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standing oxsmlpla to the world of the possibilities of organic Chris- tian union has sadly miscarried in the Church Union movement. the

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vliszcouraging results of which are nmv being recorded. If ever there was an eitample of how not to do a rtung we have it in this sorrowful iiasco—the cleavage of a great Church at the behest oi leaders who spurned tho need of public discus- sion and adequate consideration.

roadlug the great body oi laymen

THURSDAY, JANUARY 15, 1925

of one Church into a combination with other two for reasons which

THE DUTY OF THETPRESS

The simplest way to get rid oi a thorny question. not a few lpeople think. ls to ignore its existence, to go aibout ones business as though the trouble did not exist. That is thc principle oi’ tht- Faith (‘urist, but all the same he 891s a nasty jar when he goes to use the leg which is not there. Inter-Imperial;

relations are questions of para- nxount and v..iil importance. which thoroughly dis-

reaching solutions

unlvss fai-i-il and Cussi-il towards might laud thc Empire in the posi- tion of tho Pr-u-byrcrian Church in (‘unziilu coilay disrupted from one The easiest

shortest cut. is more apt

[correspondence

that special conferences might be called if and when necessity urosrzlnevel ‘would have been lllllllvll l

i-ud m the other. way. tho to lirid to hI-il than heaven.

Th!‘

lions is a llvv- issue with statesmen

question of Imperial rela-

throughout thc Empire today. and the Press, as in duty bound. is tak- Were it not for thc freedom of the Press

lug a hand in the discussion.

thus enjoyed. and usually exercis- cd with judicial discretion. the ufinirs of tho Empire IWODIld

such soon reach a sorry pass. for we tnusi evi-r bear in mind that our statesmen as a rulc are very aver- ngi- mcn. min likc as we are. and suthjcct to thi- saim» errors oi’ Judg- mt-nt and political indlscretions. it is to thc roli-ntlcss beat oi the pub- licity of the Press on their actions and inaction; that to a large mea- sure we owc thr- progress.peace anrl harmony we i-njoy toilay/Phg Press the

poo-pic.

is eternal

end to orderly progress and pros

parity. the world would ‘be at the

is the very purging for purifying purposes which the wisest qf our statesmen doctors have considered necessary and essential towards de- termining the condlt-ion of the body politic and the medicine best suit- ed to effect a cure.

The Imperial Conferences have evidently as at present constitutcdi served their day and generation.‘ When the procedure oi the lmpqrjal Conference wasisettled. provision was made for periodical sittings oflhm Church l“ Calla“- tha, body and a Secretariat‘ introf-bqlicst-ion been thoroughly canvas» duced for the purpose c! nnkmg uplfilfil and as thoroughly tested before

the intervening years by means

for urgent

the discussion oi mutter; importance.

tion of the \Var Cabinet further and

The constitu-

-.hcy did not fully appreciate far

. There is no use min- cing words. 9

lcss approve.

Tho .\l(1ll(ltllSl Church. and. to a

lesser cxtcnt. the Congregational

(‘hurch have rcason to compla-in

Notes By The Way

The excellence of Oanadfgfarm products is now ‘more than ever before a matter oi world-wide fame. Especially ls this true oi the pro- ducts of the held and oi the stock yard. as was demonstrated at the Great international Show of 192-1 at Chicago. The competition with United States producers was very kec n. and on anextended scale,and yet Canada emerged from the con-

-t'.= 'l i - and who pinned their faith in rall- s! a y‘ “er or Grand champ on

ships in Wheat. Corn. Alfalfa, Flax and Field Peas, and in live stock also in l-lerefords, College Cattle, Clytlesdales, Shires. Llncolns. Cots- wolds. Dorsets, Southdowns. Leices- ters, Shropshlres. Long Wool Sheep. l-‘nt Sheep and Car-load Lamb Lot, along With- such a ‘host oi other prizes as astonished not only her competitors. but Canadian exhibit- prs themselves. it was a signal

of a breach oi faith on the part oi the Presbytcrianl Church which has landed them in ai

leaders of the‘

(ii-rous section. oi the Presbyter- Hail the

o!‘ .hc decision on the part oi the Gen-

“ was arrangefleral Assicm-ixly lllUSU two Churches.

never would havc bccn misled and n. the uncnvia-ble pdsiiinn they Ah‘. in unday. The grt-at Methodist Church tho Congregational Church

extended the methods of co-opera- tion between the “other Country and. the Dominicans. Then arrived} the Imperial Economic Conference which, in 1923. with the Imperial Conference.

sat concurrently

If.

as it seems probable. one oi these‘ links fails. thcre is danger of othcrl links doing likctvise. Already the

Winnipeg Free Press one oi the- bust informed, best edited and in- flucntial newspapers in the Domi- nlon.has decided that imperial Con- fcrenccs are cumbrous. SlOVlHflIIlfl in-

havc entered the Union by lu-w oil

ion with all their worldly posses-I

'sions. They are fully committed.‘

hut thc Presbyterian Church is not so. Only those congregations that vc-Lc thcmselvts in join the now wllth thcm their

Wflilflly possessions. together with

body and take

such proportions of the eudown- mcnts as thc commission sot up for decide.

others remain as heretofore with

the puropsc shall Fri-v

their property, name and possibil-

triumph.

There was a total of 9,198,714 cattle‘ in Canada Iin 1924. Tho threc Prairie Provinces had 3-861.-

liniun with only a section. and that 145 of mesa showing a rapid in. nlecefléury that he not the most progressive and pros- c1 asc in that quarter, as also in qujgi inquiry

dairy products. ln the years 1921- 211 the toltal nu-mber of cattle in Canada diminished. but a general recovery has since taken place with u large lncrcusc ovcr 1923 in tlu- uum-bcr of cattl~ cxporterhboth‘ to Great Britain and thc United States. The exports ‘to Great. Brit- ain increased by 29 per cent. over

n . ithe previous yw-ar, mainly as the

Ercsult of tho rcrnovitl of thc cm- bargo.

l In poultry Canada's birds shown at Wembley and ill ihi- internation-

incorporatiim. and endow the Uil-lal Poultry (Jongrcss in Barcelona.

Spain. in 192-1. commanded flfi-mllCh admiration that it was ilociilcd to bring the lutcrniiliutiiil Congress Ito Canada in 192T. it was found that thi- Cilllilflllill birds not only withstood filo iliscomforts of the ocean passage and the hcat and humidity of strange lauds, whilst ‘birds from othr-r countries suc- !f'llllilll d to lPFSCI‘ trials. but they ‘continued their out: production at cut-h exhibition iind st-currlil many ‘high awards. ’l‘hcm was an en- llhuslastli- (lemaud to buy thc Cari- iadian birds and they could have

decisive.

certainly arc as Rt. Hon. Arthu I Mcighon bcars testimony. and fur-

thermore the

rudc shock and further check when}

Slow and indecisive they,‘

system received at

fdllipflflPil upon it nearly all

itiits. The new United Church has] .bi-eu sold over tho‘ l“l‘lllll‘l' Clllllg“ 0f l-lle PTlP-‘lbYWTlllTl brought hack] bur WON! presented], cmulgiion m‘ 51ugi5_1a¢k m“ 1,1,"... lspectotl in tllnlilst, every education- Cliurch especially in Saskatchewan to royal and olhl r ilisnutnrics. the and the Xorthern territory of On-

WfllCh r108 of the hiuzzlta it and therc is an

last. ycar the Socialist Government‘

of Rt. Hon. Ramsay Nfacdonald re-l

fused to honour tho obligations

l

enwrod m“) by then. predemssorsithc Presbyterian organizations at

ttirio. while for the most part the

have hitherto largely maintained

mrrcy of conspirators. the mailed 1110"“. and nun-Dad are remaining as

fist:

gcon would once ruorc be the dom

thc torture chamber and dun

lnating influence for the suppres- sion of impulses towards a greater and more r-nduring democracy than

wc uovw enjoy.

This is zi-proptis of what is now taking place in [lig- world of letters and statr-smanship with regard to thc future of the British Empire.

No one who

ls what we might dcscrlibc

bundle of loosr- sticks wait-ing for thr- right kind of string to tic them We havi- no imperial (lovcrnmcnt. We

l-Olitthz-r in a compact whole.

do not admit. now. cvcn the right

ni’ the

tcrminc what shall be our policy

with regard‘ to foreign

ln our resemblance to a loose bundle of sticks. when it comes to dcfcncc and protection we are li- able to be picked up and garnered ln by the first strong hand passing our wriy and secing or finding a This is the position of Airstralasla iit the hands of u grow- Thls is

use for us.

ing and ambitious Jalpan. the case of South Africa with thr- internai growth and development of the reputblicanlam oi thc old Orange Frcc State and the Transvaal Ro-

public lntensinlcil by the commun- ism of thc White Labour of the Mines. and fanned by the constant \ fonr of annlhilaltlon through peacful

penetration or otherwise by the black races to the north.

people 9.000.000. outlook

com-prehcnds the ques-

tions that must ibe faced and a solu- "on enact", m, “tempted w "mhinrong hand which finds them tem- the morrow shall not find the Em- pire we now possess dismembered. dismantled and dismayed. Fossil-Imam“ u“, 99°?!“ think °t the“ fifties always must be considered, h’ ' d useed. examined and thrown to (f: melting pot of ‘public opinion for testing from all polilte of view. llsncelfls- whimsy sum towns-contemplated llll a stroke 0f econ-

is closely following events can shut his eyes to the fact that at prcsv-nt the Empire as a

British flovcrnmcnt to de-

nations.

in office with the Dominion Prom-i ' Winnipeg l-‘rcc Press. which lt must alwvays be borne in mind is the ex- ponent of the more Conservative ‘oi Wi-stcrn opinion, is that diploma- tic agents be appointed by thc im- perial and Dominion Governments to carry on. "conversations" and negotiations between us and the,

tho Hon. E. M. Macdonaltl. Minis- ter of Mr. King's cabinet. gave out an interview on his rcturn to Can- ada from DOINIOII and Geneva ad- vocat-ing that tho affairs of tllt‘. Dominion should transferred from the Colonial Office to thc For- eign office. What does this indi- That there rls a strong and growing tendency on the part of 21' certain scctlon of public opinion in Canada to replace the Governor General as an officer oi tho firi- tish Government, and _to abolish im- perial COIIICTPIILTES as a means. of interchange of views and for lay. ing the foundations of imperial policy. Conscientious newspaper cdltors and lnformcd public opin- lml 111111110! lsnm-e and stay their hands in vlow oi such ci-ltlcal devel-

be

catc?

' iers. The suggestion made by thellhe

continuing Presbyterian

(Yhurch. Fundamentally this posi- tion of affairs is the outcome of attempting the short cut to attain a desired end. In 1905 the Gener- al Asscrivbly of the Presbyterian

Church approved of union provided

it carried the consent of the entire rncmlhcrshlp. This at the first vote

Momm- coumnn NO, only so mug". failed t0 do. and a second attempt

was made in 1912 when it was to be gone on with should it hc sup- ported by thc ‘praciially unamlous notion" The sircorul instead of

of the mcuivborship. vote. hnwevcr, showing praoilcal unanimity show- ed a fifty percent increase in the vole in opposition. Without taking another vote nnd without the large bulk nf the the particulars or t-ffcct of the proposed

people knowing

union. thc Asaomlbly ultimately pro- (£(‘.L‘ll’.‘(‘l to bring organic iinlon into Thon the Whatever elsc it may be the Pres- byterian Church at back-bone is a ilcmocratlc hotly. it rules from the foundation up not from the cupola ilnwn. nnd when tho people got un opportunity of bclng heard. they sounilcil nnIuncertain note either There is

being. trouble bit-gun.

‘for or against Union.

and over again at

ihigh prices. 'l‘h<-y were not

Royal Spanish School, etc.

. Speaking of poultry recalls the, SPlf-Slfilfllfllilg congregations which fact that Canada's (lonrpgtic lyirrlionm

Wloi-l: umv totals over 45.000000

head and, is steadily increasing. ‘l That was the r-nse in i923. lrwas

then made up of ovcr two million |turkeys, ovcr a million ducks, al- lmost a million goose. and sonic ‘orly-two -mllliou other birds. On- tario comes first with one-third oi the total. and. Wllfll. is remarkable. ,S8Sk3i(_‘llf‘WZln comps second nn the list. and Alberta third. those

two provinces togcthvr having morcr

' poultry than Ontario,

I The number of birds per farm la anotherstory. Taking all thc farms of Canada, thc average is i339 per farm. And British (fini- u-mbia leads all tho provinces in that regard with 98.6 per farm. Alberta comes next nnd Ontiirin third with 79.1 rpcr farm. Fourth nnd fifth places arc hold by Sas- ikati-lu-wan and Manitoba. Print-c iEilwrarrl lslimd come-s sixth with 60.4, and is followed by (luchni- with 49.7. New Brunswick 28.2 and Nova Scotla nt tho, root of thc poll with 17.9. Our own Province is not. vcry high on thc list, to be sure. but comparcil with Nvw Brunswick wc have morn than iwii-t- .13 .muny, and corn-pared wl'h Nova Si-otin more than three times ris <many domestic birds pcr farm as they have. As to the num- lw-r oi-birds pcr squarn milr-s. PFlllPt! iCdwiiril island has ull thc

| prnvlnci-s bcatcn to n fruzzlc!

opments.

in Canada toilay.

run is the situation as u exlstd There ls no use shutting our (‘ycg to it, as ghgquos.

now a cleavage. and

instead of “one M? "longer" l" W“ 11011911 TOP-mom. apparently holds viows with there will be a sorely burdened big

This is the case in Canada with 110,000,000 to the south of us to our Statesman do not think or the day only. the morrow of their

tion of Imperial and Dominion de- fence must he faced, and our pco- Dle must he made aware of the tendencies in which ever direction "l"! Point. The Empire. as wc have said. an. present is an unbound bundle of sticks? Shall they all be bound in one bundle with‘ one string. (and what kind of string?) or shall some of reek to make 8 little bundle by them- SBIQs. or be snapped up by some

them

rpoi-sli-iiy isolated Ol‘ drifting. The Precsihas its duty to perform in

t ml ii-t-Oki

IIDLY SHEPHERDED SHEEP

What ithe promoters originally

body and a smaller, more efficient (‘because less handicapped) body carrying as independent Churches in Canada.

EDITORIAL NOTES 1

Oil

The appointment of Dr. W. A. Riddell as special permanent repro- acntative of Canada at Geneva has caused considerable stir in London diplomatic circles as lmd-ing coun-

wns aiming at national independ- ece. Dr. Riiddellki official title will be Dominion of‘ Canada Advisory officer and his duties will be prac- tically to safeguard the interests of Canada in all matters that cams before the League of Nations. lf the Dengue is to function without undue friction some such repre-

ni-edlm and needle“ dlldlflhllymrrlg! samiqlpqmon mg“ 0m: semstIvoTIJIflJisusntIAL.

v

tenance to the report that Canada \

The Manitoba Free Press which strongly supports the King (iovcrn

regard to the immigration Depart- imeut closely rcscm-hllng those lic- fort- expressed in this column. W0 quote: lf'th¢ Government is in rr-al earnest about immigration it will strike most people as very strange that rt minister is not appointed who can give his whole time to the problem. Mr. Robb is, ofllci- ally. Minister of imrnlgrationand colonization, and Acting Minis- ter of Finance. This is out of courtesy to Mr. Fielding. and for - all practical purposes Mr. Robb is Minister oi Finance and Act- ing Minister of immigration. Just at, present the work of the lat- ier department is fundamentally of greater rl-mportance .to the country than that. of all but one or two of the other departments 0i Government. The duties of Finance Minister nowadays are quite heavy enough to assume responsibility for another depart- ment which calls f the beet ef- forts of the minis-fer ln charge.

A Zliilyat 3M2 at fictive

B" 1mm W, Barton. M-De, WHY CONGESTION OCCURQ

You have wondered why someone who has undergone an ODBP-‘llllll- perhaps had some heart tfollble- 01 even Di'0l(ill' a leg. should have a congestion of the lungs. or P11911111‘ onla, as lt ls called.

l1 does seem unfortunate that when .i marl is "flat on his back" with one serous condition, that his chances of recovery are rendered uncertain by this drcad condition in the lungs.

H-uwevn the lesson in this to you and mc. ‘s so important. lh t

it ls certainly worth thinking about.

I used the expression "flat on his back" above. and that is the

whole point in thc ruatlcr.

When a mm is severely ill with heart complications, or after ii serious ope-ration. it is absolutely rcmuin very

Ina hc rt condition, even sitting up might prove his undoing. at. that rcquiri-s vw‘ce as much cffort on the part of ihs- heart, as lying flown

Aftcr an operation. any twisting or turning llLslll inlt-rfr-rt» with thc proper knitlug iogcthoi" oi thc fgtsuvs, so that hi-io also “lyiiil: absolutely quit-t is ‘essential.

Arid with a brokou log too, thi-

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The death oi Dr. Anderson\ in his 89th year, deserves more than a passing notice. As an old pupil who enjoyed his continued confl- deuce and friendship. l desire to add a word of appreciation to what the press has already said so well.

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its ambitious ynulli of thc Province ri-quircd lrls wisc iliroctiiln or skll 5 ful instruction.

Times have indi-cil changctl sincc lli} first liiudi-il upon our shores. Thcn ctluciitlon wits at ll low obi).

weight is iippiicil to kccp tho brok- en t-nrls of thc bones in closc cou- tact with one ziuoihcr. and this means that thc pinion-t must bc quietly on his buck.

What h .ppotis to his chc-st. to his lungs.

Why whore hi- rests on his back. llhe back 0i‘ h.s chmat also, thc libs arc no! able to cnlargc tho chest outward, whcu- all‘ is ilruwu in.

Whore thc ribs should spring out- waiil. they are kr-pi statiouc-rryr bu. cause of the iv-"ighi of thc against the bed.

'l‘hlis means then, that the lowcr part of his lungs at ihc back. do not got movcil uiucli by thc air corn- lng in. llOCllll-dt‘ ihc ribs us‘ I s .il ubovu. ciiztnot crilargc lhi- chi-st.

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