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Page Two The suggestion made to the town council by Mr. Moberley that a Government expert be secured to examine the trees on the streets of Barrie should be seriously consider- ed. Our shade trees have been sad- ly neglected in the past and they are getting less uniform and de- teriorating every year. Streets and avenues with well kept uniform trees add wonderfully to the appearance of a town. There has been no effort on the part of the town councils for some years to replace trees that have decayed and been removed, with the result that there are many gaps on some streets. We would suggest that Mr. Mo-berley be given a free hand with the services of an expert to do what has been neglected for so long in this direction. Collingwoocl ministers refused to take any part in the memorial ser- vice held in that town on Sunday, Nov. 9. The Ministerial Council, as the preachers of the town style themselves, thought the service should be held on Monday and so _ wenton strike, refusing to have any- thing to do with it. All the fraternal organizations, including the Great War Veterans, the Women s Aux- ` iliary of the G.W.V.A., the I.O.D.E., and the town council, were all strongly in favor of holding: the memorial service on Sunday and did ` hold it. Sergt. R. V. Ferguson, known as the football parson, was persuaded to speak and offer prayer. The action of the Collingwood par- sons is attributed to vanity and stubbornness, claiming that their right in leadership should have been conceded. The service was held at four o'clock on Sunday afternoon, at a time that would not interfere with any of the other services of the day. Lt is hard to conceive why ministers who are free would refuse to have anything to do with such a service. They not only lost an op- portunity to say a word that might have far-reaching effect, but they lost the goodwill and perhaps the re- spect of some that might need their help. Ministers, we agree, should be leaders in religious matters, but they will only attain that leadership by proving themselves capable and worthy of it. In the various towns and citiesi vigilance commitxtees are being` formed for the purpose of enforcing the 0.T.A. Vigilance does not necessarily mean militan-t tactics. Neither does it stand for secret I Council - election Monday 1 the In- L ne sil- Council- < for the 1 Innisl. meetings in out-wof-the-way places or excursions into the realms of the private detective and the police oicer. Vigilance, declares Rev. ' Ben Spence, ruling rajah of the pro- f hibirtion forces, means on guard. If a man is a. good citizen, he must also be a vigilant citizen. If he stands for law, he must also stand for law enforcement. -He must stand for the enforcement, not of some of the statutes, but of all of them, whether they meet with his own personal approval or not. When he accepts the rights and privileges of a citizen, he must also accept the obligations. When he ex- ervises his franchise for the enact- ` ment of certain statutes which he feels should be part of the laws of the province, he also takes upon him- self the duty of supporting the statutes enacted through a. similar exercise of their franchise by his fellow citizens. President Coolidge, dean of the drys in the United States, dealing with the same sub- ject, says of their aims and objects: They are organized for the pur- pose of propagating` the doctrine of law o'bservance. Their members do not intend to spy and wpoke into other people's business. There will be no amateur detective work, but a constant drive to keep well to the fore in the minds of the whole com- munity the duty of each citizen to the laws under which he is living. We are forming `on guard commit- tees. We are not forming `nosing committees. --Collingwood Enter- prise. Premier Ferguson, as Minister of Education, emphasizes in his annual report what he refers to as the startling nancial loss in maintain- and the steady increase in the num- ber of these schools in Ontario is alarming. There are now 117 schools with an attendance of one to ve pupils, 365 with an attendance of six to nine pupils, and 824 schools with an a.ttend'ance of 10 to 14 pupils. The cost per pupil of main- taining these schools has been`, gured out as follows: In sch-ools having one to ve pupils, the cost is $243.32 per pupil; in schools hav- ing six to ten, the cost is $138.99 per pupil. The total cost of all schools is $80.26 per pupil. The Premier points out that the most un- satisfactory feature of this condition :.. LL- 1.'.....L LL-` ..L:1.)..,... ..4+......l._... l ling one-teacher schools, where the uttendance is less than ten pupils, A ; ed in centres . winter classes for pupils .:u.uvAur\.u\.u_y ;.\.u-v xu. wuu yu ....... u is the fact that children attending such schools have a poor chance of receiving a training for life and citi- zenship. How can a lad who has to walk one or two miles to school, where there is an attendance of two little girls and himself, obtain a uux. training that Will qualify him for 3 1 co-operating with his fellow men in 3 the various relationships of The playground has as great oppor- tunities for education for citizenship as the The child must learn schoolroom. life 2 T and training _ to live with : other children in the little circle of _ the home, the school and the com- munity, in order that he may be qualied to fully discharge his re- sponsibilities in the larger circle -of i the nation and the world. While a great many of the children from the farm attend high school, yet it is . well known that many who live far from secondary schools have no op- portunity of continuing their educa- tion beyond the elementary stage. To meet the problem the Premier suggests that there might be conduct- during four or ve months Irt-time schools. in rural districts are not a new experiment. , In pioneer days most of the young people in rural districts of Upper ; Canada received what education they . EZ'0t 7 in this way. These winter courses, I am convinced, should be revived. The Inspectors of the 5 Province favor the creation of larger administrat-ion areas. would S(.-lnct the The majority townships as the . unit, as the section method of group- ing: is too small. The settled con- : dition of the country, with good roads in every part, brings the . people in close contact. This argu- ment appears to have much weight and may be worth considering. Part time . Divorces in United States in 1922 numbered 148,815, and in 1923 165,131). It was an increase of 11 pm` cent., while in the same time marria_<.-`es increased 8 per cent. As each divorce affects two per- sons it means that in 1923 there were 330,278_more divorced persons in United States, or in the two years U30,-108'. Alinwinrr all nnecihin mnrrrin `fnr HOW LONG CAN U.S. STAND IT ? u.su.-we. Allowing all possible margin `for le;,:'itinu1te and pressing` need for divorce, there is yet a tremendous number who have gone through the divorce mill on some pretext or other, doing so because they realized they were living in a land where it was _comparatively easy to evade the ties that bind the founclations of a `nation's strength. I 'l`lm mwne saw: llsn-inn` nnnnrrl-1 tn 1i1h2Nnrtl12rnAhnanr2 l`Ii`..-u-..l.-ul `I D 1121tlOn'S strengm. The gures are daring enough to constitute a challenge to the fumurc of United States and to call inmo question the rigor of its moral stamina and the virtue of its nation- al creed.-Lon(lon Advertiser. THE TARIFF AND BRANCH" AMERICAN PLANTS Protection and the estab1ishment of branch industrial p ms in Can- ada by rms having their headquar- ters in other countries is one of the results of the tariff. Let no one think otherwise. There would be little purpose in an American manu'- facturing rm opening a branch plant in Canada if it could ship in its products free of duty. For the same reason there would be no pur- pose in a British rm opening a branch plant in this country. Rn if Canada is to retain what In CHIS country WOIIIU IJE? l\V. Fully 700 branches of American industrial rms have been located in Canada during the last 25 years. These represent an investment of over $700,000,000. Everybody ad- mit-s that this has been a wonderful thing for the country. It has pro- vided employment for thousands, and has distrivbuted hundreds of millions of dollars in wages. It has put on their feet towns and cities that were languishing. It has caused other places to grow rapidly from small communities into large cities. This bran:-ln-.fsm mrv building` has branch plant in this country. So if Canada is to retain what branch plants she has, and is to get more of them, she must retain her tariff. No `argument is required to demonstrate the truth of this argu- ment. It is obvious to anyone who gives the subject the slightest con- sideration. Even a free trader must admit that without protection the number of branch plants established in this country would be few. Wnllv '7 hrsanr-has of` Amerir-_an commumues into large cities. This branchwfaotory building has been the most marked development in the industrial life of Canada dur- ing the last quarter of a century. It accounts very largely for the rapid industrial expansion that has taken place. On this point there is not the slightest dispute. 'Dhe person who seriously argued that these branch plants were not good for the country would be derided. 'l`l-ii: =11h1'nr-11'. in hnnnrl tn rnnpivn country W0ul`(l De (IEFIUELI. This subject is bound to receive more conrsideration because of the return of the Conservative party in Great Britain. As is well known, it is committed to the adoption of a certain amount of protection. The best evidence of this is to be seen in its preferential trade proposals, which are sure to be adopted. On this matter Premier Baldwin is com- mitted. T.. -vssaixv-\AIa`:Av\ l\R `Ln `[)u+. n'l. Dun, . ciple that WXllLL(3Uu In proportion as the British Pre- ference is applied within the Em- pire to products manufactured therein, the greater the inducement will be on the part of the American rms to establish branch plants in Canada. For in doing so they not only are assured of getting into the Canadian market on a better basis than if they manufactured wholly in the United States; but they are also permitted to get into the British market on equal footing with other British rms. Nexzt possibly to the United States, the British Empire market is the best in the world. From this it follows that the wider the application for these other ada, it has been a case of giving much in the way of a preference and getting very little out of it. But in proportion as Britain goes in for it, the more will Canada's position be improved. This brings one back to the prin- protection is absolutely necessary to the adoption of a truly preferential trade policy, and that Canada stands to secure branch fac- tories in proportion as this takes place. Even a lower tariff would _ kill the movement of branch factories to Canada, to say nothing of the effects that are sure to follow the full fruition of a policy, which, its supporters say, sounds the death knell of protection. of the British pre- . ferential trade policy by other por- . ` tions of the Empire 7 will be for Canada; for to that ex- 3 ' tent has she a better chance. to pro- I . duce manufactures portions. the better it i ii '1lhe trouble to date with 5 this policy has been that, for Can- . To the Ed;it.or of The Advance, (`in Y)......3.. __3.I &..!L..L.. 4.- .I.v mu. A.l\|.A`\AvA us J..lL\a 4:uvuu\.x., Sir,-Barrie paid tribute to the memory of soldiers dead on Tuesday, Nov. 11, and a large number of wreaths were placed on the memor.ial by relatives and friends. Some of -the wreaths and sprayus were of anticcial owers, which had been purchased at no small cost, the in- fcention being to preserve same that they could be placed on the memor- ial from time to time. l\/In nldnuf nnn uvno D311.-ul in nu!-inn lal IFOHI E11116 130 TJIUB. My eldest son was killed in action and I had an articial wreath made, attached my name thereto and placed it on the memorial. Imagine my surprise when a few days later I noticed that all the floral decorations had been removed from the memor- ial. Chief Case, when questioned, expressed surprise, he not knowing the flowers had been removed. The Mayor was also surprised, not know- ing anything about it. After visit- ing Col. Cowan and several other places no trace could be found of the wreath and to date I have not located the wreath that I placed on the ' memorial. T\;nuy cl uylan in unnnnnnilnln -Gnu _ ,_ _.,_. . .__ _. _ (Founded 1851) Published every Thursday mom- ing at the oice, 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. LHU IIICIIIOTIEII. Now, sir, who is responsible for the of our noble (lead? I care not whether it be the Parks Commixsioner, Returned Soldiers Associaon, or whoever it may be, this memorial was errected by the public as a memorial to those who fall in action and the only ones al- lowed to remove wrealths or flowers from the memorial is he or she who plzrced them there. l`l1n nl\1'n1~+ n+' H1}: lnH-rm in nnt tn alttiturcs. . Everything; in the world was put there for a purpose, says the nlll adage, and after all these years rthat may explain the gvasshopper. [)l2l`CC(l tnem more. The object of this letter is, nort; to cause at the present time any (lis- uturbance, but to prevent a repetition of what has recently occurred. lqin-nn:l\ \U `D Dn.l.l~-.. aun" reports. Ohemists have found that -)il ex- tmcsted fmom the bodies of grass- hoppers is especially suitable for `aviation, as it remains liquid at liigli alrtiturcs. n`um.u+l-Juno in H. .......1.I .._.._ ____. Flying oil wells are a recent disoovery in France, the New York Sun" reporrts. Cnhrvmictc Hnvn f'nnn.:l H-`of nil av, Have you renewed your subsrip- tion for 1925? LEST WE FORGET " mus recenrmy occurred. (S1gnc(l) W. D. Paddlson. The Northern `Advance Summary of Business Conditions Throughout the Company : Ter- ritory Based on Report: from the Managers. Genera1---With reports of the best crops for years throughout Ontario and Quebec 1nd of increased em- `ployment, together with a general feeling of condence apparent near- ly everywhere, we can safely assume that conditions are now on the up grade, which we mentioned last rromh, and fumzher, that the up- ward movement will be accelerated as the months pass. Tnrrnzmrxd Iahnur niniennv. tn- Would that we migihw have a law against gossiping as we have against stealing`. As Shakespeare says: He who steals my purse steals trash; but he who robs me of my good name robs me of that which enriches him not, but makes me poor indeed. me monms pass. Increased labour efficiency, to- gether with low material cost. make the cost of construction to-day lower than it has been for :1 number of years. This condition promises con- siderable nctivi`. not only In the building itself, but in all the indus- tries manufacturing the necessities to carry on the work. That many nnnonrng arr: Tnkinn !1liV2Y1`i .2D`D nf L ) Carry OH 3118 \VOI'K. Lflll H1331) concerns are taking advantage of these conditions immediately is evi- dent in Toronto, wnere two large -office buildings to cost $1,000,000 each are now under construction, a.: a number of oiher large m:(ler- takings are being: contemplated. . Retail trade is repzvntetl as fairly ffll tlngnifn nnsnnennnlxlp wt:--41-lwnrl OI LNG IFOSE SIIUUIU improve. Demand for Tt=.`.ep'no'.1e Service-- In general, the demand for service is reported as improved over that of 1.45:`. month, and the toll traic ex- ceeds that for corresponding period last yar. 'I`r2dp__Ln.:+. mnnfh van rnnnriuil 9 Lulilllg ZIP(5 U811) ; CUhLUH`|p1LB(l. good despite unseasonahle weather it. many pzwts and with the coming of the frost should xmprove. npmnnrl for '|"r-`..=`n'nn'1ra .Qr:I~vinn._. |1u5n year. Trade-Last month we reported a favourable trade balance for Can- ada of about $12,900,000, and for the twelve months ending August a favourable balance of about $238,- 900,000. `nun-inn n.n+m-nhnr I`.-xnnrl-.\ a Gm- UUU,UUU. . I During September Canada's 1m- ports wmounted to approximately $63,900,000, as compared with $71,400,000 in the same month last year, a decrease in imporfcs of aboufc $7,500,000. Wnrnnvfa :h1rinn' Rnnfnmhnr 109A @J.O,`iUU,UUU. Canada s trade -balance for the month of September, 1924, from these gures amounted to over $17,- 000,000, an improvement over the unfavourable balance of `September, 1923, of nearly $21,000,000. Accnrdinzr to tho Lnmlnn 'l`imr-q qzl,0uu,UUU. Exports during September, 1924, amounted to nearly $81,000,000, compared with $67,600,000 in Sep- tember, 1923, an increase of about $13,400,000. (`.5171-.1r`n e frzuln Jxnlannn Fnv +1-an man, 01 nearly ;pz1,uuu,uuu. According to the London Times Trade and Enrgineering Supplement the United States imported from the Dominion of Canada during the twelve months ending June 30, 1924, goods valued at $583,500,000 (pounds sterlimz) and fnom the United King- dom durinp; the same period goods valued at only 68,000,000 (pounds .~:terling*). A rvrimilhn-n-..Rv-n riufrt`-n1: Mnnfrnnl `u-uuusuun uauuuuu, vyuuucx ug . According to Hon. J. E. Caron, Minister of Agriculture, the Province of Quebec this year has its best crop in the `last twenty years as far as the production is concerned, but it is too early yet to judge whether the prices will be sustained sufciently to esti- mate what the _value will be. THURSDAY, NOVEM:BER 27,` 1924 SL(.'l'lLIl_E,'}. Agtricu1tu1'e--Bratlstrcetfs Montreal weekly trzule report `contains the fol- lowing` paragwaph : H, is: atntml fhnf. thin vr>nr'.< ovnn, lUWlI1g' pm-ag'rapn lt is stated that this year's crop, although it is not the largest, will `return more than any wheat crop yet sown. The estimated amount of money that will be put into circula- tion through the Canadian grain crop is well over six hundretl million dol- lars, and which the trade say should be a very big` help to Canadian trade." TEA -G`.-Jlpuuin.-.v nu!-1n.n+ in -Pnvu +l1n THE BELL TELEPHONE COM- PANY OF CANADA LI'U.(IU The following` exrtract is from the Montreal Gazette, October 31 : II A ......._.l....... L- TI... 1' E` mIAI\Iv\ The Order 11011: last ~ &Wl1o qot it `.7 "To Merchants and Salesman EVERY NEW SUBSCRIBER ADDS TO THE VALUE OF YOUR TELEPHONE STILL THEY G0 After attending a meeting in Lon- don with other edirtors from Western `Ontario, H. J. Pettypiece, of the Forest Free Press has been doing a little arithmetic. Counting the tombstones in the journalistic grave- yard, he says there are to-day forty- ve fewer weekly papers published in the eight counties represented than there were ten years ago. When the war broke out in 1914 there were ninerty-nine papers in these counties, and to-day there are only fty-four. The passing of fonty-ve per cent. of the weekly papers in these counties may be put ' down as due to economic necessity. ' That sounds very well, but it does - not cover the case. Each one -of the forty-ve that went under was an i agency in its own district for keep- ; ing its locality on the map,_ for ' `helping to resist the `trend to turn :' trade from its natural channels. - Each represented an editor or pub- 5 lisher who ound in the era of high > prices that the task of carrying on , was becoming too great, and it is a - safe guess that there was not one of them locked the front door nally V without ghting his nancial battle -Ito the last ditch. READ THE ADVERTISEMENTS. Goodfellow s The members of Innisl I red the first gun in their c campaign for next year on 1 night, when they presented nisl baseball league with a 1 ver mounted shield. The C Iors, however, need not look vote of the young ladies in I a at POPULAR PRICES! Good Shoes A. W. GooDFEf.Low' W. S. G""P- Next Door to Bank of Toronto Building . BARRIE TANNING CO. HIDES? WANTED! We will pay the following prices- Green Hides , . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cured Hides . . . . . . . . . . . .11< Calf Hides . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. Kip Hides . . . . . .` . . . . . . . . .12 Deer Hides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . for The opportunity was there. Did your competitor call up your customer by Long Distance, and sell him? Opportunities used to come a- knocking at the door. Now- 'adays salesmen go out to meet them half-Way - by Long Dis- tance. They tell us that about 40% of the sales opportunities they go s after by telephone prove prot- able. Such salesmen are said to have telephone initiative. 'A Well-dened plan of sales by -Long Distance, and salesmen with telephone in itiative handling it, may be just what you need to increase sales. The Church Union question has` become a. live issue in many centres, and things are said on both sides that would be much better let un- said. The language and thoughts expressed by some speakers clearly shows that neither the Union nor the Anti-Union cause will benet by their allegiance. Why not give it a thorough trial? W. E. Brewster Manager THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1924 is a simple harmless `home treatment which absolutely cures deafness, noises in the head, etc. No expen- sive appliances needed for this new Ointment, instantly operates upon the affected parts with complete and permanent success. -Scores of won- derful cures reported. DEAFNESS Can Be Cured. n\a..n...nA-15.15.45. a 1.49 n AAu\.n1 I Mrs. E. Crows, of Whitehorse` Road, Croydon, writes: I am nlnaaml fn roll vrm that +119 noau, proyaon, VVTIIBSZ I am pleased to tell you that the small tin of ointment you sent to me at Ventnor, has proved a complete success, my hearing is now quite normal, and the horrible head noises have ceases. The action of this new remedy must be very remarkable, for I have been troubled with these complaints for nearly ten years, and have had some of the very best. medical advice, together with other expensive ear instruments, all to no purpose. I need hardly say how very grateful I am, for my life has `undergone an entire change. TI-v nno I-any fnu-`av, whirh 4-an I-an In Schenectady it is announced that new X-my machines have been perfected in the research laboratory of the General Electric Company which make it possible to look thmugli walls and oors as easily as` a physician now looks inrbo the in- uterior of his pa.1.1enrt. Nn mnrn h-lnnluuln. it is nnintnrl nut, |Tz(:`l'lCI` OI HIS pdibllfib. ` No more trouble, it IS pointed out, for the man who wants to hang a `picture on the wall and doesn't kn-ow w here to strike a solid `piece to drive the nail. He can hook his houseshiold X-my to the nearest damp and nd a beam. He can use it, too, to locate lost pocket knives anvl Fast winteri- s oversihoes. As for clinkers in the furnace---~ ohe possibilities are rf7rp.mpn1ln11n, BN6 1 U.l'Il21 treanendous. unuergone an enure cnange." Try one box to-day, which can be forwarded to `any address on receipt of money order for $1. There is nothing better at any price. .nu\u\.eu uL\AL.Ao uu Manager: Larmalene" Co., "Wood- Iands, Stone-woods, Dartford, Kent, England. FUNERAL DIRECTOR AND EMBALMER Open Day and Night 47 Elizabeth 5!. Phone 21 P.WC. LLOYD % 1` The new Continental Remedy called NOISES IN THE HEAD AND NASAL CATARRH RELIABLE TESTIMONY n 11r1 3; , 1, LARMALINE" (Regd.) The boys and girls attending the rural schools may not have all the a(lvanta.g'es `chat the town and city boys and girls have, but those speak- ing at the contest in Barrie on Sart- urday last showed that they are not lacking in ability. .11c to 11>c . . ..14c lb. . .11c to 120 . .16c lb. Address orders to n . .10c lb. "ES... 213; Farmers Sun--A man was ned $20 and $4 costs added in Barrie police court for having in his pos- session the skin of a coon which he had killed. This case furnishes an- other illustration of the stupidity, or wrong purpose, of the game laws on the statute books of this Province. Why should coon-s, foxes and skunks be given pr0tection,'while a bounty is paid for the destruction of wolves? All four animals constitute :1 menace to farm property and all four should be on the same level.