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tion to commei Paperi the stot and in

sold do‘ has bei lots to matche placed‘

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f. 1 SUMMERSIE llalry butter Eggs Per Doz 1 Potatoes . . . . . . . . Outs per bushel - llay . . - - - - -

v SOURIS . . .l)airy buttcr .. . i Eggs . Oats . . . . . Potatoes . .. liay . . . . . . . . - ork . . . . . . . . . . .. MONTAGU liuttcr . . . . . . . . .. gigs . . . . . . . . . . .. l‘ i Oats . . . . . . . . . . .. .1 _ . Potatoes . l Pork 1‘ Buttr- 1 I N I . I l l Two i with one " Q keeping l r led to u: eiiandiu l doing but l ‘To c ‘l month M" 1 PW Y‘ 1 i BAI.

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{AGE EIGHT THE CHARLOTTETOWN GUARDIIAN

* lllTAllll‘S lllliiY 0F EXTRAVAEANBE

(Continued From Page 1) What Everybody Kmwl

, _ There is not a politician who "ma, 0n the contrary-ﬁnd 21's] 5;;p;§;§,§{°§}>,;{,';{';;,‘f‘,§‘,,§,ﬂ, has ever Ibeen to Ottawa who does should like to malts this perfect

not know that the Civil Servi was i matter left to the provinces.

Ce clear-there are hundreds. 1'05 Present Parliament bundmss‘ m‘ "aymg m the"

ls scandalouely overmianned. thousands, of men and Women all of which had health depart-

‘ -~ ‘, b f thl ov- ments of some Lind or character. “we H not a mem er o a g

_ o, n i o a member o! the b1 all“ ‘he rolnygnjnlizfugrg l/lexelixghgn gtllvernment who does n epti cans,aw' <

dmi-t that practically every civil out for something to entice the j

1 s vi e department is ridiculous °l‘-’cl°ralrze' lfhrgugﬁgl “thmggllltrl: 3T1 oilerstltaffed, that the work hours partmen o o .

‘ m‘ Wm! rem tion of effort, and the grossest i an inniense ' 1 d 1e_ inine electors. Accordingly. e“ clency u“ w“

Health was launched.

r-n 1-»

ll‘ carved out splendid careers.

' <1 th

t, l th usands 0i’ explanation here in Ottawa. M1 ovoi- o 1111M Premier King, himself an ex-civii dﬁlfffisit lltlsi‘; lllllleil gvllth $0."... men that, l am convinced, ivill 00 U10 States. a 5111101191 Depamnelll‘ or servant, knows all these things-land old men in whom all ambition discovery of Parliament, K0011111- , Th my" sew“ c D But 'lll,li0ilgll he declared in a pre- has been kiiied- with many who are comes-as it must come o n e e ommlagiqn , W319 ‘filliended’ f!‘ c‘ “m”? ggsttgfllwgs’; election speech in Toronto in 19211

ua o ce renae,- .

that “some of the ‘barnacles in tlielsmrmn; with clerks and sten expenditure for mahogany furni-

v- ' i, 'l ea on ture, and Wilton rugs and eniboss- Cm] Servwe must e L em l

pensive reports; and this past year‘,

.1‘ d f rock in a weary land.’ infant mortality increased in Can- “u 0w 0 a

. l ti t l b en all. Even wheni crease—the Canadian public was m: m ‘as e

- clies. The figures of the service‘ _ A" Expenswe Boundary growth speak for themselves. A moth-Lid of extravagance nl- my" Mrvlce hours are an in

. _ ' hc public. Your ways much in vogue is that of lll- llﬁltmfl upon l _ _ - 1 H Bed 'l'l.lll0lltﬂl commissions. Two cw“ “rum goes-m “mk M’ “me How u‘: serw“ s o“

ter-d

.1 v

Service disgracefully overinnnne

“and underivorketl, meaning mi

l, n of ‘ﬁxation m‘, the peep“, or minister or a deputy-mnister want-‘week; and always the procesihi l0 S '

this country. '

. . ' e often or three um Serrrrrrt; are S6180, m the mornliig (it is mor

. - -. And B0 ine n. private businens carried nu in] , . _ r 1s m, hour and a 111111130, Ont eiil begets auotliei ted to do a ceriuim tats —und cail- ll-hl- g0

' - - lug and overwoinaulng o ~ .1 ~ ,. . lunch and stops work at five in the 0101111011" ctl a commission. lie .ask may i

be a simple one; l Your new commissi

of six and a halt‘ hours.

v. pi ’

rrrrrworr Th,“ 1,1,, day conspts the Civil Survicu has resulted in a tho position grows worse. More of- ma '10 mailer. l‘ ‘ - ‘ ' ‘

Civil Service housing condition tlia

l‘ l‘ ~l . . ' ‘t n1 of it" most shocking [ea up M,“ “rm-r m“. rrrrporhrrco‘ But that is not all. During the i 0 0 °

_ , _ . , _ __tiires. 1mm, 1,3101). (Meme 11,1. ha“ U“, suninicr months of July and Aug

merit ti a good thing is the length of its luratltm, so they proceed to surrouiiil tlicinsclvrs with ull thc pomp and ceremony‘ that official» dom delights in and 1'1 tnnkc their job la=t as long as pix. c. The const-quence is that a k ivlii ~h

and a half hours a day.

national or church holidays; and

might cost a 1irivatc business angel “"99 weeks "Flcallon and elgh‘ very mcrlerrrre sum rrrlrs the rrnrwteen days of sick leave each year.

kel ct’ the (iuriatlian taxptrvci‘ of

lion, they do not work on Saturday lath“ lllllldlngﬂ-

huddled here, there nnd every

. _ ‘- f'ft n > rs a o the entire pub A czrsc in poin; is the (tommi; [he 365' and on “my tw“ of ulo$epr I e8 lea g

- ' ' a ' o slon which has been marking M11132?‘ dayshlsahlrdflys) lhvey work 0111,11lgrlgfebllﬂflhlggsld-rgldgrvl, 1: 09111111111!‘ i101’ 1101110011 (700000 011111 l {our Furs‘ Mum’ “bile theﬂlllhoused under tliirtyuiglit’ separate the United States. This coiniuis-Prllge "M" "ms l“ heme” plglhlroofs and scattered over 1w0rr1y.‘plirnse) would become easy. sion has been \\'Ol'lilll'.{ ‘out: caouglrmll" or m" hours a dill“ m“ “Tlrk”! '

to m irk all the nr-iv l)0\lll"lili‘l' liiicslmg somelmug m“ 3'00‘) how“ l‘

‘five (111-[91-9111 s1l-eu1s__so1iio Qfraftcr classification had consuiuotli

set u‘, ‘by the Trrrrr‘. or Verﬂrrmes_ year the civil servant is on duty cx-‘llmnl miles apart‘

“men “h: 3181mm“ w“ rmrrigrerttctlyduiili) hours. The rest of his or rm‘ Interior, (mp commrssron isjlillit‘. is for lt-isurc at the cxilcnso o!‘ under that Department) the Comﬂhc inan who works the tlircc thou- missioners assured him that tlielrlhﬂml hnurﬂ‘ work was all ‘but done. On April‘ 21, 1022, however. Charles Ste\v-' art, thc new Liberal Minister ofl the llltl{l'l.')l', “c1101 r; 1111",“; for Pnnsidci‘ fora moment what this n fllrihnl‘ vutv oi‘ 5: an roi- iiiisrcpresents in actual dollars and uwrk 311; 5191,1111; 111011 5,111.1 ‘cents. Taking an eight hour day as

This lJPilXlCli deals with the de-il basis (and ivhy shouldn't civil

marcatiou of thc boundaries bc-‘Bervilllm Work 018110 b01115?) 111111 tween (fanada and the United Bl-rlklllg 1111 average of 14,000 civil States. The work has ilractirzilli"ﬂervllllls. llle 1099 l0 U10 00111111‘?

been ('Olll])ll.‘it'll. Tho money ask ﬁll-Ch (lily. 11B 1‘0l11‘1‘1i011l01l liY ll10 ed for is required to cunplle‘ data 01X 0111i 11 liﬂli’ 110111‘ Syslviii» i8 2 .- fur the jniiit ropgrh, [fig 1119p ‘O00 hours. 21,000 lIOIITS nt fifty ‘tion of maps, and the resilrvigyijgrlﬁélliis’ un hour (which is the aver- an;l the resetting of monuments 1180 11111111211 bald in the service)

tin vnzious pltitwli. means $10,500 a day. And $10,500 n

Ono would think that that u-ould 11111’. Cllfricd over 264 Civil Service be t -r end; but not so. Lam. year W'01‘l< (lay-S 111 11 Mr. Stewart came back to Parlia annual loss to the men: for twenty thousand collars 1190010 0f (lanolin of $2,772,000, more: the work was nut ' ‘to Yct people ivonder why taxes are (lone. More than that. the h liigli! is still going on. The co'n'vi~i~ r- Yours ago in England a favorite ers at nu..- writing still have tiiel.‘ riddle WW1 "Wily are civil servants off‘ =5; ind it is a moral certainty like the fountain on Trafalgar that the Minister oi‘ die interior $<1uni'c?"un<i the answer ivau. “he- will be buck for more money this 0111188 they play from nine till four." 5@_=,.~1Q;i_ The answer would bc just as ac-

Whai Short Hours Cost

. l t ‘ your’ represents “won y o be filled up, in due time, by tax-burnened|

11111-1111; 11,6 1,1151 111-0 or S111- yeﬂrma million ilollars, (lisgustutl sol

ic Govcrnint-nt orcctt-d two gig- =antic office buildings and purchas- led a third. They built the Con inaugiit building; which houses the1101‘!’." the whole task was dropped-aroused 0! 300-000-000 ICustoms Department, but which is ‘largo enough, if properly used, to

‘contain gcverul (lgplinlnieiitg; [iiiilpknciv nothing 01 gOV0i‘nillPllt OI‘ illtrfflltlﬂn WhlClJ, with allied evils, Bu‘.

the Hunter building—u'hich cost $2,000,000, and is an architectural]

n1onstroslty—; and purchased thc Rea. building from ii. J. Duly (ofitliey simply 011111-1111

the late Home Balik) for $1,250,000. ,Yet great as these buildings were. they were but a drop in the housing bucket of the Government. And so ‘we have seen the construction oi‘ of- fice buildings for rental to thc gov- ernment lNZCOIlIQ one of thc chief liudustries of Ottawa: wc have soon ‘iskyscraper after skyscraper go up,

the Civil Service. Thus with the great Blackburn building} thus with the Norllte building; thus with the Transportation building; thus with the Plaza building-thus with many others. The consequence is that ilcspitc the tens of inillinils of dollars which the country has in vested in buildings of its own- the cost of thc new Parliamem buildings alone will run well into ton million dollars —the Govern- iucnt last your paid out $689,801 for Civil Service rent to the lucky landlords of Ottawa. (See return tabled in Pnriinnicnt inst session.)

in several cases the rent paid ls absurd in its cxcessiveuesii. in Home instances it is business-like and fair; lint only political favorit- ism can explain the fact that in some cascs——quite a numiicl" of

buildings arc inferior to buildings rented at seventy c foot.

cases titer-landlords arc friends of whatever Government may be in power. Tuo often buildings are put up by syndicates who do not begin the ‘work of construction without assurance that as goon la their floor space is ready a first class tenant in the shape of a gov- ernment department, or some brﬁnch of a. government depart- ment, will beiwaiting to pay them fat rent. Anybody who knows any- thing about the inside of Ottawa politics can tell all about that.

eminent rsnl estate transactions of

it synchronised quite curiously with

(!llS(‘.'-l—-\\'llt‘l'l3 rentals are paid at the rate of 81.25 a square foot the

cuts rt stinarn

Friends "At court"

- than has the government of Peru. here. Not. 0! course to all civil B91

i h to take care of all °ii.“.“°li°°.l?..3§§“‘i?2122.15‘; ::;'=:...::'.s‘:1..v. u. a w» ° ° ' ' i, “dings that Canada will re- ollme" °l ‘he highest technical and a] u! half a century at least.

f i l rof’ iency: men W110 011"“ °“‘

l)’ ~33 flaeilvigllelld llo the public service; Why. 111811 1119 110W iilillfliasezrrlll‘; kind of a report- 0 men who are lidiculously uuderllauswer, I thlillkihés ‘Bllllilflegfﬂd l-Wllnﬂugultdggllarsllilltl civil servants are absurdly siwrl- paid‘ men who, had they enterei actions are e t l. Minis" _y ije u s 11001110 i101" l° ‘"9"’ we“ "vets [mi-i there is overlapping. 11111111010 otiioi- walks of life. would have prominent friends o tie Y- Service were sic and raise better babies would make

the 1101mm and jetsam of political quire into the deals.

ii rs and others who whatever The Attempt That Failed which, in the belief of uuuiy, w grill 9 ' . v r, he has never begun the cleanlng.‘!the1r early purpose‘ have been rob, CM] Service departments Sea“ ﬂee, and make n 6mm ed stationery and .ypis.s and ex gharllﬁzt lglfiaggjﬂhlgigllﬂbﬁeeenlvgrskUiiehbeﬁ 01ml: lilgtiiétlgeegéiglélrnltlzilﬁlltlwg eyed a" overntlhe gnptliilll paigfiiixirzflleiatltrrnd €(!OD01Ilt1lCl1l,lills lira?” 111 1 . d1 1 11; 1 1 115i», ‘e ‘ ' a“ w _ _ efliciency.- e us cc e erence. s pcrsonnc, tsii- . whei , accor n3 o v a s a lto r t H _ auctions ‘mere gazers at the clock. 211202101 meat i; under five different roofs. tenuous and it; ﬂﬂggﬂiy m“, ada__otmwa herping the badym tins made some s a ie -sequence is ttltliati ltgvgatgéitwork of The Frmmce Departmen‘ and the rmperwhabm But‘ “rehab”. a ath of war problems auto ...u.i"";°“ Elllireeloonsectllrlence is lethargy. 101M101‘ Deplliélilieiflfhﬂfggiiilglgllts: tiii-ougth ctirciiiiitsguiifti? uhichht‘ lla-"l": eighty l“'° Om“ ‘lmciuls chilly stranded certain departments. ﬁildrrrererfc; duplication‘ merrier der three roo s. e canno con ro . s c iuuretiii- $286,000 to tell Canadians how not '

‘b many as possum o; 11m 511-1111 c The consequence rs a my" Department is actually 111 018111 la. mill to turn out aiore civil m.‘ 1 ' ' ‘ en . ' l0 gel “lck- _ ed ivere squeezed into other bran y

‘The visitor to Ottawa who tlon! Less and lesslcoordination! of it. “H1 Orr“ servants cease contemplates the noble Gothic piics Ever growing inefficiency and| ‘rork M for". 00,10,111 m1 _Parliamcnt lififll llllllgfétlh my’ ' » in the after-noon; thus workling live giﬂgitrilrrgclellisbngrlgﬁriuiﬁgtgnooursieéis- Five yea" ago Union cover” H addi- He is looking llp- meat, HlOUVGKtl by noble war 311-‘ afternoons, never work on bank,igl;vﬁl()g;?1§c£figllescsﬁlgredFfg 311:‘ggiiiasegﬁllmgllviglilzflixafg’ mg four points of the Ottawa compass, W111’ ‘V118 i080 T118 911011 l1"81111

110 i=1 waste!

.with a staff of so-calleil Chicago Putting 1t another way C1,.“ Berqwhore; housed wherever a politrircal 5118222111055115111113 grleClgglljferrgccrtliéiit-I .. ... . ' "ti h b lldin t rut. n - —- thouu-anzls of unnoccssaisy dollars. ‘mils “mk exauly 264 ‘lays ‘mt 0mm‘ m“ as n u g o E e

\ FEBRUARY 2, 192,. c ‘T?

ty for 850.000. The second are the alumnae-probably equal to iii ‘ negotiations prooﬂelliliﬁ 111 111111 $2.500 a ‘year; while an aggle‘ writing for the government pun- map and chart archivist (who chase of certain 111011011!’ "l9"- liiirreqnlred to have "education the late Senator Edwards. The valont to graduation in arisf

m . government has no need of tlais 1:111: recognized university," with 1:: curate 81,911“ m the Service over estate. it has no more nee 0 ‘lnlization ln certain branches mini.‘

in the course of yea l On the contrary, it has B11 01101111" $1,980 per annum. On

iy ous tract of property W811 0i 111° gine some of our

rtl, rem ' e can .. _ learned 5 , lwiiciuis: “if son, avoid university training M. the career of an archivist. Be dili- gent and you may yet become ' sistant on a bucket dredge!" _ Yet the government paid loi- paid more than; r it; and the on. good men in iii; iienetl, and tlizl That. 81 all 000M5- 15 me! mllrenl many of them left it and Cfilifed

border to the

in skirting the Ottawa River. and

o_ The Civil Service Cuunuisslait:

to bring Utopia to the Civil st 111. hereti-

d separate buildings scattered over vnnts. It is advertising for, exam-l. l_ six different streets. Imagine tiining and turning thciu out every‘.

ing a fyle of his department and the same: men and \\'Dllll‘il enter being compelled to despatch a meS-Ilng the Civil Service by lla- scan.‘ senger to bring it to hini through n and none-except the t-lficient-; mile or more of city streets! Iniuc-‘ever leaving it, except by (lentil, , True, there is a Retirement Ad,

f glich p, way! And year after yearlt is an Act by WlllCll Civil Servanti y leave the service upon certain l fico buildings! More and bigger terms upon reaching a curtain age; -‘staft's! Less and less centrttliza but i! it is used, Ottawa never beau

The cold truth is that the Cllll‘ Service is growing steadily and will Icontinue .to grow steadily ivliile the 1present system lasts. Under tint system nierit in tiie Civil Service does not operate. In a private llliil- inoss an executive head can hire, ~ ‘fire and promote his t-mplovecaln the Government service a deputy head or chief of a department has ‘no actual power to do auy of these if civil servants were classified and things, His employees are engag- their duties defined, the problem oﬂed [or him by an oiltnirlc "umiy;

otf the baruacles (to use Mr. Kiiigh-riiiey can only

but ment Order in Council. And that is the fundamental de- 1niorc than a year, cost in excess of fect of the Civil Service. That hi,

11-: of ‘why Civil Service numbers mount, the best. men in the Service, and into a gigantic, univicidy. cunibeu; produced a report ilescrlbed as the ‘some, incompetent machine. r" 1“ll10l1t expensive joke-book in his- is why Canadian taxpayer;

u y r

‘The plain truth is that the experts Civil Service salaries. ’l‘liat ls o t "iveroirt exports. The quite clearly of the cardinal reasons tor a coa-

‘tasks of government; they WDYliEGrHIB root of some of thc 120011011“: on the principle that it was tho job. ills of this Dominion. y" ‘lnot the man, that counted; and In a. further article I shall If! lexcil mcn uc- to tell how a remedy might be cording to the salaries they rccciv- Dliﬂd- B111 1101010 1101118 110 l ‘- ed. deal with the "Pork Barrel." Smile of tlit-ir classifications were 01001‘ 11111101‘ 0111190 0t 9x010" ‘grotesque. Charwomcn. for iax-il-llﬂi Uellﬂll)’ 01 118111001111: W ample, were classified higher than besides desradins 110111108 1110 chaplains. The maximum to ivliich 0111110111118 Public i110. Tivlllil u chaplain (the government cm. Civil Service as a sink-bole for i ploys chaplains) might attain uirl0!l10Yei'B' millions- dcr the reclassification was twelve ' lllltllillféil dollars; but the lady who ac e1 as an ervisor of the char ser- vice beganpnt $1.680, and like thc Admiral in "Pinafore." by asaidaolis

Polishing of the handle or the big Gas, Indigestion,

front door. could rise to 22,100, or ' nsnrlhy illouble the maximum of the ‘ s ep 0N of souls. Godliness, the flmellm steamed to mink’ came M The moment vou eat a 101110101 tr ceanincss. Tape,‘ Dmpepérn" your mm“,

The assistant Oﬂﬂlllzf‘? nt a huc- ‘um 1.5 gone, ' No more distrust l“?! (ireiise (who must have had 1-0111 n, sour, acid, upset stomach.‘ "at least two years‘ experience as v0 flatulence, heartburn, pupil" crane-man on a dipper. (ii-edge. 11m, or nﬂggry-makfﬂg gases. C00‘ or oller on a clam-shell i-egtlvgur dlgséllou for u few cents" or orange-peel dredge" (watever moh- pnckage guaranteed by drill‘

"i000 91111115 11111)’ b1‘) zlst to overcome stomach tror’~i\'~ could earn $1.500 n your and sub- m

The cold truth is that in too many

Take, as an ‘illustration, two gov-

gzdkmm d Milmuk“. women,‘ m,“ chunphn f" the put few months. .'l‘iie first-

qard break stroke, lucceufully defended hei- titlg "in n mtiy

the byeeiection in Halifax-was _ _ yo“ jg Qﬁiqgq y“ the purchase of what ‘was known

as the Ottawa Wine Emit proper-

.. "- “ and“, satiric! arma- ﬁmw“: 1'" '“ ~"-;:ii,,.1';

lcraping thcloup icttllnelarofullnlmgifllﬂt d.