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|. III JIIVO ed-in--cue expiration. be carried ed` period, to cancel,- wlahea the TANCES ex-ad lath- "K--The list of speakers, for the Cham- plain Tex-centenary on Dominion Day has been completed, and it zisi pro bably, safe to say thatisuch `a . galaxy` of xorators hhas never store vbeeni brought together for a. p lic functions -in this part of Ontario. Moreover, for thefirt time since Champlain arriv- ed here more than three hundred years g- ago,_ the speeches at an Orillia. ban- 3` :quet will the` broadcast over\.East-I 1 ern Canada a.n\d.a- large part of -the.' United `States. ' ` " ` A! flat: nnxrnfiin finv in the Rt- [ical treat. , , The pageant, thetwo concerts by the` Huntsville Band. and the fireworks` are; being provided for the entertain- .n1nn1'c nf an nnmnrQ_ without amri I 8.!`8,_ oemg provlueu LU!` Luv cuu:1.|.a..un- u l ments of an comers, without any` l charge whateger. D - ' ~ _ , 4? Silent timing chain. ' - L-head Red Seal Continental engine Small bore long stroke motor. Tubular backbone. ~ Single plate dry disc clutch (din-tabla-) Semi-elliptic springs. spring undenlung)` Maximum accessibility. BARRIE! DIS';Rl;3UTOR : : : 716 BAYFIELD s'r. ' Phone 1231 : "Res. Phone 905r15 IrjnproveI_n ents; now shown for the flrst tune on new 1925 modelvs of some low- priced cars, wereincluded in the original Star Car designed three ' years ago.` HAROLD HILL RE SELL sidenca |% \I'IRI: %an%d "LIGHTNING " ` Has` already taken a severe toll of FARM EARNS. Weksuggest that at this season 9f the year` farmers check up on your - o ' ` policies to see if you are adequately covered.- -We; represeht companies of hih standing and will -be pleased to - " ' ` __ quote you rgtes on FARM RISKS. 4. _. _,_ ._ ._`- __.. ._ -.. -4 _--_-_ A- --n-5--n-u A.'Ff;A.NiAlLCOMSON Phone your pVeivs.iteihs Vto the Examiner. E RQSE. : Oice Natioxial Railways "Pe1h`aps you areusixig good ta. We think Rose extra good. _ Won t'you.try it? 192;: 000 TBA 993 *9 Fjjj jjju us: LOU0 rum" tea for'3'0 years. 41 DUNLOP STREET Phone 447W, BARRIE. h `Page Eleven 'I'E 1k of .' ruck; llen St. lilroy fats 9` choice buy one 8!'Od letter, able at par , ., Editor. ' HT" 1:9 In 218. _ ___.LI_ 1- Rent ED :11)! `ypoovoou Btu, Barrio Barrie. "1'='1'z'c3': 431 qment IAN L alto":-noon Bqrrl. Bub- ` and Great kvance (in 1: tea. _ 32.50 ' ah!` 'l| I . \. - The looting of the ' Troops in.ca_'porreto,n - . An. exceedingly `gliqtresslnj, -Bi tlbn: -1` has-developed in Cape Breton re; gard to. thestrike of miners, which has; _ . ' beenigoinson since March and which) in the past two weeks or more has reached"'a grim stage. Pigcketing ot the, mines brought the trouble to aihead. `and eventually ' when - thew company ousted the picketers from the power station which provides _` energy` for the `mines, and the strikers were replaced 1 with-a force of the`. company's police. , the spark tell on the powder.-f1`wo..] 1 ! 1 . / ' thousand miners. attacked the power- house, anda reinforcement of mounted police were attacked and forced to ee i .from thepower house to the/town, theh, ` `mobs of infuriated miners chasing the: police along the mile-long road; un-`I1 seating some of them and beat-ing,them . badly. One man,~~a. miner. was killed_,!] onedangerously wounded and scores I received injuries more or less serious. . company's vpshops. Q; burning of some buildings; and other .1, demonstrations ot force compelled the 1 government to take a hand in the situ- ` ,ation, and for a week past Canadian ; troops have been moving` owards the` . scene of trouble in Cape B eton.V'1`here , they have established a military base, , mounted and foot troops. fully equip- j ped with the implements of war, and . with field kitchens, field hospitals, and , an 1111 , BO -01). Fortunately, so far there have heen , no contests between the troops" and the strikers- Peace is being maintained. and, in the meantime, the federal Mini-_ star of Labor. Hon. Jae. `Murdock. has gone from Ottawa to the scene of trouble, `and `is negotiating between the employers and the styikers. UIFIIUII Uuvwu gnu vnv-up Canada has attained third place in the world in the production oz two `of the most precious metals, silver, and gold. `In. less than seventiy year`: the Dominion has produced 471.000.000 ounces of silver, worth more than three hundred million `dollars. Silver was probably first known of Canadian min"-' erals. Champlain having "reported in- dications of precious metal during `his journeys_ in the Cobalt country. in`c|i_an' [Leader om ' * ` Britain's bitter-est opponent .in India is dead.. He was 0. R. Dae, who became 'the Home Rule leader for` India, _and. for the l`ast`year has een mayo:-,0!` Calcutta. Hie hdetiiity t Brit.ip9s.part in the war was _unconcealed, and he attempted. to raise a. revolutionary movement. He was at one "time sent- enced tosix months imprisonment. but was released after your months_.g I'l'llly`U f\I'5IvuI. Inn )v---nu -. An` interesting rumor` is "going the rounds in London that Prince Arthur of Connaught is to -be appointed the next Governor-General `of Canada. It would be a -popular appointment, for. Canadians _ have an atte tionate re- gard` for the spidierly 01 Duke. his father. and -for his popular sister. Prince Arthur was associated with the Canadians during the war.} and there have been quaint` tales told about him since. One relates, that. driving: along a. road, in France. he picke_d..up. a soli- tary Canacan who` was ~ trudging to another town. The Canadian talked abou his family in Canada especially his I ther.' ``My father is n__Canada. also," said the Prince. and to his ued. I: nS `THURSDAY. JU_NE &,5{ Ijzs.[ - "leonadtvvdottr- Canada ; Silver ind 'G6|d ,__ _4.4.'_l..AA Llmlnj. -.1: Pric Al,'`I.Ill`. for ,Otfawi~ n_4._..-..L.l..... .......n.- v In -an-nln UIZIUHQ JUN; lvrv-._-- Dark Bmwn. bo. Wllitc D7 y~a mm ` Q ` . __, . `::;"**:'" |, - - __I2-I_ {he polis throughout the woyld. Iurnaces. 61:. young V this lasting and -_' for nmnnvcnd bandit. "'"3 `WW! .' Iur pr-ummmn, -astonishment the soldier `dlscoverea 11?: % rwas driving` with the span of th9.G" an-n('nv_l'!.nnnl`nI. been remarkably plain that attempts I ch'inoso_V.owf.Reta|iation--i % one white man -for every .Chinam8.n`,_V who A. falls in the strife in China. is the 3 :slogan_ `of the insurgents in the` uneasy} east, according to dispatches -from -t 0' `Orient. However, the western natio s_ have` set their faces grimly to fight the conditions now existing, in s rite of any threat. There is a sinisterfi re! -'lurking `in the background, and the. `western . powers have acknowled8e.d-| their determination `to eliminate. it It is ' the figure of the .Bolshevist, who, above all else, `fears and hates the `stability of the British Empire. It has I were being made to direct the distur- ;bances in China mainly against Bri. ; tain, China's best friend. Out of_ an ex-`,| I change of views between powers, 'ther_e; 1.... rlnvnlnnnd nmlan .to work in unity; - VV.Il,B_ Ill`) Vll_l5 w I ernpr-General, 3and'~ prevent th dastardly attempts of views between powers, me:-_u _ has developed apian 4- to unity. the Soviet to lso ate Chinese unret and direct_it~into a channel of aversion to! Britain. They have decided.`to have no dealing with any oi the provincial governments or China, which are un- stable, and to ha\(e no conference with Pekin until .they_'are assured that the Chinese people have provided` 'them-` selves\ with a; government` fairly re- presentative ot Chinese national views. x'l`his`.latter is an. attempt to shut out Soviet. influence, and there will" also which` soviet Russia has any place. China 1 st pull itself together, get over its it of bad temper, and set its hone in order, before the powers will discuss her demands with her. In the meantime, the British Commons has be no conference` of world powers at! been assured. that there are sufficient i troops and ships .in Chinese waters to- `deal with any situation which. can be reasonably foreseen." Nevertheless`, foreigners in China`are.not in a com-. fortahle position. and there is real ground for anxiety concerning , their welfare, A \ , -. gruuuu I welfare. - Edjson and Evolution I An interesting/ figure has stepped into the limelight in connection with the evolution trial which is to be stag- ed `next month in Dayton, Ohio. He is Thomas A. Edison, who has volunteer- ed his services as witness to :-`the de- fence of the youthful-Scopes. who dar- ed defy the state law which prohibits the teaching of the theory of evolu- tion in Ohio. The trial wiii attract the atte'ntl_on_ of the whole civilized world, and thousands to whom evolu- tion was _a vague word are now dip- ping into scientific questions of the 'nl-iszln of the race. ping HILU s\.:u:uuuu origin of the race. [.1a:. I no \lVOW r my Canada is not greeting the proposal! to create a new flag with any degree of kindliness. 'i!here is. a general sus- picion _' about Just what liberties may betakenh with the old emblem, which has carried `Canada through so many historical sit'\'1ation's. and probably the fact that it was the flag of the Cana- ,adlan expeditionary force. will have more to do with increasingiantagonism t o theschange thanyany other one senti- ment. Protest meetings` are already being held. .'l_`he president` of the Na- tional Chapter .of the Daughters of the `Empire states that thirty thous- and membersot that order have al- ready expressed themselves as stead- ily opposed `to any interference with the old tiag._.Tust what develops out of the incident cannot yet be foreseen, but it promises to be exceedingly_in- teresting. s Twe|ve= Hour Speech on-. Art, , A piece of art which has had the power to rouse unemotional English people to _something approaching fev- er-heat is the memorial erected in Hyde Park, London, to the noted naturalist and ~writer,`W. H. Hudson. who _'died inv1922. `Jacob Epstein was the sculptor selected to design the memorial,-It w-as unveiled in May by Premier Baldwin, and since then pub`! indignation has been growing. It con- sists of a low panel, and carved in re- lief is a distorted figure of a woman, unsightly to- a degree, designed some-' thing __on the lines of his figure of Christ which several years ago caused so much protest on both religious and artistic lines. One of London's protests was a lengthy one from a young sculp- .tor named` Hague, who, in order to attract -national` attention, provided himself with a liberal supply of sand- wiches andsbegama speech at eight o'clock .one morning and terminated" ' it at eightWo'clock in the` evening.` The King bu'otes Cromwell . Lloyd's, the famous British `insur- ance4company,~has just started the erection of a. agnificent home in Lon- don, the foun ation stone of which was his `speech, when he Cromwell. Kings and queens have been a in the habit `of ignoring the old Pro- tector because of his unpleasant if . 3 1 titude toward a` certain king of time, but King George and Cromwell had many opinions in common on the subject of British sea-power, and hence the`.King s innovation. It is interesting to note, just here, that the. King, is a - new man since`his Mediterranean` trip, and~.London is beginning to think that his illness was a blessing in disguise, war commenced. Bronzed and jolly. again, more like the sailor-king than he has been ,foryears past, His Maj- esty is taking a fresh interest in many things, including Wembley. In. order to help the big exhibition along, he has promised to visit it every time he has an hourof twoof leisure. \ ' ` ic- L C 1 . E e r t c c l 2 3 1 `i 1 laid: by the King. King George` broke I` a. two-century!-old precedent during 1 -quoted `from 1 as it enabled him to have a rest such _ as he has never known since the great - ,l'|lul'IlI"I U I in `avian ` V Russia has been forced to -loosen he/r hold -on a few more millions of her gold. Within a, month;of the re urn to - the gold standard in Britain. 0 e-mil- lione three hundred thousand pounds of-gold flowed into England, and more ,than half , 01 it came from the State Bank of Russia. Russian imports are now climiing up over the level of. her exports, and she has been obliged to `pay in gold, as her credits are nil. For instance, she. has imported in the past four rnnnfh more rubber than `she has intance, has lmporteg In me past, few months more rubber than`she ever had since ne war`. Fiifsncial Affairs ofv'Frahce ' France is 9, little bit late in exercis- ing the strong hand over4 her financial affairs in the way in which M. Call- laux. Ml` ster of Finances, now pro- . poses to o it. After its long tumble, the franc A_1s_to be restored in some de- gree it M._Caillaux s bold methods suc-' ceed; He "announces to the Champer ;ot Deputies that he intends to press -through his 1925.budget or -leave the - pol1tical,..arenp.. I-Ie threatens them that 31 1t.ho.s' not ssedhzjough; the house hy the _.end o .eJurxe. heewlll hold. the ihousejin session thro1'zgho31t.the tor- rid months of bJ_I'1ly:a.nd.Auzust. or aajson ma Evolutign , . _ _ _.-...LI.__./ ax......... an f Ruisia; Pay: in Gold -__ I.--.. ....-...I On In; The \Now Flag 1 < -_ _-. ._.;._..4.':..... LI..- ....'. I !'6W'S .l'.I.O8plE8l,`\1ulIll8Il(I. . . -Chas. Mlnnihgs sustained a fractur- `gved-hip when he tell from a beam in v_ f:`;Beck's Mill qt"Penetang. , '; .r "'t\Vnfnr-in (`nnntv (`innnnil has mu!`-i News 5'; *'%*%I*%*`*~r ION ICE f Quality & SON, ealers. nlop. St. nded to. one 925W. _ `f1_`ax Act. . -V ` _ .T ` Chas. Andrew. I_-`Ioneywopd, recelv-: and a .tr.a.ctured hip when he tell when.` `N oing down a.stai1-way. , 'l`h1-ea` nurses received their dinlornasl `: '1l'1e~ .li9m. ijlof A5Mc`:Coy Dsome gear Penetang Vwas`-._`.-destroyed` py ire on _Ju!ie,18. \ '-' I LI-I. Slngpt Meaford ht;.s ap- ,po1_nted an inspector under the Luxury-I `_'1_`ax Act. ' . . (`long A nnniiv unnntvttvan l'lIA`\I- BORIS I[0_VVll 8..8illll'VVll.y. i Th:-ee_ mitses received their diplomas, -at the graduation exercises of St. A}1d- I !rew s Hos`pita:l,~Mldland. V 4{",|u.-ad llnnhu-rn anal-ninsui 1|; fI'nntlll`- ,1-ovvnuu av.-non To 9 vonvuu-nag: I r ` {Ontario County Council has xpulr-e I chased 100 acres in Uxbridge gownshipt `tpr .reforestaton purposes. I . 3 1-11.... _._- |__2.... _.__-_-__A.1 J-.. A ...._ . I {IV UUU. ` V `, , . 0 ` -zupplementary estimates tabled re-i cently at Ottawa` contain an item of. E $20,000 for__ a. ne_w_posl: office at Grav-` enhtirst. mun Alnluninna nuahgnnnn; nf nvnvl nyn `I wanna. uvvunvnvun yup lay-aun- Plans are being` prepared for a. 'n;1`1`-1;: seshome at` the Orillia hospital. The !.Elg3%ted cost :{__between $15,000 and I I I ' ' K - I `gnnnlnrnnnhiv-v cult-lrnnfng `fahlnd ra- ennurst. . ~ ' ` \ I The equalized assessment of Grey! County forfthe year is $34,060,000. an i` increase of $5,000,000 over the former` |_equalized assessment; I . 'I"ha fntnl raven nni in the h-nmaurer ` uuuwtgu, was $114,014.00. ._ ' ` 1 ` 1'1"wo Colllngwood young men wereq I fined $50.00 and $124.00` costs `for bund-5 ing a barrier .acro.=s ohe: of the xjoads in`! l the Township _ot_,.C_ol!ingwood. ' - A _ ..... .__`-'--1 t\..n1:.. I- I....L.... :....-.A.. 1-. I Elle LUVVIISIIIP U]. `.\`.a_UIllll5 VVUU\lu ` - A sun-vey"ot Qril1ia_is behg made by` Ittrepresentative o._'-the Hpckenbury System, Inc., of Harrisburg, Pa., With} a view to erectingaia modern`commun- ity hate]. * '- ' Wm,` 'l`:-nwnlll nf."Rpnnn 1ar-is lost his iequauzea ESBEBSIDGDI. f r_ The total taxes paid toethie treasurer `of the own of Orlllia up to June 15.; the las. day on which `discount was' {allowed, was $117,312.55. ' l'l"u1n Fnlllnaumnd unnng men were. Ilster uy [IDLE]. . _ ' , 'Wm.` Trowell of-Beaumaris lost his 1 newhome and contents by: fire, early Thursday morning. Mrs. Trowell was tin bed at the time and only escaped in her night~attAre;~' _. I nnHn ndfnllnum held their an- ' Del` Illgt` E(Ull`e;" ~ . omua Oddfellows held their _a'n-, n'ual decorationfservlces last -Sunday- They were joined by the ex-service men.e Orangemen. Sons of England and I` Chosen Friends.-1 ' Anna-uiln.-u. dun` drlnn F-nov..no'I |~nn;\1-Hal me over a. yeuragu. A .~ On Sunday. June 14. the corner stone. of the new St. Andrew's Roman Cath- olic Church, Brechin, was laid, His Grace, .'Archbishop Neil MacNeil of] Toronto, officiating. 4-.,,u_-,,u-.. _-n_, r'u-_-_--n. `__-_ 'n..-.:a.....: l unosen ruenus.-; . . } According to; the financial records the Midland ,Sparkplug ,Co`., has been declared bankrupt. The company com- menced operations at` Midland a lit- tle over a yearuago. ~ nn Qnnnv _1'nno 14 Han nnrrinr sharia '.I.'0!'O[0, OII lclfllg. Suthe:-land's Church, `near Bradford, after existing tor ninety years con- tinuously asla. -place of worship. has been `closed. The congregation has `entered the United Church. '~ ,n I.l_ _-__ _-I_1I- .!_.1_- Iiltyvs vu unnv uanryuu Vfrnnynn vau- Losing controi of his car-while drivA-I ing from; Midland to Penetang on June J0. Chas. Brown-` was badly cut by fly; ing glass and o'_th`erwise injured when t1i1e~hcar' turned; upside down ,in the] d to . ' -1 ' . ` ' bnhnnf G.l\noOh`nni~n nf'l'h-Ho `has: ;'n.' (LIIICII. 1 - . `Robert Strathearn of'Or11l1a has re- ceived the long `service medal denoting twenty years 2milit_ary* service. _ Mr. Strathearws military career began 40 years. ago `as a member ot'the old No. '7 Company, Slmcoe "Foresters. - 1-rn..II- 1.1.- ._....`........-..,...A 1.4-...l~uu lemma}. \J\IIl`ll(IallJ. vuuanuvw as up you-as u While the _owners'were `having lunch in a restaurant? last Thursday a car. belonging to a -c`ouple._oftrave1lers was ransacked and a2 grip, containing wear.- ing apparel and surgical instruments, was stolen. Theipolice located the man who went through the grips while sit- ting in the -car,:and it is expected his - identification will]. lead to the arrest of the man who; carried the grip away. - - 4a,. pn_-_I _`-`_____I-.___._L-._-- .....L.I..._d...~ vs Iyanu nuns-as vv ucv_ vuungnvvn `any 5. -1., wvvv ....,. In the final supplements y estimates brought down in the Ho se of Com- mons last week the sum of $35,000 is provided for rebuilding the breakwater in-Coliingwood fharbour. This will be welcome news to the citizens, as it was not expected that any provisions had been made for this work. other items` in this district; are: ~Meaford Break- water, $9,000; Midland, dredging. $58,- Owen Sound harbour wall, $15,- Dredging operations have been car- ried out at different ,points in Honey ,1-Iarbourdistrict and yet there remains much work .to be done. The water has lowered in someyofthe channels to a considerabfe extent and in, places is very much lower than heretofore; and has blocked the passage of the larger boats. `Recently. the steamer 1`ennof ran aground in the Duff c annel where _'the steamer "City Quedn and"much larger vessels jused to pass through formerly without trouble. The passage behind `Deerrlsland has also been clos- ,d tto everything but .small `gasoline 1 0a s. `_ . ~ F ` 952w .until his policy; has been definitely ac- cepted or rejected. Never hasafinance minister been {so bold, and curiously enough, his prestige has been greatly enhanced because of it. He has one more bold stroke to lay upon thecoun-' try. He proposes to raise huge -taxes out of farmers; who have hitherto es- caped untouched.` If France had taken her courage in her hands five years ago and`-shouldered the tax `burden which she has so far avoided and must now"shoulder, she would have shared `in some degreegiwith Britain's return to a solid financial basis. The rest of the `world will wish M. Caillauxlgood luck in his daring experiment` with French nlndfnm: Ill 1115 Ll! l eledtors. r ITIIUII I C37 1796 I .lI$II `A Canada comesfourth` among the na- tions of the world in the rate of taxa- tion, when the taxation isapplied to the income of `the total net country. According to this standard used by the British Statistical Soiety,~ Ger- many is most` heavily taxed, at 26 per. cent..; Britain comes next, with 22.1 per cent.; Japan third, with 21.8 per cent., and Canada .fourth, with 19.2 -. per cent. French taxationamounts to only 17.8 -per cent. Over 11"',000 immigrants arrived. in Australia during the past six mohths. French Taxe Less Than Canadian a_.,__1_ _-....._.-.......a.`I. ...~.n....-u 6-Ian run `MADE? IN CANADA 1'33 nARR1a~;axAMiNan }_.Un1tea states. ~ A ~ _ , i ": At the unveiling-ceremony in the `at- '] ternoon; G. .H. Clark. Chairman of the. ;'1ercentenary Committee. will preside; ' `There will beonly one speech, by the `;>Hon.. `Rodolphe Lemieux, speaker -at . lthe House,ot Commons; who will`un- . -f veil the monument. `At the banquet in._ .3;the armouries in the evening._ Mayor` 3--_McLean will preside. There will be `H only. three toasts. That to Canada will 3 Toe proposed. by Dr. Stephen Leacock, 1 and responded to by Sir George Foster. the old man eloquent of the Senat . - The toast to Quebec will be propose ff byqsir William M.ulock.* and responded - to by the Hon. `E. F. Surveyer, Mont- real, representing the Government of yl Quebec, who-is said to be one 01 the ,1 most eloquent speakers in that Pro- 1- Vince. The toast to Ontario will be pro- ` . posed by the Hon. Rodolphe Lemiehx, 1-` and will be responded. to by the Hon. ;_a W. F. Nickle,` Attorney-General at 5? Ontario. With such(a_n array of speak- ers,; which could scarcely be improved '9, upon at point, those who attend the - { banquet are assured of a rare orator- n1 ical treat. . mt... ........m...o l>IsA,fu1n nnnnnv-tn hv the! S'P.EAKERs` FOR CH MI='-`I.A`iu " I c_E|.EBRATLO T IN OR|;L|jAl