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I was not in sympathy with Lloyd George, eight years ago when he was a prominent , But, in the ease of 1.o,erriess,pears, apples and other Canadian fruits, "our market is limited at all times; and when huritireds ot earloads of United States fruit is thrown onto the limited market, it completely demoralizes it so that the Canadian fruit growers get nothing and all that the Yankee fruit growers get is an outlet for their surplus. . _ Lloyd George has resigned as Premier of Great Britain) and I am very sorry to hear it. _ The free trader will s grape growers shipping grapes to the United , they are not doing so tc States grape growers. Grapes are worth, in the United States, over an Hundred Dol1arssper ton-Alle small amount of grapes shipped frmam Canada does not injure the United States market because that market is so immensely large. Lloyd George Resigns--. This is not a question of politics-it is a ques- tion of self preservation and good business. The fruit growers 'pl'), be prosperous and sue cessful or they seas to function-how, then can they be successful and prosperous it their market is taken away andgiven to the fruit' growers of another country? A Government that is supposed to foster the institutions and industries, of a country is pretty lax when it allows this kind of thing to go on. The United" States, in the past year, has boosted the tariff on almost everxthing that Canada has to sell, but-our tariff against United States farm produce remains the same as ever. How any Government can figure out that this is good business for our country is a mystery to Take for instance the matter of pears-when Canadian fruit growers have such an abundant crop of pears that they are of very little value on our own markets, and when our growers are shipping them in tremendous quantities to Great Britain, yet we have arriving in Canada, daily, large shipments ot pears from the United States. It is an amazing thing that in a year when Canadian fruit is so plentiful that it is almost va1ue1essr, hundreds and, perhaps thousands, of earloads of the same kind ot fruit is imported from the United States to add to the demoraliza- tion ot' our markets. .z. o-o-o-o-o----------'.. It is to be hoped that our Dominion Govern- ment will take some notice of the fact that our Canadian fruit growers are, in certain seasons, entirely at the mercy of the truit'growers of the United States. If the Canadian fruit growers have a poor crop they do not receive enough money from it to carry them through, and clear expenses-At they have a big crop the United States pours into the Canadian markets in such quantites that they are in a state of "slump" all the season, aim the @a'nddiau‘growers lose the benefit of their big crop. There is no reason on earth why our Cana- dian fruit growers should not have a stable, profitable business-they have a salubrious climate and fertile soi1;--Ahey are energetic and hardwoNstngr---yet their whole business is art most as speeulative and as risky as betting on a horse on a racetrack or the buying ot stock on the New York Exchange. Wally Aren't We Protected? Oz. - )-l - r-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-r. or-o-tr-o-o-tr-o-o-o-o-o-o-o .2. f-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-tra-o-o-tteo TWO Members Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association. Member Selected Town Weeklies of Ontario. Member Grimsby Chamber of Commerce Issued every Wednesday from the Office of Publishers, Main and Oak Streets, Grimsby, Ontario TELEPHONES-- Business Office, _ 36; Editorial Office, 23 By Frank Fairborn Established 1885 JAS. A. LIVINGSTON & SONS, FANCIES THE INDEPENDENT J. ORLON LIVINGSTON, JAS. A. LIVINGSTON, THE PEOPLE'S PAPER J. A. M. LIVINGSTON, FACTS Owners and Publishers Business Manager General Manager AND States?"--)) so, but to the injury of the United Editor ay Oh, well, are not the great quantity of It was at this, point that the Lloyd George Government showed_its capability and its tarsee- ing astuteness by immediately taking possession of the Straits of the Dardanelles and the Black Sea, and pouring in such a force of naval, aerial Kemal Pasha, the Turkish leader who is no mean militarist and politician, gather together-a strong enough force to drive the Greeks into the sea-and what at first appeared to be a victor- ious march on the part of the Greeks, turned into a dismal failure involving the massacre of thousands of innocent people and the holocaust ot the beautiful city of Symrna. And this was the beginning Greeks, as far 'as conquering cerned. The Greeks, agitated and forced on by the fool Constantine, late Icing,. undertook to invade Turkey and capture Cpnstantinop1e--the Allies stopped this movement, but the Greeks crossed over into Asia and attacked the Turk on his own ground. . . _ With regard to the Turkish question, I am firmly of the opinion that any other course than that which was pursued" by Lloyd George and his Government would have led to a disastrous Eastern-European war, and possibly one that would, have involvetrthe whole world. - far better political ending than that which come to the great Statesman. This determined band of men have been nick- named the "Diehards" and although Lloyd George succeeded in holding together a strong enough band of supporters to defeat the Die.! hards on every vote-yet their propoganda has succeeded in bringing about a trend of feeling amongst all the Conservative-unionists, or nearly all of them, that has resulted in such a situation that without their support the Lloyd George Government had to go down and out. ., In my opinion Lloyd George's tactics and diplomacy in handling the Turkish question, during the past two months, was the most bril- liant work of his life and it deserved to him a Effect of Near East Crisis--.. The Irish question was the beginning ot the downfall of Lloyd George, because it alienated from his support a determined but small party of Conservative-Unionists who would not consent that Ireland be declared a Free State, but who wished, by military force, to subdue that country and make it live as a peaceful dominion of Great Britain the same as Canada or Australia. Lloyd George seemed to realize that the Irish were bound to fight anyway, and if so it were better that they fight amongst themselves than that they be constantly fighting Great Britahr-- so he gave them the Irish Free State and now the rebels in Ireland are fighting their own Free State instsead of the British Empire. Immediately after the war the Irish question was the burning one in Great Britain, and Lloyd I George fought it to a standstill, until he arrived at a solution which, although not satisfactory t all the politicians, at least threw, the onus Man , blame that was to follow on to the Irish ahdllef the English go free. _ ' "r"'".", 3 While political dissension was bounding his Treaty of Versailles confreres, Lloyd George was thriving on fierce political fights which stirred his own country and fiercer international questions which stirred the whole world. One of the most outstanding figures of the Treaty ot Versailles was the President of the United States~,Woodrow Wilson-and he was discredited by his own Senate and badly de, teated at the polls by his own countrymen, and has passed out of sight and almost out of mind. Irish Question Enters-- Clemenceau, the "Tiger of France" was also forced to retire and has only been heard of oc- casionally through his utterances, as a private individual, on international questions. . Italy's representative was forced to resign his office and position as head of his Government and hast not been heard of since. It is a remarkable fact that of the tour great figures who drew up the Treaty of Versailles, at Paris, after the war, Lloyd George alone with- stood the storms that raged around thern in their own countries, while the other three great figures passed into partial oblivion. From his first day as Premier until his last day in that position, Lloyd George probably stood forth as the leading man ot the world, in international affairs. . l Previous to, and:during the early stages of the late war he was one of the outstanding men, and when the country and the_Government felt that the Hon. Herbert Asquith was prosecuting the war in a too leisurely manner, a group of fight- ers,hnainly belonging to the Conservative-Union- ist party, picked up Lloyd George and made hiin Premier, forcing Asquith to resign. The only point upon which I would criticise Lloyd George in the least, during his entire regime as Premier would (be his dealing with the Irish question-and probably time will prove that he was right even in that. . k Lloyd George has been in active politics over twenty years and has always been an tremely active and energetic figure during whole of that time. "s A radical and quite an agitator, but his firm stand against the enemy and his energetic prosecution of the war during the three years when he was the war Premier, along with his astute manage; ment ot affairs at many critical points, has won mrwarmest admiration. of the end for the Turkey was con- THE 1NoEPENtrrii'1iiiiilir, GRIMSBY, ONTARIO las the for Lloyd George showed" UN I prepared to kno6k hirtrd1Y 'sttpted the situation-mot', 3:1,!” he accepted it-and he be over again. f . Mexico should take kindly to the Ford. She IS ats11stomed to oil troubles and internal com- bustion. y Everr-a soda. fountain might put on the biarr' rush if your tried to buy a milkshake on credit. The portion of the country that is tired of pro- hibition is the only portion that isn't tired of pro- hibition jokes. ‘ There are two classes of people; good people and bad people. And the classifying IS done by the good people. Dpn't condemn a man too quickly. It may be that his !wite squirted that perfume 9n his lapel. The question now arises-whether Chamber- lain will stand aloof from his own party, or whether he will fall in line and help them carry the Jeountry-it he does the latter its chances of success are first class. The only fly in the Ointment. as far as the Co,ryservative-0nionists are concerned is the fact that Austen Chamberlain, a very brilliant man, has sided with Lloyd George and urged the Con- servative-Unionists to stand behind him. The Conservative-Unionists have been the fighting party all through the war, and since the war-while the Liberal party has not cut a very prominent figure in the past seven years and probably will not cut much of a figure in the next seven years. Lloyd George now may form a new party-- there is some talk of his trying to lead the Lib- eral party; and there is some talk, also, pt his endeavoring to form a Centre party. The chances are that he will not be successful in either ettort---and in all probability the Con- servative-Unionists will carry the country and hold the reins of Government for some time. The young Conservative-U-niOnists coming on want a political fight-they want a finger in the pie-and the time had come when they felt that Lloyd George Was overshadowing everybody else; henbe the action of the party during the past ten days. I do riot think thtiiit is dissatisfaction with Lloyd George's' actions in connection with the Irish or the Near East questions that have alienated from him the support of- the. Con- servative-Unionists. . . . but I judge that the Conservative-unionists, and probably the Liber- als, in Great Britain are tired of Coalition-what they all want now is politics, and party politics. Wbusands, vvotoatMr _ Tfifigoflm Great Britain thought t,hat Ie,1 9'33- Ge'orge was go- ing to drag them into ,Anothér world war,-what he really did was to gave them from a world war more staggering that the one from 'which we have just emerged. The Turk is T sly and _ils,l'itit 'i),':,,!',' and blood- thirsty-and so long as 1re"i'ifltll 'trips his own way he is a wonderful fighter; b 'll, so Soon as he is knocked down he is t1?i,ti'_'igl It"l,1,t- and willing to get up and say "But1tli1i!,1allltEi_)liis conqueror: Therefore, in my opium: WHY way to keep peace at the DardanelleSg’fi; {ii/be good and ready for war. The YerY;zf}£ lliiiiiyt Great Britain got there ready to fight ? Iltr'i'i,-tp a standstill showed Mr. Turk that he Iliiitysr come to a standstill, which he 'dit1e',iiii),',g, Bi'.':)"' the sly old Turk is ready to negOtiafejv‘iis .j,':'ij, , The moment that, 'ttit,!,,)' B,t,itt troops, ‘crossed the Dardenelles and i,rii,i'glll ti'):'?-)-.---'-)) is now held by Greece-tlit), Ltts' Balkan counity would be aname-senit'iii'ii,:i, ‘ t,iiumania arevprac- tically on the point oi/_-ll",),",,'.'-),',',,. Fii11 times and they both hate Turkey, t_tri,t,_:,_i'i',':'i,'/ii,i:1llll Ev'irisiit,---!so that 'the moment the Turk cprriiii),itlllll liiyi‘ctorious cam- paign against Greece "tif,:',),-':'),:):",',,, filers would. be ready to jump in---thig I Eir'v'e' had the effect of bringing Russian, triti_,,,iiiiii,lll rt',')), Germany, into it, and surely all tsr/tri')',),),, trh‘éhind Turkey. That line of . t1iii)all1 ' i'ks very well on paper, but any statiiiitlllllllll tii: an "ounce of sense, or brains in his 1iij'i"ii'allllll iisee that had Great Britain stood back :ii;'iivdllllll tiiil Turkey to pour her forces into qr,r,i,i/,ri?j,',i.lilllll bald not have been the end ot the mi"tiiii1ii'1iq Eit' the beginning of what Would surely, liti'i'):lillllt lit a moist disastrous Eastern;, war. r,'_' s/s:,:))),'."" Ipit- people in Canadagrgjo iitlet Great Britain was wrong in erii'ii)3ill fthe dispute between Turkey and Grreeiiiii4.lll , else people thought that Great sitairiit1alllll iiife stood back as France and Italy ii'_iiill Low the Turks and Greeks to fight itt"tliti, _ is??? F people in Canadégjffff'éff sé’that was wrong in eritiiif',tlllll “the Turkey and GreeeisriliiBll ll éSe This raiiidmmi)i(,iial tle movement on the part ot the Britisgjfj [Was the first time, in my opinion, _w'itii'ti'iiii;,i,'_alll 'ast fifty years that Great "Britain, tii.iiiiiji)llll . , justice by moving quickly enough t"i,iii1.'vi'i"iilll ‘ right time. . So rapid was/titil-N cling of the British navy---and so qi,iiliri'i"allll 'the/f aerial forces ap- pear on the seeiiic'_,i,i-'i'vra neand so promptly were the mi1itarj,'sr'r,ji$l 1 'sat for action and the whole take weight; 'ijdrdane,11es, that the Turks-had they ililali. 'r-cwoul'd have been practically masisiiiliall I Ei.._.shells trom our navy, shells trom,riii'j,"filllllI Larges and shells and machine gun fireF'rfaftw1hnd forces. and military po)m1iis"iallll mi: were brought "tiril:ii,iii('llll I ill mit to arbitrauoi'ii)i)ri(% , r,,"-. Uncle Josh Says:-- - reat. many1iitiitllllllll.rlp1g1and, and many 'rm-""-"-"--------." shOWed'the Turk that he was EEk him down, a\nd the Turk aq- tion-not PTr,ij:'ric gracef1111y----but its-and he wflIiipot try the same ttle victorious Turks ill and forced" to sub- 1.1ch1 (35!, I emphas P- i importa or} to t.he , 'lavoidab y i J. P. B ot I Bank o i troduce , Brief] It? a tha cerala, Briefly stated, the chief features of the scheme are to bring out approved settlers from Great Britain and fav- ored parts of Europe and settle them upon twenty-tivis million acres of land adjoining the railway lines in the west at present held by private indi- viduals. Under the plans of the as- sociation this land by means of a sys- tem built up by the league, would be sold to the settler at a just price, and‘ he would have thirty-two years to pay for, the property, with the privi- lege ot paying up within a shorter period if he chose". The association also will look after each settler and see that he is properly treated and placed on good land without being ex- ploited by land agents, also accord- ing to Mr. Brown, a vigorous scheme. will be conducted through American and Canadian land _agents to getl American settlers on this land with ticers ot the Association, who ex- plained the aims and plans of the As- sociation to a large audience ot over 350 ot Irkmirton's representative citi- zens. All three gentlemen delivered interesting and impressive addresses emphasizing to their audience the importance of the immigration question to the whole country. In the ’un- avoidable absence of W. J. Southam, J. P. Bell, General Manager of the Bank of Hamilton, presided and inf rthuced the speakers. A most extraordinary tale comes to us from New York. A man of fifty was offered a seat in the sub, Way by a young man of twenty-dive. On being asked the reason of! his courtesy, he replied, "From early life I was taught to pay my elders every possible attention and respect. And in the twenty-five years ot my life I have found that it is the small courtesies which sweeten and greatly enoble our lives." No danger of that happening in Hamilton or Toronto, or on the H. G. & B. Eh! what? The Port Elizabeth museum is re- ported to be now the possessor of the only full-grown guerilla in fiouth Africa. It is possible that the time may come when ‘the Dublin museum will be able to, make a similar boast as regards Ireland. / "This Feedom" for modern women is all very well, but it can be carried too far. The other day a Kansas woman shot her husband because he would not tell her where he was go- ing. Kansas, however, has had pro- hibition for a long time and that may account for it. CWWas not even an 'also ran”; It is to be wondered at that General Ludendorff predicts that Canada will never give support to Britain on any such whole-hearted scale as in the) past? He evidently Judges the Gama-1 dian people by our present Dominion) Government. J All decent patriotic Canadian citi- zens must have felt a distinct sense of shame when they read the report of Lloyd George's recent speech in which he said "How much we owe to the promptitude, alacrity, and en- thusiasm with which Australia and New r Zealand supported; us." But How glad the Reverend Ben Spence et a1, must feel now what it looks as though we Canadians will not be obliged to take up arms against our te11ow-prohibitionists, the Turks. . "cat" proclivities. And Rudyard Kip- ling has proclaimed to the world that t}? female at the species everywhere h s much of the tiger--ior big cat-in her make up. But to say in cold .blood that all of these 8,000,000 new female voters are "cats" is just-as they say in England-a bit too thick. According to the Toronto Mail and Empire with 8,000,000 females en- rolled amongst the British electorate, there will be an undoubted element of uncertainty in regard to the ap- proaching elections. And it adds “One cap never be quite sure which way a cat may jump." In the opin- ion'of the writer this is a bit too severe. Qt course, we know that Mrs. Asquith and others of a similar type have exhibited to the world 0:0»-0-()-0-0-0-0.0-0-0-00()-0.0.0.0.0-0.<).«).o-o.n-»o.ono- a 0:..0-l)-0-0-0-0-0.0-0.( "e-o-e-o-o-o-o-tr-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-so NOTES AND COMMENTS ON CURRENT EVENTS Yes-"and Peter remembered the word of the Lord how He said unto him, before the cock. crow thou shalt deny me thrice." And Peter went out and wept bitterly. ' mat itjl:g gaps BY PETER PETERKIN ,"And the Lord turned and looked upon Peter. I iiiits The Look that Beats the Devil .ssociation, M or of Medicine Creelman, of- ion, who ex- lans of the As- Ldience of over And the problem of curbing the auto-thiet remains. The solution lies in some sure method of recovering stolen automo- biles. Abstract of title laws are devised with this in view. In Enland every motorist has to display his individual license, which includes all information about him and his car, in some conspicuous place. It has even heen; suggested that the owner's photograph accom- pany the license. Licensing of garage men and used car dealers is another way suggested for controlling the exchange of auto- mobiles. But protests arise from all sources that_might be hit in any way by anti-theft laws. . In the busy sections of large cities WW mounted police keep watch over Miss Louise De parked cars. And the federal Dyer ot piano and thee law has been directed against inter- for examinations, stage traffic in stolen automobiles. beginners. Class What ts Wanted General. delivery,. What is wdhted, however, is some- "rr-rl-rt-et-r-ie. thing that can effectively stop the PRIVAT] business of f automobile stealing: ""iri1is772C7ariC, Some system also 1s sought that 1r1,1,1i and boys, top of M. keep the financially embarrassed by,“ .Will Open automobile owner from "selling" his,1938‘“lgfmfln(“,&f$;r3 car to the insurance company. only; all' the' usual Insurance underwriters have found Stitchiggn $131123. 1:11 that the more popular the automoblle$ at school can ebzca the more liable it IS to theft, no mat- particulars, apply 1 ter \vhat anti-thett device it may have; 375, Grimsby. attached. It. is therefore the tr1s-l-----,-,,,, covery after theft, rather than pre-l FUNERAL vention, that the thief seems to fear. Wm For the less popular car can be more'[ G. Arthur ] early recovered. . _ . F‘nnnrnl nirnnftr And yet inventors have come forth with many varied devises, more or less effective, that would hinder the motor car thief. States have been considering and some have passed laws requiring an abstract of title with the sale of every new, and used car. That the automobile theft situation is even more serious- than ever is proven by the fact that automobile insurance companies _ have been assuming only 75,per cent of the risk incurred. ' Until some surer law, appliance, method or principle against'automo- bile stealing is devised than exists at present, a large share of the cost of upkeep will go into theft insurance. And while he is still a resident, or even if he should remain permanently he is always looking to his own Countryutnd he is chiefly at the bot- tom of the agitation for free trade with the Americans in manufactured products, also largely responsible tor the discontent in the west. It one had a fine house full of furniture, cash, jewels, etc., it would be just. .as reasonable to go out and hire a gang ,th robbers to 003%, imam} wrob the: house; as to pro ff tie any scheme for bringing in American settlers to rob the fertility of our land. If it is true that "He who makes two blades of grass grow where only One grew be- fore deserves well ot his country", what shall we say if the man who makes a desert where hundreds of blades of grass grew previously?--and that is the Yankee settler. RECGVERING LOST CARS IS AUTO-THEFT PROBLEM So far so good; but there are one pr two fatal defects in the scheme which must be altered, if it is not to be a failure. The first is that there must be inserted in the sale agree- ment a stringent clause to, prevent the settler from depreciating the tef- tility of the land, whether by way ot binding him to keep so much stock, or to sow and plow under green crops such as sweet clover, etc. The second is the bringing in of American settlers. There is no greater curse to the west than the average Ameri. ican farmer settler, who, although he brings in some capital simply comes to exploit the land, deplete it of ' its terthity and then sell it to some one else at a greatly enhanced figure. After which as a rule he returns to his own country, taking out a great deal more money than he brought in. the'same privileges ot course. The scheme is backed by the British and the Canadian Governments, each of which donates $100,000 per annum to the association. It has a high class board of highly experienced and cap- able directors and has received largo financial support from all parts of the country. 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