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The United Farmers Guide has " to moralize on the

(at A. A. loftlstt. ‘whldlosr and Publisher.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1920

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BEGIN i\’l‘ HOME. 1 “Beginning at Jerusalem” was a condition at- tached to the first enterprise for world betterment, it will continue to be a condition for world better- ment as long as the world stands. Whether in the pro cess of Christianizing or civilizing theworld, in the improvement of social, industrial or commercial con

subject of "criticism." ' l,t takes the ground that in the main “cri- ticism is not only just but desir- able." But when it comes to the question of the motives oi the ad- vocates of farmers organization it is different. it doesn't apparently then enjoy the critic's voice. it was quite orthodox for the Guide to deface its columns with a car- toon in blasphemy of a sacred or- dinance of the religion of the peo- ple. and in this shameful word picture to impute a $14,000 salary as the “motive" of l-ion. Mr. Cald-

ditions, a sine qua non is that we must begirr at home We cannot Christianize or civilize the outside world if we remain pagan at home nor can we improve com mercial or industrial conditions by patronizing the stores or the factories of other countries while our own are starving.

Whatever we may be doing; in the matter of Christianizing and civilizing the world, we- are not folloiving the orthodox precepts in the matter o trade. The Royal Bank of Canada, in its current letter, gives figures concerning our import and ex- port trade which are startling, although, in at least one particular, somewhat encouraging. The startling

1 feature is that for the first five months of the cur

rent year our Canadian imports amounted to $28,-‘mrmer shareholders, the directorsimu] 1nd,...“ 111D...

480,000,000 while our exports amounted to only $23,688,000,000, that is, we purchased nearly five billion dollar more than we sold. The encouraging feature is that during the month of October our ex- ports exceeded our imports by over twenty three and a half millions. The decrease in imports for October was chiefly in agricultural products while imports of chemcals, chemical products, iron and steel products have increased. The increase in exports was largely in living animals, wood and paper products and most particularly in agricultural products. October is one of our big export months and although October of this year showed larger exports and less imports than the same month last year we cannot hope to overcome the‘ unfavorable balance for the whole year

Because of our excessive purcha-ses abroad the value of our dollar has fallen to somewhere about 88 cents. This decreased value of our dollar works against us in many ways and we must adopt such measures as we can and as soon as we can to over- come the handicap. The most effective of these

measures is t0 buy exclusively Canadian goods, to a

produce all we can and sell all we can. 1 What applies to. the general trade ofCanada and makes for Canadian prosperity applies equally to

our home trade and makes equally for home prosper ity. Our stores and such factories as we have are the

vital organs of the province. Through them the pro-

ducts of the soil and of labor are turned into cash and distributed among the people. To ensure a heal-

er in giving his valued services

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‘ help being disturbed by the reports

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This oolumn is opon for tho disoosoion by oorrospono- onts of quodions of ssi. Tho Giisriottsoowa Guardian dose not noon»

Good Roads

, 1 ARTICLE II.—H\IGH’WAY _LEGI_S- LATION

Higliiwny legislation in North- Aniisricii has had as haphazard ll growth as have the highway sys- tems illiemselves. in the ‘past, le.

srily onions, the opinions . ""'"""‘Y "' °"'* '53.‘i“i.‘l‘é,,“tiiif°‘filé"°“i..ﬁiinlmli and...“ 1 10111151 11nd only witnin recent years " have the legislators of Canada and 1 r the Uhlbedt Sltate: reggnézei: ‘ltlhje ncs-syo D811"!!! 5° ' dgrd transportation problems, so

us to provide not only. for the pre- sent but also for future genera- ‘iions. iAt first the highway units were the townships or parishes. and many roads were laid ouit and built with s. single eye to local need-s, without thought as to how

‘Sdr,—-As a former student “of Prince of Wales College i cannot

of friction between the Govern- ment and the staff of that school in my opinion the salaries asked by

to the country. But when it com- ‘es to criticising the $32,000 re- ceived by the Hon. C. A. Crerar ,as a stimulus to his sympathy for the cause of the farmer, and his further ambiton to add the Premier's stipend to this making

[the sum mentioned was exceeding-

they should he linked up with those oii‘ iszlllifining or more distant sections oi country. Only after much waste oi money and effort were the units enlarged ﬁrst to take in whole countriesand later ‘to include whole provinces or stairs. iStill more recently came ilio realization that rond.plnnning

all the teachers were moderate, but in the case of l)r. Robertson,

iy small.

Anyone in touch with educat- ional work in Canada at tho pres- cni time. know ihni teachers iruiiicil for high school work are

in $47,000 salary for the idol lender lof the Guide, it begins to squeal 1thut “criticism as to their moti- res" 11s unfair. Mr. Crerar liim- scli is not happy over these sol- ‘ary revelations,‘ and. at the Ayl- mer meeting. declared. "in so fur us my salary is concerned, that is a matter between the 36.000

of the company and myself." Quite true. if the farmers are satisﬁed the public have no deep- reuson to complain. But they have some- thing to say about adding the other $15,000 to it, and may think him expensive enough already.

i Another feature of criticism that is distasteful to the Guide is in discusing the "ulterior mo- tives" oi the farmers of the West" attempting twencouruge organiz- ation of Eastern formers, “who are" trying to make u cats-paw of their eastern brethren then. plausibly it declares that "Before any substantial headway is niude in continuing the old policy of playing farmer against farmer, something substantial and defin-

ite showing how one farmer will‘

have an advantage over the other must be shown." Our friend the Guide is right in this beyond (ines- tion, but is it just awakening from Ripdian-Winkle sleep as to be so out oi touch with the facts of this thoroughly canvassed issue? The solutlon~is one of the simpl- est in the nniiohal economy. There is absolutely no sympathy be- tween the needs and requirements oi the Eastern farmer and those oi the West. There is a diverg- ence amounting to almost a direct opposite. in the interests of one as

very difficult lo secure and that it would be impossible to find a mun of Dr. ltobcrisoifs ability and ex-

lo be completely successful must be on a na/tionnl scale. Under the g?“;;*;gg{‘"":=@ M “Mai ""9." Iféllﬁitliif.‘ltht.f“i.iil°llli"lll.i . . sons leadership, nus , , _ , - _ , , ,1out across ihe United Stutes, bu sulpwibpd u‘ Shmddrd even’ 0mm iC-iuniflifs all-red highway is still ., - , , . _ - - ‘iffiifefhjlﬂlefmgi"oéll1hfé"‘ii Jerri; liirl-‘Hly in iho formative stage. eviden" for graduates M p‘ w‘ i.’ ‘miliiiiiiildhelidlwueiiiiirsiii: ltiifgiiigifiiii are the only ones credited with o}. 1111101811 11.11g111w11'ys have 111mm). we” subject n! the Ereshmun yea" lconflned themselves io oust and , lmldmg . . l west routes, a quite natural course Iiionor Diplomas are credited wiili w 11mg as 111s 1111111011111 111_11,1c1111e )9" slib-lecls of ‘he s°‘l’]‘°m°"° 3'83" ‘lvai-i the chief guide ﬂllﬁiillﬂl. Th. ‘ l“ "m" of "lese mm“ I “msidml theory of iiiternziiionnlisini in th: ihai it would bo. ii calamity for our 11,111“ 1.011115 movement 111 111111.911, 111 lprovince l0 allow any small quos- 1,15 11.111w11111g, 81111111 so 1111. 111119 '1111 lion of money to interfere with the hem 11111111 9110111111 10 c111111€111 1191.1, PFOEITE“ 0f ‘ills lmllmmln- Aside and there a few of ithe main road- from ihesc purely selfish reasons, 1111 511181. 1111119 111 11111 111111111113 1,1111. surely Prince Erliviiril island has 1111, 111.111 16w 1,111,115. 1111, g1-111111h1i, enough intelligence and gratitude 111h1.e11s11111 e111111°y111e111 o1 111111 lo appreciate Dr. Roberlsons ser- Dru-ﬂee, as found expedient, will vices. it is up to every student, he the 1111181 11,111“ of 11.16 1111811111. sverv former student and every iional principle, but with the new thinking Derson in our DTOVlIW-l? l" spirit of dvelopment and of bro. see that lllﬁlc“ l5 d9"?- iln-rhood and the constant growth l um, Sir, cic.. of motor 1mssengei' irnvsi ziml iii- AN OLD GRADUATE iorcliaingc of commodities. ii ———<-oo--—-.- would seem futile to sci bounds k CROSgARMED BﬂlCER for (he possibilities of the ll('1li‘1 iuiure, and under the stimulus oi S1i~=~-s if H» rat-m m" lilifliiilil?llli“.d‘.“ii.teilﬁli‘éliéi Al ‘he "P- E l-‘laml "“‘“’i'l‘°“° "m" iooo or‘ 1970 will ﬁnd awuliinil llilll "M177 I ‘Hm-t m hi’ wllllliad Wm‘ him ‘l broad highway which sinri some rational reasons and fucis 111g 1‘n Cahmla 1119111111 toward 1118 m“! mint" m" "mnlmn-v i“ exam’ Arctic circle will coniluci llill‘. in“ greatly l'l"'"i“wd mm“ m u him smoothly and safely (lUWl time when almost illl commoililles 1111111311 the" 11e1g1111o1_111g ‘re111111111, are declining in pl'i"@- and a regenerated Mexico illiiili’. ll s ridiculous for the company 1111, 191111111 o1 1111, (161111111 '1\1111,1.1” l” m" “S ma‘ m” PM“ of ‘°"'*’5“' can isthmus, and on lhrough 1hr an" bmcei‘ hi" “dYm‘°'-‘d 24“ Latin republics of the southern con. P" "91" since 1913- WWW“! loll‘ iinent lo-the plateaux of Pilliigillllil. iiig how many, or how few of such FEDERAL A113 braces they replace in u year. And 1591191111“ to lilgliyvavg is 50 11.. the some with tho other articles 1.11.1 1111 11111011111111“ 111 1,6111 1-11111111" they enumerate. Such iidvrfilﬁP" nad the United Slates that ll 1:". us nienis are more calculated in 11.1 11111 11111.11. 111 1111311 11111111 11s 11111115 arouse suspicion of 11w i-oinuaniﬂs but its ultimate benefits should not case than to alloy ii- be it inst-fer for doubt. Under lcgis Does ilis Telephone Company ex- 11111011 passed 111 31111. 011911-11 1111 1icot to force the siddiiional rates 511,111 1,1 97511101111101; 11115 1,1,1.“ 11111111. ‘W011 lllfll‘ Sllll-“i-‘Fllwfﬁ "mic"! available for the construction and first giving said subsrrrlbrfs 1P1"! improvement of rural post roads ii

Commissioner of

Jurisdiction of the nine provincial

accomplished under this scnuno 1.1. 1920, but'192 ehould see much good constru ion under way.

_ waoviuciiiLh CONTROL

The Federal legislation gives the Dominion Government through its Highways, the right of approval f the plans and specifications of the roads con- structed by the provinces with lllt‘ old oi the national grunt, but other wise leaves io the provinces ivhiu they have aliwaye had-the full con- trol of their road eye-toms. Roads in Canada are under the legislative

uovernments, each of which has an independent highway depart

nieut or one associated with o pro. vinclal department of public Works. Provincial Legislation has landed to convey to the local municipal- iiies a largle measure of road con. trol; exceptions lo which, ll0\\'\;\'!‘l‘ are the provinces 0- Nova sCUllil and Prince Edward is and, in which roads are principally under p-wovin- cial control. ‘ilie total leiigih of roulds in Canada has not been an- cnrntely surveyed, but it ls osii- maiedwil 250,000 miltls.

The highway legislation o1‘ ill“ various provinces is oust in tho sii-me general mould, viii-led, oi, course. to suit local municipal. goo ,- gﬁiphiczil, gmilogicul, financall, traf- fic cm" general conditions. Thii iveakcsl poliil in 1iz-zu-iicully all tile, vxisting legislation is the lililliil! ii) provid-s adequately for mainten- once of the-ﬂuids, or, where such provision is made, the failure lo oft-force llie liuw. The province of (luohcc, for lfTFbZlllCP, has impczioil u-pon iiio municipalities the iliiiy1

oi‘ llltllliliiiillllﬂ certain i-lhsscs rouds and has snot-ital llliil whor- irmunii-lpuliiy dciKiulIs in illis duly

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Hundreds of 1.111111‘ lustrous 11811 111 111 the latest ideas 11 iere for 10111- 111117 1 proval. Why 1101i

ilitiiiliisfliiﬁ“? Christmas buyinho I

$1.50 and up. 11111111’ ily boxed 11111112‘ extra cost. A

lhe work shall be carrii-il out by llie provincial department and llir» “"

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ignoring oi‘ this hm, nnlcii is u)‘ 0W1‘ for ill.‘ "-“‘*‘ "" ‘lwlhuolll- -lli\l‘9(l by lllUuB usi-rs of the r.-:i|l who suffer from the indifiﬁiveiice or obsilnacy of the effing municl- nubile in bro-r roads and streets polities. The fact cnnno; he too of- . .

ion impressed upon ihi- public iiu~ -———<-o->i- ihoriilcs lliul responsibility for u rozul syslom (lOCS not coil. lml only

no road can he a K000 \"-'i‘\| ‘llll-‘rﬁ mow-r ill hand lo FEHIOVO lhem.

cost borne by the municipulily. llui ‘ u t .. teliof for s f1 < i all loo frrqiluiily ilu- ilrpariiiii-iii‘rlllilrliifrd s>i fox-dis oflgliﬁl L'i)ll1-| wherm-Ho ivliosiau-llidnxighn‘ _1111111,5 11 121111.111 111911111; 11111-11111 11,1. Illiliifl wlluﬂ illi. bu nor hands it‘ inlsurilblo. by 11111 811111111111“

H v i comm from indi l ~ " lli nexl arlicle of the Scrlscs will tried PBTIIlElQGELSLIOH “nah” ‘ treat of methods of interesting ihe does 1101 formidable foe T095“- l>llls will relieve the, (‘f- T119)’ arc lllP i-esult of l0ll v palient siul’ .

::.\'o lllli‘ llUPli i‘llillll‘(.‘ the agony put forivurd hisuiritisidleecicinnm“ hogins, with conslrui-tliiii. and ihul oi‘ (‘Uflls with lli.~liou';iy's Morn lle-1 disorders of ihc illgesiivdrecoi? from which ‘so manv suffer l

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Electrical Appliances that simplify hiuse- l work and make liomekeeping a delight. ‘fhese Electrical devices are always read * for use, and the cost of operation is very smiil.

Vezetsui ~1 kllOW how 95,111 1 can be dealt _ 1,

thy flow of cash, which is the vital fluid of the Qoun try they must be maintained in a healthy condition This can be done only by 1iatronizing them; it cannot be done by sending our trade and our cash abroad. Flourishing stores and flourishing industries mean ’ a flourishing community. Each helps the other, each contributes to the welfare of the other and both grow by mutual halpfulness- The year's best season of trade is now upon us. Let us bear in mind that home trade is the best trade. that by building up our home trade we are building tip our own. ' '

compared with the other. The Western farmer ivants frcc trade in agricultural implement so that he can raise his single crop of wheat at the lowest cost,an open market across the border so that lie can sell his one product and purchase his supplies in the Uiiit- ‘cd States. He doesn't want to do business with either the manufac- turers of mixed farmers of the ‘East. On the other hand, the 1I<1astern farmer does not wont his llllllilllly homo market for mixed l.-,.- . Till-Z 1' AX nsoiinnics. 1;;;’:;;.g17;;gY;;j;11;*;f;;~,';;;;;~1_;11;;

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l] Thcl- buwlinhot’ taxation could have been mater-l “' ""- ia y ligritcncx y the government if some little at-Ii i ' 1 ' tcntion has been paid to detail. Even yet, with thc‘3 Lady Seleytlons date gone by for legal discounts, many of the collec-' 1 Glllfdllll Rﬂdiifﬁ tors have not yet received their books. or their rec-j F"""'"'¢ W W- i. l-wwl- ords nad when the victim of the new tax calls upon? “*”* them they are not in a position to relieve him either1 SECOND ‘SIGHT of his money or his anxiety. Those who have been, 11-1, 110011 1,, 115K111“. 1.1.1,, 0 1.11_ equipped with the necessary machinery for raising‘ cu 16m what life is. n “maybe the wind are equipped only for part of the duty. The f1‘1",“i"${1‘1*‘1‘ ‘P113 "m fmh,” “F” land tax and the income tax they can accept and lmdngementais oiilrgrtolfililhodiie, ‘iii. give a receipt for but the poll tax and the road tax "m W‘ l8 a "Milo. uni-ism nun- and the commutation tax are still held in the back- hmm‘ m“ b”“'““'“ "m" “mm” ground. Many farmers in order to have the agony

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any slzilc-nta-ni i5‘ (their Plf-"illla and texpi-niliiurrs. or any inilii-u- lion of \n'li.il ill" i't1lll|li\ll_\' ri-i-vlvos and LllSlJLlF-SUS in this provhu-r. 'l‘horo or“. a figw hundred citizens. who want lo know those things and who have the Flillll l0 051i 1110 C0illpi1ll1\' to inform them. l om ivc. ‘CITIZEN.

West cut out, and business wiped out by the dumping of cheap truck and form products from across tho boundary line.

The (juidc then rushes into still.- lsilrs to show that “in Print-r- l-Id- ward island the protective tariff did not snort-ml in (lcvvloping mun- ufziizturinr, but on tho other liniiii munufnctiirliig ilcclinoil." it then cites that in the nelghboiiring provinces agriculture docliiiciLaiid nil this the Solon of the‘ (‘iuidcy re- marks‘ can only moan to the thoughtful Eastern farmer that the protective fnriff has not done for him what its advocates pro- mised." There are some things which do not wholly come under tariff inﬂuences and if our criti- cal friend was its anxious for the truth as it sometimes pretends, a brief search into fact and history would give the correct cause of

UN} Ulillﬁd Slillfeis‘, llm Foili-rqi] 'i‘roitsury bearing zinc-half ihi- i-osi of the work and llll‘ individual siiii- es ‘ihc other half. the apporiion- menis- bring based upon tho {ll'(‘il\

vidlng ‘lJlfl|lJl‘ road-s for tho most thickly smile-ii por-tions of the pru- viuccs and of connecting‘ each pro cincecinl road system with thosr of tho ildjﬂlflliig provinces, fling 1iroilucing iflnally a COlillllPlt‘ nui- ionnl system. "l‘liis involved ihr- pn- paruiioii by each province of u gen eral road programme. By May of 1920, eight of the nine provinces liﬂitl iprepiirnil their programmes, and legisiaiive autlioriiy hail been taken for iho expenditure hy lllétﬁl’ ilrovlncrs oi‘ ii toial of $73,000,000 on roads. or more than twice as lIlllCli as tile $30,000,000 that they ivere called upon by rhi- ($1,111.11 Ilighwayis Act to contribute. Owing

1ihcre are many hindrances in lhe iviiy of distractions and competi- over and done with have come to the city to fix up “l” 8"“ l‘ "‘ ""’“‘~“°'° ““°"‘l“‘ and to say things to the ‘oﬁicials and few of them neglect the latter duty- Why so many special trips to pay taxes should be necessary no one appears to un- derstand. No doubt the governments ideawas to make the tax look as light as possible. hoping no doubt that each would be forgotten before the bill for the next was presentedbut in this they were mis- taken as each new bill renewed the original in- dignation. g 1 The trouble appears to be that the government is in despair and does not care what happens. They are convinced that things cannot get any worse than they are and that their chances for retaining their seats cannot become any worse than they are and, in the words of the old settler, they are letting, “the tail go with the hide.”

FUR A YCTION TO BE HELD.

The Canadian Fur Auction Sales Company, Ltd, has announced that mid-winter auction sales of furs will take lace in Montreal on January 31st next and following days. The warehouse of the com pany, it was stated, will be open for the inspectionl of samples from January 27th onwards. The fur mar ket, it is said in trade circles" is in a much better

that the sale will atract an attendance of buyers ev- en more numerous than that which characterized the initial successful auction of the Caadian Com-

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. . . . . he 1*‘ ther who loves us. condition than for some time past, and it is expected his ' ‘amid sli our difficulties and ‘con- flicts the everlasting will be our iGod is a Saviour who died lives for us.

that our eyes should be fixed on the goal and our hearts nervcd by a sieadflst purpose which nothing can divert or put aside. Life may also be described as a l)<’il.ll(‘. We are surrounded within and wiilioui by deadly foes, und constant. war- fare ls man's oxpnrlrncc. Tilt- on- cmics of ‘life are mnn_v fiiNl power- ful, nnd tho supremo need slrengih which guarantees vli-iory.

Life may also he rogardcil it! o voyage. There is a port from which we start and l1 haven to u-hich wo go. but between the two there iiro ilie waves n-i trouble, the biilows of sin. the ivhirlpoois of temptation, the mcks of difficulty, and the qulcksands of vice, and if we arc to avoid all these and to reach the harbor we must have a sound ves- sel, a favoring breeze, a wise ipllot, a good chart. n strong anchor and sufficient ballast. ‘

Spiritual sight is also necessary for us in order to see what man is. We are concerned "not merely with that which is outside but first also which is wi-ohln. since man's ne- ture i a fundamental factor in true life. 'i‘he realization of what man- hood and womanhood mean is one of the vital steps in life. '

‘All this leads to the supreme nec- cssity of spiritual second sight, the eyes being opened io see what God is. We need to realize that lie is This is rock on which we build, and

iove 0f God Then. too. and

strength.

i0 adverse factors, such as liilmr conditions, inadequate triinsporiui lcu facilities and cost and scarcity of materials, little actual work was‘

those changing conditions which he so fllppnnily attributes to tariff

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oar A POLICY NOW

The uncertainty of n" possessions may be wiped 0111 111 n11 11111111 misfortune of this kind if you are 1171019111911 11y 11 111111111, 111

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population and road mileage of ilu various states. 'l‘-\vo siipului ions connects-d ‘with Federal aid 5ll'l! ihoi the improvements inade by subsiiini “ ial and that the-roads be maintain- ed, iAn incidonlial advantage has 5‘ I ‘ i‘ heen that states not already having 1‘

khway departments have been H ,‘ comlﬁciledhto es1ablisli tlhem before f ova. ng t rinse ves of t e Federal i‘ r ' time Chafing Disli

Tho ‘Ciillliitlii. iliighwiiys An! ol 1‘ . I 1,1 Hill) ii|)|ll'i)]ll‘llil15I] ‘till? sum 1,1‘ $‘-’0.iJ0li.0l|ii In bo uscil lll zisslsllnc , ‘ llio various provinces in ihv- ('i)l\" struction of main trunk roads, Ill! .. Dominion ‘Fri-usury to furnish 40 .1 - ' (‘.i‘|l| of lhe sums expended. 'i'i" (Jail and let us demonstrate them 311m! had ‘the duuL object of pro 10111011 .

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