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PRICEâ€"5c. per copy: $2.00 per year in advance. United States 3250 per year in advance. PAGE 4. " "wvvvv' w w, I wvâ€" v, civil or religious to the test-”of freeâ€" discussion. is more in (on with his own opinion than with tho Truthâ€"WA T80. '. The Sun-Times calls attention to the fact that July and August will be the big months for tourist traffic and takes a rap at the Owen Sound Council for cutting off the usual publicity funds with which to advertise the city and vicinity. Its claim that the refusal of a grant for publicity purposes has not met with very general approval, especially by the business men of the city who pay the major portion of the taxes may be well founded but is a matter that must be dealt with in Owen Sound. It is really no one else’s business and we have no opinions to express. We do believe, though. that a certain amount of publicity is required if the tourists are to be kept coming this way in any numbers. The Owen Sound Sun-Times in a well-written editorial says that the tourist traffic should be en- couraged. From the back benches all will answer “Aye, Aye, Sir,” but the next step is to get out and do something. Situated on the lake shore Owen Sound is perhaps more interested in this touriSt traffic than towns like Durham and other inland municipalities, but at that we would like to see something done to encourage the annual visits of these tourists who spend thousands of dollars in the country. There is another matter which. should also be looked into. This is the condition of our highways, especially those under repair. We are all acquainted with the methods employed by the Grey County Road Commission in the matter of erecting detour signs. Compared with the system adopted by the Provincial Highways Department they are obsolete. We have never yet seen a proper detour sign erected by the County Commission when repairs were being made to road. There may have been such signs in use. but we. have never seen them. Only last Sunday while motoring to Thornbury by way of Eugenia we ran into a detour at the Eugenia intersection of the County and Durham roads some three miles east of Flesherton. The road was closed. This was the information given out by a sign on a pole erected on the bridge a few feet from the highway. And this was all the in-- formation it contained. There were no other direc- tions as to how one might get to Eugenia. To those of us who know this country it mattered very little, if any. but what would a stranger do? Township Councils could also help in attracting tourists to this part of Ontario by paying more at- tention to some things on the highway under their ‘ jurisdiction. A short distance south of Epping a bridge went out this spring. There is a sign at the top of a rather bad hill notifying motorists and ’ others that the bridge is out and that they may use the roadway at their own risk. A temporary bridge has been built and while the bridge is all that could be expected the approaches are in an abominable condition. A man or two with a pick and shovel would, in half an hour, make the approaches passable. .‘Jo doubt there are many other such cases throughout the county. These things may mean little to resid- ents in the vicinity, but they do mean a lot to strangers who are not acquainted with the roadways and who will appreciate any little courtesies that will make their travelling easier. There is little use in advertising this part of Ontario as a tourists‘ paradise if we are to continue the practice of detouring them off the main roads when repairs are being made, only to let them find their way back to the highway the best way they can. Advertising may bring them here, but it is the courtesy with which we receive them and the eas- iness with which they may get from any one point to where they are going that will hold them. Two hours spent in a strange country searching for a road that apparently isn't there will do more to make a man pass by any particular motor route than any- thing else we know. The depletion of the trout streams of Ontario has been causing serious thought for a good many years. Citizens are generally well informed on the manner in which the Government has attempted to restock the fishing areas of the Province by putting out fry and fingerlings, and most of us are also of the opinion that all this has not make very much difference in the numbers of fish to be caught. The general impression seems to be that the fishing of the future is doomed if something is not done. What that something should be, however, has not yet been worked out. A l '7 -_- LL- Circulation 10: 12 months. 1.400. v 7" Personally. we think the Government is on the wrong track. We do not believe that the disappear- ance of the fish can be blamed wholly on the fisher- men. It is true that there are too many fish hogs, and it is also true that there are too many fisher- men who will take fish that are not of the length required by law. Even this. in our opinion, does If there is one thing more than anything else that has contributed to the depletion of our streams we believe it is the clearing up of the country. Speckled trout are a cold water fish. They are also a fish that thrive best in a stream sur- rounded by woods. The cutting of the timber from alongside the river banks and the clearing up of the land has undoubtedly been responsible for the trout dying off or their failure to propagate. Speckled trout do not like too much sunlight and, with the clearing of the river banks of woods, the letting in of the sun’s rays and the consequent warming of the water the trout simply could not flourish. Add to this the fact that the sucker and the chub are a warm water fish and are said to feed on the spawn of the trout, it needs little imag- Whosoever is afraid of submitting a_ny question, ENCOURAGE THE TOURISTS Thursday, June 6, 1929. SAVING THE FISH ination to solve the riddle as to the disappearance of our best known and most highly prized game fish. It has long been known that with the disappearance of the bush the suckers and chub make their ap- pearance and the trout their exit. How to preserve our trout streams is a prob- lem. Several schemes tried so far have not been very successful. A suggestion might be for the Government to either buy or in some other manner Government to either buy or in some other manner get contrOI of the river banks, plant trees alongside and stock them with fry or fingerlings and prohibit fishing for two or three years. This might or might not be the solution, but we do not think the depOpu- lation of our fish streams will ever be overcome by the present methods so long as we continue to upset Nature and allow the sun to beat down on the unprotected waters. Those pe0ple who raise gold fish will tell you that they cannot do well in a jar placed in a strong light all the time. Why, then, should the speckled trout be expected to multiply in streams unprotected from the sun? The Rev. Dr. J. W. Gillon of Shawnee, Oklahoma, speaking at the closing session of the Fundamental- ist Baptist Young People’s Association of Ontario and Quebec gathering in Toronto last Friday night is credited with saying that “No man or woman is fit to be a church member who goes to the movies and every preacher who goes ought to be turned out of the church and his credentials taken from him.” This is rather strong language to use in preach- ing the gospel of goodwill toward men, meekness, charity, and other attributes of Christianity as expounded by the various churches of the land. He may be a good man and live up to what he preaches, but as for charity of thought, he did not display it very prominently in his Toronto address. One might be pardoned for inquiring if he was preaching for the sensation of getting his name on the front page, or for the good of his hearers. We haven’t a thing against the clergy or the church, but we do take a stand against fanatical utterances of this kind and fully believe that such doctrines will drive more people out of a church than it will attract. According to Rev. Dr. Gillon a person who attends a movie show is not even entitled to be regarded as a decent citizen. Mr. Gillon further stated that “every church is full of men and women who are drifting today till it has no power left”. Utterances like this can only make them drift further away. There are no doubt theatrical presentations that should not be allowed, and there it little ques~ tion that there are some movie attendants who are exerything that the Oklahoma divine says, but that is no reason why a public man should corne- out with the unqualified statement that everybody who at- tends a show belongs in this class. We believe that preachers, like others, should be charitable and tem- perate in thought and utterance, and not fanatical. fine hotel for his dinner and then criticized the whole meal because they had one or two articles on the bill of fare that he did not like. There are people attending the movies who are not what they should be. There are also peOple who parade to church each Sunday with sanctimonious step and an arm full of books who spend the balance of the week short-changing their fellow-men. If there is to be a general clean-up made, we would say to start at home with this latter class and deal with the other fellows later. We are loath to believe that the speaker refer- red to really did make such silly statements and think he must surely have been “misquoted” but in ant. event we have too much faith in numan nature to think that a man has to sing psalms and yell his head off if he hopes to be classed with that salt I of the earth, Mr. General Average Citizen. Religion, like fire, is a good thing, but it is dangerous to let it get out of control. It may nose- dive and cause trouble. This old world still contains a large majority of humans who, while perhaps not heavyweights at church attendance, go about their daily avocations peacefully and honestly, and trying to do well by their fellow-men. What has become of the “Social and Personal” column in the majority of the weekly newspapers? They are one of the newspaper’s features still, it is true, but how different! Blame it on the automobile. impossible to keqp track of the family v1s1tors without a good deal of help‘ from the hosts or host- esses and these, too, as busy as the rest of us, have little time for this kind of thing. llLue Luuc Lu; uuu as...“ v- _ Travel has become one of the common things of life in this year of grace, and once a thing becomes common, it is apparently less interesting. A few years ago the only travelling in this country was done by train and about the only places visited were the city or distant points. There was no dodging the news reporters then. Nowadays a person can back out the motor car and spend two or three days two hundred miles away, return to town and nobody knows anything about it. Not so very long ago a visit to Holstein or Priceville ,was an event and had to be recorded. Now one may combine the two places with several others during a single evening’s outing and the neighbors know nothing more of it other than that you had the family out for a ride. There is so much visiting nowadays, and so many visitors, that unless one is well acquainted with the circumstances little attention is paid to it. A few years ago a stranger in town was a marked There is so much visiting many visitors, that unless one with the circumstances little atte A few years ago a stranger in 1 man; now he is lucky if he 2 He may be a visitor at your a tourist from Alabama. strangers passing through a town the average newspaper reporter gets dizzy watching them go by. ceases to ask questions of so personal a nature and tin society column suffers as a result. The column set aside in the small town weekly newspapers for “those of your friends who come and go” is still there, and while it is smaller than a few years ago it is not due to the dilitoriousness of the reporter so much as his utter inability to keep in touch with the numerous motor cars and separate the tourists from the honest-to-goodness visitors. THE PERSONAL COLUMN FANATICAL LOGIC THE DURHAM CHRONICLE “y. L“. Wu -.â€"-. and mother. and 51 Mrs. Neil Livings1 Sham; _and mother. While returning from Owen Sound on Tuesday afternoon. Mr. Lloyd (Tory) Gregg had a narrow escape from serious injury, when his roadster was crushed by a heavy coupe. just north of Tara. Swinging up over a sharp grade, travelling at a moderate speed, Lloyd was confronted by a team of horses on his left. and another car. a Studebaker coupe driven by a Tor- onto commercial traveller. on his right. the latter in the act of passing the horse-drawn vehicle. The Toronto man swung farther to Gregg's right in an attempt to let Gregg pass between Had Narrow Escape MOURN INFANT DAUGHTER too close to avert the collision. Throw- the wheel of the car over hard to avoid striking head-on. he was struck near the back of the car on the right side. His car was completely turned around by the impact. Both cars were greatly damaged. but fortuname no- one was seriously injured. Mr. Charlie McArthur, of town. one of the pas- sangers in Gregg's car had his right arm badly scraped on the wind-shield. 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