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Monkton Times, 30 Jun 1921, p. 7

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“He Shall pave Dominion Also From “the Ri e Ends of the Earth.”—Psalm 72: 8. Sea to Sea and From pies Rev. Henry P. Charters. conference, of de name Domini cacknowled Fathers of eration les this oa ite obra the sepmpasth anniversary of ont cone ey | Isingdom pate terial growth ii thes to the orking under ‘such free ae en tnierotiona an. opportunity bain a to hims SS gem of confederation was standpoint Canada! jr 3 ae is a dominion which stretches fi nid €9; paren anata a coun thi mii Z ae in Raia Got shall have pond froi 0 Bea shied ane up in Iba Chiristian yabantey shor ald includ individual INTELLIGENCE in nd A AOE PRINGLE such, ‘qualificat n. can nation of which he tis a mem-| ber. eee ae is where e ethics, to. demand such and Sat poe are the evi and that, wher- jag Das ‘ie than at the present. e time these wh pinec'@t ail proportioned 10 the of there would But large have such a ra as ours wher so cheap and ry |v: eee ne ‘appa m the s_axpropriatences f Canada was is ave at the assembled the | as sane ee ae sounry was practically a For long years our ma-| world | that the individual Pee S cOee this lan exorcise ice acts other -} any country Pee is intelli- would be unwise, as it would | for e! the channels fie so abundant and views ewd at varianie with your creed, ur acts oa) ohtizens, mext “to our 19 SANE the samme ig tiate rae oP; © destinies of coming genenatiions and affecting the tory ‘of God in tho 8 of the Md, do they carry them an inaeetons wnco and mo- vousness that can scarcely bo hie! Fes. Tonlized or Welgliod: |Atbervareccynder jecre| acl ‘and a revealing of hidden thoughts, | Tf we had such citizens what a ra~ tion would be Ree within the moxt century, a power eal the ni, Nae silent oe be name we had such citizens what sar 8: whe legislators, what onor, Nor is ther rom. the Attantie to, the. Par | {0% fe social and s—tha mighty tries, but t Lakes and afflict us, in ata with aa coun- Of 80- cial Cane x a3 Bee byt is co i not by a a eligious ie ohalonie day ft Bins truth emi by well ited A standing army is good ant iets ake pla arsenals and fleets of nal pr part! give extern: to a nation, but tho b ean past iis an en- toned, moral end law-abiding citizenship, a free and complete sys~ tem of aati as to meet the just d f every faith an rank end candi on of life, the every “Happy is in such a case; yea, happy is a people whiose God is the Lond,” Next oh ree dpe we owe. ‘to the rch 0: tee “af ait rb her i ina a honor: a s oe Her Majesty Queen Mary took part in the notable ceremonies in Belfast at the opening of Parlianfent. a “rhe Guard of the Eastern Gate. & ‘ifax sits on her bes by the sea In the might of her ane sh tee la) pe wwful is ake Wit sword at her side. To aa and left of her, battlements And is rfirealen frown, tho sits on her throne without | So fav fear, "With her cannon as crown. ; guard and sentinel, watch of weal ® the Ww tion she keeps; Tt ‘is encased in a gauntlet 1 THE MAPLE LEAF In days of yore from Britain's shore : Spee Sie dauntless hero And ufiad firm Britannia’s flag Upon Canada’ 8 fair domain. Here may it wave our boast pride, And joined in love together, The ppever > Thistle, Rose The Maple | Leaf forever. —Alexander Mutr Canada’s System of Government There is still considerable miscon- ception in republican countries on the Canada ernment, and among GGiatoamel caucttans, of tte people a fairly general opinion ae exists that the Dominion, formi of the British Empire, with = monarch at its head, is necessavily subject to autocratic rule, or at least, . Nothing is e teath, ea residents @ have come from inbo priced stale wayon sing ends declaration, she Soe as an in ee under Self- Se ning. Canada is a self-governing British dominion with responsible govern- ment, which means that the will of the people is absolute in the matters of government, and that the governor- general, the king’s representative in it eee so) possess the confidence of the The Dominion of Canada responsible government in the fullest meaning erm, an¢ e in- temal, affaira of. the panna aes Great Britain, whether at Westminster, the Colonial Canada has 3,296 Bekins end ti 3° 998 Indians, fons. tance, Con- internal con- of the} 0 Union. Relations between Great Bri- tain “and Canada are not those of pee aes on the one hand ie sub- a nn. the other, but as between. path Rieter free to do as they will, § British North America Act. ee by the crown at the mel of the colonial office, “By tte British mt nee Act, how- re a them were substituted he vermons—invariably adians ~aovoin by the governor-general |! in net on and Hee ‘ecttattle yore ihe of the prov- inees are the sole representatives | t ‘anada, the The Colors What is the blue on our flag, boys? The waves of the boundless Where our vessels ride in their + And the From the sun and smile To sea, ameless pride ‘eet of the winds are frée les of the coral isles 16 ice of the South and North, Meare gaunt tread through’ ee dread uardian ships go forth. What is the white on our flag, boys? land, The honor of our Which burns in our sight t Lilee a beacon light And stands while the hills shall stand; Yea, dearer than fame is our land’s great name, And we ee wherever For the mothers and Of t! we be, wives that pray for the lives he brave hearts over the What is the red on our flag, boys? The blood of our heroes slain, On the burning sands, in the wild sable lands ( And the froth of the purple m: And it eries-to God from the crimsoned sod An the That He send us men to crest of the waves upro! fight again As our fathers fought of old. We'll stand by. the dear old a boys, Whatever be said or don: Though the shot comes fast, a we face the blast, be the pean of a sword What matters’ one gone if the Bae floats on And Britain be Lord of the main. —Frederick George Scott. ean no invited interference by | Im) y parliament} tereste: ow: The Imperial parliament has far less to do with the internal affairs} ¢; the king im C. ment of the we the apne of the Do- Periiients dy ee onTs pel et ran ia tala by NS crown. Thes' ernment or eas or indirect! everyday political life of the Domin- jon, its policies; standards, or ideals, as much as, for instance, any Sos adian newspaper edi general is the faecal link witn Ne perial government ard:is only ‘n- ¢ in the snips 4 continuous essed at the polls at nthe periodieal elections @ People’s Government. ‘The people of Canada elect their at isi ° thei politi. ‘All matters of taxation are entirely in their own over tl in t inthe frapos' people of fhe. United States. Canede whilst a loyal dominion of the tish and self-governing; and 1e8 way of democracy: ae Soa by autocratic bonds, or extraneo “aes rances to her popular Bae a Sees BOA Lord Byng is Canada’s 120th Gover- nor-General, 1534-1921, Arctic Canada has 640 species 2 flowering plants and three times many non-flowering species, per “Stet ansson. Canada in compa: with nine of the world’s industrial eee is first in extent, second in the aggregate ot ‘its hydraulic power, third in the mat- “ of railways, sixth in the total pro- es ct iron {n its natural state and snags ef export, and eighth Canadian Born. We first saw v light in Canada, the land belo: We are e the. ies ce ‘canada, it mar- ‘Ansi wo; the men of Canad, ci face neath the British flag. Few of us have the blood of kings, And all aes one sais that en- titles us to bra; That we were born in n Canada, be- neath the rBitish flag. We've a e set our money, we've fame, Bat ma shave ‘eld and glory in our name; And a nae a millionaire if only he can brag That he was born in Canada, Mates the British flag. No title and no coronet is half so proudly worn, As that which we See es men adios We eat no mian so iis as the one who the brag That he was bam in Canada, beneath The British. flag. The Dutch may have their Holland, the Spaniard have his rae The cae to the eae of us must uth of For m9 _& man eae the’ men who That. tes e born in Canad: vee eath the British flag. —Pauline Ji obnson, “| the barbaric; and b: emai: dare “ltt Be ae They Many times now I have travelled up and down through a considerable portion of the depth of 1t upon vart- ous cocasions; a1 ere I sit down again, in its extreme west, to spell after my last Journey pyrnety it, to meditate on the thou of mi let my memory ey he collected pictures. Some foolish fellow of the Yellow reas, that Press that dotes upon the shrill, the pit nage the suporla- tlye phrase, se up one day and ask for the. greatest est Canadien writer” to toll it all, » When the great continent nt behind them was but tf Arcadia, a Little world apart; th AncayOUe Valley ant its apple-blos fom; of the Labrador and the Mor avians; of the old-world towns of the Hanan of Quebeo; of the Qui terland aud the habitant; tues of Ontarfo down toward Sebiina-codal steel traps end Mackl- naw cami the ice? of the aes k cal chiming, tawn: ‘tht es me ng es to enother, trails different from y other tradi on the contine: are close to tho g E ir strange history, sophistionted fax from home anid of eyond again field “Inlet and Coronation Gulf, eee ve whalers from Dundce lie) y) ice-bound the winter through, and a lone a ot mounted ened (mount- ed only for the sake of ‘he, Tskimos end ‘human ity keeps urea, tall be put in one book. a little pk Uke a string of for oil, end Tnana trapping; an south of reat Plains, recently with the long-horned steers, and now with the grain elevators. The oes everywhere, even where there are no roads, bobbing up and down over the swells of that part of the carth asa careens in a Diltowy seas "There-tha front of the great wall of the Rockies tay the phrases of changes yet again, By Frederick Niven the length of dt, and have wandered | f1 (| Through the Ud | Who Will Be Its Shakespenre?—From the Likins te © Hien Nor Keoping the Pouca ove e Aurora. common tat are daawn, wgetn, ‘rom other a And it 4s atl The sign ‘the leat ts ‘thelr stam what worlds wway de the Yellow Tesh puma shacks i bends of for gold “Et Ll ietiey over all, through the In “the land of little even in the cities, there is o Rie tho bigness of the land. It almost aD, pals the voyager through ae: ‘donolate a een of the North Shoro bush after bush blown away, ‘rom its stem, bobbing from horizon on an effect as coyote pa Always “tor is this sense of vast ness, by Jal plain and on into the mountains sper electric etorms, when little rain follows, set tho sae) alight so that one whole brittle, horizon to of loping any boats and still on to where the m are the qos) dothet si unalone abe he ed reat, luscious peaches grow, in the oon rs haye sat down to rest, and recall my journey of the last six mont se are the pictures on which I meditate, and I know 2°) tes beyond, westward still: the lum ber camps, the sound of the axe in the bt woods of the Coast Ranges, the ing call of “Timber!” and th ihe dull thud. The logs go down to the mills that send up their white feathers of steam along the inlet sides in clearings among ines and firs, and circular saws ci at a pull of the lever through slots in the moving platforms that carry the logs along, and then out, ew} “buzz!” the shrill sound breaks mounts to-@ sc hum, Let no one foolishly ask, ae will Shakespeare of Canada rise to tell it all?”. It will take a pee volces from a thousand parts to tell of t al. Only after they are dead many, mang years, may someone lump together the work of them all, and inform the cre- ream, dies away to a wide dominion.—The World’s Work. is Majesty Kihg Geo who anapaied the Northern *parllae ment on June 22. This is the first. Trish Parliament to sit in 121 years. University Education. are a few people (there real- ly arel), but eee they are very , who ai to university: Say, lege of the few? Do they forget th ine democtatie country, soir the inalienable right of every citizen All the more surprising it is that ti F : they miss:the point. It has been said that: “a little knowledge-is a danger- ous shane no authority-has mention- Canada Has .5 Per Cent. of the Woild’s ce pr She produces: 90 per cent. of its cobalt. 88 per cent. of its asbestos. 85 per cent. of its nickel. 32 per cent. of its pulpwood. 20 per cent. of its lumber. 20 per cent. of its ee fish. 18 per cent. of its 15 per cent. of its ‘potatoes. 12 per cent. of its silv 1116 per oot its W heat. } per cé; nt, of its tsar per cent, 4 per cent. of tee copper, “one of the Tongélt submarine cables in the world is to be laid between Aden and Hong Kong at a cost of $8,000,000. Application for a to build a Nines from.Fort Multurren, Alta., to a junction of the Jack Fich and 5 5 an; involved in se- EAU APRS IM Higher edusation brings many ad- vantages. s thateat enables its possessor. to enraere tb would be doing much—but, as every rae ad person knows, it sdoon' mee “The niversity af Toronto, the Pro- vincial University of ic, is one, of the people at eo province. ced the support its owners so tl it peers! them even more largely ‘han it can. aac 2 ale Canada to fifty-four today. =) ada’s natural wealth equals a8 500 per capita. ) / Canada ranks seven! seventh among mark time nations. - Canada’s: tie ot Sof 1920 of 1,187,259,- -050 bushels was the , on record and above the average in quality pb woll ag in tity.

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