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[Notes By The ay

The national debt of Canada has i ,l -i ln an o" llvslilsrlaa llllbl- "$1.2"- l I '1' 11|"'e1"a':f:.",_lu"' n. 'uu'h" t§1i§§fii1$iuf.ii§§1°ft'mitosis __ ‘ " ing the war. in round figures by Bl million dollars in 1914, by 118 THURSDAY, JULY 13, 1922. million, in 1915, by tits million. ___ r in 1916. b)’ 264 millions, in 1917 and by 31:: i-Z millions in 1918. The war ended in November of 911 M11119" 1111111 111' ‘Newman the last named year, but tbe in- 1° “nuouncelof any o! 111B 5111911 m1111111°51ciease ot‘ tire National Debt, weni. that blirough the efforts o! the Re- wnm, participated in one war.,0n notice. ln 11119 there were add- tail Merchant's Association and In Canada’ V“ nn noun, amounted 382 H! 111111111119. 111111 111 1930 ' i -‘tiiere were added 674 millions the oily (‘allflfll nrrangemnts llilViflour Allies’ ‘new m" have beennmmL . . been practically completed for a em,“ both unrmiesion, series of band concerts on Qllumland commission; 311d these 111 1921 11111 “*1 11°17! W“ 111111 3111111111 111111115 111* 111111111191 e"*"'_lare matters of human limitationIigrsgnglnnznrocrfgfise rhgrainyfi: 11155‘ The m“ °1 ‘new "nucerl1we 119119" 11131 1n 11"’ “fie Mthree years following the armis- "111 111119 P111“ 11111‘ 11111111111" "911 iboth our own country and tilefties 81.149.000.000 was added ‘to the ing. The intention is to hold two countries n; on, AlliEs ‘he smcarshatioual Debt. as compared with

. the $877,000,000 that were iidtlod c nc t a -h t k. i V€l]ifl"S t a to- _ o H a e 1 “Be n? e c dew-e of an govemmen s w s during t-he five years in which war?

. - ' - ~;l - r .d soldiers evellf- (‘n ‘ma! the} are m he he“ "l rgwe the Hum“ ifare ‘has carrit-d 0111 This was doc

chiefly to the great cost oi‘ de-

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orsn ant conceive erninent are more for titt- return-

We are pleased

of

be announced later. possible opportunity t0 111-9513111151‘

themselves on as favorable at

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liord Lavarh-ul-nie. t-be ago, that if Great Britain would adopt prohibition she would be able to pay tilts. United State-a the money she borrowed inlthe war in three years. lt is calculated that in tbe past year the drink bill of the two billion dollars, which incliities not only who! was spent for drink but whsit was also paid in taxation so one can calculate how long it ‘would take for Britain to clean the slate with the United States if every dollar now spent on drink were d-iveitted to that pur pose. There may be in the British fries ii large number of people whom even llilg inviting prospect ,would not‘ convert to prohibition. ipeopie who would rat-tier spend a lsliiliing for a drink than turn it ‘over to Unt-ie Saul. Btu there are |:ilso ptople in the Linlte-tl Sta-tea fnho regard Great Britain as a de lfaiilting debtor, and who think -it unfair and almost . dlitlionesttlint she could continue to spend huge

isums on drink before settling the

“,6 said arrangements lune been I _ I e zififlilllllillltlll, bonuses to men who n 11,. ltd mi , ‘footing as 11011511111" 11111111‘ w" "were mustered out. pensions and “practca y compo e ' ii s _ _ _ _ l. _ _ _ , n i . . no denim nnsnarngges. iuiougb increasing annual interest Llldfgetinwl can“! aufilci-enq funds are if! aigfh! to - - 1 '1' 11 -

11111119 11 80011 119811111111! bl" 11111 5111- ‘since the war down to 31st March

of those whom it was inttiiitiei trlr,“ l“! year.

benefit, _btit on the w o e e r , _______

hag been little fault to find W111i‘ Within the year endedutith the novernnmnl-s l|tealn‘elnl of meiJuue. i922 the net National Debt twas increased by over i8 itiililoiis ,ol’ dollars, or by an average of There is another side to tii-ifour tnillfon dict-liars ,per month.

matter is to give the cltv a g00d1rigltts of returned soldiers. it is 1118 110111111 111N911" 111111115 111°

n “r “but I hm!“ wemntuonth of June being $6,794,136. name and to provi e a l1 <1!“ nan easy matter o 5 ‘These are figures that n

recreation for the an easy matter to 1181111» not pleasant to reflect upon. snnnld d0 n;- lt is true that Canada's resources are great; that the burden which

118119 00011111111911 us the private citizens. the 1111!‘-1n.-c1m1ies is cheerfully borne by a

tvillllflg people as the price of their generously; the City Council. OYLnggg men, the Qapllaini ni llidUS-_own and {he world-s freedom and behalf of the citizens wtill hlfiflhltry, the controllers of positionsdthat we are "in no immediate we feel assured, no its part, es» Are we doing our duty? We iieedgdallgtil Ofnnational banktlllltcy if peclally in view of the fact thntfworgntgn; we need assistants, we our 1111111161111 "K3115 are 111111111911”

iy managed. And yet upon the ut. . ~_ , - 1 only a small portion of last yeat‘ s need services. Do we give return-imp“ pmdnneflce our naflcnm

appropriation for lband concetwied soldiers a preference‘! Many re-Livgty dgpgndl. 1 .

1111! 1191111 61106111181 ‘turned soldiers are working up aI . ‘ 1 Th T t Gl b t k . i-l We have four excellent bands infbusiuess for themselves; do wel e om“ 0 o e a H a “r

I v ions VlGW of the facts above men- tbe city and we understand they give [hem our patronage in prenar-Etionedv as wen n ma), and goes

are all taking part in the programnenne m others? Many of them left:o n ,0 say. “Based on a population

iicient to continue the programme during the months oi July and August as 118d been planned tor. in this mattcr have nlieir part to play. The trier-

ihe citizens will n ‘returned soldiers.

chants, whose only interest in the]

many Wllfltirfmsnts. obliged to spend their days sud-Tine governnien: i nights in the city rather t-bnn art-What about our duty, the duty of}

the seashore.

‘he mun m. onicmis and me fauitfl hus our debt increased during and?

A Dollarj Head per Week.

As estimated by Mr. P. \V. \Vlleon, the well-known Etigllsh newspaper tyriter, now an American corres- poudeut of the Daily News. the drink expenditure in Great Britain and Ireland amounts to about a tioliur a head per week for the en- tire population. or five dollars a week for the average family. Be- fore the war there were hundreds oi‘ thousands of British workers wtho did not earn more than a pound a week, and, though wages have increased in almost ail trades it is staggering to ihinktbs; a pound a week is laid out on drink. The figures are the more shocking when one recalls that un Employment is acute, and that about one worker out 0f six is without a job. That the great bulk of the drinking is dime by people of moderate or slender mean; is indicated by the stattsvlce

A1] 5m- cltjzgns are looking (‘n-inn m noun‘. ‘he nun o‘ an“, nndmf nine millions the debt is over

. ‘B8 hd,l|d‘ th-bbi- ward with pleasure to these popu-acauie home, some of tliein wound-ET: thzezragre arndc nhéngiflzinsupatgsti lar evening in crl and disabled. to tind Yhfllfhhe years of ncflvny‘ n, we ware] many cases ‘

111° 01117 11111°1"a111‘1il111t"@5 filled by safety firstel’! Wholto reckon the debt at so much pcrl rnentsavailable and will be griev- were Coming money at 110mg while i t l , °1151Y 11153119910195 11 1119 Prillramiotlicrs were sacrificing life antitwhlch 15 beueved m ‘be 81g“ Y1

d _ ‘over two million persons, the, oes not continue till the end Digcomlort and "business in the frotitlsmrtlmg mm ‘vmnd emerge mnti 1119 511171111" 593-‘14111- ilitie trenches. Are we making theion m,

entertainments:

tread of our employed eilizcttship»

- MAKING COMPLAINTS

1W8 noisily contend ... _ quflfllbl-IIPIQBI, there rests the lrnent should make in sin-par casesnweiah‘ p’ $1,198 of Nation“ Deb”, The story of the returned Sflidifil":

We are in receipt of a letter turtle-becoming an old one now. Tliél publication in connection with‘ unitary n1 the new twult 111mm W", in (‘ihqrlgitiqgwnuhlllléd as a hero during the anxi-i The writer did not give his nnmeinns days of the war. 1s "1111 lie-l either for publication or in con~1“"“‘1“g n“ "m one’ wemave a1‘ iidence and therefore the letter] 111°91- mrgmwn ‘he 111111111“ w" w," m, be nnnnsnen_ ‘gave in 1914-15-16-17 that the dei

Our correspondent claims to know 1191111111115 o1 111°“ who volunteer r

all the circumstances connected ed to go would forever with the arrest and to be able L0

e0

Daily Selections for Guardian Readers

,._.._. From the W. I. Leusen '

noiteclion 1

QQ-OOOOO OQ-O-O l

IF IT CAN'T. BE HELPED-

TQCBD! SITES!

be our i l

‘care, that we would s98: produce the names of witnesseslm n ma‘ m“ snmnn “Wm, wann; ..

to prove that an injustice was done- Why not give this iii-forms- tlon to those whose business it is

, (By George Mltthew Adamsl-

thn-t we would re-instzitethem ln1 lti the first pittce, if it can‘! 119

,enn,.nen_ lirr-ipeii- that ends it!

1’“"‘1““s “m” All rm» worrying and fretting

they I-iave we done it‘!

shoulders of every Canw

idiscrimiuntion in these cases thatfladlantwwker. 111 I¢1111'°11 1° 311!

me govemftprlvate, municipal anti prtlvinclll- i

to see that ltistice is administer- ed‘! Our correspondent. lilretoo many others, is quite willing to have ' The Guardian or any other news- paper assume ‘the responsibility of making a charge against officials or others whose conduct blicy may disapprove of while they them- selves take shelter behind an as- 7 sumed name or no name at all. ii is the duty of all good citizens to do their part; in ‘maintaining law and order. If a crime is com~ mlited it is the ‘duty of those wit- nessing it to report it to the pro- per authorities. in this way only can we hope to maintain law and order. The newspapers are neither judges nor juries and have no jurisdiction over law breakers. They denounce law breaking and criminality but the law breaker and the criminal care little for deuunciationso long as they es- cape the punlshment they deserve. They will continue to escape as long as citizens are content to have others do whet they call the “dirty work" of gtlvlng lnlomia» tion. - -———-<-0-.>—-——- itiTUliNltb soLote-na

ii-

The complaint is frequently

us for many years to come.

history Neuve. Cha- pi-lle, ' Langemark. Passchendaela.

the Marne will never be forgtllifll and our returned soldiers P1185911

lasts Ypres.

through al loi these and other hells

like them. Over five hundred of our island boys are buried there and their churns have

who returned erected a modest wooden cross on Queen Square to their memory because we so far, have failed in _this duty.

The returned soldier is with us; once we acclaimed him as a hero because he was willing to go; now that he has returned he is a thousand times more a hero be- cause he went into it and came through it. i-ie is ours still to make good our pledges to him. Some of them stlilli need our assistance; they all have a right to all we can do for them. Let us

not forget them in their social l-i-fe. in their business. in their efforts to regain what they lost.

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beard that the federal government has not dens rill that it should have done for the returned sol- diers. This wee papeeisily true during the last regime and the

_ complaints were largely political. week and no doubt this week wllln

HAY HARVEST

The hay harvest has begun. A few fields in the vicinity 0d Char- lottetown were cut and coiled issi

aild figuring wont help ivliere thure

The returned soldier will be with {is an sud to a thing. That la tile

itime to etart something nr-W.

Take whatever blame tilt-re is to

Neglect him how we will. his story inyournclf as an elitcltlslilve pfslfkfjgilzlc: - t e. will never grow old. As inng as-‘1“‘1 11B 51811 '1“ '1 ° 1n

the handed to any one else.

'l‘lieii, if it can't he helped, don't take the time to explain or ex- llound-pass on.

One of the most valuaible—lf not the most valuable ufall the gifts» of Nature, is asleep. it comes so kindly and quietly to one, It sort oi leans over and puts i-te- twrwl) about us and tells us to have the kind ‘of dreams that make us hap-

py.

And it is sleep. that gets robbed when you hover around things that can't ge helped. ’ if it can't mind!

Take up your life as it comes to you, and not as it leaves you.

in a way, we all same bowl. Life fixes a mixture that it knows will meet the de- mands of .tll. But it expects no man to profit to the disadvantage of another.

If the dish is broken, nothing can altar this circumstance.‘ it can be mended? 0 yes, But it is better to throw lt-eway and forget it or lset another dish than to keep 111111111111: about the crack that the fall gave it. .

if it can't be helped-dorget it!

4._.___

the province. The hay crop is far above the average and it is estimated tltnt tlieyield will be at least double that of last year. All that is now need- ed is good weather to save the crop. This may confidently be look ed for. There will doubtless be breaks httt our farmers have learn- ed how to worlr between showers and how to utilize the fa-lr weath-

er that invariably intervenes be-

Al s mater o! fact the late gov- lee s good beginning made all over teen rainy days.

_4I

be helped-never

eat from the

which are more other liquors and are. as a rule, the

WVQTBEE of the wealthy. Beer re

[mains the national tippie.

Obstacles of Prohibition.

the British prohlbitiouista have to face. Mr. Wilson

sttvtts drum was. the first of bever.

>-____.._.___._.

t The interest on this indebted-

ness must be paid half yearly" and it involves a deduction from the

“'35P 111' 51111"? of every (‘anadiari "V0111" 01 $1.15 per week. or $65 .\'9fll‘iy. Al-‘lfl down l0 dife this bur. en has lbHOTOaIGd and ls than“. 1119- (‘ienrlv the burden ought to 119 tlltllluifilted by begl lug to -puy off the debt an the 0th,, calm 111')’ II dolnp. Ovcr there with a debt ""1911 greater per fiend nntl much, higher taxation than we have inf “1111111-‘1- already £50o.000.0oo m" the National Debi hits been paid off. in Canada not a single [lgpi baa yer been taken, or In propose" to be taken in that direetton,

On the contrary we are told that M-r. Fielding proposes to b°r- r0w tin Canada this year $35,000,. 000 halides (‘he $100,000,000 5|.

ma“)! borrowed i.n New York. Al- though tbis will be devoted mainly

1" 1119 repayment oi‘ maturing ob- ligations. the net result must be a very considerable addition to our National Debi during the current year. All the Provincial Govern. mania, Liherail and Pfcqrglglyg

alike, have very largely increased their provincial debts during their

term of office. Every one of them has proceeded along the line oi ever-increasing, borr°wlng and spending. Here in Prince Edward island. with diminished revenue; 811d decreasing I1°pulal'on, the Bell government has undcrtnksn vast projects of road improvement which are as untimely as they are collly, and are adding heavy pro. vinclal burdens to the enormous load of federal debt and taxation.

Do ihe people realize whither we are drifting? We greatly ma; that they do not. Every govern- ment federal and provincial now in power in Canada came into power

with l°uii profession of economy and tre1ferichment. Every one of

them has entered upon and cun- tinued a mad riot of berowinq and expenditure. The facts are notori- ous, undisputed. and lndispng. able. Never in nil Canadian history was there ntparnllei or the lavish. and in many cases useless expend]. turn of recent years, apart from that involved in the war. It began

"tutor Prohibition‘

United Kingdom was

for himself

which show ttliat only ongefifteenthl or the expenditure gueg for wines] err-pensive than]

111 d1”"1155111E the OYJSKGPIEs‘ which1

points out that‘

.~ . t». ~e w. §’ili‘1-""t1-"’B'=‘ .

ages‘. apart fromJrater and wine. in the Old Country. ‘I was estab- lished before tea, . coffee, cocoa lemonade or other light drinks were introduced. The British re former is not faced with any such problem as was met by Kansas and many other American states that voted dry. The American states often bad to consider who» Liter they would permit a public house. to be built wbereno public

or house existed before. The Bri fish reformer has to consider who tber he will tear down or close up a public house that has existed for centuries. one perhaps, that is famed in literature.

No Corruptsr of Polidilcs.

it muylizive been forgotten of late years. but it is, nevertheless. the fact that. the anti-saloon movement in [he Pulled States was really an anti-torrupt politics movement. if

house, or, indeed, any other kind 1

There is another vital difference.

t?

i

the American saloon hnd not mixed in puiitira, if it had not permitted! list-if to become headquarters for ]l‘.0l‘i‘upl politicians, and almost a synonym for all that was thugglshl in American government. the sa-‘ loou tiiight exist today. To clear- up-tlir-lr politics, to get decent local government; Americans dlacovcr ed in n thousand cases that had first to abolish the local s11- loon. in Great Britain there is nr analogy to this condition. in many communities the pubitcan is tnef most substantial citizen. He is n51!

ally a t-liurch-goer. tile is often a church warden, and, perhaps, a kind of benevolent moral censor.

nicst kindly. man in the neighbor hood. The Brewers’ Policy.

Moreover, the brewing interest: took no particular interest in poll-l tics until the nineties, when they began to suspect that sentiment, as well as necessities. prompted soiue of t11€ tnxss upon them. Then they made,‘

their businesses into joint stock companies. instead of being a hundred Oi‘ a thousand IJFGWPTB. there became-a million. or morci than a million. holders of stock in‘ pieweries. Any move calculated’ to reduce their profits or

their capital became a tnove that =1

bat. Mr. Wilson believes, how over, that they have made the saute Interests made-they declined 11:: itread loyalty in any kind of middle] | path . ftion, and as their taxes increased ithey decreased the 111111111)’ 01 111° ibeer, thus making enemies among‘ Itheir corisummrs. l-ie says 11131’

m. Lloyd George at 111111" 1B “l 1prohibiti0nlat, and would, ii’ ire and the power, do his best to Cilflilili or abolish the drinking of 11111101‘ in England.

Hlllliiiifililllllil m iliHilN

BERLIN, July i2.—st:irtting l-umofs were cu-inuiaied in Berlin tit noon today A report spread last nnn‘ men] Marshal Von liiiitlPYl burg 1mg ibeen murdered, followcil by n story that Prince Eitel FY1011 rich, the eat-Kaiser's second sotr had been slnin nt P11151161"-

Up to o late hour both these tiersonages were reported very much niive, and the ruuivr-‘l 1W"! evidently lauficnFli for Stork 9X (ghgngg purposes by speculative in forests committed to ‘1116111111K" 11111 already weak and sinking paper mark, which late in the zifteriiooti was reported around 430 to 111': dollar.

tFor the first time Berlin newspaipers only the Social Democratic Vor» waerts, the independent Socialist Freiheit and thr- Comiuunlst Rots iFahne. The city i-s still enduring i; general strike of printers, ex- cept on the three radical papers wlhere the printers decided teuta tive/ly to work for political reasons

The printers’ strike for the first time has involved the prltiters of German paper money. The liigth speed presses of the Reicbagmik have been and still are standing still with tragic consequences.

The supply oi’ paper money is no ionizer equal to the cur-rent demand Thotiisand mark notes, work someithing more than $2 tonight have practically vanished from cir- culation and the bunk-s are itnable to sirpply them in cashing dollar cheques. ‘The scarcity holds good to a slightly less extent for lhc ut-irt lower units, the 100-mark and 50~mark bills.

lif one cnshes a $100 cite-lite he needs a suitcase to ivarry away the equivalent in current all-mark bills. Motor trucks have been backed up to leading Bari-in banks nnd have there taken aboard full load; of ivtper ittonev for one week's pay- rol i of factories engaged in pig business,