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HELP THE WAR VETERANS The Chronicle does. not usually Open its editorial columns towards the promotion of dances, but we hope that of the War Veterans in the Town Hall next Wednesday evening is a success. The War Veterans need funds, and as these funds are used only for a most worthy cause they should have no difficulty in raising them. The Veterans have made few appeals, if any, to the citizens since the close of the war. The present appeal is for funds to be expended fol. the purchase of annual wreaths for placing at the 1001:” The Chronicle has no particular “stand-in” with the powers at Queen’s Park. Any information we ob- tained was at our own solicitation, but we must say that in any enquiries made we have always been treated with the greatest consideration. Contrary to the opinions of the anti-Ferguson press of the pro- vince, the affairs of Ontario are being administered in a thoroughly businesslike manner, and if the Kincardine newspaper has any idea that things are not going well in Bruce county an interview with the heads of any of the departments at Queen’s Park will produce results and show the negligence to be the work of the local County Boards. In our investigations the Chronicle was concerned only with the administration of the Act in Grey County. We do not know if the Commission would county. We did not ask. But the Commission did furnish us with the information regarding Grey County, and, judging from recent results, we feel that conceal. It is run on strictly business lines, and a visit to their offices at 43 Queen’s Park will convince even the Review-Reporter (providing it is open to conviction) that everything is on the square, and not the politically administered department that it hopes it is. No, the Chronicle gets no “inside information” from the Old Age Pensions Commission that it does not ask for. We get no information that cannot be obtained by any other newspaper in the province. If there is anything wrong up in Bruce County with the administration of the Old Age Pensions Act, the Kincardine Review-Reporter can obtain full inform- ation upon application if it goes after it as did the Chronicle. As we have said before, and repeat now: The Old Age Pensions Commission has nothing to been referred to in previous issues. Dr. Blair’s charges were proved to be entirely without founda- tion, and his silence ever since is proof that he knows Then came the Dr. Blair case. We were in Tor- onto and got the facts of this case, which have also reason for repeating what we have already said in previous issues. The investigation showed that the Commission in Toronto was not responsible. The air is now cleared and we predict that never again will Old Age Pensions applicants in Grey County be neg- lected as they were during 1980. more about them. We ran into these cases in Durham, near Durham, and in certain instances twenty miles away. We wondered. Then came the startling news that the Old Age Pensions Com- mission was playing politics with the old people of Grey County. This was a U. F. O. riding. As such it could hope for nothing. We went to Toronto, vis- ited the offices of the Commission and stated our case. And what a mess we uncovered! There is no The fact of the matter is that the editor of the Chronicle learned there were several applicants for old age pensions in Grey County who, although their applications had been sent in for some weeks, and in some cases months, had heard no KINCARDIN E WANTS TO KNOW “A number of the weekly papers are question- ing the Durham Chronicle, because recent ar- ticles in that paper smack of the fact that the editor has some way of obtaining “inside in- formation” from the Ontario Old Age Pensions Commission at Toronto; Why should informa- tion be given to any single paper seems to be the pertinent question.” We clip the above from last week's Kincardine Review-Reporter, and we can agree thoroughly with the last sentence in the article. If the insinuation that the Chronicle is being furnished with “inside information” by the Old Age Pensions Commission at Toronto were even partly true, then we would say the press of the province generally might have reason for complaint. But the insinuation is not true in any particular. The Chronicle has been fur- nished with no information whatever that it did not go after. It has received no information regarding the Old Age Pensions Act from Toronto that cannot be learned by any other newspaper editor in the prov- inch-if he takes the time to go after it. PAGE 4 0mm in 12 months, I,“ Wmnvemmsumecopflbymmm mummmr;uthe0nltedmw. mmmlzn.1tos.aorn Whososvsr is afraid of submitting any question, cwil or religious to ths tsst of free discussion, is more in lots with his own opim than with tho Truthâ€"WA TSON. Thursday, November 27, 1930 “Income tax is inevitable,” says a writer, “and hooves us to pay up and look pleasant. Most of us, ever, Just pay up. A magistrate says that there is nothing a man who is heavily in debt hates more than being found out. Unless it is being found in. ' v -â€"â€"'v JV- Ulla never says or does afiything thaiva bright couldn’t duplicate. A town has become a city when aerate their income instead of preten people begin to en;- ding they make little. The only time a horse gets scared nowadays is when it meets another horse - Review-Reporter never misses a chance of taking a wallop at Ferguson or Bennett, and isn’t a bit particular what kind of ar- gument it uses to gain its point. wers its own question correctly by saying “that de- pends.” With Wh‘ich we agree. What bothers us more than the question of time is: Why is it that all the poor ones want to eat up the most time? Which reminds us of Josh Billings, who said that a preacher who couldn’t strike oil in twenty minutes either had a poor anger ’or was boring in the wrong place. Dean Inge is credited with the statement: “Man will never be entirely willing to give up this world for the next, nor the next world for this.” Which possibly explains the reason why some people who claim to know more of the hereafter than most of us make so much fuss when serious illness comes; The man who sings loudest about the glorious home on high which he knows is his, and to which he is appar- ently anxious to go, runs hardest after the doctor when he gets a pain in his tummy. a tribute to the ability of Ontario’s first citizen. Over in England, where “prohibition is unknown, they are tearing down their jails for 11: of tenants; ‘ in the United States, wlhere so-called prohibition is in force, they are busy building more jails to house the criminals. Yet there are some who will argue that liquor and criminals go hand in hand together. A writer to Maddie Magazine from Port Col. borne says: “The othu’lay It rpm for the first time a copy of Media's.”- Where has that fellow been living ali these years, and what has he been reading? 1 Last week's 13mm mm'wfid' the? headihx: ‘ “Allege Parent Freed Son. " We shudder for what might have impelled the editor had the linotyper made it real: “Alleged Pamt Freed Son". A motor news coliunn «shins the inhalation . Application of a little light oil on Mn" eases the operation of doors and other openings. ”’- Doubtless this includes such well how: db a Non, olive, refusing to swell the treasury of the. Veterans en, this occasion, especially When the object of the appeal is consideredl of the deial’s Monument each Armistice Day, and the placing of a suitable remembrance on the caskets of any of their overseas brothers who may be called by death. The patriotism displayed by the eitiuns of the town during the war was most cominendable, but it seems to us that patriotism should again be 111 The Kincardine :1 Clever Quins From Our Exchanges Review-Reporter objects to our THE DURHAM CHRONICLE sausage out of ’, “and it be- ; â€"sky-writmg?" Mr. Patric has not lived in vain. The painting of that picture must be al- ways remembered in the history of the man who borrowed materials to paint it. in the French Exposition of 1889, but the materials were still unpaid for, so it was held until the generosity of an American citizen brought it to America. In the meantime it had fulfilled its mis- son in France, and people were roused to a defence of the unfortunate creat- ures held in bondage by ignorant and brutal drivers. As a result the first humane law was enacted, for the pro-‘ tection of animals. A picture entitled “Brutality” is the masterpiece of Patric, an American who studied in Paris. It was inspired .by seeing a burly rufl’ian beating a Ihorse over the head with a stick on the streets of Paris. After evening things up a bit by knocking the man down, Patric went to his room and resolved to paint the scene. It took him a year to complete the work, but when finish- ed, so graphically had he'portrayed the brutality of the driver that the people j A' man..- ---A -__-__ , of Fran'ce “BRUTALI‘I‘Y” c mam m Non SI These Canadian journals have not conceded Britain’s progressive conver- sion to protection or the prospect that a Conservative administration commit- ted to Empire preferences is likely to attain office in the approaching general election. They have not apreciated Mir. Bennett’s success in having the Imper- ial conference adjourned to Ottawa, or admitted that the adjourned conference is likely to endorse the Bennett pro- gramme. They have been merely con- cerned with party politics. at Canada’s expense and the Empire’s expense.â€" Toronto Mail and. Empire. These newspapers have displayed an overweaning anxiety lest the Conserva- tive prime minister of Canada should succeed in having adopted his courag- eous and practical programme for the rehabilitation of British, Canadian and Empire trade on a basis of mutual preferences. They have ignored the fact that Mr. Bennett’s plan has been accepted and praised by all the other ydominions’ premiers, as by many out- standing public men in Great Britain, including all the Conservative chiei’t- ains, many leading Liberals and many} prominent Laborites. They have neg- ‘ lected the fact that British bankers, British industrialists and about one- half of the trades union representatives together with British agriculturists. have been converted to the policy of intra-Empire preferences and develop- ment advocated by Mr. Bennett. From the very first a few Liberal new3papers put forth every possible eflort to belittle and block the prime minister's work at the Imperial Confer- ence. They misrepresented his pro- posal for Imperial economic unity. They pictured him as interfering in British domestic politics, though mem- bers of the Ramsay MacDonald E6;- ernment complimented him for his meticulous care in abstaining from such interference. Durham Ladies Commended Two cases of generosity to the re- turned men have come to our attention ,publicity as possible. The Victoria Cross winners in Toronto held a get- together dinner at the Royal York Ho- tel in Toronto and when the bill was requested for payment found that there was no charge being made. The other one was by the Durham and district war veterans who enjoyed a banquet catered to by the Durham Red Cross, the I. O. D. E. and the W1. and for which a charge was not made. fine people of Canada can never repay the debt owed to those boys who served their country in dire need and acts of generosity like those mentioned above. go only a short way in an effort to show appreciation of the debt owed them.â€" F'lesherton‘ Advance. usualwfitxxmber of calls on the exghequer this tar, but this Is not forecasting s “Begs! f state of hardshipâ€"Walker- mwork mummtnnckdurmé the summer. munch-lea ‘are busy, some with“ A‘ ‘- A._ _ _ yIIpdordel-sahead. OTHER PAPERS’ OPINIONS mun-“flaw Libel-u 8mm and while prosperity was in full bloom. then threw thembeckcnthecountryin deprived health. to take on a men's job. pay a treble price for everything they had to buy to start in life. then tie up the currency to deprive them of capital ‘A ..A-L â€"-‘LL - tryto do the fighting, kept them :t war Ihavebeenreadlncquitealottheae timesabouttheoldacepenaionaand TheChronlclehashadthebigshare charity to the old when they turn around and tax the young men who fought to maintain the land of the tree. that the old might live in peace, who are in a poorer and more deserving need of pendons than their seniors are. A w m memw mum o n .mm w mu mm Mum m mm Wmmam MWMWMWM NW lllll mmmm m . EM“ WWW.“ EditorDurthhronlcle letters to The Editor r V numb: are many risks when motoring on I our Provincial liighways today. You are We carry nothing but the best insurance. We do not sell any of the “how cheap” kind. But we do guarantee that our insurance policy relieves you of any financial risk without quibbling or side-stepping. There may be insurance as good as ours, but there is nothing sold that is any better PLAY SAFE--lnsure FRANK IR WIN, Durham FIRE and CASUALTY INSURANCE M m tat interdependent- my, with to the but Ml: result of commotion or mo my menu The Variety Store R. L. Saunders, Prop. mammuoqupuno 8 con. Next Week's Issue Big Opening Alteration Watch for Our hind-y. Ina-h 27. I». Christmas ted by wfnuh week-end in ’Dor Winter Fur. SOCIAL enduherhome Lblyeuterunn Robert Miller of Boyd, filiss Helen unseen. held thel nastoretumm Helen Watson. 1 enmber 3 will be Quarrie's. All ll be in by this mDurhummd for 3 week with' MCF One teaspm of whole mil COLORED After Our 1 Buv \"