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WEDNESDAY. MARCH 1, 1933 THE FLESHKRTON ADVANCE THE FLESHERTON ADVANCE Poblithed on Collin^ood street, Flesherton, Wednesday of each week. Cixculation over 1000, Price in Canada ^$2.00 per year, when paid in advance fl.50. In I paid in advance |2.00. I U. S. A. 12.50 per year, when W. H. THURSTON. - - Editor F. J. THURSTON, - Assoc. Editor HATHS THEN AND NOW The British metropolis has been in tercsted in celebrating thi.'s year thi hundredth anniversary of the installa- tion of a bath tub in the Mansion House, the official residence of the Lord Mayor, and a correspondent tells us that some curious contemporary comments upon the innovation havi recently been unearthed. The Ccin- nion Council, it seems, repeatedly vetoed the request for bathinR facili- ties for the Lord Mayor and informed His Worship that if he wi.shed to put them in he was at liberty to do so at his own expense, but as for them, they could not see their w-ay to pro vide such a luxury and charge it to the taxpayers. Councillors were apparently more prudent in those days than they an in our time, when even school boardf In rural districts, followinj? the ex- ample of boards in near-by urban centres, have spent public rates with- out stint to provide luxurious bathins and swimming facilities for the use of the boys and girls, most of whom, in these days, have aniplo opportunity to wash and be clean at home. The taxpayer is learning that the pipct bar to be paid for these and othci frills without which ordinary folk in |)ast times managed to get educated and fairly well equipped for life. But one cannot go so far as the old chap who, when the town of Lindsay, in this province, was endeavoring to get a new water supply, strongly opposed the project on the ground that IIk' people did not need it, particularly for bathing purposes. N'm teetotally opposed to spending money for mffrc water than we have, and especially for bathin'. Look at me! I'm ovc peventy years of ago, I have lived on a farm all my life,, and I never had n bath in my life. Bathin' is just killin' the country!" The good folk- at Lindsay let the arguments fall like water off a duck's back and voted fni n water supply, bathing and all. EDITORIAL ITEMS \VK SHOULD THINK TWICE A short time ago a child in one of the Toronto schools wap accused of stealing a wrist watch from his tea -h- er. Detective:-: and police were call- ed in to question the lad of the crime. It v/as just a few djsys afterward? that the teacher found the watch in a box on her desk, but it was not placed there by the accused, as he was home ill for a couple of day.= before it was found. A regrettable part of the proceedings is that aftei the watch was found it was five days before the boy's parents knew of the recovery and that only through a reporter from one of the city papers. No apology was made, the reason ot which, we hope, was not from the fact that the lad was a negro. It just goes to show that just bccaiisc an article is missing there is no reas- on for stating trat it was stolen. It is better to take the loss than to charge an innocent child of a theft. Think twice before speaking is good advice. They had only one criminal cane at the 8imcoe assizes in Burrie, but a special Crown prosecutor was sent up from Toronto to co-operate with the Crown Attorney from Orillia. The latest Dominion Government report is that with less acreage ot wheat sown this year the price will be higher in the world's markets and that Canada will share in the benefits Let us hope. * • • A Columbia Professor of Anthro- pology declares that if the bobbed hair craze is continued wo inevitably will have hairy chested, hairy armed and hairy limbed women. A belief that the prognostication of this savant is well founded may ae;'Ount for the growing tendency of ladies to let their loiks resume their normal length. * * * Scare heading in party paper: "Staunch Conservative Reeve blames party for people's plight." The Con- servative party has some things to answer for, but this is not one of. them. If it were so they would also be responsible for the .slough of despond now overwhelming the Unit- ed States. Arguments of this kind cannot get the Reform party any- where only where it i?. * • • Church people in these parts will be interested to learn that the new Mod- orator of the Church of Scotland is likely to be Dr. Lauchlan MacLean Watt, minister of Glasgow cathedral who is not only an able preacher administrator and church loader, bn' a writer of devotional books, historian poet, dramatist and novelist, liut what is of probably as groat interest to Scotch folks at home and abroad a master of gaelic and a piper! Scotland could surely not produce a more versatile leader. * * * The banking' system of the United States is giving the people of thai country an object lesson in the frailt.v of their financial in'^titu'.ions and i. comparison between their heterogen- ous banking system and the solid and .secure system of Canr'la. The fad that U. S. bankers discount Canadian money to the tune of 15 or 18 per cent, has' absolutely r.j justification. In fact with the huivlrcds of hank failures taking place on the othe' side of the line the boot .should be on the othbi' foot. * • • Is reciprekily to come to Canada? In 1911 the Conservative party won ihe general election with the slogan "No truck or trade with the Yankees' from the then Lil)eral g'overnment which pi'oposed reciprocity with the United States. Now Premier Ben- nett comes forward with a recii)rocity |)roposal which will be presented to the new U. S. government headed by President Roosevelt. While we do not imagine that tariff barriers will be felled entirely we do believe that revisal of tariffs which have jirohib- iled export from either country, will inaugurate a revival of trade between the two countries that will have a marked influence on labor conditions in Canada. It is the i'rst move by a tariff-crazed world to improve trade and end the depression that has been gradually drowning the working man. Some boys are small for their age and so are some men. Britain's navy will be run with oil taken from coal, but of course it would not be exactly right to say they will burn coal oil. Tbe Life Story Of James S. Woodswortb What sort of background haa this man? Was he as well born and reared as the Kt. lion. R. B. Bennett or the Rt. Hon. Mackenzie King? He is charged with being a communist, a radical, a red. It has even been hinted that he is in the pay of Mos- cow, because he visited there a year aifo. So also, of course, did Freder- ick Griffen, writer on The Toronto Star, and Professor King Gordon of M!c(li>l and Colonel Mackfie, once Conservative member of the House of Commons. But somehow that seems to be different. By the die- hard Tories on both sides of the House Mr. Woodsworth is considered a dangerous man. D|angerous to whom and to what? James Shaver Woodsworth was born in York County on the farm of his maternal grandfather, which now forms the south half of the T. Eaton farms. His mother's people. Shaver were United Empire Loyalists, whc settled at Ancaster, near Hamilton, after leaving comfortable homes in the United States at the time of the Civil War, to maintain their British connection. Hjjs maternal grand mother drove from New York to Little York, then a town of less than a thousand people, in order that she might live under the British flag. As they came along they could find no accommodation in the inns as soon as it was known they were English. The wife of Brock was an intimatj friend of Mr. Woods worth's maternal grandmother. His father's father was a York- shireman, a building contractor in Toronto and he, Richard Woodsworth, with other Loyalists, stood against William Lyon Mackenzie in the revo- lution of 18,37. J. S. Woodsworth's father, James Woodsworth, was born in Toronto, educated in the University there, and as ii Methodist minister, went to Manitoba as superintendent of mls- sion.s in the early days of the West. The much-reviled J. S. was at that time only a child. He attended school in Manitoba and after graduat- ing from Manitoba Univer.«ity went "into the field" as a missionary. Later he attended Victoria College, Univeisity of Toronto for one year and the University of Oxford, Eng- land, for one year. While in the Old Country he lived on the East side of London, in a settlement house and worked among the very poor. This experience was a great awakening. His heart was torn by the degrada- tion and suffering of his fellow men in the slums of London. On return- ing to Canada he went for a time into the mi.=!sion field in Saskatchewan and Northern Ontario and then took the position of junior minister of Grace church, Winnipeg, the leading Meth- odist church of that city, a church at that time attended by some men who are now members of the House of Commons. Mr. Woodsworth's special work there was among tho young people. It wa? during this time Mr. Woods- worth married Lucy Staples of Cavan, Ontario, a graduate of Toronto Uni- versity. They spent a year in the Old Country and during that time visited Palestine. It was during the visit to this ancient land that Mr. Woodsworth decided he was not orth- odox in his belief and' he believed he was in honor bound to offer his res- ignatin to tho authorities of the Methodist Church, which he did. The ^yA*A<&**A•t~^•^.^.^*.^.^•t~^A.:~^.:~^A•:~:~^.:~!..^.^.:~:«:..:~^.:~^.:~^.^.^.^.^.^.: j The Advance For All I Classes of Job Work I Statement Forms, Letter Heads, Envelopes, Tag« I Counter Check Books, etc. All at prices J I that are lowest in years. , | resignation was not accepted. Feeling that the position of junior minister in a fashionable church did not offer him the opportunity he de- sired to help the poor, he left Grace church, moved his little family from the fashionable south end of Winni- peg to the new and stark north end, where they lived among the foreign- ers. Mr. Woodsworth was put in charge of All People's Mission by the United Church, where he, with h's fifteen or twenty paid workers, tried to teach the new-comers to Canada, adjusting them to an unknown life in a strange country. They visited the. homes of the people, held meetings, made known the duties of citizenship, helped in every po.ssible way to get them jobs and to improve their standard of living. After six years at this work Mr. Woodsworth resigTi- cd in order to enter, what seemed to him, a wider field. He organized the Social Welfare League to pro- mote interest in serial problems, par- ticularly immigration and as lecturer with Canadian Clubs and church organizations travelled from coast tc coast. He conducted a three months course in McGill University on social welfare and during his stay in Mon- treal founded the Montreal Open Forum, where 1 speak tomorrow, a foru,m of opinion which is, without doubt, the best in Canada, due largely to the untiring efforts of the secre- tary, William Fraser, The war was now on and it was difficult to finance a voluntary organ- ization. The three, prairie govern- ments, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, set up a bureau of social research, with Mr. Woodsworth at the head. The governments wished him to investigate living conditions among the foreigners. At about this time ho wi;cte "Strangers Within Out Gate," "Mr. Neighbor" and "Studief in Rural Citizenship." Then came conscription. Mr Woodsworth was opposed to con- acriptin and said so in a letter to the press. E:.-. resignatin was aslied for by the goc;-nment. The day after the resignation his father died. He had nov,' several children and as he had spent most of his savings or welfar'c work, he was entering a trying period. The Methodis . church sent him to the mission fisid on the West Coast. The citizens of this little community had start.id a co- operative store, which Mr. Woods- wo!-th helped in every way he could, and thus aroused the ire of the largest merchant in the place, who conducted a lobby against him. The church, to'» objected to his pacific sermons and asked him to resign, not on a matter of theolo.gy, but because of his political opinions. And so he left the little church on the Coast and the church as an institution, at the same time. For one year ho worked as a long shoreman in Vancouver, loading and unloading vessels. Mrs. Woodsworth was now teaching in a country school and most of the children were in school. Mrs. Woodsworth had the same adventurous spirit as her hus- band. She believed with Kirby Pag .> that creative living demands that we "Resolutely run the risks and joyous- ly accept the consequences of follow- ing our ideals." They divided cquall\ the small amount of money thoy pos.^essed and Mr. Woodsworth start- ed on a lecture trip from the "iVest Coast eastward, speaking at town.? and cities on the way. He arrived in Winnipeg when the strike was well on its way. The very day he arrived, Mr. Ivens â€" the Rev. Ivens, by the way â€" was arrested. Mr. Woods- worth offered to take his place as editor of the labor paper, assisted by Fred Dixon, M.L.A., They were very soon both arrested and held five days without bail. The arrest was maic- because of quotations from the book of Isaiah. The quotation froio Isaiah "They shall build houses ano inhabit them; they shall plant vine- yards and eat the fruit of them . . . . woe unto them that decree un- righteous decrees" came in conflict with the Criminal Code. So Mr Woodsworth visited again the jails of Manitoba, his first visit having taken place when, as a lecturer on penology, he took a group of students to visit the institution. Mr. Woodsworth, after his five days in jail, lectured for a year ovei the country to defend the men who were on trial. Fred Dixon was acquitted p.nd was elected to the leg- islature by the largest majority ever known there. Three others were electeel while they were confined to the prison and on their release were taken direct to the legislative build- ings. Two of the three are still members of the legislature and Mr, Woodsworth was elected to the Fed- eral House for Winnipeg constituency in 1021, and has been re-elected in each contest since that time, in 1930 with a majority of 6,22i). Now about the trip to Russia, Mr. and Mrs. Woodsworth Went to Europe a little over a year A-^k>, where' for Ji m.nfh J. S. worked as a tem- poral y collnl'orator at the League ot 'X'.ition.<! during tho Assemljy, for which he got remuneration. After i ravelling sonio time in central Europe they went on to Russia, using on the whole journey third class ac- commodation and staying at the most | inexpensive places. The articles, written on Russia, paid Mr. Woods- worth's trip into that much-discussed country. AGNES MACPHAIL. House of Commons, February 25, IttSS. DEER CAMLY WALKS UP MAIN STREET AT WIARTON Auction Sale Farm Stock, Implements, Etc. W. J. Caswell will .sell by public auction on Friday, March 10 Lot 171, Road No. 10, 2',», miles south of Flesherton the following articles namely :- HORSES â€" Heavy black horse, 13 years old; Heavy bay horse, 15 years old; Heavy bay horse, 17 years old. CATTLE â€" Holstein cow, 10 years old; Durham cow, 6 years old; Polled .A.ngus purebred cow, 5 years; Polled Angus cow, 5 years; (all supposed in calf); Heifer calf, purebred; SWINE AND SHEEP â€" Brood Sow, purebred, due May 2; Shropshire ram, 'registered, 2 years old; 17 ewes with lambs at foot. IMPLEMENTS, GRAIN, ETC. â€" Deering _seed drill, 13 disc; Mower, 5 foot cut; Massey Harris 1 furrow riding plow; pultivator; iWalkin.g plow; Deering hay loader, spring tooth; Hay rake, 10 foot; Deering binder, 8 ft. cut; Wagon in good shape; 12 foot iron harrow; Hay rack and stock rack; Sickle grinder; Disc harrow; Power cutting box with 12 ft. carrier; Fanning mill; Turnip Pulper; Cutter, closed in; Logging sleigh in good condition; 400 lb. beam scale; Hay fork; 2 sets of heavy har- ness; 1 set light harness; 3 horse With a monchalant air, and appar- ently unconcerned about anything in ra.-icular, a good-sized deer walked quietly into Wiarton on Mctnday af- ternoon, and proceeded for quite some distariJe along the main street of the town. The deer was of good size and did not seem to be in the least frightened until some dogs began to bother it, and it started off in the direction of the mill yard and finally disappeared on the Keppel side of the town. It evidently came from the Bruce peninsula, and was much admired by a large number of people who were on the street. This is the first time in a great many years that a deer has been seen on the main streets of Wiarton, and it is thought it may have been seeking food. â€" Sun- Times. Hanging, we suppose, might be re- ferred to as painful suspense. A chronic borrower, like an appe- tite, always comes back for more. Anyway people these days do not annoy you by telling you it's ine humidity. collars; 25 tons good timothy hayt 8 tons mixed alfalfa and timothy hay; 300 bus. of buckwheat and barley, mixed, (good for seed); 200 bus. of oats; Wood heating stove and other household articles; Forks, shovels and chains; Other articles too numerous to mention. Positively no reserve as everything must be sold. Sale to comnttnce at 1 o'clock p.m. TERMS OF SALE â€" Grain and all sums of $10.00 and under cash. Over that amount 10 months credit will be given on approved joint notes; 6 per cent interest added to notes. â€"GEO. DUNCAN, Auctioneer. I â- ^•^<~:~!~>^•v:~v^«:'~^•^>^•^•^•:~:~>^<••^«^•^•^•^•><i Wood Cutters' Tools AXES AND HANDLES CROSS-CUT SAWS % FILES LOGGING CHAINS % MITTS AND GLOVES | POULTRY SUPPLIES | BUCKEYE INCUBATORS AND BROODERS 'i EGG SHELL GRIT COMBINATION i FOUNTAINS OYSTER SHELL i ROYAL PURPLE POULTRY SPECIFIC | ROUP CURE I Just a little while until Sugar Madking. We can supply >: all your requirements. % Frank W. Duncan | HARDWARE I \ i •:•♦>•>•>•;♦•>•;•♦:♦•?•:♦•:••:♦•>♦;•♦:••:♦•:••;••:••:•♦:♦•:♦♦; >;»*;~;~;~;~;'»:"?«;««;~;»^;»»;~?s»;««?«;»«^ Why no, we're never lonesome" "You must be lonely these days," Joe Hanley suggested, "now that young Jim has left home." "Why, not at all," replied Old Jim, pointing to the telephone with a smile. "We talk with the lad on Long Distance every week. And it's almost as good as seeing him." "Isn't it expensive?" "Why no, station-to-station night 100 miles "^^^ "^a'^e « about 25 cents." Let Long Distance keep you in touch with friends and relations. It is quick, clear, dependable and the cost is trifling. For 30 cents >'ou can telephone about by making an "any- one" cali (statiun- lo-station) after 8..^0 p.m. Sec list of rates in front of directory.