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FOOLING THE PUBLIC
Now that spring is nearly here
and the cars will soon be running,
mail order houses will commence
quoting tire prices that will make
the average small-town garageman
look like a war -time profiteer to
the motorist whose investigation
ceases with the scanning of the price-
ticket, And the fun of it is that
there is no use arguing with him.: Mal
order houses give you what you pay
for—sometimes—and no more. There'
are as many grades of tires manufac-
tured as there are grades of coal on
the market, and they're both worth
just about what you pay for them,
and no more. A tire for which you
are charged ten, dollars is probably:
worth it, but for .a motorist to ptir
chase a tire at this price from a
mail order house and expect, to get
the same value as he .'would out of a
fifteen -dollar product is. utter 'non-
sense. While it may be true enough
that some of these tires occasionally
give .good service, the majority are a
source of annoyance and cussedness
from the start; and the purchaser, if
he would only admit it, knows he is
stung in the first two hundred'mi.les.
Mail order houses' are not in busi-
ness for their health any more than
anybody else. They make a profit on
everything they sell, and they, no
more than anyone else, can undersell
ordinary retailers from fifteen 'c ,
thirty per '`cent. and give the same
value.
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How sorne editors of weekly papers
expect to take in the convention in
Winnipeg next June, we cannot un- I
derstand. According to their papers
they are still wandering about Edin-
burgh in the story of their trip to
Europe last June. -Listowel. Banne,.:
Mk( 0f' Se,30a,o ro
to” ts:n privately
to control the
ai't look right 01):
does seem to neee
doesn't it?
must be. granted
owned bottoms
rates. It doe's -
he farce of it." .It
some explanation,
An amendment to the Marriage Act,
the bill being brought in by Mr.1t,
R. •W ig1e, 'member for C. Huron, is
being made by the Provincial . Gov
ernmcnt to prevent hasty marriages
and the marriage of minors. In the
first place ata application for a mar
riage license by one party must be ac-
companied by the birth certificate of
the other party to the marriage.' Then
each license must be dated and :to
marriage can be solemnized until three
elear days after this date. Any cler-
gyman performing a marriage 'under
authority of such a license within this
three-day limit renders himself liable
!to a penalty of not more than' Slob,
iTltus will' do away with the careless,
hand-to-mouth sort of practise of ev-
en fully mature persons of leaving the
procuring of the marriage license tin -
til the day of the wedding. Bride-
grooms will have to bethink thernsei-
ves and get this necessary document
ingood time. .
MEASLES AND BOW-LEGS!
When in disgrace with fortune and
Timothy Hay, .I all alone beweep my
outcast state.
Sonnet XIX Shakespeare
Dear Timothy:
It was kind of you to tell me I have
Measles and bow-legs. The term "so-
cialistic" is a sort of quarantine card,
I supose. I did not know we had a
local Metternich in the person of Ti-
mothy Hay. Metternich and his de-
spotic crowd always regarded consti-
tutional or social reform reform as .a
sort of epidemic or plague.
If you had been at the banquet you
could have noticed that was not trus-
ting in laws to make things better.
For I believe that through individual,
free will co-operation is the only way
of making progress along the lines I,
indicated.' While our .local Metter-
nichomay not see anything in what I
said, if he would read "The Golden
Rule in Business" by Arthur Nash,
maybe he would see things differently.
Tirnothy, I object to being', placed.
under public quarantine by,you. You
may leave the quarantine card on me
for your private covenience if you
wish, oh shade of Metternich—but I
ask the Editor to publish the' follow- '
ing at my expense so that others may
judge for themselves whether or not
they want to quarantine me.
T. , Harold Ackert..
Economic Ills and Their Remedy
Address -for Banquet
V\Tingham Chamber of Commerce
The honorable president and friends. ;
I do not deserve the honour of being
permitted to speak tonight., But since
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The day dress abciAre is a cow of
a recent import, and it exploits two
new notes which are interesting:.
The attached scarf collar is this
aeaaaon's versionof the modish cep-
gage scarf of last 'season. The
wide hemstitching which trims the
frock is another new trimming: note.
The woman who is handy with
her needle can macre the dress at
tome. It won3d be lovely in any
soft shade of crepe. de chine.
•
you have been gracious enough to
call on me, I will try to do my best.
Often I have seen parents give a child
something to do that was maybe be-
yond a child's ability to perforin. They
knew it would give the child pleasure
to have fellowship .with grown dips in
helping to do important work. • Also
that it would create a healthy interest
in responsibilities of life. When it
comes to natters of trade and com-
merce, I certainly am but a child.
Mr, VanStone . suggested that I
speak somewhat along the line I took
iii the oratorical contest. I am thank-
ful he did not hold inc too closely to
the subject of how to get more set-
tlers on the land around Wingham,
for I doubt. if I am well enough ac-
quainted with things here to deal with
this other than in a general way,
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will be ; •no re•ii�eidy,
I realiee that: there is a remedy for
our ills, and that sortie people will be
willing to apply the remedy, Furth-
ermore 1 feel' that rtaost of our econ
omic ills have not been deliberately
brought upon us by uniscrtipulous mien
only, but that we all have brought.
them on by. being too superficial and,.
careless in considering ,what: is the
best way to conduct our affairs. Attd
ills have crept in and gotten' such a
hold on tts that is hard to shake them
off,
And now for the flouting;
There are producers, and distribu-
ters. Both are needed, Farmers and
labourers are among those who are•
usually thought of asproducers. Then;
those who handle, direct the handling
:of that which is "produced may rough-
ly be 'included tinder those who "buy
and sell," There nae shine highly paid
parasites like pugilists, baseball and
movie stars, gamblers, bookies and
booze vendors, that are riot worthy of
our criticism,.
Let ns consider tit
ing • and selling.
To "buy andsell" is. a great oppmr
tunity=greater''far than the privilege
of producing and selling. In the case
of the labourer however he has no say
in the selling of that which he pro-
duces, he himself having been purch-
ased by his employer who does all
the buying and selling of service, raw
material, .and the finished product.
And while there is a limit to what one
man may produce, and hence a limit
to the producers income, there is no
limit to what a man may buy and sell.
To bay and sell as an incident to
needful_ economic distribution is hon-
ourable, But to buy and sell for gain
only is vicious. ' The man •whopro-
duces at -least gives to mankind tliat
which he produces, but the man who
buys and sells for gain gives nothing
to mankind except the privilege of
paying, more for the articles that ave
made by other .xnen. Also the man
who buys and sells for gain: only is
merely a thief between the producer
and consumer, who arouses unjust
suspicion .and antipathy towards the
legitimate distributor. Then too, the
man who buys and sells for gain is a
creatorof erratic markets which dis-
concert the honest investor., and the
producer.
-. There is a far greater proportion of
tatter of bey -
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many getting under $1200 per year.
A man who saves•money on $i000 per
year has to ;entrust his savings to
some men' that receive $zo,000 to $15, -
ono per year for• acting as General
Managers —or mismanagers in our
people engaged'in the business of buy- ranks. e.
Directors of = companies, managers,
ing and selling than is needed to die
and executive men all have `the say
tribute the commodities of producers.
as to what they themselves shall re -
Those who grey and sell do not want ceive,, 'They value their own piece of
to ' join the ranks of the producers„
work as highly ae the institution they
work for will bear. Hundreds of
stock companies i5ay no dividends, and
often are wrecked, simply because the
organizers of the company, the direc-
tors and executives ,eget all all the
cream --yes all the cheese and butter,.
and leave the whey for the investors
and subordinate workers.
Talk about high tariffs, but the cur
se of i igh tariff is snot found only at
our international boundary lines, but
on the ehreshold ofour executive of-
fices,. And by the way, a word about
tariffs. It would hardly be fair to get
rid of tariffs at once. But we ought
toplan to bring them down surely
and gradually over a period of 20. to
3o years. This wouldegive every in-
dustry a chance to ,adjust itself. A
western man wrote a poem called the
song of the Clod, Some of the lines
were.
I will grind the stones of the tariff
" walls ,
To the dust that makes' the wheat.
Thf re is no need tc• lavish protec-
for the producers are not apt to be so
'Our reading in modern world his- well paid—and there is not the oppor
tory in the Upper Schogl this winter. Itunity inP roduction to make money,
that there is in buyiing and selling
and the administration of production.
I' know of a man in a small town
near here who made $7o,odo.00 in •
wheat last year. The closest the came
to the wheat was -ellen he whizzed
past it in •a•$4000.00 car. If that $7o,
000.00 had gone into the pockets pf
the farmersaround his town it w�tt1t.
have meant' at great deal -Co the mer-
chants of that • town But this man
has 'made me realize more than ever
how vital. it is to humanity that trade
I should be in- n healthy state.' I will
try to deal With a few features that
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are strangling production and conges-
ting trade, and with remedies that can
be applied if we work thein out in pa-
tience and perseverance and self-de-
nial.
()ne would have thought since ma-
chinery carne in that enables one man
to produce from ten to one hundred
times as much as he couldivithout it,
that we all would have had an abun-
dance—and that destitution would
have fallen upon no one who is will-
ing to work. And machinery certain-
ly has accomplished much. For a well
paid working man of today in North
Americacan live under healthier con-
ditions, and have a more comfortable
home than a king could have had one
hundred years 'ago. But will. all that.
there is much destitution among wor-
kers, arid• many financial failures a-
mong business men.
It struck tme'. as 'peculiar that it is a
matter of history common to every.
cottlFtry That they each and all have
been eagerly on the logkout for for-
eign markets. But even ,though most
nations have developed a wide field of
trade • in their peciiliar products, still
there has been congestion of markets,
Why should there be congestion of
markets when millions ofpeople have
scanty homes even though they are
working and producing, • And now I
must deal with economic ills and their
remedies.
• I know a celebrated' doctor whom,
a few do not like because he tells the
truth. He remarked to me that some;
people want to be told that their con-
dition is better than a careful diag-
nosis will signify. One of the ills of
the time is that people will. not say
what is ,right because they feat soiree-'
one will not like it. Dont tell diem
what they want to hear; tell them.
what they ought to hear.
If you want to make friends quickly
who will love you here and hate' you
hereafter --worship their idols, But if along on $3500.00. If the balance of
you' want reliable friends that will love $4.6,5o0.0o were scattered anmially a -
you forever, be willing to first endure iatong tate fanners and Labourers of
their hatred, anA
d SM SH TId r,Tlt
had : a surfeit of this world's good al-
ready, and $7o,000.00 in:his pocket is
not going to revive trade to any ex-
tent. If that $70,000.00 was out am-
ong the farmers, the vigor of the ag-
ricultural industry would be maintain-
ed, more girls would marry.farmers,
more young people a would feel en-
couraged to take up farming because
they would feel that they themselves,
and not some one else was getting
paid for the work they did. And'there
would not only be Dad and, Mother
but also Jimmie and Willie and `Mary
and L zzie and baby coming' into your
stores to trade,
am not blaming this man for,ntalc-
ing $eo,000.00 in wheat: In spite of
that, I respect the man. But Estill niy,
respect does not place $7o,000.00
where it, belongs --in the pockets'of
the producers and the consumers of
the wheat. My respect for hint' does
not remove this economic injustice-.
yes it is an economic disease. " But let'
us bring this disease to the •light.
Light will kill any germ,' The dis-
covery of tlie:disease .is' tlie first step
to healing it. I know a , man . who
died because lie had a disease that his
folks feared so much that they veoutd'
not °tell, him what :it was. He.; could
have beer,, cured, But the exact nat-
ure of the trouble was not really ac-
knowledged,, so nothing effective. was
done, and the rnan died,
Another place where buying and
selling' is deseased is among. our ex-
ecut1i' classes, Our Governor 'Gen -
oral sells his dery des to this country.
for $o,000,00 per year, Yore all help
pay that. Why should he not: get
IDOLS. Someone has said that the
British people like to be flouted—that
isprobably why they, occupy the pro-
minent place they do. They know
Mutt flattery is riot always wisdom,
;It is a poor, doctor that :assures a mart
he. is well, when sorne illness is gett-
ing such a Bold on him that soon there
this conitirunity, our merchants would
not need to be worried about quiet
seasons. And there is Henry •Thorn-
ton
1hornton getting $SoHo „per year ---a good
than, a wonderful 'railroad man—,but
with all his perfections he is .not play
in; thegame in regards to his salary.
There are far too many men getting
ca' $25oo.00 per year, and' far too
tion on certain members in the body
Continued on following page,
W. W. DUNLOP.
inspector of Prisons and Publile
Charities for the Province of On-
tarso,' and a member of the: Parole}
Board, who has; been placed under{.
arrest in connection with 'allegeda
irregularities in the operation oty
the Gdvernm cnt brick plant at Mim-.l
ice, Ontario. The amount of money'
is placed around $8,000.' Other.
parties are also allo.gell to be
volved.
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