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MONDAY, DECBMBEA 19. 1988

The thing that is puzzling in connection with ti"? HellllllllhKing Cnnilintt Sal's the Ottafllla this day, with not a single public house upon its ~ correspondent of Saturday Night, is the timing acres- Sines a poll of this war declaration. Why should the pre- Christmas peace of the capital have been shat- tered by the Rogers-Howe bombshell: What, 1f viarious athletic games. If the clan consciousness "lwnlq- tll° tlW-tl“ d° "Y" t° anything» d0“ the Gnvfifnnlem ltn°lv t°daY that wholly died, certainly the kilt and the piper would some, om w mo” mou- com. it did not know {W0 months 38°? The Hellhnfll‘ disappear. A terrible insult was given to all inon interests. Yet the virtue of °ntll5~ clansmen recently when a London magistrate

Hdll‘ ruled that a man playing the pipes in the streets each both internally biirnfis attitude on the South Waterloo by-elec- was I'm-eating a pobjgo nuisonooj- Many Low. ternatlonal relations without re-

- Duplessis alliance has been at work for m hammering the King Government. Mr.

ti°n llltlllnhl)’ Pilnd nP a gddd nldlly V°t°§ t° add landers, reading their papers, feared that this welcome oonomong The“, h, no theft? "Pen would bring the clans in force over the border. occasion to allow gratification over tfldins h-"dly ins-iii)’ Ml‘- Hnlvnls illtllglllnél “Sc But, nowadays, apparently Highlanders are more of the word “jilotting" to describe the Hepburn forg;,,;ng_ campaign. Plots suggest treachery and treachery P°int5 the linger» nnl nl Tnrnnln 01' Qtlcllec but of Scotland in which all the separate parts are at Ottawa and Ur. Kings cabinet itself.

In 1 SBHTCh i0!” the llldnsi which lllls lliclildell they are traditionally associated. Until, under a roll-call of hlr. Hepburn’s fe\v personal friends tho pressure of taxation and other influences, at Ottawa, three ministers have been placed great estates a" over Britain hogan to brook up, Ycnilllllled a large part of each of these territories was held their loyalty to the Prime Minister. If the pur- by the respective dang chiefs_

to the Conservative majority. But

under suspicion All three have

' dis h pose of the Government's move was to_ bring mcggggggoglgiegfssw Ilgrsgielérezl; the traitor into the open before the parliamen- they have not the talent to gain.

. tary session, it has so far failed. But the sages J- that put two and two together and make four, five or six are telling their friends to watch the events of the next week carefully for clues. Some are going so far as to narrow this down to one particular development expected before

Christmas. -

The Royal Visit

A proposed itinerary for the King and Queen on their coming visit to Canada has been pre- pared by llle Gllvelllmelll and will l0 London tawa and Toronto Liberals these days-abad for approval or amendlment. It is a foregone example for the rest of canadzL conclusion that many proposals that have been a a 4 sent to Ottawa will not be included in the pro- gramme, because that would give their Majesties altogether t°° billy a llllle and Spml llle plells- Prohibition Law under which they owe their ure of the trip for them. Canadians will give existence?

‘than! a magnificent welcome but» they also want

them to enjoy the visit.

. Tlli! first Visit °i n Blltlsll Stlvemlgfl t‘) can‘ York drug firm went to look for it, then the dent "l" wlll l)‘ a great event lo ellely Seclloll of the banks must be out that much, and must recoup "ch 35° °lt¢ll hill" W955?" i-llfi country, but most Canadians will be sensible about

it and will agree with the Lethbridge Herald when it says that the best service we can render to the King and Queen is not to rush them "lllllld lllc colllllly and lallglle lllem S‘? gleally for. the forthcoming visit of’ their Majesties, that llley wlll leave Callilda Pllyslcally lllell ‘ml’ King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. Enthusiam “Let us make their visit so agreeable, so en- could hardly be greaten joyable," it says, “that they will sail from our a a shores with a high opinion of the thoughtfulness, goodness and loyalty of the Canadian people.’

A Crook Reformed

‘A IfllfCd NEW YOfk pOllCflflan WIIO “I38 QUE 3,8QQ,QQQ gf {hggg we“; totally unemployed, at the leading characters in a best seller, and big- t‘ * l‘ n gest theatrical draw, has just died in the person of Mr. Henry Valentine. Art this season ajwt cipally in the manufacture of fertilizer was valu- mid om; whim, w“ med w man- inappropriate gift to young, Old. well or infirm. ed at $10,266,953 in I937, an improvement of “IN-mire the rails would be O. Henry's “A Retrieved Reformation." 45 per cont over the toga] of $7,075,331 fgpqftgd Having himself served a prison term, Sidney for I936. In addition, there was a production main in dplace and in service not- POPW‘, 0f 0- Henry. i! ti"! Wflfld lmliw lnnlv of 255,549 tons of fertilizer materials valued at wltllltnn n8’ understood how to make even the convicted crook $5,745,806 in I937 and 198,848 tons at $4,299,- human and appealing. Surely one of the_most 732 in I936, by establishments which were classi- a pealing burglars in literature was Jimmy fied m 0111m- jndustfia] gfgupg,

, alentine, hero of “A Retrieved Reformation’, i * fi ll and of Paul Armstorngk later dramatic version of the brief tale. "Alias limnll! Vdldlltilld-l’ Times: “Scientists have discovered the Winter illllllll)’ was the Yeinllntd Clacltsnlanjlvhme 9m‘ habitat of theipopular restaurant item, the shrimp, Sill“! 51185", Sandlldlleted t0 th° quick. ellflhlnd off the coast of Central Louisiana. Hitherto the him to feel out the combination of a bank vault ooumry, in Winm-rh“ had to struggle along on WhiCh had illlPlisdllnd l clllld- A Eiltltll-l! lldtl‘ refrigerated shrimp, but this will soon be rem- hI-mBkI-d. Harts, said: "The future light on the thin material out of which a genius cog“; A pm flee, of fishing 1,0,“, {mm ,1] o! democracy in this ooun rests Call Wwvl! Sllllh I- 5t°l'}' mines with ti" duftll the Gulf States is already on its way to the shell- of Henry Valentine. Apparently Mr. Valentine fish sandman And this goes on undo,- on Ad- il-lPPlied °lllY tll° llnllle 0i the chief dhdfdctel» ministration which feels bitterly and has spoken WhilC O~ Henri’ hilnieli was ti"! tlliglllal linlnlY- out strongly about our squandered American Henry Valentine Often recalled hOW 0m lllfllllv heritage. We have raped the fields and ravished l‘ Whm hfl W115 °l1 dntY at tlld °ld Mlllllttlj? Silt" the forests and gutted the mines and plundered Slfllilini Sidney P0361’, nit" a 8n)’ Welling» will the soil until America's best friends would hard- bookcd 8B dfllhl! and dimfdellY- APPnlTlltlY ll° ly know it. Now it is the turn of the shrimp. was neither at the time. Valentine was trying t° Hunted in Winter and Summer, it will go the 0pm I Child’! to)’ hank» Whnlh hfi lnld l'°il8llt way of the passenger pi on, the bison and the Eor 3 cents because the storekeeper had lost the combination. Porter, alias O. Henry, wanted a shrimp conservation my be a burning issue." drink of water. Henry Valentine hastened to e s- n- a . get it from the station water cooler. When he returned with it he was doubly rewarded. O. homo "Hog, who“ an appeal i, made for the in. HEM)’ had °P°n¢d tll° lllllll‘ and wlltttn will‘ digent it is easy to shrug the shoulders and feel 10mg, n pggplg q, -no¢ll',l':o'ull£ liififllinfi dnlulill 0i Palm'- l-nt" til‘ P°ll°°lllllll we have done our shareln the taxes we pay. t found his own name used for perhaps the most

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~ the, of his imagination.

I to leek

m “on”. o, confirm; gyll, who, a scholarly man, has not much but a Audit Bureau of Olraulllllllll

“The Strongest Memory is Weaker than

popular character the author ever created. The to tho ptooo, authority to be token o," of_ I, ' jibank, the law", the lost combination, the reform-

. _. ed crook, achildr-one can see it all working in orgoogzotiom too; Such o mood would be d“,

i i" The, Clans ‘Are Changing

_ e Scottlsltelans, complain! a writer in the. I Hamilton Spectator, ‘are losing. tlleir reality. ‘ ' themselves have largely contributed ‘to v ' i i o theiztor- dwindled away through bad investments. Lo course-twentieth canto v life daughter, though middleaged and a widow with » tltln iii the clan system ~

eiyiiawliie eaaseriggiaea, be; as a living for all. Her

kept more or less alive by annual celebrations, games and “reunions?

‘The MacLeods are among the most clan-con- scious of the Highlanders. Their ohicftain to- day is Flora (Mrs.) MacLeod of MacLeod, who regularly presides at gatherings of the clan. Per- haps the beat known of the clans, however, is the Campbells, which, for generations, had a unique reputation for ferocity. ‘Traditional homes of the Campbells are around Loch Tay and east of Oban. Their chief is the bachelor Duke of Ar-

IIITIES in rite viii

love of Scotland in common with his slaughter-

breathing ancestors. " In the past every clansman devoutly believed that his clan had an attendant fairy which ac- llmlll “ml” companied it on its travels and guarded it from mischance. The Duke of Argyll's grandmother, the Duchess, believed in another kind of pixy and was a detennined advocate of temperance re- form. She banished alcohol from Iona, part of the Campbell territory, and it remains “dr_v" to

Y Y ship and rail . to New York, were two lttle Japanese spmlels - worth $900 each. -—0s.nadlan Pacific Bulletin.

of nationalist-lo

Half a dozen things are closely identified with figuéfgolifictzmmnfiufellgllgg {Q1

the clans; for instance, the kilt, the piper and tcmatlonal trade bulwarks de-

dn-w the self-governing nations to-

thls natural oohesions of the de- mocracies is that linstigeniizgiolrlis n .

quiring the assumption of un-

thls prospective expansion of our foreign trade to be quallllsd by vague fears of implied diplomatic

There are maps of the Highlands and islands giwglnlltl» —5t- Wills P°5t'

marked with the names of the clans with which unnamed - everywhere on

this continent are crowded and in

of them stiffer first year, curri- culums have been devised so that the weak will deliberately fail and not come back. Universities

. . i t » Editorial Notes I ital? ’-i‘i.°.y“l‘l?.l’a.illl§t ‘$53231 by parents who want to have their sons and daughters win academic letters after their names, either

On the last lap to Christmas. l‘ because of a belief that a B.A.

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o! a 300d Job, or perhaps because they want to keep up with the §§§.°‘§5.s‘“a§uglill. ”'°‘““e "PM . - l I’ I‘ - _ Sir_Douglas Haig was appointed Commander- my, _3|~,_ q-homoss m;__,‘;‘,;§§, in-Chief of the British Armies in France IlllS. ~

date, 19f 5.

Christmas one of the best ever, i l l I '

Grout Britain recenlty nrrlved at l. no-war understanding with Ger- many. and France has all but con- cluded s similar one with Berlin. At the same time Great Britain and. France are enterin Into a de- * fensive alllancq m testly with

Is it true the vendors are issuing advertise- "may l“ mlllmmdgawllllill llmvllle

Ge

_ _ _ _ among other for an im- ments of liquor in direct contravention of the mense increase o! air owe;- which _can be quickly pooled or the com- mon rotectlon. There is an evi- dent congruiby in this which is not st all explained by the tact that even {when nations are well disposed toward each other, evi-

a w a s Peace and goodwill are not the lot of the Ot-

i i i i It $i8,ooo,ooo wasn’t there when the New

wcr of self-defense on

. It! . themselves at the eixpetnse,“ of*the investors. gerllobgdyo! eftlliiliaxil-dslfliiiendhgr ‘I3:

trusts the-present regime in Berlin Major and Mrs. Anthony Eden's visit to the lllllllll llllllml llllm ‘l’ lllllllelil “ll”

mal train trusts l ti , U.S.A. may be looked upon as a dress rehearsal Detroit Pale-Press} pun n! s"

Not without reason does Shef- field steel command universal re- * citiegeriltton as good steel. better New estimates prepared for the American inyoghollxlgeegge_ P“ lg‘ “fall?” Youth Commission set the number of job-hunt- Sheffield steel kn that it wil

- - last. According to a United State mg boys and girls between I6 and 24 years of publication’ a razor which w‘: age at nearly six million. Mr. D. L. Harley of mm, 1n shognold n; yo“, no the commission's research staff estimated that W l firm which started business there as 1on3 ago as 1725, ls still In use In Bcaramento, having _ _ been handed down from father to Production by plants in Canada engaged prin- 22:,‘ ‘Big! falllmufintrlgfiltllllla- Sgt

Railway 50 yea-rs ago, but they m.

climatic and other conditions ini ed upon them. and if the Ralway Board will allow that stretch of railway to continue In operation for an- other hundred years or so. the same rails will probably be found dolnl duty as well as when they were made in the year 1888. ._ Brockvilie Recorder and Times.

Here is a sad tale of woe from the New York

larl Baldwin t Asia-Inge the Bonar Law Cblleue, Berk-i

lnthehdsf l. o‘ an o tbepeope

wild turkey. In the I94 Presidential campaign

in country. from u» to tn the blunt: , , fnmaloeshisiluwfltetlmelike In these unprecedented Christmas time of Ix Present, a democracy has ante.

mp0 ties which on us wltbtterrlflc and 1T1" hm”

Surely whoever is up against it need only apply it our dutyto‘ help support private charitable

sipated by becoming aware of some histories of families known to the clergy and Dispensary nurse. Here is one. It relates how an aged, widowed mother and her daughter were ton fiend to not assistance when their plight had en report: . The husband and father had ‘ left a comfortable fortune. This money soon

little cries of her own, insiatetl she could make imlltn was short-lived.

rm]: cmmg whl comm if

Everything seems to combine to make this ll“ l‘ mm” PW" l“ m“ “m”! l

h we’ weslpml ‘l’ Bllllll 5”‘ “m” cars, find at Msts of dist ution

“J. l". W." vsoa.

issue. He ooirr claratloo for all. then introduces himself as o

the task ("Strict signed us."

repute. " Not true, arbitrary

To his ‘plea, “I have yet to learn in what way the Government are interested "

government. True there were dis- senters but when thev were as- sured that their own districts would

a letter was ssnt from the Depart- meri-t of Agriculture. inwhlch he

approval o! the lieutenant-Gover- nor in Council, make regulations. ‘gee ‘I "l Sec

Agriculture, and practically he admlnls

political . "

posedly in the secre

cannot be

He should have

arech

(3-7), and the farmer "gets tic pe decimal over the 4 another violation of the law. hole when he refers to

noting that the Milk that great city is,

which do not exist here. He sought to poltnt roferrlng to

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Gifts of Cliqrm

FROM

YARDLEY or LONDON

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ansnietfilhsd They had to sell their est bits of old lace and ' line petit point. ftmnltltl- ‘TITO!!! their former '

imitate

lieipviveie It can bring

PUBLIC FORUM King - George The - . f. ‘11- slxu.‘ l ~ ‘ ' questions 0| lat-real.‘ 1h Ghan- ~ ' :' . _ lofletlwl flludlll loo: not IO- - assaults- sldorsa the epiulnu of . . _ "MW-Mn . tannins-no y ‘

run mu: act "Twat. Sit-LIB I110 inimitable "Ills" i‘

l-eshirflrataaoa uhohul had anew- - oida with 1 tollf Mm- . ... mmitlacgnao, fifmmswm ., BO m a . “Stlict falrnesli" to blancs between that nion- ‘_

ne of the fathers of "The Milk Act." rims, who wag adding, "I believe we succeeded in

laimess") ss- g3," new the throne

Be then proceeds on his former tor! course of misrepresentation say- the ingz-"Mr. Tanton at once start- Cteome the H.011 is more like ed to bring the law into dia- fa was not until the “Boarid"uvlliu it: oKlngt habitual-wing“? oft m. . y . w a

unfalmess, themselves by lnflue had their action brought the law into Kim's character -- ,.ed, that my criticisms were nursery days.

, mmenoe my reply izarded his duties to llle m as _ i‘, by quotln his next sentence, — scored, evqr if they impugn “my! .' . r "'Ilhe- latiiie prised the Aot." personal sacrifices. It was this This Immature was190 per oent some coda which IflQdlIlfln on

be exempted from the prov- actor that- helped him In lead the . visions of this Act. it was ner- British people thrullh the bitter ‘ mltted passage. ‘Then he says, - slrrullllle of the World W 011914- ..' “The Act was submitted to the 1918 Ind In carry out g ggicgiltural tgxlmigiitttfie Digging‘: gvanpxlinjatitgiuizrmflg; {pliow- ~_, Mode from DELUXE Fest Frozen ICE CREAM w costs. He did not mention that rlqfho: to‘? that annealed m him. “;

lull euice gui _ received appointment as a member the early’ llfe o! the DIUQM. KIM. ‘ of that preliminary committee. So The two Princes. Edward and Al- ,- tlnougtiout Mr. "W"'s letter, the bert- ter Mary j government is the controlling ln- were really hlaii-snlrlted and very >- some cases overcrowded. In many tenet. hamv childre with Then. the Act Itself provides. ticfllnfldm exvwéaou enlivenina ‘t

from time to time. subject t-i the

. _ a _i m be made to tiie-eliuiinlyiiiiitlielo ol the m“ vlllt e ustrallnn

puts I! - no trillion of the Act into tllnt mail‘ “humid-l” till We‘ his department, and Sec. 11 re- d quires all fines and Densities u» be the Hitti- ms paid "to the Provincial Treasurer." “M! 7011311111 tendency I70 MUD n with these mu in plain sight, "r otherwise f» dink their ch! - Mr. "W" fails to “learn in what ldll "M57 Ind 9 TTl-ll way the Government are lnlierest- W“ WNW 0mm democratic mon- ed" his blindness mustbemorethan "011- dwmimvl-lv- KIM Own»

mmlttiil-irxl “"is.‘l“’°tifl“é 1w,‘ i‘? in that B. “PO11 IIIIC TS O m8“

ndMoK thcltco il -°lwYt-lwr ttmezhish- isiolutlon, limit if. Eels —~‘lfl:lliefirlfl wirlwdi

their purpose." "J. F. W." is sup- i .

u of nu ln- dim“ m iimr- v“ turtle. mpi." "n" m“ tilt.» a e cose an

seen that brought engulf: nthlg lath’ 5nd “tlla- llld Vi“? h! ll denoument. His bare assertion that lglflilwll W

BDQGY 6 o hushed 1o o be oofloo emourakement of aw welfare b‘; facts" gmnot ncooriectfulliet him mmmlmt‘ "hit-m l a instance one. or any of these which °T ml 5° Wt 3' l°°d Ill-l‘ ll!

PHWGII. He then cites mv references to o‘ “ll”.- "Milk at we. so: and s1." with hi: “ti”

ol’ the Inlrgoest distrlbulois has paid

$1 Per up of Wflfka

milk," a clean cut violation of the c of p ucta with powers for

"Board" regulation which he quotes control of the niajorlt of produc- ’ for c0