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the georgetown herald f sixtyfourth year of publication the georgetown herald wednesday evening april 30th 1930 1 50 per annum in advance 200 to ujla i the georgetown herald j m moore publisher and proprietor member canadian weekly newspaper association canadian national electric railway rdayllght saving time eastbonnd dally except sunday 7q8 am dally 928 am dally 1 1 28 am pally 1 48 pm dally 408 pm dally 628 pm dally 848 pm dally 1148 pjn westbound daily except suhdav 721 am dally 9 41 am dally 11 41 am dally 2 01 pjn daily 421 pm dally 8 41 pm dally 9 01 pm dally 12 01 am fast freight same day delivery ser vice freight picked up at quelph georgetown phone 13 cnr time table standard time goinc east passenger 7 15 ajn passenger 936 ajn passenger 10 43 am passenger sunday only 11 39 am passenger 633 pjn passenger 833 pm golnjf west passenger 7 14 ajn passenger 8js8 ajn passenger 213 pjn passenger 8 01 pm j passenger 712 pjn passenger sunday 1014 ajn going north mail and passenger fl55 ajn going sooth mall and passenger 710 pjn no other orange pekoe can equal this in flavour sam3a fresh trota tbt gardms vekt unu erwingoldhams meat market fresh and cured meats of all kinds fresh fish and oysters vsrtuick delivery erwin goijdham phone 1 georgown theres very little i can do in my brief span of yeara bat if i say the thing thats true and speak the word that cheers of banptnes i find the due the charm that stloea tears theres ray htue i can get wnlch i may bear away but if a heavenward course i set and fouowr day by day i shall not leavean advene debt which i can never pay theres uttle i can do to make the wonta better place but what i do cor loves sweet sake by vtrtnre of heavens trace may leave behind a sunlit wake which tune win not efface halton rifles on sattsbary plains and there ahovts stone henge by ool jas ballantlne djstt vx bits of humour he brvwos sqparerr she yes drde it a thoocht dont you live in the the same but not in the same said a colored man to a white man r no reason at all a bag irishman walloped one last nketrt thats impossible what were yon if you contemplate walking oer salis bury plain consult mr murphy or moore or refrain prom selecting a day when its likely to rain ingoldaby legends ah what were yon sliig ah was sftngtn ireland must be beaten for my mo came from there t ww central ontario bus lines ltd arrow coaches leave georgetown as follows kastbound west bound 9 4s ajn 9 46 ajn 1225 pjn 12 50 pjn 305 pjn 3 45 pjn 758 pjn 6 40 pm 9 45 pjn daily except saturday sunday and holidays saturday sunday and holidays ab basses stop at ncrrfngtons store my valet i p hi directory lk rot dale barrister and solicitor georgetown ontario offices king blag mill st dry cleaning that will please dyeing that is efficient no garment too soiled that we cannot clean thoroughly clabknce b wiggins sousttar notary public offices oneill block georgetown telephone 158 john a thompson barrister solicitor notary public mill street phone 332 and 289 graham and bowies barristers etc brampton ontario graham r b graham 0 h bowyer a art wales manager phone 111 main street georgetown dr j j paul dr r t padl physicians and 8aageans medical officer of health in bsgunslng township ofnce hours 3 to 4 and 7 tp 8 p phone s8 office and residence mill street c db stjthkbxand kye bar nose and throat specialist at georgetown wednesday evening saturday afternoon and evening hours 2 pjn till b pjn or by ap pointment glasses supplied office at miss matthews main st home phone 10tr6 dr c v wimiam8 physician and surgeon if wl leal officer of health georgetown office and residence main st south opposite presbyterian church phone 62 office hours 13 and 78 pjn fm watson djjs mj 8 g office hours to kxcepttuutsday afternoons f i heath i-nh- nnh dentist office in lane block one door north of oneills carriage factory hours o ajn to a pjn mis lamb practical maternity nurse by day or week for particulars phone 84r8 georgetown r r 2 georgetown ontario frank petch ucen8ed auctioneer he counties of peel and halton prompt service cheltenham 28r23 georgetown 61r3 post office cheltenham r j kerr auctioneer and real estate ii peanr esperienos m auction ssle phone m acton ont -r- j chiropractic ne1l8en the chiropractor palmer graduate 18 years practice ne medicine sorgrry osteopathy xray service office over dominion store office hours monday wednesday and saturday 2 to 5 and 7 to b pjn other days and hours by appointment phone imw r 150j at mnton- lit tuesday attd frmyttlotr pjn wood rails tssn single cord delivered mixed wood3jv hardwood moo sin gle- oord j h smith phone mrls osj0xwaown tl deceiving is the priceper2ailoo appeal may be judged by the comparative coata shown below fineness of grinding excellence of materials skill in manufacture modern of machinery and threequarters of a cenniry experience combine to tyre spread ing hiding and wearing properties to- lowe brothers products that assure the consumerof maximum quality and economy tn paint and painting a lowe brothers paint vs approximate cost of lowe brothers interior paint per gallon average coverage per ml gallon of lowe bros paint required for 850 square feet approximate cost of apply ing one gallon labor total cost cheap paint approximate coat of cheap interior paint per guooa average coverage of i gallon cheap in terior paint required for square feet 859 aa ppiying ik labor coat of gallon tqtaloost i a uriu be newt the consumer wants 5 centalomconopnm and 3soem a saving of 3j5 per room buying lowe brothers paint on a square foot basis mot only jmm wmt theim job but on your yearly costf pgjnt b assuring ym of r e n mppts a fife serviceand a surface in good condition for repaimtim tvy ll em ymmr mex il 1 si phone 46 r b thompson co georgetown t 3 main street a w the ingoldshy legends written salisbury plain was much larger than it is at the present and more desolate the plain is stm large say thirty miles square but since those years the british government has acquired a large part of it and has traversed it with good roads arid brought a spar of the xondon and south western railway to serve the needs of the army and to provide a means of getting away from it to salisbury and london and to the amenities of civilization the plains are excellent for sheep grazing but worthless for agriculture for the subsoil is a mixture of chalk and flint which when wet has about the same consistency as a vat fined with slaked lime of the light mixture to build into a wall it was never turned over by the- implements of peace and no plowman would have the temerity td scratch the bosom of mother earth on the plains hut the tools of war made deep gashes in the surface where the men of the divi sions dug their entrenchments and vainly searched for dark earth other material to reduce the visibility of the chalk which nlade the trenches as conspicuous as the squares of white tents that dotted the plain and pro claimed the presence of a military camp ttnographlcalty the plains are series of hlus or downs as they called in england an undulating and what elevated plain sparsely wooded and still mete sparsely in habited save for the men of the divi sion the area used by the government was ten or twelve miles square and on the outside of this area there were villages snd one town and as were all within walking range they provided cities of refuge from the dreary life we were compelled to live in the camps amesbury is the largest place and moreover it is rail head and the point of departure tor all ranks who go on leave or on pass at netheravon there is a hospital and giave too and many of the men of the division succumbed to pneumonia and other diseases so many in fact that a firing party and escort was on slmost constant duty within the precincts of the uttle vil lage we have spoken of the downs of the plains and these were the work of nature but there were also eleva tions that are the work of man the burial places or barrows of the anci ent britons these make low land marks all over the plains the longest of them being the long barrow which lay a little more than two miles to the south west of the camp of the fourth battalion through this camp area two placid little streams stole away through the rushes and pursued then- courses sea wards as they did no doubt while man was digging flint for arrow heads from the subsoil on the plains these streams are the avon the wiltshire avon not the warwick and the wyrye and these two with two smal ler tributaries form the drainage of the area during that winter of 19141915 no two tengl worked harder than these little rivers as they endeavour ed to clear away the water that jupi ter pravius sp o the plains of salisbury as if by way of retaliation against the canadian minister of mllltla for having declared the camp at valcartler dry this drainage all passed through the city of salisbury and i remember a visit to the cathedral one day to find the floor of the great nave awash and the services cancelled till the waters would abate and dry land ap pear the oustandtng physical element on the plains is of cource the great circle of monoliths known as 8tone- henge and history has not a word as to the origin of this work of primi tive man some tarce the construc tion to the phoenicians the mariners of the mediterranean and others to the druids the priesthood of the ancient celts genera opkmion seem ing to favour the latter theory all the halton rifles visited this monument of the past and all mar velled at the sute of the great stones and made much speculation as to the method used in their erection while deploring a religions cult that found it necessary to sacrifice human beings in order to propitiate its gods dur ing the four years of the war mfl- uona of men from christian nations were immolated on the red altar of mar in order to gratify the selfish ness and cupidity of a war cult whose motives were no higher than those of the druids of the britons of prunl- ttve davs veruvl what a niece of enemy we were shown the bullet marks on the stone at the west end silent witnesses of a day when the men of england faced each other on the field of battle and refused lo march all one way the canadian division was en- damped near many places on the plains at bustard camp bulford camp sling plantation tldworth a railhead near shrewton and other places the fourth being located at bustard which had the advantage of being on the main road to salisbury and also of rjosesslna a very hospi table little inn which was llscensed to sell beer and spirituous liquors there was very little restriction on the amount of beer a man could con sume except of course the time limit closed the canteens at precisely nine thirty pjn and which required of all the men then- presence at the roll call of t i thahalf hour- between the sound ing of first post at nine thirty and last post at ten was a hectic hour for the orderley officer at times and always a period of much interest to officers who listened in thelr tenta as the men returning from thetr dauy social acttvloaa ant ths echoes flying with the strains of sonic of the army songs which spread over the new army like an epidemic with a rapidity that suggested some mysteri ous medium of broadcasting swifter than the wings of the morning here is one of the first and one that remained a favorite during the war and which was carried by the succeeding divisions with the fidelity with which they carried the torch or duty it is sung to the tune of three cheers for the red white and blue the last line being delivered with peculiar emphasis and spirit at the halt on the left form platoon at the halt on the left form platoon if the odd numbers dont mark tune two paces how in hell can the rest form platoon therein was embodied strong en- dlctment of the odfl numbers bu there was nothing personal about it for a man was just as likely to be an odd number one day as an even number the next the people of england and the press watched the men of the cana dian division on the plains that whi ter as they did no other canadian force and all the stories ever devised of colonial troops were dug up re dressed and applied to the canadians who were always doing something very unconventional and behaving in a manner which the people found rather there were many canadians living hi england during the war and one of these a famous operatic star call ed at a hospital in london in 1915 and among other stories of the cana dians on salisbury plains told me this one which i submit as a fab- sample of the yarns of which the first cana dians were invariably made the heroes a parson met half a dozen soldiers trudging over the twelve mile road from camp to salisbury town and after a few words of friendly greet ing asked them where they were going to salisbury to get a drink was the answer and do you mean to say that you would walk all the wayfxom camp to salisbury and back again just to get a drink no replied the soldiers we do not intend to walk back we intend to be carried back- i submit that yam with out comment another story that spread uke wild fire originated i think in a conver sation of which i was an auditor it was in the summer of 101s after the second battle of vprea that two officers of the newly arrived canadian second division met two w of beers of the first in the hotel cecil in london said one of the second division officers who had not been to prance we are having a devil of a time liv ing down the reputation you fellows left here before you went to france said one of the first offic well you win have a devil of a time in living up to the reputation of the first division when you go to france to their immortal credit the second canadians did live up to the reputa tion of the first the incident is a good example of muitary repartee and also exemplifies the rivalry be tween units in army life it was during the early weeks at salisbury that bluy phillips died at netheravon hospital billy had en listed at georgetown at which place he made his home with mr wm reld on the nerval road we visited him the day before he died and i have never forgotten his words as i bade him good bye he said major i wish i was back hi georgetown bluy wanted to be among his friends the reids in his ftiour of trouble rather a tribute i thought to the relation ship between him and his foster par ents and the kindness they had ex tended to this orphan boy in a strange land billy was- back in georgetown however the next day or his spirit and we attended the service and parade that deposited what was left of him in the little military cemetery at netheravon the name of billy phillips is one of those on the monument in george town to the most of the observers just so many letters carved in the granite and syxabolixtng a composi tion of flesh and blood animated by a spirit which caught the ore of patriotism and adventure and march ed away over the streets of george town to the sound of a military band in other days to us who knew him and loved him he was a good little comrade whose pnwipg took some- first prize essay following is the first prize temper ance essay written by norman bally or stewarttown and read by him at the wctu meeting in knox pres byterian church a week ago the verdict of science an the mod erate drinking of alcoholic beverages wjth the progress of civilisation all the oner sentiments of mankind have been- arrayed against the degrading in fluence of alcoholic beverages wtuibnate years palced disposal of the cause of temperance has been the force of science and well it is that the cause of temperance may reckon in tts ranks siich a force for withtbe introduction of the sale of beer almost throughout our coun try there tomes the great enemy of temperance moderate drinking the moderate drinking of alcoholic hever ages isonlyanother of society en emies budding forth under deceptive illusions it enriches the coffers of the state and there seems to be no particular harm in its use but it is only science that can show us that it is simply another of societys en emies as deadly and as degrading in its action as any enemy society could have perhapsone of the first duties of science throughout all ages has been to dispell illusions the human mind anxious to justify itself in the prac tise of intemperance conjures up such absurdities as food value in beer or the way of modern temperance lies in moderate drinking but to day even the children are coming to learn that the mutilation and almost complete destruction of the best foods as regards their food value result when alcoholic beverages are made and furthermore a study of the ques tion in a scientific way wiu prove con clusively that even moderate drinking is not practised for the food value obtained but for the allconsuming crave of alcohol which the drinker j news and information for the busy farmer good advice speaking to a group of farmers af picton recently dr o i christie president of the o a c gave some good advice which should be applic able to all of us that for 1930 i am going to look after my pvn business first and make every acre of my farm but i pay forget about ail the gloomy things the full 1 1 have heard and read better bull area h a dorrance agricultural presentative for brant county re ports that the brant copnty councu has passed the necessary bylaw to declare that county a better bull area a county live stock improve ment association has hsen organized for the constant and permanent improvement of brants live stock re thlnp from our uvea cannot resist in proving this science establishes the fact that the moder ate drinker is prompted to drink by the same instincts and cravings as the rlrtinkard and that the path of des truction lies wide open before htm after making clear the nature of moderate drinking science proceeds to analyse its effect on the individual imniedlately after some form of al coholic beverage has been drunk by the moderate drinker the alcohol flies to his head this really means that the alcohol first attacks the higher system of nervous action that man possesses alcohol does not attack the emotions and lower systems of energy first but with deadly force destroys his intellect and will those powers that he has found it the hard est to acquire and spend the greatest effort tn building up finally when alcohol has drugged and deadened mans reason it invades and weakens his emotional tendencies but not content with the destruc tion of mans oner nature alcohol takes its toll of his physical body although it is called a beverage yet it absorbs moisture from the body to the detri ment of the various organs a short time after it is imbibed the functions of perception and skilled movement grossly impaired arid in most the powers of resistance are visibly lessened and yet in return for all this there is hardly a favour which alcoholic beverages impart to the human body for they cannot pro vide material nor provide stored energy and although they do give off heat in the process of oxidization in the blood yet they cannot begin to compete with numerous other foods wholesome and entirely harmless thus we find by a careful considera tion of the verdict of science that the moderate drinking of alcoholic bever ages is exceedingly unprofitable and detrimental to the mental and physi cal activities ana we may be sure that as science becomes increasingly important in modern life more at tention will be given to this verdict intemperance may flourish for a while but its death knell has been sounded under the verdict guilty laid upon it by science norman bailey upper school beaaurylng school grounds a praiseworthy movement has been started in lincoln county where a large number of rural schools are applying to the district agricultural office for planting plans whereby the school grounds may be beautified rough sketches are made by the teachers and these are forwarded to the horticultural department at o a c where blue prints will be prepared giving the exact planting arrangement for trees windbreaks shrubs and flow ers the trees are ordered from the forestry branch at toronto and are supplied free the school sections paying only the express from the government station at st williams this enterprisesjiould effect a tremen dous improvement in school grounds and deserves to be emulated in other counties the old family album the old family album has disap- grow more barley a partial solution of the problem of marketing canada s wheat crop will probably be found in the growing of less wiieat and more barley this year anyway barley is the great staple grain of the feeder of live stock yield ing the biggest returns expressed in terms of animal nutriment per acre in other words more actual food is produced in a normal year from one acre of barley than from any other grain there is in ontario too a steady market at better than world prices for a large volume of good barley for industrial purposes and when it comes to the building up of poor soil or the reclaiming of weed- infested areas there is no other grain cspp that can be utilized to such ad vantage the present barley acreage in ontario is only about onehalf of the combined acreage in fall and spring wheat but present prospectb point to this situation being reversed with profits to the producer and the province as a whole canadian medical assoc breastfeeding is man twelve miles to the north the great spire of salisbury cathedral rises four hundred feet into the heavens pointing with an un finger the way to better things while on the plains we christians were being issued with bigger and better weapons of destruction with which- to destroy the men of other christian nations sure ly it is a great mystery captain bastedo and i went to the great cathedral the purest example of early english gothic in england and revelled in the beauty of the place while the verger told us of how during the civil war the soldiers of cromwell had stabled their horses therein partly no doubt as a military necessity and also as a gesture of con tempt or indifference for the sanctity failure even if it is not possible to of a shrine held in reverence by their completely nurse the child breast- to nurse her baby is the first duty of every mother fat is required to build up fatty tissues and to provide energy and heat carbohydrates sugar are required for the same purposes proteins are needed to build the tissues of the body these ele ments are present in mothers milk and are there found in proportion suitable to the infant and in a form that makes for easy digestion mothers milk is a perfect baby food because it pe a fco serve as nourishment for the baby it is much easier for a mother to nurse her infant than it is for her to prepare artificial feeding properly to prepare feedings takes a great deal of time because of the amount of care which must be given to cleaning bottles and utensils and to miriig the frequent changes nece to adopt the feedings to the needs of the growing child breastrnilk is sterile there is no danger of dlseas germs being picked up and spread by its use it carries with it to the infant some protection against the communicable diseases in nursing depends upon a determination to do it a halfheart ed attempt with an idea that it will meet failure g does lead to feeding should not be given up be cause even the smallest amount of breastmilk is of real value to the baby breastfeeding is often given up be cause of a mistaken idea that the child is not thriving or that he would do better on some artiflcal feeding it is a serious responsibility to wean a child because it takes away from him what he needs most it is true that infants are often brought up success fully on artiflcal feedings but the strongest healthiest babies are breast fed there is less sickness there are fewer deaths among those infants who arc so fortunate as to be naturally fed- it can be stated with confidence that there is no other factor of such great importance to the health of babies as natural feeding if every infant were to be breastfed at regular hours theprnhlprns of infant hygiene would bo well on the way to solution it is the righ of the child to receive the food intended for him and it is the mothers pleasurable duty to see that he ges it questions concerning health ad dressed to the canadian medical as sociation 184 college st toronto wld be aniwared psranniatty by letter peared it was a poor family indeed tn the victorian era that did not have a highly ulurnmated and sub stantial family album located in the front parlor on the walnut table along with the bible and the stereoptlcon views the modest young girl of the house entertained her best beau by showing pictures of all her relatives several degrees removed in all kinds and variety of poses the women with long skirts and great picture hats and the men with high choke collars huge tles and un trousers then there were pictures of brides and bri dal parties all gaily bedecked with laces and veils there also were pic tures of babies usually in sleighs or baby carriages the older children were very conscious dressed up in their best the girls with magnificent gay ribbons and the boys with great bow ties and ktotv collsxsv if you want to get a good laugh some day just resurrect out of the attic the old family album h do qco m t od years from now our present day cos tumes may look just as grotesque and just as ridiculous as those of the last generation today treat with rever ence the family album why the mevvhaiau are gray the following letter has been hand ed us by one of our town merchants but we feel sure it is not a personal experience as the farmers in old halton county aren t made of this sort of stuff but if it ever happened anywhere its funny dear qir i have your statement showipgthat i owe you 7950 i tun enclosing acheck for 500 for which please send me a receipt i am sorry that i cannot pay more at pre as money is quite scarce right now my living expenses are very high and i find it hard to get along i will try and send you another payment of 5 00 when i sell my hay in july i cannot pay you more at that time as my daughter finishes college this year and that costs a heap i might add we have had to build a shed for the ford so as to put new car in the trip to niagara tn the fall i feel this is coming to her as she has been work ing quite hard we cannot go sooner on account of hating the house re modelled some farmers around here are in a hard place financially with the price of gasoline as it is at present perhaps some of you with keen eyes can tell which two trees are further ipartr the group took a critical look at the trees and each member select ed a different pair finally after much discussion an appeal was made to the stranger to solve the problem the first and the last he amid as be walked away purity wiu count it is almost universally acknowledged that the production of good quality crops is a better paying proposition than the production of poorer quality and the very best canadian authori ties are constantly advocating the sowing of seed of the best quality growers intending to show tn the wheat classes of the worlds grain show says l h newman dominion cerealist and chairman of the awards committee should make every ef fort to get the purest stock possible in placing the awards at reglna in 1932 purity of variety or type as de termined by growing tests will c n- stltute an important fat i nl ho n not the only factor ontario potatoes the success of cooperative market ing of potatoes in the county of slmcoe is remarked upon editorially by the barrle examiner as follows the organised effort among a num ber of potato muweib in this district to improve the quality of their pro duct and market it to advantage is producing good results for the first time in years ontario potatoes of certified brand have been command ing practically as good a price as those from new brunswick with a little perseverance and an extension of the organized movement ontario pota toes in a few years should regain practically the whole of the ontario market which was lost through in efficient methods weekly crop report somewhat more optlrritsf act reports have been forthcoming from agricul tural representatives however brant elgin essex haldlmand halton lambton prince edward counties all report serious injuries to fall wheat fields that will result in many in stances in replanting a few other counties anticipate good crops maple syrup has been poorer in carleton this spring than usual but the re is the case in lennox and addlng- ton a shortage of seed potatoes ob tains in duff erin while the certified article is having a ready sale in duf- ham the milk flow is low in pron- tenac with a good trade for farmers butter pali wheat appears tn excel lent shape in huron 1029 seeding of clover suffered quite severely in kent spraying is the order of thedayjii tlnrnln tvrrtl naming renorts an nn- usually good dairy situation with one local creamery having doubled its last years output for the same period one thousand acres of certified seed wil be v sown in wellington this year surrey of fttdt indostry a general survey of the fruit liidus- try of canada is to be commenced at an early date with dr j p booth as commissioner and joe coke from the economics department of oao as his assistant dr booth is miking the cooperation of all interested in finding out the exact facts regarding the fruit industry both the cana dian horticultural council and the allcanada agricultural conference have asked for such an investigation of costs and methods makes good m hearken to the story of charles london of peel county another brit ish irnnugrant who has made good on a canadian farm canada has been good to me when ten years of age i went into service in england as chore boy and remained with one w w h w pui ucw vm mre r 2 years seeing no prospect garage i have promised the missus a much advancement i came to canada and was in the employ of one man for ten years and with another for three years i rented a farm of 50 acres and now my boy and t own 150 acres distance you see tho row of poplars on the opposite bank apparently at equal distances apart said a stranger to a group of people stand by a river lfind its way into seed drills without danger of wred seed with a considerable portion of last years big red clover crop still in the farmers hands there is a graver risk than usual of a serious weed spread this season government nfli-hai- fear ing that a large portion of this win proper cleaning weed seeds in a bin ox clover or grain are not corjsniouous and one can easily be fooled in fact it was recently estimated that in three cars of pats shipped to saskatchewan there were cotalncd arjproximately 23- 000000 sow thistle weeds the govern ment seed laboratories are the pro per place for testing your seed and do so at infinitesimal cos h