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The Brussels Post, 1939-2-15, Page 3sleasteeetesatestmeaesewwee igraasels Post Published every Wednesday at B7'useal", 00140 by The Pest l'ulaiehing House, printers and publishers, lanbaeriptious, 11,50 per yelir; other than 'Canadian addresses, postage extra; single copies, 5 cents, Telephone a1 P. 0, Box 50 Brussels, Ontario, Wedneeciay, February 15th, 1900 WHAT ABOUT IT? A good 'deal of tally is going on quietly regard- ing 1110 abolition of the provincial governments. Everyone sees difficulties in the way of 011013 a step. `!'here will be an addition by so doing, to the prevailing unrest of the times. Fears are entertained, as to the status of the Dominion. "Will the Dominion disintregrate" it is seriously asked. :Canada, it is argued, I's too loosely hold toegther now, What would follow if the prov- inces were abolished? East and West are nae enough apart as it is, they tell us, It is urged that we have painfully and expensively built up a fine system of county and tonvnahip and provincial highways and reads. What will become of them if the control 'becomes remote The same holds in regard to education. Will the Indifference h, Public affairs, already at a disastrously low ebb, fall .still lower if interests cease to be less local and more remote? Then, just what hill the abolitionists put in the place of the present system. 'There is every occasion for Canadians doing some serious thinking upon a topic so vital. Let us become informed before we take sides. •? . SALES TAX HURTS There is a growing feeling that government control is doing extensive damage to business, and stands in the way in a very true sense of a return to the prosperous time of ten years ago. Perhaps no greater hindrance to bthsiness exists than the federal S% sales tax, . It actually retards business recovery because it lowers the buying power of the working man, The average work- ing man has a difficult enough task to live comfortably as it is, and his lot is made infinitely more difficult by the fact that he must pay S% sales tax to the government on practically every- thing he buys. True, in a good many instances, it Is hidden in the retail sales price and is not brought forcibly to the consumer's attention; tout every working man may be assured' that out of every $100 he earns he is paying out at least $8 In this one tax alone. Ile has enough other taxes, municipal, pro- vincial and federal, to contend with without this sales tax, which eats at the very vitals 0f the nation's buying power. It is hardly to be hoped that the politicians who walk our parliamentary halls in this era of Canadian history will do intuch about the matter Most of them are far too much concerned with Jumping to the snap of the party whip. To most Politicians the welfare of their particular party is at much greater import than the living conditions of the working man upon whom they have 'foisted this sales tax. Fortunately there Is a federal election in the offing and the era of promises will return, Likely among those promises will be one to reduce the sales tax, and that is a promise that the elector should make sure is carried out, IS THE AIR FREE? The publisher of the Globe and Mail apparently finds that the air is not free, It is controlled by the Canadian Broadcasting .Conporatlon, But this should not alarm Mr, MMCullaghh Since the beginning of radio, governments have been policing the air wane. In ,the United States is perhaps the best example of ,privately controlled radio boadcasting, and that ran amuck in 1926 when radio operators found that promislauous use of air waives was not the proper method of running a broadcasting business and salted the government of that .country to step in and police the air waves. What has happened to Boake Carter. We haven't 1100.1d of him 01! late, Those bombastic broadcasts of his views on cur. rent cows displeased the powers that be in Wash- ington and as a consequence he was gently ousted from the air waves. Since government regulation of radio is iu force and since it appar- ently .,will continue to be in force so long as this medium is used for a medium of communication In near tinges and by army and navy in peace times, then so long will the air continue to be ruled by government bureaucracy. Newspapers aro eat licensed. by govornntenla as are radio stations and. as a consequence are free V) express Independence of views, but the radio station, licensed by the government, must be sub ject to the government. conlnuission 111 all that it carries, over the air waves, At present there seems to the a definite feeling to have this condition changed, 01 means that a government may tree the air for political pier. .pesos, to int across any message to the listeners that it so desires and effectively muzzle reply to those messages through the control of radio. Doesu't seen right, ant 'there 11 Is, Very definitely, then, ave can be assured that the air is not tree,-1411tCihll Advooate, MUSIC IN TIME SCHOOLS , We cannot think of any filler suablect than 1nuste to be tawgllt in our schools, Parents ought to he grateful for the privilege their children are granted in being taught the !u'ndameutals of muolc, It gives the child who has natural musical talent an in0entive to cultivate that talent; and those who are not blessed with an Inliere:t love cf inane gain at least a Comprehensive Dr, - p; eelatioli of oue of the finest things in life, One flnde, as 000 grows o1212r, that to be musical, or if only to have an appreciation. of good music, cpeho 'avenues of entertainment, de- light and relaxation that are closed to those less fortunate. Music! one of the greatest of God given gifts. Be thaelslul your child is being taught it in 001 schools. aaa NATURE'S PROTEST While ive are enjoying average winter weather in Ontario the people farther south are seeing their home swashed away by floods, In Kentucky and West Virginia particularly con- ditions became desperate because It rained too hard. The Ohio river and many of its lesser. tributaries are being blamed for the trouble, and there are long stretches where 'the water is nine feet above flood level. There are towns where 'water from three to six feet has been running through the streets and probably as many as 30,000 people are homeless, Instead of blaming the rivers the people ought to be blaming the things which former generations have done to the country. They cut the woods from it; they took the timber off the hills and river banks. When the timber was taken away there was nothing to hold the ,soil when the. water started rushing to lower levels; the roots of the trees were gone and so the soil gets washed along and finds its way finally to the bed of the river. That makes it more .shallow, When that process keeps on year after year the river cannot possibly contain the volume of water it did originally; its depth has been taken from it. So it overflows its banks and the flood Is on in earnest, The South has spent its millions trying to 'build artificial river banks which would cause the water to stay in its course, and It has never succeeded and the reason is that for years people have been hacking away and: creating an unnatural condition. Now they suffer and the flood is one of nature's methods of protesting that .man has dons something the never should have done. •s : . AS IT WAS ON THE TENTH We noticed where .a farmer had written to an agricultural paper asking what to do /vitb some of his cows, He explained he was feeding them straw and they didnit seem to care much for it, and when they didn't eat they didn't want to drink either, so he was having trouble enough getting them filled up. He wanted to know what to do about it, This farmer did not say how long he had been at the business, but he seemed to be struck with an old ,problem which is actually about as old as farming itself. at existed. even on the Tenth Concession and it used to come now and then when a cow was, not milking, Grandfather came originally from Aberdeen and: perhaps it was .born in him that when a caw was not milking she could hot expect to get the kind of feed she received when she was performing like a cow should, Then it was that he would: try and carry her along on a diet in which there was considerable straw, We never d121 hear any one seriously claim there was much nourishment in straw and as a rule stock will leave It alone as long as they can get anything else, Nor could 2V0 ever see why they should be much blamed for doing so. But when a cow tutored against her straw and started looking as though she was iu for a spell of ailing and thinning end wasn't any too keen for a delink of anter, grandfather and the hind man would have another stable debate. The hired. man would recall that he had read something in a book about what ought to be done, anti he'd be all for hoping an evening's reading in his bedroom library to see if he eoudtl fled the chapter and clause telling hone to get a cow along ou a'diet In which strew was playing the leading role. Grandfather always contended that before the hired ,than 100110d in his books of rules the cow would have Its bones sticking ant through the bide and would have forgotten how to take 11 drink of water. This method was to make the cow believe the straw was something special la the way of feed, so special that like as not 5110 won:Meat enough 08 it to 1i11 her to the roof, Some- times lie 1.150t1 a bit of blackstrap molasses, or tit bit of raw segor and lnatle a sort of thin soup 11 eased to sprinkle over the straw in the manger. The cow it seems had a sort of 'sweet tooth and often enough she'd go after that sveeetene1 straw as though she were sitting near the kitchen door at meal tines walling for a second helping, Grandeeetller always admitted it was just nn old Way of fooling a 001V slid ceerYing her along 011 straw 1.111111 it Came neap the time ter leer to be milking agate, .s THE BRUSSELS POST IMIMMINIONMMONIEMM WE33N'19iS'DA40, 111013, 15th, 19311 NOTE AND COMMENT Sir Henry Detering, 72, Is dead a111 he left a personal fortune of ;'450,000; 00, Another illuetratlou of "you can't take it with you" With so many atrange things be - big on the air in the way or Pro. grams it -mattes one shiver to think we have also to breathe it. It is reported that Kentucky's. fear of Hoods recedes as the water recedes, ,Naturally. And by the same process the fears will again rise when the flood wate.'s dc. Young lady from China speaking Iu Toronto said as long as the de- mocracies kept on selling war goods to Japan they were wasting any money they gave to assist the Chinese. A lazy worker in a Russian fac- tory who took a poke at the fore- man who scolded him has been put to death. We rather prefer out. own job where on a lazy day we can get by by Just appearing to be tolerable busy. Suggestion was made that a Judicial inquiry be made in Toronto to find to what extent inipersona- tion was present In civic voting. It was found the cost might run 0 thigh as 125,000, after which it was considered better to get the i: -- formation seine other way. And that is one way to cure the inquriy habit—find first what It is going to cost, Statisticians had estimated the av- erage consumption of eggs in Can- ada was 30 dozen per person, or an egg per day. It has now been stepped down to 21 dozen, and: It le explained that the mistake was in taking it for granted that all poultry produced eggs. On the Tenth Concession only pullets and hens. attended to that end of the business. Minister in St, 'Catharines !has been appointed to take chagre of a church in Owen Sound as well, preaching there twice a month. A man with his charges as widely separated will have the advantage of being able to use the same ser- mons, ermons, unless the ones at St. Cath- arines- might seem a little deep for the people in Owen Sound. Magistrate at Bowmanville dis- missed a charge against a man who had no license for a radio in his home. The defence was that the radio /vas there on trial, We con- sider this worth mentioning as it is the first case of its hind on record. As a rule the man who goes to court for not having a radio paper can consider himself guilty and fined before he puts his hand on the door knob. * * ,I' * * a 1 * * Failure • * * (By A. R. K.) * * a I met my friend the handy elan, he showed me careful as one can, how I could serve some tin; hes* made a new and sturdy crate, in which there was not one mis• take, for sifting ashes in, If He saved a lot of coil he said, he used the stuff wheu going to bed, it kept the fire just so. he said he'd save a half a ton, before the firing season's done, I'm sure he ought to know. He wrote down all the things to buy, nor was the price so very high, I got the screens he said; I put donvn everptiling quite plain, so mine would be made just the salve, left nothing to my head. nigI got the thing all done last ht, and it looked just exactly right, I walked with skilful 10511; I'd try the thing right off I thought. start sating coal like how I Ought, I'd sift some ashes then, Tr 1 !menu just !law the thing sltouk1 go, and started rocking to and fro, 1 knew it would not bust; the stuff came out all over lee, so thick that 1 could hardly see, ma whiskers tilled with dust, The font upstairs wore seared to death, they said they 00111(1 1101 get their breath, their words came fast and strong, just where its bad I can't yet see, but it Is plain enough to me — I must somehow be wrong. Come to the Valentine Dance Walton Community Hall Friday, February 17th Music by:— Arthur's Orchestra Admission 35c TELEPRONE TALKS IN Tux WATSON FA11/ILT stsuul "1 .MOS'� C31.41- P . pt Toa+0 °sot. - IT'Stk°k 0 This Family has no Distant Relatives Not that the Watson family is so sniall. 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, '36 and '37 have of/ected savings to telephone users in Ontario and Quebec o/ nearly one million dollars yearly, • LET US LOOK AT THE PAST I Mae Are /tone Mot 7,01111% ri.. of the Post •j sad U r•or. y 25 YEARS AGO CRANBROOK John Lynn, Calgary, was visiting friends here this week, • • • • Wan. Switzer, Kelfleld, Sask., is visiting his sister Mrs. Geo, Wil- liamson and other friends here. W ROXETER Geo, Wearing has purchased H. Harding's residence on Sanderson street, • • • Wednesday evening, as Mrs. R. Huger was driving to her home ih1 Turnberry, the horse became fright- ened and before it could be con- trolled she was thrown from the cutter, and, in falling struck a post, sustaining a severe fracture of the right arm, GRER 1irs, Maude Ferguson, of Smith's Falls, is visiting with Mrs. Hugh McKinnon, The ladies are cousins. ETHEL Mrs. E. J. Pollard and children of Brussels and Wiss A, Ellis, of West- field., were visiting at G, W. Pol- lard's this week. The Gill tam on•• 9th con. has been leased to Richard Lindsay, who has been a tenant of the 1iLeckie" farm, 12th con„ for a num- her of years, MORRIS Next week, Mrs, Hester Abbey, who has been visiting There for the Peat few months, will leave for her home at Holbeck, Sash., where. tiro family have spent several years. Mrs, Wm. R utlelge and daughter, Miss Dolly, will also return to their home in North Dakota, BRUSSELS Robt, W, Ross last week after a holiday with relatives and friends here, for White Horse in the Calton, where he will oversee the fitting of the vessel on which he is the engineer, Miss A11nie ••1111is of Westfleld .is Visiting at the home of E. J. Pollard. 50 YEARS AGO BLYTH The present membership of Blyth I, O. G.T. numbers 72. • • a T. :Carleton arrived on Marsalatrf from England with a couple 1 heavy draught stallions, • * • r Samuel Chambers and Miss Mari Panabaker were united in marriam this week. GREY Wm, Mitchell, Sr„ and lb¢ McLeod sawyers, of BenneaaSSC mi11 on the McKillop and Loo •boundai'y have accompanied Saba Rock, of Logan, to the state e Alabama where they go right ori work in the sawmilling business. Last Sunday* Adam Turnhulff°a horse ran away while returabe from church owing to one of tlass lines breaking. • • • John Banker and wife, MonitallO, are visiting old friends. BRUSSELS Geo, West, of Dakota, is visit1lL old friends, * • * Married Mann—Clark—At the residence d@ the bridegroom's brother, 11th ease.. of Grey, on the 31st inst., by Mir. D. B, McRae, Mr. Wm, Mann, Gras. to Miss Naomi Clark, of Downie. Last Respects Are Paid Former Ball Player The fuueral of the late Alma/der Miller was held to Wroxeter cenre- tery on Friday afternoon. The Ws Mr• Miller, who wee not enjay-,aag good health for some years, was taken much worse at .Christmas scdi since then kas been confined ,ta kt» bed. He was in his 77111 Year ands leaves his wife, three sons and sem slaughter to mourn a husband tura father who was highly respected! 1i09r all who knew info, Rev, 112x- Oaerrit of Wroxeter United church, pas@, officiated at the house and gram Marriage Prohibited Without a proper license It you issue Marriage Lic- enses, tell the young folks about It in our Classified Ads. ' They all know a license le necessary, but they don't nib' know where to get one. This paper is popular1011 the young people. a ' mwN1••„•i.Mpr„