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Newspapers Association Circulation for 12 months 1,400 Priceâ€"5c. per copy; $2.00 per year in advance. to the United States $2.50 per year in advance. Just think of it! The United States Interstate Commerce Commission at Washington has refused to lower the freight rates on grain moving to eXport from the United States Northwest and, "while rates on wheat and other grains were upon a higher oasis than hxe Member of the Canadian Weekly Whosoever is afraid of submit- ting any question. civil or religious, to the test of free discussion. is morv in love with his own opinion than with the truth.â€"WATSON. THOSE FAR AWAY FIELDS How often we hear about the “good” things to be had somewhere else, and how poor the canditions where we live. Last Friday’s newspapers contained at least two very gratifying dispatches, and we read them over more than once to be sure that we were not mis- interpreting them. DURHAM CHRONICLE 'PAGE 4. Thursday. December 13, 1928 According to another dispatch from New York eighteen Mennonites arriv- ing from Paraguay in South America tell a tale of fever as well as pestilence and starvation that members of their sect who migrated from Canada over two years ago were facing. There is no intention to jubilate over the fact that these people are starving and in a bad way, but we cannot refrain from calling attention to the fact that it was because of dissatisractlon With Western Canada conditions that led them to pull out in the first place: Western Canada, or any. gart of It, may demand labor and initiative if one is to wrest a living from it, but there are few who starve if they are prepared to do their part in the trans- action. The world owes every man a living, but it will not hand it to mm on a silver platter. and we know of no place under the sun where living con- ditions are better for the man who wants to work and get along than right here in Canada. TOURING HOCKEYISTS The action of the 0. H. A. executive last week in refusing to issue a playing certificate to Leonard Trushinski, formerly of Kitchener, to play this year for the Walkerton team, while correct on its face. is worthy of com- ment. We have little doubt Trushinski was brought to Walkerton for no other purpose than to play hockey and while he is said to have regular employment in that town it is more than likely that he will receive a certain emolu- ment for his hockey ability. The 0. H. A. will no doubt have the approval of the majority in its decision to ban Trushinski. States farmers over Canadians. On the other hand it is a rather remarkable fact that it is the smaller centres which are chosen upon which to enforce this rule against touring hockeyists. It may be that had Trushinski moved to Toronto or some other large centre little would have been heard about the transfer and the playing certificate would have been issued Without question. Amateurlsm in sports is what all are striving for, but in a conversation some months ago with a former high-up official or one of Ontario’s amateur associations he frankly admitted that the executive knew that the rules were broken dairy and little or no attempt made to pun- ish the offenders. We cannot but agree with the O. H. A. executive in its ruling on Trushm- ski. but we also think that there are a lot of other similar cases in Ontario that this same executive knows of and makes no attempt to con-act. Personally, we feel that the Walker- ton club has been dbcriminated against, and while we acne with the ..A executive.” would have a In its own defense, governing bodies of amateur sport may say that they cannot do anything without wrecking the sport, but that is precisely what is happening now. The smaller centres with their limited material to draw from MUSI‘ get in outside help if they are to maintain winning teams. Their competitors in the larger centres are doing it, and the little fellows mum. follow suit or go down. And these itinerant hockey players do not dispose of their services for nothing. The pernicious habit of the larger centres in grabbing up the good hocx- ey and lacrosse material is what has made it necessary for the smaller centres to go thou and do likewise or disappear from the sports picture en- tirely. There is not now, nor has there been for a good many years, a hockey team in the O. H. A. series, Senior, Intermediate or Junior, that has ever got anywhere near the championship that has not had several if not all its players on the pay roll. The statement often made that the only difference between an amateur and a professional is that the profes- sional is paid by cheque, is no joke. It is a stern reality. The governing bodies of our amateur game may as well wreck amateur sport in an attempt to keep it amateur, as allow the present method to prevail. By overlooking the discrepancies of teams in the larger centres, and insist- ing that the little fellows live up to the amateur rules, they are killing the sport in the smaller towns and it will be only a matter or years before the crash comes, anyway. Some say that there :5 no amateur- ism in sport any more. and we are m- clined to believe it. Then our advice would be to do away with the camou- flage, let all sport be professional, and may the devil take the hinamost. We’ll never remedy the situation by crucify- ing the little fellows and letting the moguls go scott free. executive ability if they would clean up the whole works and rule against all players of this description, irrespeu- tive of the size of the town in which they have elected to play. It is said that statistics show that women live longer than men. And one of our mean exchanges says it is because paint is a great preservative. The Orangeville Banner describes a recent dance in that town as a “wow”. We were of the opinion that modern dances were a combination of 01101 I: MUD mwsuo v-v-- - acrobatics. But perhaps they do call it “wow” for about. Theremsynfterollbesomethingin the answer of a schoolboy who sold that ntnrst the eorth'wasflot. then someone discovered it was round, and now it Is crooked. NOTES AND COMDIENTS THE DURHAM CHRONICLE Shoe leather is a good substitute for gasoline, but few people seem very keen about trying it.â€"Stratford Beaâ€" con-Herald. Any sport. such as football. that can teach a pedestrian to be quick on his feet has its talking pointsâ€"Detrou Free Press. All the big nations have agreed not to go to war, so they are now building warships to give the sailors a rice.â€" Dallar: News. Strange things are happening this year. Yesterday we saw the headllne “Eggs Rally After Break”.â€"Kingston Whig-Standard. And now Mr. Robb says that the in- come tax will be continued for a long time. Well, newspaper men should worry.â€"Peterboro Examiner. Middle age is that period of life when the reader can go to bed and leave the hero in the hands of his worst enemy.â€"Sarnia Observer. “They shall not pass" was an excel- lent slogan in war time, but it is migh- ty annoying on the highway. â€"-â€"Milver- ton Sun. Hon. Lincoln Goldie’s decision not to retire reassures those who feared that Linc would be missing.â€" Toronto Telegram. “If he calls a vote a vote, he prob- ably voted; but if he calls 1!: “exer- cising the franchise” he may have been detained at golf .”â€"Detrolt News. A baby was born recentlz, in Ten- nessee with a seven- -inch tail, and Dr. A. P. Schultz of the Johns HODKIDS medical school thinks that this may be an edition of the famous and much-talked-of “missing link”. It is possible, too, that this may be but a forerunner of what is coming. Perhaps this is a case of Nature, providing in advance, a place on which a pedestrian may hang a tail-light when using the highway in modern traffic. “I understand that your wife thought of taking up law before she married you.” “That is so. Now, however, she is content to lay it down.” DURHAM BRANCH OF Held Most Successful Regular Session Last Thursday Afternoon and Received Report of Delegates to Recent Convention in Toronw. The Durham branch of the Women's Institute held their December meeting in the home of Mrs. Metcalfe, Queen St. 8., on Thursday afternoon, Decem- ber 6. Over forty members were present. The business session was very lengthy. Plans were made for Christ- mas cheer, plans for a concert to be held in January and five dollars was voted to be given to the Institute for the Blind for Christmas cheer. Roll CRISP COMMENT INSTITUTE MEET call was answered by members making a donation of a Christmas gift to the Children‘s Shelter in Owen Sound. Mrs. J. C. Hamilton gave a very inter- esting report. of the Women’s Institute convention in Toronto. speaking brief- ly on a vast variety of subjects discus- sed at the convention. Some of these were reports of relief work done by different Institute branches. home ecenomicsâ€"food would be medicine in the futureâ€"and strongly advised the use of all pamphlets issued. The value of having a community nurse in every community, the work of the Junior in- stitutes. historical research. that there be legislation for the medical examination of children before going Christmas mesa". ts letting n a value fight: a. higher Oboe than lo @echgdrmkpovémireotsahu 183%“