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PAGE 4 caution; mn’l or religious, to the tat of In. discussion, is more in love with his man opinion We have all heard the accusation hurled from time to time over the footlights that the politicians are behind the “big interests” and care nothing for the lesser lights in the com- munity. We have never believed this twaddle. We have never believed either that the “big interests” cared nothing for their hired help. There are some politicians who are unscrupu- lous; there are some “big interests” that would stoop to anything to cash in on dividends. These are the exceptions. Speaking generally, we have POLITICIANS AND THE “BIG INTERESTS” found it our experience that the average man, be he politician or capitalist, is a pretty decent fellow, is concerned over the affairs in his con- stituency or factory, and will go out of his way to better conditions. Perhaps we are too leni- ent, but this is our finding, nevertheless. We have been told that governments care nothing for the peopleâ€"the common people. If one can link up with the favored few he may stand a chance, otherwise, no. This kind of talk is foolish. In town or country life, we run into the fellow who is wholly selfish. He cares for nobody but himself. He is so selfish thatl when he comes home conversation stops and fun ceases. Fortunately, these follows are in the minority. They count little in the make-up of their community. They are so few that they can never be a menace and, fooling nobody but themselves, their influence is short-lived. A man so selfish that he cannot think for his com- munity is not an asset, even to himself. Canadians may well pride themselves on the standard of quality of their governments. They function for all the people, and he who says that this or that group can get what it wants for the mere asking is sadly mistaken. “Big business” is certainly entitled to consider- ation, but not because it is big business. There must be something else, some benefit to the people as a whole if any special legislation is to be expected. That this idea is not entertained by ourselves, we quote from a recent issue of the Farmers’ Sun, the official organ of the far- mers of Ontario, and a paper that has not spent much time during the last few years writing eulogies for either Conservative or Liberal gov- ernments. The Sun says: “For the second time, the Rt. Hon. R. B. Bennett has ignored and attacked the ‘big in- terests.’ In the two most constructive steps which the government has taken this year, he has been opposed by the largest financial and commercial forces in Canada. “In the formation of a national broadcast- ing policy, he ignored, utterly and boldly, the recommendations of the Canadian Manufactur- ers Association and the Canadian Pacific Rail~ way, supported by an active and aggressive press. The policy he adopted was a policy of public ownership. ‘The use of the air,’ he said in the debate on May 18, ‘is a natural resource over which we have complete jurisdiction. 1 cannot think that any Government would be warranted in leaving the air to private exploit- ation, and not reserving it for deveIOpment for the use of the people.’ “In the St. Lawrence question, the Govern-_1 ment was opposed by the Quebec group, and by the press which reflects its views. This opposi- tion Mr. Bennett dismissed with the words: ‘This Government has come reluctantly, but in- escapably, to the conclusion that it was inspired solely by the fear that certain monopolistic and class privileges would thereby be injuriously afz'ected. . . .This Government will not tol- crate interference by big interestsand their allies.’ ” Had Mr. Bennett been the wily politician some may think instead of the far-seeing busi- ness man intent on doing his duty to the people of his country, he might have listened to the “interests” in the hope it would help him poli- tically at the next general election; rather, he chose the path he considered best for the coun- try as a whole, and the next election can take care of itself. Such statements from the Premier of the country can mean but one thing: The Governâ€" ment is doing its utmost for the people of Can- ada, and while the results may not be visible at present, future generations will surely benefit. wmomr is afraid 0! Thursday, August 4. ILL-ADVISED INTERFERENCE Rev. George A. McLean of Toronto, Secre- tary for Western Ontario of the Lord’s Day Alliance, invoked the Lord’s Day Act at Goder- ich last Sunday, to prohibit the sailing of an? excursion steamer from that port, which was preparing to give the citizens of that town an excursion out on the lake. According to news- paper dispatches, “when the steamer made ready to leave, the minister, flanked by local consta- bles, was on hand to inform the ship’s officers that the proposed trip was contrary to the Act and that prosecution would follow if the voyage was made.” The trip was cancelled. Mr. McLean may have been within his rights so far as the Act is concerned, but our Opinion is that he used poor judgment. The owner of a yacht, or a man of sufiicient means to hire one, may do so and cruise on Sunday to his heart’s content, but the man of moderate means, apparently, is denied the privilege of taking his family for a boat trip. There’s some- thing wrong somewhere. The action of the Lord’s Day official at Goderich bears out our contentions in a recent discussion of the Lord’s Day Act and Sunday fishing. Why do not the officials start some- thing of this nature down in Toronto? This spring both railways in this section of Ontario ran week-end excursions to Toronto. They re- turned Sunday night. Where were the Lord’s Day officials then? Last Sunday’s action at Goderich has done nothing more than weaken the respect for the Act in rural sections, and in and around Dur- ham we have heard opinions expressed by very good and conscientious people that were any- thing but complimentary. When it is consider- ed that nowadays people travel on Sundays in private cars and sailing yachts, it seems little short of noseyness that an official of the Lord’s Day Alliance, visiting in an Ontario town, should do such a thing. I We have all along taken the stand that if it is wrong to go out on an excursion on Sunday, it is just as much a wrong to go out in a private vehicle. Evidently the laws governing these things were framed in the days of bigotry, and are still enforceable when those of bigoted minds demand their enforcements. A SENSIBLE OFFICIAL Game Warden Rolston may not be very good looking, but he apparently has that thing so many of our officials lackâ€"horse-sense. He wandered into Thornbury a few days ago, ac- cording to a story told in the Review-Herald, and found that several of the fishermen in that town were elately telling of their catches of bassâ€"eight and nine inches in length. When the Game Warden informed them that anything under 10 inches constituted an offense under the game laws, and that not more than 6 could be legally caught in one day they were rather discomfited. To put it bluntly, they were guilty and expected a prosecution. But Mr. Ralston is not built that way! He had the horse-sense to know he would secure better law observance by issuing a warning and explaining the law. He will not be so lenient next timeâ€"in Thornbury. As a meal ticket for a hungry magistrate Mr. Ralston is a failure on first offenses, but don’t let him catch you the second time! A few more officers like Mr. Ralston in this neck of the woods wouldn’t hurt, and at that he is enforcing the game laws in the manner in which the Department wishes them enforc- edâ€"with justice and common sense, not for the fines. We had a talk last Thursday evening with} Mr. Clifford Calverley of Florida, a former? resident of Clarksburg and Collingwood town- ship, and although he must be considerably over the three-score-and-ten mark, he might be taken for a man of less than 50 years of age. Older residents will remember Mr. Calverley when we recall that on October 12, 1892, he walked the Niagara River below the Falls on a wire cable and gave a demonstration of his prowess along this line that placed him in the class of Blondin, who crossed in 1851. After walking Niagara, Mr. Calverley spent several years at the business in those days when wire walking was popular, and has had «only one bad accident. This was at Newark, New Jersey, when he fell 90 feet and was bad- 1y injured. His walking bf Niagara in October depends upon the governments of Canada and Mr. Calverley has hOpes of again walking the wire across the river this year, and would like to do it on the 40th anniversary of the date on which he did it before. In conversa- tion with us, he intimated that there was sim- ply nothing to it, providing the cable was prop- erly strung. So far as he himself was concern- ed, he felt as able for the task now as 40 years ago. He has always kept himself in the pink of condition and would require little practice to duplicate his feat of 1892. THE BENEFITS OF EXERCISE THE DURHAM CHRONICLE the United States, who must give permission for the performance. No doubt an act of this kind would pull one of the biggest crowds into Niagara that has been there for some years,‘ and, in conjunction with the railroads and bus companies, which would run excursion. as'well as the co-operation of the people at the Falls, the cost of the stringing of the cable would be met, and also imburse Mr. Calverley for his performance. After seeing and listen. ing to him, we have every confidence that he can negotiate the trip across Niagara by wire as safely as he did away back in 1892. The Workers’ Economic Union delegation which interviewed the Government at Ottawa, demanding the removal of the embargo against Soviet Union were told in plain, but courteous terms that the dumping of wheat and other products into Canada by Russia would not be tolerated. In the course of his interview with the delegates the Premier asked: “Do you be- lieve the workers of this country should not have a fair chance in honest competition 1’” The delegation was told that while every- thing possible would be done for the unem- ployed, that as long as there was a dollar left in Canada, British law and order will be main- tained and every law on the statute book en- forced. The delegation pleaded for the release of Tim Buck aond other Reds from prison, but were told that these, and any others convicted under the anti-Communist law would serve their full terms. Men who aim to destroy Can- adian institutions will not be tolerated. A loose nut on both ends of the steering wheel is a bad combination in any traffic. Anti-osculators advocate less kissing and more holding ‘of hands as a more sanitary method of making love. With some women it is a lot safer to hold both hands. There would be more apparent sense in the action of the clergyman at Goderich who prevented a Sunday picnic excursion if he could have detoured the excursion into his own church, says the Toronto Mail and Empire. But that’s the trouble. It is actions of this kind which are detouring people away from the church. Tommie Malie, .a one-time wealthy song writer, died the other day in the charity ward of a Chicago hospital. It was another case of “easy come, easy go,” and further proves the contention that about the worst thing that can happen a man not used to money is to suddenly find himself in possession of lots of it. Amidst his many other activities, the Prince of Wales has lately taken the lead in an effort to stimulate and unify the social life of English vil- lages. He has gone about in an airplane calling at many hamlets, talking to the inhabitants, and even addressing groups of villagers. In a recent speech in Nottinghamshire he emphasized the importance of community halls and playing fields in teaching the first lessons of good citizenship and in developing individual talents, initiative and selfâ€"reliance. He spoke of the chance which country communities are being given to interest themselves in science, litera- ture, the drama and music. The Scots showed long enough ago that a man was not the worse shepherd because he studied phi1050phy; and if sailors are helped to go about their work by singing shanties, a ploughman will drive a furrow none the less straight it in the evening at a dramatic society he takes part in one of Shakespeare’s plays. “0 V6. v- ~¢¢vv--vâ€"â€" “We need, in fact,” said His Royal Highness, “to regard life as a whole. and in the country we must recognize that we shall only get the best out of it by our own efforts. In the villages we have no cinemas to fill time, no municipal authorities to pro- vide amenities, and no crowds to extol individual capacity. All the greater, therefore, is the chance to find the strength which comes from self-reliance, mutual sacrifices and combined action. I will leave you with the two suggestions I have already men- tioned, and which summarize the whole matter. Those activities which bring zest and keenness into the life of the villagers have a direct influence on agricultural prosperity, and for that reason alone are well worth encouragement. Secondly, most of the things worth having can be won by self-effort if ’peOple can pull together. In short, if you want a gvillage hall. get together and see the thing through.” â€"- â€". -1 "fg‘nn There is in this utterance by the Prince of Wales a lesson which may well be taken to heart by many vilages and rural communities in Canada. A few of our villages and rural communities already have community halls and recognized centres for activi- ties having a common advantage. And there is cer- tainly room for the extension of this very whole- some movement throughout the length and breadth of the landâ€"Toronto Mail and Empire. The romances of real life are often more striking than those conceived by the most imaginative of novelists. In 1853 an Irishman, Thomas Shaughnessy, who had migrated from Limerick, had a son born to him. When the lad grew up he took to railroad work. securing employment with the C. P. R... and by sheer force of much ability and hard work final- ly attained the presidency and the title of Lord Shaughnessy. Yesterday his granddaughter. Betty. was married to Lord Grenfell, and the Prince of Wales was among those in attendance at a brilliant functionâ€"Brantford Expositor. t t # \ If it has done nothing else the depression has done much to cut down the hostility to wortâ€"Mon- Solving the World’s Difficulties This is not an article on the Imperial Confer- ence, because if there ever was a time when a group should be left alone it would seem that the delibera- tions of the representatives of the British Empire. assembled in Ottawa at the present time, should be unhampered by criticism of any sort until the ses- sions are completedâ€"Acton Free Press. treal Star. Importance of Village Life to the Nation CANADA’S LAW SUPREME Romance of Real Life \omsn rmns"onmous ~snug-uInamrnln...» mldmdvermestheolduytngthu onehutottbeworldknowsnotbow cue to be tnken are at by the W0- men’s Institute or the Women’s ms- sionu-y Society. And would it not be these orgmintions and those others philanthmpically inclined, instead of sending their onetime to “Timbuc ” would examine their own back yards 3 little more carefully. It is a we those in the far-aw» fields.â€"thk- Not add-h I Just when about a score of police-f men in the United States are on trial for brutally and fatally abusing pris-, oners in order to enforce confessions of crimes they have been charged with, but not proven guilty of . comes a nasty rumor or two of the samel kind of thing in one of our cities! Fortunately confessions obtained in . this way are given little consideration' in our courts. But the temptation to. force confessions or admissions that' will enable police authorities to follow lup and clear up the whole matter of a .baffling crime is always present, in such cases. But just what this leads to is illustrated well in the most recent case . in the United States. Just when a num-“ ber of policemen are under arrest in‘ various states charged with causing four deaths, then canes the case of a fifth, when a prisoner, taken from the hands of his inquisitors, his throat smashed and dying, gives as his death bed statement that this was the final act in a series of tortures, his throat smashed with a length of rubber hose, which leaves little if any exterior mark. The whole thirteen of them plead “not guilty.” But in making this plea, have these men any reason to alter why they should not be tortured into a confes- sion of another kind? Not consistently with their own practices. "Nuff said. It isn’t British.”â€"Listowel Standard. ROTATION CONTROLS WORM INFESTATION OF POULTRY Successful poultry keeping depends more and more on the health control of the flock, and of first importance in this is the fight to control internal parasites. An experiment conducted at the Central Eutperimental Farm and pub- lished in the 1925 report of the Poul- try Division shows that of two pens of 30 pullets; one, pen A reared under or- dinary infected soil conditions and the other, pen B, reared free from pollu- tion, the latter gave eggs at current market prices to the value of $6.53 per bird for the eight months commenc- ing November 1, and the former gave eggs to the value of $332 for the same period. The mortality figures emphasize even more strongly the importance of hav- ing worm free stock. Pen A during the period of trhe.test had a death rate of 53 per cent. while pen 3 lost only 8.3 per cent. The same method of control is by prevention rather than by an attempt to clean up infection after it has be- come established. To this end all poul- try houses at the Central Experimental Form, Ottawa, are supplied with double yards, one at the front of the house and one at the bank. While the front yards are being used the yards at the Counter Check Books Let Us Quote On Your Next Order mutual-he DURHAM Quality and Workmanship Guaranteed. The Chronicle ' We have them in all styles and sizes mmqmmnuuw- lyn.thechlckmrm¢mmdhen- duly moved mom connection with thephntwhaethcoldfowkmm The chicks commune an {mutton-cell” (which I- closed to thosewakiuvflathefllstmhm mbmodednndmmdonforuecov- eredhndoverwhwhnotowlhasm- edicrutleuttwom. By these methods it is anticipated mumepuneuwmmmmwmu quuterswormtroetndwmheoon- finedtothehounuunwmetolm mtotheyuuswhtchhndbeenmpu- By this rotation of yards 1nd the usingofthegrowmgchickensnsone is felt that the “(ecu-mm; at the health of our flocks by the prevention of warm infect-Mon my be setisfector- uy accomplished. sax»: sums or momsa m cam nont’cnon Certain conclusions may he arrived at from a study of the cattle data pre- sented in the twelfth annual report on the Origin and Quality of Commercial Live Stock Marketed in Canada in 1931 issued by the Dominion Live Stock Branch. Intentions to increase production are indicated, not so much in the fact that store cattle purchases were some 10,000 more than in the pie. vious year and the heaviest since 193. but more because of a very marked cur- ’tailment to the liquidation of cows and heifers. Despite an increase sale over the previous year of some 23.400 cattle of all kinds, there was a decrease in the number of cows and heifers of 33,655 The enthusiasm displayed by most muons in the Wnt prams-ls ismmverlentiotothesweofeach union’s preamt war equipment-Win- nipeg flee has. Double Mesh Hair Nets, each 3c Silk Bloomer Elastic, 12 yds. 23c Ladies’ Cotton Vests and Bloom- ers, . . . each 25c Centre Pieces Vanity Sets Buflet- Sets Cushions ; Your oice Here is a list of Real Bargains1 0 \ Q 60 shoe. Folded Note Paper. b UbllLUlw _ Vanishing and Cold 25c jars for 15c 10c CHINA SALE Fancy Decorated Cups nnd Saucers uoers Oatmeal Dishes Jugs Sugar Bowls Any article 10c Brooms. Specm ”c Galvanized Pails A .. 10c The Variety Store R. L. Saunders, Prop. PHONE 6 DUB” “LANG.” . or of approximutely six per cent. STAMPED GOODS