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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1938-02-24, Page 6ft THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE{KRVW>AT,. FW^VABY 2-1, 1938 ARE YOUR ROOFS FfRE-TRAPS? •<« IC0UNCIL5TAN0ARD Fallinn snarks, driving rain, swirling snow--they’ll all roll off a Council Standard Tite-Lap roof like water off a duck s back. It is good for a Hfetime and is sold by us with a 25 year guarantee. And this Company is wSl abte to livo up ti every clause m that guarantee. Ask your banker. STATITE ~ ............................................. Led-Hed These modern drive » ecrew nails with­ stand ten times more drawing force than ordinary barp- ed roofing nails. Ask for them by name. Manufacturers of the famous Preston Steel Truss Barns, Tite-Lap metal roofing and Jamesway Poultry Equipment. Nails You will find Tite-Lap the best roofing value you can get. You can put it on right over your old roof. It combines strength, durability and weather and fire protection. Comes in large, easily handled sheets. The joints fit so closely they’re practically invisible. It is made in both “Council Standard and “Acorn” quality. Send ridge and rafter measurements for free cost estimate. All Council Standard trimmings, ridge caps and hip capsare now hot-dipped galvanized after forming, this gives extra durability. 84 Guelph Street Preston, Ont. acts Factories also at Montreal and Toronto What the United States Can Teach Canada HEADACHE AFTER HEADACHE By> Faris Edwin Silcox Divided We Stand; By Walter Pres­ cott Webb: (Toronto: Oxford Press), price $2,50. The New America; The the C. C. C.; by A. C. Harold M. Dudley. Story of Oliv&r and (Toronto: Longmans). Price $1.75, A few weeks ago, we reviewed in this column three books -on “The Papacy and ^Politics” By some slip npt attributable to any false modesty we forgot to attach the name of the reviewer to the column. Hence, the opinions expressed there might per­ haps be improperly attributed to either the Association of Canadian Rookmen or to the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association. We hasten therefore to assume full responsibil­ ity for that review and would remind our readers that when we commenc­ ed these literary excursions we were assured of chose. The two week deal ation in the United States, but they haye a peculiar value for Canadian readers. “Divided We Stand” should certainly be read by every member of the Royal Commission on Domin­ ion-Provincial Relations, while “This New America” 'gives a very vital interpretation of the work of the Ci­ vilian Conservation Corps which should be pondered by every Cana­ dian interested in youth rehabilita­ tion. freedom to write as we books mentioned this primarily, with the situ- MOORESVILLE Miss Myrtle Millscn, of London, is visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. ,T. McVey. Mrs. Johnson Atkins is spending a week’s vacation in Lucan with Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Armitage. Mr. aud Mrs. T. E. McVey spent Sunday last at the home of the form­ er’s parents. Many around t'h'.e vicinity attend­ ed the shower for Miss Merle O’Neil. Many attractive gifts were presented to her. Lunch was served by the hostess, assisted by Mrs. Cecil Cart­ er, Misses Inez Hendrie and Mildred Waugh, Mrs. James Paton, lips. The W. A. Gillivray held their meeting at the home of Mrs. T. E. McVey. A large number attended. Lunch was serv­ ed by the hostess. Mrs. Arthur Simpson lent her home in Mooresville recently for a miscellaneous shower in honor of her niece, Mrs. Jack. Darling, nee Eleanor Hotson. The bride was presented -with many attractive gifts. The hostess was assisted by Grace Darling Ila Paton, Janet Lee, Verna Cunningham, Marion Simpson Mrs. W. E. Lee. , Cinderella Dance (A smart event of the season the Lucan High School Cinderella dance held in the Stanley Opera House on Thursday, February 10th, Many members and their wives, PICOBAC PIPE________TOBACCOjm | FOR A MILD,COOL SMOKE 1 Now She’s Free From Them A woman writes:—“I would like everyone who suffers from headaches to try Kruschen Salts. Before tak­ ing Kruschen I was seldom free from a headache. But since I have been taking it regularly I have hard­ ly had a headache; for which I am very thankful. I have been taking a small dose of Kruschen every morning in a glass of warm water, before my breakfast, and I feel so well.”—i(Mrs.) A.E.D. . »How do you feel with headaches? Do you just take something to dead­ en the pain, without getting rid ot the trouble which causes the pain? Headaches can generally be trac­ ed .to a disordered stomach and to the unsuspected retention in the system of stagnating waste material which poisons the blood. Remove these .poisons—(prevent them form­ ing again— worry .any1 And that is bring swift headaches, to cleanse your body -completely of clogging waste material. adoption of Italian fascism or “cor­ poratism” witdr a vengeance, but it might work. But if the government cannot now induce the corporations to accept responsibilities as well as privileges, what chance is there that they will accept the responsibilities if we really did turn the government ovex- to them? Nevertheless, it does get to the heart of things and is a “must” book for all who want to understand the basic and 'political problems on the North American continent, - Arrest Deterioration Of Home Buildings / DIVIDED WE STAND Elmer Hendrie, Mrs. and Mrs. Edna Phil- of Christ Church, Me- teachers, ex-students, and pupils danced to the music of Lorne Gros­ se’s orchestra. The Hall was very prettily and artistically decorated with the Valenine color scheme and the school colors. The reception line included Miss Alice Hod'gins, president of the Literary Society, Mr. Elson, principal of High School, Mrs. Elson, Colonel Ross, Mrs. Ross, Mr. H. Hodgins and Mrs. Hdogins. The lunch and dance programme was enjoyed by everyone. and was RECEIVES $2,500 When George Atkinson, bachelor farmer, of Biddulph 'Township, wrote before <he died, a note and a $3,000 check for his brother Ralph, and left it amongst his papers, he left with them difficulties in the way ot collecting the $3,000, but eventual­ ly paved the way for the brother to get $2,500. .The brother, who- is 72 years old, went to law to get the money from the executors of the estate. Midway through the trial of the action, in winter assizes court settlement $2,500 was announced. for ■and yon’ll never ihave to more—from that cause, just how Kruschen Salts and lasting relief from Kruschen aids Nature LISTEN^ jgPi ltANADA-1938/1 Kt IMPERIAL TOBACCO’S / ggl INSPIRING PROGRAM BUFFALO DISAPPEARS FROM FIVE-CENT PJOECE to 25 FRIDAY 10p.m. E.S.T. Station CBL Embarrassing Pimples Caused By Impure Blood Banishes Bad Blood Then No More Pimples A T. MILBURN CO, LTD., PRODUCT The United States is going have a new nickel—the first in years. The treasury has announc- I ed that the familiar buffalo nickel will be succeeded by one honoring Thomas Jefferson, third president of the United States. The law says a new nickel design can be issued only every 25 years. That period will be up February 21. (Secretary Morgen- thau decreed the new nickel must show Jefferson’s on one side and his famous home. Monticello on the other. The exact design will be de­ cided in a $1,00 0 prize contest to be judged by Mrs. Nellie Taylor Ross, director of the mint, and three scul­ ptors, Sidney Waugh, 'Albert .Stewart and Heinz Warneke. This ctoesnn’t mean that your old buffalo nickel . will not remain worth five cents'. In time it may be worth more as a museum piece. There are no accurate figures on the number of nickels in circulation because all small coins are lumped together in statistics. But to give an idea of how important the nickel is, the mints turned out 164,832,570 new ones last year, CENT A MILE Round Trip Bargain FARES Minimum Fares. Adults 75e Child 40-; MARCH 4th and 5th from EXETER to TORONTO Also to Brantford, Chatham, Chesley, Clinton, Durham, Exeter Fergus, Goderich, Guelph, Hamilton, Hanover, Harriston, Ingersoll, Kincardine, Kitchener, London, Listowel, Mitchell, Niagara Falls, Owen Sound, Paisley, Palmerston, Paris, Port Elgin, st. Catharines, St. Marys, Sarnia, Southampton, Stratford, Strathroy, Walkerton, Wiarton, Wingham, Woodstock. To Oshawa, Bowmanville, Port Hope, Cohourg, Trenton. Jet., Belle­ ville, Napanee, Kingston, Gananoque, Brookville, Prescott, Morris­ burg, Cornwall, Uxbridge, Lindsay, Peterboro, Campbellford, New­ market, Penetang, Collingwood, Meaford, Barrie, Orillia, Midland, Gravenhurst, Bracebridge, Huntsville, Callander, North Bay, Parry Sound, Sudbury, Longlae, Geraldton, Jellicoe, Beadmore, Fort Wil" liam. For Fares, Return Limits, Train Information, Tickets, consult Nearest Agent See handbills for complete list of destinations ,T. 41-B CANADIAN NATIONAL ... . ... r ,. , . ................................................... »— ..............'............................................................... ....V,,,. Walter Prescctt Webb is the pro­ fessor of history at the University of Texas. In his book, he points out that though the West and the iSouth furnish the bulk of the raw materials such as cotton and oil (but not coal) in the States, most of the popula­ tion and a still larger percentage of the wealth is in the Northern States, and that in almost every commercial transaction the southerner and the westerner pay tribute to the north. In the north are 90% of the 200 largest non-banking corporations, 84 per cent, of the firms that sell mer­ chandise to the retail drug stores, fifty-five of the 75 leading insurance companies, and these fiftynfive com­ panies have over 9 6 per cent, of the total annual income received by all the insurance companies! The North also furnishes 83 per cent. of the income taxes. iCanadians will seem to recall somewhat similiar lamenta­ tions raised by, the Canadian west and the Maritimes against Ontario and Quebec. The analogy is arrest­ ing. But Professor Webb probes very deeply as he asks what has been responsible tor this servitude or, as he calls it, “the rise of America’s feudal system”, based not on land but on finance capitalism. He plunges a bit abruptly into the Civil War, and does not perhaps take suf­ ficient cognizance of the develop­ ment that antedated the Civil War and involved the conflict of the plan­ tation system based on slavery with the more economically efficient re­ liance of the North on draftsmanship, manufacturing, shipping, etc. And he fails to designate the inevitable dependence of all frontier civiliza­ tions for capital on the more settled areas; also the tendency of pioneers, wealth, to return to the more settled areas to spend it. Nevertheless, there is no getting away from the Civil War and its economic consequences. The North, our author says, “Reduced to the vanishing point the economic power of the south, practically during the war and further after the war”. For­ tunately that is a tragedy which we in Canada have been spared. It was inevitable that the triumphant North should take the lead over the impo­ verished south in the economic ex­ ploitation of the opening west. But one wonders if it might not have done so even if there had been no Civil War. Perhaps, the slave sys­ tem did something to the mentality of the slave-owners which made them less agile in some kinds of business transactions. But 'that is our own idea; not the author’s. Pr-of. Webb traces the economic mastery of rise of the once they entity with ity” ever moving forward through its purchase of ipatents to the control of the machine, and through its power to crush the small competitor to a position of practical monopoly with a capacity of assess a whole people whatever it felt that the traf­ fic would stand. More incisive even than this analysis is his contention that when juridical personality is given the corporation, it receives the privileges and immunities of 'person­ ality without the responsibilities. It is really given a favoured position over individuals. A corporation can’t be put in jail; a person may be im­ prisoned. A corporation does not die; persons do die as family corpor­ ations have discovered. The corpora­ tion, once grown large enough, .real- , ly becomes a government within the ’ government, ever claiming new priv­ ileges while it repudiates all fespon. sibility. “If a corporation employs a man and finds that ihe does not fit into the system, it discharges him; but the government cannot discharge a citizen for inefficiency, incompetence or old age.” Here Prof. Webb really describes the fatal weakness in the system we unintelligentlyi call capitalism. That weakness is not in its desire for pro­ fits, nor in its insistence on private property, but in the irresponsible, monopolistic nature of impersonal corporations, often as callous to its own shareholders, as to employees, which govern us against our will and unlike governments, too often refuse to accept .responsibilities for theii- own mistakes. In his closing chap­ ter, he suggests that since or if these corporations cannot be adequately controlled by governments, perhaps the best thing to do would be to emend the constitution and give them on.a basis of responsibility, the real powers of government. “They tell us that business can do almost anything if government will only let it alone. The self-appraisal might be modified if we give them a few real jobs with duties instead -of privileges as a spur.” (Page 236), This, we fear, would prove pons asinoimm of capitalism, perhaps the corporations might prise us. Of course, it would mean the junking of democracy, and the as the but sur- the North rather to the coaT’oration as a legal have accumulated their full “juridical personal- f L THE NEW AMERICA “ITIhis New America” is hardly an ordered account of the Civilian Con­ servation Corps, but for the most part, a compilation of comments of the C. C. C. by officers and men em­ ployed, chaplains and tea-chers, and extracts from camp newspapers in­ cluding a whole chapter of ipoems written by enrollees.' The value of the book is in tihe fact that it does impart the spirit of the enterprise which Canada would do well to emulate. If, instead of leaving our y,oung men between 18 to 25 to utter frus­ tration, we had recruited them es­ pecially from the families on relief, sent them to camps for young men only, set tihem to work on schemes of forest ’and soil conservation, build­ ing roads and trails through nation­ al and provincial parks, combined these valuable activities activities with a comprehensive educational program directed by first class dir­ ectors, we would have been creating economic wealth and saving it for the future instead of merely dissi­ pating it in “relief”, and above all, we would have been saving manhood and developing a high spirit of real patriotism among youth instead or evoking the understandable criticism that we were indifferent to the leg­ itimate aspirations of youth. And what would it not ihave meant to be physical health of our young men? We in Canada lost a great chance when we failed to deveiop a peace army for specific age groups as a sound economic and educational pro­ ject. Perhaps, is is still not too late to do something before the next war; if there is time, let our political lead­ ers saturate themselves in the spirit GRAND BEND of London, on Sunday. Mollard and in Bridgen IMiss Velma Baker, visited with her moth’er Mr. and Mrs. Abner Miss Mary Yeo, visited and Sarnia over the week-end. Mr. and Mrs. Milton Webb, Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Ravelie, Mr. and Mrs. Gj-lenn Brenner spent Sunday at Pt. Huron. Mrs. Melville Hamilton, of Forest, visited with friends here on Bunday. Miss Marjorie Desjardine is visit- Borrow, if neces­ sary, to repair or replace that leaky or fire-menac­ ing roof; to "save the surface” by painting; to strengthen walls and foundations; to modernize with safe electric equipment, sanitary plumbing and built-in conveniences,. Consult our nearest branch manager regarding a Home Improvement Loan. ea hank where small accounts are welcome” BANK OF MONTREAL ESTABLISHED 1817 ing in Pt. Huron, iSome of the 'guests that spent Sunday at the Brenner House were: Mr. and Mrs. Joe Hickey, Mr. and Mrs. Norman Newton, of London and Mr. Bert Clinger of Forest. Mr. and Mrs. Cyr-us Green visited in Detroit for ‘Mr. Morris is visiting in Property Desjardine has bought Mr, Ed. Wal­ ter's farm. Mr. Wellwood Gill’s Mollard Line and Mr. has bought 7 0 acres farm, Mr. John Gill, on the 15th >of March. is tlie past week. Tiderman, of Detroit, the neighborhood. changing. Mr. Leisum Mr. Ed. Walper bought farm on the Wellwood Gill of his father’s All to change Blank Check Books for Sale at this Office 10c each 43 WINCHELSEA Mr. and Mrs. Newton Clarke and Burdene, visited on Sunday with Mr. and Mrs, Lome Scholdice, of Cen tralia. We are sorry to hear that Mr. Gor­ don Prance is under the doctor’s We hope for a speedy recov-care. ery. Mr. Joshua Johns and Miss Alma Jo-hns, of Exeter, visited with Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Batten recently. Miss Marjorie Fletcher spent the week-end with Mr. and Mr. E. Stone, of Kirhton. Mrs. D. Goulding, of' Kirkton, vis­ ited withl relatives in the community the past week. HARPLEY ('Crowded out last week) Mrs. Urban Pfile, of Zurich visit­ ed for a few days with her sister Mrs. Hugh Love. Miss O. (Fisher, of .Dash/wood, is employed' with the Sherritt Bros. Misses Beulah and Maud Hodgins spent the week-end in Detroit, the guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Warn­ er. Mr. and Mrs. Ross Love, and fam­ ily visited on Thursday with Mr, and Mrs. Lawrence Taylor. -■ ' Mr. Lloyd and Miss Edith (Love, of London, visited at their home on Sunday. 1UHV CHEVROLET HRS THE BEST EHGII1E Associate. Dealers: KNEE-ACTION LttH O ECAUSE the Valve-in-Head type engine is the most efficient known, it’s the kind you find in record-breaking racing cars, speed boats, airplanes ... andon the neu) Chevrolet! Valve-in-Head efficiency means that more power is developed from gasoline. 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