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I47rý, ý-eI;Iý PAG.E FOUR Y OUR- WORLDAN D MI.NE <CopyrIght> Dy JOHN C. KIHKWOODt A-bock whlch 1 haye been read- stances arc worse than the lot an( Ing starte off wih àvcry vivld circunistances o! others known t dlescription of a very ugly Arniri- us, anti to ailege that there i «an city - or section of a cty, pro- great injustice i bath earth anc scumably Plttaburg. Steciburg la heaven. There is very littie even. tbe naine given ta this city, or ness i Nature. In a11 creatiai section thereof - Uiat part of Uic there arc inequalities, but who i City where thc steel miUs are. to say Uiat inequalities represeni Purnaces andthUi gases andl Uic injustice or even miafortune? Ir mroke make Uic city foui and card gaines there are 10w card destroy verdure anti foiage and and high cards. If ail cards werE oltei air. The filUi of every- identical, there couid be no game tlghsits dcadly and deaden- If ail race horses had equal speeti ing effects, of human beigs. there wouid be fia horse-racing Bouses anti homes arc filthy; also If ail men had equal mitis, there taes and clothig. Probably, also, would be no gemiuses. If ail men inijads. It la a very terrible pic- had equai mental ability, Uidre ture which is painteti in Uic open- might be fia schools,fia books. Il Iug chapter af this book. ail men had equai iaring, there As 1 reati this cliapter and other might be na advcnturig. If au chapters, I had borne in an me men had equal fortunes, there afh" Uic part that enviranssent ssight be fia employers, noia busi- and background play iaur lives. ness en terprise. If ail Uic wood I[suppose that mast o! us reflect of tree% hati equal hardness ar our environssent - in aur mintis, softness, there woulti be fia tro- our eharactérs, aur habits, aur pics, fia temperate zones, fia arc- nuaners. Environssent staxfps it- tics. self on us as a seai impresses wax Right-mided people accept the - it leaves a replica of itseif an fact of difference ini the make-ul us. If wc are braught up in homes of this world - in the fieldis ai whcre la coarseness, unrelieveti intellect, fortune, character, spirit, by any beauty or gentlcness,, then environssefit, saciety. And it is ,we are pretty certain ta show fiat proven that great worldly coarsenesai aur conversations fortune is a better lot for anyone and habits and manners. If we than la law woridly fortune. Il are brought upi homes where la la fit proven that the possession no love of books, a! fine Uhigs, of a brimlant mmnd is better than of fine ways o! livig, then Uic Uic possession of a very ordinary character of such a home is pretty mind. it la not praven Uiat emi- certain to be made visible iaur nence la botter for its possessox ways and speech. Fartunately, than la obscurity or partial ob- however, wc can change aur ways scùrlty for another man. Ant i andl speech - by changig our en- specti the chie! desideratumin hia vironînent and backgro6ufld, and horse? May flot thc perchieroni by purposeful sceking for some- have a value equal ta that o! Uic thlng better. Uioroughbred? And i funda- mental things, may flot Uic so- i c K calleti poor man be richer than Chiltiren cannot, i their early Uic ultra-rich man? What arc years, change their environninrt values, anyway? Are Uicy always and background - no more than ta be measureti only by Uic yard- they can their parents; but whcn stick of dollars? they grow ito adolescence anti Into their 20's, then theyare like- 3 c K ly to have Uic power of choie. I amrn ft arguing that anc It la ta be hoped that aiso thcy shoulti not try toalater his lot or have Uicwlil ta change their ways change his circuinstances, or that - tis wlicn these are 10w grade. hie shoulti acccpt without protest 1 amn not throwling any atones - even complaoently - his present at homes where there may be environninent. What I amn trymng great plainness, and even povcrty. ta say la: If one's present lot or Perhaps most o! 'us - especiaily circumatances or enviromnnit tbose o! us now in our 60's andi prejudicial ta Uic attainssent o! a 70s and 80's - were tirought Upi higher cultural anti intellectual liane where there, was no abn- 1 and spiritual 11e, then anc should dance, andi hati parents but poorly flot let his handicaps defeat him. educated, according ta school, There la a call ta Uic hantiicgpped M$nnda ds. Yet hi Uic very pooreat person ta fight agaist what hornes of past days there were holtis him down and back - Uhil born chiltiren who in their lateri a purpose to conquer andt t years attaied to amérn and honour escape - ta become liberated from mai emnence and power. Robert coarsening and dcbasig Uings, Eurns an illustration. In many . in a purpose to rcach higher ev- et these poor homes were parents cia o!f111 e - a! comfort, af educa- -of lofty ideals, andi there was a tian, of worldly fortune and o! love and esteem o! bocks and experiences. loarnng. Blessed are they who, Man does not allow horses andi nre bo i n homes. whther rich cattie and pigs and fowl and «r pobi-,*lsere-fdcdls anti lôve'ë! sheep ta remain at low levels of leaning and culture have sove-, breedig: man breetis and cross- fligfltY. breeds in a purpose to improve his animais and fowi, lus whcat J C K anti other cereals, lis fruits and What lis in mymid la this: ail his vegetablea. He doos fiat let o! us have ta fight daily against lis soi! alone, but cultivates anid environinents and backgrounds fertilizes it i a purpase ta niake andi conditions and Influences it more productive. Man la flot which ame hardenig and depress- content with huts and shedis; he losg andi coarsening. devises structures incomparably We rnay not be able ta escape better. Sa wluy should man nat fro, our environnicnt anti back- strive, similarly, and for simm!ar groutid, andi if this be the case, reasons, ta inuprove his awn lot? then we ought, i ail possible If anc aska, How can I over- ways, ta try ta neutralise their came my bad ar handicappig en- boul effccts On Our mids, sprit, viranssent and baakground?, then manners, habits. Most cditaiflly, Uic answcrs coulti be many. One we ougbt not allow ourselves to way is ta have a high purpose or be conqucreti by aur envraniment objective possible o! p u r s ui t andi background. Nor aught we whcrc anc lives anti warks. This tO let Our natures be soureti by purpose or objective ssay have the* circwnstance that we are relation ta books or study. An- lhandlcapped hcavily by condi- ather way la ta give onescif ta tiens wblch we cannot alter. goati works, for it la hi seif-spenti- It la worsc Uian foolish ta coss-ig for athers' goad that wc puri- plain that our lot anti circuni- fy aur lives, anti assure Uiei- ________________________ low of cicansig anti ennobling anti exaiting forces. Anather way - la ta formulate fine iticais andt t V attai them by resolution applieti ta purpose anti effort. Another way is to kecp ourselves sensitive anti responsive toalal agencies - - hurnan and Inanissate - which can pratcct us against Uic coarsening anti corradig anti tebasig fac- tara o! aur enviranssent anti cm- ployment. I arn hopig, af course, that * sasse of ssy readers wili be hcart- eneti anti directeti anti sustaineti by this contribution ta The Statesman. Wishu hiim ROTARY CLUB WOm' 'Op Y. u(Cotnud from Page 1) But Reailug Coml WIH1 Buwoeidui - »o atter how 10w Ob. Uhermonueter drops - It wilI ý=«oi lu bsw*t l Yeu unme v 11v IL Wpe le leoep Tour ~~ha" ami rghtl ~ ~NIATEDBLIVEET 4LETFUELS S&OUn - 2673 -have been Uic rape o! Ethiopia anti Aibania. In 1933, Hitler was inatalîcti Chancellar of Gerssany. Previous ta lis clection, there wcre 14 political parties Inlutictiassong the strongest, Uic Communist, Uic Nationalists anti the Socialists. The latter two unitedt t beat Uic Communlats. They promiseti a Greater Germany andte Uicdvi- dendtiUiy have paidt t followers arc Uic re-arrning o! Uic Rhie- landtiUc sarch inta Austria anti Czecho-Slovakia. The thrcc "lama" arc unlike in that Nazism anti Fascisrn are in- tensely nationalistic anti capital- istic whilc Communism la Inter- national anti anti-capi t a il s t i è. Carnsunism is organizeti from Uic battorn up andthUi other twa arc arganizeti frorn Uic top dawn. Thcy are alike in that Uiey have lost faith in Goti anti arc more or lcss anti-churclu andteUic dlvi- duai has been lost irý Uic masses with practicaily fo iarglts. He la sacrificeti in Uieiterests of Uic state. The minarities have also been sacrificeti andt t retain position it has been nccessary for the gov- .ernssents ta have frequent purgea vlxen those whose political opi- là owere different werc mcnd Up shot. wevcr, Uic Urec lasma" are anti chiltiren af a coniron anti offsprig of a coin- r THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3OTH, 1939 THE CANADIAN STATESMAN, BOWMANVILLE, ONTARIO mon psychoi .g!cal condition. In than by revoit and the history of!1party she deexns it.ia in her owix Russia in 1917, i Itaiy in 1920, the Anglo-Saxon race on such oc-. interest. jand i Germnany in 1933, tie peo- casions as Magna Charta aboi Previaus to the war, everyone Ipie were discouraged, dishearten- that so far as history la concernécd was waltlng, includlng govern- ed, disgruntled, dissatisfied and the worklng clasn, working by ments, 'fearful of having an elec- jdisunited, and the offsprings were themselves, has neyer sucoleeded tion because of what Hitler might ICommunlsm, Fascism, and Naz- i getting anywhere. It liés bben say or do in the meantine.. They îsm. What of Canada in 1940? he by coop:>ration Uiat changes have seem to thlnk that everythlng Uiat Ld asked. corne and we must have that CO- happens right now depends on LO Ail research is based on the operation to-day. what Hitler says, but Uiey fai! to is iaw of Uic uniformaty of nature. A contented, happy- people realize that Stafln, flot Hitler, la SWhen you arrange thc urne set neyer revoit and we, must, try to the keyrnan i this situation and of conditions togeUier, you i- create such a condition here 80 that more is dependent on what in variabiy have thc sarne resuit and Uiat reformriwill corne along hn he says and does. is thc iaw is just as oierative i stitutionai uines. There have béen Mr. Rogers. outlined severai It Canada as eisewhere. Are thc two experiments i ooperative predictions which he made in Uic n peoil here discouraged, dis-. efforts - in Russia and i Den- same address delivered et Osh- ts heartened, dlsgruntled and di- mark. The men i governinent awa a few days before the war e vided?> We have 400,000 unern- here would do well to study Uic began, inciuding Uic suggestion eployeti, wiUi 100,000 youUi under set-up i Dcnrark and Sweden. that Russia would Uirow )ier hanti l25 who «have neyer held a job. In conclusion, what of alliances? whcre it would do thc most good 9The governments have spent Any alliance, tg be successful, for Russia. That fact has been ,e $900,000,000 i relief with littie must be made up of homogencous borne out by recent évents. *ta show for it. Uniess demnocracY elements. The cantracting parties The speaker was introduceti by *can pay better divitientis than that must have common ideals, ob- F. O. McIlveen and Fred Cryder- :fwe are facig into thc night, he jectives and iterests. BoUi Great man, members of tUiclcassifica- esaiti. Britain and Germany are seekhgtion comnmttee, who wcrci 1 The tisse has long sice passeti Russia's hand anti boUi have slap- charge of the program. A. R. ewhen wc shouid have a changeti pcd her in Uic face on numerous Virgmn led the siging. Reg. Geen, set-up, politlcally, socially and occasions. She has little i com- Oshawa, was the only gucat, and econornically. It must corne, but1 mon wiUi cither Great Britai or J. R. Stutt presideti. Rev. S. Davi- Uich question is how? It hs better Germany and Uic resuit wlll be son expresseti the ciub's apprecia- ta corne along constitutionailimnes Uiat Russia will assist whlch ever tion for Uic interesting atidress. Obituary George H. Alibi, WhItIby A much esteemeti citizen of Whitby for the past 47 years passed away at bis home. 1100 Dundas St. E., in the k erson of George H. Allun, son of >the late George and Mary Allun, Darlington. He received his High Schodl education at Bowiaànviikt and wgs a Rraduate af The Sheldon School, Chicago, Ill. During bis if e he owned a lumber business a' Buckhorn andi was also a salesmnar for 1. 1. Case Threshing Machint Ca. for many years, during which time he became widely known among farmers and business men. Survivine are bis widov, former- ly Sara Brant, three daughters, Haz-I andi Ruby at home, Mrs. Stewart Poster, Toronto; three sons, Rossai Windsor, Glenn of Raniore, ind Frank of Toronto. ane siste!r, Mrs. Hedlev Oke, Ebenezr, andiane b- o- thýr, Leopolti of Toronto. One bro- ther andi sister predeceaseti hini. Funeral was held f rom bis late residence Nov. i4th and t'as con- ducteti by Rev. C. G. Park, pastori 'j .u1K and BITTER m (/é ùqr.«fl BCIGG e#sy.I" BIGGERm BA»RAW RNUI*0B oGEn-BUaR IE!. IOE Big news for 1940 is the bigger and better Oldamobile ... before. Wbile for its eight-cylinder clientele, Oldamobile M three stunning new cars... each of theni big... each introduces the great new Customi Cruiser, a longer, lower, of themn bettr... eacb a* bigger and bette,: value Buyers wider Straight Eight - available' with the exclusive Olds of low-priced cars will find the new Olde Sixty longer, wider Hydra-Matic Drive, no gears t0 shift, no clutch to presi ! See and roomiier, with a 95 h.p. Olds Engint. that saves more and drive these great new Oldsmobiles. AUl have the 1(AA SDIGS than ever. 'on gas and oil. In the popular-price field, the new improved Rhythmic Ride. And tbey're ail bigger and Olds Seventy is larger, finer and more bWnpresuive than ever better in everything-and priced for everbod 1 0.41 RKoy Nichois8 Cou rtlce Bowmanvllc s. i aiWhitbv ýUnitedi Churiuli. Ijei- cxt*cnded to other 1hues, it* Wua .tâ- Iment wua madie in. Union Ceniotery. cd in official circles. So far, no Bearers wcre Thomas Sturgesa, Win. necessity l iIscQ!vere. - Maw. Winff Brown, Fred Baker, aide Lino For Mayor Rowe and Ex-Mayor E. The coal business is m liar ini Bowman. that avarn froni establlshed deaters many are i it seasonall.y Qr au a FUE D AL RSside lie. It is bellevedl that the TO D LIC NSED th trade anti the public from mix- TO BE UCENnE short weizhinir or other tenden- cies ai somne "f lv bv nisght" dealers. Calcuiated te Allow Strict Super- The licensing flan will' be admis- vision by Feulerai Authorities istereti by J. McG. Stewart, CAna- dian coal »dtàinistrator, andtIdei technical advisor, Frank G. Neatec The entire Canadien coal and coke The license systein bas b=e industrv will be subject to uovern- adopted "te keep the izovernment rment ticensinoe. December lst, it was adequatelv informed of the situa- annaunceti recen.tlv bv the Wartime tion surroundiniz the Productiar, Prices and Trade Board under chair- imoortation andi distribution 01 coal: manshiru ai Hector B. McKinnon. ta assure' an adequate distribution t Ne comDany or i.pdividùal will be of coal: andtiet protect the i ermittedtieta perate without a tic- pu blic against anv undue advance 1ense, with the order applving ta in 1*tice," the announcement saiti. manufacturers, imparters, exporters, Producers, jobbers, wholesalers and "Mother, -have I been a good boy retailers ai coal andi coke, which. lately ?" "Yes, Bobby, you have. incluties ail typ)es ai coal iucludinf been a gzooti boy." "Anti do You lignte, anti ail cokes, includinoe those, trust me mother ?" '"Why, ai course, nianufactureti from poetroleuni. ,I trust Yeu, son." "Then why do » The coal. licensinz system mav be vou -zo on hitiingr the jani?" v i