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\S'EDNESDAY, MAY 10, 1933 THE FLESHERTON ADVANCE J THE FLESHERTON ADVANCE ! PTib!ishcd on ColiingwooU street, I Flesherton, Wednesday of each week. Circulation over 1000, ! Price in Canada f2.00 per year, I when paid in advance ^1.50. In j paid in advance |2.0U. I U. S. A. $2.50 per year, when .W. H. THURSTON, T. J. THURSTON, - - - Editor Assoc. Editor EDITORIAL ITEMS George Bernard Shaw declare "Democracies talk too much." By that same token, most of us believe, 80 doe-s George. • * • "He who sleeps peacefully, lives lonR," declares a famous doctor. How can we profit by this advice while there is no means of suppressing the midnight auto tootist? • • • A United States scientist has just estimate the universe* is five billion years old. He may l>e right. We have no evidence that his estimate has not good foundation. • * • Farmers in the Niagara Peninsula are paying their male hands ten cents an hour. We have heard of one man â- who declined a job at this rate unless he got cigarette money extra. • * • The fighting starlings are at it apain. This time they are waging a battle with rural mail carriers. Building their nests in the mail boxes and finding them destroyed by the mail man, they promptly replace the destroyed retreat, and begin to lay! The behaviour of the starling in this regard is unlike the- attitude of the ordinary Canadian bird, which will promptly forsake a nest, even after it has begun to lay Its eggs, and seek a new resort, should it be dis- turbed by curious inspectors. • • * British charities, particularly those designed to relieve the unemployed, will benefit shortly by the release ol one of the most interesting films evei made â€" the life of the Prince ol Wak-s. The Prince has undoubtedly been the most photographed young man in the world, and /or the making of this film sequences have been gathered from hundreds of news reels including some very interesting pic- tures of his pilgrimage through Can- ada â€" showing the activities of the Prince since he attended, as a .small school boy, the funeral of his grand- father, King Edward VII. World- wide release of the film has been promised at an early date. • • • Since the first publication of "Mem- orit:s" last week we have received a number of commendations on the ex- cellence of the idea of the family histories, one of which we arc using in another column. A large number of letters have been sent out to resi- dents in this locality and many of these have, as yet, not been returned with the information required. We â- would ask those who have received the letters to fill out the questions and return to this office as soon as possible. Your aid in this will as- sist us greatly. Wo are publishing those histories in an attractive book at the end of the series and these can be secured at fifty cents each. Big Car Toll Last Year Five hundred and two persons died 8,231 were injured, and property dam- age amounting to §!n)4,000 rolled up, as a result of the !»,171 serious motor car accidents in 1932 in the Province of Ontario. "Once again," says the Department of Highways, in an offic- ial survey of the situation, "the fig- ures prove that accidents do not just happen. Seldom, indeed, may they be described as acts of God. They are acts of man, and mankind takes the blame. These are the circum- stances under which accidents hap- pened last year â€" 99.1 per cent, oc- curred on roads in good condition, 65.1 per cc-nt. on dry roads; G9.8 pei cent, in clear weather; !>C,.H per cent during daylight hours; almost 50 per cent, on straight roads l)etween inter- sections; and 84 per cent, of the ve- hicles involved were reported in good condition. Doesn't that show that the human element is the preponder- ent factor? Doesn't that make -the avoidance of accidents the personal respongibility of evWy user of the highway." SOME HALF HOLIDAYS Shelburne â€" â-  Thursday. Dundalk â€" Thursday. ' Flesherton â€" Thursday. Creemore â€" Thursday. Hanover â€" Wednesday. Orangevillc â€" Wednesday. Grand Valley â€" Wednesday. Durham â€" Thursday. Mt. Forest â€" Thursday. Alliston â€" Thursday. Bank Charters Bring Discussion At Ottawa The .Vlinister of Finance asked the House for an extension of Bank char- ters for one year. The ten-year levision of th(- Bank Act would, in the ordinary course of events, have been this year. The governmtnt de- sires to postpone it until 1931. Thii gave the House the opportunity o! speaking on banking policy.. Col. Power, Liberal member for Quebec, made a strong speech in which he said: "The Bank Act was instituted and certain privileges were given to the banks in order that they might be of sen'ice to the people. But the contrary has been the case. Instead of becoming the servants of the people, the banks have become theii masters. There is hardly anyone in this country who is not, in some way or another, working for the banks â€" and I might add, also, the Government and the House of Commons are also working for the banks â€" I suggest that a great many matters which come before us for .ratification, such as Orders-in-Council, are passed directly in the interests of the banks. I sug- gest that if the government, through Orders-in-Council, has guaranteed cer- tain loans to the wheat pools, it was in the interests of the banks." He suggested also that the I.Manitoba Sav- ings Bank losses were guaranteed in the interests of the banks; that our unfortunate railway position is due to our having gone into the railway business in order to save the banks and that the assistance which Canada gave to Ne'w-foundland was given to assist two or three Canadian banks. Mr. G^ G. Coote, who opened the discussion, recalled that the Prime Minister, in 1931, had said that the time might come when Canada would need a central bank but that time had not yet arrived. "In my opinion," said Mr. Coote, "the time had arrived in 1931 and I believe the Prime Minis- ter should then have set to work to establish a central bank. Had that been done we should now have the proper machinery to give us inflation and to control it in order to raise price levels." The speaker further c-^pressed the opinion that even with- out a central bank we should now inflate, that we cannot afford to wait any longer. "The amount of money available in Canada is the chief de- termining factor in fixing price levels." Mr. Cooto pointed out that debts cannot be paid unless prices' rise and that the banks being extreme- ly interested in the paymc-nt of debts .should also be interested in the rais- ing of price levels through an in- crease in the amount of money in relation to goods and services. â€" AONES C. MACPHAIL I Letter to The | i I . Editor . COM.MENDS THE ".ME.MORIES" Editor of The Advance; You certainly have struck a bright idea in prepar- ing a ".Who's Who" for the old town. Though I am doubtful if I should be claimed to be a Flc-^hertonian I have complied with your request for information, assuring you that since I first set foot in Flesherton, now almost 54 yeara, I have been an adopted citizen, and for all but a few months of the intervening time, I have, through my matrimonial all- iance, had happiest of affinity with a daughter of one of the earliest families to settle in the, then, pioneer centre of civilization. What changes have taken place since the first wooden dwellings were set up at the crossroads, near tht •swift-flowing Boyne! The pioneers had faith in their adventure, and they laid the foundations well. The town has had steady, if not rapid, growth, and I am confident will continue to prosper if the citizens of to-day com- bine to maintain the civic spirit that has, fiom time to time, shown itself in united action for the public good. The early settlers thought they were doing pretty well when they laid out mud roads with a few miles of gravel main thoroughfares, and built theii wee dwellings of rough lumber. But they had few agencie.s of modern civilization outside the small church (first held in the village tavern) and the schools a mile or two off on the main road on each side of the hamlet. Now they have handsome residences of brick, stucco and ornamental cobblestone. They have a fine public school, certainly well-drained, and a high school second to none of like places of learning in the county. They have a town hall and Fraternity Hall, and they have a well-paved central street and highway approaches. It has been a source of great satis- faction to Fleshertonians at home and abroad, also, that the cemetery, which the early fathers established, but which for long years was largely ne- glected by plot-owners, is now being well looked after. Nothing is so indicative of public spirit asthe man- ner in which God's Acre is upheld, and it is apparent that in this respect modern Flesherton is in the front rank of community centres. As so many persons move after they have laid away their dead, graves are apt to be neglected if there is not sus- tained effort to maintain the grounds creditably. This has led to the sug- gestion that there is need of an en- dowment fund of larger proportions For 30 cents you can lelepbone about 100 miles by making an "any- one" call (sittion- to-station) after R.30 p.m. See liit of races in front of directory. "Why no, we're never lonesome" "You must be lonely these days," Joe Hanley suggested, "now that young Jim has left home." "Why, not at all," replied Old Jim, pointing to the telephone with a smile. "We talk with the lad on Long Distance every 'week. And it's almost as good as seeing him." "Isn't it expensive?" ' "Why no, station-to-station night rates make it about 25 cents." Let Long Distance keep you in touch with friends and relations. It is quick, clear, dependable and the cost is trifling. f^'" g- m^llllll â-  IIIMIIIB llBll â- lHM^m^m^~' â- 'SjiSfc •isin^ly inexpensive than has yet been attempted. A great opportunity here for all eons and daughers of he Old Town! Last, but not least, Flesherton has for many years had a well-managed weekly journal, which has done very much to foster a good community spirit and to advance the civic wel- fare. I note, as a reader of The Ad- vance from its first issue to this day, and as a journalist of some exper- iience, that the paper is a leader fn the weekly press, and has well-mer- ited the confidence of its advertising patrons. I trust you will be successful in your contemplated publication. J. D. CLARKE. Ardo, Weston, Ont. TUTTING OFF The older fatalistic vie'w that everyone must pass through a series of attacks from the common commun- icable diseases is entirely unsound Ignorance prompts the speaker, who says with regard to children and cer- tain communicable diseases "they must have it, so the sooner it is over, the better." A few generations ago the same attitude was h'jjld with regard to 6imall-pox, plague, typhus fever and typhoid fever. These diseases are now rare, because' methods for their prevention have been dLscovered and applied. We have the means to make other communicable diseases rare. Diph- theria will disaRpear from our midst just as soon as all children are im- munized against this disease. Because our "knowledge is limited and because we lack the specific means for prevention, such communi- cable diseases as measles and -whoop- ing-cough cannot be eradicated. But even with our present limited know- ledge, a great d«il can be done to lessen the number of deaths for which measles and whooping-cough are responaible. It should be clearly understood that measles and whooping-cough, are ser- ious diseases, and that they are directly responsible for a large num- ber of deaths. It should be known, also, that more than half of the deaths from whooping-cough take place before the first birthday, and that over ninety per cent of these deaths occur during the first four years of life. In other â- words, child- ren over four years of age compara- tively seldom die from whooping cough. Measles takes its hea^viest toll from among children one year of age. A large number die from this disease before they are a year old. Three quarters of the deaths from measles occur before the fifth year of life. The lesson to be learned appears to be that measles and â- whooping- cough are particularly fatal during; the earliest year of life. Because these diseases are serious. every effort should be made to protect children from them. There is nev^r any excuse for carele)ssnes8 which leads to the exposure of a child to the danger of disease. Above all does this apply to children during the flrst years of life. The parent whose care has kept his child fjrom the dangers of measles and whooping- cough during these early years has accomplished something that is very much worth while. It is unusual to advise anyone to put off and we do not give the advice in the sense that it is sufficiently simply to put off these diseases. Rather do we wish to stress the par- ticular dangers they present during the earliest years of a child's life. Death and taxes are equally inevit- able, but death is not a repeater. Muskrat farming has been banned by the British government. They undermined the banking business â€" along the rivers. TENDERS WANTED Tenders will be received by the Trustees of McKinnon Hall until Mon- day May 22nd, 1933, for the purchase of the McKinnon Hall building, the same to be removed before Sept. 1, 1933. Terms of Sale: 10% of tendei to be paid in cash, balance in 30 days.. â€"ARCHIE McCUAIG, Trustees' Secretary. t I \ 1 Tomatoe Juice 5c TIN Ginger Snaps 2 LBS. 25c SODAS 2 LBS. 23c Cleanser 5c TIN Ken Kennedys' For Groceries Phone 37 Dear Madam: Do you buy VALUE in shortening? Or do you merely purchase pounds of FAT at a price. It is an indisputable fact that good things cannot be made without good mater- ials. It is likewise true that the best cannot be made from anything but the best. Years of research by a staff of ex- perts are behind the production of FLAKE- WHITE; you may use it with complefte confidence. FLAKEWHITEâ€" The Super-Shortening Purely Vegetable No animal fats or substitutes of any kind 100 per cent. 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