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Circulation for 12 months. 1.400 One article from the Old Land, at least, that can stand up with any of its competitors is Welsh coal. It may seem funny that we make this statement and with the next breath admit we have never seen any, and, of course, have never used any. Our information is der- ived solely from the opinions of some of our Toronto friends, and who no later than last Friday gave us their opinion of Welsh coal as compared with the ordinary anthracite. Hav- ing used the Welsh variety, they refuse to use any other so long as this can be obtained. The Welsh coal costs one dollar a ton more than United States anthracite, but, according to our Toronto friends, it’s worth it. Not only is it practically free of ash, but it burns better and is generally more satisfactory. On top of our conversation in Toronto we were rather interested in an article in last week’s Alliston Herald on the same question, which we quote in full to substantiate our own statements. The article says: 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 Truth. â€"WATSON. WELSH COAL IS GOOD COAL For the past few weeks we have heard a lot about Empire Trade, and the reason we as ence than we should make a fetish of this Em- pire Trade business. It is a business proposi- tion, and as such, price, quality, continuity of delivery and the consumers’ general satisfaction are important elements and the only ones which in the end will make or mar the Empire Trade idea. We must not lose sight of this fact. ashes. With the Americans shutting out Canadian grain, Canadian hogs and cattle, Canadian potatoes, Canadian lumber and Canadian products of all kinds, Canadians are not under any neighborly obligation to buy anything American. Britain has given Canada profitable trade concessions and Canadians will consult their own interests by buying British coal.” Welsh anthracite, or Alberta coal, is as good a coal as one would wish, and is rapidly replacing the American variety in Canadian homes. The only place where American coal can compete successfully is in the bituminous field, and, providing some transportation sys- tem can be worked out that will lay Nova Scotia coal down in Ontario for around $10 a ton, this field, too, will be lost to the United States coal mines. Until the transportation difficulties are solved, however, soft coal burners will have to continue along the same old lines. THE CANADIAN NATIONAL EXHIBITION PAGE 4 The Canadian National Exhibition is over! and the 1932 effort is now a matter of history. From the head of! ice comes the word that the1 business created this year is greater than in, 1931 and, despite a falling off in attendance, the big show has been a success. Mounting at- tendances cannot continue indefinitely and the wonder is that the attendance records were kept up so long. This, however, is not what we started out to write about. Our chief interest lies in the performance in front of the mud stand, the only part of the show we had time The spectacle, “Triumph," was one of the best things we have ever seen and, composed of all Toronto and vicinity talent, assisted by the Toronto Irish Regiment, depicted the military rise of Britain from the time of Sebastian Ca- bot to Lord Kitchener, and the troops of Em- pire from the Roman Legions to the present- day Grenadier Guards. It was wonderful, and then some. We do not believe there are half a dozen pieces on the continent where s similsr show could have been staged, and in this opinion we have the assent of several visiting attendants from the United THE DURHAM CHRONICLE “A townsman buying coal in hearing of the Herald a few days ago made some remarks which are worthy of being passed along to other householders. This Alliston- ian asked the price of Welsh coal and the price of Pennsylvania coal. The Welsh coal was $1 per ton higher in price than the American, but he unhesitatingly told the dealer to put in the Welsh coal, remarking that he would get more than a dollar’s worth of satisfaction out of the British coal in not having to carry out clinkers and The action, in trout of Windsor Castle, Thursday, September 15, 1932 In adOpting this attitude, the Toronto printing houses are showing themselves little better than some of the small town printers who have for years complained of the inroads being made on their business by Toronto firms, who sent, and are still sending, representatives into all the smaller centres soliciting printingâ€" and getting it, too. This would not be so bad if they were fair in their dealings. There are city firms who use their country business as “fillers” for slackodays. In Toronto their cus- tomers have been paying plenty for work, but outside the city these same firms have collected business for slack time periods on quotations that were without profit. The Chronicle is not one of the country of- fices that complained of the inroads of the city printers. Instead, this newspaper, which does as good work in its line as any printing office in Toronto, went into Toronto and, if we may be permitted to say so, have been highly suc- cessful. We make this assertion on the strength of what we have been told by many city firms who entrust us with their work. Repeat orders and orders that come in by mail are evidences that our work must be good and our prices satisfactory. brought into review the troops of the “Empire”? which included King Arthur’s Bowmen, soldiers of Cromwell, sailors of Cabot and Nelson, Wolfe’s Infantry, and many others, all correctly uniformed. The grand countermarch of the whole assemblage. of troops with their different colored uniforms amid the varicolored lighting effects, is something that can scarcely be des- cribedâ€"at least not by us. It must be seen to be appreciated and the crowning recession, when the whole assemblage retires to the airs of “Land of Hope and Glory” and the “Red, White and Blue” is a fitting climax to a wonder- ful performance. Perhaps the whole show can be as well described in the three words: “It was great.” TORONTO PRINTERS COMPLAIN Toronto printing houses are complaining that Toronto firms are getting some of their printing done outside the city, and have ap- pealed to the Board of Control for their aid in keeping this work in the city. What a plight Toronto printers most be in! Not only Toronto business is sought by the Toronto printers, but their complaint also discloses the fact that cer- tain Government printing is being sent out of the city. They want this stopped, too. But why should Toronto printers think the printers of that city are the only ones who should have the privilege of filling Government contracts? Does the Province of Ontario be- long to Toronto? Or is this just one more evi- dence that the country’s appellation of “Hog- town” is correct and deserved? Is not the Gov- ernment printing as much the work of the rest of the printing offices in the Province as of those which happen to be situated in Toronto? The Toronto printers have started something, and the countryprinters are very foolish if they do not call for a showdown. Perhaps the Toronto printers are right in expecting Toronto firms to do business only with them, but if they really believe what they advocate, they should call their salesmen off the road, confine themselves to their Toronto business and let the country towns alone. If the reports coming out of Toronto are correct, then the printers of that city are acting like a lot of babies. Likely as not the Toronto campaign will bear fruit, and it may be that these Toronto offices will “get around” those who have the passing out of Government printing in that city, but it will not last long. The country press is still a power in thacountry and may perhaps exert as great an influence when the time comes as some of the Toronto “heelers” who hang around the Government offices, and whose only interest in the party in power is the amount of business they can wheedle out of them. PAYING YOUR TAXES A speaker at Kincardine advises the farm- ers to say that they would not pay their taxes until they “earn them out of the land.” We wondered when we read it how they have been paying them all along, if they did not come out of the land. The writer pays taxes, too. In-‘ stead of a farm, we have a printing office. It} would be quite in order to tell us to refrain? from paying our taxes until we could “earn them out of the printing office.” Frankly, if we can’t raise the money here, we do not know where we shall get it. The earning power of the office is the only asset we have. The case of a good many farmers is similar. Their asset is their farms. To date there is only one mystery about our taxes. The place where the money is to come from is not nearly so hard to determine as the time when it will appear. ‘ So far as the taxes on the Chronicle prop- erty is concerned, if they do not come out of the office somebody is going to be out of luck. We have no stocks or bonds, or any loose for- tunes lying around. THE DURHAM CHRONICLE LIFE’S UPS AND DOWNS A study of some of our recent financial wizards should tend to make most of who have never been anything but members of the “corn- mon people” satisfied with our lot. Without the experience it is a hard thing to describe, but'it must be quite a come-down for some of the “paper” millionaires of a few years ago, who travelled around in high priced cars, lived on the very best the world afforded, and who now find themselves out of a job, with a taste for the good things of life and nothing to buy them with. It’s tough! Once upon a time there was a fellow by the name of W. B. Foshay. He lived in Minne- apolis. He had‘big dreams, but, better than that, he had the ability to make men with the money dream with him. He formed companies, got elected president, and built up large fortunesâ€" on paper. He invaded Ontario. Some say he was the tool of some of the large privately-own- ed electric companies in the United States. Any- way, his duty was to show the peOple of Ontario their greatest public utility, the Hydro-Electric, was charging too much for its power and that a private company could do it cheaper. We all know the story, and most of us have faint rec- ollections of the grand finale over in Minnea- polis, when Foshay was found guilty of fraud and sentenced to jail. Turning from Foshay, we find one Samuel Insull a power in the financial world. He organ- ized numerous companies, was reputed a mil- lionaire several times over. He was IT. Today Insull is over in France for his health, and yes- terday’s newspapers carried the information that the deficit his companies are facing would amount to upwards of $226,000,000. How the mighty have fallen! How must it feel? Millions three or four years ago, and now a tin cup, spoon, knife and fork, in a penal institution, or a quiet spot in Southern France. These are only two of a large number. You all know some of them. Today, what are they? Perhaps, after all, it is not a great hardship to have gone through life on limited capital. True, one cannot go to the best hotels, and must be careful of his finances, bt 11 he has no regrets for what is past. Not having known anything but work, he follows it naturally, and not hav- ing known the joys of meals in expensive hostel- ries, he can still sit down in one of the cheaper places to his “ham and”, and think it is about the best meal on earth. In the meantime, a good many of the millionaires of a few years ago, who lived on caviar, are wondering how they will dig up their next meal. Someone has said that while it is no disgrace to be poor, it is most inconvenient, still, those of us who have never known anything else have less to worry about in these days when a dollar’s a dollar. TOO MUCH OVERHEAD Last week’s Palmerston Spectator calls at- tention to the financial condition of the skating rink in that town. They call it an arena down there, but the old name is good enough for us. There is a big mortgage on the prOperty and some action will have to be taken to relieve the directors of bearing the whole brunt of finan- cing the institution. Ever since this “bigger and better” rink idea took hold in the smaller towns, we have wondered where it would end. At one time this town had “the last word in rinks.” For sever- al years the Durham rink has been one of the “poorer” rinks in the district. The Palmerston situation explains some things, and perhaps some of these other towns are in a similar posi- tion. High mortgages these days eat up profits. We would not hope for disaster, or even financial difficulties for any of our sister towns in their rink business, but we believe now, as we did for a good many years back, that towns like Durham can not afford fifteen-, twenty- or twenty-five thousand-dollar skating rinks. It is a lot of money, and a good many towns find it hard enough to keep a rink going at all. Preeene the Log Celine Speakln at a service club luncheon at Smiths Falls, 3 pro essor made an plea for‘ the preservetlon of the 103 houses in the district. The plea is a. very timely one, The gegulne log hepae is last disappea- -â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"v â€"â€"~ -_ â€" v .â€" 1ng.â€"St. Thomas Times-Journal. “Capital Has Withstood Shoe " says a news heading. Not ours. A new style pay-wyou-enter street car is to be introduced in Toronto soon. A more popular one might be one that you can get into and out of without paying. Hon. George Black, Speaker of the House of Commons at Ottawa, travelled from Dawson City in the Yukon to Skagway by aeroplane. Someone is due to remark that politicians do not necessarily need to stay in Ottawa to get up in the tir. The “Flying Hutchinson'F'amily” who at- tempted to fly the Atlantic, is safe in Green- land, though their plane is wrecked and they had a narrow escape. Flying the Atlantic as an aid to aviation may be all right, but the Hutchinson escapade is nothing more or less than abject foolishness. OTHER PAPERS’ OPINIONS they lash bank robbers and wife-‘ heaters and this magistrate would put these youngsters in this class. when halt the rest of the bathers on the beaches are showing as much of their caresses as they dar! What sort of a boy was that magistrate any way? Didn’t he go in swimming as a kid? This jailing youngsters for an offence like that looks to be more of a crime than the ofienoe.-â€"Hespeler Herald. Hard to Keep Going The Niagara Falls Chamber of Commerce is to go out of existence, because of lack of support by citi- zens. Attempting to keep such an or- ganization alive is almost impossible in the smaller towns. Some years ago Walkerton had a wide-awake Welfare Association but it petered out. A year or two ago, Hanover started a Civic Service Association, to replace the dormant Board of Trade, but very few members attended the meetings and they have been withdrawn. Our ex- perience is that citizens take an in- terest in these organizations if some worth-while community enterprise is in the air, but such events are not frequent enough to keep the mem- bers enthused year after year.â€"Walk- erton Herald-Times. Don’t know how newspapers came to be in the world. I don’t think the good Lord does, for He ain’t got noth- ing to say about an editor in the Bible. I think the editor is one of those missing links you read about and stayed in the bushes until after the flood and then came out and wrote the thing up and has been here ever since. I don’t think he has ever never heard of one getting licked. “If a doctor makes a mistake he buries it, and the people dassent say nothing. “When the editor makes a mistake there is a big swearing and a big fuss. but if the doctor makes a mistake there is a funeral, cut flowers and perfect silence. SCHOOLBOY’S ESSAY long without anybody knowing what it is. but if the editor uses one he has to spell it. tario Motor Vehicles Branch of the On- vehicle accidents during the month of The causes of the accidents recorded were various. but it Is noteworthy that. moretnanonetwtnofthemotoum involved come to (def while drivinc on the wrong side at the road end almostasmonyweredrlvinctooud for tnflicandroudconditions. AUTO ACCIDENT EVERY 40 MI) UTES IN AUGUST LAST YEAR August, 1931, averaged more than 33 per day. Included in this number there were 77 fatalities and 1025 persons in- Jured. This record, be it understood, is for the province of Ontario alone, and not for the whole country as one might imagine from the size of the H A careful driver approached t 1111- Counter Che ck Let Us Quote On Your Next Order DURHAM Department of Highways, motor for doing such a thing. And Quality and Workmmhip Guaranteed. The Chronicle We have them ’in all styles and sizes ON AN EDITOR ‘dlvomeewrtsJernymholdnow-mx ‘for wives who can prepare spinach “so 'thevirtueofu'onisnotneumuaedby E the vice of sand.” That is putting the 3mm: both neatly ma puncently. The .distinct connection between good cook- Img’um marital contentment has been A distinguished visitor to Ottawa re- cently was Professor Alessandro Ghici of Italy. General Commissioner of the Executive Committee of the Fifth World’s Poultry Congress, which con- venes in Italy on September 6 to 15 next year. Conferring with the Hon. Mr. Weir and oaieers of the Depart- ment of Agriculture, Professor Ghici youtlined preparations being made by the Government of Italy for the Con- gress. The famous Trajan Forum will house the national and commercial exhibits, while meetings of the Con- gress will be held in the Institute of Agriculture, and the formal Opening by Premier Mussolini will take place 1 in the famous Capitol. Uniformity will recognized for long centuries. but it has remained for the twentieth century to emphnstae tt in an intensive manner. What the St. Louis doctor most appro- priately calls “the etrophled domestic instinct” of the emnndpeted womnn may be rendered into planet termsâ€"â€" her inability to take care of a home. It all harks back to the ancient argu- mentâ€"is woman’s place in the homeâ€" or elsewhere?-â€"Montreal Star. Dumbâ€"“Funny. how Fred is so lucky at cards and then loses all his winnings at the race trucks." ceed, the fine high preceding 00118106595. 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