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As joint" presidents of the Empire Parliamentary Association, Coited King dom Branch, the Lord Chancellor (Lord Birkenhead) and the Speaker of the House of Commons (the Right Hon. J. W. Lowther) received a large number of home and overseas members in the new rooms of the association within the Paince of Westminster, on May 8th,

NO MONTH MORE THAN 28

DAYS.

AMERICA'S DESIRE TO ALTER THE

ALMANAC,

LBY J, W, T., SEASON,}

NEW YORK. Having successfully commanded the to move about an hour in the spring and return to its original position in the quitiunn, bis saty sixty minutes of day? light per diem, Americans are now agitat- ing for changes in the calendar to make

unarinti-

The Lord Chancellor, extending a weit easier to compute the day on which any come ti the overseas thetabers, and that date fails front one to a million years in if ever there was a monet; in the history the future. BRAND NEW MUSICAL TREATS.thing in our poses to show gratitude to

of the Empire when we should gho deng

the Dominions it was now, after the events of the past four years. All had been deeply stirred by the most moving spectacle of the great self-governing Dominions leaping spontaneously to tars traditions of our race by co'ds of valour which had never been exceeded, and seldom equalled, in our long history. (Cheem), i the hope of

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is being criticise as cumbersome, en- The present arrangement of the months wieldys and Topsided. The caladar is being atticket as a relied the he era in man's worked by rule of thumb and made

lution hen the unnecessary trouble for their descen felicidae to i rightful position as the

entendar its servant of man, the Hipal Month Calen das Association has been organies in

Audi spreading its.p useful paganda throughout the e ness, the Empire Parliamentary Associa 1 Bi

has bech tion offered cordial welcome to the Dominion visitors. They hoped that reputed for introduction in tongress. those soms might become known to mem-will so the United States possessing thir

the meiste is adopted, the year 19h2. ber of Overens Parliaments staying in een months per annum thereafter instead London as a clith, a centre of social life of an inadate twelv But much a small plot in the middle of this gruan nfusion would result if America made ty where they would always find we the reform alone, that it is considered im- cene, and to which they could bring probable Congress will take action unless friends Et their visits be nuwe tre the principal quet, and the warmth of affection which the sopran countries join

simultaneously united us to day would grow as the years pasd (Cheers.)

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The Minneapolis agitation uses its start to the well-known fact that people are always The Speaker, who joined in the welcome the days having dioulty in rekening

the Overseas statesmen, said:to undertake any action. For

n which they wish would have been impossible to find a sit-if somebody wants to tu something on the TJILIWONG.....

instance, suitable for your purpose se rich in his lone of next August, it necessary to

is inter Lane results calent to fad out that the TJILATJAP...

of the day will be a Sunday, which fact ill

It to Westminster all. great historia events of the British Empire have taken place in that hall, was built Tha William Rufes, and under its Richard which has stond for 300

Hall has many tragi el metrics of the triads of Kings and of Statesmen in

in it the Seven Bishops were acquitted and there is much else from

years,

"WE"

rooi, dating from

doubtless make a change in thefate neces

TJIKINI...

The Equal Month Calendar Association TJIMANOEK would stop this by making all months exactly alike.

Every month would conTJIPANAS sist of twenty eight day, The first day nf each month would always fall en Monday and the last day on a Sunday

But twelve months of twenty-eight days

thy distant past that could be recalled.ench account for only 36 days."

We wo

Wrz

But within our asp recollection, events ring less than the sear total number happ

there of

To take up the slack, the Equal Month Borinions and tu the

It was in Calendar Association wants u Westminster Hall in the year 100% that

months

thirteenth It is to be called. a first crevived officially representatives

Liberts Tented

and is to be inserted between of the French navy- fcheers). their February and arch. Liberty is to vists to this country. The immediate re have twenty eight days like all the other sult of the arrangements which were then months, leaving one day still out of the made by Lord Lansdowne was the con- reckoning. It is proposed to attach this summation of the Entente with France. left-over day to notonth at It is (Cheers.) Very soon after that I believe to be called simply "New Year -day, in the „uest, yeah --we entertained at lun-

and is la in Westminster Hall the Overseas staresmen attending the Colonial Con- ference, and that was repeated on sabse quent occasiona

This room itself reminds me of the British Constitution for although its

is to be placed between the last day of December and the first day of January. The last day of Becember will always be a Sunday, then will Com Year's day," and the next day will be Monday, January 1st. Similarly, every fourth care of February, 29th by actween made for taking year provision is

placing day. Bunday, February 29th, and Monday, Liberty 1 liberty

being the name

to be called

walls are new, they have in one place jutting out a portion of the uld work of William Rufus. In the same way we have the old British Constitution and added to it the new developments which have the new month-fully Express become

necessary with growth of thos Constitution and of the British Empire.

all welded together, each part up- Eating the other (Cheers) It is happs one that we should find ourselves in such w

W room and on such an occasion." Hear, hear.)

A NATIONAL ARMY. GENERAL HORNE'S APPEAL

The Duke of Portland presided on June

The Empire Parliamentary Association2th at the welcome home dinner to Ser- xisted 10: afford members of the British vice members held by the London Enith- and the Dominion Parliaments oppor ness Association at Frascati's Restaurant,

tunity to meet and discuss public affairs. and, in proposing The Imperial It was, he believed, with the sole excep. *

tion of the Imperial War Cabinet, the only actuab

said the Highland soldiers, and themselves sons who were worthy which existed between of their sires. The great tradition of the the Parliamentary bodies.

Whether in COLP of time it would extend intriche something greater, more important and had be the foundation of the first link in Si

Highland regiments of the past had been

the glorious deeds which they

stronger thain to bind the Motherload the the red in the war.

S. Horne, who comnianded Army in Franer, responding,

and the Dominions leser together, was said Sertland had done extremely well

matter be would not discuss

thought it was probably present in

the

She had done more than her share in She had more inen, she had suffered more

and.

speakinad

without pre- he thought she

done better Referring to the blat Highland

ninds of nest of them than that might ultimately

be meeting that day would lend to greater

a result, and that their her population:

things. The new headquarters they work.

War

could claim was that they were Territorials. The ideal that ani- mated the Territorials before the was a very noble une and also

Ho, a very sagacious one. They did not receive very much encouragement before the war. They saved the situation in 1914 at Ypres, when the British Ariny was worn to shreds.

hoped would become a incans of dis Division, General Horne said the greatest seminating information between the dif honour they ferent Parliaments, and it was intended to continue there, those interesting meet ings at which deliver mers frota overseas had

Fectures to members of the Bri tish Parliament upon problems that were agitating the minds of Dominion legisla- tors. That was a branch of the work in which he anticipated considerable develop ment. (Hear, hear.) He felt that it was good for all of them to have been pre sent that day. (Cheers.)

BRITISH GOOD FEELING!

us have a National Army on Territorial lines," said General Horne Not an Army to go fighting abroad, but an Army will couble u us to train op

our manhood so that it shall not be that the men of Britain shall stand

out

when Sir George Foster, Canadian Minister the next call comes. Handreds and thou of Trade and Commerce, doubted if theyands of lives wore sacrificed because our of the Dominions came near to equalling men had not had the necessary prelimin the splendid spirit of hospitality and sy training. One of the most difficult Friendship which greeted oversens visi jobs commanders bed was not to train turs 10% the United Kingdom. Their our men, but to get trained officers, and welcome guests in the Dominions were that was where Territorial officers came of a certain class; they, on their part to the front. They studied the profession had sent back milion of the rank And

of arms, and they supplied us to an enor~ ) Gle. (Land cheers) When that million nous extent with what we wanted." of men returned hone they would the stors of the good feeling, the

ed kindness, and the

unequalled

shown to them by the people

Britain. The Dominion

of Great

by and

youth in the arms of the children whom

came to-day as guests. Perhametives be had nurtured, and who loved her.

Cheers.)

bye, they would come A A little more than "Sensor Pearce, Australian Minister of guests. A time might be some time Defence,complained that in the Common- aben they

would arrive to be welcomed not wealth they did not see enough of the only as guests, but to confer as equals, and, members of the British Parliament. it might be, to tal

to take n in the govern Gr

of the Dominions felt that they ance of that great" Choire which the knew Great Britain better than the Bri Dominions had

to defend. tisher knew thei (Cheers.) A few days previously, he had not be. Could Dominions, which should not the Empire Parlia wached the march through London of"

of mentary Association so arrange matters 19.000 soldiers, of whom the Dominan United Kingdom to visit the Dominions there should be two parties" from the were rightly proud-(cheers) every man a citizen of the British Empire. They to every one party that came to England! were but a phalanx out of a million men If that were done, there would eventually who had wine from the uttermost ends be a Government in the United Kingdom the earth to fight for the ideals which Dominions for which they legislated. know something of the bodied those ideals, sonable sometimes the thought the minds of those men that they must ask, and must not be denied, a share in the government of the Empire that they had aided? The Mother of Parliaments had proved worthy of their gratitude In

the future might she find perpetual (Continued at full of next column.)......

of

Was it

which

loved, and for the Empire whic(Chects and patrick said that when

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federation was the burning question in South Africa, their Dutch colleagues, and General Boats above all others, hud adhered to the view that they must avoid compromise and model themselves, es closely as possible on the British Constitu- tion, which experience provet had been. adequate to their needs.

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