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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-23
$SOO,OOO,OOO GOAL
OF CANADIAN LOAN
Campaign Will Be Carried on
Along Lines of Past Sue
cessful Issues.

MONTREAL, Sept. 22.-Three hundred
by the Canadian Government for its
forthcoming Sixth Victory Loan The
bonds are to be in denominations of $50,
500. $500 and $1,000 at par of five and
fifteen year maturities bearing an in
terest rate of 5 u per cent. All bonds
will be taxable. The appointment of
Percy P Cowans to the Craftsmanship
of the Victory Loan organization for
the island of Montreal makes 1t apparent
the campaign will be carried out along
the same lines as previous ones, with
every unit of the loan organization in
use.
For time II was felt in professional
circles that the loan would have to be
sold on straight business basis. in
the same manner that provincial and
large municipal issues are placed
through banks and bond houses. All
doubt as to the details Of selling the
bonds has been cleared up with the
Governments decision that the financing
of Canada's war and after war expendi-
lures Is still public duty, not merely
a matter of selling bonds to regular bond
buyers. Last year during the fifth loan
Canadian people over a million strong
subscribed $500, 100000 when only $780,
100000 was asked. This fact is pointed
out as making the success of the present
loan absolutely certain.
Although the Government Is asking
S300,000,000 for the coming loan, the
selling forces of the loan organizations
Will have to set their objective at a
much higher notch. The Government
will probably need $500 900, 900 to facili-
tate the European credit that has SO far
kept Canadian industries running and
to pay its account with the United
States to reduce the high premium on
New York funds, which is proving such
an expensive luxury.
Since November. 1915, the Dominion
Government has asked the Canadian
people for Sf50,000,000 in five separate
loans, and has taken $1,348, 900, 900 of
1850, 100000 offered by the public,
This means that the Government has
Returned to the people $500, 0O0, 900 or
actually more than what 1t is asking
for the present loan. This amount
should all be available when the time
comes.
The first three loans were handled en-
tirely by banks on a small commission
basis. During the last two loans the
sales were in the hands of a committee
which regulated the prices-afid prevented
corners. The committee maintained SUI
pervision over the bonds of the fourth
loan, which was for $500, 00O, 900. for a
long time, in order to maintain a steady
price. On the fifth loan, however, which
ran up to $500, 000. 900. committee action
was only necessary for about two
months, when the bonds maintained n
steady rise and supervision was no
longer needed.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-23
STEFANSSON AID
QUITS ARCTIC TRAIL
Back in Civilization After
Eleven Years.

BANFF. Alta, Sept. 22.-After eleven
years spent in the snow and ice of
the Attic Storker Il. Storkersen has re-
turned to civilization and has Joined his
chief, Vilhjalmur Stefansson, commander
OF the Canadian National Arctic Expe.
dition, of which Storkersen was second
in command. at Banff Springs.
The explorers have pitched camp at
the junction OF the Bow and Spray Riv-
ers, at the foot of Mount Rumble, and
there are working. still under the blue
sky on their final report to the Cana
dian Government on the SIX years work
OF their explorative party.
One OF the first things Storkersen did
on his return to the world of newspapers
and automobiles was to prepare applica-
ton for Canadian citizenship. A Nor
wegian by birth. he has been in the
service of the Canadian Government in
the Far North for almost eleven years,
and he claims in his request. which will
be filed with the Supreme Court at Cal
gary. that length of residence under the
Canadian flag.
Upon completion of his report to his
commander Storkersen will return to
Norway to see his parents after nineteen
years absence.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-23
CANADA TO ELIMINATE REDS.
Import More English to End Mem
ace, Says Mcdonnell.

EDMONTON, Alta, Sept. 22.-"Kill out
Bolshevism by bringing more good Eng
lish blood into Canada"-that is the slo-
San of Col. G. l.. Mcdonnell. who is
back at his home in Edmonton after five
years service on three fronts in France,
Belgium and Siberia.
Col. Mcdonnell is at the head OF a
colonization scheme. He has selected
lands along the Grand Trunk Pacific
Railway in the Cariboo district of CEN
trail British Columbia, where there are
both agricultural and mining opportuni-
ties He proposes TO settle only people
straight from the British Isles in his
colony, and they are to be hand picked.
He wants only settlers who he believes
will! make a success in north country
farming and mining and he is going to
England to- select them himself. He has
laid his plans for selected immigration
before the PTemiers of British Columbia
and Alberta and they have approved
them.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-23


ships gained about points on common
and Spanish River like amount on pre-
ferred. Dominion Steel was active, but
weaker at the end of the week, butcher
steel stocks had little activity.
Cobalt mines are now rapidly recover
ing from the strike and are well back
to normal production. For several days
the mining market had evidence of
strength, particularly in the standard
stocks, but there was weakness later on.
Mcintyre had a run for two or three
days rising to s2.10 but selling off sew
eral cents before Saturday. Hollinger
is back nearly to 81, and Nipissing con-
tinues in good demand. News of an oil
find by Nipissing on its Texas oil lands
is awaited with much interest by the di-
rectors here. A few days ago the Dor
ing encountered oil sands, but unfortu-
nately there was no oil at that point
The following table shows the fluctua-
tions and sales on the Toronto Stock Elk
change during the week:
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-23
CANADA TRIES PEAT
TO Exc OUT FUEL
Briquettes Can Be Sold at
$3.50 a Ton and the Boys
Are Extensive.
Special Corresp ondence to the Cdnddidn
Section of THE SUN.

Special Corresp ondence to the Canadian
Section Of THE SUN.
TORONTO, Sept. 22.-F'uel problems are
so recurrent in Canada, especially in the
central provinces where there are nc
coal deposits, that some interest was at
tracted last week by news of the ex-
pertinent in the manufacture of peat in
one of the counties of the ottawa Val
ley. This experiment has been carried
on under the direction OF the Ontario
Government, in the hope that some of
the great peat boys in certain sections
of the country might be made CONNER
cially available.
Although there are large coal deposits
in Nova Scotia and in the provinces west
OF the Great Lakes, so great Is the need
for this fuel in the central sections that
Canada annually imports about 100000
600 tons of coal from the United States,
divided about equally between anthracite
and bituminous. 1t is possible that fur
Their power development, such as now
carried on on large scale by the
Hydroelectric Power Commission, will
reduce the need for bituminous, but
there is no prospect yet of a real sub
stitute for anthracite
Furthermore. the diminishing wood
lots on the farms of old Ontario make
an increasing demand for anthracite,
where formerly wood fuel sufficed. A
visit to the peat bog at Alfred, Ont,
showed that after years of experiment
ing and the spending of millions of dol
lars method has at last been found
to take the peat from the boys and put
it into briquettes suitable for fuel. Two
things, however. remain to be done by
the provincial peat committee before
this fuel can be placed on the market to
advantage. In the first place, lower
freight rates must be secured from the
railways, especially for short hauls. Sec
ondly, system of retailing it to the
consumer, possibly through existing coal
dealers, must be established.
The Minister of Lands, Forests and
Mines. the Hon. G. Howard Ferguson,
stated that peat could be supplied from
that bog or any other bog at $3.50 a
ton (. o. b. point of manufacture. The
revelation. qualified as 1t is, is interest
ing as field for possibly experimenting
the supply of coal. Members of the peat
committee do not claim that peat at best
can replace coal. Rather is IL the pur-
pose to use IL as an auxiliary or sec
ondary fuel to coal AS such, 1t is be-
lieved that 1t can replace one-ffth Of
the anthracite coal being used in On
tario at the present time. The process
Of preparing the briquettes requires lift
ing the raw material from the bog
grinding it very fine and leaving ( out
for six weeks to be air dried. The out
put OF the local bog at Alfred this year
will be about $500 tons.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-23
BOARD POUNDING
ON HIGH PRICES
"They Must Come Down" Is
Slogan, and Profiteers
Are Warned.

TORONTO, Sept. 22.-It would almost
seem as If the consumers turn is COM
ing. We have had a weeks hearings in
Ontario by w. +. O'Conhor. vice chair
man of the new Board of Commerce,
and though 1t may be too soon to APP
praise the final effects of his work, that
man OConnor," as he continues to be
dubbed in the newspaper headlines. has
made himself felt and has attracted q
good deal of notice.
This is no time for an increase in
prices. Prices should come down from
now on" he declared at a hearing at
Hamilton, and thereby at least crystal
lized public sentiment He has not been
slow to apply his beliefs practically, as
Is seen in his treatment of the Toronto
Milk and Cream Producers Association.
This body met a week ago and
solemnly decided that, as the cost of
cattle feed was going up. therefore the
cost Of their product should likewise be
increased. A few days later Mr.. O'Con-
nor came out with an order prohibiting
any increase in the price of milk or
cream, and declared that any contro-
vension of this prohibition shall be
deemed to be made for an unreasonable
and unjust price. At Hamilton he said
the punishment for wrongful increase Of
price would be fine of $1,000 and two
years Imprisonment.
other days Mr.. O'Connor has de-
voted to examining witnesses from big
packing houses and going into the ques-
ton of bacon prices. A curious reve
lation was made and which really con-
firms the view held by not few people.
This was that while the price of bacon
at the retail stores of a big packing
house. the William Davies Company,
was so cents, some scouts he sent about
the city to buy bacon had to pay so
cents for 1t In one of the smaller retail
stores The violent differences in price
of the same article at different stores
shows there is something wrong in the
retail business from the consumers
standpoint.
Another unsolved problem is the
utility of farmers markets. Here in
Toronto there is one large central mar
ket, but customers find in far too many
cases that the price OF produce is the
same there as at uptown retail stores.
In other words, the farmers are prof.
teers because they have no overhead
charges, delivery or other expenses. such
as storekeepers must meet.
Furthermore, there are wayside mar
kets adjacent to Toronto where the re-
duction on city retail prices Is not as
much as it should be. The whole situa-
ton is spoiled by hurrying reckless
motor customers, who do not mind what
they spend. but who are constantly
spelling the situation for people of les
ser means.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-23
Greater Production
Is Urged in Canada

A LII over the United States the
II gospel of greater production
4 \ is being preached and the
people urged TO grasp the great op-
portunity now Afforded to them of
capturing foreign markets and the
carrying trade of the world, which in
turn will result in making their coun-
try the financial centre and the
worlds banker.
What will be Canada's future II,
with all other nations straining every
effort to produce more and sell more,
our people do not follow the same
course and prosecute with the utmost
vigor the work of developing the
natural resources of their country
and producing in larger quantities
those things which our own people
and the world at large needs? There
Is only one answer: Not only shall
we be unable to carry our Burden of
war debt and prosper, but we shall
lose steadily in the race with other
nations and our future be dark in
deed.-Editorial in Regina (Sask.)
Leader.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-23
CANADIAN FINANCIAL NOTES

e. L. Beck. who has assumed his dutias
as assistant manager of the Canadian RAM
OF Commerce at Montreal, was account ant
In that city from 1911 to 1913 Preyions 20
coming to Montreal he was on the stan ~
the bank at Windsor. Ont. In 1919 he was
appointed accountant at Toronto remsininS
there until 1916. when he was appointed as
sistant manager at Calgary. He renamed
az the latter city until a few weeks ago when
he received his appointment TO the Montreal
branch. eai
The Dominion Linens. Limited, fax under-
taking of Guelph. Ont, gives promise ~
developing into an important industry rha
Linens Company organized the Flax Spinners
Limited, some time ago with an authorized
capital OF $4,000 and bonds OF $4,000.
Vancouver is the loser in arrangements for
the opening OF two new lines of freight
carriers from America TO Europe TO be under,
taken by tho English firm of Tllett q Co
Seattle has been chosen as the port because
Vancouver has not facilities TO handle Inc
business.
Ross Crawford Of the firm of Redpath A.
Co enjoys the distinction OF being The first
Montreal broker TO visit a branch office by
airplane, says the Financial Times OF Mont,
real. Mr.. Crawford left Montreal from
Dominion Park the other afternoon about
Z 80. arrived in Ottawa shortly before I
o'clock and was in the Ottawa branch Office
at 6lb.
The directors of the National Breweries
Montreal, have Just decided TO spend more
than $500 900 on new plant. This shows
what they think Of the outlook for their
business In Quebec Provines.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-23
VICTORY BONDS.
SECURITIES.

TOTAL SALES.
Listed shares, % 6S4
Unlisted, 26,642
War bonds. 81, PSI, 400.
UNLISTED SECURITIES.
A. ]. Pattison, .r., & Co, members To-
ronto Stock Exchange l0s Bay street fur.
nished the following approximate quota.
lions: Bid Ask
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-23
BUILDING PERMITS INCREASE.
Great Activity Reported in West
ern Provinces of Canada.

WINNIPEG, Man, Sept. 22.-The value
OF the building permits in the cities of
western Canada during the last month
forecasts considerable activity in the
trade as compared with the last four
years. In Calgary the total was more
than six times as great as during August
OF last year. In Regina, Moose Jaw,
Saskatoon, Brandon and other cities in
creased activity has been shown to a
varying extent.
During the first seven months of this
year more than a million dollars worth
of permits were taken out In Winninee
and the figure would undoubtedly have
been much larger had it not been for the
fact that business in this city was at a
standstill for time by reason of labor
troubles.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-23
Bra.iIian shows weakness.

Ames-Holden common gained no less
than IT points and is now around 10,
which for Canadian non-dividend
stock may be considered a high price.
There was a lot of trading in Brazilian,
and the stock showed weakness at the
end of the week. This was attributed to
selling by English holders. who were
taking advantage of the exchange sit
uation. Canada Bread common rose
about points, the explanation being a
generally accepted report that control of
the company may soon change. This
company has large business in Toronto.
Montreal and Winnipeg.
There is a big block of stock from an
estate overhanging the market, and Il is
possible that this will be sold TO interests
already large holders and give them con-
troll of the company. Canada steam.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-23
old Guard to Visit Ottawa.

OTTAWA. Canada, Sept. 22.-Ottawa ia
to be honored on Oct. s and Q by a visit
from the Ancient and Honorable Artil-
lery Company of Boston. Mass, an or
ganization with outstanding traditions
from the standpoint of British military
associations. The contingent will num-
Der about 400. An official civic welcome
will be extended by Mayor Fisher and
the visitors win be the guests of the
Forty-third Regiment Duke OF Corn
wallis Own Rifies.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-09
Retail Food Price Pledges.

In an effort to check the tendency
toward excessive food prices the Dis.
triet food administrator has under.
taken to obtain signed pledges from
the retail dealers in the District that
they will observe the margin of profits
considered fair by the food admins.
tration. It is believed that those mer.
chants who give pledges can be trust.
ed to stick to the schedule of rates
leaving only those who refuse to be
kept under observation.
In q measure this plan is in line
with the suggestion made the other day
by The Star that the retail dealers
should cooperate with the food admin.
istrator to prevent price gouging. II
the wholesale prices are kept moder.
ate the maintenance Of scale of profit
by the retailers will insure the con.
suners reasonable rates for necessi.
ties. If, ON the other hand, the whole.
sale prices are excessive the mainte-
nance Of fixed scale of retail profits
will not materially benefit the con-
sumner, who will naturally hold the re-
taller responsible, as he is the only
factor known.
It is to be hoped that all the food
dealers in the city will give this pledge
and will faithfully observe it. They
will then be under obligation. in a
sense to keep the food administrator
informed as to the course of whole
sale prices, and if this is done an eff.
fective check can be kept upon the
scale Of rates for the necessities OF
life.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-09
Another Overturn in Berlin.

Latest reports from Berlin tell of
the overthrow of the Ebert govern
ment by the Spartaeans, or Liebknecht
faction. who have set up new revo-
lutionary government, composed of in
dependent socialists, headed, accord
ing to one report, by Ledebour, with
Liebkneeht himself not included.
Sanguinary fighting marked the sue
eessful assault of the Spartacans upon
the Ebert administration.
Whether this government now set
up in Berlin can maintain itself re-
mains TO be seen. Rumors are afoat
that Hindenburg had reached Berlin
or was on his way there, signifying
that he might undertake to restore
order, possibly by means of reaction
airy movement.
1t is stated in one dispatch that
outside of the capital the bolshevist
movement is weak, the bulk of the peo-
pie disappearing of it. Berlin has been
the scene of most of-the disorders
prevalent in Germany since the sign
ing of the armistiee. Yet another re-
port states that anarchistic conditions
are developing rapidly in the Rhenish
states.
A passage in the dispatch telling of
the overthrow of the government
states that none of the leaders APP
peared to have any control over the
masses in the streets of the capital.
Thus the situation becomes more
than ever complex. Evidently the peo-
pie of Berlin are out of hand. and if
Hindenburg or Ludendorff, who is re-
ported to be on his way back from
his retirement in Sweden, can COM
mand any military following the next
move may be a reaction precipitating
civil war.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-09
washington's 1918 w. s. S. Record

Washington's showing in the matter
Of war savings stamps during the year
1918 was better than that of the coun-
try at large, according to the report
fled with the governor of the Federal
Reserve Board at Richmond by Mr..
D. J. Callahan, local director of this
work, during the past year, who has
been compelled by reasons Of business
to retire from the arduous task.
The national quota for 1913 was
$4,000, 100000, and the Districts quota
ON that basis was $685., $40, maturity
value. The national sales actually
amounted to only a little over one bill
lion, while the local sales totaled &c.
9S5, 069. Had the local quota as origi-
nally fled been gained the District
would have bought $40 per capita of
the stamps. The local purchases were
actually 1882 per capita. Inasmuch
as the national quota was but little
over half bought, the local per capita
purchases were nearly twice as great
as the national.
Had it not been for the influenza
epidemic in October and the signing
Of the armistice in November Wash
ington would probably have fully met
its quota and passed beyond. Those
LtEe Alsmants, net to mentian thu in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-09
Teachers Pay.

4 proposed new scale of teachers
salaries has been laid before the Sen
ate subcommittee on District appro-
priations for consideration with the
appropriation bill. 1t provides for a
material increase in compensation,
averaging so per cent more than the
increases proposed by the board OF
education in its estimates submitted
to the Commissioners and by them to
Congress.
Comparison between the pay of Dis
trict teachers and the compensations
of persons in other lines of work pro-
duees some startling contrasts. Arti-
sans are getting twice and in some
cases three times as much money in n
year as the men and women who have
prepared themselves by years of study
and training for the responsible work
of teaching the youth of the District.
College graduates are in some eases
getting only $1,000 a year, less than
is paid the operators on the street
cars.
The District school teachers deserve
the utmost consideration at this par
tieular time. They have stood by the
system in q season of the greatest
stress They held to their posts de-
spite the strongest temptations to go
into better paid work during the war
emergency. Their compensation was
virtually stationary, while the cost of
living rose tremendously Their slight
longevity pay increases did not begin
to meet the additions to their ex-
penses.
The simplest justice now demands that
the teachers pay scale be materially
increased. and the hope of the District
is that the bill as it comes from the
Senate committee will show marked
change in this respect, and that the
schedule thus adopted will be main
tanned through the conference process
so that provision will be made for the
fiscal year 1919 1920 for rate of com
pensatiun for this essential and diff
cult work of which the District will
have no reason to be ashamed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-09
Progress.


Somewhere in the distance
There's a warm and shiny day
So move, old world, move along!
Keep lookin' with persistence
For the April an the May,
When the birds are singin'
song.
You must travel through the snowdrift,
you must travel through the
frost;
You must travel through the darkness
when the storm clouds sweep
acrost,
But the stars they come a-shinin' an
you know you aren't lost,
So move, old world, move along!
Somewhere over yonder is a sky SO
blue an fair,
Is a sky so blue an fair.
So move, old world, move along!
The sweetest perfumes wander
,Mongst the flowers everywhere,
And nothing at all goes wrong.
You've got to pass the icicles that hang
along the road;
The sorrow you must carry often seems
heavy load.
But you're swingin' to the place where
Summertime makes her abode
Sc move, old Uorld. move along!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-09

apparent, win develop into far big.
ger thing than was at first contem.
plated, and maybe into the biggest
thing OF the kind in recorded history
The whole world will be at attention
and more or less involved. A variety
of interests of enormous proportions
will have to be considered, and diff.
ferences adjusted.
Those intrusted with the task have
a heavy burden to bear; and among
them are men accustomed to bearing
heavy burdens. But even men of that
stamp can be aided by suggestions
from those of less, or no, renown; and
now is the time for such suggestions
to be offered.