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INTERPROVINCIAL l‘RADE The first fruits of the agitation for inter- provincial trade became apparent this week with the announcement that the Ontario Gov- ernment, General Motors of Canada, and other large industrial concerns in the province had placed orders for Nova Scotia coat. Any doubts of the quality of the Nova Scotia product were dispelled when General Motors ordered a trial ‘ shipment, and only last week placed orders for the entire requirements of the company until. the opening of navigation in 1933. Hearst is a leader, no question of that, but his leadership is confined to that class of people whose highest ambition is to peruse the numerous “funny-cuts” which have built up the circulations of his numerous journals. For that reason. we say it does not pay to give his ut- terances too much attention, as the opinions of the better class of United States citizens will prevail in the end. Business, not hatred, will ultimately decide the reparations question. Like all agitators, Hearst and his journals that class of people capable of thinking for them.~'el‘.'es, and who refuse to be stampeded byi the wild utterances of hatred or private gain.l It is gratifying, no doubt, to know that the better thinking citizens of the United States do not agree with men of the Hearst type, but at that we question if it does any good to pay very much attention to Hearst and his gang. William Randolph Hearst and his chain of newspapers never did respresent the best thought in the United States. A successful pub- lisher, Hearst has made his millions, not by his leadership, but by the class of newspaper he published. He is an AngIOphobe through and through, and behind his demand for the pay- .inent Of every penny of reparations by Eur! ope, lies his hatred of Britain and everything British. Hearst is a big man financially; other- wise he is a pygmy. Possessed of millions of! his own, he would rather see the world remain:j in its present chaotic state for years providing ‘ his hated England suffered with the rest. UHit"1 ed States or world prosperity mean less to him ' 1 than the opportunity to sate his hatred for ev-l‘1 erything Anglo-Saxon. l 1 HEARST AND REPARATIONS William Randolph Hearst, the father of yellow journalism, and, judging from his logic, the original of the Happy Hooligan and Yellow Kid caricatures of a third of a century ago, is engaged in a campaign against the United States cancelling any of the war debts. Like others of his class, Hearst strays far from the truth to make his points, but it takes Walter Lippman, well-known editor, to put him in his place, if a man of Hearst’s class can be so plac- ed. Not satisfied with Hearst’s attempt to label the reparations parley as “a crooked conspiracy by European confidence men,” Mr. Lippman points out: a thousand such conspiracies every busi- ness day.” “What makes the performance absol- utely indefensible is that there is not a word of truth in Mr. Hearst’s accusation. Mr. Hearst says there is a conspiracy. Well, a conspiracy is a secret plot to commit a crime. Our debtors have proclaimed from every housetOp that they propose to ask us to reconsider the terms of the contract. They have also said that they intend to con- sult with each other. There is no secret. There is no plot. There is no crime. There- fore there is no conspiracy. If it is a con- spiracy for a group of debtors or creditors to consult with each other, then there are “No man living knows enough, no man living is good enough to insult, indict, and to condemn a whole continent of civ- ilized people. Such language spoken at this moment of crisis and world-wide anxiety is an act not one bit more responsible than to shout ‘fire’ in a thickly packed crowd of men, women and children. “Mr. Hearst is a powerful man, and in his own estimation an upright and pat- riotic man, but if he were ten times as pow- erful, and ten times as upright, and ten times as patriotic as he professes to be, his words would be unjust as they are un- manneriy. Whosoever is afraid of submitting any question, civil or religious, to the test of free discussion, is more in love with his own opinion than with the Truthâ€"WATSON. Circulation for 12 months, 1.400 3% Priceâ€"Five cents per single copy; by man in Canada $2.00 per year; to United States $2.50. mnmwnmlwsxrnawnn days. when omee cloaea at 12 0’0th Noon. PAGE 4 THE DURHAM CHRONICLE is a good deal of bituminous coal Thursday, July 28, 1932 As we have stated, we think t sion was working for the good of in restricting the hours for lawn- had not possibly considered the car washing Fangle and would correct it in time. It is diffi- cult to get a new system running smoothly \xithout mistakes. Now that the restrictions are lifted, it is to be hoped no undue use of the water will be made for lawn or garden purposes. We trust the citizens will recognize that the more water they use the more it is going to cost them, and that lawn or garden taps left on too long will militate against the efficiency of the system and raise the cost to the consumers. l WATERWORKS RESTRICTIONS ! A notice in another column of this news- :paper contains information from the Public ,Utilities Commission that restrictions announc- 'ed a few weeks ago on the use of lawn taps, or hose taps for washing cars, have been with- drawn until further notice. The restrictions originally prohibited the use of municipal water for lawn or car washing purposes except be- tween the hours of 6 and 8 o’clock in the morn- ing and 6 and 9 o’clock in the evening. While the restriction was justified so far as lawn and garden watering was concerned, there was con- siderable dissatisfaction expressed that the washing of cars should be included in the same restriction, and as a result it is now the privi- lege of the water users to take advantage of the service for the whole 24 hours if they see fit. Before the ruling of the Commission was off the press, in fact as soon as we read the copy sent in, we sensed there would be trouble, but said nothing, feeling that the Commission I Our best plan would seem to be to consider that the biggest men with the brightest minds are at the head of things, and it is our duty to let them alone, give them a free hand, and give their findings a fair chance. Even with a one hundred per cent. success, . it can scarcely be expected that any agreements entered into can immediately affect business conditions. The Conference is no Aladdin’s lamp. No matter what opinion one may have as to the ultimate result, it will take time to adjust ourselves to the new business life. ’ It is hardly time to predict anything from the Conference. It is early yet to jump to con- clusions, and both sides (those who see nothing but success, and those who see nothing but failure) must wait for a time before express- ing definite Opinions. Rt. Hon. Stanley Bruce of Australia placed Australia’s position before the meeting bluntly but courteously, and submitted his country’s proposals for enlarging their trade with British Empire units. The unfair trading practices of Russia were also gone into and a committee ap- pointed with wide powers to deal with the sit- uation as it affects the Empire. On Tuesday Australia, New Zealand, the Irish Free State} ’and Canada joined together to offer Britain al “definite butter, cheese and milk proposal. Thisl will be of inestimable benefit to the agricultur- ists of all four colonies, with especially great benefits to the farmers of Ontario and Quebec. As a result an improvement is seen in the cheese; industry and the forecast is made that there' will be a big deveIOpment in the production of , condensed milk and kindred products. f THE IMPERIAL CONFERENCE The first sitting of the Imperial Economic ' Conference met at Ottawa last Thursday, and the discussions to date show that the delegates really mean business and that so far as they are concerned the Conference will be success- ful. It is rather too early yet to look for any- thing outstanding, but one thing noticeable in the debates is the frankness of the speakers.‘ Those who pictured the Conference as a meet- ing in which the principals would spend their time angling for advantages must have been disappointed, and the statement of Rt. Hon. EStanley Baldwin that “We shall do our utmost with goodwill to accomplish Mr. Bennett’s pur- pose” is assuring to those who are looking to the present gathering to bring the outlying parts of the Empire together in business rev lationships. soft coal is much cheaper than the anthracite, there should be a good market for this product. Every town or village needs more or less of it, and it might be a good idea if consumers were to insist on Canadian-mined coal when they or- der their supply. With Alberta coal proving satisfactory in price and quality as a substitute for anthracite, and Nova Scotia’s product re- placing that from the United States, there should be a good deal of money in this country around next Christmas time that in other years helped to emblazon the Christmas festival of Ithe American coal barons. We understand Nova: Scotia coal can be laid down here at the same! or less cost than that from the States, is as good a product, and gives the best of results.‘ This being the case, Ontarians should see to it] that they burn Maritime coal. 1 burned in Ontario, and with the installation of more modern heating equipment in which the think the Commis- ood of the system lawn- and garden- THE DURHAM CHRONICLE “St0p the leaks" should be the battle cry of all governments, municipal and otherwise, as they pre- pare their spending programmes for the current year.â€"Peterborough Examiner. By a mere scratch of the pen President Hoover put into effect Uncle Sam’s greatest peace-time tax measure. Now it‘s the taxpayers who will have to do the scratchingâ€"Kitchener Record. Jail sentences in Elgin are being shortened from 30 to 20 days. Sounds like the announcement. of one of the businesses that is going to sell out.â€"Stratford Beacon-Herald. ‘ The United States once said nothing would be too good for the boys who went to the front. but it looks like they didn't mean beenâ€"Quebec Chronicle- Telegraph. What we are looking for is a great statesman who will invent a lot of taxes that nobody but the other fellow will have to payâ€"Milwaukee Sentinel. One marvels at the versatility and the almost superhuman energy of Premier Ramsay MacDonald 01 Great Britain. Since he became premier with the National Government behind him. he has faced and overcome tasks which would have been far beyond the strength of the average man, in spite of the poor condition of his healthâ€"Oshawa Times. A specialist estimates that moths of the North American continent cause an annual loss to clothing of $40,000,000. Every woman who seeks to get them. while on the wing, will thus realize that she is en- gaged in a truly economical crusade.â€"Brantford Ex- positor. u-ku v VAAL ‘A IU“ In ALE UUWLC delegation to the Imperial Cbnference, arrives in Canada wth the message that the Free State would be freer and happier outside the British Empire than inside. What about being outside the Imperial Con- ferenceâ€"London Advertiser. _ _ . -- w” _â€"-â€"â€". -. a... 5.\JO‘IVU.Y9 LLIC LVLIII‘OLCI of Agriculture, will receive ready general approval among‘ farmers and dairymen. but whatever its fate at their hands it will assuredly serve usefully to con- centrate a lot of fresh thought on dairy probexns.-- Kingston Whig-Standard. It is not to be expected that the sweeping five- year plan for betterment of Ontario‘s cheese indus- try, proposed by Eon. T. L. Kennedy, the Minister The so-called politicians who misled two thou- sand farmers into assembling in Ottawa on the eve of the Imperial Conference did so with their tongues in their cheeks. Their endeavour was to place the Prime Minister in an embarrassing position. He had it is understood that he and the Minister of Agri- appear. Then the manipulators of this attempt to make political capital out of the Prime Minister and the Conference notified him that he was to go down and address the farmers at the fairgrounds ’and submit to questioning by them. , Of course, the Prime Minister could do no such thing. He spent much of Saturday afternoon plac- ing the final touches on the International Water- ways Treaty and in concluding preparations for the Imperial Conference. The fact of the matter is thatI SO far as Canada is concempd thn Tmmrial run-m-.. I Hurrah! We have at last 1 :radio announcer who speaks of the Ico-nomic Conference. The use of th gtion Eck-o-nomic is becoming mu. mon, and is not recognized by a: ’dictionary. The recently announced British-Canadian Esteel accord, it is estimated, will divert more than 40 millions of dollars’ worth of Canadian steel business from the United States to Brit- ish mills. “Stealing the Steel” as a song will not be popular in some quarters once the Em- pire’s Preferential Tariffs get working smooth- ly. too. “Kaye Don Used Castrol” yells an adver- tisement, and made 119.8 miles an hour. Now for an advertisement telling us of the speed of Cascara! According to announcement, the Saskatch- ewan Wheat Pool will have a surfilus of a mil- lion dollars over the past year’s operations. Let’s start a wheat pool! Next Monday is Civic Holiday; will be Lahor Day, then the Toronto E with Summer on the run. How the ' fly! watering, and had they not inadvertently placed the washing of cars in their order no diseatis-v faction could have been found with their rul-‘ .._Sea‘n Q’Kelly, head of the Irish Free State Almost 3 Superman wuuc uauu concerts are in progress. are glad some other town has them, Economical Crusade sns larger and more profitable mar- 1 the face of this undeniable circum- F‘. O. leaders sought to leave the im- their hoodwinked followers that Mr. Five-Year Cheese Plan Pertinent is becoming much too com- recognized by any standard then the Toronto Exhibition the run. How the time does The use of the pronuncia- the younger element i -Times complains of last discovered a i Imperial E- 'w 261'. I Probably every gardener has been in a similar predicament. But the wonder to us was that of, say a thousand nice plants he could have seen. and a hun- dred nice remarks he could have made, yet this man apparently saw and said just what he went there for. And is it not true in life that we generally see just what we go to see? How unwel- J While we were again admiring its beauty that Sunday, and conversing with Mr. Graham Brunten, the capable foreman, a man walked up and intro- duced himself. Then he asked what were the plants in a plot near us. For a moment Mr. Brunten looked embas- ‘Iassed, then in a gentlemanly way said Iplainly: “Weeds.” Another rather in- sulting remark ensued from the visitor. and he was once more kindly informed that, on account of recent showers and‘ shortage of help. he had got a little; behind with his work. but this bed was! due for his attention on Monday. I Looked roe Weeds and Found Them -’ Ye Editor was down at the Hamilton rock garden, at the entrance to Ham- ilton, one Sunday recently. This is' nothing unusual to those who know our weakness. There are probably few more frequent visitors to this beauty ’ spot than ourselves. Year after gear. we have noticed the wonderful improve- ments made and have often written; about it, as our readers are aw.are ll in' DURHAM we doubt very much if any enterprise could be run to their satisfaction. Gov- ernment departments. municipal af- fairs, police administration, all come in for their share of criticism. There are people who know this and that, would run things this way and that way, but when they are asked to alter sugges- tions or information, then they know nothing. They kick about such and the spirit of apathy is certainly not to i be desired in our Opinion it is prefer- able to the faultâ€"finding criticâ€"South- ampton Beacon. Let Us Quote On Your Next Order or individual. but a nagging, growling fault-finding policy is certainly detri- mental to every movement. There are those who are criticizing always, and} Cofinter Check Books apathy on the part of the majority of the people to any public enterprise, it cannot be gainsaid that the spirit of “Let George Do It” is gaining headway with alarming speed. But that is not the worst feature of the thing. Those George Do It” “Let George Do It! ” An old familiar saying to most of us, which, unfortun- ately, is being borne out in practice altogether too much. Whether it is the lot a New York financial man at $62,- ;000 a year, the purchase of a huge home ’for him, and the general extravagance ‘of his administration, he had lost his usefulness as head of the public-owned railway. To be fair to Sir Henry, he did a real service for the C. N. R. and Can- Pada which cannot be overlooked. He Itook a disjointed road, consisting of the Canadian Northern, Intercolonial, Grand Trunk, Grand Trunk Pacific and other lines and welded them into one great system. He made a railroad Out of the Canadian National.-â€"Tara Lead-l contract being renewed; be less decided it is better for Quality and Workmanship Guaranteed. The Chronicle Wellhave them in all styles and sizes or the feeling of “Well. if they’ve off the same pig! I’ll take three of mam," she said. It willpa yyou to advertise in The Chronicle. R. L. Saunders, Prop. PHONE C DUKE” there now." Any article 10c 5-String Brooms. Special 23c Galvanized Pails .. no they wc them ?" The Variety Store optimistic enough to anticipate a whole lot of repairing done to the economic structure of the British Empireâ€"Allis- 60 sheetf t‘plded Note Paper. world would go mush. The old per- verse world didn't fix up war debts or repnrntions or much of anything else. and it refused to go smash. But the Centre Pieces Vanity Sets Buffet Sets Cushions fixed up in some my by Februury the Itwo Walkerton Weeklies with hes ito dogs. The Herold-Times which dis- likes them, said last week: "The two {months’ ban on dogs running at lune Ein Walkerton expires todey. end with qthe opening of July the canines will i once more room the landmpe. terror- i ize the children and destroy the ger- .dens.” But the Telescope, which an- proves dogs. said: "Today is the last day for the dogs to be tethered. The bow-wows should join with the kids in celebrating their release from the bondage.”â€"Toronto Star. Ladies’ Cotton Vests and Bloom- ers, . each 25c md what troubles and you-tics they cease other people! “Cheerlo” is an un- known word in their vocabulary. Anyway, a visit to the Hamilton rock Here is a list of come such Your choice Real Bargains u month or so no." she said. “and were fine. Hive you any more of young wife went into the cm. December Sir George Push our flesh creep by telling us thnt what pleasures they miss in life ma’un," replied the STAMPED GOODS nun”. July at. us: Didn’t Go Smh Pullov