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We also carry a full stock of paints, varn- ishes and interior finishes. Lemmon & Sons 187 Princess Street. 2 Phone 840 ;Those Nail Marks on the Floor Yes, and d scars on the furniture--are wounds' e pride of every housewife. It's impossible to prevent them until you let Cat's Paw Rubber Heels and Rinex Soles Remove the Cause Every 8 gail is out of sight so they cannot You cannot ima, e the Jelief Cat's Paw and Rine Ratt you have worn them, ms ga will realize that they cut shoe in half--that you walk with and comfort---that your steps have 3 spring yoti never knew ~ You on double the life of all the old shoes in the house by having your cobbler heeland sole m with Cat's Paw and ex. '| actually 'declined. The THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4, 1919. 2 CANADA REVISITED Aften Ten Years' Absence F. A. ra ne War Correspondent, "Tours Canada and Tells What He Sees and Hears : 2 ' ARTICLE No.3. By P. A. McKENZIE. Specially Written for the Whig. / The west presents the greatest opportunity for youth that is to be found ih the world , to-day. One's years seem to vanish In the stréets of Calgary or Medicine Hat. Tha air of the prairies is the air of life. 1 would rather be a street. sweeper with the years ahead of me in Sas- katoon than a millionaire in Cal- cutta. The farm laborer of Suffolk becomes the yeoman of Red Deer. The errand boy of Brighton moves forward to the semi-millionaire class in Regina. The young school teacher of Ontario obtains the start in Victoria that is* eventually to land him into the British perrage The phantoms of want and hunger have heen exercised here. Tae workhouse, the terror of the Bri- tishi honest poor, has gone. The life is hard. it 'you earn good money, you have to work for ft. But then in the west you like to work. The atmosphere and the surroundings stimulate you. Every- thihg urges on, fosters and aids the ambitions of youth. . The success of other men tells how you can suc- ceed. Old limitations drop off. The middle class Englishwoman discov- ers that she can take her meals in the kitchen and yet be happy. The man brought up in the dignified atmosphere of an English cathedral town finds that he can do his own chores, build up the furnace, carry his own parcels and wear old cloth- es, and yet be a gentleman. The real drawback in the west 's that for most people life is so full of work that many of the amenities have to go. There is no time for serious reading, little. opportunity to keep up one's knowledge of art or music. The gramophone and the planola have to take the place of the piano, and instead of great actors in person one has to be con- tent with seeing their presentments on tha silver curtain in the picture theatre, People. in the west talk of the wonderful growth of their cities. To me the amazing thing was that the cities had not grown more Guiekly.' Many of tiem have dur- ing the pust seven years either not increased in population, or Have reason is not the iwar. The west handed it- self over for a tims to the devil, In the shape of the real estate boom- ster, ahd it is now paying the price. "Phe west has built up its rural life on solid accomplishments; it at- tempted to. build up many of iis cities on bluff and on gambling. The- prosperity of the rural life grows. Many of the cities over- joaded with debt, are mow trying io recover lost ground. The "boomster" often came from south of the line, where he had abundant, practice in fake booms. He was allowed a free hand. He acquired control of the city coun- ells, he had an omnipotent pull with the legislatures. He brought the greatest show of prosperity in 'the shortest time ever known. He has left crushing debts that have to be 'borne by the workers for many years. to comb. "You are talking ancient his- tory," one western editor sald tm- patiently to me. "You 'have your eyes on yesterday. We have for gotten yesterday; our vision is on to-morrow." "But yesterday has not forgotten you," 1 re . "It hys left your city a little fdebt of three million i. and' you have to pay it." Most people see boom cities during their booms. It was my fortune to visit two dozen of them in their hours of recovery from the slump For they are recovering--slowly and sadly. - The next boom is due in about five years from now: The great boom of 1911-12 only followed the course of other booms, that ft was on a er big. ger scale, 'there being centres to Operate: from. It could draw in more money, because there were city councils and boards with power to borrow, Sng Bocause 50 fhe Sast atu Europe 'were rea supply real money. Therg Was a basis for ex- pansion. Dimenal groves uring "the he bopuinton, of Does the trick The weet had shown phe. , T swindling. "Plots of prairie . lang within tho city limits would be sold by skilful advertising to investors in the east and in England as "town lots," at prices that would have been dear had théy been in the heart of a city. "Buy town lots" became the slogan. "A plot of land sold for fifty dollars in S---- in 1904. It realized' $50,000 cash in open sale last month. Our plots were $200 in June. To-day they cost $200. Next month $400. Buy town lots and watch your money grow." And the widow in Toronto, the ambitious lad in Hamilton, the workingman in Halifax sent their money for their lots. They waited. Mostly «all they received. in return was an assessment for takation. Values did go up. Two thousand dollars a foot was quité a common figure in main streets. "Tt is a re- markable fact that the dearest plots were nearly always bought by the banks or the railroads. They were the runners-up of prices. The banks would lend money freely. In some places the common joke was that you had to go to business by a back way to avoid the bank man- ager who wished to make you an advance. Never, outside the west- ern mining camp, wias money so abundant as in these boom towna. Most of it was the money sent in from outside. Little of it was earned there. Men became millionaires on pa- per in a few weeks. All you had to do was to buy and sell, buy and sell. Prices were going up all the time. Of course you rarely actu- ally took delivery. You bought an option, and often enough a friend would ring you up at your club two hours later and buy your option from you, giving wou a profit of some thousands of dollars. You would buy back from him a week hence, at a _still higher figure. Then some outside Investor would take it off you to hold. Your gains would be thrown out on other ven- tures. Even the most conservative men were dragged in. "I only made one venture," sald a very sane business man to me. "Everyone seerhed to be making money out of land, so I bought a farm of three hundred acres at sixty dollars an acre. Very shortly afterwards 1 sold it to a syndicate of eastern capitalists for one hundred and eighty doNars an acre, They paid me quarter down, and were to pay the balance in three instalments. 'They meant to sell it as town lots. The boom burst before the first instalment became due. They defaulted and tried to get out of the bargain. But I had satisfied myself ' ahout the men who were- in the syndicate; there were some very big men in- deed. ~ 1 went after them hard and got my money. To-day 1 could have the same land for twenty dol- lars an acre if 1 wanted it. i 'wouldn't take it. It isn't worth it." Parallel with the forcing up of local values, & person of liberal public expenditure was maintained. The small store became a monster department house, The simple of- fice building became a marble of- fice palaco. Palatial banks rival- led each other In outward display. This work of building brought fur- ther population, Feverish _ bids were made to outside manufactur- ors to come in. They would be giv- en land, power, light and freedom from taxation for a generation. The city 'would be thrown in a fever of excitement at the pros of secur- ing some convention. One modest {sized place that 1 know secured by sheer bluff the holding of a very large convention there. It had to build special halls and lay out monster grounds; the 'hospitality, on the most lavish scale, taxed the resources of every citizen. When the convention was over, Se Glorious Relief! Corns Callouses, Foot : Lumps Go You'll feel like a kid again, you'll be tickled to death at the painless, quick riddance of all your corns once you paint on Putnam's Extractor, Do it to-day! Dealers everywhere have been selling this safe, depend- able and sure remedy nearly fifty years. Only costs quarter. time. Putnam's Corn first corn remover on the mark to-day the largest sale, and because it's by long 23s the ~ * was the market, has simply Dest, badly burned. PN J) everyone was, broke, and, worst of all, the city could not trace a cent's wdrth of real benefit to it The convention delegates came, preach- ad the glories of. their own centres, apcepted freely the local hospital- ity and departed. But not a single land plot was sold or a fresh indus- try started so far as found. It was not enough for the citi- zens to gpend money. The city must do it. So started the prodigal's course on public 'work. Never have I seen places with. such gorgeous street equipment as many of the small western cities, Elaborate trol- ley lines are laid for miles out into the prairie. The city sewerage sys- tem is adequate for twentyfold the population. The power plant would suffice for a capital city. All this meant money. Money, however, was the least: thing for money could he had for the asking. The East and Europe held out their money bags. In order to form the basis for borrowing; the city val tion had -to be increased. Th could be done by increasing the as- sessments. The modest man: who had bought a town lot for a home, and erected a small house on it, would find himself assessed. at ten or twenty times the amount his land -cost him. Suddenly ~ there came a pause, The limit of borrowing had been reached. The buyer of land found that there was no-one to buy at a higher rate from him. The pro- fessional boomsters, first to detect the signs of collapse, gathered up their tents and stole away. The few who remained. had 'usually taken care to 'salt down' part of their real assets in the boom days in the name of their wives. The munici- pality found that its pet scheme of "harnessing" or the like would take twice as much as had been expect- ed; but English investors were sud- denly shy. The banks would lend no money; they were even starting to foreclose. Forced sales found no bidders, or bidders at a quarter of the price of yesterday. At the City Hall there was a long, melancholy list of defaulting rate- payers. In/due course the city seiz- ed the land for the rates. Then came the advertisement'in the local press. of the land to be sold for rates. "Rlot--Owned by Henry W. Jones. Rates due $7.35." Alas, Henry Jones away in Ontario had bought this lot for $300, every dol- lar saved from his weekly wage. He had dreamed of it at night. it might be one of the lucky plots selling for fifty thousand dollars! Henry had grumblingly paid, the rates year after year. He had fried to sell, but there 'were no buyers. Now Henry was about to let it go, 1t wasn't worth the taxes. All through Canada I have found people clinging to these useless plots, only letting them go when they can no 16hger scrape up ney for the taxes dune. Some of 'the plots sold in the boom had no ex-{, istence outside the imagination of the seMers, or were away In the prairie, beyond 'even the extended limits of the city, We all Know the tale of the farmer who had done well, and thought that he would #ell his farm and come into town, He. went to a real estate dealer. "Sure!" said the dealer. "I have just the place for you." He took ithe farmer off to the "suburbs" in his high powered automobile and showed him a vacant plot. The farmer paused. "I think I'll stay on my, farm after all," sald he, slowly. "You see my farm happens to be five miles nearer to the city than this town plot is." Some of the so-called "town plots" sold during the boom are of no value at all. But to-day there is real money to be made legitimately out of town plots in the West. 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