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Reduction of Land Forces League of Nations Writer Contends that "A 2 Percent of Population" is All Army Necessary A writer in an English review handles the question of the reduction would be the armed allotment for a country's foreign possessions and of land forces in an original manner would France be altogether pleased which even if it Is not immediately | with ail arrangement which would practical expresses an Ideal which Is | give her late^nemy even 40,000 mors worth striving for. This student takes the stand that the existence of huge standing armies la one of the chief causes of war and that until those armies are materially reduced there la little hope of perman- ent peace. He argues that all nations need a small standing army and an efficient but limited mililia. "Riots. troops than she possessed? Whilst these and other obstacles would have to he faced the writer deals, in a forceful way with what must eventually be the basis of the reduction of land forces. The idea of aggression and the idea of defence against invasion must both be bauiali- ed in international polity if permaa- general -strikes, organized crime and ent peace Is to be secured. Aggres- rebellion are still realities which must ' sion is becoming less and less a pos- be faced and It would be pure insanity j sibility as the interdependence of to depend on moral persuasion to 'states increases hut the bogey of cle deal with such eventualities. But it certainly doesn't need an army of 2,- 000,000 men out of a population of -40,- against invasion still looms OOO.oOO to maintain internal peace." fence large. It might be contended that there could be no defence necessary If there He then goes on to contend that an was no aggression but the present army based on two per cent, of acoun-j point of view of some nations appears try .s population -would be ample for ( to be that while they would not dream all internal protection. Everything j of making war on other states they above such a figure he claims is ab- must maintain big armies to protect aolutPly unnecessary and it an iucen- \ themselves from some malignant but tive to military competition. If this . unstated enemy. Surely We Can Take Except ion to the Term "Sport" figuring was literally applied it would give France an army of SO.OOO, Great In the meantime it is gratifying to [ note that leading journals are tack- A PICTURESQUE TRACE DY OF THE NORTHLAND PUotograph uere stows bag of deer taken in the Upper Ottawa River Valley, near Pembroke. On'.. fellows, no doubt, but many disagree with, their viewpo int. Britain one of the same figure, Ger- ling the great problems of peace and; man? 120,000, the United States' 240.-] war with more directness and more, 000. aad so on according to popula- sincerity than at any time in history, j tlon. | Such publicity is oJ Immense value to : The proposition sounds at first fair- 1 the League of Nations and all other ' ly feasible but on examination many j agencies which are helping to wage I difficulties arise. \\hat for instance, | the great war against war. Child Wives India's Curse Will Be No More Poet Laureate Finishes Strong Writes 190 Page Poem on 85th Birthday ther," 'steadfast' is 'stodfast.' This new spelling irritates and Jars like too -.mil ii pepper in a plate of soup. Dr. Bridges, however, has achieved j a preat work. There are lines which ' '.will go into any dictionary of quota- j Technical i tions. "Sang his throbbing passion to ' An Indian View of the New and We Trust, Enforceable Legislation Makes Cheer- ful Reading NO MORE "SLAVES" The horrible era of India's "Slaves of the Gods," as Katherlue Mayo has called child wives, Is brought to an end with the passage of a bill penaliz- ing marriage for girls uutter fourteen and boys under sixteen. If the law is rigorously enforced, say its support- ers, it will "make for a healthier hap- pier India." An audacious step has been taken, according to some Indian writers, but it means the beginning of a n*w^ age in social reform. The law will soon take effect, we are toW, and meanwhile it Is being anathe- matized by old-fashioned people who regard it as an unwarranted interfer- ence with religion and custom. While abolish child marriage is bound to | England may be enjoying the last i have: "The Sarda bill will obliterate the worst of the Miss Mayo evils In India. It will immensely enhance India's prestige in the eyes of all civilized na- tions. It will, beyond doubt, add a good deal to tha national efficiency ot Indians. In Its train will come a re- vision of other aspects of marriage legislation and all remnants of .sex immortal sleep' is perfect. ' 'That where thr ia any savagery of her Poets Laureate. Rumor has it ; ther wil be wor - is meroh . pen .pi cking that Mr. MacDonald will appoint no : at a p| at uude. successor to Robert Bridges, should; " H as Dr. Bridges written a ma-i-:-- his Government outlive the poet. Mr. I pie , e or 9tarte(1 a ( ,,,, a , le? , It , 3 for ^^-;^ n ^^\ c Omp *re with yours. I have South Africa Has Few Advantages Missionary Doctor Finds Little to Compare With Canada South Africa is not a country a Can- adian would liHe, according to Dr. Alan B. Taylor, attached to a mission- ary hosjMtal at Durban, South Africa, who ia hi. me on a year's furlough. The people seemed to be affected by the climate, he pointed out, and some went native. They tried to bring out British soldiers after the war and set- tle them, but the climate got them and the practice was discontinued. Now a man is told he must have S15.000 if h conies to South Africa. If he has that. Di. Tayior pointed out, he could do just as well with it in the other dominions. The drought is a terrible thing, and four or five years of it in a row will clean a man out. 12 he has the cash and stamina to hold out, he will recoup the losses, Dr. Taylor said, but many get discouraged and move away. LACK OF TRANSPORTATION. Transportation as far as roads are concerned U far behind Canada. Fanners seem unwilling to give their land for a right of way, and the Gov- ernment cannot afford to buy the road- way, and so no through motor high- ways exist in the more sparsely settled districts. There are no concession roails there, for the people pay no land lax and got the land originally for nothing, hence their ability to hang on to hui^ areas. And the fanner as yet can see no reason why a road through hi* property would do him any good. Service Council 1>r - T( *y- ?r refutes the statement D c that the African railwavs were su- Reports Success at ! peril)r Annual Meeting -We have about five good trains out Toronto-Three hundred and forty '. t her ? f ?F A "> erical tourists and the .n-Aio,,., ,, . .1 ....... ! South Africans never see the inside of them." he said. "The rest of them All good! Many Graduates Work in Canada Canad-iaus, most of them graduates of Canadian universities, were placed Bridges has found no inspiration in ! u i m to explain." the births, marriages and deaths of royalty, the recognition of which was the designed function of the office, and was scrupulously observed at least by Alfred Tennyson. Dr. I dominance wil have to be replaced by i Bridge'* omissions may, however, be ' ' r comradeship of the two sexes. Tlie' --' * - ...... i girls rescued from too early marriage will not be merely wasting time. They Stanley Bruce Melbourne Argus: Mr. Bni'' stands ; before Australia a beaten man, leader of a beaten party beaten by com- of self-opinionated folly and counted a minor offense in view of his . gell . tetere . -Who breaks, pavg." "There will be both),,.,, never been truer , han u win " be latest activity. sa,vagery aud war in tha world of will equip themselves for a fuller life. ' poetry." says the London Daily E.x- 1 " . aud their influence is bound to be felt in social political and cultural field?." How indignantly the orthodox Hin- of those who have sacrificed tlie plain obvious facts to the chimera regard the new may press and the strike will be encour- of hopele3!) expectations. Fallen from aged by none oiher than Dr. Robert | his Kreat posilion cast out of Parlia . Bridges, the Poet Laureate, the singer j ment itself Mr Bruce gh j |lM more brightly in his determined and self- the orthodox Hindus maintain that child : The Dally Express its cue in writing marriage is enjoined by their religion. \ "That where ther Is and savagery, So they regard tbo new law as "in- Uier wil be war" ' He facturin? concerns and other bus!- hcard ^ ople say that they do not llka ness establishments c.y the Technical your open ^<*P* rs '< thl> >' ara used to Service Council, according' to reports ' conlp!lrt I mel ? tS ' but that is a matt<?r of tast?. In South Atrica, husbanns and wivjs have to separate at night, all the lailie^ going" in a compartment for ladies, where four or five sleep to- gether, and all the men do likewise. There is no privacy in that, and in my opinion the Canadian system is much bette- WONDERFUL HOTELS. "Your hotels are wonderful com par- Very few hava baths at- submitted by Balmer N'ellly, vice- <V airman of the Executive Commit- tee, at (lie annita' r,i".>-:ni; at the Council here recently. Included among these graduates were 40 who after leaving Canadian universities went to live in other countries. They were brought back' <o Canada and placed in positions' : ere. Forty young engineers from the British Isles were also placed in ed to ours. Canadian positions. Encouraged by the success attain- tached to the rooms. "Mrs. Taylor, who came from Cob- d to date members of the Technical \ Jen, Ont., originally, said that she ad- S.;rvi<.'e Council unanimously decided j mired the Canadian lighting fixtures. fringing the elementary rights ami ! BrM . M publl . hed re , entl> , to continue and enlarge the scope of record of service and ot ti.eir efforts. The council was organ- ized less thnn two years ago for the , / . ., . * aar uas more uecuuie uiiu luuu uia prlvfleges of a large section of his In-, on his efghty-tlfth birthday, 'The Tes' Ueertul aml unfalterinff courage in MMAJ lutaanrfl Indian snhlert.-r TI.,,. . ..i< i.-. ..,.,.. .,1,. >..) r*;,. perlal Majesty's Indian subjects.' Resolutions condemning the action ot the Indian Legislative Assembly were You have such pretty lamps here. If we hav one in the house we think it is u luxury, and that is all we can tament of Beauty' (Oxford University Press) a poem of 190 pages dedi- cated to the King, a monumental work passed at a meeting at Tinnevelly in ' in which are passages of E reat Dower some British and Indians in the coun- facing facts and presenting tln-m to ears however unwilling. "Hail and farewell," is all that can now be said try congratulate the Government ofj the MadrM " Ht ' n(Ju: Inilia for throwing its weight on the right side of the argument, other In- dians deplore the Government's ac- tions ia giving their whole-hearted support *o "so wanton an outrage on Hindu as well as Moslem feeling." These discordant views echo and re- echo in both Indlan-editel and British edited journals. The enthusiasm of the reformers is re&ected in The Peo- ple (.Lahore), whose observations are southern India, which are recorded ia ' and sheer beauty. to him. He is down, but he is right: iiii'l bis cause purpose ot keeping Cauadian-univer- afford. We pay more than $10 sitie* graduates in Canada .and to month for the electric lights in our bring the universities into closer | house. touch with Canadian industrial, finan- cial and transportation conditions. Among organizations en operating with the council are those represent- here presented in a slightly condensed* form: "The social reformer has reason to rejoice over the work of the Indian Legislative Assembly Just concluded at Simla. The Sarda bill to abolish child marriage is perhaps of greater importance than all previous social- The passage of; ligatlon or Institution * for the Dwlju.x (the twice-born or the three higher casts, the Brahmans, Kshatrlyas, an. I Vaishyas); that it should, therefore, continue to be performed according to The book la aj an , lt beiag righti _ _._ i poetic revolution, the foundation of a I ^.,11 r j se -,.,;,, ling manufacturing .banking, trans- "Thls public meeting holds that ^ new spelling which experts believe j ' ,., may revolutionize literature. "The Laureate, silent so long, has exploded a bomb under English litera- ture. rlvala Wordsworth in sugary sim-l the spiritual texts; that no temporal j plleity sometimes it Is as abstruse aud legislative body of the State is com- ] tortured as Browning at hia worst, petent to niakte innovations in tlie said ' again there are passages of such Samskara; that tlia Sarda marriage ; sweet truth that tlie reader draws his pnrtation. mining. departniantal Square Deals at Round Tables j stores engineering concerns, trust Hong Kong Weekly Press: iSirJ Robert Ho Tung has appealed to Chiang Kal Shek, Yen Hsi Shan. Feng | Yu INi.uii:. and Chang Hsueh Liang lo discuss their differences at a round- table conference i. We fear there is little foundation for Sir Robert Ho bill is a direct violation of the rellgl- i breath. i* 'wil,' 'there' is \ 'It Is said by critics the bill was passed with the aid ot official and European votes. The fact la it would have been passed much earlier if European and official votes bad not obstructed Its passage. On the pre- sent occasion the bill would certainly have been accepted by the Assembly even it officials bad kept aside. The threat had been held out that If the assembly passed the bill the Moslem members would walk out In protest. The threat was made good, but resulted merely in a feeble de- monstration by no move than half a do.-.i'ii Assembly Mussulmans. The number of Moslems who voted for tlie bill was much greater than that of the walkors-out. though not greater than ttuxi' voting against It. "Now there can be llttla- ilouht that ous and the spiritual conception of j "But ill through the poem, as if bis the marriage dhiirma (religion) of the pen were a lancet. Dr. Bridges has 'iwljas; aad that it should, therefore, j jplaced the language on the operating b.9 opposed by all legitimate and table and cut and carved at the spell- peaceful means." | ing. The orthodox amoug the Moslems ( "The Idiom U pseudo-pnouetic. Sit- , also regard the measure as an uuwar- eut letters go by the bord. 'Captive' reform legislation. The passage of j ranted .. intrusiolj upon tue OU8to nlary > , . Hv . , wiu the bill by sixty-seven votes against ( , aw .. applit , able to them Authorliu ,; 1 fourteen inaugurates a new epoch in on th(J Sher|at ( , 9lanilc Uw) crtei , social reform in this country. u iem selv,- 3 hoarse, but without ef- feet. Finding opposition of no avail, Sir Abdul Qayum, a Moslem member ot the Indian Legislative Assembly, declared that "various discordant parties" In the Legislature had col- laborated to secure its passage. That remark is taken as a text by the Bri- j tish owned and British-edited Madras | Mail for an editorial pointing out the j danger of such tactics. To quote: "It must fie conceded that in differ- ent conditions the collaboration which has made the passage ot the Sarda bill possible may be employed to wreck like measures, or to impose rules and methods of life and conduct repugnant to the religion ot important communities. Fortunately tho voting on the Sarda bill revealed no class or communal bias. Members of each : community were to be found in each fhe passage of the bill does hurt the n 'isloua susceptibilities of some peo-| pte. Rightly or wrongly they under- stand sonic ttncteot texts to enjoin child marriage or to Interdict lesisla- tion agaiust it v But a text can be found against every good thing, against teaching the Darwjnlau theory. There must be a limit be- yoinl which the most ancient texts can not be respected. "Lives of women and children are m."--- 1 surrt,! than absurd Injunctions coutaiuod In text*. Nobody objects to some people clinging to the most pre- posterous of texts anil tenets if the Tung's optimism concerning a round- table settlement of the differences be- tween the Big Four men, who appear to have nothing In common but mutual dislike and jealousy. Tlia alternative Is not necessarily war at least not on "Screens, too, which everybody has here, are not known out where \ve are. We just have to put up with insects, because we have no screens to keep them out." Dr. Tayior admits he Joes not like the country much but so wrapped up companies and other institutions. I j n his work is he, that he proposes to The council reported that many ! re turn for ar.other eiffht years and eon- Canadian Industries employed nien.^ea that he may poss ibly end his with specialized training for the first ! jayg ou t there. time during the year, and that a very j Speaking of the political situation, small percentage cf this year's gra- < ha believes that Herzog has cut into dual ing classes in science from Can- tj)o Dutt -h supporters of Smuts for he ad!an universities have been obliged .i'.,. Cau.nla to lind positions.. Sobriety and Prohibition Calcutta {englishman: Scarcely less siKiiificant than the recent growth of a really serious scale. There are j illicit drinking In the United States other ways of patcbing-up differences.' i s the change that has come over the' and China may we earnestly hope j social habits of England in the last ; will be spared another disruptive | fiftseii year?, during which period outbreak of civil war. True, such a there has been a decline of 30 per ' settlement will leave tlw real cause of . cent, in the national consumption of the trouble precisely where it was be- fore. Until the armies are brought completely under civil control, the un- happy people of China appear doomed beer and spirits. seems to have many behind him who in the oKl day.- were back of the Botha- Smuts party. Of Herzog he said : "They used txj iay there were two premiers in South Africa Herzog and the last man he talked to." Australian Work in the Antarctic Caps Argil?: The task of the Dis- covery in gathering knowledge which thoss who have force "at their com nianil is a problem as y< unsolved. effects are confined to these people themselves. But the nation can not be exposed to dysgenlc Influences and to all sorts of physical maladies out of regard for the notions of these peo- ple. The greatest triumph ot the Sar- il.i bill Is to establish once for nil that Tiiarrtnge laws are not above secular intfffereuce." The People's editorial writer thus gages the effect tiiat the legislation to division lobby various communities [ were represented among the "ayes' j and the 'noes.' "Democracy is notoriously fickle. and democracy needs often to be i saved from itself by the application j ot the brake ot caution. Sir Abdul ' Qayum appreciated the danger of joint majorities. It he be able to ' communicate his fear to those en- ' trusted with the framing of India's future constitution, wo may be spared the worst dangers of such majorities. ' and assured that every attack on cus- ' torn and social habit shall be as fully considered nd as elaborately discuss- ed as tha raising of the age of mar- riage has been. We may, too, sea a ; little more kindly consideration shown to those defenders of orthodoxy who are as sincere In their beliefs as the most ardent of reformers." -l - , , Mr. Borley "I passed by your place yesterday." Mr. Buslman "I'm glad y<5u did." Leu' **So your engagement to Kv.i Is off. And I thought she doted on you." "Yes, she did. But her father proved to be an antidote." llgure had fallen to 55.641 in 192S. The change m ay prevent the extermination of the i is particularly noticeable to the Eng-; w b.al8 j 3 ( world-wide importance, lishman who, after years abroad, re- Norwegian whalermen, who have of- t turus home on leave: he is at once | te u steamed into new seas during' to be helpless pawns in the hands of struck with the almost complete ab- ! their hunts declare that the vast rival War Lords. But how those with- sence of drunkenness iu the streets, | wa ters of the Antarctic contain so out power are to wrest authorUy from j which Used to be a familiar Saturday many W lialej that there is no fear ot 'night feature of industrial towns In I the industry dying. They liken their the days gone by. Recently publish- floating 'factories to little shooting- ed statistics are illuminating in this ; boxes i:i an enormous forest teeming' respect; whereas ia 1913 the number w j tu game. Sir Douglas Muwson and of convictions for drunkenness in! other scientists do not share this Knidund and Wales was 172.130. the ' vj.^v. Tli.j ways of th- whale are so little known, iu any case, i:iat definite intorma'ic:! may be worth millions of pounds. ': was wfiif-n th<s Dis- coviM-y \\M-J destroyed by a gasoline ; ". :iiul her captain burned 1 to d r_, Sir Dout, 1 .; 1 * Manscn o-rupori injury but lost the rumple equip- ment ' -. ;'i'(lition.--Kil.i T *r Signing the Optional Clause Bombay Times of India: Scenes of great jubilation followed the signing ot the Optional Clause by Britain and associated members of the Empire. There were "talkie" cameras one of tha disadvantages of postponing the event so long. Moreover, guns were fired. This, of course, is the Geneva idea of converting swords into plow- shares. Tha practice Is well known in India, and so long as everyone has ampla warning few object. The Bring of guns in peace time is no worse than submitting to a flash-light photo- graph befora the hors-d'oevre. Mrs. Flatbush "Where have you l>oen till tills late hour?" Mr. Flat- bush "To the lecture as I told you befora I weut." Mrs. Flatbush "But jjgu couldn't be at a lecture as lats as this." Mr. Flatbush "Oh, yes, I couR You see, the lecturer stutter- ed." ONE LADY EXHIBITOR ARRIVES FOR ,DOO SHOW Miss Taylor arrives at .Crystal Palace, London, with her sheep ilogs for Metropolitan and Essox Caniue.. Society's Championship Stow.