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silver fox pelts will be rcceiiled daily by R. W. Stewart at Clark Bros. Store. Montague. for shipment to the Prince Edward Island Fur Pool Ltd. Summerside.
Mcmcnious decisions are made and cirasic chairgcs put into ef- fect. ;OlllEl.llll“5 without being very much apparent, yet, u system hoary with ago is twept, away. Such is the case with the decision of the National Government of China. to do away with the sliver monetary
‘ standard which has Iron in exist- ence 1n tliut czuntry for centuries What hardly makes a ripple on the surface today some future histor- ian will read into the record as a momentous change, yet hardly per- ceptible to the people of the time. 'And the immediate cause is a na- tion across the other side 0f the
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the year. w ch the other counts up stretching back into the dim distant cast. wnen the United States adopted its silver purchase policy in June 1934, those in auth- ority in China began to realize that, the days of its silver monetary. rtandard were numbered and there are indications that the new mone- tary system will be based on the amount of fine gold that can be bought in London, England. for, roughly, 30 cents in Canadian money! And so a city that was once a Roman camp in the clays of Julius Ceasar on the banks of the Thames séts the monetary values for a country which even at that
time boasted an ancient civiliza-
tion. China has always been a
heavy purchaser of silver states the Industrial Dcpartmmt or the Canadian National Railways and 'had immense hrfdings. 0f such are the warp and woo; of destiny.
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Thls town in the timber country, about 400 miles north of Sydney, has a "sporting priest?’ He plays for the Dorrigo Cricket Club and arranges his services so that he can I play with them in Sunday matches
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M G M ODDITY AND SCREEN SNAPSHUTS
and Notices
Brother Scout5,—We are now well into the New Year, and I sup- pose nll troops and packs are sett- ling down to the winter's pro- gramme. l’ hope the fact that it is winter will not make you forget
that ECUlLlllg is an OUTDOOR GAME. During this 501M011, attention
shou'd be given to passiujof tests. which may b: carried on indoors ,as well as out. '
We extend the loft hand of fel- lowship in our great brotherhood to thrcc new Scouts in the persons of His Honour, LlQut. Governor George D. DcBlois, Mr. J. O. Hynd- man, and Mr. L. D. Murray. Un- like Provincial Commissioner Mor- ris, although these gentlemen have
porters of Scouting, they have not until recently been invested Scouts, Mr. Morris was invested when Scoutmnsier in Summerslde. They have made the promise and have been invested and are now entitled to all the rights and privileges of membership in the Brotherhood. We wish thcm many happy days and Good Scouting.
Mrs. W. Warren and Mrs. Jas Frlpps, ‘eaders of 7th Charlotte- town Cubs have been on the sick 11st for some time. We wish them a speedy return to good hrnlth.
Patrol Leader Tom Denlois and Patrol 2nd 1-1. Murray of this group are recovering from the prevalent cold
We are also glad to report that Prov. President L. D. Murray and Mrs. Murra who have been ill. B-Pe convalesoen .
0th Ch'town Troop (Moat Holy Redeemer)
The following were recently in- vested:--Jos. Doucettn. Elmer ShCP- herd, Jack Duffy, Hank Gallant-
Stanley Mcfnnis has passed his Second Class tests.
Lawrence Doyle, Carl ‘Pmlnor and James Howatt hI-ve owed 1nd (319.35 signalling.
at 1m night or rneenns, both games and tests pertook of the m- tuxc of inter-patrol competitions-
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Annual Meeting W. M. Society " Trinity Church
The annual meeting of the Wo- men's Missionary Society of 1m- lty United Church was held on Wednwday afternoon in Hearts Hall. The President, Mrs. Harold Newsom presided, After the open- ing worship period the newly elec- ted officers for 1936 were installed. Mrs. A. C. Sinclair had charge of the installation service, which con- cluded with dedlcatory prayers by Mrs W. H. Johnson and Mrs. A. Morlalr.
Very encouraging repwhs of the yours work were given, showing each depiutmentto be in a flour- ishing condition. The Treasurer reported that $1078.17 had been raised during the year. The report of the Supply Secretary was that boxes of clothing had been sent to Trinidad and Western Canada. A very interesting report of excel- lent work done by the Evening Auxiliary, orilanlzed in February, was given by the President. Mrs. H. Miller. r ‘
The following are the officers for the ensuing year:
President. Mrs. H. Newson.
First Vice President, Mrs. W. A. Thomson.
Second Vice President, Mrs. George Millar.
Tueasurer. Mrs. R. E. Mutch.
Asistant Treasurer, Mrs. J. Pick- ard.
Recording secretary, Mrs. J. G. Bennett.
President of Evening Auxiliary, Mrs. Hugh Miller.
Corresponding Secretary, Mrs. W. A. Huestls.
Christian Stewardship Secretary, Mrs. J. L- Lockhart.
Supplysecretary, Mrs. A. Taplr; Mrs. G. F. Hutcheson.
Mite Box Secretary, Mrs. E. Whitehead; Miss Webster.
Associate Helpers Secretary, Mrs. C. Altkcn: Mrs. Ira Show.
Temperance Secretary, Mrs. W. E. Burke.
Missionary Monthly ‘Secretary, Mrs. J. H. Ayers. Mrs. F. Langlll.
Strangers’ Secretary. Mrs. J. Tait, Mrs. G. H. Taylor, Mrs. C. H. Black. -
Superintendent of Baby Band. Mrs. L. Bustin.
leaders of Mission Band. Mrs. ‘Splllett. Mrs. G. Warren; Mrs. W. Bearisiio. Mrs. Vlckerson, and Mrs. Milton Wheiltloy".
Additional member of Executive, Miss Mary White.
Pianist. Mrs. L."'I‘. Lowther.
SHIRLEY MARIE Mckrmvon
Budded on earth to bloom in Heaven \V6."e the words that came to us on December 21st when death entered the homo of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur McKinnon, Rocky point; and took from their midst their 01111’ baby girl at the early age -of 13 months and 21 days. Shirley contracted whooping cough about two weeks before, which developed into pneumonia. Although suffer- int! at times she never murmured. All that loving hands and tender nursing could do was of no avail and her gentle spirit winged its way Hcavenward. Although so yflung she was dearly loved by everyone. Her pleasant smile brought: happiness to the home where she will be sadly missed by he,- 503'- rowing parents who have the sym- pathy of all. The funeral was held on Monday. Dee. 23. Service was conducted by Rev. G. C. Webster of Charlottetown who spoke comfort- ing Words to the bereaved. The hvmns Sllltq xvi-re. Safe in the Arms of Jesus and When He Corneth.
The pail bearers woe Messrs. Spitfire-on Currie. Anthony Gal- lant. Cornelius Doiron and Howard Smith.
The remains were tenderly laid to re in Hhzhfield Cemctcrv The Foxes and Pigeons were well ahead in points. _ '
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This preparation f; gur- uateod to relieve the moot ob- ctlnnlo one: of coughs, colds. heaven, lnfluenn and all af- fections of the lung; In hone! Ind lava no bu! offer ef- fem. If, can be sully ltlmlnll- fnll by mixing with the food. ‘try a box.
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1i hours par month in several cities u follows:
Toronto . 3.58
Montreal 5.30 Halifax 8.70 New Westmi 11.04 Charlottetown . . . .. . . .. 12.20
The contrast has never before appeared so clearly. The figures will no doubt be disputed by our American owned and controlled Utility, but our people have confid- ence ln our Dominion Bureau of Statistics and will believe that when the Bureau puts out a statement such as above it has the necessary facts to support the figures given.
Let us look at a few known facts. In 1933 The Maritime Electric Co. Ltd. issued a statement in which the valuation of the plant was giv- en as $892,965.39. This valuation was subsequently reduced to $661,- 640.00 by the report of a. Montreal Appraisal Company employed by the Public Utility Commission and even thislatter valuation is consid- ered, by many informed persons, as too high.
The Company's 1933 statement showed the revenue of the plant to be $203,783.84 and the operating ex- penses at $117,858.15. There were 3384 customers so that the operat- ing expenses less cost; of power per customer per year is $17.50 and in order to prove that this represents a very high rate, I submit the fol- lowing statistics: In Pietou County the rate is $9.10, 1n Truro $6.20, in Dartmouth $7.80, and in Sydney $11.55.
Why is it that the operating costs here are so high? Has the fact of foreign ownership by a gigantic New York Holding Corporation anything to do with it? Let us see. I will give a few quotations from the New York Times of July and August last reporting evidence that; came before an Investigating Committee in
Washington: "The service burden placed against the operating companies
was fixed at about $9,000,000. The officers and directors had no voice in the fixing of the foes for the ser- vices rendered their companies."
Again, "The salary o! a man nam- ed Daly, about $24,000 a. year was charged against the companies as $60,000. There were only a few spl- arles that did not carry the two and a half times overhead.”
Further, ‘The directors of operat- ing companies in the Associated system were all namedoby the As-
guaranteed coats, Usually 2 only . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..
rippled la p e l. Usually Size 16. One only . . . . ..
Usually $145.00. 3 Brown From
sleeves. These are the h rates obtainable. ‘Usually $185.00
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January Fur tale
It is at. a time like this that you can expect to get a Fur Coat cheap in price, but high in quality. Islpnd Furriers give you big returns for a minimum outlay. Take some of your re- serve dollars and put them into a fur coat. It is one of the best investments we know of. The - return in chic, warmth‘ and service that you derive far surpasses the amount spent.
A Few of the Values
HUDSON SEAL, plain trim, heavily fur-red, BALTIC SEAL, plain trim, stand-up collar,
AMERICAN BROADTAIL, Squirrel trim. These are high quality skins, prominent Morie wave.
MINK MARMOT, very close imi- $ tation to real mink, Usually $185.
BACK MUSKRAT, stand up collar and full /
Special group of Cnracule, Caracule s Head, Caracule Paw, as low as .. . . .
.*?."?i‘.’°.. $105.00 ti??? $77.00
‘ ‘m’ $105.00
ighest. quality musk-
$139.00
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If the coat you like is here, but not in your size, we will order same at
JANUARY FIIR SALE PRIBE.
Repairing Relimhg Remodelling Phone I177
soclated, a holding company, and that they were able to BXETCISg any amount of bargaining ability 1n making the management, servicing. engineering and other similar con- tracts. A form contract for engin- eering services used for all of the operating companies in the Associ- ated System called for the payment of a. 7% per cent fee to the engin- eering company which ls also a sub- sidlary of the Associated system." “This engineering company was formed as a. partnership ln' 1926
partners. They-put up $125,000 as capital and ln six years took in $6.- 428000 from companies in the As- sociated System for performing eu- glneerlug and accounting services. The total profits were $1,818,000"
The operating companies paid 2% per cent of its revenues for the management under a form contract. "The 2V.» per cent arrangement al- ways held whether the operating company was in New York State, the Philippine Islands or the Marl- time Provinces of Canada."
One example was given where the
Ollcrflling company paid out $1,411.- OUO from 1930 to 1934 ‘which was charged to operating expenses or about $290,000 a year. "Gilt edged management" could have been pro- vided for the company at the rate of $100,000 u year. v Mr. Ross and Judge Mack joined in declaring that the practice of “syphoning out" the profits from the operating company -- through wholly owned management and ser- vice companies, was as unfair to the investor as to the consumer,
Space forbids me contributing further extracts from the evidence submitted but surely this is suffici- ent to show that we must get away from New York control if at all possible. The local Public Utilities Commission must approve of all rate structures and it does seem to me that it is up to the Commission to take action and show that thl present rates are fair, just and reasonable, and that they cannot be reduced. It is also necessary that there should be full publicity in re- gard to any action taken. The City Council can also help materially therefore this electric light contro- versy is a proper subject for con- sideration and discussion prior to a Clvlc Election. 1t ls essential that the Council should be composed of men who are opposed to foreign control and who will fight for re- duced rates. We have two outstand- ing men 1n the field, who have proved their sincerity, namely, Mr. B. R. Holman for Mayor and M1‘. R. B. Rattray as Councillor 1n Ward 4. The cltmens should make no mistake in returning both these men and although the electric light fight may be long and arduous, there can be no question as to its final outcome. Th; Public Utility Board cannot resist an active and energetic Council and continue to hold office.
- I am, Sir, etc, JOHN I‘. WBEAB
comunsonv Assnnanca
Sin-let mo kc l. brief refer- ence m Mr. Baker's retirement from the controversy 1 wish mm to know um 1 give him credit for two
things: "alnc ty and consistency. Any refereu I made to the ln- llncerlty of tnln prohlhltlontsta was not aim at him. Throughout the controv y he was consistent in
refusing to t that than could be mother yids to the question, 5nd, that his opponents could be honest- to-Icodnesl advocate: of, tompe
moo. 8e withdrawn from the de- bate wmrt dupmirlni lnllnuatlon fn that effect on hi! 11p. He retire! from the verbal battlefield cherish- lng the vclnglorlotm. hallucination
of hi! hereto altruism. For hll sake
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it, is to be hoped that the readers of his letters will not accept in too literal a sense the saying: “le style (fest Phomme."
I must also comment on the fig- ures he gives in that nonparell sen- tence which constitutes the bulk of the second paragraph in his letter of the 4th inst. to the Patriot. Those figures showing an increase in the consumption of liquor after the introduction of Government Control do not belie my statement that prohibition does not prohibit They show only the increase over what posed through the legal liquor stores, ostensibly for medicinal pur- poses. But what about the untold and unrecorded quantities handled by bootleggers? Neither the Canad- ian Year Book, nor any other book will give you an authoritative es- timate of the contraband booze. The liquor sold by the Vendor in Charlottetown stands in sickly per- spectlve to the general consumption. Surely prohibltlonists are not gull- ible enough to believe that our five hundred bootleggers in Charlotte- town are making their living by peddling gliiger-ale._- The number of secret stills l: a secret still.
1n lieu of official figures showing the quantity of bootlegged liquor consumed under prohibition 1n the United States, or anywhere else, we must accept the opinion of states- men, judges, wrlters. educatlonists and others, who are in a position to give us reliable information as to whether prohibition operates for the common good, or not. We take the United States, because the American experiment with prohibi- tion is the greatest ever mode.
The opinions of Mr. Hoover, Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler and Charles A. Boston have already been given. Mr. Francis G. Peabody, writing 1n the Atlantic Monthly for August 1931, says: "Why is it, then, that the prohibition of liquor traffic in the United States has met with such serious and increasing opposition? It is because so many people want to drink, and their desire ls so im- perative that no legal restriction, however drastic, can successfully prohibit it. 'I'he weakness in the pronlbltory scheme ls in anticipat- fng that the repression of a traffic will accomplish the suppression of a thirst. It mistakes the means for the end, prohibition for temperance, and a problem of morals for a prob- lem of law. Legality supplanted morality, and restriction of a truffle undertook the conversion of a. habit. The curious result has ensued tha"t\ a nation-wide campaign for a great moral reform has omitted the con- sideration of the real source of evil." Yea, prohlbltlonlsts not only have the cart before the horse, but are making uy attempts w con- vlnce intelligent people that it is 1n its proper place and that it will pull the horse. Mr. Justice Deny of the Supreme Court of Maine, once ll- hmtnted the function of prohfbltory 11w by comparing 1t with a marl- tlme practice. "When a schooner la beating ub the coast," he says. "and meets an opposing slant. of wind, tho captain summons his crew aft to mm the malnshoet. All hands, with one exception, tall on the rope d pull: but one man 1a set, not o pull, but to make fut the slack of the shoot as ft f; hauled tn. That la the place of law 1n modern society. it does not lup- plnnt popular sentiment, or trfm the sails of social progreu. It con- firms that which public opinion I
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sanctions. It makes fast the pull."
Lord Dawson of Penn, the per- sonal physlclan of King George of England, speaking before a Mon- treal audience, makes _the following apposite remarks on prohibition: "The abandonment of prohibition has resulted from the realization that legislative restraints, which ex- ceed the sanctions of public opinion are unsuccessful, are regarded as tyrannical and thereby create. re- notions contrary tothe public weal. England ls a striking example of u country which ls becoming notably and progressively temperate, and this through the education and en- lightenment of the people as much us, if not more than, through ud- mlnlstratlve control. Drunkenness is seldom seen; it ls condemned in all classes; and the offender soon knows it-."
Another distinguished English- man, G. K. Chesterton, left a record of his views on prohibitions He says: "The first thing to be said about it. is, that 1t does not exist. It is to some extent enforced among the poor. It, is certainly not en-
‘forced among the rich; and I doubt whether lt was intended to be. Pro- htbltton never prohibits. It never has in history; and it never will." The Toronto Daily Star for Dec. 20, 1035, reports a meeting, in New York, of twenty-nine leaders of the
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3P<>Bkln8 M the New York State Convention in 1033, Elihu Root said that "the development of higher standards of conduct must come not from without, but from within. lf we have learned these lessons. all the humllintioirs and the injuries that have come since the Eighteenth Amendment took effect will be but slight payment for a great and eter- nal benefit." Just recently, ln the United States, u Council for Moder- ation, has been organized. Mr. Ev- erett Colby is president of the group and it is backed by Mr. John D. Rockfeller, ,Jr., and Mr. Edsel B. Ford. Political action will be avoid- ed as Mr. Colby holds that ‘mill-i to enforce abstinence by law ‘al- ways have and always will defeat their own ends." .
If the volumes of evidence spoken of by Mr. Baker. showing the cor- rect relation of either prohibition m‘ the consumption of beverage. rlvclwl to crime. are overwhelmingly in favor of prohibition, then the mul I have quoted are amazingly un- aware of what legislative measurrs are lbest suited to insure the publlf wen.
I am, Sir, etc.. CITIZEN
When to BrafTTI-mi
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Protestant Episcopal Churches. In that meeting. the delegates referred to "the flasco_of__ prohibition."
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