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Watch your label; it tells when your i subscription expires $1.50 per year in advance. SAMUEL FARMER, Editor and Publisher. PORT PERRY, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, JULY 27th, 1939 ' Crown Attorney pA Mu, Scott also believes that mechan ition might léave the small farmer Running Comment A Costly Blaze TTT RDHON ER Bn on Current Events|. r. ANNIS NOW APPOINT $10,000 BLAZE--BLAME [8 LAID Gul ar the Wes yale We Yells L I SR dpa . . - : ann ---- wf 3 EE "ED CROWN ATTORNEY : ON_PICNICKERS woul! De conf ned to those who could "Such is the patriots boast, where'er we roam: His first, best country ever Is At hom Mrs. W. M. Matthews, Pilot Moun-| ART itn i ARTE TT IY Piaeliiey; prs -- § 3 Stain, N,C., is making no effort to'find Toronto, July 21---By an order-in- Fae Bee by cles oy bg Added to Hiese -obistdeles ju the. *.7 AYE Ea 4 : : hy NL h MA] Council passed at Queen's Park onjed by A. T. H. Gascoyne for the fire | fact that mechanization applies chief: (ts DERELICT'S MARRIAGE - Sih y AN OLD LETTER--STILL TRUE ' id Hef wha giole Sefer Jos Jn Thursday afternoon, Ain F. Annis, which swept 200 acres of woodland lly to grain crops. In increasing the (id i i , ~The Stratford Beacon-Herald has written of ~~ "In 1858 there was an outbreak of cholera. in a wallet containing $150. A. good acting: Crown-Attorney for Ontario and pasture, causing $10,000 damage production of grain in this Provinge 3 a problem which, it says, should be tackled from Britain, and the Presbytery. of Edinburgh asked price for hens. They must have been County, was appointed as Crown-f to his farm property in Pickering! we would naturally tend to compete vs the "front end." Headed "Marriage of a Moral . that Lord Palmerston (the Home Secretary) set Sones birds. : Attorney _and Clerk of the Peace for Pownship on July 22nd. : with. the: West--and'l doubt that that Y Derelict" are article follows: : aside a special day for national fasting. His Ontario County. Firemen - from several, villages|is the destiny of" Eastern Ontario, . LJ . A billion pound loan to Germany is a lot of money to pay for peace. Poverty makes us all gentle, and it is inter- esting to note that the Germans say there is a grave scarcity of materials and skilled labor. Even dictatorships can only spend money once, and ar- fought all afternoon to extinguish the flames which spread rapidly and were no sooner checked in one spot than they flared up in another. Gascoyne said that embers smouldering in his pasture: field for nearly a week had fired a wood fence to start the blaze. For years I: have been asking as- sistance from the Pickering Township Council and the Government to com- bat these people whe come in here, light fires, and don't extinguish them. It used to be a hanging matter and now they won't do a thing about it", he declared. "You should come -down here on a Saturday or Sunday evening and see the number of fires. smouldering along the road and near the fences. =~ The nearest county constable is at Westhill md the Pickering Township Council won't even appoint one special con- stable to patrol this area." - : It will be remémbered that when Gordon D. Conant, K.C., resigned the fice when he was noffinated as Lib- eral condidate for Ontario Riding in the f.11 of 1937, Mr. Annis was ap- pointed Acting Crown Attorney. The order-in-council now gives Mr. Annis the: full status of the position. . Mr. Aunis obtained his"'LLB. from Osgoode 'Hall in 1924 and on June 20 of the year was called to the bar. On July 2nd he began the practice of law with Mr. Conant as junior partner. He has had an active career in politi- cal, church, educational, sporting, civic and - social organizations. He was secretary of the Rotary Club for five years and-was then elected president of the club for one year. He is a past president of the Tennis Club and is on the Official Board of Simcoe street United Church. Yet a recent census revealed that in Ontario more than 19,000 tractors are snorting their way across the farm-"* lands. Also scattered across the countryside were 124,681 binders, 4015 milking machines; 127,788 cream sep- arators; 14,686 motor trucks and 125,- 716 farmer-owned automobiles. Such figures might well surprise those who still think of the Ontario dirt.in terms of buckboard wagons, k One of the latest developments-- toward which Ontario farmers are looking with cautious but interested eyes--is the small combine, little brother of the machine that has re- © volutionized agriculture in the West. Present cost of the binder-thresher method of harvesting is in the neigh- bourhood of $2_an acre. Manufact- urers. of the ewly developed combine claim it can do the same job on the Ontario farm at a cost of 26 cents an letter in reply is given herewith: Sir--"I am directed by Vicount Palmerston to acknowledize the receipt of your letter of tlie 16th inst., requesting on behalf of the Presbytery of Fdinburgh to be informed whether ijt is proposed to appoin a day of national fast on account of the visitation of the cholera, and to state that there can be no doubt that manifestations of humble resignation to the Divine Will, and sincere.ac-... bitrary control of labor must ent cknowledgentent of human unworthiness, are never either in no work or slavery. more appropriate than Yhap T0-ine pleased ARERR Providence to afflict 'mankifd with some severe Parachute jumping requires cool- visitation; but it does not appear to Lord Palmer- 3 - ston that a national fast would be suitable to the -- headed action. At Hamilton a student circumstances of the present moment, met his death When Stomping io "The Maker of the Universe has established Jump with prechite. te failed 0 "certain laws of nature for the planet on which we pull the cord far enough to. open the live, and the weal or woe of niankind depends up- parachte; ' on the obsersance or the neglect of those laws. "One afc ove connects health with the ab- sence of those gruesome exhalatiéns which pro- ceed from over-crowded human beings, or from - "decomposing substances, whether animal or vege- A startling example of what can happen when a moral derelict marries was rev, aled a few days ago at the annual meeting of thie Children's Aid A Society, St. Thomas. The supe ntendent's report : referred to the descendants of "a defective male adult--a social defective," who married five gén- erations ago.' 'Thirty-nine direct descendants of this couple are living today in.Elgin County. i Of these 39 persons, three are separated from wife or husband, 16 are known to have 'had extra- marital relations, 16 are mentally or socially de- fective, two are inmates of institutions for the aged, three. are in the Ontario mental hospital, one id in jail, nine are wards of the St. Thomas * Children's. -Aid Society and it appears that a tenth child shortly will become a ward. The most discouraging feature of this recital of RL Ro -- Log + | * LI The agreement between Britain and Japan appears to he.one of neutrality on the part of Britain. It will be a long time before ordinary folk like] ourselves will be able to understand -" . the results of a mistaken marriage solemnized five generations ago is that the end is not yet. There will be more marriages in this family, more children, more inmates 'of mental hospitals 'and more wards for the Children's Aid Society. And. . S90 NN TI CW A i Sn PS po s x i > Although firemen and helpers man- | aere tt this Elgin County case is not a rarity. Similar. table; and these same laws render sickiiess the by what right J 18 ] acre. nw EW - - Ll 1 itabl 8 " y what rig apan may 'invade y aged to check the actual blaze the reall. The chine i ready gaiuihg A a cases are to be found in every, county. "Family at joe . me WEE hy; China, Germany may invade .Checko- Beer Parlor? danger came from smouldering turf | sty " Fe pi 3 i, wy, garde " ne groups" are numerous in our niental hospitals, those noxious influences. But it has at the same | Slovakia, and Italy may invade Ethi- Apne 5 strong foothold, in Essex, Kent "and Bi A great deal of this. human misery--and the time pleased" Providence to place it within the ? ; 'BEER ROOM VOTE SET FOR |" Yuh, : Lambton counties. a power of man to make such arrangements as will J) oma. n 23 togbe hoped that, this in- vasion business may not become gen- prevent or disperse such exhalations so as to ' ; render them harmless, and it is the duty of man , eral. If it does then burglary will be - _to attend to these laws of nature and to exert the. aH Ir ey Sar Lie faculties which Providence has thus given to man for his own welfare. ... ed in "i "The recent visitation of cholera; which has for the moment been mercifully checked, is an Gascoyne said it was "liable to burn for days" and that "with hundreds of men around here we haven't been 'able to get it. out" 'He claimed that thousands of young trees and seed- lings had been killed and set the damage at $10,000. "It happens every summer around Also housed in thé machine sheds of - modern farmers are such new-fangled ghdgets as spring tooth cultivators, stiff-tooth _ cultivators," tobacco and - corn cultivators, ensilage cutters, feed EN cutters, potato diggers, dump carts, harrow carts, one-way discs, fertilizer drills, dise harrows, spring tooth har- resulting burden on the public treasury--could be ° ended if our attitude, towards certain types of SEPT. 21 AT UXBRIDGE mentally unfit persons and moral derelicts™ were as enlightened as dur public policies aimed against the: scrub bull and the tubercular cow. RELI We 'have stated the case rather crudely perhaps, yet our words are not more crude than our handling of the sacred privilege of building' the The Liquor Control Board has noti- fied" Town Clerk W:-E:~Remion--the town will vote Sept. 21 on the sale of beer. and wine. The referendum re- sults from "a" petition bearing 319 signatures, 26 per cent of the voting Investigation of police efficiency in the Province of Ontario continues. Clifford R. Magone, K.C., the investi- gating commissioner says: ; human®race: awful warning given to the people of this realm i population at the last Provincial here and until the authorities {ale vows, cylinder hay loaders, land -pack- - that they have too much neglected their duty in | "The administration of justice In] election. The petition required only | Some steps to stamp out the cause it's | ors, land rollers, side-delivery rakes, va) red this respect, and that those persons with whom it this Province, is on a high plane, but |-282 names. " : going to continue", he said. scufflers, seeders, fertilizer sowers, Hy Bi a ©. rested to purify the towns and cities, and. to pre- nothing tends more quickly to bring it]. Already the managers of the "wel'" >or-- - orchard sprayers, manure spreaders, 4 . . BUSINESS LICENSES --cr . vent or remove the causes of disease, have not into disrepute than an ignorant, un- and "diy" factions have been appoint- (- M . swathers, tedders, transplanters, pulp- . (Stouftville Tribute) ? _ been sufficiently active in regard to such matters. trained constabulary, These men come | ed-as provided for by the Liquor Con-| odern Farming ers, soil pulverizers and rod-weeders. Lord Palmerston would, therefore, suggest that .the best course which the people of this country can pursue to deserve that the further progress of the cholera should be stayed, will be to em- ploy. the interval that will elapse 'between the - trol Act on the nomination of twenty- five members of each faction. The leader of the "wet" party is Thomas Smythe and the "dry" man- ager is John Smith. -Both- pronounce in close contact. with the public and the public cannot be criticized for measuring the efficiency of the ad- ministration of justice by the calibre of the officers appointed to enforce To the city bumpkin these names may mean little, but to the mo farmer each implement means cricks in the back and better produce. Hydro Helps Farms. : NT Te RURAL METAMORPHOSIS SEEN -A provision of the Municipal ARL which may - be overlooked by many municipalities is explained in the following: « rah a = . By. an antendment to section 439, Municipal Act, You thousands of city dwellers who deserted the land long yeags ago to develop your fortunes -- ahd large enacted by 1938 statutes, chapter 22, section 12, - municipalities have power to pass by-laws re- i quiring persons who are not. licensed as transient ~ traders, who after the return of the assessment roll, commence to- carry on any. business in pre- mises in respect to which they are liable for busi=-- §, to pay a license before com- - ness assessme mencing such usiness. The license fee is to be a sum computed by reference to the: tax-on such business assessment which such person would have been required to pay for the current year in'.respect to the premises on which he Has commenced busiriess if he had been previously assessed and made: liable for such tax. The license fee shall be either one half the amount of such tax for the whole year or a_pro- portionate part of same for the balance of the year dfter he commences business, whichever amount of' the done his utmost present: time and the beginning of next Spring in planning and executing measures by which those portions of their towns which are inhabited by ~--the..poorest classes, and- which, from the nature of things, must most need purification and im- provement, may be freed from those causes and sources of contagion which, if allowed to remain, will infallibly breed pestilence and be fruitful in death, in" spite of all the prayers 'and fastings of a united but inactive nation. When man has for his own safety, then is the time to invoke a blessing of Heaven to give effect - to_his exertions." oo This common-sense view of life can be applied to every problem that confronts us--war, drunken and careless drivers, violations of the liquor laws, ete.,-- all may be met by human courage and. in- law and order.'* Altorney-General sConant says. "An incompetent or dishonest con- stable,- or a constable insufficiently | trained, is not only ineffective in law enforcement, but he is also a waste of the taxpayers' money. I hope Mr. Magone's Teport will--serve to im- press upon all municipal officials the necessity for exercising more care in selecting" and training "constables," . > Additional Locals Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Ferguson, of it "Smith" and local wits are already making facetious wise cracks about Smith 'versus Smith." aT Uxbridge has been under Local Option since 1914 and bar room days. A two-thirds vote is necessary to legalize the sale of beer and wine. For a- period of four weeks after the notification is received, the managers of each party are allowed access to the petition after which it is returned to the board which will supervise the vote. The ministerial association already has gone on record as being "unalter- £bly opposed" to the sales of heer end wine in Uxbridge. waistlines--in the big town and the bright lights should go back home and look around. You'd never know the old place new. ~~ = The time may not be fur distant when the city bumpkins will be going to the country to learn from the rural slickers the latest tricks in mass pro- duction, mechanization and even the solid comfort that was once considered an exclusive feature of the urhan™cen- tres, where the breadman-ealls at the door and the theatre is just around the 'corner. In recent, years--in fact," it might be nafrowed down to recent months -- things have been happening . to the Ontario farm country. From the Still another factor toward revolu- tionizing' the Ontario farm has been the Hydro-Electric Power Commission, Those thin lines of-wires that long ago released the city housewife froin' drudgery have not neglected the farm, Already more than 45,000 farms in Ontario. are being served with. elee- tricity. Of this number, 76 per cent. have electric irons, 68- per cent have electric radios, 57 per cent have wash- ing machines, 52 per cent have toast- ers, 16 per cent have electric ranges, 14 per cent have electric water pumps, and nearly 10 per cent have electric refrigerators. i Although these figures are only ap+ proximate, they may serve as a fair shall ba the greater. It should be noted that this telligence. Invoking the supernatural, in order | Sault Ste. Marie, weve recent guests % ry . broad prairies of the West, where indication that poor old mammy and ; license fee is in the nature of a straight tax, and that. we may be saved trouble of meéting our ) of Mr. Leslie James and Irene. ing EY SCUGOG mechanization 'has long been a neees-[ pappy are not spending all of their: . Fras ERS ae '__jt-not-a_credit on.futore taxes as in,the case of problems through human agency, is poor and use- Mr. L. James and Irene, with Me] iy B _lsity because of the vastness of farm- time on the back acres toiling through : { a t raders. | and_Mrs. Ogden, of Oshawa, motored the day and studying the pictures in the stereoscope by ~lamplight --when--------""" the shades of night have fallen. ' ing operations, has come an idea that "may. yet turn Ontario agriculture from a cross between a lottery and an endurance test into a paying proposi- ient traders. ; less business, | Next. Sunday the evening service ] will be held in the Head Church at Mr. J. W. Ripley, of Buffalo, has] 730, Centre service at 11.30, the rest as usual, Come and worship with us. the regular license See for tr v : 3 to Dorset on Sunday. . a _" -- In Flanders Field, where the poppies grow, thousands of little crosses are erected, Going through England last "summer & man travelled in the same 'railway coach with us and he said - that every 'year, during the period al- lowed for his annual vacation he went across the channel to spend hours of ~ sacred meditation at the spot where the earthly remains of his only son sleep in his'last resting place. In Westminster Abbey alongside of "the tomb of David Livingstone is the place 'where the Unknown' British Soldier has his place of honour. No. oné khows but those who went through the terrible ordeal and an- guish what the heart breaks meant to those left at home when loved ones went across the seas to a war to end war, But did it? There {s today more bitterness and strife than ever be- ' + fore. The very pick of our democratic' » countries went. forth as volunteers, but at what cost? Qthers were con- tent to remain at home till the very force of circumstances conscripted them to go and fill up" the depleted ranks of the decehsed and wounded of their fallen comrades, ~ Twenty-one years have elapsed and "the world is confronted by another ~~ Joseph Denny 4 conflagration, just as serious if not worse than the former. It is true that while there is a war there is no busi- ness depression; but' after the conflict what happens? .. After the war the fit have to be placed and the world which _has-grown accustomed to their absence {s duty bound to see them pro- vided for, and rightly too. Then the task of caring for the maimed, halt and blind, who have given the best-of their manhood {n defence of King and country, what of them? They also look for and demand recognition: "If the world had been made safe for humanity even at "the cost of the flower of our manhood would not have beeri to high a cost to pay for such a blessing. But it is not yet safe. Today the world is once more ready tor conflict. . Missions of mien are 'in for conflict. Millions of men are in poured ouf like water, but:to what purpose ? ' It is estimated that in the Great War 17,000,000 men lost their lives | and each man cost the several nations $26,000 a piece invested at 6% would annually produce $1260. . If you were to put your money into fireworks the only thing you have to show for, your money is the memory of the' loud ex- plosion and the beautiful imagery that for the brief period of the entertain- ment that-you-erifoyed, That is all. What have we to show for the cost of the late war? Remember its horror and its devastation, the years of un- rest and 'dissatisfaction that are still with us." What have we gained? Imagine if you can what $1260 fn- vested 17,000,000 times spent annually in gainful occupations and acientific investigation® and after you have studied it out you will be confronted with the appalling discovery that no matter how successfully the conflict was fought, nor how it was won, it'has not been gain at.all, Diy loss. 0 IN MEMORIAM SWAN---In loving memory. of John Swan, who passed away July 23, 1034. There is no death; 'tis only sleep, "A trysting place up in the hillside steep, And toil is o'er; For on that fairer shore we wake agaln, And with our loved ones there remain At peace forever more. 3 : How joyful fs the thought that lingers, When our loved ones cross déath's sea, That when our labors here aré ended, o~ With them we'll ever be. A Taggart. - Mr. and Mrs. A. F. J. Galloway and gon Charlie, of Toronto, spent Mon- day with Mr. and Mrs; F. Taggart. Miss Helen Hayes spent the week tnd with her sister Margaret in To- ronto. Since the 1st of June Margaret has had a position in. the Bank of Commerce, cor, ~ Avenue Road and Eglington Ave. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest 4layes spent a few days recently meeting relatives in London. * "Master Jack Febrey is visiting. at the home of Mr .Ernest Hayes. Rev. W."J. H. Smyth, Miss Anna. belle Baird, Lucile Mark, and Stanley Guyton, are attending Summer School at Oak Lake Camp. Mr. Malcolm Nasmith has returned to Montreal, after a pleasant holiday in Port Perry. We are sorry to report that Mrs, Wm. . Milner suffered a paralytic stroke last Thursday. Her condition is somewhat improved at present. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Davis, Montreal, are visiting Mrs. A. J. Davis. Ew Ary. faa x : X "| been visjting Mr. and Mrs. Ered Tag- WHAT IT COST I~ ~~ | gart/-- Mr Ripley is a brother of Mrs. 5 "DIED GIBSON--In Cartwright Township, Lot 6,- Con. 3, on Monday, July 24th, 1939," Mary Ella Jean, goungest daughter of Mrs. Frederick and the late FrederickyGibson, aged 11 years, 11 months, 17 days. 419 T "A" large attendance enjoyed Rev. F, G. Joblin's sermon on-*Joy" Sunday evening at the Centre. The choir was assisted by Mrs. McKendry, of Toronto, who is visiting her sister at She sang "Joy Bells." the parsonage. The Community Club of the Head spent an enjoyable evening at the home of Mr, and Mrs,.-E. Sweetman. Rev. F. G. Joblin gave a huniorous talk on current events. Marié Sweet- man gave & reading, as did Mrs. John Reader. Mrs, S. Rodman conducted a number of contests which caused much merriment, - The lunch brought the evening to a close. Miss Clara Harding visited hes friends Misses Helen, Jean 'and. Doris Clark, on Sunday. Miss Luella Jeffrey spent Monday with her brother Orr. iy Mr. and Mrs. W. Gerrow of Reach, and son Ernest of-Toronto, Mr. and Mrs, C. Reader, were recent guests of Mr. and Mrs, Robt, Reader. Mr. H. Carnochan visited Toronto one day last week. : About eighty of the Head _commun- ity gathered on the lake shore of Mr. R. Prentice's farm and enjoyed a pic- nic last Wednesday afternoon it be- ing the annual picnic of the 8.8. The time "was spent in water and land sports until the supper tables. were spread. All went home happy and satisfied with the outing. Mr. Ross Bollen of Toronto,' is (Continued on page 6) tioi------------------ Grease smudges are beginning to mix with the sweat on the brows of Ontario's farmers--and the grease smudges are getting larger and the sweat is growing less. z With the recently announced plan for Henry Ford to attract the present generation back to the land by manu- and the production in this country of copies in miniature of the implements: of the West, signs of the trend toward mechaniation in Ontario" have beet plentiful. : Mechanization, however, has still a number of hurdles to clear in Ontario before gasoline takes the place of hay and oats 'as the fuel that turns the wheels of agriculture," according to some farmers of solid judgment. "Mechanization"; says R. J. Scott, president of the United Farmers' Co- operative Company, "will undoubtedly go on in the next few years. There is little doubt that it will lower the cost of production. - But. where are we go- ing to sell things we produce 7" That little sticker, says Mr. .Scott, is one of the main obstacles at present in the way of mechaniaztion on any large scale. "We are alegdy faced - with a glutted market", €ays Mr. Scott. Just so long as this condition remains, we have really not much use for machin- ery with which to: increase our, output. son of Trinity Church. © MRS. JOUN W. BUNNER On Saturday, July 22nd, the-death occurred in' Bowmanville of Nellie Grant Bummer, wife of Rev. John W. Bunner. p Long a resident of this district, de- ceased was born in Port Hope, on December 30th, 1864. She moved to facturing a -baby tractor with assorted] Bowmanville at an early age with her gadgets for .the small-scale farmer,! parents, John and Martha Grant. " In 1897, she married Rev. John W. Bunner and during the next thirty - years, they took an active interest in the work of the Methodist and United --- '| Churches throughout the Bay of Quinte Conference. They were well known in the Port Perry and Green- wood districts where they made many friends. s Upon retirement from active min- _ istry, they returned to Bowmanville in _ 1926. Up to four years ago, when a serious illness handicapped her active interest, the deceased took a promi- nent part in the work of Al'rinity United Church. Many floral-tributes attested to her wide circle of friends. Surviving are husband, three sons, Ewart of Weston, Grant and -Dwight, of Bowmanville and oné daughter Mrs. S. R. Alger of Oshawa. Funeral service was held on Mon- day afternoon, July 24th, at the fam- ily residence, Wellington Street and' was cnoducted by Rev. Sidney Davi- Interment was made in Bowmanville Cemetery. ¥ - Nx % ! ve daa .