Montreal weekly witness and Canadian homestead, 4 février 1919, mardi 4 février 1919

[" .: Montreal - \u201c .8 [ \u201ca + ce kly Witness \u2019 \u2014 VOLUME LXXIV., Ne.5, i 5 ¢ MONTREAL, __ _and Canadian Homestead.= = #20 POST-PAID, & A 0DPY, Y Me Was \u2014 7 MONTREAL, FEBRUARY 4, 1918, - Now\u2014altogether \u201cwork for National PROHIBITION he United Bihive tas gore on with its lHiquor leégtetation tegardiess of the fective mations! prohibition.saad leave it to the enemies of prohibition to put clogs upon the measure?There is no reqsonl why the.temperance people should fear the result of a referendum if the law was in the meantime even decently snforoed; but in view of the wealth of the opposing material in- tereats, with their power of quieting the press it would cost an tmmenst axpeaditure of energy which It is strange that any should court om their behalf.The temperance men way well challenge such a trial, if the enemy dares it, but why should they themselves demand It?What we ask of our readers ie to note how the besr men are Calling où drinkers to address their representatives on the subject, and to ses to it that they do their own duty in the same matter.In ad- effective mations! Probibition ep May first.Though the Premier and both those old-time champloas of Prohibl- tion, ir George Foster and Mr, Rowell, should be absent, dat?majority In the house ja so adequate, and the popular mandate \u2018so manifest, that they will be held personally responsible if prohibition legislation is sidetracked or weskened by any unnecessary condition whatever.Why ull this talk of a plebiscite since every province im the Dominion has declared itself for Prohibition, aué now demands, uf the Pederal Government the necessary nutlonal legislation to prevent the importation, transports manufacture and sale of alcobolie liquors foi beverage purpose: Wilt a Catholié Government at Quebes put to shame am overwhelmingly Methodist and Presbyterian Government al Ottawa.Personally Sir Lomer Gouin Is not a prohibitionist, but he yielded to the great moral, wave surging through his Catholic provinos.Personally sevelal members of the Federal Government are Prohibition United States by bringing in permanest | WAITING FOR MIM.| The People's Paper | FEBRUARY 4, 1919 \u2014\u2014 \u2014 the safeguarding of probibition under the Quebec provincial law whiob comes | Into force où the first of May.Amons | these provisions are that the male of.alooholic liquorg for medicinal and) sacramental purposes and the sale of aloohol for salefitific and industria) purposes be placed under the abeolute control of the Government, masaged by Government employees In Government stores, with no element of private profit entering therein and no inducement or reward to anyone which coulé sti- muiate the sale of intoxioating liquors, and that the enforcement of the law be placed under the care of a chief in- mpector or comumisgioner for the whole province, with a local inspector in each county and large city, each chief inspector being empowered to employ such assistance as may be found neces- mary.Other provisions propdiba dealt with penaîties for violation of the law; that the sale of \u201ctemperance beer\u201d should be in establishments licensed by as obtain under the existing law; that the Lisutesant Governor in Coumel! should be empowered to declare any important territories have fallen inte ber bands through the war, which ease not be handed back to or Turkey, Something must Sone\u2019 wien them.All that is true in the empire recoils from the very appessance of having gone to war for the snake of soquisition of territory, of which we have ajready an over supply.Put it would be an entirely different thing if the supreme council of the nations, at the assumed behest of the inhabitants, should say \u201cNusse this ohidd for ma, Slee that you do it for its own good and the geod of mankind.\u201d \u201cWhy,\u201d says Britain, \u201cyou may trust us for that, fer that is just what we are doing everywhere\u201d Supervision of natious hy the League of Nations is Imphal 1m the very being of the If there ts à league at all, its busi is to ese that the nations bebave property towesd etch other.It cannot thea apportion territory to any power with fs blessing.without exacting this god- Government, and during the same hours : fatherly pledge.The proposal is, $e make this mandate perpetual, as ît were, during good behavior, wo that the mandatory cuontry need have nq mis- absesit soldiers, The legislatures knew dressing our members ow demand ists.Will they question the grest tide option.specific intoxicating Hquor or prepars- givings in making what Investment 4 that the people wanted it, and whea [should be for abslute permesent and rising over the Dominion ms over the HV int tion containing alcohoi to be upon the may seé desirable in the development challenged had to adopt it.It is possible that legisintures elected\u201d for given tarms, with stable party majori- tien, take a more stesdy and broader view of what the will of the people te than a parliament that may at any efficiént national prekibitory legisia- tion with attectivd provieton for its enforcement.t .In Uninf, - rest of the Continent?\u2019 Timorous politicians will still want to axport- ment and inquire by plebiscite but those who do not ride the ~reat moral wave ard going to be swamped by It, oll are cosy.Thos be anved from Ks Mest powerful enemy would Canada \u2014N.Y.\u201cWorld.\u201d sure of their position that they cas rest on thelr cars.That is the great _ list of those probobited.A moet important provision urged, was that the prescription by physicians of liquors for medicine! purposes be strictly confined to the use of such liquors as drugs in the same manner in which other drugs of the country.Great Britain hes during war time spent a great deal Im restoring the lands of aactent empire and Arable to their ancient astonishing fertility and prosperity.She has done this ae & war mensure, ssour- Strength.and will'go down in histôry as men ] ' : a; emplored and devastater, danger.While we are gure that wel bed and The pro- time have to reckon with a bresse of sentiment Ours is what is called * Tesponatble government, an instru.y ment like an Aeolian harp plansed to respond to every popular breath.The absence of the soldier from the eoun- try has been made an effective point SgRinst the immediate passage of ne- tional prohibition into permanent law.Last week ve published the daring proposaia of the Gemerul Conference of the Mathodist Church in Cansds on evangelism and social service.It is well that, without waiting for one aa- other, the churches are taking thought to thess mattdrs.Might not the churches in Canada organise na who ahirked their duty and lost their oppogunity.But no.Our major statesmen should lead and not grudgingly and faitaringiy yield.They should do more and not less than over.prudent counsel! advises.If they know the tempar and determination of the Canadian people they will leas in.the people.But i\u201c \u2018Is the Seidier the © Hope of the Brewart We do not issagige that the brewer really couste May mbre oa the soldiers\u2019 vofe than on thet \u2018ef the rést of the are some soldiers can get the right kind of « law passed ft is safe to assume that we shall Bot, unless we each aad &il do all we esa to force our views on the poll- ticlans.Some members of Parliament have short memories for awkward re- posal that when the sale of liquor is forbidden the advertisiag of it be also forbidden would seem like a matter of course.Yet our newspapers are permitted to turn their most prominent.columns without shame i8to sewers of the [llicit gambling vices of the coming thereby the co-operaticn of the Arab inhabitants.But if that be Refloencs is to continue, if the desert and the nolitary place are agaia te biossom as the rose.If the earthly paradise is to be regained, \u2018tire would need to be seme permanancy in.the tenures.Britain if she is to be the munity.The defzand that individuals chosen guardian of the lané of on whom this frissifl of theirs no doubt counts much in another way.If he can cause of permanent, effective national and societies should be empowered to|Hamurabi, of Nebuchadnesser, of The soldier Is what the selling arent] Christian Congress with authority te peohibition, that without : ef à specialty would call a geod .alk- develop plans and engineer movements, [only by book or Ny crook keep is or ee ee M rons prossoute has been sbown' to be neces- Haroun Alraschid, wants to have a oing poin\u20ac If the question was neces.or campaigns, to achieve the generally No Melf- Hearted business going.thes will have a chance er; to do tha P yo! sary in the face of the frequent failure better claim than that of heviag takes of government enforcement.But such demand should be veni to accentuate the responsibility of goverument, oot to weaken it.Of all the commun- Ry the temperance people are least responsible for the breakage of law, and they sbeuid net, by aay implication, be charged, as they implicitly are, fa the Scott Act, for instance, with its em- Sorpgment.The activities e£ vigttance Cransisetiepe should eoneentrete on Imoping the authoritieb up to thetr Suty.Prohibhion Sunday.It a minister wants & mew text for Prohibition Sunday be will find it in the arguments put: forth by the public- Ry agent of the brewers of the province of Quebec which we reproduce on page & It reminds one of the prophet who was bribed to curss the enemy, but actually blessed him.Pro- hibjtion Sunday ls the first Sunday possible.The sooper resolutions are passwd by congregations, and petitions signed by all the voters demanding it out of the hand of the Amorite with her sword abd with her bow.Her warrant 1s that she is fit and willing to de what le seeded for the land's redemption, and for its Devpie\u2019s betterment.Met Waelearne.Fan manénterf etme of tesatiory o mush easier for the British to consent to than for thy Premsh, The British \u2018have administered ait sutgieet lands In the intesest not euly of the inhabitants \u2019 but of all mankind, ali Aber Bpopies being as fres (0 trade ther as them selves; and if the Germans got ahead of them under their own Gag, they counted it omly as our admonition to themselves to do their own business more efficiently.The French, on the other hand, have counted it their right to get some return for their national investment, and would look upon an international control in which the Germans might presently take a leading part as an intolerable bondage.This ta, \u2018 sarily one of a plebiscite or a re- erenéum, the absence of the suldier | would be an obvious ground ter pust- ponement, as all agree thatthe hes & well-earned right to Nis say.But the present Patliament repressats the soldiers as mugh as any otber voters.In desired objectives?Without this there must be waste of \u2018 eneygy Daradelling that which handionpped the Allies until the high command was céntralised The cnemy of social betterment 3e alert \u2018and traécherous.But ia so far 89 the Cheistian people of Canada are] agresd and determined, thers is noth- Ing at all that \u2018théy cannot achieve in the Wr Of apeal baiterment.Awd | Dore Neg.the madam of the (Pmcoh'e] mepoasidtility\u2014a responsibility thet falis upon each minister, each officer, each member to the limit of his or hee capacity.The Church must take the, lead or be led df to thé Chtrob tt commitied the view point of Christ it should lead.Thé Church must lead on damoeratic lines.As we have had te0 much by orders-la- council and by commisfion.so we have had coterie leadership.19 ls no fault of thoes .who have done this work for us that the people have left reforme to practically self-appointed comrlittees whose splendid efforts have been uyn- Prohibition Wanted.to spend openly, or at the bootleggers, ct a large part of the thirty-five dollars \u201cfor clothes™ and \u201cof the six month pay aligwehos- tht wit be gives him on discharge, I there are \u2018mm over tro buxdred Chousand of our boys to return, thet meine that some fifty million dollars wiii{be avaible for something.The of the ssldter te boul à luruy of thas with them te what the Nquor qy after.They know thet reeny a ops will be tempted te eslsbrate penco\u2014his- war Geste, his return, Ms friend's friendship, add be tousted ta tum til] he te an \u2018out-of- work giving trouble.- The tender cen- sideration for the soller an the part of thé Hiquor men a tadeed touching.But the average \u2018soldier will resent it Jam 5 soon ky he eels te whoss interest he is\u201c being appealed to.There 1s nothing that any man or woman can do for Canada at time that will compare potsstially \u2018with making the votes of the people beard at Ot- taws om behalf of Dermamemt effec.\u201cEst possiffe terme.In view of the tive national prohibition.And if we tions and sign petitions also, but Gé The immediate and tremendous ob- Dot paglect the parsomal letter to your Jostive of the moral forees of Camaga is to get complete national prohibitive legislation at the coming Sepsion of Parliament.Many people suppose that that \u2018battlé has been already Ge- won and that there is no fur- ® fight.Nothing is mere é thin to titnis- that weti- timed Ciquet érive in the lobbies at Ottewe: and tuotgh the press of tbe country may æsatch from us & victorious probibitory law.I?the war is over, why all theses broadsides in the press and\u201d the more imsidions \u201citems,\u201d \u201clettern\u201d \u201carticles\u201d \u201cQuotations from Centemporaries\u201d that flow out through the Canadian papers, all going to sho that prohibition is fooi- ish, and ths liquor men bamefactors All this Invoives à vast expenditure which would not be incurred If the brewing interests had Jost hops.And 1 1 equally evident that many papers are bugging their revenuse from liquor fact, the soldier and his relatives had \u2018- distinctive pei7tloges Why talk of a & plebiscite or & seferendwn any more Te Meg.Ahem thap fer say.olitr olbasl .AN Jesieintion 15 subject to repeal, if 5 any cluss of people are\u2019 es minded.We sep no reasom as we have before * said, why the soidier, in so far as hé Is p Canadian, should differ in bis judgment from ether Caoedians.It ts sot the woller who is asking delay.® | The Mope 0° .demanding an effective, permanent na- the Brewers.| 7 ' There are two classes that can be counted ous stave off final action as long eu they cap.These are the * politicians and the brewers, The distillers have practioally thrown up the sponge.or are at all events lying low.The brewers are in the position of cos sondunned to death who west every means to postpone ¢ the ; ministration of the law and through such precidus propagands as that to which we bave given free space In it in print, must have asked themselves, what enemy hes doas this?The arguments sre no doult ag good as could be offered.but wisdom would aot parade them as such.They may make the reader smile, but they will wo deudt have a sedative influence on the press of the country, which will shared by those they represent.It is for the Church to mobilise the rank asd file.By passively leaving such great interests to a few, the peo- pie have robbed themselves of interest tom up.When the, people themselves get the vision of any wocial nesd they demand it as now nt last the vast The Great Tide of Prohibition.\u201cIt comes tuto my mind that it would take more courage to resist the great moral tiie mow rpmning in the than to yield to it, than to obey it here ls a great tidg running in the hearts of men.\u201d Thess words were advertising and advocacy.And, doubt- leuu, politicians whp bave more or less secured majorities and ficateq them- salves to Ottawa oa funds and floods have been swelled by the liquor in- tprents.within Caneda\u2019s syabl, but she must eos that she gets it.Gbe ean only be sure of it by the individual effort of each determined citinen, and by.the collective effort of each church and organisation that wants it.Did our boys not dare, fight and die for freedom\u2019s sake in Flanders, and shall we fail to make our voice heard we cannot altogether blame owr members ff.yielding to the voices they will hear, they do not make their volos heard, nor Now, Everybody Fight for Prohibition.Who gives wp & race he is leading tive than the sordid greed qf the liquor interests.If am effective permmaent national law is not chnoted at the coming Session of Parliament, it will be because the temperance people fes so ALREADY LOOKING FOR A HOLE IN THE NEW FENCE, people are sure to make thelr dempands known.Be when Parliament meets on the 20th of this month let there be evidence of a great moral tide flowing in prohibition the better, as no one oan tell whether the subject will éome up early or late during the seesion tha of course, taking the Wilson proposal at its theoretic value of a real oversight and dictation on the part of a sort ef super-govertmènt.As a matter of favor of\u2014oay demanding an imme- In the matter of prohibition, whatever its form, the serious matter before hibition Jin three months are very anxious about this.A large and wry representative deputation waited on Sir Lomer Gouin & few days ago urging the adoption of various mesqures for opens oa the 20th of February.when tbe newsmakers, who hang hungry ob the outskirts of the Peace Conference, ansounced that, at the de.Apart from the trgmendous implication of a sort of super-governmeat of the world, exercising sway over large sec- Hons of {tase sort of super-Reichland (that fn, impefial territory), aa the Germans called the provinces added by war to the German federation, there was fli-suppressed resentment at the atti- fact, this oversight has become et- \u2018 ead, etutching at every straw that sense responsibility for] supplied in no mnail measure by Hiqpor Government if it hedges and com.' « dy give him » ray of hope They | Oe tout ba work.eae whl be wind So side tench Bo: | ed and oon\" tiati, effective, permanent.naticonil iréornational temunted to a right of protest and eC pion hopes of life in a reaction of t es poittion! parties aha int \u2018 prohibitory law.Administration.Le Linterforence when there shall be such i public opinion through the lax ad.The secrettof in any mo But So wilt onl and some hope to \u2018the \u2018liquor : ° > * a world condemnation as to rouse the for reform is in working from the bot- organisations whose campaign funds sn 2 There was maturally à grent flareçup pembled nations to action, as might occur in cass of the enslavemant of the inhabitants, of atrocities towards them as the Beigians or + another column.We do not imagine We are net : wi ter- that that etupl xpeval is :X .product [THNOTRT aT demanding PE Facifiete.°°.Co with the gual at hand?Certainly not [the country ie ite effective sntorcement.Moms, oF one wor many by tha commitied in the Congo, or the Ger- 42 the united horse sense of our brew- natiess! and : - Ny : the temperance people who bave in| The people of the Provinos of Quebec, be in mans in Namaqualand, Over any agree- \u2018 \u2018are Some of them,\u2018 when they sa : Nevarthelose sat last] their altruistic motive grester incen-| who are looking forward to total pro-| a fortt ; L of Nations MORE that may be come to.there will, of course, be a loud howl in every country against its repressatatives fog giving their country away.Necessarily no settlement would be reached that would mot give every country's de mands largely away.In England this fingp protest is in vociferous ory um- der the leadership of the \u201cMorning Post\u201d Thé argument is an effective \u201cÀ .\" +, ; nes the labue largely in ibe Hght off iq by tbe prophet-president ef tho|be lax and Tukswarm ta freedom\u2019s » 0 A tude of & power that hed come into the The blood and the substey.- United States to.Ring George\u2014a|Onuse at homp?Why, after three Yar, ak ST war at tbe eleventh hour, rich with the a ate.by whieh the vo worthy uttsrance of ame great mation |Guarters of a gestury of probibl- A RPS SE losses of thoss who hed borne the|**™ «ome Tie Bee - \u2014 a 0 adopt them because the old world Bod 50 radicalfy changed its aspect to: wards democracy and loward inter- Rétional comity.Eves {f Australia may aot paint New Quinea quite as bright & red as herself, the difference will be ome of better sentiment towards man- bind rather thal of any difference tn ter possession.This business of Painting the rid red is, like the as sumption of owniag the seas, much |ere grateful to us who are ia the red apots thaa to those ou the other colors.Perhape we had better, it only for the she of good manners, pot parade It we much, Labor Movement.The world\u2019s labor unrest is universal The ferment dad been working Jong before the war.The removal of the war tension has exploded forces long gather.ag.What has been causicg this ao- eumulated steam pressure?It has been the growing dietanos between man and man, owing to the development of huge eorpprate enterprises, employing theu- eands of men who only know their mastery in the shape of stock quotations on distant exchanges, which they regard as anciest Jews did the extortionist putlicans.\u2018Those stock quo- tions represent tu them some mysterious soulless monster that holds im the hollow of its greedy hand squesses them at its will The company, for its part.has 1afinitely less asguaintance with, or personal interest tn, the thousands of families whom it raies than the shepherd, who oalieth \"is own sheep bw name, and they fol: Sow Rim because they know \u2018il voice.Loyalty is one of the strongest forces ta humanity, One can even be loyal te a flag or an ancestry, but It ls hard te love a stock quotation, especially when it soars, meaning that whatever the condition of the workers its share i large.Loyalty must find an object asmewhere, and it finds it in combina.tea In his union the man is not a -\u2018asevant.but à brother.It is human.Fraternity is a blessed thing, and in our day is exalting Itself above lordship.In 8° economic relations, however, the ustion is engaged in a struggle for the mastery, and war breeds hatred Hatred is unholy and destructive.It fajures the enemy: it injures the hater.Carried to the limit it sets him at war with his own means of lving.Must Batred remain for ever the dominant passion of industry and progress, or is Jthere a way to peace and love and happiness?Labor's Evil i Taking the Labor roubles on the _Clyée and at Belfast for aa example.there are many causes which bave tnded te their present aggravation There is the attempt to return to a peace foqting after the war.During the war ther: was no question of computing for world markets, but with its .wading that is a matter of life and feath to the industries.The cpst of Hiving is still high.So are wages as tom- pared with conditions before the war.But, high or low, the men save had a taste of power.During the war they largely got their demands, ané they in return loyally fought it = Bt.But shall they not still get their Semands?This is the time to decide tk for the army is belag discharged, sad labor may become supsrabundaat, Then at those two points Sinn Fein has a large play.It is the passion of race sonaciousness.And race consciousness ms called a good thing when we call it patriotism.It all depends on the side from which, in any case, we view it times comaciousness, or patriotism, sresds antipathies.Antipathy was the shia?factor in the recent election in Britain.Antipathy to other people is te enemy of him \u2018who nurses it.But, war all other causes, there fe the let- Ang loose of a stupendous ideal.The Ashenuan in the Arabian Nights fished 2 à can, which, when he had opened 2, pmitted a smoke which reached to seavea and shaped itself into a jinnes of infinite power, imprisoned there by «.Solomon.The idea of wage labor rul- 28 ali society has been incubatinf just shout as long as the other German idea of ruling all mankind.Both reckoned .#9 conquer by force, but this one spread ®» all lands.The stopper was knocked st the can in Russia and the smoke ame filled the whole heaveas.Our .anguage, never at a lose for & name, me dubbed it Polsbeviem wherever found.It has put itself on trial in Sussia.Its despotic spirit is the worst memy of that fraternity of democracy which the war came to setoup.It la Be worm enemy of the slaims of labor, high, whatever their merit, labor has TT Ed Que ef Canada's mest important aber loaders is out Sor o six-hour day md a five-Say week.It is preity hasd wr people whone mitds are moulded by Whit te give any serious sonsiderailon © woh à demand: but K weulé be tottelt, in the present condition of the vert, carelessly te assume that tho4 few of the large group of citinèns for vhom Mr.Moore apenha, nhoulé get no whsdesation.To them the hours of Sark\u2019 ave the big Met (a ile, and some \u2018thon have given it much shought.rie thinkers argue that with everyene forking etfietentiy fer thisty hours a reek there would be epoush produce » give good housing.ocd feed and ont of clothing Sr CYTTENe, rg au takings, as well as something for pleasure and a surplus for progress It ia, of course, easy to stats this postulate And argue from it.The conditions of the probiem are so infinitely complex that there is no way of proving it exy cept by experiment, and that would almost need to be om a world basis Still that is the (deal, and, tf it is impossible to prove it, it is equally 20 to disprove 1t The caluculation implies, not only that all must work, but aa efuabledis- tribution of the products of work It follows, therefore.that, when the agitation comes for the six-hour day, there will come with it a demand for this Such a regimen presumably precludes luxuries such as the efght thousand dollar car, which represents the living of @ family, at four dollars a day, for five years and a half, or of two thousand families for a day.Think of all the fifty dollar hats and hundred dollar dresses, while thousands bave not enough, after covering their children, to keep themmelves warm.Those who spend five hundred dollars on a dall do not make these calculations: but there are those who do, and who have in the Raring lyxury about them, every temptation to make much of them.It 1s at least possible that a thirty-hour \u2018week might by very equable division, supply pil with necessary comfort and with the elements of progress and culture, while producing a happler, healthier, more energetic and more educated people.| All Must Werk.BIL it the calculation were proved wrong, would that settle the matter?Has not the workman some say in deciding how long he should work?We all claim that We are perhaps beginning to question the claims.One of the lessons of the war is that the community has a right to say that, in the interests of the community, there must be no slackers.From one point of view, this is an old stoyy.There were all sorts of laws 4n old times treating all members of the serving classes, who were not at work, as dangerous vagrants, and, when the tendency cityward began after thy Wars-of the Roses, forbidding them to leave the section of the country where they were brought up Now we see things from the opposite side; it is the idle gentry that we !n- tend to require to serve their country with all their reasonable powers.A century ago, it was assumed in Britain that the nation belonged to those of \u201cindependent\u201d means, which meant that they did mot need to work, and were, in point of fact, the least independent class ef society.This idea is now reversed, and the public conscience demands that all shall \u2018contribute r best powers to the general good.German Socialist Government bas, ae- cording to a despatch, gone faîther {a this than any Liberal government by making striking a punishable offence.In fact, we do not see how the socialist principle could be carried out without means to punish all slacking.But to assume that the community bag a right to make everybody work is to tmply the right of any class to have a say as to what shall be its share.Working Hours.In the last century the common working hours on this continent were ten for six days a week\u2014from seven to six, with as hour for dinner.In big cities, where distances had to be allowed for, it was nine hours.The present standard is eight hours, with a half day oft.A quarfer of a million men are at present on strike in Britain for_some approach to that, and will no doubt get it.The difference which caused the war in Glasgow, ss stated by the press, was trivial, The houra of work were established by agreement at forty-seven.The men wanted some deductions from that for washing up, and such like.The.leaders who made the agreement are true to it, and denounce the strike.But the men both there and at Belfast are out of hand Some say owing to foreign propaganda.The question seems to be, who shall dictate terms?The men look abroad, and ses others getting & forty-four hour week, The employers Jook abroad and see competition that may take, their business from them, never to return, and they tremble for the day when Great Britain will lose the industries by which alone she lives There is a mammoth steel works at Hankow, in the middle of Chins, equipped with the latest machinery.It is likely that the men could do as much in forty-four hours as in forty-seven, and do it better ia the shorter time, te the great denafit of all concerned.But that ts not the cresé, or, what ts important, the purpose of the men, who alwhys associate « campaign for shorter hours with the aim of making room for men out of work, that is, of doing les work tor the &a7\u2019s Pay, 8 principle which, carried out through their dally tasks is & perilous slement ia the cost of produe- tion, However such questions have besome in these Gays the men's problem, and whether the Industries siak or swim will have to be nettied their way.Tithe wes whea the workers seeoumbed under the shadow of an Invisible power bokisé the employers.Now there is an ugiy terror bobiné the demands of labor.Capital looks again abroad and es 'the spestre, and ie beginning to feel the meed of fore- mailing It And odw labor takes its becand look abroad nn sess the monster capital, that it has besa treating a8 am enemy, taking vp his quar- ~crprecuctiod fer ihe support of ne- oad, provinats! avd munipel wader tere tm eouvirien WhICR sre praciiosii~ (NE MONTREAL WEEKLY WITNESS, FEWUARY '4, 1910 \u2014 \u201cSA-R- name / ~Philadeiphis \u201cPublic Ledger.\u201d beyond the realm of its tnternational- sm, and the drumfire of the riveters on the Clyde and on Belfast Lough giving way to rural peace.There ia every sign that with a new sense of power there is coming to labor a new sense of responsibility.Lawless Loyalty.* Some soldiers at Winnipeg are showing their loyalty by lawlessness.They have beea running amuck at all fofeign- ers earning wages.They undertook to run them out of theshops by the ears and set them adrift in the middie of Winnipeg\u2019s long and terridle winter.We have in Montreal, and there are at Wianipeg.some hair-brained Bolsheviks who talk wildly about fire and bayonets.But no doubt the great majority of these foreigners are useful citisens, earning their living in useful ways, and loyal to the they have chosen.In order to get the soldiers to stop ther Turkish method, they got an assurance from the military commandant, from the mayor, and from the employers that the foreigners would be dismissed in three days, if the last- named could dae them replaced hy returned soldiers.One employer wasted assurande of this, as he had been trying without success, to get a soldier té nu à potion The reason for this bit the foreigners, we presume to be thut, Bot being liable to military servise, they had naturally fallen into \u2018suth positions as required them, the loya! mean being away.But the summary expulsion, demanded and cénceded at a season when the thermometer may fall any day to forty below, and with nowhere to go to for a lividg, would seem.a though care- \"fully planned to, turn the wlicle foreign population Into dangerous Bolsheviks.Conssquaness.The soldiers who resented the allen, or supposed allen, condition of those they anmiled did not, of course, think that they were going to make them good Britishers by punching their eyes, or that by turxial them owt on the snow they would frighteæ-ouf of them their presumed hatred for government and militarism.They did not think at all.They only , expressed their feelings Cain:fashion.Those who so act little realise what subtermnnean fires they are feeding.-Although every race hates every other, it seems still to be true that God hath made of one biôod nil nations of men.We are horrified when \u2014 THE NEW PADERE WSKI MINUET, we read of pogroms and deportations abroad, and wonder how Russians and Turks can be so barbarous Yet here we are uadertaking summarily to make outdhats of whole classes of men, many of them with families, breaking faith with peopie brought here on our assurance and good faith that they were coming to à land of freedom, of plenty and where they were wanted.There is no doubt that the returned soldiers have a first olaim on such positions as they can, and are willing to fill.But to make this claim the\u2019 warrant for a sudden expuision of invited peoples is something like tearing up a of paper.The only thing for these people la to get home If they only could get there, where they would for the rest of their lives publish what sort Gf a country they had been inveigied into.We have, on the oie band, our moneyed ia- terests amilingly foretelling the good time coming, with an, enormous immigration flocking here to help pay our immense debts, and, on the other, & ban on immigration from the redundant lands, and a dismissal of thess we have already lured themod.+.- v À 8 Loot ie EE mL CA It to deste for td pence St soclbty and for the good of men's souls that mea of \u2018diverse mind and outleok should understand each other.It will be learned from some Socialist letters In this paper that, looking on established woctety from a single angle, the writers of these letters have distorted thair vision s0 as to 2e4 nothing but badness in mea of like passions and propensities with themselves who have done just about what they would have dons in their place.On the other hand, one at least of these letters will reveal to those who look with-anger at labor's demands & good deal that they did not know of the \\.hy and the wherefore of labor's discontent Thay will perhaps ask themselves whether, if gach was the aspect of the world to them, they would {not have just the same sentiment to- {wards it.The array of facts given by Mr.Houliston, a working miner, puts them out of their true propurtion, but it shows the sort.of thing that labor feeds on and broods over, and what it very naturally revofts against.To put our democratic government, with all ite capitalistic affiliations, alongside of that of the Czar, when he shot down the | starving people of Petrograd, ts bre- :posterous.But & Is plain that If we : want to supply fod} to Bolshevism and material fur the prophets of discontent, We ghiuld indulge tn fout oueks attésis ait we Dave besa housing about.The story will travel by the press cata- Jguet in the letter in question with fts many tongued partners to every quarter of the earth, losing sothing as ft goes D ta plain that if we would have no Bol- shoviam, we must find some way ef cerbing tatious luxury, of contrel- Nag profits and of releasing our government frem Its bondage te a privileged clase \u2019 The Seamy Side of Demesraey.Human nature is not so different us- der the Russian or Prussian skies trom what it is under & British or Canadian sky, and the new problems that are facing thosé countries in pare ticular, and civilisation in gesere), are not so very remote, from: the common experiences of human relationships of all time Wherever an autocratio and despotic parent rules & housshold there will be subservience and order of & kind, but as it if not based on res.son and love and respect, it revolts as soon as the days of tuletage age over, and the balance of powlr swings from the déspotic parent to the arrogant youth.It is proverhially so.When by war-and emancipation tbe southern slave owners lost thelr whips and their title to ownership, and the slaves went free, there was nothing very much mere arrogant on earth than those ,eame Uberated slaves.Ald what elss could be expected of them?They were desperately ignorant, and unused te liberty or self-control, and they rioted in their new found freedom as a lad of sixteen, unaccustomed to the care of a little pocket monsy, might dissipate himself and his money on suddenly becoming heir to millions.Se, too, thy Russians, ignorant alike of history and of the primciples of democracy, and lacking any experience of.self-govarn- ment naturally fell a prey to the taprice of visionaries and of ambitious adventurers.Nor was it unnatural that the one me submerged nine-tenths should, on rising, overwhelm thoss who bad so long kept them from the privileges of education and tull citiven.ship.Nor ia it to be wondared at that hundreds of millions of °deaperately ignorant people shows interpret their new found liberty as license and run amuck among themsélves® - y Despetie Education That similiar distresses have fallen | upon the Teutonts peotien, wikes edi ation and Kultur bus hess eq much oresed aL le because WAth all thetr well ordered traluivg, they hed not learned the firat purbédé df education an intelligent porrespondence or rele- tionship with one\u2019s whole envifonment.We differ as widely as It is possible to do from the Jesuit'y idea of soclety\u2019s! duty to its youth.Far from believing that the many should be doomed to a Dts of ignorance and tpefficiency and discontent, we belleve - that every child sheuid be given the opportunity to develop the highest that ia in him.This as touch for the general good as tor his own, German education was largely technical, getting a man to exosl in some specific sphere, leaving all other sphares of life to the contro) of similarly trained experts.Thus the government bf the people became the sole duty of experts whose degrees were 0 rigidly enforoed by officers of all description that ne one thaught of disputing them.They went their several ways in accordance with rules laid down, and few, except the Socialists, gave thought to matters of government.Therefore when all his hitherto acous- tomed and \u2018accepted ideas of govers- ment were swept aside, tiie automaton German was aimost af incapable as the Russian for improvising a new order of Government on democratic lines, and the Socialiste, with their out and dried program, nhturally filled the whole landscape when the opportunity came.They would, indeed, have had the field to themselves, but that there were those among them ready with a still mors revolutionary prog am.Over-1 oconomical and religious structures are within the possibilities of theses times of generat unrest.The Government is \u201cgiving serious consideration\u201d to fasny of the problems of the day, and after the manner of politicians will probably produce some measures of palliation or compromise between contending interests But the days for patching wp \u2018difficulties.such as between eapital and Labor are gone.What the naticas waits for most breathlessly \u2018Ve spesifie cures for present maladies and prevention of recurding trotSles by courage ous and herolo treatment\u2019 of the men or methods which enues such distresses.For if a wise, well eem- sétered, constructive program (a wot soon jaunched, reskiess, (! not.indeed, pernicious, propositions Wifi, enatoh (nd opportunity of the first disordered moment.The Department of Boca) Service and Evangelism of the Methodist Churth recently noticed spoke the current mind on the problems of the day.It would be weil it each of the churches would formulate its me- tured, conaaptions of eur sosial nesdn.Then let them at together and sams tu common understanding ec that tLey oan present à common front aguinet the avils of the gay and point the better way.It there were any sort of unanimity se representative @ pre- pounsaimeat would bo 2 great help to sinteumaÿt 1m or vil of Partiasnen\u201d.turnings of our own political, social, |.- .- .\u2026 .A Ohamplon Confounded.À 3904 vorvice han han done fer the province of Quebee by Mr.Bouchard ia opeaipg discussion om compulsory education in the Quebec Legisiature, His argument was mostiy an attack on the figures presented by Mr.Magman.inspector.general of Catholic schools, ia his pamphist writtha to gppose com- Ppulsory attendance.Mr.Magnan, using the figures gigas.in the feport of the Superintendent of Education.sbrwed Quebec 10 lead all the other provinces in the percentage of cliilives of shhool age attagding schosl.His figures are Quebes, ?Y percent; British Columbia, 71; New Brunewiek, 69; Nove Mootia, $4; Ontario, 60; Baskatobewan, 54.Mr.Houchard's answer is that the figures siven ia the official report are 90, obviously jncoiTect as to be worthless as à grousd for narious dissuasion.For example, de points out, that taf 1918.14 the report stated there were 145,427 tels of Ÿ to 16 living in the provinoa, and that there were 161,376 attendipg achool.Of this number Hearty three thousand must have been dead ones as they Ware not reported among the liviig.This more than emssliept showing was né mere typographionl error, it was à correst compilation of the statistics gathered by inspectors.The next year the situation was even worse for in 1916-15 there were 4.484 more girls betwean ¥ and 14 years of age faithfully attending school than there were of that age living in the proviase.When these figures quoted ty Mr, Bouchard in the Lagisiature last week were Brought to the attentiéa of Mr.Mognan, the Inspector-Geasral of schools, his only answer was that he had relied for his figures où the Report) of the Superintendent.He made ne effort to defend the official report or his conclusions tAken therefrêen.The whole syet:m of securing school sta.tistits Jo Quobes is po shockingly bad that one is compelled to go elsewhere for corroberutive evidémos, - cepesially when they sound too favorable \u2018ss that ts tbe side toward which a Superintendent objecting to change would naturally lean in making up his report.A Low Showing.For independent évidence let us turn to the census of 111.That is a lit- fla out of dale, hut there has been mo vital change in the educational system of the province since thea, and while things \u2018may be on the whole a little better there is Bo good proof that they are By the 1911 census taken by the Dominion Government, we find that in the o£ Quebeo 16.64 percent of the men over twenty-oms years of age could neither read nor writs.In ndditiôn to this 1.13 percent could read but not write, The probability is that & man over 11 who oan read but not write is ao heat te the borderline of {literacy that his\u2019 reading is of al most no uge to him.Putting the two classes together we find that nearly seventeps percent of the men of the province were !lliteratef.As the residents of Montreal and Quebec cities only ehow an illiteracy of about five and seven percent respectivély if we aul their quota from the rest of the province we find that the average of illiteracy outside of these two cities was over twenty parssnt.Think of It! One man ia every five illiterate! In that the splendid result of this alleged superiqrity in school attendance, ot the system that must not changed, of those who dominate the education of French Canada are 50 proud?It may be'sald that the men why were 31 or over in 1911 phased through school a good number of yours ago.is truth tn that If we turn, however, to another table of the densus which gives the degres of education of all native horn of five years and ovet, we find that there are among these 185 percent Whe can neither Mad wor write as against 18.64 of the native bam men of the\u2019 pro- vines who oan neither read ax write.Prom this we gather that there was Jittle improvement de tAté as 1911.Today we bave exactly the samegachool ~ in operstion in the Provisce for generations.end as 1s Tesponsible for the lilitoracy that exists.\u2019 In Ontario, the only Provines that can be fairly compared pith Quel Abere are only haif the Dumber {iliteratne among tbe native born.That is escogh, hew- to be ashamed of.But apart 1lliterncy thoçe is the ex- Yow staaderd reached.u anything they i ji ' The now report of Whe Superintendent of Publis Instruction fer the Province of Quobes has just Deen issued.It is « large volume of soms .\u201cIt would also mean that a great Fes, as a result the , asylums many other industries connected with re or busi- the ing industry will be directly mess and the savings banks would be and indirectly injured.\u201d over-worke aking care of wnusual deposits.And there won't be s0 many collisions on the fa, 90 + less to do.\u2014it\u2019s too terrible.4 \u201cIt Would create uneasiness in the Think how all American securities v and help to destroy confi- must collapse now that it has legis dence the province, because if one - lated beer \u2018and all other alcoholic i can be legislated out of exist- beverages ont of existence.One may ence there is no reason to suppose that look to ace them meat prohibiting the any other busines is immune from - manufacture and sale of milk, especi- unwise legislation.\u201d to babes.It is only right that \u2018 the brewers daw attention to these \" 8.\u201cFhe groat majority of the men of The great majority of drinkers the Province of Quebec are temper- ca be eniraly from eng den ste \u2018because they prefer beer to any er of slavery to drink when other .voluntarily and \u2018 made Canada dry.Think this over\u2014Tack it up\u2014Write your M.P.Send for PROHIBITION Petition forms for signature\u2014supplied FREE of all charge, by | stating how many forme, good for fifty signatures, are required.Address the \u201cWitness,\u201d Montreal.' so bad better write oT DIRS SEI, Sn I RRR OF THE WEEK | The strike situation in the United Kingdom, especially at Glasgow, and Belfast, has bscome more serious.The movement is spreading to the lagre industrial establishments, and there are undoubted signs of coming disorders witich may entail the proclamation of martial law, The meeting of the represntatives of twenty-four trades unions, which was priginally called to mest at London to discuss the working of à forty- seven hour week, will now bg ocoupled in debating whether a demand for a forty-hour week shall be made.THE CLYDE CRISIS.The critioal stage of the strike on the Clyde was reached on Friday as a result of a meeting of the strikers to receive the Government's answer to the telegram sent by the Lord Provost transmitting the request of the strikers for the Government to- intervens to secure for them a forty -hour week: The Cabinet after cotisidering the situation at a .odeting on Thursday, declined to interfer ® Replying to ap appeal from Joseph Deviin, member of Parliament, that he intervese in the strike, Premier Lioyd George stated on Friday that the British Government aid not control the hours of labor and that he was in complete agresmant with the reply of the Right Hom, Bonar Law.Forty Persone Injured.Serious conficts between the police and strikers developed at Glasgow on Friday.in which at least forty persons were more or less badly injured, among them Sheriff Mackensle, Chief Constable Stevenson, Deputy Constable Rennie, and a number of policemen.Thess were all injured when the police were clearing the stress in baton charges.Two of the strike fenders, Willlam Gallagher, aod David Kirkwood were arrested.and later were charged with inciting to riot.During the height of the disorders the Blot Act was read, and it was comtempilated to invoke military ald, but be order was cancelled when Gallagher and Kirkwood were permitted by the authorities to address the etrikers and exhort them to leamre- off im orderty procession.as Losting of Shop.Despite this advice, however, there were \u2018wild scenes of discrder, and\u2019 in various parts of the city looting was taduiged in.One jewellery shop had g00ds to he value of 22.060 solen, while other shops were pillaged during the course of the riot.About twenty-four tramcers were so badly damaged that they had to be withdrawn from the service.Matters quieted down late in the afternoon, but at night dense crowds again gathered before the city hail.The poMce made several batos charges and dispersed them.Forty persons were injured durisg the disorders.: The city was comparatively quiet :e striking centrast to the incidents >f the strike situsflon on Friday.A grave reminder of the doings of the previous diy was afforded by the of soldiers who were patrol Mng the railway bridges and vulnerable points in various pèrts of the city.The soldiers were attired in full service uniform, wore steel hel- méts and carried Quné with fixed bayonets.: Arrival ef Treope.More troops arrived in the course of the day, and there are now said to be 10,000 In the city.Soldiers are stil motdnted on the roofs of the buildings surreunding Georke Square.ta Glasgow.The military display Is provoking great resentment among the strikers.The \u201cStrike Bulistin.\u201d ihe offices 2\u20ac whieh were raided on Shturday By the polices has issued a strong altack against the Government, which it ne- cuses of acting (itegally in employing troops ad seeking a préjert to axpley.arms against the Clyde workers.\u201cThe workers are not so foolish as to fall into such a trap.\u201d the newspaper mys.\u2018The \u2018workers have ad- ef a practical scheme\u2019 to avert unemployment, and instead of dis- cussin it the Government has made an sttompt to crush its advocates by Csarist methods.The Government tr dearly in league with the employers to burk discupsion of the scheme which has .been before them for yéars.\u201d Three more arrests were made on Sunday on charges of inciting to riot.Russians are Leaders.The, BRorning Post\u201d aseerts that tha chief ifstigators In the Glasgow and Belfast strikes are Bmmanurl Ehinwell and Simon Graenspon.both Ruesians.whom It calin the \"Trot- sieys of CHlançow and Belfast.\u201d Some of the pavers commendsthe Government\u2019s poticy tn beeping hands bet.tn Four thousand miners In the West Lothian district (northwest ef Edinburgh) went on strike on Friday for Mgber wages.& fx-hour day and a five-day week.As an instance of the novel phases of the strike movement in Sootisnd.2000 strikers at Bairburah on Friday demanded that the Edinburgh Corpbr.ntion should grant £2,000 for a strike fund, and the Letgh Corporatich £300 and threatewsd unconmitutional dets te their Sewands ade refed.STRIKE SITUATION IS ACUTE AT GLASGOW AND BELFAST, AND GOVERNMENT REFUSES TO INTERVENE TO SECURE FORTY-HOUR WEE Force of 10,000 Soldiers Sent to Glasgow to Quell Disturis- anoes, After Conflict Between Strikers and Polise \u2014 Belfast Strike May be Extended to Rest of ireland + - \u2014 sUSSPAY FEBRUARY th, 1919, Telegrams from Belfast depict\u2019 a situation there which seems dkis te that whicah recently obtained ta Gee- man cities under revolutionary rele The governing power has been usurped hy the strike committes, and the ony is governed, not from the mi: pal bulidings known us the City Hill, bat trom the Artisans\u2019 Hall.ranging to follow the example of the Belfast strikers, ; TH Belfast strike committes.Neve ng virtually tied up the city, is now said to be turning its attention to ate tempts to extend the strike to the rest of Ireland, while the example of Glasgow ia being followed by the shipyard workers of the northeast coast sal along the Bristol Channel.They are demanding § forty-hour week.The Shop Steward System.The Bolshevist element.alleged te labor pasty officials declared on Firt= day.They also expressed the fear that labor's share in national polities might be revolutionised, \u201cWe believe the shop steward sys - tem, which is similar to the Soviets, is beginning to dominate labor aad may succeed in overthrowing regulars | Iy elected union and labor party officials\u201d Dr.Marion Philipe, à iaber party official, told the United Press.Railway Strike in Londen.\u2014\u2014\u2014 London, Feb.3\u2014The employees five electric tube Mines struck morning to enforce their demand & half hour lunch period in an efgte hour day.The electric train service oa the Brighton line In also affected.reats are made to the Mrike it troops are brought oto the strike district.Trains op the district railway sal buses are still running, but hundreds .of ing unable to reach their work.At Busnes Aires, Leaders of the maritime worbere af Buenes, Aires announce that as ere sult of the failure of the recent nege- tintions between the strikers and êm- ployers, they have organised to dome tinue the port strike indefinitely.Nise thousand maritime workers are new \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 LIBERALISM THE CURE FOR LABOR UNREST cos rr.3 _ 10 satiely the radical elements vos the cure fer §ilor unrest, that government by tBi people must replace the present system of autecratic administration by Orders-in-Council, and that the problems co! the future must be faced with an honest attempt to direst the tide into the right channels, were à few of the statements made by Mr.M J.Logan, X.C.former member of Pare lament for Cumberland, Nova Béowa, | at the Reform Club luncheon te Montreal on Saturday.The speaker mid that the Hen.PF.D Carvell, at a recent address in Peter- boro, confessed that the coumtry hed been governed by Orders-in-Councti\u2014 confessed that the administration had issued thoss orders as the Lords ef Creation\u2019 He sSbmitted that it wes time the government was taken over by the people and \u201cthe Lords of Crep- tion\u201d given a rést.\u201cI imagine that our ministers ever sas are having a very geod time \u2018Nero fiddled while Rome burned\u201d and our present Government is commtituting & veritable string orchestra while ut employment grows, and labor unrest tm- creases.In the past four years Canafia has been born again, and the New Canada produces problems \u201centirety dtrterent from those engaging the midds of ewe people before the war.\u201cThe present Government, at Ottawa, cu.Council from the Atlantic to the Pacific.Some one should bruak in the door and try ot tell them that, alresdy, umemploy- ; ment ia rampant and that tt'we are te escape disaster in Canada, fmmediats work and wages must be proviéeé fe over half a million men.who, from cessation of war work aod files de mobilization of tp forces are without means of liveliticod.\u201d 0080000000000 2825080090220 07 © of thousands are inconvenienced, Ses 3 \"aly Jn the distussions on the Gers 4 Tp \u2014 arr cr \"THÉ MONTREAL WEEKLY WITNESS, nippy BOLSHEVISTS IN NORTH RUSSIA REPORTED TO BE CONCENTRATING TROOPS TO CUT OFF RETREAT \u2019 OF ALLIED FORCES ON VAGA AND DVINA RIVERS Government of Arohangel Province Warns People Against Alarm \u2014 Retirement to New Positions Has Been Suc- osssfully Accomplished, With Very Slight Loss t attack by the Bolshevists sain Amorivan.Russian dan British at Taresevo compelled the hard-pressed and outourbered little Allied column in this seetor to Wwith- draw on Thursday approximately forty wiles.Its usw position is at the vil- Srdmakrenga.Ee Bolsheviki attack followed à bombarduient in which gas, incendiary, shrapnel and high explosive shells were used.It was the first time that gas abails had been employed in this new Russisu warfare.The shells were of thé German type.The Bolshevista huve brought up snd are heavily shelling the new American position on the Vagu River and also the position on the Dvina, at Tulmas.A message trom Archuugel a the Bol-ievists are concentrating con- siderahle number of trogps In the territory between the Vologda railway and \u201che line of the Vags River.appar- sutly with the object of either sur- wounding the Ailied column in this sector, or, by cutting through.to 1so- late the colunn to the eastward, on the Vvina.Tiere are nhmerous winter roads through the swamps in this section, aud tue Allied scouts report enemy reinforcements arriving from the south over several of these roads.Yev Evacuation of Shenkursk.A éexpatch to the L.S.State Department trum Charge Poole at Archangel, describing the evacuation of 8heu- kursk hy American, Allied and Russian troops in the face of superior Bolshevik forces.suid the retirement was successfully accomplished.that the troops were in good condition und thoir losses very small.About 500 civilians Were being cared for by the mititary orxanization.The village of Shegovarsk, on the aga, which was also evacuated, has den occupied by enemy Mfantry and valry.he Northern Russian Government fa a proclamation to the population warns the people against any unnecessary alarm over the recent events which resuited in the evacuation of Shenkursk by American and Allied forces.The proclamation says it was neceb- sary to evacuate Shenkursk because of the small forces available for its defence und also because of the exposed Allied position on this front.It declares that the Northern Russian Government is co-operating with the Allies to the fullest extent of its abil.iy.PEACE CONGRESS ITEMS It is reported that l\u2019aderewsidi may be coming to Parle.\u2018 The-~ was no plenary session of the Peace Conference on Saturiay.One result of the attitude taken by won colonies was the decipton th the mandatory system of administra.tior should only be applied tq won- European territories.The British plan for an International labor bureau have been completed and forwarded (tv London for eonsideration by the employers.So particular was Mr.Swilson to Dave an exact record of what ho said on the subject of the German colonies that soon after entering the meeting he summoned one of his persona! siecographers and kept him at his side during the session: The military committee of the Supreme Council expects within two days to report a plan for the allotment among the various nations of the troops ta he retained on the western (roat.Rumania has cemplied with the wishes of the peace conference regarding extensions of territorial oe- ewpations hy withdrawing from a part of Bukowina.adjacent to Rumanian territory.\u2019 Mr.Balfour prepared « strong memorandum on the Wilson mandatory system.pointing out the various difficulties in its application and posnilde ways of overcoming them.ftatelmenis are beine circulated in Paris accordine to the \u201cDaily Mail\u201d that Great Brilgin Is considering a Narmain with Spain for the return of Gibraltar.The fact Ia that Hpain made certain tempting offers.which were af one time considered by the British Aclmiraity on behalf of the Government, anw which were for va.riows reasons declined.No discussion of this matter is now taking place, In wging immediate paval expan- sen on Thureday before the United States House naval committer, Ad- ; South Russia.- The despate | Council from the nationality\u2019s Mintster mirsl Maya, commander-in-chisf bof 600D DIGESTION + \u2014\u2014\u2014 An Acute Sufferer Tells How She Found New Health - Very few people appreciate what good digestion means until they lows M .To be able to ent what you want and to properly digest it is a price- Jose blessing.But If you find thet the same time a.tonic for part of the bedy.As the all the body ia its condition quick- A GREAT BLESSING: shoud rompi try \u201cbr.\u201cWitiases : coming on Official advices received at Umek are to the effect that Orenburg.capital of the Government uf Orenberg.on the right bank of the Ural River, has been occupied by the Bolshevists.General Dutoft, commander o fthe auti-Blishe- vik forces, abandoned thd town and retired in a northeasterly direction.The Sidberians have acptured Ssran- pol, province of Toboisk.Two bun- dred of the Red Guard were killed und the rémginder disperse.Opptse te Bolshevik Trace.The proposal of the Peace ¢\u2018onfers ence for a diveussion between the various Russian groups has caused surprise tm Government circles at Omak, as it is feared it may have an adverse effect ou the discipiine\u201cof the army supporting the Omsk Governm- ment.Pending the receipt of an official text of the proposal, the (overn- ment à cials will make no comment except that the anti-Bolshevik campaign should uot be relaxed.and that construgtive egorts to strengthen the Government and rebuild the nation should bo maintained.A Seviet Vietery.An official wireless despatch received trom Russia tells of the defeat of the ®krainian Soviet forces and the oceu- pation of Yekaterinosiav, capital of the Government of the came name in.suys: \u201cUkrainian Soviet forces.after a desperate battle.overcame the stubborn resistance of the forces of General Petlura and occufied the town of Yetkaterinosiav, capturing guns.wma- chine guns and other booty.\u201cThe enbmy is feelin in disorder toward the sources of the Dueiper River.\u201d Narva ls Tfhreatened.Premier Lanine, accordiak to a r port from Reval, bas ordered the Bolshevik troops to retake the towa of Narva \u2018from the Esthonians within a week, to sank the town and Yo kill all the bourgeoisie.Lenine is reported to be staying In the town of Yamburg, east of Narva.Lithuanian troops have defeated » Bolshevik force near Kosatdery, said a mersage received ut Waslhingtor on Friday by the Lithuanian National at Berne.The message said the Lithu- plan army was rapidiy being increased ze.\u201c the Atlantic fleet, said: \u201cThe League of Nations is rapidly getting down to «% swing circle, with no means of ea- forcement and no intermational police L farce.Now is the time to go the in expanding our navy.\u201d > That Bolivia intends to set up a claim for the provinces of Tucna and Arica, under the doctrine of t Wilson that nations are entit ban outlet to {he sea, 1d indicated by Gen.Montes, Boll¥ian minister to France The South African Government.has refused passports to Genersl Uhristian de Wet and Peter Grobler, a grand- #80 nof President Kruger.members of a Nationalist deputation appointed by the Hloemfontein Congress tv go.to Paris.The purpose of the proposed Journey was to lay before the Peace Congress proposals for an Independent South Africa.China regards the agreement she made with Japan as a result of tho famous twenty-one demands, in which she agreed to recognie any arrangement Japan might come to with the German Government over the shantung cobcessions, as null and void, for the reason of the fact that since the making of that dtreement ahe has herself decinred war upon Germans.Therefore, she argues the old 1493 lease, which gave Germany Kino- Chow.has by virtue of accepted principles of fnternational law, become absolutely null and the territory ceded should be returned to CNoa.The Ukrafnian Government will refuse to take part In the conference on the Princes\u2019 istands, according to an interview given to \u201cPetit Journal\u201d ov M.Wedorenko, Minister of Internêi Communications in the new Ukrainian Government.\u2014 It will be found says the Paris correspondent of the \u201cEvening Standard\u201d that Italy fs willing to withdraw her claim on the port of Fiuree | #8 part of Malian nationality.Italy will agree to Fiume being made à free port as the port of Hamburg was k free city before 18%.\u2014 The delegates of the South ant [ Central American nations te the Pears Conference decided at a meeting held oh Wednesday to create a sommis- sion to safeguard the interests of ali + ess natlons before the Confeçence, have bben heiped by (his treatment every sufferer from Indigestion Among the many who re- Joloe in a renewed digestion \u2018through the use of this meditine is Mra Wil- lam Dafe, Midiand, Onl, who says: \u2014 \u201cl sulfered for &, long time from a severe forth of indigestion, and .had doctored so much without benefit that I had all but given up hope of getting better.Everything 1 ate caused me intense path, und some day 1 did not touch a thing but a cup pf cold water, and even that distressed me.An a result I was very much run down and sept so poorly that 1 dreaded night I was continually taking medicine, but was actually gmwing T have had great es bless this decision for by the tune used a couple of boxes there was doubt the pilis were helping me, in\u2018tess 8me than 1 had anticipated pills bad cured me, and I was again bad se and t g by with delegutea capecially asalgnd to look after various subjects, Fresh reports of maladiministration of the Armenians and other subject races hy local Turkish governara and the refusal by the Forte to apply the necessary correclive measures, are understood to have been the reason for the aetion of the Council on Thursday in taking measures toward supplying military forces for the purpose of maintaining order ln the Turkish area.Whatever forces may be aent to Turkey for garttrening purposes, ¢here will be no American troope anony them.It is pointed out that thelr use for this purpose would be inappropriate, as the United States has.never begn war with Turkey.The Ainericuu representatives ft 1s understood, will reise no objection to the appointment of Count Rernstorff, former German Ambessador in Washington, as one of the German delegates tu the Peace Conference atthouch not uttempting to infldenca or speak for the Entante delegation.\u2018LEcho de I'aris\u2019 says that the attitude of Mr, lloyd.George in purely politicul, and that he has taken ad- vaniage of the situation to rally the Liberals and Socialists to him with resulta {hat afterwards may be unfortunate.\u2014 In some sections of the French pross the view iv urged that under thé man- dutory scheme applied in the regions of Africa.tlie Cameroons and Toguland, wherein France is particularly interested.France, as a mandatory.of the League of Nations would be paying for the Administration of countries which would in a short time be exploited LY German trade in detriment to thelr own.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 Twelve Rinn Féiners were found guilty st Dublin on Saturdry of illegal drilling in « private hall, aud were sentenced to wix months\u2019 imprisonment.When arruigued they denied the authority of British laws, and one C000 000000000000 + \u2018 * + NEWS IN BRIEF.+ * + +++ d660040HH0H4 The children growing up fu Russie have po schools, no books, asd no code of worslity, says Madame Bresh- koveky.Detachments of Allied troaps have arrived at Adrianople and put au end to Turkish terrorism of the inhabitants which hae hes {a progress during tbe war.\u2018The Hon.Walter G.Mitchell, Provin- cis] Treasurer, iu making his Budget speech in the Quebec Leginiative A-< sembly, on Thursday e ag nounced a surplus of \u2018$2,184,558.24 which is the largest ever recorded In the history of he Provilies.Au a rest of tho preteats of the AlHed Powérs against the spolistion of Greeks and Armeniuns, the Turkish Cabinet has resigned.The arrangements for getting food and clothing into Polaud through Danzig for the relief of the Polish population are progressing satisfactorlly and 1 tie expected the first shipments >! reach Danxig in n few days.Notification has been received from the British Embassy at Washington that passports arp necessary for all Canadians leaving the United States for no matter what destination.Owing to failure to secure passports, many 1 have un delayed or turned back at United tes ports when leaving such wots for Cuba.West Indies, Central and South America.Sir Douglas Haig's report of .the operations of the British armies for the veriod commencing ut the end of April last year, until Noveinber 11, when the armeitice was signed.has now been published.It is a document of formidable length and will become historie.« .+» + Reports from New York and Toronto to the effect that a United States syndi- & FEBRUARY 4, 1910 pists in Canads, together with thelr entire equipment from the Imperial Munitions Board, are sharacterised la Government circles at QUaws as misleading and incorrect.\u2014prmntp THE HOME TOWN.The Interesta of town and peuntry are we interwoven that only the \u201cget- tegyether* spirit that results een.certed action can promote the\u2019 progress that brings good to mil.Don't forget this prinalple in*forming your attitude toward your home town.That home town may mot beeall that you would Uke it te be.But dont turn axainat it on that account.Nemember, It te \u201cyour\u201d home town\u2014 à vital part of your comunity.You can't afferd to have It dboling,.any more than you can afford te RAVE pait of your commifnity remain unsanitary.Its nenrness increases the price.of your land and desrensos the cost of getting your produce to.market.Tt gives you ersy access to the service of doctor, dentist.drug.xist and merchant, It provides a convenient mésting-place where you can exchange tteas anc met the breader.healthier point of view that boelat contact with your {ellow-men .develops It {a logfeally your community In practically, every way your home town holds ptesent or possible good for you.+ Because it Is your home town.andy because its welfare means ro much t- you, you have a responsibility concerning It.You owe tt your support\u2014 vour co-operation with the town's business men.Rincere.earnest co operation Leiween the flown and country people of any community win freé that community from ail of the handicaps tp healthy, prospersur zrowth-\u2014Exchantre.\u2014 Fvery Sunday sHould be Prohibition Sunday till we get an affective and permanent national prohibitory law, and Christians everywhere should make daily prayer for it.Show your winister this copy of the \u201cWitueas,™ and offer to help him in getting a it is qgid that the wartime prôhibl- tian Order-n-Gouncil will be chal- Jenged by the liquor men dn the sign ing of peace, Provincial legislation alone does not stop the importation or interprovineial .transporiation of liquor.-and therefore the will of a province can be gutraged through lack of adequato national legislation.; Time files, The enemy is suddenly seen to be working night and day to mand for national prohibition.Partie- ment opens Feb 30th, Opportysity may bo lost or erropeous legislation maÿ be rushed through before the people have mobilized themselves into action.We have already heard of \u201clobbying\u201d in the adverse interest, Those desiring genuine, eifective, unconditional.national prohibitory legislation must act at once or share the blame of defeat.Commons: ement on their constituents by an: [ senting through him the poti- tion : To.nee sacs s0a0n es Eng.MP.We, the undersigned.declare ourselves to be in favor of prohibition that will prohibit, and in the name of God and \u2018home, und the maphood of th! country, we demand of the comf As every aot may he amiaded or repealed whenevet a majerity of the electorate so determines, we protest otoutly against any suggestion in the, aêt itnoif that it Is for a Mmited time, or subject to à plebiscite.That would be temporisiag with the greatest eaemy of eociety, and much un act fmstrate or side-trick the people's ad would have the rfapest of none, ead 9 ob pig the dock.waved & cate bad purchased all the aircraft Prohibition Petition signed on Sunday.How to get whole hearted NATIONAL PROHIBITION - Write your member i Discuss National Prohibition with others Help your Minister to get a petition to Parliament] - signed by the voters of the Congregation Send \u2018true co ies\u201d of these petit anseunced as receivi so as NATIONAL PROHIBITION : If you are not able to \u201cstart samecne else who cas to the plans not hapgian io get th ** Witness,\" he will be SUGGESTED FORM OF PETITION.To His Excellency : the Governor General and the S enate and House of - .- Your petitioners being voters pray * for the immed .* And we-have signed ow sames and full post office addresses-at .\u2026.\u2026.would in wo way y our demand.Cnnada was in the of every nation on the question of ibétion tif the United States of America individuslly ratified =n national constitutional amend it securing RR.canada le still in the vanguard in ive, and as Quebec becomea dry on May first.all the provinces will then be under prohibitive acts.But national legislation is necessary te \u2018assure the provinces the degree of prohibition they have overwhelmingly éo olared for.We depend ou the Patina.ment of Canada te Muifil Hs sered funotiok and duty toward the provinces and the people, at large dy paseing legisiation forthwith that will give uve permanent, EFFECTIVE NATIONAL PROHIBITION, wed we would emphasise the need that in such legis lation (here be ample provision for its strict and cffective «nfuvement \u2018 by .To Stimulate others to get up petitions: and make it possible \u2019 To present to the Premier or i monster petition\u2014indeed a Acting NATION-WIDE P & for unconditional and effective late unconditional passage of a law securing effective national prohibition of the manufacture, importation,\" transportation or salé of alcoholic liquors for beverage purposes and securing effective enforcement of the same.ions to the '* Witness\u201d agd thay will be Premier a > rs : | + 1 immediately, dray thé\u2018attention of ia sinister does Ne ve the | Lo À Lt «LA the provinee ot toderal agencies \\ e Leg you, \u2018there in our name, and as the repressatatife of this cea.wituencry, to do all is your power to wevure this legislation.Te the petition we have oieariy signed our names snd full postal addresses, * Ws are, BU, Toure faithfully, This should be rigned by ome or more of those whe emginssred the signing of the petitiom Private per- none shouié not, because they sign no petition.amit (0 address their mem- bees personally.The Lirewers are aek- *++e+0te000006 ?BOLSMEVISTS TAKE KIEV.$ Warsaw, Feb.3\u2014~Kiev has been taken by Bolishevist {roops, General Petiura's treeps partis liy going over to the enemy.The Ukraine Gevernment has bbe moved from Kiev ta Win.on te the southwest.Rail.communication with Kiev out off at Koval, where there a body of German troops at- ping to keep order among rderly who are rene from raine.The Cueche-flovaks are bit.rly denounced here because régent events.tn the Duchy Teschen.tecectousseo ÉNKOYSKY AT NEW J RT AT Russia is \u201ca ruluation, corrupt, starting and with a hopeless future less the Polshevists arc overthrown.\u201d according to Mme.Catherine Mreshkuvaky, the 75-vefr-old \u201cgrandmother of the Russian revolution.\u201d who arrived at New York on Wednesday from\u2019 Chiongo.Hundreds af fellow countrymen and many Americans, \u2018among them Miss Ales Swine Blackwell.of Boston grestad the aged revolutionary Social ist with kisses and flowgrs ai the male road station, aud esc har to the Henry Sweet Bettlemont, on tho Fast Bide, where she will be entortalned during her stay In New York.Fhe misrule of the Bolshaviki, according to Mere.Breshkovsky, has resulted in the depopulation of Pstpo- grad.Where there were 2.000, ons before the revolution, she said.fess than 1,000000 remain, and \u2018ail our olé'ieaders.the tovers of Russfkn freedom and justice, are underground.\u201d n money and ensmy psychology, she declared, had been used to entrench Trotsky and Lenine.Millions of dollars in forged Russian rubles had been printed in Lefpsig, Hresden and other German cities and smyggled into Rusais.It was used effectively to corrupt Russian oficers at the front.\u201cRussia Row has no culture, ng fae- tories, mills, i9stitutes, schools, col- legos, not even the aipbabet,\u2019 she ten- tinued.\u201cEvery semblance of law, order and education has been destroy- ol.The teachers fu the schools, refusing to subscribe to Bolshevik \u2018prin- \u2018ciples,\u2019 bave beeu thrown out of their class rooms or slain.The schools are all empty.More than 4,000.000 orphans boys and girls are growing up in Russia to become criminals.rm SING IN RUMANIA.sEeng 6 § SE + ++++4++H00400004HO aR eo GO 4000020008060 000000 \u201c A peasant rewlution has broken out over the lengih and Lreadth of Rumania, according tn despatches from Budapest.A simultanrous rising occurred In all the villages at a fixed hour when well-armed homecoming soldiers.heading the insurxents, forced their À into the various towns, re- ~uiting sanguinary encounters with the regular troops.In Bucharest there has been fighting the regulars employing machine gun fire.Many were killed or wounded.Social, revohftionists joired in the movement.QERMANY'S FOOD ALLOWANCE.Under the general food program outlined by the Allles, Gennany wiil be allowed about 6,000,009 bushels of bread.stuffs a month, mostly from the United Btates, if she can find the money ot pay for it, according to a detalled wiatement of foreign grain requirements cabled by H st C.Hoover to dulfus H.Barnes, president of the United States Grain Corporation, and made publie here to-night Between now and July 1.the state- nt said, France and Italy will take $0,000,000 bushels of wheat and flour from the Grain Corppration.while the Allipd Governments .will take alwo about 75,00,000 bushels of oats, \u2014\u2014\u2014 GERMAN COLONIES.(Continued from page 1.) tyranuy over a big nation, could hardly de worse.\u201cIn reality the German colonies ge to foreign hands.Eve lag which is said to excuse their theft is only to cover the brutal truth.Beautiful words and phrases are made in order to throw sand in the eyes of the world aud the German Michel, \u201cWhat Is the meaning of international administration or guardianayip of the Gerrpab colonies?It is all a vel of humbug.° \u201cR is a nice league which begins which \u201c| ee duties thus; and Germany will not even be able to protest.These will be among the many humilinting peace conditions.There ia also an end \u20180 the Berlin to Bagdad dream.\u201d \u2019 MORE .shrdlu wfwy .rdl rer .A HOUBE OF REPRESENTATIVES.» a International peoples\u2019 liouse oŸ re- ntatives, to be ished in con- hection with the Laseud of Nations, is proposed in a memoraadum submitted to the Pence Conference by the Hon.Charles J Doherty, Canadian Minister of Justios, through the British league of Nations commission, .of, Whiok, he is à rrember, N Kvery nation in the world would be represented on this body: and the delegates would be reprerentatives of the peoples themesives.This plan ts 12 x presented Lo the various delegations the Peace .Conferemca Mr.Doherty's view In that It woul bo « vital misteke to declage at this time the principle that thé interests at humanity are to be confined only to sovereign states.Jie believes .that the present time is opportune te interest the peoples of the world direct.iy ia methods for the prevention of war, and thal the opportumity quaist to be seised \\ The plans thus far suggested provide tax the constitution of judivisl trivitnals and fer «be emeroise of exeou- Yvé powers by the Goverameu.TY our treasure be on earth, wb are going from it: il In Heaven, we sre solag tq lL\u2014Brethar Lawrence.\u201cThis le & world of où | tions.\u201d and learning to for them will jessen Many à dienppointement.Rvary lous Was somewhere à gain attached to it: every grief, unless sin has Invited it, holds Ita drop of balm.If ve look back over our lives, we shall sse that ave of the happan- 1ages which at first seethed dire mis.ing this vf = their friends a fortune have atage biossomed jato per-| Tall of the Health Dodd's Kidney .Pis , , Tha ene Yat Was a of Kidney Disease.Gienavog, Sask, June 11th (Special) ~\u2014*Threes boxes of Dodd's Kidney Pills made a new woman of me.\u201d These afe the words of Mre.John Mortimer, of this place.\u2018They are words that bave been used assis and again by women in all parts of Canada who have suffer.od, and who bave found relief and cure in Dodd's Kidney Pills.\u201cI foo) {t 1s ny duty to let you knew what Dodd's Kidney Pills heye done for me Mrs.Mortimer contffiues.\u201cI & pain in my back.and I could pat got out of bed without awful pain.1 tried everythlug, but could get ne lief.1 was advised to try Dodd's K ney Pills, and | sent to Toronto fer them.The day [ received them | task three before going to bed, and I feit à lot better next morning.» \u201cl took them according to directions and In one week 1 was as well as ever, I am Afty-five, and am doing all my houvework.If I overwork sad my back feels weak I take a Dodd's Kidney Pill, and feel better in a few hours.1 have recommended them to my friends.* and they also e been helped.\u201d I you haven't used Dodd's Kidney Pills ask your neighbors about them.7 especially of the Cireat Powers, Mr.Doherty declares thers would Im greater assurance of a general delar- tulnation of the peoples of ail countries to maintain peaceful relations if body.muinly legislative in function 3 composed of rÉpresantatives directly elected by the nations, great and amall, were added to supplement the work of these Judicial and execulive bodies, In such, an assembly the principal powers wéuld be those vof inquiry and degisiation, taking the form of recommendations to sovereign staton.The neceasity no far insistèd upon of equnl representation would disappear, tim membeys assigned to each country conforming rather to euch considerations As influence the distribution of ueats in uny legislative assembly.AGREEMENT ON PLAN.Having accepted the piah for super vision of the colonies by the League of Nations, iL has now become necese sary {o give body and substance to & League of Nations in-order that It may perform the fmportant tante which are committed to its care.This is regarded as the chief busthess Immediately ahead, and President Wil.won is giving it his main\u2019 attention.The President on Thursday sight entertained the sembers of the League of Nations Commission.Os Friday night he went to American headquarters for another discussion on this subject with Lord Robert Cecil, the British representative, Colonial House, Secretary of State Lansing and others.It is the Président's personal desire with regard \u2018e tive colonies, with the League of Na tions superdsing the amasdatories, that the details to be presented will prove acceptable and workable.Leon Bourgeois.the French dele-./gute on the Rociety of Nations Come mission, on Saturday grovented 46 President Wilson, \u2018Ryemier.Ciemem cenu, Premier Lloyd George.and.Reo mier Orlando the text of the propose for the formation of the League, agresd upon by th¥ Intdrhational ord ganization embracing the American of which Wilitam Heward Taft is president: the British, qf which Vien count Grey Il» president; the Italian, - the French and other associations.\u2019 M.Clemencesu had previtidls dete ed M.Bourgeois to re: an.agrew.ment on the details among the advocates of the project ip all countries, and the plan presented was In response to this request: Îffe text ul * the provisions follows: \"Firstly\u2014To submit alt.disputer arising betweeh theupreives to methods of pançefu! settiement.|\u2018 \u201cfacondiy-To prevent or suppress jointly, by the use of all means at their disposal, any attempt by ang state to disturb the peacs of the world by acts of war.\u201cThirdly\u2014To establish ag international court of pustice, chargpd with the duty of deciding al Justiciable disputes and to ensure the execution of {ts decisions by all appropriate Ia- ternatjonal sanctions \u2014 diplomatia, juridic, economic, and, if necessary, military.\u2018 \u2018 \u201cFourthly (a)\u2014To establish an international representative council, ment of international law und take common action in matters of general concern.\u201c(b)\u2014The\u2019 ropresentstive council will watch over th om of nt tions and the mai of international order.© \u201c(c) \u2014 Conuidering itesif Invested with the moral guardianship of uncivilised races, the representative council will secure the execution and, in case of need, promots thé development of International covenants necessary for the protection and pres gress of those racud.\u2019 \u201c(d) À permanent comenittes of conciliation shall take \u2018n hasd ait differences hetween the associated nations.The commities will act, Mm the first nstence, as concllistor or madiator, and, if hecessary, It will refer the differences, souording te their nature, either to arbitration or to & court of justice.MK will be charged with mékink ail such ia.quiries ns ft considers useful, and will determine the necessary lipaits of time and conditions.In every and any state refusing \u2018to obey either the Award + the aybitrator or the deel.sion of the committee, the application ol appropriate sanctions will be pre- posed te the repregentative eouncil and the associated Governments by the committer.#These sanctions shall be obligatory in the case of vialence or aggresBion.\u201cFifthiy\u2014To limit anf supervise tre \u201d armaments of sach nation and the mantfacture of all material and munitions of wer, having repaid ba the requirements of the League \u201cBixthiy\u2014To remounce the making of secret treaties.\"Seventhiy\u2014-To adrait te tbe League en the basis of equal right defote the law, alt able mad willing to give eft guarantees of thetr loyal intention to cbesrve He eves.esta\u201d \\ which will provide for the develop.~~ - .- QERMAN TOWNS ARE TERRORIZED BY REDS Widespread Revolt Against the Order of Lessening Power + of Soldiers\u2019 Councils In vtew of the near appivach of the National Convention whiok lu\\te be held at Weimar, certain jocal soldiers\u2019 councils, especially those in North Sea aad Baltio ports have become mors un- oy.While In Wilhelméhaven thoy are mibdved for the nresent.and ta Lire., mes they\u2019fuay Le (e-mortow, they sul terrurise Hamburg.Mtettin.Ke- sigsbere.Brunswick, Breslau, leip- sis and sven In Bertin thoy are beginning again Lo disturb the publéo peace.They kpow hat the Netional Comven- = tien will immediately decree their total \u201d a ' \u201c .\u2019 \" \u2026 .oe cP .se \u2019 e 4 .a o 1 \u2018 + - r \u2018 ' .\\ » « + » ¢ 4 REAR « * 1 + « « ° yr x \u2018 v 4 LU * \u2018 + Pil v 4 v nn vox a ¢ i #1 * » 1 * \u201d \u20ac .« + pb Joe 1 \u2019 abolishmept to avoid which tifey seek to create conditions that wil make their temporary continuation desirable.At gresent they are doing everything prevent the soldiers joining the Government forces, but with apparently littip suecess.becausa® ihe recruiting olfiees are crowded day fier day An Objgetionable Deerea.Tncensed at this failure the Hamburg soldiers\u2019 ,oouncll now weeks te compel the Government to withdraw & recent @ecres which comaiderubly curtaiia the power of the soldiers\u2019 councils and re- , stores immediately officers to authority; Os Gaturday morning the Ham.bag soldlery council informed the Peoples\u2019 Commissioners that unless \u2018they withdrew the objectiunable decree they would by force prevent the first group of German ships which is to fetch foodmtuffs from America from sailing.- .The order.issued by Celonel Heln- bardt, Prussian Minister of War, Jessen ing the authority of the Soldiers\u2019 Coun.cls, has aroused open revolt in the] German armies.The council of the Ninth Army has declared that it will Dot obey the order, and has been informed that the Qovernmeat' will find means to enforce it., The situation at Hamburg is ez- sravated by the fact that the soldiers\u2019 council is allied with the seamen's league.which alse threatens to stop the ships unless the men get fantastic wages.Dodgers are being distributed in Ber- , lin by the \u201cRed Soldiers\u2019 Union,\u201d which is a Spartscan militery organization, calling oa the proletariat to arm and connolidate.The \u201cTageblatt\u201d says: \u201cIt will be Darder to dethrone the poidiers and \u2018workmen's countils than it was to de- thrane the princes and kings\u201d \u201c Maresh on Bremen.og barre.- Froops of the Gerstenberg dividon ary Joarching ce to liberate hit gity.from the domination of the \u2018terrorist Bpartacan minority, who are reported te de preparing & strong re- wslasce.Their adherents among the \u201d Imhôrars ak the shipyards age building WAphine-gun.nesls and strengthening the defenos at the shipyards.They + are also posting strong machine-gun fürogs , along the roads to Achim and Hpmelingem, and otherwise preparing 10 resist the carrying out of the max- dates of the Berlia Government, A Rival Parliament.Whils' it.is umitkely that any attempt will be made to dlmperes ibe Comatitutent Assembly at Weimar.tafre will probably be what amounts to a rival Parliament in session \u2018simultaneously in Beriln.By a vote of 492 to 342, a stormy esting of- the workmen's eouncils of Greater Berlin adopted a resotution in favor of the central counell' convening a national congress of soldiers\u2019 and \u2018workers\u2019 councils to take action on the question of a National Assembly, and a constitutioh, and the future pesi- of the Soviet Boards.+ RED GUARD ARMY 18 TROTZKY\u2019S BODYGUARD Lithuanian Desoribes Him as - an Exoeptionaly Strong an The Lithuanian Undersecretary for Foreign Affaire Rossnbaum, who arriv- od in Paris last week, said to a correspondent: \u201cIt is a misiake to suppose that the Bolshevists have a reguisr organtse- tion covering ail the Russian territory .whfch has accepted their principles.Ou the tontrary, it is a cardinal feature of the new regime that each locality.each community.however umall should have full Independence and liberty of action.For it must be re- mémbercé that, despite es in the Allied press to the eflect that the Boishorists old sway gatirely by tor Î \" =~ CHILDHOOD CONSTIPATION Constipation ts one of the most -Sommeon aliments eof babyhood and childhoed and unites M ie premptiy cured will undoubtediy lend to Aman.trous results.To cure this\u2019 trouble nothing cam equal Baby's OV Tablets.They areu mild lagstive which instantly regulate the bowalp and sweeten the stomach, thus danishing constipa- lon.colic, acide eta, Comosrning tiem Mra Bugene Vaillancourt.St.Mathieu.Que.writes: \u201cWhen my baby wap constipated 1 gave her Babys Own Tablets and am weil satisfied with the result.1 would roses recommend © thom to all mothers for thin trouble\u2019 The Tablets are sold by medicine doaders nr by mail ul Ib cents a hox from The Or.Willams Medicine tu.Drolvite 00 re ere à rorfam, this is only true în à Bimited sense.Their real force les In the acceptance of their theories by à me- Jority.Ignorant and misled as the latter may be, it te nevertheless a fact that tuey have for the ost part rallied to the programme of \u2018communistic Socialism, which forms the basis of Lenine's doctrine.\u201cAt the same time the Bolshevik leaders Mnve another source of strength\u2014the Red Guard army.ly it is lese of a national army thas - sky's petsomal instrument, just as tlie Pragorian Guard used to be an finstru- ment or {he Romau Emperor.\u201c is an exceptionally streng aad determined man.Be is a thorough réalist-\u2014ke knows what be wants and goes after it with utter and wholedesrted indifference to mercy or any other considerations save ihe new communism in Rusals\u2014which Sxpediency.Having once established only became wholly possible by the signature of peace on Any terms with Gerrusny\u2014Trosthy set himself to beat down the elements of opposition and possible reaction.\u201cOnce that was done he went further and took advantage of the weakening German military power to increase the area over which the Bolshevik theories were accepted.For this he needed a force, and be found it in the uss of the Red Quard which, as the world Imows is not only fighting the anti-Bolshevik element in Russia, but\u2019 is pressing westward toward Poland snd thresten- log Lithuania.\u201cTo get & clear ides of the situstios ia Russia at present, you might compare the country to a wasp's nest wherein the greater part of its inhabitants do pretty much what they pleate.brovided they are left alone and do not laterfere or take part in activities of the \u2018soidier wasps\u2014occecss angus of nations wl remains bOI + nl us.WO - continues to * PRESS SOPINIONS \u201c - @ |apeculate as to what may or may not \u2018+ [de developed under this phrase, so stimulating to the imagination and so utterly tndefinite as to fact.But meantime the practical English have developed at the council table of the Quay d'Orsay in typical English fashion one of the most striking political facts of modern times.Without trumpeting, with but little debate and with no new nomenclature or glowing words or Political doctrine, the British Bmpfre has taken a long step forward toward that federation of independent nations which the empire was sooner or later bound to achieve.called the!\u2019 The growth of the self-governing English colonies has been a peculiarly English proceeding throughout.It has enme step by ftep as a thihg of evolution and slow ripening, with a running commentary of.debate and discnasion, to be sure, but with no forma] conclave to devise a revolhtionary change looking far down the years.Theory has been utterly lacking Practical needs, human demanda from year to year, have controlled thy érganisation of this mighty league The conventional phraseology of the texthbok fails utterly before such rule.of-thumh construction.In strict theory, prior te the peace conference, Canada and the other pelf-governing colonies ware no more than creatures of Par- llament, granted self-government by an act and operating goly by virtue of that act.By ntrict theory Parliament oôuld have reduced Canada to status of Indla or Eæymt overnight by the simple ensotment of à.new law.But theory has nothing to do with the British Empire.In practics asd in fact the weif-governing dominions were nations.united In a leagues whereof Fnxland was the head, with & re- opanised right of veto in imperial con- cernm\u2014a loosely united leaghe hy many standards, mince Iinyalty, not oom.puision, was its secret of suodess; yet no shackled empird conld have dqualled the devotion and emcrifice with which the colonies came to thé empires âe- fence e the world war.systema , and iz still working, as recent \u2018eventa at Paris have proved.Whatever failures England has to her debit account, this moders success +++.BOPK-REAOING IN CANADA.(Vancouver Mbaily Word.) .+ .\"Bookishrieas\u201d than : it stands for verse of ugly.And pometh : Canadian people dif rr _ Be value \u201d - At least, such is the indietment brought against the\u2018Canadian public by 8 Dumber of ucivertey professors and others in a new gm \u201cCanadian Boo) + The word is first to Sir \u2018William Peterson, princi; of McGIL He points out how people there are 1n-Canada who dp met believe in books.\u201cSome are quite frank about it\u2019.be says.\u201cThey do hot belleve in books overmueh; they are men of.affaire\u201d Sir Robert Faico: of Toronte University, adds to the \u201cThe reason why we hatgmn few good bookshops In our Canadian tities is that we have few readbép who are intereated in ks.Ana \u2018are far behind respect\u201d Then Queen's clares: \u201cThere le with anything tke to a higher civilisd 18 which books play such à minor, in the gedeiat te\u201d .v \u2018And finally the Bishop of Ontagdo, comparing the Canadian lad with = English fellow, pro out that former while wondi fly clever with his bands has no Méerary to his mind, and the \"allusions to even the widest-known Bgures fa such classics as Scott, Didipens or Thackerary are Greek to bim.\u201d ° It this powerful Nellictment be true, the blame must be placed on our Cqn- adian schools.They unéertake \u2018to impart a love cf gad Bternture in the minds of boys and they have failed.of the failure?\u2014\u2014\u2014p\u2014\u2014\u2014 WEAPONS IN PEACE TIME \u2018 E PF.Scott niversity! And he roundly de- of rhaps no country same pretension regula employment in heavy traction.| (New York \u201cDypeisg Poet\u201d) ¢ Beating swords late plourhahdres will have to be amended A Haz Fren- ctaco despatch toits Bf an army Neu.tenant killing a small whale with hig airplane gun off \u2018Ii Peach.A New Orleans 4 Mates that a submarine-chaser has nucossatuiiy employed {ta underswiter Ustening Be.viess fm detecting @ whiskey-laden launch that was evading exclge laws From the Southern mountains tomy reports of the employment of birplancs In sailing over tb valloys amd wlopen and apotting iMioi atills hy thai smoke.Submarines are urged th Arctis exploration \u201cant \u2018enrmotos\u2014 running bensath tie 10-\u2014mors em- thusiastieally than ever The domly Of hor overseas empire marke ah ox-| Problem is ancihen Oa his peimt traordinary achiovement WU le etrik-! again there le mo understanding pod.ing testimony to the practioal wisdom ['sidle between the Tories or partisans of of the English political mind, which xtreme measures asd fomentors of dis enres net @ jot for legie ce thésy and bord.and those Liberais formed at the \u2018 sonceives of govermmant ga & thing of school of pence and goneiliation The slow growth from within, net ç£ ewift| pertoé of ructien will find our impositiss from without.publie men di into two groups the \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 \u2018Tary proteotionists and partisans of es orcion and intoleranes and those ALLIED REVERSES IN RUSSIA.[130 favoring air inert, those tan®, eo the people Will have te (Not York \u201cT¥bume.\") Allied military intervention in Russie bas bess ineffective beosase It has AFTER PROHIBITION.(New York \u201cEvening Post\u201d) themselves In guessing how will be spent the millions heretofore paid out for drink.Oa candy, some ba.lleva.Others predict am outbreak of unaccustomed dandyism; tiff othery » manie for graphophones.The possithists suggest that increased taxes will take oars of the surplus The Bouth has experienced prohibition and begins to contribute data that serve as & basis for less imaginative - forecasts.At the conclusion of Georgia's first dry year her Govermo# pointed to the Immense lon im the cost of mainteiniagy courts, prisons, and polis Moreover, he cited reports from department stores and banks showing an astonishing i8- crease in the volume of business and the number of depositors.Thess cheerful facts he embodied in an eplrtle to the Virginmns, who bad Just put prohibition Into effect, Other States that have tried prohibition are atmilariy calling out: \u201cCome on im the waters fine!\u201d .pm .D'ANNUNZIO IN POLITICS.- (Brooklyn \u201cEagie.\u201c) © a Gabriele d'Annusio is the ouly poet who has exerted any real! influence upon the course of events in this war, After Italy entsred the war be amased the word by his tospiring action.He became & grea?\u2018aviator, à .great leader of aviators, and his fests in the air rivalied his postic flighty He séemed at times the very em! of the free spirit of Italy, and he daily risked: his life tm the most hasardous undertakinge-\u2014from bombe - ing Austrian ports to dropping pos- tic appeals to the populace of Vienna in Geflance of anti-air oraît siffle.IV was à glorious eau hood man and poet, and especially one whose work betore the whr was streaked with exotic touches thas tarred its beauty and replied many lovers of the pure and wimiesume in art.° More recentiy d'Annunzio has come down to earthy earth 3 manner to cause dismay to thousands 6f his admirers everywhere.He has made him mirers everywhere.He has made himself the voice of Italian imperialism in its worst form.Having inspired Italy to fight for the freedom of the Ualians under the Austrian yoke, he would now subject the Jugo-Slays te a similarly distésteful Italian yeke Recently he wrote & six-\u2014lumn article filled with the most volte abuse of Bignor Bissolotti, the leading advocate of a League of Nations in Italy, who resigned from the government rather than compromise his moderate opinions.D'Anguasio has mow.trmed om tFrance and tu\" acsusine- éeanam ciné working hand-in-hasd with the.Jugo- Slavs against Ualy.He hes \u201craked | history\u201d to \u201cfind argwowats to shiv up Italians against the French, \u20181: esésur But for them the Alles at this moment would probably be holding only Kola, Archangel, Viadivostok and the Black Sea ports and Russia would be a malignant and powerful enemy, extremely difficult to deal with because of the apread everywhere of the Bolshevist fanaticism.It it is desired merely to hold Archangel, the Northern Russia expedition- Ary foroe ought to be withdrawn to the coast.Otherwise, It ought to be reinforosd.Allled prestige and influence in Russia are being shattered by a lack of policy which permits feeble - Allied forces to be.enveloped and defeated by Soviet troops met.ENGLISH ENTERPRISE.*(\u201cL'Evenement.\u201d) Wherever the English pass they create a durable prosperity, their capital and their credit being to the advantage of all their enterprises.and it is ADT lead \u2018true that they have the sense of practical discovery and the exploitation of the country's yealth.The activity of the English business man is also to be feit in Canada and even in the Province of Quèbec.The newspapers, in fact, speak of an MAn- rlo-Canadian company that is seekin, to obtain the privilege of exploring th source of petrol in the extreme north- | east of the p@vinoa, ad we sea a Quebec banker, Mr.John I Rose, associated with\u2019 Eusiish @lhapoiers to build à vallway towhrdlh Why scarcely.explored domain.of Aligera.This last epterpries.is partieulariy interesting to us.as the new territory lately ceded to tie province is reputed for ita] rich fprests; ita mines of gold and silver, and ity lakes filled with fish, together with the immense water powera on every hand.It is well that these treasures should be advertised and worked, and we are happy to see that a pioneer of many enterprises has given to the old city of Champlain the benefit of his energy to other national projects, We must admit that the English\u201d in spite of the opinion of the ultra-Nationalists, are men of action Scarcely is the terrible war over when we see them at the head of practical expeditions on sea.land and air.Like the Norman discoverers, their activity is placed to the profit not only of their own country, but of the entire world.A squadron of English aviators have just accomplished a flight from London to Calcutta, the object being to establish a postal route from England to the East Indisa, while another of the same nature is ready to leave, with Cape Town via the Soudan as its object, the distance being ever 6000 miles.\u201d pr CANADIAN RECIPROCITY.[posite the ring off BINS Napoleon, France, aid bellove, (New York \u201cSun\u201c) masses of.the I ao poids, The action of tre Sastaichewan as.2E® EARRURSC'S Sacks, sembly in demanding freer trade rela- man whose fame flas sa tiong with the United States is nificant and promises well for the fu- tuse.They ask substantial reductions in preferential and customs tarifts and acceptance of the reciprocity pact with the United States It was a unanimous vote of the Assembly, and the Conservatives for the first\\time cast their votes with the Government on the tariff issue, Thus, apparently all parties in that section of the great Canadian North- West are in accord on this important matter.We should meet them more than half way: we want to sell them our machinery and manufactures.and we'twed many of their products.Mors.over, they are becoming & very xjeh community and will be good customers from every point of view.Closer relations.will bemefit both sides \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 \u201ctHE\u2019RUINS OF UNIONISM.\u201d (\u201cLe Canada\u201d) There 198 tendenoy which becomes) more and more iritanse in federal polt- Soa, vis, the return to the before the war parties, which are distinguished especially by their \u2018radically different economic program and by.their coneep- tions of the problems.Uniontem San had ite day.Even during the war, had it been prolonged, it would have been used as a pretext to consolidate the Tory party and to maintain it in power by.infusing a little of Libera! blood.The armistics.howsver, hastened events, and in face of the pence problems the insufficiency of unioniem strikes with a vision which denotes the send.As a matter of fact, unionism constitutes a reunion of mez baving no- thitg ia common except the ides of reigning together.They are.in fact, unable to agrees om any of the questions proper to the period of comstrustioa.There is no possible union between the violently protective group of Foster and White and the free trade claims of the West, and while the prejudices and patriotio deciamations so cleverly ez- ploited during the war are sent to the rear, it 19 necewsary to face above all the tariff question as the most important of afl.Although the opening of the session may be delayed, the falling dus of the note, which is only delayed.must be faced sconer or later.The tariff is one of the questions on which the Unionists will fall and the race but a short time hurt by &\u2019Annunsio, byt\u2019 fluence Italy to seviste too ind course of dealing Juatly \u2018with\u2019 .Jugo-Slavs Italy.would sumly «& 0 FOR SCALDE OUTE ARD BAUISES.FOR COLD.COUGHS AND BRON- JOMIAL AFFLICTIONS.FOR' STIFF MUSCLES, SRRAINS AND STRAINS .AND NUMEROUS OTHER AILMENTS OOMMON TO MAN AND BEAST, THEAR 18 NOTHING BUPERIOR TO THAT OLD \u2018 .TRIED ARO RELIABLE REMEDY D8 THOMAS'® ECLECTRIC \u201c4 æ A BOTTA _HIRST'S PAIN EXTERMIN When you heve an attack of rheumsaiion, lin lego.peursiaie, 9 © ye Saut.ewellon Joints, ov à sprain\u2014reu Con't Med ve ter.\u201d the Lote of Hirt s Poin Rebmuaipe'or and veo 10 Ye Airerrioge tn adrenier, 1 she paix quicifly.x à bottle he A ny elective fev 19) ig curncbe.bé Lac *.Li 1 af a ae am Das doom à femily friend.Be à !- \u2018heat 4 g write we A a ANT, RANTEONE, \u20ac \u2018A Ake where of RIDIT'S Fabs Maire (i aro HET eg Trea 6 4 and Momasysne (360) for smghe « Len ; SOA ATOR READY WHEN NU ED IE E\u2014ond Ney the Poin! 1 2 æ.-+ or © a oo ee - > oo THE MONTREAL WRRKAY WITNESS, FEBRUARY 4, 1919 : \u201c 9° I'S INVA \u201cIn Favor Everywhere\u201d= == 4e ono Tommy (at Red Cross conoert)\u2014 What's that man got his eyes shut for while he's singing?Friend\u2014Becauss he can\u2019t blur te see us suffer.\u201cAre you of the opinion that De \u2018fuiith's medicine does any good?\u201cNot unless you félow the direc- nat are the directions?\u201cKoop the bottle tightly corked.\u201d * .Chila\u20148e you're my auntie?-Auet\u2014Yez, \u2018dear; 1 am your Aunt Nell, on your father\u2019s side.Child-\u2014Well, you're of the wrong olde; you'd find that out!\" \\ b+ \\ : HARD ON MIKE., \u201cBedad\u201d smelaimed Mra 'O'Fiaberty.\u201cthe (irish are birmed for everything mowsdays.\u201d .VPhats (be matter new?asked her! friend.' \"They do be saying that it was an Otrishman gave \u2018em the fever\u2014a bhoy of the name of \u2018Mike Robe.\u201d GOOD PLAN.ow that Padersweki, is apparently Xing\u2014no, President\u2014of Poland, let us vend John McCormack.Erin's swest songeter, to Ireland, and Caruso to become Prime Minister of Hair, gpd thus help to restore harmouy to Europe.THE wan SCORED, \u2018A good story of a clever Young lawyer culled in to defend « man se- oused of housebreaking is going the rounds.\u201cYour honer,\u201d sald the lawyer, \u201cI submit that my client did not break into the house at ail.He found the pariour window ppen, inserted his right arm, and removed a few trifling articles.Now, my client's ards\u2019 is wet himself and fall to ses how yoy can punish him for an offence committed enly by one of his limba\u201d - \u201cThat argument,\u201d sald the judge, \u201cis very well put.Following it logically, I sentence the prisoners arm to que yoar's imprisonment.He cam as company It or not, fust ase chooses.\u201d The priscaer calmly usgerewed his cork arm and, leaving it in the \u2018dock, walked out.' THE RIGHT PUNCTUATION.\u201cFathen\u201d asked eight-year-old Ados, \u201case you good st punctuation?\u201d \u201cYen\u201d replied the father., \u201cWelt, iqU me, please, how would you puastoate \u2018The wind Liew a postal order round the corner ?* \u201cV£hy, Alice, I would simply put a full stop at the end of the sentence\u201d \u201cI wouldn't,\u201d said Alice, mischievous.ty.\u201cI would make à dash after the postal order.\u201d \u2019 + >\u2014\u2014 Tommy (to dear oid lady): \u201cStarvin\u2019?Why, yer see these dints?Yer weuldn\u2019t think tl Old Lady: \u201cIndes, | shoulda.\u201d were tosth marks of a \u2018ungry \u2018Un whe tried te chew fe Tommy: \"Well, yor right, marm-they ain't.\u2014Cacsoil\u2019s \u201cSaturday Journal\u201d RESERVED HER SPEECH.A Qté.Flint grew sentimental es the Ji Ie fr ip ih i» > Iz \u2018 , THE DESCRIPTION TALLIED A stranger when uing at « toroden hotel was acsosted o dotastive whe said to him: \u201cSeg your pardon, we are Ia search À veuntrymian on à visit te London found Ne hei lost his stiviepls.For- \\dusately he had a friend at the police station, no hé went and tolé him or Ms lots.The friend assured him he would not leave stone unturned wa- 1 the pin daa found.When the man got back to his lods- ings ho discovered the nin on hie sping - talde und immediately etarteé to the polies station ugnin As he wonded bia way alnig one of the principal streets be mw mom workmen pulling up the roadway w lay somo Wy gnapipes \u201cDon't Hiebie te eka up ore.my dun ke orled.\u201cT found the pia\u2019 have convictions \"Whats hall ws Dod them ; » Voice from the Crowé-\u2014\"Iln jell\u201d Lady standfhg on car trash: \u201cWhere Fanti op Soi que Le In th back © tt in 12 you don't get ot a \u2018 \u2014\u2014.= = \u201cPapa, where is Atoms?Full bitter te the Kaistr's And Fortune care 8a oaty ews, Ang thi look very bime; For Austria is breaking up | And Germany is breaking dows.we are breaking through, He fa the Dally Chronicle > or Mixed « » COMPULSORY EDUCATION NEEDED IN QUEBEC Strong Speeoh in Legislature .by essor fort.Hysoïnthe ' \u2019 A vigorous speech in fawer of com- Pulsory education was made io the Quebec Legislative Asspmbly by Mr.T.D.Bouchard, member for St Hyaointhe, on Wednesday afternoon.\u201cThe Catholics of the province of Quebec who favar compulgory educa tion are in good company.\u201d sald Me.Bouchard.\u201cThere are, unfortunately, too mapy people who believe that they have to search for the truth in a bottle of ink when the Lord has given each man common sense enough to know what le proper.! refuse to be- liave that the Source of all good wish- od the truth to be so hidden asd hard to get at that iC jo reserved ns a monopoly for a very few.The Example of Riaesis.\u201cRussia has had the sad enporience of allowing to flourish the doctrine that the father has the right of brisgiag up his von in ignorance.In Russia thers was in practice the theory that was pronpohed last week ip Montreal by an educated mas, whe declared.amidst the applause of the adversaries of compulsory education.that it is not necessary that a man should write or read in order to be à good citizen.The geod citimns who could neither read nor write have bean for some months past killing each other in the eities and esustry places of Moly Russia; they tals their revenge against a country which had provided no edu on for thea and therefore count only up0n brutal force Your Tea-pot will tell the reason why \"SALADA\u201d \u201cTry It To Day\u201d tics, and restored the confidence that bs bad had in compulsory educatiog It was no wonder that tbe province was put nt the head of all civilises countries in ngbool attendance It was on mich figures that the Prime Minister im 1913 had affirmed that Quebes had a superiority over Om tario in acheo! gttendance of 9 por- cent, consiuding legfanlly that there was so need fer compulsion, Ia à statement te the press Mr.Magwan points out that he is net in any way for the school statistios, these being taken frem the official report of {he department, and sont ia by school Inspectors and seore- tary-treasurers of sehoel muaicipall- ties.These statistics.adds Mr.Mag- nan, are the ones.he has to go en In making what statements he does, and even\u2019 If pet*perfast, they are the only ones on which i is possible te base aa argument.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 © The pay of Eyitish naval men has been increased.ordinary seamen re- coiving an extra shifling.per day.with higher sums for officers.The increase is to be regarded as a bonus, and not as a parmanent addition to the present payse +* 9 0 The pay of the soldiers of the British army who will be retained until a peace footing 1s reached, probably will be twenty-one shillings a week and foed and lodgings, according to a statement made by W.A.Appleton, secretary of the General Federation of Trade Uniema, te the \u201cDaily Mail* King Complains Bitterly of the Nation's Base ingratitude The London \u201cDaily Chreniqie* publishes an interview with the King of Montenegro which Herbert Vivial, a well-known joursalist obtained in Paria Nicholas began the interview by holding up a telegram and seying: \u201cThis may interest you: it is from Queeu Alexandre.informing me that the Dowager Empress of Russia and her daughters are safle in the Crimea.\u201d .King Nicholas proceeded: \u201cFrom own country I have received little news as the Serbian army of oecups- tion has established a cordon, and neither persons nor jetters are allowed to pass.The only reports are amug- sled out by my friends st the,risk of their lives.\u2019 \u2019 A Reigs of Terror.\u201cIt appears that a veritable relan of terror exists.Man, women.and children are executed without trial.Bombs are thrown into the houses of my supportes Meney is lavished like water to wean my children away from their allegiance.\u201cNo douixt you have heard of my deposition and the of my by Serbia.ell, that wes vo by a mock Parliament that they called a Grand skupshtisa\u2014e mame that does not exist in our constitution.IL is not elected by aaybody, it is just chossn by bands of brigands who are working on behalf of Serbia.\u201cAt present it can summon no regular Parliament, for most of our soldiers have bees prevented from returning from their prison camps in Hungary.But when they do yeturn I am confident of the resuit.They do net wish to give up their laws or independence, which they have maintained during six eenturies against every invader.Confederation with a8 free men, aot as subjects of another state intriguing for Years.\u201cMr.Paschitoh.the Serbian statesman, has been Intriguing for eleven years to annex Montenegro, but be is no nearer his goal, for I refuse to believe that the Allies will depart from the principles of self-determination for which they fought, or that they will allow ons of the smallest nations to be sacrificed to the ambition of a neighbor.\u2019 \u201cWhat I complain of ingratitude.1 have fought three wars for the same Serbia.I saved her from ome dimster and enabled her to retake Belgrade.I took bread out of my children\u2019s mouths to supply her wants.Remember that I was the first te come to her rescues after the Austrian ultimatum, though no treaty bound me to do so, and though no one knew wheather the great Powers would intervens.\u201cAnd what is my reward?\u2018This fratricidal invasion of the lbertles of my people.° Demand fer Justice.\u201cWe await justice frem the Pesos Congress, and we rely upon the promises of the Powers.We count upon Proper access to the sea, for we depend os that for our existence.\u201cWe must have Seutari We have and each time it hag been snatched away from us in order to fiatter the susceptibilities of Austria, which has Dow ceased to emiet.Sewtart is ours ethnolegieally, historically and geographically.\u201cIn addition, we ought te possess the Bocche di Cattaro, which fe the first natural avenue to my country.Bosnia and Hernegovina are also traditionsity other southern Slavs.by all means, but L Montenegrin.\u201d taken it three times with our swords, | A note of warning agalast the spread of Bolshevism in Cansds was | sounded by the Duke of Devesshfre, in his address befors the Canadian Club at the Chateau Froniumao af Quebec.He said that Bolshevism res quired dark and hidden places in which to flourish, and if taken ia time and dealt with in the proper manner, ean be qutrooted.Elimination of ail slums, he gave us one means of fights ing the menace, {or as the slums inv crease.#0 also will thess fantastie ideas become stronger.It will require tact and forbearance and muoh self-sacrifice to overcome them, but '¢ must be done.\u2019 | « ® es Testifying before the Senate cases mittee investigating German propa- xanda at Washington, Arehitaid - @tevenson, of the military intelligemos | bureau, sa\u2018: that reprepentatives of the Bolshevik movement aiready huve organised soviets in the industrial centres of America.and that thelr plans contemplate eventunl seisure of the Government.ce oo The British artists.Orpes and M.Joba, who have been selected by the Government to paint scenes from the Peace Congress will begin werk ne mediately, it is anid.Both receatiy returned to London from the British front, where they have beem mse War sceass.\u2026.hear the Speech from the Jamas Lowther will he Speaker of the House.te gain their ends.* Bleven years ago 1t was prophesisé for Russta that this catastrophe would noite.because she had allowed, her multitudes to be in -teworance.1 dream of other things for my country.French sre Headloapped.; ° \u201cWe are 3000,600 french here, piaced in à corner of the Goutin- sat, surrounded by a hundred and ten willion strangers.We bave need of ftasglig: care of ourseives, and to take ali the place in the sun tha} we are titel to dnd fer which all eur Thoulties and\u2019 revoüress lead ms to hope.Whal is the greatest of all false « false sense of security, and we al- \u2018lowed ourselves to @veam of he supagiority of the FremeR-Canadian race In America white others passed rés the future.Ahead urd went on to show that there besz ne suspicion, had ied many, well disposed mes inte the error of thinkiag © lew was not neçessary.and he.confessed to Waving been led astray himsslf by suqh figures.How was it, then.that nine-tenthe o\u20ac the children loft ssheol before 14.years Meseif et age, as Mr.nes resently admitted?* Bond Going tv Schon! potvoen 1e 9 res ond this feet.tendent of Publidineirustion for 1813.1014 had opéneé his eyes.aad it was evident that the dend frequented thy achosie, because while thers were 142,437 girls of the age of T ta 14 years reported en living in \u2018he province, 1t was also reported that 181376 girls of the vanne ages Went ie soheol; that da, 3,349 girls aged trem ?to 14 went te sohesl who never emisted Such were the statistics Hew under such circumstances could we help haviag à higher school uttendance than thet of Ontario, where the peuple are oon- tent te have & law of gompuision?Reading the next year's report of he intendent ef Publio Inatrue- tion, Mr.Bouchard said that hé found that the situation bessmte still more complicated.Under the voldatary Magnan névoontes thecs were 4608 mort girls going te school then were living, sa Ineresde in one year of 1.837 sicle is Ae population of dead attending i Pine Results of Poresasion With sush 0ae results of the sys.ten of percussion shawn.he wus aot surprised that Mv.NMagnaa «es ep- system of going to school whieh Mr.\u2018 possd to nil changes, shown him ky acy: log h oi stntis hae 7-0 the the product of the world's graph with the wonderful diamond stylus Amberol Rosords 0a free Wiel wilkesd « pewy FIR EE EE Rock-Bottom Direct decide to Mr.Edison\u2019s superb new instru\u201d I of menthly ments.Think ef it! Pleas ; GES A lhe fae me te ti es die bala cu easiest Styiug reproduce, tho mien] of the cutête- je a à 1 r \u2014 RE me ee SEND NO MONEY] == of mixed oats and bran, they wilt he 3 roe bares waves PROVE in good condition whea lambing tim BE tne uired more attention thon \u2018 te mother thelr lambe wien they are aeparated from the flou, injure trees for seme years, and la Mt the eve ls not shorn until after (he mennéisme, the Young tress will be lambing, all tage of woel should Lé soming to bearing.Where land is trimmed from around the udder befere avaitable, however, the soiting of en asd immediately after lambing.If orehard olsewhore is desirable.Other this is pegleoted, the lambs sometimes will suck the tage and swallow them, often causing balls of wosl te form ia the stomach.Soon after lambiag the ews should be givea water with the ehill removed.Feed à light grain ration for a couple of days to avold udder trouble, but the ewe should receive all the roughage she needs.Juet as soon as the weather ie warm enough in the spring all the sheep and lambs should be dipped to free them from lice and ti ° After the sheep have besa turned out to pasture they will aot require much attention, except te ve the pasture is pot overstocked, Wad that they have Plenty of fresh water and salt I trees may be planted where tress were killed last winter, though (t has been said that trees will not do well where an Fires bas beens Semetimes they Ge nek, but it is usually due te\u2019 the fast that the older \u2018tress that were loft svershadowed them.Where they have wufficient light they should ewesssd.Wheu re-planting where anether tres has been, fill the hele with ghed surface soil from widway, between the rows rather than use the soil an was thrown out.A rapid of removing oid dead tress is by use of dynamite.i \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 SILAGE AND ALFALFA FOR EWRA \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 There ts no better rou fhage for sheep CARE OF TAEES AFTER WINTER than alfalfa bay, Next to ft is cloves, INJURY, soy and pea hay, Eariy-eut eat Last winter will fong be remember.247 te ut Touptass for ewes od by fruit growers in $he Province of Ontario and Quedes as sme of the hardest on fruit trees of any that has been axperienced.\u2018While peach tress were killed back to some extent im Niagara Peninsula, It was among the apple trees and in tha colder districts where the greatest losses oocurred.The forme the winter féjury teek were root killing, aplittine of the bark at the base of the tres.sometimes kndwn as \u201cdollar rot\u201d bark splitting on the trunk, trunk killing, erotch injury and killing back of the top.The fruit and leaf buds oa tae trees were often killed alse.While a large pumber of trees died during 1913, there were many more which went into this winter in & veg weakened condition, and may yet dle.By the time prusing is begun it should be possible to tell any tress which are going to die thie winter or whloh have additional dead wood om them, and it will be possible to prune them intelligently.Tiers will be many cases of crotch Injury, however, where almost all of the bark and camblum were killed aroupd the base of large Jrobs, and where the lajter meet in the head of the tres.Trees injured tn this are very unsatisfactory as they may linger for years in a weakened condition and of little: value, and eventually wi b down if they do not die before ébing so.The orchard should be gone over carefully this winter and examiffed for such injury.When pruning the orchard, the dsad bark should be removed from these patches, and the wounds painted and kept painted with 40d what alfalfe hay they will eat up clean.The silage should be made from well-matuged, well-asred corn.If there.is no alfalfa, clover or protein roughage they should have some off meal, eotton seed meal, wheat brea, or « mixture of these to furnish protein.Corn-fodder can be fed to the ewes tn racks, thredded or eut, or whole stalks can be scattered om the frosen ground (better out on the pasture), where ty can pick tbe biades off.The Perfection Caustic Balsam IT HAS NO EQUAL A | ji me cs many old Rls You, will wiske no mistake tn NEE mae al eric, J Be et proces Price $4400 P.0, R, Terente, We want a few live dealers tn open territory.| ! WEBBER MACHINE COMPANY 948 Dupont Sirest » Tivents.Out.fi of] 2 X he dpm al pty SUPERIOR BARN EQUIPMENT CO.nen Try ThigQne-} eds ve [Fa .Th : bark Me root cutting dropped in and the hole ne cambio ta he aia Crotenes Sa TE TEE filed up.ating wil pr are dead, the future of the tres should \u201c1 wish 1 had som the PERFECTION + autumn tbe roota will be ready for use.De, ©0919 as very do 1 IC Dee\u2019 yy Be fosled ale The PE 1% Where the soll is heavy or retentive many of the trees in the orchard hes its fan at the and shmply blows Are affected In this way and the trees the chal after the grain be eared 12d the ridge system is sometimes prac- graded by passing over § fest of acroming.Wi tised with good results.Ridges are| 2\u2019?Wide enough apart to permit Of, sd, covers.ele.are oot blows out with the thrown up & foot high, having a liberal Pl&Nting & young treq half way be- ef to swt buck the lund.bet ors ewmad to supply of manure at their base.The| tween, without too much\u2019 shading| Gigarmt kinôs of grain, seeds of every ay cuttings are inserted ten inches apart| from the older trees, it would be weil [jus 18 crews.stands firm on the floor, = .gn each side of the ridge, insmting] to Pian to Go this next spring.Goed HY other elvan oat the dibber at an angle of about écety- |.Dent be of with à an re Tp ro deere \u201cThe\u201d plan arom uw = \u2014 EEE Re a straight.The topa of the ridges-are = for wed \" placed tères fost apart.THE BEST LINIMENT| = \u201cIndead, sir,\u201d the woman declared, \u201cPm worried most to death about Mr.Bryan.He's ia his room\u2014oh, yes, he'a there\u2014but he won't let anybody in, and he hasn't beem out since yesterday morning.I'm sure he hasn't had a mouthful to eat (or twenty-four hours.And he's always bec so steady, never -\u2014well, you know, sir, how some vf the young gentlemen ard.I'm nure he must be sick or in some great trouble.1 do wish you could get in and see him.\u201d : \u201cI will\" the dean answered, and returning to the door, he knocked again and listened.\u2018There was no sound.He put ite lips (0 the keyhole.\u201cBryan,\u201d he called.\u201cI muet see you.1 know you are here.\u201d There was silence for a moment longer; then the dean's quick ears heard the words whispered through the door, \u201cI'm sorry, professon but I emn\u2019t see Any one to-day\u2014not even you.\u201d \u201cYou cam and you must see me.Bryan.If you do not open the door, 1 shall get a chair and sit here until vou let me init 1 have to stay until tomorrow morning.\u201d .\u201cPlease, sir, dont stdy.Another time\u2014maybe to-morrow, I can \u2018nu you.\u201d : \u201cNo, to-morrow will not do.I must see You now.\u201d The dean's determined voice showed no signs of yielding.Another silence followed; them suddenly the door was flung open, and the dean cntersd the room.\u201d He stared in wonder and dismay at the face of the young man, so changed it wus since he had last looked into ft \u201cWhy.Bryan, you are ill\u2014don't stand,\u201d he cried.Bryan flung himself (nto a chair.leaving his visitor to find one for himself.The dean cast a swift glance about the disordersd room.then his eyes came back to Bryan's face.It was the face of one with no hope no object in life\u2014one who might be swept into any current of evil.\u201cBryan.what is the trouble?You know I am your friend.Trust me, and be sure that I will give you any help in my power.\u201d The des spoke earnestly.i re \u201cThere is ho help.\u201d \u201cWhat do you mean, Bryan?has happened?\u201d \u201cNothing much, only\u2014everything Is zone.\u201d said Bryan slowly.Buddealy he Nfted dull, hopeless eyes to the dean's face.\u201cGod is gone.1 don't believe in Cod any more,\u201d he added slowly and distinctly.\u201cBryan!\u201d Sheer surprise held the dean silent after that one word.This from Bryan, whose unshaken faith and trust had kept 20 many careless boys trom straying\u2014ied so many wild and She had « large sheet of paper before her on the round table.where the rose-shaded lamp was, and was sometimes bent so closely over it that her penri-tassgis all but touched it.Ever And anon she woulu lean back in her chair regarding the cornice fixedly.\u201cAs though,\u201d Mre re paid, \u201cshe saw daturas growing on it.And ¥ it were not such an entertainment to watch Caroline excogitatinx pn biden.\u201d she added to Ann, \u201cshe Teally at times would be very dull company.\u201d Mrs.Bellaire hersell was as usual doing nothing at all.\u201cI acquire merit best, you see,\u201d she explained.\u201cby simply adnfiring every.| body.Mise Gellatly ha» been reading theosophy to me.and thoughts are real things, They do any amount of mood, 1 find theosophy a great comfort.\u201d She ant therefore twiddling ther rings on her idle fingers and watching Ann.who, glad to be fresd from the boredom of draughts with Mien Midpr- shaw for that night at least, hard at work od & muffler.\u201cShe is pale\u201d sald Mrs.Bellnirs to herself.\u201cand she has dark shadows under her eyes.No womder with such a coffusion In her love affairs.Heaven bend a climax sons 006 WAY a the other! .One thing 1 am certain whea things do straighten out 1 shal} at once tell Fred frankly what [ think of him.Masquerading here, masquerading there! .No other aunt of à V.C.would stand it.While ns'for his keeping the thing a secret that be ig upparenily thinking he ia hiding\u2014i( these old fossils were not ail ae bilnd «3 bats they would see as plainly how it la with him ee though he Went down on: his knees to her in front of them.\u201d (To be Coptinued.) The proué rémembranee of thelr vier toriest Waosnnot follow where their thoughts al acend.Te vo sen helghts of valer or of n: We sannot Uuoe (he way thelr dreams AR, otf nd.- and ala our wi fruitless of ar we feign u r companionehip, Uatit « Thea ne ind, never can - whelly ou again! = 7 ours \u201cOANADIAN BORMS OF ŸHE GREAT WAR\" .When the \u201cOxford Boek of Cann.dias Verse\u201d was publisted some few vonce ago.mauy peopie wèré surpriand fickiges ones io epand their strength and énergy in helping others! Bryan of all men! At last the dean spoke slowly, gravely: \u201c1 must kmow what this means, Bryan\u201d \u2018Then with a sudden glligmer of understanding, \u201cDid you ase the doctor?™ Bryan nodded.If it were possible, the gloom oa his face deepeped.\u201cWhat did he say \u201cHe aald\u2019\u2014sirangely enough, Bryan's voice changed auddenly and for « moment he apoke as cleariy as ever, but s0 absorbed was he in what he was saying that he did not notice it\u2014\"he sald t [ must make other plans for my lite, for I could never a public upéaker\u2014never preach.\u201d He | tor- ward now, à strange gleam lgaping Into his ayes till they glowed like coals In his white drawn face, \u201cDo ynu undérstand, professor, what that meant to me?When | was a little tough on these city streets with no people and no hdihe and no unything, | was made to believe that there was n great and good God\u2014thal 1{e loved ux, every last one of us and that the most splendid thing a fellow could do Wan to apond his whaje life in serving that lod, and lending a hand to those who needed help, 1 vowed I would do that.You've never been a stray boy of the astrpets.proféasor\u2014you can't imagine what it meant for such a boy to keep that vom It'meant fighting the devil In myself every waking hour.It meant denying myself ubout everything that other boys delighted in.It meant working day in and day out, year in and year out, and never spending a nickel on the things | wanted as puch as the other fellows \u201cwanted \u2018em, and being called a fool for my pains.And when 1 grew older, still believing in that God Td heard about, 1 set myeell to got an education so that I could be a minister and tell other peoplé about Him\u2014poor street walfs like myself, nnd worse.Maybe you think you cap imagine what it cost me\u2014this education\u2014but you can't.The long years 1 grubbed and slaved to carn a living' and went to night-school and tried to study when [ +ras so dead tired I'd fall asleep over my books\u2014the years it took me to save up even the little T had when I came here to college.I could have saved ui more in much less time, but I thous! 1 must pleass Him by helping other fellows poorer than | was.Work! U1 hadn't beer strong as à horse, 1 never could have pulled through and «ot veady (or college.You kmow how It bas besa these four years pasi; you know Low I've worked to pay expensen and keep up with my classe, and still give time to fellows that I thought needed help!\u201d He had poured out ail this with a sullen passion like a dull, smouldering fire bursting into sudden vivid flame.As he paused the dean nodded, his kind eyes full of concern and compassion.\u201cYou, Bryan,\u201d he said.\u201c1 have watched you through these four years, and Lave felt that the dear oid college was honored iu.counting you among her students,\u201d : Bryan's fierce eyes did not soften.His sombre gaze rent n thrill of dread through the dean's heart.He would have said more.but Bryan, paying no heed, swept on with Incrensing bitterness.\u201cI made up my mind that I'd give my whole life to the wervice of thal God-\u2014Who doesn't exist: that I'd be a minister and Jive among the poorest in some great city: and | meant to work my way through the seminary as 1 had worked it through college.Is it a small thing\u2014I ask you, prafessor » do you count It a small thing for a young man to give (realy his whole life to the service vf a God that he believes in.and to bis fellowmen: \u2018to put aside his own ambitions, his owa plessure\u2014all the things that other men want and work for\u2014do you count that a small thing \u201cNo, I count it a great thing\u2014e splendid thing,\u201d the professor answered quickly, \u201cand God never fails to accept and bless a life so consecrated to Him; to others than If your own chosen plan pllation of Canadian verse was posal- be.\u201cCanadian Poems of the Great War® includes many \u2018names not kaown when the \u201cOxford Book it Canadian Verse\u201d was published.The | Inspiration and incentive of the great war came later.It ls a cause-for national pride that such an\u2019 anthology as this can be complied.ne practice of giving & brief biographical note undef cach author's name te a thoughtful and pradtical aid to the r One's first impulsa.on picking: up this volumsy is to turn to the table of contents to learn if his favorita pieces of Canadian war\u2019 verse are included.If one has anything of a discriminating taste in these he wil not be disappointed.The range is a wide one, well chosen and a catholic taste In the selection has been exercised.It must \u2018have given Mr.Garvin much satisfaction to be anle to luclude in his coilection\u2014as Canadians may wa not say \u201cour® cellection\u2014such of world-wide recognition as \u201cIn Flanders\u2019 Fields\u201d and \u201cThe Anxious Doad,\u201d and he must have been strongly tempted to Include KH.W.Lilliard's \u201cAmerica's Answer,\u201d published in the New York \u201cEvening Posthl A (fitting reply from a mighty nation to\" the | dead of Flandery fields.since tt could pgarcely be included in a Canadian détnoloër.we may perhaps he Justified in quoting.it here: \u201cRest yé in peace, ye Flanders Geud: The fight that ye wo bravely led We've taken up.\u2018And we will keep True faith with you whe Île aaleep.WIth each à cross to mark bis bed, And poppies biowing overhead, Where once his own lifeblood ran red.So jet your rest be sweet and deep.- .in Flanders fields, Foar net that yo have dled for naught, The Torch ye threw to us if caught, Toa militon hands will wid it Nigh And Freedom's light shall\u2019 never die.We've learned the lesson that ye taught .Je Flendorr Roig\u201d A charneterietic bit of Canadian verse le that entitled \u201cWar Shaped Destiny.\u201d by Mites Langart.\u201cI mover thought thaatrangs roman- ilo War | \u2018 Would ohapé 7:7 life -und plan my destinri - .\u2018Pactéh in mf ohilthosd's isa + ve - vaon bis cas Ang grisly steeds flash grimly thwart the sky.Ta nor tehoid nm vaster, mightier, otrite Than acheed on the pinias of ssupdiag Tron .Defeats sad riumphs, death, wou 4, laughter, life, All @ingled in à strange compl , aitoy.! view the panorams in © (ranët te flad the\u2019 cuob à ereditable epm.Of or.a vob 0ali .1.Wilh & seared joy, MINIRD'S LININENT for Spanish Flu Coughs - Calls Ee \u2014\u2014 WAIT'S NOMEORATNIC SPECIFIC Cures effected by them are radical and certain.They do not cure one disease and produce avother.They will cure a larger percentage of cases And in less time than eny medicine known.Waits Rheamatie Cure .+» - \" Nerveus Debility Gare ./ 1,36 \u201c Appeadieitis Cure .4.00 \u201c Ringwerm Cure .8 \u201c Ecsema Care .140 These remedies will be sent postpaid {to any address on receipt of price.WAIT HOMEOPATHIC PHARMACY Arnptior, Outarto.Send for k'anual (fres) .but.my boy, He may have other plans toe you\u2014plans which will make your life richer and happier and more useful had been carried out.\u201d \u201cNo, professor,\u201d Bryan's wyrds drop.pod slowly, one by one mow.\u201cno! It the God I've belleved In really existed, He'd never lot a fellow trust Him asd work for all these years, and then {ling him aside like an old shue, just had made of himself, to Him.No, the kind of God I've balleved In couldn't do that, It's all a mistake.There isn't any such God.and I've found it out.Now I'm going to live ss other men do\u2014 take all the good I can find in life, whenever and wherever [ can get it, and Jet the other fellows look out for themselves.I'm giad I've told you this I'm bo hypocrite, and I'd rather have you know just whers 1 stand and how 1 feel\u201d .\u201cBryan,\u201d the dean leaned forward and spoke with grave impressivenees, \u201cyou have not been mistaken all these years.The God you bave believed \u201cin does exist.and He will not let you eut your- æeif off from His love.He may lt you wander away froin Him for a time, but He will surely bring you back.{ belleve\u2014I am sure\u2014thaf in the years \u2018to come you are to do for Him even more than you have done in the \u201d Bryan's answer to that wa jet \u2014a laugh that was sadder hh tears, but he spoke no word.\u2018hd Wain\"Fose and held out his band, «ini 0 (To be Continted) +ia:1nt \u2014\u2014\u2014 ;, The vicar who sul the, rer in four words, \"Tanks, Yanks, spanks, thanks\u2019 might bave | banks \u2018News\u2019 Indianapolis \u2018 : For I have breathed in .eplc and romance, Have lived the dreams that thrfiled ge as à boy.How sound the ancient saying is fer- .sooth How weak is Fancy's glosa of Fact'e stera truth!\u201d , * .This poss was found among Majer LangstatCs effects at his death.In addition to Majer Lasgstiatt and Cel.John McCrae, the author of \u201cln Flanders\u2019 Fields,\u201d another poet ing thts .volume, who made the supreme oe fice, is Lieut, Bernard Freeman .ter, the author of \u201cA Canadian Twilight and Other Poems\u201d Some of this author's poems are given in this- volume-a lyric entitled \u201cThe Poplars\u201d Is one of the most beautiful, the last lines of which have \u20ac hetic note when it is remembered t he s killed in action in France.\u201cAnd nc ! sing the poplars; and whea 1 come to die I will not took for jasper walls, but.\\ cast about my eye For a row of windblown poplars against aa English shy\u201d There is not much suggestion of tlag waxing ia these Canadian poems, not as much as there is in an English anthology of war poems.It Is ehar- acteristic of the Canadian people that the more abstract phrases of the war are dwelt upon.A remarkable feature is the entire absence, or almost entire absence of poems antlel ng the ra.turn of our soldiers.No songuat victory appedr, and only a couple of peams bearing upon the soldiers\u2019 return.Perhaps that Is why Mr.Gar.vin Included a poem by Isabella Valasey Crawford.| \u201cA welcome?There is nat a babe 4t the breast won't spring at the roll of the drums Tht heralds them home\u2014the heen, long cry in the alr of, They Come! They Come!\u201d : \u201cCanadian Poems of the Great War\u201d was sent tu press hafore the armistice was signed, aad It be that the emotton arising from the general rec.turn of our secldiers will add many notable contributions te this already weighty collection.Tru hundred and twenty from seventy-three poets are te found ia thin volume.sad they are truly representative of the poetic ex.; pression of & young nation fisding self involved In tremendons evonis.The liberal, yot discriminating.eeler.© tion made by Mr.Garvin and pub lished in an attractive form the approciaieé by Canadian readers.ABD \u201cCanadian Poems of the Great War\u201d Choern and sited by Joh W.Garvin.Published by MeClelland and Miewart, Terpule Price $3.40 when he was offering all he had\u2014all he _ « \u2018 4 < 4 i * Ww _ pu wed + Aw Ah à \u201c0e \\ FEBRUARY 4, 1919 fHE MONTREAL WEEKLY WITNESS, A Magazine Page For Home-Makers \u201c \u2018OUR HOME CLUB NO PEACE FOR MANY POSSESSORS OF SURPLUS MATERIALS.\\ The \u201cBulletin\u201d of ghe Canadian Red Cress Sesioty, quite on its own apdrt fram any expression of the Central Counelt er rospaneibiiity the Exssutive Committes, wishes te thousands of yards of striped flannajette, many thousands of peunds of grey yarn, as well as flannel and kersey and material of the sert.I is really wory distrasaing, yet en the ether hand it is net quite distressing enough te warrant any feeling of regret that\u2019 the armistice was signed before the material hall been used.of admitting such a regret er of supgesting that the Peace Conferense, or even the Gevgrnment ét Canads be asked to take into serious oen- sideration the inognveniense which fs being caused many workers whe are not quits sure hat steps to take te make use of their surpilis supplies, yet at the came time these yards and peunds which were eon- sidered sush a clever business deal only a few short menths age bring » negative element inte the peace rejoisings of the Red Cress branches that depresses.It is very distressing: nevertheless after all it is not as important as the fast that Peace har some, \u201cIn all serisusneas the Central Suciety has tried, as far Muimanty possible to help local Societies to adjust themesives and their materials te the changed conditions.veritable blessing in the way of keeping the workers empleyed wher- aver there was fear that the organization might busy, and in using up materials an hand.No mere overseas unless at the special reqieit of .the Commissioner, may require considerable assistance.Crees supplies stored in Canada.Who san say exaotiy the future needs of the hospitals in Canada?A very simple consideration of tim faets will shew that lt is impossible te say: Continue te make thie, discen- tinue that, eto.and feel sure that the rule will hold.The meet autheritative statement which can be made, beth en the wubjest of Red Cress supplies and Field Comferte is the following: SUPPLIES AS MADE BY BRANCHES AND AUXILIARIES.(a) For England and France\u2014Red Crosse-According to information ner overseas, the store of hospital supplies and garments of all kinds, including socks, already shipped ts likely -to be sufficient for the needs of the work so long as sick and wounded Canadians are overseps.No more shipments of these will be made except on request of the Commissioner.C.W.C.A~On the advice of the secretary in England.no more wool- lon goods wilt be shipped overseas, but shipments of such articles as stationery, maple sugar, chdcolate, ste.will continue, for which, as-well us for other undertakings, the Association will require cash centribu- tions no long as the Canadian Military Hospitals overseas are in oper- received from the Chief Co: alien (b) Fer Siberia\u2014Red Tross\u2014Hoopital supplies will bo needed for Siberia so long as Canadian troops are stationed (here, and the Cana\u2019 dian Red Cross has undertaken to assist the British Red Cross units working among the Csecho-Slovaks + been asked to make regular shipments of hospital garments, and Manitoba Is shipping dressings for this purpose, C.W.C.A\u2014Large shipmepts of comforts have be forwarded to the warehouse of the As- Siberia, and will continue sotiation in Viadivostok so long ast to serve in Siberia.(6) For Military Hospitals in Canada, Work at Capadian Ports and oa Trains\u2014The Red Cross\u2019 Soclety has undertaken to systematise its work in Canada 20 as to be In fact, the Army-Medical Service in Canada \u2026 amd district and some city branches will need @ standing reserve store ?ot supplies upon which the medical autherities of the district may indent and\u2019 from which the n \u2026 visitors, may, be met.as gd)-For Refugoes\u2014The IMed C aah 9 3 patat during No: a ot mon-combatants) as a result of war.terials used in erdinary Red Cross work are suitable.and htanches aro advised to make such garments ns will use up materials on hand rathor jan tb epënd money on buying new material te)\" Thatructions to Knltters\u2014As many knitters need fustructions as that .coarser grades be used for sweaters, scarves, caps and mitis: the better grades for socks amd for - pmputatiea (or stump) socks for which there 1s à large demand.These 7 ,80ods, if sent in to the Red Cross, will be divided among the various classes of work desFibed above in proportion to their needs.Hospital visiting will \u201cmost chiefly concern those * branches situsted in hospital centres Full directions covering all pial service, together with the necomary directions and forms for the \u201ceen nou à \u2014 \u2018te the use of yarn, it is = visitors and the office records have werk is.of & more or less The future work of t the Lines airendy established.There \u2018peace policy will bo planned which will keep the Society in & more @ .tess active state.The Central Council wil mest again on February 35th.while: the\u201d Annual Mesting of the Society will be held on February 37th, USING UP YARN.Knitted Childron\u2019s Bennets-\u2014ilet up sinty atitohe on No.10 needies, any rather cogrse wool can be used.for 4% niches, bind off 30 stitchek at\u2018each end and pontiaus to knit the centro 30 stitches for about another aides of the two right ansief This may seen a rather unshapely lobk- ing bonnet, but it will turn out all right.If wool is coarse and oily, better wash now before putting on the berder.Then with No.18 nesdies \u2018asd softer wool, a little finer.if possible, and of coitrasting celor, take up round the.neck about 66 stitches, you get about the right effect.Knit inches, bind off.Make à similar border round the face ia à similar way and bind off.Biripes of different boors Way be introduced Into these derders to give variety and to use ep moraps of wool.The Serders draw ta the bonnet round face and neck and make it snlg sad warm.Xe wobl harsh and mesh open.a lining flannelette will improve, Strings may be made of odd bits of silk or may ~ te knitted from wéoi to mated.The above makes bonnet \u2018fur child of about two years.Variations in oise variety that will sult the many sises of children needing comfert und protection Steckings.\u2014~All sises of chiléren'd stockings cas be used.but ase with souks, thess \u2018should be made by shpped, properly proportioned and neatly made cede of the individual\u201d woldlers as wecertstwed by } (hing civilians tn the warrigé countries, sulferieg \u2018(though specialired nature, the Red Cross is not definitely settled beyond condele \u201cwith the ewners of many Of course ne Branch weuld dream * as it was The refuges relief werk proved a lose .interest if net supplies will ge Siberia There are comparatively few Red a articles Alberta and British Columbia have \u2018already been sent to he Canadian Contingent continues as well as in name, the nuxiliary of as it is overseas.Each Province Society has appealed to Ita \u2026 December and Januesy (jn the For this purpose most of the ma lines of hos- been sent out.This new phase of is, however, every indication that a Kait back snd forth garier \u2018stitch 4% Inches and biad off.Sew up the drawing in at the centre baok till garter stitch for abowt 1 or 1% made of mcraps of ssteen or sven of wool or nesdies will give just'tie the expert knitters, and be well MISS PATILLAS remain some \u201cSUCH-AS-I-HAVE\u201d BOX er =, - ' (of Katherine M.Barton.) Mise Patil wes à bit hard ef bear.* #t'g rel kind of you\" faltebed Mise Patilis, reaching with ens shaky hand for the brand new box frhile with the other she whesied forward her rolling.hair.\u201cBut what am { to de with 17° she queried, with \u20ac dubleus glance at hor.own hoipissaness.\\ \u201cWhy, (HI K \u2018fer the heathen, of course, It's easy as pie, and no and of Tant\u201d gushed Mrs.Dedlares.1 just Feep mine on the mantel, and I make overybedy that comes aleng stop aM empty their purse of its pennies.ifs amasiag how quick it fllle\u2014the box, 1 mean\u2014and you know, one never mies ee ponnies at all\u201d ashe rattiqé.on.\u201cThey do ssh à 106 of goad te the Donihen, tec.Wir, were gming te ma unprotèunes- \u2018Yes, of course.What olen sould you put in a mite-box?Is It possible.Miss Patille\u201d she went on locrequ- leusiy, \u201cthal you have never Gilled » mite-bex?; .\u201cLaw, yom onlla, Tve filled many s one ia my day\u201d The fsded voles brightened reminieseatly, then took on » tons, \u201cDut wet with pennies.\u201d Mrs, panaroo Pe Vive hor brows uuestiioningly, an ns rage ovoded: : \u201c\u2018iDiiver and gold for the Lord: 0e8- por and nickel for self) those were the words.| sain see theds now ia silt lettering, right above (he allt.| doen't telleve thoush | wver filled one really full.Bmpenoes dida\u2019t grow as plenti- fil a» blusherrios, and vs for gold why, that was Hho ihe oentury- plant: lifetitne.1 mever In alt my days put in but one, and that was a birthday hal(-soversiga.\u201d \u2018 Hero Mra.DeMarco glanced ab.atractediy at the clock, and ross to 80 ¢ \u201cI had no idea It was 50 !ate.Goodbye, dear Miss Patilla.I do hope the rheumatism will sodn be better.\u201d and bestowing a kiss in (hé holiow of the old lady's cheak she swept ostenta- | tiously out of the room.When the \u2018door had closed, Mise Pa- tilla picked up \u2018the little box and scritinised 1t%thoughtfully, perplexed.\u201cI oughtn\u2019t to have taken it.\u201d she sighed.\u201c1 bad \u2018no right to.The very idea! Me promising to fHI n ruite box! Of course, [ could ask Jim for money,\u201d sha reflected, \u201chut | wouldn't have the heart to.It must be a preity tight acruach for him-\u2014a man with a family of Ms own\u2014having to pay Ms old aunt's way here at the hospital.But Jim's that good, he keeps writing the nurses to get everything [ need and charge it up to him.He'd be sending me a hit of spending money too, it ever he dreamed I'd be having any way to use it.But suppose [ did huve a piece to drop in now and then, thst would be Jim giving it, not me.\u201d She set aside the little box, as if to postpone the perpiexity.und taking up her Bible begun to.read where she had loft off Homehow she could not get in Her thoughts, in wpite of herself, would go sliding off to the problem of the thank offering.\u201cThee ought to be some way,\u201d she kept reading between, the lines.At length.her «yen fell on & marked passage.\u201c \u2018Sliver and gold have I none\u201d she began, \u201cWhy, that's me! and the rest of it?but such as I have give I thee.\u201d She bad known thé passage always Now, however, it struck her with new force.\u201cWell, I think that can be me too!\u201d she cried with suddea resolve.\u201cTr Peter could give without allver and gold.I reckon 1 can, too.Now, my \u2018such-as-I-have\u2019 box, you just stand there and make ug your mind to stop grumbling.You jist wait.The Lord's going to let this stiff old hand (Ui.you with something,\u201d maybe a whole sight better than silver and gold.\u201d The days lengthened Into weeks, and not one visible offering had found its way into the \u2018such-as-I-have' box.\u201cThis won't do,\u201d declared Miss Pa- tia on the day when the thankoffer- ings were to be handed in.\u201cLook at thas slit.It's as new as the hour it was cut.Not a Jingte inside, either.I tell you, Patilln French, there's got to be something heftier in there than prayers.They don't count.How can they.when they don't stay inside?Now wouldn't we get downhearted,\u201d she mused with a whimsical shrug, \u2018i they did stay?and wouldn't the heathen havo a time of it, if they had to wait for our prayers till the mite.boxes are opened, and the whole budget could be forward?\u201d She smiled indulgently at fer vagrant fancy, thes turned with abrupt determination to the question tn hand.\u2019 \u201c2 haven't a thing.\u201d The words were emphatic, final \u201cNot a thing\u2014but rheumatinn,\u201d she added wryly, as a sharp twinge warned her that \u2018this was going to be one of her bad days.\u201cAbd I couldn't give that to the hea- them.Why wot?she reasonad with an impulsive little chuckle.\u201cIt wouldn't do them any harm, and it would be giving ma one good day\u2014\" Here her reverie was broken into by the entrance of a ~white-oapped attendant, who announced: \u201cRev.James B.Mattison™ \u201cShow him in\u201d she ordered delightedly, \u201cbut first smooth down my skirts and makes sure my hair lsat rumpled and hand me a fresh pocket- handkerchief.\u201d \u201cGood morning, Miss Patilia™ The voice was cordial - the bhaad-clasp hearty.\u201cHow are you fesling this fine morning?asked the reverend gentleman, seating himself opposite the wheeled chair.\u201cJust fine\u201d replied the little\u2019 oid lady with all the sprighiliness sbe voblé ccajure up.- \u201cGood!\u201d exciaimed the man.\u2018\u201cGoeod:\u201d he repeated with renewed emphasis \u201cBut what bave you done with the pain?Boxed it, eh?\u201cThat's just what I have\u201d she eon.ded truthful; \u201cA wise di tion to make of it.\" he agreed.\u201cBy the way, we received thres new members - into the church vesterday\u2014all from the handle factory district.\u201d The shut-in was all alert, afl the talk ran om, till she had gleaned her fill.Not & happening from the newest name on the cradle roli to the far away Intercets in mission lande wns the pastor allewed .to withhold.His visits always closed with prayer.Before kneeling, he hesitated: \u201cla (here anything special\u201d he inquired la deferential tone, \u201cnsy request you would like us to include + the prayer?| \u201cI've been thinking.\u201d whe looked into his face earnestly, \u201chow I'd ltke you to put in à word for the then.Being és you don\u2019t have to menilon my rheumatism this time.couldn't you prays bit for Kores instead of for me?And it yoy don't mind specifying to the Lord, Just ask Mim to diess the new hoopital\u2014-the où where our missy- sous are going\u201d was an enrnest, deep-rooted prayer, 8 prayer that voiced Mise Patifla's own heert-yonrninge.fhe foit satisfied it would call down biessinge che commented, \"i'll never reach the heathen, and the prayer has landed there already.That prayer helped ms.too.I thought 1 dida\u2019t have anything Jingty to give, bt it ail came over mé Just as plain, while he was praying.And I'm going te Go it.There, now!\u201d Be saying he wacizeped the sameo at her throat and held it for & moment in hor agitated hand.~% was Auf Patille.\u201d she went on maditativelr.\u201cand it muet have costa Jot in those days If 4 (an't silver and gold, it can bé for some maybe of béth.No wwnen%t it lucky when | gave Jan children my other that 1 anved (his to be buried in?Um thinking it will do a sight more good Ih that Keres hospital thas it would in my eoffin.\u201d The sanimble fingers vero à Jens Ume In widening the slit.and sul) loager in pencilling the lines\u2014for sach It didn\u2019t bleom mere than ence ta à comiributios waa 0 be sssompanied by upon the lest sonls aeroun the sea\u2014and| à of cold white sues.ems table.upon the afteçnoon's Praise offering.sat of lemon-juice, one table: ses, spoonful of saisd oil one teaspoonful Whoa the minister had gone N©lof derapeé onion-juiss, two tabie- drew out Nitle amply \u201csuch-as-I- spoonfuls of chopped parsley, two have\u201d dox, eyed tt pitrinsty.lteaspoenfuls of grated horweradish, \u201cTm gisd | put the rhoumatism in\u201d sait, poppor.and sugar te Luste, one « versé of Rcripture\u2014\"Mliver and gold have I none; but such us | have give | thee.\u201d Both, however, were at length achleved; and tha cameo pin, together with the siip of paper, lay safe within the box awaiting Mrs.DeMarco.That lady did not come, but sent instead her little boy.Misg Patilla fell to wondering with a vagie uneasiness ff he would get the fireusure to headquarters without any mishap.A few hours latbr Mrs.DeMarce burst in excitedly.\u201cOh, Miss Pailila!\" she bubbled, fairly somethering bewildered Invalid with kisses, \u201cYow just ought to have been there!\u201d \u201cThen you had a guod mootiug dear?\u201cGoo! Well | should say so, It was Food.hetter, best!\u201d rang out the pretty voice exultantiy.) \u201cAnd ail because of you!\u201d \u201cMet\u201d querted Miss Patills.uncom- prehend.nély.\u201cYes, you!\" she repeated with an ecstatic hug.\u201cIt lecked as if we weren't going to have any kind of a meeting.Everything dragged, and the boxes weren't any of full.When they had stacked wp (he pennies and counted them, there wasn't but £2.Think of that! For a praise offering.too! 1 was feeling downright ashem- ed of myself.and ashamed of the society, and I guess the rest were feel- \u2018ing that way.toc.\u201cThen Nat came tearing in with your box.and Mrs.Brownleigh called us to order while she opened it\u2014the box, ! mean.We could have cried\u2014and perhaps some of us did\u2014whaen that cameo fell out.Then, when she read your verse.we just looked from our little pititul heap of eolns tn your big beau- titul gift.and couldn't ray a word.\u201cAt last Mrs.Brownieigh spoke up and said, if no ome objected.she wanted to buy that pin, 1 shouldnt wonder if some of the rest of us wanted it as bad as she did; but we kept still and let her have firwt option.It's well we did, 100, for she insisted it would be worth £10 te her, think of it! and wrole out a cheque then and there.\u2018Eight pounds for the stone itself.\u2019 she explained, \u2018and the other two for an additions! thank offering.\u2019 , Mise Patilla threw up her hands In unbelieving protest, but Mrs.Deliarco rushed on ressuriogl.\"Weil, no sconer Mrs.Brown- leigh put dows ber pen, than up jumped Mre McCaslin and wrots out a cheque for £2.Thea Mrs Lavelle up and laid one sovereign on lop of the two cheques.\u201cThis started us all to fumbling in our purses\u2014everybody oarries a little Joose change.you know\u2014and we didn't stop either till there wasn't & car fare left How much do you think we bad?Just guess.\u201d Miss Patilla couldn't imagine.\u201cTwelve pounlis! Think of it! And with the two cheques and the gold piece.twenty-seven pounds three and fivepence.But even then Mra Brown.leigh wasn't satisfied.\u2018Let's make it thirty\u201d she said, snd laid down the difference.Thew