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THE rLBSHKETOH ADVAHCB. CURRENT COMMENT The Pros and Cons of the Tariff A coniicission is to oii<iuire luto thu i-ouditions that uiay be iifccssary to consiiliT in revising the tariff. Tiiere ia au iuipnssiou tliat sonio people wish to impose a Mcliiuley tariff on Canada; and tliere is another imprission that some people wish to have free trailo ol the British variety in Canada. No i.uc knows exaetly what the country wants in this diret-tion, because there has been no direct question on the point before the people for decision for nearly a quarter of a century. It is certain that there aro cxtreuiisia and moderates on both gidcs. It will probably bu necessary for all parlies to j,'et away from preconceptions and prejudgments ami form new opinions on the basic facts that mav be discovered. A few of these are obvious as darkness at niidniyht, which is' much the same whether a nmn can see or is blind. To lij-ht over free trade and protection is the partisan way. It is not likely lo advantage the country much. One thiuu to remember is that in British Colonies all over the world some have thriven under protection, some have sulTercil by it; some have thriven under free trade, some have suffered under it. This means that more than the one principle or the other must be considered in choosing between them And this again means that the time-honored procedure of British polities, advance by compromise, is the method of reaching a practical policy. Beyond this is the very patent fact that the revenue has to be raised, and to a much vaster extent than was ever dreamed of in Canada before the war. Here agam arises the choice to be made between direct and indirect ta.>:ation with the tacit preference of Jiiost people to be relieved of their ta.\ contributions in homeopathic doses instea.l of in large gobs. A nmn will pay ten eeuts a day taxation in the purchase, say, of cigars, who will ascend to the clouds if re- quested to put his means at the service of the state to the amount of .$3u about the time he thinks of going on a vacation. Students of British politics would be willing to bet on a compromise, but we are in a revolutionary era, and we aro not bo British in our traditions in regard to tariff as some people imagine. There is no doubt but Wir Ueury Drayton's enquiry will be followed with lu- lercst by all who regard the payment of taxes a» a proud and patriotic privilege and by others with the sad satisfaction of having lived a perfectly virtuous life. EARTHRISE ON THE MOON. An Unneccessary Blunder As the weeks pass it becomes more evident that Hon. Mr. Drury has chosen make the one mistake tiiat he need not have made and thrown away the ^ne nake the one mistaKe niai ue ueeu uui ui»>i; .muv. .>">. .... It opportunity of making himself strong with the whole p ecessary is the immoral in the ancient philosophies, and it irelv unnecessary and gratuitous course to take to subject the . av and obstruction as seems too likely to be the case. .No oue y^v^ui-t t..= ive of the Independent Labor Party has suggested that anything wrong or would be discovered in connection with the Hydro estimates or man- ... If i» wpll known to everybody who has made himself familiar with whole province. The t has been an Hydro policies No one except the As little Dolomite airemcut. It is well Known lo cveij'uuu^ r,..u ..<»o ^ â€" ^^ --â€" - UvZ affairs, as anybody can do that wants to smce the Hydro Commission is'alwavs ready to supply full information on any point desired, that the utmost •are has always been taken in preparing estimates, and the most skilled and expert advice obtainable has always been secured to check the results attained. It cjuuht to bo sufficient to establish confidence in the Commission that after lifteea years of service, with a baud of hostile corporations watching its oper- ations, no error has ever been pointed out in them. Investigation after investi- uation has been made, parliamentary committees have sat ou the accounts, but nothinc has ever been discovered in the least irregular, bir Adam Beck lives in "the lierce light that beats about a throne" and the only criticism that can bf made is that he is sometimes arbitrary. Without doubt at times he needs ut uiaue B , .^ _^..,.. _:..,... lijjj lie been wrong the gov- rds be made is tnai ue is somuumcD ai kihu..?. •- -- to be But he has always been arbitrarily right. Had he been wrong the gov ernment would have had been out of office in a jiffy. His construction records are all within the estimates. His plans aro endorsed by the most skilled en- Binecrs that can be found. No chances are taken on any detail ot any phase of the power or radical proposals. And now all this has to be reinvestigated. One feature of the Hydro Klectric organization not generally known is that the staff of engineers of the Commission are all men of the School ot 1 ractical Science of the Provineinl University and have a patriotic pride and pleasure in placing their native province in the forefront of electrical science Ihe lack of confidence shown by the present government in their work is a reflection upon Ontario brains and ability that will not easily be forgotten. Ihe gov- ernment should be the last to dishonor the prophets of Ontario. The Advance in Railway Wages ilue. The railway workers and laborers; must supply. If cap... -- - ^-- - - millions of dollars of watered stock there would be a tremendous howl, because 1 the country could not stand it. Can the country stand it any everybody knows tue country coum uui muim ii.. - ai. ...w ., better when the demand comes in the form of higher wage earners must contribute to the levy. Capital also must c ? All other wage- ontribute. Another will lOIiOW, UnU ICU3UU »*ni ii.nooi.il. .^Dv... â€" -. - the iuevitable result and the difficulties that lie ahead The American Rebellion in Ireland Suddenly Little Dolomite came againâ€" and spoke: Out on my little journey to the mountains of the Moon, I gazed thru the cold, clear, transparent space at the shining Earth-woi Id. It was like a great .shining globe of quicksilver, reflecting bril- liantly the light of the golden Sun. I could see plainly the blue- green continents of North and South America and the Greal Isle of Cuba, 180,000 miles away; for I had departed from the earth less than one second of time ! Here I am free! The absolute cold of the ether which fills boundless space, cannot cool the living flame that is the body of Dolomite. Yet here it is 460 degrees be- low zero. Here the warm body of the Earth-man would freeze in.stantly to a solid statue of ice. And unlike Little Dolomite, who speeds onward wherever be wills to go, that ice-body where once had lived a man, would go whirl- ing, like a stone, round and round in an orbit of its own in the eternal cold, in pathless space. Here I see vast distances clear- ly among the stars, further than the Earth-man can see. All around the surface of your world is a dim haze that is like a veil, a halo; and it is thru this mist that men must see the stars. This is the atmosphere you breatlie â€" an ocean of air, wherein you walk or fly as beings in the ocean crawl or swim. But in the outer space there is no mi.st. All is the boundless, transparent material which is called bv the Earth-man "ether." I can see Neptune the most dis- tant of all the worlds which whirl around the Sun, as docs the shining Earth. Yet traveling at the rate I speed, I can reach ""â- " 'Z '^^^£'z:f:;:%ir-^'S:si::;iss^.r^- ^-^ â€" â€" » it in four hours and two min- utes of time! But if the Earth- man could live and fly in the out- er spaces, at 100 miles an hour, he would have to live 3,000 years to complete his journey. Had a man lived since 1,000 "years be- fore the birth of Jesus, and gone at this rate of speed .steadilv to- ward Neptune he would' not reach that planet until the year Two Thousand. But onâ€" to the Mountains of the Moon ! Here I see Luna, the Moon-worldâ€" not brilliant like the Earth, with silvery sea.sâ€" but dull, with yellow deserts, mel- lowed by the shadows of .rreat volcanic pits and cones ; its sur- face scarred with colossal cracks and jagged by tall mountain crags ; a torn moon surface where once in the long-ago, millions of years ago, there was a .storm of priant rocks and boulders and flying mountains, hurled from the outer spaces, which tilled vast circular pits and deep gorges the whole surface of the Moon. I am now on the Luna-world I am on the great Plains of Ini- briumâ€" a vast, bleached, level wilderness, streaked with white volcanic dustâ€" the burnt-out cin- ders of a world where once may have been laughing lifeâ€" a cohl still immensity of desolation where once rippled the waters of a sdver sea. Two hundred miles away rises the ragged crator-lip ot the volcano Plato. Here it is vastly cold, and still, for here is little atmo.sphe reâ€" onlv the sil- ent "ether" of .space. As the sun sets here, the lon<' â- shadows of the Mountain Plato are black against the pale floor of the Sea of Imbrium. I speed into these shadowsâ€" on up the deep canyons and steep ora<'s of the Moon-Mountain, as the sun sinks over Lima's edge, leavin.' me in darkness, looking into the black mouth of a volcanoâ€" a vast pit, 60 miles in diameterâ€" and deep down into the heart of the Moon! As I looked into this deep abyss of Plato's mouth, the sil- very Earth, with its gleaming oceans reflecting the light of the Sun, rose high over Plato's rim â€" and lo ! the Luna ground trem- bled and the granite mountain peak on which I stood, moved from beneath my feet ! And sank down, down into the darkness be- low, with never a sound ! This mountain peak, which had stood for a million centuries, thus sank forever from the light of the stars. While the Moon quaked and trembled from pole to pole, I stood suspended above, where once had been this giant wall of stone, but where now the light of the dazzling Earth shone thru a vast new gorge across the de- solate Plains of Imbrium. And as I hung suspended there, a thin gaseous vapor rose from the ab- yee beneath; and this, forming an atmosphere of its own, brought to my senses a faint whispering sound! Perhaps it was the last sound that will ever break the stillness of the Moon. And as I still peered into that vast pit, there came up from the deeps of the Moon a dull red glow% of the fires that are dying in the heart of the Luna globe. Then again out into space I sped with the swiftness of light, on my way to the Red Planet Mars. The Earth-man has called '.his planet "Mars," in honor of his savage god of war. But to me its red-gleaming is the light of an Eternal Love. For the beings of Mars know only the dim memorv of war. They know no hate, nor anger nor strife. They know only love â€" .for each other and for all, and for every Thing. As it will yet be on Earth ! Oh, if the Earth-man could only know that we of Mars are among themâ€" often ! But only I am visible to the eyes of the Earth-beings. If they could only know that the Martian men ("Tzarth") love the Earth-men as their own brother-beings. Ah, there are secrets which Little Dolomite may not tell ! But when wisdom is in the Earth-man's heart, then will his mind know all. But on the Planet Earth and on the Planet Mars, we are broth- ers in one common stateâ€" in this, that in neither of our little worlds are the wonders that be in other wondrous realms. In the far spaces, hurtling thru the boundless ether, there are "dark" w-orlds which know not the light and warmth of suns.. And yet within them is a mvriad, wondrous life ! Vast hollow'shells they are, rolling in darkness, on- ward to a certain endâ€" and with- in them is loving Life, without need of the light and heat of suns! As I sped swiftly onward, I came upon an asteroidâ€" a vast, ragged flying mountain of stone'. It was moving slowlv toward Mars at a speed of 10*000 miles a second. In the distant sun- light (for the Sun shines eter- nally in outer spacel this flvmg mountain flashed and gleanied like a thou.sand precious gems carved for the god of all the stars. Alighting upon this wondrous rock, I found a Treasureâ€" a treasure that is more dear to the heart of some men of the Earth than is evenâ€" Love! Of this Treasure I will tell when I re- turn to the Earth-man's world. And Dolomite was gone. (Little Dolomite will re- turn to the Earth one month from to-day, and his mes- sage of the Treasure of the Asteroid will be told in these columns. â€" The Edi- tor.) «»,u.u .......... That the IJniteil Slates is allowed "to get away with" such behavior indicates a degree of obsetjuiousness on the part of Britain that she would not display towards any other power. The jiresidential election campaign .... . _ _ ;i.i.. .-. - \. -.* .1... l;.... :...! i,... .i :.. .. ._ 1 .,-<>• ft ^. ADVICE TO GIRLS By Rosalind R*gUI»r*<l According to Iho Corny- right Act Handicaps in the Yacht Race Whatever may be thought of the great yacht race for the America Cup it will always be felt, as one critic has put it, that the challenger was not trying to b«-at another yacht, but the rules of the .New York Yacht Club. To the ordinary man the «izc of the bonis should be the only matter in which c()ually should be required. The handicap of crossing the ocean is r|uito sufficient for nil other oonsiderntiotiH. The handicap for sail area to the layman seems to be the most unreasonable of all. The more sail a boat ran carry, compatible with Heaworthineso, the more credit she should receive. If the object of the races be not to encourage the designing and construction of models of speed and sca- )rtbineBa then there appears to be little excuse for such au outlay of money. wortuineBi men mere appears to lie miie excuse lor aurn au outlay or money. Ai speed primarily depends upon sail area, it appears to bo absurd to penalize the development of the quality most reipiirod. The introduction of a new cle- ment in yarht eoniitrurtiun was the feature of the first race in 1H51, when the "Amerifa" crossed the ocean and, having been excluded by the conditions from the race in which she was expected to compete, was given a special race for a new challenge cup practically without conditions. There was no time allowance of any kind. An open race of this kind having been the first of the series it ia obvious that subsequent competitions have been of a very different order, and the handicap provided almost imposaihle conditions. To win under such conditions, of course, makes a victory nil the more notable. The weathAr con- ditions around Haidy Hook also supply n definite handicap, so that the element of chance in getting a favorable breath of nir, or any breath at all, at a season wh«a dead calms and capricious zephyrs alternate, enters into the decision to a greater extent than is compatible with true sport, which is first of all a test of .1.111 Roseliud welcomes letters from readers of this paper asking for advice on any subject. Do not write too long a letter, and write on one side of the paper only. Send your inquiries to Rosalind, 515 Manning Chambers, Toronto, and they will be answered in these columns. skill Pear Rosalind: â€" You aro so good about answering other girls' questions that I feel free to bother you. I used to think lots of the questions were silly and child- ish, but now I know that they are all vitally important to th(^ writers. Ho I am hoping you can find time and MiiMii' to give me some much-n-.'eded advice. My boy friend is twenty-one; not handsome, but good nnd kind-look- ing, clean living and a n^al man. He s one of our returned heroes. I am twenty; better not descride myself or people will think I hate mypelf-1'll just say I'm very much 111 iovp with the aforementioned youn^ man. This is what bothers me: He is inclined to bo selfish, though when he went to France, he told me ho loved me nnd asked me if I loved him enough to wait for his return. I re.ic.ily g..ve my jircmise, and frankly, 1 think ' k-rit it quite well, as I stayed in the l(irt>e yeart he was away anl "Kept the Home Fire Burning." Hj has been nek now for some time an«l during "lat lime, Im;, shown in cverv way that he loves mo dearly. Believe me, no matter what he doe«, he is sincere in that resiH-ct. Wouldn't tell a lie to me tor anything. No, he isn't a "Qoody- irondy â-  • but |,„r..l_v maiily. But these ittlo selfish things hurt me drendfullv I'or instance, one Sunday he was t'lken 111 at my home, and had to go home right after tea. Then on Tuesday he wasii t fe,.|ii,j; well, „n,| had to g„ homo <iuite early. Wednesday, wo •vent to a dance, and I suggest"ed coming home early in view of the fact that lie wasn't well, and was glad I could do It for him. Thursday we staved in. So you see I didn't have a ,',„r. ticulnrly enjoyable week, did I J How- ever, l^iaturday night, he was feeling his old self again, and went dancing with a bunch of boy friends and a Whale of a time." Hon 't vou think in view of the many nights that week }, .8""® without any pleasure my aelf, that he could have shown his appreciation by calling me up and asking me if 1 wouldn't enjov a nice cance as he was feeling so welH 1 may be awfully funny, but that struck me as being particularly selfi.sh of him What is youd opiniont When a man asks you to wait for him to come back from Over There and tells you how much he loves vou' would you consider yourself as liiore than a "Friendt" This voung man has been my "Steady Friend" for four years now, and seems quite ser- ious, but never mentions anything about our future. What would you do in my casef Remember, I love him and I am sure he loves me too. ' Trusting I haven't taken up too much of your valuable time and space and with iinccreat wi>hcti tor the sue' cess of your Page, and thanking vou in advance for your kind attention to my letter, I am, believe me, A sincere well wisher of your Page r, nu . "CHERIE.'' Dear Cherie: â€" Thanks for your kind wishes. I don 't know that I should label vour bov friend selfish, exactly, on the seorV of that occurrence. Do vou know I have noticed a tendency on the part of some of the returned bovs to want just to "flock together" "once in a while. Would you think vou were selfish if you joined some other girls >n, say, a theatre party some cveuintr when you had no special engagement with your boy friend, and had already been with him more or less four e\en- ings of the week. Perhaps you think .vou wouldn t care to do it, and feel ^urt that he shouUl en jay himself w thou you. Don't try to draw the tie that binds" too tight. If the boy 18 fine, as you say, in other re- spects he will realiw his want of con- sideration in time; but when you are inclined to accuse him of selfishness, ask yourself candidly if vou are not being a httle exacting. Undoubtedlv you have reason to believe he holds you as more than a friend, but you are both very young, and the boy limv '^^I'l .. "v J'."* •'â- ' '•'"•umstanees on "a settled basis again after his long ab- sence and get his health back soundly before discussing your future. I can't see, •'Cherie," that you have much to wory about. Everything will come an right if you aro sensible and not impatient. ROSALIND. Dear Rosalind: â€" I read your "Advice to Girls" week- ly and find it interesting. I am 19 years old, but to date I need ^o one s advice. For I have the most blessed thing m this world, "A Moth- er, une who agrees on most things Ido, for we live for each other. Xovv I read a letter from one who ealls herself "Cheated" and I think 't a good name in a ca.se like hers. Uiit, dear Rosalind, won't you give tier my address and name, and tell her to come to see me. I have no boy friends. But lots of girl friends, which i prefer. But one more is never too many. .My •'Mother" would aLso help Her and see that she is not lonesome any more. This is a minister's house, and she could meet lots of people if she is nervous at first. Why we wpuld just Keep her to ourselves. We could sew or knit, or go some place together for I am sure we would become congenial friends. Do please arrange this for me. _ „ BETTY. Dear Betty:â€" Your letter is as sweet and kind and enthusiastic as any friend could want. But how can Cheated come to see vou when you dou 't live in the same town Betty, dear, these letters come from all parts of Ontario and farther, so you see you cannot have Cheate<l for anv thing but a paper friend. I shall for- ward her your stamped, addressed en- velope, and I know she will write to you at once. Write to us again and tell us how the correspondence oro- gresses. '^ ROSALIND. Separate highways for the use of motor trucks is forecast, due to the rapid growth of motor freight transpor- tation everywhere in the United States