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Brussels, Ontario, Wednesday, March let, 1939
TOO MANY FIRES
Almost every day we aro lnformed of dims -
troths fires breaking out endangering lite and
property of innocent 'pinnies, At the end of the
revert a !lite catuetrcphe we bear huh words as
,mite rause of the fire is unknown."
Tbnse entrantties are altogether to be
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regretted, The public Hate a way of regarding
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those fires with seep1Clon and anger; Very often
we bear some info,med persons saying "Somebody
has bean asleep at the switch," Some piping has
been defective. ,Somebody has been smoking
•0arelossly where he should not have been smoking
at all, or peeper precautions have not been observ-
ed in regard to lire or lighting or wiling, Fires
don't just start by themselves,
HARD TO UNDERSTAND
R, J. Scott of 73elgrave, president of the
'United Fannter's Co-operative Co., made a singni-
tiioant statement when he appeared before the
Dominion 'Board of Transport Commissioners.
He was dealing with the freight rates which
farmers bad to pay to get their produce shipped
In this country..
Referring to corn, Mr. Scott declared that
Ontario, one of the finest corn-p:oder-1ng areas in
the world, had virtually ceased to produce it today
"because Kansas corn could be shipped to Mont-
real, a haul of over 2,000 miles, for eight cents a
'bushel less than corn from Sarnia -district can be
sent to Montreal."
One can discount Mr. Scott's statement to
some extent about Ontario having ceased. to
produce corn. A great deal tf it is grown .for
silage purposes, hut it may be true enough the
rates referred to have much to do atitb making it
Impossible to get rid of It for export, What the
explanation may be we do not know, nor was any
offered at the meeting, but it youid require a deal
of it to show that corn should be transported
2,900 miles from Kansas to Montreal for eight
•cents per bushel less than .the 530 miles be-
tween Sarnia and Montreal.
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HUNTING JACK RABBITS
There are so many parties in various parts of
the aroviaee out tor the purpose of hunting jack
rabbits that they are becanting confused in
claiming records. It is recorded that C. V.
Ka'usche of 'Stratford claimed he made something
like a record when he brought down one which
weighed 12 pounds. And then came H. W.
Diehl with the statement that last winter he..shot
-one near Tavistock which went 23 pounds.
And it is quite reasonable to believe that
gunner Diehl was not weighing the rabbit with
his foot or finger on the scales, for 23 pounds Is
not out of the way. It would be interesting to
have some way of telling for certain the speed
at which one of those well -grown jack.rabbits can
travel when aroused. People are apt to think of
rublefts as little chaps which go bopping along
Giese to the ground but the big jack has a great
set of lege an hien when they are extended. The
best hotted dog in the country might as well quit
before he :darts if he is going to try and run down
a fair sized jack rabbit.
If they become numerous In a farming com-
munity they are a decided nuisance and can do
serious enough damage, They girdle apple
trees, they wilt injure a field of fall wheat and
Have been lunown to tackle berry bushes. We
have heard a farmer telling of jack rabbits which
will get on an outside haystack and burrow in
from top or side and In that way leave openings
Ear rain and snow. It is easy enough to believe
that one of 23 pounds was shot, as those who are
well versed in such matters tell 11s a well-
developea jack -rabbit will go berm 20 to 20
.pounds,
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'WHEN THE KING IS IN CANADA
The absence of the King and Queen In
'Canada and the United States will provide the
first opportunity ter the operation of the Regency
Act evhieh was passed in 1037 says the Mfancbester
'Guardian,
During the King's absence abroad the Act tree
vides for the appointment oe five 'Counsellors of
Shote, who shall be the Queen and the four adults
nest in succession to the throne. As the Queen
will also be absent, four counsellor% alone will
presumably be aippointod and these would be the
-Juke of Gloucester, the Duke of Kent, the
Priniess Royal, and Princess Arthur of Conn -engirt.
A point which is not clear in the Act •is the
age at which a person becomes rlualified as a
counsellor. While Peheooss Elizabeth eon 'env,
coed to the throne at the age of 13, it is believed
that she could not be a coansellor until she wee 21,
eas the Aol presoribes "full age,'
The list of counsellors is alestined to many
vetriations in the next taw years, Viscount
'Lascelles, son of the Princese Royal, will take the
'place or the Princess Arthur In 1344; while
Ire in turn would be superseded by the .Princess
IOlizthlietit in 1947, When Princess 14targaret
Rose Comes of full age, in 1961, she will take the
place of the Princess Royal 00 a counsellor,
Another 'Interesting point abort the Regency
Act is that by the Statute Of '4\resteniaater it does
apip'ly to the Dominions, The King, therefore,
\ybile in Canada will still have to undertedte stroll
royal dirties es related to the Dominions, although
no longer responsible for home affairs,
Canada will welcome 'thee, as it would be
rather ell anomalous position If Canadian matters
requiring rho 1%ingee replereval er assent 200 to leo
:sent to London while 'he ltlitisolf was on the spot,
but it May create 'delay for the ether_ Dominions
and eanse somewhat involved s
ikn
ation.
Australian or Seater ''leen affairs will haves
to be sent on to Candle, but English or Scottish
cjuestioes Gan be dealt with bythe counsellors.
JUST DOGS
Se-me:may bee brought forward 'tile' proposal
that dogs 8h0uld be taxed a'eerording to their size --
the bigger the dog, the larger 'the 'tax. This
would mean that t29 owner of tile. big, friendly
St. Bernina \would have to 'pay about " eighteen
times as lunch as the owner of the yapping little
nuisance that rushes and barks at every passerby:
Ne; tient wouldn't do. Haw about taxing thea'
according to their disposition? With the ex000'
tion, perhaps, of the pollee dog (and the peltce
dog has his friends, too), the i>ig dogs are mostly
good-natured and 'friendly, and their ,upkeep must
be greater than that of the smalidogs; so a small
er tax would tenet to even things ep fol' the
ow'nere,
Mach simpler would be -to tare them according to
their breed. 'Collies, Newfoundland's and spaniels
aright be placed in a specially 'desirable class,
with a :.mail tax Dr no tax at all, iggmiBoll, or•
dinay dogs could be placed uud.er a normal tax;
and the noisy little nuisances taxed most heavily.
(Their ownees probably would not object, for
they inns[ love tliefii a lel to keep them et all.)
Any classification 01 dogs; .tor tax purposes
would, of verse, require a change 40 .the hew.
According to the Ontario Assesssent Act, a dog Is
a dog, and that is all there is to it. A dog as big
as a Shetland pony gets just as much or as little
consideration as a dog as big as a rat. A dog
with a pedigree as Pure es the driven snow is no
better in the eyes of tbe law than one whose
parents were no more discrtminateng that a Holie-
st -zee: star.
It's not right, but we don't suppose anything
will be done about it; nobody mill start a
Leadership League to right the WC000is of dogdom.
Anyway, we don't own a dog, and we'll let the
fellows that do fight it out.
ee f ioae
ROSEDALE WANTS NO BOARDERS
People who prefer to live in the Rosedale
sectiou of Toronto and who can afford to abide
by the tradition and restriction that it is strictly
residential are determined( there shall he no
boarders allowed In houses there. Even if the
boarders go under the more dignified name of
"paying guests" they mut be ousted. In order
to shote that they mean business they had one
woman brought to court and she was fined $20
because she had boarders in her home,
Rosedale is a rather swanky spot In Toronto,
but there are other seotions which used to be in
the same class which have since lost their
glamour. The court oases which are being
brought on now seem 'to indicate a toren of
snobbishness which leaves out of the ,running
entirely the serious business of mating a living.
It is quite conceivable that a family mdy have
secured a hone in Rosedale twenty years ago, and
at that time there was sufficient income an the
future looked assured, In recent years the
positions and fortunes and incomes of a good
many formerly substantial families have been
rather rudely shaken out, and because a family
was living in Rosedale offered no proteotiou at all,
The shaking out process would react in there just
the same as elsewhere,
If the family desired to make an effort to
retain the home it would be necessary to seek
some more income. 1f the home were targe—and
many Rosedale homes are—there would be
rooms which could be rented to people who would
be glad- of a chance to live in that district and
able to pay a fair price. The law of common
sensewould lnddcate that as the proper thing to
do. There would be no opportunity to sell the
benne .and recover the original in'vestmemt. The
only other way would be to struggle and lose,
and the decision to fine a woman $20 for keeping
boarders makes it clear that such is the course
which Is being insisted upon,
It is distinctly Toronto's problem at the
moment, but it has in it, the broader question of
tolerance, and it is also a study in the changing
fortunes of a good' many people and families who
a few years ago considered themselves Anancial-
ly secure. 'When it comes to the point of de-
ckling that a family must not make a living in
the only way which seems open then It would
appear as though local bylaw's and restrictions had
invaded field which they have not the right to
occupy
TOO LATE
* * * 8. * (By A. R, K.) 0 *
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¶ 1 read in papers sent from home, Tobias Jones
died all alone, and ire was eighty-two; there was
a column written well, and it spread detail there
to tell, of things he used to do.
j[ Tobias was a kindly gent, who lived and
moved with good intent, end. never received for
more; and lots of folk around the bowie when
-they were weak or running down, came to Tobias'
door,
¶ If there eras slcltnees here or there, he seemed
to melee it his affair, he knew just what to d0; it
be found out the purse teas thin, Tobias called his
doctor In, and be would pay ]rim too,
The paper joined in giving praise, to good
Tobias and his ways, the editor was grieved; he
spoke of ail the good he'd done, he never shut the
door on one, the scribe telt much bereaved.
¶A,nd preachers from their 'plupite spoke,
Tobias walked with saintly roll', 'their tributes
were pretound; and all the kindly tirings they
saki, ab0111 the goodlyman now oda, trade such
a 1)10802t sound,
¶ it's just a Way this old World takes, It blunders
and It mattes mistakes, the same year after
Year; if they had poured their tributes out, when
he wale out and round about--T'olsias theft could
hear.
WJ DN1a'JAY, MARCH let, itA39
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LET US LOOK
AT THE PAST
ten Are Ite,ne r{tkan Pro*
Niko o/ the Poer of H
and 14 roar. Ago
50 YEARS AGO s
ETI -1,E4
A tea -Meeting was held on Wed-
nesday night Rev. 2, T. Lelear was
In charge, Rev, 102. Livingston, of
Clinton gave the address of the
evening which Was very tuetruetive,
GREY
A. Reymann, assessor, Is at work
and it is, now time to keep the dogs
in the cellar, ., .
* * *
W. D. Hill is home from Chicago
and wi11 spend spring and summer
on his farm.
BLYTH
Robt, Milne, Proprietor of the"
'Commercial Hotel is on the sick
idst,
* * *
T. Watson shipped another cei'-
load of fine cattle to MIontreal,
* * *
3. T. Carter sold his stallion to a
party in Listowel.
CRANBROOK
Robt, Leckie and Mrs. John Stew-
art of Toronto, attended the funeral
of the late Mary Slemmon last
Monday.
MORRIS
Leonard Rattan is away again to
Uncle Sam's domains,
* * *
Miss Mary White, 7th con., is on
the Net list.
* * *
George Kelly, 9th con., has secur-
ed' the contract for hauling the 11111k
to tbe Walton cheese factory.
* * *
Robt. Moffatt has disposed of 150
acres of land to Mr. Scott df Mani-
toba.
* * *
3. R. Miller intends erecting n
fine brick residence this summer on
Its chem,
BRUSSELS
Rev. 'lir. Godfrey- and wife of
Belgrave were visiting at the par-
sonage.
Chas. W. Jaolcsons, who has been
in Kansas arrived home.
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'Henry Burgess has purchased a
house and lot from John Wynn,
A, Strachan* and Joe Ballantyne
captured- seven rwbbits.
J. Scott shipped * a carload of
cattle to Montreal,
25 YEARS AGO
WROXETER
Dan McTavish spent a few days
this week in Toronto,
Mr. and Mrs R'. J, Mathers have
moved to rooms iu the Central
Block,
14Iiss Irene* Sheriff and 0isa
llraoe Stewart of Brussels spent
two :days with Miss Milly Harris,
MONCRIEFF
Reeve Livingston was at the Co,
town Thursday.
* * *
Charlie Snelling fell at Iris par-
ents' home and broke his arm.
* * *
George Wilson and niece Miss
Witty, of Ingersoll were holiday
visitors et the Houle of Marshall
Ilarriston, of this locality,
WAL1•ON
Rev. R. A, Lundy and W. Knoell -
tel were at Winghan3 attelldittg the
Presbytery of Maitland,
GREY
Mrs, R, J. Hoover is spending a
week with her daughter, Mos, Dun-
can aleCiall'11m, at Blyth,
Jn
aes A, M'erliaolilan has been
eenelwing cid acquaintances here.
Chas. Love, iltit 'Con, left rot his
Carni In the West.
James Bowman, MT., wee home
front Mena tor the week -end.
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'.Chas. Artn,stroltg /ref WlIiow CitY,
Neth Dakota returned iiotee after
Vie -King with )lis brother Hobert. 1
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W, R, Mooney, of Toronto, was
Immo for a short visit,
* * *
Miss Fanny Grasby has returned
home after a week's visit with rela-
fives at Aelgrave,
CRANBRO'OK
Mrs, Alex Campbell 0f Lo'gan, was
visiting friends bare.
:die's M. 11'nri'estof*Brussels, spear
several weeks at 111e home of John
Forrest, Craubreek,
Miss Ruby*liennedy of Medicine
Hat, Alta., was visiting with ger
cousin, A, J. Helen,
D. 1'Ie:Quarrfe of Brussels, is of-
fering his house and lot Yoe sato,
A. Reymann purposes going to
the West,
1Lrs• Alderson. Aldson was in Toron-
to last week etiielting her daughter.
BRUSSELS
1111ss Clara Jones, of Elora, la
visiting at Mrs. A. C. Dames.
* * * *
Miss Lena Cut, of Blyth, vee
the guest of hiss ;1Pina ;McKelvey
for the past week. �.
* * *
H. S. Wallace, teller of the Metro-
politan Sank !s away for holiday
at Guelph. Wild Long who has
been at Toronto Is supplying his
place.
* * *
R. K, Ross of Listan-ei was in
town for a few days,
Married
Ross - Kelly—At Cypress River,
on Feb, 24th, 1914, by Rev. J'o'hn A.
Maggrah, Mr. Jobn Ross to Hiss
Hannah Lawrence Kelly, daughter
Of the late George Kelly, of Walton,
Ont.
Letter To The Editor
(By Special Request)
Transients Plea For Fairness
Editor, Beacon -Herald. Sir:—I
would like to express my apprecia-
tion of the way your paper takes up
the cause of the unemployed youths
and of men in general. I am no
longer one of these youths, for the
ten years' depression has shifted
me from the hopeful age of thirty
to that of forty, at which age we
are not wanted very badly any
place. The ten years prior to that
finds me an A. R, and afterwards
registered among the conscripts,
though never called.
As I walk along our streets just
before business hours or at the
close, and watch the stream of fe-
male help entering or leaving offic-
es, faotorfes, and other business
premises, the old wt mime soug al-
ways coures to me: "KEEP THE
HOME FIRES BURNING," Nearly
every one of us has dreamed of the,
day when we should, have a place
we would call our own 1101110, and
though that war was supposed to
be for the purpose of defending the
homes here in North America, yet
to -day the home is immeasurably
farther in the background than it
was. then. Our women, who helped
by casting their vote to conscript
the men and by Doming forward to
take their places in business life,
have, along with their youuger sis-
ters, retained these positions. Nor
can we blame 'them very much for
not being willing -to give trp their"
positions for men whose best hopes
are a fate months work on some
government project or, if they have
trades, possibly a short period on
a night shift during the rush season
of solve concern, Efficiency ex-
perts have discovered that women
are just as proficient In 1110113, cases
as mens and often more so, Also,
atlybody lerows that a woman is as
well paid at fifteen dollars per
week as a roan Is at twenty, and
much better if the man be married.
Nor can we put all the blame on
the indalshrialists, Take, for ex-
ample, the young couple who nacire
and decide to establish a Monte, One
of the expenses which is likely to
occur in the course of the first
year is a confinement, possibly cost-
ing twentyiive dollers; and there
is a case not very far from here
which, I am informed was forty-
five. 1 know of another ease—tile
second 011did' of a -couple married
about the beginning a1 the depres•
Sion havieg to be operated on Mr a
bo\ve11 ,stoppage, 211 going to Pee'
aolnetlling on the bill, which was tri"
all well over nue hlncieed dollars,
the mother took Some eggs along.
The doctor's wife sold .she could
take these on the bill, 1phnned the
market as to what they were pay -
Mg for eggs, and gave the child's
mother the vane raft One cent each
twelve cents per dozen, 1 rreiI"
t0
thattitesohills are trifles pel
with salaries of f12tY 't0 elle
deed dollar's per week, as many,tx
our business menagerie receive.
they are no trifles to the yojll
man .paying interest on two tht .,
and dollars eat a farm, or the '.
wire gets possibly six months wo
In a year,
I3aviug made my criticism, sa
11111 ask what remedies i can idu
gent --'More government anp01v.
ion et things —1 say we have
ough. of that now, 11 efficient b
nese executives cannot bindle t
employment situation intelligent
inefficient. Ave -year govel'nme'
1
r
never can. A dictatorship t) g
bat w.e don't \vaut that, But let e•
say that if we of the ele0tora
men, women, ,professionals, eau'
tionests, indatstrdalists, yes, ' a
the government too—are not wi
fug to aches down, and be satisfi
with smaller things, a dcotertors
is 'what we will, get, a8 surely
they have one in Gemniany, and
aly, Telee0 did not spring from
satisfied people.
What is the first essential
making a satisfied people The
tablisiring of the home, How e
bueineee executives help? by givi
the .preference always to nearrj
Wren, ae2 in teeing that these a
receiving e wage whist -will• s
port a !amity. Hew can eclucatlo
ists help? By ever declaring t
truth on which all stable socie
rests—that the woman's place is
the home. And Professionals,
ceasing to seek government P
tecbton and monopolies.
1 might say with respect to t.
matter of births that if oar heal
depar'tmen'ts wished they could, is
very short time, have In Ove_
township women trailted -to
duty who would be guite as Pr'
ficlent as our university train
-
doctors, And these men whose ser
ices cost so much could dispose
their fur coats and driving hors
and if tbey happened to be down a
the lake at that particular tim
with their family and big car, the
would notneed to be disturbed.
And as for governments, let the.
keep their fingers out of thin•
which they have no business with
administer justice, letting all stau
on their own feet, and see tlx
those who break up homes are pa,
fished instead of being licensed a
is the case at the present time; au
instead of a .forlorn army' of hop
less men tramping the highway
and sleeping in box -cars from Vi
toria to I3alifax, eve will again bay
the borne fires burning and Kapp
nese and prosperity wil lreturn t
our land.
I am a transient—or are we pt
elms?
WILLIAM E. McCLURE
Desboro, Ontario.
NOTE AND COMMENT
Toronto 'paid 59 cents to a youn
lady'who stubbed her toe en th
sidewalk, fell and ruined a pair
silk stockings. We rather Taney
young lady t\'ho will publicly an
officially admit she paid only 5
cents for them.
There is an estate 02 917, 50 u
probate in Loudon, and 24 ready
supposed to benefit. Four of the
have deckled to go to law about 1
so the extent to which they will Mt
mately benefit seems at the nrome.
a trifle hazy.
'School a1ildren will be used t
form a huge maple leas in Valsit
stadium when their Majesties vis•'
Toronto, In Brussels we will jus
twee to do the best we can and tr
M make the 'visitors believe we'r
glad' to have ahem in the country,
'laser is some tittle trouble In j
court ease where two men own I
cow, It looks like o, poor arrange
meet because if court says one mai
owns the front end he will halo t
feed it and the chap who owns th
hill dead' will get all the output.
Toronto pollee officer said 1.1
could smell whiskey on a mlan'
breath ten feet away, and' Tatar' o
shortened up the distance t0 div
Sect, Our own 'belief is that
would tape a heavy breath and
powerful good smeller 00 pick u
the scent ten feet away,
Henry Cooper of Gardenville,
Prince Edward 'County, ants col
ln'ated. what Ile claims 10 have bet
lits 107th lairtlldae, anti. one et It
habits is rising at four in the eior
iitg. Ma, Cooper stye he enje
Me but we gannet nndelestlltal w1
he talkes nob. an odd way of oho
frig i1,