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Three Parties Finally Declare Against Pacts .Why Conservative Labor Supporters Ginnot and Will Not Come to Any Arrangement with Each Other Before the Election "DiiriuB the week there has been a good ileal of talk about a Conserva to the Instant claim of th« SocialUti that thoy represent the only united, consistent, and poUtically honest force in the field?" "What temptation could there be." i« the point made by the Dally Chron- j lele, "for Liberals to mislead the Liberal' **""'â- â- *' â- "'l ""'srepresent theinselres by j,ihilng hands with either of their rivals In the fight that Is almost on us? Who that rotniiiands a hearing In their ranks would yield to such an unlielievahle folly? "Xo leaderâ€" of that we feel certain; and ir any conceivable chance shaped such an opinion, the wiml that blows through the party would simply blow tlve pre-election pact with the I^ib-I " ''*'''J'- Shakespeare's old a'lvice In erals. We deprecate this talk for the! '^'*n>'efâ€" 'To thine own self be true' aimplo reason that tha thing Is out-' ''' "° **'"' "'"San for a party which Bide the bounds of possihilft. I '"io«« i's own mind; and upon the â- l.c-t us consider the facts. Mr. "'"*^ '*'''^- '''""'^^ of todayâ€" not least. Baldwin is the man who toolt the inl-j "P"" "''""f "* uneniplo.vmentâ€" the Lil>- tiative in breaking his party awayl*"''^' party, thanks to years of iinspar- from the Coalition under Mr. I.loydl '"* uP'''" '^''•rii. has won more of that George ; he holds his position as! Pi'^P'o-is knowledge than any other.'' Prim^-' Minister and head of his party! '''""ally, the Labor Party will have in virtue of that action. Is It pro-j ""'hing to do with pacts, for the posed that this man sliail now go rap^ ^^''â- ^' •'•^'"•Id says: â€" in hand to the e.x-C'oalition Premier i "'^ '''^ Labor Party enters the cora- aud sVk him for quartei-? Plainly thel'"-^ ^^^^ "'"' "'^ belief that It Is thing is Impossible on this ground 1""^ Kolng to win. it will indubitably alone. I 'ose. And one of the best ways of "Even were he willing. Mr. Lloyd i ^"^'""'"S ^ partial. Instead^of a com- Georg:» would not be. Add to thlsi P'^**- ^'ictory spirit Is to blether about that the camps are already pitched.] P'"''^ "â- "•' ''•« Liberals, or with any most of the candidates chosen, and i ""'*'" "PP°^'"S Party. The ri^ht way the !'attle virtually joined, and the!*" ^" '<» ^^^rk !.â- Â» to stand four-square. Impossibility of th eidea is finally de- without fuss or doubt, against all- monstrated. Thus being so. the less' f'""*''''- '"'»<' to go all out for a major- Baid a'iout It the better, for It is likely I ''•*' "^'*'' ^''â-  to have a bad effect on tlie moral anilj 'Harping i>n hypothetical contln-; which Famoiu Betty in Action PLAYS STRENUOUS GAME ^ Betty N'uthall played some sensational tennis and cut quite a figure on the courts at the spring hard court tournament at Felixstowe. Italy's Dictator [Canadians Mark Shows Difference Long Peace With United States Mussolini On British an<J' Italian Conditions â-  d •.• l r- ~ ^-i • . , "Why should you apply yo.r nritlsh ' ^"^^^ ^"'P"'*^ ^^'^^ '^^"O" stanilards and Ideas to Italian coimU- tions?" says Signor Mussolini In an I Interview with Profes.sor Charles Sar- ! Good Relations Between Neighbor Nations olea. recorded in the English it.v,e«r i ^^^"•"^'J""^''' «-! "That the time will "After all. we In Italy must be allowed 1 Z mTJ!,^ J ,'" "'Tn' "f"'"" to have our own standards and .netU- ' *''" '""*** ^^"""â- '' ='"'* ^'*"'"'» will ods, because we have our own tra- ditions and our own difllrnltles. You have a Parliamentary system which Is the outcome of your own experience, and which Is the growth of many cen- turies. foS iS;:::^^^'^ :^z i::.^ \ -"- ^-^-o --- ""^"« •-« - be settled other than peacealily. was the sentiment pervading the recent meeting of the Brili.sl: Empire Club here. Hance J. Logan. K.t:., of Amherst, Nova Scotia, said that, regardless of what difrerences of opinion Canada of one generation and it had struck Sarding such affairs as thf •'I'm Aione'' nn rni^ti, (o r>.,, „„!i v . ^'"' "'" I'^'^^M discussiou On tariff .i,/i.»/,T \?" '"•« °"« «f . schedules, both nations are. above he V ',n. T'^r" ^'T- ? ="•«! everyti>ing else, desirous of peace the youngest \ou have achieved your , "Between the two countries," Mr. naona unity In a d.stant pnst. Italy i,o,.,„ ,^1.1. "have arisen manv acute w.th.n the inemory of men still living | .inferences of opinion. These, have was a conglomerate of heterogeneous i i,ee„ connected with boundary dis- communtt.es. where city was pitted putes. with fishing rights and inter- against city, province against prov- pretation of treaties. Angry words mce and the foreigner was master { uave been spolien on both sides of of the situation. , ^^^g |j„e partiularlv in election cam- "You have built up a world-wide empire and a world-embracing trade palgns. but when the stuoke of elec- tion battle blows away, judicial arbi- prosiiects of Couservaiives by creat- sencies Ing the Impression tliat they cannot. "'® 'ishf will, and*tiiat they themselves think they cannot, win the election on their own merit'."â€" Saturday Review (London). mav not. and. .given p ,• D 1 need nt arise. Is 111- ' C«ating nOrK preparation for the greatest political struggle in this country's history." "Suggestions are made." said Sir Did the Trick The Fm Alojie Case and industry. Our industries are ofitration takes the place of the arbi- yesterday. and our raw materialsâ€" j trament of war. We settle our dif- coal and ironâ€" have all to be imported | ferences as Cliristian neighbors oc- from abroad. cupying adjoining farms." "Yours Is a tradition of law and order. "Ti:e political strategists are busy la givitig lavish and contradictory ad- ""'* *o ''"^ "^^^ '^^ should arrive vice io the party at present in pow- er," ssys the Times (London). Herbert Samuel, "in the press from some accommodation with one other of the opposing parties, and that "One school of thought urges themj*""'® mutual arrangement should be to be uncompromisingly truculent; the other beseeches tbcni to seek al- lies aimost at any cost. "Vet both these e.xtieme counsels Beeoi to be based on very question- able assumptions. It is really not necessary for them to accept as in- evitabie either complete victory or ut- ter defeat; nor to ask the Liberal Ours has been a tradition ofj revolution and aranchv. of secret ' f nnrlrkn^l*e ]\^ai*Ir societies and conspiracies. We are i ^"""""^'^* IViaFK I inveterate individualistis. Until the ; Canada s national dignity is worth- • advent of Fascism we felt no lovaltv ' ily upheld in the correspondence with ! to the State. The main task of" Fas- j liiking.cism was therefore to inculcate that ' First Successful Dailv, Started protest are courteous butr^^'tn"' •^^"f.""^ """^ '"''^"y '^â- '•'^" ' in 1702, Honored in protest are courteous nut are the conditions of a peaceful and r-i c ^ Arm. . The attitude, of the. United | prosperous corporate life *" '^^^ btreet States i^ equally friendly, but the two j ..f,,^^ ^^e school upwards we are L,.ndon-The Lon.lon press has just governments are so far apart in their teaching every little boy or girl who 1 been marking the 22Tth anniversarv .. conclusions that arbitration is thelfg donning the 'black shlrf. who is '. of the citv's Hrst successful dailv Tile Lib-'*''® ^'°'''* °' •»'» "infldel" enemies rs-l £?'' possible way out of the Impasse. : j;iy,„g the symbolical Roman salute. • newspaper. It was named tae Daily ' nently as the spring war beyond thalA;'^''® *"â- * ''^^ """" ''°'"''' ^' '**"®~" the value of obedience and public seiv- Couraut. and described itself as pub- criticali speed capacity of the sunken! '"i Afghan- Bandit Monarch Cries!"'® ^°''*'' ^^^^^ ""^^ ^^^ »'" I r„_ Dl J £ "I CJ 1" <>' the I'm Alone. The terms of or| for tJlood Ot Inhdel Canadian protest are courteous Enemies made to withdraw candidates some-l „,^®^'*^*"' '"'''^-A Moslem bandit times. The suggestion Is made for '^'"*' "^^^ """'^^'^ himself to the throne an arrangement with Labor and some-1 "' -'Afghanistan last winter, cried for times with Conservatives, eral party has not for a monvent con- Founding of Press templated auy such understanding, i ^'"^y"" ^'^'^ approached a "'«*'-•»' I s^^oonranTt^hTrieht^fThe \"meH ' '?• ^^'^ "^"'"^ 'hem forget sect and j Hshed by E. Mallet "against the Ditch 'stage. I sc.ooner and tne right or the Amerl-,p|ags and party, and we make them I at Fleet Bridge." Se-'en years ear- As chairman of the Liberal party or-' ganization I say categorically that thet party has not made and will not! Bacha Sakao. former water carrier} f^*"* eoastguara to pursue the ship.reaij^g jhat they only exist iu and lier. in 1695 and erstwhile brigand. Issued • pro- **° hundred miles out to sea and | through the State." Party, because it has upset the tradi-| """<e any such compact with either j ^J'^|'"°""'^tJ"^-^^^^^ The"cauadian Minister has stated I tlon.,1 two-party system, either to com-: of Us opponent.,." fo^thehead^f Nadfr Khan, hit out j ^^e matter very fairly and clearly, tnit Buicide or to become the dictator! A Conservaitve Rejoinder | standing military foe The same' ^® makes a special point of the fact' of national policy. j uf. xoville Chamberlain, on the I price was offered for the capture of •Bravado and despair alike forget, game day, was equally emphatic. He thai, although the Liberal leaders ] stated: may. with some difficulty, agree upon; -Tl-.ere are some who snggest that the Conservative party would do woll â-  disUnct Liberal policy, it is by no means certain that its appeal will in- duce t'ue mass of Liberal voters to vote for Liberal candidates. It is stiU cnueeivahle. at all events, that the e.Kperience of the last election, when large numbers of Lberals re- fused to waste their votes on for- lorn cliances. will be repeated; and it to enter one of these new combina- tioni. To my mind that would be a policy of cowarice and futility- cowardice because it suggests that we should try to save our skins bv Nadhir Khan. Stirred to high indlgna tion by the "westernization" of his foes, the bandit King charged Nadir and his brothers with the murder ot the late Amir, father ot former King Amanullah. Amanullah was forced to abdicate by the advance of Bactia Sakao's army. Nadir Khan once was the chief lieutenant of .\manullah. Bacha Sakao said the "murderers" sacrificing nur principles. "I speak for myself, but I have no! had migrated to "the Infldel land of hesitation in saying that not even the France.'' Is at least premature to ask the Con- pieasnre of sifting alongside .Mr. Lloyd "I." he continued, "being Amir, servative Party to settle its strategy | George in the Cabinet would induce' took mercy and allowed them to re- the Postboy had been i started as a daily paper, but only four i numbers appeared. I The Daily Conrant did not mark ! tlie foundations of tne newspaper in- .„,.,„, , ... dusti'v in Britain â€" that honor goes to that the deliberate sinking of the j "ican toreign investment.s. which now . ^^g ^veekly News produced by Xa- schooner afforded proof of punitive in- i^^'-"p«'' J15.ti0ti.000.000. are increasing ^,|.,^jp[ Bu^er in is6."). Money the Peacemaker Manchester Guardian (Lib.i: (.\ni- of the 1 erican foreign investments, which now tent. The American Xote In reply j=»t the rate of $1,000,000,000 to S:j.3oO. merely said the sea was running so i "''".OOO a year, i American capital is! The Daily Courant consisted of a single page of two columns and pro- high at the time that boarding was a Po^'er In evei-y contingent, and in ; f..,"^,, ,„ j..^ o,,,^ f.^reign news. impossible. It failed to make any almost every country throughout the' ,3,,,,,,,^,, ..^^j^s that it wonld not comment In regard to the putting of world, bo much the better. There ! gj^^ 3,,^. comments of its own "sup- the lives ot the entire crew in deadly | â- * nnu-h talk about ourselves. Indeed | p„.,ing ot^gr people to have sense enough (o make reflections for them- before the publication of the full de-, ,„« tr, support him in putting into tails of Its program. | operation ideas which I am convinced "Tie mistaken assumption of the, are utterlv impracticable, and. if em- advocates of truculeuce is that the! ,,a,u^,(i ^,p^„_ „.ould involve the coua- Liberal vote is not worth considering; but at least equally mistaken is the assuiuption ot the advocates of com- â- T)roR.ise that all Liberals are more horrided at Socialism than at Conser- vati.-tm. Tlie truth is that the Liberal Part is very sharply divided into a Kigiit and Left wing, and tliat. al- though the former is liable to swoop towards Conservatism, the latter, whi'h is probably also the stronger. is not averse to a flight towards Socialism." A Liberal Retort ''Your correspondents,'' writes Pro fessor Ramsay llnir in a letter to the Times, "waste their time and your spa,-e in discussing the possibility of ail nrrangement between tlie Coiiser- v.iti'.es and the Liberals for the next election. The Liberal Party would Commit suicide if it contemplated any try in inevitable disaster.'' Don't I You must see I love you. ."JUcU arrangement, as certai.il as it^ speml all m: time with you'.' ' it were to make a similar arrange- "Yes. you're a regular spendthrift â€" meiit with the Labor Party. Even If 1 with yoiir time." the party leaders were to agree (and there is no suggestion that any of them would do so), the rank and file' would not follow them. I "Some Conservative-^ reem to fear Just Early Chick for Next House turn but because, while in Europe, jeopardy in such a case. The matter wll Inow go to arbitra- tion. A board of three, one represent- ing Canada, another the United States and the third, neutral, chosen by these two, will disctiss tlie matter and i?'sue their decision in due course. In the meantime the pcblic will sus- they partook of ham and bacon, which I I"""'' Ju'Isment i" 'f> f-"' »=< "»« '"«"«" permeates their blood vessels, they of the case are concerned. It out rose against ma and Instigated the 1 -^f "''« arbitration there emerges a people to rebel clear and incontrovertible Interpreta- "Theretore Tconsider it lawful to f^n'of '^e present confusing rules and take their blood." I ''egnhuions in regard to pursuit at As an afterthought, the King added •''^«- '"en the case may well turn out al Europe, becoming an "Americanly colony." But if everybody became ' selves •' everybody else's colony (after all. the j ' London's first dally newspaper came Lnited States are not the only e.xport- 1, n ,„ end In 173.-) when it w.is ab- ers of capital and. in South America, gorbed in the Dailv Gazeteer. for e.xainple. they are still far behind ; •:, . Creat Britain! the peace of tlie world wonld be .secure. a reward of 30,000 rupees and a gun for capture ot each ot Nadir Khan'i brothers. to have been a beneficial event to the world.â€" Montreal Stai- (Cons.). that the electoral gamble may giv« al Parliamentary majority to the Social-', V i â-  1 ,1, .. ," Isls. who are certainly In a minority I '"'f* J^""'^ "^^^ »*^ ''0"ie Mak In the country. They could have! ing Her Maiden Speech made this impossible by a reason-j London-Miss Jennv Lee, 24-vear.old able measure ot electoral reform.! ^abor member ot Parliament made Hon. David Tennant To Operate Ranch Ottawa. Out.â€" Hou. David Tennaut. net>hew of the late Earl ct Oxford and Asquith. arrived nuheralded in the capital recently and confided to news- papermen tiiat the chief object of his mission was to establish business affiliations in Canada. Ho stated, however, that ho had not yet decided upon the exact nature or scope of thes,? atllliations. I (Juestioned further. Mr. Tennaut ad- 1 niitted that during his stay in the Dominion he wonld look over some of] the ranches in Western Canada with I the uUiinate prospect of probably be- coming a Canadian landowner. He did not desire to operate a ranch for prolit. but rather as he put it, "to own it just for the pleasure ot being a rancher." Britain, the World's Air Centre London Dally Ivxpiess (liid. Cons.): Only a decade or two hence and air- planes and airships may be leaving i British ports for all (|uarters of the j Kmpire and of the world as regularly as steamers do now. From coach to I railway, from sailing ship to the steam (and oil-driven leviathans ot today. i from the horse to the car. from the j balloon to the airplane, the great job jof annihilating time and space goes on. And at each new step, in each successive phase. British iiivcnlive- I uess. British en.nineeriug. and British pluck are to the fore. In the air as on the waters Nature has marked us down as the centre of the world. A_ "One cannot but regard this state- ment as referring to the threateiitd tariff-raising policy across the border." The Women's Vote London Daily X.mvs and Westmins- ter (Lib.): Women are talking poll- tic sin the factory, the workshop and the office; and they are not talking politics on stereotyped lines. They are eager, direct and resolute. They know precisely what things they want done, and why they «-ant them done. They prese_nt. in fact, an unfamiliar and formidable phconmenon to the average candidate in all political part- ies. And woe bethle tlie candi'date who. through ignorance or levity or stupidity, falls foul of the phenome- non: The Investment of Capital Abroad I..ou(lon Times Trade Supplement: i This country has probably less to fear ' from the investment of American capi- ' tal abroad than from the attraction of gold to the I'nited States. So long as the speculative fever rages in Am- erica and money commands higher rates than here, so long will it be' necessary to take steps to prevent the e.xport of gold by financial measures which check commercial enterprise, and the chief cause of anxiety in thi.s country in regard to America Is her failure to control wild speculation. Accused of wiMVing 100 tnin skirts.- Sis stands against the sun: Now, any dub can see through this There's really only one. â- s^ile they had the power. They threw away this opportunity. her maiden speech in tiie House of „,„ ,„ , , , ,, Pe'''^P» they (.(„„,„p„j, recently and twitted David will lie wiser next time. But they need not fear. "The revived strength of the Lib- eral Party ensures the country against a Socialist majority In Parliament based upon a minority in the country; jus! as it ensures the country against a continuance of minority govern- tneut by the Conservatives, who were In a minority of votes even in 1924. 1 In short, the Liberal Party is the main Where Canada Had to be Satisfied in Second Place fJrenfell, Labiu' member from Gla- morgiin. who Is 59. tor his "umltigated praise ot the budget.*' She had no praise for it herself. j Miss Lee said the women ot the North consider the remission ot the tea tax. announced by Winston Churchill in his budget speech, as overdue and iiu'rcly "a penny thrown to the voters." Mi.ss Lee modestly .„.„„„,., „ , , â-  ,, referred to herself as "the chick of â- afesuard against ininoritv govern- ,• ^ , . n ,• . , 1. . 1 „ .. * .'"the next ParUament, precipitately â- No one in his senses imagines the Conservative Party could or should' r-^, ^ T^,: '-T" make any advances." savs the Siintlav ! ^ "* Socialist Party Times. "The niajoritv of the candi- I-"'«l"i> Times (Ind.): The Inde- dates on both sides are alreadv ''*""''*"' '•'«''"'â-  *'*'"ty serves at least chosen; few of them would he willing """^ useful and honest purpose. So- to retire. They ai-e alreadv i,iisv| '-''«"''t to the core. It has no tolerance vlli:.. in; one another's policies in the I"' Inconsistency or excuses for the constituencies; are thev at a given ''P''"'"*''* who shrinks from avowing signal to desist, withdraw their ac- -""' f"" l>"'pose of Socialism and ac- cusations, and shake hands as though c^I''l''S the consequences. It refuses they had always been In agreement? t" '""n aside into the byways of Llb- The electorate would bo very quick, j ^'a'^*"" with certain more easygoing we may bo sure, to see through so msiubers of the Labor Party. In- nnit'ablp a fraud" ) cMised by everv appearance ot tlin- "What pSle political morality' l.ll'y <" those who avow the Socialist AMERICAN STARS DEFEAT THE CANADIANS FOR TENNIS DOUBLES CROWN ronid attach to a ConservatlveLlheral 'feed. U has undetraken the functions Wilmer Allison and John Van l!yn (rigl.t side of net t. iispu.uils fo,- p'at-es on the l-niled States Davis Cup loalition?" also asks tlie Yorkshire of » conscience as well as of a brain team, defeated Marcel Painville and Jack Wright, members ot Canadian Davis Cup team, and captured men's double Pest. "What answei could bo maUa to the Labor Pari/. I crowu at Plnehurst, N.C. First India Air Mail Arrives at Croydon i â€" ; London â€" The first Indla-EnglaiKl air . mail plane arrived at Croydon* on ] .\pril H. two inhites ahead of sche. dule The air Ihier carried live pas- sengers and .^00 pounds of mail, and negotiated the 5000 miles from Kara- chi in seven days. One of tlie passengers was Vice- Marslial Sir Vicl Vivian, who iefl Croydon on March 30 on the inaugural air mail trip to India, arriving at , Karachi on .\pril t>. He departed on the return tlighl within 2-i hours, hav- ing thus covere<l lO.ilOO miles in 14' i ! days. To India in a Week London Observer iliid.): The Air Mail Service to Indiii has begun. Its first cargo of lellers left Croydon yes- terday. March .".0, an dis due at Kara- chi next Saturday, April G. , , . It Is j in the air that we must seek the new j sinews of Empire. Heyond those ot every other Pow 'r. our resources are j diffused, and we can hold onr place i only by employing all the aid that scl- i once offers to knit them closer. The Air JIuil .habit must be fostered by all that authority can do to make the world familiar with its opportunities, and by readlno.ss for Instant e.\pau- slon to accommodate its growth. <• Happy marriages usually resull when love Is mixed with a little o>m nion seliso. #