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" -------------------j _ __ l_ v ` . _ 4 . -TXEIIZ snenurmnca. \ European gjtuation lamp-`roves With the news from European centres_ indicating more chaotic conditions than ever before, it; is refreshing to havens- auranoes from auchhmen as Premier Bonar ` Law and Lord Curzon; Britain`: Secretary of foreign affairs, that the situation is `really improving. . Both have recently gone ' on record as declaring/that the betterment in -British trade is marked. national reven-I ties are meeting expenditures, and the debt! is being reduced. . Bonar Law was emphat-I ic in his statements to a miners {delegation} which asked for readjustments in wages. .gieir particular trade he pointed out was oming now and under agreements jn ex- istence, wages would automatically increase, if that condition continued. Such frank talkajv is a departure from -the usual promises of 4, eonsidera ion and discussion looking to; oomp'romise. A Q ___..___L \ I "France in Ruhr While Premier Bonar Law and Lord Curzon are taking a more hopeful xew of the European and Near East situation than most commentators. France is continuing to strengthen her hold iii the Ruhr. It is the opinion of Sir John Simon and the F xee Liberals in the House of Commons seeming-' ly. that France will stay in the Ruhr per- petually. The demand of the Fr-encli is" for the payment of thirty `billions of dol- lars as the price of evacuation of the heart of industrial Germany, - Bonar Law him4 self is authority for a statement made some time ago that this gure cannot be met by the Germans. Meanwhile the United States has sent a special representative to Paris whose duty it is to collect from Germany` `iiirect or through the allies, two hundred and fifty million dollars for the cost of the American army of occupation on the Rhine, recently withdra n. It is regarded by the French as a hopeess task. and it is hardly possible that the United States will loot: to Britain to aid in the collection in view of recent events. \ In Plaxion. -n. v ----- vu---cu-v Lord Curzon has `come out with an stinging condemnation of what he temis the policy of universal skedaddle. ad~i vocated by many newspapers and the Labor!. party. 'I`he.idea that Britain should aban-l ,don the mandated areas of Mesopotamia. Jerusalem and other places, and get out of l Constantinople on the bidding of the Turks, 1 was "repugnant, -He recalled withdrawal: from Egypt. the Sudan, the Transvaal and * the Northwestern frontiers `of India in re- sponse to clamors of bygone years, the net: i ` result being that Britain had later been I compelled to go back and straighten anti entanglemems there at great cost in lilood ` and tears. This vigornu.== declaration by the l British Foreign Secretary will probably clear ` the air and do moieto quell agitation l against Britain elsewhere, than :myt.hing ` else. ` English Labor Helps Huns One of the significant developmenlfs of the French occupation of the Ruhr is thol Keep your Health ! Use the old Ieli/AUG THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 1923 Universal Skedaddle_ `"BA.N "n'Kh"`uE' OND haul: KLfA};ioT;I;" Ewi.l'li_\:IA`|-.E A story not without its moral comes from I Ballenstedt, a little German" town where` the ancient walls and watch towers havel been sold to a contractor. He will have them torn down for the fine building ma- terial of stone and brick which they con- tain. The municipality sold the walls in order: to raise funds for civic purposes. Like many other historical relics in the` I old world, thewalls of the town, built orig- inally for defence in feudaldays, had been preserved with care and were a matter of civic pride. Defences of this kind would have been of little use against modern in- struments of war. Indeed the futility of more modern and massive defence works against the great guns and the .exnl(.si\-es of the day, was proven in the world wai' on many occasions. *Billions of dollars are still being spent on weapons and equip- ment for war that would be far better ,,__.I__ I-.. LL- Cbnsult bout nearest ;\Branch ' Manager about -your requirements. " `Capital - $5,000,000 Reserves `- ,$7;O00,000 For a Fixed` Easter Date . I The Congress of the International Cham- ber of Commerce. meeting in Rome this! month. ma_v take a vote on a proposition, favoring a fixed date for Easter. The sec-j ond Sunday in April is suggested. Business: organizations in Britain and on the con-'; tinent are said to regard the ideawithf ' approval. and a considerable body of church authorities is reported to have no objection. A number of reasons are advanced for the! change." some havingtto do with holidays' and the division of the year. A better one, is tha it is the nearest Sunday to the gen-! erally accepted date-of the profound eventl the Christian world commemorates. Stdl another good one is that the averagedate of Easter for the past one hundred _vears la `April 8. The s'rongest opposition to any change would doubtless be encounteredrinj, the sentiment of the-'people. There .Ii_s-...,van innate shrinkage from alterations in matters ., where tradition and religions feeling gaze! paramount. I . I ;-.1 German Trade Growing ` British and United States trade with` Germany is growing. In New Zealand,"i` where feeiingion the matter has been very` strong since the war, the government isi bowing to the gradual change` in public opinion. Restznrption of trade between `me two countries has been sanctioned to be- coxnaeffective from -September last. Events-. of this kind are remin'der_.s of what Ger-[ many lost by her `madness for conquest} Her trade was growing tremendously. and; faster within the British Empire. peri`..':p.~`.l than elsewhere. From many countries` inl that Empire she has long been barred. and now she must be content to win back mm-} fidence and trade in the face of suspieio:`.:<` and resentment that still smoulcler; i ()1 but: uuy, wan pnuvcu ul Ivuc vvjuuu wall` of dollars! equip- would expended in constructive works for the good of the variou nations in.partic11lnr. axfd.of mankind in general. `v TheoAngora government has before It`:-J proposition to.'compel all male Turks to marry before ~reabhing the age of twenty- P (Many Drug Addict; in` Canada Canada is faced with a stern duty in the slxppression of the drug traffic and drug; habit. The stvehistics presented to _thez House of Commons and gathered by the Mounted Police, indicate at least 9,500. drug rldicts in this country. If that many arei etnnwn the actual number must be much Ithe DominionWaccording to the figures. is; the province of Prince Edward Island where! there are no known addicts. no drug ped-i dim-s and no convictions so far for con- lurger.' One_bright spot on the map of? traventions of t.he'law for the suppression_ of the drug traffic. - will he `at turday. Throat. 5 pm. orth 3326. ..._.v u... v --.`-_ business, require varying amounts of extra capital \ at par- ticular `times. ' opposition of the `British Labor party, whichl is not showing any mellownese with thel lapse of time. As a backing to the atiicial attitude of the party in the House of Com-. :mons. the,,Trade Union Congress has votedl five hundred pounds to German trade un-i ions. It has also issued an appeal to af- filiated organizationa to provide more funds for,the struggle against the enslavement of the workers in Rvihr."' In other words jthe opinion is that the` action of the French [means that theindustrial workers of Ger- }many are to be compelled to toil for longer i hours without additional recompense in order to meet the reparation payments. Apart {mm the `Labor ranks'there is 81 `strong body of opinion in Britain. which; .',holds that me` course of the German gov_-. if-.i'nment has been d`ctated by themonopol-: ists and capitalists, who `are anxious to` gsave the'r own skins at lhe expense of; 'the masses. At this distance it is nut! `possible to speak with certainty. on these} Iconflicing actions. views and incidents! {It is certain. however. that the Ruhr sit-i . uation has lost none of its potential danger I S 4 Farm Banking operations, ' `like any" other ~A 'farmer s_ banking needs are regarded by the Bank of_'TAoronto___,as on precisely the same basis as those of any 'other Business and receive the" same careful. considera-. tion. Town Se||sAWa||s for Funds To Make Male Tu`rks_ Marry probate of ution. and ancer. etc. A 3-..}- ne ' `fire. Montreal taxes its bachelors but finds some trouble in getting them all to meet their obligations in that regard. The Turkish government is probably of opinion that a tax -on its bachelors wouldn't bring , any money into the treasury at all. Turks [are `poor taxpayers `and they have killed {off hundreds of` thousands of people who `used to pay taxes to them. If the propo '.s`ition is a_ serious one it is probable that it.is cold bloodedly designed to perpetuate the race which has suffered a gooiledeul `through a long` succession of wars. l ' . Over 500,000 Years and The scientific world is in a flutter over the announced discovery in Patagonia- a region divided between Chile and thu- Argentine Republic--of a skull of the Ter- tiary period. This would mean that in-in existed on this continent some five hun- dred thousand years before the time pre- viously thought by the scientists, and long before the 500,000 year old skull discovemd a score of years ago in Java. Some ancient walled ruins were found also in Patagonia, but these it is believed are coparaex I modern, not more than twoor three thous- andyears of age. When the learned men of the world begin to advance theirrargu- ments and proofs to show that man dates back to at least five hundred thousand and perhaps one million years_. alot of things seem to. fade into insignificance. Some of these discoveries also show that the ancients had knowledge of some matters that mod- lerns pride themselves upon as belonging to later ages. A lot of fine spun. theories as to the dissolution of the earth within a certain number of years, the exhaustion of fuel-supplies and gases, and co-related mat- ters will all have to be revised in view_9`f later discoveries. ` " UIVU UA}JC_UlIU\ln . 7 Four cash prize will be giveq. __ For further information write or apply F. G. Woolcott, Secy.-.'I'reas., 224 John St., S., Hamilton, Ont At ,a meeting of the Dominion Checker Aesoiation held at Hamilton, Ont., Feb. 19, arrangements were Qompleted for their eighth annual tourney for the Canadian Championship which will be held at the Y.M.C.A., Hamilton, Ont, beginning April 2. ` Entries from most of the Provinces _.__ __.__-_L__I Given good weather conditions. the month of March should bring to Eastern Canada the largest maple sugar production in her history, as during the past year much new equipment has been purchased by'_-East- ern Townships and Southern Ontario farm- ers. The maple -bushes of Ontario and Que~ beep are worth over ten million dollars a year to their owners. - msmc PRICE or PuLPvvboo The Ontario Paper Company, which is owned by the = Chicago Tribune, recently, leased 2,000 square miles, of .puIpwood lands `from the Government of Quebec, on the Manicouagan `River. The price paid isl the highest ever recorded in the annals of Canada s timber industry. It works out at about ($4.50 per cord of pulpwood on the st-ump, e which means in the form of standing timber. Added to this price is the high cost pf logging, plus transporta- tion to a -pulp `mill, and the transport of the pulp to the paper mill at Thorold, On- tario. 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