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motion In 15 HM 0H mm man My father and Illyselt lived at the Victoria Hotel my illotlleradm p14 pub Im With my grandfather the Hon tIIobelt open In lolollto IIIIIIII By Robe Thom IIth III John Macdonalds cabinet as piIsllmistergeneral We paid lilly cents per day each for our board and lodging or at the rate or twelve and onehalt cents per meal And the meals comprised everything that was possible to pllt upon the table The hostlel at the hotel was named Angus Darragll and he and though was quilel young were good chains and good card players recall another name that of at Mr Milne who was the marketl mastcr There was also family named Dickey who owned store building with felt overhead where public meetings were held ltlliClIletVlIClI train on the narrowgauge railroad running to Orillia got stuck near Carleys boathousctlle potato bugs had floated across the lake alld had swarmed IIISIICII numbers that the train was unable to run over them the wheels refusing to turn no traction Oh yes the name of Dr Cruick shank bobs up he who cautcrized lny arm when Sadlers dog bit Inc lhem were the happy days when the carefree boy would ram ble over to Allandale and get out on the gigantic boom of logs the thing which was forbidden but of course which the kid must do From Barrie went to Toronto and when seventeen started for California Get as far as Chicago and stayed there until eleven years ago when came out to this beau tiful little placeWhile in Chicago was on the newspapers being on the Chicago Daily News for almost quarter of century positions running from asub to foreman of the whole works Have not worked at the trade for many years but as still get the Type graphical Journal you know that am still member The present president of the International Un ion workcd for me on the News and enjoy looking over the trade paper and occasionally see the names of some of my old cronies Then again some old timer will wander down here and look me up Yours sincerely Chas Pearson Scripps Building SamDiegoiCalifT June 15 1923 But while many of us never sampled any of these twelve Some MPs think that re Two to One on Conservative lAlllerlcall Election Betting Years Ago Ilditor lixallllllel Barrie Illltlllll Sir IIII lettcls Qlllttltltllll in your paper by your able historian Mr Fred tilallt bring feeling of nostalgia to Ille lbese tales of the happenings of long lone ago by lliln alld Mrs Sissolls are of great interest and value Barrie is excel tionally fortunate ill having suell historians lltemember attending revival services astlcseliliecl by lralltl ill the ollier Street Methodist Church Nearly all the hymns he has listed Iknov and have sung They are of the Moody and Sankcy typeand were popplar years ago He mentions Bliss who composed large number of emo tional hymns Our father heard Bliss while ill the States If my memory serves Ille rightly Bliss was killed around 873 when passenger train went illto canal somewhere ill Ohio When he saw what was happening and that the train could not stop ill time he wanted his wife to jump from the back coach but she would not and they died tOgethcr The hymn Going Heme Tomor row reminds me of Mark Twains reaction when his neighbors daughter kept singing and pound ing it out on the piano He raised the side window further and shout ed For Heavenrswsake go home today Herbert TlWhaley ill the employ her like me could be made tot move it would be fine esalllple One evening was seated beside Bill Vtilkinsoll commonly known as Wilkiet at the back of thel church whena bunch of excitedl apostles approached Bill and apl pealcd to him to surrender IIe remarked bluntly knva all of those birds up there and they Ilakc I339 III 119 Ilutrrir i531 BARRIELONTARIO CANADA THURSDAY iuu Wanted Good Spring Tonic lMusl Repeal Illumoll Noture First Thing IlIIllIlIlIl IIistl basic dltlerellcc Ill attitude to ward Ills Job lll at lllt root of Illlt workers construction superiority IVtl his British mull telpillt So concludes team ll British building experts zlfter six week study of construction nletllv ods ill the US They went back to London early llllr month to re port just why output per lllanltllour Is 50 per cent higher ill tree enter prise America than lll Socialist Britain lhc Aillerlcall hasnt acquired the habit of doing less than be is capable of doing the report says worn out their trousers backslidrdlle whole American way of life lug IIn goinghome But that is not just the Way he said it He put on his coat and went out ZIhese revival serviceswere held once year in allarge number of churches all over Ontario Great was the interest and greater the commotion and greater still tllc heart searchings and confessions of wrong doing seine imaginary But like the prayers tllat Markl lwains atllitmade him repeat nightly the final results were never outstanding Once when there was particu larly lively revival going on ill more than one church in Barrie went to Chinese laundry to get my parcel asked the Chinaman if he was attending the meetings He replied Lots of talkie lots of preachie but they no pay me for my wash Billy Wilkinsonwas big kind hearted fellow longsince dead He ran flour mill At times Wilkie especially atgcleetion time had some interesting rendezvous with John Barleycorn George of theDyment firm at that time always led the parade to the re vivals from the old Simcoe Hotel kept by John Ness where six or seven of us young fellows were domiciled notice Hcrbs death Ireported recently at North Bay He was good fellow and great Methodist Somehow or othcrl just never uld get saved at these reviv would not dispute the fact that neededitg Others must have thought so frorriwthe pressure they put on to get me up to the pcnitent gbenchgl expect they calculated if hardened sin EYES AND l7 mu DISAPPEAR Cognizlng Red China means apprqvtng it Grassiok for MacleanlaiMagazine Marie my absivom lball Wilkie kept waving his roll sourceful and always out for fun generous soul from Browns store Cowie now resident of Sault Ste was associated with Inc at Barrie station then Hevas freight clerk and was the tele graph operator An amusing inci dent happened on one of Wilkies jovial escapades He came to the freight office to pay the charges on car of wheat The amount was $35 These charges he had already paid We told him this but he was no foolphe said and knew he had notpaidit We put the cash in the till with the idea of refund ing it when Wilkle came down to earth again Shortly afterwards he came back with roll of bills that would choke dog He al ways carried toll He Wanted to being contested AllI remember about the election is that aman named Thompsonof Penetang was the Conservative candidate Wilkie being hot Conservative was backing him Who the Liberal candidate gwasel idornot know Welt did not makegany difference any way because at rabidly Conservative Barrie Lib cral candidate had as much chance of election as the proverbial snow in our faces He offered us two to one Then being young and re we conceived the idea of using Wilkies $35 to make bet We summonedAlex Brown another to hold the stake and asked us if we had gone crazy in backing the Liberal He kept winking and nudging us not to make the bet George Cowie and had agreed that if by any He came down bet on the provincial elections then that time ill is challenge to the individual to give his best Having secured employment ill offers high standard of living the worker is prepared to Illake real effort to retain it Sonic new illcelltivevill have to be found to make the British work er give his bestpossibly system of payments by results the report states Also commented on was the US workers advantage ill better job organization better materials with which to work and better food Getting Worker production up is Britains only hope for economic Wilkicrput up $70 and we put up the $35 and theTlet was on Strict ly speaking it was not ethical but the station in those days was the power house for practical joking and this was just another joke Of coursewelostandour good friend Alex Brown was much con were around $1 per day he offer ed to make us loan over the financial disaster five dollars wst heap of money in those days In any ipellcdtomake second refund Which we ebuld not have done ROBERT WlHOM Collingwood May 20 1950 outlandish chance we won that we would hand all the stake back to Wilkie aildexplain matters 59 highly competitive industry thatt cerncd about it Knowing that George Cowies wages and Ininel to tide us Thirty case weyspicuous made the refund Our satisfactionithroughout the township where 08111041Vh011l0 heard Wilkie tell these hapless residents could get rid ingsoincouc about the crazy fools of their incombustible garbage The Who bet the Libelal It ShOUld baskets could be cleared periodical teach them lesson he said We 1y and calted acvay by truck PW tom illyon it rum Wc certainly dont condone this of The British this looks Ilmlllll and anything like the llllttl la linol Vlljlll she now has Ir Ilar Vluadlan Iljollolnlst llIbIrl calculates that the IIIl lll Hillililt Industrial pro IlnIllIlll since prewar is only about or cent The correspondlllgl IILLIIII for the United States ls fill tper tent and for Canada Iltl perl Vttlll This report on thi building trades pretty grim reading lIIlIIII Ilt lit It is il sharp warning to llllllll runs sad commentary on tile theorythat with Socialislll alld total security schemes the laws of human naturr can be repealed 7i The Menace Oi Tin Can Dumping gt Civic dmillistratlolll On the CBC Ontario and Quebec Ifarlll broadcast the other day lhe Craig famin was talking about the beauties of nature ill Spring across the countryside The conversation turned to the filthy practice some people have of cluttering up the roadside with gar bage Said Joe Cr 11 Solncbody hasl dumped about Ltllrceszlcks of tin cans along thciedge of our bush somebody fromRock Falls guess Id like to know who it was Id gather up every tin can walk right into their house alld dump the whole works right ill the middle of their living room floor Thats the way most people react when they see the roadside defaced by heaps of old litter people who have moved to small Iplaceinthe country and havent been able to lick one of the toughest problems of rural life what to do Iwithold tin cans The municipality might solve or at least reduce this irritation by spotting large wire baskets at incon placcs lIClL alld there ways and side roads but we do sym pairing with the novice luralitc lladenwith carton Of empty tins land wondering What ill the name lof blazes to do with them Vit 111 III tJIIIlllll11IIICItftldlliu clllztp it tl iI 1H Ititil iiinliiptg and oillvz We 1x ll Ii IIJLI Ie tlllllzlll witlzl Ibdit tltc tan all Iliz I1ltl III ItllilitILEIL lItItlil Ind ltl1zltlt lle prion unalllrv II iltlltlltlltll tliliiv Ii In 11m of such calamity has dill tiil next on 112w lost tl 121 possibil to Income Izr lull tXIlll ot llitlt llt llj ll gt121rr sneli llit 1111 iiloi litillxtltl has been cstiln 211 1311 lire iilti iiiit l1 IIdrcd million dollars will iv in 111 Were liv IrllllilId to ltlldll Ill property danmge int it thuMSlfllls llttlztltil to various appeals for flood rcllel In lili liltllli distillt there has not been any Wile bird lll titlllllL appeal but various Illgiillll not ltfltl tl to tl wa lo lle gt anon llliIl hes1 lllzlklne contributions Ape Iicw ttiinIon llic Elsi II 311w tile penis have gone forth to Ill ltllltl clubs strengtil to start 11 Eli vJLI ln alto ilJtIlIllILl Illlids llI Illiillt colltribiltloll to the Canadian IiIjlill ulzwil To Ivlllflo lI to our or lllklff IIlfIllllltlllw Assoclalioll Jblll 2gt another oi Illt sIlcm illnliltoba llIJULI ltIlict weekly washed out Many individuals have made perlt solidi tory followed by it second lamborel ol world pleasant tlltlllli Ill public discussion every lllt clIlployIllelll llle approach to this lll recent ouly bellig matter of the misery which is work who Iiccds to work and who cannot get work 0W aspect of unemployment education as the centipede has legs We suspect the offenders are city amour 0m Manitoba Flood Relief In IIIart III Iuldlt age II Ilillll WI IAIAI I1 illi IllillllljC IIII people lllite III llltl ll and the 11mm I5lllltll and to lttIlktl lilll Ind dollzllclily ll llnrlll ll lillxtltltlll ccon Ziroilps business people hare onllc and cnlitiolld iglElulnzl oi tllitls about The Barra Iixalnllacr liIIII Illtlltn Fund lilc lliolng IIltrblllvd to aid thc people 111 our III1231 olI prorllee will assist In lllltlilllltl lllltllltili have to been known ill 111 ltflillf lor ome years alsillu lllolley to assist the owners of dozen newspapers in Manitoba that were It contributions through some of the The Problem Of Unemployment to feed clothe train Iln Ilolw Ilzc uncul ploycd man mill nothing return That may some llllt tili llarslle way of loolzlln at this problcili but is the realistic one lllc unclllploycd Illlill perhaps through no fault of Ill own ll parasite on society If there are loo many parasites then sociciylvxill be tliillltll and perhaps dc Stroyctl Illc lllllIlllllI 11 till 1lorc realistic way ol looking llll problem Is that it sug gests that lluelllploylllellt is not something to be cured by handouts but by the more dif licull Illctilod oi lIlIllllll the unemployed to work Did you ever think ol this Had It ever or cllr to you that you have not only moral obligation to relieve the unemployed but very serious and real need to put the uncut ploycd to work if you are not to contribute to Ills sustenance without getting anything ill return It is to be hoped that the kindly attitude of relief for the unemployed will nev cr vanish but this other question of the economic loss of lllltlllllllllfllilwt0 you to you individually is really Illorc important as an urge to getting the unemployed back to work It llilivorld appears to be settling down llltl lIIIlllllilolcc of illl greatest war ill his schemes to make everyone lltlt very llard lacts are taking the place ol rlul prickly Look for exalllplc at this problem ol un ycars has been to think of llllclllploylllcnt as thus visited npon the man who would like to That approach ends it course in an idea that the cure tor unelllployment is to help the uncllllrloyed man to give him enough to live on until he can get job again Recently there begins to show up little realizatllm of the fact that there is altoLhcr The unemployed man gets his living meagre as it may be free from the rest ot us He docs not get itfrcc from the Government The Government can give him some money but that money is only of use to him as and when it gets spent for leechclothing fuel liotisillg and otherpur poses In the end the rest of the nation has Bear Down Kids that ill the event of III civilian and milit ary forces capable of training inscientific mechanized chemical bacteriological and atomic warfare will be needed But we dont think wellgo along with Dr Whittons contention that the soft life the youngsters are living now will make them unfit for this sort of training The universities seem to be turning out their full quota of scientists and engineers and during the Second World War we didnt notice that Canada was shy of nlenwith this type of training We saw boys who couldnt pass their mathematics exams turn out to be fine navigators In other lines even inatW science Canada did her share and moreland always with homegrown talent However we do agree with Dr Whitton that todays youngster could stand haying his nose shoved little nearer the grindstone Perhaps as she says there is too much play and too little work during school hours Canadian schools are Iulder tire periodic ally lor not sticking to their knitting Critics say so many sports and social events are being included 111 the 1school day that the youngst ers arent getting the schooling they should Latest olthese critics is Dr Charlotte Whittonthe noted writer and welfare worker who told meeting of trusteesVin Chatham recently that the schools should be brought back to their basic function She contends that the schools are not fit ting the pupils for strong leadership in democracy That too many youngsters get through school yearsron pigsant options selected courses recommendations and as many extracurricular appendages to basic Dr Whitton seems to have good point there Things dont seem as tough new as when we went to school Why it wasnt so long ago that boy or girl could get sen Iior matriculation without an examination by working on farm for the summer months Bear down kids there are tough days And there is no doubting her statement ahead EDITORIAL NOTES tirementin the town that was so familiar to him as boy 70 years ago The readers of Fred Grants column in The Barrie Examiner will be sorry to learn that he has suffered painful accident and will be confined to the Royal Victoria Hospital for several days Mr Grant was born here 82 years ago and although he lived 011 the west coast for many years he has always regarded Barrie as his home As hobby he has collected articles and pictures about his home town for the past 70 years In addition to the material he Has collected Mr Grant has written hundreds of sketches on his per sonal recollections of the days 65 and 7031years agoEoLn1aDy yeaJmtihas been contributor to The Barrie Examiner Several of these aiticleswritten some yearsvagovhave been published recently and one of these fea tures is contained In this issue We hope that Mr Grant will have safe recovery and will be spared several mare years to enjoy his reg Members of the Barrie Public SeliooleBoard appear to be uninspiredwhen it comes to the matter of naming the two new schools that are being built this year Atthe present time one is being referred to as the Torontostreet School and the other is being referred to as the Codrington Street School These names do indicate the chation of the schools but is this enough Or should school names serve any other purposeWMembers of the Kiwanis Club haveofferedrtheir help to the School Board and they are sponsoring an advertise ment in this issue of The BarriegExaminers All those who have ideas regarding names for the two new Schools are asked to write to the Secretary of the Public School Board ti Ellie 11mm Eramtitrr l+rloss Weekly 0f0nddai ear Published Every Monday and Thursday at The Wilson Building Post Office Square Barrie Ontario Canada by THE BARRIE EXAMINER LIMITED VicePresident IAE SecretaryTreasurer Li MacLAIIEN President WADLLS kli oi Canada Canadian Weekly NewspaperSASSOCIalwnvOBIElm Member or Class ee Subscriber to CF Servrce CWNA anddhe Audit Bureau of Circulations AVERAGE PRESS RUN 7800 COPIES Highest In Canada for Home Town Weekly Newspaper Walls Business Manager Quebec Division of 7096 Average Net Paid ABC Circulation for six months ending March 31 1950 MacLaren Managing Editor George Cadogan News Editor 0mm Adv Tomlinson Printing Manager 11 Cooper Plantgpertntendant Authorlzed on second class mail 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