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PAGE 4.’ T nahâ€"WA T SON. We would like to see the Hydro used on every farm in Ontario and we believe it can be made use of providing the farmers themselves will take it on the same basis as it is used in the towns. The average town citizen uses Hydro current‘for house lighting only. This includes not only the lighting service, but the use of electric washers, irons, toasters, and the like. We can see no good reason why the ma- jority of the farms of the province cannot be so served and when this is done the average farmer will enjoy the Hydro in the same manner as the average resident of the towns. power purposes. But we do believe he can enjoy the same privileges as the urban resident if he cares to take it on the same basis. At the commencement it may be that it will cost him more, but as his township’s debentures are paid 'off and the overhead drops it will get cheaper. Take Durham for in- stance. Hydro current at one time cost us ten cents a kilowatt hour. This was when we owed for practically our whole transmission system. Now, with fourteen-twentieths of our twenty-year debent- ures paid off, we have whittled it down to three cents. ‘ ‘ Q n ‘ Vvuw- Had the residents of the towns demanded the same service as the farmers, there is no telling how far the Hydro system would have gone. It is pos- sible it would have died in its infancy. No average town resident could afiord, even at our present low rates, to install even a three-horsepower motor for power purposes, and it is a rather unfair criticism for our South Grey representative to say (if he did say it) that “the farmer has to pay $6 for every $ that the urban citizen has to pay.” It is unfortunate that a good many peOple regard the Hydro as a political football. The Hydro is a strictly business proposition amongst those of the municipalities of Ontario who are served by it, and as we have frequently pointed out, even in Durham a citizen who does not use Hydro pays not one cent towards its upkeep, eXCepting only that small amount which goes into his taxes for street lighting. It is true that the Onario Government has guaranteed the Hvdro debentures, but the Government has seen to it. that every municipality which enters into the ers’ wives enjoying the same labor-saving devices as her urban neighbor. To our mind it is unm- sonable for farmers to expect all the domestic con- veniences now enjoyed by dwellers in the towns, with the addition of motors for running cutting-boxes, fil- ling silos and other farm work thrown in free. Like the town dweller, he can have these if he mm for them; like the town dweller, he cannot have anywhere 1' his command if he is not p any more than it will the average urban dweller or HYDRO QUESTION AGAIN the extent of its in- were many of the smaller places. some OI them] Dr. Cecil Wone 01 1m.» 9 ".m- pomm wwww ‘ inland, at which we put up for different penods. ° " ' . - ' and Mrs D. MOQ i And there is not a single one of the towns we visited .WOH‘h here. N ' d ladies sen . ' ’ “ i . .AndersonoifiagamCuflanothel' ‘ .. that we can'think of at which cocknghttng was not were of Mr. and I! '11: The W had the . . the pnncmaz amusement. fans gusts - 1 y, . . .Henderson on Sunday. . ‘ g Times must certainly have changed since we 3. W Ted and Bert Middleton “whammy. a: the home of MC % first visited that country which at that time might : - é 4.: visi ' with . - . 4 . _ _ . friend 0. Buaalo are tmg .1. . all into hie t] very aptly have been the section descnbed by Kipling and Mrs. A. Middlem in town. I P'JtEPg She We deepr wh en he said, «it was somewhere East of $1182 Mr. Thos. Binnie of Toronto visited ”Stand (in. help the needy an: . where the best is like the worst; where there are no his Parents , m- and 35’5- Georgeipam‘, to those in trouble E ten commandments and a man can raise a thirst.” €311” Gémif 0:5: fifth; and 'keep the infidsbu‘irlgirl ‘ a " 'e r ‘ ; "an '5 O t , communi’FF 3 But the. F111p1no-, like ourselye-,-have gone anOfad. daughter. Rum of amen, mted:‘t’:ng it a 5mm better -; Manila in those days was a sea or mud in the rainy :‘ with Mrs. John Bell. place. season, now it is a thoroughly modern city with: Miss Muriel Lane and _Mr. Men-me Community 1 street cars, waterworks and sewerage system, one $3051: of pan-5 . _ . :1 _ . . f of the finest docks and the largest cold storage plant a with Miss Mary Bell at 38! home in, Mrs. J. s. McIJIalth. An . - in the world ' -Glenelg. #811100”- was Spem- The ‘ - " ' Mr. William Mountam of Hamilton; cher served lunch at the ‘ " - ~_â€"--_ _-3.. m. â€"- “W‘L.-- ~_ 0 Somebodymnsthavebeendoingsomecleaningj upinthattownsinceweknewit. Inthose“good‘; Iloilo, 0510b, Dumanjug, Zamboanga, Tacioban, and other places, situated all over the islands from 11; buy “VLDW mo “um-5‘ “VB The small newspaper item quoted above may not 2. “.51 ted relatives in ! appeal to our general readers, but it certainly set us ' over the week-end. thinking. If one had predicted thirty years agoi Mrs. W. J. Mom that cockfighting would ever be made illegal in the land three cnfloren Philippines he would have been regarded as fit for agith Mr. and Mrs. ‘ t. Marys. examination as to his sanity. )1; Sponsored by the merchants of the town, THE CHRONICLE is running a “Buy-at-Home” Column. We are thoroughly in sympathy with the sentiments expressed therein and have never to our knowledge ever purchased anything outside of Durham that we could obtain from our local merchants. We have * -fi L- :-J..A’_ CUUIU vuwsu gnaw... v..- used all the “arguments we 'could think of to induce $18 others to do the same, and have conscientiously lived ‘ M] up to our oft-made statements that “it pays to pat- gues ronize your home-town merchants.” W811 It may not be business etiquette to refer to (181! such things in an editorial column, but we “rd would. respectfully submit to the approval of the J.” local ‘merchants and others that THE CHRONICLE is the fully equipped to take care of their requirements in Sne anything in the printing line. There is no more need wee' .for 3 Durham merchant to purchase his printed or: -__L__- ‘Q-Am supplies from sage _ of these tramp printers from Toronto than there is for us to buy our groceries and “Lots of Charges Against 0. Shaw” says last week’s Fergus News-Record. And now we wonder why the edltor dld not spell 1t “0 Pshaw. Egaly, “the world do move”. “BUY-AT-HOME” COLUMN VICTORIA DAY Chalevâ€"Wednada Hanoverâ€"Wednesqa. 1:. v Grand Valleyâ€"Wednesday. Mount Forestâ€"mass Madamâ€"Wednesday. 50m: HALF-HOLIDAYS He; “.Wen my fat wife to suppqrt now-Z Silk Bloomers to match ..... 98c. sans. All new sfiada $1.00. Glass Fruit Nappia, 5 for . 25c. You Will Find Them Real Bargains Rexdleufin Mat 14:28va. for SC. The Variety Store R. L. Saunders, Prop. PHONE 4 0w Saturday Morning Here '.’ Silk V0515, all popu- H.136” has axle-21.6 . mm. The heat was. innens. rain will make the grain grow 'Mrs. J. McNichol th has~ 5:; past two months with her brou Harry McKinnon, returned to h‘ in Toronto last week. 7 111885 Luella and Edna spent Sunday afternoon wit. Md. Louise Drier m. and Mrs. Clarkc and Guelph, spent the week- -eno‘ Walter Hermismn s. with her aunt. Mrs. William C Messrs, Ed. Macs and Jacob have both invested in new mm Mary Dillon sperm Lhc at her home m Mount, Forest SPECIA FUGI and at very 10W pri V0“ to 888 L"; (’H for Men, “'omen and (' Bring in the Lucid them fitted. VCP (_ Mt and the pr reasonablc.. Just the thing f9 Men’s fine and 11 Work Shoes. Men’s Work Shirts: from 9 For This W DURHAM ONT} A. A. AU This week we have a boa mge of Thursday, May 30, 1929 CHILDREN‘S OXFOR' THE P Western Phone 8, Day 01' Calderwood in Black and Tan TENNXS SHOES _Hgl_1iday spent RAYON SI Phone47 price Kiddies and 'ou