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They are quite general, and the Chronicle has evidence that many applica- tions made as far back as last March and earlier have as yet to have any action taken, and there seems nothâ€" ing can be done that will wake up the board or its sec- retary. If this is to continue, then we should sug- gest the Board place its resignation in the hands of the County Council at its next sitting and get out. The welfare of our old and needy citizens is of too much importance to be made the playtoy of a Board that scans unable to shake itself into life and action. Dr. J amieson was reluctant to make any accusa- tions, but we finally wormed the information out of him that Grey County was the worst county in On- tario, so far as looking after old age pensions was concerned. This county has given the headquarters Commission more trouble than any other half dozen counties in the province. Not only, apparently, were they not answering letters from applicants and penâ€" sioners, but it was extremely difficult for the Com- mission at Toronto to get the required information. Dr. J amieson also told the Chronicle that there was no delay in Toronto. There is a competent stat! employed there, and any correspondence received from any County Commission, pensioner or applicant, is invariably answered the same day it is received. But the Ontario Commission can do nothing if the In a previous reference to this same Board, this newspaper pointed out that any delinquencies should not be charged to the Pensions Commission in Tor- onto. They are fully aware of the importance of their position, and when some cases in and about Durham were brought to our notice we took the op- portunity of interviewing the chairman, Hon. Dr. Jamieson as to why it was there was so much delay in securing for these pensioners that to which they were entitled. The Chronicle is not informed as to the personnel of the Grey County Pensions Commission, and can- not be accused of trying to “get back” at anyone. We do not know who they are, but we do know that right here in Durham, and in other sections of the county are applicants for pensions who have filled out the proper forms, some of them months ago, and are still awaiting replies from the local commission. During the past few months we have heard 'more criticism of the Grey County Pensions Board than of almost any ot'cer organization in the county. So far as we can learn they have been doing practically no- thing and lf this is to continue, in the interests of those who are entitled to pensions money, it is high time they should either wake up to the fact that they have an important duty to perform or throw up the job and make way for a board that will take its duties seriously and act accordingly. County authorities are lax in their duties. So far as we can learn the appointment of the County Commissions throughout Ontario has been in the hands of the County Councils, and they have invariably appointed members of that body to act as Commissioners. We do not think this is right and proper. In our opinion the Pensions Committee should be appointed outside the County Councils al- together, and should be composed of men and women who are alive to their duty and are prepared to de- vote some of their time to this neat. work, for which theyreceivefivedolsrssdsyandu’pmesvhflethe Boardissittlnx. Inanyeventltis hixhtime theGmCmty Commiuieumsdenpitsmindtodosomethiu. If itisthdrintsnflutoeontinueslmthelinespu- suedsofar,thuwewouldsuuestthstsnsv0m- missionbesppdntedâ€"onethstwillfnnetionpropm handglvethenesdyoftheCountyomesmsu Wham" is afraid of submitting any nation, civil or nb'm'm to tho tut _cl_ If“ alum ‘1'; moviu'iéivcflmw "5ng 0pm " thu'tmth' tho TMbâ€"WATSON. PAGE 4. SHOULD WAKE UP 0R RESIGN Thursday, September 11, 1930 So far as we can see it, the only thing the matter with this country is that the manufacturers have had their day. They have sold the pe0ple to death until the tables have turned. A few years ago the peOple had the money and the manufactuters the goods; now the people are (broke and the manufacturers have both the money and the goods.- Unfortunately, it is the people who were responsible for the abnormally good times who are now “broke”. and must pay the fiddler. While the manufacturers may have the goods, and business is “had", these same manufact- urers also have the money and can sit back and wait for the turn of the tide. market, and with no market, there was nothing else for business to do but go “dead”. This condition will not last very long, however. The people still have the good sense to know that all they have to do is to buck up and buy within their means. Then the so-called hard times will disappear. 'The funny part of it is that the “big interests” will come in for their share of criticism, while the real facts are that if the people had saved some of their money as they earned it, times would not have been so “tight” as they are now. It is the same old story, what goes up must come down. And Mr. Mi- cawber’s definition of success is still as true today as when Dickens made him say it away back in the middle years of the last century. all was well, then the purchasing power of the “people began to dwindle. To meet this we had the introduc- tion of the “small payment down and so much a month” idea. And now this has failed. The people spent their surplus, then resorted to the installment principle, and now that this has further depleted their cash on hand they are not even able to buy on the so-much-a-month plan. The inevitable has happened. With the people un- able to buy, the manufacturing has got ahead of the We read in one of our exchanges a few days ago that a “respected farmer” of a district in Southern Ontario “was verbally lashed by the acting magis- trate and then threatened with jail in default of payment and costs." This farmer had had trouble with another farmer, whom he had brought before the magistrate for assault. It is said further in the account of the case in the Simcoe Reformer that the acting magistrate took upon himself the duties of prosecuting attorney “and proceeded to cross-exam- ine the plaintiff in such a manner that he was unable to tell his version of what had happened between himself and the defendant.” This stateinent of Sir Philip Gibb. m to us to come nearer the mark of expluning the present hard times than anything we have yet seen. For the put decade or so everything, especially on the North Am- erican continent, has been made on the “production” There is getting to be altogether too much of this sort of thing in Ontario courts. What do these mag- istrates and lawyers think they are, anyway ? Sure- ly we are not coming to the time in Ontario when witnesses in court cases have to be subjected to abuse by the bench and the lawyers! We have seen cases in-court when highly respect- ed citizens, persons of undoubted honesty and truth- fulness, have been summonsed as witnesses, only to be manhandled by the soâ€"called representatives of the law in a manner that was anything but a credit to those conducting the case. Great stuff, this, isn’t it? A police magistrate sitting on a case and cross-questioning the plaintiff in such a manner that he could not tell his story! It is bad enough when the legal fraternity resort to this practice, but much worse when the man on the bench, he who is supposed to listen and to judge the case on the evidence submitted, so far forgets himself as to assume the role of prosecuting attorney, and by this action place himself on record as striving for a conviction rather than acting independently of all litigants and seeking to pass judgment on the merits of the case. A scientist says the human jaw is shfinkiné. Evidently that fellow never attended a sewing circle. EXCEEDIN G OUR PURCHASING POWER? “GRILLED” BY “THE BEAK: 3“)!"- H upmmw_. HWWWW No W Wanted For bin-selves, we preier Great Britain as she was. with not a lace oi Amer- ica about her from Landfs End to John 0’ Greats. We'look forward with no enthusiasm to visiting â€"a “copyâ€"ca " England. We like bishops in gaiters, we like barristers in wigs and gowns. we like “the cry of the curates" though itisalowandplaintiflcry,noteasily audible; we like British barmaids. and we hurry by with averted faces if we suddenly come upon an American pur- veyor of soft drinks or an American food shop in the Strand or Fleet street. â€"-Boston Transcript. Waken Up the Compiler It must be four years at least since Mat Sutcliiie. Clerk of Sullivan and editor of this paper were paid by Sul- livan council for writing that town- shlp’s part of the History of Grey and still nothing has been heard of the date when the manuscript will be print- ed. When the late Sherifl Wilson, who had charge of collecting the county mm Withinflhours they caughtwmzthcgoods.had “mm menrobbed juflcetheothu'dty. m :bmkmdstolemauto- Hartman. Ontario. VIM pied example of the write-ups, passed away, the work was put in charge of another and up to date the contract of publishing the history has not been let. If the history is not published soon it will be necessary for all the county historians to get e- ther and add an appendix of the t tour or five year’s happenings of town- ship interest or the history will not be up to date. Waken up the compiler, Warden Lembke.â€"Chesley Enterprise. Endurance Contests The spectacqu always wins recog- nition while the humbly meritorious seldom does. The tree-sitter, the endurance flier or motorist or the marathon dancer makes the front pages of the dailies. But there are other endurance tests! There is the story of a mother who had been left with a brood of small children on her hands, and with no in- come, who fought her fight through sickness, through hardship, through ob- stables of almost every conceivable kind, until those chileren were educated and sent out into useful citizenship. These are only common human ex- periences in humble and obscure sur- roundings, but there is no comparmon with the so-called endurance tests first mentioned.â€"Llstowel Banner. “Tommy” Church is evidently sore at his defeat in one of the Toronto ridings It is rather surprising to read that he blames the enemies of Hydro for his misfortune. This is nonsense since the Hydro policy of, the late years has been quite satisfactory to opponents of the policy followed by the late Sir Adam Beck. There would be nothing to be gained by getting the Toronto dema- There was another story of a man who cared for an invalid wife through a third of a century of invalidism. standing patiently by until the inevit- able end came. T. L. Church Comphim o'm-bundbwh w #v'wâ€" “W _ ,, but the mun-um“ bane: Mr. Ohmvh’s rayon foamy}! Mt {WPâ€"mm mu. of entahlnment, u this one shows, it can be overdone. And when it moverdone.1tfellsmtofl1eelmof objectionohle noises. And there ere mypeoplewhowmureewith the Toronto hth. which made It possible forthedmnoted nelchbou tome actiontohovethhnulunoeJoreven aradloetflmeoconbeonmanoe.ter- mmotedpmrlenld. Recently we listened to an address delivered to the Advertising Club in New York City by one of the speakers, who was introduced as being “A real Irishman". In the course of what was apparently considered a very witty ad- dress he boasted: “I deserted from the ”Wm WWWW» mMWWWm during the war; it was a rotten army anyway. If I were flying over London I’d take pleasure in drOpping a couple of bombs on the city.” The man’s name was Captain McGinnis, a noted naviga- tor, and his remarks were widely ap- plauded by the audience. Is this a true expression of the sentiment that prevails among the so-called intelli- EARTH PULSATES LIKE Startling Theory 0! Evolution Advanced By Astronomer.â€"Says Stun nave Life Cycle, Begin A: Atoms. presented to the American Astronom- ical Society by Professor Benjamin Boss, director of the Dudley Astronom- ical Observatory at Albany, N.Y. Prof. Boss, working with scientific observations gathered by astronomers and geophysicists since the beginning of astronomical observations, has placed the entire mechanics of the evolution of the earth into one scheme. The general conclusions he reached are: The earth is constantly pulsating, like the human heart. In these heart beats are born oceans, mountains, volcanoes, earthquakes. The contraction and expansion of the earth’s pulsation is caused by the sun's bombardment of the earth with elec- trons. In the electronic charges come the winds, the storms, northern lights and other natural phenomena. Ice and tropical ages have been caused by the passage of the sun through a cosmic dust of greater or lesser potential. 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