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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1939-2-22, Page 7THE BRUSSELS POST Olp trosels foot Published every Wednesday at Brussels, Ontario by The Post l ubllshing House, printers and Publishers. Qyuibseriptions, $1.50 per year; other than Canadian addresses, postage extra; &Ingle copies, 6 cents. Telephone 31 • F. O. Box 60 Brussels, Ontario, Wednesday, Feb. 22nd. 1939 YOUTH IN LEADERSHIP One essential geali'Uy of leadership ie that it be youthful in its spirit mid its enthusiasms. But youthfuleess ie eat eemething to be measured in years, Most of ns. Heine of the Fathers of Confeder- ation as greybeards, Time has sur'rounded then, with an aura of venerable traditron, of hoary orthodoxy. Yet there could have been no Confederation had these leaders been "old." The average age of the men who gave birth to this dominion was 51 years, There were a dozen men in the Polities. The youngest of the "FaUhens" was 36. All of them were young In spirit, In courage and In vision. The average age of •the present dominion cabinet at Ottawa is 67. Three are do their Sorties, Seven are in their di ties. Five in their nineties. The leader of the Senate 1s 77. Though the hourglass of the present adminis- tration will shortly run out, there is still time in which to demonstrate that today's " Flathens of Reconfederation" are as young in their spirit, their courage and enthusiasm as the "youngbcers" who stinted, this country on its way in 1867. NOT A PLEASANT.WELCOME The death of Plus XL is credited with having caused a cessation of war talk in Durope—for a few days at least. The new Pontiff, yet to be named, will come upon a burden of office the full weight of which be may not at the moment realize, and not the least of these 'will be the sharp differ- ence of opinion between the Catholic church and the Fascist state in Italy. 'The Jewish question broxe in Itally last July when Faacism proclaimed its doctrine of race, thereby following the lead to the Nazi government in urging the superiority of the Aryans and decree- ing against auarriage with Jews. The church declined to subscribe -to any theory of barriers between races, and it bad: taken the wane stand toward butter's similar ,philosophy, Last ,fall Fascist lams made marriages be- tween Jews and Itaiiau Aryans illegal, The Vatican claimed, at once this could not be recognized, as a church marriage had the same force and effect as a civil ceremony, and the cburch insisted it had the right to marry whom it would. Then there was the Fascist government opposition ,to Catholic Action, a layman's organi- ation aimed at educating the social, civil, mdial and religious life of the Italian nation. The government said the organization was dabbling 1.1 eoeltics, - The Fascist Youth Movement is another, The Vatican claims it has the agreed-upon right, aue.<idhig to the .Concordat of 1929„ to look after insttutrtiou in school, The Youth hfovenand i:•culates into :the young mind all the pr•-ncix•:.e: leasatem. It is similar to the Hitler p:cui to Narify every yeueg man in Germany. HE WAS A THRIFTY MAN Of government publications there are many, In .some of the blue books there are so many figures .that one could not ,possibly, read them all, 18 the tlid''we do not know what he could do with the Information. We doubt 18 there are many newspaper offices where they are carefully stored away and kept Year after year. One may Put aside the one on public accounts 'believing it will be necessary to refer to It again, but It would need considerable shelving to deal kindly with them all, We recall the days of the village printing office and the method of -disposing of the blue books from the 'government, The boss found that by putting Ahem eel the paper cutter and nipping off the backs he had a supply of streets which were all tight for wrapping .single copies of the :paper going through the mail but his circulation that Way was somewhat limited. and the blue 'books contented. to mount, He •was a morn from some spot not far from Aberdeen and he knew the village barber was iu need of pieces of paper on which to lay the shots whiskers of the community. .A. government blue book when cut in two made the right size bit of 'paper, so the boss undertook to keepthe village barber -supplied with such paper and in return he Paid nothing et all on the oecasioas when his whiskers were tnlmmed and; anter that mutual Made agreement had been negotiated, it appeared that .the whispers were more frequently trluaned than prevdously. ISaturalay was a. busy day le the barber shop, there the whiskers ;of the concessions and the side roads and the whiskers of. the Village mer- -Chains, tradesmen and all aitch were load amidst he studied .statistical wealth which government employees could fined to 1111 the pages Of their blue books. So we remember the boss lit the village printing office, on that .aceonnt, Ide was a man Wlio always looked pleased when he received another consignment Of blue books from the government MORE THAN,A PASSiNG PHRASE ,All Gonads, appreciates tho words spoken by Lite Publisher -Of the Toronto Globe and Mail, It is not' to be expected that we'll agree with elle- Mug Ilke ell he says, ale (Mene not expect that we should. lits wish ie to set canaria thinking dt little harder. Those who say, however, that ltd has lilt raised a stoop. that will soon blow over• are atltogethet' mietalleem, The issues lie raises are too vital Mr any such outcome. reins protest against over-governnaent Is, timaly, and well made. eels plea -that governeeetats whose big fob is tee Mantling out of patronage has -been -eloquently put forward, iConinton sense says that that sort of thing cannot continue among as .people character- ized• by intelligence ant moved 'by a strong settee o! jue'-,co end the fitness ei things. His urge that -the women voters should exercise their franchise now that they have It must he heeded and already is showdng, its effect. His demand that the claims and needs' of youth should be considered and its requirements heeded will nal bo neglected. The reforms that he advocates will not come overnight but they are on :the wary, "first the blade, then the ear, then the full corn in the eat." When youth speaks es it does through the lips of mien like George McCallagu it's high time for Canada to do some tall thinking and that's what She's doing this minute, :" 4'4, 4,. THEY DID A FINE JOB Congsatuiations are in order to the members of the ,Trod, a, L. oockey imam upon their feat by cage:urrug' tui nee -rade the wtriid'e amateur hockey championship in competition with u1.1 ee., other coun•Lries in :Bw•ltzer,and, '1 Lere is noth:t,g particularly outstanding, possibly, in the i,.ee that the title tees held for the Dominion, nor atter art we 'Canadians invented and pea'Fected the game ut ...ckey and a team good enough to in tae uanadian amateur championship should be geed ....ongh to beat any amateur team from any Dimer country, What Brakes the Smoke hate's' £ecus u v„ait..y, however, was the clean out uuu ......weir in which the trick was done, There have been Caauttilaan .teams which cnoa0 to regard a trip to Europe as merely a joy ride As a hiesult trey were careless about training, indrmerenit as to the foams they displayed, against European teams, and on the whole 'while trey usually managed to stagger through to ultimate victory they did not make the showing Canadians had the light to expect of their representatives against world. competition. These British Coluintbia players were of different stub. Evddentiy they regarded It as responsibility to show ,true world that the country that had proaueed hockey was sell' producing champion hockey (,starts. At any event they wahine( up lar the championship series by playing 22 exhibdthon games against l uroISean teams aril winning the e,;tire list, and then they sailed through the championship rounds without a loss ano with only one goal scored against theist, 'oat is the kind of stuff representative !Canadian teepee touring Europe are expected eo show, and the Trail athletes deserve general thanks for doing a line job in a werkaaniike manuer, WHERE WiLL !T END ? i•Ion, James G. Gardiner, Minister of Agricul- ture, Itas announced .that the 'wheat bonus for Western Canada is through—that is, he is not going to pay the fixed 'price- of SD cen.s per bushel far the 1939 crop, By that eyele:a the test to the count y .for the wheat year whim to In July, will be $48,000,000, and there was an additional $9,000,004 For relief -to those who did not have any wheat crap, And that Is a total of $57,000,000. So if there are five in your .faintly you may know you have became responsible for a $25 debt for Western wheat, Just bow the money will be collected from you we do not know, but we are certain 11 ,will be, Mr. Gardiner is not gotug to cease paying, though. He has another plan by which it appears the farmer is . going to be guaranteed some return 'on one-quarter or one-third of his seeded land. The fixed price was found to be a good things for .1, matt who had a lot of wheat to sell, but no use whatever to the fernier who had no wheat. T.he fixed wire appears to have been a challenge to the Western farmer to grew as much wheat as ,possible at a time nlhen there was far too much wheat in the world. Our Minister of Agriculture believes the new .plan may aid in developing cldversifted ifarming, When n gevernmetut starts on the Polley or m.aking a guaranttee to a farmer in the West that he shall receive a mutate amount en his seeded acreage it has gone into the field of guaranteeing an income, and when it does that where is it going to diem the line? If there is to be a "sure thing” policy .for a farmer itt the West then why lues a farmer in Ontaxie or elsewhere not the sante right to expect similar treatment? Aud if the Reimer is given that ;preferred treatment, then what good reason is' there for not applying it to othe,• vocations? It is public money, provided by all the people, which is to be used, and it looks Very tnnolt like taking it from all of us for the benefit of some of us. When the Ontario farmer grows wheat he itis to make the best of i1 If elt.e price is boo low he lens only it he is ,forced to do so in order to get some cash, Obhenw.ise he prefers to Put els cheap wheat into -the dimmer along with other gt'aiu and feed stook, But whatever he does he has to figure ft out for h,ims'ell, and if he figures the wrong way term' he hne to accept ,his awn lose. When we have a policy Well has pre. tented treatment for one seottori of the Dominion, financed• by mangy 1010011 from all the ,people of the Donnielon, We are in a .position where adequate erplanadions are dlffictilt, NOTE ANI) COMMENT Robbers held top a betel in Miami and tools about $200,000; They had with them a: Machine gun, 1001 whether it was at. made -in -Canada Bren she 51017 did not say. • .Scientislts b.ave worked out a plan by which earners Dan grew a poor quality of soffit coal on their land. it would be remarkable if there were any demand for a poor quality oe soft coal. It is claimed that a strike of 500 painters has been averted_In Torou- lo. There may be beautiful parts Of 'Monte one never sees, but we Al no idea them; were 600 painters in the place. New kind et scales have been in. vented which, if placed on top of a mine, will weds%% the amount of or in it. Up in the attic eve believe there are share centdflcates in sever- al mines where these clever scales would have registered ,at the zero mark, Loretta Ecclestone of Hamilton went to New York by thumb, and then crossed the Atlautic on the Oaeen Mary and now she is in jail and will be sent home. The young lady is said to be fond of travelling and has selected a method which does not leave many lumps on the family .puree, The Bren gun 'hatter has been shifted to the Public Accounts Com mittee. That does not mean peace, merely a change in venue, -- Many cruel things are said politi- cally but surely the insinuation that Mr. Bennett has gone to England to dodge the succession duties is about the limddt. We notice an advertisement beaded "Are you in the right Job?" A great many people would think the answer was "yes" if they had any kind, oe a job. Canaddans entered in the contest for the world's 'ski championship finished 30th and 33rd. It is evi- dent there are a lea of things we do better than skiing. Evidence supplied' by a dicta - phone has been accepted in a Mani- toba murder 'trial, Science continues to make it more difficult for those who stray off the. straight and. narrow. Now sones one suggests Mr. Ben- nett as a possible prime minister of Great Britain. We thought the idea was that the former Conservative leader had gone over for a resit. Lord Tweedsmuir says that he is ' probably the worst skier. in Canada, but we have an idea that His Ex- cellency is covering too much territory in that statement. There are a the orf bad ones. , There are 600 transients housed in •the Coliseum at •the exhibition gounde in Toronto and they treats considerable trouble at times pos- sibly because they have nothing much else to create. I•f there are to be pensions for Canadians who fought for the hl,;anieh govet•nanewt logic suggests that they -should be furnished by the S'panis'h government ,for which these Canadians fought After reading some of the langu- age used in the Bren gun debate in the House of Commons it islot dieftcult to -arrive at the conclusion that a 40.1ninute limit to speeches in Parliament is far too geneeoue. Fireman in Detroit Is feeling ner- vous because he carried a boy who Mitt scarlet fever erom a burning building, The flheman said he never had scarlet fever himself, and we can think of no particular reason why he should have it now. Woman in Toronto left her parse in a street car and :it .contained $600, but she got it back because the eon - doctor had picked it np, Wo•mell would have a rough some of time in this world i1 they were not some 10011 around to look after them.. ,Mother's Allawanue Commission in Toronto employs single Women of past middle age as investigator's aid they flu( it :possible to catch a number of matt who have deserted their Mime. It Seethe rather tough that a lyceum should have to spend her time pureeing that kind of a 10511. LET US 1.,,a 0K AT Tag PAST /we Ars items Takes Prow P48.s of th. Po.t elf iii end 1 Tiara Ago 6 YEARS AGO WROXETER Edgar Lowry, of Brussels, spent Sunday at els home queer. Lloyd 'gathers of Keene, Is the guest of his brother W, J. Mabher.s 'Miss Ivy MoCtiltcjheon, of Winni- peg is visiting her parents Mr, and Mrs. John rMo0uteheon, of Turn- berry. BELGRAVE Mrs, Kilpatrick of Michigan, is a visitor at the Methodist parsonage. Rev. Mr, Turne 01 Blyth preached at the preparatory service last Fri- day at Knox Church. JAM ESTOW N George Eckmier is back on the job after having a touch of Lum- bago- • , * Edward Barnyard Intends erect- ing a 2 storey cottage in his farm, GREY Mr. and Sirs. Robert Pearson were visting with E. W, and. Mrs, Vipond; Donegal. * • * Mrs. Wesley SPeiran, 14th con„ was visiting relatives in Toronto last week. • * 0 James Me'Calluni ]has purchased the "Miller" farm from John A, Bryans, MORRIS Miss Mdnnie Walken', 6th line has been visiting in Toronto. ■ * • Fred Armstrong left for Youngs town, Sask:, last week. Thom. Rands was a visitor at the home of his bratherein-law Robert Armstrong. • * * Mrs. W. F, Schrock of Manorial!, has returned home after visiting her daughter, Mrs, J, D. ILCFhven and Mrs, Maxwell Abram, ETHEL Rev. James A. Pearson is home_ on a visit. * * • Miss Verdi Pollard intends going to Brussels, to learn dressmaking, Miss N. Bartley is taking a posi- toin in Will. ,Spences restaurant here - John McDonald•is *away attendine the Temperance Convention at To- ronto, WALTON Peter McDonald returned home to the West with James Ritchie ac- companying him. BRUS -ELS Mrs. Thos. Haycroft is visiting in Toronto for a few weeks, • • • Miss Clara Hunter spent a few• dyas visiting in Stratford, * * KK Aliases Lecele, who were visiting at Reeve Ledkies lett for St, Thomas. • * • 0 ' Harry Keys was in Toronto last week visiting his brother George. Miss Hazel • 0Lowry and Miss Kathleen Wilton were dome over Sunday from the Stratford Normal School. 50 YEARS AGO BLYTH Jas. Carter was appointed asses- sor for the year 1889. A. W. Sloan is • •going into the growing of apples this spying, MORRIS Miss Wright of Blyth ie visiting old friends in this locality, • * * .Iorlut •Sutupies iodism sale last Friday was a very sure lfu1 one. BLUEVALE Jas, hose of Belgrave was home laet Sunday, • r • Wan, Stewart of Blyth was visit WEDNIESiDAY, FOB, 2211 1839 it POURS nan riff HANDY POURING SPOUT for the two pound tin. It's free—write for one l'laaiV • tint eof Crown inrand, Lily White and Hato syrups. • Is easily cleaned and can be used over and over again. • Pours Without a drip, • Provides means of accurate Measurements,. • Makes the 2 lb. tin an excellent table container. • The protective ceprovides a Sanitary [Aver. Till the boys tent poruatta of famous hockey *tars can will br obtained ler "CRO WN BRANt)" Cabala, AND Flail SYRUP The Famous Energy Food The 0A11hb/ STARCH c0., Limited, Toronto ing his parents here over the week- end. •?��il • • • Miss Clara Oreighton of. Brussels formerly of Bluevale Inas v'lsiteng friends here last wek. ETHEL The farts upon which Maunders has lived .for years is offered to rant. - Thos. several Thos. Maunde▪ rs and Wm. Tindall made a visit to the Methodist Par- sonage and presented the popular pastor with 40 bushels of oats GREY Miss Lydia Thornton of Bluevale is visiting the family of David Grant. • * * 'Om the 13111, a ewe belonging to Hugh Stewart. 15th Con., presented her owner with twin lambs, George Hall, weho has been visit- ing friends in this locality for sev- eral weeks lent for his Home in Dakota on Wednesday, BRUSSELS Mts. Thos, Thompson of Seatorth is visiting Friends in Brussels. e * * Miss Tait and the Musses Inman are away at the millinery opening in Toronto. Miss Ida T11am,pson is away ae Toronto. Mrs. Adam Re• dd and Miss Hel,tie of Bluevale were visiting friends in town. e * * Married Davidson - Mori-Isom—At the resi- dence tie the bride's farther on the 20th inst., by .the -Rev. Wm, Tor ranee, Mr. Wm, Davidson to Miss Minnie Morrison all of ItIdIB 11op, FOOLED * * * (By A. R. K.) * * *" IT The almanac by which I swear, has left nee stranded high and bare; it's fooled me rather bad; it spoke of days when sun would shine, that saving would come ahead of time, and I was pgoverfui glad. ¶ I started figuring what I'd grow, whe owe gat rid of aid the snow, some posies by the door; instead of malt the wiud turned east, I felt mucdh like a ten -horned beast, and then it snowed souse more, ¶ I closed the door that's an my shack, and read again the almanac, mY faith grew rip some 'more; for there it said it would be mild, I trusted that like simple child, grew colder than berme. ¶ And later on I read ' twould freeze and, then I'd shiver round the knees, and hug the kitchen range; but on thae day eve had seine' rain, the alnmanae, otevas very Pietn;, had somehow missed the change, He's fooled me many ,tinges this year, to truth he doesn't draw halt' near, I'd like to tell him so; and Yesterday the stuff. I read, found not a sword where he had said, 08 fifteen down below, ir If whet he 'says about his pills, that erre all kinds of creeping. chills, comes from hiS weather pen catty then I think dither. 1 am sick, to things I !coos' I'll have to stick take Salts and, senna then.