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

/ 'El)je /k0l)^ttjcrn abtwtnc^* Vol. 57; No. 41 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 1938 W. H THURSIXDN & SON, Proprietorf Changing of Guard at Buckingham Palace (By Sam McDonald) Buckingham Palace, built by the Duke of Buckingham, is the otficial residence of their majesties. The grounds and lake cover forty acres. The changing of the guard takes place daily at 10.30 when the king is in residence, which is indicated by the Royal Standard flying from the palace. Facing here is the Mall, along which the coronation procession pass- ed. The trees bore many marks of last year's celebration. Not an acorn could I find from one of the royal oaks, ^hey had been gathered to be plantecr or sold. London Only Square Mile > The actual city of London is little more than a mile square but it is said to be the richest square mile in the world. To this day it maintains many of the old traditions; even yet the King must receive permission from the city fathers before crossing its boundaries. Most of the city was destroyed by fire in 1666 and a huge .monument, designed by Sir Christo- .pher Wren, marks the place where it started. In London we saw such famous ' buildings as the head office of the Royal Exchange, Bank of England, Lloyds, St. Paul's Cathedral and the Tower of London. The Tower of London The Tower of London is on the Thames River and is surrounded by a moat. It has been in its time a Royal palace, fortress and a state prison. It seems best designed to serve the last purpose, as the walls in some places are from 11 to 13 feet thick. We were shown the place where, in the reign of Charles II, some children's bones were found; the remains of the two Royal Princes whom I have mentioned. A chained enclosure marks the place where the scaffold stood. Lord Hastings, Queen Anne Boleyn, Queen Katherine, How- ard and Lady Jane Grey are known to have been executed here. The Crown Jewels Our tickets permitted us to see the crown jewels, which included the various sceptres and crowns used by British Sovereigns. They are exhib- ited in a huge glass case and the room is carefully guarded. St. Paul's Cathedral, like West- minster Abbey, enshrines many mon- uments to Royal and military men, statesmen and writers. I was great- ly impressed by its great size. In the dome, 260 steps from the floor, is the whispering gallery, which de- rives its name from the fact that even a slight whisper can be heard there. Madame Tussaud's Wax Works I had often read of Madame Tuss- audf's wax works, so I made it a point to see them. The building is divided into different sections, where tile leading personages of many walks of life are presented in life- like figures of wax. So realistic are they that I was not sure, in many cases, whether they were real or not. Entering the h&U of famous states- men and writers I saw a policeman at the door. Of course I thought he was a real officer on duty, only to find he was of wax. I looked in the hall and decided there must be some mistake as, there is the Prime Minister, Neville Cham- berlain, presiding over a Cabinet meeting. On the throne, nearby, are the King and Queen, surrounded by (Continued o" nage 4) High School Notes Last Friiiay night Flesherton High dchool buys and girls journeyed to Dui-ham on an invitation to play hockey there. Both teams won, the boys by a 10-8 score and the~gu-ls by 2-1. This is gratifying owing to the opinion among the local girls and boys that the Durham teams were superior to us in hockey. On the first face off in the girls' game Dorothy Patton that flashy centre made a brilliant play. On ae- cui-ingi the ^^uck she carried past the defence and Leat McDonald cleanly to pul) us in the lead which was encour- aging. Durham came back strong and in about five minutes Eileen Wan- amaker tied it up when she scored from a scramble in front of the net. A short time later Dot Welton scored to again give Flesherton the lead which they held throughout the game. In the second and third periods the Durham girls pressed hard but the good twine-tending by B. Leavell kept them off the score sheet. Flesherton girls have been successful in every game this season and much credit is due Miss McLean who is doing a fine job as coach. The boys' game followed and al- though much faster was no more chrilling to watch. Flesherton was leading by 4-2 at the end of the first period and toy 9-4 at the end of the second. Durham came from behind to score four fast goals when Piper was injured but after a short rest he was going stroiig. Smith a.nd Jam- ieson drew penalties in the last period and the game ended with the locals on top. After the game the players were invited to the school where an appetizing lunch was served by the Durhamites. Our next game will be on Tuesday, March 16 when our old rivals from Dundalk will visit us to see who has the better teams. Dun- dalk boys have won twice from Flesh- erton in two starts and the girls from the same school are anxious to keep up the good standard of the boys, by defeating our girls' team, but can they do it? Be on hand to see. DURHAM; Goal, Helen McDonald; defence, Marj. Middleton, Kay Wall- ace; centre, Betty Mclntyre; wings, Jean McGirr, Grace Vollett; alternates June Elvidge, Eileeen Wanamaker, Helen Acheson. F. H. S. Goal, Bemice Leavell; de- fence, Thelma Miller, E. Leavell; centre Dorothy Patton; wings, Kay Bannon, Anna McVicar; alternates, Winnifred McConkey, Dot. Welton and Ruth Tumey. D. H. S Goal, Noble; defence, Beat- on, Wanamaker; centre, Whitmore; wings, Jamieson, McGirr; alternates, Schank, Seymour, and McDonnell. F. H. S. Goal, Henry; defence, Mc- Tavish, Smith; centre, D. Morgan; wings. Piper, Archibald; altet-tiates, Leavell, McCracken and Graham. On Friday morning there was dis- played in our auditorium, d grand exhibit of art loaned by the Ontario College of Art at Toronto. This dis- play was very interesting and inspir- ing to all the students. In the after- noon we were shown some interesting slides of the Province of Quebec which were loaned to F.H.S. by the publicity department of the C. N. R, and pro- cured by the teachers. These slides showed the life, industry and country- side of Quebec. Au revoir Tom Aldcom, Editor. It is said that many members of parliament are tired of the amount of useless talk going on. That makes it almost unanimous. ! i > *4 **t* Fuwnl CkspM DIGNIFIED ftBd STMPATHBnC PERSONAL SERTICB Wkwthei YOU PAT LESS THAN flM.M For Compl«t« FiiiMral or More «• NO EXTRA CHARGE FOR THE USE OF OUR CHAPEL BATES & MADDOCKS 114 Avenue Rod^d. TORONTO Nigbt or Dvy Phone: KIngsdale 4S44-84B6 n ii m ciiiiiiii nn iiiiiiiiii mmnm ii m ii n Old Age Pensions Act Given Airing (By Miss A. C. Macphail, M. P.) The whole subject of old age pen- sions was given a thorough airing in a debate on Mr. Heaps' motion: "That this House would welcome a government declaration of policy lowering of the pensionable age limit of 70 years." Many interesting facts were brought out. In no country has the old age pension, once enacted, ever been repealed, and in many the age is sixty-five: South Africa, New Zealand, Australia, Denmark, Bel- gium and in twelve of the United States. In Ontario 53.50% of the people over 70 years of age are re- ceiving old age pensions, in British Columbia 42.81% and in New Bruns- wick 61.23%. Although Quebec only provided for old age pensions in 1936, already '41.16%, of those eligible are receiving pensions. Mr. Dunning, Finance Minister, under whose Department comes the responsibility of paying 75% of the total cost of old age pensions to the Provinces, said that neither the short- comings nor the abuses of the system should deter Parliament from consid- ering forward Steps in connection with social legislation of such im- portance. He did not, however, agree that the age limit should be lowered at this time. He pointed out the difficulty of keeping the adminis- tration uniform over all Canada, when it involves dealing with nine separate governments. "I am convinced,'' said Mr. Dunn- ing, "that we cannot have a maximum of efficiency and fairness in the ad- ministration of the old age pensions scheme administered as this one is, by each of the nine Provinces oper- ating within the scope of -its own sole jurisdiction, and the Dominion gov- ernment putting up 75% of the money with the right to audit, but with no right to interfere with the manner in which the Province is ad- ministering its own law.'' Speaking of the future, the Fin- ance Minister said that we should look forward toward a national scheme of old age pensions, paid for and administered by the federal gov- ernment, and that when we lower the age limit below 70 years the contrib- utory feature should enter. To use his own words: "I am one who be- lieves that there is no limit to what can be worked out in the direction of lowering the age limit, provided we had a national scheme, nationally administered and provided that the period below 70 years was made def- initely contributory." It is estimated that in the coming fiscal year, beginning April 1st, 177,- 000 people will be receiving old age pensions, at a cost to the Dominion of 30,000,000. To this sum would be added the 25% of the cost borne 'y the Province. I urged that totally incapacitated persons were as much in need of pensions as the blind, who will, when enabling legislation is passed by the Provinces, come under the terms of the .\ct at 40 years. Persons totally incapacitated are denied the happi- ness of normal life and often suffer excruciating pain over long years and ought not as well to be worried by economic difficulties. I further sug- gested that the money to care for them might well come from rich people who flit to the Bahamas to avoid income and inheritance taxes. Even the most calm and judicious of Cabinet ministers err at times. Mr. Howe, Minister of Transport, respected by the whole House, in talking of airports, when his estim- ates were going through, inadvert- ently called some airport other than that at Toronto, the finest on the North American continent; well, ap- proximately that, and brought down on his head a storm of Toronto pro- testations. The time was when only Tommy Clntrch flew to the defence of his city every time there was a hint of criticism, but now he is strongly reinforced. The one rift comes from Gordon Graydon, who represents Peel. When he hears Toronto claiming perfection, he immediately thinks of Peel (the banner County in Canada) and Atraightwny tells the House of its excellence. It appears that the best airport is in Peel County, to say hothinp <â- '" cut flowers. The Toronto membor-- ive nothing against that airport, •â-  -^pt its imcomfortable dis- tance i"r Toronto. Nor has Mr. GrnvHni lyfhing against Toronto except it- istance from Peel County. Regulating Truck Loads Proposed Warden Howard McCauley of Grey, Reeve of Flesherton, suggested to the annual convention of Ontario Good Roads Association that regulations should be established setting a weight limit on loads for trucks operating on the various types of roads. "There is no reason for local tax- payers being taxed heavily to main- tain bridges and culverts for the ben- efit of a few truckerj who carry over- loads," Warden McCauley said. "We should ask the Department ot Highways to conduct a sui-vey and questionaire from which the proper regulations could be drawn up. County patrolmen should then be ap- pointed with the authority of a traffic officer to enforce the.se regulations.'' If this doesn't make sense, neither did the debate. Sheep Slaughtering St. Vincent Council has taken action to have dogs found killing or worrying sheep in the township killed. They are offering $10. to the sharp- shooter who shoots a dog found both- ering sheep. One farmer last week had over a. dozen sheep killed by dogs and Council ordered payment of $136. Reeve John Kingston says it costa St. Vincent several hundred dollars â- every year for sheep killed, which they are compelled to pay. Practically two days were spent in discussing the burden of unemploy- ment on property owners and, in connection with that, the impossibil- ity of expecting housing projects to take up the slack of unemployment. Member after member pointed out that there is no Incentive to own pro- perty and improve it under present conditions. Seventy-five per cent of the real estate in Toronto is not worth the mortgages on it, Mr. Factor said. They argued, too, that unemployment was not a municipal matter, that they couldn't afford the present terrific costs of relief, that the Federal government should as- sume all relief costs. In reply, the Labor Minister, Nor- man McLeod Rogers, said that if the Dominion treasury assumed full re- sponsibility for unemployment it would mean an outlay of $100,000,000 a year and would require an increase in income and sales tax. Mr. Wordsworth sounded a very serious note. He said that for years he had been saying that direct relief should be regarded as a federal re- sponsibility and that constitutional reform was necessary in order to put the responsibility where it belongs. "In the meantime, the people are suffering. Why should we let another Parliament pass without taking some action ? Why should we not in this very Parliament . . . claim the right to amend the British North America Act as we see fit? The discouragement which many members are feeling was well ex- pressed by Mr. TjVoodsworth : "This year, Mr. Speaker, I think more than in any other year I have been in Parliament, I have been al- most obsessed with a sense of futility of the whole business, with a sense of finistration. I look around this House and recognize the faces of a great many people I have come to know during the years I have been here. They are splendid men, men who are kind, thoughtful and ordinar- ily intelligent. And yet this problem has been with us year after year. We have had it, in acute form, for nearly ten years. What are we doing about it We are putting it off from month to month and from year to year. I require all the courage I can summon to get to my feet on the floor of the House this year. I would not say it is not worth while to talk to seventy people; but what is going I to be accomplished by talk? One can put forward the best arguments of which he is capable; one can enter upon the record large masses of statistics, but what do they avail?" Shelburne Takes Series On Monday evening at Markdale Shelburne proved themselves the bet- ter team when they defeated their heavier Dundalk opponents and thus win the northern half of the Centre Grey League. Shelburne now meets the winners of the Erin-Hillsburg group for the League title. The arena was filled to capacity for this third and last game of the finals. The score was 5-4 and Saunders was outstanding for his team when he scored all his team's goals. Shelburne were never behind and twice they en- joyed a two-goal lead. The game went into overtime when at the end of schedule time the score was dead- locked 3 all. Shelburne scored two pretty goals but at the last minute Dundalk cut their margin to one goal but were unable to tie the score and they were obliged to watch the cup slip into Shelburne's hands. Variable Weather During the week we have had al- niost all kinds of weather. Thursday the thermometer reached 19 degrees below zero, a new low for this winter, while at the Power House the reading was 23 below and at Ceylon 21. Bright sunshine was enjoyed part of the time and for the remainder there was dull weather with an occasional thaw and plenty of snow, at times assuming the proportions of a blizz- ard. If March did not come in like a lion, it has made up for it since. Tuesday morning the sun shone brightly, with the air crisp and cool, but by 2 o'clock snow was falling heavily propelled by :. strong wind. We have had more snow so far in March than during the whole month of February. Her 84th Birthday Congratulations are extended to Mrs. Selina J. McKee on the observ- ance of her 84th birthday on March 1st, at the home of her son, Mr. Jos. E. McKee, west backline. Mrs. Mc- Kee is enjoying good health at pre- sent and her years lie lightly on her shoulders. DANCE AT EUGENIA A Dance will be held at Eugenia on Friday, March 11th, under the aus- pices of L.O.L. 1118. Ddniission: 25 ets., Indies with lunch fi'ee. Many Attend Funeral Of Late Bert Graham (By our Eugenia corr.) Th2 funeral of the late Mr. Bert Graham was held from Fleshertoa United Church on Friday afternoon^ February 25. The church was filled to capacity with synipnthizing frie.ids. The late Mr. Graham, who was 55^ years of age was a bricklayer and waa widely known. He had almost com- pleted the renovation of the Grahan^ chopping and saw mill in the village which he intended to have in operation in the spring. His untimely death, which was caused by injuries received in a car accident was a great shock to the community. The deceased was a man of quiet disposition and was highly respected by everyone, and will be greatly missed in the village. His pastor. Rev. Mr. Elliott, con- ducted the funeral service which waa opened with the verse, "I am the res- urrection etc.'' Rev. Mr. Service as- sisted and read various scripture passages. The hymn, "The sands ot life are sinking" ivas sung. Rev. Mr. Elliott deliver'd an impressive- message from the text and spoke comforting words to the bereaved. Many beautif«l floral offerings ex- pressing love and sympathy surround- ed the casket. These were, a pillow from his wife and family; wreaths and spi-ays fromMr. and Mrs. J. Sta- art and family, Meaford; The Hamm- ond family, Toronto; Mrs. M. Mc- Mullcn and Miss Millie; The Ellis, family, Orangeville; Mr. and Mrs- Sewell, Toronto; Eugenia friends and neighbours; Eugenia public school pupils and teacher; Flesherton High School students and staff; Masonic Lodge; and Wallace Graham and family. The deceased was a member of Prince Arthur Lodge, Flesherton, which conducted their beautiful ma- sonic service at the grave. Inter- ment was made in Flesherton mortu- ary chapel. The pallbearers were Messrs. G. Magee, J. Porteous, A. Cameron, V/. Walker, W. Gordon and S. Campbell. Those left to moui-n are his grief- stricken wife, son Frank and daugh- ter Ruth; his sister Ruby, (Mrs. T. Hogtrai-d), Clarksburg; and brothers Fred of Walkerton, Edgar of U.S.A. and Ed. of Clarksburg, but who is in Orangeville hospital at present. To the family we extend our sincere sympathy. Even death has a wonderful mission. Though it robs us of one we love. It lifts our hearts from our surround- ings To long for tb..' meeting above. No matter lioW j^reat the dispuir Heaven soenis nearer and dearer To know that our loved one is there. Card of Thanks We wish to take this opportunity of expressing our heartfelt apprecia- tion for the many acts of kindness of our friends and neighbors and for the expressions of sympathy in the loss of our wife and mother. â€" Robt. Fisher and Family. We know a funny story about a chicken, but won't putlet now. â- â™¦â™¦â™¦â™¦â™¦â™¦â™¦ |ii HH* »*'>' H i' H i*4 "H i** * ' > »*<i*«.|i*.>». > » H i # »44» HH > Because of the week-end Conserv- ative conference, the week's debate was brought to an early close at six o'clock on Friday, with the Depart- ment of Transport estimates still under review. Radio "interference'' received spec- ial attention. The Hon. Mr. Howe stated that his Department has al- most unlimited power to deal with tangible causes of radio difficulties, but he blamed sun spots for most of the current interference. He explain- ed that there is an eleven-year cycle of sun spots and that this ;ear s the worst in the cycle, though last year was bad. "The consoling thought," he said, "is that next year we shall advance towards an improvement," 90 far as sun spots are concerned. â€"AGNES C. MACPHAIL. OTTAWA. February 5, 1988. It has been said that no one ever .icc-ompliahes anything by sitting (lovTi, on the job. What about the hen that lays an egg? NEW SPRING Wall Papers This week we place on sale our new selection of New Wall Papers for the Spring Season. The assortment of popular priced designs in "Sunworthy" qualities is the best and largest we have ever offered. Prices range from 9c per Single Roll. F. H. W. Hickling Geoeral Merchant Flesherton, Ont. i