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THE CANADIA1N STATESMAN. BOWMANVMLZ, THURSDAY, JULY 6th, 1933 PAGE TWO Establlshed 1854 A Weekly Newspaper devoted to the Interests Of the towfl Of Bowmafllle and surroundiflg country, issued at King Street, Bowmanvile, every Thursday, by M. A. Jamnes & Sons, owners and publishers. The Canadian StateSman Is a meniber Of the Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association, aiso the ClassaA-Weeklies Of Canada. suBS CR-F,,T lON RA T ES Anywhere ln Canada, $200 a year; In the United States, $250 a year, Payable in advance. single copies, 5 cents. THURSDAY, JULY 6th, 1933 Old Age Pensions Imposition Claims that the Ontario Old Age Pensions Board, i takiflg uPon itself wide powers, is bringif g the County Boards to the status O! mnere rubber stamPs is being voiced alI over the province. Whef the CountY Boards first came into beifg they were givef the power o! receiviflg applications and acceptifig or rejecting theri as they saw fit a!ter close investiga- tion. We join in the protest a!ter glancif g fhrough the list o! Old Age Pensiotiers in Bowmanville, 70 in nuniber, and rany o! them te our mmnd, not entitled to the pensions under the ruling o! the Pensions act. When Couiity Boards had complete power in the matter of Old Age Pensions. the reeve or some niema- ber o! the municipal counçil, through his close con- tact vith his own district and his knowledge o! most o! the f amilies was rible to give sound judgment in the matter o! acceptafice or rejection o! applications. Cases are on record now, the Hanover Post daimis, where the Ontario Board bas gone over the heads o! the Çounty Board and granted old age pensions where the Couflty Boaird !ailed to recom.mefd themn. Maily thousands o! dollars are being spent each month on providif g pensions for the aged. In the United Coufties there are 940 people receivlflg pen- sions. and we beliee that proper investigation and the weedif g out o! those net entitled would bring this number down by probably 30%,. The Counfy Board has recommended that in future the naInes o! all those receivif g pensions be posted in the muni- cipal clerk's office !or perusal by amy ratepayer. This Is a wise mnove and one that would tend to lessef the nuinber o! applications !romn those who know that the letter o! the 1mw does flot entitle them to pensions. We find the chie! !mult lies in the manipulation o! property by some penisioners. and the avoidance o! family responsibilities by the thildren o! other pen-1 sioners. There are several cases in Bowrnanville where the pensiofler bas sons workif g steadily wbo should bie able te corne to the aid o! their parents in their old age. These childrefl appareftly forget the sacrifices made by their parents to give them a Chance in life, and in mmking these sacrifices have le!t their old age insecure. Commofi gratitude should be a prornptiflg motive behind the child o! every parent wbo is able to contribute to their support. Just why ratepayers in general sbould have to pay for the sacrifice lvisbed on children o! one f amily is bard to understf.nd. In the other matter o! property it is !ound that to secure pensions rnany old people have turned their properties over to their sons with the stipulation that tbey receive a certain sum annually f rom them dur- ing their life. By misrepresentation fhey then rip- peal te the Board as destitute and receive the gov- erniment income and at the same time other incorne. Each year the Old Age Pensions payments are get- ting larger and unless some definite step is taken to ensure that every persoli receiving a pension is strict- ly entitled te if, the time is coming very shortly when the burden o! old age pensions will get beyond the endurance o! the public. Highways f or Safety and Beauty Two splendid works have been carried out by the Departitent o! Highways over the past f ew years. By a series o! advertisements ini newspmpers the de- partmnent bas stressed the importance o! care on the public highways. Ib bas pointed ouf the danger o! fast driving. o! slow driving, o! careless driving, o! passing on hills, of inattention to the rules o! the roid and commoxi discourtesy. This work is having good effecf for we notice that the toîl o! victims over an excepfionally busy holiday weekend just past have been materially reduced. Nîne deaths were reported. three o! drowning and only six in motor vebicle ac- cidents. Tbis is a decided improvemefit o! the holi- day o! last midsummer, and the continumfice o! the deprirtmeflt's publicity should do much to decrease the nnual toli o! fatal accidents in Ontario. In nother line, the graduril abolition o! the ob- jectional highway biliborird, the departmeft is doing good work. The Ottawa Journal declares thaf the billbord nuisance bas been ended in Ontario, and while we do not agree that it has really ended we are convinced that the nuisance is being abated. The Ottawa Journal stafes that in three years 10,000 ob- jectionril signs have been remioved !rom the highways but there are sf111 10,000 more f0 be removed. In the Bowmanville district, long Highwmy No. 2, there rire still many hideous adverfising signs wbich de- tract f rom the beaufy o! the countryside. Perhaps the work o! the deparfment bas not yet extended to this district, but we believe that the municipal coun- cils governing the towns and township.% in which these signs are displaYed May do much by local leg- isîrtion in abating this nuisance. Bowmanville Not In This Clasa To be explicit is a virtue, but f0 be implicit is am- bigious and decidely un! air. In a recent issue, "Ob- server" o! the Toronto Star, whose rmmbling but bril- liant articles we neyer miss, made reference te the deplorable strie o! affairs rt Port Hope, which bas recently been denounced. The Observer, however, is noi explicit cnough when he uses the words "Dur- ham County", in eiurbing conditions in Port Hope. The HilLide town seerna f0 be the hotbed for trouble and recent de. p)atche.s wt Toronto newspapers claim that the nmorali-y situation in Port Hope is shock- ing. The point we wish to bring ouf is thaf Bow- manville is on> o! the inosi 1mw ribiding towns in the whole Dominion. IL is îreinrkably free from crime and onc seldomn hears o! any serious cases o! crime against the mor-al or pliysicml laws o! the country. But Bowinanville is in Durham n d wben fhe Ob- server refers f0 the situation in Durham he should be more explicit about the section o! Durham on wbich he wrife.s. Bowmanville is 21 miles distant f rom Port Hope. One town ùs ai one cnd o! the counfy and the other rt the other end. The dis- tance between them in miles is hiowever far less than the distance as regards crime. Bowrnanville mlght be forgiven boaStlng in this connectiof while the name o! Port H-ope seems to be broadcast across the province as the centre o! vice, at least we have a right to believe this f rom the reports we read. Inefficiency of Counties Council one o! the arnazing items that came to llght in the recent sittings o! the United Counties Council was the f act that over a period f rom 1926 to 1932 the Counties had incurred a total road deficit o! $659,326. These averaged from $2.262 in 1926 to a peak o! $240,000 in 1929. It seems remarkable that a body o! 40 men, sel- ected by their various municipalities as sound busi- ness men. capable o! handling the finances o! the town, township and county. should allow such a con- dition to exist year a!ter year. Surely these men have better judgrnt than to figure road expendi- tures within less than a quarter of a million dollars. If a certain surn is contained in the levy for road purposes this sum should not be increased under any circumstances, and the County Road Superintendent should be given to understafd that when council authorizes work covering a certain expenditure that work should be adhered to. If extra work is done by authorizatioli o! the Roads Commission, then if is time the Roads Commission settled down at the be- ginning o! the year and based their estimates on what was needed and then stand by the estimates. One can understand a few hundred dollars deficif each year, and one could just as easily understaxid a few hundred dollars surplus, but we notice that we neyer see the surplus. Constantly seeing this sort o!f hing occurring in Counties governiment makes us even stronger ad- vocates o! relegating the Coi.mties Council to the scrap heap. Lack of Sunday Observance Summer time is holiday time. People desiËe to rush about for the week-end and seem to have lost ml sense o! the great purpose o! Sunday, smys the Westof Timnes. If you were to question the childref o! the day or the youtb about the use o! Sunday. they would say. 'Why it is a holiday and the purpose is an op- porfunity to rush off f0 the lake or a summer beach foi the weekend." They have little fhought or re- gard for the true purpose o! the holiday or the Sun- day. They seem to forget that Sunday is a day o! rest. These driys were set aside to permit the people to worship the living Qed and the high festivals were great celebratiofs. Today the ideas is, get as mucb rushed into the holiday and Sunday as you crin. Sunday is a day that bas wonderful possibilities for a national growth. If the people o! to-day would get back to the proper idea and make this a day o! worship and rest, there would be a different feeling in the world. What is needed is a general returfi o! ail people to their knees on Sunday in their respect- ive churches. Then instead o! rushing off madiy for amusement and entertainment, why quietly get out in the open and rest'from your labours. Think upon the %vonders o! creation and the great Creator who watcbes over everytbing. In times o! adversity we faîl on our knees. Why not bring ourselves into dloser relationship with the living God by spending Sunday as it was intended, ris a day o! worship and a day o! rest. Such observance wUll bring about quickly that ýrue social order and proper ridjustment o! world affairs and personal life. The Importancç of Education Last week the Public Schools closed for the sum- mer holidmys and this coming week willseth Higb School closed for the annual two months' vaca- tion. As school closes each year there are many stu- Iý dents looking forward to calling it quits as far as school is concerned for all time to come., This, we believe. is a very serious mistake, ris in this day o! keen competition men and women need alI the edu- cation they crin secure te equip them for the life fhey must face afer the period o! education bas passed. There are some who overdo education and place altogether too rnuch importance upon their own in- dividual educatioflal attainiments. They look upon those whe have not had the same advantrige o! high- er education as an inferior class. The only class that mieht be termed inferior is that cla.ss which will not be ed-acated and thus place themselves in the position o! becoming probable charitable charges. The high school o! the 2th century bas developed a school l! e in which many activities combine te buiid up a little world in itself. In addition to aca- demic educafion, rifhlefics. musical and dramatic per- formances, literary and artistic efforts, public speak- ing and numerous other activities, provide outiets for the talents and energies o! boys and girls. These are supervised by the teachers and they are necessary beciu.se the well regulated, the keen enjoyable life has a place for aIl these activities which tend to make life happier. To hold ones own in this f ast moving world one must have a good knowledge o! many subjects. This cnriched scbool life is tremendously import- ant for character and talent developrnent. If is es- pecially important in view o! the shortening hours o! labor and the increasing hours o! leisure. It is as important to know how to fill one's leisure bours pro- fitably as it is te know how to make bours o! busi- ness profitable te one's self or~ employer. For a 'Happy Life Find the work you love and do it in spite o! thun- der'. Be inoderate in everything: food, drink, work, rest and li bodily desîres. Serve yourself by serving others. Clet money but don't let money get you. Let no man say o! you that you mistreated amy living creature. Let your constant atm be f0 bring a bit o! sunLshine into the life o! every being you meet. Dont worry, laugh oten-you will be happy.-Tony's Scrrip Book. Editoriai Notes With its lrisf issue fthe Acton Free Press, one o! Onfarios newsy and weil prinfed weekly newspapers, completes ifs 58th year o! publication. For more than haîf a century fthe Free Press bas faifhfully served its communify and the present editor. Mr. G. A. Dilîs, bas worthily carricd forward the ideals and inspirations o! bis predecessor, the vefermn and beloved H. P. Moore. We tender our congratulations on f his happy occasion and couple wifh fhem the hope thaf Acton may have for many years the bless- ing o! ifs splendid paper, the Free Press. GOODYEAR PAYS JULY DIVIDENDS Improvement Shown in the Last Quarter, Says President Carlise Dividends on the Preferred and Cominon stocks o! the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. o! Canada, Limited, for the second quarter f 1933, amount.ing to, $175 per share on the Pre!erred and 60 cents per share on the Cominon, have been rnailed to shareholders. In a letter accompanying thel cheques, President C. H. Carlisle states that the dividends o! the frst bal! year have been earned on bothi Preferred and Cornron stocks and a considerable amount has been add- President C. H. Carlisle ed goods is quite satis!actory and onservative, and plant and equip- rment are carried at a very conserva- ive arnount. Purchases o! cotton nd crude rubber show a profit, ati resent prices, o! well over bal! a million dollars, which is flot includ- d in the six rnonths' earnings. 1 Reserves were set Up during the; half year at the sarne rate as in revious years. The total reserve account stands at $6,639.000.00; cur- rent assets at $10,452,000.00; invest- nents in cash and Goverfiment Bonds total $6,400,000.00 and mais- cellaneous lnvestmeflts $221 ,500.00. Surplus account stands at approxi- flately $7352,000.0. Since the first of the fiscal year the Compafly has redeerned 135 shares o! Pre!erred stock under sinking f und provisions. making a total o! 7,025 redeemed to, date. Prior to the current fiscal year 4,670 shares of the present issue o! Corn- mon stock had been cancelled. Dur- ing the half year, $352,000.00 of the bonds issued by the Cottoni Coin- pany were bought. This is flot shown in the investrnts. Out O! the $2,000,000.00 bond issue of the Cotton Plant there are now out- standing in the hands of the public bonds to the par value of $999,500.00. Reviewiflg business conditions, Mr. Carlisle's letter continues: ,There recefltly bas been an in- crease in activity o! Canadian busi- ness as Nyell asjworld business. There has beeri a gTeater dernand for lab- or. Prices have advanced. How- ever, the price advar'ce has not been s0 marked when you make the corn- parison with gold. "Most nations have and are sug- gesting rernedies to combat the de- pression. This is especiallY true o! the United State-S. No Congress in the history o! the United States has adopted such unusual methods or plans that so completely def y all e!- forts to estimate their effects. The major world problems rem.ain un- solved, iLe., stabilizatiofi o! currency, international trading and interna- tional debt settlemei3t. -Your Companfy," concludes Mr. Carlisle, "will continue its conserva- tive policy as to its investmnefts and -operations and at the samne time take full advantage o! its opportun- ities." 1 RAPPINESS HE NE Li jH Bt 't Ng H Ir Ir M: m 0 T r tý e, n rap: It'! Teve Bu i Lke w: lapi W, 3ein TC :tw w .or FC Eap w Ent AI btis ri t w Ve Ir vhi aJi nar ra i Curtis Was Leading American Publisher Cyrus H. K. Curtis, o! Philadel- phiri, owner and publisher o! The Srturday Evenin g Post, The Ladies' Homne Journal and the Country Gentleman. is dead. He wris one o! the most distinguished publishers ini the United States, and perbaps the wealfbiesf. A native o! the state o! Maine, he began early in l! e f0 take an interesf in newspapers and publications, mnd a story o! bis early struggles. the immense debts wbich bhe incurred only f0 overcome tbem mili, andbis rise f0 wemlth and in- fluence makes interestif g reading. The secret o! the success o! the late Mr. Curtis was the facf that he catered f0 public triste. He had f0 make an intensive study o! bis pub- lic. which was not an easy thing f0 do, and then endeavor f0 serve fhem. nevertheless he was fearless in bis enunciation o! public policy mnd made no excuses for steadfastly supporting the big business men, the bnkers, the industrlalists, as againsf those who f alled f0 rise f0 such places o! affluence. He was a strong supporter o! the late president Hoo- ver and in spite o! bis defeat con- finued to adhere to the policies ad- vocmfed by the defeated president. Aside f rom national affairs, Mr. Curtis was a pbilmnfhroplst o! the or1lJe Pik and White GoId Fui. Vue and Raindesa C. H. TUCK, Opi. t.eiy.,gnL sî>cciallst Disney Block: m'ont, 1510 Opp. P.O. Oshawa iness can not be bought, 'a splendid feeling, er !ound when it is sought, ut cornes on us stealllg; [fn matter how we try. re can neyer find it, the pretty butterflY, rhen we run. behind it. piness steals in we find. rhen we're helping others. g help!ul, use! ul, kird o our needy brothers. fiii neyer corne around, Ihile we're hesitatiflg; when listlessly we're !ound r it idlly waiting. ýpiness will filter through, ith its joy and beauty, those persons. that pursue, ,the post of duty. svery near to ail. la, it's even lurking, the !aithful ones we cail. Vho are ever working. acquire, attain, possess nthe course of living, Lt's describecl as happiness, ust by f reely giving, our best in service f ree, nand out o! season, elessly and faith!ully, -r no selflsh reason. hest type and bis benefactions, le in most cases unknown to the :Ic, nevertheless covered a wide ie and many persons and insti- Jons have hirn to thank for what- *r measure o! success was theirs. eCurtis publications have been xvels o! enterprise and ingenuity somne with chaifi carriers. All are fitted with a small change purse and mirrors. They are always clean because they wrish. Speciril for the weekend, $1.00 « The vIyn Ladies' Specialty Skop Operated by Ladies for Ladies MISS T. MURPHY PHONE 594 MUS. FRANK OKE and have deserved their success, cognized ris directif g general public even though they crin hardly be re-1 opinion.- (Cornwall Freeholder). to Own a Gas Stove mmNOW-m Just when a gas range is most needed we announce our Annual Reduction Sale of ail Gas Ranges in stock. No stove will be c.arried over at these prices. The stock is limited. These bargaixis cannot be duplicated. See them and be convinced you will save money by buying now. 4-Burner, with sim- 4-Burner, Happy 3-Burner, grey porce- 4-Burner, grey porce- mer, Happy Thought, Thought, cabinet style, lan enamrel finish, low lamn enamel finish, Iow insulated oven, ail en- baking and broilhng 31.0, aml, poit sar o- yens, ivory and black, oven, regular $22-00, oven, regular $3.0 ml on tr1 heat control and ligh- SalePrie Sae Piceen design, reg. 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They are roomy, weil made, and the trousers are of the wlde bottmi va.rlety. $15 Plced frein 85 sale of Raits Scores of bats sharply reduced ia mldsummer clearauce. Your chance to get an expensive bat at less than cost. We alm te dlean Up every bat this year . our aim is te dlean up our stock every season. You bene- fit by our everbuying. In white, eggsheil and navy; made f rom white crepe, linen, suede and straws. Many are copies o! late New York models and every oe e s distinctive. We have every celer te match your ensemble. Hats I the group formerlY,&, as high as $3,50. $1JL50 On Sale-- SWIM SUITS For the young lady who wants to look smart on the beach we strongly recom- mend oue of these, new this week, swim suits. Sizes 6 to 14 years. Striped tops and plain sklrts, ail wooli.J Plain swlm suits, $1.~49 ail wool COME ON LADIES! Let's ail go swlmming in a new outflt. We have ail sizes in women's and young ladies' suits. They corne in uew plain shades and in faucy stripes. They are ail wool and in ail sizes. In single and two-piece effects. Priced rit 11.95 TO '2,50 Couch, Johuston C& Crydernai Phone 104 King Street, Bowmanville We Deliver ed ed cc ti ai Pl m ec 1 M -#lu Sati'isfy that Desire!l 9 Max Mayer... of New York Contributes to the smartness o! yu sumfmei' costume with these pique Gloves JUST IN! Ideal for warm iwea- $j .00 ther tear. cool ' neat ,fit- -Ut n ln t tlgg ashable 6btonlnt plllnS, o! fine cottof corded mater- il Palm faced with liSe. Sizes 6 to 71-,$1.00 Washable Leather Purses FAST MOTOR DELIVERY PHONE 74