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Had the roads been allowed to become dereâ€" licts, the consequences to the «country would have been disastrous in the economiec sense and would have been very crippling to us as a war power, just when the raising and maintaining of an army and the forwarding of troops and supplies to Britain and her allies meant everything to us. Some other railway exploiters, as for example the successors of the late J. J. Hill, might have pickâ€" ed up the wrecked railways for next to nothing, but the country would have had to forego very largely the use of the lines when it needed them most. But they were speedily organized into a system,. capital was supplied to put them on their feet, and, as we said before, the roads are very much more valuable than they were when they passed out of their former owners‘ hands. If, considered as a detached business, they have not been making their ends meet, they have at all events been giving the public full and suffiâ€" cient service, and if returns could be completely analyzed and figured out, it might be shown that the country has received the worth of all the money required to balance the account. One thing is clearâ€"if the property in the Canadian National Railway system had to go on the marâ€" ket toâ€"day, it would bring vastly more than it would have brought had it been allowed to go on the market when the roads broke down in the hands of the companies.â€" The country . would probably get all its money back if it chose to disâ€" pose of the roads now. It is better that the public should have the railways in their present high state of efficiency than tHat the railways should still belong to the companies and be in an extremely low state of efficiency after another five or six years of sinking the public‘s money in them.. Whatever is necessary to be done to reâ€" lieve the public of the heavy annual charges on deficit account can now be done without sacriâ€" ficing the roads and. without impairing. their utility for the public service. So far as the Comâ€" missioners are concerned, it seems to be forgotâ€" ten that they are not absolute rulers of the Canadian National Railways. For exmple, the freight nd passenger rates are not of their mal:â€" ing. That is the work of the Board of Railway Commissioners. The wages are not of their making, but have been determined by an outside authority, namely, Mr. McAdoo. (Mail andâ€"Empire.) Extremely unsatisfactory as is the financial showing of the Canadian National Railways in the last two years, their service has come up to high expectations. While in that time they have come about $120,000,000 short of paying operaâ€" ting expenses and meeting fixed charges, noâ€" ‘body can deny that they have been delivering the goods. Tremendous is the difference beâ€" tween their present state of preparedness and that in which they were when the Government found it necessary to take them over. Then they were in a very runâ€"down state, and had they been left with their financially disabled owners, they would have utterly failed the nation at a moment when nearly everything depended on them. The Government did the only thing that could in the cireumstances be done. It had at once to put them in readiness for the Heaviest strain of traffic they were ever called upon to bear. The task was a prodigious one. Few have any conception of the immensity of the work the present board of directors undertook and have carried on from the moment they accepted office. Whatever decision may be reached for the future gsovernance of these railways, it must be said for the present administrators that they â€"turned chaos into order and have multiplied the value of the railways as a national asset. PAGE TWO UTILITY AND VALUE OF NATIONAL R RAILWAYS each â€" THE TIMEFS AND GUD® WESTON Published every Wednesday by THE CHARTERS PUBLISHING CO., LIMITED S. CHARTERS, Pres. C. V. CHARTERS, Sec.â€"Treas. In speaking of a person‘s faults, Pray don‘t forget your own. Remember, those with homes of glass Should seldom throw a stone; â€" If we have nothing else to do : Than talk of those who sin, ‘Tis better to commence at home And from that point begin« We have no right to judge a man Until he‘s fairly tried ; Should we not like his company, We know the world is wide. Some may have faultsâ€"and who has not The old as well as young? Perhaps we may, for aught we know, Have fifty to their one. I‘ll tell you of a better plan, And find it works full well; To try our own defects to cure Ere other‘s faults we tell ; And though I sometimes hope to be No more than some I know, My own short comings bid me let The faults of others go. Then let us all, when we begin To slander friend and foe, Think of the harm one word may do To those we little know. Remember, curses, sometimes, like Our chickens, "roost at home." Don‘t speak of others‘ faults until We have none of our own. BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU SAY EDT OR |A L WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23RD 6 S. WILSON, Manager. â€"Author Unknown. For the past year crimes of a violent nature khave shocked the people of this country. Scarcely a day goes by without some storeâ€" keeper being held up and shot to death? What is the cause of this great crime wave? Why do boys and young men who are well able to work and earn an honest living grab a gun and shoot a man down in order to secure a few dollars? Few of them escape capture and generally make their exit at the rope‘s end. During the next few months several young men in Ontario will be hanged for committing just such crimes. By working a couple of weeks they could have made more money than secured by robbery and murâ€" der. When will people learn that it pays to go straight /â€"Orangeville. Sun. Perhaps it was because he really wasn‘t bad after all.â€"Orangeville Sun. § By buying only Canadianâ€"made goods, made in Canadian factories, by Canadian workmen, we help to keep our own people employed. s ._ News of interest to a large proportion of the population is that announced during the week that house paint has dropped 35¢ per gallon; steam cylinder oil 25¢ a gallon; tractor oil and motor car oil about 10e per gallon. This will mean a very considerable saving in the matter of the painting of buildings and the operation of machinery and motors. â€" ‘"Automobile fatalities in 1920 totalled 64 in Toronto alone. IWhis figure can be cut T5\per cent. in 1921 if people will coâ€"operate with this end in view. We are told that threeâ€"quarters_of the fatal accidents happened to children. I fell you no legislation in the land wiull countrol tha movements of people, and particularly children." When a young fellow decides it is easier to live by robbing than by honest toil he makes the greatest mistake of his life. So far no opposition has developed in regard to the temperance referendum which will be voted on next month. The distillers and brewers have apparently made up their minds that there is no use in putting up a fight. Business is just what people make it. It is either good or bad according to the way people think. Putting off buying what you really reâ€" quire is not good policy either for buyers or sellers. Go along steadily and business will not be bad. It is generally agreed that the weakest memâ€" ber of the Ontario government is Attorneyâ€" General Raney. Mr. Raney seems to be too narrow for the job and is not making a good showing against the attacks of the leaders of the opposition.â€"The Sun. & If Canada is a good country to live in, then Canada is good to trade in and Canada‘s workers good to buy from. _ The Orangeville man who attempted to shoot up Brampton on Friday did not make a good job of it. , His career as a "bad" man didn‘t last long. "Playgrounds enter largely into the question of traffic accidents and I am of the firm opinion that money spent on playgrounds is money well invested. I am strongly opposed to the idea of setting apart certain streets as play areas at cerâ€" tain times of the day. The average child playing heedlessly on the street develops the idea that streets are safe and it is against human nature to think a child will play on one street and keep off another. For imstance, it Mrs. â€", who lives on a protected street, takes little Willie out to anâ€" other section of the city where no street is set aside to play, it is unreasonable to expect him, to stay off the roadway. Let us have larger playâ€" grounds and more of them. "I regret that all motorists are not responâ€" sible drivers. I believe that the organized motorâ€" ists are careful users of our highways and that they will support all reasonable legislation. The existing regulations were broughtâ€"about in the interest of safety. I feel satisfied that the pedesâ€" trian will have to be regulated in the congested areas of large cities, as traffic must be kept movâ€" ing safely. The pedestrian who crosses at interâ€" sections and refuses to cross between blocks is helping to keep down the accident toll. ‘Motorists pressed for years for increased speeds and were finally granted a speed of twenty miles in towns and cities and twentyâ€"five in the open country. If it can be shown that this speed is a direct factor in causing accidents, orâ€" ganized motorists would be the first to ask for a reduction of the speed limits. Statistics show that most automobile accidents happen when the speed is less than fifteen miles per hour, so that speed is not really a factor in these accidents. Safety education is the great thing ; people must be shown that saccidents can be prevented and that a better spirit of coâ€"operation between all classes will bring about a real improvement in the situation. If#a person alighting from a standing street car sees a motor approaching he should not take it for granted that the automoâ€" bile will stop because of the law on the subject. It is within the bourd of possibility that the driver of the motor may not have his car under proper control and the law will not stop a skidâ€" ding machime. On the othet band, if is up to the drivers to study the situation continually on the street and be ready to stop the regulation six feet behind standing street cars. I am opâ€" posed to the practice of some motorists of using the automobile horn as a sort of harsh warning to get out of the way.) (lhis has often the effect of making the pedestrian assert his rights and again we have the unnecessary feeling of anitagâ€" enism and the lack of coâ€"operation. "If the motorist could get the pedestrian‘s point of view and the pedestrian the motorist‘s point of yview, I am satisfied there would be fewâ€" er accidents and fatalities.. Each should know the other has rights on the street and each reâ€" spect those rights We need throughout the whole country a campaign of safety with a new slogan, Gourtesy Eist. Under the above titfle Mt. G. A. Hodgson, president last year of\the Ontario Motor League, has.sent out a warning: with. reference to the matter of preventable accidents, which contains a number of good suggestions. He says in part : WHAT‘S YOUR HURRY ? TOO MUCH GUN PLAY hled Blank. "How was that?" one asked. "Ever go fishing with a girl?" "Omee.? . I "Did she protest against hurting ithe fsh2 "‘Terribly rough, isn‘t it?" said the stranger on the ocean liner. ‘"Wal," replied. the man from the farm, ‘"twouldn‘t be so rough if the cap‘n would only keep in the furâ€" rows!" ‘"Why, yes," answered the officer, "I‘ve seen several." ‘‘Well, have you seen any without a little boy?" ‘‘YÂ¥es." "*Well," said the little chap, as a relieved look crossed his face, "I‘m the little bov. Where‘s the lady ?" To make my own vinegar, I save apple parings and place them in a three or fourâ€"gallon stone jar, cover with water, add enough sugar to sweeten slightly and place the jar beâ€" hind the range. After it has stood for two or three weeks, I pour a little syrup over strips of brown wrapping paper and drop these into the vinegar to formâ€" a.."mother.". ITwo or three weeks later the vinegar will be ready to drain off and use. The beach was crowded. A small boy, looking rather bewildered, apâ€" proached a‘ police officer and said: "Please, sir, have you seen anything of a lady around here?" ‘"Why, yes," answered the officer, Stevenson reminded us that "it is better _ to | travel hopefully than to arrive, and the true success is to labor.‘" A great many earnest people never see anything like the full/fruiâ€" tion of their endeavors on this earth, but that is no reason for discourageâ€" ment. Livingstone did not see Africa freed from the horrors of paganism. But he kept his quest to the end. When they found him dead beside his couch in the heart of the Dark Conâ€" tinent the ink was searcely dry on words in his diary that interpreted his ideal and passed it on to succeedâ€" ing generations. "God bless all those who, in any way help to heal this open sore of the world." "Well, Dan," said the railway enginâ€" eer to his fireman at the roundhouse, "we decided at the meeting last night to go out on ‘strike. Why wasn‘t you there ?" f "I couldn‘t get there on account of the trolleystrike. Them trolley men ain‘t got no consideration for the public.‘ They sat on the parlor sofa. "What would you do if I turned you â€"down?" she asked slyly. The young man lookâ€" ed straight ahead but said nothing. After a few moments of silence she nudged him with her elbow and said: "Didn‘t you hear my question?" He looked around very surprised. "I beg your pardon?" he replied. "I thought you were addressing the gas," Fourâ€"yearâ€"old Willie saw his first snake. It wiggled itself along, and Willie ran for his mother. "Come, quick, come quick," he cried. "There‘s a tail here, and it wags without any dog." "No. She said she was sure they were perfectly happy, because they were all wagging their tails." Blank had had a day off, and when he returned to the office the followâ€" ing morning his pals wanted to know why he looked so disgruntled. He turned to me and winked away / a tear Before he deigned to make this clear reply: 3+ "He was a purebred man, my friend. A equarer breeder never. drew a \ breath; But his one weakness brought him‘ to his endâ€" He would not advertise, and starved to death®â€"â€"Montana Earmer. _ The slow procession, moving o‘er the hill In solemn silence, carried forth the clay Of some poor mortal who had bowed his will s Unto the scepter of Death‘s mighty sway. And as it passed, I asked a native near, & "How came that hapless mortal there to die?" Jim Brown says, says he to me, Life ain‘t what it used to be, Everything is money mad, Things are going to the bad, Politics is shameful now, Preachers ain‘t as good somehow, As they were when he was young, Ever Gospel hymns ain‘t sung As they used to be, says Jimâ€" Least that‘s how it seems to him. Jim hangs round the corner store, Hasn‘t worked for months and more, From the last job where he hired, Out of work he soon was fired, Mrs. Jim though, sews and sews, Just to keep her kids in clothes, It‘s about all that she can do To buy shoes and feed ‘em too, Since Jim spends his time in fretting ‘Bout how bad the world is getting. There are words, I‘m told, ‘mid the silent stars, There are lands far across the sea; But where‘er I roam comes the dream of home, With the faces so dear to me. When the shadows fall loving voices call, G While the red sun sinks in the west; Then big tears rise to my longing eyes For the land that I love the best. When the night winds sigh, and the seabirds fly Far away o‘er trackless foam, Then my heart flies, too, c‘er the ocean blue; Love has wings that can bear me home. Other worlds are fair, but they‘ll ne‘er compare, § Though you search "mid the stars above, $ * To the world I know. where the blueâ€" bells growâ€" _ My dear homeland â€"of peace and love. Jim Brown says, says he, that men All were honester back then, Merchants all were kinder too, Trusted more than what they do. Women didn‘t nag the way Most of ‘em take on toâ€"day, Everything is worse, says he, Than it was in ninetyâ€"three. ‘"Everything went wrong!" grumâ€" TIMES & GUIDE, WESTON A MODERN TRAGEDY A PESSIMIST HOMELAND Notice is hereby given that Addie Irene Gilbert of the City of Toronto in the County of York, in the Provâ€" ince of Ontario, will apply to the Parliament of Canada, at the next session thereof, for a Bill of Divorce from her husband, W. Leighton Gilâ€" bert of the City of Toronto in the County of York, in the. Province of Ontario, on the ground of adultery. Dated at Belleville in the Province of Ontario this 24th day of January, A.D;. 4921. ® NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR DIVORCE Dated at Toronto this 18th day of January A.D., 1921. Notice is herebyAgivexll that LIEY APPLETON, of the City of Toronto, in the County of York, in the Province of Ontario, will apply to the Parliaâ€" ment of Canada at the next session thereof for a bill Of divorce from her husband, Thomas Henry Appleton, of the said. City of Foronto, on the ground of adultery. JOHN SAMUEL BAIN, by his solicitors, > ROBINETTE GODFREY PHELAN & LAWSON, 152 Bay Street, Toronto, 3m Solicitors for the Plaintiff. NOTICE is hereby given that John Samuel Bain of the City of Toronto, in the County of York, in the Provâ€" ince of Ontario, musician, will apply to the parliament of Canada â€"at the next session thereof for a bill of diâ€" vorce from his wife, Ethel May Bain, on the ground of adultery and deâ€" sertion. ~Notice is hereby given that FRANK CHAREES BUTTI, of the City of Toâ€" ronto, in the County of York, in the Province of Ontario, Secretary, will apply to the Parliament of Canada at the next session thereof for a Bill of Divorce from his wife, ANNIE MAYâ€"BUTT, of the said City of Toâ€" ronto, on the ground of adultery.. Dated at Toronto this 22nd day of Decémber, A.D. 1920. LILY APPLETON, by her solicitors. Messts. Robinette, Godfrey, Phelan and Lawson, Robinette Chambers, 152 Bay Street, 14t Toronto. Dated at Toronto this 8th day of February, A.D. 1921. FRANK CHARLES BUTT, Dated at Toronto in the Province of Ontario, this first day of March, ‘MD. 1921, Notice is hereby given that Andrew Chauncey Sanders, of the Township of York, in the County of York and Province of Ontario, Farmer, will apâ€" ply to the Parliament of Canada at the next session thereof for a Bill of Divorce from his wife, Lillian Sanders, of the City of Toronto, in the County of York and Province of Ontario, on the groun?rd of persistent refusal to procreate and on the ground of nonâ€"consummation. Notice is hereby given that Ivan Ignatius Brazill of the City of Toâ€" ronto, iq the County of York, in the Province of Ontario, Trainman, will apply to the Parliament ‘of Canada at \the next session thereof for a Bill of Divorce, from his wife Mary Edna Cole Brazill, of the said City of Toâ€" ronto, on the grounds of adultery and desertion. Dated at Ottawa, Ontario, the 15th day of December, 1920. GEORGE F. 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