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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1929-09-20, Page 3UP V AL UA .1 Fire, theft and carelessness---e:f have your valuables at their mercy. A saffety deposit boss costs so Halle that rio Orme need take the risk off Qosinng bonds, stock certificates, con- tracts, wills or other vallanablle papers( Ask ons about this service. Ib. 11 J.�11. S EAIFO TIEr M. Jones n L RANCIRI a miagcIr NK 227 NOIISES WHIICIII DISTURB MODERN CIVILIZATION Neurologists assure us that the multitudinous noises of the present century by injuring the nervous sys- 3tem tend to shorten life, while insur- ance statisticians prove that the dur- ation of life, on this continent at least its increasing. An escape from the contradiction may be that if there were Iess noise there might be more with us. We are fed so much on nose that it has a mental reaction and we have come to judge of things in pro- portion as they deafen the ears. From that is an easy transition to the ef- fect of size upon the eye. The head- line, the placard, the sensational pos- ter, by these we live and are nourish- ed wrote G. a Bouver in the Nine- teenth Century. He added that it was a state of things not confined to Great Britain, indeed the British may probability of a return to the age of be thankful to have escaped as yet !li ethusaleh. One of the offenders the wvogst excesses. In the United selected for chastisement is the motor States, he was informed by returning ipossibly because it is new and the use travellers, things have come to such of it is increasing, while other noises a pass that citizens on the approach are accepted with a certain amount o.f some prominent person whose name of resignation for we have long been is unknown to them, are heard to in - accustomed to them. A characteristic quire of one another, "who is the big of people in the Old Country is said noise?" There is a type of mind t> to be an indisposition to welcome any- which the loudest, the biggest and thing new, and with this in mind we the most extraordinary must always cannot blame. them for refusing to appear to be the best. It is necessar; allow motor noises to be added to tor such people, in order to be happy, other distractions. to have climbed the highest available The British minister of transp;.rt mountain or to have kept the largest recently issued regulations to reduce dog. 'He thinks they are the lineal excessive and unnecessary noises descendants of those Romans who ex - caused by motor traffic. It is a mildu.lted in the fact that the Cloaca Max- imeasure and in some respects an ex- 'ins was the largest of the kind in 1periment, but is clearly directed the world. against noises for which there is no The desire for emphasis is another aiecessia�ty, and which should be re . phase of noise. It is a far cry from duced. One of these is the "tooting" the methods of to -day to the letters 'of a horn when the car is stationary. of a century ago, yet in these letters, This inhibition will be specially wel- with their excessive use of italics, come to those who live in apartment may be found an expression of ex- actly or the rows of dwelling in a actly the same spirit. It is when we thickly built city. Frequently an in- are doubtful about our care that we considerate motorist will stop and 'begin to shout about it. It is then, "toot" his horn for a passenger or a as Sir James Barrie has pointed out, friend and thus arouse a neighbor- that we underline our statements by ¶rood instead of alighting and making such a phrase as "The fact is." L personal inquiries. Under such cir- this form of literary vice is failing, cumstances the horn may be sounded it may be due in part to the noisy ca - only when it is necessary for safety. linotype which has little time or ca-• Tn ordinary traffic blocks its sound- pacity for ikalies. Having dealt with ung is inexcusable and, like other in• various manifestations of noise and fringements of the regulations, will blatancy, Mr. Bouver offers his reme- ibe visited with a summons and a fine. dy which is to make the inner life (Many other noises arising from de- more intense than the outer, and fective machinery or equipment will thereby secure that serenity which /likewise receive the attention of the conies when the active and passive are police. It may be difficult to devise balanced. At present, so completely a standard of objectionable noises, has noise entered into our lives, so -rout for the present the police will use much a part of us has it become, their discretion as they do in other that the quiet of the country fright- rmatters. It must •be added that the ens us more than a bombardment and mew regulations have the good -will of we fly to the nearest railway station sensible motorists. rather than face silence. But why pick, on the motorists and apply prohibitions only to them? We live in a whirl of noise. We travel to our offices amidst the racket of street car and railway trains, conduct our lousiness to the pounding of type- writers and even eat to a jazzy band. Tin the erection of new buildings we are deafened by riveters, and in t'ie destruction of old buildings we are covered with dust, which, though not as clamant is equally irritating to the nerves. Foreign travel is recommend- ed to those whose nerves are worn by ceaseless noise, but who can escape the worry of Thackeray: On deck beneath the awning It dozing lay and yawning; Et was the gray of dawning, Ere yet the sun arose. And above the funnel's roaring And the fitful wind's deploring II heard the cabin snoring With universal noise. In physics' the difference between noise and music used to be defined as that between irregular and regular vibrations, but the old definition has disappeared for noise we have always 1 JL Your Stomach ©rrmmerrnts Y© Do This for (Quick Relief! WHAT LIES ABOVE THE HEIGHT Most digestive suffering is due to "too much acid" in the Stomach caus- ing gas, heartburn, stomach pain and other distressing symptoms. By tak- ing a little Bisurated Magnesia after eating or whenever pain is felt, you promptly remove the cause of t h e trouble. Bisurated Magnesia neutra- lizes excess acid instantly. The diges- tive organs are soothed, healed and strengthened in a wonderful way, and 'normal healthy digestion results. Be- cause it is so quick, so safe, so sure in ending digestive troubles, doctors recommend Bis'urated Magnesia and thousands use it all over the civilized world. There is no better indigestion remedy and food corrective. You can get it in either ,powder or tablets at the nearest good drug Store. If yonr stomach troubles rad torments you, gest Bisurated 11/lognesia at once, and again enjoy the pleasure of care -free painless digestion. ti OF LAND? Even a casual glance at a map of Ontario wilil give a striking illustra- tion of the smallness of that part of our province brought within the ac- curate knowledge of possession and use. Within the regions that lie out- side our front yards the known and familiar could be tucked away and lost beyond recovery; the great wealth of farm lands and orchards, of cities and highways would be hard to find if carelessly thrown on the watersheds into the Hudson Bay. It is very human to regard what we do not know as something scarcely worth knowing; that has been the spirit of human beings from of old; the immediate present gives us so much to do that we have little time left to voyage into the unknown, and we easily regard it as unknowable. It is something to regard with satis- faction that that spirit of peograph- ical agnosticism is passing away. Twenty-five years ago the north was a wilderness, without roads, without values, excerpt as a possible mining centre from which some wealth might be drawn to make life down south more pleasant; the man who ventur- ed 600 miles north of Toronto was re- garded as a hardy adventurer to whom calked boots and "long -clear" were more important than music or housee; and flowers were not at all in the picture. Twenty-five years have passed; the north is still there, but now a north that can be reached in a few hours by de luxe trains, by motor car and into which the homes of people have invaded the isolation in quite a flaunt- ing way. From Englehart, on the T.N.O., the "clay belt" stretches for a hundred miles and more, and weet from Cochrane the same belt passes for another 200 miles and more, and further than eye can scan north and south. The mines have yielded no their treasure, some` are nearing the point of extinction and yet others have not been brought within the reach of commercial operation. But what is left? The land is clay; to the farmer that means many things, but to the northern farmer it mainly means that much skill must be enit1oyed to make it fulfill the promise that fills the mind of the men who venture there. It requires a coarse and heavy man- uring, lime top -dressing and drrainagwe. jai ion z ta1El 1pt Dyer rtaew7 00otora must Iv followed by others vibe udd WW1 and 1tnov led a to possession 14 order to buy Ow future. wren under present conditions the cot nttrq 1a Barr from a 'barren; good cattla gree on every side; fine wheat and grains brave the frosts end root orops aP all sorts are more than sufficient for the needs of the northland. Settlement has been done with not too much thought for permanency: instead of the straggling line of homes spread along miles of railroad, the plan of township settlement might be adopted. township would be set' aside for settlement; from the four corners roads would be appropri- ated for a village site; these diagon- al roads, with (roes roe.ds, would bring the must remote settler within three miles of his store, church, con- solidated school and such recreation- al centres as make life not only en- durable but happy. This plan would reduce the mileage and cost of good roads, would eliminate the loneliness and lack of social and educational ad- vantages that mean much to settlers of the right sort; and in each fifty square miles would be a thriving town surrounded by a colony of farms: As it is, there are many good farms, but the impression one gets is of the listlessness of a life that is more apt to be crushed by the north than to drive back the wilderness. Some will tell of the terrible summer frosts; that was done years ago when our fathers planned to move west a- long Lake Ontario: "Summer frosts kill everything." The clearing of the north will moderate the severity of the climate where, even now, the growth is exceedingly rapid and brings much to maturity. There is a something about the north that keeps a hold on you. Ev- en the frequent abandoned farms and weedy fields are not able to send men away hopeless; theme is hope and there are great rewards for labor and thrift. But these assets must not be discounted by lack of other oppor- tunities such as we have mentioned. The north can mature anything that we mature down south and east, and the north can provide homes for thou- sands and thousands of people. There is another aspect of what lies up there; the scenic aspect of a great country. Down the line of the Algoma Central you pass through a region more beautiful that anything in the much vaunted Adirondacks; Agawa canyon rivals the Royal gorge of Colorado and the Montreal river leads through a wonderland that beg- gars description. It is good to have everything in our down domains; work goes better when it is work amid grand views; and noble proportions in nature tend to ennoble the men and women who toil for their daily liv- ing. Above the height of land Ontario has everything in prospect; even the bare hills will yield an ore deposit that may make Canada independent and provide industry with basic ma- terials that are almost inexhaustible. This is the big thing in Ontario to- day. WIT AND WISDOM Fishing is a constant reminder of the democracy of life, for all men are equal before fishes.—Herbert Hoover. People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.—G. K. Chesterton. A modern girl is one who can meet the wolf at the door and come back with a fur coat. --Montreal Star. Four California cities are among those having the highest suicide rate. Florida papers please copy.—Indian- apolis Star. A lucky man is one who, when hs has one foot on a banana, has his other foot on a wad of gum . --Galt Reporter. It is the permanent civil service that is the real conservative force in our politics. --Mr. F. Kingsley Griffith, M. P. Keats was killed by consumption and not by Croker.—Mr. G. K. Ches- terton. A doctor declares that when chil- dren cry it is a sign that they want something. Or that they have just had it. --Ottawa Journal. Where has gone the barefoot boy with cheek of tan ?—Milverton Sun. Two young thugs were sent to jail the other day for taking $7.00 out of a newspaper man's pockets. That's the sort of thing that put Houdini on the stage.—San Diego Union. This country will be in a terrible fix if the Mediterranean fruit fly at- tacks the political plum crop.—Vir- ginia Pilot. Heaven knows hest, hut it would be nice if some of these imported insect pests liked dandelions. — Pasadena Post. In all this street -widening program no one has yet tried to widen the straight and narrow path,—The De- troiter. The nations can't have parity, if they aren't. willing to pare.—.Publish- ers' Syndicate. Health is the most unhealthy of topics.—Mr. G. K. Chesterton. The biggest fish doesn't always get away. Sometimes he comes home and says they won't zit.—Brandon Sun. Few of the world's great thinkers were married. A married man does not have to think much. — Brandon Sun. • 11 11 If women are going to show their legs as freely as they show their fae.- es,there should be beauty parlor for legs.—Edith Sitwell. "Search may not be so bad, but re- search—the process of doing it all ov- er again—is surely .something to make the gods smile}. — .Hamilton Holt. 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