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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1937-9-8, Page 7of TBE ORUSSELS POST WEDNFaSDA X,: SFT'T. 3.tH, 1037 TELEPHONE. TALKS iII . Tl h WATSON PAMIL7G "Yes, Mai" • .: and Tom's f ne, too." Old Mrs. Watson lives with her son Tom: Yet her only daughter Mary, miles away, is with her too, for Mary, though old-fashioned in many ways, is definitely telephone minded and never fails to call her Mother on Long Distance at least once a week •-- an inexpensive and supreme pleasure for both of them. As Tom Watson puts it, "though our family's scattered, we're never really far apart — with the telephone," Are you acquainted with the comfort, convenience and low cost of Long Distance? Low Night Rates begin every evening 1 at seven, and apply ALL DAY SUNDAY! T he Brussels Post FOUNDED -1873 R. W. KENNEDY — Publisher Published Every Wednesday afternoon Subscription price $1.50 per year, ppald in advance. Subscribers to United States will please add 60c for postage. THD 'POST' PRINT Telephone 31 Brussels, Ont. BRUSSELS CANADA SUPREMACY OF THE PRIME MLNISTER The wealth of English history in great incident receives illustra- S tion every little while, one new to us but possibly familiar to trained historians coming recently from a German. source, the Berlin Die Gaztentaube. That paper, which bas been delv- ing into Hanoverian 1or9, siaLee that when George Ludwig, Elector of Hanover, was in -1714 crowned King George I of Great Britain, he fitted in so poorly with his new en- vironment that be looked back long- ingly to the autocratic times of hie sire reign in Hanover. He was die - gusted to fled that the English were little impressed by the preesnce of the new Gersnan royalty, and it is historical truth that it took a ret!• tury to reconcile them to the Ger- man line with their ,gutturals and their scandals, and in the begin- ping ther ignorance of the English i language and ways. Queen Viotti-la M flsSfNMIfMMMMI.MIM, D- A- RANN FURNITURE AND FUNERAL SERVICE D. A. RANN Licensed Funeral Director and Embalmer AMBULANCE SERVICE was the first of the German royal stock to commend ,herself to the English people, and abs did not help herself by marrying a German prince. The story is that George I was annoyed because the palace of St. James, where;:he resided, was not walled in .[r -gen the populace and that the grounds were more or less a public thoroughfare. fle de- cided to end a state at affairs re- pugnant to his regal traditions, and acquainted Sir Robert 'Walpole, wig, was primte minister from 1721 t,• 1742, of his decision, enquiring as to the cost of a fence which would exclude the public from the palace grounds. The answer said to have been given by Sir Robert Walpole was crisp, "I can give you a exact. esti- mate right now," was his answer. "Tire fence would cost you three crowns: those of England, Scot- land and Ireland." George I aban- doned his darling Whim. The date of the incident is not indicated, but it could have been prior to Sir Robert's accession to the premier- ship, as he held government office Prom 1705, He became Premier after the financial crash known as the South Sea Bubble, and it was during his adaninistration that the supremacy of the chief minister be- gan to be defined as Prime Minister, with the ether ministers subordin- ate to hien. Before his death he became Earl of Orford. A similar incident is told of Lord Salisbury, who was Prime Minister when Edward VII followed Queen Victonia. Tlie then new king had a record not regarded es entirely comrmiendbale as Prince of 'rales, and it is related that when Edward VII met the Cabinet for the first time he was warned by the great old Lord Salisbury that the people of England would not tolerate from him as King what they had from him aa prince. Edward's record thereafter showed that the warning sank in, and that the supremacy of the Prime Minister and hie rigiht to offer blunt advice, was again conceded, Vitt are divu}getl, there may nruv+• to Metre" been further broad evl.. donee of 'the supremacy of the Prime Meinister In the person at Stanley Baldwin, and anther proof Of the reality of the British democ-: racy 10 wallah royalty must Oc00ni modate Itee11 in order to remain. e 7t EVERY DRIVER A POLICEMAN If one had made the statement that it would be possible within a week to throw a police net Over the province t6 take in every ltlg'hWa3' and byway, almost Overnight, that person might lutb:e been consider- ed by the groat majority of people to be In line to have his head ex- am141e4 for mental deficiency. Yet this feat has been accomplished by the Ontario Government with the initiation of the 'Horror Campaign,' One of the clauses in the rules of this cannptaggn is that "When you see a anotori'st driving In a nanner dangerous to tete public,) take this number, make a careful note of the actual time and plane and when you reach your destination write to the Motor Vehicles Branch, Department of Highways, Tomato, giving full details." This clause automatical- ly makes each and every driver on the roads of the province whose duty it is to safeguard the rights of sane drivers by 'bringing reckless drivers to task for their willful mis- deeds. fit won't do a driver any good, to -clay, to decide that there ars no cope around," .and take a chance, cutting in, speeding or pass- ing on a highway, because the highways now have eyes, Your best friend may tell on you, or 0 totzl stranger may do so. And it all goes down in one of the dozen; of fitting cabinets at provnicial head- quartens, Toronto, whet a they keep tab on imperfect drivers. Since the opening of the new campaign against death and destruction on the highways complaints against in- cautious drivers have been for - weeded through the mails at the rate of 50 per day. Licenses are being suspended at 'the rate of a score a day. INSTRUCTING THE WEST Often enough have we heard speakers explaining .that farmers In Western Canada were mining the soil; we have heard them say they were going in for growing wheat and nothing else. We have read of statistics prepared to probe the point, and there were yeara t when they seemed to be impresan-o enough, Yes—the West was grew - Ing too much wheat and the world could not possible use it all. Perhaps too that idea has been aired in achieving sizable propor- tion by the pictures we have seen. of the Weetern farms, and they looked to be all wheat fields. The folks out in the West did not know much about mixed farming or good dairy development as we under- stand and follow it Ln Ontario. Therefore it would be necessary for the East to keep on delivering lee - tures to the West on how the thing ought to be done. All of which is very interesting until one begins to read the results of the butter display - at the Can- adian National in Toronto. And that is what happened: Manitoba exhibitors took every ' major prize award and virtually all t the minor awards. Out of 354 awards Ontario gained but 13, Manitoba stepped well out in front of the parade and Alberta was a close second. In order that good butter should i be produced Manitoba and Alberta must have good cows, and the good cows in turn must be well and prota erly fed. Also .they must have good butter makers, and all these things do not belong to a people who have gone top-heavy on grow- ing wheat and nothing else. So l Perhaps on the question of what to Ido and how :to do it on these West- ern farms outside the drought area 5155we ,bad better talk of something One may guess that when, a gen- eration or two hence, the minute details of the abdication of Edward $32,000 PRIZE LIST PIAN for a day or two at Western Ontario's own exhibition. This year will sur ase all previous efforts for agricultural, industrial, Eden. tific and home exhibits. Evsztx nag ata FEATURES ccP'� 1348 w. Jec son 182 - ( $90 FOR ONE DANCE Entertainment comes high some- titnes, For instance, it cost Alex Swanson, of Pancouver, $90 to see Alice Johnson dance, Alex, was is his room in a Vancouver lodging hoose When Alice called on hhn with another girl, and in the course of a chat remarked that she was un ,expert dancer. Patting on a pate of his trousers she proceeded to shone hien some Plain. and fancy steps --In fact, she danced right ottt of the room with hfs trousers_ fwd $00 he lied lei% In one of the trouser pockets, Alto, according to the de- ' Melon of the magistrate, will take a holiday front dating for the next pix mouths. SPLASHING t ED'ESTRIA iS AGAINST LAW That motorists who swish through pueidfes on the Highway regardless of the effect on passersby ate .guilty of reckiees driving and liable le Prosecution wife in substance the finding of Magistrate F. W. Walker at Walltertou when he mulcted Le- ander Virile/vein, of Chepstow, 614.- 35 when tale latter pleaded guilty to a reckless driving charge in con- nection with the spraying of a Walkerton eoupiewith a filthy moisture from at highway paddle as elle Cheestowite with a lady friend on the cushion beside biro plowed through the roadway pool on the wrng side for passing on the after- noon Of Sunday, August 16th, University Education Is a Great Asset There were nine hundred and twenty - three students attending the University of Western Ontario Summer Schools for the six weeks ending August 14th. There were two thousand, six hundred and fourteen regular students enrolled during the academic year which closed on June 30th, 1937. The University of Western Ontario is thus rendering a great service to the community and to the nation. The greatest asset that Canada has is its young people. These are far more important than all mate- rial things combined, such as lands, forests, mines, water powers, manu- facturing institutions, financial cor- porations, etc. The future of the Dominion is in the hands of its young people under twenty-five rear• of pap. 7+ ie eeerntial, there- fore, teat :ties s.. ., M - - :,. , ca, best possible training,and that they should be equipped in every way for their responsibilities as citizens of this Dominion and of the British Empire. A college or university cannot supply its students with natural mental equipment, but it can help them to acquire ability to use the equipment they have and to take advantage of their oppor- tunities and to develop their stand- ards and ideals so they will con- form to the best type of citizen- ship. In this perplexing age, there seems to be a great dearth of leadership of the right kind. There are far too many people who look upon life as an opportunity for per- sonal aggrandizement or as a means of living selfishly. These are not the things that help in home or nation building. A univer- sity course is intended to help to develop leaders in social, profes- sional and business life, but lead- ers are needed who have high standards and high ideals and who believe in the fundamental princi- ples on which our civilization, is based. They must be capable of working out in practice their con- ceptions of truth and their respon- sibilities of life. The public is no longer indifferent to the thoughts and acts of men. Conditions are too serious for that. Sane and capable leaders are the greatest need today. The University of Western On- tario throughout its while history has been devoted to the special training of young men and young women for an intelligent discharge of their duties as citizens. A uni- versity education enables young people to enrich their lives intellec- tually and spiritually. It opens up to them the right kind of vistas of pleasure and achievement and in- creases their efficiency as workers in all walks of life. The philosophy of civilization teaches that the educated man or woman is not only a better personal worker, and a better neighbour, but a higher type of citizen. Tri this age, the State feels the need for more and better training of itu citizens. The duties and re- sponsibilities are so enormous that democracy cannot live, much less thrive, unless we have an 10 - creasing number of highly trained, broad-minded, well-informed men and women who can exercise their right judgment and not be misled in dealing with public issues. It is said that less than two per cent of the citizens of the country are procuring a university educa- tion. This is a great pity. Nations that have world-wide leadership have emphasized the value they attach in having their boys and girls trained and equipped as far as it is possible for their schools and colleges to do it. Take Scot- land as an example. There is probably no similar small area on the surface of the globe that has produced so many men of out- standing ability or Hien who have contributed so much to the pros- perity of mankind or to the welfare of civilization, Scotland believes in educating its sons. If Canada should follow the same pathway, our future would be assured. The people in each country de- . termine £or themselves what type of education they will provide for their youth. What the nation honours the schools will teach. Everything depends on who sets the ideals. All educational systems reflect the ideals of the people they serve. This fixing or determining of the standards, the purposes and the ideals is the privilege of those whb write or speak and express their views from platform, pulpit and press. It is, in brief, the creators of public opinion who say what our schools shall teach and how the country's youth shall bo trained to meet the problems of the world. The university provides the man chinery to do the work which the public demands. The boy Who would live at his best must pro- cure the best training of which he is capable. "Look back, but don't turn back!" Overheard at the beach Blue suit: . , . yes, I know, But why don't people ever learn from experience! Brown suit: We've never tried exactly this beverage room system before , . . Blue suit: No, but it's the agitators and the people who believe them without knowing the facts who never seem to learn. Look back, and you'll see that prohibition has newer worked , .. it has always caused evils greater than the ones it sought to correct. Brown suit: Perhaps, but things aren't perfect now? Blue suit: Of course there are a few people who go to extremes. But just because of that we don't have to turn right back into the hands of the bootleggers! People are going to drink, you know. And the way to get moderation is to make the drinking of small quantities of mildly stimulating beverages both legal and public! Brown suit: But what about these people who don't know when to stop? Blue suit: Laws won't change these people. But in time education will reduce their number, atop young people growing up in their foot- steps. That's why I say, look back at history but don't turn back and make all these mistakes over again. And that's why I say: the Brewing Industry is doing a fine thing in urging true temperance education! • This adrertisement is inserted by the Brewing Industry in the interest of a baler public under- standing of crinin aspeas of theproblemsof temperance and local option, NOTE AND COMMENT Robbers haveworked out a new scheme of beating and stealing from tourists, but so far we have noticed they never pick on those who are on their way home. _*8 It is said that Russian pigs in Ili+r process of being wed for Witt, bacon are becoming bald- That i.; sad because they not only lose their hair but in a short time their heads as well. A Detroit theologian says that man 10 18.000 years of trying lin invented no new sin. Where then does he place the crooner, and the smart young fellow who always says "Oh yeah." U, S. Secretary of state has asked China and Japan not to have a war. We wonder what this secretarr calls what has been going on iu Shanghi for days ou end? The war may force Japan to drop out of the Olympic games. Come to think of it, though, we sbould imagine running 100 metres at high speed might come in bandy now and then for a soldier. When it comes to dealing effec- tively with the infantile paralysis outbreak attention is drawn to that fine and wholesome admission of many learned men: "There is so mucic which as yet we do not under- stand." When we see a car with much luggage on the side and a canoe strapped on top going through the -city our detective intrust leads to the conclusion that the 1937 veca- tion has been concluded. Wilbur Glenn Golivia, leader of Zion City, 111„ has t,een 'told by court to hand over his possessions to. satisfy creditors. One 0f Vol- IVa'S theories is that 'the world is flat, and possibly lie is Snore cer- tain than ever that his theory is right. —x -- Young man et Toronto ran a type- writer at tbe rate of 139 words a minute for one full hour. And that means lie punched the keys at the rate of about 13 times per sec- ond. Even when we become ex- cessively annoyed it is ,.o•t possible to work at anything approaching that rate. —X-- One g—One authority says that when children become unmanageable to "switch their attention." If mem- ory is correct such eases were met with switching on the Tenth Con- cession, but the switching was not done on what you might call the attention. ( —x— It has been disclosed that the late Andrew Mellon, one of the rich mien of United States, made what he regarded as adequate provision for members of the family. Tlii rest of his estate goes to charitable purposes. estimated at $1200,000,000. During his life he is said to have given away 5100,000,000, Whether conditions should be such that e man can make so much money is debatable, hut it is well that one so rich should have preserved his sense of responsibility to the public front a -hum he got iris wealth, NUDIST TEA SHOPS (Brockville Recorder and Times) Nudist tea shops have been np •n - ed in old London, with guests and waitresses wearing only slogans, and even the IMrIs at the cash reg. isters being clad in nothing .but a smile. It will he just too bar if some of the patrons have boilhta water accidentally spilled upon them, - - a rt 8 5 a ,} 4 1 h W e PRICE LIST HORSE SHOEING New Shoes Setting No's. 1, 2, 3, 50c 25c No's. 4, 5, 6 60c 30c All other work accordingly owing to advance price of iron and steel .1. G. Allen and Jack Gibson Blacksmith Shops Brussels, Ont. a '1 4 G a * . a FLIES By A. R. K. —Saxe flies sat en me yesterday, nor would they leave and go away, they hopped about Instead; 1 aimed at them such heavy bleu's, when they hda straddled on my nose, they skipped then to my head, —1 folded up a paper then, and Planned how I would finish them, each one would get a blow; but when I swung my paper hard, I al- ways missed them by a yard, for I was far too slow, --The disappointment made me keen, I tried it with a magazine, 1 the killing must be done; I poked myself apo nthe ear, but never did the fiy I ge tnear, I missed them every one. —I waited till they were at ease, and started cleaning off their knees, and I let drive once more; I was not either fast nor deft, when I was ; through why there were left, as many as before. —Got strands of Sticky paper then, ah I would finished soon with them, of flies I would be bare; I hopped to hasten from tbe room, and found oat then quite sudden soon, the stuff stuck in my hair. - 111 have to ,take- some lessons soon, before the changing of the Moon, on how to strike and kill; so I can swat with some success, •inti make the files in here grow less— with sone degree of skill, ELMER D. BELL, B.A. Barrister, Solrcltor, Etc. Phone 20x. —x— Brussels, Ont. important Notice Accounts, Notes, Judgements collected Our collecting depL,nrment is result of years of successful expert. encs in collecting looal ox out -et town accounts. No collection. no tharge, Mail Burkes Collecting Agency (License 176) Head Office, Soaforth Ont Box 498 a NMI WESTFIELD 3 A fine timepiece.., with en accurale,l5•lowel Westfield movement! Smartly destgned...beau- tiiully engraved! $1473- M. H. BROTHERS WROXETER, ONT. BRUSSELS, Phone 53X DANCEY & BOLSBY BARRISTERS, ScjLICIT1ORS, ETC. L. E, Dancey, K.O. & P. J. Bolsbyr Brussels, Ont. 'Phone 541( James McFadzean Howick Mutual Ftre insurance —Also- -Hartford Windstorm —Tornado Insure nee --Automobile Insurance Brussels, Ontario 'Phone 42. Box 1, Turnberry St. .i JAMES TAYLOR Ldeense Auctioneer for tie Count* of Huron. Sales attende& tc 1n ase parte of the country, Satis?actIOs Guaranteed .,or no pay. 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