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â- *>*ir:.\-' t) â-  ' ii . ww> i> ^m THE PLESHBRTON ADVANCE. CURRENT COMMENT A Radical Editor on the War One re.ult of the Imi-crial Frew Conference wa» the delivery of an n.l- drew at the Empire Club, Toronto, by Mr. Robert Donald, the great London editor, native of Scotland, and a radical of radicals, on some of the after- war aspect, of Briti»h affair.. He wa. glad, ho said, that they were not afraid of the word Kmpire or Imperial in Toronto. The British Empire was an anomaly. Thcro was no such thing. It did not dominate any one of us a. the old' empires did. But be thought we knew what it meant, and there â„¢, no other word to express what wo ^cant. The after-war conditions were not very hopeful. He took it that the Russian and Poland problem would V- ..In , But no IJritish soldier would help in the settlement. Certainly we w Id n„f ar cipate in a new war for the sa.e of Poland - -y other T V But even as he spoke, Franco was complicating the international "",tm b^ ecoriziug Oenoral Wrangol. This would line up France w.th .'rSte'l^ntr gainst Britain and Italy, with Germany, CV.ocho-Slovak.a Au^stri nd I â€"L professedly neutral in the Russian .uarrel. .Vrangel prom es to a..u.ne uU the Russian obligations and to give Kuss.a democrat, â„¢nment Mr. Donald fraukly stated that the conditions two years after fh I nTsa:-e were worse than before. The peace treaty had made no pro- â-  ion r peare. International jealousies had been fostered and cons.dera- io of he economic conditions omitted. When the new states were set up n Sou h astern Kurope the economic conditions were smashed to pieces. Every •ttlltion wanted to be absolutely independent and could not allow a rail- ^aturto cross the frontier. Tariffs were put on everything going ou a 11 . rominc in The great problem was to start Germany working. T-nlcss ;;t : sdre't e're co:id ho no money for anyone. Franco staked everything a gttng an indimnity in German gold, which did not exist. A mud ::je m^t beaded ^ ^ -"- ^ -^^ ^1 ^ ^ini^i^^S :;i«'L:t%trwoXr Europe cou.dbe reconstructed. The in«uenee r he United States in world polities' would have been paramount had the withdrawal of President Wilson thrown the whole burden on Great Britain, ;.ud especially on Uoyd George. What the British Army Did Mr Donald proceeded to make a most interesting statement concerning Bnl»in's tusk in the war. They were too modest about it, he thought. Kng^ r;r:a tlie'lV country prepared for war. They would all adnut this o he neet, but it was true of the army also. France had asked for 160,000 nen We agreed to do it and we did" it. Sending the Expeditionary lorce France, he said, was the greatest feat of the war. They had been trans- por ed ae OSS the Channel and were in line before the Oermuns knew a man had moved. This was the army that made Field Mar.bal Mlson'n reputation i- h" e French, so that they knew it as "the army of W." General Fren h wanted Wilson as chief of staff, but Premier As.,uith turned it down. \s Llld not be dispensed with, a new position, sub-chief "f staff w^scr^-ed for him. Political pull kept him from the chief command until 1918 when Uoyd George recognised hini as the one man to carry the flag to vie ory, when others were recommending the Government to sue for peace. Mr. Don- rH did not touch on this except to say that they had a coalition government which did -ot unite. He thought the man of vision was Kitchener who had not been appreciated because he was out of his element, an oriental in tra.n- Zl and outlook and out of touch with the English atmosphere He foresaw a long war, but ho did not want conscription until the people were ready for it In Britain they raised 5,-U4,41« men, hugely by voluntary enlistment. India had an army of about a million, and altogether the total ot tlu.- Empire was 8,054,407. England had planned to carry on the war wi hout the Imted States, and it was Gern.auy and not England that was exhausted in 1918. Oreat Britain at the time o£ the armistice had 1,2^,000 in the field in I ranee of whom tilf.,000 were rilles. There were also 80,000 men in Italy and 400,000 i„ Mesopotamia and the east, with smaller forces elsewhere. The Uuted States had 49,000 men at the front in the critical day. of 1918, and on .Novem ber 11 had 322,000 men in the line, with a total of 2,000,000 in France, fhe liritish army had 002,000 killed and 140,000 missing and prisoners. The Em- pire total killed and n.i.sing was about l,0UO,OO0, not far short of the Freneh losses. The Indispensable Navy and the Cost It was the British navy, however,»that won the war. Without it the war eould not have been won. Nor could there have been an effective blockade l.ad it not been joine.l by the Unitd States fleet. Mr. Donald said conditions were so novo! that th.-y ha,! to manufacture, tlieir sea-law as they went along, and they had done things entirely contrary to sen law and all law. There ha,i been a terrible rumpus about cotton. Of course they had to let in eo.- ton but they let in as little as possible. The neatest battle in the war was the Falkland Islands. Fisher had gone into the Admiralty and .leclared \ on Spec was somewhere in the I'aeinc. "Get seven cruisers off to-morrow, ' he ordered The Admiralty said it was impossible inside a week. "Tomorrow," ho insisted. "Von Bpee has hares. We must «end greyhounds." They were only a few houâ„¢ ahead. A fine account of this action, by the way, is given in Hard and Bashford's "Heroic Record ot the liritish Navy." The navy loBt 39,000 officers and men, very heavily in officers, =.„a ;)!,000 of the re- serve The total cost of tho war, said M-r. Donald, to Great Britain, in figures not previously pul.lishe.l, was £1 1 ,i;.'i7,OOU,00(). Of this, 3(5 per cent, was raised from taxation, no country in Europe doing uuything like this, which account- ed for Britain's solvency today. This year they were raising the eolossul sum of £l,4»8,000,0OO and they were alive. Tho British manufaetiirers ha<l come out o'f the war with big ideas. They hii.l scrapped many old-fashioned „„P8. It took the war to do it. There was a difficulty now about labor, which had been discontented since the war. This was largely due to the food situa- tion, which was as bad in England as during the war. The difficulty was to get the working man to produce, if he would only work live hours a day it would bo all right if he woul.l produce. The labor leaders, however, nieu like Clynes, Thomas, Barnes, Henderson, were sane and sensible men. They had to look forward in Englnnd to these men being in power. "We have to face it; we have to face it!" Mr. Donald repeated. It was all very well to administer things when in opposition, but it was different when you aro in office, ho observed. It might ease the industrial Hiluiitioii if th; labor men had antho'rity. So many diversified interests were unlikely U< hol,l together. He was confident that there was no H.dshevisni in Britain. Mr. Donald indulged ill no prophecies and in no hero worship. His addres.s was a plain tale of ♦hingg as they arc an.l have been, but it was fllle.l -ivith the spirit of the nation that faces difficulties and is undaunted- But We Must Not be Carried Away The Karmers' Hun, which has been so strongly ojjpoHed to the construction of the provincial Hydro Radial lines, has been advocating tho nntionali/.nf ion of the v. P. R. It contends that the present Intional Bailwny lines only rep- resent the skim milk of Cnnailu, and thnt the C V. H. has the cream. There is, however, no mnnopidy of the cream in any business. The same mctho Is that secure it In one case will prove ecpially efficacious in another. Any rail- way business la more or less of a long range proposal. Tho men who built the C. P. B. were regarded as madmen and cranks. Twenty years ago C. P. U. stock was far below par. The growth nnd development of tho C. 1*. H. system has been through the application of busineBS principles, which are in the knovd- edge of^everyone, coupled with the determination to get the ablest nu-n avail- able to do the work in hand. These principles and this deterniination are as applicable to tho National railways today as they were to the ('. P. H., and it is understood thnt they arc being nppl'.ed. The field foi the National lines is ns promising today as twenty years ago it was for the C. P. H. In fact, it is more promising, for Canada has a name and a reputation today which she then had yet to establish, it would be easily possible for the pof u lation of Canada to donhlo in twenty years. \Vc venture the prediction th.il M will bo so. What this means to our railways, our radiala and other bu«i- nesB, let the reader imagine. POEMS YOU SHOULD KNOW. THE SPLEKTDOB FA1.I.S ON CASTU! WALLS. The splendor falls on castle walls And snowy summits old in glory; The long light shakes along the lakes. And the wild cataract leaps in glory. Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying. hark, O hear! how thin and clear, And thinner, clearer, farther going! sweet and far from cliff and scar The horns of Elfland faintly blowing! Blow, let us hear the purple glens replying; Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying. O love, they die in yon rich sky. They faint on hill or field or river; Our echoes roll from soul to soul. And grow forever and forever. Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying. Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying. â€" Alfred Tennvson. ADVICE TO GIRLS Bt Rosalind Ktthttrid According l» th; Copy- tight Act Rosalind welcomes letters from young women readers of this paper â€" and young men, alsoâ€" asking for . advice. Address all letters to r.osaUnd, G15 Manning Chambers, Toronto, ani/ write on one side of the paper only. Replies will be published in this paper about throe weeks after letters are received. Dear Rosalind: 1 have been reading your ndvieo to girls. 1 think it a very good idea. Hut now, I need some myself. 1 have a boy friend who is 20 years of age. I m.vself am but 17. This friend of mine wi'Ut with a girl fur two years, luid then broke the eugagi'iueiit. Slu never had a ring. In the mnautinu while he was going with her he wms flirting with me nnd afterwards asked me to be his wife, and I consented. Lately ho asked nie could ho go with another girl. I said "Sure!" Hi went with her for four months and left her to come bTiek to me. Wo have just nicely started to go together again and this girl whom ho went witli fin- two years has wrillen three letters to him this last two weeks, and stateS"^lie n'ust come to her home, to be married in August. Rosalind, can this be true? I don't know what to do, anil my friend says he ilon 't know whelliei !-lie can make him marry her or not. What will we do. We arc to be mar ried either this I'all or next spring. He snys he thought sure when he cpiit go- ing with her and she never had a ring, he was safe. Is he f Could ho buy me a ring and if she took this matter into court could I get ahead of herf I do wish 80, as I am fond of the chap : T 'I he says that he di>eH not want the other girl for a wife. HKARTUROKEN. My Dear (Hrl: If you want my best advice, it is that you leave the young man to get out of his affairs ns best he can; and you wait fur at least four years be fore you consent to marry anybody. 1 wonder you could become engaged - or what villi call eiigngciN-to one who is so flcklo and who evidently holds in very light esteem a thing so serious as a promise. ROSALIND. Dear Rosalind: For a long time I have read your "Advice to Girls" and think it is splendid. So dear liosalind, will .voii help met I am a young girl 17 years of age, nnd I want your advice on a matter of much importance to me. Two years ago I met a gentleman. He was just "new" around tho town and everybody was friendly with him, as he w«a with everyone. -But more â- 0 with me than any of tho other girls .\3 time went on we met more fro- i|iieiitly and someluuv or other we seemed to grow very much nttaehed to each other, .\fter I had known him about ,1 year I heard a niuior tliiit lie wan- married. 1 could hardly believe It, and one day while talking to his friend I asked liini, and he said he h;nl been, but was now divorced. It got to 1)0 noticed how we used to talk ;nid dance together and people said I should not do it. But Rosalind, each time we met I thought of him more and more, nnd he did the same of me. lie has told me several times how h' loves me. He says I could be marrieii tomorrow, but my husband emilil never lovo III" as he does. And oh! Rosalind, I lovo him too. Not only has he told me of his love for me, but others have said how much he likes mo. So I can't doubt it. But lately I was told that ho thought nothing of me at all, and was just being attentive to me te make a fool of me, as it were. I can- not believe it, and one day I told him, but he denied every word of it and said i was not to listen to such things, because I should know better. Now, dear Rosalind, will you please advise mef Should I try to forget him? That is, forget how I love him/ !s he tit com|)any for me? And if when trying to forget him, should 1 just bo good friends with himf Please help me. GIRLIE. Little Girl: Vim are very young for so serious a love affair. Your friend is much older and much more experienced in worldly things than you and if there is blame til lie attached to anyone it is to him. He speaks of love, but not of marriage, so the kindest thing in the world for nie to do for you is to say forget him Huickh'. 1 am sure it will not be so difficult PS you think tonight. In the first place, you are very much in love not with this manâ€" but with love itself. All seventeen year ol,| girls of a romantic tarn are. So think of love as much as you like in a general way, an(l when viiu nre ol,l enough and rendy for a love that is genuine, you will (ind your cwi. ideal So do net H))oil your "girl hood by wasting thought on one who is not your right m»n. ROSALIND. Janet: Once again I must remina you to send me your full name ain! aildrrss, ns well as tho name vou wish me to use in the paper Write to me again, complying with this simple rule. It takes about three weeks after yoii Tvritc me to get your particular an swcr back to you in print. ROSALIND. ms THE BRAIN BOX CONDUCTED BY L GUNN RAMSAY. Registered According to the Copyright Act, In "Just Out of College," the Jack Pickford play which Alfred Oreen is directing, pickles play a prominent part as adornments for the hats of a bevy of maidens. A hungry monkey happened to bo working on an adjoin- ing sot with Mabel Normand. He made for the pickles to the utter con- sternation of tho maidens and the ruin of countless feet of film. "MEN WANTED." "Men wantedl"â€" who wants ment It was not only in war time that the cry, "Your King and Country Need You," was true. The challenge holds good for all time, probably more than ever ia it needed in these days of "peace." Wanted a man. Today I met a man â€"an individual who might justly claim this title. The word man really should convey something very strong, noble and fine in every respect. To- day I met a MAN. The man I met was a big man, one to be admired. No; I am not going to tell you any story of some "get-rich-quick Rocke- feller or Carnegie, but simply the story of one who many might term a mere ordinary man, and yet there w^as that radiating from him and round about him which proclaimed louder than any excess of riches the proud fact that here was "a man," indeed. He is not rich, this man, as the world counts riches. He has not in- vestments in this or that concern, or a bank account which could buy you and me and the other fellow two or three times over, not a bit of it. He is not rich â€" as the world thinks, but â€" to those who are blest with discernment he is tho most to be envied for his wealth or any human individual. He has that which it is indeed above the price of rubies, wisdom. He is a thinker, but a thinker who has had the ;ibility and who has the courage to put his thoughts into deeds. Wanted^-a man. The world needs more of such to-day. Now to tell you the story of my MAN and how he has earned his title. I met him in a crowded gathering among a group of prominent .'ind influ- ential business heads. There was Jones, who was reputed to own one- third of his local city; there was Smith, whose interests run into an an- nual income of many thousands of dol- lars; there was Brown, who is just too important for words, and was "The Man." He is the head of a fairly flourishing firm. As I have said be- fore, he has not the lion's share of material riches, but he has that for which all others seek him out â€" a steady poise, a forceful purpose, :. well-balanced mind. His opiiiinn is much sought after; men go miles to get his advice, important conferences are held over in order that he may be present, by those who know the value of ki> *cool impartial judgment. In this and hundreds of other ways he is coutrihiiting very largely to the na- tional life of his country, and imme- diately to the progress of splendid re- forms in his own locality. Whenever an opportunity to set a stone in the right direction arises, this man is there. Quietly, unobtrusivel.v, his work goes on. He is a strength to all, with whom he comes in contact, and gazing upon him one day a friend re- marked, "Well, old chap, you know you have had the advantages of a won. derful upbringing and education, and after all that does count. It is better even than money in the long run." The man smiled, a smile which watch- ing his face, one was struck with. Later I heard the reason. "I have had little or no education," he said, strictly speaking. ".\s a boy I certainly attended school fur a few years, but home circumstances were so adverse that I was obliged to go out to work at the age of 13 years. What I have since gained in the way of knowledge I have accjuired, ofteutime by slow and painful method, but whol- ly and absolutely by a dogged perse- verance through which I was deter- mined to win over the many obstacles which my birth in poverty and my early environment placed in my wa.v!" "Poor environment, obstacles and poverty!" Yet today he is revered, respected, sought after, honored by business men far and widov. of acute discernment and "education." Is not this a picture of a MANt Yet there are those who attribute their failures to lack of opportunitv; this man made opportunity where noiic existed. The road he took is open to all others. It eommeneed not cutirelv with the pursuit of material gain but with the first craving after knowloilge. Riches will never make a man. When you are planning and measuring up for your future success leave plentv of room for the acquirement of knowl- edge. Other things will follow m or- der. But first of all the world sav.<»: ' ' WANTEDâ€" A MA>r ! " JUST BOOKS. The following notes are in answer to a query regarding the life and works 0*! Jack London. Ho was born in Si^n Francisco in 1876 and spent his first seven y(ars on a farm in a treeless, bleak, foggy region. Later, in Oak- land, the boy sold newspapers, joined a street gang and became an ardent reader at the I'ublie Library. .\t sev- enteen he left home and joined a gang of oyster pirates, later joined the Fish Patrol; later still sailed before the mast to Behring Sea, miitiu.viug on the sealer, and working his way arouuil tho Japanese coast. Out of all thit hilmr with his bauds arose the man's ultimate political and economic faith, a deep-rooted Socialism; returning after various minor adventures, lie won a. prize offered by a newspaper for a descriptive article, determined to be- come a writer, tramped from. Maine t» California gaining the experience lat"i .('.corded in The Road, and then appl'ieil himself to his educaiion in the streni. mis fashion recorded accurately \:\ ilarliu Eden. The additional strain oi the work in a laundry, however, had the same disastrous results as on Mar- tin; and with a desperate hope in his heart he left to dig gold in the Klon- dike. The experiences of that year in Ihe North aro writ largely on his work, us also are those of tho home- ward journey of 1,900 miles in an open boat. Returning home, he found his family in such straits that ho settle ! down to undertake their support. 11' found a market for his stories, publish- ing his first novel in li)00; rapidly won fame and success; spent ono summer in the hopeless underworld of London, Eiijjland, among the "I'lople of the .Miyss"; was newspaper correspondent from the Busso-Japanese scenes of war; purchased his own "Valley of the .Moon," the magnificent Sonoma Valley estate; enjoyed tho friendship of men and women whose hearts are not reputed to be easy to win; mar â-  id; built nnd sailed the famous "Snark" on a marvelous tramp voy age to tho South Sea Isles; and then suddenly, having lived full.v and splen- didly, still making plans "for the fu- ture, ho died at the ago of forty, Tho inexhaustible virile energy of the man, however, has gone into his best work, and will not die, â€" not while men still delight to read of strange lauds and strange people and mon strolls perils nnd of the triumph of a strong heart, fur good or evil, over ex- ternal things. Nome of his books in whieh his trav- els are recorded nre Adventure, Burn- ing Daylight, The Iron Heel, Jerrv of tho Islands, Martin Eden, South Sea Tales, The Valley of the Moon, When Ood Laughed and The White Pang. Very recently tho Maemillan Com pany of Canada, 70 Bond street. To ronto, published a new edition of Jack London's works, the Sonoma edition containing all tho famous titles in most attractive form. ABOUT CANADA Hang Up Yotu: Broom. Place a small screw eye in the end of the broom or moji handle. A broom, es))eeinlly one used fur serubbing, will' get out of shape if allowcil to stand, and if it is inverted it often falls over. .\ broom with a screw eye in the handle can easily be hung out of the way. A mop. even when wrung as dry as possible, may drip. If a mop is hung up, a bucket mn.v be placed underneath and then the mop won't drip on the floor, â€" Mrs. V. O. The Island of St. Joseph, at the north of Lake Huron, was destined to be tho scene from whieh an impor.V.ut military expedition began in the early days of July, 1812. War with the I'uitcd States had bet-n declared and an expedition was moving on Detroit. St. Joseph was held by a snuiU gar- rison for the protection of the few traders passing to and from Lake Su- perior -with Captaiu Koberts as eom- mandcr. . Brock at once sent this offi- cer a notice that war had broken out between the two naticms and he gave his instructions for an inimediato at- tack on Port Michillimackinac if he thought the expedition possible. This was a post held by the States on I-ake Michigan. If his own fort was at- tacked he was to defend it to the ut- most, so Sir Isaac Brock, the com- mander-in-chief, ordered. Roberts decided at once to strike at the Americans. Tho agent of the Hudson's Bay Companv helped gather a fleet of canoes from various Indians so that by the Uith of July Roberts was able to leave for the enemy posi- tion. He skirted the shores of Lake Huron to the Straits of Machinaw. His force consisted of 33 men of the Royal Veteran Battalion and 160 Can:iaian volunteers â€" brave but poorly armed. In addition he had about 400 Indians and half-breeds who forme dan irregular army serving under his command. On the 17th of July Roberts reached the destination and drawing up his force in an imposing style, he sum- moned it to surrender, it was taken by surpriiH' and promptly complied w-ith the order, giving up the place with til regular troops aud a big store of sup- plies and very valuable furs. This success brought most of tho Indians of the district to the British colors and created a most favorable influence throughout the province, although Rob erts received no recognition for his heroism. WHICH WAS EIGHTT A tramp was once given a mince pie by the .voung wife of a farmer. Next day tho tramp niipeared at the farm house again and said, "Would you be kind enough, ma'am, to give me the recipe for that there mince pie what I had bore yesterday f" "Well, the idea," exclaimed tho farmer's wife, "Laud sakes, man, what do you want that recipe fort" "To settle a bet," replied the tramp. "My partner says you use three cups of Portland cement to one of molasses, but I HaiTn it's enlv two and a half," Origin of WaU Street, Back in 1C35 a wooden wall was erected along the line of what is now known as Wall street. New York, to protect the town against a threatened invasion of New Knglatiders, whom the Dutch both scorned and feared. The invasion never took place, but the wooden wall remained for nearly half r. century. Mops for the Windows. I find dish mops very helpful in cleaning windows, aa I can reach to all parts of the window with them. Have two mops, one for washing ami one for polishing. To give a glo^s to gloss, starch a piece of old muslin in hot starch. When dry, rub windows or mirrors and vou will be surprised at the result.â€" Mrs. F. W. 0,