The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

MMBmw_dm- ing dependent, and true dependence leads always to the most perfect independence. Under this heading, the Barrie (Ont.) Examiner insists it "does not want any specâ€" mmvneguummofthem“ncfl. We want only the same rights that should be accorded every taxpayer, the same rights g:lti t:“n.uken for granted in other municâ€" The question of the rights of the public hnuendinxmcdlzfolthem eouncil has been raised by the Examiner in connectâ€" jon with a local ruling which makes it lawâ€" ful for the mayor "to order the doors of the eouncil chamber to be closed and when the doors shall be directed to be closed, all perâ€" sons, except the members and the clerk, shall retire." o t . o When any government, whether a vilâ€" on io oo i on nhudie the Iesloese of begins to feel it can handle the of ahflh tomttbeirb-dn::’:. cfiqm;u&‘nnl:u"t:nhm” The Barrie Examiner‘s action is a classic example of a nation‘s free press serving its ;-Hiebyfiviuflnwamiufl:ulanlm autocracy in the government. THOSE JANUARY SALES Any Canadian male who still refers to women as the weaker sex obviously has not been mixed up in that remarkable social mglldfbeh.nur!nk. According to the dictionary a sale is a public event in which goods are offered for purchase to buyers. _ January is the first month of the year. These two simple facts when separated are not so exciting, but just perdan pannr d 106 bot brother for the nearest exit. ie With fire in her usually benign orb, the Canadian housewife takes what is left of the household money after Christmas and adâ€" vances purposefully towards the nearest Janâ€" ....g’.""*'" i cinlly youp in the bige :szmefulunnmmoneuni the shrewd and hardy shopper. Many a ::rtwm hh:‘e;‘vhg fah:prlmmeomm prices they or Decemâ€" ber with sale prices. p C e m-mu-_-fluf-p.mm Merchants use the Jan sale to clear their shelves for spring. D“:mz the war when goods were in short supply, and since, as manufacturers have been catching up with demand, these January sales have not Winthdr offerings as the bargainâ€"hunters would like. Indiâ€" eations are that this year they will smack of the old preâ€"war days when variety was and staying power was as important as ying power. C A C Says the Examiner: -mm-mnnrmdmnw- cqm.nâ€"lwhgmntlm'“ m.m;mu. would appear to be contrary to the Ontario Municipal Act which states: ‘The ordinary mecting of every .-dl‘llhq-ndu’mndlku- cluded therefrom except for improper conduct. “dhnfififlm not happy about being excluded council meetings. Some of the counciliors believe they have more freedom of discussion and can handle the :-'-_u;.wmmwm sion to remain throughout the entire council mhhmmw of being T a privilege that is not accorded any Many Canadian housewives deliberately :dcetfwlnnf-nksndmenprufia "Ehmn' ousehold supplies. Others who counted on certain gnunta and were disappointed find that in the excitement of the sale, they can satisfy their wants. The bargain hunting instinct, while not listed by scientists in the qualities woman was born v&bmhlyruebauhlflm of deâ€" velopment and expressiof g the first month of each year. _ He has d his d horse for blind one. thang‘ ane y * Fools make feasts, and wise men eat them. hecriptionâ€"$2.50 in Canada and $3.00 Pur year in Unityd States, payable _ FACTS & FANCIES Member. Canadian Weekly Newspaper o Association J..ORLON LIVINGSTON, Editor. (Financial Post) THE PUBLIC when the headlines of our daily newspaper particularly tell of disastrous fires in homes, nprtnenthouundb-bur“?‘ we cannot completely remove danger fln.n’e’ndongrzstd.lw.vddm this menace to life and property. m‘i&mic;y;fiffifltoudm of us to keep it so. One has only to recall the serious blazes that have occurred in other municipalities during winter months to reaâ€" lize that fire is not a respect of persons or municipalities. We have been exceedingly fortunate to date and it is worth while to keep conditions so favorable. _ equipment and a wellâ€"manned department. Bntthhnfl-entwmnotmlh:n is only after one does start. In the interests of safeguarding property and lfe, may all of us do our part in making fire preâ€" Who is the man when the siren calls, And the fire rages, till the building falls, Will stay on the job, and he never stalls? W'hohthemon:enldwiuwnmt. In the snow and the sleet and winds 1s willing to battle with all his might ? Who is the man while others sleep, In their snug, warm beds ‘neath the covers Will spring out of his couch in a single leap Who is the man without hope of reward, May endanger his life or his good reâ€" the Civil War. (By John Gould in Christian Science notion that a woman had to take her apron Monitor) off when somebody came to the door. "Oh, A note in the women‘s section that moâ€" there‘s a mi@n at the door," Grandmother ther‘s aprons are to be glamorized seems to would say when a peddler knocked, and she impart little jubilation to my sated outlook, mmnuflfihfl»nlndhritonmdnk and I am not impressed: Aprons, or as we Shelf she opened the door. With the mt Mn h me e e son, in reep ns ons o mtomtete f to L223 3. OIEL wink ameer -m‘nfion fl'!:l' ‘o" y ‘_“‘t'he MHSo §ush !i‘. M L say in Maine, ap‘ns, are an old story, and it shouldn‘t be hard to find glamor enough for everybody without any attention from thomodnorhuu&%ywflfm worker. Aprons have, indeed, been too much glaâ€" morized in recent years, as I have already reported here with sufficient attention, by the development of the coloured grain bag. During the war, when percales were off the market.fnrmlodsmeomh&i:mwfifâ€" ed bags that looked more wallpaper samples than the customs and usages of an era called for. / F m n 4# * â€"â€"_ _ There was a time when a certain kind of glamor was aroused, or induced, or whatever p1aZCOOE NTB EEECPGENIOERg NC RAHCTC O C the word is, the duckâ€"onâ€"theâ€"rock scrimâ€" muetlntp&d out a little boy‘s shirttail and the cheering fans of the fifth and sixth grades, feminine gender, were treated to the red-leturdonn.“hyorBut!"Butldoubt if that is a glamor in the same range and eategory as that nticiput«edwz presentâ€"day colorâ€"scheme artists who in to glamorize ap‘ns. Somehow I doubt it. _ 4 d hhoss oA e c omcs in dn o te + i Yet, somehow 1 feel this advancement is retrogression, because "Lay or Bust" was a good slogan. It meant a t deal out here in the country, and our fiv- were enriched to a forgotten degree by the thrift and perâ€" spicacity that put the textile to good use. H y eA eR e o9 i There was, I think, an aura of glamor that modern living can‘t compete with in the sudden appenrance of Father, one morning at 2 a.m., after a class ride had outlasted itâ€" lel!nnrvdoul{!whmlwhiffktmhokeon Hardpan Hill e arose 4o come down in the kitchen and inquire with fatherly concern where in umfllon we‘d been until this unâ€" urthlyhonr.andthefmntofhhwcoo- lidge nightshirt proclaimed jubilantly Pillsâ€" bury‘s Best. & There was something about it, I‘m sure. Fathernfindufin.lnghdmofthem cbenbyhhthmddstaffiw‘lng.whomn- ed to think this advertising at 2 a.m. was more hilarious than he did. i _ But when feedbags took on glamor, apâ€" brq:hinmflde. Sol:onofmwh:;; 1m£'m.nm the popular The Fireman. The Volunteer Fireman. 18 the time of year THE GRIMSBY.INDEPENDENT _ "Whose 50W ;s that, Sam?" asked the flnutioawrerumy.dmv:on. # « & ‘"Why, dat‘s my sow," ns:uud Sam. # # *Whose corn fed that sow?" asked his employer. "Ah reckon Â¥ ; * is 4 it was youah co‘n, Suh, SIX O‘CLOCK TOWXN _ Merchants in one Canadian town have learned how to gamage it as a shopping cenâ€" tre. & seems that two or three years ago, WheR customers were kind and anxious, these merchants decided they weren‘t going to stay open Saturday nights any longer, nohow. Farmers would just have to come to town in al _1 12230 c 24 ca0 h bcrcindiihtcnthin in upanty Ti Â¥t x whether or not they had to rush righs tothn:i!k and 't.d the s}wkhO:M iss pleasant lateâ€"evening hours meeting folk from the other concessions. . One merchant refused to go alone with the others. He kept his store open, though business fell off, because people weren‘t goâ€" ing to that town just to shop at one store, and not a very big store either. The same merchant owns two other Mu.uehinuto'nmhranyutime is reckoned in these days of paved roads and decent cars. And this merchant who, like all good.nuehnts.lnsakeellmfortbemuic dtbeeuhrqmerutwork.repomwathis sales in the two Saturday night towns went up nicely week by week and have stayed up, while in the town where the merchants went modern, Saturday sales dropped ‘way down. "The town, where of a Saturday parking space used to be as scarce as a buggy, became as quiet as a Sunday in Fergus. Advertising fell off in the local newspaper. Bank manâ€" agers became a little less smiling. And the merchants among themselves beran to wonâ€" Ger who the heck had the idea in the first ‘Thev‘re all running oldâ€"fashioned stores again. Open on Saturday night to serve country people who want to buy on that night. But all is not well, yet, for some of the old customers have come to like shopping in one or other of the towns. And a shopping habit, like others, is often hard to break. One historian says that the late Timothy Eaton had a fetish that customers must come first in his mind and he was always anxious to have the goods they wanted. at the price they could pay, and he was willing to serve them at any reasonable hour they wished to be served, excepting Sunday but including Saturday night. There‘s an allegedly modern idea, born in the mind of some lady merchant, that the customer will be ready with cash in The p_°_" stt o * pon tat e happens, O Wh the women 41 â€" AME P00 0g20 s # 4 , is still a questionable article “u:th::hrnormmm'tmw mmswninthem. I don‘t know what mormtumppoudtohmhut fi.malluytlut. This indicates that glamor an apron is not a quality to be fiamen ‘lnd that while glamorized aprons *‘ fine for answering the door, attendâ€" wuu.uidw-finztofnn;&igsmdfim. ty aren‘t necessarily a ve thnthotunumwmbeonthem suppertime. So, as I say, I am unimpressed. . ""l'i_"thlnkh{" king hbout apron lore, 1 seem to remember the pocket in Grandrtnother‘s apron, in which a child could find heartsâ€" desires to numberless quantities. My first mmofuw Astrachan apple is of one I { inth::&oehtâ€"chchadmdm to dump the to the pigs and came back to way of the Astrachan tree at just that by way year. 1 don‘t suppose the few momâ€" time of he pof.kd}ndded anything to the fiaâ€" ents in thbe they just added glamor. vorâ€"mayGrandmother‘s apron was coarse But hâ€"not a pucker, pleat or tuck, not white clotr a pattern, not even bias binding a design astitching. It was an apron she or feath@¢o r:-h:m lwve“ln. ‘?nd :he did-â€"wl:h could % ere isn‘t an apron in ,hm":pchlly glamorized world today that this artifith the charm and wonder of that old white â€" impressed. imnrassed. We sneaked up behind her and unâ€" immm-,..;n, lhere“pm even glamor in tied the : she gave us behind the ear with the m‘*»lo-â€"vhlch is an element of glamor her thimpDect the modern experts to underâ€" 1 don‘t q:g“‘n youvh:;"lpvill do. :':2 :fimh?re'-r'lm'l&lflheu?.lhwm glamor where there is a pocket ""b‘mi"'s one of Grandmother‘s molasses 'P"‘: Not too snappy, not too softâ€"real that ddnndr-ld:g:.'hkdbyfluenâ€" ml :. J know the glamor lies in ful. 1 think an apron Sam hesitated and then said: "Dat‘s "Then whose tenone of Grandmother‘s. So 1 am not imstic apron, which is ideally subâ€" sow is it ?" They say the cost of living hope the slip shows. _ home the man. Women‘s skirts are longerâ€"&ano al pFe®U® priece tbep sre mvarteg thes Jobest: A Texas man has trained a pig to pull him in a cart to and from town. Thus the bacon brings Mbmywu.\wue-rmm is uninteresting. Blizzard, rain, thaw uand freezeâ€"up all in the space of a couple of days. Ugh! f No one knows how many Canadians ahovel their own graves every winter. Middleâ€"aged and older men, not in condition through exercise, throw themâ€" dmm&mmmm-mhfldm ling snow. Snow must be cleared, but it should be done easily and with help, or heart attacks may reâ€" sult. Mkflnm!hn:m'bpnh my SMART DRESSERS hand when the merchant gets good and ready to unlock the door. There are others, of course, who recollect that Mr. Eaton, with his idea that a mexchant owed a duty to the pubâ€" lic, was one of the most spectacularly sucâ€" cessful merchants in this or any other counâ€" trv.â€"The Printed Word. Muemstobethefimeofryurvm someone starts publishing lists of the bestâ€" dressed women of the year. We don‘t profess to follow the lists very closely from year to year, but it seems that the names are very familiar. Each list seems to consist of ten _WEGM' ealthy men, perhaps in a erent order each season. _ In the first place, how does anyone go M*%M’lmw women from millions of smartlyâ€"garbed females adorning the American scene? And secondly, why in the world shouldn‘t a wealthy woman be extremely well dressed? With a budget of tens of thousands a year for clothes, we ourselves could get turned out in mighty pretty feathers. â€" What they ought to do is select the ten bestâ€"dressed girls who work for $80 or $40 a week in the thousands of offices through the country. Or the bestâ€"dressed woman whose husband has:only a small income, and who hutomnhmnndhokflertvoorth:; youngsters. That‘s where lmmlty the taste come into play, among the girls who always look wellâ€"dressed and wellâ€"groomed, with perhaps only two or three outfits in CHEAP INSURANCE There have been few complaints over the extra 50 cents which has been tacked on to drivers‘ licenses in Ontario this year, once the motorists understood what the money is to go for. The levy is used to create the Unsatisfied Judgments Fund, whereby the government itself meets the unsatisfied judgments arising out of traffic accidents. If you are injured by Joe Blow‘s car, and Joe Blow has no liability insurance and no money, as is often the case, you find it useless to sue, because you can‘t eollect. But now you can sue, get judgment, and the government pays you out of this fund. Joe Blow does not escape just because themvmeehumidhlldebt.flehm denbflvenwudnfinhuherd the ment for what it spent on his beâ€" half, and gives proof that in the future he will be able to meet his own obligations. That‘s cheap insurance protection for 50 cents. BETTER TIMES Sotial life moves faster in modern times. At parties in Juwday'l home, there was no music till the hostess had taken half an hour to persuade some girl to play the piano. Reluctance of the girl to play did not arise from shyness. Once the music began, everybhody danced except her. She had to sit out every dance on the piano stool. _ _ _ When the girl at the piano stopped playâ€" ing, the whole crowd gathered around her to tell her how good she was. The other girls in particular were most complimentary in their remarks. They were dancing into roâ€" mance arhile she was gliding into obscurity. Invention of radio came as a happy reâ€" lease both for the orator on the platform and the girl at the piano, Music could be switchâ€" ed on as readily as light. No argument was required. No fair guest needed to desert the bunch in order to sit on the bench. i " Lk.‘ MAIN= S|REET is slipping. Let‘s 4 & ~â€"Old Dobbin had his faults but he didn‘t produce a breed of hitâ€"andâ€" PHONE 707 GRIMSBY 42 Main W. BARRISTER, soLICiTOR, 25 Main Street, West 1 / _ GRIMSBY Start The New Year 3 Main St. w 271 6t. Paul St. ® * ST. Carnarings® *"** _ E.A BUCKENHAM BUN LIFE OF CANADA « DAILY JOURNALS J. B. McCAUSLAND CALENDAR PADS HAROLD B. MATCHETT BARRISTERS, sOLIC:ToRs, NOTARIES + REAL ESTATE and all kinds of Dr. D. R. COPELAND, STEVE ANDREYCHUK Store in The Bruit Belt" GEORGE 1. GEDDES BULOVA, ELGIN, ELCO :.Am Hours $:00â€"12:00 1:30â€"4:00 Closed Saturdays At Noon Open Wednesday Afternoon T. R. Be GORA, B.A. Watch Clock And At 42 Main St. w. CriImsey Saturday Afterncon 2 â€" ACCOUNTANTS Tax Returns and 12 Main St. Wes GRIMSBY ‘Telephone 680 HALLIDAY OPTOMETRIST Law Office of St. Catharines (Vision Speciatist) OPTOMETRIST INSUVRANCE PHONE 326 ‘ An Appointment GRIMSBY D. D. 6. â€"â€" Saturdays 9â€"12 PHONE 811 P