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any. Dun u IVIIIUVW, wuab wux uncut: §euuc luauuiac- turers do? Will they reduce the price of their com- modity accordngly? Why not also take off the tax of four cents a box on matches, which most of us «have thought all along was scarcely necessary? There’s a lot of business to be picked up in this country, but your harvest will be small if you sit around your place of business bemoaning the hard times and having a merry-go-round game with your thumbs. It was once the fashion for the country . press once in a while to write up an editorial on home A ‘mmminent” Liberal member of the Ontario town loyalty. Now the style seems to be the “Buy-”- House has told the Toronto Telegram: that the D8. home campaign” In these days at motor cars pros- minion election is to be held on June 30; that Hon, - SUPPLY AND DEMAND The Farmer’s Advocate gives some good advice to the fruit growers of the province when it says: “Fruit growers should remember that market values depend upon demand, and de- mand is created by consumption. And what is being done to increase consumption of Canadian fruit? If anything is being done it is so insignificant and so futile that it is- n’t noticeable. And all the while imported ' .lits are presented to the public in a most :‘ective manner. Tariff adjustments will never do for the fruit growers What they should do for themselves.” The Advocate might very well have continued the argument and made it fit a good many businesses of the country which are crying for want of trade and are doing nothing to gain it. We hear a lot of the plight of the small towns, but what are they doing to remedy conditions ? So far as can be noticed they are doing nothing, or, if anything, like the fruit growers, “it is so insignifi- cant and so futile that is isn’t noticeable.” THE LADY SENATOR _ Reformation of, the Senate by the King Govern- ment has been started. A lady has received the ap- pointment. From reading the news dispatches we do not know whether she received the honor for" services rendered the Liberal party or because she had eight children. Now what are we to call her? Shall it be Senator, Senatoress or Senatorette? The next move would seem to be to build a nursery to the Red Cham- ber for the children to play in. And no doubt Miss Macphail will think the addition of a nursery an ad- mirable idea. It might be used later for some of the playful old gentlemen who are already there. With the appointment of the first woman to the Senatethe days of sweeping the dust under the rug are over, and now the dusting will have to be done by schedule. We congratulate our first lady appointee, but tender sympathy to the old codgers who heretofore have been privileged to sit around with their feet on the table and spill their cigar ashes on the rug. Them days is gone forever. Whether or not you are in favor of a Board of Trade you should make it a point to attend tomorrow night’s meeting if ‘within your power, take part in the discussion and see what can be done. There are a good many things that a Board of Trade can handle besides securing new industries. An active body of this kind could be of no small help to our Town Council and the town in general in dis- cussing matters that may crop up from time to time. While we have every respect for town councils, we are not prepared to admit that have all the brains. Nei- ther do we think that they should be saddled with the full responsibility of running the town. With an edicient Board of Trade and a empathetic Council there are many things that might be settled to the advantage of town and country and which would re- lieve the latter body from full responsibility. Theremaybesomewhowillthrowcoldwater on the re-forming of this body and point out what they did to us a few years ago in the matter of se- curing industries that have since gone blooey so far as Durham is concerned. We shall freely admit that we would have been better of if we had bought a few pigs and some pig food. but there is little argument in this that should make us want to quit. If the town blundered, it blundered in trying to better itself. To our mind this is better than having made no attempt As announced in our news columns, an eflort is beingmadetorejuvenateourBoardof Tradeanda meeting is being called for tomorrow (Friday) night in the Town Hall. There should be a good attend- ance, but like everything else of this nature, this de- pends on how much interest is taken by the citizens in the welfare of the town and the country surround- ing. While the Durham Board of Trade has never been disbanded, for the past some time it has not functioned very strongly, and we feel that this has been a mistake. Whamfiafrddolubfitfiumm “arm totutut offrudiamaios. in Maillot. with his mm ”with“. Truckâ€"WATSON. The Durham Chronicle Thursday, February 20, 1930 THE BOARD OF TRADE A “prominent” Liberal member of the Ontario House has told the Toronto Telegram: that the Do- minion election is to be held on June 30; that Hon. W. I. N, Sindnir, Leader of the Ontario Liberal The manufacturers of cigarettes want the tax of twelve cents a pack removed. It hurts their sales, they say. But if removed, what will these same manufac- turers do? Will they reduce the price of their com- modity accordngly? Why not also take off the tax of four cents a box on matches, which most of us have thought all along was scarcely necessary? ' It is quite possible that daylight saving is a good thing for the larger centres where the rural trade does not figure so largely as in. the smaller towns. It certainly does make the evenings longer "and gives more time for outside sports after six o’clock. Whe- ther it is the best thing for business is another mat- ter. In this part of Ontario, if one is going into the city a seven o’clock train is plenty early enough; if the railways advance their time one hour this will make it six o’clock. One distinct advantage to this move Would be seen in the arrival of our noon mail train. Even if the old Queen. Elizabeth between here 1 and Palmerston limped in an hour late, as is gener- ally the case now, it would be in “on time”, that is, it could arrive at two o’clock railroad time and still be here at one o ’clock standard time. There is no gainsaying the fact, howevei, that daylight saving is spreading all over the country and very few places that have once adopted it have gone back to standard time during the summer months.”- But it is hard to convince the rural popu- .lation that daylight saving is any good. Farmer's as a whole are against it and until something turns up to convince them it is in their interests the new time will not be very popular in towns like Durham which depend quite a lot on the'l'busin‘ess they .draw from1 the surrounding country. “Rend your hearts and not your garments” is a popular church thought prior to taking up the collec- tion. Intelligently interpreted we suppose it means that a person should not make too deep a dive into 'his hip pocket for the wallet in which he keeps the big bills. He might rip his trousers. London city bird-houses are to be made “up-to- date” according to latest advices from the Forest City, but the plan of procedure has not yet been worked out. Probably it may be decided to equip them with bath rooms, kitchenettes and living-moms. If a change is to be made, nothing should be left out that will make for the comfort and convenience of the birds. The 3medy near Dundalk _..last week when a mother afi'd two children were burned to death seems now to have been a case .of trying to start a fire with coal oil. If so, it is but another oft-repeated foolish practice that has so often resulted in fatalties in the past and will do so in the future. Wednesday of this week-might well have been a day in late April. With‘the thermometer at 50 degrees a lot of the snow disappeared. This was in contrast to Saturday night and Sunday temperatures. The coldest on Saturday was 14 below, at 8 o’clock Su'nday morn- ing it was still 6 below, but during the day warmed up to 10 above. ~ But this thing of having one town on one time and another on the other is not the best thing for the country in our opinion. There is an argument on both Sides, however, and we are not bigoted. With the merits of daylinght saving we do not intend to deal. While not exactly straddle-theâ€"fénce on the question, we find little fault with either the daylight saving or standard times. So far we have always managed to get all the daylight we could use in the long months of the summer. DAYLIGHT SAVING According to the latest reports, both the Cana- dian Pacific and the Canadian National railway sys- tems are to arrange their time-tables this spring to conform to daylight saving, adOpted by a few of the cities of the province Whether or not the report is true we do not know. In any event the change will do little else than tangle matters 11p a little more” but perhaps no one will mind. It is just another move in which the larger centres are to be catered to. No merchant would knowingly stock goods of which neither he. nor his public knew nothing; then whyin thenameofeommon'sensewillthissamo fellow expect customers to walli into his store when he does not think enough of their patronage to adver- tise his wares. Buck up._ Quit crabbing. Get up on your feet and proclaim yourself and your wares. There’s nothing the matter with the business of the country .for the man with the know how who has the ambition to get up of! the seat of his pants and go after it. insbusinushouse'l'hesbmmmmod- emmethods. Intheolddnnittookalongtimeto‘ gotwenty miles; nowitisonlysmatterofsfew minutes. Business, too, has speeded up, and the busi- ness man who hasn’t kept abreast of the times is bound to lose out. NOTES AND COMMENTS m DURHAM momm - Master Freddie hes been confined to his bed for some weeks with rheuma- tism. We hope he soon We oom- structedtomkeaaeamhtorthemvo of the famous explorer. These papers consist of a lengthy manuscript accompanied by maps pre- pared, many years ago, from the state- ‘men'ts of a member of the expedition headed by the United States explorer. Charles F. Hall. This expedition spent the period, 1864 to 1869 113 the North engagedinthesearchiorrmnklin. Ac- cording to the statement, Hall’ 3 expedi- tion broke up in disorder owing to in- ternaltroubleaandonthataocountthls valuable information was lost to the head of the expedition. . Explorers or the Department of the Interior have frequently visited King William island in the courm of their regular duties but in practically every that the remainder of the expedition. 105 persons in all, would start the fol- lowing morning (April 26. 1848), for Back River in: the mainland. Although many other expeditions have sought for Franklin this is the only record that has been found of the ill-fated party. It hm always been held by authori- ties on exploration that important rec- ords oi the expedition must have been deposited by the survivors before the effort to reach civilization by way oi Back River m begun. and that the imost probable place was in the grave Eat the leader. The Department of the Interior would - not. at this late date be Justified in equipping and sending out unexpedition to search loathe grave oi sir John Franklin but with the devel- opment of Canada’s northland, depart- ‘ mental officers concerned with the care of the native population are continu- ally patrolling through that portion of the Arctic and it would be an inexpen- sive matter for them to devote a little‘ time to searching for records which: would be of the greatest value to Can- ada and to the Empire. Therefore, when a short time ago, Hon. Charles Stewart was apprised that documents were in? existence whlch purported to give the location bf Franklin’s grave, he directed that the matter be carefully investigat-v ed, and as a result the papers and maps have been purchased for the Depart-‘ away on June 11, 1847. that eight other oflicers and fifteen men had died, that james, the commanders of the two ships a few verse but very expressive senten- ces. Theso conveyed the information tho shore of King William island and that these men had all died. In 1859 Captain Leopold MoClintock found in a cairn at Victory Point, near the North- westanglootKinsWilliana printed Admlralty form on the margin of which m written, over the signs.- acquired fartheuaootthow afieraninmfiuflonbynr O. 3.1m- hie, mm o! the Northwest m- torlea and Yukon Branch. Bil-John Franklin’s expedlponaafled intothoAmuoinlusmthetwoshlps. Ez'ebus and Terror. The ships-won new John Rae, an officer of the Hudson's" Bay Company, found a hood or Eskl-l mos who said they had seen white men! Darkies’ Corners (Our Own Correspondent) MissesAnnleandDorotbyArnebt of Poroierthree-quartasotaoenmry on Friday, March 7, which fizz-tho day set apart'asxlw' wall-l '5 any of prayer. This meeting‘wmibe held at the home Mrs. D. J. MacDonald. We chose India asour Watch Tower ror thismmthmd two splendid interesiihg and Will 13. pers had been prepared by‘Mrs. W. Ho- nefifiwdwemmsdbymnwar- read the devotional leaflet and the lea!- let on the Study Book was taken by Mrs. “Work for the Night is Coming," follow- ed‘by the Lord’s Prayer: in unison. The roll call was answered by resolutions of great men and women of the Bible. Mrs Andrew Elastic" and Miss Blanche Boyce rendered} fine duet, “In the Garden." Mrs. James McDougall led in prayer. The scripture lem was taken by: ms. Tuesday in Hamilton 0! that brother and father, respectively, the late Mr. John McDougall. The community ex- tends sympathy to the bereaved. The regular monthly meeting of the Crawford WMS. met at the home of Mrs. Edgar Boyce on Wednesday. Feb- ruary 12. Twenty-three ladies were pre- sent andagoodprogrammowa'senjoy- Crawford (Our Own Correspondent) . Mrs. Wm. Lamont and son Stewart of Brant were the guests over the week- end of the farmer's brother. D. J. Mac- Donald, wife and family. Messrs. Archie W and James songsbyVlolethmmonJumeswum ma Harold Morton.andmorgmaolo by Ame mam. Atthe clone. m w. G. uwrenoo md John Nmu'oaer- served at the close. followed by a candy matbytheteacher.wasuu¢uetm- mmwmmedmntm isspendlnzswaekutthehomeother Every Boll Tclcphonc ii ‘0_ ion] Dianna. Station New Low Rates year â€" makes long distance tele- phone service cheaper than ever. You can make it cheaper still by taking advantage of special low rates which are offered during evening hours. From 7.00 pm. until 8.30 the long distance rate is about twenty-five per cent lower than the day rate. 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