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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1930-02-20, Page 44.40444 e.' '141,01?1'eeip • \% • • ts Staiest, t;rings ity res give cOrefort and happiness to. ' lOved,ones. Saving Department the Bank of Montreal ers youi4 friendly services to help you „attain your am- bition for those_who are'dear to yoti. StIIiei8i7 -otal e.es—ets in excess of $960,000,000 Lucknow Branch MacPherson, Manager • ;Rai** MEETING • ;. ;eating,' dealing With . weeds, ed.•ssiMI.,fertiliisers, will be held in the arish Hall, --Dungannon, the after- �f A , • 6th, at 2.00 P.M. &weed trtinacn is one of the most Weis.. facing the fernier a . The Weed .Actnow in effect in the ProSince..Wat Made necessary ilitetethe, ineiensing number .of weeds and the Widespread lciss they Were canting; Threogh, these. meetings we •' hOPe t� inake-everYone familiar' With h lieiree• d • • • c, o .the act an to point out the necessity Of united action on the part of every farmer. This goes. • hand in hand ..with better geed grain :and • modern. seed cieining practices; The.subject of toMnfercial ..fertilizers 'conceiveahneet everyfatznert • : but there silo-, inanfPointasin selection of fertilizers which are not well under- •' steed, 'Me* high analysis, high • pric- ed not return anY greater ptilit than one of the lower price. We must. know vihat'a fertiliz • er centalito; What each crop needs, the nature of the fertilizer requirements' for different aoiI types. These with , .other ;fedora. itie essential before .we eaU be sure that the right kind. of fertilizer is• being sown. , Three subjects weeds, Seed and fess. Ulises* Will be diaaussed in detail and ‘. will be under 'the direction Of the • Ohtatio Dept. of Agriculture, Clinton ' REA* by Mr., -C. E. Toole of New - Minket. keep this meeting in mind and plan to attend. o-0— THEY THREW RED. PEPPER , Four boys from the village Of Nile who have, or had, rather warped idetts cif fun,. were before Magistrate Reid at DoAd-Hen Wit *eel, Wilt gut filf prettyetity'Irt view of their siessolce: They attended a dance it the vil- lage and planned to have some fun . by throwing red pepper .-tYf7 which they had a supply)onthe stove. EV• - •-identlY they WAS rtmert'rint to do this, but not Waking to %vette the red 'Portosr they threw. Some- of it in. 'the Nies Of ghetto as they were starting :f6t, bottle. . The megistrate peinted out the serious nature of their °Nate arid giving • them a trerttinijet them go on suspended sentence on payfng enets sa the -y.4141 have much ftzIi Attar 011i. ' • *s. • • THE OLD -HOME PAPER ;• , • (By EDGAR A. GUEST). I's It's like a smiling, friendly face • It's like a voice you long . have - known; - You see it in some distant place And pith .to claim it for your own. :The paper from your old home toWn Has bridged the long and dreary And with it you can settle down Among familiar' tears asd It speaks from every friend you know It tells .of scenes you yearn to ,see; • It brings back jOys of long agb •—You fancy You're at home once more And 'golden seem the letters black. And , aa you. run its columns. o'er Your yesteryears ,ceine . trooping /seek • Its, Speech is one you Understand; • It tells of griefs tbatilyou can Share brings you, hi that foreign land, Glad messages to banish care. „ There, . among scepes . and :fecal; ' strange , • ' The old -home paper, seems to me •A faithful friend that doesn't change A friend that you s.re glad to see. I know nnt just, what Heaven is like, Nor :just what joys beyond ; life'se tide . • • Await for men when death shelt strike And I shall reach the other side.. Ent this 1 know, when f ani gone To dwell in. realms divinely fair; My. soul yeArn to look. upon The old-hoine paner.. over there.. o MAKES THE THE LANTERN SAFE' 41, POP1.1,I4R. TOM BR : • ; ;op STRATFORD - .. . PriRig AO. qa0,114'4..Aid # • ' (By c,....s..,01,,ipliffe, In The Mair and . • . .. Empire) ., • When tinnorr,Ow cquiest , Alderman'. Tom Breive 'Will be- exsaiderman, ots ficiallY expelled •froni the city ,eouncil: of 1,v.i.licl. he was once 'mayoil, as"., a .'eankrupt and a, fugitive froifT.Sstice.' Bet he remains one • of thestriest pops pier .men itOtrattord. ' . • •• • ''' • • The 'Special meeting of . %he Conseil. railed . for Monday .night • t� declare his seat vacant .is inapireit'spaitily by legal necessity and the 'ohyiens leaps preporateness :of . haring OM .theSiod.11 ter of the ‘eouncit a.!men, who stole'' yinore-than.' •$200,000„fion1. his clients' and spent it ;in high living or slost it sop the'eto*,rnanket trYihi •-its...he • a sztillietra.ire, • ' .• •••s : . . "i3iit'it'outci'haidly.-be said that the :meeting ',i,g, beers Of..a Wave, •pi.Publie.. eentirnent, of vindietive bitterness; ..Or Of alesite to •Ininitlate• :ordisgrace further a .man-whe .has..huninatedaud disgraced himeelf as thoroughly . as, could be,,dene. With the, natural ex- ception Of thsitee.Whorke he, :robbed and. left destitute, 'Browns it "peer Tom” , to ..the Majority Of 'people in Stratford: .Froirisalmest, eirery:asPect, the case Of 'Toni ,Brown is antazing. and •ette.xs' .0'i:cable. Yet.irmii• every side the ,cat- ual visitor to Stratford is besieged !itil 157; '1Anations, cendoning.cireuin- •T : stanci es here is -ilia° :condemnation.. but it is liberally leavetier - with .pity,. • pyinpathy, .citations Of ,circumstances .-Whiehl'inuet have .driven• him" to, Mie. Of the ;most ruthless -and; ,gigantie frauds ever. perpetuated on e treating' cilminunity. • . • • ' ....1,n.'..ffrown's case, .,the community was not. only trusting; but hdrairing 7 is welt Everybed.y 'liked Tom Brown, '.respected him; trtiateci-litins:eVeri &tr. ing the' past four or five yearetswheri they Were pained and stir -prised to tee • him plunge into a mode . of - fife.. , in which reckless eireittar playett.'a large. • To. scores, . he, was the enly- lOgssal ._ .persen. to • beentrusted ' with eosin* prohlems,' with inireatinenie, with ;Val- uebles and .,secerities. for safe keeps ing.. Many • of hie ' clients .were . aged ,peofte., ;sextons . in 'straitened circuits. ttanses 'doing Menial tasks, to 'make a living; peOpleAePending on a. mea- gre ineente. from bends for a' baretiv:. •.ing, people Who relied onsifis father* before 'him:-•..: ' ••• .• , These were the ones who suffered at the hand i of Teets BroWn..-Thete were the !met he left, in many oases, without 'means of subsistence,. bewild- ered. by the spdden, bloWs and cluMb-. 'founded, ',.as''tto hew or why . the man :• had .done this to there. .• Nct even his own family was spar- ed, for as far as has been determin- ed, lie started on his slide • to ruin, by . mlatipPrOPriattni, mid losing- the . , smell fortune left to. hiamother bs his father and Over y"shi4 he was irnstingly given power ,of attorney. His mother, sitter ' and a wife ' are left as d'estitute as the rest of the "timid . : . ,* Son . of "Honest., Jahn" ' That a trait 'could be toScold-blood- 'd, so impervious to the 'consequences s of his defaleatiens. it .aniazing enough `Mt is Well nigh inceniprehensible • to those who knew • Tom- Brown. Up un- , till five or. six Years' 'age ,he never simeked or took a drinks41s. was A PilT la.., of. the ChesOli's 2 .'interetor. in 'the local ..Y.m.c..ip.,' a clean -living young, man with an astetindihg gift of per - eons.' therm that. eeptivated all sv no knew him. . And he. was tne son of "Hone4t John" Brown, which accounts more than, 'anys othersingle fact for the trsst repoSeil in him. . If there is any Way: in which the, downfall ' of th.e dynasty., of ',Brow can be explhined it seems • to he that Tom Vtrown • thing himself into ' a mode of; life the exact opposite' At that he had lived for.30' Year.s.° . :'Alid as his life ihanged; so chang- ed Tom Brown. • E.rom an exemUlary eitizen; a straight -thinking, energetie young business man, the idol . of all classes 'of the tomniunitY, be beearne a rounder ;Vittio.s.,es regularly' drunk whose debhutheries•shecam.e more un- Pestrein-ed• and more frequent as time Went on, who giuMbled• reeklessly. in the stock market Without ' prndenee 'set thought ofs_con.-Secolences. with hen- ples.s ..teeney.' pliniging , desperately. with •ittinost Insane optimism, in ...'an• • Of Ort IO recoup and start makinghis fortune, ' . What Centeihnied l�. the eoilanse of hit charatter and manner of liv- in'i -isr cYnfrmetl. -eveii in the 'ffainth. Of • these wbe knew 'him well, Even those AO feet that he mina alwAYS l'Ove had a , latent, germ of crhilillal 1.118.ati' :WY ad'inft that .it Would have been un- helievabt. te have it crop out In the Tom :Beovie v.fict.'..neyer liranit . li'vho ,mer:spent .day*,.at a. titna..itt ots'gies•: With *Omens .. • ,' ' '•, 4 . While, they hardly exPleist the col- h 14inie in its entiriq the mein .tfeetera n . ! , A Western Ontario mer -in menting on the numb r of -,barn' fires .caused .by lantern upsetting or ex- ploding suggests A rameity.whieh sounds practicable.. The base , of the 4anter s stutid vVitkrotton tatting until completely filled, A small lietlow -timr 3eith the .41116* --- the 'wick to lie in, it. The tapterp le then filled with .oli And the sitrpluS fluid drained off. The wick will take. the ,Oil- from the iiattirated„ ea needed and this Method umlnalit•- ediy Tire:etudes any possibility of the oil spilling ',and tInnite can be no .04-epiteri.-Vhe-'met&Td-Would ex- entnil the mere- frequent filling .04 the 'lantern wlth eil,, hut it might fielarerth • THE IMMNOW SENTHIRIA T#0.004T,, 111.,RUA 20. tog.. • • . •Seem to tkaarol)eep hie niAterial traith- 14.ari aveiKererine mania to make tretnendbus gnus, iof money, a deep- rheled OROdonee iz his uWii 'reel% aid the death of hie Leather: p6r4resttining he had any inelinatt9ti • . to run wild; either socially or finen- dilly, 'prier _to this lett e_venti the presence and .supervisien of his father seems to heite restrained him. •• • Father Reck of Stratford John Brown, the father, was one, og the Most dominating personalities in Stratford. He built- up a large fortune dollar by della'', acquiring in the process. the pubounder admire - tion and reseed of his felloW-citizenn "Thieent John'," .they called him, bemiring him „for his cheracter, his honesty. and Inc bUsineitaabilities The- worSt that was ever Seid against him was that be sometimes charged .rather ' Stiff fees. Betl'e itiveaYA ad- hered riiridly , thes lays And the Isreath of suspicion never`tenchedhlM ; Hisssteisinedi , was .' Characterized With an infinite] Variety, NS; exectsted' wills, sold inserstnee, was agent ,. for • telegraph arid express companies, did. ConVeYaneing; arranged loans • auff Mortgages and other firsineistg, was. in real ,estate. 'both as a bicker and ?operator, almost enythitig to turn an- other dollar into the Brawn Cotters. • When anyone In l'the Stratford dia.. triet had business to do of Any kind, they took it to. lobe 'Brown.. Honors. were"' poured oti hiin. was mayor on numerous orosiens and was elected fo_ parliament: for a term, " Beecinies Bawyer • When ',his son Tem grew UPs • est Jahn" .sent him to the University 9f Toronto to learn ;the apparen- • tly with the idea that with a trained lawyer the house of Brown .c90141 ‘gas ther in more bust -nese. So off. to Mils verstty 'went Tom, the pampered idol .of his . famity,..and of the • townfolli, well supplied With ,.spending money and 'confidence. It was while at uni- versity that he met his future wife. For 10 -or 12 years, he was the gen- ial, sinning, sunnYAispOsitioner Brwn thatreVerYbody krises, ever ready to be sociable or help semeone or perform a Service to his town. He added to his reputation as..the model citizen, and his six-foot, .strapping figure was seen everywhere in the centre of corninuUal.or social activi- ties. • His relations With his mother and sister were df the happiest, and one of the memories that remain it* himnow in his attendance With his sister at. hockey games, where both YsOuld laugh_ and joke and Munch peanuts. , He Was an enthun'astie Sport fan; • and Indulged in handball and basket - bail at the M.C.A. He continued his interest in church Mattert, he - 'aiming president of the Knox Church Missionary Society. At ,an early age, he rode triumphantly into eivic• affairs and Was Troyer of $tratford repeat- edly, as, his father • had been before His ability to Win votes continued up to the 'last, despite his long , *ab- sences front, the city. Last -December on the verge g dieaster, he was el- ected alderman at the head of the poll. : • .As chairmen of the hospital beard police commission and 'various other municipal bodies, be was known • as a shrewd anifeflictent administrator. • Starts .Drinking. Speculating It is difficult to learn now when he started' drinking and playing the market, hitt the prevailing opinSon, is that the two started .Almost simul- taneously six or eight years ago. Such habits .did.not• gain Much 'headway while his father was alive, but the death of "his father five yesre • ago seemed to lend him boldness. Origin- ally, those who knew him best, believe his entry* into the market arose from a consuming ambition le make money to he a millionaire, powerful, wealthy Some say it amounted almost ..to a mania,. the money-inaking proclivity of his father magnified TrAny times • ovAer; • Wore •on, the millionaire delusion • was heightened by the cost of living at the increasingly fast, rate he was going, He needed more an more money to pay for It .elaborete, parties in Toronto„ The reeklessness spread to the UP of sacuritiee and cash entrusted to him by clients, to- flotatiritf tious eompanies and phony reel es- tate degas And even to tor,gem. k -ititee r - D• • , a i • .v -ti • The total' of hie abstractions mounted up end me with increasing rephlitduriter the past, three oe Dour yeara. and priftiettlerirfellowiref: the market 'crash last f ver' At - Per •that, he apparently ,deltnied ht. lett $th,iLeady optimiSm that he eventually recoup .and pay back the embezzlements. In feet, even up o the day he left Stratford, he plan - nod to straighten •his -affairs. Ile left or Termite on New Year's ;afternoon oping to raise some money front rivito Oourcoi. . • ,Other indication of hia hopes elude the 'Paid up ineUra/Te policies in his desR amounting 404*(100, and tile Unsigned will fened, aniolfg hie • effects leaving $30,000 to his wife, end large sums to his mother and glister, Also in the will,it is reported was It beoueet of $10,000--te-a Tj?ronto woman. 'There were numerous. 0,tbsr women;• PAVED ROADSt,N THE IL .. • • The year 1929 was in many ways. • the greatest monthof twelve s , road. _ „ . building in the history of the United• " States. This is trite net :only from the stanelpeint: of the construction of lin- proved highways; but Also from that of making preparation for an expand- el- prhgram 13i 030: • .: • .• Preliminary figuret, eneted•by Theis. Ps"..11enrYs oreeident of , the American Alstemcibile Astoetation, indicate that, .apPrOxlinately 55:090' mde .of highs. WAY§ were ,sorfaeed on the federel.' aid, state and local* sYstees- lad Year brining the total surfaced mileage up to 675,000' miles it the close of the ye,sr. This e-eens'that sititend one- fifth of the nation's total of A01.3,381 milesSof ell roads"has been teMporar- ily or permanentlli Surfaced; ' • In carryinj. out this *ast readsbuild- • ing program m 1929. as Well as Main- taining • existing highways. federal, 'Siete ;led Real agencies epent approk- imately $1,800.000.000., Mr. -Henry re-: ports, and have already launched Pro - 'grant for 'the siiniiring, year that Will exceed -$2;06.000.000,. in ,reit. To this, • must' be added around 1500,000.000 a. Year spent by municipalities in build- ing And , maintaining ...streets.. L'at large as these ' prOgrent Must not be Assumed that they in any way measure up to the highWity needs of the nation. , . Aside front important inter -state and state, highways, there was also con- siderable progrets Made 4, ring 1929 in the building of forest roads and trails; asswell as reads in the nation- al parks. There were 215.4 miles of forest, high:Weirs of all releases built ni the fiseal Year ended June 30, 1929. Of this 'total 298.1 miles were in. the western states and Alaska, and the remaining 17.3 miles were in the for- ests of two eastern states.. In the na- tional narks; the yea,r's work brought to comnletion the improvement of 100:7 'miles of nark roadwsss, increas- ing thetotal pies. farlienyed to 213.4 miles. At the. c/ose of the fiscal year constructien was in progress on 113 'miles; and surveys were unties way on 209 miles more. • VTP.ENCE Or . STOc• i MARNET LOSSES , ' first conereses.eiridence of the ex- tent to Whielt Canadians suffered thru • the series of stock market panics of Oetoher and ,November is furnishee by the December statement of chart- ered •banks which has just been hs - sued. Savings denolits at the close of the .year were $85,879,815 lower, than tl.ey were one Year previousl•L':' Respon- sibility for part Of the drop must be attached to other causes". A partial crop failure, coupled with the delay in mprketing grain, undoubtedly made it neeessary 'for MAny farmers to Withdraw furids for dUrrent need. Development of ntiereployment (141, sa schle unknown since 1921, was a .face ter, though not en impoesent one,he: cense most of those whe found them- selves without work .had no •banic ac- counts to draw against., It' is esijMated that much more than half of .the total redection- in. deposits is directly traceable to stork market losses. 'And this total is quite in addition to :Ike-, hundreds of mW. lions in paprfrprofits and in margins which Canadians had lying in brok- erage offites prior to the debacle. Do- minion -wide developments alrecting minink trading since the New Year have notiininroved the general situa- tion and the forecantis made that un- less. living standards of many thous - 'ands, of people are readjusted there will be a further. decline Le savings depoSits during 100, HAI) A PEW ,DRINKS • (Toroato Telegram) • 1 A yoring man drove down to a Place the other' night, where , they 'hod. a fwbi hba:andaconp1e.of drinks.. Ile mention d it to a compan- ion at luneh in eonpeetiert With re- marks on the "severity" : of fines on bite:ideated driveia,. lie wasn't going the'to-taken -antnee:"-a--0,iin,4". *Rich -When- eVeUttii Wag (Wet and he was go. byg. .tott them to send along another drivet for his car,' • ; • There will be seine Who deubt the -first sgenheioa wisdom iflten:Mtg. in- toxicants. ' There tan be bone Wit° &At hie wisdom in refusing to drive car' a-fter doing 'ain. The re an, *to has"liad a few' dritilis • EAUCtENO7- SENTINEL Published every 'ThursdaY 'morning at Lucknew, Ontario. ' • A. D. MacKenzie. Pronrieteic arid THURSDAY, FEBRUARY, 20, 1930. • _THAI' ,DONNg"Y CASE The case of young Arther DonnellY 'Pon of Senator Donnelly, of. Pinker; con) 'freed from, Walkerton jail after serving ten days Of 5 tWeety-dey sen- tence for driving an'eatomqbile while deuriK hasiraised•ciiiita filrer, and no auX of idvetse critzczsm . , . The caster to ee,pece young Donnelly came from :tlid Departaierit Of justice at Ottewa,.•and appear§ . have been on:r.athe.r.,1nsy_ g.rdUnds. • Nobody is going to beikeve that :was no a• ease Of :favoritism. Tits young manls 'father -is' sessithy and a member , of, the CanIstian Senate, and on Olt accounetegarded at Otta- wa at being:entitled to more friendly consideration than the ordinary fann- er or shopkeeper. • • Magistrate Walker who patted ipp-, tepee on young Donnelly 'had heardthe, evidence ;and knew What he was deing Tetion ass to Donnelly's guilt. While in - h, .annears thave been no guess , o • toxicated he had, aecording. to the ev- idence, driven his car into. the Teets - Witter. Park at the time 0. .he re -un- ion last August, where there 'Wat, crowd of 'Men, women and children, and: narrowly averted hitting some. of 'theta. • • • No sensible person say that twenty 'days in. jail is toe much pun- ishment, for such an offence! ThaMaii who undertakes to drive a, car, tater. taking liqucir, ought to be 'disqualified' • for driving a car ler two years„ if. not -permanently; and .it should niake no. differenCe.,whether She .offender: is the sen Of -a senator Or ' • After being in Jail for A few days 'young Donnelly Was examined by e physician as 16 the condition of hit health. Whe Was' the examening phy- sician—Dr. }Tall, M. P. for Seutit Bruce—a politician. Why Dr; Hill, politician? Dis Hall has to, look out for•vetes, and must make A geod fel- low of himself on every possible, oc- casion. He should not have been ask- ed to act in the matter, and' being asked, be shoutd have retuned. Nobody is going to -believe ' the-storyof ' truMipledh•eiiitluthpi.anadn,lit.etthee4 uptor;ieits mw.uheet take. the consequences. Where will this sort .os 'ling: end, if it gets going? It will -mid in the people losing faith in the cburts and • the Department of Jiisticeithan_Whigh nothing woriefcan hliFFeiiin a coun- try-. It will 'Cod to 'conditions. such as prevail in •Chicego (to 'take An out .standing case) where the courts are busy sending , lawbreakers to jail, And the politicians are _busy getting them out, so that the pity' is overrun by Criminals, and everybody knows thetthe law takes one course With the rich and another with. the 'Peer. , • Thanks to the good _seise of the.. people Of this country. an,' the news- paper. editors 'there is nothing bilt condemnation of the action of the De.' partment oftJustice in this Donnelly. case: • • • ! !FARM TRACTORS FROM IRELAND • Itis difficult to eteount for,- the course- international trade vijL take. It ie new announced that • Ford - son fetm tractors ina'de in • Ireland are to .be shipped. to Canada—in fact are now being shipped. Here they will have --after being taken 'crops the Atlantic, end by rail, from the. coasl. to Ontario—to einiipete hee•e- °reduced tractors and others: brought in -from the United States. Evidently the Ford Co., knows the. t this can be done er it wouldn't, enter upon the undertaking. • Why allow., these machines come into the country?. ,we hear somebody say. Why not let- the .hcena nianefae- Weer eupply the demand, thus giving. work to the idle and keeping the mon- ey in the "country/ ' • 'Well Why ao canadan farmers. buy hose "made in Treater "machines'"? nd hoar can those trietdre' be trait: - ht across the Ailantie and yet dem- neti With 'trader( -made, at home. It becanse theyare any isettei, be- ethse-ona tradtpriaalhratAi goirdana a:nether. • teat*' 7fMedu-etfOn-,13Ok: iess, - 'aver ‘iri Ireland, jut as production 'of. wheats less hi "eanade than it es in Britain or Irelied. That's .whir. imaillati 'Mien .•gees Over there. the' onle of Britain and .trelancl are ad to have riOnadian what go into e ;66untry duty free, and the Can - inn farmers would' haglad to Il'avaa 0.4ors dome into the country free, en** they Oeuld, then Wily • them bete they 414) made st loweat.cot ne th id must he separated frere his eat. Stift '1' fines will reduce the number who are willing to take 0 oheneei WA14T, AAP' r, commenting .upon -ne whiOho receatly. *appeared . in.. The , Sentinel Potting forth the fact that Prue, res- idents of German extraction Were Alt aPPIYing' for .old -age • nenolone, the *Wynn Expositoe, Corieluded with this paragraph: • • • "In proportien to population. • we believe that census would disclose a smeller number Of plications from from people of German . descent for old _age, pensions, than from any . other . haticmality. • They do, net need them," And in hat may erepur govern- . , ments .going to rewaed those- indust- rious and thrifty, peenie. They Rre • foreine. *them to pay: into a fund for, • . , the eneonragement spend,ason, go -H. to eneonrage lazipess,. nd waste! :They are ta5riegg them..- to Plinnort theles...•werthy, *descendents ' of. 'ether .mationahties. • , • . It is ell very well to gro*.septlinesi,-, taj, • about the old Whoar'e...In need': but the true ' reason of their condittnii shonld'not be 164 sight Of. Everybody knows that there are the deserving poor—those whoee conditlion is due ,to . misfortnne, hit the i•niinber is not great. Few indsistriouo 'arid honest • Men Come to' want., . • L • • 'Hg llifEANEST `R0/3BERS Chicago (now se often mentioned in newseaPers) Appears te have the., meanest robbers as Well as the most.' Tr� story is, told that recently twins w re born in, a home ot thatiistres- . sed city, and. as the little ones laY in he cradle, four "men"- . drove up to the door: in an autOnuAile, 'Three ens , ,terecl the house" and With, the glint levelled on the infants, threatened to blow •thern to ,pieces if ;the parent. didn'i• hand over .the .cash in the • 'fieuse, The father dug' up $800, and' the robbers took it And left. The story, if. true,' Suggests ,inside. information: Serne,neighbor of „fellow workman evidently knew: that the vic- • tim had the .meney ;.ts well as • the 'taiiris; and passed the information on -to ,eritninal assoeihreS.: .. • • • WATT MASON ON' AUTOMOBILE' DRIVING • • .Ninety-nine are daily driving their old busses, every day, Always planning • always ,striving, all •the statues tA Obey; they will halt at intersections as the stop signal' indicate, and Aecept the- cop's correctiond-- without, trying t� orate. One goes scorching here and `yonder, whooping lip and _clown the line, and he doesn't pause to ponder over any -warning sign., And the plod- ding footsore' voters, looking it thi• s. fellow; svail; "All theseneople driving motort'shottld be rounded up ih jail." Ninety-nine go sanely jogging on the • asphalt or the bricks, and the midway they're not hogging; arid they , try no " fancy tricks. They': are. 'anxious. *that the others should be 'Nappy, should he gay, for they all are men end brothers all ph:Mid:have the right way.iiNinetv- , nine are kindly mbit,als, they salute us as they pass; they are shedding smile's, and chortles as they step' Upon • the gas. One is reckless and' unheed- ing as he swings along Ids path, he is dodging; he is speeding, he is caus-: in forty kinds of wrate. And the 7 people. by „the grottoes, in the dingle and the glen. say "These' people dritiv.e• ing atitOo should. be herded in the, pen" IMPORTS AND EMPLOYMENT. • We, have received from R. 4. Deachs man of Ottawa, a little booklet • en- titled, "The tale of the Missing 5." , This is not a ilste,ctive stork—it deals with the reietiotiship of imports to unemployMent. It explains and defends' the contention that imports do not cause unemployment for the simple teason that ininottes :for by exports, and increased iMporta, akin!), •inean inereased employment. ' Whatever difference of opinion. there may be on the question there -is no eleape front the fart that eerie in 1929 were iinuah higher thna in 1922 and employment was at the highest level. ever reached, In 1920. We are not going to argue the ques- tion—Mr..Deaehman win send a conv free to any person who asks, for it. The address Deachman, Box , 844-,--Ott3wa. --sob LO NO T. RESIDENT pr., IVINGRAiit • • Is,. S. J Smith, for. 50. Years tt,- • :*+9iititift Vlrinegisam: died. at 'lief home there on 'Feh. 6th, at the age- ot 8.4. She was a native. of Cornwell England; and, caMe, to• Canada. bride 10 10 .1899, and She- and her hug:: Nand ettme to • Winghtini 5,9 Yegrra ige. ger 'husband, •Selw' in 3. Smith!, lied a miteher of yearn $10,1, Mr. n; STnith, pirtintgUrnf the Cinadi.lp Bank of co m ieere'e ; ••• • ton; and 4 derfelfee, Mrs. 1. C. tog' 1011 4V011 At l'OtOntO•