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The new act, which was passed at the last ses- sion of the Provincial Parliament, provides that where the bonds have been approved and sign- ed tmder the old act, fifteen per cent. of the rate- payers can demand a new vote-and if the elect- ors caaaar-the new bv-law Hum nm “mum-.1 an All the necessary steps, such as passing the by- law, guaranteeing the bonds, etc., were taken by Grimsby under the old Hydro-Radials Act. All through this district there will be votes of this kind-such votes being brought about by the flying of petitions for that purpose. As far as I am concerned I have heard very little talk of any objection to the Hydro-Radials scheme in this town; but a petition has already been signed and flyed, containing more than suf- fieient names to bring on a vote-and accordingly, the Council will have to re-submit the by-law under the new act at the municipal elections on January first. a by-law under the new act on the question as to whether the Grimsby Hydro-Radial bonds will be approved or not. Grimsby is one of the municipalities that had passed the by-law and guaranteed the bonds and completed all of its share of the agreement. It enacts that all municipalities which have passed the toy-law and guaranteed the bonds,' under the old act, must re-submit the by-law if fifteen per cent of the ratepayers ask their council to do so. Many municipalities, however,' were in favor of going on with the scheme and prominent politi- cians and many newspapers were also in favor of the work proceeding-so that it looked, a year ago; as it the Hydro radial railway from Toronto to St. Catharines would be built in the near future. This situation brought about a new Hydro- Radials Act-c-and this act was passed at the last session of parliament, and is now in force. A petition sufficiently signed under the new law respecting it, has been. fyled with the Clerk of the Town ot Grimsby, asking the Council to submit Strong friends of the, 1rtrdro-Radials think that But the Provincial Government, under Premier Drury, did ta1re"steps in the matter-ig the first place, it was decided by the Government not to guarantee the issue of bonds for the purpdse of building the railways; it taking the stand that if "the municipalities wanted the railways they could stand on their own feet and get them without the guarantee of the whole Province. This, of course, was a direct slap at the scheme and at first it was thought that the project would be dropped by the' Hydro-Electric Power Commis- sion. 0:00.0- The Hydro-Radial Situation Had the Provincial Government not taken any particular stems in the matter, the Hydro-Radial railways from Toronto to St. Catharines would have ben built in due time--the only cause for delay -being the excessive price of materials and the exceedingly high cost of labor. Some three or four years ago all the municipali- ties from Toronto to the Niagara River passed by- laws in favor of issuing bonds guaranteeing the building of the Hydro-Radial rnri1ways----with the exception of the Township of Sa1ttleet and one other (Nelson, I think). Strong friends of the Hydro-Radials think that Premier Drury enacted this law as a sure moans ot defeating the Hydro-Radials projects. The one pecular thing about the bringing on of div $0.1 By Frank FairBorn n the past TELEPHONES-- Business Office, V 36; Editorial Office, 23 Members Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association, Member Selected Town Weeklies of Ontario. Member Grimsby Chamber of Commerce Issued every Wednesday from the Office of Publishers, Main and Oak Streets, Grimsby, Ontario TWO FAN CIES Established 1885 JAS. A.\LIVINGSTON & SONS, _ _ -.,. , --4. - N (IIUSUMO T 1 he old act, fifteen per cent. of the rate- L demand a new vote-and if the elect- the new_by-law£n the approval of J. ORLON LIVINGSTON, Editor ~0.(_0-0.0.0.0-0-0.0.0.1 "".o-r.o-o-o-o-oar-oq- THE INDEPENDENT JAS. A. LIVINGSTON, General Manager J. A. M. LIVINGSTON, FACTS THE PEOPLE'S PAPER 1,-0.4 , Becomes hall and void Owners and Publishers .0-0-0-U-0‘ Business Manager AND 0.0-0.0-(mo.o.ao:o ' -.o m Mo reoro It, This being the case, why is any corporation or any body of men working so strenuously and stead- ily, all the time, to retard and oppose and destroy, f possible, the Hydro-lp-rio, schemes? u“, rvvy‘v a y: Upcl L_tgtl LL18 pronTs made by any of the Hydro projects go directly into the hands of the people-mop- handles any money for any ot the business done under the Hydro systems ex- cept the municipalities and if there are any profits they go into the treasuries ot the various munici- palities for the use of the people. Had there been no Hydro, Grimsby would be paying, today, probably double or more for a much poorer service than it is now receiving. The Town of Grimsby has an excellent supply ot electric current, both for light and power-and the town of Grimsby does not receive its electric current from the Hydro-but the excellent service that Grimsby receives, and the low price at which it gets it, is due entirely to the Hydro. Hydro Has Helped Grimsby Why ‘men should band themselves together to tight Sir Adam Beck and the Hydro schemes is inexplicable to mty--there can be only one answer which comes to my mind, and that is that these men are self-seeking; that these men are not working tot the benefit of the whole people, but for the benefit of their own pockets-and therefore fall short, verffar short, of being in the same class of public benefactors as Sir Adam Beck. It the Hydro Radial's scheme was the project of some private corporation, I would immediately infer that it was some other private company that was putting up the money to oppose, retard, and, it possible, defeat the scheme-but the Hydro Radial's scheme belongs to the whole peopie--it is the pebple’s property-all the profits made try any But which ot the three did for Ontario what Sir Adam Beck has done .h-dt we compare the past et-. forts of the whole three combined they would tall far short fo the benefits conferred on this Province by the scheme which Sir Adam Beck de- vised and carried through to successful termina- tion during the past twenty years. We have had many good men in Ontario-our premiers in the past fifty years in this Province have all been men with good points-Sir Oliver Mowat, the Hon. George W. Ross, Sir James Pliny Whitney-were all men of outstanding ability and high-minded qualitties. Sir Adam Beck is only human, and like all other human beings he is liable to make mistakes, and I daresay he is not above criticism, but his opponents should at' least be reasonable enough to accord him fair criticism and a reasonable amount of credit for what he has done. If their object is such that they cannot reveal it in broad daylight to the people-it their cause is such that they cannot give a full explanation of it to the ptiople-it their plan ot campaign and the cause of their propaganda of abuse is a secret-- then it must be wrong, and does not deserve the support of fair-minded people. ---1 believe they are all being paid, aid if they are being paid, who is paying them? ? ? Now, the question arises on this point just as it arises on the finatyeial point: why such fierce op- postion to Sir Adam Beck? Why are these men spreading propoganda of this nature? What is their object? Who is paying them for it? What is the underlying reason? I am convinced in my own mind that Mr. Patti- son, and those working under him, in the circula- tion of petitions, etc., are not working for nothing To listen to these men, one would imagine that never in this world has there been such a villain as Sir Adam Beck-r-according to their everyday conversation he is a liar, a thief, tyrant and czar, bulldozer and overbearing brute. The next corporation that would be inclined to oppose the Hydro-Radials would be the Dominion Power and Transmission Company, Limited-but Mr. F. H. G. Pattison of the Township ofsaltneet informs me that for all the work he has ever done against the Hydro-Radials project, he has never received one cent from the Dominion Power and Transmission' Company, Limited. men, and why bodies of men, persistently and con- stantly disseminate propoganda against Sir Adam Beck and against the work that he is carrying on? Before the Hydro-Electric systems tor light and Although the Drury Government has always been unfriendly to the Hydro-Radials scheme,. yet I do not think it is possible it is putting up a fund to carry on the work of opposition to the Hydro- Radials that is now being carried on-thereto, I eliminate the Government. them? And the next question is: What is the object of any person or any corporation paying men to oppose the Hydro-Radials scheme? _ The peculiar feature about this is that it points to the fact that these outsiders must be paid for the interest they are taking in the matter and tor the work they are doing. What was the case in Grimsby was also the case in other municipalities-the agitation for the new vote being started-not by residents and ratepay- ers of the various municipalities, but by outsiders. The vote in Grimsby was brought about by a man living in the Township of Saltfleet, and the petition itself was teircu1ated by a man neither a resident nor a ratepayer in the Town ot Grimsby, but a resident of an outside municipality. these votes is the fact that the petitons, as a gen) eral thing, are not put in circulation by citizens or ratepayers of the municipalities concerned, but by outsiders. Now, if these men are being paid, who is paying r"'"""""""'"--" - 'Br""'""""'"'""'."""'"'"" EIE INDEPENDENT, GR ASBY, ONTARIO They state: "We iiavis raiIVGays enough now fact too many of tPP-an/tPI this I will ad they may be correct-Uwe grab-ably have railw: enough, but what we need very badly, and t which we have not, is raiiwa» gnawing, To James blacksmith I repair, to have him shoe my old blind mare, since she is going lame; and when his useful toil is done, and I am handing out the mon, he says, "I'm glad ydu came; I have an ode I wrote last year; I wish you’t read it while you’re here, and tell me what you think; is it a grand and soaring song? Is it too short Is it it too long? 'Or is it on the blink?" The tin- smith, ere he mends my boat, pulls out a bundle from his coat, a bale of manuscript; "Sit down," he says, "and read this lay, while‘I repair your ancient dray, that is so badly hipped." The tailor, as hel plies his tape, remarks, "I wish I could escape from this depressing trade; the odes and madrigals I write would bdacknowledged out of sight, iffby good critics weighed." The bar- ber,cas he dyes my beard, quotes passages from poems weird,-that he composed yest'reen; "with all my being I aspire," he sadly says, "to punch a lyre, but ah, the facts are mean!" The waiter brings me ham and eggs, and, as I pat, he mildly begs five minutes of thy time; he'd have me read a little book he wrote conjointly with the cook, and which he thinks sublime. Oh, poets sell me oil and gas, and poets mow my stretch of grass, and poets shine my shoes and each one thinks his noble dope would rank with that of Burns or Pope, if he but had his dues. i Now all of this will be freely admitted by the very men who are now strenuously opposing the Hydro Radials schemas-they will admit that the Hydro-Electirc system of current for light and power is all right and has been a big benefit to the people, but they say "we do not need Hydro Radials." But the opponents of “the Hydro Radials say that the Grand Trunk System is going to eloctrify its road---BUNKUM. GEMS OF SONG This is why the Ni Hydro Radial service. With a Hydro Radial, cars could be load points east of Grimsby at twelve o'clock, t and five o'clock, and the fruit could be in ton just as quickly as it now reaches th by the Grand Trunk fruit train. -- What is true of Grimsby is true ot almost eyery municipality in the Province-ot Ontario-the Hy- dro-Electric is either supplying' first class service at a reasonable price, or it has compelled the private corporations to supply a better service than they formerly did at a lower price. I Even in Grimsby no fruit of any account can be picked after twelve o'eloek and hauled to the sta- tion in time for shipment, so the only points in the Niagara Peninsula that receive a reasonable railway service for fresh picked fruit are Winona, Stoney Creek and points around the lake. So that nearly all the fruit picked at pOints east of Beamsville has to be held over for Shipment next day. _ At St. Catharines fruit growers have to leave their orchards with their fruit at ten or ten.. ‘thirty in the morning in order to reach the fruit train in time, and on a morning when there has been a heavy dew or even a light rain, what fruit can be picked and packed before ten o'eloek? Under the present system is practically impossible, to points east of Beamsviti5 on is picked. The competition of the Hydro-El the Cataract Power Company to give service at a low price. In tact, all points from Be msvdlle east there is no railway service for perishable products worth speaking about. [ There probably is not, in_t“_le whole world, a worse railway service for p 'riSrhable products than is provided by the Grand Trunk System be- tween Nlagara Falls and Han lton. The Hydro-Electric systemrwias directly re- sponsible for this great benefit that was conferred upon the people ot Grimsby and the adjoining municipalities. Our council very wisely imm iately accepted the agreement and ever since" gait time the citi- zens of Grimsby have had, an xce-llent electric service for all purposes-and gt a reasonable price. . l lpn knafws, we, have ennuo- This new agreement was sub tted to the Chief Engineer of the Hydro-Electric _ stems, and after a thorough examination of it,' he; notified our then village council to accept the agri ment at once, as it was as favorable or even mo e favorable than the Hydro systems could offer. a As soon as the Hydro-Electrl' systems were in shape to offer this locality hydffcurrent for light and power, the Cataract Poweidbompansr (or the Dominion Power and Transmtiiah Company Lim- ited,) submitted a new turrssiiiilk'ii' for the supply of electric current in' Grimm?» I d vicinity, and I presume also in Beamsvilieamfvicinitsr. way, with a light and power v' "vice for which the citizens were paying a very}: igh price. The facts of the case a' ts tohows: Under the old regime and before the Hydro (systems became aggressive, the Hamilton Catarabt Power Com- pany was supplying Grimsby, in: very inditierent way, with a light and nnwm‘ r' Winn for “IMF" In fact, all points from Be power came into operation, Griashy was paying a very stiff price for a very poc “electric service. Today Grimsby is paying a ver low price for a very high class and excellent rvice. And the Hydro-Electric is responsible {r this changed condition of affairs. l PP-an/trut this I will admit 2t---1we probably have railways we need very badly, and that is railway service. agar a Peninsula needs Hydro-Electric forced ot the fruit train, it ship any fruit from the same day that it true ot almost eyery of Ontario-their 1g first class service has compelled the number one added at all , two, four in Hamil- that point and God 'CYTr M (1'! ,in a For example: In Austria the con- sumption of narcotic drugs is less than one grain per capita per year; in Italy, one per cent; Germany, two per cent; Portugal, 3 per cent., and the Continent ot North America, 72 per cent. Last year Germany used 7,000 pounds of cocaine and the United 's'-"------'-,-,.-,",,--.:,'.--, .‘A-.;QnQQQ_ The question is sometimes asked: What is money worth? And the ans- wer is that money is like any other commodity, for its value depends on the demand for it, because money is simply a business tool and nothing more. The real way to figure the, value of money is to ask what it will buy. If an investment of $500,000 will make for you $1,000,000 , Y011 can af- ford to pay out $250,000 to the man law of the universe, some Worse temptation will take its place. Drink is one of the ordinary temptations of life and its artificial removal does not build up character but destroys it. Those, in favor of prohibition prOphe- sied that crime in both Ontario and Canada Would greatly decrease after its adoption, whereas crimes in On- tario in 1916 totalled 41.722, and last year they reached the huge total of 74,127. In the Dominion, crimes in 1917 totalled 117,906, and in 1921, 182,647. _ So their prophecy is all wrong, but what about the writer's? Mrs. Murphy laid strong emphasis on the fact that the drug scourge threatens the foundation of Canadian society; in fact the whole Anglo-Sax- on race on this continent. She quot- ed figures from different countries showing that 90 per cent. ot the drug addicts are English-speaking and 90 per cent. ot the drug peddlers are ot foreign extraction. And that it is no part ot God's plan that any of the ordinary temptations should be removed by artificial means, as it were. And that consequently if anything of the kind be at- tempted, automatically by an essential fijji,'iiii',ii il':tittiecrf, wwlomm m _ n smuggled 3 into the U.S.A., which is more than four times the _ amount just mentioned. Besides all this, the Chicago chief of police has recently made the deliberate state- ment that within a circle including Chicago and some of the near-by cities there are over a million drug addicts today. Mrs. Murphy very pertinently asks the following question: Why. should these Anglo-Saxon nations be- come drug fiends while Europe re- mains free? - In a certain Book, that is not as much studied nowadays as it ought to be, it is related that Satan-or the evil ppinciple---sometimes appears as ‘an afgel of light. And that is just the case here; prohibition is an evil in principle and yet it has been pre- sented in such a plausible way as even to fool some of the churches. Some six years ago the writer predict- ed that should- prohibition ever be adopted on this continent, as a sup- posed cure of the drinlr.evil, that something ten times worse would take its place. And here it is knocking at the door. And why did the writer prophecy this? Because he consider- ed that the principle of prohibition directly violated one of the laws of the universe. In this way'. Practical- ly all religions, and most systems of philosophy, teach that man was plac- ed on this earth to develop character, and that is the reason why he has the choice between good and evil, and also why trials and temptations are pro- vided. In view of the fact that prohibition- ists are making desperate efforts to clear themselves from the charge that the enormous increase in the use of habit-forming drugs during the last tive years is both directly and indireet- ly attributable to prohibition, the fol- lowing facts related to a large audi- ence in Toronto recently by Mrs. Mur- phy, an admitted authority on the subject, are of peculiar interest. . It will at once be notied that all the countries mentioned as free from this terrible habit are countries where wine and other liquors are more or less freely used. And to say the least, it is a remarkable co-inci- dence. The writer is of the opinion that while it is hardly possible to de- clare that this state of affairs has been directly caused by prohibition, indirectly it is probably responsible, as he will attempt to show. oh---- NOTES AND COMMENTS ON CURRENT EVENTS "Now abideth faith, hope,' love, these three; but the greatest of these is love."--); after love."" This is not written to dead men. If one is to follow after love, love must be a person. "God is Love". So we are to follow after God. But how can we? Jesus Christ is God, and He said to His disciples, "Follow me." Thus Paul's command and that of Jesus agree, and in following Christ we will be following love. But there is much too loose talk about following after Christ, and the admonition is thrown out most generally as though all could follow Him. Surely dead men cannot follow, and the world is full of dead men-dead in sins. .- No matter how full of animal life you may. be, Mr. Christ-rejector, you’re dead by reason of that very sin of Christ-rejection. Love has come near to you and now simply bids you believe that Jesus Christ who died and rose again did so to save you from your sin. Believe that in your heart and you're alive; and then you can use your feet and follow Him. Oh what a joy it is to walk after Christ even when the way is difficult and the light of God's word shows only a step or two ahead! Follow after love, you men who have had love born in you. 'l Cor. 13:13, 14:1. Copyright 1921---J. A. R. BY PETER PETERKIN mat Sg tups agnut- FOLLOWIKIG LOVE 'o-o-r-o-o-at-tit-o-i-rr, -o-o-occr Physiological practitioner (drug- less), now located in Stephen Block, near Village Inn, Grimsby, Ont. "Boy," he said, "ain't I done" tole you not to eat so much cane? Don't you know cane killed Abel?" Monday, Wedneesday -tind Friday. Hours: 2 to 8.30 p.m., or appointment. In Louisiana, during the grinding season, the negro children eat sugar- cane in abundance. One day an old negro was heard reprimanding a boy whom he saw eating cane after cane. gether the last few days, it is impos- sible to get' everything handled and somebody is bound to be disappointed. day's festivities are over. t Mail early, and see that your friends get your, Christmas greeting before the day's tetstivitierare over.' . Parcels should in all cases be Be- curely packed so as to preserve the contents from loss or damage. It is permissible to write the words "DopVopen until Christmas" on liar- cels. " A firm once advertised that for the sum ot 50 cents it would send a re- cipe, which, if followed to the let- ter, would keep anyone from grow- ing old. Some credulous persons answered the advertisement, remitting the required fee, and received the fol- lowing reply: "We would advise all such idiots as you to commit suicide at the age of twenty-five." MAIL YOUR CHRISTMAS PARCELS EARLY ' Remember that thousands of other people are mailing an unusual num- ber of letters and parcels, too, at this season, and if they all pile up to- Friday, November M, 19fN--On this date I shall sell by public auction at the home of Mrs. Norman Wallace, Stoney Creek, a quantity of house- hodl furniture. Everything will be sold without reserve, as the owner is moving away. Sale at 1.30 p.m. Terms, Cash. P. Felker, Clerk; James A. Livingston, Auctioneer. Saturday, November 21U-.on this date I will offer all the household furniture of Mrs. Sidney Pooley, "The Old Rectory," Main street west, for sale by public auction. Everything will be sold without reserve as the owner is moving away. Sale at one o'clock.. sharp. Terms cash. See bills. Jas. A. Livingston, Auctioneer. A woman was arguing with a mere man. “Really, now," she said, "don't you think, on the whole, that women have cleaner minds than men?" "Well," answered the brute, "They ought to; they change them often- er." I was very much interested 'to. see tha account in your paper a few weeks ago about the finding of the old tun- nel under the road in front of E. J. Palmer's residence and wish to tell you that I crawled through that tun- nel a great number of times when I was a boy, living in the north end of the old house just south ot E. J. Pal- ber’s place, and which was torn down partly when the H. G. & B. was built, and later all of it when Livingston avenue was cut through. Regards to. all, _ 7 JAS. A. HEWITT who furnishes you with the money, and he is e-ntieled to a reasonable profit on the tool which he sells you for your use. In other words, the price of money is simply a question of supply and demand, and the price of merchandise and everything else is governed in the same way, and no matter how many laws are placed on the statute books you cannot get away from that principle. - The Independent, Grimsby, Ont. Sirs:---Inc1osed find my check for two fifty (2.50) in payment of my sub- scription to The Indepyndent to April 15,1923. _ jlllflllhl SALE HATES DR. CHARLES SPARHAM '_-ti-o-o-tte Elyria, Ohio, Nov. 13, 22 >0.(_0.0.0-0< MacKAY, MacKAY & PERRIE Dominion Land Surveyors, 0m Land Surveyors, Civil Engineers James J. MacKay, Ernest G. may. William W. Perrie Phone Regent 4766 72 James M. N. Home Bank Building Hamilton . " - " 'tme-aa. f Nell Ottiee. Phone 72 Residence G. Arthur Payne & Son Funeral Directors and Licensed Embalmers - e-'" Motor Hearse Barrister, Solicitor, Notary Public " Federal Life Building Hamlin]! _ V -- - -v'vvvvvvvvm Miss Jones' Private School for .girls and boys, top of Mountain street. Grima- by, will open on September 5th. Morning and afternoon classes. Classes for very young children mornings only; all the usual subjects taught, in- cluding French. Music by Mrs. W. E. Johnson, wt the school and practice hours at school can be arranged. For further .t"p,,rtig1,1.1,.evr,',t,y, apply to Miss Jones, phone . Pl -Y'imn 17 375, Grihigby (Pupil ot Laura Miller, A.C.A.M.) Elocutionist Classes now being conducted 'at Mrs. Thos. J. Stephen's, Depot street, Grimsby. Phone 72. We. shall be pleased to call at your home and give you an esti- mate on repairing and upholsfw- ing your furniturd. You will find our prices moder- ate. All work guaranteed. Grimsby I. B. ROUSE (Globe Optical) "", Optician " King " East; Hamilton Established, A. D. 1901. Office Hours-tgo to 6; 8.30 to 9 on Saturdays. G. B. McCONACHIE Barrister, Solicitor, Notary Public Money to loan at current rates ottiees---Grimsto and Bonneville CALDER & HAZLEWOOD 7 PHONE NO. 7 TO COVER PRESENT VALUE OF PROPERTY? Fire,-Life, Accident and Automo- bile Insurance Transacted Promptly and Efficiently Wednesday, November 22, 1922 GRIMSBY R. C. CALDER Barrister, Notary Pnbllq Money to Loam, Office: Main Street. Gr Jes bR. VANCE R. FARRELL Dentist Extraction with gas 'Phone 92 for appointment Office - - Farrell Block '. ARTHUR PAYNE & SON Hi'urniturts Dealers UPHDLSTERINB HENRY cARVENiirii MARRIAGE LICENSES 'h"""-'"'------.-,,,- W. F. RANDALL HAVE YOU ENOUGH INSURANCE Issuer of Marriage Licenses Council Chambers Grimsby, Ontario FUNERAL DIRECTORS {ea LOUISE MARSHALL LAND SURVEYOR PRIVATE SCHOOL BLOCUTIONISi am Street, Grinsby Phone 7. LEGAL Night calls 201w Maple Avenue Public, etc. ihimstsr Ontario mash: ONT. tn tlt tlf tlt fl! tlf tlt tig