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THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1928 PAGE NINE " 7 It was in its way a meeting of glants, that hastily summoned con- ference. - At the opening of the proceedings there had been a cer- tain amount of uncertainty, Mac- pherson should have taken the thair, but declined it. "You go-ahead fellows have as- sumed, command," he said, "Abel Deane or Frankland had better preside." Abel Deane was voted into the chair--a man of lank physique, pinched features, the hollow eyes of the visionary, a man with long arms which he used continually and to great effect when making speeches, and a voice amazing in its power and quality, He had been a schoolmaster and still pre- served his habits of correct speech and somewhat severe deportment. There was nothing of the hail- fellow-well-met about him, His views were violent enough but his expression of them was always guarded, and mingled with it all he had a redeeming leaven of com- on sense, He opened the meet- with a few noncommittal words, The Government had sprung an amazing surprise upon him. He for his part, would like to know how it appealed to their foreign visitors, "It is their despairing effort, their swan song," Malakotf declar- ed, stroking his beard and noting with disappointment that there was no sideboard in the room. "They realize what our coming means, the writing upon the wall, the doom of the bourgeoisie," "Nevertheless," Abel Deane ob- served drily, "I think you will all 'admit that this is the most astute move which has been made. To he brief, Marabel's speech has made the carrying of our original scheme which you most of you---know all about, almost impossible," "How, impossible?" Bretskopf demanded gruffly, 'Because the Government has eut away the ground from under our feet," Abel Deane pointed out, "They have admitted our great principle, They offer a readjust. ment," "There's nd reason why we should tinker about with all these blasted commissions," Frankland declared angrily. "Why not let them know the truth at once? We don't care about their co-operative system," Bretskopf glared. But It was erfectly obvious that his side was mn the minority, 4 "Very well, then," Malgkotf sald homily, "Arreo to their eopned Bons, 12 you must, but there condition which in common justice you should make, We're supply- fog the money hags over here, One of us must be an honorary mem- ber of each commission, They're not fools. They know what we're pver here for. They'll see the jus- $lee of it." I am mot at all sure that they sre likely to agree," Deane fear- d, ' Malakoff tugged at his beard with long, nervous fingers. "It may be difficult," he admit- ted, "but it's got to he done, We're over here with five millions be- hind us, and more if it's necessary, pledged to the alteration of the whole constitution of your Indus- tries jn favor of the workingman. We've got to be recognized, and your Prime Minister can put that fn his pipe and smoke it." Abel Deane inclined his head. #1 will include it in our condi- tions," he conceded. "I may tell you that it is nearly the only one we shall make, I have not yet met a member of our own party, with the exception of Mr, Frankland and a few who are sbsentees from here this afternon, who is against the Government's proposal, Frank- content with what you do for them. Anyway there are going to be some nasty things said about that night, and you'd better get prepared for them. When you're up north es- pecially you'll have some questions asked." "I'll answer them," Malakoff promised with an evil smile, "It! my belief that the whole business was a put-up job." "In what respect?" "A put-up job to discredit us, The club had never been raided be- fore. Why should we have had cards of invitation at our hotel in. viting us for that particular night Why should that girl Bretskopt and I have been taking round the past few days insisted upon the At- rium and nowhere else? "Why should the manager serve us with champagne when he had refused so many other people? It seems as though the police were room almost as soon as the wine waiting for it. They were in the was upon the table," "It's an idea," Deane murmur- ed thoughtfully, "Greatson told me this morning that the Home Of- fice had started a new seoret ser- vice branch we should have to look out for," : 'Young Greatson was quite right for once in his life," Malakoff de- clared, "It was that fellow Dessit- er's idea, If he'd lived he was go- ing to run It himself. It's may be- lief they were responsible for that blasted raid, and I'll swear it was they who tracked Thornton down." "I thought that was the military police?" "Not they!" Malakoff scoffed, "Besides, will you tell me this? How was it that they made the raid on Mona Hannerton's house on almost the only night Frank- land and I had ever heen there? They've got that against us, too, One isn't used to that sort of thing." "Up to a certain point,"" Abel Deane acquiesced coldly, "you are visiting delegates, Malakoff, from a friendly association, and more than welcome, both for the en- couragement and the money you bring, but we retain our independ- ence, You must never forget that, Some of us don't go mo far as Frankland and his friends, and as yet we have not subscribed to the international doctrines." Malakoff tugged furiously at his beard. He looked round at the dozen or so of men still grouped lat the table, studied their faces and « kept silent, ""#Qur principles," he concluded. with forced moderation, *'are at leact world principles, The time will come, and before long, when you will see the folly of attempt- ing to localize a movement toward freedom which should be univer- sal." Abel Deane knocked out the ashes from his pipe, produced a pouch and refilled it with leisurely fingers, Bretskopt who had spoken little during the meeting, leaned across the table; in his right hand he gripped a tumblerful of wine; with his left he punctuated his words, with short, impressive gestures. In the corner of his mouth was a black cigar. "Let it be remembered, Deane," he said, "that at this meeting al- though we are in a minority, Mal- akoff, Krasset and I declared that you have done ill to listen to this talk of commissions, Our plan of campaign was simpler and bettier. You should" have imposed your will. You have lost the chance of a century." Macpherson intervened first time in the debate, "I am in entire disagreement with for the our friend Bretskopf," he announ- and is on his way up frem Wales ced goldly, put his is only ene vote and we shan't wait for him, I put it to you in this way, gentlemen--is there any one here against the Government's proposals?" #Not so long as we don't bind ourselves," one or two stipulated. #Then the business of the meet- fmg is at an end," Abel Deane declared "I will see the Prime Min- ister myself tonight with Mr. Mae- pherson, and let him know your decision. I have still half an hour to spare," he added. "Is there any matter any one would like to dis- id One or two hurried ctf, but the ority remained. mal r stay," Malakoff {Insisted, #yow'll have to find me a drink." Abel Deane rang the bell. #We don't allow drinks in the committee room," he explained, #put the formal part of our meet- ing is over now, We have a few miion _eritics behind us, you w, 80 we baye to be careful." Malakoff smiled sourly, . Drinks were brought up and dis- . Abel Deane refused wine smoked a pipe. #Since the subject has in a way come up," he said quietly, "and we have a moment or two to spare, I'd jke to allude to a personal matter, My comrades and I decided that I to mention it." lakoft frowned. "You mean that affair in the Atrium Club " Deane assented. »#It was a most unfortunate oc- curence," he sald gravely. "It won't do us any good, mor you, I am efraid, if we continue the idea of your campaign in the morth coun- try. Our working classes don't understand that sort of thing-- champagne drinking and women and breaking the law by their lead- ors. Your people may be more lea- "You know your own business best, I suppose," Malakoff remark- ed sulkily, Abel Deane rose to his feet. *The meeting is over," he an- nounced. "You and I, Macpherson, are for Downing Street." "nn The days that followed were the most exciting that Miss Brown had ever known. She took to coming to Whiteball an hour earlier in the morning and leaving later at night, but whenever she came and when- ever she left there was an increas- ing quantity of work to be dope. No outside help was possible. The subject matter of some of the reports and correspondence with which she had to deal was with scarcely an exception initialed and marked "for Miss Brown only." She moved her desk and typewriter and intrepched herself in's distant corper of the room from which place she sometimes watched with unseeing eyes the few favored callers whom Dessiter admitted into his stronghold. Marabels was there st least three or four times during the day, al- ways with an uncanny gift of se- lecting the information he desired with lightning-like precision from 2 mass of material. Often he stood by Miss Brown's side while with swift fingers she turned over pap- ers and produced from fits proper- ly indexed place the report of the particulars he desired. Always he remained with the expression of a sphinx, scarcely ever speaking, ringed in by a sort of aloofness which matched Miss Brown's eye reserve. At such times their eyes mever met. He scarcely ever even ad- dressed a direct remark to her, yet sometimes when he was at the oth- er end of the room, talking in a {fancy that he low tone to Dessiter, she would was watching her, without any sort of ression, his eyes were fixed upom her, Once when he was confiding to Dessiter an event of great import ance, he lowered his voice, Deasits er, glancing up, followed the direc-, tion of his eyes. "My secretary dumb," he observed, i Marabels continued in his usual tone, "I have an appointment with' Abei Deane tonight, Deasifer. I want all your intimate reports of Malakoff, Bretskop? and Krasset." "They're pretty reading," Dessit- er observed, as he crossed the room' toward Miss Brown's desk, .- | "If Abel Deane's the man 1 think he is," Marabels said, "he'll agree to having them out of the country, within a week." | Dessiter lit the Inevitable cligar-| etre. | Mies Brown had been busy: among the files in the aafe, She produced a little pile of documents, typed a neat tahulation for the out- side, and secured them with a rub-! ber band, Marabels placed them' in his pocket, He glanced at the' clock, | "I still have five minutes," he| remarked. "Dessiter, with your permission, I should like to ad- dress a word or two to your sec- retary." | Dessiter looked at him in sur- prise, | "Why, of course," he answered. "You can speak to her whenever, you like." | Miss Brown half swung round in her chair, her blue eyes very wide| open something of surprise show- ing also in her face, Marobels' came a step or two nearer and looked down at her, | "Miss Brown," he soid, "I have| become a great admirer of your! work." | His tone was absolutely matter, of fact. There was no sign In his| face of any sort of enthusiasm or even a scrap of feeling, "I am very glad to hear you say go, Mr. Marabels," she replied, sud- denly conscious of the fact that it was the first time in their acqualn- tance he had ever addressed a dl- rect remark to her, "Work," Marakels continued, "method, orderliness, are all indi- cations of the life behind, In say- ing therefore, that I admire your work, Miss Brown, I should lige you to understand that I admire you, I should be very glad if yoo would be my wife." | (To be Continued Tomorrow) REPORTS EPIDENIC OF TYPHOID FEVER Village of Charlesbourg, Near Quebec, Has Several Cases is deat od | Quebec, Sept. 1.--The village of Charleshourg, three miles from Que- bec, has four or five cases of typhoid fever, and it was rumored throughout the city Wednesday that an I H was raging in the village, An investigation is being conducted by the authorities as to the cause of the outbreak, and the result of an analysis made in the laboratories in Montreal is expected to be known shortly, No need for alarm exists, according to Dr. Jos. Beaudet, of Charleshourg, who stated that the cases are all un- der control, due to the effective mea- sure taken by the Provincial Health Department. On the other hand the civic health department has taken all the neces- sary measures to prevent the spread of the disease into the city. FALL TIME CANNING Business Man Time is money in busi. ness and I make sure my car is always ready for service bY using Champion Spark Plugs, Champions the better spark plug because it hae an exclusive oilli- insulator spe. treated to with. the much higher 2 f the temperatures 0 Boia HAMPION A CANADIAN-MADE PRODUCT TT RTS MUSSOLINI TURNED OLD P. ANDO. PORT INTO NAVAL BASE Army Corps at Brindisi Ready to Go to Albania WHEAT SHORTAGE Though Densely Populated Not Enough Italians for The "Duce" London~The Brindisi-Rome ex- press rushes through a coutryside of infinite variety, writes a special cor, respondent of the .Daily Express from Rome. It is a pleasant Sabbath morning, the sky is blue as only the Italian skies can be; the sun is scorching hot; the rattle of the train cannot overcome the sound of the church bells, Maybe the churches are full, I do not know; but there are hundreds of not know; but there are hundreds and hundreds of men and women and children laboring in the vine- yards this pleasant Sabbath morning. Others, men in black slouch hats, their tanned skin showing through their opened shirts, women in cottun dresses and gaudy handkerchiefs cov- ering their thick hair, ride together on the backs of despondent-looking mules, trotting along the dusty roads beneath the over-hanging olive trees. New Use for Brindsi I expected to find Brindisi the bustling port it used to be, but singe the P, and O. Line abandoned it the port has fallen on evil days. Never- theless, Signor Mussolini has {found a use for Brindisi. As my ship steam- ed in I could not very well help noa- ticing the naval construction work which is being carried out. I say, "could not very well help' as an excuse, because everywhere in Brindisi there are notices in their languages prohibiting anybody from taking photographs or making sketch- es of the harbor. But unless one closes one's: eyes, one sees the guns which are being mounted--to supple- ment the others already there--and the submarines which race about, and the airplanes, and all the other ma- terial which is gradually being ac- cumulated for--what? Brindisi's twin port, Bari, will pro- vide the answer. I can say without any fear of the contradiction my statement will bring forth from the authorities, that when I landed at Brindisi there was at Bari an Italian army corps ready to be transported across the Adriatic Sea and A on the Albanian coast. This is not a rumor, but just a plain statement of fact, Grey Bread . An American in the dining-car breaks open a little round yoll of bread. The bread, instead of being white--as he--and ourselves--expects, is as grey as war-time bread. "Hey feller, «come back," he calls the waiter, The waiter explains with a shrug that the grey bread is nothing more than a bullet the "Duce" fired in the great "Bread War." Italy grows about four-fifths of the wheat she consumes, and has to purchase the balance from abroad. The Fascit Bud- CATCH MR. FLY! SURESCRATCH FLY- CATCHERS, 5 FOR 10c THE REXALL STORE Jury&Lovel Simcoe fent in Russia--perbaps they're and, looking up, would find that 2. S. Phone 28 Phone 68 get, although "balanced," is the sub- ject of much concern to Mussolini, and in order to keep the lire from falling, as little as possible is pur- chased from abroad. The "bread" campaign was a not-too-successful effort to grow more wheat in Italy. Peasants were told by Mussolini, through decrees published by the lo- cal prefects, that they must grow more wheat. "But," a neasant w argue, "I know my land, and it is not a good land for growing wheat; 1 grow beans; it is good land for growing beans." The peasant did either one of two things; he went back to his land and honestly tried to grow wheat and failed, or else he shrugged his shoulders at the prefect, and grew beans. If he grew beans he got them: that it to say, he was punished severely, and in many cases sent to prison. Dense P. i I am sure that a wisitor to Italy cannot help being impressed by the dense population. It 4 like looking into a super-beehive. The present ulation is a little more than forty million, and it is increasing for about four hundred thousand a year. The problem of finding food and employment for all these people is a serious one, but it does not seem to bother the "Due." He is keen for an even greater increase of popula- tion, I will quote from a recent speech of his on this subject: "Cer- tain intelligent persons may say, 'We are too many.' The intelligent will answer, 'We are too few. "Let us speak plainly. What are forty millions of Italians in front of ninety millions of Germans, of two hundred million Slavs, We will turn to the West. What are forty millions of Italians in front of forty millions of French, and ninety millions in her colonies, or in front of forty-six millions -of British, with four hun- dred and fifty milions in their col- onies? In order to count, Italy ought to have upon her soil in the second half of this century not less than sixty millions of inhabitants." Peasant Leader What manner of a man is this Mus- solini, the son of the poorest peas- ants, himself a stonemason before he became a journalist? You must vis- ualize him as a thickly-built, heavy- jowled, dark, square-shouldered, young-middle-aged man. Alternately, he scowls and smiles, and his smile is like the sun breaking through storm clouds. But I am convinced that whether he smiles or whether he scowls, he is quite sure of the effect he wants to produce. I mean nothing 1 (1927) Essex Coupe Chadburn Motor Co. HUDSON-ESSEX DISTRIBUTORS 0 I'rince §+, Oshawa (hone 116u offensive when 1 say he is a tre- mendously fine actor. I had myself an excellent opportun- ity of judging his powers of mimi- cry. 1 had accompanied the "Duce" to Tripoli, and 1 was invited by the Governor to attend an evening re- ception in the Dictator's honor. 1 was talking to Mussolini, and we were standing between two open windows which led on a balcony ov ericoking a piazza in which was athered a dense crowd shouting, "Il uce, il Duce!" He was in jovial mood that eve- ning, and he was telling me about a woman journalist who, it had been reported to him, was seen sitting in an open motor-car outside the Pincio Gardens in Rome, a typewriter on her knees, wearing what the "Duce" called "an evening gown," and his powers of mimicry made me actually sec what he was describing. Then as the shouting outside be- came louder, Mussolini, still laugh- ing, stepped through one window on the balcony as 1 stepped through the other, The look of conviviality dropped from his face, and in its placé was a mask of sternness and steadfast purpose. Less than a minute later he was telling me another funny story about the woman journalist. Which is the true Mussolini? That is the question they are asking them- selves here. HE'S AFTER THEM (St. Thomas Times-Journal) The rum kings at the Windsor border seem to hvae reached the end of their tether. Sir Henry Drayton apparently means business. TOO MUCH PRYING (Ottawa Citizen) * Quite a bit of fuss is being made over the fact that an unidentified voung lady rode with Col. Lind- bergh in a flight to New York re- cently. Nothing much can be learn- ed about her, it seems. Dispatches say she was "a tall, beautiful girl LX) TAR Canadas ~Still the most for the money~ \Y ational Smoke pack of Tk: ache with gray eyes"; name. she left the field with Lindy's mother, *who also was a passenger in couldn't be found by reporters. It's | plane; what of it? too bad the boys couldn't learn her But, after all, isn't. it about > plane, and |gray cyes" time the young colonel had. a rest men? from this sort of prying? he did take a "tall, beautiful girl with for a flight in his Why not let him go on his own sweet way for a while, unbothered by reporters and camera A Steel. 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