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2 ~Ask her into your homes, where she "may be a constant source of enlighten- ~; ment to you. She understands, perhaps' < better than "= rural districts and often, the very poor ! - Fa 11 ®Ve have a good line of » HEATERS, oe « MITTS, - TI, ~ im mass TE ai ps EE CE A I EE an Cr pp. " A a a? Sh ers Ee Se The School Does the average mother understand the work of a school nurse, and the value of her work, to a Community, in checking the spread of disease, and all the loathsome things that so often in- fest the public school. This busy school mother examines our childrens heads, teeth, throat, yes, ears, and often their little bedies. She sees to their personal cleanliness and instructs them in hygine. The work done by a school, or pub- lic health nurse," if she be capable, Nurse over estimated, and the individuals who does not appreciate her, is just too ignorant for a consideration. Teach the children she is their friend. yourself how those in are handicapped by lack of modern conveniences. She is not there to criticise you, to find fault with you; )but to help you. She is there to help "you keep your children healthful and happy, and now and again drop a helpful hint to the mother. We all need her. = It is a great safe-guard to the child that all must come under this weekly inspection. If there are those, who are not ever careful, the careful mothers child is protected. Just so too the public health nurse. What right has your neighbour to maintain the filthy open privy, or the loathsome dirty stable in a back yard to draw flies, that go from place to place to distribute disease and death. No person with the intelligence of the average mule, but will readily see how those whose habits are cleanly would suffer from the carelessness of their neighbours. So let us back up the school and health nurse, she is weil worth the effort-- MINERVA. IS HERE Again FALL GOODS PS in our Store Stvch as AXES, SWEDE SAWS SWEDE FILES AXE HANDLES BROAD AXES BROAD AXE HANDLES STOVES - STOVE PIPES Sa 'PULL-OVERS : and GREY BLANKETS We are Offering some GREAT VALUES in 'BEDS, SPRINGS, ¢ and MATTRESSES ._KLOSE RONGER' - "Start a great big immigration movement into Canada, of people not only willing to work but for whom profitable work can be found, and all the pressing problems that now beset our country 11. : 29 will be well on the way to solution. What Everybody Says. Fine--let us do so! But to be sure we're on the straight and sure road to our goal, let us beginby doing some clear thinking--some hard thinking--on these two important questions: 1. What class of immigrants do we want? 2. How are we going to attract them? Valuable Lessons to be Learned from Obviously the way to attract that class 2 Past Failures, Are 63 Countries Wrong is by switching from a policy of lower Heretofore we have always taken it for . duties to one of higher duties. The one granted--without much careful thought, and Only Canada Rig ht? : thing abeve all Sivan that the immigrant perhaps--that it was farmer immigrants While Canada has been lowering wants is the assurance of a steady job at we most wanted,--people who would settle her tariff, these 63 countries good wages. Give him that, and he will on our vacant land in the West, and produce have been raising theirs: -- come in his thousands,--yes, in his tens of more from the soil. Al eri Tanan thousands! And in a policy of higher "And complaints being loud and numerous ua I tariffs he will have his guarantee that that farming in Canada was not as pro- Aistrahia Luxembourg steady work at good wages will be await- fitable as it should be, we have tried to Austria Madagas Ca ing him. convert an unattractive situation into an Belgium Malta "Yes," you say, "but what about our attractive one by lowering the tariff on Bolivia Mesopotamia ~ farm population? We want it to increase manufactured goods, in the hope of thereby Brazil Mexico tool" Of course we do! But with town lowering farm production costs, and eo BritishEast Africa Netherland East and city population increasing, can farm increasing the farmer's net. Dependencies Indies population do other than increase in pro- Has that plan gotten us anywhere ? British Guiana Newfoundland portion? With more customers for farm In 1924, despite tariff reductions made British Honduras New Zealand produce, and with a higher purchasing ostensibly to benefit agriculture, there were British West ~ Nigeria power per customer due to higher wages, actually fewer farm immigrants than in Indies Norway isn't it inevitable that a domestic supply 1923 ! And when, against the total immi- Bulgaria Paraguay will be forthcoming to meet a domestic gration for 1923 and 1924, we offset the Chile Persia demand, particularly if we protect farm total emigration from our towns and cities, China Pera products in the same way that we propose we find that the country has suffered a net Colombia Poland to protect manufactured products? loss ! Czecho-Slovakia Portugal So, obviously there is something wrong-- Ecuador Roumania gomewhere--in the plan we have been Egypt Russia A Precedent That Shows What Can following,--either in the assumption that Esthonia Samoa Be Done! gl it is farmers we most want, or in our method Finland San Salvador > of attracting them. Perhaps it's a combin- France Sarawak We have tried the plan of lower tariffs, ation of the two. : Repub. of Georgia Serb-Croat- as a means of attracting far ner 'mmiga. ; ; G ermany Slovene State tion, and we see that it has signally failed, Population Increases Should be Cold Const Sevchell and we know the reasons why it has failed, Properly Balanced ° Das apes i al A : Colony Sierra Leone Why not now try the alternative plan of In shaping our policy as above, we have Greece South Africa higher tariffs, as a means of attracting certainly overlooked one very important Guatemala Spain urban immigration, when it seems per- point. Farmers as a rule don't sell to Holland Sweden fectly clear that it must bring farmer ik pt to town 20d city iy Syne Honduras Switzerland immigration in its train? : we try to increase farm population by i ni ot methods that operate to decrease town and i State id States iw jst a ee hess, hat city population, we are actually making Italy Uruguay iy S10 Yall FeRson for Temctingitin things worse for the very people we are : avor of a policy we have tried, and found trying to benefit. We are curtailing a And now even the United to be barren of results. domestic market that our farmers can Kingdom has begun to protect But we know that it is far beyond the control, and we are increasing their de- her home markets. theory stage. The United States offers a pendence upon an export market over 63 Countries have been mak- practical demonstration of its success! By which they have no controll _ing it more difficult for Canada the plan of higher tariffs, to benefit all : oh to sell in their markets, while classes of population, the United States An Alternative Plan that Promises Canada has been making it has managed to attract the biggest and Better Success. easier for the whole world to longest sustained immigration movement Let us now go back to the beginning sell in hers! the world has ever known! again, and start from the alternative Have they all blundered? Has assumption that it's primarily town and Canada adh shown wisdom? What better example does Canada city population we want to attract, want? : N : Liveral-Consarvative Victery Committes, 820 Bay 8¢.; Torenss! 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