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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Signal, 1935-4-25, Page 2$-'1'Lurada,. Ayrli 26th, 11100 THE SIGNAL Eireamosatao tett OODERIOH CANADA I,re.ew of Catalans Weskit, NawoaeYer• A•a••IstbO Published every Thursdayttlg. Subscription price $2.00 per ysat; Ir held tit adra THE SIGNAL PRINT/MI Telephone 36 Goderich, Ont. W. H. Row'raoN, Editor and Manager Thursday, April 25tb, 11133 • 117 •DITORIAL NOM H Adapt '9RAr \f t011 gait a few other fellows could be iso - sated, It would be a great thing for the peace of the world—but what would the dally newspapers do for "copy"? • • • A Kansas City chemist says be has determined by tests that young cereal grasses bare more value than lettuce, spinach, carrots or some other well- known vegetable greens. Nebucbad- oesaar, StJteems, /we few centuries abead of has this. •—!— !! • 74111' With earthquakes, dust storms and other plagues visiting various parts of the world, the people of Western Ontario may congratulate themselves en their good fortune In living In this favored land. But we could do with a govt! rale just now. 'Morley Park (the) official reeldenee of the Lieutenant -Governor) Is for sale. it will not be easy to find a buyer for It, even among Toronto's millionaires, and we predict it will to stand in the way of the degrade - tion of tvm lan speech to the level of that of the uututored savage? LONDON'S GIU IN BELT (8t. Thomas Times -Journal) The 'Loudon county council has set aside the sum of $10,10010,000 to buy up laud so as to preserve for all time a green belt around luudou, so that, uo Matter how big the metropolitan area grows, „ f¢ fits itet`ap-Iles green gelds, trees eel flowers. ThTj is a comuwwdable spirit worthy of the greatest city 10 the world. Loudon Is well supplied with parks and open spaces, far more so. for example, than New York, and the tranaportatloa ttys• tem i% an extensive. rapid and eisap that it does not take long to get out BUILDING ANEW (Vancouver (B.C.) Sun) Nearly seventeen years have elapsed since the close of the great war—the longest period In the world's history that man has been without a major conflict. There is, too, a steady socialltati of government. Whatever direct' this tendency takes, it is bound result In a , more humane consider tion for women and children and th aged and helpless. Materially, the past live years have been had. Mentally. they have been excellent. Our clothes have gone shabby and we hare not eaten regularly. But we have gained a new conception of things, The whole world Is more In- tellectually alert than It ever was before. We are more frank. more thought - on on to meats between employers and employ- e- ees in respect to hours and wages. e • • • Empowered the Ontario Hydro to undertake its own financing by the issuance of Hydro bonds guaranteed by the Province. This will wipe off about 1187,000,000 of the Provincial debt created through capital advances to Hydro uudertakinga. What the Ontario Legislature Di Session under the Hepburn Ad Unanimously endorsed a formal re- aolutlon e:uugralulating bis Majesty King. Georgie % un the approach of tbe twenty-fifth auutreraary of bis act -ea lit ilio- tit OSiti 190 praPed for the continued health and happiness of his Majesty and Ills consort. The motion was introduced by l'remlet Mitchell b'. Hepburn and seconded by the lead- er of the Opposition, lion. George 8. Henry. • • • Approved of the cancellation of ex - power purchase contlra is with fear-. Quebec companitw-- oplr•eis wbleb tied ;Wares up to the purchase of huge blocks of "unwanted power" for a period of forty years. • • • Provided a seventeen-year permanent guerdtaushlp for the Dioune qulutu plets. • • • Endorsed the Industrial Standards Act. which laves the way for agree - Was there ever a finer founded with our great natural wealth. upo ahlch to hnlld s new world? KEEPING 1"Ot'NG The secret of keeping Rong is k • • • Passed legislation calling for the amalgamation orf Windsor, Sandwich, East Windsor and Waikervilie. on, Set an all-time record for night D aitttngs—one session being continuous for thirty-seven hours. • • • Extended time for payment of cer- rep- tale existing farm loans from twenty to thirty years. Join 'y'ellatt's Folly" as ea exhibit Ing growing...... •f outdated ambition. ... la .The deeper go the roots. the great- er the tree. A thousand agents have • • • ur _soil of modern lite Premier Hepburn spent the Easter for Wan and giren Mu; rootage One week -end at his farm near St. Thomas explanation of the astonishing youth of people today compared with the mental attitude of their forbears at a 'similar age is tbe zest wh'rh tomes celery this year—bath nerve foods; to us from a variety of Interests. so his opponents may look for more People today are alert to wast 1s trouble. going on around them 1n the world. • • • Never have so many men and women - m It is startling to be dattu•d thatllawn o of Europe -national and inter - Wad. -la-lura far country whose goings-on were o no concern to anybody but a little company of scholars and diplomats Today her troubled states are as close giving directions for the spring work. 19e 1s going In strong for oolong; and ? Wage tis itpabodi Pae 0t English mid* Its a1• pr.valsat. 11 nniverslty - d an tit M staid a test of • IMmlp,,,,Kadwiedge K &a (Iaattttilos of laii;;lii UN** wits 1H -wit sr of Canada's ten million people more than 1.20001,000 are in receipt of relief. Roughly, one-eighth of tbe total popu- lation of the count is unable to pro - to us as the neighboring common - ride sustenance or Heel!. iltellef w.aith measures are need - but the greater f The world ie marine at a faster need ie that of measures to render IIII pate and people are getting more nut relief on such a great wale unneeeal°t their days Youth is tirwt and foremost a mental slant. We are saryr .• • • - This is 0. i:. A. week at Toronto, and Ontario's' educational system is -being ripped up the back, knocked tO pieces, tramped on, torn to bits, sneered at, anathematized, and gener- ally cussed and discussed at the an- ,ual talkfest. After grubbing with !\sir pupils POLITICS IN pup Prang steadily for seven sr eight months, the dominles like an BRUCE RIDING •pportunity'to blow off steam, as it as young as our interests. 117 taking thought a man rennet add a cubit to his stature. Mut be can_- acid years to his life, if In no Other way by making the brief years Picked with interest.—Albany (N,T.) Kne•kerlsa•ker Press. veers. • • • The Chesley Enterprise sizes up the Senator Dr. Ii. S. Ireland, who died situation in the riding of Brute as fob suddenlylows on Monday, was a prominent The new Federal riding of Idruce figure at Ottawa some years ago, constitutes ail North tlruee, Huron, when he wax a member of tbe Mac- t'ttlross, Kinloss and Green, ck town- kenzie King Cabinet. Ile we; in ship, and the villages of Ripley, Belgium in 1914 when the war broke I,u.•know and Teeswater of houth out, volunteered for service with the the s The npa,ltpatttitical complexion S of the woven munlcipelltfea of South Belgian medkxl stag, later was taken ('Brute is Liberal and, under a atraight prisoner by the (lermans, and after tt Party context, would give a maJority the war published a volume, "my I of abort 201 to the regular Liberal Three Years In a german Prison." i930 !fon. James Malcolm had a ma- jority of only seventy-seven. Since The Ottawa Government proposed to I then he hats net giver[ much attention spend a million dollars In the con- Ito his Parliamentary ditties on account wtruetlon of a tunnel under Toronto 1 of Illness and has been M the House 1 1�-tb iiairwirr idawe--wake v—ulr CvntmSe only a few weeks during ro e•t would have some merit as alto togaDee pt tthe pat rty nomin ti-- amain, } p J 1 {arty nomination again, relief measure, Opposition speakers ; though a strenuous political campaign thou;ht the money could he spent to; world '.'rtalnly 'shorten his life. as it ouch greater advantage --on slum hux many another eandIdate Inn eon ( stlluenry Ilke dtru,e, which Is over one clearance, elimination of level rail- hundred miles in length. Wm, Mit- way crosaings, or other projects that shell, the wealthy textile manufacturer tiiould result In general public bene- of Kincardine, Is almost certain to It. The vote was not passed, but ma - be the ('onaerntive candidate again. may come up again afar the recces. Be wan defeated by only a 'small Jority by Ilon. James Malcolm In 1930. • • • Mitchell Is a shrewd business man,1 The number of letters reaching the Inunenaely wealthy, ambitious, and 1s 1 editorial desk (probably all over the well abbe to Annum hie own campaign, Province as well as in oar own case) The polities! elhuNon has been Com• plicated by the revival of activity protesting the cancellation by the On- among the P.F.O. organisations In the tarso Government of Hydro power cos- Md Liberal townshipe of itrutse and !recta snggeah the exiatenee d a Saugeen and Kincardine, Kinloaa, Cnl- powerful finanelal interest seeking by roes and Huron township farmers can propaganda to discredit the Govern- easily have the old clasp xentlroenl oandklate. In the general election of • • • vent's aetlon. Much might be mid en both sides of the question, bat the die has been cast, and the Inter- ests behind the propaganda would be more practically employed in seeking to bring about • conference of the power barons with the Government with a view to the echelon of tbe *entracte. - • • • At the meeting of the Onta*lo Ediveatlonal Association It Is charged that examinations in English are be- ing awed to "slaughter" high school students looking to nniverslty ennrbee, Is order to prevent overcrowding of the unlverwltlew. Without knowing anything about the truth or (*laity of the charge, we sh°nid say that it is quite the right thing to require a nrouued by speakers for the i'.r.o. This endangers the political situation for Hon. Jame% Malcolm. Arthur itnrgees, ex -Reeve of Arran, a well-in- formed ngrlceltorlst with an excellent municipal record, la mentioned by The Tara Leader 9a a probable choice of the i'.F.O.-Later combination. There has been a great change in the lest I Ave yearn In the attitude of working- 1 men towards political affairs' In Can- ada and the employers of labor ran no longer exerelae the control of form- er years over how factory hands Pa- erei,e their frnnehlse. 1t !x the opin- ion of The Enterprise that with a furniture and n textile manufe•tnrer, booth enjoying high J prntprflce tarlf/n, t opposing each other 1t would he a splendid ehanee for * fermer-labar d candidate to win nut In the three- emmered contest In a riding over- whelmingly ran!. • • • Fwpnweret C.°operativeCold-Stor- age Aseociatdua to borrow amounts from the Government ranging from SattebtO to 150.010. • o • Ker n maximum for future farm loans at $7,510, instead of 112,000, and gave the Agricultural Development Board wider powers in regard to terms of repayment and consolida- tion of Indebtedness. • • • ` ,- meterthe Moth - 1- era' Allownnees Act. for widows with one child or one adopted child. .....• • • • n the Government to co-operate with Federal and Provin• Mal authorities, with a view to bring - Ing In an "adequate" system of un- employment Insurance for the Domin- ion. Petitioned the Federal Government to make old -age pensions applicable to blind person's over forty years of age. • o • "iFegortited Dominion authorities to sanction efd4ge pensions for persons who bare 'attained the age of sixty fire :Mara. • Altered the rT.,' year of the Province to sad b 31, instead of October al. ir l'ruvltlerl prom,ytiatitlretierna ibr persona aeektag � to Muniriyai offices. • Put sharper *i'3. the Sitik Con- trol Act.; abolished rebates to custom - eta, and empowered the consumer to sit in wltb producer and distributor on agreements cuucetelag priors, etc. • • • . seed the definite announ a Manion for the purl dotting meaeursu W cnmte added N. venue with a view to twlanclat tJM budget. • • • Approved of the Guteruweut's pay- ing the entire cost of eoustructnu and maintenance of Proxim utl highways. • • • Gave power to the Mlisniclpal Board to pass on all capital expenditures undertaken by any municipality in Ontario. • • • Endorsed the Mental-tttrspttatis bill providing better care tor the mentally 111, alcoholics a1d drug addicts, • • • Set a minimum of S. -S111 for rura school teachers' salarh•s. • • • Killed a bill regairiog all hairdres- sers and barbers in the t'rornee to become registered with the Ontario Hairdressers' and Barbers' Association. Gate the right to n majority of bondholders to take over the proper- ties of defunct companies. • • • Freed drivers and mo'tor.rar owners from responsibility in couuet•tiou with injuries to 'gratuitous passengers." • • • Endorsed tbe imposition of a tai ma raw products d krewe -a waken.. • • AgreedkPalmed the use „1 dogs in deer hunting, acid :, nusiltled • buck law to p m•ide prole, tom for does and fawns. • • • ;Heard the Premier announce that Cborley Park, the 'Awed home of the Lieutenant -Governor f th Pro 1 wouw be sold after , trtober' 31 1f ao adequate offer were received. • • • Heard the de*nitc hint thrown out that a Provincial Hoene; tax would be Imposed in the nc,er future. • • • Approved of as nditiduui s taking a greater supply of liquor into Pro- vincial parks. SPECIALS • Pull -on styles, and most at French Kid Gloves tractively finished and trimmed New blues and browns and black. 61/ to 7t/I size. Pair ■ SILK STOCKINGS All new shades in "Mercury and "Circle Bar." Chiffons, crepes and service weights. Sizes 9 to 10%...Pair 65c, 85c and $1.00 ANCY CASHMERE SOCKS Medium Spring weight wool cashmere Socks, in blues, grey, blue grey and other shades men like. Large variety of patterns. Sizes I0 to 12. Special, pair "KNIT TO FIT" THREE-PIECE DRESS SUITS Very new and made of finest botany wool. Choice of beautiful colors and $9.95 shades. Special PM -HOUSE DRESSES 10 dozen in a variety of tailored and fancy styles. Sizes 16 to 42. Special ..$1 SPRING COATS Very smart $12.00 and $15.00 48c .00 CURTAINS_ Heavy double thread fishnet weaves. ored or lace edges. Size 36" 1 214 yards. Regular *1.50. On sale, pair FLOOR COVERING OLElnrs, 0ONOOLE Fant PZLTOL in 2, 3 and 4 yards wide Extra heavy Linoleums. Alt new patterna, in 3 and 4 yards wide. At per square 85c yard AXMINSTER RUGS in dozens of new patterns. 3 1 3 yards.... $zi gyar+ds.... .�Z y sib. t Tail 98c $�255.0M0 $30.00 $35.00 Small House to Let -Every Convenience - Apply at once W. ACHESON & SON MU CANADA BEAUTIFUL Canada has been richly eudowed with great natural beauty, and excep where man in cities, towns, and vil 'ages has turned that lovelness Int a semblance of garbage dump:, tb land Is u vista of endless charm. Jus as a man is otttimes Judged by his clothes, so is a community appraised by its environment, and that euviron- n e v ore, Meat isat once the reapoaalbt'tty et every member of the communfty,- 1L diridually and collectively. The home atter all is the starting point for the most effective re_beautihcatlon of the spots despoiled of their natural grace, and, where each home 1, bes,tlned, the fulfilment of a romprehenelve acbeme of beauttlleatlon on reek' or community lines 'a made a compare tively easy matter. This has been amply proved by tbe poetess of the More Beautiful Canada rampelgn sponsored by the Canadian Horticultural Council a few years ago. The idea of beautifying the home sur- rounding* had. In many places, only to bre suggested t0 be acted upon, and now Canada possesses many more bean• tlful towns, rlllages and homes, some lowly but all the more lovely l❑ their lowliness. The use of flowers and plants on the porches and wall. of a home, to the gardens, and In adjacent spaces 1s not a matter of mere show. 1t goes deeper than that. in reality It strikes at the roots of civilization. Beauty represents the supremacy of the higher over the lower, of form over matter. So much sen, that if the world were one beautiful garden, and every inhabitant intereeted in It, 'there would be no more war. Every 'hit. man being is influenced to a greeter extent by hie surrounding's than 1. eneraliy realized. Where there is harmony—.and the harmon of flowers g of the hi suitable dowers and plants for tis SHOCKED AT SHELIA district. information win be Moe; was in the war, At eve ry given by the nearest agricultural cel- explosion he strove for the rear line. I lege, or the Experimental Farm of the His colonel talked to him thus: "You shouldn't be afraid, Mose. Why. what if you do dle. Heaven's your home." '-iaasuh, eh knows. But ab ain't botneak'k." Dominion or Provincial Department of Agriculture. 0 "Every man beienge to the rate stud owes a duty to mankind."—l:vangetlue Booth. • '• • Approved of t pls,tutmeut of 001 man as eomml r of T. & N. O. Italia -ay insttead o 4he present hoard of three members. _awe Endorsed iegirlatlsa whereby muni- cipalities must pay. for tbe burial of a veteran who dies out d hospital. A Star Man or a Straw Man? By A. W. B. young mrd." Mee do not so readily _Tbe__iatormmtion and *fere" ata l see that their queerness is another bare been tfeated to Ju the prime of name fur coldest spiritual functioning late, respecting the .yuakiug and use and idealism without which life loses 1 its halo. of a gigantic telescope to bring the ! -We are often commended to hitch heavens nearer the earth that men may - our wagon to a star. Perhaps the neighbor with the stars, will probably (reason is we hens believed and acted multiply interest and luvestlgation of 1 upon the belief of hitching to things the shining ways above and around us. 1 nearer at hand; And have not always Not only experts and astronomkal been as pertkular as we should in graduates will be more devoted star I the choke of what should pull our R Wren, but the ordinary man who knows wagon to the place of fame and plenty very little of stellar lure, but who , And the whips of pep, push, teltes- likes to lift up his eyes and contem- aertiveuess have been generously used y symbolizes the htendin r impOttseee—there ren be no diw-ord. plate, will more and myre fruitfully 1 to speed going to Rte's snares. There The story is the oldest one known. ovvupy himself to these O9eu highways I has not been lacking the jeer and Adam was appointed to dress the gar - of the universe. In Hamilton splen- laugh at those who have had the; den of Eden and to keep it. (lien. 2: 15.) their ea there in protestground. ,en .. - mat have I done! • SUPPOSE THIS HAD BEEN YOUR CHILD! r He did not do wo and was sent not of THE number of children killed and did organized work has been done by 'Arad In the stars. But some base Y M.C.A. authorfrtes and others 30 get had tlt 1 h tit the garden to t111 the (t• 3 the gauakarau,or thn•gpeln)Io taett,gga pj,eyppe yr_ iqp yr o ng - - injured by automobiles in Ontario doing .something worth while or the building up of the body and mind to onset and make nee of so many forced nnorupied hours in these days of worklettaaess. One can imagine how lit a ill w•1 2x3.0 ' children reared to love dowers iudiss-ridi,inate feet 1n amel y, ataln ng her' their hewraswelled w3tia-4er. lur mire. They prase the music of the beauty and thus have less room In sphere's to the ragtime and jazz of their hearts and minds for the !hinge vulgar lite. In the star way the star that hurt and destroy. man strikes tboe wonders and 1m- Rtill another point of view. The there might' be added to the athletic tnensities of a firmament that talk to progreeelvenese and thrift of a cont - program, and reading club, and him of an uauorldlluesa where roam- I manfty or mnpicflallty are often re- ctas•es in craftsman/ship the study of mon and disgusting blight hare no fleeted In its' epi earanre• and. while the stare; The libraries are open realms and lower Hare also tbe petty the Dominion ix atrem/sing the import• free with a groat variety of looks on and trifling things sink Into Inalgnifl. ante of the Influx of tonrlut,. the beat the subject. With dlligene•e and study canoe. Here hecaa agree with what our advertising that any eommnnity ran do In t• prevent a pleasing appearance• in the matter of what are the most a person could go surprisingly far In own Martin Burrell, of Canadian fame, this knowledge and science, as well soya In one of his Sae essays: "The a's fn any other motile tele of the spheres may In one sense One of the writer's most 'bell/Med not he a% formidable as jazz, and a memories as youth wax listening to wisp of hunting straw any pat out the the famous Sir Robert Ball lecturing stars an far as tbe otomer Is eon - on "The Telescope:' and how be rerned But better be a star man Plotted that lecture with an appeal to than a straw mea. To dwell for a thole who wanted to elilture the soul time in the eternal In the tar -of and powwow a lofty mind to take np the things. dopa at least give us a sense study of the 'stars. To pursue them of proportion and will conelnee ue that remote worlds with a revealing tole- In face of these Inneenaltles and mye- %a•ope was a wiper -elevating exercise. teries we make norweirss and others in this very p•acttcal age we are n• dlewwiy unhappy by fuming about liable to be engrossed merely In things many Infinitesimal things and t mpor- that wee e•an use for material comfort ere troubles." or with «bleb we ran make a whew. What a great many wen raged L The star -questing Wise Men of New something to take them out of them - Testament atnry are not an typical of selves them days. Sordid things the multitude es Herod, repuleire char- about them, petty troubles In 'scream - meter as ,he was. For ease, comfort, Ins number are stinging them. They power, rule. the posetieaainn of some- are victims of more hara.ement and dpteating power to get anywhere. it %nth would listen to the appeal of the lofty and Tose themselves' In the Im mensitiea of the nnirerse. how the thing we can tangibly grasp, as money, or weapons, or machinery, or sen mnceh property. neem to be more attractive than the peace end strength and wealth 1 r attainment Vol- pee% owing mental thenstar,rint al rellgfnn or cul- them, sunt Id h and the piffling Chinos about ter coral sense. as the wise, men ohowpd, Rnneen's Man with he ak,fornth- make. Ith a Slnrknke pth- make. A gond st0ty to read. Ret ening up the straws In hie traek with eoan't It belong to a dreamy age fit dIfllcnity and ser%rine.% 1% t.a net the high degree of proficiency In English I Pride is at file bottom of ell greet mistakes as a eoedlttoa to university entrance. "rho 1'x•4nlilt who 1014 In h1e heats, tiffs seh•ols should set themselves to 'All men are Ilars,' never formally re- tracted that swooping jniferhont" -Nein brew "A new end hetter busln as and In- vestment rtrnarlenee, to emerging out of thio-trmible M the pest Ave years," -W: Mw. • trolley suggestive poetic• setting sort of cartoon to Agar'. our pitiable here odd creatures' like camel. and Int. •'A tonic of Tag thing's," as ysterlonsly draped ernes'. and the Borpham. the psa7Lt, pots it. wnnid ire of anelent trail's with their an- redeem many a weary pettifogging paved road, ere present? Ilntchlnann 'soullmmonsltr is megnJMwent mell a a powerful novel has tntrodneed rine. The fiddle, -winking of life mey nto this world of things at 1e*et two he loaf In the cemtemplation of the harsetere who wonld fie? he eentent 1th living on the straw level of so tray aunt them, star men. 1n bather Mellott, and David (load Rut to so w m In 1 w A m a trempndnns. The star man who never loans hie feet hes a way and an at - tirade. 10 107 b31g of npannk and outlook, that the straw man need, to any who larked neon them and tried lift hint Shoop the paltry anti mean o *sheen. 'them the Ono sea "a and trivial of nesetishetery life hut heist Old tltrd," the other "a geese knew. It est END-TO-END {Ve use Lubricant* npeoI0ly refined for each unit of your rat's mtrhaniam, particularly adapted to the a%waon of the yvwr. Engineers now know why ear.; wore out too qulcitly. be- fore d.nhrteatkm caught np with motor,kwn'a ri.sdn. Our refiner's Isbsrret wlss have designed the new Raper-i.ahrteanta for out- witting wear! Dries. in. BARKER'S ' STAT!UN Phone 941 BaySsld Road • Children by nature are carefree. ----You- - must think for them, and for other pedestrians, constantly. Be sure your brakes, tires and lights are effective. Drive slowly and be particularly care- ful wherever there may be children .. especially on holidays and week -ends. Train yourself so that safe driving becomes second nature to you If you don't, some day you may find yourself not only severely penalized but also minus a driver's license ... for!ifs IT IS BETTER TO BE SAFE, . . THAN SORRY ,;, MOTOR VEHICLES BRANCH ONTARIO DI PARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS--; y i" ° trtatu • THIS MUST STOP! Ino• er 1934, there were nearly t 0.000 auto - 512 people were killed 5,990 people were Injured ... a consid•rabls eras 3935. iggt� to a it fhinkleg peeps Ws. state also. 4 " *�•arw.,. ilsaMdtYa•� •