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On the matter of the tariff Dr. Manion stated that our Government policy was made in Washingtonâ€"not Ottawa. He was all for the Ottawa. policy. This attitude was greeted by the Conservative party with long and loud cheering. amid which Dr. Manion resumed his seat. A hot passage occurred when the battling Irishman accused the Prime Minister of bringing in Old Age Pen- sions one day and denouncing is as a “vicious principle” the next. The Prime Ministed denied such action and chal- lenged the Doctor to prove it. After fifteen minutes of uproar it turned out that the “vicious principle" was the giving of money by the Dominion Gov- ernment to the Provinces to be admin- istered by the Provinces as in the case of Old Age Pensions. The Budget, the Amendment, and the Sub-amendment were before the House. The Sub-amendment was voted down. Mr. Kennedy, URO. Peace River. spoke to the amendment, stressâ€" ing the unfavorable condition of the agricultural industry. Then the amend- ment was voted down. Immediately af- terwards Dr. Manion. Fort 'William, a- rose to address the House. Dr. Manion is a fiery, fluent and exceedingly rapid speaker, who more than any other man in the Conservative party tends to arouse party animosity. The Conser- vatives supported him with almost continuous applause. The Liberals in- terrupted with growls, yelping and yapping. I have seen two gangs of boys each with a favorite fighting dog watching their struggle for supremacy with much the same look on their faces. The same intent. straining look. Dr. Manion twitted the Cabinet Minis- ters with spending Easter in the Un- ited States. with low tariff talk and high tariff performance. He proceeded to make a general assault on the Lib- eral party for its lack of policy since it came to power. Budget debate was finishing. And boys will be boysâ€"though bald and weighyy. The gang- spirit w'as evidentâ€"only the opportunity was necessary to let loose party antagonism. 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Harding Durham, Ontario as they would if neglected. turned from the United States, at some length,toshowthatthelead1ngAm- erican bankers‘and financiers had the “If Miss Macphail were informed on this matter she would realize that ac- cording to our excellent law regulating life insurance companies, all companies paying dividends must pay 90‘” o of their profits to the policy-holdersâ€"regard- ally presented to Parliament. Mr. Thurston says: "I note in Miss Macphail’s interest- ing letter from Ottawa last week a reference to the Sun Life Bill in which she appears to express the ‘opinion that life insurance companies first pay dividends to their shareholders and leave for the policy holders only the residue of profits after this has been done. ‘ less be. ' It may have appeared to Mr. Thurs- ton that that was What I thought, and it may be the way I described the ef- fect of the bill justified Mr. Thurston‘s conclusion. but I certainly did not have any such understanding of the Insur- ance Act. It is quite true that the Act provides that shareholders of an in- surance Company may take up to 10% of the net profits. It happens in the case of the smaller companies that the entire 10% allowed by law does not appear to pay too large a dividend on the capital invested. But. while 10% of one million dollars might not seem too large a dividend on a certain cap- ital investment. 10% of one hundred million might result in such large divi- dends on the original capital that a company would be ashamed to allow the financial statement to go out to the public. Incidentally that is the reason why the Sun Life Company re- duced the amount available for divid- ends to 5% of its profits. They were In last week’s Flesherton Advance there was a letter from Mr. Stan Thurston, in which he tool; issue with the way in which I described the in- tentions of the Sun Life Bill as origin- No such display of the partisan spirit has been witnessed for many months. A. talkie-movie of the performance would be very enlightening to the citizens of Canada. The scene defies description. Had a burlesque of Par- liament been well written and well played, it could not have excelled Thursday’s performance. Conservative party. He interrupted himself to make pithy remarks. He accused the Conservatives of making speeches which were nothing but “gross insult” to the countryâ€"but that was too much. Mr. Speaker demanded that he withdraw “gross insul which he did. he said, “with pleasure”. He then sat down. The division bells began to ring. The Conservatives sang “My Wild Irish Rose’ No response from the Liberal side. Then Mr. Boys. Chief Whip of the Conservatives, led in singing “Alouette”. All the French members joined him and peace was restored. The Budget carried by a majority of 24. of What the capitalization might “Herons and doves build mere plat- forms of sticks, so frail that often you can look through the interlacing twigs from below and see the eggs; yet these frail domiciles will withstand the storms of two or three winters. The reason for this is that the birds do not pick up rotten sticks from the ground. but break sound ones of! the trees, and then so interlock them that they hold. togethe:. The above should be sufficient to justify my use of the “melon cutting” phrase. I ‘will refrain from going into further details in respect to the manner in which the Company paid for its present stock by voting bonuses to themselves from the non-participat- ing fund and applying that to the pay- ment of stock. It is gratifying to note that the Company itself was saved from itself, and its policy holders saved from an unnecessary burden of capital by the timely and persistent action of a few farmer representatives. Ottawa, April 13, 1929. “If you do not believe it is quite a task to build a bird’s nest, try it,” says E. H. Forbush. former Massachusetts state ornithologist, and an authority on wild life. in an article prepared for the Associated Press. their authorized capital and 123% on the actual cash paid into the business by the shareholders. Mr. Thurston says further, that there was a provision in the Bill which provided for a 4% shareholder’s divi- dend. This was. true, but only half the truth. The other half was that the 4% provision referred to was condition- ed upon another clause in the Bill, which provided that shares should be set at par value of $10 instead of $100. Now, let me explain a little more definitely, what I meant by “melon cutting”. The market value of the Sun Life stock, when the Bill was before Parliament, was $2,500.00 per share. The shareholders were to have the two million increase of capital provided for in the Bill at a par value of $100. Let us- suppose that the passing of the Bill would have reduced the market values of the stock to $2,000.00, and that would not have been likely; even then the two million increase would have meant to __ the shareholders a stock value of $40,000,000. That would have been a considerable melon. HOW OUR BIRDS BUILD THEIR NESTS “See if you can build the simplest kind of nest of twigs or sticks in the crotch of a tree.” he says, “and if you succeed. notice how long it re- mains there before the winds blow it away. Omithologis’3' Tells How Wild Birds Construct Their Homesâ€"Frail and Lasting. -“ vâ€" Yâ€"vv The joker in this was. soon discovered. Four per cent on a share of $10 is 40% on a share of $100. 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