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The Clinton News Record, 1931-03-19, Page 5OF INTEREST TO YOU AND WIE If threshers arc to be able to take :alien on the grain threshed for then. -pay how would it be to make them liable for: any damage done to far- zners' .buildings and property through fire while the machine is on 'the premises, Threshing machines ;are often burntup with the barn, it 'is true. But manya barn has been :reduced to ashes owing to the pre- sence of steeh a machine which would have been left standing had it been possible to get along without its presence,' and the threshers them- selves admit that smoking is one 'fruitful. cause. Make the thresher - man responsible andthey can pro- 'l.ibit smoking about the barn. Some newspapers are commenting 'as if it were an oddity that March up 'to tate 28th, corresponds exactly with February. Doesn't it do the same thing every year, excepting when February has, 29 days? 1931 is in ifo way different front 1980 or any ""'other year. This is what would hap- pen if the year were divided into thirteen months of 28 days each, with New 'Year's Day.as a special encs the odd day every four years set apart, . 'The days of the week would always come on the same date each month ^and • a calendar 'would last until it fell into decay. Christmas, Easter, Thanksgiving, all the holidays would always occur on the same day of the week. Most . frightfully dull and -uninteresting, we should say. e w r We are in receipt of a copy of Public Accounts of the , Provincial Government, with the compliments of the Provincial Treasurer, Hon. E. A. Dunlop, and in looking over same the enormous outlay of the Govern- ment is not so surprising. Govern- ments nowadays pay out money for -services which our grandfathers new- er thought of demanding and, while we scold governments for being ex- travagant, we go on demanding more and more service. Agriculture, in all its departments, costs the suns of 12,723,778.09. This is not too much if wisely expended, but it is the very common complaint that the govern- ment does nothing for agriculture. Education costs• a total of $11,773.- •683.12. This covers all outlays such as grants to public, separate, high schools, technical and vocational schools, schools for deaf and blind, grants to libraries, universities, ate. It is a great sum of money and there is no doubt that the people; generally receive much benefit for the outlay. Equally, although you sometimes 'hear the complaint that education is costing too much, there is no doubt that if the gdvernment decided to cut off a single service under this head there would be considerable outcry from some quarters. Public Health costs the province $80,082,42; Public Welfare, which is a new department only inaugurated last year, $1.,959,61, Labor Depart- ment, which includes work of em- ployment offices, inspection of fat - 'tortes, boilers, administration of mo - there' allowances, old age pensions, etc., take 84,818,559.65 and public highways, • 817,908,412.00. These, with the exception of education, are but a few of the newer expenees which governments must now find funds to administer, but they total up to the tidy sum of $38,103,425.74. After this the federal government will take over ninety-five- percent. of the old age pensions outlay, but this does not mean that the people will not foot the bill just the same. Gov- ernments have no way of raising money except by taxing the people or selling government tinxbers, lands, ete. And if we insist upon having certain services 'we must pay for them. Could the affairs of the corsetry be more economically admin- istered'? Ah, there's the rub. Can they and are' they likely to be? • VARNA L.O.L. No. 1035 held a, progressive euchre and klance on the evening of March l2th which proved to be a great success. There were over one hundred present and all enjoyed the evening's entertainment.• - Miss Audrey' Johnston won, the ladies first prize and MT.'Orne Dow - son' was the lucky gentleman. The consolation prizes were won by Mrs. Russell Errant .and 'Mi.' Lloyd John ston. The receipts were' very satis- factory to the committee in charge. M. and Mrs, Alfred .-Ings' spent Wednesday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Sherlock Keys. Ors. George Beatty spent Friday et the home of Miss F. T og4n. Mr. and Mrs. John Dowson 'spent Friday visiting Mr, and :Mrs. Will Hart,. ' Mr. and 1VIrs. Lloyd, Keys and fam- ily, Mr. Amos Keys and Mr.. Roy Keys spent Saturday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. George John- ston. iMi. and Mrs. Geo. Reid and-fam- lily spent Saturday in Bayfield. Mr. and 1Vfrs..Lloyd Keys and fa -m- il -1r spent Sunday 'at the home of Mr. and Mrs, John Dowson. Mr. and Mrs. Lee MIC'onnell spent Sunday with Mr. and 9&rs. Russell Erratt, Mrs. Erratt returning 'with then to stay until Monday evening. ilVer. and Mrs. Frank Colemdn and Lorne spent Friday evening with Mr; and Mrs. George Connell. Miss Hazel Pickard of Hohnesville spent a few days last week at the hone of MI. 'Ernest Epps. dVJ;rs. Abe Zaphe and babe spent the week -end with her mother, Mrs. lIugh Aikenhead, on the London Road, A. large number of the young peo- ple of the neighborhood took in the dance held in Bayfield on Tuesday night. I Mr. and Mrs. Albert Horner spent Sunday at the home of Mr. William iStephenson. CONSTANCE 1• M. Joe Riley, Jr., who has spent the last couple of weeks nursing her sister, Miss Mary Cook, in Clinton, returned home on Friday. Miss 1 Cook, who received gun shot wounds in her knee, on February 27th, is :