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PAGE 4. A SENSIBLE MOVE It was with a great deal of satisfaction that we read the other day in a dispatch from Port Arthur, that the police of that city had not held a citizen of that neighborhood who shot and killed a man found in his chicken coop at an early hour. The man died 1n Port Arthur hospital on Friday of last week, says the dispatch, “from gunshot wounds allegedly inflicted by a gun in the hands of Theodore Elchuk, prominent farmer of Oliver Township, when he encountered Otto in his poultry house early Sunday morning last.” After the shooting the injured man was ministered to by Elchuk and his wife in their home and “the police and physicians called from the city. The am- azing part of the whole affair was the last sentence which said that Elchuk was not held by the police. tion ? It is a tribute to Hon. Dr. .1an and an honor to Durham that of the many financial wizards in the Province, he has been selected as the man best suited to administer this great sum of money for the Ontario Government. Politics, you say? Well, perhaps, at the start, but now that the Mohers’ Al- lowances Board has been in operation long enough to try him out, we would say that his continuance in the office is proof positive that he is efficient. As a Tory stalwart he may have received the appoint- ment, but even with the Tories, it takes efficiency to hold a job, and especially one that has the spend- ing of ten millions of dollars in its hand. Dr. Jamieson’s administrative ability as Chair- man of the Mothers’ Allowences Commission has been uncanny. It is one of the most efficiently run departments at Queen’s Park. And it was this same administraffve ability that prompted Premier Fer- guson, when the Old Age Pensions scheme was ad- opted, to send for Dr. Jamieson and request him to take over the chairmanship of this latest Commis- sion. As the Chairman of two commissions that will spend annually from eight to ten millions of dollars, the Hon. Dr. Jamieson of Durham may well be re- garded as one of Canada’s leading business men. Ten million dollars! To say the least, that’s a whale of a lot of money, and a man must be “hitting on all six” to enable him to look after it. But, financially, we have long been of the opinion that Dr. Jamieson is a “straight eight.” Is is not rather ironical that a man of his ability €37an is afraid of mm w W Trinaâ€"WA TSON. It is nearly time that a little common sense was entering our courts along some lines. We know nothing of the man who was shot to death, but ac- cording to the dispatch Elchuk was “a prominent far- Hore than five thousand families in Ontario are beneficiaries under the Mothers’ Allowances Board, and we would estimate that approximately another forty thousand will become beneficiaries under the Old Age Pensions Board after September 1. A eon- d'ollars annually. Quite some business, what? 1‘ _____ A.... ‘- mer of Oliver township,” and as such is entitled to the benefit of the doubt. There may be those who will argue that Elchuk should be tried, but we think differently. In our opinion Elchuk was perfectly within his rights in shooting any man who invaded his poultry house at an early morning hour. 11qu- ly respectable or not, no man has any business wan- dering around another man’s premises after dark, and especially inside his buildings The recent poul- try thefts in the province have placed the farmers on their guard. It is expecting too much when some of us may think that a man is overstepping his rights when he plugs a midnight marauder without warn- country. The law need worry little about the fellows who are bumped of! at three o’clock in the morning caning out of strange poultry houses, stores or other phllc or private places. There may be an inno- mt one amongst them, but at that they not We should not care to see the wild and woolly West days back here again, when the best shot was the leading citizen, but it is possible that in becoming civilized we have allowed the pendulum to swing a little far over to the other side. It may not be polite to shoot a man, but it is a whole lot better than being pacifistic and allowing him to run oi! with a sum- mer’s earnings. That old British law that it is bet- ter that nine guilty persons should escape than that one innocent one should sufler is about worn out. It is high time that the respectable farmer or other citizen who spends his days at work and his evenings athomegetsanevenbreakwithalotofgentrywho quad their days in bed and their nights prowling the The Durham Chronicle A TEN MILLION DOLLAR BUSINESS Thursday, August 15, 1929. Wefeelthatwemnsthmdittothooel’ortAr- wanderinxpnblicandtheeonntrygemllyrecog- niudthofactthatamanshouldbethemuterofhis own prunesâ€"at least titer midnight. OLD BOYS’ AN D GIRLS’ REUNIONS Ye Editor was at Flesherton for periods during theflrstthreedaysoflastweekattendingtheOld Boys'andGirls’Reunionandwehavereturued to Durhammorethaneverimpreued withtheiduthat thesethingsareallthathasbeensaidofthemand more. There is a “kick” to meeting old friends, and so far as we know there is nothing that can take its place. For that reason we hope that Durham will some time in the near future invite all her old boys and girls to visit the old home town and for three, four, or five days, associate together in good fel- lowship. No matter how old one may become in years, he is but a youngster grown up. This is proved time and again at the various reunions that have taken place in the towns of Ontario in the past. We are not altogether in favor of the class of reunions held in some other towns we know of. A reunion in our Opinion should be nothing more nor less than the word implies-â€"a reunion of the boys and girls of years ago, who gather together, have a good time, live for a week in the past, and return to their homes years younger in spirit. Those of a town’s citizens who have left the place of their birth and settled in the‘ larger centres, can daily see more in the way of celebrations than they should expect the small town to provide for them on the occasion of their periodical visits. On the other hand it does not seem the proper thing for a town to invite its resi- dents of other days to come home, some of them travelling long distances and at considerable sacri- fice, and then attempt to relieve them of their money by various entertainments. This is not the primary objective of an old home week. Small towns cannot put on world’s fairs. They have neither the money nor the facilities for this thing and to attempt it is a mistake. The success of an Old Boys’ and Girls’ Reunion cannot be estimated in the amount of ' money the committee has made; rather its success must be gauged by the enjoyment of the visitors, and the pleasure you yourself have received from it. While a‘ certain amount of celebration is necessary, the real reunion spirit must prevail. We are sure that the event" in Flesherton was an unqualified success. Everbody we talked to said it was, anyway, and it speaks well of the welcome extended by the citizens of the village when the visitors themselves have said that there must be another such aflair in the course of the next five years or so. Old-time residents. most of whom were mere _ s or girls when the left. were therefrompointsasf apartasNewJersey inthe EasttoldahointheWest. Itis-saidthatagood definition of love is “a tickling of the heart that can’t be scratched.” Well, that't what a reunion is, only in another way. There's nothing like it, noth- iagantakeitspheaanditcomesonlyoneein a While there was quite an elaborate programme during the five days on which the reunion was held, there was nothing for one who was not interested in the real reunion itself. This, in our mind, is as it should be. We spent as much time as possible last Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday in the village on the banks of the Boyne, and while we returned home on Wed- nesday night (or was it Thursday morning?) dead tired and all in, we had a most pleasant time. Glad when it was over, money could not buy the pleas- ures experienced the first of last week with our old friends of thirty-odd years ago. To our mind the Flesherton reunion was an ideal affair. It was a real reunion. There were present former residents of the old town who had not seen each other for years. The writer met school chums he had not seen for from thirty to forty years, and we can vouch for it when we say that it is a real pleasure to once again associate with those who have for years been living outside your circle and to com- pare notes on what has happened in the intervening years. The Flesherton celebration brought you face to face with many who had completely passed out of your memory, but a few minutes’ conversation took one back to the late nineties when, 'barefooted, you had played together on the old school grounds and fought on the way home from'school after four. We are more fully convinced than ever that there is nothing can take the place of an Old Boys’ and Girls' Reunion. And‘ you have no idea how young you are, or how foolish, until you attend one of these afiairs which you can claim as your very own. It matters not if the outside crowd comes or stays away. If you haven't known them, they in- terest you very little. If they don’t come, you don’t even miss them. We do not know what the plane of Durham citi- zens ere along this line. We do how thet we have had innumerable letters from former residents, and ellofthem wenttocomehomeâ€"etthetimethetell the other: are hereâ€"end live once again quid the scenes of their childhood. A: much'intereet locally as is evidenced by thou living in distant ports. end Dnrhun’e reqnlon would he eecond to none in the m. g _ a ”mm. L saving to people ot Wellington would have been large. Farmers tell us thnt many farms are not properly worked now on account otlackoflabor. Sometimee,itislack of a proper system of lighting the weeds. Sow thistle, twitch grass and some of the other perennials constitute a problem that taxes the ingenuity. While some farms appear to be getting dirtier all the time, others are kept very free from weeds and a prson driving past cannot fail to notice it. The Mennonite farms west of Iglora “mm-ms 'Wâ€"' are noted for their freedom from weeds. So are some farms much nearer Fergus. Last week we paid a short visit to the home of Mr. Alex. Moir in Nichol and no weeds were to be seen. although he says they are always pre- sent and must be 'combatted. He tells that sweet clover, followed by rape, with a hoed crop the next year, is Very effective and the hint may be valuable to othersâ€"Fergus News-Record. It is a truism that everything changes as time flies. In the old days when the rudimentary automobile sputtered and choked, and the driver went through the ritual of getting out and getting under, it was a foregone conclusion that nearly all he passers- by would stop and volunteer help. Lady motorists, embarrassed by tire trouble, were not left alone to Struggle with jacks and pumps. The plodding pedestrian was sure of “a lift” along his journey. There was a sort of free- masonry of the highway when Good Samaritans were as plentiful as bumps in the road. Not so nowadays. The following news report records an ex- treme but typical case: ___ n A n n - When they had driven about half a mile past the spot where they had seen the overturned car, both decided to go back and investigate. On approaching the swamp they found a young woman pinned underneath the coupe. Al- though she fainted several times while medical aid was being secured. her in- juries were, fortunately. only minor ones. She informed her rescuers that her car had skidded and overturned. and that she had been pinned under it more than two hours. During that time many automobiles had passed. but no one had thought it worth while to investigate. Had the injuries been of a more serious naure, the delay might have caused a fatality. The attitude depicted above is not unusual. On the same day as the pub- lieation oi the North Bay incident. the Torontoâ€"Hamilton Highway yielded its own example of the new motor psychology. A passing motorist shouts at a young lady driver: “Your car’s on are,” and whirls on, blissfully indiffer- ent as to the outcomeâ€"perhaps even glowing with satisfaction that he has done his 80991 tin-‘9! $118.51”. No one will deny‘ that the change has been. to some extent. right. and inevitable. The plodding pedestrian. waving for a ride. too frequently turned out to be a highwayman oi the new school; young ladies in distress were not always what they seemed. And yet it takes only a near-tragedy like that near North Bay to remind every one that break-neck speed is not so abso- lutely essential. and that Good Sam- aritans can travel modern Canadian highways as well as the roads of an- cient Israelâ€"Toronto Globe. The Department of Public Highways is issuing a warning to all those who drive motor cars that they must not only take out an ofiieiel permit to drive a car, but that they must carry it_ with them while driving. There are altogether too many irresponsible per- sons behind the wheels of motor can these days. and in view of the fact that accidents, sometimes istsl. are fre- quent the warning of the Depart- ment is very timely. Itthislswistobeenioreedss_it l.|||‘|ll||. wmmmMMmuwuw «mm gym g m . m an” mmmmm “ma a. Wmmmmmmmmmmmm The Indifferent Passer-By Driving Withontl'ermlu l i vwâ€"v mwrud by Mr. Om A CONVENTION WILL BVBELD IN Durham Town Hall Convenfion for the purpose of selecting a candidate to contest the Riding of South Grey at the next Provincial Election. Allelectouwiflbehurtilyweloomed. The Annual Meeting of the Associa- tion will be held at 2 o’clock on the same day and in the same place. Ex- ecutive will meet at 1.30 o'clock. D. McTAVISH. A. E. COLGAN. President. Secretary. Thurs., Aug. 22 Liberal-Conservative Assn. of South Grey “‘10-" m GOD SAVE THE KING ”litres oniv win; at 3 o'clock gun. a. w “my: u mem mm. 3 w; a m m a mum" 2; mmw gm Friday and The “not: Incknlt Underwear. SOME AT ONE-w PRICE $2.00 811k Bloomers for $1.00 $3.00 811k Gowns for $1.98 $2.75 Goldette Bloomers for 82.25 With every 81.00 purchase we will sell a lO-quart Galvanized 138.11 for ._ , . _ 19c. The Variety Store R. L. Saunders, Prop. Saturday Bargain Saturday SOCIAL AND m Jr. QMVGJMOF' mmtmuywm s 3 Mitchell WW9! ; . und Mrs George Burnett on m u Welbeck. In. Canon and du Klmck of Kitchener qud Mrs. George Bum: Mn. Chester Goring. were Ctvfic Holiday g1 Mrs. E. W. Limm. Mrs. Wilfred Saum ter. Toronto. visited Mr. John D. McFay Mr. Valium B. Tod ..Y . visited with 11 Charms Kennedy N Mrs. week. Mr. and Mrs. Ale Ions. Uxbrtdge. visited end with the former. W. Ewen. here. was Gertrude Stun! visited over the week-4 of Mr. J. W. Ewen. Kr. thllun Bamhc ter. ulss Ella Bamb Alba-u. were guests l Allen over the weekei Misses Catherine a1 Toronto, visited last w Dl'RHAM Pure Clov‘ For Weste‘ 21 1., 5 am contai SL, > N1 Bum alw. with on