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THE FLESHERTON ADVANCE WIEDNESDAY, APRIL 18. 1984 N.' Relief Bill Is Most Importaat Legislation TTie first week after the Easter re- cess was devoted almost •xelasively to a discussion on the Relief Bill, centring around the determination of the official opposition to omit the words "peace, order and good govern- ment" from the bill. While thesij words had been in the bill two years ago they were dropped last year and M|r. Kingr is very averse to their in- clusion this year, which may see a Federal election. The Prime Minister, while admitt- ing the absolute power given the Gov- ernment under the bill as now written, challen£:«d the opposition to give any instances where that power had been abused. He sought to have addition- al power conferred upon the Dominion Government this year that it might, if necessary, overrule Provincial leg- islation if such legislation were in excess of Provincial powers. Spec- ial reference was made to Alberta and British Columbia. At the 'beginning of this Parliament when the sums voted for the relief of onemployment became substantial Mr. Mackenzie King urged strongly the necessity of checking carefully the accounts with the Provinces and through them with the municipalities. Recently test audits of municipalities were conducted and irregularities or worse we-e revealed. Using these as a basis for his remarks, Mr. King eaid that the administration of un- employment relief should never havt been given to the Labor Department but to a Commission. The Depart- ment was not organized to handle it, he said. The Prime Minister blamed the Auditor General for recommend- ing a system of audit and later, when all was not well, saying that the method of checking the accounts was Bflt a good one. "H anything is wrong," said Mr. Bennett, "it rests at the door of the Auditor General â€" not of this Government." There is some probability that the Auditor .General will be broug-ht before the PublJc Accounts Committee of the House of Commons. BS^^mm ish/ North America Act. ^"'"^^ D^a* ^ C I T there is agreement by them all you _ I I Ol€Sl 0601 1 % will have a situation such as you have | today with respect to old age sions." pen- The Hon, W. D. Euler is noted in the House of Commons for making short but thoughtful speeches'. Ht is intellectually honest which makes his remarks always interesting. After the debate on the Relief Bill seemed to have become threadbare, he made a fresh and arresting speech. "It seems to me," he said, "that all ef- forts in connection with relief in the last few years and as contemplated under the bill now before the com- mittee, have been predicated upon the assumption that this is an emergency only. I should like to venture the opinion that â€" unemployment has be- come, and will continue to be, a more or less permanent factor." He sug- gested that the Government seek a method of caring for the permanently unemployed. He recommended also that social legislation be co-ordinated under Federal control, mentioning workmen's compensations, widows' al- lowance, insurance for ill health, old age pensions, poor relief aaid unem- ployment insurance when it becomes law. •Mr. Euler recogtiized the need of amending the British North America Act to enable the Federal Govem- men to administer social services and suggested a commission being ap- pointed to study the whole question. The Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. R. B. Bennett, pleased the House by stating that he held a very strong opinion "as to the necessity of an early revision of the provisions of the British North America Act." "The Provinces," he said, "have exclusive legislative control over the matters mentioned in Section 92 of the Brit- THE Variety Store [WILL BE GLAD TO HAVE YOU COME IN WHILE % IN TOWN. If we have what you want you may be sure the price will be right. If we haven't, ask jis to get it for you. Sugges- tions are what we want. We intend to specialize in child- ren's wear and can give you ithe best prices obtainable any- jvhere in this line. Just le^ W 'Vnow what clothes you 2wouId like to get and you may rest assured they will cost you less than ever before. Come in and see us. S. L. Stauffer, Prop. The Stevens Committee is still in- vest3g:ating price spreads. At pres- ent it is dealing with livestock prices and interesting facts have come out regarding practices of the livestock buyers and their virtual dictation of prices to cattle raisers. Information on spreads is coming in daily to the members of the 'group in the comer.' This week one of them received a most interesting let- ter accompanied by a photograph ot the shop window of one of ^Montreal's largest department stores. The pic- ture shows two piles of goods. In one pile is a bag of flour and a bag of sugar; in the other pile the samt two bags are nearly hidden by dozens of other bottles, packages and tins The statement accompanying the pic- ture is as follows: $24.69 bought 1 bag flour, 1 bag sugar in 1920. |24.69 buys the fol- lowing in 1933: 1 bag flour, 98 lbs.; bag granulated sugar, 100 lbs.; 80 lbs potatoes; 5 lbs. butter; leg ham; 2 lbs. bacon; 4 doz. fresh extra eggs; 10 bars Surprise soap; 6 tin Clark's tomato juice; lb. pure lard; lb. Magic baking powder; doz. choice peas, com and tomatoes; doz. Campbell's assort- ed soups; 2 pkgs. Quaker oats; 3 pkg. Kellogg's cornflakes; 2 lbs. Empirt coffee; 2 lbs. special tea; bottle as- sorted pickles; 2 jars of jam; 2 jars marmalade; pkg. assorted shortbread biscuits; 3 pkg. soda biscuits; 4 tins Cark's pork and beans, large; 2 btls. C. and B. Catsup; pkg. Red River cereal; tin EdwardS'buarg cern syrup, 5 lbs.; tin Nestle's evaporated milk; 2 doz. apples; doz. oranges; jelly powders. This situation is striking and re- quires careful consideration. In the first place, it must be remembered that the prices of all food commod- ities at the close of the war wert very high, also it was a period of in- flation. At present we have the reverse situation. â€" deflation â€" and ex- tremely low prices for natural pro- ducts. While at first sight it might be thought that because prices of food have dropped so far the worker is much better off than before, it should be remembered however; that othei charges have not dropped as much in comparison. Rents, for instance itill remain comparatively high, while insurance charges have not decreased at all. On the other hand, there has been a considerable reduction in wag- es. This, combined with the fact that many people have no work whatevei and are receiving only a low scale of relief, has meant greatly reduced purchasing power. In this connection one recalls the statement made by Mr. Bennett be- fore the committee on monetary and financial questions at the Imperial Conference in 1932:- "Interest charg- es represent the most important of the fixed or semi-rigid elements in our cost structure. If prices remain on their present level, such charges will constitute an intolerable or al- most intolerable burden in many cases. Even if it can be borne, the fortuitous gain to the creditor of 40 to 48 per cent in general purchasing power above what he contracted for appears to be a grave injustice.'' What is the effect of this situa- tion? To quote the further state- ment of the Prime Minister:- "As one dollar today will purchase at whole- sale 48 per cent more than it did in 1929, the real burden of the service charges on foreign obligations has increased from $362,000,000 to $535,- 750,000." And further:- "As a re- sult of this rapid and persistent de- cline in the general price level and the inevitable disparities created be- tween different kinds of prices, nor- mal business relationships have been disrupted, profit margins have disap- peared in many cases, enterprise has been discouraged, unemr'.oyment ha.-- stt'adily increased, the fiscal problems of all our public bodies have been Rveatly aggravated, and the buitlen ot fixed charges is exerting an almost intolerable pressure upon some of the strategic elements in our national economy." It is over a year and a half since the leader of the present Government gave the very clear state- ment of conditions, but has he done anything about it? â€"AGNES MACPHAIL. House of Commons, Ottawa, April 14, 1934. Radio Ctmoiittee Protesting against the ineffective- ness of the Canadian Radio Commis- sion a meeting of license holders of radio setts was held in the village on Friday evening last and recommenda tions were dispatched to the Radio Committee of the House of Commons. It was felt by those who attended that the Commission was costing the country too much money for the value received and that they had caused great dissatisfaction in the programs presented and the changing of sta- tions to other wave lengrths, the pro- grams from which were not received as clearly as before the changes were made. A protest was also made on an- nouncing from C.R.C.T. stations in French as well as English. Where the radio program was given entirely in English the meeting thought that the French language^ was out of place, but that for listeners in Quel)ec it might be necessary to do so. As for the rest of Canada the French announcements were taking up too much valuable time. It was also the opinion of the meeting that the present radio license fee was too high for value received, as in this district C.F.R.B. was the only Canadian sta- tion to come in distinct, while on most setts the Radio Commission's own Toronto station, C.R.C.T. was useless at night, and we still have to depend on United States stations for the bulk of our radio programs. It was finally decided to request that the Canadian Radio Commission be discarded and returned to one of the governmental departments, that of the Post Office being mentioned, as the former programs were of a higher quality than those now being presented. As for the advertising which sustained these programs at that time, it was thought that they served {i useful purpose and many of them were of an educational variety. 147th Vets Gather At a meeting of the 147th Battalion Association (Grey Regiment}, held in Toronto Thursday, the following of- ficers were elected: Honorary Presi- dent, Colonel G. Frank McFariand; Honorary Vice-Presidents, Lieut.-Col. Ferguson, Lieut.-Col. Rutherford, Lieut.-Col. Fleming, Lieut.-Col. Mc Donald and Scrgt. "Tommy" Holmes, V.C.; President, J. A. LeGarde; Vice- President, Thomas Bradley; Secre- tary, Stewart Wilson; Treasurer, H. W. Kernahan; Executive Committee Dr. P. A. Beattie, W. B. Evans, L. E. Douglas, Harry Tucker and T. Chard. Arrangements were also made to hold a reunion dinner in Toronto of for- mer members of the 147th Battalion on Saturday, May 5. Ingenuity Required To Raise Lamds Ingenuity is required for the suc- cessful conduct of farming and was demonstrated last week by Mr. Geo. Johnston of Rock Mills. Mr. Johnston had a ewe that gave birth to twins, but at dinner time there was only one plate set for the meal and one of the lambs was forced to go hungry. It had to do this so many times tliat it finally became weak and apparent- ly due to go where food was not a necessity. The problem was to keep it nourished with the least possible trouble. Bottle feeding wouldn't pay with the price of lambs as low as it is at present, so here is where the ingenuity comes in. Another ewe had just lost one of her twins; this was skinned and the hide tied over the orphan lamb so that its adopted mother would not know but that it was her own. She took up with it immediately and lambie commenced to gain weight at once. Sheep raising has its ups and downs, but sonsider- able of its success lies with the strange instinct of the sheep with respect to its offspring. W.C.T.U. Officers SLOWIN^BOWLKR In Detroit on Saturday, April 7th, the marriage took place of Doris 0., second daughter of Mr. and Mr». S. J. Bowler of Detroit, formerly of Flesh- erton, to Mr. R. D. Slowin of Detroit. The bride is a granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Crossley of Flesher- ton and lived here when a child. The birth-rate ia still declining in most countries. One theory is that posterity has got an inkling of what is in store for it. The last meeting of the W.CH.U. was held on April 9th, at the home of Mrs. Tom Bentham. The officers elected for the coming year are: President â€" Mrs. J. Williams. Vice Pi-esident â€" Mrs. Wm. Ink- ster. Treas. and Cor. Sec. â€" Miss V. Nis'iiolson. Rec. See. â€" Miss V. Nicholson, pro tern. The W.C.T.U. were in trUmental in distributing fifteen temperance butt- ons for the Trail Rangers to wear. They purchased twenty-five button? for the C.G.I.T. group. The buttons are to show that the ones wearing them ai'e trying to do all they can to make Canada safe by doing away v.ith wfne and beer. THORNBURYâ€" SORNBERGER Wednesday afternoon at 3 p.m., the Gospel Worker's parsonage was the scene of a very pretty wedding, when Pearl Sophia Sornberger, daughter of the late Alvie and Mrs. Sornberger and Harry Edward Thornbury. son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Thornbury were united in marriage. Rev. W. F. Dean Ciffiotated. The bride wore a becoming gown of coolie blue silk crepe, with match- ing accessories. The bridal couple were attended by iMiss Ivy Sayers a niece of the bride, and Mr. Lawrence Cameron, a cousin of the bride. After the ceremony a small re- ception for immediate relatives was held at the bride's home, where a dainty wedding dinner was served. Midland High School het 178 boy pupils and 195 girls, a total of 373. WORK Work is just as essential to health as ifi food. A man can live without work while he cannot live without food, but living, in the sense of exist- ing, is far from being a f"-:-'iMon of health and well-being. li u :.iun oi woman ie to enjoy physical and ment- al health, he or she must have the opportunity to work and to gain that satisfaction which comes from doing the day's work. The tragedy of unemployment, whether it concerns great or smal! numbers, no matter what the cause of the vast majority of the unemploy- ed to work. There is no greatei punishment for those who are con- fined in penal institutions than to deprive them of the opportunity to work. In certain hospitals, we speak of occupational therapy, which simply means that creative work, with the satisfaction it briings, is recognized as a powerful agent for good in tht treatment of patdents. Physical and mental health are closely related. Idleness means loss of health; work has much to do wnth our sense of well-being. A man may grumble about hard work and low wages, but he is nevertheless enjoy- ing life, and part of his enjoyment is his right to grumble and complain. It is a matter of common observa- tion that certain forms of physical complaants, particularly those which have to do with the digestive system, are much more common when times are difficult and worries thereby in- creased. The reaction of the mind on the body and of the body on the mind is very definite, although not always clear. These facts should not be forgotten when the problems arising out of un- employment are considered. Their solution has not merely to do with economies; the welfare of the nation is concerned because of the effects of these problems upon the health of the people. Unemployment does not cause disease, but it does threaten the health of the people because it takes away from them the opportunity to work. Serious as this is at all ages, it is particularly so for the young people who are leaving school. If they do not become employed, their health will suffer because they will not have the opportunity to work, to develop good work habits, to become inde- pendent, and to experience the satis- faction which comes from work. James M. Armstrong Dies At Kimberley Heme -"Vfter an extended illness of six months James M. Armstrong pas.sed away on Sunday, April 15th in his 80th year at his home, three miles north of Kimberley. He was born at Pickering, Oni., a son of the late AVm. and Margaret Armstrong and moved to the Eugenia district when he was two years old where he re- sided until 1915 when his farm was included in the Hydro lake area and he moved north to Kimberley. The late Mr. Armstrong was mar- ried at Eugenia on November 13th, 1879, to Miss Harriet Sherwood who predeceased him on May 28th, 1925. To them were born seven children. Mrs. O. J. Walker (Janey) of Cale- don, Mrs. J. H. Irwin (Margaret) of Heathcote, Mrs. Wilfred Plantt (Theresa) of Thornbury, Albert, de- ceased, Wesley and Elsie at home and Mrs. J. S. Griff en (Lilian) of Caledon. He also leaves three sis- ters, Mrs. McWatters of Elmvale. Mrs. Wm. Walker Sr. and Mrs. Wm, Wilson of Eugenia, who alone survive of a family of eight children. He also leaves ten grandchildren and five great grandchildren. He had been a life long member of the Presby- terian church until conformation of the union into the United Church wliich he continued to attend. The deceased gentleman was of a modest, unassuming nature, and a man of sterling qualities, upright and honorable in his dealings with all men. He was a man whose word made a note unnecessary. The writer of this has known him for a lifetime, and is proud to pay this tribute to a gentleman and friend. The funeral took place on Tues- day afternoon, April 17th, when ser- vice was conducted at his late resid- ence by Rev. S. Mc.Auslan, pastor of Kimberley United church who gave a comforting message taken from Romans 8: 18. Mr. and iMrs. Baker rendered a duet "There is no Disap- pointment in Heaven." Interment took place in the family plot in Salem cemetery. The pallbearers were liis nephews Meesrs. Wan. Gordon, Earl Gordon. Wm. Walker, Jack and Gordon Wil- -son and Roy McMillan. Friends from a distance who at- tenc^Hl the fui^ral wfjre: Mrs. C. Mills and daughter, Alice, and Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Mills of Toronto; Mr. and Mrs. Jack Peteh of Calgdon, Mr. and Mrs. .Arnold .Woodhouse of Coll- ingwood, iMr. R. Bentham of Flesher- ton, besides his sisters and children. A Garafaxa farmer had his bam burned and he put in an application to the loca'. agent to get his insurance money. .After a few days, the in- surance adjuster came around with the local agent. They inspected the ruins and did a little figuring, and the agent said: "According to the terms of your in- surance policy, Mr. X., the company has the option of paying the loss in cash, or of building you a new barn. They have decided to replace youi bam wdth another of similar size." The farmer was pretty mad about it. "Well, if that's the way you do business, you can just cancel the in- surance policy on my wife. If she died, you'd be coming around here offering to replace her with another one of the same size, and I won't have it." â€" Fergus News-Record. DANCE In Fraternal Hall FLESHERTON Thursd'y, April 19 DOROTHY FOSTER ORCHESTRA Modem and Old Time Dances Every Other Dance a Square Plenty of Dancing- for All. LUNCH AVAILABLE AT BOOTH This will be one of the best dances of the season, so do not not miss it. Dancing Commences at 9 p.m. Sharp Admission: 26 cents. During service hour in a church at Markham thieves entered the building and took money from the pockets of clothing belonging to mem- bers of the choir. There might be something in those who take up the collection to think about. Live Stock Report cattle trade was sluggish. Calves maintained their sure pace and clos- ed at S4.50 to $6 for most of the sup- ply. Some choice went at $7 and f7.50. Hogs climbed and closed with a gain of 15c. Bacons were at $7.50 f.o.b. $7,75 off truck and 8.15 off car. The division opened unsettled, with a firm undertone. Lambs held Monday's 25c advar.ce to sell at $..50 for good ewes and wethers. Spring lambs brought $5 to $10 each, while sheep were firm at $3.50 to $4 for good light ewes. The second gain of the week was made on the Toronto Live Stock Mar- ket yesterday as hogs advanced loc under steady buying. Cattle trade was very slow throughout the day, and the holdover was increased from 400 to about 700 head. Prices held steady, but sales were hard to make at the unchanged levels. No changes were recorded in calves, sheep or lambs, and all three divisions sold firmly. Weighty steers moved from $4.50 to $6.25. while butcher sold in small lots at $4 to $!>.50, according to qual- ity. Good butcher cows were steady at $3.50 to $4, with a few at $4.25. Bulls ranged from $2.75 to $3.75 and fed calves from $5.60 to $7.25. Store Where Cash Talks Out Loud I FANCY NAMES AND FANCY BAGS WON'T I MAKE CHICKS GROW I ST AM IN AX has the proper balanced ration and the I price is just what it is worth. I Farm Gate Bargain :< 12 and 13 foot gates 48 in. high. Look up the old !> catalogite and do some subtracting. Our price for either length $5.50 Cup Grease Finest quality at a price that will surprise FORMALDEHYDE This year we have a new sal^s plan and can save you some money. I SEEDS â€" ^AIl Kinds ofe Garden, Grass & Clover Seeds. I Osprey & Artemesia Co-operative Co., Ltd. I FLESHERTON I •> Spring Display DRESSES SUITS COATS BLOUSES FRIDAY, APRIR 20, 1934 <..^<MiM>>^X^.<M><,.>.^.>« Amtngements have been made with Wray's Ladies' Wear, Owen Sound to make a special dispbty on this date only. A wonderfid choice will be offered at popular price*- F. H. W. Hickling Fleshcrton, Ont.