‘ _ FROM OTHER PAPERS (aii ‘erticiee ie eel The Banner doesn’t “Mecosearity agres expressed.) A BLUFF, WE'LL SAY. (Walkerton Times.) At the moment when it is an- nounced that freight rates are to -come down, the Bell Telephone Com- pany asks for another increase. Per- haps this is intended to forestall a ode! mand for reductions. WASTE OF MONEY (Stratford Beacon) aa would almost seem that the jel : Was a waste of money. Niaga: ‘Falls is the latest to object to ite tig- ures, there being a disparity of some 4,000 between the local and the “‘of- ficial’’ Ottawa figures. CONSOLATION. Toronto Star) The Farmer’s Sun expresses regret that Mr. W. A. Amos, who was one of the commissionaries who denounced . the Hydro radial scheme, was not ap- pointed a-member of the Provincial Hydro Commission. It consols itself with the idea that he will be the next es of railways and canals at Ott . GREAT CHANGES. (Amherstburg Echo.) In years that have gZone,w»and not s0 very long ago, advertising matter could be seen [all through the coun- try o rds,.telegraph- poles, etc., but that day has gone, because a ‘farmer in fhis auto drives too fast ‘to read the posters. Not many years ago farmers came town in buggies or wagons to get thely mail, do shop- ping and other change has taken (place, most every farmer has a mail box at his gate or telephone in his house, and his car ‘to drive around in. The way to get the attention of farmers is through the home town paper. A gr FOR DEMPSEY? Ford's Weekly.) The difficulty which one race hus in understanding another is again exemplified by former President Poincare, of France, who suggests} that Jack Dempsey's prowess be éel- ebrated by the erection of an heroic statue of the prize fighter. Even Dempsey has something back in his head. which will tell him that the dis- tinguished Frenchman has struck i false note. It may be that the former president of France wished to be gul- lant to the Americans; it may be that he wished to stimulate interest in physical developement in his own , country, but he quite misunderstands| the estimate which (oa American people place on sey and events similar to that whieh occurred on July: 2. IT WOULDN'T WORK. (London Advertiser) A professional rainmaker, having delivered the goods for a section of Alberta, somebody down this way proposes that the Ontario Govern- ment organize a making depart- Ment to cope with such a drought as prevailed during June and July. The Government should move cautiously in ithis' matter. We doubt if any -ad- ministration would have the temer- ity to decide when it should rain or when not. Ontario is the prize picnic province of the Dominion. From May until October every day is a pienic day, and we eee an early and turid finish to any government which hands the Irishmen a perfect day and next week turns the tap on the Scotch, the English or the Welsh, if anybody imagines that the Baptists. for instance, would be willing to ac- cept a }wet day while the Presbyter- ians and the Methodists were hand- ed the “‘fair and warm” variety, well. they don’t know the Baptists, that’s all. The Government is not going er lose the Baptist vote in a lump, n if it knows it, nor the Methodist, ae _the Presbyterian. And wouldn’t the Lions roar and the Kiwanians whoop and the Rotarians rotate frenziedly if they couldn't get a nice day for their outing? You bet they would. This is @ ‘matter that had better be left to Providence, so far as ,Ontario is concerned. |Any government as- suming the responsibility for the weather is headed for destruction. STREET CAR INCIDENTS (Mail and Empire) The Indianapolis News tells about a street car seating incident in its city. Going home after eight hours of hard toil, two young women were squeezed into the car aisle. To every- one’s surprise, an elderly man rose to offer one of the girls his seat. “Take my seat,”’ he said, “you look much more tired thanvel.’” Gratefully one of the girls started for the seat, but a tall, husky young man was ahead of her. “Naw, yuh don’t,” he snarted. “I guess I'm nearer the seat than you are,’’ and started to sit down. - “Well, I guess if you are going to take the seat, I’may as ‘well keep it until I am ready to. get off,’ said the elderly man. Two blocks farther, the young man popped into the seat and the ladies stood. . That is an jindianapolis incident. Here is‘a Toronto street car incident of somewhat different stamp. In a crowded car, in w were several young women full of the zest of youth, to judge by their giggling and air of superiority, an old lady about seventy entered. No one at the end of the car offered her a seat, though a couple of yards away, a man rose, mationsé her to come forward through the aisle-standers, and take his seat. One of the young girls, who saw that the old lady was beckoned, promptly dropped into the seat when vacated. “Tam sorry,”” quietly said the man to her, “but that seat was in- tended for that old lady coming for- war The remark was heard by a dozen persons, and the young lady, who thought she could “get away” with the seat without any comment, look- ed as if she would like to fall through the floor. But she sat there. AN END TO STANDARD CLOTHING (Toronto Globe) Both of the schemes of the British Government to standardize clothing, and thus to lessen the cost of it, have proved Ifailures. When prices ruled exceptionally high during the war the Board of Trade, through a_ special] section organized standard suits and standard overcoats. These were muh advertised by ‘free advance publicity | on the part of the (Press, and consid- erable disappointment ensued be- cause the goods did not come on to the market as quickly as was expect- ed. Several factors caused the delay. ne was the disinclination of the trade to be controlled. Eventually, however, the scheme got into working order, and at the ttime of demobiliz- ation standard suits and overcoats enabled the authorities to clothe the men released from the The general public, oo did not bene- fit to the extent expect The second scheme, a The West- minster Gazette, came into being in May lgst year, when the Government were concerned respecting labor, which had reason to complain of the rising cost of living. The authorities sought to appease the workers, and essayed to set up jagain the machin- ery governing standard clothing. They sought the co-operation of the wholesale trade, and the leading members agreed to support the pro- posal for the reasons adduced. Delay ensued on the part of the Board of Trade Committee in fixing the de- tails, and not until January of the present year was the scheme in thor- ough working order. By that time the whole situation in the clothing trade had undergone revolution. In July last year a great slump commenced, and prices fell, so that by the time the new standard clothing was placed on the market the public could buy on much better terms. There was, therefore, no great inducement for the retail trade to stock for suits, nor for the public to buy them. An offic- ial announcement brought the scheme fo an end jon August 15, and added that ‘‘decontrol should take place as from that date.’ ESCAPING INCOME TAX (Mail and Empire.) It is said that throughout Quebec rural districts, few farmers will : liable for income tax. Their earnings, on the average, bring them in the taxable class, but they escape because of the large number of children in their families. One farmer in Chi- coutim{ reported $4,100 net for 1920, but has eleven children under eight- een, and his exemptions of $200 each mn that account wipe out his Mab- ility. This is a good hint to others, farm- ers or otherwise, who feel hurt by the income tax. It is possible to ach- ieve total immunity if the income he not over $5,000.~ Ontario pays the principal part of the Dominion in come tax, and the cities and towns pay about 97 per cent. The Ways and Means Committee of the Republican Congress is said to have decided on an exemption of $400 for each child under sixteen, jand if the Dominion Government detided to do likewise. five children under eighteen would eancel Hability for tax on an income of $4,000. It thus might be a good economic proposition. Unquestionably the high cost of living has compelled limitation to families. In the cities and towns where high rents, high taxes, and general exorbitant costs oppress the breadwinner, a _ large . ~licy, and in this helps point the ‘bullfight and the prize fight. family stems fike a sentence to per- petual poverty. As it is the children! who count in the national life, on-| couragement to have large families! ought to be part of the national pol- t birth otatiacios indicate that met Meg aaiavel: .increase. W. tained our relative Pdr ty Bis! - cally’ by immigration from the Brit-|- ish Isles. This may keep on without serious shrinkage of Our populatiou, | but the natural increase and plain talk on race suicide woulda do no harm. PRIZE FIGHTING AND BULL ‘ FIGHTING (Dearborn Independent.) An eminent Spanish writer is scornfully critical of Anglo-Saxon barbarism as exemplified in the in- terest shown in the recent Dempsey- Carpenter boxing match. “How thin the veneer of civilization of the Am- ericans,” he ‘sadly reflects, “when two human brutes pummeling, each other until their bodies are nothing but lumps of ‘bruised and bleeding flesh afford a spectacle that draws nearly 100,000 of them, including many women, into a great wooden in- closure!” ‘ One of the contestants in the re- cent event was not an Anglo-Saxon, but a Latin, and in his own country, he becamg a great popular idol when he, by a clever fist blow, laid the Eng- lish champion, Beckett, senseless at his feet. The fact aside, we Anglo- Saxons are ‘far from singular in the atavism that, in spots, ranges us with the populace that crowded the Col- osseum in older days when Christ- ians were “butchered to make a Ro- man holiday.”’ Rather nearer to the gladiatorial combats of ancient Rome than the Jersey City spectacle must be reckoned the ‘bullfights now as ever in such high favor with all clas- ses in Spanish countries. A’ recent dispatch from Beziers in France, a city memorable Yor the massacre of the Albigenses back in 1209, is in point. It hardly signals any very superior refinement in bull- fighting over boxing. ‘‘At the begin- ning of the bullfight,”’ reads the item, “the Spanish matador Flores, after having been rmed by the bull was terribly gored, his right lung being pierced by the bull’s horn. The matador was removed to the hospital in a serious condition. Meantime, the bullfight continued amid the accla- mation of 20,000 spectators.” Comparisons are odious, and there may be little 'to choose between the Both are evidence that, especially en masse, neither ‘Saxon, Celt nor Gau! is separated from the blood just of barbaric ages by more than a thin lay-| | er of superficial culture. Perhaps the fairest way of looking at it, would be to see in both prize fighting and bullfighting corrupted surviving vestiges of the lympian Games.It may seem a far cry from the wreath of the wild olive for which the old ‘Greek athletes contended to the big purses attached to modern championship bouts. But the revival of the Olympian Games in our own day surely testifies to a regard for the spirit of ‘courage and fair play which may some day find its fuller expansion in all the dealings of man with man. AS LONG AS “WET” HOLDS OUT (Ford's Weekly.) The “wets” and the “wide opens” find it hard to realize that they are the tail-end of a disappearing ern and are shortly due to ove tked round the corner and out of. sight. For a long time objects of con- tempt and abuse, they are now in line to become objects of pity, which is the last stage They are now the victims of poetic, justice—somebody is going to get! MONEY their last cent, as a barkeep oak to| panies have known for a long time, get the last cent of the beer-soak on) —that it pays to advertise? One de- pay- -night. Somebody is telling tha; “‘wets"’ that they have a chance, that if they will play on the next turn of the legislative wheel they will win. The poor “wets” are falling for the “come on” game. It is not surprising. There was nev- er so stupid a business, so stupidly conducted, as was the Hquor busi- ness. It generated the poison that fin- ally killed it. Forty years ago the liquor traffic was fighting the en- actment of laws prohibiting it from selling liquor to @hildren. Twenty years ago it was fighting laws which were intended to keep the _ saloon from owning Sunday—as the Movies now own it. The liquor business flout- ed all American decency, in the first place; poisoned its customers with chemicalized liquors, in the second place; and then wondered why the wrath of America arose like a storm and-swept it away. There have been only two businesses in history that deliberately killed its customers— one was the saloon and the other was the brothel. Liquor propaganda will continue just as long as the “wets” have money to put into it. The propagandists are not acting from principal or conviction, but fer w Aside from the boozy newspaper humorist who doesn’t know that the Ss [=] Quebec's achievement moral, Cate ee begeen that e main-} ~ All the men whose names appear head of gigantic businesses which have been con- sistent users of Newspaper Advertising. Lord Leverhulme Thomas Edison Lord Shaughnessy Wm. Wrigley ; Sir Herbert Holt Marshal Field Sir John Eaton John Wanamaker Sir Joseph Flavelle Henry: Ford { Sir Woodman Burbidge P. C. Larkin Sir Joseph Beecham Hon. Frederic Nicolls Sir Thomas Lipton H. C. Cox J JH Gundy Herbert Cowan A. Pierpont Morgan James Ryrie J.E.Ganong - Patrick Burns ear-above ate at the Their judgment will commend itself to each man who is resolved to build his business to the point of ultimate-achievement. New Era is here and who cracks his feeble liquor joke every evening—his bribe being nothing more, perhaps, than A surreptitous “‘quart’’—all the others are paid for their propaganda, just as the non-cigaret-smoking mov- je hero is specially paid to “roll his own” in a picture. On the stage, in the comics, everywhere, the ‘‘wet" money is being used. Maybde it is in Congress too. Anyway, the plain American cit- izen who wishes to understand the situation may rest assured of this: there is no public sentiment for the; ty of liquor or the saloon. Every- g that resembles it is stage play, skilieully made pp and- paid for. When the money of the “wets” is allj fooled away from them America will! be dry: CHURCH AND ADVERTISING (The Christian Guardian.) Is the church finding out at last what the breakfast food and uto- mobile manufacturers, the sicarette makers and the talking machine com- nomination has at least for the prot- estant Episcopal Church of the United States at two important conferences! this week has endorsed unanimously the use of the advertising columns of the press for general church adver- tising as well as for evangelistic pur- | poses. It decided, moreover, to give} »the action immediate effect und the! Headquarters News Bureau of that church has been requested to add at once to its staff an expert in adver- tising to co-operate in preparing and suggesting advertising copy for the use of the various dioeses and par- ishes throughout the country. ._ That the Episcopal Church should be the first to form this press alliance; is not surprising to metropolitan re- porters, for this denomination, for some time past, has been experiment- ing with success along just these same lines of co-operation. It is in- teresting to ‘note the accuracy, the completeness, and the zest with whicb the consecration of Dr. William T., Manning as Bishop of New York was reported. At the dinner to the new | bishop at Waldorf Hotel, it was found that Bishop Manning would noe speak till very late in the evening The man from the Associated Press; needed the speech early in order to telegraph it to distant points cover- ed by his news service. He left the press table and went to the bishop’s You Can Afford a College Training the fear of for higher education. very near home. featured. Western d Entrance is by Junior nurses courses other investment of time a October 3rd. cu training is now within the rea turn you aside from your determin 4 Western University will train you in Arts, Medicine or Public Health at a minimum expense, M ted in your community. 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The statement announcing the de-- cision of the Episcopal Church just published reads: “This action taken by one of the big church organizations of the country marks a distant advance in the attitude of the church towards the secular press, and is part of the: forward movement inaugurated in Espiscopal Missionary Society ‘which will be celebrated throughout the world the coming November.” It is a “distinct advance” and it is one that the other denominations in Canada and the United States will watch with interest. 1S MAGciE HOME - MARY? | “BRINGING UP FATHER” OH! YES SIR-AND - SHE 15 WAITING FOR. YOU -siR- SHE'S VERY R ANGRY- YOU HAD BETTER NOT <4o uP STAIR®D - WELL-IF | HAVE TO GO TO THE HOSPITAL - THE SOONER | SEE MAGGIE AN' HAVE IT OVER - THE GETTER- MENTAL! THAT THING OUGHT JT SE USEFUL AS WELL AS ORNA- NOW: MAGGIE - DARLIN’ WiLL YOu LISTEN OTO REASON