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.‘Vrp ,mamcfimwwynmpm'mflon Circulation for 12 months, 1,400. PAGE 4. It is about time someone in this country called the bluff of the United States. For a good many decades now the United States has acted on the ap- parent attitude that, with twelve times Canada’s population she can do as she pleases, and the sorry part of it she is getting away with It. So long as there is no protest from Canada she will, but just as soon as Canadians retaliate with a tariff of equal prohibitory rights, then shall the United States acknowledge her existence and be prepared to talk business. Canada is the best customer the United States has, and there is little to fear if this counry imposes a tariff the equal or higher than that of her neigh- bor. The imposition of an equal tariff barrier will cut off business, and it will not be long until the business men of the United States demand that Canada be treated more fairly than in the past. United States business men are not interested in Canada so long as their business does not suffer. They care nothing for what the U. S. politicians impose. But let their business suffer and we shall find them up in arms. The imposition of a Cana- dian tariff wall of equal magnitude by the Canadian Government would bring immediate results. It is highly gratifying to learn that at least one province of Canada, British Columbia, is preparing to take action against the United States in case that country raises its tariff against Canada. A dispatch in Monday’s dailies says that definite plans are on foot to shut out United States fruits and vegetables from California, Washington and Oregon in the event of the proposed Hoover tariff closing the United States market to British Columbia. Though the tariff is primarily a Dominion matter, it is said that plans are under way for combating the influx of United States products by a Provincial tar- iff which will protect the British Columbia home industries. United States 650 pei'year in‘ advance. “ zdvertisements ordered for insertion “until forbidden” and those sent without written instructions, will appear until written orders are received for their discontinuance. FRANK IRWIN. Editor and Proprietor. Personally we do not blame the United States for taking every advantage of this country, so long as this country is willing to take.it without retal- iation. A case in point is the recent radio conference at Ottawa. The Federal Radio Commission of the United States had said that Canada must accept certain wave bands. The Canadian stations were allowed a broadcasting station of 500 watts. In the United States many are broadcasting on 50,000 watts. A Winnipeg station asked to be allowed to increase its power to 5,000 watts but was refused. Under permission of the Dominion Government they did so. Now the United States is willing to talk business and as a' result Canadian stations are to have more wave bands and incresed power. Had the Government lain down, the “big stick” of the Federal Radio Commission would have fallen and the United States would have become the owner of the air in both Canada and its own country. The bluff didn't work. And so it is with a lot of this tariff bunk. So long as Canada is satisfied to sit back, let the United States arrange her tariff so as to exclude Cana- dian goods. and still lick the hand that smites her, then she need expect and should recetve but little consideration. Nations, like men, admire the man who is prepared to stick up for himself. Hats off to British Columbia! Perhaps she has started something. Truthâ€"WA TSON. The CHRONICLE has long been of the Opinion that too little attention has been paid by the Grey County Road Commission in the past to the main- tenance of the highways of the county, constructed at considerable expense and then anowed to deter- iorate before further work was expended on them. Highways, be they county or provincial, cost too much money to build to allow them to wear out through lack of maintenance. Mr. Smith said that no doubt existed in his mind as to the importance of road repair, but that unfortunately in the past insufficient attention had been paid to this part of highway work. The engineer had always been a builder, leaving to others the care of the structure once he had completed it. This could, or should not be done in the case of a highway, as maintenance should start immediately the road surface had been laid. We were much interested in a speech on the maintenance of highways delivered at Hamilton on Friday of last week by R. M. Smith, Deputy Min- ister of Highways for Ontario. What Mr. Smith said regarding the ,Provincial IHighways is also true of the County roads. According to Mr. Smith the maintenance of highways by Provincial Govern- ments is as essential as the protection any business man would give to invested capital, and that Ontario has tried to keep this important item before its engineers at all times. The Durham Chronicle Whosoever is afraid of submitting any question, or religious to the test of free discussion, is in love with his own opinion than with the THE MAINTENANCE OF HIGHWAYS Thursday, February 21, 1929 TIT FOR TAT filmmyearmadmw.t0th¢ Those of us who live adjacent to both Provin- cial and County highways can very well understand what Mr. Smith was driving at. How differently ‘he' Provincial and County madmakers go about ’ their work! The method of building the roadway “The Minister has classified operators of small cider mills who sell their product exclusively by retail, or who crush the apples the property of their customers for said customer’s own use and not for resale, as small retailers, and exempt from the pay- ment of sales tax under Section 95, Subsection 2 of the Special War Revenue Act.” In other words, the Operator of a small cider mill who sells the cider only to consumers, or who manufactures cider from apples, the prOperty of the consumer, Where such cider is not for resale, is not required to obtain license. The last issue of The National Revenue Review contained information that should be- Of interest to some of our readers who operate small cider mills. At one time when the business and other tax was first imposed there was considerable agitation as to how this would affect the owners of these small mills, and in some cases we have been told that operators of these plants actually did pay their sales and ,business tax, thinking no doubt that if they did not they would be fined. Whatever the law in the early days there is no question now. The Review for February of this year says, in deal- ing with the question: need not be referred to here, but granting both to be constructed similarly, what chance has the County road against one under the jurisdiction of the Province? In the case of the County road, it has generally been the practise to forget all about it until it needed repairs; the Provincial highway is patrolled and looked after from the moment the last work is done. Note the difference in the Dur- ham to Walkerton road once it was taken over by the Province! Compare it with the roadbed from Durham to Fleshertonl We do nOt wish to unduly criticize the Grey County Roads Commission, and are not prepared to admit that Grey County roads are any worse than those of other Counties, but the address of Mr. Smith at Hamilton but strengthens the contention of THE CHRONICLE, expressed before in these columns, that it is better to construct less mileage and maintain what you have than to embark on too big a programme and neglect what you have constructed. ~ To THE CHRONICLE this would mean that it would be necessary for the operator of a small cider mill to ascertain whether or not the customer having apples crushed intended to resell the product. If he does, then the mill operator must have a license. If he says the cider is for his own con- sumption and subsequently resells it, we would imagine it would be the latter and not the mill operator who would be liable under the Act. We have all along maintained that the economi- cal way to construct our roads would be to have them under the jurisdiction of a real honest-to- goodness road engineef‘ who knew his business and who would devote his whole knowledge to the con- struction and maintenance of our highways. ' An Oshawa man had his home burned and was rendered so destitute that he stole two dollars and twenty cents’ worth of food from the Loblaw groce- teria. He was allowed out on suspended sentence. That man was lucky that ho liired in Oshawa. Up in this he-man country where a crime’s a crime and there are no extenuating circumstances, and where suspended sentences are so much in the curio class that you’d scarcely recognice one if you did see it, it’s hard to tell where he would be now. Aarva Vaara, publisher of the Finnish news- paper at Sudbury which recently published a scurril- ous article about King George, the Royal Family and the Government, was sentenced on Tuesday to serve six months in jail and pay a fine of one thou- sand dollars. In the event of the fine not being paid he serves an extra two years. This seems about the only manner in which immigrants of Vaara’s type can be dealt with. Yesterday’s temperature of sixteen below zero has one redeeming feature, anyway. It will banish the remainder of the influenza epidemic throughout the country. What are a few sCuttles of coal to a spell of sickness? THE CHRONICLE appreciates seeing some of its editorials copied occasionally, but we do Wish the exchange editor of one of our nearby dailies would give us proper credit. Recently he clipped one of our articles and credited it to another paper. Now the other fellow’s sore. A Toronto woman dislocated her jaw while coughing. This should be a warning to all who have coldsâ€"and some others who haven’t. Hold your jaw! put to work. Lindbergh is to be married soon. Now . he’ll have to stop Skylarking at night. Detroit’s prosperity reports received a setback when thirty-two thousand out-of-works beseiged the Ford factory following an announcement that a num- Brains, according to a well-known dictionary, are “the large mass of nerve tissue inclosed in the skull or cranium.” We are glad we looked that ,up. A lot of peeple seem to use them for a pad to sit down on. Poor old Leon Trotsky has arrived in Turkey, but dislikes it there and wants to get to Germany. After the rumpus he and his ilk have caused throughout the world during the past few years there’s only one place to send him, and it doesn’t commence with “G”. His final st0p is at the next station. CONCERNING CIDER MILLS NOTES AND COMMENTS SUSPENDED SENTENCE THE DURHAM CHRONICLE about Thanksgivine Day, when she contracted a heavy cold, and from which she failed to rally,, Up to a month or so ago there was consider- able hope that she would recover, but with a seizure of a stroke of paralysis, followed by others of a lighter nature. little or no hope had been held out for her in the later weeks of her ill- The late Mrs. MeCradren, , _ whose maiden name was Maria ”Davis was born at Stoneham,. Quebec in 18.43, and had .she lived. until next fall would have been 86 years of age. She eanie with her parents to Glenelg Township 80 years ago, the family settling 'oh the Garafraxa Road about -a.- mile south of town, where they lived fro two years, when they moved to the well- known Davis homestead on ”the 3rd concession, North of the Dur- ham. Road Here the deeeased resided with her parents up to the time of her marriage nearly ,60 years ago, when she was married to the late Mr. Samuel McCracken, who passed away in November 1921. ' Following her marriage: Mrs. McCracken was a con- tinuous resident of Durham up to about two years ago when she rented her property here' and went to live with her daughter, Mrs. G. J. Bretz, at Shelburne, where she received every care and attention in her last illness. Mrs. McCracken was one of our best-known and highly respected citi- zens. It has often been said that she could get more real enjoyment out of life than the most of people and was never known to be anything but jovial. Though she had the usual troubles humans fall heir to, she bore them with fortitude and was always able to smile. This characteristic naturally made her a popular member of any company and it was with genuine re- gret that her friends here learned of her passing. SurViving her are her daughter. Mrs. G. J. Bretz (Beatrice), Shelbume, and son, Mr. Robert McCracken, Guelph. She is also survived by two brothers, Thomas. in Durham, but spe‘nding the winter with his daughter, Mrs. Caines, at Parkhill, and Jonathan, in Brithish Columbia. The remains were brought to Dur- ham on Tuesday evening’s train and taken to the home of her niece, Mrs. C. H. Moffat, and on Wednesday af- ternoon at 1.30 o’clock, after a short service at the house. the funeral ser- vice was held in 'Trinity church, of which the deceased had long been an active member. The service was taken by the Rev. Ernest Hayes and was at- tended by a large number of the friends of Durham and surrounding vicinity. Interment was made in Trinity church cemetery. MRS. WILLIAM LUNNEY " The death of Mrs. William Lunney. a respected resident of Bentinck, oc- curred on Sunday last. _The deceased had been ailing for the past two months with heart trouble and for the past week or ten days little hope had. been held out for her recovery. She The pall bearers were Messrs. J. Schutz. J. H. McFadyen. G. Gagnon. Dr. Grant, C. H. Moffat and B. Stone- ouse. Among those from out of town present at the funeral were Mr. Thomas Davis and Mrs. W. G. Games of Parkhill. brother and. niece. Mrs. Howard, §kales and Mr. G. L. Allen of Mount Forest. was 71 years 'of age and. besides Mr Lunney leaves a grown-up family. The 'funeral was held from the home on Wednesday afternoon and inter- ment took place in Durham cemetery. MRS. A. BLASING At 7.30 o’clock on Tuesday evening. February 5, Mrs. Adolph Blasing (nee Katherine Hahn) passed away at her home on lot 29, Concession 16, Nor- manby, at the age of 67 years, 3 months and 7 days. Mrs. Blasing was born October 29, 1861, at Hessen, Darmstadt, Germany. At the age of 9 years, she emigrated to this country, where she has been a resident ever since. At the age of 18 years, she was married to Mr. Adolph Blasing, settling in Normanby. The deceased was an ardent and faithful ”church member, also of a very mild disposiJ tion and was always willing to help others. She leaves to mourn her death her husband and three children namely, Lizzie (Mrs. William Brusso) of Sedley, Sash, John and Margaret at home. She is also survived by five grandchildre , one sister, Mrs. George Hurst of Niagara Falls, N.Y., and 3 brothers, Edward and Valentine Hahn of Ayton, and Adam on the 15th con; cession. The funeral took place, on Friday from her late home to the Ayton cemetery, followed by a memor- ial service in Zion Lutheran church. It’s a miserly man who won’t pay another a complimentâ€"Chicago Daily "__._ News. Rev. G. H. Ziemer conducted the ob- Any man with a. doubtful past has a doubtful futureâ€"Financial Post. Roy D. Kerby, General manager of Durant Meters of Canada, Limited, Who has been elected a Director of Du- rant Motors Inc. Mr. Kerby has been the directing head Of the Canadian Company during the past three years, in which period the canadian dealer organization has increased 31.5 per cent, domestic sales 38 .8 per cent, ex- port business 42 per cent, with very substantial increases in the truck di- vision. Production of Durant cars in Canada has almost doubled since 1925. The cash position of the company has also materially increased. To the Editor of The Chronicle: Dear Sir,â€" Here I .come for some information. so to have ends out of it I am going to challenge our worthy M. P. or M. RR, either present or 'past, and any other worthy Canadian citizen who cares to take the challenge, and that is: Where doees fair play come to the soldier? Is it not true that we fought the battles for $1.10 a day while the stay- at-homes made small fortunes and when we came back what were we to do? sit down and let the country feed us till the slump came? Well it is one way for getting out of taxes and it sure would have been one way to have saved our little bit of gratuities. Now, I have been a fight to the finish man. It took a man with a back- bone to take up arms against the enemy. Naturally, when we put on the khaki, we only thought of doing our bit. We forgot about financial ends, but when we came back, of course we took the old road where we left off and started out to get a home. We had to pay the price in most places one and one-half to twice the price to get back what we sold when we went away. Of course they say that was our luck. We took the chance and take the results. But we fought for our part of the country’s debt. ‘Let the other fellow pay the taxes and the war debt. The first thing our government did was rake in all the surplus dollars in bonds, control all the currency and be boss over the money borrower. Why let these bonds be tax free while the soldier who bought under the Soldiers’ Settlement Act. pays taxes? Then again can they show me the soldier who has the health today that he would have had had he stayed at home and let the rest of the world go by? No! They can’t find them. I for one came back in better medical condition than I went away. Yes. more government graft. If we were found anyway unfit why we might be entitled to some pension but 11' they could get us out of their hands to hell with us after that! ' We got to die now: to get any remuneration then our widows will get some pension. It looks LETTERS TO THE EDITOR ‘kfififimw well to have other men looking after our wives after we die. A credit to our country! Who says exempt the soldier from all future taxes? 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