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---..j.-._ ...\-a-' ---a and `Belgium, are not any more likely to agree on methods of` doing that than upon the questions which brought the thirteenth conference on the `reparations matter to an ab- r'upt but not -unforseen close. The point on which the conference split was the British "insistence upon ' a moratorium" for Germanv as a pre-~ cedent to any further negotiations. France, through her premier, refus- ed consent unless guarantees ._were given by Germany. Some comment- ators prefer to use thesword taken instead of .given in respect to the guarantees that France wants. - What the British government fears isvthat matters have reached a" stage e T F on a Business Basis _ _ HE first step in put- I ting your farming - _ operations on a business basis is to open a bank account. V _ This not only enables you to make your pay- ' .1ner_its by cheque, thus _ givingyou a permanent V record of every `transacf ' tioii, `but it gives your business contact with a Banker whose advice and . assistance will surely be useful to you from year to year if you are ambi- `t10uS to make the most of , A your farm. ' 0 Try the Bank of [Toronto - Manager for service of" this kind. Capital - $5,000,000 Reserves - $7,000,000 in a financial and economic way. and that France will make some dramatic I move that will precipitate a situation more dangerous than any yet faced sincethe Peace Treaty was signed. The reoccupation of the Ruhr would probably be the practical step that would most please French sentiment just now. The agreement for the use of German material and labor in the devastated areas of France. in part payment of reparations, has broken down. The opposition of French manufacturers and contractors was responsible. What France wants is cash; she cannot face` many more budget deficits of magnitude. She believes that Germany is `capable of paying in cash much more than is de- manded. A government that would oppose the popular idea of Germ- {any s ability to meet the war pay- , [ ments would not last long in France know, The situation is a serious one i T '1 not for France alone, but for the fut- _ 'ure of the entente_ I `E . I . K 0 ~- v ' . 1 Italian Govt : Firm Stand i ~ B . . _ The Italian governmentpmust feel TH R ' that it has the affairs of the country . well in hand since its recent firm att- ` itude against disturbers in many pro- .. M vinces. It has just issued a decreel . " ` `-' penalizing fifty thousand railway- , Soft Coal` Situation Better would present obstacles physically men who took part in the last general Soft coal miners of the United 'impo_ssible_ to over-rideias quickly as strike. `The punishments range fro`m States whohad been on strike since the 1mDatIe_nce` of the people would suspension to dismissal. the heaviest _ 115 HA1-`TORONTO . BARRIE - ALLANDALE April ldin resistince toha wlage cut,i dmalld- Di1n31!Ei<:iStbI-i1lB`A9X3tCl_3ed against E11050 returne to wor at t e 0 cl scale. W 0 a_ 3' n_P31' in D1'9V1011S em- They agreed the operators to set Railways `withold Cuts OIlStl`al3l0!lS. Since the Of the war up machinery for a new wage" scale InCaI~]ada the railwa outlook is Italy has had _a succession of labor . effective April 131;. 1923 and to Dre. 3 `troubles in which the general strike much brighter by reason of the action x has been a powerful Weapon in the . vent future tiemps in the industry. f le roads in rescinding the wage 1 hands of agitators The government] The latter is in many respects the - - . A . d ctions of sho men which were , , _ ,, , most important part of the agre_e-,,1;,e,,,.unn,_,,,;,,n,_, ,_..L ,..._i_ I_`__ihaS come thimm-h... m- ...+i..... .. __....._L Tl I referred, to, Britain, France, Italy l` where Germany will collapse utterly . Coal` 1 in resistance to a wage cut,: returned work the old sealer] with machinerypfor in important ofthe agree- ment. If by mutual arrangement by the two parties most directly con- cerned a long term of industrial peace can be assured, the strike will not have been without incalculable bene-! fits to millions of people who were} not parties to the quarrel. The settle- i ment of the soft coal strike paved the wav for nnm-p in" nfhnv A;...\..+,.... Thursday, August 24, 1922 _ ..........._._..- .2 EEI U`vuv` ---w-uu nvnvnw IIEIIC VV IIII .I`raI1ce inion of a France to negotiate a new trade ag- . Fhe faZ?' "Hon. W. s. Fielding is going to} l at first } reement between that country and; n for_ a = Canada. There may `also be negotiat-I co__ntm- l ions with some ofthe smaller nations. w1ll be { France abrogated all trade treaties.` of `the a after the war, that with Canada being I d States E cancelled amongst nthmr-c A wmvo rm ,,,- ,...-.,.,. gun. "at, yuan wwu uauaua uelngg tates amongst others. A more or- Will less tentative treaty replaced it. The ` 1ov'e- 5 United States in a new trade agree- now ment with France gets some advant- is at ,3 ages that this country does not enjoy. ll aeing` i It is hoped that these will be extend-1 ider- I ed also to Canada. Mr. Fielding and ' re to I other" Canadians will also attend the 5 `Sent ' September assembly of the League ition of Nations at _ Geneva where some! .._. matters of importance will be dis-; _" _cussed, especially the modification 3 of the famous article 10 of the Peace! ii Treaty binding` the signatories noti V only to respect " but to "defend each` ' others boundaries. A V There is a note of pessimism in all . ithe dispatches regarding the break- down of the allied conference on German reparations held in London. , We have reached an accord to4ms- lunderstand each other was the wayl in which Premier Poincare of France" n nauuc VTGIIIS uasn I put the situation prior tohis depart- ure for Paris. Headded that a runt-I ure. had not taken place and that the [ four poWe1's which had been repres-! ented at the conference could con-[ "tinue to act together to enforce the` Versailles Treatv. But the powers! impossible i impatience` l idemand. I , ..--vuo--so This ' ,ments giving you permanent} record `transac- tion, but gives business Banker assistance be to to V321 `Inn awn- ---`-3 I operations basis a account. France Wants Cash Owned 100' British Newspapers For years to come Lord North- cliffe s name will be the centre of controversy . At fifty-seven years of age it had seemed that `there `were many years before him, but the trem- endous energy; of the man took .its comparatively early toll. Whatever may be the verdict of history as to his .......e...., was Luz` ule establishment of a national wheat marketing agency by concurrent legislation of at least two of the provinces and the Domin- ion. The collapse of the project will undoubtedly be a disappointment-to many of the growers. This will be none the less keen because of the fact that almost simultaneously with the announcements mentiqned wheat for ` September delivery fell belowa doll- ar. in Winnipeg and Chicago. The most importantfactor in the price is ' no doubt the absence of export de- 3' mand. The railway troubles have al- so had some effect. The falling off in the export demand brings home to . the people of this continent the hope- less financial and economic muddle that exists in Europe. `There are un- doubtedly several countries there which would place large orders for wheat if they had either money or credit. So long as they have neither they cannot be expected to enter"- the market for the agricultural products I I of other countries. With wheat at present prices it would be impossible ' for a wheat board or any other or- ganisation here or across the line to guarantee a better minimum price be- cause the fundamental conditions are as stated. Truly the conditions in. one -quarter of the world have more . than ever _a bearing on those else- where. ' DIR! e\ ,fby the premiers of Alberta and S; .;katchewan that they have abandon- ted hone: nf nrcranicinn o u.1.,... 1:-.....1 ynau.'ut:w'cul mat; mey nave abandon- I ed hope of omanising a wheat board .to `handle this year's crop, has been Idiscounted. Manitoba followed in the same strain. All three provinces have notified Ottawa to" the effect that they either have dropped the idea or have not taken action upon it. The plan under a measure adopted at the last session of the Dominion Par-V liament, was for the establishment of national whpnf mg-..lm+:..... ....-..,,-- nuv vv Ilcl. uuaru .' For some time the announcement I ( by the Sas- katchwn flnlv Ian-urn AL-v--J-- cvcL_yWHt:l'e mere IS 1` I and des11`*fo1' peace. I an: an Ian UILUIIIIUFI - In a crucial hour Irel_and has lost 2' , Arthur Griffith, one of her greatest `and soundest leaders. He was often` described as the father of the Sinng (Fem, but he was for a peaceful set-` I tlement of Irish troubles. and did his utmost to `bring that -about; His] Lldeath after a brief illness was ail shock to all Southern Ireland and was "received with keen regret in the j;North and in England. Griffith was i j'more nearlystolidly British. in char- lacter than`any of the noted men of ;the Sinn Fein movement, and some of his Irish critics at "times referred to him as the stone image. But , he had great vision, deep courage and | abiding faith in the future of his be- {loved country. He was a firm be- lliever in the ultimate reconciliation iof the North and South. Fighting ibetween the Free State forces and the 1 Republicans still continues. It is im- ipossible to convince one s self that {the Republicans have any hope of :changing the -course in which politic- {al events in their country are now running. But they are doing griev- ous damage in' many towns, and leav- ing? a,memory of violence that will be execrated when the name of Griffith (is revered. Elsewhere `in the British Empire the Irish situation bewilders all who try to understand it. But everywhere there is an earnest hope , desirefor neace_ No Wheat Board THE BARRIE EXAMlNR ; where that his career was .one of the Naplen f Newspaperdom" to give V 4 rightful place among` the gjreat of the it has been beneficial or otherwise. British Empire, it is admitted every- I There was one other ,thing"about the ; most eXtl.a01.d]-na`1.y of modem timeS_ him one of hls manv popular titles--- . - . _ he .believed in the British -. Empire iiifiiihei3iWJ`n(}3f,sZ?3,e3fhh with a _PaSSina= dgvoltgon tgat left owned some one hundred.` British an 'mpl.eSS on a W 0 new `m newspapers and periodicals, and their ' iinfluence on the public mind was en- CW9 F0!` I-eDI'5V7 B ornious. It can be said of him that The claim is made at Vancouver he injected a pep into British jour- that a case of leprosy has responded nalism that it had never known. This to thevchaulmoogra oil treatment ad- [is not the place to argue as to whether ministered in the general hospital. to Lenrosv ? hospital, g_______._._, ,_,. .,-.... ovuab\;U never Ial satisfy-that s the reason. 1 everywhere--2 big plugs for 1 Some value! Some tobacco! ,_--_..-.. unnuu uuc uaue soon be discharged as cured. '1 4 ient, a Chinese woman, has bt ceiving the treatment . for months. Once the most dreac diseases, leprosy has been ui certain degree of control for siderable time. There are oth eases against which much he `has yet to be made and which 1 garded with moregeneral anxi< civilized nations than leprosy was. I ;33fri!.' _.-_.. such an extenf that the ..,...... L; J` ' . .....uu;ux JUL 31 6011-- There other dis- 1ich headway. !'e are re ' 2 general anxiety by leprosy even atmexit fo_17"s_even he dreaded of under a a con- Phppp grn A4-Ix..- .1-`- Page Elev en puxcu. .1118 pa-.- n, been re hf fun ....-.-... Datient will T};e hnnn 1-A ,. ayx a scuuus uue. ule Stl'll{e OI `tneiafterthev railway shopmen in the`Umted_Stat9s . so complicated matters that It Wlllhess tentat be a long time befor_e norm_al mov'e- St: ments pf coal from the mines = working, can be restored. This thatt phase that the general public is being hope( educated by sheer necessity to under- stand. Even if all the mines were Can; be running full blast at the_p1'esent' September moment, the transportation question ' Nation ...-..LL____