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lnrloftstown Guardian Two Iornlnl‘ dlun,

i r. Norman B. Dcugl The Retail Mere Urges Incre

A special meeting of the Retail aerchants Association was held u the Great Wur Veterans Rooms ast evening for the purpose of geting Mr. Norman B. Douglass, ding-Secretary and General Man- gel‘ oi the Association. Mr. G. W. bertson presided and the meet- pg was addressed by Mr, Doug lass as follows:

lilr, Chairman and gcntlemenv- it is a great pleasure for me to have the privilege of addressing you on the work of an Association which has as high ideals as could hciound in any organization of its hint, but ‘that which may be my pleasure may be your pain, for willie it is an honor to have this opportunity. l must tel_l you that lam not a public speaker and may lint he able to deliver ithe address which you may be expecting, never iheiess in the time allotted to me l will try to give you some idea why this Association was fornled, whmt it has accomplished and why it should ‘be continued, lifter which with the Chairman's permission we will throw the meeting open for u shont time to discuss ques- tions or other matters which you may have in mind or may arise out of my address, if there is anything which comes to your attention, l wish you would be good enough ito make n notation oi’ tho sumo, nnd, if possible ,at the end of my ad- dress if you have any questions to ask l will do my best to answer them,

'l'o deal with each problem which has confronited the Association siilce its inception, or to take up in detail all the questions of inter-

w-st relating to ithe retail trade which have been dealt with would

. be impossible not only on account

of the importance of some of, these matiters and their effect-upon and relationship to other associations which have been organised in take care of the interests of the class of people which they represent. but also the tremendou amount of wciir connected therewith. Any oc- tion taken by any class of individ- uals today is closely watched by every other class ito see that their rights and liberties are not inter- fared with, it will only ibc possible u this meeting to deal with this work in a general way_ trying at the some time to give you suffic- lent details ito make the generality as specific as possible.

Mr. Douglass traced the forma~ tion nnd growth of the Association us follows: in the early times the classes had itheir leaders_ -'I‘hese were inter su plemented by advis- ers, and by ii process of develop- ment our present system of Gov- ernmenthas been evolved whereby thewiil of the neon is curried out, ‘in trade and commerce and society generally groups of indivi- duals whose efforts cltlter directly or indirectly reflect upon the pro- gress of the defindinl grout)» These groups today are llllbWli 11B Organizations or aiisoci ions, un- ions or combines, in which people represented by the group hoiwm find legitimate collective Protec- tion of their mutual interest. ilt was with this idea in mind that The Retail Merchants Association of (Janus; originated over twenty nine years ago in the City of Tor- onto, first known as a representa- tion of men banded tolether to pro iect their mutual lnterestsln the Jewellery Business. Much credit must be given to Mr. Trowern who had the foresight to realise that as the Jewellers ‘should b'e organiz- Bll. so all other dines of trade should have representation. not only in Toronto, but in Ontario, thence to Quebec, than to the Wes- tern Provinces and iinslly l" "l" Maritimes, until today you M" 1"‘ "rsanisotion of retail merchants stretching from coast to coast» with mutual interests who are ifllil‘

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ass Shows Position of heats Association and ased Membership

ing themselves together for self- proiedtion of theso interests; with ideals and principles. not selfish. not overbearing, not obnoxious, not spiteful, but rather to live and let live, asking only for i1 legiti-

vice rendered to society in the dis- tributioll of goods. i might just read for your consideration iilid all

tion which, as ‘l said before, are very ideal, bu-t can be accomplish- ed by exercising the proper spirit and taking the correct attitude in the interest of better merchandis- ins.

'i‘he Association has been built

up on the principle of self-govern- lnellt in conformity with the prin- ciples of our Canadian and Provin- cilii Governments, A Doniiniomof- fice was organized to take care of matters pertaining to th-e rutuil trade which affected the wllule of Canada and to formulate a general policy for the Association. ‘The Provincial offices were established to take care of Provincial matters and to come in closer touch with the individual and personal require meats of the retailer. Trade sec- tions were organized to deal more specifically with the needs and re- quirements of special lines of mer- chandising. Surely the original idea that man was made for the world has been greatly changed. We certainly now ieel that everything was made for man and we take this stand as we go ouit to overcome oven the great- est obstacles of nature Tilcro is one thing sure that The Retail Merchants Association of Canada was organized for mall, namely. the retail merchants, and not yet retailers for the Association, This is shown from the objects of the Association as embodied in the Constitution. '

Now that we realise why the Association was formed let us pro- ceed to examine our second point. “What has the Association accom- plished or what has it done for the Retail Merchants of Canada for which it stands."

dt would not be possible to deal with all the problems which have come to the a/ttention of the lio- minion Office, let clone the matters which have‘ been taken carc of by the Provincial Offices, under such an extensive system of Association work, but I will try to tell you briefly of some of the specifict things which have been done,

At various Conventions it was considered that false advertising was not in the interests of better merchandising. No good ‘business mun would resort to this practice to carry on his trade, yet some men of lower principle decided that it was piissible Ito increase the volume of their business and the profits by this means because they probably did not: intend to do bus- iness permanently in the locality in which they were advertising. Pilrchasers were disappointed at the quality of the goods ‘which they bought, and when in time the feeling became general and the business started to fall away, the false advertiser would lnoveaway to practice his art elsewhere on others of the unsuspecting public who are always locking for what appear to be bargains. in ithe mean time, the man who has been iislc ing a legitimate price for his goods is supporting the comm-unity by his contributions to society which ho makes not only inlnoney but in service, payment of taxes. perman- ent employment of help, etc, has been considerably injured by the decreased voiumo of business with probably the some or nearly the same operating expenses. Not only does this kind of advertising in- jure the legitimate retailer and in- jurc the consumer, but it is iighinst the principles of right tliiniking

‘ and against the moral of right and wrong. besides indirect- iy educating the consumer to be iieve that all business is conduct- eil on the some principle. We op- posed this means of trading to ,fool the public because. it was not Iin the interests of til-e trade, and were ‘--l in getting the Gov lcrnmetit, to make it a criminal of- fence to misrepresent goods. We have been seeking amendments to istrengthun ‘the ‘Act and hope, ulti- mately to have a permanent o icer appointed to see‘ that it is proper- ly administered.

in the tastier of the high cost of livini we were successful in ob- fainlngiihs appointment of a com- mission to take evidence regard-

1 ‘Mu-fining this question in order that the ll

public might know that this could |not be charged to the retail incr- s Commission published

‘FOR ants on h nt. m pneumatic firs.‘ All” , his report which definitely show- ’ Cd

thqmbllc mi merchants were m obtaining more than s lull-

mate margin of profit for the ser- ‘

proval the Ethics of this Associu- '

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FOR HANTS, N- s.

HON. EDGAR N. RHODES

Amherst, N., 8., former Speak- ar of the House of Commons and President of the British Amer- ican Nickle Corporation, has beun nominated io contest the constituency cf Hantg in the forthcoming election in Nova Scotia.

‘Ex-Judge Will Edit For a Day

CAMDEN, N. .1; May 5,_ While the police reporters take a 24-hour vacation tomorrow. former Judge John ‘B. Katee will be editor for a day of the Camden Courier.

This unique czdpcrlrvlent ls the out-growth cf a recent speech in which Judge Katcs attacked the modern news- paper because It “played up” sensational crime news and failed to give "due prominence to the more constructive phas- es of liife,

“l would like to be editor of a paper for just one day." he said. And the management of the Courier immediately offer- ed him the chance and hi: an. copied.

mate margin of profit and that goods could not be sold for less at the time. A ‘Board of Commerce was appointed, nnd although we ‘re quested that retailers should be appointed thereon, the Goyernmcnt did not accede to our request. Soon we found that this Board compos- ed of men who know little or noth ing of the retail business, were un- dertaking to ilx a price at which goods were to be sold; So obnox- ious did this.become, after the in- vestigation and report oi the High Cost of -Living Commission thait in conjunction with the Canadian Manufacturers Association, we is- sued an injunction against the Board and a test case was carried to the Privy Council of England, who confirmed the attitude which ~we had taken that the Board had no right to iflx prices, with the re- sult that the Act creating the Board was repealed and the Board discontinued.

At one time a turnover tax was pro- posed and whilé\wé realise o_ur re- sponsibility to pay taxes to offset the cost of maintaining public utili ties and paying off thepublic lin- bilitieshcvertheless .we have al- waysopposed what appeared to us to be unfair taxation upon any class. The man who did a big bus- iness on a small margin of profit would be paying considerably more than the man who did a small voi- ume on a larger margin, and this tax could not be properly-passed on to the consumer which it rightful- ly should be. as the merchant is not in business for his health or to pay taxes alone. The greater burden of ‘this tax would have necessarily been paid by the merchant himself. Surely. he is paying his share snd more already, We were successful if getting an abandonment of this den. '

‘ Smuggiingnis very accessible sl- ong the Canadian Border. We have opposed this method 0| bringing goods into Canada, not ‘only on sc- count of the fact that. it is unfair to the merchants who have to sail their goods on which duty has been paid in competition with mer- chants who are selling goods which have been smuggled into the coun- try, hut it 'is against low and order_ The Government have from time to time increased the vigilance requir ed to be mainttained i0 watch this illegal trading in goods and have made largo seizures which reduced by the value goods seized at least the amount which would otherwise have been placed on the market in competi- tion with gocdl brought legally. While hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of goods may be co- ming into Canada illegally, yet you may be sure that many more hun- dreds of’ thousands are kept out so s result of the efforts of the in- creased number of inspoiitors. die. appointed so a result of our rcp- ressntstfons and requests.

An amendment was secured to the criminal Code msiking cffigers of corporations responsiblc for their

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CHARLOTTETOWN, CANADANWEDNESDAY, MAY 6, 1925

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- (Canadian Press) NEW YORiK, May 5. —'I_‘wen‘ty- one boots oi the United Sta-tea coast guard ‘steamed out oi Clifton Bay, Staten l-sland biase this morn- ing ‘bound for ruim row ‘to open an offensive which wiill seek to sweep the liquor armada off the Atlantic sea-board by June l. S'x of t-he dry nnvy‘s speediest cutters ileil the force. Behind them were smaller cru-ft, converted submarine chasers and petrol boats, all liberally

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Make Clean-up By 1st.

S‘Pl‘lil'lfl(‘il with gains n.nd most of

them capable of high apeieil. Sec- recy niarkcil the departure. -it was not ‘kn.own w-lin-t steps

were to be taken in this way of ex- termination, =bnt it was understood that one of ‘the ipian-s would be to post one or more boats of the alig- mqniiwl fleet towards every ship oii ru-iii row every ‘hour, thus making it impossible for shore hmits to take off cargoes or lining out pro- vildions and w-ater.

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The Steamship Greta. sailed last eveniin-g ior l-iavana, Cuba, with a cargo 0i‘ potatoes ironl thie Potato Growers Association. The potatoes were shipped by the Sonthgatedm- pcirt and Export Company and Messrs. (l. C. _TllUYlli[)S0n and 0. R. Estey -looki"il aitcr the shipping. Mr. Estey Zn a prominent ‘potato dealer of Woodstock, New llrilnsw-ick and has becni in ‘the Export ‘busii-ncss for a number of years. interviewed by a Gua-rvlian representative last even- inig Mr. Estey stated ‘that in all ‘his experiience he has never ‘seen potato ‘idmcs so bad as they are iit pres-exit in lNew Brunswick and also iin Pliince Edward Island. Speak-lug oi New Brunswick M-r. Esicy saiid that they had the larg- 0st export trade for isevcral years but still i-here ‘was a tremepdoue quantity of ipotatoes still on ihsn-d in the ‘Province. From what the had loarned-‘isince cumin-g -to the Island tho farmers of ‘this iProviin-c ‘sire '00 be congratulated ‘in ‘having obtained such good ‘pnices as they did. In New Brunswick the prices obtained for the tubers were the lowest ever

in iNc-w Brunswick with ‘the crop untouched as yet and ‘he ‘expects that. a considerable portion of this w-il-l have to -be dumped as the fair- mers will not stop their work on the land to ship potatoes when the price is so ‘low shat ‘they will not stand even a chance to get expens- es. Affatrs in the ‘State of Maine arc in‘ practically the same condition. in Msiiae_ tihere ‘has been a great potato crcip and while ‘the farmers tbiere ‘have not been in the Export game ‘very much they did ship come potatoes on consignment and the results occasioned a. very heavy loss. As an instance ‘he stated that onls cargo was sihiipped‘ on consign-- men-t, ‘s certain price -wa.s asked and held out for but the ishiippers were fior ‘to sel-l and the ‘pnlce obtained did not Melfilmlle up the expenses. ‘

The -mcrlret has ‘been overcrowd- ed during the l”! three months, not only in Havana ibut in ‘the ou-t- Mris as wieil and t-he Upper can- sda market ‘has been so ilow that there ‘iiBI been no inducement to Hlllil- Alwllt l month and s half prices advimced iin ‘N. B. to "0 centp, 1.00 snd- even to 81.10 ‘but bififore an ibenefii firom this resch- ed the s poem dt dropped again to a new ‘low level.

‘Shel-king of the Plant prospects for this coming yesr Mr. Estey sold that it looked oil ‘though the plant

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'TAiKS_iliii’0TiiT|l Mi\TiERS

Mr. 0. R. Estey Tells 0i Conditions in New Brunswick - Farmers

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wouild bii- just as heavy as ‘last season. This ‘refers tothe places on tlic St. John River. On the North Slim-t 50% to 75% oii the crop silill

remains on the hands of ‘the furm- _

ers and it is not known whehhler they wiill- go into the iplanting us heavily this year. Cuba wi‘ll take a ircw izargoes of potatoes yet but lthG price will ‘be cons-fall ‘rably lower tho u _ heretofore.

SpeakiIn-g of prices Mr. Es-tey said first iPrince Edward ‘Ireland ilias re- ceived as_mu'ch ‘per buslikil in the schooner trade as New Brunswick received per ‘barrel. ‘in ‘New ‘Bruns- wick potatoes weiiic selling at 35c to -i0c per barrel loaded on cars. There have been a number of shipment-s from ‘St. John that have not netted the shippers even that. price.

Prince ‘Edward ‘is-land, been/use of shippln-g her seed stock has beien able to command s. better price than the New Brunswick cobblers hn-t. iMr. Estey thinks that the ‘New Brunswick Coleen Mountains w-iii grade to as high a standard as the Pnince Edward ‘island Green Moun- tain variety and the ‘bulk of the New Brunswick stock now ion hand ‘is this stock. Carleton County has raised a dot of Green Mountains for scsd and held on to them until quite recently expecting to get game seed business.

M‘r. Estey was loud in lrlis prais- es of Messrs. Dewar and Boulder of (‘he Agirfcultilral Deiparirment. He considered that the ifact ‘that. they made shipments during the Winner was e great move and was in t-he nrain responsible ‘for the present en- viable ‘post-tion of ‘Prince Edward Island as far as her potato surplus is concerned. ‘Farmers of Prince Edward island should be very grate ful for the good work done by these two gentlemen and lg ‘was mainly through their efforts that the high pnlce was received. Wlhisn this shipment goes forward there will not be many potatoes-left ‘in the is- land and farmers must ibie re- conciled to the fact that the ‘next prices obtained wiiii be considerably lower than chose glvlen for the Ghats cargo. "i

"The potato industry," said Mr. Estey. "is the best of the countr

nd it needs ‘for Prince Edwsd siand and New Brunswick to pro- tect that business. ‘lib! i old system which ‘was i-n vogue s ‘few yeslis ago when» formers shipped‘ every- thing that grow on the farms to the markets, has changed. We have to

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‘(Cpecisl to the Guardian), OTTAWA, ‘Ont, iMay fir-The, pro- spect of a real political crisis ‘has diverted the attention of legislators from the business ibeforchho ‘House and Committees. It has been an- nounced that the ‘Progressive Party will hold o canons this afternoon at two o'clock. Such on announce- nicnt under ordinary circumstances would be regarded as a routine matter. but ‘in the moment one the results of tho cluous for transcend in interest ohe deliberations, either of the Ocean ‘Rota Committees.

Piillillliihlii. PARTY sails

[INDIE BUDGET

always due to cit at shred o'clock.

The division on the Budget-when seventeen Progressive members, in- cluding the Chief 1Wbip votedior the Budget, while the Header of the Progressives and the remainder of his forces voted against ft, has created s reel political situation.

Progressive members yeIterdsy discussed the Hudson Boy question in the House, but it, may be sold that ‘their minds were largely on other matted‘. ,

Neither header Folks nor Chief