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\si:DNEsnAy, December in, 1934 THE FLKSHERTON ADVANCE THE FLESHERTON ADVANCE Pabli«lied on CoUinrwood str««t, FIeaii«rton, Wednesday of eacb we«k. Circulation over 1000, Pric« in Canada 12.00 per year, when paid in advance 11.50. In U. S. A. $2.50 per year, when I' paid in advance 12.00. .W. H. THURSTON, r J. THURSTON, - - Editor Aasoc. Editor EDITORIAL NOTES Only four more chopping days tc Chri.stnias. Fk-shi'rtoii merchanti advertise in the Advance today theii readiness to me«H the wants of all prestTit buyers who come this way. NevtT before have so many attrac- tive Kifts been offered for salt as ia on view in this business centre this year. . • • • It is never too late to shop till the last hour of Christmas Eve; but the public should bear in mind that the parly shopper ha.s the best choice. • • * We have friends, living far and wide who may .send u.s a suitable Xmas or .N'ew Year's box that will rejoice us and benefit them. Let such kind folks, if they ow© us for their paper, or for printing supplies, send u.'> payment now, or before the year ends. We; on our part, are an- xious to meet our creditors as be- comes advocates of the Golden Rule. • * • (Western farmers have been follow- ing the example of a goodly number of our friends in this part of the Do- minion. They have had their autos parked waiting for better prices. Hei-o's hoping that in the coming year the busses may be worked overtime, with a lessened tax on gas, and main roads free from taxes. We all may be happy yet! • • • In less than t«i days the new yeai arrives. Let's practice writing "I935."" • * * Sixty-nine persons have been nom- inated as directors of the new Bank of Canada, but only sevtii are to be chosen. There are always plenty of aspirants for these government jobs. 'As the policy of the bank is legally in keeping of the government, and trained heads are to do the actual Work, there may not be very much to direct. But we would be surprised if the average director j Other Paper's | Opinions NOT A LIXL'RY (Creemore Star) A farm home near noneywood was discovtre<l to be on fire early one rnurning and as no telephone was in ihe home it was impossible to summon assistance. Had the home possessed this convenience it fs possible that much more could have been saved. A telephone is not a luxury but actual- ly a form of protection. Dozens of little mishaps are liable to happen around any farm home that makes a telephone almost indispensable The above instance is a fitting ex- TERMS CASH ( Acton Free Press ) The terms that used to appear on auction sale bills giving .so many months' credit on approved joint notes and a pei-centage off for cash, are apparently a thing of the past. A more abbreviated form is now com- mon use' and the most of these sales are usually "Terms cash" Numbers of the posters also bear the admon- ition that nothing is to be taken fi'oni the premises "until satisfactorily vettkd for." It would appear that the farmer has gone on the cash and carry basis also. Can it be that the credit system is about to go from all phases of activity?. A few years ago, cveryont wa.i* urged to buy on easy terms. It would seem that the terms wore so easy that everyone bought. The flaying days are here. They have struck every walk of life, and the sales are apparently just anothei evidence of the cash basis being es- tablished. Municipal Stalistici would object to taking things easy. The Toronto .Star points out that nowadays we have dated coffee, bac- on, and co-eds, and even the hens have their eggs marked. » • • But why does Miss Macphail choose the bottom of Lake Ontario as a burying place for the gold standard? asks the Globe. Since it is â€" or was â€" an international possession, people of other nations should be given an even break in the hunt for "hidden treasure." A deserted island in the broad Pacific provides a better sett- ing. « • • Iz-vestia, the Communist chief pap- er in Russia, recently delivered the following advice to its readers:- Russian workers: Shave every day; give up your seats in stre^-t cars to women; don't eat with your knive.-i. This advice to the proletariat niigiit fitly be supplemented with this in- junction to the .Soviet dictator:- "Call off your firing squad and give every Russian, accu.scd of wrong doing a fair trial." But the newspaper i.-^ muzzle<l. It does not advocate ju.s- licc. Frecilom is not known in Rus- sia. • • • The daily papers on .Monday of this week ijuoled th|. retail price of tur- keys in evt-ry large town In Ontario with one exception, as 20c to 2'lc pci lb. The exception wa.s Owen Sound, where the price was 12c to 10c pc-i pound. Is it that the farmers' mark- et in Owen ."^ound !â- < the lowest in Ontario, or how docs the Sun-Timw) explain thi' situation? According to the Municipal Statis- tics for li»;j;!, issued by the Province of Ontario, the Village of Flesherton has a total taxable assessment of $178..')82, on which was raised the .sum of $7,520. The village has a population of 488 and an assessed acreage of 64."). This is a large acre- HgL- for a village this size, as Dun- nalk ha.s .'581 acres less in the corpor- ation and has 162 more of a popula- tion than has Flesherton. The gen- ap|>ointed eral debentures of this village amount Miss Machail Urges County Health Units 'There is more goitre in Grey County than in any other county in Ontario declared Agnes Maci)hail, M.P., when she spoke Tuesday aftvrnoon before the women'^ section of the United F'armors of Ontario at the convention of the association which is being held in Toronto. A it-Bolution requesting the federal provincial and municipal authorities tc co-operate with the medical and dental association in planning and working out as a experiment at least one coun" ty health imit in rural Ontario Ls up for discussion before the present con- vention. Miss Macphail was speaking on behalf of the resolution. "I think the request is very modest" she remarked, "and I would urge every U.F.O. club in Ontario to write to the minister of health in support of thi^ resolution. I only hope that Grey county is the one to be chosen in the i.x|)eriment, because, to say nothing of all the numorou-s other diseases, there is more goitre in that county than in any other in Ontario. Miss Macphail declared that no C-ariiadian government woitld today want to go to war without the consent of the people. 'There would have been war in Eur- ope long before this," she believed "If the people had not been so determined to refuse to allow it. No matter how many peace cards we sign, it will not bring peace until we solve the present economic problems that confront us today. We must dig^own deeper and get social justice and take out unem- ployment problem and find a solution for it." A HEALTH SCRVlCe Or THE CANADIAN MEDICAL .•SSOCIATION AND LIFE .NSURANCE COMPANIE* \ IN CANADA IN RETREAT At the opening of this century, the greatest and most outstanding disease enemy of mankind was tuberculosis. Today, tuberculosis is in retreat, but not defeated. It is for us to determine how rapidly the retreat is to be press ed and the enemy annihilated. Those who bewail the evils of the present day would be well advised to give some attention to its achieve- ments. The- yesterdays were, in some ways, more attractive and picturesque, but they were nothing nearly so com- fortable or so safe as the today in which We live". Most diseases which have been con- quered were overcome by means of the discovery of some specific means for their prevention or through the devel- opment of a method to prevent theii spread. Diphtheria is vanquished by diphtheria immuniation, and typhoid fever disappears when water and milk supplies are made safe. It is remarkable, but none the less true, that tuberculosis is in retreat despite the fact that no specific means for the prevention or cure of the dis- ease has been discovered. Tuberculos- is is in retreat because the people have learned about this particular dispase enemy, and they are fighting it with intelligence based upjn their under- standing. What do We know about tuberculosis .We know that every case comes from some previous one. Turn thla idea around, and you will see that juat as soon as those who now have the dis- ease stop passing it on to others, then tuberculosis will come to an end. There is so murh less tuJberculosis today chiefly because patients have learned in sanatoria, the public have read it in newspapers and have it in lectures, that tuberculosis is spread from one person to another in the germ-laden sputum of the tubereal- osis. Just 80 far as we have gone in stopping the transfer of epatum, to that extent have we pressed upon the retreating enemy. It is much more easy to fight an enemy you know than one you do not knov/. Those who know that they have tuberculosis are not our enemies because knowing that they have the (lisea.se, they can take precaution tc protect the people with whom they come in contact. The real enemy is the tuberculosis patient who, because he does not know that he has the dis- ease, is spreading the germs of tub- erculosis in his sputum. (These unsus- pected cases must be revealed, through organized efforts at ease-finding, if we are to defeat the enemy, that is tuberculosis. Father (from head of the stairs) â€" "Say, Sarah, is that young man et yours an auctioneer?" Sarahâ€" "Ko. Why?" Father â€" "Well, he keeps saying he's going, going, but he hasn't gone yet." Driver of a car in Brantford paid |I5 for bumping into an auto be- longing to a piilice sergeant, while most people are trying all the time to gel ar<>unil the law. Skating in Flesherton Rink each Wednesdey and Saturday night to §1,110, mainly the amount due on the town hall and $.30,;!()8 of local improvement (k'l)ontures, the cost of the cement pavement laid down three years ago. There is also %^,hhl of a public utility debentui-c, being the amount yet to be paid on the Hydro investment, although there is enough niimey in the bank at the present lime to pay this amount. The as- .sets of the village amounted to $-10,- G02 at the end of 193;i and the liabil- ities amounted to $39,730 at the same time. The total taxable property in the Township of Arlemesia amounts to $I,1.5J,r)08 and $32,170 were rai.sed in taxes. The assessed population a- mounts to 2,191 and the asses ;ed acre- age 07,502 acres. There is no gen- eral debenture debt in Artemesiii, but there is u debenture for schools ol $2,109, and for local improvemt-iU ot $547 and for municipal utilities of $3,4(«». Assets at the end of 1933 amounted to $27,432 with liabilities of $21,009, .showing that the township is ill a Very healthy condit' . Total recei])ts for th(> year amounted to S41,X72 and the tofal expenditure $35,818. The Township of Osprey has an assessable poimlntion of 2,123 in an assessed ncriagi- nf 70,800 acres. The total assessment amounts to .?l,ll59,- 0.55, on which is raised $37,455, sev- eral thousand dollars more than is raised by Artcmesia township anil with a lower assessment. The de- benture debt amounts to $;!,130 for schools and $1,818 for municipal util- ities. Assets at the end of l!i3.'! amounted to $38,199 and liabilities to $30,620. Receipts for the year were $42,030 and were exceed^l by expen- ditures, the amount being $00,229. The n.ssf»*sed population of Grey County is 43,923 and the total tax- able assessment $27,149,802. Grey County has a general debenture debt of $545,000 against which is a sink- ing fund of $220,172, thereby makiuR the net debt of the County $324,828 The receipts for the year were $500- 805 anil the oxpetvlitures $509,309. Tlio huge amount of $102,100 was ex- IHTided on schools made up of grant.^ and the payment of students in the (dunty from other school section-. Eastern Star DANCE will be held in the Fraternal Hall, Flesherton - ON - Thurs., Dec. 27 Round and Square Dancing DANCING FROM 8.30 TO 1.30 DOROTHY FOSTER ORCHESTRA Coffee and Sandwiches free ADMISSION:â€" 2.5c Christmas Gift Suggestions CHINAWARE Dinner Sets, Tea Sets, Ca.sseroles, Cake Set.s, Vases, China Sups & Saucers Bon Bons, Celer}- Trays, Fancy Plates, Berry Bowls, etc. ELECTRICAL GIFTS Electric Washers, Vacuum Cleaners, Floor Polisher, Grills, Heaters Irons, Grills, etc. FOR WINTER SPORTS Hockej- Outfits, Skates, Pucks. Skis, Hockey Sticks, Toboggans, Snow Shoes, etc. SILVERWARE Spoons, Cold Meat Forks, Knife and Fork Sets. Anything in Community or Rogers Flatware at regular marked prices. Rogers Radios, Flashlights, Batteries TOOLS Hammers, Saws, Brace and Bits make very useful gifts. LAMPS Coleman, Aladdin and Electric WE li.Wa^ A L.\RGE VARIETY OF GIFfS FOR EACH FAMILY MEMBER FRANK W. DUNCAN, Hardware Christmas Shopping Suggestions This Store Offers a Wonderful Selection of Entirely New Seasonable Goods at Very Reasonable Prices LADIES' SILK SCARFS 79c and $L00 LADIES' KID GLOVES Imported Flare Cuffs $L9S Ladies' SWEDE GLOVES Pull-on style; all colors 59c to $L00 Ladies' RAYONT PAJAMAS One or two piece styles $L49 and $1.95 Ladies' NIGHT GOWNS Crepe and Crei>(' Knyon; white ;iiul loliii-.s $1.50 to $1.95 Ladies' DANCE SETTS Crepe and Crepe Rayon; white and colors $1.00 to $1.50 A Sci.iiman was ."tripping wall- pAjMU' from the wall of his hoiiso. wlian a friend railed to !«ee him. ^•Weel, iSand.v," laid the vi«;itor. "iite y<' Koin' to huve a new pnprr." "N'n, na, " replied i^nndv "Ah'iv jvwt movin into anothei ' Ladies' CREPE HOSE Newest Shades; all sizes $1.00 LADIES' HOSIERY Full Fashioned; silk and silk wool 75c to $1.25 Men's FANCY HOSIERY New Designs 39c to 75c MEN'S MUFFLERS Reefers and Squares 50c to $1.39 MEN'S NECKWEAR All New Patterns 2Sc to $1.00 WOOL SWEATERS New Color Combinations $1.95 to $4.50 MEN'S SHIRTS Collar Attached or Separate 79c to $2.50 Men's CLUB BAGS Black or Brown Leather $4.95 to $8.95 MEN'S PAJAMAS Broadcloth or Flannelette $1.49 to $2.50 HANDKERCHIEFS In Fancy Boxes 19c to $1.00 LADIES' GOLOSHES Plain or Fur Trim $2.25 to $3.50 LADIES' FOOTWEAR Pumps or Ties $2.75 to $4.95 MEN'S SUSPENDERS Garters or Sleeve Holders 25c to 75c Men's WINTER CAPS lOntirely New Choice Special $1.00 LADIES' STAPAKS The newest in Bapfrage $6.75 to $8.95 Ladies' Wool Pullovers & SWE.A.TERS; Big Selection $1.75 to $2.95 Men's Lined KID GLOVES Grey, Tan and Cream Cape $1.00 to $3.50 Linen LUNCH CLOTHS With colored border; some with napkins 79c to $2.50 Rayon BED SPREADS White and Colors $2.75 to $4.50 Jacquard Bath Towels New Smart Dwigns 39c to 89c BEDROOM SLIPPERS Big Range of New Styles 49c to $2.25 Ladies' HAND BAGS New Shapes $1.00 to $1.49 Toys For The Kiddies WONDERFUL ASSORTMENT OF CHILDREN'S TOYS ON DISPLAY ON OUR SECOND FLOOR Just whfit you have been lookiag for at ReasonaUe Prices. China and Glassware AIJ. N'FW PlRCl l.A.^FS. Tea Setts, Dinner Setts, l?crry Setts. Cups and Saucers, Bon I^^n Dishes, I'.ridt;-*' J'rizes, Crystal Gol>lets, Tvimblors, Sherbet Cilasst^s l'";inov Clla-^sware, I'Icwer \'ases. Tardienicres. Christmas Groceries Raisins, Currants, l^runes. Candied I Vols and Cherries, Icings and Iciiiii- Suj;ar. Sliellcd and Whole Nuts. Or- an.ues.T.emons, C.rape Fruit. Fips. T>ates. Crapes, Jelly Powders. Cranherrus, Candy. All new purchases.' General Merchant R H. W. HICKLING FLESHERTON