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I: It. 1 II I I

_-_‘. ._.. Ne.» “-

* fqiitb sn sssuranoe of success which

*1_-":st:er opportunty of speaking m.

cusniomarovn cum

NotealBy The Way] - . ._._.. I

" gn-W. lr"x ir:oa'l"”“ l", osst of tbs —sks nuisance

Asnoolnh nieces-nus gum sml n s cum-ah...” mhmmn“: Y'd°,,‘k°“d,, h“ 1g‘: Y, yIJIa-ntmi) 3....'.'.'¢.":'..‘."..1'$2. flotu ' that before efforts were mode w __ __.__ .___ - .=-_;_— J4 "dug; ‘k- “yuugiqn by gpot, 13d

TIE ESTIMATES

, gfiid governmental economy --~ 11nd ground for satsfsction in a 11mm.‘ tsbled by Finance Ithodes in the House of _ yesterdsy- The!‘ will - Q reduction in expenditures

- last yesr of $11,000,000, and a - Ndtdlun o! nearly $80,000,000 pointed

'1) . ||1II

without impairment of theI services of the country, wil enable the Government to .IL5 project of public works unénployment relief on a 1M8? ‘all: in the early spring. ‘i; The Government may point with ' isble pride to the m». thst hm fully implemented its prom- ‘is with respect to economy. Had Nle policy now pursued been prsc- ut Ottawa in the year.» im- lndlstely preceding 1930, the sav-, 0f millions of dollars yearlyl have been reflected today ‘an reduced interest casts and low- , taxes The country would have 00011 1h a better position than it to: cope with the world de- ~ flonofthepaatfew ycarsBui Qoqlslloru on this point are die. inn bet remains that with Ilmpensé pared m the hone,’ nsliy important problems, o; providing work for the end meeting the "s financial obligat-ons st will be faced

Wither-wise would be impossible.

“I The ‘unlprecedentedly early intro~ . 0D 0f the Btlmfiber, lndica, e5 1810 Government's intention of as little time as possible f! Idling Parliament down to .; . Then wll of course be ‘f-Ilmle dime for dsmssion of the l mportsnt legislative matters out- dhed in the Speech from the FI-‘IIODO, and members will have a

‘Ifllzently on these matters with In minister. before them. I I

‘l i!‘

NO SOAP!

. A odrrespondent in the “Christ- il Cdprtwv" relates a story told b hinrby Rev. Dr. Sheppard, noted kltlsh; divine and one of 1-115 Qhjestfs chaplains, whose hand- Irlting was distinguished for its lfivvfl fact which on ths Jh served him well. It was {the War in 1915. Dr. Shep- llrd hld begun a Sunday afternoon ice in St. Martins in-the Fields. King showed his sympathy by nt. When the preacher red the pulpit he d scovered to hoilrm" that he had mislald his ‘ Isa; jthey had dropped alongside be eelvice paper for the King's be. uiiey began with the words: Ilflylliflfld sincere gratitude to ll, put no soap.‘ " I “l5 rhy be conjectured," adds the ,Jlr..stiln Century writer, "that the find, l! he had been able to read be prpnchefs notes, would have 9W1“! approved. Hcw tired big ‘Iwlelnust be of ceremonial soap! fin fantasy has sometimes visited 99o thst once upon s. time there Ill atfassembly in wh ch there was filly snd truly no soap. On the ' l7 every spcukcr said exactly he thought. The chairman. in 111K the chief speaker, said

never see what people ‘In him as s Speaker. He ‘forward to a half iui-hour-- Iljqfid Lt would not foe more-of ‘i. The speaker, in rising, IILI. he and the chairman

4 l . l

I!“ “lend-i. but 1G‘ the chelr- ss I- piblic msn he hsd no ' whstveer. It was s. melancholy tbbt s second-lute msn should _ {on the position which the hid lttuined, etc. . .'. At

the City Council. Oertsinly It was ' s quuticn of "no soup" between '. W!" hi" W“ dlmmmn! nu Worship end Councilor When-r. ‘The expressions of WEN

sidu

amenitiu.

WESTERN CRITICISM

The Winnpeg Preo Pres quotes a. Saskatchewan exchange ss ssyr ing of this Province that such s dminutive province with only 88.000 people, the government

smulier

greater

‘in the

and ?”

of

all grants)

punity.

I

i~llliwmlullibltsoorvlfllfivnhll Wllllllllnentto thshsdhh "m", -,,_ . pspsrscrylisethswiidsss _ ,, L. “new! Hobeaed tom“ "'4 "Wm-flu ofree alnW¢~mIl4"¢l'*¢W"° hmqsoselmememwgfififififfixtpfigm tun: buuethslkroligeeghllirw m,“ n-ennum Resfdentofthegmgq Nanmslnforassslllnfor “an” fimtofpoilthlllllllflfllhlllelnnonvghcfilfttullhd bs-lhspswsytbedimcuityofsotis- I “m.,,..“',.“”°mml“.m.,.'”"°“““““i==qmmolmn1m¢it“,,,'“°",,,,,_,'"""",,,,m.h_“""v=- corsets-ville "Itmmflu: -====;-===-——-~—~— » u: this , - “""'°“"‘ . ,sutbsesvns gable-sushi? rumtm.;'fir.nfll'i.tfi '“""°°"“""..'°.‘“'”'““ “,,,""',,, “y ,,'°",, 1""! ,"'*",, almond-Hm m the new ltsbmwt m u» new thoohsinlunwlaowssubmk "W" "thus-hon ""'_Y"I*"""'"C="ltv m" “N”. "wg.,“.‘“”“'“.senrde%mtrn‘fi.rv"lt”n“n3tfi“$"b ' ' u 1 ' ' ‘IIQIC V “asxpsmemhtzewmwwszsmmuzzwwrfjffi a r "' " ‘ounlyesrfuneovuwmsn- r a emu.‘ one-Instr nimble! * ygu-Qssif rssu. I divas-nth vsueesnnmosnsu - Amhuagnmammumnmunmmmafixmfifgmn our: flirtbb‘bnsflss;slfltusofttunlnieisllhdluldbs m» "- " - "- - --‘- ~ w" "c" v"- rs-s; "cmmmw*r-.....=-~ ?*..':“.....=...-~%: m: ..'::'..-:.:~..*:.:'..r. essebrwflwmwlvrllevflevnifiagfiflfim,ummm ~~ems=eu=eaess¢_ transom-mousse: masses usisol:usslhthhfltlcllsrfu-nn-t¢~muh‘—t,i.hu'flgggr w.¢gw='~ _-—Inth|ysll tls -I 1 b ummeexm-zrtrefillsgmlfnrnzéqamninnnfifueemm‘Egnsbsllsnunsetnseuzs? u-hlvessteswussuss-sem ""1"" M“ u“. “T” nm"""" sun'- s -:usn~esenn" oshesnsnslh- cuss-vs bell some: unseen-nu iv ‘u.

< of the speech the chair-

thun that three wards

statistics Ipenditure from local P711100 Edward Island I-S the lowest my Province in (hnada, and that the per cspita expenditure of the three ltmritime Province; from sources

L!

provinces.

It is not true, we gun, the Cty Council intend inning debenture-s fur s new Bear Garden.

sixteen

SATURDAY, JANUARY 27:1!“-

{Cl l,

It will be noted thlt this critic- ism is based mtirely on the Isl- ands sml-ll population s; campgr- ed with other Provinces. And it is completely answered by the fact that wwrdlna w latest available Del‘ capts ex-

the TQVCIILICG

(including the lowest with

of local

EDITORIAL NOTES

1t tells lwgrs. or err-lawyers, m Cali one another liars

EOUIA the worm our’ ‘m! p“. tlcularly In {hi3 Prqvina’ y“ watch with anxiety the progtgg of Chief Scout Baden-Powell Utndvn Hospital. Seventy-seven is "I ‘dvimced 18¢ It which to un- ~- t - upon s well known cit-JIM?» two operstons within s per- - move s vote of thmks. This ">4 of - decllred thst he n. pre-lphvflfllly md menlsuy "are." u 4- move s vote of regret.|°7 the stuff Scouts srs mule of. . ‘and w . mo, ‘pewhi All will wish him g IpQd, fggoy. hot thst the sposher bud‘ "Y, snd s ssfe voyggg y, qmmm.

th lsme meoch in him" "1 Allflllt. st lsslt ten times did not] 1 my Gotta. Its style wss

in

opinion 0n both trunk. thomh it is questionulflc whether ths snnusi meeting of the OouncJ wu the appropriate time in which to indulge in such exchsnge of

i

“for

cost of B llwfiflber too high. Prince Edward Island is than an sversge western federal constituency. It is about m“ h“ pugyd its 100th birthday ‘he ‘we °1 n" 01‘ ‘i! m"! ml!!!‘ is accounted venerable. 1n Pek ng s icipalities. In population u s lttle newsroom modestly cll-lmins to l» of one of the m whmipeg‘ Yet riiversary. It has evidently demand- Pml" Edlmd 151ml h“ l pr»- ed no little tenacity and OOUIBBe vinc a1 set-up, with s- ocbinet, 30 assembly men and councillors each rweivins $400 s. year, of civil servants. There sre nine school inspectors, or one for each 9,600 of the population, ss comps:- ed with on; for each 10,000 of the popuiat on in slSkflIlihc-vrlsss. There are also the municipal govern- ments. 1s there,” asks the Wmtern newspaper in conclusion, "my pQfl of (rsnada where there is more wasteful public administration than "Kiiefislvtl? flvergoverned province of Prnce lidwsmd Isl-

snd slist

Federal _ the Slllsle exception the Province of * Quebec. Out Manitoba spends $14.91 per clflh, for government purposes and Sas- katchewan 81421, as any“; H-ncc Edwlrd Island's $10.38. And instead of $400, which the Saskatchewan paper thinks an ex. oessive indemnity for Island leg-lg. Ilwfl. "Ch 0! the 68 members of the Saskatchewan Ilegielgtive A’. Wmbly receives $3.000. sass onsi in- demnity. with an additional usoo lo the. speaker. $615 to the Deputy Speaker, $9.000 to the Premier snd $7200 t0 each of the othgr nine Sbvemment members!

The Maritimes are not unmind- fui of the financial difficulties in which the Western Provhces are involved. Saskatchewan in pafflc- iular has received sympathy on the ground of crop failures and gener- ous contributions toward relieving d stress in that province have gone forward from Prince Edwnxd Isl- llmd B5 Well as the other eastern I It is unlikely the Sss- katchcwan press is voicing sentiments of its people who have received these henefaotlons whgn it heroics the Island province for ex- travagance because it maintains its °Wll Bovernmentsl mschinery,

YEVODUQ

with im-

487l- But then,

smoke, the dsmsge to property ‘from that nuisance smounted to $1(XI,00J,000 every year.

Twenty yea-s ago thl! INN "I "Joe" Devlin as “Ireland's LION The Celtic gift of clo- quenoe was in him humor snd pl thns snd s power of inuezerv- Lord oumn med him smonl the but‘ speslsers st Westminster, thLs st s time when Asqu th was there. Ind Brkenhecd and Churchill snd Hesly, He had not Head's acid wit. nor Remnond‘: pomp and circumn stsucee, nor the brooding passion of Dillon, but he had more of. lhumor thsn sll of them. As lov-f lblg ss he was lively, his nterrup-

Lotd Robert Cecil. standing “with one foot in the Middle Ages and the other in the new» o! Net w‘ beng but one of msny precious, things with which he brought down the House.

0n this continent s newspaper

the second oldest in the world, has

reantly celebrated lLs l,O00th sn~

to carry on this jolmlll. ll I111! Ib¢ judged by the fut um, owing -the per.od, 1,797 of its editors have been executed. With editorial mor- ta-lity due to execution alone at nearly 1.8 editrn snnuslly, promo- ticn must have been steady. Some- thing, however. was needed to attract recruits to s profession that in Chns only within the past few years has been motecied by an edict sutnorizlng "severe punish- ment‘ for omclsls found guilty of the “summary arrest or execution of a newspaper

The Dengue of Nltlnns under- takes to make the rsdio an imtru- ment for world peace. A report winch nations will be asked to sign woposee s ban against any nation using the rsdio to arouse wuliko passions across its borders This covers Austrius complaint against Germmy for bnoadmsting iNul propaganda. into Austria. from Munich, and Germany's complaint against France for uosdcass from mrasbourg. Instead. each nation is asked to pleQe lice)! t0 broadcsst to its awn pedple constructive acts of neighbor nations-whom we un- derstand we do not hste-Ohrst- isn Science Monitor.

In

The Advertising 4g: reports thlt continuing the record estsbllshcd in recent months advertising vol- ume .n newwfipers in December showed s. further gain. Figures based on volume 1h newspaper's in seventy cities showed an increase of 5,103,000 lines, or 4.2 per cent. compared with Deccimer, 193. Thsls the same percentage of gain reported for November. Both gen- eral and retail lineage showed sulr stmtisl increases in December.

A curious provision In the law governing lotteries WLS suited by Judge Garrow in a reoem trial in “foronto. The law used words “which expressly declare every sale, loan gift, etc of any property by any lottery is void." The same lsw has the curious provision thst my such lottery prize becomes the

sues for it, and this clause

this law, and Parliament

the

tugs of the technksi of the whole proceeding.

Nothing could be belle!‘ cllclllst

few, sud to exploit Empne con sumers. fortunately Hon. Bedgcwksk, chairman of the Teri!

thlt

must be

tercst of s few, but for trade and consumers as s whole. the

s

Wlshliupsrl dtsfrsnchised, of th

tons were I delight, his hit off bod

property oi the first person who has been invoked on venous occasions when large sums of money have been won in sweepstakes. In the csee above referred m a common informer sued for a csr which had been lotteried and won his suit. The incident, says an exchange .i- lustrstes the need for revision of at the coming session ought to give it some attent on. There need be no comment on the consisxncy of a system which permits a club to conduct a lottery and then permits the chief prize to be seized by an “infer-mer" willing to take advan- rregulrsrlty

6d I0 kill the Otta/wa agreements snd to destroy the foundstions of Empire trade than s suspIcLon by the public that these agreements were being used for the benefit of s

G. H-

Bosrd has made it clear that there no misunderstanding about this. The Ottswe. agreements are not to be interpreted in the in- llnp rs

The New Ylli Times publlflsel recently the emtrsordlnary story of District of Columbia with It; 4B6,

.000 people who have no votes, no suthcenty over their own sffsirs, in

HnNswIorbThoesIs moved

your!

5 Iclss W ‘D CAUSES OI‘ NUTIPATION

One of the mistskes msds by in- dividuals troubled xlth oontips- zlon is in thinking that if they est is: food there will not be so much waste in the lover bowel snd therefore them wil be less poison sbsoi-bed into the blood. i

As s matter of fsct the lower bowel was meant t0 carry consider- able waste and Nature supplied it with two sets o! musces »- bands running lengthwsyls and olrculu hunch- which push the was; ms“; erlai downward srzd

y. But if the individual suffering with constipation

foods such as eggs, meat, butter,

or waste, then t"ese muscles of the lower bowel have little or no work to do, nothing to grasp ss it were, and the mimcle tissue of the bowel becomes weak, and lose; some of Its power of pushing waste matte: downward. There ll no questio but that rough foods prevent constipa- tlon.

Another cause of constipation is not having a. regular hour to empty the intestine or neglecting to sne- wer the call the intestine mskee, because it may be inconvenient. If the individual would resllse that theemgstyingofthehowoiisss important s: eating, from the health standpoint, it would prevent constipation due to carelessness in answering the intestinal csll.

But the first (Id prncipsl awe of constipation is lack of exercise. When the body is exercised every cell is effected because the blood flows more rapidly and carries food to snd wastes sway from all

puts.

Any bending of die body for- wards, backwards or sideways, with knees araight, sctuslly scts upon the inteuine and stimulates move- ment,

Resesmh men have been sble to sh: :1 that any bending of the body incnessutiaeflowof bile fromthe liver and gsli bladder into the small intestine. As bile is s "natur- sJ purgetive" stlmulaming the 1 - testinsl muscles, the vsiue of "squeezing the liver" by exercise is readily seen.In fsctone ofthe most popular pills inmufsmurcd by wholesale dlruggists contains bile salts to supply extra. bile snd sti- mulate the liver and gull bladder. Your doctor will tell you tlmt next to lack of exercise, the overuse of strong purgativee Is the P111115- pel cause of chronic constipation.

L

THE UNAPPBOACHABLE ARTIST

If I could stretch my canvas through infinite reaches of space,

And brush with the sweep o! s comet the plastic colours of

time,

And catch with the speed of the light the lnconstant flashes which race

Iron: the depths of the ether then rest where the tes-roses climb-

If 1 could gather the sunbesms and fling them over the moun- tains,

And roll out the mists of the even- ing where hidden rivulets sing,

And spill out the gold of Golconda. with fire cf bubling fountains Of sunset, and stretch out the ocean to mirror the glory they bring-

If I could envelop the beauty of day with the velvet of mid- night.

And sprinkle the sparkling diu- monds of dewurops over the

sod,

And spatter the heavens with star- dust entsngled in nebulous light,

And rejoice in It nil, then sweep it away and brgni sgain—then ' I could paint like God!"

1f X could sift the dust of space from its ultimate reaches To pile up the strata of rock fss into the drltlng clouds, Then grind in the mill of millen- nium: the granite the slow ice breaches, And spread out snd bury it sll srnid dtflhe grey ssh that en-

u

f

The foundations of time, and then do it sli over and over sgsin, And mould and compress with the ponder-cue weight of the mus of s sun The stuf! 1 hsd nude, and heave it in rsngee to pillsr the msin,

a And sfter s hundred times then

federal courts s standing lower

thsu thAt of sidsns.

out of the pill jsct. Th the Auditor's eats mull list amounts of food, particularly good sinkng Fund.

with s smsli LJAOLZDI, of roughage Msrkebbillty

who sro uiurrlcigml secu

wed Sinking

to instalment chiefly bscsuse conveirtrsce in prscttcsuy sll those house! hsve given the study-ind d1 the municipality st heart-now unhssitatinglly recommend ths in- gmgmng, type 0d debenture.

against because the London accustomed to them. t!!! “not ggfly be marketed then. The ob- jection is n prscticll mimicipslty would he running sll the rides enumerated m4 gthers, in issuing Sinking Fund debentures for the chsnoe of ob- tsning s s1 its gecuritiea. while sometimes in the psst s better pxce was obtained in dllloelfll 0f

‘~'-=,_

i?

& -

-—G? I Municipal Finance PUBLIC. FORUM A€_'_"'_ h‘*' fllssuln-balsillllifi: sfqsssflscszlhlsrbl-“T: -:..:.-.~:: -'=--="'=-'-'=’-+----"""

Tsstcolthlilllillliil‘

Those munisipnlitles whch h“! ,9” r -, bout-min; debentures rtvevnb-e by P’ w the Slnklhd Fund method should hsve s yearly investigation to ll- certsin whether tho Mlrlmlllflofll of Sinking Fund on hs-nd P-"l "I" um payments w sufficient to discharge the Sinkinl Fund debts st maturity. It is very rs-rely thst

b, made into it, sre guy reference .s made,

ere should slso be given 111 ststeunnt s. complete held for the

C of the securltlu

of hinting haul Debenhsm

m (he past, investment houses the chief purchasers of

mm m investors, rsther encour- the issue of bfmdl I?! m”

mmd method in preferen: marketing. But thst abject Intelligent

hsve the bet interest

The objecton hss been rslsed instalment ddsennsres thst,

one, but no instilled in

ightly better price for Ln this connection.

seturtles in United, Btlhl d‘ UNI-F Bntnln at u most qmltlwllvlv. in view d! the losses recently occu- gmeq m m, purchase of exchsnio to meet interest sud VII-HM!!! requirements in these countries. whether on the whole it would not have been leu costly I0 h!"

Action" sud Aldlflng ‘fliers is s mstter which sl-

though somewhu, delicate should bsrefenedtmsndthstistheprl-

1

ity hss been sffosded to the records of municipalities and ithsshsensstsrtlngsurprisew discover the unsstisfscwry condi- tions of several of them. It is no wonder under such circumstsnces that 0011MB wamicipslit es’ stitc- rnents are not forthcoming prompt- ly nfter the close of the yen; it is no wonder that execuses are msde that lmdzets cannot be prepsred and presented until seven] months of m; new yes: have passed; it is no wonder that tax demands sre delsyed; that tsx smears are per- mitted to mount; and that exoes~ eve debts Arc undertaken.

It is believed that the mill! reason for these conditions is sn absence of trained permanent of- ficials. Successive councils are, of course, responsible in: inc chILlflCWY of the personnel. They sre In s poshion simnar to that cl uremors of s tinnnclsl or mercantile cor- porstion unmunon»; their duties mama be m see the! pmpor oili- ciglg an; pllced in charge: thst proper lccountng InQtllOd-i src in- stalled snd maintained; thut pro- per seltemenu are submitted I0 mam, and Harmer that they sre fully informed in regard to sll the operseions of the municipality irpm month to month.