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and Monkton Times ARE PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING The Sun Printing Office Main Street ~ MILVERTON, ONT, +» $1.50; st __monthe Foe, In advance. ogg ta ar “rears aaige ‘lable to pay $2.00 pe ertising rates on application. Advertisements without specific direction wi) pe deectadant forbid and charged year. wre for be in the office ify noon Monday, MALCOLM Mac’ BusinessCards Dr. M. C. Tindale, L.D.S. Honor graduate Toronto University. CROWN and BRIDGE WORK a specialty, "Phone No. 38. Ofide: Over Bank of Nova Scotia, een 1 Medical, P Dre P. Es. Tye Office: PuBLIc DRuc STORB, MILVERTON a Hours: 10 to12 a.m.,2to4p.m, and 7 to 8 p.m. Legal H. B. Morphy, K.C. Solicitor for Bank of Hamilton. LISTOWEL. MILVERTON, ATWOOD, Offices: Listowel, Milverton. Money to Loan, Ee Re Blewett, K.C. Solicitor for the Bank of Toronto, : Gordon Block Office STRATFORD, ONTARIO Barristers, Solicitors, &c. Gordon Block, - STRATFORD, ONT. Money to Loan. 8,2, HARDING W. 0, OWEXS eS Veterinary. i : J. W. 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Office, next to Bank of Nova Scotia, Linwood sees 7 The Queens Hotel . - ? Best accommodation for commercial trar- ers. Hotels Twolarge Sample Rooms, Are You Insured Boh CANADIAN geoee ts nd familly at cost. Investigate it : a C.Spencer,C.R. 2 N, Zimmermana,R.S The Milverton Sun spstract Sosa een re must’ Publisher and Proprictors 3 I Harding, Owens & Goodwin! |: fe W. 8. GOODWIN | £16, wi GEO. F, PAULI, Prop., - “Milvertoa, Omty INTERNATIONAL LESSON JULY 29 Lesson V. God’s Gracious Invitation saiah 55. Golden Text—Isa. 55. 6. material "the blessings Sr ee oeecad mt—The +a- rment of material blessings. is con- accel “upon _spiritu: unique position among the his day, so Israel is destined ito acne position pointed to Israel a glorious position. Only those who are tr poses abide forever eee gpeels WORDS WE WANT. The English Language is coe Being Enriched by New The war is enlarging our ee 1 upon our Blighty, flag-day, stray sittle bit “1 summer-time, are examples. The lat- ti arate warsciant: acu Grieate Tatttie bites rotithe ot “the new English Dictionar: But somé words are still required, get eo and see whether you can find t To ae with, can you think of ‘ood term for allotment-holder ? ite and “alloteer” a decent name for our-airmen ie nee waiting-list—something to | | go with Tommy. an mey | will be ‘paid to the inventors but think of the glory of — havi produced a \ te rm that will be handed down to your) great-grandchildre Then, what salle call the man who ‘has been re prefectad2 oo AS oter? z e v something snappy oe & NA oe a man over ae -@ne, and a meal that is only half a meal? puasines Don’t Wash Eggs! Except for immediate use or for lo- cal customers who use fresh Seg8 soon ate delivery, never wash e sarily because they were washed or in some way became wet before going into cold storagé. Washing eggs dis- Ives and removes the natural gelat~ keeping the nesting mn and pores clean litter in the “Taviger at One way to prepare rice is = put it in a cotton bag and into.a kettleful of boiling water. IN B IGHTY. Oh, to bein lighey, f Now that summer’ 's there! But I can’t get back to Blighty, For the U-boats won't play fair. So I lie in this long, white ward, and iream Of the old home farm and the plough- Boyt by: Disregard the ao % insisting on full w the full amount of food for which you are pi ee A French See ee wireless _re- exer is Sanaa to be carried in pocket, yet will up messages ea connected with *alatoee any metal surface. Ge ee tt ¢ lowe: starring the Haat brow Blighty—now! Oh, to be in Blighty! I'm broken, blind, and sore. of blood and war. oar the mg el lassies 80 ete R And the old man | driving ‘the soft- eyed || S Th Blighty—now! oe be in Blighty, summer’s there! Bat zi ev get back a Huy, ‘soae! awl capt jus st pre' ree That wien rT coe In ae ey 2 7 atags Smith. fl Bled to be wholesome for: any (ABBOLA {s a disinfectant that dries white, lark or colorless like other disinfectayts, so that with it, one disinfects and paints at the same Ej = 8 for Seen and disinfect- } oe Se of By ely should be thor- “AL! is | drop the same | ith _ or practice of carrying on its business. It Alleged Profits of The William Davies Company 1916 on Bacon, as Indicated by Department of — Labor to be Five Cents per Pound, Untrue: Actual Profits Two-Thirds of a Cent per Pound ~— HE statement issued by the Department of Labor concerning the business of The William Davies Company Limited has been given d circulation th the country and provoked public unrest. Whatever the technical wording of the report was, the effect has been that the newspapers have published that “the profits on Bacon alone” of this Company “‘for 1916” were about “five millions of dollars.” This interpretation of the official report is not surprising in view of certain statements that the Commissioner of the Cost of. ommissioner is reported as saying that e were two individual cases of profiteering in 1916 and that had these cases occurred since the passage of the cost of living Order-in-Council, he would consider it his duty to recommend that re ] td the facts be laid before the Att for ion as to their criminality.” The situation created by such erroneous and damaging statements is serious as emanating from a Govern- ment official, from born one looks for not only accurate statements but aes conclus’ Villiam mee Company, being a private concern, has fol- lowed the practice of all private corporations, except when it made a bond issue in 1911, in that it has not published reports of its assets and liabilities or profit and loss. The present circumstance, however, in which a Government Official has led the public to false conclusions, makes it advisable for this Company, for both the public interest and its own interest, to publish particulars of its business as well as point out the error of the statement of the Government Official. For the last fiscal year ending March 27th, 1917, The William Davies Com. pany bought and killed 1,043,000 head of Liv e Stock (Cattle, Hogs and Sheep ) ‘This, plus purchases of outside Meats, produted 160,000,000 pounds of Mi The Company handled 6,550,000 pounds of Butter and Cheese, 5,650,000 ees of Eggs, and manufactured 26,500,000 tins of Canned Goods. AT ocd These m these accounts. ing the year she: ee eevee at its retail stores 7,500,000 customers, ten averse Burchade of each customer was 35c., and the net profit upon each sale ree. 5-8 of 1 cent. e_ turnover of the Company from all its operations for the last fiscal ah! ay March 27th, 1917, was $40,000,000. he net ean ne profit upon _ this turnover, after deducting war tax, was 1.69 per cent., or including war ae 3.45 per cen! The Wiliam Davies ies Company has assets of $18,385,000 of which $3,865,000 © inves! is tied op in fix jtments. To provide the Se Rae facilities for the increased volume of peri the Conga expgailed $750,000 in buildings and equipment during t! Companies of other character present no more reasonable pe WES es profit and loss based upon the investments made in the business. The William Davies Company offered to the Imperial sulhgntiees as well as e the War Office Service (which represents the Imperial authorities in Canada) to place the output of its Factory with respect to Bacon supplies, ade Det and Pork and Beans at the service of the authorities, on the basis of cost plus agreed percentage. These offers were successively declined as the evidently desired to purchase in the open market, and on this basis The William Sar Company has secured War Office business by open competition with the id. Respecting the Report of the Commissioner on the Cost of Living:— « the Commissioner, under authority of Panies interpreted cold-storage product as “freezer” product sold—a peeaedite gaits proper, as the forms submited to be > Order-in-Council, required packers to submit statements ly is evidence: smallness or k of filled in were indefinit ambiguous, tht rmitting with- under oath for some years back and up to December Ist, figures on the Bacon list for some Plants, indicating that many out e of eyadon a variety of interpretation as to the 1916, of incoming stocks of M« and the as Firms did submit statements of their complete stocks, information required. It is thus Tesible that of all the well as statements of outgoing product and the selling value. as did this Compan: n Official of this Company pointed figures submitted by the different pacl 10 two sets ‘This Company represented in writing al th out this cold-storage distinction to Mr. O’Connor and Mis of costs and sales prices are determine common information as specifically required was not im accordance McKenna in Ottawa weeks ago, and the failure to make point. It is this difference of interpretation of what was with Pac ouse Accounting methods, and invited the the distinction steer ae had it pointed out evidences lack required that accounts difference of the. alleged Commissioner to send an Officer to the He: ice of the of Of the real information des “margin” made by the different companies. | Common i n desired, y the author of the a view, Itis tru 17,791,000 pounds of Bacon, we coul e The satan Davies Company, in ie, exported : but we do margin of 5.05 cents per pound sabuctow how report from varying bases of Desai ‘The figures of the Egg business were submitted oe Bre Same basis as Bacon, and similar deductions must be m: For example, there was no recognition of the fact tl . % * ‘ + average ci t pound of incoming product from the average (Sec —The above margin is further reduced in that pe Kee the factory as Hen aneen cn ines een cselling price per pound of outgoing product. This may be thea en rils inquiry singled out the Bacon figures as an assfcation @ ough way of stim ting e stoss margin when dealing item in which the selling pric Price shows sn sileged dmproper with small figures, but when dealing with figures the size advance over cost, but he not give us credit for the Japon de hig oie bites Dae reat rr. O'Connor has to deal with, a very small fraction of statements of other products ‘of which figures were submitted provi ne Vee ioubn, tie teal incoming, a cent per pound of error makes a very i t differen the selling prices of which. under cost. ‘The re Ercighty sik sailing vcnan east ae ich adedeie Rie seont Or in the total, and one must be careful to make sure that the of this was that through fail inquire Department to be deduced rote tie delice nis eras neihine outgoing product is the same finished merchandise of the entirely overlooked the fact that product may come in as inthe report which could be read so as letermine a prot ming product reported on. pork and, through the process of manufacture, go outas Bacon and loss statement. ‘The very fact that with only a statement . ‘Allowing it to pass, however, as a rough estimate, we or, in another instance, enter the factory as beef and go out in based upon cost of raw products and value of Great® h to point out—(first)—the inquiry of the Commissioner the form of canned meats; for example: much of the product Britain a Government Official leduced “Large margins,” allowed only for incoming freight and unloading charges, which came in.as pork, and which was entered on the pork “Profiteering” and ‘ Criminality” if urred since made no provision whatsoever for operating charges of sheet submitted to the Commissioner—about which he makes the passage of nt Act ows langerous a trifling any kind, such as labor, curing materials, refrigeration, et mention—was : and left the factory a e of and incapacity to be permitted to deal with any important cetera. Such actual charges on the 97,791,000 pounds - Bacon,and was, t 'o1 eae red on the outgoing side of the situation, The statements of this Company have been treated exported were $1,162,000—or 1.2 cents per pound. ‘This Bacon sheet™the result 9 f at the Bacon sales are increase y the author of this report as if the out-going product wa: iE covered all charges up to the point of placing-the by this amount ai stocks of Bacon, and, like- identical wit! incoming product, and from the series of «Ba .b. packing-house. In addition to this was Wise, the shee! shone sales of pork is reduced by the amount: ports he has singled out two ite: the on and the actu: fal cost to land and sell this 97,791,000 pounds in Eng- that went out fi of Ba Ie : epartinent report rom. deduced an erroneous “margin” Jand after leaving the packing house, whi eves charges takes one set of fi that show favorable to the Company which tl lewspapers have interpreted as “profit.” The per pound—or cents per eee opera another set of figur at show unfavorable, author of the inquiry sl “ani n a funda- pound included inland and ocean freight, lahding Sntieh, war = ae principle in ae Sa is the same, and failure to do so ntal knowledge of simple bookkeeping and a dangerous cables, an toagents, les ea xercising more inability to co-ordinate figures. The following are specific e ocean freight and war risk alone would make up 2.4 enthusiasm than sound judgment in his investigations. outstanding errors in the report: ae of the charge of 2.9 cents per pound. | ‘This 1.2 cents, dT fa, gueried sa iennads that “ifthe smarain ma rincipal item that is causing excitement deals with nts—a total cold storage bacon. The term ‘‘cold-storage” eA not defined, and the public is allowed to make its own defini to pee net profits. : is quite evident some process of cure for immediate shipment. That'some com- il of 4.1 cents—1 ise of further factors which have to be considered es sellin values in the country in which the Boods ‘were (Thi 3.47 en alleged to is ieee pee factory, why was it aol ry te 1916?” Assuming must be in 1915, “was satis- in of the error of premises the premises in asking such a question based on an erroneous “margin”, it will be found tha increased margin is chiefly sorbed in increased ocean freight rates and war risk in- of the other packers did not \ surance in 1916: ot which apparently the author of the report was in ignoran The Company does not challenge either the legal o1 or moral right of the Garett ment to investigate Bitte ate erprises when public interests directs such an if an investigation of the packing and meat ie will place at ue disposal of the Government only the data it Comp be required to supply under Order-in-Council directing that. inquiry be made, but will nes the erpenetice oO! at the disposal of the investi, rating committee, if it is considered they can render any service which w: ill be of value. The C as not now—nor at any time during the fifty ae off ay operation—anytl ine ing to conceal in method does, however, claim the right to con: ee is export, ae without abusive comment from Government civil when the drawn from the data asked for are ay anes: and fal: One of Catadee 's chief export industries is the packing business. to the nie stock industry, and, along with other exp It is essential industries, it maintai _ the financial stability of this country, and should, romaine it is on a sound basis, receive ore weer and not slanderous abi view given to the réport of ue Commissioner oe the cost of oo the Company ee lemai Vi lo nol See consideration as a ‘company, but we do say that untruth- ful offetal statements, or statements the effect of which is to create an untruth, As far as The William Davies Company is concerned this terminates all public statements of the Company, and it will pay n and haphazard statements ae either by Tesehaners or civil servants. The only further statement that will be made wil ¥ Toronto, duly 17th, 1917 adversely affect the ie stock industry of this country, which i is so valuable and — peice a wealth-producing power and, in the long run, are hafmful to the very peo at the statement seeks to benefit. th the passing out of existence of a ROTA LOn such as The William Hides any, or if nationalization of king- houses wor rices, then in view pa oite a ward, tragedy it aoa Ft = e 5, s § B 2 ES Gs) 8 a a 5 ic} He s i £ Z 5 a sruaiy 3 Ba Be ree = 5 ag a ZE Es 8. a Long be Canada The William Davies soa “fe urged arm arises dangerous incompspeney ie the haphazard cellection tt careless use of important figures. omhore attention to speculati: be at an official pene a ye EC. oe General Manager THE WILLIAM DAVIES COMPANY, LIMITED : : sooo \ ri fi by pulling the collars up ingiden tenia $a help to prerenh. ails urge: |and sores. Wash the ue ulders and} on all o | apply some liniment at night. | give at colts a in once a day, al- | ean it with the ps for th: | steps should ‘considerable damage. _ Therefore it is| breaks or sending inquirieg; delay m d ae the clgeeet “| of! cay iment pests or damage. mediately euch dama: outbreak in ita incipient stage. — If! pl teh be kept involve seriorfs losses that could niin e first. rites Sena ; rit immediate- | zeit ys ree Salagennh if the outbreak is) és ge is observed| serious. Clean farming, the séeur-| get the flock safely take V6 eee ‘thaling of vigorous in younz vine ‘get the ae during oe nares in pastu fs e pest or the method-of control is,best protective measures against in- bola. js “made , Be done in tepid water with & neutral : unknown specimens of the insect and ‘sect attack. Keep all crops constan Bows ere eat anneee the Se ES, ) pi stant- sam by “many ‘paint ff | soap and a sponge or stiff a aut Protection of Crops: its injuries should be sent at o fly under supervision for the first ap- makers, combined with -& eerm ter rinsing in clean tepid w: a te ans kate ioe nearest of the following sources pearance of an; ge in order that eb tides sete aia harness is nat BD to ey “ele ae Bt eit os over one bandred | of expert assistance: gricul-|it may be checked without delay. Ta- ‘carbolic acid while before oiling. la 1 pers cover one hundre eae College, the Provincial Depart-| creased crop production involves in. mill Fs of taple % in t_noti-polsonous “and non-€aus- For di “aries 38 neatsfoot or| million ollars her staple | ments of iculture or ‘their local| creased protection against pests. a ali te ae ewe lambs ackages, does not spoil by stand: ff | °2! a for ioe ae |erops eat Balers throug theidépreda | District Representatives, the officer i : y will be it Be demand Tig. #0 cant be kept on hana veaay ff | ness there eae one e tions of pes dares: partici Se nearest Dominion En-| “| Don’t Be Penny Wise. ears. Take care ‘use when convenient or on a Mf loil, The aj lication ae be light |of this loss could is rovented esos . . sauce fb ee Ua . ie app! ig) tomological Station, or direct to th: in ifé-should : Drush or @ apresine masett Wilt | for driving and liberal for heavy har- cahno' affor se _the ‘smallest Douinion Entomologi fe Depart viment No housewife should let the increas- ke “ot Be aos tae | The oil, oe to the hand, is| portion fn our es and ite: igo of Agdieuliars, Gitawe, fi Kee ae ee her ae me e aby 3 p qibbed “tiosoughly: aioe rnd ‘ops duri ritical al aaviceste tee” ‘to eal is easily prepared tor use, M | while it is still wet from the washing. | period when the prodgevon fof food i one a Piece 0 he can get. A little easing will oot eee eee fale pa enc. & | Excess oil which the leather is unable |of supreme importance, the Dominion | T°" Ta. . and packages up ta u show her that ya increased price of A seq. and endors: oa by onsands to take up sl sifuld be removed xe a Petekenest ‘of SR makin inchs Se weigth way *Uetsier oie is only. e ‘cents te ‘he *quart of poultry and breeding farms an clean, dry cl ent ar as Pos- a tM jar = perme ment westlogs ena | Paine: the hinder 4d taeda work fale lignan’ due th ies genis. Crop the a ke Uae Uae Beto nas jold by abeslers Everywhere x than di wing the cultivator, estectal: protection ‘must hand with on a sent te the other sourees Propellers made ‘of sashes steel, HOWBAN! ly if there is no truck to oper ps crop prptuctiak sia ae qaeauered to give th Saw Canna weight of the binder tongue. ests are not ‘aeually, noticed ae ee mooth surfaces, are the. last word in a i % | sional rests som ee ihe “shoulders or reported a they, have caused De age ay ee ing insect ou | plane “construction. ‘ tte