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TEE CANADIAN STATEsMMf. ~OWMANVTLL~. OWTAWTfl ft'tTeTDC CU~D9'V,..~fl1'~ SI lAma __________________________________________ * ~ IJL4C ÂflSVflAafl **, *UOU nbe oaIumbin hitema Zstoblished 1854 wtth which in lacrporazted 2.Bowm=aONeil 4ws,.The Newcastle Independoni and The. Oano News 95 Years Continuous Service fo the Town 01 Bowmanvile and Durham County AIV INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER e Meniber Audit Bureau ci Circulations Canadian Weekly Newspcrpers Association SUESCRIPTION RATES $2.50 a Yeqr, strictly in advance $3.00 a Year in the United States Pubtishod by THE JAMES PUBLTSHING COMPANY Authorized as Second clans Mail Post Office Deportmont. Ottawa. Bowmnanvllle, Ontario GEO. W. JAMES. EDITOiE EVERYBODY HAPPIEST WHEN BUYING IS DONE LOCALLY On former occasions this newspaper has referred ta the benefits ta be obtained for all in this community if a policy of buying at home is closely adhered to. In many cases drawn ta our attention It bas been evident that some people are not aware af the fact that most necessities can be purchased localiy either from a local store or agent. Needless ta say what- ever substance or article is purchased it is ta the benef it of bath the supplier and the buyer that the transaction be made here. Occasions when this is not so are usually quite rare. A few suppliers are of course guilty of flot advertising their wares and the buyer has littie chance of knowing that he is able ta f ill his needs through a local outlet. We are safe in saying however, that many citizens would be greatly sur- prised at the wide range of products that can be bought in Bowmanvilie on the spot or obtained on short notice. To mention a few we might include such items as mnovie cameras, outboard matons, electnic appliances, furniture, refrigerators, latest styles in clothing, pencil sharpeners and so on. One local arganization which on oc- casion has heard its members accuse local merchants of non-support through dona- tion is, not strangely, found ta be making purchases o! vaniaus necessities by mail order. In this case ignorance is more to blame than deliberate action. *For the most part citizens find local stores to be very co-operative and wiiling to do everything in their power ta supply whatever demand be put upon them. "It's rarely we have flot got what a eustomen wants," one of aur local adver- tisers told us, "and we'll go to any trouble and expense to keep our customers hap- py," he added. RURAL ADULT EDUCATION THROUGH FARM FORUMS In another month in the rural districts one night each week, gnoups o! farmi folks will gather around the radio at the home o! one of their number and listen ta dis- cussions on subjects cancerning rural if e, alter which they will muli aven the ques- tions discussed and then enjay a social time. This is the Farmi Forum, which has become an institution of considerable in- terest and importance in the rural corn- rnunity. Amang the subjects ta be dis- cussed during the coming terni are such things as soil conservation, farests, farm- ers wonking hours, medical services, pen- sions, markets, contrai of production, rural education, ail probiums that strike close ta life in the farmi home and the grass- roats level in Ontario. These farm forum discussions should, daubtless do, broaden the thinking of men and women engaged in agriculture, but t}iere is one danger against which listen- ers should guard, the danger that they mnay accept with too littie question the opinions expressed by those who take part in the broadcasts instead of weighing those opinions canefully and forming their awn conclusions. WE STILL OWN THOSE PRECIOUS THINGS WE GIVE AWAY We aIl accumulate treasures that be- corme dear ta us, for many a reason, but they are only temporary. They are but loaned ta us for aur bnief enjoyment and enrichment. The time will came when they will belong ta othens. As good citizens, aur only hope, in parting with aur awn modest possessions, is that a measure of the lave they have stirred within us, may be experienced by those, who later will awn thern. The only ownership, in which we Canadians can take endiess pnide, is that which accrues fnom useful deeds perform- ed, and fnom the satisfaction expenîenced by which we have enriched the lives of others by our unselfish service for them. To possess the lave and respect of others la a gain that mere money could neyer buy. That is a possession we can take wit.h us when life's lights go out. Acting unseifishly, giving without thought o! return, comforting and upu! t- .ing others-all are deeply rooted in rmany citizens. Every day we have a new chance to heip someone. On every doorstep, op- portunity waits for us ta serve aur fellôw- mnen, ta give of aur own blessings ta others. In such moments, we f ind the only worth- while thrill in i! e-a f uil realization that w. have made good the faith that others have in us. We do ahi this flot for glory, but for the inward satisfaction of knowing that rany another will gain enrich ment o! nùnd and heart because o! our gifts of 4 service. It's great to know that, after aIl, we still own these precious things we give away. CULTIVATING THE "SAVING" GRACE Despite the unalterable fact that their money is inflated in terms of the old pre- war unit of exchange, despîte the vast amounts they are spending in the bazaars of the big cities, despite the charges that living costs have endangered the general panity of personal income and expendi- ture, and despite possible legisiation that would add a measure of secunity to their old age, Canadians are nevertheless dis- playing a healthy respect for a dollar in the bank. Canadians in the past four years have saved, in some way or another, no less than three billion dollars. Each succeed- ing year in the four, they have saved more than the year before. This is quite an achievement, evla g a land that has been blessed with excep- tional prasperity. Actually, this saving by Canadians has been a real contributing factor in the continued prosperity of the country. That dollar saved just doesn't lie in some mnusty v'ault until such time as the depositor wants it. It is invested in the form of loans to business and industry in general by the banks, insurance companies, trust companies and other agencies which re- ceive it and these boans help in the devel- opment of the country. Housing mort- gages encourage building of homes. Sup- port is given ta bond issues for public works. Thus, the dollar the smail saver puts away is heiping ta provide the muscles of the ecanomny. His savings return hlm a profit in the form of interest or divid- ends or premniumns, but, more important, when they are pooled with the savings of thousands of others, they return a profit for the mass. WHY STUDENTS QUIT SCHOOL The results o! the most detailed and comprehensive educational survey of its kind ever conduicted, have just been re- ieased. Notable in its findings is the aiarming fact that each yean 100,000 stuçi- ents eave Canadian high schools without graduating because they find no meaning in the course of studies offered them. The sunvey was conducted by the Canadian Research Committee on Prac- tical Educatipn, a group sponsored by the Canadian Education Association ta study practical education in Canada. Highlights of the survey appean in the curnent issue of Maclean's magazine. With the revelation that mare than bal! the students who stant high school in Canada neyer finish thein studies, it points out: "It seemns that aur high schools cost- ing somnewhene close ta $100 millions a yean ta openate are 'giving us 50% value. Hal! the wonk they stant is neyer f!inished"' The sunvey bas bnought into the open the cantnavensy among educationalists seeking an answer ta the pnoblems. The. issue is this: 1"Wilh secondary educatiori continue its swing towand a more practical form of schooling, on will it shift back toward, the aid-style brain-teaser type of education which aimed at the development of mental discipline and hard thinking and left the student ta pick his evenyday knowledge on his own hook?" Is the job o! mass edu- cation ta produce breadwinners or think- ens? "Say the modernists: high school edu- cation must lie made more practic-al, it must deal with the problems students see in the wonld around them; otherwise many quit school and get littie on no sec- ondary education. It isn't a case o! which systemn is better, the modennists add, it's a case o! which is passible." "Say the traditionalists: high school education is too practicai now. It has sold its birthright for a mess o! cantemporary courses dealing with trivial things. Too much o! it teaches students how ta work with their hands, too ittle teaches how ta wonk with thain heads." "Whatever the solution, the survey reveals that the majanity of students quit Jhighi school because the schools are boring them sti!!." THERE OUGHT TO BE A LAW A sparts writer in a city daihy recentiy began his column: "Fishermen and tour- ists agree that legisiation is long ovendue which will direct boat livenies and resonts ta keep their boats dlean and seawonthy under penalty o! a fine." Oh, brother! Gnow up! This is not a socialist state in which the gaverninent nuns or regubates every- thing. Non do we wvant it ta be. If there are ta lie laws teiling people ta keep thein boats dlean, there will be baws telbing taxi cabi operators -ta sweep out the back of their cabis, telling home owners that they must *eut thein lawns once a week and plant certain types af f lowers. Certainly marine or road taxis should be kept dlean but the abviaus answer ta the aperator o! a dingy carniage is not ta hire it. This is a f ree country and ane of the pnivileges of this freedom is ta do a job badiy if you so wish. A minimum of legislation and a max- imum o! education should be the objective o! anv democracy. And generally speak- ing, you cannot legisbate people into doing somethîng which they do flot want ta do in the first place. Just as soan as our legishators learn that elementary besson af human nature, just as soon will our governments offer truer representation o! the views of the majanity o! the eleetor8. You cannot go to Ileaven on a law. In the. Diii and Distant Pasi Prom Tihe Statesma Files F»FTY YEARS AGO County in coming Federal elec- (Wednesday, September 19, 1900) tion. C. E. Rehder, pioneer in radio Rev. R. Douglas Fraser, Toron- mechanics. offers radios for sale to, formerly of Bowmanville, pre- as kow as $35. sented Arthur King with an en. Soldiers' War Memaorial on the graved silver match box in recog- Municipal Lawn will be officially nition of rescumng bis daughter unveiled Sunday, Sept. 27 by from drowning at Central Island, Brigadier-General Hill1 of Kinga- Toronto, ton. Miss Sara Olford slipped on a Mr. C. H. Carlisle, President banana peel in front of Freeland'a of Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., Photograph Gallery and fractured predicts our educational system her thigh. is producing too many white-col- Wanted-A ragged, dirty Dol- lar graduates and flot sufficient lar Bill for a two-dollar Alarm. number of competent mechanics, Clock at Rickard's Jewellery. f our industries are ta hold .a Miss Jane Gale has been ap- place in world markets. pointed Librarian ýat the Public Misses Marion Warder, Thel- Library. ma Gilders, Marion Pickard, Mar- Misses Lena Mason and Della jorie Robins, Blanche Cryder- Osborne attended Whitby Fair on manî and Jean Switzer are atend- Tuesday. ing Toronto Normal School. Hon. Sydney Fisher, Minister Mr. W. B. Couch and daughter of Agriculture, who Officially Mrs. C. W. E. Meath have return- opened West Durham Fair was ed from a month's trip to the Pa- dinner guest o! Mr. Peter Mur- cif ic Coast. dock. Maple Grove-Mr. and Mrs. R. Misses Marion A. Phillips and L. Mason leave this week for Mosetta C. White have returned Davenport, Iowa, where they will ta New York City after spending take up residence. . . . Sam Snow- a month with their numerousjela- den and Tommy Cole were heavy tives here. prize winners at Port Perry Fair. Newcastle-O. A. Parker's teamn Enniskillen-Dr. J. C. Mitch- ran away while enroute ta Orono ell attended the Canadian Medi. with a load af corn. cal Association Convention at Enniskillen-Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Ottawa. Ask the genial Dr. his A. Werry entertained the 'Young opinion un the medicinal proper- People's Society ta an enjoyable ties o! Ottawa drinks. corn roast. Hampton-Wmn. Law bas sold Mr. A. Elmer Rundle, formerly his farm ta his son-in-law, Gea. or Courtice, and Miss Dorothy White, Newtonbrook. Henderson, were maried in Car- Tyrone-Wm. Hamley, carpen- man United Church, Toronto, tpn, feil from Richard Woodley's Sept. 19 by Rev. G. C. Balfour. barn, breaking both anms. Over 8 columns in thi'isu Lawry Cryderman is back ta were evote ta rite-p an business after an enforced abs- pnieewinners a rtet Duna ence of over 8 months through Fair. The last two items saidseiu .lss Corporal A. Hobbs was in com-. Solina-Mrs. Johit Baker is bp- mand of the Public Schaol pup- ing congratulated for ber train- ils military drill and that George ing the pupils of aur' schaols in James and Creighton Higgin- chorus singing as they won lst botham were winners in the boys' prize at Hampton School Fair. bicycle race. A. W. Pickard advertises new *O4-cylinder Overland autos at $8501 TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO plus tax. - (Thursday, Septesnber 24. 1925) Orono-Prof. Harles' Billings and family, Drenel Institute, Phil- Hon. Vincent Massey accepts adelpia. visited his brother, Mn. Liberal nomination for Durham Carl Billings. Royal Palace OpensGates to Canada ... (By Dr. L.B. Williams, Toronto) I sat at my window in London on Canada's natal day, The sun athwart the chimney-pots the clouds a fleecy gray, The prospect, one of Royalty across ta Buckingham gate,- The Royal Palace of Buckingham-its years o! Victoria 'date. Ta-day in front of Buckingham ta honor their regard, Thousands thronged before the gates for "the Changing of the Guard," That spectacle goes on and on, each day a new born Past, 0f Queen Victoria's savereign reign with power nailed ta the mast. But July lst is Canada's since Eighteen Sixty-3Siven, Her hope in proud Dominion, a fairer world to leaven, The only land with frontier in weaith ta yet explore, To feed and succor centuries-Destiny asks nat more. Just as The Guards of Buckingham emerge from out the gates, Confederation's charter passed thru those self-saine gates; The fan-flung lands of Canada ta join from sea ta sea, -Cod biess aur fair Dominion, Democracy the key. Editor's Note:- Our readers will recail that we published a letter in aur issue of Augùst 3lst from Dr. Williams in which he and Mrs. Williams witnessed the "Changing of the Guard" at Buckingham Palace on July lst. He mentioned "he was so impressed with the military spectacle that he went back ta their hotel and wrote some twenty uines o! verse." We requested the genial Doctor ta send us a copy of this poem which appears above. The Real Problem By R. 3. Deachman W. are ahi interested in the cost o! living. The husband is usualiy the bread winner. The litthe woman cames ta him on Saturday morning, or is it Friday, end tells bim that the cost 91 liv- ing is up and according te e cane- fuly calcuhated estimata o! the Bureau o! Statistics it now takas $4.00 mnore than it did a few waeks *ga ta meet the family budget. He ives ber the extra with pain bnhi eyes and goes out cursing the Bureau of Statistics. The Bureau o! Statistics, of course, isn't ta biame for rising pnices, neither i., thc Weather Bu- reau responsibie for the pranks of the thermometer. Bath these institutions are interested only in neconding what bas happened. We do notb larne the dlock when %ve !ind that it is later than we think, we must treat the others wîth equal courtcsy. Your ready answer may webh be: What on earth can I do about it? There are many things we can do. If for instance you are a farmer and you have a mortgaga on the farm and the price of wheat today bappens ta be double what it was twa ycars ago, isn't ita good tîme ta pay off the mort- gage? If you ive in a city and the mortgage ix an the house thon it's up ta l'au "ta do ditta," in other wards reduce the mort- gage. When this is donc you have in- creased your secunity. You ane thon in a position ta make rieed. cd improvements when pnices de- dline. O! course this is a diffi- cuIt task. It ix safe ta say that if the war had sudenly coilapsed in 1941 or '42 the cost o! living woi.4hd not now have been as high as it is. This wouid be even mare Ukehy if, with the close -o! the war, there was wide evidence o! a word-wide desire for peace. Neither of these things bappened,1 sa the future of pnices is in doubt.: No ane can hope ta gucas where1 theciDrice level wiflstand tonj J ears from taday, an aven in tive years or twa or ane. What makes pnices rixe? There are many causes. There is, o! course, aur ohd friand, supphy and demand. If far any reasan, and the reasons are numeraus, we have increased production due ta any cause the tendency wiil be for prices ta dechine. On the oth- er hand a paon cnop, or other limitation ta production, brings about higher pnices. An increase in the supply of monay wili cause pnices ta risc, a decrease in sup- ply a! money wîli lead ta a de- cine in pnices. Thon, o! course, higher wage levais mean higher priccs. There s an illustration o! thix condition in recent events. The raihway workers demnand and have been granted increased wage rates. This will ba !ollowed by dehiands for higher freight rates. The rail- way estimate is that this wiIl cast $80000,000 and will call for an increase in !reight rates of 20%. This, however, is anly the di- rect cost ta the raiiways. The raiiwayx dannot takre this suni out a! thein own pockets. It must ba passed on ta the public in higher price havais. It is a basic cast. It wili add ta the cost o! youn breakfast, youn new bouse, if you can afford ana. It means higher casts for the manufacturer and higher costs fan the distrib- utor. It means hess purchasing power for the farmer. In the end it wvill came back onf the railway %vonkers and ail other warkens !nom ane end of tha country ta the other. When anybody mon- tions this fact they wihl deny with great emphaiis its application ta themn-their leaders tell them it isn't true. Here is a case which illustrates this point. In 1926 the average raihway wonken in Canada ne- ceived $1.448 per annum. This is a fiat average o! alh the wages and salarias on Canadian rail- waYS. In 1933 at the bottom o! the depression the carnings of the average warker tell ta $1.- 299, meanwhile the cast of living had falhen ta 77.5 as against 100 in. 1926. Through that fact, and that. fact alone, reai wages rose to $1,676 per annum. There was a substantial increase in real ear- nings due ta a decline in the cost of living. More i% the roal test. The in- dustrial revolution meant a change aven from hand work ta machine production, which ne- sulted in- a tremendaus increase in production and a higher stand- ard of living. To whomn did this increase belong? It could be giv- on ta the inventons or others who developed machine production. It could be given ta those who pro- vided the necessary capital for increased production. Labour might bave taken it ail-that, in large part, is what really happen- ed. Then there was the consum- er, the forgotten man. The gains from tecbnalogical impravements should have been passed on ta the consumer in a lower pnice fan the products produced. If this haçl been donc there would have been an increased demand fan goods and full employment would be the normal condition in eveny nation. Bastiat, the great French economist was right, when over a hundred years ago he wrate these words: Treat aIl prablems from the standpoint o! the consumer for the interests o! the consumer are the intenests o! the human race. Note: Bastiat's Economic Soph. isms was fan mnany years out o! print. In 1934 I published a new edition under the name of "Econ- amic Fallacies." It sold readily. Penhaps the world is naw neady for anothen edition. I am con- vinced o! this: "The wanld will do right when it has exhausted aIl the possîbilities of doing wrong. Surely we must soon reach that point. BITS FROMI HERE AND THERE Old and Nev ItS always pleasing ta see some- thing out of the ordinary, and it's always amusing ta see a con- trast between past and present, especially for younger folks. With ahl the new cars that zoom along aur streets, one would hardly expect ta see a horàse and buggy, but that is exactly what we did see. We had just begun' aur lunch, when aur fniend hall-1 ered from. the front window, 'Camne, have a look. There's a horse and buggy gaing down the street." Naturally, since a hanse, and buggy is such an oddity in the day and age, aur curiasity got the better of us. and we rushed out ta have a look. Sure enough, there was an ei- derly man peacefully dnivîng down Ontario St., ahl unawane that there wene cuniaus faces watch- ing him. He had aparently bee-n shopping because we noticed sev- eral grocery bags in the front of the buggy. The sight mnade us sort o! wish xve had been born back in the horse-and-buggy days, because we have neyer had a ride in one, The closest we have came is a hanse and cutter ride, through the snaw, on a, dean, cold winter night. 0!ten we hear mother tell of her little-ginl days an the farmn and the hanses and buggies she used to ride in. In those days xvhenevCr they' saw a car com- ing, they'd rush out ta see it, il, w~as such an cxtraordinary sigbt. 0f course naw-a-days, xve term those cars that mothen was en- thralled about, merely jalapies.1 We'd neyer think af rushing out ta sec a car. Even jet 'planes have lost some of their thrill for US. But a horse and buggy! Now that is really something! A bit of the past coming inoa ur mod- ern life. It must make somne people long for the good aid days, pre-car. Maybe someday we will be longing fan thase good aid car-days-wha knows? What Others Say IVHO'S RUNNING THIS COUNTRY? (Huntsville Forester) Tt looks suspiciousiy like Mos- caw does. As has been previaus- Iy pointed out in these coiumns, one' o! the prime aims o! com- munismn in its plans for 'saften- ing up" thc democracies for easy conquest, is ta gain contrai o! key industries, a! which transporta- tion is chie!. Tt is not bard for communist workers ta worma their way ta the top in trade unions, becausa of the tandency a! the average work- an Ia let somebody aIse do his thinking fan him. To campletely tic up transportation facilities is ta hamstning the nation. In view o! the critical interna- tional situation, a nieur national emergency exists, and nothing could be a! more help ta the enemias o! aur country than the present railway stnike situation. If the present strike is allowed ta continue for even a week, trade unionism will have receivad a black eye from which it wiil take a long time ta racover. While we believe in the nights o! the worker ta bangain for his services, at the mamne time, no group of men bas tho right ta inflict bardship and suffermng upon the whole population, ta funther their awn ends. Canada is in no humour ta toi- enate such dictatorshlp, and means must be found by the gavernment ta end the rail strike pramptly. The people of Canada demand ac- tion-but fast. RURAL PEOPLE READ .SERIOUSLY (Mantreal Gazette) Country people bave some ser- ious subjects on their minds this year according ta a report by Miss Elizabeth Loosely, of Macdonald1 College's Adult Education Ser- vice, which shows that 418 booksj and pamphlets were requcsted oi' the service during the past yean thraugh Farm Forums. Wiomen 's Institutcs, Community Schools. This is 353 mare tban was ne- quested during the !inst year ofi the service's existence. There was ne recreational ma- terial included. Ail subjects were cancerned with community pnab- lems, arts and handicrafts. Listed in orden of popularity were: Arts and handicrafts, edu- cation, agriculture, psychology and health, and community ong- anization. Canada Is Major Cheese Producer But Not Great Consumer At a time when the hausehold1 food budgct is as uppermast in the minds of people as alImost I anything else, it seems very top- ical ta note, as the President of the Dairy Farmers of Canada has done, that mast Europpans consume more cheese in one sit- ting than the average Canadian1 eats in twa weeks or more. Canada has'long been a n Im- portant cheese producer, particu- larly o! chieddar cheese, and thp 1 fact of the matten is that it has been essential ta have expert out- lets for what we make. -.-- t À,It~I1I~ It Is not being suggested bore. that cheese enjoys any great ad- vantage aver other pratein foods in the matter of pnice in these days, although it is still doubt- less true that it contains mare naunishment per dollar « ecx- penditune than many other things. The public's taste i% not some- thing which is easily changed but thene is a great deal a! roomn ta do more in this direction. The forthcaming National Cheese Fes- tival next month can be nmade te accomplish much along these OTIm sure .oftWo choque$ a year with my CH ARA NTEEII INVESTMENT CERTIFICATEP Inteest cheque onl Tout cercificae isi mailed to you every six montha. Ced.i fiates run for threc or five years. Prn-. cipal and intercst arc guarantud. Write foi n.mphle:. en ilve year certriStet Ilorputo Gneral Trusts ?253 Bay Street -- Toronto DRINK - BIG 12 oz. BOTTLE AT ALL COOLERS, o THE CAN"LààN STATESMAN, BOWMANMLIE. ONTAIRIO ' OrWITpq 91 lagh -PAGE TWO