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THuE CrANAflTAM 'ATESAN WMM Niwitàý.rm.. ~TURflAV TTT1W Ofth 1935 Established 1854 A Weekly Newspaper devoted to the interests of the town of Bowmanville and surrounding country, issued at King Street, Bowmanville. every Thursday. by M. A. James & So ns. owners and publishers. The Canadian Statesman ls a member of the Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association, also the Class "A" Wceklies of Canada. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Anywhere in Canada. $200 a year; in the United States, $2.50 a year, payable in advance. Single copies. 5 cents. THUSDAY, JUNE 201h, 1935 Decoration and Memorial Day Sunday next Bowmanville community wilU observe its annual Decoration Day and Bowmanville Ceme- tery will be transformed int a bower of flowers as citizens pay tribute ta their dead. Ex-Reeve T. H. Lockhart, among other good workers as a member of the town council. was the means of bringing about the return 10 this observance several years ago which for some rea.on had been dropped for at least a quarter of a century. Decoration Day serves several good purpases. Il serves ta keep fresh in our memories relatives and friends who have passed on, and who in the busy if e of the day, are soon forgotten. Il serves 100 to bring ta mind the character and sterling qualities of these people who served the community in days gone by. Their endeavours and ideals give this generation heart ta keep up the fine traditions for which they warked and fought. in Bowmanville Cemetery lie the remains of bun- dreds who were pioneers of this cornmunity. They lived in the early days before the comforts and con- veruences of modern civilization were available. but il was their labors Ihat made it possible for us tai enjoy these comforts and conveniences thal have raised the standard of living for ail classes. Yes, il is wise and appropriale ta pause at least once each year 10 recaîl the debt of gratitude we owe our forebears. They have run their course and have gone ta their reward. The inspiration of their lives should aid us in sa running aur course that future generations will benef it from aur efforts, as we have benefitted f rom the accomplishments of those who lie beneath the grassy plots in eternal sleep of death. Bowmanville Should Have an Armoury That the town of Bowmanville posesses fia build- ing of adequale capacity to stage any large aff airs is illustrated lime and again. and brings 10 mmnd the fact that the town is badly in need of a community centre, capable of providing accommodation for large gatberings. The coming Lions Club Boxing and Wrestling Show. which will have 10 be held in the Skating Rink, is a point of illustration along this line, in thal flot a suilable building of adequate cap- acity is available to properly stage this type of show. In numerous centres. the communily possesses a fine armoury. Port Hope. Cobourg, Oshawa, and several other nearby centres are blessed with this type of building, which is used for many purposes. Whether or flot Bowmanvile needs an armoury for purely military purposes is questionable, but the fact that the town is the headquarters of a Company of the Durham Regiment certainly entilles il 10 the sanie consideration as other centres. Even the villages of Blackstock and Orono have their armouries. Wben the Federal government is considering public works ta ally unemployment, il migbt be well for aur lacal member to, suggest a new armoury for Bow- inanville. The present inadequate and incongruous armoury 15 of fia value as a community centre. and the goverument would be doing the town of Bowman- ville a valuable and an apprecialed service in erect- ing a new armoury as a base for its militia company and as a community centre, If Every Citizen Was Like You Here's a poser from the Glasgow Herald thal will apply ta any place: "Would your town be a better or poorer one if every citizen was like you?' That is a f air question la ask yaurself. What are yau doing in the way of suggesting something for the bettering of conditions in your town? So many citizens. in fact the great majority of citizens. are content ta simply do their daily wark, attend 10 their awn business. and give no thought whatever of how conditions in their own town might be improved. socially, fram a business standpoinl, educationally. and morally. How many suggestions do you offer in the year as to local improvements. and *how they xight be braughl about? Do you ever think of how you might help start, in a smail way, some new in- dustry? In other words, is your town the better. the poorer, or just of fia account because of you liv*ing here? Make the people you meel f rom outside feel that they are the most welcome guests who ever came ta town. It does not cost anything ta be courteou.s and pleasant ta those Who came ta tawvn even from tihe neighbaring villages. It is the friendly spirit of co- operation and Christian love Ihat keeps the world golng. Wby flt make il a community spirit? Same- better in smaller churches and in the country where the officers and the members have dloser contacts. B3ut flot very much. There is a large numnber of people who join a cburch because the minister or someone else per- suades them ta: or tbey did so when they got marr- led or because theythought they ought to for the sake of appearancos, and they agree ta contribute a weekly sum which in many cases bas long since been dropped or dwindled to a big nickel. Having done that they feel tbey have discharged their ob- ligations and that neither the ministor nor the church officers will trouble about them. But there they are mistaken . The minister and officers do worry about non-attendance. and while the money is both necessary and wlcome, the regular pre- sence of the members would gladden their hearîs. Nothing is more discouraging 10, those who run a church than rows of emply pews which would moslly be fiUled if ail the members took the righl view of church membership. Belonging ta a church is a privilege as well as an opportunity, and admission Implies acceptance of the obligations of members ta take some part in ils work. Il is a tim and walery Cbristianily thal thinks il is supporting the church and is ini good standing tberein by the mere routine payment of a slated sumn per week which the Lord must blush wilh shame for His people aI the meagre offerings somne give 10 the church. Considering the Forgotten Man The Government at Ottawa is at least considering the forgotten man, the rural mail carrier. For many years now, an iniquitous system bas been in vague wbereby rural mail carriers have been appointed under the tender system. Tbis systemn is now likely 10 be abolisbed if we can believe what the despat- ches say from Ottawa. The wbole thing bas tended la cheapen the task wich is extremely important, and each lime new tenders are called for somne new man stops in with a cul rate (or cul Ibroat) figure wbicb sends the scale of wages still lawer and con- sequenlly each lime new tenders are called the job is let at a lower tender. Il bas now reached the stage wbore the rural mail carrier can hardly live on the miserable pittance he receives for bis work. Most of them are forced 10 bave some other inter- ests wbereby tbey can suppleinent their meagre earn- ings and live. The dlivery of rural mail is an important link in the postal service and calîs for the employment of men who are absolutely trustwortby. This being s0 the government sbould rocognize tneir wortbiness by paying an adequate salary according tao the terri- tory tbey caver. In towns and cities wbere there is mail delivery the pasîmen receive gooti wages, and their fellow mail men in the country wbo face the bitterness of winter storms and almast impassable roads at times and the torriti heat of sumnier are miserably paid. Il is said the latter average $732 per year. and out af that sum must come the up- keep of a horse and rig or a car. One must give tbemn credit for ever getting by on this allowance. Il is unfair 10 expect the rural mail carrier bo carry on under tbe conditions now imposed upon bim. Canada might well follow tbe example of tbe Unitedi States along this line in placing the carrier an a permanent salary based on a f ixed rate per mile. Forty Years as Editor 0f special interest la Bowmanville antd West Dur- ham is the arinouncement that Mr. J. A. MacLaren. ed.itosr of the Barrie Examiner last week marked the fortieth anniversary of bis assuming the editorship of that outstanding weekly newspaper. Mr. Mac- Laren. who is a former resident of the manse at Enniskillen, and wbo attended Bowmanville Higb Schaol bolds the enviable record of being editor of one of Canada's most quotod and best edited news- papers. Adequate proof of these facîs is the award aI the Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association on several occasions of the Mason Trophy, emblom- atic of the most enterprising weokly newspaper in Canada during that year. Mr. MacLaren bas takon an active part in news- paper association affairs being a past president of the Canadian Weokly Newspapers Association and at present a member of the Board of Direclors. In the forty years Ibat Mr. MacLaren bas ediled the Ex- aminer that newspaper bas witnessed a steady growtb and an încreasing influence for good under bis guid- ance. The Town of Barrie recagnized as une of Ontaria's most prosperous and progressive towns, owes a real debt 10 the capable and public spirted editor of the Examiner for bis sane and wise leader- ship wbicb bas meant much 10 tbe town in ils development. What Goes On In Every Home Watcb in your borne bow Tbe Salesman-or any other newspaper-is read. Possibly the main bead- lines on the front page are f irst scanned; but il is a pretty saf e tbing to say that women readers will îurn very early ta the ativertisements of local f irms wbicb advortise fashian items. food items. and other offerings related intimately ta current needs and desires. Every womran knows wbal she wants-not perbaps in the precise form or color or variely or manner, but certainly in the main malters of ber desire or need. This applies ta clothes. bats. shoes, food items. beauty preparationLs and many items perlairi- 'Canada must. wait fia langer for reform action", states Hon. H. H. Stevens. Millions agree. 'Strang, wel-built mn make amiable busbands," states a writes'. So, remarks Punch, do slrong. well- built women. YOUR WORLD and MINE Sy JOHN C. KLIRKWOOD <Caopyrig ht) We are berng told by editors and authors and economists that we are living in brand new times-that these present limes are not just a cyclical recurrence of some previous similar state of affairs. Neyer be- fore, sa we are told. has production sa overwhelmingly surpassed con- sumption. Machines are the explan- ation. Machines-the inventions of man-are proving to be the enemies of man. They are displacing man f rom empoyment. and these dis- placed persons are flot being re-em- ployed to the extent of their dispiace- ment. Neyer again-so say those who write for us-can industry and commerce give employment to ail the men and women and young people who are now unemployed. And as new generations are born. the sit- uation wili become worse rather than better. Jc K It is very easy to be made gloomy over the outlook and by the prophes- iP5 0f writers. Some believe that if only the fear of wars would pass-if only nations wauld not build them- seives in behind tarrif walls-if only extreme nationalism would yield to unhampered international trade - that we should have once more pros- perous times, with plenty of work for everybody. In the meantime. we have an immense unrest. and in al countries Ihere are projects, built on hope rather than on assurance, to improve social and economic condit- ions. Multtudes of men and women have persuaded themseives-or have al- lowed themiselves to be persuaded- tiat the Stale can and should feed. clothe and shelter them. But the State is just the people. My question is. How can the State do what those who compose the State cannaI. them- selves do? I know that many are ad- vocating that the rich should be made to yield up their riches to the State. for the State to distribute among the needy. But if the State did this thing. it would be just a stop-gap procedure. Ahl the surplus wealth taken f rom the rich and div- ided among the poor woud flot last very long: and when the State could get no mýîore money from the rich. the problem of providing f ood. sheltei and clothing would be more acule than ever before, with no rich per- sons te get money f rom. Jc K We hear a lot about pensions for those who reach 60 or 65. But the way things are going now. vast num- bers of persons are going out of wage-paid employment aI 45. and ev- en earlier; and since they are not likely te die before they are 70 or 75. the State will have to care for quite haîf of the poulalion for 30 years or more; which means that thoze under 45-those in employment -will have to sustain those out of employment. How can those in em- ploymnent. and who will pass from employment at age 45, contribute anything te a fund te be used ta sustain the unemployed? If they can save anything at aIl out of their wages and salaries, they will want to use their savings for themselves -to educate children -and to assure their own future. Very few work- ers in these present times. even when they remain in employment until age 60 or beyond. find it possible to save any cansiderbale sum. Their year- to-year necessities consume their ini- come. If the number of unemploy- ed is to increase in the future rather than decrease, then wage and sal- ary levels in the future are likely ta be lower Ihan they are today. Jc K I do flot profess to be well thought out in regard to present day social and economie problems, and I am flot distressing myseif greatly over the outlook. I just knaw that I am living in these present limes and that I have te live and make a liv- ing right now. And the only way that I can keep the wolf from the door is to work. I have ta depend utterly on my own energy. my own initiative. my own wtts. my own diligence. my own resolution, for my bread and butter. If it will interest my readers. then 1 tell them that I have no employer except my self. I arn employerless. neot by my will, but because I lest my salaried job. I had a partial break- down in health which circumstance compelled nie to slow up. and this meant that I could nlot deliver ful value for my salary te my employer. And being in my mid-sixties, I was too old to expect ta be employed by any f irai or company or institution. Sa I have had la make employment for myseif. 1 make this statement about myself that my readers may sec that I am flot writing f rom the shelter of a good job, where there It ean had pysial ork, and great self -dental. It means crude ways of daing thlngs. It means that softness of living will have taý give way ta bard experlences.I means getting alang with very iutIle rnoney. It means producing. I PAG__W manual labour. mosl things of daily necessily. It means changing aur minds and desires. It means a struggle 10 live. J CK This view of mine is bound 10 be stubbornly rejecled by most of MY readers, and many will say, "Better be dead Ihan be alive and live like the pioneers". But the world is in a sorry mess, and there will have 10 bc a return ta simpler living-ta primitive conditions - bef ore this sick world can be made well agaifi. I have this to say 10 farmers: You are lucky. even tbough you may feel that you have been the football of fate. You may flot be able ta make mucb surplus. in the form of cash; but you are already in a way of lufe which i enviable. What bas put most farnâers in their present bad condition bas been their effort ta make maney rather Ihan just a comfortable living. Farming for most farmers will nover make tbem rich. Riches come from trad.ing, and farming is not a trading occupation. It is a way of life. I find mucb satisfaction in the re- floclion thal young people brought up on farms are, in increasing num- bers, remaining on the farm, finding in farmang a means of livelihaodý and a great deal more. Thoy are prolected in ways unknown to thoso wbo live in citios. Thoy can have a peace of mind which thoso who dwell in cities lack. Those who live in big cities pay very dearly for their sofltbings and their enjoy- monts. The End Business can be compared t.aa floworing sbrub. Bath must bave proper nourisbment 10, sur-vive and flourisb. The sbrub needs plonty of mois- ture and same fertilizor. wbilo a business-any kind of business- needs the samne îroatmont: that is newspaper adiertising for tbe nec- essary moisture 10 insure growth, and a general bouse cteaning in the way of new morchandise, new metb- ods, sometimes new personnel as the proper fertilizer. 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