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PAGE 4. Truthâ€"WA TSON. OUR NOON MAIL SERVICE Why has Durham’s Board of Trade been allow- ed to fall by the wayside? We were going to say “ ’e”, but this would not be quite correct. ' Our Board of Trade is not dead, but it most certainly “sleepeth”. There are many things in a town’s bus- iness that could be looked after by such a body, and it is our humble Opinion that every town the size of Durham should have an active Board of Trade, couple of “boners” in havmg certain industries locate here that were anything but an asset,‘ but that is nothing to worry about. Every town in Ontario with manufacturing aspirations has had the same exper- There is one very good service that might now be rendered by a Board of Trade, and that is the tak- ing up of the present mail service that the Canadian National Railways is apparently determined to hand out. This service has been in force now for the past two years or more and to date we have yet to hear one word in defense of it. The citizens do not like it, and so far as can be found out it is not do- ing the thing that it was supposed to accomplishâ€"- cut down the Operating expenses on this branch of the C.N.R. Further, there is not a single official on the headquarters staff who can justify the deal that is being handed Durham in the matter of the delivery of the mail from Toronto and other points south. The mail train from Toronto delivers the mail at Palmerston at approximately eleven o’clock. This mail should, in all fairness arrive at Durham not later than half -past twelve, but over a long Q in period, it arrives here some time between half-past one and two o’clock. Over two hours and a half to go twenty-six miles! And yet, we suppose there are officials on the C. N. R. who will feel greatly put out because, after over two years of this usage we are getting tired of it and intend calling for a new deal. To us, there seems but one way out of the dif- ficulty, and that is, approach the C.P.R., see if it is possible to have them run morning and afternoon trains, and then get after the post office department in an endeavor to have the mail for Durham brought in over the Canadian Pacific. Locally, the C. P. R. is generally on time, and the new schedule calls for Lâ€"â€"â€"A‘--A When the Canadian National nrsr. pm. 011 um mixed train between Durham and Palmerston, The Chronicle was told that the schedule would be somewhat slower, but that the mail would be brought into town on time or the old service restored. What has happened? Has the noon mail (soâ€"called), with very few exceptions, ever reached here on schedule? It has not. More than that, it has not been only a few paltry minutes late; half an hour every day would be nearer the mark, and " with the train pull- ing in to the station around half-past one o’clock and later, it is always a quarter to two and sometimes two o’clock before it is landed at the post office. With the same train leaving town at twenty-five minutes to three o’clock, mails to be made up for .it, and the other office work entailed, it is often three , o’clock before the public can be sure that all the 1 “mail is sorted. Adding insult to injury, the National does not even come directly to the station. . No matter how late it is, there is always a delay of twenty minutes to half an hour at the “Y” a mile south of town before the train pulls in and discharges passengers and mail. This last looks to us as if the C. N. B. were merely trying us out to see how much we would put up with before we made complaint. We have been told indirectly, so cannot vouch for the truth of it, that the mixed train now oper- ating is the child of but one official. If so, he must feel proud of his job. We have read all about the slow ,trains through Arkansaw, and that old one that “a hick railway is one where Wednesday’s train gets in on Tuesday providing the one that should have got in on Monday is out of the way”, but the mail service that has been handed Durham for the past two years beats anything we ever heard of. The Durham Cbrbnicle '7 'WOWVVU Morrcligimcs tothet'es‘t offrwdfimsfoh.” I wvw The old gag that the passenger business does not pay is all right so far as it goes. Durham’s passenger business may not pay, but her freight business does, and pays well. The railways are no better than any other business. All of us have cer- tain departments that we would gladly dispense with, but' which must be included if the business as a whole is to be successful; So far as the Durham- Pahnerston branch of the C.N.R. is concerned, we venturetheassertionthatthecompanyhasnoother branch in this country where their business, both Ch-cuhflon for 12 months. 1.400- the Canadian National first put on the is afraid of submitting cm Wm freight and passenger, pays better dividends. The apathy of the ofiicials, however, has gOne about as far as a tolerant people will stand for, and with no redress in sight in these quarters, it looks tousthatweshallhave toseewhateaii bedone According to an announcement - of Dr. Forbes Godfrey, Ontario Provincial minister of health and labor, the undertakers of this province are to be al- lowed more latitude in the matter of advertiSing. The recent embalmers" and funeral directors’ act al- lowed undertakers to carry nothing more than a small, plain professional card.‘ When the act was passed in 1928 it caused so much discussion that the board of , examiners appointed to enforce it made no attempt to. enforce it. The act was no doubt passed in the legislature at the instigation of a few of the undertakers of Toronto and elsewhere whose business was being cut into by other members of the profession who were satisfied with a smaller profit and depended on We were never able to understand why the undertakers of the province should be compelled to hide their accomplishments and their prices in the small professional card allowed them. At the time we expressed ourselves as not in favor of any such governmental action and time has justified us. Just why undertakers were to be denied the privilege of telling what they had and the price they would charge is as great a mystery as ever. Surely their business cannot be. regarded as so much different from any other business that the ordinary solicita- tion could not be made. If there are some undertakers in this country who can make a living by charging in the neighbor- hood of one hundred dollars for their‘services, we see no reason why they should not be allowed to adver- tise the fact so that those of our citizens who cannot afford the higher-priced service may take advantage of it. We have no way of knowing, ourselves, as. to what should be the proper price to pay, and are not for one minute insinuating that any of our morti- cians are overcharging. There is every posibility that the three-, 'four-, or five-hundred dollars and up funeral is worth it; but there ”are a good many pe0ple who even in the burial of their dead must look to the cost. Like motor cars, there is a market for all cars of every price; in funerals, there is un- doubtedly a great difference between the price some pe0ple can afford to pay and what others can not. At any rate, we do not see it is very much of a government’s business to regulate in these cases. The Dominion Government lost out in its legal fight some years ago to control the price of newsprint and other papers and keep them from going too high, but this is the first instance we have heard of re- cently that any administrative body has attempted to legislate to keep prices to the consumer from be- ing too low. . A dispatch from Niagara Falls tells of the sui- cide of a young immigrant girl, a Hungarian, who came to Canada only two months ago. The great majority of newspaper readers who saw this passed it over, perhaps, with the remark that it was too had, and then forgot all about it. Why not try and look at the incident from the girl’s angle? Some of us can; to many of us it is merely one of the passing events. Only those who have found themselves in a foreign country, without a home, without friends, no money, out of work, no place to go, can at all appre- ciate what this young immigrant may have had to pass through. The suicide route 'is not the right one, but when one gets into a certain state of mind it is but a step, when everything seems black, to end it all. There are thousands of peOple in Ontario who do not know what living really is. We who have our friends, our home, and our native country at our all ICILUD, UHL JLVLLIV, “A.“ v v.- -â€"â€" v _ . _ hack cannot appreciate the other felloW’s outlook. It is one thing to be poor at home and quite another to be in a similar condition in a foreign land. Recently we have heard a good deal about the increased rates in automobile insurance, the public generally condemning it as a hold-up, and the in- surance companies defending their rise in prices on the ground that they were losing money. A reâ€" presentative of one insurance firm told THE CHRON- ICLE not long ago that his company was not particu- larly interested Whether or not the Government would approve the rise. If they did, they would be satisfied, if permission to increase the rates were denied his company would be compelled to leave the automobile field to others. They had lost money in seems quite reasonable. Drivers are to be placed on a “merit” basis, which provides for a ten per cent credit under certain qualifications. The driver must take an afiidavit that his license has not been suspended, that his brakes are kept in order, that he has not been in an accident and that he has no con- nections with speeding. -. n O l‘ _._ -1 LVVVL o a- “v now-w ”wâ€" as such. If he had been a casualty collector and a consistent liability he will be classed as undesirable from an insurance standpoint, his rates raised ac- cordingb’, or his application refused. The general public is not in a position to judge ofihand if the rise in rates is or is not justified. Casualty‘ insurance is a business transaction purely and simmy. Insurance companies are entitled to a reasonable profit the same as any other business, and if each succeeding Ear shows a deficit and the Government refuses an increase in rates, it is not likely they will continue. UNDERTAKERS’ ADVERTISING‘ POOR DRIVERS MUST PAY THE SUICIDE ROUTE THE DURHAM CHRONICLE Council met April 15th. Members all present. Minutes ,adopted- ‘ , MeEachemâ€"Robb: That the report of the Road Superintendent for work on roads be adopted. â€"-Carrled. A petition. signed by a. number 01 ratepayers, was submitted to the Counâ€" cilrequating that 120 rods oi road. which is in poor condition on the 25th sideroad, Concession 16, be gravgllcd. â€"â€" v“ v vâ€"__â€"â€"....-. Mackâ€"Phflp: That the Council in- spect the 25th sideroed, concession 16, when on their tour of inspection of roads in the near 1uture.â€"-Carried. Mr. John McArthur, Road Superin- tendent, tendered his resignation to the Council to take effect at once. Philpâ€"McEechern: That the resig- nation of the Road Superintendent!» acceptedâ€"Carried. ‘ - Mackâ€"Philp: That David Allan be appointed to act as Road Superintend- ent interim, until a Superintenden is appointedâ€"Carried. ‘ â€"rr‘â€"'~' McEachernâ€"‘Robb: That the Clerk be instructed to advertise for applica- tions for the oflice of Township Road Superintendent, applications to be in the Clerk’ s office on or before noon. Monday, April 29th .--Carried'. Robbâ€"McEa-chern: That a special meeting of Council be held Monday April 29th at 2 o’clock pm. to receive applications for Road Superintendent. â€"Carried. McEachernâ€"Philp: That the fol- lowing questions be submitted to the Department of Highways as to whether wire fences should be measured by Road Superintendent or foreman, and as to payment by cheque' through Road Superintendent or Treasurer.-â€"'- Carried. Resolved that the following accounts be paid: J. Eurig, sheep killed, $25.00; P. Shea, dc, $20.00; W. Orchard, in- specting sheep, $1.50; J. McPhee, do, $1.00; Pay sheet No. 4‘ for road im- provement $861.60; superintendent’s services $29. 75; members of Council at- tendance at meeting to date $15 .;00 R. Christie uSe of room, $2 ..00 Council adjourned to meet Monday, May 27th at 10 o’clock a.m. fOr general business and as a Court of Revision on the assesment roll. Court of Re- vision opens at 2 o’clock pm. All per- sons having business at said Court are hereby requested to attend at time above mentioned. Met on April 6th at Township Hall. Minutes of last meeting read and ad- apted. Communications _ were _ rgad from: T. S. Cooper, Agricultural Re- presentative, Markdale, re school fairs; C. Ramage Son, printing account; Financial Statements, Auditors’ Re- ports, etc.; from G. Irwin, sheep claim. Mr. M. Black, Road Superintendent, presented voucher No. 3 for Road Im- provements, total amount of which was $220.72. This report was adopted and payments ordered on motion of Messrs. Boyd and Wright. McKechnieâ€"McGirr: That Duncan Smellie be appointed Weed Inspector in Ward 2 in place of John Stodhart, resigned, and that the following be ap- pointed patrolmen where those ap- pointed previously are unable to act: Road 2, section 2, Thos. Tucker. Road 2, section 3, Wm. McLeod. Road 6, section 2, James Banks . Road 8, section 2, John Wilson, lot 11, concession 10. McGirrâ€"IMcKechnie :' That “Dur- ham Review” Printing Account am- ounting to $179.00 b_e paid_.-_â€"C_ar£ied. Road 9, section 2, William McCarthy. -â€"Carried. McGirrâ€"McKechnie: That the fol- lowing changes be made in patrol di- visions: 1.â€"Sideroad 35, E. G. R... from Base- line to Con. 2, E.G.R., to be taken from sec. 3, Road 1, and added to sec. 1, road 6. '2.â€"â€"Sideroad 40. E.G.R. from Base- line to Con. 2, E.G.R. to be taken from sec. 3, road 1, and added to sec. 1, road r .. 3.â€"Sideroad 42, E.é.R. to be taken from sec. 4, road 1 and added to sec. 3, road 1. 4.â€"Sideroad 56, (Durham Road) from Concession 2, E.G.R. to Red Cross Memorial Hospital, to be taken tron} :. 5, road 1 find added to sec. 4, road Glenelg Council â€"DAVID ALLAN, Clerk. élfision of play; Kingsville, in front of J ac] bird sanctuary, where they : cared for. About 1,599 wild W'W JUL. 55w“... â€",v-- .. geese may be seen resting and {ceding} on the ponds of .he sanctuary.~ V isit-‘ ors from all over the continen. are visiting the little town to see this uni- que sight. . __â€"_â€"â€".â€"â€"â€"- DOES IT APPLY ON YOUR FARM? The Bruce County results revealed that one sample of barley had 1,614 weed seeds per pound, 789 of them be- ing primary noxiousâ€"the worst kinds. With this barley sown at the rate of two bushels, 154,944 weed seeds would go on each acre. A grass seed sample had 4,652 weed seeds per oz.â€"â€"a 15-11). grass seeds per oz. A Prospect - Stranger: “I represent a society for the prevention of profanity. I want to take profanity entirely out of your life w“J“ones (calling his wife)â€"“I say, Mary, here’ 5 a man who wants to buy chies’, Bentmck. ,Finder please leave at Noble’s Garage. Reward. 1 O IAIHA 161K710 LAJ vâ€" 7-- 25c. and 50¢. a boxâ€"at dealers every. 3, mind; keep on: that you love. u‘ of Swamp College (Our Own Correspondent) The syrup-making is almost over this burg. Some have pulled the spll Bornâ€"On March 24th, to Mr. 9. Mrs. Oliver Bell (nee Aggie Black) son. Robert Cllflord. motored out Friday to Pricevillem visit her parents Mr. and Mrs. A1. Carson. Mr.aners.A.L villevisitedherpare Angus McCannell, '1 Mr. John Coulter to see his sister, M: ville visited her parents, Mr. and M Angus McConnell, Thursday. Mr. John Coulter went to Tom: toseehlsslster,Mae, who is int General Hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Knox visi recently at Mr. Ed. Heard’s. -Mr. and Mrs. Alex. Richardson :3 Bay were Sunday visitors at Mr. I: McNalty's. While playing with an air gun. Gm McCannell. son of Mr. Donald M Cannell, Boothville, met mm a pai ful accident. The little fellow put THE PEO Western Fe! We expect three Gunn’s the first week in Ma Those requiring order early. We have alway: grgdes of Flour anl prlces. Highest prices fl delivered at the mini Phone 8, Day or Niw SPECIAL OUR COATS ‘2: reduced and‘ No matter what :1 are interested in y: in complete 218sz black and nthvr s; kashas and trioM FINE’S JOHN ', April 18, 1929 Children's Pa odd sizes sale Custom 1' Ch: and we do it ' .. Hincks of Prie For “The .sThe Renai‘ per