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'- Will Soviet Rule Last? By Capt. J. De V. Lo<ler Capt. Loder, who sat for East Lei- ; obtain cester as a Conservative from 1924 to J929, has recently returned from a tour of observation in Russia. I am often asked whether Bolshe- vism will last. Obviously there is no direct answer to such a question, but It sets one considering a variety of possibilities and trying to arrange them in order of'probability. I hope, however, that no one will think I am trying to set up as a prophet. If by "Will Bolshevism Last?" you mean "Will the system of government based on Communist principles ever become permanently established in Kussia?" I would say that it seems tj me highly improbable. I cannot be- lieve that the putting into practice of the Communist system will not in- volve such concessions to human na- ture and the logic of events that, how- ever plausibly these may be repre- sented as consistent with the theory, the result will be quite different from what Marx or anyone else imagined. I think Lenin appreciated this. Fu- ture developments depend a great deal on how far the same realism is shared by his- successors. Ten Years in Power On the other hand, if you mean ''Will there be a spontaneous uprising of the mass of the people driven to despair by Bolshevist tyranny?" I be- Jieve that this Is equally unlikely. A repetition of 1917 seems to me almost Inconceivable, except as a result of widespread famine or unsuccessful war. A revolt of peasants, industrial disorders, mutiny in tile Army or Navy, would not by themselves be suf- ficient to set the country ablaze; they .would be local, sporadic affairs. The difficulties of organizing an effective opposition to the party now in power are almost insuperable. It is conceiv- able that some form of religious move- ment might sweep the country, but the time for this is hardly yet. If. therefore, by "Will Bolshevism Last?" you mean "Will the Communist party remain in power for at least the next ten years?" the answer is that very probably this wil be so. if only because , in normal circumstances, no other organized body capable of tak- ing its place is likely to arise within this space of time. But this does not jieo-ssarily imply that there will be no changes of policy, or that internal con- flicts will not arise. On the contrary, divergence of opinion within the party about the proper measures to meet practical emergencies may be expect- j d to increase rather than diminish. Earns ,l"p till now, when there have been serious disputes about policy, the pro- cedure has been for the victorious sec- tion to "cleanse" the party by turning out its recalcitrant opponents. Some day this may bring an organized op- po-'ition into existence, but it would, t ii: -r at uny rate, only lead to one economic essentials from abroad. This must be a galling posi- tion for a Minister, however keen a Communist he may be, because it in- volves a degree of supervision that must be almost intolerable, and makes his tenure of office most precarious. Orthodoxy vs. Ability It seems to be the deliberate -policy of the party to make the Government a mere "facade." It may be quite true that the Foreign Commissariat, anxi- ous to maintain friendly relations with Foreign Powers, deplores the activi- ties of Coamunist propagandists abroad and that the Trade Commissar- iat may think it would get on faster with economic reconstruction if things were/ made easier for foreign capital, but it the party headquarters say "Xo," that is au end to the matter. To resist means loss of office, as one after the other nearly all the original revolutionary leaders have found to their cost. A strong man in the Gov- ernment tends to endanger the purity of the party's policy, and so, as the well-known figures, Trotsky, Kamen- eff. Lunacharsky and the rest disap- pear from the stage, they are replaced by men whose primary qualification is that they are safe. Moreover, when j someone loses his official position, he also loses his position in the party, which thus tend more and more to get into the hands of people whose claim to preferment is orthodoxy rather than administrative ability. Value of Personality The party's greatest danger seems ', to lia in the loss of the older genera- 1 tion of Bolshevists, who were single- ( minded and had a wide experience of i the world, and the advent of careerists j and pesants. A rapid decline Ia the strength of the present regime might | well come from weak leadership. Everything depends on the character of the actual head of affairs, who is at present Stalin, the secretary-gener- al of the central committee of tha party, and Stalin is an able man. It remains to be seen what difficulties he has created for the future by get- ting rid of outstanding personalities who might be his competitors. Mont- real Standard. A Friend to be Proud of MUCH WISDOM MUST BE IN HiS HEAD Mrs. H. S. Lloyd's cocker spaniel Lucks'.ar of Ware, champion of show at Cruft's, will be entered in city and suburban canine show at Crystal Palace, London, England. Ramsay MacDormald Lveaves Labor Party Man-Made Colony Miss Lloyd George For Germany Delights Commons In Maiden Speech Pigeon Crosses On Mauretania As Stowaway ort of Communist opposing another sort, and would not involve opposition to Communism itself. Rule By a Party So far the party has succeeded in maintaining its integrity. In form its controversies turn largely upon inter- pretations of orthodoxy. AU sides support their cases with quotations from Lenin, and to tha uninitiated It is often very difficult to discover the point at issue. There is something in the published discussion strangely re- ' miniscent of the proceedings of the! Councils of the early Christian Church. Once a point of dogma has keen set- tled, you must either conform or be expelled as a heretic. In reality these controversies have arisen out of prac- Keep by Acting as Weather Prophet \Vhich Leads to His Capture A red-checkered pigeon stowed away in a ventilator of the Cunard liner Mauretania at Alexandria. Kgypt, and made a voyage of thousands of miles, despite all efforts to drive^ tha sea- going bird ashore, according to Harry Hull, the ship's donkey engineer, exhibited th-j bird when tha liner docked recently. Hull said the bird displayed the abil- ity of an albatross at following the ship aud furthermore, proved to be an excellent barometer during the stormy passage across the Atlantic. Just be- fore each spell of bad weather, the pigeon, which sometimes disported with sea gulls, would seek its shelter- in t'.ia engiue-room venti- Germans Plan to Drain North Sea for Vast New Land, British Hear London. A gigantic scheme to drain a large part of the North Sea, former- ly sometimes called the Gorman Ocean, Is being evolved by German engineers, according to unconfirmed reports received Uere. If the plan becomes a reality east- ern England would lose miles of its seacoast. But with a great part of the North Sea drained, a vast new land would come into being with rich min- eral wealth to keep a population of over 20,000.000. The German experts, aicording to the reports, are considering building two giant dams. One would stretch from Hunstanton, Norfolk, near Sand- rlngham. the King's country residence, to the upper coast of Denmark, and the other around Kent, across the English Channel and along the Bel- gian and Dutch coasts to the neigh- borhood of Scheveningen. the Dutch seaside resort next to The Hague. Dover and Calais would be connect- ed by giant bridges, thus making a Channel tunnel unnecessary. Norfolk and Essex would lose their seaboards. Between the dams would ba a new land more than 100,000 square miles in area possessing amaziug mineral wealth and possibly rich oil fields. British experts almost unanimously view the scheme as impracticable. One described it as "a wildcat scheme." Tidal conditions appear to be the chief obstacle. V Ontario Hydro Buys Foshay Power Plants Bruce County Now in Pro- vincial Company's Fold Walkerton, Out. Acquisition of the Foshay Interests in Bruce County by the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario was reported recently. The Reason for the Prerznier's! Action The I.L.P. Frankly States, "It Will Have to Cross Swords With i ts Old Colleague." "In view of what is going on, it MS impossible for me to keep up JEiy as- sociation. The I.L.P. has lost b-oth Its grip on Socialism aud its sense olllie meaning of 'comrade.' If the st^H lias lost its savour, it is henceforita good for nothing." Mr. Ramsay MzH'Don- aid. Mr. Ramsay MacDonald bai cdiscon- tinued bis membership of tlie Inde- pendent Labour Party. He lia=3 Mit- ten to the Hampstead brancli static; that he will not continue his sti ascrip- tions. This ends a relationsluc> "M the I.L.P. which began in 13}4. There are those who think that thelutrureof tha I.L.P. is involved. "The I.L.P. is definitely cbalUensIng tha Front Bench leadership in the House of Commons." commea ~~a lie Times. "A second question caa not be ignored. If the I.L.P. has su. ch ob- jectionable characteristics that: It Is impossible for the Parliamentary? leid- er of the greater Labour Party to con- 1 tinue any longer his association *itu , it, is the I.L.P. a fit and proper or- [ ganization to belong to tie I abour London Mi-;s Megan Lloyd George i Part > - Sir. MacDonald's accimsatlon bt party, the I.L.P. has remained a aerlcally weak body, witi mem- ship taac numbers only a few he '{buall, ho-wever, as the jnem:>er- sotaip '. 6< the I.L.P. is, there is no like- llhv oo<Vot It submitting to extinction to silt tie wishes or convenience of tha^ ofijdal Socialist leaders." 'Since tlia Labour party- became not me -re'y a national federation of trade unl_sons and Socialist societies but a poi _itli-al pa.-t.y- -with roots and orgaai- zatr^jon la every constituency," points out_=r th Mancliester Guardian, "the pla- .ca of the I.L.P. a9 ( the one Socialist soc ietv witii a network of coii- stir ^ruency bra ii c- h * has become almos t sap-oerfluoiis. ~It lias not t>;Q cuiiteut merely to aa a missionary body as which it ht have survived bui has as- ed tie risli: to lay dowii a pro- 4ra j.mme and to press ii against the ma^_ jority opinion in tlie national par -- ty to waie lx nciaiunliy it o>- leg*riance and loyalty. Tlie leaders oJ th - I.LP. have chosen to follow Mr. ila- -xton ra-.lier than Mr. MacDonald. Tlita^j Laaour movement is not toleran; o! splits, and the more independent th I.LP. becomes t!i* more, prob)- al)' y, will its membership) decline" act delighted the House of Commons re- cently with her maiden speech in Par- is scathing salt without sa good for nothing; uncomradely liam-nt. which was delivered before a wi:aout a grip on Sootali?ra. crowded gathering. Ramsay MacDon- ald. Prim* Minister, whose son Mal- colm a!--o made a successful debut as ivour; '; and Tie logical consequence of Mr. MstcDon- aid's resignation is tha evclus onof tha I.L.P. from the secession of all parliamentary speaker in the same de-! whose loyal!;, to the Labour bate, wa-s in "his seat as leader of the ] come9 nrst - T!le tssua between House. Miss Lloyd George occupied prehensivenes; and s< Iiism may a prominent benches. place on the Liberal her sat David Lloyd George, ! with paternal anxiety written large upon his face, to be succeeded by a confident smile as his daughter got hold of her audience. On her left was her brother. Maj. Gwilym Lloyd George, member of Parliament for com- wait- Pembroke. In tha ladi^' gallery | towards above were her mother. Dame Mar- garet Lloyd George, and her sister, Lady Carey Svann. Miss Lloyd George spoke confident- ly and clearly, with modesty aad sim- plicity. Her topic, was tiie slum clear- ance bill introduced by Labor, which the Liberals support. She told of her own experiences In her constituency of Anfrelsey. where are hovels where "you needn't look through the window ' to see tha stars or go outside to get] wet." heartburning-, but it cannot be ed." Will Others Follow? "Tha wonder is that he siioukM have deeme.l it worth while to reiaanfor so long even a nominal meml* 1 says the Birmingham Post. "0*1(1 as- sociations supply, one supposes, the explanation or let us say jra titilJe organization tu. ruujh which he personally climbed In: ' im- minence, combined with anxlK y no: to display too openly the reality of a grave split within tha Labour move- ment. "It will be interesting to see if any among his Ministerial as- sociates see fit to follow his exanifie. For the I.L.P. is strongly repwssemetl In tha Government. Lord ri a member; so aro Mr. tt Mr. Lansbury. Mr. - 11 ' welcomed tha bill as a i woo ,i Benn. Miss Bond Held m-d 8!r "bold and enterprising measure" and j Oswald Mosley. And for congratulated the Government upon launching a crusade against the slums. "And I hope." she added, "that it will achieve its jroal more speedily than another crusade is likely to do" a sally at tha Conservatives and their empire tariff crusada which the Liber- als disapprove, which put everybody, Including her father, at ;ht?ir ease for and all of them ;h Prime Minis'* r lus accentuated an awkward prol>l=?m.i>f divided loyalties." Mr. Krnest Huat?r. writi-is i a the Xew Leader, the organ of tlie ^*.Il'., asserts: "The fact is that the whole ccanwp- tion of the 'Socialism In, Our Titr.' pw- gi-amma Is siieu to Ramsay M tha rest of the speech, which was j a id's mind and mood. It is stuir>i'l li' punctuated with laughter as well as say taa t ha has changed. Ke applause. Malcolm M/u- Donald's debut was also successful upon a graver note. men la this country have over ta'S period of time preserved a mor-j con sistent body of principle than hs i the also supported the slum clearance present Prime Minister. ' bill and tha Prime Minister's eye softened as the speaker developed his thema with facility ia an Oxford voice contrasting with the MacDonald bur that so often thrilled the House stags by stage, to a more perfect view of politics as a b. toll cal process la which by a ri es of gradual transformations anj at^apt' tions, society moves on step by slop. form $S15,000,000 Invested in Ontario Hydro r~~oronli). In. - * the activi- ties * of t!ie Ontario Hydro-Electric Povwer Commission, r. A. Magrath. char: it-man. stat?d that ike co-opera;;re mill wilcipal tmiertakh,' administered by the Commission lias experienced "a r most snisfnctory - of pros- pr>a-iiy " The p?ak load in firm con- trai ^-u lath* final month of 1929 fiscal yea^ir reached 1 - 1 lO.ii'W horsepower, an inci ease of 153.000 horse power over thatrst momli in 19:!S. Xe*- customer? *!>r\- _-ed by the tToaimi^siim in 192J in- cltidtled four t^vvns, !l I, :in<! Z:'. n nslilpi, in ik ng partatner municipalities 6uS- [> omesilc consumption of : :i:- : hour* pr month in 1314 i.i- crea^ased to 113 s:'M\vr.t hours ia 19.S. ' :i:e) the enhanced ability of the cltlcsens lo pur'.-.ia-e i ijrojt-T d^.:- -.- of c- omfoft. Dvirin? ;h year tile tenth oil mini . . ' d la the Qneenstown pov er house, br power gn- rat ~ing station, to 500.000 horsepower. tun greatest single station in the- !; 210 miles of additional power tratuDsmlssion lines were built. On thes^36 and other construct ural activi- ties the Commission invested a fur- r'.K'i - $10,OOtf,OOO. The toral lavest- nu'a__mt3 of tha _"ommis?ior are now 1311^,000,000. Dt*-urinj 19-9 1.15OO nii!a of rura,_ml districts ers. Thsntal tne. Commission built transmission lines in to serve 6.270 custom- number of rural coo- sum- ers now exceeds 37.000. Th forttdcomiag annual report, will, It ii be!ir-=Teii, show reserves ag^ After many months of negotiations! ' Commons. The bill. h was, was | 3 i a 8 harp antithesis to the pr-eientj Frightened Away at Alexandria. Hull noticed tha bird In the venti- lator as the ship prepared to leave ' Alexandria and chased it away. He| was so surprised when he noticed the tlcal consideration of method, and per- [ same bird in the same spot when the haps still more out of the conflict of personalities. The supremacy of the party is still unshaken. It is difficult for us to realize to what liner reached Villefranche that he called William Pott, an engine room trimmer \vlm was "always fooling aroir.i'I with some bird or animal, any- au i-xu-nt Kussia. is ruled by a party j way. When I'ott learned that the bird had been aboard at both ports he said that they had better cill il :i "Joey." Pott, learning of Joey's value as a barometer, gradually became acquaint- ed with ttie bird aud saved scraps from his dinner to feed him. He said the stowaway became, quite tame, and when he imitated a pigeon's call Joey would coo back at him from the shad- ows in the ventilator. But an extra heavy storm struck the shij) and Pott was ordered to close the ventilator. Captured During Storm "Don't do that. Pott," said Hull. "The bird's in there." Hardly able to stand against tha gale. Pott clutched the ventilator and cooed softly into tlio darkness. Joey answered ami. expecting his usual sup- per of bread crumbs, fluttered to the opening. Putt made a grab, and the stowaway became a prisoner. Thereafter Joey lived below, and Hull soys that they will keep him as long as he wants to stay. Pott feels tbat way. too. "*Sr ' - - 1 - 1 ml not by a Government. Whatever party is in power In Kuplaud takes on a national complexion. While It is In office a British Government Is rela- tively independent of the caucus of the party to which it belongs. In Rus- sia the party 4ti;anization Is the ouly real power. Stalin, who is a virtual dictator as General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Party, is not a nieniher o flue Government at all. The policy of the party becomes the policy of the Government, because the bodies which elect the Council of Peo- ple's Commissars (the Cabinet) are dominated by the party. It is for this reason that to the outside world no difference can be- discerned between the activities of the Government, the parly, ami the Third International (which is also dominated by the Hus- lian Communistic Party i. Internal Difficulties Internally, thre is very often any- thin:; but. harmony. The two chief of- ficial newspapers. Izvestla. the organ of fie Government, anil Pravda, the of the party, do not by any alwuys sing the same tune. There is a p > :<il>le line (>f cleavage here. Tlie Government has to deal ,wi.ii actual situations. It has to ad- minister a country, the vast bulk of .which la non-Communist, aud to main- tain relations with other countries all tost iK- to Communism. It works with staff of officials and technicians very fw of whom are Communists. The Government has a natural In- clination to compromise, but at pre- lut it Is dominated by the party. The business of the party headquarters Is to se th.U compromise goes no fur- ther than Is absolutely necessary to an agreement has now been reached It Is understood, whereby Bruce coun- ty is brought within the Hydro fold. The price involved in tha purchase of the Foshay Interests is said to be more than $500.000. While the terms of the agreement have not been announced, it is under- stood to be a complete clean-up of the power situation in tha Bruce, penin- sula. tha key that would open better houses for those* wlio need' 1 i th-rti the most. Pray for the strength of god; Strength t > await His plan. Hlsa from tha knees less clod Thau when toy prayer began, reveuc a breakdown at home (ytj to i More of a mau. A Prayer From a Little Room Here is ;i quiet room: Pause for a little spat. And in the stillness cool, With hands before thy face. Pray for God's grace. Let no unholy thought Enter thy musing mind: Things that the world has wrought, Vnclean, uutrue, unkind, Leave them behind. Little Circumstances Little opera tickets. Little supper -Us, Make the young man's tailor Wait aud wait and wait. He: 'They can say w.iat they wan'. I'm a self-iuadu man." She: "Kor heaven's saka. George, do you mean tj say you have the job fin- ished?" -. Mil Bear cubs, found by ranger in Glacier National Park, are seen here in a frolic with their guardian, who hopes to find the moUer trjiu whom 'hey probably escaped. I.L.P. view. All his tradition, and thought was bound soon r or later to lead him to take hn i>r estntj step. Nothing Gained by Useless R(P> ni "J "Nothing would be. gained bj^- un- less repiuings. With >ut fuss tr" 1 de- monstration the Premier lisa JsclJeJ to rnaka a clean, break. All tin I- 1 '!'- can do Is to pay glad tribute t =0 llw work he did to build up this early, and to turn to the work of loJay Mil, to-morrow. The past is behind- Oulyi tha future matters. "But it will r.ot be easy foar the! I.L.P. to escapa from the thts man's personality. He an easy man to live with. He i - likely to change. But he remain is likely to remain, the uncbaH<s>nseJ leader of the Labour Party, \\~itliin that party the I.L.P. will have t" -is''' as it has always done, for in <' n point of view. "4n the day to day battle ol MOM it will have to cross s-.v.'nU wit hits oKI colleague, but that it will cBo so with a vivid remembrance of il'- " '' ilays of Intimate comva.ieshii) '!! be I the deepest wish of all to whoa i the I triumph of the coni!i..vi .-.i-.;-e i.=s the i compelling motive." "In the old days bef.nv t!u> $J>" i.i'1"! j movement captured the Trade I' ca Ions, ! the I.L.P. was the driving force " as- serts the Scotsman, "and r :l everything else in the Socialist c aw. It \\ is uever numerically strongr, but it made up by ceaseless enersy~ nJ unremitting propaganda f''r i> : numbers. Wi'H the permea'.iun o- t the i Tni-ia I'niuns. however, th-. l' : ' of the I.L.P. weakened, the baton oeof ' power jiiissiu:: into tha hands ; ''-' i Unions. "The formation of local So. till i parties was another blow to l9 in- I fluence. I'ntil then practically llw I ouly way to enter the Socialist oiovfr j ment. If one was not a Trade l~ln ' 1st. was through the I.L.P. "But with the institution of local Socialist parlies a new path to ^ruetti- bershlp of the Socialist movement ns opened up. of which Increasing ait vantage had been, taken. Tliuas. la spit of tha vast srowth of th( S octal- Fairly Old Trer^es and "Turtles Found ir N-Sew Mexico 40,000,000 Ye-ars Old X- <iw Haven. Conn. Discovery of I'erhr3apj tli i;x;-et aud oldest of al: I'etr ::1-d !I.I:'!-A K>d forests \V:K mad kno^f^rn hors l>y- Prof. (icors;e H. \V>- laaj i of Vile I" n: vers/y. ->io perform- ed frigid work Tn tlw S;i:i Juan Basia uf X~^Tew Mesico the lust: wo summers Ttr-iir.i !i-< _: -. ' :( specimens o: hardJHwooils, petrified i-yc.id^. palraet tos, ' tree fern root-". th mor^p^ usual pinos. togfthor with soai iii'i - - of turtl - - .1:1: : . ~aurs, all ol "- '! :i llvpd about (i.inni.iwn ago. acoonllug to the professor. l:i the period known as the venl- e divisii.:i o? t be upper C:- time . thsgi'i'.i" interior "Pierre S<.'a' . iu'J (r-Mii the region of the pre- sent i;;;;( <{ >IoxiiM to tha Arctic Oceuaan, and tlie present San Juan baslczn region constituted a great Bat conn ;ry of swamps and boyous. "i liesefossilat from :'.!,> "Mosavenle 1 of tt*i9 San Juan basin of extraordin- ary ^-variety niak e possible one of thiise raw opportunitios wlion we can bring Ju alatiiisoape of byj-.ine tim-.'s." -sor \VielanJ iM. "The Invent !- gatlcn^n oftlia new material is well un- der - way." Pi of. Sa:ir'r?; J. li.M-nrJ of t'.n sclio ol of toros; ry li;n veritiod the de- !i'!i: itloi of several of tlie spct-ies of _ .irdMwN -.v 'v.i-h ,ira of remark- able pro*' 1 ;".. - " ' ' ' ": - o i' the .Hag!" aal ; :a i -.! -uitly at bl'llta t-he