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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1929-05-10, Page 6ZVOSIVOR THE NW EMPROVID GYPROC ew JImpnroved Edge IF.aoepico©f We:01)©(1 03 L3 L'l7 (1($0. o sallili a sarz SEVERE ZONES LAW Pi`OVIES A BOOMERAN G When the history of the human race in the third decade of compiled twene tieth century is being comp ve that more than a paragraph will be devoted to a couple of incidents that a,ccurred in New 'York city the other day. They will be given more prom- inence, we suspect, than the notable .h of President Hoover upon lav p=y enforcement which was being deliver- resent, excep ed about the same time that Texas hailed by everybody p Guinane and Helen Morgan were be -1 the judgeand the the "!pro ecuting at - g big ing declared not guilty of having vio- I torney, giving oted the liquorlaws.hof -ore the I called themand." ponding "suckers" kind Texas that than then ringingpech platitudes president's speech they will reveal the the word so used was to be un er- ttitude of the average urban dwellerstoodas a term of endearment. She the Guinane case. Now IIr. Hoover has said that the best way to get rid of a bad law is to enforce it. New York juries have taken the opposite view. They believe the best way to get rid of a bad law is to nullify it. That is what happen- ed in England a century or so ago. In those days the death penalty could be imposed for a hundred offences, among them, for example, sheep stealing.' Men were actually hanged for this crime at a time when the laws of England were made almost exclusively by those who had. sheep that might be stolen. But the hu- mane feeling of the public revolted against this tyranny long before the objectionable law was repealed. It was reflected in the refusal of juries to convict a man for sheep stealing. No matter what the evidence might be the jury, being the sole judge of facts, refused to find the prisoner guilty. The jurymen, no doubt, com- mitted the sin of perjury, but they chose than rather than the greater sin of complicity in judicial murder. So the law fell into disuse. Its repeal was brought about not because it was recognized as inhuman, but because the sheep owners found that no mat- ter who stole their sheep nobody could be convicted. So they advocat- ed a less severe penalty, one that the average man thought reasonable, and sheepstealers began to be convicted again. Hitherto, in the matter of liquor prosecutions in the large American cities, the police or the federal agents have laid their charges and the ac- cused persons in batches of a score or even a hundred, have been lined up and pleaded guilty. This they did on the understanding that they would be given light punishment. After paying their fines they would return to their unlawful practices. However unsatis- factory this course may have been for both the prohibitionists and those who were alarmed at the growing disre- spect for all law, it was the only practicable one. The bootleggers knew that each was entitled to trial by jury, and that if each .pleaded not guilty and demanded a jury trial it would be a physical impossibility for hcourtstocope with the conges- vires were, and are to- y- tie a hod a whole eorpe of men and -women )mound him, including a devoted :vale and daughter, and the joint efforte of them all were ,mainly devoted to 1,eeping him from two cigars a day down to one. Lt 0 L In those far-off days a great Am- erican mann of business was middle aged and beginning to fail at fifty years of age. That state of things, I am glad to say, has ceased to exist. The best example of splendid robust old age to -day is Mr. John D. Rocke- feller, senior. J. D. Rockefeller still plays his daily game of golf, and he is 90. His son, who was brought up amid all the temptations of boundless wealth, is hearty and healthy and generous. Edison, who has worked harder almost than any man of his time, turning night into day for months together when he had some big job on, is still hale and hearty. And among the splendid veterans I had in my mind some days ago was Edward L. Doheny; now he lies low and feeble under a terrible blow. Mr. Doheny has been a friend of mine from twelve to fifteen years. He was born somewhere in Canada, and his parents were not rich_ He was able, however, to get a good educa- tion, though it finished at the early age of fourteen. The thing Doheny got only a smat- tering of was chemistry; and vet it was this primordial knowledge of chemistry that led straight on to his vast fortune. One day it occurred to him to take up a geological map of Mexico—then only known for its more or less un- settled conditions under the dictator- ship of Diaz. Doheny, surveying the map, divined that petroleum could be found in what was then a vast forest occupied by a few of the aborigines, and herds of wild animals. He work- ed in that forest for seven years be- fore he was ever able to make a real dollar of profit. The petroleum was discovered; then the petroleum flow- ed in an ocean, and with the petroleum his vast fortune. And yet, here again, there came one of those vicissitudes that dog the the words, Hello, sucker." The evidence presented in a federal court that these young women sold liquor and consumed it was as con- clusive as it could be. Their per- formances on the witness stand were at least as reprehensible as the per- formances of Ananias and Saphira. The prosecuting attorney said that if Texas was acquitted she would be given a license that she could hang up in her club, the Salon Royale. But she was acquitted. The veKdict was said the prosecutor was a darling and promised that she would give him a job as her personal counsel should he be discharged by the department of justice. She kissed the jurymen, waved her hand to the reporters as the cameras clicked and went back to the business of stimulating the sale of liquor in her club. The Morgan to that particular law which is being most discussed. namely the prohibi- tion law. These young women, as probably all newspaper readers are aware, are hostesses of fashionable night clubs where the so-called big butter -and -egg men visiting the city can spend a couple of hundred d�- li uor in the course lays in q of the evening and be greeted by Texas with i trial was practically a repetition of 11111111111111IIlllll�iii�l►I� s, !it s,r i °1111 s`yl�e�ZYS 3'earsnnfce, '. .y��• }�y��,� ` � � _.FZl�'�•; 4 .uJ1S?r..�.'. HiIIII�IiI 1111lllllllillillllllllllll 111111111111I-IVhhillill111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 N. CLUFF ,t SONS Seaf iffth Estimates gladly furnished for any Doli, in any Grade of Seaman -!bent Oak, Maple or I:irdh li]!1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111�11111111111111111111111111111111111111111i1111111111�11 G $ PS�A�GfDO GICA RIU WORM 401W it m home, an automobile, e, .a radio and a houseful of ifzarniti -rill +oia time ---and found the whole weekly pay envelope hypothecated before n. groceries were. purchased. As for actual savings, quina . in debt is the best way to, acquire a ,banner raofl and a safety-deposit boxful of hoseadea A young business woman with a a:oin• fortable salary recently told boa that every other week's cheque goeq Im- mediately into the bank where she hap a loan account for the purchase of good securities. And when one loan is paid off she buys another bond and puts, herself in debt again. She is saving by keeping constantly in debt; as is the young man or woman who carries a stiff burden of life insur- ance—debt that is actually compul- sory savings. A new business is developing in America in the making of loans to small borrowers—to pay the doctor, or for some other emergency for which the family budget has not pro- vided. Big banks are lending small sums in this way, and are putting the loan sharks and the usurers outs of business. There is nothing dishonor- able in such debt. So long as the debt is not for fool- ish and unwarranted extravagances— for Christmas presents this month that should never be given—it is just- ifiable. More than that, it is to be encouraged. Only by'keeping the nose at the grindstone do most of us ever achieve financial competence— and honest debt is the best grindstone in the world. atntrAOM Ova paAr4cenrac0. (rAOfLV TAaeN. QUIC6rLv ANc' pator84T.uc' Lv CLRANO[:i UV= VO -aa mom. OeLacASc Ovos4tJ. AO MUM AD O JGAR dozen, there was an excuse for the shortness of the season, but to -day this wonderful perennial may be had in all its glory for over a month. In the white varieties alone, there is a period of almost two weeks between the blooming of the earliest and the latest, and there is practically a dif- ferent date of opening for all the well knownvarieties. All that is neces- sary is a study of the blooming dates in the catalogue before ordering so that one's list of varieties will in- clude a fair proportion of early, med- ium, and late -blooming sorts. Rose Diseases_ Blackspot and mildew are two of the most serious diseases which affect roses. In fighting disease of any kind one should bear in mind that a quick- ly growing plant is less susceptible to injury than the other kind and be- cause of this it is essential to plant your roses in good, rich, well -drained soil and to fertilize liberally to en- courage vigorous growth. Moreover, badly diseased plants ,should be re- moved, main roots and all, and des- troyed and if a certain portion of the garden seems more liable to disease than another, new ground should be selected. In attacking these fungus diseases with spray, something in- conspicuous as well as efficient should be used as one does not want the beauty of the rose marred. A fun- gicide that best meets these require- ments is a dust composed of extra fine flowers of sulphur—the ordinary kind is not as good—and arsenate of lead, made up in the proportion of nine parts of flowers of sulphur and one part of arsenate of lead. The sulphur will check the fungus diseas- es, if applied in time, while the arsen- ate of lead being a poison will head off eating insects. This dust should be applied in the early morning when the dew is on the plants so that it will get a chance to stick. One or two dustings will usually control the disease, except in very warm moist seasons when seven or eight applica- tions may be necessary. Flagatl ceagat yam, 3wrf��. the tion. Emory Buckner, one of the best 1 steps even of the most successful of federal prosecutors in New York for a generation, said that adequately to deal with the liquor cases in that city 85 extra courts and an annual appropriation of $70,000,000 would be required. But the passage of the new Jones raw, the so-called "five and ten" act, which permits a judge to impose a penalty of five nears' imprisonment and a fine of 510.000 for persistent violation of the liounr law. has chang- ed the whole situation. Offenders do not dare plead guilty and risk this extreme penalty, and juries refuse to convict and thus expose bootleggers like Texas Guinane and 'H'elen Mor- gan to a punishment that seems to he more fitting for a •gunman or a hank wrecker. So the prohibitionists are now beginning to agitate to have the right of trial by jury taken away from those accused of offences against the liquor laws of the coun- try. In this they are hardly likely to succeed, powerful at Washington though the Anti -Saloon league is. The law that was supposed to solve the lirmor problem his succeeded only in making it more insoluble. men. With a patriotic purpose e tried to get hold of a splendid piece of oil territory; for at that time America was athirst for oil, as there was a prospect of a big war from the menace which Americans find in the great ambitions of the Japanese empire. But this land was in the hands of the government, and, like most government work, was being in- efficiently done. Mr. Doheny rushed into the breach, with the full pros- pect of supplying his government with all the oil they would want, and at far cheaper prices than any gov- ernment work could promise. Then political and commercial rivalry got into the business, and Mr. Doheny had to undergo years of litigation and of malignant persecution. 'H'e came out of the contest triumphant- ly; nobody ever really believed that so honest a man could have anything to do with a crooked transaction. And now, just as all this had clos- ed, there comes this dreadful calam- ity—the, murder of his only son by an insane''clerk for whom the good- natured boy had done everything; and Mr. Doheny's home is desolate. The ordinary man who sees in such wealth the opportunities of luxury and self-indulgence, is not the class to which Mr. Doheny belongs. He is a life teetotaller: he even went the length of refusing to put wine on the otherwise splendid tables he had for his friends in his beautiful houses. He lives almost as simply, so far as his own wants are concerned, as if he were a working miner. His joy was in his work, in superintending its course and in 'bestowing his money on all enterprises for the relief of the poor. And this desolation is the end. I return to the theme I put forth in my first sentence: What do the very rich get out of their wealth? eUe 337Jsrlr,ii paeiry ; qvm +>ti DI= ILiseib. Tanwe CJ Besides this they burn charcoal, which they carry to the nearest market to exchange for clothes and other goods. Their dwellings are primitive huts built of rocks. At the entrance is a rude hearth with an exit for melee, while a few rugs serve by day as a carpet and by night as a bed. This comprises all the furniture. It is only seldom that a few utensils are found, and these are a sign of pros- perity. Thus far they differ but little from). other mountain people of the Caucasus but the characteristic feature of this race is the relation between man and woman. Among the Jassai it is the woman who is the supporter of the family. She cares for the sheep or for the primitive fields in the deep - lying farms. She goes into the for- est to fell timber and cut up the wood. She constructs charcoal kilns small carries the charcoal to market to en - change it for other vital necessities of the household. This whole mascu- line burden of work is assumed by the woman as a matter of course and it has an influence upon her demean- or. Women in men's trousers are no rarity among the Jassai. The man, on the other hand, plays the part of a drone. One often sees the men sit- ting together smoking their pipes and gossiping for half a day at a time. Now and then the Jassai man may go to a nearby mountain brook to catch a few fish or hunt a bit of game; if he is specially good-natured he ac- companies his wife to the market, she bearing the heavy burden while he proudly strides beside her with gay dagger stuck into his coat. When the wife is working in the field or in the forest the pian is apt to take care of the children, rocking the cra- dle and singing the baby to sleep. One might imagine that the Jassai women would not be happy over the part they play- this society. But this would be aristake—all the at- tempts of the Sala is to improve the social position of the women among this race have been checked by their bitter resistance. They consider it a great scandal for a woman to be un- able to support the family, so that the husband has to help with the work. WHERE WOMEN TOIL, MEN ROCK CRADLE A startling item has made its way into the continental press concerning a race living in the Caucasus moun- tains. Its women support their fam- ilies by the outside activities with which men elsewhere busy themselves while the stronger sex contents itself with humbler household duties. This race, known as the Jassai, is des- cribed at some length by a special correspondent sent to Azerbeijan by •'Reclams Universum" (Frankfort). The correspondent remarks that this state of affairs represents more than a mere curiosity, since it signifies that a race whose history has been known for thousands of years still re- tains forms of family life which have their origin in primal human cus- toms. In early history woman played a very exalted part with respect to man through long periods of time. This is to be traced primarily to group -marriage. In early days there was no monogamous marriage, but whole tribes, often embracing many hundred members, practised indie- criminate marriage among them- selves. Thus it came about that the percentage of the children was known for a certainty only upon the matern- al side, and that the family and the laws built upon the family were bas- ed upon the line of the mother. The superior position of the woman was strengthened further by the transi- tion of the men from the hunt to agricultural pursuits. The primitive culture of plants was the woman's -ask; and as the cultivation of the ground began gradually to furnish the chief part of human food the posi- tion of the woman, as the producer and provider of food, became firmly established. This was thousands of years before the relation between the sexes had undergone a change and the man had assumed the dominating role. In order to obtain closer informa- tion about this singular race, a spe- cial expedition was sent to the Jassai. What was found there was remark- able enough. They heard stories -ev- en among the neighboring races whom they met about the Jassai • or "girl people." The Jassai themselves, a small race occupying about 300 scattered farms in a few lateral valleys of the Cau- casus, are a farming people whose food is chiefly obtained from the pro- ducts of their primitive sheep raising. WHAT DO MILLIONAIRES GET OUT OF THEIR MONEY? One of the questions I am constant- ly asking myself is: What return people get from the many millions they sometimes possess? I suppose nobody will believe me when I say that most of the millionaires—and I have known a lot of them—who have come within my circle, I find on close personal acquaintance have not been much happier than people of moder- ate fortunes. I knew a millionaire once in Cali- fornia—he was Irish by race, as so i- ear Ole radio program of the"d[Juelsosz-Eesess Challengers" every Friday Evening cT63(D)OS CURAIR5 «7h3 ethg COSTL 0 0 0 nn'o a � egt iL7 di z©t 0 7i T Od0gnti flr2 Ae no extra costs—your Choice off Colors on any model, from a variety cru wide you have almost individual distinction. Afs iso Putr'l cart—the assurance anal smooth positive action of new type donnble-suction 4-wheell :rakes. Ale f0 ezeIa cote—air-clleannerr, (1LA r lE IF i": 001F mrnirrcor, windshield viper, starter on dash, electric gauge e forfueland oilon dash, satiety lock, and all bright parts chromium' • S a,ted for. lasting nne~"rrmeaa and II eau,tye Thr C zlntldiaua Government has rronnttllsy Hudson and E.esext Cars are A N lID U I? All prices 9. 0. b. Wanrea.cr, Mums. Ezra you t7O1I INSTANCE, M aaidrt city, your first payment, with your present car included, may be or !low as 3250 mug VOW vraczablly paylanevnto $61 .25. !tour preoent car win prrobablly cove? the entire sst gra *' • ent. The JF. IkT. C. ?sarthaae 1F°;.,,st ®c n the low at terrno at, 'Fro saws :read ba'.,,vace. reduced the sees tan on automobiles. now priced accordingly. Cultivation. Cultivation is not carried out main- ly for the destruction of weeds. While ridding the garden of these pests is important, it is even more so to keep the soil open, porous, and to conserve moisture. A garden absolutely free of weeds and uncultivated would not produce much -of a crop because the soil would soon bake and dry out. Hoeing, or cultivating lightly from the start, will keep the surface soil stirred and provide a dust which pre- vents evaporation of the water stored up in the soil. The drier the weather, the more frequent should be the cul- tivation. The majority of our veg- etables consist of about ninety-five per cent. water and this must be con- served for them. CARE OF THE LAWN If a little work is put on the lawn early in the season, there will be practically no trouble in keeping it in shape during the rest of the year. At this time, the ground is soft and dandelions and plantains, two of the worst pests, as well as most of the other weeds, can be removed quite easily. Weeding devices are now sold which either pull or cut off tap -rooted plants without mussing up the lawn. A few minutes each day for a week or two will soon rid the patch of all offenders. Where wide spreeding weeds such as dandelions, plantain and knot -grass have got established, and thein removal leaves a fairly large piece of bare ground behind, it is well to rake in liberally with grass seed, rolling the patches smooth. The new grass will soon fill up these spaces. This is the real time to use a heavy roller or pounder, such imple- ments firming the soil around the roots of the young grass and insur- ing an even velvety surface later on. Sharp frosts at night during the Spring months' ate responsible for heaving up the top half inch of the soil and thins 'creating dangerous air spaces around the roots. It is to correct this condition that the roller or pounder is used. At this time, toe, the grass, like the old-fashioned child, needs a Spring tonic and for this purpose nitrate of soda is advis- ed. This is one of the most quickly available fertilizers and is particu- larly valuable in restoring energy to those plants which were injured dur- ing the Winter weather. A light ap- plication of pulverized sheep manure is also advocated by lawn experts. This will provide nourishment over quite a long period and will add humus to the soil. Clippings of grass should be allowed to stay on the lawn to provide a mulch which will protect the tender plants from the hot sun and will also conserve moisture. If the ,lawn is cut every four or five days. as it should be, these clippings will not disfigure the surface. i)aasondes. SUMMER CAMPS The summer resort business isn't what it used to be. Then mother took the children and went for the summer to a hotel in the mountains or at the seashore, and father kept bachelor's hall except for his fortnight's holi- day. Now boys and girls go off to camp on July first and stay until school op- ens in the fall. And mother and father are apt to heave a long sigh of relief and renew their honeymoon days in the peace and quiet of unin- terrupted home. Or else they take a trip to Europe. Or go fishing in Maine or Wisconsin. Or try the open air life of a dude ranch in Montana or Colorado. Or just take week -end motor trips. A great institution these summer camps for boys and girls. Great for the youngsters, with their supervised activities and sports, their swimming and canoeing, their hikes and nature study; great for the tanned and muscle -hardened bodies and the self- reliant minds they send back to civ- ilization in the fall. Fine, too, for parents, in giving them a vacation from discipline, from don'ts, from the nerve-racking energy of youngsters in the house—in giving them renewed love and appreciation for the boys and girls when they come home. Tom )in®ii71UErszy glee Pratt Pnw4uctumeQwva✓l✓afrzzea1 Write kg, pi4Arra Ig1 ILII '! wain: —GUS F od1 Food temper) of d'aaodadlmltl .sac c .im.,> Thrertto.Ortt 111ONEBT DE111T° Our fathers looked upon debt as the most deadly device of the devil. Our own generation more tolerantly views the owing of money as the way to acquire a home, a competence and the early enjoyment of luxuries. How many young couples to -day are able to step out and pay cash for a home? Not many; hence three- room apartments "for a start," which all too often becomes a habit. To them, and to many en older person as well, "own your own home" means a millstone of mortgages with a con- stant drain of interest payments. Yet how often we hear older men and wo- men say: "If only we'd had the brains to buy that first little house we lived in. We should have begun saving at once, and to -day's bigger house would have been more easily paid for with that little start." Don't be afraid of debt when it me as a home now and for the future. Neither is there anything iniqui- tous in the debt for buying some one big item --a motor car, a radio, even a baby- wand paying for At by install- ments. The only warning is' this: Don't buy more than one at a time; don't buymore than you can pay for. Don't be like the young couple who It is not a very di "`cult matter to extend the blooming season of the gorgeous peony. In the old dare, when varieties were limited to half a et tires HIEN you plan that trip, he sure to pi= your mires. You can't envoy yourself if you're worrying shout blowouts all the time. ]Drive around here and let us equip your ear with Do- minion Royal Cords or Royal Masters. They are a sound foundation for a carefree holiday. We have absolute confidence in these Dominion Tires. We have watched cern in service axial we know they will deliver the mileage. Dominion Royal Cords are the standard by which tires are judged — Royal Masters are in a class by themselves. We have Dominion Tires for every car at papular prices. SEAFOIl ,TIHI..»-. .. ...... IF. Daly A DU ..... . »...._ ...... ................. ti th Broth=