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PAGE TWO THE CANADIAN STATESMAN, BOWMANVILLE, THURSDAY. JANUARY l2th. 1933 Established 1854 A Weekly Newspaper devoted to the Interests of the tOWft 91 Bowmanviiie and surroundlng country, ssued at KIno Street West, Bowmanville, every Thursday, by M. A. James & Sons, awners and publishers. The Canadiari Statesman le a member of the Canadian Weekly News- oapers Association. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Anywhere ln Canada, $2.00 a year; in the United States, 42M5 a year, payable in advance. Single copIie, 5 cents. TH1URSDAY, JANUARY 12t1h. 1933 Bowmanville Should Have a Market fr1 The Statesman has on many previous occasions held that the inauguration o! a f armera' market in Bowmanville woulti be o! mutual intereat to f armera, cltizens andi business interests in the district. We still believe that great benefits woulti accrue f rom the establishmnft o! a market here, especially in these times when !arm prices are so low anti the shipping of produce to the city is so expensive. Farmers clubs ln the district anti Bowmanville business men shoulti get together on this proposition for there is littie doubt that both will benefit mater- Lally. A !ew business men might lose a certain por- tion o! their barter or exchange business, but the tai-mer would be securing the actual cash right in the town, which would certainly be an incentive for hlm to spenti it in the town. As far as we cana see merchafits would stand to lose nothing. They would <et cash transactions insteati o! barter which es in- finitely more agreeable anti the farner woulti get a fair price for his produce by selling it in the open mar-ket at«his own price. When this subject bas been unden discussion be- fore some have doubteti that a suitable building coulti be founti to house the market. This la a matter o! secondary concern. An open mar-ket la helti in many towns and cities in Ontario anti an open market coulti easily be arrangeti in Bowmanville. We suggest that vacant lot between the Olympia Caf e anti the Cities Service Garage as an ideal site for such a market, at least during the summer montha. There are several vacant stores on King Street which would prove o! service as an indoor market andi coulti be utîlizeti as such. Port Hope. Cobourg, anti many other nearby centres have splendid mar- kets anti lb seema to be the concensus of opinion that a market is a distinct benefit to the community lb serves anti to the f armer who makes lb his selling place. The sooner this market la establishet inl Bowman- ville the btter for everyone concernoti anti we be- lieve that lb ahoulti be given an important place on the agenda at the next meeting o! the Business Mens Association. Curtailment in Service of a Newapaper Affects Whole COmmunity Ib seema a common impression that newspapers are iuffenlng bass f rom bhe depression than moat other businesses. Maybe this f aise impression la due to the high standards being maintaineti by the newa- b.e_____ ...papers to create that optimistic spirit so character- Islc o! editors. However, recent events lu the jour- nalistic worlti prove that the publishing rade is among the hardeat bit. lb is a well known fact aznong publishers that the big drop in commodiby Prices has not affecteti newspapers to any oxtent. Paper, ink, metal anti labor costa are not doun but revenues certainly are. Ib must also be remembereti that ln the boom days previous bo 1929 the pices o! Job printlng. subaciptions anti atvetising rates were flot raiseti as was the case with most commodities. Wth !alling revenues the newspapers are now fight- lng an *phiil battie anti are being forcedt o exen- cise every Possible economy. In rocent montha sevonal Ontario newspapers have ceaseti publication on amalgainabet i ith economy in mind. Last week the Estevan iSask.) Mercury ne- duceti the size o! its newspaper, one o! the beat lu Western Canada. to a five column papen of the tab- ld ise. The Mercury makes no apology for its move but Points out iba neasous in this miannen: "Iu the present ena o! oconomic disruption the revenues of the publishing plant are satiiy discounteti. Ad- vertising patronage f alla away considenably. Sub- scribers cannot or will not pay for the service given them anti job shops here anti there cut into *the revenues that migbb otherwise go towands covering the cost o! publisbing the communiby news. To con- tinue untier such adverse conditions would be but to invite bankruptcy." Nearor home comles the anuouncemenb from the Oshawa Daily Times that a! er six yeans' openation as a daily newspapen economlc conditions fonce its reversion to a ti-weekly with a cornesponding lay-off in labor anti reductions in other expendibures. A communlty cannot help but suifer wibh the curtail- ment O! such a public service. Wo tell you these thinga so that you too migbt know that the publishing business is not a beti o! roses in this worldwide depreasion. Every co-opera- tin,- therefore, that can be offeneti by subscribers anti the transler of counby roadEa, educational tepartment andi administration of justice to the legislature or local muiicpalltles, would be the means of saving many thousantis of dollars. The Counties Roati sys- tem. particularly, is one o! the great burdens o! the times anti the 1933 Council shoulti make it a duty to thonoughly investigate the whole sYstem f rom an unbiaseti view, letting politics remain in the back- groundi for once anti efficient administration become the governnng ideal. Hurnan Affaira Due for a Change Dr. D. N. McLachlan in his atitresa on "Utopian Ideals" at the opening meeting of the Men's Forum last Sunday said the rising tone o!fciscontent of the masses against present conditions warned us that we are on the etige o! a change. It is true that neyer in the memory o! living man has there been a period s0 uttenly con.!useti anti cippleti by long accumula ted mismanagement of human affaira. The most dils- turbing feature o! the distressing situation la that socalled experts clainor Wo tell how the mutdile came about, but there has not yet arisen the genius to tell us how to undo the tangle. However, a clear under- standing o! causes may aid considerably in the search for remed.ies anti it is inspiring to observe that the worlt isl clearing the path for the reconstruction o! a new economic fabric by discartiing f aIse traditions anti worn out theories, systema and standards, anti in their places are belng urgeti to adopt a Christian interpretation anti application to our every day prob- lems. lb has been discovereti that production of commoti- iies has outstrippeti distribution, that downright selfishness has handeneti the hearts o! individuals. that greeti-begotten tarifas have panalyzeti commerce, that a capital bas reduceti labor to peonage anti the burden of interest has crusheti industry. Public opinion the world oven is agreeti on the correctness o! these discoveries anti is faat marshalling its as- sent to whatever drastic remedues may be necessary, the trendi being towarti socialistic lines. The only safe prediction for the future is that it will probably intensify the confusion that bas passed, but will bring within vision a new order less tolerant of privilege anti more merciful toward want. What a Gif t to Any Cornrunity? Hati we power to give the average city or town one gif t, this New Year'a season. we would give lb free- dom from gossip. That gif t would miean more for human happineas in homes anti communiby than a million-dollar !actory or a bumper wheat crop on a dollar market. 1 Gossip. Plain devil-tongueti talking about other people la an outstanding social curse o! our day. More homes are broken, more happinesla ruineti, more caneers are downcast, more banka are closeti by the careleas repetition o! guesses. rumors, scantials, haîf-brutha. anti untrutha than by any other one cause. Any community which substitutes true neighbon- linesa for gossip, smncere helpfulness ant fi fendship for scandal-monging is on a gooti, smooth roati to happiness anti success.-Rootarian Magazine. Why Education Costs So Much 'Wby shoulti the state impose taxation upon the public to bouse iu achool a lob o! denelicta" ta tbe amazing phrase useti by Mn. J. G. Ellilot. Past Presi- dent o! the Ontario Educational Association, a past president o! the Canadian Press Association, fon for- by years a leating figure lu school'work anti for many years a Kingston editon. in climaxiug a plea for the imposition o! fees upon nepeaters lu the High Scboois o! Ontario. Mn. Ellioti puts the situation in part as follows: 'We hear complaints that some of the achools are overcrowded. That is true, and no wonder, when we ýee studonts going bo these schools who are f ull- grown men anti women. many o! tbemn with no am- bition in 11e other than to act amant andt ty anti belttle the eachers lu front o! the younger onea. 'When a young man loaf s arounti high achool bill he reaches 20 years o! age be is more useleslu the battle o! life than be woulti have been hati ho gone te work a few years earlier. -When a young man o! 20 applies for a job he expecta a mans wages, but wben ho bas bo stant at the bottom o! the latter on a amaîl salary ho gets discontontet anti is soon a failure. "The years o! sacrifice matie by bis parents end lu failure anti we fut hlm joining the unemployet i ne. ieady to accept any job that may come along. "Wo often wontien how teachers control tbemselvos as well as tbey do whon thoy have to handie young mon anti women who are beyond the control o! their parents. 'The coat of education la bound te keep increasing as long as seats are occupieti by thousantis wbo only go juat to kill time. -We know scores o! young mon anti women who have spent five yeana at secondary achools anti to-day they are a burton to their parents, who are at their wits'ceti te know how to meet their financial ob- ligations. 'Some people will say, well, if the stutients beave school. wbero are they going to get a job? That la .rue; there are no jobs for tbem. But why shoulti the taxpayer have to pay to keep those younq people at school? Surely bbc young womon coulti do some- thing at home te help mother, wbo bas sacificeti 50 mauy years te bring them up. "The teachers are not ta, blame for the prosont state o! affaira. It la the parents who have aliowoti thoîr chiltiren to grow up undor the impression that they are woalthy. wheu they are roally only one stop ahoat o! the bailiff." Thon the former Kingston editon suma bbe mat- ton up like tbis: 'Are focs necessany again lu our secondary achools? I am olti-fogey enougb te believo il, ai safe policy. Why shoulti the state impose tax- ation upon the public to bouse lu scbools a lot o! derelicts? Havent we enough o! tbom already? Has the policy o! fonceti educabion justiflot ibseif? Yos, in the pimary schools, anti I would not touch tbem at ahl. But fees in the high schools would wipe out a lot o! sbudenb.s not acadcmically-minded. "Anti I am impressei that bhc imposing of fees wouiti quickly cause 'intermetiate classes' to bo fonm- et in the public schools. wbore pupils couit be ln- st'uç'ted lu the first anti second years' xork, now carniet on lu bbe bigh achools. Boys anti girls up te 16 years o! ago couit bave thoin education augment- et: anti when thein foot weîro establisheti anti their plans sanely matie, tbey coulti go ou to, secondary schools. Haudlng the lower school subjocta lu the primary schools would be bass expensive."1 Wkat Otkers Say Last week the Bowman ville Statesman completed its seventy- eighth year. Always a leader in the weekly newspaper field, the States- man at seventy-eight shows no sign of age and is to-day even a greater force for gooti in the community it so ably serves. For over fifty years its destiny has been guided by the James farfily.-Acton Free Press. The News-Argus extentis congrat- ulations to the Bowmanville States- man which celebrates its 79th birth- day, with this week's issue. The Statesman is one of Eastern On- tario's outstanding weeklies, and has been owned by Mr. M. A. James, the dean of weekly editors, for the past fi! ty years. May the Statesman continue to enjoy success in future years.--Stirling News Argus. Seventy-eight years of service to its community has been completeti by the Bowmanville Statesman, one of our most interestîng contempor- aries. Mr. George James, its able editor, is Mayor of Bowmanville, and he is filling two positions most acceptably, we jutige. Especially do we like to read the Statesman's eti- itorial columna. It amply proves that such a coiumn is an asset to any newspaper and a force for gooti in the community.-Picton Quinte Loyalist. The Bowmanvilie Statesman has completed its seventy-eighth year. It was instituted by W. R. Climnie anti hall a century ago was purchas- ed by M. A. James. who continued it with much vim until a few years ago. when it was taken over by his sons, Messrs. Norman anti George James. Since the death of Mr. Nor- man James, Mr. George W., His Worship the Mayor o! Bowmanvllle. has had fuîll charge. The States- man is a fine weekly. one o! the foremosi of the province. Through- out its years it has persistently andi effectively promoteti the interests of its town andi district .-Collingwood Enterprise-Bulletin. OUR TROUBLES R-. E. R. in The Huntsville Forester) Too much grouching. too much fear: Wheat too cheap, breati too dean; Too much spentiing, nothing saved; Too many miles of roati. well paved; Too many churches. none weil fIlleti. Too few homes with bakers skiiled: Too little food in wrappers plain. Too much wrapper in cellophane. Too much liquor. price too high. Too much food, with nought to buy. Too much government. too much din Too many cars for sporting in. Too much debt the nations bear, Mstrust, suspicion everywhere. Too much tariff. too littie trade: No one ventures: aIl afraid. Too much spent by governments. Breeding naught but malcontents. Too many struggling hard for breati. Facimng ercI ly with fear and dreati. To mnyîlphets lingering round, Saying proFperity may be founti Round the corner. But juat a !ew Who think the story's really true. Too many losses on the farm. Dropping prices cause alarm: SPeculative stocks too 10w. Not a cent of profits show. Everyone in fashion swim. AIl to lose, anti none to win. Who's to blame for ail this mess? Bennett andi King are my best guess. They should marry, raise some kmn, Then they'd know the mess we're in. We wvho struggle with familles large, Responsibilit les discharge; With meagre jobs and little pay. We flght to keep the wolf away. Both Bennett anti Mackenzie King Would have to do the self samne thing If poor, with familles 'round their f eet, They hadt look for jobs to meet The daily neetis about a home. Anti how lb feels to worry some. But, courage men! some day ere long We'll hear the notes o! Woods- worth's song; Triumphant then. we'll share alike The wealth that shoulti be each ones rlght, Scarce money will cause us no alarm, We'll print some more; 'twill do no harm: Thereli be no unempioyrnent then. No hungry homes, nodtesperate men: Ushered i that happy day 0f shorter hours and better pay; We'll ail be Bennetts, Henrys, Kings, Running a government that brings Milennium within our cal. "Ail for each and each for ail." TWO PAPEES THE SAME AGE Last week. on the top of the front page. with an illustration on each side of it, was a thought for the New Year. It was mentioned. in clever editors. Týhe o.riginal papers, in the miidile fi.!ties. were the Fergus Freeholder anti the British Consti- tution, later amalgamateti anti it was the Watt Brothers who chani te name to the News-Recordi.TMer- were some strange names for weekly newspapers in those early tiays, and C-,I7kIain tainin g- 4-À J.2ngEstablished Position iCanadian' Bankin g- When the Dominion of Canada was established in 1867, the Bank of Montreal, chen already haif a century oId, had nearly a fourth of the totai paid.up banking capital of Quebec and Ontario, and more than a fourth of the banking assets of chose cwo provinces. Today ih bas the same proportion of the capital and assets of the banking structure of the entire Dominion. Today, as yesterday, it employa has resources and facdli- ties for the upbuilding of the soundesc elements of Canadian business. IIEAD OFFICE NIONTREAL BANK 0F MON TREAL Established 1817 TO0TA L some o! bhem still survive. Others inga to the Bowmanville Statesman. have been shorteneti or changeti. May its ativertisers anti subacnibors The firat newspaper ln this district continue their loyal co-operation.- was the Backwoodsmaii, publiaheti Fergus News-Recordi. lu Elora. The editor must have hati some sense of humor, anti the name The editonial in laat week's States- was appropriate, but lb coulti hardly man on party politica is just about romain lu a growing village of that rigbt. or we migbt atiti just ight. day. which woulti biardly want to be "Don't forget the party," as we remintietio! its location every week. hearti one say, shows up juat whene Wbere the name o! the British Con- we are lu this town. What is the stitution came f rom woulti be bardj party dolng for this burg? Can't te guesa. The owner must have lot even get a !ew dollars to builti a bis partriobism get the better o! bis small bridge acroas t"c creek at the common sense. harbor bo accommoc le the west- But what we started out to say entiers. We shoulti 1--. ve been saveti was that we extenti birthday greet- the trouble anti expense o! an elec- tion this year, anti now we will have an extra one as we are two mem- bers short o! the requireti number. We neeti the beat mon that can be induceti to run on the counicil board such sbrenuous tîmes as we are pass- ing through totiay. no matter what church or political affiliations tbey may have. Some people are lu è1t feront orders juat for the pull they imagin' they get out o! it, the gooti anti welfare o! saiti order la a sec- ondany consideration. The samne witb townm affaira. Those people shoulti be sidebracked. What do you think ?-Bowrinanville Correspondent in Onono News. LOCAL RETAILERS You Have Rigkts I You know that a manufacturer includes in the selling price of his product a percentage for press adveî'tising - a percentage ranging from 3 to 5 per cent - sometimes, even more - when consumer-resistance is great or when the gross profit mal-gin is very large. So, when a manufacturer spends $50,000 a year on press advertising, it can be assumed that the total annual sales of his product amount to from $1,000,000 to $1,500,000. Now, if you are stocking a nationally-advertised product- advertised in big-city dailies and in national ly-circulated maga- zines, you have a right to see this produet also being locally advertised-in this neWspaper. Youî' total annu,-A saies of the maker's pî'oduct, joined to those of its other local distributors (if there are others), entitle you to demand that the product be bo- cally advertised in this news- pa pe r. Clearly, it is not right that you should be required to pro- mote the sale of a product in the terîitory served by this news- paper, without receiving from the manufacturer the same kind and degree of sales assistance which he is giving retailers resi- dent in cities where he is spend- ing a lot of money on local ad- vertising. Quite too often manufact- urers clon*t want to advertise in local weekly newspapeî's, saying that it costs too much. They forget, how'ever, that their sales in towns serve(l by weekly news- î)apers pî'ovide an advertising fund which should be spent lo- cally. Why should the contri- butions from local sales to the maker's a(lvertising fund he spent outside the local sales ter- rito ry? You have your business to bu.ild up, and to the extent that you help manufactureî's to ob- tain and retain sales in this terri- tory, to that extent you should receive local advertising assist- ance. You've got a first-class case to put befor2 manufacturers who want you to stock and push the sales of their product, then why not. pîesent it, either direct, or through the maker's î'epresenta- tive when he calls? (N. B.--CUT OUT THIS ADVERTISEMENT, AND SHOW IT TO THE REPRESENTAIVE 0F FIlMS WHOSE PRODUCTS YOU ARE ASKED TO STOCK AN'D P[JSH) AS SETS IN EX CES S 0 F 7 j00,0, 00O B3owinanville Branch: F. 0. McILVEEN, Manager - -- - - qqý THE CANADIAN STATESMAN, BOWMANMLE, THURSDAY, JANUARY 12th, 1933 --- i- . PAGE TWO