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r~jbftRTE AAINSAEMAEWAVlE OTROTrRDYJN lh 9 EDITORIAIS Up in Smoke Ail of us who sinoke should pay the mnost careful heed to what happens when there is careless disposai of the cigars. cigarettes and the ashes from pipes. The Ontario Fire Marshal, who keeps a care- fui record of such things, reports that in 1958, 9,973 (count them) fires came froni smoking and there were an additional 845 mn.m from matches, some of which would be attributable to the carelessness of amokers. The dollar Ioss from these two kinds of tires was more than $2,000,000 so it behooves ail of us to be more careful. It also is a tact that tragedy often resuits lrom fires caused by careless dis- posai of Iighted cigarettes and such things. Only the other week a woman and three children were burned to death or smoth- ered because of such a fire, according to ail accounts. Electricity and electrical appliances between them are the second largest number, but well below the number caused by smoking and matches. The number of lires from electricity and electrical appliances is slightly over 3,000. and the loss was well over $3,000,000. There also, in Ontario, were more than 3,300 lires from unknown causes. Here the loss lrom "unknown" w~as the greatest of al-more than $17.000.000. Dirty and defective chimneys and flues are blamed for more than 500 fires. and a loss of about hall a million dollars is caused by bot ashes. coals and opoen tires. 0f some interest is the lact that more flires are caused by soid fuels like coal, wood and coke, there being 516, than from oil-burning stoves and furnaces, although if you add oil-fired space heat- ers to the others, you come up with more than 650 such fires with a dollar loss of $760.000. Gas-fîred appliances, which nowadays. would be mostly natural gas, come off best among the group of heating ap- pliances. There were 151 such lires in 1958 with a loss of $252,000. In view of some of the criticism of natural gas since it began to arrive in quantity in Ontario. one would have thought that the number of fires so caused would be greater. Actually naturai gas seems to be a rela- tively salfe fuel-certainly mucli saler than open fires and careless disposai of ashes and hot coals. The lightning rod salesman apparent- ly stili has a place in the scheme of things. In 1958 more than 1,000 lires were caused by lightning where the buildings were not fitted with ightning rods. The loss was nearlv $500,000. In contrast only 30 build- ings fitted with lightning rods caught f ire and the total loss was less than $10,000. 0f comfort to the farmers is the fact thai. while a few vyears agso spontaneous combustion caused a lot of barns to burri down, in 1958 there were only il such incidents. The baling of thue hay appears to have made a great chang(e. The most stupid crime of aIl-arson-- caused 190 f ires in 1958. Since 1950, two Ottawa administra- tions have been playing fast and loose with the Unemploymelit Insurance Fund. But a littie sense displayed now by our legislators could forestall financial leukemia in the fund's future. There is a way out, suggests The Financial Post. What was begun as a true insurance program to provide short-ternu assistance for occasional unemployment among year- round workers has naw become. in large part, a wellare prograinu for ioggers and fishermen who are able to find work oniy part of the year. Their contributions don't come any- where near equaling the benefits they re- ceive. The difference is made up by con- tributions lrom regularly employed work.- ers The proposa] now is to raise contribu- tion rates 30%7c and to make a start at adding anothe~r huge group of seasanal workers to the fund-those in agriculture. This will simply mean that the industrial worker and empýloyer will be making wel- lare paynients to larm workrqr aq weli as ho loggers and fishermen. T'heres a lot ta be said for repetition. The advertising man will advise the per- sistent hammer, hammer, hammer af an îdea or a message wil] bring about its acceptance. The teacher will urge bis students ta repeat over and again the subject they are to learn. Back in the disturbed '20's a certain Dr. Coue insisted an illness could be cured if the sulferer gave aver his wakening hours ta insist- i.ng he was gettmng better and better. day by day. Then there cames, if the repetition is duil, monotony. That can start the canu- paign on the downslide. In highway safety, the campaign must be kept alive by the regular intrusion of bright, spark- ling, attenfion-getting messages and ideas. These will be strangest on the local scene -in the communify, the society. the club or such group-where personalities and familiar scenes can be used. But whether it be local, provincial, national, industnial or i a large association or organization, Sthere musf be a regular introduction of something new ta avoid mon otony and a consequent lack of attention and interest. An example could he the phrase: "The The present-day practice of driNinig a few blocks to church on Sundays and then walking almnost as mnany blocks from a parking place, causes one to wonder why people do not wvalk in the f irst place. In these motorized days the good old-fashion- ed habit of walking to and frorn church has been almost entirely forsaken. corn- ments The Sniiths Falls Record Nevvs. A local citizen the other day was tell- ing the Editor how, when he was a boy. the father and mother and their children îIhr (Ianabuil --taternant Etablished 1854 wih which is iricorporated Ne MUo'w'mvile News, The Newýcastle lndepondent and The Orono News lOth Yem of Coninuous Service to the Town of Bowmncnville and Durham Count>y This is manifestly unfair. An entire- lY new a pproach to unemployment insur- ance in Canada is needed. Perhaps we should have not one un- empioyment insurance scheme. but two. One could cover year-round workers and could pav its own way. The other could caver seasonally employed loggers. fisher- men and farnu workers and its resources could be beefed up bv drawing on the general funds of the state. A precedent for this is to be found iii the U.K. More than 20 years ago its unemployment insurance scheme - after being stretched to the limit by political pressures - wvas returned to insurance principles and a separate fund, which could be bolstered frorn general tax revenues, was estahlished for farmn work- ers. Canada*s seasonal unemployment is a national problem, not one which industria] emplayers and employees should be made to shoulder. Twin funds would separate welf are from insurance and put f lie hurden for each where it belonged. life you save may be your own". For years it has been an accepted sentence in the promotion of highway safety. At first if wvas a strang one, designed ta command the attention af people driving vehicles. But with continued use. brought about by ifs initial strength, if lost its audience unfil taday if carrnes relatively little weight, and has become a cliche, a doonu to which ail monatonous sayings are fat- ed. The greatest enemy of workers in highway safety is the apafhy af the dangerous driver and careless pedestrian. The sale driver and the carelul walker need only ta be reminded, now and then. af the penil that cxists on the streets and roads. But the motorist who provîdes a highway menace and the pedestnian who creates hazards with every step must be hit direcfly and cantinually with sfrategic blows to blasf his egotisticai belief in bis skill and artistrv in traffic. He scaf fs at slogans, leers af sincere warnings. The-v don't. he, avers, con cern hlm af ail. Slap him across the face with a cold mackerel now and then. It's the only message he will recognize. walked morning and evening from their home in the country, ta the chunch of theis- choice and back again, a mile cach way. In the effernoon the young folks made the extra trip ta Sunday School. Today, some people living two or threc blocks frorr the chunch. feel theY t t o bvy notor. And so offen when thev r -cachthie church they have to drive an extra couple of blocks ta find a park- ing place. By the time they walk back ta the church and return ta the car affer the service they have walked as greaf a distance as if they had left the car et home in the f irst place. Whaf is ta be donc about if? Nofhing. To many. that is modemn-day living. Stili. ta many others. walking to church is somefhing ta enjoy. EVOLUTION 0F A MAN At public school-Jimmie, et high school-Jim; et college-Jones; in his f irsf Job-Mn. Jones: as assistant manager- Mn. James Joncs; as manager-Jas. R. Jones; as vice-president-J. R. Joncs: as president-J. R.: and finally-the late James Robert Jones. "Men should be judged.. not by thein tint or skin. The Gods the,, serve, tlue vintage that thev drink. Nor by the way fhcy figlut, or love on sin. But by the quality of thouglit they fhink."ý 'Your lite will be rich if you can say with John Burroughs: "I lind each day f00 short for ail the thouglifs I want Wo think, ah flhe walks I wvanf fa fake, ah] the books 1 want ta read, allue friends 1 wanfta osee." In the Dim and Distant Past i ~ 25 YBARS AGO 49 TZAR; AGO JuRe 14, 1934 June 16, 1910 The employees of the Cana- What's the matter with the dian National Railways have weather? Western Canada had comznenced the barricading of five incheà of snow last week the crossing over the tracks at and Eastern Canada had ice. the station to the west side of Cornwall had the keenest frost Bowmanville Beach. for June in 50 years. Blame it Mr&. Archie McDonald attend- ail to Hailey's Cornet. ed the Beatty-Fennell wedding The town was alive with red in Toronto on Saturday. coats Monday morning who Ieft Mr. and M.frs. William Bar- for two weeks' military train- rett announce the engagement ing at Barriefield Camp, King- oftheir daughter, Hilda, to Mr. ston. The officers in charge Thornton J. Webb, son of Mr.wr:L.Cl. .J oe Francis Webb and the late Mrs. Pickering, Commander 46th Re- Ernily Webb of Bristol, Eng- giment; M.aj. J. A. V. Preston, land. The marriage to take Orangeville; Maj. W. C. King, paethe 29th of June. Bowmanville, Paymiaster; Capt. placeW. Farrell, Tyrone; Capt. L. T. Miss Dorothy Edger, Carlisle IMcLaughlin, Haydon; I.4,eut. J. Ave., gave a "cup and saucer" W. Wbhite, Blackstock; and Capt. shower on Thursday evening J. H. Kidd, chaplain, Black- and Mrs. Rîce, Church St., a stock. personal shower on Monday About 30 young ladies asseni- evening in honour Of Miss Ma- bled at the residence o! Mr. rie Ames, bride-to-be. and Mrs. J. C. Dudley, Liberty Messrs. A 1 e x. MeGregor. St.. Friday evening and gave Janles Hancock, Geo. Davidge Miss Annie Violet Dudiey and Wilfrid Carruthers, the lirien shower, ;(cconpanied bY tour male puDils of Mirs. C. H. the good wishes of her' friends Dudley, who were gold medal- voiced in a neat speech by Miss ists at the Durham County Mu- Gertrude Cawker. Miss Dudle.v, sic Festival, callec i a her home was united in rnarriage last Tuesday evening and gave her evening (Wednesday) to Mr. W. a pleasant surprise when they J. Bradd, Coiborne, and left lor presented her with a lovely hcr future home at Saskatoon, silver ehtree dish as an appre- Sask., where they will reside. ciation of hër work. The wedding was a very quiet Several pages of this issue one, only the immediate friends were devoted to Cartwright of the contracting parties being Centenary June l6th. l7th and present. i8th. The first settier was Geo. Miss Ida Pinc-h who lias bee!n Hall. born in May 1798 ný taking9 a business course at Re- County Armagh, Ireland. He mTngton Business College, To- carne to Canada in 1831 and ronto, has sccured a position as spent two years near Cobourg. stenographer with the Consoli- He married Jane Hamel on dated Optical Co., Toronto. May 20th, 1834. Mrs. J. F. Allen and chlld- Carîrigt Cntenry om-ren, New York City, are visil.- Cittswreht CarmaCn.ing ber father, Mr. James El- mr. j. H Deevit, E-M.; Gein- .liott. Mr. . H Deitt E Norma Gn Lieut. George J. Rowve and eral Chairman, Reeve Nra Lieut. F. H. Morris of the Bi;,- Green; Progran iand Presï ley Team, accompanied by Mxs. Reeve N. Green, Crighton Pý' Rowe and Miss Mabel Borlanid Devitt. Wm. Beaeock; Sports, left Wednesdav night for Mon- Rl. Byer.. Jos. Forder, 1. W'hit- treal Ahere tbey sail on S. S. field, N. Taylor: Refreshments, "Ttui-sian" of thie Allan Linef, W. A. VanCnu, H. Hooey. S. for England, For the two for- Swvain; Decorations. J. R. Mc- mer, we wish everv success o), Laughlin. Jas. Byers. W. B. 'Bisley Ranges where we ex- Ferguson. H. ThorriPson. pect to hear or their winning Solina-Miss Leila Taylor more honors for Canada. We and Master Bruce Taylor spent hope the ladies will have a the weekend with Toron«i«o pleasant tinme sight-seeing in friends and atteided the picnic 0k]. London and elsewhere. of the West China Missionar- Orono-Miss Rena Doncaster ies who are horne on furlougli. was elected member from Or- EnnLskillen: Mr. and Mrs. NI. ono League to the Sumrnrr J1. Tamblyn and Glenn. Mr. and Sehool. which opens ai Wel]- Mrs. J. D. Brown and 0lié. in, 4on niext week. Mrs. A. J. Knox, Orono, Mr. anci We congratulate M.ïr. E. A. Mrs. W. J. Stainton. Mr. and Mackenzie on1 passing bis th-iid Mr.Milton Stainton and Dor- year Varsitv exanis in the Fa- othy. Mr. and Mrs. Gordon cultv o! Medicine. Mr. Mac- Werry. Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd kenzie is putting in bis vaca- Ashton. Ross. Marie and Ron- tionl assisting his father. Con- ald. Mrs. H. J. Werry were tracter Ewen Mackenzie, on the Sunrday visilors ai »J. R. Ormis- C.N.R. construction work in torn's. this section. Newtonville-Inspector A. A Hampton-Master Albert Al- Martin and camil\-. rihl E.ln is recovering from a broken and Mr. Ro-ot. Martin. Lake collarbone. Sh-ore. visited Mr. and Mrs, Mr. and Mrs.' W. Nelson George j. Stapleton on Sunda. Brown returned fromn their trip Cou rti ce-Congratu lat ions are to Philadeiphia and Washing- extended to Mr. and Mrs. Har- ton. D.C.. on Fridax. old -Muir on the arrivai of a Darlinton-Mr. Gfeorge Vail young son. Dyke has ty'phoid fever. Mr. Alin Clernens and sons. Tyrone-Nir. F. W. 0. Werry, Hamipton, 'have purchased three Saranac, N.Y., is visiting his brooder bouses from George parents, Mr. and Mirs. Peter Reynolds. *Werry. A MacDuff Ottawa Report Head for OTTAWA - A strange and worrisome tapic of conversation is being raised mnore and more in Canadien living rooms. lTt bas tragic overtanes. Someone v.li say: Mrhat w-ould you- do if hydrogen bombs startcd to faI19" Well, what would vou do? If there 15 a good, safe end sene answer, no one in the federel govcrnment cen provide it. Ci- vil defence Ls the unwanfed child in Ottawa. lit is currcntly being booted fromn one depart - ment f0 another. but no one is making the basic decisions ne- cessary ta give if direction. There is one school of thought tlhat dlaimsL a hydrogen war is .tn irnpo.ssiiility. These theor-- ists say the dainage on both sides would be sa terrifying that no anc could start sucIh acoîîflict. ln view of the sabre- rattlîg on boths ides ofthie Iran Cui - tain, the coutintied stock piliiug of' nuclear weapoils, the îas ing to!flie grcatcst înilitery triai- chinies in world bistory, and the danger o! an accidenitai war, these supremne opfirnists cen be disregarded. And if there is a war, Canada will be subjected to an nmrerciful pounding. The Une of intercepf-the point et which U. S. fighters will meet onrusbing bomber fleets-ruins right over mast Canadien ci- fies. If our radar Unes give sufi - cient warning, and if the alert avystemn functions, Canadiens will be notified by radio that an attack is immiinent. What happens then? To those ln the big cities, Vancouver, Winnipeg, Toronto and Montreal, thec:-e can be but once nswer. Panic, confusion, hundreds of thous- ands milling aiound in a state of hysteria. Montreal doesn't even have a civil defence or- ganization. Will tbe discipline of aur po- lice and ermy be sufficient to hold men et fraffic control points whcn they knowv ther wivcs, famiies and friends are in danger? Or will they *Joifl in the mass fligbt ta the country- side? Many of our major cities don't have routes marked ont for escape. Anyone who has been caught ln a holiday weekend traffic jam in any large citv cen envi- sage whet would happen when entire nopTiio- ýleap inï.o their cars for a panic-stricken the Huis fligh 1t. Thev ivon't have hours in whicb to -set out, time will be countcd le minutes. Cars will break down, run ont o! gas. col- lide. And wherc iIl they go? ls the average town equipped to handle thousands a! refugees? Are there foodstocks, beds and rooms for them? Aiter the bornbs have drap- ped (and when they do, scien- tists estihnate 75 per cent o! the North American population will be wiped out within 24 hours) who will look after the burned and injured? The problcîns appear insur- niauntable, and many o! tbem probably are. But the fact re- mains that ifl still flic respon- sibilit.v of the federal govern- ment f0 organize, and plan a pr~ano! civil defence thal wvill provide the civilian popu- hiiion with sonie degrce of azi- Surarîte for survival. Some autiio,,itih s caini tri- demgiond ahelters ,arc tlie anty ans.wer. thet evacuatian is i- Pooý-sible. The governient can't even make up ifs mind on this basic question. Runnlng may be impractical, but digging haleF is expensive. NIany Canadiens, in the narne of paf riotism, and in the in- terests o! the communities, vol- untarily surrendered their lei- sure time fa take part in civil defence wark. They aftended lectures, practised rescue work, and in civil emergencieîs have more than proven their wortm But the evidence now ls that tbeir efforts were largely wast- cd, since the goveernent bas decided thet rneny o! the jobs fhey trained to do cen be hand. led better by' the army. It is entirely le order fa ask why this sbift in responsibilify wasn't made years ega, sînce the hydrogen bomb has beemi with us for some years, and nothing has changed in the nceds for civilien survival. Every once in a while, the governmcnt issues a stetenuent corgretuletimg itself on the pr~o- gress a! its program for stand- ardization o! fire hases, and then forgets about civil defence unfil the next surge o! public opinion. Until somneone on Parliament Hill makes up their mninds, the best advice that cen be ofcred is: hirle under the( lied, cross your fingers, and pray.. Central Area Doesn 't Get Square Deal In the appointment of royal commis- sions central Canada lias been discrim- inated against. Mr. Diefenbaker, in his adherence to what is called regional repre- sentation, has promoted discrimination. It is as if the House of Commons were represented on a regional basis, which would give Ontario the least representa- tion and the Northwest Territories the most. Even in the Senate, by constitu- tion, Ontario has as many representatives as have the three Prairie Provinces. But when it comes to appointing a royal commission for inquiry into freight rates. Ontario, with one-third of the total population of Canada, gets one member of> the commission and Quebec, with 29 per cent of the population, gets only one. Frorn the Prairies there are two rnembers repre- senting 18 per cent of the population and British Columbia. with 9 per cent of the population, has one member. The four Atlantic provinces, with il per cent of the population, have one member. The largest region of ail is, of course. the Northwest Territories, which have no member. There is still another member but he is strict]y the representative of labor. This is another of Mr. Dielenbaker's innova- tions. He has announced that 1labor wil be officially renresented on ail boards and commissions. So it may be expected that if Mr. Walsh has any opinions on railway freight rates, they wvil1 be strictly f rom the point of view anid in the interest of origanized labor - Canadian organized labor which is governed fronu the United States. Sa the labor representative is a person apart. As well appoint a woman to the commission with the understanding that she would represent only the views of women. Commissions and boards should be representative of ail the people of both sexes. A decision on an area or square mile basis is not a square deal for central Canada. It is too early, and infringes on the proprieties, to suggest that Ontario and Quebec will not come out wel lrom a royal commission loaded against the two most populous provinces - the two prov- inces which together comprise two-thirds of the population. In ail of the discussion of freight rates, in Parliament and out. there is a tacit belief that certain regions of the country are discriminated against. This can be disproved and it is hoped that the central provinces officiafly and un- officially proceed to show that if there is discrimination in freight rates, it is against the central area. The Maritime Freight Rates Act, as an example, was designed, and perhaps properly so, to assist Maritime producers to get their products into the Quebec and Ontario markets in competition wittî goods produced in the central provinces. The way this act operates is that the rail- ways receive £rom the central government the difference between the freight rates applying elsewhere and the freighit rates applying in .the Maritimes. Ail of the people of Canada pay this subsidy. 'Two- thirds of the people of Canada live in central Canada so two-thirds of the sub- sidy is paid by them. There is also a subsidv known as the bridge subsidy. This is a relatively new gimmick. It subsidizes the hauling of freight between the Manitoba border and the more populous areas of Ontario. It is a subsidy established on the theory that the West is penalized due to the fact of a long haul across northern Ontario, a terri- tory which develops relatively littie traf- fic on its own. There are other subsidies designed to help other parts of the country. partic- fflarly the Prairies. Laws that say that the railways must flot charge any more for hauling grain across the Prairies than the C.P.R. charged in 1897 are a subsidy to the grain growers that is paid by other users of railways. That is, other users of railways pay it in the higher freight ratcs which must obtain because of the absurd- ly low rate on grain. The taxpayers aiso contribute toward this subsidy to the grain growers of the West because the recurrent and almost constant deficit in Canadian National Railways operation is paid by ail the tax- payers, of whom a third live in Ontario. 29 per cent in Quebec, and only a third ini ah the rest of Canada. Wit is the sait of conversation. not the food.-H.- Hazlitt A good listener is not on]y popular everywhere, but af ter a while he knows something.-Mizner. Believe me, a thousand friends suffice thee not; in one enemy thou hast more than enough.-Ali Ben Abou Taleb. é2oungrnan ^s Cllnn This paper, recently, report- they were covered ed a Bowmanville group see- fuzz, and were so ing a moose in the Pontypool eyes were not ope area. They must drinik a mild dow was the only brew in Bowmanville, to just group who had evi see a harmless moose. If they, young 'coons; he1 ever try a snort or two of our when he was a ba own home-macle Pontypool little one home, b "red-eye" they will probably sec witbin a week. ItN the same thingis we do-great years ago that we pink elephants with sky blue to cut down nine ac spots, and yellow eyes, as well ty-five year old Se as enormous mauve coloured had been 'ýgirclled su akes covered with porcupîne by porcupines. Abc quills. faces like bulldogs, and time, I tried to pu ginger coloured eyeballs that door o! the two hol swivel around like ball bearings ed up in time to & while they. emit singing coni- porky balancing o1 mercials. the door: 1 left thei We sometimies see some leg- flat. tirnate wild life, too, like when A few years ag-O we were going through gome found its way into mîxed bush, pulling ribes. and portion o! the bil one o! the men almost put his shed, and while Bo' foot on a female partridge sit-tyn og iou ting on a dozen eggs. It was the trying to et it oul first time mfost of the elw in the floor, and do, had seen a partridge nest. The of some o! ou.r next day, another chap had, the Then there was si same experience, with the same sqiiing. We o number of eggs in the nest. It aquir th o Odil was the first time I had seen te rlshe ofenrd two nest.; twenty-faur bouïrs ow saîvaging. apart. and the first time 1 had seen as many as a dozen eggs Starlings took a in one îiest. On the third day, i plugging one of one of the men beard a whim- tor pipes on more pering noise inu a hollow log, casion, forcing the and discovered a mother rac- the ground inste&d coon. with five litte babies; cistern. And they i a- grayish happier than when they go young their down the cbimney at the big en. Dr. Had- shed, and we have to pull the 7one in our stove pipes down to let the rer seen such sooty things out. Soon a! ter we told us that, installed the bathroom, one oy hie took a nosy starling got down the >ut it died wrong pipe, and committed sui- wras only two cide in the toilet bowl. What a Swere forced spot to drown inIi Over on the ýcres o! twen- farm, our sons discovered a Dots Pine that starling's nest iii a big cedar Vand killed post, with two eggs in it; the3r out the saine took them away, just to see ush open the what would happen, and every er, and look- day that starling laid an egg. ee a big, fat which was promptly taken, ýn the top of until she had laid a total of ýre in nothing fifty-nine eggs. To this day. we don't know whetber she quit ïo a prcuinespîte us, whetber she was lad ah oupin out, or whether she coildniýt the pstirsstand the wea.r and tear of pro- ig implement ducing. )b and 1 were Abbct rudteHyo t, some of its Areb ob catarsouteHadonit h the cracks are, fmolks aig o hate wntencsa fwflsloigoe hi wn te ncksshouler. after dark; but on-e female help. citizen went to the pasture for ,quealing and his cows. before dark, and l'ent ~fered to bgt low to go througb an arch of tg quiils,bu cedars; while in that half bent i to do their position, hie came face to face with the bob rat. sitting and keen delight glaring at hiîîi frorn a distance Eour conduc- of three feet. Wben askced what than one oc- hie did, he said, "Il threiv n'. water on *to stick at him, beat it fast out o! iof into the there, and left the cows to corne neyer seern home by themiselves." -:SUGAR and SPICE:- isn't lt odd how important the fermer becomnes, every three or four ycars? Most of the time, everyfone la conitenT ta, let him go right ahead and batter bis brains ouf on the stony bosom o! Mother Na- ture. ln normal fîmies, a lot o! people, if tlscy give tlie farni- er a thouiglt at ail, thlnk of hini as a sort of ornery cus- tamer, always grouchint about the weather. alwavs wanting subsidies for his pro- duce, always talking hard tirnes, but, in reallty, saltiiig money away by the liagul. But, let soniebody caUl an clection, and suddenly the fermer cornes info bis own. It is gcncrelly agreed thaf he s a noble son o! the soi, the sait of the earfh, the, backbone o! the country, and the hope o! the future. It in common knowledge at clection trne that the- farin- er bas had lean years, that his ineonie bas been mneagre, that he has been shamitfullY negleeted. Everybody vies in promising hlm: a fair share of the natlon'sbincorne: a square deal: a better living: greater recognition, and any- thing that doesn't c'ent much. Let's geft t the bottoin of this. Is the farmer really one of Nafure's noblemnen, as the politic.ians assert at election trne? Or la he the dour spreader o! gloonr, fhe chron- ic malconfent, as pictured between elections? of cours. e, hnluneither. Farmers are people, like everybody else. And like ail people, tbey are of ail types. A miliionsire ln a penthouqe that lie has a lbard life. Weil, that's not truc. It might bave been fifty years ago. but not t.eday. What they really miean is that he works bard. And lic dots. But the ,city fcllow workiq hard fao, whether he's a pipe- fitter. a lawyer, a ncwspeper- mran or a cirdie salcamnan. The difference'is that ail the cit *,- i'ellow gets out f the icwork is a bald bead, ulcers, jow!is and a baggy belly, wlîile fthe fermer winds up with mus- cles, a hearty appetite, a rud- dy complexion, and a pauncii as sound and solid as a bass drurn. Nope, thec fariner may not be qulte as terrifie as the politiclans tell hlm be is, every fcw years. But nelther in lie te be pitied, between elections, as a down-trodden misanthrope. Ht'. a pretty tougli character, and a pret- ty ubrewd one, and be bas to be. The farrner can teke a ser- ious reverse wîth stoic cour- age. Ht can weafber the bad years and spreed hlrnsclfa bit in the good ones. He bas a great deal more securifv than the cify worker. He ln hiz own master. And unlike the city work- er, wben be bas elugged i, out for forty years, be doea- n't have to go and live wi'l an owly daugbter-ln-law, or niove lInt the oid peopl.' s home. The farmer sella tht, faru, liys a little bouse in t'own, and starts klekinx about the taxes. Who wouid- n't be a happy, healthN f mer, if he bad Il ail to de over agfain? Split Insurance Fund? Repetîtion Walking to Church s SUESCRIPTION RATES $4.00 a Yomr, tictly ln advacc S5.00 ai Year in the United States Authanared cm Second Class Mail Paut Office Depaîtment. Ottawa Publihed by THE IAMES PUBLISHING COMIPAIIY Bowmanvwle, Ontarso JOHIN M. JAMES, EDrnTo Dispensed hy Bill Smiiey can be Juat as much of a grouch as a fariner on a stony back concession. A dumb fariner IN just as likcly to mrake a mess of things as a dumb businessmnan. An Intel- ligent fariner in just as bright as an intelligent executive. and probably a lot more ver- satile. Peý,uvie are ail msixed 11- about farnierbý Therte isi f.endency. for instance. to think of the farmer as a man a! rew word.s. This is a hal- lucination. Today's fermer may be sfrong, but he is far fromn sient. Get a group of farmers going and you scarce- ly get f.bern stapped talking. I've met farmers who would talk yoru into a state o! mild shock if you gave them an opening. Another illusion about the farmner is that he le cautious. The fact la Uic fariner In the only big-time gambler lft i n our economic systein. And bels thet only gambler whe keeps comlng back t. the ta- ble when be knows Uic dite are loaded. Think not? Show met a professlonal gambler who would takre the odds the fariner accepte when he plants hi@a wheat or sinks hbu rollin abeetc! tle. * * 0 Then there is the silly idea, so often heard, thaf the far- mer is slow to change, resists new ideas. Opi the contrary, be la a natural-born target for anything new in the line o! machinery, seed, feed, or fertilizer. He can't resist hav- ing a go at it. Stili another misconeeptlon about the fariner: everybodr says. and nohody saya It loud- Pr than the fermer himseif, y VE t 00: bi ac oc )h L'r Dl it, lh 01 1 sç dj rig d 1 TirUPMAY, itiffl Ilth, 19M IrIM CAMADL4,N STATZURAN, DOWMANVaZ.& ONTAM- »Àkaz MUR