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g P The Durban) Chronicle The editor of the Wiarton Canadian-Echo in the last issue of that paper under the heading of “Sinn Feinism” tells of havng refused advertising for one of Owen Sound’s larger stores for no other season than he wanted to be loyal to his own community and it “would hardly be consistent for us to allow our columns to be- used for the seduction of Wiarton 2 money over to build up the business interests of that town to the detriment of Wiarton merchants.” All well and good. The sentiment is fine, but it wasn’t good businessâ€"Wiarton merchants are in business to make a living and save a little money for their old age if they can. So also should the editor of the Canadian-Echo. Newspapers must make C ;; mmmmtheyhavetodrawfrom. 'emmuehhnpreuedwiththeloyaltyofthe Walnut tohis fellow basins-asso- “-Whmuflh‘tflm l Whosmcr is afraid of submitting any question, , civil or religious to tho test of free discussion, is more in loos with his own opinion than with the Truthâ€"WA TSON. 0 [Int \xhy worry. There is on old saying that there never was a good thing made in the world that someone i-lsi could not. make it worse and sell for less. And so it is with the Canadian troops. The writer has been mnmcted with the army long enough to know that it is not composed wholly of saints; but taken generally you find a pretty good bunch of fe1-' lows. We have little doubt that the Canadian troops individually committed indiscretions but their record at the front as reported in the official records of the time place the Canadian troops among the leaders in the big battles against the Central powers. Their work in smashing the Hindenburg line at Passchen- daele, the Somme, and hundreds of other engage- ments, is officially chronicled and cannot be refuted by any of the writings of Charles Hale Harrison or any of the other dyspeptic or liver-troubled writers who have sprung up in the last decade. Before we place any confidence in Mr. Harrison’s charges against the Canadian troops at the front, we should like to know what part he himself took in smashing back the Huns. No, the Canadian troops were not saints. It took a diflerent stamp of man to live four years in the mire and mud of Flanders and successfully combat the German and Austrian armies, acknowledged the most highly trained and eflicient in the world. As an answer to Mr. Harrison about the only thing we can think of that they will allow us to print in a family journal is “Pooh!” It is all very well to argue that they do these things in the .city. They have machinery there to make the necessary repairs. It might be all very well to have to put up with these things in Durham .on the outskirts, but to allow any property owner in the main part of the town to pass up the opportunity of having sewer connections made was, to say the least, mighty poor business. was their duty to insist on every connection being made. They failed to act, however, and the result is that almost before the new pavement is cold the butcherng process has begun. IS IT SLANDER ? A book recently issued and written by. Charles Hale Harrison is said to be a slander on the Canadian tr00ps in France and overseas in the last great war. The Canadians have been accused of looting Arms, and the actions of the Canadian soldiers in France generally put to severe criticism. Canadian generals and officers are branded as cowards, and it is hard to pick out one meritorious thing the Cana- dian Expeditionary Force did in the four years they spent overseas. The London Daily Mail waxes indig- nant and other newspapers in England and Canada have not hesitated to express their disapproval of the new book. The Council cannot plead anything but neglect and shortsightedness, for they were warned that it POOR VISIBILITY These two words have come into quite comnion use since commercial flying has sprung into existence, but there are a lot of other things into which they m tlt quite nicely. Among them would be the lack of judgment displayed by last year’s Council in not insisting that all property owners living on the front street put in the stub sewers last summer when the main semr was being built and the paving laid. This neglect is in evidence today at the main corner where the pavement, not yet nearly a year old, it being cut to make sewer connections for the new Bank of Commerce building now being erected. The Bank of Commerce is not to blame for the rea- son that at the time the sewer was being laid they did not own the property, and but for the disastrous fire of last October might never have secured it. PAGE 4. ”Hm-momwmwpy; hymn: “Mum; mummw. mammal, ltobJOPJl. 011mm on Sunday and Wednesday nights from 7 to 10 PM. FOOLISH BUSINESS Thursday, May 15, 1930 ,Miss A. C. Macphail got the last word in her exchange with Hon. E. Lapointe, says one of our" ex- changes. But why worry ? We know of a good many other women who. also get the Test wordâ€"and often the first. And now Aimee Sample McPherson has been shockedetPu-is. That’s shone apiece. Aimee .WWslotofusaooupbofyax-sm‘ Do not let us say that we cannot afford it until we have given the matter the fullest consideration. Perhaps we cannot aflord to be without it. One big fire in any community would almost pay for the purchase of the proper equipment and in our opinion it is a foolish community' that does not at least take the matter seriously enough to investigate the details as thoroughly as if the matter were more intimately connected with their own business. There should be a lesson for other centres in fires of this nature, and those citizens who own their homes and business places should have more interest in seeing that they are amply protected in case a similar occurrence should happen in their own com- munity. Fire protection is a necessity in any com- munity and should be of the best. It is poor policy to do without fire protection for the reason that it costs money. Fires cost a lot of money even with a good brigade, but they cost a lot more if that brigade is not given every assistance by the purchase of sulfi- cient equipment to enable them to combat these things as they occur. No matter how careful we are, fires are bound to happen. Even if the building in which they start is gutted and rendered a total loss, any town of a thousand population or over should have a fire equipment that would prevent a whole front street from being destroyed. Durham can sympathize with Fordwich in tho conflagration early last Sunday morning when nearly the whole business district was burned. Fires of magnitude in a village like Fordwich are a calamity and while the loss, something like $40,000, may seem small to those who read of these things every day in the daily press, it is a very serious thing for Ford- wich and like places. It is altogether likely it will be a long time before the village recovers from the shock. Buidings are not built today in the smaller centres as they were thirty years ago. But we are not running the Wiarton Canadian- Echo. We are not trying to put any of our notions into its head. At that we think time will justify our statements. Getting business today is a proposition that de- mands action and a lot of these small towns are just beginning to find it out. This may not sound nice to a lot of business men but it is the truth and we challenge them to deny it. There are a good many newspapers throughout the country that have stuck to their guns on the town loyalty cry and refused out- side advertising. They are getting fewer each year. If the business men of the smaller towns were as loyal, there would be no need for all the travelling printing solicitors who take the small town printing to the city houses that can be done just as cheaply and well at home. This “Be loyal to your own com- munity” stuff is all right and the proper spirit, but the Chronicle has found that the merchandising houses that spend the most for advertising are the cheapest, and that it’s to much to expect a newspaper to turn down business for the'protection of a lot of fellow business men who in the end will laugh up their sleeve and send their job printing out of town. Frankly, we think the Canadian-Echo was wrong. There will not be even a business man’s “thank you” coming to the editor. On the other hand, a few good peppy advertisements from some outside business houses might waken up the local merchants to the fact that they have either got to get out from in under or else go down with the boat. The Chronicle has been in the same predicament on previous occasions, has done exactly the same as the Canadian-Echo, and we must say that we are just about “fed up” on this-town loyalty stuff as it is usu- ally practised. We are arriving at the opinion that if the local merchants are so dead that they do not care to advertise their wares they have no complaint if some outside firm senses this weakness and uses the space that should be taken up Jocally. Surely a newspaper Editor is not justified in refusing bus- iness from anywhere he can get it, providing it is clean and legitimate, if his town business associates are so penurious or lethargic that they would sooner see him starve than boost their own business. newspaper gets out into the highways and Ibyways and picks it up where it can. We commend the loyal-' ty of the CanadiawEdw but think it is costing it too much money. Echo is a Q-column, 8-page, all home print paper, and it is a good one, well edited, newsy, and a credit to the town and the editor. Roughly speaking it puts out in its pages 960 inches of reading matter and advertising each week. Our check-up revealed that last week of the 960 inches of space available thebus- iness men of the town used only 93 inches of local ad- vertising, or less than ten per cent. of the space avail- able. Advertising experts say a newspaper must be 50 to 60 per cent advertisements before it is on a sound business basis. We know little of Wiarton, but would judge that a town of its size that cannot support a good local newspaper with any more than ten per cent advertising has little complaint if that FIRE PREVENTION THE DURHAM CHRONICLE Mulch paper is now being highly re- commended by Dominion Experimental Farm authorities for use in the home garden. This is simply heavy black paper especially prepared to withstand weathering. It comes in various widths andistackeddownwithwirestaplen between the rows of vegetables. Natur- ally this prevents weed growth and the never a holiday for the Recorder em- ployees but ' they celebrated June 21. the Natal day of Halifax, instead. He refused nominations for local and Fed- eral Houses and also declined a senator- ship in 1902 and the Ideutenant-Gover- norshlp of Nova Scotia. Every morn- ingothisllieheroseatsix.perscnally calledforthemailatthepostoflice at seven and went directly to his cflice. Thus is one generation passed out and a new one installed in its place. Charles C. Blackader, veteran pub- lisher and editor of the Acadian Re- corder, the only handset daily paper on the continent. died at Halifax after an illness of four months. He was 82 years old. He maintained the Recorder. which had been in the possession of his family since 1835 in its original form. He refused to install modern machinery claiming it would throw so many of his old employees out of work. He read every lino of proof every day himself and personally checked up on accuracy of the names and initials of every per- son mentioned in the columns. He wrote a weekly article on the history of Nova Scotia, a feature started by his father, religiously to the last. Before Confederation he was opposed to the union of the provinces and continued f There are strong suspicions in some "quarters that Belbeck was the victim of foul play, although there was no evid- ence submitted, either at the inquest which was- held soon after the fatality, LAST HAND SET DAILY MOURNS DEATH OF EDITOR It is alleged that there is bad blood. between the Belbeclr. family and an- other family in that neighborhood. but whether this has anything to do with the matter is a matter for investigation. The medical evidence given at the trial was the influencing factor in the decis- ion dismissing the case, but his positive assertion that the man had been killed whether accidentally or by some person or persons, before he fell into the creek. is the thing to be cleared up. It is ad- mittedly a very difficule case. but no stone will be left unturned in an effort to satisfy the authorities that all the facts have been unearthed. or at the trial held here this week. which would involve any person. County Crown Attorney J. W. Free- born, when spoken to regarding the matter stated that still. further investi- gation would be made. in view of the decision of Hon. Mr. Justice Kelly. The decision of Hon. . Mr. Justice Kelly in the action brought by Mrs. Annie Belbeck against the township of Brant, in which he dismissed the suit for $10,000 damages for the death of her husband, William Belbeck, whose body was found in Deer Creek on the 14th concession of Brant in August last. late at night, or in the early hours of the morning, and his declaration that Mr. Belbeck was killed before he went over the abutment into the creek, has aroused much interest in the commun- ity, and many peOple are wondering what the next step will be in connec- tion with the case. Mrs. Fisher’s grandmother. The house. which is between the third and fourth concession, London Township, near Masonvillc. m still standing. SUSPICIONS OF FOUL PLAY IN SUPPOSED CAR ACCIDENT from the McStay honiestead. built by remember the time when the first rall- waycametothetownandrecallstho day when she came to London by sleigh before the railroad was built. Her mother and father were both born in nasalsobeentoAlaskarecently. should know more of their family m»- toryandCanedlanhlswu-y lngeneral. Mm.Flsher,wholslnheralstyeu,hI£ awideknowledgeofCamdlmhm andeantraoebeckhermmflyhlswry for at least five genmtlons. She is also much travelled. She has been five timesecrosstheeoastslneemlo and and sturdy pioneer stock of only On- tario, Mrs. B. A. Fisher, of Toronto. be- a splendid example at the wave MULCB PAPER “Not at. all,” replied the other. “Med- icineHathasenoughi’ertilesoilto grow all the wheat. alias flour, that the British Isles use for food." Mr. Martin Burnel. who had come along, had overheard the dialogue. “Introduce me, too.” he remarked. “I represent a constituency nearly as large as England and Scotland put together.” Mr. Burrell was a member for Yale Caribou in British Columbia. Measure that single riding on the map of that day and you will find it was eight hund- redmileslong.Itha§beencutintwo since. Lord Salisbury shook hands with Mr. Burrell. Then he turned to us with the question: “How many parlia- mentary ridings are there in the Do- minion?” “Two hundred and thirty six." The Marquis looked reflective for a moment, then. passing his hand over his chin, he remarked dryly: “Perhaps I had better go home before I lose my- who are paying their debts stand up." Presently every man, woman and child, with one exception, rose to their feet. The preacher seated them and said: “Now every man not paying his debts stand up." The exception, a careworn. hungry-looking individual, clothed in his last summer’s suit, assumed a per- of “Quite westa'n,” Mr. menu! ne- tm-ned,“a.lnothereistgoodded big as Ireland.” “That is not a joke. is it?" it Mrmngisabopttwotmmu mumumlookedatw.m¢nth. It Wu Time to Pray A preacher at the close of one of his RO0FING COMBUSTION “I run a newspaper,” he answered. “and the brethren here who stood up are my subscribers, andâ€"” able to meet his obligations?" pendicula: position. ‘fI-Iow is it, my “Let us pray," exclaimed the minigmr goofing coal-flange;â€" Woben’s Leather Hand Bags New assortment. speclal at $1.00 Note slxe linen wrltlnc tablet with package of envelopes The Variety Store cold Qanthir with mica on. Millions am being and. Write («fut mph. of the id“! .LoodioundoatholndofLED- HED NAILS. co and the nail- uilncmuomflinhyin‘ml roofing. 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