OOD home-made bread has always been the chief food of the earth's sturdiest races. None of the breakfast foods or health Ioodscan equal bread in nourishment. Good bread is the most digestible food as wellas the cheapest.

HEY Tacos/two ' SEALS SIGHTED

ST. J-OHN‘S Ntld, April l.---The, Terra Nova, Capt. Albram Kean. which was reported up to the week end to huve secured 17,000 seals. appears to be the only ship o!‘ the local sealing fleet to have secured a profitable catch. The Terra Nova has been badly knocked about in the ice. Scores of tons of drifting floes at one time poured over thr little steamers rails carrying away 30 feet 0f her bulwarks und ~in oth- er ways damaging the craft. The vessel carries a. small airplane, the aviator Off which reported a patch of ice four miles by eight miles on which was a herd of seals cuniput ed to number 50,000,

Thick, Swollen Glands

that makes horse roar, whoozqhuvs thick wind or choko -down, can be reduced with

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FRIDAY, APRIL“ 4, 1924

OLIR FINANCIAL ‘ SITUATION

In the course of his vcry able. and authoritative statement of the position pf the province in his bud-l zet. speech, Premier Stewart was] particularly explicit iu his review if the financial situation and theii stops to make good the} .:redit of the Provinces-lo seriously lamagcd by the Liberal Govern- ment unwurruntcdly making awn-y with some $117,000 which should] have heun at the credit of the' sinking Fund, but which it plucuili .0 the credit of current account in irder to meet

t.;l:cn

expenditures and to bolster up its claim to yearly

HITIJIIISHS.

The Premier's speech is given in lull elsewhere in this issue but we hiiik it well to emphasise his state- nent on the financial situation by ziving it here. He said in part: The outside audit shows that the

828.97.

in bank over-draft,—$322.708.00.

We owe over n million dollars on lebentures; these are very largcljv zecured debts on the Province. as he mortgage is a secured debt 0n 1 man's farm. We have in ull ele- veu issues of these bonds, aggregat- ing the amount just mentioned-

Tliese bonds were issued at dif- ferent periods. During the past four years there were quite a nuni- ‘oer issued. The first was fur $125,- 000 another for $l75,0tltl; um! a third for $150,000[ making a total of $450,000 for mcnt purposes.

highway improve-

These bonds arc all issued under ‘ind by the authority of Act-i 0i Parliament of this Legislatuie which gives authority for borrow- ing the money and providing the

also other Bunchns or Swellings. No blister, no hair gone, and horse kept at work. Economical- only a few drops required at on applica- tion. $2.50 bottle delivered. Book 3 R free I. F-YMIIII, Inc, in Lvmnii Bids. Momma!

Iborrowed the rate of interest, and

also making specific provision for the repayment ol‘ these loans; that

Do you suppose tho parties who bought these bonds knew tho true condition of affairs?

Before any brokers buy bonds they examine especially the pro- vision for the sinking funds of the Province. _ '

Do you suppose, if they knew the sinking funds were not provided for at all, that tho Government would have sold these bonds at favorable prices, or at ANY price?

We are faced with these condi- tions.

\Ve know that further borrow- Inge will have to be made, if we continue, as we propose to coii- tinue, the highway improvement work under a modified system, and it will be necessary to borrow sixty per cent. of this expenditure.

lf we go into the money market with this outside audit, the actual truth, how could wejsk any brok- eruge house to buy our bonds?

_ persent debt of this Province is We have taken up this matter 51575-15450. and we have CURED this condi-

_ln dehentures,—$1,090,708.41. tion. In short loans, on call—830'l‘,- ..We have purchased bonds of the

Dominion of Canada to the total amount of 0178.000 (the amount found to be short) and these have been deposited where they should be, and where they should always have been. These bonds have been purchased by us at ninety- ninc, bearing interest at five per cent, so that they will yield slightly over five percent.

lint my hon. friends will say: “You had to go to the Bank to get that money to pay them."

Yes, that is perfectly true. "And you have to pay five and one-half

per cent for that money."

Ves that is also true.

But apart from other considera- tions, taking that bald statement as I make it: ls the good name of this Province not worth more than

Interest in 1h: Bank? A statute of this Province was passed in the early

a fraction oi one per cent-lea} terms upon which they are to helthan one-half of one percent-of 1,0,; Thou,” 1,13,, made n vgsil to

E The Public Forum.

This column. in. opon for the discussion by _corrco- r " ‘ of ' _ of in tcrost. Tho Charlottetown Gunrdlln door not ncocccan ily ondorcc tho opinion ex- procood by its correspon- dents.

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“HONOR TO WHOM HONOR-J’

Sir,——Therc seems to be a great deal of excitement in the minds of certain individuals its to who should get. the credit for the organ- ization of the Potato Growers‘ Asso. elation. There seems to he some glory connected with the project“ that certain gentlemen are anxious to shape into u halo, whose reposi- tory shall ‘he somewhere in the vic- inity of their own crunlums. Nu doubt these gentlemen claim u vision that foretold the succussof the Association in the certified seed trade, back ut. the date of organiz- ation, but in as much us the orig- inal objective of the Company lnid to do with the handling of ordinary table st0ck_ such assertions, along with the glory of the would-be orig. lnators must. necessarily suffer considerable reduction.

Aside from this, however, the ac- tual pioneer, in the work of organ- ized otTort among pptuto producers,

and the mlan who first. planned an organization, and made a trip to the Un-

ited States to investigate markets, was Mr. William Kerr. lPla/nswere hilly made to take up the handling of potatoes, but the few growers and dealers who met in Charlotte- town for the original meeting, somehow or other overlooked Mr. Kerr's organization and started in- dependently. This does not, h0\v- ever, detract from the fact that Mr. Kerr was really the first man to take any definite iiction in regard to the organization of the growers. I am, Sir_ etc., “SPUD,"

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ANOTHER BEAR STORY

Sir,-—ln» the Guardian of March 29th. l noticed an article headed "Mount Stewart Bear Story." “Well it it had been headed A True Mount Stewart Bear Story," it would have been quite appropriate for they are noted to be y-ery accurate in statements made in connection with reports and busi- ness mutters in that village. There- forc l believe their I)C'fll‘ story to be quite true. In political matters I do not know so much about their accuracy. Wcll, the publication that Mount Stewart had such an experience in their history has nut exhausted all the bcur stories oi’ the past. I wish to bring to your notice a Pownal true beiir story. I think it was in 189i) that u neigh-

-a wood farm u. few miles out of Pownal und wandered nearly a

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Morning‘ Dally (founded 1857) 85.00 per your til ‘mlvnncol delivered. 54.50 per your (in advance) mulled in Gunilla all United Stilton.

lie took to the water headed for Earuscliffe. Hi5 purcuers gave chase and reached him with a small boat which they had niucb difficulty in preventing him taking hold of and upsetting it, but after I1 severe struggle they succeeded in killing him with an axe and afterwards hauling the carcass to the shore. l think it well to put this story on record along with that of Mount Stewart. I um sir etc.,

AN OLD TIMER. i-a-om WINTER ROADS

Sin-The winter roads problem scents iiguin tu be the centre of attraction for long letters and ail- vico as lio\v best to lllllki} and keep the roads iu u fairly passable con- dition fur those who are compelled in tho pilrsuunce of their various duties to travel them. We huvc not been treated to uuy of those lung tepistlies fur ll lung time as the season, ubunt over has tiscll n5 or some of us ut least very nicely but with the. advent of March and more snow llIllI softer snow, the trouble. begins. The pltchcg and slews and all that go to make travelling more tiresome is on us. Those of us who had the DIPIISIITG (I used the word udvisedly) of working for the llcll Government for the princely salary oi‘ from S4 to $7 a yeur as road masters did really believe that the larger sal- ary proposed by the present pow- ers would be an incentive to the new officials (and they are ull new. There are no old ones on the job) to keep the roads in better condi- tion for winter travel but no, al- though wc were promised a new heaven and a new earth s0 to speak. if we would only put Bell out and some one else in. The voter did the trick and here we have the good old days of pitches and slews us of yore and the remedy, also as of yore. Two very prominent and well known clergy- men have offered what they be- lieve to be the solution and they many be correct. Yet I have the name of an equally eminent and well known clergyman who was born in the sister province of N. B who will say he has seen as bud pitches and slews in N. B. as it was possible to have. One of the gentlemen advocates u double hitch or team work which would of trourse necessitate thc side shift. I want to ask the rev. gentleman one question. , Did he ever travel from Stimmerside to Bedeque over the ice in the spring when mussel- uiud hauling was in full swing. If so he has seen us i have more pitches to the mile of road than level places and docs he for one niomc it tell anyone that the Side shift would eliminate ur cure that trouble‘! I don't think so. l am not against any improvomeiit of any kind neither do l accuse ull

A FREQUENT CAUSE OF BACKACHE You huvc u pain in the back and you havn IlPUll-llllliilit! to find out Just whut is causing it. Your phygig.‘ iun has cxumiued the urine, and

this constant backache that is over- looked by many people.

As you stand sideways illlii look lutu your mirror, you nqflge m“; the pain is just in tho centre of I tire bend nl small of buck.

In other words perhaps you have tuo much of u hollow buck, have. a "sway back“ us it ls- caller],

ll‘, added to this, you have Iiegun to put on weight flflll have n pru- trutliug abdomen, then you have likely found the cause of your trouble.

As you put on weight, or get cflmless about your carriage, you lut the abdomen sag forward,

What happens‘),

It simply carries the spinal column forward with it, and pro- duces that sharp bend just exactly where your pain is located

You see you were never meant. to stand that. way.

You were meant to stand erect with the abdominal miracles ~in front. and the small of back musc- IPH behind. Jus-t nicely balancing one another all the time.

I" m“ If You could see those muscles, you would be greatly 1m. pressed with their similarity.

_'I‘he front ones l‘llll up from tho 11m bom- m_ frunt to the breast bone and ribs, and the back ones m“ "P "m" U"? hill bones behinlL and the bone between them to the ribs behind.

Just a nice even balance you sce.

S0 ‘VIIPII You allow your abdomen t0 S"! Yfllll‘ pull the poor buck muscles forivard in -:t constant strain: hence your pain.

In severe cases the spinal bones lzr-t pulled forwurtl aml the weight. "I "l" IWIY is lllmn the back purl of them, from win-nut‘ l-mrrgo lin- nerves.

Autithor source n1‘ ]);\ln_

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who advocate the side shift of hav- ing something to sell as one of tlicl lzits writers states, but l aml against. the idea of compelling or; h gisluting to compcll any one to muke any outlay which has yct to be proved us the Cilfll-flll .in this‘

mile by a wood road to the back of

nineties byflllis farm viewing the timber as he‘

went along. Presently one of those

country for deep snow and bud-i roads. , Further, in reply to the cost as:

llulti yours-nil‘ term-t with own muscles it‘ llofll-liblp. I

Whilst lirlsdlulinl: the muscll-s,. un ubdmiiinxil belt may be worn,

your;

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into the ways of lily-

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finds that thlcre in no trouble with Q the kidneys, ' '

Thcro is no infection from the teeth ililti tonsils, and the pain is FOR not (IUWII low enough to be i ti e ~ lulnt luiuing tlit- hip hone unII [lib l buck hour together.

’i‘liri' is still another cause, for

APRIL By Charlotte Becker

hear the voice of April‘ culling me

'l‘o drop my burden, bid my grief be still,

And follow licr o'er valc and pluin

and hill Alluringly

ho Iris stars the meadow, und lhe|

More and more

is enabled to keep

Book-keeping p“

farmer realizes the importance of accurate book-keeping.

The farmer who opens a Chequing Account with the Bank of Montreal

of receipts and expenditure and to have the helpful advice of an experi-

enced banker whenever he needs it.

We shall be pleased to supply

you with a Farmer's Account Boole flee of charge.

SC free. Glad morning hrctzzes greet the dnffmlil l

Thu sun shown-rs gold, and wild and sweet and shrill. A bird liiugs wlllu his poignant ecutlisy.

The new-born lt-nvees-form myster- ~ ies of gloom To tl-lupt the nesting birds, the garden howl-rs Thrill with tender breathing of the flowers, The bees swing low to mcet their frsgra-ut doom:

And Happiness begs my compan- toning

When April sings the madrigal of Spring. -

the experienced I

an exact record

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leach year, from Current Revenue, which the |one of the writer,- states is uuIy=»*"“VH“~‘U'.+.“M' Charl0tteto‘vn Branch

(hvemment was “n” huge boars raised up immt-tliiitly

Isum to be Invested in securities

Fertilizers l

Fai- all CROPS, am car-

load arrived. (Guaranteed

analysis) in bags of 125 lbs.

‘each. Book orders now for

EMPRESb BRAND AN. ALYSIS 2V2, 8, 2.

ANIM.AL BRAND ANALY- SIS 3, B 3,

Get our low prlceo for

CASH or approved CREDIT.

Carter & C0.Ltd.

WHOLESALE i. RETAIL

Eye Strain Not a Disease

Eye-Main

ip not ‘c diseased condition, but o defect in tho physical formltlon and development of tho Eye.

Medical \- otmcnt is not in- lloctod, except pol-nope to lliovluto resultant distressing symptoms.

A careful pholld In mldb to dotcrmlno Micro the dofoot or ‘Quinton lo cltuctod, and with tlrl; information, tho -._ipumnnn u m. a pro- ‘isoriblo tho noouury ro- ‘Milly. .

M your lot-via.

IF. Iilillilfffl

ope-memo. i

t.

J though we always contended diff-

Itherc shall be set aside a certain and bear so that when the borrowing period has‘ expired and the principal must be paid back there will be sufficient mo- ney accrulng to meet. that indebt- cdness.

interest,

All these statutes make provision for the sinking funds and no stat- utt: is so binding as the statute of 1920, passed by our predeccsso u, which provided for the payment of the , bonds issued for highway expenditure, under which these three debentures have been borrowed. t

That statute explicitly provider lhat the sum set aside each year SHALL BE lNVESTED IN SE- CURITIES.

We all remember the boasting of our friends that this money was not costing the Province anything which was being expended for high- way improvement because the sink- lng fund was being provided for out of the auto license fees, which they iilways claimed were not part‘ the regular revenue at all.

debenture and

of

erently. We would naturally expect, with that statute so binding, so clear, no explicit, and buck of that all thoiri boosting of the funding of tho auto licence feel of tho money to repay those loom, that those lillkillfl funds would have been ldequltely provided for-

We would expect to find absol- ute, security.

But what did we find?

'Wc found that nothing was cot- ulliy lot spurt that whit they cul- led deposit receipts had boon dc- ,.'; In

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powered to borrow money from its own citizens at a rate of five per

was fixed by the statute. The terms on which that money could ernnient were very eusy- There were no stipulations as to the per- iod for which the money would he received; a citizen might receive five per cent-from the very duv on which his money was deposited. and that money might be with- drawn at any day afterwards.

This is perfectly good financing because we are paying less, by one- hulf per cant. than we are paying tn the Bank.

But we now take this view of it, and 1 believe it will be held to be the sound view.

There are two classes of depos- itors; one class who deposit their

security, for the purpose of earnins

be loaned by individuals to the Gov-

money as they would invest in any

in front of his. lie being alone it is easy to appreciate his feelings. IAs the bcur appeared outfor busi-

cent. up '10 a certain amount thatmess Thomas quickly sized up that

~that next thing for him to do, as he had nothing with him for his defence, and he being a man over ti foot with a pretty good running out-fit, and especially as Bruin Izippeared to be hungry, was to take .to his heels. This he did and nuide a good start with ilruin quickly in pursuit; lt is understood there wus some speed and Thomas reached u camp for safety. it is cvcn Blllli if 'l‘honms had, hull an auto lie would have left the unto and used the slime mcuus of escape. This bear was in need of food und wandcrtd out into the open count- ry, and the wuy his course was known was by farmers finding the remains of sheep he had killed, and it was apparent he was headed for Pownai Buy. The news soon spread and many got out in pursuit with guns, pitch forks and revolvers and run him down to Pownai Buy wharf. Finding himself cornered

I Notes by thfilay-

In theory we have an cxcvllcnt system of government and legisla-

, _wtll he given at the time.

tion. ‘It is based on the broad priu clplc of giving expression to and administration of the well-under stood Wishes of the people, lu practise it often comes short of that. If we ask ourselves why it is that a board of directors or n City. Council can transact its business so~ much more expeditiously and often more wisely than a Legislature or a Parlihment most thoughtful per sons will roach the conclusion that it is Ibscause of the absence of poli- tical motive or partisanship from these smaller bodies.

an income; and they are perfectly satisfied to leave that money here for a considerable period and re- gularly withdraw their interest; the ether class is composed of trustees and others who simply deposit the money for a very short period and for temporary convenience, until they can find some more permanent investment or until it has been dis- trlbuted with the estate.

Our contention ls that tho latter clan should not rocclvc the nmc rate n thooo who pllco their money In o more permanent way; and the Government propoco to make now regulations providing that thdlc short term depositors IIIIII receive FOUR per cont lnltcod of five per cont. This contract will be con- tained in the deposit receipts which