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PAGE 4 Circuhtlon for 12 months. 1.400 Whosoever is afraid of submitting any question, civil or religious, to the test of free 455.53”, is more in im with his man opinion than with m Tramâ€"WATSON. THE WEST YORK ELECTION The result in the West York by.election on Saturday must be taken as a vindication of the policy pursued by the government in power. The government candidate was elected with a plur- ality of 972 votes in one of the most bitterly fought campaigns in a good many years. When one considers that times of depression are hard ones on a government at election time, and that every advantage was taken of this fact by the Liberal, Labor and Socialist candidates, the return of the Conservative standard-bearer cannot otherwise be regarded than as a clear cut vindication of policy for the party in power. The result of the polling showed an increase in the votes cast of some 33 per cent. The Labor candidate polled nearly the equivalent of this increase, and, curiously, apparently received the majority of the votes of the dissatisfied Conservatives, drawing few votes from the Lib- eral candidate, who polled some 1,400 more votes than the Liberal candidate who opposed the late Hon. Dr. Godfrey in 1929. It was a hard-fought contest, with the po. iitical for flying at every meeting, and was, it is said, the most exciting campaign ever staged in this historic riding. Apart from the Conserv- ative, Liberal and Labor candidates, few votes were recorded for the fourth man, on the Social- ist ticket, who received only 106 votes out of a total of 16,741. THE DURHAM CHRONICLE After the above was written we found the following in yesterday’s issue of the Toronto Mail and Empire which may prove of interest to those who like statistics: Here and there an Opposition newspaperj is fooling itself and unconsciously misleading its readers by picturing West York as a Con- servative stronghold that has almost fallen be- fore the assaults of the enemy. As the London Free Press remarks, this is hardly an accurate estimate of the situation. West York was the individual stronghold of the Hon. Dr. Forbes Godfrey. The late Minister had an amazing fol- lowing in the riding. The electorate voted not for the Conservative party, but the popular doc- tor. His large majorities meant nothing with his personality removed. If one goes back to the days before Dr. Godfrey, it will be observed that no candidate (aptured the seat by any large majority. Every- thing considered, therefore, Mr. Price’s victory' in West York for the Henry government was a real achievement in the face of a grave econom- ic depression which operated to the disadvant- Liberal candidate, and his reckless leader, Mr. Mitchell F. Hepburn. The Government’s record in the by-elections that have been held since the last general elec- tion is a highly creditable one. It shows that even with a world-wide depression to assist them, the official Opposition is getting nowhere. In :11, fifteen by-elections have been held since the last general election in 1929. Of these the Government has won Algoma, Brantford, Dun- a... Grenville, Hamilton West, Lanark South, Ninja-ins, Norfolk, Peel, Perth South, Renfrew North, York North and West York. The Liber- als have won Waterloo South and Wellington South. The score is thus 13 to 2. SUNDAY FISHING A game warden at Eugenia Falls warned a prominent member of the Ontario Anglers’ As- sociation that he was breaking the law by fish- ing on Sunday, and ordered him to discontinue his pursuit of the speckled beauties. As a re- sult the fat is in the fire, and the Association may make a test case of an old law passed in 1845, which is yet in force in this province. A first move will be to find out under what authority the game warden based his case. It could not have been under any section of the nine laws, for there is no reference to the il- legnlity of fishing on Sunday in these rules and regulations of the department of me and fisheries. It must have been based on the old section of 87 years ago, and there may be a 1..) battle to settle if this old law is still in Thursday, June 2, Lord’s Day Act, has been in rural districts, and the manner in which these attempts are made to enforce the law would make one believe there is something unfair in its enforcement. Sunday fishing is not the only breach of the Lord's Day Act. There is a law against thel sale of tobacco, magazines, swimming, and nu- merous other things in this ‘old Act, drafted when conditions were vastly different than now. Perhaps one reason why discretion should be used may be found in the statement of Rev. H. C. Huestis, general secretary of the Lord's Day Alliance, who says the Alliance seldom took action in such matters, and that the main object 7“, was to seé" that commercialized sport did not gain a foothold in Canada on Sunday. If the Act is to be enforced, we think the enforcing should start considerably closer to Queen’s Park or Chateau Laurier than Eugenia Falls or some other rural point. in the rural districts. From what we know of the law as laid down in the fisheries regulations, and taking the word of Rev. Mr. Huestis at its face value, the war- den at Eugenia must have been a law unto him- self. This should not be tolerated. SUNDAY OBSERVANCE Hamilton city council has issued an edict that from henceforth it will be Illegal for res- taurants and lunch rooms in that city to sell tobacco on Sunday, that offenders will be prose- cuted under the Lord’s Day Act, and the only thing that would save them would be the fact they had previously bought a meal or purchased ice cream. Hamilton is not the only city that has this bylaw on its be Am, in fact, it is the law all over Ontario, but this does not make it a just or right law. It it is wrong to purchase tobacco on Sunday, why not prohibit the practice alto- gether? Why should the purchase of a meal or a dish of ice cream entitle one to Indulge in the weed while another, perhaps having eaten at home and finding himself out of tobacco, has to do withoutâ€"or break the law. Toronto has a similar law, and every once in a while we notice that a raid has been made on some drug store or other. We never could see it. Why is it illegal for a drug store to sell to- bacco, and legal for it to be dispensed in every hotel, at Sunnyside, and at every wayside resort along the highway? Why should hotels and re' sorts be allowed to sell tobacco, while the to- bacco shops, which deal in this article exclusive- ly, must remain closed? Laws of this kind really invite citizens to break them. A man, strolling into a restaurant on a Sunday afternoon and wishing to buy a cigar or package of tobacco, can sit down at a table, order a ham and eggs, and a cigar, give the waiter a wink, receive the cigar and walk out. Or. rather, if he is too fastidious for this, can merely walk into a standard hotel and get what he wants. If he is at Sunnyside he merely walks up to the first booth, gets his weed, and walks on. So far as the writer of this article is con- cerned, he has no axe to grind either way, but for the life of him cannot see why, in this sup- posedly British Fair Play country, certain priv- ileges are allowed in one business that are pro- hibited in another. NO SYMPATHY HERE Any sympathy we had for Mrs. Thalia Massie, the central figure in the recent Hawaii- an murder trial, has vanished. Last Friday night at Shea’s Hippodrome, Toronto, she appeared on a news reel which showed her arrival at San Francisco. With her husband, Lieut. Thos. Massie, she smiled and nodded to the “camera”! and was apparently little the worse for an ad- venture that would have put most women in an insane asylum. We always try not to be too prudish, but we have our own private opinion of a woman whose sense of common decency is so twisted ithat, emerging from the mess in which Mrs. ’Massie was mixed for the past two or three months, she could stand up in front of a movie camera and pose for a news reel that she knew full well would .be exhibited all over the country. One might also wonder what is the matter with a husband who would be a partner in such an afl’air. KEEP SHOPPING AREAS OPEN The Toronto Mail and Empire has drawn the attention of the Toronto authorities to the ghabit of citizens in that city parking their cars for an indefinite period in the shopping areas of the city, to the inconvenience of out-of-town shoppers. It is a good point to take and the Mail and Empire will he supported by a good many peoplefrom outoftownwhogoto'l‘orontoto dolinsineuand upendthegreeterpartoftheir ltimelookincforaplseetoperkltishard THE DURHAM CHRONICLE shopping in Toronto today. Whether one wants to visit the stores or the wholesale area, the parking problem is acute. One gets dizzy with looking at the various parking signs, the time: allowed for parking, and the other regulations which only the outsiders apparently make any efi’ort to obey. We have seen the “No parking thing ourselves, but were not sure we could get away with it. The smaller towns, too, have their parking troubles, but only on Wednesday and Saturday nights, and these cars usually are owned by people out of town. Not many in Durham use the front streets for car parking purposes on busy nights, and we imagine this is fairly gen- eral all over the province. Of course there are exceptions, but no citizen alive to his own in- terests will do it. Let the outside public have the front street parking privileges Wednesday and Saturday nights. Keep the town cars off the front streets as much as possible. RENDERING UNTO CAESAR New regulations issued at Ottawa have barred United States dance bands from filling engagements in Canada, even for one night, and a dispatch from Crystal Beach, opposite Buffalo on the Canadian side, says that the officials at that place had at the last moment to cancel the engagement of a Buffalo band and engage a Hamilton orchestra instead. About the only comment we can makeon this is “Bully for Bennett !” We think the greater number of Canadians will agree with us in this, for we are sick and tired of hearing of this One Hundred Per Cent American stuff and heartily congratulate the Ottawa authorities on showing their teeth to the “big stick” wielders of the North American continent. If they think they can get along without the rest of the world, other counries are fast coming to the conclusion they can just as easily get along without them. The time is past when Canada will submit to being bullied, even by Uncle Samuel. CHICKEN THIEVERY The practice of entering the other fellow's chicken coop in the small hours of the morn- ing and taking away the choice birds without his permission, is getting all too common, and we were rather surprised the other day when we read that in an Ontario court four men, who confessed their guilt, were let out on sus- pended sentence. There is a time and place for everything, but in the case of chicken steal- ing, we doubt if any lesson can be imparted by a court that allows suspended sentence, espe- cially when this practice has become so com- mon and minimum sentences seem to be inef- fective as a preventive. There are times when hot-headed youth gets itself into a peek of trouble unthinkingly and a suspended court sentence is not only jus- tified but advisable, but in the case of mid- night robberies of chicken yards, we think this can be termed in no other way than deliberate crime and should not go unpunished. The Toronto hotel that advertised the fact that “our uninformed porters meet all trains” must at least be given credit for frankness. The Bishop of Qu’Appelle in addressing the Synod of Toronto stated that the church is all one family. Perhaps he’s right, but it is a mightily scattered family on a fine Sunday. The Quebec Telegraph says there are not enough people who speak as they think. It might be said with equal truth that there are also too many who do. New York investigators are after Mayor Jimmy Walker’s hide. But keep your eye on Jimmy! He’ll weather the storm, and doubt- less be presented with a loving cup as well. is facing many citizens should not be taken too seriously. Even in times of prosperity people have starved to death. . Amongst the six prize-winning nurses to be graduated from St. Joseph’s Hospital Ham- ilton, today, is Miss Helen McCarthy of Mark- dale, winner of the award for gynaecological nursing and examination. Not all the glory be- longs to the cities! A complete history of the Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire is to be placed in the Archives at Ottawa. It is to be bound in purple suede, beautifully compiled and lettered, and was presented to the National Chapter by Miss R. M. Church, convenor of the committee which is responsible for it. ' The history takes in the complete history of the Order since its founding szymsuoandwmhangnnderneath thepic- ture of Mrs. 'Clark Hurray, the founder. OTHER PAPERS' 0PlNl0NS MMWeII ' Since coming into power et Ottewe in August 1980. the Conservative petty. heeded by Hon. R. 8. Bennett hes. con- sidering the times end the meet left them by their predecessors, the Kin: Government. done well. Two outetend-1 in; principles cen be pointed out. first. 'they heve legislated for the people to Cenede ineieed oi in the interest oi the people at other countries ee the King government did. end secondly, they ere re-instetinc e code of homety in politics and government eround eer- vices thet their predecessors elmost de- stroyedâ€"Kincendine News. given by Hon. Leopold My, Min- ister of Highways, about the import- ance of headlights. have bothered to check up on this particular equipment of their own cars. Every driver, out on the highway after nightfall, knows thet the headlights of the majority of ap- safety ............ but in all probubmty he hasn’t taken the trouble to ascertnln whether or not his own beams of 11-- lumination are as annoying to others. last year directly attributable to faulty headlights, the Minister of Highways declares. Twelve of these had fatal ter- minationâ€"Hamilton Spectator. A Wrong Principle Without wishing to stir up any re- ligious feeling whatever, many citizens with whom the Post has spoken, dep- recated the suggestion made at the nomination meeting last Thursday evening that one religious denomina- tion has had and should have repre- sentatives at the council board. Han- over council has been singularly free from political, religious and lodge in- fluence and we believe it should remain so. It would be very undesirable if a man’s politics, religion or fraternal af- iliation should be the deciding factor in securing election to the town coun- cil. Of course, it is desirable that the council should be representative of the townâ€"that workingmen should be rep- resented as well as business interestsâ€" 'but the final test should be a man’ fit- ness to serve the town, irrespective of whether he is a Liberal, Conservative, Progressive, Orangeman, Mason, Odd- fellow or Knights of Columbusâ€"Han- over Post. It would be interesting to know how The Hon. Richard Bennett has a. suite of eleven rooms in the Chateau‘ Laurier in Ottawa. For this suite he1 paid $11,943.47 in 1930. In 1931 he pm“ $19,838.38; and in the present year to this date $8,236.05. 80 it is stated in a management committee’s report of the evidence given before it in the House of Commons of Canada. Mr. Bennett’s evidence before this commit- tee confirms the accuracy of this state- ment. 'Ithese payments were for the en- tertainment of the country’s visitors as well as for his own guests. All nations of rank of Canada have visitors and these are usually entertained at the nation’s expense. A Fall Fair could hardly be conducted without visitors who required entertainment. Much less a country. Mr. Bennett paid it all him- the means to do it. The country met its own obligations for entertunment of this kind under these premiers as it should in every case-Drawn Advoâ€" Purityolthel'm That there is entirely too much pub- licity given to articles relating to crime. throughout the country in the daily press, is the sentiment of a large num- ber of citizens. The primary idea is the giving of news. It may also serve as a warning to those who may be criminally inclined, when they learn of the conse- Counter Check Books Let Us Quote On Your Next Order The Chronicle We have them in all styles and sizes quencesofsuchunte.Mtl-m Wm.mmcentmmtrmu Honoluluhnuh'nmpleofmtwe mean. uttherebecleanundpure mac-um Mersummer.wlthmtn- mmmmgwu deflhmdinJuwttuthtouythe leeset, appalling. Motor cars are My culmingvicttmsendtomlkemtten «tutelage percentage of theeeene children. Almost every any the M11 ‘or mjuryofechndtsreportedmthe opprooching the number is bound to increase. Whot is to be done shout it? What sotety precautions can be taken? to hold the child responsible become in the majority of cases the little victims are tooyoung toreoliaethedmcerond go unheedingly on their way. It seems highways, crossing busy mteraectlms, darting out on the street in front of trait 1c, and other dangerous practices, will usually avoid accident. Then, too. wlll usually avoid accident. Then. too. there are parents who allow their ch11- passing motorists are always in W? of running them down. If our streets and highways are to be made sue for pedestrians and motorists there must be co-Operwtion of both. Parents can do much to reduce the child fatalities ‘by teaching their children of the per- ils of the highways and streets and ex- efcising a little care about ~ their pity grounds.â€"Southlmpton Beacon. Ladies Cotton Hose, all color. and sizes. Good quality pr. 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