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We notice there is the movement to have the Provincial government pay the whole cost of provincial highways. The government is also expected to pay the whole costs of the Old Age The argument put forth in a recent motion which has been mailed to Ontario councils, and which they are asked to endorse, wants the local legislature to pay the whole cost of provincial highways on the ground that “the county has no control whatever over the expenditure.” This idea is wrong. No provincial highways will be built in any county whose council requests the province otherwise. This one clause is worth all the cost of provincial highways in any coun- ty. That taking over of the whole cost of high- ways would mean that municipalities would have to pay taxes on highways in other counties in the same proportion, whether or not they re- ceived similar consideration in their own. A close reader of the daily and weekly press may well ask the question: “Whither are we drifting?” Editorial opinions, the views of the people in letters to the press, and dispatches of correspondents show many diflerences of opin- ion, but in all there seems an undercurrent that this is the time to put everything, especially the payments, up to the government. Who, pray, is the government? It is the people. The government possesses nothing but what it collects in taxes in one form or an- other, and anything the government may have to pay, most assuredly will eventually be paid by the people. The idea to have Old Age Pensions payments taken over by the government is advocated be- cause of certain “abuses” that have crept in. If these abuses have crept in when each county is supposed to have an active pensions commission to examine all applications and safeguard the municipality, how much worse will they become if there is only a central commission in Toronto to look after them? We believe the counties are further ahead paying the 20 per cent cost of local pensions than if the government paid it PAGE 4. all. No matter which method is followed, the people pay the bill. We can understand a metropolitan centre, with a heavy pensions roll, starting an idea like this, but cannot see that the same conditions prevail in a rural community. The more rural the community, apparently, the less the number of pensioners. Some communities, for instance, with a small pension list, would be money a- head if they paid the full 100 per cent. mmnmm m Punâ€"m Mullah”; b wmmnwm;mmmu mmunmnuwrxwm mummmunmm question, civil "religion! to tho tat of In. discussionismoiulouwithhfimm than with tho Truthâ€"WA TSON. We have seen a lot lately about the advisabil- ity of abolishing county councils, which, in some minds, are about as much an asset as a pole cat at a pink tea. It is not our intention to uphold or berate the county councils, but it is a peculiar thing that a lot of those who advocate the doing away of this body will in the next breath “view with alarm the attempt of the government to centralize and usurp the authority of the muni- We want the government to pay for old age pensions, pay all the cost of highways; we want to abolish the county councils, but we view with alarm our contemplated loss of authority. _ We have no views to express in the matter. We mereiy wish to call attention to the diamet- rically opposed views of different people, many too ” when they expressed them. We don’t know whether county councils are good or bad, but suppose they will average up pretty much thessmeutherestof us. Wewouldhateto suggest what should be done if they are abol - ished, but suppose something similar would have to be substituted, or centralize the authority in of whom, no doubt, did not think of the old saying: “You cannot eat your cake and have it, Watch out for the fellow Toronto. We certainly could not do away with than and let it go at that. We cannot see, how- ever, how we are going to centralize the pay- ments with the provincial government without submitting to the centralizing of the authority thatgoeawithit. THE DURHAM CHRONICLE POVERTY IS NO DISGRACE, BUTâ€" WHITHER ARE WE DRIFTING? Thursday, January 21, 1982 is afraid of OLD-TIME REVIVALS Dr. Salem G. Bland, D.D., in a recent press article refers to the disappearance of the old- time religious revival. Something less than 50 years ago they were quite a common annual event in each community, but during the past 25 years have become rare. There are always exceptions, of course, but the trouble with most of these revivals, as we saw them, was that the “reviving” did not seem to last very long after the revivalists left town, the greater percentage of the converts soon leaving the straight and narrow for the pathway that was crooked and tricky and beset with thorns. One reason for the revivals of 40-odd years ago may have been because there was not nearly so much going on as now and the residents of that generation had more time to attend these afi'airs. It should take more than a little money to make a man turn up his nose at old friends, but this depends upon the disposition of the man who makes the money. If he is a cad by na- ture, a little money will make him show it, just You can’t tell what a man is by the size of his bank book. The man with thousands of dol- lars on deposit may not be any better than the day laborer who wonders where his next month’s rent is to come from. Character and solidity cannot be determined by the size of the bank book any more than an am full of hymn books and a solemn countenance on Sunday is a guarantee that the same fellow will not cheat you out of your eye teeth on Monday. Perhaps they have learned a lot since then anddonotnow parade their Rood luck so prominently, or mayhap they were trimmed in thedebacleoftwoyearsazoanddonotown quite so much to swell out about. It took the after-them period to doll up some of the cit- iaenry,andthosewhowerefortunateintheir investments suddenly found themselves Bch and knew not what to do. These were the fel- lows who, in a good many instances, now com- plain about the “depression.” And there cer- tainly is a depression in mining stocks. If this depression has done nothing more than level up and iron out a lot of the people who became rich, abnoxious and impossible overnight, it has not been without its benefits. as a little success too often turns our heads and causes us to make fools of ourselves. The writer can very well remember consid- erably more than a quarter of a century back, when the good old revival was welcomed to the community as something to go to, and while ev- erybody did not hit what the present-day Billy Sunday designates the “sawdust trail,” those who didn’t seemed to get satisfaction in watch- ing those who did. In the good old days about the only amuse- ment the smaller towns got in the summer was when the Wizard Oil, the Kickapoos, and other shows held forth on the town square or com- mon and put on-a programme, incidentally sell- ing those who attended a bottle of something or other “guaranteed” to cure everything from the epizootir. to ingrowing toenails. But “them days has gone forever”. Now- adays, instead of walking up to the mercy seat at the revival, most of the population is wonder- ing what chances they have of occupying the seat at the head table at the euchre party, or whether they will be able to get 'a seat at all after “this” dance is over. Just as it was when the writer was a boy, the world is still going to the devil, and although it has been do- ing this for a good many generations, it is con- siderable satisfaction to most of us to know that it is a slow processâ€"and a merry one. The old-time revival is gone; so have a lot of other old-time things; and 25 years from now the young people’ of today will look back and" sigh for the sins of their own offspring, and make comparisons between the rising gen- eration of 1960, which, too, is on the highway to hades, and those good days away back in 1932 when the world was much better, and the young people behaved much more circumspectly. These reminiscences and predictions are about the closest things to perpetual motion that we not exist. We tried prohibition in Ontario for ten years and it was a failure. At least a vast majority of the people of the province thought so, as proven in two election campaigns. We are now trying out another system, and it is uptothepeopletojudseforthemselves. There is no denying the fact that the Liquor Control Actisnotperfect. Nothingis. Whenitisde- finitelyproventhatthesystemnoibeingtried outhereisafsflurqthsrewillbemethinx elsstotskeitsplseo. Mmhnotthinkit TRUTH WILL PREVAIL There is little to be gained by prohibition advocates from Canada to the States making exaggerated statements, or statements that can easily be refuted. There is also little to be gained by those favoring government control claiming something for the system which does THE DURHAM CHRONICLE A wife “waits on him in person, greets him when he comes in the door, arranges his cloth- ing and bath, removes the clothes that he has llaid on the floor, brings food to him, and picks {up whatever is lying on the floor.” Which lcaused Mrs. Chronicle to utter a snort and re- mark that the Japanese women have an easy .time compared with most of their sisters in i Canada. ington on Monday, I. W. Pierce of Montreal was a speaker. He mode the startling state- ment that in‘the past six years n the province of Quebec the consumption of nerd liquor had increased 38 per cent and the consumption of beers and wines 128 pel’ cent. Personally, we do ' not believe the liquor business can ever be controlled until we can educate our people to control themselves. In this alone lies the success of temperance, and even then we shall always have those with us who consume too much. There is no use deny- ing there are a good many “drunks” in On- tario; they were here under prohibition, are here yet, and will be with us for all time. That does not mean, though, that generally speak- ing, the citizens of Ontario are a sober and temperate peopleâ€"much more so than in the United States, where total prohibition is in force and it is claimed there are more “speak- easies” than there were saloons under the old license system. A writer on Japan says the women of that country “exist for the sake of their husbands.” We believe far too many of us lose sight of the fact that there are good temperance people on both sides in this question, some fav- oring total prohibition as the only remedy, while others, recognizing that it is not possible to do away with liquor entirely, are trying out the government control system. If this fails, then they may go back to prohibition, or may design some other measure. We have been informed that “Dr. Forbes Godfrey, who died last week in Toronto, went to school here as a young lad, and not a word was said f his death in either Durham papers.” Which is not at all extraordinary. We did not know it, and nobody took the trouble to tell us until the paper was out. We cannot keep track of all the maple who went to school in Durham some years ago for the very simple reason we do not know. Anything over 30 years back is beyond us. As a community institution, local news of interest should be treated in a com- munity way. As we have said before, a man may own a newspaper plant, but he cannot own the newspaper. That belongs to the community. Official statements of the . Quebec Liquor Commission show that the sales of hard liquor in the province have fallen 40 per cent, and on the word of L. B. Cordeau, chairman of the commission, they had noted a sharp decline in the sale of all beverages. Blasting Our Way It is worth while to reflect that the new tariff in Great Britain which has been so enthusiastically received by Canada and other Empire countries, may actually mark the beginning of a trend toward lower trade barriers throughout the worldâ€"Woodstock parations, they have borrowed $1.80. The Germans are a mighty smart race of peOple.â€"â€"St. Catharines Sentinel Review. Reckless Statements Reckless statements in regard to Ontario’s fln- ances seem to be the chief stock-m-trade of mtchell F. Hepburn. It is no wonder that W. E. N. Sinclair, as a member of the Legislature, who knows the facts, is not enthusiastic in (ac-operating with him.â€" London Free Press. Test of Community’s Strength Five cities in the Boston area cannot pay teachers, police or firemen because taxes are not being paid. One point is being well driven home in- recent weeksâ€"the strength, stability and credit of any community depends on the ability of its peOple to pay their taxes.â€"-Stratford Beacon-Her- ald. , ' New Cemetery Act The new Cemetery Act came into force Janu- ary 1. It provides for the immediate appointment of a commission of three members in each county to see that the rural cemeteries are prOperIy taken care of. It will have power to compel all municipal- ities to clean up their dilapidated cemeteries.â€" set. of Buddhist {eludes remaining in China, for lackoispace,whileregreotableonhistodulmmds. suggeststlutnuddhimislosinggroundtocmist- unity inaneoi itsfewremunmgstmgholb- China. Itmabonflnwherethebooksbumedin- eluded nummcophsthatcannotnowbereplwad. â€"8t. Thomas Tunes-Jamal. “cum TheuuteotthehthHmsirGea-ml. Fastenwhomoneotomuludincm has beenprobotedttOtunmdismueddt $58,181. Like Sir John A. mud. Sir Wilfred h Buddhhn Loin; Goo-ad? The burning of 20,000 volumes of Buddhist classics, 'oomprising_ two-thirds of the only complete every dollar the Germans have paid in re- gpgl Ban. w. _8. fielding. an Gog-go an _r 3.1 OTHER PAPERS’ OPINIONS it should appear that the ministry of a kind word and a smile by‘the way, is really more important than the bus- iness on which we are bent? The world has a longer memory for kindness than it has for the success of our commer- cial undertakings, and our winning of political honors. Neighbors may re- member the light in our eyes when they have forgotten what clothes we wore, and how large the house we lived in. Idoubtifanyengrossmentever excuses us for the lack of considera- tion or for missing the chance to speak a freshenlng word .â€"Lucknow Sentinel. yearn hungâ€"Burn Advance. always remember this. Some people actaslfimportantbusmesson one A similar instance of heartless driv- ers was evidenced on Main sweet on Monday when a child was knocked down by a pawn; car and no narrowly escaped being run over that at least one witness thought the rear wheel had picked up and limped away home. But the point is that the driver kept fight sideways and must have known thnt he had knocked the child down. Such drivers are a menace on the roads and should be deprived of their license.â€" Mount Forest Confederate. hand excused them from practising the tookfdghtotanappmuch- truck withnappmctu'pumnmd was thrown into the fence, break- her collar bone, The truck driver on’a me she in; wén-t straight on qut a pause. it is “Life is not so short," said Emerson, “but there is always time enough for CoordlnsflonsNece-uy Regina. (16th tell that the Sas- katchewan government has taken steps to 00an motor bus and truck traffic sengers, taxation on traffic, load limits. and so forth. The regulations will be made effective by order in council. Thisisalltothe good. Themotor bus and truck have become a definite and important part of transportation. and are undoubtedly here to stay. this necessitating that. like other systems of tr’anspm'tation, they be brought un- der control. What is to be feared, however, is that the motor bus and the truck will never be adequately dealt with unless con- certed and something like uniform ac- tionistakenbyalltheorovinces. V‘sut would be the consequence, for example. of one set of laws in Quebec and an- other set inOntario? Orofrigidcon- trolandnxedmtesinQuebc-candlax Ontario? a vice vem? With so‘ much has drawn up fixing freight and p95- such matters as safety devices neces- of motor Mic between the two prov- lnces, there would be endless contuslon. What seems to be requlred is that all theprovlncescetmherandyork out sary for Operation, insmjanoe of pas- throughout the country as a whcle. 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