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PAGE 4 mmmmanmm tures for 814,000 to take care of this and fur- ther expenditures, need cause the taxpayers of the town little alarm. It is something which should have been brought to a head long ago. The eflorts to keep down the tax rate of the town by past councils is- in reality the cause of this predicament. The fact that there is a defi- cit in the waterworks system means nothing more than poor judgment in not issuing deben- tures large enough to take care of the carrying charges. Instead of the issue of $50,000, it should have been at least $65,000, and at the time this matter was under consideration, the engineers in charge advised that debentures amounting to “not less than $60,000” be issued. The fact that the waterworks system has a defi- cit does not mean that it is not .a good thing or that the town should not have undertaken it. If a further $14,000 is issued, the council is but doing now what should have been done long It would not be very much of a surprise if we found ourselves in a similar position with the paving account. When the paving was com- Whosmsr is sin-id of submitting any nation, civil or rsligious, to ths test of free discussion, is stars in love with his own opinion than with the Truthâ€"WA TSON. pleted and the town rate was struck, it was felt by the majority who gave it consideration that the town rate would go up two of more mills. Instead, it was held at the same level, 52 mills, and this has been one of the talking points at nomination meetings. At the time we felt the rate should have been raised, and we feel still that the time is coming when it will be. It cannot be said to be good business to do without necessities just to keep the town rate down. We have pavement and a first-class waterworks system now and must expect to pay for them. We can and will do this, and while none of us relish any higher a tax rate than we are now paying, when the rate is raised we can feel that we are paying for something from which we are receiving real benefit and enjoy- KEEPING DOWN THE TAXES The finding of the deputation from the Public Utilities Commission which waited on the Council last Monday night, informed them It is an admirable thing for a council to endeavor to keep the taxes as low as possible, but when municipal works are gone ahead with on a scale adopted by Durham, there is noth- ing surer than we shall have to pay for it. In the course of the next year or so the town will be up against the work of laying new sidewalks on our main street. This, too, will cost money, will have to be paid for, and may raise our We do not intend this as a gloomy picture. We do not know of a town that is in any bet- ter position financially than Durham. Any rise in our debenture debt in the past few years has been for necessities, and while it may cost money for these things, it 3130 costs money to be without them. We like to see the council keep the taxes as low as possible and we like to see them ad- minister our affairs economically, but the mere fact that they “kept the taxes down” does not appeal particularly at election time. The recommendation of the Public Utili- ties Commission to issue new debentures may be heralded in some quarters as evidence that the town is slipping financially. Rather than hold this opinion, we an see nothing strange in it other than we are now paying for accom- modations which we should have had years ago, and which would have saved us a good many AND NOW THE STEAMERS! Germany is the first nation to call a halt in the building of record-breaking steamers for tnnsntlnntic service. They do not pay. Whether the other nations will follow suit is not known, hltfltheydonottheyshould. Whysfsst ”.m‘IOIVhatsdnntueisitto thousands of dollars. Keeping the taxes down is to be commend- ed, but if it is to be accomplished by sacrificing health and an protection, or doing without that which is an absolute necessity, then it is any- thing but the proper policy. too, waste all the time they gain after they get there. We have hard of motorists from Dur- ham making time to Toronto that the editor of this paper would never dream of. We haven’t the nerve. But it’s dollars to doughnuts that after cutting a half hour or so of! the trip these same speeders buy themselves a cigar and sit down in the rotunda of the hotel and have a smoke. And this fast travelling costs money. It takes more gasoline, more oil, and is most decidedly harder on the car. be given, the only difference being a longer time on the water. This went over big when money was plentiJ ful, but now that the shoe is on the other foot, the average traveller would much sooner spend another day on the ocean and get his passage several dollars cheaper. If you don’t believe this, just take notice of the increased passen- ger traffic on both rail and ocean lines when the companies offer cheap return fares. With slower boats, the same excellent service could Perhaps the best indication we have that the world is returning to normal is the way our transportation companies are gomg after busi- ness with cheap fares. A few years ago they would have laughed in your face had you sug- gested it. i The same factor has entered into the con- struction of ocean liners as the autombile. It takes horsepower to make speed. The more speed the more fuel and the greater the cost; and the greater the cost to the ocean shipping companies, the higher rates they have to charge to break even or make a little money. greyhound may cross the ocean several hours faster than an otherwise good steamer that lacks nothing the other possesses except speed. Chances are the average passenger is enjoying the sea passage to the full and feels disappoint- ed when he knows he’ll step ashore in a few hours. He has made a record trip, perhaps, but has missed another day on the blue, briny ocean. Rev. Father C. E. Coughlin, of the Shrine of the Little Flower, Royal Oak, Mich., whose radio talks have been listened to with increas- ing interest by his audience of millions of radio fans, has been censured by Cardinal O’Connell, head of the Roman Catholic hierarchy of the United States. Father Coughlin, a native of Hamilton, has attained world-wide fame for his radio addresses and it would be a pity if his superiors in the church would deny him the right to discuss other than religious tepics over the ether. We think we can see the point from Car- dinal O’Connor’s side. As he states in his con- demnation of the broadcasts, he has no objec- tion to religious addresses over the radio, but does object to “A priest who talks to the whole world without being responsible to a superior for his statements.” On the other hand, we believe Father Coughlin has been doing a real service to his country in some of his utterances. His con- demnations come straight from the shoulder, and when his address is over there is no mis- understanding what he means. There seems to be a general belief among the higher-ups in all churches that a man of the cloth should fulfill his function of guiding his own parish, not, as Cardinal O’Connell says, “attempt to set up an unlimited sphere of influence." We do not know why this should be so, but it is. We never could understand why a man, because he is a minister of the church, should be expected to steer shy of controversial discussions in public, providing he does not make them from the pulpit, and is satisfied to get out on common ground and take his bumps with the rest of us. From the addresses we have heard by Rev. Father Coughlin, we imagine he can hold his own, and while we do not agree with everything he says, one must admire him for his earnestness and fearlessness, and the confidence that he is fighting for the principles in which he believes. CIRCUS TIME IS HERE! Depression or no depression, the folks just will go to the circus. Down in New York the Ringling show opened recently for a three weeks’ engagement. And what a business they were doing! From the wails that have come out of the United States about bread lines, no business, stagnated industry and what not, one would judge a circus in that metropolis where jobs are at a premium would find money scarce and patrons very few. But it is not so. The Ringling show always opens at Madison Square Garden, and in this year of depression, 1932, the first nine days’ estimated gross receipts amounted to over $220, 000, and on one Saturday the big show too]: in $45,000. The advance sale We no pal-inc throw!!! : “reunion. W9 AN OUTSPOKEN CLERGYMAN THE DURHAM CHRONICLE have our breed lines, no work, and everythint 0mm PAPERSâ€"4 OHN'ONS seems blue. In the face of all this, however, we are able to buy a new tire for the car, fill her No 8m At “was; up with gasoline, andâ€"go to the circus. It is Pewle win so deeply mgret the pus- agrestlife Mathemtdepresdonthstit Whether the Ringling show will continue the season as it has commenced when it swings out around the circuit is yet to be learned, but anyway, it has got off to a magnificent start in spite of the “greatest depression of all time." which makes one wonder if the matter of “de- pressiOn” is not largely one of mind. We seem to have plenty of money to spend when some- thing turns up that we want to spend it on. A Chicago judge says bridge breaks up homes. Canadian married men declare it is very hard on the shins. Montreal boys between 10 and 16 years of age will be given an annual pass to the baseball park if they sign a pledge not to smoke, use profane language, or abuse players or umpires. If the Montreal team gets much closer to cellar position that pledge is going to be hard to keep. A radio artist is known as “The voice of a thousand shades.” One, we suppose, for the traffic cop, and the other nine hundred and ninety-nine for the pedestrian: A man in New York state, who says \he found a million dollars has been charged with bigamy. If we had a million dollars we wouldn’t be charged with anything. A House of Commons committee has vindi- cated the Imperial Oil Co. of the charge of tak- ing advantage of the dumping duties in fixing the price of gasoline. We hope it doesn’t vindi- cate them too much or they may be tempted to add another cent or two to the retail price. Mrs. Eveline Spencer of the Department of Marine and Fisheries, Ottawa, lectures on “How to manage a husband.” Old stuff! Frinstance, when Angeline calls us “dearie” we know we’re going to buy it, and that it is going to be ex- pensive. Also, she says the best way to man- age a husband is to feed the darn thing. Ninety-foot rails are to replace the sixty- foot ones on English railways. It is found with the present ones a passenger coach jolts up and down 117 times per minute at 40 miles an hour; with the 90-foot ones the jiggling is reduced to 39 a minute. This will be a comfort to corpulent passengers with oscillating tummies. A girl in Lawrence, Massachusetts, is a champion of phonetic spelling. She says it doesn’t matter how a word is spelled. With the dropping of spelling as a course in our higher educational institutions, and the efforts of some of our so-called intellectuals we are inclined to the opinion that the majority of university graduates already agree with her. They simply will do these things, and ap- parently nothing can be done about it. Harris- ton had a school fire last week and the dispatch said, among other things: “There was only one casualty, a teacher being struck on the head by a flying dictionary. The damage will amount to several thousand dollars, covered by insurance." The teacher’s head or the dictionary? One of our exchanges gives the interesting information that Reno, Nevada, is approximate- ly 80 miles West of Los Angeles, California. It might have told its readers something equally interesting. The Western entrance to the Pana- ma Canal is farther East than the Eastern en- trance. There are some funny truths in this old world if one looks for them. Miss Macphail in her, weekly letter says that Senator Meighen in the Beauharnois in- vestigation is “presumably the Crown Attorney, but actually the gleeful Tory partisan, exulting in his traditional enemies’ downfall." But we thought that the Grits and Tories, while sin- cere in their political Donnybrooks, presented a united front when the chance to plunder the country presented itself. Canadians are not money hoarders, accord- ing to recent investigation of bank note cir- culation in this country. The survey just con- cluded shows that Canadians havq confidence in the Canadian banking system. This might explain something to President Hloover of the 'United States. Residents of that counry can- not be blamed for “hoarding.” If they put their money in one of the country’s numerous banks it is likely to be gone by morning. The only other alternative is to “board" it in the good old pioneer mannerâ€"keep it in their sock. Perhathomthehstrdmbmfls mgmummwmammvm pace ‘ puma-M mm How strange that everybody can get along on less except those who live on tax money.â€"Publisher’s mledm,a.stun¢erwhohed¢oneln tohaveelooktttheoemteryuked the weaker: “Whet complunt did he died on”. And the camber, who was somewhet deer. only partly got the question, replied: “There ain‘t no oom- South Grey. is odvoaflng tint. the therichtonlsemoneynededtowry on the metre of the country. “Book the Rich," is, we know, a grand soap box slogan. But its great trouble. us a pol- icy, is that one good soak can put your rich man and his fortune so completely out as to make a. return engagement emment once started. emanating tor- fortunes to confiscate. The blessed things don’t grow. Obviously, there- fore, this plan of seizing fortunes and of “soaking the rich" would hardly work.‘. It might be fine for one year. or two, when the government would have a grand spree with someone else’s money, but when all the fortunes had been soaked out of the ring, we should be in for a bad headacheâ€"Southamp- MANY AND VARIED USES FOR HUMBLE “HEN FRUIT" An egg, an albuminous egg, though to most of us just a filler or a spiller, is a whole day’s work for the hen. Egged on by insistent demand for a market, the editor of the National Poultry Journal lists a surprising number of its uses, aside from its use as an interior decoration. Eggs, he points out, are used extensively in the manufacture of imitation ivory, drugs, ice cream, adhesives, pigment fixers, printer’s ink and glue,; for tan- ning, bookbinding, cleaning of the lea- thers and gloves, sizing paper, art varâ€" nishes for photographs, cards and paintings, dyeing textiles; and in ad- dition to their use by bakers, makers of candy, pastries, mayonnaise and salad dressing, they are indispensable in the preparation of films for your camera. Even the antiques, though not ,extensively collected, are, instead of be- ing wasted, used for fertilizer. And they are used (we really ought not to tell you this) forâ€"Listen!â€"clarlfying wine. May the hen’s son never set! He won’t! â€"Pathflnder Magazine. The new museum guide didn't. know his job very well, but he tried his but. monument emote-d to a noble «use: he told hisparty. “And whit does it M for?" asked a me lady. “E-r-r-. I don’t know. mm." the guide tutored. “but it’d look any lyinc down. wouldn‘t it?" enough education to carry you through the world or do you stay out just be- cause you don’t like to go? Didn't like the teacher, eh! Well, let me tell you that you wlll find the meanest teacher on earth now a dream of love beside THE YOUNG MAN Young man, I notice that you are not in school any more. What’s the hustle for yourself. AN EASY WAY OUT WHO “QUIT" SCHOOL for WBmml'm mmamma memthocuwehu-nod Machoot:nneoldmnmm- mmeeqmmtonmmm. Butamdmushcolonel,wn¢ mtheWJom-nu.polnuout thutalifemeamvhuteverttubeld tomandverynttle mama“ Dover was 12 miles from Canterbury; imtmtmmoommuumw hnd chnnced. And 1 wtdnely mm Englishman. writing m 1617. noted Dutchmflenndahnltemlkesumne of Sweltau'lnnd. ”when m mum the miles seem. an! indeed we more short. new: Imdon, where the my: ure fuire ma pmne ........ but, towards the ammmemnesmlonger." Bowm‘veretdoldmmhtnvel books a mile mybe name. ortwo But then. us a, matter of fact. almost all words ere like thet.‘1'hey do not menu precisely the same thing in the Twentieth century as in the Sixteenth orinEnghndesinAmerica.‘l‘heonly symbol which seems tosurvive thecen- turies and tnnsooemic transpllntina without change is a smile. That is un- derstood across all the boundu'ies of A statement just issued by the Do- minion Live Stock Branch with respect to testing and production of dairy cows is 6! special interest at this time. It shows that there is in the whole of Canada a total of 63,336 cows out of an. aggregate of 3,683, or only 1.72 per cent, now under official test. Cow W in Ontario, Saskatchewan. and British Columbia is now carried out under the supervision of the provincial Depart- ments of Agriculture, while in the other six provinces the federal Department is the present time a total of «7 associa- tions in the several provinces engaged in carrying out this form of activity. Sunday, May 8, is Mother’s Day Mother's Du Carl- and W The Variety Store “twat-1mm meNorthemNm-au-les Bacon-mu”. We have a, splendid displty of tokens suitable for a mem- brance of the day. Gloves, Scarves, Hosiery, Paul. R. L. Saunders, Prop. ROOM FOR. EXPANSION “mo In! ‘. 1.32