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PAGE TWO flfl ___â€"â€"â€"-â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"-â€"â€"'â€"â€"'â€"â€"â€"â€"___.______,___â€"â€"_____________ “THE LIBERAL” Established 1878 AN INDEPENDENT WEEKLY J. Eachern Smith, Manager Advertising Rates on Application. TELEPHONE 9 THE LIBERAL PRINTING CO., LTD. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY AT RICHMOND HILL Member Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association Subscription $1.50 per year â€" To the United States $2.00 Covering Canada’s Best Suburban District THURSDAY, MARCH m, 193i8. BACK AGAIN IN THE JUNGLE The League of Nations has been abandoned by its greatest champion. Prime Minister Chamberlain has scut- tled the ship which a few short months ago was declared to be the hope and centre of British foreign policy. We are back in the jungle where might is the only right. The dreams of a world in which the nations would band toâ€" gether to protect each other against aggressors has been given up. Collective security has proved a sham and a delusion, says Mr. Chamberlain, a realist in politics. and Britain must perforce make the best of a world in which strong nations with wills to prey upon weaker peoples must be restrained by combinations of other powers. Peace is to be purchased by peaceâ€"loving countries making them- selves strong enough to impose it upon war makers. Fear, rather than goodwill, is to be the motive restraining would- be aggressors. Idealists who had hoped much from the League of Nations cannot but be depressed at the turn of events. All is not lost, however. Although its sun is in eclipse for the present the League did function for a number of years and did settle many disputes and prevent a number of wars. The League had two great weaknesses at the outset. Tied up so closely with the illâ€"fated Treaty of Versailles, and designed by Clemenceau and Lloyd George to perpetu- ate the mistakes of that treaty, it could never have the whole hearted support of Germany. Its greatest weak- ness, however, was the failure of the United States to be- come a member, despite the fact that the great American president, Woodrow Wilson, was the father of the League. Born into a war weary world it appeared to open the door to a milennium where all men would “brothers be and a’ that,” and Wilson was enthusiastically hailed as a modern saviour of mankind. When he came back unto his own, gowever, they received him not, and he died of a broken cart. The failure of the League to remedy the errors of Versailles, and its refusal to take strong action when Japan invaded, Manchuria, paved the way for its ultimate fail- ure. When Mussolini embarked upon the conquest of Ethi- opia the League, under the leadership of Great Britain, imposed economic sanctions upon Italy. France gave only half-hearted support, and some other nation members of the League actually increased their trade with Italy, thus making sanctions ineffective. Then the members of the League feared to take strong action to restrain foreign intervention in Spain, and Japan has laughed at all League efforts to protect China in the present war. We still believe in a league of nations, though it may have to be re-born under other auspices. The day will come when mankind will recognize the folly of piling up armaments and making wars, and will turn to some form of collective security based on right rather than might. ********* WAR AND PEACE War is a crime which involves all other crimes. â€"â€" Brougham. ' But the real and last Victories are those not of war. â€" Emerson. If Christian nations were nations of Christians there would be no wars. â€" Soame Jenyns. There never was a good war or a jamin Franklin. Misery and ruin to thousands are in the blast that announces the destructive demon war. â€"- Burns. Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it. â€" Thomas Jefferson. The mad wickedness of war. -â€" Virgil. Peace is the happy, natural state of man; war his cor- ruption, his disgrace. â€"â€" Thompson. There is no such thing as inevitable war. If war comes it will be from failure of human wisdom. â€"â€" Bonar Law. Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet and they who take such apâ€" peal are sure to lose their cases and pay the cost. â€" Lin- coln. The ballot is stronger than the bullet. â€"- Lincoln. There is such a thing as nation being so right that it does not need to convince others by force that it is right. â€"Woodrow Wilson. of peace and bad peace. â€" Ben- ********* PEOPLE KEEP THEIR PROMISES One of the most important things that the growing practice of buying goods on instalments has taught the world is that 99 people out of 100 keep their promises. That is important because, before credit began to be exâ€" tended to practically everybody, the markets for almost every kind of goods were limited to those who had saved up cash enough to pay for them “on the nail,” or who had property assets which could be attached if they failed to keep their promises to pay. The widespread distribution of all sorts of commod- ities in America, things which used to be considered lux- uries only for the rich and are still so considered in other countries, is due to the recognition by business men and bankers of the essential honesty of most people. Over a period of many years it has been demonstrated that 0rd- inary people of average incomes will pay their debts â€" keep their promises -â€" sooner or later. .To be sure, there are laws to compel people to keep their promises, but in practical experience these are seldom invoked. Our whole economic structure is based on promises, in the final analysis. A man takes a job on the employer’s promise to pay him a certain sum at given intervals. He puts his wages in a bank and gets the banker’s promise to return it to him when he wants it. The bank lends the money to someone else who promises to repay it at a cert- ain time. One buys an insurance policy or a bond. What he gets is a promise. When the time comes for the prom- ise to be kept, the fulfilment of it is usually in the form of another promise â€"â€" a piece of paper on which one of the chartered banks of Canada promises to pay a certain sum on demand. The economic system breaks down when too large a proportion of people who have made promises find them- selves unable to make good. Even then, the distress is only temporary. The whole history of our system is that, in the long run, most promises are kept. THE LIBERAL, RICHMOND HILL. ONTARIO Yukon Woman Member Has Had , Colourful Career (By Gordon Graydon) “We don't waizt no skirt to be our Member of Parliament," the Inone-tooâ€"encouraging reception one of the Yukon miners gave to Mrs. Martha Louise Black when she sought his support in 1935. Her reâ€" ply was couched in the language of the great mining country, which she knows so well. It wasn't exactly in the terms a cultured lady addresses so I,won‘t repeat it was a gentleman, here. But she won her point and, incidentally, his help in the cam- paign. Many others in the great expanse of Canadian territory, known as the Yukon. must have followed suit for this “man's country" joined with Greyâ€"Bruce in Ontario to send the second woman so far as to sit in the House of Commons. Mrs. George Black possesses a most ‘engaging and charming personality. here indicate that she The records is 72 years of age. She has the}, fresh clear outlook of one, thirty ' years her _.uiiim'. I could not avoidi thinking, as I talked with her rc-l cently, how closely her life history, since the end of last century, coin- cided with the development of her prized and beloved Yukon. She is part of it. It is part of her. Yukon and the Blacks are synonomous terms. Mrs. Black was born in Chicago. She had a Southern mother and a Down-East Yankee father â€" to say nothing of a twin sister. Although her family were protestants, she went to St. Mary‘s College, which was one of the Indiana educational institu- tions of the Sisters of the Holy Cross. She was a lively youngster, full of tricks and “devilment”. Climb- ing trees and riding horseback were just two of this future female par- liamentarian's early “stunts”. But tomboy girls are always popular and so was Martha Louise Monger. Her first husband was William A. Purdy, Paymaster of an American railroad, whose father was President of the Company. They had three boys, all of whom later saw service in the Great War. When the Klon- dike gold rush came, Mr. Purdy and another American organized a cOm- ‘ ing baby boy. pany to prospect for gold in the Yukon. They were followed to this Northern Hinterland by Mrs. Purdy in 1899. She left Seattle by steam- er, accompanied by friends, landed at Dyea, walked 42 miles over moun- tain and valley to the Yukon river. “I could have laid down and died," said Mrs. Black. It was a pretty tiresome trip for a woman. A boat was constructed on the Yukon river and the party finally landed at Daw- son City. In the Spring of the next year, a son Lyman was born. Not a doctor or a nurse was in attendâ€" ance. There were none in this new settlement which boasted then of on- ly tents, cabins and makeshift buildings of all descriptions. The day after the child was born, a doctor did arrive and he found a fine, ‘bOunC- The mother and child 'went back to Kansas a year later. .In 1904, after divorcing her first husband, this lady Member of Par- liament, married George Black, a lawyer practicing in Dawson. City.' The Blacks lived in the Yukon from1 then until the war ‘broke out. In the meantime, Lyman, the youngest boy was adopted by George Black and he bore ‘his name until he met tra- gic death a year ago in an automo- bile accident in Eastern Ontario. George and Mrs. Black were both overseas during the war. Mrs. Black went on the same boat as many vol- unteers from the Yukon and was she popular with them? Yes. In her scrapâ€"book reposes, this little ditty by the YukOn soldiers of the second contingent: “We have stolen Mrs. Black And will not bring her back ’Til the Germans quit and when the Allies win, ’Til we nail our Union Jack on the Kaiser’s chimney stack And we toast the Yukon daughters in Berlin." She is proud of the words of this parody as it brings back memories very dear to her. When the war was over, Mr. and Mrs. Black went to Vancouver for a short time and in 1921 they answered the call of the North once again. A Dominion election was in the offing. George was selected by the Conser- vatives to run. He was elected in this contest and at each successive election until 1935, when his wife, the present Member, took his place and was successful as an Indepen- dent Conservative candidate. Mr. Black was Speaker of the House of Commons from 1930 until he took ill in 1934. His wife‘s entry into politics was occasioned by his illness. He is now quite recovered and is practicing law in Vancouver. ‘iilJOuL Jacobs ladder {y the angels walking up and down same. Then .ie sed do any lit- tel boy or girl Lto her a butcy shoppe are l of them (becos I seen a lotta dames coming font of them that -°SLATS’ DIARY (By Oliver N. Warren) Sunday: The S. S. teecher tot us want. to ast me a qucschen on the ~ul>jec. Jake want- cd to no why the angels w a l k e (i when they had wings & then the icechL-r What i of us wants to _ anscr the dues» chen. So I diddeiit find out why. Monday ieeclii'r in school ast the class to find out what is a Missnonicr & to gixc a xamplc of some. I found it are some thing not named rite S; sed sed The M in look ofle ug‘ley. Then she sed that will be enuff from you Sluts. Tursday: As I walked home with Jane from school I sed to her it are a pitty that bewtifle girls haft to be so dum. She sed the resen are that they halft to be bcwtifle so the boys will love them & dum so they will love the boys. Guess she had me there. But I laft it off. Wednesday Are schools B. B. teem played its first game of the sesen yesterdy p. m. & the teecher give us 2 S S & sed to spend it. for bats & gloves or eney thing that would help win the game. We give it to the empire. And we won. Esey. Thursday Are fambly has had quite a few visiters recent witch I supose the felling insedent resulted from. As Pa started to the offis this a. m. Ma ast him what would he love to have for dinner &: he sed Eney thing but Company. Then he‘ went out & it seamed to me like he was in a hurry. Some what eney how. Friday: Are room .at school got a new clock to take up books by & let out by today. The teechcr sed will run if you do wind it. Lookt to me like a fare queschen. But the teecher sed it were silley & she otto lick Blisters. But he drawed the laff. Saturday: The wether was warm & sun shiney today & Pa put me to work in; the yd. & garden. I sed to him I bleeved the fish would bite & he sed not to do no worrieing & that they wont bite me. If I keeped on at my work. So I dissided that the worms I dug up was so mutch wasted ennergey as Napolcum sled. g”. The Arthur Horticultural Society, with some eighteen years of good work to its credit, has disbanded. The Society was not behind in its finances, says the Enterprise-News, as there was over forty cents on hand when all expenses were paid. A few years ago one would have ridiculed the idea of a buggy in a museum. But time marches on, and in the Smithsonian Institute in Wash- ington such a vehicle is on displty. The smallest package imaginable is the fellow wrapped up in himself. ___,______.â€"-â€"-â€"' as his opponent. “Bob” Lowe was a Peel county boy and a brother of W. J. Lowe, who has been promin- ent in public affairs in that country for many years. I was pleased to hear Mrs. Black say recently, “You could not help liking Bob Lowe. There never was a man in the Yukon more highly respected than he.” A reputation of that kind is well worth having, and I know the many friends he had in Peel will be glad to hear what the wife of one of his political opponents had to say about him. Mrs. Black has made “good” in the House of Commons. She is a fluent speaker and takes a promin- ent part in the main debates of the House. I know of no member who is more popular than this representa- tive from the Yukon. She is a “hale fellow well met” with a brilliant sense of humour and happy in dis- position, despite the fact that during the last twelve months she has lost two of her sons. It has taken a heavy toll of her but courage and fortitude are not lacking in the char- acter of this woman from the Yukon. She has seen hardship and grief be- fore and like the great woman she is, she carries on the battle of pub- lic and private purpose with common sense. She may not sit in the next parliament because George Black is fit again and will likely take his place in the front line of political battles once more. He has had a substitute for three years whom he will find hard, himself, to replace in the esteem of political friend and foe alike. Next week: “Joe” Thorson, M.P., R-hodes Scholar of Icelandic origin, In at least one campaign George Black was faced with Robert Lowe Liberal Member for Selkirk, Maniâ€" toba. ‘ bcry, I As been almost lost. THURSDAY, MARCH 24th, 1938. Seven Premiers Have Been From the Bar (By F.D.R. in Brantford ExpOsitor) The fact that Rt. Hon. R. B. Benâ€" nett, former Premier of the Domin- ion, has now decided, for physical reasons, to resign from the leader- ship of the Conservative Party, brings to mind the circumstances that since Confederation, Canada has only had eleven First Ministers. During this period of seventyâ€"one years, Great Britain has had twelve; Disraeli. Gladstone, Salisbury, Rose- Balfour, Campbell-Bannerman, Asquith, Lloyd George, Bonar Law, Mat-Donald, Baldwin. Chamberlain. for France-the count has just Sir John Macdonald, the first man to occupy such office, held the reins of power for a total period of some seventeen years, closely followed by Sir \Vilfrid Laurier with about fif- teen years and now Rt. Hon. Mack- enzie King, present Premier, with 12 years to his credit. The long terms of these three ac- count for the small total number, but after Sir John's death there was quite a quick succession. Sir John Abbott held the post for a little over a year. Sir John Thomp- son, who followed, had been in office for only a trifle over two years when he succumbed to heart failure while on a trip to England. He had been sworn in at Windsor Castle as a member of the Queen's Privy COunv- cil and while seated at luncheon there, he complained of severe pain and ex- pired within a few minutes. A British warship brought his body back to Canada and Queen Vicâ€" toria, who was greatly shoeked over the incident, manifested her deep sympathy. He was fifty years old at the time. His successor was Sir Mackenzie Bowell, whose term only lasted for sixteen months. In 1896, he was fol- lowed by Sir Charles Tupper, then seventy-five years of age. He enter- ed an ensuing campaign with re- markable vigor but was defeated by Laurier, so that his total occupancy it will run 8 days without windinglof the position only lasted a little & Blisters wanted to no how long it over two months_ He was the son of a Nova Scotian Minister, a doctor by profession, and in early life became a prominent politician. He took a leading part in Confederation and had the credit of bringing his province into the scheme despite the contrary efforts of Joseph Howe, a forceful and pro- minent figure in the Nova Scotia of these days. Sir Charles in Very late life, took up residence in England and died there at the age of ninety- four. Thus from lstll to 1896, a period of five there four pne- miers as compared with two in the first twenty-four years after Con- federation. During the last named era Hon. Alexander Mackenzie, Lib- eral leader, had defeated Sir John in 1873. Mackenzie was a Scotch- man and migrated to Canada when twenty years of age, first following his trade as a mason and builder and later becoming editor of a Reâ€" form newspaper, the Lam-bton Shield. After Laurier’s lengthy regime, there came Sir Robert Laird Borden, who first of all headed a Conserva- tive ministry for six years and next a Union Government for three. Upon his resignation, Right Hon. Arthur Meighen succeeded, holding office for only a little over four months, and then came Mackenzie King. He had nearly five years of pow- er when Meighen again succeeded this time for slightly over three months as King once more entered upon another four year term. At the end of that time, he was defeated by Right Hon. R. B. Ben- nett, but in October of 1935, he turn- ed the tables on his old time oppon- ent and still holds office. Nationally the Premiers have been one Englishman, Bowell; two Scotch- men, Macdonald and Mackenzie; eight native - born Canadians, Abbott, Thompson, Tupper, Laurier, Borden, Meighen, King, Bennett. Of the eleven, seven have been lawyers, Macdonald, Abbott, Thomp- son, Laurier, Borden, Meighen, Ben- nett, while Bowell was a newspaper man owner of the Belleville Intelliâ€" gencer. Only two, Macdonald and Thompson, passed away while still holding office. years, “‘01‘9 ROSE & HERMAN Barristers-At-Law 40 Yonge St., Richmond Hill Telephone 13-5 Office Hoursâ€"Every Monday and Thursday Afternoon and by appointment Toronto Offices: 100 Adelaide Street West HARRY R. 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