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¥ PAGE THIRTEEN HORDON PAPER EARNINGS BALANCE AVAILABLE FOR OOM- MON DIVIDENDS 18.91 P.O, Investments Increased ~~ Completion 'of Kipaws Plant Strongly Reflect. "© od in Balance Sheet Portion of Report, Gross earnings of the Riordon Pulp & Paper Company, Limited, in the year ended December 31st last, as disclosed in the annual statement of the enterprise just lesued, amounted to $1,810,128, compared with §1.- 443,048 in 1918, an increase of jason, or qual to, in excess of twenty-five cen After a oharyes were met, the balance available for application to the common stock was $351,088, re- Bleseating earnings on the junior securi at the rate of 18.91 per cent., compared with $366,683, or 18.14 per cent. in 1918. The higher 1919 showing was made, despite the writing off of $2000,000 as a propor- tion of the discount on general mort- gage bonds which had no counterpart in the 1918 statement. The regular common dividend dis- Pursements took the usual $460,000, 1saving & balance of $401,088 to be added to su sccount, compared with $366,663 in the previous year, which addition brought total surplus to the substantial Jevel of $2,591, | ye ul 786, or equal to sixty-three per cent. of the s outstanding com- mon capitaligstion, xi ---- at wa Developm The we sheet section of the report reflects in a striking way the Privileges! --to undo cruelty and injustice. ~to pluck childhood from the mire. --to restore cast oft women and girls. --1to~ shelter wretched and homeless men and women. --to bring cheer to the down- hearted. ---to nurse the sick. --+t0 bury the desolate dead. --to preach Christ's forgive- ness to prisoners. to preach in the open-air the good news of Redemption as taught by the Man of Gali- lee. HESE are among the cher- ished privileges that fall to workers in The Salvation Army--- 308 Citadels and Institutions in this Territory. --use them! Grip, Influenza Hamiin's Wizard Oli a Rellable, treatment sets up an of defense against : throat lead he or Te influensa. for 30c. If germs. into sick head. extensive construction work conduct od at the Kipaws plant during the year. Active productive operstions at that property were begun. in Deec- ember last only, so that little or no return from the substantia] outlay in that {nvestiment is contained in the 1919 showing of the parent company. Since the end of last year the Kipa- wa output has exceeded original ex- pectations, however, and by April 1st! next, it ig anticipated, the new mills will be producing from 100 to 125 tons of bleached pulp, instead of its present lower tonnage of the easy bleached product. The Riordon 1920 exhibit, therefore, should show a de- cidedly improved position as regards both earnings and working capital. The most outstanding change shown in the balance sheet is an in- crease of upwards of $3,000,000 in investments in associated companies which as at December 31st last, stood at $5,104,676, gainst $2,207,018 at the end of the previous year. This increase and a new item of $1,959, - 456 under the heading "Loan to Kipawa Company, Limited," resulted in a sharp reduction im actual working capital, so that the decision of the board to issue a further $1.- 500,000 common stock, to 'which ref- erence is made elsewhere on to-day's financial 'page, would appear to be a natural development in the ambitious policy of msion embarked uso n several years the compa.ly. Among the liabilities are shown bank loans of $1,950,000, presum- ably being directly connected with loan to the Kipawa subsidiary, but other changes from the position of 1918 are not of significant char- acter, as will be seen from a survey of the balance sheets of the two years which follow : ASSETS 1919. 1918, Properties ..$7,5669,405 $7,363,787 Investments . 5,689,476 2,497,896 Inventories .. 2,016,834 2,416,061 Kipawa loan . 1,959,456 Accounts rec. 591,082 Cash 257,148 Defer, charges 278,626 Total 387,279 16,038 98,289 ..$18,262,029 $12,779,354 LIABILITIES, Bonds ......$5,909,400 $2,033,500 Ped, stock .. 1,600,000 1,000,000 Com. stock .. 4,600,000 4,500,000 Mortgages .. 153,000 208,000 Bank loans ., 1,960,000 1,375,000 Accounts pay. 491,911 703,034 Acer. Nabs... 806,513 485,930 Insur, reserve 103,894 Surpluses ... 2,847,309 2,473,888 Total ..$18,262,029 $12,779,354 Hun Agent Coming. Alvo von Alvensleben, German fin- ancial baron of the Pacific Northwest before the war, and interned at Fort Douglas, Salt Lake City, since May, 1917, was granted a conditional pa- role on March 6th, and it is expected he will journey to Vaneouver socom to gather together what may remain of the fortune he had invested in mines and timber lands in that on. During the war Von Alvensleben is declared to have been an active agent against Canada. He was a for- mer lieutenant in the German army, but was expelled from that country because of a dispute with a superior officer. Claims that he is a ¢ousin of the former kaiser have never been proved, but it is believed much of the money he invested in the North- west was furnished by William of Hohensollern. Parole conditions did not stipulate that Von Alvensleben return to Ger many. Artist Was Honored. Miss Bmma Goring of St. Cath- arines has at the request of the So- ciete D'Historre de la Guerre, of Paris, France, forwarded two drgw- fags for posters to be reproduced in color and sold the world over in aid of an organisation to reconstruct the devastated homes of the country. Artists all over the world were asked to submit drawings, choosing their own subjects. Miss Goring sketched the Twelve Mile Creek at its junction with the old Welland Canal, and the surrounding scemery, A Quick Change. Mrs. Bacon--Do you remember the night you proposed marriage to me, Henry? ' Mr. Bacon--Oh, yes; very well in. deed "Mrs. Bacon--I just hung my head and said nothing, didn't I? Mr. Bacon--You did; and that was the last time I ever saw you that way. state of the woman suffrage end- ment, about 27,000,000 womdn will be entitled to vote in the / States. In Italy WIth the ratification by the appointment to the diplBmatic and consulate service and from becoming members of the council of state or of several courts, Richard Greer, X.C., has tendered his resignation as crown attorney for |: York county after holding the office, which caries about $7,500 per an- num in fees, for nine years. 7 The average income of female cot- nited| women are excluded from || THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG NEVER HAVE SEEN ADOGOR A CAT Children in War - Scarred Europe Never Even Hear the Birds Sing. When you grinned at the six-year- old son of the house romping in the yard with his dog, or watched his small sister carefully dividing her at- tention between ribbon bows for the house "tabby" and the robin on the lawn, did it ever occur to you that | somewhere in the world there are lit- tle folks of the same age who have never seen a dog nor a cat nor heard 8 bird sing. Yet, there are some hundreds of thousands of youngsters in war-stricken Europe to-day who Are orant of the existence of the furred and feathered creatures which help to make a Canadian kiddie's day worth while. Jewish relief work who have re- turned from the Eastern and Central European countries cite the absence of domestic animals and birds to il- lustrate the desolate barrenness of the countries that were swept again and again by the warring armiés for nearly five years. Jacob Bashein, who had charge of a unit for the Joint Distribution Committee, the sole agency disbursing relief funds raised by the Canadian Jewish Relief Com- mitte, the Central Committee for Re- lief and the Jewish People's Relief Committee, has described the condi- tions there. "In that bare stretch of country where there are scarcely any trees, no habitations other than the miser- able dug-outs in which returned refu- gees exist,--the 'no man's land' of Poland----we did not see a single cat or dog, and in all the time we 'were there we never heard a bird sing. Armies have swept bare the country and trampled the ground to the con- sisteficy almost of rock, while shell- fire has blasted the countryside, .No animal, even domestic animal was left there. So there are children to-day of five or six years of age who have never seen a dog nor a cat and have never heayd the singing of a bird!" DES JEWS HAVE NO HOUSES Six "Million Unfortunates Compelled to Use Packing Cases, Cans and Sacks. Patterni on the block houses that childrpn build, the destitute Jewish refugees of Eastern Europe, whose homes have been destroyed during the war, are trying to solve "their housing problem with the pack- ing boxes in which relief supplies have been sent to them, according to reports received by the Canadian Jew- ish War Relief Committees from relief workers abroad. Not only is every particle of food and clothing used to the utmost ad- vantage in these stricken lands where 6,000,000 Jews are at the point of starvation, but the cans and sacks and wrapping cases in whith the food and clothing come are made to do duty as well, There is neither lum- ber or nails in most of the countries of eastern Europe at present, and the packing boxes are handled as if they were the finest mahogany, when the shipments arrive, Not a aail is allowed to go to waste, when the boxes are takdn carefully apart. All over eastern Europe at pres ent men, women, and children, many of them sick with typhus, are living in in devastated houses, in old fheight cars, on roofless plat- forms, open to the wind, or in fields, unprotected from the elements. The clothing of these destitute Jews, con sisting for the most part of the rags that they have worn for the five years of the war, afford them little warmth, For this reason, the packing boxes, which might not be considered parti- cularly luxurious homes at another time, are welcomed as life-savers just now. Boards from them are used to re-build broken houses, and even to make lean-to shelters where no building stood before. Some of the smaller boxes are piled one above the other, like children's blocks, and nailed together, to serve as temporary houses. i MOTHERS PRAY THAT BABIES MIGHT DIE Suffering Among Jews is So - Bad That Death Alone Gives Relief. begging for death to re- ton operatives in Japan is figured at Ww $15 per month. CASTORIA For Infants and Children In Use For Over 30 Years "KLEAN ALL" JAVEL WATER A great Distatectant tor 'Totlets wad Sinks. Germs cannot live where it is used. | known Toronto Italian, is wanted in | this case. The next mystery is about FEW MURDER MYSTERIES, | Bight Unexplained Crimes In Toronto | Since 1887, i Is Hamilton in danger of losing | first place to Toronto in the matter of unsolved police mysteries? Many anxious citizens of Toronto are alarmed at the fact that there are on the police books two recent murders in that city, one unsolved shooting, and the disappearance of a prominent millionaire citizen. That there is no cause for alarm ' and little room for criticism of the city and county police in all these mysteries is the.claim of prominent city police officials and lawyers. A, complete list of unexplained and un- paid murder mysteries in Toronte since the year 1887, shows eight, In every one of them, that element of chance which always enters into the relation of crime versus police, was extraordinary. Against eight mys teries in thirty-three years in a oity the size of Toronto, there is to be credited the solution of hundreds of murder cases and crimes of violence. In two of the murder cases, the names of the suspected murderers are known. 'The fact that both vietims and both suspects are foreigners adds to the problem, for a foreigner has ad- vantages of escape and security ow- ing to the clannishness and secrecy of foreign races. On Novethber 19% last, Jos Camandi was killed by a man who struck him on the head with a shovel In a sandy works. Gio Mastrionini is wanted for this. On September 34 last, Joe Berclidio was | shot, and Frank Lombardo, a well the only real mystery of recent years. On September 25, 1918, the year be- fore, Dio de la Salandra was shot In the railroad shops at the foot of Spa- dina avenue. No trace of the mur- derer has ever been found. The two chauffeur murder mys- tefles are real mysteries, and both occurred in the county on the out- skirts of the city, and therefore come under county police. But both vie- tims were Toronto men who drove out to the outskirts, as it were, to be murdered. The Toronto police as- sumed some of the burden im both cases, On November § last, John G. Row- land, a chauffeur, was found mur- dered in his ear out at Leaside. On July 26, 1917, two years before, Car- men Lapello or Ross, another chauf- feur, was found murdered and wrap- ped in a blanket beside his car out at Swansea. These both occurred out in lonely suburbs. The police, either of county or city, could not be expected to do more than search every available source for motives, which they did. These are the type of cases where the police have to deal with unknown or unknowable quantities. The re- cent addition of several fast motor cars to the city police eguipment gives the police a greater show In dealing with these undefined, detach. ed crimes. = Among other old unsolved myster- ies in and around Toronto are those concerning Hugh Hassan, found murdered on the Humber in August, 1913; Frank Malatto, murdered, No- vember, 1917; Joha W. Dick, who was punched by an unknown man on King street in October, 1911, after the Argonaut-Tiger rugby 'match, who died; and away back, Frank Westwood, shot, 1894; Rachel Fer- suson, murdered at the entrance to the Don Jail in 1894; Joseph Priest- man, murdered at the Exhibition grounds in 1887, and - Jane Speers; the old charwoman, found murdered Spparsutly from motives of robbery, in 1887. v In order to stimulate the migra- | tion of women, the British goverz- ment has offered its demobilized wo- men war workers free transportation overseas. OVER-ACIDITY Eri Ki-MOIDS on the before rettring and en- joy sleep. The pitity goodness of The pity 10a SCOTT & BOWNE MAKERS SCOTT'S At Reasonable Prices For Men of All Tastes and Ages--A Large Stock of All Well Made, Dependable Clothes, Presenting Every Variety of Style in Spring's Most Favored Colors. 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