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PAGE 4 Circuhtlon for 12 months, 1,400 8W Priceâ€"rive cents per uncle 0097: by mnmcmdanmpexmnoumudsmmum mwunmluwrxmnn hummus-«unionism Whosower is afraid of submitting any question, civil or religion, to the test of free discussion, is more in love with his own opinion than with the Truth. â€"WATSON. While it is true that people will not be al- lowed to starve in this country, it is equally true that the pe0ple of this country should never be allowed to forget that it is our own ability that| governs our personal success. It is our ability to go out and get things that preserves our in- dependence and retains in us that pride in earn- ing our own living that has placed Canada in the front rank among the world’s powers. There is the danger that the dole may destroy this in- dependence, and the destruction of this attribute of the Canadian workmen would be about the worst thing that could happen to us. Take away our pride in ourselves and in our work and we destroy the cornerstone of whatever good may be in us. Man is placed on this earth to toil, and civilization is built. It is said a busy man gets into very little trouble. The “dole” makes dullards of the best| of us. When the governmental policy of direct‘ relief was first announced we did not think very much of it, and as time goes on we think less. There is little to be gained by finding fault. The direct relief policy is the result of a widespread “economy” cry, and there are some people who see economy in only one wayâ€"the cessation of The Port Rowan News is another Ontario weekly that does not favor the “dole” or direet relief as a solution of our present unemploy- ment conditions. It points out that the great '8 it shifts the duty of hustling for jobs from the shoulders of the lab- orers to the shoulders of the government. Is this is not the truth? expenditures. There are some people so econom-l ical that they would let their homes go to rack and ruin to save the money it would cost to put on a new roof. There is little use, either, in tell- ing them that this is false economy of the most expensive sort. And what of the economy that is now being advocated, which replaces govern- ment public works with the “dole” or, as we are to call it, “direct relief?” If business executives throughout Canada followed the system some people now demand of the government and closed up their plants be- cause they were not paying, or making money, then we would have an unemployment problem on our hands. Despite the railings we hear oc- casionally against the “big interests", there are a good many plants in the country today run- ning at a loss, but still they are being kept open to furnish a certain amount of work to their employees, always living in the hope that some- thing will turn up that will better conditions. Those people who try to create the impression that employers care nothing for their employees simply do not know what they are talking about. There are few plants today that could not close down and be further ahead financially. This is the angle of the situation which forces the Chronicle to request the County Council to rescind its motion of last January protesting against the construction of more roads in Grey. Direct relief was not in sight then,‘but it is now, and with the possibility of having each county declared a ”municipality” the farmers and rural dwellers will have to con-i tribute pro rata. The County of Grey will soon, very soon, have to pay out for direct relief or join hands with the Government in building highways to furnish employment. There is no dodging this phase of the situation no matter h ‘1 much we may care to. One important thing about road making 3* that about nine-tenths of the costs goes for labor. The ingredients used are not costly, and! for this reason the greater part of the expendi- ture goes into the pockets of the working men. \V. C. Markham, secretary of of the American Association of State Highways, estimates that f or every man actually employed in roadwork two others are employed preparing or trans- porting materials. In times like these we know of no other than by road construction. This newspaper does not by any means care to dictate, or seem to do so, but having made a pretty close study of the condition! thmnlhont the county, we have come tothe conclusion that the neidente of Grey and m m work for the MM ManMaMWtW THE EVIL OF THE DOLE of dollars next winter in direct relief. These are} circumstances over which none of us has any' control, and we do not think it takes any finan- cial wizard to see that it is better to supply the work and have something for it than to pay out the money in direct relief and have nothing. We have little doubt the County Council will give the matter due consideration when it meets next week, and will probably consider well there are times when apparent economy may deve10p into a real extravagance. Now that the railroads have definitely de-i cided that the passenger service is not a paying pr0position, and are serving numerous towns with combination freight and passenger trains on a one-a-day basis, is it not time to con- sider the feasability of having a motor car mail satisfactory. At the best, a letter taken from the office in Durham one day cannot very well be answered and dispatched for a further 24 hours, and many other towns are in a like situ- ation. Take No. 6 Highway for an example. Why could not a mail service by motor car be inaugurated between Fergus and Durham? This would serve Arthur, Kenilworth and Mount Forest as well, with their large areas of import- ant territories. The railroads claim the running of passen- ger trains does not pay. They cut them off. They should know, and no flault can be found with them for this economy move. On the other hand we think it is the duty of towns to look to their own interests, and with buses running through these territories, and private motor cars that could handle a mail contract, we should insist on a mail service consistent with our require- ments. Taking a guess at it (we have no time table in front of us), we would say the morning train arrives in Fergus around 10 o’clock. This would mean that the residents of Durham would have their morning mail before noon, something we have not had for a good many years. We believe, also, this service would not cost more than the present unsatisfactory service. ' Surely there is some way of working this thing out if these four places will get together and make representations to the post office deâ€" partment ! Personally, we would favor the private courier idea. For one thing, it would give em- ployment to some one who needs it, but if this is not possible, we can see no valid reason for continuing a mediocre mail service by train when it is possible to have a good service either by bus or contract mail courier. Rev. Father James Cox, pastor of St. Pat- rick’s R. C. church at Pittsburgh, Penna, was in Quebec city the other day en route to Dublih, Ireland, to attend the Eucharistic Congress. He expressed himself quite freely regarding the present depression as it affected Canada and the United States. Perhaps a few paragraphs of the interview he gave the press will be inter- esting to Canadians, especially those who think Canada is the centre of the world’s depression. i b “You Canadians don’t know what depresâ€" l sion is,” he said. “If you want a real description of depression, take a trip to the United States. There was never any real panic in Canada. ‘ O O O Q There were no periods of inflation or deflation. This depression in the United States has been; used by capitalists as an excuse to cut down' wages and make men slaves. Instead of improv- ing conditions they are making present prob- lems worse. Every time there is a wage reduc- tion four or five families are added to the~long list of hungry Americans. Already there are 18,000,000 men out of work, and if present con- ditions continue, in a short time there will be I between 25 and 27 millions without wor .” Father Cox said that farmers in Canada were in a “heaven” compared with those in the United States. “Up here,” he said, “the farm- ers have wheat, cattle and horses. They possess material wealth if not gold. In our United States the farmer has nothing and what he has he can- ;not sell.” ' r i We believe that Canada’s depression is a fifty-fifty depressionâ€"fifty per cent real and fifty per cent imagination. We have allowed our« minds to dwell so much on it that conditions are very much worse than they would be if we forgot our troubles and let these conditions ad- just themselves. In contradiction to the policy followed by the United States employers, Cana- dian industry has made an honest eflort to keep going, and while wages have dropped from the figure of a few years ago, we do not think there has been very much tendency to take advantage [of the unemployment situation to beat down the POW. too, Canada’s superior condition over the United States is attributable to a more WHY NOT MAIL BY MOTOR? or hire his labor at less than his THE DURHAM CHRONICLE stable government, a solid banking system, and " her connection with the grand old British Em- pire, which always has, and will again, weather the storm and emerge financially stronger than! before. The suicide of Violet Sharpe, the Morrow' home waitress, because she was to be questionedl by the police as to her connection with the Lindbergh kidnapping leads us to ask how far should the police be held responsible in bases of this kind? Miss Sharpe was so scared by what she thought the police would do to her that, al- though innocent, she preferred death to the ex- amination by police ofl’icials, and their “third degree” to obtain a confession. This young girl was a respected employee of Mrs. Morrow, the mother of Mrs. Lindbergh, and was never un- der suspicion by any members of the Lindbergh family. sort sometimes to questionable methods, but how far should they be allowed to go? Policemen are human. Some of them, any- way, but unfortunately there are too many who take their positions much too seriously and in- stead of making themselves guardians of thel peace develop into community nuisances. The: fact that a man is flat-footed, tall and of good‘ physique, does not mean he is a superman by; any means. The fact that he has been sworn in on a police force does not mean that everyone in his beat should kow-tow to him, or that he is I anything more than a common, ordinary citizen. ‘ Some policemen are real genuemen; others are nothing more than “interferers” and should be removed. A decent citizen may make a mis- take. It may be an innocent one, and of insig-l I nificant importance. This does not mean that he: [should be bawled out by some fresh policeman. We notice that the powers higher up have exonerated the police of New Jersey for any re- sponsibility in Miss Sharpe’s suicide, but the public is altogether dissatisfied with the circum- stances under which this young girl took her own life. Four Toronto residents are dead and fouri others seriously ill as the result of drinking wood alcohol, obtained surreptitiously from the cellar of a rooming house. Somehow or other, we cannot scrape up much sympathy for these victims, as the can containing the alcohol was plainly marked “poison” and had they exercised any discretion at all would have known they were taking chances on a short cut to eternity. Their drinking of the stuff cannot be excused. It is hard to conceive how humans can de- velop tastes of this kind, or how they will take chances and risk their lives or flirt with per- manent disability by drinking these poisons. To excuse conduct of this kind is out of the question, and while sympathy may be had for those whom they leave behind, there can be lit- tie for the victims. The dangers of these kinds of poisons are so well known by everybody that innocence of the dangers cannot be accepted as an excuse. SHOULD POLICE BE RESPONSIBLE? It has been said that oneohalf the world does not know how the other half lives, and it is a good thing this is so. This old gag ran through the editorial head when we read an article from the Kelvington, Sash. Radio that “Several loads of clay are being distributed along Elevator Road and will help quite a lot in smoothing out many of the bumps.” What would happen in this section of the country if the council were to put clay on the “town roads? We have our own troubles in Ontario, and we have clay roads, too, in some sections, but not around Durham. f The moral of this, of course, is that despite other hardships and inconveni- ences, we don’t have to motor on clay roads and, on a wet day with the tail end of the car ahead of us, wonder what antic it is going to do next. A new clock oper'ated by wind has been invented. We presume for exclusive use in parliamentary circles.â€"Kincardine Review-Reporter. The newest women’s dresses button down the back. This should relieve the unemployment situa- tionâ€"as far as husbands are concernedâ€"Southamp- Don’t be a quitter. Be like the child who. when someone asked him how he learned to skate, replied “By getting up every time I tell down.”-â€"Dnyton Advocate. The election of Harry 1. Price, the Conservative candidate in the West York election of Saturday. in- dicates that the people of Ontario still have mith in the - Henry Governmentâ€"Klncnrdlne Review-Re- it give much but?“ THE WEST AND THE EAST THE OLD, OLD STORY 10mm PAPERS’ ommous Bundsynshmghubeendncounced :tEugenhmdmlex-amotherpu'ts of the province cmefly Toronto. :1! furtullesttbeybedepflvedofthetr Sabbath dty pastimemthegood old stopped or discounged the stream in thiggurt or the country would benefit astheflshthatu'etakenoutotthem every Sunday are numerous, so num- the tinny tribe are ebie to survive in any numbers and propane their kincL Last Sunday there were {our are bearing Toronto license plates perked at the bend in the fifth sideroed of Tecumseh at the Nottnwasagn river parked at Niooiston, a couple at thei third line bridge a mile east of this’ town and some more at the fourth line bridge across the Home river in Essa. And every car brought up from two to four and five men with rod and line. Along the Hockley road we are told every Sunday brings hundreds of ang- lers from Toronto and this is no doubt true of other trout streams all over the country. ' To conserve trout in a stream it is {necessary to keep a warden on duty tall the time. At Horning’s Mills last of his lake on Sunday it is necessary to keep a perpetual vigil from dayilght till dark The car has made it easy to cover the distance from the city to streams 50 and 60 miles away and even further and the enthusiasm of the ang- lers ' breeds a determination that no- thing short of physical violence will curb. It is therefore necessary to take extraordinary precautions to guard the ,fish in a preserve. Should the old law lagainst taking fish from the water on Sunday be enforced the action will perpetuate the pleasure of fishing some ’years as the streams in these parts ‘cannot be hOped to provide fishing very long should the present rate of de- ‘pletlon without any renewals of fry be continued a year or two. The last few Sundays have seen more fishermen in this district than an ordinary first of July would bring to the Holland River, east of Bradford.â€"Alliston Her- ald. The suggestion made at last week’sl relief meeting in Hanover that the un- employed should be provided with a plot of land and possibly the seed whereby they could raise a goodly amount of food for themselves is one worthy of support. It may be true that nearly everyone in Hanover has a garden. but there are some who have not and there are a goodly number of men who might well be put to work raising food. Down in Cornwall. we are told by the Simcoe Reformer. 15 acres of land in and near the city are under cultivation in a municipal gar- den scheme and 66 lots have been plowed and turned over to unemployed and needy persons for planting and cultivation, while fifty more applies- tlons have been made. The Federal Charities of Cornwall and the City Employment Bureau are directing the plan and the results so far have been eminently satisfactory. As the direc- tor stated: “We believe in helplng for their families. We certainly intend to remove those who fell to mate Ip- plication for gardens from the list of those eligible for relief. There is plenty of land svailable and we supply the seed,sothereisnoreeson fox-these people failing to make application.”â€" lHanover Post. those who will help themselves, but we do not intend to give relief to able- A Poor Spirit By its own avowal the Toronto Star has gone on the comic opera stage. Its latest attack on the Canadian Manufacturers’ Association is worthy we were told by Mr. L. C. A. Counter Check Books Let Us Quote On Your Next Order DURHAM L. Quality and Workmanship Guaranteed. for The Chronicle We have them in all styles and sizes raise a. little food theexpenaeoitheworteuâ€"uobwn- mgfnvorsfrommeoovemmenttothe disadvantages of the nation. It chutes the Government with grunting term tansmuhtionsuspecml benentsto nmllpmtectedchumchlmotthe notion} industries. The Toronto at» knows very well tint udvmou in the men and Candi-n tux-mars uunst tries ensued in liquidating their in- ventortes below cost. Our contemponry is quite owue there :1! not enough munutnctmers in the country to main- tain a protective tariff in their own In- .terests. It is perfectly aware thut the [present Government wus voted mm of - fine by farmers and workers for the specified purpose of offordinc the farmers and workers fiscal protection in a fiscally armed world. The aver- age Canadian must wonder whet pur- slon, when all the forces in the coun- try should unite in defence of the nu- tlonal interests and particularly in de- fence at the workers and farmers.â€" Toronto Mall and Empire. pose our evening contemponry bones to serve by trying to stir'up class wu- (Commued from page 1.1 ston were a solo and pageant. Rev. L. E. Mason. of Pusle: charge of the song servtce and de- votinal period at the opening of the closing session of the convention Thurs- day evening. An address by the newly- elected moderator, Rev. J. T. Priest, B.A., of Durham, on “The Revtvnltst outstanding feature of the evening man with a permanent, steady. con- stant message. The evangelist is “way: in demand. the nevivwst is not .the speaker said. “I make good money from my pen." “I didn’t know you were I writer." "1 misc hogs.” Children’s Full-fashioned 811k Rose. or Chiffon Weight. new White Suede Gloves, long cuffs... Ladtes’ Silk Vests and Bloom- '. J. T. PRIEST We hnve all the mum“: Tehlets ...10c.15c.undzic Erasers. Inks. Rulers, Pen Points. Guaranteed mama Pens. 14k ‘â€" ‘A My. 1.: 16. I!!! The Variety Store R. L. Saunders, Prop. more: 4 ovum and Suntan. It newts EXAMINATION TIME! ELECTED MODERATOR