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SPEQULATION OVER INQUIRY PROCFIURE "INTO IRMIGRATION . OTTAWA RUMORS Investigation is at Sugges- tion of Hon. R. B. Bennett ¥ Ottawa, Feb. 28.--The inten- fo Parliament to have an in- rig into the immigration sys- with a view to effecting im- vements in it gives rise to a of rumors as to the course hich will be followed the people he will be summoned and other ases of the investigation. As 5 matter of fact there has been 4 decision yet as to the proced- 2 nat will be for the committee Yuselr to decide and in advance of meeting for that purpose, no one is qualified speak, Con- 1R-vontinued to stand," Adam. "I can say all I have to say in a few words. I am retiring because I know, now, after'--he hesitated + "aftcr the last two nights, that I must. 1 turning the Mill over to yom because I would rather burn #& to the ground than ses it ia the hands of eny one outside the family. I be- lieve, too, that the enly way to get the wild, idiotle ideas of that old fool basket maker out of your head is to make you personally responsible gor the success or fall- ure of thig business. I have watch» ed you long enough to know that you have the ability to handle fit, and I am comvinced that once you realize How much money you can maké you will drop all your sent. mental nonsense and get your feet @a solid ground." John Ward's cheeks flushed, but Pe made mo reply to his father's pointed ebservations. _ "I had those same romantic no- tions about work and business my- self when I was your age," con- tinued Adam, "but experience taught me better. Experience will teach you." He paused and went sequently, surmises that indivi- duals suspected of "bootlegging" migrants or members of Parlia- ent who have had resort to the | rmit system will be ferretted lout or summoned have, so far, #0 basis, The inquiry was suggested by on, .R B, Bennett and while he not on the committee himself t {8 presumed that members of Ais party who are on it will pretty well be guided by his wlews in suggesting the scope of 'the investigation. The depart- ment under inquiry, or those re- 'sponsible for the administration of the system, are not likely to determine the line to be followed. Mr, Bennett while stating that the procedure was a matter for the committee to determine, in- dicated his personal view, *Han- Bard," he says, "will show what I sald, but, briefly, my idea was 'and is that the committee should ¢arefully study the methods now In vogue for getting settlers in the country with a view to as- ieertaining in what way these methods can be improved." The inquiry %s (likely to be spread out over a month although the sittings will not be daily. No 'doubt the permit system will in- '¢identally be inquired into. Per- 'mits. are not illegal but, rather, @ recognized part of the law, he working of the system, how- ever, and whether, in the light of experience, it is desirable to continue it, are matters for the sommittee to look into and de- cide, How far this will go and who will be involved cannot be forecast until the question comes up. TRADE INTERESTS URGING REBATE Members Being Canvassed Upon Issue of Interest On Overpayments . Ottawa, Feb, 28.--A concerted drive is being made upon the Government and upon the mem- bers of the House of Commons by varied trade interests to ob- tain a confession that thé Gov- ernment should return interest upon overpayments made by in- dividuals on account of taxation. The breach was opened with the rebate to automotive manu- facturers with simple interest at | five per cent, The new memor- andum is rather indefinite, It quotes the five per cent. allowed these manufacturers and then proceeds to speak of six and later seven per cent return upon overpayments. The Government is not #» the habit of paying much above five per cent for its money and on that account there is a disposition to believe that the rebate cry is likely to defeat itself on the six and seven per cent basis. JOYNSON-HICKS WALKS CAREFULLY London, Feb. 28.--"Jix," as Sir William Joynson-Hicks, the British Home Secretary, is affectionately known is watching "'s step these days. Although th Speaker fn the House of Commons refused to allow a parliamentary question concerning Sir William's reported presence in a night club when a quart of champagne was auction- ed in the early hours of the morn- to stand at the window again. John waited. Presently Adam faced about once more. "I suppose you have noticed that Mclver is greatly in- teregied in your sister Helen?" «1 imagined so," returned John, soberly. "Well, he is. He wants to marry her, If she will only be sensible and see it right, it is a wonderful opportunity for us, Mec- gver made over a million out of he war. His factory is next to this in size and importance and it §s so closely related to the Mill that a combination of the two in- dustries, with the control of the new process, would give you a tre- mendous advantage. You could practically put all competitors out of business, Meclver has approach. ed me several times on the pro- position but I have been holding off, hoping that Helen would ac- cept him, so that their marriage would tie the thing up that much tighter, You and Mclver, with the family relation esfablished oy Helen, would make a great team." He hesitated and his face worked with nervous emotion as he added, "There is something about the pew process that -- perhaps --you should know--I " He stopped abruptly to pace up and down the room in nervous excitement, as if fighting for the mastery of the THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 1928 "I will mot returned jaway from the Interpreter. serve the right to choose my own friends and business assoclates, and I will deal with the employees of the Mill and with the unions without regard to Mclver's polis cles or any consideration of his interest in any way whatever." For a long moment Adam Ward looked at his son who stood so straight and uncompromising!y soldier-like before him. Suddenly, to John's amazement, his father laughed. And there was not a little admiration and pride in the old Mill owner's voice as he said, "I see! In other words, if you are going to be the boss, you don't propose to have any strings tied to you." "Would you, sir " asked John. "No, 1 wouldn't," returned Adam and laughed again. "Well, g0 ahead. Have it your own way. I am not afraid for you in the long run. You are too much like me not to find out where your own interests lle, ence you come squarely up against the situation. I enly wanted to help you, but it looks as though you would have to go through the experience for yourself. It's all right, son, go to it! Now call George." When the superintendent enter ed the private office, Adam Ward said, briefly, "George, I am turn: ing the Mill over to John here, From to-day on he is the manager without any strings on him in any way, He has the entire responsi. bility and is the only authority, He accounts to no one but himself, That is all." Abruptly Adam Ward left the private office, Without even a look toward the men in the big outer room who had served with him for yed's, he passed on out to the street. When the whistle sounded, John went out into the Mill to stand near the window where the work- men passing in line receiped their envelopes, From every part of the great main building, from the yards and the several outer sheds and struc- tures they came. From furnace and engine and bench and machine they made théir way toward that given point as scattered particles of steel filings are drawn toward a magnet, The converging paths of individuals touched, and two walk ed side by side. Other individuals joined the two and as quickly trios and quartets came together to formed groups that united with other similar groups; while from a emotions aronsed hv this mention of his patentea ,..perty, As John Ward watched his father and felt the struggle with- in the man's secret self, the room seemed suddenly filled with the in- visible presence of that hidden thing. The younger man's eyes filled with tears and he cried in protest, *Father--father -- please don't: For a moment Adam Ward fac- ed his son in silence, Then, with a sigh of relief, he muttered, "It's all right, John; just one of my nervous attacks. It's gone now." Changing the subject abruptly, he said, "I must warn you, my boy ~--keep away from the Interpreter, Have nothing to do with him; he is dangerous. And watch out for Pete Martin and Charlie, too. They are all three together. This agitator, Jake Vodell, is going to make trouble. He is already gett- ing a start with Mclver's men, You have some radicals right here on your pay roll, but if you stick with McIver and follow his lead you will come through easily and put these unions where they be- jong. That's all, I guess," he finiohed, wearily. "Call in your #. perintendent," "Just & moment, father," sald John Ward, steadily, "It is not fair to either of us for me to ac- cept the management of the Mill w.: out telling you that I can't do p' that you have suggested. Adam looked at his son sharply. "And what can't you do?" he de- manded. "I shall never work with Me- iver in any way," answered John slowly, "You know what I think of him and his business principles, Helen's interest in him is her own gp 'air, but I have too great a sense of loyalty to my country and too much self-respect ever to think of McIver as anything but a traitor pnd an ememy." "And what else?" asked Adam. meaeq thus necomhlad, the thin line WHS Lusascd tuat extended past the pay clerk's window and linked the Mul to the auter world. In that eager throng of tollers Adam Ward's son saw men of fis most every race: Scotchmen greets exchanged friendly jests with men from Italy; sons of England lauga« ed with the sons of France; Danes touched elbows with Dutchmen; and men from Poland stood shoul« der to shoulder with men whose fathers fought with Washington, And every man was marked alike with the emblems of a common brotherhood of work, Their faces were colored with the good color of their toil--with the smoke of their furnaces, and the grime of their engines, and the oil from their machines mixed with the sweat of their own bodles, Their clothing was uniform with the in- signia of their united endeavor, And to the newly appointed man- ager of the Mill, these men of every nation were comrades in a common cause, spending the strength of their manhood for common human peeds, He saw that only in the work of the world could the brotherhood of man be realized; only in the Mill of life's essential industries could the na- tions of the earth become as one, In that gathering of workmen the son of Adam Ward saw men of many religions, sects and creeds: Christians and pagans; Catholics and Protestants; men who wor- shiped the God of Abraham and men who worshiped no God; fol lowed of strange fanatical spirits ualism and followers of a stranger materialism, And he saw those many shades of human beliefs blended and harmonized--brought into one comprehensive whole by, the power of the common necessie ties of human life, i (To be Continued) f "Last Post" and "Reveille" (From the Brantford Expositor) With simple rites, contrasting strangely with the stately pomp and splendor of the funeral pageant in London, Westminister Abbey and Edinpurgh, Field Marshal Earl Haig was buried smong his own people, in the ruins of Dryburgh ing, the Home Secretary apparently is taking no chances of offending persons. At the British Inducteics Fair he declined .to attend a mau: quin parade of the latest fashions fn gaiters and spats and the ex- hibitors gained the impression that, "in view of recent develop ments, prudencew does not coun- te the pr of the Home Secretary at a display of feminine foibles." The champagne auctioning inel- dent had threatened to become em- parrassing for Sir William, be- cause, according to reports, it held for the purpose of raising funds to gombat Socialism, but was held after the hour at which un- der British law the selling of Ii- quor in public is prohibited. La- bor members of the House of Commons had planned to make the most of the affair at the Home Becretary's expense, 'Abbey, close beside the body of Sir i Walter Scott, the great poet and novelist of Scotland, and the burial place of his ancestors for 800 years. It might be said of this simple ceremony "hat "nothing in his life became him like the leaving of it." The Field Marshal, who for four years had borne the terrible strain as one of the foremost military commanders of the allfed forces in the Great War, and who, in his lifetime, had been accorded every ¥coration and honor that a grate- ful country could bestow upon him, was carried to his last restiog place on a humble farm cart, drawn by "wone horse, the casket draped in the Union Jack which had emshrouded it in London. Following this came another cart bearing flowers, in- cluding a beautiful Cross of St. Andrew's made by disabled soldiers. elder daughters walked the half mile from the Royal Armory t the Abbey, where the great Field Marshal was laid to rest under the great open sky, which he had loved so well in his life time. In ac cordance with his expressed wishes there were no fumeral dirges, but a local choir sang the triumphant Christian hymn, "Onward Christian Soldiers." 'Two. thousand British Legionaries from the border dis- tricts, and officers of the King's Own Scottish Borderers, stood at attention, while the pipes played, "The Flowers of the Fores:," and, the bugle sounded "Reveille." Less than 14 years had elapsed from the' battle of Mons to the burial in Dryburgh Abbey, but after all, what a long, long trail he had passed over, considering the events of those years? 'The whole British Empire rejoices that the great and faithful Field Marshal sleeps well in his own beloved Scottish home. of Civiliza War hatreds are almost forgoiten now, and every once "8 & while you see an ex-private slamming on the Perhaps most beautiful and s*rik- fog of all, Lady Haig and her two brakes in order to avoid down a former sergeant-major ed Norweglans; men from Irelund/ TATTERED LETTER DELIVERED AFTER ROMANTIC HISTORY Editor's Cheque for Jokes Sent to Soldier in Trenches KILLED IN ACTION Jokes Gain New Value Since 1915 When Writ. ten New York, Feb. 29.---Sofled and tattered by three ocean voyages, an envelope containing twa jokes rejected by an editor and cheque for two that were accepted, is fourth time. The cheque is worth- less, but the jokes, too dull for printing In 1915, have now a sharper point than the writer ever intended. They were written by a Cana- dian soldier who was killed in ac tion before his self-addressed en- velope found its way to the trenches. Arthur H. Folwell, editor of the humorous magazine Puck in 1915, has been carrying the envelope around these 13 years, never knowing, until recently, quite what to do with it. With the cheque for the two good jokes, and re- jection slips for the two bad ones, he had started it back across the about to cross the Atlantic for the ocean a week after he first receiv- ed It. But it came back, unopen- ed. Im red ink some one had writ- tea "" " in one corner, and in another someone else had added "Killed in action." Jokester's Address The address, written by the ester himself, is as follows: 9453-- Private Gilbert Howe, 1st Canadian Contingent, British Expeditionary Force, F Company, 16th Battalion, 3rd Infantry Brigade, The Canadian Scottish. "Ordinarily," sald Mr. Folwell, who is now dramatic editor of the Herald-Tribune, "I would have thrown the thing away. But some- how I've kept it with me in a drawer of my desk. Every now and then I take it out and look at it and put it back again." About two weeks ago, however, Mr. Folwell took out the envelope -- safe for every couf EE PHONE 22 For Your Drug Needs THOMPSON'S 10 Simcoe St. 8. We Deliver and looked at it, but did mot put it back immediately. Instead he wrote a short piece about it, ex- plaining its history, and asking at the end for aid in locating some relative or friend of the dead joke- ster who would prize these "re- jected jokes" and this envelope self-addressed by '29453' which crossed the Atlantic three times" The piece was published in last Sunday's Herald-Tribune and piek- up up and reprinted by a Toronto newspaper. In the latter paper it was seen by Frank Morrison, at- torney, of Hamilton. Ont. Sent to Mother "Howe was a private in the Ll company which I commanded," Mr, Morrison wrote to Mr. Folwell. "I am sure his mother would be pleas- ed to receive the envelope and the cheque. She probably would be very careful in keeping both as remembrances." With the letter was the same name and address of Howe's mo- 'her, obtained by Mr. Morrison rom the department of national o~fense. Mr. Folwell has address- 1 a new envelope to "Mrs. F. M. owe, of No. 1, Radnor Place, 'vde Park, London," and in it 1s he original self-addressed envel- ve with its enclosures. The ae- pted jokes are lost forever, prob- "ly. The rejected ones, written the trenches in the spring of "15 are as follows: Mr. Skids--Did- your Belgian ruide show you that terrible shell hole by the roadside? Miss Skittles--Yes. Why? Mr. Skids--I was one of the early souvenir hunters who dug it. And the other: Skids-- It was too bad about him. Skittles--How so? Skids--He was writing some splendid articles on the duration PAGE NINE °* HOTEL FORT _T SHELBY © LAFAYETTE AND FIRST DETROIT VESUVIUS AWAKENS Naples, Feb, 28.--The tradition« al "white plumes" of Mount Ve- suvius are again drifting lazily across the Bay of Naples. The his toric volcano once more has en- tered the active eruptive stage, and nvasses of lava are being launched from the central crater at brief in- tervals. In the villages around the mountain light rumblings are heard, sometimes strong enough to make windows rattle. Professor Malladra, Director of the Vesuvian Observatory, said tonight that the present activity merely marks a recrudescence of the voleano's movements, without danger for the hamlets that cluster on the hille sides. of the war when peace was des clared. GRANT IN SIBERIA FOR HEBREW COLONY London, Feb. 27.--The Sunday Times reports in Moscow despatch- es that the Soviet Government has granted a territory in East Siberia, almost as large as Belgium, and comprising some of Siberia's finest arable land and good pastures, for land settlement by Jews with the hope that they will build there a distinctive Hebrew state. 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