Show Neighborly Neighbors I IONE O ONE NE can imagine what a shock would be experienced by the people of the United States were they to read in their daily papers an item along the following line tine and dated at Medicine I Hat Saskatchewan Van or some other remote town in Canada United States Consul Jones was last night made prisoner by a band of r rebels bels under General Smith the Villa ViIla of Canada and taken to the mountain camp of the where he will wiIl be shot at 7 11 tomorrow morning unless a ransom of is paid in the meantime Mounted police from Montana are preparing preparing pre pre- paring to cross the border to search for Consul Jones and a clash with Canadian mounted is imminent with i.-with police potice newspapers Such an item may sometime appear in American newspapers but if it ever does it will be on April 1 and even then there would be few so gullible as not to realize it was the work of some inartistic o Unlike conditions which have prevailed for many years along the border separating the United States from its southern neighbor there have been no conflicts of any description along the northern border for more than a century There have been many invasions into one country or another another an an- other but these have been peaceful ones and they will wiIl continue to to be such throughout the long years ears to come Y Just at present there is under way an invasion of Canada b by Y big bif bi industrial interests in the United States and which is becoming an important factor in the business life of the dominion In prewar pre pre- war war yar days between three and four hundred branch plants of Amerin Ameri- Ameri in an n industrial concerns were located in Canada and this move move- n nt temporarily stopped by the war is once once more in progress Millions of dollars are being expended by American concerns B the construction of factories in Canada in order to be close at lend d with consumption but at no time will wiIl these investments be Aldan endangered creel b by bandits and professional revolutionists Perhaps the time will wit come when Mexico also will wiil be a ari ri neighborly neighbor but it is certain the the present is not such a time I |