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' WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2a, 1922

J. I. lancer. Ian» and Annette Idiom

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s,“ In sew-u‘ la'cmlts“:sua' en's ts ".a.a.

COMPARISONS

Whatever opinions our Liberal friends may have now regsrdlnk the rash promises they made when csndldallng for the 1919 election. there is at least one oft repealed promise which they will not deny having made 10r- the platform through the press and in person- ll canvassing. namely, that tbt-v would practise the most rigid ear nomy. that they would reduce ad- ministration expenditure. This. no one of them will question, the Patriot in it's most harassing extremity will not deny this. Here

EVER

at least we gall tlnd a common

starting point. a [De line from‘ which we may make s fair start.‘ Let its see how the economies or the Bell with those of the previous adm.n~ lstration We shall take our fig» 1H9!‘ from the Public Accounts.

Here are a tew:

administration cornptlre

i in 1916 the Conservative gov~' eminent bad a revaluation made

2.372.110

of farm properties; it cost

ln 1920 the Bell government

had the same work done on the

‘same lltlfnbél’ (ll_fisl’flltl—'l'ir' [he island has not grown any since

1916——and it cost 87,273.50.

in 191i they paid $909.25 to a gang of assessors either for cor- "911118 the work done in the prev- ious year or as a reward tol- golill conduct. Thai ls. the Bell govern- meht paid 88,182.75 for vlork done

2,1.

.y the Conservatives for s 2,27,, Comins nearer the present when conditions more nt-lirli

alike, namely in tats and 10:1, l1!“

WBTQ

.'homes. the factories, the railways. llhe lteamshlp lines. The miners inns well paid, the average wage ‘running from five to ten dolls-s

following evidences of Liberal ecu nomy will be iiiterestlnil:

In 1918 the Provincial Secretary Treasurers Department cost

may; the tthey must have food and coal.

i. $5.4

s day for- ordinary labors. Th! miners were satisfied with their wages but a tew foreign agitators have succeeded in persuading them they should get more and. because they’ could not get it, the," llave gone on strike. The agita- satisfied with stopping the work have prevented volun

the

(CID, I10!

leer workers from saving mint-s from flooding and-troops the mines. What this wzll cost Canada

have been called in to save

it would be useless to try to esti rllate. it will increase the price of coal, it will prevent many from laying bya stock of coal fer th-

Wlfllt-T; lt will interfere with

transportation; it may result

tlloodshed. So much for the evil

lll

influences of toreign agitators lllut-h for mealy-mouthed political

0

pussy footing with political

agitators lest some support may be lost.

Suppose the farmers of (‘anarla should lo on strike! What then? if for one month in the spring Can sdian farmers should go on strike the outcome would be absolute starvation. We could not import sufficient food to enable us to live and even if it were available we could not afford to buy it. And rel there are thousands 0t mill- ers in Canada who are making less money and are working hard- er thanvthe miners.

Suppose the consumers shvnld strike and refuse to buy coal, re- fuse to-buy food! il-‘oollsb, you? consumers must buy,l

That's the rub; the consumers are

too; lll 1921 it cost $16,517. trlllslm "w" m‘ m“ "°"“"- Th‘?

, lai DrovilnL-s in which very BDILHUId,

'.‘ '15! ~+=Ifl

tlon is barely toc one- hilndrsdth The lite of Thomas Alva Edison, part of the total population t! one oi the greatest inventors the the Dominion. Compartsd with world has ever produced, will long Jntarlo we are roughly one to .32, be inspirational to ambitious youth to Nova Scoiia one to sis, to New throughout the civilized world. Brunswick as one to four and s lt is no freak of bodily or mental bait and a0 on. The tour ptovit- construction that has inade Edison ten beyond the great lttkcs have, a tormidable candidate tor the title each a population six time: nsot ‘world's greatest man"; it is an great as outs, and v/hiclrla rlsp he himself expresses it, “one per idly increasing, while our; has cent. inspiration and 99 par cent. declined and gone backward icr perspiration." And he adds that the twenty years past. Down to the only per cent. inspiration was the date of Colltéderatlttn no pro- result of a willingness to do hard vlntfe paid the members o! its thinking. legislature more than $600 perl it is not as a great scientific dls~ session. coverer that Edison has shone, but rather as the man whose skill and gingenuity would bring to a tri- umpbant conclusion those things lsuggested by some other scientist who round hlmselt balked in his DITOETQSB. ’ "Nothing is impossible,“ Edison

m...» ll

The sessions] indemnity in the first Parliament QLCanada was irXt-d at $600 and so remained tor Since then it has been aised by successive stages fit-sq o 21.000, 111611 $1,500. llBXl to t:,-! . . . “N and mm“), w ‘i W‘, The ex_l1135 said, "ll is only that there are l-uses made tor these, llltffEddcflsome ‘mugs we do m" yel- know {vlls tlist the length of the SEQ-mo?’ w do", The“ he w! m work m“ hm greatly increased m, haul-patiently and with determination to he populaflon of ‘he Dommulhiflnd the mode. The average length

ot time to produce one of his in;

nd since the war began .lle cost ,

l, "Vi"; had increased greamwventlons was seven years, and often PM validity m. the ‘as! o‘ ‘nasal-was a result ot 10,000 experiments excuses may be doubted. Tlldf—sompflmes 501,00‘

0s, of evprybljdys, Hvmg had my Ellison holds a thousand patents. .,.éd___ed_ whv Should - everybudyrlmol-e than held b)‘ any other‘ rrian m Cumnened‘ m “like good mBJn the world. How lie do it. 'l member's increased cost, wliil-llian] a_'w“5hm man‘ he would Say’ A.“ as proper a charge “pun hulmextllatnlng sow he worked 16 hours -.elf individually. As well miglitiuul o‘ every 2*‘

he pyu-w" he asked m my met He brought to his work 111811131

nenmen. properly m‘ or h" mlvitaliiy, vision, tore-right. entaus- vome "m liasnl, a power to grasp quickly and lciesrly, and the plan oi starting at

ltundalnelltals, putting no trust in But members of tlie federal Par‘

‘ h r l . ‘ u-llilélll and the Provincial Legls- B 8e “ck atures have the extraordinary lower to lix their own remunerat- on and they have pin) 9d l1"? Thomas Alva Edison was born in """"’ “it a“ i1 “"1” "r01- Bolh ritltllll, 0, Feb. 11, 11m, ills 80D of “rues hay” m“ f‘ 511379 1" n-lsatrluel and Nancy Edison. The Jtttough 111051 at‘ the 191191111 l1i1fatllily moved to Port Huron, .\lich., H3565 “'91” ma“ under 1311"“ |when Edison was seven, and here, ‘°"e"'m"“,‘5- “WHY 111"" "int tlie age oi 12, he got his first job .outill robin" had teen signed bydlhfllo; newsbuy on me grand Trunk

""**-1°'"i" o! 111° Jmme- 1'1 1111$|rnilvtay between Port Huron and way "indemnstles" have swielledpenum v ° 51x or 59W“ 1111195 W113! 1119)’ Experiments which he had start- "ere u‘ me “"14 "*1 Mdwoham-‘led at .iome he now continued in his P11911217 Tmeyo make- and 3lacispare time. establishing his labora- enzle. Political plgniies in tht-s-eHm-y in a baggage ca; Hi5 work ‘Ia-"‘_ w“ 3° mumelve‘ seveilwas largely with printing presses times the rewards accorded to . ' - "- or l;:;‘..:i.‘:"'.'::'.:::.:"*:':i.:xir; :11: The evil spread to the iegislat-‘Grand Trunk l-lerald, a weekly lres uiitier tlie lute oi the SGHISUIQHPQT, in 1862, his plant being iii "111111588 ulllll we have today sev-ithe car. Edison was then 15 years

mars.

First Job as Newsbgy

ways made mlnuto_ scrutiny into the utility of a prospective inven- tion before he set to work upon it.

Poor and in debt, Edison arrived in New York in 1869. Be sought a 10b with the Gold and Stock Tele gflph Company. While in the of- llce making his application. tho machinery broke down. Edison was the only one who could i1: it. Hal did arr-and landed a place with a $800 a month salary.

1 The PulrlioForum 4

flleeafltnnlsepenfwthn discussion by correspond- entaafqaeetlsnoaflntsn est. ‘nls Charlottetown nuardlaadeee net nurses- srlly enlnraatls nplnleai espnnal by Its serves poltdlllll.

trim Candy leads

Sin-inspector Koullhsn has

_ come out in the Patriot with the “m1” 59m“ h“ "9 ye‘ been u“ statement that he has nothing to

productive of lucrative returns. But g9 Wm, Gum-a “rump p19 1,, m; in this year he inserted a stocldvllll‘ man who knows such a 918w-

“cker which he sold for ;40'0o0__ it is Gent's road that is in ques- hls first successful invention. Ac- “on where he and m“ “on “my”!

while tilt-y were qualifying for the cording w the BIOYY- he i114 11°! "- reception llt $89.00; rrlollgtl rllli en know how to bank- the cheque

by stiy means a graceful tlstlcer,

lllllll silllwll tly officials, so little he is a grand high Elflllllef- He

, » may fool tilt- stranger by these

hm he Md w do mm subsmmml smart Grit tricks but lie cannot

"m3 °i “m”? tool liis neighbors who know the Vvitn his'$-i0,000, Edison estab- lished a workshop at Newark, N.

circumstances. He tells us lie has

satisfied the Department of Pub- J. Front there lie moved to Menlo Park. N. J.. in 1876, and flnslly to|

llc Works. the ‘public, lttitl liim~ self. If paying parties for road West Orange, N. J. in 13116. - 1h pprrornlen and

Work six months before- lhe work J holding back

From the time or the establlsh- the pay of others for slx months nient Oi his laboratory in Newarlt.':""‘-" ‘he WW1‘ 15 P“'”'°'m:‘1'b1°' inventions came thick frolll tbelbzgnnfilgmrrgzsagfjglr! @205‘ “the genius ol Edison. He assisted ltt “mu is pplmling tlil- public. then perfecting tlie ill-st successful type- pleasing mp public is llll easy inal- wmfl; This w“ yoiigwed shortly-pet‘. He seems to think lltni after fr‘ "c frrfiflg; i" g“ ;';;jfj§j§§;“.‘.‘2.lll"..if.f T.'.'°‘.‘l‘.‘l. ‘IZZsIFH 511i El ERMA]! l S '5 , ' ' which greatly extended the use oi‘ existing telegraph lines. Then tnl~ lowed the carbon telephone trims- millet", which established the coin» men-iii! value ot the telephone.

Tile llllonocrapll came soon utter. lt was followed by the incandes- cent liltlit in 1879.

Shortly taereafter, he developed the electrical generator for dlsiri» butlon ot light, heat and power.

In 189i Edison brought lot-Iii the motion picture camera and pro- jecting tnachine, and later worked ott a uiode to synchronize the pic- tures with a speech.

These are but a tew of the bund- retls of‘ inventions credited to the “Wizard of Menlo Park." The en- tire list would be far too long to enumerate. I

Solis Patent for 549-099

‘Edison was now 23.. and Jls in-

petitor. he certainly will never have an ltnitator; there will be [no one ftluntl to lake tip ltit. Kong- |llatl's lltirtlens. in his leits. li-- 1"” furs to lll.\' utilities. Well in jus- tice tn hitliself i iiltly arty that lY‘.\' frit-lllls ll|\\'ll_\'§l kIlPW itllorc , stood ln politics. When Mr Kong-t liittt rt-tlietltbers how often lie was t-onvt-rlt-tl over night. his convic- llfitls being at ll respectful Hint-e, lie shotlltl pause hr-lore ll" role-rs to tiny man's politics. He ltnrl strntltlletl the political fence so often thtit like Paul lie. litlrtlll‘ knew if lie was iii the pzttfli‘ or out ol‘ tlie party. lint there all ltkc- ness entls between flit‘ 1111117 Th“ hi» loss still tllaking a little tor

if Mr. Kottglitttt is so arlxltltts to plonst- the public let lillti collie out lllld lr-ll its why he anneflrs iir '11" road account RS P. I mm in the brlllge nccoilni as Pitt- riclt Knuullan. ls this ills tttlstakc or is lllP Klntffi Prints-r helping titim out?

Useful War Work l am. Sir. ctc..

J. F. CURRAN- When (.18 United States enteretll the War against the central powers! _

tin 191T, Edison placed his entirejg

plant at the disposal of the gov-i ‘i - n

emment‘ I 50-00-04: Q.O~A-O¢&4AQA.AAA4l4-l of thel- -

‘l-le was made president ‘.Navai Consulting Board and his iii-t VISCOUNT NQRTHMJFFE- l

iVEIIIlODS were of ‘invaluable service; 'lll winning tlie war.

(Winnipeg Tribune.)

safe in saying that lie has no cntn- _,

l ,

dis-- l‘

himself lie was ivell nwlire. NOW

l W. KoughnnW

WTHE STAMP TAr-Xg

Every Canadian manufacturer, producer, agriculturist, corporation or individual having business relations with a bank in Canada will require to be completely in- ‘formed regarding Canada's new stamp taxes, effective from August 1st, 1922.

Handy indestructible celluloid cards showing a synopsis of the law and an

easy table of talc rates can be had free . It our Branched.

Union Bank oi Canada

Let Us Remind You

That Goffs promise to meet all lowest prices quoted In this city on regular staple boots and shoes.

We never make anniversary sales. We don't have to, for our prices are always hest.

Do you want a pair of our $7.00 Men's Hip Boots for $3.90“ ‘this lot will all be gene In a day or two and may never be replaced.

20 per cent. off all our already low priced men's ox- fords. .

20 per cent. to 50 per cent. off all women's and child- ren's white exfords, ties. straps, etc.

New goods arriving daily and always

priced at the lowest margin of profit possible. '

Headquarters for Hoieproof Hosiery.

corn BROS., txro .

3 JOHNSTQ

ili-iiiitillls.

NAuowAwl

.\ll INTR l-ZAL STUPK lilXl ‘HANG l-l

The piigesof illsttlry" relate few

‘l; i)", Department m,“ admm‘;,__,,,im“" pay ‘m’ mcruwd c”! "m"! non plate legislators pay tllenlf ill i862 a chance happened which 131115011 3111111111" 1mm‘ °1 his’ 'l‘llllllN'l‘t) STUCK EXCHANGE

led by strikes; they must pay the exorbitant wages demanded by la- borers; they

era the new taxes).

In 1918 the Executive Council cost $2.872; in 19-21 it cost $4.017 with the same number of meta-Pm“ m” 0mm" 3H0"! to buy‘ hers,

In 1918 Legislation cost $10.5 lnl92l it C08! $22,175.

In 1918 the members sesslonalhmke am strike hard and they “memnmes amount“ u‘ ‘mrmolculllld not be blamed for it; the»

must go without

There is another possibility, nsl ‘wit: probability". The consumers may

elves $2,000 each, tut of the moneys tslten from the-

tl. or shall it be encouraged to go]

life. He rescued the child of tlie

leople by taxation. It has become Nit. Clemens station master frotiilffd 011 I119 1-1901)’ 111111 1111'"? 15 11'1"” - SOFE evil. H great and gtowingmnder the wheels of an onrushing W815 B01119 11119 1111111 W110 ‘"3" 0"" 'vii in the land. Shall lt be Chéffkilffllll. The station master, is grail- @011"! i! dmmully- 1115 1111" W95 1° ‘hence will have doit-biless the tttl- I

tilde, taught Edson telegraphy.

Ill from bad. to worse? it is! Edison served as a telegrapher or the tzlx- payers, the electorsfior flve years, always studyinr 1i r113‘! Messrs l-Jell, Johnston, Lea liow to improve the apparatus, One nd Crosby may estimate their result was the invention of an au- ervlstis to be worth‘ two orkomatic transmitter.

J ~. nubile tor fuel

in 1921 they amounted to Sllnbdttlmay n“ and demand ma! ‘bu.’

‘in 1918 postage cost $944; 1921 it cost $2.043, (some corres- pendent-e.)

in 1011i on provincial debts amounted to $49,679; in 192i interest cost $58,686, this notwith- lltallliillg [he t-llllllll illlll tile i191)! ofthe province has been rctlulsl-ti by several and that the Bell government has

interest

thousands of dollars

produced a surplus The 810,000 in interest represents tin increased debt of about $200,000.

believe that a few government surpluses

every year!

increase of approximately

Many oi‘ us more Hall will mean bankruptcy for the pro- viifce.

Many other items might be tut-n tloned to show the peculiar kind of economy practised by the Bell government as compared with the "Qxtrsgavsnces" of tlis Conscrva» tive administration, but these will iufflce to show that we have al— may had far too much oi’ this kind or economy. Nothing is said of the expenditures on tlre roads as there is nothing in the history 0f- the province with which to conl pdre it. anyway we do not know, nerlcsn “Ad out what the ex- penditure _ ‘, orgthsy yetllsihount to. The people will have an opportunity next Wednesday to express their opin- ion on those questions.

' roads amounts to

-—-—-4>-0}--——— OTRIKII

There are $12,000 miners on strike in Nova Bcotia at pre sent and this at the beginning of whiter. when preparation must be supplies in the

nishall be no monopoly of the coull l ‘tr,v's natural resources; that

n lorelgn agitator

unions or otherwise, hold up the

can, through country's necessaries of life. The consumers are today at the mercy of monopolists, whether the mono pollsts gn by the name ol‘ trades lllll0llt4 or capitalists; they are be ing bled white and therewill un tioulltedly come a time when the‘ will rot/use to submit lo it. Trade: linlons are a necessity; trade and labor have s right to demand their rights. to demand that they silal‘ receive a fair return for honest: work but fire when they demand more than this and try to enforce their d»- mnnds by forbidding to

they are playing with

others work. And the authorities art: playing with fire when they per- ‘mlt agitators and Bolshsvists to tleLy the law of the land. If ever there was a time when stern, un- compromising justice should be meted out to agitators that time is now. We have bad in the last few years a lurid demonstration of what a country may be brought to by uhressonlng agitators and we went none oi‘ it in Canada. Yet we are courting a similar fate when we permit agitators to die- tste to us as to who shsll or shall not work. l

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lrts times as much per session s ttie Cotes, ‘Nhelans, Popes, Alrda, Dllviescn, Sullivanr, Has. ards, and Mathlesons of the pig! lur do the people think so? What ave they done for the people or or the province that they ghpu|d thus grab for themselves a dou- ile reward?“ What but to double

Then Edison went to Boston, anti in the same year got his first pm- t-nt. on an electrical vote recorder. The recorder, while fulfilling its in- tended purpose, was unsuitable for practical use, and consequently worthless to the young invrlntor. ll had served another purpose, how ever, for from t.ien on Edison sl-

, I - - . lk‘ xi ‘-. lliiut tlie cat'- per sessionqgreatly’ influenced Edisons inteqsuffreflfl to hi8 flbllllY t0 P1911 1119mm“ s" mg “ on“

Hil!'ill,<lW')l‘l li 'l‘lio.<c oi

titr- glttitl

thirty _veilrs

, .- . _ eor of Alfred (‘.- .llgllt men to help llini, He has act lflvigmun“ Nurlhlllme.

who littvl- ;ftlrtutic to ‘bu alive

lflnd that man. fvatitltge of ti more llf'i'lll'il|0 esti- A tireless worker himself, Edi-lmate of the vnltte of his lift» tiiutl son asks the same of his Emplflyvl-llcflll possibly be formed today. A 20-hour day ls not uncommon for, As a lioy of seven Nortltcllffirliatl! the inventor. and he at times be- asnlall printing prcss ltt his hllllltKl cunies so immersed in his workiAs u ymlth oi‘ sixteen lie was itli that he often would lillve goneleditor. without sleep or t‘ood, but for llis -hrot'licr. now Viscount iluthermere. wile-g, l-gnlgndmq ihatl ‘built up tlie Amalgitmttletl Edison's personal habits are sitii-iPtPfiil I116 EPW119511 Prlifilllrul D1111)- pk, He “m3 non-ll"; [m- bauquplmiukhillg house in the worltl. At tliit"l.y nor for being lionlzed. lie tlccnuntsflle 1011114180 I118 D3111’ Null. flll m- ms deafneskqle l5 entire‘). deaf i“ stanttineoits atlccess tliltt in its first . l one em. and c“ he," Homing legsildsy of publication sold four hit-ll- ma-n a shout Wm, the 0m,,,_mtdred thousand topics. At flfLY-filx

in his tilts-titles lie itiitl his

"he was tlie OWIIPI‘ nf tilt» 110"‘

MONCTON, N. B.

rtllttrlllr. y. s. Nllcrltrtsolte

Direct \\'IN

Month-til. l‘. (l.

kidney‘. N. 9i. Ht. John's. Nfld.

(‘onne-ctlnnn. L

5

l-li‘, 1N" t-lliitrted and cllrnetl the tillc til‘ l\ working llewsttiipt-r mttn. No other great tiewspuper owner wrote so freely for his tlwti join-n- zils. ills articles i-ttnie from lill parts of the world, for his fixed tllullef was tluit tlie only real education came from travel.

ifkltlsistetitwy wits never kl jewel iii N-ortltclltlt-‘fs eyes. “iHis agility leitv- os one lbrelilitlutts," wrote one 0i his critics, referring to some of tlie

fit-lent." Parole itnd prubtttioti laws are often ltlitloly lttltliitilstt-retl, ball iibttses tirt- conltililii. tlilttttlry pro- cedtlrt- in lilo rout-ts is couimoti. The practise in some States til ttinkiltg tile Jury tlie llniil iudgs tboth ol‘ 1.1a luw ittltl oi‘ the fltcts iltc cotiiniiitcia cntiilutltns its "ltbso- lttiely subversive oi t1 goveynnienl by lttw." Congress ls tlrzotl to en- uct laws to tit-event lynching 11nd tuob violent-e.

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ind treble the people's taxes’! Anti iillllk of-Tiow-‘atid when and mder what circumstances they "d "'0 tit-on. They did It learn- iy, steaithliy concealing their in- entton from the people. They did t at their first session, tile ear- iest possible opportunity. They did it when they said they fellmg the treasury was empty. They did " k"°W|"il 111i! W!‘ population lad dimlnlelles by 213m "om u“ maximum and was actually less than it was fifty yeirl ago. They did it While other provinces were increasing their popuratliort by leaps and hounds. It was under these circumstances that the as“ Government and its support", field "We will ear-mark for .our- 591V" $300 each per session $1,. 200 each for the four years term, 336.000 more than any House had 9"" Plid before." And they difl ltl