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PAGE 4. (manhunt: for 13 months. 1.400. m.wm;wwmmW-‘°W mmwwmmm- Truthâ€"WA TSON. “16! us "new . -vv---_- have been accustomed to motorists paying fines for speeding and the change to slow motion fine rather shocked some of us. We believe the magistrate was well within his rights and used good judgment. We hepe, however, that the traffic officers and the magistrates will use their heads in enforcing this new regulation. Enforced generally, the law will become a joke and a nuisance. A motorist driving ten miles an hour on a busy thoroughfare and block- ing the traffic should be fined. It does not neces~ sarily follow that'that same motorist should be com- pelled to drive at any minimum speed on all high- ways. lf so, where do the pleasure drivers come in? We would hate to think we would have to maintain a speed of thirty-five miles an hour, or pay a fine. It might be cheaper to sell the car. There are times when speed means safety. The recent fining of s. motorist for too slow driving on a congested highway has probably taught him the lesson that blocking traffic is to be looked v â€"-'- ‘ We have little use for the recent ruling of an Ontario magistrate that a funeral hearse must maintain a minimum speed of thirty miles an hour. That sounds too arbitrary altogether, and depends upon where it is going. Our highways, while built mostly for through traffic, must also be used for local traffic and if local people care to take the car out for a spin and do not feel like driving over twen- ty miles an hour they should have that privilege. Laws are made for protection, not persecution, and if the local magistrates of the Province are to ".7 Laws are made for protection, not persecution, and if the local magistrates of the Province are to have a free hand in determining what is right and what is wrong in speed limits then may the good Lord look after us. The maintenance of law and order is the object of our courts but from the man- ner in which some of them are run we could be ex- cused for thinking that they were established for The Durham Chronicle We have before us a letter from Mr. A. D. Mac- Kenzie, editor and proprietor of the Lucknow Sen- tinel, part of whose editorial on “The Decline of Sport” we referred to last week. While The Chron- icle was referring more particularly to the disap- pearance of lacrosse from the majority of towns in Ontario, The Sentinel sticks to his guns and thinks that amateur sports in this country are in a flourish- ing condition. Referring to our last week’s remarks The Sentinel editor says: “I think it depends upon whether you regard the game for the players or for the spectators. Baseball is, I think, the best field game for the entertainment of a crowd. But assum- ing that everybody should play in the Open for diver- sion, exercise and fun, tennis is much superior to baseball. It is lively, develops skill and sociability, and provides splendid exercise for the office or fac- tory worker. Of course it is a game for the players, not for the onlookers. The same is true of golf. For _- LL- .1.... spccauu a. Personally The Ch roniclc editor is not very much of a sport. We are just naturally not built that way. We have a stomach that bounces too much when we run and flops too much when we attempt to play tennis. And anyway. liking the'sport for sport’s sake. we take more to baseball or lacrosse, for it is a game that both players and spectators may enjoy. Last week’s Maclean’s Magazine had an article by Robert J. C. Stead telling why he preferred lawn bowling to golf. Lawn bowling was sociable, m de friends and mixed one up with his fellows; gol is what is known as a “loner” game. The average golfer with his plus fours ’n everything goes it alone out on the green, and even if he is playing a foursome finds himself many times alone on the big It would seem from the above that Editor Mac- Kenzie and The Chronicle are referring to altogether different subjects. What we referred to more than anything else was the fact that Canada’s National game, lacosse, was pushed to one side for the import- ed sports from other countries. Baseball is a pr0« duct of the United States, golf came originally, we believe, from Scotland, bowling and tennis from Europe, while lacrosse is a distinctly Canadian game, as Canadian as hockey, and whose decline we very much regret. - Aâ€"--Ann ‘k:hb mucu ":51“. We would not for a moment have anyone think that we are opposed to any of these games; on the contrary we would like to see them all prosper and lacrosse with them. Nobody but a bigot would wish to choose the game his neighbor should play. We appreciate Mr. MacKenzie’s attitude that he likes a game that is for the players, but at the same time we think it is nice to also have something for the specators. bowling. UV qmtioeur side, the other Whenever is afraid of wbmittiug any question. SLOW DRIVING ON HIGHWAYS Hw'vith his partner yards ‘tffl Thursday, July 11, 1929 TAKE YOUR CHOICE SOME ACTION NEEDED fellow’s side, away. Not so with Mr. A. D. Mac- lieve the half we hear. There have been numerous chicken thefts in the town and vicinity, and during the past ten days we have heard of two cases where tires have been removed from cars either in garages or stored in yards. Both the cases we refer to occur- red on the front street. Is it possible that Durham should have a night- constable on the job? We know full well, before anyone calls it to our attention that it is going to cost us some money. Nowadays we get but very little that we do not pay for._ Times have changed and the advent of the au- tomobile has made it possible for those who engage in burglary for a living to rob a store during the night and be two or three hundred miles away by morning. We believe that the time for a nightwatchman in towns is coming, if not here. There may not seem much necessity for it for Durham as we have had no serious burglaries here for years, ' but we feel that we must be pessimistic and say that our time is coming. “ 0 I ,I - ML -_- 011110 I” Vv......a' Night prowlers are well up in their trade. They know those towns which have nightwatchmen and keep away from them. During the summer months - LL - o.- ACOA ‘.'n Some weeks ago a man, alleged to have been under the influence of liquor, brutally beat his wife, when their son, a young lad, shot and killed his father. Who is responsible? "‘ ‘ I “A. especi'al'l;v vehen the motor cars are on the move, we believe a competent nightwatchmen is a good thing and would regard his appointment as an investment rather than an expense. LaUIICIo " IIV In .vw vvâ€"v The Rev. Dr. Johny-Buchanan, Moderator of the Presbyterian General Assembly has the following to say: “The sad parish father, the Rev. V. G. McFad- den, says: ‘The one who is responsible for the death of Anthony Tucker is the man who supplied him with the liquor.’ But do we not need to go back a step or two more? The government that authorized the sale of it did it. Then, we, the pe0ple of Ontario, who sanctioned the liquor-selling business, did it. So there it is: Drink did itâ€"we did it.” There is no doubt that Dr. Buchanan’s argument will find favor in a good many quarters, but if this kind of argument is true in "the liquor business it must be true in any other business. shot-gun, or a razor. That man takes that which he has purchased and either hangs himself from a raf- ter of his barn, sticks the gun up against his body and pulls the trigger, or severs his jugular vein with the razor. Who is responsible? ,_.IR 2.. ‘vllc Kabul. vv now -u - '"l' _ Personally, we would say that the man himself is responsible in that he did not have sufficient back- bone to face the worries of this world, or else, pos- sibly he was ill and_ wanted to end it all. It “-34-.. LLA “an“ D‘UIJ I V v Accordiwrigmgtoâ€"“Rev. Mr. McFadden, the man who sold the rope, the gun or the razor, was respon- sible, but Dr. Buchanan would go one better and say that the government was responsible because they allowed the manufacturers to turn out this kind of product, and that, finally, we, the people, were re- sponsible in that we allowed the government to allow the manufacture of rope, guns and razors for the hardware merchant to sell that some poor unfortun- ate might purchase them and use them to do away with himself. Now, really, who is responsible? And we ask this question in all sincerity, and with a desire for more information. President Hoover of the United States seems to have pulled a boner when he invited the wife of colored congressman to a recent social affair at the White House. From all over the south have come protests, and the end is not yet. .Despite its democracy, this “land of the free and the home of the brave” draws a most distinctive color line, so much so that there is a remote possibil- ity, were it ignored sufficiently in the North, that it might cause another civil war. The Southerner tolerates the negro. That is all. To ask him to treat him as an equal is an in- sult. There is no argument as to whether it is right or wrong; so far as the Southern States are concerned the negro will never obtain his equality as long as the reins of government are in the white 31 man’s hands. Many of President Hoover’s most intimate friends in the North simply cannot understand how he came to commit such a glaring political blunder, while others, who may sympathize with the black man in his fight for liberty share the same opinion. NOTES AND COMMENTS “Hanover Council May Close Its Eyes If Dances Are Held” says a heading in last week’s Hanover Post. Gosh, but they must be wearing them short there! Why not cover their faces with their hands and peel: through their fingers? A contemporary says that husbands should share the housework with their wives. With the bowling season at its height they’ll be lucky if they don’t have to do it all. The fining of an Ontario motorist recently for too slow driving and the daily fines for going too fast, merely emphasizes one point. The Government and the traffic oflicers are doing their best to check up on the all too frequent accidents on our highways. Motorists should drive sanely and with common sense at all timeh. Three violent deaths which occurred “within an hour” are reported by the North Battleford (Sash) News, which says that an auto killed one and heart failure killed two. Is it possible that the three died from “head” failure in one instance and “heart” failure in the other two? WHO IS RESPONSIBLE ? THE COLOR LINE OTHER PAPERS" OPINIONS taught that the cuckoo is a lazy ani- mal, who never bothers about a nest. but lays her eggs in the nest of a neigh- bor bird. permits the other bird to hatch the voumz. who in turn usurp hatch the young, who In turn usurp the home. and when they gain strength pitch the legitimate family out of the nest? The cuckoo has ut- terly failed to establish a reputation as ,_ - _L I..-‘ ‘kt. -'-â€"v __-_ a homo Builder in the past, but Toronto poet may have discovere new species.â€"Flesherton Advance. Hurrying the Dead Traffic regulations, like everything else, can be worked to death; and it fell to the lot of an Ontario magistrate to go the limit and issue a ruling that is being met with the disgust of the general public. This magistrate in his court ruled. that a motor funeral. cor- tege, travelling on the public high- ways. must- not travel at a lower speed. than thirty miles an hour or an offence would be constituted under the High- way Traflic Act. Such a ruling is pre- posterous. Since when did. it become _ __L -5 - .IAk‘fl‘l'A “7C ‘3 yvvuw-vu - 7â€"--- a law that any sort of a vehicle was forced to travel at any given rate of speed on the highways, let alone a funeral precession? Why should. any man wish to hurry the dead to their grave? What matters it to other motorists along the road whether they are held up for a few minutes’ time or a few hours’ time. if out of respect for the dead? Never will any country be worth a single count if it does not honor its dead. who. while in life did their share of making the country what it is. Canadian motorists are not of the low nature that such a ruling as this magistrate has given will ap- lpeal to them. And any magistrate Iwhe is wont to hand out such ignomin- ,_ -â€"--.I I..-“ IU “' W ‘1." W -uâ€"vâ€" v' _ _ ious judgment should be removéd from the bench with the utmost Speed. Thm ruling shquld. be counteracted by the -___--A‘A‘A“' __Vin- ma‘ W'v-vâ€"- nical typé. of a 'style more suitable to the general reader. or may be such Why is we're such itâ€"he paét, but the have discovered a a table. From for seen in every block. eXpedient to guide a stranger through an unknown urban centre. The On- tario Motor League has also done much. to make automobile touring pleasant. But strange it is that no one has. an..-” nf identifvinfl the rivers to gut strange it is that thought of _identifying other place through Wluuu t. ..... courses. The same is also true off rivers with which some township: ar~ favored. What use is the name of the. 1 rural municipality to 2 visitor if he cannot associate it literally with r. beautiful stream which adds interest? ¢ People are curious, especially when; something pleases them and such ‘ places that are favored with a stream running through the municipality would add. much to then reputation ii the visitor could carry away with him ' the name of the river. As it is he intends to look it up when he get': homeâ€"and forgets.â€"Allistor. Herald. July is the month of care-free nou- days. when everyone leaves the work- a-day world for 2. brief glimpse into lands of romance. to laze away peace- ful hours by a cool lake or to play and. dance at gay resorts. Wherever you go store. are sometimes hidden innocent- lool-zing plants which. if grown familiar with. are apt to ruin an otherwise perfect holiday. Among these is poison ivy. Let us learn a few facts about BEWARE OF POISON IVY What is a Bargain? p62}; discomfort. 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