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Show Of MSA Mil it fit mm OF WORLD MR. Gribbs Finds Many Cities Are Too Big for Populations Popula-tions Remaining U. ML PHILIP GIBBS I have Just corr.e back to the United States from ;' Journey to panada with many vivid Impressions of the life and problems of the Great Dominion, and as iliey have a bearing on the general world situation they may not be without Interest to my raadent. It is iintjoi'tant that my mot iefl-nlte iefl-nlte Impression of the thing I liaVe sen anil heard in Canada lis rather sad. It Is impotslblc for an hJngliah-rna:i hJngliah-rna:i not in observe that this immense country with its iraiall population of nine millions and Its vast natural resources re-sources is still suffering severely fmiM the consKuences of a war in'u wliih t poured it" manhood with sui) m self-sacrifice. MAW HtSROI s D1L1D. The wounds of war are nst y it P.etl-ed P.etl-ed in ;he soul of the people, or In the bodies of many of Its flner.t me. Sitting one eVonlng in the Vancouver hotel where n crowd of people had ifembled to listen to concpr' i wap reminded by a lady at my fide of j tho price of heroism paid by 'm' Car nadians. Most of the women there i had loHt a hu.band. a brother, or a on Hardly one fnonij ths tnlddle-laged tnlddle-laged men lnd not IbVt a boy v. ho had bee,: the hope .'-nd iiroiiil' i i f the years to come. Did indeed is I listened to the -musli I raw a loorf n the faces of the company M'hieh 1 i ive sjseij so often in England fiincfl the war. It was a look of peoplg who have not i om- unscathed through Bganiatng years. In the hospital- I met numbers of men who were still UnJjiealed from their WpUUdS which 1 laid them low In days when l ss v I them carried back on dretchors ;icros I the fields of the Spmnie, the boys of Glanders, the uphewed r.iii;. of A imy, 1,1... . ..I. ....I .,.l.,,l,. r i s i n l UUC ( m i m i i With Immense patience ihov are still keeping cheerful as in the oil asually stations In time of war. The sanit nurses were witb iji m teach-I teach-I ing them knitting and needlework and basket making. In other places I met veterans of the great war and v.i- made one ol them oy meinber- ; ship and B Utile gold badge, and In la workshop of Vancouver I found & company ot craftsmen, all crippled I making furniture, ' nd doittg 'nblnet ' work with admirable Indusu.'y t:nd I skill on a business basis which had I no element of charity except that they were subsided In n way Dint made up the differcn' - s between the hours of work pos'tlblo to men not quite up to the strength o; the phyal- ally fit. Canada m looking after her ex-service men and her intitilated men I with fair rewara, and they h.io not 'much cause for grievanc. l bolleVe though, there are stiil hard ispm among thm as in every country after af-ter the wreckage of war. But Canada hortielf has not recovered from al that loss of life and II nb It arrested arrest-ed her development lust at 'h' time when she was beginning to bu'ld for the future with confidence In tho promise of th" future and " seems to me now thai her eltl- like Victoria Vic-toria and Vancouver, Calgavy und Edmonton, and Winnipeg with th-ir (Continued on I'aso Twoi I CANADA HIT BY LOSSES OF WAR Gibbs Finds Crying Need Is for Good Type of Settlers II Continued from Page One.) I ' superb hotels their great banks nl I commercial building, are In advanro I of the necd9 and prosperity of thir I present population. They ,ir. still I waitinn for the fulfilment of the I promise. The rapid development I ; I. y exprcted. the intensive induatrv. I th" prowlng population, were arrest-I arrest-I cd by the exhaustion of war service I I urn! remain stagnant because of the I general decay of world trade The I j ' depression of trade In Canada at the I R '.'.present time Is more serious (ban in I the western states of America where I IP'M is serious enough for all branches I lMf agriculture and industry because of I Mn downfall of the foreign markets ( OHESION l- KING. I 1 have heard a great deal of polltl- I Real discussion, many accusations b I l prominent business men against the I lack of nntional leadership In Can-I Can-I udn. and al; hnujrli it Is lilftl. iilt for I if kn outsider to form any judgment I !j j away the Impression that there is not that cohesion in the life of th I greet dominion which Is essential for I ii lonal amity and policy. The cities I of the east seem widely separated in ii orest from the great prairies of tho I ; west The French Canadians seem to I '- belong to a different country as well I I a to a different run from the Enc-I Enc-I INh and Scottish stock of the other provinces. British Columbia is still inclined to regard itself as dlstim t fiom the rest of Canada, and as a far I. outpost of tho old country, in sentiment, senti-ment, in tradition, in ways of Bpeech and social habits. In the cities there Hure political and religious and racial I ?, differences jealously preserved be-Ijtwecn be-Ijtwecn Orangemen and Catholic lrl9h. j between Scots and Irish, and others JVrhaps this lack of amity has been H exaggerated In those who have dis-B' dis-B' cussed it with me Perhaps the poll po-ll llticnl antagonism between east and li west is not much more than a pollti-rj pollti-rj cal fiction and a partv cry, although H'il is likely that the interests of west-' west-' rrn agriculture are not of the first I Importance In the imagination of I eastern industrials. CANADA JKAI.Ol S What is more certain to my mind l.J.'is that apart from and above these I political divisions Canada is Justly Jealous of her Dominion status with-I with-I in the Empire and sensitive of her J national rights of full-grown ma.i-? ma.i-? hood, which makes Canada watchful of any action in Great Britain which L has the air of condescension pat-I pat-I ronige, or undue Influence in imper-1 imper-1 ial decisions U is the same instinct R which makes her adopt an aloof and I "distant" attitude towards tho Unil-ed Unil-ed States, determined at all costs t t safeguard herself from be:r.p ' Ani-W Ani-W erlconized ' by peaceful penetration or by economic agreements, or evens I by habits o fspeech and thought. Tut that patriotism and natural conscious-1 conscious-1 , ness Is not In conflict with a deeo-v deeo-v seated, dominant loyalty to the Brr- Ish empire, and a polic y of unbroii-J unbroii-J cn and unbreakable friendship with .he United States IjIKK BRITISH PAI I am told that there are people in I Canada who have "no use"' for the i in. -K perial link and no loyalty at all to H the old country. There are some I am informed, who ihink that the price a of loyalty i too high. I met one jo man who suggested that, but no more f than one. What has touched me most of all In Canada Is the warm affec-Hrttion, affec-Hrttion, the whole-hearted admiration of tho Canadian men who fought in the jrroat war and all Canadian manhood, was that for their comrades in the British army. T have met hundreds kj, of Canadian soldiers with whom once I I trudged the old roads of war the jl Albert-Bapaume road, the Arras-Lens , road, the Men in road and from Ypr ' und whom I met In many places when death was near. One and all they had good words for "poor old Tommy Tom-my " their British pal, and they were j first to y that he had not been ,' given his fair share of honor, be-iSMise be-iSMise though he made up sixty-four per cent of the British army, on all , fronts, from first to last, the censor-! censor-! hip was hard ncalnst him, and his regiments were not mentioned when Canadians, Australians, New Zealand-urs Zealand-urs and others received their full share of Rlory. At. a great Katherlrur ' of officers the general spoke this tirnrous thought on behalf of all the others and said "Go back and tell the ex-service men In England thai In the heart of Canada there !; undying remembrance of the wondrous won-drous heroism of the British army, rind that all Canadians take off tholr I hats to Tommy Atkins for hln unfailing unfail-ing courage, his long patience, hts s nse of humor when things were a. worst " W.' Tlll-Y N EE I) POPULATION. It Is certain, whatever else may be I Uncertain in the world, that the spirit of Canada Is supremely loyal to tho pld allegiance. The greatest need of Canada Is easy to see in the short -I ert visit and la cxpresaed unnnlmou.-il'lV unnnlmou.-il'lV by all Canadians when they ure I tulklng of their present stat" and their future hopes. They need an im-f im-f foense addition to their population. I They want above all things elte -i n 'great wave of ImmlgraUon which will ".bring them men and women ildo to alee their places aa pioneers in the great prairie lands. But they w .nt the right stock. They are profound- 1 dissatisfied with the conduct and charactor of many immigrant" who have floode.d In from Central Europe and who are the scum of othr countries, coun-tries, unreliable, given to -time and not easy to assimilate. They vrnt pioneers from the Old Country stock English. Scottish Irish, Welsh and above all. those who are fitted by physique and ch.irnetei f,,r tn.. rouith, hard, lonclv life of the land. IMMIGRANTS WANTED. But I find one thought In the minds of Canadians which will prove a dlf-ftculty dlf-ftculty in the fulfillment of this hope They :mt the British government to organize nd finance a greut schenr Of ' migration from the old count r I think that is hardly to be- done for certain obvious reasons. It 1? extremely ex-tremely difficult for the British government gov-ernment to say to great numbers of ex-service men, now unemployed, or looking out for better Jobs," 'Wo promised you great reward for your service In ihc war. Wo promised 'homes for heroes' out of the fruit of victory, but now the best advice I we can give you, and the best chance, 1 is to clear out ' There is enough bit- ' ternese already in the hearts of thes man. They are disappointed and de- 1 lected because of the unfulfilled prom- j lses made to them by British states- ! men. It would stir up passion If th. ' government were to organize a gre.i: I scheme for sending them overseas AS I ventured to tell the Canadians the offer must come from them. The suggestion must be mode bv them. It Is their agents who must get busv In the old country. And above all the;, scheme must be a sound one guaranteeing guar-anteeing that the ones who go ov: 11 be put Into good country, and helped over the first years of pioneer vork so that they do not starve or reew to death, or lack the implo-entS implo-entS of labor or shelter for their vomen. There ar men In England nd Scotland today who ure waiting or the chance of a pioneer life. Be 'jr.- the war many of them belonged 0 tho "unfit" 1 Ih.sh of city slums, but n the war they were hardened and heir physiqu.es were Improved up lo food standard and they suffered .11 lardshipe with a high courage. In lanadl they would do well ar.d help ) build up nation which has bound-- bound-- resources and a splendid future. It no 111 fate may avert, though i ' PHtlenre Is nepdod before the - sen' depression passes into da.s 1 progress -md renewed prospr-Hn ''opyrlght. I Mii by The McClur-.-tagasine Syndicate;. |