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THE (JAZCTTK. MONTREAL. WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 13. 19,37.

VOL. CLXVI. No. 243 8 l-M-l LtfJ Although bad possibilities may continue to exist with the possibilities that are good regarding the trade situation, we may believe that the balance will be favorable. If only conservatively favorable, it will suffice to stituency from a supporter of the Tupper Government.

It is not a Hepburn paper, but it is most emphatically not a C.I.O. paper, and was unable to follow Mr. Rowe's intricate tap-dancing on this the most important Founded Junb 3, 1778. fx THE AWKWARD SQUAD SERQT. BEV1N: "And now we'll take the fix from the unfix position when I say 'Bayonet you whips 'em out and whops 'em on." Firm Policy Most Effective Pacifism Today In Canadian History tally with ours betray a British interest fundamental than that peace? If our policy belief among other like ourselves, hate freedom that we a finger to help them be exposed to foreign we may foster this help to bring on a Or our policy may peoples to make terms aggressors and thus a political and moral reverse of "splendid." said that some of these are allies or associates Russia, who is "just Fascist Italy or Nazi answer is that Soviet 'her own reasons, desires any major war desire of Fascist Italy Germany to avoid it is Moreover, if Soviet that we are willing to her frie'nds to face alone, it would not be she also to make terms with potential as to leave trUra free with us.

monopoly of foresight prudence. Very imprudently, mind, we have suffered Nations to be discredited, hav left the smaller Europe to wonder whether choice may not have to between submission to countries and a defence of their own are asking themselves, what the plight of the French democracies the western fringe of might lie under the military dictatorships. in my turn, whether, October 13. 1651 Jean deLauzon was appointed Governor of New France. It is said by Burpee that his regime, which ended in 1656, was a series of public mistakes and marked by an obvious intention to enrich himself and his sons at the expense of the colony.

1803 Auguste N. Morin, afterwards Lower Canadian statesman and judge, was born at St. Michel, Bellechasse. 1812 The British administered a crushing defeat on the American invaders at Queenston Heights, on the Niagara frontier. The Americans had about 90 killed and 100 wounded, while the total British casualties were only 130.

General Sir Isaac Brock died, like Wolfe at Quebec, leading his men to the charge. 1833 There was bom at Adelaide, Middlesex, Upper Canada, a boy who was to become notable both in law and politics. Edward Blake was the second Premier of Ontario, Dec. 29. 1871, to Oct.

25. 1872; Minister of Justice in the Mackenzie Cab- inet. 1875-77: and leader of the Liberal party in the House of Commons, 1880-86. After retiring from Canadian politics he went to Ireland and was for some years Nationalist MP. for Longford.

He came back to Canada and died at Toronto, March 1. 1912. 1902 Radio was first tested on a moving train on the Grand Trunk Railway near Cotcau, one of the first experiments in America. 1911 The Duke of Connaught was sworn as Governor-General. His term of office covered the first two years of the war with Germany.

The military experience of the grand soldier of the Royal Family was of great value in the creation of Canada's army. 1930 The first divorce under the law giving Ontario courts jurisdiction in matrimonial cases was granted at London. H. Wickham Steed, former editor of The Times, who has distinguished himself as publisher, journalist, author, lecturer and authority on international affairs, made a strong plea for concerted action in the interests of peace by the nations of the British Empire when interviewed on his recent arrival in Montreal. In this connection, a letter written by Mr.

Steed to The Times a short time before his departure is of interest as an enlargement of his views on British policy given in his Montreal interview. One weighty point seems to have been overlooked in the discussion of foreign policy by your corre-pondents (he says in his letter). This is the influence upon public opinion in many countries of the suppression of private property in Soviet Russia. Bolshevism set out to abolish "capital" and private property by means of a dictatorship "of the proletariat" i.e., of those who had nothing to lose. Now both a dictatorship and the suppression of private property are denials of the individual freedom which is a condition of political liberty.

While large agglomerations of capital may need to be controlled or expropriated in the public interest, there can be no individual freedom without the right to possess some measure of private property. Ostensibly against Bolshevism the Italian Fascist and German Nazi systems presently took shape. They suppressed individual freedom as ruthlessly as it had been suppressed in Russia, but they claimed to be defending "capital" and private Drorjerty. On this account they ob tained credit alike from "big business" and from millions of "small people" who had something to lose and were disposed to think the suppression of individual freedom the lesser of two evils. it would not common sense for the other To call the Nazi-Fascist and the Russian Bolshevist systems "Right' commonwealth that whose4 interests would not even more of our own induces a peoples which, war and love shall not raise should they aggression, aggression and major war.

drive these with potential to leave us in isolation the And if it be other peoples of Soviet as bad" as Germany, the Russia, for to avoid whereas the and Nazi not so clear. Russia sees leave her and aggression surprising were her own aggressors so to deal unhindered We have no or to, my the League of and nations of their be made powerful illiberal desperate freedom. They too, British and would be on a' Europe that heel of aggressive So I wonder, THE GAZETTE Is printed and published by the GAZETTE PRINTING COMPANY LIMITED, of which John Stuart Miller is Secretary, the Office. 1000 St. Antolne Street.

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MONTREAL, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 13 Advice, like snow, the softer it falls the longer it dwells upon ana the deeper it stncs into the mind. colertdge. THE LESSON OF ONTARIO. There is said to be some fluttering in the central Conservative dovecote by reason of what happened to the party in Ontario a week ago today. Report has it that there has developed some sort of urge in the direc tion of reorganization, but that this has to do solely 'with machinery and not at all with policy.

The idea is characteristically and painfully wrong and if it represents the best thought in official Conservative circles it makes the party outlook a little gloomier, if that be possible, than it was before. Any one who goes into Ontario for a day will have no difficulty in finding out for himself what happened a week ago, and why. The Conservative party in that province failed to make any substantial reduction in the Hepburn majority because great numbers of Conservatives found themselves out of sym pathy with their provincial leader and either voted against him or abstained from voting, They were dissatisfied particularly with Mr. Rowe's attitude on the C.I.O. issue.

Large numbers of them gave their support to Mr. Hepburn on that issue, while others, whose independence was unequal to the strain of casting a Liberal vote, remained at home. Ontario voted as a province against the C.I.O. invasion and registered its approval of the stand which Mr. Hepburn had taken.

The constituency in which the principal C.I.O. disturbance had taken place, and where there was a strong labor vote, returned a Hepburn candidate. The mining districts in the north, dominated largely by labor, gave Mr. Hepburn generous support. To this extent it may be said that organized labor in Ontario repudiated the C.I.O.

It is clearly evident that had Mr. Rowe, instead of cutting and trimming on this issue, taken a determined stand against the invasion of the province by a political labor organization which the old A. F. of L. has outlawed in the United States, his following in the new Legislature would have been substantially greater.

Incidentally, it is worth noting that in approving the Hepburn C.I.O. policy the Province of Ontario condemned the policy or lack of policy of the Federal Department of Labor in respect of yie C.I.O. Curiously enough, the Federal Liberal attitude was practically identical with that of the provincial Conservative leader and has been repudiated in the province-wide rejection of Mr. Rowe. Ontario has furnished an answer to those who still think that a political party can win an election without a policy.

There was plenty of Conservative organization in Ontario, but that was all. Conservative rank and file dissatisfaction with this state of things was reflected in the editorial columns of the Toronto Telegram, a Conservative newspaper which refused to beat the Conservative drum. Extreme partisans charged the Telegram with disloyalty. The newspaper dealt with this complaint in its issue of last Saturday. It said that while frequently supporting Conservative policies it is not a party paper and owes no allegiance to the Conservative party or its leader.

It then put the pertinent and somewhat embarrassing question, "Who and what is the Conservative party? At one time, it said, there was a definite classification of electors in the Dominion, consisting of people who professed to believe in free trade and people who believed in a high tariff against the importation of foreign goods. The former were called Grits or Reformers and the latter Tories or Protectionists, but that distinction no longer applies." In provincial affairs except in the presence of a major issue it has been a case of the ins and the outs." There followed this highly interesting paragraph: "In the election held last Wednesday the Conservative party was never consulted by Mr. Rowe in regard to a num-" ber of important issues which were the deciding factors in the election. Not only "were executive officers of Conservative "associations not consulted but the Conservative candidates in. the election were not consulted and the so-called Conservative newspapers were not consulted.

Of course, "he did have some advisers but the com-" plete personnel of the board of strategy is "not disclosed and some of them are now eagerly repudiating their responsibility for the disaster." The Telegram asked if it is disloyal to refuse to follow your leader up a blind alley." Thousands of voters, it said, who strongly disapproved of Mr. Rowe's attitude in regard to the C.I.O., found themselves unable to vote for him but were kept by tradition from voting against him. These did not vote at alL The great majority of electors, however, are less closely bound to political associations and are free to record their votes for the party which they believe will render the greatest service to the country. The article concluded with this: "In any event, it' will be generally conceded by good citizens that loyalty to country is more important than loyalty to party." The Telegram is consistent in this. Its founder and proprietor, the late John Ross Robert-eon, fought his own party on ihe Manitoba school issue in and, as an Independent Conservative, wrested the East Toronto con fortify and make more entire the sense of confidence throughout a country where natural resources are singularly rich and in which, accepting the disinterested testimony of Mr.

Wilson, conditions are well balanced and sound. JAKE GAUDAUR. One of the giants of old has gone to his Valhalla. Jacob Gill Gaudaur was the greatest oarsman of his day, the champion sculler of the world, and there was a time when the whole country rang with his name and the cables carried it to the farthest ends of the earth. If, afterwards, the world forgot him, the town of Orillia never did, and probably it never will.

Last year when Jake was 79 years old the town set up a memorial to him "for bringing more fame to Orillia than any other sportsman in this town's history and Orillia has produged some notable sportsmen. Jake Gaudaur was born in an old homestead on the "Narrows," the beautiful stretch of water which lies between Lake Couchiching and Lake Simcoe, and there he learned all that there was to know about boats and rowing. He reached his prime in his late thirties and became North American champion. He was rowing on Toronto Bay in the early summer of 1896 during the progress of the annual meet at Henley, and he watched what went on there from afar. Jim Stanbury, the Australian, was over there beating "Wag" Harding, the English champion.

Gaudaur decided to beat Stanbury, and, after going down to Halifax and acquiring more prizes there, he crossed the ocean to win the championship of the world. Great glory was his and his return to his home in Canada was a triumphal pro cession. In loronto they took him up to Queen's Park and lionized him. His racing days were over long ago. He continued to live at the "Narrows," having held the championship for five years, and he rented boats and fixed up fishing parties until two months ago, when he took to his bed in the house where he was born, and where, on Thanks giving Day, he died.

Only the older genera tion remembers him; the younger, for the most part, never heard of him; but Jake Gaudaur in his prime was undisputed monarch of the racing shell and set up a speed record which has never been bettered from that day to this. He deserves some passing mention at the end of his journey. JAPAN'S PROGRESS IN CHINA. Despatches from the Far East state that it is the opinion of informed military men and other neutral observers that the Japanese army's conquest of the five provinces of North China appears to be near comple tion. In the three months of its intensive campaign the Japanese military force has either captured or advanced to within striking distance of the capitals or nerve centres of the provinces of Hopei, Chahar, Suiyuan, Shansi and Shantung.

It is evident from this opinion that the invader accurately sized up the situation before engaging in the warfare and carried out his plans to the letter, and perhaps in scheduled time. For the Japanese are systematic, a fact which they proved in the war with Russia more than 30 years ago, when their army and navy, after a very costly struggle, overwhelmed the half-hearted Russian attempt to cope with the enemy that was growing in impor tance among the world powers. The Japanese soldiers then were free from typhoid and other diseases that before that time had taken a terrible toll of life when armies were on the march. Water supplies were inspected, the troops were well-fed and properly equipped, and so were in a position to defeat a great nation whose army and navy were not up to the mark, and whose citizens were divided against themselves. The throne of the Czars began to shake as a result of that defeat, and revolution came about.

Today, as in 1904 and 1905, the Japanese have overwhelming superiority in warfare because of the better training of their troops, their supply of capable, skilled officers and the professional skill of the high command. That, at least, is the considered judgment of the military observers who are following the events in China. The progress of the campaign bears them out in their views as expressed. Too late have the Chinese Communists rallied to the side of the defending forces. They ceased harrying the central Government only when the enemy had established himself in the northern part of their land.

China's bandit gangs literally played into the hands of the enemy. No interference came from neighboring Russian territory. Protests from Europe have been disregarded, as was to have been expected. Unless a miracle happens, Japan is likely to consolidate her gains and hold sway over much of Northern China, as she holds sway over Korea, or Cho-sen, and Manchuria. Her sphere of influence has been extended and no doubt she has additional plans for the future.

She appears to be the coming mistress of the Orient. Winnipeg on Friday last-celebrated the sixtieth anniversary of the arrival of the first locomotive over the Canadian Pacific Railway, among the celebrants being Lieutenant-Governor Tupper, Mayor Warriner, Premier Bracken, W. M. Neal, western vice-president, and other C.P.R. officials, and hundreds of citizens.

As the railway opened up the great prairie country and connected the widely-separated sections of Canada, it is fitting that the anniversary cf its inception should be given public recognition. The railways still serve, Winnipeg and other cities, towns and villages well. The director of the Moscow Zoo has been discharged and the head animal feeder and a keeper arrested on a charge of the animals and giving them stomach ailments." The bears, it appears, were upset by a ballet dance staged in the park. As Bruin is not averse to dancing, it may really be that he was put off his feed by domestic political antics. issue before the province.

The Conservative party failed in Ontario because it had no policy. It is failing everywhere for that reason. It cannot be reorganized without a policy or upon the basis of a policy imposed upon the rank and file from above. It ought to have a convention, and the sooner the better. DUPLESSIS TAKES A RIGHT COURJSE.

Premier Duplessis is to be congratulated on the courageous and enlightened action he has punctually taken to end the crisis which had arisen in the matter of education in the Protestant public schools in Quebec. The Prime Minister's statement is not merely a denial of partisan accusations to which no credence was given by any serious-minded persons. Accompanied by an order for the reinstatement of the membership of the Protestant Committee of the Council of Pub lie Education, his public announcement affords positive proof that he did not ap prove, and least of all demand, that request be made for the resignation of the members of the Protestant Committee. The course the Premier has taken returns the Committee to its former state, and is in accordance with the suggestion The Gazette ventured to make after Dr. McGreer had judiciously and calmly placed the case of his colleagues before the public at the last meet ing of the Committee.

It is one, moreover, which was urged upon the Quebec Government by a sub-committee of the Montreal Board of Trade. The pertinence and the wisdom of the plea which Premier Duplessis makes in sequence to his reinstatement of the Committee are alike obvious. The people, and especially politicians of all shades of opinion, are asked to forgo au controversy and agitation in the matter, so that peace and justice, so essential to the welfare of the province, may be restored, to permit complete harmony to continue to reign between French-speaking and English-speaking Pro testants and Catholics. Only in this way will the task which confronts the Protestant Committee' be timely and efficiently com pleted. The task is one in which, in the light of ihe interest recent events have stirred, the members are assured of the sympathy of the Protestant community of Quebec.

The Com mittee realizes and it has been shown that its members have always realized, that the system of education in the public schools, if it is properly to respond to modern exigencies and demands, must be subjected to recurring change and reform. That it has not been allowed, as was lightly alleged in the first instance, to become antiquated, has been convincingly shown. That it is capable of being made more progressive and therefore more adequate to prevailing needs, is likewise beyond dispute. Nor is there any reason to doubt that within the membership of the Protestant Committee as it stands there is, as well as an alertness to the actual needs, a competence to direct the course that should be followed in order to meet fully those requirements, and at the same time a readiness on the part of all the members to measure up to the opportunities which the situation provides. Their reinstatement in office by the Premier of the province constitutes a signal mark of confidence in which the public will concur.

AN ENCOURAGING OUTLOOK. A very significant speech was delivered by Ralph B. Wilson at a meeing of Montreal business men on Monday, and one which was admirably attuned to the day the festival of Thanksgiving. Mr. Wilson is vice-president of the noted United States statistical organization which is responsible for the publication of Babson's Reports which are universally read and respected for their reliability as an index of economic conditions.

It may be taken for granted, therefore, that Mr. Wilson expresses a duly considered opinion, based on substantial evidence. In fact, he frankly cites the testimony. After weighing it against the present precarious world situation, and duly considering the possibility that many combinations of un favorable, events may have their repercus sions in Canada, Mr. Wilson ventures to fore cast that business conditions will be not merely in the Dominion, but that they will go to a higher level, regardless of external or domestic political and social developments.

His conclusion is decidedly reassuring. It is that Canada as a whole is heading toward increased prosperity and that 1938, therefore, should be the best' year in the Dominion's history of industry and finance. Turning from the general to the particu lar, Mr. Wilson finds that our retail trade now holds greater promise than at any time since pre-1929 days. Construction figures for the year to current date amounted to $14,000,000, compared with $9,800,000 at this time in 1936 on the Island of Montreal.

Newsprint production, as one of Quebec's staple industries, has attained a new all-time altitude, and the transportation business has been the best that Montreal has experienced since 1929. Incidental to this is the report of the Province of Quebec Tourist Bureau which shows a 15 per cent, increase in tourist business during the first eight months of the year, to constitute a record advance compared with any that has been made during the past four or five years. This no doubt has appreciably helped the Province of Quebec to the actual enjoyment of her best sales conditions in a long time. And what makes this more gratifying is the fact, attested by Mr. Wilson, that it is a correct reflex of the experience of the whole Dominion, where a definite, if somewhat irregular, upward push has carried the volume of business to a posi-.

tion 11 per cent, above the normal line, and "the. underlying pressure is still on the "upside." Mr. Wilson's picture of the state of Canada's national economy is decidedly encouraging, since it does not reflect any psychological reactions to events but has for background facts solid enough for Babson's. be the hardest-neaaea for us and, perhaps peoples of the British we look upon repre The Pas sing. democratic government to let it be Known we stand for liberal civiliza and "Left" is to misname them.

The methods of both are reactionary. Latterly, it is true, the Russian system has tended to tolerate some forms of private property and also tion, and that sentative and responsible under laws foundations individual freedom freely made as the very of the British Commonwealth. If the Governments of the British peoples were to add that they coud not view with favor any attempt to overthrow what remains of democracy in Europe, or to stand against aggressive war. To this extent it has become less illiberal. The Nazi and the Fascist systems, on the other hand, extol i 1 ,11 War UllU, III 'JJiai-ln-C, nanuic vagj- ital" and private property with scant resDect.

From Our Readers (Letters to the Editor must ba accompanied in each instance by the name and address of the sender, whether for publication or not, the, name to be written in ink. Contributors are asked to be brief. All letters are subject to editorial rewsio or rejection). Bingo. To the Editor of The Gazette: Sir, In the current issue of Thar Gazette one reads that in future bingo will not be permitted for private gain but only for churches or other charitable undertakings by special permission of the authors ties.

It appears that although binga is an unlawful gamble, it is purified when played for the extension of God work. This idea followed out in other unlawful enterprises woul(J result in some peculiar situations. In other words, wrong becomes right when done "in His Name. IJ Jesus came to Montreal today in the flesh, and was asked, "Lord, ij it lawful to gamble to get money for Thy work?" I think we can. guess that His answer would ba negative and in no uncertain tones.

L. WRIGHT. Montreal, October 9, 1937. DON'T DISCUSS METHODS. (Calgary Herald.) A cubic mile of sea water contains $2,500,000,000 worth of table salt 1,650 pounds for every person in Canada and the United States.

$200,000,000 worth of calcium chloride. $2 000.000.000 worth of magnesium. $425,000,000 worth of fertilizer 15 tons for every farmer on this continent. Hundreds of times as much radium as has ever been mined and radium is worth $20,000,000 per pound. $5,008,000 worth of gold.

$4,500,000 worth of aluminum pistons for 5,000,000 automobiles. $2,500,000 worth of silver. $525,000 worth of iodine, copper and iron. $1,750,000,000 worth of Epsom salts enough to give every inhabitant of the earth 75 DOunds. Years In all about $7,000,000,000 worth of mineral resources in every cubic mile of sea water! There are millions of cubic miles of sea water around Canada's coasts, and Alberta has just as much right to that water as any of the coastwise provinces.

But she is not getting her share. Here is a "won-drously simple" solution for poverty in the midst of plenty, a limitless source of wealth; and nothing is being done about it. At Entwistle on Wednesday Mr. Aberhart said: "Please don't all become experts. Just tell the Government the results you want, and leave the methods to the Government.

You must never discuss methods. That sounds pretty good to us. We want our share of the wealth out of this vast heritage of sea water. We demand it. We know the sea water is there because we have seen it, and so has Mr.

Aberhart. We know it is ours. And we are not going to discuss the Lower methods. special A Little Nonsense will be Canadian train for "That was a whale of a big tip you gave that hat check girl." "Yes, but look at the fine hat she gave me." Mike "Yes, I'll lend you $10 if you don't keep it too long." Pat "I promise to spend it right away." Mother "Dorothy, you have disobeyed mother by racing around, making that noise. Now you can't have that piece of candy." Father (entering a few minutes later) "Why so quiet, little Dorothy "I've been fined for speeding." Bucken- for the filline his the anony Son "I am sure Dad gets mors absentminded every day." Mother "What makes you think that?" Son "Well, when I met him o-day, he shook hands and said, 'Pleased to meet you, my boy.

And how's your It was a dreamy day, and the two tramps sprawled in the sun. "I'd like to have a nice pub in an out-of-the-way spot," said No. 1. "You wouldn't get many customers." replied No. 2.

"Who the blazes wants customers?" retorted No. 1. "Your honor," complained an irate Irishwoman, "this no-account husband of mine drinks." "Quite right, your honor," inter in the in mrate shins. ignore persistent recourse to metn ods of violence in international Now the British Liberal political system and affairs, I look From The Gazette of Twenty-five Years Ago, 1912. Ottawa Permission has been granted to the provinces of Nova Scotia and British Columbia to issue leases for oyster beds under the same terms as those given to Prince Edward Island.

Ottawa Canada is now ninth in tonnage lists of the Maritime states of the world as published in a report for 1911 just issued by the Department of Marine and Fisheries. The other eight, beginning at the top, are Great Britain, Germany, United States, Norway, France, Russia, Italy and Japan. would soon be more hopeful. Lovers of freedom everywhere would be encouraged. The United Tendency the philosophy which lies Denina are fundamentally liberal, as regards both personal freedom and private property.

It is doubtful whether States would and the military and dictatorships would fancy that the whole out be keenly interested reflect. unless we are prepared our fundamental liberal merely our local or cause in support of interests, there may pre London Sir David Burnett has been elected Lord Mayor of London for this year, his term of office beginning on November 9. Fifty Years Ago, Thursday, October 13, 1887. uritisn peoples, as a spontaneously rally. French Press The excursion over no most Laurentides railway under the auspices of the Chambre de Commerce Canada's Mines.

(Quebec): "It amjears will taKe piace xooay. recent statistics on car for the Montreal guests production that Can attached to the Pacific Railway morning ine an enviable position of base metals, particularly coppsr, nickel, lead and 1920, Canada occupied mediocre position as producer metals, with the exception nickel. Since then, the Quebec. At Three Rivers Premier Mercier will join the party and the end of the new line will be reached shortly after 1 o'clock, when a banquet will be held. Speeches will be delivered by the Hon.

Mr. Mercier, Mr. Jos; Tasse, Mr. J. X.

Perrault and others. view the British Commonwealth could stand on any other foundations. Besides, by its very character, the British Commonwealth is opposed to aggressive war. It follows that British foreign policy should favor those countries whose policies coincide with these fundamental British interests. Mr.

Rowse, whose main contention has not been fairly met, argued in his letter on August 23 that "the foreign policy of a State is very largely dependent upon the character of its internal regime may. in fact, be said to be in large part a function of it." He added: "The real safety and security of this country has lain in the fact that our legitimate interests coincided with the interests, and very often the independence, of the great number of European countries." Dr. Edwyn Bevan, not without some controversial foreshortening of Mr. Rowse's thesis, answered that it "obviously" implies "England's readiness to go to war against the dictatorships on behalf of the cause." -But, he went on: "Perhaps some future historian may pronounce that Mr. Rowse was right.

Liberty and democracy perished from the world because at the critical moment England, the great democratic Power, the richest and the strongest, hung back and would not fight. So the despots had their way ail over the globe." Dr. Bevan, I think, Preparation errs in assuming that Means Pence declared readiness to defend certain vital interests necessarily means tnat we should have to fight for them. It may mean the exact contrary. The immediate aim of British foreign policy is, I imagine, to avoid a major war in which we should be compelled to take part.

Some think this aim can best be attained by making up our minds to keep out of war at all Others think it wiser for us to say in advance that we shall throw our weight pause Indeed, to defend ideas, not material sently be waicn tne whole, would The from the our mining ada -enjoys as a producer of zinc. Before a of base of industry nas markable point of duction, and processing markets. for a good all the per, lead and in Canada, supply of Une or the Canadian owes its large number include such as- bismuth, tellurium. advantage ticularly metals drops, mits the costs. metal products about $36,768,000, per cent, of mining year.

Le Soleil developed in a re manner, both from the of volume of pro Mark Twain "has taken ham Hall, near Norwich, winter. He has been yachting with facilities for refining, and distribution to It may be noted that many years practically production of nickel, cop a party of guests and spare nime editing a library of wit and humor. zinc has been refined owing to the abundant cheap electrical energy. GRIM JUSTICE. (Hamilton Spectator.) There is a certain grim poetic tne elements to which justice in the fact that base metal industry vigor is the fact that a of the native minerals other metals as well, gold, silver, platinum, cadmium, selenium and This association is to ths mity whicn surrounds these pirate submarines makes it possible to blow every one of them out of the water without offending a single when of country, and without running the risk of a formal war.

Pirate submarines are not unlike gangsters. They can be put on the "spot" without peace-loving citizens worrying very much about them. Having placed themselves beyond the pale of the law. gangsters place themselves in many resDects be the industry, par the price of base inasmuch as it per yond its pi'otection. So, ternational field, do exploiters to recover byproducts whose value lowers production The value of base in 1938 is quoted at or more than ten the value of our entire production for the The only flag can legitimately fly is the skull and crossbones.

THE USEFUL WAY. (Chatham News.) before he commenced a life against those countries which resort to war. And in support of their contention they cite historical evid ence that there might have been no war in 1914-1918 had we made known our policy beforehand. Have we not seriously to consider whether a British foreign Sol icy that should be, or appear to careless of the freedom of others sentence, said maining Just RECOVERY IN MONTREAL. (Winnipeg Tribune.) Effects of recovery are.

being seen cn all sides. Chaplin has discarded the tramp suit and a Montreal newspaperman reports beiag robbed of $2.50 in cash. an American criminal he didn't consider his life ended and he hoped to be able to do rupted the husband, "I do. But that woman don treat me riant. Why.

I pawns the kitchen stove to get a little money an' sne doesn't miss it for two weeks." something right useful. He can by re in prison..