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the situation when he sent a sarcastic cable:â€" "Good old Standard QOil. I‘d be glad to fight for In the topsyâ€"turvy condition of the world toâ€"day } GRAVEL AND SANDâ€"AND PLACER any nation or individual expecting normal or reaâ€" e en n i e e en n in in sonable reactions from any action or attitude or| Perhags the people of Ethiopia are saying:â€" logicali results from any line of procedure is pracâ€" ‘"Well, things couldn‘t be any worse thfm they a.re! tically sure to be disappointed. At first the chief| WNPY »O0t have a change? Let‘s tryx.ng fighting effect of the announcement of the concessions was| anyway! It may turn out all right, and if the suggestion that the whole Ethiopian question| 2° we quit?" was becoming a matter of rivalry in high finance * « * * circles. One former member of the United States| prize for the most outstanding originality expeditionary force made a popular phrasing of in daily journalism on this continent this year many would have expected. Perhaps the reacâ€" tion of the different nations has been much difâ€" ferent to that expected by Emperor Haile Selassie. Italy has not been frightened by the fact that the United States and Great Britain might now feel they had financial interests at stake in the matter. Indeed, Mussolini bluntly suggests that neither the Efr}ited States nor Britain will deter him from following his plans in regard to Ethiopia. On the other hand Britain has shown keen resentment of the suggestion that money interests might move her more than love of peace or the idealistic desire to see that a weak nation was protected from a strong aggressor. Britain carried out a prompt and thorough investigation of the reported grantâ€" ing ofâ€"the concessions and has found that the groups securing the concessions are entirely Unitâ€" ed States interests and that Great Britain is not concerned in that particular. | | | l The result of the announcement of the granting of the concessions has not had the effect that The granting of concessions in Ethiopia by Emâ€" peror Haile Selassie to foreign interests alleged to include the Standard Oil Co., as well as minor Briâ€" tish interests, has not achieved much in the way of pouring oil on the troubled waters in Europe, though the concessions are said to assure a lot of oil. According to Francis M. Rickett, Wwho is said to be the man who secured the concession from the King of Kings, eastern Ethiopia is rich in petroâ€" leum, the oil base lying in shallow pools. Mr. Rickett is further quoted as saying that the conâ€" cessions will mean a rich return for Ethiopia To the Scotsman there would be little satisfacâ€" tion in telling a story or two stories, unless there were a moral attached. In the present case there are probably two morals. The first may be that it takes a Scotsman to improve upon a Scotch story. It is likely that the second moral was forecast by an oldâ€"time Scot named Boswell, when he spoke under the alias of Dr. Samuel Johnson. Dr. Johnâ€" son averred that the reason so many Scotsmen were famous in literary circles in London, England, in his day, was because they were so clannish that the one praised the other so assidiously that soon they were all wellâ€"known and contented. Still another Scotsman criticizes the implicaâ€" tion of both stories, pointing out that they do not illustrate the meanness of the Scot, but on the conâ€" trary prove that the Scot is really prodigal in such cases. A really mean man would have saved even the single fare as there are excellent cliffs on the New York side that may be reached by a comparaâ€" tively short walk. Then another Scotsman, Louisâ€"Blake Duff, of The Welland Tribune, turns the McAree joke into tragic truth. This Duff writes:â€""Arthur Hoyt Day a Scotch tailor, of Rochester, N.Y., met death from an accidental fall from a scaffold in Welland at three minutes to 8 o‘clock on the morning of December 18, 1890. The sheriff,happened to be present at the time. This was not the first hangâ€" ing in Welland. Day had other and greater claims to fame. He took his wife on an excursion to Niagara Falls, While there she ‘fell‘ over a cliff. Suspicion was first directed to the bereaved husâ€" band, when it was discovered that while he had bought a return railway ticket for himself he had bought only a single ticket for his wife. The au-l thorities seemed to think he had a premonition something was going to happen to her at Niagara Falls, So thrift is not always a virtue." The McAree story was about a Scotsman who murdered his wife while on a honeymoon, and was detected because he had bought only a single ticket for her while buying a round trip ticket for himâ€" self. It was an Irishman who was supposed to have said that many a lie spoken in jest often proves true.. J, V. McAree, who writes the Fourth Column on the editorial page of The Toronto Mail and Emâ€" pire, has found out, with a dull sickening thud, that this also applies to Scotsmer. The gentle McAree, who must be Scottish because he writes so good a cclumn, and has so many jokes on the Scottish and the Jews, some days ago essayed a witticism at the expense of the Scots, and another Scot made the little tale backfire into gruesome tragic history. Members Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association; Ontarioâ€" Quebe: Newspaper Association; Class "A" Weekly Group OFFICE 26â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"PHONESâ€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"RESIDENCE 70 Published Every Monday and Thursday by: GEO LAKE, Owner and Publisher Subscription Rates: "SCOTS WHA HAE" «ut P lt P P BP AL AL DAAA PAAA L Timmins, Ont., Thursday, Sept. 5th, 1935 s U U â€"A 1 L PA PAGE PoUr Che Yorrutpins Adugure â€" TIMMXIX®, ONTARIO Uniteg Statesâ€"$83.00 Per Yeat | tant than the result. ; GRAVEL AND SANDâ€"AND PLACER WMMMMM Perhans the neonle of Fthionia are savino‘â€" goes to The Toronto Mail Empire. On the front page of the second section of The Mail and Emâ€" Perhaps the people of Ethiopia are saying:â€" ‘"Well, things couldn‘t be any worse than they are! Why not have a change? Let‘s trying fighting Italy anyway! It may turn out all right, and if not, can‘t we quit?" ing. If in some form or another men now out of work are given relief, or better still, workâ€" whether that work is under the government or a contractor, and if the needed roads are built and properiy built and mamtamed the general judgâ€" ment will be that the plan applied is less imporâ€" tant than the result. Cynical people may be inclined to suggest that under party government there must be contracts. If there are no contracts, how can there be conâ€" tractors with money? And if there are no prosâ€" perous contractors where can the party secure its campaign funds? In the North there will be little disposition, howâ€" ever, to quarrel with Hon. Mr. Heenan‘s methods. so long as the results are successful and satisfyâ€" In his address at.the banquet in his honour last week at the Empire hotel, Hon. Peter Heenan conâ€" _demned relief road work. He claimed that enorâ€" mous sums of money had been wasted in such forms of work both on the Transâ€"Canada highway and in other classes of public works. Hon. Mr. Heenan said that he now favoured the letting of all such work by contract as the better and cheapâ€" er method of securing value for public money Few will quarrel with his plan of contract work under special government supervision. At the same time it is scarcely fair to allow wholesale condemnation of the relief work plan. For some years past in Timmins, for instance, public works were carried through on the relief work plan withâ€" out any of the evils of which Hon. Mr. Heenan complains. The men on the work were paid a fair rate of wages. The work was well done. The cost to the town was little, if any, above what it would have cost under contract. Just why a provincial or Dominion government can nct have work done in equally satisfactory way will puzzle some peoâ€" ple. There does not seem to be any assurance that a government that can not protect the public purse from the incompetence or wastefulness of its own experts will be any more successful in guardâ€" ing against the land becoming a contractors‘ parâ€" adise. pear to be another cause for war. Or it may be in this topsyâ€"turvy world that war may come in short order, and the concessions mgy be used as the reason for nations switching their support to or from Ethiopia on the principle that seems to prompt democracies in elections: PARTIES HAVE CONTRACTORSI any attempted There is ano the mind of Em be true enough feel that they private interes! prominent Sen nounced that the moment for Ethiopia he money t( 1€ it 11 )1 i ffair ind Haile Sal either Bri hante of either Great Br tes going to war to prote« dard QOil or other financi: . P pI anable attitude i had the right ort Thanksgiving Day was established as a day of thanksgivingâ€"a religious holiday, surely. Now, there is bitter criticism of the Bennett government because the date this year was settled to suit the wishes of all the churches. Even The Globe is trying to make political capital out of the change of date this year of Thanksgiving Day. Once politics is forced into Thanksgiving Day there won‘t be much thanksgiving left. There are othet holidays in the year set aside for sports days and; general holidays. It does not seem unreasonable n ‘"Wer, we can‘t be worse off than we were!" as the fish said when he jumped from the frying pan into the fire. it Judging by all the criticism of the Bennett govâ€" ernment in reference to the change of the date this year for Thanksgiving Day, what this country really needs is a national day for general grousing When appealed to recently by the leaders of the soâ€"called "hunger marchers" for food for these fellows on their return trip from Ottawa, the mayor of an Eastern Ontario town is supposed to have asked the beggars if they would be content with bologna sandwiches. "They would be fine!" was the reply. "All right," said the mayor, "then we‘ll supply the needed bread." was that propensityâ€"so humanâ€"to adventures. "The thing seems extraordinary. And yet, going back into history, noting how again and again men have ignorâ€" ed experience, or forgotten bitter I«sâ€" sons, it is perhaps not so strange. "Knowledge comes, but wisdom linâ€" pire on Tuesday of this week appeared a grouy picture of ‘five babies. And they were not the Dionne quintuplets! â€"|\Why Do People Vote | «. in the Way They Do2 Créedit, to plunge for something they did not understand. "Many didn‘t try to understand it. They were faced with a simple proposiâ€" tion, the question of whether or not they wanted $25 a month, and as most of them, unemploysd, or in straitened circumstances, gid wan: it, the answer was easy. The newspapers and the others who tried to show that the $25 a month was impossibls were compelliâ€" ed to enter into complicated arguâ€" ments to show that they were right, the $25 a month wrongâ€"ard the masses didn‘t or couldn‘t understand the arâ€" guments; or didn‘t want to. The thing to do was to try Mr. Aberhartâ€"they hagq nothing to lose; or thought they had nothing. And. above all there sity, the trusted publishers of newsâ€" papers who had Alberta‘s gooq at heart the experienced leaders in her public lifeâ€"all were able to show that Mr. Aberhart‘s ideas were fantastic, that his plans were confused and contradicâ€" tory, that they involved the gravest peril. Yet despite all this, and in the absence of concrete arguments to the contrary, Alberta‘s electors marched in droves to the polls to endorse Social protect the public from those who wilfully or innocently hoax the people results only in misrépresentaâ€" tion of the newspapers. In its editorial article The Ottawa Journal says:â€" "Noting the comments of Western newspapers on Alberta‘s election verâ€" dict last week, one thought, inevitably, comes to mind. How came it that deâ€" spite all the counsel given them by exâ€" périeneed advisers, and by advisers they had formerly trusted, Alberta‘s elsctors took a course so strangely and ) was to try Mr. Aberhartâ€"they nothing to lose; or thought they nothing. And, aboye all, there that propensityâ€"so humanâ€"to utable newspapers. ime, however, when tect the public f: Those m Know? . Questions hy Overlook Experience of the Past and Advice by Those who Ought tc Know? And Some Othe: wspa pe 11 T flouri k ¢ ied H ne D Therd 1J nZl, th her scheme time despit Eventually back to th reC nored i1 ‘call th nzi, th alwa y fort t not prC ave insti Th 0G, th pensi ro bl And i hum aLlte€ ind in b om Choice 4 to 5 Ib. avg. Boiling Peamealed Cottage Rolls Potatoes 1Im Rolled Oats MEAT SPECIALS effective Fri. 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The at., in the last LEADS THE WAY TO Watch Qur Price on PEACHES ried, in other cases defeat One might eores of exâ€" YELLOW LABEL Tea i 31‘ Try The Advance Want Advertisements Young Peter Hepburn, adopted son of the premier of the same name, is reported from St. Thomas as a happy boy. He is the proud possessor of a Shetland pony which he promptly named "Shirley Temple." Shirley was acquired by Hon. Duncan Marshall, Minister of Agriculture, while he was blood." "Alberta, rejecting the counsels of her best leaders, will try her new advenâ€" ture, perhaps with loss. But while we should like to think that the lesson will avail her, that permanent wisdom will follow knowledge, we cannot do so. No proof exists that men, in their present existence, have reached a state of grace denied them through the ages." Iuiness, "It is something in human nature. The thing that comes so often, and so baffiingly, in contnued allegiance to war despite its awful pity, what Steâ€" phen Phillips must have had in mind when he made Gadius say to Herod: "The earth aileg from the first, war, pestilence, Madness and death are not as ills that ttcâ€"is a tragic one. From what hapâ€" pened in France during the Revoluâ€" tion to what happened in Germany at the close of the Great War, the tale is the sameâ€"a record of disillusionment, of suffering and loss. Yet notwithâ€" the sameâ€"a record of disillusionment, of suffering and loss. Yet notwithâ€" standing those lessons, the decades beâ€" tween and since have seen men chamâ€" pion and experiment with "something for nothing," bared again and again the futility of seeking wealth through the process of mere paper money. 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