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in the insane, destruction of the Who, I ask in all good faith, can World War as being in any senyal be expected to pay again the money indebtedness. This In spite of thrown away in the insanity of that such political sophistries, which campaign? emanate from economic, ignorance,

bren

Gents. I have the chicken farm,

one for marigeable purpoes, I'll keep you supplied with fresh eggs.

Iram Pickford.

You've Plenty of Company.<

New York City.

In reply to your query whether I realized anything on my investment, I most assuredly did. realized what a fool I have been.

The ponce of the world is at stake. he declaras, Mr. Salto may not speak on behalf of his Government, but his opinion can be taken as typical of that of far-sighted as "They borrowed it, didn't they?) In 1917 I, with a companion, went Japanese und ls most welcome at Well, let them pay it back."

Into a quiet szelor of the line near this stage.

The question of War debts goes the outskirts of Lons. We wero It should give the delegates at the Landon converan-deeper than that, very much deep, soldiers best on a most unwarlike Bank of United States

er. War debts were rather well inission. We were going to gather Gentlemen: tions encouragement and it should ummed up by the Baht remark strawberries. We found the place, (do much to put at rest the ever-which I overheard from the ip a long street of what had

recurring alarmist accusations of a British officer on the Vimy miners' cottages. Now they were directed against Japan by Ameri- front. The officer, newly over but long Γυνα of disconsolate can militarists. Mr. Salto assailed from England, was watching the wrecks, leaning awry, the light of the Japanese sword-rattlers, it futile shelling of a German plane day streaming through the shatter- by our anti-aircraft guns: A'ed roofs, the brick walls brenched szema, and deprecator the belfiger brother officer remarked as they by gaping shell holes. In the yards ence of individuals and nations, watched that the shells used by at the back we found the straw-

berries, luscious, ripe fruit, sterling each.

The British officer continued to gone into their cultivation. And watch. And as he watched he around every yard was a fringe of counted the white puffs that mush- rose bushes, their blossoms roomed out against the sky from rapidly going back to the wild state: the bursting shells. When he had Nothing I saw in all the war had a counted he shrugged his shoulders more saddening effect than the and said ightly, "Well, there goes sight of those desolate houses and my share in the war debts.” gardens, bereft of all care and

the

Every thinking man must agree that particular gun coat one pount of the loving care that bad

with him that incalculable harm in

done by those who persist in talk Ing in terms of arms and force, In every nation there is too much of that consciousness of fighting power, too frequently a desire to put it to the test, too narrowly proud an outlook in international affairs, a selfishness that makes It Impossible for two peoples, even of the same race, to live in ponce within their own frontiers, Mr. [Salta has struck a ringing note of regisserance. It is wisdom that he speaks and only fools will refuse to listen.

DISARMAMENT

Now it in Austria's turn to shout THAT FASCIST PLOT for security. It is not unlikely that her demand for freedom from So many alarming statements the fetters of post-War armament have beon attributed to General Smedley Butler that there will restrictions has been incited by be a natural inclination to dis-taly. In any event the request count much of the colourful story cannot be surprising when it in which he told a Senate committee remembered that all about her concerning a plot to raise nations are arming to the teeth. Fascist Army for the purposes The vicious circle again! Mean- of overthrowing the United while, it would seem that Dr. States Government. The Aug. Schuschnigg's followers, are about gestion was that he should lead to test their strength against the

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Donald Farway.

(signed)

Reply.

Dear Mr. Cassidy:

I see no objections if the

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John Puray Mitchel.

(signed)

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Dear Sira: men

know that this time of your we have lots of files in the house and

1 marched through hundreds of manifestation of affection in the miles of desolation during my nightmare of war.

To rebuild those cottages years of service on the western front. I BRW plains of desolation make lovely those gardens with but the shattered remnants must return to sanity and by the I notice that you want house- of walls protruding from the earth work of their hands make them hold hints to use in your adver here and there. And I was told habitable once more.

Is it to be tising. Well, here is one. You that here had stood a city. Some expected that anyone could again where millions of wage earners pay the staggering sums that were had invested their savings to buy expended in the mere act of den-

on the ceilings. Fill a tumbler guns and explosives that a thriving truction?

with soapy water. Climb up on a City should be utterly destroyed.

ebair and ciap the glass around When all the arguments are ex- The work in those years

was the fly. It will be surprised and pended, when all the bickerings suffering from a temporary lapse fall in to soapy water and will and recriminations have

unanswerable fact:

one

been

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the

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Andrew.

heard and handled, there remains of sanity. Men, struggling in the bo so. stung by the soap that it grip of a nightmare, did hideous can not climb out. You are "There things. And who was the more welcome to use this hint as you went the share of these inventura in responsible, the man who pulled the sea fll. war debts."

lanyard on a howitzer, the Inter- national banker who floated the

Very truly yours, Marching into the Somme in the loans for the manufacture of guns summer of 1916 my company paused and shells and uniforms, or for a reat by the roadside. As we equally misguided investor who rested I idly watched a gang of placed the savings of years in the labourers who were building a road, hands of the munition makers? They were digging up bric!:s and who witnessed so much of stones from the roadside, where no desolation, who walked unwittingly wall or stick remained above the into the nightmare, am able to make surface. Then it dawned upon me no clear differentiation.

they were suddenly what

doing. If to-day a man in the grip of a These men were digging up the nightmare were to set fire to hla some half a million ex-Service. Vice Chancellor's little army.bricks and stones from which a house which contained all the guods men in a march to Washington Prince van Starhemberg..lender of village had been built, to make a he possessed, his act would be for the purpose of seizing control the Heimwehr, a royalist and a highway for the guns to pass to properly evaluated. If in the en of the Government, for which he friend of Signor Mussolini, may destroy more villages and towns. suing conflagration the whole town was to be paid three million dol-feel that it is time for him to take

How much of the world's savings in which he lived were reduced to lars, and that the movement his place at the head of a Fascist reduce it from streets of human ing the ruins and taking into con- It took to demolish that town, to ashes, his fellow townsmen, aurvey- would be financed by a Wall Austria. In any event Dr. Sebus habitations to a heap of rubble from sideration the mental condition of Street syndicate. Already there chnigg's Fatherland Front bas which to draw rond-building ma- the culprit, would be forced to ar- have been heated denials of the clashed with the men who

terial, no one will ever know. It rive at but one conclusion. The would be interesting, if it were town was destroyed. To place the story. Yet, rending between the "Heil Starhemberg," and the ten-possible, to isolate that particular blame on the incendiary might re- lines, it looks as if some such sion has not lessened since the tem of war debts and ascertain justion. But to rebuild the town they movement was at any rate constreet fight at Innsbruck.

lieve their purely human indigna templated. Indeed, secret agents

whose money backed the destruction

of the Senato committee

are

said to have discovered certain | LOOKING BACK

facts bearing some resemblance

cry

or rearmament,

and try to figure how to pay it back, would have to forget. their anger

One night on HI 70, I cowered and go to work.

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Climb up on a chair and clop the glass around the Ry.

Not So Simple.

in a shattered bit of trench while Having built the town, of what American Lady Corset Company

the German guns swept us with a une trying to collect from the man Wanchai

What kind of cornet havO you that I can wear? I have no

Yours truly, Anne S-

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How Philosophical! Steam Laundry

to a plot of the character men- While we are on this subject of dendly hail from dusk to dawn. who had started the fire 7

All his Gentlemen: tioned. That any such a ridicul-disarmament,

The hill itself was swept clean of goods had been lost in the flames. ous effort would be foredoomed whichever is preferred, it is inter anything that resembled life. Thero He might, by diligent application; by failure is obvious, for the eating to cast back a few years and ravaged expanse.

was no blade of green on its whole to his business, upon the return of

It was criss- his sanity, be able to replace once figure and want to improve it. armed forces of the State would review the proposals which have crossed with barbed wire entangle more that which he himself had be more than sufficient to cope been put forward from time to timementa and the crumbling slots of lost. But to consider holding him. with a development of this in an effort to remedy the situation.ed equipment-untold

trenches and strewn with abandon- responsible for the cost of rebuild- character. It has to be borne in Britain started the fashion by sug-money in that Item alone.

Bums

of ing the whole town would be mani- mind, however, that certain Wall

It was festly ridiculous. The just claims Street interests have all along Kesting the abolition of submarines estimated after the engagement of innocent men, their indignation the line endeavoured to obstruct and gas and chemical warfare. that the German guns had belched or understandable wrath would cut the Roosevelt Administration in Britain subsequently said she was 20 000 shelle upon that shattered no figure. Economic common sense carrying out its plans for in-prepared to reduce the size of war-te in an attempt to retake it from would tell them that what they team unit

the allies millions of dollars worth desired was out of the question. dustrial and social reform, and ships and guns and to carry out a of destruction. How

many shella

(Continued on Page 9). there is little doubt but that twenty-five per cent, reduction in these reactionaries would be pre-general armaments. Britain urged pared to lend their aid to any the establishment of à maximum scheme which might lead to the military strength for all nations. overthrow of the present regime. America aought restriction of the A further point is that there is size of tanks and heavy mobile in the United States to-day a guns, agreed to the abolition of large body of disgruntled ex submarines and poison gas, sought Servicemen, and whilst it is not to limit expenditure on arms manu- to be presumed that they would facture. America moved, too, to- lend themselves to treasonable wards new proportional reduction activities, subversive elementa

who would stoop to almost any of navies and the limitation of thing in pursuit of their ends armies. France made one of the may well have thought of the most advanced contributions to the possibility of enlisting their aid talk of disarmament by suggeating in attempts to overthrow con- that all big neroplanes, warships stituted authority. It is clear and submarines should be handed from tendencies apparent In over to the League of Nations. various parts of the world that The suggestion was said to be im- extremists of the Right are no practicable. France, too, suggest- less a danger to the stability of led an International police force to Governments than those of the prevent war and an international Left. Thus we find movements army to repress war, of the Fasciat type quite pre-war wounds scarcely healed, begged France, her pared to resort to unconstitution- the nations to agree to prohibit the al means in their efforts to seize use of aerial artillery and polson control of the administrative gas as a weapon against civilians. machine. The use of force for Britain has reduced her armaments, this purpose is openly advocated, and in consequence is suffering Even the Mosley Blackshirts in from nervous dlaurder under the England would make short work shadow of Continental militarist of all that democracy stands for development. The United States is if they had their way. What-planning to increase all her fighting ever, therefore, be the truth of forces, on the land, soa and in the these American allegations, there air. France was the first nation ia need for the people of all to mount and fire flying artillery democratic countries to be on and has developed the most deadly their guard against plots which of gases known to science for use would deprive them of their new a breakdown in naval conversa. in battle. Achievement! And liberties, whether they emanate tions may precipitate an armaments from the Right or the Left.

rice.

"Now isn't that just as good as any quail you would have shot on a hunting trip?".

Gontlemen:

In answer' to your lotter aaking me if I'm worried about the $10.00 1 owe you, let me raply that I'm not. There's no use our both worrying about it.

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In The Butts.

"You know, Millie, Ida is such a cat. Always got some story about other people. What do you think she told me about Doreen?”

"What did sho tell you?”

"Well, you know Doreen's got a brother who's a nudiat or some thing"

"Hold on a minute. Here come some more of these blasted birds. What are we supposed to do?".

"Oh, just take a pot. Don't point the thing at me, Mille; alm at the birds-that's right. Miles too late, of course. What man can. ace In this business always boats

me."

"Oh, they think it's manly, or something. Makes them feel Im- portant; game laws, and all that. I'm only here on Poppet's account. of course. Man go all protective and sentimental when they see a young thing with a gun."

"That's right, Mo. We got rid of Pamela that way. She cried-out of sheer exasperation--- and Roderick proposed on the spot. Now about this brother Doreen's

(They got down to it.).

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