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“-J II... ” ~. We have before us the first copy of a new maga- zine, the Canadian Geographical Journal, which is to know their own. At times some enterprising foreign magazine attunpts to tell us about ourselves, the result being garbled reports that are anything but position with tht n st of the world. Even the British magazines are very badly informed about their lar- gest Dominion. The initial issue of the Canadian Geographical Magazine is a credit to the publishers. Printed on calendered paper, profusely illustrated. and dealing with innumerable interesting subjects, it is a delight- in] piblication and we wish it much success in its field, which should have been covered long ago. Fainâ€"WA TSON. Joseph Cyr, former Liberal organizer in Russell County and president of the Ontario Vegetable Growers’ Association, has neigned. The reasons given are that he believes that the present fiscal policy of the Dominion Government will prove fatal to the fruit and vegetable growing industry in Can- ada. As Mr. Cyr in his statement to the press says he has left the Liberal party without any animosity toward anyone, and has been on the tariff committee for the Ontario vegetable growers for the past five years, he should know something of what he is do- ing and his conclusions are at least entitled to rea- sonable consideration. There are some who may think Mr. Cyr is selfish, and perhaps he is to a certain extent. He sees ruin ahead for the vegetable growers under the present fiscal policy, and as a man interested in this work, he would indeed be foolish were he to continue on with a policy which he thought in the end meant ruin to his livelihood. Mr. Cyr says further: “Within the last few years approximateely 25,000 growers with their families have left their gardens to swell the number of unemployed in the cities. All this has taken place while the Government was' in full cognizance of what was happening, having been kept in touch with the situation by a committe composed of representatives from each province of the Dominion.” If our present fiscal policy affects the vegetable growers so seriously, would it not be well to make full inquiry into what has got wrong with general farming as well? Would it not be good business? If the Canadian general farmer’s present plight is caused by too much outside competition, why not re- move some of it. The whole world is suffering from a slackness in trade. There is no use in denying this. But of all the countries we have read about, we be- lieve Canada is a little less hard hit than the most, and if there ever was a time when our farmers need- ed protection from too much outside competition it is right Our Ottawa Government cannot do anything to better conditions in the world’s markets, but it could do something that would prevent our agriculturists having to compete with the world in the world’s markets, and in the Canadian market as well. Save the Canadian market for the Canadian farmer! That to us seems like good business. hnvo proved that possibly the guards and the warden may have known their business 3 lot beetter that the most of their critics. Since the fire the convicts re- Whoaowor is afraid of submitting any question, it or religious to the test of free discussion, is re in love with his own opinion than with the LIBERAL ORGANIZER QUITS BOOSTING CANADA place was started by the convicts themselves in the hope that he conflsgration would result in a ’wholesale gaol delivery. Their hopes _ vanished when the guards failed to open the cells and allow the prison- ers to escape. There is also ‘another angle to the case. As it stands at present, and looking at the incident now that it is over, it is regrettable that the prisoners were not freed. Had they been freed, and had the fire department succeeded in quenching the blaze, what would the public then have thought of those responsible for the safe-keeping of the prison- There is little doubt in our mind that the prison of life occurred, but if there is any censure to be made, we think it should be given the State of Ohio, or the federal authorities at Washington for allow- ing four thousand prisoners to be housed in a fire- trap prison building with not even fire-fighting ap- paratus sufficient to hold flames in check until the arrival of the city brigade. So far as can be learned there is to be no paving on the Provincial Highway north from Mount Forest some quarters we hear it said that the decision not to pave this section is for the reason that in both North and South Grey the electors elected United Farmers instead of Conservatives as members of the Ontario Legislature. If this rumor is founded on fact, well and good, {but if it is but the imagination of someone who is desirous of starting something, then we have about as much use for it as we would have for the politicians who would neglect a roadway of this importance because his party representative was not returned to office. In the face of this rumor we would then like it explained why the highways department is spending so much money between Owen Sound and Meaford. We cannot give the reason why the paving pro- gramme is not going ahead on No. 6 Highway, but rather think it is because we have a pretty fair road- way as it is. The road so far has not been in very good shape, but the season is early. It will be in first class condition as dirt roadways go. in the course of a very few days. With a natural gravel bottom the highway in this section is almost as good as pavement and the most feasible reason for the de- partment not going ahead with paving is that it is not necessary in the first place for a year or two, secondly, there is already quite a lot of money being spent in Grey County, and thirdly there are still many people who see politics in every move of a government, but it must be remembered that the gov- ernment has only so much money to spend in any one year and this should be spent to the advantage of the province as a whole. Another angle may be the policy, now that the trunk lines are pretty well built, to spend more money in the townships on the “feed- er” lines that lead out to the main highways. Rome was not bullt in a day. Neither will all the Ontario Highways system be completed in a year or so. ' Today’s the day. They're out, and goodneess only knows what tales we’ll have to listen to when the fishers return this evening. There will be the usual big ones caught, no doubt of this, but these are a mere trifle to the big fellows that got away. For the past week the local Izaak Waltons have \been getting ready. The old split bamboo has been given its spring coat of shellac, the creel has been cleaned out, the waders tested and the worms dug. All that’s needed now is the fish. And a little child shall lead them. For some kid with a freckled face, a gad for a pole and a .five for a usual fisher-man's luck and the tale about the big one that got away. The Chronicle is open for good fish stories, and there will be some. Pass them elong, they make good reading, and even though they may seem highly col- ored to the uninitiated, they are only too true to the most of those who tell them. As a nerve soother there is nothing like a good rod, an enticing worm, a stream. a pipe, and something to take the chill of! your bones before you start home. A newspaper heading tells us that “The End of Bobbed Hair 13 In Sight”. That’s not news. On some bobbed heads that is about all that one can see of the hairâ€"the “ends”. Somebody is going to get. into trouble. Dog owners must secure their tags from the clerk at his of! ice hereafter and not many are availing themsel- ves of the privilege, It is not the duty of the town constable to look up the stray dogs. It is the duty NO PAVING THIS YEAR? A’FISHING WE WILL GO THE DURHAM CHRONICLE Davis, all of Toronto. and Ir. and Mrs. W. Gillies, Mrs. Rawn and 1!. Bowling. all of Egremont, and Mrs. 8. W 0.: Prlcévllle. . 'I'hedeathotllrs.Davls,tollowlngao closely on the death of her daughter, inelr share at trouble. Mr. C. H. Monet received word Bun- dsy of the death at Helms. Nova Sco- tis the previous evenly! of his uncle. r‘__‘l Mr. Robert Steele Monet, who pas-ed away atthehome hissonoeorce atterwhatisthoughttohavebeena shortillness. 'l‘herearenoparticulars, since ° last July, when he went East tomakehishomewtthhissonfora The late Mr. Moflat was born in New. York city in 1853 but at an early age‘ came with his parents, the late Mr. and Mrs. Charles Moffat, to Glenelg. the family taking up the well-known Moflat homestead at Edge Hill, a few years ago purchased by Mr. David ’Robinson. He grew to manhood here. !and in 1882 was married to Miss Ellen Staples, who died in 1908. Mr. and Mrs. Moffat after their marriage went to Toronto to reside, and with the ex- ception of three years spent in Texas. has lived in Toronto ever since until recent years, when he made occasional -"'â€"â€"â€" v trips and visits to Durham. He was a carpenter by trade and in his younger years worked on many of the buildings in town, including the present Durham hospital building, several of the older residences in town, and No. 9 school in Glenelg. During recent years he had charge of the‘ renovating of the town hall here, and had the carpenter work on the new Presbyterian church. He was a man with many friends, and being of a jocular disposition he was most congenial company. His death will be much regretted by many old friends. â€"- wvâ€"vwâ€"v Surviving are his son George at Halifax, and one daughter, Mrs. J. P. McMillan in Allandale. He is survived also by one sister, Mrs. J. H. McFadyen, here, and a brother, Mr. Thomas Mof- fat, in Wainwright, Alberta. Interment was made Monday afternoon in the cemetery a". Halifax. 7_ A coincidence in the death of Mr. Moffat and Mrs. Thomas Davis is that the late Mr. Moffat was groomsman at the Davis-Whitmore wedding 48 years ago, and that both he and Mrs. Davis died on the same day within a few hours of each other, and both were laid to rest on Monday afternoon. the one in Durham and the other at Halifax. Word was received here yesterday of the death that day at the home of a daughter in Niagara Falls, N.Y., of Mrs. Mary McArthur, widow of the late Charles McArthur of the Glen, Glenelg. We have no particulars. The late Mrs. McArthur was formerly well known in this neighborhood but for the past good many years has been living with mem. bers of her family in Niagara Falls, Kitchener and Stratford. The remains are being brought to Durham to the home of her niece, Mrs. Thomas Banks. from where the funeral is to be held on Saturday afternoon at 2 o’clock. Interment is to be made in Durham inmxford cemetery- 'moammnkmmdolbemr bush”hasbome that titlefl'omtho earnestcolonm any: and usedtor Christmas W008 ever sincethenrstsemenlandedut E Johnnyâ€"I don't know, W. Pa mmnmoldmmmuya you'roanoldcsta-m. '. (Continued from pace 1-) ROBERT 8. MOWAT WILLIAM ROBERTSON OBITUARY Zoological Wis-It? McARTHUR This isthednyyhenbtrdsotprey, Andâ€"t‘h'I'IIdsiwwho never payed. Get up before the night Is o'er, Tocepturevormevhlchmyed. But lay-bones. end other draws. In hunger's édpe my squirm. Now, we eat ashâ€"e seventy dishâ€" rAndflshonwot-mentored: Thenweeretood (somehed, some Mm.whenwenredeed. To belt our hook and cast it In favorite spot, when, like as not. Ed. Kress sits thereâ€"dad gust it. The night before, he camps on shore. The midnight stroke awaiting, While I debate it dnwn’s too late, My bed to be vacating. The man who will not wait until The clock day’s dawn confirms, Before he looks to rod and hooks Must sure be full of worms. 4mm SIR JOHN A. MACDONALD AND APPROVAL OF REST (Reminiscences by P. D. Ross, . in the Ottawa Journal Sir John A. MacDonald died in 1891, hald-way through his 77th year. He was a member of Parliament for just short of fifty years. mostly a member of cabinets. a prime minister during twenty years the chief force in the achievement of Confederation. What he did for Canada can not be easily measured. As said in a previous remin- iscence I think of him as the greatest public man I have known. This feeling did not come through personal knowledge to any great extent. My personal acquaintance with Sir John was limited, prior to 1885; he died in 1891. I judge ’0: mm by the brief time I knew him well personally after 1885, illuminated by the political his_- WU. ll unlbuww "a v--v rvâ€"w ________ tory of Confederation by Sir Joseph Pope’s Life of Sir John. and by the ad- ditional volume Pope published of Sir John’s correspondence. It was the fashion once, I think. to rank Sir John Macdonald as a very shrewd and successful politician of no very high ideals. Surely there was never a more shallow mistake. Sir. John MacDonald is universally recognized now to have been a great statesman. But more than that, his letters are published by POpeâ€"the volume is a remarkably in- teresting one even at this day. outside of its historical valueâ€"show him to have mid of m-seemg' and noble meals. mmwm..w “Em”. mmMm‘mm Mflmmm m mmmmmm WWWMWmu mmmmmmm mwmwmm aim hmchformhourwltfiauimdaou- tare. «ummmmm. um'mwmwwuum mmmmmunm LET'S TALK 0!" WORKS WIPE: “Otn't M do sanctum. Enroll?” HUSBAND: ‘Wd‘nuupwtmtodoâ€"Mnlton'huflr’ --‘l.‘ho M,Lmdon. gaunt-avenue- A good order VII received recently by 3 W In the Old Country for the bundlnc of three “sister ships". be M in em respectâ€"the same denim. all. m. engines. and gm- cthn. 80 they should be who as three peas. actud pnctice they will be outward uppetmce only. ac- to an article in Answers. As hr us their way of calling and behav- é utterly diaereht. It is one of the mysteres of ships and shipbuildinc thlt nowhere in the world are there two sister ships afloat which all in the some way. Invar- iobly there ore greet differences. so marked. in fact. thtt it is difficult. to believe that the vessels were created side by side. Sometimes the diflerence lies in speed, and it is surprising how one engine will develop a knot or two more than the twin from the same “Shops”. More often the contrariness of twin ships appetrs in the way in which they answer the helm. One will behave like 9. “perfect lady". responding to the slightest touch, while her twin sister. “stesrs like s haystack.” as sailors sax. Again, one sister will keep comparative- ly steady in dirty weather. while her twin is rolling and pitching abominably. The wsr. with its mass production of shipping. proved the contrariness of twin ships over and over again. For ulstance, twelve mine-sweepers were *built together, at the same time. in the same shipyard, and from the same set of plans. Yet when the flotilla put to sea 9v ry single ship behaved differently. and to look at them you would think each one had been launched in a different "a“ peculiarity applies equally to aircraft. for they cannot build two air- planes of the same type in a factory that will fly in the same way. PBEDICTS 500.000 INSANE BY 1940 During the next 10 years more man 500,000 persons will enter state institu- tions for the insane. accorgling 1! Dr. “v.“ v vâ€" W. H. Vorbau, superintendent of the L1mu,0hio. state hospital for the (‘1 1m- mu! inane. This is because we are neglecting mental illness preventatives while de- voting all our time to curing physical ills. according to Dr. Vorbau. Bloomers to Much Mac mun-mamm- BARGAIN LIST This Week’s Plunwhlteamsta ............ Dc. The Variety Store moi-v1.1" set I: concerned. they will be A social in her of intact lunch was: se bad Just an: tlonlh'es. Ti and wanted my cheese I “You are ¢ “with beam specter. Wh “Nothing". malty. I 105 agents inspeq butter. smelh The regula lined in the tailed report. Conference E instructive. petting the dong thh t byterial in that as manj from the Au Myrtle KOCH tuft McGi Thmkoflern Over $22 .00 Sm Come ' accept Koda' in 192 N0 ." by which it Fn Yo It ans