaneous kindliness
and unaffected good nature of their
treatment on all hande.
* • *
I haven't been for some years in
Italy, and my experience in Germany
is not mlone recent than the summer
of the pant yeer, when I spent the
month of July in Badee-Bad'en and
whore I found myseqf aa much at
ease as if I had beeAn a visitor to a
resort in England. Not lege amiable
have been the relatione between our
own people and the German and Ita-
lian tourists and dwellers, in our
midst. One might have expected to
hear ,of an unfriendly "incident" bet
none has been recorded.
On this factor riff good Willi between
the peeress I found My best hopes
for Eurapean peace. It sthould prove,
indeed, bhe decisiee factor. Is it not
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almost inconceivable that in this age
civilized rattans' oshould be im011ght to
murderous hostilities against' One 411Vi"
other, and all the tate =Omar de-
sirous of nothing eltse but hiendlalan
and peace? By thattime, if war hernia
been obviated, 1, jicti4tt dative been
watinng in any gaeproof chamber in
ruined London. •
My theme, then, is that of unideubt-
ed good wiff animating -the peoples
chiefly donicerned in the recent, dis-
pute. I west to stick to eats. One sin-
gle point of view and not be diverted
into any of the many byapathe of con-
troversy. Whatever tive naulta of odri
Britiali foreign policy, we have now
an oPPartunity to retnieve them on
the .basis of Mr. Chamberlain's
achievement at Munieh., He is the
man to build up On that achievement
the foundations of enduring peace in
Western Buren, He is fortunlate Ini
his deficiency in the arts of diplo-
macy. His siagieness 01 purpo.se and
his directness of speech have made a
Profound impressien, in Europe and
in the woad outside. I envisage
Peace under his auspiced , that will
nes:01v° on terms of amity our out-
standing difficulties with Germany
and Italy without impairing in any
respect our closer association with,
France
Now, it is reported that after the
Max Schmeiding-Joe Lads fight, a
disconsolate New Yorker was wan-
dering around a haberdashery store
trying to select a hat. Having tried
on a half doeen, he held the last
specimen itt his handS, turned, it over
once or twice, and then remarked to
the clerk, "But haven't you got some-
thing Softer? You see, I've gat to
eat it."
•
And, of course, you have heard of
the motorist whom etiquette was so
poor that he didn't know which fork
to take?
•
A South Bend man walked, into a
tire repair shop the otter moaning
and asked to tave a patch put on bis
right eye. It seems he had had a
blow out the night before.
•
Another expert has last announced
that genus always work in armies,
which explains very nicely why we
never hear of a measle.
•
"Don't you think this is a fast
car?" asked the fneshantan, an‘d his
sophomore passenger neplied, "Yeah,
do you mind if 1 get out andesee
what it's fast to?"
•
Reeelling for no good reason., the
tourist. ,whose first sight of the ruins
of ancient Rome reminded him of the
day die taught his wife to back the
car into the gavage.
LONDON and WINGHAM
North
Exeter
Hensel'
Kippen
Brucefield
Clinton
Londesboro
Blyth
Belgrave
Wlnghain
.• •
South
Wingbam
Belgrave
Blyth
Londesboro
Clinton
Brumfield
Kippen
Bewail
Exeter
A.M.
10.34
10.46
10.52
11.00
11.47
12.06
12.16
12.27
12.45
P.M.
1.50
2.06
2.17
2.26
8.08
3.28
8.38
3.45
3.58
C.N.R. TIME TABLE
East
A.M. P.M.
Godericth 6.35 2.30
Hoimesville 6,50 2.52
C 1i nton 6.58 3.00
Seaforth 7.11 3.16
*
St. Columban .... ' . ,... 7.17 3.22
Dublin 7.21 3.29
Mitchell 7.30 3.41
West
Mitebe,11 11.06 9.28
Dublin 11.14 9.36
Seaforth 1130 9.47
Clinton '11.46 10.00
Goderieh 12.06 10.25
C.P.R. TIME TABLE
East
Ooderich
Menset
McGaw
Auburn
Myth
Walton
McNaught
Toronto
Toronto
McNaught
Walton
Blyth
Auburn
MeGaw
Monet
Goderidh
West
P.M.
4.20
'4.24
4.33
4.42
4.62
5.05
6.16
9.00
8.80
IMO
*••••
11,40
18.68
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