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THE FLESHERTON ADVANCE. CURRENT COMMENT Canada and the Empire Lt.-Col. Amery, M.I'., Under-Secretary for the CoionicB, is not a flamboy- ant orator, but he BaiJ somu useful and practical thiugs in his addresses at the Canadian and Kmpiro Clubs ia Turuuto recently. His statement that thirty per cent, of the male population of Oreat Britain bad served in one or another of the forces during the war served as a starting point for a review of the Empire's ability to confront the tremendous strain now placed upon her. Six hundred thousand dead and a net debt burden of thirty billiona of dollars were the items of the bill. Ue thought the signs were favorable, and that the country showed sanity and an amazing power of resilience. Four million men had been reabsorbed into the industries, finding employment' for all in one year. Labor, while insisting on just rights, was on the whole rea- sonable and prepared to make practical concessions instead of pushing to extremes. In regard to foreign relations, they must, ho said, "watch for many years to come over thu fires that still smoulder under that cinder heap that was ouce European civilization!" It is a startling thought that Euro- pean civilization has passed away, but Mr. Amery interjected the id«a, though he did not dwell on it. After describing the unrest of Asia, he sug- gested the responsibility of Canada in connection with world problems. The recognition of Canada was not the real essence of the position Canada had at the Paris conference. From the first day till the last Canada was con- sulted and had all the information there was. There was not an issue that Canada had not helped to shape and to settle. In dealing with the question of Imperial Federation, ho struck a sound note: "I do not like the idea of Imperial unity that thinks of drawing the Empire closer to thu Old Coun- try, but that of drawing the Empire closer to Canada." The main thing was, he thought, that the leading statesmen of the Empire should not drift apart. Dr. Glover's Cancer Treatment Nothing so important since the discovery of the principle of inoculation itself has happened in the medical world as the cancer treatment by Dr. Glover in St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto. There has been a decided conflict of opinion among medical authorities as to the respective virtues of vaccines and serums. A vaccine introduces a living element into the blood which may set up conditions entirely ojiposite to those expected. In the case of serums the effect is negative rather than positive and active, and enables the blood corpuscles to be trained into resistance to tho threatened danger. Dr. Glover has not so far divulged tho character of his treatment, but what is described as an umber fluid is introduced in small quantities into tho system of the patient. Only the most extreme eases have been treated where the doctors decided that the case must end fatally. The results are ot the nature of miracles. The i)ain disappears very soon. The cancer itself disappears and one case in which the jaw presented a horrible condition was restored with the flesh as pink and healthy as ever. Medical men naturally are conserva- tive in their opinions. The cancer institute has spent millions without re- sult and that u young uiau of 'i'i should reacli the goal invites careful scrutiny before endorsement is given. Dr. Glover is quite confident that his serum can be supplied in quantities sufficient for all demands, and his extended experiments leave him in no doubt of his success. Not only can he cure cancer, but he can induce it, which science has not before been able to ac- complish, lie therefore knows both the cause and the cure. His success will be a strong argument for the vivisectiouists, as his experiments were carried on through guinea pigs, white mice, and other small animals. Civil War in Ireland A state of civil war has been threatened iu Ireland for generations. The people of the country are subject to two separate influeuces, neither native to the country. This, in the flnal analysis, is the cause of tho trouble. But it is impossible to get tho people, once inflamed by these exotic incitements, to examine the conditions coolly and impartially. The quarrel is sujjposed to be historic, but a real acquuiutunco with history furnishes no basis for it. The IJuttle of the Boyue, for example, was fought ujider the blessiug of the Pope, when William of Urange was maintaining the Pope's cause against France and King James. Ueligion has much to do with the disturbed con- ditions, but property has still more. Memories of the "Plantations" still rankle, and the liberal provisious made in recent years seem to have come too late to satisfy. Indeed, all tho measures taken are taken too late. A generation ago the measure of Home IJulo now offered would have been accepted. Hut this does not account for nor excuse tho outbreak of civil war. Thiit has beitu fomented by American and (ierman agents, who have supplied money and arms with the object of euiburrassiug Hritain. If the ringleaders in this conspiracy are ever caught more liglit will be thrown on the Irish situation than we have had for a century. The attempt to set up a republic originated in America and Eamonu de Valcra, who has been described as a "mongrel from Carolina," is not even an Irishman. The Irishman is supposed to be quarrelsome, but as a matter of fact most Irish men will do anything for u quiet life, and therefore many things are ac- quiesced in by tho people under threats of violence with which, as they would show if they were sure of protection, they had no sympathy. Premier Jjloyd George correctly compared the situation to the conflict for States' rights in the American Civil War, and ho was right in avowing his deter mination to go as far as Abraham Ijincoln in nmintainiug the integrity of tho Union. ^ _j ....U ..ytJJ*. Strikes and Over-Capitalization j A strike is a form of civil war, and the sooner this is fully understood by labor men and citizens alike tho better it will be for all parties. One cannot play with (ire without danger. Tho resort to civil'iwar, even in the m..d form of a strike, indicates a disposition towards lawlessness on the part of the people, sometimes on the part of the employer.s, sometimes on the part of tho employed. Arbitration is tho one sure «hd only way for lawfully-minded citizens to settle their disputetl. The GKirman idea of settle- ment by force will inevitably wreck any civilization IMi persists in it. The civil war of a strike is only less destructive iu degree than the war of arms. If the present determination to strike instead of accepting arbitration be insisted upon the effect u\u>n society will bo as disastrous as that of military occupation. The loss in wages, in labor, in business, in convenience from a street car strike like that of Toronto, is incalculable. Tho strike was a lawless oue, inasmuch as thu men had agreed to an arbitration, the result of which was signed by the representative of the men. It is true that ho subsequently nmdu a minority report, but it is suspected that ho did so under pressure. At any rate the men lost public sympathy when they violated their own ))rinciplc. Another form of violation of principle is illustrated in the Chippawn strike. The issue there is said to be over tho eight-hour day. The fact is that it was over production. Tho Hydro Electric Power Com- pany agreed to the eight-hour day, and to pay time and a half for two hours extra, but it was found that less work was done under these conditions than previously. A large oleraont of Russian labor engaged on the works appears to have been responsible for the introduction of Soviet ideas. All this is due to ignorance of economic principles. The finest and most practical nppli- eatioB of co-operative ideas ever furnished is supplied in the Hydro Power development. It is the strongest weapon that labor could wield. But organ- ized labor has deliberately set Itself to destroy the efficiency of the hydro- elsetrie installation by the same means that it condemns on the part of the employer â€" over-capitaliiation. Over-capitalization, watering stock, whether by labor or capital, is equally fatal to success, and it makes no difference whether the dividends are demanded in advance as wages, or afterwards in returns on watered stock. Sir Adam Beck was quite right to shut down the work. THE BRAIN BOX By E. Cunn-Ramtay Und mt jour tml I come to praiM tKb towiotow. I ootae to vie your lojrahjr to it I wiai to iolenst you '0 its lo&daiitjr, in &e iclidsri^ of sBihe people olltit community to the end thai mJi one «( ut di^D be moie pcoqxnws sod oippMr. Up it tbe oomei tbe other (fay I overiteaid «M of OUR FOLKS date with much idf-satis&G' tioD lite bet lliat ha bad jut received a {Meoe of goods bom a big dly mail onla bouse, which, he claimed, cost him a few nidcdt less than he could ti^ it m this good old town of oun. An tik/i thdde* are \mii*UBti, but 1 hive ooe to ipaie to bet that this iifighbcr lea^ lost ifMMy 2 he fipaad 00 the chaiges and aueea folik He paid d^ freight, whichever way it was dapped. He bought on tuth, and faith at a <£*• bmoe is not a iena3de dung dteie days of dioddy taaletial and iocoopaleat if higbfnoed. wotkmaD. f>«y. Hehadnocbmceto&stenminethegoods «eaiiii«dBlaion)at. KthegoodsawdamagedL k amt return tiMBi to a^Satanoe and lake chanoea 00 gettiag his moriey.back afip a long period,'and pfAiip« after loi^'<|u2)b&g. M diis takes time â€"day* sad Wee ks whe i e ai at borne be would atsfr ham pidcad a daataged. or poor. af'(£stj;t»- fai piece 01 goon. Let us have loyallyl Loyalty to our town is good petsood buiiness. to'every soul in the community. Eveiy dollar yoa (^eod here makes the man you nend it with the man able to spend money widi you f or d>e things you have to seB, whether you id &vesto<lc,drf- goods, potatoes, butter or the bbor of your hands. Semfing money to die big dty, except when it can't beavoided, b he^pinglhe big city and mak> mg die whole people of the big dty that much more pw sp erousi Let's keep die money in our own town and make oundves mace prospenus. The big town qever doe* anything for our coomiunity save tomSkit This toHD and neighbothood is our home. Here we are Icinging up our families ^nd educahng dtem. Here is where our happines* Eet. Herei* also where our duly fiejr=e duty to do eveothing in our power to advance die interests of our bone f f}n COOlQHBluyi This ei£tor beBeve* diat he can terre ins home fimrmmit y m no better Way danVy Ittgjng evWT Alan and woman to patronize Ihe merchants of this town. Therefo*e,-beginning today, da* aewspaper win prmt a series of important aitides 00 byalty to jiur townâ€" loyally to ounehw. We beBeve diat evciy subscriber win find diem iaterestinft woctb' while reaiEngi Yoontrd^, THE EDITOR. Foolish Francesca By Olive Wadsley (Continued from iast wr-ek.i "Then, as I go about eleven, the bell will ring for tiffin, and you'll make, ilispite your grief, a decent lunch, and sleep a little, and then De Vlan will turn up, and you will come down radiant and powdered and frilly, and he will kiss your loneliness away; and, as I said before, voila, every- thing done really well and in the best style I" "How you misunderstand me!" Francesca grinned a little. "Meanwhile," she went on com- posedly, "I shall be being seasick, I should thinkl" !She sprang up. "But 1 want to go. I want to be in the center of thiugs. I love India; its gorgeous heat and scent anu color seem to have got into my blood; but 1 Want to live. It souucis cheap and ordinary, doesn't itt "Kvery girl says it, I suppose, at some time or another; but about one iu a million, I should say, keeps tho will and the wish long enough to be able to do it, to force her way through to things. "I mean to â€" do you hear? Gov- ernessing doesn't sound exactly the most magnetic form of existence, does itf But at first one's bound to take what one can get; afterward one takes only what one wants." "I never did understand half you said," I'lirynotte murmured. "What is it you do want, anyway?" Krancescn was staring out at the sunshine again. "I want to get things andâ€" peo- ple," she said slowly. "It sounds mad, I dare say, but it's true. I want the things I read about â€" the life â€" the love â€" the everything â€" I want to mat- ter, to count." Phrynetto rose slowly and yawned. Hhe looked (juito good-naturedly at Francesca. " I 'm sure I hope you will get mar- ried, Fraukie dear," she said, kindly. Francesca stared at her and then began to laugh. Hhe wos still laugh- ing when the butler brought iu tho mail. There were only two letters, oue for her and one for Phrynette; and both were from I'aul 's lawyer. Francesca tore hers open eagerly and a checX fell out. She picked it up; it was for a hundred jiounds. Her face flushed deeply. Hhe clutched up tho letter and caught hold of Phrynette. "I'm going," she said breathlessly. "Pawcett's sent mo a hundred. I shall ride down after ten and ask Mrs. Halter if she'll let me go back with them, and then wire the Orava for n berth." The over-ready sensitiveness of the easily emotional showed itself in Phry- nette 's injured voice. "You seem very glad to be going away." Francesca dived beneath the thin layer of kindness. "I wonder if you'll be married or I '11 be in Kngland first f" she cried. Her eyes were sparkling, her face aflame. Secret intense ambitions, half formed hopes and longings, all seemed about to be realized. Life was knock- ing at tho gate of her youth." "Phrynette, you hypocrite," she cried suddenly, with a quick, express- ive gesture of amusement; "you know you are just as glad as I, really! Own up, and don't put it on so!" CHAPTER II. "Pourquol Pas?" Within a week tho affair had be- come a certainty. Francesca, after a loud and exhausting farewell scene with I'hrynette, was on her way to Bombay. Opposite her Mrs. Salter and tile commissioner dozed and grumbled alternately. Their neat, sun-dried faces and smug clothes and luggage were totally at va- riance with Francesca 's rather, hectic collection of wicker baskets, with as- sorted straps, and her peculiarly cut green linen traveling dress. Kound her throat she wore a string of jade beans. She looked restlessly out of the window; her hands iu their shabby fawn suedo gloves were never still; she was intensely excited. Tho hot, pushing crowd at the sta- tion interested her, even the stifling wagon-lit arrangement had its redeem- ing feature; it was a new thing. When she had first come out to India, direct from her convent school near Paris, she had been too little to need a sleep- er, and anyway it was all so long ago, that childhood's journey. On the Orava she shared a cabin with Mrs. Salter, a tiny, cooped-up place. She surrendered without pro- test most of the little available space, and cheerfully allowed her berth to be the depository of hat-boxes by day. She dressed with trembling fingers for dinner; it was the first big dinner she had ever attended. Her gown with its swathes of tulle, and its outre fashion, scandalizeil good Mrs. Salter; but before she couUl protest, Francesca waj out of the cabin and hud run up on deck. Men everywhere, bronzed, immaeu lato beings, all with much the same type of voice, all, apparently, gay and genial, and all smoking cigarettes which certainly had not been bought outside the bazaar for eight annas the cardboard case. They stared a little at Francesca as she passed and repassed, and then smiled at oue another. "Queer little kid," Dasent of the Blues said. "Awf'ly few girls going home this trip. Wonder who she isf " "She's with that old woman in the gray tippet thing. There, just coming up, on the left. See herf I don't know either of 'm." "That settles it, they, aren't worth knowing tlien, " Dasent said. The other laughed. "If they were," he pursued, "you'd be after 'em. We all know you, WyntonI Flirt with the ghost of y6ur grandmother if you met her!" "It's a malicious libel," Wynton said with a gleam of white teeth be- neath his mustache. "Absolutely un- true representation of ascetic charac- ter!" "Did you say esthetic!" Cowan hsked interestedly, leaning forward, his brown hands clasped loosely between his knees. Wynton laughed, a gay, infectious laugh; he threw back his head, and leaning it against the rail, stared amusedly up at the sky. Foreshort- ened, his face showed, more power and less attractiveness â€" the short, square jaw thrown into distinct prominence dispelled the effect of the green eyes with their black lashes, and the well- cut mouth beneath the short, fair, clipped mustache. The very thick fair hair gleamed a little iu the light from a distant elec- tric globe. , Francesca, passing once again, looked at him. As though he felt the look, he straightened up suddenly, jerking his head forward. Their eyes met, hers direct, questioning, a little admiring; his tilled with tho conscious scrutiny with which a certain type of man al- ways regards a woman who is neither old nor distressfully plain. She passed into the shadows again and out of Wynton '3 mind. He rose. The other men got up, too. "And in three weeks Paris, London, home, you chaps," he said. He caught hold of Cowan's arm in his sinewy hand and gripped it hard. "Home, you unemotional Scottish blighter," ho said, " d 'you heart" "I hear, you impetuous, impulsive, temperamental Saxon beauty," he said. They strolled along together down to the dining saloon. Oue glance at the tables bore out Dasent '3 testimony; there were astonishingly few women on the boat. (To be continued.) The League of Nations SivHerbert .A.mes made an important .-.tatement to tho Canadian Club of To- ronto concerning the League of Na- tions on Midsummer Day. It was not a dream but a reality, he asserted, and he was prei)ared to return overseas and put his own future in jeopardy, if that were possible, by engaging himself for live years in it, and so showing his faith in the project. The council of the League was composed of practical men, and they had already achieved results. The League was composed of 32 original states and Kl invited ones. Of these -4 had ratified throiigli their parliaments the agreements of the League. Chiua, the Hodjaz and Ecu- ador were expected to do so soon. 'The i'nited States, Cuba, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua stood aloof. Switzerland was not excelled iu intelligence by any other nation und after sixty days' close examination and discussion the people decided on a vote, by a majority of 92,000, to come into the League. After giving examples of the special tasks, the constructive measures and the emergency measures undertaken by the League, he urged the formation in Canada of a League of Nations Union similar to that in Great Britain. The world was full of sick nations, orphan peoples, starving races, and needed Canadian help. Since the United States had failed to join the League Unjted States correspondents had been sending over articles belittling the League and the.Hc were copied in Can- adian papers, leaving an intirely false impression. It was due to Canada that the facts of the success of the League should be known to all. The first woman ever admitted to the bar of Wisconsin was Miss Lavinia Ooodell of Janesville, in 1874. A bird In the hand ia vulgar, a kqB^^(\.<ork. it^jjjLi( Use a "It's up to you" or "Let George do it." Which do you like the bestf There are timee when no phrase coined ia the English language of re- spectability can me«t a situation so aptly as those slang expressions which shock the sensibilities of a gentle mind. The crisis which is facing practical- ly all the civilized world to-day or at any rate every part of it which was concerned with participation in the late war, presents one such situation. There is unrest â€" unrest upon a widespread scale. It touches the workers, it presses upon the moneyed classes, it reaches into the homes. There is scarcely any section where its influence is not felt. It is the unrest born of a fear, and the fear has been left or created through the happenings of five continued years of warfare. Bealizing this latter cause, it is not surprising that unrest should be, in some measure. The marvel would be indeed if all the world were normal. The events which have taken place so rapidly one after the other during those past five years, may perhaps be most aptly described as representing a mental earthquake. The lives and feelings, the innermost intimacies and long-loved traditions of men and women, have been torn and broken, many beyond all shadow of repair, and who can gauge the heartaches, the longing efforts and the vain at- tempts made by the inmates of a weary world, to catch a new vision, and build again the things which make for national ideals. Probably the greatest contributory force iu this movement of unrest is that supplied by the section popularly called "Labor." Who or what is Lat)orf Labor actually means in this in- stance the laborer, or worker, the lat- ter word being infinitely preferable, for it plates all workers in the one category. If Labor, therefore, as it is known to-day, has a right to be heard, so equally have all workers, for all who work indeed, do truly labor â€" "labor to get mine own living." Every right-minded citizen who holds the true national vision, is glad when the rights of the worker are truly recognized. Every fair-minded citizen recognizes that ""the laborer is worthy of his hire," but who at this day may define or who that is single-hearted enough, to gauge cor- rectly what is a just term of hiring for aUf A second contributary to the state of unrest, in Canada especially, at the present time, is the alleged profiteer- ing. Prices are high and those con- cerned with household budgets feel that some one is to blame. Who shall find the profiteer? Who shall straighten the tangles of labor? "Let George do it" or is it "Up to youf" The first thing for everyone to grasp or to attempt to realize, is that how- ever unfortunate it may be, most of the tilings we hear are made up of both fact and fiction. There are facts underlying the demands of labor, which go to prove that many such demands are legitimate and their ful- filment an act of justice, which should not be allowed to lapse, but there is also unfortunately a fair amount, if not of actual fiction, of wire-pulling upon the part of some unscrupulous individual which amounts to an actual attempt to create disturbance and un- rest. Wire-pulling which is manipu- lated from a source that is anti-Cana- dian in spirit, and anything but un- selfish in its motives. Here then is the point where every wise citizen should adopt for his own the slogan: "It's up to me." The phrase ,"It's up to you," means absolutely that only you can do it. Vou know what it means if the chief calls you into his private of- fice one day, and tells you In confi- dence that there is a big executive position higher up which is waiting to bo filled, which must be filled Oy a man who has certain qualifications, and then the chief finishes by saying, "Well, now, Brown, it's up to you." You know very well that the chief means you are the man for the job, and that it is entirely "up to you" to see that you are put into it. The business of settling unrest in Canada, of differentiating between the false and the true whether it be in labor, iu economics, in politics, or in the conduct of every dav afli'airs, lies entirely in the hands of "the indi- vidual citizens. f you are a citizen, you have a vote. If you have a vote, you have power. If you have power, you should put it upon the side of the weak. You should add your strength to that which is lacking, but necessary, for the pulling together of the best forces in the national life. Let there bo no thought of letting "George do it," but consider this point. In every reform, some one has to begin. Some hand must set the ball rolling. It is unfortunately too true that there are the unscrupulous working through the national life, but it is a splendid thing to remember also that there are A-1 men, Al in every sense of the word, in every movement quot- ed, even though outwardly the move- ment of itself may seem a mistake, yet the men who have iu themselves the good material for a sound citizen are there. It is up to you, vou who have the time (and you who have not the time must make it), for this is a vital question, to throw yourself in with them, to pull together, to en- courage them out of movements which point to social wreckage and to do everything possible towards making for constructive re-organization "It's up to you." Alabama's first woman notary pub- lic was a Miss Peeblee of Birmingham, who was commissioned by the sovera- •r in 1893. *