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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1923-09-13, Page 4THE LUCKNOW SENTINE1 THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 13. 1923. tflEAD OFFICE HAMILTON LDCrihoW BRANCH—J. A. Glennie, Manager Il INCORPORATED 1855 Capital and Reserve $9,000,000 Over 125 Branches THE MOLSONS BANK This institution offers depositors safety for their savings, reasonable interest compounded every six months, and freedom from red tape in case of withdrawals. Savings Departments at every Branch E .^Deposits $1.00 and upwards invited j T. S. REID, MANAGER, LUCKNOW BRANCH DEERING and McCORMICK FARM MACHINES and REPAIRS I.H.C. Tractors and Engines; Geo. White & Son Threshing Machines; Superior Litter Carriers, Stalls, Stancions and Water Bowls; Frost’s Coiled Wire and Woven Fence; Connor’s Perfection Electric Washer; Bell Pianos and Organs _ 1TY?' . FOR SALE BY W. G. ANDREW, - LUCKNOW IMPROVED TRAIN SERVICE Daily Except Sunday Lv. Kincardine Lv. Ripley Lv. Lucknow Lv. Wingham Lv. Brussels Lv. Listowel Lv. Palmerston Ar. Guelph 5.30 a.m. 1.45 p.m. 5.50 a.m. 2.04 p.m. 6.09 a.m.2.21 p.m. 6.40 a.m.2.54 p.m. 7.06 a.m.3.18 p.m. 7.50 a.m.4.01 p.m, 8.28 a.m.4.23 p.m, 9.45 a.m.5.36 p.m. Ar. Brantford 1.00 p.m. 8.35 p.m. Ar. Hamilton 1,00 p.m. 8.30 p.m. Ar. Toronto 11.10 a.m. 7.40 p.m. Returning—Leave Toronto 6.50 a.m. and 5.02 p.m. Through coach Kincardine to Tor­ onto on morning train. Parlor Buffet car Palmerston to Toronto on morning train and Guelph to Toronto on evening train. For full particulars apply to Grand Trunk Ticket Agents. A. W. HAMILTON, Agent Lucknow. U-Need a Monument The Lucknow Marble and Gran­ ite Works has a large and com­ plete stock—the most beautiful designe to choose from in Mar­ ble, Scotch and Canadian Gran­ ites. We make a Specialty of Family Monuments and invite your in­ spection. Inscriptions neatly and prompt- ' ly done. Call and see us before placing your order. ROBT. A. SPOTTON, Lucknow, Ontario. Until we are permanently settled, see W. J. Douglas Lucknow L. O. L.. No. 428, meets in their lodge room every second Tues­ day of the month at 8 o’clock p.m. W.M., H. M. Parker; Rec. Sec’y.. Wm. McQuillin. The way to wealth depends upon Industry and Frugality” —Franklin THE wage earner’s dollar stands for productive effort, for la­ bour done! The dollars which you you save now will save you labour in the years to come. Make the money you have worked for work for you. Start a Savings Account with the Bank of Hamilton today. 1 Seaforth Creamery Bring your Cream and Eggs to The Seaforth Creamery new buying branch, just opposite A. R. Finlayson’s Feed Store in the old Massey-Harris stand. Highest Cash Prices Paid Satisfaction Guar­ anteed Give Us A Trial CECIL G. MULLIN Branch Manager, Lucknow. Phone 63. HAY FEVER Summer Asthma Will spoil your summer and make your company distressing to your friends unless you get relief. Get a box of RAZ-MAH today. Most people feel better from the first dose. Your druggist will-refund your money if a $1 box does not bring relief. Ab­ solutely harmless. Generous sample for 4c in stamps. Templetons, To­ ronto. R12 RAZ-MAH For Sale by A. E. McKIM. AN OLD TEESWATER RESIDENT John Chapman, for many years a resident of Teeswater where he op­ erated a flour mill, died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. W. H. Brubak­ er, Rodney, Ont., on August 27th Up to the time of the death of his wife 13 years ago Mr. Chapman lived in Teeswater and then went to Rodney The remains were brought to Tees­ water for interment and the funeral was on* Wednesday of last week, and was conducted by the local Masonic Lodge of which the deceased was a member. Born in Banffshire, Scot­ land. the late Mr. Chapman came to Canada at the age of 12. Having learned the milling business he came to Teeswater and purchased the up­ per water-power mill and operated it for 35 years; He is survived by a a family of four sons and six daught­ ers. In a little while daughter will p-o back to school and then poor old mother will have no one to play the victrola while she washes the dishes. THE LUCKNOW SENTINEL Published every Thursday morning at Lucknow, Ontario. A. D. Mackenzie, Proprietor and Editor THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13. 1923 THE COAL PROBLEM The strike in the Pennsylvania anthracite coal mines has come and gone, and it is said that the parties to the dispute have signed an agree­ ment which should prevent trouble for two years. The next announce­ ment likely will be that owing to the increased cost of producing the coal under the new agreement the price to the consumers must go up. Let it go up; it’s not the only coal in the world, and it is now quite evident that we in Ontario must look elsewhere for our fuel supply. Evidently the coal mine operators and miners of Pa. had come to the conclusion that they had a large sec­ tion of the continent at their mercy, and that they could dictate terms. The strike, we should remember, was as much against the consuming public as against the mine operators. Besides there is no certainty that there has not been collusion between the operators and the striking miners —the scheme may well have been to create a scarcity of coal just as wint­ er was coming on, and thus prepare favorable conditions for a boost in the price. The experiences of the past few years have gone far to convince mil­ lions of hard coal users that this particular brand is not an absolute necessity. Only a small minority of coal-users the world over have ever used or even heard of the Pennsyl­ vania anthracite. However, independence of these quarrelling miners and mine-owners of Pennsylvania does not wholly solve the fuel problem. Other coal miners also go on strike, and should they ever become sufficiently organized and feel that they have the drop on the public, we may expect the same sort of jockeying in the soft coal mines as we have had in the hard. It is unfortunate, and speaks badly for our civilization that with unlimited supplies of fuel available, there is at times little to be had. In the past two years there has been a great turning to electricity and oils as substitutes for coal. Oils cannot be looked upon as a perma­ nent fuel, for great as are the fields from which they are drawn, these are bound to become exhausted in the not distant future. Electricity produced from water power is at present the most pro­ mising source of relief. Managed as it is here in Ontario, the service is reasonably sure, and for those for­ tunate enough to be near the source of power, the cost is not beyond the means of the average man. For those at a considerable distance, heating by hydro electric is still out of the ques­ tion on account of cost. LAWLESSNESS Last week’s Kincardine Review had the following: In last week’s Review the town council offered a reward of $50 for the conviction of the persons who last Tuesday night destroyed much property about the work going on at Queen Street bridge. The same night the fence in front of Chief Farrell’s residence was also torn down and strewn about the pave­ ment. The following night the yacht of Mr. Gunderson, of Detroit, which has been in the harbor waiting to take the family home after spend­ ing the summer at the beach cot­ age, was entered and about 70 gal­ lons of gasoline drawn from the tanks. Tools and other articles were also carried away. This sort of lawlessness is becom­ ing altogether too common through­ out the province, and ’conditions aT Kincardine are perhaps no worse than elsewhere. It is impossible to say just to what the outbreak is due, and per­ haps there are a number of contri­ buting causes. One thing evident is that law and the officers and courts no longer command the old time re­ spect. For years the failure of the law has been more conspicuous than its enforcement. The defence of the law-breaker has become so developed that only in the plainest cases of guilt can the criminal be convicted. The result is that those criminally inclined have come to look upon the law and the machinery of law as a sort of farce. It is this sort of thing which has lead to the formation of such organizations as the Ku Klux Klans and the Fascist!, with “lash­ law” and lynch law in the United States. The fault is not all with the officers of the law and the courts. The people as a whole are to blame. There is too great a readiness to pity the criminal, forgetting that he had no pity for his victims. Some refer to this pity for the criminal as “over civilized” or “over humanized.” It is not over-civilization. The highly civ­ ilized man knows the meaning of “spare the rod and spoil the child,” and that a strict enforcement of the law is a mark of high civilization. Too many have the ideas that laws are designed to punish the law-break­ er instead of to protect the innocent in their rights of life and prosperity. There seems little hope that the old machinery of the law will improve, and if the lawlessness keeps on folk will have to look more and more to self protection, perhaps through the formation of vigilance committees or “klans” of some sort. -----0-0-0----- AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENTS Although only the more serious automobile accidents are reported, each issue of our daily newspapers contain reports of from one to a half dozen. All such accidents cannot be avoid­ ed, and occasionally even very care­ ful drivers will go into the ditch; but it is not too much to say that 99 per cent, (perhaps one might say 95 or even 99 per cent.) of these accidents ’.re due to senseless fast driving. It is surprising all the speeding that some get away with; but some day the speeder strikes an unexpected rut or loose gravel, or another car unex­ pectedly comes in from a cross-road, and there is a wreck. These condi­ tions prevail upon the roads, and will prevail for a long time. The roads must be periodically coated with gra­ vel to keep them in condition, or rain may carry a quantity of loose sand to the foot of a hill, and there will be rutts and “chuck-holes” as long as we use “dirt roads.” Conditions will be better when the roads are made wider and smoother. Then the sensible driver can at least avoid the road hog; but for the speed fiend even the wide road affords little security, as speed usually is increas­ ed in proportion as the road is good, so we hear of about as many tak­ ing to the ditch affd turning turtle on the good roads as on the bad. If only the “fiend” himself were killed or injured there would be no great harm, but too often the limbs and lives of innocent folk are endan­ gered as well. THE DISAPPOINTED HARVESTER No doubt there is a good deal of truth in the stories Coming from the West about many British emigrants being disappointed with conditions as they found them on reaching the harvest fields of the prairie provinces. No doubt the average emigration agent in Europe is windy and un­ truthful, painting conditions in this country in colors altogether too rosy. British harvesters stranded in Bran­ don say that they were told, before leaving the Old Country that they would readily get $4.50 per day from the time they landed until winter set in, that they could easily pay their passage money and have $250 to the good when they got back to England. They were also told of the great un­ occupied spaces of the West where there was land to be had for the tak­ ing. Such fine story-telling is downright fraud. There was no prospect what­ ever of the men getting $4.50 per day, for the farmers might as well let their wheat rot on the ground as pay men $4.50 to harvest and thresh it and sell at prevailing prices. The story of free land is even a greater falsehood and fraud. There is not now, and for ten years there hasn’t been any free land in our West that it would pay a man to take as a gift. But the lying agent must get re­ sults; he must get people to come over or he will lose his job, and if lies and misrepresentation will get them he will lie and misrepresent, excusing himself, perhaps, with the vague hope that it won’t be too bad for those he deceives, and that out of the lot Canada will get a few good citizens, even if they suffer in the making. But good will not come out of all the lying and misrepresentation. Many of these Britishers will return to their homes with much bad report and little good to say about the country. PROVINCIAL WHEAT POOLS Agricultural leaders in the three prairie provinces have decided to make a hurried effort to inaugurate a wheat pool to become operative for this season’s crop, if the necessary fifty per cent, of farmers can be signed up in time. The campaign is now under way, with that object in view. The proposed agreement with the grain growers will be an air­ tight legal document, binding them down to this arrangement for five years, during which time they agree not to sell wheat to any outside source whatever—on penalty of court proceedings and so on. Saskatchewan may condescend to permit one pool member to traffic with another mem­ ber of the pool, if the wheat is for food, seed or feed. Other than that every member binds himself to sell all his grain to the pool, and accept without question the executive’s judg­ ment in regard to price received and methods adopted even though indiv­ idual action might ultimately be more profitable or satisfactory. In turn, the pool executive claim this procedure will enable those farmers who ordin­ arily market their wheat in wagon lots and who thus have to accept street prices to secure the average snot price according to grade for the pool period. The provincial pools take the place of the compulsory wheat board, and? is the last card leaders of the grain "rowers have to offer their followers. Whether it will, as many farmers un­ doubtedly anticipate, result in an in­ creased price per bushel for wheat or stabilize the market, remains to be seen. That would seem to be beyond the control of any co-operative pool­ ing organization. Probably the most that can be hoped for, by way of im­ provement over the present highly developed system of marketing, is a more equitable price adjustment to the farmers in the matter of proper grading at the local elevators, when money is badly needed. In days gone by the hard-pressed wheat-seller, it se°ms, has too frequently been the victim of grading manipulation, and inveigled into selling number one wheat as number two or three, with the logical reduction in price. Faced with the problem of take it or leave it, force of circumstances has compell­ ed him to take the offer—and the loss. The wheat pool in any province will not solve the problems of the wheat growers. They are far beyond the price of wheat, which can be hon­ ed for under normal conditions. It may be a move in the right direction, along the co-operative trail, provid­ ing the right men are in control. The farmers have already built up large corporations of their own, ostensibly with the same hopes toward solving their problems. Today these very or­ ganizations are open to the same sus­ picions among the farmers individual­ ly, rightly or wrongly, as the com­ binations they started out to cure,— and, strange to say, many of the chief officials are now actively working for the pool. In dealing with the farmers as a class their own companies do not seem to have set their private corporative competitors even a good example. The outsider will watch the move­ ment with considerable interest. It marks the first step toward a sup­ posedly genuine co-operative move­ ment on a large scale to control the wheat growers who sign up, as,, well as their product and the marketing. The farmer is led by a blind hope that he may in the send secure more money for his wheat. The organizers have to make good, because the onus of proof and accountability rests with them. One prominent leader has in­ timated to the writer tha£ the west­ ern farmers as a class do not under­ stand the first rudiments of a proper co-operative spirit. Their first lesson is a compulsory one, more or less. While being carried along on on or- atorically created hectic wave of en­ thusiasm the leaders now plan to have the farmers at large jump into it on a tremendous scale—and sink or swim with the venture. Even now unanimity of action is not any too conspicuous, particularly in Alberta. Individualistic selfishness has plac­ ed Western Canada where it is today, and has been the cause of most of the present difficulties. Co-operation may mean its salvation, and this ap­ plies to not only the farmers, but every other angle of the social and commercial structure. The ultimate judgment will depend wholly on the spirit of the movement,—and to what extent the element of selfishness is eliminated.—Saturday Night. THE SAVING HABIT Anything which will encourage the habit of saving in this extravagant age is a blessing. The temptations on every hand are so alluring that it is very difficult for a young man of or­ dinary self-control to resist them and save his money. Thousands of young men who are receiving good salaries, some of them very large, never think of laying up a dollar for a rainy day. They never see anything in their sal­ aries but “a good time,” and they never develop the habit of saving. You ask them how they are doing and they will say, “Oh, just getting along,” “Just making a living,” “Just holding my own.” Just making a bare living is not getting on. The differ­ ence between what you earn and what you spend is power. It often meas­ ures the distance between success and failure. In many minds the economy faculties are not developed, or are so weak that they are not a match for the passion of spending for pleasure.—St. Marys Journal-Argus. Most of those who hope for the best are content to hope instead of sweating to get results. What is the real story your coal bin tells—in tons of coal burned and in volume of heat ? For comfort, satisfaction and econ­ omy, install a Happy Thought Pipeless Furnace. In no time you will find it’s the biggest thing in your home—big in value, as com­ pared to cost—big in convenience— big in comfort. A Happy Thought Pipeless Furnace solves the heating problem for the medium-size house. It sends a steady stream of thoroughly warmed, hu­ midified air straight up into the house. The principle of rising hot air and descending cold air, as applied in this furnace, does the rest. Draught;, corners vanish, cold spots disappear. There is no dirt, dust or gas—no coal waste. For larger homes Happy Thought Pipe and comb: :ation furnaces: Ive the problem. Let us have a plan of your house and we will advise ; ou. Happy Thought Heaters bring comfort and econ­ omy into the home. Happy Thought Ranges make cooking and bak­ ing easier. For Sale by RAE & PORTEOUS FELD RESPONSIBLE FOR CARE OF ELECTRIC METER A case to come before a recent Division Court sitting at Walkerton was that of the Walkerton Electric Light and Power Co. which sued Fisk & Crawford for $37.40 meter repairs. It appears that the meter at the flour and feed store was tampered with by some person or persons unknown. Marks on the instrument which ap­ peared to have been made by a ham­ mer caused the meter to slacken its daily race The meter had to be tak­ en out and fixed and the internal parts readjusted. Both of the defend­ ants disclaimed any knowledge of the meter becoming damaged. The Judge, however, held that reasonable care of the meter should have been taken by defendants while it was in their possession and adjudged them re­ sponsible for making good the re­ pairs. D. Robertson K.C. appeared for the Electric Light Co. and Mr. O. E. Klein appeared for the defend­ ants. -----o-o-o----- FOURTH CON., KINLOSS (Intended for last week) Mr. and Mrs. O’Brien, of Toronto, spent Labor Day with Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Little. Mr. and Mrs. R. Haslam, of Tor­ onto, motored up to Jas. McLeod’s on the 6th. last week. Miss Hannah McDonald is home from Detroit to spend a short time with her brother, Kenneth. Miss Bessie McKenzie returned to the scene of her labors in the State of Alabama, on Monday last. Mr. and Mrs. Bain, on the 6th., and Mrs. T. Robinson visited Mrs. Wm. Fraser at her home in Goderich on Sunday. Harvest is drawing to a close in this neighborhood. The late rains have somewhat retarded progress in that respect, but they have been of vast importance to the country. Stook threshing has been introduced along this line this season, and fall plowing has begun. -----o-o-o----- A DISAPPOINTED LOVER A tall, green-looking Vermonter once walked into the office of Dr Jackson, the chemist. “Dr. Jack- son. I presume?” said he. “Yes, sir.” “May I close the door?” and he did so; and after having looked behind the sofa and satisfied himself that no one else was in the room, he placed a large bundle, done up in a yellow bandana on the table and op­ ened it. “There, doctor, look at that.” “Well I see it.” “What do you call it, doctor?” “I call it iron pyrites.” “What! isn’t that g,oT’~” “No,” said the doctor, “it’s good for nothing: it’s pyrites,” and when he put some over the fire on a shovel it evaporated up the chimney. “Waal,” said the poor fellow, with a woebegone expression, “There is a widder woman up town that has a whole hill full of that, and I’ve been and married her.” Mr. Andrew Schmidt, of Carrick, is doing his bit towards keeping Car­ rick on the man agriculturally. In his three exhibits at the National Exhibition a’t Toronto this year he secured first prize for oats, first rize for wheat and second prize for wheat sheaf, Poes Your a Cool Bin Tell' |GOT NE/R THE GRAVEYARD IN MORE WA5 S THAN ONE Three young- feLows from Listo­ wel, Eldridge McKinnon, Wellington Ronald and Will Dixon came close c to the cemetery than they will ever want to again, on Sunday afternoon, when a Ford Car in which they were heading for Wingham, got out of control, smashed off a mail box post at Tom Thompson’s gate, turned right about .rolled completely over and uprighted itself again, badly smash­ ed and out of the ^running. Young McKinnon was driving and the accident happened 'nposite the graveyard, boundary west. How the boys all escaped injury is simnly an­ other miracle added to the many that happen on the road. They say they weren’t travelling fast, and that the steering wheel was probably at fault. The car had been secured by Mc­ Kinnon from Zurbri^g & Bender, for a trip to Stratford. This was made Sunday mornino-, and the planned jaunt to Wingham was an “extra” that may be accounted for through the driver, sailor like, having a girl in too many ports. Damage to the car, which was brought back to Listowel by employ­ ees of Hube’s garage, included a ruin­ ed top, spokeless rear wheel, twisted spring and broken radius rod. The radiator, fortunately, didn’t even spring a leak.—Listowel Banner. From Bed To Work In Three Weeks Dreco helps put Wm. Walker on his feet and enables him to return to work. “For the past year my husband has been a sufferer from ulcers on the stomach.” says Mrs. William Walker, of 158 Aileen Ave., 'ioronto, Ont. 'His food lay in his stomach and would not digest and he frequently nad severe vomiting spells. He was on a diet most oi the time. This re­ sulted in his entire system becoming run-down. He had chronic constipa­ tion and was very restless and ner­ vous. “About three and a half weeks ago I brought him home a bottle of Dre­ co. fie tried it and said that the first dose seemed to give him relief and eased his stomach of the terrible pains that griped him. His bowels oecame more regular. “We are both greatly pleased with the benefits Dreco has already pro­ duced. My husband’s system is im­ proving- generally and after the se­ vere trouble he has just passed through, he was able to return to work in three weeks’ time. “Mr. Walker is feeling very much stronger and I want him to continue this good medicine, as it is the first medicine we have found that goes right to the root of his troubles.” Dreco’s beneficial action on the or­ gans of digestion is remarkably quick and thorough. No matter how severe the case or how long standing, Dreco will help. This remedy contains no mercury, potash or habit forming drugs. It is made solely from herbs, roots, bark and leaves and has estab­ lished an enviable reputation, earned only bv genuine merit. Dreco is being specially introduced in Lucknow by Dr. A. M. Spence, and is sold by a good druggist every­ where, * ____