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rd Twelve treaties that are really one treaty. an arrangement definite and detailed. tor the joint, cooperative de. velopment and employment, of the economic resoureea and facilities of the Empire for the Empire's common benefit. The broad foundation and the first high storey of a new eco- nomic Empire, Imperial Economic unity, which has not been since the Empire ceased to be, in days long past, “England and the colonies." But this is voluntary unity. It is an arrangement designed not to combat world trade, but to stimu- late it by promoting the prosperity of a quarter of the world’s territory and people. that is not resented by the rest of the world but accepted as an example and an inspiration in inter- national co-operation-the employ ment of protection for the promotion of freer trade. More sspeeifteally: a larger, more definite market in Great Britain for Canada's natural products, in return for advantages in the market of Canada for the manufactured pro- duets of Great Britain-free entry for those products we don't produce and some that we do, special concessions for others and fair competition for all the rest. Benefit to both producers and consumers of Canada. tr: into operation. Seven of them be. tween Great Britain, world's greatest market for natural products, and British countries with these products to sell. _ Why, then, suppress your enthusi, asm? You’ve had three years of gloom. Why "wait and see?" Why, wen. affect that r.ir of superiority toward those full-blooded, historically inclined sons of old John Bull who acclaimed it as a new Magus Charta1' The great charter of Runnymede eco- nomic as well as political. secured to Britons of that day enjoyment of their inheritance to the measure of their advancement. What else does the great charter of Ottawa do? No political rights had to be established here; they existed already. But 0t- tawa utilized the political Empire for the purposes of our-present day civilization, securing to Britishers throughout their quarter of the world greater enjoyment of their common inheritance. Bo, do not fear that any. one will call you a fool for beating your drum about a conference that has these results. You won't ij) scoffed at by any wise man. Enthusi- asm does not imply simple belief that this Conference has done what no conference could possibly do. Nobody thought it was going to open the gates on a new heaven and a new earth. Nobody expected it to restore the hectic, hollow happiness of 1928- 29. No honest person will say that what it does do is not a great thing . . . . for Canada and the Empire. What are the results, as far as Canada is concerned} All these things were the avowel aims and objects of the Conference. An of them In attained in the re- sults of the Conference. They are: In a general way, a ahare in whatever advantages may accrue from this new basis of Empire economic co-operation; and, speeih- cally. just about 95 per cent. of what Canada asked from Great Britain, together with such bettefiU as may lie in three separate agreement: with other dominions. l From the agreement with the Unit.) ed Kingdom who could have expected more? What was asked that was not obtained? A preference of 20 per cent. on lumber in place of the 10 per cent. secured. Something additional to the IO per cent. on zinc and lead. A tnriff preference on bacon instead of the quota secured. That's about all we didn't .get. And about the only reason we didn't get the“ waa the admittedly Justified eoneirrn of the British Government for consumer prices. E. C. BUCHANAN IN THE" Canada Gets Her CANADIAN MAGAZINE. Whether th-tern grain inter- esta like it or not, the six cents I bushel preference over foreign wheat should mean u sheltered market for the principal product of Canadian agriculture. The rate of preference is tttl that wu; asked, more than ex- pected. So with the four cents a pound rate on copper, an important concession. The reason Canada has not been in the British bacon market for the last dozen years is that Canadian farmers claimed the raising of hogs was pro- iitiems at prices prevailing there while wheat growing, until three years ago, wee profitable. Canada asked for a preference. The agreement provides that under any quantitative regulation of the imports of bacon and hams that may be established provision wilt be made for free entry of Canadian bacon and hams up to a maximum of 2,500,00 hundredwelght. Should this Lrovision in respect of bacon and hams serve the purpose desired by the Canadian Government, it would go far to encourage diversified farm. ing in Western Cansda, regarded as the most feasible solution ot the agri- cultural problem. And the substan- tial preferences on dairy and poultry products should have the same effect, as also the removal of restrictions against. Canadian cattle. Fruit growers of the eastern provinces and British Columbia also secure prefer- tnces. The fisheries and the mines get. the same treatment, the latter on zinc, lead and asbestos as well a., In the View of those who negotiated the Increment, the outstanding speci- te gain for Canada is relief from Soviet tttate-controlled competition. It ensures fair competition for this country, especially in lumber and wheat, the first of which is now vir- tually excluded from the British market by Russian price-cutting, and the second of which has been subject. to the threat of Russian dumping for the last two years. Britain agrees to prohibit the entry of any commodity on which state-controlled prices are calculated to frustrate, in whole or in part, the effect of preference. An embargo when necessary. In short. preferential treatment 13 secured for the principal products of the farm, the forest, the fisheries and the mines. Most ot it represents new or additional preferences over those granted voluntarily by Britain in the tariff act of last December, and it is to be remembered that the continuance of those voluntary preferences was dependent upon the making ot a reclp- rocal agreement at Ottawa. zine, 1 copper In exchange, .Canazla grants to Britain additional preferences under 220 tariff items mainly in iron and steel products, textiles, chemicals. leather, glass, gums, toilet articles, some of the items going to the free list, others taking reduced preference rates of duty; and "reasonable com- petition" on all Commodities of Brit- ish manufacture. This reasonable competition to be on the basis of "relative cost of eco- nomic and efficient production," is re- garded by the British as their big- gest gain. The Canadian tariff is! not to exceed such a level as will secure it, and the Canadian tariff board is to determine that level, re- viewing duties on British goods at the request of the British Government and giving audience to British pro- ducers, its findings to be recommended to parliament for implementation. The only reservation is in the case of products of Canadian industries not fully developed. It means that established and efficient Canadian in- ‘dustry, competing successfully in world markets, will have to meet fair British competition in their home market, retaining protection against lower British production costs. Net specific result for Canada:) Larger, more secure market in Great' Britain for the products of agricul- ture (including live cattle, pig pro. ducts, dairy and poultry products, fruits), the lumber industry, the min- ing industry and the fisheries indus- try, together with such lowering of prices to the consumer of manufac- tured commodities as may accrue from greater competition under lower tariffs on imports from Britain; and this at the cost of subjecting the Can- adian manufacturer to reasonable competition on a basis to be determ- ined by the Canadian Tariff Board. A Fttr successful conference. or, as one Canadian cabinet minister in. vnriably etuls it: A damn good bar. .0," Herschel Brickell in The North vAtrmrietut Review. - _ More than one person has found consolation in the orderly process of nature. More than one person has been forced indeed to rediscover that amid all the follies of the human race the sun shines, the rain falls, the wind makes the same music in the trees. These simple things were push- ed into the background during the recent attack of insanity. It was the difference between a straight road of concrete and a roaring automobile, and a gently winding country lane afoot. We confused movement with progress; we deliberately forgot that there are eternal, simple values in the world. for which there are no sub- stitutes. That no matter how far and fast we may run we do not escape ourselves, and that these selves can not be Batiafied by making our lives more complex.' Only the other day I listened to a speaker who said there was no possible comparison between the average American and the aver- age citizen of any other country. for did we not hare newspapers in every small town, and motion pictures, not to mention automobiles and radio and electric refrigerators? I wondered if this eulogy were at all deserved. Spain came into my mind, a country whose life has hard- ly been touched by any of the symbols of progress just mentioned. What wisdom is in the Spanish peasant. comes from the soil and from life; " is hard and shrewd, ironically humor- ous and fresh. Can this wisdom, which belonged to the American pion eer, and which survives in remote rural regions of this country today, be replaced by movies or radio? Or is it true that these thin 23 do no more for host people than to make them less capable of using their native intelli- gence? This is no argument for a return to primitive conditions; we have a civilization with which we must do the best we can, bat we shall be better off if we realize that there is at least a chance that the Average American is not the finest product rm“ the human race, and that listening '5 Amos 'n' Andy is not really better for the mind and spirit than spending an evening in a cafe with two cents' worth of wine and hours of conver- sation. A man can clarify his thoughts by talking; he finds out what he thinks as he talks. He is at least active; even if the radio had anything to give it could not make people think. l have had the good luck to spend recent weeks with the sun and the sea; to wake early in the morning and see young poplars moving grace- fully across the sky; to forget for days that newspapers were still be- ing published, and to be far more in- terested in the housekeeping of a pair of song sparrows than in the political situation. (The housekeeping ended in tragedy, for the two youngsters were eaten by a Varmint the day " ter they made their appearance in the world, but at this moment their father has resume his post in a maple tree and is singing as if he and his 'lwife might try again.) All these i things would be less interesting, pro- bably, if the world outside did not seem so full of troubles; if one were not constantly meeting people whose lives seemed to be ruined because they had-lost their money. Those ol us who have never had and may fail to sympathize as fully as we might: actually it is that these people are victims of a civilization of which nothing is more characteristic than its extreme ups and downs. It is easy to say that if, after the depres'i sion of 1921, we had all been satisfied) to live reasonably we should have avoided the utter madness of the last boom period, but the pressure toward madness was terriiie, and the people who kept their heads were merely lucky. But have we now learned any real lessons from our embarrassment" There are still elements in the situa- tion that may set us off again very quickly when the wheels begin to spin. . . . And recover we shall, for recovery, to a certain degree, at least, is as inevitable as disaster; but no. I body, and least of all contemporary , American politicians, can do anything about it except to get in the way as , much as possible. The disease run: ' its course in spite of the doctors. Meanwhile the simple values nre still here. The other day I was out in my canoe with its tall sail-and not so very long afterward was out of the canoe. A canoe with a an sail is tricky. The wind was blowing Simple Values Illustrzdéd breGifiTi,i, tam, fur- nished With Every Pattern For the fastiJious miss of school age, this woolen jacket-like dress will win instant approval. Don't you think the deep cuffs give .t " distinctive appearance? And the pepium hip fluunee adds such smart sophistication. 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The water was bois- terous with a sense of life, and what is better than to be physically tired, and to lie flat in the sun on the sanai, and to have a final dip and a rub- down, with dinner waiting not too far iaway? Was it not true that the Chinese poet said: The desires of men are without and, but the things that give content are few and well known? Scots Claim Smallest Bellboy Daniel McLaughlin, three and one.. half feet tall, ot Glasgow. Scotland, is believed to be the smallest bell. hoy in the world. .. PRAISE Praise is well, blame is well {inaction is the final and most cioua reward that any man can SELF-HELP No government under heaven can do half as much for any man as every man can do tor Mame". - Dean Letroy. ---Mark Twain, 2.554 What New York . is Wearing" ".1,' The Big one-OV football a are over." The Little one-'trimrledt" The Big omy--"Nope, but Ma I gotter git mo hair eat." u «a 'tid-gi f, .'.._ - AW, - - _ lc 2“ 17 Ciaiakss,ls/;,5-',)a.'a,'r'r? “a *‘ééf- (2l1FCrgf"de, ‘ J-rid""-" Big one-OV football (1in TORONTO ; but pre- win. sex I. TRAINING THE cmwnm. Gen. 18: 17-19. Jehovah, leavin, tor Sodom, reflects upon the fine character of his friend Abraham, and the great future that lies before him because he will train his family religiously, Gen. 18: 18, 19. That training would be made possible because "I have known him," v. 19, that is, God lived close to Abraham, Abraham lived ose to God. His good character would be reinforced by the patritcthal discipline. The patriarchal organization of society demanded a strong family government. Is its breakdown in modern times betefieial or harmful. Arthur Mac- donald, American criminologist. says: "The great bulk of you." _ offenders comes from the homes where parental control is lax, or non-existent." Trial marriages, divorce, domestic an'rt.ppi- ness, are due in great part to undis- ciplined wills, desires untrained to consider others. Abraham, by wise discipline, was going to train his chil. dren and family for useful citizenship. He was to train his children in right conduct. "the way of the Lord, to do justice and judgment." v. 19. Psy- chologists tell us that a child learn; first of all, to do things. later on. he acquires belieis, convictions. Train Lm to share his candy with his little playmates, help others first, play his games fairly, The religious idea, “hich nabits like lose express, can then safely be .aught. II. TEACHING THE CHILDREN, Deut. G: Beginning with the training in right conduct at the very earliest .119, how about the religious teaching? How teach about God? v. 4. A too common childish idea of God is that expressed in "God won't love you if you are bad."' Dr ~adful! This is very harm- ful, not only from a religious mint of view, hut from the physical and men- tal. Many nervous and mental dis- orders are being trreed to fear in- duced by threats of punishment at the hands of God. The child's first god is Mother. "l first saw God in my mother's face." The mother's prayer at the baby's crib, while intellectually meaningless, is nevertheless deve'oping the reli- gious sense. But some day the child wil ask, "To whom am I praying? Who is God?” The answer. "The good end loving Father of us all, on: to be loved, not feud." Gpide the child. {Jihad beiid dot with the tears of God, not with his menacing "WN'. Good deeds nuke God happy. . Vcrse 5 emphasizes the eordition oil ad successful teaching. Children learn' by imit..tion and exar.ple. Abraham is Ur live out consistently thr religious truths he would teach his child. Much of our Bible teaching in home and church is futile because the children do not see it lived out in our own lives. John Ruskin tells of the teaching he received at home: "I had been taught the perfect meaning of peace. . . . . Angry words, hurry and disorder I nave; knew in the stillness of my Childhood's home. Next to this quite priceless gift " once, I had received the perfect understanding of the mr tures of obedience and faitu. Nothing was ever promised me that was not given, nothing ever threatened me tl was not inflicted, and nothing 'C,"i'.' told me that was not true." Tar- be . teaching to other people (v. 7), a point for socially ambitious mothers who leave their children's prayer-tinte, if any. in the hands of hired helpers. whose own the child en are not; a point also for modern f.-thers who are so engrossed with basiness and club, that no time is left for. the compan- ionship of their own boys. The ideal father _§pends _sgme evenings \‘Il'th the boys---ilk with them when thou sit- test in thine house." He takes time to go on hikes with therw--"when thou walkest by the way." "Father's" long. est walk, too often, is just to the garage door'. Verses 8 and 9 refer to the little boxes containing certain passages from the Law. One was worn on the forearm, one on the forehead, one was Abraham was nut to leave 5h; A Lucky Break For the Police hung on the doorpost-tul reminders of the law of God. m. Demon-mo Tac?. CHILDREN, Mark 10: 13-16. Th2 parents who brought their :hil- dren to Jesus (v. 30) were :oncerned about ti eir spiritual welfare. “Hear- intt from the boy?" we ask. "They are well, and doing wellt"-isumintt that the parents' chief interest in their boys' future is their physical health and their financial prosperity. But first things firtt, character and ser- viceableness. Jesus reminded his well-meaning but blundering disciples that "of such is the kingdom of heaven," v. 13. "thr such" probably mews "belongs to b'. ch"-people eonsidered by society of I.) consequence. people who are reeem tive, real, willing to accent what they Le not merit, open-minded, open- hearted. "Blessed them" (v. 16) mean.~ "blesed them fervently." The church has always regarded this incident as I justification for infant baptism. where parents dedicate their children to God and undertake to brine them up in a religious way. This is the room he loved with warm content. . Here all familiar objects seemed to share . . A quiet mood, to feél a homely care, A harmony through blended colors Perhaps they belt in three- :uarter time. Anyhow, Edvard Reynolds of Pittsburg has two near-ts. much to the amazement of medlcos. one on the left and one on right side. sent. From cuement windows, l)w and reverent The light fell soltly in a glowing aqunre Like I drawn symbol, from diviner " Of the bright soul ot happy hours spent. .. This is the r00tn--ttow every object here Leaps out and cries and gathers up my grlet .. With swelling voice. Ilka mourners' wail: of gloom In grim processions! behind the bier. Here there is pain that throbs with. The covetoua man is like a camel with u great hunch on his back; heaven'l gate must be made higher (trt broader, or he will hardly get in. .--Thotn" Admin. Remains of the diprotodon, an ex. tinet marsupial of the Pleistocene age that was almost as large as a small elephant, have been found in great abundance in certain dried-up salt lakes of the central and south Austra- lian deserts. The kangaroos and worn. bats are the nearest living relatives ot this animal, which " tar as is known. was the largest of the ani. mals that carried their young in a pouch.-Detroit News. out relief, For death has passed across this sit. ent room. .. --By Helen Frith Stlclmey. Wind Machine End: For»! Fire Tests recently proved successful at Lott Angeles of a. new method of fighting brush and forest are: by blowing them out with a “wind ma. chine." Diprotodon Remains Found Silent Room The Gentle Reindeer 1waofraid,fmaea6ntt “not the habit at deep. cattle, and horeee, that e eight of strangers emu}! etem- -pede the herd when we met. But ot this, ea it proved, there was not the slightest danger; for of ell the famil- iar. tame enimele men hes gathered ebout him, the reindeer is the tameet. They cen hardly be said to be domesti- cated. since they are not shut in around the huts, or put under shelter either winter or Bummer. On they came, while we gamed easterly et the novel tright--a thicket of entlers. big and little, old and young, led by the ‘strongeet, holding their heads low i most of the time, as if conscious of the fact that they were carrying very big, brrnehing horns. A straggler fell behind now and then to cull a choice mouthful of willow. or dainty, grey When, then made haste to join the herd again. But turn out of the Why a little, good Scholar, townrdl yonder high honeysuckle hedge: there we'll sit and sing whilst this shower 'ails so gently upon the teeming earth, end gives yet I sweeter smell to the lovely Bowers that adorn these ver- dant meadows. Friendship Neu‘uhlp mnketh indeed a fair day In tho [Imam tron new: And lo.- pests, but It mketh daylight in an tmderstanditsg out of darkness “I contusion ot tttougttu.-Baeon. actual-hood God help the am: who lose: faith In motherhood. In goodneu. In humanity. ll womanhood, for It " not simply tet- toud Intellect there In a mom bruins. beneath tt.--Rer. Thou. Phillips. iwas for tto-tit"' The at ot teotwersatiott is to be prompt without being stubborn, to ro- tut. without nrgument. And to cloth. not! mutter: in a motley gurh~nlr -riiri, -dihe Compleat Angler," by tank Wilton. "rth; And palm joys not promised to neli Ar birth, While the Rain Falls that time lifted above go as I had so rough and ingest would q. four hund- They are, "