" level could be attained on by be

' .. ' " .-_~ y; . , . "iv- W" H I l _ . . . vZZ-Te-i-DJ... D .-

oua to u.,a.a.

Qfiarleallateoqrn-etaeae, amine-annulment b-h-Unnleelaaoelaaeldltoal.

The Public Fbrum

This column la open for. the dominion by w" , (‘Ilia of qucaaiona of intar. on. The" Charlottetown Guardian does not nooaaaar. ily endorse the opinion. u, limited by its u- apona. onto.

Notes The Way

0O

pawn-nan {iii papa: (Jnllodl h ad

The late respected GWQWW I" I fl-lowlan gave to Prince Edward-B?’ .231“! the happy name of the Mil-l . ‘lion Acre I-‘arm. In area one nllll-'

‘fog gcrgr. would be the equivalenilg

f

9f 10,000 farms of 100 acres each l"; side by side, and end to end-y

la horse and sleigh on the sireetslw“ ha” “w” “n” than u“! ml

fact. we haw: over 14.000 falrnls jot chaflouew'u ""‘°“.' ben_"lin all. some larger and some sma Tune was when the law was strict

' liar than 100 acres each. But It" . 3 11y ugfumgg lg a page“ comm-yfgo at a million acres in all. Onlpirance" ' r _ ‘ _ (this big farm live some 70.000 of booze m” or mum“ ‘a? mum] drmusgour rural population. leaving 18

"l ll" "M5 “W” W“ l" m a; dwellers in thin city, lh l

‘was promptly arrested and hailt-tligowng- and vlllagei bt-fcre the Chzef of Police who ex-i

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1922.

v-VvvTVL‘ v ‘

the ANSWER _

aarisnsn "raxnvens

Taxation is seldom g 99ml" "w M80118 in oniiuryjmeufil- condition will l0je‘jgl| gm.» i5 hunting up the coifector. It ta an record that a certain ham-pm In this prcvitlcrr-vrflp gpeggq-ged. l! flfllluired a considerable alnoup: 0f 1110119)‘, wanted to be plflrgq] "n the same social level a; hi; n15“.- neighbors.

8U SQ. a writer interests. in

in th Tuesday’

liille-rirs in the province.

v The subject, if lt ls a suhiec ,m_'c-u‘s dc of (lll. pan‘ '

' csied Jllazery. is a

It wlis ostensibly for these .000 people nu the Million Acre lllent. locked the offender up. Th:s' I-‘arm that the Bell Govemmvlt o! course ‘a: wbcn we ha‘; some prolecivd their great scheme oi Today ha“ Ihelimproved reads, which when cum~ imighs driving in d“ or count" .-d should cove-r some 4S0 "‘ ‘ " ' of roiid at a cost 0f a half i-ln dollars. We must hear in

QCILJ a f.ne or in default of pay-

en which I have w" ci-"stt-llcv. or non-existence 0f il Ilcit st"l.~: has no connection what ("ft-T lrih the PI-ebscAe to be ta

Believing (cm such a

respect for law.

coming a taxpayer he went or‘.

baking for a tax caileczor. Alfie.’

Tue sole issue is. WILL

carry no bells and the law is u?-

_ , _ ~ - _ UP LIQVOR ENTRANCE INTO

aome enquiries he found a mall ‘m’ ’g“""“*- n“ 50°“ m“ beyglmffi l“; “T” ‘lief ‘mile ‘:15 THE -PRO\'I. ‘E. WITH rrs h - -ei .. . _ In the f:rsl plilcr- i: i; (hngtgfqu; ecl~ on f e treasury of e lg EASILY POE; E AYD COX- w O ‘A5 w " n? ‘O auammod awe-a“. ,0 Dada-wan; [n ‘h; Farm was empty. 'l‘he_\" themselves SEQYP-VFU- .. KAGFISI-YTO THE ate him. The amount of taxazion ' ' " ‘h - H ‘A .=av that it was worse than that “mks UF BOUTLEGGERS w _ d _v X second place much 0! 1h? DIPJ- _lmd h h“ ._ \\'!') AVENYES OF CONSUMP- as agree upon and me Co" w” U, _‘j€_~'gh dfin-ug .5 cumfl l“ lffmcmlnls 5"?" T!(\.\'. which ilt present not wcmy- wrote, a rye-p, worded a; ' ~ --_ - ‘ - - _ ' {here was a deficit of over aqucr- w qrhr, ml, poo-ere of {he lrggi .- tonowy m“ “use: “ted up d‘; uuied by zrle Lzlglmlg of the heir. 197 9f al-nilllqn (191137; a; {hprjme Illfr. Government or law officcrs semen m éhe ‘m; nlle horse enioys the "tirlt.n:ibulu~ and that nothing but the closest orrxleacrontl" z W“ h“? been

t re 55r:\”:‘l=l'| > _ .i. '

lieu-u i go- r r -.. Lot‘. o: -.r..@ and 1h‘.- music ‘"""'“°"‘-‘ “M "’"*"""‘““"‘ will“ Wind. and the owners nun-fished r“ Jl" ° ‘ms 11:3“ p _ ‘save the Farm from bankruptcy? under our laws. and so have we

The receipt was not signed but ii 34% "J T!" "i! 0f ill: CKQ-ID-EIS "'4" llld ZPlUlIPYkTF. 'hii=ves and even

'l“-lI’il—’ rcrsl to ibsflgure the beauty of our profincc. but to say that ‘Tl? community i.=~ saturated ivith "cw. or an? of them. ‘s J SW55

galjgfigij (m. w; payer and 35956. of the cutter. Iuthe next piece’

enrally the trolteclor.

Had the farmers any notice that‘ this big schema of road improve men! would be undertaken by the

driving without bel‘; ;s a rink-Lon

vvww

Sirr-Masquendang. as per cus- m of the craft. under the "Talu-

rlGuar-lian, asks a question of "Pro- l,‘ h.ll.t.ou.st re st lls or p-flvate dia-

s of ulter- _' apart and separate froril ill nlulicrs up The

ken on ille 22nd of January llcxt. ‘ _ WE (‘JOSE I‘? THE FLOOD GATES

‘I nous ron crimsrnas

i I0 l’

lFor thewearr m" "P WY- lOr "the liuie girl who now Feel; the years upon her brow.

i

more To the mother at the door

And [hose happy )"@='.crd:i_\'B. e a

mill For the lolllf up the hill,

For the wrildgcr in the road Heart-sick wi.h his heavy load.

l

Home for Christmas! Back to he Once again at mother's knee

And to fw-l lll-r fond caress

I11 the speil 0i happiness.

Home for (“hristlllrm Girl and lad. (filing to the kindly" Dad, Who has waited through the your l-‘or his loved ones to appear

Home for Cllrisilnas! Brick again To the simple lays and plain. To the rt-nlge HWt-el with 7535' ‘Vhere is love mulle fflillllffiil.

Fume for Christians! Oh. that Cntld recall the vcurs gnneby, A-iu‘ could know f.‘ll(‘8 more bliss v 0f the glorious welcome kiss.

'.ll8

Home for Christmas! There's a

Home for Christmas! Back occe Aniline 0m hearth will! the blaze

Home for Christmas! B2114 to the

‘u.-. w, -,:; fxhel .\\'u~ . 2.

One of tn. ;Y.d» .,.. who. 1- ° l a“ 3 no’ r‘ (‘U H? Bell Goverllllleilz if they came in-"‘~-‘ lzpnll our clean lH-inl: and

the ordinary ‘Khffl iaxpayner 55 “m C’ m" “"1 m“ 39°C 3"] Gus’ to power? Non:- whatever! on [he higbW" moral population. But the i201"? f0!‘ Christmas! Girl and mJll , » . -‘l .. ....»,.. ~ '_ \\‘;-' .,. _.. -,. .. ma! he z‘ uh‘ right‘. or wr0ng_-A.Zll. l. u... :l.~.~.=n a “lxemd l-kcuntrarv the fzirmers and the cn-gfi,‘ In"? ti,‘ lknljem Tim gzfilflfilgrtnnbwhlh‘ ‘on CH1 _ , ~, ._ p ilwtflanfl. .\'0 one wan’: to be tire ("lufllry were led [n belie , - .~ 7-. - - ., 1_~»._ ' 1h l: ° L "e ‘m’ yea“ "

‘y’ ma! [he l“ (enema! MS l‘ :1 0w u h» = eetallluf ‘f "13! thcv were stmnzlv 0pp<re<l‘"c'nil?'ln_~ull hfyngxfglf‘ 3‘I<1‘(tl'n"a1A: "m"

.- . - -. ‘i. "r n t. . Jr. _ . . : -. . _ _ .~ l > . ~ n- ~- _ _ _ ed mo” 5mm mm than 5mm h” _ ‘ ‘ w 1a The (ionsprvafive party-m lhn extent. cf their existence. ll "H! F01! II long for home in ‘cam. neighbor. When there- are lfioifunh an acmdm! ghoul‘ 0pm" ‘a ~wcre denounced als. poslsibly lnok-lma‘ “Tenlwfransell nil-Allin‘ trhah —'\mm'

.. . . in" rIull "h d f the horse's hoofs lb" more o Tm Hill 01")" fl grounds for bani-ring lh;.= l0 be u u a AIDE upon some such recklcsspvgtp pnffnierr-kifcfl in the traffic. The King has ‘apfimved m we the ca.“ there I.~" bound to b»:- riis- “'3 ‘he "mmhmg of ‘he runneufsclwme with "'“'°r' 1'1" "5 50F thy‘?! 5' 4‘ f“ Sig‘? (‘nnpansgznt appointment of I-Ier Majesty Illi- . . .. .- ., . ~, -; i. . , -. .- t m‘ zlrr- or r mos. i.“ l - ‘ *- satisfaction. To avoml this there h" "l -“"'" m" “h! m the Lug ‘flyelrdilhel. “Tum ha‘) m l“_n§i.‘lP‘.’TiIl-'m BrtflliJfli or =uwf>PRqur= Qlleerras Colorlel-irl-Chirif of the must ‘be a clr-arrnz up of Present Iillz of ilw bile. True. \\'r-‘ don't ifinilfjtnt"lzll""_ :rl,'*-‘h“""e 1110GT‘... .-,, lfluqff ' mic Iilll“_I;’¥?_lIl‘i 100th (Worcestershire and Oxiord day rurlwrr. were are some kill mall} people m1 the alter-I’- ‘,,',.,?,.,,.,:e fir?“ m:,:,‘,-..l:,;,.‘,‘.;.grill;lfljlhlnlcciirlclllé AFTER.’ The ""°'““"r:'" Bngmle‘ Rm“ things lo lli: PXDla nr-ll .-rlrl unfl bu! when we do lei us do r .\nd still has‘ they sillceulffilrlil- I um S’r fl". ‘llém Artillery’ from [he Oxhml‘ ' rm‘. i‘ k _ . h b, PROHIBITION-IST shire (Out-en's Own Oltfurtlshir- they are explalned we shall not iy and lllilsicallyn -‘ -‘ “‘ "m m“ m I 9 g d9" . - . g . . _ . _ . l Husaaml leomanry. Befole the re- _ _ __ . ; y _ i |flclt \\hl('ll the) say they dlscov- _ _ have mam ydusrled ldXpa-‘ersl l """' ‘cred uFicr taking offir-r. 1f Wlzs Ill-l ‘organization n! [he Yeoman” reg‘ I WSUARDING CANADIAN FARM-JG!‘ thi " very oi the defii-IL! eoe-oeooo-o-oeeeeeooooeo-o; merits the Queen was colonel-In- ‘ ' I l the on" w t =~.urv and the colic . vhief of the Oxfordslllre Yeomanrv. wmsuzss STATION nisozw 5R5 l . ' '. ' ' ' l no‘. p“ ,3. v9“,- hrlllk of bankrup-l. l ' ' ' . , -- ', r -- - ~ ' Canadians. are keenly Interested t - . ¢._l Th» .\~ ~ \Ol'l( llclwlrl n‘ recent "5- ' ’ "ll? ‘l“""-'l l" “Pendlv

‘Vllf-‘ll a rlllll le-lves Charlolf-j ( H‘ _ I _' |llalf a \i'i...,ll on tile ltxlllsi : xzin the appointment o1‘ His Excel»

wwn’ a; me ylunmalm d3] a day-plate sluts-s ihe- lll!l;£’,.-!' .ln fur-i » _ ~ 1 ‘ l,‘ zllcncy the Duke of DPVOIIalIIFB til

» ‘ -. ) .. u u,‘ - ‘ ,.' _ z - ' 5 . ' .2. I .. .

or lwo 2E0. the only cnmmunicq-lkels or. bmlll-v lfllflill . um (at y ‘Shy l llt_\orllll‘l°llll“infll\ltlhe‘l'rl)\£t(l,zl)le lufli p ltlleposllliln of Secretary oi Stutt- .. I\' ~ s , . < _ .

flop possible with her is bv \\'£l"."-l‘(l5 l0 Sllillll.‘ lll” l-""--‘l~"-* ‘Lwkillllforrliing ‘he mime H ‘man. m! From the W. S. Louaon for the CJlOIIIES in Bonar Ilaw‘,

' g ‘ ~ |_ ~ l . . - , '

‘e55 w Sydney and from mere ‘wine,- ialm. and are blqng 501d qr ‘emims mev rpverscd the DONE)’: collation gabihnef. trim tho Zlllpoltflllgléllhlllfi \ , » . . - -. ._, , ‘ ' . - w r l e great ;

., h C), 111.1, - _ The lower DTICQS than [I18 (..iu..l.in , - t . 1 ] y m i» v4 u‘ e“ “mm” 0"‘: ‘l lelctrap til aro e ovin F ltn uhlcll he) lai gone 0 e _ ‘politic’! hoflesses of the new ca” wifekfg§ 313130;, a1 cape Bean it farmer ciin sell them for. wnunu-y and received its support. -

will hr.- rclnenlbcreil. was dismallt-l

None of the Hungarian turkeys

led some time ago and since thenllliive yet come to Prince Edward.

. wire- This ' a handicap that the [ITOVIHLE

there has hten n0 nffi

less étziiion on 1hr- lsliln

no right. to be placed undcr . It would 04ml hut lltllé. and the cost would bt- perftctiy justifzable, to establish u wirclcsll station here. An excellent location for it mluld be the Navy League Building and no doubt n working arrangement with lllP School Navigation there. could The wireless SlilLOl] and the Naviga- tion School would each he a c0m-

0f be negotiated.

(plemcnt to the other and a great assistance to the school all well as a much needed acquisition w the Marine Department which baa to keep in touch with the steam- ere under its control as well as to other shippers. Our Ottawa re- presentatives Who ‘have not yet done much for uhe province would find in this an opportunity show that they are still with us. LARGE _FIGURES

H]

In a recent Issue reference was made to Canada's great crop of 343000.000 bilqhels.

can form tiny idea of what thee" figures mean. A stlatistlciun, hafl

If ‘this

wheat I-‘ev’

made this computation; wheat. crop were ground into flour and baked into bread it wiulrl glvr‘. every ma-n, woman and child lll Great Britain a loaf at bread .1 day for a whole year. He figural it out. in another wily. Referring to the fact that the German m2- dlera malrcillnit through Tlrtlssels re qufred several hours to pass ‘i given pnfnt. that It would tulle 7,350 brains passing at intervals ofyflve’ minutes 252 days to pass a given tpolnt. Figuring lll millions means very little to the ordinary mind but these compari- eotls will give some lderi of thc immensity of Canada'- vvheat croll and Canada's possibilities In tigr"

he shows

cult ure. ---<-0->—----

I GLEIGH BILLS

"iffhie l: a civic low which pru- hmm‘

d! that. no person ahall drive

‘Island but no

I

doubt. they have

Con". m markets in whit-ll Prince; sold; which practically nlenlls the, alinle thing and has the same cl‘- fcct on prices here.

X01, long ago we llzld Chinese- r-ggs in Charlottetown.

thcin were a little off colour rind

Some of carried u flavor to wh ch we wcrci not accustblllcd and we dld no‘. purchase them very extcnslvclynl But thi-y also came to other mar- kets in Canada in which we an‘! our eggs and we felt the competi- tion. We have also met American pork, American beef, Aillerican| I

egg-s in our Canadian markets and have suffered accordingly. 'I‘he~te lmportitliolls of agricultural pro- to compete with our own products, Liberal the i-l

ducts fronl foreign countries are part of the general scheme intended to benefit Just how it hrs never

(‘anadian farmer. going to bencfft ‘aim yet been explained and naturally our farmers are puzzled over it. They were told before the election that they were going tn be given when the Liberals into power but the "show"

a fair show came so far has been all the other wal- The Himtzarinn turkeys are thc. tation has been one 1f the nausea

for the drop in turkeys. Doe THE RECENT COLD SNAP

The cold snap which tic-d lip nut‘ harbors around the province, al- though unueual. was not unprece- dented. There have been equally revere experience: In many beet Decelnbarr, aome of them consid- erably earlier than that of this year and nhio more severe. A gentleman who visited our offlcc lhe other day Informed us that on December 23, 1875, he drovc from Long Creek to Charlotte- town on the ice. The day was ex-

ceedingly cold and many persona were fmet bitten on their way

latest and no doubt their lmpor- .

Hy their own shoivin; lhcf: found, the province practically bankrupt-l

A BALLAD OF CHRISTMAS EVE

in sucn tlcspcrlite need thattaxesiTllfiff’ “'33 a ‘Wlllll’ lmsller (Ami l)li.‘55E:(l he his ilullle)

IIIUSI be doubled and tr-i-hletl nnill the etrictt-s: econrlllly zipnliililand

qlllfilii rvfdéziiintl til'l"k'r-_'\-'.va"':i'i‘"e belllgivllcll tklillfdpfl". rozul scht-nle w-hicll

they had before prfillountztetl un- wtlrtily of c-tlnsiilcrufirln. Well nlny thil lzlrmers risk what sort of flit-n arc these our rull-rs!

As It was with the mail: soil ‘iVZlS with the ililubli-tl IZHU"; Thr- plrlplc hurl no niltiite or illiinlatitln of additional bilrditls. Thr-y were il-d to wxpcct li rcductlon rather than lill int-rouse. Thi-y tlntl nnw Inn" llfln rlivlcd to burden. First th~ dull- bled bilrdins of the Tax Act and later the hurdi-ns of the rlighwlly lmprrvenlent Act, which Premier Bell ‘himself has ailmlltlted may continue for 15 to 20 years. The Bell government ‘haiLno mandate, no manlner of authority whatever to do these things. They grossly deceived the people In both these matters,‘ and by a power which they usurped they mortgaged our future for twenty years to come, if not for all time. For in e0 far ‘*5 they Cfllllll Ilw)‘ have placed such ‘burdens upon the country a5 fllfly be Impossible for future gov. r-rtlmems b0 rcmrlvc.

Such are the circumstances un- der which the Bell govgrnmgnt "i" "wflaaoeu the Mi'|ion Acre Farm of which our fathers were llllily an proud. And in each c“; the intention was concealed um" the deed was done. Could decep.

drove m Chrtrllnflclrlvfn ml me 2C9. This was an exceptionally cold season. An aged couple pep- iehed at Hlghfield on their way hnme from Charlottetown. Iloubfllesa many other Decem. burs might be recalled when win. tar net in as early as in the pre- sent month but there is no reti- son to believe that our winters ere either collie-r nr milder than they have been lll the past. Meg. corolozlcrll observations covering some seventy or eighty years Show DFBCIICHIIY the slime average re- currence-: of early and late win- ters. practically" the slam» average pri-cir/tatinn of rain and snow throughout (he your. Winters and summer-e ilndmlbtedly vary but there lire no evidences of cIIm-nilc

On New Years Day 1890 also he

changes lie flur back as there are reliable records 0f.

illi- (lpt-lll-tl up tile sliililc

The night our Lilli) cliillc.

(Jill Liiih

iilld Suillt Jusvl>ll~

H»; i- lllclll fililtl_antl Ilitl. ,\n(lVJI 3H5 Chmt has given Il-m , .\ gi-llgv round his Ileud.

Si, let he" gate rJVTIlu’ open

Iiuixi-n-r pour the yard. 5A,“, “-<-;lry' pv-(lpfc N’ il y-lll Killil filitl lllveil‘ ll\$$~g‘-' llllrw-‘ll r-rillcll lllc giitl- a t midnight Ami lll you lullicl-ns glow _ , Sl-“nll nut lclrgiuli- tut.- trilvellers

fut-t > 'l‘o you across the snovi.

l.'il‘.t>i-k your ilurlr tllie iyr-lling And lct tilt: Ell" liwlll" Mlle» bet all who ask for Shem" f-‘nlllc mleedil)’ lnsldei f n, ‘lyhm jf your yard hi- narrow; \Vhat if your house be slllzill. There is a guest who coining Will gloiiliv ll all , . Unbur your ileari this fr-Velllllgl \n:} koup no strange? 0lll~ Take from your soul's BT84" W1‘ tal

T)“. bm-rwr of (lflllbL

To humble frllk mill “'9”?- (live heirt)‘ “'<‘l'~'"m'"g'

Your ‘breast will ‘tomorrow

. I H. f a mg. Th“ m“ L 0 —J0yce Kilmcr.

_____{__j____%

tlon and treachery K0 farm" m“ this’! u is difficult to imagine 81ml‘- a ciise. Surely ll l5 time l“ a‘ change! Next year i d¢¢°lv°d "d indignant people will turn them out, but they will atilll have left I heavy lggggy of debt, of taxation. of Increaaed Interest charge» as reminder; of their recklesa and inqlorloua term of P°W°l‘- "The evil that men (In. lives after them; the good is oft interred witlithoir bones."

Yes improved roads have a pretty sound until we begin to consider the base origin of the

scheme, begin counting the cost and taking note of who Dill It. who are benefited and who are not. For the cost Ia great and it relrta upon ovary farm lot In thla Million Acre Farm. And tin the last anryala not more than one in night of our farmora llvea ho‘ alda. or ta materially benefited by {the Bell Government roadpl Doea lll add Ito tit; pleaaure of those ‘payer: of doubled taxea who llvo bealde the neglected roada that llllfiy are compefed alao to pay to the taxera who alt in the Leg- llalatura more than doubled Indem- nlty-QGOO Inalead of I200? Qweata lro our awaet Ieqlalatora but a [vary hitter pill for the tax payer-a who flvo on the Million Aora Fat-ml

- 1m

fillet. It is u position ill the illIllPF] lwllt-rr-ol He-r Iixt-t-Ilelligv is fillly l: ' ;‘v'('l‘.‘E(}ll. The walla of Ilevullsllirc :lltllISO ill Piccadilly. in the old gill)?‘ before it was. sold, when po- llitii-zll illnllers wcl-t- more in fum- |'llll lllllll they are now, probably‘ [heard many more political secrets tiliill cver are likely to Ilc writtcll.

TUNE is a l.llll.lll.lllz‘ soi-iill cv PIIlS iii‘ the city. This wi-ck Iliis

liltlnll the istorcs fillcd with pill" chit-era, both young and old. Th" Ilium-keeper is busy with lliel‘

llfill<0ll0ld regime, the chilrvh wor- Iu-rs with their distrilllitinl of zlifis to the poor. the tliSp€II5l€Al‘_\' llllil orphnnagcs, arid ilvcrywhcr» llll- true spirit of Christmas prc- rails.