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BELFAST RALLY DAY SEI- VICE-The Rally Day programme of-the Presbyterian Church of 30.1? fast, which was held Sunday even- ing, under the auspices of the B. S. and Y. P. B. was a grcstsuccess; being a source oi’ edification as well as enjoyment to the vast throng which filled the pews of the large ground floor. programme was carried cut in full. including, as it did, classjreoitatirins

- of Scripture, separatelyfior boys and girls; responsive re dresses and hymns; all of which were denied out in a moot credit- able manner, and devotional. D. l’... Griffiths presided and also led the the song service, which under his enthusiastic direction, high level. The worik oi the classes had been arranged by Mrs. Baily Wut. Addresses were also delivered, Including: "A Rally ‘Day Welcome." Mrs. Mabel Hearts, for God." Mr. Rcflgie Ido- Leari; "Our All for God." MT- DB-YQ b. Grifliths: solo. Miss Joyce Mac-

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A HUGE PUMPKIN-Mr. Arthur Veesey. York, is the proud posseuor

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m. W, Higgins, wifeand son, of Detroit, Mich; were recent visitors to the home of Mr. Roy Clarke of Augustine Cove.

the Island and he sees s great many changes for the betterment of the Island. He plans on making thetrip to the Island again next

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fared a net 10.5 of 24,000 of its peopiainfiyearaorjust about I0 percent. ‘t The above figures. ho ever, do not tell the whole story b any means, for, while the 24,000 Islanders were migrating to the United States and to other parts o: Canada, a natural increase was in process, i.e., the ex- cess of births over deaths, oi con- siderable proportions. (Again, one is‘ met, with diiiiculty in determining the exact figures. because of fact, that there were no recorded Provincial registrations ‘of and deaths until 1000. I have, how- ver, made some calculations that believe are fairly dependable and. without wearying you with details,‘

m“ Philippines will be encouraged by I am going to ask you to accept

Government if proposed my iiguroI-l ,_ _ v legislation is passed. From 1076 to 1000. the births I "' believe ’ ‘ deaths D1725 per

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Donald; Duet. ‘Master Glen Mac- ierp-sie and Miss Dorothy Noy; solo,

Griffiths: solo, Galilee," ur. Dave E. Griffiths. Mrs. Mabel McEachei-n presided at the organ.

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people must have emigrated al with the 24,000, so that we have, in all, the formidable figure of as an actualioas or the Island's’ population by emigration in the is!

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twill agree with me, merits the

most trenuous efforts of all who

have the interests of the Province heart. _ o ‘

Jn order more fullyjo- appreciate how great has beemtbe drain upon Prince Edward ‘Island, let us com- pare the above figures with those of Quebec and Ontario during the 50 years from 1881 to 1N1. In 1001, the combined population of these |two central Provinces was 2.812,- 807. while in 1901 it had grown t0 8,306,138. an increase of 8,493,771. In

tarioahowedagrowthollfipar cent. Prince Edward Island exper- ienoed a loss of-20 percent, or, if we allow fq the natural increase. of 50 percent. ‘

Jn discussing this matter with friends. I have usually been met with the Nloinder that the ebbing tide has been stemmed and that in

eunum. amcuntim ior the 90 veers future we shall at least show no’ to an increase of 21,750. Iii-cm 1008 to 1081. 25 years. taking the Year; . the excess was 520 per annum. equal in 15.500, or a total for, the 55 years of 87,250.

loss and possibly a gain, an opinion based upon the fact that the census of 1081 showed a very slight decline from that of I021. m arriving at jthat conclusion, I feel- that all the 0!. facts have not been-taken into

‘increase of 020 per, annum-GQOO

no community can be said to be holding its own unless. it retains its full natural increase. In addition to this fact, there have been some special additions to the population during the past decade which are

the Island, resulting in an increase i nthe population of 12.000» in 5 years. None of these children have as yet left school or college, and ltseemstomethatitwillbea serious problem to find employment for them when they graduate. An- other factor has been the consid- erable number of mechanics and others connected with the intro- duction of the automobile trade, and which I believe has now about

ehed its limit.

1081, and as these men are mainLv heads of families. that would pount for an extra .1000. which is not lihll! to be repeated.

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In seeking a Ipealson iorllthe all "tum" years, I

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other words, while Quebec and 011--

per ‘tted. while our sister a

employees between 1001 and| w-{IOOO in the next five years. What

' them? ‘Are we going so o sclwsto support them Or are we , g0__ to find work for them?

during “my”, m‘; f/hg- -ghlgftm- interests or the Province

years. or ‘utthe rate of-lllt persons 1910 or 1011, there was quite a per annum, about one family every serious lhortusc oi.’ llbour in the! working day of the year, surely a Canadian cities and towns and, as!

utter indeed, and one the correction of which, you‘

the industries grew in number and size, many mechanics were brought mtg Canada by the manufacturers from the ‘United States, Great Britain, and from some European countries. _

» ' ~ 100k? T0 51118 t1 I D911 m"! '9 ""1" w°fi M 13mm‘ there is only ougufifiilr, and tier:

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a remunerative character can

-and particularly’ for the boys and] girls of the rising generation as they leave school or college. It is, certainly discouraging to see the mopulation continually diminishing. 0n the other hand, it is many times worse to have any considerable number of people unemployed. for, knot only do they suffer intense hardship, but they are a heavy .drag upon the community. More- - over, the question oi providing food. clothing and shelter for those of oin' people who aro out of work in- creases in seriousness when it is ’¢0lilidei0d how large a number are , on relief in the other Provinces and .in the United states. to which latter country entrance is no longer Pro-

Provinces to find work. It certainly‘ look as though we ahsii have, for. aomeyearstooomeJotakocai-eof a constantly increasing, rather than, ,s diminishing, number of unem-

will gradlillly and steadily im- _prov , but I cannot ,. ’ my-, ,seli thatthis general improvement ,will. to any appreciable extent, pio- vide additional work either on the farms or in the cities and towns of this Province. '

| Of our boys and girls. an aver- age of 2750 leave school and col- lege ouch year. From this figure may be deducted about 050 ior

Qsom who retlro or die. ‘This that we shall have annually w take care oi 1000 young people, or

are to do with them? Are we going to make paupers oi

is a ma that should ap- pear very stxonrly to all who have

at ‘libero _is nothing more de- moralising in the moulding of char- acizrtiian for the

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and robbery gene! y. continent, what a large iflyilwtim of the criminals are under years or age, and many oftblmystintbeii-teenaTheieil

m-Y h" th t the introd ti f there is any way by which work oil to my a “c on o _ ‘ing to be an easy matter. Nothing Jmmd 101' m" Prelim" “"1110”? ueiisy u worth having. On the other

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mines are proving a great ssvln! clause, with their attendant indust- ,ries of smelting, refining and manu- Uacturing, hut metals are not likely to be found on a sand bar. On this .Isla.nd there is no commercial tim- ‘ber to speak of, and the hope oi discovering 011 apparently has been abandoned. What, then. is the out-

is manufacturing. Now don't smile d tell me that I am building

factories into this Province is go-

hand, I have convinced myself, after a considerable amount oi in- vestigation, not only that manufac- turing is possible in Prince Edward Island. but that in some respects the outlook is more eneou -’

hero than anywhere else iu Canada.

The Production of Wealth

Now. let us leave this question for a moment and regard condi- tions frorn another standpoint, viz: that of the pmductlon of wealth. In order to do so, let us compare the per capita wealth oi Prince Edward Island with that of Ontario and Quebec combined. There are no reliable figures extant regarding the wealth of the Pro- vinces in the "l0's, but there are many reasons to believe that in 1873, when Prince Edward Island Joined Confederation, the average wealth o: its people exceeded that of any of the other four Provinces. via: Nova scotia, New Brunswick,

community, it must be remember- ed that it is a very different mat- ter from the aggregate wealth, for it is obtained by dividing the latter, the total wealth, by the number of people, and ii there are many poor people in a. community. then the average or per capita wealth is, of course. much smaller than it would be if there were only a few poor. people. As I understand it, there‘ have never been many poor people on this Island, for the simple reason that. when work became scarce. the unemplryed migrated to the mainland, and no doubt this would be the procedure today were it not that Islanders know that employment conditions elsewhere are even worse than they are here, and that if they "flame they are apt to become stranded.

Now, the per capita wealth oi Prince Edward Island in 1020, as figured by the Dominion Statis- tician, was t1,750, while that oi Quebec and Ontario was $2.025. The latter figure would, however, be far greater if the large number or poor in the cities, particularly in Montreal and Toronto, were eliminated. and conversely, ii we had not lost the 01.000 people by migration, our average figure today would ,. , not ‘ 01.000.

Wealth-Producing Value of Manu- featuring

I have brought up this question of per capita wealth because I want to impress upon your minds the in- trinsic wealth-producing value of the manufacturing industries, alto- gether apart from the employment that the industries provide, for it is mainly to manufacturing that we have to attribute the wonderful growth in population and wealth of Canada's two central Provinces.

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in 1900 and in 1929. I have taken} the first year, 1000, rather than an earlier year, because, prior to that year, the census statistics included as factories every little shop in the country, such as blacksmiths, tin- smiths, change of classification was made in 1000, at the instigation of Mb‘. Fielding, after he had made, as Finance Minister, an intensive in- spection oi the factories oi

shoemakers, etc.

whole country.

IMO-Establishments, 11.388; cap-

This

the

should be able now to lav down goods in London or Liverpool at a lower freight rate than is possible on similar goods from Ontariq where most Canadian foodstuff! are processed, while in winter we have ships leaving the two ports of st. John and Halifax every few days, and within 24 hours’ rail haul from Prince Edward Island. Furthermore, when the volume oi our shipments will have grown to a size that will warrant the ship- ping companies and tramp steam- ahlps calling at Charlottetown, ouI

ital, $357,375,602; employees, 372,095; salaries and wagei harbour will become a regular porl 93999941; (m; o; materials, of call so long as it is free from

$224,010,170; gross value of pro-

ducts, $109,821,480.

~ limb-Establishments, 17.066; cap- ital, $4,091,351,492; employees, 552.- 700; salaries and wages, $655,503,- 395; 00st of materials, $1,623,347,1B'1; ggss value of products, $3,235,59z,- .

From the above, it will be real- ized that manufacturing has been oi the phenomenal growth of Ontario and Quebec, and conversely, to the manufacturing on this Island may be attributed the fact that not made anything like the pro- gress that was expected when this

the

secret

Island entered Confederation.

Impossible Conditions in the Past

Now, I fully realize how impos- sible it has been for this Island, isolated as it is at the extreme East end of the Dominion, hmdlcflPped with heavy transpor- >tfltl0n charges. to ship goods into central Canada, which, in any event iwculd have been a case oi "send- ing coals to Newcastle," for farm- ing in both Quebec and Ontario is far more extensive than in Prince Shipping to the United States. also, with their high customs tarlfl, has not been possible, while in Britain, with her markets wide open to the whole world. com- petition was a. hopeles game.

No one is to blame for conditions.

Blnce the abrogation of the Am- sflceu Reciprocity 'I‘reaty in 1878, and the killing of the wood ship- building industry, this Island have been the victims of circumstances over which they flDDB-rently have had no control, and the wonder to me is that con- ditions at present are not far more

Edward Island.

serious than they are.

Fortunately, however, the situ- 1. ation today is entirely different, so far as this Island is concerned, and a change has come about 1n the last two years that is nothing short of a commercial revolution, although as yet we have not made any attempt to take advantage oi the new conditions. By admitting l goods iree of duty and charging a differential to other countries, Great Britain has given Prince Edward Island the greatest

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these

the people of

ice, and then we should. indeed have a substantial freight suprem- 0W.

Can We Compete?

Now, I fancy that I can hen! someone say: "What chance would we on this little Island have to compete with the long-established. factories in. Upper Canada, with their large capitalization, wonder- ful machinery, and long exper- ience?" Well, in the first place, if we take that stand we shall nev- er acoomplish anything. No matter what we do, we must make c. be- ginning some time. In the second place, I am not so sure but that we would have some real advant- ages over the older firms, for we should be making a start where they are leaving oif, as we should have only the very latest machin- ery, appliances and methods, whereas many, if not, most, of the Canadian manufacturers have plants, heavily overvalued and more or less obsolete, that they would be only too glad to scrap if they could afford to do so, and many of them are clinging to old- fashioned methods under which the cost of their goods is too hizli and the quality is not up to pro.- erit-day standards. By employing superintendents of the highest skill, versed in all the latest scientific methods, by buying machinery of the most rocent design and erect- ing buildings speclaily suited to the work in hand, there is good reason to believe that we should, from the outset, be in a position to meet competition from any source.

Essential Conditions In Manufacturing

Success in manufacturing de- pends upon four primary basic conditions:-

High class, experienced, up- tc-date. and enterprising manage- ment.

0. The most efficient machin- ery procurable.

8. Materials high in quality. ample in quantity. pulrchased at prices no higher than are obtain- able elsewhere.

4. Intelligent labour, willing ta accept a fair wage.

Oi the above, we should have to go off the Island for at least the

pomible encouragement to manu- technically skilled members of our

ifacture and to export ‘ linto a market, ‘power of which ex

1a management. and for most of the the purchasing machinery, but we certainly have. ceeds that of any right at our hands. raw materials

other country in the world. Similar, and a labour supply equal to, i!

privileges also prevail

in many not better than anywhere else on

other mm of the Empire. poi-R the continent, and the one mat

tcularly in the tropical colonies, in object or any effort

forth

put which. because oi the hot climate,‘ would be to provide a market in . farmers

most of our farm products are not the products of our grown. A point also worthy of Ipe-' fishermen,

and?

and fliiflfllflllit (U.

cial mention is that, instead oi be- our people. who otherwise will btll

ing handicapped by transportation compelled to leave the Island charges as has been (‘Io be