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The Wingham Advance Times, 1929-05-09, Page 3'}At�Hfll4'. Gorrle Vidette and 1111.11•111 .11111/1611,11"MITI,140111. 1101.11111...11111.11111.1111, . e.111.uu,,,n"mum it"." iii nn"".1111T„",❑",n,""1,.1,„I,,,,,I ,,quf,11 pn n."."1"."""0".""”" U uuul " uuq""" THE TOWN. ,DOCTOR (The Doctor of Towns) Says MOTOR TRAFFIC versus FACTORY PAY ROLL There is, no denying the value of factories to any community, New industries and more industries should be constantly ,strived for but many cities overlook or fail: to recognize the real value of auto- mobile traffic. '!'hereare thousands of cities and towns with a population of from ,10,000 to 40,000 with an average of 25,000: tourist cars per week (cars more than 100 miles away from their home garage), The Potential cash value of 25,000 such automobiles per week amounts - to an average'. of $26,000,00 per town, regardless of the side of that town... The business secured from this.mode of traffic is good busi- ness; the'lnoney is good -money. Merchandise purchased by those comprising the rnotor ,traffic is always a cash transaction; goods once purchased are seldom,' if ever, returned or exchanged,', and fEI is less,over-head per individual sale. But it is not only the amount of business or the amount of money that is to be considered when a comparison is made with a factory pay roll. Thirty per cent, of a factory pay roll is spent outside of the town through purchases' made by mail; going to the next nearest large town to purchase, and other known practises: that keep the earnedcash out of local circulation. It has been stated that a dollar of outside money is worth one dollar and ten cents of inside money. Therefore, a town located on a highway, or highways that carry' an average weekly traffic of 25,000 cars, has in that traffic a cash. � asset equivalent to a factory in the town with a pay roll ofapprox- imately $2,000,000.00 annually. It is true that factories bring new people to a town, but so do highways; in 'fact, 20 per cent. of the motoring public is in the mar- ket for or can be sold a new location: The publicity value obtainable from the average factory that can be secured is nothing compared to the publicity and good will that can be obtaained through the motorists. In the past, cities, communities and towns Have offered all sorts of concessions and inducements to obtain new' factories and no doubt there will be many towns that will continue to do so. There are many communities who lay claim to the fact that they will not offer concessions, but in most cases, the temptation is too great, it seems, and when it conies to the point 'that some other town in the immediate locality offers a bonus to secure a new industry,other towns do likewise; in some towns it is the purchase of stock, others the furnishing of a free, factory site, free light, water or power, but in practically all cases, there is some inducement of a bonus nature that is offered. There is a town in one of the central states that recently raised $100,000 and donated it -to a shoe manufacturer as a bonus for 'the locating.: in their town; of a factory with a pay roll of $1,000,000.00 in ten years. Figure the percentage paid for the business, with no guarantee that the business of this particular concern would not slump, . the. factory thereby being closed, or that any of a dozen other things might and could happen. This same town had a motor -traffic the value of''which, on a comparative basis exceeded this ten-year pay roll every year. Yet, there never had been any attempt to capitalize on it -business which was at their very door—a virtual gold mine that required' only init- iative and exercise of, the nand to be turned into a reality. Every city andtown has diligently worked, connived and man- euvered to get hard roads, but after getting them, many are sitting back with their hands folded 'across their laps, apparently blind to the "acres of diamonds". that these roads have made possible. This may be likened to a merchant working over -time for weeks to pre- pare for a gigantic sale, expending thousands of dollais in advertising to induce the people to come to the store on a specified day, and then failing to open up on the morning of the day designated. If your town is not 'getting its share of this busieess, the rea- son lies within your town -it may lie with you. If your community is not getting more than its share, it is because you and your town are not going after it. Business from motor traffic is not hard to get. Apply the sante principles that a modern merchandiser applies to getting .busi- ness for his store and the results will be satisfactory. It is a .problem' of modern business, and modern business is a problem of selling. Your town may eat have a traffic of 25,000 cars per week, but half -even one-fourth of 25,000 cars, is traffic enough to make it. • well worth your while to clo something to get it. Get sold on the place where you live and then sell it to every motorist that travels through your community. Copyright 1929, A. D. Stine. Reproduction prohibited in whole or in part. This 'Totiht Doctor Article is published by the. Advance -Times in co-operaatioai with the Lions' Cluii. 1111` t.. 1111„,,,,,,, 1111111,,, 1,1111„,1,11„,11,1,,, 1.11,. 11111111v THE , NEW IMPROVED G1 PRO 0..e Greaten Structural Strength Takes Any Decoration . For Salo By ,Rae & Thorniason -y Buchanan ;T dwe. Company, R. J. Htitoskolrlt Wingharn, O]ret, W'irtghan .; Ont. Gor'rie; Ont. WROXETER Mrs. twamisou and niece, of Tor- onto, spent the week -end with Mr. and Mrs, VanVeisor. Mrs. Hazlewood; who suffered` a stroke last Friday still remains very low. The sale last Saturday of the late Mr. Edmunson's house -hold effects, was well attended. Prices were fair. •'rhe property was sold to Mr. E. Jack - lin: Dr. Hazlewood, of Oshawa, arrived in town Saturday night owing to the serious illness of his mother. Mr, Lorne Kaake returned home Saturday fromeSaskatchewan, where he spent the winter. Mrs. Dr. McLeod and Miss Mary Barris are visiting friends in Toronto. The Young People of the United a n Church held their last meeting of the season. on Monday, when a Social Ev- ening took: the place of the regular meeting. There was no service in the Angli- can church Sunday 'evening owing to a member of the Rector's family hav- ing mumps. Service will be held next Sunday. Quite a number of people are nurs- ing sore arms, owing to being vac- cinated accinated as a prevention against what mild appears to be a t •r d epidemic of small pox through the township. So far no cases have been reported in the village. WALTON POSTMAST- • ERSHIP DISCUSSED. Me Spotton: T' intend to take up only a few moments of the time of the house; but I have been asked by friends or by people who were friends, of the government for particulars re- garding the Walton Post Office. I gave the Postmaster General notice that 1 would be asking for these par- ticulars, and I desire to know why a returned soldier was passed over and the post office given to a civilian who had just moved into the riding a few months before and had purchased .a store there. This is not a case where the Postmaster General disapproved of the action of the Civil Service Commission—I am not laying that charge at all—but if the Postmaster General's sympathy is as great as he says it is for the returned soldier, this is a case which he might have held up until he went into the matter. Let me quote—I will be very brief—from a letter of the district superintendent dated November 23, 1928, as follows: "The applicants given in order: of merit from a postal service stand- point, irrespective of military ,or resi- dential qualifications, are as follows: William Clarence Bennett • John McLeod Richard Wright Hoy Carl William Oakley” John McLeod had just moved into. the riding and purchased a store there. He seemed to .have the good offices of themember for North Per, th (ivlr. Hay) and consequently re- ceived the appointment. It may be said that Mr. Bennett was not re- siding within the village, but 1 find a letter on the file from W. J. May, the district superintendent, dated December 1, as 'follows: "Having reference to his report of the 23rd: ultimo, on the applicants for the position of postmaster at the above mentioned office, • the district superintendent now begs to advise that he has been informed'by Mr: W. C, Bennett, one of the applicants for the position that he has now Purchase- ed the Co-operative store in 'Walton in which the Walton post office would he conducted were he to receive the appointment. to this event Mr. Ben- nett should now be placed in Claes 13 ” l: niny say that while the post of- fice is in South Huron, it is just on the boundary line. to the riding of Scinth;_Htiron there is just. this store o which the post office has 'been lo- rated for• Vtnany, years; and three or four houses. Tete' village, consistim of a few hundred people' is entirely, in my constitrunc of North Huron as is all the rest of the business sec- tion; anti the United haruiels' el hive store 'wouldbe very central, 1 am malting no :attack on the Lost- master General;, 1- have' no that he has in any way interfered with the Civil Service Commission,:, bit this, seems to be a case, where 'for settle . reason or another a returned soldier was passed over who, ninety- nine per cent of the people of the dis- trict believe, should riot have been 'passed''over ; If he was riot a resi- dent there for the fell, length :of time, he was a resident there ort December 1 and bad a store and this matter could very well have been left in ab cyeecc .for a whsle until be had the necessary length of I asideti<le. 5 have Wroxeter Thursday, May 9th 1929 been asked to bring this matter to the attention of the Postmaster. Gen - eral: I am making no 'attack upon his. administration in the matter, but it seenxs. to be a case where the ,Civil Service Commission passed over a re turned soldier and where the ,Post- master. General might very well have used his influence. • 5 should be glad if at. some time the Postmaster' General would give' the house a concise .statement of what the air mail service has cost the Do- minion of Canada toethe present date, and what revenue we are deriving from it., This matter of "keeping up, with the Joneses" and .trying to have an air mail service equaleto that of a country with a population of 120,- 000,000, 'isvery fine, but I have to struggle'to get mail boxes for a few fe rmer8 and I cannot get them on ac- count tof the cost, while at the same time we are placing an item of $800,- 000 800,000 additional in the 'estimates for a play -toy running between. Toronto and Montreal which the Postmaster Gen- eral says very few appreciate and very few are patronizing. I' would plead with the Postmaster General to get away from the big interests and the moneyed classes and get his :ear to the ground. Let him listen to the hon. member froirt Skeena and other members and grant rant some of rite re- quests of those who are. rolling back the map• of this Dominion. Let him. listen to 'those in far-flung parts of Canada and to bona fide farmers et oe have to go a mile or a mile and a tenth for their mail. Let him get'. down and serve the masses before he spends millions, more each year in the interests of the classes, and in trying to "keep up with the Joneses" with this play -toy, the air -mail service. As regards the air mail service between Montreal and Toronto, I really think it is a joke where there are three fast trains a day each way with an. ex- cellent mail service. Canada has leo- spered wonderfully under the old sy- stem and I arra sure, if the question is one of an order coming in, it does not take long when you have three fast trains a day, and if it a dunner that is coining in, the slower it is the better. I would ask the Postmaster Gen. real, since I have brought the matter to his deputy's attention, to give me some little explanation for our peo- ple in the village of Walton, if he 'tas it at hand. Mr. Veniot: I have no explanation A Baking Expert says: "For light cakes .that keep moist for days, use 1 table- spoon lesspercop ofpurityif your recipe calls for ordinary pastry or soft wheat' flour." Still the Best for Bread Send 30c in stamps for the famous Purity Flour Cook Book. Western Canada Pions Mills Co. Limited.' Toronto: 94 at all to give if the Civil Seevice'Com- mission— Mr.Spotton: Some future time will be all right, MORRIS COUNCIL Minutes of the meeting held in the Township Hall, on Monday, April 15 1929:—Members all present, the Reeve pcsiding. The minutes - of the last meeting were react and approved. The:, By -Law on the Jermyn imp- rovement was read and left over for further consideration of rates, on re- quest from ratepayers in the hamlet. of Bluevale. The Council passed a resolution asking the Hydro Electric ` Power Commission to furnish estimates of cost of street lights for. Bluevale. The following accounts were paid: Collector's Salary $170.00, Postage $8.40; F. R. Smith, Formaidehyde$2.- 66; Geo. Kelly,' patrol., $33.00; Frank Burnes, "patrol., $25:45; E Johnston, patrol., $12.10; R. D. Golley, ,patrol,, $29.75; Stewart. Procter, patrol., $22.- 93; James Anderson, patrol, $31,60; W. C. Thiuell, patrol., $31.64; Russel Sundercock, patrol., $23.50; Wm. Mc- Murray, patrol., $13.50; John Craig, patrol., $28.95; Chas. Workman, pat- rol., sol.,. $46.50; John McCarter, patching roof, .75, roadway, Y r , $ • r � a .5:00. Next meeting May 20th. A. MacEwen, Clerk. Certified Potatoe& For Sale Green Mountain and Irish Cob- blers, Extra No. 1 Government graded, each bag tagged with Dept. of Agriculture Stamp on it, at $1.550 per bag Also Ontario Grade A Potatoes at ' $1,00 per bag Only a limited quantity of certified ones. This is an op- portunity for farmers, to get started with certified steed po- tatoes, We handle Rose Brand Chick' Feed and Chick Mash, either in sack lots or small quantities, Highest Prices paid', for Eggs delivered at our store. DAVEY' t S1'ORE W1OXETER« Auctioneers Must Be Licensed Last Friday Magistrate Walker dealt with charges against two men who conducted auction sales, not be- ing licensed. H. Parr of Arthur, in court here, was fined $20 and costs of $5 for doing so at Teeswater, while the same day, at Kincardine, McLean Young was assessed $20, with costs amounting to $10, for a similar of- fence.—Walkerton Telescope. Wanted A Thriller. A couple of Walkerton boys wanted a thriller, such as Hollywood pro duces on the screen, so they pla..ed some planks on a C. N. R. crossing, just before a passenger train was due. Fortunately some aectionmen saw the boys, and removed the obstruction. Now officials are investigating and the boys may be placed across a pair of knees, with a strap rising and fall- ing with some precision. Rev. W. J. Taylor, of Belinore United Church, has resigned to accept a charge in Rockwood. Brussels has switched back to the Thursday half -holiday, after a heated discussion at the Chamber of Coan- merce meeting. BELMORE THE FLOOD OF 1929 We thought we lived in fairy land, But now we've changed our mind, wind and strain swept o'er our land, hind ISiece awreck behind. And left such The fences alt were lying flat, Trough to drive one crazy, Anel when they're all in shape again Who Clare say this ,generation's lazy. Some lost the roof from off their house !'heir barn was blown dl:nvn. Itut those who suffered most of all, Were the folks who lived in town. The water rose so very high, And washed the dams away, It leaped and gambolled through the town Tike children at their play, The rich and poor were all alike, With a bath -room in the cellar And the man who lived on the side of the road Could laugh at the other feller. He never- hacl so much light wood For 40 years or more, and l e didn't have to pay a cent Ti came right to his door, Now.11 there: cornea it (load again We'll try and; .build an ark, We'll gather all the shingles tip '1'o use insiencl u[ `baric. When walking;. down ::tile street one clay, I mat- uty old friend Pat, "What, did tate wind sterni do for you" "Oh, I lost my Sunday hal," la's ,an ill -wind that Meows no goon, And the man that wields the haul- rater, My won't his pocket=bock bulge out, It would almost snake yott stammer. In repairing all those 'dams again That the water washed away, And building all those bridges tip, No kitchen work—No cooking—Just pour milk over it A delicious, nourishing breakfast on which to work or play— A well balanced ration for any meal and so easily preared, The paper inserts in each package contain a surprise for the kiddies.. 9 t et it -es '1. I ay HEN you plan that trip, be sure to plan your tires. '� % You can't enjoyyourself if you're worrying - about V'Vy blowouts all the time. Drive around here and let us equip your car with Do- minion Royal Cords or Royal Masters. They are a sound foundation for a carefree holiday. We have absolute confidence in these Dominion Tires. We have.watched them in service and we know they wiJ1 deliver the mileage. Dominion Royal Cords are the standard by which tire� are judged Royal Masters are in a class by themselves, We have Dominion Tires for every car at popular prices. VialISGH Tel Wm. Ingham G ORRIS. J. A. Young R. H. Carson and Son. There'll bt work for many a clay. Ilrit listen to the I„or chap Who has to pay the taxes, He thinks he'll quit the dear old farm And make a living grinding axes. direct to oL7 BENS Salve do g' Powis otos 110 X)orttefdxatt n Stores Tens The finest tens that the gardens produce, imported direct by, us, skilfully blend- ed by experts --such is the quality teas offered in Otis great Dominion Stores Sale. D.S.G. 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