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'MONEY SQUANDERED
AS NEVER BEFORE -
Is it a paradox that at a time when
there is a greater outcry against the
high cost of living than ever in his-
tory, there should be a corresponding',
revel in luxury? Is it- a contradietion
or is one the cause or partly the
cause of the other. Without attempt-
ing to give a conclusive answer it is
aevertheless interesting to call atten-
tion to the observations of Remsen
Crawforda writer in the New York
Times, who gives some details of the
unprecedented wave of spending that
has swept the United States in the
summer now passing. Never before
was so much money spent upon the
things that are not necessities than
in the past four monthsand never
before was so much money spent up-
on the things that are necessities, but
by the rest of the population. A
photograph. is reproduced by the
Times shoWing Broadway blocked by
a crowd attempting to enter a mov-
ing picture theatre, one of the places
where tickets sell for a dollar or two
dollars. There are hundreds in the
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picture, and most of them appear to
be picture was. taken some time after
Jute lst. Similar sights upon' a
smaller scale are to be found in every
other American and Canadian city.
Have we not seen in Toronto long
lines of people standing; maybe for
hours, to enter a favorite theatre un -
the spectator might suppose it to
b a liquor. dispensary • in the days
o the influenza epidemic?
With the A-merican national debt
eimbiug ,toward the thirty billion
thark and the (cost of the necessar-
ies of life from 80 per cent. to 100
Per cent, higher than they were four
year ago, seven millions of dollars'
worth of diamonds are entering the
Country each month, in addition to
the other millions' worth that are
Smuggled. The editor of the Jeweler's
Circular, official organ of the National
)-ewelers' Board of Trade, .says that
it has been one continuousi-Christroas
,season all summer. In the past there
have been two main seasons of sale,
Christmas and Easter, but there has
Ogen no let up all this year. Men,
women and children -in all conditions
of life are putting money in pr e ous
stones as never before. The editor
believes that many of them are doing
this for investment purposes, and not
for nere vulgar display, but it has
been Observed that many people who
buy precious stones to decorate them-
selves salve their consciences with the
pretense that they are making a wise
[investment The fact that diamonds
are always easily pawned and that
money an be raised upon them more
rea,dilty than upon almost any other
property, is a reason why certain
s of people like to invest -in
etas
dia nds.
Au omobiles are being sold far in
advaijce of the factory output, and
many peop hundreds ;,if not -thous-
ands of them, who cannot find the
preciee pitch of luxury and extrav-
aganCe they require in any ready
made car are 'having special bodies
built. The motor market, of course,
is not a, true index of the rise of
luxury. Perhaps the great majority
of people who drive cars can make
moneY out of them. by saving time
or labor, in which case the purchase
pf a car is to be regarded as an
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TO THE
REFERENDUM C M
ITTEE
The Ontario Brewers' Association can no longer disregard the
= attempts of the Ontario Referendum Committee tO mislead the
peopleof this Province in the forthcoming ReferendUm.
In its campaign literature the Referendum Committee has cor-
rupted the statutory`-boilot as set out below, and its advertising
positively asserts that the light beer to be voted. on is intoxicating.
The Referendum Committee is either misinformed or is deliber-
ately misguiding the people for a purpose.
The purpose is to make the voters believe that they are voting
for or against intoxicating, beer.
Examine carefully the two ballots reproduced below.
Government Statutory Referendum Committee's
Ballot Paper
Question 2.
ARE you in favor of the sale of light beer containing
not more than two and fifty-one one hundredths per
cent. alcohol weight measure through Government
Agencies and amendments to the Ontario Temperance
Act to permit such sale ?
Question 3.
ARE you in favor of the sale of light beer containing
not more than two and fifty-one one hundredths per
cent. alcohol weight measure in Standard Hotels in
local municipalities that by a majority vote favor such
sale and amendments to the Ontario Temperance Act
to permit such sale ?
Question 4.
ARE you in favor of the sale of spirituous and malt
liquors through Government Agencies and amend- 4. ARE you in favor o !the sale of all
ments to the Ontario Temperance Act to permit such kinds of spirituous and malt liquor in
sale ? Government Agencies ?
Distortion
2. ARE you in favor of the SALE Or
INTOXICATING BEER in Government
Agencies ?
3. ARE you in favor of the SALE OF
INTOXICATING BEER in Standard
Hotels ?
The Government Ballot clearly shows that the public
is only to vote for or against the sale of beer contain-
ing not more than 2.51 per cent. alcohol by weight.
BEER CONTAININC 2.51 PER CENT. ALCOHOL
BY WEIGHT 18 NON-INTOXICATINC
To establish that the 2.51 per cent. beer to be voted on is not intoxicating,
the Ontario Brewers' Association have deposited $5,000 withlhe Canada
Permanent Trust Company, and they hereby challenge the Ontario Refer-
endum Committee to deposit an equal amount with the same Trust Com-
pany to prove that beer containing, 2.51 per cent. alcohol by weight is
intOxicating, or admit that their literature is deceiving the electorate.
Upon tie investigation, the losers are to forfeit their deposit to a ,charity
or charities to be named by the Investigating Board. The investigation is
to take place before a nominee of the Ontario Referendnm Committee, a
nominee of the Ontario Brewers' Association, and the third nominee to
be agreed on by the two persons so, chosen -L --and if they fail to agree, to
be named by the Lieutenant -Governor of Ontaiio.
This Challenge to be answered immediately by the Ontario Referendum
Committee.
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economy, not, an extravagance. The
hates, despite prohibition, are hav-
ing the greatest season in their his-
tory. Despite the fact that rates
have gone up, summer hotels renting
rooms at from $7 to $?5 a day have
had an amazingly prbfitable sum-
mer. It is said that in the United
States not fewer than 350 new hotels
November to May are simply too
awful for words. The cold nearly
killed me, and I still have to keep fires
in the bedrooms on account of the
north wind which blows _Cold at night.
Then, the fogs, the rain and the snow]
with the ice jammed up on the strip of
the Zuyder Zee Which cuts off Wier-
ingenefrom the Mainland make condi-
tions so wretched that I thought I
should die. It was literally impossible
to keep warm.. The nights were long
and I missed the society of cultured
people. I am fond, too, of the opera
and good music and scientific lectures
on interesting subject—all lacking in
Wieringhen." Plainly the sort of peace
that the Prince is having has. it hon
rors much greater than those to which'
he was personally exposed in the war.
have been planned for construction
will ec)steach. Onae 7oiflliotnhe doeldliatro.srorofnitahree
headquarters. At Wieringhen he leads'
used frequently to entertain actresses
It is well known that the Crown Prmce
before next summer. Some of these
and singers from Berlin at his field
a blameless life, and he added with a
Hotel Review, after a tour of the
,
country from coast to coast, includ-
touch of regret."One has to." His
ing some Western Canadian Cities, health appears to have improved, and
reports a condition of prosperity many inquiring friends -will be glad
to know that the former heir to the
never approached in theepast. The
German throne looks the picture o:!
leading hotels have found it.. diffi-
cult to find accommodation for their robust health and vigor,
guests. People who a few years ago Apparently the Prince is not under
would be looking for furnished rooms surveillance. There are no sentries al-,
his door, andhe roams about -the
are now demanding expensive euites.
Y. little island pt will. To leave it he
Although gaiabling is supposedly
abolished in New York State where might require the permission of the
most of the great tracks are situat-
Dutch authorities. and he has made
just one visit since he took up his
ed, it is 'probable that never in the
residence. That was to see his mother
heyday of the sport has so much
at Amersfort. He has not seen his
money been wagered as in the pa-st
season. It has been no uncommen father nor any other member of the
ebbing for attendance to run„ to 25,- family since last November. He plans
to return to Germany when the Peace
000 a day. At Saratoga the price of
admission for club seats was 8, and
Treaty is finally, ratified and antici-
$3.50 for the grand stand, the cheap- pates no objection raised in any quer-
est admission being $ 10. This
ter, but his father, he says, will prob-
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means that it was not imusual for ably stay in Holland for some years,
the club to take in from $60,000 to he haying invested considerable money
$100,000 in 'a day. Yet this was the at Doorn with this ed in view. The
smallest indication of the money young Hohenzollern has large estates
spent. One day when the betting was in Silesia and contemplates spending
the rest of his life in looking- after
unusually free an operator estimated
that bout 2,000,000 had changed
them, having no fear, apparently, that
a$
hands. •Moreover, what is bet at a they will be confiscated by the German
race is a fraction of what is bet Government nor that if he leaves Hol-
land his extradition will be demanded
elsewhere, -for there is hardly a
trips
large office building • in the United by. .the Allies. He declares ,that his Kaiser,
States—and this goes also for Can- father, rather. than face a criminal in
ada—that is not Visited daily by a trial, would kill himself, and added, on
handbook man who takes bets on the "One has always cne's honor, -y
rhaecldes. in New
Cuba or wherevarl else they are being
Yerk or Kentucky or
having-
ou ethe islan:.
three wid
There has - been an unusually lot
of money spent in other forms of
gambling, too, in the past year, and'
while the games*are not conducted
as they were in Canfield's day, pro-
bably the stakes have been just as
high in . bridge and poker. It is •to
be noted that the big players are
not as a rule the men and women
who have been known as plunger.;
in the east, but comparative
strangers from all parts of the
country about whom little is known
except that they carry a big wad
and the sky is their favorite limit.
Only in one field of luxurious outlay
has there been a marked diminu-
tion. That is in yachting„ for not
many of the yachts lent to the Gov-
ernment by men of wealth have
been put it cOmmission, but as the
late Mr. Tarte observed, "Wait till
you see us next year." One partial
explanation . of the vast expenditure
upon luxury is that while. the war
was on there was a great campaign
for economy. People saved as a
Rational duty. Now they are break-
ing loose. - Moreover, millions of
them -invested in. • war bonds. The
war being endedthey are selling their
bonds and blowing in the proceeds.
Others not having the opportunity
to buy beer with their wages and
thus deprive their families of the
necessaries of life, are going to the
movies and the races and buying
their families diamonds and
lim-
ousines.
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EX -CROWN PRINCE
ON BLEAK ISLAND
- One gathers from an article in the
New York Times by T. Walter Wil-
liams that the ex -Crown Prince of
Germany is having rather an uncom-
fortable tune on the little Dutch island
where he is marooned partly through
his own desire and partly because of
the wishes of the 'German Government.
He is living in no guilty splendor,
but in a four -roomed house, and the
fact that it was formerly the resi-
dence of the village pastor is suf-
ficient guarantee of the extreme sim-
plicity of the appurtenances. It has
two bedrooms, one occupied by the
Prince ea the other by the two Ger-
man officers who share his exile. His
valets live in adjoining quarters. There
is no bathroom in the house, of course,
and the kitchen, where a German chef
presides, is situated in a small wooden
structure built in the front garden.
From photographs we .would gather
that the place would rent for asbout
$8 a month to a Hollander, and that
the Prince may have to pay as much
as $9. In the summer the village and
the surrounding country are very
pleasant to _ the eye, but in winter—
Hark to • the wail of the Hohen-
zollern: "The winter months from
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vho is kept a virtual pris-
castle.. The son takes
s motorcycle,. although as
is only six miles long and
know." Ile would aot a.dmit
e, and has only 3,000 in -
the slighte• t.st political ambitions or there is - not much sport
desire to re-establish the German tor
always be reaiy to assist 'his country , sketches
handball
monarchy, but declared that he would
in any way. At present he believes : has been
that the best way to assist is to keep . presence,
away, being no such numbskull as orite potn
the cartoonists have represented him. • Points in
Mr. Williams says that the Prince ' it ooners.
does not take the war seriously and view ani
comments upon it in the detached Dutch ne
manner of an observer, rather than "treme
in all ,
ed the world, topsy turvy, he said,
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as a conspicuous actor. It had turn-
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and, it will be fully fifty years before WHY M
normal financial. living and indus-
trial coaditions are restored. If it
had stoiiiped in 1917, before the Kant the Scoto-German philosopher
began his name with an alien "k" on
United States took part, hundreds
of thousands of lives would have the same principle that caused Mur-
dock, the Scottish coal gas discoverer
been spared and conditions would be to bring his to an ena with a "k". If
much better than they are to -day. you turnj to Murdock's biographers
He seemed to think that the Allies you final them explaining that Mur -
are to blame for having kept up the dock wits a "k" is the English form
fight, and it is to be admitted that of kura ch with an ,,h."
But the.
Germany did everything in her power great gas man himself explained that to make the struggle short, and lie made the change in spelling "to
had hoped to terminate it before the oblige th English among whom he
winter of 1914. From what we lived." e found that they had a. dif-
iersion cyclist. He also
on the beach and plays
in the garden. The place
nut on the map by his
and it has become a fav -
for excursionists from other
Holland and for' honey -
The Prince is constantly on
renays the. kindness of his
ghbors by not resenting the
uriosity which they evince
s comings and goings.
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-MOOCH WAS SPELLED
WITH A "K"
have learned hitherto of the charac-
ter of the former Crown Prince it is
hardly to he expected that he shorld
realize that the war was the most
terrible crime in history, and that
history will hold his father primar-
ily responsible' for - it while it will
probably decide that the son contri-
buted lergely to the plot against
civilization. It is not sto ,be inferred
from this that the Prince is insane.
Indeed, he talks well and intelligent-
ly ,about current affairs. The answer
to the riddle appears to be that he
in common with the junkers is un-
moral.
He is kept well supplied with
reading matter, and has occasional
visitors from Germany. One of
them is Karl von Wiegang, the
American newspaper . correspendent,
who comes sometimes to spend the
week end,, and who is regarded as a
personal friend. He .reakes it a rule
not to talk to newspaper correspon-
dents, he says, because of the garbl-
ed' accounts. of former conversatiops
which have been published and be-
cause they have injured Germany,
and have made his father furious.
His lot, though, is not as unpleas-
ant, he believes as that of the ex -
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LEEPING HABITS OF
IALS IN CAPTIVITY
eping hours of the animals
oo" vary as greatly accord -
families to which they be -
o their other characteristics
s. The big orang-outang
ied at sundown draping its
blanket and refusing to see
after dusk. It is also an
er. With the lions, tigers,
- members of the cat tribe,
finds them at their liveliest,
and they sleep most between midday
meal and supper -time. The eagles go
to sleepl just about the time their
neighbours in the owl cage are waking
up, whil' the bears, during the winter
months, apparently sleep all day and
all' night too. The residents of the
monkey Ihouse object seriously to be-
ing disthrbad -after dark, and if one
of the keepers happens to take a
light into their quarters they ,scold
him unmercifully. On the other hand
it would probably ,take as dynamite
bomb to arouse ,the rhinoceros.
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