I “(AN articles credited. [FROM OTHER PAPERS The Banner~ doesn’t with views expressed.) ~ wa! necessarily agreé fae st THE SUGAR SITUATION 3 _ «Durham Chronicle.) i z has taken a drop, but is it) ie down to stay? In New York a few) Srpe ago Taw sugar dropped from, 22 cents to 11 cents, an@ various, and| {mn some: cases, contradi@tory reports, | are. circulated as to thé exact con- elon. of the gugar situation in the , States. A recent investiga- | thon showed that the,shortage in the Ba Puited States, where the prices were F fm: seoulously high, was only a fig- Eoeere: thé imagination, and had no fee in reality. The reported e, and the resultant high in the United States led many the sugar producing countries to p, their “output there to get the benefit of the prevailing high prices. ‘The Bureau of Crop Estimates of the ieion we of Agriculture at Wash- ington has demonstrated that, instead ped shortage in the United States, ere we on hand 1,300,000,000 “ ponnds more than ordinary, which _ meant an-additional consumption for avery man, woman and child, of 103 perends. to use up the surplus. > JThe drop in United States prices, one would think, sheuld soon be fol- ede by a corresponding drop in the Canadian prices, and the ten- deney at present seems to be in that direction. Prices seems to be in that dirertion. Prices of finished pro- EArcts have gone up very rapidly on any advance, real or imaginary. | {the cost of the raw material. but) ) ofee they have gone up it seems hard! to bring them down in sy mpathy | with-the changed conditions. In these times of frenzied finance p and shameless profiteering it isn't easy to guess the real reasons for! “rapid fluctuations of prices, whether up or down. The markét may be E glutted or it may not. Opinions dif- fers and the real cause of the present disturbance may be speculative FE -rdther than representative of the real Pear ket. cc conditions. _ENFORCING THE LAW | (Toronto Globe.) ne ~ Rum- runners on the Essex-Mich- : igan 1 order have reason to know that r dégrading business is attended new risks. The “fighting parson,” . J. O. L. Spracklin, is hot on their a ‘ip his new role of a license in- ae tor. When he inveighed in the 5 Susi against lawlessness and laxity k | he.wag‘not talking at random. He i shaw scgn {binge which convinced pim is thé Essex boundary was being vuched and disgraced, and that e forces of the law must be thened at once to prevent the Es Ss PTT a aaa lowledge of the facts made it logical hat be should be asked by the pro- incial warner rie to aid in suppress- ge the scandal. [ A @pracklin is sulting the action f word. The vigor and success whieh “he is discharging his dut- producing already an improve- in conditions at the frontier. A Pfew more exploits like that of Thurs- Thing in the- Detroit River will ce the desperadoés that rum- ning. is as dangerous as other [ [toms of criminal enterprise. While | patrolling the river before daylight Mr. Spracklin and his fellow officers ' owerbauled. a fieet of five boats loaded ' they will echo in the ears of gentry | who are planning similar adventures. * Bvidently they will have to get up lin and his aides. It js idle to. i that the law cannot be en- ‘because a: considerable body i timent:is opposed to it. Temperance Act rests on on of the great majority of popie of Ontario, and-it can be fed out in efy part of the Pro- e if ms authorities use adequate COAL PRICE SLUMP is & Empire) rs of bituminous coal be feute y interested in the hing-of prices inthe West Vir- eid: The Feder e Com- “fas found salés price of bituminous coal in this ek oe ete a ton, plus $2 freight 1 water. This c 4 Baturday. at $15 to $20 means nearly $200 a Winter for heating a smal] house. An instance of what the doubled cost-of ¢oal means, industrially, is shown in the tile manufacture business, where prices have had to be hoisted nearly a hundred per cent.-in a few months. Compared with the general scale of values, coal has now advanced dis- proportionately, as sugar did, and only the permitting of speculation and profiteering in it, on the other side, sistains present peak prices. Officials of the Coal Operators’ As- sociation claim there is no real short- age of coal. As in-the case_of sugar when it was being put to 25 cents, there is a genera] round of propagan-| da alleging a shortage is lack of ade- quate transportation. The lifting of control of coal prices has allowed speculators and middlemen too much freedom, and the anti-profiteering provisions of the Lever Act could be generally applied in the coal industry with advantage. SPIRITUAL AWAKENING NECES- SARY \ (Stratford Beacon.) “Material prosperity alone can never make a nation great,’ said Sir Auckland Geddes at the opening of the Canadian National Exhibition on The sentiment is now new, it is as old as the Bible, but perhaps there was never a time when its in- culeation in the minds of the people was more to be desired. It is strange, indeed, that the highest exemplifica- tion of this spirit, by thousands of soldiers who sacrificed their lives for liberty during the war, should have co-incided with a growth of ma- | terialism and greed for gain, which | has been the most deplorable of af- ter the war conditions. The same condition has prevailed, we are told, after all wars, and it is only more, manifest now because of the much greater dimensions of the great war just ended. The same prevalence of. profiteering, greed for gain, waste- ful extravagance in the face of want and hunger, and of clashes betwéen elements of society characterized by selfish disregard for the rights of others, has been rampant before, but finally man has turned to somewhat better courses and a period of sett’e- ment ensued. Perhaps it is because war is an ungodly thing itself that it breeds ungodlinfss, but the ex- periences have beén such as to dis- prove the materialistic philosophy of life. Man is a spirftual being,|- and the attainment of material prcs- perity’ alone fails to satisfy. which is not to say that material prosper- ity is not to be desired, but only when it is accompanied by the sim- ultaneous exercise of the spiritual can the ideal life be expressed. Ideals are seldom reached, but hu- Man progress is measured “by the struggle for their attainment. tems of government may be what they may, but the real life of the na- tion is no higher than that of its average citizen. Only with the spread of real brotherly love, and the pen- etration of the ‘principle of the Gol- den Rule into the farthest fabric of community, business and individual life, can true progress and a better- ‘ment in the condition of mankind be said to have been attained. t the-average! ‘latter are | Competition in buying, they fear, has THE PUBLIC AND TELEPHONE RATES (Toronto Globe.) What it does not know about the Bell Telephone Company's profits has as much to do with the public ob- jection to the requested increase in ay to elude the vigilance of Mr.) rates as anything else. g2njoying as | it does a monopoly granted by the favor of the people, the company can vate business and refuse to give a clear statement of its position. To hundreds of thousands of people in phone is a necessity: The increased it believes it has a good case. dividend of eight per cent. is not cessive. Bell Telephone Company paying that. There is, however,‘a ann rary op- inion that a grea ore has been made and hidden away ‘" the form’of rekerves and additions to plants.. The necessary, of course, ad. business expands. The people, how- ever, believe that purchases of mateér- have been made at high prices. been neither sought nor welcomed. hardly hide behind the excuse of pri- business and private life the tele- cost of the service is a serious matter for the users. The onus of justifying {t is on the.company, which should} take the people into its confidence if At the value of money to-day, a ' eave? little reason. to’ a policy of secrecy it | in an’atmosphere of public If the company has bought prices in the open, competitive mar- ket, and intends to follow that pas in the future, no time should be lost| in presenting the proofs to- the public} view. A concern that asks _fav- ors cannot in courtesy refuse’ to give to those to whom its request is pro- ferred illuminating information as to the reasons. That is a cardinal law in the business and financial world. In fo case, however, will the peo- ple of Ontario agree to th tion of thé per call system for the use of telephones. hey want service, and they want first to kiow what they are to pay for it. Nor should *the battle for their rights in Toronto or elsewhere be left to any one man or group of men. Every citi- gen, whether a subscriber for a tele- phone service or not, ie affected by the proposition to lay down now a’ new general rule for the handling of a great public utility. A REPROACH TO CANADA (Toronto Globe.) ; The good name of Ontario and of the Dominion continues to be smirch- ed by the creatures, high and low, who succumb to the temptation of dazzling profits in the illicit sale af liquor. Especially along the boundary this demoralizing traffic has become a national scandal and reproach. Ad- mitting the zeal which the Provincial authorities are now showing in the attempt to cope with the evil, with too little co-operation from the Feder- al government and some municipall- ties, it is evident that fearjof the law is not yet sufficiently potent or wide- spread. A shocking feature is the participation in this debauching busi- ness of men holding positions of trust which Impose on them a special ob- ligation to set a law-abiding example. Thdé other day the’Mayor and Mag- istrate of an Essex town pleaded guil- ty to an infraction of the Ontario Temperance Act, which he was re- quired by his office to uphold and en- force, Three news items reveal an ap- palling lack of public conscience: “Rainy River, Ont., Aug. 19. —Dr. A. C. Murdock, Mayor of Rainy River, was charged last week by License Inspector Camp- bell with a breach of the Ontario Temperance Act. He was brought capital. If we had been paying dividends on. Noeiaoed hac 2 If we te Ee _and-were asking for revenues to pay vee cs warks Beuce— Then we would expec the public to te the poston that wo + ies hail no right to increased rates! . ; is we hhiwe das ticithier of tite things. On thé plant represented, in actual cash invested, up to D 1919, $16,000,000 more than our combined stock and bond issue, % By turning back into the business all surplus earnings, all idle reserve funds, we have kept the demands upon our revenues for « dividends and interest. down to 4 minimum—lower in propor- tion to the investment than any enterprise we know of: ‘et But now, with the keen competition for money, we must make j sure of such @ return off-our investment as will attract new An adequate rate for our service is the only means of accomplish- ‘ ing this, . No one has found any other solution. ' i THE BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY OF CANADA trary our ber 31st A PERSONALITY (Toronto Globe.) . before Magistrate W. O. Chap- man and fined $2,000, with ten days in jail.” “Rainy River, Ont., Aug. 19— Mr. Hugh Carson, Postmaster of Rainy River, was. chargéd last week by License Inspector Camp- bell with a breach of the Ontario Temperance Act. He was brought before Magistrate W. C. Chap-. mh and fined $2000 and costs or thirty days in jail. The fine was Port Arthur, Ont., Aug. 26.— Dr. Murdock, mayor of Rainy River, who a few days ago was fined $2,000 and ten days in jail, for violation of the Temp- erance Act, has again been fin- ed $2,000 on a similar charge. If some of Ontario's Mayors, Mag- istrates and Postmasters on the fron- tier are 80 wanting in a sense of what is due their official status it is not sur- prising that men with no such respon- sibilities take a light view of the of- fense and plead that there is @ sanc- tion of respectability for this criminal commerce. The situation illustrates the essential lawlessness of the liquor traffic, which was as brazen in the days of the licensed bar-room as. to- day. It is obvious to everybody that Breat quantities of liquor imported or purchased in the country are not in- tended for domestic consumption or for legal use. They areas plainly destined to be sent across the line by secret and illicit channels. All along the boundry rivers and the frontier in Quebec and New Brunswick the law-breakers-gre plying their wretch- ed trade and taking risks which vary according to the zeal of the authori- ties on either side. So far as Ontario is concerned the disgrace must be ended or the people will know the reason why. They have been prevented by the Federal Government from taking the most ef- fectual step until next year. No one honestly doubts that when they get the opportunity they will vote over: whelmingly to close the flood-gates on the deluge of whisky which overfiows| into the United States. The more fla- grant the disregard of the law the more determined public opin- jon will be to strengthen it. The conviction that the liquor business was incurably lawless was a great factor in creating prohibition senti- ment. The systematic violation of the Ontario Temperance Act confirms this wi Vi 1 Bio: Gna. is ohsecting to ote ew and makes it inevitable that that méasure will be improved to] the full extent of the powers.of the province. Prohibition is in the Unit- ed States to stay; at leagt it would be years, fore the Federal amendment} revoked, even if the majority demand a change, of which there Is| 2£e8 no present sign. It will be a grow- ing pource of Spritetion and will make} - tions, If subsidiary companies—in which, it m on the Canadian side. haps, the American interests of the} ana Jute Re Telephone ss a ate - u prohibition is the only aes eee to be Sea “ eee the pervading “in ‘which’ all Some of the modern systems of thought which are fayored to-day by, many are teaching that God is not to be thought of as a Person, but} ality of the n are shar-' ers. On this view the way of salvation! becomes a realization of self, and an acceptance of a spiritual relation to! this “All.’’ Corresponding with this, | the hope of the future after the pres- ent life is of an introduction into a sphere and state which will bring man into perpetual harmony witb this all- embracing reality. For this reason; books appear which speak of getting: “in tune with the Infinite,”’ and al- thougb personal terms are frequently u yet all personal meaning is definitely ruled out. Those who are accustomed to the, use of the words will quickly discern the Wifference between this presenta- tion and the fam{Har Christian ere ing of the same terms, for whet we regard God as impersonal, or, a somé say, superpersonal (whatever that méans), the result is much the same, for men are no longer deal- ing With a Person, but regard them- selvés as part of the “All.” It‘ has been well pointed out that this is a ‘very surprising conclusion to draw at the time when in every other field of human life personality is béing magnified perhaps as never. before in the historp—®f the world. In Psychology it has been found ab- solutely necessary to predicate “soul” in man, and looking over the vast field of Philosophy today the em- phasis everywhere is on personality. The same thing is- true of com- mergial life. . However large ‘a cor- poration may be, the human and per- sonal feature -is regarded as vital. One instance of this was lately noted tm the significant fact that in certain hotels and banks the names of the clerks, tellers, and cashiers were pub- lidly:stated. It was a curious intro- duction of the personal element. The recent war-afforded another striking testimony to the need ‘and value of personality, Lord- Kitchen- er’s biography bears ample evidence of the remarkable influence of his per- of w 1| an sonal power in the enlistment xa everything thet man is or can be in wis called “Kitchener’s Army.” whatever me Py said about the vast nunmibers of fers engaged, the marvellous equipment, and the multi- tudinous details necessary in modern warfare, the Commander counts for-as{ much as he ever did. The name of Foch is a sufficient proof of the ab- solute necessity of personality to in- sure victory. It is not too much to say that if history has any real meaning for us, personality stands out through the as the greatest power, and in- dividuality as the most potent factor of human affairs.. It was not, an as- sociation that discovered , but one man, Columbus. It was not a syndicate that invented the steam en- gine, but one man, James Watt. It was ,| note corporation’ that wrote the Pil- grim‘’s Progress, but one man, John Bunyan, It was not a society that: posed the Moonlight Sonata, but knowledge and force of individual lives. | Jt is, therefore, surprising that al- though personality has always been prominent, and, indegd..gu preme. andy is being specially emphasized at th present time in every phase of life, | God is to be regarded as imprisonal. To quote a writer on this subject, “While we are striving to run our business on a/personal basis, we are to try to run the Universe on an im- personal basis."" The fact is that per- i sonality is the highest category of i human thought and life, and it is im- ‘ possible to conceive of God as lack- ing in the very element which we know is the supreme fact and factor in our own lives. Personality in man implies and in- eludes three things: intellect, emo- tion, and will, and however much we may regard the personality of God + a8 different from thet of man, and, of course, transcending it, there must be something in God answering to these three elements if man’s life is toe find its full and true realization. The three essential rquirements of every life are trust, love, and duty, atid it almost goes without saying that we cannot trust a principle, or love a principle, or "obey a principle. These vital attitudes of human life spring from man’s own personality, and must find their object and com- plete realization ina Divine Person- ality, in Whom we can have faith, to Whom we can show affection, and we Whom we can render loyalty. It is at this point that the Incar- nation of Jesus Christ becomes so necessary for life. Christ was “God manifest in the flesh,” and His claim, vindicated through ‘the ages, was, “He that hath seen Me hath seen the Father.” Our highest knowledge of God comes from Christ, and the rev- elation of God as a Divine Person Is essential to all true relations of man to Christ as Saviour, Friend and Mas- ter. ‘When this is understood the question of-personality in God is at once and forever settled, because it is seen to touch life at every point to be-an absolute necessity for relatio Ready To Back It Up— Chesley Enterprise— We under stand ex-President Halbert jumped on The Enterprise man with both feet at a picnic amSilver Lake in Kinloss township because we called him a political fakir and hypocrite for talk- ing one way and voting another 6n the salary grab. We repeat the charge and challenge Halbert to meet us on any public platform in Ontario and we will prove our charge. Further, if our statement is not correct, it is will prove it out of the mouths of many witnesses that he was not one of the eleven who stood up when the House was in Committee of the Whole to vote against the indemnity being annum. We ha¥é documents in our 5, desk that will give the lie to Halbert. ries, in- hs: ‘sorry -idgates hasn’t repented 8 meet for repentance. | He is atin in ihe gall ot Ufffecenes, ox ema = a School | Supplies oie Livingstone The Druggist Telephone 69 which has been constantly and amply RAILWAY GRAND TRUNK STEM Double Track Route between MONTREAL TORONTO DETROIT CHICAGO Unexcelled Dining Car Service, Bleeping cars on night trains and parlor cars on prineipal day trains. Full information from any Grand Trunk Ticket agent or C. BE. Horning District Passenger Agent, Toronto, A. M. SMITH, Station Agent. J. A. HACHING, Town Agent. “Did anyone cémment on thé@§ay you handle your new car?” “Oné man Made a brief remark—'Fifty dollars and costs." libellous, and we invite Halbert to! sue The Enterprise for libel and we)’ increased from $2,500 to $4,000 per, cous ' Ohio. Bold by alt