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The carrying out of the tions would mean but liti patron, but it would mean carriers. And when. one t the carriers render and of t] task during the winter mon very much to ask. § claimed, however, that there is in the province a good supply of substitutes and that if people will only learn to use them there will be no danger of a fuel famine. Let there be an inquiry by all means if there is any intention of using the information so obâ€" tained as a basis of action, but it is too often the case that government investigations are used merely as excuses for doing nothing. An appeal has been made to patrons on rural. routes to do some things to make edsier the lot" of the carriers during the winter season. Here are some of the suggestions : ‘"First, keep the roads passable, particularly in front of your own place, cut the weeds along the side of the road and thereby prevent snow banks, put the right change in an envelope and give him a hot drink occasionally. P 1 T & M ie uds etvisitcc d ids t}!. T EN ALL for themselves by experimenting with substiâ€" tutes, including soft coal and coke, and in many places the people have been so successful that they ~have become practically independent of anthracite.‘ This is one of the lessons which the people of Central Canada must learn for themâ€" selves. Sooner or later the people of Central Canada must learn to do without anthracite. Even if there was the assurance that there would be no further‘interference with the production of anthracite the time must come when the supply will fail from exhaustion, and it is but reasonable to except that long before the point of exhaustion is reached the people of the United States will deem it necessary to conserve for their own use what there is left. The United States likes to be regarded as a selfâ€"contained nation, capable of depending on itself. It makes its own tariffs without regard to the needs or conveniences of other nations. But even the United States is discovering that it canâ€" not live to itself alone, and that it is depending on other nations for some at least of its raw materials. There is raw Tubber, for instance. Most of the supply is to be found within the British empire. The United States is apparently not satisfied with the conditions under which the rubber is produced and exported, and conâ€" gress has ordered an investigation. According to the Canadian fuel board the bulk of the anthracite received in this country has already been distributed to consumers, and what there is left will soon be exhausted. ts claimed, however, that there is in the nravinha a Possibly it may do Uncle Sam aâ€"world of good and make of lim a more considerate neighâ€" bor when he learns that he cannot stand alone & Somebody is urging a parliamentary i into Canada‘s fuel situation in view of th petual uncertainty that arises from stri the United «States coal fields. a there is no disposition to do anything else; but it is difficult to see what an inquiry would reveal that is not already known. In the United States many people are solving the anthracite problem M NoiE Sn L9 219 o P oo ce atte s 4 & & I TWO Just what is to be expected from an investiâ€" gation is not readily apparent: The proposal, however, is characteristic_of American methods. The people of that country are not satisfied with the assertion of the right to do what they like with what they regard as their own, without thought of what the effect may be on other peoâ€" ple; they want to have some say in the affairs of other people as well. If the people of the United States were prepared to work on the principle of give and take, there might be more outside symâ€" pathy for them ; but it is difficult to see how they can reasonably deny the right of other people to attend to their own affairs. An American paper asks its readéers to imagine their feelings if Great Britain were to ask the United States to cut down the price of cotton or oil or copper, or wheat, which Great Britain is compelled to buy from the United States. Imagine, indeed! The Ameriâ€" can newspaper adds : "It is certain that if we (the United States) had a monopoly of rubber, conâ€" gress would defy any government to touch it with as much as its little finger." j Then there is the question of pulpwood. There are those who think that this matter should be investigated too while congress is in the inâ€" vestigating. mood. This demand,; does not arise from anything Canada has done or proposes to do immediately ; it is based on the fear that some day Canada may be compelled under pressure to take some measures for the conservation Of her natural resources. The Americans have dealt rather wastefully with their own forest resources and have learned to depend to a considerable extent on Canada. They appear to be in dread lest the Canadians ghould decide to ptg#;check on the export of the supplies \%/’hiCh‘C',’fl,; _ jute the raw material which goes into the making of American paper, and so there is a demand for an investigation accompanied by such tallk of reâ€" prisals. An embargo on anthracite coal in return for an embargo on pulpwood is probably what is most in mind; but an embargo on anthracite has less terror for Canadians than it used to have. People in Canada are learning to do. without antliracite.. . °;. °> _} ue 4 after all. W.â€"F TOBEY, Publisher and Proprietor % â€"â€"Established 1885 § Issued ‘every Wednesday from the office of publication, Main and Oak streets, Grimsby Member Selected Town Weeklies of Ontario An investigation is TELEPHONESâ€"Business Office 36 Editorial Office 23 NOT SELFEâ€"CONTAINED _T H B I NDE PE NDE NT WHY AN INQUIRY>? LEND A HAND but little to the individual of these and other suggesâ€" iean a great deal to the 1e thinks of the services of the difficulties of their months, it does not seem always in order when arises from strikes in ary intugiry of the perâ€" wm: % A Country is not made great by the number of square miles it contains, but ‘by the number of square people it containg.â€" ; onl o te ie W However absurd may be the exhibition of ignorant anger in the United States over the prices in rubber and coffee there is no doubt that the coâ€"operation of govâ€" ernments in the fixing of produce prices is a dangerous practice. The human mind is a peculiar miachine. ) Mob thinking is anything but logical. Thus the United States displays indignation at the Stevensen restriction of rubber output scheme in Malaya and the activities of the Sao Paulo state government ‘of Brazil in regulatâ€" ing coffee sales. Yet the United States was the originaâ€" tor of most such schemes. The Farmers‘ Union started in the southern states. The plan was to refuse to sell cotton for less than elevenm cents a pound. During the first year the price rose from nine to fifteen cents. The next year the minimum price fixed was fifteen cents. But in thiat year the scheme failed, chiefly because the growers would not live up to their ‘own agreement. The only difference between this plan and the ones in operation in Malaya and Brazil is that the latter, have government coâ€"operation and are loyally observed by the growers. But for years past all important agriâ€" cultural countries have advised their farmers as to curâ€" tailing or increasing acreage under certain crops acâ€" cording to the forecasts of profitable markets for same. The United States has done imore of this than any other nation. Nor is there anything wrong with the practice. It is rather a miatter of kindly service and public prudence. But where the rub comes is when one certain country possesses a virtual monopoly of any ‘output. Rising prices are then liable to cause inâ€" ternational illâ€"will if they coincide with restricted outâ€" put.. Tlhe gain is not worth the risk.. If we must have bulk sales by pools let those ‘organizations be private affairs rather than departments of state. i Motorist (at motor club Christmas dinner): "I‘m almost certain that I must have run across your face some time or other." Grumpy waiter: "No, sir, it‘s always been like this." S i (By PETERâ€"PETERKIN) §J oQueGeeZecZe eB eBecBeeBeaZeaSeaZe on Be e BeBecZeaZeeBecBeaZe eBe Be eBeeZa es eBeeTecZenSooRerRenQerSeoSecRecSeaSaats Tramip : “Cou'ld you spare a poor man something to eat?" Mrs. Kindleigh: "I‘ll call my husband." "No, thanks, lady! I ain‘t no cannibal." WHEN POOLS ARE PERILOUS It is cert@inly a most extraordinary and almos unbearable condition of affairs that British subiject can travel from Canada to foreign countries without £0 ing to great expense and inconvenience of obtaining | passport, which they have to do when they wish t visit the Old Country.> The Dominion government ha applied to have this restriction removed, but seemingl without avail; and ithis anomalous situation has beeli attributed to British red tape, but it is more likely tha there is "a nigger in the fence" somewhere, and it 1 altogether likely that wrong could ibe righted if onl the press of both countries would make a loud enougl ery about it. Ԥ ‘I notice that someone has written a letter to th Mail and Empire protesting against the custom of E1Â¥ ing sumptuous Christmas dinners to jail inmates 1 Ontario and rightly drawing attention to the fact !313 there is a sad lack of proper sense of pr:oporgm arnongst our people today; also ito the fact that th . wéere in Ontario on Christmas day thousands of decth » * & oi c emids Pm Awek C o0 oifi o e iateknmad odw cobt f' J men outside the jails who could not afford to DFOV"@C( turkey iand plum pudding for their families, and that these selfâ€"supporting and selfâ€"respecting poor are PaYy: ing. t_zltxes in one way or another ito support «’th: men | in jail. § This idea that a criminal should ‘be petted and coddledâ€"Oh! poor fellow sort of stuff, instead of receivâ€" ing stern justice, has undoubtedly spread here to some extent from over there, as has ‘been. evidenced in some of our murder cases, notably that one of the poor old druggist who was brutally shot over the counter of his own drug store in Toronto a year or two. ago, where the murderer because of a sensational escape received "oodles" of sympathy as well as flowers. Fortunately our judges, as yet, show very little sympathy with that kind of thing, and it is devoutly ito ‘be hoped never will.. No! Jail should be made sufficiently unpleasant for the criminal, as to prevent him from ever wishing to return there again after his sentence expires, otherâ€" ?;vise we shall be overrun with criminals like our neighâ€" or. I must confess that I am thoroughly in sympathy with the sentiments expressed in that letter and I believe that it is all of a piece with a cerain soft sitkly quasiâ€"feminine sentimentality in regard to criminals, which prevails amongst a large class of people in "God‘s own country"? across the line, where one has only to murder one‘s mother, or brutally trample on one‘s own or someone else‘s maiden aunt, to be acclaimed a hero and have hosts of women visiting him in prison and covering him with flowers. § & _ | _ The isunâ€"fired engine needs almost Palestine is only about 9,000 square miles in arpa.f;, as little attention as our forefathers‘ about the size of Wales, and is quite mountainous, with | waterâ€"wheel. The main features of it here and there rolling plains. The climate varies greatâ€" | .,; ... boli iapd firatins 1y, being temperate on the hills and plateaus, but tropiâ€". C P ? PC 'nm"ro?s, conc-e? ra: ie cal in the valleys and great depressions. Accordingly | the sun‘s rays to five or six times in winter you can leave Jerusalem in a whirling snavy'*f( their normal heat upon a ‘boiler, the storm and 20 miles away in Jericho pick bananas i" | steam of which drives a lowâ€"pressure brilliant sunshine. Extraordinary contrasts between na: A ancient customs and modern exist also. For instance» C'on'dens.-lng engine. The reflector is the lives and customs of the Bedouins are quite similar | moved into place in the morning, and tolltho‘seh prevailing in the days of Abraham; Aré. adjusted by means of a simple indiâ€" villages have not changed since the middle ages, while: ar in tipi s ; the Bethlehem: women dress and live as they did in the Gator un. 'f(,)cu's with tfhe §un. _It then time of the crusaders. § _ ’2 automatically keeps in line with Old 6i â€"â€" _z _ %I _Sol till its day‘s work is done. Withâ€" <._ Alongside of all this historical and picturesque i’;; L considerably less t.h'a,n an ‘h'OlfI‘, the play exist also the methods and activities of the 20th | concentrated rays raise steam in the century, naturally creating some quite difficult problems | spiral tube or other iboiler. For everyone is busy and there are no unemployed. | ‘prhroughout Algeria, as elsewhers, Building operations are general all over the countr l"bh inâ€"ar s introduced except perhaps in and around Jerusalem, where a short. | "?©C Eunâ€"@riven engline NWar iINOTOAUTCE age of water prevails. . Even there, however, residences | for pumping purposes, driving recipâ€" are going up by the hundreds, as well as factories an., | rocating pumps lifting many hundreds shops. Soon Jerusaleni will have its skyscraper, a larg€ 1 of gallons a minute, and thus great 12â€"storey office building now in course of erection, as | $ ; ithout the Cost of well as a new palatial hotel equal to any in Egypu | Teas are watered without the cost 0: Gopd wages are ‘being paid and the people are content | any fuel. Today, however, it is also and happy. Why don‘t our migratingâ€"Canadians £9 | utilized for the mill, feedâ€"cutter, dynâ€" there insteadrof to the United States? i ams 1nd so on 1 Palestine is only about 9,000 square miles in area, about the size of Wales, and is quite mountainous, with. here and there rolling plains. The climate varies greatâ€". 1ly, being temperate on the hills and plateaus, but tropiâ€"_ cal in the valleys and great depressions. Accordingly in winter you can leave Jerusalem in a whirling snowâ€" storm and 20 miles away in Jericho pick bananas in brilliant sunshine. Extraordinary contrasts betwee ancient customs and modern exist also. For instance the lives and customs of the Bedouins are quite similar to ‘those prevailing in the days of Abraham; Arab, villages have not changed since the middle ages, while: the Bethlehem:; women dress and live as they did in the time of the crusaders. â€" s s f Few people in this country realize what a tremenâ€". dous change for the better has taken place in Palestine since Great Britain has taken over its administration.. The British took over a desolation and have improved_ it beyond measure.. Formerly theâ€"population, made up_ of Arabs, Jews and Christians, with great difficulty were kept from flying at each other‘s throat, and it required_ a small army to miintain peace. Now peace is being. kept by 500 British military police and there is less crime in Palestine in one year than in one week in New York.. Instead of constant riots and troubles, Great Britairiffff:] hias created all the institutiohs of liberty, stamped out malaria, created canals, opened roads, and started the . country on the road to prosperity. While the cost of, administration has diminished from £3,200,000 to. £640,000, and will soon be entirely borne ‘by the counj try itself. During this time the Jewish population has . increased from 55,000 to 108,000, although, of course, the Arabs are still far the most numerous. Apparently_ Great Britain‘s aim is to restore Palestine to the status_ it ‘occasionally reached in Biblical historyâ€"that of a land flowing with milk and. honey. § THE INDEPENDENT, GRIMSBY, ONTARIO (Montreal Witness) s greatâ€" .'~ t tropiâ€" | ° rdingly | t z snowâ€" | t anas in | between nstancey | © similar | I ; Ara‘bf} a S, Whggf‘ C d in the. ';;’i o ~~_ M s +. 2L C que disâ€" |. he 20th | C roblems | s iployed." country | . a shortâ€" | * sidencea;?" £ ries arglfifl r a large ~0 ‘ti0n9 a J 3 Egypt. | ° contensgz a ians §£0 | y " | a almost | j su'bj¢CtSf§ 3 out g0â€"â€" ining @ | P wish to | ip ent has | ; emingly | _ as ‘been | ® ely that | N 4 a 1% E i’ ‘oniy . enough | ° i + e C of «gl?.,'; T ates 14 rct that | U »poréloh 11 .a't t“__’; k ~I _ decért‘t <,, provide / One of the most useful and powerful types (of solar motor is that employed in CGalifornia, as well as in other parts Its reflector resembles a very large umbrella with the top cut off, and the inner surface is lined with small mirâ€" rors, set to focus the sunshine on a waterâ€"tube boiler placed in the contre. Lowâ€"priced and portable installaâ€" tions are favored ‘by many of the FErench colon‘ists, who @lso utilize sunâ€" power for condensation purposes at brackish artesian wells and other sources of their water. Yoking the sun spells life to many a settler in North Eastern Africa, and has brought thousands of acres inito profitable cultivation. France has already. gone awhead in Algeria with the sunâ€"motor, which the agriculturistg and fruit {farmers there find indispensable. In the Sudan the sunâ€"motor is ma.léi-n.g the arid plains blossom like the rose, pumping water for irrigation, and supplying power for ‘other purposes, as in Algeria. In Egypt its uge is ext-efid;ing, and its inâ€" troduction into South Africa and Ausâ€" tralia is already assured. A query has recently been put as to installing the sunâ€"motor in India and Mesopâ€" tomia. * On a space of less than twenty miles square in such a region as the Sahara, the s.im pours every day as much heat as the world obtains in burning its 900,000,000 tonsâ€"of co 1 annually. If a prominent French erngineer is correct in his statements, in a few years . time coal will be superseded in torrid and semiâ€"torrid countries by the sun as ‘a source of motive power. WHAT THE SUN MOTOR WILL Do put to many uses on @ T4MCh or fruit plantation, and, with 't‘hf utomatic waterâ€"feed to supply the ler, it is almost selfâ€"acting, and Calls for no constant attention. All is mounted in a steel framework, which automatically reMaing centred on the sun. On iits »C“Iock%wk being set in motion, the vapor Senerated is used to drive an engine@ O¢ a pump. As it is movable, the 501§ motor is Calder & Hazlewood ~â€"_â€" MONEY TO LOAN REAL ESTATE, INSURANCE Grimsby OPTICIAN AAAAAAAAAAAAAAKNANMANAARAAAIAAAAE I. B. ROUSE (Globe Optical) Optician 52 King St. East, HAMILTON Established 1901 ~ Office hoursâ€"8:30 to 6; 8:30 to 9 on Saturdays 3l4 percent paid on savings of One Dollar and upwards 5 percent paid on Debentures from 1 to 5 years Legal investments for Cor. 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