Tebct Of, Statement By

Prime Minister Calling A National Convention

KQUL Jan. 21 - (er --i

l1 of Rims Minister Inho- ia Kim's statement on calling I a aadonsl convention to choose a new Iberal leader:

e. . - Let me now mask on apaﬂiar theme, one which. at this moment. arises naturally out d aakttng werld and domestic con-

’ aiﬂoaa, and which relates cure alzlusively to the affairs o! our

1n the $0 e! changed and 01141181118 aelsdtiona. the time has come for the holding o! a national con- Iﬂlon.

‘Ilie Liberals of all Ceﬂldl iaﬂld be afiorded euros-trinity W review the party's mlwt W1‘ m“ and policies, and to consider lhe most. effective means by which Liberal principles should be ap- plied to l. solution o1 problems that have {allowed in the wake at war. and which will continue to ‘lam; themselves in increasing measure, as nations seek to brlfl8 into being anew world order.

There l1a\e been but two DO- Isinion-wide Liberal conventions since Confederation; the one held h this city in June, i893, and the one held. also in ottanve. 1n Aug- uat, 1919. It is ol interest to ob- nerve that from the date of Con- federation these conventions were held at intervals o! 26 Yell-B. 8 little more than a. quarter of l ssnmry. we of today have ex- ceeded the 26 year record. It now h more than 28 years slnﬂc U13 last nation-wide convention of the party was held.

It ls also worthy o! note that the conventions were called in anticipation o! the next ensuInB numeral elections. and that. in each case, they were followed W ﬂgQlng vdctorles for the party at the polls. ..

gklking Parallel

‘liars is another striking paral- ‘Iha convention of 1919 was called because of problems con- healing the country i8 B- 1'94"“ d years o1 war. These new prob- lma, in the opinion ct Sir Wil- frid Laurler; demanded the wld- Q possible consideration by Lib- erals throughout the country, as $1.1 as by their representatives 1a Parliament.

yo: some time past, I have held. vary strongly, a like opinion in ides-once to the conditions which have arisen as s. result ct the lad Great War. The war which ended in 191B was a war o! tour years; the recent war lasted over l: years.

ken oLthese world conflicts served to change considerably many aQecta of our national economy: each brought new political parties to the fore. and each gave rise is questions and problems which, I not wholly new. were on a male never heretofore experienc- Q‘, a a a

The one thing which I would dislike more than anything else, after the years I have had o! party leadership and o1 oiflce. is thlt I could ever be accused of having held on to the position o! hackrahip to what nught be termed “the last moment." and than. whatever the circumstances might be, to have it said that I had "let the party dorm," so to Qeak, because of not having let the Part7 llhow. suﬂlciently in ad- vanoe, of any fears I might have Olitarinlned of finding myself un- equal to the tasks of leadership h a nationwide political campaign.

I need scarcely say that my dniaion to ask for the calling o! I convention for the purrpoggg I have mentioned ls not a recent

suddenly reached in the ed any new situation which hi! l-rieen either in Canada or in any pas-t of the world. Much less 1a it a decision based on any change of attitude toward myseli’ ﬁll the hart of my colleagues in the Government. the Liberal morn. bera of the two Houses of Parlia- mmt- °P U16 P811? throughout the country.

It is true, l‘ believe, that while I have very great reason to con. gratulate myself upon having had m‘ "nbmk"! 511119011 and confi- dence of all these constituent ele- MMB of the party. ever since r was chosen leader in 1919. I have W" enioyed that confidence in fuller measure than I do today. ‘Ibis is a reward of years of pub. 3! "W100 Which nothing else can equal.

Svrams~Slrains Rheumatic Pain . .’\ .' '1' 1.x‘, >11) from tar-oi! Jamaica cornea the convincing testimony o! Mr. White who tool's ha owes hie-very happi- aeealnluaiexervmee. ‘jlthu been (worth its welsh! in goifie ’ .0. lfound larvllllaanlllvaiuabie mun-um ear-reasoned trouble ‘quickly. l! my throat was sole. or Ilhadeeraolaastiii and: or nut ma: r med-e on llervlliae 1

and rheumatic, pain, Iganllaa to be a

"Iwuaelhlnranoe"

I must confess that. over the 2 1-2 years since the last general elections, I have continued to enjoy powers of endurance which. at many times in the past. I hid not felt 1 had a rlsht to emwh ‘that I enJoy the measure of health I have at the moment is, I recog- nise. due in no small measure to the consideration shown my years by my colleagues ln the cabinet. andbymyiellowmembersin Par- liament, and I think, I should add. by the Canadian public. - - -

I should like to see the new leader of our party chosen, as I, myaell was chosen at a. national convention by w, ntativa mem- bers o! the party throughout the country, as well as by its repre- sentatives in Parliament.

The planning and arrangements

of a national convention are not something easily brought about. In a country the size of ours, it requires a certain amount of time. Knowing this, and feeling that the date of the convention should be definitely fixed before we entered upon another session o! Parliament. I wrote a letter to each of my colleagues, in July last. informing them that I was anxious to have matters of im- portance to the party considered at special meetings of the mem- bers of the cabinet to be held early in September. When the September rrieetings were held, I again informed xny colleagues oi’ my intention not to lead the party in another general election, and said that I thought s. national convention should be arranged forthwith. It was than decided to ask the advisory coun- cil of the Federation, at its next meeting, to assume this under- taking.

I hope I may not be placing loo heavy a burden upon the shoulders d our new very willing president, Mr. Pogo, and ‘the members of his able executive. if I now venture to ask them to as- sume rwponslbillty for the cell- ing of a convention, and for mak- ing the necessary arrangements for its proceedings. They will have. 1n this task. the assistance o1 members of the Government. and, of the party in both Houses of Parliament, and also. I am sure. o! provincial and local party org- anizations and leaders in the sev- eral provinces.

Mixed Feeling!

I need not tell you, ladies and gentler-non, that it ls with mixed feelings, indeed, that I make the request of the National Federation which I am making tonight. It now is nearly 40 years since I ﬁrst became a member of the Par- liament u! Canada, and 89 years since I Iirst sat in tho council chamber as a minister of the cn-orwn.’ For an even longer time. my life has been given over mostly to public affairs. It has been all but exclusively devoted to the party and to Parliament ever since I became the party's leader.

I do not look lightly upon the possible severance o! relationships which have made up so large a part of my life. I wish I could feel it were in the interests ol the party not to contemplate that severance, but just to hold on, tsldng chances on wha-t the fut- ure ought bring to pass. That, however, would, I know, in the end, be a. mistAe.

Were I 20 years younger-were I l0 years younger-I should greatly prize the opportunity to continue in a position of leader- ship ln times like the present where issues as vital as any the world has laced are being discus- sed and decided.

I cannot forget. however, that men's allotted time is three score years and ten. and that I am now in my 74th year. It seems to me. therefore. imperative that the party should have at least the op- portunit/y to consider what in its own interests may be for the best; and that, as its leader, I should not be responsible for longer with- holding thst opportunity.

Greatest Happiness

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1 have round my greatest hap- piness in work. That happiness, i! pared. I expect to continue to find alorg this well tried path. I know. however, that, in the even-tide of life, the shadows ly lengthen, and that "tr

50006.1 night cometh wherein no man den

work."

Of one thing, you may he sure. If I cease to lead the party, I shall never cease to have the party's interests and its future

. near to my heart. Nor is it like-

ly, be the sacrifice what it may. that. I shall knowingly shirk any responsibility which the needs of our time may seem to demand. and which I feel 1am able to

meet. At. most, we can make but

and to decide upon the partly lead- ership. I lm planning what I be- ba the beat for theparw’: future. - Wh

tmaybebeqfoc alhwhan the convention _ leave with eoolideaeo to-tha sound i d the convention imu.

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'1 auppoee lcotty will less hie shirt aa uauel." said Carolyn.

Payton nodded. “It's too bad. Ia never can win for losing. not with that bounch. They city-slicker

him.” However. when Scott finally appesredﬁu heu Beau b no arm

and both of them were grinning. ‘Ilha music for the ﬁrst dance was Just drawing to a close and Carolyn was smiling up into Peyton's eyes with every evidence of fascination. When Beau cut across the floor t0- ward her, she appeared to have d1!- ilcuity in recognizing him.

"Sorry." he said. svlll grinning. "1 didn't metn to be A. W. O. h"

"It's immaterial." murmured Carolyn. though she was trembling with enser. “Peyton and I adore dancing together."

Beau laughed. "Then everybodys happy. eh. Scotty?“

Scoiiy smggered. "Bean's been looking after a little matter for me." he explained. "You know that gang I've been a sucker for since we were 1n knee brooches?

Cerolyns llps curled. "I under- stand you were in a crap game." she said icily, "Naturally I didn't expect you to tear yourselves away while you had car fare."

“Scotty chuckled. "Car fare! You ought to see those birds! Beauiook everything from them except their blank stares.“

“Retlly?_" murmured Carolyn dis- dainfully.

"They thought they were lng to pluck him like a goose. Wow! id he stand them on their ears?" chortled Scotty.

Peyton observed Beau with some- thing approaching awe. "That crowd's supposed to shake a mean dice." he observed.

Beau grinned. "The trouble is, all they have to lose is their dad's money, Curne easy, go easy; you know. I earn mine by the old sweat. of the brOW. They didn't have a shoux"

"How you do believe in you!‘ remarked Carolyn.

The music was beginning again. "Our dance." murmured Beau, and held out his arms.

Carolyn had intended to tell him he had missed his chance she meant to say she had promised the second to Peyton. Instead she danced off with Beau without a word. It did no good to delude herself, she thought miserably. All week she had been wild to feel his arms about her again. Just think- ing of him gave her the sort of thrill she had read about and never quite believed in.

The orchestra was playing Take My Heart and Beau accompanied it in a soft baritone: “Take My heart. See if 1 care what you do with it. Go on. have fun with it. Do with it what you please."

Carolyn was trembling. ‘Take my heart. Do with lt what you please." song Beau.

Carolyn did not want Beau Bell to take her heart. she did not want any man to do as he pleased with it She hsd planned to give her heart with reservations to someone like Peyton Hurst who would never sweep her off her feet.

"Nice." said Beau when music ended. —

I-Ils vclce was casual. Carolyn suffered egonles of hurnilistoln. Dancing with him had been a shat.- tering experience so far as she was concerned. Bhe was furious because it did not appear to have had any such effect on him. she was enough her- mothers daughter to believe that a Beau Bell should feel honored to be allowed to drop at the feet of a scion of Berkshire Scott, but Beau showed no such inclination.

"Caro. I'm practically dying to

meet Mr. Bell." murmured Vingie Wright, deliberately assuming the pose o1 n, siren out lor no good. . Beau's block eyes kindled and Carolyn could have strangled him. "Mrs. Wright. Mr. Bell." she said and turned her back.

Bill Wright was scowling at Vingie frcm the smoking room door. "That's friend husband." she told Beau. "Not that I let it cramp my style."

Beau grinned. "Thlﬂia our dance isn't it?“

‘Try and get out of it." laughed Vingle. '

Carolyn refused to look at them as they danced off. she went on for five dances steadily refusing to glance in Bean's direction. She had hoped, he would come a crop- per with her sophisticated frl nds. She had hoped in vain, Wh it came to wlsecracklng his way through. Beau could more than hold his own. M. the end o1 an hour Carolyn had t: admit that. he had her eating out of his hand. "He's precious. Carol" cried Vingle cmnlislasticslly. "I mean. when he dances with you aren't you thrilled to pieces?"

“Don't be silly." snapped Carolyn glancing bitterly at Beau who was ﬂattering tha life out o! Genie Deltnd.

“How about another dance. Caro- lyn?" asked Beau o. little later. She would have given e great deal to be able to refuse. Only what was the use of spltink her- seli? she thought drearlly. She had. u wretched feeling that Beau did not care a lot whether she refused or not. but she wanted to dance with hlm more than abahad em- wanted anything, in herﬁiie. "I didn't realise you were Quito as good at the social game." she told

the

the orchestra to start. _ He grinned. ‘kludy 0' radypil

i the colonel’: lulyare sisters etc."

he quoted in I grim voice. "One picker up a lot of mlseellqeoul knowledge iround a filling station, Carolyn. chiefly human nature.” '

" I autumn so.’ lhe said with a shrug. ‘

“You aren't Jealous?" he allied with n: wry mm: _

"Jealous!" Carolyn had always been to sure of herself to know the meaning cl the “rd. "Dun be absurd." , .

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Bean's grin wasruaiul. "I'd have agreed with you a week ago." he aaid and held out his errns. "Now anything seems possible." I

Trembling in his embrace. her heart behsvln like a weethervsne in a high wnd. Carolyn rnutely admitted as much. she appeared to be someone else entirely in Beau Bell's arms. someone she did not know at all. A strange, highly em- otional creature, ‘without poise or volition of her own.

“Come outside." said Beau when the music ended.

"Carolyn followed him like a docile child. There was no moon. but the frosty November sky was ablaze with stars. Beau had caught up a deep-hinged shawl as they walked out. He put it about her vary gently. It was the first time she had met with his tenderness. She had not known till then that nothing can be so devastating as the tenderness o! a man who is naturally ruthless.

"What are we going to do about us?" he asked.

"About us?" she whispered.

“We've got each other going around in circles." he said in a roughened voice. '

Carolyn could not deny the accus- ation because her blood was roaring in her ears. "Have we?" she falter- ed. “I — I didn't know about -- about you."

“You darling!" cried Beau Bell

now on DISPLAY!

and caught her into his arms. lie kissed her until Carolyn was breaths less. until she wondered ii aha would ever breathe evenly again.

"The odds ere all against us.” groened Beau.

‘Ltfeef’ ssld Carolyn with a little ee . _

“You make me feel like teasing my htt over the windmill and to hell with the consequences."

"let's" whispered Carolyn un- steadily.

His black eyes shone with reck- lessnen. “Even i! it didnt work out it would be heaven while it. lasted."

Wool." cried Carolyn breathlesaly

He kissed her stain. She cluni t0 him as his arms tightened abOB her. so this is love, thought Cere- lyn, this fierce consuming flame that 1s more anguish thtn ecstasy.

”You do things to me," Beau admitted. "You have right from the first. I could lose my head over you in g, big way. but I'm not going t0. Carolyn."

“Yes?" she stsmmered.

"All this thrill stuff is grand." he said in a grim voice. "But there's s. lot more to marriage than the thrill. I could never live your sort of lite. I don't believe you could live mine." —

Maybe-maybe you're exaggerat- ing the situation." laltered Caro- lyn.

(To Be Continued)

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