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Author, U: Rebel, Vol. 4

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Excerpt from The Rebel, Vol. 4: November, 1919

Why the suggestion that the War Memorials should stay in Toronto rather than go to Ottawa found no responsive voices in a population of half-a-million. It was first made in the daily press weeks ago. The rest is silence.

Why all the men in town are hastening to put on starched collars again instead of sticking to soft ones. If man was not born in chains, he may nevertheless have been born with a stiff collar. Rousseau does not say anything about that.

Whether the old adage that every bullet has its billet would not admit of spelling reform. Perhaps it is better left as it is. There are more bullets, even now, than Bullitts. The number of billets, however, seems to remain a constant.

How many of its readers are subscribing to The Manchester Guardian Weekly, The Irish Statesman, and The London Mercury. English dailies are out of the question in Canada. Here are two weeklies and a monthly that are bound to be worth watching. The first of these is already out in the open; the second has been seen in holes and corners; the third, a literary monthly which Mr. J. C. Squire is going to edit, sounds promising.

Whether General Smuts is the only man in the world today who thinks as he does or whether he is the only man with the courage to say so. We incline to the latter opinion.

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