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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1938-9-21, Page 7THE BRUSSELS POST IWIEDNielSIDAX, sl {Pr. z>� 1938 Round Trip Bargain Fares From BRUSSELS Fri. &Sat., Sept. 23rd & 24th To Oshawa, Bowmanville, Pont Hogue, CObourg, Trenton, Jot., 'Belleville, Repartee Kingston, Geno,a:ogee, Brockville, Prescott, .Morrisburg, Cornwall Uxbridge, Lindsay, Pe:arboro, Oamnpbeliford, Newmarket, Penetang, (*Ringwood, Meo.Cord, Barrie, Orf1Ha, MSd- land, Gi'tuvenhuret, Bracebridge, Humtaville, Calender, North Bay, Parry' Sound, Sudbury; all towns In New Ontario on line of Teeter. :keaadng et Northern Ontario .Rey„ Ndpiesing Central R1Y., KKplskaa- tng; Louglac, Nakti*, 'Moneta, Sioux lookout, Ger :Non, Jenice* Beardmore, Port Arthur, Medford, Barrie Orillia, Meaford, Gravenhuret, 'Braoebridge, Saturday Sept. 24th to TORONTO Also to Bramttord, Chatham, Chesdey, Clinton, Durham, Ex- eter, Fergus Goderich, Guelph, Hamatton, Hanover, Harristoty Inger soil, Kineardine, Kitchener, London, Letowed, Mitohell Niagara Piths, Owen Sound, Paisley, Palmerston, Paris, Port Elgin, St, Catharinea, St Mary's, Sarnia, $ontbarnoton, Stratford, Strathroy, Walkerton, Wiarton, Wdngham, Woodstock. Far Fares, Return Limits, Train Information, Tickets, consult nearest Agent,. rot Tares, Retum,Lnets.'Ttain sato nation.Ticket,,co,uurt nearest Agent. See Handbills. CANADIAN NATIONAL T he Brussels Post FOUNDED -1873 R. W. KENNEDY — Publisher Published Every Mednesdsy afternoon Subscription price 51.50 per year, ,paid in advance. Subscriptions in United States will please add 60e for postage THE ' OSt' PAINT BRUtSSELo •--.— CANADA Telephone 31 Brussels, Ont. NOT ASKING FOR MORE The will of Daniel Dodge been tiled at Pontiac Mich., and Out of an estate of some $10,000,000 there has been $250,000 set aside for his widow, She was Laurine ilc.Douald, who formerly worked In a telephone office on Manttoolln Island, Shortly after she married the very rich Mr, Dodge he was killed 1n an acceded, She seems to be just a natiutal small town girl and it is suited she considered the amount settled on tier was.. quite sufficient,. Probably more money than her relatives or friends ever thought about, and likely enough she would prefer having her husband with her to- day and da without money. Mrs, Dodge is not like most of the people who enter courts in United States when such matters as. dividing a husband's estate are being dealt with, When there are millions involvel they always talk 10 terms of millions. Never do they drop bank to the language of thousands of dollars. But this On- tario girls seem coutena that a sum equal to 1-40 of her huebnnl's estate is Quite sufficient, and.. one can't help admiring her for the decision. has SO HE (WENT HIMSELF B:rttadn has Orad a good many capable diplomats travelling through Eurolpe in recent weeks and their mission has been the frame always+—trying to •find some way of preventing an European war, When things' looked bad, black and dangerous Prensier Chaw:per- lain decided he would go himself to Germany and talk directly with Chancellor itl d p tor H er. Au cl he would take a plane and get there jest as quickly as he could, Britain does not want a war; Premier Chamdrei-lale, does not want war, and the one thing which seems to have stood solidly between Durope and .war has, been the Per- sistence of the British Government that there shall be no war. The fact that Premier Chamber- lain hamberlain throttled to go himself 'to 'Ger- many Is no reflection upon the calibre and training el this col- leagues who had gone beton, It waled be nrucli the same as a man who when hearing of calamity in hie iieig1hborliood• would not be ,content wltr sending went help he ootuhi — but he would want to go himself. Not only Britain bat the ip'eace-lov- Ing section et the world ren pro- loundly thank Gor icor the presence and outlook of Premier 'Chamber- lain. Nothing annoys a woman more than having her friends drop in and find the house looking just like it usually does, CURRENT :LIFE ON THE FARM With cheaper rates for electrical power residents of rural communi- ties are ready to take advantage of many labor-saving and modern de- vices which may be utilized as soon as power IS brought to their prop- erties We agree with the Christian Science Monitor when it Points oat the many uses to which this power may beput as follows: Electricity surely is bringing blessings to the farm, The house now is equipped with an electric radio, instead of the troublesome battery set; a vacuum sweeter has replaced the broom and an electric washer the washboard eleotric toaster, percolator, gtull, and range have obviated the necessity ot building a fire in the stove or the risk of getting kerosene in the food, an electric razor and curling iron have added •personal comforts while there is an electric radiator in each room for frosty mornings and retrigeration iu the kitchen For the born and outbuildings, says a .odd.western professor of agrie:aural economics', there are 200 pit:e.tieal uses for eleotridty. The dairy farmer should have elec- tee milkers, portable hot water 'heater and stei4ilizer, electric cab- inet for cooling milk, eleotric sep- arator, motor-daiven trill that grinds 700 pounds' of roughage per hour, add a feed mixer that mixes a quarter of a ton of grain In five minutes, The poultry fanner needs an electric incubator and brooder, an electric egg candler, and an electrical device which re- moves pin feathers. Besides which there are electric sheep, stealers, electric currycombs, and electrical- ly driven coreshellers, hay balers, and scores of other devices. The unto -date reenter need neither marry to get a helper nor have a hired man. All he need do Is sign on a few unemployed elec- trical engineers." As for giving unemployed electri- cal engineers some work to do, the idea is a splendid one. Bat most farmers will still maintain that a wife and a hired man are absolute essentials, HE TOOK TO THE DITCH Tile man who drives a passenger ear does not as a rule think much or the truck or its driver. Ess pecinlly if it is: a big 'Work, The thing seems to bake up so snatch of the rand; it is apt to be so long that it id hard to Pass; 11 goes very slowly before it reaches the top of a hill. So the ipglssenger car hos no s'peci'al reason 1.0 grow en- thusiastic over the trucker, Ti+atfio Officer Callender bate oc- casion to investigate a ;smash near New Hamburg (No, 7 Iltghway) and he had sameh:ting to say about the' driver of a tfuek. Ile said he had presence or mind and a willingness to sacrifice himself in order to save mother driver, This way: A woman was driving a car taming toward the truck When her oar starte'd to slide on a wet road. It moved over directly in :front of the truck, and thea: it was the, truck driver dettberally took to the ditch which 1eae a good dvesfoat ono. The trncic 1085 damaged but no one • was Indus:efts The track driver had prevented a 11051.00 emelt, So there% one truck drover 'who appears to have earned a Plate on the honor roll, "THE MAGNIFICENT GAMBLE" Diplomats from world centres who gather at Geneva are reported to have expressed vatead opinions regarding the 'trip ot Prime Minister, Chamberlain' to Fuehrer Hitler of Gemany. Many of theist saw the tray as one at hutiiiia:tion which would, cause Britain to lose. east, because It "worldui>tpear that Chamberlain 'tired to go to Hitler." That they considered was bad, equivalent 4o a ,sign and admtasiion of in'reriority or wealunese. That attitude may help to explain Just what is wrong With Geneva and. Us League of Nations, The wrong 'people may he there, advocates of the old schpol of diplomacy 'which would 'break rather than bend, They probably 'hold, while gathering in the name of peace, that it is not .much use having an army and a navy unless' such thi.ngtsshalt be turned to the serious business of war. We are certain as can be it is correct to say Premier Chamberlain did not have to go 'to Hitler. He could have stayed right where he was' in London, There was nothing to force hen to take his first plane vele of 610 miles. He could have called for the official tin dish and washed his hands of all response Unite, and he could have said ,that everything which could be done had been done, We, are strpngly of the opinion that Premier Chamberlain went be- cause he wanted to and because he felt he should, and night there is, the greatest motive in the world, Greater and higher than going be- cause he had to, The New York Phase gets com- M tably close to the whole situs anon when it refers to 'Premier Chamberlain% trip this way: "Viewed as a final peace move, a Stoprenre effort to save anankind Pram the horror of another war, ib ,takes on the epic quality of a map reticent gamble for t he highest stake in the world." The international critics, who ;gather at Geneva under the gener- ous roof of the League of Nations have neither 'the vision nor the courage of a Chamberlain who is actually staking his reputation `.for the highest stake in the world"— peace. NATURE OUR GREAT REFORESTER There is' an impression abroad that the ale work of the Depart- ment of Forestry is the planting of trees, and it is easy enough to uadenstand why that belief should prevail, 'There are so many ad- dresses made on the subject and nearly always there is mention nude of reforestation by the setting astcte' of certain; ,tracts of land and planting trees •trere and protecting theau, That is good work and wartry 01 all assistance but it is indeed bat a small part of it. Forest trees will if given a chance set in motion the process of natural regemenation; that is, they will reproduce themselves, if they have a chance to do it. The pre- vention of forest fires will yield far greeter returns than all our tree planting possibly could, and ,the fact that forest fires are less in ex- tent than they were some years ago Is one or the chief reasons why great areas in this Province will one again become tree -bearing. Another reason why our forests are on the way bath is the appiioa- tion of scientific methods to timber- ing, in contracts' new issued it is stirnleteg that the lumber firms cannot take a pine tree under 13 Inches diameter. There was, a time when lumber Camps would go throa>,gb a sectiom and reprove all the white pine because they wanted it above 'all else. When such a policy was followed it meant the end of a Second gra•wth because there 1005 no tree parenthood left. Tile pa:acess of reforestation is slow but it is sound and right. It takes 80 years' to grow a white 1110e tree or 18 inches: diameter while a poplar will be Putlpwood 5rize in 20 ream: The great natural levees which gave es our forests in the first place are still in operation, .and the chief mission of aur Forestry Department is to make Possible nothing more than the eon- ltnued existence of natural condi- Wot1s, There is a great deal of setaerec- tion In looking back lr the train - In got children has turned Out 10011; O'Brien 11511 five or six husky sons that reheated attention: -Clancy .. ' Tie a fine lot or boys Ye hrive, O'Brien,'a O'Brien — "They are that. .And I nester ,hrud le raise the *rid ng• Nut them except in self defense, NOTE AND COMMENT Japanese automobiles' are to be limited to a gallon of gas a day, There will not be .'match pleasure driving done with a limitation like that in force, Motorists are asked to note that a ten -ton read roller entice manag- ed to get into the way of a railway locomotive was carried 150 feet and upset into a ditch. Officially we frown on titles in Caned': but at is also a feet that we elect 00;000 persons across the Dominion who become eligible to be called trustees, if you hale an idle four -cylinder car it is possible to get a license for 'the thing good until the end of next March for $1—no oil or 'gas' Included. a Bank at Windsor was robbed of $1,700 during which operation the staff were forced to lie on the floor, And of course it must be rather tough to have to take a thing like that lying down. England probably is burdened with the debt of war and war prep- aration, but it was possible for Arsenal football team to pay $68,600: for one particularly good football player. Little Edmonton girl has nine grandparents and :great-grandpar- ents and we i¢nagne there is one child that will have a jot of diffi- culty growing up without being spoiled, How those scientists' do find things out, Now one has discover- ed that regular ahavdng prolongs the lite of a shirt; In other words rough necks mean frayed edges. 'Canada's wheat crop is the big- gest since 1932, it is estimated. If that can be turned into greater spending power for the producers, the whole country would begin to reel the benefit. , The stork, according to vital etatdsltics just issued, has been only working part time in Toronto during the past year. Compared to the Montreal birth rate the Queen City figures woull look even more meagre. Pierre S. du Pont and John J. Raskob have •been informed that tlhey owe the income tax department at Washington $2,100,000. We can go over our list of friends and pick out a tang array of names to whom it would: do no good at all to send such a notice. --- Lois McDonald is the name of a baby who has been allowed to leave Kincardine hospital and 'go home, When s'he was born there she weighed less than two Pounds and it Is also recorded that a few clays after birth she contracted pnerl- 1000ia and recovered. A child of that size could not possibly have a great deal of pneumonia, but we dare say any given amount would look serious enough. At any rate Lois has gone home and is starting On toward her third pound. * * * * * * :k * * * :k SURPRISING '0 (By A, R. K.) * * * lj When I lived on Concession Ten along with other honest mien, we /eeri't know too numb; some clays grandfather ailed a bit, and then he liked to rest and sit, or hebgle with a crutch, ij When re had ailing hi his hands he never talked about . his glands, he d.idn'k know enough; if neighbor folk carne by our way, why all he'd ever up and say, was that he reit so tongh, IT Fie didn't go and read a book, and have his own blood pressure took„ he never kept a chart; he never wrote his ailments down, nor did he hasten off to town, to 111ei'l0'111'0 up his. heart, lj 110 never heard of calories, he rust ate 011 what flings he'd please, lie had no diet; he helped himself to what we had, and now and then got looting earl, on something he has missed, II His blood was never analysed nor were .his ionslls criticized, nor did be have them 001; he reckoned when he'd ailed a alien, bow in; three clays he would get well, encs then he'd move about. (j We know so many things today, that never carne granddather's way, so snatch trim seems •alt new; in slntte or that grandfiather .stayed, and went his way quite unafraid— till he was ttinety;tw0, TELEPHONE TALKS IN THE WATSON FAMILY oxvt w TOMp�RO `ltOv 9 �' -IrsH�ae r: This Family has no Distant Relatives Not that the Watson family is so small. On the contrary, there are uncles, aunts, cousins, nephews, nieces and so on, scattered across the Dominion. But they never lose track of each other. Long Distance brings them together again on many anniversary and special occasions throughout the year .. at surprisingly little cost. " Reductions in telephone rates—local and long " distance — in 1935, '33 and '37 have effected sayings to telephone users in Ontario and Quebec of nearly one million dollars yearly. LET US LOOK AT THE PAST Baro Are Rema Takers Troia Iles of the Poor of i0 end ltd Years Leo So YEARS AGO BLUEVALE Jcs. McPherson is at home this weak, * s + t Rev. A. McKibbih was visiting relatives at Walton this week. * Miss .Bella Maxwell returned from a visit to Galt, WALTON Mrs, Coleman and her daughter having bought the house of Wm.• 'Carter, have just moved in, Wm. McNeal has secured Miss Tait of Toronto for hie millinery de partment. ETH EL Uric. "IV, Ferguson is ill at pros- * Mrs. A. W, Panabaker is on the , sick list. eut. * i Mrs, Morris Fogel has returned from a visit with her parents, in New York. * * s< Robert Dilworth went to last week. • * Mrs. D. 1:'ektnier and Mrs. J. Hewitt were visiting at Clinton, s * Miss C, E. Davies arrived home from visiting in Brantford. GREY Buffalo tiriah McFadden is away at Listowel shot. * ** John, Bateman and Ispat McKee left fax the West last week. MORRIS Mrs. los. Sellers returned thee week tram a two week's visit to Chicago. * * * Joan Agar has rented his term to Mrs Errington, * * * Thos. Farrow is busy buying apples these days. Bess Jennie Tdiynne, 2nd con., arrived home this weeds from xu wlstt to her brother, Rev, Robert Thynne, BLYTH J. 7, Gillesapie's cow leg loot week. * * * W. Drummond lett obi Monday, Edward iingg• dt was broke her for Toronto visiting in Goderieb1, S. H, Gidley umpired a baseball game at Wroxeter last Friday, BRUSSELS A. K. Robertson shipped a car- load of apples to Glassgow. George Bee has been busily ens gaged drilling wells: • * William Roddick r is baying a woodshed pmt up at the rear oe hi$ building. * a �F Ed. Danford has leased vacant store to Mrs, Shiels. _ * * Married Kelley -Blew: in—In Brussels the 25th, by Rev. 5, Jones, Mr, F. Kelley to Miss Jennie, you daughter at Mr. Robert Dicks READ IT OR NOT! For every dollar spent on books in the IInited States, there is 027 spent on chewing glum. his Ttil 11°11 Why let alt that space is your basement go to waste? Let us show you how little it costs to turn it into a game room offering fun and relaxa, tion for young and old. 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