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*INGH.M ADVANCE -TIMES
And your own sense of
taste will convince you.
`fires* frown the gardens'
ASJ-IFIELD
Mrs, Bert Finnigan spent last week
^lith her sister, Mrs. `Jim Culbert,
near ivfafeking,
Miss. Esther Glazier is , assisting
M. Noonan Shackleton for a few
weeks. ,
Mr. Will Helm, near Zion, spent a
' few days with relatives on the 9th
,con., near Kintaii,
The severe wind storms on Tues
day and Thursdaynights did some
damage to windmills and roofs of
barns: Mr. Melvin Raynard, near
Lucknow, lost part of his bard roof,'.
Stran le thing we read in the col-
uanns of the Gadsden, (Alta„) Jour-
nal:
our-nal: "Miss Mina Morris, was the for
tunate winner of the twelve free
greasings offerred by the Callaway
service station.” Does Mina goin
for swimming, or is she owner of e
car?
The Bell Telephone Company
and its financial policy
IF given authority by parliament, the' Bell Tele-
phone Company will issue new shares of stock
over a period of years, at intervals and in
amounts depending- on the -expansion required to
serve public demand.
The new shares will beoffered for purchase by
shareholders and the price will depend on the man-
agement's judgment of conditions.
This method is the exact procedure by which the
company has built the present telephone system in
Ontario and Quebec.
In forty-eight years the telephone company has nei-
ther suggested norreceived a government subsidy.
In forty-eight years it has never split its stock, nor
issued sharesthat were not,,fully paid for at par
or more.
In forty-eight years it has never been exploited for
the benefit of either individuals or groups. although'
it is now one of the largest institutions in the
country.
has met double .obligation
IN choosing and 'following this financial policy
1 the management of the company has had con-
stantly in mind the double obligation of those who
operate a public utility.
There is, first,the obligation to the users of the
telephone system to give them proper service at low-
est possible cost. •And, secondly, there is the obliga-
tion to the owners to protect their property and pay
them a fair return on the money they advance to
build the system.
These two • obligations have been scrupulously ful-
filled.
Service has been given by steadily extending the
system from a few hundred telephones in 1F300 to
over 700,000 now in use. The company is spending
over $27,000,000 this year to extend and improve
the system, further and has made pians to spend
over $120,000,000 din the next five years.
And this service has been given at low cost. The
rates paid by telephone subscribers in Ontario and
Quebec are the lowest in the world for comparable
service. The Board ' of Railway Commissioners has
officially acknowledged that they are more reason -
'able than other rates in Canada.
The 15,300 owners of the system receive a fair re-
turn, but; not more than ,a fair return; The corn-
pahys policy has handed out no "melons" norextra
dividends.
A ;test of this is the actual experience of a share-
holder who bought Bell Telephone stock' on the mar-
ket fiftee>z years'; ago at' $145 and ,has since taken
advantage of every opportunity to buy new shares
as 'they havebeep offered.
His annual return today, on the money he has paid
for ;lois shares, is lees than seven per cent. To be
exact at .is '6 9. per cent.
the national interest
ltd St
RE management does not favor any change in its
policy, beaiause:
L the record of three company's policy in efficiently
fulfilling the obligations to both users and own-
ars justifies ' acts continuance.
P. if, however, the financial policyof public utility I
companies is to be fixed by pi rliateent it should
be made applicable tie all such companies rather
than to single out doe company' 'which does riot
deserva..special'restrictions.
$. a cha, ee in policyisatot in the natienal interest;
it meazis digit Canadian investors will be attracted
to put thein' Money; into.;nuniereus: Arherican utility
eonitlanies ,with Which the telePhone` company is
now competing' for new capital and where it is
the recognized practice to offer new shares to
,stockho"ldeks.
Th, present, policy of the company sefegner'de
tture 'expansiitin d the telephote
system byretaining support of tell-
able ilivesterk, and promotes the
national "interest of Canadians #n.
Canadian develepttient.
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DANISH CO.OPE A ION.
THIS is'X57. elel. IS 1SFQR GING 141i0
tit'i.TYSE AC'1'f>RILY,
lwlttle Courntry "Sends 500,000,O0a
Pounds of Bacon to England An-
nually—Built°' on' Square Dealing. --
Rolls lip Huge Exports,
The annual. bacon export of .Dere:.
mark'•to l aglaed is over 500,000,000
pounds, and the aggregate whom is
in excess of $100,000,000. Denmark
'bolds the market firnily by the ears,
supplying ,more.:than 60 per cent. of
all that England imports,
The Danishco-operative ;tries are
really prepared to scoff at any at-
tempt by any other country to "eut
In" on the bacon business, In this:
particular case the coiintry has en-
tirely ,re -organized its stock,. farming
bueiness to, supply i nglish, house-
wives with exactly what they want,
The bacon wleleh the Englishman
Wants to eat with his Danish eggs at.
breakfast comes from a milk -fed hog,
often a cross between; The Yorksh'ite:
boar and the common Danish species.
The Danes bank on their co-opera-
tives as a religion and in the pork
industry alone five -sixths of all meat
is butchered and marketed by these
joint organizations. There are fifty
co-operative hog slaughter -houses in
the 'country and the 8,000,000 pigs
Which they butcher every year bring
an ,annual ',turnover of well over
$105,000;000. The annual export of
bacon and other pork abattoir pro-
ducts year before last had a value
of $125,000,090, five -sixths Of which
was represented by the output of the
co-operatives. The English trade' is
handled by Danish Bacon Limited in
London, which at' the same time keeps
close tab on the demands of the mar
ket and guards against competition.
The possibilities of the much -her-
alded Danish co-operative system:
have never been shown to better ad-
vantage than at the present time
when other countries of Europe and
America are beginning to show inter-
est in the European" ,farm products
market at present .dominated by the
Danes. The advantage which both in-
dividual. farmers and the collective
population receive from "playing. the:
game's -With one another is perfectly
exemplified by the position of the hog
raft rs at the present time.
At first glance the "system" ant
its ramifications seem complicated,
but in functton they are utttesly sIp-
ple and practical,
The ayerage stock raiser keeps
both cattle acid hogs and in order to
get the greatest profit,out of the for-
mer he belongs to one of the 1,400
co-operative dairies in the country.
His cows are well-bred specimens and
give the maximum quantity of milk
with a large butter -fat content, be-
cause he has, followed the suggestions
of the cow -testing societ'y to which
he belongs. -Ie, not only shares in the
profits of the dairy but after the
,separati)n of his milk he receives the
buttermilk and skimmed milk gratis.
This he feeds to his hogs according
to the advice given him by the Royal
Agricultural Society and when he re-
ceives word from his co-operative
slaughter house that the market is,
good he takes the hogs there for
butchering. The slaughter house, in
turn, co-operates with the associated
Danish pig slaughter houses to de-
termine when it may butcher to the
best advantage.
The .individual stock raiser mean-
while has been paid current prices
on delivery,of his'products'to the co-
operatives and when the year ends he
shares in the profits of both the dairy
and the slaughter house, according to
the amount of milk and pork he has
delivered to them. -
It is like "the house that Jack
built," or "the farmer in the dell," as
far as ramifications are concerned,
but it is to the ultimate advantage of
everyone in the .relationship. The
whole secret of the success of these
co-operatives is founded on that one
thing—trust.
The grip which this spirit of trust
and co-operatlpn bas taken on the
country is evident after a survey of
figures which the co-operative chiefs
furnish.
There,are 1,400 co-operative dair-
ies in the country with an annual
.turnover of approximately $150,000,-
000. There are eleven co-operative
Witter :export societies, comprising
850 dairies. Tle.Danish co-operative.
egg export has 700 local egg collect-
rig branches scattered through the.
country and 50,000 ludividual peel
try raisers whp bring•their eggs to it.
The total, export for 1927, was 42,-
•100,000 score,-
S.o on ad,inflnitum. :There are 00-
operative -cattle export societies, and
the Danish farmers' societies seed
supply, the'eoso:perative feeding stuffs
loci t a thei'h
e ie, and Dan s co operative
fertiliser business, the co-operative
supply nnionq and• the Danish 'no -
operative wholesale• society, r:
The co-operative supply unions;
numbering 1,800, furnish one of the
most interesting phases of the entire.
system. They furnish everything from
herring tobicyclesto moire than 300,-
000 ;Rallies in the country. Shoes,
littnber, ,vine and bicycles as well' as
dresses, kitchen utensils, smoking.
tobacco, coffee, soap and .leather'.
goods are represented In it'i reeler-
toire, The joint society of all supply
Unions nrctnufactures bods for the
retail organizatitsne and has a turn-
over' of 810,006,000 A year, the goodx
being 'purchased by 1,800 different
organ issttiens,
Thio tremendous activity of the eo-
operatfves in the purely retail. Mar-
ket has been 'accepted„gracefully by
indivldt:'ial retail merchants said the
ettnepl'aints which ono might exited.
against "throttling of individual en-
terprise” and "bureaucracy" have'
been stilled completely. The co-oper-
ative is an instrument of the people'
and it has become rett n
t
Se
them steeply herauiid it has eti bledl
them-, as a unit to fight thein.' eceino-
ituice battles to aeouteeisttrl' eotielU4t0A'.
Sfeetleolor litelesietines
•I?li'e' metric system• ot.weighset late
ilieltaieuci:teu has beteg ad;apt4d aieirleal
THE TUO-BOAT
flan Won un Illustrious Vince in the
Borne/see 'of Shipping -e-
t -Sue Watt Service,
These taut and stout little craft;
which tow our great.ships to safety
and 'help to keep our. •.big harbors
pioar and ell cleat have 'wen aa ilius-
u'lous Place in the .romaece of ship-
pinta and yet their; story has 'been
overlooked, says Kaye, Charterton 1n
they Cape Argus.
'Bile is the greater pity because
British tugs have done many remark-
able things in the past, and it is a
branch of shipbuilding which la show-
ing marked vitality, even in these
somewhat depressed times..
Tiels year alone British yards will
eourpli te• tugs for at least five eoun-
tries, The popular idea that these
livery but powerfai little boats are
solely concerned with the prosaic task
of towing is quite a mistake, If that
were so, there would, of course, be au
a lower to the ship -owner, and an'eer.,
case for the failure'o•f our authors to
write a book about. them
Some years'ago, a r'en:uresom..
captain took his' tag a voyage of more
than eleven 'thousand miles, trout
New York to Panama, through Lb •
Straits of Magellan:. It was a brilliant
journey: The boat had to be boarded
up fore and aft to prevent the heavy
seas from ftogdiug her, but she gar
through her .task • in no more than
fifty-three, days actual running.
Not. a few British tugs .made extra-
ordieiaryjourneys during the w;ar
and one towed' a cargo of 's ores a!
distaivae of over 1,200 miles, often
through mine - infested seas, ane:
:ie,L,dh her destination wit:}cut,
tCli.'
Tug skippers are venturesome by,
\nature, So many of their most ii:er-
osting,° and most profitable jobs havz
to do with salvage work. When by
utacles, or diving and engineering
1.Ite creat Italian battleship Leanardo
da, Vinci was raised to the surface,
hough still lying upside down as she
had sunk, the problem of getting he
safely into dry dock was one or the
most hazardous adventures ever en-'
trusted to the .''fussy little tu-
boats:"
le had been said that a stranger
seg etacle than the towing of this up-
side e dow;u battleship was never before
seen on the seas. The tugs managed
to 'keep the capsized leviathan right
in the centre of the channel' and by
nightfall the vessel was at the en-
trance to the dry dock, and cleverly
i -,a_ oeuvres inside. On that occasion
the tug skippers Justly came in. ,for r.
Slue tee tele puhle hero-worship.
When the Westinc.intand, with -a
cargo worth three ntiiliom pounds,
was ,torpedoed near St. Bees Head on
her way to Liverpool; salvage seemed
cop less,: yet it was aecontpllshed in
mid -winter, and the tugs "mothered"
the vessel to safety through terrific
seas, A strange experience, too, was
tars: of the tug skippers who towed
bale of the liner Milwaukee from the
rocks near Aberdeen,' where she had
gone ashore to the Tyne, where an-
other bow was made for her so that
she could take the seas again.
No 'records of tug voyages have
been complied, buta.t would-be inter -
es Mg- to have such facts. Perhaps
some British skipper can claim a
longer voyage than tbat of the tug
Atlas which, a few years ago, towed a
cargo or fifteen thousand barrels of
o11 a distance of -13,200 miles, beat-
ing the next best achievement of the
lees which towed a dry dock to the
Philippines from Baltimore by only
140 nines.
A Scottish tug; made a daring and
perilous voyage f.roni 'Leith to Amer -
tea by .a roundabout way at a time
when ;he submarine war was at its
height, and puffed. into' New York
none•the worse for her adventure or
for the fearful seas which she had
encountered almost throughout the
voyage.
After Eighteen Centuries.
At Szoerg, in Hungary, a Roman.
'cemetery, 1;80.0 years old has been
discovered at a spot where in the
past an important Roman colony was
situated. The discovery is the result
of eight years of uninterrupted ex-
cavations by Hungarian arcitaeolog
dsts,.in the expense of which the Min.-
istry of Education shared.
Eighty - two tombs 'containing the
remains of Romans of the aristo-
cratic class were discovered and In-
side were found flasks of balm,
bronze mirrors, strings of pearls,
other valuable jewels and medical in-
struments. Massive sarcophagi of
white marble,and gold were removed
from their 2,000 -year-old, resting
place and trausferred to the S e,gedin
Museum.
i3oosYt for ,spondee.
An American magnate recently
made the statement thatat he ali
s
employed blondes because they pc.-
leased more energy then .their darker
slaters. Title belief isgenerally ap-.
plied to both sexes, Fair men, am a
rule, are oouetitutionelly endowed
with more staying pov-er:.than dark
-nen. Enduranee usually ;'aceompaa-
ies fair hair and blue eyes- hence 0u
many auceesgfu1 soldiers and Sailors
of this aol'aring. Thgy can hottest.
withstand' elution's and cold, thdugla
dark individuals, with their deeper
pigmetttation, are credited with a
greateir. ldaperTloueneee to heat,
Big Sps aria Natulliia.
In Spalh 44 per eel t, Of the *omens
are married, ae ording to tier liztest
official sttltietios Of tk'erse more than.
814 per cent. have borne tete or neige
ehlldren; 1014 per cent, semen+ or
taore; 2414 psmeet. . five .tri'? rMieV ;
and 49% per emit', between owe' slot
fear ohlldren. •
OnV 11 per sent. of the total! eteitt
bey of married wonabe hot na cia4i'e
dean.
The' ateelffhfig Rieke ..
' hke' eitioton t>f a, *Oblate efitrlr'1n* At
wedding ring; welaitiate;r4 iri• 10/ytit, 14a
the early days' b woman wore' ritzy'
in, her' huttiiaaid"s abeenes, to ttrhtsle
that he het dere te4 xis ' aitthtif;fW
tis hers.
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'' I I %1rRi'l"
Stand the omnipotent decree;
Jehovah's willbe done!.
Nature's end wait to see,
Let this earth, dissolve, and blend
And hear her final groan;
In death the wicked and the just;
Let those ponderous•orbs descend,
and grind us into dust.,
Pests secure the righteous man!
At His Redeemer's beck,
Sure to emerge, and rise again,
• And mount above the wreck;
Lo! the heavenly spirit towers,
Like flame, o'er Nature's funeral pyre,
Triumphs in immortal powers,
And claps.his wings of fire!
Nothing hath the just to lose
13y worlds on .worlds destroyed;
Far beneath his feet he views,
With smiles, the flaming void;
Sees the universe renewed,
The grand millennial reign begun;
Shouts, with all the sons of God,
Around the eternal throne!
Resting in his glorurus hope
;1'o be at last restored
Yield we now our bodies up
;10 earthtluake, :plague, or sword;
Listening for the call divine,
The latest trumpet of : the seven,
Soon our soul and dust shall join,
And both fly up to heaven.
'l'he year 1756 was a terrifying one
to many in Great Britain. In Nov-
ember of the previous year a dread-
ful earthquake and accompanying tid-
al wave caused great damage and
awful loss of life at Lisbon acid fore-
boding fright everywhere. There was
a frightful tattle plague raging, which
was destroying the herds of the
country. AndCthe French threatened
an invasion of England, which was
not in as good a position as usual to
resist invaders: '
Though it would be untrue to state
that the British people were afraid,
all realized that it was a time of. em-
ergency,and that Divineassistance
and assurance were needed. Accord-
ingly: the government issued a pro
clatnation, making, February 6 a day
of fasting, htrtniliation .and stipplica-
tion at the' throne of grace. . How-
ever, Britons might telly to beat off
armies of enetn!as, it: was well real-
ized. that only God could guard their
land against earthquake and plague.
The Reverend Charles Wesley pub-
lished a little collection entitled,'"Hy
mels for the year 1756, • Particularly
for the. Fast Day," containing seven-
teen special hymns, of which the one
Printed above, was member 16. No
doubt this was widely ,used in Wes-
lcyatt congregationes at the special
services of tyre• )Past-TYay, and it ger-
fainly made iCs wary into several of
the chief 'hymn. ,books, including the.
"Wesleyan isymn .Book" of 1780.
It has received' great praise at tyre'
hands `of many, writers. J. Mont-
gomery, famous as poet and hytmt
tvriler, 'says: "The hy'inai. on the .ashy'
of Judgment 'Stand, the' Omnipotent
decree begins with a not abrupt and
awakening like the sound; of the' last
trtitnpet, This is altogetli r' dee of
the most derin;; att1d1virtdii•riatili £ail (els
of otir aritlioei"
it dries riot detract in the least
from tyre praise tlitc to• Charles Wes-
to show that we can point to the
source• of the ideal' ^forked otic' hi his
first two verses.
Jackson, oneof Wesley's bio rap h
J , y g P
t ers, in the concluding chapter of his
memoirs, tells us that the bymnwrit-
er greatly admired Edward Young's
fine poem, "The Complaint; or Night
Thoughts on Life, Death and Im-
mortality," which was begun after the
death of Mrs. Young and her daugh-
ter in 1741, but not completed until
1744, "Night 'houghts;" as the poem
is generally teemed, is one of the
great glories ojl our language, and
numberless quotations from it are in
common Use. Its author formerly a
satirical and political writer of succ-
ess, had entered the sacred ministry
rather late in life, and his great poem:
was written when he was sixty years.
of age and feeling with poignant sev-
erity ,the loss of his daughter and of
his wife, the 'daughter of the Earl of;
Lichfield.
Jackson says that Wesley, enjoyed;
this book (Night Thoughts) next to
the Holy Scriptures." He goes on
to quote Young as follows:
" '0 Man immortal! Hear the lofty.
style,:
If so decreed, tai' Almighty Will be
done,
Let earth dissolve, yon ,ponderous
orb descend
And grind us into dust! The soul
is safe;
The man emerges; mounts above
the. wreck,
As towering flame from Nature's
funeral pyre; •
O'er devastation as a gainer smiles-"
Mr. Charles Wesley, taking tip the
theme, thus sings in still loftier strain,
and with 'a greater power of expres-
sion, 'Stand tli' Omnipotent decree,'
etc."
It is possible to go further, and
point out that Young himself, was in-
debted, in the lines quoted, to Horace,
the Roman poet and artist, who says
in `one of his Odes, of the righteous
man; "If a 'broken world should fall
upon him, the ruins would leave him
undismayed," After all what matter
where a poet finds inspiration, .pro-
vided he is given the skill to develop•
it into beauty and lovely usefulness!
'The hymn as Wesley left it, is a
fine one, though somewhat neglected
now by hymnal compilers, probably
because the once peculiarly timely line
"To earthquake, plague and sword,'
is not se specially<fitting to our times,.
Still we need good arresting hymns
upon the final judgment day as much
now as ever, and if our hymn could
be furnished with its own appropriate
tune, to sing it into popularity, it is.
well worthy of a place in everycon-
gregational hymn -book.
Its first line is rather .awkward, be-
cause
of a redundant syllable, but a
little practice and care will carry choir
and people easily past that. The -
tune 'suggested' herewith "Amster-
dam," was possibly the one to which:
it was originally sung. 'The metre
is peculiar and the tune may have
been adapted t9 the hrilen from the'
German or Dutch by or for John
'Wesley who gave it to us in his lit-
tie "Foundery Collection" of hymn
tunes published in 1742.
Station 1,0 B. P.
noon from 1 to
regular Thursday
comments as to
be welcomed.
is on the air. Thurs.
2 o'clock, with its
programme. Your
the new hour will'
A Safe old Herbal
Re edy for Sick
Kidneys
Rich in those healing herbs
Indians used
People so crippled by Rheumatism the
couldn't walk have taken' Gallaghers
Kidney Remedy and got well. It is
wonderfully healing and cleansing to
kidneys. Comes right from the heart of
Nature..
Throbbing backaches, dizzy spells, rheu-
matic pains and nagging bladder ills
are usually caused by inflamed kidneys.
Gallegher's herbs soon ends these ills;
It is one of James Gallagher's famous
50 -Saga -old Herbal Household 1,emediee..
Sold now by 3t
McKibbon's Drug Stores
Harriston and Wingham...
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