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The Clinton News Record, 1928-06-28, Page 6medlar, Mane ity: Asked in United St i.t 'siert Originates With American Business 'Men Resident in Canada Wasbingeon,—President Coolidge's i,upending airiral fu a part of the tUnited States only a few miles from the Canadian bonder—in northwestern Wii;consin-coincide; with a move- ment, to introduce Canadian money int41 the United States on a basis' of full equality' with American' coli and The -project has assumed' official form, It was recently presented to tbe,State Department. by William Phil- lips, American Minister 'to- Canada. The State DeparthMnt being; - of ,`course without authority to take 'any sort of attitude on the proposition, it. rues "unofliciallykebropght to ,the at- tention of the Chamber of Commerce of the 'United States, The position of Frank B. Kellogg, 'Secretary of'State, atmears to he that if American business men, as a matter oP courtesy toward the'Dominion, care to accept Canadian money in their day-by-day transactions,. it' Would be . e matter entiitely for them"to ;d`ecide:., The 'proposal ematnates, it ia: under•- istood, fiord` Amarioan,'busiheils men r it ` es s en t in Canada. It springs from" .thet;bellet that itwould be the finest Iti'nd began inter -American :`tgeeture of friendship" between'the two conn,:, 'tries It Canadian money Were to 'be' accepted in the United .States as freely. as American money has tong been accepted en ,the Dominion• In some. of the regions adjacent to the .border, there has never been much ebjectien to, traffic :in Canadian coin And currency, but the United States at ,large= has always looked a bit askance 'at the idea of taking `them freely in all parts of the country, , The Canadian .dollar is -.nowadays. frequently quoted above par.,in the 'United States, while the . American dollar on the other side of the border is,' often quoted below par These 'conditions are due to the enormous amount of -cash that finds its :way in an incessant streant into Canada. The finance division of the United. Staten Chamber of Commerce, accord- ing to word sent .to' Canwda, will be ,asked: to 'hold some emit of a referen- dum among its constituent bottles and 'members, and'•eound them out on the proposal to populafiee Canadian nioney en the United. States, Where Casiadat Hopes to Make e Rec.'s/ie.! a11� 10111 ri fi ` tri, gist f10 or owrol tt �ld4i�:itils h�f3te ��.........._ ..._... . 011 1,11,1 ural-itwi®,l,• neitu. tuitroffurns .4tU.�r : iiiinvvitJQI. anua, o...i. n,..riati. roae«inuai_ipmn. routi THE OLYMPIC STADIUM, AT AMSTERDAM An air view of the newstadium which seats 40,000 now ready for the Olympic games• represented by her leading amateurli;. Canada i11 be well Italian -English Unpleasantness British Official Beaten By Eacist Police in Milan London—..According to the New Statesman the officialhad been sent from Ronne to, Milan on omclal busi- ness, While there he stopped to watch a etreet fight between four mem 'Tho two attackers then left their quarry and asked to see his papers: Ile Tefuaed to show • them until the- Italiane produced their authority. The Italians seized him, and while the British ollicial was reeisting them a Policeman came up. The Britisher demanded to be taken to the nearest pence station, whieh was done. There ate established leis identity . hyo and ofileial position, .received an General C apology anci,wa&_a7lowed tc go. At Currie the Anne time him two Italiancaptors and The Globe were. clothes as ret members of the police. Later on the same clay, the wsekiy Toronto --Under caption ?The continues; this ofecial was, knocked `Legions Tribute," the Toronto Globe down on the. street by a blow on the editorially eaye: s The eleotion oe Bead tram •behind and then was Bey - General Sir Arthur Gerrie to the erely kioekd and beaten. iiresidency of: the Canadian Legion, Ile Is said to have xecognized his representing the tens ,of 'Nlieueends of attac)tere as the two Fascist plain organized, war veterans, is a fitting clothes men. . According to the ,tribute to a great Canadian soldier. Feredgn Office, only scanty news of t'),`he honor is hes owed on the former tiie-iscident had reached here ,Canadian Commander while he le etiil The New Statesman said that the a'ecovering from hisrecent serious case Orad .tailed forth an unueually primes_ • " sarong, ofiioial note of protest from It must come as a tonin to Sir the Foreign Office to the Italian Gov ;Arthur to realize that be is the free eminent, 14 also stressed what it and unanimous choice of Ere veterane termned the "unpleasantly significant l?Ivho, as soldiefrv; had not the slightest fact that the reeeigu OtMce hadkapt volae in hie selection as their coos- the affair secret, mender In the field. It must be The correspondent is informed lay doubly heartening for the oonvalesc- the Foreign Office that there was no. ,ing principal of McGill to read : that official note of protest or any official This eleotion was "accompanied by the action taken herebeoause the matter• 'roolferouel appitteae ilii'- Otho whole was handded by the embassy at Isady of delegates." Rome, whieh, it is understood, ole - General Currie filled a difficult taiumd an apology from the Italian position in the war; He followed, ee Government • corps Commander, General Byng, a Veritable beau -ideal leader of the re- B ltail2 and Egypt Eller army school: It used to be gyp considered at truism that the British Manchester Guardian (Lib.): Is it soldier never held inthe same regard really the desire of any sane Egyptian ,the officer wihb had risen from the patriot that Great Britain should mike, Whether er not that ailega- withdraw wiioily free. Egypt, leaving tion was true and partially applicable her to defend herself from all pressui:e ' to Ser Arthur's leadevahip of the Cana- or aggression from other countries? diane, it is undeniable that his pose And if we did how much of her mile- tion was rendered no easier because pendence would be likely to remain Of iiia being a civilian general: fit twenty years' time? 'The presence Sir Arthsn"e ability aft a leader was, of a British army be permanent ocon- lot 000s -0e, never in question. The patten tit : Egyptian soil and even of record of the coupe he commanded the Egyptian capital is, it must be speaks for itself. The present elee- admitted, an'effront to national pride tion is an evidence, not of reoogni which any country, however Weak', tion of the ability of that leadership, might resent,'•and, under any sort et but of the general personal respect reasonable and friendly arrangement for a great Canadian Soldier and a' with Egypt, it -aught to be wholly un- respected Canadian esiucationalis2•:., neceseary. The real and sufibelent guarantee for the safety of the Canal is not our army but our fleet. Perhaps Parliament Sets one day the League at Nations may take a hand in' this controversy, for Date For Easter the matters in dlspute concern other nations only less than ourselves. Meanwhile, there is no great odcaelon Sunday ,Af er Second •Satur- for alarm, sill less for extreme CoundaY of April is ixed.sale. in:London L'am very ]rumen and I ant so slot London—The' House. of Commons of wearing'rage and tatters. I want hiss adapted the' so-called Easter bill to wear smart oiothes and play the welch provides for the stabilization loved,—Many' Pickford. of Easter, fixing the date as the Sun- 'day after thi second- 'S'stvrda0' April. Raster. Sunday, :undnn: the present system, bg the fllit Sunday ' after the ecclesiastical full moon or next after 'March -31, arid 'therefore cannot bo' earlier than March; 22, or later than April 25. This year it fell on April Swindlers 2. arid Suckers Ramflten 'Spectator '(Ind, Cons.); este records of The police departments; of the United States reveal that mare titan a btllitho dollars £L year is. 10E`it tto get -rich -quick proniotere and sto.eet stn(tiers. , . . F41.te 911 ceespa)rjoe en plexas and fake' reining compghjee: hi ervada are tiding $n engxp5911 beg, tress through teemall:: and not iz iltr Ale of that eu.'iinese is, ireing dello in' Canada Thorp aro rsen wise do nor' ebig also bot sell "6tli>7ter li}yts" to rt be fwiediciee. 4 you 'Imp) ewe peen jrsduecd to desist 'any moneyie. leeny' c cat entO so-ise, ; the probe ity (Tepttr panto is oil the list, r B);,clle;ct og9 gnaltini7 iii tiro, ;oOols a>4 pt igiYtiiTor r firs Boni* call you PUY' e z<t " ,yo, i'991 1.094 90 0 Greeff P* W to 1' and )i,,01tPd to p, Iyre f ,i, I i"b. 1 J?;r 9 �u n ¢ x f d fp r , Lord Oxford Left I Hudson Bay Road Canada's Notab Estate of. $45,840 Expected to Reach , . `• 9 i Ch1929 Lady Axford Receives $l,-u�� Yom' With a comparatively ,nail pops 500 With Bootee and " - 1 aeon hii,ead over a eontinentai !reser Over p28 000,000 00 Far there ie npparontiy less levenue'Mai!a Persancrl Effects tibia tgr private airegaft cntea•prise'iip 7'ionden—after•moria than •42 yeas Spentt-or4 fYoject—Addi- Oanncla thaw'in the United States, tional Vote. Presented • ,-Remarlccble progress has been made Ctt4Wtt.'=Progre5e on the puil:l i» eivij o,diation, however; that 501 I('ns leg of the new ,Hudson Day:Railway the use of lnaiehines Por civil F'avel:n-. was reported, Fy Charles Dunning, Ment liiyinf!. .I41 forost patral,York, Minister of Rail -ray where a vote of surveys, nex7sl'photography and in the K5'043,000 for size road and terminals transportation of governrrsent o ficialm Dams beloi-e Parlif"iuont. r1+7eh ou had Into remote partsof the Dominion, the ricerorignnolly ,ntendad for the ler- fir has become an established medium ]rave been sealed, Lord Oxfo,xl left nrir ns buf. -last } ear, Gb s ehili',y-as de ct ti esel. $12,500 to "my friend Hilda •FIai•rjson Oided n,pen tis rho irioh,'siiftiible pnrt -, lin interesting';beginnir-g; is being of 'Sandlands,' loygombe 15111, Ox -..on the 13ity, and theline vvould realms made"with nt, soh i 3:ncointrt; liners Mora, to prtyide tor education and there tlre fail 62 14129, e suet at Father Point, well down maintenance of her` two children, Between, 1911 acrd the end of the �tva toward o month of the St, I Lawrence Peter and Ann Harrison,'' last fiscal year ,9l8,l33,000 had been vu' whore the mail i; transferred To Lady 9xford Margot .Asquith--- spent on the project, and. to cern- to waiting ireraft to be carried to L9'rd Oxord" left ,,$1;100 besides his ,pieta 1,t wetted cost an additional V - Montreal, Ottawa an"d Toronto. Out - books, furnishings and" personal ef- 400,000 for the railroad and 58,450,- going marl is similarly de11';ered to the fecte. The :relative 'smallness 'of this 000 'for a minimum development of eastbound liners ,ahout 'twenty hours •aniomit canoed no surprise,, as Lady the port" There reinaanoil 154 miles after they have sailed from .Montreal, ''oxford for 'many, years. had earned of road .e1;1i1 to be laid before Canada's altmail:service is to be ex- lai'ge mime by her books. and maga-Churchill 'Pas reached. • tended gradually, until the whole zine articles. In answer to a question Mr. pun- country is traversed by -a postal red Duringthemany years he was in ning expialned that it had been found work' Public office, Lorry Oxford's salan•y that comnierclti,l navigation last year Near the port of Montreal, a mod - was $25,000 a year=mora than half was possible up to :December 1, and ern mooring tower for airships is be. the amount of his estate. 7lhh's fact that if this proved, to be the average rug erected by the Department of Na. an interesting comnsentavy ou the 'ccnditio`n'the "iacilitise bean'` tional Defence: It' is "expected, that xpense of holding, public officeg pinade the tower willi p In ed at Churchill would be trite in' d - be ready to receive the 4 a e first of the British passeneer airship*, England. Prime Ministei•'Baldwin, in girai.e. p neer . ,ships, :. a speech souse time -ago, declared that An' herr of 0100;000 for a steamshipwhich may make -the trip across to • he; had left but a'fraction of his once service between eastern Canada aolll Canada with fifty or more passengers great fortune. Brazil, Uruguay and the Argentine. in the late summer. The supply 00 was arse passed by.the House. Tames Stepping stations for airships may be 1Vialcolm,;Minister of Trade- and Com- '&Bead of demand, as it is possible that, mares, explained that•,thle was a new the airship,. crossing may be delayed project and lnoluded ate payhig of a until next yesar. On the other harts subsidy of $10,,000 a glitp, the demand for landing fields in the most populous parts of Canada is Business ahead ef;supply. �us>i ass GrowsWestern cities, with plenty of vac. ant; land. owned by the municipalities, Canada's Export and Import are showing• : enterprise by setting p apart suitable areas for airpgrts. Trade During May There is a growing need for similait •.Shows Increase - action on the part of cities east of the Ottawa—Can a' Great Lakes, Hamilton. is well in the Canada's foreign tracts for, van, ,among eastern Canadian cities; the month of easeMaY 0f the May, 1927,t year Toronto can aeeommodate visiting air - cording to /Wanes issued by the De- probable that more will be heard ori partment of National Revenue Both the need for municipal landing fields exports. o domestic -produce; and ane before long, however, with the quick p3'rte show an increase. Total ex- ening of public. interest in the air malt parts of Cauadfan products for the and in commercial aviation generally. paet'nfonth wore valued at 0118,021,- Possibly co-operative action between 824, as compared with $109,882,591. municipalities, provinces and the Do - The value of imports entered for ecu- minion, such as the Federal' Parlia- sumption during May of the present meat initiated. a few years ago in' ..Year . was• $113,581,086, as against highway building, may be found de - 094,412,429 in Mmy of last year. Of sirable to promote the building of air - the total' imports entered iaet month, ports. -Christian Science Monitor edi» free goods were valued at $39,07,231, torial. and dutiable goods at $74,034,465. The tigur•es or the, two montba of the fiscal year, April and May Mow: R decline in exports'as compared with the Correapooding menthe in 1927. For the two months last year, the total of dontestfo exports was $187,- 120,555. 187; 120,555. For the months of April and May of the present year, Canadian ex- ports amounted to 0176,906,889, . Im- and Superfluous ports, on tile. other hand, are epprecia London.—Individuals of small stair bly larger for the 'two months' period ilea are in demand for bus conductors this year than for last •year. During in London. A 6 -foot former guards, April and May of the present year, man with an excellent record who goods to the value of 3192,072,159 en- died for employment was told tered Canada, as compared with a maximum height allowed was 5 feet valuation of 3108,710,067 in April and 9 inches. hundreds of similar cases May, 1927. Of the total imports for have to. be :refused by the London this prat two months, tree goods -were General Omnibus Company every valued at 0,84,499,363, and dutiable year," said an o}SOfal iu an interview. •"It would ba almost cruelty to put a of unremitting pirbllo service, in and Out of office? as member at paiiia- ment cabinet mmipl<ei and premier, the Salic of Oxford and , ;Asquith; when he died:, in February, left on es- tate' of 041,340. ce ,thl1 gross amount, which may prose.f% be Smatteratter accounts Betraying a °Trust Loudon Morning Post (Cone.)! If Can�% Mean it were :possible to imagine an Eng- dian •• ins May `fir land -in. which only the 'lawyers and Humane TrapAnother 'War wrerite,, -andand to impose upon such a lenders could read and ' • country a constitution in which these j Contest raze~~ benevolent literates would have the Affairs in Greece Reported monopoly of government; then we ©ear 2s Expected to Be En- Serious -While the Navy should smite at some faint conception ter in $10,000 Com- Has Mutinied of the sort of destiny we are trying to Belgrade, Jngo-3lavia, June 17- w• ork out tor Egypt and -India. Our j]etitiOIt- ,The situation in-•G•reece: Ira"s-beat interposition in both 'those great ter- Albany, KY.—Prizes for the most extremely serine, accordingto .ad- ruliniea ins welcomed byb all save the of ieient. and humane traps for taking vices reaching the local newspaper fining minorities as a blessed relief fur -bearing animals have `just been' Pravada A dispatch from Salonika chronic -the oppresaimn, anarchy ane awa'r'ded Isere in the first annual con- says that the firm squadron of the chronic cf O wars in which they were test sponsored by the American Greek fleet, atationed at Mitylene plunged.` Our relaxing hand threatens Humane Association and the National has joined' the cause of the tobacco to plunge them again Into the -con - Association at the Fur Industry. strikers. dation from which .they were raised. . A first prize of $100 wee awarded T1he �ows'is contained chiefly in the To surrender such a trust is not to to Samuel C. Booth of East Farnham,wopaper eeeda. Accord - Belgrade noimpose a benefit, but to perpetrate a Quebee,lor a development of the steel- ing tb its assertions, a general strike, cruelty and a crime. jaw trap 7n which the animals' limbe eeuntry-wale in scope, is expected to are not :bs' ken oi•stern. The judges be proclaimed' to -marrow, a majority New Brunswick .regarded the- device es an entirely of all the labor unions having' voted • ' University Additions new idea in trap construction, and a solidly Idyl tine Macedonian and dericto .- -, x , Aed this ealy $40 ,- representative of the'Assoaiatlon said. Thracian tobaoeo wbrhers. • 400 will be expended this year on addt- it presented the most ,-edvaueed: and At Cavallo the workers have .pro- tions to the University of'Nery Bruns- praotioai` example of humane trete claimed a diotatoxship of elm prole- wick.' Two hundred thousand dollars Ping 'which had come to their atter• tariat,.thee giving final proof that the will be expended on the Lady Beaver - don. - . whole trouble is insgllred by Moscow, brook Memorial Building which is Second and 'third prizes went to . In various agitation centres several being given the' university as a stu- Herman Bleck of Hammgnd, and, and hundred Reds have been arrested,. dents' residence and approximately the the Bumane Anima' Trap Company. In Drama 80personahave been ]sill- same amount will be used in the con- of -Austin, Pa., respeetively. Mr. ed and 100 injured In a clash between struetiou of a building in whieh will Bleok's -entry was a box trap that police and strikers, a number of the be .house .a forest school, a depart - takes animals alive and unhurt, while casualties being among the police. ment of geology and a library. : The the third awned eves given for a trap The railway aervioe between Salon- latter amount has been provided by that Trills its victim instantly. 11E1 and Trikala th'as been suspended. the Legislature of New Brunswick. The winning design; it was said, Military reinforcements have been Recently there was unveiled at the will probably be developed by the eon- sent to the disturbed districts. institution aetablet commemorating its testauto and 'offered in the $10,000 Communist propaganda headquar- one hundredth birthday anniversary. competition which the National As= .tens have been discovered in Mace- First degrees were conferred in 1828 eoofatlon of the Fur Industry is soon- donia, by the university which was then coring with the object of discovering, ltas the College of New Brune- anda trap' that is "perfect in operation wick- nown 100 per cent. humane,"' One Way Out - New °Canadians. to Celebrate Canada Austria Borrows Rolling Stock Winnipeg, nirwiitoba:—Neu Cana to Carry Huge Throng of dints of Canada well stage a peak Winnipeg.—Immatltate constructionSong and Handicraft Festival In this of an asphalt highway right across Visitors to Festival city to demonstrate some of the cut. Gonads will be urged et the nth an- Vienna. --A remarltable traffic- Drab- tural contributions they are making nual convention of the Union of Cana; tem )rust be -solved by the Austrian to Canadian life. The festival will than Municipalities here. Dominion state' railways " this summer when be presented by fifteen- racial groups and Provincial- Governments win be something like 100,000 visitors are ex- in picturesque costumes, songs and nlembrfalized as to the neceaaity for petted to require transportation for dances, illustrating' the wealth of aro Such a road. It is :estimated that the the great Singers' Festival Isere. and music brought to Canada by re- cast would be 350,000,090 and construe- It has been -stated in official rail- cent settlers from Burette. tion would occupy five years. It way quarters that the traffic during The extensive arose available far would afford to motet -es access to the first week of lily will be, accord- farm settlement in Western Canada much of the most beautiful scenery Ing to estimates, as great as It was have been attracting immigration not on the continent, and in ;dew of, the .during the great German offensive only from: Great Britain and the United vast number from the United States ea the World War. States, but also from- the Continent who are now touring 1» Canada each As a result of the Western sections of Europe in considerable =inhere, summer the expenditure would not be of the state railways (.particularly via and this festival is expected to prove without direct financial returnn• Salzburg and Passau), will be taxed to an important factor in ba fuller ringing the the utmost of their capacity, .and ar- various races: Inc` friendly contact with linperialism and Nationalism rangemenfs have been made for the each other and insuringa - "F Regina Leader (Lib.): "If one may Goan of railway stock from Germany preciation of the contribution each Is be an enthusiastic Englishman, Irish- and - CzechoaIavakla Special routes making to. Canadian national "life. man; Scot ar Welshman withouthexa had to be allocated forpeople hoatiiity to the Empire,, why not an coming to Vienna from the different Child -Welfare laws ardent Canadian? At bottom the parts of Germany. Many will also'. be A valuable booklet giving the vari- cause is probably uneasiness over tire• by by 'water (via the River nue Child `Welfare' laws o the prey* growth of national coneciousness,' But l)anuhe) • thee has been issued by the Pro - that gronnth Is inevitable. I0 e,would Traveling 45artiea will be granted vineial'Secretary's Department and a not -be checked without checking: the collective passports for this occasion, copy tan be secured without charge growth of Canada, Surely there is- and special reductions will be made by addressing J. J. Rale°, at Use no occasion for panic if a Canadian in prices of tickets, Parliament Buildings, Toronto. displaYe his love ter Canada. fin- Dermas. m " perfalis. must reckon with national IPlaCer Gold ProductionExtent of Tar Sand Deposits atr ti io sm p and try.L o work with r lh ttT The total value o't the gold which The deposit of bituminous sands sands, instead of .meeting it with euspieeolr commonly.knowe a7 tar sands, ou the and antagonism, has been produced from pincer mining- Athabaska River mid its trtbutarles hi operations in Yukon Territory might 'northern Alberta, covers an wren of Flub—"What caused tate 'collision conservatively he placed at 0165,500; hppioximately five thousand u 000, accordiss * to the Department of h d aq are to•sinyP' Dub—"Two motorists atter b miles oP varymng depth,' dime/1Y and th,e'same pedestrian,' the Weiler'! latest menial ial report. richness, Asphalt Highway Across Tall Mem fair ,/ nc \ - Are Handicapped London Bus Company Finds Too Many Inches Useless Canada Has No Monopo ly On Fur Farming_ rT i tteleillefe feta s reate•et eeseeswealfe 4xlt lit sae. KnIIwlleta to era liefinen n odiH'i' a op—v'. k e isllz, Otter and Po ,A VIEW OF A BIC FUR FARM IN fBAVARiA' ft x uta b .• d ." , - �.r y e 'elected on the hoof at tele extend Fur -r v s e Farm, i 1 h f atil9 leetti in ibis inclnsti•y; r owaug. Canada nulst•loalt to 7rbr laurels if size i 0 maintain. goods at $127,572,788, - The -total cuetente and excise 64bot man on a bus all day, especially revenue received during May, 1928, on a covered -top bus. He would have was 329,545,092, as compared with to stoop continually. 027,576,111 in May, 1927. • New drivers must be between the ages of 26 and 80, conductors hetweett 011e in Every Nine Has Car 24 and 25. Both must have a high and 01 physique and lltnees, Ottawa, Canada.•} -OP" the 945,672 Drivers must not be under 5 feet 7 motor vehicles in Canada, not inclnd- equine in Height or over 5 feet 11 ing farm implements propelled by mo- inches, and the eonductors must not tqr power, the Province of Ontario be under 5 feet 0 inches or over 5 net leads with a total of 436,120, a per- 9 mote& cottage of 134 per 100 of population; "We. bave .many public school and Quebec comes next in point of total university men applying for jobs. vehicles with 128,459 --equal to 4.9 per That we have many well-educated with cent. .of population; Saskatchewan us aa conductors and drivers was third with 106,599 vehicles, and 12.7 shown when we looked for interpre- per cent.; British Columbia, 77,617 ters speaking five languages and found and 13.5 per cent.; Alberta 73,830 and them;" 12 per cent.; Nova Scotia, 30,069 and 5,5 per cent.; New Brunswick 24,644 and 6 per cent.; Prince Edward Island, 4,388 and 5.1 per cent; the Yukon. Ter- ritory, 156 and 4.5 per cent, For the Parra. --French pedagogues, with whole of Canada there are 9.9 vehicles theirrpassion for thoroughness, have for every 100 of the population. been lnveatigating the daily record c' of their pupils, to aseert.ain on what Anglo-American Co- operation evilly dr at what times, they are gen, ymost attentive to their studies Wickham Steed in the Review of and to the work' of tbeir classes. They Reviews (London): Within the next have found that decidedly the bes0 fewday of the week is Tuesday, the whole I-eara we si:t.11 hawe to face a day. Next comes Friday afternoon number of .difficult questions in which, and Saturday morning --schools have girality of our relationship to the sJni- Saturday sassier. Then c01ue in ordea tad States may prove' to be, a'ilecisivc Wednesday morning and Mendel UM - factor. L By13 • 31, at'latest, the amens- evening, Friday and Monday morn. factory ,position lest by the hreuic Ings, and filially-, least of all, Wednas». tlorvn-Of the Geneva Confexance will day and Saturday afternoons. have to be' faced, If, by that time, No mention is made of Thursday serumal agreefnent. with the Unlfed. -and Sunday en which days schools are States liar' not been reaoiired, we J nat 'in ses,�on. It is to lie observe3 shall be confronted by the unpleasant that the half -days immediately preced- alternative of giving the Big Navy ing them, :however, are the worst Party in America an additional ren- times of the whole week, 5055 to agitate for a preponderant Investigation has also been made navy, orof entering upon wlfet will, 00 ascertain what were the favorite in effect,be naval competition ,with subjects of instruction, with the result America, however, decently it may be. that chief attenticn was found to be masked, • given to mathematics and the least to drawing. It is suggested that this Work of Fuel- Board expains why, pupils who are detected iThe Dominion Fuel Board Winos its in drawing caricatures during the lecs tudieion has: conducted exhaustive tures or lesson of the. class, protest studies with a. view: to malting Canadathat it deli not interfere with thei indebendeut in the cense/net/onof studious attention t0 the lesson befor. fuel, with the result that Pennsylvania thaw, the drawing being done tvithou anti racite is being, displaced by,other their minds being centred upon it. fuels in Ontario and Quebec to the extent of 1,500,000 lana n :year. Another beneficial feature is that a variety of fuels has established 00111 petition" in the markets of ddmestic fuel supplies, Teachers M 1 eagUre Zeal Of French Pupils Baily Western - Cedar Only in B.C. The range of the Western cedar in Canada in confined to the province of British Columbia, More shingles are matte from `the Western cedar Ulan; from any .outer species- Over 2,500,- 000,000 were cut in Canada froth this tree ,f11 1925. tin addition over 130,- 500,000 beard 30,-500,000'bear'd fot,t of lumber, 10,000,000 Iaths, and an immense number ofole and posts ware pioduceil from -e rt: in the same year, • Agriculture and Industry Quebec Evenement (Cons, a !'o the few hundred thousand rmer who succeed In the West, there aro million who, aro la»guishing, mare o less, in Lite old .provinces. We ca not say that it is their fault, for would not be true. Our farmers at the haeclest wanting class of the sons niunity, and their toil is - rewarded But it is the absence, of advantage ons markets which prevents then from obtaining prdper remuneratie for their coneciontius efforts, x3w •.-a a�h is i as im gesibla to be sal ed by an outward touch as the s: bee•lee- Jelin Milton{