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DURHAM CHRONICLE meat Noticesâ€"12c. per count line for an? incnn-finn and 66- 121‘ line for 'PAGE 4. convenience of any person or number of personsâ€"is adve ' , and it will the person phoning or sending it in. Advertisements ordered for insertion “until forbidden” and those sent Witn- out written instructions, will appear until written orders are received :or their discontinuance. Whosae'ver is afraid of submit- ting any question. civil or religious, to the test of free discussion. is more in love with his own opinion than with the truthâ€"WATSON. The Kincardine Review-Reporter and the Wiarton Canadian-Echo have blossomed out as opponents of Hydro in Bruce County and the former nas attempted to prove by statistics that the privately owned plants of the country are supplying power at a lower rate to the consumer than the public- ly owned ones. The figures used are taken from The Financial Post and are'seid to have been secured from the Dominion Bureau of Statistics. The Chronicle is not conversant with the hydro question from an economic standpoint. but we are ac- quainted with hydro as regards Its utility in the smaller towns around here. Despite the opinions of some of our papers. so far as Durham is con- cerned. if it were not for the Hydro we would hate to predict just where we would be at the present moment. It is quite possible that the man who writes the editorials for the private ownership interests is wholly in sympathy with that end of the game and naturally presents his side of the question. excluding and failing to mention any of the good points of hydro. To Searn that the private interests were supplying electric power cheaper than our own Hydro-Electric was news to us. but it was no surprise. There are a lot of people in Canada and the United States who are lying awake nights devising schemes to dis- credit anything that is publicly owned. and it is the natural thing that when an occasion such as the present Bruce County electric controversy arises that they would make every attempt to give the Ontario Commission a black eye in the battle. Private interests may be supplying electricity cheaper than the Ontario Commission. and this should cause no surprise. The proponents of private- ly owned power and lighting plants could well afford to unrzerquote the Ontario or any other Commission if they saw that by so doing they could further their own interests, with the hope that ultimately. with the publicly owned plants out of the way, they would have the field to themselves. We can find no fault with the people of Kincardine feeling a little non- plusssed that the Ontario Hydro Com- mission has quoted Southampton cheaper rates. but at the same time it was possibly the exigiency of the situation that caused this. four-hour service have it at a 131:0 No matter what the private owner- ship plants are doing now. one has only to go back to the days before the Ontario Hydro existed, when these same private plants made their cus- tomers pay through the nose for any- thing they goc. Today. Durham. with a population of slightly over 1,700, has city privi- leges along electrical lines, and at a cost that any citizen. no matter how vv'- poor. "chm afford to pay. Take away the Ontario Hydro and Durham woum likely as not be without a. twenty- Thursday, November 22, THAT HYDRO SITUATION r Ebrvice altogether, or would at a prohibitive cost. Editor and Proprietor. of the pres of the country and the butt of many a newspa_per_ joke. Mrs. week-end, when it was prepared for the table with the intention or hating something better than usual for me Sunday dinner. On Saturday’ evening, Mr. J. A. Aldred came along with another generous helping or venison, secured 13) north on his recent hunt- Both gifts were very much appre- ciated, and at our dinner on Sunday we felt quite plutocratic, a feeling that was fully reciprocated by the other members of the family. Instead of passing our plate and asking that we be given a trifle more roast beef, pork chop, bologna. or other plebian meat, it was much more pleasant to request friend wife for a further helping of "elk”, or if this were too much trouble, “J us; a little venison, please.” ing trip, End this, too found its way into the oven and on to the table Ior our dinner the next day. It is quite duly enjoyed, and when the grace was said both gentlemen were kindly re- ferred to for their forethought. During the past week-end Tile Chronicle editor and family have been columns a couple of weexs ago, the former dispatched the big elk out at Jamieson park and presented Ye Editor with a generous portion. This and price. Truly. an editor’s life is a. pleasure. especially when his friends call and leave edibles of this sort with which "End'in the meantime, Iadies’ skirts will keep going up, both in altitude to expand his tummy at Sunday’s dinner. We extend sincere thanks to our two good friends for their treat. __()__. THE MODERN WOMAN A Chicago restaurateur has filed suit for divorce against has wife be- cause she chewed tobacco and re- fused to quit. This is another case where there are two, and perhaps three or four sides to the question. With the emancipation of women, they gained the right to do as they saw fit, providing that it was within the law. If women‘s rights means anything, then she should have the right to chew tobacco, smoke, play pool. get drunk, stay out late of nights, or anything else that had heretofore been hubby’s right. To us it looks as if the Chicago man’s dispute be- tween himself and his tobacco chew- ing better half is not for the courts to 'decide. If he can get a divorce be- cause his wife chews tobacco, could a woman. under similar circumstances, )expect the same treatment? If it is right for the one it is right for the other.- The matter of chewing topacco Is a personal one. Now that the woman have it, no doubt there will be several styles, or modes of procedure. Should tobacco be chewed the same In even- ing dress as in a morning work dress? Will it be considered polite in the near future for a lady to excuse her- self from the bridge tavze while she rushes to the window, the coal bucket or the stove to let loose her tobacco stained salivary waterworks system? The next thing we know, women will be trying to grow mustachios in the winter time so they can ape mere man (or some of him) by gomg around with a couple of tobacco icicles. Spittoons at sewing circles may soon become the rage, but unless the wo-- men prove straighter shots than some men we know, it will be some time before they will be bedecked with ribbon or other feminine decorations. PERILS OF THE SEA The sinking of the steamer Vestris .off the coast of Virginia last week, outward bound from New York for the ,Barbadoes and South American ports. is being made front page news and criticism on the part or the United States yellow journals and tabloids, which is little short or persecution or the officers and crew of the ill-fated ship. Their attitude should cause no surâ€" prise. Their very living depends upon the morbidness of the news they carry and it is seldom their columns are given over to anything decent or authentic. The sinking of the Vestris and the possible exaggeration they can make of it is right in their line. Purveyors generally of the news no decent newspaper would print, they dig up the scandal of the country and the more morbid a murder or divorce trial, the larger the headline it re- ceives. News of the better class has no appeal to them, but let some moron do something that shocks decent society, or let there be suggestive evidence, or tales of infidelity at some divorce trial, and this class of news purveyor laps it up with greater avidity than a starving feline at a bow! of milk. The criticisms of this kind of paper need alarm no one. Little attention is paid them by the better citizens of the country, and their regular readers as a rule have little influence. Canada thiné. 'and. the few who do deal in exaggeration and sensationansm. though they may gave a. big circula- have in cold storage WHY NOT GET BUSY? The citizens of Durham have a busy time ahead of them during the com- ing winter it they take full advantage paving programme, the various man- ners in. which it may be done, and tpe vâ€" ______ In view of the magnitude of the question, we would suggest that me business men, the ratepayers and any others who are interested, get together and discuss it rrom every known angle. We cannot have too much information. and neither can we absorb everything that will be re- quired to be known in a day or two. The time to start working on this paving scheme is NOW; don’t leave 1‘6 until next spring and then try to rush it through in a few days. Mount Ehna, the famous volcano on the Island of Sicily off the southern coast of Italy, has been in eruption for the past few weeks, and has done more damage than in any eruption in the past twenty years, according to newspaper reports. Etna is known as the greatest volcano in Europe, is 10,- 874 feet high, and is situated in the Province of Catania, and close to the city of that name. It rises immediately from the sea, has a Circumference of more than 100 miles, and dominates 1! fl: -3‘-. tion from different angxes, and do this sanely and sensibly with the icea, not to convince someone to our way of thinking, but to try and find out what is best for us to co. It is quite possible for a person nor. to be in favor of paving, but it is just as possible that were this same indi- vidual thoroughly acquainted with the circumstances he would be willing to pave if for no other reason that it was LL- ahead with the work, wno, if they knew more of it, might change their minds. It is not a. question as to what we want or what we think we want; sometimes circumstances alter cases. going“ tonsexie him money. On the other hand, there may be those who are enthusiastically in favor of going the whole northeastern part of Sicily. The top’is covered With perpetual snow, and midway down is the forest or woody region. At the foot is a region of orchards, Vineyards and olive groves, v“ V \D D- v v var- The eruptions of Etna have been numerous and many of them destruc- ‘ tive. In 1169 Catania was overwhelm- ‘ ed and 15,000 persons were buried in the ruins. In 1669 the lava in another eruption spread over tne country for forty days and 10,000 persons are es- timated to have perished. In the eruption of 1693 an earthquake accom-1 panied the eruption and over 60,000 lives were lost. In 1775, the year of the Lisbon (Portugal) earthquake, Mt. Etna was in eruption again, and among the more recent eruptions are those of 1832, 1865, 1874 and 1879. The eruption of 1928 has been the worst in a good many years, and while the pre- sent property damage ls estimated at over twenty millions of dollars, there is no record, as yet, or the lives that have been lost, though this is thought light from the fact that as all erup- tions are preceded by premonitory symptoms, the residents of the district have learned not to take any chances. While these eruptions and damage to life and property are to be deplored, volcanoes are as necessary to the earth ",- _-‘- A VU‘UGLJVVU “-v v... __ as a safety valve to a boiler. We who live in northern climes and far re- moved from volcanic actions have something to be thankful for. Never- theless, if there were. not volcanoes such as Etna scattered all over the globe which at intervals spring into action, this old globe of ours would some day explode and annihilate it- self. - ."‘*â€"A-‘ -“‘-- come into action when the pressure of gases and other combustibles be- come so great that some outlet is nec- essary, and were these outlets closed, like the steam boiler or the ordinary kettle on the stove whose spout and lid is closed, there would be nothing safety valve, volcanoes only circumstances alter cases. help him at the magnitude of the made of "e would suggest that me bined wit. en, the ratepayers and, cuts. “¢ who are interested. get medicine, 1d discuss it rrom every c0m lete In mo nonnnf havp Tm t8 8‘ Even with the destruction of life and property, the present-day volcanoes are regarded by scientists as mere pygmies when compared with those of thousands of years ago when the eartn was in the cooling stage and volcanoes more common. Residents in this section of the world may well thank their stars that there are no volcanoes here; they can also return thanks that occasionally, when necessity' demands, there are such things to relieve the pressure on the inside of the earth’s surface and thereby save the world from destruc- tion. left but for the earth to explode. 'ONE BOX ENDED HIS SUF F BRINGS rquts as nothing else does, and I sinceme recommend it to every suf- ferer.” Try this great medicine. 25}. and 50c. 13. boxâ€"at dealers every- moon, out. nan also brought on painful ilos Various treatments failed to elp him until he tried “Fmit-a-tives,” made of intensified fruit juices com- bined with scientific medicinal ingredi- nn‘a “n..- LA- .: $1...- ._-_. _-J__‘ Mr. James Page of Cabana, P.Q., was in a very erous condition. 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MR. PAGE .98 .36 .15 HOCKEY PLAYER isâ€" somewhat more than the baseoau Babe Ruth, Dazzy Vance, Rogers Hornsby and Lou Gehrig. “Dunc” Munroe of Toronto was con- sidered the highest-paid hocxey player last year, drawing down $9,000 for his services, but he has been placed in a position to earn money on the side that makes even Babe Ruth’s princely salary look small, and what is more. he has salted away $500,000, which exceeds Ruth’s accumulations by many, many thousands, because of the dilat- oriness which the Bambino showed until recently in piling‘ up _a reserve. HIS MAN is a business prophet. He does not really look into a crystal ball but he reads the future nevertheless and he sees new cities yet unbuilt. He is important in the tele- phone business. He judges the future from the facts of the present and it is his job to judge with accuracy. He must judge with accuracy because, in a telephone system, plans must be made for years ahead and millions of dollars are involved. With a railway there must be tracks and sta- tions before trains can run. With a telephone system there must be conduits and central exchanges before telephones can go in. To wait until people are clamoring for tele- phones is too late. HE BUSINESS PROPHET does not wait. He comes to the management with his charts and graphs and figures and says: “In 1930 the demand in Ontario will be 80,000 new telephones. They will be wanted here and here and here.” Or he says: “Within the next five years the Province of Quebec will need at least forty per cent more exchange capacity.” 'And the management does .not wait either. They know it is up to them to prepare now. If they don’t they will be falling down on their job; they will not be keeping pace with the country. way 1;“ ECAUSE THE BUSINESS PROPHET spoke in time and the management acted promptly there are 139,000 telephones being installed in Ontario and Quebec this year. Without them there would be inconvenience and confusion now in thousands of new homes and offices. Next year the business outlook calls for spend- ing over twenty-seven million dollars to extend and renew the system and plans have been made to do so. For the next five years the telephone expan- sion definitely known to be needed in the two provinces means over one hundred million dollars. FINDING THE MONEY is a problem. It is as great a problem as the complications of engineering and organization. Every year as the country grows there must be new money ready so that the telephone system may keep pace. Every year thus far the money has been ready because the policy of the telephone system has been fortunate in attracting the support of conservative and reliable investors who have not been subject to the influence of‘market fluctuations. , v -â€" â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€" vâ€"â€" ruvr-ovv “I 0‘. 1 his gfaphs have been made effective. And that 13 why the telephone man- r agement has always met Cana- dian progress with confidence and enthusiasm. ( b; other than Munroe would be looked upon with suspicion, for it would be argued hog ooulol ye do it on $9,000 A ‘__-_ -mzig night’s Canpro hockey battle between Hamilton and the Toronto Millionaires say that Martin Lauder of Durham, playing with the Hamilton team, was the best man on the ice until he tired. Martin was last year with Boston. was signed up again this year with the Bruins, and then farmed out to Ham- ilton. From now on, it is a foregone conclusion that Durham fans will be found rooting for the Ambitious City Toronto papal-.3; m_ revi_ew_i_x_18 :I‘qesday Thursday, November 22. 1928 PLAYING wrm mummy “00.00.“...‘Q ”.". I." In the early Spring of 1851. a vessel, the Onyx. sot said from Toner- mory, the sea-port town of the island of Mull. loaded to capacity With em:â€" grants from Lord Selkirk's domains of Argyleshire, Scotland. This boat-land Hugh Cowan in Owen Sound Sun- refii‘esented the concluding Stages in that great exodus of his tenants which had begun fifty years_preced‘mgr this. The Highland of Bentinc‘ and wfiich had been kept up inter- mittently during all this. period. With the exception of one ether shire. there was node other in Scotland to exceed Argyle in the number of fam- ilies sent out to Ontario 1n the Do- Like unto Ireland in the days of the potato famine, emigration from Scotâ€" land was not a matter or choice but of compulsion. The lash of necessitv laid upon Scotlands ox ex- -populated villages. was not. how'zexei as upon Ireland. due to Nature's ficklcness Increase of numbers. associated mu the evils of landlordism. brough about conditions which left them mm Thursday. November 22. 1928 ADMISSION years of this province's ms- will be held in t Following the Supper will present the onc~ac Tuesda Trinity Ch The Annual HEREis monev C2 Ldi FROM 6 YO!