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ISEAFORTH, Friday, March 15th.
The Premier's Illness
Irrespective of politics, we believe
that all Canadians seriously regret,
the illnessof Rt. Hon. R. B. Bennett,
Canadian Prime Minister, and sym-
pathize with him at this time.
He is said to be suffering from a•
cold and overwork, but that no ser-
ious results are. anticipated. In spite
of theseassurances, however, there
is no doubt that the Premier's health
is a cause of worry to,both his friends
land the .party of which he.is the lead-
er, and particularly so because of the
fact that heis facing a general elec-
tion.
All men do not see eye to eye with
Mr. Bennett, far from it. But, we
believe all men are agreed atthe
same time, that he is no shirker ; that
for; the past five years he has been
doing more than 'one man's work,
more, in fact, than one man should
attempt to do.
' Mr. Bennett is a man of great
wealth. Should he choose, he could
find rest and recreation in any part
of the world in which he chase to
Took for it, but his inclination or his
ambition has never lain along those
lines.
He may have sins, but idleness is
not one of them. In fact, it is over-
work that has brought about his
present indisposition. )slow great
that indisposition is remains to be
seen. Certainly he is far from a
well man.
The position and responsibility of
a Premier are not, at any time, a
sinacure, but during the past five
years they have been more and great-
. er than any one pair of shoulders
could reasonably be expected to carry
without giving direction to all other
departments as well as the office of
Premier.
Perhaps Mr. Bennett's government
has been too much of a one-man gov-
ernment. Perhaps he has made mis-
takes. His judgment may have been
at fault, but no one can justly accuse
him of shirking either his duties or
his responsibilities, and because of
that all Canadians may respect ,him,
even when they can not always agree
with him.
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Only Ten Cars In Bermuda
There are but ten automobiles in
the whole island of Bermuda, and
even these ten, it is said, would be
dumped in the ocean if the officials
had their own way.
One does not have to be very old
' to remember when there were only
ten cars in Ontario. But can anyone
picture what Ontario would be like
to -day if there were only ten cars in
the whole Province and there never
had been any more?
How would Ontario stand to -day,
from a financial point of view if
there were no cars in the country?
Would the hundreds of millions of
dollars which have been spent on our
public roads and highways and on
cars, be in the public treasury or in
the people's pockets, if we had never
had cars?
Would our war deb h ve been
paid off by this time, their in-
terest charges alone not be hanging
like a mill stone about our ne,cks ?.
Would our farms be farmed any
better than they are to -day? Would
our people, old as well as young, have
the same urge to go places, the same
Wanderlust they have to -day?
wottld there be more happiness,
ore contentment, ni.ore prosperity
d less taxes than we ,enjoy and suf-
Id r ar,, x' dere were yet no
uid" be. But
else go back
to the car -less days?
Not one. Of cour the other fel-
low would not be where he is to -day,
if he had never owned a ear, but ag
for you and for me, that is another
question entirely.
But you and I are pretty much the
same the world over. There are far
too many of "us who could not do
without a car, Whether we needed
one or not, and preferably one with
a radio in .it, regardless of depres-
sions, taxes, or any such minor
things.
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The Dap of the Back
Concessions
"As we understand Premier Hep-
burn, the only concessions he's will-
ing to make are back ones."
The above is an editorial note from
Toronto Saturday Night, and put in-
to plainer words it means that Prem-
ier Hepburn is paying some atten-
tion and giving some consideration
to the everyday man on the streets
of the smaller towns and villages and
to the farmers in the country.
,If that is the actual situation, the
back concessions, through .their re-
presentatives, are going to be given
expression as well as consideration
at the hands of the Premier, and that
certainly will be something of a new
era for them.
Back concessions have, heretofore,
figured little in the plans of govern-
ments, a situation for which govern-
ments have not been entirely to
blame. -
We, in the country; instead of -do-
ing our own thinking, have been too
prone to listen to quacks and their
cures. To talk too much and too
glibly about things which sound well,
but have no practical sense, and to
listen to others who, by education or
training, are unlikely to know 'any
'more, or as much, about the matter
as we do ourselves.
We have got to get away from the
narrow, selfish belief that every per-
son who possesses a nickel's worth
more of this world's goods than we
do, should be shot at sunrise. We
have got to learn to think collective-
ly and not individually, about legis-
lation that will benefit all, not one,
that has no class distinction:
There are no keener listeners than
governments — when there is any-
thing worth while to listen to. If
the back concessions have the ear of
Mr. Hepburn now, they will always
have it if they make it worth while
for him to listen.
And towards that end the coun-
try member will have to broaden out
a bit, too. He will have to learn to
legislate for something else than just
mere votes.
The votes will take care of them-
selves if the country members prove
themselves something more than
just peas in a pod that found their
way down to Toronto in the pbe1 et
of Mr. Hepburn.
We ho e that Saturday Night w
right in its contention'that the Pro-
vincial Premier favors the back con-
cessions. May the back concessions
continue to deserve that considera-
tion.
WHAT OTHER PAPERS SAY.
The Exceptions
(Kitcherver Record)
Among those not affected by the compulsory
eight-hour day proposed by Ottawa are news-
papermen and farmers. Persons engaged in
those two pursuits usually have to work until
the cows come home at dusk, and then some.
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The Busiest Roman
(St. Louis Post -Dispatch)
The King of Italy is pressing Mussolini pretty
hard. He has just handed Il Duce another pert -
folio. Reading the Cabinet line-up at sight,
here's What we find: Minister of Foreign Af-
fairs, Muss'ol'ini; Minister of Interior, Mussolini;
Minister of 'Corporations, Mussolini; 'Minister of
Colonies, Mussolini; Minister of War, Mussolini;
lt7tinister of Navy, Mussolini; Minister of Avia-
tion, •Mussolini.
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Political Influence Responsible
(Mail and Empire).
It seems to be political influence and, interfer-
ence rather than defective police forces which
are responsible for the vast criminal population
in the United 'States. This, added to the advant-
ages the law generally gives to accused persons,
is also responsible for the growth of the third
degree and the scandal of police brutality, If
politicians in Hng1r`iild interfered es frequently
with the rproces o£' the law es paditieianj in
the tl 'ted 'State 'fere, Stertland Yard Would
7rave Qni lt.nxp s*ratilit. ice repetition for tad -
,0110, sire fai!,rfi '
Ya �s Agone
Interesting items picked , from
The Expositor of fifty arid.
tvieity-rive years ago.
From The Huron, Expositor of _
'March 18, 1910
The first rural mail route out of
Wingham was started on the 11th
and is 'between Wiegham and Glen -
farrow.
•Mx. George Proctor has rbought the
back part of the Ostrom farm in
Goderich To'wns'hip from Me. Holstead
for the sum of $1,000.
Garfield liedgert, of Hay, son Of
A. E. Hodgert, left last week for the
West taking a load of effects.
An, old landmark wasI burned in
Clint -n on Monday night, being the
building cccupied by Charles B. Hale
and belonging to H. Hale.
R. Leatherdale and son, Brussels',
have disposed of their entire stock of
furniture to Messrs. Walker & Black,
furniture dealers and undertakers.
,The baseball club, Zurich, has been
reorganized and• points to a successful
season. The following officers have
been elected: Hon. President, Dr. B.
A. Campbell; Ilion. Vice -President, J.
P. Rau; president, E. Zeller; vice-
president, J. Pruter; manager, C.
Fritz; captain, E. D. Warm; secre-
tary -treasurer, Andrew Hess; execu-
tive committee,, A. Edighoffer, T. L.
Werke and M. R. Rennie. ,
The -Sons of Scotland of Seaforth
have won for the third year in suc-
cessionthe cup presented by Mr. A,
W. Stable, for carpet ball competi-
tion between the Sons of Scotland and
the Ancient Order of Forresters. The
Cup now belongs to the Sons of Scot-
land.
The sale of heavy draft and gen
eral purpose horses acid racing stock,
-conducted by W. Cudmbre and F.
Kling in iSeaforth on Tuesday after,
noon, was one of the most success-
ful horse sales ever held in Seaforth,
and attracted a large crowd :of buy-
ers from the surrounding towns.
The counbil of McKillop met in Sea -
forth on Monday last to let the con-
tract for constructing the north abut-
ment of the Roxboro bridge and it
was awarded.to L. J. Looby of Dub-
lin.
Mr. J. B. Henry of Blyth is acting
station agent here during the absence
of 'IVIr. R. Clegg who is in London
in the interests of his health.
Mr. Thomas Sherritte of near Blake,
has moved onto the farm which he
recently purchased from the execu-
tors of the James McArthur estate.
A. serious fire occurred in St. Pet-
er's Church, Goderich, on Saturday. It
started in the sanctuary and had
gained considerable headway before
noticed.
George Kistner had two good wood
hauling bees to Dublin last week and
it took good teatnas as well as good
drivers.
•
When watdhes and, clocks were
!scarce in Western Qmtario ? "In the
pioneer days of Western Ontario, 'both
watches and; clocks were scarce. They
were classed as being luxuries," saps
John MacTavish writing recently in
the : London Free Press,
"The former were Mare einmerous
than the latter because they were
less cumbersome to transEport.•
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"Both articles were brought from
overseas, -till the time came when
peddlers. went about with watches
and other wares that had been import,
ed frolml the United States. The mer-
chandise was !borne front place to
place in saddle bags.
We remember a watch' in posses -
sloe of the village doctor. It was
encased do coin sibiver and' was styled
an English Lever. There were outer
•and inner cases. The inner eases
protected the dial at. front and tbe
works at back.
The watch was wound by means
of a 'key, which was worn on a silver
chain to safeguard it and to have it
appear as an ornament worthy of
envy. At the top was a small ring
by which it was suspended, then came
a large bulge encircling a red cut
stone, and lower an extension,' tub -
Vier in shape, square cut inside to
fit the winding post.
There cane a day when the doc-
tor arrived from 'Stratford with a
From The Huron Expositor of
March 13, 1885
An unusually largely attended.
meeting of the patrons of the Bruce -
field cheese factory was held at Turn-
er's Hotel on Saturday last. Mr. Geo.
Walker was appointed chairman and
Geo. 'Baird, Jr., secretary. Mr. Mc-
Cartney's propositiqn to make and
box the cheese and haul tbe milk for
214 cents per pound, was accepted.
Mr. McCartney was also appointed
salesman and treasurer. Mr. Geo.
Baird, Jr„ was appointed auditor.
On Tuesday of last week some good
threshing was done on the farm. of
Mr. A. Elcoat, Tuckersmith; they
were threshing clover. Mr. Alex.
Thompson's horsepower being used,
and 53 bushels were turned out in
eight hours.
Mr. G. M. Chesney had in town a
'Welcome" colt one year and a half
old which turned the scales at 1435
pounds. It was raised by Hugh Ches-
ney of Tuckersmith.
The "t`EreTieometeie. was 20 degrees
below.. eere ,.,on...,Wednesday morning
last. •
George Nesbit on ,tithe 6th conces-
sion of McKillop, has a filly sired by
"Viceroy," 'eight months old. which
weighs 850 pounds and girths five
feet nine inches.
Martin Cade, of the 13th concession
of Hullett, has the material on the
ground for a large brick house which
he intends' to erect as soon as the
season opens.
One day last week Mr. James Hun-
ter of .McKillop drew into Mr. Goven-
lock's sawmill near Winthrop, a load
of saw logs which measured 850 feet.
!Mr. Wilhelm' Scott, of the 12th con-
cession of ':VIcltillop, met with what
might have been a serious accident a
few days ago. He was driving a load
of ashes from the farm of Mr. James
Nichol when the sleigh upset, and
Mr. Scott being wrapped up in the
buffalo robe, was unable to get out
of the way quick enough and the
ashes fell around him. Fortunately
he threw himself in the snow which
prevented the ashes from blinding
him,
'.Mr. George Hyndmran, grocer of
Exeter, lost a valuable thoroughbred
White Leghorn hen. It was valued
at $•5.00 and breaks the set.
Mr. Wm. Senior, fortmrerly of Zur-
ich, has started a new tailoring es-
tablishment in Fanson'.s block in Ex-
eter. •M'r. Senior is a first-class cut-
ter.
Mr. Wm, Young, Reeve of Colborne
Township, last week discovered' a
very remarkable skeleton on `his
farm. Being short of water, he en-
gaged two men to sink a well and
when they had gone about 10 feet,
they came upon the bones of some
large animal. The 'bones were, care-
fully taken out and put together and
plainly show they belong to some
large animal long extinct.
Mr, John McDougal, one of the
oldest settlers in Goderieih Township,
died last Week at his residence near
Porter's Hill. '
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cenius Stalker na' a mlan *he goes
frets haui!e to house inicreaaing the
j51o'ptdations "
brand new watch, a stop vire :h.
oth curious and ennrio eyes
gal U red at the doctor's office to see
it and to 'hear it tick away the sec-
onds.
Tt^ae . a thick 'hurdens!wne affair
with dear crystal face, front and
back. Persons in those days yieiwe I
it as being • a real marvel of skill and
ingenuity.
Watch (Makers succeeded peddlers;
and later can to jewelers who usually
'aid mot only a anodic of " jewelry and
watches in their slices), but likewise
had a watch repair departmlent 1n
the same establishment.
The; watches of bygone years were
fairly accurate time -keeping but they
certainly lacked they artistic 'beauty
of designs and variety of styles that
are produced in the present era, The
great majority of cases were made
from coin silver.
Hearing . had occasion recently to
get our watch regulated we went to
the jewelry store 'of Fred Savauge,
Seaforth, who also operates a well-
equipped, sip -to -date repair depart-
ment.
'While watching the manipulation
of delicate ins'Iruments in use among
the intricate works of a fine watch,
the conversation, •perhaps naturally
enough, centred in accidents that be-
fall watches and cause need for re -
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JUST A SMILE OR TWO :A
The doctor was summoned to the
telephone• -
"'Conse at once!" came an agonized
voice at the other end. "My little
bey* has swallowed my pencil!"
"All right," said the doctor. "I'll
come immediately. What are you do-
ing in the meantime?"
"Using my fountain pen."—Sher-
brooke !Record.
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Grouchy Boss: "Did anyone call
while I was out?"
'Orrice Boy: "There was a fellow
here who said he wanted to lick
Grouchy Boss: "Well, hurry rip;
what did you say?"
Office Boy: "I said I was sorry'
you weren't in." --American Boy.
SUNDAY • AFTERNOON
•
(By Isabel Hamilton, Goderieh, Ont.)
'Son of Man, to Thee I cry:
• By the holy mystery
Of Thy dwelling here On earth,
By Thy pure and holy birth,'
Lord, Thy presence let me see;
Manifest Thyself to me.
Prince of Life, to Thee I cry:
By Thy glorious majesty,
By Thy triumph o'er the grave,
Meek to suffer, strong to save,
Lord, Thy presence let me see;
Manifest Thyself to me.
Richard :Mut.
S. S. LESSON FOR MARCH 17, 1935
Lesson Topic --Peter Delivered From
Prison.
Lesson Passage—Acts 12:5-17.
Golden Text—Acts 12:56.
Devotional Reading --Psalm 34:1-8.
Here in this passage is a record
of a Divine deliverance. Herod, see-
ing that' the Jewish authorities were
pleased because they had now a
sympathetic ruler who understood
their religious tr'ou'bles and was re-
solved to help in quelling them', de-
termined to proceed farther in the
work of repression. He arrested a
prominent leader, St. Peter, and cast
him into prison. The details are giv-
en of Her'od's action and Peter's ar-
rest. Peter was now making his first
acquaintance with Roman methods of
punishment. He had been indeed pre-
viously arrested and imprisoned, but
his arrest had been carried out by
the Jewish authorities, and he had
been consigned to the care of the
Temple police, and had occupied the
Temple prison. But Herod, though
a strict Jew in religion, had been
thoroughly Romanised in matters of
rule and government, and therefore
he treated St. Peter after the Roman
fashion: "When he had taken him,
he put him in prison, and delivered
him to four quaternions of soldiers
to guard him: intending after the
Passover to bring him forth to the
people." He was delivered to six-
teen men, who divided the night into
four watches, four men watching at
a time, after .the Reenran method of
diseipline. These elaborate precau-
tions were doubtless taken on account
of his escape on the previous occa-
sion, when the Sanhedrin had arrest-
ed him, as narrated in the nineteenth
verse of the fifth chapter. And then,
in contrast to all this preparation, we
are told how the church betook her-
self to her sure refuge and strong
tower of defence. "Peter therefore
was kept in prison, but prayer was
made earnestly of the Church unto
God for him." These early Christians
had not had their faith limited or
weakened by discussions whether pe-
tition for temporal blessings were a
proper subject of prayer, or whether
spiritual blessings did not alone sup-
ply true matter for supplication be-
fore the Divine throne. They were
in the first fenv'our of Christian love
and they did not theorize, define, or
about prayer and its efficacy.
'Lay only knew that their Master
had told them to pray and had prom-
ised to answer sincere prayer, as He
alone knew how; and so they gath-
ered themselves in instant, ceaseless
prayer at the foot of the throne of
grace. I say "ceaseless" prayer 'be-
cause it seems that the Jerusalem
church, feeling its danger, organized
a continuous service of prayer. "Pray-
er was made earnestly of the church
unto God for hire" is the statement
of the fifth verse. And then when
St. Peter was released "he came to
the house of (Mary, where many were
gathered together and were praying,"
though the night must have been
far advanced. The crisis was a ter-
rible one; the foremost champion, St,
James, !had Veen taken, and now an-
other great leader was threatened,
and therefore the church flung her-
self at the •Beet of the Master seeking
deliverance and was not digappoint-
ed, as the church has never been die -
appointed when she has cast herself
in lowliness and profound submission
before tire same holy sanctuary. The
arrest of St. Peter and his threaten-
ed death was a great crisis in the
history of the primitive church. St.
Peter's life was very precious to the
existence of that church, and so it
was a fitting time for Gad to rescue
him by the hand of a supernatural
messenger. God does hear and an-
swer prayer.—(Condensed 'from The
Expositor's Bible).
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WORLD MISSIONS
• Seliool 1' ays in- McEillop
Editor, The Heron Expositor:
Mar Sir: Fiddlin' Archie's, Arch*
ie and 'Squinting' 11.rchie's, Di nc(txr -,,,
and you black Sandy Moore -come up
here; I'll .give you a leathering yo i
won't forget for a day or two. Hold
out your hand. There; go to your -
seats and behave yourselves—and g
ort with your work," were but a few' a
of the sayings by the teachers in then
old -school a{' long ago. As it mmi'ghli
be of some interest to the older read'*
ers of The Expositor and also to the
boys and girls, of to -day, I will brief-
ly give a short' dory of the school IC.
went to long ago.
There w between eighty and one
hund oys and girls on the roil
and just one teacher. They were a
very mischeiviou.s dot, very trying ore.
the teacher, although he tried to do
his best to teach them and stili keep
order which was pretty hard to do.
We were very bad for fighting, ''but
we were whipped for it, too.
We used to fight with our dinner
bags. Our dinners were composed
of bread with black strap molasses
in between and the black strap Used ''-
to
`to run into the bag and get dried ori
and hard which made a dreadful wea-
pon t� get hit on the side of the
face with.
There used to be a lot of pigs run-
ning around which would come into -
the schoolyard' looking for crusts and!
sometimes they would come right in-
to the hat room and pull the dinner
bags off the, hooks, but when recess
came the boys would chase them out
through a hole in the fence. • A cou-
ple of boys would n to the hole
and the rest would c ase them' with
sticks, which prove ' pretty hard oil.
the pigs. Qne day the teacher had
to cone out and s ' p us but he let
us give them a good licking before
he came out.
-We used to snow •ball, the fight be-
ing between the ones going west and.
the cries going east. It was. usually
an awful fight and some of the boys'
used to get their eyes and ears plug-
ged full, but they would dig it out
and go at it again.
Dr, Charles Mackay used to go to,
old Nunber 4 school. One day, I re-
nwrnber, he got a fifty cent piece
somewhei'e and brought it to school
and was showing it to the boys. A
number of them didn't know what it
seas until he explained it was motley_
He said that was the first money her
had ever had and he was going to*
keep it.
All the boys and girls of these days
grew up to rnen and women a. -td most
of them made good citizens, some be-
ing doctors, lawyers and ministers,
and a lot of them good' farmers and
different other occupations.
The following interesting article in
answers to prayer is taken from an
Old Country paper:
THREE ANSWERS TO PRAYER
God's Delays are Love's Delays
There are three answers to pray-
er. One is "Yes!" another is "No!"
and the third is "Wait!"
"Wait!" For forty years that was
the word God said to the Children of
Israel, and they must have chafed
under the delay; for the journey,
which took forty years, might have
been done in a few weeks. But the
delay was Love's delay. God wanted
to fit them for liberty as well as to
free them from bondage. Slavery
breeds some of the worst features of
human nature fear, suspicion, in-
gratitude; and God's purpose in these
long years was to get rid of these
undesirable elements. As someone
has remarked: "God required only one
night to bring Israel out of Egypt;
but it took Him forty years to take
Egypt out of Israel." Moreover, de-
lay was necessary to fit them to face
the disciplined hosts of the Philis-
tines. So God said, "Wait!"
Both the Old and the New Testa-
ment are full of these delays.' Think
of Joseph waiting for the chief but-
ler to fulfil his promise. "Yet did
not the chief butler remember Jos-
eph but forget him. And it came to
pass at the end of* two full years.
that Pharaoh dreamed." Two full
years of waiting! Bad God also for
gotten him? It must have the story
c•f his whole life before us, can sec
the meaning of it all. Those two
yearn lof waiting were !invaluable;
'for, during those two full years,
Joseph was learning the language.
mastering the laws of government,
becoming acquainted with the cus-
toms of the people, and so fitting
himself for that high office he was
destined to hold.
Or again, think of the two anxious
days that Jesus kept Martha and
Mary waiting. "When He had heard,
therefore, that Lazarus was sick, He
abode two days• still in the same
place where He was." What does it
mean? It means that Jesus was a-
bout to do something bigger than re-
storing Lazarus from sickness; He
was to bring him back from the dead.
But the delay! Hew strange it must
have seemed- to the sisters! "Lord,
if Thou hadst been here my brother
had not died." Martha was to learn
that God's delays are Love's delays,
Just as God's delays are Love's de-
lays, so God's denials are Love's de-
nials. God said, "No," even to our
Lord. "I4 it be possible let this
cup pass from Me." The cup did not
pass. Jesus drank it to the bitter
dregs,
Some of us are old enough to
have learned that, ,on certain. occa-
sions, God has best answered our
prayers when He has said, "No!"
There have been times when as our
Heavenly Father, He could do no
other. -
!But God delights to be able to say
"Yes!" That is by far the most fre-
quent answer to our prayers. And
when God says "Yes," as He bas
clone numlberless times, and so save
ourselves from Mrs. Browning's cen-
sure, "Many lips says 'God be merci-
ful' that never say `Gosi be praised.'"
Also let' us remember' hat the great
object of prayer is not to bring God
round to our way of thinking, but to
bring our minds round to God's way
pf thinking. Bearing in mind that
we may bring anything and 'every
Now life's sweet Spring is past,
And. our Autumn's come at last;
Our Summer day has past away,
Life's Winter's coming fast. •
But tho' long the night may seem,
We will sleep without a dream,
Till we wake on yon bright Sabbath
!Morning.
Yours truly,
Melvin J. Blanchard,
R. R. 4, Walton-
P.S.-Some of the old teachers at
No. 10, McKillop, were Duncan Camp-
bell, AIex. Shaw, Alex, Johnston, Jno-
C. 'Morrison; David Frost and Davi&
Dorrance, and at No. 4 were Martin.
Sutherland and Aggie Cowan.
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A Letter in the Globe
To the Editor of The Globe: Ire
your Saturday issue, Jan. 19, page 3,.
under "Review Board Upholds Farm-
er as Home Owner," some statements
are made as to the intentions of the
Board of Review in their ,work which
appear to Me as very unjust.
The board proposes "to adjust the"
principal sum and interest on any
mortgage." A.s you know, a great
proportion of loans on farms have
been placed' by farmers who have re-
tired from their farms. Other small
money -lenders have also loaned mon-
ey on farms, thinking the land a very
safe security.
Those farmers retired. S m• a l i
money -lenders had earned their money
by diet of hard work and thrift, and
now it appeans that a dictating board
is set up to do as it likes with the
savings of these money -lenders. The
majority of the farmers who are de-
faulting are doing so 'because of bad:
management. A little !m;ore thrift
and a little more wise spending would
have kept their loans 'paid' up. And
now the man who has (been- thrifty
and saved a little to loan for his old
age, is asked to share it with the
shiftless.
May Do It Again.
These farmers whom the board :pro-
pose to doctor up financially are be°
be "put in aposition where an early
return to default will not be likely.'
They admit that they wjll default, but
that it will not be "early." We won-
der how long a'time it will take theme
to default again, and if they will
come again to their release.
Why pick on the small tmEoney-lend-
er and pare down his savings and let,
unchalleeged, so the millions loaned
at an excssilv'e interest by the Henry
Government?
Would Replace Loans.
Further, we contend that if the
Government is not satisfied with the,
loans or rates of interest which the
farmers are bearing, then it is the
duty of the Government to replace
those loans at a lower rate of inter-
est 'itself. We fail to see any jur-
tiee in the Government taking one
man's goods and sharing them with
another. If shared among the farm --
ere, why not by the same law, share
among all householder% as. well?
Lifetime Globe Reader.
thing to God in prayer. Nothing is
too trivial. I will take to God any- '
thing I would take to nn;y earthly fa-
ther if he were alive, for Christ has
taught me that God's guidance is a
Father's guidance, His care a Fa-
ther's care, His, love a Father's love -
God never says either "No," or
`Wait" 'when Site can say "Yes!"
G. H. Kennedy
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