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OSHAWA, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, APRIL 6, 1922 PAGE ELEVEN The Week at the Capital + fatike and hinted that if they wished 'to argue along that line they could 'make the ears of both parties burn. However, on the whole, they were of [the opinion that there was more poli- BY IAN DUNELM (Special correspondent of The' Reformer.) Ottawa, March 31.--Baiting the Min- ister of Labor appears to be one of the chief indoor sports in and about Par- liament at the present time, and as a result the Hon. James Murdock is having his own worries in trying to get his estimates through the House. The minister has not yet heen ab- solved of his sins in breaking up the Board of Commerce, and some of his campaign speeches are still heing dragged over in the Commons. But some of the baiting can cqually be charged to the attitude and tactics of the Minister of Labor himself. Putting estimates through the House by main driving force is one thing; and getting them through with- out difficulty another. So far Hon. James has apparently not discovered which is the easier way. He con- tinues to try and lay down the law for the rest of the House, and conse: quently he is oftentimes backed up into a corner, With the exception of labor and militia estimates, there has been little hitch thus far to the government's progress in getting a little money through the House. However, to- night at midnight last year's votes lapse and the government is without funds to do anything except meet statutory requirements, Objection to the passage of "the Interim Supply Bill, which was expected before it was in- troduced in the House, resulted in that measure being held over, and thr Senate has decided to adjourn on' Wed: nesday until after Easter even with: out the Supply Bill coming to it. If the bill is not passed by then, there is nothing to do but carry on and get a supply bill through by us near the fifteenth of April as possible. Difficulty with the Labor ment estimates was looked for, and today the opposition moved to slice off a few thousand dollars and bring the vote down to where it stood last 'year. As a result there is a likelfhood of considerable fun and some interest ing debate before the estimates for the department go through. Ph Depart- At the request of William Irvine, Labor Member from West Calgary, the Hollinger * Mcintyre Dome who wish to buy| high-grade min-' we have excel- for handling { -» ; : For' those or sell the ing stocks, lent facilities your business, : As members of the Toronto, i Stock Exchange, we are in al position to execute your orders in the best market, Write us for more parliculars in ~regard lo dividends, etc. L. M. Green & Co. ® Mem Toronto Stock Exchange Xnion Bank Bldg. Toronto ties than anything else behind the Irvine had moved adjournment of the House to support the request of the Nova Scotia mayors for the appoint: ment of a royal commission to deal with the dispute between the miners and the British Empire Steel Corpor: ation, The strike down there had reached a serious impasse, with the adoption of a "strike on the job" policy and Mr. Irvine demanded that that the government 'do something." That suggestion was echoed and re-echoed from all over thé House, but there was also a strong feeling in some quarters that the government had done all that it could until something new devel oped, The government, by the way, had refused the royal commission re- House devoted yesterday to a field day {resolution and they therefore voted on Nova Scotia mining conditions. Mr. | against it. - The two Labor men, Messrs, Woods- worth and Irvine, and Miss Macphail did not vote. chamber but kept their seats, and the The former were in the lady member was absent when the first vote of the session was taken. The result of it all was that the Con- gservatives mustered only 42 votes against 162 for the government against the amendment. This is claimed to be the biggest supporting vote that a government has recelved since Con- federation. A great deal of comment is heard as to the wisdom of springing the vote just at the time, Had the Conserva- tives waited a couple of days they could have introduced it on a motion to appoint the re-establishment com- mittee, and thus overcome in large measure the charge of playing politics, One thing they sucgeeded in doing was driving the Progressives a step nearer to the Liberals, apparently, and mak- ing them suspicious of further amend: ments. / » ee» The Agriculture: Committee has started work on the Wheat Board prob- lem and the Soldiers' Pension Com- mittee will open its proceedings on Tuesday next. The first meetings of the standing committees of the House have been called for next week, so there will be little idle time from now until the end of the session, In the committees the members have a chance of doing some real work and getting bills amended as they could not do when they come up in the House, so the new men who are on to the job will devote themselves rather to committee work than to talk: ing in the dress debates and thus secure more for their constituents, * LJ The first private bill of the session has gone through in a measure intro- duced by W, D, Euler (North Water- loo) to strike out Sec. 29 of the Do- minion Elections Act which calls for the certification of foreign-born women before they are allowed to vote. Mr, Buler and his supporters claimed that a handicap was "being placed against women born in France or Belgium which did not bar a woman born In Haiti or Colombo, South America, The House agreed with him and the reso- lution passed to be incorporated in the amendments to the Act, This resolution gave Miss Agnes Macphail, the lady member, a chance to make an equal rights speech, when she declared for the equality of all women, regardless of the place of their birth, Miss Macphail was given a A ---------------------------- -- ---- | Your Current Account ARE you getting the maximum of service in con. nection with your Current Account? We are in a position to offer close exchange rates, ive jour collections Frempt attention, to buy or and toi issue letters of credit and money » vi Koy STAN DARD BANK Or CAN TOTAL ASSETS OVER EIGHTY THREE MILLIONS Oshawa Branch, E. C. Hodgins, Manager South Oshawa Branch, W. R. Belt, Acting Manager good hearing, and in her initial efforts in the House has shown herself "quite the equal of the average new member, quest and in the course of the debate the premier announced that the arbi: tration board which had previously sat on the matter had all the powers that could possibly be given to any commission. The government was willing, if ry, to r titute the arbitration board and let it get down on the job again.to probe the | whole matter and try to secure peace. | There the matter stood at the end of the whole day's debate. Mr, Irvine withdrew his resolution, having at-| tained his object in getting the matter thoroughly aired, and the House ad-| journed, The government had not re ceded from its attitude on a royal commission, but the House, and inci- dentally the country, had learned a: great deal about mining conditions and also about the powers of an arbitration board. The Nova Scotia government liad oifered to appoint a Royal Com mission, which would probe the whole matter, but demanded that the miners first abandon their "strike on the job" policy and carry out their contract with their employers, | 5 * i The session is living up to advance notices in regar dto surprises, A voto | of "no confidence" sprung by Col. James Arthurs, Conservative member for Parry Sound, gave the first chance | for a division during the session and placed the government in a somewhat | more favprable light than was actually | warranted. Col. Arthurs took as his' text the cash grants resolution passed at the Liberal convention of 1919 and | claiming that the Liberals had incor: porated this in their pre-election pro mises, argued that as they now had | no intention of giving the soldiers a cash bonus they had won the election | by unfair means and had broken con-! fidence with the people by breaking their pre-election pledges. The argu ment in the premise was at times somewhat farfetched. Sometimes it seemed on both sides more like a| unseless series of recriminations| and a rehasing of the election campaign fight, and apparently that was the way appealed | tohe the Progressives. The gov- ernment claimed that it had not pro-! mised cash grants during the past, election; that the prime minister ha ad | not mentioned cash grants, nor had any member of his government, and | further that cash bonuses had heen in no way an issue in the campaign. Some of the Conservative members | charged that Liberal candidates against them had used the cash bonus | | promise and thus won many thousand | votes over. When the Progressives | delved into the matter of campaign | tactics used against themselves, they | swatted both Liberal and Conservative | | it a -- 1 | 0 5 0 Wd nm = | Oh, That's What I Call a Steak! Fit for a king. Thick, tender, juicy, wholesome--no matter how, vou like it cooked--it's sure to be a treat when you eat That's because it came from our butcher shop. Only quality meats here. We never disappoint customers. "The public be pleased" is our aim. W. ATKINSON 12 Church St. Phone 935 Oshawa Bargain Store 42 Simcoe St. N. Here Is Our Big Special For Easter It will pay you to inspect our Big Suit Specials. Suits, Spring Coats and Raincoats at the lowest prices. Men's Caps, silk lining, reg. $1.50 to $1.75, for ........ 95¢ Latest style Felt Hats Working Trousers Blue Serge Trousers Blue Serge Trousers, Indigo dye, reg. $7. 50 . Boys Blouses, reg. $1.50, for Stocking: Boys' . $1.00 to $1.95 -. $3.78 to $5.00 M. ENUSHESKY All goods guaranteed firsts. If not satisfactory, refunded money I N-- { - About 19,000,000 people sured in the 16,000,000 under policies, vide « wonderful health and welfare! WOE. front om public health work United States and Canada. NURSES Free nursing service is gi Industrial policy-holders cities and Tra not only heal sick right living. its have been 1921. saved, In CANADA alone, largely ined but towns, the About made--2,116 nurses, 201,888 visits free of charge DISCOVERING TIME (annual premium) TO HELP Employers insuring their « ees under Group vised employees receive the nursing service and welfare ture. 238,000,000 PIEC LITERATURE ease, and prepared by far, distributed--25 238,000,000 copies 1921 was nearly 3,5000,000. Tie Metropolitan, a health ing distributed in Canada. A CITY THAT Is In Framingham; Mass. authorities everywhere, regulation can do. num from tuberculosis have IN ASSETS IN INCOME IN GAIN of EACH HELPING 19,000,000 PEOPLE are Metropolitan--over weekly premium The weekly calls of Agents at the policy-holder"s homes pro- opportunity for The Company has accepted the op- portunity and to-day is at the fore- 14,000,000 VISITS BY TRAINED 14,000,000 vis- 875 in Numerous letters tell of lives Metropolitan in cooperation with the Victorian Order of Nurses, DISEASES Free medical examinations, disclosing incipient disease in time to cure it, are granted to Ordinary policy-holders, subject to reasonable conditions. HELPING THE EMPLOYER amploy- policies are ad- regarding health conditions and accident prevention, while the benefits of ES OF Attractive booklets and pamphlets in great variety, dealing with the important phases of health and dis- leading ex- perts, ard distributed broadcast. have been 000,000 in 1921. The number distributed in CANADA in In addition, 18,000,000 copies of zine, are issued annually---1.500,000 copies, in English and French, be- WATCHED ropolitan is leading the way great experiment, watched by heal; to demon- strate what proper municipal health Deaths per am- ped from 121 per 100,000 to 40, A Business Statement that is a Great Human Record in- in the other causes, perhaps. HOW WAS IT DONE? Record kept by the Metropolitan Life Assurance Company show an extraoridnary decrease in the death rate among its Industrial, or weekly premium: policy-holders. Com- paring 1921 with 1911, for example, there. .were 55,000 less deaths in 1921 than there would have been if the 1911 death rate had prevailed. What brought about the great saving of life? The general public health movement--progress in medical science and sanitation-- But a very great factor has been the tremendous health campaign carried on by the Metropolitan itself. This page tells part of the story. FOR THE PUBLIC HEALTH 144 health exhibits and emerg- ency hospitals at county fairs last year; 295 "Clean-up" campaigns; agitation by Agents for health leg- islation; widespread campaigns against special diseases; sickness and sanitary surveys; a study of municipal health departments; lead- ership of practically all Ameriean research work relating to influenza --the=e are some instances of the ° Metropolitan's activity in the inter. t of public health, ven to 2,800 nurse teach HALEY FISKE, = paid in 19214 Assets Larger than Larger than Liabilitics Surplus Income in 1921 Larger Gain in 1921 Larger IN than often than More than has cver Greater Total Amount of Force a Larger More litera- Dec. Dec. Dec. Dec. 21, 1891] $11, 423 31, 1901] 38,017,163.59 19 So President Increase in Assets during 1921. _GRowTH I IN Income for Year Ass ,496.68 185 31, 1911 98,135,273.71 1911 31, 1921] 301,982,699.39 1921 METROPOLITAN Life Insurance Companys. 1 MUTUAL COMPANY Business Statement, December 31, 1921 that of any othe Insurance Company that of any other Insurance that ov! Company that of any other Insurance Company Total Insurance placed and paid for in 1921... been placed in onc ycar Uy any "other C Gain in Insurance in Force in 1921 than that of any other » Larger than that of any other Company in the World. Sidinasy (that is, exclusive of Industrial Insurance in "than that of any other Company im th Number of Policies in Force December 31, 1921 than that of any othe) Company in the Number of Policy Claims paid in 1921 Averaging one claim paid for cvery 27 seconds of each business day of 8 hours. Amount paid to Policy-holders in 1921 Payments to policy-holders averaged $630.16 a minute of cae h busimess day of 8 hours. Dividends to Policy-holders payable in 1922, nearly... Amount paid Policy-holders and Beneficiaries since Organization, plus Ausoust wow Uivepied $v) their Security FREDERICK H. ECKER, Company in the Company in, the TEN- Y EAR PERIODS GREAT DECLINE BATES IN DEATH ih rate among Industrial ers reached its lowest point in 1921--31.97, lower than in 11, from typhoid de- 717%; tubercolosis, 49%; disease, nearly 30%: in- feeLions diseases of children nearly The "Expectation of Life" of white males (reckoned from age 10) increased 4 years, L V4 The rate V ale 0. C ice-President [ of C creased Bright's $1,115,583,024.54 in the World $134,669,937.37 World $1,068,341,845.04 $47,241,179.50 $301,982,699.39 in the World $38,462,919.41 World $1,564,789.607 ompany in the World. $625,695.325 World $7 "005,707,839 PUBLIC APPRECI The people of and Canada have ATION the Unjted States made the Metro- politun the greatest life insurance company in the world, with $7,005, 707,839 insurance in force. It leads not omly in Industrial but in Ordinary. More than half of ils business in force is Ordinary-- $3.892,267,274--which is more than that of amy Company in the world. About 58: of its Canadian bus- iness is Ordinary-----$258,524,270 at the end of 1921. in the $3,892,267,274 World 25,542,422 323,531 World. $91,348,472.98 $16,000,000 NO MONEY TAKEN OUT OF CANADA--A REAL CANADIAN $2,047,692,135.07 COMPANY The Metropolitan's total invest- ment in Canada at the end of 1921 at End of Year Surplus els at tad of Year in 26,948.21 1891 561901 .890.36'1911 | 32,939,469.87 1. 115. 583,024.54 1921 91 n maga company other company .. has inv The Company lates policies from a Huse to a Millivn Dolla of luvwrasce. In fact, its Ordinary is now larger than its Industrial. IN CANADA Metropolitan has more insurance in "force than any other Metropolitan placed in 1921 more than aay Shit comp... Metropolitan has more Canadian securities Dominion Government and Canadian trufices ¢ x bunds over ded im Ca Ads. in a drop- 1 nearly $35,000,000 being War Bonds. Over 1,700,000 Metropolitan policies are held by Canadians. "The Metropolitan has about 1,600 employees in Canada. EXCHANGE Canadian policy-holdars of the Metropolitan are in no way affected by th rates of exchange between the two countries, because all premiums on poli- cies in force in Canada are payable in Canadian funds. Number of Policies $3,088,833.18 1891 9,938,694.23 1901 1911 47.241,179.50 121 deposit with than any Outstanding | Insurance Ay véar End of Year was nearly $71,000,000. This amount added to the sum paid in death claims, matured endowments, div- idends and other payments to pol- icy-holders, and in addition there- payments to Canadians for -ad- ministration expenses and taxes the Metropolitan commenced ss in Canada, November exceeds by $31,000,000 the amount received by the Company in premiums from Canadian policyholders. Force at End of Year 281, 640 F258) 701; 763 1891 S78.81 911 7.839 1921 25 54242: id since busine 1885. . $445,674,174 . $104,353,087 - - $55,069,650 . $58,500,000 THE FUTURE The Metropolitan will continue endeavour to offer the hest there in and to save Continued growth, will Company still greater op- service in insurance conservation its is life insurance, human life, give the : rtunities for protection 'and in the and health. GREATEST-- IN BUSINESS PLACED IN BUSINESS GAINED IN BUSINESS in FORCE "The Company OF the People, BY the People, FOR the People." --John R. Hegeman IN ORDINARY BUSINESS in FORCE IN REDUCTION of MORTALITY IN HEALTH and WELFARE WORK