Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 17, 1918, Winnipeg, Manitoba Second Section pages 9 to 14 Winnipeg monday june .17, 1918. Unllshea1 Manitoba free n Stock company the Laws of Maltona. And place of business. So6 Street. Rumary of this year who first made publication of vicious statements Trade. Libarty of Kef of civil ships am More ships. How near the Boche came to Vic by unrestricted submarine War Iii not probably be fully a Ici ated until Long after the War. The danger is not past nor it. Of by is being met by us realize what was happening. In 1917, he said the submarines sunk tons Allied and Neutral shipping of which Over four million tons was British or about 20 per cent of our total. Instead the three million tons new building the Allied countries had turned out in 3917 Only tons of new shipping for mercantile purposes. We had been told by the highest authorities tons might be anticipated. Yet during january of this year Only tons were built. The German Advance still further awakened the nation to the danger. The United states which had been nearly a year in the War without adding materially to the world s ton nage but was now drawing heavily on British tonnage for the transportation her troops also began to realize the need. Standardisation was introduced to accelerate ship building and lord Pirrie was an pointed to control the British ship Yards. One of the standardized types of which nearly Are now about miss Maud Allan afterwards withdrawn in court the defendants in that notorious trial were enabled to put in evidence a Hotch Potch of filth and imagination which was valued at its True Worth by sensible people in Britain. Press and plat form have been unanimous in their repudiation of the highly sensation Al but utterly unscrupulous and unfounded imputations upon the characters of the Public men and women of England which was permitted to be read into the Eyl a Reader s notes books Are a Al nor world within the sir John Willison contributes the second instalment of his reminiscences to the june Canadian Maga Zine. In it there figures an inter Esting journalist and politician named James Fahey merciless in political controversy gifted in speech and Lettiw who ought to have sat in the commons. Why do we shut such of Parlia to have youth intellect gifts of Tongue add a Residuum of Independence almost closes the Gateway to the House of commons. No Young Man Ever enters the Senate and no Dence pertaining to the statement i old Man Ever leaves it. How much Ftp Trviz o Piotro try pal t i of Otto originally complained of. Strong aspersions upon the judicial aspect of the Case have not been wanting. Altogether the atmosphere which has been created by the neurotic vap rings of Billing and his associates has been that of the strongest condemnation not of the victims of the scandal Hunters but tha scandal Hunters themselves. Have to learn from the. Old Mother of free communities where despite class and caste Talent is recognized youth May serve and Independent thinking is not always culpable or. Fahey was we Are told the Best Par Grapher of his time in can Ada and perhaps of any time. Some of ought to be dug up and reprinted if he said things that should not have sir John tells of a lecture on or. John son s literary club in language not so inferior to that of the first great Effort and tremendous orifices it is still too soon to do peering about the result but is every reason to Hope that. I afloat is the Isherwood class of Appeal to workers in Allied j vessel which has so Jar never had the unhappy consequence of All essayists. Is it extant then Why Nirh Wirsta reprint it in the such disgraceful outbursts or the scandal mongering disease is that credulous persons hide a certain a Orlid disappointment that after All these things cannot be Maraion ships have been attacked and torpedoed. Ferr Concrete ships have also been built on both sides the Atlantic the largest having been completed sometime ago in eos land. Of the persons attacked under the ungenerous generalization that there is no smoke without if even a tiny fraction of the charges freely bandied in the Bill i ing Case had been True the British Bur. There is a lot of leeway to make up with tons sunk last year. Conservation of time in unloading and loading and Hearty co Onn ration in every shipyard and on every waterfront from the builder to the Stevedore is necessary to meet the crisis. Strikes in Canadian and trials and tests of the last tour years i of Frank Stockton s absurdities. t no n tin n r in vol clip meanwhile the it boat menace has i people could not have survived the j when we entered into the treasures been reduced to some extent in european Waters and has come farther afield. The output Tho allies this year should be Over two ies and the British dominions j a total loss although Many these1 sized with the recognized characters of 3 n f f a Titi fit f tip Sill be effective. When War broke out. According to Lloyd s Register for july 1. 1014, the Bri Ash Empire had merchant my of upward of 100 tons with an aggregate tonnage As against Germany s 2.3ss ships mounting to five and a half millions i tonnage. By the end of the year is British had lost 49 ships by attire 75 detained in German ports j j a 72 held up in the Baltic and and a half million tons of shipping i Black seas and other places. J against this there had been captured j of German ships at sea 166 were detained in British or Allied ports 546 Ivere practically interned in Central ports and 329 were locked up in German harbours or a. Total loss of effective of 1.221 ships against the British 195. In spite of some set backs these Agures contributed to the incurable Wii miss of the British race. Nor Man so employed is just As import conditions during 1915 tend to ant a Factor today in winning the Fahey had humor rare to find in Canada i gather. Sir John pays Tri Bute to judge Haliburton As the father of american humor. There ought to be a cheap Canadian re print of Sam Slick who will go current As lha saying is any Day. I wonder if sir. John is right when to says that no american humorists survive save the Bluenose halibut ton Lowell and Mark Twain. Is it so that even Artemus Ward and Bob Burdette Are but shadowy memory in our irresponsible youth we would laugh till tears came Over Artemus Ward s punny sayings perhaps we outgrew that humor ties and the Public have had Coal every winter., it matters not Liow or where this had been secured by the dealers but it is quite Clear that a Stock was previously Laid up by them during the summer months and the business not run on a hand to Mouth basis which is proved by the prompt deliveries in. The past. The Public at present Are asked to order now Cash with order basis and the Coal May come in a week or it might be a month consequently the Public Are indirectly asked to finance the Coal dealers business. If this is not the Case Why is it that the dealers do not take care of the matter they Are in the same Posi Tion As in previous years to approximately fix the requirements and As the Federal fuel commissioners or Ders Are that 50 per cent of soft Coal must be used the. Dealers must handle Coal accordingly. We hear no discussion or official comment on the allocation or transportation of hard Coal which comes from the East therefore we May assume that this part is settled and we might also assume that the Quantity at Coal in the names of the dealers at this time in previous years has been 50 per cent of the Winter s require ments. Bearing the foregoing in mind and the interest shown by our city1 Fath ers for the welfare of the Public of Winnipeg on the Coal question Don t you think that in the event of the dealers Najt. Being a ble to run their business As in former years the City should appoint a commissioner with Oreice and Staft to handle the business with the allowance of profit and overhead expenses granted by the Federal fuel commissioner to dealers to cover expenses. Under these conditions the Public could be asked to order now Cash with order to finance the co opera Tive undertaking of their own. Action. Winnipeg june 15. Finland becomes German outpost White guard favor Germany and landed in solid Belt of imperialism from the crop of 1918 the Best possible. Most of our boys would have enlisted Long ago Only for the great need of producing food and they have been complying to the continual Call of More production More now at the Call of the government they Are still willing to do their part. Arctic to in course of 1 but it is not coming to tha Young creation. In these they have been sustained and guided by the very people whose Honor was attacked in Circum stances which precluded defence by the indirect and disgraceful methods of the scandal Monger. The vicious Circle. The prussian. Government in aus Tria As constituted by the treaty Between Austria and Germany giving the latter full control of the military which enjoyable As when fresh from his prolific pen. Of course the difference Between the two precludes real comparison. Sir John recalls his two first futile applications for a situation on the staff of the Toronto Globe in 1880, when Brown was editor. Ten years later he had or. Brown s very chair in the editor s Sanctum an i.1. Some time after the news editor who would have none of him on his second application applied for a position. It was Clear however that lie hot recognize me. I not reveal the fact that we. Had met i should think not of German War. Methods. Every Waken us from our dream. The local losses of British shipping due o the enemy in that year amounted of Only tons or. About 3 1-2 per cent. The total British Mer Cantile tonnage. So Little was this thought of. That in the same year we sold Over tons of shipping to foreign buyers. What deceived everyone was the Amease preponderance of British shipping and the belief that our shipbuilding resources could under the stimulus of War respond to Al most any demands. At the beginning of 1916, Lloyd s Register gave us a total mercantile Marine tonnage of dose on and notwithstanding All that the enemy was Able w do at the end of the year 1916 the authority gave us a total of nearly tons so that two arid a half years of War the British Empire had practically the same tonnage As it had started with be pipe the War losses. Britain still War As the Man in the front line in France. Patriotism should require no reinforcement by Appeal when this fact is realized. United states shipyards or at any i the former has proclaimed the waterfronts Are part and parcel j its intention according to a despatch j from Switzerland to suppress with Force and without pity any attempts at an the steady growth of Czecho slovak sentiment against the War and especially against the Domina Tion in Austria Hungary of the hated Saxon made inevitable some such formal announcement of the course which was certain to be adopted by now recognized prussian regime. Austria s military strength is being largely offset by the increasing danger of revolution. The intention to launch a Strong offensive on the italian front has been too Well advertised to be discounted. The delay in making the attack which would add to the anxieties of the enemies of Prussia in France and Flanders cannot be explained on any other Tho new editor could do nothing for the new International Era , who abandoned Jour Power but rather nazism. We ceased to however and if he reads this chapter will be Given for scam Lolion Gereg. In probably every social state from the crudest to the most com plex there is a Type of human being which finds continual employment in and derives positive enjoyment from scandal mongering. The appetite would seem to arise from an exaggerated and depraved curiosity. In some cases it assumes the proportions of a disease the patient Seiz ing upon every occurrence and state ment not so completely simple and supposition than that the austrian transparent As to preclude Miscone government fears to Supply the Dis caption its motive or purpose and v t 1 contented bohemians and slavs with he May the leading article in the Magazine is by j. D. Logan Date sergeant. Canadian infantry France who deals with the moral status of the army in the Field. La a Bisop of the w. A Kelley gives us a sketch of Bishop fallen a prelate and Man who has secrets whose policy is open to All the world. Bishop Fallon is an imperialist by conviction. Hear him As a student of history i have found that there has. Always been one dominant nation. Or. Balfour on the future of the English speaking Peoples from a speech by Arthur Balfour i believe that in that new Era tiie English speaking Peoples Are Des tined to take a leading part. I be Lieve that the co operation Between great Britain and America is Long going to survive the necessities this immediate and tragic moment and i believe that if it survives it. As i believe it will the fruit of that Union will not be the domination Over the world of any special Type of civilization of any particular world that opportunities each race for each nation to develop that which is Best in its own character that which its own history suggests is the True line of its development and that under the Aegis of a world peace which it will be the business of the Allied nations to., guard All the family of Man May find a higher a Freer and a safer development than they Ever yet found in the history of the world. That i admit May sound to some of you a utopian dream and like Santeri no Ortega director the finnish information Bureau in York evening Post the German military Power has overrun Finland and thus conquered another Small nation. It is planning through this Conquest and the Seiz ure of the russian Arctic ports of Kola and archangel to extend Mit Tel Europa so that it will present a solid bulwark of imperialism from the Mediterranean to the Arctic Ocean. This latest land grabbing adventure in the North would if successful bring the Shadow of the mailed fast Over All stand Elnavia it would give Germany control Over. Scandinavian shipping and the great fishing grounds Oft the coast of Norway and finally it would completely shut off Russia from communication Tho allies and the West. Apparently Allied statesmanship failed to anticipate this menace. But within the past fortnight British and French marines Are reported As co operating with finnish red guard troops and forces of the russian soviet government in a defence of the russian Northern ports. Perhaps this belated co operation will succeed. But for a time at least Fin land itself has become an outpost German imperialism to preserve order German agents Are attempting to camouflage this under the Guise of a pretence that the is merely an altruistic Enterprise and Cable dispatches emanating from White guard j German agents Stata that the finnish White guard government has not really been pro but merely invited the Ger mans in to preserve because Een one dominant a. Other utopias it May turn out in for three centuries or possible of though _ i in the Early Days of 1917 came the announcement of German unrestricted submarine warfare after feb. 1. That was to say that All recognized rules of civilized warfare Ere abandoned. The policy which had dictated the sinking of the twisting them into any or shameful shape which May fit in with the plausible interpretation suggested by the particular form of aberration. Modest and retiring citizens whose ambitions and activities do not bring them into the Public Eye suffer frequently from the Baleful influences the numerous though less Dan an Opportunity to revolt. Any immediate outbreak the subject races in Austria Hungary is probably impossible. The prussians Are thoroughly capable of carrying out their threat of pitiless suppression of disorder. But internal Dis Union and dissension must enor Mously weaken the Power of the dual monarchy to do its share to More great Britain has the dominant Power and i see no nation prepared to take her place. For that reason i am an imperialist. And it is in no restricted sense either. There is Freedom where the old Flag floats and it is the Only nation that to the 1 Ullest degree knows the meaning of civil and religious this is Strong language of another sort from a priest of the roman Church and a Man named Michael Francis Fallon. Perhaps his ardor is a Little sweep ing. What about the English speak ing democracy which is our neighbor and ally and what about France can it remain that one nation Only. Will be dominant in the world but these Are matters too great for me. Apart from International things Alto Gether the subject of imperialism and Empire is a staggering one if you Stop to think. As Bishop Fallon says history helps Here. But How very few of us know history any real sense. There ought to be Many matriculation scholarships in history and every possible Means ought to be to give the body of peo not. But one thins is certain that if you take the Converse Case if instead of considering what May Hap pen if the allies win you consider what must happen if the germans win then you May with absolute Security Prophesy that under that blighting dem the allies could not help in thib necessary step. Obviously if the guard government were backed by the desires of the people of Finland it would not need the assistance of German soldiers to preserve order. Meanwhile in contrast to these cabled statements Kavalo the offi Cial White guard newspaper a. For weeks been boasting of a Popiej of imperialist expansion with Ger Man Aid has been congratulating the White government on the fact tha for three years it has been keeping thousands of finnish Young men in the German., army and has been printing laudatory telegrams sent b the prime minister of the Whit guard government to the Kaiser hailing him As the great exponent 6 German Kultur and the protector o the lutheran it is. Apparel that the finnish White guard press and All the news sources o Finland have become part of. The comprehensive system of propaganda that has its Centre in Berlin. In the Baltic provinces and in Poland remnants of the feud system represented by reaction Ary landed nobility vested with autocratic social Powers have survived in most instances up to today. In All these provinces the landed Nobil Ity has been of another nationality than the great majority of the ple. In Fin land they Tiave been of swedish blood in the other provinces German. In one Way or another the Feudal overlords manage to exact in of Manitoba to have to take the and insults some of the judges Are treating them to. It is certainly very undignified for a Edge to use sarcasm instead of the Courtesy and consideration Wlinich a Case deserves especially expected from a Man. Holding such a responsible position. It. Is very Cut ing Lor a Young Man who has been his Best All Spring to get in 11 the seed possible and then to be Aken away at a Short notice Leav 100 to 300 acres to be unharvested and then told of you can Pend the next two weeks teaching the Breeding of wheat bust in Assiniboine Park to the editor of Tho free press. Park with Ita Trees and herbage All decked out in their summer finery is just now a most delightful place and Well May the citizens of Winnipeg congratulate themselves upon the Possession of such a. Beauty spot. On saturday last when visiting the Park with a company of friends my pleasure by but one thing Only the fact that the dreaded rust fun Gus which is such a menace to our wheat crops is now flourishing there upon Large numbers of the Barberry Bushes. Some of these Bushes Are so badly infested with the parasite that they Are pocked All he old men to farm you report 1 Over and rendered quite unsightly. Of should have been there years Many of the leaves Bear from five to another Case a widow s Only on farming a Quarter Section. Of Mother can go and live with one of her not pro Uci Rig enough. Your neighbors can Ake your crop if the neigh Bors have not enough to do. Still nother Case with a crop of 300 cres. The Only son having to re port and asking who will take my drop of you can set that old or. So and so from town to help take it the said Man Al most eighty and a cripple All his Ife or let the women get out and in the As to the injustice one Maji a Large crop seeded and a Large Stock is told to report on Short notice. Another Man with less than half the crop or Stock is Given exemption until he gets his crop off. While others Are Given permanent exemptions without Many question s doing asked. These Young men Are Canadian bred and born and Are Loyal to King and country and have always been willing to do their part whatever that part May be and they ask no favors. All they ask is their cases be Given an impartial hear ing and judged accordingly. One of mothers. June 15, 191s. Belgium s future ten Large round Orange pustules up on them and from these pustules provided that no preventive Meas ures Are taken there will Issue in. The course of the next two weeks a vast Cloud of seed like bodies known As spores. These spores will be car ried away by the wind and be scattered far and wide. Some of them doubtless will Settle on the Leiloa and stems of certain susceptible wild grasses and upon wheat plantar where if the weather should be very moist they will germinate. Result will be the infection of the new Host plants with the production of red pustules in the from eight to ten Days. The diseases by of the new crop of red spores thus arising May spread rapidly from the wild passes to wheat Cracy Power of self development the free and unsuspicious Intercourse Between different nations will be come absolutely impossible and that All the highest growths of civilization will tie sterilized at the Root. That seems to me an absolutely irrefutable truth and it is for that reason that i feel that the whole future of t he future of the British Empire or the Ameri restoration a great european prob Outlook is Hape less without special commercial treaties. Maurice Maeterlinck in an interview published in t he weekly dispatch it is not to the military strategists that the question of Belgium s future frontiers should be left for Settle ment. A great european. As Well As National problem is involved. Gium must be restored not Only in the material sense with which the pacifists Are flippantly Content but territorially so that one will be Strong enough to throw off the Burden of neutrality which has Ever been her greatest misfortune. She must be revived As an Independent nation really is to say capable of making any treaties she thinks proper. The value of the treaties that were made for her we have Learned Only too bitterly to estimate. It was Belgium s neutrality that was the immediate cause of tier downfall. According to. Hcr., population she ought had an army of at least men and had she had them Germany would not have at tempted to walk Over but compulsory Latour from the. Mass of i trusting to her neutrality she con can people France or not the Belgium future of or Italy t the Fate of Small nations but the whole future of is in the balance. That cause is so great that there is not one of us who would not sacrifice everything we possess to realize pie calling themselves the workers a. Good philosophical grounding in this so important subject. What strides j democracy would make serous specimens of the scandal Jual a but i must get on with the Maga Groub specimens i lib wards obtaining the German Victory zone an instructive article Well 11 German have ius rated what Art has done for Canadian is by miss Emily mongering Genus those whose occupations Are a Semi Public Char Acter or Are Apt to expose them to Lucania was to be extended. With censorious criticism make Peculiar 20 German women children or i easy targets for the scandal bounded on the seas the Hun was prepared to sink Shoou kill and destroy everything that floated and centrals need expect mercy. It seemed incredible and there were people in Allied and Neutral countries who could not learn the lesson from previous German atrocities. Even those who recognized the danger appear to have overlooked Ino serious elements of it. Shipbuilding Yards had in the year before the War turned out nearly two million tons. It was still thought that and even the prime minister of Monger. The More so if occasion Al lapses from conventional stand Ards conduct can be truthfully charged against a minority of those similarly employed. Doctors actors and actresses entertainers of most kinds even lawyers and clergymen been so frequently promised to tue War weary inhabitants. Austria has gone com the vicious Circle Prussia must stay it in its fatal course or. See the of a vast Cen trial european Empire crumble and vanish. Ger Many would feel the influence of revolution in Austria and Hungary and suffer in morale despite the have provided Many innocent vie. Victories with which its people Are in Gand spoke Asj and official publications All emphasized the figures of our total tonnage. They apparently were Tims for the artful and ubiquitous scandal Monger. But perhaps of All the people who British Are systematically exposed to scan dal Hunting of one kind or political social or personal successful politicians suffer most. Many men who would gladly devote some portion of their time and talents to the Public service Are deterred from doing so by what is described As their they feel reluctance to face Situ this could the the being sustained. Revolutionary action will indeed be suppressed with machine if thereby Prussia can stave off the rebellion which is feared. Feeling the actions in which every Finch. Fifty Ier . Of the Avail sole tonnage was being employed of their private business or professional and Public Active and food for the armies. The ship firms were building naval Craft and the shipbuilding Yards j had been depleted of men for the j wry. The withdrawal of so Large percentage of interfered tonnage for War Ith the distribution of food and also with raw materials for Tho shipyards. The steady tale of sinking under the new policy was published regu from the Golden books. Four things 1 ask. G. H. Leonard four things almighty god i. Asic for England in. Her awful task. The passionate heart of one who fights. Compassionate even when she smites. Set lips and close from which shall fall speech grave and pure if speech at Weaver a steady contributor. It makes us wis ii that Manitoba had a John Ross Robertson. The third in St ailment of Helen m. Edgar s Daha Beah Days continues the interesting wanderings on the Nile and there is an article on Canada organized for Aerial fighting which will be read by everybody who so much As picks up the Magazine. Then mrs. Isabel Ecclestone Mackay discourses pleas Antly but Pun gently on the overdoing of baby culture arid child culture by the modern Mother. The other Fea Tures Are As usual including the. Re productions from pictures. Alto Gether this is a most excellent num the Canadian Magazine. There is Only one Story which i take to be a Good sign. Not that we do not like Short we do like. Them. The As to Coal looking backwards the free press was founded in 1872. Forty years ago Taylor the mowing machine., Man. Is demonstrating the usefulness of his newfangled Hay Cutter by Cut Ting the badly kept grass plots of leading commissioner Eva Lime left for fort Carl ton to attend the annual Council of the resident Hudson s is Selkirk citizens have applications offer of Bonds to Start a new spa thirty five years ago two York boats and the Schooner trader have arrived at the Rural population and keep them struggling for the Barest subsistence. The Junker classes have held Virtu ally All the administrative and Judi Cial offices by. Hereditary right on life tenure. Since the revolution of 1905 the first democratic diet the socialists elected 40 per cent of the members by far the largest bloc and this strength increased steadily until at the last Legal election in 191g, the socialists won a Clear majority. But the Czar had the veto Power and the finnish Junker groups with their influence to court managed to crush most of the Allevia Tive measures passed. In Finland As in the Der provinces generally no Mere political revolution would bring about the necessary changes involved in a democratic reconstruction. A Thor Ough social and economic readjust ment was necessary to throw off the mediaeval system. The Junker elements in Finland and the Baltic provinces during the Czari Stic regime were More russian than the russians and the greatest bulwark of russian autocracy although at the same time they treacherous every time collapsed it was inevitable that these Junker elements would turn to Ger Many for Aid. As the Only Hope for preserving their Feudal privileges and autocratic control which other Wise would away by loads of furs organized democratic Power of the a Chewan monthly pay Roll of the . Now amounts to s300 owners of the. Town site of Morris Are negotiating with St Paul parties for the establish ment of a Large paper factory in that steam plow has been installed on the Rose farm near All. Not of the charitable Well disposed and sane thinking average citizen but of the Pertina Cious penetrating hands it must be and Ultra curious scandal Hunters. Lacking Access to the avenues by which the Public Are informed of the significant and Peculiar things which the scandal Monger can usually detect this. Parasitic nuisance will spread them As far be by word of Mouth but if unfortunately for the victim the lower order of publication can be Early every week but still we dream a on. Then came the week of april 22 with 40 ships of Over tons and 15 smaller Craft sunk and the following week 3s Large and 13 caller Craft or a total of 106 ships m two weeks and we began to awaken to the danger but so Many pains were taken by those in authority to censor any alarmist state that even then no one realized a magnificent specimen what the steady sinking were scandal mongers Art was present doing de to the Public View in the recent it was sir Eric Geddes in feb. Billing Case in London. By the by thee indubitably clean. Eyes which though dimmed with blood or or the dark Shadow itself see Clear. Four things i ask four things and the mind that was in Christ thy son. So Well equipped shall England stand Arisen again at heaven s command. Utilized his character is assailed i so View her Crom thy seat above and the minds his friends and i god full of Noble Wrath and love. Supporters Are poisoned by those Subtle suggestions and those Clever collocations of accidental happen Ings which Are the chief weapons of the More dangerous representatives of the scandal mongering Type. To the editor of the free Presa. Of people in. Getting Coal in Stock seems to me to be largely due to the Why cannot the Coal dealers store the. Coal themselves this summer As heretofore they conclude As Coal won t keep they d rather it went bad on our hands than then or. Henderson to contrary notwithstanding not everyone is in a position to Purchase Coal each month All the year round. A Good Many find the few months Relief in summer the Only Chance they have to Purchase some of the other Neces Saries of life. The answer to the first. I Learned upon enquiring is that the storage room is on the docks at port Arthur and of course Western Coal for Winnipeg does not touch there at All. To the second i was told that soft Coal will keep in a cellar but not in the open. To the answer i can. See is the one the employees of the free press Are fortunate in find ing. Finally there is the problem for those who expect to have to move again in the fall. I think perhaps a. Few words of advice along these lines would Clear us the situation to a Good Many. H a Morris it has two engines one stationed at either end of the Field which draw ten plows by Means of a Cable. _ _ thirty years ago today 1888 Rounthwaite Brand r. Spencer t Torquay c. Camsell r Mcdon Ald j. Pinkham and j. Mckay received prizes for instrumental at the recent St. John s College sex working masses. The main difference Between Fin land and Russia is in the composition As Well As in the strength of the opposing parties. In Russia the Sov Iet government represents the Only tented herself with to men. And parliament constantly re fused additional army credits though general Brialmont the designer of her forts confessed himself unable to defend them with the insufficient men and material at his disposition. And so it was that up to the Battle of the Tser just half of these men were lost in a vain but heroic massacre of the innocents. Then there is question of Bel Gium s economic future. If free Trade is to be re established Bel Gium will be irretrievably ruined Germany has systematically destroyed her entire Industrial situation Belgium must be granted favourable commercial treaties with her allies they must place her under their tutorship like a child who has sacrificed itself for them. They mus establish on her behalf a customs Union against Germany and protect her effectually otherwise Germany with her infinitely greater Commer Cial facilities will overrun Belgium shutter off from All her markets. Her last state will be even worse than her present one. Bel sum is not interested in increasing she Doe but All the belligerents she Lias the firs claim on a thumping indemnity of her losses both moral and material. For she was least concerned i the War. Most of the other nation were actuated by inherited grievances or material concerns. Engram indeed and America responded wit the utmost generosity to the Call Honor and. They will meet with their due recompense for All of us Are fighting equally for humanity in a real spirit of Liberty and in Obedi ence to that obscure instinct Corn plants or from one wheat Plant to another and thus under favourable conditions the rust fungus which. Is now making such vigorous growth upon the Barberry Bushes in Assinia Amine Park May be the initial source a serious rust epidemic later Iri the year. I it has been observed by Bolley of North Dakota and Slakman. Of Minnesota and by other Plant pathologists that the rust always appears upon the Barberry pushes from about ten to fourteen Days earlier than upon the wild grasses or wheat plants in their immediate Vicinity. My observations tend to confirm this conclusion for so have not been Able to detect rust n any wild grass or wheat it this present moment i do not suppose that anywhere in the West Ould one As yet find one single Pustule of rust on any wheat Plant n All the acres devoted to this crop. Experiments. In the Laboratory As veil As observations in the Field have entered it certain that rust not Only can but often does spread in arly summer from Barberry Bushes o wheat. Barberry Bushes there Ore Are one source although per haps not the Only source of infect Ion for rust. The importance of radiating the Barberry in such a great Grain growing Centre As this Hus becomes obvious. A Campaign for the destruction if the Barberry is Well under Way n the Central parts of the United. Tates. Year under professor Bolley s direction the Bushes in North Dakota were relentlessly up every hedge arid Bush which could be found was Plant pathologists of the tjnited1 states interested in Grain rust met together in Chicago in february last and unanimously decided that As a War ensure with a View to protecting the wheat crop from a known cause of rust it was advisable to take most Active measures to destroy bar Berry Bushes and. They Are succeed ing in obtaining state action in the tji a Belgium needs indemnity matter. The Barberry eradication area consists of Eastern Montana northeastern Wyoming Nebraska. L Owa South Dakota North Dakota Minnesota Wisconsin Northern Illi Nois Northern Indiana Western and Southern Michigan and Western Ohio. As a Sample of the legislation in the United states May be cited the first clause of an order by the Minnesota commission of Public safety which is now being actively carried out and which runs As follows All Barberry berbers up Bushes except the species and variety known As japanese Barberry berbers Thunberg ii Are hereby declared to be and the same Are a Public Nuis Ance and a. Menace welfare and their organized Force in the today. I Mon to both Peoples and in i Divi the. Russian Middle classes haying which enables them to foresee animations and c. Fortin was awarded a choir Glenboro Farmer writes that he started farm ing six years ago without cent and now has his half Section paid for and a surplus of in the number of Piegan horse thieves in Montana were shot Down by crows who returned in Triumph to their Camps with scalps and hands and feet Hung on poles. Of the birthday congratulations to Hon. Thomas a. Crerar Winnipeg minister of agriculture in the Federal Union Cabinet born Molesworth. Out., june 17, 1876. Rev. Andrew Stewart d.d., Winnipeg born Cedar Mills june 17, 1sd1. Ont Winnipeg june 15. Anxious. To of Tho Roo press. Correspondence and advice from officials published on the Coal situation has no doubt made interesting and instructive Reading for the Public who must by this time realize that there is a real necessity for action but on whose part there is a question. Up to the Twenty five years ago d Law Reeve w. Jull. K. A. In son. Geo. Ransom and James lambers jr., were elected As the Iii St Council of the new Rural municipality of to a decided improvement in the real estate situation after a period of dullness the Hudson s Bay company has advanced the Price of its City lots All a result of the rate War round trip tickets to the Pacific coast have been Cut to 535__j. A. M. If tins barrister con ducted a police court Case in the French language. Twenty years ago Rocky Mountain locusts which Are been hampered in their economic arid political development by the czars tic regime has entered the political stage in recent years without a definite economic programme while the working classes ruthlessly oppressed by the government and by other classes rallied around certain Vita demands for instance the demand for land uniting with them the vast majority of the people into an irresistible Power which for this reason has held Sway in Russia in the midst of tremendous obstacles and. Opposition now for Over five months. Fuji stance to workers in Finland on the other hand while the. Working classes Are relatively better organized and better educated than the russian workers the privileged classes have the advantage Over their russian Breth Ren of hundreds of years of unlimited political organization Aad Well defined interests which happen to be very much in Harmony with the interests of the German autocracy. was aristocracy Finland not Only to make More successful resistance to the forces of the. But also to secure effective Aid from Germany. When their own Fate is concerned. And let it not be supposed for a moment that there is any Lack of Uji a Nimitz among. Belgians As to what of would be the future of the coun by after the War. The so called flemish movement is wholly inspired and paid for by the germans meets with no encouragement whatever from the of the people either in flemish or Walloon Belgium. The advocates of an Independent Flander share in Brus Sels a lawyer without clients a Doc Tor who was so entirely without Pati to the Public maintenance propagation Sale or introduction in to the state is forbidden. It shall to the duty of every person owing or having charge of any premises of which Barberry Bushes the rust producing varieties Are grown to forthwith destroy such it May be added in comment that Tho japanese Barberry is not susceptible to rust. The importance of. Doin every thing in our Power to Lieck the rust disease will be at once realized when the experienc of the wheat Harvest of 191g is considered. In. That year the losses due to rust in. Canada were about 100.000.000 Bush Els while in the United states they were about Tho figures for Canada i obtained by making an investigation from the collected at the Winnipeg Graut Exchange while those for the United states were conveyed to me in a letter sent y or. Carleton. The Cereal is for the 17. S. Department of agriculture. Had it not been for the enormous toll taking by the rust fungus of the shortage of Brea a stuits which is such a matter of concern for the allies in the War would not now be so acutely Felt. The City Parks Board not be aware that the growing of Barberry Bushes in Parks. Gardens Etc. Is illegal in Manitoba for is con ends before War that be was reduced to Selling cigars and two or three clerks out of work. Their audiences Are made up of roughs to the num Ber of 500 at the utmost who receive from 5 to 10 francs per head from the German authorities. What is that but an insignificant drop in the 000 population of Brussels in ant Werp the proportion is the Lime. If there was at one time a certain Riv Alry Between the flemish and the French speaking it practically died out before the War and Belgium s disasters have now United her children i one unshakable determination to fight to the j tray to the noxious weeds act. Which., by a Wise amendment made in 1917, specifically mentions Ber Beris vulgaris As a noxious the Plant is truly a Public Nuis Ance and a and i Trust that the Board now that its attention Lias been called the matter will not it has taken advantage of this of victorious end for the reconstitution to crush the democratic i of their beloved country in conditions which will secure the real National Independence and Unity by forces of the country at a moment when the russian democracy for obvious reasons was not in a position to throw its full weight in the Scales in favor of the finnish workers. Judges and draftees damage in Dakota have i to t in id Tor of the press Lomg woman and a. R. Made their appearance in South Western Manitoba arid Are causing much 150 Light electric Plant is being installed in j. Y. Griffyn s packing Are to be debarred from the . Platform in Brick a woman and a. Mother i wish to protest against the indignities and injustice being showered upon our boys when they present themselves before certain judges for the reconsideration of the exemptions granted to them last fall. They l _ .1 j 1-. N which alone her Liberty and Honor May be indefinitely maintained. At is. T. Sanford the travellers Are bearing frowns for incense scorns for myrrh. War flings its sign Fiere s blood upon the Manger blood upon the Star. Dear lord Coal wer in the dear for a.11 men ens raked production Tiitu _ .1 like other concerns their energies this Spring to make find the sword. Let a Day pass without action. Every infected Barberry Bush and there Are some hundreds of them in the Nursery Garden alone should be destroyed immediately and Meas ures should at once be taken to dig up and exterminate every Bush both the Green and purple Varie ties of berbers vulgaris. Whether infected or not and wherever they Mav have planted. A. H. Reginald Buller. The botanical department. The University of Manitoba. June when there is in Austin in Spectator i when there is peace our land no More will be the land we knew of Ycre thus do our Fecile seers foretell the truth that none can buy or sell and e in the Wisest must ignore. When we have bled at every pore. Shall we still strive for gear and i f store i will it be heaven will it be hell is peace this let us Pray for this implore that All base dreams thrust out at door. We May in loftier Aims Excel and like men waking from a spell. Grow stronger nobler than before. When there is peace ;