ag Where Thieves Cannot Break In i tel oe plop 3 are safe pines them ina Safety able at branches of this required for a year’s ren security. M. R. HAY, A SRASSECE ED end the tow Gears t guarantee you absolute IMPERIAL. BANK LISTOWEL BRANCH, Manager. cane The Pistowel Banner Published every Thursday after- noon by The Bas Publishing Co. Cc. V. Blatchford President ona General Manager - ing. circulation throughout Perth and portions of the County of Wellington. No advertising can effectively reach the public in the thriving district of ~wkich Listowel is the centre, without -appearing in The Banner. — NOTICE t TT All advertisements must'be in office ‘not later than ten o’clock Tuesday morning to insure insertion in the fol- lowing issue. Telephones: Office 61, Residence) 6. : ’ Our Commercial Department is well equipped for turning out the best work. * * Thursday, sept7¥ite 19 21. + <a i FROM OTHER PAPERS | * ait A FLAT RATE FOR HYDRO. (Farmers’ Sun.) In many parts of the Province there is an insistent and growing demand for a flat rate for Hydro. It appeals to the farmer, as he is ac- eustomed to the flat rate in connec- tion with many of the activities with which he is associated. The beef ring, now so popular in the country, lays down as an axiom that a man living five pie yaway shall not pay any more for his beef than a farmer living at a mile dist- ant. The cheese factory is also operat- ed on the same principal. A man liv-) ing at a distance pays no more for; the hauling of his milk than the! farmer on whose land the factory is located. It is a well-known fact that the’! flat rate rules in regard to postage. | A letter is carried three thousand! miles, from Vancouver to ‘Halifax, | for the same rate as one carried from! Toronto-to Oakville, a distance of} less than thirty miles. oO some extent the flat vails in reg to railway freight rates. The probabilities are that a) railroad would quote as cheap a rate fgr one hundred pounds of freight: going from Toronto to Montreal as, from: Kingston to Montreal. Where consolidated schools oper- ate in the country the flat rate again applies, as children living. at a dis- tance pay no more for transportation than those who ride only a half-mile. To a certain extent the flat rate is Teally maintained in regard to Hydro. Where rural lines do operate-a flat rate is charged for that line; it does not make any difference if one farm- er is within a half-mile of a generat-} ing station and another farmer a doz-! en miles distant; they all pay same rate. There is a flat rate on each system.. Even in the cities the same rate is charged for floor space whether the house is located next door to the transforming station or in the suburbs, ten miles away. Even the flat rate for security is maintained. The Government takes the money or credit of all the Prov- ince to guarantee or secure the bonds of the few. There is much to favor the flat rate theory. Public utilities belong to «all the people, and not to a favored few. If the few people within sight and sound of the Falls owned them, they could shut off the rest of the world from the benefits to be derived from water power. It may cost more to carry a letter across the continent than across the county, but in the interests of @fficiency, good business, rate pre- good-will and national progress the| flat rate is established. The same very largely holds true in regard to Hydro. THE COMING FIGHT. (London Advertiser) That a genera) ‘election will take place before the cldse{of the present year was the momentous ment which was made in London last night by the Right Hon, Arthur Meighen, prime minister of Canada. A definite statement on this matter has been anxiously and eagerly a- waited for many weary months by the people of the Dominion, longing for a cessation of the uncertainiy and unrest which has proved a stumbling block to the post-war per- al of reconstruction and recupera-! “No other course was open to Prem- ier Meighen. By-election after by-el- ection has demonstrated wide-spread dissatisfaction with the present patchwork regime, without beginning! and without end, dnd the murmur- ings of the’ people ‘have every day become louder. From Lapland to Patagonie, from 6ea to sea, civilization has been taught that the Great War was fought in order ito make ‘the world safe from democracy; but so far as Canada is concerned the conclusion Hospital Auxiliary Meeting— ‘The regular monthly meeting of the Women’s Hospital Auxiliary will be held om Monday, September 12th., bfound democracy held of the titanic struggle in Europe up and its hopes and aspirations balked ‘by a Government clinging with barnacle- like tenacity to the ship of state and completely impending its progress. It is well that Mr. Meighen, apart from any motives wf expendiency which may have directed his decision, has so far benefited by his visits to Montreal and other parts of the country-that he has been able to ac- quire ‘a better knowledge of political perspective. His visit overseas, while clarifying his vision imperially, with- drew his hand from the pulse of Canada, and now that he grasps the situation, no other course is open but that which he has intimated. he democracy have now the op- portunity of closing their ranks and winning the fight for progress and justice, and win it they shall, The forces of progressive Liberalism must unite and sweep away every vestige of reaction and unsurped privilege. The men of the country who fought for truth and justice mustprove that they can be vgetors in peace as well as in war. There was never a time in the ‘history of the country which there was more need forjunited action in securing those reférms without which no coun- try om prosper, nor the happiness of its ple be assured. Progress is the Liberal ' irallying cry, and progress is bound to triumph. WHY NOT EXAMINE THE DOC- - TORS? (Ford's Weekly.) Contrary to the haphazard logic of “one w6uld think so,’" the country is not so high in health records as is the city. City living has forced people to learn certain laws which have not yet been learned’in many country districts. As Dean (Vaughan used to say: Bis oi is plenty of fresh alr in the untry, because the country oaagie keep Bll the bad air shut up in their houses.” That observation, however, probably no longer de- | scribes the cqndition. And yet one of the drawbacks of country and village life which is being brought to light by the influx of city people into country districts, is the great lack of medical skill to be found in many ‘villages and small towns. We all know the country doc- tor of the old school find his invine- ible skill joined with common sense and enriched by wide practice under unfavorable conditions; we all know the occasional surgeon who achieves in farmhouse kitchens what the hos- ' pital surgeon achieves in the comfort and safety of ‘the modern hospital operating room. But the “Country Doctor” of other times, with all his dependability, is passing. Gome of us came in time to know him for a while before he passed into the sun- set; we know fhe is not a fi€ure of fiction nor figment of romance; he was real. And we know just as cer- ‘tainly that his successors are not numerous. The country offers a rich field for the! the well-equipped doctor. This fact is apparently overlooked by young men beginning practice. A good doctor, acquainted with modern medical methods, is an fsset to a town an assists its growth. Prospective set- tlers in small towns sometimes hold back because of the quality of its medical men. Like every professional man, the doctor grows with his science, or he goes backward. Not all the backward doctors are in small towns, of course; and not all small town doctors are backward by any means; but the lack of competition in smaller places has a tendency to allow the back- ward ones to go on. If some means could be devised whereby at stated periods, say once in five years, practicing physicians could be fequired to take an exam- ination, the result jmight be a spur- ring up or weeding out of the back- ward ones. Such examinations, how: ever, would have (to be safeguarded against abuses by “medical trust."’ Railroad engineers are exam- ined at stated periods as to eyesight and knowledge of the rules. Other professions and businesses tuke pains to see that their representatives maintain a certain standard ficiency. It ‘would seem that somehow doctors ought to be similary amen- able to periodical examination. {f- ANOTHER “COAL PINCH." (Ford's Weekly) No one can say ‘what the coal sit- uation will be next winter. It can be said, however, what ‘the coal operat- ors wish the coal situation to be, namely, unchanged, or if changed, then with kh bit more pinch in it. This statement is not made on the principal of “ragging’’ the coal men, or of joining the chorus of journal- istic baiters of “big \business”: ams is too much truth in it to permit its use for these purposes. Unfortunately the ruling operators| have not yet been = of “bug” that ought “twenty-dollar coal’ in this country. They so little appreciate the situa- oes he gp they imagine it is only a matter of ‘‘educating”’ the people-in- oA the ‘habit’ of paying twenty dol- “To this end they have not turned their hand over to apply any econom- jes or efficiencies that would enable at three o pater 2tnp. A... - them. to.put coal within the reach of he. people ata price which would —— : \ METHODIST CHURCH Rev. G.-N. Hazen, B.A.D.D., Pastor. Sunday Sept. eae 1921. 11 a.m.—Rev, Dr. 2.45 a LN School.’ 7.00 p.m.—Rev. C. 3. Dobson,.B. A. B. D., a former Listowel boy. now secretary of the department of Evangelism and Social: Service of the Methodist conference in atchewan. CHRIST CHURCH Rev. W. H. Dunbar, Rector and ; Rural Sunday, hong 1ith., 192 ning Prayer. Subject * Salned togettior ih God.”’ 3 p.m.—Sunday Schoo p.m.—Evening Peaver. Subject— “The Soul that God upholds.” COME a m.—Mor, ~ EVANGELICAL CHURCH Cor. ae and Penelope sts. Rev . LY Wing, Pastor. Sunday Sept. oo 1921. 10 a.m.—Public Worship ar a.m.—Bible School. 7.30 p.m.—Public Worship. Sermon by the pastor on the “Suffering and Glory of Christ.”” Followed by Communion we 8 p.m. Mon.—Y. A. 8 p.m. Wed TMiaweer prayer meet- ing Everybody Welcome. d standings’ ‘that they administer - oe in the You Are Invited e ; To the meeting Monday night in the Methodist church, under Epworth League auspices, to be ad- dressed w. Prudham, former mission- ary Japan, ‘who will have an exhibit of curios. v. . Music. by local talent and Miss AGeline Mooney, vocalist of Ripley. Silver Collection. not mean actual pinching to the pur- They have failed utterly as busi- ness men; they have failed utterly to appreciate the fact that they hold monopoly only on sufferance; they have lived, as it were, in a dark mine themselves, oblivious to the possibil- ity that in these days it would be a comparatively easy matter to strip them of control of their monopoly and turn ‘coal-mining jover ito men who think of something | besides ex- tortion. coal operators could sell coal cheaper if freight rates were lower- ed, but they don't want freight rates lowered because that would give the public a taste of lower freight rates. The matter of freight rates as well as coal prices is a matter of operat- ive efficiency, which the controllers of coal have not exhibited; they pre- fer to take the difference out of the people’s pocket instead of out of thelr| own managerial brain It is extremely —— if the people of the United States will con- sent longer than another winter to endure tthe backing and filling of people who speculate in coal mines instead of mining ‘coal. But that the people will probably have to feel the pinch another winter is fairly certain, if certain ‘‘under- between coal operators and certain members pf the adimin- istration are faithfully observed. It is commonly reported among the upper four hundred of the coal] trade that two members of President Hard- ing’s Administration have assured the coal operators that there will be no reduction of freight rates on coal before April, 192 The reason given for that assur- ance is this: certain forehand operat- ors have stored stocks pf ‘coal at various places, having transported it under the going freight rate. To’de- crease the freight rate now would be to allow their competitors to gell, if not at a lower price, then at a larg- er profit. Therefore, because a few dealers have some hundreds of thousands of tons of coal here and there upon which they have paid’ a certain freight rate, it is agreed that the whole 110,000,000 people of the United States will be denied the re- lief that a freig rate reduction might give. That the coal dealers who shipped . early shall make as much profit as the dealers who would ship if rt freight rates were reduced now, the entire United States will ‘be held re another winter. That was a virtual promise made by two members of ‘President Hard- ing’s Administration. Make it a matter of arithmetic; from 110,000,000 subtract the few thousand coal dealers: if you only buy and burn coal, you don’t count in this koal arrangement. ee ees Eee ee ere ee ee amp To BUSH * @orth Battleford Rowes There is\one excellent way for the merchant to.convince him to sit down and watch it go by. So far as his own bus- iness is concerned the proces- sion will not take very long in passing. The man who thinks that no apa ese can ibe done in Canada or in Saskatchewan or in North Battleford these There is a whole lot of money in Canada that is only waiting to be separated from ‘nies who have it and who would be. glad to spend it if they were only shown how The fact that there is some unemployment in portions of Cana the whole country and ready for the soup kit- chen. On the contrary, Canada is getting along quite as well as.any other country that was deeply involved in the war; a good deal of the business “‘de- p ion’”’ seen in the land fs créated by the very men arejbardest hit by it and loud- est In agri its existcnce. the war was On an big wate were being paid and every wheel in the c oyntry was turning night and’ day, easy money ruled. What came easily was easily spent. There was no need to/rustle bus- iness. It came into the store on its own legs. The idea that it ought to still do so, when the war is three years over and instead of fighting Can- ada /is paying, apparently is a hard one for many merchants to abandon. They must aband- on 4t;“however, and get out and make business, as they did in the years before the war, or conditions will go from bad to worse There is nothing in the present business situation in Canada, generally speaking, which should cause men to despond or indulge in gloomy forebodings. What it requires is a little more life in those who have things to-sell. The world is not livi ng today as it did five years ago; something of an all round relaxation has taken place, after the abnor- mal tensions of wartimes. The buyers have relaxed and the sellers have relaxed. The re- sponsibility for reviving busi- ness is with the merchants. It is their business to make business. Good salesmanship does not «Wait for a prospect to make up his mind. It makes it up for him. It does not wait for him » to come to town. It goes out * x into the country after him. «Good salesmanship is aggres- sive and persistent. It does not lie down and whine over a Slack day in the store. It is up early in the morning and late , at night, eternally active in forcing people to keep money in circulation. A little salesmanship of this sort would soon dispel the idea that this is not the time to buy; would get- into the family stocking and turn out its hoard; would put business back on its feet, where it should have been kept. It will take a long time for business to right itself in Canada; but ~* the businessmen can rig ‘ht it in short order if they will dis- play a little of the energy shown during the war. They can no longer expect business to come to them. They must go out and get it. ee ee HORE Tee HOE RE REE HEH ERO RERHE HHH HEHEHE RHR H HOH OHOOHEHE HEH REHRHE OSE OHHH HEHEHE D t dha Svat wa ceuinuccancce Metesvuddea FT TOP ECETT YT TOIT EST Tree Mr. James Rogers left Wednesday to spend a few weeks with his daugh- ter at Toronto. Mrs. Rogers is also in oronto. Moving Into Central Apartments— Mr. J. A. Bailey, the tailor, is mov- ing shortly into an apartment in the “Central” building. Mrs. Bailey is in Parry Sound this week, directing shipment of their household goods. Mr. and Mrs. Donald Montaigue are also taking an aa geal in the “Centrai.” You Are Invited— A special meeting, 10 which the public are invited, will be held on Monday next in the Methodist church, under the auspices of the Epworth League, who have been fortunate in securing Rev. W. W. Prudham of Drayton, a former missionary in Japan, to give an address and exhibit cursos. There will also be musical numbers iby loca] talent and Miss Adeline Mooney, vocalist, of Ripley. Two Listowel Rinks Win— First prize at the Milverton bowl- ing tournament on Labor day went to a ‘Listowel rink composed of Messrs. W. B. Screaton, David rr, ; Walter and E, F. Finkbeiner, who won their four games and ‘a plus of nineteen, in competition with twenty rinks. At Kitchener, in competition with thirty-six rinks, another Lis- towel rink, consisting of Messrs. Joe. Boehmer, Scotty Melrose, Ted Stew- Subtract from the 6.000.000 exer art and Ed. Koch, took third prize. service men the few thousand coal dealers: if you have only your life to offer, you don’t count in this coal ar- rangement. “Whom the gods destroy they first make mad.” The coal operators are conducting themselves as the liquor dealers before prohibition swooped down and swept away—with a total disregard of public — and public needs. The -only possible justification thére can be-for a few men-control- ling @ natural pimouree like coal is best interest of the p That justification - ort "Saba entire: ly ee in recent years. Sells His Residence— Mr. Daniel Domm has sold his res- idenee ‘on the corner of Raglan and Bay streets, to Mr. David Dewar of Elma township, who gets possession the first of November. m's plans for the future are indefinite. The deal was put through by Mr. W > Dowd, who has also sold the 100- cre farm of Mr. John R. Jones at Porene, to Mr. W. H. Angus of De- troit. 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They had} given during the summer, ten open! air concerts for the town, he said. | Recent elaborate experiments have proved that houseflies are attracted, to rooms papered in bright yellow. They do not seem to care about green, blue or orange and dislike red very much. STRATFORD, The largest ern Ontario. A can under instructors in Home study catalogue. Fall Tarni From September 6th., J CENTRAL get Shorthand, and Telegraphy departments. Graduates ass- isted to positions. be arranged. Get our free _ D. A. McLachlan, ONT. and best Commercial School in West- school where thorough experignced Commercial, courses can Principal. Nova Scotia will soon be the only! place on this continent using the for- eign traffic rules. “‘Old country” traf-! fic rules calling for left-hand instead: Dowd’s Sale List of right-hand passings are to be abol-!L ished in Britigh ,Columbia by a law! recently passed by the British Col-} umbia législature. (Sai burr h borreee r 10th.—For Mrs. Bliz- , Inkerman st. west, na