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The Clinton News Record, 1921-2-3, Page 3160 FRANCE REDUCES INDEMNITY CLAIM President Millerand Takes a Hand Tend Proceeds on Boulogne Plan. A 'despatch from Peels %lye:— Free.lewd, Melereee eueereeeed the CorestabelerY were murdered in their, reperation liege-teeth/as on Thustedae beds at the Railway View liotol here and as a result oR his p iee-nua1dn gx Wednesdey night, and a third eon- efeoree the Doupwr demo rei for en stable was gravely wounded, Five indemnit,y total of 300,000,000,000 Sieu 'Vetivers, it is alleged, committed TWO ROYAL IRISH MURDERED IN BED Sinn Fein Outrage Occurred n Betl lfastotel, A despatch from Belfaet enYs1.-- Two members of the Royal Udell gold merits, which etrained the -vele- the crhne; tlf° cli‘dUrnStnileeS of Wh011 tions bahveen the French and the Bei. are Mysterious. tee delegeedoes, wee thyme aside end The three victims recentlir came .to Belfast in mufti. on speelie clutY. One the negoblatious will henceforth pro- ceed on the basis of the Boulogne plan of the men was concerned hi iraPert- Of last july, which fixed the total at ant inquiries and hes coemade5 were 100 000,000.000 meta geed, „mot acting as eeeme, The Railway View value, payable in 42 years, with in- letc.'-; where they stayed, is close to' tercet, bringing the grand tot ai pay- the city headquarters of the R.I.C. menta to about two hundred and fifty As the berwas about to be closed for. billion gold mark -5e I the night, about 9.30, five men who Downer's plan would have made had been served with drink dashed G.0.17,„3,. ewe for mem than .4,e, toward the staircase "reading to the hundred Willem geld =mks ultimately, , hetimIns. They entered the room As a result of this iituation M, where the polieemen had retired and a series of shots rang out Revolvers Deemer may resign. as F'renth Fin- ance Minister. I in hand, the assassins returnee to the As a result of President IVElleraners bar, and ordered the bar men to open action in calling down the French dip- the sidedoor, be which they escaped. The Reverend J. A. Irwin, the Pres - Maude and of a speech by Lloyd byterian minister who spoke ,M the George late on Thursday the situation looks bright. .., , United States with Eanumn de Valera The reparation negotiations were during the latter's reeent stay in that to have been reopened at 11 o'clock country, and who wee.; .arrested Mon - Thursday morning. At 9 o'clock M. day and sent to the Banykinlar intern- Millerand called Briand to the Elysee meet camp, was released on bail on and told hem the HoumaThursday. plwn would — not do ,and. it would be better for A despatch from Dublin says:— France to accept less than to break Baron- Dunzerly of Duns.any Castle, her alliance with England. ' I who was arrested on Wednesday when M. Briand got in touch with Mr. a quantity of obsolete ammunition was Lloyd George and the morning session found in his castle, ,but who after - was crilled off while the Premiers een. wards was released, was re -arrested ferred privately. I on Thursday andiaken to an unknown clock, when Mr. Lloyd George pre- Th e arrest of Baron Dimeany re-' destination. o' The diseu,ssion was resumed at 4' sp.nter.I hes point of view. I suited from the shooting of game, a The tenor of his speech was that portion of which was sent to England. the indemnity matter must come to The Baron, who is a keen sportsman, a setlement now and that ideals must is said to have requested and receiv- ed permission from "Republican Vol - Vie° vele to Practical methods, He ineistee that the world demanded a unteers" to shoot bird's on his estate, ettlement. English friends to whom he sent the s game returned it, saying they did not want to eat Sinn Fein birds, The military, learning of thisereid- ecl Baron Duneeny's house, where they are said to have discovered a number of shotguns and other sport- ing arms. ONLY 50,000,0130 BUS. WHEAT IN WEST Large Proportion of Crop is Cleared Up and Balance Held for Seed. A despatch from Begin sayse—Less than 50,000,000 bushels of marketable wheat remain in the West, is the esti- mate of A. E. Wilson, Seed Grain Commievioner. Out of a total crop around 223,100,000 bushels, approxi- mately 138,000,000 have been inspect- ed. Of the remainder 40,000,000 bushels are being held for seed. With the exception of one or two isolated: districts the farmers have suffieient, seed wheat, but considerable quanti- ties of oats and barley will have to be bought by the commission for re- sale for seed for the coming spring. Becomes a company. J. 11. Booth, great lumber king, of Ottawa, who has turned his business into a joint stock company with a capi- tal of U0,000,000. Mr. Booth has con- ducted the businese for almost seventy years. Six Women Sitting on London Jury A despatch from London says: —London's ancient law courts enjoyed a red letter day last week when for the first time in history women were empanelled as jurors in a British divorce case. Six women sitting with six men will decide pne of London's most sensational trials before Justice Horridge, who recently heard the Marlborough case. The women jurors sat in the second row of the jury box and attracted almost as much atten- tion as the case itself. Why lock up the family skeleton if you are going to give the neighbors the key? Plan to Help Britain's Unemployed A despatch from London says: —A Warriors' Day, on which the proceeds of an extra perform - ;Ince at every legitimate theatre, movie house and music hall in Great Britain are to be devoted to the relief of unemployed ser- vice men, will be held on March 31. The Prince of Wales has been actively supporting' the scheme and Sir George Perley and other High Commissioners have been approached•to suggest that the method adopted in Great Britain be made general throughout the British Empire on the same date for the purpose of benefiting workless ex -sol- diers in the. various Dominions. UNDER CONTROL OF ALLIES ON FEB. 1 Constantinople Again Subject to Military Occupation. A. despatch from Constantinople says:—The Turkish Cabinet has ac- cepted the allied stipulations in re- gard to the control of the finances and thereby 1,200,000 Turkish pounds have become available to the Govern- ment, which will be immediately ap- plied to officials' salaries. Recent Constantinople despatches announced that with the exception of the Sultan none of the Turkish of- ficials had received salaries for the past four months, all the sources of revenue being in the hands of the allies. Constantinople will become virtu- e* an allied city Feb. 1, when the French will occupy Stambul, the Bri- tieh will move into Peri and the Italians into Scutari. This move presumably is in pur- suance of the notice given the Turk- ish Government last week by the al- lies that a renewed military occupa- tion of Constantinople was imminent ba guard against threatened disoeders, owing. to Nationalist and Bolshevik activities and because of the failure of the Turks to ratify the Peace Treaty. League Estimates for Ensuing Year A despatch from Geneva says: —The League of Nations has just appointed the Swiss Govern- ment's financial department to act as the Auditors of the League accounts. Total esti- mates of League expenses for 1921 are 21,000,000 gold francs. .T4,1•9",,,,,••••••1 Unrest in Ilio. Iteeee d . eat:Nike:et ee ;eat ; 24;4' et 4":P49.16:.:e4rieketi'l:?,r41: le -5-"'''' teleee„ . eee,,,,,efae'.- ,-eeeeeeee,„,,eeee;ee,.-.1 %teei4(71.?!1::".':::-...1:-'t / .:.:1...7:711;i' ' 1' • . e'.. ieetee.„H' . '1.41.t.4enie'reet., INCOME TAX NIGHTMARE! A Letter From London There must be very picture few galleries that aro not visited by Queen Mary several times a year. She usually weives at; a gallery a little before eleven, when there are few people about; but if stray picture lovers come in while. she Is there she will not allow them to be sent away, but trusts to their good taste to let her pursue this simplest pleasure of hers in peace. As for museurne, I suppose if we ail knew their contents as well as does Her Majesty we might claim to be really cultured. The curators who 'attend her, and who are all known by name to the Queenedeclare she is one of their most appreciative visitors. * 5 * * Queen Alexandra possesses the em- otional artestie temperament to a marked degree. There is little doubt that had she been.allowed to embrace a stage career, the world would have gained a great actress, When she was quite a child she used to write novel- ettes of the most romantic nature. Un- fortunately, none of these romantic effusions of Queen Alexandra's girl- hood have been preserved. * 5 5, * "I am Mr. Balfour " replied the statesman, smiting blenully. The Woman stopped digging, and gazed heed at him. "Well, sure," she said; after the eerutiny, "haven't I often heard that the divil's not so black as he's paint- ed!" * 5 .0 The committee that has been sitting to decide the proper names for the great battles of the war has now eomplated its duties, and will report to the Government forthwith. These names are necessary in order that in due coulee they may be emblazoned on the colors of the regiments en- gaged., and the bars beating their titles may be prepared for But the rank and file has its own mines far these actions. Ask h sol - dime who was there, for instance, to give a name to the third battle of Ypres, • * * Fourteen thousand pounds is to be spent on the eneargemene of the Press Gallery of the House of Com- mons, including the provision of fresh reading, writing, and typewrit- ing rooms. The structural alterations will cense the Gallery apartments to The diary habit of which we have extend soinra way towards the Clockforrned, heard so much recenely is, I .ain in - Tower. There are at pre:sent 169 formed, a zonfitmed one in the Royal journalists who are members of the Family. The Queem bought a number Gallery, and the existing accommoda- of diaries at the Adverbisers' Exhie tion is quite inadequate.—BIG BEN. bitien at the White City,. many which were, no doubt, for her,friendis. Her own one each year conies from the sarme firm that has always had her patronage, and is mounted in beautiful purple leather. £ * King Hartkon of Norway, who visit- ed England recently with Prince Olaf for a stay at Sandringham, is a stick- ler for punctuality. While aboard the steamer Rollo, Prince Olaf appeared at the breakfast table ten minutes late. After the meal he was told by the Ring that he must stay in his room for an hour as pun- ithinent. * 5 The dut▪ ies of a Foreign Secretary are onerous, particularly after a great war which leaves foreign poli- tics in a chaotic and tangled condition, but I hear that Mr. Balfour told Sir - Hamar Greenwood the other day that he would not change positions with him. Sir Hamar, as Chief Secretary for Ireland, is occupying the position which Mr. Balfour occupied over thirty years ago, and some of Mr, Balfour's memories are distinctly lively: He relates one story with a touch of humor in it. One day he came upon an Irish woman .digging up her pateh of potatoes, and he made some remark concerning their quality. . 'Alt, bad luck to Mr. Balfour!" ex- claimed the woman, "I wish I could see him!" Moven Address to Speech from Throne K. K. Honouth, U.F,O. member of the Ontario Legislature for Waterloo, who moved the address in reply to the speech from the Throne. That Kid Again. Boy—"Are you and sis going on a long hike this afternoon?" Suitor—"Yes, Jimmy; why do you ask?" Jiminy—"Cause she's had the corn doctor here all morning." 0.10651iPO:ii NOW PART OF GREAT ELECTRIC SYSTEM The Toronto Power House at Niagara Falls which becomes the property of the Ontario Hydro -Electric Commission under the recent purchase et the McKe,nzie lntereats. Tho 54nork-oo-cpen4lon" moventee in belie grown Mao, and is a einie of mato anxiety ba those who Afters' the trend and the spread of its Mee insidious pz'opagancle, Tits leader e the Movement is M IC Gandhi, an while he is a Men whose intelleettia outlook is severely limited, he lia been investee by his followers wit supernatural atteibutes, giving him a influence out of proportion to his • ^••••.••••••7,,,,,,,,,,,, Social Caricarchip. t Sines the year one, end probably before thee Men .end Women have met e in solemn tionelave to deplore the poo8log, of the gond old ()aye of ocher Manners, of, high -bred decorum, of sI retieence in speech and reetrolet Ip ; epparel, Thig is not written in de. ; ereeetioa of mut remonetren.ces. It 11; right to register a protest end to „ eo-enelenete the influceeee of public .epiniou against vulge.rizing fashions eelligenee or his edueatien, He belong to the type that is lifted sometimes I) circumetancee to a etrange ere:eneb once—even as a Mallen rises in a heat mirage of the 'Soudan, or a BeaSileVIS commisSar 'stands on the shouldetre o the crowd in Soviet Ruseta, The in ferior quality of Gandhi 'was expose by Lord Ronaldshay, governee Bengal, in an address before the St Andrew' ociety in Calcutta a fen weeks ago. Lord Ronaldelmy meat° Gandhi's own *or& to show how childish and how feeble are the tenets and the precepts of this self-anointe high -priest of Indeam home rule e and restates and demoralizing foxing of entertainment. 13et it -is an error 1_3'. to assume that the world in general rushes headlong to perdition and that , no power can reetrein it from plung- ing over the ben* of the abyss. The world hoe survived the prophesied e ruin times without number, and it is " a better, sweeter, purer world than , it ever was in its life before. A hundred years ago it was leer- y, feotly good form to get drunk and cl . to stay drunk as long as you liked. sPoevoepnlethtecenoman"palanydrinedentterinisuwoliithmothree generally than they do newudays. ' They took slave -holding a5 a matter of comae; and one who had the cour- age to denounce slavei7 became a pilloried martyr for his convictions. Before that epoch, in the days still extolled for their piety and purity, men and women were hanged for witchcraft or beaten at the cart -tell for dissent. It was, indeed, a beauti- ful world, in which women and chile dreei were suffered to work any num- ber of ileum, in which the Insane were whipped to drive out devils, in which Sabbath observance was cramped into a sepuechral gloom and an infant who never heard a sermon was foe - ever damned. Then, as to -day, when the dresses of women were long, some min- isters preached against long dresses; when they were ehort, some ministers preached against short dresses; when women wore stays, they were de- uouneed from the ,pelpit for that, and when they left off gays, they were excoriated for leaving them off. Then, as now, no matter what you did, some reformers. were -ready to orate and berate, and the only place in which you could bo euro of peace was the lock-up. Few people ever thought of visiting the prisons to see if captives were humanely treated. They were not. People ware too busy :being religious to bother about being 'hen mane. They were -so good that they gave religion a black eye froin which it has not yet recovered. Never was the level of public mor- ality or individual conduct so high as it is to -day. Silly people continuo to do shocking things to win notor- iety. Ugly and bloody ,crimes deface, our civilization and retard the advent of the milleneaum. War leas not ceased and' human nature is a far cry from the angelic. Ansi still the world moves, as the brave old Galileo cried from his torment, and it moves away from selfishness and sin to nobleness, from lust to love, from darkness to the light. Gandhi is not consistent for two daye together. He has declared hitnself op- posed to the social boycott Guth as that which has prevented the burial of -Indian loyalists in oonsecrated ground, But his followers have re- peatedly interfered to make siee.h in- ternment ihmossible—and only those who know India from within acre able to realize What burial outsidethe pale means to the family and friends of ehe deceased. Gandhi has declared that the ma- chines invented by man to facilitate locomotion are unholy, yet the latest report is that he "has. fled„erom place to place by automobiles and railways" to escape the authorities and to give color t0 the popular 'belief that he saved himself by mieacalous means,. He does just what agitators in other lands have done. He uses for his own purposes the civilized devices he de- nounces, and barricades himself be- hind conventions and accepted usages even while he inflames his followers against them, Gandhi and his people would ruin order to save her; as Edmund Burke said of Lord North's policy to- ward America, they would destroy their object. They are achieving an industrial paralyeis, 'a ,social stagna- tion in some areas, butte 'what fruit- ful and consbractive.achiev,ement can they point? It does not help India to depopulate the colleges, to halt the automobile, to prevent the registria, tion of votes, to declare strikes et the coal mules and in the factories, No- theng is easier among the illiterate and the superstitions than to create fantastic mnieings by a wildfire fab- ricate= of oppression and abus:e. The mere fact that Gandhi is an ignor- amus enables the ignorant to under- stand him better and to welcome him as one of themselves. He is against every scientific modern advance and every enlightened political concept. His one passion is self-government for those who will not know what to do with the government if they get it. The sedition he stimulates is fo- mented elsewhere by Bolshevists, Sinn Feiners, Turkish Nationalists, the I. W. W., the shaggy'partimras of the Emir of Afghanistan; and Lemke, Trotzky and Company, seeing their dream of the world-demi:Mona of Corn- Munism (as they fondly ima,gine) in a fair way to be realized, chuckle and rub their hands. Race hateed, Lord Donaldshay reminds us, is the pass- word of the non -co-operators of India. It is the common denominator of Com- munism throughout the world, though it belies the very name end the pro- fessed aim of the Communists. There are still courageous men and firm adminietratoes and sane peoples of India and other lands Who will stand out against the effort to envel- op the world in blood and fire, idle- ness, starvation and lawless insungen- cy posturing and clamorous beneath the ensign of human brotherhood. He Bit. First Class Scout—"Do you see that house up there?" Seemed Class Scout—"Yes, what about It?" First Class Scout—"Well, that house was built with money made from many sufferings, writhings, agonies and much blood." Second Class Scout—"What beast lives there?", First Class Scotat—"My dentist." Trinidad lizards are raised to prey upon insects which seriously damage growing sugar cane, The thrifty Turk does not paint his house, not because Ise cannot get the paint or because he likes the look of it better unpainted, but because the shabbier the outside of a building in Turkey the lower is the tax. But that is a good deed like our own system, under which :increased neatness is sure to be seized upon by the assessors as an excuse for a new rate. .There is much to be said for the scheme of re- valuing farm realties only once in five years unless the property has suffered meantime from fire, flood, earthquake or other disaster. New Member of Manitoba Cabinet Ca O. D. McPherson, Portage la Prairie, who has been sworn in as Minister of Public Works, succeeding Hon. G. A. Griersoe 60,000 Houses Built in England Last Year A despatch from London says : —The acute housing shortage continues, but is being slowly al- leviated. According to the cur- rent issue of Housing, published by the housing department of the Ministry of Health, some 60,000 houses were constructed last year. More than 5,500 permits for private dwellings were issued in London alone. In addition to the government housing schemes, municipal housing schemes and private home building, there is a new factor in English building in the modern office buildings now be- ing erected in London's business districts. It's a Great Life If You Don't Weaken GEOD.6.,E, THERE'S Ai BUR‘LAt2 I K1 THE. PAINVM INT1t4 6 1,44 PlE 5 TS /I% 61z.E INT I., MM. I r DONIt ‘itk0eA aN \s1,7.OktIrgh., By Jack RaWait tiaiiik“ . AIL The Leading Markets. Toronto, lYinnitpha wheat --No, 1, Northern, $StirrtianN.g, 1111„79714;arliN-01"; 11/4 wileNaot: Mscnl1obu onto—No. 2 OW, 47%e; Na. 8 OW, 4314e; extra No, 1 feed; .48 881t; NO; 1 feed, 42%e; No, 2 feed, Mailiteba burley—No, 3 CW, 88%e; Ns roe4,45894We: 00%e; rejected, 58%e; All above in acme, Fort Ontario when te-To.o.b, shipping points, accorditeg to :reagens oirtside. No. 2 spring, $1.80 to 31.85; No. 2 wiAntnelrs,riesanrp_ 2185 to shipment, No. 2 yellow, trath, Toronto, 05c. Ontario oats—No, 3 white, 50 to 58e, accordeng freights outekle. Baeley—Malting, 90 to 95e, accord- ing to freightoutside. Ontario flour—Wintee, in jute bees, prompt shipment, :straight run bulk, seaboard,' $8.50.. Peas—No, 2, $1,80 to 31.85, outside. Manitoba flour—Track, Toronto: First Patents, $10.90; second patente, $10.40. Buckwheat --No, 2, ctoo to 21.10. Rye—No. 2, nommal; No. 8, 31.55 t°$11.160eecH Mf—C,aziots, delivered To- ronto !rights, bags included. Bram per ton $40, firm; shorts, per ton, 340; wihite middlings, $47.25; feed flour, 32.50 to $2.75. Eggs--Nevvelarice cartons, 85 to 90c; sefiects, 77.to 86c; No, 1, 75 to 77c. Butter—Oreamee7 prints, 56 to 69e; fresh -made, 59 to 61c; bakers', 886°1comn 0egarine—Best grade, 33 to 86e. Cheese—New, large, 31 to' 31%c; twins, 81% to 32c; old, large, 32 to 350, Maple syrup—One-gal, tins, $3.50. Honey, extracted—White clover honey in 60-30-11). tins, per Ile, 23 to 240; do 10-11e. tins, per lb., 24 to '25e; Ontario No, 1 white clover, in 2% and 5 lb. tins, per lb. 25 to 26e, Churning Cream—Toronto creamer- ies are quoting for 4d1rurning cream, 60c per lb. fat, f.o.b. shipping points, nominal. - Smoked . meats—Rolls, 27',s to 35%e; eamse med., 38 to 41c; heavy, 84 to 39c; cooked hams, 55 to'Me- baeks, boneless, 55 to 60c; breakfas; bacon, 42. to 50c; special, 50 to 56e; cottage rolls, 38 to 39c. Green meats—Out of pickle, le lees than smoked. Barrelled meats—Bean pork, 335; short met oe family back, bonebms, $47.50; pickled rolls, cos to 356; mess pork, $38 to 41c. . Hey salted meats—Long death, in tons, 2864 to 27640; in eases, 20% to 27%c; clear bellies, 2964 to 80%e; fat backe, 22 to 24e, Lard—Tierces, 24 to 246i,e; tUbs, 25 to 25%c; pails, 25% to 25°ic; prints, 2564 to 27e4c; shortening tierces,iioiee 15thheavy te is6ceris; $111. C0.50 to 211; good heavy steers, $0.50 to 310; but- chers' .cattle, choke, 39 to $9,50; do, good, 37,50 to 38.50; do, med., $5.75 tecl'ier3s6.7b5u;lled' ,ocheOlillce..; 315 to1550;to39;do,bot- good, 37 to $8; do, come 35 to 36; butchers,' caws, &mice, 37.50 to 38.50: do, good, ee6,25 to $7; do, coni„ $4 to 5; feeders, 37.75 to 38.76; do,- 000 lbs., $7.25 to $8.25; do, 800 lbs., 35.75 to $6.75; dce cone, 35 to 36; canners and cutters, $3 to 34.50; milkers, good to cheire, $85 to $150; do, Com and med., to 360; lembs, yearlings, 39 to 39.50; clo, spring, 311.50 to 311.75; calves, good to choice, $16 to 317; sheep, 36 to 37.50; hap, fed and watered. 315.25 to 315.50; do, weighed off care, $15.50 to e15.75; do, f.o.b., 314.25 to 314,50; do, country point, $14 to 31.1.25 Oats, can. v.),..(1,sotntNrcon.l.2, 67c; do, No. 3, 686. Flour, Man. spring wheat pa, tents, firsts, 310.90, Rolled oats, bag 90 lbs., 33.30. Bran—$40.25. Shorts= 340.25. Ilay, No. 2, per ton, car lois, $28 to $29, Cheese, finest easteene, 27 to 274e. Butter, elmice.st mearneey, 53% to 54eec. Eggs, froth. 82c. Potatoes, per bag, car lots, 31.45 to $1.50. Butc:her heifers, cone, $5.50 'to e7; butcher cows, med., 36 to 37; canners, 38.25 'CO 33.75;. cutters, 34 to 35; but- cher bulls, come $6 to $6.50. Good veal, $13 to $14; med., 310 tre$13; grass, 3550 to 30. Ewes, $5 to 36.50; lambs, good, 312; cone, 310 to $11.00. Hogs, eff-carLeig,z,11-ts_, sele-cle, 317.60. "TAP ANIMALS,- USE BLOOD FOR FOOD Eating of Meat Abolished if Doukhobor Plan Adopted. A despatch hum Calgary eays1-11! proposals =chi by Peter Veregini, head of the Doulthobors in Collude, are adopted, as he hopes they will be, the eating of, meat in, the civilized work8 will be entirely done away with, and a diet of preserved blood, drawn from live cattle, will bake its place. Mr: Veregin has made repeated tests, and is convinced that tho form of susten- tion that Ise proposes will be far more beneficial to the human race than moat ean be, and, further, that its world-wide adoption will cause the world's supply of cattle to be re- plenished in a very short splice of time. Germany, Not France, Should be Bankrupt A despatch from Paris says: —"Unless France receives one' hundred and twelve billion marks in reparations she will be bankrupt." Thus Paul Downer, Finance Minister of France, summed tip the situation before the Supreme Council. Opening the discussion of the amount of indemnity to be required from Germany, the French Finance Minister de. clared: "If any nation must be bank- rupt, it should be Germany. Prance must have 54,000,000,000 francs for pensions and 58,000,- 000,000 francs for reconstruc- ticn." Emelt Boy, Managee—"Did you put the extra stamp oa the letter I gave you to Wail?" Boy—"Yee, Mr." Manager—"t hope You didn't Sete the stamp on so it obliterated the ado drew.," Iic,y—.4011, no, I dock It right ea top the other stemto etWe teem?