The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-25

west all Qay through tne pi iO A"N~ and I have seen, know, a billion acres of ripened oats and wheat between Winnipeg and Saskatoon, where we spent last night We saw also mil Hons of acres of timothy and clover and thousands of acres of Irish pota- not a tree deserving to be called more than sapling. They will have big trees after while, for this soil will grow anything and after time the trees planted by the farmers will begin to make a showing if the winds will permit
 The native growth seems to be con fined to two species, the yellow pop lar, not at all resembling our south ern poplar, and a low growing bush known as willow bush. The yellow poplar will make fair fence posts and firewood, but that is about as far as 1t will go,
 The weather has been excessively dry this summer and the wheat crop has been very much cut off. In Sas- katocn. where cutting has commenced, the yield is estimated at to bushels to the acre. At that, it looks as though we had seen enough wheat in the last few days to feed the world.
 There are numerous small lakes and some quite large ones dotting the prairies and in every one are flocks of ducks of various sizes, the old ones surrounded by their young, growing against the time they will have to start their flight to southern waters
 It would not surprlse me in the least if some of these same ducks l saw Tn these Canadian lakes were to turn up at West Lake, Alabama
 I also saw, way up in the sky, an airplane. Whence it came and whither it was bound I could only conjecture, but of one thing I am certain, and that is it would in the next 500 miles have no difficulty in finding a level place to land.
 We passed through the Dukobois section of the country today-those curious Russian refugees who settled here several years ago on the promise from the dominion government that they would be exempt from service in time of war and would be allowed to have their own schools and not be re- quired to send their children to the public schools of Canada
 They are an industrious people, rather austere in their method of liv- ing, having and caring for few of the comforts of life. They are hard work CTS, the women working in the fields as well as the men, md their methods are somewhat on the community plan, their chief officer being something of an autocrat They pursue a peaceful agricultural existence and have made good citizens for Canada.
 The Mennonites are numerous west of the Dukobois settlements and are inally from Germany. or Holland near Germany, and moved into Russia, from whence they came to Canada under a similar arrangement as to service Tn | time of war and school
 They were not forced to serve in the war but the courts have recently held that their children must attend schools in accordance with the laws of the province. holding that the dominion | had no right to make agreements in violation of the laws of the province, 1 sort of states rights decision. Can ada is divided, as far as I can remem Der, into the provinces of New Bruns- wick. Nova Scotia, Quebec, Ontario
 Manitoba. Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia. and the Yukon and Northwest territories, and they all 1 have troubles like the states.
 | On one occasion Uncle Remus asked the little boy, "How many kinds oi times is dey?" and answered it himself | by saying that he didn't know and rar over rapidly some of the kinds oi | times he had heard of, much to the amusement of the little boy.
 Canada has at least four kinds ol
 time, to say nothing of those Uncle Remus referred to. They have east | ern time, central time. western time mountain time and Pacific time. Day ] light saving time and the time of tho
 various trains varies from the stand
 ards. so one has to watch himself ts
 keep from getting left.
 The long twilights continue to in terest me and I noted that I coulf
 read a newspaper in Saskatoon a 10:15 and at Edmonton at 10.30 D. m. standard time, by daylight.
 Wheat is ripening rapidly and z good deal is being cut, but the har' vest is not fully on. Laborers are holding out for $5 a day, which they will probably get, and as the govern ment has taken over the wheat crop advancing SITS a bushel against it tt 1.-the farmers balance, to be paid wher all the crop is sold, and as it looks a! if the buyers of flour are going to ge it at a lower price, it looks now as i there was going to be good times II Canada
 Winnipeg, Can, July 29.-(Special. II saw in this mornings papers a state
 ment made in a sermon delivered i Toronto by Winnipeg clergyman i which, speaking of the strike in Win Inipeg, he said: There is no place 10
 bolshevism in this dominion. Tha tthing which has devastated nations
 that thing which refuses to recogniz religion, morality and decency agains
 that thing the people must rise in un lrelenting opposition" He said that movement for bolshevism was at tn
 base of the strike in Winnipeg, and h Twas right. This strike which was abou
 as un-American a thing as could hay
 been imagined, was conceived by som
 foreign agitators who had their head
 quarters somewhere near Edmonton
 and a raid made by the mounted polci
 resulted in securing written evidenc
 of their devilish intentions and in tn icapture of the ringleaders, foreign bor tagitators. One of the mounted polio itold me that they belonged in a grou
 of some 100 men working in the mine lin western Canada and that the resul lof a census taken by himself shove that a very small percentage could eve lspeak English. Since the armistice wa signed a lot of these who had keI
 rather quiet during the war had agai
 become active and all of the leaders C |, the organizations among them Wer non English speaking men.
 Their influence is distinctly bad bu our British cousins on this side of tn line are competent to handle the sit , uation, and there is no doubt but tha