"3 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1920, X : jE ---- Just a minute, pleasc! | HERE'S a timely suggestions. | for your vacation kit. Put in. an Ingersoll Maple Leaf with a Radiolite dial--the face that lights up in the dark, | ~ Thel cost will be $4.00, and | for that you'll have a hardy, | handy, husky watch, built to | keep going wherever you're go-. | i to stand any rough stuff ful record of the time of '! day and time o' night. | Thus you can give your ex- | pensive watch a vacation in a will tell just as good time and | bear hardships much more cheerfully. : | Then if you lose the Maple | Leaf Radiolite-- you should worry, when you realize you've only lost $4.00. Suppose it had been your high priced watch! And there isn't any town too | L..amall to supply you with a new | "Maple Leaf. Maple Loaf Radiclite, $4.00 | | | \ STOMACH TROUBLES ARE DUE TO ACIDITY ~ Wells Safe, Certain, Speedy Relief for Acid Indigestion. So-called stomach troubles, such as fndigestion, gas, sourness, stomach- ache and inability to retain food are if In probably nine cases out of ten, simply evidence that excessive secre- tion of acid is taking place in the Stomach, causing the formation of L gas and acld indigestion. Gas distends the stomach and uses that full, oppressive, burning feeling sometimes known &s heart- burn, while the acid irritates' and inflames the delicate lining of the Stomach. The trouble lies antirely in the excess development .or secretion of acid. To stop or prevent this souring of the food contents of the stomach and to neutralize the acid, make it bland and barmless, aspoonful of bisurated magnesia, a good and ef- fectivé corrector of acid stomach, should be taken in a quarter of a glass of hot or cold water after eat- Ing or whenever gas, sourness® or acidity is felt. This sweetens the, stomach and neutralizes the acidity in a few moments and is a perfectly harmless and inexpensive remedy to use. An antiacid, such as bisulated mag- nesia which can be obtained from any druggist in either powder or tablet form enables the stomach to do its work properly without the aid of ar- tificial digestents. Magnesia comes In several forms, so le certain to ask 'or and tdke only Bisurated Magnesia 'a especially prepared for the toe 'purpose. ie ~ many during the hon stand, to give you .lended they 1 'the Bolshevists, ay 1 | Congress had 'ad (there 'existed in {committee of friends or. Irish free- nice comfortdble strong boX, dom and the Egyptian knowing that the Maple Leaf !party had a bureau at Bdovain work- | America, firoub)s is due to Bolshevism, but TE RSH SI FENG Some Interesting Comnients About Doings in the Emerald isle. (By An Irishman.) The Duke of Northun 1 introducing a deputy i prime minister lately gave 'otitline of the course of § dealings with . the i showed that the *$ were in open alli a succint h Ger-{ Since the war r stations to | e Irish Trades pted a Bolshevist programnie. Sir Edward showed that | Zurich a had { German Nationalist Ing in' conjunction with Sinn Fein in «rd there !3 an oreaniza- #ion in Amerfea to encourage unres. in 'India. These organiaztions work in concert with Ireland, hein the fruitful field of their activities. The Sinn Fein movement was subs d by foreign gold fron." Ame 2 amongst the other countries where wealthy haters of Gre Britain re- side. Sinn Fein is therefore able to maintain a larger staff of agents in Ireland than even the British govern- ment. The prime minister disagreed with the convention that the Irish rather tp some mania which takes possession of the Irish people peri- odfcally. ° What the deputation urged, however, was that the Nis! situation had ceased to be polit the home rule side being revolution ary. . The only real Irish grievance i was funther urged, was Sinn Fein c3sh was forthcoming . This is prov=-) ed by the railway strike against carrying troops and munitions. The deputation has strengthened the hands of the government as appar- ently there exist divided councils and certainly the military authorities are not included in this category Sinn Fein forces are, it is reported, organizing in Scotland openly and at a rapid rate. The headquarters : at Glasgow and drilling is the order | of the day .There are thirty-five clubs with an average mem bership of 250 persons. At preseni the efforts of the Scottish organization ara di- rected towards raising money for the munitions of war fund. The aim of the organization is to create as much difficulty as possible for Britain re- cognizing that Britain's difficulty Ireland's opportunity. The move- ment is to act in conjunction with th Irish branch. The organ of Sinn Fein publishes "a list of 132 magistrates who have re- signed the commission of the peace {as a protest against militarism in {Ireland. It omitted to state, however, that the resignations are forced by | that organization, and that M1 the! justices do not respond to the in-| structions of Sinn Fein us the fol- lowing letter from a magistrate will | show: "I must claim the privilege to act on my own judement. I was not appointed a ragistrate on political grounds or upon the recommenda- tion of any political party." Tt is not unlikely that any inco..venicnce will be occasioned by the r signations as there are Tar too many justices of the peace in Ireland due to the fact dhat successive chief secretaries considered it a suitable and conveni- ent way of showering honors upon the more respectable and intelli- gent members of the farming and small shopkeeper class, many of whom indeed have rather retarded than otherwise that common Justicey for the administering of which they were appointed. The restoration of order in Ire land Bill has /passed = through the commons and will therefore be put into operation as .soon as it leaves | particular genius to secure suspen- | wanted. | of the which would flourish as long as har our of inquiry. Where a courthouse _ nm THE DAILY BRITISH e hundred prisoners awaiting trial the jury system having broken dowh. In its committee stages Mr. Devlin, M.P. was able to secure the advertise ment of suspension by disorderly mock heroics. Tt was, it is stated, a prearranged affair-and carried out n the most modern stage managed tashion. It 'does not requird any +iop from the house of commons and 1 the mse it appears to have been exactly what the honorable member He was followed by most British Labor members as sympathizing with their friend and collague on account of the admiring patriots théy have among their con- stituents in Great Britain. The new act provides that "any crime when so tried shall be punish- able with punishment assigned to the crimes by the statute or common law." That a court martial when trying a person charged with a .¢rime punishable by death shall include as a member of the court nominated by the Lord Lieutenant a person certified by the Lord Chancellor of Ireland as having legal knowledge and experience. ! That the court of summary juris- diction when trying a person charged with a crime or offence against the | regulations be eonstituted by two or more resident magistrates." The act' confers on the court mar- tial powers and jurisdiction of a justices of any other civil court tor binding persons to keep the peace, &c., for compelling persons to give evidence and to produce documeits before the court." It further authorizes "the deten- tion in prison in any part of the United Kingdom of any person upon whom Aentence is passed and pro-! vides Aor the duty of coroner and | Tur¥ being performed by an army has been destroyed the court may be held in such other building as direet- ed by the Lord Lieutenant. _It also provides "for the retention of sums payable to any local authority from the local taxation account or from any parliamentary grant or from any fund administered by a government department or public authority where the local authority has failed to per- form its duties) &ec." Sir Hamar Grgenwood goes out of his way to pubiftly state that the restoration of order bill only applies where there is disgrder. He adds that he is glad to see that the lead- ing business men of both creeds and parties in Ireland are trying to or- ganize the moderate opinion in the country. Unless moderate people united the economic ruin if Ireland was threatened. The stoppage of tilways owing to the refusal of ratl- waymen to carry troops and police would mean there would be no mails no payments of old age or other pen- 'sions and trade would be strangled. Remember Sir Hamar concluded that the British empire is not at war with Ireland but certain extremists in that country have declared themselves at war with the British empire. Is there 2 living man who does not know all this already! Sir Hamar's eyes are be ing opened. ---- To insure the isolation of Burton pert in 'Wes? Donegal and so prevent the movement of troops the Burton port section of the Londonderry and "Lough Swilly Railway track was torn upy The line is one of the light rail- ways erected by the government en- tirely without cost when Mr. Balfour was chief secretary. Its opening was hailed with 'delight and its- advent was the beginning of an era of pros- perity for the district. Archbishop Mannix has no room to complain of 'thé notoriety he has at- tained by his visit to this country, He has abused the British empire for vears from his distant retreat and he cannot reasonably complain of the steps that have been taken to prevent his visit to Ireland and so giving rise to further disorder. There is surely sufficient trouble in Ireland without the presence of this noted firebrand, the House. There are close upon He has conducted an anti-British pro- paganda which has disgusted manyof the members of his own church in Australia. The wisest course for the British government would have been to have forbidden him to land in the British Isles in which cdse all bother about destroyers and secret 'instruc- tions and the rest of it would have been avoided. The pity is that he has been given a very considerables free advertise- ment. If report be true, Australia does not want the reverend prelate to return to that country and the Com- monwealth may be induced to take action in the direction indfeated. 'Workmen expelled from several of the industrial establishments in Ul- ster towns on account of the murders and outrages, committed through the | agency of Sinn Fein in the south and west have not been reinstated. Their return to work will not take place until the cessation of crime and out- rage. An attempt was made by the chairman of a limited Hability com- pany, having a branch in America, to have some of the old employes of the firm reinstated under a threat to bave the works closed down but the Protestant workmen held a meeting |~ immediately and declined point blank to work with any of the expelled men Protestant workmen generally feel greatly incensed at the campaign of murder and outrage and so long as that campaign 'exists there is little hope that any change will take place in the temperment of the men. For many years past the loyal workmen have through sympathy permitted those whoseloyaltyhasbeendatedand found wanting to represent them on the local Trades Council and at trade union conferences but all this is to be changed as soon as it is practic- able. The politics-religious game has been played too long in trade union affairs and the Ulster workman is bent on clearing out local executives and supplant them by men who, hold Ylews more in sympathy with the ma- Jority of the membership. $ . -- Strong anti-Belfast sentiments Were expressed are being expressed at meetings of local bodies in the South of Irelgnd; and: resolutions have been passed asking the people to boycott Belfast goods until the expelled workers are* 're-employed. Dail Efranus "Minister for Local Government" alderman Cosgrove, (M.Bx for Kilkenny), at a meeting of the General Council of County Coun- cils, held in Dublin, proposed a series of resolutions calling upon all local bodies to cease trading with Belfast; to withdraw their depesits from the three elfastB banks and in a short time Belfast would be broyght to its senses., Ulster is thereforé ahout to |. experience a foretaste of Hgfhe Rule under the six counties areafystem as Sinn 'Fein threatened to boycott Ul- ster so soon as an Ulster parliament was established. The distributing trades, some of whose representatives have already had hostile receptions in Sinn Fein arenas; are regarding the situation with patient equanimity, It is well known that the Belfast whole- salers extend to Irish traders longer credits than they can obtain else- where and English houses will not supply these merchants requirements except for cash down Owing to the state of Ireland, ome large Belfast drapery house, whose representati- ve had lately an unfavorable recep- tion in a Donegal town, was able to remind a 'fireeating republican that his firm had pajd your £30,000 to embroidery workers in Donegal. Should the boycott be continued this money as' well as other large sums Would. be divided elsewhere. . As far the shipbuilding these firms are likely to struggle on without fur- ther orders from the South and West of Ireland. So far as the linen trade 18 concerned most of its products are exported. "I had to do it; I wad called away and told I would be shot in my bed if I didn't go. I would not lke it to be published because I might be 'shot in the streets'. This is the declarations of a young man who was tried by AN | The general court-martial on a charge of participating in an attack with fice- arms on a Royal Irish Constabulary patrol near Belturbet Colavan. This young man belonged to the organiza- tio which is now prating about Bel- fast intolerance! ---------- Canada In the League. Sir Herbert Ames is the financial director to the secretary of the League of Nations. He went over to London in September, 1919, before the signing of the Peace Treaty to take this position on trial. He re- turned to Canada after nine months' work In the League of Nations, thor- oughly convinced that the League has come to stay--that it has a great fu- ture before it, and that he will be fully- occupied in the position which he has accepted. Sir Herbert spoke in the House of Commons on Juns 32, probably for the last time; as he returned to England on July 6, and does not t to come back here save for short visits during the com- ing five In his capacity as financial director, Sir Herbert pre-. pares the budget for the Council of the League of Nations. He consults with every department and kee touch with all expenditure. - his budget is ratified by the Council, he levies the i a Bd the bers of e League. ations have "ratified and more than half of these have already paid their dues. W ------------ Our Divorce Evil. One hundred divorce bills were formally put through by the Private Bills Committee at the recent session of Parliament. Before the close, Dr. Michael Steele, chairman, remarked that next year the committee would be more strict in regard to the $200 fine which is imposed when petitions dfty-one, thus showing an of practically one hundred total number of is year was 123; and the tS ated. chime 8 Fy 3 Don't judge a man by his relations of instead company. Relations are thrust upon him, but companions are usually of his own choosing. If people wouldn't bite until they find out whether it is bread or stone thors would be lewar denial pation. SINPLE STATEMENT OF FACTS EGARDING PRESENT CLOTHING PRICES ~~ 216 Princess: Street, next There Is No Mystery About The Profits Of The Retail Clothing Stores. | By Merton C. Robinson. OU have been buying clothing during the summer at what has been the wholesale price or less. You have bought a'* single suit of clothes for less than the retail merchant who time. This has been due to one of two reasons, either the retailer has sold you clothes - at ° actual cost to him, or the manufacturer has sold them at a loss. + Clothing has been of- fered by other clothiers, as. well as myself jn some cases at less than the cost of making, without any profit to the maker, It is reported in the "trade that one manu- facturer has taken a loss of a quarter of a million dollars in order to be able to finance his busi- ness during this past season. \ There is no mystery about the profits of the retail clothing stores, or the cost of selling. The average legitimate ground floor clothier ; sells his clothes on a basis of about 33 to 35 per cent. gross profit on selling price (notwithstanding that some slanderers would have you be- lieve otherwise). Statistical figures have béen compiled which prove that the overhead, or cost of sell- ing in ground floor clothing stores is 27 or 28 and in some cases as high.as 30 per cent. It costs 5 to 6 per cong, for salesmen, 6,.to 8 per cent. for rent, 3 to 4 per cent. for advertising, 2 per cent. for deliv- ery, and about 10 per cent. for office force, buying cosh, freight, window trims, fixture depreciation, and last but not least, bogk losses. In the operation of a chain of stores such as mine, the book losses, fancy, fixture losses, deliv- y cost and the greater pa¥t of the SL cost is eliminated. On account of the enormous &fount of sales, my salesmen are making good salaries at 3 per cent, My rent is only about 1% per cent., so that you may readily see that my cost of qperation is only. about half of that of the average ground floor clothier. Therefore, 1 do not need to add on nearly the amount of mark-up that most clothiers need in"order to net a profit. There are also many advantages [in the buying end of my business that cannot possibly obtain with a clothier doing a 'small business. For instance, I operate my own factories, thereby eliminating the manufacturers' profits, and 1 buy in such enormous quantities that I get the advantage of the jobbers' rates. You will readily see by the above figures that when a suit of clothes is marked $65 in the average shop, that it cost the retailer from $40 to $42, If he 'makes a reduction of 33 per cent. he only gets just what he paid for it, and is losing his over- head, and there is no escape. That is 'exactly what I have beéit doing last summer, and you can bank on it that it is what many other first. class firms have. been doing. I realized in April that the public thought clothing was too high, and on May Ist I fired the first gun in my stores, from Halifax to Van- couver, to bring prices down. 1 have fiirned over ons mittion dollars: worth of clothing into money since that date, and have taken a bigloss, but [ want to say frankly that I have also bought a great deal of goods since that date, and forced the manufacturer to take the loss. This was not & pleasure, but g ROBINSON'S CLOTH has bought a bill of one hundred thousand dollars worth at one MERTON ©. ROBINSON, President, Robinson's Clothes Tami $ of necessity forced through. existing business conditions, and not ut all an unusual thing to do in stren- uoys times, Baa dy a 23 Prices have been terribly high. It would take a pipe to Five the "mmummmmmnn reasons, and then I would not get anywhere. t vy Basic conditions have not changed, and the consenstis of opinion in the clothing trade is that they will not. ' m--r-------- There has been some recession in-the price of raw wool, but not muh in the bettersgradesi"t +14 When you consider that there is only about $4.00 worth of raw wool in a good suit of clothes, you must realize that this will have little efe fect on the price. oe .Labor is the one big item of cost . in a suit of clothes, and when you figure that the suit goes through fourteen different processes from the time it leaves the sheeg's bagk," you can expect very little change in 'price for the better, as fong as labor stays at its present price level, and I think we all want it to stay there] = Sr -- Notwithstanding the above facts, I promised the people of Canada on May Ist that I would bring down the price of clothes, and through several fortunate. circumstances, or luck, if you like, I have placed myself in a position to offer you in my shops, clothing at about 2¢ to 30 per cent. lower price then I needed to get for the same grade of goods last Spring, : Xt renonlly guarantee to you this difference of price in the ROBINSON _ Clothes. 12.1 ever make a Statement through the public press that cannot absolutely be backed up and proved by the > real facts, I invite the strictest = criticism. If my statements are justified by the public, I should merit the big- gest Fall business in the hstory of this great business, which I am so proud of because it has been built on Truth and esty, I shall have more fo say about the general clothing situation in a later issue, "My prices this Fall will be $20 to $50. My prices last Spring were - $28 to $60. Every Robinson label in a suit carries my personal guar antee of satisfaction or your money: back. i i } ¥ ES Grand Opera House A LATED |HA ol 2