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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1936-11-12, Page 2. i J L. I uu'-J '■!!£’ PAGE TWO WINGHAM ADVANCE-TIMES ! Thurs., November 12, 1936 The Wingham Advance-Times Published at WINGHAM - ONTARIO Every Thursday Morning by The Advance-Times Publishing Co, Subscription Rate — One Year $2.00 Six months, $1.00 in advance. To U, S. A., $2.50 per year. Foreign rate, $3.00 per year, Advertising rates on application. ROOSEVELT’S VICTORY Many look on the sweeping victory of President Roosevelt last week as a personal triumph. This may be a fact but one thing is certain, that the people of the United States spoke with their ballots in no uncertain terms when they elected as the first citizen for a second term Franklin Roosevelt. The President had incorporated in his platform many ideas that Labor had for years been wanting and it was natural that this vote was almost sol­ idly behind, him. So often we have heard it said that these are changing times and that new ideas, reforms arc necessary if we! are to continue with our present idea of government. President Roosevelt’ has views along these lines and, no doubt, he will put many of them into force in the next four years. President Roosevelt has been elect­ ed by such a large majority that he will be able to carry out his plans. The speed with which he does this may not suit those who are for very quick changes but the legislation that will take place in the United States during his second term of office will be watched with interest throughout the world. In other countries where dictators rule, the majority are backing these men in power, but not with a popular free vote such as was given to the First Citizen of the United States, The people of the United States went to the polls able to vote as they so desired and they gave Roosevelt a mandate such as no other President ■has received for years. The people ’have put it fairly and squarely up to ’him. THE COST OF CRIME “Crime does not: pay.” J his beetle said over and over again and it can be said that crime does not pay in two ways. First, there is the un­ fortunate who, through a wrong against society, is called before the bench. If the crime is of a minor na­ ture, the accused is let off with a warning, suspended sentence or small fine. The accused is now on the downward path in a great many cases. The crime may be of a more serious nature and the offender is given a term in prison and it is difficult for such a person to shake this stigma ■off. Crime does not pay. The second way that crime does not pay is in the fact that the cost of protecting society is very large. Offenders must be prosecuted which entails a large expenditure. The in­ stitutions for correction and impris­ onment are a heavy burden for the taxpayer. The recent trials at Walkerton are said to have cost $2500 but that is just a Start for five people will for years be a charge on the government. Truly crime does not pay. s’r ❖ The weather prophets are very busy these days with their predictions. Some say snow very soon, some, no snow till Xmas, some, that it will be a green winter, others say, more snow than last year. Take your pick, it is almost as uncertain as who will win the stork derby. The National Motor Show is under way in Toronto, The new models are beautiful, powerful, and it is no won­ der so many new cars are purchased. Judging by the sales tobacco dealers this sure of our smokes at least. %Tn be sure of getting quick-starting has ❖ J. In a recent interview, cheering in­ formation about the gradual lessening of unemployment in his district was given by Mr George H. Langan, Sup- last for of Canadian week we arc another year “Try Courtesy” slogan. sfc s’< * * Royal Winter Fair which op- Toronto on Nov. 18th, has a Near Listowel recently a buggy was hit by a motor car but the motorist was nowhere to be seen after the ac­ cident, Evidently some have not heard of the * an lu L E. J. Nash, Diagonal Road Service Station all winter long Starting Trouble change to J ao-w The ens in record entry of 16,000, Not since 1929 has this fair had such bright pros­ pects. c :|t >’< * It is said that the price of potatoes will increase considerably due to a mediocre crop in the Maritimes and the smallest crop in years in the Un­ ited States. We fellows ona diet have one less thing to worry about. jjt s?c sk The days of the fowl suppers are over for another -year. Cheer up, it will not be long until we will be sit­ ting up to our Xmas dinner. * -i' By the way, there are just 37 shop­ ping days until Xmas. How time flies. ❖ ;i: * ❖ Canada’s exports for the month of October set a new high for the past seven years. The actual total is about $111,000,000. This is a very encour­ aging sign. UNEMPLOYMENT LESS IN HURON, BRUCE AND PERTH COUNTIES Bggxss-x: -J-X • Kg®' -S .< -Jv* George H. Langan In charge of Ontario Unemployment in Huron, Bruce and Perth- Counties, crintendent of the Ontario Employ­ ment Service for Huron, Bruce and Perth Counties. “I am very much encouraged by the steadily increasing demand for labour;’ sand Mr. Langan. In the two years he has occupied his present position Mr. Langan has made strenuous efforts to widen the HYDRO LAMPS TheLon^ Life Lamps 1 Wingham Utilities Commission Phone 156. stop nt any. 1 UN DC THIS WINTER, BUY YOUR EXTRA QUICK-STARTING WITHOUT PAY­ ING EXTRA FOR IT. ♦. buy it at the Blue Sunoco pump. This year’s Blue Sunoco has been carefully, deliberately, built to give you sure-fire, instantaneous starting all winter long. And it stays started, too,—ready with lightning-like acceleration, high test action and economical long mileage, made doubly economical by its regular gas price. W?®?Jse“s BL' IEGUIBR GRS ) This winter—when it conies to dependable quick-starting you’ll come to Blue Sunoco! 9R Wingham ONTARIO MINISTER IN HOLLYWOOD Hon, David A, Groll, minister of public welfare and labor of Ontario, being greeted by Dorethy Field and Slim Summerville on his arrival in Hollywood* The purpose of his visit to the film centre is to attend the pre* view of the quintuplets1 new picture “Reunion1’ in his capacity as one Ot the guardians of the Dionne quints. of the south. It was quite cold and there were occasional showers in Michigan, -Ohio and northern Ken­ tucky. hi southern Kentucky the wea­ ther became bright and warm and continued getting warmer through Tennessee, Georgia and Florida. It is real summer heat here at- present the temperature being between 80 and 90. The trip here this year was not so interesting as last fall as the leaves were not so highly colored by the frost and sunshine so did 'not give the var’agated landscape of a year ago. What we lost in beauty of scenery was made up in noticing the various occupations the people were engaged in, in the different states. Ohio be­ ing a great corn state, is very product­ ive and by the appearances of’ the beautiful homies must be very pros­ perous. Kentucky is"noted for its fine stock, the fields showing vast flocks of sheep, many pigs and some very fine herds of Jersey cattle. Parts of Ken­ tucky are also noted for fine horses but as they are mostly stabled this time of the year we did .not see many of them. In Southern Kentucky and Tenn­ essee the country is quite mountain­ ous and we who live in a rich fertile land like Oiftario wonder how the people there make a living. Many of the men in those states are engaged in coal mining while the women are exceptionally clever with their hands judging from the wonderful displays of bedspreads, mats, aprons, cushions, etc., hanging on lines by the roadside. Through Georgia many were engag­ ed in pulling cotton as the season was somewhat later this fall. As we cojitinued our journey we passed through great areas of pecan orchards and peach orchards and fin­ ally reached the orange and grape­ fruit groves of Florida. I have told you a few of the in­ teresting things in a trip to the land of sunshine but should you ever be I persuaded to come south don’t expect I to see all beauty and sunshine for you J will be. disappointed. .vavowi w.n ... -___ I We were fortunate in making the burg. We find the weather here much [fifteen-hundred mile journey without warmer than in Ontario and we wcreihavmg either misfortune or accident, glad to change from the warm wool-, We will be glad to welcome any lens of the north to the light cottons I of our friends of Wingham to the 1 { usefulness of the Ontario Employ­ ment Service, by going out into many municipalities in his district and in­ viting municipal clerks to co-operate by registering applicants in their own area, so that contract work' will be more equitably distributed among those on relief and those who have srtuggled to keep off relief but whose plight may be even worse than those on relief. Splendid success has met his efforts in this regard. Every effort will be made, Mr. Lan­ gan said, to persuade employers to encourage their workers, when they were laid off temporarily or perma­ nently, to register at the Employment Service office in Stratford. Steps will be taken, too, he said, to try to encourage employers to use the ser­ vices of the government bureau. Heads of industries will be asked to not only report their labour needs, but to advise the Employment Serv­ ice when mtn arc employed. "Men who register at our office when seeking work have the advant­ age of a service which is provincial­ wide,” said Mr. Langan. “It Would be more beneficial to employees a'nd employer alike if our services more widely used.” were A LETTER FROM SUNNY FLORIDA and Mrs. Peter Gowans Tell Of Their Trip to Florida/ Crawford Block. .Apt. 4, 604 7tli St, N., St, Petersburg, Florida. Oct 23, 1936 Messrs. Armstrong and McCool, Wingham, Ont. Dear Sirs:— * We arrived here safely on Wed­ nesday afternoon, October 21st. We left Wingham on Thursday, October 15th, on the 2 o’clock train and went as far ns London. We spent the night and must of Friday in London, the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Frank White­ halt. We lest London about 3,30 p.m. Saturday and in q, little over five days reached ottr destination at St. Peters- sunshine city. We are living in Aunt Genie’s Ap­ artments, the same place and-address we had a year ago. These rooms looked quite home-like and enticing to us after travelling for five days. With kind regards ’'to our* many ‘friends in the Home Land, we remain Yours sincerely, Mr. and Mrs. Peter Gowns. FORMER LOCAL DOCTOR FINED AT HANOVER H. Gordon Webb, who practiced medicine here a few years ago, was fined $25 and costs, at Hanover, on the charge of practicing or professing to practice medicine for hire, gain or hope of reward and on a charge of assuming, using or employing the title of doctor, surgeon or physician or a prefix or affix indicative of such titles, he received suspended sentence. Webb announced immediately the close of the hearings that Would appeal the decision at once, defended himself on all charges. The ex-doctor, who was stricken from the rolls of the college in 1934 for alleged advertising of his profes­ sion in a manner contrary to the eth­ ics of that institution, charged that he was being persecuted by a band of lawless slaughterers,” and that there arc patients dying on the oper­ ating table every day while submitting themselves to unnecessary opera­ tions.” BROKERS GIVEN FIVE- YEAR TERM IN PEN Passing of sentence Thursday after­ noon on Gordon G. McLaren and Robert S. Fletcher, Toronto brokers, who earlier in the day pleaded guilty to 32 charges of theft, one of forg­ ery and one of uttering the forged document, marks the finish of the famous Huggard. case that has been in the public eye since last Spring, Late Thursday afternoem Mr, Jus­ tice Nicol Jeffery, the presiding jur­ ist at Goderich, sentenced McLaren to a term of five years in Kingston penitentiary to date from Thursday, Fletcher drew a similar term of five * years, but his sentence is to date from the time of his arrest in May last. Some weeks ago John J. Huggard, former Seaforth lawyer, was sentenc­ ed to three years in the penitentiary after., he had confessed to theft charg­ es involving approximately $150,000. This sum was largely in the form of securities intrusted to him by his cli­ ents and which were used in payment ’of or security* for stocks purchased through the fiam of McLaren and Fletcher. It was expected that the case would last two weeks -until the sudden plea of guilty was made. Huggard gave evidence for the Crown against his former business associates.