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k) _ Complaints are made that the letter box serâ€" vice at the Grand Trunk station is not of the best. I have been informed by certain parties that on several occasions this summer the mail boxes have not been opened or the letters taken â€" out and delivered to the mail clerks on the train, as they should be. Is This True? Hundreds of articles that were manufactured in ~Canada and were just as good as those manuâ€" factured in the United States, were imported from that country and purchased by Canadian citizensâ€"to the detriment of their ownâ€" homeâ€" manufactured goods; the result being that the Canadian dollar fell in value until it was only worth, in New York City, Eightyâ€"three Cents. Both the Préess, in Canada, and many of* our leading citizens pointed out that the duty of every Canadian was to buy Canadian goods, and the ultimate result has been that, following this advice, the Canadian dollar has again come back to par. } A Pleasing Factâ€" 7 .. The fact that the Canadian dollar has again reached par value in the United States has proven that the Canadian people learned their lessonâ€"and that quickly and thoroughly. It is not enough, however, that the Canadian dollar should be again brought back to par; but it is necessary that it should be kept there and the only way it can be kept there is by Canada importing a minimum of goods and exporting a maximum amount. We have a class of people in Canada who, all their lives, have devoted themselves to almost one thingâ€"to increase the amount of goods imâ€" ported from the United States into Canada. After the war, when the Canadian dollar was discounted in the United States, from a few cents up to Ten, Fifteen and latterly as high as Seventeen Cents, the Canadian people had their eyes opened. f It was pointed out at that time that when Canâ€" ada should do was to strive to export all the goods she could to the United States and import as little from that country, as possible. As a matter of fact when our Canadian dollar started to slump on Wall street, New York, Canada was importing from the United States double the amount of goods she should. have been. f . In the olden days, before the mail boxes were established at the Grand Trunk station, fruit growers felt that it would be a great convenience to them if there was a proper method of handling mail at the station; as many shippers found it almost impossible to get their invoices ready beâ€" before the mails closed upâ€"town; and also found it very much more convenient to get to the mail boxes at the station, late at night, instead of ~FACTS CFANCIES ¢ S Ni 12 0e c Oe . A petition, or request, was sent to the Post Office Department and two mail boxes : were granted, one for eastbound mail and one for westbound. ~â€" I am informed that the mail is not taken out of these mail boxes regularly for each train, as it should be, and if this is the{ case, the fruit growers and business men are being done a great injustice through the careless and slipâ€" shod methods of looking after these mail boxes. TWO Is it true? For the past forty years a @ertain clique of Issued every Wednesday from the Office of Publishers, Main and Oak Streets, Grimsby, Ontario Members Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association. Member Selected Town Weeklies of Ontario. _ Member Grimsby Chamber of Commerce TELEPHONESâ€" ; Business Office, 2365 Editorfal Office, 23â€" . JAS. A. LIVINGSTON & SONS, THE: .. INDEPENDENT THE PEOPLE‘S PAPER JAS. A. LIVINGSTON, . ORLON LIVINGSTON, Editor | Owners and Publishers . A. M. LIVINGSTON, Frank Fairborn Business Manager General Manager Established 1885 of 0 4 t $y A special meeting of the Dominion Cabinet was called but no definite action was taken, as further cablegrams from Great Britain revealed the fact that she had not asked for help, but rathâ€" er enquired if Canada wished to participate in the action that was being taken. | And while this very thing was being done the Congress and Senate of the United States was building up a tariff wall against Canadian farm produce, so high that it is utterly impossible for anything grown or produced on a Canadian farm to find a market in the United States. The‘first dispatch, however, caused many miliâ€" tary men to offer themselves for service again, and up to this time there is continued talk in the cities and towns of forming units to proceed overseas. ' It is to be hoped that diplomatic negotiations will overcome the present difficult situation, but I am proud to think that for the first time, almost, in an hundred years the military authorâ€" ities of Great Britain acted with promptness and despatch. History repeated itself again in 1914 when Great Britain was just a little too slow in getâ€" ting up the Dardanelles, with the result that she never did get up, and thousands of men were sacrificed on the Gallipoli _Peninsula. â€"All of which could have been, prevented by an action as prompt as the action taken during the past ten days. The rush of a few warships up.the Dardanelles, in 1914, right off the bat, would have Held the Straits against all comersâ€"but the little bit of delay developed a . situation on the Gallipoli Peninsula that Great Britain was never able to catch up with, even unto the end of the war. Even in August and early September trainâ€" loads of cheap American apples were dumped into the Canadian markets:to the utter demorâ€" alization of those markets value to / Canadian growers. Quite a scare went over the Dominion of Canâ€" ada a week ago when the news was flashed from London that a war between Great Britain and Turkey was imminent, and that the assistance of the Dominion was invited. Great Britain‘s fault in military affairs has alâ€" ways been a certain amount of unpreparedness during peace, and a slowness in getting into hcâ€" tion even after war was imminent, or actually declared. f In the case of the South African, Boer war, over twenty years ago, Great Britain was caught napping and that. little sleep just before the war cost many. British lives and millions of British money.â€"In fact it took Great Britain years to catch up the two weeks she lost atâ€" the start., The Near East Situation politicians has worked steadily and unremittingly with the one objebt in view, of increasing the importation of American goods into Canada by the lowering of the duty against them. Early berries, early potatoes, and early fruit and vegetables of all kinds were constantly dumped into our Canadian markets weeks beâ€" fore the Ontario farmers had their produce ready â€"with the result that when the Canadian proâ€" ducts were ready to market th United States had already reaped the cream and Canada got the skimmed milk. It is high time that Canadian farmers â€" and politicians, and fruit growers, woke up to the fact that any legislation passed in the United States, or any legislation passed jointly by the two countries, must be in the interest of the citizens of the former nationâ€"if it were not so, the legislation would never reach a point where it could be put into practiecé. _ ‘=. _ y 9i. Led by the Toronto "Globe," this clique of politicians has been insistent, in season and out of season, in serving the manufacturers of ‘the United States. 4 ' 1 In certain campaigns they have shown how much cheaper the people could buy almost every commodity used in Canada, in the markets of the United States, than in their home markets. Do not fret; the United States will look after herself;â€"and Canada should do the same. Let Canada make laws for herself, and tariffs for herself, and let those tariffs be built on sound, business like and common sense prinâ€" ciples, and in the interest of the Canadian peoâ€" pleâ€"not in the interest of the American manuâ€" facturers, farmers and fruit growers In these campaigns every kind, of intriguing argument was used to induce the people to buy their goods from "across the line." ! Whole trainloads of natural products produced on ‘the farms of the United States were <dumped into our cities from the beginning of March until well into July, greatly to the detriment of our own natural products when â€"they reached the markets later on in the season. This practice of buying goods from the United Sj;ates, constituted not only the buying of manuâ€" factured goods, but extended to natural products and at no time has this disastrous custom hbeen more apparent than in this present year of 1922. Fortunately the false doctrines of this clique of politicians became so apparent that many of their own followers became disgusted and turnâ€" ed against them, with the result that Canada has been saved from being the dumping ground for the manufacturers of the United States. ; Fa Even in the greater field of operations, France THE INDEPENDE *f By the treaty arrangew war, Turkey was practi _Europeâ€"Now France and stand by and let the Turl treaty, cross the\,Dasd.a,mp |sion of the territory form{ Europe. / For many years Tobias Tarr looked like a plotocrat; he drove a large and costly car, and wore a stovepipe hat. As he was married to my niece, I felt impelled to say, "This princely lavishâ€" ness must cease, or you‘ll go broke some day. The coin you earn from week to week is all ‘you have in view, and you the bill collectors seek, to spring accounts long due Oh, prithee heed this rede of mine, for, I am old and sane, and put some doubloons down in brine, against the day of rain. And failing this some day you‘ll come a humâ€" bled, cringing gent, to ask of me a goodly sum, that you may pay your rent." His laughter rumbled through his beard, with merriment he roared, and hothouse fruit that day appeared upâ€" on his groining board. â€" There came a strike, and weary men lined up in jobless â€"ranks, and scarcely one in twelve or ten had money in the banks. Tobtas in a week was broke, and started pawning things oh, it was said to see him soak his car and wedding rings. His shirt of silk, that cost cight bones, brought fifty ceS:cs a throw; his phonoâ€" graph, of golden tonesâ€"he had to let it go! Tobiag struts around no more, he is a shrunken man; and now and then he seeks my dogr, to borrow what he can. Some quavers in his acâ€" cepts lurk, as he remarks, "Oh, chee, if ever I get back to work, the precious plunks won‘t flee!" The oldâ€"fashroned mother who worried about turning the baby‘s liver over now has a daughâ€" ter who worries about the kids turning the flivâ€" fer over. Europe has her faults, but she doesn‘t make an ass of herself over a titled American. THE DOWNFALL After 11 p.m., the average husband is either in bed or in/bad. d When the vanip‘s soft arms lose their appeal, she can always rely on her firearms. OJÂ¥ t mmmevitir mm tm He cheerfully chewed every species of . Untroubled by worries, or fears f Lest his health might be hurt by son dessert, E > And he lived over nine: hundred years The only part of the nation‘s food supply raised by the middleman is the price. $ That is the class of peoPle that France with all her high and sentimentag otions, has taken the opportunity of practic'af‘.-} _ backing up in their rush to capture and COntrol the Dardaâ€" nelles, and destroy the Brt? hb forces. holding that neutral territory, if pOSSible. : The Turk‘s idea of war is not to stand up and fight like a man, man to m ;" but to slaughter innocent women and childré, ffand helpless men, and burn and pillage, rob and violate. ¢ s AN OLD AGE RECIPE Methuselah ate what he found on his plate, _ And never, as people do now, Did he note the amount of the calorie countâ€" He ate it because it was chow. The Turk knows nothing about a standard of honor; he does not recognize there is such a thing as proper trea;tment‘,'g:f‘"’ human being, in accordance with the rules Of war; the Turk would just as soon sheath sword in the body of a woman or a child, or an innocent nonâ€"comâ€" batant, as he would in the body of a soldier. France m1y be a brilliant, thrifty and intelâ€" lectual nation, but she has 2 long way to go beâ€" fore she arrives at a point where she will have established a standard of honor like that which governs the life of an Englishman. He wasn‘t disturbed, as at dinner he sat, Destroying a roast or a pie, To think it was lacking in granular fat, Or a couple of vitamines shy. History has proven that figure with the militaristic and has ‘ also proven 1: diplomacy has no influene bloodthirsty Turk. _ The Turk is not only d a high degree but he is a and Belgium, Great Bi'l not on the field one mi many had a full swing days before the British cient backing to the If stop the tyrant‘s sweep I am glad thereforé;éi:fi have taught the milita:lfy to act quickly and they themselves with glory it the way in which thye t forcesâ€"land, water and the Dardenelles. â€" France takes the foolis] question to be settled . shows that France, as cle been in dealing with Gern self as ass in dealing wit France has, in my.opifl the ungrateful dogâ€"in th; war, Great Britain saved trampled into the mud; b influence was needed at 4 week ago on the Turkish backed up and drew to 0: mind of the school boy . fight but was afraid of ge One thing I regret VEI with this incident, howey by France. _ : f Uncle Josh Says:â€"â€" seX 5 9e k W M mm smm i cmndue 10 4 nmmnom t m 1 ce 111 mm N4 species of food, played the part of r years of the Jlast ‘ance from being when the French ; Britain‘s back a tion, she (France) de, putting me in wanted to see the ® a bloody nose. ty nd that it is .a _diplomacyâ€"which s she is and has _ has proven herâ€" e Turk. ; h in connection the stand taken litary forces were soon, and GCerâ€" e a number of ould give suffiâ€" ind‘ Belgians to > country. iat those lessons i1arters in. London ily have coveted ast ten days, in ncentrated â€" their lomacy cuts no mnent in Germany, thoroughly ~that h the mugderous, 1 and cunning to in his instincets. after the last driven . out â€"of seem willing © to ple over . that the Straits of MSBY, ONTARIO by him in some fancy 1h Iâ€"Ilâ€"u* The Parliamentary Committee of the Provincial House conducting the enquiry in hotel and tourist accomâ€" modation, after going up and down the Province for some months ,taking evidence from hotel proprieters and others and spending a lot of money, apparently have been unable to formâ€" ulate any method for improving hotel accommodation throughout the Proâ€" vince. Hotel men wefte practically unanimous that outside of the big cities, the only measure that would enable them to both improve their acâ€" eommodation and make a decent livâ€" ing, was to allow them the privilege of selling light wines and a five per cent. beer. But of course this idea was anathema to the greater portion of the committee, who were good, solid Raney men. And besides what do hotel men know a@about keeping hotels anyway? Our present Premier showed himâ€" self to very poor advantage by his answer to Great Britain when asked for moral and,â€"if necessaryâ€"military support, as well, in the present Turkâ€" ish crisis. To reply in the cowardly, shirking manner he did would have made Canada appear in a totallly difâ€" ferent light from what she showed herself to be in the Great , War, had not the numerous spontaneous offers of assistance sent from all parts of the‘ country, corrected that impresâ€" sion. Cannot Canada‘s Premier and his cabinet trust Great Britain in a European or any other crisis? How different were the replies that came from Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and New Foundland. And to think that Canada, who astonished the whole world by her splendid conduct in the war, | should now be made to appear as a temporâ€" ising laggard by our present Governâ€" ment! ! "Passing the buck" is apâ€" parently the only thing they can really do to advantage; whether it be the» tariff,;. the; wheat board, the National Railways, or world politics. A leader, who never leads, and a following all dressed up and apparâ€" ently ready; both of whom never get anywhere. is emphatically not what Canada needs at this, or any other juncture. Returns from the poll made by the Literary Digest show the following results: 356,193 votes in favor of continuance and enforcement of . the Eighteenth Amendment and Volstead Act; 376,334 for modification; and 189,856 for repeal. Trained political observers are apparently of the opinâ€" ion that the United States eléctions this fall will give a great impetus to the antiâ€"prohibition cause, but ‘ that ke big fight will not be on ‘for ‘two years. The opinion of Mr.F. L. Flanâ€" agan, who has been inspecting . the drinking systems of the world on beâ€" half of the Government of South Austr~lia, is that the continental sysâ€" tem of beer and light wine dispensing is the best solution of the liquor probâ€" lem. Prohibition as practised in the United States, he says, is a farce. And he will advise the South Australâ€" .:.qpt)‘;_)‘(»-(ggp()-(y- The anthracite strike in the United States since April 1st in the present year has cost that country thirtyâ€"two million tons of coal, or 1,600,000 tons per week. The striking miners haveé lost $124,738,400 in wages, based on the old rate, and it has cost the operaâ€" tors â€"$100,000,000 in â€" lostâ€" profits, monye paid out to kéep the mines reasonably safe, and in damages conâ€" sequent to the strife. The ‘ question is has anyone benefitted? The one thing certain is that millions of innoâ€" cent coalâ€"consumers. must bear a heavy loss. $ ian Government against trying any similar legislation. Mr. Flanagan sailed from Vancouver,â€"B. C. for Adeâ€" laide on September 2nd, last. The depreciation of the currency, the appalling burden of European 7C. H. Leaman,. retiring President of the Winnipeg Grain Exchange in his address to the annual meeting of that organization made some excelâ€" lent points. Showing that Canadian wheat delivered at Hamburgh for $1.50, Canadian currency, would cost the German buyer over $3.00 a bushel, based on the preâ€"war value of the mark, and that other European curâ€" rencies were also far below preâ€"war value, he declared that the greatest difficulty in marketing grain this year was in the inability of buyers to buy. 44â€" az»â€" | Wbhat Gal Saps _ NOTES AND COMMENTS on CURRENT EVENTS _ BY PETER PETERKIN "Therefore Michal the daughter of Saul, had no child unto _ the day of her death."* aalls + That was God‘s judgment on Michal‘s expressed contempt for her husband‘s (David) spiritual enthusiasm. 4 King David had brought home the Ark of God. â€"He was celebratâ€" ing with fitting ceremonies the joy of having the precence of God in his new city, Jerusalem. â€" And as the Ark was coming to the place preâ€" pared, David‘s poetic soul overleapt the bonds of usual convention and he danced before the Lord.:. Michal saw him and despised him in her heart and attempted to reprove him when they were together. But God took David‘s side and the above fact is recorded. "Let all things be done decently and in order," but let‘s be sure it God‘s order, and if we do we will find as David did that enthusiasm according to His plan. . . ‘ The church, and the congregation that so orders everything as to leave no Foom for the working of the Spirit in spontaneous enthusiasm with reference to the mercy and love and grace of Jesus Christâ€"that church would better take care lest it be childless as Michal was _ And if the church, how much more surely the individual Christian who has no overflowing, even extravagant expression of, love for the Divine Saviour. *11 Sam.: 6:23 Copyright 1921â€"J. A.â€"R. I used to have a friend who said over and over again, "Formalâ€" ism is the grave of power.". Yes, I know that the Good Book says, aboutâ€" cumourssnEss Wifeyâ€""Judging by this article on electricity, very soon we‘ll get everyâ€" thing we want by just touching a butâ€" ton." ; By Royal Proclamation. His Txee‘â€" lency the Governorâ€"Ganeral hv~ * =~â€"i~ nated the week commencing Octohar 2nd as "Fire Prevention Wee*t." The object of the period set apart for n»â€" servance is to reduce the tremendons fire waste of the Dominion. especially that which is directly due to carelessâ€" ness and avoidable causes in general. During the week preceding "Fire Preâ€" vention Week", lessons on fire preâ€" vention subjects will be given in every Public school in Canada, public meetâ€" ings will be held in many of the largâ€" er cities, towns and villages, at which owners and occupants of property will be counselled to give special attention to the removal of fire hazards from their premises. The answer to the enigma presented in these notes last week is contained in one word onlyâ€""Nothing". ‘"Have you the time about you?" he asked as they sat on the moonlit beach. ‘"Why yes," she murmured, ‘"you are wearing a wrist watch, aren‘t you?" < Hubbyâ€""You‘ll never get anything that way, because you never touch a button; just look at this shirt I am wearing." 3 debts, the politic: 1 uncertainty, (the fear on on the part of the United States that if ghe accepts goods in payment of the debts owing to her she ‘will handicap her own industries â€"all these things regult in this: That overseas buyers of wheat, buy from hand to mouth, buy only what they must, buy only for the immediate and near future, and not according to what they need, but according to what they can afford. Without doubht Europe needs all} the surplus food this continent will have, but there is no doubt ‘that Europe cannot pay for what she needs. This is.the one diffiâ€" culty in selling our surplus supplies at fair prices, and it cannot be reâ€" moved by any Wheat Board, or by any change in the method of marketing. In a pamphlet issued by J. Grove Smith, Dominion Fire Commissionâ€" er. Ottawa, reference is made to the fact that fully 75 per cent. of the 26,â€" 000 fires in Canada last year were caused through carelessness. During the past ten years fire has destroyed in Canada property worth more than $250,000,000, and even‘ more serious is the fact that during that period over 3,000 persons were burned to death and thousands of others severely inâ€" jured or maimed for life. Last year The Dominion Fire Commissoner urges that the slogan, "Clean up and exercise care to avoid fires, and reâ€" mind others to do the same," should be observed by every citizen during prevention week and afterwards. As a matter of fact, the commissioner deâ€" clares that as fire waste is one of the most serious economic problems confronting Canada at the ‘present time, it is the obvious duty of muniâ€" cipal authorities, fire department offiâ€" cials, Boards of Trade and other repâ€" resentative citizen bodies and organâ€" izations to bring the matter to the atâ€" tention of the people. Emphasis is given to the fact that the public in general is vit=lly affected by the tremendous losses annually by fire and the enormous expenditures venâ€" dered necessary to adequately protect life and property from its ravages. Canada‘s fire loss was $124,000 daily. or over $86 per minute, the annual loss exceeding $5 per head of the population ,compared with thirtyâ€"three cents per head in European countries. One of the measures adopted by the Finance Department to bring the conâ€" version proposals which are now beâ€" ing widely advertised, to the attention of holders of 1922 Victory Bonds was the mailing to registered holders of a copy of the Minister‘s announcement. Over 100,000 bond holdres were comâ€" municated with. Repliés were | not called for, as those who wish to conâ€" tinue their investment are asked to surrender ‘their bonds to 2any branch of any chartered Bank, signifying the maturity of the new bonds ~desired and obtaining receipt on the official form provided. Nevertheless there have been many replies. "Everything has been so satisfactory that I would like the ‘investment ko continue," wrote one holder and there have been many letters of like tenor from perâ€" sons who became investors in bonds for the first time in 1917. ARE YOU HOLDING YOUR BONDS? The Irtelligence Officer â€" The enemy plans to open the engagement at this point on the/map. The â€"Commanding |â€" Officerâ€" Have PREVENT FIRE LO%< i 18 18 aum(ite Wednesday, September 27th, 1921 Nelles Road W. M. WILSON _ ; _ _ Architect 15 Queen Street. Telephone 2418w. St. Catharines. tf Barrister, Solicitor, Notary Public _ 45 Federal Life Building llami'li;tilllf 3 Miss Louise Dell, A.T.C.M., teacher of piano and theory; pupils prepared for examinations, special attention to beginners. â€" Class opens Sept. â€" 5. General delivery, Grimsby, Ont. tf Miss Jones‘ Private School for_ girls and boys, top of Mountain street, Grimsâ€" by, will _ open on . September® (5th, Morning and afternoon classes. Classes for very young â€" children mornings only; all the usual subjects taught, inâ€" cluding French. Music by Mrs. W. B Johnson, at the school and practice hours at school can be arranged. For further particulars, apply to Miss Jones, phone 375, Grimsby. t‘lf MacKAY, MacKAY & PERRIE Dominion Land Surveyors, Ontario Land Surveyors, Civil Engineers Tames J. MacKay, Ernest G. 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