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^l)je fkB\}cxim 'Mmnu* VOL; 59; NO. 44 FLESHERTON. WEDNESDAY. APRIL 10, 1940 W. H. Thurston & Son, Proprietors. Dies In United Sta^s Mr. Thomas Taylor of town receiv- ed the sad news last week of the death of his cousin, Thomas A. Taylor of San Diego, Calif., which occurred Good Friday morning. The late Mr. Taylor was born and grew to manhood near Mt. Zion in Artemesia Township and was the son of Thomas H. and Maria Taylor, pioneers of that neigh- borhood. He was in his 69th year. He attended Victoria Corners public school and also Collimgwood High School, afterwards going to Manitoba, where he resided at Winnipeg for a time, then moving to a large farm near Crystal City, where he farmed until 1926, when he sold and went to mourn his loss, his sorrowing wife, two daughters Ruby (married) and Pearl and one son, Milton. He also leaves two sisters, Carrie (Mrs. Will Duckett) of Eugenia and Susie (Mrs. G. Buchanan) of Saskatchewan and one brother, William, of San Diego, reside in California. He leaves to The funeral services were held on March 25th at 10 o'clock a.m. at Bonham Bros. Chapel, San Diego, with Rev. Geo. F. Williams officiating. Mr. Don A. Smith rendered a solo and Miss Jean Hervey Taylor was the organist for the hymns. Voting day is the one chance most of us have to make our mark in the world. Our material possesions, like our joys, are enhanced in value by being- shared. Hoarded and unimproved pro- perty can only afford satisfaction to a miser. Baptist Church Notes Minister: Rev. Fred Ashton A Services â€" Flesherton. Sunday 11 a.m. â€" Worship. 12 noon â€" Bible School. '^ p.m. â€" Gospel Service. Rock Mills: 2 p.m. â€" Bible School. 3 p.m. â€" ^Worship. William Hindle Pass^ On Wednesday morning of last week, following a short illness at the home of his daughter, Mrs. 'Wesley Brown, of Clarksburg, there passed away William Hindle, who would have been 85 years of age in July. Born near Georgetown in Peel County, he was one of a family of twelve child- ren, born to the late Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Hindle. He was married when a young man to Mary Cundle in Brampton, where they resided for some years, later moving to a farm in Osprey Township. In 1908 with their family they purchased a farm on the Manitoulin Island, were they re- mained until 1916. Then they return- ed to Clarksburg, where they made their home. Mrs. Hindle passed on in the spring of 1936. Besides one sister, Mrs. Esther Ellis of Brampton, the following child- ren are left to mourn his passing: Norman of Banks, William of Colling- wood, Albert and Edgar of Clarks- burg, Cephas of Proton Station, Wes- ley of Stratford, Bertha (Mrs. John Izai-d) of Feversham and .A.nn (Mrs. Wesley J. Brown) of Clarksburg. A devout Christian, he was for m^ny years a member of the Salva- tion Army, although he attended relig- ious services of any denomination whenever the occasion presented. Whenever illness invaded. the home of a friend the late William Hindle was always there to proffer his help and many a bereaved family will i-e- call his visits. The funenil of the late 'William Hindle was held Friday afternoon at the home of his son-in-law, Wesley J. Brown, of Clarksburtf, to Union ceme- tery, following a service at the houst at 2 o'clock. Deceased was a staunch member of the Mennonite faith and the last rites were conducted by the clergyman of that church. United Church MAXWELL CHARGE BEV. GEO. L. MERCER, BJ)., D.D. Minister SUNDAY, APRIL 14th. 1940 SERVICES: Eugenia â€" 11 a.m. Mt. Zion â€" 3 p.m. Maxwell â€" 7.30 p.m. United Church FLESHERTOrf Minister, REV. G. K. McMillan, b.a., b.d. Next Sunday services will be held as usual at the following hours: 11.00 a.m. â€" ^Worship, Flesherton. 12.00 â€" Sunday School, Flesherton. 2.00 p.m. â€" Sunday School, Ceylon. 3.00 p.m. â€" Worship, Ceylon. -, Sunday morning at St. John's Church the minister will take as his subject, "Daily Life With God," which will be a sequel to last week's su'jject "Religion and Life." At the evening hour of worship a song service of favorite hymns will be held. If you have a hymn you would like to sing, hand it to the minister some time before the service begins. These song services have been greatly enjoyed in the past. This one will be equally enjoyable. Welcome Sign Is Out With Europe's gateways closed to tourist traffic, it is expected that the coming tourist season in Canada will be one of the busiest on record. Tour- ists from the United States have the opportunity this year of observing a country at war going quietly and con- fidently about the work in hand. To- day United States money is at a ten per cent premium in Canada, while Canadian Customs restrictions are fewer, and highways, hotels and tour- ist camps better, than ever before. It is estimated that United States tourists spend in Europe each year nearly three hundred million dollars. Some of this money will no doubt be diverted to the tourist trade of Can- ada this year. United States tourists are learning, too, despite some ad- verse and misleading propaganda, that Canada at war is just as good a neighbor as Canada at peace, and that the flow of legitimte tourist ti"affic entering and leaving this country since its entry into the war is just as free. The welcome sign is out, nor has there ever been a better time for its display. INSURANCE Consult me on your needs for auto- mobile, burglary, cargo, guarantee Donds, liability, plate glass and fire insurance. Licensed Agent for the best companies. â€"HERBERT CORBETT, Proton Station, Ont. Phone Dundalk, 44r21. ^ Equipped to handle the finest service at moderate prices I Our Beautiful I Air I Conditioned I Funeral Chapel at FRED R. MADDOCKS. Associate 124 AVENUE ROAD TORONTO, Ont. I RICHARD MADDOCKS. <| Manater Member of the Flesherton Old B ovs' & Girls' Associatioa BATES & MADDOCKS Formerly of Flesherton. Ont. 124 Avenue Road. Toronto, Ont KI. 4344 | Why Health Services? (Contributed by Rural Folk School Committee) â- â€¢Public health is the foundation on which reposes the happiness of the people and the power of the country. The care of public health is the first duty of a statesman." â€" Disraeli. Rural people are scattered, it is hard for a doctor to reach them; rural people are poor, they cannot afford medical services; rural people are iso- lated. The problems of controlling food supply, and sanitation, is left almost entirely to the judgment of the individual, therefore, rural health is a su>bject that requires special study by farmers and statesmen, and it challenges the best efforts of the medical profession. It is a question of national importance. The fanner is haunted by the fear of the cost of sickness and hospital bills. He may scrimp and save â€" doing without medical examination, proper food, or hired help, in order that he can afford to pay those bills. Since most farmers cannot afford health services, and many who can af- ford them do not use them, the com- munity and the state must see to it that these services are within the reach of all, and within the cost of all. Health education, including nu- trition and prevention of disease, is necessary. Only when i-ural people have studied conditions, methods of solving them, only when they bring these conditions to the attention of the government, can eTective meas- ures be taken. Health laws are im- perative. Health organization in the fomi of municipal sei-vices, co-oper- ative hospitals and services, and com- munity clinics are neecied. • While to a great many people the need of Health Servics is apparent, yet to some it is still a ^"ague nonsen- sical idea. For such a few. figures compiled by the National Committee for Mental Hygiene will be enlighten- ing. The report is one of the most important documents ever published in relation to the health of the Can- adian people, as such, should gain the publicity due it. The committee found: Two percent of our population is constantly ill. Total cost of illness in Canada is 300 million dollars per year. One-half of the illness is prevent- able, and 34 percent of deaths are oostponable. We lose ten thousand Canadian babies needlessly. We lost ope thousand Canadian mothers in childbirth. The same year we lose three thous- and lives from tuberculosis. The question we lajTuen ask is the eternal "Why?," and ihe answer may be found in the same report. Whether wc believe it or not, finances do play a part in the medical care we receive. I quote: "One quarter of the people in Canada live in families which cannot afford the cost of ordinary medical care. They belong to the income group of $y50 a year, or less. Another ti5 per cent of our population can pay for ordinary services, but cannot, from their own incomes meet a prolonged illness or major operation." This (i5 per cent belongs to the in- come groups of from $950 to $2,800. It was significant that in the lower income groups the percentage of si?k- ners, disability and death, is greatest, and even in the hiffher income group- .surgical attention was often def-'rr.'i) because of fear of financial obligation Wc commonly hear the statement. "There are enough doctors in our towns and cities to have a private physician," but it has been discovere I that if the Canadian public could af- ford, and were using the medical pro- fession as it should, that at least 5.000 moi-e doctors would be necess- ary, an<l R.OOO more dentists. Appar- ently the distribution of physicians and dentists is determined more by opportunities to gain a livelihood than by actual medical needs. The time is ripe for a chang.e from the present chaotic system of medical organization to an integrated health program for the nation that will make medical care available to all the people and bring it within their finan- cial ability to obtain. Hitlar still think? he can dictate the peace terms for Europe. Under different circumstances, his egotism would be amusing. If the Dominion deserves a gover- nient pretty much all of the .<ame mind they have it now. A formid- able opposition is valuable in parlia- ment, but when the people decide against it what is to be done? "Loved ha J Day Of r- MisO. Macphail (By C. R. Blackburn, Canadian Press Staff Writer. First woman in the Dominion Parl- iament, winner of five successive gen- eral elections in her own riding but defeated in the voting of last March 26, Miss Agnes Macphail said Monday she would choose no other career if she had to do it over again. After 18 years in the hurly-burly of political debate, most of that time the only woman in the House of Commons, Miss Macphail said she had "loved every day of it," and would recom- mend parliament as a career for any woman with the mental and physical stamina to endure it. Miss Macphail was sorry that the people had rejected her after so many years, but she was cheerful and un- afraid of the task now facing her of ; starting, at 50, to find a new means 1 of livelihood. t "I told the people the truth at all tim^s," "and they say that the truth will make you free. Well, it certainly set me free." When Prime Minister Mackenzie King, a few minutes after the regular session opened last Jan. 25, told an iistonished House of Commons that there would be a Dominion election in March, Miss Macphail interrupted to prophesy that "the roads will be piled up fence high." Miss.Macphail's prophecy proved an understatement. She said her cam- paign had been fought over a district buried under a record-breaking snow- fall and that on election day the country roads could not be travelled even by horses. Elected first in 1921 as a Progres- sive for Grey-Southeast (now Grey- Bruce) Miss Macphail was returned under the same party label in 1925, 1926 and 1930. In 1935 she ran as a United Farmers of Ontario-Labor candidate and was given a substantia! majority. In the voting March 26 last, Miss Macphail was defeated by W. E. Harris, Liberal, who got 6.394 votes to 4,944 for the National Government candidate. Miss Macphail received 4,761 votes. Total vote in Grey-Bruce in 1935 was 18,037. as compared with 16,099 in last month's contest. Miss Macphail has been widely mentioned as a likely choice of the Prime Minister for some goveriunent post where her long experience in public relations with the people would be of value. She also has been men- tioned as a Senate possibility for one jf the two vacancies. A cause Miss Macphail advocated was prison reform and her attacks upon the administi-atoin of penal in- stitutions featured several sessions of parliament. It has been suggested that she might be appointed to the Penitentiaries Administration Com- mission which is to be created. Pausing in the task of clearing out Iicr desk, packing books, pictures and trinkets. Miss Macphai! told an inter- viewer something of her views and reactions as the pioneer woman in Parliament as an independent memlK^:- Miss Macphail said she had been reluctant to vote for Canada's pi»rti- L'ipation in the war. "But I came to he conclusion that, with at^ aggressor nation swallowing up smaller nations, we must .ari't together and help to ^top it," she said. "I am glad and proud that therti will still be a woman in the House of Commons. I have not met Mrs. Neil- â- ;en (Mrs. D. W. Neilsen, Unity, member-elect for North Battlcford) but I have heard much about her and 't sounds fine." Miss Macphail has no definite plans for the future. She was a school- teacher when first electe<l. She wil: not return to that. At pesent she plan.s to visit the west coast. "To get a job now, and to hold it, means that I must entirely start thinking about Agnes Macphail," she said. y D. E. SKELEY RECEIVES CONTRACT FOR HAl LING Trout Season Early The speckled trout season has been advanced by the Hon. Harry Nixon, Minister of Game and Fisheries, to Saturday, April 27th, the normal date for opening being May 1st. "May the first is on a Wednesday, and by advancing the season to the preceding Saturday we will be able to give anglers a little break over the week end," said the Minister. "We expect that it will be an exceptionally good season. There was a tremendous distribution of good-sized trout dur- ing the late fall." Figures released by the department showed that, during 1939, 3,324,344 fingerlings and yearling and adult fish were transferred from the hatchery ponds to Ontario streams. Distribu- tion was made in the proportion of 337,00 ftngerlings and 2,987,344 year- lings and adult trout. "The distribution of these larger fish is worth many times that of the small fry," said Mr. Nixon. "The.se fish are well developed and are able to take care of theni-selves and shbuld furnish splendid sport for anglers." Mrs. H. R. McLean Dies Mrs. H. R. McLean of Priceville passed away in a Toronto hospital early Tuesday evening of this week, where she had undergone an opera- tion. At time of going to press this Wednesday morning funeral arrange- ments had not been completed. Mrs. McLean was widely known and her death is a distinct loss to the com- munity. Presentation At Maxwell to .. Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Winters Mr. D. E. Seolcy of Maxwell receiv- ed the contract for hauling gravel and crushed stone in Collingwood Towniship at a recent meeting of the town.<«hip Council. Mr. Seeley will commence operations at the call of the road superintendent and continue until the contract is compI^ted. Hi will receive 8 cents per mile for thn first thi-ec miles and 6 cents per mU< over three miles. Other tenderer^ were C. Lockhart and E. .A. Teed. (By Maxw-ell Corespondent) On Friday evening the friends and neighbors of Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Winters gathered in the Orange Hall to spend an evening with them before their departure to their new home at Heathcote. The time was spent in dancing and social chat. After lunch was served Miss Kathleen Morrison read an address and two lovely chairs were presented to them. They both thanked their friends in a few well- chosen words. Mr. and Mrs. Winters and two little boys will certainly be missed, as they have always been will- ing workers in the community. ^ , New Roof Needed On Church Shed At a meeting of the Board of Stewards of St. John's United Church a week ago, consideration was given to the urgent necessity for a new roof for the church shed. It is obvious to everyone who has used the shed re- cently, that the roof is in very bad condition and unless some action is laken shortly it will be beyond repair. The Boanl felt that it is not the re- sponsibility of St. John's Church to see that this work is done. 'While the building is owntnl by the church, it is used by large numbers of people from near and far who come to the village to do business. The shed is used by the community, so they have decided' to bring this matter before the public and hereby announce their intention of seeking contributions from the farm- ers in the district, who use the shed so much, especially during the winter, â- ind from the merchants with whon' business is done. It is estimated that â- 1 new i-oof will cost about S300. .\nyone who wishes to make a con- ribution to the placing of a new roof in the church shed may give such to the church treasurer. Mr. F. W. Dun- .â- an who will set aside such donations to ho used for this purpose only. The Stewards of St. John's feel confident that the response to this appeal will he such that it will be possible to keep the shed open for the use of the gen- eral public. DEER ARE NUISANCE Down in the Cuckoo Valley a far- mer has been very anxious to protect the deer from hunters and dogs. Somehow the deer appear to have found this out and for the last week T so 8 to 10 of them have been pasturing on his wheat, and as the ground is very soft or wet they do >ome harm. Last night he erected two scare-crows, which appear to have had the desired effect. If this does not keep the deer away this farmer intends to secure neighbors to assist hira to drive the deer into the barn and keep them until the ground dries. Euchre And Dance In Toroflto April 29 Following the annual meeting of Flesherton Old Boys' and Girls' Assoc- iation held in Toronto recently, it was found that Mr. Hilliard LeGard was unable to act as secretary and at a eommittee meeting held Thursday Mr. Bert LeGard, son of Ah. LeGard, was appointe<i secretary and it is hoped that everyone will lend him every assistance in carrying out his duties, this being the first attempt in this field. By the way, Hilliard LeGard is a native of this district, despite our assertion that he was not. Mr. Burton E. Field, the new pres- ident and former secretary, informs us in a letter that there was a really good turnout at the committee meet- ing which was a great satisfaction to him in his first year. Mr. Field continued as follows: "We have secured Romona Gardens, 2771 A Bloor St., West, (immediately west of Durie St.) for the evening of April 29th, and have secured Jimmy Fry's orchestra for the occasion. Arrangements have been made for 11 little tap dancers to be present and little Lorraine Cook. 9 years old, will entertain at the dance and euchre. Prizes have been donated by certain members of the committee for the dance and euchre, as well as for a lucky number draw. Admission has been set at 50c, which should ensure a bumper crowd, which we hope will incluile a considerable delegation from the good old town of Fles'nerton, as we purposely set it for late in April to ensure that the roads would be passable, and thus avoid any danger such as occurre<l a few years ago, when practically everyone was snow- bound. I am not sure whether they have all reached home yet. In con- clusion. I wish to thank you for the valuable space you nave given us in furthering the" interests of the .Assoc- ation, and without which we would be unable to reach many of the former residents, by reason of their moving and failing to notify the secretary of the .Association, as a result of which, notices I have mailed are returned, and I have no means of ascertaining the new addresses. "If this reaches the eye of any who may fall in the above category. I sincerely hope they will notify me or secretary Bert LeGard, as promptly as possible, in order that they may receive an invitation when they are ready to mail; also, any residents of Flesherton and vicinitj- who have friends and relatives in Toronto, will confer a favor if they will notify me at 56 Younge Street, of their names and addresses. I sincerely hope the members will continue their interest in the .Association and bring it back to better days. With best regards to all of my Flesherton friends, I remain. Sincerely yours, â€" Burton E. Field, Pres. Vandeleur Public School (From September to March) Grade 8 â€" Frances Buchanan 78.5, Kay Ratcliffe 70.8, Muriel McGee 67.1. Dorothy Johnston 64.1, Helen Wyville 63.7, Vernon Fawcett 60.6. Grade 5 â€" R. J. Cargoe 60.6, Marie Johnston 56.5. Grade 4 â€" Marion Summers 72.2, John Fitzsimmons 68. Nelson Fitz- simmons 58.4, Elmer Cargroe 57.5. Grade 2 â€" David McGee 62.5, Lois Blackburn 62.3, Velma Kelso 57.1, Glenn Cargoe 48.3. Grade 1 â€" Donnie Johnston 75, Harvey Summers absent. â€" Harold J. Thompson, Teacher. ENGAGEMENT Mr. and Mrs. Frank Leavell wish to announce the marriage of their eldest daughter. Roberta Flora to Mr. Gordon Winfield Besse, only son of Mr. W. S. Besse and the late Mrs. Besse of Shanty Bay. the marriage to take place quietly .April 13th. Card of Thank* With the greatest appreciation and thankfulness to our many friends and neighbors for willing hands, kindness and flowers sent on the death of our dear baby. Flora Irene. â€" Lizzie and Harry Fisher. Man from Prince Albert has pro- duced what he calls a new Canadian dog. Perhaps, he got the notion during the election time when a good deal was said about the under dog.