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i Vice President and Managing Director Tha Tribune aims to be an independent, clean newa pep" for the home, devoted to pupnc service. TP.I FPHONE 24 8.11 THE WINNIPEG EVENING TRIBUNE, MONdAy, JANUAKY 26, 1931 II Tha Wtnnloea Ewnlna Trlhune la printed ud ptHillthefl mttm evening exoeptHuni'iiy by Tribune Newiipaiter CMNor, Limited, a priming end puhllsulnf company Incorporated under the laws ol the Province of Manitoba, at lie heed ofllce. ehlef pleee ol builneae end pure ul ahode. In the Tribune Bulldlns at the Nnnneaal conwr ol Smith Street end (Jraham Avenue, In the City ol lnnlpeg In lha trl Prnvlnre WILLIAM SOUT1 1AM M. E.

NICHOLS President Private branch exchange connecting all department. MONDAY, JANUARY 20, 1931 1931 OBJECTIVES! For Winnipeg and Manitoba New exhibition. An auditorium. Short railway line to The Pas. Motor read to The Pas.

Motor road to the Ontario boundary. A museum and art gallery. A municipal airport Industrial development. Abolish the Municipal Levy. WAS IT NECESSARY? Canadian rum runner, the Josephine was fired on by a United States government patrol boat.

Her captain, a young Canadian of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, was killed. It is claimed that the rum runner was within the 12 mile limit, that she paid no heed to warning shots and that, therefore, the patrol boat did not exceed her legal rights. This defence may prove to be in accordance with the facts. It is a fact nevertheless that the rum runner was fired on, not within the three mile limit which international law defines as territorial waters, but within the 11 mile a special concession made by the British government to afford the United States better facilities for the enforcement of her liquor laws. Technically the whole thing may have been In order, but there is something more than the technical side of the case to be considered.

On this point Canada will require much more definite Information before conceding the necessity for firing on a Canadian vessel and muffing out a young Canadian's life. The Important thing is this: Was it not possible to seize the offending Canadian boat without firing and killing The despatches so far received do not by any means give an affirmative answer to this question. Except as an act of stern necessity the firing was not warranted. In the enforcement of our own Canadian laws we do not permit the police to use more force than is necessary to effect arrest We do not permit them to shoot a fleeing criminal just because it is a cure and convenient way of dealing with him. Only for the protection of their own lives are our Canadian police allowed to shoot to kill, if an arrest can be made in any other way.

Those principles of law enforcement we have a right to ask the United States to observe in apprehending Canadian rum runners on the high seas. They should remember that international law does not sanction their right, within a 12 miles radius from shore, to interfere with the ships of another country even If the ships are engaged in traffic United States laws forbid. It is a special concession made by Great Britain, a purely friendly act to make enforcement of United States liquor laws less difficult Canada's recent embargo on shipments of Oanadian liquor to the United States is a similar concession. It makes a large hole in Oanadian revenues but it was the right thing fc do, the neighborly thing to do and Canadians on the whole are glad they made the sacrifice. What Great Britain and Canada have voluntarily done to promote friendly relations with the United States should surely not be overlooked In their manner of dealing with Canadian ships and Canadian lives.

It is not pleasant for Canadians to hear of the operation of our ships In the rum running business. It is still less pleasant for them to hear that Canadian rum runners are attacked on the high seas, and a Canadian life lost in the process of effecting a seizure. Such violent methods do not appear to be necessary. And even If, In a narrow technical sense such acts can be defended they are not in keeping with the spirit this country has shown in going out of her way to facilitate United States enforcement of her own laws. The Western homesteaders are now their further worth as homesteadiers.

MEETING SECESSION' TALK If the few but strident secessionists in Western Canada were capable of being abashed, Premier Brownlee's speech a few days ago would floor them completely. As things are, they will doubtless ignore the unanswerable questions tie asked and go their heedless way, much more concerned about attracting attention to themselves than about the lack of logic in their position. Mr. Brownlee, unlike some other political leaders In the West seeks to allay discontent rather than to capitalize it. There was much sound advice and argument in his address to the U.F.A., an address which testified to his realization of his responsibilities as a provincial premier.

He told the farmers, in effect, that everything possible was being done to relieve their difficulties. Even in regard to plans he himself had initiated or helped to share, but which had not been adopted, such as the fixed price for wheat he was not dogmatic, merely remarking that he still believed it would be no more expensive to the country than the other forms of relief decided upon. As to the secessionists, a few of whom appeared in the convention, he met their case fairly. Suppose they succeeded in getting the prairie provinces established as an economic unit free from the domination and the laws of Canada, he asked, where then did they propose to sell their wheat at higher prices? Are there markets from which they are being excluded by reason of the economic policies of the Dominion? They are getting now the price wheat commands in competition with the wheat of all the world. Could they do better than that with an independent Dominion To ask the question is to answer it There is nothing wrong with the position of the farmers in the West except the one main fact that world wheat production has in the last five years climbed considerably above world wheat requirements.

There is a surplus that is depressing the price, and that must be used up before prices can rise much higher. The United States by pouring out hundreds of millions of the taxpayers' money is succeeding in holding the domestic price somewhat above the world price. They fully realize that even this large scale bonusing is futile unless their production Is cut down sufficiently to put the home market on a purely domestic basis for several years to come. Growers elsewhere, whether in Australia, Argentina, India, Russia, or Great Britain, are taking the world price and getting along as best they can. Premier Brownlee made this clear and challenged the secessionists to show wherein they could improve the situation.

It is a challenge that cannot be met As a matter of fact it could easily be shown that the Western provinces are not only as well but much better off as part of the Dominion than as a separate entity, even In these trying times. The secessionists, of course, do not want to be shown. They want to agitate. They want to create discontent to their own political advantage. It Is for this reason, too, that various newspapers and politicians have given them friendly encouragement.

There was a noted Simon also called Peter. The British Tories will recall this, In their wish that Simon's strictures on the labor bill will not peter out when a vote Is taken. A GROWING NEED Despite the vital need for economy in all branches oi administration, a good case could be made out for the Bracken government's proposal to create a provincial department of labor. The need for such a department, sooner or later, has been realized for some years. That need has made itself especially felt in recent weeks in connection with the administration in this province of the Dominion government's unemployment relief works scheme.

But even before that, the existing bureau of labor which is attached to the department of public works, was finding it increasingly difficult to handle the many labor problems that arise in a province which, in spite of temporary setbacks, Is growing steadily in industrial importance. Mr. MacNamara, the present bead of the bureau, who is also assistant deputy minister of public works, and assistant fire com missionre, Is probably the hardest worked of all provincial government officials. The need for a properly constituted department of labor for Manitoba, was brought out In striking fashion in a recent report issued from Ottawa, on "The Employment of Children and Young Persons in Canada." In a discussion of accidents among juvenile workers, the report declares that, compared with Great Britain and some of the states in the United States, the provinces of Canada appear to have little or no legislation fcgulatlng the employment of young persons in dangerous trades. In this connection, it might be added that, so far, at least as most of the provinces are concerned, what little legislation exists is largely ineffective through failure to provide the administrative machinery necessary to see that it is observed.

Whether it is desirable at this time to create a new portfolio in the provincial government is a debatable point But there seems to be no reason why a small but properly constituted department of labor should not be set up under a deputy minister In a position to devote his time and energy exclusively to the work of that department The Prince of Wales' next preference, he says, would be to become a newspaper man. The average newspaper man will concede that E. P. must have an enviable line of scoops with which to start off in that new game. 'wage levels and the slump I From the New Tork Herald Tribune Not only the employer himself, but society in general, will benefit in the long run if so far as he is able lie holders the wage level instead of yielding to the temptution to wreck it for his immediate gain.

This Is the philosophy behind the agreement reached by the industrial and labor leaders whom the president summoned in conference shortly after ths stock market trarh. The need to abidj by It is stronger now than it was then. Middlebro'sMP. Labor words ISS ELLEN WILKINSON, British M.P., is lecturing in Eastern Canada. She is a Socialist and defends the dole.

While in Montreal she repeated the defence of that practice in these "It is not a dole. It is something the people are entitled to receive. Ellen Wilkinson, M.P. They pay toward it and are in works which provide for it. Only mythical persons are living off the taxpayer while doing nothing for it The truth is no one receives this benefit unless through his work he has contributed to the insurance fund." Before leaving for this side, Miss Wilkin son backed a parliamentary bill which gave English women the right to retain their nationality al though married to aliens.

Another measure: The return of instalment pay ments to persons who are unable to pay in full. This lady has pro nounced capacity to say things, not even exceeded by Lady Astor, who sits among the Baldwjnites. One of Ellen's complaints is that the House of Lords does not furnish enough "snappy" copy for the newspapers, a fact, she says, which jeopardizes its prolonged existence. Another of "Entertaining Ellen's" japes, which she playfully dignified by embodying it in a signed article, was this: "The formal appearance of Their Lordships in session at Westminster in scarlet and ermine, causes great delight among non English visitors in the galleries. And if coronets were sometimes worn the spectacle would undoubtedly be enhanced.

The 'March of the Peers' from 'Iolanthe' played softly behind the scenes would add the correct touch to an ensemble which has always been done rather well by the Gilbert and Sullivan opera companies." Her novel, "Clash," puts Ellen in her element when describing a general election contest, one of its lively themes. She has described her impression at a Conservative ladies meeting: "That of a curious feeling (based on the plenitude of furs worn by distinctly Tory ladies) of being entirely surrounded by large, woolly animals;" and the perfumed air "grew hotter and hotter." A final Ellenesque reflection: "Such a lady is too expensive a product to maintain a falling empire." a a The lady member for Middlesbrough will, in addition to her addresses, study methods on this side of pure milk distribution. She is much interested in the humanitarian aspect of babies. Also she maintains the right of married women to hold jobs without any qualifying interference, a belief that gave rise to a storm of newspaper correspondence a year ago. When she landed from the Cunarder Mauretania, she shot this at the newspapermen: "Your breadlines are the worst kind of dole except apple selling! How unspeakably cruel! If I hadn't seen these poor people standing on street corners with a sign reading I would not have believed it of this wonderful country.

There Is not one grain of solace in selling apples!" This occupation In New York Is being resorted to by any number of former well known well to dos. When asked about her one day set apart for shopping, of which the reporters had knowledge (what was she to buy?) the 98 lb. British M.P. defiantly said with nary a blush: "Silk undies! I hear the kind obtainable here are wonderful." Tribune Trumps B. C.

Varsity men will grow beards until stadium funds are attained. One of the hair raising sports of youth. A Cleveland expert recorded a bird's heart beat on a film. There Is now nothing more infinitesimal for science to register except a century plant's growing pains. "I passed Mrs.

Snob in the street today but she didn't see me; I wonder if the slight was intentional?" "Oh, I don't think so; she hasn't been rich long enough to know how to be rude." Einstein spent the week end in the desert. If he thinks space out there is non existent, let him try to locate an oasis in a five minute walk. Buffalo speakeasies have installed miniature golf courses as part of the establishment. But the nineteenth hole is positively no Wall Street has started a definite upswing. From now on, when the shorts are covering, there is going to be a higher cover chirge.

"When a man has had too much to drink," says a doctor, "he should ask for some bisur ated magnesia." But when a man has had too much to drink he can't say "bisurated magnesia." Sergeant: "Did you give the man the third degree?" Constable: "We browbeat him, badgered him, threw him down the stairs, and asked him every question we could think of." "What did he do?" "He dozed off, and merely said now and then, 'Yes, dear, you re perfectly right' Old Prisoner: "What are you doin' here, Tom? Last time I heard about you you was makin' a lot of money." New Prisoner: "That's why I'm here. They caught me making it." 4' ONE WAY OF ESCAPE fa JPJ i Less High Halting From J. O. Honann. noted British econo mist's recent lei lure at London school of EconomirtsJ vHE free blending of margins I between aristocracy and I I I upper bourgeoisie was de I ferred until mid Victorian times.

It did not, however, make any considerable alteration In the class hierarchy as such. What it did was to afford an interesting revelation of the potency of the aocial climblng Instinct. The sentiments and aspirations that revealed this urge permeated the diaries and contemporary fiction of the time. They constituted the mentality of the "snob" as depicted by Thackeray, Trollope and other discerning social analysts of that day. The attitude of all grades of the middle class toward the manual workers was one of unquestioning superiority.

It was not one of Insolence, but the social severance of the classes was complete. The later movements of the '80s, coinciding as they did with an extension of trade unionism to the poorer grades of unskilled workers and the preachment of new groups of Socialists, gave sharper feeling to class distinctions and a sense of consrious class antagonism which had not hitherto existed. The strongest surviving class cleavage of our time Is not that between capitalist and proletarian or employer and employed, but that between the servant keeping and the servant supplying classes, and the evaporation of the earlier arrogance and servility is one of the most disconce tlng features of recent years If the teachers in primary schools, trained in the pronunciation and the tones of speech ordinarily employed by educated people, were able more successfully to Impart this way of speaking to their pupils, it would do far more for the substance of social equality than any other single improvement in education. A VACANT CHAIR Krom the Union Pacific Half a Line) "Rufus, did yoj go to your lodge meeting last, night?" "Nah, suh. We dun pos'poncd it." "How is that?" "De Grand All Powerful Invinci ble Most Supreme Unconquerable Potentato dun got beat up by his wife." i i Hostess at Dull Party "Can't anyone think of a game?" Young Man (after long silence) "S'pose I nip out and everybody guesses where I've gone to?" I don Opinion.

Wolfe Celebration at Westerham, Kent By LUKIN JOHNSTON (From The Tribune'! London Bureau Copyright by Southam Publishing Co. Ltd. LONDON On January 2, In the old oak beamed dining room of the King's Arms hotel, hard by the vil lege. green of Westerham, Kent, there gathered members and guests of the Wolfe society, a company of some 60 men, to celebrate the 204th anniversary of the birth of "the late Mr. James Wolfe, Major Gen eraland Commander in Chief of the British Land Forces in the Expedition against Quebeck." One hundred and forty yeara ago to wit, on January 2 ,1760 the first annual Wolfe dinner was held in the Ueorge and Dragon Inn, Just across the village green the inn where, legend says, Wolfe spent his last night before settinig out for Canada.

at The object of both celebrations wag the same to give opportunity "to Friends and Fellow Townsmen of the late Mr. Wolfe and toast his Pious and Immortal Memory." The chairman, too, bore the same patronymicfor back In 1760 the host was that General George Warde, of Squerryes Court, Westerham, who was Wolfe's closest friend and his executor; while this year he was Captain J. R. O'B. Warde, also of Squerryes Court, a direct descendant of Wolfe's friend.

Among the company, too, were several who bore the still honored name of Wolfe, direct descendants of. the great commander. There were several representatives of nearly all the regiments who served under Wolfe's command at Quebec; and men of rank and distinction also, come to honor Canada's hero like Sir Frank Dyson, the astronomer royal; Sir Archibald Hurd, the noted naval writer who told us of are great deeds of Admiral Sir Charles Saunders and his men; Sir Campbell Stuart, who paid tribute to the late Hon. F. C.

Warde for his work In honoring Wolfe's memory. "Fellow townsmen" there were as well, proud of Westerham's part In shaping the destinies of Empire the vicar, for Instance, who now occupies the vicarage where Wolfe waa born; and the chairman of the parish council. A goodly company withal. It Is a worthy thing to keep up such historical associations asShiB. Canadians do not always cherish sufficiently such links with the storied past of England's countryside, nor sufficiently make known to British people the gallant and romantic episodes In their history.

But here, for a whole evening of good fellowship, we sat round the festive board, recalling scenes of Wolfe's boyhood in the big stone house and garden at the bittom of Vicarage hill; listening to stories of his mother how she wrote in her cookery book that "a good water powdered snails washed in beer, mixed with split green earthworms, distilled over a slow fire and boiled down with all kinds of spices and roots in three gallons of hearing of the character of the great general. This year was "Greenwich year" with the Wolfe aoclety, in recognition of the unveiling last June of the great statue of Wolfe in Greenwich park. So the chief guest of this year's dinner waa Lt. Colonel Matthews, mayor of Greenwich, and, replying for "Wolfe's Companions in Arms," was Vlce Admlral William Boyle, C.B., president of the Royal Naval college there. At tables, covered with spotless white linen, sat the guests, the notabilities and the descendants of the great commander.

They wore the sombre black of modern evening dress with shiny white shirt fronts. Only Wolfe's portrait over the stone fireplace with scarlet military coat and three cornered hat reminded us of the more picturesquely clad company of 140 years ago. But one could picture them coming in out of the cojd night air, doffing their three cornered hats and throwing back long cloaks, while the spurs of those who came on horseback jingled on the stone flagged yard, One could recreate the picture of Wolfe's "Friends and Fellow Townsmen'' at the board in their wide knee breeches, full coats and gaily colored walstcoeats. And if, by reason of the nearness of their loss, these friends and neighbors who had known Wolfe in his boyhood days felt the occa sion as one of sadness, still, no doubt, their speeches at the board rang with that same pride in his achievements which is the dominating note of the "Wolfe dinner" In these modern days. This Day 100 Years Ago Wednesday, Jan.

26, 1831. Price 7d. A boy about 14 years of age, who formerly lived as groom in the service of Captain Fltzclaronce, and who goes by the nick name of Don Bevan, was brought before Sir R. Birnie at Bow street Pollce officel. Two pawnbrokers' duplicates for a coat and a pair of gaiters having been found on Bevan, the magistrate, suspecting from his known bad character that the articles had been stolen, directed that the pawnbroker should appear with them, which he accordingly did; but they turned out, on Inspection, to belong to the prisoner.

Mr. Thomas I police superintendent) then stated that about 12 months ago he (the prisoner), under the title of Don Bevan, had a gang of nearly 40 boys under his command, who used to assemble regularly every morning In Hyde park and receive orders from their captain to take different routes for the purpose of thieving. The prisoner used to dress In the frock coat now produced, a pair of white corded breeches, and brown and he actually carried a case of pistols under his coat, and was frequently known to present them at the heads of those whom he commanded, swearing he would blow their brains out unless they brought him more booty. This Dirk Turpin In little was reluctantly discharged by the magistrate, there being no speelflc charge upon which to detain him. PAY LOADS FOR BEES IKrom the U.

S. Official Kerordl An unladen honeybee can fly about miles an hour, department entomologists estimate, but It seldom files faster than 15 miles an hour. When weighted with neetar It often (lies as rapidly as when unladen, although it sometimes stops to rest on a long journey. Sometimes bees with heavy loads become exhausted when flying over lakes or rivers, fall into the water and are drowned. A heavily loaded be sometimes makes an ungraceful landing at the apiary, bumping Into the hive or dropping to the ground before it.

The load of nectar which the bee brings to the hive varies with the density of the nectar, but the average load la about 40 milligrams, or about one half the weight of tha baa. Self Expression By C. B. PYPER Yr lOU will be told never to ait down to write unlesa you have something to say be forehand. This is the veri est buncombe; pay no to it.

Some of the best things that a man writes occur to him after he has seated himself at his desk without the vaguest pre liminary notion of what he was going to write even. Indeed, when he has cursed Fate for ever having put a pencil in his hand. Many a writer has produced something excellent after staring blankly at his pad of paper for hours. Ideas frequently come out of one's dull pen oil In time as clear water comes out of a muddy tap." This is from the obiter dicta of George Jean Nathan, a New York theatre critic who Is new fashioned enough to push smartness sometimes to the point of tedium, and apparently old fashioned enough to push a pencil instead of pounding a typewriter. It may be, of course, that the pencil is only a figure of speech, and that George finds his inspiration like the rest of us, in looking at 234567890 QUERTYUIOP and the rest of the Interesting symbols on the keyboard.

a There is a good deal in what he says, however, but not everything. No, sir, not quite everything. It would not do to Induce a young man or woman to enter on the precarious profession of writing for a livelihood in confidence that his or her best things, or even moderately good things, will come from a blank mind after hours of blank contemplation of a pencil or a typewriter. This does not alway happen. There are, of course, tlmea when it does happen George says ao, and others will confirm his statement but there are other times when, after hours of patient hope that each "succeeding hour will bring the clear water, the muddy tap what Is a muddy tap? re fuses to yield and the patient hoper packs up his pencil or covers up his typewriter and goes home de jected.

There are times, again, when, in despair of clear water, he lets run what will, and, seeing it on the printed page in a more lucid moment regrets it then and ever after till sweet philosophy has given him a protective armor stronger than Horace's triple brass, a a a Recently, In a letter from a read Protestations of Sympathy For Unemployed and Results To the Editor of The Tribune. Sir, I should appreciate It if you would allow me a Httle space to answer a few comments by T. W. B. Lord on a letter I wrote In December, wherein I tried to show that, after all the protestations of sympathy for the unemployed, very little had been done for them; that only a few of the laborers had received any work, and little or no provision made for the skilled worker.

The writer presumes I am a tradesman. I am. He further states there are thousands out of work who never register, and somn of them have not worked for 12 months. Will he tell us what has been done for these men and their families, or how these men manage to live for such a long time on nothing?" Is he aware that the relief work here in St. James does not begin to employ all those who are In need of work? Some men get aa little as one day per week.

Is he aware that some families who cant even get the one day's pay are trying to exist on a week's relief pay, He mentions that he Is not identified with any political party. I am glad he tells us this else we might have imagined he was a staunch supporter of Mr. Bennett. He Btatea that Mr. Bennett has worked whilst I slept.

That, Mr. Editor, has nothing to do with the case. What has been done for the unemployed skilled worker? When is the government going to redeem their promises In the relief of distress? $2 09 for a family to exist on for a week, or, if one is lucky, one day's work a week digging ditches amounting to $3.20. We are asked to give a little more helpful criticism. Here is a little.

Open up enough relief work to enable all the needy to obtain more of the good thlntrs of life with which this country Is so plentifully endowed. Can one help being sarcastic after hearing such uplendld election promises and seeing such small results? ANOTHER SKILLED WORKEll St. James, Jan. 19. Further Enlightenment on Teaching of Music After School To the Editor of The Tribune.

Sir. As to how claje teachipg can compare with individual lea sons Mia been a debated question for many years. Most authorities have agreed in the past that a beginners must be carefully watched for avoidance of faulty positions which seldom If ever can be corrected once th have become a habit. How can this scrutiny be be practised in large groups? To my own knowledge violin clas cs have bepti conducted in England as far back as 20 years ago so they have certainly had a rhncp tr, move their worth. If l.u.1 wari unlnrl thai spread adoption.

2D years seems a long time for them to become "ae cipted." Mn.st parents would not think of asking hnw ninny constitutes a clas. yet obviously the reason for using the school rooms Is to have plenty of room for as many as will join, otherwise whv would not thee teachers be conducting small groups in their own studios. A ela can only progress as fast as the slowest pupil unless the slow ones are not "bothered with" and this, I believe, will always be the weakness of the class method. It 1 reasonable to suppose that about four or six pupils can be Instructed together w.th some amount of er who was ambitious to write daily articles, I oame across the curious phrase "the Joy of self expression." is a curious phrase, because well, the more you think of It the more It becomes curiouser and curiouser. Who wants to express himself, on what and why? That is the question.

The answer Is: Millions of presumably sane human beings, on everything, and how. The curious thing about it Is that many of them have good jobs laying bricks or totting up figures, with the materials for their work ready to their hands on each new day and the clock striking quitting time every evening with delightful regularity. 1 Compare theirs with Georgt Jean's job. To read his light, racy and Bome'imes highly spiced articles, you would Imagine him going straight to his desk, sitting down nonchalantly and tossing them off with the greatest aplomb, chuckling here at a wisecrack, smiling at a specially pointed prod for the pbllistlnes, and roaring outright when he conceived a figure of speech likely to shock the more sensltivs of his readers. An hour for an article, no trouble, no worry, opportunity to say what you like about whatever you like in the smartest, wittiest style there, you would say, is the joy of self expression at its best No dull piling up of the same old bricks or figures there.

But then think of the picture George Jean conjures up with his talk of the writer "staring blankly at his pad of paper for hours." Think of him sitting there, wanting to go to the speakeasy, or the club, or a good talkie, but chained to the desk without the vaguest idea of what he la going to write, waiting for hours for the muddy tap to give forth the clear water and waiting in vain. The fourth hour paases, perhapa, and he hopes for luck in the fifth; the fifth passes unproductive, then the sixth and the seventh, and still George Jean sits there, gnawing his pencil and cursing It himself and his Maker for this necessity of expressing himself. I'll bet that In hours like that, George Jean Just longs for a job In which he could lay a certain number of bricks a day and go home to his wife without a thought till the morrow. His recipe for getting clear water, best things and excellent things is not so good as it looks. No.

sir. It's not so good. You may see for yourself that It's sometimes not good at all. Letters to the Editor Individual attention in a very elementary course. One of your correspondents suggests giving a greater number of teachers the privilege of Bchool classes and limiting each to about six pupils, so that a few favored teachers should not have an unfair advantage over other teachers, but why should the school board be involved at all In deciding who should teach or how many each teacher should have etc.

The teachers can themselves con duet small classes in their own studios, and since the small groups are unquestionably of more value to the pupil, these seem absolutely no reason for favor to a few in the large classes at school, or for necessity of even using school rooms. SUBSCRIBER Winnipeg, Jan. 23, THE ONTARIO SAW OFF8 from tht Toronto Telegram) Four Ontario election appeals which followed the Dominion elections of last July have been abandoned. The charges which stopped short only of till tapping and arson wll not be subjected to the fierce white light of judicial investigation. Time was when election pro tests, bitterly contested, made for purity In elections.

The possibility of a saw off casts Its sinister shadow whenever political opponents withdraw charges which have been deliberately made. Where there la a saw off Justice Is cheated just as effectively as if the court Itself had been "fixed." There is no hurry In lodging a petition. The petitioner has forty five days in which to satisfy him self as to tha accuracy of the charges he makes. He la required to state on affidavit that he believes the statementa he makes to be true In substance and In fact When, under these circumstances, a petitioner has made charges corruption, sufficient If verified to unseat the elected member, be should be required to see hia charges through under heavy penalty. Bible Message From tha Authorized Variton Hear, Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord: and thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul and with all thy might.

(Deut. 6.4, 5.) The Lord thy God in the rnldst of thee is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over thee with Joy; he will rest in hia love, he will joy over thee with singing. (Zeph. 3:17.) I will mentiou the lovingkind nessea of the Lord, and the praises of the Lord, according to all that the Lord hath bestowed on us. and the great goodness toward tha house of Iciael, which he hath bestowed oti theni according to his mercies, and according to the multitude of his lovingkindneasee.

(Isa. 63:7.) Beloved, let us lo4 one another: for love Is of God; and every one that loveth la born of God. and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth ivA God; for God Is love. I.

John 4:7, 8.).