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PAGE TWO THE CANADIAN STATESMAN, BOWMANVILLE. THURSDAY, AUGUST 4th. 1932 Uiir abn 9 tt§iun Establushed 1854 A Weekly Nevýspaper devoted to the interests ofthie town of Bow manvlle and surrounding country, issuecl at King Street West , Bowmanville. every Thursday. by MI. A. James & Sons. owners and publishers. The Canadian Statesman is a member of the Canadian Weekly News. papers Association. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Anywhere in Canada, $200 a year; in the United States, 82.50 a year, payable in advance. Single copieb, 5 cents. THURSDAY. AUGUST 4th. 1932 Railroad Crossing Accidents Continue Each successive summer this community is shocked with the reports of appalling fataities an the highway and at railroad crossings. The tragedy 0f last Wed- nesday in which Herbert Bombard and Francis GilI met their deaths, was but anather ta add ta the ever mounting list. One is bound ta stop for a moment and contemplate an the causes of these fatalities. Saine are due ta carelessness an the part of motar- ists, others carelessness on the part of pedestrians, while many athers are due ta the hazard that exists at every level crassing. The latter cause is one that demands the immediate attention o! the departinent of highways. In and ar- ound Bowmanville are several such death traps which might be eliminated. The bridge over the C. P. R. at the west linit of the town is a spot that should have been attended to many years ago. We have to admit that the town council that perîitted the bridge to be built on such a curve is ta blame, but it is up ta the department of highways and the railway to make the bridge saf e for the ever increasing traffic of the pro- vincial highway. Premier Gea. S. Henry, speaking ta a reporter of this newspaper at the Conservative picnic last week, consmented on the fact that for some turne the gav- erninent bas been willing to ha've this spot fixed. Plans have been drawn, but the matter has ta be placed bef&e the Dominion Board. o! Railway Coin- m:3sioners betore wark can proceed. In this partic- ular case the Board infarins the Departinent o! High- ways that there are no funds available ta do the work. That argument is, ta aur mind, o! a rather flimsy nature. If the Board receives its money t rom the Dominion Government it is up ta the Board ta place the importance o! this change betore the Gov- erninent. If this is not donc, or the Gavermient declines to advance the necessary funds ta complete the work, then that Board or the Govermient is placing a value on human lite. To thein the lives of citizens means less than the few paltry dollars that is needed for~ the work. The governinent is looking for relief measure ta pravide work for the unemplayed, then why not put this hazard inta the safety class. employ uneinployed men and earn the gratitude o! the thousands of motorists who find this spot on the bighwvay one of the most dangerous o! the Provincial Highway systein. one is able ta understand that the governinent has not the funds ta replace all rural level crossings, but they migbt be made sater by the assurance of a good view train every angle o! the approacning veh- icle. Thoughtless Citizens Damage Property Saine imonths ago several hundred schooi children gathered at the corner o! King and Lberty Streets ta watch the inauguration o! a tree planting cain- paign on the streets of Bowmanville and ta observe Bowmanvilles first Arbar Day in many years. In one o! the addresses given on that occasion it was stressed that children should be quick ta leamn that no beautification campaign can be carried ta a suc- cesstul conclusion without the hearty co-operation a! every child in the town. It ivas pointed out that in the pîanting o! trees and shrubs the tawn could be beautîfied only if the children exercised every caîe and recognized the tact that trees and plants have lite and must be protected. The children were urged at this tirne to leave trees and shrubs alone. and ta see that their pîsymates did the saine. We bring this matter up again because of repeated complaints one hears on the street about children, and worse still, grown ups crassing beautiful îawnis ta make a short cut ta a destination, climbing through hedges. and breaking branches f rom youngI trees. We witnessed an ii-tance o! this on Satur- day evening at Rotary Park. Twa young boys, bth students at the High Schaal, and bath tram haines with beautiful gardens, walked into the Park through the newîy planted hedge, treading on the shrubs and thus doing damage that is almost irrepairable. Thraugh the community mindedness o! one of aur nurseries this hedge was planted in the sprif g and other work donc at Rotary Park. praper care of this wark will ensure a! this park a beauty spot a! which the town will be very proud in a f ew years, but ta accomplish this end old and yaung Mnust learn ta respect and protect hedges, lawns ,and trees an bath public and private property. AWorthy Community Service The people a! West Durhain know and have con- fidence if the capabilities o! the Bawnianville Rotar'y Club and the appeal will nat faîl on unbeeding car~s. There shauld be no hangif g back, but all who are able ta support the Carnival should ha as generaus as they caf in~ contributitifg towards its success. Neglected Cemeteries in United Counties In a letter ta the editor of the Owen Sound Sun Tiines a correspondent belabors the present genera- tion for their neglect of rural graveyards and asks the pertinent question, bas the old saying "Gone but Not Forgotten' been changed ta "Gone but Now For- gotten"? This saine subject has been the cause of inuch editorial copy in the past few months. but The Statesman has refrained f rom commenting because local ceineteries are, as a whole. in good condition. Recently, on a trip east we noticed an old cemetery on Highway No. 2. It was over-run with weeds and standing in its middle as a silent tribute ta saine Durham County pioneer stood a granite shaf t, hall hidden f rom view by the noxious growth. That cern- etery, with its other graves campietely- hidden f rom view, is a disgrace ta Durhamn Caunty. These pion- eers who trod the trails through the forest and hewed train its depths homes which are now the fireside centres of happy farming cammunities, are being forgotten. In a few years aIl trace of their last rest- ing places will have disappeared. Cannot something be done about this discreditable situation? The Counties' Council would confer a boan on the coun- tryside under its jurisdiction If it would provide the necessary funds for these much needed improvements. Perhaps, however, it is asking toa much, for we alsa naticed in Cobourg, the Counties seat, an ald ceinetery on William Street, well within the town limits, overgrown with weeds and with its head- stones broken and falling in every direction. Appar- ently the new systein introduced by the Ontario Gov- erninent for the supervision and control of ceineteries early this yeaî, and empowering Caunties Councils ta compel the municipalities responsible ta imprave cern- etery conditions in their municipalities, has not yet borne fruit. Who Is a Transient Trader ? Who and what is a transient trader, is a subject that is 0f ten discussed and yet littie understood in local circles. It is doubtful whether haîf the mer- chants in Bowmanville are f ully conversant with wha.t constitutes the transient trader, and for this reason a recent Leainington case is of interest. A town by-law of Leamington classifies the transient trader as 'those whose naines have not been entered on the asseasment raIl." The revised statutes of On- tario, however, rule that transient traders are "those whose naines are not on the assessinent roll or who are entered an it for the tirst turne." The above case. which was tried betore Magistrate Smith at Windsor, placed on record a decision that shoulci be of interest locally. "~The Magistrate ruled that the transient trader is one who has flot resided in the municipality for three mcnths before beginning business. He imposed a fine of $10 and coats of $5 on complaint that a transient trader's license had not been taken out. The merch- ant began business on May 3rd. and on May 25 bis naine was placed on the assessment raIl by the Leain- ington court of revision. There can be no hardship in requiring transient traders ta take out a lirense. If they are acting in gaod faith and remain in business the money required fo- the lîcense is applied on taxes and the transient does flot loýe. If it were flot for this safeguard al sorts of fly-by-nights wauld be babbing up. mhe mer- chant xvho stayS in town year in and year out and pays bis tax.es is certa:nly entitled ta the protection he is getting." ,------ Hydro Municipalities Have Good Record A record of achievement in the face of a greatly reduced deinand for power was the experience of two-thirds o! the 275 municipal electrical utilities in Ontario whîcb operate their awn systems with power supplied by the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario, according ta the 24th annual report of the Commissýion. In the section devoted ta this phase of the Hydro enterprise, it is revealed that only 33 of the 275 municipal electrical utilities had grase deficits in 1931 in respect of operating expenses and tixed charges other than depreciation, and the net surplus for ail the utilities for the year was $1.187,- 523. Of the 275 municipal systeins scattered througb- out Ontario, 200 emerged tram the 12 months' op- eratian with sufficient revenue froin consumers ta meet ail operating expenses and f ixed charges and ta yîeld an aggregate operating surplus for the year of $1,299.066; 42 were able ta detray ail operating and fixed charges except depreciatian, but tailed ta set aside the full theoretical amaunts for that reserve by $28.631; 33 bad grass deficits in respect a! operat- ing expenses and fixed charges other than deprec- iatioit. aggregating $39,571. A Layman Values the Cburch Edgar A. Guest, the paet of the common people. wh6 is a layman. thus writes about the church: "To say that I don't need the church is mere bravada. I needed it when my tather d.led. I needed it when I married and when our babies were taken tram us, and I shail need it again, sooner or later, and need it badly. I amin ifgaad health now, and I cauld. I the Ontario-Qucbec Xeekly Newspaper Association. He made his home at Granby, Quebec, where he edit- cd the Leader-Mail, a very progressive and modern newspaper. He was highly thought o! in the cratt and he will be missed at Association gatherings. REV. GORDON JURY 1 vestinent and the country was faceci WAS PEAK R AT witthe problein of keeping al ROTAY LUCHEO the hands of this class It was quite ROTAR LUN HEON coinmon for the average fariner to be iin debt for if e and most of thein (Conwinued froin Page 1> would not know what ta do werc. Rangoon is a city of 350,000 po they ever out of debt. It was also ple aou hlfth sie f heCiycommon for one man to borrow ple.abot hll he îze0f he ityfrom a lender at 25'; and thexi turn of Toronto. It is the gateway of round and boan this money out at Burma, but it is anything but a 40% thus making a handsoine pro- Burmese City, in fact very few Bur- fit on borrowed money. The Bur- mese live there. commentedth mans, despite their borrowing, are speaker. The city is populated byanidsruspoebtappe thousands of Europeans, in business, who have no understanding of the or governmental positions, but the vau1feoois ago a predominating part of the popula- also populated by a number of Chin- tion is f rom India. The exodus f rom ese and Burmese.1 India is due ta the tact that living Speaking of the country as ai conditions and wages are better in whole, the speaker pointed out thati Burma, and an Indian is able ta the population was divided between work in Burina, provide good keep the Burmese and the Karens, both for his family in India and stUll live more of the Mongolian type of racei more comfortably in Burina than in than the Indian. There were sever- his own land. The Indians were t al tribes of Karens, includlng the mostly of the coolie type and caste. Shans, Ohmns, Kachins, Lahoos, and The Ourse of Caste the Wahs. the latter a head hunt- Referring to 'India's great curse, ing tribe froin the hilîs. mhe Ka- the caste system, Mr. Jury showed ichins were mostly froin the hilîs in the difficulty under which the west- the forth and this race still pract- erner lives through the strick ad- ised slavery. and i the making of a herence ta caste customs. One Of human sacrifice used the slave ra- the lowest of these castes is the ther than a member of their own sweeper and other classes will flot fam;ilies. lower themselves ta work with.* or' near hlm. Up a grade f rom thet Unusual Customs Fweeper is the cook. and up again is; One of the queer custois of the the butler. The average western Burmese was the fact that there family living in Burina cannot get were no family naines and 50 naine along without two or three servants. told nothing of family connection. The cook. for inistance. would flot There was a distinczion in titie and could not be persuaded ta do however. the youth being known. as the work of the sweeper, and the1 Maung. or Young Mr.; the grown butier could flot be persuaded to do1 up or f riend Mr.: and the elderly the work of the cook. and s0 it was1 peîrson or one who has achieved pas- necessary to keep several servants ition is known as "U". this being a ta get the work of the average house mark of respect. accomplished. The average wage The rainy season lasted f îom the paid these servants is about $12 .00 edo a otebgnigo c per inonth. cnd 0f ay ta ogthe beginnino Oc The nature of the Burmese dm- rtober any yad thrugh tisason it ate makes it such that the western- rainy eeydyad .cial I er cannot do her own house worktS aig0 anl ans r and thus the servant problem be- Jury told of one converted inan who cornes an important one. As candi- nmdhsfu os elntn tions in the bazaars are not su ch as napo i orsns elntn western people are used ta the cook 1Npleon. Nelson and Washington. doc., the buying for the family each j Bef are closing his address he înorning. In addition ta the cook.1 showed a few articleF he had brought the average householder has a boy'f rom Burma, including a cheroot, who does the sweeping and helping the type smoked by the ladies, about the cook. and the gardener looks 12 inches long and an inch thirk; after the outside of the house. The a pair of dress sandals. in velvet; cook will not do the sweeper's work! and types of lacciuer work and wood and neither will the gardener do the carving for which the country is cook's work for fear ci' caste de- floted. Bath men and women wear gradation. While the native Bur- 1 kirts, the women long and the men man does flot live under the caste short, the latter being girded about systein. he is lazy and does flot make the waist during the rainy season. a good hause servant and for that: Te main industries were raising reison inostly India-ns are used in! rice and the making of teak pro- this connection., ducts toir export. The rice was sowne The Moneylender before the rainy season. grew, during Speaking of another class of In- that season, and was harvested dian who lives in Rangoon. Mr. Jury. when the dry season arrived. spoke of the money lender who Rotarian F. F. Morris expressed IL charged quite of ten 40 ", on his in- the thanks of the club to the speak-11 y WATCH No man can enjoy the leisure hours for which he strives unless his investments are secure. For peace of mind, keep an adequate reserve in a Savings Account. It pays 3 ', interest, is always ready for use-and neyer depreciates. Whether your account be large or small, The Royal Bank of Canada is ready to give you interested and efficient service. The fRoyal Batik of Canada CAPITAL AND RESERVES $74,155,106 TOTAL ASSETS OVER $750.iX0,O Bowmanville Branch- L G. Hefkey, Manager 1544 er for his splendid address. and the: and! Miss Murphy of the Chautau- club demnonstrated its app-ovaý by qua. who gave a short talk on the hearty applause. prograrns to be given during the Visitors at the club included A. E. wveek. Mr. Geo. Chase. in honor of Loveli and Geo. Harnbly of Oshawva; Mr. Jury. sang the oId favorite "On Magistrate Glenn Strike of Ottawa' the Road to Mandalay.- and WAIT For Astounding I n Next Week's Issue of The Statesmnan Nelson 'ys Stores VViII Create thie Greatest Havoc In Thîe Mercantile History oF Bowmanville PAGE TWO TRE CANADIAN STATESMAN, BOWMANVILLE, THURSDAY, AUGUST 4th, 1932 111