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rvge 6 the georgetqvm herald wed neaday evening february 9th 1938 back concessions evidence submitted to the ghevrlet ooounlaalon on truck haulage- in on tario brings to attention the profound changes in the structure of rural economy which the truck has effect ed during the past short score oi yenra the carrying of goods by nu- tor vehicles has become an integral necessity to arming dltrlcts which used to be considered hopelessly iso lated from most markets urban com tnunlues also in the well known back concession territories to found lii the truck the answer to both then- export and import problems out of some 40or communities in on tario more than 2000 are not served by railways and it is to these that the truck 1s a particular boon in n age when transportation is the touchstone of success for any local the truck is performing a service of much greater importance for rural areas than most people realise in many back country farming dls tricts and in half the urban communl ties of the province there is no com petition between the truck and the railway for the obvious reason that the railway is not a factor of trans portation there is no railway but there is a truck the truck has transformed man of those places bringing them at one great bound in to the course of trade part of the task of the transporta tton commission is to study the re lationship between truck and rail way haulage this is in some parts of the province a chore of consider able magnitude the railways are a prime necessity but so are the trucks we have too many railways but we have also too many trucks towns and cities owe much of their unpor tance to raflhays but to an picrras big extent they spend on trucks the two forms of transportation compete in some regards but they are in many more regards complementary the trucks supplementing the freight and expre train as an added service m the rapid transmission of goods where railways run the commission task in adjudging the possfbultin of coordination between train and truck is not easy but in those wide back concession areas where there are no taflways there is no problem except to ensure that the new prosperity of the fanner and small townsman be not impaired by h legislation imposed upon the truck- auntavffi forester cjuxing all salesmen agents would you consider a change that would really make money new sales plan sale of 300 guaranteed food medicinal toilet preparations lower prices- liberal rimm i tfn fictra cash banns free gifts if you have a car and little cash and want to seu som that repeats the year round m exclusive district write to fa1clex co 570 st clement st montreal it nonido go to cbukcb a familiar comment in these days is that the churches are empty such comment could hardly- have been written by anyone who has attended a church service or even arisen early enough on a sunday morning to pass by a church and observe the crowds people really are going to church to all kinds of churches even places with uncomfortable seats or dull pas tors receive their quota attendance at a church service does not necessarily ineanljnser a church is nourishing in the way it should flourish it does not necessarily mean that the members of the oongrega hon are experiencing a spiritual flux that they love their fellow man and that they have committed themselves exclusively to good works but atten dance at a church service does jidl cate that they are wrong who say that the churches are empty and if they are wrong on that point they may also be wrong in their criticism that this is a shallow age bereft of spiritual emotion the con tinual rebuffs to which faith in these days is subjected does not necessarily mean that there is no faith left cruelty and downright badness can walk unhindered over much of the worlo but that is no clear proof that nothing remains or virtue it may only prove that man s intellectual deliberations cannot be entirely depended upon to prodace solutions to problems people who have found that they can put no trust in the nine potto treaty and who have found that governmental management of bus ness does not avoid stock market crashes are apt to delve deeper for their assurances the printed word of laborr epto all 1 gems from lifes scrap book work good thoughts though god accept them yet toward men are little better than good dreams except they be put in action bacon practice not profeslon understand- tag not belief gain the ear and ism had of omnipotent and they assur edly call down infinite blessings mary baker eddy be great in act as you have been in thought suit action to the word and the word to the action our worth is determined by he good deeds we do rather than by the fine emotions we feel e lvmagoon a good action is never lost it is treasure laid up and guarded tor the doers need calderon think that day lost whose low descending sun views from thy hand no noble action done are yon sure your eyes see correctly have votj seen the ne rimless mounting r no eanme wobbly lenses less breakage of tbtts saving yon money our price is the same as city prices o t walker ro optometrist eyesight specialist brampton who is at boshs drug store georgetown the eeeaa wednesday of every month or yoo aaay eanawh o t walker at ms omee fa brampton the color is jrow protection w h kentner son phones office 12 re 211 georgetown western huaz excursions o01hg daily feb 19 aar 5 biclaaiv rinidiubimcisiltamklalilcndk wmtmtmommn iu m m ntjuaqatu canadian national i battle for sailors was a ptctwreaqoe char acter asked and accepted note lag for himself by budd i mckuups whiel a ghostly gray fog rolled in from the ocean last saturday draping the atlantic coast with its somber ness andrew puruseth militant vlk lng faced president of the internal tonal seamen s union made the final entry in his life a log book and palled into the unknown sea of eternity be died as he had lived without a wife children a home or money but rich with the memories of a life spent fighting for the rights of labor par tlcularly seafaring workers ho mon ument will mark his grave in ac cordance with his wishes his body will be cremated and the ashes strewn on the windswept waters of the mid atlantic ocean his death in a washington nursing home followed a two year illness dur ing which he received every attention which could be given him by doctors and nurses furnished by the american federation of labor andy he refused to be called mister as he often explained it re called the days of hell ships when sailors were floged if they forgot to use that tiue when speaking to a buckomate was one of the most intelligent widely admired militant and colorful figures in the american labor movement he had thousands of friends and admirers in every walk ox life the simple funeral services held in wash ingtoh on monday were attended by government officials labor leaders and rank and die members and senators and congressmen and governors from land locked as well as maritime states supreme court justices black and sutherland two men as far apart as the poles in their economic and so cial views and secretary of labor prances perkins headed the long list of honorary pall bearers born of poverty stricken parents hi norway on march 12 1854 andy- went to sea when he was 19 years of age and sailed on norwegian swed ish engh french german and american ships working conditions were terrible the brutality of many of the officers was even worse he suffered the poor food wretched quarters long hours of driving toll with the other sailors there were times when for alleged breaches of discipline tie was tied to a mast and flogged seamen who tried to quit their jobs when their ships were safely in harbor were arrested and dragged back to the essels to suffer more punishment these conditions made a vivid 1m pression on the young norwegian he dedicated his life to a crusade for freedom and decent treatment of sea men he never quit the fight regard less of the terrific odds against him and tip apparent hopelessness of the struggle fiftyeight years ago he roamed the waterfront of san farncisco preaching the necessity of strong la bor unionism and intelligent pro gresslve political action to his fellow seamen he was a master of words in spite or the longwatches at sea and the long hours at ork aboard ship in ports he had found lime to study throughout hls entire life he i ever topped adding to hi self obtained educaiion senator youhr bolj la follette who via one of the peakcn at his funeral said his interests wen as broad as the interests of humanity i have met many great scholars but few who had such a working knowledge of their in formation he was one of the trrtat est men i have known 4ndys wattrfroiu an tntlon built the scamnn s union into a powerful force seven years all r he began his cr tsade he wa el cud secretary of the pacific coast seamen i organ lzatlon he con tin ied to go to wa from time to time mill 1891 in 190t be became president of the interna tlonal union tie heritage of the old norse war riors ran through hls vein he hat ed inj imlce and h irled dcllnance at any thing or anyone who pcrpe rated it in the days when labor injunct were being used widely to suppress workers rights he advocated and practiced defying them to a san francisco judge who threatened u send him to jail for contempt o court puruseth made this classic re ply you have the power to send mi to joll but you can l make me any more lonely than i have always been you cannot give me food worse than i and other seamen have always had you cannot give me sleeping quarters more wretched and cramped than those of the sailors aboard ships and you cannot make me give up this fight in 1883 puruseth came to wash mgton and launched his epic battle for a federal scarriens law tramped the halls of congress spoke before seltate and house committee hearings and pleaded with the mem bers in their offices for legislation to change the status of seamen from serfdom to comparative freedom one phosd of this fight alone lasted 22 years culminating in the passage or lhc la follette seamen s act of 1915 this measure sponsored by the late senator robert m la follette drew the bitterest kind of opposition no on from powerful shipownlng interest but from every predatory association of employers in the nau uon battle bob la follette and puruseth worked on the measure for years- and the senator finally forced it through congress defeating a fill buster when he caught his opponents napping powerfu in sought to have president wilson veto it puruseth the president and eon- vtaobd him he should sign the meas tire the war president routed his secretary joe tumulty out of bed to tell him his interview with put- useth was one of the most remark bis expertonom of my life the la m an imm h in seamens conditions and would have accomplished imnwacareably more but no national administration has ever properly enforced it m the last public speech he ever made at the ajp of l convention in id35 puruseth vigorously condemned tlils lack of enforcement of maritime laws charging that american ships were breaking every single law re garding safety and personnel and that federal authorities were doing noth ing about it recent official invest gallons nave fully sustained all he al leged physically puruseth presented a striking picture tall and gaunt bis wind beaten face seared with lnnum erable wrinkles attracted attention in any gathering he always wore a wrinkled baggy blue auitsuch as salvors buy for less than 10 that lapped around his bony frame and flapped in the wind like a loose sail on a ship he had a prominent nose and un ruly gray locks the cast of his bead delighted artists and sculptors but andy was always too busy to pose for them the only exception he made was for a bust by the sculptor jo davidson it stands in the ro tunda of the department of labor building in washington his body la in state in that same rotunda on the day preceding his funeral puruseth had no hobbles recrea tlons and few physical comforts aside from study and his work for labor as an executive of the international seamen s union he never accepted more salary than the pay received by a common sailor the only person who can be really independent is one who has nothing and wants nothing for himself he often told intimate friends who urged him to get more comfortable living quarters than the almost bare room where he slept he knew he was going to die and he faced the end with the same cour age and fortitude he had shown throughout life on one of the last occasions when he was conscious he was visited by a friend who became disturbed when andy spoke of the nearness of death the old viking- too feeble to raise his head barked out a command get that book from the table open it at the turned down page hold it here where i can read it the friend obeyed and in a steady voice andy read mourn not the dead but rather mourn the apathetic throng the cowed and meek who see the worlds great anguish and dare not speak she wrecked the newspaper among hazardous occupatt ins should be included that of the rural newspaper editor who publishes each week brief resumes of his towns history there is dynamite in those little summaries variously entitled ten years ago twenty five years ago and fifty years ago a most careful editor culled nia items each week omitting all that he felt might offend some subscriber one bit in particular he studied for a long time it was to run under the head or fifty years ago and it told that on this day fifty years ago miss irma clemens began her studies at the public school the editor would of course not have dared to r in such a dangerous piece but he knew for a fact that irma had been dead for many years further he knew she had no close relatives still 1h lng in hls innocence the man decided that here was one bit of news that could harm no one so he ran the piece and it appeared in the paper the following thursday friday morning he had a caller she was white faced with rage how do you do miss crane the editor said ingratiatingly clen ng seventeen exchanges and ave mats from a chair will you sit down i will not sit down said miss ma uldn crane and whals more 1 want to cancel my subscription the gnll of you printing that plcco about irma cumens starting nubile school fifty years agol its libel sir but poor mlss irma clemens u dead and gone returned the editor wringfng his hands it cant injure the deceased to give out that she as born more than fifty years ago maybe it can t hurt irma the steely eyed mlss crane but how aboul the fact that evcrybod in this town knows i was always fus two years older than irma thr printed word for corns or callouses use lloyds thymolated corn salve de aenaltbtea and relieves pain with first application you cant lose youb money back if it falls will be paid by the maker ta anyone produ at 25 that they eatinot remove with wonderfbl new sclentlfie preparauob which thobsaoda of naenl 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