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PAGE TWOTHE CANADIAN STATESMAN. BOWMANVILLE, THURSDAY, MAY 18th. 1933 ne je nimbi-an 5--têimn Established 1854 A Weekiy Newepaper devoted ta the intere8ts of the town of BowmanvIlle and surroundlng country, issued at King Street, Bowmanville, every Thuraday, by M. A. James & Sons, owners and publishers. The Canadian .tatesman Io a member of the Canadian Weekiy Newspapers Association, aima the Class "A" Weeklies of Canada. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Anywhoeoln Canada, $2.00 a year; ln the United States, 8&50 a year, payable in advance. Single copies, 5 cents. THURSDAY. MAY l8th. 1933 No Community Picnic This Year It will be with a tinge of regret thal West Dur- ham people will read Ibis week of the abandonment of the Community Picnic by the Bowmaflville Busi- ness Men's Association for this year. It wifl be reaclily unclerstood that an undertaking of this mag- nitude is an expensive proposition and it wilI also be understood that money is far f rom plentiful in these days. Apart f rom the subjeet of finances only a cer- tain arnount of work can be accomplished success- fully by a group of men, and to have undertaken the sponsoring of the Community Picnic in addition to the sponsoring of several branches of sport would be really more than the business men could adequately handie in one season. In Ihese days of reduced buy- ing power il is a matter of the survival of the fittest and first and foremost the business man has to at- tend, more wboleheartedly to bhis own business than ever before. In his community efforts he must abide by the amount of lime he has availabie and the amn- ount of money he is able to put into bis efforts. Both time and money are aI a premium in these days. so that some aclivities must be curtailed. In view of this situation. the Business Men. af er a close study of the situation, have corne t1 the con- clusion that to sponsor baseball and football through- out the season is of more value than sponsoring a picnic which gives but one day of pleasure. Most people in the district are ardent sports fans arid they will be interested in seeing Bowmanville forge their way through the baseball group. The series of games wll provide as many if not more thrills than the big picnic, and then 100, il provides an element of character building in the youth of the district. Sport teaches the young man t0 play the game for the games sake. It teaches him 10 be a-god-ose as well as a good winner. It tends to make lithe and healthy bodies and clean moral minds. Surely these objeta are worthwbile. more worthwhile in fact than the sponsoring of a big community picnic. Pesky Peddlers Prey on People The ever perplexing question "How to rict the town of troublesome door to door peddlers?" was before the Business Men at their meeting on Tuesday night. It àeems that the Municipal Act, whicb governs al bylaws for the prohibition of peddlers, does not cover the Points which are most bothersome ta the local merchant and the bousebolder. It must be agreed that peddlers coming into town and selling their goods f rom door to door in opposition to local mer-. chants are not giving the merchants a f air break. The merchants in the business section are presented annually with a tax bill. for property and business tax. that nearly staggers tbem. These taxes they pay for the privilege of conducting busifiess in the town. Surely they are entitled then 10 the support of their fellow taxpayers. The peddler on the other hand makes his rounds of the town, in the majority of cases seling inferior merchanctise, and they pay no- thing towards tbe upkeep of municipal institutions. There is no doubt that housewives themselves do not like 10 be forever answering the door to peddlers. They prove 10 be a nuisance but a nuisance that citizens really ask for. One hears s0 0f ten of people buying from a pedler just tb gel rid of him. There is a far better way of ridding the town of Ibis nuis- ance by refusing to buy f rom them. If pecidlers were given to understand that they were flot wanted they would not corne. Bowmanville is remarkably free of crime, due because the town does not want crime and the police by their activities keep the town clear of crime by letting criminals know that this is a bad town in which 10 carry on their activities. The re- suIt is they keep away and the same result will hap- pen if peddlers are given to understand they are flot wanted. Some complain that il is the duty of the police 10 cbeck up on the p:eddllers. We agree that it is, but the Police cannot be on every street at aIl times of the day. If citizens will acquaint the pol- ice with cases of peddlers coming ta their homes contrary 10 the licensing bylaws, they will help the town and tbemselves by informing the police. Must Think More of People Than Profits or Party For more than three years business throughout Canada has been suffering from a state of stagna- tion. Unemployment has been if e. and conditions have been sucb as to warrant a degree of pesimism. These conditions have lasted long enough and it wiI.pl notmust gtibter f ther on acoîdbutmu In Canada the deptbs 0f depression suffered by the United States bas not been so keenly f elt. Foremost economiats predicted that Canada would emerge from the slump long before the United States, and unless the business men of Ibis country soon awake to that îealization the economists will be entirely wrong. Theî-e is sth11 that feeling 0f uncertainîy in Canada. No one seems 10 know .iust what 10 do or bow to do il. In otheî- wordLs tbey are doing just what is being donc in Germnany, Austria, and otheî Central European countries. just waiting foi- something 10 turn Up If Canada's economnic structure is to gel on even keel. the governiment and the business leaders have got 10 lhink of the people more than profits or pal- itical party advantage. Money, which has dominaled conditions in the U. S. A. for so long. has become a secondary malter and tbe same has got to happen in Canada. An oulspoken econornisl remarked recently thal Canada is governed by 20 millionaires and not by the government. We are inclined 10 believe that is absolutely igbl. and we feel also Ibat until tbe governmnenl of tbe country gels back to the people prosperity cannot relurn. The tyrannical rule of goId has had its day and ln ils place muat corne tbe first thought o! the welfare o! humanity. Everybody Happy with Grant to Band Two weeks ago loday Town Council made a grant to tbe Canadian Legion Band o! $100. Unlike some o! the business conducted by tbe counicil, Ibis item bas apparently passed by witbout criticism. At least we have failel 10 bear the usual sîreet corner har- angues about the terrible wastefulness o! tbe council in granting $100 10 the Band in limes o! stress. Il migbt be trutbful 10 say that criticism is witbheld for the simple reason Ibat botb the lown council and the citizens are proud of the band. ils achievements and the services il renders tbe community. One bun- dred dollars is a pallry sum 10 give 10 an organiza- lion thal does sa mucb 10 keep the town on the map. Bowmanville witbout a band was like a Ibeatre with- out a show, and even now that the town bas a band il is nol as fully appreciated as il should be. If You Had a Million Dollars "If you had a Million Dollars. bow would you spend il?" That is the intriguing question asked o! Goodyear employees in tbe New Toronto plant ard their answers are published in the Wingfoot Clan plant publication. Fromn the answers one gels a splendid view o! a cros.s section of humanity. The dominating fealure o! some answers is '*self", while Ithe first thougbts o! others is for others. Several would take long ocean voyages. others would buy homes, but il Ltý raîber înteresling 10 note Ibat the majority have in their consideration of the question put others first. For instance, one man said he would donate a scholarship for medical research purposes; another would belp ouI a lot o! poor f riends and re- latives; while another would rush 10 a lawyer and have a substantial sum set aside for '-my six cbild- ren and wife' bof ore he collapsed f rom the shock. The probabilities are Ibat if any did receive a mil- lion dollars they would not likely follow the course they suggest in their answers. To imagine this stroke o! fortune is one thing. and ta have it in reality is yet another. Howevei-. il is refreshing 10 see that the larger portion bave someone else in mind than mere self. To Observe Rural Life Sunday In the United Church o! Canada on Sunday next will be observed "'Rural Li! e Sunday' on whicb day the place o! agriculture in the if e o! the community, and the contribution 10 both science and the state, is recognized. Ahl churches might well join in Ibis recognition for we aIl muat recognize tbat f rom aur farmn and country homes have corne a large propor- tion o! the leaders in our urban, povincial and do- minion 111 e. The necessiîy of unity in our ideals a! cilizenship whereveî- we rnay domicile are among tbe many rea- sons for church recognition o! the problema that confront the agriculturiat. Ta every one o! us cames the challenge o! the Son o! God. Ibat in aur buying and selling, in our companianship and fellowsbips, in our citizensbip, and in ail our life'a activities, we abould apply the gospel o! Cbrist as îevealed in tbe Golden Rule, the parables and the sermons o! our Lord. On Sunday next we stop la consider the responsi- bilities, opportunities, necessities. and relationahips a! the rural if e o! Canada. When urban people re- alîze their interdependence on rural life, then will draw near that seemingly mytbical state a! Utopian jay upon eartb. Why the Taxpayer la Overburdened One o! the big cries o! the present lime. and one a! the things that the depression bas taught us is that we are boyond ail sane reasoning. overgoverned. We read somewhere ast week thal in a town in Ontariao! some 7000 people there were 59 governoi-s, so we toak the trouble 10 look aveî oun own situation, and, taking in only the barest details of our i- on municipal governiment. we have some 29 gave-noi-s foi- 4000 people. Our municipal govennment is made up o! the fol- buy beer. operate practically any business, gelt ma - ried, and even gel bunied. 'Me maney bas got to corne f nom somewbere and licenses seem a favorite metbod o! app:aacb 10 the overburdened taxpayer NATI'VE SON 0F1 foi- a man o! betveen 40 and 45 BOWM NVILE 15 Neediessa 10 state, he is loved and 5'à YEARS TEACHER respect.ed by hundreds o! persans wha have passed tbnough the achools in wbicb he bas sei-ved. and scores A. E. Manning Retires as Principal wvisb him years o! bappiness during of Strathcona Normal School at h is retired life. Hamilton-Has Been Principal Mr. Manning is an ardent and en- For Quarter Century tbusiastic iawn bowler, and a bhly ______esteemed membor o! the Fernleigb (Prom Hamilton Spectator) club. The retirement o! A. E. Manning, He is a past president o! the Can- al tbe age o! 72 years, f rom bis post acian club. and a Past master o! as principal o! the Strathcona Non- Acacia lodge. A. F. & A. M. In ne- mal Model achool. Hamilton, a posi- ligion he la a staunch membor o! tion, incidentally, he bas held for the United Church. and for twenty tbe pasl 25 years. brings 10 a close years served as Sunday school sup- a brilliant career of service in the erintendent in Centenary church. collegiates and public achools o! Ibis section o! tbe province, as teacher STATES APPLE GROIVERS and principal, covening the iengthy WL EEI period o! haîf a century. ILBNFTMC Mr. Manning, wbose relirement New French Treaty opens market does not take place un-tiI tbe end o! the present sobool termi in June, was Long Closed States Minister born in Bowrnanvile in 1861, the of Agriculture son o! English pioneering parents. In the village af Tyrone he received Ontario farmers may look forward bis early public achool education, 10 the opening o! an apple market later attending the normal achool at virtually closed to tbern for the past IToronto, f rom wbicb be graduated seven yeans. one resul o! the Fran- 'in 1883 and imimediately entered bis co-Canadian trade treaty. Hon. T. L. chosen vocation in life-teach.ing. Kennedy, Ontario Minister o! Agri- For lwo or lhree years Mr. Manning culture. deciared last week. Under taught success!ully in the country tbe trealy announced at Ottawa tbe achools near the place o! bis birtb. Canadian producer la given fruit Then in 1887 be came 10, Hamilton andi vegetable tariff concessions to lake up the position o! teacher o! whicb will undoubtectly bonefit the mathematics in the Centrai colleg- farmners o! tbe province. the minister iate. He occupied that position for boîteves. about five years, at wbich lime het Apple shipments 10 France. Hon. accepted the principalship o! the Mr. Kennedy said. bave been neglig- Stinson street public achool. enjay- ible in past years under the prohibi- ing the honor a! being the final tive general tariff now replaced by principal a! that achool. Fac' iiu ey A !ew yeara following he accepted Fac' iiu ey the position o! principal 0f the Ry Ontarioa will benefit to avery erson public achool. wbere he served l.arge degree.- -said Mn. Kennedy.I for nine years before bis appoint- --A tvide potential market is opened ment as principal a! the Strathcona andthe Ontario govennment wili Normal Model achool. Mn. Manning' make eveny effort 10 aid ils farmers bas been the principal a! the latter ini laking advantage o! il. school tan the past 25 yeans. "In years past." he revealed. "Can- He bas been a achool principal in ada and Particuiarly Ontario bave this city for fanty yeans. shipped golden russetis 10 France Wben Mn. Manning fi-at came la for the niaking o! champagne. This Hamilton. the ciîy boasled a popu- market alone is bound 10, be re-op- lation a! but 40.000 pensons. and six ened and may mean expants o! large public schools. the langest- thousands o! barrels. Other Winter Ryeson-having but 16 raoms. apples have always been in good de-r Aside f nom slightiy impaired hear- mand in France and Ontario basC ing. Mn. Manning enjoys perfect been making efforts ta encourage bealtb aI the rati-r advanced age their use which sbould now prove a! 72 years. and cauld easily pass fruitful."r FOR MONEY BY MAIL Bank Money Orders ore the simplest way td send money sofely by mail, because they invoive no delay for either sender or recipient. They may be obtained at any branch of The Royal Bank of Canada, and are payable in dollars or in pounds. T H E RO0Y AL BA NK 0 F C A NA DA BOWMANVILLE BRANdI - 1. G. I4EFKEY, Manager Word has been neceived by Editor The Statesman needs your co- Geo. W. James that at the annual operation. We want ail the news we meeting of the Printing Trades Ac- can gel but find it impossible to cident Prevention Association of avoid missing- things. We are pleased Ontario held in Toronto. April 27th, to receive local items and are just he was unanimously elected a di- as anxiaus ta mention your company rector of the onganization. or visit.s as we ai-e your neighbors. ROY NICHOLS Moves to Bowmanville as unewly authorized dealer f 0r ROY NICHOLS C H EV ROL ET PO0NT 1A C OLDSMOBI LE McLAUGHLIN - BUICK eÇAGMU G. M. C. TRUCKS CHEVROLET a PONTIAC OLDSMODILE McLAUGHLIN-BUICK and G.M.C. TRUCKS General Motoî's Products of Canada, Limited, takes pleasure ini announcing the al)1ointment of Roy Nichols as a new dealer in the Bowmanville district for Chev- rolet, Pontiac, Oldsmobile, McLaughlini-Buick, and G. M. C. Trucks. Roy Nichols, formerly of Courtice, is well and favorablv known in this part of Ontario. His experience and pro- gressiveness enable us to assur'e lresent and p)rosp)ective owners of the finest type of service at ail times. To his many old friends and customers, Mr'. Nichols extends a cordial invitation to make a fî'iendlv call at his newx addî'ess. And to motorists everyw'here, hie makes avail- ab)le the advantages of a thoroughly modern automobile establishment. You w~il1 find on display repi'esentative fllo(els of Chev- î'olet, Pontiac, Oldsmobile, MeLaughlin-Buick and G. M. C. Trucks. Roy Nichols ur'ges you to inspect these units -to dr-ive them. Learn how~ easy 1)Uichase is made through liberal allowance on vour 1resent car', plus the generous ternis of the G. M. A. C. Show Rooms and Service at Clemens' Garage, Bow- manville, also at Nichols' Garage, Couî'tice. MOTORS PRODUCTS of CANADA Lanited Oshawa, Ont,, G'44' IMOTORSI GENERAL PAGE TWO