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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1926-1-20, Page 3",.111..1,. mad(f�„'s Best d iano ----Prices from $375.00 asp TERMS TO SUIT ALL Do not waste time solving; puzzles burger in • touch with the old ctstabllshc^d and. rellal.11t, firm and get full value for your money, iV!as'1• A wisch 97 Ontario St, Phone i 7 r Stratford Government to Alter Present Marriage Act Provincial Secretary Says Disadvan- tages Outweigh Advantages—Com- parison With Other Countries (Toronto Telegram) Having passed a half digested am- endment to the Marriage Act Etat session, - the Government of Ontario is now faced with the necessity of going through some process of lcy:is- lative regurbitation that unforeseen difficulties aright be obviated. The amendment causing trouble is that proposed by E. R. Wigle, Huron which made it necessary for a couple to obtain their marriage license three full days before the performance of the wedding ceremony. Although in force a year the Gov eminent is overwhelmed wilh pro- tests against this amendment, .lot- w•ithctan(ling that machinery is pro- vided for a special permit. Accord- ing to Assistant Provincial Secretary P. V. Johns, there have been a large number of applications for these special permits and they are almost invariably /'granted. At the sante time he states that the Act has pre- vented a number of "hasty" rnarri, g - es and, to some extent, fraud. That is, some prospective grooms have hien prevented from swearing .false- ly as to the age of the bride. Great Disadvantages "The disadvantages far outweigh the advaittaes.s, though," stated Pre- vinviitl Secretary Goldie yesterday. "1 was talking to Attorney Gonerat Niekle about it yesterday, and the thin; will have to be discussed in Provincial Secretary Goldie Meals of contracting parties obtain- ing their parents' consent, that it means practically nothing, The chief outcry, however, is a- gainst the three days' stay of pro- ceedings after obtaining the license. It is felt that no good is being ac- complished and that this provision should be replaced with something; less cumbersome. Hence the Govern- ment's effort at regurgitation. Stopped by Parents "1 cannot say that I would favor personally the rescinding of the law," stated Marriage License Regis- trar Williamson at the City Halt yes- terday. "It makes no difference to the of course; whatever the law is, it will b0 carried out. There are no doubt times when people who do not know of the three-day clause are Council. But tho proposed net 's- causd inconvenience. But it is pure - Airy changes aright not be made this ly and simply clue to the fact that se ,ion of the House." they do not read the newspapers. It It is learned that complaints have is surprising• how many people are come to the Government in large ignorant of this fact. But at th'' numbers from municipal clerics, mar- stone tilnn in the lust year there were thee license issuers, private individu- three cases I know of where marlin- aIe, and also from ministers. Cases ger wel•e able to be stopped by par - aro cited where arranglements have ents who found out that 1 had issued been made for a church wedding and a license. to a couple. a wedding; trip abroad, only to be "People often phone rile to say cancelled when the three-day stay that their daughter .has disappeared was learned of. and they want to know if a license That the Act as amended last Yaw,' has been issued. was not wholly tdesirubte was recog- "Could they not get it three days nixed by the Government at the time of its passing. Thu Government was not willing to have the amendment pass as an absolutely low and pee- vidod by a further clause that no mosec•utions could b, u.ndertalcen un- der the new section without the con- sent of the Attorney -General. There have born no prosecutions during the year. Ages of Consent Before its amendment the Mar- riage Act was cleared as to the ages at witl•ch marriage could talo' place in the province and as to what con- 51)101ed grounds for exception from the fixed rules. II'or both sexes the legal use is fixed at eighteeil years. For anything under eighteen and es low as fourteen years the consort of parents of such minors was regnieed In writing before a license could he issued. In no case is a liccense to be issued for ,nnarriagc or a person un- der 1.4 ,year excepting to prevent 11- leg;'timacy of offspring, in which case consent of parents or guardians is also necessary, along with a medical certificate:. Tn addition to these provisions the Repistrat GencraI is given absolute discretion, notwithstanding anything m this Act, to issue a licence for a nlarrlage when the cir'.cuinstences ap- •, •peal to hint at; warranting such pro- cedure, Good is Outweighed While hasty marriages and elope- ments, especially by mines, are con- sidered an evil, the present attitude of the Provincial. Secretary seems to he that the hardship and confusion attendant upon their prevention by the Wigle amendment so far out- weigh the good accomplished as to render the new law more ofa n11i- since than a benefit in abolishing the amendment and .framing sortie new means of attacking _tire probloln the Government has little aid front the practise in other countries, In the United States each stet, has its own marriage laws, and the logal ago vanes :trop 12 to 20 Years. Here the legal ago is so often ignored, by before they disappeared?" he was asked. roewaooreeseerewiSees eeeeosene~rIsa c. Circus Romance By EVELYN LEE , e,“00. 0 0 0 0 0,0•WoeWit<O44 ✓Voaereavw,,e.reoQoowoa,ynniNow vrro+i+ (Copyright, 1119 by the 'western News gamer onion./ "I have a ;Hipos." said iliratn Pearce—"a pappus !ti gulag to the sue - "What purpose?" c'hallerl:ed hla equally homespun wife. although :he had dropped Lite backwoods vent:te - Iar long ago, "A circus? And 7700 n deaemr of the church! tib, 1Ih•ltmi have you forgotten that all our woes and misery date from the day our 1(1 tie Leslie hent to a clr'01 7'" Thereupon iUury broke down utter- ly, her face fell Into her hands and she sobbed and wept as though her heart would break. Hiram winced. Then he stole over to her side and Placed a loving, gentle hunt upon the silvered head. "I haven't forgot, poor old dear!" he said tenderly. "Ws because of Les- lie drat I'm goin'. There isn't an hour since my temper aad cruelty drove him away from as that I haven't re- proached myself. There hasn't been a month In all the weary, waiting five years that I haven't fried to find out what became of him:" Yes, Hlram Pearce lomemberecl well the day when. Leslie, a lad of fifteen, had rule away front school and had gone to the interdicted tented show. It was the truancy and disobedience, more than the fact that he had visited the sawdust arena that stirred up his father, who had used the whipping strap us he never used it before and as be resolved Inner be would never use is again. That night Lester Pearce disappeared and his shlbborn father had delivered the stolid dic- tum: "Let hila go—I shu'n't hunt for him, or stop hits I As he snakes his bed, se must he lie. Wilkie he Is tired of husks he'll conte back, like the prodi- gal, the wiser, and, I hope, the better for his little journey in the world." But as the: weeks went 011, and then the months, and the yours, there was ' an aching veld in the heart of the grim old fanner, and the fast -wrinkling face and bent 'form of Mary told him of her secret sufferings. i "Mary," he said, "look up and keep calm, I have something to tell you. Only today through a correspoedent I I have received en intimation that Les- lie has been with Morton's Big Show, and Morton's Big Chow exhibits on the town 001001011 Isere toin0rrov." "Oh, Hiram! it .can't be true!" qua- vered May, all a -tremble, and clinging to his arm, whit() and 011r -1e1. ."Oh, yes, yes -I can hardly watt. You must go to the circles, indeed, and I must go with your Laws Are Easy - "Yes, but they don't know about the three-day clause until they 00m a t0 get the lirolse, and then they have no oth(n' course but to wait. 1 1.1:A0 often been told by people from the United States that our O'atario clew is easy. -:In some suttee they must wait for several Ways ai'tt')' tin. lir, ca80 has been issued, In Detroit they have recently made a late mal: ing it 110e08801'v for five clays to el- apse between the 1000; of the lie, :1st' and the ceremony, .in th'e Old Coun- try not o.rly one, but both parties nrnst bring a marriage license and two !till weeks roust elapse between livens(' and reremelly.'' ":Cele number of licenses issued to those under age lite been most mark- ed this year. There have been 17 is- sued already this -year, practically one in four`going to couples of whi"h at least one 1s under use. I cannot give the figures for hast year, but. I sinew towards the end of. 1025 there yeas a consider tble *incise in the under -'ago marriages, it was never as marked, hewev:a;) ars this nl0rrtit. In' all these cases the license was withheld until the regular form was signed by the glee or boy's parents or guardians," ' "Were these Canadians, Old Corn - try -born or foreigners?" !vas asked. "In every erase this year they were" Canadian -horn couples." THE BRUSSELS POST Clergy Urged to Aid Immi Pastoral Letter Issued by R hop 4Vilb, int: of 1lurorl---Wool I In- sare Posit,, e.. -1n Accord Wit:, Policy of Anglican Synod of Qu Maio In 0 ir, toms 1 ,:t,•r, itishrgl tris`. limns urg.+s t11 tl r^y. of the ]bice 'e '11 harem) to lona their hearty en - operation to p' : us recently a'lvatrr('1 by the Ontario provineiel synod, whereby t11' ,1 r::7 of the pe v 1 ee. ire sAced among other things to Pe - urn -.pcnurr., In their p..ri hes for (stir c'h immi 1aate eellntl. 11'rl in accord with a policy of directed im- migration. The resolution passed reads:. "'1'htct this provincial synod, believing in the necessity of directing the stream of immigration with a view to strength- ening the membership - of the church in slur: province, appeals to the clergy to discover vacancies in the parishes Wholesale prices of all. rubbers ttdvanood about 25 per cunt on Janu- ary 1, Our Lady of the Snow can stili pluck to complete mantle for mother earth when elle feels so hitlinecl. What Mrs. Tlringnnitite wore seems —All the next morning IEfrain Pearce bung around the° various groups of workmen erecting the tents and get- ting ready for the arrival of the per- forming troupe rine about 'noon. Halt a dozen times 1-Iirem inquired about `in young fellow named Pence," but those interrogated shook their heads - negatively, and his -spirits sank as the luaus wore on. Then he was lost, contused nnlld the bustle and the crowds. 01ar7'$ •i'nee was twitching, her eyes anxiously roaming all over 1 (11e groat tent vs they sat beneath the 1 white. glaring crams. If Leslie was l with the show of course he Must be an '• actor, She shuddered as the tumblers tro-leftistts and bareback riders crone into the rine and their daring feats showed the risks of their calling. nut n0 Leslie amt) uw,l, tains Mrs. Pe0rde threw down (1 1' veil to 1011c"111 ]let 1 teats as they left the shote. IIIram '00111 not legate the scene. Tlo went around among the wagons and small tents, and, coming aero,y a man whose briskness iadle:tied that lie l(utl runne- tlting to .do with the show, told him of Ids quest, "Ptm',e?" l'c'liea tech the hatter; "we (MVO no Doe with 114 ur' dolt. 111)1110.". "11,' Is my deco' lost Leslie;" webbed Mrs. Peaiee. "You couldn't mean one Leslie War- burton?" .spoke the man quickly. "Yon see, clretts folies use fancy nnaiu's. ,sham. twenty, Gish( hair, slightly cur- ly, always joking and smiling?" "Yew! Yes cried Mrs, Pearce, "Thai'0 Our boy! 011, Rimini: have wci found him It last?' "You cute with tae," spoke their In- forinant, stall he led the way to a huge waren, so large that it had doors and w•lndmt0 1(1(1' a 114,1)01, 111111 resembled one els to els interior. It was filled with cots anti Invalid chairs, and .half a dellen men, tvnmen and 01111000 1 occupied these A pretty, tlu,nty girlish woman was fanning a fevered child in this clients hoshttel. .'t y0ntlg 1na11, w110 limped els he walked about, smilingly conversed with fins and that recumbent patient,; Toward him Mary ran With the for-, vent words: "Oh, Leslie! Leslie! don't you. know me?" ',\'hen the Circus left town that alight' ft departed without Leslie Pearce and • his 'wife„ 1:10150, daughter of the ring- , 1)108101'. Once more the truant boy • wits back under the house roof, with a' wonderful story to relate—of a crlp- piing fall front a trapeze, of becoming the "doctor," who took enlarge of those injured like 1111111011, end the sick chil Important Resolution that could be filled by church item!• grants from the old land; it boiing understood that the payment of the passage money either in whole or ill part; that the bishops be requested to write the clergy to that effect, and to communicate tate results to the general secretary of the Social Ser. vice Council, who shall be entrusted with the selection of persons to fill the vacancies through such agencies 08 he is able to establish in the old Mad; that the deputation of the coun- cil for social service visiting the cid country be urged to set forth the openings for immigration into the older parts of Ontario, especially- to persons desiring settled conditions and comforts, and the advantages of churches, schools, railways, good roads, etc." Bishop Williams sums this up as a "very important and practical resolu- tion." If taken enthusiastically by the clergy, it should mean 0 substan- tial 111510ase in the church popula- tion. "The central idea," lie says, "10 directed immigration." The letter follows in full: "Hitherto immigrants of Church of England carne to this country to settle wherever chance took them; and just as often as not it took c theta to neighborhoods where we had no church or service. Now it 'is pro- posed: (1) That the church on this side, through its clergy, should as- certain what openings for work thcr•, are in their parish and neighborhood for men and women or for fam- ilies either in tho town or in the .country; having ascertained this, each clergymen should fill in the en- closed questionnaire and forward it to Rev. Canon Vernon, Church house 604 Jarvis street, Toronto, 5. There should be a questionnaire tilled for each position for which it 15 desired to have been of about as much in- dren of performers. And he w01110 terest at Ottawa as the speech from alive gone home unsolicited that same the throne. any had not f1er and mother 00105 Its a long spell ietween the Christ, niter him; for he had saved enough alas" and 1 t tel holidays, but every- to pay of 1110 mortgage 011 the old i body will be,,ready :for the latter home, with 'a sertelu5 lettto add two when they arrive, wings to the house, • rants Bishop Williams to obtain a person 01' p,•rsons from the old country, • This is the first stage, • "Canon Vernon will .;end to church authorities on the other side a list of all such position, as have been found on this side. This is the sec- ond stagy "011 the other side there is now functioning an empire settlement committee of the Church's National Assnibly. Its duties are to select immigrants of approved character to fill those positions which the clergy on this side have discovered, and to start them on their way. Un their arrival in this country they will be met by our own port chaplains, who tails (j feet their destination. Assured Positions "In this way immigrants will have positions assurers to them before: they leave Britain, they will be people of approved character; we can secure members of the church to Gil the vac- ancies. thus increasing our congrega- tions. We shall thus help not only to build up the church,. also to make a strong and loyal British people in this Dominion. "I urge the clergy to take up this natter vigorously, both on church and patriotic grounds. I urge them also beeau0 e this work is already be- ing dole by at least ono other com- munion and done on a considerable erase. albeit very quietly. For in - .stance seine two years ago 17 young women arrived in a town in the south part of this diocese. At the station the priest !net them. Ten be- longed. to Me c•omnuulon and lie h-r'l positions awaiting. them. The rc'- nL.11l..t„ 00vt.n tt'ere yr, sheep without a shepherd. Some of them wore An- glieans. They all found positions in the rad, but only titter much anxiety. y. "There is no reason at all why we Anglicans should not provide equally will for o01' own. That is the object of this effort. its success will depend entirely upon the energy and dcve- tion tvlth whish the clergy will take Cie talleccfioll up. "We can do it if we only try, and rho it ,just as well as other commun- ions, le Wl';DN1:SDAY, ,TAN. 20, 1926. -•"" et !,s mow ao et' - our 1 Thanks NOM WI and appreciation are extended for the generous share of pat- ronage we have enjoyed. May 1926 be your• Brightest: and Most Prosperous Year, The Brussels 5 .�f P tl�S�16 wn dost 1111ts16�SQYM "It may be that 1)1 cities or manic- 1 facturing centres there will be but few openings, mainly help for house- hold work; but in the country there ought to be many openings for as- sistance on the farms. It is in the ) country that we most need increased I numbers, and to supply these is the r first aim of this effort, "Let us tuke it up loyally and vig- orously ,whether in town or country, I aril I venture to say that in a short! time the shall see an abundant re- ward. glut in every parish the re- wa'd will be in proportion to the 1 service which each clergyman reit re- t IN TI4E YEAR 1800 A MAN could sickle one-half acre of wheat in the same time that to -day, with a tractor and two binders, he can cut forty acres. ' I The more severe the winter the 1 earlier it will end is an old saying, which i1 reliable; is cause for en-, couragennent. 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