Profit Twelve Millions.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 253, 18 July 1908, Page 10

Profit Twelve Millions.

• It'is a most .onconraging report of the Co-operatrvb Union that will como before the forthcoming Congress, says the "Daily News." ' The total trado lias gone lip in the year .by ■ nearly eight millions sterling, and now stands at moro than a hundred and -live millions and a half, while the net profit liaa gono up by,, two millions, and now stands at ■fcwelve:.^lti" ! is v 'a 'wonderful triumph of union. TliS' Stinuar profit provides an immensely poworful. machine, tho proper use of which should be-a'sacred trust to every co-operator, ■however..small may be his voice in the gonoral management. Wo believe that a . gpod' Aeal to bo dono in tho direction offsetting -that high standard of wages and conditionsi'wlnch every reformer works for. _ Moxt Year's Centenaries. , .."'Xho 'fAit that a remarkable number' of cell--.tcnaries'-of great men will ho celebrated next .year'ihas>i bee&i-pointed out by " Muhsey's ,t 'Hore»-a"ro some of them: — President of tho February 12, 1809; Ij'elix Mendelssohn-lSartholdy,' German musiborn ft f ehruary>3;' - Edgar , Allan Poo, AfnericSii, pbet"&rid. writer of tales, born JanHaT7.,,l9';';%jw.ftd;iJ!itigerald, the translator, of Omar Ehayyam|Ahorh;Maroh ,'3i; .Richard; Houghton), statesmarj.'Smd poet, born Juno 19; Oliver W'ondell ; Holmes,-^the'-American poet' and 'essayist, born-Aiigust 29-; JVY.-E. Gladstone, bora Dechistorian of the ,ft-im^.^nr, l 5; 'P. F. .Chopin, musician) hprii;, March 1; and Lord 6.' TrouWb-ln tho isapanc-G0 Army. \ In tho opinion of; tho ' Toyo Itoizai,' tho' instances of insubordination which have been 's'e ■: rife'-rccontly l in" tho, Japanese Army may ' bo attributed on the one hand to; tho diffusion of . education-amongst; the soldiers and tho ..'consequent gsajvtl^pJ r tho spirit of individual : rights-and.self-Yespect,: and, .on the other 4iandy-to : ':the--.'fac%that,'. -despite the growth ,-nionV the. education "oy'eoiicopfibn of'"the. officers has not quite : kept . paco" .with! it, so as to sufficiently appreciate'tho change and to adopt means meet- thp needs of the situation," says tho-. •"'JiipwfiiCM^iriol®*". '.''.An army of cdjicatcd.jneji .-cannot,,be controlled. by the -same- system 'of j-discipl.ino .as is applied' to. ■a' force 'mode. lip of an .'ignorant, rabble. It, ..was;:uot- so>voryr.longf.ago that most of -the. .^en'eJij'ollpd wero ignorant and illiterate, arid it "was perhaps not unnatural that»tho- officers -treated these men as'little' .better.'tlian/slaves.'"'"-,."The times 'and conditions have changed, but-this is not always . recognised, and.-, it ■ is; noticeable that the of' the-'men' by .'their officers has; -not improved .in proportion to; the. progress tho frrtrtiot 'hWoTmaao'-in education as well 'a)B> to 'tlioir" conception of individual rights and'personal 'liberty;" Herein must lie the true- causeof' 'th'e'.. J :insubordination in- the army- -"It'*ia v advisaljle, concludes tho.' Toyo; Koizai;' of;' soldiers, -should 'be -improved' by tho education of the .'dfficjsfs'ito 'appreciate the requirements of the caie: :It' will"he'seeii that while' 'thoSTdkio: ■■periodical'? declines'; to tho. .view that .SociSliit 'ndeas - have' permeated ,tho; .army,' it" admitsstliat 1 the-spirit of- individual liberty..; "and'pefMhal-'Tigfits'^as'become-very, .evjdont; 'of late yßairsf'. "'-'The' prevalence of that' spirit;in the -.army is. .attributed to the extension' of education among'the masses. This'is itrue, but thero can .be no '- doubt that tho 'association of men in largo" groups, under condition's which negate the idea of personal liberty arid rejiross -individuality, must' have' 'a strong tendency to encourage tho,moip ex-,' treiKe •'fdte ''faf;Vth : o i ''iShciia;lism which in its would seem to ap-; iprOve. -''GoWcpiptibiT' a'ifd compulsory 'military l : will "undoubtedly have the same 'dis-integi'atingfeffert-iir Japan as in- Europe!."-.' A Learned Jew, . The-'.^Jowisii,. Ch~j:6'iiiclo" . announces" tho jiis nip,oty-SBtond ; year, of thollevV Dr. Albert': -Lowy.; 4 >l)r,'Lpwy- was horn in ■ calme to London in '1840. Two ' of tho ministers. of the- n6wly r established. }Vest' London : •Syhago'guo .Vof 'BritiSli'-Jewß,' a congregation . which'secodcd'frdm'tho orthodox community, ' nnd'held the 1 Vppst ti 1, owiiw to his ad- ■ •.»apeeja'aßoY"hpy' -1882. Ho took part'' iri-'"tlib''formpiipli of" the Anglo-Jewish ' 'Association: > 1871^"';and waß seorotary of :' thsjn.faily. 1889.' In 1893 th'o, '. honprary dogrop of 'Doctor of Laws was con- 1 , 'fei : rod,;on' h'im' by''thS'-"Driivcrsity of : St. ; An-' drerf' of-whieli' Wlnto Ma'rquio ; of , : Buto' ' was tlion Hector. ;I)j. Lowy was an active" : m'pmbor.''of ; :tho'':Council of' the Society ; of, -Biblical Archaeolbgjy"beforo i which ho . read many learned papers" r on Samaritan Litera-.' turo,: Midrashic and kindred subjects.' •He w'aV bf .the Royal Geographical' Society; : + and a; inomber' of .tho , Socioty of "Philology," in connection ■■ with «diich'ha'ffisdbvereir'ii'hitherto unkno'wri-Per- ■ siStt'diaie6tf. j ; "H'(i "acted as secretary of the • Sdciety'»'of''Hebrow i, 'Litorature ) of which ho' : was pno of the founders, and-edited its pubKcatidra"" -'KJfr- ; A' ROnianco. of - "> Olio of tho uiost. singular of modern ro- ' mancos of art is recalled by an unpretending ■ letter, signed'.'.by'.'vMrl J. L. P. Le Begue, r 'which),appqarp4,,iii, thp London "Daily I'ele- ' 'grapK,""' la'^iiiaitte^-facli. terms this letter. solves' th^" : . mysteryat'tachiiig to tho' disapf peaianc.p^'pf'Gaittsoorpugh's great picture of ' , .'was' disposed of' at ' fajiiousi Pnoo',.. [ palo of -1895. Connois-. seui-s r,still;-':t'ell 'how''_tho. oxcitemont roso as. : tho' bidding 1 -m6uttted.'iip' to; 10,000 guineas","at' ! wlitch^fprico,'.tho,..riiasterpieco was., knoclied down to a''myßtpripus. "Mr, Campbell," who paicl for the" pi*eture,?.theri and there in' npto3,' : and carried it "oft'i "as it was. generally sup-' posed, ; .to''America.,' Now atlongth tho world ' loarns wiih''roliofTthaiJ the picture was pur- ' chasod on behalf-of-t-hat most genial and ec- ■ oentric of collectors, tho lato Jl. Camillo : Groult;' ; of'Paris,'where it formed a part of . onO"'of" l th.o"fin"est;.art;collections, in Europe, • its own curtain un- . iil ; last-January. Ow- . ing, it is said, to • the difficulties-that would ' ,wse from the French; law of inlieritanco, it was '.not 'possible ;for M. Groult to bequeath, his-' pieluros *to "tho-great national treasure-' house "at" ' the' 'L'orivfe*, r but tho collcetion is, : it"i3'Understoodp'tp v bo.'maintained, for tho . present" at'-all "events, intact. Englishmen' : must'consolo'themselves with tho knowledge, thafctho picture is"i"tf worthy hands, and in a' i, city whieh'has-always' appreciated art. ' FJecord-Spo'echi'.'' ' : ."Wo.- are^ynot l ■'Buro ; that Senator La? , .Follettev ihas:'-'established -a record -by ■ his- ■ eighteen - hours' speech oii the . Currency: Bill in the' United States .. Senato (says tho "Daily News"), but so far i ns we know- ho is entitled to tho doubtful ; distinction, j The only rival wo can recall is ! Dr. Lecher, who some tdn years spoko in -tho' Austrian Parliament for twefvo hours j together. In-tho^-British. Parliament the re-' i cord"is held by; Spring Eico iyho, in tho ,' memorable 'debate; on O'Connell's measure for- ; the-.'dissolution''of tho Union bored the House for seven hours. Palmorston, it. will . be remembered, spoko for fivo hours on tho Don Pacifico case. Ho rose in tho dusk ill . one day arid was still speaking in,"tho dawn 'i of-tho-next. Tho United States Tecord was i, previously- held by Charles Sumnor, who in i ISSG spoko in tho Senate for elevon hours in I obstructing tho passage of thp Kansas-Ne- • braska Bill,, tho adoption of which meant the , inclusion of those territories in tho slave • States. There are, of courso, speeches on i record which occupied longer than Senator i. La Fpllette's,'"but they havo been spccche3 i' with "intervals.. ~Burke, for example, spoko ! for. three days in impeaching Warren Hasti ings,:'anil'Lord Chief, Justice Cockburn's r'ei sumo of the.Ti'chb'orno case occupied six days. ; A: record Jike that,,, pf Senator la Foliotto s easily, disposes of the contention of Cormenin i that the orations .of Demosthenes and Cicero , wt ; ro. far'too, long to have been delivered at , oiio. 'stretch'. ' Tlie orations for Ctcsiphon and j tho second and third Olyntbic orations would hardly have .occupied, more than, tlireo hours-