: The provi , says prohibition has been a ee - was introduced ther _ the number of deserted farms in Old HEAR IT (Toronto Glabe) Has the leader of the: Liberal party 4n Ontario any meséage for the elect- ors on the question of prohibition? IN A FINANCIAL HOLE (Toronto Globe) - Every eat a country in -Bu- rope except Great Britain, is now in @rastic taxation during the war. IT SURE HAS * (Toronto Globe) treasurer of Quebec in the United States and mer ee From the point of view of the liquor interests he is quite right. THEIR-SAFEST WAY (Toronto Globe) » A Conservative contemporary exz- plains that, the Meighen government could have averted defeat in West Peterboro’ by not putting up a can- didate. Here is a brilliant idea for the general election. * BRAVE MEN! (Farmers’ Sun) They are brave men in Michigan! ‘A bill has been introduced into the State Legislature which will make the wearing of high heels a crime. Why didn’t they go a step further and - put the ban on drug store complez-| ns. TIDE HAS TURNED ses Farmera Sun) Last summer farmers pleaded in vain to get men to go out and hoe potatoes and turnips, pick apples or stook grain. Now farmers are being asked to ‘donate loads of vegetables, to the hungry in the cities. The old saying “If a'man will not work neith- er shall he eat,” still holds true. TIMES HAVE CHANGED — (Brusseis’ Post) ‘ Judging by the announcements in the Toronto Saturday dailies no stone is left unturned to call the attention) @ the public to the Sabbath services. Many of the methods would not have found favor with the ‘‘old folk” of years ago but of course they were of the old-fashioned type and went to ; church to worship God. THE iPROFIT TAX (London Advertiser) Is it not about time for Canada to follow the lead of Hngland in cancel- ing the business profits tax? When it some” eet for , but. aes generally, it does. not seem necessary | £0 that it = continued longer.* In fact, there is plenty of evidence to show that it is acting as a deterrent to trade and industry. Manufacturers espec- fally have been hampered and handi- capped by the tar, ad well as those who would launch new enterprises. In the old country it has been abol- ished because Was cramping and sopiine business of all kinds. pert investigators believe that such stagnation as Canadian trade and in- dustry is suffering from is due in some measure to the business profits tax. AUCTION SALES _(Farmers’ Sun) Pick up any country weekly and you will be surprised to find an un- usually large number of auction sales announced. As g rule these take piace in the early spring months, but the present list is exceptionally large for this time of year. Of course the city press will say that the farmers have become so rich that they are selling out and are mov- ing to town where they will live for the rest-of their days on the fortune they accumulated. Those of us who know farm conditions realize tbat this is mot the reason farmers quit and go to town. The truth of the matter is that they have been worn on with the endless struggle, the long hours, the shortage of help and the Mméagre returns; the whole combining , to force them to seek an easier Hte * for the remainder of their days. One of the tragedies of modern times is Ontario. {PLAYING {THE -FOOL (Dumb :Animals) Phat’s what, as & natiop, we seem inclined to do. We havéh't had en- ough war. We evidently relished the jong lists of dead and wounded that used to fill up the columns of the daily press. We want still heavi taxes. We have grown fond of wast- img money. We want to waste a few billion moré.. So we have begun to talk about the greatest navy in the ‘world. We intend to be ready for Japan. If the leading nations of the @arth, after these past six years, haven't sense enough to take some wffective stéps to reduce armaments'| mand to end war, they deserve abandoned by Heaven to destroy was, perhaps,! d to be/ 1 Think of the Gemand of the Sec- retary of a wary for 659 aio of ar 1921! Four schoolboys, one an Amerfi- can, one an Z ; one & Fren¢hman, and one a Japanese, | could come to ab agreement that ‘But band the matter over to the dip- lomats’and the case is declared hope- less. PICTURES AND PROHIBITION (Ford's Weekly) . There are probably irik As tow. who will attempt to deny that the saloon- keeper was responsible largely for prohibition. He overstepped the laws as a leader of organized evil that so- ciety finally wiped out his trade to be rid of him. The motion picture producers who are serving up cheap sex Stories and who are crowding the market with these. stories until it is hard to find a picture house that does not flaunt suggestive lithographs, are due to go the way of the saloonkeeper. The and the result will be the passage of censorship laws of such severity thet the picture business will have to be rebuilt. ‘The liquor-business never listened to warnings until too jate. It made the mistake of thinking that the only people who favored clganliness were @ it sneered/at ac “‘raform- ‘a Man does not would make war an impossibility.) so frequently and was so conspicuous | public will tire of their salociousness | te SS SSS SS Sa heaton : : SSS WS Fx crane re eer Ne ee ~ When Ontario’s Premier ‘Rode the Iisture tresenoctirc SUS, sbeCop eves ceived his third degree as a Mason in the presence of of: party. Goat” eare mombheoerr nf - pangeses sans ane ORL DRIAL. wctphidowetg 1 Tuesday evening, “Hon. BH. C. Drury, premier of Ontario, re- half a hundred members of. se Ontario legis- >» - ae conception « of f treatment 1 the premier received at hands ot “opposing 1 po- Ine Anwn * scacicneanes sagen Drawiz artist's | ‘ever, of the. txpe that dominates mo- tion picture producing today, save perhaps the few who, like Griffith with his “Way Down | t,””. gauge the people's desires ‘correctly. A WAGE PROBLEM (Orange Sentinel) If the cost of living is to be the then the single man should Ae the a lower wage than the married ma: One who has to provide only for his own needs does not require so much money as one who has a wife to main- tain. e man who has a wife and two children carries an extra burden; andthe man with four or six children} cori heavier obligations. wae s fixed to provide comfortable} phen d for the single man, those who are married could not get alge If the rate is adjusted to the needs of the married man the bachelor will get much more than he needs. r-socialists think it is the, ualize con- is) attempted ee vary thé.scale of wages, as between single and married men, it would almost produce a re- volution. And yet to do so would be exactly in line with the altruism o basis upon which wages must rest,| Ww ‘| Borah. any ie orgie holding che fiself the Communists. Why should onej eral reduction of armament would relieve them from some of the bur- dens of the war and help them to get on their feet again indus y and financially. , It upholds ‘the Vis ts of the Gen Board of the Navy, but arms and fore arms are the policy of professional fighters all over the orid. ; This report has yet to run the gauntlet of the Senate, and it may, tapi other projects before Congress, be intended more for ee =e ete than for practical eff presentation of it will remove te chief gpeonaen to the discussion of the resolution introduced by Senator in favor of a naval conference / between the United States, Great Britain and Japan. ' The — of ‘the three countries is radically dif- ferent. Britain is an island Empire existence. » Japan, too, een a more self-contained . But the United States all the resources necessary f ; ence, and also for growth, aieh if a were cut off from all outside com- munication. It does not need an enormous navy, and least of all does it miped to enter into naval competi-) i with others. It has grown great spend on himself while his shopmate! ust keep four or five others on the poh pay? Bere Those who imagine that there can ever be absolute equality in the dis- tribution of wealth might wrestle with this problem of wages and find a solution that would be generally satisfactory to workmen... a THE EIGHT-HOUR DAY {Toronto Globe- Mr. McNamara’s eight-hour bill introduced in the legislature, is in- teresting only as a signal that he has become a Labor “insurgent,” like Mr. MacBride. There is no likeli- hood that the House will enact a compuisory eight-hour day in Ontar- io, regardless of other provinces. The Labor .group has wisely withdrawn this item of its program for the sess- fon. The eight-hour day has been won by the Labor unions in a large num- ber’ of trades, and probably can be extended with advantage if competi- tion with other parts of the country is not involved. The Province of Quebec is not backward in tempting Ontario manufacturers by its claims that La- ber conditions there are more favor- able from the employers’ point of view. A compulsory eight-hour day in-one Province aione might be a fac- tor that would decide employers in certain industries to carry on their' operations elsewhere. If this question is placed definitely | outside of Federal jurisdiction the eight-hour advocates should endeavor to bring about an interprovincial a- greement. Such a law should be in- ternational, but that is harflly a real- izable ideal in the near future. Fail- ing that, it should, so far as Canada is concerned, be nation-wide in its application. THE UNITED STATES NAVY {Toronto Globe) The report of the U. S. Senate Naval Affairs Committee that that “country should maintain a navy at east equal to that of any other pow- er” will be a disappointment to other themselves. countries which had hoped that a gen- Some goods pay more profit © thanothers. Usually ithequality the srenterths profit. rpays morefor Red Ss for‘other teas—and he sells it ata less profit. . When you buy Red Rose you The Rose buy the best. f , the poorer man haye forty dollars a week to Pras in peace, and continued peace will, give it an unrivalled advantage, in- dustrialiy and financially, over coun- tries worried by encroachments and jealousies of their neighbors. “FORBIDDEN TO RIDE” (London Free Press) The protest of the royal family against the vehement desire of the Prince of Wales to ride in the grand military steeplechase, which comes off in the spring, and the fact that King George actually vetoed the proposi- tion, has given rise to some comment and criticism. ‘Many people look upon the*estric- tion as arbitrary curtailment of that personal liberty which ‘is so dear a thing to the heart of every British- er. They see in King George’s order an ungracious use of the royal prero- gative, and, in the strenuously ex- pressed family objection, a fireside tyranny that, so often, has brought misunderstanding and indifference a- mong the members of the every-day families. The desire of the Prince is a nat- ural and.a healthy one. He wanted to prove his horsemanship, and he, in gratitude to the givers of the mount, ‘Kincaid, which he had intend- ed to ride, wished \to show the Aus- tralians his appreciation of their splendid gift. The royal family are doubtiess fear- ful lest some accident befall the son and brother they love so well, and, the King, as father, of course, is stirred by paternal affection and solicitude to ask his son to give up a so dangerous amusement. When the question-is viewed, by the King, from the standpoint of ruler and trustee to the people, for the well-being, insofar as he can control it, of his successor, then King George is under the obligation to give an authoritative *‘No” to the an. The basis for this refusal! is twod fold. There has been in the Unit Kingdom, ever since the days of George II., an unwritten tradition that no King of the land and née im- mediate successor to,the throne shall, consciously and willingly, place them- selves in a position of immediate dan- ger when there is not an absolute necessity by leading armies to battle, and, second, th-3 same tradition holds in regard to entering upon any ex- pedition that contains in it a degree of danger to the participants. The first, of course, is evidently the outcome of the desire, in time of war, to assure the presence of the ruler for councillor duties, the latter, to pre- serve the stricter line of descent and to give occasion for no -unnecessary disruption of state affairs. There is no fear that such restrict- fons are likely to have the effect fn “softening,” for there are sq7many casions Ps the lives of kings anit princes reise of the _bishest| manly oat kingly virtues. When all js said, it is but one of the limitations ‘‘that doth hedge a king”—for the sake of his people— and must be accepted as such. THE FARMER AND THE WEEKLY (London Free Press) The Farmers’ Magazine suggests} extension of piesa gaiiery accommo- Saten in the Jegislative chamber at Toronto, so that. editors of weekly papers throughout the province might be provided for when they drop in during the session, and also adds this commendation: “There is no newspaper which deserves better at the hands of the farmer than the local week- ly. As a rule they give well, fair- ly and impartially the news of the district, and most of us owe more to their wise publicity than we think.” The Free Press, in paying a tribute not long ago to this class of journal in Western Ontario, regretted the ab- sence nowadays in so many weeklies editorial opinion. The following further utterance of The \Farmers’ Magazine may or may not have a “There may be a few in- stances where these papers are running counter to the best in- terests of the farmers, but such a@ course will not long be possible to a solvent business.” And yet The Farmers’ Sun, for ex-; ample, registers wild alarm over the possibility of manufacturing interests | influencing editorial utterances in the press! Of course, the punishment to be inflicted upon the country, editor whose views do not happen to coin- cide with those of the farmers’ or- ganizations will be withdrawal of subscriptions. But the main support of the country weekly, and most/other papers, comes from its advertisers. Advertising patronage of farmers is almost negligible, because they sel- dom market goods that way, and the weekly paper must sell space to merchants in the center in which it is published. These grocers and dry goods men, hardware and implement dealers, and the like, must in turn do business with the farmers. The mar- ket center, whether urban or rural, cannot live within itself. But an effort is being made to extend the co-operative marketing movement— with which no one finds fault, and which bot) gévertiments are aiding —to embrace a system of co-operative oe. The United Grain Growers, n the West, issue a retail catalogue bd big as that of any city department aes The U. F. O. already has a mber of “distributing centers” and will have more. Consider, in addition to this, the heavy patronage accord- ed by farmers to department stores in Toronto, ip the purchase of art- icles, a great many of which could be bought to equal advantage from merchants in the nearest and logica! market town or city, and figure out where the business men who support. the country weekly are likely to land. Principal Reynolds, of the O. A. C., mourns the disappearance of village industry. Who is to blame? The miss- ing tradesmen are probably working in departmental stores or the factor- fes which supply them. If a country paper has a paid-up subscription list containing the name of every farmer in its district, that revenue is still barely sufficient to cover the cost of paper and ink. We submit to the common sense of farmers who buy far afield that the weekly which The Farmers’ Magazine praises so highly cannot subsist on the business card of the local veterinary and an occas- jona) auction notice. TRADING WITH RUSSIA ( Youths’ Companion) Everyone is ready to admit that Europe, and indeed the-whole civil- ized world, needs the things that un- der normal conditions Russia can produce. Many persons believe that trade with Russia is ‘maliciously hampered by the governments of the other nations, and that all we have to do to set up the old relations with Russia is to induce our various gov- ernments to say the word. eeeeneeeteeeeeaeeneeoenenvnanweaan hardly be carried on@in any large Strictly speaking, it is not true that Russia ig blockaded. Any merchant who has the necessary courage can do business with Russia; but under present conditions doing business in Russia is a different thing from what it was in the past. For example, there is no one to trade with except the soviet government, The individual manufacturer or exporter no longer exists, and the American merchant can deal only with an official of the buregucracy at Moscow. Now, the Moscow government has little to ex- change with the American business man. Production is insufficient even for the needs of Russia itself—at least, production as qualified by the poor transportation. The Moscow authorities can pay only in gold or in other portable property that they seized from the banks and factories when the revolution occurred, arfd no government of importance hag e up its mind to recognize the iat of the Bolsheviki to those things. Our mints and y offices will not ac- cept Russjdn gold, because our gov- ernment assumes that it is stolen property. So, too, the English courts have denied the title of the soviet government to some valuable veneers that it exported in return for British goods it desired, and have restored the wood to the former own- ers, who had sued for it. That has discouraged English merchants who were inclined to take a chance. American courts would probably take the same ground. Finally, since we have not recog- nized the soviet. government, there are no American consuls or diplo- matic agents in Russia. A merchant whe takes al! the other risks must do so knowing that, if he is treated un- justly in any way, there is no help for him; his government will not take up his cause. For all those reasons, trade with Russia, though not forbidden by the United States government, is net at- tractive to our business men. It can volume until some Russian govern- ment gets recognition from the other governments of the world. Hitherto the frank boast of the soviet leaders that their government existed only to overthrow every other government has made it impossible for any other state, whether monarchical or repub- lican, to establish relations with Mos- cow. Lenine, having under pressure of circumstances abandoned one af- ter another of his original principles, is apparently casting about for an excuse to stop defying the world and to try to do business with it instead. Those who understand the Russian situation best believe that for him that would be merely. substituting political for economic ruin. Without foreign trade Russia must relapse into something like complete barbarism; but if foreign trade is es- tablished, the nation is not likely to submit long to the interference and blundering of the doctrinaires and bureaucrats who are neg in control Only as militant heralds of revolu- tion have the Bolsheviki any effic- fency; they would fail in commerce. as they failed in production. s s s * s s s * * - For Solicttor-General : | “HL (B.” Again Mentioned Ottawa, Feb. 14.—The en- ergetic mipority of Unionist members with Cabinet aspira- tions for themselves or others are still banging away in the hope of making the unwilling general run of members, see the matter differently. In spite of the slump in re- organization prospects for the moment, a certain amount of eanvassing for favorites pro- ceeds For Solicitor-General the , ehoice seems now to lie be- tween W. A. Boys of South eeeneeene7n#e#5reeneer*er#srkeer#er#e#e#se#nteeneee Simcoe and Morphy of Listowel, representing North Perth * s e 2 s s es es s s 4, Lee eer eee ee eee eee eee eee ee eneeheeseenesri eee ee ee yof tackling something different. 7, as Oe 8 ifs uceececcncccecccenemsbevsncccececébexecc aaa phatic. Sol just got @ Tight after tunch bre} here am. “I have thought of you ev-- ery single minute and would certainly have called before, if I had not been so dreadfully _ busy, but we’re having the house done over—kind of Col- onial—it looks grand—I held out for ivory wood-work until ft am a perfect wreck—-Elmer is. so stubborn. I have thought of you so much. stranger to me. lots of my family and some of Elmer's. Well, as I always say, ‘Death is death and life is life.’ There’s no denying that. “I did so want to come to the funeral, but I was having a girl to clean by the hour—for- ty-five cents an hour—and I didn’t dare leave her for fear she wouldn't doa thing. It’s so hard to get them. They'd rather run élevators doOwn- town. I don’t know what will become of the lower classes with so much artificial excite- ment. ‘ can't be healthy to tide up a douwa oii uay iv 1 went a in the Woolworth York, and 7 thought it would kill me. I am so highstrung. . ‘Well, death is a sad thing. There's no denying that. I know just exactly how you feel. Elmer says he never saw anything like the way I can put myself in other peoples’ dre wee places. It’s just a gift—my disposition is. Vou’re lsoking awfuuy run down. Why don’t you so to some good face special- ist? Maybe it’s wearing black. It's not good on you. Now it is on ‘me, but I'd never wear ‘it, except for Elmer. I con- sider it depressing, and I never want to depress anyone. “You must keep your spirits up. I saw your husband on the street yesterday and he looked mighty bad to me— sort of a bad color. I'd be a- / fraid of apoplexy, if 1 were you. It runs in his family. don't it? “Everybody is having their troubles. Mrs. Allen's daugh- ter died on the operating table this morning—acute apper- dicitis. You never did have your appendix out, did you? It's kind of dangerous to fool with those kind Of things. She was run-down from teach- ing Latin. “I must be going. I just dropped in io cheer you up a little. Good-bye, my dea>, and do keep your spirits up. Just remember ‘Life is life and death is death.’ You will find that very comforting.’ '—From Judge. @erveeeet®* eee eanvnver eee ee eveevrenvneee eee eer eee ereekee env ee ae oer eve emeerveer eee e ener eevreeve ee eee eee eee vee eee sleelesbesbesetedeteededeelesterdecteelesleclesbeebesbeelesbeciecdecies + ry de eeieeeeieieteicieteiedebebtetebeeiet: An editorial in the Vancouver Daily Sun is eloquent of what can be done on the land by a returned soldier who has ithe ‘‘grit’’ to tackle his recon- struction problem with the game cour- age and spirit which imbued him when he “joined up.’ The editorial is as follows: J. E. Fagg served as private with the Princess Pats during the war. He won fame in a:ifamous regiment. But the end of the war put a period to his soldiering career. Instead of drifting back to a city job, he turned toward the western plains. The Can- adian government staked him to a farm and machinery. Private—no, Farmer Fagg—built a homesteader’s home and gave his government his note for the farm investment. Then Canada temporarily A SOLDIER'S GRIT a - + 4 lost ' track of ex-Private Fagg. But the day of harvest surely comes round. The government in Ottawa heard from ex-Private Fagg. “J put in 110 acres of wheat last spring,”’ he wrote. ‘I itake out 3,- 300 bushels this fall. I can pay for my land and all the improvements out of this one crop.” Fine for ex-Private Fagg! But he continues: “I can’t understand why any young fellow should slave away his life in a city for a bare living when he can find a home and independence on a farm."’ Farmer Fagg isn't the only one who cannot understand that. Some people. think it is the movie, the “modern con i " the ti of the city. But they’ re wrong.’ Most often it is that the young fellow hasn't the necessary grit to go out on the land. Often he’s afraid of work and afraid It takes more courage to ibe a hero ona homesteader's acres than when stand- ing elbow-near to others of the Prin- cess Pats or any other regiment As a result of various experiments. government experts have decided that Marquis wheat is the best variety of common wheat for the Northern Great Plains. Experiments were car- ried on at eleven s ns. Marquis wheat was first intrpduced in the United Statea in 19156. It was brought from Cangda.—Ford’s Weekly.