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PAGE 4 Circulation for 12 months, 1.400 W Priceâ€"rive cents per finale 609?; by mmcmuoomnmwumudmam. WMbumlbWlen-v hygwhaOflleech-uulzo’MNun. THE FARMERS AT OTTAWA Prime Minister Bennett received the com- mittee of the United Farmers of Ontario at Ottawa on Saturday last, but was unable to at- lines, and, might we say, we have heard a good many farmers in this section express the same opinion, Premier Bennett did nothing wrong and nothing which should have caused the fur- ore alleged by press dispatches to have taken place when the announcement was made that Mr. Bennett could not attend the meeting. A review of the events showed that Mr. Bennett did exactly what was agreed upon between him- self and .‘Ir. Morrison, secretary of the U.F.O. organization. Mr. Morrison wrote Mr. Bennett a month ago asking for an appointment. Mr. Bennett re- plied that he would be pleased to receive a small delegation last Saturday. He asked that the representations of the United Farmers be plac- ed in writing that they might be submitted to the Imperial Conference, the committee being given the right to further supplement these representations. Mr. Morrison thanked Mr. Bennett for the appointment, but instead of bringing the small committee agreed upon, ar- rived in the Capital with approximately 2,000 followers. Whosoever is afraid of submitting any question, civil or raligious, to the test of free discussion, is more in love with his own opinion than with the Truthâ€"WATSON. As the host of the Imperial Conference delegates, Premier Bennett and his Cabinet, on the evening of their arrival, had many things to attend to, and, knowing the conditions upon which he had made arrangements for the meet- ing, Mr. Morrison, or whoever, was responsible for the farmers’ excursion, most decidedly showed very poor judgment in arbitrarily tak- ing it upon himself to invade the Capital with a party of 2,000. We have learned since the meeting last Saturday that there are a good many mem- bers of the farmers’ organization in and around Durham who are not in sympathy with their leaders in the Ottawa occurrence. As one of them said to the Chronicle, the farmers are more interested in the success of the Confer- ence than in the size of the delegation that went to Ottawa, and expressed the opinion that had the leaders adhered to the original programme of a small delegation or committee, as much or more good would have come out of it. cusation that he was discourteous will not bear much weight. Mr. Bennett is a most courteous man, received the committee with every cour- tesy, and will place the representations of the‘ farmers before the Conference. This is all he could do, and so far as any consideration of these representations before the Conference is concerned, his attendance or non-attendance at any mass meeting would have no effect what- ever. Instead of accusing Mr. Bennett of dis- courtesy, we think it would be nearer the point to admit that he did everything he promised to do in his letter to Mr. Morrison a month ago. and everything he could reasonably do, and ev- erything he could reasonably be expected to do. Admitting he had the inclination to attend the mass meeting, we doubt very much if he hadl the time, as no doubt other committees and other business were awaiting his attention. The United Farmers can rest assured of one thing. Their representations as presented to the Prime Iinister last Saturday will be placed before the Conference, together with any others which my be nude. To those who know Mr. Bennett the ac-‘ l l THE DURHAM CHRONICLE Government minister: at out»; are busy men these days, and it in My hit to insin- netetheyeredueonrteouwhenthefeetis theyhevemenythimtolookaflerendonly e limited time at their duped for eny one men these days, and it is hardly fair to insin- uate they are discourteous when the fact is States court will make of this charge, and it is they have many things to look after and only scarcely likely we will hear more of the one in a limited time at their disposal for any one question, but in a .sense we are of the opinion Question. " ° " ' " "”‘ "‘5' 'that the alderman is right. People usually go Since writing the above, we have read the to church to hear a religious sermon. Some, view of the Tbronto Neil and Empire, which possibly, go there to sleep, and others may put should help clear up any idea that the delega- in an appearance because they think it is the tion was subjected to any slight by the Prime correct thing to do; there are still others who Iinister. The Mail and Empire points out that attend church because they know if they do not the gathering “assembled on the eve of the Imâ€" they may be asked for an explanation by the perial Conference, when everybody knows that preacher or the church officials, and yet others the head of the Government is driven almost for the reason that it is easier to attend church beyond human endurance by the multifarious in the morning than spend the rest of the day duties resting upon him. ,arxuing with the feminine part of the family, “On the Saturday in question the finishing . to whom most of the church work is delegated. We are not sure what disposition a United' Thursday, July 21, 1932 O Waterways Treaty. As a matter of fact, the Prime Minister and his experts spent all after- noon upon the document in order that Mr. Her- ridge might leave for Washington by the even- ing train and be on hand for the signing of the treaty on Monday morning. “Besides attending to the Waterways Trea- ty and to the task of completing the prepara- tions for the Imperial Conference, the Prime Minister had on Saturday to welcome some of the overseas delegates ,to that conference. Mr. Bennett notified the gathering that he was ready to receive a deputation or a petition. He was unable to spend the time which would have been necessarily involved in a trip to the Fair Grounds, where the farmers met.” JOBLESS VS. FARM WORK Down Woodstock way there are many men out of work, but they consistently refuse to work on the farms of the surrounding country. Why? Word comes from that city that despite the numbers who besiege the city hall for work, none have availed themselves of the offers of farmers for workers during the harvest sea- son. True, the wages offered are not large, $15 a month for experienced men and $10 for boys, with an occasional offer of $20 a month, these offers including board and lodging, but the wages are in harmony with the price of farm products, and certainly better than nothing at all. The argument advanced that these wages are for two or three months at the most is dis- counted by-the experience of one farmer who approached four men and offered $15 a month all found, with a guarantee of work for .one year, and was refused. Which, we think, explains the situation fairly well to anyone who needs or cares to have it explained. It is true that $15 a month is scarcely suf- ficient to keep a family in toivn, with house rent to pay, but there must be a number of unmar- ried men among Woodstock’s idle to whom a wage of $15 a month and board should be at- tractive. The unemployed should place themselves in the same position as the employers. Many shops today are being run at no profit, or with a decided loss each month. Farmers as employ- ers are in the same position as the manufactur- ersâ€"they are not making any money, and, like their brothers in the cities and towns, are try- ing to hold on until times improve. It takes a lot of conniving and scheming nowadays to keep a business on an even keep, be that busi- ness rural or urban, and the man who depends upon industry for his living must also be con- tent if he can pull through and keep his head above water, or even be forced to use some of that which he had saved when times were bet- ter. We are not one of those super-optimists, neither are we a super-pessimist. We feel that one of the conditions of a return to normal times is a full co-operation between employers and labor and this cannot be accomplished by the campaigns of agitation at present being carried on. FALSE PRETENSE A Beloit, Wisconsin, city councilman is en- tering legal action against a minister in one of the churches there for obtaining money un- der false pretenses. The alderman attended church, placed a dollar on the collection plate, and then was treated to a political address in- stead of a sermon. The alderman in his state- ment said: “When a minister of the gospel pro- nounces himself the Ambassador of God, inveigles me into his church, whether by suave voice or silvery tongue or alluring advertisements in the local newspapers, to hear the word of God preached, which un- doubtedly my soul needs very much, and then delivers a political oration instead, which I have heard many times in the past and expect‘to hear many times in the fu- ture, I feel that he has obtained my money under false pretenses. “He (the Rev. Studebaker) has taken me for a ride and I should have my dollar back. And another thing I didn’t like and thnt always looks auspicious to me was tak- ing the collection up in advance.” THE DURHAM CHRONICLE Whatever the reason, one expects to listen to a sermon, not a political address. Freak services in churches are becoming too common. Like some business houses, there are churches which put on “specials” to encour- age attendance. The end may justify the means, but we believe it eventually reacts on the church itself. There is nothing that will put the skids under a church and split a congregation more successfully than a preacher who uses his pul- pit for political purposes, or who insists in sel- ecting his discourses from the numerous con- troversal questions always in the forefront in all community life. Not only churches have this to face, but business places as well. The busi- ness man who allows his store or shop to be- come the headquarters for heated argument is fpolish, as argument does little else than break friendships and wreck business. We do not mean from this that preachers and business men should not take an active in- terest in politics both legislative and municipal, but there is a place for everything, and that place most certainly is not the church pulpit or your business headquarters. “Al Capone Gang Appears Doomed” says a newspaper headline. Is that sigh we hear one of relief or sympathy? A newspaper heading grandiloquently an- nounces that “Mollison to Wed Before Starting Flight.” The first time we looked at it we read it The Irish question is to be discussed at Ottawa, according to a dispatch from that city. If the argument gets hot enough they may, before’ they are through,"‘discuss” it with the first three letters removed. A farmer’s wife near Saskatoon is said-"to have milked a cow 57 times and received 57 cents for the cream. This would not pay for the wear and tear on the milk strainer or the farmwife’s disposition. Sir Henry Thornton is leaving the C. N. R. and there will be the opportunity of finding out if Sir Henry or just plain business conditions are responsible for the big deficits piled up ev- ery year. With the Reno divorce mill working overâ€" time in the United States, some foundation is lent to the statement that a citizen upon secur- ing his papers, had the\band strike up: “The old gray mare, she wasn’t what she ought to be.” J. V. McAree, in his Fourth Column in the Toronto Mail and Empire explains “How Game of Crap Came to America.” We wish Mr. Mc- Aree would give us a review of the whole Crap family, especially the part played by Mr. and Mrs. Political Crap in their attempts to belittle the work of the Economic Conference by plac- ing stumbling blocks under the feet of the in- dividual members, and their continued fault- finding with everything. DOING HIS BEST FOR CANADA No other man in Canadian public life has been more indifferent about the result of the next elec- tion than the present Prime Minister of Canada the Hon. R. B. Bennett. Faithfully doing day by day what he believes is the best for Canada, strik- ing the axe to the roots here and there at many things which raise a hue and cry, but steadily pur- suing a straight course with only. one thought in view, what is best for this Dominion, Canada's Prime Minister has set an example to all politicians, coun- cillors and all those who are dependent upon the popular voteâ€"do what is right, hew to the line, let the chips fall where they will, taking absolutely no thought of the next electionâ€"Pembroke Standard- Observer. BETTING FAVOBS ROOSEVELT Betting odds favor Governor Roosevelt, and in the past betting odds have usually been right, though there was a notable exception in 1912, when the odds were 21,5 to 1 against Wilson. What confused both betters and voters was the presence at Roosevelt at the head of a third party. Nevertheless, the assump- tion that between now and November nothing unexpected and vitally important is likely to crop up in American politics is rash indeedâ€"Toronto mi) and Empire. Between North Dokota and mm, a 3,000 acrepeaoegardentoperpetuttegoodwmbetveen the two countries he: been otflcuny opened. Thus saying it with flower; hes an international aspect.â€" nmomwamwu In the at. Lawrence My negotuuons.“ weundmundthepreasreporu. mnemm tortwodams. Hoovernid, “Idon'tare, onedwor two."Andaaloctut1esarenottobemmed.the My wfllnot {all byndun alterâ€"Woodstock Ben- recrestlonwln Great Britain. Thousands of peonle hikers have been established in out-of-the-wey places, for the convenience of those who spend their leisure hours tremplng along the highways end by- wsy, over the hills and down into the valleysâ€"Osh- After looking over President Hoover’s plans for money-raising we’ve decided to let the government have our income and we’ll keep the taxâ€"Judge. If the worst comes to the worst, England can bring De Valera to his knees by a. threat to stop buy- ing tickets in the Dublin Sweepâ€"Toronto Telegram. [511%. L “Fight !” REALM HIKING IN "RAIN SAYING IT WITH FLOWERS OTHER PAPERS’ OPINIONS According to en early issue of the Shelbume Economist forty-six years ago. the pedestrian considered that the drivers of vehicles were Will of his utety. But the vehicles were we;- ons end buggies dawn by horses. As time went on, the bicycle beceme pop- 'iwhat age we liveâ€"Word am. By the treaty which comes at the -â€"-â€"-- time when it was probably most need- ; mm edthe reparation slateiswiped clean, | “It’s the loafer at the corner who yet is said to a only ‘ step toward criticizes the man at work with shovel what the Lausanne conference hopes on the street. It’s the idler who talks Wm be mmpflshed, if the United gof the unfair distribution of wealth and States, give the necessary co-operation [the airs of the‘wealthy. It’s the man in mung the load of debts weighing who refused to attend school in his down the nations. Amongst other bene- youth who talks about the airs of the an; it will permit Germany to start, educated. “'5 the man W110 “0W5 : anew, while other countries will cease nothing about economic conditions that ‘anticipating payment. of heavy indebt- iis the loudest in expressing his views ‘edness which. if paid. would swell Ion the cause 0f the depression, and ‘ their current revenue. and turn in , , l . llack of employment. Its the farmer.w1th the incentive of achieving suc- WhO leaves his machinery <3va who Icess by their own activity and their ‘spends most of his time talking about LOWU industry. .the hardships of the farmer, and who; It is a treaty of momentous import- - I would sooner attend a ”um“. meeting 5ance and demonstrates the determina- °f grumblers than stay home helping tition on the part of national leaders of ibis Wife' who fails to make farmingibmad minds to place the world again pay. Some men find plenty of time to l on its feet gallivant about the country finding! . The next event of world importance fault with the way public affairs aret ' ”'1 . ' o i nfer- managed. who could make a comfort- .ml be Ehe Imperial ECO“ m C CO ence which opens in Ottawa next week. able living and a contented home if 3 'they would attend to their own busi- ;For the British Empire especially, and I -for the nations its decisions may hax‘e ness, and gave the same amount of ! [attention to the wife and family. These in distinct bearing on the future. With a fault-finders grumblers and public'gathering of representative men from . regulators may have a place in our all parts of the Empire it cannot be _ public life, but they are a terrible nui- lotherwise. its work “111.139 watched ”whoaâ€"Winchester press. ;w1th intense interest.â€"Collingwood En- - _ - n--1|-‘t.. complaints. They were at. the horse-drawn vehicles. They called the fast riders “searchers” and wrote let- ters to the newspcpers ebout them end demanded that something be done to restnin this unholy hobit of bicycle riding that. mule life hardly worth living for folks on foot. Today with the of travel he is still kicking and longs for the good old days when he was corn- plalning even about the bicycle. Surely it is out nature to be finding fault no matter what our lot may be and in what age we liveâ€"Meatord muss. Probably the most interesting from a local standpoint is the higher prices for livestock. True, even these prices leave much to be desired, but the swing is in the right direction and everyone hopes for a continuance. Price changes come in cycles and extreme follows ex- treme and there is always a logical rea- son for these cycles. The Spectator has stated that. high prices for hogs must inevitably follow extremely low prices. and the farmer who correctly guesses when these changes will appear will be the fortunate one. The Bright Spots It takes an optimist to pick out the bright spots\in a mass of gloom. but nevertheless in the past few weeks. there has appeared one or two signs which point towards the better times to come. People who are just returning from Canadian West are very enthusiastic over pr06pects there. It is stated that crops never looked better than at the present time. Of course the price which these crops will bring will have a large influence in determining the buying power of this large portion of the coun- The hopes of many are based on the probability of a successful outcome of the Imperial Conference which opens in Ottawa next week. The final bene- fits of such a gathering may not ma- tertalize for many years but a good start should be very beneficial to trade In the meantime it may be well to note that despite the catchy haying Counter Che ck Books DURHAM sanmm The Chronicle We have them in all styles and sizes ended. m this the credit n W. In fact chiefly. due to the confirmed end driven-yin: efforts at Prime Minister weekhnsbeenthemmgotnuuty deedlocks never gave up hope of bunc- drops the reputation: maniacs which, under the Young Plan. we to hove run on (or mother titty-ave yea-s, :t e tot-.1 figure of about twenty-ave bil- lion dollars. "Now it is up to the United Bums," Prime Minister modonuld said. as he {signed for the British Empire. a not ’that our neighbor Republic is appar- ently remains, as alreody, the intima- tion has been given that a re-hearing would be granted European debtors. The next event of world importance will be the Imperial Economic Confer- ence which opens in Ottawa next week. For the British Empire especially, and for the nations its decisions may have a distinct bearing on the future. With a gathering of representative men from all parts of the Empire it cannot be otherwise. Its work will be watched with intense interest.-â€"Collingwood En- terprise-Bulletin. The meaty, signed by mum. Rance. From the point of view of the hit- seller, two heads are better than one. My. July 21, 1032 Boys’ Cottm] Sweaters, an 23-ka China Tea Sets ...... sun W-pboe Dinner Bets .. p.“ Special Tucum Powders. lung The Variety Store IT WILL PAY YOU R. L. Saunders, Prop. To Take Advantage of colors.