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Mfiovlaohnhmavhtkof a lot more than a year in taxes. Or Didyuampctofizunfirh:t. at a Iaae costs the Town and the Township less than $1,700 a year to operate and that inâ€" It is just about time that the taxpayers of this district woke up and said to the men diinottiont "W ht is your attitude, no posay your no pussyâ€" with adequate life protection protection formeln.th?(." + # # I have no hesitancy in telling you taxâ€" payers that Chief Burch considers Chief Alf. LePage as one of the best small town fire chiefs in the province, and his men likewise, but Chief LePage and his men can only go jnstnfuuthemuyerthnttheym serving will let them go. _ Grimsby Fire D.gartment men know what they are doing. They have proved that. But there is still a lot of improvement to come, not in the men, but in what is provided for them, not so much in equipment, but in life protection and clothing. ‘Those things have been provided for in Merritton and Thorold for decades. No wonder those Towns have always had the greatest Fire Departâ€" ments in the country. _ _ ddng.muwndmatthewmum fire:; they doubly found out at the Village Inn fire; they triply found out at the Duthe fire in Grimsby Beach. All you have to do is talk to Mr. Duthe, or read Mr. Duthe‘s card of thanks in last week‘s Independent to find that * _ St. Catharines had a $800,000 fire last Friday night and Saturday morning. A fire that gutted some of the best business houses unsl Loudme io remndrad+ mal vhrra ap? 1PE on St. Paul Street, the heart of the city. St. Catharines has without a doubt, one of the best fire directors in Ontario in Chief Burch and one of the best trained and equipped fire departments in the province, yet what hapâ€" Chief Burch calis upon Merritton Fire Deplrtmenttoeometohillid.fleellllupon the Thorold Fire Department to take over the mfiwofthe'l‘m of Merritton and the of Thorold and behind them the Thorâ€" old South and the Crowland departments moving in a little closer and on the alert to take over anything that might happen. aeparnecaiet 20 CC EV _ BEL C â€"BAK Paktkar pens.thmisalotofthefityolSt.Catharâ€" ines that much be protected. _ Not any better than what Grimsby could have had. But they had. Why? Because the taxpayer in those towns appreciated the work mmmwwaufl until a few years ago no person in the or Township of Grimsby m'the When Chief Burch called for help he knew that he was going to get help. Help that was organized. Help that knew what they were doing. What a difference when compared to Merritton and Thorold. As far back as I can remember, and that is not just a couple of yestaerdtys.theremdmslw effort on the part of the Grimsby people to support a Fire Departmentâ€"in fact ever since the Great Brigade that won all the honâ€" ors in 1893â€"4â€"5â€"6â€"that would protect the people and their property. All through those For the past two weeks I have tried to bring to the attention of the hxw this district the value of our Fire ment. I know without anybody telling me that a lot of my information fell upon deaf ears. vears Merritton and Thorold had great Fire Simply because every taxpayer and nonâ€" taxpayer in this Town and Township is lookâ€" ing for something for nothing. They always have, insofar as a Fire Department is conâ€" ing dependent, and true dependence leads elways to the most perfect independence. LETS THINK THINGS OVER Grimsby ever since Grimsby has been Grimsâ€" by. That is a long time, but records bear me anda INJOFINE c o Fime m t Canada Cnmicles un Ruscle comee from per your in BoiuSt Bkien papuaie © o sentscnr Airkcomsialt of Mcbaster Uni Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office vgty.ilhcmt issue of m }‘ ;fll:k:nullisnn:‘mhmnd w essor : J. ORLON LIVINGSTON, Editor, has been th. target of the government newsâ€" en n m&%lMW;oflhfl{ True independence is never afraid worn. Y€ this same Professor is speak hmu"a-m ing all the tim for stout Canadianism. The Grimsby Independent vunts. practically, if you got into real figâ€" WwHY*? That is a situation that has existed in LIVINGETON and LAWSON, Publishers. FACTS & FANCIES ~tivoi Crntrs Lontee mar . 300R Patuancandont fion ne M irner Toh mt goot mivce en their kods, my Aoder $our ‘ Thursday from office of that they should ha if they nevâ€" mumsa.cm: ??-m.:n'forp_m "'":. Frank Fairborn, Jr. THE MASK LIFTED One of the most revealing and informâ€" Think this over, Â¥ou ar hmmmnmfiu * _ in every case, the crime is against propâ€" erty.. In this country, ridden as it is by capitâ€" alists, there is sympathy for the man who steals a loaf or two to help his children. As Dr. Kirkecomnell says: "For potatoes: Five vears." NEW TRAFFIC ACT HAS BITE Highways Department records for the fimni:ehmthso!thhyarchowthatzl‘l mmhadthdrlieenmandpumiu parative records for period show anofieuhledecnunineonvictioufordmnk driving, 747 as compared to 886 for 1946. Suspemsion of the driver‘s licenses and car permits of some 200 Ontario motorists gince July 1st, 1947, may be attributed to the amendments to the Highway Traffic Act which came into effect on that date, highway department officials say. The new legislation provides for the automatic suspension of driver‘s license and car permit, pending the filing of proof of financial responsibility, of any person convicted of any offence under the Act if involved in an accident. Everyone willremember what a fanfare there was when the Soviet announced the abolition of capital punishment, the death penalty for muréer or other crime, inâ€" cluding rape. But as DrEirkmflm out in his article, when a man is sentenced to 25 years in Siberia he has, at best, only eight years to live. The Metropolitan Life Insurâ€" ance men could figure that one out easily enough. For the theft of a loaf of bread, a tmiblefelongeumto”mm for all this, the abolition of or shootâ€" ing, is simply: They want the work of the pr{umen to help the Russian economy, corpâ€" ses don‘t work. mhanmtwm“wflm tion in Rus«j i by Professor is uc:aneonns.nti'fl Offences that resulted in ion inâ€" cluded : improper lights, defective mel. deâ€" fective windshield wipers, failure to give rightâ€"ofâ€"way, .mproper left turn, failure to signal, failure to stop at through highway. Fortyâ€"four persons were convicted of careâ€" less driving, and though not involved in acciâ€" dents mhflm‘g prohibifed by the mapistrate from operating their vehicles. th m"flmmhmm.m emqthltmlytheenuhmmurm Q’:idmmbrmmmm rians canfreatly reduce the toll of traffie HONOR FOR THE FAMILY DOCTOR Any invitation to individual pmts to nominate such a doctor would resulta flood ts cabe Sfi Aaoon: 4. when t : male cope before , when a 1 for distinguished service is to bestowed, There are millions of men and wen who, at It may be just as well thate American Medical Association in its search * a gener. :lervhetohism?ty”hmifledth. t nominations must come from dical associaâ€" tions or civic organizations. 8. On a collective farm in the Kazan disâ€" trict, V. E. Bukin snatched money from the hand ©. In the Kuibyshev district, A. D. Chubâ€" arkin and V.. G. Morozov stole a bushel of potâ€" atoes from the cellar of Mrs. Presnyakov. Senâ€" tence for erach: 5 years‘ hard labor. 10. In Mioscow, K. V. Gruenwald, with a forâ€" mer convictiion for theft, broke into the room of Mrs. Kowalev and stole sundry domestic artâ€" icles. Sentemce: 10 years‘ hard labor. Poluboryarovy stole a wallet from a fellowâ€"pasâ€" senger, Citizen Snitko. Sentence: 5 years‘ hard 5. In Moscow, a deliveryâ€"truck driver, E. K. Emirnov. stole 10 kilos (about five loaves) of hm::atzm:':y-vmm. Saratov, E. L Gordeyev stole sundry produce from & warehouse. Sentence: 7 years‘ 3. In the Paviovoâ€"Posadsky textile factory L. H. Mark&lov stole a manufactured article (of clothing). Sentence: 8 years‘ hard labor. . _ 4. On a collective farm, two peasants, Josâ€" eph Smirnov and V. V. Smirnov, stole ten bushâ€" 2. On the Moscowâ€"Ryazan railway, D. A. Kisilev stole an article of fur (clothing) from one of the cars. Sentence: 10 years‘ hard labor. 1. At m.nr.r-u-uupm-n‘ mwfl-.m.@@;fl:&“fll Sentence* 15 years‘ hard labor confiscation of all pET&Qnal property. . .: * A en‘ Will some one please page Tim Buck. for THE GRIMSBY You are to # # # * ?:;Ed“*u:fiaumgj The secret dfineu; Â¥ to be in cony 2i 2" "Ple to disagree without being disagres premiay y ""'i;"'“.r"m ner 'ia to immerse dishes , warm, ation from the air." All that sounds very simple, b\ltinMng. wives and having those instructions carried out are two very different thln.gl u..n hfl.lhlnd: kmow, But there you have it, men. Hereafter h‘u:l.b'fldl'n:! supposed to uh:. in their easy chairs, with evening es t The doctors have um& vrite books It is ; sometimes Ees C000 ...a..qm.mwmfln a C L 09 o onmmmen m one Lume OP AHORAMEES MATTE TLCO O3 secner mamm«cum m#m‘lmm“m ‘The decision of the American Medical Amum-mdflm”““""' ily doctor is wise. this age of specializâ€" monthmhfarbolittletonm!ndeither doctors or laymen of the imperative need for a larger quota of general practitioners. Fame d on _aadih . \â€"o enit «o. rommecbemt @usainte andenp i and.pndhly.mmmdimmy to come to medical and surgical specialists and research workers than to the men of women whose davâ€"toâ€"day activities are of such immense value. * * penetrates the laboratories where great therapeutic discoveries are made. It is this light'hiehmthemthofthefunib'doe- tor, which helns him bear the tremendous strain of responding to calls at all hours, visâ€" iting patients in their homes and receiving them in his office. Beside it even the most pretentious gold medal the American Medical Association can have struck must seem reâ€" ‘l‘ru.thefamilydoetor,d\ennu-hin- ing from the eves of his patients and their relatives a li~ht of gratitude which seldom Al this came about at first, at least, through a dearthk of help in the home. Out of thebéh:dnuoulo:i:h'air'he;;ts.mmm to out es by drying supper dishes. But not thoroughly understanding the ways ‘of women, even their wives, they soon learned that what started out as a favor, soon became a permanent job. At least their wives understood it that way, and when a wife makes up her own mind on any given subject, she also makes up her husband‘s mind at the latively insignificant. However, it is eminently fitting that all possible honor be paid to that rreatest of nractical humanitarians, the faithful family Enhnimhe British expert‘s claim, the Deputy Officer of Health in Torâ€" onto 'x:i‘)m *"Toronto husbands now have a justifiable point on which to argue when their wives order them to dry the supper dishes. Witgin( dishes with the orthodox towâ€" el aids in the spread of communicable disease germs." And these two health authorities not onl,\-knowtheeommonmiaohu.butthenn ones &o_o:qnitewell enough to call them by Here are facts as given by the exâ€" perts: "The uma of allowing dishes to stand nndwdry ui:n to onrattentiontm time ago. We are complete agreement with thepmtiuofllbwingdizhutodryofthdr own accord after washing. In mn& cases where dishumdriedwithnwwel. e fibres and threads of the towel become clogged with bacteria and vegetable matter, making them & menace to health. Accumulation of such mturinthefluuoflheclothuudbwipe di-hesbeeomuhnedingzmndlorbuwda. Nomsttahowennhlwivumybetoin- sundishecbethm;hlyvnhed.theyeuld never be washed completely free of microsâ€" ‘"Husbands should instruct their wives to immerse dishes in clear, warm_ sua.." $ â€"" OTTAWA ? ? ? Back in the year 1784 Benjamin Frankâ€" lin wrote to his friend Renjamin Vaughan. "It is wonderful," he wrote, "how prepostegously the affairs of this world are managed. Naturâ€" ally one would imagine that the interest of a few individuals should give way to a general interest ; but individuals manage their affairs with so much mfihfim industry and address than the pu do theirs that genâ€" eral interest most commonly gives way to particular. We assemble . parliaments and councils to have the benefit of their collected wisdom, but we necessarily have, at the same time, the inconvenience of their collected pasâ€" sions, prejudices and private interests . ... An assembly of great.men is the greatest fool upon earth." & HOW DISHES SHOULD BE DRIED Wem;elghavmthnmw:nd wiping are, eory, supposed under women‘s domain. But as a matter of fact, in recent years, at least, man has entered very Well, here is something for these dishâ€" drying husbands that looks like a ray of hope in a dark home world. And it comes from high authority, too. From no less than Sir Walter Savage, British bacteriological disâ€" ease expert, who has stated dishes should be lefttostmdi_nthe_lirto_drygfierwuhing. their first names Penned and Pilfered , to see if it works better. INDEPENDENT mind [« Maryâ€"Lyn â€"opened her new lingerie and woollens shop on Friday. I gave each one of my beautiful widows a half a dolliar apiece at nine o‘clock in the morning and they all went in the shop. Not one of them came out before five o‘clock in the afternoon. "Women are the spendthrifts. A big potato grower down in California just pald the Hanover Shoe Farms of Hanover, Ps., $42,000 for a yearling trotter. I‘m not going to pay much over $42, but I‘m going to have a trotter for Neighbor Scott and me to fuss around with. What do you think 1 built that fence for? Not to keep jack You will read in this issue a complete set of reâ€" gulations recently passed by the Ontario Government controlling sanitary arrangements in all restaurants and eating places in the County of Lincoln Dr. James M. Mather, now the M.O.H. of Halton County, as assistant M.OH. of Lincoln Health Unit, had a very great deal to do with the framing of those reâ€" mmmmmwmmm been Halton‘s gain. The people of Halton can thank exâ€"Reeve, exâ€"Mayor, exâ€"Warden, Editor Eddie Harris of the Burlington Gazette for that. i mm 0 Srponddircdasendi apmertreprinetâ€"â€"l._gm__Am pbmnumpumunumm What a tough Saturday afternoon. Trying to write Main Street with the Princess of Livingston Avenue standing at my elbow asking more questions than Walter Winchell and Billy Rose could answer mumm,nmmwmmx front in Love‘s Grocery, his old grocery store. was one once myself. I‘m not feeling right this week. One of my widâ€" ows is sick. a < & Percy Robertson picked a good time to come back and visit the Old Street. I observed him watchâ€" N,mmmuhum.mm tiful Oak Room full of paint pots, varnish cans, scafâ€" folding, canvas and whatâ€"not. It‘s going to be a swell MMâ€"AMMII'H‘l“' band deposits money and his wife draws it outâ€" &0 @0 L4 E4 That household pressure pump in McPherson‘® m-.p-mnwmaudm-n-m # # * x ‘The Locust trees in front of Mr. Mcintyre‘s reâ€" sidence have been trimmed. Properly trimmed, too. Not bydro crucified. PT & a More power to Mayor Bull. He takes tn¢ 0_ mcfllflfl.”m”mh“ maumo:mwmmucumxo- body is ever too old to learn. 4 es Orchids to those Canada Coach Lines drivers, uhoumdflmdlloo”ycuchlhu.hrm common sense judgment that they are using, in the Mtnflkolmmmeo.h‘lnudgo- Ing out of their designated bus stop. They never Mwemmthymmmhm uny car owner, they stop far enough back, both east mmummmuummgw "‘“‘Mmlmumhbmm So (uuthcbmdflmmmx.mm Mwumn.tm.. l Daye is caused by the individual car and truck haas zes El have no cause + moveg _z j _ O _ CCoOuoL Gike Te in “""‘M-nmmmmmr.u..m, Mwmhumummu.u.mnm 'Rlctummlunho-m-mum huhtmdn.lho'm:u..“.mhl lnmtor.htdy.nlndlthum“ «mhumummmm”m "’&lnd‘lmo{nm," yeu ting io i0 9 ts Maybe I‘m slipping. Maybe r.m“u“"‘mhn.MIMm Sk. m tariq py. i, /fi Vemiment, in order to nssisk CERDERTL ord k s P “"'Mfiiw-"“ i "'l-fllhm. Mmhfi.mwdh‘lnnhflry euhflu'ndhatom%.fm mma‘-mzmmmnh“ m&mmmmahmu.:rmm w & C businaze +« ® # In perusing that Cook Book that the m«mmmmmm h"‘“"-h Or,LH€ Presse® of The Ingeâ€" lhnmlothm?mh‘t #at the h-'m.u...._.,, could mintabs & . CCC 9 iL " °0 Peeeeaaice aag"" C&B00t find a recipe fop pul>, "Ade one M!mmt’ -"'n do 'W""m&h-u‘-’m"!&"_ qnh'nng.um.” * % Into 4.; W Oe ver Country useq4 u"° H#t from -mu.h price % prefume it o.4) Put 12 egge nAmClh.! "‘"fllw how “"‘,‘hny......--; prove " Ferrapth â€"~ Eus A& """"'-'mum’m 'u: mhowmywnnu..h when t uuydummmmmh%» me-h.u!m‘flw.."lfluh“ M'nbmlml"wm. .*-dl\d..d"., 'D-u.'m "'“C-ulllhmn.,.m "““ hmhtwulcu.‘~ -.lflhbh-;mu..mhhm mwâ€"fl:munhuhmu :"'-w“""'"""-m !mmmmmm week before last that a governmen 1 as the Dominion Government : â€"MAIN=Z SyREET (A\ a governmental regulation TT He takes the odd _ You can toll Y5"°" _._" seying .-l-”'.'.- _ customer is alway® 7P achs “.W‘ W'- -nrl'""w”“ a tailâ€"light on his bUKEY* lAvumrn. 5 Murray St. Phone 148â€"W .. £ A, BUCKENHAM Saturdays Only â€" 2 to 3 6 14 M HEEPHONE soues r '“‘.(‘#“ i __..-h-M" “h;-ll'â€";;im keys. Geo. F. Warner sUn UI'B-G; CANADaA J. B. McCAUSLAND HAROLD 8. MAtcrery v-u..- AET.A. Phone Winona 55â€"râ€"22 BULOVA, ELGIN, ELCO WATCHES Store in The Brult Belt" GEORGE 1. GEppEs Watch Clock And T. R. BeGORA, 5 j ~ ~ _ 3 °_ myâ€"»dal Closeqg Saturg@,, 1(308 Open M A“l_h‘ oc _ ) * h. ENC a mmz Mn Street, West 12 Main St. w GRimsBay and all kinds of Fop ;‘ (of &1, Telephone e89 B . & DENTIST INEURANcE OPTOMETRIgq " C ols ‘.l!‘.y LEGAL .OLICIml f‘"fin #â€"12 2 to 5 p.m, 4#A