of The Bi r Win by the Audit Bureau IER FOR THE ATTENTION ATTORNEY-GENERAL. Bile no one will claim that the i8 a perfect law, it is on the tute books of this proyince be- jo the people, by their votes put , No one, who understands nature will claim, either, it 1s possi ssible of perfect enforce- _ but an attempt, at least be made in that direction. most startling statément re the brazen way in which is being flagrantly violat- in the Orillia News- 3 of Wednesday, March 17th, | follows: one has; & 'better oppor- to observe the effects of the it prohibitory liquor law than J. I. Hartt, who in his official 8s inspector of timber traveled through every of the lumber country in tario, and met all classes of either in lumber and mining + OF in the hotels and restaur- Ontario's hinterland. His that, once this northern is entered, any unbiased cannot fail to see that the 8 & dead letter. Liquor is 1 ible, and is transported ts of the territory and re- ] various camps and set- by bootleggers, a consider- ber of whom are of foreign traveling recently in the or Hartt observed a num- Atallans board the train, one seemed to be a man of con- importance, to judge from nce pald him by his com- I engaged this individ- pnversation, asking him if he d in the lumber business. was "Lumber, no, me big jer, got lotta de' fine stuff. some?" "Major's enquiry as to ar the "stuff" his was that it came from Mont- carloads, and was retailed to of the territory by boot- s. He no difficulty to "da mon" and appeared very of the prominence his pro- gave him among his com- 'Ontario bars.are running full 'with little or no effort at law. nt. The issuing of "scrips" a toll of the forest wealth north country, as 174 acres of jest spruce is required in the of paper to convert into doc- e ns. Ne balisged that it took seventeen . ruce trees to make the used by the delegates to t good roads convention in 1. a statement coming, from ficial of the Ontario govern- cannot go unheeded. An in- should be made at once. ¢ offenders summarily dealt There i§ no reason in tha Italians should be able '| pany. :| newspaper, offices. newspaper the telephone com- Instead, it entailed addition- al expense to both, and members of the newspaper staff gave up tem evenings in order to give the public a hockey telephone service that was indeed marvellous. The young {ladles in _ the telephone exchange had strenuous nights connect- ing severa] thojisand homes with the The Bell Tele- phone Conmipany performéd"a great service. It might have refused to co-operate in such a scheme, but it joined hands - with the newspapers and made the people realize that its object is-to serve. THE BRACKIN AMENDMENT, The fate of the Brackin amend- ment was not surprising. It must be redlembered that in the vote taken in October, 1923, 69 consti tuencies in Ontario gave dry ma- jorities and only 38 wet. The dry column included both Bramts, both Durhams, three Greys, two Hast- ings, three Hurons, two Lambtons, two Lanarks, three Middlesexes, two Norfolks, two Northumberlands, two Ontarios, two Oxfords, two Perths, two Peterboros, four Simcoes, three Wellingtons, and two Wentworths. There was quite evidently no de- mand for government control or local option in much of Ontario in the fall of 1923, MAKING A CORRECTION. Attorney-General Nickle, in the current Queen's Quarterly, corrects Prof. W. L. Grant, who said the late G. M. Macdonnell, Kingston, broke with Sir John 'Maedonald over the Phcific scandal, and save to cast his vote took no part in political life till 1891, The Attorney-General says the Pacific scandal culminated in 1873; in 1874 Sir John was en- dorsed by the Liberal-Conservative Association of Kingston in a bye- election and Mr. Magdonnell sup- ported the endorsement." The devot- ed Conservative citizen was presi- dent of the Association 1883-6. The facts show conclusively that Prof. Grant did not quote accurately. All who knew the late Mr. Macdonnell know full well that he was a follow- er up to the hilt of Sir John. After his death, Mr. Macdonnell was the author of that forceful™ phrase: "After Sir John the deluge." And the accuracy of his statement has been fully" sustained, for the Coh- servative 'party has, ever since the lamented death of the astute states- man, béen sadly out of joint, There has never yet been a leader any- where near his class. OFFERING FIVE PER CENT. The Legislative Committee of the city of Toromto approves the pay- ment of five per cent. interest to taxpayers who pay their obligations in advance. The idea is a good one. Kingston gives a discount of two per cent, on taxes paid before June 30th and a discount of five per cent., we are satisfied would constitute an in« ducement suggesting economy, and would be taken advantage of by many who always leave off this sup- posedly unpleasapt duty as long as possible, and chiefly because two per cent. is no real advantage in view of other investments. It is in keeping with the modern move to give the public every oppor- tunity to save by paying up promptly all their obligations. The scheme is worth considering. TO PREVENT SPREAD OF DIS. ' EASE, * At the Bruce county council, MF. H. Coleman, Kincardine, submitted a proposition to have breeding stock both of the aninial and fowl families inspected, with the object of elimi- nating the danger of communicable diseases being carried to the human family through food products. Ani- mals and fowls examined by qualified persons, that cannot show a clean bill of health should be dizposed of by the Dominion government and the owners paid the real value of the same out of the Dominion treas- ury. - a 3 'Mr, Coleman is of the opinion that CANADA'S POLITICAL SYSTEM. An American writer in the London Spectator, discussing things Cana-| dian, asks the question: "What do Americans think of Canada's politi-| cal system?" He answers his query | with the statement that Americans of | the larger view -acknowledge that Canadians are justified in preferring their system, "because it works bei- .operates more cleanly, is more truly responsive to the people and puts better men into pabli¢ life." Every word of this commendation is justified. OPPOSED TO CAMPS. Hamilton is not inclined to spend $35,000. on a modern tourist camp. The merchants are opposed. They say that while it might attract tour. ists, it "would keep them on the fringe of the city and provide an in- ducement to them to refrain from patronizing uptown restaurants, hotels and shops." The retailers suggest that several small chalets be maintained on the highways outside of Hamilton as information bhreaus and chalets. The retailers offer to sontribute to the upkeep of these bureaus. EDITORIAL NOTES. This year Baster comes on April 4th. The next occasion; if we do not have a fixed date, will be on April 4th, 1999. Queen's Quarterly in discussing the St. Lawrence. deep waterways scheme i "it goes without saying that the logical .deep water ter- minus is Kingston." If there is money in hauling Al- berta coal to Ontario for less than gight or nine dollars a ton, .would not the C.P.R. be anxious to get its 2hare of the traffic on those terms? The heavy debt of the Hydro- Electric Commission of Ontario may be paid off on the same plan as is to be applied to the provincial debt. But of course it will mean higher rates for eléctric power. The mayor of Hamilton, in pre- senting a golden key to Lord AMNen- by, said that it would not epen any- thing that he knew of, Most men have that brand on their key rings, is a Brantford Expositor aphorism. The United States tariff commis- sion is to have its troubles. The U.S. Senate has forced an investiga~ tion of the body and its flexible tariff. The arc of contention, may snap back on the functioning body! A funeral which cost $85 Watertown, N.Y., in 1891 now costa] between $450 and $500. The Met. ropolitan Life Insurance Company after inventigation contends 'that pride has 'sent up the cast of fun- drals."™ If_there had been automobiles in the days of Solomon, think of the trouble the old gentleman would have had with 800 wives on the back seat tellifig him how to drive, is a cynical remark of the Water- town, N.Y., Times, : * When parents lets boys and girls of tender years burn up the high- ways in automobiles until the early hours of the morning, who is to blame, remarks the Hamilton Spec- tator, if something happens----the youngsters, the speed cops--or thé parents? Legislation is proposed making ample provision for widows from the estates of their deceased hus- bapds ih case the husbands have not made such provision in their wills. Evidence accumulates that it is a mistake to suppose that a man has a right to do what he will with his own. The path to the woodshed should be more used than it is for law breakers. This is the only way to correct the criminal tendencies of youth. All the orations of humanely minded people are so much soap cast upon the ocean. The day for giving thugs and bandits roses and pray- ers is long past. A medical society is giving advice as to influenza cases. It says: If a friend ig il with influenza, write visit him, When the first signs of a cold appears, with sneezing or sore throat, go to bed for twenty-four or forty-eight hours, Take a mild laxa- tive and sleep as much as possible. If thif - is done in ninety-five per - | cent. of cases' there will be no fur- 5 strest all over Canada has a feeling of optimism. Feel It Everywhere. St. Catharines Standard: Main 1 Boston Transcript: ter, achieves results with less delay, | ini letters or send flowers, but don't | a. | New Taxing A Judging by the pace at which many Americans dre living, the Government might get a lot of révénns by shifting the tax from the income to the outgoe. -- 'Appearances A Him. Cipcinnati Enquirer: The King of Spain attepded a bricklayer's wed. ding. Now he'll probably be charg. ¢d with toadying to the rich. E---- . A Discovery! - Border Cities Star: Sir Josiah Stamp, the "eminent authority om statistics," has discovered that wo. men have a habit of concealing their true age. Most likely the eminent anthority's next astounding dis- covery will be that snowballs don't bounce. : -- The Loose Nut. Los Angeles Times: The paper spoke the other day about a loose nut wrecking a car. That is one trouble We have. There are two | many loosé nuts running around in | cars. Some locked. up. When a loose nut gets tight it may be worse, at that. French Financial Chaos. London Daily Chronicle: French industry has gone ahead by leaps and bounds since the war. Trade is of them ought to be flourishing and there is no unem. ploymént. Yet France is the only great country in Burope which has | failed to stabilize her currency. That is a bad thing for herself and the whole Continent, Her lively indus try is one of the bright spots in Buropean reconstruction. But the whole fabric may be undermined by bad finance and declining credit. A Tax on Betting. London Times: If the result of the tax were to diminish the volume of betting in this country the Exche« quer would be none the poorer than it is to-day, while a most desirablé sccial reform would have been achieved. If, on the other hand, the betting turnover (which admittedly runs into hundreds of millions) were maintained at anything like its present figure, then the Exchequer Fuight reasonably look forward to a substantial contribution to the rev- enue, broad-based upon a commun- ity which need never realize that. it wat being taxed at all. Altogether the case in principle for a betting duty seems almost too good to be true. « It is assuredly far too good to be dismissed out of hand except upon the very strongest practical objections. Quebec Viewpoint | "Le Droit approves of a law re- cently proposed in Manitoba with regard to the driving of autoimo- biles. 4g "A Member in Manitob& wishes the Provincial Legislature to adopt a bill that would compel all auto- mobile drivers to stop their ma- chines completely before passing over a level crossing, even if they are morally certain that it is clear, Heavy penalties would e¢all viola- tors of this Jaw to order. The idea is evidently to teach prudence, in shite of themselves, to a small num- per of foolhardy peoplé who persist ia disregarding road signs, who ap- proach level crossing at such a speed that it is impossible for them to pull up when they wish to do so and who play too freely with danger." It is impossible to rescue a fool from his folly by any act of legisla. tion. Le Canada continues to proclaim taat prosperity is on the way. "Here are a few headings taken from the financial page of one of our daily newspapers: 'The liquid position of the C.S.L. has been much improved'; 'sugar exports increas- ed'; 'the favorable year of the In- ternational Co.'; 'Trade is favor- able'; "notice of dividend'; ete. "It is therefore easy to see that in all the domains we are to-day ifi 4 better position thén we were a few years ago." . Conditions are certainly hopeful dnt whether this is because of or in spite of the policies of the Govern- ment at Ottawa is a moot question. i A Word for the O.T.A. (HamiMon Spectator) There are plenty of people who voted for prohibition who still re- ~ Spring Clothi ng Suits and Topcoats --You'll like their zestful styles. --You'll like the new models. You'll like the new prices--not too highe t yet high enough of materials and tailoring. WONDERFUL SUIT VALUES At $22.50, $27.50, $29.50, $32.50 ' $37.50. - ELEGANT TOPCOATS $20.00, $22.50, $27.50, $30.00. 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Provinces which have adopted that particular system have found that it is no cure for the evil, as every one knows. dS A parson's little daughter came home from school in great con- cern. BEA ("Isn't Devil a horrible word to be in the Bible daddy?" she said. "It was in my portion this afternoon, but I coughed when I came to fit and wouldn't read it." This reminds ome of the curate who rendered a well-known passage: "He that believeth not - shall be demned as it were." L vk Resmsesmitmeitis-- Anticipated. First Negro--An' when dat rob-| bah man said "Hol' ap yo' hands!" what did you say? Second e? Ah jes' laffed at him. Ah slready had 'em up. : Covered. } To speeding motorist who just splashed mud on him: "Hey, who the Sam Hill do you think you are?" "Oliver Twist--why?" 'I'm Oliver Mud." 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