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Notes by izlieywa’ “ . w‘ Qutlinc cf th-ed-flhancicl history ‘ of a Province-the Province of

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The Public Forum

This column. is. open for h. n. .

New S. ' ', our nciot g“ . The Province set out after the un- ion withCanads a generation ago,

=0 secretary, um. 60L n. a. showpiece.»- l. 0-

phcai-aac longer. s. s. serum Associate lifter p. it. Curie. ' Ioltlnsfleproneatatlvo-J. C. Ionic ' ‘l Iovv Vol Ihpnoscn five-Break I. Northrup

' l‘? GU ‘DIAI may be eat-I-IIITJE‘ ‘glowing agents In pmcflcfl ‘tree "om dam’ "m? 0 “um”; , v conside I sum to its credit at time.» stalaeen. unsto- st. was. mil-sol, spring Psi-Ir and Ottawa had ‘a population be- ~123"£...°‘.'..'l1"i.'“... - '.':"il'."""‘.-"o'.l-.'i‘;“.i“ "'1'" 0'00» 1 . ~00 000-000 m ii- sca I. maniacal so . ‘o. wrlqmlfear street west creased. .-I8_7.000. 1t has now a ll -» » n In! _ h _

provincial debt of over $23,000,000

"' "' ""'" °"'"" " and the ptlbllc accounts. inst now

000. The debt has been increased under various governments, Con- servative, Liberal and Coalition. ‘every one of which p. mlsed to practice econoni, and- blamed its p. decessor forextravagance and waste.

tile land on the continent. Yet not one quarter oi this land is cultiv- ated to capacity.

Have we no opportunities for brains in this . specti Prince Ed- ward island, cultivated to its full capacity could feed half the Domin- ion. We have not yet ascertained the capacity oi an acre of our land. Is there not an opportunity here for brains? ' I There are several thousands oi acres of land in this province that are not only not cultivated but not even occupied. These lands could be acquired at so low a rate that the first‘ year's production would pay for the outlay, yet they stand uncultivated and unoccupied. Truly our export has become too voluminous! What is the trouble? ls it the age-old reason, that a pro- phet hath no honour in hlsown country? Are we doing what we can to keep our prophets? Are we

' ‘cirv HOIPITAL coucsirr

"Elsewhere in this issue will b0 found the programme ‘to be pre- sented this” evening in the Strand Theatre in aid of the Charlotte- I-iospital. a glance over it will ‘satisfy our citizens that the beat in music and entertainment will be provided and that a very iiIIIOIIbIe evening is in store for all who attend. ln addition to the as surance of an enjoyable evehiiig, the cause in aid of which the en- tertainment is bding given is a constraining invitation to the pub- licfgenerally. This institution has been exceedingly modest in its de- mands upon the public. Indeed it has not f solicited any assistance» fronrthe public ior several years ‘with the exception oi its once a year tag day,’its Easter dramatic entertainment, its Hallowe’en tea and bazaar and its entertainment

New lrunowickh debt never grow so fast as 1t has grown in rc- cent years. ‘in the meantime its one great natural resource in lum- ber has suffered great depletion from the lumbermems axes from forest fires and the ravages oi in- sects. City debts and municipal debts have grown somewhat propor- tionally to the provincial indebted- ness. Taxes,.- federal, provincial and municipal ' have increased about four fold and are still going up. And yet the case oi New Bruns- wick is not exceptional in the mat- ter of increasing debt and taxation. ther Provinces have done quite as badly or worse and there are many who think that among all the authorities that iliave the tax- ing power in Canada the Domin- ion has been the most extravagant and wasteful oi them all.

published. ‘show it deficit of $524,-

tonlglit. Outside of these the hos- pital is maintained exclusively by_ the generosity oi its immediate

that is

se where?

placing the value on their services

being placed upon them el- f .

Apart altogether from the coal of the war, which was colossal, there has been a carnival of bor-

t by correc- pondcnts of‘ question; of in tercct. The Charlottetown Guardian docs not nccsssah lly endorse the opinion els- prccssd by its correspon- his.

POLITICS AND iU-BINESB _

sen, Mr. R. iihMutch does not see

As shareholders in the National same right to complain and use their personal influence as

panics. lI did not that, not advise. or commend. ciao the management oi the peo- pies’ railliwaye. or that tihey may not art the end of each year ,aii ireipres- entatlvea of the shareholders, vote for a. change of the managers. What I do say is that as politicians they ought not to interfere with tihs management of expert men who are held responsible lfor the financial success and satisfactory operation oi.‘ the guest public utility committeed to their charge.

‘In the long series oi years during which the ipoliticiians interfered in railway business the results were invariably the reverse of satisfac- tory alike as to the rai-liwsy service rendered and the financial results. Compared with the resullts of tihe C. Pf R. Management. about which the politicians had nothing tlo say or do, the contrast is striking. Therefore, now that the C. N. R. is out oi’ politics let ‘us keep l-t -out oi’ politics.

"The policy of asking Senators and memlbers of the House oi Com- mons to help our Board oi Trade by the exercise of their influence

v vy‘

Sirr-Our esteemed fellow citi-

why politicians should be debarred meeting the Bound oi’ Trade and discussing matters connected with the control and operation of the Canadian National Rail-ways.

Jtailway Company they have the

the shareholders in other railway com- mean to suggest as interested men they may or criti-

j 113E CHAIiLOTTETOWN GUARDIAN

ever empenlenwd in the past, and a famine in puiipwood will ensue.

crlti ' oniglnatcc, la concerned, two more seasons like that of 1923 will pretty well put that province cut of business as a source of pulpwood. ' Out of more than a million cords oi wood now exported, not more than five or six hundred thousand cords are_ derived iinom far-metre’ and settlers’ lots. Since it would require only five new mi-llemvifh a daily capacity of one hundred tons each to WDBOFI? this amount of wood and since more than twenty now mills are projected lf the cmbarqc ls put into effect It ls ipuerils for anyone to say that the farmers‘ market lfCll‘ ipulpiwlood would be ieoipardized by an embargo. On the contrary vlt would be very greatly improved. My symipamhy is entirely with the small wood-lot owner who in many cases with his ifather zbe fore him, has been iprotectin-g his trees from flre and other devastat- ing agencies for ilrom perhaps fif- ty to one hundred years. Personal- iy, I1 would like to see rpulpwood prices much higher than they are today, as it would encourage con- ‘servaiiion. It makes little difference to the pulp and paper manufactur- ers how much they ‘have to rpay ifor wood provided they all rpay the same. All the manufacturers that I have interviewed on the subject slate that they are perfectly wil- ling to pay as much ifor iiheir wood as the American mills] li necessary as has been pointed out by ISir iLom er Giouin, the price can ibe regulat- ed iby the Government. or through a farmers‘ cooperative selling ag- ency-es irecently suggested by m-e. And as in this latter case the far- imers would select their own sell- ling agents, I fail to see how there would be any opportunity afforded for graft as one critic has sugges- ted. This method would be similar to the Grain Growers’ Voluntary Wheat Pool in the West and the Farmers’ Potato Pool in the State oi‘ Maine. -In the paist the pulipwood buyer

will soon greatly emcced anything I

8o far as the Province of New Brunswick, where much of this

By Idmec W. Baricn, M.D, _

SHOULD ENLARGED TONSILS BE REMOVED?

RED

TEA ‘is 200d

FEBRUARY 5, 1924'. .

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I to tea Folks who want the very best use '

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-As a matter oi fact I am unable to answer the above question.

I have seen tonsils which looked as large as chestnuts and yet there were apparently no symptoms. ‘

The child or adult seemed ‘to breathe naturally. the lung capacity as registered by the spirometei- was up to normal, there was no history oi snoring during sleep, and absolutely no pain whatever.

Our leading specialists are inclin- ed to leave such tonsils alone now. although in former years the re- moval of all large tonsils was advised.

These specialists have tonsils divided into four classes, the large soft variety, the soft ragged tonsil, the hard small imbedded tonsil, and the buried tonsil which cannot be seen because it ls behind the pillars.

Now just as long as these tonsils (which by the way should ills- appear before puberty) give no trouble, i-t is felt. that no effort should be made to remove them.

If you should have an attack oi tonsilitis whereby these tonsils be- come greatly inflamed. and you are prostrated with the usual severe illness that accompanies it, it would be well to have them re- moved. after you are well again.

Some physicians do not condemn __ the tonsils on one attack, but advise waiting, and if a second attack ensues, then after you are well over it, the tonsils should be removed. 1 As you know this is also llic

Toronto Hog

aliovefBhyers are reducing p11; for corn fed hogs 1A, com W,

RED ROSE ORANGE PEKOE Market ' Dosage-ago reports heavy recall,“

Ivor week ending February Z, the Tullmllg 11°11! 40-000 '10 50.00 ha,

prices quoted in Toronto for select 118"?- liscon hogs was 3%

d: ‘ gfignughlt hogs 7c. sows 41,4” g0 51,9, shlres being quoted at 74 shilling;

Country prices 1/; cent less thanlper 112 pounds.

Tile lakiglish market for bacilli i}

ccnts i191‘ Canadian Will, T‘

‘Md,’ smooth 7134c; shop dull at present,

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AMPLE OR LIMITED MEANS

it ‘matters nob-o Great-West Lllfe Policy la the safest and most profitable. investment, compatible with absolute security. If: meets the case of the small income; and the marl of means is never safe who has not this protection.

liyndman 8i 00., l.iiI.

Branch Managers

THE GREAT-WEST LIFE ASSURANCE CO.

61 Queen Street Charlottetown

Furs Wanted

gg-légdgjnd {no ‘fees of its paying rowing gm] ‘pgndlnn Thousands has undoubtedly ‘had the advan- system adopted by many pliysic.

-- - '—-'“°'°’——— ' °'°' "I"? G°"°'““‘°"‘-“ °°“s‘"1“’°“‘t b twi-th . l a h t l . i th t .t t f n. l- ‘ “Quanta mm new’ i‘ i“ ‘"1"!!!’ 111 ECONOMY of miles oi railways built by suc- tly to Tbe deprecated. Nor is it lik- ‘$3,152,111; 1119a gglgyotls snghaii fIif-rizllllilltlfll? OIrsIICnIIDDHIIOIZIIXn n Every trapper 13S WBII 8S breeder 0f mention and oi emphasis, nearly cesslve governments hive I101 B11111 e17 m bemlerated by either the 0w‘ soon will be in the saddle. If he it is generally agreed that ilw

furs wants to get the best grading and the best price for their furs.

iple at large or the IPresident and Directors oi the C .N, R. Indeed, Sir Henry Thornton has

the cost oi operation. The same

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chronic ilisoasetl tonsil. with the white plugs in evidence in the

does not obtain a fmiir price for his

' t f Il ti t “my per can o l a m en s are wood it will] be his own fault, es-

‘ “iii-paying ‘line's.

Economy, like patriotism, may has been true oi other thousands oi ‘company’

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For the main- be the h“ refuse o; a scoflndrfl miles of trunk lines and branch given notice 1m, u dictated to by peclally with all of the safeguards litilo hole. or crypts lri the tonsil, a ' or“, iii tic; - " llllltlblldllll.lti b i ftl .. ill» l\ - . 0 ' 0 tensnce ese a er pa en s clThe Macxenne Km; sovsmment railways built by companies and the governmen/t in regaird to mat- toewrguient Qfigheflffé ,n€_;g?: viglfiiyoilllae ctluseqforglmnggwrgf Sh“) [IS and YOU Will receive fall‘

give them in their need and in their heavily subsidised by the Domin- ters wi-thln the B11118"! 01' I115 dilly

is at present singing economy, lay- Plllllwwd Blilllllly in "Canada, would rheumatism.

grading land full market prices 0n all

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suffering the medical assistance mg plans ‘or economy’ even bu” :<::1t.h:1c Fggrvlltigfzeantti tllie municip- w$chfflililletgpgl1gtlicizgst Igisekithgfi {unify thevfrefitllon or then plrtkitettiiinn The Qxfmnh-Un m, rplllovfll n; ihpl ‘ f

and kindly ministration of compet- - o c rcustances Henry Thornton ‘and the Dlrecwm wen y ne m s, 0r eve a u IOIIRIIS lb now COIlHllICTOlI nortliy of lg raw firs,

em our”! the proceeds o‘ m. mg o; the economy which may the Dominion has taken over ""8 tfiedw officials and “w tralinlmer; illl-mgsfilfibibllll-l tkliere wlill be enoirgll a throat specialist. I t l

- ' ' have practised but which has not ldng- list of - non-pa i t __ i __ m a‘ m“ “a t e w“ now exwrb s“ if 7°" "wk "mv" I'm" """“" . 0 ma 01' 00 ill‘ C

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will GCBIGTVB the credit which" satis- und has increasedthe freight and factory “d “uweesml resuns Wm

passenger rated m. the h“ "m" or give them; and they-not the rpoll- revenue production in order to get tlclamkflre to be he“ responsible

been apparent even to their im- mediate friends. V The demand for economy, how-

pls are today riecelviing only a very smnlll part of its value as compar- ed to what it could yield if manu- factured here.

whltc cheesy masses iaxiiiling from to receive Q11!‘ personal alittilltlilll. your tonsils, remember iiiiit tliosr- masses slioiilrl be remover] as llicy

can do liarm to.your system.

propriaied. Surely this is an ap-

peal that our Christian citizens i

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cannot lightly ignore. It is the ap- peal oiJ-llm who said “nasmuch as Ye have done it unto these, ye have done it unto’ Me." _

Theeniertainment will undoubt- edly be [an enjoyable one; the cause V for which it is given is worthy of our most generous sup- port.‘ We trust the Strand Theatre will be crowded to the doors and thIpJt the proceeds will be commen- surate with the well-known liberal-- lty oi our citizens .

ever, did not originate iwiih the MacKenzie government.’ It orig- inated with the people oi Canada from one end of the country to the other. it originated in the disgust oi the taxpayers overburden- ed with taxes and the cost of liv- ing while the government was squaniiering millions in useless Royal Commissions, in giving em- pioyrnen-t to friends where employ- ment was not needed, in filling the various departments oi the govern- ment with useless polltical heel- ers. Witness thoadditlon to the Civil Service list where men and women are elbowing each other for room and where more than he'll of them find nothing to do. '

Economy is now the cry of the government. They are going to economize by superannuatlng pre- sent incumbents at a retiring ‘al- lowsnce equal to the salaries they h-ad drawn when supposed to be working and payipg an equal sal-

ary to the new incumbents! They c u d t U" l

_ ensor, re re o ca on earn- “e going to be oummcal’ "my ing that Caesar was victorious over are not going to spend any more Pompey, and committed suicide on

money except when it cannot be Febm“? 5' 45 B‘ c’ avoided; they are going to be RQQERyHLUAMQ good!

Only a few weeks ago these saine economists offered to build an elev- ator costing a million and a quar- ter dollars in Halifax if the people would support the Liberalcaiidld- ate! They offered to build a new railway in Kent ii the people would support their candidate there. ,

enough revenue to pay the cost of their operatlon- There is no coiui. try in the world so over-railroaded in proportlonto population as Can. ada is and yet the government of the day is committed to borrow vast sums to build more railways!‘

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Qolo-oooooo-oo-ooooooooooow ‘g Lest We Forget i “‘ ‘ ‘ ‘crvooov TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5.

AUGUSTUS

(Cains Octavius Caesar) Julius Caesar's chief heir and first Roman Emperor, whose reign was mark- ed by the supremacy oi Roman literature and the birth oi Jesus Christ ,wss saluted by the senate as father of his country on the date corresponding to February 5, 40 B.

A --—-<o>--- ' UNPROFITAILE EXPORT

‘(To the non‘. .1. a. n. n....;;'.f'n. oi st John, We are indebted for the statement that the principal i oi export in the Maritime h vinces is brains. To ourselves were indebted for the fact that have boasted of it. lt is true

t‘ our e-xport business in this

‘ nectiou has been very exten- We exported the raw mater- iii; and it has been converted into ‘you builders elsewhere, bank ' nagers, college presidents and ‘mlfillflfu, engineers, doctors, law- ', clergymen. We have engagv in this export deliberately; par- have deliberately prepared it fbrexport and shipped it, general- lwlaying the freight; our merch '9. our governments, our com- itidnities have packed it up and shipped it abroad and, almost in- sbly it has become a powerful

CATO

(Marcus Porcius, surnamed U-ticensis) Roman patriot and stoic philosopher, grandson of Cato the

Welch clergyman, fouude of Rhode lslsnd and an apostle oi re- ligious tolerance, arrived in Massachusetts on February 5, 1681. He was expelled twice from the Puritan colony there for his re- ligious views. .

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Great American evangelist, who,

o, in the building‘ up o‘ other Neither the elevator nor the rail Wm] l“ 2'1 51:13’ ,,',m§°' i: ' composer s r u c, e ma" wh“ o! n? we were way was needed. They were ready 1104511119 "M1011! 1116911119111 1119

Able to use the article: we hail

‘opportunities sufficiently, large ttrengsge such talents as are‘ re- quired for the presldencles of large universities. for great engin- fig projects,‘ for the legal or ill- s“ ' sdmiiilstsstlon of large cor- porations; ior preaching the gv-s- I to congregations sufficiently V _ for pay salar-

Unlted Stalls and Great Britain, was bornliiLFebruary 5, i837. He founded a Bible" Institute in Chicago and a school for Christian workers iii Northfleld, Massac- husetts.

io buy their constituencies with the people's money but the people re- fused to be bribed and the corrup- tionists were turned down. Their political scheme having been turn- ed down they now tell us “they will never do it any more," they will practice economy!

All this promising is" in view oi the coming election. What no the Nollie think of it?

EARTHQUAKE

An earthquake in Canada oi ' such intensity that it probably equalled that which laid the cities of Japan in ruins, i; recorded by the early historians of New France. who tell us quaintly, that tlis cattle ran about the field in terror, the dogs howled, the church bells rang and the people prayed in the open fields. From the lAurentide Hills, north of the 8t. Lawrence. all the way down to New England the land

H i ‘which we i fiodvofkioryflorqthcfxworkhiif I ____, I _ I” g5" n»? o, “pupa,- "wiinc it ll this that one auto»

i, ' "_ ‘f’ V v ‘ . does not make a summer neverthe- -' [when boasted-cf our one '

has it ls somewhat to the crcditoi fins ‘srwcfhsvc busted of.

our Prince Edward island climate ("In mun.‘ n"; “mo; to find-that a few" automobiles are good eggs‘ sad

running in Charlottetown this Ica- "irynna ll iiii w‘. and vim»: I i; :0 . ‘ .

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broke from the earth, and the snow melted away. Frowning cliffs were hurled into the river; to form islands, while the ice in the rivers was crumbled. The terrified set- tlers hcsrd the noise of the earth- quake hissing and ‘ling like s

son as late as February. It fie

frankly admitted mt tneronrnro forcst firohaigfalulshsinvolcanittaaasrh

', _ _..’ ‘ fliiilflc ,v c me s g hm a nrccs Inland, the 11° "i" "l m‘ "P" '9" 7'9‘? lash-ed through the atr. In the 0 o‘. ‘Menu; y’. y. g This winter is as exception until spring and summer months that

followed the sank lave off poison- ossgasss. lioccpfrcdontliigdli