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`Page Two Many people are on the wrong scent in pursuit of happiness. They think it consists of in having and getting, and being` served by others. It consists in giving and in serving others. Henry Ford says that every joke at the expense of his tin ivver is worth real money to him in advez-- hising, but it is true that if you throw a piece of mud against the wall it leaves a mark, even if it doesn t stick. Ne'en`-do-wells won't be so eager to get va:g*ged and sent to jail this winter as a result of :1 conference of Premier Ferguson, .-\ttorney-General Nickle and Provincial Secretary Goldie last week. The intention of the Government this year is to see that persons who are given shelter perform useful labor in return. It has been ofcially estimated ` that there are 265,000 passenger motor cars, 31.000 commercial motor vehicles and 3,800 motor cycles in Ontario. These gures compiled up to the end of October show :1 large increase over the 1923 reg,'isT.ration.x for the same period--r'.ea.r1y 20.000 more passenger cars and nearly 3,000 more commercial vehicles. Hon. E. C. Drury would surely have difficulty tting some of the` things he advocates into facts. The other day he dec1a*:e;l a still further cut should be made in customs tariffs. In face of the cut that was made last year in eight months im- ports. fell off $64,000,000. Revenue from customs tariif has also fallen of!` greatly and the promised balanced budget is evidently not going to balance. Mr. Drury would cut cus- tom tariffs so low that some other means of raising revenue would have to be found and surely the people of Canada are paying enough zlirect taxes already. Candidates for municipal honors are particularly quiet this year and one would scarcely think that elec- tion is little more than a week away. Nominations will be held on Mon- (luy evening next and there may be somethim: doing: then. There was some (liscord in the council of 1924, but on the whole the business of the town was: carried on har'moniousl_v. Those who seek elec Li0n for 1925 should State rlefinitely the policy they intend to pursue. It is unfortunate that when nominzitiom are over there is little time for cunvlirlzites to speak and in the pa:-zt many of those who sought election rlicl not even wait to thank the ones who nominated them. We need men on our council hozml with constructive il-n:-i, men who will serve and lo everything: pos.s'il;l- to make Barrie a bigger and better town. May your Christmas to-morrow be ` happy one. Education nowadays costs. a lot of money, and at this time the qu,-.<.- tion might well be a.~:kel, Are We getting the best results for the money spent? In Barrie we be- lieve we have had as efficient men on the Board of Education as in most places, but has there been sufficient attention paid to adminis- tration? The me.n on the Board are as a. rule busy men and do not visit the various school rooms as of- ten as they should. Administration of school :1!`f`.".i:'s r:-quires .<".ud;' and forethought. It requires tact and co-operation with teachers and par- ents of pupils. Those seeking a place on the Board should be willing to devote time to the work. They should be capable of understanding the real principles under1y.in~g educa- tion and work in the best interests of the children as Well as of the ratepayers. `Christmas is writh us once again, ` with its festivities and sacred mem- orries. To many .it will be a. day of real joy, when gathered around the hearth stone the prattle of happy children and sons and daughters ` home for the holidays, will drive all cares away. To others the day may be a gloomy one, because of poverty, or because they see -nothing in Christmas. He is indeed miserable who does not open his heaxrt and his purse to make some one happy at Christmas time. They are many who through no fault of their own, perhaps, will not be able to enjoy the day because of circumstances. It is the privilege of those more for- tunate to see that some cheer is brought to such, and if the giving causes some sacrice the joy will be all the greater. If you have never tried this way of getting real joy, try it to-morrow, and you will be so enthused that you will Want to make every day a Christrrms. ZiJl12Nnrtl12rnAhnanrr Government authonitieis and var- ious patriotic organizations are working on plans for a universal draft law, whereby capital, material and labor, as well as ghting men, may be pressed into service in the event of war. nu 0,, cvuuv Lu. rvcu. Thc grave injustice of compelling the able-bodied men of the nation to serve on the battleeld for a. dollar .. Jun Vnlniln .-.4-`I.-.1. nN-;.-`no nn-run u-1.11 SE I'V0 on EH8 uanueneux 101' H. Ll'JHil.1` a day, while other citizens grow rich through excessive war pr) *3, has been demonstrated to every right thinking person. TA 5!... vvursru/xiv vunwrvxv and Lin }uu~L wluuxumg, ycxauu. If the money power and big busi- ness know that war means sacrice for these interests, as wenl as for the men at the front, we will ml their inuence directed towards peace. Tn +1-..-nn nu-An 1'4- L'\f\"I-`II kn cn y\:a.\,t:. In other words, it should be so that no person can possibly make money out o-f war. And when tr-ere is no money to be made out of war, there will be less war. 111- 1 4 u, L ,__ `ALI: ___.___ |__,___ uuL:Lr: wxu, uu Icon won. We trust that we may never have to engage in another armed con- ict, but if this cannot be woided, then everyone should share the hard- ships and the losses which war brings. mt... .................I ..1.... {run Av-n-.1`!-1-ur `111 UIJHEB. The proposed plan for (lrafting `all the resources of the nation for its cleefnce should have the hearty ?up- port of all citizens. in a speech uellvereu at vvmntpeg last month, Mr. Henri Bourassa said that Canada had no reason for bas- ing her scal policy on the fact that the United States had prospered un- der protection, or on the other fact that British industry has developed 1 under her free trade policy. What - Canada requires, he argues, is a . tariff policy based altogether on -her - _own economic conditions. Apply the . idea thus set out the Winnipeg` : Tribune argues that the present ` . tariff is not based on consideration of Canada's interests, and then pro- ceeds to say that at Hamilton, On- tario, there is a modern, thoroughly c"icient factory one-eighth of a mile long. with res drawn and its win- : (lows boarded up. What happened to it makes an interesting story and is told as follows : It is a glass factory. the property of the Canadian Libby-Owens Sheet Glass Company, Limited. It cost mm-n than f?,O00.0D0 to erect. and UIZSS Kufllipillly, IJIIHILUU. lb CUSL more than $2,000,000 to erect, and is one of the most complete and mod- em in the world. It employed about three years ago 500 men and wo- men; consumed 51,000 tons of raw materials and shipped out 1,000 tons of glass, p1`ovi(lin~g 69,000 tonnage for the railways; used 50 tons of. coal daily, 700,000 gallons of water daily, and annually used 500 kegs of nails, 200 tons of straw and 3,000,000 ft. of lumber. All the materials were bought in Canada. Its ca.pacit_v was 15,000,000 square feet of glass per annum, and while it was operating` it reduced our im- portations of Belgian glass from 24,500,000 square feetto 10,500,000 square feet. At no time while it was operating` (lid it have less than four months orders ahead, and it was kept going: constantly, (lay and night. `~wim+ lcillml Hui: inrlnstrv '2 Rol- ni;:m'. What killed this industry `.7 Bel- uium is the great exporting country in tho way of glass. The manufac- turvrs thnro are handed t0Q`(!tl1Cl` in a `mutualite to control the export trzulu. When the Hamilton plant . opnrations the Belgians cut thc ir prices to 40 per cent. discount fi-mn tlw stzinrlartl list. When the llnmilton plant, after :1 year and a half of this disastrous competition. (`1-;l.\`(:Il 0nr~ratir,':. the Belgian price r0. to 171; , per cent. premium over thn Sl1\nll.'11'(l list. In nklunv lIrI\IF11LV Hun 'Rn1n-inn nv_ g .'. I Notes and Comments I mu smnuam USE. In nthnr words, the Belgian ax- portvrs cut thr-ir price 40 per cont, put tho Canadian plant out of busi- nnss, and with competition removed. made the Canadian buyer pay an in- do-mnit.y as the price of their vic-- tory. Geniuses have often come from large families; Balzac vas We young~ est of :1 long line. Napoleon was an eighth child, Benjamin Fzanklin was the youngest of seventeen, Wagner and Mozart were both seventh chil- drcn. In speech delivered at Winnipeg ncf mrmth, Mr, Hrmri Rnnrassa salt] ONE INDUSTRY VICTIM UNIVERSAL DRAFT Of the 1,630 ministers in the Pres- byterian church on the constzitue-nt in 77 Presbyteries, 1,307 will enter the United Church, this being 80.3 per cent. of the tofcal. The number of those 1'epo:'ted to have (1-rnitely decided not to enter the Union is 197, being 12 per cent. of the total. The balance of 126 ministers are re- ported to be undecided whether they will enter the Union or not. The above gures were arrived at after a census had been taken by respon- sible men in each of the 77 Presby- teries by means of a uniform ques- tionaire. No minister was required to make-a declraration one way or the other, the census being purely voluntary. Al`l`l'\l'l`Y1Y\',IY1\7liY1`0' H1n abnvn rr> .u1"nS. OVER 1300 MINISTERS TO ENTER'N!:'.W CHURCH voluntary. Accompanying the above re= r.urns, the following message was issued to the members of the Presbyterian Church in Canada. by the Moderator of the General Assembly: T\lnnh,v..vn nor I`FY`l+ nf H10 1301'- OI the ueneral Assembly Ninety-ve per cent. of the for- eign missionaries of the Presbyterian Church, many of them tried veter- ans in the service, and eighty per cent. of our ministers, accompanied by a vast majority of the elders, are lead.in;: the way into the United Church, because only through Union can the needy parts of our Dominion be reached, and only by eliminating sectarian controversy can the church s full power he concenutrated upon the ev-angelization of the world. When we lose ourselves in petty distinctions-, molehills become mountains and progress is barred. But if we catch the vision splendid and follow our Lord, difficulties will disappear. every valley shall be ex- alted and every mountzuin shall be made low, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed. (Si;rned) Clarence MacKinnon. December 20, 1924. GENERAL ASSESSMENT COUNTY EQUALIZATION 1-. I111 (Founded 1851) Published every Thursday morn- 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. Paper given by J. E. Coombs, Warden of Simcoe County, at the Warden s Convention held in To< ronto Oct. 1.6th and 17th: "I"L.n nu.-.a+unn :1-nv1nu~n1 canoe, TOHEO UCU. .101 /I1 'dflU LYEHZ The question of general assess- ment equalization has always been productive of numerous and weighty problems to administrators of mun- icipal gvoernment. The develop- ments of recent years have served lather to accentuate than to solve these problems, and all students of municipal matters will admit without argument that the question must in the near future be bravely faced and honestly dealt with, if an. intelligent and reasonable solution is to be found. In I-Ln nnv-Hnu A-um rm` nlvvi rnuni:-1'- In the earlier days of our munici- pal development the `question was less insistent, but it soon made it- self felt, rst in reference to county boundaries, and now in relation to the Province at large. 'l1-m uni-+1n.-rnnn+ nf Han mnrn ro- me 1 I'OVlTlC8 EL large. The settlement of the more re- mote portions of our Province, the development of our natural re- sources, the establishment of rural mail delivery, the construction and maintenance of trunk highways, the development of hydro-electric power, all unite in compelling advancement along the line of general assessment equalization, if the cost of these marks of civilization is to be borne in fair proportion by the persons de- riving the benet therefrom. The (lav has rmne hv in the historv rwmg me oenent Lne1'eII`0IIl. The day has gone by in the history of this Province when any single municipality, be it township or coun- ty, can continue to carry on its business without reference to its neighbours, and the citizen of vision has already caught a mental view of a day when a system of equalized assessment is going to even the bur- dens of taxation upon the ratepayers throughout the Province. If will ho romlilv mlmittml on even` l?X'Ol.l= ,'I`l0ll`l; Lnc FPUVIIICU. It will be readily admitted on every hand that the highly developed pro- perties at the present time are pen- alized in the way of assessment and taxation, and the holders of unde- veloped lands are enjoying; the bene- ts of expenditures by their more public spirited fellow citizens 3..".(l proting by the taxes imposed up- on these la.uda.b1e and willing philan- thropists. l`l-m sulvnnf nf Hm mnfnr Mn` anti tnropists. The advent of the motor car and the construction of our splendid highway has brought about a condi- tion where we are no longer people of :1 town or township, or even a county, large though it may be, be- cause our usual and ordinary travel -carries us from one end of the Pro- vince to the other, and frequently beyond its bounds. Our Prnvinr`r:-urMo, Iifiiifins inin in ueyunu lLS UOUHUS. Our Province-wide utilities join in demamling a wider viewpoint from our citizens, and if we would be fair we can no longer be circimscribed by the limits and demands of our own neip.'hbor.hoo(l. If xvn nrn nrrxnnrml +n nninv H10 neigrnoornoou. If we are prepared to enjoy the splendid facilities placed at our (lis- posal. we must consequently be pre- pared to pay our just and equitable proportion of the construction and maintenance of the same, and this very (lesiralble result can only be reached by carrying: into operation some form of general assessment r-qualization; further, the construc- tion of the works already referred to has alrea resulte(l in a large in- ux of visitors from our neigrhborinzz State. and to such an extent has this inux _L'rown that careful gures (lemonstrate the fact that within the last twelve months over 800.000 motor cars bearing: United States licenses have visited the Province of Ontario alone. A traic of this mu_e'nitu(le must be :1 vast nancial heret to the Province. and sTnce such benet will be distributed to every section of the Province. the burdens of the same must be borne by all particimlting` in the benet. `H in enmntimne Ynnnlw nncinv -n can Uy Zlll p'd.I'l.lClUill;lIl].f In LDC UCHCHI. lt is sometimes much easier :0 see the problem by which we are con- fronted than it is to suggest or pro- vide the solution which the problem demands, nnd it is to be hope-.l that careful and serious consitlemtion will be given to the subject which is now before us, with the result that our cleliberations will evolve some scheme which will recommend itself to the mood judgment of our municipal legislators throughout the Province. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1924 The Northern Advance CANADIAN VS. U.S. RAIL RATES] ON WHEAT In January, 1924, the Omaha Bee published the results of an ex- haustive study it had made with re- ference to the cost of producing and L marketing wheat in this country, as compared with the cost of producing 4 and in Canada. marketing wheat One of the most signicant features 1 of this report was the difference in cost of transportation to the Can- adian wheat growers and the Ameri- can wehat growers. It showed that the Edmonton, Canada, wheat grow- , er can reach the Chicago market by ; lake and rail haul for a rate of 30% , cents per hundred weight. The same , rate prevails to the wheat grower in . the Calgary, Canada, r ships to Chicago I 3 same I . is 52% district. But American wheat grower who from American Falls, Idaho, must pay a hate of 631/; cents per hundred weight to get his grain delivered in Chicago, or more than twice what it costs his Canadian competitor to reach the American market. The rate from Billings, Montana, to Cliiczngo cents per hundred weight; from Cheyenne, Wyoming, 50% cents; from Denver, Colorado, 50`/_ the : cents; from Grand Island, Nebraska, 37 cents; from Mitchell, South Da- kota, 321,4: cents. H17"... nvnnub nnwnnkvncu 6-Inn T7,]-rnnn, nvha, U14/Z \.l:uu.3. For export purposes the Edmon- ton wheat grower can lay his wheat down in New York, using a lake and rail haul, at a rate of 47.17 cents per hundred weight. The same is true of the wheat grower in the Cal- gary district. The wheat producers who ship from American Falls, Idaho, for export to New York must pay a rate of 83.17 cents per hun- dred weight, using lake and rail hauls. From Billings, Montana, the rate is 72.17 cents; from Denver, Colorado, it is 70.17 cents; from Grand Island, Nebraska, it is 56.17 1 cents, from Mitchell, South Dakota, ' it is 52.17 cents. 1:`1nr\`rv| +lnn 3+ rill lnn cnnu +l-un+ +1-in it is 324.11 cents. From this it will be .seen that the cost of transportation is much less in Canada than in the United States. The difference is so great that it amounts to many cents per bushel. The cost of railroading` is about the same in both countries. If any dif- ference exists in the cost of operat- ing: the railroads, the lower cost should be in the United States, where climatic conditions are more favorable. If the Canadian railways are losing: money, that money goes to the producers. If there is no loss to the railroads from this low rate .in Canada, then, surely, the railroads in the United States are making immense prots from the rate they are getting. Tf ha: hr-nn f"11I1`,"`OIi f.l1nf. HUI rnil. T3130 tney 3.l'C I(`.'LIln_l,". It has been chargxed that the rail- roads in Canada have been losing money. That may be very true. It has not been charyred that this loss can be traced to the low rate chz1r_L1'- ed for hzlulimr wheat. If the 1095 now suffered by the Canadian rail- roads could be turned into prot, would it be necessary to increase the rate there to the same rate (_:har_e'etl in the United States 7 The loss suf- fered by those railroads may not be a result of too low grain rates. The loss may be incurred from too low rates on other commodities. The rate on each commodity should be a compensatory rate. No commodity should be favored with a rate so low that it is carried at a loss, and then have the rate on another commodity boosted high enough to cover that lnatz, Anyway, we Irelgnt rates on wheat here in the Uni/t.e States seem to need revision.--"T-he Press, Minot, N.D. 5 358. Anyway, the freight rates 1110111`. horn in Hap TTnifn1I .Qhnf.r-Ac eon!-n Es gear smallest annual expense! EACH NEW SUBSCRIBER ADDS TO THE VALUE OF YOUR TELEPHONE Nominations for the Town Coun- `cil and Bom-d of Education will be held on Monday evening. Denmark : System Has Been Studied By Provincial Superintendent Although Ontai'.io s rural public school system has to be further re- vised to meet the needs of the farm- ing community, such revisions will not go the length of separating rural from urban schools under the gen- eral constitution. 1-: ,,,e ,, 1'n,_,,,,_,__ _____y, L1__-4 _,__L4 CAGL \.uuouvuuuu. Premier Ferguson made this state- ment last Friday afternoon, follow- ing a long conference with Dr. F. W. Merchant, director of education, who has returned from a study of the school systems in rural Denmark. Dr. Merchant said that he saw many things in Denmark which could be adapted to the use of Ontario's rural schools, but that owing to the es- sential difference in conditions, the Denmark school could not be trans- planted. Some of the lessons learn- ed by him were by contrast only, others through viewing for the rst tlmo practices which are entirely new to this country. `n._._..,,,L 1 1 .- u.-v uv mug \.uuuuL_v. Denmark has :1. population which is 60 per cent. rural, and owing: to its type of rural primary education, young men do not desert the dairy farms at manhood. ADAPTABLE EDUCATION w Special Wx Xmas Offer Renew your subsc1'ip`[i0n now and tell your friends about this exceptional offer. SENT TO ANY ADDRESS IN CANADA TILL DECEMBER 31, 1925, FOR This applies to Old S11bsc1-ibers if all arrears are paid up. A yea1"s S111):-'.c::riptio11 to The Advance would make an ideal Christmas Gift to your friends away from home. Orillia gave its Chief of Police :1 Christmas bonus of $100. Barrie gave its Chief the bounce.-Mid1and Free Press. Special Clubbing Rates with all Leading Dailies. This Offer Good for Three Weeks Only The Northern Advance Do you realize that the smallest item in the family budget is the telephone bill? It averages only 1 per cent. A careful study of families with incomes from $1500 to $6000 a year shows that food costs 43%, rent and taxes about 17%, clothes 13%, telephone 1% and miscellaneous 20%. Apart from the time the tele- phone saves everyone, the mind requires the stimulus of contact with the world, as the body requires vitamines. Isolation cannotmean growth. There are friends or customers in nearby towns you can easily reach by Long Distance. HAdd a new interest to your life by calling some of them up in 1.925. W. E. Brewster Manager $1.00 THURSDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1924?- Barrie - Marble - Wooks: Vs" } Memorial Tablets Corner Stones 1 t Markers Monuments Canadian 85 Scotch Granite PRIC-ES REDUCED JOHN F. MURPHY, Prop. Telephone 734 I79 Bayeld St. - Barrie. A tip to aspimnts for municipal honors : Tell up what you intend to do; never mind what you have done, we know that. Within a radius of 40 miles of Taber, Alberta, it is estimated that 1000 antelopes are now collected. ~ They are reported to be eating the farmers green feed, reserved for` their cattle. The antelope was near extinction at one time, but under protective measure is coming back. Antelopes are aJso to be found in the Brooks district. In two things we should thor- oughly train ourselves--to be slow in taking offence and slower in giv- .._... 14. (V....... `|'1_..-'l-....L.....Z n _ ~ AAA .. xu. uunun-5 uux.:n.x. uuu ulvvvut. Au 5.: ing it. Some Presbyterians need a little training along; this line.