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page 2 ge h wednesday evening mteh 2nd 1938 d tht georgetown herald sabscripuoo bates 10 per year to advance united states 60c additional single copies sc both old and new addresses should be given when chang of address is requested advertising bates legal nq uces 12c per line lor first in sertion 7c per line for each subsequent insertion readers j tie per line for each insertion if in black face type 6c per line additional notices qualifying as coming icrantn fflirh ftfi l concerts entertainments so oted church on- organization meetings etc 3c per line mini mum charge 35c reports meetings- held gladly inserted tree xn memorlam notices 60c and 10c per line extra poems birth marriage and death notices 50c saudi vertlsements one inch or less 60c for first insertion and for each subsequent insertion display advertising rates application although every precaution will be taken to avoid error toe herald accepts advertising in its columns on the under standing that it will not be liable for any error in any ad vertisement published hereun der unless a proof of such ad vertisement is requested by the advertiser and returned to the herald business office duly sign ed by the advertiser and with such terror or corrections plain ly noted in writing thereon and in that case if any error so noted is not corrected by the herald its liability shall not exceed such a proportion of the entire cost of such adver tisement as the space occupied by the noted error bears to the whole space occupied by such advertisement j m moore publisher phone 8 georgetown i thaw in winter slowly the snow shrinks from this upland field under the dull gray hollow of the sky reluctantly it shrinks as with a sigh to let the long brown furrows lie re vealed 1 the murmur of a million tiny st earns breaks on the ear as softly as a bell and from the hilltop hemlocks crows foretell the- coming of the spring that ails their dreams a wind goes by and drops to rise again laden with mist that suddenly seems chill and as the cool expectant air grows sua there rails the silver curtain or the rain elizabeth scourd northern lights researchists are trying hard find out just how much extra energy the tun puts out druing such auroral displays as have been visible in cer tain sections recently not tha any body is going to do anything about turning the aurora off for it seems if the sun wants to work overtime beating the earth as though its at mospheric envelope were an evacuat ed neonfilled tube to be illumined by night as well as by day we cannot even put a meter on it some however studying the direct cause of the northern lights the sun spot which are evidence of severe inrmi in the solar atmosphere would establish a ihtw kind of astrol ogy from the appearance of these spots following lines of reasoning only slightly different from primitive sunworshipers they hold a speckled sun responsible for everything from rapid multiplication of rabbits in northern canada to great interna tional crises and from floods or drought in the middle west to slumps in the stock market yet old sol still keeps his distance 03 000000 miles more or less there is little doubt that the perl odlc appearance of sunspots is ac companied by greater auroral activity and disrputed communications simi larly weather cycles seem to move in harmony with them for roughly 3peaking4he more solar heat the more evaporation of moisture with greater cloud formations and the greater cloudiness the less heat actu ally reaching the earths surface ana the more rain or snow a meteorol ogist has worked out a twenty-three- yfear cycle in which weather pheno mena seem to be repeated a cycle whlchseam to disregard the effect of every other sunspot cycle the question is just how far does such solar influence extend con trary to popular opinion the sunspots cycle though perhaps one of the most certain known is not as definitely regular as many suppose and its con nection with world events other than murorae and communications appears canadas no 1 citizen the following paper was composed and read by miss jean mackenzie or georgetown at a reeeut meeting of the young people in noival presbyterian church on the other side of our dividing line we hear from time to lime of public enemy no 1 naming a person at the very bottom of the line cluxenshlp the very opposite tc no 1 cltlken only one person at a time attains to thu title of public enemy no 1 but i would rather think of no 1 as applying to the top as we all know from grading- of our agricultural products with proper care and growing conditions possible for a great percentage of the crop to be no 1 grade so it is pos sible for all of us to be no 1 cltlsens i am sure each of us has an ideal of a united canada from the atlantic to the pacific living up to the ideals of a christian country a truly free country our background is the fin est our pioneers coming from the old lands bringing with them the benefit of centuries of progress and kg it possible in a number or things for us to leave behind some of the mis takes of the old lands we have our radios aeroplanes transcontinental railway lines all of which should make us a more united land jxls- a very common thingfor us to hear and believe that we are liv ing in a new and difficult age if so we have been given greater resources to cope mth the difficulties to misquote shakespeare the fault lies not in our times but in ourselves it is interesting to see ourselves as others see us the rev t e ver non wellknown writer to the british weekly travelled across canada last summer and in part comments as fol lows no people could be more hospit able no people could put themselves to the utmost inconvenience to do the stranger a kindness no people more gallant in the face of immense dlf- licultles and yet i cannot resist the impression of a curious hardness in the national character as a whole a strange hardening of the heart to the tears and agonies and cries of the underdog something o the same character seems to me to prevade it social services immenselj efficient but also immense 1 officious there is much that disheartens and also much that u full of amazing promise we have the ideals background and intelligence enough to make a fine country and the onl flaw seems i to be in this callousness mentioned j by mr vernon or as we might sa lack of thought for the other fellow or pure selfishness this is also brought to mind by the briefs presented to the roweh commission b various provinces in dustries and groups so far the main theme would seem to be that we ghe too much to the dominion -gox- emmentand get too little and the general solution b to give less and get more and then everything will be alright if we are going to be a united country each of the nine provinces will have to be willing to give up a little to help the whole the countries w hose government receives the most favourable world comment at the present time are tne scandanavian group of norway swe den finland and denmark these are small countries with limited nat ural resources but great resources in their fine citizens the citizens study co operation of their efforts and preservation of their resources for the general good this is all very abstract until we realize that each of us is a citizen of canada and an inhabitant of one of its provinces our representatives are elected by us and reflect to a large measure our wishes citizenship li a personal thing just as a christian life is the result of a personal conviction and a per sonal effort to follow christsjdeals so being a no 1 citizen is a matter for each of us you can t make cits zens by law at least not no i citi zens nor by education i believe a great help would be the study of government and tha we could quite properly have a depart ment of civics in our young peoples societies and make a study of one part of government each month countries eycept those w hoc ling democracy have very definite and complete educational programmes fbr the children and young people their lands it would be a good thing for us to know why we have the form of government we have and what improvements we could brlns about it is very common to hear the complaint that those on reller are out to get all they can or those in gov srnment positions look after them- married of course by jane 0330rn mcaiure newsn per svnd corry mr hawkins was called out of town said the girl in norn rimmed spectacles who came forward to meet kenneth dawson when he entered the private office of the president of the howkms manufacturing company he asked nie to see you and explain i am his secretary the young woman assured jcen- neth that she could take mr hawk ins place in the interview she was aware of the focuthat mr dawson had come as candidate for the posi tion as general director of the works in the east end of the town however said this competent young woman i think mr hawk- ins came to a pretty good under standing with you in his letters he has been assured of your abilities there are a few personal mat ters of course youre married he is quite particular about that he thinks married men are steady and more reliable why yes of course that is stammered kenneth dawson not at all wanting this position to slip through his fingers on a mere tech nicality like marriage im not ex actly married but i intend to be soon there is a lot of detail to talk over said mr hawkins secretary olive ives i suppose you have nothing to do this evening and no where to go you might drop around at my club and have dinner with me and we can spend the evening at the club going over routine so they spent tin evening and be fore a week had passed kenneth dawson and olive were as well ac quainted as old friends the thought of marriage disturbed kenneth if he vee married he wouldnt be free to lunch and dine with olive ives as he had been do ing for many days he d miss that a lot olive ives the thought came to him all in a heap kenneth sent two doren american beauty roses to her rooms that night and the next morning asked her if they couldn t go somewhere where they could dance a little olive ives smiled behind her horn rimmed spectacles and said she would go kenneth did not closely scrutinize olive that evening until they had arrived at the plantation inn as he short short story complete in this issue led her into the brightly lighted dm ingroom he saw a dazz girl the spectacles were gone the hair kept so severely in check dur ing business hours waved gracefully about her face in place of the high necked mannish costume she wore something low necked and soft and billowy im not engaged he was tell ing her i suppose you ought to know so that when mr hawkins comes home you can tell him im not eligible for the job perhaps i ought to resign youre not engaged and you brought me out here because i was the only girl you know in town and you thought maybe i d do she ac cused hang it all said kenneth de jectedly theres no use lying about it if id known how beauti ful you are i wouldn t have thought of it but if you knew all the time why did you let me bring you out here why asked olive in mock sur prise why because i wanted to say yes an undivobceable couple there is one person you have to live with it is yourself the aalf you live your every hour with is built and shaped by yur thoughts and your actions day after day every day every human being has to make choices and decision that each in its own way however small that may be contributes to determining the sort of person he is becoming every failure in selfmastery ever yielding to self- indulgence every bitterness of rebel lion against life every envy and jeal ousy and resentment every unjust dealing with another person weakens to work with him everything is dictated by the unions carpenters plasters and painters electricians plumbers and other skilled workers are all bound by a system which for bids any unskilled laborer touching a saw square or paint brush etc no painter is permitted to drive a nail or a carpenter to point and an in spector calls daily to make sure that the laws of the combine are carried out to the letter only a small per centage of apprentices may be hired and that at so high a wage that youth is excluded j now eb is not complaining be says however that these new work- the integrity of the personality every- tag- conditions have doubled the cost act or selfcontrol every courageous adherence to high principle every piece of straight clear honest think ing every decision to preserve self- respect strengthens he spirit of the personality and brings it into even truer accord with reality by the re markable quality there is in every one of us we can feel the tendencies that we are making prevail and those that we are falling to make prevail in the shaping of our personalities and we know how the self we have to live wlth is developing within us only by faithfulness in choosing and deciding for the better rather than the worse can we make a true suc- of the job of living in this dif ficult world canada s population is steadily in creasing boys and girls are grow ing up and marrying and bringing children into the world new houses are needed to shelter those adventur ers in matrimony yet they are not being built two or more families are crowding together in homes built for one larger buildings are being subdivided into apartments while many decrepit old dwellings are still occupied and have degenerated into slums in many homes so many people are living that the cubic footage of air space per individual is not 23 per cent of thai demanded by law in lumber ttutp what b the matter why are no new homes being built t labor never was so plentiful and there is no end of idle capital yet there is practic al j no building one answer is that it does not pay to own real estate t present time was when houses were considered one of the most lucrative forms of invest ment owners were sure of from 8 to 15 per cent on their money to day the combination of higher build ing costs and increased taxation have made it impossible to do much more than break even and in many com munities where employment is scarce and wages low the ownership of real estate is a liability rather than an asset zeb taylor or slab hollow in the canadian lumberman tells just why lie does not intend to put any more ot his money into building houses in other days he hired one good ma son who supervised the work of sever al laborers and he and his boys pitched in whenever they had any spare moments with the result that he was able to build the foundations very economically the same pro cedure with the carpentry and paint ing made it possible to finish a pair of semidetached houses for s3 000 which rented profitably at 17 per month each today the same houses would cost 6300 and the rent will be but 25 each zeb has an odd way of explaining why building costs have gone up so startlinglj he sayb that the gov ernment which has been fighting trusts and combines for over thirty years has watched the creation ot one of the most far reaching com bines in the history of building and today enforcing the measures created by this combine it is longer possible to bargain with mason to supervise the building of cellar or to hire ordinary laborers of building a house since the same influences have been at work in the production ot most building materials the too athoughtful government has imposed a sales tax of eight per cent on the things that go into a house having built the two houses for 6200 on land costing 600 zeb fig ures the possible income at 9560 per year allowing for one months vacan cy or failure to collect rent against this he sets expenses as follows depreciation 216 per cent 156 annual upkeep 130 municipal and school taxes 100 insurance 3d unforeseen taxes 20 total 414 net revenue from 6800 invested 136 or exactly two per cent it is perfectly obvious says zeb that men who earn 18 to 25 a week cannot afford to pay more than 25 a month for their homes so there is no possibility or raising rents zebs conclusion is that before home build ing can be resumed these artucauy created cost increases resulting from union regulations must be abolished midland free press business summary the following is a brief summary of information received by the bank of montreal for ontario under date of february 23rd wholesale and retail sales volume has been running somewhat below the corresponding period in 193 which was unusually brisk retail stocks axe not considered to be excessive but buyers generally are hesitant regard ing spring trade collections are fair while industrial activity stul remains at a high level there has been a moderate but noticeable slowing down in most lines of manufacture with the result that employment tot als have shown a more than seasonal decline those reporting curtailment include automobile steel chemical electrical engineering and pulp and paper companies light and heavy engineering firms remain comparative ly busy but a decline in new orders is in evidence agricultural implement companies continue at high levels and manufacturers of rubber footwear re port increased export demand the textile woollen and worsted leather and shoe industries generally remain quiet and there was some slackening in lumber activities hosiery mills are actively engaged furniture fac tories are seasonally slack gold production in ontario during 1937 was estimated at s3 767808 compared with 469 721 in 1938 the 1 m hmmc t the canadian weekly newspaper association cnr time table standard time getog- east passenger passenger and mail passenger and mail passengers for toronto tsssengers sundays only 710 tun lojoft am 840 pjn a 17 pjo 703 pju t ht gome west passenger and mail passenger passenger and mail passenger passenger sunday 1 834 am mm djd s3 tun 1225 am 11 19 pm- going north mail and passenger 8 46 sun o o o 1 and passenger r tuck table gray cojach lines coaches leave georgetown a 70s am 9 3 am 122s pm 445 pjn 7 00 pjn 915 pm x 935 am 1120 am x 155 pjn to kitchener c 255 pjn xb 830 pjn a 4 45 pjn d 1135 pjn x 700 pjn e 1235 ajiv- x through to london axcent sun and hoi b sun and hol c sat d except sat sun and hoi e- sat sun and hoi bus depot w h long directory leroy dale kc m sybil bennett bj4 barrister and solicitors georgetown ontario office gregory theatre bklg mill st kenneth m langdon banister solicitor notary fabtte first mortgage money to loan office main street south phone 88 georgetown the human eye the eye is the original camera shaped like a globe filled with a watery fluid to keep it from collaps- v ins says a writer m literary dl- selves but perhaps the greatest or- f cornea is tranapap lenders en this line are the common k- ordinary citizens as ourselves many of us think it alright to chisel the government to put in an cx- horbltant claim because it is the de partment the cost of doing public business ls many times greater than private just because the citizens of the country leave their common honest at home when dealing with the government we are a favoured group living in favoured part or the province with tho largest populuon the greatest industrial activity and th most var- ried resources because we are more or less on top of the world we should not forget hose other prov inces that for the present are having lying on it have often been fooled and the weather bureaus will have nothing to do with such predictions thus it would seem market experts fur speclallkta and prognostlcators of all descriptions might well postpone lor a- time jeast all predictions based on sunspots and the northern lights patlentf- tell me the worst d tori dottorvno hi mail the bill doctor oreat heavens who staf fed that towel in the patients mouth patients husband i did doc you said the main thing was to ceep jber quiet at least unreliable meteorolglsts re mlmltl lvinr nn it hv- oft hn rvled t st member we should be the fwt to offer concessions we can all hope that with al groups bringing forward their griev ances to the rowelf commission tne way wilt be cleared for a fair and unselfish adjustment to all parts 01 canada each of us ls a citizen of canada so let us be the best possible no 1 citizen it ls said that a gentleman is one who leaves more in the world than he takes out this definition also applies to citizenship let resolve that our life and actions win enhance canada s place in the and not detract from ir removal of snow from the streets has already cost barrie 1 758 this winter ent outer covering and beneath it lis the iris which gives the eye its color in the center of the iris is the pupil which seems black actu ally is transparent turns red as the light beam of tho ophthalmoscope is reflected from blood vessels at the rear of the eyeball the pupil ex pands and contracts tojegulate the amount of light admitted to the eye the crystalline lens is a trans parent flexible organ floating in the watery fluid at the front of the eyeball ciliary muscles change its shape focusing near and distant light rays sharplv on the retina thinner than the finest sheet of on ionskin the retina is revealed un der the microscope to consist of ten layers it is transparent reveals the fine network of arteries and veins behlnfl it tiny rods and cones so named from their appear ance cover the retina there are some 130 000000 of them approx imately equal to the population of the united states largest half ask your friends which is correct 111 give you the largest half ot ill give you the larger half both are wrong twp halves make a whole and each half is equal to the other half til give you the larger pjece la correct grammar and the generous thing to do london tit- bits magazine here is a gentle hint gleaned from pathfinder blow foot after midnight did you know that i can imitate any bird that you can name mlts zlmpir indeed suppose you atari with the homing pigeon picobac expert watch repairs by j h jordan georgetown phone 11 lane block spring milliner w c gbant barrister etc offices mill street georgetown erin phone 234 po box 186 ney graydon lawrence cook barristers etc 46s bay st toronto brampton oat e fraser raney kc h edward cook gordon graydon 333 main st north brampton telephone 793 harold r lawrence loblaw building brampton telephone 643 r k watson djds mj-s- georgetown office hours 8 to 5 except thursday afternoons j e jackson djxs successor to the late dr gouop open evenings phone 224w georgetown frank petch licensed auctioneer for the conlin ml im tod billa prompt service cheltenham 26 r 23 georgetown si r s post omce cheltenham we extend you a cordial invitation to come and see our entire range our stock is largely imported and difficult to replace quickly misses claridge main street georgetown hcnm block upstairs- m onuments j r pollock ingham 1 successors to cater worth i t gait ont 1 inspect our work in greenwood cemetery art a m nielsen 5lh ear of practice chiropractor xray drugless therapist lady attendant office over dominion store georgetown hours 2 5 73- 9so pjn i closed thonday pheoe utw i- mcs hallacre your husband u always complaining that be leads dogs life 4 xfrs wholesome well he oamek with muddy feet makes himself com fortable in the best chair waits unta he is fed and then growls read itornot the star nearest to the earth is 33000000 mjlea away-