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1r k.ýiA ' O.;ÂlBER 25± h',1934 TN AN D A S A E MA fl1f AMJT 9tTAb . Established 1854 A Weekly Newspaper devoted te the interests or the town .1 Bowmanville and surrounding country, issued at King 4Street, Bowmanville, every Thursday, by M. A. James & Sons, owners and publiahers. The Canadian Stateaman la a member of the Canadian Weekly Newpapers Association, aiso the Clasa "A" Weeklies of Canada. SL'BSCRIPTION RATES Anywhere in Canada, $2.00 a year; In the United States, 82.50 a year, payable in advance. Single copies, 5 cents. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25th, 1934 The Place of Books in Our Lives In another column of this issue is a list of new books recently placed in the Bowmanville Public Li- brary. It lias been said that the radio, the movies and the motor car have been responsible in a measure for the lack of interest said to have been taken ini recent years in the reading of books. The facts are, how- ever, that the public libraries of this country are do- ing a splendid work and are keeping pace with the demands of the people. In these restless days when nearly everyone seems to be taking a solemnmjoy in finding fault with everything, it is good occasionall to find contradictory testimony. and so one of the miost pleasing things noted recently is that in 19331 Canada's libraries contained 250,000 more books than in 1931, and that circulation of library books had in- creased by 1,220,000 volumes. These are figures worthy of contemplation. They are conclusive proof that people don't go to libraries and carry home books unless they read them and that libraries don't order books unless people read tliem. The only conclusion tliat can be reached, therefore, is that those good people who bewail our wayward ways in the matter of reading are not mucli better than those wlio bemoan our alleged waywardness in other things. It may be true that a lot of us spend a lot of time listening to our favorite movie stars when perhaps we might be doing something f ar more useful and beneficial. On tlie other liand it is just possible that people these days have more capacity for mixing fun and play witli reading and reflection. witli some of the time tliey used to give to just moping turned over to recreation. People of wide contacts in many f ields contend that there are more fairly well-read and well-in- formed people today than at any time in our history. Something of the understancling and appreciation of scliolasticism for its own sake may have been lost, and we may have curious notions about what con- stitutes education, but as against that we have a f ar wider circle of people who read books and more peo- pie who read wortli-while books. Time was wlien, in most communities, the.so-called "bo>okish" man was something of a rarity. Like the old-fashioned schoolmaster, lie wa.s the oracle to wliom most of us appealed when we wislied to, settle some argument. Today one may encounter people in ail walks of life wlio read history, economics, bi- ograpliy, etc., in fact more people want to know more about the world and its ways. FowI Suppers and Church Giving This is the open season for fowl suppers and folki fromn town and country travel miles te enjoy tlieî and partake cof their goodness. And as long as thes, functions are held the editer will likely patronizi tliem, but tliere's another side to this question. Di( you ever stop to think of the cost and work te, pro. vide these bountiful repasts? Recently we were in- terested in an article written by a man on this sub- ject to the Women's Page 0f the Toronto Globe whicli reads: "I1 see that some one is again raising the question of cdurci suppers. If folks would give the value, ir money, of the stuff tley contribute to sudh suppers, the churdli would certainly be f ar aliead. financially. Last year it took nine of our ducks to get us to the dhurci supper. and my wif e worked 1er lead off for about two days before, as she lad a table. We book two ducks, dressed and roasted; a bowl of gravy, a quart of cream. a quart of pickles, and a cake. We paid, my wife and I, thirty-five cents eadli for ad- mission, and twenty-five cents each for our two girls. The ducks were wortli thirty-five cents on the hoof- if ducks have hoofs-so you can figure out how many ducks it took, and we couldn't raise ducks at thirty- five cents eacli. A dhicken of about six pounds would cost seventy-five cents to raise, and my wife says it would serve about six, according te, what they eat at church suppers. You know, at sudh functions the majority don't want to be chewving at necks and bones, or eating gizzards. A five-pound duck costs about fifty cents te raise, and a goose $1.25. It costs me about $14 to raise a 200-pound pig, and today the pigs are worth about $16 alive. Taking every- thing into consideration. it would cost about thirty cents each to put on a fowl supper. Then there is the work-and oh. boy, wlat a work ! The ladies are Planning for about two months before, working for several days before and a couple of days after. I am an eider in the dhurci, but neyer was in favor of raising money in this way. I think the church to- day is organized and ladies'-aided to deatl. If we would give as the Lord prospers us, we would have money for everything." Another writer in simlar vein expresses himiself tliusly: "Every one enjoys the dhurci suPper but the tired liousewif e, who is busily preparing a few days ahead. and is almost exliausted for about a week afterwards. A lady at our churcli used to say: 'Weil, I suppose eadli one will bring enougli to serve twenty people.' It raised mny lair the first time I heard 1er;« but I became accustomed to it. I used to take three pies, pickles, cake, cookies or tarts, salad, a pint of creani. a fowl of somne kind, tvo .elly powders made into jelly, one Pound of butter, and bread, one year four loaves. One great drawback at these affairs is that after the supper is oves' some people f ilI their bas- kets and take home more than they brought. When the artists are paid for there was very little left. Some weary w-omen lad to go next day and dlean up. :['m through! Neyer again! I will give God straight znoney, and not have a big guzzle oser it. I feel that the metlod is wrong." --4-- Encourage Home Town Talent The source of a town's soundest and healthiest growth Is the intelligence and interest of it.s own oCltiens. A town, or a City, is just like a business. rl'ils best businesses find their executives right in their own rankS. Tliey make sales managers out of delivery boys, superlntendents out 0f apprentices, and pres- ,dents alid directors out of salesmen. No town or city so 30mall that It does not contain within its own ze ýid 1- e, Z n S, e ,r k a L As We Face Another Winter A few weeks, and another winter will be upon us Unless miracles occur, it will be one more long, liard, bitter winter for those witliout work and their help. less dependents. Weather forecasts are for another winter of unusual cold. We profess to be a civilized community of luman beings. If we are to remain so, those Ôf us wlio have incomes, large or smaîl, must care for those who have none. We cannot escape it. There tliey are- the jobless and the destitute. We cannot let them go liungry or cold. The responsibilîty is ours to hold our social, political and econom.ic structure together. At the present moment there are less unemployed in this community than at the same period last year, but outside jobs will soon be completed and tlie job- less ranks will increase. In addition to these there are unrevealed scores, wlio, witli the courage and independent spirit of the true Canadian, are endur- ing untold deprivation and hardsiiips, eking out dwindling reserves rather than ask for publicelielp. Rising prices and exhausted resources will throw many of tliese-how many cannot be estimated-on- to the emergency relief roils. We must be ready to care for tliem. We must be prepared. We must be ready to dig down to take up the slack created, through tax evasion or otlierwise, by the chiseler, the slacker, the cheater and the grafter. However, our big, transcending responsibility, as citizens, is to protect our fellow-citizens who have fallen victim to the depression. Are you prepared to make the sac- rifice that your less fortunate neighbor and' lis fam- ily may be properly fed, clothed and have shelter? The Door of Opportunity Most young people, busy as tliey are witlissl and sports, do not think mucli about the bread butter problem. But they know something of anxiety of their parents, and tliey hear of manye cated young men and women for whom there sei to be no place in the busine-ss world. Perhaps ci may ask: "Will there be any job for me when I own brother or sister is unemployed. At times, a twenty-one?" The situation is indeed puzzling.1 there is no need to lose leart about it. The field employment is always clanging. Tliere always hi been and always will be new ways of making living. Would anyone ever have imagined in EngI2 of King Richard's day, that shipbuilding and ov seas commerce would one day employ millions men? Who would have thougît even at the beginnt of our own century. that the "horseless carriag petroleuni production, motion pictures, radio, el would lead to enormous industries? And who knc what may be just around the corner in the way unforeseen enterprises and employment? The bi way is to keep oneself prepared in mind and in mo discipline for wliatever the future liolds.-Sn- Falls Record-News. Editorial Notes Ltiîs than an hour after The Statesman was in t] Post Office last week one observing reader commen cd on our "Home Town Buying" editorial. He sa he noticed a transient recently painting signs on.tI windows of three local mercliants when there arej least tlree good sign painters right in Our own towv It may have been that the out of toi&n chap wer after the job while the local artists just didn't bothe You've got to go af ter business these days. If a mei chant doesn't advertise he shouldn't complain business goes elsewliere. Remembrance Day falling 'this year on Sundo November 11) wiUl be celebrated on that day so fg as the Department of Secretary 0f State is concers ed. In the case of statutory holidays falling on Suri day the provision is made that. the following Monda will be observed for business purposes. Remen brance Day does not faîl into that category. Cele bratson of the armistice ending the Great Wari the feature of Remembrance Day. and the incidenc of its falling on Sunday does not detract but rathe adcLs, in the opinion 0f State Department officiaIs, tý the f itness 0f the day for sudh observance. Any de parture from the provisions in order to provide business holiday on the following Monday will be matter for local ruling. What will your own income be ivlen vou retire, What would your familys income be if you were t< die?, asks the Financial Post. Most men take the capital value of their savings or their estate anc estimate a five per cent yield. That to thein will be the income. But Dominion bonds selI at around 31,2 per cent. Al other interest returnLs have fallen. To count on a safe five per cent is unwise. The man with investments and insurance totalling $100,000 can no longer assume that his family will have $5,000 a year to live on. t is likely to be nearer te $3.500 or $4,000. Dont know how many of our readers are in the $100000 class, but the point is this whatever you are worth now it isn't a bad idea to revise your calculations of your estate for thei wife aind kiddîes you leave behind. The gesture of the generous hearted people of this county and many other places in Ontario in for- waiding car loads of fcodstuffs and clothing to West- ern Canada, where conditions have not been as bright as are being experienced here, is one that will do much to bridge the miles intervening and unite east and west in a brotherly spirit of helpfulness. Time was and is yet that mudli of the prosperlty of Eastern Canada is dependert on the progress and advance- ment of the West. If the market is good in Western Canada we here in the east share in large measure in supplying the needs of the West. It is therefore only fitting that we should also share when the days of adversity are upon sections of the West. It is a duty and a debt we owe, Let us aIl share in whatever way we can in some of the means provlded for help for the West, It is a brotherly gesture. hool and the edu- ems 1am boy But have iga and ver- 0 f ning CWIL - ý* *L - a m - 1 I w aethna group of men on etc., whom a university las set its stamp. lows We produce nothing that we eat. V.0f We could not even lend a liand in the making of anything we see ar- best ound us; and trutli compels me to oral venture the suggestion that in nine- litli ty-nine cases out of a lundred, the chief motive of a college education is to escape actual participation in just suclivork as gives-or ouglit to give-joy to the worker. "It las been truly said that if ten Bachelors of Art were wrecked ini mid-ocea.n, they could not build a the jPontoon to save their lives. They rit- j ould be equally helpless in any aid crti.a1emergency where practical lcnowldge of the ordinary things he around us was imperatively neces- at sary. A statement of the problem isj NM not a solution, and we do not gain, Et much by stating that the systemn is fntit blame and that we are not. er. "You are certainîy not to blame. r- You are the victims of whatever if system we have. I cannot say that I am blameless. I do not believe that a smattering of languages, of mathemnatics, and of history is ed- ,ay ucation. I believe that the system .ar of cramming these things to pass an n- exam ination is pernicious. So. lav- ing been asked for the first time in n- MY life to make an address, I lave y made it an opportunity to enter my ti "ductirn" e proessor con- ej for the duties and responsibilities of r 'life-not to turn out industrial and to commercial bosses, gaffers, time- keepers. and cash-registers. I would hardly be justîfied in taking up your a tume witli these observations alone. a So, in addition. I want to say this: Most of you are destined to be mas- ters of men. You will organize and mobilize their labour. When youj ?see men around you actually creat-J ~~~ in euiul things with their, liands, I ,ould like you te remem- e ber that it wýas my opinion that act- d ual lbour in the arts and crafts and industries is an infinitely great- er contribution to the lappiness of mankind than clipping coupons and living on the sweat of another man's brow " I"It« will not come in our day," con- tinued the speaker, "but the world will ultimately come to understand that thei training of the mind is as1 necessary as the training of the bodY. Why should it be considered an unthinkable thing that a black-' sinîth or a carpenter should need, an education? Why should college men consider it to be degradlng te' handle tools and make useful and beautiful things? Wly sliould a Iuniversity perpetuate sudh a revoIt againsýt Nature In which the man nho does no useful work at aIl is considered a gentleman, and the! creator of wealth and beautiful things should be considered 10w! caste in Anglo-Saxon civilization?" j c k "Iwant to point out to you," the, speaker conti nued, "1that the high-1 est fonrm of culture andi refinemnent! known to mankind was lntlmately.ý associated with tools and labour. In' order te do that I must present to y*ou a picture, Imaginative, but in Saccord with the facts of history and experience." At this point in lis address the speaker raised lis land, and went througli the motions of drawing aside a curtain. "ýGentlemen," lie corporate limits the ability necessary for vigorou growth. Unfortunately, this ability does flot alway express itseif without encouragement. A city or tow: run by successful business men who are good judge of men and who like to help young men, that tow, or city will grow. Let the town's capital and th~ town's vision be controlled by haif a dozen tighl wads who have quit living, and are ruisting, and th~ town will soon be ready for a receivership. Clean young men, fresh andi eager for conquest will be rudely and gruffly put down when they yen ture to step forward. With no opportunities open ii their own town and no encouragement to them, the. seek new parts. and attach themselves to commun. ities where brain and energy are weicome. London Toronto Winnipeg Vancouver 32 \,, LOOK at its features, ride in it, drive it! Tîsen-seareli as you will-you'Il findi no mnatch for this ncwest McjIaugllinfluick at its newv record lowv price. A AlcLauglîlin- I3uiek througli and Ilirough, it is. Froms vahve-in- hcad Straiglît Eight engine, on tlsroîîgli Torque- 'rube Drive and Sealed Chass, tb Fisher Body and Knee-Action Whcc'ls. Is it any wonder that fansilies which have long wantcd a car like this at a price as low-are enthumjîatje about this ncwcst AMcLaugllinBuick value? RQY NICHOLS COURTICE BOWMANVILLE PAGE TW,* COURTICE une us said. "May I introduce to you a J v'n1r~ ~Young Galilean who is a master- ny YOU VVO.JALDj builder--Jesus of Nzrt. n es as if addressing an actual person of and INiiE flesh and blood, the professor said, n "Master, may I ask you, as I have ie By these Young men, whether there is t-JOHN C. KIRKWOOD anything in this roomn that you 'e(Copyright) could make with your hands as Le other men make them?" ARTICLE NO. 3 There was a pause. Then with ;t. slow measured stride, the speaker 1- We were talking-a friend and I- went to the end of the banquetting ýn about the tragedy of men and wo- table, took the table-cover in his nmen who, upon graduation fromn a hand, and made bare the corner and ýY university, cannot find employment, carved leg of the great table. And 1-juSt because there are not enough looking into the faces of the men white-collar jobs these days for the wliom he was addressing lie said: thousands of Young people who are "The Master says, 'Yes, I could eager for them, In the course of our make the table. I am a carpenter.' conversation my friend said that lie i c k had somewhere in his home a news- Let this story comfort those who i paper clipping containing the report toil with their hands and body and ofa very remarkable address given who may lack botli the ability and by a university Professor to a body the desire to go to a university. 1, f his students on the occasion of The End - their graduation. My friend found -____- __ this clipping-very Yellow and brit- According to the Port Hope Guide r tle-and I am going to reproduce a the United Church Fowl Supper was goodly Portion of what this sagac- a splendLid success fer it says they 1 ious professor said. The professor's were "eaten out of house and home". namne is not stated by the telier of A similar circumnstance happened the incident of the banquet and the last week at Eldad Fowl Supper address, which seems a pity. wlieri the crowd was so great that j c k they had to return themn their mon- "Gentlemen", began the guest- ey. Either the depression is over or speaker at the graduation banquet, there are more hungry ones in the "I neyer made a speech in my life. towns and country. and I do not intend to begin now. I- have something, however, to, say. We are in one of the famous banqueting lhalls f the world. Belshazzar's Hall compared t this was a lodging on he third floor back. No sucli art as ý E e around this roomn exîsted inAbu those days. No such viands graced his board. What there was was ele- Ee gant for that day. But we live in an- Ee other age-an age of art, art-crafts-An manship and luxurY. From the four An corners of the earth camne the things jVso on this table. Prom the lowest forms Vso lof day labour to the highest forms 0fart weý have around us samples Ofr at leas a hundred forms of lu- BY C. H. Tuok, Opt. man work. I Eyeslght Speciaist "Take this tabletloth, to begin With. It is of most exquisite work- PAY FOR VISION AND NOT manship. It involves weaving, to go BLINDNESS further back-bleaching, smoothing, Nabr1 designing. It is a damask linen, ubr1 beautiful and most pleasing to the eye. I want to ask you a question. Whether in sport, in business or Is there anyone here who knows in social aspirations, it is the idesire from personal experience anything of every ambitious person to do and about the labour involved? Have any be hLs best. What have the eyes to of you ever contributed any labour 1do about this? One haif of the nerve tthe manuiacturing of table linen? suPPly 0f the lead and one tenth Ito rioue s ,gentlemnen. I anyone of the nerve supply 0f the entire hasI oul lke imtosay so" being belongs to the sense of siglit. And in like manner the speaker Seventy-five per cent f ail our went on witl reference to the ex- knowledge is gained through the amples of pottery and glass and channel of vision andl eighty per china in the room: to the silver cent of, our muscular activities are Plate and ornaments on the table; directed by the eyes. Tetoee to the carpets and rugs in the room. are tirned and tuneci under normal the curtains and drapery, the mural conditions to function in effect as decorations, the flowers on the one organ with the infinite exact- table. nesof tuning in the radio. Bear in j c k mid that the brain is not likely to Andthespekerwen onto ay:make rmistakes if the messages it "Iam a representative university eevsaenr l.Bti75;o man, eriouly asing mseif andal messages received by the brain. manserousy akin myelfandand whicli are transmitted tlirough you whether the systemn which we caîl educationrelyeuas.P- the eyes. are transmitted falsely be- realy eucats. er-cause of ineffilcient vision, there is laps I should have told you at the îikely to follow con.fused thought beginning that I have neyer ex- adiPie uget perienced the joy of fashioning art- adipîe uget icles writh mY own hands, nor any- (To be continued) EMPIRE BRASS MFG. CO., LIMITED -><Are you satistied ta do without Bathroom conveniences? And xithout up-to-date kitchen facilities or other modern requirements that running wvater in your home will instantly make available to you? Prices have never been lower for Canadian-made Emco quality bathroom equipment and Duro Automnatic Pumping Systems. 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