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:%a&%%$%&&&*&&%&%:% g4 EDITORIAL cowuvmm 1 >14 "The Home as a Death Trap was the sub- jeci of a recent editorial in one of our weekly exchanges. It s hard enough to keep the young folks at home without providing them with an excuse like that. Elo1'a s new postmaster must be a wonder man. His appointment was announced and he has assumed his duties with but passing\`refer- ence in the news columns and without an edi- torial pen being lifted. An exchange repots the marriage of Dor- othy Wind to A1fred,Storms. Now let them look out for squalls. Men Easily Fascinated by Women Who Love was the wording of a prominently dis- played headline in the last issue of the Midland Free Press. The editor does not say whether he is speaking from observation or experience. All municipal clerks are .required under re- i vised Act this year to send by registered mail to the clerk of the coun-ty, `six days previous to municipal nominations, a certificate as to the number of voters that may be legally counted as qualified to vote to determine representa- tion of each municipality to the County Coun; cil. While the Board of Education was in session last Thursday evening in the Board R0-om of Victoria School children peppered peas at the windows, taking advantage of the closest meet-` Collingwood is building a big elevator and Meaford is to vote -on aproposition to give the latter one of a ~mi1l:ion-bushel capacity. Bar- rie is much interested in the success of these en- terprises, for `busy elevators at Collingwood and Meaford would mean a very considerable "a- mount of work for C.N.R. train crews running out of Allandale.. ._ ' Page Four EDITORIAL NOTES ing to Ha11owe eh to have their fun. As one `trustee remarked, members. did not stir from their seats to take ;a peep forlfear they might discover one of their own fiock without. i&%&$&%&&&%&%&&$%% JURY G_OOl_)` _ Critics, Only Not Workers Amherst-burg Eic'ho--It is somewhat of a mystery that those who make the loudest outcries when it comes to criticizing the work of the !Board of Trade, are farthest under the barn when anythin'g worth while is going on. - Banishing the Bill Boards .Mid1an'd Free 'Press-`The town planning com- mission of London, A0nt., has forbidden the erection of any more bill boards in that -municipality. `This is a class of advertising that is now considered a disgurement to the` landscape, and with every- body riding in cars, nobody reads them. Motorists Have Escaped This `Toronto `Teleg'ram-`Slaughter of pedestrians by motorists continues. There is still no danger of the motorist being killed in collision with the pedestrian. _ Success `of Forestry` Ftying Patrol Sudbury ~Star4Six thousand ying hours ser- vice by the Ontario forestry patrol last season with- out a major accident is a record to be proud of. And best of all, the airmen are reducing to a min- imum the losses from forest res. - A noted author said, That which is not local is not alive. That explains why the local, plowing match, the fall fair, the school fair, the 1 Sunday School picnic and all community events are first in the people s hearts and minds. They are local, and, therefore, alive. remarks the Farmer s Advocate. This also helps to ex- plain why a good local newspaper occupies a place that cannot be taken by thebig dailies or any other city publication fro_m t-he viewpoint of either reader or advertiser. Midland Free Press--'The claim is madie by the Attorney-General s department t at a Provincial Officer was dismissed at Kitchener ecause his debts were not paid. If every man in the employ of the Legislature, or any other government or concern, for that matter, -who owes money, was dismissed, there would be a lot of vacant positions. A Contrast Milverton `Sun--It must be gratifying to the people of `Canada to know that while there are over 4,000,000 jobless people among those usually at work in the United `States, the Dominion` `Bureau of Statistics reveals the fact that `Canada is providing more work than it has in any year since 1913 and the gross value of our manufacturing has increas- ed during the same period from $2,500,000,000 to $4,000,000,000. We Impose Our Own Taxes Kingsville Reporter-As certain as death or tax- es runs the old proverb. A witness before a body of tax statisticans asserted! recently: ,Taxation` is the most brutal thing in the world. If you don t pay your taxes along comes the sheriff and sells your accumulations of years. If you do not- have the money to pay your taxes, and lose everything you have. you get little or no sympathy from your friends` and` neighbors. Therefore, I say, taxation being brutal should rest as lightly as possible-upon the shoulders of the citizenry. 4. Meaford Mirror-'Typographica1 errors appear with aggravating frequency in all newspapers but we hope one in the -Collingwood fBul1etin last week doesn t sever the years of friendship that have existed between the ed-itor of thatpaper and the editor of the Renfrew Mercury. The Bulletin quot- es the Mercury and then states: Our Eastern fiend misses the point. It is a good thing these linotype machines can t always be taken seriously. Most of the taxes `we pay are self-imposed, for expenditure in our own immedliate loca1ity-s~chool, town, road. county, provincial taxes. Every man, in that he is (or should be) a voter at the elections where most of these taxes -are voted, may choose largely for himself, whether his-taxes are to `be high or low, constructive or conscatory. There is one thing "sure: The more We demand from the public treasury, the higher our taxes will go. THE C.N.R. ASSESSMENT The C.N.R. has reason to be satisfied with the judgment of the Court of Revision fixing the railway s assessment at $80,000 for the next five years. It would have had no cause for complaint if the figure had been made $100,000 in view of what the town has lost through diversion of traffic in recent years. On the other hand, the railroad is a very impor- tant industry for Barrie and should be treated generously. By its action -on the assessment, the Town Council has given another example of the very fair treatment Barrie has always extended to the railway company..This fact should not be lost sight of by the officials of the C.N.R. Changes of traffic routing have transferred quite a number of men from Allan- dale and it is to be hoped that some means will be found to build up the local terminal and thus compensate the town for what has already been lost. is only about one? month away the municipal Although the date of the municipal elections pot has not begun to simmer, not even the faintest sign of a ripple having yet appeared. One of the many reasons for advancing polling day a month was to allow ratepayers to give civic affairs due consideration undisturbed by the holiday season. The taxpayers may be giv- ing special thought to civic matters these days, but if so they are not -saying anything a- bout it. Unless something stirs pretty soon there will be no more interest this year than when municipal campaigns had the holiday occupa- tions and the festive spirit to contend against. Some of the apathy this year may be due to the fact that the citizens have not become used to the idea of an early election. Sleeping During Sermons Cranbrook 'Courier--Why do people go to sleep in church? `The problem probably is as old as Chris- tianity itself. In colonial days it was solved by hav- ing de-acons prowl up and d'own the aisles with long knobbed sticks. with which they tapped, sharply, the head of all who dozed. Dr. Edmund Jacobson, . of the University of Chicago, has studied the ques- tion and` thinks he knows the answer. `Complete `muscular relaxation, he says, brings with it relaxa- tion of the thinking powers. `The man who slumps down in, his seat, inert and motionless as possible, cannot keep his senses alert. -Consequently he fails to concentrate on the sermon and goes to sleep. We do not know just what the remedy should be. Apparently. however, the moral isthat the body, as well as the mind, must be kept alert and respon- sive while in church. Otherwise some of the pas- t_or s gems of wisdom are apt to go unheard. We would` like to hear tDr. Ja'cobson"s explanation of the man who goes to sleep in the movies or a man who goes to sleep at the wheel of a high-powered motor car, travelling at the rate of twenty-five miles an hour. There is certainly no relaxation of -the mus- cular powers in that case. p - J OPINIONS OE `OTHERS There Surely Would. A Linotype ; Trick WITH sur-1=1c11aN'r KIWANIS spmrr couw sum JAILS (Continued front page one) ` ` Mr. Massey has no sympat`hy with `those who do all -things today as * their forebears did in the past. `We are livting in a modern age, he said, we are digging down to find out things; we are digging through fire to get at the clinkers. It may be tha.`t' a few are burning their hands in the process; but we arex getting the clinkers out. We arel trying to impress on the youth of` today that the life of Christ is of intense practical value. nv\____,._ ,, 3_>-___1_._;...!_._-I1__.. pus. Speaker said the measuring stick commonly applied to a man's reuli-' gion was his familiarity with the creed, the church offices he held and the functions he per'forme-d. T-hese had a value, but they were incomplete; they were but the first inch on the yandstick. It was the working code Whilclh counted in the end, whi.ch helped a community, helped business, `helped everything which ha-d been sincerely tried out. If we failed to lift a cup of cold Water, failed to help a friend in need, we :had' failed in everything. Christ constantly cared for the oth- er fellow, he reminded =his hearers, scorning the modern inclination ; to simply say We are sorry. 1 up-1-, ,,-,,v , , ,,____:,__, L1._:._| .._---r-,, .....`, ..- ._-_ --__ ? Some people are breaking their arms` clapping themselves on the back in the assurance that they dlon -'t do anyithin'g wrong and pos- sibly they dIon 1t. Some people are satisfied if they manage to keep out of jail. They are the personifi- cation of a. telegraph pole, of hyd- rated clam broth; they don't get anywhere. - ,_uL .1__ __,__,,,sL___1, _n_nn _ . . L ..- It isn t the magnitude of effort re- quired in doing a fellowman a good turn in being a friend; it isn t the size or nicety of the work. It is Ithe heart you put into it, and if you are not pre-pared and equipped to take care of people who come to you for help, you are failing in your duty. The good Isamaritan was the per- sonification of service. He saw his obligation and was prepared to meet it. NVI'V1., .-......-.nl-A.- 41.`!-nu in (Jan. u-uvn-(111 PAN-AMERICAN AIR MAIL Three nations of North America, Canada, the United States and Mexico", are now linked by air mail lines, whereby letters may be sent by plane from Ottawa and Montreal to Mexico City. '"I`1.,. ..m.+n A4? mmla mall la clqlnnl law (Tnnnral UUL. There is a delight in a trusting friendship and a grave responsibil- ity in being a friend. Are We wor- thy of that trust? _Are we prepared to extend a helping hand to those who are -looking to us` as an example of manhood|? can-V-.uv v-ax-.. ..-.-v. Dogma. or denom1na.t`iona.l1sm was never heard from the lips of Christ. They are the -inventions of mankind. Religious differences are a discomfont to some, and a plea.- sure to others, he said amid laugh- ter. :1 -. 61-un miqplnn A0 at nun n0 vryn-an O-A -.-V L61. 'In the giving of a cup of water to a child in need`, as related in the scriptures, lay the key to a Chris- tian -or Cxhrist-like life. The difficul- ty was that it us so easy to make Christianity objectionable; too many preachers today hung them- selves from guy ropes--too many preached from lofty altitudes, over the head of the great mass of peo- ple. - Qnnnbnr cai fhn vnnaanrincr Q1401: L. The greatest thing in the World is to be a friend, but you cannot be a friend free of charge; it will cost you siom-eth'ing, there must be ' sacrifice. The question is, how much are we prepared to pult ourselves out. HVTVLA...` 3... .-. .1.-.1In.L.L 3.. A &-uunL{o-you 1 We can't afford to let this Won- derful opportunity pass-. We must exemplify the spirit of the Old Testament champion Nehemiah who, when ordered from the walls of Jerusalem, said in refusing `I am doing a great work; I can't fome down, speaker said in clos- ng. 7\/I'm `\/foe-can is n? nhav-nnir\o' nnr- 1115. Mr. Mas-sey is of charming per- sonality an-d 'a fluent and fonceful srpea-ker. His address was Warmly ` received. A `happy arrangement was : that an old friend, Kiwanian Leigh- `ton Clarke, was chairman of the ` day. Arabs Fbelieve that the stork poss- esses a. human heart and the crow the heart of a. devil. `ma animus EXAMINER Sell That Old F urpiture You Have Stored The Owen-Sound Sun-Times criticizes the coroner's jury in the Fennells case for not at- taching blame to someone. It says:.According to reports of the disaster at the time the driver, who tried to pass the processionon the brow of a hill without knowing whatwas coming up on the opposite side was clearly in the wrong and worthy of severe censure, but the Coron- er s jury failed to place the blame where it belonged. - U l`1-`nun :0 an rIr\n\" '+1`II)+ ihlonan O++')f`}1Di"` Electrical and mechanical im- provements have had their part in producing the beauty of cabinet work that characterizes the better grade of radio receiver today. To one who remembers the radio re- ceiver of ve years ago with its cluttered panel and heterogeneous array of apparatus both within and without, the modern receiver is a real thing of `beauty. It is, how- ever, due to the interior and ex- terior simplication of the radio| receiver itself that has brought, about this change. New principles . of receiving set design are respon- 5 sible for the beauty with which the `better grade of radio receiver is clothed. The simplication of the receiving set control from three dials to one and the corres-j poniding lessening of supplemen-g tary controls have effected a panel g arrangement that is much more: adaptable to ne furniture manu- facture. MECHANICAL CHANGES AID CABINET DESIGN Simplication of the receiving` set chassis has also aided in mak-' ing the receiving set more beauti- ful. Operated right from the house lighting current, radio receivers may now be made with their beau- ty undetracted by unsightly bat- teries and wires. ` U\vl- Ayn wn n no us- One other factor that has aided in the -beautification of radio re- ceivers of the better class, espec- ially the console, is the practice. of some manufacturers making the loud srpeaker exterior to the cab- (By -Ray H. Manson, Chief Engineer Stromberg-`Carlson Tel. Mfg. Co.) Deer Days are Here"Again Already the keen pine-scent-' ed air resounds to the crack of the sportsman s rifle.. Can you resist it? Thrills galore await you! Let us play a part in the suc- cess of your hunting trip by `supplying you with Depend- able Ammunition. We have a new stock of Rie and Shot-Gun Am- munition in all the_popular calibres- and the prices are right. If your equipment does not include a good Hunting Knife, a small Axe, a reli- able Compass, some Nitro Solvent and Three-in-One Oil, then See Us! OTTTON HARDWARE C0., Barrie UC1UHSCUu There is no doubt `that `blame attached to the driver of the ill-fated car. The jury `did not exonerate Carter but they did not find him solely responsible for the. accident because they werenot conv-inced that others were no: to blame. Both the coroner and jurymen made it very plain that they were not satisfied with much of the evidence given regarding the movements of` the other car. As one of those on the scene.very shortly after the accident and having seen both the position and condition in which the smash left both cars. the writer quite sympathizes with the jury in finding it exceed- ingly difficult to believe some of the evidence submitted. Considering all the circumstances, not much fault can be found with the verdict. It in no way interfered with the Crown's action with respect to the driver of the car in which the people were killed and it did not hamper his defence by endorsing evidence which iury- men expressed themselves as unable to credit. Telephone inet. This procedure allows a! much more artistic arrangement of woods in the console beside ef- fecting greater naturalness of re- production. , Mosquitoes are more likely to bite` persons with fair skins than those of dark complexion. `Tnannfa ho-"A hnnn no: FHA nnv+h UL uarn Uuxupxcxxuu. ` ` `Insects have been on the earth for 50,000,000 years, while the hu- M man race is only 500,000 years old. 222 People s Co-Operative Store ---T QUALITY -- SERVICE -- wasmnn SPECIALS - NOV. 2 AND 3 LIGHT BROWN SUGAR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 lbs. . SHIRH-'F S JELLY POWDER, with Tumbler . . . . . . . . FREE RUNNING SALT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 pkgs. for SUPERIOR CORN FLAKES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 pkgs. for TREE-RIPE PEARS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 tin: _LIBBY S SAUER-KRAUT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 tins for STRAWBERRY AND APPLE JAM . . . . . . . . . . 4-lb. tin CHOCOLATE BARS, all lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 bars SUGAR-KIST JUMBO PEANUTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 lb. EATMOR CRANBERRIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 lb. HEINZ COOKED SPAGHETTI . . . . . . . . . . 17-02., 2 for SOUR MIXED PICKLES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30-oz. jar HONEY--AMBER GRADE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-lb pail HEAVY RUBBERS-Men s, Boys and` Youths'. Extra Quality ]I.t Attx-active` Prices pi L_y . The route of such mail is stated by General John F. O Ryan, head of Colonial Airways, to be as follows: A letter mailed in Ottawa ad- dressed to Mexico City will be flown to Mon- treal, thence via Albany, Cleveland, Chicago, Dallas and Laredo, where the Mexican line connects. -11 1-, .._._.:...I E..,..... f`,...nAn LA MA!!! Phone 185 BARRIE : 139 Dunlop St. KKES pk: LIT . 1: APPLE 4- I. * . [ES GHETTI ! A new all-metal flying boat. de- veloped in Europe has 24 seats for passengers, is driven by four 2,000 horsepower engines and can make |126 miles an hour. A ..;.--n 1I`n-v-`Huh our-nur 1'nr\fnrr\!7I11A 1'46 mues 3.11 nuur. A new English army motorcycle is fitted with tractor Wheels in the rear which enable it to travel on swampy ground and also climb `steep grades. o("nnnn:n~ 1-Ina`: are worn nn the steep graues. Copper rings are worn on the fingers in Turkey to prevent erys1p- I elas. `| !IuI-nday, November 1. 1928 tins.` .. Ztins for; tin` Gbars . 29c 23c LUllllLL.lDo Air mail will be carried from Canada to New York at five cents for the first ounce and ten cents for each additional ounce or fraction; let- ters from Canada` to Mexico City will cost twen- ty Cents for each ounce or fraction. lt`is said to be probable that air mail service . will later be extended to Panama and ultimately to South American countries, thus bringing all the principal nations of the western hemisphere into closer contact, a consummation greatly to be desired. 29 ' 25: 39 25: 26: 23 33c 33c 39c 25 19 A girl at school was asked if kiss ,was a common or proper noun. After some hesitation she replied It is both common and proper. What is the life of a cow? asks the Picton Gazette. Judging from some of the beefsteaks we have met, we would say it is no short-lived animal.