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, wEDNESllAhfllDECEMBER 1o, 1924 n‘ We buy trout them extensively and

to our hurt; we let down our tariff bars to give them almost free ac-

"ll" oasn OONVBNTiON

' lpthe prospsctsof the Conserva-

normBvTHliwsY

units: the busing, "ram Pro~ tech" the Liberal gslnt John Glove continues to "speak right out in meeting" against existing con- diti6ns in Canadian Nstonsi trans- pomtzon as affecting the Maritime Provinces. We quote:

"Halifax, Kent County and Mooton City have registered their protests against unsatis-

_ of filings

a; pa» W. Bel- "Pr

I

av WILLIAM "nowano

(Vice-President, Navy League of

(in the Fortnightly Review.) THE JAPANESE MARITIME ' PLAN

GARDINER

theUnltcd States)

. aw: Ea era Asia, not by the crude

live psrtyat the next general elec- tlpasre to be zsuxell by "w ll- tendance and enthusiasm at yester-

cess to our markets; we ‘sell them our raw material to the detriment of our industries. is it any won-

THAT LITTLE RlBE factory C. N. B. operation. When ' _ _ m TgMpEflATuRg

Olilwrtunity comes for other

The answer to this question was gathered by tho present writer. from many of the American. British

Asia.

Ztelfltt lsst “toh s colg sdthe grea oftentimes o tit far more , subtle, more. sxte vs ind more easily sxscuted Mai-it e Plan that the Javanese naval auth- irit-iss. for m d‘: years. have been _ ‘ known to be" veloplng. ~ Stated in the blirsst outline, this Maritime -Plan looks first to secur- ng poll ical and economic control

ind costly procedure ot conquering. t plec esi, but rather by merely sxte Japanese naval and political control along the insular larrier that commands all sea lines if communication .with Eastern

As students of the influence oi

Marilimp constituencies to_ de.

l have spoken about the mistake

and Dutch authorities in the

Fat

- lug Messrs.

dsr they look upon Canada as a “northern extension" of their our country? reasonable adjustment of our trade relations both ‘with the United Si-sioa and our own Mother Coun- try? is ‘it not time to raise our tariff bars, as every other civilised country in the world is doing, and so save our own people?

dayii gr-eat convention in the Strand Theatre. rlteymro bright in- 118611:

As; the result of the ballots liieeqrs. J. A. Measerveyand Don- aid Maclilnnon. K. 0., hirve been (‘hfllhfl the party's standard bearers and -wlll make a splendid team to relin-scnt the county at Ottawa. As we =havc already stated the dele- gsws had plenty good material to situate from. and in liunlly select.- and Mac-

—-——¢oc-——-—- EDITORIAL mores hiesscrvcy stint... ihcy undoubtedly chose the nun they licrsonally ltrlew best. find liuil known to the electorate at A peaaoup m“ ,5 so rare he" WK“- M“ MamKlmm“ havmg bee“ that it had all the charm of a nov- ill, CultscrV-‘Atlve candidate at last e“!

(it-ii tut Election, and Mr. Mouser- wy ilaving llien been up aspirant “M “m... prumlnently before the some truth in it after all: if the in a“ kinds o! good ice hear before Christmas it won't

The city looked like London yesterday. '

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con-stiluent-y

ls it not time to make a _

This old saw may proveto have

have spoken. Of that

"We accent the word‘ .

columns of some Conservative nu-vspaper our Liberal readers might pass them by very lightly, but The Glove is Liberal to the cOro, as is made clear. it got-s on:

"It is the irony of politics that

But facts are fscts sooner this country

and comes

ciare themselves they will follow the example ei the three the! there nsedbe no manner of doubt-

Pialn and emphatic words are £3140. were thi-y an expression of opinion taken from the editorial

Liberals in both the Federal and the Provincial arena should belch“. M “m. h,

to ruallse that the verdict of Hal~ fifnx and Kent and iiioncton will breathe nnequently, because as l bc the verdict against whatievcrhtaid above, they are really small governments ale lu power the in proportion to the rést of the s00...“- wlll c011“) reallsauon m,“ body, and so the everyday work ot‘

many mothers mike, in taking too seriously the little rise in the tem- perature that occurs in children. This lit-tie rise in tempsraturels Nature's way oi helping the young- ster to fight oll‘ some irritation in the stomach, intestine, or else- where. _

l want to say a word about the rapid heart hes-t, and the rapid breathing that often accompany it. The first thing to remember is that the heart beat in a youngster is much faster than in a grown Der- son, and the breathing has to be inst to keep up with the heart. Why ls this‘!

Well in youngsters the lungs are really small in proportion to the rest of the body. In fact we lmle

| practically round,

punished because tht- Conscrva- being about the same size in depth, tivcs madc lhe line to Portland as in width. 'l‘liis tieVclOps as the a pnrl. of the national aystermliflllfl uses gel-ting wider ‘he ilhau deeper, and according as the

rather

youngster la well and plays out- doors. _ lint these small lungs

have to

East in 1923 during the course oi an extensive survey ho then made oi the polltlconaval situation there indeed, among those most ex-per ienced in international grand strategy in the For East, the as suptlon setuned to be that a-n un- derstanding of the Japanese plant in these matters constitutes the in tellecluul back-ground essential foi J comprehensive grasp of tht

iua power upon statecrait realise.’ his would enable the Japanese leet also toU over-shadow the llplomnlcy of all other Powers in Jhina and adjacent regions-with he inevitable result that. though pared the costs oi conquering and rollclng China, the Japanese vould come into virtual political zontrol ovt-r it and then. in effect, :ould set it aside from the rest oi he world as their own pirticular

major problems oi the there

sltua

The record oi thirty yt-ars

more indicates conclusively that the persistent purpose of the Jap anese authorities naturally is tt make the Japanese Empire great and as strong a Power

tior:

and

hi 8b

Wiillf ior the community at large and thc city in particular. Mr. Mes- topped the poll on the first ballot it being practically a {tire-cone conclusion that it would bt- .\lr. Mcsservey and some other,

survey easily

one: e0 interest was manifested in‘ v‘ £85 to be the other man, .\lr. Mac innon was looked upon favor- ablygiom the outset, but Mr. Mc- Luro“ came within 30 votes of him in the first ballot. in the next bal- lot. .\lr. Messervey having been chosen and his halite eliminated, .\lr\ dleeservelfsvotcs largely went m .\lr. Kennedy, and Mr. McLur-o

vvciit to .\lr. MucKlnnon, the llnal ballet llclng in favor oi Mr, Mac- Kiliiion by a considerable major- m) (‘in the motion of .\lr. Mchure Hflcdllllcd by Mr. Hammond Kelly ihll nomination was made unani- mous. _ '|"l|ll1 four ‘finalists all made splen- ii.d laliowings and it was evident from the tone of the meeting that the ‘VOIUTQ would have been satis- fied with any one oi them ills wor- thy oi’ bearing the standard. "MCSAFS htoeservey and lMacKln~ mill-having been solecbed it l5 now up to them and the organization to have them elected. Well organiz- t-d ‘headquarters have been estab- Hailed ambit will be the prime duty

of ‘the candidates to see that they are maintained ina high standard of

. villi-fancy, for in lllc present politi- cal situation at Ottawa a general ch-t-tlon may be called at any mom- out.

'

"OUR EXTERNAL TRADE

1 .

The total value of Canada's ex- ter at trade for thetwelve months’ timing October 31 was. in round n hers 811,000,000 less than for illexliflme Dfirlfld last year. The ‘great bulk oi our exports was to Great Britain and the great bulk of ‘W!’ Purchases from the United Slwtes. These are the‘ flguee for the period mentioned: exports to Gffiblt Britain $393,174,680 while our lmrohasesfrom Great Britain total- lcsijl49fiitil-7i7. an unfavorable bal- ance of $243,944,913. Our exports to the United States imiqilntou to $418,313,219 while our liiilports from that country totalled $534,162,831, the balance against us belng $110,789,612. Our sales to Great Britain consls

bear a goose for long after.

Now the Conservatives oi Queen's have settled on their standard-hearers, the other ,coun- tics will no doubt be doing like- wise.

t

The King government isjevid- cntly counting upon recruits from Ontario Farmers’ Party to carry them along until next Fall. Tltut

may prove a broken reed.

Boys and girls oi fourteen and under have a chance of developing thefr artistic taste and at the same time winning a prize by cutting

in a book the line drawings oi "A Christmas Carol" to be found on; page 2 every day. '\_ l

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(med the idea of getting the three Chief Justices oi the Marltimes to appoint a commission to investig- a-ie and develop Maritime possibil- ltles. He has been in consultation for several days with Mr. A. E. Mc- Mahon, President of the United Fruit Company, and Presldentnof the Maritime Provinces Develop rnsnt Association, and the lat-ter has returned to Halifax "with s view to having the Commission fully organized and ready to start functioning early in the new year." A step forward in Maritime de- velopment is predicted by Mr. A. E. McMahon. of the United Fruit Company, as the result oi the plans he has made in coniunctlon with C. N. R. officials at Montreal for a Conference to be held at Moncioll. Mr. McMahon intends to invite the various hoards o! trade, agricul- tural, industrial, commercial. finan- cial, legal, railway, steamship and labor organizations and the 1MB" towns to appoint representatives l0 meet in the near future for the Dill" pose oi considering the best meth- ods of appointing the Commission and raising the funds necessary to enable it to function. Mr. Ms-

terests should each name a repre- sentative to not on the Commis- sion and points out that this is the only way to ensure that the work

interest and hilppflft. of the public.

The chairman of ‘the Commission

various interests. The Commission

Sir Henry Thornton ‘has abaud-l

an ulid must be put to condlllonsrmls large hwy "Jqlllles “lllcll “ll”- m wmch no “mph? would beAang more frequent resplriitlons. expected to submit." lifonctonl mother mm; l“ mm ‘he young.

_ ster is growing all the time. in llhll Dflfllclllfll‘ EFIBVBIWQB ll llleloi-der to replace old tissue by new transfer from that city of im-,tls-sue, and to keep building up the porlant officials, but that would body, you can readily sec that the have been lorgonen l; n“. ‘rams heart will be carrying more blood now runing to Portland with m and away "m" ‘m’ “$5M”-

. '.i‘lils blood must be purified and C ‘(ll r l ' and an gm!“ and other expo“ the lungs are the only organs that

were diverted to Maritime ports, can do n

nrovldilis work for Canadian, front... in a growing child the railways and for Canadian heart will beat faster, and the labor." ‘breathing will be more rapid. in

order to trike care of till this work,

The Lin,“ jourm]. "n" "ml And so when you read sonic- man". Wm, m: “m”, gravity and wohere that the lieari should boat very properly so- lt was not to bcfl" m (he “mmm “M ‘he bwamlng

, _ , should be one fourth its often. that expected ma‘ “lslmg “mldnlmls ls l8, remember that this applies]

would be submitted to without loud only to a... adult luau, protusts and the Globe adds line heart beats tour to

.-\ woman's] eight

more Art-fluent. A youngster can have a heart boat of 88, and rcspiratlons ol‘ 22

‘hallo 24, and be normal. record ‘

"‘lt is not surprising Maritime constituencies

istlng conditions. it would be and rcspirntlous, occurs very fre-

llttle to cause it. A slight intestin-

arid continue to do so without. . ill disturbance l-i ttlie llStlfll catise.

regard to party politics uiitll the remedy ls applied which wllll forever end an injustice to thtf Marltlmes. Canada is the only? _ country In the world operating‘; public services in a foreign land in direct competition with tits‘

, lJEOEM-Bhlil 10.**Y°\\ are rather 9W" Qulm‘ The. Mmwmn’ Kem‘ excitable and imaginative. but im~

and Halifax protests are more eloquent than a dozen McCimly letters or a score of commission" conferences. They emphatically

peiuous still, very energetic and capable. You possess marked abil- ities for real ‘hard work. You are honest and earnest. You arc quick to understand oih-ers, and to syn!

. _ 4 , , beat" lesil follows that. without greai upon line l0 enrol-Ce lhe lesson gfflilfllel, and the rcsplrtiiioiis will be unugrauons’ h“. more

themwlthdrawing his votes largely "l". clllmlllllfi Mill Dflfillllg llflllY-thc ‘rhrce Protests: ‘than now exist could fare far bcti lJzipan if they could gain contro.

IFurther. the rise i-n the tciiiper»|>'"lll"~‘~‘B 01 E3519?" A51" Bllll "0 lllell‘ lllvlid-ilb‘ against till? EX- nture with increased heart boai-sd-lllimlll Wgllllls- “Plllll- lllem

swim-lulu; ll they pld no; do so qiiently in children, and with very;

Mama's idea is that the varloll! lll‘

of the Commission will have the

will be appointed by tbemcmllflf! of the Commission elected by the

will function under the auspices 0i

mean existing conditions can- not continue."

Sir Henry fhornton’: slqgcs- cation of a commission to be fill-l pointed by the thrcu Chief Justices to confer-with him as to Maritime transportation problems and grlcv» ances called forth at first a con- siderable favorable comment, but not without a conterpolso of critic. ism. There are many indications that it is not now so favorably rc- garded as it was at first At best it would be fruitful of delay, and prompt action ls lmperatlvoly nec- essary. lt might suit Sir Henry Thornton to act as an intermediary between the Government and the aggrieved Mnrltlmus, which seem to be what he would be if a com- mission were appointed to confer with him. The Maritime commis- sioners mlght naturally prefer to confer with Premier Kingnnd his colleagues rather than with a subordinate.

‘in any case the Maritime griev- ances are political. This must be so ii three lay-elections have already been contested on this issue as the St. John Globe says is the case- ‘The matters in question are

only be determined by the Federal Government and with which the President of‘ the Nation-Bl ‘lull- ways ln his official capacity has nothing to do. And it the Railway is to he kept out of politics the less

matters of public policy which can

piithlze. You are kind and affec-

very happy. long life.

Your birth-stone ls the turquoise, which means prosperity.

Your flower is holly.

Your lucky color is pink.

—-—-<+>i~

Daily Selections

i Guardiaii Readers g

v DECEMBER 9, ‘i924

the IJUPd hath anointed me preach good tidings unto the meek:

the prison to them that arc bound Isaiah 61:1.

Nor thorns infest the ground.

flow Fur as the curse is found."

‘TEN LITTLE DUTIES

questions are matters of policy. An honest and just Govevrn- merit would decide them both with. out delay, for a delay of justice ls

tionete at home. and should have it 1"" "lne- g

.1 GOOD TlDlNGS:—-.Tlie Spirit of the -Lord God is upon mc: because

_Slx little duties. sure as you're alive! Never mind, oncls over; there are only five.

to

he hath sent me to bind up tho brokenhearted. to proclaim liberty to the captives, and tliu opening oi

n PRAYERF- can be! ‘my ‘£03186 worm! The mm is Can't be chimed-it's over, leavln No more let elns and sorrows ‘mly “"9”- . ' "W" Three little duties! like a soldier

He comes to make His blessings

Ten little duties; ‘twill do no good

public

possible; to enable the Japanese o, the future to enjoy as high a de gree oi‘ well-being as possible; nut to miiku the position of the futuri Jnpaiicse Empire as secure n.» possible. Nor would there seem t. be cause for criticism of such pro DJT purposes-An themselves.

Yet without regard to such con structivc consult-rations, some seen to think that the major problem: presented by the Japanese Emplrt can‘ be solved by tht- single ex

pedlent of allowing its growing pol .

pulstionto scatter among other n.= tlons. llut those who adhere ti sucli an idea cannot realise tha Japan proper now raises over nine - lea-tbs of the food its inhabltanti consume-which makes it dlfflculi . to find there any pressing probleu of over-population when we recal. for llliitllllCu, that England, BB.‘ gluui. and the Netherlands all hav. to import greater proportions oil their susten-ince, all have greate tituisxtits of population. and yet al enjoy a vastly higher avtrage scal- oi llmig.

in the broadest sense, such con- ditions for these latter counlrit-s——. and particularly for England and. for the NGlllUrlfllldS-—~JT8 tho resul. of their having worked tliemsulve- into such a pollticoszconomic situa- tion that-the human and materln. resources of other lands make very important contributions to theli. well-being. And from such examp-

Japanesu

cr than the present standard ii.

,0\'€l' lhu human and material re-

for their own advantage, and, with the iconsequent wonomlc power, make their own position thoroughly secure. ' ' l What is known as llic old ‘Pcrrlt lorlullst Plan 0t‘ the Japanese to thii. ‘end aimtai at the progressive coli- Rlncst and subjugation, §Ql"€C0ll01lll\ lGXlll0llltll0fl, of such adjacent rc~ ;_cious as Koren, Manchurla, East- lcru Sibt-riu, Mongolia and China pioper- But this rather crudt lTt-rrltorlalist Plan need not de- tain us ll-JTG; for it has liccn [Ltll liornrlly nbuudonetl—primarlly be cause the Juplucsc lilgli authori-

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I I

to_ whine; Ship about and do one; now lhert

Nine little duties; it never pays t0

wait; ' D0 one quick, and, presto! are only olglit.

lllfirl"

l ‘Eight little duties; there mlglil have been eleven: one done in no time; now arc seven.

ilicrl

Seven little duties; you aren't in such n fix; l)o one more, and, bless me! lllEfl.

are only six.

Five little duties knocking at your ‘ door; Take one off to Donclnnd, and that leaves only four.

Four little duties, plain as plain

true. Meet them and vanquish one,’ and there will be but two. .

Two little duties between you and fun; in ‘just n minute more there will be only one.

One little duty: think-only one!"

imong those in the Far East coii-

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ICOXIUIIIlC preserve to which they vould hold al sea lint»; of com- nunication. whereupon, with tho :rest increment of economic itcength the Japanese could than 58in. they could, develop tlicir orces sufficiently to proceed to ho isolation and absorptioiilof thc iefenceless Netherlands East ln-

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