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A speaker at a Toronto gathering last week clue on the significance of names in Canada, stat- g that a tour through the Dominion would reveal variety of English, French and Indian names “rich history and tradition.” Toronto was truly a “meet- g place,” as its Indian name signified, and Medicine 'pt had been immortalized by Kipling. The speaker the point that a name does mean something cited the case of a Missouri woman named Bugg christened her daughter Ima June Bugg. An- . r family named Loud had named one of their off- ‘ring Holler Harden Loud, but this, said the speak- , was hardly giving the children a fair chance. No other would want her daughter named Jezebel and father would choose Cain as a name for his son. 80 there’s something in a word after all! In ading the report of the Toronto meeting a little stance that occurred in Durham a few days ago me to our mind which might hear repeating and at e same time cause us to refrain from using words which we do not know the meaning. There has -en quite a lot of sickness in town and neighbor- ...Od during the past winter and this was one of the pics under discussion in one of our stores. One of e y, not too familiar with the finer points of a ing's English, spoke of the remarkable lpalth a brother. “Why, he has never been sick a day in a life,” said the speaker. “It is my honest opinion at he has the constipation of a horse!” 1ed ' the lake freighters, who usually have their season ablentracts at this t' e of the year, have heard no- “31 ling of them to da . ’9“ A prominent l captain is said to have made ”y no statement that1 is the present wheat situation ="‘jmt is holding up matters, and that while the offic~ 1 and crews are inga quandary as to what the out-n me will be the ship owners themselves are little , ter of. Lake cont acts generally run on the ten~ onth basis but it wJuld be no surprise this year if 1e crews were engagéd from month to month. Pas- :nger service is said to have not been afiected, but \wu a, t That industry throughout this country and m troughout‘ the world is interlinked is once more unproved by the dispatch from Owen Sound this week, sis-here the lake sailors are becoming anxious as to i “the present uncertainty in shipping circles. Though 4’ e usual time for the opening of navigation is upon ‘d and little more than three weeks away, there is a Stat of uncertainty as to the amount of employment smut will be required this season. Even the officers er bne “unthinkingly” may or may not be accepted by ' h‘ie public. As Minster of Health and Labor he has “khzen a most worthy official and his “slip” is all the mrder to understand. And no one is more disap- mmpinted than his Premier and the Conservative party. 2:: In censuring his Minister of Health and Labor, he ;remier Ferguson termed the action “not only re- mdrettable, but inexcusable, and in my point of view whighly improper thing to do. . . . . This m-overnment has been very jealous of its good name 3 find its reputation, and is determined to maintain the ‘ s“ont’ldence of the public so far as its integrity and ”anions are concerned.” "'° There will be no “politics” in the administration “J our Mothers’ Allowances or Old Age Pensions Acts Mr) long as Hon. G. H. Ferguson is Premier, and the m‘on. Dr. J amieson Chairman of the Boards. Of this mye public can rest assured. lain Hon. Dr. Godfrey’s action is certainly very much all h be regretted and the explanation that the deed was may when in the House Ontario’s first minister cen- “dared a member of his Cabinet, the Hon. Forbes ”lodfrey, Minister of Health and Labor, for an indis- ”a net postscript attached to a recent letter. The oodztter alleged to have been written by Mr. Godfrey he \ad to do with an application for a mother’s allowance ”9 Ind the postscript intimated that political “support” Mn election day might be a consideration in the dis- mosal of the application. ]! there are those still left who think that Pre- “nier G. Howard Ferguson is asleep at the switch, or untends to let politics interfere with his duty to the flfleople of Ontario, they were disallusioned last Tues- W Whosocvsr is afraid of submitting any question, m‘ivil or raligious to the test of free discussion, is _, mlnon in low with his own opinion than with tho Cir-cum (or 12 mm, 1,400 inc Durham Chronicle Wlezn,lm5mPn Ofliceonen on k. maymnucm'zmlonu. P1 A writer in the Toronto Mail and Empire who man himself “One of the Younger Generation” at- npts to tell why the church attendance in this mtry, particularly among the younger people, is ling off. Among the reasons given are: They are t interested in the sermons that are preached; arly every word the modern preacher uses is quoted )m the Bible; the language used employs words the anger generaton does not ,understand; when reli- tn interferes with a young man’s smoking, cards, billiards, it is no longer considered religion; there too much stress laid upon the need for money at irly every church service. What is wanted by the younger generation, ac- °ding to this critic, is for the ministers to “talk in 30 language and not the language of the year No. put the teachings of the Bible into our daily lives 1 don’t tell us what our grandfathers did; if the aisters want to follow the teachings and ways of 2 Bible, let them ride around on a donkey and not 3 Rolls Royce. With the majority of the young man’s complaints are not sufficiently familiar to give an Opinion, 5 personally regard the excuses as pretty shallow. , e always been of the Opinion that a man’s re- "iohiomperoomlnflair,andifhe ionot Inf- Names or words may not mean very much some- nes, but there are other occasions when they mean good deal, and a person can pull down a 1% of hu- )r if he but stands around and listens to some of 3 discussions that are taking place round about . any event the lake sailors in the freight service we a good deal to worry over. :‘rutbâ€"WA TSON. PAGE 4 WANTS “MODERN” PREACHING WHAT'S IN A NAMEâ€"OR WORD? SHORT TIME ON THE LAKES THAT GODFREY CENSURE Thursday, March 27, 1930. A Detroit man has been described by a judge as “The tightest husband I ever knew" when in court he was charged by his wife with lending her money at twenty per cent. This may be true. but now the question looms up: “How did he get away with it?" Most of the married men of our acquaintance can lend their wives money at 20 or even 50 per cent, an what difference does it make? Friend wife up in ince bétter off in many, ma took over the reins of office. Even the Toronto Globe is learning that Premier Ferguson is to be trusted and that his pre-election to the Highways and Liquor Control Acts show that the Government is out to clean up the Province of its drunken drivers and liquor-abusing citizens. But this must be done by degrees. Reading the Globe imntediately following the election one would think the Government lax in its duties because conditions were not changed in a week. Let Ferguson alone. He’ll come through. And he’ll leave this old prov- ince better. off in many,“ many ways than when he .Generally speaking, the younger peeple of this country take as much interest in church matters as did their parents and grandparents at the same age. Perfionally, the editor of this great family journal in his earlier years never broke up any of the kitchen furniture rushing out of the house Sunday mornings to go to church. We haven’t acquired the habit even yet. .The youth of today are much the same as ever. Church, to the majority of those in their late teens and early twenties is a dry old place on a summer’s m ing when the birds are singing and the bush is ng, but what of it? We all went through this ex- perience, but now that the bald spots are beginning to show, and we have reached the years when jump- ing over logs and slipping into creeks is not the sport it used to be, we all go to churchâ€"and some of us try to drag everybody else along with us. Youth hasn’t changed very much and in another twenty years the won’t-go-toâ€"churchers of today will be writing letters to the newspapers wondering what is to become of the “rising generation” and boasting of how much better they behaved themselves “when we "were young.” test will be made. Similarly the fluid decade of the tWentieth century will not be completed till the end of 1930.â€"Alliston Herald. The Durham Chronicle corrects a teacher in that town who contends that the century commenced January 1, 1900. Give one of the teachers who makes such assertion $99 for a_hu_ndred and see if any pro- A Wingham firm warns a young lady who stole a pair of shoes off the counter to bring them back and save exposure. Well, well! And we have been led to believe all along that it was the bad, incorrigible boys who did the pilfering! On Tuesday, after writing the above, we saw a heading in the Globe in which a Toronto divine says that “Devotion, not entertainment, is needed in our churches.” And this just about tells the story. The country can be thankful that the entertainment-lov- ing church-goers are in the minority. We do not pose as, a model in church attendance. We go sometimes. If we fail to put in an appearance some Sunday it is because we did not choose to go, not that we find the preacher is using words We do not understand, or is not performing his pulpit dut- ies as well as we would ourselves if given the Oppor- tunity. And we think this is the thing that affects the young people of today. If they do not go to church it is because they like to lie in bed in the morning, and in the evening are probably listening to a jazz programme on the radio or are out on the road burning up the highway and the gasoline. Picture your favorite pastor giving you some- thing like this next Sunday morning. How long would he last? But at that it is probably the kind of language that would be best understood by the cor- respondent referred to. “Once upon a time there was a certain gink who thought he’s pass up Jerusalem for a few days and run down and give Jericho the once over. But on the hike down he was high-signed by a bunch of robbers, who cut loose with a bash on his dome that knocked him cuckoo. Stripping off his glad rags, they left him in the ditch to croak. Shortly afterward a sure enough sky pilot hove in sight, but when he saw the old fellow laid out in the ditch, instead of stopping and giving him the low-down, stepped on the gas and beat it over the hill. Wasn’t that nice of him? We’ll certainly tell the cockeyed world it wasn’t! The next to crash along was a Levite, and he, too, after giving. the casualty the glad eye for a minute or two slipped away on his journey without doing anything. Then came a certain Samaritan, and when he saw the poor bloke lying on the side of the road, did he do the van- ishing stunt? Not by a jugfull! When this Samaritan fellow blew in he proved himself to be the real cat’s pyjamas, for he took compassion on him and after squirting a lot of oil and wine over him, jacked him up and, slipping his coat on him, hit it for the nearest roadhouse and told the prop. to look after him. Before passing out of the picture the next morning this regular guy unhooked a couple of simoleons out of his money-bag and gave them to the big cheese of the hotel, saying: “Listen, bo, you know me. Give this guy the best in the house, and if it costs any more mazuma than what I have already slipped you, just put it in the refrigerator until I hit this way again and I’ll pay you. Get me?” We were rather amused when the preachers were advised to use “1930” language rather than that of the year 1, but will admit possibly this correspondent would understand it betterâ€"and be the first to rise in his seat in disgust and leave the service. What would he have? Perhaps a tale of the Good Samaritan might sound something like this: ficiently interested, he will not go to church under any conditions. should ride around on donkeys rather than Rolls Royces falls rather flat. We can imagine our Durham friends of the cloth gallivanting around to their out- side stations on Sunday afternoons astride a donkey, but no stretch of our imagination can picture them behind the steering wheel of one of these $18,000 motor cars. This is a privilege that is usurped by country editors. The complaint that the modern minister “uses words that the younger generation does not under- stand” leads one to wonder what is wrong with our educational system. In no time in our memory was more money spent on education than at tho present, and if the average youth of today, who usually en- joys a High school education, cannot understand plain English, then the fault lies with what he has learned at school rather than with the words the average min- ister employs. The suggestion that the ministers THE DURHAM CHRONICLE v_â€" v v.-. :21; 6th. :20; 7th. :20; éth'."15.;' $15; 10th. $15. ‘ 9th. tiesinthehopethatmelrfemalepro- my will be selected as foundation brood sows for tho dish-lot. The Bacon Litter Competition con- ducted by the co-opcrative eflorts oi the Dominion and Ontario Live Stock anchesistobemincunedontim dismctNo.3.receMngaprimotm. Otatotaloilpoommmoneydia- tributedinOntu'io 1n 1929.323 onlyasmanammmt icralivo county like Grey, therefore let us 8 s: §§ peeled. It generally held thrmgh- out the province that practically .80 per cent of middle school students will not have to write the examinations ifthepropoeelisedOpted. BACON mm COMPETITION TO BE STAG- AGAIN Lower school papers will be written hfpm Ema-53y, Jun; 19 to Wednesday, according to the timetable Just print- ed by the Department and distributed to the principals of schools concealed. First Piper for Middle School Student! Set for June 16th. day now. like a lamb, and with Old 801 'cnmb- mg highgr each day we may expect The weatherman, however, promises us more settled weather for a time and it is to be hoped that his prophesy will be fulfilled. On Tuesday there was a regular old sleet storm, interspersed with rain. and then it turned colder, the result being that the streets were quite slippery and the trees, buildings and wires covered with quite a heavy coating of ice. Luckily no damage was done in this neighborhood to the hydro system or the telephone or telegraph service, though the same cannot be said for the Grimsby district further south. where a lot of damage is reported. March _in all probability will go out EXAM TIMETABLE HAS BEEN ISSUED The weather for the past ten days has. been simply everything. It has been warm and cold, wet and chy. windy and calm, in turn. and the 1930 ushering in of the equinox was of the real old-fashioned variety. An old piece of doggerel explains the conditions that have pertained in this neighborhood better than anything we can say: First it blew and then it snew And then it changed to rain. Once more it snew and then it blew And then it thewed again. Weather For Put Few Days Bu Been Very Changeable, With Chances Now For More Settled Conditions 1' M a nry measures taken to prevent the spread of the disease. Preventative measures were also im- mediately taken by the school nurse, Miss Bessie Tyson, to prevent a pos- sible spread of the disease in the Wiarton public school. One case was reported at the Cape Croker Indian re- serve, but this has not been verified. SNOW AND SLEET CAME WITH EQUINOX It was learned from Dr. Scott. who is in attendance on the case, that those who came in contut with the patients have been quarantined and intonation- thet the five-yeer-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Cefley had died, tol- mm a three days’ mness_from m- bosuflerinstromthcmnndy. INFANT [LE PARALYSIS TAKES GIRL’S LIFE fantfle Few Days. Taken to mvm'smm. weather almost â€"any uponmeacception to hasameanmscuflerentmthntwmm is menu-ably connected with Scotland WORDS WITH DOUBLE MEANINGS The other day a policeman observed an elderly, white-whiskered Parisian. or portly and pre-erninentiy respectable appearance, buying postcards which were guaranteed to bring a blush to the cheek of the most seasoned inspector. Worse still, the hoary purchaser crack- ed an improper jest with the highly- delighted saieswoman, a mere flapper, after pinching her. Without a moment’s hesitation the 'minion oi the law tapped the offender on the shoulder. demanding his name and address. And then he nearly fainted, the purchaser being a most im- portant functionary of the police de- partment. Utter consternation! eating conversation with the owner of the whiskers. The next day the happy man was an inspector. Should the title of a theatrical pieco be considered lewd, Jules has the right to sample the performance. He greatly enjoys this particular duty. backers; and he is empowered to pounce on the unsavory-looking guides who hang about the English tourist oflicesâ€"bent on showing gullible Bri- tons something very diflerent to the Louvre and the Me! Tower. The guardian of decorum is expect- ed to overhaul the newspaper kiosks, whereon illustrated papers calculated to make an ostrich hide its shocked head, are boldly displayed. introduoe themselves to pipe-smoking British tourists in caps and knicker- In Northumbefland the word “« 'VIRY BILL t, It! .71.. munication â€" with thg next town, or across the contin- Asogqciated apparatus 13015me Icispumn very quickly in can of emergency.‘ Sweet Young 111mg: “I see, some- thing like a kimono." menuebemgheldforthealleged whodlacovuedthebody of his R. L. Saunders, Prop. This Week’s SPECIALS FINDBHISMUMMIE W, Jr., of B} Variety Store. by Mrs. 81 Chapter 1] Jerusalem followed w by Mrs. C! sibility we to Cont men. With Me" sou!" was wear one“ Fiddes and unison am Mrs. Grow to the Wa: Twamley opening 111 was fol low In: closed with 16 It for with Ql'l CA T111 for it