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PIGEFOURJ

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Vlee-Iledldu OeLILA-Ilellnnefili-lo- Secretarial-l" . I l‘

Notes B! The Way

A Cnndlemn Day brill-IBM I "W11" lion of the fables about the bear I. l- lenemlnnd the ground hog coming out of ‘their dens and lookillfl f0!‘ i119 5"“- and going into cover again dis- couraged if the orb of duy shone brightly. lf any bears or ground

liner. D. I. Burris

_WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1925

hogs exist ln this province and came forth on Candiemas morning

EXTRAVAGANCE

Statistics are 811/911 daily of the increase in 111111110341» 'l"°"m'°1a1 and federal expellllllllfflll. and the increase is truly 9137111115-

orcd with Prcachmeu“ Mm" the

Personal exiruvagance is denoun-g c041 and a hair raising prediction

I ., “he doom U,“ awaits thg gether meeting of the Tourist As- (l_<_()\r\'1a‘ 0

. ' ' thi. id f ti .- namm if ‘this rigid economy 1s no; soctatiou reported in The Gualrdian,,scasonl is ‘later onm ‘at: realism the ‘Editor of the Sunday. Leader. M131“ c "an 0n e 0 e ‘

practised forthwith-

.wh r any Wm are preachmg Haillfaxdtas kindly offered "to give ‘ O ‘d 9

economy; one page of piuotogravtlrc illus- trations of the Island as a tourist

private and DfT5°11£11 CU-‘ainly not. those who are econ-

Omizmg’ q C strings attached." This is the sort W" "U" Li" 91 13°15? 1t 15 denouncing emravagance. er- f bii it we r c‘ t0 All interesting to know (hat lust year Ifllllll‘ m" ‘M59 who are 3on2! To in‘? SHLTI; chad." >31“! Ontario produced almost twice as w.» to calm’. the" ‘ - in i- * , 0.01m iihltisll bcforo ilandins them- its 1111101‘ 101' 111911" fifledhearled 9"‘ 2:111$%old$1‘:.~l(l1j.llIEJ0r-l] ‘£13135 DOWN!" _ Mr m], the necessar. terprise. California's production 0f gold has m m ‘he “mm . _ ____' greatly fullen off other states. “.5 ,; pg; which, regardless of |

cost they mus". have Or (ill?-

Etfmonty and extravagance a"

rtiative terms. 110m)’. 11 D7311‘ Lt d according to the reformers ad- moniaions. would demarailze trade. tvcttld bankrupt our merchants and 1m; cur tradesmen out of business. During the war the reform econom- is; was albroad in the land butt for- tunately his przlrzagandfl y“! 1111- hecrlttl and “business as usual" be- camc the cry and the practise and the country flcurished even 11111181‘ mg shadow of the war. Had we the rigid economy ch-en preached our tradesmen and trades-

prautisul

WOILLI} would ‘have had 10 pill» 11D their

clothes. your ol-d boots. ymll‘ 1&9!

shuners. “'\Vea.r your old summer's bat", cries the economist vtlhen he hearts of an increase in

‘taxes and in thu cost of living. kind."

cutinslfils the man who ‘knows Phat.

"Don't do anything of lthe

if the connliry is to live and pros- pttl‘, bliéllilfxSii in- all lines must be kupt going.

H“ is a miser, not an economist. who hordes up this money rather than spend it on things "he 811d hi! fa-tnlly need Ito keep them in com- fori and health.

The extravagance ‘to lbmdenoun- ccd with voice and pen is the wast- ing of tho |p(3t7pl0'5 money on poli- tical jolbs and jollrbcry which are not needed land are provided only to purchase political support. This is an expenditure of motley ilelong- ing to the ‘people, which t'he people have to pay and for which they 1'0- ceivu nothing In rtturn. l-t la an cxpcndlfirrc lcdcrall, provincial and nrunlcilrttl. mnde to saltlsfy constit- uencllzs and to win mlitlcal or clvlc support. The useless and unused grain elevators, wbalrves. break- walterls, branch railings and other political jdbs launched previous to elections throughout Canaldu ef- ford abundant evldenloeoflwasteful. li-armful and ruinous extravagance and will account for a very large proportion of our enormous natural dubs

Privlmte .t>ersonlall expenditure, within the bounds of ‘sanity, ls oom- mendwlmllo and its the life's blood of tiho country. Moreover it is fhbnest. bho money spent is the spenders own. Political expenditure on un- necessary puibllc works. on junk- ettlng and use-less Royal Commis- sion expeditions is -. lnous to the country and. moreover, is dishon- eat and ‘criminal lior the money sport belong; to others, not m blue spenders.

_.__¢o>i—— EDITORIAL NOTES

. ‘The good City Hodpillall Concert tonight; Amtendancelemwlcelbieos- alt-plains; ‘nun who so“ and vubose who-benefit.

It is gonfilderitly expected m»: m King Oovarmnem vwriilv go to the country in lthe fell. The lesion of Partition-mam wntfaqegen Mammal. tut the ma: week‘ of July. The Government will iii-idler 00f ll house u order and lilvte rem-imam

ful tor and rpmud‘ of. Tlhe United State-s Government ‘has not detected any rum runners from Prince Ed-lwc ward Island. A report from Wash“ \Vl:th-ing1on awn-g lube chief dperatin-g l every such publication we are fav- bases in Canada are Halifax. Lun- °°""'"°" Saying that “Cnndicmus emburg. Ylarmouth, Victoria, Van- nzctsslty of economy, private e1:- oouver, Windsor (Om) and Belle-t

- 0,4,“), ma; 15, to save 1:110 nation ville.

who are they who are resort without cost and "with no

services an the command of all and‘ sundry who may need them, got the-l surprise of ‘his life He bring Someone m Borden who was overtake ltcr big competitor uni: S's urgently required in Charlottelto\vn.l"°“' fields are

i

ample justification ‘for putting the railway Ito this expense, way is said to lhavc billed him for for u barrel of flour to $1.200, ‘and our

they could have seen the sun clearly. But science discredits the

w ha so ethlng to be thank‘ e Ye m awry and with it the rhyme,

If Cundlemas ls fine and clear 'li have two winters in one year.

In the blather Country there ls a

‘flay takes half the corn and hull the hay. “This practically means -tl1at in so far as stock-feeding is cotter-riled Cantilentus marks the . middle of winter_ However true As a direct result of the Get-to-"tha, “my be i“ Eugmmp p is not Itrue lu Eastern Canada. Our spring

Valentine's Day comes nearer to mid-winter than’ Cantilemus Day with us,

Seventy-five years ago California

it is rdported (that a Public-spirit. Colorado and Alaska are producing d cmzen who deugms ,0 pm hwto some extent. in 1914 the gain lproduct in the United States nmdt‘ has ‘since fallen to $51,731. Cattada last ‘"119 01119"? dfly-lyem‘ produced froth her mines negotiated a special trip toj$3 . 2,000 and will probably soon

la total of $9l.53l,8lJ0 which

discovered across

.| - hlnklng the neocessity of the casein“ mid“

Two dollar wheat for the wflstern T110 "Wifarmer apparently means 811i to $11 the city friend ts wondur, dweller That is the other side of ng ha“. he can get o,“ from undeluthc story. .‘\ll over the world the

staff of life will cost consulmerr I, was with a Sign of MUM moshdettrly this year. Many of tile]

lllihat‘ ‘

your:

l 1 5, h“. w, Berton. MD‘

SAVING com. AND PREVENT- me rttnsss

in one of our largo cities a cou- truvcrsy is staging ~11 1-119 B93111 91 Education, regard-lug tho heating uf the schools.

Coal cosas money, and one 0!

the school trustees has discovered ,

that in St. LOuls a tremendous sav- .ug in coal. perhaps twenty D9! cent, has been attained by the stut- ple lu-Ituorl of anoictenlng the alr before it reaches the school room.

lt was found that with the mois- ture in the room‘ dried out" by the heat, more heat was necessary t0 keep the youngsters cotnfonable. ln other words if ntoiisture were added w the ar 501118 iflw lbs room, the saute amount of mois- ture that is found in t‘he air ln sum- mer, then a temperature ten de- grees lower could be tnulntalned in me room. and the youngsters were quite comfortable. _

Now tvazer doesn't cetst money and coal due-s; so that to raise the L-mpeiatnre this extra ten degrees, was where the money was saved or l0»... bezng as I said above, per- halps twenty percent of the fuel l.v.ll,

But the point that interested me mme altar.» the coal bill, lava-s the affect 0t this bu. dry atmosphere ..n the lleulih of the youngsters.

This dry uir takes Lou much of be tnuisturc from the body. The skin itself, and ‘the ltnlng of tire uml throat do not have suf- lnuisturc to function pro-

perL.

The air going into the lungs ncds m<. slum, an dos it hasn't m: = ure content it should

have. it simply takes it front the nose and .brou;, loving them dry a. .1 iirltatui.

Lveybul|_v blame; the heat of our houses in tvinzer fur the nose and throat ‘Tflliilltlflfi, WlllClt seen“ to cltztt‘ up when‘ the home can be Ujiflllttl up Lt: the owsirlc ail‘.

'l‘h -..- cutarrhzil conditions, as the-y a called, which sctntutimes ...ud to biwmchdis, pneumonia, and even lubczcttltz-eis all s‘ em to fl0ur-‘ i411] about the Line our homes are Iriflltttl lltu tnost. However there

The Public Forum

IlleeelI-einepeclertle

lieeeeelen by OI v question el lnlteel. Ike Charlottetown Gelldlnl lee!

"TH: UNION QUESTION- Shy-The Montreal Witness I108 ‘Neil for many yeans. and is mil. B vehement supporter of Church Un- But, unlike many miter sup- poses-ra of tlhc same cause, it puts tru-tih in the first place. Here la a passage front the editorial In tibia week's issue:

‘ "it looks as though half of the former Presbyterian Cthurtth in Canada was going to Ibo let; ‘behind by the union movement. a strange result considering the great; union majority’ in the General Assem- bly. whdclt is the Parliament of the GllufUh, the constitutional ruling body, and ‘that. after mG-ny long years of delibera- tion. l.t is vuln‘ to deceive our- Selves by the fact that the congregations have gone four or ‘five no one in-tn the Union. The large opposing vote ‘i‘n many great city churdhes goals far to outtvelglt those numeric- all " and numlbers are the only crittulutt our modern ideas of iflOiilfi/Jfiity give us of relatllvo -u‘.r<n."' i." . SInt-e- those lines were wrlvten.

urtrtrch llll'l'lll‘i' evidence has accum-

‘ tut pnbiitir-g ltlhc same way. Yet ‘no (flznrt-lt Union Office says that the Fnion is lsncceerlin-g far beyond llhc dreams 0f its supporters. Com- tit-am. ls superfluous.

I a-m, Sir. etc, A Btlievcr in Truthfulnesa. —" {Q-ii

EDUCATIONAL CURRICULUM

Sim-Your editorial on "Our Schools" introduces a subject that ls or should be of vital interest to every one. It is a trite saying that our greatest asset is the quality of our people. For that reason tno much attention cannot be devoted to training the young for their life Work_ Education should be so plun- ned as to give each boy or girl ev- ery possible chance t0 make good, As no twn persons are alike in ub- llity 0r disposition it is only reus- onable that a curriculum should be to s. certain extent elastic in order to meet as fur as possible the rc- quirements of different personal- ities. Wity should u boy or n girl who has never been on n farm and who never expects to use u know-

.5 no qunsziou but ,liis terrible dry- ne-ss of lllc lmatr-d

ledge of agriculture be compelled to srv-tid weeks gathering ..anrl

I

or us learned “lam 1L was only sfiilprzairic farmers arevnuw rcgrettingl

that they sold their ultuat tun, 000000 and mt’ sloofloofloo ‘Lhmsoon, at $1.50 to $1.60 nmv worth‘, llon. George Graham lltzul bonrq$2.t)5 per bushel, Cotisutitcrs are owed in ‘New York on Ithe Canadianicomplalniitg that tile barrel of flour Xational Railway Ac-(gqurjqu Tpmesicosts too much, even with wilt-at such as 11,050 arehardly womhvat present prices. This seems tol ‘be true. Tltc big ntilling corpor-i atlons are not in intsiness merely for their health.

mentioning far less Iworrylng about. in the opinion of the Dashazway.‘ Spiashaiway, Spendthc-Jloney King: Govcrutnenlt.

But u‘ t r t‘ ' we "we ° o"; The cost of living which' had

‘been slowly reduced, is going up of a Illaimlly in the payment of in-‘a um Wm, the , . ' .2 price of ulicut until -:I.~re~s‘t alone is $1, while to repay bread; 'i‘liis adds to the sorrmvz. the Iloan he must dIig down in his and troubles of the increasing tram 36am for $31 Twen.ty_th,ree donarslllul‘ of ulterupluyctl workers in thi- ,, ..-l " ' " "' :'- each is kolng some for a done“ urger Canadian uttts lltgu lax ution and a winter ul unusual HUV-

on our ral-lwayh-and still the King

‘ erity add to the pint-b, \\‘ltut is to Government wan“ '50 ‘b11114 new be done about it? Our Ottawa ful- branches!

ers and ntemlacrs of l’ill'1ll'-.Ilil¢ll|r' all of them curt nmnnge to struggle along on their big salaries and $1,000 indenmiiies. And their nevi‘ cruign remedy for all tlte ills oi Catmda is to borrow more money and build more railroads.

the bill and the share of every head

"A Commercial Traveller" writing to an ‘Ontario contemporary says: "l have just returned ‘from a visit to lthe ‘Marltlmes. Wiltih the excep- tion of Halifax and tho Sydneys business is ‘sulrpr/lslrrgly good and the people generally, ldlttiimlstic. Undoubtedly the post place I visl-twl is unfit-alt ls called “the (‘Prince Edlwalrd Island). They are a. wonderfully prosperous people, so comfortable, ~s'o conilcnltotl. They do not ‘realize wlrat poverty in a great city is. for no one need 51mm- make and produce weultlt by their want everyone bmmg wmmng m“, daily toll. What the King Govern. l" “l” emu" "ll “WilZ“’II..i1"Z..‘ZZZZ..ZZ'.fi“i'lf.ff."..fi°i'l the season when navigation its clos-ienlployment and drive “mm out o, ed’ mhe only Dorm‘! when wmk 15 111 the country, or compel them t0 dc- any way scarce. lit would do pettdence upon charity at ltume. people in our large lindustrlal cen-

tres good to take a run to Prince

The King Government, whose Edwam Island and ‘learn how “y tariff-tinkering has been a main llve enljoyably."

Never yet was a Government in Canada so lavish in its expendi- lurcs 0n salaries to themselves and their favorites, to nubobh- of the civil service, commissioners uml agents, none so generous in travel- ling expenses and white cullur join; und unite that has dono so little for the real workers, the men who

Island"

cause nf the trnemployrnctlt in Can- adian cities, declines to contribute to the relief of the sufforertv "Let the provinces do it. or ler them shoulder a share of the war debt. ntul then we will’ help." is the sub- stuuce of the Premier's deliverance in the subject. In the meantime n thirty-five million dollar loan has been floated in New York on Nut- lonul Railway account As lt mort- gaging the National lined did not add to the National Debt! If lt does not, why not shift the entire War Debt onto the Railway and |thauk Heaven that its paid!

Should the Prince of Wales be called ‘the Prince of Scotland, ns Dr. Walter Seton proposed just n year ago’! The question is cure- fully examined by Mr. J. H. Stev- enson, who is a first-rate peerage lwwyer. in the current issue of the excellent Scobtlsh Historical Re- view. liq holds that the title, Prince of_ Scotland, is in the same position as the title, King nf Scot- land. The Prlncedom ls not abol- ished any more than the Kingdom is albollshad. but both arc included The new Australian treaty n in the larger bibles of Prince and °"111"°l‘1 1" 111° 61151111331" 0mm“ King of the United Kingdom. On deslmtch °' Y°°‘°"1“Y “'1” m’ “ml

iwill no doubt receive searchlnlt the other hand‘ the u” of the flue examination when It comes before on informal and social occasions Parliament‘ The provmon m," 35 "m! 1'99 5110111" ""3915" 110°“ per cent of the labor and muterlnl

p»- zt b]: fur-ror in ‘rritlttitlg

OOQQ- 90-

atmospltvr-sxl

_ _ ‘mounting woods, when that time \\‘.'lt.l. .1. mo; urc is only one-half‘

. I l I - l '. ‘.- ur Lliu fouztb what l; lsbuultl benmglt u (evumd to “meets whim

01a Tim m" " £13.11; Island

(mt-mm m... Royal Guette El-grlmyltwoyeen I80)

(W. L. Cotton) f Th Royall (hsette. pub- ttafeftopyl: 0min».- 1s4s. malls

svenlts of “ye olden time" and R1119 names anduotlvitles of some g! the men of llhalt time. ‘

Even a-t lt-halt. tflm $11619 W" E rteamc-r 11171118 179N991! ‘hummkhi and Charlottetown. BY 91'4"‘ rnent the public is notified that t0 prevent the necessity "1 BW-Wmn’! ‘the St. George Ito the risk of emer- f-ng any of the port-S by 111811’ 911° will during l'.'he remainder oi’ the present season discontinue ‘ID11011- ing alt Boil-sane on her return from Miramiohi every alternate W691! trrtd will. lnultead thdreof lenlter Bodoque every week on ‘her voyage from Charlottet-cvvrn. She W111 9119"?‘ fore. in Ifuiure, leave Miramachi every ‘Monday Inbflilllfi 8'1- ‘W11 o'clock van-d Charlottetown for Pic- tou, every Tuesday morning. one hour after her arrival frontlMirn- miohl, and will leave Plctou for Charlottetown etvery Wednesday moruln-g Hit 10 o'clock. ‘and 'wi.li Dro- ceed thence to Mlramlchl on the following morning."

Sir Henry Vere Hunltley was at thiat "bilme “Lieutenant Governor of the Colony." and he gives due not- ice of ‘the further pmrogatlon of ‘lie Legislature; Among other ad- vc-rtlzamenlts, llolbert Hmtchiesou- ullterwflrdsfiflrst Mayor of Charlot- letown—gl‘ves "public notice, "that having ‘been alfllrtlillled 1!)’ H18‘ EX‘ cefllency the Lieutenant Governor -',o cc!lc.lt the subscriptions towards making llhe iixitenrlctl wharf Hit the c-nd of vPownal ‘Street. in Charlotte- own, I do hereby give notice ‘to all concerned "abut l shall call fourth- with on the respective subscribe s for the amount cf their subscrip‘ cans and uvill also receive the same at ‘my store." _

In an adverllzelmenlt darted at Clmrltzkltetctvrt and headed Sydney Mills." it is announced ‘that “These

V; .-

flmmy nut" announcer tilt-cl. be "will n» mums ‘v0 diam-e v1 U‘ stock. with s port of his houldltold ‘good; and furniture w lily 061N011 who may b9 disposed to sum into tha bitumen." tfllelll‘! ' , ll offers for sale or oo ‘let for a term‘ of yetvrs, ltlmt M84117 5118518 "<1 beautifully situated eetwte of Kes- ton bordering on tlhe ltoymlty Mad. three and a half mules ilwm chair- lotkcltown." There is also I0 red for sale “that ‘Dleaeanlbly l1 new house situated on ltqwn ldt numlber 38 in the Fldurllll Hundred. with a fronlt on Kenlwfllrecn. 18 will and attending back ‘flblfly feet. and adjoins Mr. George 9nelmrmr6”B-" For furaher particulars upplloamlon. is no lbe made to “Mr. John Hudson“ Lot 32. or by letters addressed to him at "the Royal Gaudtte Office." Persons having Iegall demands against the estwte of John ill. White Printer and Booldbinder, are re— quested by John Davis. jun" and Charles WelsiLAdminshrators to flur- nlsh their accounts duly almested." Henry Palmer “having received a Power of Autorney from th-s Hon. John Dun-scombe, o-f Newfoundland to rmtnage this estate in this lsluud. requests ‘immediate payment of s11 arrears of renlt lby the tenantry the-Mon." and announces rhalt “any persons who have taken possession of any part of the said esltaite will be proceeded again-alt fortlzltvith un- loss they come and make l-mltnedltvte soiltlc-merrt." "Ja-uiss H. Puters aber- wards M-r. Justice lR-rltcrs an‘ nouncos ltthal "Wheiwus IUhe estate cf the Hon. Samuel Cunard, in this island have been c-on-veyed to John liuffy, Maltlt-how Byles Almon, Alex» QI1(lC"l‘_M'lIl‘l'Sill‘l- Andrew Unlacke. and John Stair of -I‘l.-a|ll'fax, aml "the sulbscrI-ber ‘having Ibecn d-uly om- powored by ‘the allmvc named to‘ manage t-uc said estates, hereby giv-cs no-ice that I10 is now prepared to sell and louse land as‘ nsuttil"; lbut “persons having busi-. nusa re sctlng lam-ls lntttl‘. call at| the off‘. o of ‘the sulbrcrflmr be- wccn ‘the ltonra-i cf l0 and 3." Willi llam Forgan, also gives notice thaltl "having been ‘ti-Lily’ untpc-wcrctl ‘byi ' Miss ‘Rennie and D. S. Rennie, quire, to ar: as their agent iltl libel

c-xcullcnlz mlbils are now ln full 0p- t-ratlon and tilte pmbllc are ltereiby ifLfOTIllLll thal: a cottveyauce with leave ‘Qhe Subscribers residence ln Queen quate, every Thursday morn-l lng an. 7 a. m.,~for ‘the puilp0se of conveying grain lthtlfiter; ‘the flour from ‘which ‘will the returned free of

_23. and all othcr persons nvho stand

tizaragtment of ‘their rcspc0:i\'e cs3 ‘Levies ln ibis island. PBIIIlC-zlirl the trnanlts in Lnl. or Tfintvltsbip ntmllbcr

lnrltizted ‘to ‘Slit m for a-rrears of ren»t' or otherwise.‘ to make lmttiedizlto, payment,’ I

txpettsc ‘L0 ‘the owner. save the toll‘ for grinding allowed ‘by law.“ This‘ all-vtrtlzement is signed "J. ‘Sydney l)eal:y"—-—a name not lately heard‘ in_‘ Cltarlvtitctowit. There then ls- ill arlvcrtizemett-t headed "Gralnfi Grain, Grain, ‘saluting forth ‘that "At' (Tulsa's Steam Mill and lBrcwery