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THE FLESHERTON ADVANCE WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28, 1934 » « St. Mn's WJ.S. The .W.M.S. met in St. John's church last Thursday an announced with Mrs. Jos. Blakeley in the chair; after singring a hymn the Lord's Prayer was repeated i.i unison. Mrs. W. Turney read the scripture lesson from the first chapter of .A.cts. Just As I Am was sung and Mrs. W. J. W. Armstrong gave an excellent resume of Chapter IV, "Living Issues in China. 'â-  Mrs. W. J. Scott took the chair and the minutes of last meeting wert read by the secretary, Mrs. C. ChappU and signed. Mrs. J. A. Heard, tht temperance secretary read the follow- ing, "Rev. Julian Rex, Missionai-y in Portugese, East Africa, says, 'The wets have told you that beer without the saloon would make Heaven in America. Tell them for us that saloons or not, Satan make a veritable hell in Africa with his beer." And the Premier of Ontario has not banned beer. What will he do? Mrs. John Wright, supply secretary reported that the supplies were all ready for the bale save one article. Arrangements were made for the Easter meeting, which will be held on April 19. Arrangements are being made foi the ladies of Priceville to come over and give the "Pageant of Famous .Women," which was so successful and 80 much praised when given at home XI short time ago. Eighteen members :tmd thre3 visitors were present. Grey County Notes Lieut.-CoI. J. HiJlriard Rorke, a for- mer resident of Thombury, died at Montreal on Saturday. He organized and took overseas the 248th Grey Battalion during the war. Jas. Dowkes came to bis death from injuries received caused by person or persons unknown, was the result of the Coroner's inquest. J. W. McKechnie of Durham pass- ed away last week after a long ill- ness. He was the father of Mrs. A. Hincks, who formerly taught at SpninghUl school. Thombury council issued debentures for $1,500 to take care of the town's share of relief work costs. IMeaford motor boat builders are now working on several orders of these pleasure crafts. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Holley of Hol- land Centre celebrated the golden anniversary of their wedding on Mar. 19th. Mti- and Mrs. John Bunston of Dromore on March 5th celebrated their golden wedding anniversary. Jas. A. Clarke, former resident of Markdale for 6 years, died in the hos- pital at Guelph last week. InvestigitioBS Eagage Time of Parliaineot It has been a very busy week. Par- liament is in an investigating mood session. Bankers, heads of railway companies and even the Prime Min- ister, have been called before the Banking Committee to give evidence on why the loan of $60 million to the Canadian Pacdfic Railway was made. Livestock producers, department officials, livestock buyers and an M.L.A. from Ontario, have been called to give evidenca before the Price Spreads and Mass Buying Committee. During the week the House of Commons have considered estimates of several departments, heard Mr. Bourassa make a two and a half hour plea for a return to simple laving, and Mr. Woodsworth argue the case foi control of the export of nickel as a preventive of war. Advocates of a hospital in Meaford are pushing their proposition at the present time. They claim that the need Ls urgent. Owen Sound city council refused to give a grant to the Blue iWatei Highway Association, the condition oJ the road being given as one of the reasons. 4 CONCERT Under the auspices of F.H.S. WILL BE HELD ON THURSDAY, MARCH 29 TO COMMENCE AT 8:00 P.M. .* '*. *. The Bluffers A comedy in two acts. Adapted from the French M. Malingear Doctor Vernon 'iStewart Mme. Malingear His .Wife Mabel Haw Emmeline Their daughter iStella Marshall Sophie Their Cook Crhistina McKinnon Alexandrine Their Maid Jean Marshall Footman Their neiehbors Douglas Scott M. Ratinois Confectioner George McMaster Mme. Ratinois His Wife Verdun McMaster Frederick Their Son Stanley Hunt Robert Their Uncle Donald Aldcorn Josephine TTieir Maid Elsie Fisher Footman Their neighbors Laverne Pir>er Caterer From Cheveti Bill Parker S A negro boy .* Harvey Archibald X Scene 1 :- Home of Malingear. Scene 2 :- Home of X Ratinois. Much of the action and thoug-ht of the x play is expressed by means of "aside's." Furniture I supplied by the courtesy of E. J. Bennett. y V Y V Y X Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y From the evidence it appears that the C.P.R. was m desperate need ot ?60 million last niid-suramer. Mr. Beatty, the president, tried to get the money here and there, but could not raise it either in London or New York, nor would the Canadian banks make the loan unless they got a govern- ment guarantee. Mr. Beatty appar- ently asked the Prime Minister fot the guarantee and got it. The Prime Minister was closely questioned by the Committee as to the reason for the secrecy of this guarantee which was given four days after Parliament prorogued last year and had been discussed even before that. Mr. Bennett said that he had the i>ower under the Relief Act to act in this matter and that he did so. One gathers that he acted with some reluctance since he spoke of being perturbed over it but that he gave the giaarantee in what he believed to be the public interest. This v.as a clear case of using the assets of the E>ominion as the basis for a loan, oi as -we say, the use of national credit. The assistance to the C.P.E. was possible by pow^ers given the govern- ment by Parliament for the aid of embarrassed corporations. This power has not been withdrawn. t ADMISSION: ZSc and 15c ♦<•♦♦♦♦♦♦<K•4Kâ-º<KKKKK~:"^<•♦♦♦<~^•KK♦♦♦<~>♦♦♦♦♦♦^^ MAKE IT SAY "PLEASE" you HAVE NOTICED, of course, at some time how readily any normal person will respond to a courteous request. To the "please" which is contained either in the tone of voice, an accompanying smile or in the spoken request. Printed requests, announcements and 'perSijiUil or business stationery should all contain that "Plea^-.ing" quality. Focaftet^ all your printing- is your personality or voice reproduced and mulpiplied for con- venience. hi The Advance Job Printing depart- nienet each individual piece of printed matter is made to express, as nearly as possible, the business, person or function it represents. PHONE 18w PLEASE, NEXT TIME YOU NEED PRINTING The Flesherton Advance The general opinion see-.is to bt that the delivering direct lo the abat- toir of 65 per cent, of the hogs, 20 per cent, of the cattle, 40 per cent of the lambs and 60 per cent, of tlie calves marketed in Ontario, has de- stroyed to a very great extent tlie bargraining power of the producer and has caused draggy markets and lower prices. iVIr. Jamieson, member for Southwest Simcoe in the Ontario Leg- islature, and the chairman of the com- mittee on agriculture, stated: "Thi: general report of the commiittee in- dicates that competition has fallen down." He was asked by the Counsel for the committee: "How do you ac- count for that, Mr. Jamieson?" .\na answered; "We attribute that to the percentage of stock purchases going direct to the packer controlling the conditions that prevail." Question: "How could he control the conditions of the market, Mr. Jamieson?" Answer: "Well our observations and reports are that the buyer does not appear until late in the forenoon possibly 11 o'clock in some cases, and we had evidence where they did not appear until 4 o'clock in the after- noon; and not even then bidding on the stock that was in the yards." Question: "Yes, and the result on the market was what?" Answer: "Draggy." Question: "Draggy; and the effect on the price?" Answer: "Low." The opinion was expressed by On- tario witnesses that an understand- ing existed among the packing houses, practically eliminatin."; competition and also that the comm^sions chargeo were much too high. A summarized report of the proceedings of the Committee on Agrricultiire of the On- tario Legislature was submitted in which reference was made to the speech made by F. R. Oliver, membei for South Gi-ey, in 'which he levels >;erta.'U definite criticisms in connec- tion with "livestock marketing, and also to the opinion expressed by J. D. Taylor of North Grey, that the chief complaint centred around the lack of competitive buying ami the import- ance of truck deliveries direct to packing plants, permitting the pack- ers to force down the prices. An interesting witness was Mr. Roderick MacLeay, a rancher from the foothills in Alberta, who owns 7,000 head of cattle. He told of selling last summer 300 head of good cattle on the Calgary market for 1 1'4 and 2c per lb. Mr. MacLeay said his cattle which sold at such 8 low figure would go over the countei as first-class beef. Many westerners testified, that packers have the wholt livestock industry in their mitt. The livestock men. too. can see no reason why the govvrnment cannot assist them a!= they have assisted the wheat :-nd coa! prod-.'.-ors and the CPU. (One wrathy farmer exclaimed: "What is the use of talking of the law of supply and demand tt the packer? control the demand end of the law." IMr. Bourassa in his lengthy speech covered a great deal of ground. He took a strong stand against entrench- ed privileged groups and advocated a capital levy, saying he was willing tc give 11,000 toward retiring' Can;adian debt and he could not see why anyont with resources would not be willing to do the same. He deplored the concentration of population in big cities and the rampant materialism of this age. He said that the stand- ard of living in Western European countries, from a moral, intellectual and artistic standpoint, was higher than in Canada or the United States. Mr. Bourassa wants more economy. He referred to the science and prac- tise 01 domestic economy by the women of France. "I ask my ex- cellent friend, the Hon. member foi South Grey, to devote some of he: energy to teaching domestic economy to her women followers." And I replied: "I do not intend to." In my opinion women, for the most part, know too much about economy. Wives of farmers, indust:-.. ' .orkers, of clerks and teachers, etj., have practised economy all their lives. Have they not made new clothes out of old cloth? .Worn the same coat for seven years ? Got a new hat once in a long time? Made glass towels out of flour bags ? Patched overalls and clothes until you could not tell which were patches and which the original clothes ? For the most part they have not had money enough to buy an easy chair nor time enough to sit tin it. Economy by these women ? I should say not. We could of course economize until everybody starved to death, but if life has meaning it would not be a sensible thing to do. Mr. Woodsworth in discussing the necessity of controlling the export of nickel, pointed out that the value in expwrts had jumped from $7 million in 1922 to f22 million in 1933. Much of this goes to Germany, either by direct export or by re-exportation from the United Kingdom, Uni|ted States and Norway. Mr. Woods- worth doubted the theory that the great increase in nickel exportation was due to the extension of commerc- ial need -of the metal, he was con- strained to say that such an increase dtenobed increased manufacture oi armaments. Last October a German representa- tive placed an order in Sudbury for ten thousand tons of nickel matte. I This huge order by a single companyl being almost the equivalent of the entire Canadian export of nickel tc Germany in 1933. "If Canadians," Mr. Woodsworth said, were in any way interested in the disarmament problem, they might very well have an important voice in the matter since Canada produces 90 per cent, of the world's nickel." The Government pooh-poolied the whole idea and the reply was made by the Minister of Mines instead of by the Minister of External Affairs which clearly put it on a material and not a human basis. I think it was bad judgment on the part of the govern- ment. â€"AGNES MACPHAIL House of Commons, Ottawa. March 24, 1934, I A COMPLETE STOCK OF ^'lEN'S I Overalls, Pants and Workshirts Remember we sell Turpentine, Raw Oil, Machine Oil and British American Coal Oil. We also have Cooper's Dri-kill and Cooper's WARBLE CURE. BULK COCOA 3 Lb. 25c FAIR HAVEN SARDLNES 3 for 14c GOLD SEAL SOCKEYE SALMON I's 32c SUNFLOWER SALMON % S., 2 for 17c WINDSOR SWEET PICKLES. 30 oz. Jar 21c STA-ON LIQUID STOVE POLISH 17c LEALx\NDS STUFFED ONIONS, 20 oz. jar 27c I I Osprey & Artemesia Co-operative Co., Ltd. FLESHERTON ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦««>'X~>'>*':k~>-:~:k~K":~:~:~:":~:~;">*«>«:~>-:«->-?-:~:":~:-«*«'>««>«b-»*#< High School Hockey On Friday night the Plesherton high school hockey team defeated Shelbume high school 8-6. This came as a surprise to the visiting team since on their own ice, the prev- ious Tuesday evening they outplayed the locals 6-3. Early is the first petiod tha local students took the lead with a goal by JohaMio. Boyd added anothei on a neat shot from the side. iMc- Cauley, fleet right-winger for Shel- bume came in with a well-earned goal to make the score 2-1 at the end of the first period. From the face-off Smith for the locals broke away to beat the visiting goal keeper with a neat shot from the blue kine. The play in the second period was slow and ended with the locals leading 6-4. In the last period Shelburne turned on the heat, but in vain. They could not get away from the speedy F. H. S. students and Ferris in goal seemed inspired. The game was featured by hard checking, however few penal- ties were imposed by referee, Mc- Cutcheon. Engagement Mrs. Olga Schmidt, 21424 Curtis St, Detroit, announces the engagement of her eldest daughter, Mildred, to Mr. John Gaylord Kajjrting, 17379 Lindsay Ave., Detroit, elder son oi Mr. and Mrs. W. Kaitting of Eugenia. Ont., the wedding to take place early in April. Arthur Lovat of Meaford died at the age of 95 years. He laved in Mea- ford for 60 vears. AN HONEST MAN The Express received a letter this week from an old Meaford man. who while in business here some years ago created a bill at this office and also ran up a subscription account of some five years or more, and nevei went through the formality of paying the account. We were agi-eeably surprised to receive a letter asking for the account and his assurance that the bill would be paid in full. We never did think that Ijje man was de- liberately dishonest at the time and while we rendered him statements we could pet no response. In his letter he stated that the Goddess of For- tune had been more generous with him of late and he wanted to pay up. Wc always did maintain that there was a certain amount of humanity about us all if we were given the chance tc show it. Now we are convinced This man will pay as sure as shooting â€" iMoaford Express. THE Variety Store FLESHERTON Has Chaaged Hands For the next to weeks or so though open for business, wc will be in a state of alteration. If there is any line you wish us to carry let us know. S. L. Slauffer, Prop. 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