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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1933-03-16, Page 3I’HARLOTTE HARLTON The white feather is all very good for a goose. * * * * * * * * ALLSA CRAIG—The funeral ol ■Charlotte lTarlton, whose death oc­ curred at her home nere, was held to Brinsley cemetery. The services were conducted by Rev. J. E. Black- well of the Anglican church. She was one of the oldest citizens of the village, moving here some years ago from McGillivray. Her aged sister with Whom she lived, and two bro­ thers, Robert of Toronto and Albert of McGillivray, survive. HULLETT FARMER IS AWARDED $420.00 Goderich — An action launched over four years ago by Jas. Medd, Hullett Township farmer, against the Townships of Hullett and Mc- Killop, in Huron County, in which the plaintiff asked $1,100 for dam­ age caused by the flooding of his ■farm, through the alleged faulty construction of a drain, was heard by George F. Henderson, drainage ■referee of Ottawa. After an all-day hearing, Mr. Medd was awarded $420 and costs, to be assessed ^gainst the drainage scheme. Scores of farmers, many of them witnesses, were present in court, as were the reeves, councilors and road superintendents of the two town­ ships. Mi’. Medd owns 1.50 acres in the neighborhood of the Kinburn swamp and his claim was that in 1927 and 1928 he had 30' acres of crop ruined by floods when the drain failed to function properly. He started his action in county court, but it was later referred to the ref­ eree. Evidence was given that part of the Medd farm, located on the 5th concession of Hullett, was flooded so badly in 1928 that cattle had to swim to safety. H. G. Mier, Sea­ forth, acted for the Township qT Hullett; J. C. Makins K.C., for Mc- Killop, Township and R. C. Hayes, Jnu., for Mr. Medd. STEPHEN COUNCIL The Council of the Township of Stephen convened at the Town Hall. Crediton on Saturday, March 4th, A.D. 1933 at 1 o’clock p.m. All the members were present with the ex­ ception of Deputy-Reeve Beaver who was absent owing to illness. The minutes of the previous meeting were read and approved. The Clerk laid the following cor­ respondence before the Council, viz: A letter from Hays & Meir re tax­ es, and a letter from the Canadian Bank of Commerce re exappropria­ tion of Pollock’s road. The Auditors’ report was received and adopted. Moved by Mr. Edmund Shapton, seconded by Mr. Edward Lamport: That By-law No. 467 to appoint of­ ficials for the Township of Stephen and fixing their respective salaries having been read three times be passed and signed by the Reeve and Clerk and the Seal of the Corpora­ tion be attached thereto. Carried Moved by Mr. Roy Holt, seconded by Mr. Edmund Shapton: That the following be the scale of wages for the year 1933 for team and day laborers'-; Man and team 40,c. per hour; man and 3 or 4 horses 45c. per hour; man alone 17|c. per hour; road fore­ man 20 c. per hour. Carried. Moved by Mr. Edward Lamport, seconded by Mr. Roy Holt: That the following Pay Sheets and Qrders be passed and paid: * Gordon Wilson, road 1, $2,60; G. Wilson, road 1 SB, $1.00;' Stanford White, road 3, $1.80; Alphonse Hartman, road 10, $4.73; Ben Mc­ Cann, road 12. $3.90; Roy Ratz, rd. 13, $1.00; M. C. Sweitzer, road 15, $1.00: John Dietrich, road 16, $2.- 20; Augustus Latta, road 18, $2.20; Leasum Lafond, road 20, $1.60; J. A. Ryan, road 22, $6.60; Ed. Wa,lper road ‘21, $3.20; Isaiah Tetreau, rd. 14, $2.00; total $33.83. Orders— Hydro Electric Bower Commission, hydro account $9.04; Waterloo Insurance Company, Insur­ ance premium $24.00; Hydro Elec­ tric Power Commission, re Fuller 1932 taxes $17.40,; J. W. Grayboil Auditor’s fees $9.00; C. W. Christie, ditto $9.00; Paul Schenk, wood for Town Iiall $3.7.50. The council adjourned to meet again at the Town Hall, Crediton on Monday, April 3rd, A.D, 1933, at 1 o’clock p.m. Henry Eilbor, Clerk We suppose that gangsters will offer no objection should the hoarders of gold in the U. S. A. be exposed. ***** * * * Sap’s running and the price of wheat and hogs is advancing, to say nothing about the days’ growing longer. ******** All the world goes out in sympathy to the earthquake suffer­ ers of the United .States. We know now why the Red Cross is in existence. President Roosevelt’s big contribution to the United States has been his proof that what his country needs is not so much facilities and institutions as men. ******* * For a man who walks with two canes, President Roosevelt is about the liveliest stepper in the United States. Would That more of us had his vim and his capacity for ignoring handicaps, ******* * ’OW DID IT ’APPEN Quite a fuss is being made because a little English girl in Kingston was snubbed because she failed to 'control her “h’s”. We never saw any occasion for not managing this letter satisfactorily though we have been laughed at because we enquired for a bit of helm or hash or hoak to make a ’ammer’ awndle. ’Ere’s ’opin the little lass will survoive ’er hordeal. ******** PUBLIC SERVANTS Members of parliament wh'o are discovering where needless expenditures have been made by .governments in past days and who are seeing to it that needless expenditures are done away with for the present, are real public servants. Almost unconsciously governments have got into the way of doing things simply because their predecessors in 'office have done similiar things. We expect our members of parliament to know not only where money has gone but to have something to say about where money is going. A bad precedent is honored by ignoring it. ******** While every right minded person hopes that the United States will find a satisfactory way out of her present financial maze they are disposed to pity a people who think that an efficient, banking system can be evolved overnight. iSucli a thing simply cannot be done, no matter how much they believe that anyone with money and credit can run a bank. This belief must be got rid of before anything can be done. Few people believe it but it is a fact that it is far easier for most people .to earn money than it is to put money to advantageous use. ******** THE CHANGE FROM THREE YEARS (Toronto Saturday Night) The following sentences are extracted from the closing page of “America Conquers Britain”, written by Ludwell Denny, an American economist and propagandist, and published in New York in 1930 by Alfred A. Knopf: “We were Britain’s colony once. She will be our .colony before she is done; not in name, but in fact. Machines gave Britain power over the world. Now better ma­ chines are giving America power over the world and Britain. . . We shall not make Britain’s mistake. Too wise to govern the world, we shall merely own it. Nothing can stop us. Nothing un­ til our financial empire rots at its heart, as empires have a way of doing. . . .What chance has Britain against America? Or what chance has the world?” Less than three years ago! ******** Folk who are asking the cause of the financial mess in the United States will be interested in the remarks of the Ottawa Jour­ nal: “What has happened in the United States is the result of bad management of banks. It is the result of nothing else. Some 20,000 United .States banks, .administered under “liberal” State laws, have been carrying real estate mortgages, bonds, stocks and other long­ term investments as security for demand and short-term commercial deposits. This, a survival of frontier economy, became fatal under modern .inter-related business, brought about thousands 'Of bank failures, produced the conditions which came last week. It was a case simply where the public, its confidence in the bank gone, sought to withdraw at the same time $40,000',000,000 of deposits. Gold has no more, to do with it than golf. What happened would have happened precisely in the same way ana under the same conditions whether the United States was on gold or off gold, or even if it had never heard of gold. It could happen, under similar banking conditions, in England at this moment. ******** GERMANY Speaking of the recent German election the London Times has this to say of the aim of the present German Government: “The avowed aim of the present Government of Germany, com­ posed of Nationalists and National-Socialists, is to “establish the “Nationalistic 'State” and to annihiliate Marxism—by which is meant in particular the Socialist and Communist Parties, though .some of the more impulsive Nazis would also include the Centre Party of Dr. Bruning and all who uphold a democratic and Parlia­ mentary system.” Commenting in an article, the tone of which is neither com­ plimentary nor hopeful, upon Herr Hitler the new German Chan­ cellor, the Times'lias this to say: “All the world is asking the question--—and asking it for the most part sympathetically—'Whether the street-orator will become an efferent ruler, and whether the leader of a movement Can also become the leader of a Government; whether in fact the agitator will prove himself an administrator and the demagogue a states­ man. Herr Hitler must well know how different are the attributes required for conducting the business of the one and of the other. Now scathing indictment and irresponsible clamour will have to be superseded by steady work and sobriety, ******* * WHAT ABOUT IT ? There, are, it is said, 300,000 young men in the united States wandering aimlessly from city to -city, allegedly seeking jobs but fast arriving at the period where they will simply be watting for something to turn up. In many instances what will turn up will be an opportunity for crime or for social disturbances. Many of these young fellows are just out of school or university. They know nothing of the world or its way. Others of them were a .short time ago starting up the business ladder only to rind the lad­ der taken from their feet. Naturally the igreat majority of those idle ones are quite unprepared ,to find a place where such services as they can render are. acceptable. What about it? Sttch folk simply must be gone after, They simply cannot help themselves in a great many instances. They are utterly helpless. Can the churches not do' a good deal by send­ ing out the membership of the churches to actually find those wanderers? Then Collegiates and Universities have a deal to do with their graduating classes. Very special information regarding life and its present conditions must be. given those boys. They simply must be told that they are not going out into a world where dances and card parties and cocktails are the order of the day or night. By far the great .majority of tho young men in sheltered homos do not realize how grim is the situation soon to confront them. Big pay simply is not to bo had. Easy jobs are nowhere to be found. Merciless situations await every youth. For many a day the world willl prove hard and cruel. But harder situations have been met. Will our youth show that they have the stuff of victors in them? THE EXETER MMEb-AM vpCA Ft Sunday School Lesson THE EFFECTS OF ALCOHOLIC (International Uniform 'Sunday School Lesson, March 19) Golden Text “At the last it bitetli like a .ser­ pent and stingeth like an adder.”-— Proverbs 23:32. LESSON PASSAGE—Proverbs 23: 29-32; Isaiah 28: 1-4; Daniel 5: 1- 4. “To guard my health and keep my body fair, That I may be stronger to do and dare, To keep my mind unsullied, pure and free, That truth and beauty may abide in me. To be a friend and prove, from day to day, Sincere and kind, at home, at work, at play, To follow ever upward life’s high quest, And find, through knowing God, my very best.” Physical Effects, Proverbs 23: 29*32 Exaggeration has done much harm to the temperance cause. The facts speak loudly enough and there is no gain to temperance .in going beyond the truth. By the same token it is self-deception, to refuse to look at all the facts. The Bible preserves a fine balance. It has reference to. the social gladness associated with wine, but it also gives very plain warnings about the evils of alcohol­ ism, and this in a day before the brewing and distilling business was highly organized as at present. The writer to Proverbs gives a faithful picture of a drink addict. The talk­ ativeness, the quarrelsomeness, the injuring through falling and fight­ ing, the bleary eyes—these are not imaginations, they are facts which nearly every one has seen. Differ­ ent drinks make their own physical1 registration, but in time all affect the complexion, the heart and the digestive system. Of course no one who takes an odd drink expects to become an alcoholic, but if we are trying to get the facts, let us not overlook the unsteady step, the thick speech, the shaking hand and' watery eye of the man who has become a .slave to the drink. In any study of the temperance question tnis man is in the picture. Social Effects, Isaiah 28: 1-4 Many workers for temperance have found their motive in a desire to help the poor. Undoubtedly in­ temperance has forced many people into poverty, but alcohol can be a foe to the rich as well as to the poor. Iasiah the governing class gave way to drunkenness. Amid pres­ ent business conditions and with the high price of liquor, drinking is much more likely to be prevalent among the rich than among the poor. Some of the gravest dangers in home drinking may be concealed, but there is one evidence that is right out in the open in every city and every town. Drunkenness is an of­ fence and police courts have to deal with cases of drunkenness. Arrests are not limited to any one class. A visitor at a city police court immed­ iately after Christmas Day seeing fifty-five men charged with drunken­ ness felt the poignancy of the pro­ blem as he had never done in read­ ing half-humorous accounts of po­ lice court cases in the newspapers. Again there is no need to exagger­ ate, Many users of liquor are never offenders against law, but the sum total of police court cases in Canada due to drunkenness is disturbing to all who are seeking to build a high order of Canadianship. SpiritaJ Effects, Daniel 5: 1-4 The use of alcohol is an insidious danger because of its subtle effects. Many people are unconscious that their standards are deteriorating, though this sad fact is very evident to their friends. It is so very easy to live at less than one’s best that the cumulative effect of alcohol may not be noticed plainly. Yet disastrous as the physical and social results of intemperance are, the worst penalty is in the moral and spiritual life. The conscience becomes less sensitive. Ideals are lowered, and an intoxicat­ ed person does what he would never think of doing in his sober moments. The Book of Daniel tells of Belshaz­ zar causing wine to be drunk out of the sacred vessels of the Temple. To the Jews this was an unforgivable sacrilege. Belshazzar would not have been guilty of it had he not been inflamed with wine. A man who had thrown away the good re­ putation of a lifetime by one drunk­ en act pleaded for leniency in a court saying, “I was not myself at the time.” That is one of the cruelties of alcohol. It so often makes people act in a way inconsist­ ent with themselves. i At the Last | There are many people who claim that they have been moderate | users of liquor and have suffered noi ill effect. Accepting their state-1 ments, we must not be blind to the; number of deaths officially register, ed as due to alcoholism, nor to the number of patients treated in Keel­ ey Tomes and mental hospitals, nor to the cases of poverty reported by social workers. These are facts about which the statistics have been gathered, and such statistics almost inevitably understate. There is al­ ways need to be on guard against liquor. So many have fallen thro’ its use that no one can be guaran­ teed safety if using it at all. The cure for intemperance, however, can­ not be left on the plane of prudence and safety first. Lite in Christ pro­ vides an exhilaration which gives permanent satisfaction. Whosoever drinkth of the water that Christ can give will never thrist. That is, he will have a quality of life that is permanently satisfying. Alcohol can give a physical sensation which lasts for a few hours. Religion can give hope, joy, peace and power which is good for every day. A moderate drinker always has a problem on his hands; there is far more freedom in total obstinence because the problem is solved once and for all. Some of the strongest advocates of temper­ ance are ex-drinkers. They say they have found a dozen better ways of having a good time than by drink­ ing. It was said of Spinoza that he was “a God-intoxicated man.” To those who have found the inner pow­ er of personal religion, alcohol us­ ually loses its appeal. Questions for Discussion 1. Why do so many people use strong drink? . 2. What are the dangers of using liquor “in moderation?” 3. Who should be responsible for temperance education? 4. Does alcohol affect everyone alike? 5. Is there any real hardship in practising total abstinence? 6. Why have Mohammedans been more opposed to the use of liquor than Christians? 7. How does intemperance bring its own punishment? 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