2 You Ever Thought of this ? —That a Cup of rz A y pice infused, is one of Nature’s greatest s as a harmless stimulating beverage. = & FROM OTHER PAPERS The Banner doesn't necessarily agree with views expresse {All articles credited. COAL FOR ONTARIO E: (Toronto Globe) “The supply of coal for Ontario next season will be smaller and more pre- lsarious “than ever, but none of the Measures so far proposed for increas- it promises to be effective. The Ganacian Manufacturers’ Associa- nm has made an appeal to the West for assistance, and the Boards of Trade of Western Canada, in confer- ence at Calgary, have replied witb resolutions in favor of an inwestiga- tion of freight rates on coal from the mines there and of a reduction of fates for summer haulage. But ap- peals.and resolutions will accomplish little, and labor and transportation @ifficulties in the United States may reduce the shipments of American goal so much as to cause distress and @isaster in Ontario next winter. The problem has become national in its importance, and the Dominion govern- ment ought to take it in hand at once. Its transportation experts can deter- mine without difficulty the precise eost of laying down in Ontario coal from our own mines, both in the West and in the East, in quantities suffic- jent to make up for any deficiency from the United States. Elaborate storage facilities may have to be pro- wided, and these will require the co- pperation of provincial and munici- pal authorities. The Dominion gov-' ernment atone has power adequate to deal with the problem effectively. The measures proposed deal chiefly wito g@ shortage of bituminous coal, but the great majority of domestic furnaces im Ontario are equipped only to burn; anthracite. | A TIME FOR COOLNESS | : (Toronto Globe. } '<"The long-expected break in com- modity prices has come. Deflation is, fhegun. Speculators are rushing to) over. Retail stores are cutting heav- ily into profits, perhaps in some cases gelling below cost. in order to clear lof the high-priced go@@s with which they are stocked up and make room for the more moderately priced artic-| Jes that will shortly be available. Raw, cotton, silk, and woo! have all declin-,; ed materially in value during the past week or two, and the end has prob- @bly not yet been reached. Sales of woo! stored in Boston on the orders of the British government, which} Owned it, were held there last week,| and only a third of the quantity offer-, @d was disposed of at reductions rang-; Ing from ten to twenty per cent. on, recent quotations. | The fear is expressed that the} Wederal Reserve Bank of the U nited | States, which has had a large part an bringing about the decline in prices md the cessation of speculation by | fasting on drastic contraction of | king credits, may bring on a panic} Similar to those that swept over the; United States in 1893 and 1907, and} which affected trade and commerce far beyond the confines of the Re- public. This is possible, but not at all probable. Basic conditions are) very different from those that prevail) EVIDENCE “Of Success of Hacking’s Heart and Nerve Remedy and Hatkihe’s Kidney end Liver Pills ~« —o— wm Fullarton, R. R. 1, Listowel: doctored for eight years for ‘Stomach . — ‘and Pains all (ihmough my body. got no relief until duped Hosking’ s Heart and Nerve sana which fixed me up all right. used Hacking’s Kidney and Liver | Pilig along with the Remedy.” Mrs. H. Hinchcliffe, Wingham: “I bave had Pains under my ‘Heart Somme time and tried ali sorts of in ‘panic’ years. Such disasters us- ually have their genesis in overpro- duction—of“houses, or factory goods, or transportation facilities—the lock- ing up of vast sums in things made in advance of a demand for them.} The world to-day suffers not because of overproduction, but because of underproduction. It will take years to supply the railways even of this continent with the rolling stock that should have been provided during the years of war, but that was not built because the men necessary for Lhe undertaking were engaged in military service of war work. hat is true in this respect of the American con- tinent applies with far greater force to the countries of Europe. Houses all over the world are scarce and dear. Practically none were built anywhere save in South America and the far East ‘during five years of conflict and demobilization. In the war zone hundreds of thou- sands of houses were destroyed. An increasing population had to find shelter in most lands in a diminish- ing number of houses. Here in To- ronto-it is reckoned that it will take five years of building to make up the leeway. What is true of Toronto is true in some measure of almost every important city of the continent. In Britain scarcity of houses has assum- ed ‘“‘famine’’ dimensions, and as there are only a little over fifty thousand bricklayers in the country, lv limit the number of apprentices, it is going to take a long time to make good the shortage of five years’ sus- pension of house-building. The world’s demand for clothing also is unsatisfied. A relatively small part of the population in all countries —enriched by the war—has been in- | dulging in an orgy of luxurious liv- ing. But the mass of the people have been wearing their old clothes and | using up the reserves laid away and sometimes forgotten. The clothes closets have been stripped bare and the bureau drawers emptied. When prices of clothes, underclothes, and bed linen come down to reasonable figures there is going to be an extra- ordinary demand for textiles of all sorts, \ In at least one other department of productive activity—the food in- dustry—there is no overproduction. What is going to be scarce, and prob- ably dear, during the coming winter The world’s herds of food animals, seriously depleted during the war. have not yet been restored to any- thing like their former dimensions. The danger today is not that food- stuffs will become too plentiful, but that foodstuffs will become too plenti- ful, but that many people all over the world will be under the necegsity of going hungry because scarcity of food has sent prices far above their ability to pay. There can be no long-continued industrial depression on this contin- ent while the world is short of food, , clothing, shelter, and the means of transportation. There may be fewer motor cars built next year than this, but the sheet metal now put into them will go into houses and barns, and the steel into railway equipment There may not be so many barbaric costumes for jazz dancing, but there will be a larger stock of wash waists in the average housewife’s clothes closet. The same tendency to get down off the high horse will be seen in all departments of industry, but there will be. nevertheless, an im- mense volume of profitable business for the men who adapt their factories and their selling organizations to the new conditions. This inevitable period of deflation and of a return to a plainer manner of living will be accompanied by busi- ness difficultiés that are inevitable in any process of readjustment. There is no occasion for panic. There is need, rather, for calculating coolness and for enterprise, based on the know- ledge that a period of hard work in the production of moderately-priced goods will do much to restore normal conditions in the world of business. * An Unjust Suspicion What is obviously a just complaint is exemplified as follows in Harper's Magazine: A coal heaver'’s feelings were hurt by the thoughtless actions of his children. “Mary,” he expostu- lated to his wife, “don't I always tell you I won't have the children bring- ing in cont from the shed in my very best hat “Oh, wer should you care?” de- manded his wife. “You have sp’iled the shapé of that hat already, and what can a little extra coal dust do to harm it?” “You don't see the point,”’ pratest- ed the husband with dignity. “I wear that hat in the evenings, and if when I'm out I takes it off my head it leaves a big black band ‘round yA forehead. - Huns-Were Ungr. teia: PALE PLL Ace PP oles G. FOKKER, inventor ef the formi ¢ the war, is living in Am- sterdam, a fugitive from ,Germany. The German Government placed’ a tax of 14,251,000 marks on-his pro- perty,. which he refused to pay, and when threatened he fied over the bor-° der. When the Germans peard of this they cohfiscated all his property, worth millions of dollars. Thus, the man who was respons- ible for whatever success in the air was achieved by the German ma- chines, and who made millions. 6ut of Germany during the conflict, has now lost practically asa Fokker says he is now through with Germany, and as Holland is too small for him, he plans to visit the United States very soon, as in that who strict-/ ff MYNHEER FOKKER. country he sees vast possibilities for airplane manufacture and develop- ment. _ In the course of a recent interview with him at his home in Amsterdam he told for the first time the story of his experience in warring Germany. “Tama Hollander, you know,” he explained. ‘I was making erate before the war broke out, and w the Germans asked me to make wom for them I could only agree to do so. It was purely a financial matter. I find that all the British flying men, being good sportsmen, seem to realize this, and don't hold any grudge against me for manufacturing planes for the Germans; but the French- men—they will never forgive me, I fear. They don't like my name; my machines brought down too many of their aviators."’ Referring to his present troublea with Germany, Fokker said: ‘When I was useful to the Teutons nothing was too good for me, and I made lots and lots of money for a time; but with the end of the war I could not make any more airplanes in Germany under the peace treaty arrangements. So when the Germans thought they were through with me they put an enormous tax on my fac- tories, and when I refused to be bled in this way they simply confiscated my holdings. Easy for the Germans, but hard on me,” Chinamen In Paris. A Chinese’ weekly newspaper has been started in Paris by Daniel “ le -Fokker plane used by Germany in: the _ earlier cables. Sof Mr. | Facts in Polit‘cal Out COME OOOOH FOW that tufier details = ~ available concerning the cent gener@ election in nee : - Zealand, it is possible. to gauge ‘more ‘exactly its significance, as far as the immediate political fu- ture of the tountry is concerned. The mait features ‘of the result ‘are,. of coursé; the. Bame as were shown in Party, headed by Mr. Massey, has secured a most emphatic victory. .A |- Party which only barely achieved a majority. in’ 1912 has now been re- turned with a very substantial ma- jority over any conceivable combina- tions against it, and whelming ious competitor for power, namely, the Libera! Party. The exact figures, as now available, are: Reformers, 48; Liberals, 1954 Labor, 11, and Inde- pendents,. 2. An analysis or the voting, however, shows that the position of the Re- formers is not so firmly intrenched as these results would appear to show. Considerably more than half assey’s supporters secured their seats on mincrity votes, the ma- jority vote being split between the didate been absent, it would have RIGHT HON. W. F. MASSEY. meant the return of the Liberal. The fact of theymatter js that,.as far as anything fundamental is concerned, there is very little difference between the political aims of the two chief parties, the Reformers and the Lib- erals; and there is a very general feeling, in some quarters, that a new alignment of parties is, sooner or later, inevitable. The conservative element of the Liberal Party is prob- ably indistinguishable, in the matter of political faith, ers; whilst the advanced section of the Liberals is really in sympathy with the aims of Labor. The Liberal Party, however, is a party of great traditions. Por twenty- two years, namely, from 1896 to 1912, mostly under the able leader- ship of Mr. Seddon, the Liberals held office continuously, and, during that time, New Zealand won a great inter- tational reputation as 8 country ready to try experiments in the mat- ‘ter of social reform, and usually suc- | cessful in her experiments. The Lib- erals, therefore, may not readily agree to any kind of amalgamation with the Reformers, and almost cer- tainly will not as long as the Labor Party is so definitely in the minority. Nevertheless, for nearly five years, during the war, the Reformers and the Liberals worked together, and it was undoubtedly very largely due to this coalition that when the mani- festoes of the twe parties were issued, just prior to the elections, they were found to agree so aim on all + 7 issu for the benefit of the th Chinese sent there to act as nel during the war and who are now employed in reconstruction work, according to the far eastern informa- tion bureau. The paper is produced by a photographic process, the sheets having been hand-written, since it is impossible to get Chinese type in France. The paper selis at two cents a copy, and is said to be the first Chinese newspaper produced in France. Autos In Peru. eee The Peruvians take eagerly to the automobile, wherever its use is pos- sible. Outside of the sections served by railroads—and there are about 1,700 miles of railway in Peru's 700,000 square miles of land—trans- portation has hitherto depended on pack mules or burros. As trails or bridle paths are being converted into highways, mrotor cars and trucks are bringing new life to formerly isolated centres of mining and agricultural production. Language Difficulties, The Chinese Christian family was the proud possessor of two pigs, re- lates World Outlook. The older of the two was a runt and the younger had outgrown him. The husband an wife were explaining the situation to the new missionary. ‘The big pig, he the littlest,” explained the husband in b lish. ‘No,’ sgid the wife, “he means not that. He means the young pig is the oldest.” B Kitchen ‘ whitch ‘a sigmoiee +0 wineoae the 7 lage heave bi. the haphanShig. of 4 ; Fer naies sex on ae 06 the tumilies chder his cate, ; Ce ag was In New Zeaband. ‘as in many other countries, the coming factor i$ the factor of Labor, but its future is just as obscure there as elsewhere. For, there aselsewhere,Labor’s chief prob- lem is to preserve unity within {ts own ranks. The extremist and the disloyalist are constantly alienating large numbers who would otherwise vote In support of the Labor candi- date. On the other hand, the broad, sane policy of some of the Labor leaders is undoubtedly attracting sup- port in many diverse quarters. For the present the great majority of the New Zealand people seem to have got what they want, a strong, moderate government capable of dealing ener- getically with extremist or disloyal elements, while at the same time will- ing to carry through a great mass of very necessary domestic legislation, which the enforced neglect of the last five years has rendered urgent. Coal to Italy. Belgium has an obligation to fur- nish Italy with 60,000 tons of coal per month, but the French Govern-. ment is to take care of the trans- portation. The French are at present unable to do this, and as a solution of the problem it has been proposed to erect a high-power transmission line and to deliver the fuel in shape of current. It has been figured out that the scheme is feasible and economical. U. S. Export of Condensed Milk. The export of condensed milk from the United States in 1919 amounted to “Nearly 1,000,000. pounds, at a walye of about $125,000,000. 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