The Brussels Post, 1927-1-26, Page 30,44,0014.
THE BRUSSELS POST
If yo Produce GGod
Curn,;
and want the best results under the new Grading System,
ship your Cream to THE PALM CREAMERY, Our Creamery
will the operated 24• hours a day in the hot weather, and
your Cream will be in our Creamery and Graded 15 minutes
after arrival in Palmerston, Thus assuring the farmer who
produces good Cream the best possible Grade and Price,
We loan our Patrons cans and pay cash for each can of
Cream received, You can ship on any train any clay and be
assured of prompt delivery and pay, Send us a trial can
to -day,
The Pale Creamery Co. - Palmerston9 me
IF COATES WERE IN MOVIES
HE'D BE STRONG SILENT' MAN
Not Picturesque Politician Type
Whose Doings Become News—
Policy as Premier Sounds Like
Opening Speech of Business Ex-
ecutive—Wants "Leas Political
Activity"
Close on the heels of Premier
Bruce of Australia, comes Premier
Coates of New Zealand, bound home
wards through Canada. He, too, is
bent on seeing all of this country he
can in the short time at his disposal
between his arrival in New York
last Tuesday and his departure from
{ San Francisco on January 25th.
Both premiers seem, anxious to
� til
1�,
ll)
omit
strengthen the cordialities of con-
ference platforms with a first hand
• knowledge of the key dominion.
Like Premier Bruce, Mr. Coates
works hard when he travels. Less
than an hour after his ship landed
in New York he was on his way to
Montreal, and thence to Ottawa tate
following everting where, with Mrs.
Coates, he was the guest at Rideau
Hall. Ile arrives in Toronto to-
morrow morning, leaving an hour
later for Niagara Falls. The day
will be spent sight-seeing and he will
return to Toronto in the evening,
arriving there at 7.28 p.m. On Mon-
day he addresses the Canadian Club
at luncheon • and leaves Monday
evening for Winnipeg.
Premier Joseph G. Coates of New
Zealand, seems to have acted the siI-
ent listener at the conference, not
because lie had nothing to say, but
because matters were proceeding so
happily that are felt there would he
little point in talking. Apparently
he is that type of man, The kind
that talks only when he has some-
thing to say that someone else has
not said before him. In movie p:er-
lance—a strong, silent man.
Premiers Bruce, Ilertsog and
King all arrived at the conference
prepared and anxious to tell what
they thought. Coates semis to have
come there with one main point in
mind. In a debate in the New
Zealand Meuse before his departure
for Great Britain he outlined his
policy. He said: "It will be my
earnest aim to continue, unaltered,
New Zealand's traditional attitude
toward Great Britain."
At the close of the conference he
said to the London Tines: "I feel
satisfied with the results of the con-
ference and am confident that the
Empire will be stronger for its
work."
Got What He Wanted
There you have Premie; Coates
in a nutshell. Two twenty -word sen-
tences. He came, he saw, end if are
did not conquer, he went away with
the fruits or the conqueror. He left
with what he came for. It is not
expected that his public ad•l:osses in
Canada will cause the somewhat
nervous rectitude among those whose
opinions are sought on public mat-
ters as did the addresses of 14?r.
Bruce.
Compared with other premiers,
comparatively little is knower about
Premier Coates. He is not only mit
a talkative person, but Ire is not of
the picturesque breed whose doings
find their way automatically to the
press cables. On taking office in
May, 1925, his keynote statement
gives a ready clue to his eharaeter.
"The country's paramount need," he
said, "is less political. activity and
greater concentration and organiza-
tion in the government: depart-
ment."
Which sounds more like the open-
; ing swatch of a business executive
than of an expert on the hustings,
Premier Coates, who was horn in
;New Zealand in 1878, was educated
at the Matahoki public school and
adopted farming as his vocation.
His first political venture was in
j 1911, when he was elected to the
House of I{aipara. When the war
came he joined the New Zealand
i forces, went overseas, won the 14I.C,
punt bar, and had gained his major
My waren the armistice came.
After the war he joined the l tc
Premier Massey's cabinet as post-
'
• master general. In this larger sphere
of influence and activity his essen-
tial desire to get things done and
ars
This ever-present task of the business
man is one that Advertising can most effi-
ciently perform,
Advertising in THE BRUSSELS POST
would carry any mossc.ge you ,desire into
every home in this community. It' would
spread the "news" about new merchandise,
special sales or new store policies quickly and
thoroughly.
Take n, friendly interest in telling the
"buyers" of this town what you have for sale
that is of service to ahem and you will win
new customers constantly.
PROGRESSIVE ADVERTISE
RESSIVE - MERCHANTS
1�
UNITED GRAIN GROWERS
Hon, T. A, Crerar, President of
the United Grain Growers, stt:tes
that on the whole the Western Can-
adian farmer has enjoyed a good
year.
to liquidate as rapidly as possible
the inefitable disorganization of the
war clays, was seen in his persistent
desire for reform. In addition to
being chief of the postal seryine he
held the portfolios of justice, tele-
grahp and public works. At ptee-
ent he is minister of native affairs
and railways as well as prime minis-
ter.
Chosen Leader in 1925
After the death of Mr, Massey in
May, 1925, the Reform party chose
Mr. Coates as their ledaer• In view
of the fact that the Liberal party,
the second strongest party in the
House, had assisted in maintaining
the Massey Government in power,
Premier Coates tried' to affect a re -
approachrnent and to form a nation-
al party. So many diffrcultiaes were
encountered, however, chat this did
not prove possible.
iFaced with a somewhat similar
situation as that which existed in
both Canada and Australia, in that
he dial not have an absolutely clear
working majority, but was rather in
the position of a bargainer for legis-
lation rather than a leader, he ap-
pealed to the country last Novem-
ber. Going to the country with but
38 supporters in a house of 80, he
was returned with 55 seats; the Lib -
ends' were reduced to 11, Labor 13,
and the Independents, 1.
Mr, Coates was married 'n 1914
to Marjorie Coles, the daughter of
Dr. Coles of London, and has five
daughters.
In Premier Coates' party are. Mrs.
Coates F. D. Thompson, official sec-
retary; Miss Piper, private secretary
and J. S. Hunter, official secretary
to the New Zealand Railways, .Mr.
Hunter left the party at Montreal to
make an inspection of Canadian rail-
ways and their methods.
TO MAKE YOUR OWN BATH
SOAP
Don't throw away the scraps of soap
that on the washstand lie,
No matter their variety or scent;
No matter how minute they be, nor
yet how hard anti :try,
Collect them all, their day is not
yet spent.
Then, when you have a cupful large,
just water tlncem a bit,
And put them in a stew -pot on the
fire.
Don't boil them hard, but simmer•
them, till all as one arc knit,
Then stir the sticky brass till some
what drier.
Then, when the whole is cold enough
to take it in the hand,
You roll it up and mold it to
cake,
And leave it four and twenty hours
upon a shelf to stand,
Or on a sunny window sill to bake.
You'll find it very sweet and you
can call it "potpourri,"
And you'll prove it economical, I
trew,
For there's often quite a lot of use
these little. things can be
If only one will tell another how.
Laura Geraltty,
At the coming session of the On-
tario Legislature, it is forecast that
new highway laws, allowing a speed
of 85 miles per hour, making it com-
pulsory for all vehicles to carry
ligthts at night and the enforcing of
Stop regulations at main road inter-
sections will be put into effect,
The village' of Shelburne has its
cemetery under a commission, This
plan had brought satisfactory results,
Speaking of rural laehool meetings
the Farmers' Advocate suggests to
the trustees that there are always in-
teresting" and important suejects to
discuss. Why not make up a pro-
gram and let the ratepayers know
about these and discuss thein,
WEI/NEST/AY, JAN, 23, 1327.
SENATOR GEORGE P. GRAHAM
Laughing Philosopher of the Com.
mons Goes to New Sur•rouuaings
(By M. Grattan .O'Leary,
George 1'. Graham in the Senate!
One haters le Welk of that venerable
prison lu,u:.e• ale Mg noon hie joyous
eoirit, For 0 sear P. -••he scsi al.
ways "Genre;+• P." so u:: ali---ioreu:Thr
an infectious gaiety and wise humor
to politics that we should be Math to
lose. Public life has so mu,•h of dell-
ne•:::, or bitterness, or sneer.
George P. Grah's n lam come a
long way olnee that tsar day when,
with nothing to commenel him lout
his own buoyant spirit, he wrote; to
J, W. Daft)", then en the !time reel
r'r,.ld, for a twelve doliar ,ek
job u: a reporter. He trot only a
fair reporter, and never a great
journalist, though he heel the news-
paperman's passion of curiosi,y, and
always loved the craft. But he had
an aptitude, for polities, a "way with
him" that took with the crowd, the
gift of understandable expression,
and common sense to an uncommon
degree. It was inevitable that he
should get on in politics.
Before he entered the House of
Commons he had progressed in the
Ontario Legislature to the position
of Leader of the Opposition. In the
Commons, though he was for a time
one of Laurier's chief swordsmen,
and certainly one of his favorites, he
was never in the first flight of de -
haters. He could make an almost
masterful analysis of the railway
situation, he could be cogent anti
persuasive, but he just lacked that
touch of mystery and passion and
pathos that gave the speeches of lass-
es' men their magic and made them
orators. But as an after dinner
speaker (he was the hero of count-
less Press Gallery banquets) he was
unrivalled. There was something
about his droll humor, his disarming
franlcne:s, his intimate tasteless and
capacitc to laugh at himself and his
colleagues, that made him irresisti-
ble.
It was George P. Graham's gift,
the special quality of his tempera-
ment that be never made enemies,
and that, therefore, he always had
friends in both camps. And why
should he have had enemies. He
never said a bitter word about any-
one. I doubt, indeed, whether he ev-
er thought bitterly about anyone.
He was, one always thought, a phil-
osopher; and of the school of the
Laughing Philosophers. If the ach-
ievements of his life had not proved
him to be a eeriduso man, in the sense
in which the French use the work
serious, it would sometimes seem
difficult, to make this acknowledge-
ment in his favor. For his tempera-
ment was compounded of gaiety. If
one did not know how much serious
work he had accomplished, and how
efficiently, one put him down as a
raconteur.
For Graham, somehow never took
himself seriously. It is one of Mr.
Chesterton's jolly maxims that a
man should be able to laugh at him-
self, poke fun at himself, enjoy his
own absurdity. It is he holds an ex-
cellent test of mental health, Man
should see himself the quaint "fork-
ed radish" that he is,' .fantastic so
well as wonderful. He should see
his mind ready to do battle, and clic,
if need be, for an idea, but equally
ready to get into a passion because
his egg is boiled too hard. He should
in ehort, see himself not as a hero,
but as a num of strange •virtues and
stranger follies, a figure to mcve him
to alternate admiration and laugh-
ter.
George P. Graham was ahvays like
that, I have seen him seemingly
ruin a serious speech on the most
serious of subjects by his incapacity
to resist 0 good pun; and just be-
cause he wasn't pompous, just be-
cause he avoided that manufactured
gravity so often used to cloak dull-
ness, the public too often misunder-
stood him.
Graham, for all his gaiety, has had
and has his sad moods. One remem-
bers the pathos of those yearn when
his heart was lacerate,i. by the death
of a promising son; and often I have
thought that his humor and his lau-
ghter are the glamorous shinings ov-
er deep pools of• wistful regrets.
There was that day, for example,
when, with Mr. Fielding, he saw an-
other and younger man snatch the
prize of party leadership from his
grasp.
• But it was not like Graham to
pine or complain, and Mr. King nev-
er had a more loyal friend and lieu-
tenant. Even in 1925, when tlfo old
comrades with whom he had march -
ad and bivouacked left him lying
upon flue field where he fell, and
another man, more powerful in the
re -organized army, wont to the De-
partment of Railways, it wag not in
Graham's nature to be hitter, It
was, all in the game of wan He just
went his way serene and joyous, his
laughter as buoyant and infectious
AS a child's.
LEAVE ON LONG CRUISE
w
Duke and Duchess of York, who
sailed from Portsmouth on H. M. S.
Renown for Australia. Tncy will
cover 34,000 miles on their globe -
encircling tour.
In the evening of life, Graham re-
fuses to grow old. His career has
been one long victory of the spirit,
ail sunshine and fresh air; and thou-
sands who know him or woo have
fought with or against him must join
in wishing hint all December roses
as the shades of the deearou:e Senate i
close on his indomitable spit°t.
NEW GOOSEBERRY
HAS NO SPINES
Important Development of Dominion
Scientists — Early-Riponing Var-
iety of Wheat Discovc -era
Ottawa, Jan. 12—P'nied in the
•:rrrw,l lime book of. the cepnrtir•nt
of aerigelture is an item of the
greatest importance to thos • who
like gooseberry pie and g m eberry
jam. Scientists at work on Domin-
ion experimental farms have develop-
ed a spineless gooseberry. No more
will the housewife worry about get-
ting. those ticklish, troublesome lit-
tle spines off the gooseberries; no
more will the youngsters be spiked
as thy steal gooseberries from the
baehes.
Another discovery of the past
year dealt with briefly is m improve -
ed brand of wheat which ripens in
several days less than marq!i..a. It's
yield is slightly below marquis, but
the gain in maturing time outweighs
the loss in yield for districts ',here I
the season is short. This wheat has
been tried in a number of western I
provinces and has given good results.
Nothing is said of what has been
achieved in the serach for wheat of
greater rust -resisting qualities Than
present varieties.
anada's Best
_..._.-----Pr@ce s from $375.00
p
0110M14111,
rano
TERMS TO SUIT ALL
1J„ not wastti time Heavies but got in
r Ill:1i e.ettii tit , idd tsanl,ii ;14 .18 and rrli;aisle
firm ;>sui •,r -t iirll value: loos your rm)ntcy,
nisch
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(J7 °ntari.) !•Zt.
Montt 171 Strotf„rd
HOW IIONI Y MAY BE IJSEi)
ifonek :sweetens Tlife in many
ways. This is apparent when we
see the various uses to which it is
put. Formerly it was used mainly as
A spread on bread, but today t„cre
are a great many other ways of us -
ins; it to vary one's menu. Though
the brat way to serve honey is in
its natural or raw form in desserte,
as a sweetener, it is used to a lam
extent in cookery both in the baking
of cakes and the making of bread to
which it imparts the property of
keeping free -h for a long time this
is a point which all good housekeep-
er.e should note.
Besides this it is used in the mak-
ing of Bandies, both as a centra that
is chocolate coated and as an in-
gredient in the many other kind of
sweets; for which recipes are to be
found in all good cook books.
A very appetizing new spread is
now manufactured by incorporating
honey with peanut butter to make
what is called "Honey -nut Butter.” '
Apart from entering directly into •
table use, it is used to mak.° most .
excellent vinegar, said by many to be
equal to the best produced. •
The motorist, too, may sweeten
hie, temper by the use of it as an
anti -freeze. It has been found that 1
equal parts of honey, water anis al-
cohol make a mixture that has prow
ed very satisfactory to some who
have taken the proper precautions
to see that all gaskets and connec-
tions are, tight, so that no leakage
oe
can occur, for places where water
cannot pas through honey mixture
will.
1 We can realize the value of honey
as a natural food when we see some
of the largo breakfast food menu-
; facturere now advocating on all
packages of cereals put out by them
far the use of it as a sweetener.
IS RETIRING
SIR HENRY THORNTON
Sir Henry Thornton, President
and Genual Manager of Caro Canad-
ian National Railways system, state_
that Canadians have plenty of cause
for continued optimism in the future
progress of the Dominion. He feels
that there are bright clave in store
for Canadian irusiness and .soot• ev-
ery reason for continued prosperity
ahead.
WON'T RUN FOR REEVE
"Popular" Candidate Poetically Tells
Reasons Why He Declines To
Do So
De,,eronto:—Possible reasons why
same rural "leading light ciec'.ine
to run for office are given pne'.ically
by the Post:—
I usettr• think my character was
spathe -es as the snow;
I useter think I was stainless as the
hawthorne bush in blow;
But the stories they are telling, you
hardly could believe,
They say that I'm a horse -thief, since:
• they put me up for reeve.
L'eforee the nomination I woes fit to
lead in prayer
But eine(' that sad occasion I am
often Horde beware
; That I served a term in prison, from
the court of last assize,
For swiping two big coppers from a
dead man's eyes.
So I decline to run for reeve—I-
, sooner would, be free;
Achnpping cordwood in a swamp is
good enough for me;
The township will be loser, and the
voters all will grieve
On learning that I've shook the job
and will not run for reeve.
Earl Beatty, whose retirement as
fret sea lord of the British navy 0'
reported as imminent. He will prob- :
:tidy be succeeded by Admire! Sir
Hem•y F. Oliver.
It seems likely now that excessive
campaign funds will buy nothing but the windshield wiper will not fune-
Trr-LOOK AT THE LABEL collapsibler seats in the Senate. tion as well.
Never use kerosene or gasoline to
wash the windshield. When moist,
the dropps of water will be larger, in-
c•reasing; the Blare to the eyes and
Index of a,nadiani Al acific CoastaR Glecwth
P. lits huge new pier at Vancouver. 2. .2.3, Forster.
The appointment of J. 3, Forster,
which has recently been an-
nounced, to the position of Steam-
ship General Passeugor bent at
Vancouver niarlty another step ea
the wonderful growth of the Cana -
(ben Pacific service on the Pacific,
Ocean.
hat•. Horster's advancement from
the time he joined the Pacific Ocean
service in 1913, has been coincident
with the growth of the Port of Van-
couver. Up until that time the Com-
pany's shipping business had come
directly under the Railways depart-
ment, but with Mr. Forster's appoint-
ment as General Agent apt Vancouver.
at the time when the Empresa of
Russia and the Empress of Asia were
added to the Neale fleet, a new de-
1'
partment was formed, the Canadian
Pacific Ocean Steamships.
Moro recently the Empress of
Canada and the Empress of Australia
began to run on the Pacifle to meet
the increasing traffic. A further
indication of the tremendous growth
of the port was the opening this fall
of a neve pier that has now put Vin-.
couver on the level with the great-
est Doris of the world,