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AGT STATEMENT OF KING'S
'AMWAY' ASCOUNTS, 1932.
Receipt*.
1, 2e82—,•».lanae in. bade ..S 77•,867.04
1931 county rates , , 5,092413
doentty mates 36,864.17
r ,Oram General Account 2,018.04
3121,886.88
Expenditures.
'Iliiasurferrecd to General A,ocount, ..3 12,950.46
Dobe Lure No. 1 t Knit's Highway) 12,950.46
1(i?tp'a Hi�hw4 Aoot. to Prov4,
(Preaauuror, 1331 59,085.76
PDeJbenbure No. X Kim's Highway) 12,950.46
Pmay. 'Proas. tan a,cuount of 1931 ac-
count) 31,820.00
Transferred to savings 4ccount.., 37.53
3129.242.67
Old Age Pensions Comiiiittee.
Your Old Age Pensions Committee
begs to report as follows:
During the year the Contmittee has
held three meetings and the meetings
of the 1932 Conilmtittee in January
makes four meetings this year.
'At the January meeting there were
received,, New cases; 18; reconsider-
ations, 10; 28 in all.
At the February meeting i n all 30,
and the March and May meetings, 19
and 28, respectively, making in all
105 new applications and retonsidera-
tions: In the previous 4 months there
were 20, 25, 29 and 27, or a total of
101.
The number of applications is 'de-
creasing, but the reconsiderations,
which are made up mostly of appeals,
is increasing. This is no. doubt
mainly due to the feet that a consid-
erable sealing down has been made in
the amounts granted. • Where at first
$20 per -month was. granted in the
majority of cases, at present $15 par
month is considered in the greater
number of grants as an ample pen-
sion, An attempt is being made by
the Committee and by the Depart-
ment to further .scale down many of
tame considered rather too liberal
and which have been •fountl in most
eases out of proportion to the real
needs. As the tines goes' on irregu-
larities have' been discovered. unknown
at first, but an attempt is 'being. made
to correct then!'.
The districts ' assigned the several
members `of the Committee for in.
vestigating purposes are as follows:
J. W. Craigie, chairman, Ashfield,
Colborne, Goderich Tp., Goderich
Town, Clinton, Dungannon and Bay-
field.
R. J. Bowman—Turnberry, How
-
ick, Grey, Win -ghee' and Brussels.
B. M, Francis—Usborne, Tucker -
smith, 'MeKil•lop, Seaforth, Exeter,
Hensall 'and Centralia.
W. H. Sweitzer — Stephen,_Hay,
Stanley, including 'Credliton, .-Dash-
wood, Zurich and Grand Bend,
Jasn•es' Leiper — •Hullett, Morris,
East Wawanosh, West Waw anosh,
Blyth,-and.including Auburn, Londes-
boro and Belgrave.
The total number of applications in
Huron registered to the end of May
this year is 1,095. Of these, 909' were
granted up to the April report by the
central authorities.
'The total number on our pay sheet
of those having 'come in from other
j, counties is 10, and Huron must be -
•came responsible for these after one
year's residence.
,Som•e idea of the movement of the
risks involved in the pension list can
be obtained from the following state -
anent of the past 5 months, beginning
with December of 'last year, the ap-
plications of that month being con-
sidered in January of this year.
Up to December there' were .883
pensioners registered' Of these 240
had. ceased to he claims and 10 had
come in from other counties, making
653 active participants on the roll.
'In January these figures were:
886-262+10, or on the roll 634.
In February 907-276+9=1340.
In March, 0 -08e -287+2e4629.
In April, 909-292-r10-6.27.
The increase on the roll in Febru-
ary is accounted for by the increase
in registrations from 886 to 907.'
The county's share paid during
these 5 'months was as follows: De-
cember. $1,15<i 2.;, January, $1.153.90;
February. a1.210.61; March, $1,124.56;
April, $1,0a4.23. -For the previous 5
months these amounts were practic-
ally doubled as we were paying 20%
then and 10a now.
All those committed to the House
of Refuge and those remaining who
are 70 years of age or over, are en-
titled to receive the full pension of
$240.00 per year. There are at pres-
ent 35 receiving such pensions. .
The•k.county charges these pension-
ers $18 per month for maintenance,
giving each the extra 82 so that each
pensioner inmate pays the county
$216.0.0 per year for maintenance, the
county thus gets $192.00 contributed
by the Domini,gn and Province for the
maintenance of each inmate of pen-
'sionable age, or from the 35 men-
tioned we realize an income of $6',-
720.00.
Recently the operations• of the Act
have been changed to a certain ex-
tent by the employment of an inspec-
tor front the Central Departrnegt at
Toronto, who determines the amount
of pension to be granted in each case,
so that .any appeals that may be made
are considered and decided- by the
Cdtemission at Toronto, the local au-
thority merely recommend for a pen-
sion but the central commission fixes
the same on the recomnnen•dation of
the Inspector,—,J. W. Craigie, Chair-
man.
hair-
man Children's Shelter Report.
Your committee have met once this
year, at the Shelter. We have care-
fully examined the account and found
them eoree'ct and satisfactory. We
had the ceilings of two roams paper-
ed and some little inside painting
done. Four new mlattreslt'e's were
furnished as we found they were
needed. The Shelter is well managed
and the Matron keeps everything in
order. At present there are fifteen
'children in the', Shelter, nine boys
and...six girls, including two babies.
Nine children •are attending public
sc'heol. We are •finding it difficult to
find foster hones for young children tot
at, present but hope as times impro'v'e
to be able to place some out.--Wi1-
mot Haadlee; Chairm'ate •
House of Refuge.
'We have met the number of times
per 'bylaw with respect to the House
of !:refuge••-I1VIarch and June.
••• We audited the sever.il accounts
marl of'deted .paynilents of the game:
Match $3,0'3+6.74; June, $3,116.52; to -
a6,151.26 for 6 rnonths. The ret
cellos 'for above period . froim sale of
tifOik. pilgrim, preduae, etc., was
p`rWrtii0. 1
,1!r.; b.ea.4t'
The County Rome Cemetery has
L .t< ,: seededawn""'" 1ne trees
e x d
planted around it, ande four corner
pines being donated 'by Mr. Isaac
Wright. •
We ins'peeted all the buildings ant
property of the county and found
everything in good order. We have
replaced the linoleum in the front halt
and waiting 'room as it was very bad-
ly needed.
'We found the inmates well looked
after and apparently contented and
causing no inconveniences to the
management.
There are at present 89 inmates of
Which 37 are on the old age pensions
list. e
,We recommend the purchase of a
fire escape from the Lundy Fence Co.
at a cost of $374.00, to be placed at
the rear of the County Horne where
the hospital wing is situated. This
is a real necessity and has also been
ordered by the Qovernnient inspector,
We feel that the installation of a
grain grinder at'a cost not exceeding
'35.00 would be an economical mean
dere as we estimate we would save
$60 to $80 per year and would like
council's sanction to purchase same.
—Struck out.—Robert. Smith, Chair-
man.
Agricultural Advisory Committee.
We, your Agricultural Advisory
Committee, beg to report as follows:
Re resolution of the Lani,bton coun-
ty council, re fees charged for the
use of the different Stock yards in
the Dominion, we are in accord with
the resolution as we believe these
charges are excessive.
Re communication from the Pro-
vincial Etomologist regarding salary
of the Corn Borer Inspector: The in-
spector's salary has been -fixed and
is below the maximum, allowed by
the Department. — L. E. Cardiff,
Cha irman.
The following are the recommen-
dations passed on by the Advisory
A,gricultural Council at a meeting
held in the Agricultural Office; Clin-
ton, on Wednesday, April 12, 1933:
1—The council wish to recommend
that the 1934 four-weeks'Short
Course in Agricultiire and Ho'isehold.
Science be held in the village of Zur-
ich during the month of January.
2—,In previous !years Dr. Lionel
Stevenson, Provincial Zoologist, has
been secured for from 4 fo 6 demon-
straeiona of • internal parasites in
sheep and swine. The Council are of
the opinion- that such demonstrations
insight be cancelled for this year and
recommend that Dr. Stevenson be se-
cured for a series of meetings td be
held next fall dealing with bot and
warble fly control.
3—Realizing that it is important to
'lav before every farmer in the coun='
ty information in connection -with the
cont'%ol of l ots. in ..-horses and warbles -
in cattle, the Advisory Council re-
commend that a grant of $25 be giv-
en •to the Department of Agriculture
at Clinton, to cover the cost of plac-
ing a circular dealing with, this sub-
ject ia the, hands of every farmer in
the county. This suds of money will
cover the cost of the paper stock and
the necessary postage.
4—The Advisory Council are of the
opinion, that the work being carried
on by the Department with rural boys
and girls is very much worth while
and reeomnr;end that the usual grant
of $200 be passed for the Junior Ex-
tension Fund- held in trust by the
Agricultural Representative.
Report on Mothers? Allowance
Matters.
1' The Clerk gave the following re-
port of the Mothers' Allowance pay-
ments during the past fire months,
including December of 1932. . •
The payments for these months
were as follows:.
Month No. on 'Roll Total paid
December . 65 81,975.00
January 64 1,945.00
February 63 1.965.00
March • 63 •-•- • 1,935.00'
April.
63 1,915.00
Total $9,735.00
One-hailf paid by County.
,Taking the month if December as
an example of the variation in the
payments made to the several mothers
on the pay sheet, -we give the follow-
ing:
1 mother recd. per ;nth. $10 $ 10
8 e a it $20 160
2
" a!
if
<r ZI
20
14
10
4
-6
1
1
u $2'5 "x00
$25 500
" $30 420
33:1 360
$40 160
84 270
$50 50
$55 55
',
if if
Paid „ Tota;.. $1,975
by County $987.50
Since the act came into force 13
years ago the total mothers grantedthe allowance has been 175—this be-
ing the serial number of the last
mother receiving.
The difference in the amounts paid
as in the cases of February, March
and April, which the, number receiv-
ing is the same, is due to the fact of
readjustments, changes in the num-
ber of -children and changes in bene-
ficiaries.
All allowances and adjustments as
noted are 'made by an inspector ap-
pointed by the central" authorities,
each of whom has charge of a dis-
trict sdmietimes erni(bracing counties,
cities and towns. .
The cause of ceasing,to be claim-
ants remains unchanged, viz—death,
removal from the county, remarrying,
children ;becoming over age or over
16 years, the latter being the most
frequent cause.
The standard for a claim' to the
Mothers' A]lewanee . remains as be-
fore, not sufii'cient means, two of her
own children residing with her, or an
incapacitated huslhand who counts as
one child, being a deserted woman for
5 years or. more.
A' foster mother has to have the
same 'qualnfi'cation as to the number grantof children but no is ginren to
a foster rmlother -unless the children
,she takes are orphans or deserted
childreh or such as are subject to
Children's Aid Society care.
tI am pleased and gratified to re-
port that the carrying en of the
Mothers' Allowance Act in the coun-
ty has been very satisfaetery Glaring
the past months, due no doubt to the
definite limitations in the qualifica-
tions as given as the standard in a
previous paragraph.
There have been several needy cas-
es adjusted appar'en'tly very satisfac-
torily with very little, if any, friction
and the fact that in dealing with
Mothers' Allowance matters we are
dealing chiefly with or for needy and
thelpl•ess children, in no way respons-
ible fir their circumstances, is, an in-
centive to deal clraritalbly and justly
la all .matters relative to the admin.
,a4r.JY:t��t,
Traveling Sales;dn.:
WasAlmost R>rarrtae
Greenville, Miss. -W. A. Ivub r,
recently said: "Traveling day d
might and eating in cafes and ho-
tels had a lot to do with My case I,
know, but I was in mighty bad
shape bonstrpatiox had practically
ruined me. I hook every kind of
laxative I ever heard of, but they
only aggravated my trouble. When
I started taking Sargon and Sargon
Soft Mass Pills I just had to •drag
myself out of bed and through the
day. The treatment not only re-
lieved me but I have aotually seined
35 pounds in weight."
C. ABERHART
istration of the act.—Geo, W. Hol-
man.
Education Committee.
'We beg to report as follows:
Re communication of Huron Coun-
ty Branch of the Associated High
School Boards of Ontario, we concur
with the resolution that has been.
passed by this council inviting mem-
bers of, that -body to confer with the
council at this association. '
Re communication from Lon -don
Board of Education with regard to
Huron County pure a attending Lon-
don schools,; we recommend no action
as 'we have, sufficient •ancon rnodatien
in the schools of this county for all
pupils.
Re coml1li'gnieation from the County
of Lineoh 'with regard to reduction
in secendary school teachers' salaries,
we concur with the same.
Re eornmunication from Welland
County requesting that the Educa-
tion Departigilent exercise economy in
a:iministering that department, we
concur with this resolution.
Re commtunication from Frontenac
County', recommending that Normal
stud, nets be exempt from attendance
for 1933, we recommend no action as
We' has already been settled • by the
Government.
Re communication of J. M. Gagne,
of Walkerton, asking that Fordwich
and Wroxeter' be declared lower school
centers, we recommend that this be
concurred in.
Re request front. 'Department - of
Education,' Toronto, we recommend
the same be granted.—W. R. Archi-
bald, Chairman.
The following schedule shows how
the grants to High Schools in the
County are worked out per the levies
made by these schools annually. The
grants to adjacent county schools are
worked out similarly:
Total days at -
Name of School tendance for 3 pre-
ceding years
Wingham High School 89,456
Exeter High School 83,074
Seaforth Collegiate Institute 107,37.4
Clinton Collegiate Institute 106,613 •
Goderich 'Collegiate Institute 1374.56
CO.` attend-
ance per Total cast Paid by
3 years County
37,908 $17,016.01 $6,553.69
49,403, 13,420.86 7,272.38
56,722 19,262.98 9,574.24
56,772 21,030.26 10,199.17
47,357 27,235.14 •"8;703.17
The attendance is calculated per
the past three years, and the cost
per day's attendance, not per pupil.
To these several amounts is added
the following sums to our county
high school levies. This shows the
amount - each high school town has
paid of the Ievies and incidentally,
sl iws whateach town has contribut-
e t'z the county'rate and this meet
be returned or added to the levy tlio
y oar following:
�t ingham H. S. $ 364.12
Exeter H. Z. • 700.43
See forth C. I. 844.62
Clinton C. I. 746,88
' Coderich C. I. 1 1,838.58
$4,931.13
Sc. that the total payable each High,
School Board imthe county. for 1933
will be as follows•
Winghaan 36.553.69+386432 or $7.417.81
Exeter ,7,272.38+ 700.46 tar 7,972.81
Selaiortir 9,574..24+ 844)62 or 10,418.86
Clinton 10,199.17+ 7.46.38 or 10,945.55
Godewiclt, 8.703.1741838.58 or 10,541,75
3412„302.65 84,99403 347,296.78
During the past 5 years these sev-
eral schools have_ ,been; paid as fol-
lows:
In 1929 total paid ' $ 41.583.15
do 1929 total paid . .. 46,105.84
In 1930total paid 46,304.98
In 1931 total paid - 48,131.10
In 1932 total paid '47,869.04
The amounts payable to adpacent
County High Schools and Collegiate
Institutes for the current year is as
follows:' '
Harriston H. S. $ 252.50
Stratford C. I. 41.95
Listowel H. (S. 1,090.24
St. Marys C. I. " 164.32
London C. I. .556.88
Parkhill H. S. (1932) , 525.38
Total to adjacent schools.. $2,632.27
The total to pay for secondary,
high school education during this
year to county and adjacent county
schools •is as, follows:
-County High Schools ....$ 47,296.78
Adjacent ;High Schools.....2,632.27
$49,92.9.05
The ,Continuation School levies both
for the county and for adjacent coun-
ties are not yet all in. '
In 1931 these several schools were
paid the -following totals:
County continuation ,
schools
$10,536.22
Adjacent county continua-
tion sehoelis 2,626:56
Total $13,162.78
R. J. Deachman's Address at'
Young ', Liberal Club Banquet
(Continued from last -week) a social touch to any gathering!
Then there were those gr•eeg�t events,
Mr. De'achrean's address is as fol- barn raisings. A navel couhti be writ-
lews: ten of' how the captain of the win-
,.,
As I listened to the all too kindly ning side won the girl, the belle of
words of your chairman, I recalled the community, by placing the last
to Mand the first political meeting rafter in its place two minutes be -
which (attended in the County . of fore the other captain had finished.
Huron Then we had paring bees, a business
It. was many, many years ago. I of '-paring apples and 'putting them
imagine I must have been about 12 on a string, not to 'mention selling
years of age .at the time. My father them afterwards for 3' cents a, pound
took me to the meeting in the little and ninny other happy events, in -
village of Gerrie 'in order that I eluding revival meetings which were
might hear the Liberal candidate, always a social attraction and al -
Dr. Peter McDonald, who was then though I can give no personal evi-
seeking election in what was, at that dence on the matter, I have heard it
time, East Huron. Be was -a eery from the oldest inhabitants that in
clever speaker, especially on' the their time they had a substitute for
tariff, and on this occasion I think what is now known as the "necking
he was at his 'best. :Ile was -marshal- party" --but that is history into which
ling' his facts in excellent form and
we shall not delve.
wheeling his word battalions into line
when an old Irishman near the front On Economic Life.
by the name of Bill., Bennett Inc. re- •
-
latioi of our present Prime Minis- ' But it is not the social, it is the
ter, -by tlie' way) shouted out: "Doc- economic life that I want to touch.
tor, what's the deity on pills?" stop- Bach in pre-war clays you were more
ping, with one finger upraised, and prosperous, than you are to-day—at
in the caustic manner of which* he least you feel that you were. Why
Was so capable, Dr. McDonald re- hi this the case? The soil of Huron
plied: "36 per cent. Do you want a is as rich and feettileee,s, it ever was.
box?" and then went on and finished You have better -machinery and. in
his sentence. orrery sense`)irnproved facilities for
I aim glad to be back once more in product:on and -marketing. The men
Huron County. After all, this, to are just as efficient—so are the wo-
m-e is home. I was born on a little niers. What then, is wrong 'with Hur-
farm, fifty acres, about three miles on County? What has come over it
from the 'village of Gorrie. The north that W2 cease to have the joy end
branch of the Maitland River ran exultation in our work which we had
through the farm. I think that river in the old days when we felt that
ran also like a thread through the this was the richest county in the
fabric of my life. I picture it now happiest province under the sun?
as it broke its. bonds in the spring 'Man wants a reward for his toil.
and flooded into the neighboring Besides, he seeks equality of oppor-
fielde, making a picturesque lake, and tunity. He wants to feel that the
I remenilber wishing that it could al- cards are not stacked against him.
a remain that way. In ,the sum_ He 'must 'believe that if he gives a
er I fished and swam in its turbid square day'sveprk, he will get „a-
depths—almost two feet of water. I square day's reward. . 1Becese this
watched it again in the fall as it condition has existed over certain
wound its way among the hills where periods in the past but does not now
nature hung those marvelous tapes- exist, he feels' and `'knows that an in -
tries of brown and ,•gold. Then came justice has -been done, that some -
the winter when the riven was silent tthing has . gone wrong, and so he
for a time waiting the rebirth of the registers and rightly registers, an
coming spring. emphatic protest against conditions.
Life is just like the river: Child- I do not want to discuss this phase
hood and youth when we build our 'of the question at length but merely
castles in the air. • Maturity, when' to submit the Ipmoof of my conten-
we strive through the succeeding tion, d haveladed before you a
years to put foundations under them' small chart which reveals verclear-
Then autumn, the time of reflection ly the situation, It's not new. It
when we wonder if it was worth the has been used (before but truth " is'
battle. And I presume the next is eternal. I want you to keep this.
winter . when, having warmed our chart and take it Homme 'with you so
hands before the fire of life, it sinks that you may explain to any doubt -
and we are ready to depart. ing neighbors exactly rwhat has hap -
In the Old Days. pened. It's -printed on two sidles.
Note the graph on the one side, then
the figures on the other. Now what.
do both sides relvieal ? Let us look
at the graph first. The red line
shows the iniovelnent or trend of
prices of manufactured products
from 1913 to April, 1933, the black
line shows the drift of farm; prices.
Note how, starting in 1913, the price
of manufactured products nifoved Op
to 1918. That part of the chart is
fore -shortened a bit and it does not
reveal exactly what happened in the,
years '144, '16, '16 and '17. Prices'
"grog ;boss" is one Who carries the stood at the level which, you see in
drinks to the workers. They had 1918. Then reeved upward to 1920
whikkey that cost 12% tents a gal- and again downward, throughout the
ion, eight gallons for a dollars and course, standing to -day with menu -
they carried it around in pails with fa'ctuned products 4.9 -points albo've
a tin dipper. That surely would add the level of 191'3 and farm .products
I want you to go back with me
just for a moment to the Huron- of
the olden days. Fear not to make
the journey, it will be brief. It would
be interesting to consider the social
enjoyments of that period though I
realize quite clearly ,Hat those who
were born in the twentieth century
have no idea that we had any sa"dial
life in Huron in the old days. I re-
member an old friend telling he how
in the fifties or sixties he acted as
"grog boss" at a logging bee. A
16,8 ,
s,
.s points
rbeloai that � .
�ev' r �' ---•or pule
ting it in terms of 'peseentage, manu-
factured products are up 7.5 per Cert.
and ,Farm 'produets down 26 •per cent.
What a Dollar is Worth.
Turn now to the „figures onhe
back and you will see more clearly
what this means. You will note that
in the year 1926 a dailar'a worth of
farm produlets beeig'ht a dollar's
worth of manufactured products. Go
back now to 1913 and yen will tined
that it took very little more than a
dol'lar's worth of farm pmoduets to
buy a dollar's worth of manufactur-
ed products. Go from!; that to the
other end of the line, and you fiild
that in April, 1938., it took almost a
dollar and a half's worth of farm
products to buy a dollar's worth of
manufactured goods. That' is why
toe' y, in Huron County, you feel
that you are not getting a square
deal, that the card's are stacked a-
gainst you, that something ought to
be done about it. Let me illustrate
this '.point more clearly. Supposing
I hold in my hand two glasses. We'l'l
call them agricultural products. And
I hold in the other hand two- glasses
which we will say are manufactured
goods. In 1926 you could exchange
the one for the other, but if you at-
tempt to make the same exchange to-
day with a manufacturer he will as'k
you to give him three glasses in re -
burn for the two he +gilvies you. In
other words, you' are paying almost
fifty per cent. more in terms of goods
far the products you buy than you
did in 1926 or back in 1913.
Outlines Policies.
•
Now there is the 'basic problem and
I propose to -night to lay ,before you
as fairly as I can the program of
the three 'political parties in the
Dominion of Canada. I submit this,
that unless their programs have a
direct ,bearing. on the problem which
I have !suggested, then their ipro-
grams are worse than useless, so
far as you are concerned. Let me
go one,:step further. As the farmer
is a basic.'producer, and as the" same
situation applies also to other basic
-producers, such as the producer of
lumber, of fish and certain classes
of mineral products,- then this prob-
lem which 1 present, to you, ap-
plies to all the basic industries of the
Dominion.. And unless the basic in-
dustries ar6 firmly established, I ask
you how the secondary industries of
manufacturing ._and commerce and
transportation and -exchange can •be
prosperous.
'Let me deal first with the program
of the or the Co -'operative
Commonwealth' Pederati4i'n. The party
with the long name and the ambitious
progra n-lI say ambitious because I
understand it is to be ambitious, al-
though not yet very 'clearly defined.
Wie owe their suggestions at least
the courtesy of an examination. Any-
one who pretends .to offer to point
out to us a path through chaos de-
serves sone consideration. Let us
give to the ladies and• gentlemen of
the Cesoperative 'Commonwealth the
consideration which tly may:_ right-
ly deiman•d.
About Miss Macphail.
You had, ;I understand, a visit some
time ago from two of their great
champions, 'Miss• ('-Vlacphail and Mr.
Irvine. •1VLay I speak with particular
kin•dness of Miss Agnes. After' all'
she's a dear gal, 'Som'etime•s, it is
true, she gets a bit cross With her
audiences but .what -can you expect?
If you have a remedy which you
have made, yourself, a 'home -brewed
remedy, which you think will cure
ani bedy, and very few want to take
it, At will not be Surprising if you
feel a bit irritated. I remember one
night last winter we were sitting in
the house playing a game of bridge
and my younger son was upstairs,
as I thought, going to bed, and I
-heard a window; calash and I rushed
upstaina in • -a hurry, I ;wondered
what had happened, apd he sat on
the side of the bed looking somewhat
shamefaced, and 1 said: "What's the
matter?"
"Well; Dad," he said, "I• threw off
one shoe. It hit just on the edge of
the window, just a few inches from
the glass and I thought I'd like to
hit the sane place again and the.
boot went through the window!" .
• When I came downstairs • I said to
my friends, "Every leader in politi-
cal life ought to be married." Natur-
ally they asked me w'hy and I said it
would teaeif thein patience. Teach
then; that it is worth while to tell
the truth even if the truth is not al-
ways accepted and having that faith
and knowing that I am right, I am
willing to be a great deal more
patient than !Mises Ag -nes. There is
only one trouble with that dis-
tinguished lady. 'In the long and
intricately 'connected chain of cause
and :effect. 'I think she sometiim;ee
gets the two mixed and starts in to
treat the effect when she ought to
remove the cause. And I greatly
fear that in this particular case, she
hasefailed to understand the cause.
Mr. Irvine Says.
"'I' also have a kindly feeling to Mr.
Irvine. He is a generous soul. I
have known him for a great many
years. We baye been on the same
platform together, fighting often for
the same causer. aMr. Irvine has a
particular genius for two things, IHe
has a capacity for destructive criti-
cism and an almost unlimited capac-
ity for recklessness of statement. He
ie the type of man who could pull a
clock to pieces but never could put it
together again so that it would keep
time. He is happiest when he is in-
dulging in the most violent attacks
upon existing institutions. Some-
times 1 think his only reason for
supporting the new Co-operative
Commonwealth is that he may have
something fresh, with the dew of the
morning on it—so that he may start
again to tear it up. 1 re nemiber
listening to 'Mar. Irvine one time a
few years ago in a public meeting in
Calgary. He explained that the
deficit of the G.N.R. was 'a hundred
and 'fifty -millions and I challenge
hint at the rnotmsent and suggested
that fifty mullions was nearer the
truth when you put in capital charg-
es and everything else, Was ' he
s'ho'cked at the interr'u1tion?, Not in `
the slightest; he simply looked dean -
at mie quietly ands said: "All right,
Bob, we'll not, quarrel about it, let's
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ni s who . is OM* to Moneta* o11,r'
ecespio n;ie system en definite clear cat
lace's and make it run •[tore Sm00410
and leeonomieal'ly' than at runs. to-"
day; and yet he was ao careless in is
matter of a hundred millions that he
was willing to split the difference
with me. )Let tme keep fifty and let
him beep the other fifty. What do
you think of that type of man as the
designer of the bridge from -the old
eta to the new? Why in making, the
designs he would do anything that
would happen to donne in his"-nxind!
If he were building. a cat -walk the
foundations might be laid in .ever-
lasting granite, if he expected ex-
�n+ess trains to run across it the
flouln'de.tio.ns .. - might ' be had Of
plastoeies. We need better archi-
tects and better designers of the new
Jerusalem than we 'find in some of
the present leaders of the C. C. F.
C.C.F: Program and Plans.
Now have here their program as
outlined by Mr. Irvine. it is as fol-
lows: .•
1.
Public instead of ,prilvate owner-
ship.
2. ,Co-operation instead o'f compe-
tition. .
3. Production for use instead of
production for profit.
4. Planned control of our nation-
al economy. '
"Let •me leave the first to,,the last
!because the first is the most import-
ant. The other mean nothing, or at
least, at th"e morruent, I am not un-
kind in saying that the leaders of
the ;C.C.F. do not 'know what they
mean. If you ask different members
of the organization, they will tell
you different things. 'flow far do
they propose to carry their "planned
'economly?" Who is going to do the
planning? After all, haven;'t we in
some measure a planned economy
how? -Isn't the planning done by
experts in their particular line? Isn't
,it true that these plans often go
wrong? ;Robert Burns ie aur author-
ity for that. Would the 'planners do
any better 'work if they were [made
into government civil servants and
asked to go ahead and make' the plans
for the Dominion? Remember all
planning has its definite limitations.
Who could have foretold the changes
which 'the internal conslbustion engine
would give to the world? We plan
for development of the St. Lawrence
Canals but who can foretell the
means of communication ten years
from now? Let us have as muph
planning as proves profitable to us
but in (building for the future I would
m'uc'h rather- halve 'tire capacity' to
adjust to new .'condition as they take
forms and shape than to have linty
course charted in advance by archi-
tects of the C.C.F. e..
-, For Use.
Then we are told' that we ought
to have production for use instead of
•production for profit:' You've. been
producing now for about three years
'without profit. How • do you like it?
Wouldn't it be a lot ;better if a bit
of profit could be. injected into things
again? At the best this plank is
just a high 'sounding phrase. There
may be a thought 'behind it and when
they develop that -thought I would
like to came back to .South Huron
and speak on it, but at the present
time it is •so thinly defined that it is
alrn,ost impossible to say anything.
rr Co-operation.
As for co-operation, no one is op-
posing it except some members of
the .C.C.F. as I shall presently show.
Co-operate all you want to co-oper-
ate. I sapid give you every encour-
agement/ 'But remember that co-op-
eration is a thing of the spirit. You
can't bring about co-operation by an
act of parliament. You've got to
have the spirit and the willingness to
co-operate. Besides you must have
the capacity to co-operate. Co-oper-
ation is not. ,built up over night but
over a long period of years and by a
good deal more patience in handling
the prolbl'ems that ar'i'se than Miss
Agnes Maephail or 'LVlr. Irvine are
likely to develop.
Government Ownership.
(Now I come to the one plank in
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AWE E *6, 1903.
'NOT CONSTIPAND .
FOR, SEVEN WEEKS"
Writes . Mrs. Johnson After
Using Kellogg's ALL -BRAT
Sufferers from constipation will
be interested in this unsolicited
letter:
"Your Am-BR&N surely relieves
constipation. I am so glad over the
good it has done me that I feel , I
must write and tell you of it,,
"For lunch I take a banana, a
large one. Six tablespoons of Alio
in a sauce dish, and dip
banana at each bite until all is
consumed. I haven't 'been consti-
pated now for seven weeks."—Mrs.
Louise Johpson, (Address furnished
upon request.)
CQlsstipatiQn 'often, causes head-
aches,
eadaches, loss of appetite and energy,
sleeplessness. This condition is
usually due to lack of "bulk".to ex-
ercise the intestines, and vitamin B
to further promote regular habits.
Kellogg's ALL -BRAN has both, as
well as iron for the blood.
The "bulls" in ALL -BRAN is much
like that in leafy vegetables. With.
in the body, it forms a soft mass..
Gently, it clears one -the -Wastes.
Try AUeBRAx in place of patent
"medicines — often ' `harmful. Two
tablespoonfuls daily will overcome
most types of constipation. Chronic
cases with each meal. If not re-
lieved this way, see your doctor.
Use as a cereal, or in cooking.
Recipes on the red -and -green pack-
age. Sold by all grocers. Made by
Kellogg in London, Ontario. -
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their program which deserves a
moment's analysis. They ask that
all natural resources and the socially
necessary machinery of production,
shall .be operated by the people or
by: the government, or in their some-
what vague statement-f'in the in-
terests of the people' and not for the
benefit of the few'.". ---
Now there is no particular magie
in government ownership. Go .back
far a moment to the problem which
faces you and the charts which I
have presented. -If governmient own-
ership or socially controlled indus-
tries will produce the commodities
you desire at, lower prices and give
you better service, then it's good. If
it does not it is 'bad. There is the
acid test. bo you think it is pos-
sible over a, large range of industry
for the government to select the
men to run these industries and for
them to produce ''more cheaply for
the use of the farmers of this coun-
try than, they would under . private
ownership? Well, if you can accept
that you have a faith that can move
mountains and raise up weeping wil-
lows into mighty oaks to face the
storm.
The Ship.
!Let us see how government own-
ership works. Not far from" the road
over which I wank in the morning, in
fact just a block away, there is an
old passenger ,steamer lying along
the bank of the Ottawa: It's rot-
ting at its anchor chains. It has
long since been out of° use., It was
used for pleasure excursions down the
Ottawa River many years ago and
old inhabitants tell me that many
happy nights were spent upifi't it. It's
no use to -day and you couldn't get
fifty dollars for the old hulk. The
capitalists who invested their money
in it lost it. But ,if that boat had
been built by t(ie government, bonds
would halve 'beeri issued against it,
-and these bonds would' have been a
'charge upon the people of Canada.
According to the present method of
doing things we would have to pay
interest` upon that defunct boat for a
thousand years or possibly for ten
thousand years. 'That's government
ownership. Rhe capitalist cannot
lose on government ownership. He
works under the guarantee of the
government.
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111 wouldn't stay anywhere
but at the King Edivath
says A PROMINENT
TRADE COMMISSIONER
"When I'm ip Toronto, that's my hotel.
I've travelled pretty well around ti a world,
and I ought to know hotel sere ce and
comforts. If a person wants just th right
amount of attention, quiet luxury an ex-
cellent food, he can get it at the ng
Edward." -
King Edward rates are scaled in keepin
with the times—rooms as low in price as
$2.50. Yet there is never• a slackening in
our conscientious efforts to make your
stay with us supremely enjoyable.
P. KIRBY HUNT
Manager
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