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"+35"- r't3 tin 70c Phone 962 Honesty Best Policy Owen Sound Sun-Times: The price |of coal is high, but it is still cheaper {to buy thansteal it. A man has been lned $10 for stealing 25 lbs. 1 9 I I .;.au.no unu5., 1u.uub1r:i1l_. Que. Mr. Barnjum is a strong advocate iof "the policy of retaining Canada s timber supply in the country for the protection of Canadian industries and for the benefit of our own people _and one of his purposes in institut- ing this competition is to start more people thinking and also obtaining ]Government action on what he re- | gards as Canada s most vital problem, namely a forest conservation. r (manner:-Five hundred dollars to `the winner of the first prize in each `language; $250.00 to the second; ;$150.00 to the third, and $100.00 to ithe fourth. The competition is open ito all residents of Canada. The [essays must not exceed 600 Words in ilength. -The competition will close gon March 15th and no entry will be leligiblebearing postmark later than 5 that date. Entries should be ad- ,`dressed to Frank J. D. Barnjum, New i'Birks B1dg., Montreal, Que. M19 12ot-v11'~nvn :& n ..4-...\..... _.`I-~---L- THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15, Pure Cocoai, 2 lbs. for 25c Shortening, 2 lbs_ .~ for , 35c Choice Cooking Figs- `) II... I... Art . 7"1'--"1b.`?6r 25; Goldust Corn Mea1-- ` 1 -7 lbs. for 25 Shredded Wheat, 2 gor 25c 13 lbs. C king Onions 25c French Sardines 2 tins 25c Baking Powder- A(.._ ...... AA- . I Several Busmess Blocks -at reason- able prices, centrally located. A Buy advertlsea things. It pays. `--16-oz. can 24c Birch, dry Severn` bu home, mz Call in :1 VVe have looking f( .5-r6om 5-room 5~room - o-room "house, %PARTRI A Good Suite of_, 0fficesr for rent. 13-room bo dale, ni('t 9-mum briv this is u '35 owner sonahlo THURSD4 -room age, -room lot Office: Phones: 0 TOWd All our guamnf place an no 2-c.p. watt Mazl IS YOUR MEDICINE cum WELL STOCKEDT? 54 Elil All tk Our . in tm \`/L Pi! v..L reeve tic ;:m_ the tr the su [IV] 7.4 if AA Ma cot cott cottl A H. A.THENRY REAL ESTATE MAN l)i`iL` St LIX`, THE FISHER FLOUR % MILLS, ummsn F' A HAPPY HOME USE F lSHER S ' GOLD MEDAL; STAR,AND wanna FLAKE ,. FLOUR-- FURS AND HIDES ____WANTZD Ed. Bryson s T CONFECTIONERY Barrie A - Allandale This week at our candy Counters we will have fresh-made, hand-rolled Maraschino Cherry Choc- olates at 60 per pound ;n;eeI is a most seasonabl and~ ` delightful cpmbi_nation* of- cake, ice cram and hot chocolate fuglge._ Try it at _our _ fou'nt`ainsL Three Good.Stores for lease. ii6f'Eiidcm.Ara SUNDAE Page Four HIGHEST PRICE PAID it. Why not the rest? Ask your grocer to Supply you with Fish- er _s Flour. lf he has none in stock, phone our retail department and it will be promptly delivered. - 75% of the people _town -today are using \X/I... .--1. LL- ..-..L\ IlI\ll.llJtJI I I\l\al.a I rllll Phone or write H. LEVIT, Barrie GD; 90) l`_II2 H. A. HENRY LUNCH SERVED Pho,ne`A No. '1 55 Cream` is the best noon-day dessert ssh `ma OF-FERS vu---svvo---V .-i;I;'v-(:`.->;lier St. . To relieve the grain congestion at lake ports, Senator Bennett suggests that the lake route to Collingwood be again used, together with the now idle elevator there, and the grain hauled `by rail.to Barrie and then through Orillia to connect with the Midland line east. If grain can be handled as advantageously over this route as on others now in use, the shipping companies may act upon the suggestion, but not likely otherwise. Should it be adopted, it would mean much additional business for this division of the Canadian National lines. To those of us who wish to believe that the world is growing better, the fty-fourth `annual report of the pro- vincial inspector of prisons isnot a very encouraging document, showing increases of crime in nearly every department. The total number. of prisoners sentenced to the peniten- tiary in 1921 _was 9790, 58.3 per cent. of `the commitments, as against 7904 in 1920, the number of persons sentenced to terms` over one year be- ing` 246 more -than during the pre- 'vious. year. In Kincardine the Booster Clubl has asked the town councilto en- courage building by [giving new] `houses a xed assessment for ten years. This plan has something to recommend it if the original assess- mentwere a proper value xed by. a competent assessment commission. -The idea of having stability of as- sessment is good, providing the fig-. ures are fair, but the plan suggested` might work injustice to the owners r of other property if great care were not exercised in carrying it out. tured stills, illustrated by sketches showing how they .are located and operated, the city newspapers are offering valuable suggestions to those who would follow this line of manu- facture. Thereiis always someone who thinks himself smarter than the fellow who was caught, is condent that he can improve upon the meth- ods reported and is willing to take la chance. . i By publishincg particulars of cap-' Phone i Midland is to vote on a by-law of-I fering certain concessions for the establishment of an automobile fac- tory. With motor cars already own- ed in Canada to an extent equal to `one to every seventeen of population `and with a score of factories turn-A ing them out in large quantities, the prospects do not look very bright for another industry of this kind, I Just to show that the wins of the "Barrie rinks at the bonspiel here were not due to luck or local con- ditions, Oliver Cameron's quartette, second in the Tory Cup event at the Barrie bonspiel, journeyed over to Brampton -this ' week and captured! ,the Primary prize and the Moses!` {Hunter Memorial Trophy. I I Canada s.re waste for 1922 was in the neighborhood of fty million dollars. A persistent campaign oi education coupled with drastic legis- llation are needed to arouse the in- _'di'erent to this tremendous drain on our national resources and to check the carelessness from which imuch of the fire loss arises. I It is a serious reflection on the work of Toronto public schools that a newspaper should offer $5000 in' prizes to improve the spelling of the pupils. It would be a still greater reflection -on the good sense of the trustees if they would thusallow any newspaper to exploit the schools for advertising purposes. People who are now wrestling with their 1922 income tax returns may get some consolation in the fact that these. taxes are but _a fraction of those paid in Great Britain. In the rst nine months of the last n- ancial year Great Britain` collected nearly $1,000,000,000 from income tax payers, - A dressed poultry fair for Barrie next December is proposed by the Barrie Poultry Association. This is an excellent idea both for the town` A and those who raise poultry in this district. A number of years ago such poultry fairs were conducted very successfully here. Orillia having had some actions for damages owing to accidents on the streets, one of the councillors sug- M gested taking out insurance against such liability. However, as the prem- hium would be $350 a year, the coun- cil decided` to continue to take a chance. - 5 .4 Tax _collectors7 in `Montreal? `are hunting down 3000 bachelors who have been evading [the special, tax imposed upon them.~. These tax dodg- ers 'won t get much sympathy. 1 V i%%%%$%$%%%$%&$%$i%%%%%%$$f EDITVORIALCOMMENT .V4 9 lat! llblv I3IJ|\r\-IIl\Ill, SUIIIC UQUWRIUIVIII ally good buys. Farms `and Market Gardes, all sizes. and prices. A Summer Cottage, cheap; owner`is3 sacricing for a quick sale. R .... ua.vuv ensuing Laloc U]. 0.6! '70. That the Sun Life of Canada is fullling its mission is demonstrated by its payments to policyholders or their beneficiaries during the year, a total of $15,615,505 being reached. "Thu :1-ni~nvnnn+ 1'nuI-:Am. H... ..1-:--- u vvvul us quu,uJ.u,uUD Delng reacnea. `The statement justifies the claim that the Sun Life of Canada has en- joyed the most profitable and satis- -"actory year in a history remarkable for its progress. The great volume of` life assurance outstanding on the books of our greater companies, and which min tht nature of things must be paid out in the span of com- paratively few years, forms a pro- mise to prosnerity. the importance of which would` be hard to exaggerate. 111 more tnan IlIty COUDEHGS. New` business written reached $107,225,248, ?and the total assur- ances now in force reach the impress- ive gure of $631.404.869. This ex- pansion is accompanied by corres- ponding increases in income, assets and surplus. The care taken in im vesting is reflected in an `average - interest earning rate of 6.27%._ Thus 61... Q... 'r::- -2 n-.__:r .- BEST IN SUN LlFE S HISTORY" The fty-rst nancial statement issued by the Sun Life Assurance . Company of Canada this week affords a demonstration of- activity and strength which will be gratifying alike to its policyholders and to the ilarger public who take pride in the predominant position occupied by Canadian nancial institutions. This Company, for many years, has pur- sued an aggressive policy not only in Canada. but far beyond its borders, being rmly established on ve con- tinents and having active agencies in more than fty countries. | `Nrnuf 1`:-undo. 1\vu~ '1-L-- -A - -\- - -` Selling Price on Cost Basis Picton Gazette: The solution of| most of our economic troubles will come with agriculture put on a basis of production costs. Unfortunately, there is no relation between the cost .of producing abushel of wheat and its selling price, nor does there seem to be any prospect of the selling price being put on a cost basis, and this is true of most other farm com- modities. The result has been farm- ing at a loss for the last two years, a condition that no industry can con- [ Itinueto face indenitely. l All Boost Together i Oshawa Reformer: A single mer- chant acting alone cannot do very much in ghting/mail order houses! or in boosting his home town, but! the organized merchants _.of a town can do much. A single snowake` means nothing; but let enough snow- flakes fall and all traffic is suspend- ed. In unionthere is strength. How to Gain Prominence 1 Almonte Gazette: One way to be-I come a prominent family is to keep; a cow. Another way is to keep :1` prize strain in hens. ,; ` I ' Work: Both Ways North Bay Nugget: Zero weather: _lls ice" hduses, but it'has decjdedly an opposite effect -on coal bins. . That all motorists` should be Ii- censed is the opinion of.the_Canadian ' Motorist. Discussing this suggestion,5 the national automotive magazine of Canada says: .,Probably-_the only ones to object to the proposed licens- ing of motorists are the objection- able motorists whom the vast maint- ity -would like to see cured or elim-_ inated. The chronic speed end-and road hog. the physically or mentally unt. are a menace to other motorists as well as to themselvesland the pub- lic in general. Because they are for- ever bringing motorists at large, the lvast majority of whom are sane, stable citizens of the best type. into disrenute, they _have no more im- lnlacable enemies than the motor ilea_2`ues,. clubs and associations. 4 } m%$&w&&&mw&m&$" >3 AMONG .EXCHANGl'j.'.S g If it is.Rea1 Estate or Fire Insurance, I1!-I11 Irv-1 With last week's issue, the Forest Free Press began its forty-first year of continuous publication under the management of H. J. Pettypiece. Through his newspaper and, for sev- eral years, as a member of the leg- islature, Mr. Pettypiece has rendered very valuable service to the district which his paper serves. He is a.Past * President of the Canadian Press As- sociation and has held other "import- ant posts in newspaper organizations. During-` his time in Forest, Mr. Petty- .piece has seen nine Lambton news- papers fall_ by the wayside, yet the Free Press continues to ourish, thanks to the ability and good man- agement of its editor and publisher. V The Blue sky" bill which on.| I Mr. Raney has introduced into the Legislature should, receive the sup- port of those members of `Parliament who -believe that the people are en-' titled to. some measure of protection against the sharks who prey upon the uninformed by selling worthless stocks. .While it would notprevent bad investments, as the bill does not propose to make the stock permit A "equal to a guarantee th an approv- ed otation will prove a tisfactory investment, such a measure would put the `fwild cats out of business and make it exceedingly difficult for the crooked promoter to operate. I I tat the end 6f the month. I Th Mar- itime Provinces. show 57 per cent. paid and the_ Prince Albert district of Saskatchewan ._56 per cent. 'paid, ms BARBIE EXAMINER it was who moved in the House thatl 'Canada should buy the Northwest` lrights of the Hudson s Bay Company, *1 !thus doubling the area of the Dom-l ;inion, becoming the rst Governml of the Territory, from which he re- turned. however. a broken and dis- counted gure by his trouble with! the restless half-breeds. Though an skilful publicist. an effective orator :Dougall suffered, deservedly or 0th . ;and `an imaginative legislator, Me-I I `erwise, from the nickname of Wan- dering William, the asnersion thusI [cast beclouding his public career, but for a generation he was a fam- iliar and imposing. gure on the Can- " SIR J. A. M. AIKINS. ' 7 b Manitoba has a distinguished citi- '-' zen whom undistinguished citizens refer to locally as J-A"-M Aikins, ; ,meaning .no disrespect, for the initials : when pronounced as Jam indicate E the three` `names of James Albert A-Manning Aikins, Honorable Knight '- `Bachelor, Kingis Counsellor, Lieu- tenant-Governor and leading citizen. The West_ called the young lawyer from Ontario in 1879, soon after he was called to the Bar, and since then he has literally and metaphorically grown up with the country; he has seen Winnipeg grow from a hamlet on the prairie to the Chicago of the West, and the portal of our thou- sand-mile farm. Probably no Ontario |Westerner has lled more prominent and important posts, connected with t his profession and otherwise, or sat- ? on more Governmental commissions : than he. Even these do not exhaust ' all his activities. Educational mat-I ' ters have received his attention, mil- ' itary matters won his interest until i he became an honorary colonel of a t1Manitoba regiment, and leadershipl _ gin the Y.M.C.A. and kindred organiz-I ations has also been freely given by: ' Sir J-A-M together with a term; ' or two in Parliament. His appoint-1 ' ment as Lieutenant-Governor in| ' 1916 of his adopted province was al well-deserved honor, and today at the; time of writing he is the King s re-l presentative over an Empire domain twice as large as at its birth as a ',province and that has now an oceni port on Hudson s Bay. Such is the `outline enviable record of a Peel gcounty Old Boy.p 1 " 7 . I William McDougall was one who `was destined to plow a devious and often lonely furrow in Canadian pol- itics. He was, however. _a construct- ive and "resourceful statesman, against whom the fates seemed to ,conspire at every crisis in his public :life. The father of a radical plat `form, he lived to see _it adopted by others, and while. winning no com- manding place for himself was often a supporting party to leaders of less] ability; McDougall entered the Can- .adian Parliament under the Unionzj Act in 1864 and later became one` {of the thirty-three Immortals known gas the Fathers of Confederation. Heg Y7, MAKERS or CANADA] Clarlnonv House Black. `7I;lI:>ne 31W; `Brief Biogrnphicabsketches of Sdme . _of the Dominion : Big Men Who HavefPaud Away. I I out CANADIAN ' WHO S WHO Ill WILLIAM McDOUGALL a day for tin in Ontario and Quebec. There are 140,000 calls What Time is it, Central? H The Bell Telephone Company of Canada. `In the interest of the service to all subscribers, therefore, please refrain from asking your o peratQr for the time. 2 Goo Paying Business Propositions -Throu ghout the whole day, but especially around eight and nine, one and two, and ve and six, calls for the time are burdensome on our operators and detrimental to the service. The high calling rate and the necessity for speed and accuracy in handling our growing volume of business make it imperative that any practice not a recognized part of telephone service be discontinued. We have been obliged to notify operators to discontinue giving the time on and after Monday, the 19th. More than 140,000 times every day telephone operators in Ontario and Quebec are asked this question. Between the hours of eight and nine in the morning, it would require the entire time of 136 operators to take Care of calls for the time. G. E. BRUCE, Manager 3 ` " " """ ' """"' I i Frank J. D.. Barnjum, of Annapol-I [is Royal, N.S., and Montreal, who re- tgcently awarded $5000 in prizes for ,the best treatise on the most prac- 5 ltical methods "of preserving Canadian itimber from further destruction by Vlthe budworm and other insect pests, I [which have recently caused such .great losses to our forests, is now` |offering $2,000.00 in priz forthe [most convincing argument infavor; of prohibiting the export of unman--i lufactured wood from Canada. One} [thousand dollars of this will be paid} for the best argument written in thei English language and $1,000.00 for the best in French,` in the following} adian political stage. On the other; sideof, the ledger his logicll mind` and knowledge of affairs made him` a valuable asset in the constructive; period following Confederation, pass-i ing away on May 28, 1905. Hisl services deserve a recognition not] always accorded him. He was con- sistently a nationalist in spirit and: a nation-builder;`he had vision and: la mastery of detail to shape great; tissues on the anvil of public discus-' fsion. $2,000.00 IN CASH PRIZES. Phone 145 - Goods delivered Promptly - Elizabeth St. Houses for sale at prices from $800! up, large selection, some exception-' n`IIv nu-marl kn:-n . ' Place your order now while the` price is right for any T quantity of the following: Nfl "1 R151!!! planar - "' ` ` No. "1 Body"n"q2i$i, a Wood, dry ' _ -iarge pkg. 28c-: Choice Breakfast `Bacon---. % --3 7c. Ib Reindeer Cocoa, large 15c Reindeer Cocoa, small 8c Corn. Starch, 3 pkgs. 27c Pure C1ox{er_Honey-- ! 14. L2,. HA- FRESH, SMOKED & SALT nsn 1-`on LI-INT .Tiger Salmon, 1-Ib tin 26c oTiger Catsup, quart . 22c Soda`Biscui_ts-- V IMPERIAL BLEND BLACK TEA - . - 549 LB. HINDS BROS. PURE FOOD GROCERY COAL IE E:ARc Several Houses and Flats ior rent.`