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PAGE 4 Whosoever is afraid of submitting any westion, civil or religious, to the test of free discussion, is more in love with his own opinion than with the Truth. â€"-WATSON. The Council refused to pay the bill. The ques- tion now arises, “Who should pay it ?” There are a good many angles to this case, so snap judgments are not in order. A man was found on the side of the road. He needed help. He got it. He couldn’t pay. Would the hospital have been justified in refusing him ad- mittance until means of payment were forth- coming? Is it right that the hospital should not be paid for the services they rendered? On the other hand, should the town of Durham foot the bill? The patient was found some‘ thirteen miles south of here. Has Mount Forest, or Normanby or Egremont townships, more right to pay for this service? or, should the man who brought him in have let well enough alone and allowed the unfortunate patient to look after himself? Payment of the bill was Opposed on the grounds that the County Council would refuse to pay their half, and with this statement be- fore the Council the bill was shelved. 'l‘HE CARE OF INDIGENTS The Town Council had a rather peculiar situation to handle at the meeting Monday night when a bill was presented by the Durham Red Cross hospital for $14.00, due on the keep of one Harvey Gordon, said to have come from Amherst, Nova Scotia. Gordon was picked up on the highway this side of Mount Forest, brought to Durham, and taken to the hospital. He was a well mannered young man, in fact, gentlemanly all through, but “out of luck.” But is there not something more behind sit- uations of this kind? Surely we in Durham do not wish to become known as a community of heathens! We can and will be humane to the stranger within our gates, and when a man is down and out, sick and hungry, who is there amongst us who would question the “pay” end of it when handing out our charity? THE DURHAM CHRONICLE It is a curious situation, to say the least. We all believe we should care for the sick and unfortunate. We would all censure the local hospital if it refused help for no better reason than that payment was problematical. What should we do about it? It might be worth find- ing out who is responsible for cases of this kind, and why. POLICEMEN AND SPEEDERS There is quite a furore because the police chief at Barrie checked up on a Toronto motor- ist for travelling through that town too fast, an argument that even the secretary of the On- tario Motor League could not keep out of. At a Toronto Rotary Club luncheon, one of the members said that Barrie’s police chief had qualified for the presidency of the Guesstima- tors’ Association. Cute joke, what! And similar outbursts of this nature because the Barrie of- ficial used his judgment in laying an informa- ton, did not possess a step watch, and was min- us a road trap to catch his prey. Now that the squawking has subsided, we somehow or other think the policeman was right. It is no longer necessary to “clock” a motorist for going through a town too fast, any more than it is to see a man consume li- quor before you can say he is intoxicated. Any man of ordinary judgment can tell the differ- ence between twenty and forty miles an hour, and we are somewhat astonished to learn that 3 Motor League official had joined in the argu- ment. We have little use for the small town police! official who hides. behind the “Welcome” sign and lays information for too fast driving, or a sneaking official of any kind, but an observ- ance of motor traffic here in Durham will show that most of the offenders are city drivers-â€" from Toronto and elsewhere. We have little use for the man who pulls some of this stufi and then squawks when brought to task. We have never heard, except in very few cases, of police officials going'out of their way to lay informations for technical violations of the traffic law, but usually it turns out that when one of these fellows is met with, he has a mag- istrate behind him who thinks more of the fees to be collected than other things. In this case it is well to get rid of the magistrate and his tool, and it can be done if sufficient evidence is forthcoming. NEWSPAPER GNATS A Toronto morning newspaper says that an evening contemporary “is never happy un- less each of its editions includes a dozen half- .vw www-â€" truths to the detriment of the Canadian Gov- Thursday, August 11, 1932 ernment and the Imperial Conference. It dis- played across is front page a heading which ran: ‘Bennett’s Hand Hidden, London Com- plains’.” The claim was bas.d upon cables from England quoting the Manchester Guardian and the London Star, two London newspapers who still stick to free trade. But why worry? This same “evening con- temporary” often carries scare heads on its front pages, and denials the next day in some insignificant corner in the inside pages. What can one expect editorially from a newspaper whose news columns are so often unreliable? Like the gnats about the bull, the “even- ing contemporary” is not even a worry to the Conference or Canada. THE JOY OF LIVING 1 There is a “kick” in living if we have suf- ficient sense of humour to soft pedal the hard stuff and enjoy that which appeals to us. Few sections of the country that do not present different problems. We had this brought home to us a couple of weeks ago when attending a garden party at Clarksburg. We had almost decided not to go on account of the rain, but,; strange to say, encountered none east of Price-} ville. We attended the garden party and re-‘ turned home after midnight, and during the whole afternoon encountered no rain. Farmers here were nearly rained out; at that time the farmers of the Thornbury-Collingwood district were about burned up. We believe that since then they have enjoyed a few good rains, their cr0ps were garnered in good condition, and there is nothing to complain of. In Durham vicinity, the rains which were to ruin every- thing did not do it, and crops were safely hous- ed. At that, it is quite a contract to work un- der adverse conditions and a person can scarce- ly be blamed for finding fault, but the trouble with this method is it does not change con- ditions a whit, and the worrier is that much weaker to fight the battle when the time ar- ‘ rives. “School Boards Asked to Curtail Expendi- tures.” Let’s see! Where did we hear that re- mark before? Most Western Provinces lead in divorce, according to dispatches. We shall have to change that slogan to: “Go West, old man, go West!” According to statistics, Russia will not be a factor this year in throwing grain on the market to the detriment of the Canadian farm- er. Instead, she is “short” in almost every pro- duct of the farm and will be a customer. United States firms are buying up land and preparing to build plants in England to get inside the British tariff walls. This is a statement of fact. The Toronto Star will now likely say they are doing it for the exercise and to scare the British. Is there any connection between the fact that the lawyer retained to defend the myster- ious Dan Malone, Sinn Feiner extraordinary, arrested at Toronto a few days ago, is also the lawyer who defended Tim Buck and the other Reds and Communists now doing time in jail? A Port Stanley youth burned off his mous- tache when he put cigar lighter fluid on his face instead of shaving lotion. The fire was not a big one. It couldn’t be. The man with a cigar lighter and a moustache usually has a small moustache. Ye Editor has the snorts and the sneezes this week. Some say it is hay fever we have contracted, but we do not know. Anyway, it is somewhat different from the haying fever of the farmers just now. They want to get theirs in. We would like to be able to take one big kerchoo and blow ours out. The Flesherton Advance man is jealous of the Chronicle editor’s streamline shape and in his comments on the Civic Holiday picnic in that village says: “Frank Irwin of Durham was present and judging by the number of la- dies he attracted he must still have a good fi- gure. But maybe they didn’t look below his eyesf’ Judging from the size of the legal bill sent Durham Council last week by a well-known law firm, it does not pay to arrest outsiders for intoxication. This happened in town recently and the town pays $12 for the privilege of send- ing Joe Fletcher to jail for 21 days. Next time, a similar offender will be given so many see- onds to make himself scarce. Francis Nash, Michigan murderer, was sentenced to life imprisonment in solitary con- finement at hard labour for the murder of a 17-year-old girl. Capital punishment may be brutal, but we believe fewer murders would be committed in the State of Michigan had the death penalty statute been carried at the elec- tion last year. Death for himself is about the only punishment that the murder-minded crim- inal fears. THE DURHAM CHRONICLE v-~ The delegation that appeared at Ottawa repre- sented a radical element in the population that is not endorsed generally by the laboring classes, but which is capable of influencing many decent peOple in hard circumstances because of their ability to talk glibly on all manner of irrelevant subjects. Genuine Canadians upon whom the blow of de- pression has fallen heavily are not worrying about Soviet Russia or the imprisoned Communists. They are sufficiently intelligent to recognize that these problems have only a minor connection, if any, with the unemployment situation in Canada and that such matters may not be affected to any great extent in any case by efforts of those who are in temporary destitution in this country. A. _ _, --A__ Premier Bennett made it clear that the govern- ment recognizes the unfortunate plight of those who are unable to obtain work to support themselves and their families. It is not alone the casual laborer who is in distress. Many peOple who were in com- fortable circumstances a few years ago have lost what they had saved to support them in their old age and such people cannot be accused of being wasteful or improvident. It is difficult for such in- dividuals to get the benefits of organized relief be- cause the world believes that they still have means. Their case presents one of the most tragic phases of the depression. It is a simple matter to criticize members of governments, but it is quite another thing to pro- vide the constructive suggestions of means to over- come the difficulties that confront us. If Canada is not doing all that is possible to meet the situa- tion, what other nation is making a better job of it? The United States, Great Britain, Germany, Italy are all as badly or worse afflicted than we are and most of these countries have had a wider experience as to relief measures than is the case in Canada: “U UV -vn-v- ---vvvâ€"v â€"â€" To be unsympathetic with those who are facing great trials because of unemployment and poverty is unthinkable and the private and public record of most citizens in this respect is excellent. There are few refusals of aid on the part of those who are in a position to extend it. Our principal duty is to ensure that no one is permitted to starve, but fake promoters of the cause of the unemployed cannot ___ A“ ‘L----“-n .JL Vlsavvw-w v- v-â€"v â€" â€"v..â€"â€" be given recognition if they insist upon thrusting the problems of Russia, India, Japan and the jailed Communists into the arena that ought to be de- voted exclusively to tl .e task of caring for our own people.â€"â€"Galt Reporter. There is danger in the sensational announce- ment made the other day by one newspaper that a change in the regulations restricting the movement of beef animals from this country to the United Kingdom will result in exports, beginning next year,i of 100,000 to 400,000 head of Canadian cattle per an- num. Statements of this sort are calculated to preâ€"l vent the Conference from arriving at the desiredi understandings. It has to be remembered that the agreements reached at. Ottawa have to be ratified by Parliaments on both sides of the Atlantic. The prOSpect of sudden tremendous shipments of cattle from this country may cause some interests in the Old Land to oppose the adoption of such an arrange- ment at Westminster. The fact of the matter is, moreover, that there is no prospect of an immed- iate huge movement of cattle from this country to Britain. The cattle are not here to move, and it will take some years to build up the export trade to the proportions indicated by the sensational news- paper story to which we have referredâ€"Toronto Mail and Emipre. L Sensational Announcements Hamper the Conference Now that they are frying eggs by radio. will the static scramble them?â€"-Christian Science Monitor. The United States is worrying for fear the Econ- omic Conference will mean the loss of considerable Canadian trade to that country. However, the height of their tariff walls doesn’t indicate that they are very anxious for that trade.â€"Chatharn News. With England again assuming the financial leadership of the world, there will be a tendency on the part of Canada to turn to the London market for the sale of securities. With peeple today think- ing Imperially, this will be particularly trueâ€"Lon- don Free Press. Uncle Sam has been running away with the Sprinting events at Los Angeles but when it came to the big walking test_a Briti‘sh contestant scored ,L_.1---. -__.l V UQJV wâ€"c 'v v_._____ c on easy victory. Iii the matter of sustained and steady work John Bull always has the call on all the rest of themâ€"Brantford Expositor. Whatever the economic differences of the var- ious parts of the Empire, there is no doubt but that the world is getting an impressive demonstration of the British Commonwealth's political unity.â€"Ot- There is to be an eclipse of the sun on August 31, and warnings are issued to use dark glasses or smoked glass when looking at it. Some folk will be well equipped because they have been looking at everything that way for months.â€"Stratford Beacon- tawa Journal. Herald. Acid Test If Harry Nixon, the Progressive leader, had en- dorsed the agreement Hon. George 8. Henry has made for the transfer of bonds of the Abitibi Canyon undertaking, we would have thought there was some- thing wrong with it.â€"London Free Press. What Premier Bennett said to the committee of the unemployed at Ottawa yesterday should ring throughout the country. The law of this country is the considered judgment of representative men ei- ected to make law, and it will be enforced if it takes the last Canadian dollar. Mr. Bennett declared that Section 98 of the Criminal Code, whereby Commun- ists are in jail would not be revoked, neither would the Canadian embargo on Russian products be with- drawnâ€"St. Catharines Standard. According to the records of the Motor Vehicles Branch of the Ontario Department of Highways, motor vehicle accidénts during the month of Au- gust last year averaged more than 33 per day. In- cluded in this number there were 77 fatalities and 1,025 persons injured. ‘This‘record, be it understood, éiié (ifâ€"{He figurestâ€"Gananoquéi Reporter. - ’vâ€"v vvvvv is for? the Broâ€"Vince of Ontario alone, and not for the whole country 35 one might imagine from the -'"--J ~vv-wv â€" ing for the pedestrian. First an Ontario magistrate rules that a person on foot is entitled to as much room on the highway as a motor car; then the Ped- estrian Rights Association springs into being, and now along comes 9. Vancouver judge with a decision that pedestrians do not have to scurry out of the way at the sound of an automobile born to avoid responsibility for being run down.â€"â€"Collingwood En- terprise-Bulietin. It would really seemAthat a b‘ett‘er pay is dawn- _ ,1-L_-L- Questionable Wuhan. Empire’s Political Unity OTHER PAPERS’ 0PlNl0NS Charmin: mam. flees and get what enjoyment out of life they canâ€"Southampton Beacon. sighted. Hard work is the father of the Suc- cess family. Many men can argue over religion they do not have. No man is wise who cannot learn from his mistakes. We are what we are when we are doing as we please. He who peddles gossip is no worse than he who listens. Happiness increases as you spread it around. Some folks seem to think they have religion just because they have indi- gestion. Some men spend more energies de- fending their failures than in making their successes. Let us do the forgetting and let the forgiving to the Lord. Pray, don’t find fault with the man who limps 0r stumbles along the road, Unless you have worn the shoes he wears Or struggled beneath his load. There may be tacks in his shoes that Tho’ hidden away from view, Or the burden he bears, placed on your back, Might cause you to stumble too. Don’t sneer at the man who’s down, today, t 1 Unless you have felt the blow That caused his fall, or felt the same That only the fallen know. You may be strong, but still the blows That were his, if dealt to you In the self-same way at the self-same time, Might cause you to stagger too. Don’t be too harsh with the man who sins Or pelt him with words and stones. Unless you are sure, yea, doubly sure, That you have no sins of your own, For you know, perhaps, if the temp- ‘ter’s voice Should whisper as soft to you As it did to him when he went astray, ’Twould cause you to falter, too. Never strike while the head is hot. By their laughter ye shall know them. The long winded are usually short to Counter Check Books Let Us Quote On Your Next Order DURHAM “JUDGE NOT. LEST FOOD FOR THOUGHT Quality and Workmanship Guaranteed. The Chronicle We have them in all styles and sizes Under the above media. the Science News-Letter clued attention to the work which has been done at the West- ranch. in an chart to and out the ef- tects of various condmons on the ef- ficiency of workers. It was discovered that the emotional state of the em- ployee was much more important than fatigue. A harsh foreman who frightens the workers under him will decrease the output of his department by such tac- tics. The man who precedes his work- in; day with a quarrel at the break- fast table with his wife is a most un- satisfactory worker, both from the standpoint of accident and health haz- ards and from the viewpoint of work- ing efficiency. Prospects are exceptionally good tor a large pear crap in the Province of Ontario, according to latest estimates of the Depurtment of Agriculture at Ottawa. The trees came through the winter with very little injury and wen- ther conditions have been excellent tor the development of the fruit. Nisan district looks for a yield double thut of last year and Burlington also expects to top last year’s figures. Taken as n whole, the production {or the Province should be far in excess at 1931. In Nova Sooua, however, conditions have not been so favourable. Cool weather has reduced the set of the fruit and the cron will probwa be about two-thirds of that of list yen. British Columbia should have a crop about equal to last year's. Kelowna, Penticton and Summerlund, the lend- ing pear growing areas, expect. slight- ly reduced yields and other districts vary considerably. Taken generally. Canada’s pear crop for 1932 should be considerably greater than in 1931. family and, wishing to commumcue the news to a friend by telegram not exceeding ten words, he dismtched the following; “Bruises hurt, erased ai- iord, erected. analysis hurt, infectious dead, Sandy." The story in full: “Bruce is hurt. He need a Ford. He wrecked it, and Alice is hurt. 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