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WHEN f relatives arrive . . . and your husband is away ... and you can‘t stand the strain by yourself DURHAM PONTIAC SALES If you are interested in a new car, visit Durham Pontiac Sales. W.Koeller, the proprietor, would like personally to demonstrate for you these automobiles that Canadian motorâ€" ists helped to design. Hewants you to drive them yourself, in order that you can actually test their many new features, including Kneeâ€"Action Front Wheels. Durham Pontiac Sales provides up toâ€"date facilities for the servicing of automobiles. Present and prospective owners are cordially invited to deal with a local organization that puts your interests in first place at all times I General Motors of Canada, Limited, is pleased to announce that Durham Pontiac Sales, wellâ€"known in this district as dealer for the Pontiac Economy Straight Eight, will now handle, in addition, Chevrolet and McLaughlinâ€"Buick. .lf you‘re in a {ix; or you‘re lonely; Get him on Long Distance . . . it‘s the quickest help in any emergency McLAVUVGHLIN â€" BUICK kind of emergency arises; Long Distance is there to help you, a quick, dependâ€" able, personal messenger; clear and easy to use re?ardless of distance. You can talk 100 miles for as little as 30câ€"see list of rates in the front of your directory,. GENERAL MOTORS PRODUCTS C H EV ROL ET In Announcing the appointment of addition to P O N T I A C as sales and service representatives _ for of CANADA Limited Oshawa, Ont. (W. KELLER) and E Chicken thieves are starting out again. Mr Jos. Ellis lost some valuâ€" ‘able chickens Friday night last. Word has been received by Mrand Mrs. Wm Nelson, that his mother,| Mrs John Nelson, Sr. who accompâ€" anied her daughter, Mrs. A. Gillies, to Buffalo recently, stood the jourâ€" ney very well, after being so serâ€"| jously ill throughout the winter at‘ her Mrs Will Clark, Durham, spent a‘ few days with her sisters, Mrs Wm.! Brown and Mrs Keith We regret to report that Mrs Keith, Sr. is seriousâ€"| ly ill. We earnestly hope for a good Several farmers in the Township have taken advantage of the Gov‘t. feed supply, under the new Subsidy Act. The Council members had a buâ€" sy day Monday (an extra meeting) to it a new Ccar. Mrs Hostetter had the misfortune to fall down cellar last week and has been since laid up. We hope she may soon recover. Mr. and Mrs Nolan Rounding, of Grand Valley, spent Sunday with her parents, Mr and Mrs Arnill. What they could not take Friday night, they came back for Sunday Mr. and Mrs Earl Cadwell, Mount Forest, spent a few days with her parents, Mr. and Mrs T. Woodyard. Mr. Aberdein, Mt Forest, is visitâ€" ing with Ahis sister, Mrs D. Bruce for a few days. Mrs Brooks, Listowel, is visiting friends in the district. Mr and Mrs Geo. Brown and famâ€" ily, visited his sister, Mrs Hartley Allingham and other friends in Sarâ€" nia, the last of the week. HOLSTEIN LEADER Lerais Joyfully Celebrate | LOCAL AND PERSONAL Wm. Aitkeo treated himself i Now Mr. and Mrs D. Marshall and Mr. and Mrs Alex Aberdein, spent Sunâ€" cay with Mrs Erwin Ferguson, Egreâ€" mont. New Butc)%r Shop in Holst&in | «_ Mr and Mrs Robt. Watson are movâ€" | ing into the apartment in connection with the garage, this week. Mrs Metcalfe of town has been for some weeks with her daughter, Mrs Stanley Mountain and family. Mr. and Mrs Geo. Smalliman visiâ€" tec on Sunday with Mrs Grasby, Sr. of Bentivck. " Mr. and Mrs Wm Porter visited receatly with Mr. and Mrs W. Walâ€" lace in town. P MÂ¥. and Mrs Mark Wilson, Durham were Sunday guests of Mr and Mrs. James Picken. _ There were more out to church on brous Sunday than there has been for conso some time. The subject of the mesâ€" mers‘ ‘sage was "Giving God a chance."a iv‘d: "Prove me this day," saith the Lord.‘ come Have we giver Him a chance? Jesus poses said "Behold I stand at the door and stage knock. If any man will open the door mach I will come in onto him." The diâ€" them: sciples were unlearned men, had nevâ€"| charg er been to college or even had & will t high school education but when they | expen got in touch with Jesus and were enâ€" promi dued with the Holy Spirit, what a ) cbtair power they had! Peter preached one guidir sermon and 3000 were converted. We | will 1 have nothing toâ€"day that can comâ€" | simpli pare with that. Some may say "Why size t does God force people to yield to, charg Him? He never will co that. We have of th our own free will.either to choose| Finan Him or not. It will profit us not.hing‘ment to know about Jesus. We must acâ€"; ting cept Him as our personal Saviour. not p Scripture says ‘What shall it profit| No a man if he gain the whole world | made and lose his own soul? '!Jnite( Mr and Mrs J. P. Knnee of town, Stand: visited on Sunday with Mr and Mrs.| "ODcy Mr. and Mrs. Merton Reid of Seaâ€" forth, visited his mother and Mr Earl Reid over the week end. 7 Mr John Duke made a busincss trip to Hamilton the first of week. Mr Jack Irvin, formerly of the Bank of Montreal, Galt, has been transferred to Lambton Milis, He left for the latter point Thursday after spending his holidays at home.. Mr. and Mrs S. Habermehl visited Hanover friends the first of week. Rev. Mr Mecliroy an@ family, inâ€" terd moving into the Presbyterian Manse the latter part of the week, if weather and roads permit. Mrs Chas. Ramage, Durham, calâ€" led on friends in the village the first of the week. Saugeen C.G.I.T. held their regâ€" ular meeting on the 18th inst. in the Presbyteriar, Church. The C.G.IL.T. Purpose was repeated in unison. The minutes were read and adopted, the roll was called ard business discusâ€" sed. The scripture reading was taâ€" ken from Matt. 5 : 1â€"12 and read by Helen Buller. The theme was "Ripe for Harvest" and was taken by Nora Shortt. Mrs Aitken gave an interesâ€" ting talk on "Christ, our Teacher." A number of jokes were read and after singing of hymn 398 a number of games were played. Doctors Brown have disposed of their practice to Dr. Harold Mounâ€" tain of Dromore, and will leave here in May. They expect to sail for Chiâ€" na in July. k Mr. and Mrs McGuire visited her parents at Edge Hill on Sunday. iney wll be very much missed in the church and community. We wish them success, wherever their lot ow open for business, with complete ock of FRESH & CURED MEATS Eggs and Poultry Bought. Highest Market Pr We solicit your trade. CaN in and A local group, comprising Ayton, Hampden, Dromore, Boothville, Orcâ€" hard, Priceville, _ Flesherton and three teams from Holstein are apâ€" ticipated this coming season.. A meeting in the near future will be arranged, when all teams will be inâ€" vited and a schedule drawn up. Anyâ€" one wishing any information, write the Secretary of Holstein Club, Jas. Calder, Holstein. DR. MOUNTAIN TO TAKE OVvER HOLSTEIN PRACTICE Another of the popular dances will be held in the Agr‘l Hall, Friday, the 27th inst., in aid of Football team. The ‘Melody Five‘ will provide good music. X The Edge Hill Young People will present a three t play, "Forest Acres", by F. B. Liksky, in Yeovil hall, Tuesday, May 1§, to be followâ€" ed by a dance. Lunch\ providec. Adâ€" mission 25¢. Mr. THE DURHAM REVIEW KNOX CORNERS M. H. LYNCH 3 Main St, HOLSTEIN FOOTBALL CHATTER ONTARIO TORONTO _ _ The Liberals went wild with | the results of the voting in Nor 'ror.d came in and when succe | their candidate Mr. Rennie w sured, the cheers and cinging {Liiberals could be heard all t! | the main building and at 8 p. | Or more Liberals naradad 42 11 Liiberals could be heard all through | to the main building and at 8 p. m., 10 th or more Liberals paraded to the very‘b., door of the House of Commons ohun-;ph ber, led by ‘Piper‘ Tom Reid of New in Westminster, B. C. All through the ap evening session, the bubbling good | m spirits of the liberals found @XDreSâ€" | in a Bm 42 se uie $ ‘ expensive process to work out comâ€" ~ promises with their creditons and to | chtain new working capital.. The _ guiding principle of this legislation _ will be to secure for the farmer a / simplified debt structure, reduced in |size to a point where the carrying â€" charges will be within the capacity / of the farm enterprise to pay. The | Finance Minister coupled this stateâ€" _ ment with the assertion that the wriâ€" |ting down of government debts was ‘not practicable. | No credit was given or mention ‘ made of the advantage to Canada or IUnited States forsaking the gold‘ | standard and dopreciatirs their curâ€". | rency by roughly 40%, nor was any |mope held out of a change in Canadian | monetary policy. In view of the op-; | timistic note struck by the Finance | Minister in his budget speech it 2sâ€"| | ton‘shed me to learn that over 21,000 {people were or, relief in Ottawa durâ€"| |ing the month of March and I dau-e| say comparable figures could be givâ€" | en for other Canadian cities. That toâ€"| | gether with stra‘ghtencd nnanch.l‘ condition of the farmers and other primary producers shows clearly that |great changes are needed if we ars r‘UCary producers shows clearly that great changes are needed if we are to enable producers to enjoy the proâ€" duct of their labour. ~~ MissMacphbail‘s Weekly Lettor This has been a week crowded with interesting events and people. The budget came down, the South Oxford byeâ€"election results came in, and Mr Mackenzie King flayed with vigour and righteous indignation, the Marâ€" keting Bill. Ottawav~entertained the prophet of plenty, Major C. H. Dougâ€" las, of London, England, originator of the Douglas credit theory. The Prime M‘nister gave members and senators the opportunity of meeting at lunch the record of the past year has been' 7.~Irdustrial failures. 1dlst.lnctly favourable. From February| 8. Increasing competition for exâ€" 1933 to February of this year, the port trade, causing international fricâ€" general index of wholesate prices in tion ultimately leaC€ing to war. Canada rose by 13.4 per cent. Th‘s "Purchssing Power," said Major rise has been less rapid than that in Douglas, "which is what finance is, the United States, but more rapid is connected with all of them. Is this than in most other countries." "As condition of affairs _ satisfactory? an indication of the extent to which From the point of view of the banks the maladjustments between various it is. Is it satisfactory to the Govt? price groups have been corrected in They are being pressed to say wheâ€" Canada", he continued, "I may add ther they are associated or dissociatâ€" that while the wholesale price index ed with the barking system. If they was rising 13.4 per cent, the index are dissociated it cannot be satisfacâ€" for farm prices rose by no less thar, tory to them. Then is it satisfacâ€" 34.9 per cent. ... Wheat at Fort Wilâ€" tory to the public? From my contacts liam averaged 42 % higher in Febâ€" I say it is highly unsatisfactory to ruary this year than in February 1933 the public, which is becoming restâ€" while the corresponding increase for less." cattle ‘(steers, good 1,000 to 1,200 1bs) By following carefully the five or was 45.7% and for bacon hogs at To« more speeches made by Major Dougâ€" ronto 155.9%." las in Ottawa and the answers to In dealing with debts the Finance questions by lawyers and others on Minister forecast legislation to be the committee, one was able to learn brought down at this session for the something at least of his theory. In consolidating and easing of the farâ€" the lorg ago when rounrd bits of leaâ€" mers‘ debt burden. "For certain in ther representing cattle were money, 2ividual debtors the burden has beâ€" these were issued by the owner of come unbearable and the Gov‘t proâ€" the cattle and each one represented poses to bring down at an early an animal that lived and moved and stage legislation designed to prove had value, but as time went on and machinery whereby farmers who find We get to the age when gold was the themselves unable to pay the fixed representative of wealth, we find the charges on their outstanding debts goldsmiths, who did not own the gold will be able by anexpeditious and inâ€" keepirz it in strong boxes and issuâ€" cxpensive process to work out comâ€" ing gcld certificates. The clever promises with their creditors and to Smiths soon found that not all the chtain new working capital.. ‘The people who had gold stored for safe guiding principle of this legislation keeping came at once to claim their will be to secure for the farmer a treasure, so that they were quite safe simplified debt structure, reduced in to issue more certificates than there size to a point where the carrying W@s wealth. It was only a step from charges will be within the capacity such a condition to the one existing of the farm enterprise to pay. The |today, of the banks issuing figures in Finance Minister couplcd this stateâ€"\ the form of loans to the peonle this the Hon. Archdale \Pphrkhill, * Postâ€" master General of Australla. A ten per cent, levy on gold proâ€" duction was the principal feature Of the budget, with a reduction on sugâ€" ar from 2¢ to 1c alb. coming second. It is expected the Treasury will lose between eight and nine million dolâ€" lars by the reduction in sugar tax, but this loss will be offset by the gold tax. Since governments have upheld the price of gold, a tax on the production of this metal seems a parâ€" ticularly fair one. _ Some imodifica tions of the trade restrictions against United Kingdom constituted the chief tariff charmes. The deficit for the fiscal year 1933 â€"1934 was named as $135,200,000 as compared with $157,700,000 last year. On ordinary accourt the deficit was given as twentyâ€"four milllon as comâ€" pared â€" with fortyâ€"three million â€" last year. â€" Controllable expenditures, the Hon. Edgar N. Rhodes, Minister of Finance, said, have been reduced to a point from which it would be diffiâ€" cult to effect further substantial savâ€" ings without curtailment or disconâ€" tinuarce of services which are genâ€" erally considered to be essential,. The difference between this year and last year was over 38 per cent, and the reduction in staffs of Government employees was over 12,000. Mr. Rhodes, the tall and elegant| The Finance Minister, in his lengthy budâ€" ploym get speech to an interested House,) 3. C showed the silver lining of the dark purchs cloud of depression. He forecastan| 4. J operating surplus ofâ€"eight millionfor due tc the Treasury next March and told of goods. rising prices and lowering expent‘â€": 5. C tures. "Granting that a rise in comâ€" tion t« modity prices is highly to be desired,| 6. Di Victory in the House »e voting in North Oxâ€" and when success for Mr. Rennie was asâ€" rs and singing of the ®, reduced in the carrying the capacity | to pay. The| T was any in Canadian | of the op: he Finance eech it mâ€"" over 21,000 )ttawa durâ€"| ind I dare: uld be givâ€"‘ s. That toâ€"| 2 _ #2° 2 C7CZ necessary to transfer some "flg'urc-s from one book to another, th Mu[ The amount of money ought to eqâ€" orth OXxâ€" yal the velume of goods and services cess for and it ought to be issued without was @sâ€"/cost other than that of getting it inâ€" 5 of f-he‘to being and circulation and it ought through |to go, in part at least, direct from D. M., 10 the authority issuing itâ€"whether the the VO"Y[ banks or the governmentâ€"to the peoâ€" is chamâ€"| ple, thys enabling them to consume of NOW,the goods which can be so easily and ugh the | abundantly produced. Major Douln{ s good ‘ made some suggestions for changes @xDreS~/in the Bank Act, which are hirpje ! up their assets as collateral. | Possibly the greatest result of the visit of Major Douglas is the recogâ€" nition by Parliamentarians and the |admission by bankers that money toâ€" Aay (except for trivial amounts isâ€" sued by the Dominion Gov‘t) comes into being by way of bank loans and the purchase of securities. When a public issue of giltâ€"edged stock comes on the market, it is often overâ€"subâ€" scribed in the first hour. or so, and one hears people say: "what a lot of money there must be about !" When actually the issue ‘; snapped up by banks who acquire it by the simple process of writing a cheque for the amount of the shares and in order to honour the cheque on themselves, it is only necessary to transfer some figures from one book to another tocay, of the banks issuing figures in the form of loans to the people, this cheque money being given value by the willingness of the people to put up their assets as collateral major AAMBAAT O CCC 0 OC I the big financial magnates, Jackson Dodds, Sir Chas. Gordon anrd S. H. Logan uncomfortable. Jackson Dodds from time to time burst into defiant langhter but it wA much more clearly defiance than laughter. Major l o Sg t n odntmnes Douglas contended that the machine and power had ended the day of scarcity: that an abundance of goods existed, actually or potentially. Monâ€" ey ought to equal in quantity the C Gae â€" 6n neve t tharie. money. Anda it tne Dammen® mW O voluntarily make such changes in their technique as will transfer monâ€" ey into the pockets of the people in need of goods and services, then they must be made to The Banking Com. was quite easily the attraction of the week. The larâ€" gest committee room in the House of Commons was taxed to its capacity. The chairman, Mr. Hanson, in introâ€" ducing Major Douglas, said he was no stranger to Ottawa having apâ€" peared before the Banking and Comâ€" merce Com. 11 years ago. He is an engineer and economist, a graduate of Cambridge University and the auâ€" thor of the Douglas social credit theâ€" ory which has made considerable headway in Gt Britain having among its advocates such eminent figures as the Dean of Canterbury ard the the study book. . After the closing Marquis of Tavistock. In Canada, the prayer, the hostess served lunch chairman said, Major Douglas had &A _ Interment will be made at Dromore substantial following in the prairie cemetery on Saturday at 230 p m.. provinces and it was out of deference of the remains of the late William to their representatives in the House Coleridge, who died in Owen Sound of Commons that he was called be in March last. fore the commitsee. The Dromore Women‘s Institule} Major Douglas gave eight major intend holding their monthly meet aymptoms of defects in the existinE ing on Wednesday, May 2nd, as the financial system: home of Mrs. 8. Patterson, A special The first is surplus on purchasable speaker is expected. April commitâ€" production: goods in excess Of pUrâ€" tee jlook after lunch. chasing power. | The second is consequent unemâ€" * umm ployment due to the first factor. | ARNE 3. Consequent poverty or lack of V Y purchasing power. | _ It will soon be May ist, and this 4. Redundart industrial machinery Tuesday we are baving a shower of due to the people‘s inability to buy ,M I‘A‘ot 'ec‘k the winds) dried up By following carefully the five or more speeches made by Major Dougâ€" las in Ottawa and the answers to questions by lawyers and others on the committee, one was able to learn something at least of his theory. In 5. Consequent cutâ€"throat competiâ€" tion to sell. 6. Disappearance of industrial profit 7.~Irdustrial failures. 8. Increasing competition for exâ€" port trade, causing international fricâ€" tion ultimately leaCing to war. "Purchssing Power," said Major Douglas, "which is what finance is, is connected with all of them. Is this condition of affairs _ satisfactory? From the point of view of the banks it is. Is it satisfactory to the Govt? They are being pressed to say wheâ€" ther they are associated or dissociatâ€" ed with the barking system. If they are dissociated it cannot be satisfacâ€" tory to them. Then is it satisfacâ€" tory to the public? From my contacts using, why not sell it? A small ad let in the Review may find a buyer. â€", at present, near Clinton. Mr and Mrs John Drimmie and son 1. Philp wccupicda the chair _ The meeting was held to guarantee loans to farmers under the Seed Grain Subsidy Act 1934. Pattersonâ€"Ovens : That byJaw No. â€" beâ€"read a 1st and 2ni tim« Aldcornâ€"Patterson: That byJaw No 8 to authorize guarantee of loans to the farmers under the Seed Grain Subsidy Act 1934 be now read a 3rd time, filled in and sealed and entored in byâ€"law book and signed. Car. The Corporation of the Township of Egremont hereby guaramees pay ment to the Bank of Montreal of the amounts of money advanced by it !o any farmer or farmers rosident with Russell, spent the week end with Mrs Drimmie‘s sister, Kitchener. Mrs Jas. Eccles who has spent a number of weeks with her son John, returned to her daughter‘s home, Mrs _ Mr Alex Eecles was along the 1¢ih last week cutting up the farmey supply of wood with buzzing . outft ;n'dâ€" Mrs Chas. Smail‘s machine inâ€" tends cutting west of village this Minutes of special meeting of Fsre mont Council, held Monday, April 23 Members all present, exceptins the reeve, W. H. Hunter. Dep. reeve W. The W.M.S. held their April meeting on Thursday last at home of Mrs R. Honeyman, when a large number were present. The Pres. ocâ€" cupied the chair Mrs Grace Eocles gave a paper on the topic, ‘Easter Suggestions‘ Mrs Alex Milne read the study book. _ After the closing prayer, the hostess served lunch Interment will be made at Dromore cemetery on Saturday at 230 p. m.. of the remains of the late William Coleridge, who died in Owen Sound in March last. !' M_Invo something you are not The Teeswaterâ€"Mildmay cream and egg truck has opened up a new route along the Varney iine on the Highway last week and make resular calls for produce. A number from around Varney atâ€" tended the reception at Mrâ€" Robert Carmount‘s, in honor of Aauzhter Lily, whose marriage took place ree ently to Mr Alex Renton, Dromore. Et will soon be May ist, and this TuesdGay we are baving a shower of snow. Last week the winds dried up the muddy roads a great deal, makâ€" ing traffic on the back roads {fairly good. The fall wheat and hay felds look very brown and have a dead apâ€" pearance. The farmers are in hopes that last night‘s heavy rain will help the growth. There has been no work done on the land in this part of any account as yet, the spring being so backward in warming and drying up. Mr T. Rahn, son of Chas Rahn, Varney is engaged with Jas Blyth at Blyth‘s Corners. Normanby, at pres ent. Mr Dave Marshall and son were busy grading the back road and side road recently which filled in the ruts and made the road much better to travel on. weck when a number of teams were hauling sand from Varney for Mr. Barber‘s new brick house which he intends building this summer EGREMONT COUNCIL * Mr Harold Barber had a bee last APREL 26, 1934 loan by David Allan, Clerk of_ the late Edwin ih the Village of Aâ€"brick house, ligh. ible, good well, £arâ€" Lennoy, or Jame# [ 4 Thae pall bearers were ews of decceased and tht ¢f Mrs T. Young: Ales Nicol, Owen Sount: Cl Marold McKechnie, Jo end George Hay. Sever utes reposed on the cas from John Young, O. Sor gregation of Rov. E. Yo netewan: _ Nicol family Mrs Hessel, London. Orly One School Gave A Successful Dance Male Choir on Sunday W ( 1 VOL LYI M For Sale tor de AF 1 of Miss E. You! M a VC Of attenda d D Re innua s Institifte,, wi [ Mrs Clias. Re y 3rd, when al l1 be giv ank the comln;yu answered by th ndu M DJ M of 1 service Aitencing _ brothe Allan of family. « m ‘00K 1¢ SA y8 he omm { that ift .. ‘Th Om t} e ale kn( fol i« N omn he the un Nt Ar in m® Du giv 18C