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mmdwomenof magmation and are mam ndependent Cana- q ourselves, not W811â€" ‘ country to help ul. .3 1y subject.‘ came a letter. which P5 from one of our of constructive an- :13! leaders doing conscientious work rt Matthews. 101’ ve much resDCCto the Canadian de- 16 3 Economic Con- ast year one of the herin2s in the his- He was replying to M conclusions ave been hearing qualities of »me information on 3d to his letter: “I my great apprecia- robust and forward- of these Peel con: m and these Lhree items tron m manifest in your duly what we want present time. Our y current torees. 'e a considerate yayevenuyou i111 always on 9886 bend! of the mauve a needâ€"business I: just complet- h. mvesticflm a half a cen- bemg advoca- ' given by Lord journalists in theory very CANADIAN DEVELOPMENT AND BRITISH POLICY national Visibility” so to speak, is too limited and the curious thing about it be found concerning the tremendous growth and importance of this country are to be found at the very centre of our activities. What we really need is a broader Canadian foundation for our national sentiment.’ “At this time and as a very important part in this topic, may I congratulate this University and Western Ontario on the promotion of Dr. Fox to the pre- sidency. He combines scholarship with business ability and sound common- sense, and takes his responsibilities ser- “The presidency of a university should not, in these strenuous times, be an honorary appointment, nor a po- sition calling for great culture and digâ€" nity only, but a job, a real job, a great general manager’s job of making the university pay by finding, training and inspiring a stat! of departmental man- agersâ€"proiessorsâ€"who will maintain a great human factory or plant in which they will produce and fill- not com- modities to be used in other industries nor graduates to enrich our friends across the border, but men and women who will themselves take hold of. build up and give leadership in the number- less neglected opportunities for develop- ment throughout Canada and the Eihpire. ThEir success in the years to come. not scholarship tests here, will be the evidence of his capacity. Western Ontario Material “President Fox has the finest raw material in America, if not the world, to work with. Western Qntario has produced more readers and prosperity than any other part of Canada, and Professor Sandwell shows, from the United States ‘Who’s Who’ that Can- adians produce forty per cent more great men per hundred thousand in the States than do the native Americans. These figures are the average while here in this University you accept only the fancy. hand-picked, prize stock of Western Ontario. vvvv â€"- v ‘â€" “The records show that higher educa-‘ tion can be made to pay, but, based on the tremendous cost to the country and to the parents in money and self-sacri- flce, and judging by average results, there is frightful inefficiency and waste of money in our so-called higher educa- tion. Of course public institutions are almost always wasteful, but in the case of higher education it means also wasted lives. and brings disappointment, a wasted life to the student at the very time, fourteen to twenty, when he is at his best to acquire a practical training for his after life.. What Happens to Medallists? “Scholarship and culture have been emphasized: not success and leader- ship. The theory has been that if you make a man a scholar you fit him to assume any position in life, but .as far “WHIIIL “JAJ rvâ€"_-_--_ __ , as I can see the records are against us. There are on the wall of the Convoca- tion Hall of one of our great Canadian colleges, in golden letters. the names; of head scholars for one hundred years. I have followed this with great interest for nearly half a century. Of these hundred head scholars, few were ever heard of again. One who 'came into the public died more famous for his failures. Another of them, I am happy to say. attained marked success as a teacher: that is. his pupils did. As far as I can learn, this is the record of nearly all our higher institutions. "I am not opposing scholarship. I believe in it. It is essential for our clergy and teachers. and such other plus men and women who can make good use pf it. To others it is a luxury. And I admit a cultured man makes a far more delightful leisure companion (Continued from page 2.) to be that the only doubters to nil-lily, 00m 2, I”. NEW GIANT PULLS FASTEST than a man of commerce or industry. Slocu- Not Money Making “Success is not money-making. Suc- cess is doing well your work, whatever ii._ may be; better, it possible, than .- others. Success is what we contribute to our life work, to our calling, to our country and Empire. What this coun- try needs more than successful mer- chants and industrialists is more suc- cessful clergy, more successful teach- ers. Given character, a conscience, good living ideals and sound primary school- ing, and add to these a willingness for hard work and the right inspiraton, our higher jobs and all our other problems will take care of themselves. “You have here in London two out- I standing examples: one in the schooll in which this university had its origin! .As I go about the world I have met a number of boys who came under the influence of that great teacher, Rt. Rev. Isaac Hellmuth. Hellmuth’s school not. only produced many leaders but'I never i knew a boy from that school who was; .not a gentleman of high character and ‘. lfOl’ that reason a great influence for‘ ugood in his community. “It gave all Canadians who love Can- ada and the Empireâ€"Canadians who have made great sacrifices to stay in' Canada to help to build up the Em~ pireâ€"deep pleasure in listening in at the broadcasting of the oratorical contest last spring. It was a joy to hear young Fox and the soundness of ’ his conclusions as to where our future lay and the sincerity of his loyalty. His whole tone breathed character. The . first thing I did next day was to look ' up his origin. He was from a clerical school and his inspiration came down ithrough his teachers from another ‘ great and good Canadian, Rt. Rev. . Bishop Fallon. who is going to leave 1 his mark on the youth of this genera- , tion as did Rt. Rev. Bishop Hellmuth - in his day. “I am afraid when we abandoned in this province the thorough, but simple, system of basic education which our fathers brought from the Old Country and had wished on us one made in, but discarded by Germany nearly three quarters of a century ago; when we abandoned the British system of doing things honestly and well; when we re- placed courtesyâ€"which is a form of salesmanship and serviceâ€"with a false and offensive boorishness called democ- racy, we taught children less of prac- tical value and much they had to un- learn later from hard experience. Influence of Church on Success “That the church can do its work successfully was brought out some years ago in a series of articles in a United States magazine, which showed that ministers’ sons were more unifomly successful in their life work than those from other homes. Within the last few years, PrOfessor Visher, Indiana Uni- versity, made a study which showed that clergy fathered fully twenty-eight times the average number of notables as compared with any other class. Visher thinks this is due to better edu- cational opportunities, helpful home training in serious thinking, thrift and expression. But schools can do this. Value of Character “Let me give you an incident to ex- emplify the importance of character. About eight years ago I went into the American Express in Paris to get rail- way tickets to a distant point and to have them arrange certain expert as- sistance I needed in some enquiries I was making. Everything being arran- ged, I asked the price. He replied he could not give it to me as he could not say what the services of the men at the other end would be, but that he would send the bill to me on my return. I was taken aback. I said: ' “‘Do you know me?’ u No.9 “After two or three other efforts to find out why he trusted me, an absolute stranger, he did not at that time even know my name or my hotelâ€"I cornered? him and he said he noticed that when I came in I was received very cordially by Joy Morton, of Chicago, who was standing at the counter, ‘that you two were apparently very intimate friends and men of Mr. Morton’s character havé only friends who can be trusted. I would have taken chances. on you for several thousand instead of the two or three hundred I expect your account will amount to.’ “Joy Morton and his distinguished brother, the late Paul Morton, Secret- ary of the Navy in Mr. Roosevelt’s cab- inet. were old Hellmuth boysâ€"sons of Sterling Morton, President Cleveland’s great Minister. of Agriculture. Practical Value of Character “Just after the war, the Borden Gov- ernment sent the late Lloyd Harris to Europe to find markets that were ur- gently needed for our over-developed commerce and industry. He found plenty of buyers for goods Canada could ’supply and make generous profits thereon, but there was a persistent dis- inclination' to buy because too many Canadian concerns could not be de- |pended upon for either quality or ser- “Not long after that, I met in New! York a friend of mine who had, a year or two before that, assumed the presidency of a great international corâ€" poration owning banks and steamship lines, with agencies and trading ar- rageme‘nts all over the world. He knew and was very friendly to Canada. He had spent some weeks here making in- vestigations during ‘the reciprocity cam- paign of 1911. ~ He wanted to do busi- ness with Canada, was doing some. but not anything like what he wantedI to do, what he could do. He had real Openings for Canadian products in dif- ferent parts of_ the world. But again, --_12L-. I CIIU Pal I!“ A UOQV uâ€"w- he could not depend upon .the‘quality and continuous service, which called for on the part of Canadian people character, conscience and high ideals. Keeping Our. Native Born “Returning now to Lord Peel and Canada’s need 101' ‘Men, Money and Markets': ~ “Is not our chief problem keeping our native born? We don‘t want the for- eign masses but selections made from their classes; in fact, I notice a grow- ing tendency throughout the country. for the adaption of a quota law sim- ilar to the States, England and a num- ber of EurOpean countries. We want farmers but can’t get them as European ~ STILL HOPES TO REACH iO-MILE MARK ~ Professor Aug .te Piccard with his family and Lady Drummond- Hay, famous Eng aviatrlx, standing beside the curious balloon craft n' which Piccard and his engineer, Paul Kipler, hope to climb ten miles up from the earth. The two men will be carried in the aluminum pon- tainer, shown at the left, which is suspended from the gas bag. THE DURHAM umwm lCLE agricultural conditions are so good. If we spend our energies and money in such training ‘and leadership as will make Canada attractive enough to hold our own people, when onr own,__p_eople are prospreous, our problem will be to limit immigration. “As to money, there is far more available than present commerce and industry and legitimate, necessary pub- lic works can possibly absorb at rea- sonable rates of interest. “Was any nation ever so tricked and brutally debauched as we were before the war by British and American mon- ey-lenders, brokers, promoters, contrac- tors and salesmen? Blinded by the enthusiasm with which we viewed the immediate future growth of Canada, our legislators were easy victims to the blandishments and the gold bricking tricks of ‘the foreign money-lenders. Governments signed mortgages guaran- teeing the payment of principal and interest and encouraged us to build needless railroads and then more rail- roads where the country was already over-served. We borrowed dollars and are paying back dollars with interest, though we seldom got a full dollar. There were times when the real railroad builders were glad to net 60c. by the time all the foreign intermediaries got their rake-offs. Then came big profits for foreign contractors. Today, we are paying heavy taxes on foreign money actually forced upon us at ex- cessive costs, money that we did not need. “But more subtle and dangerous is this talk of markets. Our pe0ple at home, in the United States, in Ger- many, when they speak of markets have something quite different in their minds from what we believe. Every- where they want our raw material, not our partially manufactured or manu- factured products. It is a flnancier’s problem, and when you are dealing with the British financier or merchant you are dealing with the cleverest trader in the world, and the British diplomat and Cabinet Minister are doing his bidding. Our Own Shnre 6! Profits “As fellow citizens of this'great Em- pire, we can take a pride in the leader- ship of our financiers at the heart of the Empire, but it__shouxq n9t_be 3'9“?" vâ€"-v â€"_â€"_ ded as rain" imitation of disloyalty to démmd that we too share in the profits on our own raw mtterial, that Cguudiaq ished products, to be shipped back to us or other parts of the world, again with the charges for banking, insur- ance and transportgation. They get us coming and going. , ' I am not criticizing them. They are looking after their own interests. and it is very important that we should realize this and protect ourselves. The British financier is in control. He is not an industrialist; he is in commerce, he is a merchant. His idea is that Can- ada and other parts of the Empire should send their raw materials in his ships, insure them in his companies, ""'I' pay exchange and percentages for banking facilities and the numerous other rake-offs, even including pos- labor. management and money be used in turning them into the finished ar- ticle. We are giving the foreigner our home markets; even down to good ap- ples, which you can grow to perfection in this district, the Pacific States are beating us in our home towns. The same applies to many other products. " "" “rr ' “British commerce has been developed and maintained because it has had expert financial leadership, aided by British statesmanship and diplomacy. The United States, in the last thirty or forty years, has made enormous strides industrially, until today it stands at the top of the world for practically the same reasonâ€"American industrial lead- ership working through and in close unity with. its national government. The sar'ne principles prevail in both, char- acter, conscience, quality and service. What puts these countries on the top can also put Canada; what Canada needs is ‘Business Leadership.’ Education and Prosperity “It seems to me that Canada has the greatest combination of able men and untouched resources of any country in the, world, yet basically we are not prosperous and never have been beaten!- ly prosperous. What are we going to do about it? It is a matter of the right education and inspiration. "‘Themorelgoeboutthewoqldend --~ wâ€"v the 11101:; I leaFn. the more strongly grows my_belggt tint our-Amture prog- nn __ _.RLI. gather. with its four hundred and Mt! mmtonpcmmbeoommbuburersof chuutheymx-nho'tome them. Thaw mum mmmtwnumqugpu- This Talk of Markets h pout like” what-k: commouocdnndmwu memtwmneuindebomâ€"dlpmu wmmmâ€"mmekher- 008. me me-°°@- C6 plneu. “There will be thousands of greet big leadership jobs available for Canadian vâ€" ' â€"___v to Nip" the Empire my. They are trying to create trouble between ourselves and the United States. The Canadian situation and its future I would finally cm , calls for train- ing in good b ss leadership. I am sure that this University under Presid- ent Fox will play a very important part in preparing young men and women for Canadian and Empire develOpment." Would Retard Canada: Growth This somewhat staccato talk dealt iwith the lack of Canadian economic leadership and attributed 'it to the tra- ‘ ditional British] policy, still in effect. of keepng her Colonies back, of which I found and still and so many evidences. Sometime after this address was deliv- ered I came across evidence of this in a private letter written over 100 years ago by Llord Lyndhurst, three times Lord Chancellor of England, to his brother- in-law at Boston dealing with a visit to Lyndhurst's Uncle Clarke at Montreal. At one time Lyndhurst was called on to form a Tory ministry. He said “In passing from the States to Can- ada there is a new source of observation opened to the mind. It affords an op- portunity of observing the eitects of diflerent institutions and different . forms of government upon the improve- ment of a country, and upon the char- acter and manner of its inhabitantsl Among the people of the States, it is said, there is more activity and enter- prise; among those of Canada a greater share of courteousness and civilityâ€" arising, perhaps, from the mixture of F'i'enchâ€"and a greater appearance of neatness and comfort. Compared. too. with the States. the latter country ad- vances but slowly in the settlement of its land and the increase of its popu- lation. I have thought that it is the policy of our Government, to retard the growth of a Colony which, it is probable. will shake off the jurisdiction of the iparent state when it begins to feel its [own strength and resources.” than two months. On July 28th the Conservative party was returned to power. On August 7th Mr. Bennett took oflice as Prime Minister and by September 22nd Par- liament had been convened and pro- rogued after putting through the most radical term revision since Sir John A. Macdonaid brought down his “National Policy” 51 years ago. "" Not only were upwards of 130 items affecting Canadian key industries dealt with; the whole basis of valuation for customs purposes was revised along lines which, if deemed expedient, permit the Government to control imports to an unprecedented degree. The other business of“ the session was the voting of $20,000,000 to be used for public works and other purposes to provide immediate and emergent relief for unemployment throughout Canada. Under ordinary circumstances the tariff legislation put through would have kept Parliament in session sev- eral months. In view. however, of the character of the session and of mem- ier Bennett’s determination not to leave for the economic and constitutional conferences of the Empire in London until Parliament was prorogued the op- position accepted in. Bennett’s prom- ise that adequate opportunity would be hoihâ€"vtwhe fact; remains tha't polttgcal ms Whatever politicnl viewpoinp. one {nay Our Ottawa Letter mediate and emergent reliei Uniortunstely, the authorities pioyment throughout cm found that the old hollow tree: ordinary circumstances the been used .8 places in which to c slation put through would empty bottles and rubbish. In a Parliament in session new I instances ares hove been lighted hs. In view. however. of the 1 the trees. and it was therefore, d made in Canada: within less Our business is to create printing that makes sales. Typography, choice of stock -every element that makes f Or more attractive mailing- piews and handbills is pro- duced here with the care estimates of costs etc 06er- ed on each job regardless of The Chronicle Printing Howl-3...;m givennexteessioniordieeueionofl individuel items. Home lees than 1 days of debate suflioed to get the In sure through. Such revisions us were made cited are expected to provide immediete I ployment in Canede (or between 80. and 50,000 people end the letter a. is held to be moderate in 0”!” the gene“! revision, though on may Reinsâ€"where he dogs not. be be lowered or removed. Machinery has been act in motion keep a very careful check both employment in Canada and upon charged consumers for products ed by tariff changes just made. I Mr. Bennett 5 most important nouncement to Parliament was pledge of industries affected that consumer would not be taken advan of by higher duties. In fact manufacturers promised that production would mean not only work, but would mduce tin over- on goods and permit of Induced prices. To this announcement Bennett. added his prom‘iau that attempted exploitatim d the would be metbymvaiofthe ' to London and to the Economic cm! ence. Until there is definite kn of the Macdonald Governmenta’ pld to promite inter-Empire trade. eveI thing is surmise. Insofar as Canada concerned the absolute necessity is an ’ basis of marketing~favor for Canadi wheat and other agricultural produl : Upon that Mr. Bennett is likely 2 suspend preferential treatment for I . tish manufactures in Canada. 2 While the British government of ‘ 5 day has ventured no concession to ‘1 taxes or preferences there is a steal growing feeling thatâ€"unless promm I promising action is takenâ€"the coni ' ence now under way is likely to 80! the defeat of the Macdonald Gove ment within the next few months. The Conservative party in Britain been embracing gradually the princ: of inter-Empire trade through prei ential tariffs and while this confere I may be void of occular or immedial -tangible results. it may well be of e: last year. Some of them we me have been 1,000 years Old. They now merely skeletons of trees were all of tlun hollow. They situnted near Gout Pen Hill, end close to the Wlndsor nnd Ascot By permission of the King. motor. are allowed to draw their cars on the greenswnrd adjoining the rond I picnic there. During the past few su mers hundreds of motorists have 1 joyed this prim at the week-e Unfortunetely, the authorities h: found thet the old hollow tnees h¢ beenusednsplecesinwhlchtodepl empty bottles and rubbish. In no instances fires have been llchted inl thetrees.enditwestherei ,deeu to remove a number of. them. In oitheoldoektreesonthe'nmeq ANCIENT WINDSOC PAIK OAK} FILLED LAST n ParIE have been cut down during Eight old oak trees in Wind»; PAGE