e1

:5 O bolt! fsienlla. both ‘wings arelflgbtiag mad because ‘ spoiled their little ‘Lglflflwrdlllfl genie by ‘ y had hoped fobny up a

ipaii were projected. ' iml-Progresslve majority in

4 yous passed them without-

Vsnqvuver to the now defunct Daw- son City. g

Mt cui- Liberal friends i-ssti-sis their wrath. Both f‘ sativos

against these seven branch rail- ways because they saw in’ them a

wicked sttsmst to bribe Canadian elects‘; without any possibility of‘ profitable return. 1 1

_ bragcbqvyoulddiavs been in- igiilisu sgsihyggii i-‘sollc Foill‘ had ihewiisiiy dispos ion to kick. but they arena ‘fliers, these four. tidy-will vote any way the govern- lnhht wahtsthem to, for or against think that,‘ their masters al_ dttiwa dictate. They voted, we un- dinstand','°5fcl7‘r"‘th’e whole twenty Abutwgprqtevgsld kriirgword about thosone railway need of fiiuce Ed- dist-u island. the standardisation of lilo Ealuprn l‘nea. Butwhat r-ur . dons rdiii- didprdid not gencially. l fillets. is neither here; nor there. j " y of the other-y Liberals are Quite peevsd over tlse Sonatas ac- lfli Qrogfmslveys,‘ who have ijssstiyscijuiésu the habit of bold- " up the .MsckeuIis~1King gcv-

drirmcut? with a threacftb throw up

.~ their $4.000 seats imiiey cm not i6! what they wanted. are threat-

ening co abolish the Senate be- chhse it: vetopdnsome of the lines had projected for election

summit .

Toronto Globe, the spokes- man of Progressive-Liberalism. has wobked- itself up into a fins frenzy offlpretended righteous indignation and‘ denounces the Senate in molly eloquent“ ‘language. "The ‘hisstsr, it says, "when it deliber- abandons "the path a duty ind‘ uses-its ‘powers for mischief dndilnjury to’ thre ‘country. can be

Eardod in no other light" (than that. tearing up railways and

Oar-hing bridges.) in further slab patios ofjrhis- Elegitianate preroga-

O ‘jfsssrkssssnsts The Globe says e iutisntion was that it iiouid ts guids the ship_ of state, not 4 vii-run it on the rocks!" This and h more o! like tcnorl I

s Globe does not appear to ire that our poor Ship of State ‘ y on the rocks and that e Senate is trying to do is to

“its. 1 The branch lines iniquity tempted last year by the ‘L! Cohimohs when it tried run all the twenty lines through , nu ~sitéint.ih~ wliilw " . mlghmtjuot be observed. has‘. Senate was too wide awake ‘fair schsap -trick like that and iai-sw out the whole bill, intimat- tsst lf a icparlto bill for each was put through sac would be ' ssuslasi-sd cu its merits. This was » at ‘the pfbaentmsfiion and the who throw when of them out cu ground couched in parliament- they were more ffiiisssisstly idlhiuisiis- - than the ' "jet ihoaesovea that were constituen- ' ' or can- bait for seven or cies t and thereby usiisi wins and the sauce to‘ sbeiiss or de-

‘t? rev w,- w

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. i. -. OUR SHARE niuriuu . Tiers were several ' s breach ‘railways for every ' _ A - . mo“. r _L, , ln the , I nary estimates - 5m mud No (‘mum voted a few days ago, generous pro»

l ‘ago, what it,. can out of tiiesgagntqhgyn “m;

vision is made for Prince Edward lsland-qitrictly in words. Several thousands of dollars are freely handed out for the repair of break- waters, now extinct; for the re- building of‘ wharves which went "into the drink" half a century or more ago. These appropriations have been voted and revoted “for litany years but very few of the dollars have ever been spent or will

be spent. We observe that some $l.500—-or was it $5.100'.'—it does

not matter-fives voted for the re- pair of" Maipeque Breakwater, ‘AS not one stone of this breakwater has been left standing upon snofii- er. nor a foot, of the timber left, in the past thirty years the appropria- tioufor repairs will not be too lar- ge at either figure. The funny thing about the supplementary estimates

is that there is not a dollar voted for anything that there is any pos-

sibility of its ever being spent, upon. The standardisation of the-eastern railway ‘lines would have been a

safe thing to bluff at, but the gov- ernment would not risk it, someone

might, have asked for the expendi- ture. It is “a way they have" at Ot- tawa these daya

NOT HOLDING OUR OWN

The ‘report of Canada's vital stat istlcs. given in The Guardian's deepstches Thursday, la a start- ling exposition of the present eit- uation. The birth rate for the whole of Oanada fell off in 1923 by two percent as compared with the previous your and the net increase in population. Quebec not includ- ed. was 88.055 as compared with the net increase of 85.116 in 1923 and 1014257 in 1821. Equally start- ling is the fact that the mortality ra- ta is increasing. and the Maritime provinces lead in this, Prince Ed- ward island being the highest with s mortality rate of 13 per thousand the lowest with 7-6 deaths per thousand,

While we have as yet but a summery of the statistics the gen- eral situation may be summed up as bad ki all of Canada, worse in the Maritime provinces and worst in Prince Edward lsiand. We are not anywhere holding our own. we are going back. in the Western provinces. taking the figures for Saskatchewan as the basis, the rea- son for the present condition is evident. lu the ,oider Maritime provinces the popula iuu consists of the original settiens and their des- cendants with the young and vig- orous culled out yearly and migra- ting to the newer provinces in the West. Naturally in the latter the birth rate is increasing. and the death rate about what if. sh'»uld be under normal conditions.

Looking the situation fairly in the face there is but one reuiedv for the Maritime provinces, that is. immigration.‘ Wfrbotrt the intro- duction of new blood. new stock.

. v-

‘ has inter- zktry IIQFOIUIIIO to dwisdle away.

list-seq wast si-s we doisg‘ to avert tats sstpellmpssdiag doclnf is the course of tieya tliosasud years or so when tire

our old Maritime provinces will

use cynic wit;

tiiotcr cars ia North America. it is

over eight billion gallons of gasoline yearly at a wet of a billion and a half of dollars. This colossal ex- penditure is the more remarkable as it vfs one lwbicb has grown ai- tnost from nothing within sscore of years past. The problem of the engineers is now to produce a

and liberals In the Senate votpdlmotcr capable of travelling s great-

er number of miles per gallon of gasoline than heretofore. This has been attempted with some success iulilurcps where money is scarce. lt is believed that it will yet be found possible ‘to get 85 per cent more mileage per gallon than is now the average in America.

The Rand gold mines .ncar Johannesburg, in South Africahave long been famous and the com- puny which owns and operates them has recently held its annual meeting. The report shows that in 1923 ‘two dividends were paid which together amounted to 120 per cent. in these days it is pleasant to read of sucn good dividenis even in a distant part of the world. Gold and diamonds bed much w do with making South Africa what it is to- day and gold mining in earlier years perfomied a like service in peopilng Australia and California, although the gold mines there have ceased to be greatly productive.

Much blame is awarded to The Senate in these days by Liberal partisans in the press and in Par- liament because it has rejected a number of the Government's branch railway bills. The Senate would have been much to blame had it given its sanction to the btils_which it has rejected. lt is nothing short of reckless folly to undertake to build a thousand miles of new railways under pre- sent conditions of Dominion debts and railway deficits. And we doubt not that the great majority of the Canadian electorate are thankful to the_ Senate for its resolute ac- tion.

Tbs real cauls of the fault find- ing is the want of a majority for the Government in the Red Chamb- er. There are only two or three Progressives in that Rouse and the combined Liberal and Pru- grieesfie membership make up but little more than one third of the total. in. the later years of the Laurier regime there was a large Liberal majority there and the Senate stood high in their favor. But before Sir Wilfrid gained pow- er ln 1898 there was a strong Con- servative majority there, Liberals were loudly denouncing the Senate and s- popular slogan among them was “Mend it or end it."

Tiis Civil Service Commission has also come in for some censor ious criticism of late, especially in connection with the recent postal strike. This commission was creat- ed by the Union Government led by Sir Robert Borden. lta creation was not approved in Quebec, main- ly because it greatly restricted the patronage of the Government in regard to appointments to office and promotions. The Civil Service Commission has rendered much useful service to the country but there are a considerable number of Liberals in Parliament who are critical of its work. partly because it was created under Conservative leadership and also because they wish to have patronage restored.

Competitive examinaflcn

civil service is sound in principle and has been adopted in ‘ many nation-s, It is a marked advance

recommendation of the

supportiqg the government of the

in order that appointments

Ill’ ll possible.

._._.¢:-""

lollies. sesame. ‘ '

ed by the government,

Titers are fifteen millpn of peop- t "‘- is ‘now operating" some ~surt of

estimated that these cars consume _

for - those seeking admission to the

upon the old system in which ap- pointments were made only on the members

day. It was inevitable that under that system favoritism and nepot- ism must prevail as was found to be the case. The change was made and promotions should be made on merit and sound qualifications as

Patronage has been continued as of old in regard to all the higher offices h; the country. Governors, ministers. collectors of customs and excise with many other high officials. com- lssiolsrs and agents are appoint- without summation as to qualifications or fitness and under no limitation as to ago. Thus all the best appoint- ments in the Domiuicsmaaay of them such as ihcle of judges and .filfllflls be!!! Kppoiutmsuts hr ills ass-insult sweat after. costs with; 0c seeps cf patronage sad susoet tum-tasty awarded to sniper-tars. cf I

tsssi. ‘rats is as abuse ct sever i

..'l‘he.Public Forum sssnsss sf lateness. Isis . Omllhn‘ less Jet necessarily estdssss cps g,- lleas sl caution union

Sir.-.—'1‘he Unionists are jubilant over the passing of the Union Church Bill by. the Dominion Par- liament. This is what anti-Union. lets expected. because the Domin- ion l-iouse of Commons is domin- ated b] the Progressives. The King government cannot refuse the Progressive anything they ask: for they can turn down the Liberal government any day. We may say that the Dominion is ruled by the Progressives. and they are nearly all strong Unionists. That the prairie province - should do whatthey consider of advantage to themselves la not reasonable. Their representatives also are answerable to them, and undoubt

ediy will endeavor to carry out what they know to bm-pleaaiilg t‘o the‘ provinces they represent. We have Imo fault to find ‘with the Western Provinces for trying to get such legislation passed iiswili benefit them.

However the Union Bill has not yet, so far as we know. passed in the Senate; the Senate is suppos-_ eu- to be conservative of the inter- ests and property of the people. ‘l‘he anti-Unionists are therefore hopeful that the Senate will do them justice, and will not pass a iaw that wl-ii rob the Presbyterian Church in Canada of its name and property; but will amend the Union liiii now before it, so as in leave the antlUniouists out of the

new merger and in the enjoyment y their just and reasonable inde- _ endence allowing them to worship

God in pence and happiness under

their own vine and fig tree, non! daring to molest them. Those

who are determined to adhere to

the venerable Presbyterian Church

ask nothing unreasonable. They are charged with laying claim to

all the funds of the Church. They

make no such claim, but consider

it just that they should go their‘

share of such funds, and if denied that they will do without it. The

Church of God, which the Presby-

terian Church is, not founded upon worldly treasures. The favours

and blessings of God can be had

and enjoyed independently oi worldly treasures. Some of the

provisions of the Bill are as fol-

lows: i

(n) lt would create a new cor-

porate body, to becalled the Unit- ed Ohurcbyof Canada.

(b) It would merge in this new

corporate body the entire Presby- terian Church in anada—its

name. its ministers, its members

and properties. is this ‘not a

sweeping measure‘! To this the anti-Unionists object. They are willing that all congregations who have voted for union should go iii-to the Union as a body, if they wish, or as- individual congrega- tions, if they prefer that, and take all their property with them. and will kindly say to them. "Good bye brethren; God be with you till we, meet again." But what the antis do ask for themselves is that they be not put "in-to this new merger, but be left to worship God in their own churches as their forefathers did. This is a privilege granted to all British subjects and this they will continue to demand, and will use a-ll lawful means to main- tain.

What have the Unionists accom- plished to the present time‘! First they tried to get their Bill raised in Provincial Legislatures, beginning with the three prairie provinces. where the Union sentiment was strong. and in these provinces the Sill carried. Why did they not be- gin with Brltish Columbia? They know that Presbyterian Sentiment was strong in that Province.

They than t-ried their Bill in On- tario, and when they found that they were going to loose there, they withdrew their bill. As good and honourable men, they should have allowed the Bill to go through the Ontario Legislature, so that people would know the views of that province concerning the Union; but certainly the Bill went so far as Ac leave no doubt in the minds of people regarding the stand they took on this important

question.

The vote in the Ontario House of Commons was 20 for the Union blii. and 36 against it; and it is not at all likely that they will change their opinion. They tried Nova Scotls, and thought that they had all their own way; but finally found out that the principle of the bill was defeated, and that congrega- tions wouldhave to vote them- selves iiito the Union. and not out of it. They carried their bill in New Brunswick. Butwliy did they not try it in the province of Quebec. be’- fors trying it iii Nova Scotia. New Brunswick and ‘P. E. lsiand? Why did they pass the largest province in the Dominion to try their lor- tuue in the Maritime Provinces? They understood that Presbyterian sentiments were strong ki Quebec, especially in Montreal and other large cities.

Liberal members Ii the P. ll. i.

tinusncs of the Presbyterian Church in Canada. Some Conserva- tives did the same; but all tbs help

Canada is quits wide enough for the ‘clllllilfflfgflolhalld contact to be farther Intended downward or upward. fit ttis cmtastly belfl_ ly-tks crwatlop of new offices hiker salaries lass ‘ever tnfsiei ’ ' to

Prince Edward lsiand they. have not yet owing to the manly conduct of our Lieutenant Governor. All the

Legislature voted against the con-

tbs Antis mt was from the Con- Mil

o» flab? of $01M

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INCREASING. THE FATS IN JOINT CONDITIONS

For yeariryou have thought that most of your rheumatism and pain- ful jcints was caused by an ex- cessive meat or protefn diet. Accordingly eggs and meat have been taken off the dietary of the rheumatic, or arthritic patient, as he is now called. and he has load- ed himself up with starches to

When the ro

make up for this. L" 11°‘ D9" It has been learned lately that For, beyond an excessive diet of starcbes— god 1pm,,"

bread and vegetables csu dcrange the intestine. and the resultant product in the blood causes-arthrit- is or rheumatism.

painful joints and have had your to‘. two mom“, meat and eggs cut off. and now Ottawa M u“, find that your bread and vegeta lee are to be cut down, you will w d- H" Emellfillcy er what is left. Ottawa by Miss

food stuffs were meat nod white

of egg, starches and sugars, fats. replace m“ m‘ salts and water. __

it look like a fut. salt, and water meta

lane and institutions doing special he, mun-hue n» work m. these painful joint con- ditions, arc now using a diet in which the fats ‘take the place to _ a large extent of the meats and "$00k- starches.

ternoon. June

in good health is about as follows. c one part meat or eggs. two parts fats {butter or milk). and three and 99M“- sh parts starches . F6091"!!! B1119!’ This ‘spread over the three meals or New York, of course. ' d q n _ This new diet for the rheumatic gianleneogeorzh patient does not interfere with the ' meat and eggs, but cuts down the starches until they are about one-

creased nearly four times. With this idea in mind. an

part of your make up. lt would then 9|; more g

this diet matter a little attention.

l ‘will not weary you with an)’ set diets because if’ you are real ili "l" "flmll- l" you are better in the care of your Mrs. John Morr own family doctor. Mrs. Thomas M But to avoid the condition, or to m a Bunch“! m" “e” ‘l “Pi " Y“? m“ 3' Tlloll‘ assistants lgoglal-ltlzillizilrlasrlzllpolrtata‘ an p ' smwlfl- Mn- '7- Becauuo this is what you are George Rogers.

a high fat dict. Accordingly ‘the fruits low in starches are . peaches, lemons. grape fruit oranges. and straw- berries. ". ' , The cereals low in starches are rice, oatmeal, and the wheat pro- ducts. '

The vegetables low in starches are asparagus, beets. cabbage, lettuce. radiance, squash, spinach and carrots.

The meats and fish rich in fats are bacon, beef tenderloin, lamb chop, goose and turkey, and curd-in- es and salmon.

You know of course that milk. cheese, butter and cream are rich in fats. With these foods in your mind’s eye, you can readily BBB. that you'll not starve yourself and yet attain yourobject.

Pink and white‘ white

POOIH. I

Happiest

servatlves, Never mind, true blue tPresbyterlans have good memories. The provinces that the Unionists have gained so far are-Alberta. Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Now Brunswick. They have yet to win British Columbia. Ontario, Quebec and P. E. lsiand. Nova Scotia they have lost. The provinces they have to gain make up more than two- thlrds ifl the Dominion. Nova Sco-, tia and Ontario are the home of Presbyterlanlsm. and the Unionists have not gained either of them yet. Even if the Dominion Government should pass the Union Bill, the Antie need not fear. Provincial law will carry against Federal law in the case of property rights. Let the Antis but be uni-ted and’ determined and this with the blessing of the ilsord will insure victory for them. The victory they aim at is the con- tinuance of the Treabyterisn Church in Canada, its policy and name. __ Some few say that as soon as the church is called the Union Church, they will leave it and join other de- nominations. That is a wrong idea. The best thing is to keep together. be united. Union is strength. Even if the Antls should lose by all legislation. there will be enough of them to constitute a. Grand Pres- byterian ‘Church. Stand firm, stand last, stand sure. and success h cer- tain. - Those who were intrusied with the highest positions in ruff-nest”. terisu Church have pill. it into poli- tics and law. Shamefull However as a last resort it may be possible togst an appeal ts the British Privy Council. where _vn may be sure of justice. ' Our forefathers often had mach hauler times is uphclgiiis their Church than we have, and dually ‘Mlffl! Y. . b“. new b» WW1 lfilblel “It is the duty as well as the privilege 9g u. cry Christian to pray for the pros- perity cf Zion; they shall pros that lovetliee. » . l Bill-Sir. etc. Hlussvranlau