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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance Times, 1934-02-01, Page 2T1 THE WIN.GRAM ADW„NCT -TIMES Thursday, February 1, 1934 The Winlgharn ,Advance -Times Published at WINUIIAM ONTARIO. every Thursday Morning, by The Advanee4Times Publishing CO, $tabscriptiorr, Rate — One. Year $2,00 Six months, $1.00 in advance To U. S. A. 52.50 per year. Foreign rate, $3,00 Per year.. As1vertising rates on. application. THOSE STARLINGS • It will be but a short time now un - 11 the, `starlings will be flocking back to Canada. it has been proven with- out' doubt that these birds are of lit- tle or no use, but that they are a de- cided menace. At, a .recent conven- tion of the Niagara Fruit . Ga•owers, one of the topics under consideration was the Starling'*Menaee. How best to get rid of these pests we cannot advise, but, Jack Miner last year had some kind, of contraption that seem- ed to work very well. One thing is certain, however, and that is•tbe more starlings that'are destroyed this year the better. * * as* REFORESTATION At a meeting of the directors of the Canadian Forestry .Association in Montreal, they advocated •large-scale forestry operations should figure pro- minently in Government expropria- tions for unemployment relief, During the last number of years the forest wealth of Canada has been greatly impaired and if reforestation were undertaken by the Government as a relief measure it would produce future wealth for our country and this appears, a much betfer idea than pay- ing direct relief. *• , 4: * * The monarchists of Germany, ac- cording to reports,still have hopes that the Kaiser- will yet regain his throne. What a sad day that would be not only for Germany, but for the world. •en ` pg� it * * * A Welland resident has beefs, skat- ing . for 74 consecutive years. That may be a record, but the number of old timers who are enjoying this pas- time this year on Wednesday even- ings in town, is worthy of corrinent. * .l; * * In the Welfare Island Penitentiary at New York the inmates are said to enjoy valet service, special food, spe- cial sleeping quarters and other spec-' ial liberties. We wonder if that is what Dr. `Withrow had in mind when he wrote and spoke about the Kings.- ton ingston Pen. * -r A professor at Seattle has an idea that aircraft that will fold. its wings and travel along the highway, is a possibility. If this ever came to pass many more pedestrians would unfold their wings. * :;; * * The Minister of Highways has said that, the time has not arrived to abol- ish the speed limit on Ontario High- ways. As we drive about the coun- try we often wonder, if the average motorist does not believe there is not a speed limit. • * ;k The Ontario Loan was over -sub- scribed in one day and the United States security issue of $1,000,000,000 was last week over -subscribed five times. It would be very interesting to know how much of these loans' were subscribed by individuals not of the millionaire class. Anthracite coal mining is to be re- sumed in. Nova Scotia. It does seem. very foolish for Nova Scotia to im- port hard coal when she has it in plently at her own fireside, • * * * Dr. J. E. Gendrea, of the Radium Institute, of Montreal, says that we .are waging a losing battle against cancer. The man or woman who •dis- without doubt, be one of the r orld's greatest benefactors. • * Saving Batik Deposits were $2,000,- 000 less at the end of 1933 than at the end of 1932. We wonder how great an influence the savings deposit rate of 21-9F has had on savings de- posits. • * * * Two 'prominent Frenchmen fought a .duel with pistols, neither was wounded. \Vhen Obey faced each other .' they were 160 feet apart. One would need to be a rack pistol shot •to hit the boll's eye at that distance. * j: )e * It is said the Government will ap= point a special committee of the House to investigate the administra- tion of the Radio Broadcasting Cam- mision, It is a difficult `matter to keep the static out of their business, THE SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON. All.:0.1111.0.104..100.1•94111•001M1.001.411•1• 041•1.1.M00 1•11.4.11L PUTTING GOD'S KINGDOM FIRST. Sunday; Feb. C Matthew 6:1-34. Golden Text: Seek ye first the Kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. (Matt. 6:33). There are four remarkably interest- ing and vital subjects set forth by the Lord in the lesson chapter: Religion of reality versus religion of show. What is true prayer? How to make safe investments.. Guaranteed income and protection. There have' always been people whose religion consists chiefly of de- monstrating how religious they are. 'When they give money to the Lord's work, or to any charity, they make sure that their name appears in the list of donors and they mention their generosity in conversation. The Lord calls this, with divine satire, sounding a trumpet, "as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of, men." There are various rewards for gen- erous giving, and "the glory of men" is the reward such givers covet. The Lord. comments, "They have their re- ward,"—they get exactly what they go after. So as to the matter of prayers. Such.. people "love to pray standing in the synagogues and in tate corners of rthe streets, that they may be seen of men." Nowadays, even in Christian Church and,' prayer meeetings, they !take opportunity to pray in well- rounded sentences and •impressively— and' obviously they are praying to men,not to God. Their reward is to be admired for their praying; and, says the Lord, "They have their re- ward." All this is a religion of show. It is counterfeit, hypocritical, utterly false. It never reaches God—except to bring down His condemnation. The religion of reality is entirely. different. "Take heed that ye do not give your alms before men, to be seen of then: otherwise ye have no re- ward of your Father which is in Hea- ven," says the Lord. When you give "let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth." Give secretly, not in. order to be seen but in order real- ly to help. Men may not know what you are doing—but God knows. There is a reward which is worth while. For "thy Father which seeth in secret Himself shall reward thee openly, Real prayer is humble fellowship with God. It is never done in 'order to win the admiration of men. While, of course, there can be real prayer of- fered publicly in Christian gatherings today, as in Bible times, the true prayer of the individual is between God and himself alone, shut away from men. "Anel when thou hast shut thy door, pray 'to the Father which is in secret; and thy Father which covers a cure for this plague will, seeth in secret shall reward thee op•• 0111mm/llminsiimum/u•mu1litnm t 1 Maitland r ■ Of Buyers• ream, Eggs /r And Poultry IIIANI Pi 6th a / CO-OPERATIVE: ill.IT EOa lone 21i Ontario. FACTS ABouT —No. 1 of a series of official announcements by the Ontario Municipal Electric Association (O.M.E.A,), representing the Municipalities 'who own the Hydro -Electric System of Ontario. •' Q,N;T'A R: I o MUNICIR"4 •EteCTRIC S.O .0 1A1':1'12 Who Owns Hydro The great public service enterprise known as the Hydro -Electric System, or simply as "Hydro", while operated and, administered by the Hydro -Electric Power Commission of Ontario acting in the capacity of trustee, with the Govern- ment of Ontario acting as banker, is the property of the people of the associated Hydro municipalities. Hydro -Electric power is distributed, through the agency of the Hydro munici- palities, to the citizens who ,use this low cost electric service. The Ontario Municipal Electric Association .(O.M.E.A.) is an organization con- stituted to represent its member municipalities -the owners, of Hydro-- and to make representations to the Hydro -Electric Power Commission. At a meeting of the Executive Committee of the O.M.E.A., held in the City of Toronto on October 31, 1933, a Publicity Committee was appointed "to'collect and disseminate information in respect to Hydro facts". At a subsequent meeting, held on November 30, 1933, the Executive Committee individually endorsed and unanimously passed the following Resolution regarding Publicity. WHEREAS, from time to time, state- ments have been made and published with respect. to the Hydro System. of Ontario that are not in accordance with the facts, and which, if allowed to go unanswered, tend to create doubts in the minds of the public, and more particularly that section of the public which is not sufficiently interested, or will not take the time, to look info matters carefully enough to secure the information for themselves; AND WHEREAS the Municipalities of Ontario • are the owners of the Hydro System, in which they have an investment of some three hundred millions of dollars; and anything which would create distrust in the minds of the people as to the proper and efficient conduct of this great Public Utility would tend to impair the value of the investment of the Municipalities in the Hydro System: THEREFORE BE .IT RESOLVED: - THAT The Executive Committee of the Ontario Municipal Electric Association endorses the report of the Publicity Committee; THAT we believe, with them, that the time is now opportune to carry out the repeated requests and suggestions which have been made from time to time by our Association; THAT a campaign of publicity be carried on so that -the people of Ontario, who have been respon- sible for the outstanding success of this great Public Utility during its twenty-five years of existence, shall be given from time to time all necessary infor- mation as to the administration and operation of the Hydro System and its branches in all parts of Ontario .. . In pursuance of this Resolution, the Publicity Committee of the O.M.E.A. will publish informative statements which will set forth, clearly and simply, what Hydro ownership has done for the people of .this Province. The facts about Hydro speak for themselves. ONTARIO MUNICIPAL ELECTRIC ..ASSOCIATION OFFICERS President, C. A. MAGUIRE Toronto Secretary -Treasurer, T. J. HANNIGAN Guelph Vice -Presidents, 'I'. W. MCFARLAND London, JOS. GIBBONS, JAMES SIMrsow Toronto, F. BIETTE Chatham BROCKVILLE—W. B. Reynolds GUELPH—J. W. Oakes MIDLAND—David T-Iurrie PETERBORO—Gordon Matthews ST. CATHARINES—Dr. W. J. Chapman ST. THOMAS—E. E. Seger WALKERVILLE—W. R. Woollatt WATERLOO—W. Henderson WINGHAM—W. H. Gurney EXECUTIVE : CHESLEY—C. J. Halliday HAMILTON -W. D. Black OSHAWA-Frank L. Mason GALT -I -L O. Hawke LINDSAY -A, K. Gregory OTTAWA -J. J. Allen PUBLICITY COMMITTEE : Chairman, Controller James Simpson, Toronto Frank L. Mason, Oshawa T. W. McFarland, London ;4 * Keep this informative statement,and watch this newspaper for further statements by the, Publicity Committee. only." True prayer does not consist, in. "vain repetitions, as the heathen do." "They think," said the Lord, "that they shall be heard for their much speaking." But "your Father know- eth what things ye have need of be- fore yc ask Him." Prayer, therefore, is not a matter of 'hammering at the gates of Heaven, It is not, as some one has said, over- coming God's unwillingness, but ra- ther an accepting of God's loving eagerness to help and bless, Then, as an immortal form of true, Prayer, the Lord gave His disciples what is coirunonly called the Lord's Prayer. It concludes certain fundi- mentalPrincipples of ,prayer, beginning g with the worship of God as the ;Hea- venly 1 • Father, then prayer for the cornhitg of His Kingdom and the do- ingofHisi1.1 on earth a5 in Heav- en; eav- n V n; then passing, on t individual C , et pa Jai to V needs, and cloSing with worship and adoration again, The Lord's prayer is only a single, teaching in the New Testament con- cerning prayer, and .;- obviously was not intended to cover all. pryer. There were truths that the lord plainly said to His disciples He could notgoive thein then;, they : eould'nxr'i- dcrstand them only after His death and , esurrtction and the coaling of g the Holy -ply Spirit at ;lt'eri Pentecost. We f,et further' light on true Christian prayer in the Epistles, and in some of the prayers of the great Apostle .Paul, as set clown there by inspiration. Almost every one is interested in making safe investments, and the Lord had something to say about this, M. the present world-wide depression, while facing the recovery that every- one, hopes is coning, this part of the Sermon on the Mount has peculiar timeliness. Here it is: "Lay not up for yourselves treas- ures upon earth, where moth and rust doter corrupt, attcl Where thieves break thrattgh and • steal: but lay tip For yourselves treasures in Heaven, where neither moth nor rust corrupt, and where thieves clo not break through nor steal; for where ydur art is, there will your heart be also Many investments that have been made in the past four years are lost for ever, But everyinvestmentmade during that time, in the wa y of money given to 'Christian evangelism, Chrisl- tian missions, Christian work of every sort that has Christ and the Word of God at the centre, is an invest- ment with God behind it and all His resources guaranteeing its safety far time ,and ieternity. Many Christian people who have lost trineh oftheir earthly property in recent years, yet who gave generously to the Lord's wort: during those years, are rejoin- ing today that they gave HIM what they did, and mily wish they had giv* • en more. They never can lose either principal or interest in such invest- nients. The GoldenText tells ns, `in, the ;l aai ct s words, how to have a guaran- teed, income, divinely protected, throughout this -life and in temporal, al, bodily matters. The Lord lovingly forbids • Iris disciples `to .be 'anxious about such questions as "What shall we eat?' or, What shall We drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?" A familiar bit of verse is worth rcni.em- berin g: Said the, Robin to the Sparrow: "I Should really like to know `''Vhy these anxious bantam beings: Rti li about and wor•riy .so?"' Said the Sparrow to the Robin: "Friend, I think that it must be That they have no Heavenly, .Father Such as cares far you ancl• inc" • • Friday, In bringing down the main estimat- es �•e es so early in the Parliamentary ses- sion Hon. E. N, Rhodes, Minister of •Finance, created t precedent. This is in general kee iirig with the 8 overn- nents rnteiitiotis to place all tete im- ,portant business before the House as early as possible. The grand tal of estimated ex- penditure far the fiscal Year 1934-35 is $343,648,273, as compared with $360,73.8,210 during thecurrent fiscal decrease of $17,089,937. ycar,adec The two increased items are under the headings of National Defence and, Public Works, Aviation' get an addi tion $295,000 for the replacement of flying machines a f ichines that have been worn out, while hrle thc Marine De artn ett of Public 'Works will get an additional $1,459,650 for deepening the St: :Law- rence River slap channel. • NT TO E�'.�ti E �O�� CUT EXPENSES BY' $17000000. Otta'GVa•""'Dt rr tie reductions in. most. of Government, with:: itn- branches , creases in only two, and a total •de- crease of about $:17,000;11.00 from the. current year's expenditures, , were shown iti the main estimates for the. fiscal year ending March 31, ,1935, tabled in the House of Commons on :1 r National Defenceas a whole,how- ever, "J de- creased, attd Public Works, are both t creased, the former by, $370,668,' and the latter by $3,295,531. All decreases were accomplished ,by paring administrative costs to the bone without crii'pling essential ser- vires, It is understood that the pro jetted public worlds program, if ear fed out, will be ,provided for in Sup; P ietnentary estimates to' be' brought down r' ill the session,: but that a . cowllate 1 y Ii art from that item, if 'dertidect inion, relief, the main es- ttn�.>xn'entploynieri�t i ei, o, timates will cover the entire expendi- ture for the year. In keeping with the usual custom, unemployment reliefand railway de- ficits are h tot t shown in the estimates. Outstanding decreases in the sum - iliac shown y are ow 1 as follows:. Health„ $023,000; Post Office, $997,000; Trade and Commerce,' $900,000; National Revenue, $845,000; Agriculture' $858,- 000; Miscellaneous, $722,000; Civil Govermn n e t, $533,000. Interest on.the public debt (iniad - ins , ns srnlciiig fiend) is reduced by $778,- 000 due to loweercl interest rates and vox ble exchange m re fa aconditions. o The total consolidated revenue ex- penditures xpenditures are estimated at ,$337,543,- ni .with 53 497,86P; 773 as co aced wt 3 p � r capital' expenditures are estimated at $6,044,500 as compared tyith $7,165,- 850. 7;1.6$,850. When, Itfose was told that poor;; Rasas had been shot by e Nicks while he was stealing the judge's chickens, he merely replied: "Oh, well • it might' have been t +orSn." "How could it be worse?" indig- nantly t. "Poor nantly asked the informant. n Ras •tts is dead, De judge e just` nanh" t g' tally blow de head right off of hint.: What could he Worse orse ° dan dat?" a, o •se",eater n It 'might have been w r , ,rep >y se. "If'ed e fire off lie Butt cd l\2o de a g do night'` before the Might have blow d head o f me r r # .I