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for wonld. 1 hope he is listening to your expression of incredulity. = We ate told to-day. that the capital istic system has broken down. Now, g to say that anything the Jungle days, BE * £8 of Africa, and also South America, ail to serve us. And under the capital. istic order you 'will remember we | 'checked greed, profit-seeking, with competitive effort, -That was the safety valve. Socialists again tell us | that competitive effort means waste, and it does, but that waste means growth, and 'out of those .phases of the capitalistic order we have had ati have fod that somebody; had. said that the | competitive system was a survival of Now, historically, that » man wrong. It was' competi- tive effort that brought us out of the 1 I wonder #-tonday we can Just look 4 prop to give you my views and leave it to ie bi, your judgment as to their reason- of course, some of the things | 'we are suffering from are effects of 'the War. them. You are all familiar with 1 want to give you, however, | 'one phase that you probably have not thought much about. We/should have had. a depression after the War. We got it in 1920 and 1921. Then we said, we are going to stop depressions | for all time; and we hit upon an idea --1 mean the world at large--to stop | that depression, to stay it, to cut it "short, and we did it hy international finance. There was a reservoir of trouble into which we were pouring all the potential pains for mankind that arose out of the War, There were currencies that had been inflated and then sharply deflated, tariffs that had been raized not omly in the uld countries but in the new countries, created after the War. There were wheat belts that had been expanded | 1 | without a corresponding expansion of -| humans, 'belts. There was a rise of { industry in the Orient. There were scores of things that went into that| reservoir, malignant forces, and we stayed them back by borrowing money --by loans. And loans' never yet 'settled debt. We built the dam, higher, higher and higher. Within six years, before the end of 1929, be- tween fifteen and twenty billions of dollars had been loaned by the people of one country to the péople of other '| countries. 1 mean not by one country, but by the people of different countries to the people of other | countries. You can .see the size of that dam. Never was there anything like. it in the world's history. Then the dam broke. That big dam broke . and engulfed us, "but not all. ps to use. will take| H what we ¢ Dioduted: That was not all. Almost enough, There were twa other malignant forces, and 1 want to talk about them.. We are not to-day in a competitive order. We are living in a new era, and that is a phrase I hate We are always having new eras, We are out of one and into another, and to-day I am going to ask you to believe that it is not the com- 'petitive era that has gone wrong, It is a new era which is only partially competitive, _ Now, again, I have to take you back to school; I have to say 'something "about .the capitalistic system. You | will recall that it means specialized effort, specialized production, away from the old self-contained industries in which a man spun yarn and wove it and made cloth and at the same time | cultivated a garden and had a horse and cow. It meant that each one of us tried to do some one thing and did it better because is was the only thing .{ we did. The cobbler stuck to his last. But in order to work that system we to have a method of exchanging Exchange our g then We come to some- likes to write rka 'price. level. The repair ahi present order want gener- Javel by infla- | fellow on the other end, but if a big 'reason against it is simply t civilization won't work when ) Address by "MR CAMPBELL MCINNES, "The Appreciation of Music" This lecture was the fifth in the series which a group of Port Perry people have been enjoying this winter and to some of the audience this was the most enjoyable lecture of all. © Mr. McInnes is not only an able been| speaker, but is possessed of good teeter hoard. You know what it you sit with your feet on the ground so long as there is 'a little fellow gets on the other end your feet leave the ground. That is precisely what has happened to us. Our statisticians are strong on most things but they are weak on the fig- ures as to the number of combines in this country. In Germany they are franker. They register their combine operations, and I want to give you some German statistics. ere they have had combines, if you like, or price regulation by producers, for sixty years. And according to the last account, one-half of the raw products and semi-finished products in Ger- many are produced by cartels or un- der price control. Just one-half. Now, how does it work, or, rather, how does it fail to work? I gave detailed fig- ures the other night to the young men of the Canadian Club. I want to re- peat two or three of them. In 1929 the cartelized prices were on an index number of 104.6 and the non-cartelized 1019, i.e., taking the figures of 1926 ds '100 base. They were very near to gether then, In January 1932 car- 'telized' prices had fallen to 84.4 per 'cent; the non-cartelized or competi- tive prices had fallen to 51.2 per cent., or fifty per cent. And one group of producers could not buy the goods of the other group of producers. You have had the same thing happen in Canada. I have had a watching brief for many years on the effects of price control. Thirty years ago I read a paper on the subject, I am proud to say; I was then in my twenties; it was given to the British Association for the Advancement of Science, and 1 have followed the subject ever since, I want to give you some salient figures and I am not making by the citation of these figures a charge ox price control. I am giving you sim- ply an illustration of why the present | system won't work. The safety valve | has been clogged, I am taking what the farmer has to sell, and the same figures apply very largely to all com- petitive industries. Taking the figures of the prices of 1926 as' 100, what the farmer had to sell in October was at an index of 44.9; his household goods at an index number 'of 72.5; his fer- tilizer 72.3; his tools 88.8 and his im- plements 96.9. It is only fair to say that the implement manufacturers claim that there has been an improve- ment in quality. But what is the use of having an improvement in quality if the farmer cannot buy his. imple- ments, if he cannot buy the goods he needs? As a result you have lack of buying, unemployment and distress. And I know men, some of my own friends, who actually boast that their contribution to the present depression is that they have maintained their prices. They have paralyzed buying power. We have different levels, and the man on the lower level cannot reach the goods of the man on the higher level. There is still another valiant factor and still another price level. Since the War and largely as a result of the War we have had a new outlook upon the state and the state upon us. | I can remember when men generally | looked askance at combines and real- ized their baneful effects. ~~ When I : frotk growars come before me. Frank- on the tariff. board '1 had some as shocked by them, and it te-a bit to shock me. They. : British. Cumbia (No dramatic talent which he can use most effectively. His thorough under-| standing of human nature gave him the key to the interest" of his audience and the ability to give a broad-visioned idea of the place of music in the life of everyday folk. The speaker first took the sounds which are common to humanity and showed how effective they could he- come if properly designed. The musician takes the sounds df life and puts them together in pleasing ar- rangement, so that we recognize them and like to hear them repeated in that form. Considering his subject in main, the speaker observed: "A great deal of mystery has grown up around music as if it were not for the 'plain man at all" Music had its origin in the human impulses, expres- sion of which was born in the home, in the small communal body. Music was born in time; the other arts in space; hence the difficulty of remem- bering its forms. Repetition, the test of great music, brought recognition of its design, its emotional content, its cadences. "The folk music of the British Isles is unmatched anywhere in the world," said Mr, McInnes. "That is acknow- ledged by everybody except, of course, the British themselves." English folk music, though, unlike that of Scotland and Ireland, has been but rather newly discovered, having been swamped by the oratorio forms of Handel, et al. It was not until 1842 that a flute-playing Sussex person, hearing the young folk sing traditional Christmas songs, made the first collection. Luther had seen' that the people's songs were good and had brought them into the church; in so doing he had brought the people into the church to sing them. Strauss before the war set to col- lecting the 3,000 British madrigals of Elizabethan days which had lain for- gotten in the British Museum. In response to requests, Mr, Me- Innes touched -- lightly -- on such diversified themes as the National Anthem, jazz, and "the influence of music on polities," In respect to this latter, Mr. McInnes thinks music has had "an enormous influence -- don't forget the Greeks." The speaker, too, instanced John Gay's delicious lam- pooning of George I and his court and the writings of Gay's successors, Gilbert and Sullivan. "What those men did to make people sane and healthy through their art is inecal- culable." 2 God Save the King was an anthem of the people, belonging to the people, and was meanf to express the feeling of the people. Officially, said Mr. McInnes, it was played when the King was saluting the flag of his people-- which he was the first to do. At the close of the ceremony, it was played-- more quickly -- to indicate that the King had left. In London theatres, which were licensed under:the name of the Kig, the anthem was played to indicate that the play was over, In reference to the anthem's use, Mr. McInnes thought it "better to play a few bars and have done with it than to play it through perfunc- torily." About jazz. The speaker begged his audience not to condemn. To this however, he added a rider--popularity was not a passport to immortality. And between entertainment and re- creation: he drew a sharp line. The description given of jazz by Mr. Melnnes was mast apt. He "pics. tured a dignified gentleman walking along the street---suddenly he slips upon a banana skin. The first slip is entertaining to the onlooker. But if the actions caused by the slip were repeated unduly they would first be- come tiresome and then disgusting. True music will bear repetition with pleasure to the listeners. tp The next lecture will be given by Mr. Arthur Lismer in the High School Assembly Hall on Monday evening, March 20th, His subject will be "An Appreciation of Art." Mr. Lismer is one of the most outstanding speakers in Canada upon this subject. Every person who can be present should do $0, as the information given is of a character which adds pleasure to life not only at the time of the lecture, but in after years. The admission is 26c. Everybody is welcome. "Port Perry" Hockey Team Won the Cup. The Rural Hockey. League games are over, and the silver cup presented by Peel Bros. was won in "open combat' with the following teams:-- Oddfellows, Prince Albert, Honeydale, Greenbank, Seagrave, Nestleton, Seugog, Myrtle, Utica. Through the eourtesy of Mr. Arthur Somerville, Secretary of the League, we have published a sum- mary of the standing of the teams each week. Our friend Roy Scott has just sent in his vivid description of the final game. To the victors go the trophies, so, hats off to that worthy bunch of hockey gladiators that smiling Bert. MacGregor assembled as a hockey) team, and congratulations are in or-! der. The final game, played Tuesday night, was of championship calibre all the way. Carrying a two goal lead from the previous game the Red Wings were out to hold their lead and wait for the breaks to increase their total, while the Blackhawks were out there with a do or die spirit, with everything to win and nothing to lose, and how they did swoop down on the boys in red as though they were of no account. The Hawks put on a ganging art in an effort to get goals and cut down the lead of the Wings. ere it is: This goal had the Wings pretty well disorganized, coming as they did so quickly following each other, and 'tying the round. Art Brock, the only veteran on the team was sent out and his presence had a steadying influence on the younger members of the team, pulling them together until they found themselves again. The Hawks were still pressing and back checking like fiends, neither side being able to score in the second canter. The breaks were destined to decide the winners between these two evenly matched teams and these came with only four minutes to go in the final period. DeShane seored from a face- off by the Hawks' net. The Hawks made a desperate effort to remain in the picture in the dying moments left, but the Wings held off every thrust, until the final gong, Two teams of weary and gallant | puck chasers, victors and vanquished, lined up at centre ice, one to receive the spoils of well earned victory, and the. other to offer sincere congratula- the Port Perry Hockey EE ---- 5 Harry, as president of the League, in a\few well chosen words presented the cup to.the Captain of the Wings, Art. Brock, To single out stars on either team would be doing an injustice to the re- maining gallant. members who to the last man gave every bit he had. It was a great game to win, a tough one to lose. The teams-- Red Wings--goal, Beare; defence, Dodd, and Dowson,; centre, DeShane; L. wing, Somerville; R. wing, Ward; alternates, Brock, Woods, Asher and Burton. Black Hawks---goal, Williams; de- fence, E. Wallace and H. Honey; cen- tre, Switzer; L. wing, L. Wallace; R wing, Whitfield; alternates, Mills and Sims. : Referee--Norman DeShane. ret A Ne WON GOLD WRIST WATCH Mr, Cecil Heayn recently won the second prize in the competition among the agents of the Mutual Life Assur- ance Company of Canada. The prize was a solid gold lady's wrist watch. Mr. Heayn is to be congratulated up- on his success. real MP AON GREENBANK FIFTY YEARS AGO. Dear Editor--A few other mem- ories drifted in since last I wrote you, and may make the "effusion" more complete, so far as enlightening the youth of to-day on what people man- aged to do With their time in the long- ago. "1 was very familiar 'with some of the "events" of those days. Yours truly, J. A. Miller. The local church activities--not for- getting the winter. "protracted ser- vices" (frequently for six weeks), the Saturday night gatherings in the Sons of Temperance hall, the occasion- al quilting, barn raising, logging meet, Presbyterian dances, or apple paring (often pairing) bee, all gave spice and variety to a life never humdrum, as days were filled with work. About fifty years ago congregations began to sit down for prayer instead of kneeling in the Methodist church or standing up in the Presbyterian Kirk. Some old people clung to their accustomed way until they passed on. At a Marsh Hill evangelistic meeting Tom Ganton brought a sheepskin to ease - his "sore" knees when the minister said he could not attend un- less he knelt for prayer, Among the outstanding events for the year were the big Spring Fair at Manchester (predecessor of the Ux- bridge 24th of May show), the annual Plowing Match, alternating between Saintfield and Manchester, the Fall Fairs at Sunderland, Uxbridge and Port Perry (on the south side of the sixth near Scugog bridge.) A great event was the annual ice races on the noble Scugog, a time when lots of people tried to keep warm on John Barleycorn. * When the horse ruled the roads, at least twenty blacksmith shops dotted the township--now. only the one at Greenbank, and a score of oil stations have replaced them. The taverns of the early eighties were located at Seagrave, Saintfield, Greenbank, Epsom, Utica, Manchester, Prince Albert and Strettonville, but were having a bad time: because of the "Scott. Act" a county temperance measure. These places have all dis- appeared in this improved new day, and South Ontario now leads the Province in dry voting. Several croquet lawns were well patronized and the ring of quoits was added among many men. rr tf AP Nee eer. DANCE AT SCUGOG HALL A dance will be held in the Scugog Township Hall, on Friday evening, March 24th, under the auspices of the Baseball Club. = Admission 2Bec. Ladies please provide. ; FORMER EDITOR OF WHITBY GAZETTE DIES Mr. 8S. M. Newton, formerly of Whitby, and for some years a resident '6f Prince Rupert, B. C., died at his home last week in his 70th year, Mr. Newton was Mapes of Prince Rupert for some years. He 1 r in Port Perry, 3