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NOTE

WEDNESDAY,

MAY 1, 1935.

OF THE DAY

CANADA PENTURSED"

When Brigadier-General Charles Kilbourne, Chief of Staff in charge of War Plana for the United Staten Government, sug. gested at a secret meeting of the Ifouse of Representatives Militäry Committee that a blg air base Ehould be establlahed on the Cann- dian frontier, he aroused a curtain amount of perturbation in the Dominion. The Canadian Lega- tion in Washington Immediately requested the complete transcrip- tion of General Kilbourne's speech to the Committee. Canada wanted to know what it was General Kil- bourne feared from the Canadian side of the border and what sort of things he had been telling the House of Representatives' Com- mitter. Caunda can rest assured that the United States does net contemplatoninvasion of the British territory on its northern front. Quite the contrary. Canada le a very effective bulwark against any encroachment upon American territory, by a foreign power from the North, No nation "could fly war planes over Canadian soll, for instance, without, In- volving itself with the Jiritish Dominion, and, in consequence, the British Empire. ikely, therefore, that 21 21 aerial attack will be launched from berga the Canadian frontier лt New York ar' Washington, Seattle ir Los Angeles. And yet, that must be the fear which prompts The United States to consider the

by inability +if establishing "used" army Air Furce hase somewhere on the northern Border: that, or the desire to have a jumping off place for aircraft harrying north to defend Alaska.

PENGKALITY

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Our King

and

Queen

on their Silver Jubilee

"Honi Soit Qui Mal Y Pense”

BIG BUSINESS AND

If the United States contemn- HIGH FINANCE plates using a. shortcut

Canada in such an emergency she President Roosevelt's plan to is likely to cause herself trouble, eliminate unnecessary public for Canada, for the sake of her utility holding companies has neutrality, could not Allow thrown into marked relief the frontier any more than she could

American planes to įgrowing disposition on the part allow cussian or Japanese, if they of the people of the United were bent on war. Canada's posi States to distinguish between tion. In the event of hostilities bearly in January, 1912. King the advice. of his ministers, but there were disturbances in Ire- tween the United States and an George and Queen Mary were during the 25 years of King land and the throwing out by Big Business and High Finance. Asialle power, would not be rom-able to get down to the serious times been the reverse--when Rule Bill; in the same year, there George's reign, it has many the House of Lords of the Home A generation or so ago, the fortable. Canada is very vast and business of being King and statesmen took the advice of the was the Baikan League war with average citizen kept a wary eye tion of her neutrality would be so Queen.

almost totally undefended. Viola-

King.

Turkey, to be followed in 1913 on Big Business. The gigantic easy! But apart from ait that.

And such a business is no easy One recent notable case is told, Serbia by Bulgaria. These were by the disastrous attack on new industrin! combinations Canada is naturally Interested to frightened him.

of when the Labour Government forerunners to the threat of know the season why Americans task. He had an unbelieve the time has come for the growing so big and so powerful for more than 100 years has re-

Returned at last to England¡the King is supposed to rely on for trouble and strife. In 1912

easy feeling that they were fortification of a frontier whichsions, numerous appointments say MacDonald was tottering-tually the world war.

State functions, formal ocea. ¡hended by Prime Minister Ram-ivil war in Ireland and even-

mained undefended. Cuands and every day, official visits andIt is declared that the King sent

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that his liberties were in danger America have lived in peace since tours-all these form only a part for his minister and proposed to of being trampled To-day he looks in another direc. Niagara Peninsula. In no other tion. He is used to Big Busi- and miles of frontier without

direction enn one And four thou ness, now. He has discovered single piece of artillery, without that the worst sweatshop condi- a single fortress or a single man- tions are often to be found in of war. The Cunulian-American small industry; he recalls that it reltionship has been held up be a thorough study of the situa- Right from the start, the reign-

fore Europe

shining tion. Constitutionally, of course. lof King George was predestined in Berlin.) is frequently the big industrial example of how a big nation can ist who pioneers in high wage get along with a little one without the latter fearing for the security scales. But High Finance

of its frontiers. Surely such a something else. There is

happy state of affairs is not to be quality about it that leaves the spoiled. Surely the Washington ordinary manı

dazed. Further-- Administration will hesitate be fore committing itself to à pofley more, the events of recent years which must not only destroy the have demonstrated that allo- | faith of a neighbour, but impede gether too many of these busy the rapid improvement of Anglo- American understanding and co- financiers are not. "men of

operation. vision" so much as clever and

Our picture to-day shows the King and Queen in a historic Government National

ceremony-lending the proces- Queen.

party sion of the Knights of the Garter MacDonald acceded to His that must be studied and signed tional Government

There are documents of state Majesty's wishes, and the Na-at Windsor Castle. The Order of the Garter and its motto- and King George was

Was swept Honi soit qui mal y pense"--is never into power.

famed the world over. one to sign without first making

(Fo-morrino÷--King George

is

AINSWORTH NOT GUILTY

SIX-TO-ONE VERDICT BY JURY

charged with the manslaughter of driving into the cross roads at Ro a Chinese in Nathan Rond on high speed that he was quite February 1. The case was heard unable to control the car of which before the Chief Justice, Mr. A. he was in charge, and as a direct D. A. MacGregor."

consequence of his deliberately taking that risk-dellberately drly- In summing up, the Chief Jus-ng at an excessive speed, at a tice referred to the requirements speed so excessive that he was: un- By six to one, the jury yester-of the law before negligence could able to have proper control of his day, at the Criminal Sessions, re-amount to mansiaughter. The caso vehicle, he ran into the deceased. turned a verdict of "not guilty" for the Crown, put in a nutshell:

If the jury was satisfied that it in the case in which Abraham Fid-| was that the accused was driving a was so, then it would be for them ward Ainsworth, an Inspector of high powered car with brakes to say, "Here is a man who de not too scrupulous self-seekers. TO PRINT OR NOT TO PRINT? the Star Ferry Company, was which were lefective. He

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is the first edition over issued of

Mr. Roosevelt recently EX- pressed the average reaction

A curious situation has been pretty clearly when he said: produced in Great Britain by an-1 "It is time to make an effort to Rouncement that the Johns Hop

kins University Press has publish- reverse that process of the con- ed all that remains of Thomas centration of power which has Hardy's first novel, "An Indiscre made-most American citizens tion in the Life of an Heiress." helplessly dependent for response to the claim that this their daily bread upon the | i work of Hardy's which had long favour of a very few, who, by been eansidered lost, the Roglish literary press pretty generally such devices as holding com- took the view that it should never panies, have taken for them-have been issued at all. The very selves unwarranted economic title of the story, it was argued;}

showed that its milien was those power." That hits the nail on

sections of upper class society of the head. It draws the line be- which Hardy, even in his mature

industrial tween

leadership period, wrote least convincingly, which seeks to produce and the is there no way, it was asked, of protecting a writer from admira- kind of financial leadership tion that damages his reputation which seeks to exploit. The through publication of immature former helps to enrich the whole work? Now these protests have country; the latter is distinctly been made to look somewhat odd anti-social. For a large in- by the statement of Mr. Desmond Flower, British editor, that the dustrial corporation, after all, is story had been privately printed interested in just one thing in England in 1984 under the production of usable goods. That supervision of Mrs, Hardy. But is its only reason for existence; this general question remains: that is the only way it can make Is it just to print every scrap of money for its stockholders. The manuscript that a famous writer! has composed, irrespective of financial organisation, that whether he wanted it printed or presses itself through a chain of holding companies, on the other not? Whatever the answer should

bo, men will probably never hand, heads in the opposite able to refrain from publishing direction. It is interested in anything they and which has a profits rather than in production," great name attached to it. Before Thus, to attack the holding com- favouring too general à use of the pany system is not to attack Big. bonfire, it is well to study the im Business. It is to attack a thing plications of the fact that so good a judge as Hazlitt thought the which is a parasite on Big reputation of Shakespeare would Business and on all the rest of have been higher had his sonnets the community as well.

never been printed,

bo

"I've figured out how we can take that cruise and still pay some of our bills."

was liberately took the risk which he must have known.. Ha must there- fore take the consequences of that. deliberate act."

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Now, sud his Lordship, they had here unfortunately little direct evidence na to just what happened. It was an amazing thing that such a busy hour of the day, and at a very busy cross rond, there should be no one with the single exception of the compradore-salesman who was on a bicycle, who could tell them anything at all about the de- ceased's movements. One would naturally expect that many people would be in a position to come for- ward and say, "I was walking along the street with the poor ' fellow when I saw him step of the pavement.

His Lordship in reviewing the ovidence considered that within a quarter-of-a-mile's distance, be- tween the Duro Garage and Wallace Harper's Garage, there sufelent time for a

Was

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to have speeded up. the 1 Lordship referred to evidence of Mr. Ah Chee whose opinion was that the car was pro- cooding at 45 miles an hour, and aho to that of Mr. Houghton and the Indian constable, both of whom had also said that the car w.na travelling at an unusual fast speed. There was, his Lordship said,. the diflculty of ascertaining whe-- ther the man. had been carried along or was thrown that distance, by the Impact in the absence of conclusive evidence to show what. the exact movements of the decons- ed were immediately prior to the accident.

After half-an-hour's retirement the jury brought in a verdict by six to one of "not guilty," and accused | was discharged,