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ý- l-;lý-ý , THE CANADIAN STATESMAN, BOWMANVILLE, ONTARIO THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14TH~ 1939 Eatabliihed 1le" A Wookiy Noepap.g. devoted to the intereste of the town of *owmanvilie and surroundlnq country, ieU@ e t King Stree, owmanville, every Thurmday, bY M. A. James & Sono, owners and publishers. The Canadien Stateaman la a member of the Canadian Weekiy Newspapers Association, as the Cias@ "A"~ Weekiles of Canada. O&O. W. JAMES, EDITOR SUBSCRIPTION RATES ARYwhare ln Canada 81.00 a year when pald In ad- vano.; SOc extra lnUninted States to caver postag.. single copie@, se. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER I4TH, 1939 Business As Usual Let us get this into oui- heads. This war ie ini Europe, and it may last for a few years, likely will, and for those who went through the World War there is no' occas- ion to get the jitters. By next wee k the world will settle down and householders and individuals will do thei- every day regular shopping. The practice of soene to hoard aIl the supplies that they eau should not be allow- ed foi- it only increases the prices, and the idea of others to not spend is just as fool- 'ish. It ie just possible, should this war continue, that the dollar of today will have have comparatively littie value after this war is over eo those who have dollars may as well spend them and buy what they need. Let us keep cool heads, and go about our daily work as usual. The sooner we take this attitude the better, for it will be the attitude we wiil ail take eventually. If hs war je at ail like that of 1914-18 there will be work for ail and high prices for that work. Go ahead, and get what you require. Citizenship 18 Responsibility Motive power ie stili necessary to stim- ulate activity - in a word everything must have a driving force. Realizing this, and the apathy with which many regard their duties as citizens, is it not high tirnj that there wae inculeated into the minds of oui- people the thought of ecd individual 's re- sponsibiity as a citizen? On the street you hear oui- governients condenmcd for their lack of action, you hear public men de- nounlced ini suc'h a way as to make_. them appear blackgua.rds, you hear criticism of corporations, labor unions and other organ- izations which apparently corner the mar- kets. You hear of the work of dictators and social leaders, yet the man on the Street stands by and lets matters rest as tbcy are day after day without any thought that each citizen who prizes hie privileges as such, is definitely responsible in these matters. After listening to these street corner arations and local senate reformers bellow their b.atagt .riticism *i tsk them how mucli they have actually dlonc to righËt the things they so glibly criticize. Watch thcm blush with embarrasement. Governments, businesses, the present day economie situation, are the direct, respon- sibility of the individual. The. citizen makes the government, conducts business, creates social and economie situations - therefore it je his responsibility Vo take an intereet in such things. Business standards, ideals of government, social questions, arc in the bande of the average citizen. If the people of Canada would seriously set to work to put into power a govermnent which really rcpresents them, we would have better re- presentatives. Our- people, working Vo- gether, could reconstruct oui- social struc- ture and build again upon the solid found- ation of Christianity, and there would be no social evils. It je the individual who builds the home, the coxnmunity, the county, tbe province, the Dominion and the Empire -thus if ecd individual citizen will accept bis ueponsibility seriously and set himsecf right, conditions wilI change. A Good and Godly Man (Front St. Thomas Times-Journal) The late Reverend David Rogers wae a man of unusual chai-acter even for a minis- ter. 'Phere was a sort of aura about him which made him secm "different." One feit "better" after talking to him, whether it was on religious matters or the common- place evente of the day. He had a kindly, benign way ýradiating from Lie cousitent- artce which could be described in no other way than Cliristian. He exuded grood-will wausgo deeply spiritual' and so calmly con- tented wth his bigefs that he felt he would be negleeting hie duty if he did not en- deavour to givo 1bis foljowrnen the saine ,hrJNtia» coort that,ý,.bW poyed himscîf. lf. wau'happy ini tie.lpit and happier stilliniiipersoni eontacte. Generationu of people' passed throuigh his mnistriail lbands. - Mo memo.ry and hie works will livo long aftor hlm., lIoardlng Food ls Unnecessary One Cannet help but admire Vire way tire womcu ai-e organiziug for service in na- tional emergeucies by inaugui-atiug a vol- mitai-y registration of (anadian womeu. Thc questionnaire Vicy have issued, whici is published lu part int another columu shows how thorough ticy are prepared Vo tackle these probieme. After tic meeting of local womcn ici-e on Thursday afterntoon one woman wae heard ta remaîrk there was one very important question they left off thc questionaire sud it is hs: Have you se far hoarded auy food, if se wliat foods sud iow muci?1 Hoa-ding of food le unnecessary. 1V le also daugerous and against lsws recently passed. As lias been stressed in Vie news columne, tiere le no prospect of a shortage of suei commodities as sugar and fleur. i What lias happenedI, however, here as cisc- whcre, lias been a mineor flurry of anxiety occaeioned by illogical recollections of tic aset war. Thent there was a sioi-tgge at ines and prices advanced considerally. As one local grocer was quoted as say- ing: "There will be no shortage of cither flour or sugar if people will only buy their normal requirements." Tiat is a matter of Vian enougi of these commodities to meet Vian cougi of these commodities Vo meet r tic normal demaud, but abnormal luying of large quantities ly individusis canuot ielp but upset Vhe mar-ket cquilibrium. Saine few people will have far too muci, and consequently other people will noV have enougli. The resuit wil l e disturbauce of price Leveis. Pulli-spiriVed co-operation ta prevent any sucli undesirable situation has 1 been aeked. Governinental measures will sec ' Vo 1V that unpatriotic actions in this respect I are noV permitted. Iu actual practice, how- s, ever, restrictive ineasures should not ble ne(cessary. Ail tiat le uecdcd is common sense, and Durham County iousewives have plenty of Vint.0 Keeplng the People Informed r Every liue of business has had Vo adjuet T itsecf Vo new conditions. Some of thesa changes are aken as a matter of course sud ai-e casual]y passcd over, noV fully realizintgT Vie benefits Vo the individual. Take, for Y instance, life insurance. Iu days past itwas 'i looked upon as only a protection Vo your ti family after the insured iad died. But Vo, tr day if e insurance has wideued its services hi îrom infancy Vo old age. - One l etoV -- ] quired Vo die Vo "cash in" as you can enjoy w its many benefits whule living. In tic years Il of depression and since life insurance has il proven teVo e the safeet sud surest invest- h ment known and a i-cal finaucial life-saver v' Vo mainy people in aIl walks of life. l No business lu Canada enjoys a gi-caVer sp degree of public goadwill than doe life al insurance. This is due f fret of al Vo the di .char~e,,leof Vie pxroducV and Vhe immcasur- able value iV lias in stabilizing Vie social fï and ecouomic life of Vhe country. And it fr is due, second, Vo Vie far-sighted efforts of in the companies eugaged in Vie business Vo b al keep Vie public informed on the value of ic life insurance ta the individual and Vo the w commnunity. During Vie past year Vie life to insurauce companties publisied their mess- P ec ages in tic dailies, Vie Class A weeklies, of CI which Tic Statesman le a -member, the far in and finaucial pi-es. They stressed Vie fin- ca aucial protection that if c ineurance gives In ta tic people of Canada; Vie social and 1< ecanomic importance of life insuranee as ci au institution; aud tic value of permanent, cr ratier Vian emporary, foi-ms of insurance d( protection. Tic life companies believe lu qi secling tic public and Viey believe furtier w int kceping tic public sold. NoV the least h( effective quality oftVils well-directed cam- Pl paign le its pereistence.si What Does The Ledger Show? w, Do you ever pause lu tic busy, dizzy W whirl we caîl existence Vo examine your own 1 life 's iedger? Too many kccp racing iced- ar lessly on tirough Vhii days without ever stopping Voe heck up ont themeelves. News- papers tell a nevei--ending tale of humant baukruptcies that migit have been prevent- ed thi-ougéi frequent audýts of lif e's se- count. If life Vo you secins empty sud mcaniug- less - if your lurdens appear Vaa hcavy- sa do this. Try out Vie plan of. Viose wiom be you know arc receiving Viir full chai-e of af the joys of living. You will find that tliey st, ar4ickndo polewo2r cnipauy a stances must tic Unit-d- States le brougit into the pi-sent war. Tie faet that in tuis fight againet rutilees Nazi metbode Uncle Samn is just se di-ectly coucerued as the Vwo allies mentioned doe noV seem Vo occur Vo thein, or tic further circunstances Viat ugly terme can also le legitimately applicd Vo tie couusclliug of indifference-Brant- ford Expositor. I liad a letter from, a man Wl lnformed me that he had attenÈ ed the higli schoool whlch I ai tended - this in the same yea and that was in 1890. 1 wasi the top foi-m while he was in th junior foirn, and he was 10 yea younger than I. He entered th scbool after the Chi-istinas boli days, and so was my school mat for onl months. He wan fane' on, and so I had ru known him prcviously. Whien hi letter came to me 48-49 years lai er, telling mue that he had beci at school with me, I could ne recall hlm at ail; yet lie had re membered me - partly becaus, my writings have been appearin i-egularly foi- several years in 111 local newspaper. He said i hi letter that he wanted to cal oi me, and take me out te luncheon This lic did, and because I wa sa much interested in what hg said and in his past and preseu way of life, I have feit lncline te tell of him, i this contributior to The Statesman. I shall cail tht man Tomn Black - whlch lu, 0o course, flot;lis naine. J CK It was near midday when thLc man entercd my office - confident- ly and with a smlle on lis face I did not risc to wclcome lizn, foi I didInot know him. He itroduc. cd hiniself quickly and brightly, and s0 we started i t geV bettcî acquaintcd with each other. TomI to-day is a widower, and lives mi a bungalow ail by hlm- self, and lias donc so for a nuin ber of years. He doceslis owr housekecping, prepares his own meals, docs his own prescrvng and catsup-making, and does ii own laundering. When I suggest- ed ta hM - hlm agcd 61 - thal rie should i-e-mari-y, lie was nol responsive to this suggestion which was, of course, no new anc. Tom is not vcry sure that lie would get along well wlth a neëv wRfe. I advised a wifc aged 50 or s0 - and perhaps a widow, and Tom agi-ced that a wife of mature years would lic better for hlm than some swcet young thing; and Tom was vain enougli te .thik that he would not have mucli trouble i finding a spouse - for he would lic a good "catch", and alsa there arc so many surplus wromen. i the world, many af whom are willing to take a chance on some man witli an assured income. Tom is no£~ a waman- Later by any 'means; lie is just vriy weil content with things as liey arc. Tom bas a social instinct, de- spite bis pi-cfci-ncc for living alane. AUl bis 1lic lie as liked dancing, - this despite the fact bhat in lis arly 111e lic was a Methodist. But bis Methodist Af- fili4tion failed to keep hlm away from dances. Hie went to dances in a neigliboring town, on liorse- back, or afoot, even after a long and liard day's work. And lic coes to dances Vo this day, and with cagernees. Also, Tom likes ao play cards - but not for money. Progressive cuclire is a game 11k- ed by hlm. He belongs-to a social club - of men, and it was as a riember of this club, after the ard gaineliad endcd, and when. ren began cbatting, tliat Tom larned to sinoke - bcginning at age 42. Tom prefers a pipe te cigarettes, and bis wcckly autlay on tobacco is 25 cents. "I get a dllar's wortb of pleasure for my quarter," said Tom. Tom carnies aslIver cigarette case adoi'ned vith a scantily-clad, beauty, and te feels rather devilisl wlien lic presents his case te a woman- smoker. J CK Tom worked for bis father, for wages, for ten years after lic left school. Prom the very fl-st lie was tbi-ifty - pui-poscfuily Vlirifty, fr lic lad seen sa many farniers and athers, wlien old age ai- near- BY THE OLD nY am Back on the Seve What a mess we make of 111e imctimcs. Some people have cen endowed wltli biains, power )f leadership or magnificcnt rengtli. It's unfortunate we can ýut; aur powci-s toecvil use as wfl is good and that very often we et aur sclfish ambitions or oui- ,nccit carry us in the wrong dii- wtion. One man can do a great lal of good and ta pi-bye. it îll )e bas te do is ta remember the owly Nazarene and his work, id on thc other side listoi-y ves us the record of those whase nfluence lias been bad. Tu-day ce have thc figure af Hitler-. ime have called hîm a genius, ome a maniac and others a con- îtcd and misguided ass. Wbat- rer It la, ci-cumstances or brains, hat bas gotten hlm te his present On oua.ntled Tni A l1I iv.stawn*f1r TrustFinds USWouitIonally Gu.rantond 1'Hm STERULINGTRUST CORPORATION Toeo#ITo ho old age was rcaclied, wlthout d-means. So lie deteri-mned, even i lis teens, that lie would save money. i, Aftei- bis ten years with lits Iin father, Tom bouglit a farin for ie himiself, and maried - and ipros- Lr5 percd. He was a liard and an he intelligent worker. Neyer did he l own a motor car - because a mo- te toi- was a consumer of money. A- a horse and buggy or a hiorse and ?t saddle sufficcd for Tom - or hls na own good legs. I asked Tom what ttype of farinng lie practiscd. At nen time lie sold ceam to Toronto Dt buyers; later lic fattened cattle for e- mai-ket. In 1914 lie was affcred se a vci-y slluring price for bis farm, g9 and soid it, moving into bis coun- s ty own. Thei-eýhli did tcaming, '5 and cai-pcntcring, and like things, ýn and "made good moneyl" - this n. foi- ten ycars. Tlien lie bouglit 'a himsclf a 50-acre fai-i, and did al Le the work on it hinisclf, exccpt in t the liarvest pcriod, when lic hired Ia helper. He was up at 4.30 in .n the sprlng, suminer and autumn« 'a days, i order to get at bis work,] )f and lie "dld' for hlmself domes-j tically - for hls wifc had dlcd. Tom says hat lie couid make Ismoney, in the ci-cumistances. Tom's industry and tlirift and slirewdncss i tlings financial renabled him te buy government annuities, and today bis income is langer than his nccds and wants. He did put money ito a Toronto apsrtment house projcct, but lias e flot had a cent from this invcst- CIment foi- nany years. The sti-uc-1 -turc cost $325,000, Tom said - r whiclin hilis opinion, w asb $125,000 too mucli, and it was thea "watei-" or the profiteering in theI erectian costs, which explains* the 1 sabsence of dividends.a t Tom la a philosopher- a i-cal r thmnkei - ful of wise saymngs and 1% vicws. I asked hlm what churdli e lihe attended, and lie said "The 1% Pi-esbyterian."1 I knew that leie liad been 'brouglit up a Methodist, *and I asked hlm how it came ly about that lie had left bis own C denomiation. "*Wdl, they toi-e F down the churcli shed at tic A Methodist churcli - hs wlicn mo- r Ltor cars replaced liorses. So, be- 'U cause there was a good shed at h the Pi-sbytcrisn church, I began ly going tlicrc, and, anyway, I wasn't E vcry religious."1 Tom gocs regu- p larly to dhuicli venigs, except ]w in sumnier. "If thc minister takès B a holiday in thc summer, why I sliouldn't I, too?" is Tom's way tt of explaiig lits nan-attendance i in thc summer months. H J cK Tom is ready to go te war- this if a man of lits age wauld be acccptcd. He would like to work with liorses. «'I like a good liaise more tlian I do a woman,'" be said - which confession would not please any woman with eyes on TOM. I askcd Tom if ie -had asy hobbies, what kind of i-eading lie docs, if be lias any inclination to travel. He lias no hobbies. He does noV like gardcning, thaugli lie does grow vegetables. He lias a vacant lot along aide his bouse, and this ie lias made s play- gi-ound for ncîghbarhood childi-en (Tom neyer bsd. childi-en of his own) . He lias built a swing on tis lot for thc childi-en, and dhildi-en ask hlm to swing thein. This year Tom went on two mator-car journcys with a fiend -ta Nortliern Ontario and ite Michigan and beyond; yet licpi-e- fers to bc at home. He says that saine daylie may go West ta sec thc country. Tom rcsds ncws- papet, a farm paper, and The Satui-day Evcning Post. Books do not lutei-est him - unless it be the Bibàe. This lie reads, and gets -mucih istructian from is pages. J cK This is the story of Tom and .hls way of life. BOX STOVE RAM entJi ConcessionI position of power, listai-y wii show that lielias ti-avciled the wrang raad. Hie showed skill in the way lie wclded and argasized a broken and disi-uptcd empire and in thc way lic brouglit order out of chaos, but to-day lie fol- lows the pathway of the fool. No anc can ever expect ta le reslly great who builcis bis liause on blood and slaughtci-, and a man wlio like Hitlei- tries ta be gi-est by slaugliter of thc innocents wii eventually lic slown te the warld not only as a cruel beig but as the woi-ld's greatest fool. Ennlsklll.n Church Jublile.Registration For the benefit of those who attended thc Enniskillen Churcli Dlainônd Jubilce celebi-ation, as well as those at a distance unabie te lie present, we arc publishing the names af those outslde of Durhamn County who registered. We do noV pretend that Vhis list la accurate or complete but un- dcer thc circumstances IV is the best thc secrcta-y was able to supply. Bey. W. E. and Mi-.. Haney, Cavas; Mr-. and Mrs. C. H. Stap les, Angusvllle, Mas.; Mi-s. Davl Durnford, Elinvale; Mi-. and Mrs. A. H. Zurbrigg, Stratford; Mns. Wm. Gaodman, Port Hope; Mn. and Mrs. H. A. Ross, Belleville; Misses Pcggy and Patricla Gun- ton, Aurai-a; Miss Bernice Stai- ton, Cobourg; Mrs. Stewart Rod- man, Port Perry; Mi-. and Mi-. Edwin Ormiston, Greta sud Elai, Bobcaygeon; Bey. H. and Mi-. YOUR WOR-UD ANDINE .. ..yright) D ,JONC. KIRKWOOD and Mns. Trebulcock, Mi-. and Mi-. IW. H. Broad and Vîvian Misa Irene H. Bray, Mm-. T. A. di-ulck- sbanks, F. J. Trull, Mi-.. Howard Jobnston, Mr. and Mrn. W. D. and Mns. Williams, Mr-. and Mi-. W. H. Veale, J. A. Stainton, Don- ald Awde, Miss E. M. Awde, Rey. M. R. Sanderson, Floyd E. Peth- lck, Mi-. and Mns. D. Key. Although masy pages and col- umins have been wiitten and printed about hs great historical event mucli more could be wrlt- ten. However, there was one very i ovei-lookcd beig commented up- an. Mucli credit in due the, late James Stainton who no faithfufly and effectively was Sunday, Scliool Superintendent for 40 years, and te James AV ryh a like mam er ou cce lei Stainton as Superhiendcfit for 23 years. W. H. Moore hias been Superintendent for several years and is carryig an thc higli Ideals of service and Chr-istian leader- ship of lits predecesdors. A full course in thc school of PAGE TWO 1 Stainton, Robert and Ronald, Guelph. Rev. J. M. Whyte, Verona; Miss Jennie McLeod, St. Paul, Minn.; Bey. and Mrs. E. W. Breckin, Ar- thur and Grace, Sackville, N.B.; Mr. and Mrs. Inglehart, Bronte; Rev. G. T. and Mrs. McKenâte, Pl *Ixded; Bey. Wm. and Mrs. Park er, Mallorytown; Mr. R. Leask, Leask, Sask.; Mr. and Mrs. Harold Mitchell, Hamilton; Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Trenouth, Napa- nee; Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Preston, Port Huron; Robert Preston, Mid- land; Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Ranton, Srnlths Falls; Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Mills, St. Marys; Mrs. E. J. Milne, Roseneath; Mr. and Mrs. A. R. B. Hutchison, Listowel; Mrs. A. C. Thoman, Kitchener; Richard Bre. therton, Buffalo; Mrs. J. S. Green- wood, Bridgeport, Conn.; Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Sugden and Madeline, Brantford; Mr. and Mrs. H. Earl, Centrevilte. Brooklin - Mr. and Mrs. Cyril Avery, Mrs. J. Gai-fat, James and Absalom Abraham. Unionville - Mr. and Mrs. Mil- ton Thompson, Miss Ma vi s Thompson, Edward Thompson, Miss Eileen Guscott. Florida - Mr. and Mrs. H. Lay- man, Bradenton; Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Coates, St. Cloud. Whitby - Mr. Ed-ay J. Howard, Mr. Arthur H. Howard, Mr-. and Mrs. Frank, Rogers, Mr-. and Mrs. W. W. Noble, Mr-. and Mrs. El- wood Rahm. Stayner - Mr-. and Mrs. W. R. Gibson, Mr-. and Mrs. Arthur Gib- sonl. Peterboro - Miss Mary Lackey, R.N.; Miss Elle Sanderson, Bei-t Sanderson. Isllngton - Mr-. and Mrs. C. J. M4ountjoy, Mrs. Jas. Kennedy. Oshawa - Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Branton, Mrs. N. MeLean, Mrs. N. A. Campbell, Mrs. I. J. Traveli, M&r. and Mrs. W. G. Smith, Rol- and Virtue, Misses Helen and Dorothy, Miss Eleanor Stainton, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Werry, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. W. McLaughlin, R. S. McLaughlln, Mr. and Mrs. W',arren Preston, Mrs. M. J. Wcr- ry, Miss Nora Werry, Mr-. and Mfrs. A. Armstrong, Mrs. C. Clem- ence, Mr. and -Mrs. C. W. Mc- M(ann, Mrs. Stanley Turner, Miss I.Sisson. Toronto'- Mrs. R. A. Ashton, Mr. and Mrs. Herb. Johnston, Mrs. C. Gaudin, Miss Almxa Luke, Mrs. Frank McGill, Mrs. Fred Billett, M!rs. Elsie Scott, Mrs. E. M: Pal- mer, Mrs. R. J. Dodds, Mrs. C. Jsher, Miss Ethel Usher, Mr. and (i-s. J. J. Hutchison, Mi-. and MIrs. D. R. Brown, Mrs. Audrey Browrl, Miss frene Sharpe, Mrs. Pearl McComb, Adele McComb, Mr. and Mrs. A. N. Mitchell, Mrs. B. Fulford, Miss Elsie Oke, Mrs. Nancy Deeks, Miss Mary E. Vi- tu, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Virtue, Mrs. J. W. Herod, Mrs. C. H. Herod, Mr. and Mrs. John Trim- mier, Miss Laura Virtue, Dr. F. C. 2 j- vvry &#"m. - ~ ~~w~¶t~9? ~ THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14TII, 1939 important office which lias been experience lasts a ilfetime. .. but ho didn'treelu Lt until a friend died and bis widow ackod him for advico. Thon the inadoquacy of his fri.nd'u fle oinsuranco started Tilm thindzrg about hie ownL. Ho quickly figurod out that ho roafly noedod double the aznount. Bo ho congultod a con- fodozation Idfo roprosontativo. Now ho has the protection that ho anid his forrily noeds and in lator yoars, ho will have a guaranteod rnonthly incarne for 11f. Are you inIsufficiontly i.nsured? If you are, cormsult un. What Jir did, you can do; and wo con help you to do it. ICAS OFFICE TORONTO .819am 0