treal.| ures are readily available. THE AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY. | Some foteresting and flluminating facts were. brought out during the of winter unconsciously reminds us of the sluggishness of the tropics, home of our prehistoric ancestors. "| recent discussion by Parliament of | Or perhaps spring fever 1s an inherit- the proposition to reduce' the duty on automobiles. It was shown, for example, that there are 78 plants en- | ance from the times when the cave | man, after a long and monotonous | winter in his den, strolled out to gaged in the manufacture of auto- | bask lazily in the warm spring san- mobiles and their accessories in Can- | ada. Their products fn 1923 had a Ex- | money value of $97,369,814. ports amounted to $33,828,000, in- eluding trucks; so that domestic con- sumption might be put cown at $63,- 541,814. To that must be added ifn- ports, the figures in connection with which 'were. not given. It was announced that the Cana- dian industry gave employment to 9,308 persons, to whom were paid an average of $1,600, or $14,998,- 000 in all. As to the number of automobiles in use in Canada, there was a difference of judgment. Mr. Coote, who introduced the resolu- tion, put the figures at 642,571. The Minister of Trade and Commerce put 3e13| them at 513,821, There can be no doubt. that the automobile industry, directly and in- directly, has an aunual trade value to the country of several hundred millions. Many factors come into the equation. As to the amount paid by_ the owners of automobiles in the form of taxes, the official fig The total was $9,200,910. That sum went into the coffers of the provinces, the share . of the Ontario government light. Agreeable as the gentle lassitude of spring fever often is, we must not surrender ourselves to it too readily, for there is more work to be dene in spring than perhaps in any other sea- son, the man who abandons himsel? to spring fever will not do his share of it. With this warning emphasized, permit us to observe that the de- lights of spring cannot easily be ex- aggerated. It is then that sap starts rising in. the trees. Grass sprouts green. Plant life buds. Chirping birds pause on their way north. The bear leaves his pit. Timber wolves stop running in packs and mate. That is spring--the sunrise of a new period of life. The backyard gard- ener stirs. Farmer whistles in the flelds. Golf bug smacks his lips. Fisherman goes over his tackle, Small boys swarm with marbles, baseball, kites, Spring is the time to take a new lease on lite, to got a fresh start. Fill 'your lungs with fresh air and 80 to'it. The best thing abdut spring is that it is a prelude to another found of intense human activity. Except, of course, for tne gentleman to something akin to jealousy on the part of the outlying units of the Do- minion; yet it should be frankly re- cognized that, in return for any ad- Vintages they are supposed to en- Joy, they shoulder more than 70 ber cent. of the tax burdems of the country, ' We shall never get together, how- ever, by dwelling on our excises for Pulling apart. We should at once frankly confess that if Outario and Saskatchewan exchanged populations to-day, by tomorrow the situation ad to local feeling would be unaltered. That is to say, geography determines our sentiments: We limft our think. ing by our horizon. Having thus identified the cause of jarring which Is either taking place or threatened, the remedy .is plainly Indicated. It is to be found in the very things to 'which President Coolidge and Prem. fer Baldwin so recently gave em- phasis, namely, a candid and earnest effort to catch the-other fel- low's point of view, and then unite on the big and broad outlook. is the only course. The units within alms altered and elevated the mo- ment they ceasa to be locally central- ised. And from the national it be- I comes easy to give the vision inter- national scope. Happily, there are many signs that such a movement is taking shape. Our own Parliament at. Ottawa is just now serving as a safety valve for the release of pent- Herringbone Blue Worsted One Trouser Suit $22.50 SEE OUR As a cure of national troubles that |i the national group will find their (Il :329.50 A hands. SG, BLUE SUIT | §enuine All-Wool Indigo Blue Serge -- tailored by expert / ' . Young Men's Models The Sinton The V. The Elemont MEN'S CONSERVATIVE BL 4 : : "THE MILTON" ; A truly wonderful value at Sisisratete ares $20.50 We Promise you that there is nothing better for the money ~ i up Teelings. Certainly there is little use in scolding those who accentuate their sectional purposes or assumed grievances. It is sometimes helptul HI} i to be outspoken and frank with them; but it must be done without anger and wholly as a means to a 8ood end. That good end is to get everybody shouting ana working for Canada as a whole. All pettiness would then be dissolved in a deep and genuine Canadianism. having been $3.828.705. The four | Western provinces received about gs much combined as did Ontario. : who has spring fever 365 days of the year, Wr ---------------- TWO APPEALING VOICES, President Coolidge at Washing- ton, and Premier Baldwin at West- minster, sounded a common and timely note last week. Both pleaded for a broader, deeper and more prac- tical spirit of unity, domestically as well as internationally. Men in their positiond feel impelled by a genuine sense of responsibility to rise above all petty issues and focus general at- circulation of THE BRITISH WHIG is authenticated by the Er Audit Bureau of Circulations -- A taste in common doesn't aid p like a prejudice in com- THE TREND IN MONEY. The commercial value of money, »| 8 Interpreted In rates of interest, is declining. Evidences are daily mul. tiplying in support of fhat conclu- sion. During the war the banks did not ipcrease their maximum charge by the fraction of a penny. Money and transportation tolls were the two things that remained stable snr "Try Bibby's For Your New Hat ------ "Being happy is just a matter of ng an ambition small enough ~ be that Lot's wife back to leave a note for the i: Any famous modern 'hasn't been in the headlines for I ------ < these missing men who wan. der from home probably aren rp ------------ Tadio nights are those that ht while your batteries are be~ barged. | pe---- -fashioned boy: "Gee! A whold A -------------- & man has justice on his side he 't brag about having the law it side. Sr ---------- 18 sad to part with our vanities. We got In exchange for them is | sense, I -------------- is nice to read about tenth cen- Bolshevistio complex existed din the early days, but ------------------ is to dig for the Circus bus. The ome we dig for is 2 5 2 95 i down to the middle of 1918, and then the latter had to be advanced under the pressure of economic con- ditions. That fact should not bd forgotten by those who are now at. tacking our banking system and freight rates. The retirement sof bonds issued during the war. period is now pro- ceeding on an extensive scale. The law 'of supply and demand, quite apart from the attitude of the banks, forced up the rates on prime indus- trial securities to six, seven and even eight per cent. Retinaueing may now be done on a five, and in some in- stances a four and a half, per cent, basis. Hven the Dominion govern. ment had to pay five and a half per cent, on some of its war loans, and the province of Ontario went up to six and '= half. Bomething like $300,000,000 of Dominion bonds fall due this year, and It is expected fe- Placement loans may be floated at four and a half, possibly four, per We are quite likely to return dur. ing the current year to pre-war rates for high class Industria and govern- ment securities. The Canadian Northern was in some degree finane- ed on a three and a half per cent. basis, and one of the factors in the strength of the Canadian Pacific is the nature of its chiet labilities, It has but a few millions of ordinary bonds outstanding. Its heaviest ob- ligation is 'on account of four pef cent. debenture Detusl as to principal and. carries With it & lien only as to interest. 'Its common stock Is not, of course, 'a «ability, and on much of it the com- pany obtained a high premium, No other corporation in tne world en- loys a stronger financial status as to indebtedness on capital account. tention gn the thing tnat is to-day most vital for world place and world stock, which is per-, brosperity. Will these sincere and sagacious leaders be heeded? They ought to be. The need for a trude on sec- tionalism, - class consclousness, and the little things that are purely 'par- ochial, and therefore subordinate, ia quite as acute in Canada as it can possibly be at the centre of the Em- pire or in any of its outlying do- minions. The narrow and near view will, however, only be sunk as the broad and more distant vision takes Possession of men's minds and pur. Poses, » American observers often point to the obstacles which they amsume bar our 'progress . toward unity. They say that geography is against us; that the West and Wast are separated by an uninhabited wilderness. They 8l60 lay emphasis on racial cleavage. Above all, they hold up to view our class and sectional separations, It is, of course, very easy indeed for an outsider to misjudge and over- estimate the force of these dividing influences o" gu Canaaran life, both economically and politically. They are neither so real nor so potent as they seem. Let us see. British Columbia is the most iso- lated of all the provinces. She is cut off from the prairies by 8 wide" range of mountains, and has little of commercial Intercourse with them. She thinks in terms of Pacific coast development. Manitoba, 'Baskatche- | wan and Alberta are the centres of the grain growing industry. They think in terms of wheat. Some of the wheat they produce is sold to eastern mills, but the balk of it is exported. The central and eastern provinces lie betwean them and their foreign market. It costs 27 cents to transport a b of whe.t from Regina to. Montre and, while the 'western farmer knows LI well: that he does not directfly pay that carrying charge, he believes that every farthing taken off it would go into his pocket. r he has lashed himself junto a militant mood over transportation, and, because the 'eastern provinces do mot join him phat crusade, he foels thoy are ostile, Sh 29% 'That, in a nutshell, is the so-¢all- ed '"'western proble: .* It is not, Sn of mind. Frbiem Pours (By Jemma W., Berton. M.D, | Tumor. The first definition & medical sty- dent gets of a tumor is, that a "tumor" is a lump. Then he learns that some of these lumps are innocent things, and do no harm, and others are "'gullty" of serious disturbances an death. The Innocent tamors are made up of the same tissue in which they grow, that is a fat tumor, or a bone tumor, and ®o forth. It is usually painless, grows slowly, and doesn't break into the adjoining tissues. Once remov- ed there is no further trouble. The serious or maligant tumor is made up of the tissue from which it origin- ates, and other tissue also. It usual- ly makes its way into nearby tissue. It is painful, grows rapidly, and portions of it are deposited in other parts of the body. If removed early there is usdally no further trouble, but delay in re moving it, gives an opportunity for these deposits to start trouble. : Of course the tumor which is bat- fing the selentific world to-day fis caticer, which is a tumor or lump that grows on "surface tissue. This surface tissue may be the skin, the tongue, the surface lining of the in- testine, or the surface of any gland or little tube anywhere in the body. Now although there is no cure as moval by the knife is saving thous- ands of lives. And the fortunate point about this is, that about four out of every five of these cancers are found where they can be reached by 8) . In.ather words if they are Hocorind in time, four out of every five conld be removed, and the pa- tient's life saved. Now what is my point? ? When we remember that about one death in tem after the age of thirty-five is due to cancer, then there is no sense in shutting qur eyes . to the dangers of neglecting - mps." 5 5 b : Surgeons have heen able asitis {or the most part of that street were but ditches. Mr. Counter gave notice that he would bring in a by-law at the next meeting for the purpose of meeting the construction of a arain in this locality. Mr. Dickson contended that taking such a course would be a bad pre- cedent, for once taken, other locall- ties in like situation would likewise require the same treatment. Prin- as Earl street, and if such a system of drainage was commenced as that recommended, some thousand pounds would be eventually expend- ed. -------- * A LONELY ORPHAN. John Forsythe, the child of 64. years, was brought up for drunken- ness. With much naivete he stated that his parents were dead, and that the only relative living belonging to hit was a sister older than himself. He was jon bis way to Lower Can- ada, where it was his Intentiol to settle himself, when he fell into the hands of the police. The, discharged him on condition that he pursue his journey without becoming intoxicated. FIRST TIME yet known for cancer, the early re-| | PORK SAUSAGE 20c Ib.