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PAGE 4. UIIV 7' vv I v v.- ---__ Whether we like it or not, motor traffic during the past few years has grown to such an extent that it must be controlled, and that quickly. To our mind, the govern- ment, in not introducing legislation for the safety of other users of the highway, is as guilty in a good Illallqu, - _-_' many cases as the person who does the actual damage. By what right should a man, just because he has the money, pur- chase a new car, and, with two or three lessons, turn himself out in- to the traffic, a menace to himself and everybody else? Temperamen- tal persons, too, should not be al- lowed to drive a car without first mL“A innocent pedestrians is again with us. Persons with defective eye- sight, and others whose mental or physical disabilities do not permit of almost instantaneous action un- der exceptional circumstances are a menace to the highway just as much as the jay driver, the fool who drives in the traffic and has his eye on the sidewalk, and the fellow who drinks. _. -_ -L-.. 5" VV v“ 'v passing an examination. These kind of persons have been known when danger threatened, to take both hands off the steering wheel, throw them high in the air, and totally forget they were driving a high-powered engine of death and destruction. Such persons are de- cidedly a menace in heavy traffic, not only to themselves but to the good drivers who would be in no nan], Uu‘lal Iv, ”J I D“..- -- -v -w, __ __ "uJ .erv- ”â€"v v The annual increase in the num- ber of motor cars in use, the build- ing of better roads and various other causes make it imperative that governments, motorists and pedestrians coâ€"operate in the mat- ter and eliminate as far as possi- ble the increasing number of un- necessary accidents. Fast drivers are not always the biggest menace. A man who does fifty miles and hour in the open country will generally prove a can. tious driver in the traffic and in urban centres. It is a hard prob- lem to solve, but that is just what governments are elected for. 0 ed States at America, 050 per year, 81.25 for 31: months, 65 conga for Home months. Foreign subscription rates on application. Whosoooer is afraid of subunit- ting any question, civil .or religiouy, THE GOSSIPERS An English member of parlia- ment suggests a special rate for “gossips" over the telephone. His idea is that if a lower rate were given during certain quiet hours during the day for light chatter and ordinary jaw exercise, the busy, hours of the day would find the: telephones at the disposal of those who wish to use them for business! only. There are a good many of us who will agree with this. How of- ten around Durham are business phones .held up by unnecessary gossip? True, people who have phones should have the privilege of using them, but it is a bad prac- tise to have Central continually re- porting your business line “busy” when possibly everything but busi- ness is being talked over it. Even now, telephone companies are working on the elimination of this nuisance, especially in large business centres where phones are installed for business purposes on- ly, but where the privilege is abused. One prominent Bell Tele- phone Company official recently told The Chronicle that he thought the time was not far distant when all conversations would be carried on on the slot machine principle. A business house, desiring a phone, paid a rental of so much a month, and so much for every local call. This, for a time, would cause fric- tion between the company and its patrons, but, he believed it was coming and predicted its ultimate popularity. On being asked the reason for his assumption, the official said that the “free” conversation as al- lowed at present was not satisfac- tory to business men. In this day. of commercialism, business men? installed their business phones for. business purposes, and even though they often said nothing, they stren- uously objected to their phones be- ing used for other than business purposes. Oftentimes other busi- ness men could not get them be- cause their line was “busy” on some unimportant conversation. The “drop a nickel” phone did away with all this. Telephone compan- ies have found out there are few Thursday, larch 26, 1925. Weekly News- people who care to invest a_ nickel or more in “friendly” telephone calls with the result that the line is usually Open for purely business wrecks in the old days probably belonged to the horse.â€"â€"Bellingham Herald and Reveille. Were is a whole lot in it, and the next few years may see many changes in telephone systems. Someone wants to know if motor cars make people lazy. It all de- pends whether you are in it or out of it.v-Kingston Standard. Ski-jumping is one winter sport that is increasing in popularity by leaps and boundsâ€"Brockville Re- corder. There is a movement on foot to increase the size of the legislature. Why not first make an attempt to increase the size of the legislators? â€"Chatham News. Little things count. Frequently they count better than the men they caddy fanâ€"Schenectady Ga- zette. but it is doubtful if he has run away any more often than Tommy Church.â€"â€"Peterboro Examiner. Winter may now be safely con- sidered over, but, of course, there is always the possibility of a re- lapseâ€"Guelph Mercury. Relatively few people know ev- erything, and they outgrow it be- fore they are twenty.â€"Baltimore A cynic is a man so sophisticat- ed that he doesn’t believe anybody except a bootlegger.-â€" New York Herald. It’s a hard world. In a city, neighbors don’t- know you well enough; in a village, they know you too well.â€"Brantford Expositor. Cufiid must have a task to ur- range a match between a girl with- out a telephone and a boy without an automobileâ€"Brandon Sun. Even the traffic cops may agree that spring can break the speed limit if she wants to.â€"-Toronto Telegram. Speaking of changing the calen- dar, a new month without any “first” to it would fill a long-felt wantâ€"Macon Telegraph. - According to a Boston news- paper,,the cross-word puzzle has its origin in ancient Egypt. This ex- plains why the Israelites were so anxious to flee into the wilderness. â€"The H umorist. The time has come for us to av- enge ourselves on the Chinese for the Mah Jongg craze by sending over a shipload of cross-word puz- zle blanksâ€"Columbia Record. One of the most comfortable places to live is just inside your 1ncome.â€"San Francisco Chromcle. It is easy to believe cigarettes ruin a woman’s complexion. Smoke always is hard on paintâ€"Philadel- phia N orth American. The querulous look of the ice- cream vendor at the coal man’s smile would make a rare thing for a dentist’s waiting-room wall.â€" Kamloops Sentinel. The bird who hunts gas leaks with matches ought to save a cou- ple in case it is necessary to see whether the alcohol in the radiator is lowâ€"Montreal H erald. There are probably just as poor fish in the sea as some married women have caughtâ€"Montreal Herald. Clarence Darrow now announces definitely that the human race isn’t worth saving, but perhaps he bases his Opinion on those specimens of it tht he’s saved h1mself.â€"-Ottawa Citizen. The best non-skid chains are brains.â€"Lindsay Post. We suppose they have a woman’s exchange to provide another place to change their minds.â€"Rosetown Eagle. Four ages of man: Bossed by mother; bossed by sister; bossed by wife; bossed by daughter.â€"Toron- to Star. They used to pass around the beer. Now they pass around the bier.â€"â€"Lethbridge Herald. Doctors say onions kill disease germs, but how are you going to get the gems to eat ’em.â€"Stewart News. Pretty soon they'll want the starting and stopping facilities of tshe pedestrians testedâ€"Brandon 2m. Fortunately, the heathens told about civilization and shownâ€"Sasakatoon Star. As the weather gets colder, mere man can reqoice that his ankles are rsnot worth showingâ€"Grand Forks 2m. A bell boy can tell you where to find almost everything except, pos- sibly, a hymn book.â€"Goderich Signal. Our hardest job is caring for the things we labored to get in or- der to make life easier.â€"-Stratford CRISP COIIBNT not “She was the keeper of a commoni bawdy house. Yes, and arraigned in court on that charge. But will any man or woman here stand up and say that hers was the guilt for that sordid crime?" Rev. Neil McLauchlan, speaking before the Annual Social Service Council Convention in Hamilton on the necessity of making some pro- vision for the support of prisoners’ dependents, concluded his remarks with this pointed touching story of hardship that had come under his own observation. . This is the story briefly: A little over four years ago, a man was sentenced to ten years impris- onment on a charge of breaking and entering. The prisoner, when sen- tenced, had a wife and six children in age from a babe up to twelve years. The wife and mother, find- ing her husband unable to help her in any financial way, tried to sup- port the family by securing board- ers. But, unfortunately, on account of the husband being in the peni- tentiary, she could not secure a very desirable class of boarders, and too many evaded paynment. ‘ . ‘l O A‘ A---A. n .‘DII‘I‘ “wâ€"v This was a virtuous, faithful wife and mother. She did what sho could to train aright her children and keep them from starvation. but, the struggle was too much for hor’. Tempters shadowml her. volunteered their help. The iiual outcome was that. tho home was raided, and a charge of keeping,r a disorderly house was laid against, her. IIIWIIJ u I “my“ luv-J .â€"_-__ _- This method of making a living having failed, she tried other hon- orable methods until her health broke down. Partially recovering she cared as best she could for her family during the day, and in the night, she would tramp half the length of the city scrubbing offices and doing such work as she could find. Then she would tramp home, sometimes through rain and some- times through snow, hungr and cold and sad. This unspeakab 3 ex- istence continued through the years. A local church was extending imit- ed help, which was. however, utter- ly__in_adequate to. meet “the. “need,” (Socia_l Service Council of Canada) In 1921. A Royal Commission was appointml to invosiigato and report. on penitentiary conditions in Can- ada. Owing to a change in govern- ment, tho report was finally pigeon- huled, but when the public demands, it. will ho i'csurrvcted quickly enough, .Spe'aking on the necessity of pro- VIdmg cunsu'uctlve work for pus- oners, the report says i “The mere provision of work is not, in the opinion of the Commit- tee. sufficient. That the heaviest penalty fo' a crime is paid. not by the criminal but by his dependents, has been chiefly emphasized before the Committee, not by philanthrO- pists and charitable workers, but by judicial, police and penitentiary of- ticers of long standing. Their views are based Upon the unfortunate and expensive social consequences of the pauperization of decent women and children, upon the destruction of the convict’s sole anchor holding him to decency of conduct after dis- charge hy his being, during his term, desm'ted by his wife for some one better able to support her,and upon the frequent inevitability of a re- turn to crime immediately upon his release of an cx-convict turned out into a society from which he has certainly been absent. for years and [H‘I‘hilDS for decades with five or ten dollars and a 'ailway ticket to the place at which he. was sentenced." Creamless Ice Cream (RenfreVV Mercury) A member of the. Canadian House of Commons. stated that a great deal of the. ice cream offered for sale to- daV is Cleamless. H11 holds that. the VVord ‘cream" should be eliminated t'111m it. A 111 eat manV 111101110 will readily agree. inth him. "lhere is a Vast 1l1tf11r11n1 11 in the qualitV of the sweet, cooling substance. Some of it. has a rich taste. hetokening the 111eSenc11 of cream; some of it tastes as though made from whey. Why couldut. it be standardized? It. seems at“ ms to he the one price. in restaurants. whether the quality be. superior or VVhether it be inferior. One. gets so little of it nowadavs for a dime, one VVants it to be good. And todav when it Is in Canada in the summer at least. an almost um- Versal food. all poor stufl’ should be under the ban or sold for what, it really is. Today ice cream has so far advanced in public favor as to enjoy recognition in hospitals. There are different reasons th it should ihe standardized. I love to think of summer time When birdlings take the wing, The good old blithesome summer time, That follows after spring. Perhaps mlvirhyme is premature, Because I ought to know a The winter day, still holds the sway The fields are white with snow. I love to think of summer time, When skies are azure blue, When sweethearts tell their tales or love, And hearts are beating true, . ’Tis then that life is one sweet song “That song I’ll sing to you,” When you and I, together hie, To river and canoe. I LOVE TO THINK I love to think_ of summer time, When shines the brilliant sun, For is not summer time the best, When all is said and done, , We love the springtime’s early day The autumn’s russet brown, ’Tis very nice to skate on ice, But summer wins, hands down. â€"J. M. MacGregor in Toronto Star. Still, the only man who can make a fool of himself is one who isn’t a fool to begin with. THE DURHAM CHRONICLE OF SUMMER TIME (Our Jawwt.) The monthly meeting of the Chal- mers Church Ladies’ Aid was held week. Owing to bad roads and much sickness, the attendance was not as large as usual, but the meeting was a pleasant one. Mrs. T. W. Findlay presided and conducted the devo. tional exercises after which general JlLâ€"L nnnnn business was done, and the bazaar for which preparation is going on was discussed. It was resolved to return to the former date of meet- ing, the first Tuesday in each month when the W. M. S. also meets. At the close, dainty refreshments were served, the hostess being assisted by Miss Mamie, and Miss Elsie Ferris. Flowers were ordered for the sick and shut ins. Mr. C. H. Jones, who is well known here and at Ceylon, and who has been the past year at The Pas, Man., has, we learn by a letter from him, gone one hundred miles further north and located at Elbow Lake a new mining place. Charlie is well and enjoys the North country. Hydro workmen were employed on Sunday on the Toronto Line South replacing a power line pole damaged last week by fire caused by a short circuit. A Though “mm is snmv and ice in some places on the roads, cars arm running freely now. Mr. and Mrs. W. Henry, accnmpanied by Miss Pcntlz‘uu‘l. matured t0 Dundalk on Sunday to visit their daughter, Mrs. McCauley. Maple syrup makiifg is now gen- eral in this vicinity, and we are in- dobtml to Mr. John Stewart for the first treat of thqseason. .11! vâ€" ‘-'“- Miss SteRrart 'or the High School stafl' gave a good address on Mis- sions at the Presbyterian Sunday School on Sunday. Mr. John Nuhn’s friends here sym- pathize with him in his bereavoâ€" mont by the sudden death some d: 1v: ago of a brother living near Wil- liamsf 0rd Miss Rosin McGirI' 0f Fever-sham visited Mrs. W". H. 'l‘hurston last wwk and was thp guest of Mrs. G. Mitt-hell over the week-9nd. Mr. Frank Patton of W alko'rton spent part of .last week hero. on bus- moss and “31th Ins old home. Mr. and Mrs. G. Warling and bahv of Vandeloanr pagq M13 and Mrs. Mark Stewart. 3 ‘VlSlt 0n_ Snuflay._ Miss Aloda Mticholl returned Sat- urday from a month’s visit, with “(‘1' sister in Toronto accompanied by hm‘ little nephew. Billy Clipporton. MIS. Long w out to Honm wood on Monday to attond tho Goldon \\ 11d- ding of old f1ionds M1. and M19. 'I‘11plin. and to remain for 1111 ox- tonded \isit with rolatiws and old homo f1i1111ds.M1‘.Gor1lon Long: motored his mother to Corhotlon. \h‘. Jnsoph Snoll of tho “PM Backâ€" lino who undommit an me'ation in 0mm Sound hospital sumo limo ago. is able. to move about. a liltlv and was in the village on Manda» The wound, however. is not wt healed and the abscess is living drainm‘l by a tulw. Live Hogs ...... Wheat .......... Oats ............ Barl‘ey .......... Buckwheat ..... Peas ..... . ....... Mlxed Gram, per Hay .............. Eggs, Firsts 25. Butter ........... Pontoes, per bag. 'which to live.” The affirmative, which won, was taken by Miss Mil- dred Caswell and George Aikens .9! .â€" v-â€" Hreh chitin and George Aikens of Flesherton, and the negative by Misses Almeda Weber and Kathleen Hutchinson of Kimberl . The 'udges were W. D. Henry an '1‘. 8. per of Markdale and George Pritchard of Vandeleurh Some of the young people here assisted on the musical program rendered. Mr. George Patton of Owen Sound has. bought Mr. McMester’s barber business to get possession the lst of April. Mr. Clark McMillan, son of Mr. J. S. McMillan near Ceylon, who has been ill for some time, is reported very low_._ THE DISILLUSIONED BRIDEGROOI! 'Mrs. Mary McLeod of Ceylon is very ill with heart trouble at the home «if her sister, Mrs. Roderick Stewart, here. "â€"U - A good hockey match was played on the rink here on Monday night between Dundalk and Flesherton High School teams, the latter win- ning by 10-9 score. Behold in me a bridegroom, Chief, of just six weeks or so, ’Twas just last month I took the plunge, where many good men go. I’d loved her long; I’d loved her much, and I do not repine, - Some other chaps, they wanted her, but now for life sne’s mine. But, Chief, ‘I may as well confess, knew not what I did; For tho’ I‘ve come to man’s estate, in love I’m but a kid. This wife of mine, she fouled me, Chief, my brains are made of mud. I though I’d got, an angel, Chief, but, Sir, she’s flesh and blood. I love her, Chief, make sure of that, I’ll nevm yield her up, She is the dearest giil on e111tl1,a11«l full of joy’ 3 my cup; But still it gzne me quite a shock it scared me most to death, When I detected, Chief, the smell of onions 011 I101 h1eatl1. For angels don’t eat onions, Chief, at least, that is my View; They live on angel food, I’ve heard, and maybe honey dew, But this here angel I have copped, can it be she’s a fake? You ought to see her get away with half a pound of steak. I’ve watched her closely since we wed, and oh! My spirit mourns, This angel that I thought I’d got, why, drat it, she has corns. And here‘s another fact, old boy, my earest soul deplores That sometimes when I lie awake. there’s someone near me snores. So, Chief, you see I have been fooled, no wings, Sir, does she wear, She ain’t the angel that I thought, but. really, I don’t care. I might have known no angel, Chief, would link with me for life, I’ve got, no angel, but. you bet, I‘ve surely got some wife. »wo-o-0WWW*of' REV??? SOCIAL AND PERSONAL Mr. Robert McKean. Turonto. spvnt over Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. (I. C. Middlebro’. Mn McKoan is a wheelsman in summer with ma Canada Steamship Lines and in win- her, attends college in Tommi". Miss Nellie McKechnie, dau glllvl‘ of Mr. and Mrs. Dougald McKeclnm and an employee of tho (1. N R at Montreal, is on an wandml \"fll'alll'lll in Miami. Florida. Banro I-ml llll- ing she intends \ isiting Palm B0: II II. {lclisonvillm Washington and V“- 'or . Mr. 0. M. Voiles, president “2' the Voker Bodies. Limiti‘d. hm leased the residence of Mr. (901011;.- E. Harron. Miss Lottie Dean has rolumwd in Toronm, after spending the past 1w. months with her parents, Mr. :md Mrs. Hiram Dean. Mrs. I. H. Kaism' I'vturnml - hm‘ home in St. Thomas on SaIIII-dm after a three wvoks visii “HM ho'l‘ mother, Mrs. L. Elxidge. MPS. Robert Hewitt 0f 'l‘nrunin i; spending a few weeks with mm mm. their, Mrs. L. Elv1dge. MI‘. and Mrs. G. E. Harm“ lo-H Tuesday morning for thou. nuw home in Stratford. .Miss Edwards of Holsu-in umm Wlth MISS Cresswell uf Um local H 1:1: School staff over tho workâ€"mm. Mr, Melville Graig of 'l‘m-nn?” as visutmg with his aunt. Mrs. \\'. Calder. Dr. Cecil \Volfn of Tumult. \\':a~‘ .‘1 week-0nd visitor in town. Miss Carss of Ottawa, and sim-nu Mrs. \Va A. Reid of 'l‘hormlalv. m- companied by Mrs. Potriv “1' H“!- stoin, were guests of Mr. and Mr» J. A. Brown last. week. F R E E! Friday and Saturday 1’ i i of this week we will 1 give FREE * 3 CAKES I 2 2 i i Winsome Toilet Soap With 3 75¢ Iridescent Berry Bowl Make sum you got. mn- m. those Bowls with 3 vakm «of ”HS Beautiful Soap Frrw. Two Days only, PRIDAY AND SATURDAY The Variety Store R. L. Saunders, Prop. Miss Annie Graham is h‘avhin: school near Hanover fur a rm- weeks. Thursday. larch 26. 1935. ' ‘l‘le Gowrnmvm lHt-usl Miflcalnmnt‘ Hwnw Ha u: will prulmld} nut 1.4 w “'9 "OHS“ ul' ‘QHllllHHl (a EISIPI'. “Us \\;:~ ~;; "ime Mllllfill'l' )I'fiwhlu! ‘Penlll‘llllill'fi lump ”1 ”Ch 011 l\\‘I° «'ll;iz';.'c~.~. llu to run ('th‘lll'l'vth, \\. ishmeni. mt‘lml ml m . Culny lll llh' I‘nlh'. t, 31 yesterday mum :2- 1: a young Ann-rump -.«- m. “1'“ llll'Iltlo'.) ;_" '\' all “arm's ('HIH'I‘I‘IH wardml In I'I'umwr IIN‘UUII \Ulla ”W «J uporannns nf lln- Railway nu Iha- ln'a halt. and err Lakv 'HN‘ 1925 Hangs: tween lh'h'uit and yestm'day who" H ulna sailmi \\ fill an (pond-t Out-mo Lana sallc ()hiu VHS Henry Surklin Cmmdian I’m-Hic- wlm diml ~'thc'l on Saturday. “a neclmi with Hw joilwd llw ammo ling was in hi-' \VillIam l-IIIII-v. I h'n~fl: practitiunvr. \\|I~ \\:I~ 'I .‘ manslaumnmg “IHW'QI I hection \VIIII I|I«- Iisz‘H Watson. 12-yI-r--~‘III ‘1‘ lobert “'atsnn. \\‘IIII.IIw “rd." 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