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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1939-4-5, Page 3WieDieLI0SD,t1,y. APRIL 5th, 1935 t t�l�e Vrusoeia Jhui Published every Wednesday et Brussels, 011tttl•ie by The Poet 1 ublishing Ieoase, printers and publishers, 'Sulbscriptipns, $1.50 pet' year; ether than Canadian .addresses, postage extra; single copies, 5 cents. Telephone 31 P. 0. Box 50 Seussela, Ontario, Wednesday, Ailril 5th, 1939 NO MONEY FOR FINES The limes in. which we live have their affect on us in a nen bear of ways. To a mild extent et was. e:gpla.the,d to bhe town council at Stt'athroy ':when -the. chief of pollee. was, asked to explain Why the fitter had dropped off in 193e. They :amounted to only'$50, while the finance committee in pre- paring its eeti•:nstee et the first of the year had iuolud.ed a figure 02 $250 as an amount likely to be taken in. The chief explained -that in :former Years liquor ,oases produced the, highest ` fines, but recently there had been few of them, as people heel Tess motley to spend on, liquor, Then there were a namber of other cases where ithe sentence had been $10 or 10 days and meet of those who haci been Rived had taken bite 10 days because they 'did not have the $10 to pay .Into court, et other towns are 'laming the same exp,:1•ienoe then it will be a mistake for ohadnluen ot finance cam- `.mittees to aniicipete they are- going to receive much revenue from police court .eines, NO CONSCRIPTION Great 'Britain will raise the strength of her territorial army from 210,000 to 340,000, an incease of 210;000, and Prime 'Minister Chamberlain says he anticipates the increase will be accomplished witout resort to conscription, The British mind 3s' not fond of forced service and it has been stated freely and openly there would be-conetder- -able confusion and trouble if it were employed, Yet Britadm as its own: way of bringing the matter 'before its young mien, The business: of recruit- ing there is something which is .ratiler well developed and the young • nhnn who dodges the question too long is very likely to find his 'poem/lenity is wanting to the point where it might ;well suffer an eclipse. We used conscription in the Last stages of the war In this country, 'hut there were ways in which it cas poorly managed • There were promises of a sort made to farmer's sons that they were needed on the land for purposes of food produc- tion and 'would be exempt, but that promise was not fully observed. ,Conscription would not he popular in Quebec province today •ant 3,172,000 ,of our total population' of 11,209,000 reside there, 37r. Chamberlain has apparently turned his back againet the idea; he says the possibilities of voluntary ,enlistment have never been thoroughly explored, and even when European dictatorships .are all on the basis of forced military service he appears satisfied Britain can extend her army by ;the more open process of voluntary enlistment, .1Ie is a man of great faith.and we can only hope it wilt be fully justified, 'THE WATER 'TANK DID IT Some of the places where the royal train is ;going to stop -during its Canadian tour are liable .to have at least a ;mild attack of hee-bee-jeebes .lefore,it is all .through. In reports Pram Stratford we learn it will be exagtly ten minutes from the .time the train arvives until the whistle biome for ,dep'arbure. Stratford is lather n central place .nit hgood roads leading do many points, and people from; as far •off as Godel'ici1, some 45 miles want to get a chance to see Their Majesties in Stratford. And of course the mayor and city officials twill have W play some sort of an, official part, ;and all the school children of the place want pre- ferred positions. And, the wole bnsdnese will .,have to be attended to in the environs of the rail- way: yards adjacent to the depot and: 811 in ten minutes. Clearly some person is In line for a, headache, itfost fortunate is the village 'of 'Glencoe, a place of some. 738 people, Loyal folk there were peparing to be off to 'some other place of greater magnitude to have at look at royalty, when it Wes discovered the royal train' would stop there tor three minutes on the Mt from Stratford 10 Wind - sot. Glencoe has a water tank and even a royal • train must take on water In. order to produce steam. • 'Stratford expects trbont 25,000 will be on hand for a 10-mimtLes' stop anti simple arithmetic alone suggests that a1encoe's 758 folk will steed. it better chance during the 0-ulinate stop. The water t00dt a4 Glencoe is something which cam lent be ignored, THIS CREDIT BUSINESS Credit Is a wonderful lubricant In the wheels of retail salts, hat like many other 'wondtirrut' things of Iltis modern day, it is sorely abused. This is the bugboaa' of the retail lnerelllntt keeping him short or flats, struggling to num( obligations with his supply 1loumes, and lending In inereal:e the prices he has to alit for lits enerehaudisc, One Palmerston castles 111an is making a break t11i5 month, anti lb tieing to re eellth a;l 111: busdaesm upon a strictly :melt bee's, or go ul'J: r 11 the attempt, This ales his r tit'rt.d his list oI "uncolle,elahie (Wrenn's grew 114 4111;1 by months to a point where Alley iepresent til neat 611111, This money Is hispersonal loss, and lie has reached the decision that if his merchandise is worth bey: n, ,air wo1,l11 paying cash for, 3e has also detected, and rightfully so that customers that look for favors in the way of "eine" and Men extend Ulla few weeks asked for pato months and Years, aro a detriment rather than an asset, and something he cam do without quite handily, So, with ;the ,dawning of April 1st, this limn is cutting Immo all ties of .bhis type, and we hope he sue- ceects. We wish this man every succus tic his 'break' and we feel tlla if more followed his lead, prices wotuld be lowered on all colnunodities sold in these "cash" stores, people would develop the worthY habit of .Paying es4sh, and the ecomomie structure of our oivdlizatfon would be pieced on a much 01mler foundation•. 0 0 0 0 0 + AS IT WAS ON THE TENTH There are people who always ,have reasons for not doing things on time, and some of them wPpear Lo be eery good appear to be very good reasons. At this. season, of the year as we recall it there was always one chore to be done on the Tenth Concession and grandfather was always expected to look after et in person because he always said no one else had tlleexaet knowledge of how it should be attended to, And that had to do with preparing a little .hctlled 'for the planting of tomato seeds and also cabbage. Those .tomato seeds bad always been enured a long time in advance, but the hotbed Mas never ready. It was not an elaborate affair .and it was located on the south side of the drive shed n,he:e the sun gat a good chance at it. _..Says in the fall there 'was some black earth from Ole bush brought up anti iput away for the hotbed, The ithiag needed a careful preparation with just the right amount of manure in it and grandfather would• never allow she hired man to touch that spot. Nor would he get a move on himself when et came around the time to attend to it. That is where the making ot a good excuse came in for the delay and Ohechdef one was that graudfatber wanted to get the seed oats through the fanning mail, ;Some years the ground was so hard and full of frost when he started on the seed oats story thatyou couldn't have put any oats in with a crow bar or the auger they were using on .tire maple trees bah that macre no difference. The seed oats were on the horizon and grand - tether saw to it that they stayed there, I1 the hotbed got mventloned ' at breakfast came ub at the ,su01g1er table so did, the seed oats. Grandfather explained in detail how the seives needed to be looked over carefully, how ,the thing bad to be oiled and putt da shape; and he built np a certain romantic atmosphere about the okl fanning mill until lit lensed as something 'which might be undertaken: shy the public works depart- ment of the Dominion Government, Grandfather was skilled in having a good stock of excuses, A little latex' on when it was time for range to be moved from the kitchen out to the summer shed in the rear he had anotdter of his exoeldent reasons for delay, and at that t'•me he would find It necessary 'to make a good many .tours oaf careful inspection to locate brown patches ,in the winter wheat, Apparently he Needed to do a; great. deal .of ,oalculating to see whether the patches were serious enough to war- rant bile raking its oe a little oats and barley to Oil up the blank places . That one, together with the business of getting the seed oats through the fanning mill, came to the restate every spring waren the :hotbed and the moving of the kitchen range'•adalded to interest the folk .in the house. '' n, * , 8: d' * * * i, * COUSIN EZRA * * * q, * (By A. R. K.) * * * * ¶ My Cousin, Ezra's funds run tow, nt saving something he'•s ,been .slaw, he's somewhat in a mire; and Ezra looks toward the day, when he will put his work away, and then, 11e will retire. if He lid .a scheme before iris wife, how they would lead a humble life, and thereby save their kale; each week he'd pet so mach nwny, and there he'd simply let it stay, as though locked up h1• jail, le His wife at owe approved the emhenle, the hvi5est move she'd ever seen, she'd Help hint all she could; leis wife is quite a thrifty soul, not' tincts herself' stuck in a Hole, she titans things like she should, 14 So Pawn plunked sole cavil away, when rum(' the rause to draw his' pay, a herd 'move Tel confess and whets the eountllg cash was through, he irnntleci to his wire iter dlte, and she got sono- what less, jj But Kern needed IOasier wear, lie linughl Sane bright things herr and there and 111ose:mot like' a rose; new shots were+ east upon his ears, and 1:zra etai11(1 along the street, displaying his new clothes. is But lvvdvl'$ wife le wise to 111111• h01• te1111)el'e wearing rasher thin, it 8ano111ders like a 1irr; 1111.1 1 can see she's Iltl'tlillg 517111', on 1,/.1:1'5 scheme of leisure hour. in days when he'll retire, CRIX ApOrr 'The purest form In *filch tobacco een be smoked" NOTE AND COMMENT \\'lien an air liner cl'aslles' the damn lest is made up of all those on board. Phe Leagne of Nations failed to t.a7'e democracy because so many people In the League did not be- lieve in it. Alberta failed in its efforts to pass legislation to outlaw debt. Of course such• failure is right enough, b'Ithere are times when the Al- berta idea. sounds rather attractive, There has been a subetantiai gain in the Dionne family, At the rt .rt there were just a few pounds of quints, while now there are al- most 250 potuuds of them . Man In Indianapolis was charged with speeding, but told the judge that could not have been the case as he wase going to pay his. income rax at the time. What's, more the Judge believed him and. dismissed the case. Col, Fraser Hunter, member of the Legislature, claims that after listening to a neuter of lawyers take part in the debates he becomes more than ever confused. That Is how lawyers make a living; they go to the contused plan and salt their services to unconfuse them. Man under arrest in Nova Scotia convl'llains about not 'getting his breakfast at 5 in the morning, One ground that for years he has ;rad breakfast at 5 in the morning, One sure way to have maintained, his normal halbits would have been to stay out of jail. It 15 .reported there 'will be no compulsory military service in Britain for fear such a move would cause trouble in the Conservabive pal+ty. Anel of course the life ot the good old party is something not to be sniffed at no matter what happens. Italy announces that in the Span- ish campaign there • were 174 of its flyers shot down In action, and Italian• flyers are credited with hav- ing brought down 90e republican planes. A large string at .dead men and broken planes, hut did it actually settle anything? Records in Detroit show that tor 1033 there were 130 people -Who took their own lives and ISS tried to d oma but did not succeed, It seems to be about the sante ae go- ing into business or anything else— a good many people my it and most of them fail. Toronto nmanin court at London was charged with tc+ansporting fowl without having the necessary license, He explained he had been doing it for 12 years that way. So instead of paying 41 dor the license he had to cough up an ex• tra $5 as well for the course of instruction given in court. NreiMMENffeml1 LET US LOOK AT THE PAST, taro Ito pant Meat Prow !'Ws of tht Po.: o/ 50 tlr.4 15 Year. Iola 50 YEARS AGO CRAN leROOK Chas, Danes nes moved the ma- chinery of the White Mill to the vii la'ge, GREY Thoma. Heritage out family re ;raved to London this heels. Ball ,ptut Sunday hn Sea forth, eileltclel lox has lensed his farm Olt elle 10tH eon„ to George II• 110 1:11, Pete Slrlutcsb intends putting up a new ilnl'le MORRIS Alfred Ihisshnn left. fol' 1la1eta this wr,•k, * * * Mrs. Reid 4f \\'inghattl is venins at her father's S. 17ckert cit preeent. 1 11r•nry 'Meaner., iof fiarrislon watts visiting at frlende and relatives last week. • * * (Medan C. Hood has rem':»'ed 1lum'an Co., Mlrhigall, • ' • • Wni, Mooney estate of 150 sere farm was sold to W, C. Stretton, of Lancaster, Mite • * * H. B. Burkholder and family, have removed• le the farm lately leased from Wm, Shedden, BRUSSELS T, Fletcher and wife spent Sun. day in Lucknow, A. McTaggart, *1vi.D., of London was in town this week, W, J, Jodl.nstou passed itis exam- lnations at Ube Veterina'1y College, * • * J, H. Searling ilea secured a position, as butter maker at the Neustadt Creamery this year. James Ross •vie'ited at the Forest City this week. Trios. redrew* shipped 180 barrels of apples to Manitoba last week, 25 YEARS AGO WALTON James Farquharson left here on Tuesday for Provost, Alberta, where he purposes locating, John McDonald's `new saw mill oomnctueneed operation on the season's work on Monday of this week. WROXETER David Robinson made abusiness trip to Toronto last week. • Perry Patterson left for Watford cn Saturday where be has secured a position, e' W. Jecklin left•on Tuesday for the West. JAMESTOWN Norman 11SeLeod visited, at Ripley last week, Mr, and Mrs. Bert Watson Sun• Bayed at Samuel Snell, * * * W, Cook, of Brussels, is a wel- come visitor at Alex Hisiop'e this week, * • * * Wesley Palmer is busy cutting wood in the vicinity. ETHEL 'Mrs. Geo. Kranter of Brussels spent part of els week under the parents: roof, • * Andrew McKee• attended the Temperance .Convention in Clinton, Chris Raynerd, who purchased Jos. Welsh's house has been doing some repairing to it, BELGRAVE Leslie McDougall is improving slowly, 0, W. Nicholson had a successful wood bee this week, * * • • Wm, 'Nethery, Sr„ has purchased the house and lot owned by Mise Owens, GREY D,r W. E. Bryan of Carmangay, Alta., was, a visitor in ,this ocality, Thos iS,traclran's *health is greatly improved, we are glad to report, • • • eTr, and Mrs, D. C. Ross attended. We service et Roe's Ch11rci1, CRANBROOK Menzie's Bros„ have purchased a flue two-year-04cl: colt from H, Cror- salitz, Mee. Purvis *onanenhome from To- roan oronin to spend the week -end with her 11ta:band. who is in change of Mr, Treevin's store, Moet RI S Mise Lillian . Jerkson of Toronto, is a vi.8it.or at the bolos of John Jackson, R * * TTerhere Meuill,g toots in the Spring Weir at Clinton last yeah, * * * ,Benvea Steer was .nwar led Ole red ticket for his ,stallion at Sea - forth Spring Fair. BRUSSELS 111185 ltnie tanning is Spending the boltdey 1viih relatives in Lon_ inn. * * * Mrs, 'Mee or Iteratfnrd 18 a visitor with tel• enrenie Mr. and Mrs. Y "She says here, she'll be home to -night!" Is there anything 8.30 ' more worrying than Rb,. waiting? One voice inside you says: "Don't be silly, she's all right , r° And another voice whispers: "Perhaps she's had an accident . , , oh dear, what shall Ido?" "1 would have stayed up all . fight!" P,ut 7vhon you hear 8.45 it: r voice on thn 8.45P. - telephone you kn n all is well— ▪ Y }•ou thank heaven for bong Distance service — you realize hocv easy it is to keep in touch — and you like peo;.,'e who da "She dada "t realize that 1 c©u1dn'W get away " Sometimes you think older people are foolish to worry — but somehow you feel better when you've brought calm and peace to anxious minds — • by LONG DISTANCE • And it's so easy too. Your call is on its way in a fete seconds, your destination reached in the twinkling of an eye. Ilse low Night Rates applying every evening after seven (and all day Sunday as well), and place "Anyone" calls. Walter Wilbee. * R 4 Mr's, I. C. Richards is visiting fdieude in London, * • * Bob Warwick arrived home from Toronto University this week, * I * ,MO. and Mrs. G. H. Sands and son Finlay of Claremont are here on ' a visit with. Mr. and Mrs. F. S., Scott, * * * Mrs. Harry Keys and children eave next week itor the West where they will join Mr, Keys, * * a Dr. Fred Gilpin of Chica'ge spent a. few. days In town, Sins, A, Hunter is home'from• an extended visit to 'the Queen City. Miss Bate Telfer hae rern.ignecl her position. as teacher and Will leave for the West, HIT ON BRITISH MARKET "The suality oC the Canadian Milkfed chickens on 'tltis market' le exeepttenaily good and, triose buy- ers who have sampled are giving repeat orders," ---",Modern meat Marketing," London, 1:t1gland,