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PAGE 4. Paving, to our notion is in the same class as an education. A man may not feel that he can afford to educate himself beyond a certain limit, but that is no reason why he should not do so. He pays for it anyway in decreased earning power And so with the pavement. The cost of a pavement will most certainly raise our taxes a certain amount, but we shall have the enjoyment and the financial advantages that go with clean streets and decreased repair bills. The letting of the contract for Garafraxa street has been the cause of another petition being circu- lated on Lambton and Bruce streets. The residents of these streets apparently want paving, too, and if a sufficient number of them put thelr names on the petition they will get it. No resident along Lamb- ton street who must know the conditions that now obtain on this much used thoroughfare can be sat- isfied with the rutty roadway and the mud. None but would willingly pay a little more taxes to better these conditions. With the trucking from the freight sheds, the motor traffic, and the wet season last 'summer and fall, this roadway has been a most expensive one. That is the trouble with these dirt We have been informed that there is a hitch somewhere with the Lambton street paving petition. It seems that the proposition as it stands at present is for a '. anty-foot strip of pavement down the centre of 2221-. roadway. Several residents who ad- vocate paving are opposed to this and say they will not sign the petition unless the street is built up wider and with a curb. Personally, we think they are right. We cannot see that a property owner will derive very much benefit from a strip of pavement though the centre of the highway, with the mud and dirt on both sides where it has been swept by the passing cars. We would suggest that the citi- zens interested call a meeting among themselves and talk it over. we think it is about the best move this place has made in a good many years. There are those, un- doubtedly, who will see the expenditure and find fault on the ground that we cannot afford it, but the most of us will find consolation in the know- ledge that while it is a costly proposition we shall have something for our money and enjoy some of the comforts that other towns, no better off finan-o cially than we are, have been in possession of for Whether we like it or not, whether we can afford it or not, whether we agree with the idea or not, as conditions stand at present it is the ‘ rankest folly to attempt to keep up main-travelled roads in towns by gravelling. Quite satisfctory fifteen years ago, these dirt roads are obsolete today. There is more traffic, and all of it travels faster, the result being that our roadways become cut up in the wet weather, and in the dry weather they are ground up and the dust wafted away by the fast-moving traffic. THE CHRONICLE is strongly of the opinion that towns like Durham must pave if they hope to keep up with the 'Other municipalities. roads where traffic is heavy. They cost a lot of money to keep up, are never in good shape, and the only solution seems to pave. ' South street, connecting at both ends with the Provincial Highways. This paving proposition is going to cost us, in the rough, . sixty-some thousand dollars before we are through with it, but at that tome Durham has at last sprung into the modern town class when, at a special meeting of the Town Council on Monday evening the contract was let for the pav- ing of Garafraxa street from the Durham Road to Truthâ€"WA TSON. Of this we do not know. THE CITIZEN no doubt is giving the city end of the argument and while we can personally agree that there is altogether too much .of this unstamped, non-addressed advertising literature going through the post ofl'ice, we cannot express an authentic OpiniOn as to how the argu- ment would be received by the rural dwellers. We have watched “circular” day in Durham post oflice, however, and can say that not one in ten on an average took their circular from the ofiice. It . Paving is expensive, but it is not nearly so cost- ly as the attempt to have good roads under the old We have noticed considerable discussion lately in some of our exchanges in reference to the direct- by-mail advertising, its possible results, and the ef- ficacy of such a method for attracting the pnblic’s attenton. The Ottawa Journal thinks that the bur- dening of the post 011' ices and the mail carriers with this class of postal matter involves too much risk of loss of important private letters, is a nuisance to the recipients and degrading to the. postman. The Durham Chronicle Circulation for 12 months, 1.4“). Whosoe'ver is afraid of submitting any question, or religious to the test of free discussion. is ainlmm with his mooim'on thanwithths DIRECT MAIL ADVERTISING Thursday, May 2, 1929. OUR WISEST MOVE in the waste basket; Whether these circulars are treated in the same manner by the recipients on the rural routes we do not know ' Things like these are what contribute to keep the cost of living at its present high peak. We want all kinds of service. The grocer, butcher, or other tradesman who is not prepared to deliver the small- est order to his customer is bound to lose out. In the old days people went shopping; today they pick up the telephone. And, strange to say, there are only a few who pause to consider that all this service costs money. Somebody must pay for it, and that some- body is generally the consumer. He should have little complaint. He it is who demands all this so- called “free” service, and he is receiving the benefits of the extra cost in the service which delivers his smallest purchases to his door almost as soon as he could do it himself. It has been suggested that the Grey County Council lend assistance to the village of Neu'stadt in the re-establishment of some of the citizens of that village who suffered serious loss in the flood of early April. It is not likely that the Council can do anything legally, but it is within the rights of the citizens to start a subscription list if it is found that N eustadt residents need monetary assistance to repair the damage. Canadians have been quick to subscribe to funds for the alleviation of suffering in distant lands. It is but right that they should have the same consideration for their own citizens who meet with reverses not of their own making. We have been told that the greatest damage in Neustadt was done to private property and that the highway and bridge destroyed are only a small portion of the loss. The case is at least worth investigating. Any- way, the residents of the striken village might not feel inclined to accept assistance. Like other. institutions in the country, the post ofiice department has changed its methods in the past few years. Up to a comparatively short time ago there were certain rates obtainble by everybody, great or small, rich or poor. You could take it or leave it Today the post office, like everything else, is after business. A few years ago the department would look at you in scorn had you requested that you be allowed the privilege of mailing the patrons‘ of a rural route your batch of advertising literature by simply paying the postage in cash, depositing the correct number with the postmaster, and not even attaching the names. A few years ago the same department would never think of allowing that same literature to be distributed to the box holders and at the general delivery for half a cent apiece, and minus] the address. Today the postal authorities sol icit that kind of business. I It is but one more departure from old conditions and the time. may come when a city letter carrier instead of the letter bag now supplied may need some kind of motor transportation and a“ helper to deliver his mail in the city. An Edmonton, Alberta, reader, _ who did not disclose his identity, sent us a copy of THE JOURNAL of the 22nd ult., containing. an editorial on the Am- erican Association for the Reconsideration of War Debts, of which Frederick W. Peabody is managing director. The Association does not favor the atti- tude of many in the United States, and advocates the concellation of a certain portion of the debt. It is requested that we reproduce the article in THE CHRONICLE, but as we dealt with it fully in our issue of April 11, we feel that its repetition would serve no good purpose. We regret our subscriber did not funish his name that we might forward a copy of the issue referred to. \ Dr. Charles G. Turnbull, editor of the Sunday School TIMES, in an interview with the editor of Toronto GLOBE, said that “the youths of today need Christianity”. Why the youths? Several old coots of our acquaintance might also be benefitted. The continued wet weather is playing havoc with the farmers. Early as Spring came, there have been but few warm days and then it rains. The farmers will soon have to get on the land if those big crops predicted for Grey County this year are Wait until Durham gets her new pavements !_ What a change it will be from present conditions! The new cars with their four-wheel "brakes can certainly be stopped a iot more quickly than the old variety. But drivers are taking more chances, Which makes it about even. Mayor McBride of Toronto is suing THE TELE- GRAH of that city for libel. Gosh, but we editors have a hard life! ' . Major H. O. D. Segrave is now Sir Henry Segrave, the intrepid automobile racer having been knighted by King George. We predict that Sir Henry has driven his last race. Somehow or other auto racing does not seem to .fit in with knighthOOd. and to know that the winning car was driven by Sir Henry Segrave hasfi’t half the kick in it that the information that/“Major” Segrave was at the steer- ing wheel has. N EUSTADT’S PREDICAMENT NOTES AND COMMENTS THE DURHAM CHRONICLE; heexpressedthe fear“le8t I myself shouldbeacastaway” But “the“ hehadnomissmnzsolnmsemty hehasassuranceiromonhizh- Th9 the world to Jesus Christ and his righteousness. Oh that men’s hearts would be opened to Christ that they might have the gospel call! Popular in Saskatoon A copy of the Saskatoon Star-Phoe- nix to hand refers to Mr. Burnett as a most popular pastor, and at the services held in .Parkview church, Saskatoon, the building was packed to overflowing by the congregation he had served so well. The service was in the hands of the provincial presbytery, the ministers from the various districts taking part. Canon Armitage of St. John’s Cathedral as head of the Sask- atoon ministerial association read the lesson. The sermon was, preached by Rev. Samuel Farley" moderator of synod, Regina, who stressed the out- standing characteristics of Mr. Burnett, mentioned the, great work he had done in Saskatoon and for the Presbyterian church at large and declared that in v--'.- vâ€"â€" v. ' all things fir? Burnett had been a lamplighter. , The service was attended by people of every faith and denomination. Re- presentatives were present from the university, from the difierent organi- zations within Mr. Burnett’s parish and from the Cosmopolitan Club of which he was one of the outstanding members. / _ _ “AV.AA "v- ~- . The speaker sketched his life briefly from his birth at Belfast, Ireland, 43 years ago, of his service with the forces during the war. He was a graduate in Arts of the University of Saskatche- wan, and in theology of Knox College, Toronto. A J -v-v- A large number of the ministers of all denominations attended the funer- al and six of them acted as pall bear- ers. These were Rev. D. Smith of Vancouver, representing the Board of Missions of the Presbyterian Church in Canada; Rev. A. Leggett of Kindersley; Rev. G. H. Holmes, Rev. A. Ward, Rev. H. A. McLeod and Rev. J. P. Mc- Leod, representative of the Ministerial Association Interment at Niagara Falls A copy of last ,week’s $t. Marys Jour- nal-Argus, before us, tells of the fun- eral service at Niagara Falls on Sun- day, April _21. The service was con- __ .- -"-1I-___ A: “a..." Q. CV--- ‘Mr. Burnett has been closely ‘asso- ciated with me in the Christian work ever since we left school. We were on adjoining fields of labor, neighbors until 18 months ago. Our close associa- tion made us brothers. I got to know him intimately and loved him. I found in him a rare friend, adviser and finest young men. He was a man of rare promise, a conscientious student. He would not let anything shoddy past but used his time and energy in pro- ducing the bes .” “The remains were interred in Fair- view cemetery and m ere followed to their last resting place by a procession of over 100 cars,” continues the Jour- rial-Argus. “The many and beautiful “u , --r-â€" â€"_- . ducted .by Rev. W. J. Walker of Drum- mond Hill, formerly of St. Marys, an intimate friend of the deceased. Mr. Walker was assisted by Revs. R. A. Cranston of Welland and H. C. Feast of Thorold. Referring to his deceased friend, Mr. Walker said: I-,_1_‘ ._____ (Continued from page 1) “the crown at righteousness" rewardisstrikinso Vlu, w..â€" "â€"v _- . V o g? :1‘51'13n‘t‘o â€"Mount Forest Confeder- The engagement is announced of Ettie, daughter of Mrs. Levine and the late Mr. J. Levine, to Edward, son of Mr. W. Gold, and the late Mrs. Gold, â€"___g-_g‘_ Mr. W. T. Smith and sister, Mrs Baker, left this morning for Owen Sound, where they will take up resid- ence. Many friends here wish them every 'succeés, but good citizens. We had a pleasant call from Mr. George Arrowsmith of Saginaw, Mich., while in town last week visiting his mother, Mrs. S. Arrowsmith. As the representative for a large printing firm in the United S tes, the smell of printers’ ink is mm to Mr. Arrow- smith and he never fails when in town McKINNONâ€"WILSON A very interesting wedding was quietly solemnized at one o’clock on Saturday afternoon at St. Luke’s An- glican church, Ottawa, of Phyllis. only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Aldham Wilson, of Brandon, Man., to Hector Brown McKinnon, son of the late Neil McKinnon and Mrs. McKinnon of Tor- onto, formerly of Priceville, Ont. Rev. J. E. Lindsay officiated. The bride, who was unattended, wore a charming ensemble costume of navy blue with touches of white and a hat to match. Mr. and Mrs. Lerle Johnson. accompanied the young couple and acted as witnesses. in giving us a call. Later a wedding breakfast was served at the home of Mr. and. Mrs. Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. McKinnon leaving later for Montreal en route to the south. They will take up resid- encc in Ottawa - on their return. The bridegroom was formerly city editor of the Toronto Globe and was a member of the parliamentary press gallery at Ottawa for a number of years. Latterly - he has been with the tariff board. . He is well known in Durham, being a nephew of Mrs. A. Weir and a cousin of Mrs. J. M. Bur- gess. world and when he journeys to the great Unknown, he leaves behind him a record founded upon his own acts. Will you be missed? ' You may leave behind you a wife or children or other dependents. As you deal by them in life, so will their grief be gauged, and tempered by your death. Win you be missed? In this town you have friends and business associates and perhaps many acquaintances. They know you as you -n- Will you be missed? 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