The Axe, 12 août 1924, mardi 12 août 1924

[" DEPENDABLE REVIEWS OF LEADING THEATRES =.THE PAPER THAT TELLS THE TRUTH PI FEATURES VOL.111.NO.33.MONTREAL, TUESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1924, Annual Subscription: $2.00.Price: $ cents.CANADA'S LIVEST WEEKLY PICTURES NEWS \u2014_\u2014 ae mrs mm mae es ee \u2014\u2014 sin _-_ = =: STI rte \u2014 MR.KING\u2019S DEATH KNELL WORKERS MUST BEAT KING OR KING WILL BEAT THE WORKERS The Issue of the ST.ANTOINE ELECTION mm 0 tr tr ILL Montreal sound THE DEATH KNELL OF MACKENZIE KING, on September 2nd: Scptember 2nd.seems a long way off.But it may be Canada's Day of Destiny.It is the day on which the Mackenzie King Government | will get its answer from Montreal.For Mr.King and his Government have asked the people of Montreal a question, rather they have made a statement and asked a question.What they have said is this:\u2014 \u201cWe have brought in The Robb Budget which is the opening wedge of Free Trade.That budget sounds the death knell of Protection, If we are allowed we intend to kill Protection and establish Free Trade in Canada.We will leave your industries unprotected against foreign competition.The manufacturers of the United States, of Europe, Asia and India will be allowed to send in their manufactures to compete with yours, If this closes your factories so much the worse for you, If Canadian industrial workers are thrown out of work they can go and work on the farms or go to the United States and get jobs.But whatever happens we intend, if allowed, to establish, Free Trade in Canada.What are you going to do about it?\u201d KING\u2019S MOTIVE AMERICAN.To be perfectly honest those are not the exact words that Mr.King and his party have used.But they are as nearly correct as they can very well be.The honorable Mr.Stewart declared that The Robb Budget sounded the death knell of Protection.The rest, therefore, follows.That Mackenzie King would kill Canadian industry without compunction I have not the slightest doubt.He may be perfectly honest in it.But an honest man on a mistaken course may be, and usually is, more dangerous than one who is deliberately doing a wrong thing and knows it.In any case, the result would be the same whether King\u2019s motive be American or Canadian\u2014I believe his motive is American\u2014Free Trade would kill the industries of Canada and destroy our national identity.I am not speaking in this article to manufacturers, or capitalists, or bankers, or big corporations.They are all vitally affected by the looming menace of Free Trade.They stand to lose and lose heavily.But they are very well able to look after themselves.In any case I am not their man.! speak for and to the workers; the people who toil and spin and get so little for their toiling and spinning; the workers by hand or brain.And here is my argument:\u2014 \u2018 The King Government has declared through the mouth of one of its members that The Robb Budget sounded the death knell of Canadian industry.The death knell of Canadian industry would be the death knell of the workers in Canadian industry, and of the many others who depend on them.There- .- _ fore, to prevent their own death knell being sounded the workers of Canada must sound the death knell of Mackenzie King MOLLIE WILLIAMS ; and his Government, Burlesque\u2019s only woman Producer who opens the Columbia Season at The Gayety on Saturday night, ONLY ONE ISSUE August 17th, with just the sort of show that has made the Gayety Shows \u201cFun for the whole Family\u201d I wish that all the industrial workers of Canada could be invited to ring out Mackenzie King\u2019s death knell on September 2nd., or sooner.But that is not possible yet.That is a privilege and an honor reserved for the workingmen and working women of the St.Antoine Division of Montreal, who on that day will be called upon to vote for the election of a member of the House of Commons.There is only one issue before those electors, and that is Protection or Free Trade.The Mitchell believed that the killing of Protection would mean the THE MOTHERS WHO WAIT destruction of Canada\u2019s industries, like an honorable man he resigned.It is the peoples of the world who Some men are Honorable with a capital H; some are merely honorable.Walter Mitchell is both.That makes the issue in St.Antoine simple and clear; Protection or Free Trade.I admit that Free Trade is an ideal condition.I have been have to pay the price of war; the fathers and sons who have to leave home and fight; but it is the mothers Honorable Walter Mitchell honorably resigned his seat in Parliament Foundation primeipler Peu m0 Tres Trade en rights who walt, eves Hurred with tear, for because he believed what the mouthpiece of the Cabinet, Hon.Charles IF EVERY COUNTRY PRACTISES IT.But for Canada to footsteps which may never come back.Stewart said, namely, that The Robb Budget sounded the death knell throw down its tariff wall and admit the products of foreign These are the people who should have of Protection and as a result, the birth of Free Trade.And, as Mr.(Continued on page 12) the voice in deciding their own fate.meme ue a TWO THE AX\" Tuesday, August 12, 1924, AXE-L GREASE N iuquivitive oy wants to know if it would not be wiser to phrase 9 ° ° Montreal's Newspaper Situation { 3: 270i i Fi Why | Publish THE AXE The Editorial Point of View A Scrutiny of Current Events John H.Roberts® Personal Column The Conservative Split The advent of The Sunday Sun has caused a great deal of disvuss- ne onl T is an unfortunate thing that in the St.Antoine Division, where a ton amongst thinking people in Montreal.For wears the newspaper A vesslmist wn thay pA by-election is to be held on September 2nd to replace the Hon, situation in the city has been a singular one.1 am dealing with the So, Walter Mitchell, the Conservative forces should be divided.English newspapers only.That field ia practically monopolized by two -\u2014 In Mr.William Birks and Mr.Leslie Bell they have two good can- men, Lord Atholstan and Senator White.The word monopolized is| If a mun has common sense he vel-| didates.Either of them would make a good representative of the di- used adviscdly.The morning field is entirely covered at present by dum makes ume of it in a love affair.| vision.But if both of them go to the poll neither of them is likely to The Gazette, a paper which, though not at all of the large circulation ee ve be member for St.Antoine.That seems a certainty.fan ; Es \u201cFrance >ubmits Her rock-bottom It is unfortunate because the coming by-election will be the first that a metropolitan morning paper should have, has à solid clientele,» concessions.\" l\u2019oxsibly the Kaiser had opportunity that the greatest industrial centre in Canada will have to mostly composed of the business men, merchants, and financial cle- | something like that in mind when he ments.It has a fairly comprehensive morning delivery service to the! spoke of the Allies \u201cbiting ou grunite.\u201d | express its opinion on the Robb Budget and the proclaimed sounding of homes of the comparatively well-to-do.A little stodgy and heavy.Te the death knell of Protection by the King Government.And that is a à .i Nome men are smart about getting \\ maybe, it is on the whole a reliable newspaper and, however much one | vhat they want, und abso mart enough vital issue for Canada as well as for Montrealmay disagree with its editorial opinions, its news columns are depends to learn in the end that they would If a Free Trade candidate is returned by reason of there being two able and not colored.Exhaustive if not exhausting.would be a fair have been much better off it they | Protectionist candidates against him it will not be a victory for Free description of The Gazette as a newspaper.hudu't got it.Trade but it will be claimed as such by the King Government and its ° ° ° In bovis 18 i oT tod an difficult supporters.The Government will then throw out its collective chest u books it in represented un GEICO | and go ahcad with the ruin of Canada's industries.For ruin is what he eveni MSP eld L St nates » situa- for aman to propose marriage to a | 7 1 In the CYCNINE NEWÉFAPET Field Lord Atholstan dominates the situa wetau In real life n fairly respeet- | Will happen if the tariff barriers are let down and this country gets tion with The Star and The Herald.The latter 1s a negligible quantity ° a ue ; \u2018 and appears to be kept alive merelv to hold the Associated Press fr able man could propose to 20 women | dumped into it the surplus products of American factories and the goods : J à \\ « Y \u201c ; ssocrate S£ ane | 4 » .» and pre: ue e ker a ¢ ie el, Lo ee © on The Star in n duy and be accepted.made by the cheap labor of other foreign countries.is, of curse the reat En lich Pens o h: a ne | ad by vire ulation and | If the \u201cN wre wan izations St.Antoine, below the hill, is a working class constituency and, with LCurse.£ & ewspapet, \u2018R vieu : the \u201cNo more wars organizations) ooo of Protection vs.Free Trade properly placed before the elec- virtually no opposition.It has everything that money can comma \u201creally hope to accomplish anything A ue .; y FP thus eve g that money can command at, they will contrive to make carnage un- | tors, will give a verdict for Protection.Their work and wages, their j ispos: ë ra i .O0 i J.its disposal but has waxed fat with high living.On occasion it does arofitable, And the greutest profiteers| homes and families, are all at stake, and, under such conditions, with éplendid newspaper work\u2014the sinking of the Empress of Ireland wa jp, found in the armament rings.the issue clearly before them, they will not betray Canada and them- a case in point\u2014but to-dav seems to be resting on its laurels as if to.- ; ; ; ; l .; ; < ou I\" Co un | Selves.But with a divided vote victory seems impossible.sav to advertisers and public: \u201cYou've got to come to The Star, whether: It's \u201call work mul no play.\u201d with .| _ , ta à \u201c ; ; .; ; lots of would-be dramatists It is not for us to say who should retire but, if there is any saving C vou like it or not.\u201d On its local news side The Star, having virtually, ¢ : .: .; Le eee common sense Icft in Conservatism, one of them will and must get off A no opposition, as | have already said.has grewn indifferent as the years ; \u2019 , the track have gone and vou get the local news if The Star gets it and vou don't Nearly every man,\u201d says Gor- \u2019 «et it if The Star doesn't get it.Meaning by which that The Star is don Selfridge, \u201cthinks that he can get at \u20ac Star doesnt get at, caning v whioh that The Star Is do three things: run a newspaper, -f suffering from-the lack of real vempetition.build a fire, and guide the gov- ° ° v .» » ernment wisely\u201d And it's all Lom- itewas Ing asc ereau : a Apart trom THE AXE, the only newspaper in the wechiy field bare 2 Chine orange that ; ; until the advent of The Sunday Sun was The Standard.the third of = these.LFRED DURANLEAU, MLA, is reported in The Gazette to have Lord Atholstan's \u201choly trinity\".which as a newspaper has had as close _\u2014 said at the Conservative Picnic at King Edward Park on Sunday w a relationship to the age in which it lives as the late King Tut had; Making n fortune is less unusual | that\u2014 te to Radio.Here again the evils of monopoly have produced their in.than knowing how to use ene.pin the Manche {Garneau care he (Mr.Taschereau) had ja it: i Stand: 18 00 .arde .seu sought for a whitewashing from two judges, nam y himself, evitable fruit.The tandard has come to be regarded bv those who A young bachelor with money to and this whitewashing not being complete had gone to John H.th run it as the last word in what a week-end paper should be.Of course,| burn has difficulty in avolding a Roberts for a further whitewashing.\u201d as jts editor has been fond of claiming for it, it has had a wonderful run) match.The meaning of Mr.Duranleau\u2019s remarks is somewhat obscure.If th of \u201cscoops™ but, as they have invariably been scoops of stories that .he means that the editor of this paper has given the Premier any coat M x Dulluess is very often only à vame .; ; broke after the other papers went to sleep for the week-end The Stan- {or slow development.of whitewash Mr.Duranleau must be color blind.Consistently ever p! dard could hardly prevent itself being first with the news.! remember since the release of Mr.Roberts from the Quebec jail this paper has ne a woman objecting to the old Witness because she could only wrap up [\" is entirely a new theory that \u201cA attacked and denounced Premier Taschereau.0, ra two lunches in it.That good soul would regard The Standard with |1 surplus of labour\u201d makes the lot of In the first number of THE AXE printed after the termination of m avidity, I am sure, if she judged it for its availability as wrapping paper.| the labourer move tolerable.his incarceration he gave the lie direct to Taschereau and at every turn $0 There is plenty of it, but quality is not permitted to overshadow quan- is foolish to think A has been his severest critic, m tity too noticeably.Its editorials are execrable; its \u201cscissors and paste\u201d royal blood In your velus just be- It ill becomes Mr.Duranieau, who rode into office on the wave of badly selected.and its whole policy seems to be to rely on \u201cservices\u201d and! cause your father happened to get | anti-Taschereau feeling created by the campaign of THE AXE against m names, rather than news and up-to-dateness.stung by à queen bee.Premier Taschereau and the flood-tide of indignation aroused by John \u201c * * * The xilliest tonch of tongue or pen H.Roberts\u2019s persecution and imprisonment at the hands of the Tasche- ha = Ps ouelhh © > .It is into this field that The Sunday Sun has projected itself, [is in (he phrase 1 knew him when | \u2018eau Government, to now attempt to belittle the man who spoke out th monopolistic field, to contend for a place.That it should be welcomed |.when the Duranleaus were silent and went to prison for sake of his con- Ja: there can be no doubt.It is not a healthy condition of things that two victions, getting not even the salary of a member of the Legislative tin men should dominate tite supply of news and the creation and direction] The Farmer-Labour Party\u2014ginger | Council for his reward, as has Mr.Duranleau.ne of public opinion in a great city like Montreal.Of late the public has ee.fo its __ seen The Gazette execute a right-about-face on the question of the|number of men who neither \u201cfarm\u201d A REPROBATE'S RING for the publie.But they are grabbing, wr fifteen-million-dollar loan to La Banque Nationale, first condemning it, {nor \u201clabour.\u201d Oh, my! It is our duty from time to time hopelessly rotten and shamefully auda- co then, at the behest of Premier Taschereau, approving it.The marvellous , ; Le some cious, Action should be tuken against ! ; ; .y|to reveal to the public some of the | jap stern and strenuous, Pernicious changes of policy and practice that have otcurred in The Star have been| Why waste money on a barometer?=~ orki ws of the liters A1 .A hat th li 1d knows wh :t stands .Let your rheumatism say when.inner workings aud dangers of the literature of this kind should be avoid- the sq frequent hat the public sel om knows where it stands on any ques- white slave gang and to call upon the | ed.tion except that of tubercu 0818.nd the genius for mixing the cards A third party couldn't be any worse | police to make greater efforts to bring -\u2014 which is characteristic of Lord Atholstan has made The Star as dan- than \u201cthe two\u201d we have at the present |¢his ghastly traffic to an end.A young gerous as a mad dog to be allowed at large in the body politic, moment.married man bas called to sec us to ESTABLISHED 1907 * * * Ww | b 1 led tell us that his wife bas been lured \u2018 .OW much rent is being demanded | away from him.Finery, automobiles, Does The Sunday Sun portend the end of the long intolerable news- for certain \u201cSelect Departments\u201d |dancing, \u2018uxury\u2014und then desolution.paper situation in Montreal: I verily believe that it does.I do notin some sections of Montreal ?In this case a honest young French- LE believe that it means the end of any existing paper.The Standard has man has been deserted by a wife who GOVERNMENT LICENSED taken on a new lease of life already and its long somnolence seems to Loi Towne to the Liberal G return prefers to accent the \u201cgenerosity pi PAWNBROKER C , ,; ; ; 4 0 \" u man who might be her father, e \u2019 be over.More pep and effort have been put into The Standard in the ment have some meagre details, but we are mor last two issues than | have seen in years.More power to it: May it ; hoping that the wanderer may return MONEY TO ada prosper.It shows what a little healthy competition will do.Freddy| We may be be godless in some ways, [pofore it is too late.A word to the thi Yorston has self-sacrificingly given up his summer vacation in order|but we have er religion to start) wise ju this case should be sufficient.LOAN hu to stand by the ship and the \u201cold man\u201d has given orders to spend money some very good fights.ALLURIN SPECTU On Di ds, Watches, Jewel nun like water in order not to let The Sunday Sun get ahead of The Stan- ; .LLUR NG PROSPECTUSES F nti 5, Le es, Jewe ry, | dard.His Lordship f ts that th ie ired t k Women are just like flowers\u2014 Alluring prospectuses and circulars urs, Antiques, Leather Goods, Geo ard.His Lordship forgets that more than money Is required fo MAXe| when they fade they dye.continue to be broadcasted with un- or Any Article of Value dep: a newspaper or keep one alive.Brains, energy, hard work, initiative, erring aim by various companies\u2014 , com dash, courage, and vision are amongst the things needed and the poor| (ne trouble with the Canadian |bogus and otherwise\u2014some of which, Phone Plateau, 3900 Pub old Standard does not seem to have much of any of them.wheat harvest is that Russia is \u2018\u201ccom- | on the face of the proposition they rep- * .; ing back,\u201d although its export this|resent, look like a very fine thing 51 CRAIG STREET WEST and year will be but moderate\u2014smaller, grea Frankly I say that the people of Montreal should welcome The Sun- | perhaps, thau it would have been had Fins dya Sun because it is the first ray of hope on a clouded horizon.We |ten million or so Russians been allow- Telephones: Res.Tel.: out have all been too long the playthings of Lord Atholstan's whims and am.| ¢d to die-of famine.Main 4860 Belair 3999 MACDONALD & CO addi bitions, or the unconscious victims of Senator White's retrograde outlook Ramsay MacDonald says:\u2014\u201cIf Main 6405 Business Brokers .Reo ; ; , ; > J \u2014 s e on life, meaning by the same no reflection upon his business ability.| y cannot manage to bring about WILLIAM M.MAZUR, C iI b ) .Mili Advertisers require an alternative to either paper.The whole news-| peace it will mean that I have MA.BCL.an De Su re Ci ITER te à , > i \u2014 paper situation is in the hands of the people.If they want to have failed in ny Joa Great minds ADVOCATE, BARRISTER AND BUSINESS consult us FIRST.ister things different they will be different.The Sunday Sun will be a .SOLICITOR inter means of helping to bring about desirable changes.It therefore deserves - Suite 405-406 205 St.James St, - Montreal.Unit We do not wish ourselves classified uite - Ph Main 6405 ¢l encouragement and support, amongst those who think that news- [J 205 St.James Street one Main 6405-4860 inet JOHN H.ROBERTS.papers can govern the world, Inge I Pe - LS J u_- - $103 Sv hw 4s ; Lob £ 8 addi dhe tt LE .27 .staff fun Tuesday, August 12, 1924, PREMIER TASCHEREAU SETS UP A NEW SPEED RECORD But Jean Baptiste Gets a Shock and Says \u201cMon Dieu! C\u2019est le Czar!\u201d THE STORY OF A FAMOUS RIDE HO is the champion specdist of the Province of Quebce: Nobody would think it was the Premier, Mr.Louis Alexandre Taschereau K.C., M.L.A.Attorney General and, thercfore, the person responsible to Mis Maiesty King George for the enforcement of law in the Prov.| ince of Quebes.But such appears to te the case.Recently a banjuet was he!c at St.Therese in honor of Mr.L.Athanase David, Provincial Secretary Amongst those bidden to the feast was the Premier.He might have : ; ; ! made excuses as did some of those told of in a certain parable contained in Holy Writ.He had bad a tiring day attending to departmental business Doubtless he was holding conferences with Chief Lorrain on questions of law enforcement, the catching of held-up men, and the discovery of undiscovered murderers, of which there are quite a-plenty around lere.But whate.er his duties, he was tired and sought rejaxtirrod atid parted.Well here [ am.\u201d \u201cThat's not enough.\u201d \u201cYou don't want much, do vou\u201d she murmured.\u201cEverything ov nothing now, You know Fu free\u201c She nodded.\u201c1 can see what's voiming.\u201d she said with a pretence of demureness, \u201cIf you've hopped across those four thousand miles from a sense of duty to the weeding girl that you left behind\u2014-\u2014\" \u201clat!\u201d \u201cDon\u2019t bark at we.It frazzles my nerves.1 haven't done any weeping over you.Cary.Too busy with the thrills of life.Would you have come back, I wonder.if you could have known everything that's been going on.Suppose I'd stayed in Boston that time \"Well\" \u201cWouldn't that make a difference\u2019 \u201cIn my wanting to marry you No.\" \u201cSuppose,\u201d she said more slowly, \u201cUd had an affair, a real affair with Monty.Like ones.\u201d A spasm oof pain passed over his face.\u201c1 shouldn't blame vou.How could I\" \u201cWouldu't it make ans difference in your loving me?\u201d \"Not an iota.\u201d \"Wouldn't you even care\u201d she flashed in resentful wrath.\u201cCare?Good God.Pat, if you saw à man in torture \u2014\u2014\u201d \u201cOh, don't, Cary, dear.\u201d she cried, startled and remorseful.It isn't true.It's just my sneaking, rotten curiosity to know how vou'd feel about it.\u201d She pursed her lips, wus- ing durkly.\u201cI wonder,\u201d she began.\u201cHave you been true to me?Not that I've got any right to ask or that it makes a bit of difference in my young life whether you have or not.but just \" Nhe broke off, leaning forward.studying his face as he looked at her in silence, \u201cCary! Why don't you say something?I would care.1'd care like hell.\" \u201cI came back,\u201d he said slowly.*be- cauke you are the one and only woman in the world for me and always have been since I saw you.Is that enough answer?\" \"From any other man in the world it wouldn't be an answer at all.From you, it's enough.\u201d \"Will you marry me, Pats She jumped to her feet, walked over to the window, and looked out to where the clematis blooms trembl- od in the wind, \u201cOh, 1 suppose so,\u201d she said fretfully.-\u201cIf you want to take the chance.\u201d \u201cWhat chance, dear love?\u201d \u201cThe chance every man takes that marries a girl of the kind you men all seem to want to marry.How many of the married set here d'you suppose are true to their hushands \u201cI don't like you cyuical, Pat.You've been letting momething poison your mind.\u201d \u201cNot ms.I sec things as they are; that's all.Ask Con, Ask Deo, Aske Bobs, Ask any of \u2018em.You know you could have had Con if BACHELOR, or ke 4 Catal TR you'd really wanted her.And then his FLAMING YOUTH .we \u201c tom eevee 1uesday, Aagust 12, 1924, I butted in.\u201d of diablerie, Her chuckle was full It wtill persisted in her tone ax she continued: \u201cCary, what would yon do to me it J went straying off the reservation after we were married ?* \u201cNothing.\u201d \u201cOh, don't be xo calm and superior and noble about it,\" she fretted, \u201cYou'd tempt an angel to try a flute ter just to see whether she would got by with it.\" \u201cWhat do you want me to say, I'm \u201cLD want vou to tell me honestly how sou think you're going to hold me if | do warey you.\u201d \u201cCome over here\u201d Nhe walked nevoss to him.defiant, daring, provocative, \u201cWelle \u201cYou love me, dont vou, Pat\u201d \u201cYou make me wuen you're with me.\" « \u201cAnd when I'm not» \u201cThat's just the trouble, You're there all the time, parked Just around the corner and you won't let me love anybody vise enough to- to da any good.\" \u201cAnd if 1 asked vou now he Nid, low and insistent, \u201cyou'd come back to me and be to me what you were before, Wouldn't you?\u201d There vas a quickening in her shadowed eyes, in her soft breathing, \u201cYou know 1 would,\u201d she whirpered, \u201cLow could I help myself\u201d \u201cThen vou couldn't very well marry anyone else, could yous\" \u201cve tried.It was n fliv, as you know.What's the answer\u201d \u201cIsn't it plain enough?Why nog try iné\u2014on your own terms?\u201d \u201cWhere do you get that \u2018own term\u2019 stuff, Cary\u201d she demanded suspiciously.\u201cDo you know about Dee and Jimmie: their arrangement \u201cNo\u201d \u201cIt's a secret.But vou belong to us\u201d she added sweetly; \u201cto the Feutrisses, No UT tell vou.They were to stay married for à month and after that if either of them wanted to quit, they were just to live like unmarried people without any fuss, Only Jimmie wouldn't keep te \u2018 it, That's what made the row.\u201d \u201cWould you like to try that plan 7\u201d he asked in an inscrutable tone, \u201cWould you do it She looked at hing doubtfully.\u201cWauld you really let ne go after a month if | wanted to?\u201d \"After a dus.Do You think I'd try to hold you against your wish\" \u201cThen I don't think sou can love me much.\u201d she objected with perverse Jealousy, \u201cIt strikes me as a perfectly fair bargain to both.I certainly ought to be willing to take the chance,\u201d he suid reasonably, \u201cif you are\u201d \u201cIf 1 am! Cary! You mean that you\u2014-might\u2014want\u2014to leave me*\" A startled incredulity made the words jerky.\u201cOne can never be quite certain how these things are going to turn out, can one!\u201d he observed with a fine air of judicial detachment.\u201cShall I have my lawyer draw the agreement?\u201d \u201cCary! you're luugling at me.\u201d she accused.\u201cFar be it from me, in a matter of such serious import \" \u201cYou are! You're hateful! It isn't fair.You know that's the way to hold me and you know you don't mean to let me get loose for a single minute.I don't like your knowing ro dam\u2019 much about women,\u201d she continued plaintively, \u201clt makes it so uneven,\u201d _ \u201cI'm trying to be fair,\u201d he pointed out, He drew a chair up to the writing desk.\u201cSuppose I just sketch out the scheme.\u2018This agreement,\u2019 he dictated to himself, speaking the words slowly, \u2018between Patricia Fentriss tm \u201cScott,\u201d she interposed.\u201c\u2014Seott \u2014 thank you, dearest and\u2014Cary\u2014Scott\u2014for\u2014the-\u2014spaco- of\u2014one\u2014month\u2014after\u2014\u2014\" She bent across his shoulder, put a soft hand over his mouth, then slipped it aside to make place for the yearning of her own lips.When she finally leaned back from Lim it was to say judicially: \u201cI offer an amendment, Y.et's make it twenty years instead of a month, But, oh, Cary, darling!\u201d Her eyes darkened, brooded, dreamed, grew sombre, subtle, prophetie as she gave voice to her warning.\u201cAs a huw band you'll have to be a terribly ome the-job lover.There are so many men in the world!\" FINIS 4 Ad aa em oo 0 pe AA me 0 pe > Tuesday, August 12, 1924, BRITISH LABOR PARTY IN POWER NOW SEES SOME THINGS DIFFERENTLY \u2014\u2014 The Sobering Influence of Office and Responsibility Have Wrought a Revolutionary Change in the Outlook of Labor Leaders.VERYBODY, whatever hin or her party, must agree that in one respect nt leant the advent of a labor Government hax been a boon and a blessing to the commonwealth; for the responsibility gud experience of office have undoubtedly smashed and shuttered the idolutry of shibboleths which has so long obfuscated the outlook of many Labor leaders on the problems of Tuperinl and foreign pol- ey.It had become a dogma of their faith that if we failed to defer to the views or wishes of guy other country, it must be due to our inveterate depravity.They were obsessed with a general iden that the British sway over subject races wus an unmitigated despotism; and that its adwinistea- tors were bloody brigunds, bullies and butchers, subject to impulses ax appallingly fiendish ax those ascribed to Nero and Caligula.But experience und responsibility have somewhat modified these convictions, Ministers like Mr.\u2018Thomas, Mr.Walsh, und Mr.Hodges have tex- tified that in the main the British rule is one of justice and goodwill which has not worsened but rather bettered the couditions of existence for its \u201cvictims.\u201d They have learned hy personal contact that the administrators of the British Raj are not invariably ogres or monsters of brutality, but Welshmen, Ncotamen, or Irishmen like them- relves\u2014rome of them even Englishinspired with the sume ideas of cheery helpfulness to their neighbors and dependents, the same impulses to freedom und enlightened progress.The British Gentlemen They have come to realise that the British gentleman who has hitherto monopolised the functions of government in the far-off malarial swamps, sun-scorched deserts, and savage wil dernesses of the commonwealth is on the whole as fine an animal as evolution has yet invented, and that despite his class prejudices and perhaps a little tendency to arrogance and dogmatism, he is essentially simple and kindly like.Sterne's Uncle Toby, keen in honor like Thackeray's Colonel Newcome, staunchly loyal to his duty, and brave in a stolid, undemonstrative, matter-of-fact way as only the sons of this islund are wont to be.Last week 1 quoted the testimonies of the Prime Minister, Mr.Thomas, and Mr.Wulsh to their awakened\u2014 or, ut least, more articulate\u2014pride in the Empire which they have been called to govern.I now beg to apologise to Mrs.l\u2019hilip Snowden for not including her name in the list of the converted.During the war Mrs, Snowden had, like ler pacifist husband, prodigally reviled her countrymen for their wicked blood-guiltiness but since then she has been to Palestine sul, has come back to praise Britain\u2019s benignant rule in the pages «be it noted\u2014of \"The Empire Review.A Change of Heart Even more impressive and instrue- tive is the \u201cchange of heart\u201d induced by experience in Mr, William Teachanother notable pacifist doomed by one of life's little ironies to do penance for his former disparagement of his country as Parliamentary chanm- pion of our nefarious air forces against the charges of his quondam comrades, These old friends, left to chew the cud of the ancient shibboleths in the chill darkness of unenlightened opposition, have been sorely perturbed by horrible stories of bombs dropped from British aeroplunes on the sample shepherds of Irak.They have, therefore, confided to Mr.Leach their awful suspicion that \u201cthis odius form of warfare\u201d which has resulted in \u201cthe indiscriminate slaughter il perfectly innocent men, women, and children\u201d is due to the profitesting fea : .Las , - + ra Sp : Cer - greed of \u201cunscrupulous oil exploiters\u201d and to the high-souled peusuntry\u2019s conxcientious objection\u2014with which we can ull sympathise -to the payment of taxes, To this terrible charge Mr.Leach, being now u responsible Minister, bluntly replies that \u201ceach and every one of these accusations is false,\u201d In a lengthy circumstautial categorical statement he positively usserts that our airmen have killed nobody, that they have only dropped bombr, after ample warning, on the property of savage bandits who had made a Jiving by raiding, looting, und shooting peaceful toilers- that their activities Laure gradually setting up a free und stable government in the pluce of a murderous brignndage, Mr.Teach at Bay Me.Leach further protested that our nirmen had not only been suiped by the marauders, bus lio libelled ov British newspapers, and nobody had defended them.\u201cWell,\u201d defiantly eried Mr.Leneh, the pacifist, \u201cI defend them, 1 have talked to many of them, from Air-Marshal Nir John Nalmond downwards, and | realise how they feel about it.Let me say that the British air officers and men ure invariably the model of chivalry, pu- tience, and goodwill.\u201d One may be tempted to wonder whether Mr.Leach would have taken this view and uttered this challenge if he had remained in Opposition, and if the humane work which he so boldly defends had been carried out by his predecessors in office, Be that us it may : the certain part is that he has fuot convinced his crities.Mr.Hamilton Fyfe, the editor of The Daily Herald, blandly describes his solemn statement as \u201cpoppyeock\u201d\u2014politely ussuming that he has lied to order\u2014 and remarks that \u201cif civilization ean © ly Le spread by methods of violence\" he \u2018would sooner have frank burbar- ism and not u hypocritienl attempt to pretend that we are not barbarians\u201d! 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