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¢ takes effect on Feb, th. "Right Hon. George P. Graham, who wil | elevated Senate, will presid EE sail | over the three-day hearing scheduled pramRassNER Naz assEsRsangy | for this week. He RE 7,1 Long Shy le Sketch of Quebec. ort Perry, Ont. Dear Sir:=~I think I wrote you in my first letter that I had Yever been in Quebec city, just looked at it from Levis across the ver. Sx ' eri Yesterday returning from New Brunswick, I found that my train was to take me there and I was pleased to know that the next one did not leave for more than two hours. Lawrence river I saw the frame work of the wonderful Quebec * og Large bottle $1.00 nchiti ley Jed. > per bottle r's Remedies kept in stock. Parke Davis Medicated Throat 8 DISCS for throat irration. : - § Weeks' Break-a-Cold Tablets ~ § . Price per box [rEg ere Morrison's Drug Store Port Perry : wie Ontario g iy Tok ¥ 5 ¥ . 'The Peoples' Meat Market iL We sell everything you want in choice, clean, palatable, nutritious and satisfying meats. TR _If you want it geod © BERT MacGREGOR "Will do the rest. Ring up Phcne 72. 'g Bronchitis Mixture, Strong and. EENNBERENEE YSERA ENN RD a g | hour. egg baskt when prices are high. = Blateh- ford's Laying Meal will help you wonder- fully. Tryit! We also have Oyster Shell and Grit. which are just as necessary as 'other feed if you are to get best results. - A full line of Groceries, ts '& Shoes, ~~ Rubbers and Overshoes. = We also buy Clover Seed of all kinds. Bring in a sample and get our quotations. J. F. McCLINTOCK = . PORT, PERRY, ONT. Blatehford's Laying Meal - ' This is the time of the year you should be "geting" Jou hens In" condition-to' fifithe -- {1 WE SERVE TO PLEASE Try our Bread, Buns, and ~ Confectionery, and you will be pleased. = ~~ i ONTARIO RIDING LIBERALS . ESTABLISH SOCIAL CLUB A b of repr ive Li- bérals met on Saturday last, to con- sider the organization of a Club for the riding of Ontario, to be located in Oshawa. The idea met with teh 'approval of all present and the initial steps were taken, The object of the club is to establish a social centre where: citizens interested in the aims i and objects of the Club can drop-in and meet friends and spend a pleasant Recreation and stimulation of citizenship along democratic lines will both find a place. The Club will be | suitably furnished and will be carried on along the lines of the Ontario and Albany Clubs in Toronto. It is felt it will meet the needs of the citizens of Oshawa, and will meet with a ready response from those looking=for Club privileges at a moderate. cost. Tt will also bring from outside of the city many who do not now come or who when they do come, find no place to meet their friends. Quarters have been secured in the third floor. of the Standard Bank Building. Centrally located, light, and overlooking the busy centre of Oshawa, the premises are ideal. This jatest acquisition shows that Oshawa is prepared to assume its obligations by rendering a service to its citizens and its guests. As the details are worked 'out further information will be available. In the meantime it can be announced that the Club is an as- sured fact. Further progress was { made last evening when a larger group met to work out the details. An opening night will_be announced in. a very few days. fs hi HC RN ae « COUNTY COUNCIL The committees of the Council are as follows:! Finance and Assessment--John Ross, (Thorah), Stiver, Sweetman, (Scugog), Philip and Morris. Education--W. Pollard, chairman; Todd; Park, Reid and Croxall. ! Printing--Park, chairman; Middle- ton, McCrae, Sweetman, (Port Perry and Underwood. . County Property--Dearborn, chair- man, Sweetman ,(Scugog), Stiver, Dobson, Lee. Legislation and Memorials--Crox- all, chairman; Ross, (East Whitby), Park, Pollard, and McRae. E Mileage and Per Diem--Dobson, chairman; Till Underwood, McCrae and White. Agricultural---Middleton, chairman; Till, White, Philip, Ross, (E. Whitby) Reforestation -- Lee, chairman; Reid, Ross (Thorah), Morris, Sweet- man, (Port Perry) County Roads--J. M., Forsythe, chairman; Edgar Dure, and Wm, F. Thompson. p Roads and Bridges--G. Sweetman, chairman; Dobson, Ross, (Thorah), Dearborn and Philip. The Council adjourned to Feb. 8th. ------ nr s WIDER SLEIGHS Each succeeding winter brings out more clearly the need of having a uniform width for wagons, cutters, sleighs and autos. This movement will be to the fore now that autos run practically all winter, and the 'main highways are kept open by the Provincial Highways Department. If the widths of all these vehicles was uniform, it would be a compara- tively easy matter to keep the roads 'open. The manufacturers of sleighs recognize this fact and are senc their : Sout: s 'tofind- the | feeling oft the people on the matter. Most farmers will see the value of wider sleighs, and with the increasing _ winter use- of the roads, they will | themselves benefit by the change. 'The cost of widening sleighs, now | on hand would not be very great, an to stand out in its immensity far above the surrounding land- scape. I have seen pictures of it, have gone under it on the train running along the river but formed no idea of the real size of its beams until I crossed it yesterday. The train comes to Quebec from the rear or far side from the river across a very level plain, the station being down on this lower level in what is know as the lowercity. base all smoothed like a piece of furniture, it was some twenty- five feet long and as they were still working on it I thought it was the foundation of an ice palace. There were several of these through the city of smaller design in front of business places. One in front of a barber shop sitting on the edge of the sidewalk, had a square base and top while the centre was round and carved in a winding design to represent the common barbers sign. The ice is smoothed or chiselled to make a finish as smooth as glass. From the station I followed the streets that led up, and after twisting, winding and climbing steep, then steeper streets, some wide, some narrow, all very icy, I at last reached the beauti- ful C. P. R. hotel "Chateau Frontenac." The C. N. R. Hotel, "The Macdonald" in Edmonton overlooks the timbered river bottom many hundred feet below. The Banff Springs Hotel at Banff is set in beautiful mountain scenery with the blue:Bow River roaring in the rear, the view from Mount Royal overlooking the city of Montreal with the Lachine Rapids in the distance are all beautiful, each with a setting of its own, but to stand in front of the "Chateau Frontenac" beside that long, heavy iron railing to keep you from falling ovér, thinking of its historic past, city behind you, city below you, looking across to Levis set on rising ground with the beautiful river almost covered with floating ice drfting slowly eastward, stirred feelings in me that I had not felt since I first saw Niagara Falls in all its grandeur. The hotel is not cramped for a setting: at your left looking toward the river is a large open space sloping quickly down, with a large statue in front and another at the side, up which high powered cars are continually coming to and fro with guests. In front a long tobbogan slide between the hotel and the rail- ing running away up to the old fort on still higher ground. On the other side an open air skating rink of good size where some of the younger guests were doing some fancy skating. These with the size and beautiful archiceture of the hotel itself set so high above the water creates a picture all its own. Here also I saw a seven dog team hitched to a long narrow ~+well robed-pleasure sleigh, the driver knelt on behind driving the dogs by word of mouth wherever he wished to go, and when he returned for another passenger and wished to leave the dogs for a few minutes, he tied the leader and two of the dogs of the first and second pairs to the railing, where they stod like horses, only they might occasionally lie or sit. If the driver was away long some would bark for the driver to return in their anxiety to be away again. Yours truly, R. M. HOLTBY. Mr. Holtby's sketch of Quebec calls to mind an extract from a letter received recently by the editor from a friend in Montreal, in which he gives a little picture of the social life there, taken at a new angle. "There has been a fair amount of snow but no really cold weather, only zero two or three times during the night and early morning. As usual, there is lots of winter enjoyment here, skating, skiing, tobogganing and snow-shoeing, all of which usually takes place on the mountain and the slopes surrounding it. It is quite a picture to see the rather bizarre outing costumes against the whiteness of the snow, which savor here of those used in earlier days. As you know, Montreal, although the most cos- mopolitan-of cities, is made up of about eighty per cent. French people who see to it that the customs of their fore-fathers shall not be forgotten and these are revealed in winter sporting cos- tumes; as well as in annual celebrations which have been a habit for two or three hundred years among their folk in Canada. Practically all holidays recognized by the French people are re- ligious holidays and consequently an Anglo Saxon scarcely knows when he may wake up some morning to find the streets deserted of -French people at the usual hour of going to work and only realizes the cause of it by looking at the calendar. "Ash Wed- nesday", "Ascension Day", "St. Jean Baptist Day", "All Saints Day", "Ephipany"; "Conception Day", etc., all of which are Pro- vincial holidays. On the othér hand, Victoria Day, King's Birth- day, Dominion Day, Labor Day, Tharksgiving Day, which are holidays to an Anglo Saxon, are not recognized by the French at all and you would find their business places open as usual on such days." -------- 00s Short Talks on Education The world is reaching a place where the "struggle for exist- ence" is ceasing to be the main factor in life, and humanity is really going to have the right to "life, liberity, and the pursuit | of -happiness." In_other words we are ceasing to have a great mass of poor people such as was common a hundred years or more ago; and most people within our ken, are enjoying advantages that in former days were only open to the rich, and some of these advantages the rich could not have bought with all their wealth. ~~ There is no doubt that adversity did develop sterling char- acter and the rugged virtues of endurance, industry and honesty | do not need hothouse conditions for their best growth. Most of the older folk are agreed that poverty stimulated rather than retarded the people of ability. Most of our big men today started | future stocks would be 'made rd width, NG L _manfully to attain a competence. no dispute with that doctrine; it is as true as Gospel, fact is that we can't get enough adversity and poverty to in this character forming business: The world is ¢ live in than it was fifty years ago no nk about ot. We cannot bring back the hard y ) 3, Nearly all the "Armstrong" ol Hy Montreal, Que, January 21, 1927 In the distance, several miles before we crossed the St.| bridge, at first I wondered what it was in the distance, it seemed] In front of the station, I noticed a pillar made of ice with its] Maximum Security at Minimum Cost. A SAFETY Deposit Box in the nearest branch of the Standard Bank will relieve any anxiety regard- ing the whereabouts of your valuables while permitting free axcess to them -by-you-or-a duly authorized person at any time during banking hours. The cost is less than one cent per day; the value received is an inestim- able sense of security, STANDARD BANK | PORT PERRY BRANCH--H. G. Hutcheson, Manager Branches also at Blackstock, Little Britain, Nestleton Station, Sunderland "= ee pe eg ep ED DD DD power cut the fodder and pulp the turnips. Even if wood is used it is cut by a power driven circular saw. And farming is one of the least advanced industries in the matter of labor saving machinery. Drudgery is nearly eliminated as it used to be known by our fathers. In travel the ease and speed is even more remarkable. We skim from place to place with the rapidity of birds, The wish 1s expressed, and a days journey of earlier years is accomplished in an hour with a comfort unknown to our parents. Almost every business of manufacture is less laborious than formerly and the conditions of labor are infinitely better than they used to be. The government would not allow conditions to exist such as inspired Hood's "Song of the Shirt." Working hours are shorter, the labor easier and surroundings are wonder- fully improved. ; Once again, then, let it be remembered, that in the life of the average boy or girl poverty and adversity are not big factors in the formation of strong character. Education must serve these youngsters from a new angle. Another .important change in the times is the fact that real wealth is being limited only by the industry and inventive genius of the worker and the thinker. It used to be considered an axiom that there was only a limited amount of wealth in the world and if John had much then Tom would have to take less. Machinery. and 'science have changed all this, and the child of to- day lives in a world crowded with possessions that even Solomon or any other potentate could have wished for in vain. With this new condition there has passed away a fine group of men and women who labored year in and year out for a pittance and whose nobility character was tersely described in that quaint quantrain-- "Honest John Tompkins, A hedger and ditcher Who though he was poor Did not want to be richer," That group of humanity is almost extinct on this continent. Another factor to be considered is this--Class distinctions are passing. George Young of yesterday is not George Young of to-day. Banting mingles with the highest although compara- tively unknown a few years ago. Any boy or any girl may come to the front rank if his brain and general talents of physiqueand mind are trained. What has all this- to do with education? Just this. The boys and girls of today require a better and wider education than the boys and girls of former years. Greater wealth and greater power is to be placed at their disposal, and they must be trained so that they can use that wealth and power so that it will be an advantage to the state. You cannot afford to put these wonder- ful privileges within the control of ill-trained uncontrolled minds. Still further we must consider the new conditions of life. Nobody works twelve or sixteen hours aday year in and year out unless it be the farmer, and his wife, and fewer of them are doing that each year. [The truth is that we all have more leisure than we used to enjoy. ; The student of today must be trained to employ his leisure in a wholesome manner. Ill-used leisure is extremely dangerous to all concerned. If the boys cannot play, but can only "root"; if his idea of a "good time" is to "paint the town red", if he has no hobbies; if he does not read anything but the "pictcher papers" if in short he is unable to entertain himself wholesomely, he be- comes a greater or less menace to himself and the community. Education today means much more than a drilling in the three R's--it is the development of the whole man so that he may live usefully and harmoniously with his fellows. An equipment for such an education as this will of necessity appear extravagant to the older generation who were nurtured in poverty and developed in adversity. Here We Are Agaiii! : Free--One game of hockey, just pay 25c for first game and you get the second one free. - Wowie! Bingo! What did I tell you all you "stay at homes" ? That you would miss the best evening's fun of the season if you did not journey up to the old Arena Gardens on Gasoline Alley last Thursday night when the four teams of the Rural Hockey League met for their weekly encounter. Just let this sift through your old ear warmers, if you miss any of the rest of the games to be played, after being duly warned, blame the missus and not me. For me, I would rather miss my morning. gruel for a week (and that's half my living) than pass up one of these weekly duels on ce. . The pie game dope was all spilled in both games of the double header. The first game was the big surprise of the season when John Harris' Bankers took Seagrave Maroons into camp to. the tune of 6-3, it being the Maroon's first defeat in eleven starts. vel,| It was just like a dose of C. L: O. ,not in a capsul either, for £ Maroons. The Maroons were short two men, their and their pepery manager, Jim Harding. ; cruit in Sam Netley who played well for his company and will be another Worters by another season. Black acted as manager and coach and handled the tear judicously. The Ban were out to hand the Maroons first time in e scythe, Coal has first defeat and almost from Dye of the Bankers,