#4) re A y little leaf will ‘goodness’. yield its full quota of ‘Sold in sealed packets caly. A Strawberry Pantation Most Desirabe Enterprise Whatever else is neglected, should not fail to start a strawberry plantation during the spring. Any fairly dry area will grow strawber- ries. The ground should ibe one on which water will not stand during the winter to form ice. Manure at the rate of ten to fif- teen tons per acre may be applied and plowed under, or even more may be used to advantage if no other fer- tilizers are to be used, It is usually considered wise to apply 500 pounds of a 4-8-4 fertilizer per acre. That is one containing 4 per cent of nit- rogen, 8 per cent of phosphoric acid and 4 per cent of potash. However if the soil is in good fertility. this is not necessary, and manure alone may be all that is necessary. All fertilizers should be scattered broad- cast and harrowed in Thorough preparation of the, soil by plowing and working deeply is advisable. The land is finally ‘Reet ed with a smoothing harrow, and the plants set In rows three and a half feet apart and fourteen inches apart in the row. Closer planting is un- necessary, and does not permit of @asy cultivation between the rows and opportunity of picking without tramping on the v Moth of ? The planting is done by Daabing a spade into the soil. pressing it to one side, and dropping a plant. with roots spread fan-shape, into the op- ening. holding the crown to the top of thé level soil, and pressing the earth firmly around the plant with the heel or some other way, and fin- ally levelling with loose earth around the crown of the plant. This is quickly done. The importance of one plant is very great, and the plapt should be sufficiently firm so that if the plant Is pulled by a leaf the leaf will break before the plant will pull. out. Only the young plants should be set; that is, plants of the previous season's growth. The planting should be done early—-in fact, the earlier the better. Mach of the fallure with strawberries is due to late planting. This is a job that can be done in the early spring; the sooner the plant becomes established the earlier the formation of runner plants, and the earlier these runner plants form, the larger and better developed are the crowns. without which strong stalks of well-formed fruit are impossible. Summer Cultivation The summer cultivation should be shallow to kill weeds and form a loose surface in which the plant can root without @ifficulty, As the run- ners develop, the cultivator should be narrowed so that the runners are not disturbed after they oe ene to form plants, and great e Js necessary to avoid ‘disturbing plants at this ee Some o runners may be shifted to ic a More even distribution of plants a- long the row, and some hand hoeing, will be necessary fe eecreny: weeds, from growing late It is wise to ai for a new. planta- tion every year, as It is dificult to keep weeds under control the second year without much hand hoeing. Blossoms are lkely to develop on the spring-set plants, and these shoul be removed to throw all en- ergy into the development | of ‘run- ners as early as possible— s4 Blair, superintendent Experimental} pressing the soil firmly aroufd the; Station, Kentville, N. 8. - = | FROM OTHER PAPERS a ——-- he reflection on thelr, training. ‘both at home, and at school, and one won- ders just what sort of mien: and wo- ren they will grow into, i AN EMPHATIC ANSWER (Toronto Globe) Seventy-two out of the eighty-one relectoral districts in the Province gave dry majorities in the recent vote. Ontario gave an emphatic ans- wer. SHOULD BE BEHIND HIM ’ (Toronto Globe) | ple who saw t THE HANDWRITING ON THE | t wee eon A generation ago thoughtful peo- e trend of the times and could read the handwriting on the wall, wasned the hotel-keeper; but he would not be advised. He was told that he was ruining his Mr, Dewart wishes to supply the key-stone for the arch of prohibition: by forbidding the sale of native wines, of high alcoholic content for bever-: Age purposes. Temperance Liberals. should be behind him to a man. ILL-BRED CHILDREN (Farmers’ Advocate) In the news columns- of The Ad- vertiser yesterday there appeared! a little story about a six-year-old) girl who had conducted herself in| a most unbecoming manner in n| Btreet car. One of the regrettable, features often observed among) children of today is their lack of Manners, respect and courtesy. Lack | of consideration for others, eape-| cially older people, is trequently} commented on. It is a very common| thing at the corner of Dundas and Richmond streets to see boys and girls push right through a crowd of people. including aged men and women, women with babies, and very often crippled veterans. These voung- stérs push everyhody out’ of} their way, and clamber into the cars| business by the open bar, and that eventually an aroused public would sweep him away. He laughed at his | advisers, but where is he to-day? In the same way the middleman, stand- ing between producer and consum- er, has been taking such a heavy , toll off both that in self-defence the ' Co-operative movement was cated ‘into being, and to-day is doing an enormous business. ; Similarly the old toll road with its gatekeeper was found to be a nuisance, and was re- moved. Railroads which adopted “the public be damned” attitude eventually fouml themselves in the bankruptcy courts. The exactions of Vested Interests in Hydro brought about the Hydro-Electric movement in this Province. It is not too much to claim that manufacturers who rely solely on the tariff or other special privileges to sell their goods for them will soon find their shelter swept away. The people themselves, or their elected representatives in Parliament, will establish such key industries as will furnish relief. The establishment of a million-dollar cement plant by the and take the seats, leaving others | Ontario Government is a case in to stand. Very often those left to} point. and should be regarded as the stand include men and women who| Handwriting on the Wall by highly thave been working hard all dav. | privileged manufacturers. If they ‘That the children do not know any) are wise they will give heed to the ‘better than to act as they do is 5 a ug and set their houses in or- superior article,and we Use it as a su relicf for sore th and chest. I would rot be og the price was one dollar a bottle if = Loa ee “tk should be remembered that an aroused public is stronger than any corporation or Government, no mat- ter how powerful these may be. | Would it not be a hundred times bet- | ter for our highly protected, bounty- | fed industries to play the game fair- ly and squarely than to arouse the | public to such-an extent that all special privileges will-be swept aside as the bar and toll-gate have been, and as the middle-man is being swept | away. Manufacturers and other seekers of special privileges have the choice of peace or the sword. If the latter is chosen, the war will be or- derly and along constitutional lines, but it will be none the less inexor- able because of its orderliness. What | has happened in the cement field | will happen in many others. The | public-owned utility of to-day will | be followed by the public-made com- + modity of to-morrow. Public’ own- , ership will be carried to such lengths (es is required to furnish relief from | the exactions of special privileges. ; Can special privileges not see the | Handwriting on the ‘Wall and be warned. —. A New York magistrate seAtenced ;a barber to five'days in the work- | house for presenting a bill of $6.15 to a customer desiring only a shave. ‘national capital. industrious use of the term Laws.” Every device of the satirical writer and the comic cartoonist hat been utilized to create a condition of mob hysteria on the subject. There are assumediy intelligent peo will tell you that a strong organiza-| tion of fanatical and puritanical re- formfers are determined on impos- ing “their seventeenth century no- tions” on the modern people of free America Under the threatened enactment by Congress of these ‘‘blue laws,” we are told everybody will be com- pelled to go to church on Sunday on penalty of fine and imprison- ment. Automobiling is to be banned Pleasant country walks and the in- nocent recreations in the green places of our city parks, or trips to the woods and the seashore, are to be forbidden. No more Senday newspapers or cOmforting after-din- ner pipe or cigar! First thing we know a man’s kissing his wife on Sunday will become a punishable of- fense! This is the sort of preposter- ous guff ladled out to the public in the movie films and the newspapers without measure. Discrimination is almost as rare as a white black-bird. The very blackness of the smoke-screen bar- rage sent up in this publicity stunt should have made it suspect in the minds of intelligent people. And a little honest itquiry shows that the stole attack is based from first to ast on mendacity. So outrageous- iy audacious, indeed, is this mend- acity that it is an insult to public in- telligence to assume that any think- ing man would be fooled by it. Ap- Vege the anti-rest-day propa- anists count on lack of exactly such intelligence. What are the facts? Simply that certain commercial associations in the United States, with utter disre- gard for everything but their own pockets, have set out to destroy the American Sabbath to capture an ex- tra day in the week for vampire films and prize fights, incidentally seeking to discredit all laws against bootleggers and gamblers and inde- cent exhibitions, : As a smoke-screen for theis actual objects, these Avid Appetites obtain- ed wide publicity for the statement that a “National Sunday Law,” de- signed to restore the Puritan “blue aws” in all their archaic asceticism. was pending in Congress and was backed by various reform organiza- tions. - ; _ The fact is that the only law con- cerning Sunday observance before Congress is a bi! designed to bring the city of Washington into line with 47 of our states to protect the Ameri- can Sabbath against invasion by commiércialized amusements in the It is a local meas- ure backed by local interests and has been pending for 42 years. It has only local scope and has no natlon-§ al significance. Reform organiza- tions of national scope promised to support it on general principles. But it is not denial but protection of _eyery man’s right to Sunday rest that is the aim of these reformers. 4 Every commonwealth in the Un- jon, except California and the Dis- trict of Columbia, have Sunday laws which have been revised or affirmed since the Clyil War. The only actual Sunday issue is as to whether or not these laws should be enforced; whether the selfish interests opposed to them should be allowed to pro- mote law-breaking. Lovers of their country are called on to bar the ef- forts of venal interests to obtain ex- emptions in these laws that would permit money-making exhibitions, in- cluding prize fights, liquor selling. gambling and unnecessary business on Sunday. In many states Sunday movies are already illegal, as are other forms of money-making on the Sabbath. They have no more right “than any other business to infringe on the weekly rest day guaranteed to the people by their own laws. In fact the claim of the movie men to special treatment is made the more insolent by the fact that it has heen) publicly admittefi recently by officers of a dozen leading motion picture; still be on top. producing companies that many of their Ilms are unfit for public exhi- -bition on any day. The phrase which has been move to do duty in bamsboozling the A- merican public ofiginated in the title of a literary hoax perpetrated’ by an exiled traitor to the Amer- ican cause during the Revolu- tion. “The Connecticut Blue Laws” were invented by him and publish- ed in London to satirize and belittle the character of the patriots battling for American independence. The “invention” of the ‘“‘National Sunday Law” of 1920 fittingly rests on the earlier “invention™ of 1777 Pro- paganda is the mother of ‘‘many in ventions.” This attack on the American Sab- bath by foreigners enjoying our hos- pitality ls palpably un-American. It is, moreover, an attempt to mock and deride the laws of the land and the sound principles of American juris- prudence, as enunciated in a decis- fon of the United States Supreme Court. That tribunal in 1886 dis- tinectlv declared: “Laws setting aside Sunday as a day of rest are upheld, not from any right of the govern- ment to legislate for the pro- motion of religious observances, but from its right te protect all people from the physical and moral debasement which comes from uninterrupted Iebor. Such laws have always been deemed ens the flannel. After rinsing thor-| dry slowly. Flannel garments al-, But if once badly washed with scald- beneficent and merciful laws, oughly, wring hard, shake well, and| ways washed in this manner will) ing water, rubbed with brown soap, os . especially to the poor and de- . spread on the clothes-line. While look white and feel soft as long as! and rinsed in cold water, they will wat * pendent, to the laborers in our drying. shake, stretch, and turn the they last, retaining a new appeur-;| never look well. yy OR sa Ct Bailie \ init sce BA ee tee Oa Sehase convicted bootlegger. ‘ture the comeaned prohibitionists as a thin, long-faced, lantern-jawed, er actiulous bater of make sar people miserable. e man, writing in gt ee goa ad- vocating free for city, spoke as follows: all veiiee fits would be a large influx of genial optimists, counteracting the influ- ence of the dyspeptic pessimista who at present appear to dominate the situation.” And in the same paper nearly a quarter of a page is given to a series of cartoons depicting one of these sour-faced ““Drys” holding up a jovial citizen at the point of a pistol on his way to a game of bil- liards. It may be that this view of the case has some foundation in fact, but if so, these facts have not come under our observation. Only a few days ago a procession of “Wels moved past (Wesley (Building, aad presumably they fairly represented the “genial optimists’ who are fight- ing for beer, but it would be hard to discover that optimism either in their looks or their placards. And we have had large gatherings in To- ronto recently, both wet and dry, and ‘we presume that .one could judge both sides fairly from those gatherings; but if so, it would take a very bold man indeed to declare that the “‘Wets’” in anything re- sembled a bunch of “genial opti- mists,"’ or that the “Drys’ in any- thing resembled the pessimists of the liquor men’s agination, It is a matter of common obser- vation that in a big dry crowd tuere is lots of good-natured banter, but no fighting; but In a big wet crowd the fights are on occasion botu tas and fierce, and not a few of these “genial optimists’ tace the police magistrate next day and pay a fine tor their all too exuberant optimism. This applies not only to the crowds, but to “society; and in the days of duelling it not infrequently happen- ed that high-born “genial optimists.” after an evening of “personal lib- erty,” found themselves facing an opponent's pistol inside a few hours, as a penalty for their “optimism.” No, it won't go down! Beer doee not make men optimists. It does produce wife-beaters; it does make human brutes the terror of their own children; it does make men quarrelsome in speech and deed; it does make men lower even than the atiinrals, but it does not make ‘them “genial optimists,” at least not to any great extent. If it had done so surely we should have noticed it; but it seems to work ‘just the other way, and the redder a man’s nose becomes the less of an optimist he seems to be. And the city’s morgues tell some awful tales of men and wo- men whose “personal liberty" had brought them to the point where life seemed not worth the living. and they passed out of existence by their own hands, Oh, no, drink doesn’t make men optimists. But does prohibition make men pessimists? If it does we have fail- ed to notice it. We have known quite a few men whose favorite tune was a dirge, and who enjoyed a good groan much better thaif a 5 poet laugh; we have known men who were never happy funiess they were miserable; we have Known men whose jaudiced eves saw nothing but “rough seas and stormy skies" ahead of humanity; but we never knew one whose pessimism had even the re- motest relation to his abstinence from intoxicants. And we should be willing to take 100 men at random | from the “Wets."" and compare the| two, confident that in the over- whelming majority of cases we should find that the “genial opti- mism” of the “Drys” was much more} in evidence than that of the *Wets.”” Not only so, but we ‘would be will- ing to allow the dry one hundred to be chosen exclusively from the very worst of the prohibitlonists—the hypocritical, psalm-singing, cellars- filled, joy-hating, tyranny - loving iethodiace and even then we would be confident that the “Drys” would) It won't do! The} ‘optimists are not the peculiar pro- | duétion of John Barleycorn; and’ the world knows it. Beer does mn im- make men cheerful. factories and workshops and in . the heated rooms of our cities; and thelr validity has been su- stained by the highest courts of the states.’ No true American has any com- munity of interest with the un-Amer-: ican interests now seeking to fool | the people of this country by pro-| moted falsehoods. That they may| profiteer, they are attacking an em- inently American Institution, an in-| stitution which Theodore Roosevelt rightly said is “essential to mankind and demanded by civilization.” | To Wash Flanncls Without Shrinking Flannels should always be wash-, ed with whitesoap, otherwise they will neither look well nor feel soft. | The water must be warm, but not} boiling, as it shrinks flannel to seald- it Wash the flannels entirely by themselves in clean, warm suds made by rubbing the soap to a strong) lather in the water before putting in, the flannels; for if the soap is rub- bed on flannel it \will become hard disgruntled | . Because of demands made upon it _ in deating with the terrible after- math of and suffering which always follows war. Because of the serious health con- ditions revealed by the war—more a than half of our Canadian young hel manhood unfit for combatant mili- tary service. 2; Because an international confer- ence of medical experts,- realizing that voluntary organization was necessary as an aid to Governments in solving the world’s health prob- lems, decided that “no or- * ization is so well to ; : great < ties as the Red Cross,” and that 4 “no movement deserves more the hearty and enthusiastic suppogt of all people than does this.” ONTARIO ENROLLMENT, MAY 22-28 Enroll with your local Red Cross Branch or Enrollment Committee, or, if there is none in your community, with the Ontario Provincial Division, 410 SHERBOURNE STREET, TORONTO. Canadian Red Cross Society Ontario Division Maple Leaf Milling Co., Limited ‘ alifax QU can also make beautiful light cakes ¢ and read of wonderful whiteness and flavor with Cream of the West Flour. ww Toronto, Winnipeg, Brandon You can procure Cream of tho Wes ¢t Flour in Listowel from McDonald & eee and The i. ssbb Store. a and stiff, Wash the garments in this manner through two waters. Rinse Weighing Coal with us, is not a process which weighs the driver al- so. We sell you Coal, and that's what we send you— Two The Toun—and Pounds to all what you may expect when Fall Winter supply here, ‘ Thousand Coal is your order your and % ss Isn’t It About Tims You Were Doing So? NOTICE TO BUILDERS--Prices Are Down Try us for LUMBER, LATH. SHINGLES, CEMENT. TILE. CEDAR POSTS, HARDWOOD FLOORING. WINDOW SASHES, FRAMES, MOULDING, ETC OUR PRICES WILL INTEREST YOU. R. T. KEMP & SON Phone 121 - . Listowel Je , in warm water to which bluing has,;———— been added. Cold rinsing wat@r hard-| articles several times. They should! ance? and scarcely shrinking at all.