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Telephone 116 , GiMIi. Out.
11. H. Ro.tatt•aott, editor and Massager
Thursday, March ZBrd, 1931
REGIIaTRIBGTION RUISOR8
The latest news from Ottawa with
regard to the coming redistribution 1s
that several municipalities of South
Huron are to be incorporated with
the present North Huron to make a
larger North Huron riding; the re-
maining portion of the present South
Enron to be Joined with South Perth
la a new riding.
ha Che same time rumor has 11 that
the neighboring county of MOM wall
a smaller population than Huron, 1s
to be undisturbed.
The unit of repreeentaUon for rural
ridings, it tz said, Is to be 25,000. The
present North Huron has a popula-
tion of 22,882; South Hurop has
22,518- hese figures are not much
abort of the requirement, and the
4: present division of Huron Is so gmiu-
entty fair and eatidactory that it
should not be disturbed except with
very good reason,
s r At any etas, the people of Huron
tM�ald relent the proposed rearrange -
MIS while tbe county of Bruce, with
• Mealier papuiation, is allowed to
Mamie intact with two represents -
NOT A GOOD ROADS
£YOOIATION
Ylncardlis will not lend support to
the Blue Water Highway Assodatlos
this year, rye council decided. We be-
lieve
eSteve tele 1s a wise step. The
Blue Water route is anything but a
klghway and pavement between Kla-
eardlne and Goderich would be of far
more value to this town.--Rlacardlne i Finding that she was left shote to
Review -Reporter.
ED1TOEIAL NOTI$
The best thing that can tie said
about the Federal budget Is that 1t to
no worse than waa expected.
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According to the calendar, Tues-
day, March 21st. was the greet day of
epring ; but the weatherman evidently
pays no attention to the caleadu.
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Mussolini demands that Italian
women fatten up, anti in Germany
Hitler to going to compel everybody
to go to church. R. B. Bennett as a
dictator has still a few steps to go.
• • •
Says The St. Catharines Standard,
-The people of this country will not
tolerate hapocrites who purport to
render service in Parliament and at
the same time gouge the public in
private."
• • •
Mr. Bennett prgposea a plebiscite
as the railway gsestloe. But did not
that other great Canadian, G. Howard
If erguson, declare that plebiscites
Mire un -British, cowardly expedients
of which no statesman would make
use -or something to that effect?
• • •
Aildressing the Toronto Board of
Trade, Hon. H. H. Stevens, Minister
of Trade and Commerce, said he
thought the depression bad been
greatly exaggerated. It would be
interesting to ledrn the honorable
gentleman's ideas as to what a real
depression should be.
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The United States Is Met beginning
to discover that they have hurt them-
selves more than Canada by their
nitr.-hlgh tariff polities. -London
Free Press.
Just transpose the words "Canada"
and 'Yoe United States" and the para-
graph will be just as much to the
point.
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Great Britain placed an embargo
upon the export of munitions of war
to Japan and China, hoping that
other nations would follow salt.
While not presuming to comment exercise her spirit of benevolent self-
apon the decision of the Kincardine ssorifice, she has reversed her decl-
lown council wiitb _reference to 4.w
e port of the Blue Water Higawaf- .
• sudation, The Signal cannot renal
has ■ word or two on the reason
given by The Review -Reporter for
its decision. It has been explained
ever and over again that the Blue
Water Highway Association has no -
.o
thing to do with the highway In Itself
lb location. Its upkeep, Its improve-
ment -these are matters quite outside
et its provisos. although tbe Associa-
tion is always ready to give Its moral
support to any movement foe the lm-
provemest of the reed. e
What, then, la the function of tbe
.rites' Aasodatios? It Is to advertise the
advantages and attractlotu, partieu-
ktPrIeli and simltt .,v1et
twf 4M 'Air af.
Bine Water Highway. its booklet
Owned annually tells of the many at-
tractive places In the district, 1s -
eluding Kincardine. Wille most of
Saba' visitors may come by automoblle
Siang the route of the Blue Water
Highway, that is only a secondary
matter -they may come by bicycle,
sty steam railway, or by airplane if
they will; the thing 1s to get them to
some, and to stay as long as they can
des and lifted the embargo. It east
-oat-veer toeady-
bitios et Rio import .1 arum would
work to the disadvantage of China,
depriving her of the means of reslat-
Ing the aggreselon of Japan, which is
well provided with war material.
• • •
Canadians sometimes poke fun at
the slow and devious ways of the ad-
minlstration of justice In the United
States; bat tbe prompt trial and exe-
cuttos of the assassin Zanier* shows
that the United States courts have
Bose facilities for sped It was ea
February 15th. at Miami, Florida,
that Zangara shot Mayor Cermak of
Chicago In an attempt to kill Presi-
dent-elect Roosevelt. Cermak died
t I, Val Imams Weise menthe
la electgr'eritrorrIPItilillag
prison on March 200.
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be persuaded to stay, rather than to
wills by on a paved speedway.
Goderkh, like Kincardine. would
Eike to see a start tnada.anthe pav-
ing of the higbway ; but under exist-
ing circumstances this le au im-
provement for which we may have to
wait for some years. In the mean-
time It will hardly do for the people
of Eaeardili and Ottikerick and the
other teem Is the dbttrfet to act
around and do nothing until a mo-
ment Is constructed along the lake
read.
DONT BE A QUITrL&,
GEORGE I
The member for North Huron 1s a
member of the committee of Perlla-
Ment wbich V investigating the
"spread" of milk prices -the dispar-
ity between the peke paid by the con-
sumers and the amount recelved by
the producers. Mr. Spottoa, ataord-
Ing to a report from Ottawa, pro-
fesses to be displeased with the lack
of professes the committee le making
In It. Investigation, and threatens to
Leave the committee and "go out and
make anowbabla'• if something mere Is
n ot done.
Membership to this committer. tires
Mir. Spotton an opportunity to do
something worth while for the dairy
farmers of the country. He is aerial-
ty responsible with every other mem-
ber of tbe committee for the programother felltner,' remarked a man on the
sr lark of progress ft 1s making. Hie street.
threat to quit and "go out and make "Oh, not much," replied the farm-
esewbaas" leaves the Imprewlon that gnietty, "that's all he's got behind
Ilse I. not above making a play to the tee milrrc...
Uer fie la not Id to trate
THE COMING WEEK
IN CANAuA'S PAST
Compiled from Plies of The
Montreal tiafatte
by F. J. N.
•Jhelum es memory Mrs•e•ussed"
ltrt1.-'Pitts day marks the end of
the struggle far 'supremacy in the
fur trade of Canada by the aIualga-
watton of the Hudass's Bal Company
and the North-West Company. la
1779 the Madrona Bay Company was
faced with competition from the
North -Wert Company ; there was bit-
ter rivalry. even kUlings by the em-
ployees u4. the two companies.
1823.-T7ltaoMrurg In Upper Cku-
eda was founded and named after a
miller
wbo located there. In the
course of time one "1" got left out and
In 1902 a special act of the Ontario
Legtalature was Massed making the
(Metal spelling with two 'l's."
1860. -The Queen's Own Rifles
were organised at Toronto. They
have a splendid record; Fenian raids
of 18611 and 1870; Red River under
Wolseley, 1870; Northwest rebel-
lion, 1885; South African War, 1900,
and the World War, 1914.
Mand 4.7
1778. -Captain James Cook arrived
,ha Nootka and tool the attR_.rto
cltalieuge the Spanish claie�e_t
ms the
North Pacific Coast.
18411. -Fredericton, the capital of
New Brnnewitk, was Incorporated as
,a city. Its original name was 81.
Ana's Point.
1883. -Madame Album, after win-
ning world fame In Europe, ems giv-
en an omclal welcome back to Mon-
treal. •
1974. -'The death took place of 81r
Byron E. Walker, president of the
Canadian Bauk of Commerce.
*trek 28
1752. -The Nova Scotia Gazette,
the Hast newspaper in British Amer-
ica, was Issued at Halifax. A mem-
orl.l tablet marks the place of publi-
cation.
1832.-A bill for the tncorporatioa
of Brockville ad a town was passed by
the Upper Canada Legeslatnre.
March 99
RICH. ONT.
V
;ee 'fie Like
By A. W. B.
Orator contests have beta Maser- sleeping ,Arouse speeches at times, or
that he had good cause tor physical
exhausttoa that night. 1f not, It
would be must likely that he would
question Mermen as to whether be bad
trees bright and anteroom( enongn, or
had he beta tom teagthy. or had his
style been at fault. People go to
sleep and those who do not are not
roused very readily, wben care is not
taken on all these points. To remain
cold and academic and abstract,
lacking a wise and schooled imagine -
[Ion, Is to lose grip on the •udlence
and they alp, aye. Into the laud of
nod and into tbe 14ngdom of the un-
interested.
If we are dell, why should people
take pains to listen to us? We must
try to be Interesting. Macaulay says
that Spenser has one fault in trying
to carry his readers through "Feerte
Queen." with all Its splendor of
mimed successes, and that fault he
tediousness. It is only a little and
weary company that plods on to the
very end. Some withers might study
that comment ; 1t Illy- explain why
there are no Laces lit up and no
breathless catching of what 1s being
said at the close of the address.
Brevity Is a point not to be over-
looked. it is an easy fault to be far
too long -and try to pack in too much.
Luther admired the speaker who
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