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al om and injuries. Bags THE HAILEYBURIAN THURSDAY JULY 9th, 1936 THe HAILEYBURIAN|$ : ° The Ottawa Spotlight By Wilfrid Eggleston Issutd Every Thursday from The Haileyburian Office Broadway Street, Haileybury ' SUBSCRIPTION RATES: | Ottawa, July 7--Improved sea- in Canada--$2.00 per year in advance, | sonal employment conditions have |\led the King government to an- /nounce a further 10 per cent cut jin the monthly grants-in-aid to jthe provinces for direct relief for -- | July, August and September. The lannounced objective of the gov- ;ernment last March for the cee : sce ling of federal relief camps for Workmen w ho are trying to suiak: Goemplbyddemen By bie keep off the relief rolls are find-| inion Day has been achieved with ing pretty hard going these days.| 12,000 being given work ona rail- A few get jobs on the roads, but, way maintenance-of-way pro- ; and gram subsidized by the govern- ment and 657 on farms and the balance of 2,484 in general sea- sona] occupations. For July, August and Septem- One local man described condi- her the federal government will tions on the Ferguson Highway a pay a total of $2,345,657 monthly did not|to the nine provinces for direct j Telief, compared with $1,751,250 monthly in the last months of the that the pay is 25 cents per hour, Bennett regime and $3,068,218 in| that the men have to supply their the first four months of the King} own meals and that the stretches | government during the mid-win- ter period, when, in Canada, sea- sonal employment is 'at its lowest. 0 per year in advance. Leishman & Sutherland, Publishers HARD GOING with the small wages paid the lack of anything like steady work, they are not much better off than if they remained at home. few days ago and they sound any too hopeful. He statec of road which they have to cover are so long that they spend a|" Bennett government direct re- great deal of the time in walking jief monthly grants around Octo- from one point to another. There per when it' went out of office are just six men, he said, between | ere as follows: . Prince Edward Latchford and Martin River and/[.jand, $1,250; Nova Scotia, $40,- an occasional truck to haul mate- 000; New Brunswick, $25,000; rial to the worst 'spots. Some-|Quehec, $500,000; Ontario, $600,- times they can get home for Sun-|(Q0; Manitoba, $135,000; Alberta, day, if there happens to be a truck $100,000; Saskatchewan, $200,000 going in the right direction. and British Columbia, $150,000. The men have difficulty in get-|} Last November, for four ting their supplies, as there is no/months, these grants were in- regular truck service. They haveicreased by 75 per cent. by the to take considerable quantities of|King government. They were cut food with them and it is hard to|15 per cent for April, May and keep it from spoiling. They use| June, and now, under a further the former road camps for living 10 per cent cut, the monthly quarters and they suffer badly grants to the provinces until the from flies, our informant says.'end of September, when the pay- On the whole, he claims, men who|ments will be revised again in the put in the summer on this job will light of conditions then obtain- be no better off in the fall and ing, are as follows: Prince Ed- will be back on relief. |ward Island, $2,844.85; Nova Sco- It does appear that there could|tia, $53.550; New Brunswick, be some more regular and better $33,468.75 ; Quebec, $669,375 ; On- paid employment provided. It eke $803,250; Manitoba, $180,- would be cheaper in the long run | 73125; Alberta, $133,875; Saskat- than paying relief bills and it/shewan, $267,750; British Colum- would certainly be better for the | bia $200,812.50. men themselves. It is impossible} Men for railway work were for a man to keep a family on 25 drawn from the 163 government cents an hour, unless he has;camps as follows: Nova Scotia, steady work the year round, and/244; New Brunswick, 491; Que- if there is to be road work only|bec, 1,256; Ontario, 2,695; Mani- in the summer there should be toba, 891; Saskatchewan, 660; reasonable wages paid. It would Alberta, 901; British Columbia also pay to keep the main roads/ 1,715, a total of 8,853 men. From in better shape, thus gaining both other sources the railways took objects at the same time. jon 2,297 additional men. SS a ee Dominion Bureau of Statistics "TRY COURTESY" figures showed a gain of 23,295 persons employed by 9,690 repor- ne oe ._,_|ting firms on June 1, as compared The attention of all motorists | it}, May 1. Compared to June 1, is called to the Department of | 1935, atl increase of 47,721 was Highways campaign for safer!shown in the number employed. driving, which is being carried on| The report showed 963,513 \em- through the medium of NEWS-| ployed as of Fune 1. Improve- paper advertisements and in other) ment was reported in manufactur- ways this month. The campaign jing. particularly in the food and has heen launched with the a of lumber division. There were im- bringing about some reduction iN portant increases noted in log- the appalling number of automo- ging, mining, communications, bile accidents which occur every transportation, highway and rail- year on the roads of this pro-|way construction and mainten- vince, but it will be entirely in}ance services and Peatiey vain if those who use the high-| In: dts: Iatesh teleeraphie tence ways do not pay some aRCenLON Te port 'i eeinretal voy Tune ecouthe and each one try to do his or her Dominion Bureon Ce Hehe ee Pan Se pene vost : -¢- |ported dry weather has caused a There should be nothing diffi-| oeneral and serious reduction in cult about learning to drive safe-| crop prospects in the Prairie pro- ly, All that is required is to fol-|vinces. Effective rainfall of the low a few simple rules of the previous weelcowaesimited forthe road and give thought, to the) peice River district and parts of other fellow. The majority of|east-central Saskatchewan. It our main highways are built to \o5 ctated that the meedno nen accommodate, easily two cars}\4¢ urgent and many reports in- abreast and, while in the North dicated already serious drought there are many sharp curves,! damage, Conditions in the wheat these are not dangerous if rea- helt in the mid-western United sonable care is taken. It would States have been even worse and appear that the slogan of the de- partment, "Try Courtesy", is well, chosen. The greatest danger a-| rises from the motorist who goes merrily on his way without any | thought of others using the roads. Then there is the craze for speed. Many of the accidents are direct- ly due to this, and when this! craze is combined with a lack of| courtesy, there is greater danger) than ever. There need be no big} fault found with the fast driver if} he has the quality of courtesy, however, and he may travel for} ury and attendance. many years without becoming in-| volved in an accident. The whole question is one for the motorists themselves. If they will pay heed to the department's campaign, observe the elementary rules, of careful and courteous driving, the toll of accidents will be reduced; but if the offenders are allowed to continue on their reckless! way, there will still be an appalling number of deaths for aday, a week or Tonger--from a single room with bath to the most sumptuous hosekeeping suite equip- ped with linen, silver and china-- affording every convenience, lux- Delightful ger ption r lled restaurant service--that briefly is the distinctive appeal of the Wind- sor Arms. Windsor Arms Hotel 22 St. Thomas Street (Bloor at Bay TORONTO : Tel. Ra. 5141:2-3-4 Write tor folder. "Try Courtesy" and assist the \ that be in reducing this], fe and : JAPANESE CREW SURPRISES AT HENLEY Heileybury in 1926 | { Items from the Files of The Haileyburian of Ten q Years Ago q PO EO W. L. Reilly had a narrow es- cape from drowning when his car went over the side of the Wabi bridge in New Liskeard. He managed to get one door open and got out, reaching the surface without suffering badly. The party of members of the Canadian Manufacturers Associ- ation. 53 in number, were enter- tained at a banquet in Hotel Hail- eybury, with the president of the Board of Trade, Mr. Geo. T. Smith, extending a welcome. lice force of this district, which extends from Sturgeon Falls to Hearst, met in Haileybury on Monday with the head of the force, General V. Williams, V.C. Leo Belland, a trapper from South Lorrain, brought in the pelt of a huge wolf which he shot at McDonald Lake. It mea- sured seven feet two inches in length. Haileybury ball team had a field day at New Liskeard' on Wednesday, winning the league fixture from the farming town by a score of 17-5. A. Cullen and W. Paul have returned from a trip into North- ern Quebec and brought some fine samples of gold-bearing quartz. They are enthusiastic over the prospects of the distric Members of the provincial po- they visited. ' [SS] ]S------SSS] SL SS =--_--SSSSSSS SB The Tokio Imperial University Crew can be seen bringing out the boat for « practice spin at Henley before competing in the famous Henley Regatta. The Japanese oarsmen managed to reach the semi-final before being defeated such as to have eliminated that country as an exporter of wheat this year. Hon. Vincent Massey, Canadian High Commissioner at London, spoke Canada's mind at the Lea- gue of Nations meeting at Gen- eva this past week in favor of the lifting of economic sanctions im- posed against Italy at the outset of the Italo-Ethiopian conflict. Canada's other delegates at this meeting are Hon. Philippe Roy, Canadian Minister at Paris, Dr: W. A. Riddell, Canada's perma- nent resident representative to the league at Geneva, and Loring Christie, legal adviser to the De- partment of External Affairs at Ottawa. Three of the younger members of Parliament, Denton Massey, Conservative, Toronto; Rev. T. C. Douglas, C.C.F., Weyburn, Sask., and Paul Martin, Liberal, Wind- sor, Ont., will be among the Can- adian delegates to the World Youth Congress to be held at Geneva beginning August 31. Automobile accidents killed 1,224 persons in 1935, compared with 1,115 in 1934, the Bureau of Statistics reported. Montreal had 109 killed by automobiles; To- ronto, 74; Vancouver, 43; Winni- peg, 24; Hamilton, 16; Quebec City, 17, and Ottawa, 25. There were 877 drownings during the year. Lady Byng and Lady Currie, widows of former Canadian Corps commanders in France dur- ing the Great War have been in- vited to be the Government's guests at the Vimy Ridge memo- rial unveiling on July 26. The death of F. W. Perras, Lib- eral member for Wright, Quebec, created a vacancy in the House of Commons, the second by death since last October. Justice W. F. A. 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