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PAGE TWO 0a ~nabiun ebW=~nn Established 1854 A Weekly Newspaper devoted to the interests of the town of Bowmanville and surrounding country, issued at Klng Street, Bowmanville, every Thursday, by M. A. James & Bions, owners and publishers. The Canadian Statesman is a member of the Canadian Weekly Newpapers Association, also the Class "A" Weeklies of Canada. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Anywhere in Canada, $2.00 a year; In the United States, 8250 a year, payable in advance. Single copies, 5 cents. THURSDAY, JULY 12th. 1934 dL Disfranchising the Doukabhors Last week at Ottawa, in the dying days of the Fed- eral session of Parliament, the Franchise Bill was passed, and in it.s provisions was included the dis- franchisement of the Doukabhors of the West. 0f course there was the usual outcry that in a free country one has no right to take away the vote of any' person, but at the same Urne it seems to be a step in the right direction. The Doukabhors have shown a distasteful desire to wilfully break the laws of their adopted country. They have staged nude parades and have demonstrated time and again that they do not intend to abide by the laws which govern other Canadians. In addi- tion they have shown no desire to speak the British language or to adopt Canadian ways of living or standards of behaviour. In disfranchising thema the Government has to our mind done the right thing. If they do not want to conform to Canadian methods of living and law en- forcement then wh3, should they hiave a voice in the governinent of the country. The disfranchising might be taken a step f urther to include those who refuse to become naturalized citizens of Canada, and those who fail to record their vote three tunes in succession. It seems to us that any citizen who so lacks in- terest in Us provincial or national affairs should be deprived of the right all together. In the Bible there is sometfting about the person who fails to use what God lias provided him with, losing it. When the constitution has provided the vote of the people. they should either use it or lose it. TIhe natural ballyhoo of political byplay naturally came with the passing of the disfranchisement clause, but most right thinking people wll have little syxnpathy with the law-breakmng and trouble-making Doukabhors of Western Canada. Move to Tax Outside Business Ontario County Council, representative of the tax- payers of the county, has declared war on outside business concerns who are allowed te seli their wares in the smaller urban and rural places without being liable to taxation. This applies to departmental stores, bakeries, laundries, cleaning and pressing concerns, and others who take the fullest advantage of the statute which exempts them f rom taxation away from home so long as they are manufacturers and peddle through their bona f ide agents. Bow- manville has long been a stamping ground for these outside concerns and sooner or later if their opera- tions are not curbed there will be few stores lef t in the business section and the corner store in rural sections will disappear altogether. Whal the County Council is asking the Ontario Legisiature to do is te, amend the Assessment Act giving Councils power te pass bylaws whereby tlsey will be enabled te colleot f rom outside concerns ac- cording to the amount of business they do in each place. This means that each year all of these con- cerns would have to submit to the assessor of each municipality a statement showing the amount of business they do yearly, and on this a tax would be levied. It would be a straight business tax, andi would in sorne way compensate the local merchants who are losing heavily today as this new taxation would go to the towns and townships to help reduce taxation. For too long now the representatives of the big interests have had influence with our legislators wth the result that efforts of such organizations as the Retail Merchants' Association to have a tax placed on outside concerns who are crowding the mnen and wornen in the smaller communities have come to nought. Ontario County Councîl bas asked other Councils to endorse the resolution and we hope that they wvill. It is also being sent to our local legislators in the hope that it will be introduced ai Queen's Park. 'he Council is to be commended for its endeavor to do something worth while. -The Oxford Croup Movement The Cobourg World in a coluînn lengtb edîtorial takes 10 task the Oxford Group Movernent. of whîch Canada nas beard and seen so mucb in recent montha. Af er reading lhe Cobourg edîtor's coin- menîs we feel sure Ibat he has neyer taken the in- terest 10 attend a group meeting and that he is talk- ing rnerely f rom hearsa3y. At least his article con- tains so rnany obvious inaccurate stateinents that tbis fact seems quite apparent. The Oxford Group Movement rnay have its f ail- ures, but so bas every movement, Christian and otherwise. The Cobourg ecitor goes on to say that the organization is led by strange looking fcllows who znysteriously appeared in the United States, failing to realize that Dr. BucbLmân, its founder, bas been prominent in the Episcopal Cburch of the United States for many years and that he is known f rom coast 10 coast. Further critici.,r is directed becau.-e the Qroup holds ils meetings in fashionable botels and ho>lida3- resorts, and the frequent explanations for Ibis sieem to, have fallen on deaf ears. Not onhy do£-s Ibtis at.- tract the wealtby people, who are just as mucb in need of a change of heart as the pooî', but tic large hoteL.s naturally provide a larger space for the group meetings. The very fact that tbc group sbouhd mix wfith the wealtby casas scems to woi'ry the writer' of Ibis edi- torial and be explain.s that Christ was a pooî' inan and he extolled the virtues of His class, but one neyer heard of Chr'ist criticîzing the rich, oîîiy inso- far as they failed tu carry out tht'ir du'ies tovaids society. Nor dîd he spare bis own lowl3, class wben wlckedness was spoken of. In the final paragrapb the writer asks, 'If the ]Bucbmaniles can arouse us from our moral leîbai'gy and can imbue us with a crusading spirit against the thlngs which now constitute a national disgî'acc, they will earn the gratitude of the people." The Buch- mnanites have already donc Ibis. They have mnade changed men and women of some of oui great na- tional figures and they bave brougbl comforî and THE CANADIAN STATESMA1A, BOWMANVI=L, THUR.SDAY, JULY l2th, 1934 Iguidance to thousands wvho are devoutly tbankful1 the existence of the Oxford Group Movement. Their weekends amongst the "f leshpots" mayr appeal to everyone, but as long as they are accor lisbing good, and particuiarly when this good ist complished by the breaking down of denorninalior barrýers, the world will be thankful for the influer of îDr. Buchman and his payless but sincere followe Away With Retrospect Everyone of us acquainted with the Bible knows the fate that met Lot's wife. She was facing a r4 if e but she persisted in looking, back towards thec and for tUis very human error was changed tc pillar of sait. It's too long ago now to be concerned overt justice of thal incident. But the principle laid doN then persista, curiously enough, today. Thal pri ciple is that if we look too long upon the way we ha come il unfits us for the road ahead. It would foolisb for any but the coolest and most expE mountaineer to gaze overlong down the precipic and steep ways he has skirted in his climb.1 might be unnerved for the still more arduous clii ing before bim. So it behoves us in business not look longer on the past than is absolutely necessi te remember and profit by the lessons we hi, learned. Away witb retrospect. The past belongs to yeste: day. We belong to the present and the future. 01 duty is before us-to keep our eyes forward, te pre on. ever alert to new ideas, te modern innovation and to changes and advances in our particular bus ness. To keep looking backward la 10 invite the fi of Lot's %vif e-petrif action. An old savant speakir of youlh said "no man bathes twice in that sair stream." The same can be said of the past. No ma can recaîl what is gone. So the best thing is te foi get it. Looking backward is negative. Looking forward positive. A great many people still live in the pas They go througb" life with the same set of ideas wit whicha they started out. But. to, your true progret sîve. every day is a new experience, a new challeni a new opportunity to wrest f rom if e wbat is mc. desired. With these kind of people the failuresc yesterday are disçcounled and forgotten in the suc cesses of tomorrow. Those Who Stay at Home A trip back to a section of the country not visite oflen since boyhood days brought the tbougbt, say the Acton Fiee Press, Ihat 0f ten Ibose wbo strayt other fields do flot give due credil to those wbo re main in the home communily and maintain thes places. Not only do they maintain these cominunit les loyally but they are often the source of all histor ical information regarding the familles and the day of other years wbich are such a favorite topic wit] most ail. Somelimes the wanderer returna successfu and at other Urnes in adverse circumslances. Hi energies have been used te promote bis own or othe activities in another comrnunity. Always. bowevei cornes the urge to returfi 10 the boybood scenes. Jus supposing all the boyhcod frienda had lef t the honi community for other f ields. Who would be there t welcome the wanderer? Who would be there to poli out the changes and give the family connections' Wouldn't the return visit f ahI flat? Pioneers are al ways needed. Not ahI can stay in the home nest. bu a visit to former scenes ancf f riendships of other day. does bring a deep appreciation of those wbo remainec and furthered the interests and welfare of the corn rnunity and kept it in step with advanced conditions Inclifference of SmaII Town Merchants Mr. Ed. Bovay. President of the Cobourg Branch cf the Retail Merchants' Association of Canada, haý sent the folloving letter to Mr. L. Jones, Provincial Orga nizer: Sir: I herewith tender my re.signation as Presi- dent cf Cobourg Bî'anch R. M. A. Lack of interest to the extent that members do not even attend diir- ectors' meetings has caused thîs decis'on,." It inust be a relief to the directors and officers of Bownianville Branch of this organization to find that this town is not the only one accursed with a letb- argic men*s organization. President W. C. Caverly of this town can tell the saine Story of diî'ectors fail- ing to attend meetings and members takîng no in- teî'est ini the organizatioiî at aIl. Never in the history of Canada were the inde- pendent merchants presented with such an oppor- tunity to make tbemselves felt in the caîl foi' a new deal for the sinaîllhbusiness man. For yeai's local merchants have decried the coming of the chair stores, the competition off the departmental stores, and mail order bouses, anct the unfair and unethical prac:îces of some manufacturers wbich have giver prcferences 10 big buyers ov'er the small buyer. With the Stevens Investigation still .sitting and scores of incidents of business malpractice coming 10 hîght, one would tbînk that the independent merchants wvould unîte in demanding faji' treairnent and t.he i'e.toration. 0f fair compelition. But quite appai'ently tbey are flot interested. They Editorial Notes We may hav.e lesata live on but we bave as nurb as~ cyci ta lîve for! Le's go foim-ard! It ivill give us more to live on !-Guelph Mcrcury. There are rumors abroad Ihat the Town Counicil askcd the aid of the Canadian National Railway in closîng the road te the West Side Beach. Notbing could be farther f rom the trutb. The counicil would ghadly have had Ibis road kept open if the Raihway would bave given permission 10, use the crossing as a rigbt of way. Mayor Strike pointed ouI in Council ast year thal it was doubtful whether' tbe railway wauld permit the public crossing at Ibis point. Il is unfoîtunate that conditions are sucb as tbcy are, but West Side residents sbould bave ruade certain of their rigbt 0f way inte Itheir properlies aI lihe lime they purchased them. for not np- ac- nal nce ýers. s of new old the ,wn rin- ave be )ert [ces He nb- îry ve OUR SHAKESPEARIAN SEASON Puck: "Shaîl we their fond pageant see? Lord, what fools these mor- tals be."-A Mid-night Summrer's Dream, Act III. - Strube, in the Daily Express, London. Consolidation Plan M.thod Will Reduce Government Costs ur (Editerial in Sherbrooke Record) ~5We had two elections. one in On- nis, tario and one in Saskatchewan. Lsi Before tbey were completed the question was discussed as 10 whe- ate ther they would result in victories ing which would line Up the provinces ne in a political party of another com- ýan plexion from that of the Federal ir- The effecl of sucb an aligniment was fairly evident in the minds of is everyone in that il would necessar- st. ily determine the date of the next general eleclion. Could anything 1h more fatuous be found oulside the s- ranks of the insane? ge. We have got 10 a point when we have to give consideration to the Mst whole malter of governiment. It is Of primarily one of expense. It is a ic- malter of cominon sense, the end- ing of an absurdily whicb is inirnical 10 the welfare of the nation. Surely we may begin with tbis fundemental statemenl of belief, that we are aIl citizens of Canada. Our franchise is not 0f a province. ed Il is 0f the Dominion. Our foolish syslem 0f provincial Lys rule and power is an axe laid aI 10 the root of a tree, a canker worm e-inserted mbt the if e of the body politic, nol by sorne scoundrel of ýse another clime or race, but by Our'- it- selves. r- We sbould begin ta learn the ý methoda of man and put away cbild- ish things. th It is now seven decades since Con- ýul fedieration was accomplisbed and is the British North America Act was er actuaUly concluded. 0f that Act we er have made a fetish most often to Eýour own undoing. [st It has been enough 10 make a ne stalemale on remedial legilaaion 10 declre hatthe proposai was con- to trary' b the Act. Il was a good tbing nt for ils own day but il is no more ? sacrosanct than the pants of L the boy setting off to bis first day of ut chool are f itled for the man who il takes bis grandcbiidren on bis knee. YS We profeas to belong 10 Great d Britain. not only on the whole by (- blood relationship. but by the tra- ls Iions of goverrnmenî. In that Mo- 5. herland there la one government which flot only looks after the in- tere.zts of forîy-six millions of peo- pie but bas a foreign department affecting the peoples of aIl the Em- pire. an Empire so x'ast thal it is f neyer out of the range of the sun. is Have we so far forgotten the bis- LItory of that country that we have obliberated Irom our minda that the day was when ils divisions were as - numerous as our own? Those were t bbe days of the illiberate pagan. But iii more modern limes there was a union of Parliament. IWhen the day came for the last if sitting of the S2oltisb Pariament Lt one of the leaders was expecled to deliver an o:atîon extolling the - glories of the past. and singing a Y sivan song, perbaps binting that the - day of legislation in these historic - walis migbît retuî'n. Witb a causlic wit hie reduced bi'evity 10 its small- est proportions by saying. "Hlere's an end 10 an auld song, Let us a'awa 10 London." It was flot vulgar levily. Il was jt plain Scottish common sense. Let aîwo.e _>f even inoderate in- telligence who bas seen the Mo- ther Parliainent at work visil any of 1oui' provincial parliaments. Look at the costly buildings, observe the iSpeaker in bis dignified chair, take 1înote of the division mb Govemn f ment and Opposition benche.lse t-o the pîliful twaddle which is surnred Up in the phrase "playingi sipolitics," a jollying for party ad- * vantage. and hie will insensibly con- clude that be sees grown men en- gaged in a baby show. If lie informs himself as tD the matters whicb cDsi rnoney, more than any other service in the land hie will soion discover Ibal there is a waste whîch assumes colossal pr'o- portions in the litigation as bebween a province and thýe Federal Gov- ernmenb. Who has the right 10 na- tural resources? Il is Canada or ia itl Alberta? Is it Canada or is it Manitoba? Is il Canada or ia il thal place proudly named by ils inhabi- tants as "The Island"? The lîigation is true 10 fomm 0of the lawlý's delay and the enormous ccsts. Let the malter be seltled. But' bere is the mad absurdily. that whatever the verdict il is the Cana- dian who pays the costs. Hle pays costs 0f bath sides of the liligation. If wc ever can say Ibat in maltera of dollars and cents we should do Ibis or that here la a crying need to say "Let us consolidate." Th"" "' meet the objection that th 's country of mileage go great neds .O ay goverrnments let us re- fcthat distance in this age la aiini. hated. And, taking another leaf f rom the book of the Mother- land, look aI the work of ber County Cauncils. Thcy show our provincial budgets as puerile. If we are now grown iUp, for these. and more co- gent reasons, lcI us consolidate. l1'n going to start a garden," an- nouneed Mr. Skyzygy, "and in a few' 1nsonths f rom nnow TI wn'l 'have 1 VACATION TIME HAS ARRIVED This is a season of the year which Most people look for>vard te with, pleasurable anticipation, especially those who can take a vacation without mnterfering with their busi- ness. Of course, the school children welcorne these two months of holi- days and relaxation rrom the re- straint which surrounds them during the greater part of the year. They are better f itted at the end of Au- gust te, return to their studies. People who are engaged in work of an exacting nature are glad when the time arrives for them te get away from the office, f actory, etc.,1 for a two-week period. They are bet-1 ter for their absentation provided they are able to forget thse cares of business for a time. A vacation is of little use te a person who, even though he may be many miles away. continues to fret and worry about how things are going a£ home. Us- ually things go along just about as well without them for such a short period. There are many. however, who are so situated as to be unable te enjoy the pleasures of a vacation. Their calling in life may be such that te leave for any length of time would be detrimental, ai- though even some of these might take leave of absence if they made up their mincis te do il. The tired business man who can afford to have a summer home 10- catied in some semi-secluded spot flot f ar f rom Uis place of business and who even for the evenings. on Sunday and the weekly haîf-holi- day. may hide away there, may be cornsidered fortunale. He can get a certain amount of relaxation each year and still be able te look af 1er his aff airs. shc for self me: ed of1 whi Everyone who can possibly do so ould take a vacation. even if onlyl ýone week. He owes il 10 him- ,f: be is belter off physically and entally, and comts back refresh- 1and in a more oplirnistic frame mmnd 10 carry on the arduous hife âicb accornpan!z7s every business. Three Good Reasons WVHY'e*o The Canadian Statesman Should FOI Your Modernly equipped, T h e Statesman is prepared to fil1 your printing needs, no miatter what the Job may Ibe. Service is a feature of The Statesman Job Prinlting iDepartment. Unusual ser- vice is given at a,1Jtimes and jobs are completed promptly. tfýj dký' Billheads Business Cards Circulars Coin Envelopes Church Envelopes Counter Check Books Dodgers Envelopes Invitations Here are a few Labels Letterheadis Phone 53 Receipt Books Sale Bis Letter Advertisements Statements Milk Tickets Shipping Bis Noteheads Shipping Tags Order Books Social Stationery Office Forms Tickets Progranis Visiting Cards Pamphlets Wedding Stationery It's Spring again!I Sheppard & Giii Lumber Co. Ltd. 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