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\GE 4. . B. Bennett’s thunder, and it is about as “Conser- .1tive” a budget as the most ardent Conservative )uld desire. It is a true “protectionist” budget, and 3 such, to be fair, the Chronicle must give the Lib- rals credit for accepting it in the whole-hearted anner in which it has been' received. Its adoption . as well a tribute to the Conservative party. It is 'hat they have been asking all along, and if nothing ' mm, is an admission that the Conservative policy .the right one if Canada 1s to maintain her place in 1e business world. It is an admission that this “low l Whosower is afraid of submitting any question, vii or religious tat)“ test of_ free aiscussion, is ‘11 AL- , A TORY ' BUDGET . The announcement of Hon. Charles A. Dunning’s at budget last Friday must have fallen as a genuine 1rprise on many of the government’s Liberal sup- )rters in the country. It certainly took the wind 1t of a good many Conservatives. So far as the udget is concerned it looks at this time as though 10 Minister of Finance has stolen some of the Hon. U" V! Ivvv'vvm v- v on 5:: too: with :5}; opinion than with the nthâ€"WATSON. irifl” bogey while it may catch votes under certain chumstances is suicidal if it is to be continued. In 11‘ mind we cannot understand why this fallacy was ot seen years ago and how any country with a low irifl hapes to prosper when its farmers and manu~ scturers have to compete with the world, not only in ieir own market, but in the world’s markets as well, I something we cannot understand. There is no gainsaying the fact that geographically .ic‘ lanada and tile United States are one. Politically nd nationally they are as far apart as the poles. It s impossible for Canada to hope to prosper on a low grit! policy, allow United States products access to er markets, and, with the high tariff of the United :tates against her, be denied access to the markets f our neighbor to the south. There is little to be 'ained in purchasing United States made goods and ending the money down to Uncle Sam when we have ittle or no chance of selling him anything and get- ing it back. “Canada for the Canadians” and the lag-waving Tories seem to have won a victory even hough it was a Liberal government that put it ylbI~V c. -v-v‘--‘-, - The Conservative party has always stood for rea- 1 sonable protection of our native industries and while ‘ last Frday's budget announcement is better than might have been expected by the rank and file of either party, it scarcely goes fa ’ cause the Conservative party believes that they should have rec eration and that they are working under a serious handicap in having the world’s produce dumped into their local markets with no opportunity of disposing of their products at home on other than a competitive basis. Their produce should also have preference in Canada. Canada for the Canadians means nothing until it includes “Canadian markets for Canadian farmers.” This is the Conservative policy and appar- '. Cntly Mr. Dunning has appropriated a couple of its i party plaform planks when he issued his first budget on Friday last. At nearly every Council meeting, and at some is spoken of there is always someone who will rail; an objection on the ground that “we cannot stalfl PENURIOUSNESS NOT ECONOMY stand the expense” is foolish. Not many of us can stand the expense of fire insurance, life insurance, automthile insurance, and sometimes a new suit of clothes or hundreds of other things. But we all have I happen if we did not. A town is much the same as an individual. There are numerous things that crop up that cost money. Nearly everything does nowadays. If it is a necessity it is poor economy not to have it. A town’s business should be conducted economically, but with an economy that dispenses with unnecessaries. Any other kind of economy is a liability instead of an asset. Let our own and our town’s business be well looked after, but let us never forget that there are instances where an apparent saving of money is about the most expensive thing we can do. The motion picture “Hello Sister” is held up by ' the Ontario censors because 0an sermon preached in me this latest “talkie.” It is said that it is a perfectly .ity good sermon, too, and that no fault can be found is. with it on religious grounds. The “cutting” of the ad sermon, it is said, will ruin the picture. It is hoped [68. our Board of Censors will keep our movies clean, but to there is such a thing as .overstepping the mark and THOSE “STRANGE SKY LIGHTS” A dispatch from Stratford speaks of the “strange sky sights” seen in that city last Sunday night and attributes the phenomena to the northern lights. This is correct. Never in a good many years, in fact only once in this latitude, have we ever witnessed a better display of the aurora. Driving into town around half-past nine o’clock we observed them when on the road and on returning the car to the garage spent until half an hour or so after midnight watch- ing them from the shelter of the trees which ob- scured the glare of the electric lights. The aurora extended all over the northern heavens and well into the southern sky, and the many ever-changing colors were a pretty sight to watch. Some years ago we awakened at an early morn- ing hour to observe a similar display and, taking the car, went far out into the country where we re- mained fascinated until nearly daybreak. Robert Service in one of his poems says that “the northern lights have seen queer sights” but it might as truth- fully be said that they make queer sights as well. If there is anything prettier or more fascinating than a good display of northern lights we do not know what it is, and so far as North America is concerned, this is one thing in which Canada has an almost un- disputed monopoly. AN ELECTION THIS YEAR? Increased activity in all political organizations point to a Dominion election this summer, the only thing missing being the date. For some weeks there have been rumors in the press, and now comes the announcement from Quebec “on good authority” that the polling will take place some time in July or August. Locally, the Conservatives have had their candidate selected for many months, Dr. L. G. Camp- bell of Markdale being the standard-bearer. This week we carry the announcement that the United Farmers of South Grey are holding their convention and are to place their candidate in the field. There is little doubt that Miss Macphail will again contest the riding. All over the Dominion the different pol- itical organizations are buckling on their armor for the fray and this activity must surely mean some- thing. We believe it would be perfectly safe to pre- dict that the Liberals will go to the country before the snow fii 38. THE VALUE OF ADVERTISING A new.~;2aper like any other, business has its ups and downr, its brickbats and its bouquets. Talking to a local businessman the other day we were some- what nonri'lssed when he made the remark that his business \' s so bad that it would not pay to adver- tise. A b: :iness that cannot stand a little boosting : o_‘.'.'er‘i ting rightly placed must certainly be On W< d .1esday of this week we received a letter irom J. G. Tweddle of Fergus, who has been carry- ing an advertisement in the Chronicle in which he says: “Kindly cancel our ad. in your paper in the meantime and send us our account up to date. We are receiving more business than we can handle at present and have to cancel this ad.” a Q ‘ ‘ r- There is no business that cannot be helped by 1 advertising, but advertising cannot do it allâ€"there must be some help from the inside. There is little use in advertising if you don’t carry the stock the public wants. There is no use in advertising that you are selling such-and-such for “$1.98, worth $2.75” when in reality it is worth $1.75. There is no use in spending your money for advertsing if you do not believe in it and your business. If you haven’t faith enough in yourself, your business and the products you sell to advertise them, then do not spend the money. But if you don’t advertise and don’t get the business, don’t worry over your competitor who does and who is pullng away from you. It doesn’t matter whether you think advertising pays or not, the fact still remains that the business houses and communities that are going ahead are those which believe in themselves, the publicâ€"and advertise. THE DURHAM CHRONICLE if he “In“ W ...v.. â€" vâ€" _ _ ter. He also fooled the German emper- or in order to take no chances on hold- ing the support of Germany. He defied England, France and Russia, who were all making efforts to preserve the peace of EurOpe. He got his way and in- volved the whole world in war. Berchtold went on serving his coun- try until he saw the effect or his own handiwork, the _- collapse of the dual - ‘ ‘kâ€" uncvn‘ try lflwu ILU w" u--- -__-- handiwork, the collapse of the dual monarchy, the dispersion of the royal family and the end or the old regime. Then he went into retirement. Since then the world has heard nothing at all about Count Berchtold. Now that Aus- tria has published her war documents, the minutes of council meetings, the correspondence between diplomats, with all sorts of marginal notes by the [)0 WE NEED NEW WEIGHTS AND MEASURES? of weights and measures. Everyone is familiar with the system by which we sveigh tfiifigs in - terms of ounces. pounds, hundredweights and tons, and measure them in terms of inches, feet and yards, or pints, quarts and gallons as the case may be. Not everyone, however, is aware that theret has long been a movement afoot to abolish these methods, and to sub- stitute for them the metric system, of which the metric is the fundamean unit. It is argued by those in favor of the movement that our present system is unintelligible to foreign na- tions with whom we wish to extend our trade, and that our industries are con- isequently greatly handicapped. Further, the time needed for learn- ing our complicated system is much greater than that required to learn the metric system, while the use of this system in scientific circles proves that it is far quicker and simpler than our present methods. But Opponents of the movement say that the difficulties of our weights and measures are vast- ly exaggerated, and that the prOposed change would impose hardship on mil- lions of people, since they would be put to considerable inconvenience in |grasping the new system’s essentials. O“ “~K'“'U ' - Again, the figure of 12. so much in evidence in our present methods of reckoning, has advantages that 10, the unit in the decimal system, does not “-â€" v possess. Twelve for example, is divis- ible by 3, 4. 6, as well as by 3. while 10 is divisible by only 5 and 2. In addition it is argued that the fact that other nations, among them Germany, France Italy, Spain, Sweden and Belgium, have adopted the metric system does not im- ply that it is necessarily the best sys- VOOVU, v-wâ€"vwâ€" â€"â€"“__'_, year of the century the standards of the system, drawn up by experts sp- Vfilv VJ vowâ€"'â€" pointed by the French government were deposited with great ceremony in the national archives. It was not until nearly forty years later, however, that the new system became the law in France, since when many other coun- promotive man,flndingitnecessaryto wwwwmmmw to United States buyesr and gone out of the country. In this connection it is noted that there were approximately 100,000 fewer good much cows in Can- ada. in 1928 than there were .ln 1927. ewuwttu My. v- vwâ€"v _. ever, and few sales of huh grade m cows are now reported. flch phonei It is so easy to place a long distance call. Just ask for "Long Distance,” and give ber the distant nun:- ber. If you do not know the number, "Information" will look it up. Calling by number speed: up lb: service. O ”A. o -‘w (below balconY. With'mo' “Hist. woman, open the win- Ol‘ TOWN CALLSâ€" tethezl‘owmg Mrs. Rush had her things on all ready to go out. "I wish I knew how many yards of that curtain stuff my sister needs. I wonder if I could reach her by tele- phone ?” away â€" but in just a little over a. minute Mrs. Rush was talking to her while! Now I know exactly what to buy”, she said as she stepped into her car to go down town. Out facilities are now so complete that the average long distance call takes only a faction over a minute and a half! QUICKII AID cunt-.1” I.“ sun om! msnn Saunders, Prop. :“Mtsamirror worth spend the summer ed for a few d3.“ w. and Mrs ”guests of months’ visit with Rem. Lambton 51 Page. all from N“! Mr. Graydon MI is spending a ha! :1 home. rehuves. m5 Nettie Wat‘ a sister's in GI your We (laught will Pb Pu CH