n. ,1 IA 1:5; ‘e ,1”. _ ~ star;- ‘rw PEACE on was _ _..._._ we x)!» _fn Europe today, serious as pnwere absent in 1914. This is point- ‘Jd out by Dr. John W. Dufoe, edi- ~"§'or of the Winnipeg Free Press, in ‘in article contributed to the cur- issue of Canadian business. ..'Ilr. Dafoe says in part: "-_‘-'V""I‘here is one great difference fijwtween the situation of today and ‘jhat of i914: there is now s. resist- “into in the public mind against- ‘lurar and preparations fol- it, which ‘iijas almost wholly lacking twenty agoflThe people,’ Philip Baker in the Yale Review, ‘have at apst understood the issue and are “steady for all measures however dras- "jlic that will save them from the mis- girrles and degradation of the past: “flimsy are only waiting for the lead '. ‘mot will enable them towin the "peace! This may be too optimistic; ‘ggljut certain it is, that in this din-x . hour, more thought is being given the people generally to the pos- ‘ ilitles of keeping the peace by Wllective action than ever before. gflihsre is a public interest in it as lbs only possible escape from war; wilds disposition, hitherto lacking, ‘M race ifs implications, even though ‘flirts may involve ultimately the use "a sanctions. There is s glowing that the choice is ‘imtween this course and recurrent ‘s growing agreement with Sir Jorman Anselrs recent declara- ‘Tlle real case for the League, the collective system, n that it the only means by which the of this as of other count- .: can. pombly be made olfac- hciior which may have tltluernao hi maintaining bthy can sum-d so so to war. ' no group of rinancers can sf- lo back such an undertaking. 1h Dulce I09! the 1914-18 quoaou i was lie mom dohrudnsbcn the ‘United States i0 IIIQ tlla ' or war debts tint led the to shade their rcpsrutiorls "jfilms in mronomicai figures. They Yfltmded that reparations should {at a set-off to the war-debts and "his they proved to be despite the ‘jhlsistexlce of the Urlitied States tho/t ‘fliers was no relationship between Ihem. When reparations ceased to paid, the payments 011ml’ debts ..nlso stopped; but while thisiduel of obstinacy was being fought out world was wrecked. But from ‘llhis record of human pride and ‘ifllorence, oi’ doom and dlnster, lesson has been learned which ‘foray yet be roi- the healing of the gmtions. Nations now lcnow that if "they go w war they cannot collect _jndemrlities: also that if they sell ‘mpplies to belligerent nations, they never be paid for them." w OYSTER Falzinuvo recent progress made in re- jisbilitatlng the Malpeque oyster "jzjdustry is a reminder of the fact Yfllat oyster farming has a hisfnl’? many centuries behlmil "4- An zwxchange recalls that the andent Yfnmsns used it in the days before ‘$125.: birth of Christ. for the lllkcd their oysters. Strange as it qijgy seem, or perhaps it may not semi strange, the methods of two * thousand years ago differed little “mm those employed today. In the writings of Pliny, 29 Al)» there is reference to one Sergio brats. a Roman cultivator of oys- ‘ ma. m. Iewis Radcliffe, secrets-f! “of the Oyster Growers’ and Dealers’ ismooisticn.‘ told the Maryland Out- rjnifo convention. According to inothoi- book published in rm. it appeal-l that the Roman methods I for cultivation didnot differ widely . I’ - Dilly (lOIodId [I'll C.“ II- ILQ oss- ysns (l.- advsaso) Isllsd ls runway. nsanlms n, 1m. The immediate cause cf the pros- . trrisis in the mums-she as- ‘fipsssklslticn of King Alexander of Jugcslavia-runs strikingly parallel . \ ' with the situation which precipitat- ljfl the Great War in 1914, and _, fears are now being exprased that othe consequences may be ropes‘ * -. another world conflict. with modern war machinery {ggiotuc unquestionably be more dis- ‘fihwlls than anything which his- llas recorded. But conditions ‘ they ‘tulips, have reassuring aspects which Eons (In Mussel lsllvssud. lid Unlhd Ihkl. Tbcroisagcodmsrkatinthnada for oysters. and the devol- opmsntnf the industry iscne of grsst-postibililyinthsnfirluture. ‘ ' FERTILIZERS Imports of fortilimuriiliir 0m- ads in October were vsluod at M19.000:of which $279,009 came fmn the United States. The supply from thsimiiod States consisted rnsinly o! sulphate of umrnonfl $48,000, nitrate of sods. IIUADO. phosphate olf limo @900. There was bone dust from Argentina to the value or $9.600: min-late or potash from France $4,000, from lcissia $84,000, col-many 88. z sul- phate-of potash from Germany M,O90snd Marlee $1,260. Exports of domestic fertilizers in Odober included cyansmid to the United States, 96,114 cwt. at $104,- 499; g ammonium sulphate, 33,070 cwt. at $31,243 to the Philippines, zesoo at $29M to Hawaii, 18,88’! at $20,014 to the United States and 11m at $1,170 f0 the Dutch lhst Indies. ‘Ihere was fish offal to the United States at $3.343 and to China $276. All the 0890118 of fer- tilizers have increased this year e:- cept ammonium sulphate. A JUBILEE MEDAL Announcement comes from Inn- don, England, that the Royal Mint has been authorized to issue a medal in commemoration of the twenty- fifth anniversary of King George's accession to the Throne, which is to be observed next year. The medal will show, on the obverse, the crowned effigiu of their MB]- csties, the King and Queen, with the inscription “i910 t0 1986" in Rioman letters. The reverse will show s. view of Windsor Castle, as the principal residence of the Royal House of Windsor. The medal will be failed in. ho sizes, one 2 1-4 inches in diameter, struck in stand- ard silver, and the other 1 1-4. inches in fine silver. The 00st of eachinthspublic willbsndd. Special arrangements are being madoforsaIesinOcrlsdas-nd the other Dominions. This souvenir of the Jubileewvill be worth obtaining and preserving. EDITORIAL NOTES .n'emiel-AngilsMnodons.ld does not-liksthcpremreactioniahis fljrrAlowoommissicn.‘ ..8emhor Huey Puldllfl. Florida. has practical dictator 0f his State by dethmning Msyor Walms- ley-of New Orleans from the chair- manship of thclDemoorczic state committee. He, with Governor O. K. Allen, ss his second in command, controls the party, legislature and capital of the mats. The nyssrt (Alberta) Royal Oun- mission have docidedfocslluponthe Dominion Government to give an accounting of the administration and sale of school lands between 1N5 and 1.980. This claim is i0 be presented leparately from that for the natural resources on which evi- dence is now being taken at Ottawa. Bir- Andrsw Macphall fa once more in the limelight by boosting French Canadians in ‘lbrontn. On being interviewed he said the sur- vival of ‘the Dionne quintuplet sisters was due in large measure to their sturdy Hench-mnadinn heri- tage. "There is no sturdier parent stock. 'I‘he quintuplets could not have had a greater heritage," he said. I-Is declared also he believed that the "remedy fol- what we call the depreuion can be found in imitating the French-Canadians ‘and getting back- to the land."_ or course, Sir Andrew meant “getting back to the land" only, not getting "qulnts." Hon. 1m‘. Weir, Minister of Agri- culture, already anticipated the plea of Premier- Bracken, Manitobfl» for a nationslco-ordlnating ‘body to study and collect nifcrmation on Dominion agriculture generally. 1h i992 the Minister called together a national conference on agricul- tural services in ‘Ibrmfo at which was organised the national advis- malr-min. rho committee nu func- ticncd sqtively since in ‘bringing about co-oper-sticrn‘ between, federal and provincial unis, unl- qsllw flhticucollocaedinvarlmis sump‘ roi-tunlhticnoroui- adim problsmaAscc- 0f] Cfilllflb! Wlbh M1‘. WQU’ ll . Notes y The Way As regards finance. most Csn- '“ will 8819c that in moss your: of prosperity Canada launch- have to go slow, need not be very 10118 b91019 811° is able to catch up again, because she is grappling with her difficult- ies, through developmen‘ of her great resources. especially her min- eral resources, and a. more rapid increase in her population. I put that in because later, perhaps, as times hnpmve, we shall be able in helpherbyulargerflowofmigra- tion trom this country and an in- creasing influx of British capital. Fw the rest, I can only repeat that therncrconeknowsofOanads, the Bir- William Clark in The Empire Review (London) George Bolder: in an srtlals in .Harper's draws attention to the fact that the nations which are under dictators suppressed the newspapers or What amounts‘ to the same thing, put them under cen sorship, so that they become tho servile instruments of the dictat- ors. Newspapers died by "~- rather than live in this sort of slav- ery. Lenin was the editor of Iskra, meaning e. Spar the fires alizht; stalin was editor of the Pravda in Petrogrud; ‘Isot- sky was a Journalist in New York; Mussolini was editor of the Pop- clo ditalia of Milan and Hitler. while not an editor, had still some- thing.to do with paper, though he can hardly be included among the editers—he ‘was a paper-hanger. The watohwcrd of all prome- has always been-change! ‘The man who stands still. in his method of thought, in his manner of work, or in his viewpoint, is soon passed and. left by the wayside of events. No one can be satisfied with being no bigger today than yesterday, or in remaining in the same position dlly after day. Change is the food for all growth and improvement. Ideas have shaped the world, rnnide of it all that it now is. or ever will be- Idefle 8% people Jobs-and ideas hold them. Every page or his- tory is colored with the lihss of’ men and women who dared them. Everything good and substantial in human life owes a debt toidcas skid to change-Ear. In the European political situa- tion of today there is no factor both actually and potentially more im- portant than the breach which has _. ’ between Italy and 43er- mB-BY. And what makes thlsbreanh all the more important is that it should have opened so short a time after the meeting in Venice between Signor Mussolini and Herr Hitler‘ so soon after that speech in the Square of St. Mark his guest. de- clared to an applauding multitude that he 811d Herr Hitler had es- tablished an "intimate spiritual communion,” and that "n. terrible alternative” faced Europe if- she proved incapable of achieving a minimum of political understlnding, of economic collaboration, and of social comprehension-The Fort- nightly. - In s recent sddreu given before the Canadian Club at ‘Ibrcnto 10rd first Baron Der-cheater, who was Governor-General of Canada from 1769 to 1779, and commander of the British troops in Quebec during the Anlcriccn Revolution, spoke on 111111131181 Bil-Hill‘. a phrase which he used to describe what he corn- sidcred the most sane characteristic the mftish Empire. ‘The British 13019119." he said, "seems to be 19-111! 011 the NM! to recovery, while the rest of the world is still wal- lowing in a slough of political crises, revolutions, tyranny, murder, and dictatorships. Our national sanity is a compound quality made up of common sense. ‘ dependence, self- ountidalce, patience and ability to faee facts however unpleasant, the whole leavened by a. saving sense of humor, which survives even the greatest “lsasters. It is this com- blllfl-tlon 0f qualities that has en- abled us to weather the series of storms that have been shaking a distressed world ever since 1914." The lollly-Iurvy condition of the world today could hardly be appre- ciated better than through a con- trast of American and Russian ag- ricultural programs. a Russian court in Tashkent recently put 55 cotton farmers on trial for their lives. They are accused of having 870W! Only 80 per cent. of the amount of cotton which the govern- ment expected them to grow this year. If the court finds out that they limited production on purpose, all will be shot. Contrast that now with the American farm program, which aims at cutting productiqn rather than expanding it. Laying aside the blood-curdling‘ savage y °1' m‘! DWI"! involired. the cori- trnst is illuminating. In Russia the farmer Bets into trouble for not evidently to bc- provided such an community by the Hepburn Lib- eral Government which intends id authorise a Royal commission to was sentenced to s six months jail ierniandafincoflfllhllllmfllssp- more sure one is of her future.—. Domhester, a descendant of the iohis of the English races that compose Ca .l=-~a c cf ‘t. inc?! UlIIIIV-{ll ms nrronrsrccs or n: mass ‘I'll-TI The loss of the teeth of the first or milk set was so common when wc were yifimssters that like one of the characters in Mark Twain's ‘Tom Sawyer’ than was often a contest in whistling or expector- sting for distance through the space left by the lost teeth Today your dentist will toll you ‘ that the first teefll are really very precious and should receive the some care as the permanent set. "Evidence is at hand that school children develop more rapidly both mentally and physically if their mouths and’ teeth are regularly under the care of the dentist.” One of the interesting ,ictures which your dentist can likflly show you is that of the first set of teeth f about ready to drop out with the J , permanent set above them ready to , fit into their places. It looks some- .tlil lik t ' h lnedmanythins! kvwmch ‘wswiM botrhgthseilippgroaglttgnlowegugfaw; thatisfourrowsorstories insll. Nature ‘expects the first set to remain in place until the perman- ent set is ready to break through; the roots of the‘ first set being absorbed to make room for the newor permanentsetlfthsflrst set are removed or lost by decay before the arlent ,set are ready ‘ to take their places, the arch of the mouth becomes foo narrow and the ~ieeth become r. You have likely seen children with wires about their teeth where the dental specialist (orthodontist) is endeav- oring to bring them into line. The first or millr set should therefore be given as much care as the permanent set-little cavities filled, and the teeth kept clean by the regular use of the tooth brush. Some of the serious consequences of not having the cavities of the first set filled are pointed out by the Journal of the American Medi- cal Association. The child loses the use of the teeth, the pulp: of the teeth die and abscess and destruc- tion of the Jaw bone follows. Bwol- len glands often occur, digestion is affected, the child suffers pain and the general health suffers. allow the first set to decay. Osv- ities should be filled as soon as they occur. i Children should visit their dentist every six months. Bering Of Bering Strait (lbrchange) Everyone knows of Bering Strait, which separates Asia and North America, the Old World and the New, but as frequently happens few know of Vitus Behring-or B81’- ing in whose honor the strait was mined. Born in Jutland, about 1680. the courB-so he displayed as captain in the navy of Peter the Great during the Bwaiish wars led be .. command s voyage oi.’ discovery. He examined the coasts of Kam- chatka. the North of Siberia and the geographical relation of the two continents. He seems to have been preceded into the famous strait by a forgotten Russian 00s- sacl: explorer, named Deshneff, and , Oook cbmpleted subse- queritly- the work of exploration, but in any event the strait bears the name of Bering. His last voyage was made in 114i, and returning he was wrecked on the island in the strait which both can-y his name. he crew lived through the winter but on this day in that ‘year Bering was buried alive. It is recorded that, too ill to walk. he was carried ashore and placed" in a sheltered hollow be- tween two sandhfils. The wind blew the sand over him until his legs were buried and still it kept drift- ing in. He refused to be. dug out because the sand gave him warmth in s. cold world and so. slowly bur- ied by the wind, he died. raising enough; in America he gets into trouble if he raises too much. A mad world.—vc.ncouver Sun. . llerc is s subject l‘. which pub- lic opinion should get busy. Emin- ent authorities say that the aver- age girl is not so healthy as she should be. And the fault is not that she is a girl, as Nature would have it, girls naturally are hnrdier than boys. In matters of health protection the girls are subiect to unfortunate influences with fashion and false ideals of beauty. Dr. Reginald Fitz, medical authority and educator, is quoted in The News Health add Ifygiene do- partment as saying that ulldernut- rition is characteristic of most young girls. While there are few under- weight young men. girls are almost universally underweight. Girls do- liberaiely undernourfsh themselves. --Deilroit News. l i lmlms KI [l N EY Pl LLS It is therefore a great mistake to 11131118 fated m!“ s . ‘rucuo r0 um. m- .. 1i- n-su - corresponds“: that they had blundsrcd: and we have had revealed t0 us the activ- ities psst and present of the armament ufacturers, their bribing of go. ant advisers and officials, their baulking of confer- ences, and their stirring up o! fear and suspicion and hatred, h: order that their own profits be multi- plied; nlld we have heard-Britain, as well as other nations, shouting for peace while attire some time she increases her armaments." ‘ro the youth of all ifho we would my, "Wake up‘ In tho words of -su earnest London clergyman addressing s. crowded audience a few months ago, and all who wanted peace to workforitfllfyoudmnogcodfor action now, xiv-twirl do well. 011M811 for torture tcr on. when they want focldsrjortheir cannon you'll do all rilht than." You aver. Sir, that nothing in history, scored or Profane. all?‘ ports the views of the absolute pacifist. lPsrmit ms to draw" your attention to a figure in sacred hil- ' icrywholnycusearutohovcdvw- looked, and to r-emindycu that s greater than Einstein bade us when attacked to "turn the other cheek" andwlw listed that. “All who take the sword shall pRis-h with the sword." When those who profess to follow Iilrnoreallsc that His commands were given in be obeyed and act accordinlb. 91m we shall have peace. Yousamsndlalroowlthylll- that our soldiers fought to and war, but now that we know the utter futility of such s. task. would you suggest that we might again fight for peace? Rather let us say, “We have tried one H116 0f paclfism and by awful experience we know that it. is not only s fall- urs but a stupendous fraud. Id: us give tho other kind a fair trial" \ I am, Sir, etc, ‘ BEBYL A. MOBSON. (Miss Mar-son has misread Th Guardian editorial in she im it in be in Praise or in extenuailion -of war. 'I‘he point we endeavored f0 make was that the kind of peslfism to which ex- ception wns taken-lthd Did-mm which stands for pesos st any price-would lead inevitably to war if adopted, say, by Great Britain in face of such conditions as pre- vail in Europe today. We sought to show that ton many occasions the League of Nations-the greatest human agency for pascal-ins been handicapped simply by reason of inability to enforce its decrees, and that if it were not tor the snned power of the nations supporting the League its decrees would carry no weight whatever. This is not an ideal situation, but unfortun- ately it exists and must be faced. Miss Morson has also misread his- tory if she assumes that the Allies’ cause in the World War was not worth fighting for. The issue was clearly enough defined when Bel- gium's neutrality rights were violated and her peaceful homes invaded. This might not have hap- iArawotopassbyon thsotbsrsidstwould novtbc Good tanbsvabocnsssc- tlvoinfighfllltorascustbsmsu attacksdbyrobbsrs, ssbs was snbslllusntlrincsrinsforhisin- iulsn correspondent iscn groundfnciidnminop- pcslticntnfliiassmmpticujhs teachingctlimwhedsclarodthst Kccsuiouctiohfrlgpcacaintc tbswofldpbutaswcrd: Whose "mssroccrdsdiniscripture. cue flshtfwirutlusnd rllorrr ' sr mimosa nu - wmnovmlsugnm norm: from to; he o mystery of wit... beats this shore Wham dragged cliffs, offspring of I life apart! , What long auroral splcndours rise lnddbrt Swift arrows from the north sky's quivered store Inbound-heaven, till earth is arched » oer , Withmystic dome, by ghostly build- . -or’snrt. ooliuiior Man, upon this lonely ‘height _ l terror sweeps salon thy sou - When thou beholden with bewilder- ed eyes Stars upon shtars, behind this pillar- Qd n18 t And ffionmns where dark billcws What place is thins ‘amid such earth and skies? Jreiierick Georzc Scott. Inks Superior, 192M. Passchendaele Refcllght (Toronto Globe) As s Boot. Mr. T. Stewart-won, Chairman of the (hltarlo Hydro, did no more than his national duty the other nisht at Hamilton. Speaking to fellow-Scots, Mr. Lyon defended a famous countryman, the late 10nd Hale. against that Oyrnric ulumniatcr Right Lloyd ms-nder 0d the British Armies" in "N190. Mr. Lyon described as un- fair and ill-conceived. The Lloyd George charge that Haig‘; 9mm. endaelc offensive of 191"! was "wan- ton waste" he declared to b; not based on facts. A Boot is, of course bound 1n honai- to defend another soot-u good name against the attests of a" mere Welshman. But in this defense Mr. Lyon has done more: he has helped toclear upfor Oanadianss, "' mus 0t deep and enduring bite“. ness. ‘Ibo many Canadian soldiers disd at Posschcndsele for any Omadim to read untroillaled the Lloyd Q0189 version of the stony cfPass- chendaele. The charges brought by w- Lloyd Gedlee are too grave and, if true. too heavy with tragic signl. 11> so unquestioned. It is as In eyewitness, present in Flanders in, 1917 with the Oansdi Corps. that Mk, Lyon has question ‘ them. Al an eyewitness tn the events of 191'! he finds that neither facts nor Walls supprtlrrht them. , that Mr. Lyon ranges himsclt with a argb and growing company of reliable witnesses, all of whom cite historic facts that scam to have slipped the mem , of the volatile Iidlr. Lloyd George. Plsscherldaele ofifensivc was, ae- ccrding to these witnesses and facts, no martial adventure emb on by a pig-headed General lus ing for military Rlory. It was a desperate laxpodiem, employed to stave off disaster in a desperate case. Not even the German push of 1918 was the allied cause so near ruin as during the closing months of 1917. Passohendaels was fought after the Russian revolution had come Ind while the revolutionary Gov- ernment of Russia was negotiat- ing the peace that was to release all Germany's Eastern smiles against the Water-n lPront. ‘Vilthen it was fomht a French offensive g lmdcr Nivelle had felled diasiemus- ly, and as a result of the failure defeatism was rife among the Iiirench people, and the armies of P511190. mlltlnvus and distrustful of their commanders, were ii no con- dition to make or to withstand at- twolrs. In Italy at the time s. tri- uncpllant Austrian advance was driving the Italian before it toward the Piave and Venice. In Syria and Armenia the Turk was having things his own way. United States forces-were still three thousand miles and half a year from bellig- srant usefulness. And the war. lead- ers of the Allies, torn by fears in- decision and mutual distrust, were reduced to impotence- Even the, at present omniscient Mr. Ilovd George did not then no dispute. 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