Oe SE REE ubaaeamce Sablon: re Ro het Ge Thursday, March 6th., 1924 Mr. McGarry’s Eyesight Bad While He was hy ancouver MUST-HAVE BEEN WHEN HE ' FAILED TO SEE ANY DRUNKS, SAYS FORMER MEMBER. OF _ POLICE COMMISSION, IN KIN- “ CARDINE ON VISIT. O. T. A. GOOD LAW BUT TOO LENIENTLY ENFORCED an BY SOME MAGISTRATES—“‘DO : _ WELL TO KEEP OUT OF BOOZE FR—> BUSINESS.” (Kineardine Reporter) Hon. T. W. McGarry, a former member of the Ontario Legislature, speaking recently at St. homas, was of the opinion that the Ontario Government ought to and would provide an opportunity at an early date for a vote on the Ontarlo Tem- perance Act. As one of its framers, he stated, that if he were now a - member of the government he would "be one of those to introduce legis- lation to take another vote. “I am hopeful,” said he, ‘“‘that before the session is over the people will be giv- en the opportunity of voting on the O:T.A.. and that they will go to the ‘. polls and register their opinions."’ , a member of the govern- Ment that introduced this prohibi- tory measure. It was intended as a ‘war measure and I think that the intention of every man in the house, (Mr. Macdiarmid and I were mem- bers of the government,) was that after the war was over and things settled down it would be given a fair chance and that the people would have an opportunity to vote upon it. If I were there I would be one of those who would introduce! legislation for a vote. I have been ‘living for most of three years in British Columbia and have seen the legislation there work out and know that on the streets of Van- couver there is less drunkenness than in Toronto. Vancouver is city to which many sailors come ev- ery day, and yet I have never seen a man the worse for liquor on the food etreets of Vancouver these three years, although we nave govern- ment control and you can buy what- ever liquor you want. But, they have ‘of intoxicants. The’ and promised that “the change és 80 called moderation—Government sale|_ —wou stop bootlegging, increase respect for law, tract desirable citizens, protect our homes, assist our business men to meet their liabilities = reduce the traffic in narcotic dru “It- has failed in avery particular. Our newspapers claim that bootleg- g@ng was never as prevalent as now. The liquor law is not respected. Tax- : ation--in the- province-has~ steadily increased, notwithstanding the splen- did growth of shipping and sprere- ment in some lines of Uusin “Phe total population ty “British Columbia is a little over half a mil- lion, yet the total sales of liquor by government stores since the adoption of the present Act in October 1920 up to October 31, 1923, amounted to the appalling sum of $22,;943,181.- 1 “Statistics show that not only in British Columbia but in Quebec, where a similar law is in force, the traffic in narcotic drugs is more prevalent than in any of the other provinces. “Your people will do Bit to keep out of the booze busine “Your law eeems to be too le ly administered by yo b-3L. .. 68, and you are probably “reating behind the law and forgetting that- “eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.’ to come a long way from British Columbia to hear a it- -good word about government sale of liquor, except by the base army of paid liquor vendors, who greatly in- crease the already- top heavy civil service , list ¢ ‘The Ontario Temperance Act re resents an effo.t to reduce the use Passengers com- ing into Vancouver's splendid har- bor are confronted at the narrows by enormous signs that such and such well-known brands of liquor are for sale at the various government liq- uor stores. “Just in closing I would say to the temperance people of the Province of Ontario, do not scrap a good law because of lack of enforcement, but See to it that the law is enforced, and then. you will reap the full benefits a@ provision there that a man seen in- toxicated on the public streets has no option of a fine but must go to jail for six months. I mention that for, this reason, that we must have from time to time opportunity of regis- tering the opinion of the people up-| on this great question, and 1! am sure before the end of this seeuea | we will find the government bas provided an opportunity.’ When the editor read Mr. McGar- ry's statement he was very sceptical, | as a short stay in Vancouver had' shown that there were many drunk-| @n men on the streets, and ‘Bar| I ~ re not all newspaper men. But , tires hand kyowledge was sO Lede CGH ORAe| } able ffom-ohe who kndws Vancouv- | R.: j er as few men do. Mr. Walter bf Hamilton, son of Mr. Robert Ham- ilton of this town, is home at pres- ent. The editor has secured the fol-| lowing interview from m, It will, be understood that he speaks with | the authority of one who knows,} owing to his having been a ainsnber | of the council from 1913 to 1918.' During that period he served as a member of the Police Commission, and during the absence of the chair- man, acted in that capacity. Those! who know Mr. Hamilton know that) he would not make a statement that! was not absolutely true. After letting Mr. Hamilton read! the statement of Mr. McGarry. the reporter asked for an opinion on it. Mr. Hamilton says: was not in Ontario when the Ontario Temper-| ance Act was framed and do not. know whether it was introduced, as Mr. McGarry says, or if, as I under-, stood, it was the result of nearly alf a century of effort to improve conditions. But when Mr. McGarry)! s he was three years in British Columbia and has ‘never seen a- m } the worst for liquor on the | ‘of Vancouver,’ I will be * Gritable | and say that either Mr. M warry was never on the streets of Vancouver | during that time, or perhaps he was sent out there owing to the condi-| tion of his health and was not able! to aes drunkenness when he saw Are ‘you satisfied with the | law in British Columbia, and prefer it to our Ontario law? “The Moderation League of Brit-' ish Columbia was the offspring of, the License Victuallers Association | ; we should of* honest temperance legislation, Meant to —— increase— the sale of liquo Ask yourself, ‘Mr. Editor: ‘Wha ie all this mean, and who are ag- itating for the change?” Elsewhere in the same issue Ed- itor Hunter has the following: On the first page of The Report- er we have an interview with Mr. Walter R. Hamilton. of Vancouver, C, The cause of the article is the Hon. T. N. McGarry, who made the bald statement at a public meeting that he had been in Vancouver three years and had not seen a drunken man on the streets. Mr. Hamilton let Mr. McGarry down easily. We 1 4 of the issue, but We agree with Mr.4, Hamilton and his statements. What |’ we want to call attention to is the fact tWat has been pointed out to us. Mr. Hamilton touches the sore spot ; of the O. T in this province. Our magistracy is too lenient. It requires too much evidence to convict the law breaker. We have listened to ev- idence in courts that we felt satis- fied was absolutely false. The court has taken it and booze vendors and drunks have been allowed to go ge Being too lenient is the cause our laws being broken. What is es ed is good stiff jail sentences. A = but few me ci rf > with a term in jail staring them in the face. We Must also pay attention to Mr. Ham- i!ton’s advice when he speaks of our liquor law. The O.T.A. is not all that it should be, but he points out that it has all other liquor legisla- tion beaten because it tries to re- Strict sale of liquor. Government con- tro] does not do this. The figures he gives for the sale of liquor in Brit- ish Columbia from October 1920, to October 1923, $22,943,181, are ap- palling. We thought Ontario was bad, but this shows us that we have he something vastly superior to t coast province. Temperance people} ry are being luiled to sleep. The insid- uous beer and wine propaganda and the government control ne is doing its deadly work. At resent moment Ontario has the best prohibitory law in the Dominion. | Unless something better is shown us Stand by what we have It is true the bootlegger is hav- time selling booze, but if we got. ing a good we still have the bootlegger We are helped by If we give, we Seeing others as our It will pay us-in the In the game of life, Happiness is always Banish gloom, Blaze the trail, Gi.v it sm ‘Ve.will never know r . Give a cheerful Is the spirit that PULL TOGETHER (By James Edward Hungerford, helping others; always H Is life's safest, surest If we give what folks are needing, And-we just can*t help succeeding Cheerfulness is always catching— Certain cure for ev'ry rile; In the sunshine of a smile! by being cheerful; and set the pace! And you'll see expressions drearfal Swiftly fade from ev'ry face! Life gives back just what we give it; iles—and smiles we get; If we learn this rule, tenor a it, aeca-we’ if reap it; It will come beck multiplied, And will linger—we can kee our “treasure chest,” inside: Get Together! Full Fogetner! If the gales of life we'd Roper ead We must buck ‘em, with . by helping others; — ane in “‘Suceess"’) brothers bet my friend. hatching reduce taxation, at-) » | AGRICULTURE E TOTAL FORESTRY B $408, 832,000 . | 7-0 MINING=< $213,041,000° * | 3-7 BUILDING -$135,874,000 23 MISCELLANEOUS $129,668,000 22 FISHERIES $49,241,000 ~ . |0-8 TRAPPING $20,999,000 |O-4 -$5,836,042,000 1000 adians. It is interesting to note the uted among the various vocations. CANADA'S NATIONAL INCOME Fair business conditions prevailed throughout Canada in 1928, shown by the figures in the chart, covering the national income of Can- as percentages-of the income as distrib- have government control, if we un- evtatens Mr. Hamilton. Believé him e@ muts, for he speaks with first Saad knowledge and is one of the reliable men of Vancouver. be Se as Se a a See a a Se a ea a a % ” + THE $NATIONALITY OF + Og THE MARRIED WOMAN + % ea ae ie ae a ee 2 cS a She eS Me ac Oe De (Social Service Council of Canada) A curious anachronism in the Can- adian laws governing tlhe nationality of married women was recently dis- cussed at a Convention of the Socia! Service Council of Canada. According to the present system a Canadian woman who marries an alien herself ‘becomes an alien and remains one even after her husband’s death. young woman may be an active mem- ber of the League of Women Voters, a United Farm Women’s Organiza- tion, a Local Council of Women, or the Imperial Order of the Daughters of the Empire, may devote a large proportion of her time to the study > t| of Canadian public affairs, may con- tribute to the solution of national problems in a number of ay use the franchise with intelligence and discretion, an scious of a deep attachment for Can- adian traditions, Canadian customs and Canadian environment. . But if she should marry a man who is an American citizen, a French citizen, or a Norwegian citizen, she is forth- with deprived of her British nation- ality. Moreover it is impossible for her to resume British nationality .; hatch. If lice appegr on during the lifetime of 3 of ‘her r_ husband a HATCHING. HINTS When the hen is hatching she should not be disturbed except to re- move the shells, unless she becomes uneasy and steps on or picks the chicks. In such cases the chicks should be removed as soon as Place them in a‘ basket or box lined wiwth flannel or some other soft The only pen that carries a 25 years’ service point, At st $7.00 it's ~ omical pen you~ give, yhacanes ‘it cOuthants A eral ony pens. ; the “most econ tan~ buy; or When first you. lay “eyes on the ‘black tipped red Duofold, you'll. someth. handsomer: then gold. Its big balanced barrel and vis Si point will thrill an Super- your ith “writing urge.” ip oe and let us aaa a demonstration See Other gos ee Pons at $5.00. and $3.00 each.- W. A. Johnstone 4 Optician. Jeweler. PRINCESS material and cover the top, keeping the basket or box in a warm place until the eggs left under the hen are hatched. Heus should be fed as soon as possible. after the eggs are hatched, as feeding tends to keep them quiet: otherwise many hens will leave the nest. In most cases it is best that the hen remain on the nest and brood the chicks for at least 24 hours after the hatching is over. Hens will suc- cessfully brood 10 to 15 chicks ear- ly in the breeding seagon and 18 to 26 in warm weather, depending on the size of the hen, so that often two broods# |chicks which hatch at the same tite can be put together and raised under one ‘hen Powder the hen with & good insect powder or with sodium fluorid .two days before the chicks ae due to e chicks if they are troubled with head tice, " a very little grease, such as lard or vaseline, may be applied with the fingers on the head, neck; under the wings, and around; the vent. Great care should be tak en, however, not to get too much grease on the chicks, as it will stop thelr growth and in THEATRE Friday and Saturday TOM MIX “Stepping some cases may ve fatal. “Toe punc ch” 'o ‘ nr each chick otters: brood Fast” __! the extreme case se of the reak of war between His Majesty and the state of which her husband is a subject. In such event it is pro- vided that if the wife declares her desire to resume British \nationality e may be granted a certificate of naturalization provided the Secretary of State of Canada approves. But ordinarily it is impossible for her to regain her British nationality during her husband's lifetime, no matter how earnestly she may de- sire it. The unsatisfactory character of this law is all the more apparent when the family continues to reside in Canada, the husband refusing to become naturalized, and prevented by an outdated Jaw from exercising the rights of citizenship which were formerly her The present law is patently unjust. As international communication grows easier and as travel increases there will naturally occur an increas- ing number of international mar- riages. It is therefore important that the matter of revising the law touching nationality of married women be given careful attention in Canada in the very near future. Mar- riage with an alien is not an offense against the state and should not con- tinue to be penalized as at present. To deprive a woman of her British nationality. under these circum stances is to class her deliberately with “infants, idiots and imbeciles,” abilities. It has been argued that it would be absurd to allow a husband an wife to retain distinct nationality— that the difficulties arising from such an anomilous condition would be so great that it would be impossible to per i any ee 2 se than: the one hich is now in vog But it must Dp it be rautiaod” that British women have not always been deprived of their citizenship upon marriage with an alien. Until the year 1870 a British national remained a British national unless he or she voluntarily aband- oned that nationality, The sys had prevailed for centuries i phir Britain, and prevailed also for man years in some of the British colonies, as well-as In the United States: was possible before 1870 in this fe gard is possible now also. Canada made afi attempt in 1919 to remedy the situation, but failed to achieve success. In that year a. bili ‘was passed which, ‘among ~o things, provided that ordinarily up- on marriage with An alien'a woman was to assume his age yee! » but that she was not. to be | snk evitably to retain it. She as to be pérmitted to take. out maturalization papers on hér age mai iy as if were unmarried. s Act was later repealéd. because. rk ‘conflicted with the Imperial Act. The British Parliment has recent- ly Sirti considering a revision of its law this to whom are applied the,same dis- b | coop, 80 that the’ pay can be readily determined after maturity. YOUR HEALTH (By James W. Barton, M. D.) Talking About Your Symptoms I have never ‘been able to under- stand why people like to talk about their ailments. Where the credit comes in having a' severe touch of in- digestion, an attack of rheumatism e/ or an ——— nd appendicitis, is beyond me. And yét we all seem to 4 it. With the man who has always something wrong with him, we get a variety of ideas about all manner of ailments, and the ability or lack of ability of certain physicians. With the man who is oulknee ill, it is almost worse because of illness with him is a .rare event. No one could have hafl exactly the same set of. symptoms.that he had. They just seemed to take a most unusual turn, and he is very anxious to tell you all abou t Perhaps we are a bit proud of the way we came through it all. And yet a you and I were to get right down to the root of things, and got the physician's candid opinion about the ore our friends by recounting our symptoms. Because if the truth were known in the majority of eases the cause of that illness was due to our own carelessness We have worked or played too long ata time, with no thought of the nat- ural demands of the body in the way of food, sleep and exercise. If w were to tell our friends that the phy- Sicilan said that it was simply over- eating, actually stuffing . ourselves that brought on our indigestion or tonsilitis, would they geuire or sympathize with us?, ‘Not mu They would say: “It served you ht.” a = og Would we tell them that the real cause of the heart not behaving well during our recent illness was really ue = our masterful inactivity— lazin I don" think we would. Don't. misunderstand. me. We are. perhaps attacked by diséases or con- ditions over, which we have ‘no con- trol, and: that no thought on our part could prevent.-But in the majority of cases we are to blame ourselves. 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