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‘ptorin . “be commended to the “attention zy such pratters. *: 2: ~ FITTING ‘REASON = a aa Ingersoll Chronicle.) In his address of welcome to the thought -in one’ statement,~not wae “ to*those from~home who heard him but. also. for-the vis .. It *was “itp a statement which should cause the pe eS Tiettare to know that while some of |. 4. - Ontarfo’s roads were in a rather de- ~ . plorable condition, there was a ‘rea- “son back of this ~ condition” which ae hg stand no criticiem. wm glad to welcome you geptle-, + Saad ns the Michigan Pikes Associa- o tion” began Mr. Sutherland. We must * ask you to be charitable for we real- ize full well that our roads are not ~.“what-they might. be. We had other -» ‘S-matters to attend to in the past six years and to which we had to devote ~all our time and energy. That job is finished now, however and there- fore-we are glad to welcome you to do all that you can to boost better roads. Without entering into a long dis- eourse—withdut prating about what we did in the war, Mr. Sutherland “hg miade plain the fact that we had Pe a big job on -hand—one eminently 5 more important than the building of roatis—and yet he modestly did not . ise the word ‘‘war’’ ‘in any shape. His + “‘wessage coukd‘not be mistaken, how- “ever, and it must have carried a world De» “wt meaning in its very brief signi- ens- ficance. : It is to the credit of the members| of the Michigan Pikes Association ' are undertaking the work Ree? oe ry are, “Theirs is the position of the /4e*. .. tyail blazer for-better roads and bet- Sales for eogaiyons.. An ted gut by one been of trans- © pertation. ak, ‘dom na Few uP ’ Pa. Ser) i tee ature of mational progress. It is to be hoped ~that their. trip will bring about deep » thought in the matter of better roads. ne and that the deep thought engendered + es : will in turn bring about better roads. Sees Canada surely needs them. Jt is “~~ - omly the most glaring of false econ- "°°" omy that could. withold them, and for every year that Canada is with- : out a national highway thousands of ad" dollars must remain in the land of a oa “Uncle Sim that would otherwise be ; egret over here. Lucius Allen, pres- ent of the Ontario Good Roads Association who also spoke, stated ;. pc. > that there were one hundred million those. who are ae to deal with} .’ se a5 * * oe aM L* + rap-| 2 : *t- * * Bi os Be 4 . Ee : a ; * ploded heifer and he announc- * *~ ed to-day that ifthe other one- * be ee Te Tubs ¢ : extra hard inst a stump * : } : hat_sbe also wil — in a ¢ oa. can’t blame the cows,” * * he explained. “That dyna- * * mite stuff is pretty tasty.” . ew q 2 * 6 . * = abe 250, Ge ss People in Canada and the United States are accustomed to boast about their educational facilities and the general intelligence of their people, 21 and 31, one out of four so called, was illiterate, It is true that a great majority of those unable to read or write were foreigners or the children of immigrants, but the showing is an appalling one;—-In a single school in the Ward in Toronto, 85 ‘p.c. of the children in attendance are foreign born, A. manhas only. to walk through any of the streets in what is known as thé Ward. in Torontoor in a section of Montreal, or Winnipeg, to hear a score or more languages and cers talked “by “the people he wholesale importation ef for- ‘eigners carried with it a serious men- ace to the welfare of our.country unless they are taught to read’ and write and are educated in good citi- zenship. In this blending of races, going to be able to hold their own and put their proper impress upon the foreigners who have come to our shores unless our boys and girls are properly educated and thoroughly trained in the duties of Citizenship. Education is vital It is a thousané times more important that we should educate aud train our young people than that we should have good roads, fine public buildings, thorough-bred cattle, radial railways or any one of essential. The future man place. l bebe bhebebitehhehbttht + GETTING MARRIED + ae te - (Toronto Star.) A young man, soon to be married, has advertised in ‘‘The Star" offering to pay a bonus to anyone who will put him in the way of securing apart- ments. It is a serious problem that confronts this young man and many others like him. It ig almost impos- sible to secure a suitable house or -people in the United States. Many of these had automobiles, and each year the pleasure trips to Canada would be a big source of revenue to the country if proper roads were here to bring them over, ose who have automobiles, haye money to spend, and Canada would be bound to get her share each tourist season. It ‘surely a matter worthy of thé best thought of the best thinkers. i OUR MOST PRESSING PROBLEM (Farmers’ Sun) “ee The School guestion, like Ham- let’e ghost, will not down. The prob- lem is important, not only for the ke o> 2—-young. people of school age, but for the sogial economic wellbeing of the whole country. It seems necessary bees; to. keep. this-quegtion to the fore un- til a satisfactory educational system Y= > has> been: evolved. ~Education.means more than in- struction in thé three R's. The schoo! should be a place where the boys. and _@irls are trained for home making and : in-some measure fitted for their a- ve... vocation ip life. Ahove all they should be-so trained that they will be able to take their place as citizens in the democratic country in Which they live. _ «Im the country a lot of lost time .. ismet with after-the boys leave school ‘at 14 or 15 years. In-the city’a boy or. gir] who leayes school at that age and goes to work can attend night school and receive further education. eR the country boys nd girls can receive > gdditional instruction after they ter- “minate. what is popularly known as ae schoo! careers - In on | carried on in an inv _ the night schools of both Canada and the United States, itis found that the wees between "14 and 18 are usually a lost period: - In so‘far as additional “educational re- suitable apartments unless one’ is fortunate €nough to be in “the posi- tion where price is na object. Getting -married was never s0 ex- pensive a business as it’ is One young couple thought they had found apartments that would exactly suitgthem, at the very first place they called—until they enquired as to the price and found that the agent was asking $150 per month for the rooms. This was about double what the young man felt justified in paying in rent at the salary he is earning. Twenty+five years ago a married couple could rent a rather nice house in a good neighborhood for $25 per month. The same jhouse to-day, it- self-much the worse for wear and the neighborhood-not so good, rents for twice if not three times as much. Even thook, whose expenditures are not sternly ited<b erate earn- ings find it Gjfficul /enough, with check-book in “hand, to find the ac- commodaticn that will enable them to establish a.new. honsehold:in the; city. What then must be the pre- dicament of thousands of young peo- ple who eontemplate matrimony, as they look anxiously about them in quest of a home which they, with their narrow resources, can afford? ‘The effect. is inevitable that a great many. marriages are being postpon- ed and prevented by the scarcity ef houses. It is a problem so serious and - important to the people and ‘to the country that one may even question: whether any other problem whatever deserves so urgently the attention of all our governments—municipal, pro- vincial, and federal. And yet, so far, it is only evident that each of our it, each trying to wish it on the athe. So far each of our governments merely gone through the motions a reer - the. question. - They t. it. It ig too big -and too. dif- ‘gt so eo be Pi 2 yet it was found that when Uncle}. Sam called up the young men between _ “TPE boas Government A team, in a ten-hour ¢ q é is 8.7 cents per workin hotel ius beri aacuved G Dinas Raison to Pa the world. In return for Ke. Oe horse returns less in work-than any oer. De. tdam of farm, horses ost harness $100, os costs $400, 8 : ra total of $615. : $750 at Ford aig ‘A Fordson ‘ operatio upkeep of and the Shakarknoont vot work doré easily put the horse out of. the running. ents have proved that the cost g hour. cannot plow more than two acres At 8.7 cents per hour or 17.4 the samunie drive your tractor rap / Reb gio paoshy smi our good Anglo-Saxon people are not |‘ averages not Thr for a“team, the cost would be $1.74, “A Fordson of seven acres a day. ‘The cost per acre "not thore than ?% cents per acre for gas and Fordson does three and a half timés as et Se you are hauling produce to market or bring- tor plows on an ;* oe gah _ In the afternoon your motor works panei well though the sin is tat allt thofies are And at night when work i _ over you are through for ~ the day,—no horses to rub down, feed or water. > and rest till it rg ah ccba he TA REID 25 chet a2 tw You are always free to leave your farm for pienic or 3 | the thousand things that we regard as}, hoood-and} - womanhood ae our copptry hold arat ing out Se at earner If the town is'twenty miles away it 1 take you: bal whole day to make the return trip vecsipe tio worry about horses left behind to be® cared for. Every way you look at it the motor has the adraihige over the horse. it means shorter hours on re farm, more work done’ in less time and at less cost. | oO aye os re plentiful, but not sufficiently so to make up for the difference in the cost of marrying and home-making. The impediments that make difficult j the way of marriage are too numer- ous and ‘serious at present. interests of the-people and the coun- .try they ought to be studied caréfully and reduced as much and as soon as possible. The first and the worst is found in the fact that we have not enough roofs to shelter the popula« tion. We see millions invested in huge public structures while homes are lacking. The city grows magnifi- cent in‘ its public aspects—-we, can have a fine new Union Station. which can stand idle year in and year out, carefully hewn and chiselled, but evi- dently not needed, for it remains un- used, a. fact, we can have any. sort of public-butiding, at-whetever public], expense may be necessary, but houses for the people to dwell in—that is different, a seine affair, very.regret- table, but the high cost of labor and material causes a shortage of houses. The fact is, though, that fuel, food, and shelter against the blasts of wint- er are essentials of life in this. coun- try, and if, for any reason,. ordifiary arrangéments fail in regard to any of these three essentials, then our lead- ers. and statesmen must do some thinking, find out why ordinary ar- rangements no longer meet. the need.| the and bring about the necessary re- sree. Misstook Skunk For Bunny. . & touris, fromthe United States had & rather disagreeable exper‘ence! invented, are| 2t Bridgeburg the other day. Riding between Welland and Bridgeburg in a Im: the | lected. But such.a problem cons ») ficult. for men: not fully dn earnest. er and more diffic Neale untit tt-has} gger ult un e}to be ‘dealt with in all it would make a nice alts to Jays | home witirhim, so he stopped his picked up some heavy ston to years’ bathe eure.a place in which to establish a] commenced to pelt it. The spe that. ey -home, but even those among them) retreated on and. : who-succeed in this must a few steps, whereu ‘three? hero made a grab for the ; animal, et motor car, he Baw what he thought the only yur ought! beck aps on a ~ Ancient Origin ot ‘Poole. ~The story of the mechanical aids of human history has been much neg- weands have . deseribed the sculptires of the Parthenon, yet Re one has mentioned the tools that carved those fluted columns. We nat< urally suppose that our present day tools have far "weae forme than those . i Hd] and that the beauty of workmanship The use of saws and: crown drills with fixed teeth of corundum or stones for cutting quarts. rocks w: the regular i eeaaties dn: Egypt e,c00 “years ago. 6-cores so perféct and clean cut thas eke any modern engineer would be proud to turn gut such good work with the best d ond drills. The saws were over eight feet long, and cut blocks of granite seven and a half feet long: That splendid’ work was forgotten; the Romans did’ not “use ‘such tools, and some thousands of years passed before the same tools were relarent: ed fifty years ago. The carpenter's saw was at first>) Cs) No ancient saw, however, ¢ a kerf wider than the thickness ; we do not know when the Saw tbat makes a wider kerf was ; batit was seinen in the ges. /The Heypiians used a push saw as rliest form; the pull saw was Fone in the west and- the . The push saw came few. centuries ago, Lalthough the. pu ‘Saw -in‘a frame is Thar Be aay the eaat. in Bronze Age chisels has never ‘been | exceeded, - WP EMPER IRES Why Wait Till Your Tires Blow Out? Equip your car with 4ero Cushion tires and enjey motoring. ‘THEY SAVE ~~. IME and. ROUBLE A. W. ZURBRIGG ~ Local Dealer in Aero Cushion Tires” hagas Wied Sa eg a tee: as Directors’ Meeting— A meeting of-the directors of the Elma Farmers Mutual Fire Insurance Company was held in the Agricultural All the ‘members of the’ board were} ¢ present.: The president occupied the chair and signed the minutes of the’ last méeting after same had been real and confirmed. The following claims were adjusted and paid: Henry Diehi, Eltice, contents of smoke house fire, Se pots $37.60; eMane,! Tu peter oye Stein: ond, towel, $13.33; John Hamilton, Elma, watch burnt in Gabel fire, $8.00; Samuel Tyndall,-Minto, horse killed by lightning, $185.00; Rich. F. Cox,. - ae a i, on Tuesday, July. 20th. Grey, house tapeme Sr lightning,