Wstatc; and it was this fact, perhaps, which

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Prelfdenl LlouL-Col. I1. Cheater U. llrLllro Vino-Brendon! J. If. Burnett. 1-‘. J. l. Idllor and lhuugfug Director J. It. Hururll. I. J. L Gen-rainy Lleut. Col U. A. llu-Klmmn D. B. 0. Auoclalu Edlforn lfrunb Walker and U. Ii. Currie

llornlng Dill] (Founded llufl). [$.00 per year flu ulvunrn tlulluarrd l0 Clly. “.00 per year (In mfunvr) mulled to P. I-l. lnllnd. [$.00 per year (In nthonce) llnllrd tn Cnnnllu and U. i.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 10. 1931

”Lest \Ve Forget"

Lvenvonc suddenly burst out singing; And I was filled with such delight

As prisoncd birds must find in freedom, winging wildly across the white Orchards and dark-green fields; on; on;

out of sight.

Everyonels voice was suddenly lifted, And beauty came like the setting sun, My heart was shaken with tears, and horror Driftetl away . . O, but every one Wa- a. bzrd: and the song was \vordlcs.-,

aiflglflfl will never be done. — Siegfried Sassoon.

and

the

1-}: ucrc the thought» that inspired ullt" liti- l: ‘.- v..i.r pv-ct onihc fir~t Alain-tire Day, uillc- lt scented at that tltuc that "thc

t- ' l: ltxtr» agll uar t» ciul war" llltll llccn >llL'C€.~'~lLllly fought. that taut tin- gcucrati-ilh, at lczl-t. would au- l-thcr- "qrhl rlllthrcrlk nccln", with it‘ incvitablc: 1'4 -u':- ~f l»U»»ll~_llc(1 and aificriaq on a colus-zil s-rtir‘. '1' l uc are nut s1. 5lll't'. \\'c have i: ".',_‘<‘ 1l;'(qi'c.~<ivl~ \\£tl‘_ Jzull lifhcrs "l cit-ii <frifr~, Zll‘l'.tl'l'lili\' with littlc MW wit" the \‘1lll~t‘l|il"llt‘l'<. ll h.'ts hcclullc lunre ' ' u.- rc difficult fur plwlcv-lwviilg deut- llvrric3= ‘o imp lint 0i \\at'. 'l'heir ideals as lvll as thcir llllt w-t. an; bciizg li!l‘t".'tl(‘ll(‘tl, and i‘ i: to l’l"(‘l this threat that the ilatir>ll< of thc l'-rit' ’ (piiull-~il\t'c:lltl1 havc ltall tn cnlharl; on

~c'll-" pr-lurnilune of rcarntrtnlcnt and lt §< thcrcfnrt; with lm inclination to "bur-t r-wt .< lttitig" that vsc celebrate tomorrow’

t5" anuiac i": m’ .\rtui~tice Dav \\'e have from.» . v ' ' A i ....._.\ cnangcil the nature to Rcnlcltihvailcc

Day‘ and llcrlicatcrl it to thc iuciuflrv of our

ll‘ i=0" Dr-all.

\ it a lic-tl»‘l\< crlu=c in which thcv dic/l? V.“ It.’ lICilt'\".i ln spite of Itlblllllt i5 ‘I I'll the Wlrlrl ind-xv. we czuumt believe That faith

nration of the pcacc tnovcmcnt in .."..tll-'t i: co-npr-ratlti; q the pfcggnt ll“ via~ vuircrl in lulforgcttablc lincs by “l “l” filw" “lblicr pncts. Our: 0f

(‘if ltafijvil tha‘ their sacrificc wa< in vain.

Up

is t“ irl

til c. yuan; them, writing to hi- littlc llaugltter at home,

l"lt‘ll "the ficlll F“ itltlher ,;_

\"'llll'l llflliftl lim-

1i r- "And ohl they'll give you rhynm

And reason: some will call the thing sublime,

Ana wme dccnvh in a knowing tone. 1e. while tne mad guns curse overhead, Amt med men sigh with mud for couch and

before (luillemnut. Somme, ltllfl". foresaw the time whcu QPll-r up and a-k whv l](' had alum. to IllCC’ with death-

fools. now with the foolish rlea . .

Died not for flag. nor King, nor Emperor,

‘Bin [or a dream. born m a herdsmanis shed,

And for the secret Scriptures of the poor."

An Empire Figure Passes

' \\'h.".lcvcr judgment posterity may pass upon the Rt. llun. ltaulstly .\l:tcl)0uald, whose dcatll is announcer] in today.» columns, thcrc can be no question E1: to his great qualities 0f heart and nnnil. 'l‘hl'cc times. Prime .\linislcr 0f Great; Britain, rhlnuq pr-rilnlg of cxccptiuual 511-955 and strain, hc (lid hutch to prlnuutc cu-upcratiun and grvitllvlll with uthct" countries, particularly thc United States, ultcrt: ltc was knmvn and cstcciu- ed as a state-titan of the Abraham Liticnln type, who hall flxCll from pnvcfly and obscurity by native ability to the highest govcrninctit office. .\ Rilfllfill in his younger (lays, .\lr. MacDon- ald ntclllnvctl with years and rmpunsibilitic; of

accounted largely fur the hittcr rcscntluent he aroused among his further collczlgtlcs in flu: Iithlltlr Party. lt was lllllPPfl a long stcp from the. “Apncllc of fhc bell 'I‘it~", {is hc was known in hi; Pflflv (lays in Parliluucut, in tllc. cautintls gtatcuitati of latcr years, the lr-zt-lcv of a Nfllifill- n] (j,,\.,.,-n,ncm qmwifllillg largely of (Ynnscrva- tivf-x‘ llut hc held always that evolution and not revnltition must be lhc mcane nf crmitlr; social itijusticcs. _

For a man who hall lived so lrnlg lll the pub- lic eve. .\lr. Rlzirllultzllll rcmzliilcd untisitallv shy an(‘il'(‘~gl>f\'(‘ll_ 'l‘llc<c qualities carncd him ill? rppulfllinll of being stanrl-nffnh. llr~ mire trlld

q" uudipngp Ill <tutlcuts that thc lcet "f lift‘ l‘ whclhcr a tuzul can spend llis lci-‘ttre illnuc. 11,“.- was m. lllllllll that he pYPlPFFPll l0 ll"? ml the mnutltaiu lIIllQ with lli< ideals. if not

“lane at 1(-;\<l with but a fclv chnscil friends. and. his belnvrwl ln-nlva lhit hi< sense of puhhc rc- sprltisihilitv drove him v-n. lli< rclirclllvllf fFOf" active politics a vcav a2» was ucccssitafcrl bv ill health. and bv lhc itch“! m?" Vlllllflr should- ers wcrc better fitted in carry thc burdens hc had bniliicllis pase-"itlg the. llritish Fmpirc has l0<t H" hutstatlrlipq nmpc. and. pcrltane more important than that. a statcsnlail xvhnee lovaltv went flPPfl- er than lip servicc tn British Prl'l°ll‘l("‘-_““‘l“'h° never shirkcrl dutv for pfwfil"! lmlmlimhv-

The Two-Minute Silence

Fvcrv year, when the anniversary of Aflflii- I'm: tT-(IIIICS around, someone is sure tp ask, "Wlluliriglnatcd the idea 0i "W 1W" "mm"? filmlce ?"

This qucstinn is not casy tn answer-mot h0- cattse there is no answer, but rather for the rm- srm that fhr-rc arc s0 many claims tn have first suggested this snlciun national rite that it is lull easy tn ascertain which should bc given pfififllfl

lt has cvrn tween claimed that King (icllrgc V nligillatcd the. ldca 0f the twr» minutcs’ <ilcncl‘——

i Fitzpatrick, in terms which were not only gett-

aristocrat to marry her, l!

thriugh, til llC true, llis lalc hlzljcsty ll(‘\'f‘l' 1t“- sucizitzlrl hiln=clf with such a claim.

As a matter of fact. the King scented tn have no silcb tllntigbf about the matter, for bc nncc cxjlrcssll’ acknowledged the (‘laitn made nil behalf of a Soillh African ilutablc, Sir Percy

'1"? l5fl:°\_".l-lllf!lllllQWN wollfililiAf.‘ __

tvovumum r0. 1931

erous but unequivocal and coilclusive. This is ivhat the King's private secretary wrote to Sir Percy Fitzpatrick: “The King desires me to as- Sllffi you that he ever gratefully remembers that the idea of the two minutes’ pause on Armistice Day was due t0 your initiation].

There are, however. says an Old Country ex- change, other people for whom the claim is still put forward, and among them is a journalist, Mr. G. Honey. It is true that the period stig- gcstcd by Mr. Iloucy was five minutes, not two; but it is not in doubt that his proposal was nut forward in an article which he wrote and pub- lisltcrl in May, 1919, and which at once at- lmclcd a flreat deal of approving comment.

Fcotlpntl, however, might reasonably assert an carhcr claim in this connection. for it i; an updlnibtetl fact that a private in a Glasgmv Ter- ritorial Battalion stiggested a period of Sllgtlt homage to our dead in a poem which he mm. Pmfd R5 if!’ back as r916.

"\'l"llc(_\\'rltcr was Private \\'. llutchcsrln, nf (t ."'“If="l.v. 17th Highland Light lllfantr‘ . lllwln as the Chambers of Commerce Balm. lion. and dubbed hv the wits as “The Feathrr. hi"_l<"l. who was killed in action in blcsriltntanlirf Ppvatc llutcbcsnn bad a poem. cntitk-(l "Tn Iiilr-ncc", in the issue fflr flptctnber. lrnfl m’ the battalion magazine, “The fiufpost." i flbcrntrsc the idea of a Cnmtnenlorativc sil- cnfc l= not: new or crl-eval only with tllc Great .\\ 1r.’ Til 100i the Attsfraliatis nbstwvcrl a ppr. Wl u! ‘ulcllcc on thc occasion nf the funeral nf OI???“ \ irtnria; and (luring ll". fir," “var i, W“ W‘ frhlotti 0f thc South African lllltlPf< ti» Maud barchczlrlctl for a tnruncnl at "mm. PM], ivli‘ ¢l= a sign of rcsncct for their rlczul mm. "'7" “ll/I hilll bccu killed in action, Editorial Notes

I I

Buy a Poppy! e a 4- n- (lliver Goldsmith born this datc 1728. ll‘ i l I!

Ilaving ticd the ltantls of the Stipcndiar_v Rlagistratc, the City Council now look to sec how hc will extricate himself.

v a- 4t x

Irtpzui not yet having declared war on China

the fall of Shanghai may be looked upon, inthe

terms of-thc Insurance Companies, as “an act of God." x v w w A Canadian poet's daughter, lion. Angela Grcciuvootl has just bccn tnarricd m London

after serving as an assistant in a Charing Cross book store.

It would have taken SOlllC courage a few years ago for an aristocrat to bccontc a “camtcr-loupcr” and still nlore for another

81$

'l‘hcre. will be nothing but commendation for Mr. Olivcr Dionne taking time by the forclocl: in buying Christmas presents for his big little brood at Callander, Ont., but why should he trck all the way to New York for thc purpose? Why docsrft he trade at home, where he expects his Quints & C0., to be fed, nourished and housed?

1f 8 1K’ 4K

The Mayor’s request for strict observance of thc Two Minute Silence at 1r o'clock to- morrow morning should not be necessary, but unfortunately in the past this solemn period, about which the whole ceremony of Remem- brance Day centres, has been interrupted by traffic or other llflit-SCS. One such llllCffllllllvll is citough to mar the proceedings. ’

1' U I i

Is Quebec beginning to mend her ways? In a judgment in Superior Court by I\Ir. justice Philemon Cutisincziu, Mr. Joseph Arthur Cou- lombc, former blayor 0f Ste. 'l‘l1crcsc, was dis- qualified and barred from sitting on the coun- cil of Ste. Therese for a. period of five years. In cviclcncc it was shown that Mr. Cottlombe, during the time he was Mayor had received nearly $10,000 for contracts given by the llllllll- cipality and had taken profits in violation of statute 107 of the Quebec Revised Statutes, r925.

e n-

\\-"ith regard to economic conditions in Can- ada, sltys the hlontlily Rcvicw 0f the flank 0f Nova Scotia, there is as yet no evidence of a recession, though there has undoubtedly bccu a pause in the upward movement. Complete data fur August and preliminary returns for Scptczu- bcr indicate that business was well maintaiucd. Inclcctl, viewing the summer quarter as a ‘whole, it appears safe to say that business was better than at any time since I930. Employment has been steadily increasing and the rclicf rolls have bccu further reduced. Production 0f Ilhuus‘. everything except wheat was substantially larg- cr this summer than last and carloatlings, Zlgillll excluding wheat, bavc recorded appreciable gains. Exports have continued to rise, albeit at a slower rate, and thc tourist trade has been consitlcrzibly greater than n. year ago. The valuc of imports has been increasing at an ac- celerating pace, partly through higher prices and Illlflly in rcsponsc to improving living stan- dards and greater activity in the hcavy indus- ‘lflCS.

>k It!

a a n: u The United States Tariff Commission has

gone on record as being whole hcartcdly behind:

Secretary of State Hull's reciprocal trade policy. “The l-lull program attempts not only to in- crease the volume of world trade," Dr. Henry F. Grady, Vice-Chaimian said. “It aims to ncu. tralize the marked trend in recent years of countries to throw off the established economic and political rules of the game and establish their own rules of economic and political conduct. It seeks by precept and example to induce the countries of the world to co-opcrate in the re- cstablisltmcnt of the international economic system. Such a consummation will not only tnakc possible the cvcr-iitcreasing flow of litter- tiatinnal business but will check the tendency fo- ward attfarchy flllfl titilitarianism. (The total- itarian Sfatcs arc those which seek to maintain precise control ovcr all the activities of their stibjccfs.) You cannot well have the_ inter- tiatinnal systcm properly rc-cstablishcd and a number of States (lcdicafetl to the totalitarian principle. The international system inherently implies international co-npcration for _interna- fional ends and purposes."

"F

nuns 0v nus vm

The Gods never lau|hed more ironically than when in sending nineteen persons to death in the crash of the United Air Lines "biainliner," they included a pilot who had flown 1,000,000 miles tn war and peace without a mishap. a bust- ncssman who was taking his first fl ght, and two nelvsreel photo- graphers who were making a picture of "The Safety of Transcontinental Fflylngf-Harrison in Windsor Star.

A young man has been shot by n dog while prowling in the country near Cape ‘Town. A party of four was returning to Cape Town after a neck-end in the country when the dog, scrambling about the car, trod on the trigger of a loaded and cock- ed saloon rife which went 0E and wounded one of the party. He clled before he could be got to hospital.- South African News Letter.

There are two excellent reasons why the provinces and the Domin- .on should take over the social ser- l. vices and relief. The first is that

they have the means while the auutiicfpalities have not. They have

various sources of revenue; the , municipalizies have little more than ‘ the tax on real property, Their rev- enues. because there arc various sources, can be varied according tn

raced. The municipal revenues, as a

rule, dwindlc 30st at the tme the glen-ands Uptil them arc heaviest. , The second reason that in throw- ing excessive btude ‘ cu the muni- cipalities and so f.) i the lmpml" Lion of_ high leaves on Pl property, Dominion and Provincial Govern- mClll‘. are ititerfcring w til the PTO- per dove opmcut of real property- Vancouver Province.

The Grand Mufti uf Jerusalem fled to Syria when the B.'itish au- thorities moved against the Arab terrorists, his friends. France still exercises a mandate over Syria and it. is not likely that the Syrian Mos- lcms u ant to be involved as a body in the activities of those in Pales- tine, although some of the young hotheads would enjoy it. The Mos- lem leader will be happier in Libya where his friends and paymasters, the Italians, are and thither he 1s said to be going. Birds of u feather. -—E4~.changc.

Germany is said to be building IOU-ton army tanks. This would be two or three times the weight of a modern all-steel rah-cad car. Smce the French already have a. 'l0-ton tank with armor that can tum buck a 3-inch shell, the new German mode‘. is only a step forward in a procca of evolution lllllCll may yet give us so-called tanks with 6-inch armor, like the battleships of not so many years ago. Actually these titan tanks are movable fortresses. 0n their great. cateipillar treads they can be shunted over com- paratively small distances. But a small distance may mean a great deal in modern warfare, as we know from Shanghai, where the fighting is from house to house, or from the so-callcd Unversity City at Madrid, where the fighting has been actually from floor to floor in the same building-New York Times.

Mussolini has not paid for Abys- sima yet, orders a. 10 per cent. cap- ital levy-to meet the bill. That sur- prises those good people here who think that Italy is so strong, and also those who think that Mussoluil is the heaven-sent defender of pri- vatc property. It does not surprise tlmsc who know that the oppos to ls true. The Abyrsinia auncxatlotl cost Italy not. less than 121500001100. 'I'he total trade of Abyssmin. is worth about £2,000,000. 1r Italy collars the whole lot it can only yield hcr less than one quarter of the 00st of the war: debt charges. Is that. good busincssit-London Daily Express.

Tourists who are anxious to cover a lt-t nf territory in a. few days will be interested in knowing that a mo- torist driving 45 mics an hour steadily for 10 hours a day would require 13 years, 10 months 0nd 21 days to travel all the improved roads of the United States. So 1t: can't be done on one vacation, after alL-St. Thomas Tltnes-Jotirnul.

A dvszpafels felling about u man being taken into custody at. Inger- snll after having caused gncvous bcrill) injury to an officer, con- eludes with this amazing statement: “It was shown there were some 2t) convctions against; him during the 110st. 20 years." Anzl in the course of events there will likely be another flddflfl shortly, which will make 80 convictions in 20 years. So that means that cu an average this man has been in trouble each time eight months rolls around, and he has been keeping that up for 20 years. It. would take a confirmed optimist t0 believe there will he any change ln the man's llfll7lLS.——P€l1!.‘l‘l)0l'OUEh Ex- umlner.

It ls lutky that. Americans are not. a sensitive people, otherwise our pride would be hurt. at the way this continent was discovered and ex- plorcd by people who had their mind on other thlzgs. It began with the pro-Columbian discoveries. In those early days no one came here because he really wanted to, but. either he was looking for some other place or ese he was driven fur out of his course by a storm. These things happened to Lelf the Lucky. who was headed for Greenland, and to the Irsh missionaries on their way to Iceland, and to the Breton fishermen on the Grand Banks, 1nd to the crew of Chinese Junks. As one historian recently observed, America. was never discovered fn a proper sense, but: was only st mbled upon like a bedroom chair in the dark-New York Times.

Consider the enormous hlrzm done to international relations by the sabre-rattling puclflsts even in the last flve years. They wanted to fight Japan over Manchurla in 1931. They clumored for war with Italy over Abyssal‘: in 1935. They have been caning hysterically for intervention on the side of the Spanish Reds. And in the present critical times fr- responslble cr es for "strong action” continue as everyone realizes that fl. ls not this country's job to pull other people's chestnuts out of the fire. Swift, unfalterfng progress in renrmnment is the i. slstent need of the hour-and especially rearmu- ment in the aha-London Dally Mali.

ARMISTICE

A Message to

LieuL-General the Rt. Hail, J. C. Snzuts, 0.11., 11.0.

DAY. I937.

Youth from

I value the pflvlltlfl of belnl once more invited by the league of Nations Union to give the Armis- tice Message. 1 gave a. similar mes- sage to the Schools of Great Brit.- tain in 1931. During the interven- ing years world affairs hay, tak- en a very grave tum.

It, is unnecessary to I0 through the long list. of disasters which have almost overwhelmed us: world-wide depression and suffer- ing on an u- preoedeuted scale;

now again China; the decline in melnbershlp and authority of the league; the abandonment of dis- armament and the Nstartlng of a great armament race among the nations; the violation of treaties and the return to a naked belief in force; ' the disappearance of popular self-government. from large parts of the West; above all, the loss of faith in ourselves and 1n the principles of our civilisation. No wonder there ls confusion and distracted cotmsel among us. We are like peop'e who have lost the

road and grope around in dark- ness. All sorts of desperate expedi- ents are resorted to. Many have abandoned their ardent faith in the League. Some are for water- lng down the Covenant ufltil lit- tle 0r nothing of its vital prin- ciples will be left. Some are for out-and-out. Pacifism, even at. the rl k of endangering the very causes which Bfg dearer to us then peace or life itself. Many despair of hu- man nature and self-government. and seek refuge 1n one or other of the new ideologies There ls a dispersal of strength and aimless drifting. It is just here that the graven; danger for the future lies.

In this crisis of our times, what ts my message to Youth?

In the first place, I would say: let. us stick to the light that we have seen; let us rally to the Coven- ant which was born of the suffer-

and still remains our noblest and truest vision of the future- In the Covenant of the League 11m fmperishubly e m. b o d f e d the road to the future of the world. There is nothing amiss in that vis- ion of a world community function- ing in conference and in co-opera- lion. Not the sword but the Round Table is the sign under- which we shall win. If the Coven- ant happens to be in advance of

lng and vows of the Great. War.‘

the time. lf the men and women of our um, cannot rise to the height 0f this lofty ideal, that l5 no reason for abandoning it Btlck

i m m; League, even 11 lt functions 1m rfecfly and gives no security

i for present. Stand behind the

' Covenant as our banner and ideal Men must. have a vision to livv by; for lack of that vision they l perish. and perhaps the disease we suffer from today ls Just this lack of vision. In the Covenant we