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of a war as is possible. The weather must be right before they will 008388- Chinese 8016- Rev. Canon Hinchclifie, minister of educa- iers will not fight in the rain. They do not tion in the British Columbia Government, has care to light when it is too hot or too cold, and issued an edict, now in effect, that each Monday on the approach of weather not suitable will in all the schools of British Columbia, it is call of! hostilities until some more opportune compulsory to salute the Union Jack. Naturally time. This seems a funny practice to westem- the edict has caused considerable discussion ers, but perhaps it is not as foolish as it looks. pro and con, and while we in Ontario are a long , from the scene of action It mi ht not be wi ha _ way . z N° m h” M mm“ 1”“ th v a bad idea if something of this sort were in m °§.‘m’1°3'ms.a than £133 ”mm" in 0“"‘6- nation. In W and 80 in for war for We haven't much use for Jingoism, but i i; in it. Id? rather or foul. Even with there is. altogether too much latitude allowed ' ,ibqpamtlyludicrousmcertainelementsinCanadaItmaynotbequite I r ’. 3*“,11, a. midst on navflttherightuthingtoinsist on the saluting of the .. ’hmmordmmhotMu at my modded time. but'neither is it D ~ ". s - v a . . PAGE 4. So far as this newspaper has been able to learn, the town council has not make very much 01a hit with the citizens generally when they decreed at their last meeting the morning meal In a year like this with so many men “on: the ro ” it is inevitable that some of the professional bums will cash in on the sympathy of the people, but by far the greater number of out of works who have come to town seem like very decent chaps who are temporarily down 'in their luck, of good homes, and who would work if work was to be had. Among them are many boys, most of them not far out of their twenties, and the callous treatment of a half a loaf of bread and a bottle of milk, and then the cold highway, may be the means of soaring them against society and make for their development into real knights of the road. 'w-v- for itinerants who spend the night at the town hall bunkhouse shall be a half a loaf of bread and a bottle of milk. While they are all agreed that too good treatment may cause a stampede on the local commisariat, they are not alto- gether satisfied that the handing out of the “punk and cow juice” is very much to the credit of the town or of a supposedly civilized com- All men tramping the country today are not hoboes by any means. They are not on their uppers from choice. Many of them are looking for work. We have in mind one young fellow who called at the Chronicle office” not long ago and asked us for the price of a meal. We responded and he went off. An hour afterâ€" wards he came back and offered to work it out if we had something for him to do. No man who has never been what is known as up against it knows what it means to be without food and shelter. Out on the road looking for work, it takes but a few days be- fore one develops that “tough” appearance, and, with the majority of the citizens, we sym- pathize with anyone in this plight and feel ex- tremely sorry that the best we can do for these young nnfortunates is to hand them “a half loaf of bread and abottle of milk” and bid them be on their way. A few meals like this, and it is little wonder they ultimately come before the Cold bread and cold milk may be the proper thing to discourage the old professional tramps from coming to town, 'but under present cir- cumstances we believe discretion should be used. Half a dozen boys soured against hum manity during the present winter may be more ultimate cost to the country than the serving of something worth while. Let us be at least human in these times of stress and “do unto others as we would that they should do unto us”-or oursâ€"if they were placed in a similar From this distance the “war” between Japan and China is something of a joke, to one in- clined to have a sense of humor. To those in the area Inflected the joke is not so apparent. It It has been a well known fact that the Chinese army likes to get as much comfort out THE BATTLE AT SHANGHAI Thursday, February 11, BREAD AND MILK gtins Were loaded with blank shells, and the mmtmnnrv salute mven as vessels of non- customary salute given as vessels of non- line, the fight went on. We think the Fergus newspaper has uncov- ered the reason for the abuse of the Old Age Pensions Act in the above paragraph. The? people pay the bills. The people should be in-‘ terested in who gets the pension, and the people, if they know the Act is being abused, should report these abuses to their local Penâ€" sions Board. Either that, or shut up. Two expected ot ferret out everything. If a man knows that his neighbor has sworn to a false this, he has no other alternative than pay his 'portion of the pension. It may be a hard thing lto do, but we can see no other way out of it. The last issue of the Simcoe Reformer asks its readers to note that when advertisers ask for replies to a box number in the Reformer office, those who answer should follow instruc- tions and not call up the office to see who is advertising. Evidently the advertiser did not want his identity known or he would have had his name inserted in the advertisement. News- paper offices cannot reveal the identity of ad- vertisers of this kind. The Reformer asks its readers to reply to these box numbers by letter and thus save “your own time and ours”. Evidently human nature is the same all over the world, and there are few newspapers which have not had the experience of the one at Simcoe. No matter how the advertisement is worded, even going so far as to state that the advertisement should he replied to “by letter only”, there are some who will grab the teleâ€" phone, call up the newspaper office, and in the end be just where they were when they started. Newspapers simply cannot tell the identity of] advertisers who wish their names kept secret. j Another thing we have noticed is that no matter how the advertisement is worded, ap- plicants for a position seldom answer in the manner requested. If the request is made that the amount of wages should be stated, not over twenty per cent comply. The net result is these replies invariably go into the waste paper bas- _ket. An applicant for a position who cannot apply for that position in the manner request- ed by the advertiser need not be expected to do his work in the manner expected by his ‘employer. pensions.” It is the little things that count, and it may be that many who think they are running in hard luck when they apply for a position are not in hard luck at all. They are merely paying for their own carelessness in not living up to the requests of the advertisers. “Much of the discussion was merely an echo of what had appeared in the press. When actual instances are mentioned the to work, while he draws a pension and in- dulges in the luxury of ten-cent cigars. R. Cherrey tells of three pensioners living in one house with a combined income of $60 a month, which is comparative luxury for them. A man from Arthur tells of a neighbor who gets drunk the day he re- ceives his monthly check. A friend tells us of a family (not in Wellington) where the income of the unmarried daughters totals $6,000 a year, and yet the parents draw WE’RE ALL THE SAME SALUTING THE FLAG THE DURHAM CHRONICLE the right thins *0 “1°" 8°” °‘ u” ”we” ' OTHER PAPERS’ OPINIONS! pulled off in the name of Communism. and other isms in this country. Waving the Red flag has. her W not. , become quite too much a habit with some pe0ple. A 81-008 Out the door in the pod- Preaching the doctrine of Russia. and comparing 2““ the “fly Put 0‘ ”avg: In? W W - the conditions there to the disadvantage of liv- [m of CW sent thmuzh the ing under the Union Jack is something that Name .5 ‘ medium for advertis- ,should not be allowed in this country. We are fine. If those who and such matedal 'all Canadians, or should be, when earning our in their Wet. however. would give .. . . . abouthalfamlnuteotthelrttmem lmdg here, and if we are not satisfied with pm it m the “a“ 90-9!!! W Canadian conditions, flag and all, then we 5 would very much improve the ap- should leave the country and go to that place pearanoe 0g that public bulldog and which suits us best. Whips save a few cuss words on the Objection to a compulsory saluting of the flag usually comes from those whom the edict is not intended to afl'ect, and none of us whose loyalty to Canada or Canadian institutions is above question, feel that we should be compelled to stand up and do something which we are proud to do of our own free will. There is no doubt the British Columbia edict was issued for a class of people. whose loyalty was under question. It is therefore the duty of others, for whom the edict is not intended, to abide by it willingly, and not only do that which is asked. but see to it that those residents in this country who are always harping on our-disadvantages, do it, too. Ultra flag-waving may be stepping close to the line of national bigotry, ‘but it is a bigotry that will show foreigners and malcontents that even while we welcome them as citizens we do not intend that they shall have the privilege of running things to suit themselves, to the det- riment of British and Canadian usages. The tail has wagged the dog long enough in our opinion. A British General has said that “only the. death of one American Sailor at the hands of a Japanese sailor, soldier or airman," is neces- sary to cause a great war in the East. Per- haps. The statement reminds the writer of a somewhat different feeling in the American army when he shouldered a gun for Uncle Sam. It was in the Philippine Islands, and it was the general opinion among the enlisted men that the Army Department at Washington thought more of the mules than the men. “Take care of those mules,” was the cry. “We can get lots of soldiers, but a mule down here is worth $700.” An exchange says beauty contests are an insult to modesty. But how “modesty” does like to be insulted nowadays! The Ontario Legislature opened yesterday and this session promises to be a heavy one. A good many changes may be looked for before the present Legislature adjourns. The pension plan, whereby the Dominion Government is to pay 75 per cent of the cost is to “save $1,400,000.” Well, now, let us see. Where will the Dominion get the money? It is said that it takes 1,700 quarts of water to produce one pound of wheat. Farmers will receive consolation out of this. Growing wheat is not all loss. They are at least getting paid for the water they put into it. A woman fainted at the dinner table at the Scott Institute yesterday. She had been unem- ployed for some time and broke down when given food. Evidently she didn't get her “arf a loaf and bottle of milk” soon enough. A Toronto alderman objects to the presence of the press at committee meetings of the city council, because the presence of the pness would mean a “bridled” tongue. Or a breeching and hold-back! Russian Communists set themselves back another notch last week when Premier Molotov declared “Scarface” Al Capone the “outstand- ing American hero of 1931.” Again we wonder what’s wrong with those Canadians who boast they are “Reds.” An Ontario divine is reported to have said in a sermon last Sunday that he’ was opposed to war, and even unwilling to enlist to defend Canada from an attacking force. We refrain from expressing our opinion of a man who is so spineless he will not defend his~ native land. This is not pacifism, but straight darn foolish- An Ontario minister in a recent sermon expressed the opinion that ministers would be delinquent in their duty if they did not keep reminding their congregations of the necessity of raising money for church purposes. He need have no fear. Few ministers of our acquaint- ance can be classed as “delinquents.” Japan is collecting little sympathy among those who, at the commencement of the trouble between that country and China, were scarcely interested in which side won. The burning of the railway station at KaOpangtze, Manchuria, after capture was. an act of vandalism not to be condoned. AMERICA AND JAPAN ‘aonu-za mans OPINIONS perh‘npe ave e few can words on the part at the post came m.â€"'nnaon- burg News. Appointment 0! m. A. B. Chaney. K. C..ujud¢eofmwuun.remmdsus of an embu'nssmg moment which be suflered in 1919. Mr. Cuney was then solicitor for Bentlnck township. The Hanover council called him in for od- vice as to the procedure to take in draining McMurrich street, and in the discussion, council blamed Bentlnck for dumping wster on to the eastern lim- its of the town. “lave they I. right to do that?" was the point-blunt query addressed to Mr. Currey by the myor, the late Dr. Taylor. It was a. touch spot for the Bentinck solicitor to be in, but, like the George Wuhincton legend, he couldn’t tell a lie ond ul- mitted that Bentinck was possibly in the wrong. However the dumping con- tinued, despite the Hanover council’s ruminations, and Mr. Currey held his Playing Up the News The ridiculous extremes to which daily newspapers will go in their at- tempts to play up “news" in sensation- al fashion was well illustrated at the Campbell hanging in Barrie last week. The dailies carried lurid stories about “crowds rioting as man hangs," and “a mad rush towards the wall’ One story told of a score of men and women street and witnessing the execution. Now we learn from the Barrie Exam- iner and other Simone County weeklies that these episodes were purely mythi- cal, having been fabricated in the mind of an imaginative reporter and exag- gerated at the desks of daily news- papera The proceedings at the execu- titm were carried out without a hitch and without a disturbance or interrup- tmnofanmednonefromwt- side saw the actual hanging. No oon- stable pulled his revolver. However, ’thisisthesortofmhuponwhlch some den-ha thrive, and in publishing it, they hurt only themselvesâ€"Simon THE GARDEN nan-m 18 A QUEER mu: BOX When the average person sees a colony of bees tucked away in the cor- ner or some garden it. is usqally just anather reminder that bees and their stinssmbestavoued Inmutyig. embraces one at nature's most fascin- Aphrlst of the Dominion Department of Apicultme, points out. this little box during the W monthshuanadultpomnutonotap- proximately 100,000 individual bees. and itisratherdimculttorealheflnt between 2,000 and 3,000 new bees will emerge tromtheirceuseverynhmm: 12,000 and 13,000 baby bees ue being fed every minute throughout. the Where one is biologically inclined the our Provincial Highways today. You are wholly responsible for any damage your car may do, whether driven by yourself or not. Why not let us, through a good Insurance Company, carry your risk? We carry nothing but the best msurance. 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