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The Mail and Empire makes a sug- gestion regarding t.l.e completion of the Hudson Bay Railway that should commend itself to all the citizens of Canada. It is that the Hudson Bay` Railway, which is three-fourths com-l pleted, and the partially developed harbour, upon which millions have| been spent, be handed over to. Saskatchewan and Manitoba and let` them complete the road. Alberta is no longer anxious for the Hud- son Bay route and only a week a_u'o refused to participate in the agritation for its completion. Alberta is look- ing to the Pacic route, and is also spending millions on provincial rail- ways to open up its north country; Ontario also is spending: millions on` opening up its northern parts. Manitoba and Saskatchewan lmve been relieved of their railway - liabilities by the Canadian National being taken over by the Government. The completion of the Hudson liny Railway would benet Manitoba and Saskatchewan alone, as it would open up a vast territory, as well as pro- : vide a direct route to the Europeanll 2 `markets. This solution of the Hud-" son Bay route would (loubtless meetl< with the approval of all the other Provinces, and Manitoba and Sask- ( atchewan, who alone will benet, z should not kick. _ `l THURSDAY, SEP.TEMBER 11, 192 Meet your friends at Barrie -s Big` Fair, Sept. 24, 25 and 26. I Page Two GIh2Nnrth2rn.;5E1;a;t;;%]% I`lI`.u....:...1 -I o _ .-F- , --... -v - ....vV ` r(Founded 1851) Published every Thursday mom- ing at the office, 123 Dunlop Street, Barrie. Subscription $1.50 per year in Canada and Great Britain, $2.00 in United States. Subscriptions payable in advance. Advertising rates on application. Morrison & McKenzie, Publishers. `wounded I). knuckle. Attorney-General Nickie has, since :1S.~?Umin` oicc, shown commendable [ zeal in dealing with such acts of law- ;Ie.~t; and the province looks to `him to put an end to an intolerable condition of affairs. It is hard to discourage the use of rearms when the police set such a notoriously bad example`-News . Letter. `i have cast discredit upon \_1.L.:1. operatives have nddled motor cars with bullets when the owners, fearing a hold-up, refused to stop wlzen called upon to do so. Cases such as thrse, following the Windsor trzutelly, when the notorious Sprack- lin. acting as a prohibition officer, entered an hotel and shot a man down in the presence of his wife, the adminis- tration of justice in Ontario. Almost every day the newspapers ;,:iv<: instances of police shooting at e.<<-apinyq prisoners, most of them for triim: oflences. The latest instance of this indiscriminate shooting by policemen occurred in Dundas last Sunday when tl.e local chief of police, aided by four county con- stable-:4, pursued eight youths charged with shaking dice. Four shots were fired after the boys, two bullets whizzing closely over one of thc fuititives heads, while a third bullet ` ;:z'a'/.el the ngers of one hand and I wounded knuckle. Atfnrnnv.(`.nnm...I xr:..1.1- Lynn` I I I u CIUULIUHS. g Not more than 75 per cent. ofi _ Queensland electors took the trouble `[1 to go to the pools up to 1915, when V the compulsory voting law for the V state was passed. The percentage 1 then jumped to more than 88 per eicent. This high figure has not been 1 quite maintained, as the percentage D` of voters in the election of 1920 fell ; to 80. This percentage, however, _ F compares favourably .with the states I 1 where compulsory voting was not _en- - , i forced. Compulsory registration, which has been enforced throughout the commonwealth several years, was{4 but a prelude to the compulsory vot- 1` ing law now enacted. I . _;?,, There has been an alarming in- crease in the number of crimes in which re arms have figured, espec- ially in the hands of foreigners, and the time has arrived when the Gov- ernment must take stringent meas- ures to regulate the sale and use of such weapons, especially revolvers. In this connection, a bad example is being: set by ofcers of the law in shootimr upon every possible `occasion. For one (lay at least (lur- lingr the past summer the life of any one entering the bush in the vicinity of Washago was not worth a mo- ment s purchase, when men engagetl [in a man hunt nlumzml nwav nf nnvi .....~m.~ pun.-nase, when engaged plugged away at any; moving object in the woods. By rare good fortune no fatalities oc- curred. Tn .-.A1... _A,. .- .. - There is a decided tendency in England to return to the two-party` system, according to Rt. Hon. Sir Hamar Greenwood, who with Lady Greenwood, arrived in Canada last week. The present system in which three parties were ghting for power was unsatisfactory and a return to a more simple system in which the issues could be more clearly dened was imminent. Sir Hamar express- ed the opinion that a general elec- tion would be brought about next spring, when tlte next Labor budget would be brought down. While he would not attempt to predict the re- sult of the election, he did say that it would be a case of Labor against{ all others. The Liberals and Con- servatives would not be so much con- cerned with electing their own man as with returning a man opposed to Labor. In fairness to the Labor : Government Sir Hamar said that it had been successful in foreign affairs apart from the Russian trade treaty. |.'Ul'Xl.'Uo In otht,-r parts of the province O.T.A. opcmtiw-.9 have riddled bull:-t.:< whnn Hm m....,,....: POLICE SET BAD EXAMPLE BY CARELESS USE OF FIRE ARMS rune years. The penalty for failure to vote seems small, but the existence of such a penalty has had a tonic effect on Queensland voters, according to gures of polling in the recent state i elections. \Yn .......... LL.-- F" All Australian citizens must vote in Federal elections under penalty of $10 ne for failure to go to the polls. This," in effect, is the private members bill which has just passed the Australian House of Representa- tives and Senate. That the bill, which was not backed by the Gov- ernment, enacting compulsory voting should have passed into law without |exciting much interest was largely due to the fact that the experiment already has been tried out in the :State of Queensland for more than `nine years. "Fl-an nnn..14.. :..._ -L5! AUSTRALIA; FINE FOR NEGLECT COMPULSORY BALLOTING IN I The suggestion made by Hon. E, E C. Drury at the fl-owe-.r show of the i : . well be acted upon I :- ll ! Oro Horticultural Society that mem- bers make a habit of exchanging perennial roots, and list any they have to give away, as well as those they would like to get, with the sec- ~ retary, is a valuable tip which might by the Barrie Society. Many roots, thrown away during the thinning out operations each year, could in this way be made of great use. Besides the benet derived in distributing the peren- nials, there is the bond of friendship which the gift of .blooms eaoh succeeding year weaves. Many horticulturists have in their gardens perennial plants which are known, not by their botanical name,` but by the name of the person who gave the root. I-t is a little thing, petty herhaps, but still anything, however small, which fosters friend- ship is of value, not to be measured in dollars and cents. Barrie horti- a plant whi ch [ culturists exchange plants to a small 1 extent, but there is no system con- trolled by the club, such as suggest- ed by Mr. Drury. The idea should` I I be adopted at the next meeting of the Society. 5 I 1 t The merchants of Barrie have ` been considerably inconvenienced by the paving of Dunlop and Elizabeth streets this summer, and not a little ' trade has been lost. Lt would ap- pear that tlze work has been un- necessarily held up by the contrac- tors. While part of the` street is open to traffic now, barricades still decorate the thoroughfare and much trafc is diverted. A specied time for the completion of the work should have been in the contract. time yet before the work is com~ plete. -`By all appearances it will be some i The trees on the streets of Bar- rie, being under the supervision of the town council, that body should make a tour of the town, along the sidewalks and note in how many places the branches are hanging so low that pedestrians have to\bend down or have there head gear knock- ed off. The trimming of the trees would add greatly to the appearance of the streets and to the comfort of !those who use the sidewalks. ruguua uu a. aulzxu s con-I of] , 1wo nuntlrul students Httt-!l(h,-(I Collingzwood Collegiate `on the open- ling day. acmpe nail a me time to accumulate a few hundred or thousand dollars and will then hand his savings over without hesitation to some smooth tongued liar who tells a plausible story of large interest returns. mu. uunuwul).'_ HULL : The newspaper editors who-are touring: Europe say that a feature of Paris which is characteristic is the abnormal consumption of wine and beer These licverag-,'es are consumed in lar_L'e quantities, and are every- where in evidt,-nce--in the lzotels, in the homes, on the streets.` l'Ivery- where beer and wine have the right of way. The drinking: places on the streets, outside the shops, are seen everywhere; on the fashionable boulevards and on the back streets of the Latin quarter. 'I`her(: is no e'ort to conceal the universal custom of drinking. Fathers and mothers and children, young men and maidens, in fact the population gen- erally, may be seen seated around tables on the sidewalks, qua`in;: their beer and wine. Many of the Canadian Wekly Newspaper editors, who toured Europe, are commenting upon the Idrinking customs which they observe. Recently the St. Mary's Journal had the following note: rm... ..,....,...__._._ u-4 ' whole. times be better for a nation in the ' . vuln- That Sir William Ashley was cor- rect, insofar as Canada is concemed, is evident from the fact that there are now over 700 branch plants of American concerns in this country. They came over because they know that only by this means could they escape the effects of the tariff. It was the National Policy that brought them across the line. He also held that cheap goods work out to the best advantage of the individual or That is to say, it may some- long run to pay a little more for certain goods than to import them at a little lower price from other countries. Sir William also made the signicant statement: Econom- . ists nowadays have become convinced than economic life IS not so simple as the early exponents of free trade believed it to be. It is not so simple either as the King Govern- ment thinks it to be, when it makes drastic changes in the tariff practical- l_v without consulting industry. The whole tenor of the remarks of this eminent British economist shows that the political economists of the world by no means are ranged on the side |of free trade as some would make the public think. Experience has taught economists as it has taught countries, and as it is now teaching Canada.. the nation as a . may not always . 4...-. nauuc. Sir William cited data indicating that the amount of capital and labour may be augmented, stating that un- der certain conditions import duties had caused foreign manufacturers to set up works within the tariff walls. Reference was made to the fact that the Governments of Australia, and Ireland, as well as Canada, were ` framing tariff policies with this ob- ject in view. The McKenna duties, ` recently in force in England, were directly instrumental in causing large European manufacturers of motor cars to set up factories in Great Bri- ' tain. I l ' liam Ashley 7 stand that since the , `oossessed great resources i I I Referring to the policy of Alex- ander Hamilton. the father of Pro- tection in the United States, Sir Wil- said: "He took the United States in coal, iron, water power, it was ying in the face of Providence to leave these resources undeveloped and to con- tinue to import many kinds of goods from countries not so well equipped by nature for their production. Zllhis is the same argument which we meet to-da,v as to the `infant industries argument. Professor Taussig appears 1 to be of the opinion that the protec- A tive system of the United States has justified the arguments of Hamilton by developing the iron industry soon- er and on a greater scale than it would have been developed under free trade. (12,, 11v-nu [Two hun stualcnts nllunmunml P.-.n....:..o.. ,... `I r as we unau autnornzles in economics. Sir William Ashley also made -the other following important statement. "Factory laws, education laws, sani- tary laws alike show that no modern, civilized state any longer believes that social interests 'can be left to the working of immediate self7m- terest. From this it followed that such an important matter as trade could not be so treated either. The regulating hand of the state was needed just as much as in these other 1 matters. vs I - . .. .. - euuitnnulg OI uanauian conditions. Sir William laid it down as axio- : matic that there was no longer ade- quate support for a policy of Iaissez.- falre as applied to international r trade. The experience of recent : years, both before and ater the Great War, has shown this to be ~ true. The great industries of the German Empire, that made her such a. mighty factor during that struggle, had been developed in deance of the laissez-faire principle. Sir Wil- liam also made the signicant sta.~te~ ment that No great English econ- omist, neither Adam Smith, nor Maltthus, nor Ricardo, not John Stuart Mill, was an out-and-out free trader as far as practical application was concerned. This was an im- portant reminder for those in Can- ada who consider these economists as the final authorities in economics. Ashlev also made the sometnlng 0: Willia t quate suppol faire z (`in-vnnnn `Dc... Canadian free traders, and those generally who, like Hon. Chas. Stewart, claim that the death knell of protection has `been sounded in Canada have received arvery effective answer from Sir William Ashley, vice-principal of the University of Birminghsa.-m, England, in an address delivered recently before the British Association for the Advance-meniirof -Science, at its recent convention in Toronto. Sir Will-iamfhaving at one time been a member of the faculty in the department of Political Science of the University of Toronto, knows something of Canadian conditions. Sir William laid it zlnum as ....:.. u. apenb wisely and safely. How many bridges it would build ! How many homes ! How many miles of] highway! It is strange that the ordinary individual will pinch and` scrape half life time accumulate. or thnnannrl ,i.m.....- BRITISH ECONOMIST DEALS FREE TRADE KNOCKOUT BLOW NOT FOR CANADA The Northern Advamra zzttu mh,-:1 Hun I\I\1.nu i You can turn gray, faded hair beau- tifully dark and lustrous almost over night if you'll get a bottle of Wycth's Sage and Sulphur Compound at any drug store. Millions of bottles of this old famous Sage Tea Recipe, improved by the addition of other ingredients, are sold annually, say well-known drug- gisls here. because it darkens the hair so naturally and evenly that no one can ll it has been applied. Those, whose hair in turnina arnu l\!' `vcu it nas Decn applied. whose hair is turning gray or becoming faded have :1 surprise await- ing them, because after one or two ap- plications the gray hair vanishes and your locks become luxuriantly dark and beautiful. This is the age of youth. Gray- haircd. unattractive folks aren't wanted around, so get busy with Wyeth s Sage and Sulphur Compound to-night and {;ou'll be delighted with your dark,- andsome hair and your youthful ap- pearance within a few days. aos. brown or Urillia swam from the Couchiching Park wharf to Chief Island on Sept. 1. He was'in the water for two hours. Miss M. Far- well attempted the same stunt, but was forced to stop after havim: been in the water for an hour and forty mmutes. David McPherson of Gravenhurst was drowned in Muskoka Bay last week while bathing near the sanitar- ium. He leavng n wifn nml fxnn ..y...n ween wnue oatnmg the sanitar- 1um. leaves a wife and two small children. spunumg perlod of 1923. This is due to the good showing made (luring the early months, when big` gains over the 1923 gures were made. From April, however, matters lzave been going the other way. Up to the end of June the operating surplus was practically $31,000, as compared with ,a decit of $1,166.45? fm- Hm cums The cost of living, so far as the family budget is concerned, shows a slight increase for August, according to retail food prices compiled by the cost of living branch of the Depart- ment of Labor. The cost of living per week for an average family of ve, on a list of 29 staple foods in terms of the average retail prices in some 60 cities in Canada, was $10.19, while for the previous month it was $9.91. In August, 1914, it was $7.68. Including the cost of fuel and rent with that of goods, the] total budget averaged $20.57 for August, as compared with $20.50 for] July. For August, 1914, it was} $14.41. . . .`,\' practically Eompz}rc(1 Ila $1,166,457 for the ` months last year. vvv ...5,uc; mun H1 June, 1:126, the] increase in maintenance of way and structures alone being $1,300,000. Despite the June showing, -the' National system on the operations of the first six months of the year are able to show an improvement of $1,197,414 on the operating end as compared with that for the corre- sponding period of 1923. Hood showimr mmln .lm-hm +1. V ueucu, OI $1,299,068. The statement shows the explan- ation to lie in lower earnings and higher expenses. On the Canadian lines earnings were $57,000 higher than those for June, 1923, but on the American lines earnings were $691,000 less. The total operating expenses for the month were $20,- 604,449, `hr $1,419,704 greater than in June, 1923. On the Canadian end operating expenses were $1,348,- 000 higher than in June, 1923, the maintnnanon nf urav .m.u During June the Canadian National Railways slipped back to the extent of $1,808,000, as compared with their operating showing for the same month last year, according to the June statement just issued by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics. In June. 1923, fhpv rm: an m.n....+ me uommlon Bureau of June, 1923, they had an operat- ing credit of $509,620, whereas in June of 1924 there was an operating deficit of $1,299,068. statement. ehmm H... ,.....1.... ___ C.N.R. HAS BIG JUNE DEFICIT; EARNED LESS AND SPENT MORE l It's Grandmother-'3 Recipe to Bring Back Color and Lustre to Hall- SAGE TEA DANDY { 1 T0 DARKEN HAIR] _ Jos. Brgwr} of Orillia he Couchmhxmr Pm-1: m1..... +.. m.:,.c Orillia town council is discussing the matter of having gasoline service stations removed from the main streets, and a. request for a permit to erect such a service station was refused. As in Orillia, we are faced with the same problem in Barrie and the problem will have to be faced before long. A great deal of the congestion on Dunlop and Elizabeth streets is caused by autos waiting at ` the curb to get gasoline. Gasoline pumps on the sidewalks should never i have` been permitted and the sooner 3 they are removed the better it will e. The number of telephones you can reach to do business with in Ontario and Quebec has more than. doubled in the past 9 years. Each year for 9 years Bell telephones in service have in- creased over 11 per cent. The value of telephone service may therefore be 11% more each year to those who dili- gently profit by the opportun- ities it offers for saving time and expense. It takes 11% years for capital to double itself at 6% interest compounded annually. How much can you make the telephone worth to you today? ucucliu rlbub 1`4lCCLC(l I Major-General Sir Eugene Fiset was elected in the county of Rim- ouski by a majority of approximately 1,200, which majority may run to higher gures before the returns are all in. He defeated Elzear Susse- ville, Conservative. Ald. W. J. Hushion was elected as representative for St. Antoine as a result of yesterday's bye-election in that constituency, so that for the second time in many years a Liberal was selected by this traditional Con- servative division. The majority W85 substantially lower than that by which Walter G. Mitchell defeated W. G. Ross in the general election in December, 1911. ' The vnta fall `Far lmlnm +1..-. +,.4...1 m uecemoer, 1911. The vote fell far below the total cast in 1921, when 14,330 ballots were recorded and Mr. Mitchell was accorded a majority of 3,782. The vote of Sept. 2 totalled 8.8872 and the majority in favor of the success- ful candidate, Ald. Hushion, was 1,048. He defeated W. M. Birks, Conservative. N .-. .... LIBERALS WON AGAIN IN SOLID QUEBEC READ THE ADVERTISEMENTS. -pun... General Fiset Elected [V , .._-.__I n:_, 71,, W. E. Brewster Manager Compulsory voting is being recog- nized as right and proper in many places. In Australia a law is being enacted that will make it compulsory for every elector to cast his or her ballot or have the name erased from the voters list. ._ ,_. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1924; CRISPY FRENCH ROLLS ! DAINTY MILK ROLLS ! CROISANTS !, These are f.he tempting little breads so popular just with a cup of coffee for breakfast. All crisp and crusty without, delicately soft and aky within. Indispensable for the formal rllnnnr 137 Dunlap St. PHONE 1017 HILL S BAKERY Buy your fresh supply to-day at ROLLS dinner. A man recently died at the age of 112 years, who had regularly used whiskey, strong tea and `tobacco. We wonder what age he would have at- tained had he abstained from all of t ese. 3 Notes and _Comments ` That some one made a. bungle of. laymg the sidewalks on Dunlop and Elizabeth S05. is quite apparent, now.