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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1926-11-24, Page 3THE BRUS ELS POST WHAT'S IN A NAME? A woman who was living in a hotel in San Francisco hlred Chinese boy. She said: "What's your name." "Fu You Tsin Mei," :edil le.. "Your name is too long. I'll call you John." "What's your name, please?" said he. "Mrs, Ebner Edward Mac- Donald," "Your name too long. I call you Charlie." WHEN IT RUNS "Me directioesesay to .turn the handle clockwise. What does that mean?" "How absurd! Don't you know the way your clk runs?" "Sure, it runs clown." 4. 4. IT ALL DEPENDS "What is the rent of this roont including the use of the piano?" "Well," suggested the land- lady, "perhaps you'd be so good as to play me something first." 4. 4. OVER THE PHONE "Hello, who is this?" "Ludwig.." "Who? I cannot uncloystarel you!" "Ludwig—L for Ludwig, U for Ulrieh, D for Dietrich, W for William; 1 °for Ignatz, G for 'George—" ."But, just whicb one of the six are you " DID YOU EVER WONDER? Teacher: '"What does your mother use soap for?" Willie: "That's what I'd like to know." e JUST .A."•SN.ACK Silas' usual breakfast ,wile 12 pancakes. But, then, he general- ly had a good hard morning be - him in the field. One morning a heavy rain made his ehores Impossible, so as he pass- ed the kitchen he called p the farmer's wife. "I shan't need much break- fast this morning. Eleven'll be enough. Blit make 'cm a little larger," SURVIVES EVERY TIME You'll notice, when the voting's over, and The men for office all eelected, The country goes serenely on -- as if It didn't care who, had been elected. ee THE TIP -PING QUESTION "Have you enough Money to tip the waiter?" "Yes, so little it's enough to upset him." 4 4. e• SPEAK TO THE JANITOR "My apartment is just full of rurios and antiques," "That's too bad. , Caa't you do anything to get rid of them," 4. .. THE EXCEPTION Husband (14daneing the household budget): "I don't be- lieve I've made one, extravagant expenditure so far, 'dear." • Wife: "But what about that fire extinguisher yeti bought a year ago? We've never used it once." STUFFED PEPPERS • A new way of saving green pep- pers is to fill the eases with sardines and pimento. cheese, rubbed to a paste. 'Vie -pepper may then be slic- ed as sandwich filling or salad garn- ish, • RUBBER APRON A rubber apron is an excellent rprotectoe of the clothes when waeb- Mg clothes or dishes. ' ----- CRISP FIRST All fresh vegetables should be perfectly crisp before being put in- to boiling water. CLOTHING CARE Soiled clothes should 'levee be put in the clothes closet, neither. shottld .darrip coats or mud-staited shoes. BEM' SPICES Always buy the best quality of spiets. Only a small quantity is nee., essay, and 4h6 gavot is of the ut-. *filP$03,4PC 0 it WEDAF,6DAY, NOV, 24, 1926, -,litasttifying '.sta,rad o EailkZ.12 MIMMII.S2 the ipr posed :roast posEess real tfnAr jud.P7meratsi h ip you f rrn-kiliag payErog 1;4., ot-,1 09,111 be wrong. . ' r . Sir John. 41.ird1 President Canadian Bre:l.:. nJ Commerce, Toronto:Principal W. L. Grant, Upper C.-ere:la College, Toronto: • "Am I Unit]. ,.t,VILtit/. ,1' ilV•Ikl`-•!,V, 5,itrie standing, as one whu —elves," hoe been laid Ty p re hi eltiuniets epee she e‘ II elreet of . eetee• upon youtig p• :01l:, 11911 tee email is maim that they ielti cotecerne beeee the elee e:et of. '"". ',a • e t h ePent in Miler.: els me: . •,,,ei .itelee it, rienclitiene pi•opooed ir,', :IL. •1 ••.'r,..,,•14 L.1:11. vita, ht.... h .. •,:i•-• . -,..` :h... 1,,. 0 t,,,,,, ,. , •-• . - ..L ..:,-,...., Cody, oir Thomas illet• 10. ear yi,..e.ei, welt in my okoulun they are e,..,:otting their ,/Wil 1 right ilt:iiiIVt lilt, .,,pi,, or intemperance and lawlessnesaei er in his tee • ., ..., it ' ,. 7 , ' 5 i, ,. ,,,I..Ltil“,..,'Ori 15 1.., .:,...•,..i!,.3k.1,41 tne ,a01..,: j White :rod Sir tone Willisuii le sopport of the Prime Minist obi ,. i.. 1.,..,,,, oii the YO 105 people whom 1 have had under ine haveI ' oeciipled fee ;aims .of trust, anti have naturally been subjebted te David Griffith Greening Wiire Works, liornitton: temetation. I have always found that to train a man to we're tempta- t10,15 ,V,,lgke.d Jut much more satisfactorily .for all converned than to try to Colee elaborete means to remove the teiriplation fremehim." Sir Alan Ayleszvorth, Toronto: "I have been voting no,w for more than fl11‘y years in parliamentary election-, und J. have never given a Conservative vote, but i ant guing to do so this year, because I think that any measure of prohibition by lam acc opposed to prohibition by education is the very reverse of what I have atwaye coneidered were the true principles of Liberalism. As well might one try to advance the interest of religion or of Christian- ity by legislation that would compel the people to go to chureh." Professor Alfred Baker, University of Toronto: "The 0.T.A., has proved a failure, conceived though It was with the best intentions and administered by Attooneys-General who earnestly` desired Its success. It has not chopped the use of liquor: there has grown a contempt for the law; it has created a class of bootleggers who have been enriched beyond the dreams of avarice. Surely it is time to make a change:" Hon. R. B. Bennett,' K.C., M.P., Ex -Minister of Finance, Calgary, Alberta: 'Not only has the Alberta Act been declared to be legally valid, but in practice it does control the liquor Wattle in that' erovince. The best proof of what can be done is what has been done, and in the lanewege of ono of the judges of the Appellate Division of the Supremo Court of the province in .whIch I reside ---7 think the present Liquor Control Aet s good and sound one, and has done more in the direction of temperance than any law we hitherto have had.'' Lt. -Col. Arthur L. Bishop, Si. Catharines, Ont.: "No good can come from arbitrary and hysterical measures, The O.T.A. has proved unforceable even under two such dry Attorneys - General as Mr. Nickle and 'Mr. Raney, end where they have failed no one else will succeed. We are teeing facts, not theollos. I think Government Control should be given a fair trial In Ontario, as It has been in the West, s.nd I believe the result will be equally satisfactory." Col. Herbert A. Bruce, N.D., L.R.C.P., Toronto: "It is not a cleft -elan of "dry" or "wet"; it Is a question of another Temperance A.et againet one that lips been tried and found wanting. I consider Mr. Ferguson's proposal reasonable and enforceable, and therefore a great advance on the old Att. As such it should have the support of every one sincerely interested in furthering she Temperance cause and reducing the evils of drunkenness." Police. Magistrate C. H. Burgess. Peel County: "My view of the matter is that the mile of liquor is out of control and is running wild (under the 0.1'.A.), and it is necessary to try to bring it under control again." Rev. Father J. E. Burke, C.S.P., St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church, Toronto: "It (the 0.T.A.) has been no blessing. During the yeans it has been on our Statute Books the youth of Ontario, with singular and beautiful exceptions, has gene back. The terrifying inoreaie in liquop amongst...our boys tend girls, even of tender years; • the consequent deterioration of moral standards and conduct; the curse of the boot- legger; the conquest by strong liquor of our parents, our homes, our clubs, our students, our gatherings, have been begotten and thrived tinder the away of prohibition." dlr. L. N. Byrns, former Treasurer Sarnia Prohibition Ilnion, Sarnia, Ont.: 'There are two questions before the electors In this campaign: (1) Will we continue theverninent control under the Ontario Temper- ance Act, as we have had it for the lost few years, whereby any person wanting liquor van buy a11 he likes from the beetlegger, or (2) will we have it conteolled so that a pereon cnn only bay it through a Govern- ment eommisition Ionise, where a person has got to have a permit to buy it and then only a certain ouantity at a time? 15111 not a staunch Conservative; I 1,1.15 voted Liheral when I deemed it wise, but will not this time." Col. R. II. A. Carman, Belleville, Ont.: "I ant convinced the people have seen enough to lead there to decide they would rather have the distribution of liquor by Government regulation than by the unscrupulous bootlegger." Finn. and Reverend IL 1 Cody, LL.D., D.D., Toronto: ."rio. greet achievements of the control plan, in my estimation, t•onsIst of the foliewinge In the first place, people were nO longer thinking and tilleing incessantly about getting a drink; in the second Parc , there was an overwhelming public opinion behind the enforce- ment of the Act where in the past public opinion had been strongly divided and illegal ironic had .flourished bemuse resorted to by a con- siderable section of the publice-ela the third place, bootlegging en a large scale was enermouely diminished." Draper Dobie, Toronto: "Having voted Liberal in the last general election, and dry in the firet two referendiuns, why have I deeided to vote for Premier Per- guson's Government and policy? 11 Is because Ontario wants more 'business end lii taxes,. more honesty and less deceitfulness, more breadth of Memel In and less narrowness of parochialism, more self- respect and less fir," .0 17. I: Farr Kieesion, Olti.: • When ihe la to" Principal Grant 'was at Queen's University he convinced me us probably no other man could of the pernieloue evils of prohibielon, Those like myself who remember Principal grant, will agree with me when 1 epeait of his far-seeing vision, his profound scholarship', and his true appreciation of human values. I believe pro. hiTiltinn is the blackest Spot on the whole history of. the Province of Ontario." Clara C. Field, Cebourg, Ont.: "Spent:Mg front a wernan's standpoint, I fear very niuth the result our present system .of oontrolling the liquor question will have .on the character of our young people, who are growing up in an atmosphere of reeltlees law -breaking and deceitful living. WIII it be possliele for them to here those teelings 02 patriotism they should have. te they, tote A. contempt for the laws of their country? / 1ee1 / can certainly endorse Mr. leergtieon's /Jolley as a, sincere endeavor to solve a per- plexing problem," Sir Joseph. Novelle, &wt., Toronto: 'If the responsibility were mine 1 would not choose Government oentrol 58 nnw stated at a recruit flit' existing cells, rbelieve, hoveever, there le a weight of public opinion Which demands a change In' the, existing low, .thel which will n0t. be met nettle by the present hesitating body of public opinion fer its enfore.ement. The'refore, with the elim- ination of the lsgi.I sale eft liquors in public houses of .entertainment. aceept the sale of itemors through Government agenciee only, under a system of 'permits, as probt-bly the best obtaleable change enforcible tinder the existing state of mimicopinion." Rev. T. W. Goodwill, Presbyterian plturch, Cobourg, Ont.: '7 believe the 0.T.A. to be n, relieve, but in thie eleetiot campaign I regard the Act not as a pelf:tie:11 issue, but a moral issue; not a • question of lack of enforeetnent but rather of impossibility of enforce- ' went, I find conditions under the °merle Temperance Act to be much wovee then they were before, T belleVe that Premier Ferguson is malting a sincere and stedied effort to secure a law that will be observed and one that can be enforced." "I trove' twice eery yeltr illeough the whole of Canada. I know the extent of the 'home mit.og etit 111 Hatail.e,i. I do not know that it cam be worse in Huy other pert ef the Province. In the Vtfest you cannot hear any complaint with peosent conditione. In Ontario It is impossible to got away from exert:seed ridicule anti disrespect for the 0.T.A." Mr, F. Barry Ilayes, Pres., Toronto Carpet Mfg. Co., Toronto: 'My impression of prohibition is that whereas the country 'gener- ally thought it would'ho very much to its interests, it etas only resulted in making many of our citizens hypocrites and law -breakers. This is having a very bad effect generally. Drinking in our cities and larger towns has ciertainly increased to an alarming extent. I ant not a 'wet'. but I etn not in favor of repressive legislation. The idea of making people good by statute is a delusion." Rev. Father C. J. Killeen, Belle -Dille, Ont.: view with a great deal of concern the increase in lawlessness and crime that prolfibltion has engendered. It leads to'a spirit of dis- trust. It is no use saying to the people 'You cannot have liquor.' Those who want it will get it. Fifty-one per cent. of the people eannot impose their will on the other forty-nine per cent," Rev. John Lyons, M.A., Church of England Rector: "After studying the situation I have become convinced that Pre- mier Ferguson's politer is the best solution yet placed before the people of Ontario to adequately deal with the liquor problem." Von. Archdeacon Mackintosh, Dunclas, Ont.: "Yon never heard of the Prohibitionists of the Provinces which have Government Control asking for a change to what we call rt. pro- hibition law. It shows that they are satisfied with the lave and feel that it is useless to ask for a change." J. C. Makins, K.C., Stratford, Ont.: "In a very large pereentage of the cases in my experience con- tested In court. In these districts ("Waterloo County 8.nd Windsor Bor- der), perjury has been eommitted, This Is are feature that our Re- called 'temperancie' friends seem to overlook. In this respect the cure seems worse than the disease," Rev. W. G. Martin, Pilgrim United Church, Brantford, Ont.: ''Ne man, unlew he Is blind, can say vrith sincerity that the 0.T.A. as a prohibition measure has been the success we hoped and believed it would be, when h beteene law. The -more 1 eonsider the question the more convinced I am tbet the bringing about of prohibition, an ideal towards which we ars all striving, and to which we are committed as men and women, eager for the best moral interest of the community and ot the state, is a precess of education. It is the responsibility of Pc home, the school; and the church." D. L. McCarthy, K.C., Toronto,: 'The Ontario Temperance Act had undoubtedly abolished the bar, but unfortunately, instead of having one bar in a hotel, we now have rooms in hotels converted into private bars," C. G. McGraie, Vice -President, Welland Vale Mfg. CO., St. Catharines, Ont.: "Not only labor, but the country as a wbele, will be better under Government contrel. 1 strongly endorse the F; eguson policy." Major-General the Hon. S. C. Aletebrtrn, Hamilton, Ont.: "I unhesitatingly state that in my opinion the policy of the Govern- ment control id limier, as it is now stated by the Prime Minister, is sound and In the best interest of all the peopls of the Province. I have lately been in the Provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta ana BriLish Colurabia. . . This is what I have learned. The people wlurevere strongly in favor of prohibition will without any qualification whatever say now that since Government control of liquor has come into force they would never fOr one moment go back upon their present legislation." Controller William Morrison, Hamilton, Ont.: "There is more alcohol drunk in Hamilton now than at any time in the eity's history." William Muloek, K.C., Toronto: "I have no hesitation In telling the people of Ontario that I favor Government control in preference to the 0.T.A., and that I will support the policy of the Fergusor Goverement." Mrs. Entily Murphy (Janey egenecie), Police Magistrate, Edmonton, Alberta: "Before Government control became the law of Alberta. I opposed It vlgorottely, both en the platform and by my pen. 1 wes fearful that our, last state would be worse than our first, It seemed only lOgiont that if the restrictions were removed there would be mord drunkenness and crime. No living person tumid persuade me to the contrary. ''After a period of several years in Which I have been called upon to enforce the present Liemer Control Act. both as a city and provincial magistrate, I ant bound to acknowledge that my fears were largelY unfounded. There was not CVE•11 a melt of inebriety as I had predicted, the people showing a remarkable degree of restraint. The condition was steadily improved—again 1 say, 1101 from any degree of spiritual enrichment on the part of our people—but because dee law was well conceived ancl is being well enforced." • Dr. G. J. Musgrove, Temperance Candidate in 1919, Niagara Falls, Ont.: "Before 1016 we had 15 bare and liquor stores in Niagara Falls; now we have double that number of bootleggers. The Provincial Pollee and the License Inspectors beet° been very active in endeavoring to enforce the Ontario Temperance Act, but it is really impotetible to do so. I am not only in favor of Mr. Verguson's policy, but I particularly' endorse the ovision that no permit shell be given to persons under 21 years of age" Mr. Paul J. Myler, Pres. Canadian Westinghouse Co., Hamilton, Ont.: As a large employer of labor I seo no nossibility of rerun for complaint in Ontario 'when a man shall be allowed a bottle of hoer in! his own house. Long experience with our men in this company is good enough for me rib this paint.'' J. G: Notman, Vice -President McKinnon Industries, St. Catharines, Ont.: "We have as much trouble now with our la'hor as we bed before prohibition came trio effect. There are the same Monday and Tuesday tilllicultiee, but new they are due to poisoned alcohol. our men would be Meoli better If they could have good beer when they want it. Government control as they have it in the West is what we tihould have he Ontario." Col. W. N. Ponton, K.C., Belleville: "As a lawyer I know that the Sad fact cannot be controverted, that in liquor eases under the repressive 0.T.A, truth has lost its ancient power. The administration et Justice has been honeyeotnbed by perhavy and the oath has lost it's sauetity, deepite the conscientious a.nd able efforts of magistrates, Crown attorney' and pollee officers who have done'their best to seem the title of revolt. Where the law ends, tyranny begins. The 0.T.A. is despotic, arbitrary and against the will of the eitizene of Canada. A wise law is 'the State's collected will.' The 0.T.A. never was. Under the 0.T.A. we are all treated as children and weak- lings and eximinels." Dr. A. Primrose, Dean of Medicine, Toronto University: They (the medical doctors) are legally permitted to iseue a definite number Of prescriptions each month, the inference being that the number of sick folk requiring alcohol should not exceed that number, and the doctor if he keeps within that limit is safe from adverse oriticism. The present situation 18 intolerable. The medical profession must be released from midi undignified setetitvde," The above excerpts from letters, interviews and addresses are necessarily restricted, also P. D. Ross, Publisher Ottawa Journal, Ottawa: "Government Control ham operated m several of the Provintes of the ludizad,m, .ted uppu,rontly without grove ovil=t-at aOl events with- out suele /sensible evil as to suggeet that prohibition is a necessity; certainly without such evil as is palpable under • prohibition in the United States. It seems to me that the amount of public or private harm whialt the proposed Government control leaves possible need not compel any of us to interfere with the personal freedunt of other people." Dr. F. IV. G. Starr, Toronto: "Some over -zealous people tell us that ,loverninvot Control does not worit In the Provinces where it is being tried, but such Is not my interpretation as I have found it. I have visited each Province where there lies been a change, both under prohibitory measures and under Government Control, and the odds, to my way of 0r:eating, are all on the side of Government ControL" Mr. Edward Tellier, former Liberal Member for North Essex, Windsor, Ont.: "1 do not look 'upon this as m party Bght. / think we must an take off our coats and put Government Control over. I ata for Govern- ment Control first, last a.nd all the time." Dr. I. A. Temple, M.R.C.S., LLD., Past President Ontario Medical Association, Toronto: "There is one fact that is very prominent in my mind and which I think might well be emphasized—that is the great inereaeo in the use of narcotics in the last three or four years. The man who was addicted to liquor has switched in many cases to drugs. While there Is always hope for the drunkard, it is almost Impossible to cure the drug addict. The 0.T.A., was xnuch too sweeping In Its provisions." Most Rev. G. Thorneloe, D.D., D.C.L., Archbishop of Algoma, and Metropolitan of Ecclesiastical Province of Ontario, 1915: 'There is in human nature a sense of freedom which must be respected. All these considerations have to be weighed by the Govern- ment, and I have very great hope that the measures proposed bY Premier Ferguson will be found, if carried out, to be a very great improvement on what we have been experiencing the past few years." Sir Charles Tupper, Winnipeg: "The reasons that convince me most firmly that Premier Ferguson's policy will prove a great boon for the people of Ontario are based on my observation of the great success of liquor control in Manitoba. Control in Manitoba, has brought about the following three great improvements: there is lees drinking by both .young and old. particularly by the young; control has ereated a higher moral tone in the community at large; it has also brought talent a decidedly higher respect for law." L. A. Van Skiver, formerly Inspector Children's Aid Society, Picton, Ont.: "1 have been an ardent prohibitionist all my life. leut\en the discharge of my duties as Inspeetor for the Children's Aid Society I came across conditions that impressed me with their eericitumess. 10. almost every 5/1.80 of destitution which came under my observation Sound that bootlegging was the Cf3,11S0. 1 do not believe in changing my prohibition beliers that I aen taking a retrograde step. Prohibition means war." Rev. Frank Vipond, Streetsville, Ont.: "I am not afraid to express the convictioe that the grenteet enemies of Christian temperan4e, of sobriety. und of itlf, npbuileing of strong fThristian character have nM been the l.roweelos arid Ois- tilleries, bitt,':el,z1 and funatieel prohibitionimis who beep been will- ing to me:— cs,:. the Christian ft el a lesser thing than /hal of the Mahometan." H. S. White, K.C., President Ontario Bar Association. Toronto: '7 not satisfied that . . there is in the prtvin:e no such thing as prohibition under it (the 0.T.A.), for the teueon ;hal eve, person who wants liquor can get it without dieieulte. I bclieve the.' the Premier and the Government have followel the only proper course open to them in asking the peonle for a mandate M. remove otir affliction from In." Rt. Hon, Sir Thomas White, K,C.M.G., Toronto: "That the Ontario Telt-wen:two Xet Is not Capable '47 adequate enforcement, lacking as it deee the etrong support of public opinion. must by this time be clear to el: who hove given 505eiaily to the Subject. The t1me has arrived to :'0 amend It tui te precent and limit as far as possible, the evil,: of intemperance, eneer seeient of Gov- ernment control, having 5'firmer support ef ind under regulations which will not lead to the evils which fel the past :Amen years have been inseparatly cormocted with the administration of the 0.T.A." CoL Rev. Cecil G. Williams, Dominion Secretary, Navy League of Canada: "Should I steal. commit forger' or break any other law in Canadtt except that of the 0.T..k, 1 arn punished and upon my release ignored. until 1 have rehabilitated myself. 1:,y thoee Who knee, me, because they are sympathetic to and upholders of ;In law. But if I violate the 0.T.A. and am punished for the same n,...7ording to law, I have the sympathy of my friends, showing that they hold the San' in contempt. Very different is the treatment extended in the two instances. The Jae, should be the same from coast to enast. for Individnale and all classes. and until it is I cannot see the righteousnese or the practicaiiiity of the GTA." Most Rem David lrilliants, Archbishop of Huron and Metropolitan of Or dariO, London, Ont.: It (the 0.T.A.1 has done more to encourage deceit end subterfnge- more to demoralize the youth of the country and to create a general disrespect for law than all the other causes combined during the ten years ef its existence. Government Control, with individual permits, ie the only eane system." Levi Williams. Palice Magistrate, Picton, Ont.: "All my life 1 have been a temperance aavoeate. But when I saw not only how the law itself was being disregarded by people who were not widened to lan-brettking bui by the actual perversion of the process of justice, felt there valet be some changes. "I have been magistrate PIctort for IS years, and what has struck me recently is the limits that people will go to perjure theinselves When faced with charges of violating the Ontario Temperance a..ct." Sir John Willison, Toronto: "5 wail wholly unprepared for the unanimity of opinion expressed ill favor or Governinent Control, Again and again I was told by those who had opposed the system and voted for prohibition in plebiscites and referendums that conditions were better ender control and that they would not vote to restore the prohibitory enactinents. No one suggested that bootlegging had been wholly abolished or tient there wee no unlawful selling or illicit drinking. They did inskt that boot- legging was less romitiOn and less profitable, that the law was generally respected and enforced, that there was far less drinking in hotel bed- rooms and more undesirable places, and that there was a, greater degree of social contentment and no such feeding as =der prohibition that flasks must be ca.rried and a .sectret utore of liquor provided for dances. house partiee and like eventa" Albert Whitney, brothar ol the late Sir James Whitney., Prescott, Ont.: "The facts stare us in the face. Wilen the Government dispetiaaries of this province are in receipt of a yearly revenue of something like five million dollars, and the beotieggers are profiting to the extent of some twenty-flve million, It imams to me that it is time to Call a halt, and ask oureelyee in all seriousness if tide whole buaitiess woulki not be in far better bandit entrusted to a Government With the splendid business record of the present Provincial Government, of whiCh the Hon. Howard rim -g. is heal." limited in number, owing to loch of space. FORT RANCE OnterloConeervetive 1 36 Klne Strsics ast1T