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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1929-02-22, Page 6:f - .7i n• ti 01, '914 t tri,members of avax"5 orb +tt .r ,aaa th®' y Unittaa Motes ereeaden`iiaal til indeed it bid' not lana in- In previously. It still eon- ,. ;(•i`t the moment of writing •bas'bsen no statement front the al t -enact as to wham he has ,, , but many inspiredguesses 'been made with which we. are concerned. We call attention to - eet that sine the election he qp pursued practically morning, on,and night except for the few weeks when he was on an American battleship visiting neighboring re- publics. It was supposed that one reason for his taking this trip was that he might escape the importuni- ties of politicians anxious for jobs for themselves or their friends. The 0ev Zola% lfaitoraa4 be for t3 SseeS to let . Sear bin elf fee While egad thee go ever the 11et of etieileletii, Make his Anal de", cisious, and -then announce them _ on his rectum. It was argued thtat such a monster of ardeieney as Mr. Hoover would undoubtedly take this recreate of choosing his official family. Appar- ently he did net do so, and the only reason there have been no announce- m,ents is that the list of gentlemen to be invited remains incomplete. President Coolidge did net have this ':rouble since his original cabinet was bequeather to him by President Hard - 're. His task was gradually to weed •rut those cabinet members not per- ;unelly congenial and choose others. `similarly President Harding's task vas comparatively simple for the •hoosing was mainly done for him by he celebrated "Ohio gang" which was swept into power with him. The •hoosing was perhaps the worst in modern history. "I have been sweat- ing blood over cabinet choices," wrote "r silent Wilson, and it must be ad - vetted that he swea`.ed to some pur- rose. But he had the invaluable ad - \ace of Colonel House to aid him. At least one of his cabinet was a man whom he had not previously seen, v:ho was recommended by Joseph Tumulty, the president's secretary. It \sae Lincoln who once remarked that if the twelve apostles had again to be chosen, the principle of locality would have to be considered. That is to say members of cabinets anywhere are not selected with the single idea o getting the best men. Various re- ligious denominations, business inter- ests and geographical locations have to be taken into account. This is necessary politics, although as a matter of logic it is not appar- ent why in a purely business organ- ization it should be found any more necessary to see that the Methodists, for instance, should be represented than that left-handed persons or shortish -stout men should have in the cabinet one whom they might call Ellemeizaa Tut of R.Eaulariz Run • She odes liter healing diyng hherrbs to stop saai7erruvng When America was wilderness, Indians were using herbs successfully. From the Redmen, 50 years ago, James Gallagher learned herbal secrets and compounded Gallagher's Herbal house- hold Remedies. I l is famous Kidney r Remedy has helped many a from Rhoumatism. This fine, time -proved remedy, drawn from the heart of Nature, heals and cleanses kidneys. Quickly stops back- ache, dizziness and other nagging kidney and bladder ailments. Try itl For sale by J. E. KEATING, SEAFORTR ilzwkod bar *140 0. a Of eelrepta'tad Ahi: is iIA &14gkn 0 Ioa ps retie ne VMS ferVa tomee. he was not greaatdy eoxaeerAed is, to What was going on in the prirnoiptty' lout thews was a ferment arepublipalliSra working in Europe at that ti ,, and two of 'his chief towns,, Reeeebseta ne and 3/lien- ton asked for in nenstittttion, mainly because it vitee e peppier requeet to make in these 40 The prince laughed heartily astPretterued to his novel. But it happens d .that while these itowns wore generally 'rivalls and in opposition to each other on orinoiple they were united in their de- sire, and they appealed to France. After some show of diplomatic ex- change France annexed them both. Monaco being smaller than ever was in no position to object, although a- bout half the territory of the nation disappeared from the prince's rent rolls with the annexation. Shortly afterward M. Blanc looking for a place where he could run a fashionable gamblingplace, chose Monaco, whose prince, he found ready to listen to reason. A contract was entered into whereby a large yearly sum was to be paid to the prince and the citizens relieved of all taxes. In exchange the principality guaranteed Blame a gambling monopoly in per- petuity. There were a few moralists in the country who thought the ar- rangement improper. But the only thing they could do about it was either to start a revolution or move out. There were not enough sym- pathizers to give a revolution a pros- pect of success, and there is no re- cord that any considerable number moved away. A new and undreampt of prosperity fell upon Monaco. The gamblers, in order to draw visitors, and not because of the lowly inhabit- ants, set out to make the town the most beautiful in Europe, and aided by natural surrounding and a mar- velous climate they succeeded. It be- came a vast garden through which gaily dressed ladies and handsome gentlemen moved distributing larges- se among a docile and respectful cit- izenry. The casino prospered, and the prince had all the money he need- ed for his scientific experiments which incidentally were to become of the greatest importance in the depart- ment of oceanography. Nobody paid any taxes. There were no poor. There were excellent hos- pitals. It was a rule that no Monacan could gamble at the casino, so there was nobody ruined who had not gone to 'Monaco for that purpose, or for the purposes of bankrupting the cas- ino. So life flowed agreeably on un- til 1910. It seemed that then Mon- aco, which a few years earlier had been inhabited by people whose only thought was that they did not have to pay any taxes, had suddenly be- come a kind of Balkan town in which nobody thought of anything but the fact that there was no freedom of speech, no free press and no consti- tution. The discovery seemed to be made suddenly that the people were merely the well kept serfs of a for- eign gambling syndicate, :did that they had absolutely no more to say in the government of their own coun- try than the casual sightseer. Four representatives were sent to see Prince Albert, who was in Paris, and lay the people's demands before him. He refused to see them, whereupon they returned to Monaco and in a day or so announced a provisional gov- ernment, and a set of new and form- idible laws. They terrified not only the prince but the gambling syndi- cate, and a message was sent to ex- plain that the prince would be glad to see representatives in Paris. The four returned and after a good deal of discussion a new constitution was agreed upon, the understanding being that a revised draft would be placed hefore them before being submitted to the people. But there was some bad faith here and the constitution as proclaimed before they had the opportunity of revising it. But it was too fatiguing to continue a revo- lution and it quietly died down. What has caused it to flame out anew is, as we have said, a serious lessening of the revenue of the casino, and the proclaimed inability of the gambling syexdicate to keep the town in its former immaculate condition. There are complaints about the water sup- ply, and about the sewers. The de- mand for another constitution has become insistent, and this) time it seems pr'obahle that it will continue until the people of Monaco have really got the government of the place in their own hands. This done they can choose whether they will gontinue to exist as an appanage of a gambling hall. 7 vide 'OtEa;'ilies' brad sls.. the osdin ttxzafosta o a, but +, simple thsetlena or att'stigaglt had, is 6lz auu4 rea to all that, hltore is to . toe aaid ils flat the Faa sa Problem. Ther4 aaleAlem probleraas, and there is The 'Perm .Seesoblexn, and the latter is caused vow. largely beeatuse city people, eve:, Mame. the depression of 1920, -have .'Mere getting more than their share efthe national income. The Farm;"'.rdblem is not confined to Canada+ ojlr to the United States TEE Nell IILILOP MUTUAL 71111tE IINSUANC E CO'ZY. BEAD OFFICE---SEAFORTH, ONT. OFFICERS: James Evans, Beechwood - President James Connolly, Goderich, Vice -Pres. D. F. McGregor, Seaforth, Sec.-Treas. AGENTS: Alex. Leitch, R. R. No. 1, Clinton ; W. E. Hinckley, Seaforth; John Mur- ray, Egmondville; J. W. Yeo, Gode- rich; R..G. Jarmouth, Brodhagen; Jas. Watt, Blyth. DIRECTORS: William Rinn, R. R. No. 2, Seaforth; John. Bennewies, Brodhagen; James Evans, Beechwood; James Connolly, Goderich; Alex. Broadfoot, No. 3, Sea - forth; Robert Ferris, Harlock; George McCartney, . No. 3, Seaforth; Murray Gibson, Brucefield ; James Sholdice, Walton. LONDON AND WINGIBIAM North. but it is wweirld wide, and is caused by the disparity between farm prices and the pricesOf things farmers buy, and nlso by the 'disparity between farm prices and payments of taxes, interest charges anti debts. This is what -emendate say, but we ourselves be- lieve that it is caused very largely by he disparity between the "wages" earned by farmers and the wages earned by pity peoplg. Economists say that it would be much better to bring the wage's of farmers, or their labor income, up to the level of that of city pelaple, instead sof vice versa, but how to do so is the question for which there seems to be no easy solu- tion. There is nothing new about The Farm Prot em. Farmers in Great Britain were faced with it after the Napoleonic Wars, and farmecrs in the United States had it to contend with after. the Civil War, but it is a dis- tinct farm problem, and quite differ- ent to the problem of manufacturers and wage earners in the city. The difference between the position of the manufacturer and the farmer is very clearly stated in "The Agri- cultural Situation," wri'tte'n by War- ren and Pearson of Cornell Univers- ity, and we cannot do better than quote from it. "When the manufacturer is unable to sell his products at a price suffici- ent to keep the plant going, he closes the plant. The distress in such a period is in part shared by the un - ,employed laborers,, and is in part shared by the owners of the plant, but much of the difficulty is passed back to Able producers of materials that the plant uses. The plant re- mains idle until the stocks on hand and in the channels of trade are dis- posed of and new orders appear. It does not open until the products are wanted badly enough so that they will sell at a price somewhere near the price that existed before the plant closed. Laborers come back at wages that are somewhere near the previous wage level. The price of the ploduct and the wages paid the workers are very much higher than would have been the case if the plant had con- tinued to Moperate. "Agriculture is a personal industry. Less than one-fourth of the labor is hired. In a. period of depression the farmer may drop the hired labor, but he cannot close his shop, for he is both owner and laborer. His family must live, and his taxes and interest must be paid. If wheat brings little per bushel, he must try to produce more bushels. 'He works longer hours. His wife helps more with field work. If there are old people in the family, too old to de much, they work more than they normally would. Children work more than usual, and many of them stop attending school at an earlier age than was anticipat- their own. We doubt if in the Unit- ed States the matter of religious re- presentation is given so much atten- tion as in Canada. We have not heard it asserted, for instance, that there must be a Roman Catholic in the cabinet, although the notion of choosing an Ontario cabinet without a Roman Catholic included would nev- er be considered by any practical poli- tician. The late Sir James Whitney carried this idea of special representa- tion a step further than any of his predecessors when he said that a minister of the Ontario Government. He appointed Dr. J. 0. Reaume, but the precedent has not been continued, though we do not suppose there is a lack of suitable French-Canadian Con- servatives in this province. About the only considerable element of the population that is not entitled to re- presentation is a member of the op- posite political party. Lincoln said that he had chosen his cabinet the slight of the election and before he had lett the little telegraph office in Springfield, I11., where he heard the returns. His was a particu- lar difficult task, because of the state of the country, and his biographers have written: "He wished to com- bine the experience of Seward, the in- tegrity of Chase. the popularity of Cameron; to hold the West with Bates, attract New England with Wel- les; please the Whigs through Smith and convince the Democrats through Blair." 'It is customary for presi- dents to make no announcennent of their decisions until a few days be- fore the inauguration ceremonies when the previous incumbents, unless notified to the contrary, are prepared to turn over their departments. An- drew Jackson's selections were known only to a handful of people before he gave the list to the ediitor of The Washington Telegraph, thus provid- ing that paper with a notable scoop. Washington, who formed the first American cabinet, had less trouble, perhaps than any of his successors. He chose simply officers and comrades in the war, and suited his personal tastes rather than considering the views of practical politicians. The only exception to the rule was his ap- pointment of Jefferson. It was a great cabinet, undoubtedly the great- est in the history of the United States, and John Adams let it refnain almost intact when he took over the reins. John Quincy Adams similarly renominated many of the men who had been appointed by Monroe. Theo- dore Roosevelt, who, in his second term of office surrounded himself with men who were personally agreeable to him, wag in the same position es Coolidge when he 'first became presi- dent. McKinley's cabinet was already :n existence and he took over all who 'areri to remain with him, gradually choosing his own men as he became conscious of his strength. a.m. p.m. Centralia 10.36 5.51 Exeter 10.49 6.04 Herssall 11.03 6.18 Kippen 10.08 6.23 Brucefield 11.17 6.32 Clinton 11.53 6.52 Londesboro 12.13 7.12 Blyth 1222 7.21 Belgrave . 12.34 7.33 Wingham 12.50 7.55 South. a.m. p.m. Wingham 6.55 3.05 Belgrave ... 7.15 3.25 Blyth 727 3.38 Londeeboro 7.35 3.47 Clinton 7.56 4.10 Brucefield 8.15 4.30 Kippen 8.22 4.38 Hensall 8.32 4.48 Exeter 8.47 5.05 Centralia 8.59 5.17 C. N. R. TIME TABLE East. a.m. Goderich 6.20 Holtmesville 6.36 Clinton 6.44 Seaforth 6.59 Celumban • biin 7.11 Dublin St. Columban. Seaforth Clinton, Holme'sville Goderieh p.m. 2.20 2.37 2.50 3.08 3.2.2 West. a.m. p.m. p.m. 11.17 5.38 9.37 12.22 5.44 ... 11.33 5.53 9.50 11.50 6.08-6.53 10.04 12.01 '7.03 10.13 12.20 7.20 10.30 C. P. R. TIME TA I: LE East. a.m. Goderich 5.50 llfenaet 5.55 McGaw 6.04 Auburn 6.11 Myth .. , 6.25 Walton 6.40 Il Naught 6.52 '1orc'onto 10.25 West. Smote Xelganght Vat= Auto= ..... PEOPLE OF MONACO DEMAND THEIR LIBERTIES "Liberty's a glorious feast!" ex- claimed Burns, and if the Scots eget is read to any extent in Monaco we may be sure that the remark is being generally quoted, for the Monegasque are in rebellion against being kept by a gambling syndicate and desire to assume the proper ,responsibiiitielsl, and enjoy the freedom of citizens of an independent republic. It must be admitted that the population gener- ally did not resent its position of gen- teel servility as long as the syndi- cate that 'holds the gambling privi- a.m. leges lived up to its part of the con - ,7,J tract. But now evil days have des - 11.48 cended upon the Societe des Baths de 12.01 114er, and it awe's not feel financially 12.1e equal to fulfilling the con6rnet enter - 12,e3 ed into by the illustrious Camille 1214 Blanc. Money is no longer so plen- Ctit .............. 11441 atTis- .. . w ... +... 9 12.45 tiful. People are stet gambling so much in the old ways. They haw found that they case get ?just an Hauch eneifterotennt and perhaps a bettor run for their money in ices GtocIr c-istc"u tits -ie. Timm thane who remain f'raitfimlPtal 5ID the ancient gfr n of chane are not orns:taile,alilo ca trio :o te :y,osite Cn4o. 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Qtr` allce Supe testi Stam©n And Show ery $1 they received before the war, farmers are only getting $126 in the case of hogs, and $1.44 in the case of eggs, and illustrates clearly the dis- parity between what farmers earn and what very large numbers of city people earn. Iffarmers received as much for their products as people engaged in miscellaneous factory trades receive for theirslabor, instead of the price of creamery butter being 40 cents it would be 58 cents per pound; eggs would sell for 54 cents per dozen in- stead of 38 cents per dozen; wheat for $1.94 instead of $1.32 per bushel; oats for 80 cents instead of 53 cents per bushel; butcher steers for $14.00 instead of $9.65 per hundred; and hogs for $18.20 instead of $11.60. In dealing with the relatively high wages received by urban. workers since the war, and with the fact that wages Lag behind commodity prices during a period of deflation, Warren and Pearson say: "The lag in wages, and the lag in taxes and interest, are the major causes -for the innumerable maladjust- ments that result from inflation and deflation. The change in the value When prices of all commodities, in- cluding farm products, start to rise, as they did during the Great War, the wages paid to urban' workers do not rise in the same proportion, but tend to lag behind. When deflation sets in, however. and commodity prices fall, they fall more rapidly than wages. This is one of the reasons why we have our present Farm Problem, as wages enter into the cost of practic- ally every service the farmer buys, including the services he pays for in his taxes, and in interest charges. Wages have risen enormously since before the war. Official figures for 1928 have not been published yet, but the following, giving the index num- bers of rates of wages received in 1927 by workers, show that they have risen in several instances almost 100 pee cent. since 1913. QUI lee DIFFERENT "And now," said the woman epeak- er, "if there is a man here who will acknowledge that he would deceive his wife, let him stand up." At the back of the hall a meek - looking Iittle man rose to his feet. "Do you mean to tell me," said the lecturer, scornfully, "you are so de- based that you would deceive your wife?" "Oh, I beg your pardon," he ex- plained, "I thought you said 'be- lieve.' " up in ][may tire..,. The OM man- 010117 an 01011y�.ae,;,d�i,rt to longer _ worth a kirng'a u,�t 'h 4Tirditg ao most off, 0 I 00'*la *Wei yY. Building trades Metal trades Printing trades Electric railways Steam railway's Miscellaneous factory trades 100 199.4 These frguresr mean, for example, that for every $1.00 received as wag- es in 1913 by people in the building trades, they received. $1.79 in 1927. The figure's showing wages paid in individual trades are equally interest- ing. Wages vary, of course, in dif- ferent parts of the country, but we may take Toronto as a fair example. In Toronto, in 1913, bricklayers re- ceived 55 cents per hour; in 1927 they received $1.25 per hour. In 1913 car- penters received 45 cents per hour, while in 1927 they received 90 cents per hour. Now, how do the wages received by farmers compare with these wages? The average farmer is both employer and employee, so that as good a way as any to measure his wages is by the price he receives for what he sells. We have before us a table showing what various farm products sold for in Toronto last week as compared with the corresponding week in 1913. Last week cream' butter sold for 40 cents per pound, and an 1918 it sold for 29 cents Iser pound. Last week eggs (extras), sold for 88 cents per dozen, and in 1913 the price was 27 menta per dtb. Thr working lithe thing out on a aseentage basis re find that for every$1.00 reedved by got farmers for eg tin 1913 $1.44 last week.. If wet set our re- sults down in bla farm we get the following: ALL RIGHT NOW She was visiting a Zoo and gather- ing as much information about the animals as possible in one short af- ternoon. Eventually she came to the bears. "Are these an'imal's r carnivorous?" she asked the kee'pe'r. He scratched his head; and thea smiled brightly. "They was, ma'am," he answered. "But they're all right since we Wash- ed 'em in carbolic " '1& SAYS 7111 19,E 119 NO 7.A1910 PIIE.G aLErdl . 1913 100 100 100 100 100 1927 179.3 178.1 195.0 189.9 198.4 of money is, of course, the major cause, but the lag in wage adjust- ments becomes, in turn, the cause of many other difficulties. When prices are rising and wages lag, the cheaper kinds of food are in demand. Econ- omies are practiced in the use of clothing and houses. Building is checked. When deflation takes place, the choicer kinds of food are in de- mand, the demand for clothing is high, and. a building boom develops. "All of the costs of manufacturing and handling commodities remain on a high basis•, so that the cities pros- per at the expense of the country." Now to return to the gentleman who said there was no Farm Problem. We thought it so extraordinary that any man could make such a state- ment -and he was born and brought up in the country and should have known better that we called on hirer to see what he had to say for him- s'lf. We got him finally to admit that there was a Farm Problem, but he thought it could be solved by or- ganization among farmers, and by the adoption of more effcient methods. Greater efficiency is all right for the individual farmer, but if it were practised by farmers •generally it certainly could not solve The Freie Problem, but only make matters worse. • There is no short cut towards solv- ing the Farm Problem. It will solve itself in time, but farmers can un- doubtedly help rnatiters by organiza- tion. Farmers are too prone to want direct financial benefits from their organizations, such as the Canadian Council of Agriculture, • which safe- guards their interests and benefito them financially indirectly are just as important. The wheat pool's of the West illustrate this point very nice- ly. They were organized in the first place to secure higher prices for wheat, but recently they have under- taken -and we are refetring now par- ticularly to the Manitoba Wheat Pool =to teach the Hon. Robert Forks, the Rt. Hon. W. L. Mackenzie King, the Hon. W. R. Motherwell. the on. C. Darning, and other cab net minis- ters some of the fundamentals of agricultural economics. If they keep up this educational campaign they will do quite as much for farmers as they can do for them by selling their wheat co-operatively. (The Canadian CounWymsn) One of the editorn of Canadian Coulitrt,rnrn called recently «a a mean in Toronto, who &nine the course of conversation rreanork d that there wee), no Pam Problem. IT claimed that the problem ail_ 2ntt'riees°o ret' gutty Itch the same ro those, of city. pee- Paritaps uaiYzirigh at dmrtatat5s in 'bxtr at, > 4' ?�tna0T io.ttwum. baa 3ll . '.'Gl'2 / �dJ'iddeti 2 Ft39 'Bide 0.918 1929 Creamer, butt, .... • • Il00 140 Eggs, extras, ..... 100 1444 What, Ontario • .. 100 125 Oats, Ontario 100 532 13tatchsrr deers, .. 1108 187 Ilbge ..:r.:. 109 • 126 • , ' ' , ,5",gig le i wi t t it A day'nmlam. cra`�t one giver prr bl t. oat.0t, ye* lei *algae�,�, j„ ?: go.tflp Tat?'7!,'ID11irQ`bS'ulu.($w�� 3 . 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