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Frluluy April 2nd lhllllfl liuud l-‘rldny nnul n puhllv hollqlny ‘Pha- l-‘uurdluu will not be lnuuml on P-‘nnlnnnlny. Aulvcl-olnern pin-unu- (nlu- nutc-
TUESDAY, MARCH 30, 1920.
l‘.\"l‘ERXA'l‘I()XAI. MIXUPS.
ff Mars or any other 0f our sister planets should be permitted to watch our little struggles down here in this little world they must be amused at us, or pity us, that is, if their intelligence is as superior to ours as their size and age might lead us to think. A few years ago one of the, biggest and mostcultured of us undertook to bully and dominate the rest of us. The rest of us flew at his throat and for four and a half years our little world was deluged in blood, its industries crip led, the production of food practically stopped. The ully was soundly thrashed and, on his knees, promised never to do it again. In token of his sincerity he handed over all his guns and his ships to the rest of us and promised to pay us for the harm he did. The rest of us, who had been pretty badly mauled in the melee, naturally felt sore; we would never swap jackknives with him again; we would never play in his yard again or have anything to do with him. Some hon-ever, wanted to continue swap- ping jackknives with the bully anti disagreed with the rest of us about our terms with him where- upon the bully became insolcnt again and wanted to keep some of his guns and things and the rest of us began haggling with him and, in the hope of making a better man of him we made a number of conces- sions and are thinking-of making more—all of which he now fully expects and regards as his right. More- over, he declares now that he \vont pay us what he promised as the fight he raised cost him a great deal.
Now, in order that he may be able to pay us we are lending him money and ships and swapping jack- knives with him. In the meantime he has started a little hell on his own account, on his own ground, in the hope that it may overflow into the countries of those who were so cruel as to beat him into sub- mission. While he is tearing around at home we can do nothing with him and in all probability we shall either have to go in and beat him till he knows he is beaten or set ‘him up again in business for himself so that he can pay us what he owes us. Just why we occasionally take a notion to pummel each other half to death and then set the pummelled one on his feet again and fall on his neck and love him may amuse the Martians but it loses its comedy when observed at close range.
(‘YUPYRIQ VS. LABOR.
' “When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then a gentleman?” runs an old saw. It was long after Adam's day that the gen us “gentleman” ap- peared on the scene. The “gentleman” came with culture and education.
In the early days of our evolution from pri1ni- tiveness every man and every woman did his or her own work and his or her own fighting. We had come far down the ages before we discovered that we could engage some one else to do our work and pay him rwith something we had plenty of that he was short of. Still farther along we discovered that we could get much more work done and much more profit out of our abundance by engaging two men. _ Eventually the genius arrived who could actually engage a gang of men and with a corresponding profit. And so it came to pass that the man who could command the services of the greatest number of men, and secure the most out of the labors of others came to be looked upon as the greatest product of his time, a success- ful man, and to be successful became the aim of the developing civilization.
At this stage we of the Twentieth Century have arrived. We have discovered that the successful man is he who utilizes the labors of others for his own advancement; that the unsuccessful man is he who works for what an employer chooses to give him; and so the aim of our culture and education is
to fit us to live without work and we are succeeding.
amazingly.
In our modern cult there is a shorter road to success than the tedious process of apprenticeship followed by our less far seeing forefathers. The young man today leaves school and, if he has absorb- cd a sufficient amount of the prescribed curriculum, enters the university in preparation for one of the socalled “higher professions.” If he has “jumped” the curriculum, as the great majority of those do, he becomes a full fledged tradesman-a carpenter, blacksmith, ‘bricklayer or, better still, a contractor and employs others to do the work which he cannot or will not do himself.
This is one of lJhe main reasons why today we so seldom hear the word apprentice and more seldom still see an apprentice serving his time learning a trade, the reason too, alas, why we have no trades- men except those who have come to us from a past generation.
We are becoming toocultured to work and we are "shortening our working hours while increasing the remuneration demanded. If culture continues fora few more generations we shall be obliged to im- port our laborers from Asia or elsewhere where men still work for a living.
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In the processes of extracting sunbeam: from sour grapes the Liberal 0! 100R? is n first class OXDert. One of their organs says, "All signs indicate the fall, of the present nil-ministration." ’l‘he some issue devotes a column to the grow- ing strength of the f-‘mmers and Labor parties whose policies they claim to be identical with that of Liberals. it their pipe dreaims were realized nud the "fall of the pres- ent administration" became a reul- ity, then who would rule‘! They justify the "rise of the Farmers‘ party" on tho grounds that s. “re- adjustment of the economic forces of the nuilon hns become nccr-s- sury if .we are to make progress in democracy," and that “This im- plies u certain failure of the Lib- elul Puffy." With this offshoot 0f their purly, with a strength ul- ready developed two in one of [he Dllrent pllllli, us demonstrated by the Ontario farmers party, what T1099 is there for decrepid Liberal- ism? Grouped in a small corner, perchnnce in some poliilcul mus- eum as n rcllc oi‘ what was once n great party, they w,4ll bask in the sunshine which finds refleclion only in the decrees of a hitter-fate.
.\ strong indictment culls for a 81111112 defense. 'l‘hs Pioneer is uilcr the Journal, in (lefcncc of Mr. W. L. MncKenzie King. ll de- scribes the pro-argument 35 "futile; cusy to pnrry.“'und then devotes a column and n hull to "parry" the blo\\'. If the strength oi’ the ne- cusalion is to he measured by the plvnlilndr of strong aidjectives and lavish display of large capitals marshuiled out i0 his defence, then we fear the plight of the Liberal lender must be a bad onc. l
And the Pioneer has taken to pro- phecy. Not of the ancient type but of that kind so peculiar to pm. uigonisis oi‘ their polilicul creed. l! 118$. on purer. Joined the other eight provinces, “in expelling from video ‘bu: and bfissugc, the pres- ent incapable and irresponsible trzrblnci." How often are our ears ""1116 f0 linille and burn with just such irresponsible predictions
Resolutions are before the llotise of Assembly at llolifzix calling for l1 conference or the three Maritime Provinces to insist on our rights against a federal policy of western pretence. lf the scope or such a conference were sufficiently enlarg- ed as i0 take up other matters of 508C111! interest to these three pygy.
inces ll could be productive of ""190 800d. Foremost amongst these would be the question of
transportation the supreme impor- tance of ‘which seems never to have been fully comprehendetb at Ottawa, and to some extent even amongst our own people. In union ls strength and a getting together with these distinct objects in view the chances of success will be stronger thnn with each province lighting its case singly and alone.
New Brunswlclchatl a deficit lust year, and it wus not election your,‘ of $327,082.22. They promised to wipe this out with u surplus of $121,000 in the current year. Like our Island Liberals there are more prolific in promise than: perfor-l mance. Last year they estimated n $10,000 surplus, and although rev- enue exceeded estimates to the miount of $104,592.83 they show the shove big deflcil. of surpluses and (lcveloplng de- ricits_ is chronic in [liberal clrmps. We had a twenty Years surfelt of it,
with its accompaniment of morons-l
This promising _
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Merchant Marine
A neg profit of nearly $1,500,000 after allowing for operating costs insurance and depreciation, ls the financial record of the Government merchant marine. This profit has been made on albout twenty Vessels none of which has been operating for more than n year, and most of which have been in commission only since Autumn. Taken out of gross earnings of $3,448,000, the pro- fil has a ratio of about 40 per cent. On u tonnage of about 100,000 this is $15 per ship ton. l! is estimated that ln a full your a cargo ship ouiglii, n! present, to be able to earn $50 per ton, lbut most of the Gov- ernment ships have been operating for only short periods.
lt is refreshing to note a Goivern- meni operated service in u com- mercial line paying a profit. The Australian merchant mnrlno of fifteen ships paid for itself in two years, or n: u ratc- uf 50 per cent, but this WAS in u war petrioal. Rates since then have lowered cun- sldcrnbly, and or. the Atlantic. n: least, cargoes have been ruddy frightened of!‘ at times by ex cit-tinge, coal and other difficulties. The Canadian lleel is to be enlarg- ed by nearly forty more vessels, some of them big onus, and by June the fleet in commission is liktiy to be about forty vessels. ‘Fire lur- gcr parl of the ileel us planned has sill‘ to be delivered, and it will come into commission at a tlmc when rates are likely to he on n much closer basis. Alreidy they are merely holding, on account c; higher coals. But ii‘ the present fleet, cillzzrgql from lime to iimc. lteeps on fflfllililg a profit (luring 1920. as may rcusonuhly" be ex- pected, the amount to the credit ol‘ the marzlie finances should en- sure"fuvorzlblc lcoilolitloxis lfor a long time. The cost of the fleet will not be fur from $70,000,000 11111‘ mntely, but United Statics vessels cost considerably more than ours, and British costs are almost on u par with the prices ol‘ the lotcr (‘axindian contracts. The mnln thing is,‘ of course, to give Canad- iun business men full ocean sen-vice wing up new routes, ennlblinr. them t0 export and import direct. instead of State. The‘ value of the -Canndlnn goods curried out in the 100,000 ions of the Government fleet is more than $20,000,000. This is a value of $200 u ion and the im- ports have been a valuable hid.
The critics of the Government's merchant mnrine policy are few in number. The principle of building up a Canadian marine is heartily favored by all Canadians. With this construction, (Tanada is sev- enth or eighzth among the mur- ine nations, and this ocean scr- vlce, in conjunction with the great railway,’ systems now controlled by Ottawa, seeim-s a necessary insur- ance oi‘ our commercial future. The United States has built up :1 iner- chani. fleet not now greatly inferior lo Britain's. Whnt it will do with all these ships once the trade of the world returns more to normal, remains to be seen. A tonnage cris- is is inevitable. But a sane, cau- tious policy in respect of the Can- adian Government marine will av- oid the dangers of overbuilding, in our case, and preserve for us our newsea fooling, without incurring, the possible perils of it.
Bell government the country is to have a further touch of the lush.
A new philosophy on the effects
illil tflXflllon, und now under the m‘ taxation is propounded by .\'lr.
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Furnished by W. S. Louoon
FOR THOSE WHO F_AIL
"All honor to him who shall win the prize," The world has cried for u thou- ‘ sand years, But to him who tries and who falls and dies i give great honor and glory and neurs.
Give glory and honour and pitiful
tears To all who fail in their deeds sublime; Their ghosts are many in tho van of years,
They were born with Time in
advance of Time.
Oh, great is the hero who wins i. name, But greater many and many n
me
Some pale-faced fellow who dies in shame
And lets God finish the thought
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And great is the man with a sworn undrnwn, And good is the man who re- frains from wine;
Pnrdee and championed by the ‘Toronto Globe." He would increase the tariff on luxuries and in addi- tion impose an excise duly, they suggested eight per cent, on the output of Canadian manufacturers. From the standpoint of collecting a revenue from consumers of lux- uries the proposal might meet with some fuvor. The amusing feature is their claim‘ thut "These excise taxes would operate to lessen the net profits of the manufacturer rather than to increase the cost to the consumer." The Globe must be very green in matters oi‘ busi- ness method. Taxes, like rents, insurance and other expenses are always accounted as overhead Charges and if not added to the sell- ing price of the goods they will be met in reduced pay to employees. In real fact it will the the consume;- who would have to pay the bill.
Production of flax in Canada was discussed in parliament at some length. Dr. Tolmie, Minister of Agriculture, said "The Government had already given encouragement to its production" and "were fully ulive to the importance of develop- ing flax and hemp production." This is a flourishing industry in Ireland. Our climate in this prov- inco, which is similar, should be
But the man who fails and yet still
fights on Lo, he is the twin-brother of ~ > .. . ._ .. . .-.__-
adapted to m: growing. and oi present high prices should be vary, profitlblo.
through the United_
up PUBLICTFORUM.
Thlo column lo open for the dlncuanlon by uun spand- enin of question: of lntor- ‘eat. Thu Charlottetown Gunrdlandoe: not necess- arily endorse the opinions dxpreued by it: corru- o pondenta. ‘ t
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The Egg Situation
Sir.—-Tbo rapid decline in eggs the past two weeks is largely duo to large quantities coming in to our Ealstern Marketa from the Cun- udlnn West, and the U. S. A., the latter having no outlet for their fresh gathered in ithu United King- dom owing lo the present rule of exchange. The U. S. A. prices have been for the past few years much lower lhun ours in the curly spring and late fall. As the situation pre- senis itself at present it is a lum- cntable fuot, however, lhut the pro- duccrs of l’. 1E. 1. arc, or have, lo be governed by lhc price of ll. S. A. (ggs, whxch are not subject to any egg inspection or grading as are our lCnnntli-uxi shippers. The P. E. i. Wuduce Assoclzilion have pro- ti-suni vigorously against this un- fair competition and have hopes of the (Hnudiun Produce Association rrtrom-mendinu similan" restriculuns on llnltcd States EKHS coming in- to this‘ country as those now in Etircc- in Uunudn. -
The present outlook on the sea- suns‘ crop has u strong tendency to low-u‘ pail-vs as the present rate o!" ldllldlpvilll oxchainge ill'll\-'>Sl5 pro- h hiis their importation by English oilycrp and llllli lugvihci‘ with un over-supply of Fniieq ‘Stairs eggs no hounll to lOWUI‘ prices on the ( lmuLtm Marin-is.
The following lcllcr to the editor of illl‘ Proiluce Ncws, lmm Ii (Illus- g-iw ticulci- taken from the Mont- rtal 'l'r.-u!c l-hlllclin. dated Nlairch 4151b. 1p ‘Ellis for iisr-lf.
“We admire your leading articles denim-g with the egg trade. They are short and to lhc point, 3'01 con lain all the guidance a wise lllll‘. lllUilS. Our iriciuis in the UlillGLl art's need no iir:ili'\icli:>iis from this side; they know the r own business we}! cimilgh. llowcvel‘. we will s-taiy one fact: No eggs will be inrponted into Great Britain this year unless lln- exchange l)"COlllc-. llltlflf lli)l'l'llil|, 5U illtilfl‘ Wilt) SiOTU ~will retluzrc iu find n market at home. Evidently storage of 1919 \‘.“l<3 ,1 rotten propnsl-lioii, nnd un- lt.i prices go uo-vn consldciuubl) it will lit‘ st‘ ll \\'\')l‘s.~ this your. An- Jiliti‘ fact: Stoiulgr» czgs, no mut- cr lluW good, ure only old eggs, .m.l deprccintltili has ever lo be lddui i0 firs! cost."
We urc, Sir and etc. AULD BROS. LTD. per. .»\ A. Pomeiway.
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lflthers’ View Points;
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A WORTH-WHILE HONOR
COLLEGE
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Often you hcnr of~ this college ind or that one, winning lnurels u-i. school. They come home with the college initial in their swea- ters, or silver cups, or medals. The home folks nrc proud of them, and the boys are tvell pleased with themselves, too. It may be that he won the one-hundred yard dash or ‘made’ lthelfooltbull teum, or hurl- ed an elusive sphere on the linse- ball diamond. Or he won the or- ulorlcal COfliusl, wrolte n high-brow article on Egg-tnlaii learning, or made n perfectly wonderful ascen~
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TWELVE < THOUSAND ~ FRESH , . COLUMBIA BATTERIES RECEIVED TODAY.
Orders Filled Promptly
' The Rogers Hardware 60., Ltd.
t Wholesale 8c Retail
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Easter
Sprlng- dresses.
ruffled on about the
Dresses t0
Fetching Frocks .
The very spirit of rejuvenation 'I‘lioy are ecstnales of delight.
Procks of taffeta, with long bodice, skirts
styles, punniered hips; tunic bordered widi ruffles, short or long sleeves. attractive combinations with Georgette. Elab-
orate models for the dr ossiest occasion.
Taster Showing Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday
PA TONS‘
For Quality and Service
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Festivities t i ill‘
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hips, new knife plenlted
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Dream about in Serges and Jersey at Patons 1 l
sion into higher lilil1il81l\flil(.‘5.PI‘t‘S" ton Moody. of Fremont, ind, did; none of these things. Yet Prcstonl hns-won really wbrth-while honors
from Purdee Univerlty. Preston
established a new record growing
corn. He attained 147 bushelsio: the acre. Any farmer will toll you‘ this is something difficult of accom-
plishment. (Torn is food. llumnn
beings can eut food. They can't
eat "truck achievements, nor foot-
ball games, nor nice-sounding‘ or-
niions. Preston is, by the wuy, on-
ly thirteen years old.
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spirit of the times.
Designers have '
bought; the best not
Indeed the showing
from.
‘faislcr, to get busy, uml they
Your Spring clothes are ready.
There's magic in the phrase for this seasons styles show the-
with a freer hand—and we have
style but in quality and pattern.
suits is almost bewildering in its diversity and assortment.
Wewould like you to step in and see the new models.
BOYS’ SUITS y
A splendid line of boys new spring suits here to choose
The patterns will l th b h ‘ ' » mothers. Prices $10. fllliéiallsil-Lo?) ailffipighilililfivm please the
H enderson, is? Cudmore l 1.01 Grafton Street g » |
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Wl-lY DO OUR HEARTS BEAT FASTER WHEN WE ARE RUNNING?
When» you slnrl running, bruiu knows nt once that your legs and other parts nf the body will need more blood-to keep the“. going; and so the bruln sends down orders through his upecial nerves which make tho heart bent
do.
Tin-n when you stop running, your heart is bcziting faster than neces- sary—--llii-rt- is really un oversup- ply of blood being pumped through your system for the time being, and that ir-mkes you uncomfortable. until 1h..- hrnln sends word through llu- other set of nerves to the hcnri i0 slow down the heart bent
unlly, to give the heart u chance to got buck tolls normal heal gradually also. "ll-i!
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