OPINIONS ON WORLD PROBLEMS BY CHAS. M. BICE, B.A., LL. was i e German navy a .| toast of "Der Tag" was. cigs. enslaved y 2 The German empire was B., DENVER; COLORADO, ben the Shatin navy oe was to rule LET JUSTICE BE DONE. "We want more ® food, " is the plain- tive-cry--that~com 'mai , Germany, | a country boastful tad brutal in vic- tory--cringing and whining in defeat. Heretofore such an appeal has al- civilized siderable portion population dces not seem to care sae ticularly whether Germany eats or not. "Why,"-they say, "should we any more concerned over gg Germany than Germany was ove feeding Belgium and Serbia?" Why, indeed? Shall Canada and, the United 'States,. England and: France remain 'on short rations and the present high price of food con- tinue that Germany may eat its fill? nicl played its part in defeating many, but nevertheless the Allies won a victory in the fieid of battle fairly and squarely. Stories of star- vation have been -- from Bel- gium, Serbia and Russ The greatest starvation in Germany has been among the Allied soldiers who were prisoners of war. If the; ' Allied powers should suit the punish- | ment to the crime, the German peo- ple would be given the same rations they have been giving their prisoners. Such treatment would be eminently just and logical, but the Allies are, of course, incapable of inflicting such torture Washington announces that it is not the purpose of the U.S. and the Allies to starve the German people, much as they may deserve such pun- is shment. mmanity | may demand that Ger- many hall. not starve, but justice de- mands that Germany shall sit at the table last, and as far as possible, eat food "Made in Germany." ie During the years of war Germany. boasted it could not be starved and. that they had plenty and much to spare. s ° . = How shall the hungry Teutons be | fed? I would' suggest as a starter: the products of the fruit trees they | « mangled and grain fields devastated in Northern France and Belgium, and the purposely made putrid soup their dames" administered to the Allied prisoners. beverage, now that the manufacture of beer has cease let them drink of the waters of the | poisoned springs nnd wells they were instrumental in contaminating in France and Belgium when glorying in their age * . If German bed been "tigbatied and its lands laid desolate by war, a vastly different problem wou te Lumanit 3s ponse = as it always hasbeen since the awn. of civilization. But Germany has not been invaded, nor its lands Her soldiery has been well fed the expense her As the tables turned, the cry for food jis is heard, THE BRITISH ELECTIONS, elections would be the peace terms of the, world that is being recreated. | He helped carry the war to a sue- cessful end and he would like to have something o say regarding the terms ' which are to be imposed, upon the enemy, but upon mankind not alone . ism. The Tory will be demanding b full pound of flesh as of old. The y new school of yramel thought will not accept this doctri 'We must not allow any sense ~y revenge, any spirit of greed, any grasping desire to override the fundamental' ciples of righteousness," Mr. George stated this week. "Vigorous attempts. w will be made to hector and bully the G "Government.in an endeavor to make_ w them depart from the _ strict prin-._ G ciples of rignt and to satisfy some jt "What!" one can hear the shades of | Beaconsfield and his predecessors at wning Street exclaim, "Give up | ' what we have won by force of arms! from an enemy that would have made | England a waste? Give over the! a Dardanelles, the Persian Gulf, Pates- tine and our Oriental 'dreams? Never!" But the Premier of to-day, the man why set his face resolutely for a kout blow to the enemy seme brech there is a challenger of the radical elements. son is an Internationalist. a Socialist, He has long advocated known as the Wilson doctrines for, ducts that Canada can supply.: bor should have full representation at the peace congress. He has been insist-| the great scarcity of cattle- ang live! place. ing to his followers that Mr. George's | stock of all kinds in Europe, and: be-- associations of four years have alien- | | cause of the great demand for live | ' masse , few days has bee 'of his opponent. | bound to' be humiliating in greater or be }less degree to the defeated -nation, here ties he romon-and-gatiantry 7 for help wold be immediate and fib« {in defeat. annuated fleet left Santiago harbor a score of years back to give battle made desolate by an overpowering ,to the American fleet, he well spi that the chances were as fifty to and deprivation, of that his ships would be annihilated, citizenry, but not to any alarming. but he came out and did the best | dregs of the,cup of my fury. progress of the war favored Germany. | Defeated on the high seas, the Span- | and is doubtlessly insincere. | fa Wor the Russian fleet sailed from own waters and made that long and the chief issue in the approaching | was in him--and went under. | South Pacific. faced a greatly super- ior German fleet, he well knew that nothing-but a miracle could save his ships. did at Jutland? The British election will be fought tle or of surrender it cowardly adopt- ina end won on the question of Imperial- ed the latter. that the British nation be given its smashed, but there was comparative good order. nothing but world scorn tempt. frightfulness stuck to his hole like just hung on, expecting that at the one moment he Germany ticularly severe, ant necessarily so, not from fear of a German change of heart or of German perfidy, but as man navy was the chief dream of the ocean. e tremendous losses from the war may saavetae those jeviathans that mada b e up in time from the new! New ,York port once a'-wee policy of general di tt does-- part + "ie navy, feeders for it. not follow, however, that the British | delegation to the peace congress will be over altruistic. It will insist upon the punishrent of Germany for the crimes committed against the other nations, and it will demand positive -- "the war iris in "1914, the n navy was believed by many a be able to harass, if not give wecaiate battle to the British Navy, Instead, the German navy was a failure from the > very beginnine.~ It started to destroy, oa ee svrrentitiously, the French fleet mn .. the Mediterranean, but took' frirht The South African Federation is and vataened to its base. I haatfail- not going te let Germany back on. oa ,, 4 fizhtme force: it failed as a that continent; and Australia wiil blockade runner; it failed in every insist that the enemy be forever bar- 1 i04 of warfare, except the undersea red from the South Seas. . In attacks unon passenger steamers an interest of- British possessions, the slow moving merchant ships: London government must have much 'And now the last scene'of slbaits = on es rd bor, een great dreadnoughts and _ its swift cnstan rie er © mopey . -- and destroyers being turned cf Pales : 7 t victors. Five veate ago Mr. Lloyd George | °V** © the ae * was "the most hated man in England" | - by the aristocracy. Reactionaries has be had no names-in their vocabulary too brutal to apply to him. He was play- ing ducks ahd drakes with ancient | institutions in demanding fair taxa-} tion to large'estates; he was breaking up these historic possessions that seemed to be the glory of England before the nation awakened to the knowledge that there "sub- merged tenth" that required these ; lands for subsistence. . sentatives must give ear to thé "do- minions. spirit of the German navy en irretrievably broken and' j crushed. is not revenge that was ; sought by Admiral Wemyss when he ; made the naval terms in the Foch | armistice, it was a notice to the Ger- man nation of to-day and to-morrow that it is a beaten aE me hopelessly = with nothing rd o but black --. 'been taken ont 6 For the fatore of 'he world's peace this is sad crowning achievement of the wa - in The heart has s Now that the foreign danfer is ee over Mr. George will go back to his The Future of the Live Stock Industry own, be re-established. Party lines and social lines will | His friendships of war wi'l have to he broken As an astute politician, The arrival of peace has created "new conditicns in the export of ment the leader and produce and some uncertainty in In the person of Arthur Hen-| future markets. former journeyman molder,; hands of The Honorable T. A. Crerar, | in the field] Minister of Agriculture, conyinces | derson, Mr. Hender- | tinue to absorb at firm prices,. as com pared with the prices for all other, , every pound of are | beef, ee and other animal al n the Honor- "In view of | the leader of the British Labor P what 'peace treaties." He believes that la-/ discussing the situation | able Mr. Crerar said: Kaiser, 1 now skalihig i fe Totland It n th -; are " NAVAL OFFICERS' CABINS 3 The Nine by Sova: Foot "Dugouts" of the British Navy. cers cabin v ves one ey to his chara * The cabia of. the average "NA 0." 'messiires about nine feet by seven setts and his country furnishes it for him with a bunk and blankets, tip-up washstand, knee-hole desk, a hanging cupboard, a spange bath, one chair, asl a carpet rug. ome officers are content with these 'fixings, and make little or no attempt to ameliorate the somewhat monastic effect they produce. A few photo- graphs and books around, perhaps, |} and an eiderdowh for the bed, and they are quite happ ut others--sybarites--would scorn to leave their cabins thus unadorned. 'They have flowery cretonne curtains --which wives or sweethearts have labored to contrive--for the door an scuttle, covers for the bed, table, and eachsy-chair..to match, and pink or yellow silk shades for the electric lights. Treasured photographs are placed in silver frames, the cleaning tof which is the cause of much pro- fanity among their marine servants! Cushions are strewn about, and potted plants are not unknown Sometimes there is a electric kettle --very handy for cocoa in the middle watch--and nearly every officer poss- esses an electric iron, with which his often his clothes pressed. In the bigger ships a "tin hat" (i.e., icer above the rank of lieutenant- communder) may have a_ suite rooms--day-cabin, sleeping-cabin, and | bath- -room to himself; while the cap- tain--or "owner," in Navy slang--is generally provided with an _ extra sleeping-cabin as well as for import- ant visitors. He ard some of the other office. Stat have also "seattabins' for'ard, close of the Liberal pdtty will welcome the , the minds of Canadian farmers:as to to their posts of duty, although some- Information in the times sleeping at-sea is out of the| question In a flag- ship, where the admiral's | often not cabins enough to go! round, and some of the junior officers | are obliged to "sling a cot." Snotties always sling hammocks, but they are not to be pitied, for a hammock--when you get used to it-- makes a very comfortable sleeping- | --__ + There is no devel opment in human) ated oad latter statesman from the! stock and live stock products of all; history to be compared with avia- ikinds sure to continue for some And. the little. Welshman in the last | years at least, I-am going to ask the "calling the bluff") farmers and live stock men of Can- = to maintain their breeding: opera- Sener ong on a war time scale, to properly} SURRENDER OF HUN FLEET. fin! a4 all feeding stock, and to con- -- serve all good breeding females, and All wars, with their results, are by using even greater 'care in th thé Selection of the sire a & ait further improve their herds pyelty in all | tion--Lerd Montague. Indolence is always contemptible; hos day it is criminal--Mr. Munro, K.! The exhibition of patriotism and} -parts of the Brit a cage is one. of se meet amazin Cervera, with his super- 'hand the cup of trembling, even the} But I extent, if reports are reliable; at least that was in him, and-his ships were. Will put it into the hand of them | her citizenry made ttt e or no com- | sunk or riddled, and he himself sur-| that afflict thee; which have said to | plaint of being Lungry. They were rendered. Thus he manifested the thy soul, bow down, that we may go willing to sacrifice as long as the | gallant spirit of a true sea fighter. over.--Isaiah, 51, 22-23, The day of triumph is a time of! adnez Joy swallows up sadness/ nd tenia to blot out the very memory} : of the pains suffered at the hands of, m its cruelty. It is easy to drift upon the} current of vacillating sentiment and sh admiral saved something of the! el ice of his nation. When during the Russo-Japanese ons of truth, justice and honor, and ceented barbed steeds to fright the ouls of fearful adversaries." | vouces of many martyred souls" . from earth and for justice upon these criminals of war. Ww hen' 'Craddock at Carseat in the sea Did he flee as the Germans It would be a grateful thought if No! He gallantly | , we could entertain the notion that | which is the same thing. jabuse of the goodness of God. egy they have righteous | THE WEEKLY SERMON Behold, I have taken out of ff thine| death. There are other places where ine are older The scale that Tommy worked out our bread may go before we yield to mawkish sentiment and send flowers j or flour to some who need the hang- man's noose. out are we not to | seiner justice with mercy? At. present, rather justice with severity, Mercy to unrepentant criminals is a waste and Has one. heard the first note of renen- jtance from Germany? They are on thet knees, but they did not volun- re any A general election in the United! memorable journey to ng eri say, "Let us fargive and forget." But | "tilly fall to acknowledge Kingdom is due before the coming | waters its commander knew he da of victors most & e da of | ¥TONg; they were forced there by the, Christmes Helidays. The war is won| vance that his old rotten hulks said jastice : we: ado 7 tL oA terrible and |"i&hteous jadgment of God. If they}. all right. It is now a question of | not withstand the modern Japanese Feaeh re im r ns r ee ie uld shake' off the strong grip that what shal! follow the war. {ironclads and that he was going to for evil. mer ic ie the enc ventio n his recent public utterances, | certain destruction, but he sailed on | of silt t elas he conven aa | write a second ehapter of al) their - Yremier Lloyd George made plain that | and gave battle with the best that he civilization ABLE cee "| fo ormer deeds if it promised success.! and a revolution, but that is in the conventions of politics, 'not in the tribunal: of conscience. i "Vengeance is Mine" Revolution and regeneration are not synonymous. If now it has Pleased God that they should drink! His First Thousand Dollars. Tommy nineteen years of age. quick to see a joke: or play Ness prank, keenly alive to "ihe things .in hfe 'or fiction, woud never be pointed out as rouch, a miser, or as a bo disagreeable. The fact is, Tommy town that he calls his home. than one thousand dollars. is the case. ed during this short time to the su mentioned. duped any innocent Person, or mitted a sing!e act that he i ommy's money is clean money. simply the result of proper measure of self-racrifice. this result. a| To ommy was thirteen years old; [3 hen he first seriously began to con-! ider saving his money. Just what started him he does not remember fuliy, but he thinks it must have been | , from reading a little folder on saving that came into his bands from one of | the banks of the village. At any save one thousand dollars | week. lit came to him as a flash that he ought to begin systematically to save so that he could have one thousand | do Nars ahead by the time he became twenty-one. convinced that he ought }result. Out of these | fully. Our young financier was sensible! | enough to know that he would. hard! | be~able would increase © as he. : | earning capacity for each year. | this he thought out himself, who! | allowed to escape. looks upon life a3 something sour or) is one of the finest boys in the little | for fo see! day following he earned fifteen cents him going about his tasks one would | by picking up potatoes for a neigh- little suspect that he has saved dur-| bo ing the last six years a little more| bave gone into Yet such) By dint of: industry, a| toward the dollar necessary to.open a careful management, and a few safe | savings account at the bank. Before investments, his savings have mount-_ two weeks had passed this dollar had servant expertly--or otherwise--keeps i "In other words, Saee Sate : is industry, ge seeing bargaining, coupled with The following is an account of just ow Tommy was able to accomplish rate, he distinctly recalls sciniine ,against the Lloyd George leadership | him that the export market will con-! staff has to be accommodated, there | the good~part of one evening, figur- |ing how long it would take him to: through | average saving of various sums each! nd he recails vividly that The more he consid- ered the matter the more he became | to begin | without further delay to achieve this meditations | developed the plan that he adopted, and which he carried through success- y large sum at & first, . He eee! that it would be! j grew older, and | for j that. would fit in -with his probable | All| which | keep pressing on toward the end I | likely that he had unconsciously Briggs is now a little past| earned that an increasing rate-adds Happy, | up faster than a level harm-} His resolution once made, Tommy 'anny | began immediately to save towards Tomm ap his first $25, one. Every chance to earn or a dime, wa; no The very is l after he made his resolution he was paid a nicke] for delivering packages an over-rushed merchant; the cent, a nickel, Previously these sums would gum, but now they were laid away een earned, and Tommy very proud- To achieve this result 'ly handed it over to the smiling bank- he has not sacrified any school aoe er who had circulated the pamphlet om- is ashamed | | had. this sum in the bank was a zource 'on saving. The knowledge that he great satisfaction to Tommy, as t} was also the fact that it was silently working for him day and night. At the end of the first year he had to his credit $27.80--a little more than | he had set himself to earn. | It is unnecessary to-give the record ke year by year; suffice to say that at vo time did he fall behind his schedule, but that he invariably ex- a it. At the end of his fourth rhe had near'y $400 to h's eroci Thi $s his good friend, the banker, 'ad- | vised him to invest in the stock of a co--operative creamery that chanced to be for sale, and which paid divid- ends of ten per cent. Imagine his feelings of elation when at the end of the year the banker told him that jhe had placed an additional $40 to his credit. "Interest is a wonderful money-maker," this good friend re- marked to him thoughtfully; "it is the payfer being saving and eco- nomical, A young man should save systematically, and always have some money drawing interest. It is the road to business success." Fortunately, Tommy's head was not turned=Uy his success, or by his timely investment. "I wouldn't have made the extra money had it not been for the advice of Mr. Brodley," jhe admitted modestly. "My success jis due fully as much to his timely | Counsel and adyice as-to any efforts my own. He has made me realize | the value of. steady, day-by-day say- Often he has tous me that it is cI <es the s taiatic todding, coupled with sensi- ble planning and good judgment. -In these ways he has encourdged me to yS= | shows that he apes to improve as| had in view--one thousand dollars." was as follows: First yeezr, -- sec- ond year, $37; third year, $50; fourth year, $75; fifth year, $125; ast year, $175; seventh year, $225; eighth and last year, $287. In all likelihood, Tommy had not yet studied that part of his arithmetic that deals with constantly increasing numbers; but what is of greater value, it is quite | | Tommy's considered by every red-blooded boy. |. |dollars? Most assuredly. Alj is needed is to systematically jout the way of -making it, and |to keep persistently at it. } case is well worth being Can such a boy lay by one thousand Bar sickness and unforeseen interferen the end will be attained. Tom Brigg made his thousand. You ca! also. And the time to start is now. ~ THE Christianity, Says English YVriter. Some earnest Christians apprehend 'holds them they would not hesitate to that soldiers may return from service at the Front less inclined to rely on to attend church services than they were four years ago ren we consider the. numberless acts of self-sacrifice they have wit- nessed by clergy of all denominations, and their daily self-imposed, unpleas- ant tasks ur taxen for others, such views appea: .o the writer to be un- founded, for an in.ceased personal rencrally. When fighting had to be! wont to battle; lost his life with the |only a military group in Germany a cu of trembling which they interest in such heroic men must re- a he was belligerent to the last' pest: but upheld the grand tradition Were accountable for the tragic calam- /°T°® ue hands of others, shall cujt, There may be less formal re- with neace, as with all good of the British Navy iity of this horrible war. But we are "® -- it from their lips ere yet 'Jigfon, although we doubt it, but he does not insist upon a When the German 'fleet behind the 'faced with certain stubborn . facts. b ey taste the w ormwood whict h they there will certainly be more Christian- savage's =o | Kiel Canal, and in the'shelter of Heli-| These millions of soldiers were all "Tewed for the world? We dare not ity. War is always grievous; but . . s et y Hi } -- os goland, was given the «hoice of bat-/ Germans and thy came from German ® in the way of divine justice. The there was something worse predicted The soldiers were If it had gone out to' war lords and the homes were be- attle it would probably have been | hind the soldiers. There was at a chance for even a voice of protest crying ©o ictory much more probable than in, against their brutality. Published the cases above mentioned, and the -volumes and essays from preachers, German nation would have had some- | professors and poets justified thing to build on for the future. it is, the nation is discredited for; won the war they would have prin- all time. their As shocking course. Could they have indors- }ed every outburst of frightfalness. It was a humiliating spectacle that | In any social community such crimes, as witnessed, the giving up of the | meet with judgment and penalty, To! erman main fleet to the allied navies. |eommit crime on a national scale ithout a shot being exchanged. The | | aggravates, not justifies, erman military machine on land, in| And now in the day of judgment, ' S animal bravely | this brutal péople turn somata base, sordid, squalid ideas of ven-! enough so long as it was the "t top expect mercy where they have Be geance ard avarice. We must re- | do: " and in overwhelming numbers, | non lentlessly set our faces against that," | and in defeat it was still the easiaed The Full Horrors of War says George. | ee | that goose-stepped to the rear in Germany has suffered the things in- cident to er men have been' But on sea a Germany there is wounded and killed. Her mothers and have been made ¢hildless, her wives c 'author of submarine lands, the butchery of civilians, murder of innocents, would have oppor-|°f virtue, the driving slavery ~ and) t unnanmable horrors which put on her, rat, and did not try to escape. He i tunity to surre: ceepiae, The terms that-were imposed upon in the armistice were par- that she js caught redhanded in the crushing power of justice, she sets a lesson for the future. A great ewig not Etatraseye, but a crust of bread to keep a 'rotten life from widows and her children orphans, But Richard TII,, determined to prove a devastated villain for ambition, the 1 the debauching Was so deep a mark beside which that of Cain! and guide, with all who were active fades into insignificance. But now | confederates, must fee] th of justice. Until that be done there is no use building the temple of up the cowardly criminal's whine and | peace. Ment riust be the foundation of the throne of mercy.--Rev. J. B. B Brown. 2 iBieace behind only means of repentance i¢ to feel by many the pain and sorrow of one's sins. 'Having sown the wind they must reap he whirlwind. We need not force excessive evil upon them, but we may hot "skin and fim an ulcerous place whilst rank corruption mines within." e dare not whitewash her hideous! Stains or neutralize the divine oe giveness, ieatics must find the guilty insti-! gators. and propagators of these! ,¢rimes. Wilhelm Hohenzollern is a :combination of all that is ambitious-| ly bad He was a Judas among rul- ers, betraying all interests for his own. He reached forth the hand of Esau, posing as the apostle of peace, and with the voice of Jacob poisoned ;his people for a' war for robbery and murder at home. He was a Nero in Spirit_and an Alaric in method. He combined the devilish subtlety of | dis- | Repentance first, then for-| and the great crugity of Macbeth, who n blood that' to go through were =a as far as to g k. This man as _eenneae umbering Justice and- righteous judg- twenty years ago; and that is the decline of national spirit and self-sacrifice. Many letters received from parents impress on the writer the belicf that the grandeur of Britons j passable. He quotes from two, the writers of which had lost their only | son: "He discussed with me," runs one, "that night before he setornad | rs ance, the probabilities of his falling there, observing that the con-! \'templation of its probability in no way | lessened the desire to fight for his country." he other: "He got his promotjon early; he is in the same school, but in a Higher Form Let us hope that there may be amongst us in the future less of the spirit of the Pharisees, and more of Him of whom Isaiah prophesied near- ly 2,500 years ago: "The Isles shall wait for His law - _ Plants Benefited By Freezing. Rhubarb roots should be frozen be- fore they are taken into te cellar for forcing. They can beplanted in soap boxes and the boxes left out- side until after good, hard freezing weather, when they can be taken in- to the cellar where there is moder- ate heat, and growth will begin at o $e ce. In digging rhubarb roots the. whole root should be dug, but unless care- fully done the spade will cut. off a SPIRIT OF BRITAIN _ -- | fork is better than a As Result of War There Wii] Be More | l; | | | , soil. | will be ex hausted, is unsur- ! A garden spade to use in roots can be good portion of the roots. digging them. The |; placed on trash from the garden and covered with more of the same ma- terial and planted after they have been frozen if it is desired to handle them in this manner. A cellar having a t 50 to 60 degrees is th@@Best place to grow them. Most cellars are dark enough to force the growth of the plants, but if the-room is light an-up- turned box should be placed over them. The soil must be kept moist. A barrel is a good thing to grow rhubarb in. t eight or ten inches ef soil on the bottom; on this place the plants and fill up about them with Set them out to freeze, after which the barrel is removed to the cellar and in three or four weeks the talks may be gathered. At the end of the season the p ants but if living when can be worked in the spring they can be plant ed out and will revive and in a yéar or two be as strong as ever, erature of the garden 2 a ine PE aes The Houses of Soissons. Shell-marred and tern, huddie on the square, they Their vacant windows looking blank- ly out On death and desolation with vague doubt, As if they might not grasp such hor- , ror, where But yesterday light feet ran) down each stair, met to ; For distant lads, who haply could not know, Dreaming of home, what dreadful things were there "5 The houses shudder in bewildered grie = * That = their broken floors no ow falls, That no life lingers near their shat-, tered walls, ; Save strang vines, ewinging in fresh-| budded leaf, That halo with their tander radiance, These ancient homesteads' sacrificed, for' France,