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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1927-4-13, Page 3'Wanted We pay Highest Ci3!•iht Price; for Cream. 1 cent per Butter Fat extra ?aid for ail cream delivered at our Creamery. Satisfaction Gua.raneed Bra e r Creamery Co. Phone 22 Limited '(° >!.''. Ma3i,:,. Sdr1,4'...,<;„.,lG(d •�^'rn.I ;A`+7fA.+.::7 '�?, feat Memorable E'en1 CN. ,s . O I1iS $flB' i`*1 i_j� py 6Y1adles Con'rw� HUDSON'S LAST VOYAGE Three hundred and seventeen years ago, on the 17th April, 163;0, Henry Hudson, the intrepid mari- time explorer, sailed from England on the last of his four famous Arc- tic voyages, all of which were un- dertaken with the object of finding a navigable passage to China through the northern sea., There is nothing authentically known regarding the career of Hud- son prior to the last four years of his life, which is the period covered by the four voyages. The first two were made in 1 60 and 1603 re- spectively and were undertaken en behalf of the Muscovy Company. Although in each instance Hudson failed to discover a north-eastern passage to the China Sea he return- ed home with much valuable infor- mation, and one result of the voy- ages was the establishment of the rich British whale fisheries at Spitz- bergen. In 1609 Hudson entered the ser- vice of the Dutch East India Com- pany, for whom he made the third voyage. Once again he failed to find a sea route to the north-east, and he accordingly turned to the west, where he proceeded up the eastern coast of North America and , explored the Hudson River for a distance of 150 miles. On his re- turn voyage to Holland he put into Dartmouth Harbor, where his ship was promptly seized by the British Government, and he was forbidden to leave England again except in the service of his own country. His fourth and last voyage was financed by a small British company, which fitted out a ship of 55 tons known as the "Discovery.” Hudson sailed from London on the 17th Ap- L '1, 1610, with the intention of seek- ing a north-western pasage via Dav- is Strait, and in the month of Aug- ust he entered the great inland sea which now beers his name, namely, Hudson Bay, the eastern shore of which he explored until the 10th of November, when he was shut in by the ice and compelled to set up win- ter quarters in the south-west corner of Janes Bay. During the winter the crew of the "Discovery" suffered great priva- tions owing to the scarcity of food, and soon after the return voyage was commenced in the following spring a mutiny broke out on board which culminated in Hudson being cast adrift in the Arctic Seas. Iso and his young son, four loyal mem- bers of the crew and three sick men were forced into a small boat and left to perish from starvation and exposure in the midst of the floating ice. Nothing more was seen or heard of the abandoned men, but three months later the "Discovery" arriv- ed back in England, where the sur- viving members of the crew were placed in prison. The discoveries made by the ill-fated mariner on his Last voyage resulted, sixty years lat- er, in the formation of the famous Hudson Bay Company, which played such an important part in the early development of Canada, Hudson was not the discoverer of the groat bay, the straits and the river which perpetuate his name, for they had already been visited by some of the earlier adventurers in 1 the northern seas and wore marked on the rough maps then in existence but he was the first mariner to sail up the Hudson Bay and to the south- ern limits of Hudson bay, and as a result of his discoveries several fresh fields wore opened up to British en- terprise. - '7hat We Put 'Up With i;inr St. Thomas Times -Journal). '11 sorts of queer letters are re• ed by a newspaper editor. Some ?pie seem to loop upon a news- ier office as tho legitimate deposi- 'y of their troubles, grouches and ivate affairs. What wvc don't pub- dh would make the angels weep; or nake a cat laugh, One of these missives came into the office yesterday. .v,s usual, the write—who, again as usual, did not sign his name—began by saying he hacl a piece of news for us. He told us ho had sent it in before, and we hadn't published it, and lie didn't know why, because it was 'better than other news we were in the hab- it of publishing; and be followed up with the customary hint that he "wouldn't feel like taking your pap- er any more unless you print it," That type of correspondent always believes such a throat will bring us to our knees. And when we came to the "piece of news" that was better than any other news we published, what was it about? Simply, a grievance, real or fan- cied, against a certain professional man, In other words the Times -Journal Was expected to loud its columns for an attack against the skill of some- body whose work did not please the writer of the missive, and who, :for ail we know, may not havo been to blame for what was alleged to havo happened. There aro members of the public who do not soon to realize the func- tion of a newspaper. Primarily it is to furnish the news of the day that most interests and concerns the community. If one man or one fam- ily has a complaint against someone whom they employed and his services did not give satisfaction, that is a matter between themselves. It is not "a piece of news." It may very well be "a piece of a•ove1p," and a real newspaper has no use for gos- sip. Yet there are thee() who think that the best way to settle scores is to get the local newspaper to publish a letter giving their version of the matter using the newspaper as a cat's paw, anci holding up the other man to generltl public ridicule or abuse, through the- columns of the THE BRUSSELS POST WEDN1.SI:IAY, AI'I'M 1J, 1112". •...4,9.,.,0,04.44...4,! ...r. . .,A, Fair Substitute By AL,VAH JORDAN CARTII N :^ or.^ (1(1145, ugrrmo (copyright, 19119,('U 415,.1.)'....Cant 110,5•0 It 11111 born 0 111;irir4• „ 4,1'1.1:• 10 1101•(11:( 1.1111 111101, 1411`• r.ru•er:1 Alvin Price that lu• '% (4(111) of IV(10iu:: 1111,( n:r,•,..:•lr neve. Peery friend etel e, eetueeoe'e• he made lw nuo• ;,0 ;,,' ;Icer. t:!:m, tee Vieueant 11;0.1 trleel Fe,• ee..na,•t i<(1 11111••+, bot :Gene wes tteether Iiia't net (1111(1,• 0101 14(4.1! /IP aneeth •1 there was It (•ertuin thee• •.f envy atiel til\'all 4(115 0 flat'i•(It1.i Nale••elan fee O'erge w1ho'esale millinery house and had an established clientele. Ilio route 616 pot take him ant of the Stat', and hentr • e • missed Nailing 11(1(110 Satur- days ) 1 days until he announced to Bertha one clay that he was-e'Xlu„'10d by his firm to make a special rush trip covering his entire route within a month, to place a new ]tat braid that had arrived late and would be out of vogue with the end of the season. Bertha and Blanche had always been good friends end the former was glad t to have her old t im o school friend speed all the time she could spare in her company. "I should not ihc0 to have a travel- ing mon for a husband," said Blanche, "and particularly as handsome a one as Alvin. I always frankly considered that he was irresistihle, "Why, you ridiculous pessimist I" laughed Bertha. "Ito you suppose Al- vin ever even thinks of anybody but me?" •'(le shouldn't, I'll admit," answered Blanche, "for you are n perfect little jewel or beauty and duty, but Alvin also attracts attention, and my cousin who visited us last week and who knows Alvin, says that among the mad- men not one of them dares to aspire to the marked partiality of the ladies as does Alvin, unit that he is such a favorite that many of there won't give their trade to anybody else." "Why, bless you; Blanche," observ- ed Bertha artlessly, "how can the dear creatures help it? Cas there ever such a genial, accommodating and helpful a fellow in the world?" A week later a casual remark of Blanche set Berthas 'thinlcing and worrying. She repeated something her cousin had said about a Mrs, Adams. a milliner at Glenville. A fellow road - man had told of (tow Alvin woni(l go out of his way to visit the lady, and that it was a subject of gay badinage among other salesmen. Alvin came back home several days -sooner than expected. Then all was forgotten with Bertha save solicitude and tenderness. "I'm about done out with my long jaunt," Alvin told her. "Was laid up with a slight fever for two days. Doc- tor said I was due ]tome for a rest. Too bad, for I had finished ,my entire route except six little towns down In Walden county, Bertha, dear, I want you to write a little for me to the house, explaining that I'm inlet up for a spell, but covered everything but the towns marked on this list," and he handed Bertha a written sheet. She started and flushed as she read among them that 0f Glenville, the town where Mrs. Adams did business. "Alvin," she said, "will it take much time or work to go to these places and see your enstntners?" "Very little of either," replied Alvin, for they are among my surest clients." "Then," Bald Bertha with animation, 'why not let me take your place and finish the trip? Give 4110 the samples Ind instructions, You will be proud to find out what an eager little business woman 111111:" Alvin demurred, but Bertha tinnily avercarne his scruples. Site felt secret- ly guilty as she 101111(1 herself on a train, fm• she realized that her mein purpose was to see some of those "im- pressible milliners" with whom Alvin was such at favorite and the sting of Manche ransant's unkind insinuation 6tmeatcl yet, Elmore 15(15 the first town Bertha risite6. It had but one milliner and is Bertha entered her store the maunn stared et. 1101. fixedly, "Why, you must be Mrs. Price!" she excl a inu•d. "How did you know that," questioned Berthei in amazement, "Because yen ,lust placed Air. Price's sntnl:le case on the emitter, and the hus- res thatproud „• ,' lit 11111141st c1 hemi of yours has shown his eustnm- ere your libitum, in tipe back of his watch couldn't be counted." Bertha went to the next town, 1llen- eille, with bo,' heart cheered and com- forted. Still, she cnt0rod 1110 store. of Alec •Adams nil (mite)ed, A middle aged wetnan sat sewing on a hat. "Are you ling Adams?" inquired rrtha. "Oh. no, T am her cl:ulghter, Mother, someone wishes to see you. A women grey:haired anci bent and wrinkled appeaued. She scnnmel ilertha curiously, recognizing her in- m-1an11y. The moment Bertha 10111 her mission the old lady folded her In her motherly arms. "1'(111 are welcome as the flowers in spring, you sweet love!" she spoke, hissing Bertha repturensly. "Tins that dear. goad husband of yours toll you how hi' Caved me from linin;; all I had, and coarses clear mit of his way to look 0501 my books an6 help nae alone;?" llttmhled. repentant, loving and Meting her husband )Fiore ihan she ever had done. Bertha Price returned hone with order book and, heart full paper. And, of course) if a fair-minded editor declines to publish it, the writer has always the threat up his sleeve: "A11 right, then; we won't take your old rag any more." Newspapers cannot be cajoled or threatened. News is news, but nei- ther this nor any other newspaper can be made the instrument of at- tacks on private individuals. The only place for suet& letters is the wastepaper basket. BLACK SILK To renew the sateen of black silk, spong0 with hot coffee on the right side, tura ever and press damp. "Raetus, is my bath waim?" "Yaseah, the wnllmcst bath Ab was 0501 ilr" MRo IliaeNAIR GIVES 1 EGJ C'dNCE • Firer3 "1'13'1:1 -)T W':S" tr.ST CORil ''UVCrfrrl.a° ,;tiPittTION 4 i 1.IIt. i i<I cNAIP.. air. S.alien* el' New ^1,31 TL'.,11 one of the thou.,w.b 011.'., o .. much to "Fruit-a-tivr•s". Fall of gratitude he writes the edmple truth as fellows: "1 can luineFtly ..ay that T•rnit-a-five;' are the but intestinal regulator I have ever meet. Other tem nn and I ha• c t 1 tried n treat eneree, came pain and grtp- ine, bet 1 r it -a t1 -I ab ay e act cu i!y a^d cffectiv(ly. I e.lte inclined to be o,.t- aipatrd tefore, but :•x115 I am fee':ing first rate, and most eiucerly recommend 'Fruit -a -ties' to CVO') "Fruit-a-tive " i= the sworn enemy of couctipatilt,l. irem tee he teellied juices of ire:::h teat; coeite4a11 with ton- ics, it i.; a met:teal n lcdiciee, It is not habit fa(mle. Dont Iei conetirrvatinn plai•ae you, Get Lack the bloom( of health, the spariele in your eye, the feeling that life Couldn't be better. Bertin at once, with "Fruit-a- tives"-25e and 50c a box anywhere— everywhere. PERTH COUNTY At wn„d h:+rvheca ('''1t!auliO•16, 111 t 1''i (11144 t 1,•1!1,1(, 'acted 1,14” Itret4 (e,l •0`141). IFI •_' i.h illi 11,till 01. 1., (1,1; U,!,45'(11•, 1'-n teet!v „!' 1,is1,c,•. ,•1, II':t, pit/ ,•hr..ed 1(4' 11' (.1 40.4! -i!,.,, 1!1!..11,1: - (11 11. '11,'• ltnldm, al M11131.0 4' 1.-'1•'0.111, l• ! •,,,('. 44)'! 1141,1•; to;- 1:• ,11: 4 44, "',.,4 •^,I,.4( i'e,l, dee! e, t., lee we I„1 ,eeet•eVeld , :! u,.. 1•,. 19 i . .,.,: ,,. 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The f,•er acres of hand, nn 101(40', Chop is a Hex trill, two SCIS 18155 barns and sterehouees, which helmet" - ed to the late WW01, F01104401', at Alitehell, have been purchn)wl by .1. (1'. Anderson, of Ln('know , 11111' 4(015 operates two fink mills, one 141 Ln'k• now, 11(16 the ether, 4(t Rip107. '1.10 i,. will hengored (moot tunit c• for fnlm 01.0 111 tl)1N 51('It1Uw who wish to (;ro.v flax 111r. 1tirebel] expects that there will he from (16 In 1,11110 acres 0f hand sown in 641x, this spring, on ferule S111 rounding 111111)511. Meddling With Health Machinery Last week's Saturday Night gave the following Editorial that is worthy of consideration: — Excellent and progressive as was the greater part of the Government's programme a: the recent session of the Ontario Legislature, and expeditious beyond precedent as was that body's per-! forinance of its duties, there was at least one matter which did not re- ceive adequate consideration. To those familiar with the history of public health measures in Ontario it was amazing to note the casual way in which the Legislature abolished, practically without discussion, the Provincial Board of Health, with its splendid record of forty-five years' efficient service. No member seems to have been at pains to press an ef- fective enquiry as to the reasons for scrapping this time-honored body,' or as to how the new system is likely to work out. The new system seems planned to centralize authority in the Minister, with no checks or buffers, with the obvious clanger of constant political interference in a (natter when such interference is above all things mis-, chievous. The post of Chief Officer' of Health, held for decades by a' succession of able and enthusiastic professional Wren is abolished. The Board comprising representative physicians from various sections of the province, informed of conditions in their respective localities and clothed with independent powers which placed them beyond political interference, also goes to the scrap heap. Thus a system which a few years ago was pronuulleed by the Public Health Board of the Rocke- feller Foundation to be the best in the world, is unceremoniously cast aside. From every point of view the ac- tion of the Ontario Government in this matter is reactionary, and fraught with hazards for the future. The Minister of Health is now the supreme authority, aided of cuurse by a deputy minister and a chief in- spector but lie has no independent advisors to assist hint in meeting covert and open conspiracies against the public welfare wheat are an 10- . cl' . bl 0-radicable problem in all attempts to Protect the public health and to pro- mote modern policies of preventive medicine. With the glaring example of the Montreal typhoid epidemic, duo entirely to polities over-riding the law, before our eyes, the danger of scrapping machinery built up to a high standard of efficiency by more than forty years of vigilant effort becomes the more apparent. It is a sacreflection onhumanit y that public health measures are made effective in spite of, rather than with the co-operation of, the average individual or coporation. In many rural districts people c0neldor it an interference with liberty to prevent theta from endangering the lives of their neighbors by unsani— tary (practices, In Northern Ontario there are many large operators in various lines who still practice eva- sion and resort to threats against the government and its officilas whenever they are checked up. In such cases the authority of the Board of Health as an independent tribunal working in co-operation with the Minister has proven invalu- able. Those of us wno remember the battles of the nineties, when on- ly by the most drastic use of the Board's authority could local dis- tricts be compelled to adopt proper measures for the suppresison of smallpox; the many stilt rights for the pasteurization or milk and in- spection of dairies in the teeth of the opposition of rural legislators, best understand what the Provincial Board of Health has meant to the people of Ontario. A Record of Benefits Forgot Let us give an illustration of the way matters stand under the new system. Under the law as it was un- til recently a municipality appointed its 01511 M. H. 0., but he could not be dismissed without the consent of the Minister and the Provincial Board. This was a most necessary precaution, for the went of an effi- cient Health Officer ,ran never be popular in his own community, es- pecially in backward districts. Ev- ery municipal official or provincial inspector of real efficiency is subject' to frequent attempts to oust him, But so long as the independently created Provincial Board existed; he ( was safe from assaults, if not from annoyances, based on political ex- pediency. To -day the matter is left solely in the hands of a Minister, actively engaged in politics, and sub- ject to appeals. not in the public in- terest which he could formerly pass along to the Board for rejection, but which he must now 11011410 with one eye on party interest. Inevitably the health official will feel less secure in duties,and performance of his the p will, rightly or wrongly, be impres- sed with the idea that the safest course is to avoid trouble evert though stttalh avoidance endanger 151101e communities. We predict that three years of trial of the new system of bringing polities into health administration — for that is clearly what it means—will create an universal necessity for some forst of independent tribunal, to wltie1i the Minister, to put it colloquially, may "pass the buck.” Apal't from these consi,deratlons the levity with wlticlt the Board of Health hag been thrust aside without t eXamilation of what it has meant in the hi, tory of Ontario 15 patdufttl. ity international status was of the highest. hestt. Its professional personnel has always been sound and wise; Its :accession of secretaries or ,thief iteer , 11r. Peter IT, Ilty0e, .lir. C. A. llodgetts and Dr, 3. W. S McCul- lough, have kept it well :aloe at of cacti new development in unitary policy and preventive ntcelr .1110 dal, 111 cJiream E'!'"l'E C EA NI PETIT i' i-. ld 1' I' IC V1, a1';'l:.n:I 111''(':4(-',! 1,, 1114:1440 1(1!' , 1: •) telt,' 11. ., r , T' (1 : 4, • , 1,,. l', • 1 f)t:•• ,1„,l r” ••to I nil," .r 4,,•11,•1 04.,.('(;,.0• tc t' ,, 1, ,• SV.. . I1 1',;at) a ,. ,•.,,., • ( 4 • ! LA1 •'11.111., �1 C. .tT('CA LL or P11+.04E, 2;1(J, Thee ( ..-- , c, . • � C m,wy y tl'i?'E�`h.� n.,:va�de:•`2,a � f r9�3"'��o'�CON'L�`"'�vlAGr el -se. .,„ •.,.."a°' a.,.-.�M. t ..,tea.- ..:.:» u.. 4(° „ r 77101 xr,ra _ .-r:,.... , r2,.ra.. - �•,e,c„-„..•,.rx-> r a>7, ..., r.N,... o 4•,0 :.0•i-04.4 1•0+.4.6,+, -teed•' @ 1®'. WANTED e k $ 4 9 9 9 9 Will pay 260 a lb. for fat hens over 6 lbs. llighee market prices for oth- er hens. s m M0 o o•k'0-1455'0 •M@•r-,:,",•cit-r•It ,9.1. 4.14,, ing more than four decades. Its warfare against public ignorance and indifference and against private out- lawry has been continuous. In its early days, when modern public health ideas were in their infancy, it did a magnificent pioneer work. As early as 1890 it established the first Public Health Laboratory in Ameri- ca, which was followed by the first in the United States, established in New York, three years later, Some of the ablest bacteriologists on this continent have been associ- constant vigilance. The Board has even compelled municillalites to con - .trust proper water -works a a sinst their will, a task tendered possible on- ly by the fact that its constitution left it free from political mteefer- ence. It has rendered invaluable aid in the great fight against tuberculosis, a battle not merely against disease, 1 but against ignorance and s upereti- tion, In the lesser communicable dis- eases. in influenza, veneral disease, infantile paralysis, it has carried on a great work of prevention and edu- cation. and even in such a ditfealt matter as the detection of cancer In its early stages it has spread know- ledge. This then is the honorable institu- tion which the Legislature has with- out investigation allowed to pass into history. Of course the fruits of its labors cannot die and will continue, but the wanton destruction of a mach- ine which has in the past prov.n so invaluable to the public welfare must be regarded as an ill-considered and reactionary measure. antario motorists May Now Go 35 dies all Hour ated with this work, and there are 11015 nine laboratories in Ontario, which up to now have been under the Board's jurisdiction. At first the Board was under Ministry of i.gri• culture, but was afterward transfer- red to the Provincial Secretary, and owed a great deal in its second per- iod to the enthusiasm of the late Ilon. W. J. Hanna. Under the lat- ter began the free distribution of biological products of all kinds, such as anti -toxins and vaccines, which became a most notable feature of the work. The first Ministry of Health was established in 1919 by Premier Drury, with Hon. Walter Rollo of Hamilton, in charge. Mr. Rollo was a Labor leader, and in this matter proved splendidly pro- gre; sive. The conquests over typhoid, dip• ther•ia and smallpox, which have been achieved in Ontario are known in medical circles throughout the world, and are due to the forev and policies of the Board and its offieere. In child and maternal hygiene, "lib- lic nursing and general education 9 has performed an invaluable work. One of its greatest public services Inas been its sanitary envestigatinns in international and internal waters; and !ts sharp supervision of the wa- ter supplies of connnunities has been a most valuable work, calling for Toronto, April 5,—The new speed limit of from 25 to 36 miles per hour on highways, outside of cities, towns and villages, became operative today when royal assent was given in the Legislature to the bills affecting the ' Highways Traffic Act and the Public } Vehicles Act. The speed of motor trucks equip- ! ped with pneumatic tires and having a gross weight in excess of six tone, is also automatically increased, it is pointed out, from 10 to 20 miles an hour, while the speed for similar ve- hicles having solid tires is increased i to 15 miles per hour. 1 The amendments respecting the ! czrrl•ing of lights by all vehicles and the carrying of special signs by cars with four-wheel brakes will not be- come effective until October 1, of this year. The "half -load" regulation, which exempts pneumatic -tired trucks with a carrying capacity up to three tons, 1 is also operative now and will apply 1 during the present month of April. Solid -tired trucks above one-half tda capacity are still restricted to the half -load regulation above that weight. eeeeeceeLOOK AT THE LABEL Rl lonam MANI A TO COMMEMORATE d Ikea' 371 tr Thu a;; .he Yea .lrr Of Drial gond; Gifts In honor of Canad::'s Diamond Jubilee, her Sixtieth Birthday. What could be mere appropriate than the gift of a Diamond? FOR APRIL„ The Di:uneud is the April Birthstone—the correct glee for Easter, or 110 April iirt'tney. ,,,,,,,,,,,., 4.4..44....... �..�...-,.,.,,..............w........,...-.......,..,................�.,.., 'f!o' pewee, most beautiful de- signs, Set with fine quality Diamond. Front $25 up. You do not have to pay a big price lel buy a Diamond from us. Engagement lingo e. JEWELER J a e.. WROxFTEIt SCARF PINS, $15 UP RINGS, BA R PINS AND