o .taken annually furnishes a good id 'ALLEN "THE HIGHEST BIDDER" | Rule of Representation By Population Not Popular In Rural Districts. Ottawa, July 16.-- Whatever may be the unit of representation result ing from the census taken the fix ures indicate a' relatively greater i: crease In urban than in rural popula tion, and when the, redistribution bill 18 enacted the city members parliament will be materially ir creased, with a corresponding dimir ution in the rura! representation i Recent events, connected with the | external situation, indicate ability of another s ion of parli ment at which redfitributton wou be one of the main features. While definite plans cannot be worked Hint pending announcement of tne population, the municipal census thg prob the of probable population, and alréac various suggestions are being put fo | ward as to the delimitation of con- | stituencies. The system whereby two | members have been elected at large | in a single electoral division is likely | to be done away with finally, ~ and! separate constituencies formed. This | willMafféct Ottawa, which expects three members, and also Halifax. | | j ° Favor Rural Ridings. Heretofore, on applying the unit of | representation, it hag always been | customary to make it much smaller | fn rural constituencies than in cities. | There are many instances of a city member representing two or thre: times thé number of people that 'a rural member speaks for. Agitation is well developed towards either ve- ducing this conceded disparity or | modifying it and going to some ex- tent, at deast, on the basis of repre- | sentation by population. The growth | of the agrarian movement is an in- fluence not wholly foreign to this proposition, It is conceded, however, that jt will call for eautious action. The government majority is non too large as it is and, on the minis- terial side, rural members whose constituencies would likely be wiped | out may exert their influence against { going very far in limiting the con-| cessions heretofore made to the rural | population. » CORDIAL RELATIONS WITH AMERICANS Hard Facts Must Be Faced to | Reach a Real Cordial Relation. The Pa institute, Ws . | keen | may found, if nations TO SEARCH FOR RELICS IN OLD INDIAN capiTaL | 0- Boy Scouts "and Archaeolo- ! gists Leave For Ancient Huron Seat. 3 14 Word bas been 1B icha Smit \imgion, D.C ar- fete. of the M tly receiv the dfs- tinguished f of nian coming ne a ympanie anguisie tercenterary orn i sop. of Boy Scout canoe trip to "undertake Ihonatiria party of by an L-Penetang on at , Where they extensive excavation the ancle capi- Huron nation, i mf entnusias Th ih was n't the situated on ft) t command » of points atural beauty rin Etienne Du and sa gran- here that tus Courier i632 America, _Jt Brule, the Bois was po he Huron that the tow; pirit, aban remain ness ever" rounds the the finding wilder v8' sur- 1 and on of of diseuszior at he exhibit Huroniana at the tercentenial PACT THAT WILL MAKE PACIFIC REALLY PACIFIC (Premier Lloyd George Alludes to the Conference Called by Harding. London, July 16 George, in the course of his address at the banquet of the Coalition Lib- erals last evening, made the follow- ing allusion to "the remarkable in vitation issued by the president of Mr Lloyd {the United States to discuss the is- sues involved in the Pacific on which the future problem, peace Of the | world depends." He went on to say: "I am hopeful that it will result in a pact of peace | that will make the Pacific a really | it | | will lead to a 'useful discussion of | {the problem of disarmament, upon | pacific ocean. [I.also trust._that which so much depends for the fu- ture of our race, because it matters not what treaties are signed, what | pacts are entered into between na- tions, what understandings they may estallish; it makes no difference what leagues or associations they against each other for war, war will ensue in' the end. "Therefore no. treaty is of value unless it leads to an understanding among nations that they will not utilize their resources, _heir wealth and their strength for the purpose of developing the mechanism of hu- | man slaughter amongst themselves. (Spécial to The Whig) | London, July 16.---"Speaking as x Canadian I say here that I owe every- thing to England," said Professor Morison, of Queen's University, in responding last night to a toast at the dinner given by the British gov- ernment to the Anglo-American his- tory professors. "Much has been said recently," he continued, "with regard to Anglo- American friendship, \nd if the re- lations between the two countries are to be friendly and cordial certain hard facts must be faced and the future policy must be based on ade- quate knowledge. of the mistakes of | | the past. "Friendship must come from truth, honesty and sincerity. Cana- dians are not solely British, but they are French also, and the future of the Dominion depends on the mutual relations of France and Britain. In the past the French-Canadiahs have contributed many orators to. the school of parliamentary eloquence and there is no greater work which the historian of to-day can undertake than in investigating and setting forth the manner in which French civiliza- tion dove-tailed into British civiliza- tion." 3: Among those present at the ban- quet in addition to Professor Morison weré Prof. Prince, of Kingston, and ¥. Lenley, Toronto. Tour Put Off Again, Toronto, July 16. The tour of the | U.F.0. big three--Crerar, Drury and Morrison----seems to be definitely off. It is stated that Hon. Mr. T.- A Crerar, the federal agrarian leader, | will be unablq to take the stump in | Ontario with Premier Drury and the | U.F.0. secretary, as he had intended. | There is still some prospect, however, of Premier Drury and J. J, Morrison setting out on a speaking r. -- necro HUSBAND AND WIFE. | 1 | closet | St ce. shuts 'My husband never doors. --M.H.A. IVhAt Does Your Husband Do ? | lots, |T am very hopeful tha: when' that conference meets it will lead to some- thing beyond mere resolutions favor of disarmament and real ar- rangement, involving the keeping of those armaments within limits." SEEKS WAY TO INCLUDE JAPAN Believe First Hitch in Are rangement Can Be Ad- Justed Quickly. Washington, July 16.--Japan is ready to enter the disarmament con- ference, but withholds assent to an unrestricted discussion of far eastern questions as a part of it. The viewpoint of the American government is that a solution of the far eastern questions is a necessary. | accompaniment to. any disarmament programme. x Thus develops the first hitch----if a hiteh it turns out to be--in Presia- ent Harding's plan to remove reduce the armaments themselves American officials, however, ara optimistic that a way will be found for a satisfactory conference té whicn Japan will bé a party and for a pro- gramme of armaments reduction ac- ceptable to all. CANADIAN WOOL IS 2 IN GREAT DEMAND Prices Not Up--Mills Showing More Activity in Manu- . facture of Goods. Ottawa, July 16.--Canadian mills are showing greater activity in the manufacture of woollen goods, and as a result there is a strong demand for Canadian wool, but without any advance in price, according 'to the dominion 'wool market reports for the week ending July 11th issued yesterday. Sales of domestic wools continue to be made at 19 to 21c for medium. Quotations on lower grades Are running from 11 to 13¢ for coarse, 15 to 17¢ for low combing and 17 to 19¢ for low medium combd- ing. Western wools are under pro- cess of grading and *averal options have already been taken on Certain Little 0. n change in the amouny of immigr-tion inte Canada 3s notie- ed since the immigration law came into force, 7 in | inocuous | the | causes for heavy armaments and then | Kl SHELVE NAVAL TOPIC Position of Dominions Pre- miers Is To Leave Well Enough Alone. London, July 16 few days, the naval question will be vied by th conference of ish dofiniot' prime ministers. This course has been urged by Prem- ier Meighen from 'the beginning, and its adoption has been rendered ine- | vitable by a decision to have the dis | armament conierence at Washington _ | It is probabie that some form of re- i solution will he but it relation to passed have. n policy tcopteinplated action, and it will mitths respective dominions to noth- ing is not at all improbable thaf j the adestian of the place and date tor ile" dfSsussion of other matters [in connection with the proposed con- COm- i stitutiona) conference will be left in L labeyanze. . | The Canadian Press ikain a posi- I tion fo state that is the view held by lof whom, curiousiy enough, have sub- scribed to the resolution | urging the holding of a constitution- al conference as soon as possible af- | | ter the war. The argument they now | | use is that the international situation lin a state of flux, the question of de- vising machinery suitable to fits | changed status of empire, with -its | attendant danger of throwing the | whole question into the vortex of | domestic politics, can safely he de- ! layed In a word, their position is to |HERE 1S HONESTY PURE AND SIMPLE ! |@irl Finds $10,000 in Hand- | kerchief and Promptly Locates Owner. New York, July 16.--Could Dio- | genes but return to earth in quest of |an honest woman instead of an hon [est man he would be rewarded. Anna Hughes, seventeen, who | works in a laundry, found $10,000 {in jewels tied up in a handkerchief. Although nobody knew of her discov- ¥.-8he promptly turned the jewels over to the manager, who returned them to their owner. Miss Hughes received a substantial reward, which she accepted unde: protest, and a special vacation w:th | double pay was awarded her by ner | employers. | ™ |DOCTOR'S CLAIM OF $81,461 GOES TO JURY | Rochester Physician 'Sues Eg~ tate of Louis N. Stein, Clothing Manufacturer. Rochester, N.Y., July 16.--A claim of $81,461.01 for medical_ services made by Dr. Julius 8. Berkman of this city against the $1,500,000 estate of the late Louis N. Stein, Rochesterclothing manufacturer, was ordered submitted to a jury by Sur- | rogate Seldon S. Brown. { 000 a year and says Mr. Stein prom- ised to make provision for paying out of his estate the balance now allegea to be due. {Aquatic Feat By Cornwali, Ont., July 16.-----An un- | usual aquatic feat for a child of {ber age, was accomplished by Miss Isotel Whittaker, the nine- 'ear-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs, H, L.. Whit- taker, 3 at St, Lawreace Papi for ~bout half { an hour when she'thought she would like to swim across the river to Corn- wall Island. She struck out, follow- ed by her father in a boat, and was | | still in good form when the island was reached, and would have come | back to the park haa' her father allowed her, but he insisted on her | returning with him in tne boat. It [1s a good 'half mile from the park | to the island, and a swift current flows between the two points. So far as is known, this 'is tne first time this feat has been accomplished by | qne so young. ------------ WOMAN IS OONVICTED. | Killed Her Husband After Seventeen Years of Quarrelling. Chicago, July 16.--Mrs. Dora Wat- erman, West Division street, who slew her husband, Louis, with a meat cleaver on March 7th, was con- victed of murder. She is one of the very few women convicted of mutd- er In Cook county. The slaying cane after seventeen years of quarrelling. The jury fixed Mrs. Waterman's pan- penitentiary. She fainted when she heard the verdict. Her seventeen- year-old son, Jacob, tried with her, was found not guilty. . It was stated at the trial thot Waterman, under the influence tf bis owd moonshine, had threatened to kill his wife. | still was found im the house. B ily As the result of | informal discussions of the past | at least two dominion premiers, both i | Dr. Berkman alleges an agréement : J under which he was to receive $20,- A Cornwall Child!" She had been Af swintming | ishment at seventéen yesrs in the! A fully equipped ' ise 4 J). SATURDAY, JULY 16, 1921. British W hig | RAR ----G------ ALLEN NOW PLAYING "THE HIGHEST BIDDER" ® - LAST EDITION | | the " THUNDERER " AND Left: Lord Northeliffe. barred from the foppign office secretary. who gave the order PIPES AND TOBACCO FOR THE PRISONERS The Majority Expressed a Pre=- ference For Use of Smok- ing Tobacco. of. 19117, | The issue of tobacco tc the pris- |oners of Portsmouth penitentiary is { expected every day. Or.ers have | been sent in for a supply of p'vec and | tobacco, as upon a canvass'by War' | den Ponsford it was ascertained that | the majority of the inmates express- {ed a preference for smoking tobac- | co, { No definite statement has yet been | given out respecting the result of the | Nickle commission that investigated | complaints on behalf of Messrs. | Corby and Givens, officials of the | Portsmouth penitentiary, Mr. Nickle | forwarded his report of the inquiry | to Ottawa some time ago, 'and word [of the decision of the minister of | justice is expected daily, The offi- [ cials expect to be fully vindicated. I | i | 10 SECURE MAJORITY They Are Closely Asseclated With 'Labor 'Candidates in Various Ridings. _ | Calgary, July 16.--In Alberta | [in 1,600 local units or the United {Farmers and the Unitea Farm Wo- {men, It is estimated at the® head- | quarters of the Farmers' organiza- | tion that this body, most af whom | are voters, constitute approximately | 25 per cent. of the total] electorate, | which, on Monday next, will choose |& new.provincial legislature. Lead: ers in the. Farmers' movement de- cline to predict the result of the elec- | tion, ir*_ which there are ro-ty-four candidates recognizea omec:ally by the organization, and several more whose sympathies rua in the direco- tion of the U.F.A., and whose sup- port is expected with considerable confidence in the event of a Farmer victory atthe polls. It is fair to say, however, that they will pe surprised if a majority of the 61 members in the mext assembly are not U.F.A. { men, The Farmers' movement 1s associ- ated closely with the campaign of i lalfor candidates in vartous ridings, | 'and a wo | €) rking agreement such as ists in Ontario 'might pe seen in erta, should such an arrargement, ensure a majority in the nouse for {the combined groups In Medicine Hat, a two-mmember constituency. one labor ma and ono i Farmer age opposing jointly two gov- Rad ment candidates, In Lethbridge tlie' Far .ers are isuporting the Labor candidate {-against General J. 8. Stewart, Con- i servative, and there is no Liberal in the field. | In Calgary also the Farmers are giving their assistance to the Labor ticket, and, in Edmonton city the single U.F.A. nominee is working in co-operation with the Labor candi dates, : In Didsbury, which includes the Drumheller mine fielés, 'he Labor forces are Supporting the Farmer candidate against the Liberats. The despatch of Vera-Cruz troops "to the oil jands continues, The Mexi- can steamer Jalisco, with 500 men, left for Tuxpam, ° where military headquarters is establishea. wonden, July 16,--Canada's Undér the decision of the speaking, thirty billion dollars. Empire is allotted 22 per cent. This works out 'at a rm {there are more than 32,000 members | Is to Pay Canada As Reparations Germany is to pay the British Empire, minister's conference at three hundred German reparations bill is placed at £6.600,000,0600, or, yesterday, Canada is to receive 4.5 per cent about $340,000,000, or, represents about one-eighth of the Canadian national debt. " GOVERNMENT CLASH. whose .attacks upon the British sovernment have led to representatives of his papers being Right: Lord Curzon, foreign of exclusion. A tee tr rs esa rep a VARIETY HAS PROVED £00D Premier Meighen Tells Man- sion House" Gathering What Has Helped. London, July 16.--Yesterday Pre- mier Meighen was presented in the historic Guildhall the lord mayor and sheriffs received the guasts, after which a special meeting of the corporation was constituted. | The chamberlain, Sir Adrian Pollock. delivered an address and pronounced the Canadian prefer a free man Premier Meighen spoke briefly in | reply after which a large company, | including members of the Imperial at the Mansion House in his honor, Premier Meighen was speaker at the function, and dealt with the problems of the British corh- monwealth. The several dominions, he pointed out, had this only in common with 'the mother country, that they rever- ed the same sovereign, in which fact was wrapped up the sense of their common mission on earth. No two na- tions of the Empire had { path to travel. Each had its own dif- ficulties and advantages. Each had to determine its poliey in the light of conditions that surrounded it. He contrasted Canada and the United Kingdom with regard to pop- ulation, resources and physical condi- tions, but particularly in those ecir- cumstances which affect foreign re- lation--England on the fringe of Europe; Canada contiguous for four keenly. commercial rival. Variety Has Done Good. In this same divergenge of cir- cumstances and interests," he point- ed out, nevertheless, lay the ulti- mate strength of the Empire. "The experience we "have gained all | through these years in trying to get { others' viewpoint," said Mr. Meighen "sometimes failing, but I think al- ways trying, has done the Empire good. It has developed a breadth of view, a range of sympathy and an aptitude for compromise that has enabled British statesmen to render priceless service to mankind. There are months ahead when these quali- ties will be needed as neyer before. 'If will be the hope ot Brifain's mil- lions in every quarter of the globe, that during these months, by calling into play the same 'spirit ahd the isame challenge which hds. preserved the unity of this Empire through tha long and troubled past, her statet- men may be able now to contribute something of credit towards advanc- ! ing, if'riot the unity, at least the hap- piness and peace of the world."« Bandits Snatch Bag Containing $25,000 Seattle, Wash, July 16.--Two bandits shortly after 10 o'clee» yes- lerday morning snatched a bag con- taining $25,000 in currency from ga messenger cf the Northwes. Trust and Safe Deposit Company, and es- taped in an automobile, pursuéd by a taxicab driver who had witnessed the affair. Police throughout the city were notified, and other cars took up the chase. Amn share of the reparations, which has been fix@d by the prime million" dollars. supreme allied council, the. total roughi¢ Of this gigantic sum, the British and under the decision reached of the British total in other words, it : é s ° |EXPECT A BIG CROP with | | the freedom of London. At 12 o'clock | conference, and leaders of all parties | in British: politics attended luncheon | the, chi-f| the same | thousand miles with a friendly, but | THROUGHOUT THE WEST | The Canadian National Rail- way Agents Send Favor- able Report East. Toronto, July 16. -The beneficial {result of rains which have fallen | generally over the west reflécted {in a crop report for. .the week end- ling July 9th, received by the Canad- {ian Nationa] Railwa lagents in western Canada. | t | A great majority of the 309 agents | reporting' are confident.that suffici- | i ent moisture has fallen to permit of a steady, wholescme growth of gran of all varieties sown No serious damage from any source reported The grasshoppers, ap- pear to be well in hand throughout | the area serve by the C.N.R. There | is has been some hail and some trouble {fro mheavy rains, hut these affect | the minor portion of the crop only, Provera of a bumper crop are | made by many agents thro=ghout the {three provincés Altogether, the re- | port may be viewed as -decidedly optimistic in tone, and unless un- | foreseen developments occur between | this date and time for cutting, pros- | pects are that the farmers along C.N.R. lines in the west will+harvest | one of, the greatest crops in their history. 2 [REDSKIN MUST PAY THE DEATH PENALTY | Fellow=-Indians Impressed by | the Workings of British Justice. Fort McMurray, Alta, July 16.-- { Albert Lebeaux, the Slavey Indian for whose trial the special judicial party went North a few weeks ago, has been found guilty of the murder of his wife and child and sentenced | conducted | to death. -Judge Debuc the trial at Fort Providence, with C. C. McCaul, of Ottawa, as counsel for the prosecution and John Cory for the defense. The case was handled with as { much care and legal precision ps if it had been in one of th: cit, courts held in | Evidence the Mackenzie Territory. was submitted ia support of the charge that definitely estab- lishes the prisoner's guilt, however, lana sentence of death wus accord- | ingly passed upon him. The local Indians have been im- pressed - with the fact that .British 'justice reaches far-and that Lebeaux was given a fair trial. 5 | ---- em HENRY FORD LAUNCHES | OUT IN NEW ENTERPRISE Has Offered $5,000,000 and | ~~ Huge Rental For Great Nitrate Plant. Detroit, Mich., July 16.--Iit was [intimated here by men in clos: touch | with Henry Ford and his extensive | business interests, that the automo-- bile magnat. -has presented a pro- | posal to the Federal government to [lease the great nitrate plant at Mus- | ele Shoals, Alabama, constructed by | the government during the war at a cost of $80,000,000. TLe plant now idle ; | The manufacturer has offered to pay to the government five millions in cash ahd a yearly lease rental of $1,600,000 for the land and plant. | Mr. Ford intends, it is uncerstood, | to operate the nitrate plant to manu- facture commercia] fertilizer and as an auxiliary plant for the m-1Lufae- | ture of explosives in an L'mergency. | Distribution of the valuahle nitrate | fertilizer, it is pointed out, could be {carried on fo advantage in conhec- | tion with the Ford farm tractor in- | dustry Il. Mr.'Ford's private secretary, Ern- | {est G. Liebold, comment on the matter, admitted that a statement nright be looked for after the government has con- sidered Mr. Ford's proposition and announced its decision, The proposal to the government | was made following a complete sury vey of the Muscle Shoals p.-perty by Ford engineers. It is generally belicved t.at if Ford has "eased the property an unprecedented supply of high-grade fertilizer will be made available to farmers throughout the country. The gigantic Ford market ing system could also be utilized to facilitate the handling of the pro- duct. | Two Heroic Brothers Fail in Rescue six-year-gld son of Bert. Miller, was drowned in the Bonnechere river yesterday afternoon while bathing with his elder brothers, John and Frank. posed to be a good swimmer, but! on jumping into the rive: he sank | at once in twenty-five feet of wdter and never came up. : The brothers dived for him, but | were uhable to find his body, which | has not yet been recovered. : { Only last we®k the council tabled | a request of the Playground Associa- tion, that $200 be appropriated te | {engage a caretaker of ckildren bath- ing in the river during hot weather. re from fis | instead of the "first jury tial ever | is | while declining to | Renfrew, July 16.--Garfield, the | The littié fellow was sup- | AM AWFUL DEED Mrs. Bridgen Deliberately Poisons Herselt And Her Three Daughters. Wholesale poisoning by strychnine was the unhappy sequel to the appeal judgment handed down by Sir Wil- | liam Met dith at Toronto on Thurs- ' {day of last week giving custody of { the two youngest children of Mr, and | Mrs. J. C. Bridgen to, the father dur- [ing the holidays. The judgment Wag | sought just. t.fo: © the closing o' the | Notre Dame c¢.avent, Kingston, and | the dramatic sequel came at 11 am. | on Friday, wiren the. father was about | to take possession of the two children | at the home of the mot" e~, 290 Ont- ario street, Dr. P. H. Huyek wa- sai'ed to the {home of Mrs. Bridgen at 11 Mm, and upon arriving there tound Mrs, Bridgen and her oldest daughter, Doris, a girl aged sixteer years, both very ill from some poison.' Mr. Brid- | 8en refuse * to answer his questions, saying: 'et me die." She refused to say what poison had been admin- | istcred and said she threw th. bottle avay. Efforts to find the bottle were I fruitless: Returning to hi, ratient, i Dr. Huyc: was told she had taken | fox poison, which had been a long {time in the house, He knew that the | basis of this was strychnine, and his | deduction was soon confirmed by a | wel] defined convulsion. He admin- | istered an emetic and had both pat- | lents removed to the Hotel Dieu {where the treatment was continued | with good result in the case of the | daughter, who had apparently re ceived a small dose, - but while tha mother's stomach was washed oui, she continued to suffer from convul- sions throughout the day, and on Friday night her condition was ser- lous. On Saturday morning she shows ed a little improvement, Other Two Taken 11, Just after removing the patients to the hospital Dr, Huyck received a telephone call from Westbrook stat- ing that the other two Bridgen child- | ren were ill from poison. He did not associate the cases with those here and directed that they be rushed to the hospital tere, They were. the two other children of - 3 on whom the father was taking to T; ton by auto. They had been po ed before ledving home. treated them at Westbrook and sent them on to the Hotel Dien where they are under Dr. Kiyek's care. They are expected. to recover. They are Agnes, aged 14, and Monu, aged twelve. WW. PR Nickle, K. C., was summons ed to 290 Ontario street and was pre. sent when Dr. Huyek arrived. It wag his firm that represented the mother when the appeal for custody of the children was argued in Toronto last week." William M. Nickle presented the case. The whole deplorablé affair is the outcome of an unhappy domestic con dition and the mother becoming men- tally distracted when about {o be deprived of the custody of the two little ones, yielded to a rash impulse in order to escape what appeared to her to be an unbearable situation, Order Changed, Some time ago Justice Kelly gave an order at Toronto that the Brid- gen children were to be under the care of their mother. Inspector Pol lie of the Children's Aid Society and Mayor Nickle, who knew Mrs, Brid- gen when he was in charge of the | local patriotic fund, signed affidavits- | that the mother was quite capabla | of looking ufter her children, and. ad- | vising that they be left with her. | Since the father returned from over seas, the couple have not lived .to- gether. The mother was eager. to do lier best for her offsp ing, and the °® two younger ones wefe sent to the Notre Dame convent boarding school, Lately, the father took action to have . the younger children with him dur- ing the holidays, and was represent- ed at Toronto by Ambrose 8hea, who secured . gn order that the father was to have the custody of them untir the convent term opened in Septem- ber. The father claimed that the place kept by his wife was not fit for * the children, but the children's aid inspector told the Whig that nothing whatever could be produced against the mother who did well by heryoung , daughters. The latter apparently {desired to remain with the mothe | for they appeared to be much grievs {ed when the hour for their 'depart I'ture with their father arrived | | (Continued on Page 20) ------------ | Kill Food Requisitioners. { Reval, Esthonia, July 16.--The. Moscow newspaper, Economic Life, asserts that during the month of May more than 200 employees of the Bol- shevik food department making re«; Quisitions of foqd, ete, in the coups try, were killed by peasants or ban- z dite . : ' In Toronto 19 Go. . "Toronto, July 16.--A number of aged employes of the postal depirt- ment in Toronto will be superannuat~ éd on July 31st under the civil ser- vice reorganization, Nineteen To- Tolle man gre allected, ce pe SAR,