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Circulation for 12 months, 1,400 W Priceâ€"Five cents per single copy; by mil in Canada $2.00 per year; to United States $2.50. mmuqufiluwrxmnn __-- -4 1. .9I‘I‘J "m PAGE 4 “Having had an opportunity recently to visit Durham, I was asked by my mother to look up the grave of a friend of hers who was buried in the old cemetery there. We were very much shocked to find the cemetery in a de- plorable state of neglect. We had to choose our steps for fear of falling into Open graves from which the bodies had been removed, the ground was covered with a growth of weeds and brush, and there were also many fallen tombstones. “I have travelled many thousands of miles and even in the wilds of our North country I have never seen a cemetery which presented so disgraceful an appearance. DURHAM’S CEMETERIES On several occasions during recent years the Chronicle has had a good many references to the excellent condition in which this com- munity’s cemeteries are kept. We thought then and think now that there are few towns in On- tario which can boast two, as well-kept ceme- teries as Durham Cemetery and Trinity Church Cemetery. The former, of course, is the bet- ter kept, but it is the larger of the two, is more used, has more money, and receives most of the public’s interest. Trinity Church Cemetery, however, has come ahead wonderrully in the past few years and will, with a few more years of upkeep, hold its own with any of them. It was rather a surprise to us then, to receive late last week, a letter from Mr. A. A. Easton of Toronto, which said in part: Whosoever is afraid of submitting any question, civil or religious, to the test of free discussion, is more in love with his own opinion than with the Truthâ€"WATSON. “My thought in writing you is that you might, through the medium of your paper, bring this matter to the attention of the resi- dents of your community and perhaps a way can be found to have the condition remedied, at least out of respect to the pioneers of Dur- On Monday we visited the cemetery re- ferred to by Mr. Easton, and while we cannot at all say it is kept in the shape in which a cemetery should be kept, we think it is un- fortunate that he has chosen a plot of ground which has been abandoned for upwards of half a century for burial purposes. It is true, as he contends, that there are the marks where bod- ies have been removed, for interment in the present new cemetery, but we can scarcely agree with him that he need have feared fall- ing into the Open graves. There are few bodies left in what is known! as the old Presbyterian cemetery. We make no’ attempt to state the number, but not having been used for upwards of half a century, and with many families formerly using it purchas- ing new plots in Durham cemetery and remov- ing the bodies there, it is little wonder the old burying ground presents an unkempt appear- ance. We have no way of getting at the records of the new cemetery, but we have reason to know that plot owners of this and the older cemetery on the Durham road were communi- cated with as far as possible when the change was made, and any bodies remaining in the older burying ground are there from the choice of the descendants, or from neglect. We can agree with Mr. Easton that it is too bad that the graves of our pioneers should be neglected, but if he will make another trip to Durham and call at the Chronicle office we shall be pleased to take him out to both Dur- ham and Trinity cemeteries for their inspec-‘ tion. When he finds the scores of graves in: both these cemeteries which have been long! forgotten by the relatives, but which are being! looked after by the Cemetery Board without remuneration, he will, with us, agree that Dur- ham Cemetery Company and the Board of Trinity Church cemetery, are to be congratu- lated that every grave within the confines of their territory receives practically the same care and attention. In both cemeteries there are those who give most generously for the up- keep of the grounds; others, apparentty finan- cially able, fail to respond; and there are ‘yet the others whose financial standing does "not permit of them contributing very much. There are some plot holders in both cemeteries who have the satisfaction of knowing their gener- osity makes it possible for the Board to look after the graves of those who can not pay, and there are ailso plotholders who should be asham- ed of themselves. As is generally the case, those who have the wherewithal and fail to contribute out of pure cussedness, raise the moat complaints. Mr. Easton must remember running a Wt)! in the country and in the city are two Thursday, August 18, 1932 Taking everything into consideration, we} cannot see where Durham has been particu- larly remiss. We do not know upon whom the upkeep of the old cemetery referred to should fall. We have made no effort to find out. The whole condition has arisen from insufficient planning in the first place, for which no per- son is to blame. It is a condition, and as such will have to be accepted. It is too bad that such! conditions exist, but exist they do, and while there may have been perhaps too little look- ing to the future on the part of those who pro- moted the town’s first cemetery we refuse to even mildly censure anyone. We thank Mr. Easton for.his letter, but do think that had he known some of the condi- tions existing he would have been charitable rather than critical. At that, it may stir up something, but we are of the opinion that there are so few graves remaining in the old ceme- tery that its renovation would seem out of the question. We would consider the removal of the remains of those still there (with the permission of living relatives, of course) to either Durham or Trinity cemeteries, but this is something about which we do not care to have too much to say. Previous to 15 or 20 years ago, the cry for the upkeep of rural cemeteries was never heard. The advent of the motor car and the coming of the tourist changed this. It is quite easy to criticize the condition into which many of the old burying grounds has fallen, but difficult to change things. With no permanent upkeep plan, no funds, and no water accommodations, it is easier to tell what should be done than to do it. Many country cemeteries are in poor condition, but what can be done about it? With plots in many cases selling at the actual cost to the cemetery, there is nothing left with which to beautify, and in the smaller commun- ities where everybody knows everybody else, the cemetery Board is the last to call upon the law. diflerent things. The cities usually charge suf- ficient for their plots that from their first ddte of purchase they are automatically on the per- manent upkeep plan. The country cemeteries started upwards of 80 or 90 years ago, had no such plan, and depended on the contributions of the plotholders each year to look after the upkeep. How successful this was, most of us know, and as a result a good many of the old- er cemeteries found themselves without funds when the time came to beautify them. A further investigation discloses that many of the monuments in the old cemetery signify nothing. They were left there when the bodies were removed to the new cemetery and never claimed. There are very, very few bodies left in this cemetery, but the exact number is not known. Records were not kept 80 years ago like now, and plans were not thought of. It is unfortunate but nothing can be done about it. ‘ HAVING THE FLU After a few days of it, we have decided that it is up to every man wherever possible, to try and have a “flu” at least once during the Summer. It’s great. It gives one a chance of feeling the way he has been looking for some time, and if he is one of those pessimistic morn tals, a week with the flu will enable him tol come forth in his true colors. A fairly stiff at- tack of the flu is educating. It is also broad- ening, to say nothing of lengthening, while as a builder of vocabulary it is immense. During the past week the female end of this flu epis- ode claims she has heard words she never be- ‘ fore knew existed. Spoken in the height of. spasm and in that sixtieth part of a second respite one has between the ending of the last coughing session and the commencement of the. next, there were a good many words that were? not picked up plainly, but she has no doubt they! were properly placed. All had to do with var-; ious blessings bestowed indiscrimnately upon everything, but more especially upon whoeverl l .or whatever fellow invented the summer cold.l i'l‘here’s one thing about this summer flu, it‘ matters not. how you guess. It doesn’t do it that way. Sitting up, you feel that you can go to sleep, and as you have lost several of the pre- vious nights anyway, you decide this is the best thing when the notion is strong. By the time you are ready for bed the flu has changed its mind, and you enter into a coughing spasm, the commencement being about the time you get the covers in place for that nice sleep you were about to take, and continuing until you climb out of bed and decide you might as well 3 sit up and make a night of it. And so we say, zeverybody should have a little summer flirt 'with the flu. It’s exciting, or anything else i you may care to say about it. Anyway, we have had it for the past week, and anything is in order. If the paper reads a little better than usual, it’s the flu ; if it does- n’t, it’s still the flu. The. flu is a great thing! After a week of it we' find we are just getting on to the thing, and can now cough much more gracefully and less explosively than when we were amateur. At the start, at the end of THE DURHAM CHRONICLE I We get the plaudits of the crowd for a time, but gradually the better thinking ones i draw away, others follow, until finally, the rest looking around and seeing they are alone, des- ert with one grand rush. Ballyhoo and slap- stick is great stuff for a time, but it takes hard, I common sense for permanency. THE TALES FROM RUSSIA i Frederick Griffin is telling tales of Rus- : sia in the Toronto Star, but they are the same gold tales that have been told for some years back, and when necessary brought up to 1932 conditions. Readers need not expect anything new or enlightening'on the Russian situation. To begin with, Mr. Griffin’s articles claim to tell too many factsâ€"and facts come from only [one source, headquarters. And headquarters is lnot letting anything out for publication that it does not care to have released. Mr. Griffin no doubt has the open sesame that lets him into .Russia, and into parts of it that anyone else iwould be denied. He represents the Toronto l Star, and the Toronto Star represents the In- iternationale. Why could not Mr. Griffin get l into Russia? But don’t think he’ll publish any- . thing that is not slated for publicity by head- quarters. ' We read the address of Miss A. C. Mac- phail at Palmerston the other days when she made the assertion that the farmers were “suckers” and while we read, we wondered: Are they? 'We know what we would think, af- ter pelting along for quite a few years as a printer, making mistakes, little money, and ab- sorbing a lot of abuse, if one of our parlia- mentary representatives were to refer to us in- dividually and collectively as “suckers.” We rather think there would be some severe con- demnations of those people who take it upon themselves to classify the other fellow. Since the commencement of Miss Macphail’s p0pular- ity previous to 1921, the Chronicle is supposed to have been “against the farmers” for no bet- ter reason than we did not agree with every- thing Miss Macphail said. For some little time we have thought much and said little, and in- tend to remain that way. There’s no use fighting with your neighbors. But now the Owen Sound Sun-Times is getting fed up, and raises a kick in its Monday issue. It is seldOm, indeed, that this newspaper objects to anything that hands a lambast to a Tory or his Government, so we have only one conclusionâ€"Miss Macphail must have been injudicious! every whoop we'd imagine our diaphraghm was about to leave us, but with practice we keep everything under control now and can rip ofl’ _ a spasm of either single- or double-dimensions! without seriously disturbing our liver, our; lights or our crop. And so we think every man‘ should “have a ‘flu’ ” each summer. It’s em‘ lightening (six to ten pounds), and above all sincere, for we don’t think it possible for you I to have it and not know it. I So far as the Chronicle is concerned, if any objection is to be taken to Miss Macphail call- ing her constituents “suckers,” the farmers will have to be the ones to do it. It may be a funny way to show gratitude for a 1921-1932 $4,000.00 a year job, but what of it? Personally the Chronicle paid little attention to the Palm- erston remarks, as it has to others. They were merely words, rolling out without thought, or weight, and, coming to the surface just at the moment, were handy. Some of us talk that way! Too often talk that way! In fact, some of us talk on occasion as if sarcasm were a virtue rather than a millstone, and vitriol a healer rather than a caustic. No, the farmers are not “suckers”, that is, not any more than anyone else. Like the rest of us they may have been foolish, and probably made mistakes. But, like the rest of us, they tried to get along. They may not have been as successful as might be honed for, but to class them as suckers, we just don’t see it. The Toronto Star says that when the Imperial Conference is over. no matter what happens, The Mail and Empire will claim that is has been a mark- ed success. We cannot say the same of our amiable evening contemporary. Nothing is more certain than that, whatever the issue of the Conference, the Star W111 call it a dismal failure. It has laboured in sea.- son and out to make it a failure. Day after day, week after week, it has employed its news and edi- torial columns to throw monkey-wrenches into the machinery. Using the old familiar device of the half- truth, it has striven to paint the Canadian Prime Minister as a conference-wrecker. One day it has accused him of blocking the way to its success by standing up for Canadian industry. The next day it has suggested that he is going to sacrifice those industries. Its correspondents at Ottawa and in Lon- don have filled its columns with desptaches that moved an inch in aid of a meeting upon which the future of Canada and the Empire greatly depend. It has made almost every conceivable move to cripple the Conference. Never once has it admitted the primary role which the Canadian Prime Minister has played in assembling the Conference at Ot- tawa. While everybody else throughout the world- wide Empire has at least acknowledged Canada’s leadership in a great effort affecting a quarter of the world’s population, the Toronto Star has had nothing but contemptuous remarks to offer. If our contemporary knew how the majority of its read- ers regard its ecoentricitles, it would amend its wuss-Toronto Mail and Empire. ARE FARMERS “SUCKERS?” OTHER PAPERS’ OPINIONS We have always had the ma mt those who play in the mall town band oountry bond requires the spending of many hours every week in attending practices, or when the band is play- ing out. or giving performances for this or that, for holidays and other public days, many hours are required to be given of every bandsman’s time. An- a member of a band complain when asked to attend with a band any func- tion. Of all felicities, the most charming is that of a firm and gentle friend- ship. It sweetens all our cares, dispels our sorrows, and counsels us in all ex- tremities. Nay, if there were no other comfort in it than the bare exercise of so generous a virtue, even for that single reason a man would not be with- out it; it is a sovereign antidote against all calamitiesâ€"even against the fear of death itself.â€"â€"Seneca. other thing. They seem to give their time most cheerfully. You never hear And rather than miss even a band practice night they will throw over many pleasures that they might other- wise enjoy, such as an evening's bowl- ing, a refreshing car ride, a card par- ty or other social event. If asked next day why they did not come out to this or that, they invariably say, “Why it was band practice night,” or words to that effect. Who could be more devoted to any- thing than a bandsman is to the band he plays in? We venture to say no one; they are the most unselfish peOple on earth. More power to them!â€"South- ampton Beacon. The greatest value of a plentiful sup- ply of fruits and vegetables in the home lies in the minerals they supply, without which it is impossible to build sound teeth and strong bone, and en- joy general good health. The most. im- portant of these minerals are calcium, phosporus, iron, iodine, magnesium and solium. These, as well as most of the vitamines, are liberally supplied by fresh fruits and such vegetables as the tomato, bean, pea and the raspberry. Huge increase in the supply of fresh‘, tomatoes to Canada from the British; West Indies were noted during the: twelve months ended June, 1932. The; largest increase was made by Jamaica‘ from $1,481 to $83,118. Others were Barbadoes $492 to $6, 085; Bermuda $19, 096 to $20,629, and other British West Indies from $123,100 to $203,595. The total value of tomatoes imported from the British West Indies was $313,- 427 compared with $144,169 in the preâ€" vious twelve months. Sir Wm. Arbuthnot Lane, noted specialist in dietet-ics, is authority for the statement that “fresh fruit eaten daily does more to beautify the com- plexion than any cosmetic.” It is in this way that science explains the at- traction of Canadian girls, who are noted for their remarkably clear and fresh complextions. Few countries in the world boast a wider variety of luscious fruits, and few peOple serve fruit more liberally with their meals than do Canadians. Bobâ€"“The fact. that I am a good musician was the means of saving my life during the flood in our town a. few years ago.” Tomâ€"“How was that?” Bobâ€"“When the water struck our house my wife got on the folding-bed and floated down the stream until she was rescued. Tomâ€"“And what did you do?” Bobâ€"“Well, I accompanied her on the piano.” BUYING EMPIRE TOMATOES FRUITS SUPPLY MINERALS Counter Check Books Let Us Quote On Your Next Order DURHAM or a close kin to those that are. Moat Unlelfllll People FRIENDSHIP Quality and Workmanship Guaranteed. CHEAP MIL mus DURING ION“ 0!" AUGUST Cost of travel to eastern Quebec. the lower at. 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