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v considered a public utility. : : war of two and a half years. spaded with Tudor roses, and had a fourteen foot train. {== were eleven votes short of the No : HEN AY, a i Sh CNT TS i ad 4 1 Watch your label; it tells when your $1.50 per year in advance 5 cents single copy i subscription expires. : >0RT PE RY STAR PORT PERRY, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13th, 1934 SAMUEL FARMER, Editor and Publisher small office holders. during the past year in the paper mills and other industries. 77 7: Rural electrification should be developed on larger scale v 'General News of the Week. Price-fixing of milk is a possibility in the near future. -------- ---- Hours (Continued from last week) People say: "One can't help one's * ¥ * ) % v " Jugoslavia has promised to stop deportation of Hungarians. bmn a Tg Sa : J : possible. And 'since nothing what- - C. L. Murray, a Toronto flyer, was injured in a plane crash ever happens to us outside our own on Sunday. En brain, the supreme importance of be- ing able to control what goes on in Britain has offered to help police the Saar valley at the forth- (nat mysterious brain is patent. For coming election, : without the power to concentrate-- ey : , that is' to say, without the power to Mayor Stewart, of Toronto, will not enter the contest for the gictate to the brain its task and to mayoralty for 1935. : ensure obedience true life is imposs- ible. Mind control is the first element as leader to defend of a full existence, Hence, it scems to me, the. first business of 'the day should be to put the mind through its paces. It is for this portion of the art and craft of "living that I have reserved the time from the moment of quitting your door to the moment of arriving at "your office, "What? I am to cultivate my mind in the street, on the platform, and in the train?" Precisely. Nothing simpler! No tools required! Not even a book. Nevertheless, the affair i is not easy. : When you leave your house, concen- trate your mind on a subject (no mat- ter what, to begin with). You will not have gone ten yards before your mind has skipped away under your very eyes and is larking round the corner with another subject. Bring it back by the scruff of the neck. Ere "you have reached the station you will have brought it back about 40 times, Do not despair. You cannot by any chance fail if you persevere. It'is idle to pretend that your mind is Jusranis of concentration. De~ydu Hot Temem- ber that morning when you received a disquieting letter which demanded a very carefully-worded answer. How ¥ % ¥ Premier Bennett has decided to stay Canada in this time of need. * ¥ % Hon Harry Nixon has suggested that milk distribution be * ok * 'Paraguay declares that Bolivia has ceased fighting after a * ok A baby python was found in a bunch of bananas delivered to a grocery store in Hamilton. oy Robert Harcourt Lindsay, head of the Honey Dew, Ltd., died in Toronto on Thursday, December 6th. * % % Dr. Dafoe of Dionne quintuplet fame is visiting-in New Yor and has become the "lion" of the occasion. * % % SET The wedding gown of Princess Marina was of silver lame bro- * ok % Alderman Hunt, and Controllers Ramsden, McBride and Simp- gon are all candidates for the mayoralty in Toronto. - 7 ; * kk ; Dr. J, G. Wishart, a noted ear, nose and throat specialist, died in Toronto on Wednesday, December 6th. * : EE I Te! | Japan claims to be leading in the struggle for world peace in her demands for equality of naval armaments. : web t L0 ipness * % ok : "Tt is claimed that in future "political pull" will have no place in the appointment of doctors in Provincial institutions. you kept your mind steadily on the ®x Xk % : ; ; "subject of the answer until you reach- Grimsby Liberals endorsed a resolution of protest to Premier ed the office; whereupon you instantly Hepburn for his use of the "spoils system" in the removal of sat down and wrote the answer? That was a case in which you were roused vitality that you were able to domji- nate your mind like a tyrant. You in- kk Xx . Sixty-six persons were executed by firing squads in Moscow afte conviction on charges of preparing terrorist plots against high Soviet officials. : : 1 Ay * Kk x : : 2 1 The chairmanship of the Temiskaming and Northern Ontario Railway Commission is to be filled by the appointment of Colonel Malcolm Lang, of Haileybury. and its work was done, ' By the regular practice of concen- tration (as to which there is no secret--save perseverance) you can tyrannize over your mind every hour of the day, and in no matter what place. I do not care what you cén- centrate on, so long as you concen- trate. It is the mere disciplining of "the thinking machine that counts. But still, you may as well kill two birds with one stone, and concentrate on something useful. I suggest--it is * ok % Hon. W. D. Euler has advocated a two-billion dollar holding: company to take over the C. N. R. and the C.P. R., each to retain its identity and its liabilities. x ¥ Premier Hepburn has been visiting New York, but no political significance is said to be attached to the visit, as the people of Ontario are "well able to finance themselves." = - : * % x i Mareus Aurelius or Epictetus. Read "Alfred Ertel was_shot through the heart while attempting a chapter in. the evening and concen- to escape from Mimico Reformatory Brick Works. He was one trate on it the next morning. You of four who #vere trying to escape. The other three escaped. jo see. : 228 2 4 {Now you are saying yourself: "This A Canada wide scheme for the conservation of water is under fellow had begun to interest me. But consideration, as drought areas are likely to spread if steps are what he says about thinking on trains, not taken to prevent this disaster. , and on concentration, and so on, is not » * % % 'for me. The "wets" won in a plebiscite vote to retain Beer and Wine some folks, but it isn't in my line." oy " "» three fifths vote to win; but It is for you, I passionately repeat. licenses. The "drys" had to Se vas J) 3 8 in; nde pedi appa i ow * x 2 : aiming at. Throw away the sugges- Thorald Board of Trade celebrated its forty-third anniversary 'tion and you throw away the most ! PAT A precious suggestion that was ever of- on November 29th. Speakers claimed a large increase in business Sori to Fon. Tey it Cat vonr ning : ,in hand.- And see how the process : i Ady ; cures half the evils of life--especially Establishment of minimum wages, a standard hour week, and .worry, that miserable, avoidable, the elimination of -cglied "loss Josue has been favored bY gpameful disease--worry! ; ain food stores in Canada. - : several Jarge chain dh : The Reflective Mood. Investigation of trade conditions in Nova Scotia have been in-' The exercise of concentrating the vestigated by a Commission. The Commission which was created mind (to which at least half an hour by the Government of Nova Scotia makes these major recommend- a day should be given) is a mere pre- ations: : : ; liminary, like scales on the piano. ; Eo : ? Having acquired power over that most 1. Proposals respecting substantial changes in Federal tariff y,uly member, one has naturally to policy should first be. submitted by the Dominion Government t0 put it to the yoke. A course of a conference of Provincial Premiers. - _ | primary study is indicated. si : $8 Now as to what this course of study 92. There should be a periodic review of Federal subsidies ( \ paid to the Provinces, based on fiscal needs, Population is not a should be there cannot be any ques- : : tion, It is 'the study of one's self. proper basis for determining thege subgides... 4 Man; know, thyselt, 'Thess words sre 8. A Federal Trade Commission should be established to so hackneyed that I blush to write deal with unfair trade practices. them, yet only the most sagaclous put ; ir . 3 : +. + jthem into practice. I don't know why. 4. Canadian National Railways management should establish T's convinced that what is mare than closer contact with Nova Scotia. : 7 anything else lacking in the life of 5. Dominion Government should transfer Nova Scotia the average well-intentioned man of fisheries to the Province and continue Federal contributions to How to Live on Twenty-Four (Readers' "able we shall be. sisted that its work should be done, only a suggestion--a little chapter of, It may be well enough for | RR I a Day Digest.) . We do not reflect. I mean that we do not reflect upon genuinely import- ant things; upon the problem of our happiness, upon the main direction in which we are going, upon what life is giving to us, upon the share which reason has. (or has not) in determining our actions, and upon the reaction be- tween our principles and our conduct. 'For happiness does not spring from physical and mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to prin- ciples. Do not fear that I mean to thrust certain principles upon your attention. All I'urge Is that a Ife in which con- duct does not fairly well accord with principles is a silly life; and that con- duct can only be made to accord with principles by means of daily examina- tion, reflection, and resolution. The less we reflect, the less reason- The next time you get cross with the waiter because your steak is over-cooked, ask reason to step into the cabinet-room of your mind, and consult her. She will 'pro- bably tell you that the waiter did not cook the steak, and had no control over the cooking; and that even if he alone was to blame, you accomplished nothing by getting cross; you merely lost your dignity, looked a fool and soured the waiter, while producing no effect whatever on the steak. The result of this consultation with reason (for which she makes no charge) 'will be that when onge more your steak is over-cooked you will treat the walter as a fellow-creature, remain quite calm, and politely insist on having a fresh steak. = The gain will be obvious and solid. In the formation of principles, and the practice of conduct, much help can be derived from books. I mention Marcus Aurelius and Epictetus. I also mention Pascal, La Bruyére, and orchestral instruments and plans of the arrangement of orchestras) you would next go to a concert with an astonishing intensification of interest in it, Instead of a confused mass, the orchestra would appear to you as what it is--a marvelously balanced organ- ism whose various groups of mem each have a different and an indispens. able function. You would spy out the instruments, and listen for them. You would know the gulf that separates a French horn from an English horn, and perceive why a player of the haut- boy gets higher wages than a fiddler, though the fiddle is the more difficult instrument. You would live at a con- cert, whereas previously you had merely existed there in a state of beatific coma, like -a baby gazing at a bright object. Fake Christians n By Dr. Wilfred T. Grenfell (Abridged from a bulletin of Ameri- can Library Association. So many imposters have impudently assumed the label "Christian" that everything has been perpetrated in the name of Christianity--from the claim of infallibility to the regulation which forbade growing a red rose in one's garden because it was "worldly", from cruelty and persecution to quar- relling as to how many buttons should be worn on the Sunday frock coat. During a third of a century's work among the fishermen of the North, Atlantic coast we have never made the fact that anyone does or does not think as we do the criterion of his fit- ness. na "Well done" was what Christ's religion aimed at--not "correctly thought." . The one map whom He gondemned to the "place prepared for the devil" was not the Agnostic (today -every modest man admits this impeachment) but the unprofitable servant. . Thus a boy of nine (who knew no theology) saw a little child in danger of being run over by the Twentieth Century Limited. He dived for the 'child and saved it but lost a leg in the venture. N co Religion in everyday life unites people. When it comes to setting Emerson. But no reading of books will take the place of a daily, candid, honest examination of what one has] recently done, and what one is ahoyt| to do--of a, steady looking at one's self in the face (disconcerting though the sight' may be.) . When shall this important business be accomplished? The solitude of the evening journey home appears to me to be suitable for it. A reflective! mood naturally follows the exertion of having earned the day's living. Of course, if, instead of attending to an elementary and profoundly important duty, you prefer to read the paper (which you might just as well read while waiting for your dinner) I haye nothing to say. But attend to it at some time of the day you must. I "now come to the eyening hours, : Interest in the Arts Many people remain idle in 'the Mid) because they think there is no alternative to idleness hut - the study of literature; and they do nat "happen to have taste for literature. This s a great mistake. There are enormous fields of knowledge "quite outside literature which yield magnifi- cent results to cultivators. For ex- ample you go to concerts. You smoke your cgarette (and I regret to say that you strike your matches during during the soft bars of the '"Lohen- grin" overture), and you enjoy the music. But you say you cannot play the piano or the fiddle. What does that matter? Surely your inability to perform "The Maiden's Prayer" on a piano need not prevent you from making yourself: familiar with the construction of the orchestra to which you listen. As things are, you probably think of the orchestra as a heterogeneous mass of instruments producing a confused agreeable mass of sound. You do not listen for details because you have neyer trained your ears to listen to details, If you were asked to name the in- struments which play the great theme at the beginning of Beethoven's C minor symphony--which has thrilled you--you could not name them for your life's sake. All that you can positively state about the C. minor symphony is that it is a oll fine thing." Now, if you have read, say, Mr. Krehbiel's "How to listen to Musie (which contains photographs of all the today is the reflective mood, development of fishing industry. : 6. Legislation should be enacted to 'promote co-operative movement in agricultural and fishing industries, - "in Nova Scotia, : bay Port Perry Christmas Fair is Set for Thurs, Dec. 20. bones, operating on blind eyes, picking up orphan children, giving a ghance to the under-dog, helping lame ones over stiles, it is wonderful to see in what similar actlons our differing opinions result, B That is what God judges us by, so Christ told us. Think of a Protestant pill or a Roman Catholic plaster! When a Methodist friend bequeathed to me in her will two no longer needed legs, we fitted them to a legless Roman Cath- olic lady on our Coast, and they func- tioned just as well as though they had been orthodox -legs, and they proved themselves the necessary message ot the love of God. Indeed the od lady confessed it, for when she found that she had heen made to walk she kissed me on both cheeks hy way of pay- ment, We have made religion ridiculous 1by. insisting that others should think as we do. A short while ago a well- known and well-beloved educator in the missionary field had his eyes tested for war service. He was told to select a sky-blue skein of wool from a bunch. He picked one and it turned out to be a pink one. I envy you your pink sky," was all that the ex- aminer commented. On my hospital steamer a volunteer deck hand, when- ever he saw a green light, always thought it was red. We used him, however, but not on deck. One of my invaluable lady helpers cannot stay in a house with a cat; another cannot live without one. A certain man to whom we gave lodide of potash turned blue and died; another patient has to take it every day in order to live. We are individuals all through. Every mother knows that her baby is individual. Why worry if our thinking ma- chines do react differently. Love is a keen discerner of truths, and there is good in the worst of us as well as bad in the best, deny it who will. Christ's way to bring out the best was his superb faith in men. He sent out the treacherous Iscariot to preach the fatherhood of God and to heal the sick, as he did the faithless Thomas, the lying Peter, th ambitious James and John and the rest of the apostles, who at first all ran away. Religion in everyday life is not any mental submission or attitude or in- fallible comprehension. Religion. is doing justly, loving mercy and walking humbly before God. The way one man gets his inspira- tion and his power is not another man's businéss or responsibility--nor need it have any label, | id 4 Book Review A VALUABLE CONTRIBUTION BY-DR. H. A. BRUCE It has been remarked many times YS that when the Lieut-Governor of On- tario made a public address he did not indulge in platitudes, but took pains to give information of a character helpful to his audience. Public service of this kind is necessarily wide in its scopp, and His Honour Col. H. A. Bruce simply had to collect his num- erous addresses and print them in a single volume in order to make a very valuable contribution to Canadian literature. Dr, Bruce is no pessimist as will be shown by this quotation from an ad- dress delivered in the City Hall, To- ronto: "The mettle of our people has been subject to the severest test which has been experienced within the memory of the oldest of us: the slow attrition which has been more than any panic hag, left its effect upon our morale; but it has left our Province, as it has our Dominion, with solidarity unim- paired, prestige urldiminished, and the courage of our people undaunted." Dipping into the book at almost any page, you will find practical good| sense and a keen appreciation of life in its many phases. For instance: "There is both disadvantage and an advantage in living close to a great city. The disadvantage is that rural peacefulness is Invaded by city dwel- lers who seek occasional escape from the heat and turmoil of the city. ar" who, all too frequently, leave the wreckage of their picnics behind them and tear to shreds the serenity of country life, "On the other hand Men who come to the country to stay, to spend, shall. we say, their declining years, are quite definitely an asset." Port Perry people are naturally proud of the fact that Dr. Bruce spent a number of the formative years of his life in this village, and they have watched with thankfulness his faithful and intelligent administration of his dutles as Lieutenant-Governor of On- tarlo, Dr. Bruce's book is entitled "Our Heritage and Other Addresses", and has been published by the Macmillan Company of Canada, Toronto. The price is $2.50. --_-- eo - ARTHUR HAMMOND IN OSHAWA HOSPITAL IN SERIOUS CONDITION Car Collided With That Driven by Dr. James Moore, County Registrar, on Friday Night. Arthur Hammond, aged 30, a radio salesman living at 2238 Dundas Street West, Toronto, is in the Oshawa Gen- eral Hospital in a very serious condi- tion as the result of injures he re- ceived in an autombile accident' at Brooklin on Frday night about 6.30. Hammond, alone, and driving a light car, was comipg south, when he met head on a car going north, driven by Dr. James Moore, of Brooklin, re- gistrar of deeds and ttles for the county of Ontario, who with his daughter; Evelyn, was on his way home from Whitby. Dr. Moore was driving a heavy car which probably savéd him from rolling over into the ditch. In the impact his car struck the stub of an old pole and this brought it to standstill. Jumping from his car, Dr. Moore proceeded to investage and found Hammond unconscious in a reclining position, his head havng struck a post of the door, the glass of which was shattered, With Dr. J. H. Mec- Kinney, who was sent for, the two doctors rendered first aid to the ter- ribly injured man and he was rushed "to the Oshawa Hosptal, where late last night his condition following an operation was reported to be grave. He was thought to have sustained a fractured skull, Dr. Moore and his daughter had a narrow escape from death or serious injury as their car was badly wrecked, The windshield was smashed, the left front wheel, fender and running board was torn off and other damage done. The Hammond car was also damaged. Dr. Moore's daughter was thrown for- ward in the impact and sustained a bruised knee. Dr. Moore told Traffic Officer Run- ciman that he saw the Hammond car approach on the wrong side of the road and the crash came so quickly that it was hard to tell at first what had really happened. The accident occured in front of the Brooklin school at the second intersection of No. 12 and No. 7 highway, and the noise of geod Shes the crash could be heard for a long distance. i Traffic Officer Runciman said that it was apparent from the position of the cars that Hammond was on the wrong side. of the road. Hammond is a widower with one child and was Mr. E. Lightfoot. --Oshawa Daily Times -- i = prea MRS. CHAS.. FREDERIC PELHAM . BELL-SMITH (nee Frances Louise Mellow) daughter f Mrs. S. J. Mellow and the late Di. Mellow, whose marriage to Charles Frederic Pelham Bell-Smith of To- ronto, took place in Oshawa, on Wed- nesday, December 12, 1934. Cut courtesy of Toronto Star -- Te GO ---------- BUILDING BURNED AT BROOKLIN Fire of unknown origin, which. broke out in a frame garage owned by A. E. Robinson. local undertaker, shortly' after one o'clock on Sunday afternoon, completely destroyed the building to- gether with a valuable hearse and an automobile. The loss is partially covered by insurance, but the loss will be in the neighbourhood of -$3,000, it is said. ST It was learned that Mr. Robinson shortly before had driven his car into the one storey frame garage after re- turping_ from church. After entering the house he heard a noise and looked out to find the building a mass of flames. The volunteer fire brigade under the direction of Percy Stover was called and did yeoman service in saving the large frame house of Mr. Robin- son which was only a few feet away from the garage. The brigade were assisted to a great degree by the direction of the wind as otherwise the business section of the village would have been menaced. . MANCHESTER Mr. J. White has returned to To- ronto after spending a few days with Arnold Roach. f Mrs. T. Lamb has gone to stay with Mrs. T. Smith for the winter in Blackstock. Mrs. Howard Dobson and sons are visiting in London. Glad to report Miss Barret is some what improved in health at the time of writing. The Christmas tree will be held on December 21st, a good program will be given. Don't fail to be at the Club on Thursday, December 20th, to see Johnnie's Pa play Foot Ball. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson visited with Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Gerrow, Miss Dorothy Roper of Toronto | visited friends here last week. Mr. and Mrs. James Mitchell in Chicago attending the funeral of Mrs. Mitchell's father. We extend our sympathy to Mrs. James Mitchell in the death of her father, Mr. Howsam of Chicago. Mr. Ernest White, Grace, Mrs. White and also Mrs, Harold Beacock of Nestleton motored to Torpnto on , Saturday. Mrs. White and Mrs. Bea- cock remaining in the city for a few days at the home of the former's son, M. F. White, B.A. Recent visitors at the home of Mr. Ernest - White were: Mr, and Mrs, Everett Watson and daughter, Clara of Greenbank, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Beacock and son, Allan of Nesleton. a FB DON'T FORGET the dates of the High -School Com- mencement--December 13th and 14th, See bills for details. driving a car owned by his partner,' Rr EY A pe WS, CS - Me a? hs path rat IRL rt Se, +11 tans" os 4 pr A Bh iy - -