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Sir Robert & 3 Hadfield Prop Ys y ment Board as Though V Bo tinent Instead ' "It is generally recognized that the growth of the Dominions and Colonies in prosperity reacts immediately on the Mother Country. They are our best customers, relatively to their population, and as they become richer and make fuller use of their natural resources they buy more and more of our manufactures and provide steady employment for our dense industrial population. "Sir Robert Hadfield now comes forward with a proposal to accelerate the movement by setting up an Em- pire Development Board, composed of leading men from all parts of the Em- pire, drawing its funds from public and private sources, and holding aloof from party politics."--The Spectator, London. "It has long been my conviction that the British Empire should have an Imperial Development Fund of con- siderable magnitude, to be raised and used, under agreement with our fel, low citizens over the seas, for the pur-, pose of developing the Empire's re- sources and opportunities. The basis on which the money should be found, and the uses to which it should be! put, would be matters for discussion," | writes Sir Robert Hadfield, Bart. in the Empire 'Mail under the heading of "A Plea for Organized Empire De- velopment." He makes the following pointed suggestions: -- "In order that such discussion might proceed continuously and decisions put promptly into effect, I suggest that a Federal Council or Empire De- velopment Board be formed, with re- presentatives from all parts of the Empire and with a permanent or: ganization and personnel in each country. "The sessions of the Central Board need not be continuous, but they should b2 more frequent than the meetings of the Imperial Conference, for example, and they should be held in Great Britain and the various Do- minions and principal Colonies in ro- tation, so that every member might have first-hand experience of the con- ditions, requirements and possibilities of different parts of the Empire. A Permanent Organization "We in the United Kingdom pay £400 per annum to each of 615 legis- lators in their capacity as Members of Parliament (apart from the fees appertaining to special offices) in con- sideration of their services in gulding the affairs of this country. Members of Legislatures in other parts of the Empire receive more liberal emolu- ments; thus Australia pays £1,000 per annum plus expenses to 112 Mem- bers; Canada pays $4,000 per session to about 245 members; and New Zea- land pays £450 per annum to 80 mem- bers, Yet there is no comparable body of men dealing specifically with the development of the Empire as a whole--the largest and wealthiest Em- pire the world has ever known, "It is not reasonable to maintain that the utilization of the resources of our Imperial estate is a task demand- ing the whole-time activities of a re- preséntative Council, and one worthy of the best braing in the Empire? While some might be honorary work- ers. | see no reason why the perman- ent staff should not represent highly- paid officials, thus drawing on our very best. "It would probably be neither prac- ticable nor desirable for one set of men and women to serve continuously on the Empire Development Board or Council, but the oBard itself should be a permanent institution with a con- tinual supply of aewly-elected mem- bers. The period of service need not be rigidly specified; each member might be elected for a minimum peri- od of two or threee years, subject to extension if he or she were engaged on a particular schemo at the ned of that period. "This and other details do not af- fect the plan as a Whole and, in my opinion, no consideration of time, dis- tance or expense affects the urgent need for a permanent and adequate organization devoted solely to the, great work of helping on Empire de- velopment. On the Broadest Possible Lines 400 narrow a sense, wsed-by Oliver Cromwell, he wrote the | consumers, Mr. Hudson says. catte the country concerned, or any of "My suggestion is that this Empire Development Board, representing the whole of the Empire, should be con- stituted in such a manuer as to make it as attractive as possible, The main organization should offer tempting posts to men of the highest ability, who should be more than well pald. First Steps and Principles "The first step 1s to set up a Fed- eral Council, whose activities will not | be subjected to the influences of party politics; that is, it would be kept out of the political arena. The next is to raise an adequate Empire Development Fund. "Co-operation, not ditation, must be the guiding principle. Party politics must be rigorously excluded, and it must be clearly recognized that there is no suggestion that Great Britain should in any way domineer over or exploit the overseas parts of the Km- pire. : "The principle of Empire develop- ment does not in any way preclude fair competition from those outside the Empire but it does demand that all Empire citizens should give first consideration to Empire interests, "At present we interpret 'home de- velopment' and 'internal affairs' in far Our true inter- ests are those of the Empire as a whole just as though we were all on one continent, instead of being scat- tered. "The time is long overdue for really active development of Empire re- sources. We are neglecting the great- est opportunity in our history or that of any other nation. Words alone are of no use i nmatters of this kind. Ac- tion is demanded. of its « MAKE TI ship. Miss Wade is also Canadian ENNIS CHAMPIONSHIP SISTERLY AFFAIR Olive Wade (right), who defeated her sister, Mrs. Elsie Gray (left), for Southern Ontario tennis champlon- Women's Singles ¢hampion. - | policy, timé is professional politicians who enter po- : ing their own 'pockets. Secondly he but r " n 3 obviously near at hand constitutional, government in will be restored in 'W. Polson New: man, in the "Contemporary Review," says:-- ; ; "Mahmoud Pasha has several main objects in view. First he is deter mined to crush at al costs the class of litical life for the sole purpose of din} is conentrating his attention on im- proving the conditions of the fellahin and the workers in the towns, who to- gether make up the vast mass of the people of Egypt. Thirdly,he intends to prepare the way for a return to 'constitutional government as soon as the country is fit for it. "The Prime Minister is not a dicta- tor in the ordinary sense of the term, and is, in fact, far less autocratic than the Wafd Committee that preceded him. He is.a strong believer in de- "In a Prayer Book dated 1646, and Coinmunists Show Lack of Stamina Put to the Test Reveal They Are But Human AT MOCK INVASION Dramatic Method Adopted to Discover Fitness for Responsibility Moscow.--At least one localized "re- volt against the Soviets has been ad- mitted, and admitted with some pride, by the loyal press here. It happened in the village Noshen- skaya, in the Kansky district of Si- beria, a district 'that remembers all too vividly the horrors of civil strife which drenched Siberia in blood in the first years of the Revolution. Like smooth working of the scheme." ri ---- a thousand other places which carry the wounds of those years, Noshen- Truth Telling skaya has jumpy nerves on the sub- Sells Old Stocks ject of revolts and counter-revolts, It jumped with all alacrity one night Washington.--"Winter Coats--Vin-, recently when a group of "Whites," tage of 1927; Men's Suits--Hardly as in the uniforms of the dreaded Kol- Stylish as They Used to Be; Warm hak officers and heavily armed, swoop- Woolen Blankets--but Ugly." - These ed down on the village while it slum- candid headlines were actually used Pered peacefully. by a department store in the south. | The invaders went about their job western part of the country to adver | uletly and efficiently. They awaken- tise a "white elephant sale" described °d @ leading Communist, informed by Ray M. Hudson assistant director, | him that the Soviet regime had been Bureau of Standards, in the United OVerthrown and that he was under ar- States Daily. | rest. They made the same announce- Merchandise featured in the sale Ment in turn to one after another of was an accumulation of "shelf warm. the important Communists and social ers" that were out of date or unpopu- | Workers, gradually gathering a con- lar. Perfectly. frank descriptions of 8iderable number, mostly in night the goods were published in the ad. Shirts. vertisement. Goods that were old and shopworn were so described and, if the nterchandise was out of style, mention was made of the fact. By noon of the day of sale, the major portion of the goods was reported sold. Work that the Bureau of Standards is doing will make fewer and fewer "white elephants" on merchants' shelves; eight years it has assisted industry in simplifying 110 commodi- ties, limiting them onlyto those varie: ties which are in constant demand by following words: 'Qui cessat esse me- lior cessat esse bonus.' A free trans- lation of this is:" 'He who ceases to aim at better things will cease to do good things.' Inde ed, a fine motto for us to ponder over, both individual ly and nationally, Let the spirit of these words be the alm of us all and then there need be no fears for our position in the future, "In order that the matter may be advanced beyond the stage of general discussion, steps should be taken to form a representative committee which would then proceed to enlist the interest of both home anc over-' seas parts of the Empire with a view to setting up the Empire Development Board itself at the earliest possible moment, § | "A sympathetic attitude on the part of the Home Government would be in- valuable, if not essential, to. the Panic Prevails The triumphant "Whites" were es- Ee Eg A Dead Sea Claim "In order to provide a basis foredis- cussion, I would suggest that the Board should interpret 'development' | on the broadest possible lines. Thus, apart from such obvious work as im- proving the existing: facilities for, trade and transport, the Board should | devote special attention to the work} of expansion by assisting the opening up of new means of transport--rail- tramways, roads, Liarbors, docks, canals, construction of hydro- - plants, the foundation 3 opening out of the control Rejected by British Jerusalem.--A categorical rejection of the French claim to the pre-war Turkish Dead Sea concession which France wants to bring before The Hague Tribunal is made in an auth: oritative statement issued here. The concession in question was granted in 1911 to Turkish journalists in Constantinople, the statement says.| After the war the alleged concession was assigned to a British subject, who for several years made repeated re- 'presentations to the British Govern- 'This claim: , codld not stoners are still struggling with such questions, What is more, the local population fs peeved a: it has ample cause to be, about its disturbed sleep. A real civil conflict, bitter and en- during, runs like a th of fire through the lite of the vi agricul through the streets. Some pleaded for tural stretches of the Soviet land. It mercy. Others were stole. A few is not always visible on theh surface were defiant and ready to fight for to the casual observer, but it is there their cause. none the less, and breaks through the Despite the quietness of the pro- surface often enough in acts of viol ceedings, the news of the coup-d'etat ence and terror. ; spread through Noshenskaya like Civil Strife Prevails. wildfire. There was a measure of | It is the conflit in tens of thousands panic. - The cry "Kolchak is coming! [of villiges between those actively Kolchak is coming!" passed from supporting. the government's policies house to house, and some of the and those who attempt in every pos- frightened = villagers rushed to the sible way to tear it down. The re- ithick forests nearby for protection. | ports of village Communists beaten By morning, however, the 'reyolt" or killed by "kulaks* or rich peasants was ended. The alleged "Whites" re. are so frequent that they no longer moved their uniforms and revealed , constitute news. By the same token themselves as members of a commis- the reports of kulaks condemned to sion which was investigating the death for terrorizing active poor peas: calibre of local Communists and social | ants, for burning their houses, and the workers with a view to determining like, are so frequent that no one here [their fitness for their various jobs. Pays much attention to them. The whole business was a naive make-| It is not without good cause that believe to test the stamina of the the Communist Party and its million Communists under fire, so to speak, |fold supporters insist that the revolu- It 'was all part of the "tchistka" or j tion is still goin on, that the country cleansing now under way everywhere 18 still in a period of war. in the Soviet Union. . SO Is Cowardice Communistic? | "> British Bluntness . | ashington Post.--Snowden pi Unfortunately for the scheme, it {ably will win... His plea on behalf of raised a great many philosophical | py, is backed: by a; rand of 'nas re cl ous on a Uo spe and lun sacar tht cessarily glib pholosophers. When a fant geheckod ho mekestah top. Communist, faced by hopelessly su- 4 perior enemy forces, runs for cover-- iy buy in reality. prompted. by. self is his behavior cowardly, unworthy of 'tnt a Communist, or merely decently dis- statesmen afe-gut {or the in gts of their own peoples and are using inter- creet? When a defeated Communist nationalism as a cloak for thelr de- gives 'himself up proudly to the com | ony white Snowden fs fighting for queror, is he a hero or merely a fool? At this. writing the clever ommis- She 2 Aish 'and: has the courage to | poctally interested in watching the be-| havior of these Reds who went to bed as rulers and awoke as prisoners of war out of their untroubled sleep. One of the eminent figures in village poli- tics was so frightened that he jumped out of a window and ran madly Always Popular With Overseas Visitors - | trade balance while the United States The difference is that other: British Collect ,, and he is determined to guide Egypt to an enlightened form of government on sound democratic lines, free from the serious shortcom- ings that have proved the downfall of previous Hgyptian Governments. 'He has concentrated his attention on the return of Egyptian. national life to its normal course and the re-es- tablishment of government prestige, without which it would be impossible to carry out the programme of re- forms essential for the progress of the country. "Mahoud Pasha hop?s to restore to robust health a body politic born in difficult circumstances, and to see in Cairo an honest, enlightened, and pro- gressive political system worthy of a great country, who by her example can have a powerful influence on the less enlightened nations of the Hast. Free from the fetters of party politics and intrigue, the Prime Minister has a great opportunity of adding strength and prestige to the independence of the nation, and of building up a new national consciousness, which will en- able the outstanding differences of Anglo-Egyptian relations. to be viewed from a new angle, more satisfactory to the British Government and more acceptable to the Egyptian people. "The progress made in internal af- fairs should place 'Egypt in a better position to shoulder certain responsi: bilities, without which further conces- sions cannot be contemplated by the British Government; and should es- tablish in this country a firmer ccn- fidence In the capacity of the Egyp- tians to manage their own affairs. The p of enlightermeént, resulti from a clean system of education, a clear expositior. of political*realities, and improved conditions of the fella- hin and . workers, should cnable the people to see the: direction of their true interests. "Moreover, the changes envisaged by Mahmoud Pasha should help to build up that mutual trust which is an L condition of a successful settlement. The Prime Minister, therefore, deserves every possible sup: port both in England and in-Beypt; | and there is reason to believe that the constitutional support which he now lacks will be forthcoming in due course." oie tl laid To Pay Balances Washington. --In- 1928 Great Britain had the world's largest unfavorable had the world's largest favorable trade balance, according to Dr. Ray Hall, acting chief of the finance and| | investment division of the U.| Depart 3 ment of Commerce, who AEE com-| pleted an analysis ' .[trade. ~~ ; "ot Anglo-American | * a real § ) is going to be a definite attempt to in- vestigate the polar regions, north and south, in 1932, we must be 'prepared to take our part.' We shall approach 'Canada and Australia about sending 'out expeditions." : "A british-Australian expedition | already on the first leg of its jourl ney to the south polar regions, under Sir Douglas Mawson, but the purpose of this expedition is mainly scientific 'study of the economic and fishing re sources of that section of the world. Lord Thompson, Secretary for the *Air, welcomed the delegates yester- day. He mentioned that among. the important points to be discussed was marine meteorology. It was a well. known fact that there was at present no general method of sending to or receiving from ships at sea meteoro- logical information, he said. He hoped 'the confernce fould 'arrive at some. - common methods of communication in this inatter. "We have indulged in considerable air activity during the last few years" Lord Thomson went on, "and it is desired to put at your disposal all the information we have gathered, and to obtain some common method for a regulated service of _ meteorology throughout the Empire." Knowledge of meteorology was a vital need for the success of Imperial transport Lord Thompson pointed out. He believed that in e few years air- ships and airplanes might be guided just as ships on the seas were navi- gated at present, but if this wis to be brought about there would have to be a great advance in meteoro- logical knowledge. Homes For Babies Rarely Ever Returned Once They Get Settled in Family One of the privileges in child-sav- ing work, writes J. J. Kelso, is to be the medium in placing a tiny, help- less baby in the arms of a large hearted woman who has been denied the blessing of a real-own baby. These little bits of humanity have a way of twining themselves round the heart strings that is simply irresistible, and once taken into a home they are rare. ly ever returned. They are the genu- ine adoptions that stand the test of petty y and dif dint- ments. Not only do they grow like their foster parents in character and disposition, but strange to say, evem in facial expression, No one cam make a mistake in adopting a haby at six months, and they will be amply repaid for their extra work in the long run. emotes aan? . Chicago to the Sea Chicago Tribune: The lakes to the gulf waterway will' give to the great 'central states aréa that competitive access to the markets of the world the lack of which is becoming mcre idestructive of our interests. The money that is required to open the inland waterways to transportation is | negligible compared with the doubt~ ful amount of the appropriaticna necessary to explolt the St. Lawrance way, if, indeed, the project is feasi- ble. Furthermore, the lakes to the gult channel is needed to solve am urgent economic problem, while the St. Lawrence route is largely a pro- mctional scheme for the power inters ests and considerable of a Wauey tor oo 4