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Board Conse No 10156 le; Ontario, May 18, 1919. tis, as it leaves me at ; se-cleanin. bein smart in 8 aroun ter help her some. grs some weeks back that they'd autos, *cause the slow gait 's what I calls killin two d gettin rid of hippererits. goin a ev. Jere- donable Si." and when he like we does after read- t d the simptoms. . The way pharch would have drux em re'd have been autos them - |N we : but up and no place ter go, 1. 20 ey stayed on the ib, and ome of em did better fer a spell. there's been a heap of « Surv about that there serthon of Rev. Jeremiah Jones, but most of the argufiers rek- onied that the other feller had "The Onpardonable Sin," If all the sink was printed in'alist, and a vote was taken as ter which was the most onpardonable, the men "ud pile up the black ballots agin hipproerisy, and the wimmin agin bein out of style. - - One of the churches fun & eampane agin hippoerisy some years ago, and they hunted up rule as folks was likely [ter break, and dumped em out of the back winder, as they sed "the rules was only makin a lot of hippererits. Now yer can't tell that church from a heap of other churches, and seein the fun's about over, the men seemstet have gone other places Where there is rules ter break. °_ * Poachin's a'heap'more poplar than huntin, and stolen ap- ples never lias no worms in em. 2 ? About that time prohibition: and all booze lovers thought it was Every whiskey seller from A on the eal and they has the ter git in its best licks n season fer hipporcrits. : collekshun of curiosities Now _they's raisin the nd git-rid of this fear 5 : If yor wos ter ask ineavhab way we we was travellin in this new campane of liberty lovin self-righteousness, I'd say we was goin ter the bakwoods on.the double quick If there ain't goin'ter be no Taw biit Somethin the hipper- crits can't break, then there ain't goin ter be no law. They're takin a dose of anti-law over in Rusher, but it ain't comin up ter expektashuns. I was over ter Martin's t'other day and they had a bag of 43 sugar what hadn't been opened yet. The kids found it and had poked a hole in it, and was havin a good time (when no- body was lookin) stickin their tongues up agin the hole in the - bag, and gettin a heap of satisfyin sweetness. But some of _of the sugar trickled out on the floor, and even -youngsters can't lick up everythin. Mrs Martin held a Royal Commisshun rite then; and found out that--' 'nobody done it."' = Sure enuf that there sugar was: makin them youngsters . lie and steal, and if she'd been rite up ter the minit in dealin with em; she'd have turned em loose on that bag of sweetness 80's ter keep em from lyin. But Mrs. Martin reckoned that a « good lambastin was the proper thing fer fixin up the case, so there you are. { NOTE--Mattin's youngsters ain't ute so sure that they 'oughter hook sugar on the sly. Their ¥a has a great whip ' Lamay be wrong, but it's my idee that if some of the fel- lers, what knows so much about law bustin, was ter be brung up a bit short and tell what they knows, there'd be fewer hippererits and fewer law-breakers. | : Law breakers is like nettles--they has ter be handled firm, or they keep yer on pins and needles all, the time. . Fact is laws is made cause folks is liable ter break them, + and when a law ain't liable ter be broke there's no need of it. ~ If the fellers what's howlin about -hippercrits 'ud come out plump-and plain and say--*'We wants the booze, and we e who knows it," then we'd know who was who. kp what wants boaas tight 28 well say so.and be done ors imate ss nr pain side. 2 ] Fall wheat come through all rite," MEAD OFFICE = TORONTO "Your surplus earnings in 'our Savings Department earn inter- 'ser 07a €8t at current rate. : PORT PERRY BRANCH R. H. SHORT Menage, JAMES WARD ~ PIANOS, ORGANS an and GRAMAPHONES ALSO SECOND-HAND ORGANS PIANOS TUNED MAY iS and SEPTEMBER 10 ' Bell Phone 94 PORT PERRY, ONTARIO . The People's Project. If the people want to own the public utilities, they'd bes: ter stay by Sir Adam Beck. He is the only man in sight whe is out and out in favour of public ownership, and who is in a position to speak frankly and fearlessly on the subject. When Adam Beck is gone, we may be able to get Government own- ership, but it will be more difficult to get public ownership. There's a difference. Because there is a difference, and because events tiéve very swiftly at times, it would seem 'an- opportune time: for swift movement in the public interest. And here a question arises. The Hydro-Electrie lags are growing by leaps and bounds. Can the Commission vgét away"' with them? Or will they be so.big that it will: be a case of --"Nothing started, nothing done?" All this questioning, of course, refers to the radial railway --How soon can it be built? There are many signs t i the people want to see something move, and as Whit Oshawa very bluntly put it, they "don't care who" does: the moving. Inthe meantime the Dominion Government. may - obtain Without effort what is yet unreached by the Hydte- Electric Commission--the immediate interest and support" of the people. The Toronto Eastern may spell success to the Dominion Government, and delay to the Hydro. If anything is to be done to obtain the Toronto Eastern for the people, to be operated by the Hydro-Electric, it would seem as though some movement in that direction should be made at once, Mr. _D. B. Hanna says that the Dominion Government will begin "work on the Toronto Eastern within thirty days from May ha and in the minds of many that would settle the case. E¥3k While there is no doubt that the enlarged plans of the = Hydro-Electric regarding radials would prove to be more pro- fitable to the people than the original idea, it is equally true that there is considerable disappointment that the actual con- struction of the Hydro radials seems to be deferred indefinite- ly. Could not the original plan be carried out, building. the road through from Port Perry to Markham, via Brooklin, and from there to Toronto and on to Hamilton? That would put the people's project on the map; and if the Port Perry to To- ronto line was possible five years ago, it ought to be eyen more feasible now that the Hamilton road has been voted into the Hydro-Electric plan. oy If we have to wait to get posscssion of the Teremto- Eastern; to learn whether the Dominion or the Provinces are to control the St. Lawrence water powers; and get. the people from Whitby to Kingston to vote for Hydro radials, it looks as though we might have. to continue to take the "slow train from Arkansaw" when we want to travel. The Seagrave Reception "Last Thursday evening was a red lctter evening iv the citizens of Seagrave; that being the time set apart for the reception, banquet, and presentation to the returning soldiers. The committee in charge spared ncither effort nor expense to make the welcome a success. The ladies of thc ehurch and vicinity put on one of the finest of the banquets for whieh they are noted, with sittings for over three hundred guests. We will not be forgetful of the the talent that made the con- cert a sticcess, led off with a patriotic chorus by the choir. ; The balance of the musical program was rendered by cow Port Perry friends. There were two sections in this enter-. taining delegation--the Band under the leadership of Mr. Roach, and the Port Perry Quartette, both of which organiza- tions gave much appreciated service. Two splendid addresses were given by Rev. Mr. Black, of Port Perry, and Rey. Capt. Dodds, of Sonya. 'The honoured guests of the evening were Lieut. H. Cobb, | Sergt. Thos. Harding, Corp. Allen- Brown, and Corp. Thomas Osborne. An address was read by Mrs Joblin, tary of the Red Cross Society: and a beautiful C. E. F. r was pre- : sented taleach of the soldiers by Mrs. Shunk, President of the Mr. Stanes Wooirdee presen ech of the witha os eo ane ae] he hoger AS ;