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iiruIdi up this series on the Im-
i;1 rens Conference it remains on -
.touch` briefly on a few of the
ttCidlutal features .of our six weeks'
X.per",ente, .. without reference to
Ithiek. the record would, be inconi-
1@lerte, W7hUe we had a full program,
, ft was not by any means entirely eon-
i6/ted 'to the serious. subjects which
)have been dealt with in previous. art -
teles.
Throughout our stay, in Britain, the
overseas delegates were the guests of
ithe'Bltish Press. This hospitality in-
cluded the month spent in Grosvenor
Houae,,th:e railway tour and a' number
of luncheons and dinners during the
*our, when we were the guests of the
'Manche@ter Guardian, the Kemsley
Newstiapers, the Liverpool Daily Post
and I4verpool •Echo, the Scottish Daily
Newspaper Societies and the York-
shire Post. In addition there were
civic luncheons and dinners in Ma,n-
chester, Liverpool, . Edinburgh adri
Leeds:, There were, besides, a ate•
aCA
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ber, of ether flitActdone, of which per-
haps the most tioteworthyt were hu
hour'spent with the and Queen
arid', the Princess k axgaret )loose in a
reception at Buckingham; Palace;, a
dinner in the beautiful Painted Rall
of the Royal Naval College at Green
wjch, 'and a dinner by the Press of
•ttr�uie United Kingdom. in; the Mansion
' Icuse, at which. the Lord Mayor of
London was himself a guest. Besides
there were innumerable private din
hers where delegates metintimately
many of the leaders, in British public
life; and visits to Um industrial'
es-
tablishurents usually were accompan-
ied by luncheons or dinners. English
hospitality is' famous, and it was lav-
ished on the gathering of journalists
from the far-flung Countries that make
up the British Empire.
Visit To Hever Castle
Nor was the Conference " all work
and no play," in the sense that sight-
seeing was confined to industrial
plants, the discussion of national and
Commonwealth problems, and others
'spent a day at Hever Castle, the beau-
tiful country home or their much be-
loved President, Col. the Hon. J. S.
Astor, and of his charming wife, Lady
Violet Astor. Lady Astor, by the way,
is a daughter of Lord Minto, a one-
time Governor-General of Canada, and
had spent several years of her youth.
in Ottawa. Hever' Castle -was the
home of 'Anne Boleyn, one e€ the ilk;
starred wives of 'Henry VIII. The
castle, which is filled with historical
art treasures, had recently been rob-
bed of some of them. While we were
there, Mr. Winston Churchill, who
lives nearby,, dropped in to have
luncheon with us, and treated us to
a half hour of "off the record" frank
speech, followed by some informal'
conversation.
Historic Places '
Then there were visits to Shake-
-,speare's home (and Hugh Savage's
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end to the Burnea w tty' and memor-
ials at and around All,Oway. A short
viait to Yorks gave ti ie for only
eursary inspection et the great Min-
ster .anal' oft• the marvels. of the- Trees-,urere's Rause,; York's museum. Another nuzaeum, new to moat of tis, was
Temp'le.,Newsam, an historic old coun-
try house where Lord Darnley, hue,-
band
uffband of Mary Queen of Scots, was
born; lately owned by Lord Halifax,
purehased by the City. of Leeds, and
developed along somewhat unique
lines as an- art• gallery and musetu'n.
In passing, it may be remarked, how
great is the attraction to tourists of
Ouch historical shrines. The histori-
eat, is, in fact, the chief drawing card
of the United Kingdom, upon- which
they count to develop a lucrative tour-
ist
ourdst business •when travel conditions re-
turn to 'normal.' This does not mini-
mize the beauties of the English land-
scapes and of the Scottish hills. It
does.. contain a lesson for Canadians,
as. •to the value of their own historic
background from a tourist standpoint.
Sermons and Addresses
Even• our rel'ig'ious life was not ov-
erlooked. There were special services
for the Imperial Press pasty in• St.
Giles, Edinburgh, .Presbyterianism's
central -cathedral, and in Westminster
Abbey. On both occasions the ser-
mons were addressed to ,the press par-
ty in particular. In the Abbey, Canon
Marriott argued that Christianity was
"practical and the Sermon on the
Mount attainable in an ideal world;
but contended that„ compromise be-
tween actuality and idealism was nec-
essary and allowable in a world which
had not yet accepted these standards.
On this basis he delivered a powerful
vindication of the record of the Brit-
ish Empire.
The delegate's listened to many era
cellent address. Indeed, the general
standard of the speaking was remark-
ably high. One of 'the most striking
was delivered by the. -,Earl of Selkirk,
successor of the Scottish peer who
had a hand in, the early settlement of
Manitoba.' Speaking at Prestwick,
Britain's chief overseas 'aerodrome,
he 'made the striking remark: "Many
political problems are, in fact, insole-'
ble, Like' volcanoes, they are quies-
cent for long periods only to become
suddenly active." The Earl was re-
ferring to the 'revival of the Scottish
demand for autonomy. But this wr,t-
er was reminded of certain problems
in Canada.
In Lighter Vein
All the speeches : were not in ser-
ious 'vein. Some of them partook of
the "after 'dinner" variety. s Perhatrs
the most sparkling deliverance of this
type was made by Mr. B. Mouat•Jones;,
Vice-Chanceller• of the University of
Leeds. iu the course of which he got
off this jingle, ascribed to a mother
with a pair of eligible spinsters, Prob-
ably it will do service„ for the dele-
gates in many parts of the world,
since it stuck in their memories—and
was •frequently repeated:
I have two girls,
They're a couple of pearls,.
What pould a fond mother want more,
But I see no_ sign
Of a couple of swine
To cast those, two pearls before.
Mention of the after, dinner speech-
es would not be complete, however,
without reference to the address in
which Sir Francis Low, editor of the
Times of India•: thanked the officers
Of the Army, Navy and Air Force for
their conduct of the European battle-
fields tour. The occasion was the fin-
al dinner of the tour in the splendid
banquet hall of the Atlantic hotel in
Antwerp, which is being used as an,
officers'aclub. It was the ,most grace-
ful and most gracious "vote ofthanks"
to which the w'rit.er has ever listened
=and certainly did the Press party
proud.
Educational Institutions
Vee had' a couple of glimpses at
British A<lu'titional•institutions. One
'.vas the Borough Polytechnic in, Lon-
don. a technical „institution carrying
00 in spite- of the damage sustained
from bombine, in.which five thousand
stu:'ents receive training in.' a wide
Variety of trades. The visitors were
particularly it_'tri,tted• by some of tha
confection creations in the departpaent
known as the Baliery School.. At Man-
chester we spent an 'afternoon in the
University, .a larger part of the time
in the remarkable dental school,
which has accommodation for• 170 to'
180 students. and, for 60,000 to 80.000
patient -attendances per•annum, We'al-
so went. through the science depart-
ment, and saw' the simple, gluartera. in
which' Sir Ernest Rutherford •carried
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managed to dncreese her overall farm
production by 45 per cent. and to
send out of the country quantities of
fo0datuffs that surprised Canadian
producer's themselves, and caused Mr.
Cairns to. remark of Canada that "she
is almost . , . the world's greatest ex-
porter of farm products."
"The feet- is," said Mr. Shaw;.•.,"that
Canada has' in the past seven years
(and probably while Mr. • Cairns has,
been out of the country) built up a
rather comprehensive, but flexible
;agricultural policy. This is" not a
paper plan worked out by one Master
Planner or even by a committee of
experts—although specialists in many
lines have been freely called upon
for help. It.is a manysided program
that has been framed, bit by bit,'
at thirteen full-dress conferences of
Dominion`•and Provincial officials and
representatives of the Canadian Fed-
eration of Agriculture and at numer-
ous meetings of agricultural Boards
and delegates of producers' of differ-
ent farm products."
"The policy thus worked out has
been approved by the Government of
Canada, and ,public funds to the
amount of almost $400 million have
been spent to subsidize the increased
production or' to keep'down the cost
Of supplies (feeds, fertilizers; etc.) re-
quired by. Canadian farmers. Farther -
more, special provincial' -machinery
has been set up to implement recom-
mendations of . the yearly production
conferences; so That the policy can
be *said to be truly national in that
it reaches into every part of the coun-
try."
OTHERS ARE ASKING
Q.—I bought some raisins in July
for my. Christmas cake. Now when I
opened the 'package I find them unfit
for .use, Shouldn't I get my money
back?
A.—These dried fruits should not
be purchased "so far' ahead of the time
you intend using them. They were
probably in good condition when you
bought them, but special cold storage
methods must be used to keep them
for the length of time you have had
them.
out his brilliant r searches into radio
active- transforpr'a ions, the electrical
structure of matter and the .nature of
the atom.
Under this, heading, perhaps, also
should be .mentioned a visit to Home -
,wood, the fine country estate -where
Mr, Arthur. Rank is producing .'cine-
ma" picturs, some of which are ex=
pectecl to reach Canada in increasing.
numbers. There the party were in-
troduced to the technique of "shoot-
ing" moving pictures. .We were told
that if the shooting.covered a foot of
fr'lm in a day it was considered satis-
.Sactory, progress.
British Railway Travel
•
Travelling widely through England
and. into Scotland, we learned to ap-
preciate the luxury comfort of British
first class trains, the smooth speed
at Which they.. -:•cover the. ground and
the courtesy and attentiveness of the
officials and crews.
When the battlefield tour was over
about forty of the delegates accepted
an invitation from the French Gov-
ernment to visit Paris. They report
a most enjoyable, but somewhat stren-
uous couple of days spent in the gay
and beautiful French capital. But as
the writer had returned. to London,
and was not with the party, he can-
not. give any details.
Valued Personal Friendships
The final joy and satisfaction deriv-
ed from, the Imperial 'Press Con'fer-
snce was the association it afforded
and the 'friendships it developed
among our fellow craftsmen from all
pails of the Empire. It Was a grati-
rying` pleasure to learn from Austra
Tian and New Zealand delegates of
the deep devotion to the Empire in
their countries: to have an Indian Na-
tionalist declare that, India bears no
111 will .or resentment towards Great
Britain; .to hear from,the lips of Miss
Strickland, our one. woman delegate,
the inside story of Malta's brave de-
fence; to have a •native• Sinhalese as-
sure us that in Ceylon there is con=_
tentment with her treatment' in the
Empire; to. listen to the editor of Le
Canada declare 'there'll always be,,,an
England," and pay tribute to British
fortitude and leadership; to have an
Afrikaaner say that the Dutch ele-
ment in South Africa realize the ad-
vantages of the Imperial connection
and have no desire to, break from the
Commonwealth; to have friendly dele-
gates from the West Indies plead'for
closer relations with, Canada; to be
.brought into" cloy 3c 'and intimate con-
tact with the British Press and' its
leading personalities; - not - to . forget
the new friendships formed'with nem -
hers' -of Our own Canadian Press. It
made us feel that we belong to a
great family, and the prevailing sen-
timent among all the delegations was
that the ties that bind the British Em-
pire together should^'be tightened and
strengthened.. As, with regret and
yet with a certain yearning for home,
we 'said good-bye to our new-found
friends and,close comrades of a
month, there echoed back from school-
boy days'the lines:
Like flotsam on. the ocean's. breast,
We meet and greetawith fond endeav-
our;
A "moment on the saltie wave's crest,.,
Tile wave divides, we part forever, .
Yet the Canadian 'delegates trust
it will not be "forever,"..brit that we
spall meet' many of the• fries we
made ,in „London when the next Im-
perial- Peess-' f3ou er nb@ Ss "hell "1
Canada in 1950.
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Like figures out of the ,pages of a
thrilling, mystery novel, the grinefee-
ed white men,,slipped olkietly through
the murlry,- narrow streets of''Torone
to's Chinatown.
Yel'l'ow faced, slant -eyed Orientals
lurking in the shadows -darted hard
troubled looks and vanished indoors
—for they knew that trouble was
,brewing.
The white men were members of
Toronto's narcotic squad and they
• y sere mustering to etriite ' at'the big-
gest opium den found .in the city in
10 • years.
It ''was past midnight and' 'China-
town
Chinatown was.. quiet when the pelice nos-
ed
o -ed their', cars toward 16 Elizltbeth St.
They had just raidedtheopium den's
supply'depot and were closing in on
the ringleaders and addicts.
Blissfully unaware of the impend-
ing danger, a group of Chinese sat on
shabby cots and rickety chairs inside
the. shuttered two-storey building,
wateliing intently as the' "elhef" pre-
pared the drug to send them op a
journey to the happy) land of dreams.
In .one hand he held a crude home-
made pipe with a bowl made from a
doorknob and a long stem. In the
other . he held the yen hok,, a wire
about as long and -thin' as an old-fash-
ioned hatpin, with finer wire "wound
around the handle.
His fingers working deftly, the chef
began ,.cooking the opium. He dipped
the l point of the, yen hok into a jar of
dark brown substance that looked like
tar, then held a drop. over• the. flame.
from a tiny spirit lamp.
Shifting the pipe bowl close'to the
top of the lamp, he placed the opium
on She edge of the bowl„ drawing the
yen hok around and around to stretch
the opium.
The chief was "hying" or cooking
the poison )put of the pili, and as it
cooked it. turned golden brown.
The pipe' went to his mouth, and
ae he puffed slowly, it made a sizzling,
sound and a sweet, sickly odor began
permeating the drab room.
The waiting Ch•illese stirred. rest-
lessly as the chef kept inhaling in
short puffs. Finally, he seemed satis-
fied and passed the pipe on.
One by one, the smokers took a
few puffs and grunts of satisfaction
came from them as the heavy, pung-
ent smoke began to fill 'their lungs
and stomachs, sending them into a
happy trance. Where they could find
room, 'they. lay down' itn, a stupor,
ethereal smiles wreathing their faces.
Suddenly, A shrill spy of., warning
came from the hallway. Roughly, the
"chef" shook the reclining .figures in-
to action.
' Windows, were banged open and
"decks" of opium and the ,cooking ap-
paratus went flying out into the dark-
ness. But they were too late. •
The hall doorway crashed from its
hinges and the narcotic squad poured
'Walk , TOO
The addicts, 4Izzy e#>ti tgillinif
araulid f'q theef'egts
ware hustled off to' pollee cellaw •
But the tai.dere' `Worl('1Xae laot oyer.
yet. Ther' wets,. aftaz 'bigger,: gaixle,
than mere; "hopi;eads," They ,,Wetaz.
seeking Chen Kwong Yew; described
as the, "master, mind" of the opium
traffle In the Ttlronto area. :t..
.
The 47-year=old Chinese was 'well
..known to the pollee since he had been
a Toronto court interpreter for more•
than 12 years, Lately, however, Chen
had dropped his court duties. Alt
though, he appeared to have ea Other
employment;. 'he • lived comfortably.
Police suspected .that he had a pri-
vate source of incone.
.A. raid oa a Gerrard Street room=
ung 'house• proved their suspicions. In
his mem they found• two. onepound
plugs of raw opium, 250 pellets and
15 'prepared wafers :of the -drug—the
tot valued et more that) $10,000' at
"street"•Prices.
Chen had. skipped, 'but the narcotic
squad thought they knew where he
had .gone—to 16 Elizabeth Street.
They were right,
When 'the opium smokers had been
cleared out, ,police found Chen Kwong
AA an adjoining room, calmly, reading
a newspaper.
He had gone to the' Elizabeth Street
den, he said, "to visit a sick. uncle"
and .was waiting to see him when the
police arrived.
The "sick uncle" turned out to be
one 'of the ° Chinese' found smoking op-
iuh. R.�C,M.P. Cpl. C. W. J. Gold.•
smith, in charge of the raiding party,
doubted that anyone Would visit, a
sick uncle, even an opium -smoking
one, -at two o'clock' in,' the morning,
and arrested Chen on charges of pos-
sessing opium.
Later, ie court, Chen said Pe work-
ed in Hamilton as a' waiter and came
to Toronto only once a week --on his
day off. He explained that he shared
the , Gerrard Street room with Lum
Sing, another Chinese and the opium.
belonged tq 'Lum. •
R.C.M.P. witnesses; however, pro-
duced a statement in which Chen was
quoted as admitting ownership of the
drug and told) of purchasing it in Mon-
treal's Chinatown:
.Chen was found guilty by Magis-
trate S. Tupper Bigelow and sentenc-
ed to two years in Portsmouth Peni-
tentiary and a fine of $1,000. ' When
his sentence is completed he will be
deported to China: -
Four other•....Chinese caught in the
raid on the opium den- were also con-
victed and 'Sentenced to six months'
imprisonment, and fined $200.
The ;narcotic squad wrote "finis"
to the case of 16 tllizabeth Street, but
operatives assigned to track ,down!the
drug traffic did not relax 'their 'vigi-
lance.
They knew 'that behind the maze
of • doors in Chinatown, addicts were
crying out for solace in opium, and
attempts would be made to smuggle
in new supplies: •
The dope' •addicts, • not only in To -
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route, but all over Canada, are find-
ing it increasingly difficult to satisfy
their craving for drugs, because of
the vigilance of authirities and the
fact that, though the 'war has been
over more 'than a year, the once -cast
international drug rings ,have- not
been able to' rise again-
Officials of the narcotic division of
.the Department 'of National Health
and Welfare at Ottawa., say that in-
ternational
nternational organizations, for control
of the drug traffic is likely to pre-
vent new rings front forming to
spread misery on an international
scale. Japan was once a prime factor
in producing drugs, but she is being
purged under Allied control'.
In Canada all narcotics are on a
doctor's' prescriptionn" basis and with.
supplies 'froni "outside virtually Cut
off, the underworld is turning to- raids
on retail drug . stores, the narcotic
wholesalers, hospitals and doctors in..
a fight for survival.
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Vottiefeed? Vde
PERHAPS he's in love ... or feeling 'virtuous because
he's studying; with a classmate over the telephone
... Anyhow, he's forgotten that it's., a party line
and someone may be 'waiting to call out•, . , while
several people may have got the busy signal while
trying to call in. He'd be shocked if you called him
selfish, "a bottleneck.
It's easy to forget, but
kindly 'CO remember that
othor people' share your
party line. To get the. best
results, "Do unto , others
3 PARTY LINE Rt1LES„-,
Keep your Falls
grief.
Space your calls.
Give right-of-way
--as you would like them to to "emergency"
do to you• --and do it first." ' "
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