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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1932 TIIK FLESHERTON ADVANCE THE FLESHERTOH ADVANCE Pabliahed on CoUin^rweod street, Flesherton, Wednesday of each week. Circulation over 1000, Price in Canada $2.00 per year, when |)aid in advance $1.50. In paid in advance |2.00. U. S. A. 12.50 per year, when W. H. THURSTON, - - Editor F. J. THURSTON, - Assoc Editor ABOLISH THE PHEASANTS Let us point out one method by which the provincial tju^'ernment mijfht reduce the cost of novcnnient i this section of the Dominion. The Department of Game and Fisheries, for instance niifrht abolish its pheasant hatcheries and release a larftc num- ber of employees at a considerable saving of salaries and other outlay. In conversation with a ffoverniiient official some time ago on the question of maintaining a fad of this nature, we were told that the Department had a surplus and maintained the pheas- antries as a means of u,sinK up this surplu.s. Our arfrumont was that any surplus should be handed over to help out other departments that were not so fortunate as to have a surplus at the end of their fiscal year. This idea was scouted by the head of a de- partment. At the same time the government passes laws making mun- icipalities do this very thing. The surplus amounts collected for dog licenses are held by the local author- ities for one year and then absorbed in the general fund. In any event, the Department of Game and Fisheries should now cease propagating pheas- ants. We were told a few years ago, when a pheasantry was established at Eugenia, that we would soon have plenty of this variety of handsome poultry in this district, which would (five hunters fyand sport and inci- dentally bring in sufficient revenue to pay for the cost of producing the birds. The sorry spectacle that the Department has afforded in abandon- ing the project after finding out thoii error in judgment, discovering that, as they were warned, pheasants could not maintain themselves in our rigor- ous climate, and spending a good many thousand dollars in a vain effort to stock our fields and forests with an unprofitable liability, is something ot which certain enthusiasts do not care to hear discussed. As a matter of fact a fine tooth comb would not discover a pheasant in this region. There are pheasants down on the Niagara peninsula and there was n two-day open season there last week which has created considerable trouble and hard feeling among the farmers on whose lands the pheasants live. One class of farmers wish the pheas- ants all killed off to preserve their Tops, while another class protests against having their fields oveirun by city nimrods. Taking all these things into consid- eration. The Advance humbly suggests that the Department of (Jame and Fisheries cease their activities along the line of raising pheasants and re- lease those employed in this unremun- erative and contentious fad. EDITORIAL NO! K8 If the pension business continues to improve as it has during the past .'ew years, it will not be long until the pesioners will have to support the general public. * * * With liogs and wheat at new low levels we wonder when the farmers' produce will hit the bottom of low levels. It is about time for an up- ward trend. • • • The new Canaiiian $80,000,000 loan is over the top again, being consider- ably oversubscribed. We would just like to know how many private sub- scribers participated in the loan and the amounts taken by them. Fijian- I'ial houses and insurance companies appear to have taken up the majority of the bonds sold. â-  • • As an aftermath of the inflation post-war period, news comes from Vancouver that the authorities there will try to force the National Railway to complete a four-million-dollar hotel, which it had agreed to erect in Vancouver. It is stated that the railways under the regime of Sir Henry Thornton, the high-priced man- ager of the National Railway, had already spent ten million dollars on the development when construction was halted. When we learn of such wanton squandering of funds the re:-.- son is made plain to all why our na- tional railway was on the verge or bankruptcy, when its big-idea general manager was released from his oner- ous duties this year. Northejii Ireland for example.) Theii duties could be clearly defined, and the cost of expenditure restricted to bare management. In Edinburgh today, they have plenty of administra- tive buildings in which to house the legislatures and their staff. These ."are considerations that apparently ap- peal to many Scotchmen in the moth- erland. They do not deny that their race has had their talents for govern- ment and administration generously recognised; but they express the be- lief that their nation, as well as other parts of the Empire, would vastly benefit if all unnecessary shackles were removed from the management of the north land, and at the samo time given greater freedom in the management of the Commonwealth. How far these views will be endorsed by the Scottish folks as a whole has yet to be proved. No verdict inde- pendent of other questions has yet been rendered. HOME RULE FOR SCOTLAND Special 1 Cent Sale - OF - Stationery Don't Delay L5c Note Writing Pad 2 for 26c 25,c Ducal Writing Pad 2 for 260 35c Letter Writing Pad 2 for 36c 35c Papetries 2 for 36c 80c Fancy Linen - Fini8hed PapctrleB at 2 for 51c Playing and Tally Cards CANADA'S (iREATEST AND EASIEST CONTICST ( HARACTER HAND WRITING C. N. Richardson 'Phftne .?Q\v Flesherton Since he resigned from the British Government because he disagreed with bis colleagues on the decisions arrived at in the Ottawa Conference, Sir Herbert Samuel has spoken in Edinburgh in favor of Home Rule for Scotland. In this action he finds himself in distinguished company, the Duke of Montrose and other leading statesmen having recently declared in favor of purely local question." being settled in a Legislature, sitting at the Scottish capital, thereby re- lieving the British Parliament from the clogging so frequently of. Ad- vocates of the reform point to the tremendous changes that have taken place in the body politic since the Union of' England and Scotland was jonsumiuated in 1707. The duties devolving on the Imperial Parliament, at first confined largely to looking after the ordinary affairs of a com- paratively small electorate, has grown to colossal proportions, both in extont of territory and of populations af- fected. The Imperial Parliament it is claimed would have enough to do if it devoted its attentions entirely to imperial affairs, leaving to lo:ai legislatures the disposition of all local matters. We can picture to ourselves a Brit- ish Parliament now- sitting for eight or ten months a year legislating, not only on imperial affa.rs, but on the pettiest of local municipal affairs, but more often lostponing their settle- ment indefinitely. Under the pro- posed reform there would be an Im- perial House of a very deliberative nature, transacting all necessary busi- ness in a session of four or five rronths, and leaving nothing undone fo: the promotion of the welfare of the vast empire that could be done, having time left for recuperation of their energies, the Imperial States- men would be able to visit and per- sonally ascertain the conditions and wants of the outlying parts of the Flmpire and would then prove of far greater service to the nation than if| cooped up in Westminster, often in poor health and wearied condition, dealing with ordinary political legis- lation, such as our Provincial bodies are entrusted with. The local leg- islatures, patterned after ours and that of Northern Ireland, could be started off at comparatively small t'xpenso. In Scotland, no doubt the legislature would have fewer frills. fewer expensive public structures (like the new legislative bi'ildings in DROP IN GAS PRICE? Motorists are naturally anticipat- ing a reduction in the price of gaso- line now that the Government has done away with the dumping duty on this product imported from the Unit- ed States. The dumping duty aver- aged about two cents a gallon, and we see no reason why the price should not come down to that extent. Throughout all Ontario, the numbei of license plates issued was much less than in 1931. The increased price of these plates and the high price ot gasoline were responsible, as hundreds of people could not afford to pay them. They laid the old flivver up and this, the only pleasure many fam- ilies enjoyed, was prohibited. Thert is a limit to these taxes beyond which the people cannot or will not go. â€" Aylmer Express. Corner Stone Layed Rain somewhat marred the impres- sive ceremony of the laying of the corner stone of the new Prieeville Presbyterian church, at which Hon. W. H. Price, Attorney-General of Ontario, and Dr. D. B. Jamieson ot Durham officiated. A large crowd attended despite the weather, and listened to excellent speeches deliver- ed in the hall, owing to the rain. Rev. Dr. W. G. Mclvor, minister and secretary of the building committeb presided. Among those who spoke were: Rev. B. D. Armstrong of Dur- ham, Rev. T. 0. Miller of Markdale and Rev. Robt. Honeyman of Dro- more. Hymns sung during the ser- vice were "O God Our Help in Age? Past" and "The Church's One Foun- dation" and the whole proceedings were very impressive. At the close of the meeting the Willing Helpers served lunch to the gathering. It is said that truth lies at the hottom of the well. Perhaps that's why the lawyer pumps the witness. Cleaning a 9-ft. steel tube that winds across California carrying water into Los Angeles, workmen came to the wilderness at Gravevine Canyon 150 miles north of Los Ang- eles where the tube pitches down 900 feet. Inside the pipe 16 workmen went to work scraping muck from the slimy walls, lit by a string of electric lights. One man slipped, slid, clutched at the man beneath, broke the light cord. Shouting and claw- ing, the two men pitched down the steel tunnel 900 feet into da»k and mu'^k, carrying 14 other shouting, clawing men with them in one big bundle. All were injured, some dangerously. FURNITURE Bargains in Odd Pieces Walnut China Cabinet, reg. $39.50. only $21.25 Andrew Malcolm Solid Walnut Dresser, 48 in large- mirror, a real $85.00 value, only $42.00 Dropside Couch, cretonne covered mattress, regu- lar price $13.50, only $9.95 New Extension Table, 8 feet, solid oak, reg. $28 .... $15 Solid Walnut Dining Room Suite, reg. $170 value for 8 pieces, low price of $87.^0 Marshall Mattress 4 ft. 6 in., reg. $24.50 (cover faded a little, special only $20.00 Pictures framed any size up to 12yl4 inches,^ Special 55c or 4 for $1.75 Flowers are a Specialty with us. Agents for Dale's and the Flower Shoppe. Flowers telegraphed to any place in the world. Emerson J. Bennett FLESHERTON, ONT. '' V* OWENSOUND. ONT. "^O | I CUT FLOWERS GIFT BOUQUETS WEDDING FLOWERS FUNERAL DESIGNS LANDSCAPIC GARDEN' I XG rivRENXIALS and SHRUnS t:e your order with our Flesherton representative- ^ W. A. HAWKEN GOVERNMENT OF THE Don/iiNiON OF Canada 4% LOANâ€" 1932 The Minister of Finance offers /or public subscription $80,000,000 Dominion of Canada 4% Bonds Bearing interest /rom 15th October, 1932, and offered in two maturities, as follows: $25,000,000â€" 3 YEAR 4% BONDS, DUE 15th OCTOBER, 1935 $55,000,000â€"20 YEAR 4% BONDS, DUE 15th OCTOBER, 1952 Subject to redemption at par and interest on or after 1 Sth Oaober, 1947 Principal payable without charge, in lawful money of Canada, at the office of the Minister of Finance and Receiver General of Canada at Ottawa or at the office of the Assistant Receiver General at Halifax, Saint John, Charlottetown, Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg, Regina, Calgary and Victoria. Interest payable half-yearly, 1 5th April and 1 Sth October, in lawful money of Caaada, without charge, at any branch in Canada of any Chartered Bank. Denominations: 3 YEAR BONDS, $1,000 20 YEAR BONDS, $500 AND $1,000 The proceeds of this Loan will be used to retire $34,449,950 of bonds maturing lstNoTem< ber, 1932, and to provide for the general purposes of the Government and the Canadian National Railways. The Loan is authorized under Act of the Parliament of Canada, and t>oth principal and interest are a charge on the Consolidated Revenue Fund of Canada. The amount of this issue is $80,000,000. The Minister of Finance, however, reserves the right to allot or reject the whole or any part of subscriptions received, provided such allot- ments do not increase the principal amount of the issue by more than $25,000,000. Applications will not be valid on forms other than those printed by the King's Printer. ISSUE PRICE /o 3 Year Bonds, 99.20 and interest, yielding to maturity 4.28% 20 Year Bonds, 93.45 and interest. yieldi»g to maturity 4.50% Payment to be m*di in full at time if applicattM 9r in the case rf the 3-year bonds, en allotment. Subscription lists will open on 3 1st Oaober, 1932, and wUI close on or before I6th November, 1932, with or without notice, at the discretion of the Minister of Finance. Subscriptions will be received by any branch in Caiuda of any chartered bank and by recognized dealers from whom official application forms may be obtained. •*«â-º.• Department of Fin.^nce, • Ottawa, 31st October, 1932 'Vfc- -*"•• M ^ggUfgmmmJ^ in'TMaifM RR i