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THURSDAY: out Canada. Admittedly any kind of gambling is questionâ€" able, but the stock exchanges thrive, and raceâ€"course ownâ€" ers and jockey clubs never seem to feel the pinch of pov- erty; in fact, quite the reverse, as most of the people con- nected with those organizations are somewhat remarkable for their displays of wealth. Playing the markets and the races is not a game which the man with a few dollars can enter, but he could, Without disturbing his financial obli- gations, buy an odd ticket in a lottery. If he lost, as he mostly would, the temptation would soon be cured. The object of the lottery, often a worthy cause, and its oper- ation, would be under control of the authorities, and no per- son would be seriously hurt. as: Premier Taschereau’s efforts to legalize lotteries in the Province of Quebec will be awaited _with iritereet through- Futures in wheat are bought and sold every day, but again the man with the thin purse is shut out. As stated above, gambling is questionable, but there does not seem to be any valid reason why gambling in stocks and horse racing should be legalized and lotteries barred. One organization which has been of great benefit to Smiths Falls as a whole is the Retail Merchants’ Associa- tion. Organized only about a year ago, this flourishing league of business men has made astonishing progress and the enthusiasm and close coâ€"operation of the members has placed the seal of success on every project sponsored by the Association. During 1933 hundreds of district resi- dents were induced to Visit Smiths Falls and see its ad- vantages as a shopping centre through the special Dollar Day and Poultry Fair Day arrangements and these events proved most popular and even more successful than had been anticipated. The Retail Merchants now plan to hold a Community Weekend in the near future and it is safe to predict that this event will also prove a splendid success. In sponsoring these special occasions the Association has built for itself a splendid reputation and from all indications 1934 will see the Retail Merchants continue their forward movement. The members showed undoubted 'business ability at the annual meeting when they re-elected all of- ficers for 1934.â€"Smiths Falls Record. J. B. S. Haldane, teacher of bio-chemistry at Cambridge University in England, says: “It is the whole business of a university teacher to induce people to think.” In a book on subjects of science, Mr. Haldane, who had his share of the big war out in front Where he could see What went on, is bitter about war in general, and makes this prediction: “In the late war, the most rabid national- ists (patriots) were to be found well back of the front line- In the next war, no one will be behind the front line. It Will be brought home to all whom it may concern that war is a very dirty businessf’ 7 Air.plane‘s, with their gas and explosive bombs, will attend to that. It may take a long time yet before the world finally straightens itself out and manages to get along “on a plane- tary basis, the earth all one nation, Without hostile nations indulging in Wholesale murder,” he states. Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, in a recent address, de- scribed war as “futile and deadly stupid,” adding the en- lightening suggestion that all who think know that war is stupid but, unfortunately, “most people do not think.” All human beings feel, but think rarely, and not often intelligently. When war is suggested emotion, the ancient frenzy of the pack and the mob, sends them toward it, unâ€" thinking._ And so war continues to bleed and impoverish nations. It is just a few years since the world passed through the worst, most destructive war in history, and already a dozen nations are preparing for the next war. And for what? One great conqueror of the East killed thousands, sim- ply that he might pile up higher his pyramids of skulls, raised to glorify his name. Thousands of conquerors, in- cluding those that each generation is taught to honor as men of genius, have deliberately, to gratify a passing anger, ordered and carried out the slaughter of entire populations, The ordinary citizens are the real victims 6f wars and to avoid being trapped into them they must do more think- ing for themselves. President 0- A. Bogert of the Dominion Bank in his ad- dress at the annual meeting referred to the high cost of government in this country: He said: “The Dominion government debt, including guarantees, has increased by at least $250,000,000; obligations of the provinces about $70,- 000,000; and were it not for the fact that many municipalâ€" ities have entirely lost their credit standing (some of them indeed are in default and are being administered by boards of supervisors) the total debts would doubtless be much higher.” The overwhelming annual cost of necessary relief throughout the country accounts for the main addition to the debts but Mr. Bogert found that quite apart from public relief, budgets, with few commendable exceptions, are not being balanced and increasingly large totals of taxes re- main unpaid, showing that the limit has been reached, if not 0"ceeded. “This being so,” he continued, “the only remaining Way to balance budgets is to cut expenses, all resistance not- withstanding. Private employers have done soâ€"why not publ'c bodies? Everybody knows that government in this country is absurdly costly. Starting at Ottawa, and right through the nine provinces, the large cities, the munici- palities, counties, townships and school districts ,the elabor- ate machinery of administration could, and should be, cut like that of any other business. Advertising Rates on Application Embliahed 1878 AN INDEPENDENT WEEKLY PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY AT RICHMOND HILL THE LIBERAL PRINTING C0.. LTD J. Eachem Smith. Manure! Member Canadian Weekly Newspapel Association Subscription $1.50 per year â€" To the United States $2.00 GOVERNMENT “ABSURDLY COSTLY” SAYS BANK HEAD PAGE TWO DO YOU THINK FOR YOURSELF? Covering Canada’s Best Suburban Distrint ', FEBRUA‘ WHY THE DISTINCTION? are bought and sold every day, but A USEFUL SERVICE THE Ll BERAL ARY 15th, 1934 TE; " "NONE 9 THE QUEEREST ACCIDENTS OF 1933 The list of queer accidents present- ed by the year 1933, provides the case of a golfer who made a hole in one by aid of a large bee sting; another in- cident when both the fireman and engineer of a speeding passenger train caught fire and fell off, while the train was stopped by the conduc- tor; still a third in which an aviator burst into dicament, the cab a train on ing'engin tender, a‘ water ta] roof of a just then own detective abilities. Deaths were caused by a toy automobile, a jigsaw puzzle, 3 somersault, a girl’s elbow, a small burn from a hot pipe, 3. cat, a sneeze, a. mouse and a stolen roll picked up in a restaurant where a previous owner had discarded it. Last year one of the odd accidents was the case of a New Jersey thief who stole a clock and tried, later on, to sell it to its rightful owner. This year provides a parallel incident, in which the thief of a shortâ€"wave radio set was demonstrating it to a pros- pective customer when the set itself repeated a police broadcast about its own theft. The thief ran but was ar- rested, and the prospective customer restored the set to its owner. Investigation of a 52-cent theft put three New' York City policemen in the hospital, while a single day in Mount Clemens, Mich., brought to the hospital three people who had been injured, one by the explosion of a pop bottle, the second by a sandwich and the third by a tombstone. But probably the medal for the greatest oddity of the year should go either to the incident of the English street car which ran away because the heat had melted the asphalt on the street or to the unbelievably unlucky indi- vidual reported by the National Saf- ety Council, who happened to knock ‘on the outside of a wooden door at 1the precise instant when-a carpenter linside the door drove a nail through lin into the knocker’s knuckles. The runaway street car was climb- ing 'a steep hill in the town of Bath when- it suddenly slipped backward down the hill in spite of all that the motorman and conductor could do to stop it. At the foot there was a collision with another car. One wo- man was killed and fifteen other pas- sengers were injured. Investigation showed that the' 0in surface of the street paving had melted in the heat and exuded a thin film of oil, some of which had run onto the rails and greased them, so that the brakes fail- ed to hold on the wheels and the wheels to grip the rails. Other runaway cases of transport play an unusual role in the accidents of 1933. The incident of the train in which both engineer and fireman caught fire happened'near the town of ! Chartenton, in France, and never was! explained, since both of the unfort- unate Victims of the flames were kil- led. Apparently the firemen first caught fire in some way. The en- .gineer went to his aid and himself LIBERAL, RICHMOND HILL. ONTARIO uman handlers of Holmes was lost in the person of 0y of that name ailed to find, but ted himself by his :ies. Deaths were station, the conductor climbed over the tender, found the cab untenanted and stopped the train. What origin- ally set the fireman on fire seems never to have been discovered. Another railway train at Welling- borough, England, suddenly started up mysteriously for no reason that ever was discovered and ran for sev- eral miles without anyone at all on ‘board until finally sidetracked and stopped by signalmen along the line In the United States Mr. Walter C on the E his cab k side the zens before out injuring woman, Mrs The golfer who got his hole in one by aid of a bee was Mr. Dick Frank- lin, of Houston, Texas. The bee stung him on the ankle and then hov- ered over the ball on the tee. Mr. Franklin swung at the bee with his club but missed. Accidentally he hit the ball, which sailed off dinectly into the cup, 193 yards away establishing iMr. Franklin as one of the year’s ldarlings of capricious fortune. \Tragically contrary was the exper- ience of an aviator who was over- whelmed by an avalanche, Lieutenant W. Maier, of the Swiss army. Being compelled to drop out of a disabled airplane over the Alps, Lieutenant Maier took to his parachute and de- scended safely, apparently out of danger. The airplane, however, con- tinued on its flight and struck the snow slope some thousands of feet away and directly above the spot where the Lieutenant’s parachute had deposited him. The impact of the air- plane started a snOWslide, which grew presently to the dimensions of an ava lanche. Before the luckless aviator could make his way across the snow out of the line of the advancing snow- slide, it reached and buried him. Incidentally, one of the most cur-l Neither 1932 nor 1933 produced any ious aviation experiences of the yearlrecord of the traditional news event, fell to the lot of a luckier aviator,‘ a man biting a dog, but 1933 provid- Pilot E. L. Remlin, of L0s Angeles.§ed something just as good. In Brook- Flying north of San Francisco in i lyn, a puppy bit a man and promptly October, Mr. Remlin was startled to fell dead, apparently from too great see sailing ahead of him, curious flat§exertion in biting. Another dog Wreck objects later identified as roofs from ed an automobile and killed the driver barns. A whirlwind or “twister” had by jumping at a critical moment. lifted them into the air. Fortunately Other automobiles weie' wrecked by Mr. Remlin was able to avoid anyia mouse, a sneeze on the part of the collision between his own craft and driver, a bee sting and a wasp, causâ€" these impromptu airplanes. .ing the driver to lose control of the No quick decision required of avia- ‘ car. In London, one day last January, tors ever exceeded that which cirâ€" traffic first was tied up by a mouse cumstances required of Mr. Peter and then by an elephant, both of ‘Burnand, of Sheffield, England, who which frightened women so that they slipped while cleaning a wind-ow in a collided, and" stopped everything until firebt ' train at Welling-I , suddenly started? :‘or no reason that‘ ad and ran for sev-‘ t anyone at all on ly sidetracked and men along the line. ates Mr. Walter C. 3er of a fast train ad, was blown from ;erious explosion in- The fireman stopped California town of attacked by a pilot~ ch roared over the factory in that city. Below him was ‘a. furnace full. of molten metal. The ' only object which he could grab was an electric wire charged with 1200 volts. He chose the wire, from which he presently was rescued by fellow workmen who themselves Were sev- erely shocked before they got him , loose. Although unconscious when 5 rescued, Mr. Burnand was revived and , recovered; which he certainly would lmot. have done had he dropped into lthe unlucky fisherman, Mr. Clarence fGeno, of Ontario, Canda, who was shot and killed by a fish he already‘ had caught. This fish, still flopping, was thrown by Mr. Geno into the bottom of the canoe in which he was jfishing. In the bottom of the canoe was a loaded rifle. The flops of the fish twisted the fishing line around ‘the trigger, discharged the rifle and ' shot Mr. Geno through the heart. In the house of Mrs. Virginia Watson in Philadelphia, a cat knocked over a shotgun, which was discharged and shot Mrs. Watson’s infant daughter in the neck, fortunately not with fatal results. Mr. A. M. Dunnavan, of Rochester, Illinois, rigged up a gun trap to shoot chicken thieves. A flut- ,tering hen flew against the string and , shot Mr. Dunnavan himself. That it is dangerous even to tell a I person to put down a gun because _ that article is dangerous was proved 9 l PVP'HI‘ilâ€"VA by the experience of Mr. Samuel Wolfson, of New York City, who saw a boy playing with a gun and shouted to him to drop it. The boy was so isltartled that the gun went off, shot ‘Mr. Wolfson and killed him. In a similar incident in the same city, Mr. Andrew Colletti was practising targetâ€" shooting in the basement of his house. A piassterby, hearing the shots, sum- moned a policeman, who rushed into basement with drawn revolver ex- pecting to find a gang battle in pro- l wire The oddlest shooting accident of 1933 probably was the experience of > Itol hidden in the hallway of their martment house. Accidentally it went off and shot all three boys, two n the hand and the other one in the ‘.l'm. In panic, all three youngsters "an upstairs to the mother of two of hen. Concluding, not unnaturally, hat a gun battle was in progress bwnstairs she locked and barricated he apartment door, keeping the three wounded boys inside. Neighbors sent for the police, who were compelled to break down the door before they could persuade the frightened mother hat it was all a mistake and carry iff the damaged boys for repairs ati a hospital. Mrs. Watson's cat fortunately did inot shoot the baby fatally, but Mr. David Imes of Norristown, Pennsyl- vania was not so lucky. He tripped over the family cat, fell downstairs and died. A pussy in Berlin, Ger- many, felt so high spirited one day that she jumped through a fourth- story window, lit on a woman pass- ing by on the street below and ser- iously injured her. A New York City policeman spent a week hunting the: . cat which had bitten him, so that the cat could be tested for rabies and the 5x policeman would not have. to take sev- . era] weeks off for treatment. The , most curious- thing is that he found . the cat. g‘ress. Mr. Colletti was so startled :hat he dropped his target rifle, which went off and shot him in the stomach. Three Manhattan boys found a pis- Mr. John Jones, of \Herefordshire, England, died from the bite of a lamb, the wound becoming infected with dangerous germs. A diner in a Chicago restaurant, desiring to make sure that the lobsters were fresh, asked that a tray of them be sent in from the kitchen for him to look them over. They were sent in, they proved to be still alive and: one of them nipâ€" ped the inquisitive diner on ‘the end of his nose, resulting in a damage suit against the restaurant. The fire department of Berlin, Ger-1 many, was called) out to remove from! the heard of an old gentleman in a} public park a swarm of bees which had settled there during the old gent- leman’s afternoon nap. In a Chicago suburb a citizen rushed into the pol- ice station shouting that there was a wolf at his door. Rejecting the police- sergeanrt’s assurance that this was nothing unusual in these depression days the visitor insisted that the wolf was real; which it was. The police turned it over to the zoo. metal instead 'of seizing the live THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15th, 1934 they had been stood upright and shep- herded to a place of public safety. A boy in New Rochell, New York, stood on a toy automobile to adjust a rope on the rafter of his playroom. The auto slipped out, the rope tight- ened around the boy’s neck and he was hanged. A man in Halifax, Nova Scotia, lost a card game and agreed to turn a somersault as a forfeit. Something snapped. It was discovered that his neck was broken. During a dance at Brockville, Ontario, a boy was struck in the temple by his sis- ter’s elbow. He died. The distin- guished British automobilist and rac- ing driver, Sir Henry Birkin, burned {his arm slightly on the hot exhaust pipe of his racing car during a race in Africa. Germ infection set in and killed him. Working at a jigsaw lpuzzle, Mr. Charles Leidhold, of Pittsâ€" lfield, Massachusetts, finally found the missing piece that fitted. He was so much pfeésed that he dropped dead from heart failure. Mount Clemen’s day of three odd accidents began with an exploding pop bottle, which sent in the first in:- jury. " Next a sandwich thrown at a speeding automobile, so that it broke the windshield and sent the driver to a hospital to be treated for cuts. Fin- ally a tombstone toppled over and injured a. man caught underneath it. One of the three New York City policemen hurt in arresting the 52- cent thief shot himself in the excite- ment in the store where the robber was found and captured. The other two wrecked their police auto on the way to ‘jail with the culprit. The thief himself was uninjured. Another New York burglar was being hunted by police at night, after mysterious nois- es had been heard in a closed grocery store. Suddenly a cry of “I’m shot” lwas heard in the darkness and the culprit staggered out. The policemen were puzzled, as no shot had been fired by them. Presently the mystery of the “blood” streaming down the- burglars face was explained. An egg had fallen off a shelf overhead, hit hi man the head and flowed down over his countenance. Perhaps the year’s oddest crime was one still unexplained. Making his way home one dark night, Mr. Wm. Clark, of Detroit, Michigan, was stopped by two hold-up men who pre- sented pistols, forced open Mr. Clark’s mouth and proceeded to ex- tract both his sets of false teeth, up- pers and lowers. Neither Mr. Clark nor anyone else ever has been able to imagine why” To make this up to the false-teeth industry, hOWever, the dog of Mrs. W. P. T. Bang-ham, of Pleas- ant Ridge, Michigan, brought home a set of false teeth which it had found elsewhere. Mrs. Baugham advertis- led the find and interviewed a long succession of false-teeth losers, but never found the right one. Mr. Wm. J. Haris, of Boston, claims to be the world’saonly acci- dental pick.pocket. Just after the turn of the year he came home with some other man’s watch and chain hanging, unknown to him, on one of the buttons of his heavy overcoat; it was decidsed that it had caught there in the rush-hour crowd and had been pulled out of the owner’s pocket. Return of beer brought back to the news an acident long unfamiliar. No less than four kegs of beer in differ- ent parts of the country blew up in 1933 at parties or picnics, with con- siderable damage to clothes and per- sons of bystanders, who, perhaps, had expected plenty of beer, but not ex- ‘actly in that way. Most tragic of all the year’s oc- currences, howwever, was probably the fate of an elderly woman who picked up a discarded roll in 3. Breedâ€" way restaurant and ate it, hoping to save herself the cost of that part of a meal purchased especially for her. In a few moments she collapsed and died. The roll had been poisoned. Still more to the mystification of the detectives, at almost exactly the same hour a strange man! dropped dead: in the washroom of the same restaurant, although his body was not found: until later. At first the authorities sus- pected a double murder or perhaps a suicide pact. The real truth, howâ€" ever,rwas older and more tragic. f Phone 1550 The male victim, it was decided, had poisoned two rolls, intending to eat them as a means of suicide. One he did eat, and it proved enough to kill him. A little later the woman came along, saw the other roll, picked it. up, and added the find to her meagre trayful of breakfast. Unsus- pectingly, she ate that half of the deadly dose, the other half of which already had been the end of the male suicideâ€"American Weekly. 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