. For a'small fee you can rent this Safety-Deposit Box in ’ the vaults of this. Bank. Established over 100 years. Listowel Branch BANK. OF MONTREAL sage pers in eo “Pussyfoot” Hands Hecklers A Silencer DELIVERS WITHERING DENUN- CIATION TO BUNCH OF DIB5-) TURBERS IN GALLERY. Hamilton, April 7.—Indicting: li- quor as a traffic that exists only for the propaganda of woe, misery, and | heartache, “Pussyfoot'’ Johnson. celebrated temperance reformer, | told two large audiences tonight thal’ the world would soon be “bone-dry,”’ | as sure as there was a God in Hea-) ven. The world had begun to think: rationally on the liquor problem; it had begun to think with its head in- stead of with its stohach, with the result that liquor was being worst- ed. The bootlegger’ was being worsted to such an extent that in the United States there were some: jails so filled with bootleggers thtir arms and legs were sticking out the! windows; and the former sot was « free man—he was keeping his own | family: instead of the family of the’ saloonkeeper, said the American: speaker, Nickname a Misnomer This sobriquet of “Pussyfoot” in ‘decidedly a misnomer, for there is’ nothing feline or cushion-like in a way he treads on the toes of Jofin’ Barleycorn and all who are allied! with tbe booze king. He lands with) both feet. Depend on it, he hurts, too, for his words are bullets. | “Pussyfoot" is a corpulent man, } and speaks with a pronounced Yan-: kee drawl. He ig not a_ rapid: speaker, employs few, if any, Bes-| tures, ‘but has a most effective way’ of marshalling his facts. He can! also be bitingly satirical when driv-| ing home a point against the liquor’ traffic. j ; Silences the Hecklers | His -first speech in Canada was given at ‘the I.0.0.F. Temple to an audience of at least 1,000 people, not a few of whom went there for the] deltberate purpose of trying to break up the meeting. There was much heckling and abuse, and at moments! the meeting lost all semblance of order. But “Pussyfoot"” retained his poise and finally silenced his inter- rupters with the following withering denunciation: “Of course you don't like it. None of you who stand for the liquor traf- fic like it. The bootleggers in my country are mostly all in the jails, and they don't like it. If I was part of a dirty, mean, low-life bust- ness that did nothing but break wo- men’s hearts, fill our asylums with gibbering idiots, rob our little kid- dies of their bread—I say, if I was part. of such a dirty-stinking busi- ness, and some respectable people hired a hall and got someone to come and tell them the truth about it, I would sit up in the gallery and howl and how! and howl.” This had its effect. Some hundred or more men and a few women va- cated their seats and left the hall. Ni fway Solation Wherever men throughout the world, said the speaker, had the in- tellect to think sanely, they were — his life. Today Hon. H.C. Nixon introduc- n amendment to the Marriage} ~ ed Act that will make municipdl clerks exofficlo issuers of marriage licenses, ' and also provide for some adjustment in the fee. - “Will that cancel the right of present ‘license holders?” askeg/a ember. “They will be cancelled automatic- ally,"" was the rep The bill seta sh that the muni- cipal clerk in the larger municipali- ties cannot personally issue’ license, and provides for the cleck making arrangements for officials to look af- ter new duties. The fee for a marriage license will be $5. Of this $4 goes to the prov- ince and $1 to the municipality. ‘See That Your Lenses of Are Rightly Adjusted The majority of motorists have by this time, obtained headlight lenses which comply with the law, and hav- ing done so venture forth into the night in_their fiivvers or limousines, as the case may be, and marvel at the large percentages of cars w ih | from their point of view, are not ilarly equipped. It can be noticed any night. Nine out of every ten of the cars on the streets are equip- ped with approved lenses, yet a lot of them send out a beam of light that would rival the. searchlight ot : ot the| a’ battleship. What is the reason? It is 1 fault of the lenses. They | d the government tests and the tests were not easy. The trouble Aes with ine, motorists themselves. - They { that, having purchased a set of 3 proved eye and placed them on the head lamps of the car so often has been. the cause of acci- > dents, pesnitiee in loss of life and damage to property. . Every lens sold has restrictions re- garding its use, It may be the amount of pier cenyeat it might re- ‘titling or local adjustment, and it sper all in a great many cases three. One doesn't need to take a course in optics or go into the technicalties of the question to obtain the desired results, that is, a good driving light without glare. The manufacturers and dealers and the garagemen know, or should know, what is re- quired to make the lens they are sell- ing an “anti-glare lens’ in every sense of the wofd. If a metorist cannot adjust them properly, le* them take them to one who can. Listowel, Wallace And Elmd Reeves Voted “No” Stratford, April 7.—At the clos- ing session of Perth county council thie afternoon the question of a dis- trict agricultural representative was again threshed out and once more the project was defeated“ by nine ‘votes to seven. The matter came up in the form of a recommendation in the report of the finance committee, that the coun- cil refuse to eet aside any money for the office until a vote of the ratepay- ers of the county was taken. A rath- directing their efforts toward the complete elimination of alcohol, for the world had learned to its cost that} there was no truckling with the vile! traffic, no meeting it halfway, nor no, lecsening its evils in a partial sense. | It had to be eliminated entirely, or it! still thrived, Mr. Johnson declared. Municipal Clerks To Issue Marriage Licenses i a Toronto, April 6.—Henceforth the lovelorn swain who fain would wed the girl of his choice cannot tell the jeweler to take the price of the ring and the marriage license as well out of the same greenback. He can still get the ring in the jewelry shop, but er warm debate ensued, an amend- ment being offered by Councillors ‘Stewart and Hagarty to the effect that application be made for the ap- pointment of a representative. The amendment was defeated on the fol- lowing division: Yes: Councillors Robinson, Boyce, Stewart, Petrie, Shearer, Hagarty and Colquhoun—- 7 No: Councillors Ehgoetz, Arm- strong. Balfour, Scott, IIiman, Ring ler, Smith Turner and Warden Krug —9. ‘ F Cheap City Hum Walkerton Times—Every now and then we pick up a big city daily and find it poking fun at the weekly papers printed in towns the size of Walkerton, about printing. personals , they are: eliminates that blinding z light which | ee — — ~~ i) —o>= —— et) —— — =COMFOR TE! @Q- = Hie} 3 = @ — . - ee ee Se. ee iv oy == ——= ae | MATERIAL : =e E RESOURCES =~. 2) pew I — ~~ Chevrolet a Product of Experience” 2 : More than 500,000 Chevrolet cars giving satisfaction in daily use, prove that the Chevrolet Building Platform meets every - _ Fequirement of economical transportation. FRANK C. KELLY McLaughlin such alleged humor and cheap jokes get on our nerves. Pick up a daily paper printed in any big city and read the gush about the costume Miss Jones wore to the theatre. Read about Miss Smith's apricot chiffon tuffeta—and you'll want to step out In the back yard and’ throw a fit. The absurd thing about the big city paper is that it picks out some nar- row circle which calls itself the “four hundred,” gives itself the name of “Soctety,”” and ignores the honest hard working people of the place un- less they get into the police court. When you read that Farmer Smith has painted his barn you read that something. has been done to improve the community and put it on a bet- ter economic basis. But when you read about how the “Four un- dred” are parading around in party clothes or pyjamas—and it doesn't make much difference with a lot of them—you read of something that is of no benefit to any one on earth. * * = . * “WEARY IN WELL DOING” *s wee ° es es o s i] L . s L (Farmers’ Sun) In some quarters there ig a dis- position on the part of temperance: workers to grow “weary inf well do-! ing. “They forget that they will | “reap in due season if they faint not.” There must not be any slack- ening at this time. It is the final push that will put us “over the top” and no effort should be spared. We need “a long pull, a strong pull and a pull altogether.” All. bootleggers, the pilots of illicit motor-car cargoes, the doctors who issue permits by the hundred, the stokers of tea-kettle stills, and the weary multitude who are desolated by thirst prick up their ears al the news of our indifference. When moral reformers grow weary the disreputable get what they want. Stand to your guns, temperance “Marriage Licenses From Clerk— foundations lata by sig ahi. endur-! estimable, ‘as it will elevate wmar- ed u thousand fold tore opposition, sjage to a much higher plane than scorn, obloquy, and peril than you. ld i . 4 You have entered into their labors, Ff has been held in the past Up till and the rich inheritance should fort-| 20W it bas been much easier to se- \ify you against the frail shafts of | cure a license to enter into the holy jealousy = weariness within your| bonds of matrimony than to ob- own Erou tain a dog license. Marriage liceuses Atcohol ‘is the great racial curse| | ould be purchased from any one of and scourge of the northern breeds.’ a score or more issuers, but a license Despite all the academic ssavation® | di Fido hed to be secared direct ti ers ostapregseies Sa genial OF -rom the city clerk. It has long been tin teatent’ Tie tose bettie & | considered advisable that there be alniost wou , 'one centralized bureau charged witb es | the responsibility-of-issuing marriage Vote “Yes” licenses. This was evident when the | public service commision of the prov- ince was making its Investigations, Press—'The most | and results.in that body selecting the municipal @lerk as the official who troduced into the Provincial House’, would uge the proper amount of dis- is the opinion expressed locally on ‘cretion in issuing the-licenses. It the bill which permits only the cler« | | was thought that he should be best of the municipality to issue marriage | |acquainted with the majority of licenses. While several jewelery, | residents and that he would be able undertakers and even junk dealers! to judge as to the age and other fit- April the 1Sth. London Free popular piece of legislation yet in- to get the license to marry he will] regarding some farmer who has| On the other hand you get a pretty have to hie him away to a muni-| painted his barn or brought in the| fair idea of what makes for bolshe-| workers! The recent success of the| will be denjed a side line, the bene-| ness of the contracting parties to cipal clerk and there tell the story of} prize pumpkin of the season. Andj vi in this country. ' anti-alcohol movements are based on| fit to the public is believed to be in-, marriage. “BRINGING UP FATHER” ° # IN MY COUNTRY = WHEN YOU . STRIKE A MAN IN THE FACE 70 oo HERE ARE THE ee WITH A GLOVE - IT 15 AN x SALE C— Wind EGR = INSULT - AND A-DUEL MUST ' Cj H —_ WELL -VE _— Hi - BE FOUGHT USING PISTOLS * im STOOD ABOUT i e * LITTLE PRACTICE = yf roe e * _ — ¥ - es SHOOTING =) GALLERY =a | 20 SHOTS - 7 * a (he eed , ° « . —————— Lat : => || comes : _ = © 1921 wy tre Feature Service. 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