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llernlna Dally Tfounllcl llilfl’) I600 per year lln advance) lellvervl- CLEO yer rear iin advance) mailed In Canada and falter! sum-n.

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“'- Uheatrr S. McLllrri Wire-President, J. - flecretury, Llrul- fol. l). A. llfurlfilnncn, D. .. Milka! and Munager. J; IL llurartt Annoelute Editor, Montreal Reuresentnllvh-J. L‘. Morrln New York llepreaentnllvh-Ilrnnk R. Northrup Chicago "rurcaenttillvu—l-L J. Power

ID. K. Currie.

fim The GUARDIAN may be obtained from the (‘In lath-lanai nrltlne Ntntlcnrrn. (iruftoa st. tune‘: a ca. Que" "- IA. Brawn, sump Vendor Rnllvvny llookalull fitepkea Duly. Richmond St.

followlnl: naenfn In l’. T. Murphy. Prlnce 51., Grocery J. l‘. Duffy, Queen fit. W. C. “Tight, Kent Street Wont It. Tkunun White, 135 Iona Avr- \\'nt. Dulllel, Spring Park Roar]

THURSDAY JANUARY 3, 1924

A NOTABLE GATHERING.

l ed until it embraces all the pro»

u was m every way mung thatl Ilucc that can be handled (to-Opera. the people of New Brunswick them

we hope to see it steadily elllfiff-I‘

1w" r o1 queetlcne of Interest. The Charlottetown Guantanamo: y not nccceanrily endorse tne cnlmen expreaeed by lb cen- g Pelpondanll

Car Ferry Service

Sin-i aim afraid we will have to

apply to Captain Read the old say- ing, "No man is so ‘blind us the one

Prince

who will not see." i repeat that the service to Edward island is going

backward, and is not as good us it.

months of November,

- has lnow, about the connections by the

ago, during the December and psrt of January. (‘aptain Read r-vudcd the question twice

was ten yea rs

itoum Navigation Company ten rears ago, during November and

December. and ho trics to tell us that people on the Western part of thc island have bcttcr connections now. Well, let me inform Captain

do. in order to give Prince Edward island partially as good a service as they had ten yearn ago. why 1'0?- iainly the Railroad Officials would make the train aicoupie of hours later. so as to fit in Wllh thc Car Ferry. the same as tho afternoon train does.

Captain Read really had bettnr get posted on the map before he mentions about passengers from

away around ‘by Montreal to go to Charlottetown. Such an idea is absurd. in the first. place it is much farther, and in the second place there are no tariffs existing for tickets, and consequently cx- pense is much morn. The approxi- mate mileage is 890 miles from New York to Charlottetown by rail via Si. John, N. 8., and 1180 miles from lNew York to Charlotte- town via Montreal.

Equally absurd is Captain Head's statement that passengers by the Maritime Express and the C. P. R. reach their homes in the Western part of P-. E. l.. 3 or 4 hours cnrlicr than they did 10 years ago via Sum- merside. One might as well say that a. train arrived in Montreal from Vancouver half an hour soon- A

New York and Boston travelling‘

l am sure Martin is not the only! schoolmaster" who ls gifted in thatl respect. I gavc iliartin a tcst in!‘ geography. i ziski-d him wire-rt- Kcllyka (‘ross was. Sliurc l do, he says. Kclly s (‘ross is u stone's throw from thc (Hunt's Cuuscwayl in lreluntl. \\'li<=u l corrected .\lZll’-' tin he got ti little hit pcr-vctl and. said: "l never saw n- bzilil-hczidcil; man who was all lhcre." 1

i risked Martin why furmcrs in, Ireland were not us successful us they might be. llcre is thc lill¥‘»\\'£’l‘, he gave inc: "The farmers iii 1H»! lund don't want to do any tcniu-, work. Thoy don't unite or ‘pull; __ together. They don't ('()-0[)01‘1l_I}0l‘ _ ' k v a concentrate on any one line of on-lwgniflktrulyagfcgl,‘hméletgu deavor, and they don't put up a stiff] l ) l?“ m ‘he hmnan body fight against. the three dreadful Jgéu unqulre Hum“ a ‘cermm §,‘"',",f:';:f‘;§5,ff“;§;f§, tgglrsfilflalpcrsons illness and ure told tho getting on fairly well, the Clililollfl jilsstressilgvplryiloibgrilf“w; fellow wants to drug lilm down into, Naw w“ is he “run down m’ the nasty slime of bate and misery.‘ Y 1 t - -kl where foolish pride is ever crecirlyélfl r931‘:- rgiilvotrhgttiraosnlréocgglgJlii ‘migvlartln has n word to sny about Eon the. valves or pistons, that per- theboys ninl girls in America: so maps the gns is of poor quality, 0r here it is: "'l‘lie boys and girls in inns some dirt in l‘... it may possibly America write hoinc wonderful '01: due to lack of ‘water. or to the stories about the easy time they ;oil being too heavy.

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JANUARY Li; i924

A llesolutioii for i924

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lWhat is your estate wortlif Take Stuck- WOuld l! yield your dependents a livable income? if not, rclolvc to make suitable provision for them by investing ln a Great-West Life income pulley. Rates on a contract to

meet your requirements cheerfully furnllhed.

' llynilman 08f 00., Lid.

The Oldest lnlllfllicg Agency in P, E. l.‘

Offices, o1 Queen st. Char! clown

MESSRS. FRED’k HUTH & CO.

ANNOUNCE THEIR MID-WINTER AUCTION SALE

er than the train from Toronto. very good reason is that the train leaves Vancouver several days ho- fok the train leaves Toronto. The ‘iiillllfl answer can be made to Cap- tain Road's statement, that is that

have getting their pay cnveloilesv, and grand times they have at their ilfflclency from it, and if you arc tres, movic shows and diince halls. juot gutting it. you know tbcrc They icll about the woiiilcrful ‘njugt bu a mason, ,

clothiéfl 111B)’ i191 l" Allleflflll.’ "ml Accordingly, you have lcurncil so

sb-culd celebrate thc recent COB"; Them are, of necessity. “m,” to

. . . I o; mflmuve victory m KN“ (‘ouuuHt-o-oporative effort. Some of those

Silver r Foxes

lteari that when people travelled via. Summr-rsids tcii years ago. they teould ll-avc Boston or Mon- treal onc night, and bc in 'l'igiiisli or other Western points the follow-

“nd m“? ‘Md u “gm runny ‘Mulimlts have been reached and even

much about your car that you can

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‘WW-my “mm l“ m“ any of “onwlexrcedetl, to the cost. of ‘many far- ton.

it= -i.\vbi_lir<-rc- . . Bmmmm‘ l0 ‘l d p il-licitidzsl» ha»: proved it inilurc lu

- '~ A "t iuiitiv arts oz‘ , sqm‘m‘8 mm n m‘ ' p vciy many cases; co-opcriiiion

< ‘ i. u ~ out, bl-yiill-si ,_ _

‘he pwmm‘ “em m“ ‘ politics has fuilcd utterly.

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‘ills. l

' , .\ir. ileum-t. thc‘ , , m‘ guest °r Mum l ltlill)‘ mcans that co-opcrzition cunlicct llll\‘t' hall ;lll_\'ll' HD0111 UH‘. filllllllll'l' 5i!‘ ~ igooil service, but Wllill.

. n - _ _ l mgmbflqflem m" MIN’ A“ mum" bu succcssfully- curried out

tion bud been l-xtcnilt-d i0 .\ir.

ziloiig thc lines of business iii which}

Buick, tlic reiccntly l‘l"(.'l,t‘(l mcmbi-r l , . , r . 1 _‘

for Halifax City and Count), but u l‘ Much they umlersland.

~' -‘ l' l' b0 rel llV the. w” b‘ mg “m! ‘n 5 no ‘ ' lflll‘y8l'sl,fdi‘l11Ql‘$,d0Cl01'B can co-opgne

people of ilalifax, and was there’ forehnable to be present.

ciuto successfully in their rsspcctfl

iflilliilili-ils was plzicml by nil thc groups, hm u“ mwrlmxuwv 0r u“ speakers on the significance of the‘ Conservative victory in Kont andlmr. y Halifax. it meant. a general strait-i ‘ cning of the peoplc to the fact,

' that Qicy bad bot-n betrayal by the, Liberal party. and that that purl)‘;

A STREET DANGER.

h I h l v Another of tho civic reg-ulationsi . . ,_ , _ w“ n‘) 1°tfur$°rt T’! ‘ih argon ' which ls being persistently violated = . ,:i

fiance‘ em o“ u e n“ is that providing that hclls shall

Iliad coma to them u-ith bribes loam "Hod 0mm‘, on the sleigh Orhnr,‘ the“ bu“ M“ ‘he mom's renm‘ lness when driving on the streets.

‘o be bmmd‘ The emu.“ o! MLiA ‘horse and sleigh without bells Doucet was the first break in the moves 9° silently on the snowy chain of Liberal counties from Que- skeet u not w be heard by "N, pcc to Nova Swtia. Hols ihconly m“ crossing’ and already Home _ French-Acadlan representative iii the Conservative party in the Housc é ‘of Commons. and is thus the spokes- man for the French Conservatives. '. not only of New Brunswick but of _ the other Maritime Provinces, and. i Quebec and Ontario. Kent and Halifax have set an example ‘that other parts of Canada 7'will follow at the first opportunity, pand the sooner the opportunity » comes, the better it will be rui- 7 Canada.

serious accidents have hccn unr- rowly averted.

is strictly enforced as the unbclled horse and sleigh is a greater men. ace than the ,»much discussed auto- mobile. -

AN EXPLANATION.

Our Pictou County readers, says the Halifax Herald, will recall that ilvrlna the 1921 election campaign the Minister of I) ‘ eghnugtgd libs vltuperatlve vocabulary in 851156 0f D. B. Hanna because some We a"o indebted to a correspond-lees, w“ “ed by the C. N. n. In gent for a copy of The Produceonmrk) mm was mm“ m 1w mm Ncws, Aroostook, Maine, in which ‘nines m Ohio. we now ask Mm the question of co-operaltive potato

T‘ marketing ls discussed at some lztsexpllzi: tfhehlsnrnlllllfi-(JOEZELTH- ‘mum lnient is compelled to take Amer. The Mains Potato Growers‘ liar-Jean Co,“ for bunkers and “Shh .v,chango was organized reccntlyhouse Bummes at Three Rivera ,- iwhh a memmmhlp M ‘L100’ I‘ b°'|Qucbec. Tho Dominion Coal Com: ‘llgan functioning during thc paslflmny has a “m, equipped mam am“ and were aplmm‘ l" M’ “mmlthcre, and has special facilities for

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Udissatlsfacilon with rcgurd to li.sv_,,lpp1y,ng steamers wnh ‘bunkers’ ‘Topemuon’ The Pmduce News "em in case lion. Mr. Maodonsld will lira. correspondent to the prlnclpaligmn have “me ‘arms houday m ex Hpotato centres to investlgato undmla,“ ,0 Ammo “an and Con” “report on the conditions, and the “story tho correspondent scat buck gals not a favorable one. Not know- “ ing the conditions we do not pur- ‘hpose entering into any controversy lltover tho mutter. ‘The story, how- llerer, bears a family resemblance l‘ m campaigns organized ‘by vested . interests in other placer than llMclne against co-opcrative market- mi by farmers.

, The complaint in llfainc is that i’ {the "independent farmer" gets a ilkigber price for hi! prodiicejkuown

l. Whit be is w w. any: hiu bills

H with the‘ proceeds, ole, 00s.. while i- tho cooperative farmer never i knows What lie it to get, when ho ' dbsii let lf. and therefore cannot i» pay an mun. ,1 story is u old u co-opera- tion but, whatever bu happened in i» ‘OHIO. the farmers of Prince Ed- “ Que Blend who have cit-Operative- w; nietkoted mi: _ mu potatoes. fill!‘ ‘ ‘their lembl. their butter _ . win not he induced u; ‘f to cooperation and m- an in detailed lndepcildeilco. - w»

(IO-OPERATION.

Junilesim’, of Steilurton, who were instructed by ‘their lodge to call his attention 'to the “serious mut~ l" v! unemployment in iPictou col- iieries," the reason, we will help hlin out. The boats are the fist-t under the control of l-ion. Ernest Lflllfllntc. Tho latter is indebted tn Hon. Jacques Bureau. the Min. lster of Customs. for many favors. Mr. ‘Bureau's son is agent (or Alf"- erlcan coal companies; and tho father tails the Minister of Marine that. his son's American coel must be taken instead of Nova Scotla coal-cad it il done.

Every ton of United sum; coal uled in the government steamers displace: l0 much Nova Bcotiu coal and adds to the unemployment Mr. Maodonald’: constituents d9- plore.

IDlTORIAL NOTES.

ffba weather prophets are having excellent ‘material et present. on which lo found precaution tui- m relnaliidercf the mum. s. nrll- ‘ . .

Qtmr.

\ ban iict was hold in tbc- _ , I . mg mg)“

‘ q xiii-rs. Cooperation in general uicr- “The and guy 11ml m. have g0; a lictisr ‘lliu-S-‘iil liiiic,

5111111 llli‘ sumnicr si-rvicv.

What nonsense it is to

scrvicc tlizin that at thc to mou- 'l‘o my

(‘iiplziiu lit-nil limit-t.- nil

knowle-ilgc, no letters on this sub-

iilio urn-operators are cnizagril uutllhdmm,,,.d H

deny it, but simply beats about thc m 103mg n who”, (my? Howe ,

(mt-ration would only lcsd to disus-‘ mull-c

' l0 sit)‘

it is a ‘1l\'t‘ll€i‘," myself and oilu-rs llil\'t' suitl is. illi\!'l_’l‘lll(‘t* lddwxird island is golnt: l'\:;;;li'll.-i

Mel-uhuutsdilllll mail scrviirc during six months U

i repeat that stats- Captaln Read can‘!

the year.- nt, and

hush. iivt-rywviic who has tmvnllt-ul

'l\" fillings. and all in Lllili‘ Qwllililllillll‘! ilmt during Nnvl-mhcr and Wm m’, s‘, ‘ l

llvrtiillicl‘, it'll yciirs ago, ilie brim- >1 l‘\'l\"t' for passengers tin-l lilfiltlllil of lit-lug dlscoutim

fill-I‘

no.1 the end of October, was (lis-

figglgrtfirotfnéfgsgdrgzi: good deal) next fall. and if possiblehioverta

who January service was put on viii . ., . . t . or (‘harhmelo“n' umldior and Docsmhci‘. otherwise lct

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Boston or bionircnl pas- (Jharlottetoivn lmlf ii day earlier than this present time.

in Captain Head's previous lot-

rcnxcrs in

ters he made reference to passe!»

it is the duty uzihat the police to see that this by-lawlmble,‘

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5,5375 arriving at Sackville on the evening train about l1 p. m. from Boston or Montreal, as having n “nlcc rosi" unlll one o'clock iicxi day. I am sure tbiit all the pcisst-u- ges, even to the dear little child- ren, would be "well rested" to rou- tinue their journey at eight o'clock the next morning, and as regards my statement about the train goln

into Charlottetown around 11 1. m. i also remarked in my last latter the Railway Officials was: oi‘ working out the time and. most decidedly ii‘ the Car Ferry was bringing thc mails and passengers over on her return trips in the morning, as she should

capable

i“ Notes By the Way

An analysis of the recent Britisn elections shows that lens than three quarters of the electorate voted. The proportion of those voting wns loss than at the general elections of 1906. much less than in the first election of 1910 when 84% per cent voted, and less than in the second election of the same year, or an the election of 1922. in all at the recent election 14,258,938 votes were recorded.

Publ-Ic Opinion classifies the vote! as follows:

For Free Trade . . . . . . .. 8.917.335 For Protection . . . . . . . .. 6,341,093 For the Capital Levy 5.305.331 Against Capital Levy 9,838,059 For the Labor Party 4,348,379

The growth of the Labor vote since the century came in has hecn remarkable. in 1900 the total votcs cost by Labor wwirc 118.003. in. that ycar they elected iilnc members. In 1906 Labor clcclcd 54 members with 448,808 votes, in the two elcctlons of January and ilcceitibcr. 1910, Labor elected but 40 memb- ers in the first and l2 in thc second. In 1918, with 1.754.133 votes Labor clccted 61 tncmbcrs. in 1922 ihero wcrc 142 Labor lll-"illll- crs clcctcd with -l,2-i7,S0ii rod-s. With barely 100,500 more vnics than in 1922 Labor has succeeded in electing 50 more members than it elected thcn. Seventyone of these were what arc spoken of as

"minority members," elected in the not

threoscornored contests and having a majority of the votes cast.

but both Conservatives and Liber-

als returned minority members in the earns way. the Conservatives having 94 and the Liberals 48 of these.

Ae the result of eyctom 213 minority were elected and make up more

the

than one third of the House. Some

largo majorities are remarked upon in tho English press, a few

running between 12,000 and 13.000, but these are no larger than have since

been recorded in Canada woman suffrage came in. "Seven members bad-majorities of loll than 50‘ votes each. two of whom

bed but It: nu three rclpoctlveiy.

In sometime. happens in finuda. freon ~""7'~

l irassciigci"

thc hitirltimia Express leaves in the morning, whercns the Ocean l.iin- lte-d loaves at fright, consequently most ilvcidcilly if people‘. lclivn i) hours iilimiii. ii i'\‘ lo br- lmilfll ‘W111i [lit-y urrivo at. tlicir (lifSilllilllilil 1i or l hours ciiriisi- than tlicy did 1U yvziis ago.

(Iiiplziiu llcziii also [r118 us, that “'4' now gi-t into Clmrltilictmvn ut $20 p. m.. instead oi‘ ll p. m.. ziril -il.<h in 5i p. m., liisicud oi‘ zuid-

all they have to pny is u dollar til week. Th" Kills also tcll how Bus)’ oltcn go directly io the root of thc i3 u; kid-p looking Yflllllil all" trouble and correct it, with thc re», fool the boys from (“ollni)'(i';l‘;"il-v~‘suit that you got full efficiency All thcy have w ll" -“ 1° P10 " ° l‘ ‘ii-om it. tll'lli~', swrcorlu-nuty i\1\rl<>i‘=l1\'l Ki"! out whait about that a “K1455 supply of face rcjuvcuutoi- ._\.,,,,,.__.-;_ (or a week's warm" ' I You go about from day to day Evcrythini: l5 "YEY- 1'95")’ ‘mfllivith no rctil delight in lifc. You grand with lllt‘ My“ "ml gm“ "lidoui fccl iikc calling, worltinii. or Alllvrlfill- hi" “'1"'“ they. g“ "m?" wvll lllilYlilK- You fccl misi-rziblc. v Ylcll flllll 51'1"" MW“ ‘o cormd, llid it cvcr occur to you lluil ... 1 n 1i..u \ ‘.utl'r§»|l\1\lll(fy s1 m. nu l i“, m, i“ mo ,, of [he m“ Lhpr“,

body oi’

and other American Furies

London, January 28th, 1924

and following days

Silver Foxes for this sale should he mailed from P. E. Island by December 31st. ‘

We offer to shippers THE UNEXCELLED SERVICE in the London Sales; and solicit your business.

The first Auction House to Issue a classified catalog for the convenience of buyers of Silver Foxes. '

group mambo -

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l: gilt. Well, for a business 1min. a farmer, or a professional roan, 'wliat docs tlirce or four hours in thc.e\'ciiliii: signify, as compared

hour-y comb tripe. it is then tin- wonderfnl fairy tale letters bcgm to lug and cause, and then ever)" thing is not so rosy, post-y. and, Nonc arc so blind its those Mirwgriiiiil.

" ‘ liuvi- now wold zibout Martin (‘ussiiiy-

you my story

, _,\,,I\.“.H_\.V the zici-nril»

lct. us liopi- zill this mr- _ i|‘PS|)O1l\lt'il('l‘ will lvuil-Cziplalii ilcaidjon, tiildlc uiiil llutc, plaiyier, lrolii rio use his lutlueiico with tlic LlOV-‘Cfllliliy Cork. Ireland. and Wlllll‘ icrnmeni. (we Iundrcstnnd he has aiMai-tin told me can be truthfully lied into exactly the same conditions on P. E, island, and n8 my frk-nd, Penrlcrgnst siiyfll Th“ people Wilill. something 111°)‘ "l" rend with avldltyz ' S0 tlicrc ibis. and perhaps thc car ferry Wllllli will cease to pub and blow lizard. l am, Sir, etc., l JOHN

Boston, Dcc. 27, 1923.

‘give us the some service that we l

lhfld tcn yctiis ago, during Novoin- ' us have the morning scrlvcc from Sackvlllo to Charlottetown, be- cause as the old saying is “i-ialf a loaf is bctier than none." i am,etc., C. FAIRALL FISHER

....-__—{Oi That Hori ibles Parade

gh-IFQ“ New Year's Day, as nil- nouiicctl in the press. lJillZBll-‘l f)?‘ Charlottetown had till: flilllflfllllllly uf, viewing n revival of thc old \'\l~"\ tom of the first duy of ilic yciiin, ’i'hl.s took thc form of a iiorrlblcri‘ ‘Pdfililfk, and although the turn-out gig largo as‘ expected. Yo! some amusement lor

——-—-<0->—-i- Martin Passidy

l l Sir,—i buve first received ihcl following letter from an old friend,‘ _which l trust you will publish in the Forum Column of thc Guardian. Mr. John Dcar liiclntyrc. Dear Sii'.——l remember well the ilmc you stole the gander from Joe B. Glnnlt. it was the winter‘ W115 W'- l of the hlg crust, when we hnd our l1 ll1‘(§\'l<ll‘l\ _ , Debating Club in Johnnie Angusfllle kiddie“ l“ “"11 "5 m" a l‘??? Dan's kitchen. \Vbils the dcbatelnllillll" 0f l4"(""""'l"" T1“? Mo" 5 would be ln full swing about all“""“"°" ma‘ "he mrmle ‘vafi m“ i scolding Wm, and a smoky cmmgon such a inrgc scale as announc- uey‘ yo“ would be over new. nmlctl, proved a source of (llssppolut-

v _ . mom not only to those in charge l aterloo stove, watching ilie],____ w,“ m m“ smmivnrs‘ and l,

I weather eye of Kitty Ann across , . , me Creek Times are precarious is -but Just to thc committee and to .. _~t).1u)' concerned that a little l here now, and to make matters , l_ t, b given on ‘he mat , worse we have a new disease a?’ ‘ma 0n e ‘ - callcd Exodusltis. i wish ou ' , , ,, ' would ‘write another letter yfor Rum‘ “e “Sh m ma“ it‘ clear what tiiouo under whose cbargethe me Gunman‘ “ml whu“ yo“ Se“ nrade was he'd were not out for ‘ a gcod (mange send m“ a plug of ‘Illll’ pecuniary ‘gain or cheap pub- good chewing tobacco’ l"itv, but merely to provide some You" l-fllly- amusement and so keep alive the Boxcy Bauchkan. spirit of the season. __As was quite evident tho turii-oiit fell far short o‘ the number anticipated. The plain reason for this was that a number of our people, among whom were some businessmen. made a promise and failed to keep it. They promised to give their