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l"l{lD.-\\. SEPTEMBER 17, 1937

His Honours Advice

lis ‘live-our l.ieu11-u:int tlt-reriior llcldl-iis

invi- t-ru-HI- .--l\ir-- u- iv-iiii; int-n at thvhdflffi ifotnry- |'\ ition on \\t-diit-s-l:iy when he told llltlll t» "qt-i -b.u'l, 1o iln- laud or stay 1m ic lat-d ns tht cit-e llld) 1'11“. '1‘1l"1"~' 11"‘ l*'“' iirlmu l------'---~{--i1~ toddy thzit are not 1>\'\’l't‘l'"\\’l_1' “d, and u! ilv. as the old : gt- hlis it. Ihfiffi 1-‘

“iilu 1\< room at the top." 11n- difiiclllt)‘ Yllllllfl ,. pt-ol-lt- t-xl-tiii-n-"e in qt-tirng to 1hr- top has ht-t-ii irct-iitiiittwl iii recent l“ lllllllllllfl- ‘*1 1'01"‘?- fifh snl-it-t-t lilzt‘ other :1 -tit-< 1<-_ lllt‘ up< and l:l,\\ll\ p! (Ut-Hllmic it lllllll)‘, hut flu-re are 11-1-11» 1g rirlvarn t'\l‘ll in dvl-rr-Jvll ~31, ~ mixed ltriiiing is l-11ll1>\\'t‘fl Cflll" .-~t-.1"-v -- .r after 11-11", n- iu this l'i'o\'iiice. _l-..~ .11.» 1;’ ris‘ 1- l'<'lll!i'\'tl to :1 minimum, “pl ,,,_. , fr: -l-.- 3 ljlxl- Low, to "hold i11< g-wn.” '11 a lifl- 1-111- st-t-iiq inouoh-n-uis 11s “pll a; l-h --.~,1,. go 1i\\l‘ ‘voting people; ltiit ii ' o,‘- ,-..‘.. '. 1. -\7_-~ odllofglll ;lg1-<;t<tli1*i4_lt'.'tl ni-ul». 1 " 1- at". ll-t- iz-rnicr. 11s Shakespeare Y rxl-M ~~"~ ‘1 m _"I<‘roni rise to S?! Stu-q"; n1 -‘ ~- eve of Plioei) . and a1‘. night. su-wp, i. ' luau tuiv nits-i" dawn. l-i Lynn. l l»l‘t])t‘ll\'l\ to his ltorse, Aiid t1 .. Hfvlfi-Pliillillfl yi-ai‘ T; Vthzh pronxi 111- n- to his HYHVQ" "lo unit'- T.- t'~d'l1 <._-1‘--\r_ ziud tht- hit-fwd“? 0151-13" \.*.,~ l-‘ii-uwi. drain hard l-Fviilh IIYYT L-l--.-._r1- .r-~ l1 _ to rod. toil-ink, to love. 3., l~,.,,,._ p. p. ,‘ - - .11‘1~ 11h- thiiigs lllitl iiiitlce on.“ l. , _ \---.\ llltll a \\'<~.'i1'i1-tl lcnig, ‘l m- A ._--l »l;-\--_ tY-ivwl otu where tlu- true E ‘Mp-J. ' u-t-‘lil ut-rv. 71nd ll|>\~l‘\\r‘ll h 1,;,,,.-@l{_ -, , ---_ tzl‘ l\\1i o1" gnrdcn ground. of .1 tron. 1; --.1:-- doimnioii." ft is 1-1.1 .-!‘ 111- llllt~l iniporniiii tthlt-ctivt-s of our county. l-r llllFl-‘tl zin-l otlivi‘ k'_\‘11l1'1lltl\l~'_l” ltlt-vt-lol- l\---.n-ti" llll<‘l'i‘~l in zigriculiiiit- as 1i 1'5" I: \\1il'l\: ll-tl nzt-r-h ns- :1 nit-on- of li\'1'lill<ut(l. but i] ,1. :1 not o’ l? '_ fully and coniplrtt-l)’. ladii- 1 crilion. in tl-i- t-u xlltiii. is 11- importniit to 111i‘ l forum-i" 11- it i- 11- tht- proft-ssioiial niaii. 1111111 ClJt-sv- lll1'\l fi-vflitlllt‘ Ill tht-ir pnrtiviilzii‘ W011- p-t . 1-11! no 1-in- czui l-t- sziitl l" ht‘ ll'\11,\' P1111‘ (q- w. \-.‘--- Fvlll-lllls a >lIL‘L‘l-'\ll\l only; nor truly succt-“Ful t-in- his llillllt‘ nothing out of lift‘ but a lute-l, l-‘ilz-nt-tn "l rv-pcct not i115 - his inrni uln-rt- €‘\‘t‘l'_\\lli|lg llltS “ \-‘\\ 'I‘h--rt-;ui_ “\\ho \\'ll\llll cziirv the ,- _ “l... \,..lll.l coir)" lll\ tlt-d, to itizirkct. if h- eonlrl 11-1 nirvihiiug it-r hint; who goes to tuarltvt f.---lll.1'.--1l;is i; is; on Wlltisl‘ farm nod-in! wrou- frt-r, “ho-t- lit-lvls him‘ no Crttl“. who-ts‘11-1~11--\\s no floivurs, whose trees no _-. lllll d llzzrs." i]. not thi- l-t- llll’ ruusc- of lllllCll of tlit- dis- ~1ion of th-- tonugt-r optic-ration with farm

hut the 1l<|ll;tl's' lmvc acquired an

t» I‘ i;t\'-—1

~1-<-1"i:un~<-_ to the detriment of 7~n of Tllllsk‘ oilier things which t i- it'll". no price; bectiusetliey- are price-

I933 The Starling Poinl

hireziu of Sdzitisiics aniioiinct-s that P116

The DHlIlllll-tll hztd a fztvotirzil-le balance of $403.- 951.4111) in tilt‘ ‘vt-z-r eiitlctl _liil_v 3i, an increase of Surat-toot) uvt-r the previous year. Total

trade Gllit-‘tlwl a gain of 2.1 per cent. These are git-toying llfillftxi. <l]1i\\'itlg that Canada has t-rau-llwl far along the roatl of prosperity since the lnivv-t point of the depression. early in Q33. In iniuii- re-pt-rts thr- [wrest-tit position is more fztvournl-le than it was in the pre-rletiression years. The progress is pvrt-scntt-d in grRphiC form iii a chztrt prepared by rhe firm of Gil-l-sons, advertising experts. detailing the economic situation for the month of July, with respect to trade, aitiplr-y-iitt-iit. production, prices, etc. The nadir of (‘ll‘l)f‘t'<r~ilill (i933) is repres- ented by a vertical line—-the starting point from which rt-covt-ri- is inenstire-tl. “Average pros- perity" is flt'lt'l’lllllll‘(l by “taking an average of monthlv indict-s for each factor for the {om years. 11121-411211". This average has been sur-

"prts-t-tl in llll‘ vase of exports. physical volume

of hu-int-ss, t‘ltllvlll_\'llll"lll, minriutl production, nevv-priiit and electrical pt-tvt-r production. The significance of the foregoing statement is the (’lIll1ll-'l~l\ plum-d on the year i933 as "the starting point from which recovery is measur- ed." l1 was in that vt-nr that tht- limpire Trade

Agrt-rnu-nts first l-t-tu-inie effective. Denounced by .\Ir_ Xlzn-lu-nzit- King and his colleagues in Oplynsititill a: "economic iiiipt-rialistn", the prin- ciple of t.'triff prt-ft-rt-nct-s emhotlietl in those

agrcc-nitints proved the sheet-anchor which en- alilt-d (Kind-l:- 1o ut-atht-r t-he depression. It is TfiTlttH-‘llP for il-t- country that though the Ben- nett CHYPFlIltlPlIl “'11s tlt-feziled two years later. its I-Ynil-irt- lr-lirivs continued in tux-ration. and

with slight nu-diiirzttion have hct-n embodied in the nt-tv ngrt-t-nit-nt signed by the K-ing Gov- Qruiut-nt with tlic llld Country. -

Britain's Altitude

fhv .\lt--li1<-r1-:t1ic:in situation so ta-r as Bri-

tain and ltulv are mutually concvrticd is thus aptlv stunnit-d up l-v thc London $pectzittvri Fig-nor \lIl\\1Illlii referred (in :1 rrcctit speech) twice to the .\l<'1llll'l‘l'.'lllf‘.'\l1. llc repeated that to llzdv. i1 \\';|~ r1111. ht-r life, to Britain merely 211:. rt l'.l!jll\\'.|\. So long zis tlit- highway is lvfl fru- to zill -l1ip- of Illl nzttion< oii their lawful oCvJi-i-ni- ll;1l\ is ut-ltw-ini- lo the rlisliliciimi l"!- l’\\'l‘l'li r .-/./ and o‘.- hut llHTt‘ can be no counten- ant-v for ;-:i\ clziiiu to siipcrior rights to oil!‘ 0W" in \l- li t-rt. iurin uatvrs. Tht- larger clnini that ll'l_v his 1h-- tight to l-zui llolslu-visni iii any .‘-llllll"l'l"‘lll‘illl .\'“itv— unwitting. of course. gltilill -nu-~"t l-t- TPjPFlPtl in Iuln, She has just as tutu-ll rin-l zi- lilllt- right :i< Britain or France lizis t-- li'!ll lfii-t-i-iit in $1-:iin. The milv right ri-iyiint- for \‘p:iiii. as .\Tr, litlv-n sriid at the he-

vinuing of the struggle and has frequently re-

peated since. is the regime the Spanish people themselves“ want. It may be long before the will of a clear majority of thc people can be flgccrlaincrl or cnfored. but in the meantime there can he no justification for external intr-r- ferencc. whether from Rome or Hcrlin or Mos- cow or London. directed lfiwélfrli imposing any pilfllflllllf form of government on Spain. On that point there can be no rapprochinent bc- tween Rome and London so long its Signor .\l1issolini insists on his right to interfere. If

as accumulating evidence suggests. ltaly is carry- ing interference to the point of zissisting, or zictuallv engaging in. armed attack oti Sllilllifill and other vessels in the hlctlitermuczin, then so far from the rapprochincnt with Tiritriiu which Signor .\lnssolini appears to desire there can only be sharp and very dangerous tctision.

I Editorial Notes I‘

James ll died this date. i701. n- x x k

Canada's Labour Congress is not so loyal iii gllppnfl of the Lianzirlizin Liovt-ritiiieiit as ‘l5 liri- tish Labour in support of the liritishd-overn- int-m. “Shann- and (lishonour sit hy its griltvl: ever; hlt-ssi-ig shall‘ follow it.—-never, L) nevci‘.

>1- >1- llere ;s a Pmlllcl“ for our arithnit-ticitins. If the orchardists of .\‘ti\'.'i Scotia lost 20f} to 30',- ,,f nn-lr “pl-lt- L111‘) in Sunday lligltl.<"t__'1\l(', illlytl (xif; to 70'} of what was left in_ lucsdzivs storm, what will he the extent of their harvest: \\'ill it consist of a relief hlltlilly {W111 ‘lllllwil! y 1i- >t x Australian States sfiun to bt- overconillll l1“ ‘]‘)\I‘\‘=lr llgprcssltill and hcconungauicr- more sell- sustaning. Premier litltlvr "f 5“\l111’_~\‘1-‘11"‘1'“- in his cziliticity as 'l're.'istirt-r of tht- .\t.'itc. zin- nmmvps a §nf“lu§ pl" Iylklyrxxi pounds and also n rt-tlnction of thrt-t-petict- in the potilid on iii- coiue tax and a cut in aniust-itient utxcs. k a- x x _\ "liill of rights" for XUYH Sfltllil- (“llllllil-Q’ m“ llw policies advocated h_v tlic llzthlzix 111"“ zild and llalifzix .\l:iil in 111K‘ H\it_'1'<‘<l~' ‘ll Pm‘ gress and prosperity in that Pl‘_<>\'l,llf(‘.‘1li1§ llw-‘ll issued in attractive booklet infill,‘lllll~ll'lllt‘ll with a series of striking ctirtoons l)_\' §tzitt .\l'l1-<l Chambers. . n- it * k The llatfit-ld proceedings at Uttziivzi scrvc l“ ‘ifln,,,,str_.,m m,“- mm-p the slow progress nut-lt- iu nizilor cases where the chief officers of 11"‘ law are concerns-ti. There is ti" Iilhllltl. l1 Th“ granted, ol- jittnping at conclusions, \\'lll'l'(' "-v\' are concernt-rl. F.v1-r_v'avt-iiiit- is-trtivt-rststl and lln- gonrct-s of evidence carefully and uunut-a- iv investigated lit-fore l-t-iug submitted to the ("t-urt. and even then is stibjt-ct to iht- clo-t st scrutiny by lhc (frown as \\'<*11 a» I111‘ ‘1"1\'l“‘°- 1v x x 1k lust as our forefathers had to adjust their llllnlclllg to the fact that shipc with iron hulls would not necessarily sink. the itiotlt-rn air-inir-rl- c-d generation is lmirniug flint ships Hf the 71H‘ can he inadt- of stccl and not crash. In this twist‘ stainless steel is living used, livczitist- its (‘llfllllll- um-nickel content not only mziltt-s tor zrslflllltlm‘ strcl but also prevents rust and tht-rt-lorc l_>'-’Y' niits the ust- of sn1:illt-i~ and lighter st-ctitins with-

out sacrifice of strength. t v

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A Canadian National Exhibition hits Clll-‘Pll after one of the most "disappointing" years i" some time, according to general manager Elivritvfl Hughes. Drop in attendance of more fhfm a quarter of a million persons was attributed civic officials to the infantile paralysis “SHAVE . but L5 it not more likely due to tlic l-lcplturii Government which, from the outset. has boycot- ted, or at best. given scant t-ncourugemetit to Torontds major tourist attraction. ‘ 1i- v >1‘ it

According to the Telegraph-journal Mr. \\’. E.- Elliot, Editor of the “'o0dstocl<,-(tnt.. Sentinel Review traversed the Maritimes on his way t0 and from the Anglican General Synod at llali- fax. and on return said in his own paper: ‘"1119 kindness and hospitality of Nlaritiiue folk will linger long in memory. It was almost tmiform, but one would like to make at least a slight re- servation in favor of Saint John." Which i5 proof stifficietit that brother Elliot did not 56f foot in Charlottetown.

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A; previously announced. the unveiling of the Hayfield memorial on Queen Square by His Honour Lieutenant Governor DeRlois takes place this afternoon, starting at 3 o'clock. Dr. D, C. Harvey, of the Historic Sites and Monu- ments Board of Canada, will preside. There will be a short addressby I-lon. B. \\’. lxPaile- President of the Executive Council. and an his- torical sketch of-Admiral Baytirlds achieve- ments as Admiralty Surveyor will he given by Mr. W. F. T, Bradley, assistant provincial ar- chivist. All our citizene who can do so should endeavour to be present on this occasion.

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Smoly never in tthe history of the Province has an Attorney General attained such notoriety for non-enforcement or at best 1.1x euforct-mciit than the unfortunate official in the present Lib- eral (ioverument. His own public investigation into his own administration of the Prohibition law revealed. on oath, an atiiazitig condition of lawlessness. Novv his official organ, The Patriot publishes a lettei" prominently on its editorial page disclosing an equally laments‘ Tc- condition regarding burgalaries. thefts aivl :vy\Et)‘ larcencics. Says the writer: "There has n -t been an even- ing that I could not look through the Patriot and see where some residence or establishment had been broken into, and if I might say, in nine cases out of ten. the party or parties guilty were never apprehended. and that its not includ- ing numerous petty larcencies that are happen- ing every day that the citizens are not aware of, namely articles taken from parked cars. also cars taken from in front of residences, cars taken out of their garages iii the early. hours of morning. cars taken from in front of places of business when the motor is left running, Now, are the taxpayers of this city going to tolerate such an iiiconvriiieuce as this? .\ml remember -all this has happened when our good friends the tourists were here. What inipressioti are

the tourists returning home with P’

NOTES BY THE IIAI

Beyond a doubt- l-he horse gm] buggy aays are gone for ever and are permanently replaced by me mat-nine age. Tins condition of ai- tans is notably demonstrated on the northwest comer of Union Square. 0n one side of the street, stands an ornate bronze horse trough, w thout representing the horse. On the oihei side stands Tammany Hall, representing the machine. - New York Times.

‘These Shula in the back that. vvorlo shipping if] the Mediterran- ean is receiving suggest. technique of certain gangsters of an alien orgiii, not unknoviii to the Unit-ed States Goshen. Be they fascists or reds, they are a menace to world pflifl. and emphasize the need for an international force of G men to put them ivliere they b€l0DQ.—H3m. 111.01) Spectator.

“We find ourselves hampered by the burdens of the past. Those bur- dens cannot. be shaken off by 1n- genious measures of legislation or by economic devices of any kind. Vl/hav. is urgent. today is that. we should cease t0 increase them, and that we should, in the future, do betiei than we have in the past. Our abilitg-gto do this depends on the leadership wh ch our people re- ceive from those who hold more than river-age influence. and there- fore, responsibility in the life of‘ the community. . . . Why is it. that. we have not succeeded better than we have? Once again it seems clear that this must. be clue t0 failure of the better elements in our com- niuizity to give the nation the leziderhip which 1L shou d have. We hat-a fribteretl away too much of our national “Oflllll in rash at- tempts to do things which our own common sense should tcach us were 'mpossib1e."—Sii' Edward Beatiy.

A Nazi sage says that democrac- l\‘.\ are oblivious to the problems of this new era. Yet. here are the dic- tnttiizships mziltiiig problems all round. and the democracies sitting up ii phi after night to settle them, or get out. from under. What. l5 he talking ab0uL?—Ex.

It ls iniporlant that the facts of the shelling of the Augusta be in- vestigated and that in this. as in any similar incidents. the respon-

BUY WEN?!‘ in jL,'

Twelve Hundred Pipers!

(“A.K." in The Aberdeen Journal)

Did you hear a ‘trance. pervasive sound on fluidly? A low. mur- murtng. molnins sound. the ld€ep burden of which was occasion- ally broken by long walling higher notes? If you did, it. was not. an earthquake. nor the falling of a gneleortt-e. It. was the combined lstratns of twelve hundred strands of bagpipes playing at their lustlest at. Cowal Gathering. ‘ Cowal is away down in Argyll, and many a mountain stands be- tween the Campbell country and us.

But. of whet. avail is the rampart

of hills, twenty times repeated.

against. the atmospheric dist-u!‘

‘Mince Renerated b? twelve hundred P1P?“ Whose "windy susplration of

forced breath" is magnified one (hundred times by the matztc Pbwers of “the blather 0' a sheep"? l Distance may soften the sym- ‘phony down t0 "the moan of doves in tmmemorial elms, the murmuring of innumerable bees.“ bur tyvelve hundred bagpipes can annihilate dlslflnce-—and, the cyn- ical and untutored Sasgenach will say- everything else within hearing. The mB-ssrd pipes of Cowal are B. phenomenon without parallel. A choir of ten thousand voices is a commonplace compared with this overwhelming band.

Once upon a time there Wfls a man. a Scotsman, called Robert; Buchanan. Not George Buchanan, l-h" Reformer. but of the same tribe. and. like him sei-lous- mind. ed. He wrote poetry. and it. was qulle 1°05 90m’?- ln the Words- ‘Wrlhlfln manner: and so ser1ous-, minded was he that. he fol‘ 1m- nellcd to castigate Swlnbufnp and Dante Gabriel Rossetti and their mle-“lf 1n 1‘- Dflmphlet. which ls now l! CUrl0$il\'—"'I'l‘)c mgghy 5311001 of Poetry."

A GLOR-IOUS HOUR But one day, and for one day

distance. Though there" bands 1n many

tancc lends enchanlment. a.

but of dictates a. deficiency in our artistic tastes. Our y0ung men no longer see visions; they dance to barbaric and uncertain rhythms. The accents

every man‘; and every 111N155 against. him.

only m the Campbell count-ry- one. unagmes, could it gathering of twelve hundred pipers be c01- lected. Yet- evcn the 05mph?“ C15“ and it; sept-s could hardly pzoduce so colossal an tmpi. ‘Iheie must. have been Camerons, MacDonalds. MacKays, Macbeodfi. Muri-ayfi Di-ummondis. MacKe-nntm- NH‘-

Cmldron of the Mist and the disciples of MacCrlmmon. And perhaps Ta Phatrson himself was there with his "four and thirty Pipers!‘

Of all the d-zxotees 0f thE b38- plp€5 none in our time would have revelled more heartily in this mass demonstration of “the pride o‘ the land" than Neil Munro, greatest of all the story-tellers upon whom the mantle of Sti- Walt/er descend- ed. Surely amongst. five times twelve score pipers he would have found the Inst. Plbroch that. only the ear of a True 'I'ammi1s can catch.

We Lowlanders, dull and leth- arglc, are at. a disadvantage with the bagpipes. A few chosen spirits can participate in the mystical de-

lights with which great. plbrochs are suri-ounded—but. even they think twice before they spell

pt-‘aroch in the Gaelic way. We may be entranced by ‘is-rim when he weaves his round this player or that tune, but on the whole. while we like "the pipes." we prefer them at a are pipe our villages. that dis- to the

Neil spell

of

w; still tprivately) feel

1r. But this “wit, not. 0f sympathy native appreciation. 1n.

only. a great light. burst. upon the

For a mad. ecstatic hour he forgot; about. Wordsworth, forgot to be‘

Buchanan; and in that hour his fingers played upon thi- stops. not. of the chanter. but. of-

sible parties shall be he d to future’

1112s our Government. is not likely, to be harsh on Ch na. Her desper-l ate need. the defensive character- of lit-v military moves. and t-he. handicap of special foreign privilf 0140s on licr soil are all important, extenuating circumstances. Bull no such considerations of equality‘ would apply in any instance where. Japanese action may cit-NSC injury‘ to lclt: l-lmift‘ American ‘interests inj China. As the WRHLOII aggressor in. this war Japan must be expected to‘ itiukc good any and a1 damage, caused to American nationals by, her policy. Unpleasant consequences‘ late‘; may be averted ii this is made very plain t0 the Japanese military coiizmantl as a rcsult of the killing of Seaman MalgouL-Washington Post.

It is estimated that. in the current "blood purge" in Russia 500 per- sons have been executed by tiring squads. The charges aga n-st. them varied greatly but. stuiuiiarizcd, they amounted to this, that they didn't like Stalin and vrere not. willing to obey his will lmplicity. Deviation from the part-y line is treason. pun- ishable wit-h death. And iii Canada there are organized assoc ations trying t0 give this country the some kind of government-Port. Arthur News-Chronicle.

The difficulties of the British Government. in external affairs are numerous. Japan is treating the stiff note sent to it about. the attack on

accountability, In such final reckon- l o

f Pan. In that. hour he wrote "The l Wedding of Shon MaicLt-an." when he came to himslf he doubtless

lwas ashamed. rind sat upon ashes.

and poured dust. from his head.

lFor. as I have said. he was a set».

tons-minded man. and in that joyous hour he had been wis". and not serious. But, the world liked] him all the br-t-ter for his ascapade. and refused to forget it, when all his serious-minded poems had been forgotten. ,Thus it. comes that into the thoughts of every Scot. worthy of thr- name. when bagpipes are mentioned. come the slrains of a rollicking chorus. sung not. in the mountainous Elysium of pipcrs— for they also are serious-minded men-dlllt in the glades of the wild wood where Rabclnts and Shakespeare pit their wits against each other and Robert. Burns and Walter Scott exchange the stories That they rit-ver fold to the public. Am! this Ithough of course you know it well) is the chor\is;-_

At the wedding of Shun MsicLean, They blt-w wit-h lungs of leather. And blythesome was the strain Those pipers played together. Mntst. with the mounMn-dew. Mighty of bone and thew. Each with the bonnet. o‘ blue. Tartan. and blackcocl; feather; And every piper was fou, Twenty pipers l-Ogelher.

the British Ambassador to China. with a. coolness that indicates it, has little fear that. London will adopt stern measures. The Soviets have exhibited their customary boister- ousness in their tactics over the forpedolng of ships In the Mediter- ranean. In Palestine the unrest is continuous. and at. any moment. the racial anttpathies exhibited there may produce a serious-outbreak of violence. The irritating factors pres- ent. in relations with Germany are notorious. North Africa is upset and threatens trouble. Again it is obv- ious that. managers of empires have a_tough Job-New York Sim.

If you Lsk any army man to he frank he will probably confess that. he was more than slightly shocked the first. time he came up against. bayonet drill. Human beings don't- ta-tte to killing so readily. The first. lessons in the bayonet generally give a man food for thought. what. Ls there to do about it? For one tnlmr-we can be realtsfs. We can publtclm some of the 160111-196 01 war as it. is fought. with modem weapons and effective modern ma- chines. Then perhaps somfl - 110M will be a lzttie less eager to involve us tn the conflict-s of other not-tons. -Belfast. Telegraph.

For the first time since the form- ing of the Ultle Emente by RDU- mania, Czechoslovakia. 8nd YWW‘ slavta. diplomatic contact is est-eb- ltshert with Hungary. Dr. 1-0-5010 d8 Bardossy, Hungarian minister to Bucharest. confers with Vcwr An- tonescu of Roumanta between aes- stona of the Entente at Stnatn. and indications are that. a vleldlns 0n the part. of the Entent-e toward tzhe Danube may pave the way for cor- dial relations. Another favorable move-ts the proposed abwflfll-lm 0f the peace t-maty clause prohibiting Hungaryfls rearmtnfl. — Chflfifillfl Scence Monitor.