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The Brussels Post, 1921-6-16, Page 3EMPIRE STATESMEN Great .Britain and those others may naturally look at from angles as dib 'MEET �" ,,d�itee,, �nn�ppll►ryry►��I ferent no our places Upon the face of I E T LONDON tile hlt will be the chief went of the PIM - vire premiere to come to a 'common understanding on Dig problems at that Wirt; to take back a .common popsy for tbe approval of their own Partin- nronts over the Boas: The frst. of these problems is the renewal of Bri• tahr's treaty with japan. The .Iapitne'l,a que!lc'r «t,.cn, brief. ly, out of the tact that J. ra 1 is act big enough for `tao Japanese. Tiny would like to overflow Into other 1 011x, From the ends of the earth five men tlnhapplly for them, ether lands ale have arrived at Dawning Street. They already largely eee"Died by people are the Primo Mlntster.; of Groats. Who are unwilling to see colonies of FOREGATHER FROM ENDS OF THE EARTH. Momentous Questions for Dis- cussion Among Statesmen of Greater Britain. Britain; Mr, R, Squires, of Newfound= Jap» settled In their midst. land; Mo', Morias, of New zee., melting t ft uncal polio! Is aimed at land; Mr, A. Metgheo, of Canada; Mr.meithrg Lhat tulavillinguess:, Admittedly it will be a ticklish bust - nese file Lloyd Gaorge of a here to please at once Japan, feta. United States, and the Doniatoes, 'Cho end, as far ea the Dominions are con- cerned, lvould be yet more diflleult'te achieve were the five Premiers to re- main at home with their respective Parliaments. Obviously, therefore, it is Most eope- ful that they should asseneble now, in the result demonstrating for the bene- full-dress Imperial Conferences of the fit of all whom it may cantata that, advent of a e over the however far off be the d n it indeed so; t last, deY meeting there hangs an air Of drama . lacked, which the others Signing as Sister Nations. Why? Well, this coming together of Mother- Country and daughter Do- minions will hold our attention very much as do writers of stage playa with the- situations that arise between parents and children who are children no -longed•. deny that, as fee as Imperial defence The .I*Ttper!al family has grave up. Is concerned, the situation demands "Daughters are we in our motber's alk the skill , and mutual tolerance that house, hat mlatrees in our own," Mr. can be brought to bear on it, Rudyard Kipling' once said for them, The position is simply this --that and defleitely since then have they while - the Dominions have marched come of age. Did not each of thein at well on the way to complete nation- Versaines sign the Peace Treaty as hood, It la Great Britain who still pays tee equal of Great Britain? for the Imperial Navy very much as It Is the effect of that coming -of -ago in the days when they were mere which has caused a gutter amongst those who make a living by tongue and pen. It Is thisrthat has set poli- ticians talking on both sides of tiro Australia; arta South Atrioa's retire, sontative, Mr, J. S. Smuts. ' Around the long table at welch a liritislt. Cabinet entered the Empire for the World War these Imperial Five meet the British Cabinet 'to -day. Nor would anyone who might peep in at No, 10 Downing Street he far wrong if he took that . assembly for'a' quiet family gathering.. Coming after the league universal Len League of Nations,a 6g of free British nations with a common attitude to the 'rest of the world is a vera' lively reality. • And, of course, if each . of these na- tions has its rights, so does it also have its responsibilities.. in particular,. the responsibility,to share fairly in de- fending tete existence of the whole Bri- tiah family. it would be foolish to colonies. National or Imperial Can the Downing Street as,sembly earth, cables boating- through the adjust that burden equally? Lord Jet seven seas, leader -writers gravely spineleave bas suggested that a fair proper tion of the cost of the Navy reckoned ning words. on- the population and. the overseas The, five Premiers will, oP. course, trade would work out . at 74.12 per diseusa•questions whirh have nothing cent. for the United .Kingdom, 12,3 My spirit answers to his' call— to do with that main - affair. Thee have something to say about emigre:ra cent. for Canada, 7.74 for Aus-. he memory wakens at hie strain, Bon, key industries, Empire trade, traria, 3.82 for South Africa, and 2,02 Where greasy billows rise and fall sables, wireless statlous. They are for New Zealand. Whether the Do- I wander by -gone meads again. exploring the possibilities of linking minions will agree with Lord Jellicoe up the Empire by aeroplane and air - It quite another matter. ship, an inquiry in which they have the It Is but decent to remember that 185, - inspiration of victories recently won during the war Australia spent head over time and space in French Guiana, 000,000 an battleships, or $37 per head the Yulton, and the Belgian Congo, where airways have by weeks brought nearer to the outposts of civilization those pioneers who have pushed ahead GATHOJIINO HEKfr # 9Karlst'ahe arlsmnck Roscnbo Zulz 4 ICrappitz cr N ussfadt °Ober o tloganT Kosi*I �O ro l >lowitz Jag •hind tin4itior Katschet skaSeale of Mihes'0 0 a 10„ 2p 0151050 COMING GO. INC., 5 1 P P F'' ..1.11. ...Tilt r.osMERFRONTIER Of OERM3NY 4++ DOUNDARY LINE OF THE Pt3GIECITE AREA nutTEC111N CI STRICT 314EN 79 CEEGH4•SLQYA.NIA sr 103E YERSAItt1S PEACE TREATY REGENT FIOfi1IN0 IN . IQWNS UNDERSCORED �CheinitOlilllee Guttentag Lubliritz �' r I1asehentin " ,o re ate Dees, , `1'os TTsrooi4'i1z t et 1 at z Ii! od7 \. , o I3(rat)1(n t l ttlzill G1cilTitzd, qq 1.7a1 irrowa }onigiJBntte ' Ei S Y at(d ritz Lendzin° O'wie i,i�a�...� s , (lull Pleas° Oderb i�g,''•✓ Nr3uh °Preiste , 1*. O � CT Mnhr Ostra P L A N D )0qTe8Jfl+n r THE KOHFANTY LINE Ryboik 1tz°Radlin sc UPPER SILESIA A very smell section of Europe, that is commanding so much attention at present. It produce..e one-eighth of the world's coal, and is immensely rich in iron. Blsmarck once said: "The country that controls Silesia controls Europe;'. The Killdeer's Song. The Killdeer calls across the lea, I'joy to hear his welcome note, Ohl sweet the sound "Killdeer K111 - dee!" That echoed frown his tiny throat. He singe of life and loving, too, He sings otnestlings 1n the grass, Of morning meadows bright with dew Where noontime sun and . shadow • pass. of her population; and 1s willing to continue a payment. New Zealand's premier has declared that they, too, mean to take a full share' in naval ex - through trackless wastes. ex- penditure. Cutting Out Wasted Time. Canada and South Africa are, to put It mildly, more vague. Iu fact , the all - Again, the running of a regular air around value of nice speeches trans - service between Great Britain and lated into terms of cash remains to be even the most remota of her Domini- seen, ens is not only new, after Sir Rene Nor, again, do we know for certain Smith's flight to Australia, clearly a what Australia, who demands cone Practical development, but it would plete control over her own Navy, will drew the Brltiesb peoples together as say to our proffered compromise—the sensibly - as did the appearance of appointment of Australian officers to steamships on the seas. the Admiralty Naval Staff, Sir Ross ' Smith himself deolares If, however, the British Navy is ever that the five weeks which elapsed be- thus to become Imperial really, and fore Mr. Hughes reached Downing net merely rhetorically, it will only be Street from Melbourne would shriek after such friendly, but vital, delibera- te fourteen days by aeroplane, and ten days by an airship service rightly or - The assembled Premiere are weigh - tions as are taking place at Downing . Street. Ng carefully this Imperial aspect of Flat -Foot Facts. the science of flying. So tremendous Are you flat-footed? an annihilation of distance meats If you don't kuow, the next thee you much to the Mother Land; it means take a bath, observe the impressions not . lees to each Dominion, for they as that.your wet feet make, If your feet well as England are eager to come to- are: normal,- there will he a narrow line from heel to toe on the outside; if they are fiat, the entire bottom of the foot will' show, How can you correct flat-footed- ness? Buy.a handful of marbles, place them In two rows, and start picking them up with your toes. To do this you must curl up your toes; as a result tho muscles of the feet will be exer- clued and thereby strengthened. gather. Nevertheless, with a firmness not to be mistaken, these great Common- wealths repeat that It is aa complete- ly self-governing nations, not as colonies, that they meet Great Brl- tale. Both Canada and Australia made that plain beforehand; in each country a pledge was given by their Premiers that this London conclave was no mere trick to weaken the full freedom of their peoples. Problems to be Tackled. Now, nobody will deny the Domini- : ens' right to mind their own business, says an English newspaper. If be did it would not, as far es the Dominions were concerned, hatter one jot. But it is just that growing liberty that makes more needful than ever a frank talk between their statesmen and ours, • for there are problems which we in c' Feared the End. Little Tommy Brown was always Interested ' in his new baby sister, One day be stood peering down upon it, whilst nurse was singing 1t to sleep. "Nurse," he whispered at last, "she's nearly . unconscious, isn't she?" "Yee," nodded the nurse, and con - tinned singing the lullaby. But Tom- mie whispered in alarm: "Then don't sing' any more or you'll kill her," Oh! sweet to me the Killdeer's song, It fans the flame of life aglow, And brings back -scenes forgotten long, And memories dear, a happy throng, Of Summers of the lone ago. —Helen B. Anderson. Unreasonable Teacher. When Freddy came home from school be as crying. "Teacher whip- ped me because I was the only one who could answer a question she asked the class," he wailed, Freddy's mother was both astonish- ed and angry. '"I'll see the teacher about that! What was the question she asked you?" "She wanted to know who put the glue in her ink bottle." Slipsof the Pen. Even your favorite author might have been apt to make mistakes some- times, as well as less favored mortals. Shakespeare wrote of King John and his barons fighting with cannon many years before these implements of war were Invented. In another of hie plays one of his characters men- tions a printing press two hundred years before the art of printing was known. In "Julius- Caesar" he speaks of striking clocks. Thackeray gives an instance of for- getfulness when he kills and buries Lady Kew, and afterwards brings her to life. Anthony Trollope made Andy Scott come "whistling up the street with a cigar in his mouth." When it was pointed out to him that this was an impossibility, he refused to admit it, and endeavored to show his critics that such a thing could be done, Ile did not succeed, and the cigar was dispensed with in the next edition. In Ouida's novel, "Signa," Bruno smashes Signa's violin. Sngna sits A Dainty_Dish, Univerait Standa. rda. i Awns and Revolt :s Couhe leave always taken tboir work , clief to Entanae requirements in severs have recently been raised and upon his sword because the dish for once moxa. Bareheaded rirarchela are Cie ail tc dinner at which lila master nounremont is tirade „that, in Some chantinel.e. we us, 0 Ltv�a1Pi along the WON to entertain Leah: X1L, has not cases, a still further increase will soon Nevskli 1 roa ekt, TJaexo has ibeen no - occur, Intelligently considered, this p aairived• aetian18 seen to be unquestionably inthing like this in I+enine-band slnco !n a int uiy-loving or decadent age the best interests of the parents of the evil Bays that enure early in 1018, the coops are couslautly torturing J3olsltevist papers that have reached lithr wits to invent novel opera tlzei•e the Yeah of Ontario. Revel are 1Ukt1 with 'aa'cautrts of what To study for. an additional year !n Yon their satiated patrons. ()Id people the local collegiat4 institute or high must have been an extraordinary and Have ridiculed, and even children ..heel before beginning a university menacing speetaele. It was May 8 doubted, the tale told Dr Mother Goose course 10 not a hardship to any boy or that religion boldly noised its head in of the marvoleus pie served to an ear- girl Quite the contrary. It moans an- ,Kneels despite more than three years ly eutysh Icing that contained tour and a£ torch., pesseentrion and murder. twenty blackbirds, which began w l other ,ye'ax at home under parental Froin 8 o'clock !n the maxni'ng till 6 slug when It wed opened. But the care and inftuenrei it means al.o a starn is evidently thtrite, tor, as we may saving in money. in the' afternoon a steady procession Seecoes in 0 university course o£ priests, workmen end even tine. learn from the Cook's and Confection- I depends very largely upon two condi- ' formed followers of the Soviet swept en's Dictionary, such Ples la ore by no: tions, viz., as good educationaal •faunda= down the Neve'hii Prospekt, reins uncommon at ro a1 dinner 110' guend Conde, who threw !omen Faculties of the Provincial University inIcons througand thureh atr ptonerti arxograd Ur(' b i d d an - n y parties inthe good old days. The kionprocession which enables oneto grasp read- Phera were so many workmenrkme in the e ily what is taught and a maturity and that the Soviet officials author is John Nott, cook for the Duke and police looked, longed and forbore 9 e stability of character which prompts ci 110)10n na I�ueen �uue s acne. • 1 one to study dailigentiy even when passage, dere somewhat abbreviated, away from parental oversight. The follows: attainment of both these necessary In dela nitdstof the table, were qualifications is made easier by more Placed two Pyes made of coarse Paste, rigid university entrance require- filled with Bran and washed over with Saffron and the Yolks of Eggs. When these wero bak'd, and the Bran taken out, a Hole was cut in the Bottoms, and live Birds put intr.one, and Frogs n t Holes aloe into the other, and he d o e up with Paste. The two Great Pyes still remaining untoucb'd, some or other will have the curiosity to see what's in them, and, lifting off the Lid of ouee- Pye. out jump the Frogs; this makes the Ladies skip and scamper, anti lifting up the Lid of the Other, out fly the Birds, which will naturally fly at the Light, and so put out the Candles! End so with the leaping of the Frogs below and flying of the Birds above, it will cause a surprizing and diverting Hurly13urly among the Guests in the dark; after whiehp the Candles being lighted, the Banquet is brought in, the music sounds, and the Particulars of each Person's Surprise and Adventures furnish Matter for di- verting iverting discourse. 9 Spitzbergen. When the talk is of the two Oxford expeditions to Spitzbergen some one rises up and says: "Why should any- body want to go to Spitzbergen?" Spitzbergen is the group of islands due north of the North Cape, between Greenland and Nova Zembla, The very name brings cold shivers on the warm- est day. Yet Spitzbergen has coal and other valuable minerals, and settle- ments have waxed and waned amid its blasts and blizzards. The men of science are going there to study geology, botany, bird lice and climate and the ancient fossil evi- dence; and much that they learn will have a value for the materialists whose one -string harp plays the single tune of practical. But just as adven- ture has much to whisper to those who are essaying the heights of Everest, up all night trying to mend the instru- so the explorers and the climbers of meat, but it was quite useless. The the character of Stanley and Peary, wooden shell he could piece well Scott and Shackleton yield to the lure enough, but the keys were 'smashed of the untrodden distant places and beyond all hope of restoration, and unobserved conditions which still are for tbe broken silvery strings there crying to man's restless spirit that was no hope." Certainly repair the earth has many wonder stories yet "keys" of a violin sounds a hopeless untold. Spitzbergen is more than a task; to discover them would be the group of icy islands where the 'birds first difficulty. in summer come to make their nests EVENING HOURS. The day with its worries is ended at teat, its troubles and hurries are things of the past; the sun has descended, the night shadows close, the evening 1s splendid, It brings me. repose. All day I was drilling and sweating around, and mowing and milling and pawing the ground; I weeded the onions and wrestled with trees until I had bunions on fingers and knees. And oft In my toiling I murmured "By James! What profits this moiling? What good are men's grimes? We labor and labor, and labor some more, till Death with his sabre comes up to the door. We're plowing or hewing or building a wall; what good are we doing? What use is It all? We fill tip the hollow, we drain out the weir; and people who follow won't know we ware here." And now In the gloaming my rest le so sweet, I think of my roaming around in the heat, and knew that It fitted my soul for this hour, and toil is acquitted of charges so dolor, I carried my burden until the day's close, and this is the gnerdon—a tired luau's repom and rear their young. It is (in spite of Conway and other pioneers) a terra incognita whose secrets to every science and to the earnest disciples of truth promise a rich compensation of discoveries and further victories for the unconquerable human spirit. It's a Moral Disgrace— To go through lift a failure when you possess success qualities. To be anything less than a real man or a real woman, To fail to do your best and look your best. To have only half tried to make good. To put into work you are paid to do only half-hearted effort; to perform it carelessly or will indifference, To d0 things that are not morally honest or honorable, even. though you may act within the law. To go about with a scowl on your face, when a smile can do so nnich good. To be a pessimist when there is so much that is promising and good in the world. To be grasping and greedy, always looking out for yourself, trying to get every possible advantage for yourself, and never thinking of the man at the other end of the bargain. REGLAR FFI.i,ERS—By Gene Byrnes �� �ttiimilt .,, . ,, ;iii � i>ti h q t ,:ii ,i 'tui k ,.. iIlittr r. / ' l' t: l��+a?Iii liro' Lai LOW /v t p.., ii 1.11111 f a t: '? c.._________ ..- •II x �} .'`r" .@rk --- T ,a'+�M, eta li,-1 �'!y {I' I� I fi �� \ \ `. ,: . w .1::117>t11 14101104k146 �l✓ JtMMtt.. 1S ,(okicz Mu`MeR. HoMe `? 0 1 ' � I , „..._,,,,,.:,...::i: ..,:., r ___ // ,„ ,,,,./ ,.? / e t 11'"# x•:: / 1 ; a , i t ; .: y • .,.a. / e / - _______,,/,„,,, tt�'" N..;1; , , t'J .' Y rrc. ? " tieerie to .interfere in any way. The Beds ground their tenth and cursed the Mensheviki, the Social Revolutionaries and the Russian Church, but laid: no hand upon the marchers, The Reds' Admit that the unrest in meets. the Russian industrial' centres has In raising o its 8 standard the Univer-: taken en a religious character. Tl'.e sity ofes Toronto is acting solely m then peasant has kept the Church alive for interests of prospective students and i their parents, is carrying out its well- morn than three years, but the cities have q bishops or 1a a been i tee of .lasts 1 she s ]t known democratic poIioy, arta is Aug- , priests, p menting its right to its -Position as, Patriarchs. The Holy Synod hae dis- "the poor mans college." i appeared and its power had vanished The Top of the World. in the great t'awnq. Little wonder that even the Soviet newspapers are. referring demonstration as a of to the g They have ieally started at last for resurrection from the dead'•! the summit of Mount Everest. This If the industrial unrest, heightened expedition has several aspects which by the fear of famine within the next establish a many-sided appeal to the three months, becomes merged vith a public. stirring of religious emotions, Lemne One important phase, in its politi- and Trotzky will' have a troublous cal bearings, is the co-operation of the summer; The demand for a Constitu- cliinrbers with large numbers of Indian. ent Assembly. the dwindling of the Chinese and Tibetan helpers. The bread ration as Russia gets further good feeling engendered by the away from the 1920 harvest, the con - strenuous toil together must have a tinuons strikes and the growing car - beneficial result in a better under- tality rates are now trouhlin T :Qoseow, standing between British administra- If the Russian religious emotion 'gets tors and the native resident popula- out of hand the Duumvirs of Moscow tions in their jurisdiction. may face a holy war; and of all wars Important scientific results are sure fought under the sun, a religious war to be the outcome of the expeditiom is the most fanatic, unreasoning and Botany, zoology, geology, as well as terrible. geography. will profit by the methodi- A Soviet writer who watched the cal and thorough research of special- Procession on May 8 asked his read- ists. Not least of the values is the ers: "What is the meaning of this? awakened spirit of adventure in an A third revolution?" If the Soviet age prone to accept the civilized com- loaders have anything stored in their forts and to forget in a time of ease memory cella other than the precepts the stern lessons of hardship sire dE- of Karl Marx, they will do well to ask nial taught in the bitter struggle of themselves the same question. the recent years. "Unnaturally savage they seemed, It will be a desperate battle to gain • those alleged Christians. Sinister the heights. As with Whymper's eight seemed this rang, many-headeds sphinx," runs :another Rad wr'iter' comment. There seems to have been a chill at of the earth may call for a renewal, the hearts of the Reds vvho watched season after season, of the struggle this "reer,rrection of the dead." They now begun. The eyes of the world may have cause to remember that. all - are on the determined and resource- cloy pra,.c=sion of the Nevski' Fros- ful mountaineers, and the scientists Pekt. and sportsmen of Canada wish them -.---- , --- well. attempts to ascend the Matterhorn or Peary's repeated attacks upon the Polar fastnesses, the loftiest summit The Passing of Chinook. Prisoners of War. - Curious ;nde4,d is history, of Probably the first feeling most o: Chinook. Fifteen years ago It was the us have in reading of the beginning common medium of speech at, trading of the trial of Germans for maltreat- camps and villages in the Northwest. ing war prisoners is one of regret' most persons euptr"se that the traders that the dragnet could not have of the Hudson's Bay Company invent - brought in some of the more consider- ed it, but as a matter of fart they only able offenders instead of such small perfected it and gave it written form. fry as non-commissioned officers. When Captain Cook dropped anchor One of the chief industries in Ger- in Nootka Sound in 1778, he remained many of -late has been the production there a month. setting up forges and' of alibis. The men who did the things shops ashore for repairing his ships. that outraged the civilized conscience in the war are now anxious to peep plum and lie hid. They are eager to let he dead past lie buried. When they, perpetrated the cruelties upon their prisoners they laughed at any threat of punishment in days to come, Verily, the tribunal that now sits upon their deeds has taken a long time to as- semble. It is true that time has cooled passion and made a truer perspective possible. It is also true that the per- iod that has elapsed has enabled many his trading farther and farther he add. culprits to evade a proper penalty. ed to tbe list other conunon words. It will be no great satisfaction to used by the Indian tribes that be en - any one to have a few underlings put countered. In 1811 John Jacob Astor in jail, while the men higher up are established a post in the midst at the at large and at leisure to compile their Chinook tribe at the mouth of the Columbia River. The French Cana- dians, the Crees and the Englishmen in the service of the company not only traded with the natives but married among then and adopted many of account of all humanity against Ger- their ways of living. Since the main man militarism. post of the company was in the Che nook country, the trade jargon that It is the movement of the six and cathe enmpany traders used came to be not any chemical property which en- of he nineteenth In ther middle years shies a wind to impart a bracing of the ninerougth century Chinook was spoken throughout the entire North - effect, west front California to Alaslca and - — from the Roolty Mountains to the "(o(.) poNT suPPas� its (be. PRAcT1CIN& i-IKE -tThS IP S3. Was cx-Yr Do You'? While the sailors were there they, traded with the Indians. As it hap pened, there was in Captain Cook'er;. company a surgeon named Anderson who in his leisure time made a Itst of, the Indian nouns in most common use.: Anderson died soon afterwards, but Cook published the list in the account of his voyages. Fourteen years later Vancouver came to the coast. bringing a copy at Anderson's list; and as lie extended' apologetic memoirs. The prospect is that whatever punishment is meted out will go no further than to settle a few inconspicuous grudges; it will not satisfy the long and heavy -laden 4.3 34:11„0.4. Peelec, It. had bea0111e as much 419 international speech as pidgin Eng- 11ah Is through Chinese Asha, At the height of its vogue the Chi- nook jargon contained about five hun- dred words. two-fifths of which were Chinook, two'ftfths French Canadian and Indian other than Chinook, and one-fifth English. In spite of its email vocabulary and lack of graurmatical farms Chinook was flexible and it served all ordinary needs. It was actually the mother tongue 0f 3.00113 children of mixed breed. But though It instill spoken nm, iip; Indians and traders in rewrote pll,ca, it is dying out, In and near .large centres of population it is heard now only on the lips of old Indians, Last year 140,628 people emigrated from Groat Britain and 4,307 from !reload A towbars) ofi JatpsalleSo weddant s is the building of a btnrtlre made or 1110 two o tdie 'rids.