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archase Alsike e of your seed and fea, mwsmnow a bag of our Rein J ) Wi and 98's. bags. re on net SRATCHFORDS LAYING MEAL also carry Blatchford's "Laying Meal. a your hens lay and keeps them es GROCERIES, CROCKERY, BOOTS & SHOES ~ ain this we will Weare prepared: to year. Bring in a 8 sangle quote you highe x os "A select line of Groceries, Crockery, Boots. & : x sivas on hand. Saturday n Mile 0 the - Association . most delightful surprise when morning of last week, for among r. A. R. Wilson, of Seven Mile ying fro Ns 'a cheque for one thousand d tter speaks for itself. ey this tay and very generous manner, Mr. Wilson has]. 'shown his confidence in Lake Scugog Improvement Association. H G. Hutcheson, Esquire, President Lal Port Perry, Ontario. Dear Mr. Hutcheso I have much ease to your Association, feeling Toronto, August24th, 1928 ke Scugog Improvement Association, in sending Jou subscription that in your ands, and those of your associates, much will be accomplished towards Scugog one of the beauty spots of Ontario, making Lake and thereby being of very material advantage to Port With best wishes for your success, Yours very truly, WILSON. . EVERYONE MAY HELP Any person who ig interest: may become a member by the A gon Drogran: of. much will be accompli) of conditions here. 5 -~ ed in the work of the Association | payment of the annual fee of $1.00. rk is being drafted and we believe that = in the near future for the betterment | 4 +E Two Opposing Views of the Tariff These two articles come to the editor's desk at the same time and are presented to our readers for their considration. the big subject to-day. We Are Going Ahead Press Bulletin, Consumers' League of Canada Eighty-seven countries their tariffs since the war. One Soantey has lowered its tariff-- a ._has made greater com- -- it country even approaches yf prosperity to-day. The oni t number of employment of July 1, moving down. y 21st, makes this statement: are turning out in physical volume proximately 140 precent of the output reached at the peak 'of war-time | activity ten years ago, and in spite © 'gross value over 20 per cent higher. 'which Canada has shared in the gen- countries since the war." Mr. 8. H. Logan, draws attention growth of the country. He says: vested in Canadian increased " progress, n Sines the close of oyment: situation is more ble than even before. ' The in- [stood at 116.3 as compared 1084 in 1027, 108.7 in 1926, 96.8 in 1926, The employment index is moving up in Canada--in the United States it is The. Mail and Empire, a gallows- hi fectionist paper, in its issue manufacturing plants Jower prices their products have af The value for 1927 was recently stated to be in the neighborhood of $8,500,000,000 or about $250,000,000 above the figures of 1926. This con- stitutes a record in the history of the country and indicates the extent to eral industrialization of non-European General Manager 'of the Canadian Bank of Commerce, to the general "At the end of 1926 the capital in- nts stood 'at Tariff is |, It is well to be informed on both sides. has been called Canada's "golden era." But Canada's prosperity and growth in those years was as nothing refusal to tie this coun- the suicidal policy of high id Canada to be one in i ils: Post-war tariff policy. Iron and Steel Tariffs. and . Steel men hesitate, it they were the e iron and stae) industries in have been 'more prosperous than ever before. Lower tariffs in- crease consumption. Increased con- sumption brings increased demand, expanding business, lower cost of pro- duction and greater employment for working men. Monopoly is not al- ways profitable. More industries have : injured by tariffs thann benefit- od .- Perhaps the iron and (steel manufacturers are beginning to see the point. The steady growth of the iron and industry in Canada during the last few years has been remarkable. The increase in volume of production, in number of men employed, in wages paid, has been greater than at any other period of our history (the war, of course, excepted.) Official figures show the following: 1922--Employers, 75,344; wages, $91,620,491; production, $164,632,088, 1927--Employers, 105,782; wages $142,846,692, production, $262,395,230. The increase in wages alone be- tween 1922 and 1927 is equal to more than half the total wages paid in 1922. The fact that we have made pro- gress since 1922 proves two things: (1) 'The industry has not been in- jured--it has been 'benefited by tariff imports of iron steel from coun- rd claim suite gen- stally, haben , made. compared with our rate of progress ; The Algoma plant is | modernize its plant, enlarge its ca- pacity and increase its efficiency. The control of Besco (British Em- pire Stee] Corporation) has passed into other hands. It is understood that the water will be squeezed out and the plant reorganized and im- proved, In a recent letter to the share- holders, President McMaster, of the Steel Company of Canada Ltd. an- nounced the plans for plant improve- ments over the next two years amounting to between $6,000,000 and $7,000,000. These will be made from past profits--no new financing will be necessary, Help the Manufacturer. .. Lower tariffs lead to industrial pro- gress. Every forward movement in Canadian industry has been preceded by tariff reductions. Relative stag- nation has followed tariff increases. clusions in economies and politics as in i ing. The ' C: 8" League believe that further reduc- tions in the tariff would greatly stimulate Canadian industry. It bases its conclusions on the facts. Manufacturers holding different views have the opportunity of testing their 'theories against the facts by making applications for tariff increases before the Tariff Board. THat is one of the greatest" advantages of the Tariff Board--the facts brought out often enable manufacturers to see where}, they are standing in their own light. nel) Qe. CANADA CANNOT BE COWARDLY Editor of the Vancouver Sun When the Fordney Tariff Bill was first discussed at Washington several years ago, few Americans thought the bill would pass. Aimed at Canada, America's best customer, who was then buying annually $400,000,000 worth of American goods, most Americans thought the tariff so un- just, and that there would be so much protest from Canada, that the United ,| States, in her own selfish interest, could not afford to let the Fordney "Bill become law. Canada had a right to resent and resist the terrific tariffs of the Ford- ney and subsequent bills. But Can- 'ada is now paying the price of being too cowardly. A tariff war with the United States could not injure Canada more than she is now being injured, and this is proven by Canada's ability as an independent trading country with foreign trade of $260 per capita against the United States foreign trade figure of $100 per capita. The day that the Fordney tariff was first mooted in the United States, Premier Mackenzie King should have got up on the floor of Parliament and, backed by Western farmers and Tories, should have served notice on 'the United States that the moment the Fordney Bill became law, a Can- adian bill having a similar effect against American products, would go into force in Canada. But Canada did not. The Fordney tariff of two cents a pound against Canadian cattle actual- ly hurts the American farmer, who used to buy raw range cattle from Canada at five or six cents per pound and get two or three cents per pound for fattening those cattle for Ameri- 'can markets, and, like industrial 'manufacturing, it is the "finishing" man who makes the big profit. i On wheat, it is the American miller, not the American farmer who is real- ly getting the benefit of the tariff against Canadian wheat. But the unfairness and the iniquit- , | ous part of the American tariff is that operative portion which, notwith- standing Canada's $800,000,000 worth of annual purchase from the United States, allows the President to im- | mediately bar out by tariff any Can- adian articles which happened to com- -tariff against Canada. Facts are as important to right con-|" from Canada. United States in trade is treating Cahada as if she were a penal colony; this has got to stop. The battle of Waterloo was fought out in the open on a general principle policy--the policy of mass formation. Canada is trying to fight out her tariff problem with the old mass formation front, while United States has been "mining" and "sapping" at Canadian trade until she is actually undermining Canada's national eco- nomic existence. Canadian business men should not blame American business men if they find Canadians ditting down acquiesc- ing to this and that foolish and unfair But Canadian business men must blame themselves and their political leaders, who, from Sir Robert Borden's budget in 1919 down to Robb's budget of 1927, have continued tariff reductions; Mr. Robb in 1927 finally called a halt. But, with the present trading cards all 'stacked against us, stopping tariff reducti inst United States is not enough. Canada's acquiescence to America's tariff was has made United States bolder in her declarations, bolder in her actions and actions, until to-day there seems to be no limit to the extent United States is willing to transgress against Can- adians trade and feeling. Instead of yielding further, the ground we have already lost must be recovered; the trade concessions Canada has granted in the past must be balanced or can- celled. Canada will now have to do what she should have done ten years ago-- what the Bordens, the Meighens and Mackenzie Kings hid not the vitals to do, or for some reason have left un- done. Canada has got to tell the United States in the friendliest but frank- est and firmest way, that the present tariff war against Canada must stop; that present trading arrangements must be immediately but on an equal basis, or, failing that, Canada will be compelled to take means and mea- sures to protect the pockets and feel- ings of her ten million people. Can- has long tried to be an honest, friend- ly business neighbor of United States, but that attitude is now being used against us. Canada cannot be cow- ardly. Scugog Mr. and Mrs. Lodge Drinkwater, of Goderich; Mr. Samuel Sanguines, of Manilla, spent a day last week with their neices, Mrs. J. C. Hardy and Mrs. D, Hope. Misses Luella and Ellen Ploughman of Port Perry, spent a few days last week with their uncle, Mr. Charles Samells. Mrs. J. Morrish and son of Toronto, spent a day last week with her brother, Mr. J. Aldred. Mr. and Mrs, Littler, of Orillia, are spending a few weeks with their daughter, Mrs. Dodsley. Mr. and Mrs, W. Savage, of Phila- delphia, Mr. Allan Savage, of Toronto, spent a few days last week with Mr, and Mrs. Wm, Savage and Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Sweetman. Mrs, H. Demara spent last Sunday with her sister, Mrs. J. Raymes, of Port Perry. Mr. and Mrs. Wilmot Mark, of Valentia, spent Sunday with Mr: and Mrs. W. Mark. Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Sweetman, of Toronto, spent the week end with Mr. and Mrs. G, Sweetman. Mr. Allan Sweetman has returned home after spending several weeks at the Summer School in Kingston. Mr. and Mrs. F. Clark and family, Miss Edna Clark, spent the week end at Norwood. Miss I. Reader is shending a couple girl's $800,000,000 annual business cess in their new home. Sef Miss Etta Smith, of Prince Albert, has been engaged as teacher for the Centre School, Last Friday evening the Seugog soft ball team motored to Blackstock to play a game with the girls of that locality. Our girls lost by the narrow margin of 2, the score being 6-8. After the game the local team served lunch to the visitors at the home of Mrs. Bailey, after which 'all 'adjourned to the hall to play games. Quite a number attended the big day at the Indian Reserve on Monday afternoon. Seme very exciting games of baseball were played. Prospect and Scugog girls played, the score being 21-9, in favor of Scugog. Col- umbus and Blackstock played an in- teresting game, Blackstock winning. Scugog then played the winner, Black- stock, the score being 18-6 in favor of Scugog. The prize was $56.00. The Georgenia Island boys played the Scugog boys, and took the prize to the Lake Simcoe Island, the score bein, 7-4. In the evening a concert was held in the church, the Georgenia boys putting on the programme, which was very much enjoyed. A dance was held at the town hall later. The pro- ceeds amounted to about $100. Mrs. D. Harrison and family, of Port Perry, are visiting with her par- ents, Mr, and Mrs, W. Mark. MARY A. DENNISON (Edmonton Bulletin) The funeral of Mary A. Dennison, widow of the late D. B. Dennison, of Port Perry, who passed away on August 19, was held Tuesday after- noon from the résidence of her daughter, Mrs. Wismer, 11034 89th avenue, Edmonton. Rev. Capt. G. G. Reynolds, of Holy Trinity church con- ducted the service and interment took place in the Edmonton Cemetery. The pall bearers were: R. J. Harper, Dr, Collwill, Edward Rutherford, Wm. Jackon, D. M:. Henderson, and B. Blackwell. The late Mrs. Dennison had endeared herself to a wide circle of friends, and their love and esteem was displayed in the beautiful floral tributes. She leaves to mourn her loss three daughters and three sons, Mrs. D. Wismer, Edmonton; Mrs. Wm, S. Short and Mrs. Wm. Brooks, of Port Perry; F. W. Dennison, Edmonton, J. C. Dennison, Winnipeg; and Chas. W. Dennison, Portage La Prairie. The late Mrs. Dennison will be re- membered by many Port Perry people, as she lived here for many years, leaving here about eleven years ago. rene (Une CEMENT ROAD FINISHED TO GREENBANK The cement highway which has been in course of construction from Man- cheter to Greenbank this summer is new completed, and will be open for traffic in a couple of weeks. It is a wonderful stretch of road, and the men who drove the yoke of oxen over that trail about 756 years ago to prove that it was passable for traffic, and to secure a grant from the County Council, would be amazed if they could come back and see that road now. The cement highway is now to be constructed for another three miles to Saintfield. re Un, HONEYDALE The old Mark homestead was the scene of a family picnic on Saturday afternoon, August 11, when the sons, daughters and grandchildren of Mrs. Wm. Mark, met and spent an enjoy- able afternoon together. After the ladies and gentlemen each enjoyed a exciting game of baseball, about fifty sat down and partook of a very ap- petizing supper together.Among those present were: Mrs. Wm. Mark, Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Rattenbury and sons of De Kalb, Ill, also Mrs. Carnegie, of Toronto, Mr. James Mark, Mr. Robinson, Mr. and Mrs. Copeland, of Lindsay, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Mark, Mr. and Mrs. Lowe and family, of Port Hope, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Mark | and family, Mr, and MacPherson and family, and Master Kenneth Pridham, of Toronto, Mr, and Mrs. J. Mark, Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Bruce and family Mr. and Mrs. R.