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SLAVERY STILL RAISES INTERNATIONAL ISSUES By P. W. Wilson. Usually it is assumed that, in this year of grace 1927 slavery and the slave trade are evils that have been brought to an end by the march of civilization and the conscience of mankind. _ Was not the nineteenth century one long record of emanciâ€" pation applied to America, to Africa, to Asia and even to the peasants of Russia herself? rafac in Human Beings Along African Coast Has Not Been Completely Suppressedâ€"System Holds at Least 5,000,000 Victimsâ€"British Colonial Reforms It comes as . Id on the auth astions that th 1a t th th sround than 1 mditions il native slaves ade has been eX st fow years th 1, her ally, has his subjects he . Burmah slave 000 have beon 15 aptece. _ In ne slave gang. The racord of Great 1 ent in the suppression laves are held under istimates differ. The Another fAgere is | cnctcct" ww Ki OOE ti m art Last year which, . if thirty years the abuse t« But in rman porations is the ancient Al @thiopia. _ In, recent years isands of Africans have be ted by Africans under the clared C slaves Db their ma arate. As tLo Sueeee. * ters die off, the numbers ish and, with them, the of the institution as AN i domestic factor. indeed, there is a thi i § 1y Cw SPc drastie. The law is laid GO® "no elaim for Of in respect slave shall be entertained by the courts in the protectonu clause means that no cqmpens paid to chiefs and others .Y possession of persons hith rarded @s their s‘aves. For in 11 1d tord al ulat The Sierra t in Sterra If has been ories in th third racord of Great Britain as an in the suppression of the slave‘ has been excellent. Within the w years the Maharajah of Leâ€" or ally, has emancipated 53,000 subjects held in servitude, and rmah slaves to the number of have been set free at a cost of plece. In mandated â€" territory I Lake Tanganyka, 80 fewer 18$5,000 slaves, taken over from in sovereignty, have been liberâ€" uS Lalr tha int ; years ago buse to an ordinance »ht into ts the ns 3 a proiec! ns who are exercise of ns, ruling â€" 2 and Abyssinia. s‘aveâ€"holding < To End in rdinanc it the ow? indlords in ; thirty y€ ritain has law. _ Pro tly h become free on D naster, The ordinan« lavery to the pr°s 1| prevents any rec stem from outside â€" is the slaves and m I V year was passed an ordinance | it it had been carried om\ ears ago, would have brought se to an end bY this time. By‘ dinance all persons born Or into the protectorate are de-‘ to be legally free. while all become free on <the death of aster, The ordinance thus conâ€" lavery to the present generaâ€" 4 prevents any rectuitment of tom from outside the protectâ€" As the slaves and their mas s off, the numbers must diminâ€" 4, with them, the importance _ situftinhn AS$ &B industrial and ots are still open and a ay ~ like Kenya has to 100 a year in protecting from bandits whose base « is the ancient Kingdom _ In. recent years many f Africans have been abâ€" 6 Gubacme 1MAE Hh Cruoct re &l shock, then, to be rity of the League of system prevails still itries and that it atâ€" n difficult to estimate her inhabitants. | » unpleasant a word rnument in Chinaâ€"the is thorght it well to . "adopted children" to d or sold into bondageo. « camouflage, however, ; doubt the statement hronic dissensions and canfusion of authority hatt associated . with dificult to estimate 5,400,000 in number. r be emancipated in re more . numerous emancipated by the i1 t adepend en stronghold ar but also 3 serious probably : national (Ma rat min i marrying But â€" at LC2OT . there is a third clause in | nee which is even more‘ ‘he law is laid down that for or in respect of asy | be entertained by any of in the protectonte.“ This ns that no compensation is riets and others who lose of persons hitherto reâ€" their s‘aves. For instance, & ‘a Leone Problem. a Leone Great Britain n caught napping. Her that region aro held in ptectorate . over native , are responsible for the e of guthority. These ing ovetr villages, claim slaves which resembles . ownership of serts by ds in Europe. ty years of sovereignty add that Di ave it â€"at the lowe: : 100,000 human 1 slaves in a C province of We al 3t 1 that about : d in bondasg th M th 18¢ ated by the nt Lincoln mpire ther rs of sovereignty racquisced in this sely how many t cannot be said. : highest is 215,000. 150,000, of whom have froeed themâ€" xz their masters‘ the lowest estiâ€" he trafic not n human be it the munt of the t but ong Generation D U of which| won. _ But on appeal the Supremée provoking | Court of Sierra Loone, by the vote of ‘two Judges to one, decided against %. the slave, the decision stating that (,oumflea“'rensonahle force" might be used to w aash af|retake him. At present this is the t ong »pulat riman beings n a compara of West Afri China thik word â€"the I1 to n" to 1 n ‘on. ially N0 t la vt child of a slave, though borh in that . status, is liberated automatically and . without any money passing to the: owner of the parent or parents. ‘ Fugitive Slaves. Thus encouraged, many of the slaves began to escaps. If they reached the directly governed colony of Sierra Leone, they could not be reâ€" captured. . But within the protectorâ€" ate the chiefs did not hesitate to seize them and return them to their ownâ€" D i )ld slave raiding the system is a local surviv districts than : Checked From Turl Algiers the s been perhaps ;?;:-n(. however, enough. It was the “[ lrish orator, _ John Philpot Curran,\ ‘| who said that "cternal vigilance is the | price of liberty"â€"a sentiment which ,Hw repeated more than once. This is § | the principle that has beon applied by 'yitho League of Nations to the abolition l \ of slavery. Not ouly has there beon )‘ } signed at Geneva an antiâ€"slavery conâ€" n'l vention which has been ratified by ‘_tmore countries than any other conâ€" y | vention adopted hitherto, but further, kl-] by a provision wisely inserted at the ,Sisuggestiun of Dr. Nansen, all counâ€" ;‘_ | tries where slavery exists must report t annually to the League and state how far suppression has proceeded. l Slave Trade Continues. . ‘ ce With slavery as with armaments, & m‘distinction has to be drawn between ht the possession by & country and the By\tnmc between countries. . It is not or quite certain whether the League of teâ€" Nations has been as successful in all handling the slave trader as the slaveâ€" " . holder. ° I o 4000306 M PE es W n i Jocal survival, more obvious in sOMC | L listricts than in others. / k { C Checked But Not Stoppod. i From Turkey, Moraceo, Tunis undi‘ â€" mmz mm ~ l Algiers the sonsations of slavery have | If He Didn‘t Go Too Far. t been perhaps eliminated but the thing | Motorist â€" (halting at curbstonelâ€"-\‘ itself has still to be completely eradiâ€" "Won‘t you take a little ride with me,' cated. The hideous massacres of the girtie?" Armenians â€" left many thousands of | Girtieâ€""Wellâ€"erâ€"yesâ€"if you don‘t survivors in a state of slavery, from ‘ go too far." which some have been liberated by | the offorts of sympathizers in Weatfl n 4y _A ern countrics, but there are many | (f a man owes you thirty cents and‘ who have not been thus rescued. | offers you six nickels in payment you \ .”“:vf’ ‘tlhu "_“p"’,"u:'.m O‘r :‘,‘e :f“'t; will be within our rights by refuging hat "slavery in all forms"â€"a v(_ry.eqmvalen( in sllve.r .because twentyâ€" :’e:â€"rc-whlm:-nml significant pt‘nraso-" five cents is the Hmil in uickels as ain all ‘h\- suppreased by the signa.t(;ry1le“l tender but if someons wants to Eo. ramanirien \rive crou $5 in nickels you can use yOour ‘ powers. ‘This may be regarded as the € uis k | Magna Carta of the world, now rapidâ€" own judgmert, | o s | umm rrmeenremerenzaeaereeeteneeeeeaes Iy develaeptug into a new era for man-( cA m A MSMN®C cind. A mere de not, howeve! Irish orator, who said tha wrice of libe price of UMOTLJ he ropeated m« the principle th the League of ! of slavery. N« signed at Gene vention which suggestion tries where annually to far suppre® There are in slaves sti along the © Africa. In lain and Vis such traffic, LOICCT. There are regions whore the traffic n slaves still continuesâ€"for instance, ilong the coasts of Arabia and East Africa. In 1926 Sir Austen Chamberâ€" lain and Viscount Cecil denounced all such trafic, whother on land or sea, as "a crime against the human race." This contention, which includes the right of search as a corollary, was not accopted as practical politics by cerâ€" tain other nationsâ€"Italy, for instauce,. and France and Portugal. . Other Forms of Slavery. While the number of chattel slaves is estimated to be not less than 5,â€" 300,000, it is clear that real slavery, in other forms, affects a far wider popuâ€" lation. There is peonage of various Lki‘dl. There .1s apprenticeoship ot h Empire â€" but ais position on the Le That the decision That the decision of the s will bo challenged in Parâ€" es without saying. Indeed, taken for granted that the ntâ€" will itself anticipate t until â€" e in ma cupation ast there is very than is gypt, where i y has siation sorvitu il it is many C orthern laration of principle is at Iy hotel n and oby mM in a 8 n the Soud stopped : arded only wious in so Africa a good usually a nogic has ircely â€"from I ne laim x1 only im his _ been ly disâ€" m perâ€" Sondan and deal realâ€" ly as some and children. There is servitude for debt. There is contract labor. In fact, with the whole world subâ€" jected to a rapid material develop~‘,‘ ment, in which gld customs are everyâ€" " where ‘yielding to new conditions; il with knowledge everywhere exercis-l‘ ing an authority over ignorance; with ; \ strength every where controlling weakâ€" l‘ ness, there are all the elements availâ€" | ‘ahle for theâ€"elaboration of a slavery . in the future not less oppressive than \the slaveries of the past. t | What does make a difference is the ‘ ‘fact that for the first time there hbas | | been set up & worldâ€"wida organization \that is immediately sensitive to the; appearance any where of these abuses. It has no power to abolish them, but it has the power to expose them to the light of day. The most influential \ of nations can be brought to the bar | of international opinion and can be .‘ asked to explain its treatment of its t humbler citizens. It may be hoped >| that this ixlitinl right of information, â€" ‘ if firmly maintained for a fow years, ,lwm become an effective guardianship, »‘ strong ecvough to provent the grave )‘ wrongs by" man to man which too flot‘teu have stained the pages of social I / history.â€"N. Y,. Times., France has a new armoreé ors at Villacoublay airdrome. 1 If He Didn‘t Go Too Far. Motorist â€" (halting at curbstone)â€" "Won‘t you take a little ride with me, girlie?" Girtieâ€""Wellâ€"erâ€"yesâ€"if you don‘t go too far." PSA / ,S®@e® / ,, * c g, . § t &A x (AL _R â€"â€"â€"Hf) â€"â€" 7“\‘\:: 4 > : & & "ADAMSON‘S ADVENTURES"â€"By O. Jacobson. 1 A Battle Ship of the Air E Every morning at eleven oclock a. ‘solemn ceremony is performed in Canâ€" terbury Cathedral. A gselected recruit |ll‘rom a depot of the Buffs, East Kent \Regiment, at Canterbury, goes to the | Warrior‘s Chapel in the Cathedral, ‘ where rests the "Book of Life." This ‘book contains the names of the men ‘ of the regiment who lost their lives in the war, and the young soldier. reverâ€" ently turns over a fresh page each day. America and France have their eternal flames which by their clear light keep alive the memory of the sacrifice of the war dead. It is less commonly known that in England a daily ceremony similarly pays tribute to sacrificed manhood. MCY * Reforring to the "Book of Life" at a special memorial service in the Cathedral, the Dean of Canterbury said recently: "It is a very beautiful and deeply cherished possession, and wo in the Cathedral welcome with all our hearts this daily turning over of a fresh page in that ‘Book of Life‘ by a picked recruit from the Buffs‘ Depot." â€"The Qutlook. br dici dsn Providence Journal: The record of the last few years, moreover, must bring increasing belief both to Ameriâ€" cans and to Japanese that the commerâ€" cial and financial ties which bind the two nations together are becoming s0 strong that no disputes over the racial or the naval question or any other diplomatic controversy are likely to impair a friendship that deepens year after year, A Daily Reminder Japan and The _‘_J.S.A. ONTARIO ARCHIVES TORONTO ‘s A Good Shot. for the first time to kind, carrying guns [ EXTRA!! B1G EARTHQUAKE mMEXECC: GosH : NEVvER THOUGHT lD]&ELE‘AUGHT F > / EARTHQUAKE! i . “, %\(\@ *ib".";’,;/ , / 3 ty S CC Z7 | m’}. me sn 9+ __ f,)l I‘m just a common workman Drawing down a common wage, But I‘m happier than lots of men Who occupy life‘s stage. 1 give a Gay s 1BR CPCERCIIT And when that day is done, I‘m happier because L know My pay was fairly won. Somebow I haven‘t time to mo/an My lot with al} the mos, I guess I‘m too darned‘ busy And something tells I‘ve t&;\;x-{(-l'tvhe magic spell Of happiness, supcess and peace By doing this job well. Melbourne _ Australian: No one lj would dream of claiming for the averâ€" age New York plays of the momenfl the redeeming virtues of thought or | art. . They frankly â€" exploit, for box-l office purposes, primitive curiosity and emotion. . There is no doubt that ‘ the theatre reflects and reacts upons popular standards and tastes, nnd\ that its conquest by such productions i will have a bad effect more partlcular-‘ ly upon the more susceptible memâ€" bers of the publicâ€"those in wbom‘ the sway of reason and principle is not strong, the young, the uneducated, and the thoughtless. Many quesfion whether such plays do not deserve to | be classed with indecent films or postâ€" l cards. Their motive and their effect are the same Doing t\;)roughly my job Quch 1 Bananaâ€""Mr. Orange is always scoffing at everybody." Pearâ€""A regular mockâ€"orange!" a day‘s full measure Playing The Game ) the American Legion ; and armor plates. Debased Drama in my heart visit Burii;Cul; Erowing ‘Princenof Wal:s Movement, Says Sir Robert Bruce, Moving Forward With Other Agencies That Are Toiling for Social Amelioraâ€" \ tion of People FEdinburgh. â€"â€" Creat interest was aroused in Edinburgh when it became known that Sir Joseph Dobbie, a wellâ€" known Edinburgh cittzen, had been electeod president of the Burns Fedâ€" 44 4d adclt sch cmtrn t ie ts eration at a meeting held recently at Derby. Sir Joseph Dobbie is an Ayrâ€". shire man, and, which makes it seem particularly fitting, was born at Alloâ€" way, the scene of Tam O‘Shanter‘s midnight revels. ‘ Sir Robert Bruce, in his retiring adâ€" dress, said that Tam O‘Shanter would probably have found himself in unâ€" congeniaV company now at the ennual federation luncheons â€" for these, for two years now, had been run on & teeâ€" total basis. Sir Robert attributed um‘ change of custom in some degree to the fact that women were now memâ€" bers of Burns clubs, and had even formed clubs of their own, but he claimed that the federation policy |had been the chief factor in lifting | the cult out of its old reputationâ€" that the annual celebrations . were more concerned with drink than with devotion to the "immortal memory." "The cult," he said, "is now movâ€"|| ing forward shoulder to shoulder with | all these other agencies that are toilâ€" ing for the social amelioration of the people. It is the realization of the poet‘s ideal, that brotherhood of man, that we Are reaching after. We want that among ourselves in industry; we want that socially; we want that in our international relations. And it is ‘coming yet for a‘ that.!‘ Just think how the post would have been thrillâ€" ed by that part realization of his: dreams in the League of Nations." As evidence of the spread of the Burns cult, at Canberra, he said, the new capitol of Australia, it was proâ€" posed to erect a memorial to the poet. "We have had amazing evidence of a Scottish lterary revival, and never since the days of Fergusson and Burns has there been 80 widespread an interest in the vernacular, Among "We have had amazing evidence 0° a Scottish lterary revival, and never since the days of Fergusson and Burns has there been 80 widespread an interest in the vernacular, Among good frmiends of the movement there has been some apprehension â€" lest broadcasting should become a serious menace, fooding the country daily as 1t d@oes with spates of the spoken word of standard English. Personal ly I have not looked upon broadcastâ€" ing in that light any more than I have ‘regarded the daily newspaper as A menace. On the contrary 1 believe ‘ that we might eventually get yery \consldembie practical assistance in our campaign for the preservation of )n knowledge of the vernacular from broadcasting." 85,000 U.S. Tourists Entered at Windsor Only Five, Per Cent. Asked About Liquor Perfnits, Says Report Detroit, Mich â€"During the summer months, following repeal of the Onâ€" tario Temperance Act, more than 85. 000 automobile tourists from the Uniâ€" tod States visited interlor Ontario via the Detroitâ€"Essex route alone, accordâ€" ing to statiscis compiled by the Essex County Automobile Club. 1 Tho club, which bas charge of is suance of automobile touring permits to aliens passing into the interior of the province through Windsor, estiâ€" mates "eonservatively" . that these tourists spent more than $2,000,000. The automobile tourists are estimated to have numbered less than a tenth of the total nonâ€"touring aliens who visitâ€" ed Windsor only. . rotonnsnitons qi t The interesting ODservauUoONn iMP} majority of the tourists â€" tabulated were attracted to the province by its scenic beauties is made by the organâ€" zation in its report made public re cently. "Only five per cent. of the visitors asked how liquor permits were obtainâ€" ed, and about one per cent. actually bought beer or whisky in Windsor beâ€" fore starting out on their trips," the report asserts. The statistics showed Ohio, Michiâ€" gan, Hlinois and Kentucky lead in the number of automobile tourists, in the order named. There were a numbel NR We‘ 99. of Peace of Balkans Again Disturbed Assassination at Prague, of _ Albanian Minister Causes & Anxiety | Londonâ€"The peace of the Ba.l\unl‘ has again been disturbed by an asâ€" sassination. The Jugoâ€"Slayâ€"Bulgarian ferment over the murder of General Kovachevitch had barely subsided when recently at Prague Tsena Bey, Aibanian Minister accredited to both l.}no-sgav;a gud Czechoâ€"Slovakia, was assassinated. SA Dg,s%:\tchel reaching London sugâ€" gest t al Â¥sena Boy‘s assassination might be due {o the tension between Albania and Jugoâ€"Slavia, which recentâ€" ly causedâ€"-Ev\xrwofiun antiety, _ It is also hbhinted that the incident might be connected with the Macedonian moveâ€" DFL ADDCLCS: he statistics showed Ohio, Michi« , Hlinois and Kentucky lead in the aber of automobile tourists, in the er named. There were a number visitors registered from Alaska. observation that a tourists â€" tabulated the province by its made by the organâ€" British HeirApparent Pays Londonâ€"The Prince of Wales adâ€" dressed the American Legionnaires at slunehmgimbymml-- pire Service League and the British Logion and at which he presided. The full text of the speech was as follows: "Although it is my privilege as patron of the British Legion and the British Empire Service League to preside at this, to us very memorable gathering and to propose two big toasts, the King and the President of the United States, which I am about to propose, I shall leave the more 4mportant speeches to Earl Haig and Lady Edâ€" ward Spencerâ€"Churchill. They both do a great deal of hard work for the British Legion. It may be that I am more the fellow who travels about and gets the ‘hand.‘ For this reason then 1I must not be mean and say too much \ahead of them, but I do want personâ€" |ally to welcome you all, our comrades â€"lin arms from the United States and @| the members of the American Woâ€" i | men‘s Auxiliary most heartily to our country. What so many of you have â€"| paid us the compliment of including i | Great Britain in your visit to Europe iâ€" ) and the battiefelds is, I can assure e | you, very much appreciated . 8 Memories Recalled. s "I do not believe many of you have it n * 6 been back in Europe since you were n over with the American Expeditionâ€" is ary Force. What wonderful memories C« and also what sad memories . those [ battiecficlds must have stirred within Lh';you when some of you visited them * last month, They must have remindâ€" l;e ed you very vividly of those days ho when you came over aAs our comrades o in arms to help us in the darkest days ot. of the greatest crisis Europe has ever of known. Then during those days you er found us without either heart or ng | meanrs to show you that true hosâ€" ‘l loyrv which is our traditional way Tribute to Legionnaires and Speaks of_AidnGiven.by means to show you 1nAt pitality which is our tradit of greoting our friends from side. Now eight years later as our guests, and I can & you are as welcome in thi you were when you were so what is more, we are going best to rival the warmth 0 which we know your .con ceived on the continent. W proud of our Legion over in the same way as you al yours. Legion Stands for ‘Much. "The British Legion stands for m whole lot in this country. +It stands for sacrifice and it stands <for comâ€" radeship. ‘Those are two wonderful things, and they became almost ‘inâ€" stinctive during the war, ‘especiully at the front. They just seemed to hap pen in our daily lives, but, believe me, they should be part of our daily life and thought, just as much now in peace time and forever. Surely ons dogsn‘t have to be at war to be fightâ€" ing an enemy and killing people to realize how essential those two things are, but in competition and the strugâ€" gleos of ordinary routine life we are all, from whatever country we may come, apt sometimes to forget sacriâ€" flce and comradeship. We shouldn‘t do s0. â€" I p.02 # ccetnnis "8o much for what our two 10g1008 can do within our own countries. Now I believe that the same thing aApplies to our relations, AS American and Briâ€" tish, as one country to another. If outward circumstances sooem to he&ve changed on this your second visit, the spirit in which we receive you most certainly has not. . ty mb onAâ€"e SA DWP RENTTE C CC "We of the British Legion never have, . never will forget the links which those hard days of the war forged between our brethren from the United States and ourselves. Jt is the duty of the great Englishâ€"«speaking nations of the world to see to it . that those links do not become a mere sentimental association, to see that they remain and continue always as strong and practical ties, to unite us in the big task of maintaining the peace of the world which is realizing that continued poace is absolutely necessary for its very existence. 1t we use it in the right way, we should in the years of peace be able to repair a lot of the havoc which the war | brought to so many of us." PEVE : P ERRETCVE recting our friends from the other . Now eight years later you come our guests, and I can assure you, are as welcome in that way, as were when you were soldiers, and it is more, we are going to do our t to rival the warmth of. welcome ich we know your convention Te ved on the continent. We are yery ud of our Legion over here, just the same way as you are proud ‘of Berlin Morgenpost: (Thoe patroniz ing tone of the letter in which the exâ€" Kaiser congratulated President Hindâ€" enberg on the occasion of the unveilâ€" ing of the Tannenberg memorial, 18 deeply resented). The heroic spirit of Tanpenberg to which the exâ€"Kaiser appeals has absolutely nothing in common with the state of mind in which William the Second aad his son made for Holland in those fatefal days. A Kaiser who, in August, 1914, gave the injunction to fight to the last breath of man and horse, and who in the darkest hour left the army and the people and fed, such a Kaiser was untouched by the spfit of Tannenâ€" berg. Such a man has not the moral right to poutr plous phrases 0n the \ (lerman peor‘2, * The H;:; of Hohenzoliern! Memories provided you Beauty surgcons §aYy lifting a face is comy ple. _ Probably the h keeping the face lifted 2 sw *h ries q} all 1 vou have 8 r'flrfubt to live on ave something else. P F is say the matier of wn’.ndvely sim» the hardest part is two Legions when the bill