(All articles credite4. ‘The aaae ner | with views expressed). eh pig *@oesn't EES a : POP TAX REMOVED \\. (Gananoque Reporter) Restaurant keepers. will not be pl ed any longer ~ with affixing | a tuxnry stamp yalued.at a quarter of a cent to every bottle of birch beer, coca-cola, root beer,-ginger ale, ; revefiue producer. The popular drink at New York and other : rties in. Toronto and.other cities has not been these innocent drinks but. bootleg whiskey judging by re- ports that have appeared in the dail- fea. The cup. that cheers. ‘and fn- ebriates is the popular drink with the perverse these days, hence the small though it was, by the gas tax by a tax oF whiskey because that ould be recognizing as a legitimate business what is now under the ban. COMPARISON _IN TAXATION Farmers’ n) *When war taxation was at its “Every Inch Of It---" Clean! / Dust takes its toll of your wearing apparel. It grinds its way into the fabric and, unless checked, soon takes all the life out of a garment. ~ Get your money's worth of service out of your clothes by having them cleaned and pres- eed at regular intervals. Joe Lockhart The Tailor We call and deliver. height in the United States. a -mar- ried man, without dependents, paid a $60 tax on a $3,000 income. This was later reduced to $20, then to $7.- 50 and has now been wholly abolish- ed. An American husband with a $4,- 000 income, who paid a tax of $120 a - years ago, only pays es 63 a In this country a ‘marr an with an income of $2,500 wnt ae more in Federal income taxes than will one with a $4,000 income in the United States. It is hardly necessary to point out the effect this difference is going to have in ‘the holding population in ‘this country. It is, indeed, not going too far to 6ay that the preservation of nation- ality depends on a reduced scale of taxation; and there can be no reduc- t ion in taxation without a slashing co¥tailment in expenditure. INVESTING IN GOOD ROADS F ing up the tourist business in these ized by a Canadian now living in Cal- ifornia who has been studying, Cons ditions there. He says that.ones big attrateions of Caliform i tourist is the fact that) the finest roads year roa further om fornia’y in "the ‘ : correspondent Pthat when Canada bessity for good — © advertise such roads t Bie © For Easter events as well as every other there occasion are Seals, Crepe Napkins, Pretty Cut-outs as rab- bits, chicks, egg bask- ets and other material for decorative or party use. We also have purple and white crepe paper; also Greeting Cards in ap- propriate designs. ELLIOTT & GREER Quality and Service Gable’s Old Stand Listowel. hone 138. | ie a RR fd the tourist traffic will oa much greater importance, ABing aA large volume of profit- moce who come here to make “homes Ceieonrixc POLICE CASES “(Kincardine Review-Reporter ) | countered by weekly .papers r 4 of police Braves. me cla x full particulars should be given, While others favor giving a short outtine of the charges and the; penalty, but shielding the individual who is in trouble by withholding his name. But no hard and fast rule can be applied. There are cases where offences are repeated, or are particularly flagrant, or where pub- licity is advisable to assist the keep- _ lemonade, pop tax must go. The, loss of revenue, |- matter of Pye ing of ripe law and preserving order. But the newspaper editor..oft- en s¢es that the’ Aone falls | © partly on those who have no misdi méanor, especially the peso child-| ren and mothers of the defendants. irierefore they are merciful if euch mercy is required. Of course the peo- ple in the town’ —_— -of any ‘case that comes up as news spreads rapid- ly, but if not published it may be confined to the district. The best ax- iom is: So live that yon need never come running into the newspaper of- fice to ask the editor to keep your ROBBING THE CRADLE {Farmers’ Sun) fo The total expenditure of the Pro- vinical Government last } ear repre- sented well over $20 per huad for the people of Ontario. Local taxation in itypical Ontario townships averages more than $20 per capita.. Dominion taxation means a levy, on the aver- age, of at least $30 for each man, woman and children in Cana It is true part of the income of the Province comes from... other sources than taxation. But even after full allowanoe is made for this, it will be found that the average of per capita expendituré—Local, rovinc- fal and Federal—which in the end comes out of the pockets of the peo- = > is not much short of seventy That is a well nigh crushing load. It would be unbearable were it not that families have grown smaller and the proportion of earners is con- sequently larger than formerly. We have been obliged to rob the cradle] g meet the demands of the tax ga- therer. A WAVE OF “WET” HYSTERIA (Auburn (Wash) Globe-Rept e-!the third year in successic ital of Saskatchewan; Calgary, Al- berta’s largest city; Banff, od world-famous mountain rt; Misconstruing, and grosélj resenting certain organi . individuals who are nancial Post) ! ; i } The need for good roads in build- fare just ng days of automobile travel is emphas-| ed to have changed: specting the law and the (espec hewspa- pere }om opagands th Pway to belit- Penforcement En- ‘wet cOngreasmen pely wet sentiment in FE D.C. and the large east- , & movement is already un- ; to force a repeal or medifica- tion “of the Volstead law by congress, and td_supplant dry with wet con-: gressmen at the next election. ly spread wet hysteria is progaganda-! inspired, and will largely die ont when it ceases to get front publicity, and the big conspirators. like the Olmstead bunch, ate getting’ their just dues. In the meantime, a little more aggressiveness on the part of the great mass of law-ob- serving, home-loving people through- ont the nation would greatly assis in dissipating this spell of wet hys- teria. Like Henry Ford, we have an i biding conviction that prohibition a- s on the moral convictions of the Am- erican home, the church, the school, the factor¥~and the store. Here is what Mr. Ford says on his page in the Dearborn Independent: “The United States is ‘dry’ not !only legally but by moral conviction. | American sentiment is not down- es} towh sentiment, nor club sentiment, | nor biind pig sentiment nor newspa- | ber sentiment; it is home _ sentl- ment, and workshop sentiment, and Bb) We believe this sudden and wide-| page ‘fitted with either rouge -or-powder. One of the hardest problems en-: here to stay because.it is founded up-! — is the! monton, the comttal of Alberta 4 ity of optim Camp, near Kenora, then¢ cific Steam Lakes Sy ‘many appears ite eas hee this, Dean Sin nelair Laird, ° accdona Goll d Rocky Mo Peatae traveller rer ion, has un- jdertaken to conduct a tad through this glorious wonderla A special train of dining, ° stand- ard sleeping, and observation com-} rtment cars has red, to leave Toronto on July 19th: via the Pog se Pacific Railway. Stops will made at Port Sag and Fort Wil- ten, which togéther form Canada’s greatest grain port; Winnipes Beach, the ‘popular ae 9 a ‘resort for Win- nipegers; Win . Canada’s third largest city; Indian tree distributing centre of the Feder- al Forestry Branch; Regina, the cap- reso automobile for 104 miles over ame tenay Lak . the commercial centre of Southern British Columbia; then through the Doukhobor country to Penticton; a- long lovely Okanagan Lake, and to Vancouver, thenee by steamer to Victoria, Returning, the trip will be by the main line of the Canadian Pacific, through the great canyons .of the Fraser atid Thompson Rivers, and through the Selkirks, and Rockies, affording scenery such as can bé found nowhere. else on earth; Lake Louise, the Pearl of the Rockies, the most perféct Kem of pgs te on. thew world; another day at Banff, 3 atoon, the c 2; 2 on ‘the Lake. of the te teu “F oe where one f the price mic; transpor- fcommodation : fgalow camps, ; A din gare hotels and on steam- . and sight-seeing tours at points visited. ‘ ‘ The trip is open to all, cations for accommodation, ing received. Fares from other points than Tor- onto wi named, and descriptive illustrated booklet sent on applica tion to Dean Sinclair Laid, Macdon- ald College Post Office, Que. 4-29 | ‘ and appli- are be- POWDER IN BUTTONS Among new things are large but- tons of beautiful colors which have tops which unserew and which are One can use two of these ornate but- tons on a frock or wrap and have one’s make-up ever handy. 4 * Sleep, ‘doctors claim, ig a form of intoxication. Imagine, then, how this would sound: “Last Sunday in church a large number of people were observed to be in an extreme state of intoxication."* store sentiment, and school senti- ment and church sentiment. You must find the people’s sentiment where the people live, and they don't live downtown. Newspapers are made downtown and read in the resi- dence sections; if they were made in the residence sections sein would be ‘dry. The American hom {dry and the American tation gets its tone from the home, not the wet" newspaper. how about your Mother or your. ee re a “2 ; © will take your old her or any article in home asa down “~ ment. 1 Used Washer $95. 00 on easy terms A. W. Vandrick : re CHEESE } a, our Great Shoe Sale. reached the time limit on E 3 Evening, March 27th---Only Tes Days More. | Large numbers: "We now sound the Last Cal! to of the f faefily while there a P We will ods. hes up KIBLER’S Listowel’s Largest Shoe Store Phone 131 | —_—_— EY On this type of tant telephone. 4 Fertilizer We now have a full line of . Fertilizer in stock, specially prepar- ed for flowers, lawns and gardens. Lard, Basifirst. Fresh Cured Meats always in stock. Also a few bags of potatoes on hand, suit- able for seed. The Cash Store PHONE 146 W. J. 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