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3 fy 0 2 3 Free ATRIA Cha posed in 1882 on national grounds in a public protest signed by nearly avery man of eminence in this coun- try. It was rejected again by the Com- miftee of Imperial Defence in 1924. The most frequent argument in fa- vor of a tunnel, apart from the com- mercial aspect of the question, is that it could now be made with safety be- cause aircraft have destroyed our in- sularity. That is among the most cogent reasons for Opposing the pro- ject. We would not offer an enemy a bridge because he has put boats on the water. Why, having lost the safe- guard of the air, should we surrender that of the sea also? One so-called "expert" has told us that the only . possible enemy is France. Such a statement is absurd in view of the events of 1914." It may well be asked what would have hap- pened in 1014 and succeeding years had a tunnel been in existence? Our Government might have been afraid to send the Expeditionary Force abroad; the Germans would have taken the Channel ports on the French side, and the enemy would have been at our gates, even if the tunnel had been demolished or rendered impass- able, The defence of the ports would na- turally have been regarded by the French as of less importance than the defence of Paris, The problem is not one of armies popping in and out of @ tunnel, as the propagandists believe. It is a question of the grand strategy of a campaign. Who are the promoters of the pro- fect, and who are its opponents, and on what grounds do they base their advocacy or opposition? The pro- moters are those who propose to make money by fit, supported by some who have neither the knowledge nor the Inclination to give more than super- ficial thought to it and influenced by u superficially attractive enterprise. The financiers are naturally con- cerned with the prospect of gain and their supporters with sentimental considerations; their opponents have mo mea nor personal motives for op- position -- they stand on patriotic ground only, for they do not wish to #00 anything done that may endan- ger the safety of England or weaken our position in the world leven in the slightest degree. We are told that closer contact would increase and foster friendly re- lations with our French neighbors, a very laudable object, but not based on fact. It is conceivable that it might have the opposite effect; it is doubt- ful whether an influx of our tourists would increase the affection of the French for our people. Continental experience shows that Iacilities of communication have not Improved the relations hetween france and Italy, and France and Germany. The commercial advant- mages to Great Britain are equally doubtful. They are confidently claim- od but never proved. One thing only is clear. A tunnel would enormously Increase the numbers and expenditure of British tourists on the Continent. Bt Is most unlikely that the expendi- ture of foreigners in Great Britain would increase proportionate ly. Arguments based on pacts, treaties, ententes, or tla political situation of the moment are worthless, especially when we r ber that r ibl And His Pay #The question of the Prime Minle- ter's salary is ome of real public wr gency. It is a question which the new Government will naturally be rather shy of tackling, but upon which never the less it is necessary to speak very plainly. The present position is altos gether absurd. Everybody knows this,"--The New Statesman. "Everybody knows, that is to say, that an income of £6,000 a year-- which when income-tax and superfax have been deducted is not much more than £3,500--is utterly inadequate for the proper upkeep under present con~ ditions of such a house as the Prime Minister's official residence at No. 10 Downing Street," adds the New Statesman. "It 1s hardly more than enough to pay for bare living expenses and the wages and food of the necessarily large staff of male and female ser- vants. The Chancellor of the Exche- quer, it he ocguples No. 11 Downing Street, 1s mot in a much better case. He has less entertaining to do, and by strict economy may just contrive to keep his expenditure inside his in- come; but to do that he must be as careful and grudging about his house- hold budget as he very properly is about the national budget. But as for the Prime Minister next door, he can- not possibly make both ends meet un- less he has considerable private means or a private sustenation fund. "Mr. Baldwin is a rich man and so was Mr, Bonar Law, But out of the last seven English Prime Ministers at least three have required private fin- ancial assistance--which is not only obviously - undesirable from every point of view, but is derogatory of the dignity of what is the greatest office and position in the world. (For a British Prime Minister, by virtue of our conmstituton and of our Parlia- mentary system, holds in his own hands more power even than a Presi dent of the United States, and of course infinitely more than a French or German President or Premier). "The Prime Minister's salary was fixed in days when £5,000 a year placed the recipient, even if he had not private means, on a temporary level with the richest men in the coun- try. To-day, lacking private subven- tions, it is actually insufficient to pay for even that almost compulsory mini- mum of entertainment which it is the duty of the head of thi Government to offer. The Attorney-General gets well over £20,00 nowadays, and the Solicl- tor-General about £16,000; the Bri- tish Ambassador in Paris about £8,000 or £10,000, and the Ambassa- dor in Washington. £18,000. The Lord Mayor of London gets £10,000 for entertainment expenses. Yet the tax-fee income of the Prime Minister is only about £3,500, out of which he has to pay all the costs of keeping up a great London house! Ought To Be Done At Once "Something must be done about this and ought to be done at once. The Prime Minister should at the very least be the most highly paid servant of the Crown, If he had even the sal- ary and expenses allowance of the British Amb dor in Washi he would be able to do his duty without borrowing and without impoverishing himself. At the very least we can af- ford to give him in addition to his ordinary salary £10,000 a year (free, of course, of income-tax) for enter tainment expenses. In present cir- statesmen considered war with Ger mayn to be "unthinkable." Political friendships are not eternal; nor, with the spectacle of Russia before us, can we count on the stabliity of nations or political systems. The possible danger of a Channel tunnel would come not merely from tha France of today, but.from a for- eign invader as in 1914, from a Bol shevized Europe, or possibly from treachery within, which unfortunately is greater to-day than at any time in our history. An argument ignored by those who favor the project is our present im- munity from: those responsibilities which are borne by Continental na- tions, and have led to the institution ot compulsory service. We should re- quire additional insurance in the form of armaments, not merely in the form no man who has not large private means can possibly af- ford to live at 10 Downing Street and offer that social and political hospi tality which a Prime Minister should be able to offer. "Such a postion is obviously anom- alous, indeed worse than anomalous, because it means that the Prime Min- ister cannot even 'receive foreign guests in the manner in which they are entitled to expect to be received. They have to be asked to tea (as it were) instead of to dinner. That is case. It is quite {lterally true, And it implies a degree of humiliation whch affects England no less than it affects her Prime Minister. We can afford to pay our Prime Minister properly. Why do we not do it? "The to that i of course is that Ministers always hesi- tate to discuss the problem or to pro- pose any increase in thelr own emolu- ments, Their habitual modesty in this respect may in some respects be "He Should Be Supplied With 'Adequate Means to Sup- not an exaggerated statement of the| worthy of admiration, but it is not{ OLD-TIME COACH TAKES TO THE ROAD AGAIN Horns blew and whip cracked as Mr. Claud Goddard's "Tally-Ho," with its gay passengers, passed through Hammersmith en route for Oxford recently. il : i g : 5 * g i ; . £ 3 he lour longer, and strain. Next move cake of fat. To clear stock | white of 1 egg till frothy, add the broken shell to above stock when cold (after fat is removed); heat slowly) and stir constantly, with stirring; set aside 10 g £3 cheesecloth dipped in cold water. Here are also some soup recipes: Tomato quart stock, 1 can tomatoes, salt, pep- per and sugar to taste. Stew and strain tomatoes; add to boiling stock, season, an dsimmer 10 minutes. 4 Tomato Soup Without Btock--Stew her for 1 0 minutes 1 can toma- I Wanted Romance I left my ten thousand dollars a year when I went to Europe because I couldn't take it with me! = That sounds simple. But the simple things are always the most expensive. At any rate, with me, it was "Right or wrong, my Paris!" And away I went. I have never regretted it for an instant. Nor shall I ever. Out of those glittering, romantic, adventur- ous years in Europe I had what the versity, and what the tired business man gets in the front row at the Fol- les. I had just everything. Except money. I had what the soul of the artist lery in New York--only a thousand times more. For imported art is like flowers pulled up by the roots, I wanted to see the very gardens in which these most wonderful flowers actually grew. And I did. heel like a rich embroidered robe. music--and its Munich beer. Nurem- berg, the town from which the toys are copied! And after it "The Meis- tersinger of Nu.emberg." things that are only legends to us in America, are every-day life in Ger- many. And my Paris and yours. Every- body's 'Paris, I lived on the left bank in the Seine, in a pension for students of the Sorbonne. Then II moved over most fashionable hotel. I bought one frock from the great- est creator of fashions in Paris, many frocks from the clever small shops on the side streets. On the Continent of Europe beauty is not only for the rich and great. Beauty in some guise--in color, form, or sound--is the daily bread of even the beggar on the streets. For, after all, an appreciation of beauty depend much upon the leisure to enjoy it. And leisure the Europeans demand, king and beggar too. 4 We do not originate in American industry; we develop. Almost all our work has some connection with the Old World. In my own case, the con- nection between my work and Europe was even more than usually obvious. postgraduate student gets at a uni- | to the right bank, and lived in the! The job I left was writing advertising for a smart Fifth Avenue shop. Around me in the shop were the richest treasures of the European countries, bought at great price and brought to America. I wrote about them for others to read, and I wanted to see where-they eame from myself. I wanted to understand them. | The value of a piece of merchandise is never in the actual stuff of which it is made. Nobody cares how much or how little it costs! Its value is in the {way it makes those who look upon it | i toes, 1 pint water, 1 ¢ salt, 1 and strain through 2 thicknesses of] Soup With Stock--Oné outlining hipline coat. E is s§ Hi +i & i E : f H tablespoon sugar, cloves, ¥% teaspoon 1 tabl h 3 onion, 1 tabl hopped ley: Rub through sieve, return to fire and hicken with 1 tabl butter and 1 tablespoon flour rubbed together and stirred in. Spice Nut Cookies One-half cup of fat, 1% cup dark brown sugar, 1 teaspoon vanilla, % t salt, 1 ¢ cinnamon, 1 teaspoon cloves, 1 teaspoon nutmeg, 1 teaspoon soda, 3% cup of nuts, 4 cups flour, 4 tablespoons sour milk or feel. ,to do with the origin of the merchan- {dise. A good deal to do with the peo- ple who made it. With the environ- {ment in which it was created. I wanted to see the women of Chan- tized. I wanted to see the Italians, too, sitting -peside the blue Mediter- ranean, glancing from their 'lace- spools to the copper-colored sails of !the fishing boats, And this Teal value has a good deal rest of ingredients; cream, Cream fat and sugar; add mix well and .CLill. 'Break off small pieces of dough and flatten down 3 inches apart on a greased baking sheet. Bake in moder- ate oven. If you find you have not enough liquid, you can add a little drinks up at the Metropolitan Art Gal- | tilly actually making the lace I adver- more to make a stiff dough. Semm------ Action Not Gestures Toronto Telegram (Ind. Cons.). The I'wanted to see the only thing Uncle Sam understands is blown glass of Venice--not just in a|something that hits him tn the pants I saw Italy, jeweled from top to boot gift shop in New York. And the fas-| pocket, 1 advertized to be| tomer. Germany was mine. Its incomparable worn at the Lido, I wanted to see!keep Canada from continuing as its hionable frocks worn there! I wanted romance. Romance spell ed in capital letters. Not the romance in the moonlight on a verandah i shrouded in clematis. But the sort of romance that lends a vivid back- ground to the dull tasks of the every- day. The sort of romance that can |1ift bread-winning out o fthe humdrum class. i Every bit of lace, or Venetian glass, {or raiment became crowded with per- sonality. Merchandizing--the writing {of copy for a great shop's advertising department--became the most glam- | orous sort o fa game. Money values ,--even the vanished ten thousand a year--Ilost their significance. As I wandered about, through the Old World, I.gained richness and tol I gained mello The hurry and 'bustls of a great organiza tion became less important than the thing for which the organization stood. * And go, in going to the Old World to seek the origin of these every-day things we' use in America, I did not really leave my fob at all. I merely Canada is his best cus- . The only thing that will best customer is a tariff that will keep his goods out of the Canadian mar- kets. Let United States have to These that is-meant by a word whispered {unload the billion dollars worth of goods that he now sells to Canada on his own markets. Then the law of supply and demand will make itself felt, So long as United States can keep its own markets and unload its surplus stocks on Canadian mar- kets it Is in a position to be not only 'independet but supercilious. A dose of its own medicine will eithes make United States come down off its perch or it will leave a vacancy in Cana- dian markets that can be filled part- ly with Canadian goods and partly with goods of other dominions and countries that are willing to do busi ness with Canada. gestures is past. Action Is the need of the hour. -- i "I hear you are going to California with your husband, Jane,' 'said Mrs. Jones to her maid, who was leaving to get married. "Aren't you nervous about the long voyage!" "Well, ma'am," Jane's reply, "that's his followed my job to Europe!--Smart Set. Grown Up Take Part During Kite Time in Japan Spd look-out. I belong to him now, and it anything happens to me, it'll be his loss, not mine." : The childish argumént has been ad- vanced by the "expert" already refer- red to that an ememy could not emerge from the mouth of the tunnel even if it were in his possession, as alr defence would prevent him from coming out. This presupposes the ab- sence or inactivity of enemy alrcraft, or a command of the air as col as the command of the sea held by predominant navy. it ridiculous to suppose that the ques: tion is merely one of armies po) whether they see still objects very distinctly. Nearly everyone is acquainted with frogs. After five to ten days the eggs hatch' into wriggling tadpoles which swim about in the water. Their food is mainly microscopic plants; Swim. ming is accomplished by means of a tall. Breathing is carried on by means of outside and inside gills, As the tadpole grows these gills are ab: sorbed by the body, and lungs develop. a situation, especially in wiew of The le soon finds difficulty im breathing so he comes to the surface scientific developments such "as long- range guns, poison gas, submarines, amphibious tanks, and aircraft which descend like a bolt from the blue, which would enable an enemy to seize the outlet of the tunnel by a coup de main, and in the event of an unsuccessful war the tunnel might be demanded as one of the terms of 'We are frequently told that the tun- nel could be easily destroyed or ren. dered incapable of use before an enemy could seize it. This is plaus- ible in theory, but who is going to take the grave responsibility of "touching the button" to blow up the tunnel or let in the sea; and at what moment would the responsible person act? 2 Would this bs dons. on the first i at| The wings, once strong, now useless - are, of the water to fill his lungs with air. Slowly feet appear, the tail is lost, , and a tiny toad is seen swimming about, During July he matures and takes to the banks of the pond or stream. Many other small toads are already, there. After a certain number, usual Iy several dozen or more, have gath. ered, a general movement of migra. tion begins, Many farmers have seem these migrations. Often the toads will follow a ravine or cross a road, thus th es to great d from' birds and man. Crows are sald to be the chief enemy of the young toad. The few that do finally reach a suitable environment, such as a gar den, soon busy themselves in catching their weight in insects. It has been estimated that one toad )'alon ein a single season is worth $30 to the garden, because of the cut in-| worms it devours. These worms are 8{ not the toad's only article of diet, as slugs and insects figure largely. It is Indeed a poor gardener that does not value the toad. He is Along the ugliest of animals, but one of the protect this friendly fellow; he is worth much.--By Miles L. Peels in The Flower Grower. An Eagle in the Zoo With idle curloslty passers-by regard An eagle in captivity, 'From joys of freedom barred.