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r. SPHUNQ, iMnUrr Tiwra Tha Tribvaa aims to wmU pendant, rimm Bawapapar far lha bona, itou4 to pubhc mTn TELEPHONE Ml Frivat knack axchaiwa waning ail aWtaMfaaia, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17. 1936 Immigration AT its Lest session ths Saskatchewan legislature by resolution expressed the opinion that Um time haa now coma when tha Canadian government should get in touch with tha British government with a view to putting forward a scheme for the voluntary redistribution of the white peoples of tha Empire, "and thereby creating a stimulation of shipping and trade under the One of the results of this expression has been the organization of a Saskatchewan Immigration and Settlement convention. which is to be held in Saskatoon on Sept era ber 22, 23 and 24. The purpose of the con' vention is frankly and fully to discuss the admittedly difficult problems attending a re viva of Immigration.

These discussions are likely to have an important influence, not only on the future development of Canada, but also on the settlement policies of the Empire as a whole. One of the important preliminaries Of the convention has been the coming to Western Canada of several prominent men and women from Great Britain who have been quietly studying the possibilities of a new effort at settlement It is now recognized, as a result of experience and of competent scientific study, that the establishment of settlers in a new environmert Is a rather costly process, not only for the settler, but also for those already established. Immigration is a result rather than a cause of favorable economic factors. One of the effects of vigorous immigration policies In the past was to bring Into the Dominion msny settlers who even yet are Imperfectly adapted to Canadian conditions, and who have to some extent displaced native born Canadians. In the light of this knowledge, It.

has for some years been the settled policy of Canadian governments to grant no Immigration subsidies. At the same time, the contention that bo Immigration policy can be found so long aa tha unemployment problem persists is entirely too rough and ready negative. There undoubtedly exist in Canada today favorable opportunities for settlement, offering sound prospects to the settlers and definite advantages In community and national development. Canadacaa well, afford to as sume the secondsry risks, but It is important that ths capital required to tide the settler over the period of adjustment should be brought into the country with him. In particular It is desirable that every economic opportunity to establish people of British stock in Canada should be developed.

Toward this objective a very large amount of preliminary work has been done, especially in Great Britain. The Saskatchewan Immigration and Settlement convention is a practical atep toward bringing together the various factors required for a sound, continuous and effective settlement program. The anli Roosevelt vote In Maine seems to have put a final on Quoddy dam. Single Men's Relief T.HE Dominion government cannot be accused of haste in coming to grips with the problem of the 45,000 single men who are unable to find jobs. Since the work camps were closed most of these men have congregated in the cities, being fed in rather Inadequate dining halls and bunked in auch manner as the ingenuity of local officials could devise.

This method may be classed as the minimum, the poorest and most unsatisfactory solution of the problem which the public conscience will tolerate. It is In fact no solution, but merely a method of marking time at heavy expense and with deplorable effects on the morale of the men. The only modification of this do nothing policy during the summer of 1936 has been the eflort in co operation with the railways, to absorb men in the long neglected job of ballasting trsck. This arrangement was not entirely satisfactory from any standpoint, and in particular it failed to absorb as many men as expected. Having at last become convinced that the problem is many sided and stubborn, the government has sent Mr.

Humphrey Mitchell to work out with the provincial governments details of a farm placement scheme; It has several tentative projects for placing men In mining and lumbering; it will open a few work camps on a wage basis and, finally, to absorb the residue it proposes to establish training camps in which young men will be taught trades. This policy differs only in minor details one might almost say only in the suavity with which It is presented from the policy which prevsiled before Mr. King came into office. It is palliative rather than remedial. It recognizes the need for various types of placement to suit the various types of men, but unless it is properly co ordinated it will provide endless opportunities for evading responsibility.

A good deal will depend upon the wisdom i and human understanding shown in the ad ministration ef the various projects, and a good deal will depend upon the patience and goodwill of the men themselves. By diversi THE WINNIPEG EVENING TRIBUNE. WINNIPEG. THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 17.

1936 (Vol. XLVII. No. 224) THIRTEEN fytng the placements the policy Increases the chance of men finding opportunities to become self supporting, and the ultimate success of the plan can be measured only by the extent to which this occurs. Armament and Trade R.

HAROLD BUTLER, director of the International Labor Office at Geneva, holds no illusions about the economic recovery now becoming' evident in many countries. Much of It, he asserts, is due to the expansion of armament manufacture in all the principal industrial countries, either on their own account or for that of foreign customers. "In so far as industrial prosperity is found ed on warlike preparation," writes Mr. Butler, "it is not only sinister but hollow and unreal. The manufacture of arms adds noth ing to national wealth.

As a form of national expenditure it is sterile and unproductive." It is, of course, far worse than that Countiies like Germany, which have become dependent upon armaments for keeping down unemployment and thus maintaining a fictitious prosperity, do not dare to slacken the pace of their war manufacture tor fear of the socta! consequences which would ensue at borne. So they risk the consequences pro duced abroad, of suppressed alarm and anxiety everywhere, which checks the expansion of healthy trade and thus further blocks the path of normal recovery. Increase of armament for whatever reason increases the fear of war, which throws its blight over every project or transaction based upon a calculation of the future. It also, as Mr. Butler points out, leads to the adoption by nations of a policy of self sufficiency in foodstuffs, raw materials and productive capa city in the event of war.

In other words, nations deliberately adopt a policy which runs counter to sll the teachings of economic rea son. For ths moment armament has almost completely taken the place of ststesmanship. If statesmanship does not soon gain control and rise to greater heights than at any time since 1914, Mr. Butler ominously concludes, "the discussion of economic and social pro gt ess may shortly become largely academic, Why the Peasants Are Fighting HORROR at the atrocities being committed by both sides in Spain tends to becloud the Issues behind the fighting. The broad aspects of the situation are, however, still pis in enough.

The Spanish workers and agri culturists are fighting against a feudal land system and an antiquated Industrial system which the abdication of a king did nothing to change. For years past the country has been bank rupt, unemployment baa Increased steadily, and in most peasants' and workers' homes next day's food supply was a constant problem. The underlying demand of the Spanish masses was the same as those in all other countries work, enough food, peace and security only It happened that there were more in Spain below the level of decent subsistence than elsewhere. The flight of Alfonso was followed by a succession of liberal minded but weak governments. Pulled to the Rijjnt and to tbe Left, and afraid of the army, they did little more than keep to the middle of tbe road.

Under such conditions the reactionaries, temporarily shaken by the advent of republicanism, gained confidence; and the peasants and workers, seeing the ground they had gained slipping away from them, became desperate. Extremists on both sides took advantage of the situationand the civil war was on. Despite the hatreds that have been engendered by protagonists of Fascism and Communism, the great mass of those fighting on the side of the Loyalists are fighting merely for better living conditions themselves and their families. BROADER EDUCATION IHaroJS Hobaoa wrltci from London la tut Christian Selene Monitor The Idea of toleration and complete freedom of thought in the sphere of religion was a conception that British seats of learning were comparatively slow to assimilate. A hundred years sgo London University received Its charter as the first English degree giving institution that exacted no religious conformity from its students.

It is now engaged In celebrating this event. Manchester College, which was founded 150 yesrs ago and, since 1893, situated in Oxford, though It Is not a constituent part of that university, anticipated London University in giving allegiance to the fundamental of complete religious toleration. It has always been an aspiration of British universities, though they have not always carried this aspiration into practice, that even the poorest members of tbe community should have access to the highest education the country can offer. Now, Mr. Frank Parkinson, a Yorkshire business man, has translated this Ideal into modern needs by offering to Leeds University a fund of $250,000 with which to establish scholarships for deserving studenU.

Great Britain so takes a step nearer to the day when her universities shall be open to all who are intellectually or morally capable of taking advantage of them. REV. JOHN PRINGLE'S MEMORIAL As a crowning mark of respect, and in memory of the late Rev. John Pringle, Klon dike pioneer missionary, war padre, and at the time of his death pastor emeritus of St. Andrew's, Sydney, N.S., a monument haa been erected near that city.

It is placed at Biackett's Lake, Sydney Forks, by his former congrega tion, at the grave of the deceased. The unveiling took place last Sunday. The memorial is of black Swedish granite, seven feet in height, suitably Inscribed, and stands on the brow of the hill overlooking the sheet of water, where, in his lifetime, the dead clergy man resorted for study end reflection. V.V.M. URRENCY used in various corners of the world Includes metal shells, livestock, eggs, leather, wood, and atone.

And still they say money isn't everything. WORSE 'N' WORSE DEPT. beings have no right te look slow) eei insects." I bug yeur pardon. From the standpoint of journalism the Spanish revolution seems as hard to keep track of as a blaze in a fireworks shop. IF If you can too yeur drive without blaspheming Or miss a aix ineh putt and laugh outright; If you can chuckle when yeur woodshot, screaming, Heads fee the rough and vanishes from sight If, when you fail te putt areund a stymie And that one stroke prevents your breaking par, Yeu double up with mirth, well then, Gor blime, You're just a great big sissis! Yes, yeu are! H.B.C.

Ths trick in present day diplomacy is to give the appearance of burying tbe hatchet which in reality Is palmed. SAME THING Her: "You don't give me nice presents now, like you did before we were married." Him: "No, but give yourself." pay for the ones you GETTING UP 1 got a letter a circular letter todly from a gent who sells salt His. I am riven to understand, is no ordinary salt It's a health salt Tbe gent who sells it wants to know how I feel first thing in tbe morning when I wake up. "Do you awake alert and eager he eske, "Do you greet each day as a fresh ad venture a fresh opportunity to demonstrate your ability?" he inquires. Now I don't suppose the gent who sent me this letter Is really anxious about how 1 feel in the morning.

But I don't mind telling him. I do NOT awake alert and eager. And I do NOT greet each day as a fresh adventure. I wake up dopey and sullen. And I greet each day except Saturday and Sunday as another round of chores.

Saturday Is only half a round. The gent who sells the health salt sug gests in no uncertain manner that if I don't awake alert and eager, and willing tJ greet each day as a fresh adventure, there is pro bably something wrong with my liver. I resent this suggestion. There's nothing at all wrong with my liver. In fact it one of the best livers in these parts.

The gent further suggests in fsct he absolutely Insists that If I took a swig of his health salt every morning (or maybe every night) I would wake up feeling alert and eager. But he's all cockeyed there. My disposition in the morning has nothing to do with my health. When, as a young fellow, I was in the well known Canadian expeditionary force, my health was perfect. I was getting enough food, sleep, and exercise, to keep me feeling like a fighting cock.

Yet when reveille rang through the camp, did I awake alert and eager? No! Did I greet each day as a fresh adventure No! I showed considerable reluctance In aris ing, and I greeted each day as another session of unwelcome attention from my superior officers and (later on) from the gents In field grey. What's more if, these days, I do happen to get up feeling a little more cheerful than usual, I generally have my morning ruined 'by receiving some such silly letter as this one, in which I am asked if I awake alert and eager. WHY TEACHERS LOOK THAT WAY "A mountebank ie a bank for moun tiee." OPPOSING FEDERAL CONTROL I frost ths lttffna Star) In a democratic country like Canada central control would be considered government interference of an extreme nature, and would be strongly resented. it is a complaint In these days that there is now too much Interference by Ottawa, and Halifax's mayor's plan (that municipalities should be directed from Ottawa), would involve inter ference to the nth degree. The central authority could not be expected to have that know lege of municipal affairs that the present authorities possess.

The result would be never ceasing clashes between Ottawa, and municipalities, and surely there is enough confusion among the various regulating and governing bodies without more being added to it mm Poets Wrestle With Horse Collar OTTLE, the kind hearted Bath book seller whose name will forever be associated with those of his friends, Wordsworth and Coleridge, figured in one of the best anecdotes that I have ever read about the two poets. Cottle tells us that one day, after he had taken his friends for a drive, he began to unharness the horse. He got along all right until he attempted to remove the collar. Not knowing much about horses or their care, be called on his friends for assistance. Wordsworth made several attempts to remove the collar, but gave up the job as altogether impracticable.

"Mr. Cole ridge now tried his hand," says Cottle, "but after twisting the poor horse's neck, almost to strangulation, and the great danger of his eyes, he gave up the useless task, pronouncing that the horse's head must have grown (gout or dropsy!) since the collar was put on! for it was a downright impossibility for such a huge os frontls to pass through so narrow a At about this juncture the servant girl appeared, turned the collar upside down. and removed it" Coleridge's second experience with horses took place in 1792 when he was a 24 year old Cambridge student. Being In debt and tired of college life, the young poet decided he would enlist In the English army which in that year, as in this, was calling loudly for recruits. His encounter with the horse col lar should have taught him discretion, but Coleridge was at the farthest remove from practicality.

So he enlisted in a cavalry regiment the 15th Elliot's Light Dragoons, under tbe assumed name, Silas Tomkyns Comberbacke. An anecdote is told of his bravado and subsequent misery by Chard Powers Smith in Annals of the Poets. 'The general of the district was inspecting recruits, and, looking sternly at Coleridge, demanded, 'What's your name, 'What do you come here for, sir'? 'Sir, for what most other persons come to be made a soldier 'Do you continued the general, 'you can run a Frenchman through the body'? 'I do not replied recruit Comberbacke, 'as I never tried, but I'll let a Frenchman run me through the body before I'll run "This brave speech passed Coleridge for the moment but he never got beyond tbe awkward squad. He could neither sit nor groom his horse, and felt so frequently that he was finally put on ground duty. But he was popular with the soldiers who tended his horse for him in return for his writing their letters.

After four months his family learned of his situation, he wrote the most abject letters to his older brother, and his discharge was obtained through procuring a servant to enlist In his place." a Another delightful yarn about Coleridge depends for its humor on the philosopher poet's habit of Indulging in monologues and in talking with his eyes closed. When he was fairly launched he talked like a book and aeemed to be oblivious of the flight of time. "One day Lamb, on the way to work at East India House, encountered Coleridge on the atreet Coleridge turned on his usual monotone of eloquence, one hand seizing Lam'j by a button to hold his attention, while the other gestured Impressively and the great head rolled back, the eyes closed. Presently Lamb realized he was going to be late for work, took out his pocket knife, cut off tha button that bound them together, and pro ceeded to his office. Several hours later he passed that way again: there stood Cole ridge, gill holding tightly to tbe button, still gesturing with the other hand, bis Interminable eloquence still rising obliviously to the sky, or fulling by chance on the ears of a few passers by who stood at a little distance listening uneasily to this strange and melodious flow." A Bible Message (Pram trw AuthorlMtf Verilonl Ho, every one that thirstelh, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.

Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? And your labor for tbat which satisfieth not? Hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight It elf in fatness For my thoughts sre not yeur thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, ssith the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. (Isa. 55: 1, .) For It Is wtitten, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, snd will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this world? Hath noth God made foolish the wisdom of this world? For ye see your celling, brethren, how that not many wise after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble are called; but God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; and base things of the world, and things which sre despised, hath God chosen, ves, and thing's which are not to bring to nought things that are; that no flesli ahould glory in his presence. (I Cor.

1: 19. 20, 26 29.) "SNAKE BITE" ASPECT IGNORED Declaring that Wing Hem, "by mixing Chi nese liquor, various herbs and a snake skin cannot be said to 'manufacture' spirits." Magistrate Logan, in the Fairville police court, dismissed an information charging the Chinese had In his possession unlawfully three gallons of spirits unlawfully manufactured or import ed. SIMPLE JUSTICE "Sure I want te get a haircut en company tims. It grtw en company timt, didn't itf Maclean's Magazine. Shopping in England By LEONARD HUNGERFORD mO make intimale recital of an Intensely personal experience may have its embarrassments.

But the fact is that my house partner looks well lu gay gingham in the morning. She held a basket toward me one of those brown woven half round wicker handled English baskets about a foot across their open tops that look well on a comely woman's arm while she shops sweetly and expertly for this and that. "I won't take the damned basket anyway," I said. "I'll take my brief case." "But it'll be a dreadful mess If anything breaks," she urged, "take the basket I'll take the ribbon off it It'll be so convenient and here's the shopping list It's not very large just eggs and bacon and tomatoes and coffee and a ateak and a little fruit and oh, if you could match this bit of stuff while you are downtown "I'll get my brief case," I said. I clicked the garden gale and turned along the quiet street in the grey morning.

A bright red and gold milk cart went by, the bottles tinkling In their racks to the sound ol the pony's heels. I was very nervous. I seemed to feel that other, shoppers hastened just a little In order to get just a little ahead of me. Yet actually there were only three people in sight and only one carried a bas I was uncertain about the money. If a thing costs tuppence ha'penny a pound what's the change for a pound and 4 half out of a shilling, or worse, out of half a crown? And if beef Is one and a penny a pound Is that dear? Should it be good meat the best cuts st that price? or would I be buy ing right at all at one and a penny? Maybe I'd be taking home boiling beef.

I seemed to be nesr eggs. Eggs were on my list "Penny three farthings each, said the provision merchant's assistant coming at me whlte api oned and efficient. "Eggs, sir?" he queried as if some explanation of my proximity and hesitation were to be expected. "Eggs, sir?" a little more loudly. He evidently decided I was deaf and abouted discreetly.

"Penny three farthings each, air." Six" I said with a jerk like a wooden soldier and tendered him sixpence. He held it enquiringly. "Six sir?" he shouted. Half a dozen, please," I said with dignity. "Have you a shilling, sir?" he said.

He offered me the sixpence. I did have a shilling and I got the eggs. "Thank you sir, would there be something else, sir? Good morning, sir." At the other side of the shop I suddenly saw more eggs. They bad an Immediate appeal to me. They were maiked plainly ten pence a dozen; no farthing business about them; half of ten pence is five pence; there'd be a penny change out of sixpence.

I was firm and quiet. "Why didn't you show me these?" I said. "Well, sir, I didn't think you'd wsnt those." There was a delightful emphasis on the pronoun in the second person, an exquisite blend of studied courtesy masking impatience snd the English tradesman's contempt for the person who buys beneath his class. A lady glanced up and knew me for a stranger. She smiled, "I'm sure he's right" she said.

"Those aren't bought except by 'The likes of us," a strong roughish voice broke in. "Oh, I know, beggin' yer pardon, them is for the likes of us. My kids ain't ever tasted a new sweet egg in their whole lives. That's England, that is." "Did you want something, sir?" an assistant smothered the voice with obsequiousness. But everybody in the shot hsd stiffened.

An over ripe egg had frightened us with the tense of an over ripe society. I h'irrled out "Eicon," I murmured to myself. "1 should have got it In there." I didn't go back. I found instead an araar.ing window full of sliced bacon seemingly of all shapes and sizes. I wns bewildered, though.

It was marked in plain figures as tbey say 1 and 2. 1 and 3, 1 and 4. 1 end 7. But it didn't look familiar. Even when I roughly translated the currency and decided tbat the price was from about twenty eight cents (if you take the shilling at twenty four cents, I mur mured) to something like thirty eight cents a pound.

I was uneasy. The bacon didnt look right Tbe one and seven stuff was beautifully red and while. It looked as if pork chops had been sliced thin, boned and cured in biine. But I couldn't tee anv "streaky side" which was what my Hit called for. "Bacon" I muttered vaguely inside.

"Wha: ia your best breakfast bacon?" I was not understood. "Mill cured, sir?" waa the response to my question. I floundered. "Wha. do you mean by 'mild cured'?" "WelL depends how you want It" was tho answer.

"Danish?" I questioned. I had heard quite by accident a shopper once ia Cambridge, in Sainsbury'a, say "Danish" and be seemed to have all the bacon staff serving him. But It led nowhere. "All Danish," waa the answer, "we stock nothing but Danish here. Canadian cannot be depended upon and the English don't know how to cure bacon." I grasped at something tang ible, "Why cannot Canadian bacon be depended upon?" I asked.

But I was beaten. "You from Canada, rfr?" was all he would say to tbat "What's that piece there?" I said, "there, down behind, the unsliced piece. Tbat looks like the sort of thing I want. It's streaky and not too fat" There waa an ominious alienee at this remark. We had de scended to the slums of lower prices, I discovered.

"Oh, that one, yes sir, you can have that one, sixpence ha'penny a pound, sir. bit of flank that Is. I s'pose you'll boil it Tenpence, sir," He bad weighed and par celled It and dismissed me to the mere necessity of making payment before I could even frame a question about slicing on the number four. I stuffed the parcel In my brief case crash on the eggs and hurried out. "Steak." I intoned, "a sirloin steak." I saw a butcher shop.

I entered Jauntilv. "There's a bit of a drip, sir," said the butcher, lifting the bottom right hand corner of his apron and coming towards me. I was be wilde red. He seemed about to attack me. But he smiled and stoped.

"Bit of a mtm, sir. Accidents will happen." I then noticed that the brief case was leaking and that it seemed to be eggs. When I asked for sir loin steak I felt sure of a response as man to man; we bad aeen misery together. But ho said, suddenly, all butcher, "Btrloln ateak, sir? No, sir. I can give you a nice sirloin roast sir.

If you want steak I can give you this; very nice it Is too, sir." Tbe very nice this was a huge red leg of a beef out cf which slabs of round stsak had obviously been carved. But it wasn't sirloin. I re state my case. "Oh," and he smiled botii pleadingly and pityingly. '1 couldn't give you sirloin.

I can give you a sirloin roast, sir." I let him give me a small sirloin roast and then said, "Now will you please slice It about an Inch thick. The knife hesitated, almost refused its office. England herseif seemed to be cut asunder as a sirloin roast was butchered to make a sirloin steak. "Afraid you won't like It sir. It was a roast, you know." Then as if an explanation were possible, "You from Canada, sir?" England waa saved.

It was only an liTisnonaible and incalculable Canadian who had demanded the doing of this shocking thing. This Day One Hundred Years Ago Saturday, Sept. 17, 1136. Price Sd. Yesterdsy (at Queen Square) two prl vates of tbe Grenadier Guards, nsmed Cost and Ainsworth, were placed at the bar (pro, forma), charged with knocking down, company with several other soldltrs, a number of persons In Orchard street Westminster, at an early hour yesterday morning.

It appeared that the prosecutors hid been in duced to relinquish their chsrges In consequence of a sum of money having been paid The soldiers had been drinking at a notorious house In Duck lane, Westminster, and, after getting into a beastly state of in toxtcaUon and breaking into every window in the den of Infamv to which they had resorted, sallied Into the streets and knocked down every person tbey met with. Police Constable Mentor, of tbe division, came up but found It wss out of his power to take them. He sent to the stitlon house for ss sistance, and Inspector Forbes, who was ot duty, ordered the tilt guard (a railiUry guard in St. James' park) to be sent for, but they refused lo sttend. and in conseqwnce a strong body of men In reserve at the police station were sent out and in spite of tbe strict orders issued by tbe commissioners of i police not to interfeie with the military, the? consigned the two men to the cell In the station house.

The conduct of the soldier was stated to have en outrageous In the extreme, but as the differences had been arranged between the parties the magistrate said that they had no jurisdiction ia the mat i Re Consols 90 to It has been found that better bacon te obtained from quickly grown plgi than from slower development. No caffeine Is contained la the coffee grown on Grand Comoro Island, off goutk Africa..