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WEDNESDAY, ‘AUGUST s, 192s _

of one's ability. Money is one of the great necessaries of life. Money is power, and it is the power it gives that makes the pursuit of it so al- luring. Everyone wants power but not everyone wants power to benc- flt the world or their‘ fellow men and women, and this should be the ob-

WANTED, MEN!

THE great need of the world today

is men. Men, whose word is their bond, whose yea is yea, and whoa nay is nay, andwho have idle courage to say either when they mean it. What a different com-

‘ tory.

I surely recognize this.

iNotes by the Way

{THE Dillon lay-election campaign

now on, is somewhat unique be- 081186 it is a three-cornered fight. Mf- W. E. Bentley, who claims, and illilth some truth, that he was the means of putting the present un- satisfactory Govemment in power, now wants to get into the legisla- ture under the delusio that his presence there will make it satisfac- Experience teaches some people, but not everybody, or Mr. ‘Bentley would realize that having ‘been fooled by Mr. Saunders once |he may just as easily be fooled by lhim again. Nothing is to be gained by having a third party in the leg- islature, especially a party of one, and the electors of Belfast must

plexlon would be given to our elec- tion campaigns if both candidates and electors could be implicitly re-

lied upon. The trouble now is tbat‘life; for the acquisition of money Public WOFKS Wflmed the electvrs

in too many cases neither can de- pend upon the other. The candi-

1°°° °' °"°‘"Y- “m” “why “f a It is inleresting T. note that the P15“ in the slm- T0 mflny the PUT‘ Saunders Government intends iri- sult oi money is the only purpose in|creasing taxation. The Minister of

they will sacrifice principles, health, °f Belfast m“ the 96°91” smuld reputation accustom themselves to higher tax-

daie is looking for votes, he ap- proaches an elector. the elector eith- er promises to support him or gives an evasive answer. Why not say. right living, of sane thinking, and right out who: one means in this of good citizenship. A mind bent case. On the other hand the elect-i on money-making alone is a mind or approaches the candidate with aidiscased, warped by an unnatural view to ascertain where he stands’, greed. for Nature never intended us on particular public issum. The to be mere money-grabbers and self- candidate is evasive. If ‘the ques-iseekers. Work is a duty, but along tioneris a prohibitionist, the candi-iwith this duty comes the duty to date is a prohibitionist. If the op-l make life worth living, not only for posite is the case the candidate as-'oneself but for the world. It rc-

After they have se-, cured their money they are poor indeed if they have not acquired along with it the real principles of‘ the recklessness and disregard of

atlon. It was ever thus with the Liberals. When they get into power {they spend the people's money with

‘the proverbial drunken sailor, and then look to the deluded and de-' frauded people to pay the piper, though they were not permitted to call the tune. Had the Saunders Government any business sense, any regard for economy, it would have cut its suit according to its cloth, land gone after our claims at Ottawa as the Stewart Government did. But no, it went in for reckless extrava- gance immediately on taking oflice,

L. ‘ d t ogljutnlviicbcallb , ~ BRAINS AND ATHLETICS

One of the signs of the present trend in newspapers is the space given to sports or athletics.

From the column or half page of former years we see now one, two, four and even six pages given to describing past or future athletic events. Now that too many watch athletics and not enough engage in them is perhaps true, but when a single good sized city can boast oi 430 hocky teams, 900 softball teams, 100

very hopeful in the situation. It is only natural should be just a little afraid of in- juries to their children in these sports, but as mentioned before, it is this giving and taking, this wil- lingness to take a bump that de- velops the youngster physically, mentally, and morally. Further parents often point to the fact that Bill Jones, the very prominent athlete never did much at school. He wanted to play every game in its season, and so there was no time for study. Now what about athletics and standing in school? Dr. A. H. Mumford, medical offic- er of the school, classified about 7000 boys as to physical activity and compared this with their work in school.

soccer, 40 rugby, 150 hard ball base- ball teams, besides all the track and field athletics. and other cities can likely do the same in proportion to their size, then there is something

that parents

his 80th. members of the Lords and Com- mons, and that it comes from both friends and "foes,"

for a good deal more.

own household," says a proverb, or something to that effect, may well be Ramsay MacDonald has a sure and certain belief that it is a true say- ing. '

Manchester grammar

sures him that the prohibition re- strictions will not be too rigidly en- forced. This is only true in cer- tain cases, although in too great a proportion of cases. The trouble is that too many men are dishonest with themselves as well as with others.

Man has been defined as the "noblest work of creation." A" more _recent writer divided men into two classes, men and mugwumps. The! latter is defined as a thing with hisi mug on one side of the fence and‘ this wamp onthe other, each blow-

quires the culture that comes of reading, thinking and storing the mind with useful knowledge to make money worth having, for wealth without these is but a burden and a curse. it}?

THAT EQUAL STATUS.

SOME time ago The Guardian sug- gested that some one of the Lib- oral newspapers which had been

and now heralds abroad that thc people must be prepared for in- creased taxation—provide it with more money to squander in wanton- ness.

He found that boys who won scholarships to Oxford and Cam- bridge displayed a bodily physique decidedly superior to average boys. This finding seemed to show these boys did better work in school with less effort. It was shown that the greater the degree of mental ability the greater was the excellence in sports. At universities now a student can- not represent his university if he has failed in his studies oi the prev- lOllS year, / This of course keeps some athletes at their studies more than they otherwise would be. However before

It comes well from the lips of Hon. Mr. Mclntyre that the people should prepare for increased taxa- tion. His department is the one most to blame, almost exclusively to blame, for the present deplorable financial |condition of the Government. With- out any tenders. written inquiries

lacasting of the "Equal Status"said or cstllmates, he ordered by mlw

w have bml secured by Mr- Mac- phone some $100,000 road machinery, lzcnzic King for Canada. would cle- and never lnfllllfed Who W85 I0 8'3

‘flajsqn: w

ing hot and cold on whatever issue is before the public.

We want men, not mugwumps. especially to fill positions oi trust and responsibility, and everyone, man or woman holds a position of trust and responsibility who enjoys the franchise.

Mme} OUR FOREIGN POPULATION.

fine what this "equal status“ meant. After several days of no doubt care- ful cogitation, The Patriot, in its last Monday's issue, devoted a col- umn of editorial to a definition which is as relevant to the question as it would be to the familiar con- undrum “why does a chicken cross the road?"

The Patriot quotes lcngthily from an excellent speech by Mr. C. H. Cahan, K.C.,M.P., on the autonomy of Canada. That Canada is autono- mous, andhas been long before Mr. Mackenzie King camc into the Can- adian limelight, no one has ever questioned. She has been mistress of her affairs since Confederation, mistress by rights conferred upon her by the British North America Act. What additional status has Mr. Mackenzie King secured for her that had not been provided by the B. N. A. Act? This is what Cana- dians want to know as to this ad- ditional status said to have been secured by Mr. Mackenzie King. "Daughter am I in_ my Mother's House; but Mistress in my Own," was written by Rudyard Kipling bc- fore‘he ever heard of Mr. Mackenzie King. As to Canada's “equal status," with the Mother Country, the phrase is as absurd as would be the equal status of a child with its mother. When the former gets into trouble‘ the mother looks after it Just as the Mother Country would loolo after Canada if the latter got into trouble. The only point in the whole affair is that Mr. Mackenzie King secured nothing for Canada that she did not have before and what she had before was perfect autonomy. No change has been made in the British North America Act.

‘ACCORDING to figures recently issued. 70,927 immigrants arriv- ed in Canada during the first three months 0f the current fiscal year. Of these 23,695 or about 32 per cent. are classified as British. Where the other 68 per cent. came from it is unnecessary to ask. Some of them are no doubt Norwegians, a very good class of citizens after they have been Canadianized. The remainder are from Central Europe, some of the lowest races. and the races which are not likely ever to become real British Canadian subjects. Evi- dently there has been discrimina- tion against British immigrants, and during the present administration complaints have been freely made on this score both in Great Britain and Canada. This is no doubt a concomitant of the condition com- plained of by the leading Liberal journal, The Toronto Globe, which recently admitted that the policy of the King Government is a separat- ist one. This is one of the matters which healthy Canadianism must look into. No objection would be raised to a proportion of Northern European Immigrants such as Nor- wegians and Swedes, but a distinct barrier should be raised against im- migrants of the riff-rail variety to be found in many parts of Central Europe. These people, once admit- ted into Canadian citizenship have Qn equal standing at the poles with the beat Canadian citizens, and the effect upon the future of Canada cannot but be very marked. 1 The immigration policy of Canada must be revised and given a more British and Canadian complexion, otherwise we shall, in the not dis- tant future find ourselves at the

Mami-

EDITORIAL NOTES.

Catchy weather for haymaking, what? But see what they are get- ting in other places, destructive! electric storms, killing heat, damag ing hailstormsl

_ fooled all the time!

said to be som $25,000, on the transaction, though ‘there are among the Liberal stal- warts men in the machinery agency {business who would have been glacl ,to book at least part of the order and share in the legitimate com- mission. Is such a system of doing business to be perpetuated in the Department of Public Works? Ii so, then the people may well aban- don hope, and be prepared to mort- gage their farms to pay the burden of taxation to which Mr. Mclntyr: says they should accustom them- selves under the Saunders regime.

Take this road work which the Government is defending and the farmers damning-and not with ‘faint phrases. According to Mr. |Mclntyre‘s own admission the wid- ening and improving of the roads has been carried on over 1,600 miles. He says the cost of the work at Hunter River was $500 per mile. Al this rate the Government has al- reddy expended $800,000 on the roads. and by the end of this month the total must be in the vicinity of $1,000,000. What authority is there for this enormous expenditure and how is the Government going to foot the bill?

, the commission,

According to the program of thc Saunders Government, thc sum of $300,000 was to be appropriated for road work. If Mr._McIntyre's fig- ures are tobe relied upon, then the Government has already exceeded this by half a million dollars, and still half the year to go_ yet. Where ls it going to end? Perhaps, of course, Mr. McIntyre may be ex- aggerating, and perhaps 1,600 miles have not been widened and im- proved, and perhaps the cost has not been $500 per mile, as Mr. Mc- Intyre claims. But where are we then? What reliance is to be placed on any statements made by Mr. Mc- Intyre either as regards ordering road machinery or the extent and cost of road work done by the Gov- ernment? The people are the 11111895 and surely they are not 80108 t0 be

Today we shall have with us the Young Ambassadors of Empire, and may the Clerk of the Weather smile benignly upon them and us. They should be able to spfind 8 Very pleasant and profitable time with us, all too brief though it be. Our young visitors will once more have

mercy of men and wmrien whose ways arc not our ways, nor their

thoughts Gill‘ f-hfllllhfli. —- i DOLLARS ONLY.

It is really amusing to hear Lib- erals declare the presentroads the best we ever had. Their opinion is not an informed opinion on roads,

impessed upon them that good things are not always made up in lflrilfl parcels, that the best places in this world do not usually cover a big

until relief came. A striking monu-

' VERY sane man and woman ' “wants-money and has a right "to all they can earn or make hori-

v

""5 7°“ mlkml- but “I 3W!" we" area may not compare with many for their loyalty to party, if loyaltyllof the provinces they will visit in

‘ftbe. The filliflythiili about it iophlllr wlll‘. bllll "lwfluml if“; that they expect people who know,s°u' m? ‘ndusw enwrpr o

m. u not only a right but

better to believe them and perhaps

territory. Here our acreage and

our people ,most of them descend-

the days when the standing in the studies was necessary, I looked up the records of one of the largest universities in America and found that not one of the students who had been awarded his university colors in athletics had failed-in his examinations. In fact many of them had attained very high standing and scholarships.

What is my point? That all games and sports really help the mentality aside from the physical and moral development at- tained. '

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August 8, i928 BENEFITS 0F FRIENDSHIP— Iron sharpcneth iron; so a man sharpenetli the countenance of his fricnd.—'Pr0v. 27:17.

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PRAYER-We pray, Lord, n. grace to give our best, asking for nothing in return. \

THEY D0 NOT LIVE They do not live who choose the, middle way,

Whom ecstasy and anguish have not known,

Who scale no trembling heights, nor plumb the lone

Depths of an aching darknex in

bright day.

They miss the passion with the pain, the gay

High tides that sweep the spirit to its own.

The lifting surge of music. the dear tone Of a loved voice in pleading or in

play.

They miss the hurts and stumb- lings; surely fear

Is nevertheirs, nor groping in the night;

In their serene cool weather come no dread

Torrents or tempests to corrupt their sight,

Nor any rainbow; neither do they hear

The sea, nor does the thunder wake these dead.

—BY Irwin Edman. ~ew+o

The Land We Love

By moi Yelgb 0+0+9HM neewa cocoa»

NEILCIIERI-IB

Q. Where is Vercheres?

A. Vercheres is a picturesque village on the south shore of the St. Lawrence River near Montreal made memorable by the heroism oi Madeleine Vercheres, the fourteen year old French Canadian who kept a band of Iroquois at bay for near- ly a week in the rude palisaded fortress known as Castle Dangerous

ment of her occupies a prominent position on the river front, near an historic old block house.

servable in Kent, Devon and corn. wall.

May our visitors have a good the here. and may our people u usual

_;a duty. The Ability to earn mlmvy a funnier thing still is that some

"l" M “w” m” emlgnted from distinguish themselves by making

(p one of Nature's great and Liberals who

the old sod, have made it a verit-

LONDON LETTER

(British United Press) A GOOD RISK

Fifty years ago an insurance on the life of the then Mr. Arthur James Balfour would not have been considered by most companies as a first class risk. Nevertheless the "A. J." of those days-the Lord Balfour of the present times-is just enter- ing his Blst. year.

Whether it be simply that “creak- ing doors hang long." or because early delicacy oi constitution im- posed restrictions upon him which accrued to his benefit in later life. it is certain that Lord Balfour has retained in a marvellous degree physical and mental powers which many a younger and apparently ro- bust man might envy.

It has been said of Lord Balfour that he is nothing more than a dis- embodied intelligence; that his calm imperturbility in time of stress and crisis is not the manifestation of character but of the lack oi’ it: that he is all things to all men, and so on, but the fact remains that Lord Balfour has remained “A. J." ‘to those who know him, which stands for a. good deal, and that the presentation to be made to him on birthday is the gift oi

which stands

LABOR’ IS AS LABOR-i _ “A man's enemies are those of his

and it imagined that Mr.

Young Things bethought themselves to give a combined Dancing and Swimming Party. Youths and maid- ens of more or less degree arrived at the scene clad in elaborate even- ing drcss in which to dance, ac- companied by costumes in which to swim. The fun grew fast and fur- ious so that some of the celebranfs |swam in the evening dress and danced in other kit. One Adonis. having swum, anointed himself tout ensemble with Eau de Cologne. and others were still more luxuri- ous. Splendid! ' Now listen to the words of Mr. MacDonald a few days before the party. Said he: "the daughters of the wcrking classes do not spend their time in night clubs or con-i centrate their attention upon the vanities and frivolitles of life." Which utterance was still more splendid. But, alas! the leading lady of the ‘dance and swim,’ the life and soul, of the party. as it were, was none othr than the daughter of a Social- ist M. P. who was an under secre- tary in the late Labour Goveni- ment. Surely Mr. MacDonald must have torn his hair and beat his breast in his despair.

TANKS FOR CANADA The British motor-car has not, I believe, been an unqualified success. so for, in the Dominions, be the causes what they may. but the Brit- ish Manufacturer does not propose to be beaten, so he ls having an- other go at the problem of how to suit the overseas market. If a test which I saw carried out the other clay really indicates the conditions overseas which the cars must meet, then it la abundantly clear that an army tank is of all vehlclcs the onc most preeminently fitted for the job.

But after some considerable ex- pcrlcnce of transatlantic roads from the north of Canada to the Mexican border, and some second-hand knowledge of those of Australia, 1 am inclined to wonder whether there is any rcal necessity for a. car to be able to jump like a kangaroo. turn a somersault every hundred yards, buck jump, plunge down pre- cipices and generally behave like a mechanical contortionist. However, if it be necessary, then the car I saw certainly fills the bill. But I would feel safer still in a tank.

PRIVATE LABOR PARTY

Mr. ‘Jimmy’ Maxton and Mr. A. J. Cook do not seem to be making much progress with their attempt to set up what is, virtually, a Party of their own. even though the re- doubtable Mr. Wheatly has enlisted under their banner.

It would seem that many of the Socialist party regard the venture of Messrs. Maxion and Cook as be- ing something in the nature of pri- vatc enterprise, and as such it is anathema to all good Socialists. No one seems to know just now exactly what the l ovement is going to do, or whither it is moving, or whether it is moving at all.

As has been remarked, the cam- paign is reminiscent of the Fourth Crusade, which took ages toget a move on, and then, for something lo do and in some aberration, cap- tured Constantinople instead of Jerusalem!