The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-25

nouneed moreover. that the Govern inent Bill will make 1t illegal for any proprietor, publisher, or editor of any new spaper or periodical to charge any form of entrance fee, including the purchase ana return of coupons, for prize competitions in his paper.
 The proposed law is tiresome, but inevitable. Exceptions are impossible. One competition Tn June makes 100 in July 500 in August. tor the simple req son that no newspaper in thIs country can afford to see another. suddenly trebling In circulation, advertising the fact widely. capturing advertise ment revenue. and generally proceed ing to dust the floor" with its rivals IL is . fact beyond dispute that several newspapers or the highest standing were seriously injured in 1907 by re- fusing to follow their rivals into the gambling business, either bl starting competitions themselves or by insert ing advertisements about competitions
 An important and non-party deputa- tion waited on the premier the other afternoon at the House of Commons 70 urge that steps should be taken 10 alter the present condition of boy ana girl labor, and to discuss its enect on the question of unemployment. MT. Asquith was accompanied by Herbert Gladstone. Home Secretary, Mr. Runci- man. President of the Board of Educa- tion, Sydney Buxton, Postmaster -Gen- eral, and Herbert samuel. Under-Secre- tary for the Home office. The deputa- tion was introduced by the Bishop of South wark, and included, among others the Bishop of Hereford, president Of the National League of Workers with boys, Lord Henry, Bentinck, Sir Lel- vile Beachcroft. Sir c. Ktnloch Cooke. Sir John Cockburn, chairman L. c. c. representative managers, J. Ramsay Macdonald. NJ. F., and labor party. '
 Question ef Unemployment.
 - The Bishop of Southwark said their reason for asking the Premier to re- ceive them was that the government had before them the question of unem- ployment. and this matter of boy and girl labor was closely associated with 1t They would ask the Government to prohibit, or at any rate to limit. cer- tain forms of child labor which meant in later life very often that young men went into the ranks of the un skilled unemployed. Education they con tended should be prolonged, the school age extended, and that from the age of about 14 to F school discipline should be enforced by youths being compelled. If need be, to go to institu- tions where they could receive indus trial, and mental training. The motto should be, Earn and learn. Such things would not solve the whole ques- tfon of unemployment, but would con- tribute to its solution.
 The Premier, in reply, said there was one thing about which all who had studied the subject were agreed, and that was that one of the main streams which contributed to the volume of unemployment, and which from the na- tional point of view was the most ser ious, was the discontinuity, If he might use the expression. between the school age when the state looked after the boy with minute and parental care, to the age when he had to undertake the serious duties of life. That was an unabridged gap in the social system which contributed more largely than any other particular or specific cause to the chronic gravity of the problem of unemployment. Speaking on behalf of the whole of the Government( he could say, now that they were fortif- ed with practical recommendations they might hope before long to give legislative sanction to many of the suggestions that had been made.
 Bread in most London shops has been advanced in price by one half penny per quarter loaf. making the price Cd per Alb. loaf. This decision has been come by the London Master Bakers Protection Association, to which the majority of bakers of London belong. About fourteen of the largest bakers in London are members of an informal committee, whioh Is not part of the Protection Association. and they will not meet until next week. whom their prices will probably be raised in con- sonance with those of the other trades
 MT. W. Weave Hill, one of the largest members of the bakery trade, said: The immediate cause of the rise In price is the comparative failure of the wheat crop In Argentina. Last year this yielded 17,00o,0 900 quarters It was expected to fall this year to 15,000. 900, but 1t has fallen to 11,000. 900. Flour has consequently risen as much as 3s. Cd per sack in the past month, and 1t seems almost bound to go higher still before the new wheat crops can come to hand; so that bread will in all pro- bility follow suit and go higher still"