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The activities of the police in mak- King several raids and searches recent- ly in connection with the enforce- ment of the 0.T.A. will at least have a tendency to keep the lid on a little tighter. I-nnocenvt citizens or Visitors in town, however, should 31.11; be subjected to indrignities through the over-zeailousness of the police. Comments ...,_` .,....... criptions vertising .-..-.-. P. i;{5 yi 111!` $2.00 uni-31-\Hnnu Premier Femgtison, who is also Minister of Education, in a recent address at Sarnia outlined a new scheme for advanced education, which he proposes to put into effect, and may `have far-reaching effect on Barrie Collegiate. 'N1P scheme nun- ; posed by the Premier is to give the_ _ Collegiates, which will maintain a high standuard, an opportunity of providing work up to the end of second year in the University. The Government will increase the sub- sidies for this purpose. By the end of the second year at university work most students will know just what they are best tted for in life and by this opportunity right at their house conisiderahle expense will be saved. The contact between teacher and student, so essential to the student s intellectual awakening, would be an added f,eature of the new scheme. Barrie Collegiate now has a large class of first year university stud- ents and with the change there is every reason to believe that in the very near future the attendance will materially increase, necessitating many changes. If the formation of Board of Audit is to come up again at the January session of the County Council, it would be well for the members to take cognizance of some comments that were made regarding the proposed personnel of the board when the matter was brought before the County Council last November. To make a candid statemenit, there is an extraneous inuence exerting` itself over County a`-airs more and more each ye.ar and already it has reached such proportions that rate- payers are commencing to predict de- cided objections in the near future if the County Council of the present year does not disregard and dis- courage counsel and advice and even fatherly supervision tendered from outside the Council altogether. A voice in administrative affairs of nation or municipality where no re- presentation is enjoyed is the con- verse of the principle No represen- tation, no taxation, that has been the cause of revolution :in more than one liberty seeking nation. T-o al- low a voice in the administrative af- fairs of the County by even well wishers who are neither represent- ing municipalities nor in the pay of the County is contrary to the estab- lished principles of democracy and the members of the County Council who will assemble for the first ses- sion of the year in the course of a week or two will win the commenda- tion of observers of County matters if they proceed straightway to purge the administration of County affairs of the influence of which each one of them is aware is becoming no small swaying factor. There can be no objection to a strong fraternity ex- isting between government officials, county oiials and members of the County Council, but when the ad- ministrative affairs of each is in- volved courtesy, if nothing else, en- joins silence. If the County Coun- cil sees t to appoint a County Board of Audit the County Council should make sure that the men com- posing that board are absolutely (le- tached from connection or influence which might emanate. from any of the various departments functioning` under the roof of the County Court ' Housc.-AllSston Herald. a County ' CHICAGO DIVERSION DEEMED I ILLEGAL Indirectly Canada has won a vic- tory in the dispute re_9:ardinr,r the (li'l version of water from Lake Michigan by the Chicago sanitary district. f\.. Tnv-\v1n\|\V K Hus Qunrnrnn Cnnvf U) UHI: vuxcagu au.un.ou_v \|AcvLAv\4. [ On January 5 the Supreme Court of the United States affirmed the decision of the Federal District Court at Chicago. restraining the sanitary district from withdrawing more than 4,167 cubic feet of water per second through the drainage canal. In its ju the court recognized the full and complete authority of the U.S. Federal Gov- ernment and declared that those in- terested in maintaining: the present volume of intake (10,000 cubic feet a second) must look to Congress or the Secretary of War for permission. To prevent any arbitrary action,'the court announced that its decision would not be griven effect for 60 days and that it was made without pre- iudice to any permit which the Sec- retary of War l1li{..i1t issue according to law. The court declared that in re- -`traininr: the Chicago sanitary dis- trict the United States was a.s:sert.in;r its so\'ereign power to regulate com- merce and to control the navigable waters within its jurisdiction. In ad- dition to its right to remove obstruc- tion to interstate and foreign com- merce the federal government was also bound to carry out -treaty ob- ligations to a foreign power. Tn x-nil-n nf Han .-uunnn.'..._ -...t.._.. -1 ugauuua tau 4:` xuu:x;.-,u puwux. In spite of the sweeping nature of this decision, it is hardly to be ex- pected that Chicago will give in without making further attempts to secure its demands through action of fI,`,,~.-an- m\_,.; -:1. .l.L_._ IS CANADA HEADED FOR BANK MONOPOLY ? What the ultimate outcome of the consolidation movement will be can- not be foretold, but there is little doubt that the banking situation in Canada is now in a state of flux. There will likely be a renewed out- burst at the next session of Parlia- ment against the -threatened bank monopoly. But it is alleged that the effect of criticism in the past has been to accelerate the movement to- wards concerttration, by calling at- tention to the difiiculties under which the smaller banks do business. Criticism, combined with the Mer- chants and the Home Bank revela- tions, have increased the handicap of the small banks, and the merg- ing movement has been rolling up like a snowball. . The daily salutation among bank ....A.. A... .. . llI,....I 1AA\r\\oD\:D1r\l Lawn. hard on some people to ' e to see the eclipse of _ - aturday, just before `eight o c1'oc1` 1;: u.-...m u.-nun wu uu..u_y _y\.uuu. How much farther is this accel- lerated movement toward a banking monopoly in Canada going to pro- ceed ? As a result of the latest mer- ger, the Bank of Montreal has now 29 per cent. of the savings deposits in the ciharteired banks of Canada. The Big Four, that is the Montreal, Royal, Commerce and Nova Scotia, now have 70 per cent. of the sav- ings in Canada. It is not generally appreciated that Canadian banks hold $328,000,000 of savings outside Canada, chiey in the West Indies, Central and South America, and of these the Royal Bank holds more than half. 1111 . ,,.n-,,,,; ,,. , , 1- . Thirteen chartered banks, Sitting by themselves; Another got_ merged, Then flwrr: Wm-n twelve. .So runs an adaptation of the little nigger boy nursery rhyme following` the merging` of the Mn]- son s Bank by the Bank of Montreal, the second bank merger in Canada in as many months, and the tenth in less than as many years. HA... vvusirnlq -C....(L.... 1,. LL.'.. ....,...1 men now is: Good morning, have you made a merger to-day ? -Last of Family Banks On St. James street in Montreal there are numerous buildings that weer once head office structures of banking institutions, but now serve other purposes. On some of them carved lettering in stone walls re- mains as mute evidence of past dis- tinction. The Merchants Bank building is now occupied by the Bank of Montreal; the Bank of British North America building still has its name on it. The Bank of Ottawa building had its label changed by stone masons only last year. The Eastern Townships building is occupied by another bank, but most people still refer to the structure by its old name. The name of La Banque Nationale sti'l remains above the doorway of its former Montreal office. Similarly in Toronto, the Quebec Bank building`, the Northern Crown Bank building, the Sterling Bank building, the Traders Bank building (serving as a dual monument for it was later the Bank of Hamilton building"), the British North America Bank build- ing, the Merchants Bank buildin.-:, the Home Bank buildings, remain now as records of past nancial his- tory. VH1. `.\yI ..1..-..!,. `D.-....`l. LL 1..L,....L L- gun; . The Mo1son s Bank, the latest to disappear, is the last of Canada s family banks. It began business in 1855 and for several generations control remained with the Molson family. To-day the name of M01- son occurs more than a score of times in its role of shareholders. The bank paid eight per cent. divi- dends in its first year of operations and has never failed in bad times or _2'ood to pay a substantial dividend 3w-r_v year since. Dividends have totalled 700 per cent. on the aver- awe capitalization. When a bank with this record finds it atlvisahle to sell out it illustrates the momentum the recent movement has attained. Telephone conversations in the llfnited St.zLte.s annually total about i25,000,000,000 calls. A normal man is one who thinks, while shovelling snow, that he would L*r.t!1e1' push a lawn mower. World's Slowest Flyer A new record for slowness in fly- ing was establislmcl recently by Captain Leprier, a French naval officer, who piloted a specially (le- slgned machine at a speed of only 31 1-4 miles an hour. mined to :30 to the utmost limit in its efforts and every conceivable pres- sure will be brougrht to bear on the p:overnment. However, we believe that the only way in which a. satis- factory acljustment can be arranged is by joint action between Great Britain and the United States, since the imhole question of the use of in- terna.tional.waterways is governed by a treaty between the two powers. When this treaty comes up for re- vision, the Chicago diversion can be settled once and for'a11. Uncle Sam's Phone Calls 4116 A new fvrri, of taxation sug- gested and `one that may be tried out is `chart a.11'radio listeners be tax- ed. This should help considerable. Northern Advance WOMEN PLAN CAMPAIGN TO CONTROL CALIFORNIA It may have escaped general :10- tice in the late American election that 68 per cent. of the million and a quarter voters that went to the polls in California were women. In cold gures about 850,000 women voted to 400,000 men. These fig- ures, with the women outnumbering the men at the polls by more than two to one, have suggested to several feminine leaders that California could easily be run entirely by wo- men if the sisterhood, or even a con- siderable percentage of it, would only stick together. The fact is, re- ports L. C. Owen, of the Consoli- dated Press Association, California may shortly afford the rest of the nation the unique political spectacle of its female voting strength array- ed against the male of the species. Not only that, but should the threatened political clash between the sexes materiali7.e, it is probable, pre- dicts Mr. Owen, that the women will come out on top. The recent ex- ample of Wyoming and Texas in electing: women governors has had something to do with it, continues the writer, for now : ' "nL_ _...---.~.. 41.` - .......L 4-1. . LIIC VVLILKZL, LU1 IIUVV a The women of California want the same thing`. What is more, they have started right in to get it. Al- ready in their plans for their gov- ernorship the `women-folk have brougrht forth the names of seven members of their sex as tentative candidates. Not to be outdone, the men, seemingly with the intention of overawin_: the threatened opposition into believing they haven -t 21 chance, have duplicated the women s list vith seven candidates of their own. So far, however, the women have not been overawed. STRENUOUS TIMES ARE THESE The strenuous times through which we are living` are reflected daily in the press. The speed of radio seems to be a guiding: star for many newspaper writers. They are not content to say a ship hur- ried to port. It must be made a dash, as if it got there the next minute. A man who is ill is making a rapid recovery, again denoting that nature, conscious of the fact that the man must be on his feet in- stantly di:.1's in with both feet and hurries along: the recovery. The same mania for speed is in evidence in every department of human ac- tivity. Men rush into a printing` of- ce and must have their work done immediately; people rush here and there in an automobile, many of them having no real objective, only an insatiable thirst for speed. There is a speed on the part of the doctor at birth, speed and repentence at marriage and speed to the cemetery in the undevtaker's bus at death. It is a passing phase of life, but it is strenuous while it lasts. We wonder what some people will have to discuss when the church union question is all settled. " nu-Ar I 243' Jr`! IV uln i"uI.I. busts` execu..ives" `1'<;Executi1.2es and Saiesnwn EVERY NEW SUKCRIBER ADDS TO THE VALUE OF YOUR '1'ELEPHONE A remarkably successful salesman sa.ys:--Never call on a prospect you don t know Without rst calling him 0 ` 4-Ian 4-A1,.-.1.A....,. J. ......1.... .. __.___.1_.__, ,1 9) TT 1 All 101: ow ers are shareholders in the Union c metery and should be interested, and yet each year only about twenty come to the annual meeting. Is it that people _don t care about their loved ones laid away, or ave they just selsh ? _. :-`rr~ar\r\rIa J V... ...v..- u --...v u n4v.a.:v\.nu ;..u.uu uuuL.I.LL5 LLALLL \.I.I..l. the telephone to make an appointment. Here are his three reasons :- Planning the conversation before lifting the receiver o the hook is the essence of success in making sales by telephone. It makes better, more productive salesmen.` Selling by telephone is an art capable of unlimited development. 2. Having the lead in the conversation, I can ask questions to which he will answer `Yes . They are of such a. nature that he invites me to call- the best possible introduction. 1. To secure an appointment, I must know some- thing about the man, and plan What I am going to say to him. I talk to him about his business, not about my own. 3. With an interview arranged for, I then carefully study my proposition, and how I intend to present it. 99% of my sales are made in this Way. Proceednigs were stayed in th-- Hamilton murder trial, in which W. A. Boys, K.C., of Barrie, pnosecutetl for the Crown last week. nu n, , ,,y 3,, ,L in-.;_ l .I.\u. mu; \lL\II'Vll nuav vv\.\.A\o The CrowJ1 s case against Mrs. Baytoizae, Mike Radych, Panco and Yokim Stabo, charged with the mur- der of the woman s husband, Jroe Baytoizae, practically collapsed when Justice Mowalt refused on Wednes- day to let the woman s two sons, aged 8 and 9 years, testify for the prosecution on the ground that the boys were too young and so low in the scale of intell`ig'ence as not to be able to appreciate properly the {meaning of the oath. When the judge gave his decision Mr. Boys! announced that he would entertain- no thought of continuing the case| without the evidence of the two boys. He would not, however, ask` for an acquittal and gave no in- structions to the court until Thurs-' day morning`. By that time instruc-I tions had been received from the Attorney-General s Department and Mr. Boys asked for a stay of pro- ceedings in the murder charge. The four prisoners were released on their own bail and have to report to the police once a week. GETS STAY OF PROCEEDINGS IN HAMILTON MURDER TRIALI Higher than the king, says :1! cross-word puzzle. It may mean either an ace or a labor leader. ___.__... ,`_,,,_,_ Many people, young and old, get: plenty of food but the vitamin qualities out of which come the powers of resistance, are minus, and malnutrition and weakness ensue. 8cutt sEmu|sinn The town council is going into the Wood business to the extent of pur- chasing ten cords of wood for needy families. The council might go fur- ther and secure a bush 101: within reasonable distance from town where wood could be curt by those willing and able to work. Few people who are able to work want charity, and yet when there is no work to be had what ane they to do ? The town s experience in the wood business in the past was not a success, but there is no reason why it should not he at least self-sustaining if p).'Op('1'l_\' handled. is indeed the p1usqua1ity that so many children and adults need to help sustain the body in normal strength and vitality. A 1- I n .1 r -.- ..... ..-.....a-... ....... ..-...---,. A very little Scott's after each meal helps, to vitalize the decient diet. Scott's Emulsion promotes growth -bui1ds strength. .., .. n C\_ A.,. an HIDES WANTED! BARRIE TANNING CO. We will pay the following prices- Green Hides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cured Hides . . . . . . . . . . . .11: Calf Hides . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. Kip Hides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12 VITAMIN QUALITIES VV. E. Brewster WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 21, 1925` `The Harness. Man IALL KINDS OF HEAVY `AND LIGHT HARNESS Blankets and Robes All Kinds of Repairing Done Full Line of Travelling Goods ismith Kain According to political gossip the Liberals of Ontario in the Legisla- ture will come out for a system of local option at the coming session. thus seeking` to enlist the wet vote of the urban centres for the Dominion Government in the anticipated elec- tions this year, as well as for them- selves later on. In the cities and towns the Federal Government is not strong` and in most of these ur- ban centres large majorities were rolled up `last October in the wet columns. It is calculated that much of this vote may be switched to the Federal party and help overcome the unpopularity of the Government tariff so unpopular in large centres. `Toronto Garage 2 54 Elizabeth St. ' 129 Dunlop St. Repairs to all Makes of Cars All W'ork Guaranteed SKILLED VVORKMEN J Rebound Control forFord 1 Cars, $12.50 PHONE 1 1611 During` the past six weeks 1,600 Mennonites who left Saskatchewan some rtime ago for Mexico, passed through North Portal on their way back to the farm homes they had left. Mexico, they s'a4id, had been painted too wonderful for them; they had been attracted there by the glowing description of condition, but it was not long before they recog- nized their mistake. They wt.-. glad to get back to Saskatchewan. More of the Mennonites will be re- turning; shortly, according to those who have passed through the Port. Give Us a Trial and Be Convinced ff .'1'1'}B'1'.o;}. .'1'1'c' 3'i1ig . A. . .14c lb. .10c lb. Barrie. How Saturday Night views the visit of Ontario representatives to Quebec : About a year ago a lame deputation of Quebecers made an oicial journey to Ontario, and now it is planned that :1 like coiitingent of Ontario citizens visit Quebec. All in the interests of the bonne en- tente. The programme as mappe`. _ out looks interesting. For instunr it is sug1e'este that there be a re- ception by the Quebec Liquor Com- mission at Montreal, while Mayor Beaubien of Outremont is prepar- ing` another reception for Visitors at the Frontenace Breweries. Of course there will also be luneheons and dinners. In fact, the pro_m`z mme looks quite interesting to Z1 lare number of thirsty Ontz1rian.<." On the back of :1 railway pass it is set out that the user shall not hold the transportation company is- suing the same liable for any dam- ages that nmy accrue to said p:1; ger while on the compun_\".< lines. It looks as if motorists will have to adopt 21 like procedure, as the court records show that suits for lz1m:1:.:c.= where motorists have picked up passengers, who durin_L,-' the journey were injured, are becomintc more numerous. In London, Ont.. an in- teresting case is now proceeding. A lady is suing the owner of a motor for $3,000 for injury sust.a.ine(l in an accident. Miss Whittaker, the plaintiff, with others, was going to Brantford to play golf, and those who had cars were asked to carry those who lacked such facilities. Miss Whittaker got a ride with Mrs. Baxter. On the way the car got out of control, with the result that the plainti was injured, hence the suit against Mr. Baxter, the owner of the auto. fk newspapers require the 42,000 acres of timber to supply them with pulp