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Phone 393 2071 Britain Carries on Despite Drawbacks “England Not Going to the Dogs" Says Former Member of Parliament. "She Is Making a Fresh Start." Reoently there have been several questions and remarks made by readers of The Advance as to the situation in Great Britain. It is typically British that all the opinions are along the line that Britain still carries on. Th‘s tco, is the keynote of an article by P. W. Wilson. a former member of the Bri- tish House of Commons. writing in "Current History" 8. month ago. Mr. Wilson says:â€" There is an impression that the Briâ€" tish Empire is an ancient and venerable affair. Yet in an important sense. it is quite modern. A hundred years ago what ‘éould we have seen of the devel- Opment of Canada, Australia and New Zealand; the vast expansion cf terri- tory in Africa; the reorganization of Egypt. the Suez Canal; the annexation of India? The question whether an empire, thus mainly recent. is to be permanent, is not unfair. For thousands of years, the pages of history have been devoted to the rise of empires, their glorious culmination, and their ultimate disap- parance. If we reckon time by cen~ turies, what reason is there to suppose that the British will continue to hold territories as diverse as Kashmir and Canada, Gibraltar and Hongkong, the Khyber Pass and Labrador? Never has there been an empire so varied in its culture, so scattered in its area, so exposed along its “far-flung battle line," so ill defended by military forces. Britain's sovereignty itself was brought under rude discussion. Before the war the Parliament at Westminister was “Imperial” and exercised as ab- solutely right to legislate for the whole of the King‘s dominions. Today the authority of that Parliament, described no longer as Imperial, but as British only, is limited to Great Britain and -Isr hern Ireland. All the dominions enjoy a legislative and administrative ind-.ependence They have asserted. moreover, their right to appoint their own diplomatic represenWtatives also, to sign their own votes at Geneva, even if those votes be against the mo- ther country. Ireland has her own flag coinage, stamm and tariff, while South Africa indulges perennially in debates over independence. The only link between the dominions and Great Britain and each other is today the sovereignty itself; vested in the Crown, and this link is voluntary. There is another aspect of the case which is sometimes ignored. We hear much of what the dominions think about Great Britain. We seldom in- quire into Britain's thoughts about do- minions. to Lord MalmeSbtu'y that “these wret- ched colonies will all be independent too, in a few years. and are a milistone around our necks.“ There are, as there always have been, the Winston Chur- chills who vigorously uphold the ma- jesty of the Empire. But there are others who are “fed up" with dominions where it is taken for . granted that When the Shock of war fell pitilessly on Western civiliztaion, there were many who assumed that it must mean the end of a fabric so delicately adjus- ted and so vulnerable as the British Empire. Yet the war was won without the less of an inch of territory. On the contrary, the empire was extended by 800,000 square miles. and, with six votes in the League of Nations, Great Britain appeared to be at the very zenith of her power. But the war was a terrible surgery. Needing rest after it Great Britain emerged into a new and rapidly changing world. It was if she had stepped from the hospital into a subway at the rush hour. mIt is a familiar saying that the em- pire was conquered in a fit of absence of mind. As late as 1852. Disraeli, now regarded as an apostle of empire, wrote jesty of the Empire. But there are others who are “fed up" with dominions where it is taken for . granted that Britain will pay for the army and navy. yet while tariffs are made punitive ag- ainst British imports. A war-weary nation asks bluntly why Great Britain. with her own problems to solve should worry her mind over Jews and Arabs in Palestine.- their own ment in I ways to b Britain is can safely *hat, amid efl‘icient ci ancially and stands alone The population of Great Britain is now about 600 to the square mile. She has accumulated a colossal debt of $35,- 000,000 000, much of it at an interest of 5 per cent. She has developed so- cial services, including national insur- ance against sickness, old age and un- employment. A world-wide depression has sediously reduced the volume of her foreign trade. With the tonnage of the world’s mercantile marine treb- led by expansive building. there is a shortage of cargoes and one cf Britain’s main sources cf income is shot to pieces. The population of now about 600 to the has accumulated a oc 000.000 000, much of It is thus no wonder that there has been a momentary failure to balance either the budget or foreign trade, and that, despite drastic economies in ex- penditure, with an income of taxation to one third of the national income. sterling has been driven ofl the gold standard. Under the pressure of this taxation. ancestral estates, which have been held by famous families for many generations, are broken up and dukes cannot aflord to live in their castles. Pictures and art treasures are sold across the Atlantic. and statesmen. ac- safely gru , amid the cut civil s It is this 2r mind over Jews and Arabs in e. Let Iraq and Egypt settle m afiairs and let self-governâ€" India be granted. It has al- be borne in mind that Great is a country where the people ely grumble because they know .id the lubrications, a silent and civil service will simply “carry is this official momentum that maintaining the empire which no longer of “possessions." Fin- and industrially Great Britain Britain Carries 0n THE PORCUPINE ADVANCE, TIMMINS, ONTARIO Junior IVâ€"B. W. Pashler, teacherâ€"â€" Pass Listâ€"Vieno Kautto, Bethea Lon- dry. Arne Manner. Rudolph Bezpalko. gIna Rintamaki aand Preston Hamil- ton, equal; Arnold Ooote. Robert Pumis Cosie Howey, Natalie Kostynyk, Aino Rintamaki, Johnny Mortensen. Omer Cluslau, Bernice McDonald, Marjory Smith. Jean Gallai, Jospehine Cecooni, Sapphina Toderan, Stella Stefenski. Vivian Miller, Irene Cosco Charle Cunningham. Stella Brown; Steve Ste- Ifanski and Irene Varker. customed to weigh their words. some- what recklessly broadcast the danger of national bankruptcy. It is in the perspective of history that the emergency, real though it is. should be estimated. In the 14th cen- tury England was ravaged by the Black Death. which reduced her population to a half, and after centuries of war. ioreign and civil. her position when Elizabetlbascended the throne was pre- carious. Yet the Elizabethan era was not withaut its glories. After 1776 the finances of England were in a conditicn far worse than they are today. But the younger Pitt pulled the budg:t into shape. and England was able to finance Europe against Namieon. Af- ter Waterloo, England presented a pic- ture of appalling discontent. There was cholera. There was rebellion. Yet the Victorian era rose. like the Elizabethan era. to splendid achievemnt. F . Sr. Primerâ€"Isobel McGavln, teacher iâ€"A â€"Bonnle Clark, Luella Johnston, 3 Kauko N lklcanen, Martha Luhta, Harry ECoott. Clara Llndrorss. Alnl Rintala, iAdellne Jakes. Teddy Romanick, Keljo Ilola, Tom Mahon, Kevin Cahill. John Hrynuk. James Fem, Terry Pullen, Betty Gurboy, Douglas McLelland, lAudrey Lafl‘m, Stanley Mahon, Kath- lleen Turner. . Within Great Britain there are mul- titudes of men and women who say lit- tle and make no fuss. They do not dis- cuss large schemes. They do the day's work. They are content with simple homes and gardens from which, as a rule, they derive produce. The old is preferred to the new, and it is inex- pensive. It is no deprivation to be without novelties that you have never wanted. In England there is thus a great reserve of domestic happiness, independent of prosperity or depression. of which headines take no note. That is why many English, though poor, are loath to emigrate. The revival of industry wnich has accompanied the devaluation of the pound is definite. Wool and coal and cotton have taken an upward turn. But it will not be by mere inflation that Britain will win a permanent victory, nor. as this writer thinks, by tariffs For a cheaper sterling, while it helps export for the moment, means that in due course, there will ‘be a higher price on irnparted food and raw ma- terials. The salvation of Great Bri- tain depends on her ability to differ- entiate between courage and complac- ence, and abandoning the latter, to organize her industries drastically on a basis that eliminates waste, applies work to actual production, and ad- vances distribution by supplying to the world that of which the world stands in Senior Fourthâ€"B. M. C. Shaw, prin- cipalâ€"Fred; Andrew, Woldymr Solo- nyka, Catherine Foster; Bob Gallagher and Mike Kostynyk, equal; Newsham Haneberry, Hildreth Childs, Edythe Rapsey, Elina Wuori, Lillian Huot; Tessie Kesnesky and Rose Myronyk, equal; Beatrice Smith, Douglas Mc- Leod, Ruth Verner, Nellie Eyre; George Nummela and Beulah Rayner, equal; Helen Zaitz, Irene Deacon, Mike Capyk; Gertrude Wilford and Waneta Blood, equal; Dora Dillon, Louis Dage- nais. The fcllowing is the report of S No. 1A Tisdale for January:â€" Senior Thirdâ€"Laurel Thorpe, teacher Eva McLeod and Dora Kesnesky, equal; Shirley Cofley, George Dogue, Jim Turner, Harry Pyke; Ralph Dysart and Robert Richards. equal; Mary Toderan, Pat Laforest and Edwin Kuusela, equal Bessie Verner, Royce White, Della St. Paul, Leino Rauhala. Eileen White, Steve Sapyk, Nellie Shukinski, Charlie Giovanella, Roy Richards, Walter Bar- bas, Lewis Pyke, Buddy Robertson. Leuto Walli. Junior Thirdâ€"Mary E. McNab, teach- crâ€"Tercsa Cosco, Isabel Andrews. Dorothy Michaluk. Eino Kautto, Bever- ley Evans, Lillian Kaufman, Joan Smith, Mario Giovenella, Irene Disher, Sarah Firth, Jessie Hamilton, Betty January Report of SS N0. 1A Tisdale Standing of the Papils in the Various Classes in the South Porcupine School for the Month of January. MacIntosh, Katie Zaitz, Viola Damn, Eileen Lowry. Second Classâ€"O. Walker, teacherâ€"- Irja Luhta, Elaine Dogue,’ Joyce Cofl‘ey, Alti Huhta, Fern Helmer, Stephen Evans, Myra. Cantor, Shirley Ewing, Violet Dillon, Lila Jannakka, Leonard Battrick, Annie Rintimaki, Kathleen Hill, Clayton McLary, Bill Turner, Kathleen McKay. Sr. Iâ€"R. M. Donlevy, teacherâ€"Helen Haneben'y, Kathleen Connelly, Lillian Belisle, Frank Richards, Margaret‘Fos- actual need. England is not going the dogs. But she has to make fresh start. ter; Stella McLary. V‘lvian Ferrican and Eva. Pietlla. equal; Alice Robertson Bill Lowry, Rauno Waanen, Frances Cunningham; Lois McLeod and Harry Disher, equal; Edwin Brown and Annie Camera, equal; Viola Mansfield and Norris Orr. equal; Irja Makl, Laura Young. Bâ€"Mary Sekullck, Robert Bowes, Vilho Rlntlmaki. Nelson Farrell, Au- Matter 0! Sanctuarla and Other Meth- , ods Should be Considered. Public 3 Interest Should be Roused | “While study of the disease to which lgame birds are liable may be of some assistance in their preservation, the :chief means that we have for main- ?taining their numbers is the prevention §of their destruction by their great I enemy. man. In an address at Timmins last year Jack Miner. the noted nature lover. emphasized the need for the people in this area giving special thought to the matter of the preservation of game and game birds in particular. He referred to the danger this was that tourists might rush to James Bay now. with the railway going that far. and if un- checked it would not be long before the wild ducks and geese would disappear. At present there are hundreds of thou- sands of them each year at James Bay. but indiscriminate shooting of them would soon mean their extermination so far as this part of the North is con- cerned. Protection Needed for the Game Birds One of the chief things needed in dealing with the whole question of game and game preservation is the idea of close attention from the public generally. With an aroused public opinion ways and means will soon be found. Better still, with the public 1 telligently interested it will be pos- si le to enforce any laws that may be passed in the matter. Consideratidn and discussion of anything relative to game and game preservation is all to the good. Accordingly, there is good reason for reading and considering the following editorial article in a recent issues of The Orillia News-Letter. In this editorial The News-Letter says:â€" “We have still much to learn about the conservation of wild game. Birds and animals which have become do- mesticated have been the subject of study under conditions which made it possible to learn much about the dis- eases to which they are subject and the manner in which the species can be preserved. “But we are still very much in the dark as to the danger to which wild life is exposed, and most of our con- jectures in regard to the preservation of game have had as their basis the supposed balance that nature keeps be- tween species that prey upo mothers and those which ahe preyed upon. “The invasion by settlement of the habitat of game birds on this continent has brought about danger of depletion that rouses fear that some of the species might become extinct. “We know very little about the pre- valence of epidemics which may sweep through the woods and carry off thou- sands of birds and animals, most of our knowledge being of a guesswork nature, such as the popular belief that there is a plague which decimates the wild rabbits every seventh year. to be noticed some years. while in others they may be extremely scarce. It is only lately that scientists have begun to study tularemia. a disease among rabbits dangerous to man, which may account for the periodical deple- tion of the woods of rabbits. “The fate of the heath hen, or black grouse, has roused game conservation- ists to a keen sense of this danger. It is reported that the last male of the species, which has been under observa- tion for a long time on a island in Mas- sachusets, has not been seen since last spring, and with the death of this soli- tary bird, a game bird which was for- merly plentiful has vanished for ever from the face of the earth. “The experience of Jack Miner at Kingsville shows how well they remem- ber where they are allowed to remain unmolested. No better method of sav- ing the game birds and animals can be suggested than the establishment of game sanctuaries at frequent intervals and of adequately large areas from which guns would be rigidly excluded “This is supposed to account for the immense number of rabbits which are “It seemed not long ago that the typical game bird of the prairies. the prairie chicken, or painted grouge. was doomed to go the same way as the heath hen. However. rigorous prohibi- tion of shooting for some years has brought the prairie chicken back in suf- ficient numbers to allow a couple of days' open season last fall. “In our own district the protection season for partridge has apparently had the effect of renewing the species. so that those who travel through the woods report now that they are in- creasing in number. “While there is still a vast area of woodland in this country suitable for the breeding of partridge, into which very little advance has been made by man, modern firearms make it possible for a few hunters to clean out the birds from a wide extent of territory. “Such sanctuaries also give oppor- tunity to study the birds and animals and to secure information which might be of immense value in preventing the epidemics which it is highly probable. now and again deplete the numbers of many species. “In addition to the close season for the conservation of wild life of all kinds, one of the most valuable means for preserving it is the game sanctuary "With sumciently large sanctuariw, where game could breed and multiply under natural conditions, the sports- men would find that the game would increase in all unprotected sections, since the overflow from the sanctuaries drey Miller. Hazel berm-3y, Annie Moz- dlr, Elmer McLary. Non-ma McCaw. Charlie Brown. Walter Rachanski. Bill Mozdir, Jackie Landry. There are so mnny orgmlutions of one kind or another in town (close to two hundred. The Advance counted some years ago in the district) that there must necessarily be a large mun- ber of secretaries of one sort or another. Accordingly many who are having or have had the thankles but onerous IT SEEMS A SECRETARY t8 SIMILAR TO A NEWSPAPER worl: of secretary will read the follow- ing now going the rounds of press. feeling. perhaps. that it expresses the point of view forced on them. One time the secretary of one of the Tim- mins lodges was giving The Advance the list of omcers installed the even- ing before at the lodge. There was a long list and it was humorously sug- gested that everybody and everything was listed except the lodge goat. “Oh. the secretary is always the goat!" re- plied the secretary. From the follow- ing it would appear so:â€" If a. secretary writes a letter, it. is too long. In hunting for an excuse for the pre- sent conditions in the world there are some who blame it on machine pro- duction. An effective answer to this aid-fashioned idea, as old-fashioned idea as that of the knight who wants to reduce wages. is given in the last issue of The New Liskeard Speaker. Ijhe Speaker says:â€" WORLD SHOULD NOT THINK OF GOING BACKWARDS NOW “Considerable is being said during these days about “The Machine Age," and we heard over the radio that an American has written a book in which he puts up a strong plea for the con- tinued use of machinery, and urges that employed as well as employees all should participate in the use of labour- .aving devices. The Speaker has pre- sented similar views in several articles. “The tragedy of the last lone heath hen should not be repeated in the case of the remaining game birds whose pre- servation rests in our hands." would stock the lands that were open for hunting. \W“WW$“\X$XX§X\$SX§S§Y‘W‘tfifid‘.W$\M Ifl‘. 44 BRUCE AVENUE We will estimate a complete motor overhaul. palnttng and body repairs. Our prices are right and all work guaranteed. South Porcupine General Auto'Repairs Body Work and Painting District A gent: If the others won't. do The secretary must. EVEREADY, SERVICE STATION THE CANADA LIFE ASSURANCE CO. PHONE 120 The Towing Car is at Your Service (Most Up-to-date Garage In the Nnrth) F. H. HEPURN 10 Reed Block, Timmins INSURANCE IN ALL BRANCHES Al‘ Service Guaranteed it Our idea in thet eome method should be evolved whereby the meter as well u the employer should derive adven- tuee from the inventions of the use. in is utter nonsense to outcast thet machinery be destroyed end that the world so back to the sickle and the spade. It cannot be done. So let us istay with machinery and utilise it for ‘the benefit of humanity by melting ,shorter hours for workers. while at the g same time he makes as much money as ' he makes now while working long hours. EWe said that. the. man who could show ;how this could be done would be ab- ,claimed the world‘s greatestman." 5 firms: the Toronto public libraries had been sending their books to Ridgetown ito be re-bound; telephone directories [and T.’I‘.C. printing were done outside 3 Toronto." ‘ “Apparently Toronto tradesmen over- ‘look the fact that Toronto printing gfirms not only have canvassers visit :every Ontario town. but give com- 1mission to grocery. clothing and what- have-you travellers to solicit printing as a sideline. not only in this province but in the other provinces also. Surely ‘other cities have a right to fight To- ‘ronto with the same weaponsâ€"cut- .throat prices. i Huntlngdon Gleanerâ€"“I am sen- ltencing the wrong man," said Federal 3 Judge R. M. Gibson of Pittsburgh. When i he fined Milton G. Myer $100 for violat- . mg song copyright laws. “I would like { to sentence the persons who write these 5 songs I have to listen to over the ra- | dio," Gibson added. TORONTO DOES NOT LIKE SHOE ON THE OTHER. FOOT Tha Renfrcw Mercury last week in an editorial article deals with a. matter that is of more than passing intemt. The Mercury says:â€" “Toronto printers are complaining that Toronto printing is being done in other places. A speaker at 3 Trades meeting in Toronto recently. is report- ed as sayingzâ€"“The industrial com- mission brings industries to Toronto. but no one apparently tries to keep them here. Recently four= large print- ing contracts had been let to Oshawa "Every printing office in our towns. including Renfrew. suffers from the “Side-line" printing canvasser. And so we have a few large printing plants in a few large cities growing larger and the town printeries empioying less men. When the full job is done and the town print shop so forgotten by local users that good craftsmen have to be dis- pensed with. then Toronto and other large city printshops will reap a har- vest." Almonte Gazettezâ€"One craze suc- ceeds another and perhaps is forced in- to oblivion by what follows. But in- stead of them being finiagon'stic why should they not be complementary? As a. constructive suggestion we propose that the next contract tournament should be played on a. Tom Thumb golf links, and that the programme or cad- dying privileges should be reserved for the authors of cross word puzzles. SOUTH PORCL'PINE Phone 15