Notes by the Way

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 88, 18 August 1923, Page 3

Notes by the Way

' (By Onlooker). Kipling's Itecessional—"Lost wo Forget," was written to let us try and remember tho;-e who paid in the. Great War; but alas, our memories are short. I was told quite recently that in a' certain 'district >n Now 'Zealand some people wEo, when called up for sorwee took to the bush. He was eventually deprived of civil rights for ten' years, carries the brand of deserter, is not allowed to play football or take part in any sport, and yet is the elect of some! —"Lest we Forget.'' The town has got something definite to J .->'k about now. For the past day or- i.v, > small groups of men have been seen comparing cards, and on enquiry we find it is the demand notices for Borough rates that are causing the sensation. Already telegrams have boon sent to our M.P. asking what fa the best way to get rolief. The easiest way out, and the only ono, is to pay up and grin no matter how it hurts. Tho town voted for luxuries and now miist dance to the tune.

The preacher was giving out tho notices for the following week: "And on Sunday next I will preach a special sermon on 'Hell', and Sister Smith will Ring that homely solo: "Toll Mother I'll/be There.'*"

The new income tax levy is a straight out warning~to the local bodies to curtail their borrowing. No more five to six por cont. debentures with a 4s 6d incame tax attached.

I notice tenders arc being called for electric plant for the new Hydro works; They are on the jump. In a recent issue I read that tho Ontario Hydro Electric Commission produced and sold last year 2,400,000,000 units of electricity from a Id por unit, while greater New York has> plants that develop 1,250,000 kilowats of electricit. We are prayerfully looking for the time when some of the power and light will come our way, and we shall reap the lower prices. Look ahead and keep looking ahead is the 017 of.the progressive, but don't forget the present while looking to the future; make any good thing possible to-day, so that we can all say tho world is better today for what little we have done. Don't look back, remember Lots wife, she looked back and was turned into a pillar of salt while Lot Avent on and found another wife.

It is great to do something good, and I pass on a small paragraph entitled— "Serves." Serve falithfully, say little, pass on, and eventually tho world will write on your tombstone: "Hero lies a man." And now I hear you say: "Must 1 wait for an epitaph to praise mo for all this doing?" Wjait nothing. You collect the coupons as you go along. It is not the hours you', put in that counts it'is what you pgk into, tho hours that matters.