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The Clinton News Record, 1934-01-11, Page 3e•• JAI'. i, 1934,. THE 44 O /41E-VifS.REC()IW commission,, or concessions; because 11 I I• The saying that ..forty millioa Peenchmen can't he wrong may be true enough but we can recall a time When ten million Canadians and a hundred and ten Americans were wrong. It was toward the close of the. war when we discovered that the nation with the greatest mer- • chant marine would capture world trade. There was every reason to think so, for had not world tonnage been sadly depleted If anyone thought otherwise and said so let him 'speak now or forever hold his peace. And so Britain, Canada and the United States started on a frenzied programme of ship -building. Iron ships, wooden ships, even cement ships. Millions of pounds and dol- lars were sunk in them and in epee./ sting them afterwards. Everyone k thought it a shrewd business enter- prise. Instead of that it was a flop. Where are those ships now? Most of them were scrapped, but all of them survive in the national debts. What happened? Well, the nations thus reaching out for world com- merce suddenly became nationalistic, erecting tariff barriers that were more effectual than a blockade. teeeillaerea The proposal to unite the three maritime provinces has been revised. It is believed that great economies could be effected if they were one big province instead of three small ones. It does not always turn out that way. Cities have grown larger by incorporating suburban areas but the tax rates grows with the city's growth. There are small towns and villages in Canada with very low tax rates and no debenture indebtedness. There are no large cities and towns so happily circumstanced. Of the three maritime provinces, Prince Ed- ward Island is the smallest and most economically administered. No good argument can be advanc, ed against the contention that the anti -titles resolution passed by one parliament, or rather one chamber of the parliament, is not binding upon succeeding parliament. No one would contend that a resolution passed by a village council this year is binding upon the village council of next year if; the resolution is only an expees cion of opinion. • The objection to titles in Canada arose through a few' abuses and the granting of a few hereditary titles) If the latter are not granted and the same 'Care and judgment used in fu- ture lists as is .shown in thie initial one the objection to titles will disap- pear. They give pleasure to the re- cipients and their friends and hurt none but the envious, and those whe think they' are foreign to the ,genius of our democracy. eevellitessee • #,An evening newspaper chargee us with plagiarizing paragraph from its columns. We cannot plead that we did not read. the paper, but we have no recollection of seeing any such paragraph there, so we must fall back on the old bromide about great minds running - in the same channel, for we should hate to ad- mit that it was due to the uncon- scious !machinations (anther plag- iarism) of a memory grown defective. The editor of that paper should, how- ever, be the last instead of the first to prefer the charge because not long ago he published in his editorial col- umns several articles of ours with- out credit, or cash, or thanks, or any- thing. etitseeeei Prof. Irving Fishee's list of eigh- teen men in the world who know what money means includes two bankers. It is a gracious coneession, just like putting two university pro- fessors into a list of men who know what education means. •Oerfaliff The man' who undertakes to make up such a list should include his owil name for how can he select the men who know what money means if he himself does not? 4.5tatErce It has been said that an English- man grouses only when he is well off. When he is really in difficulty he bucks up. Having in -mind that he is not now grousing, the presump- tion must be that prosperity has not yet returned to Inc island home but indications are that it is on the way and that grousing may be resumed soon, WHAT OTHER NEWSPAPERS ARE SAYING WORK HARDER Now that prosperity seems to be corning our way, let us work a little harder than ever and'use our best judgment in all our affairs in order that she may find herself a welcome guest. Let no one be mistaken, the financial crisis is by no means past. Pharaoh's lean kine are still in evi- dence.—Exeter Times -Advocate. 404a:lesee WITH THE AID OF FLASHLIGHT DOCTOR CATCHES DEER ON ROAD To be able to leave his automobile on, a ;country road in Grey township and, by the aid of a flashlight, catch a deer for a moment is an unusual experience. Last ;light, Dr. E. A. McMaster of Ethel .was motoring be- tween Molesworth and Atwood when he saw four deer on the mad ap- proaching birn. Dazzled by the head lights of the car they seemed unusu- ally tame before they turned off the road. He left his ear and with his flashlight approached the deer and was able to lay his hand on one of them for a moment before they bounded over the fence and away. , Dr. McMaster says he oftencomes across deer on the roads of Grey township.—Listowel Banner. oeseeisa. A BAD MESS • Rural school meetings have again been the talk of the day, and espee- ially in one sehool section in the vi- ,4einity, where we are kolti things roughened up a bit. This however is not unusual, as we understand in most sections there is that antagin- ism of the --north against the south, or the east against the west -and -the schoolhouse is the centre of the bat- tlegrounds. What a pity it is in- deed. Nothing is ever gained by this sort of thing. Tie remember a few years ago the Minister of Edu- cation urged the people of the Pro- vince to adopt the Township •Schoo/ Board •System, and these inen would control the educational system in a businesslike way free from all this friction. At this time the local Mun- icipal Councils spent thousands of dollars to send representations an- nually to Toronto to fight this what we now think would he an improved Act. It looks very much as if in the near future, regardless of what party is in power, they will have to pass such legislature on the people, and instead of having three trustees for one school, to have one repre.. sentative for about two rural schools. —Zurich Herald. TITLES ARE RACK AGAIN For the first time since 1919, His Gracious Majesty King Georde V has been graciously pleased to confer titles and honors upon a list of his humble Canadian subjects. In other words Premier Bennett has decided that the ban placed by Parliament in 1919 against the grant- ing of titles to Canadian citizens has been in •effect long enough. A de- cision which, by all reports, was made on his own, without consulting either his/ colleagues in the govern- ment, or barliament. The list, to be sure, is a very mode est on?. No hereditary titles; two "Sirs" and a )lumber of lesser hon- ors, the majority of the honor recipi- ents being women. There are some who have been un- kind enough to say that thewomen were merely the thin edge of the wedge; a camaflage, or a sort of shock brigade to prevent a main drive of adverse criticism. Men being too gallant to protest against women re- ceiving honors bestowed by the King. Supposing it is the thin edge of the wedge. That Peerages and other hereditary titles -will follow the 1939 list. What about lit? If a man is foolish enough to part with his mon- ey in exchange for a title and it takes a lot of money, why not let him de it? te ; If titles are granted for political purposes, and the money, received for them goes into the party funds, as it is said to do, there is, at least, one advantage from the taxpayers' stand- point The taxpayer knows definitely what .exchange is -being made, Or rather he knows what the other man is going to get in exchange foe his money, whether that money goes in- to the campaign funds or not. There is not so much light on other campaign funds. The shoe is on the other foot then. The induce+ ment to contribute hae to be some- thing. A title is -cheaper than a fow contributors are satisfied with one, and concessions come out of the peoples pockets in the long run. Any way You look at it, titles are cheap froM the oonntrY's standpoint. Far cheaper than making Senators out of political favorites or creating or fining political positidnS at high priced salaries. There are people t OQ in Canada, both men and women, who deserve much at the hands of the Canadian people. If a title is all these people asYi why not let them have it? • —1Seaforth Expositor. MADE TO LAST Things were made to last in the good old days. For example, a man walked into a Montreal store some time ago and asked for material to mend two shirts he had purchased 57 years ago. The saleslady was none pulsed, but the 90 -year-old customer was sure they had the material be- cause he had'bought-it there origin- ally and had the shirts made to his order by the wife of the founder of the store. Despite a half -century of wear, all they needed was "a little patching." It may be just as well we don't make such long -wearing merchandise any more. Where would our shirt factories be today e. MECO only wore out to shirts, in 57 years? *Hanover Post. exesreeteee SOME TRANSIENTS GETTING PRETTY SLICK Tramping transients are getting more and more resourceful through experience on the roads and with many of them today their vocation is becoming quite a racket. Going from house to house they experience no shortage of meals and for ready cash they go from store to store and office to office on one pretext or another. Many transients are getting overbold. A young man called at a South Ward home one evening lately and asked for a meal, "Go down to the restaurant and I will phone for them to give you a meal," said the men of the house. 'gnat, one of those twenty-five cent meals!" was the disdainful response. Another transient asked a householder for 6 quarter to get a bed. "You can get a place to sleep at the Town Hali," he was told. The chap's reply was "No, I haven't got down to that sort of thing yet." Men like these who are looking for a soft berth, create a problem that is hard to solve. They also make the road harder for worthy transients. *St. Marys Journal-Aryus. esenteiele VALUE OF ADVERTISING Miss Margaret Pennell, Toronto advertising agent and president of the Women's Advertising Club, re- cently addressed 500 delegates to the Women's Institute meeting in that city. She told there some worth- while things about the value and scope of advertising. Pointing out that since 1929 newspapers have had their revenue cut in half—due to ec- onomic conditions—Miss Pennell else impressed upon her audience that "these same newspapers still issue the best possible paper." She dis- posed of a somewhat widespread fal- lacy in undeniable argument when she said: "You have heard people say. All this expensive advertising; must be paid for by someone—it is added to the cost of the article, so we pay. Things would be cheaper if firms did not advertise. But it is not you or me who pays—for if it were not for the advertisers we would pay more for our newspapers we would have a smaller selection and higher cost, because of smaller turnover. Through advertising our paper is put -within our reach. We are the ones benefited, not only through its news, but through those advertisements that give us the news of what is best, new in the shops and in our factories. It pays us as eitie zens when our papers have plenty of advertising. We benefit in lower cost of goods made possible by great" er sale." —Petrolia Advertiser-Topie. lesetlateell HEROIC EFFORTS OF NURSE SAVES HOSPITAL AT FERGUS Only the heroic efforts of Miss Shortreed, a graduate nurse from Walton, Ont., who was on duty, sav- ed the Groves Memorial Hospital Fergus, from serious damage by fire this morning and probably, saved the lives of patients confined to the hospital, when she leaned out of the second storey window of the hospital in weather 21 degrees below zero with fire hose in her hand, pouring water on a blaze which had eaten ite way through the roof of a small gothic over the kitchen of the hos. pital, which is on the third storey at the rear of the building. The fire was first notieed by maids preparing breakfast in the kit?hen, when they heard the crackling sound of fire in the attie above them. Immediately notifying the super, intendent and other nurses of the danger, the nurses on duty dragged the fire hose, which was located a ehort distance from the window une der the location of the fire, and took aeeeeemeeeeseeemeeeeeeee it on themeelves to put forth their best efforts to .extinguith the blaze without distueleing the patients. Veliantly, they fought, handicapped by the extreme cold weather, which set a new recbrd.for the season and they were assisted in their -work by Harry Mullen, a local service Man, —,Fordvvich Record. THE PLACE TO COMIVENCE CON- TROLLING LIQUOR IS AT ITS. SOURCE The United States recently repeal- ed its prohibition law and is again face to face with the prOblem of plaeing some restrictions upon the traffic. The suggestion is being ser- iously advanced in that country that the whole trade should be placed un- der government eontrol, not only in distribution but in manufacture. It i/ a move that has often appealed to is as the most sensible manner in governing this matter. The liquor traffic "ran wild" before and pro- hibitive measures were proposed. Nearly anybody could make it and anyone could buy it—if they had the price—and liquor used to be pretty Cheap. The consequent abuses which the trade itself permitted went to such extremes that restrictive mea- sures were forced upon governments, by the citizens. These took various forms—the licensing of all persons selling liquor, the setting of certain hours in which taverns could be op- ened, th9 clause allowing municipalle ties to vote themselves into the local option class, and, finally, the com- plete prohibition of the manufacture and sale of liquor for beverage pur- poses. When the statute was found to be too severe, unworkable and un, respected, a policy of government control of the sale of liquor was put into effect and we have such a sys, tem now. All of this, it will be noticed, con- cerned the sale or distribution of liq- uor. There was no attempt to con- trol its manufacture, except that dur- ing prohibition days there was a heavy fine placed on the illegal man- ufacture of liquor and that penalty remains, though there is no penalty on the legal manufacture of liquol, unless the heavy taxes imposed are considered a penalty. The govern- ment has made one proper move in refusing to license the establishment ofanYemorevNhidchaleistillselihed le:t:brbsreweiy breweries, but thos mannfaeture all the liquor their •plants are capable of producing Tide. is limited only by the law of supply and demand. TheeeGld principle of profit-making etill permeates the liq- uor business, and one Can see why it would pay distillers and brewers to eeek by every means within their Power to increase consumption and thereby increase production and pro- fit. It is why they can pay agents thousands of dollaes tto get their brands sold to the Liquor Control Board. This profit motive also ex- plain 4 who is financing the propa- ganda to have a lootening of the present law. The liquor ring apparently has the thing worked out ifi statistics and they help to explain the 'point we are trying to make. A correspondent, lwriting to Toronto Saturday Night, lepeints out that whereas in 1913, be fore the present System' of liqude control went into effect, Ontario eon:, sinned 23,112,781 gallons of home or 9.4 gallons • per capita, and Quebec 13, 104, 571 gallons or 6,4 per capital , In 1932 Quebec's beer total had risen to 27,453,770 gallons or 10.2 per cap - lea while Ontario's consumption had deopped to 8,578,560 gallons or 2.6 per capita. "In the face of the prob- able change in legislation, why should not the sales of this beverage' here equal those of Quebec," ' the 'writer asks. Based on the percapita con- sumptionin Quebec, this should e - mount to approximately 35,000,000 gallons per annum. But he figures that, based on the increase of sales in 1932 over 1913, the sales would probably be in the neighborhood of 45,000,000 gallons.—Hanover Podt. Dr. Monteith is Dead Hon. Dr. J. D. Monteith has gone, . We regret it; so do others. .Since he was stricken in Listowel while at- tending the funeral of the late An- drew 'Malcolm he has beet fighting a battle which, from the nature of the attack, made it difficult for at- tending physicians to bring to his aid the measure of help he needed. There is so little which can be done for one who has suffered from severe stroke. The patient can be kept comfortable; he suffers. little if any pain, and it is well to know that such was the case with Dr. Monteith. Wee do net believe it is too mint] to say' that Dr. Monteith was worn out. He was a person of tireless en- ergy; he was not known at any time to have spared himself. -He consid- ered that his time and effort were both at the service of the public, and a 'man who does that is apt to draw upon his strength arid powere of -resistance until the springs of re- serve energy are dried up. Dr. Monteith found public life ex- acting; it could not have been other- wise, and yet he liked it. To him an election campaign was an event to be welcomed with that peculiar zest which he brought to his assistance and to the strengthening of his own organization. When he was in an election he was in with all the via tality which he owned. His .person- al acquaintance with the people in this riding was phenomenal. There were few whom he did not know, and fewer still to whom he was not known. Those who voted for him liked DrMonteith; those Who voted against him and worked against him had no cause for enmity. In his campaigns he always fought out in the open; he never said mean thingr nor -did he make political sores which would not heal. Ile preferred always to follow the rule of that school which sticks to the text The lure toward a political life runs deeply -through the Monteith, family. The late Andrew Monteith father of the Doctoe, was a member of the first legislature following Confederation when he was a sup- porter of the John Sanfield Maedon-, aid government. A brother, 3. C. Monteith, has also been elected to the Legislature. His cousin, the Hon. Nelson IVionteith, was , Minister of Agriculture in the Whitney gov, ernment, and is today the only- sur- viving member of that cabinet. So there was in a marked Ivey political background in the family of the late Minister of Labor and Public Works, He came from a farm and he under- stood farming; he taught school in the country and he practised medi- eine in the • city, so in all he had a, close, understanding of the lives and problems of many Ione, To his city ee gave service as well, being mayor Inc two sears, following a year as alderman". ,The Board of Education and the Horticulteral SoetetY also. gave scope for his desire for public eervice. • As opportenity offered he travel- led much, being one of those inch-, viduals who indulged' the desire tor go around the world and visit alT the countries. He was a delightful person to meet and to know. It -will not seem qeite the same with Dr. Monteith absent, To the task which - was placed before him he brought all the strength and ability at his com. mane]; he did not spare himself. Ile leaves an honorable record in a fam- ily where honorable tradition rank6 high.—Editorial in Stratford Bea-, con -Herald. ACCIDENTS AND COMPENSAe TION UNDER THE WORK- ' MEN'S COMPENSATION ACT The summary of figures for The, Workmen's Compensation Board of Ontario for the year 1933 shows -a total of 38,042 accidents reported' during the year, as compared with. 41,470 during the prior year. The fatal accidents numbered 228,. . as 'against 24'7 during 1932. The total benefits awarded during the year amounted to $3,699,068.95,, as compared with $5,125,6.20.56 dur- ing 1932, the 1933 figures being - made up of $3,031,487.26 compensae. tion and $667,581.69 medical aid. Taking a basis of 300 working days, the average daily benefits a -- mounted to $12,330, requiring an av- erage of 635 cheques per day. The. average number of new claims re- ported daily decreased from 138 in - 1932 to 127 in 1933. The accidents reported during Dee cernber numbered 3,421, as compared' with 2,960 during December of 1932.. FIRST POST OFFICE IN CHINA The first real post office in China was established at Hongkong in 1834. Hongkong had just passed into the hands of Great Britain at the close of the Opium war, and this first post office was British. Later, when di- rect communication was opened up with China itself, there were other foreign post offices, representing dif- ferent ports along the coast. eireltroweariVelemisAftememitleevise•freen. Local Retailers They Owe You Sales Assistance You know thoroughly well that you have power, in your store, to influence the decision of your customers in regard to what they buy from you. Your customers rely on you to give them products •which, itt use or consumption, will give them complete satisfaction. You know and your customers know that, in regard to nearly every class of product, there are several brands of equal merit. Thus, A's soup is the equal of B's or C's soup; D's shoes are the equal of E's or F's shoes; G's radio sets are the equal of H's or I's sets; J's hosiery is the equal of K's th L's hosimy; M's electric washing machine or refrigerator is the equal of N's or O's washing machine or refrigerator; and so on and so on. Makers of advertised products recognize that you have acsees to the attention and favor of several hundred buyers—your regular and irre- gular customers, and they want to use your dis- tribution facilities for their advantage. But are they willing, in every instance, to assist you to sell their product if you stock it—assist you with efseries of local advertisements, to be pub- lished in this newspaper? , They say that they will provide you with plenty of window and counter display material, and printed matter; 'but quite often they de- cline to use local advertising, in this newspaper, over your name! They tell you that they are spending a whale of a lot of money in big -city dailies and in ea- tionally-circulated magazies;lut you know — or can get to know—that in the territory served by this newspaper upwards of 90 per cent of the families living in it do not subscribe to national magazines and big city dailies. This means that the job of promoting local sales is to be put on your shoulders. If it is right to use big city dailies and nation- ally -circulated magazines then, by the same tok- en, it is right to use local weekly newspapers? It is no compliment to you as a retailer or to the buyers of this town and territory for a na- tienal advertiser to decline to advertise his pro, duct in this newspaper. You can get much more advertising for your store and stock than you are now getting, if you insist, as a condition of stocking a parti- cular product, that it le locally advertised in this newspaper. N.B.: Show this advertisement to men who urge you to stock and push the sale of their goods, yet who tell you that their firra cannot assist their local sale by advertising. The Clinton News--Kecord $1.50.a year.' ,Worth More ropigeopftimb.wdap.•