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THE CLINTON NEW Ell,A
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THE CLINTON
(1881)
Art algarneted
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iFivR8DAY, OCTOBER 113, 1956
ON READING NEWSPAPERS
r4. HAMERTON, in -his little book; "In- with centemporary life. The paper is an Pencil-,
telleetual Life," tells of a nere who told him iary to history. In feet, what the African travel -
that be did not believe in feeding neWspapers, ler did for the mapmaken the Paper - does for
He made the charge against them that •they history, and the historianS ' of tomorrow will
dealt too much in sensational matters, and search thefiles of the papers issued today,
chinned that the 500 hours or so a year which . It has been pointed out that people respect •
sordinarily spent on reading them could be hiStory vviternbounci An leather and overlook the
used to better ,purpose in more select reading. chronicle of present day affairs.
Someone has said somewhere, in stating the' Among the services rendered is that of
value of the newspaper, that one's mind needed friendliness, A newspaper tells ,the people of
checking up' as the:business man's ledger did; one another, and has done as much ae any
and that this court' be done best by the informa- ageneys to end isolatinn, Then what contributes,
tion •givea in the press. • •• more -effectively to what we may call a pofit-
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some ways, there is no mere --welcome able entertainment?
Visitor to home than the paper, People read That leads es to another valuable service
it who'do not books and who do not attend' rendered by the newspaper. The advertising.
church, Indeed, for some it is their' mot ime 'columns-. of .the favorite family newspaper not
pertant point of contact with their communitYa only stimulates sales for business people but
Provinee, country and the world at large; It. is eaves time "and Irioney for those who buy. As
a regular and friendly visitor and its various • - a result, of , advertisements many are able tQ do
depaztrnents• have something to interest the ser- their shopping in the comfort of their own home.
eral members of the househeld. Nere they can compare values, at their leisfire,
Mr. Hamerton, in the t ools inoreed Consider their needs and prepare their shopping
shows the place the nevvspaper fills in e the life - list. It is a. well-known fact that best Values
of people. For one thing, it is to the public wilnalweys be found in the advertisement which
What the .convereetioe of a home is to the in- is held up for comparison:
mates of that home. There they discuss domestic
affaira—exe'llange ideas, discuss ;vital niatters• So
the .newspaper provides a Medium, for the ex- ' IN MOTHBALLS •
-change of ideas, and matters that concern all
the people are ventilated, FIRMS THAT stop- advertising are taking a
Besides, it tells the achievements of our day backward step; They may think they have stop.—registers progress. ' The cares, the thoughts, ped advertising:. nlit they haven't --the cessation
and.the aspirations of the great n,a- itself advezeites for them the fact that they have
tions are spread out upon the printed page, We -tear, that they lack faith in the future.
lead of the adventures of the people who make nThey ar,e, putting a number of important
• what we now call Europe arld 'America. Thee assets away in mothballs for the duration—the
• places, ereestill in the making. We see 'them godelevill they have built up, the prestige, born
• reaching out their hands, to one another, and of advertising, public remembrance, consumer
we follow their great trade- routes, and note tamiliaxity with their advertising. It isn't con-
• their'reaotion to•the crises of our time: . ' structive. progressiveS's It isn't merely a
The French peasant of Harnerton's day •did Netibtfel procedureS"--it's dangerous.
not read the papers and so was .out of touch . —Charles McIntyre
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"TO ENCOURAGE: THRIFT"
IN TIMES when every penny seems to be it has grown to an actiye membership of 935,
Worth less this year than it was worth last, in and assets totalling about $26n,000.
terms of goods -it will buy, it .is encouraging to The thousandth new Member was accepted
note that the leaden' of, our •Country, and of on Monday 'morning this week.
the United States, are urging regular savings. • . Canada has 4,102 credit unons and over A
In the words .of ,prime Minister Louis St. ••1,756,000 members.
Laurent, "The initiative and cooperative spirit Credit unions are self-help thrift groups who
displayed. by the participants in this eion-Profit save together and make loans to each other at
anovemen,t (the Credit Union) are fine examples low interest for good , purposes, sr -Each credit,'
. • of good citizenship and merit encouraetiment." union is chartered and supervised by the provin-
International Credit Union Day is being cial government and is owned and operated en -
celebrated to -day and the ten million members tirelyby the membns.
-• in 22,255 credit unions now in • existence, re-
ceived commendation and . encouragement
.their efforts from the prime minister of Canada,
as well as from President Dwight D. Eisenhower
.at the White Hose, Wash-
.„ • <I
'l'o-day is the 108th anniversary of credit
imions, The idea was brought into North Am-
• erica in 1900 at Levis, Quebee, and - into the
• United States nine years 'later, by a Canadian,
• Alphonse Desjardins, and it has grown tremend-
ously eince then. .
In, Canton the community credit uniori re-
ceived its charter ens Ju1y.,12, four years ago,
, and began with a 25 cent deposit. Since then
Ralph Waldo Emerson— • _„„,
e wise and just man will always feel
that he imparts strength to the seate, not
• receives security froxn it. The less govern-
ment we have, thebetter; the fewer laws
and the less confided power. The antidote
to thli abuse of formal government is the
" influence ef private character, the growth ,
' of the individual.
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The Top Shelf
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•-(By BENJAMIN' BEVERIDGE) '
When I was a newspaper repore
tea: on a beat—before I became a
roving cohennist—I used to.drearn
of assigninents that would' take
the to far-awajf pladeg, of" trips •t�
the Seven Seas, to the sands of
' Sahara, and the shows df,', the Arc-
, tic, and to the Ricky Mountains.
Well, dreams do come true, end
though the Seven •Seat I visited
Was a restaurant in tdrrienton, I
•• •have seen the Rockies may times
-- and the thrill of those .majestie
,peaks .never quite wears off. I
was at Banff this 'week. Arid I
- drove through the exhilarating air
to Yoho Valley in British Colum-
bia, counting the wild life—moosa
• deer, mountain goats; bears and
realpies—which rove af will in
the great nationarnark.
M the dirling rooni ef the Banff
Springs Hotel X saw a yeung con
lege girl from Ontario. She was
spending the summer riding along
the trails, fishing, swimming in
the. sulphur springs, denting and
Waiting on tables. A head waiter
turned ent to be e Ceecho-Slovak-
fart, and a. friend of Joseph
Weed's former eetnornic adVisor,
gaImani0. -There was a ten-
'ventien of orthopedit surgeons
titan the United States iripeen
•geese. There Were many Other
people there, niost of them on ex-
pense accounts, 'enjoying themsel-
ves in this beatitiful railway hotel
which has' been called the White
Elephant ef the Rockies,
The kippered ber.ring at Banff
are delicious, and 1 prevailed up-
eri7my Amerlean cnrePanion to tlY
seine. Delicately at first, but then
with more vigor and relish, he
started to eat one side of his kip,
per; but when he reached down
b.gain he was surprised to see a
Waitress whisking his plate, off hi
the direction, of the kitchen:,
When the girl rettlened, my
friend asked why she had taken
his fish away. She was surprised,
embarrassed and apologetic'.
sarry,, Sir," she said, "rye,
neverSeen one of those things bes
fore. ItAust looked like a pile of
honea to me, and I thought you
Were finished with At.q
What coda you say to that?
Except; "Being me some seram-
bled eggs and sausages"
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heard a true story while 1 was
there obout a lady—a widow—who
thought ehe should •get rearieed
agent wadi the men she saw,
he Was attracted most by the.
non-deseript Whose% fasten -tee were
so pathetic that he net only soled
his oboes with cardboard but pat-
• ched his trousers with newspaper.
The lady in qUeetion accepted
an invitation to visit the old man's
quarters. She found them clean
and modest. Although the table-
cloth was newspaper, there was a
silver service which was . More
lingrally displayed than food, The
host cu the cake thin. He everi
proposed, eventually; but theehero-
ine decided 'that she did not are
spending therest of her life, with
a man who wore newspaper pat-
ches and skimped on. cake.
It's strange how things turn out,
because the old fellow died short-
ly after, leaving $3,000,000, '
°
Visitors to the inoutitains,in Al-
berfa are bound isehear the tragic
story of the Frank slide, ,Whert on
April 29-, 1903, a' great wedge of
limestone crashed down from Tur-
tle Mountain upcin the little town
of prank. The rook was 2,100
feet high, 3,000 feet Wide, 'and 500
Net thick. Ninety million tons
of rock crashed down in, the dead
of night, and 70 people lost their
'
%The dead are stip buried there.
McClelland and 'Stewart ,have
anntruncad that the •sectmd in Sir
Winston Churchill's series eof his-
tory books will be published dri
Canada on December '3, 1956.
Following "The Birth of Britaire"
this •one/ wilt be called nThe New
World"
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Canadian publi.shets ilre looking
for good juvenile " story writers,
and yttia. BrieWb and Company
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From Our Ear y Files
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4O Years. Ago
• cx.ititoti 'NEW ERA'
October 12, 1916,
Will Kennedy had his hose re -
shingled last week.
/J. Wood a the Motor Works and
Mr, Dies of.eIhe Pietro Co, spent
Thanksgiving at Stratford playing
• Misses May and Norma Bentley
are visiting at London and other.
points.
Reeve Ford was judge of grain
at Bayfield Fair on Tuesday. - •
• Mr. antisMrs. 41xon Welsh, Tor-.
ante spent the ifelidaY in and .a-
round Clinton.
The Bible
Today •
-The lowly, despised hodge-podge
•of English and Malayan dialect
known as "Pidgin English", spoken
by generations of South Sea tract-
ers and natives, is one of the -lat-
est forms of speech into which the
Bible will be translated and,print-
ed.
"Pikanini bilang God", is the
way "Jesus Christ, the Son of
God", is described in this Bible. St.
Mark's Gospel, becatese of its com-
pactness will be the first portion
published. Its title becomes, "Guid
.nuis Marls 1 reiturn"; which liter-
ally means, "Good news Mark he
wrote it".
This Bible is designed to be used
•among tliousaelds, ofe'reatives of
Papua and New Guinea, who speak
501 different languages. .talthough
Pidgin is despised by linguists as a
jargon, it is the only language
common to all natives of the South
Pacific Wands, f
The British and Fereign Bible
Society in Australia which has
translated part or all of the Bible
into 55 different languages tor
New Guinea, Papua, the Solomon
Islands, and New Hebrides . will
now for the first time Use Pidgin
to tell the 'story of Christianity
le print.
It will be remembered that the
New Testament first appeared in
the "Koine", or common tpngue
Greek. • • .
Suggested readings, fot the week:
Sunday Philippians 3: 1••21
Monday ..... 2 Timothy 1: 1-18
Tuesday 2 Titnethy 2; 1-26
Wednesday 2 Timothy 3: 1-1.7
• Thursday 2 Timothy 4.-.: 1-22
Friday • Titus 1: 1-16
Saturday . Titus 2: 1-15
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Production of chewing tobacco
hi Canada in 1955 amounted to 1.3
million pounds, le 'than half the
1945 output
of Canada are offering -a prize of
$1,000 to the author of the best
juvenile beck manuscilpt written
by a Canadian before January 31,
1957."
Dr. Wilder Verdi*, the farreius
Montreal neurosurgeon, has ach-
ievedsomething of a mark with
his avocation, writing novels. His
first noven "No Other Gads,"
to be followed by another book
based on the life of Hippometes,
the father of medielne. Dr. Pen-
field isn't trying to teach with his
navels. He is puttsitilizing same
of the time he, spent 'at Princeton
Studying philoSophy'axid literature.
He was horn In Spolsaxie,. Wash.,
by the way. Bathe Was doubtles.s
drawn to Canada. by .Sir Wihilain
Osier, the Oritaria doctor whose
Weeks' on inedidine were standard
works at one' time. Dr. Penfield
became a •Oatiadien citizen in
1934.
Sir Arthtir Oman Doyle, the
creator of Sherlock Holmes, was
also a physician, although he ab-
andoned it. A, Cronin, the
Scottish novelist, also gave up his
medical career for Writing.
5 Years • Ago
• CLINTON -NEW&RECORD
• October, 8, 1931
J.; Neil has purchaser' the Mc-
Iver cottage, Frederick Street, and
gets immediate posseesion.
' John Hellyar is home after an
absence of about a year.
Rev, t E. Dougan .was the min-
ister taking charge of the Sunday
services .of Sfilithts Hill Presbyter-
ian Congregation on Sunday.
Assessor H. E. Rorke gives Clin-
ton a population'of 1850 while the
recent census 'enumerators put it
at 1793.
Driving kong Albert -Street on
her way to her home at Summer-
hill on Tuesday evening. Miss
Martell Mason, and other C.C.I.
students, lost the left hind wheel
of her car.
10' Years Ago
CLINTON NEWS -RECORD
October 17, 1946
A disastrous fire destroyed the
barn of 'Carman Tebbutt, Maitland
Concession, Goderich Township.
Fire broke out about 5 pen. Thurs-
day, while threshing '-operations
yvere in progress. •
•
Clinton was visited briefly Wed-
nesday noon --ter a matter of 10
minutes ' by His Excellency Field
Marshall Viscount Alexander of
Tunis, Governor General of Can-
ada. He was nroute to Port
Albert to open the International
Plowing Match.
Work en remodelling Clinton
Areelasis getting along very nicely.
All .the old rooms in the. front Of
the building have been 'Torn out,
and workmen are now starting to
lay out plans for • hew dressing
rooms and heating ssystent
• Miss Margaret Coiquhoun has
been elected president of the Stud;
erits' Council at C.C.I.
\The following were elected to
the executive of the' Clinton Colts
hockey club: president, Caryl W.
Draper; manager, Bert Gliddon;
coach, Grant Rath; secretary -trea-
surer, M. J. Schoenhais; executive,
J. M. Elliott; equipment, 1 Earl
Fulford.
Provincial gasoline taxes vary
from a high of 17 cents per gal•
Ton in Newfoundland and Nova
Scotia to a low of 9 cents -in 3ifan-
itoba.
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Clerk's
Notice.
•OF FIRST POSTING OF VOTERS' LISTS FOR. 1956
• Municipality of the Town of Clinton, •,
County .of, Huron. •
•NOTICE is hereby given that 1 have with
Section 8 of the VMERS! LISTS ACT and I have posted
up in my office at Clinton on the llth day of October,
1956, the list of all persons entitled to vote in said MuniciP-
ality at Municipal Epctions, and that such list remains
there for inspection.
And r hereby call -ikon all voters to take immediate
proceedings - to have any errors or omissions corrected
according to law, the ,last day of appeal being the 25th
day. of Octobee, 1956;
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, Dated at Clinton this llth day .of October, 1956.
JOHN LIVERMORE, '
Clerk of the Town of Clinton
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Dentist. •
Across From. Royal Bank
Phone Mt 2-9571
29 -tib
411411,11.0
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(Successor to the late A, L.
Cole, optoreetriSt)
For appolettnent phones 22,
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REAL ESTATE
• LEONARD G. WINTER
.11001 Estate and Business Broker
High Street — Clinton
Phone )311 2-0692
INSURANCE
• H. O. LAWSO] •
Bank of Montreal Building
Clinton
PHONES: Office HU 2-9644,
Res., HU 2-9787
basuranee Real Estate
Agent: Mutual Life Assurance OD.
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Insure the "Co-op" Way
W. V. ROY
, District Representative
Bbt 310 Clinton, Ontario
Phone Collect
Office 13D 2,9642—Res. ati 2-9357
Be Sure : :• Be Insured '
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Office: Royal Bank, Building
P1 -IONS
Office BIl 2-9747—Hes. 2-7559
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. Phone hayfield. 53r2
Oar 4- Fire - We - Accident
Wind insurance
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Head Offioe: Seorth
Officers 1956: President, W. S.
Alexander, Walton; vice-president,
Robert Archibald, Seatorth; set-
retary-treastirer and manager, M.
A. Held, Seaforth.
Ifirootors: John IL lqatwing;
Abbott Archibald; Chris., Leon-
hardt, Bornholm; E, 3 Trewartha,
Clinton;WM, 5, Alexander, Wal-
ton; 3. IV/alone, Seaforth;
Tat-
t'*y Euller, Goderich; S. E. Pepper,
rueefield; Alister Broadfoot, Sea0
forth.
Agents,: Wm. Loftier jr., Londe0
bora; j. ?meter, Brodhageri;
Sh taker, Drtistels; 'Erie
Idunr0e, Seriforth.
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