Show 1 Hands S Across S s 5 the Border l jg NO o THI THINKING KING American will be i inclined d t to criticise se the action J of f the half a t hundred C Canadian financiers and a great coloni coloni- z Cation z company b backed by three of th the prairie provinces of west- west S Canada a in raising a fund of for the purpose of m making a drive to capture families in the United States I a and induce them to buy or settle upon upon lands north of the American border or er i J f 4 r I J r tr L As a matter of fact the movement really can be considered f. f a as asa a compliment to the citizenship of the United States t r for for tl the e I k I Canadians declare that they want only onty the best people in ini in i building up their unpopulated di districts and d i in increasing the f lation of of their towns and cities h t This is not the first drive pf of the kind condu conducted ted by by the I I Canadians a adia to induce nd Americans a and d esp especially dally f farmers of pf of this 4 H country to become related through citizenship with the Lady of e Maple Leaf Leaf- and the fact fad that another big drive is is' is planned panned it t p i indicate that that our neighbors to the the north north we were well v p pleased ased with lt their previous investments in In American brain and b bra a pL While the Canadian colonizers have been heen busily engaged in ring new blood from the States States they have hav used every means v f 6 p possible to keep all their own people at home In this however S r r r they have not succeeded to the full extent because for one reason r I nother Can Canadians constantly are coming to the United States I S I where wh here re they beco become e usef useful l and patriotic citizens and in a way take S 'S 5 the places of those who have believed they could do better along alongi i their own particular line of f endeavor as residents of Canada The intermingling of Americans and Can tends to str the grip gnp of the hands that stretch across acrosS- th the tho border which merely is an imaginary line separating two countries with t tIle the ideals and the and whose s s same me high an same lang language age peaceful fi t i relations 1 ions for more than a century undoubtedly will c continue 5 hit ly J S S e r 1 S i J J I S. S I r |