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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News Record, 1954-05-06, Page 7TIiURSDAY, MAY, 6, 1954 CLINTON' NEWS -RECORD'' PAGE SEVEN he Top Shelf. • (By BENJAMIN BEVERIDGE) There is a familiar historic ring o the current battle for possession f the New York Central railroad the United States. If railway zar Robert Young and Cyrus Eat n, Nova Scotia -born financier rom Cleveland, have connived to ut over a deal, as has been charg- d, it quitein keeping with the ctics of that unscrupulous last ntury era when the Vanderbilts nd financial wizard Gould, Drew nd Fisk went forth with that ublic be damned!" philosophy to lid the lines of steel which now retch across the continent. It is appropriate, too, that on e current bestseller lists is a k called "The Age of the oguls", by Stewart H. Holbrook, which is a brilliant assessment for layman of 'the barons of steel, oil railroads, ships and automobiles who were the first millionaires of the New World. 'In publishing this volume, Doubleday's has made a definite contribution to a final un- derstanding of the early American capitalist and their work in creat- ing—for all their selfishness and scheming indifference to the public good -the basic industry and econ- omy of the world's greatest nation. They gave America an unchange- able face. The book tells on them all – Cornelius Vanderbilt, John Jacob Astor, Daniel Drew, Jay Gould, Jim Fisk, Philip Armour, Andrew Car- negie, J. Pierpont Morgan, Cyrus ...in a year when .. N MY CO 0 COUNTS! you'll save money by operating a DAVID BROWN a l ' 1,47 •5P" • 2-3- PLOW POWER The small tractor that does a BIG job THESE FEATURES SAVE YOU MONEY • Amazingly low gas consumption • Low initial cost • Low maintenance cost • Full 2-3 plow power • Operates both hydraulic and pull type implements • 6 speeds forward, plus 2 speeds reverse See it today at your �-- DAVID BROWN DEALER Harvey M. Boyce Varna, Ontario Phone 626R31 McCormi'ek, , John D. ,Rockefeller,, Andrew Mellon, James J. Hill, the good and the bad, the Du • Ponts, the Guggenheims, the Fords, and lesser princes of capital whose triumphs and ignominies can now. be seen through the perspective of. time. One of the greatest tycoons was a Canadian. James Jerome Hill, the empire builder, was theoman' who made the northwest. He was born in Ontario in 1838, and start- ing out with nothing he left $43,- 000,000 'behindhim when he died. Hill thrived on stock panics and: the industrial reverses" of his op- ponents. He was the junk dealer of railroads, and borrowed $6,000,- 000 from the Bank of Montreal ‘‘Kidnapping"' Baby Animals Is Illegal SaysConservation ConsCervation Off icer G. R. Harris Kidnapping of baby fur bearing animals and deer to take home as pets is strictly contrary ; to , the Game and Fisheries Act and reg- ulations in Ontario and invites stern prosecution. In iasuing this warning, the Ontario Department turn killer if it is a fax or raccoon and probably kill off the neigh- bour's fowl, or it may just' die of starvation." Prosecution cannot right the wrong, he suggests, but co-operation in safeguarding. young Wildlife can prevent it, of Lands and Forests appeals -.for co-operation in the protection of young vildanimals, especially at SheafferPlantchis season when almost all wild animals raise their young. wild things, watch them and'en]oY Conducts Poll 11"Find,a litter of these young and Lord Strath'icona to buy his 'them during trips to the woods, first one. He even brought out but also protect them. Leave them his own immigrants to settle along the line, from Minnesota to the Rockies. It did not seem import- ant to him that much of the land eventually turned into desert, al- though it was in this area that Hill helped found Montana. Canadians have not remember- ed this illustrious son very well, though he was shrewder than Shaughnessy and Pellate, and just as remarkable as latter day Can- adian industrialists E. P. Taylor, Lord Beaverbrook and K. C. Ir- ving. James Hill pushed his rail- road right to the Pacific with no financial scandals. He consolidat- ed his lines into the Great North- ern Railway Company, and when the courts prevented an amal- gamation with Northern Pacific, Hill's ally, J. P. Morgan, took over the •latter in much the same; man- ner as Eaton may have done for Robert Young. Hill repaid the help he got from Canada by help- ing to build the Canadian Pacific. In the days of old Commodore Vanderbilt (his assets weighed 500 tons in gold) it was good busi- ness to be ruthless. • Judged by modern business ethics, most of the moguls would fall short of moral praise. But it was a dog- eat-dog environment they lived in, and so we may be kind to them. Before the unions came they made fortunes quickly by exploitingja- bor. After the unions—with the coming of the younger Rockefel- ler, George Pullman and Henry Ford—the moguls made money, but not so quickly, even with the help of the Pinkertons and the professional strike bearers. Cyrus McCormick was unique among the wealthy industrialists of his time because he was an in- ventor, a creator. Daniel Drew was the only one to serve in the military forces. John D. Rocke- feller, like Horace Greeley, lived on Graham crackers and, like modern day J. Arthur Rank, taught Sunday School. Although Morgan and Rockefeller inherited money to start with, all the others had to work for it. They made fabulous fortunes and some of it has done a greattamount of good in charitable use. 'Jim Fisk, a circus worker who made money in cotton, beats, gold and railroads, was killed in a lovers' triangle, and Daniel Drew, the pious one of the lot, died broke. Mr. Holbrook writes of a crafty deal John Jacob Astor pulled in 1909. He learned from a legal "detective" that 51,012acres of Putnam County in New York did not legally belong to the 700 far- mers who had occupied it since the end of the Revolutionary War. The land had originally belonged to one Roger Morris, from whom` the state had illegally confiscated it, or so it was alleged. Astor went to England to see the Morris heirs. He bought them out for $100,000 and returned to Putnam and ordered the farmers off. He was eventually awarded $500,000 and Astor went on from there, foreclosing on bankrupt landown- ers, to become one of America's richest men. Carnegie was as crafty as any with their parents. That, is their protection," advises Conservation Officer G. R. Harris, of . Willow Cover, in the Lake Huron district. "You can nearly always be sure to see a mother animal and her litter if you range the woods dur- ing April and May," he points out. "It may be a groundhog with five or six youngsters or a raccoon with her young ranging from three to seven. It may be the lowly skunk with as many as ten, or a doe deer with her single young one or, perhaps, twins. "On your trips to the Woods, try to find these family groups. Watch them from a distance and you will see some of the finest examples of motherly love on earth. Each mother will risk her life to save her young. Her every move seems to teach her offspringa lesson for their safety and survival. Watch them, study them, but don't take them home. They do not belong in captivity and no one has a right to steal them from their mothers. "Each year, many baby animals are kidnapped from their parents and taken home as pets. They are usually well taken care of until the novelty wears off. Then they may be neglected and released to fend for themselves. Is that fair? That baby has not finished being taught by its mother the ways of obtaining food before being taken from her. When released, it might of them. This wiry Scot made his money, in steel. On one oc- casion his iron rail company was suffering from the competition of the Duquesne firm which was making steel rails by direct rolling process. Carnegie knew his com- petitor's rails were better but he sent out letters to the rail com- panies advising them the new rails were dangerous. When• the Du- quesne stock went down the firm sold out to Carnegie who then went on turning out• the same kind of rails he had condemned. Carnegie later unloaded hissteel holdings on J. P. Morgan for al. most half a billion dollars, and this led in 1901 to the formation of the U.S. Steel Corporation, cap- italized at $1,402,000,000. Though Carnegie cared little for Canada, his foundation has built and supplied countless Canadian libraries. Daniel Drew started out with $100 as a cattle buyer. Since cattle were sold at live weight he salted them well and let them drink their fill before reaching market. He made a fortune this way and created the term "watered stock". P. D. Armour made $2,000,000 in 90 days when he foresaw the vic- tory of the Union armies. He of- fered to sell pork (priced' then at $40 a barrel) for future delivery at that rate. Hundreds of traders thought the price was going up, but when prices sagged at the end of the war Armour bought up all he needed at $18 a barrel and sold it to the traders for $40 as agreed. With these profits Armour started, without loans or mortgages, the great firm of Armour and Cotn- pany. For 2000 A.D. A mass prognostication of what the world will be like in 2,000 A,D, was made in Goderich last week b yapproximately 500 oracles whose predictions will be checked 46 years from now. They are the school children of Goderich and the employees of the new $1,000,000 W. A. Sheaffer Pen Company at Goderich. Will the hydrogen bomb have been used in war by 2000 A.D.? Will hockey still be Canada's fav- ourite sport? •. The prophets are answering those 'questions and 16 others in a unique game of "20 question" that won't be completed for nearly. a half -century. Their answers will be vacuum - sealed in a time capsule and en- tombed in a wall of the Sheaffer Pen Company's new plant, as part of open -house ceremonies marking achievement of full production by the industry. The capsule will be sealed in the presence of many of the Gode- rich District Collegiate school children and employees participat- ing in the poll. A bronze plaque marking the burial spot will warn that it is not to be opened until the next century. The poll also will include the following: Will airplane passenger flights in 2000 A.D. be faster than sound? Will a guided missle from earth reach the moon? Will a cure have been discovered for the common cold? Will Europe be federalized into one state? Will the telephone have been replaced by person-to- person television? And the perennial problems of baldness and women's clothes will be considered. The youngsters and employees are being asked if they think someone will have discover- ed how to grow hair on bald heads and if women's clothes will be standardized into utility suits and coveralls. Sealing of the time capsule, holding youth's estimate of tomor- row, will be witness by Ontario, Huron and Goderich government officials, according to Leon H. Black, the pen company president. "We at Sheaffer's consider this. poll more than just a look into the future by our citizens of the fu- ture," he said. "We hope the people of Goderich and Huron County will consider it a symbol of our belief that our future is tied to theirs. We're confident the opening of the capsule in 2000 A.D. will mark the completion of 46 years of progress for this city and the company." o— EXETER P. S. PRINCIPAL GOING TO PRESTON Principal of the Exeter Public School for the past ten years, Claude H. Blowes, has resigned to take an appointment on the staff of Preston Public School, Three present members of the staff, Miss Doris Robinson, Mrs. Douglas Hughson and Mrs. Lloyd Turvey, have accepted contracts for next years, and five new teachers have been hired. A GENERAL MOTORS VALUE What's your pleasure, sir? Is it a breezy "loafers and sport -shirt" outing—a gay "white -tie and tails" evening tJ — or a little of both? You'Il find the gay versatility of OIdsmobile deepens your enjoyment of any event. 3t` ' There's something so heartwarming in just the look of the car—long, low, and. sleek, with a lively harmony of glamorous colors. Then, there's the sense of power you get from the history -making new edition of the fatuous "Rocket" engine: And this great, high -compression 185 h.p. power plant is so beautifully balanced by Oldsmobile's superb riding qualities that you're cradled in comfort, easy and safety, always. But words can only tell you so much! 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Yellow „,Rocket is perennial; Mustard is annual. Yellow Rocket flowers in May, Mustard in June. Yellow Rocket leaves are dark green, smooth, shiny, oval and many lobed. Mustard leaves are larger, oblong, dull colour, stems hairy, Much of the spread of Yellow Rocket is due to its presence as an impurity in clover seeds. Under the Seeds Act it is classed as sec- ondary noxious, and the tolerance for this class of seeds is ten per ounce in No. 1 seed. If you are one of those careful farmers who always look at the certificate of the seed you buy, you may find a few seeds of Yellow Rocket mas- querading under the name of Win- ter Cress. Control of Yellow Rocket lies in recognizing and pulling the few plants which may occur in, first Year meadows w or newly sown pas» uses. This should not be a very big job since Yellow Rocket only becomes a real problem if permit- ted to go to seed for a few years, Unfortunately, it ripens seed too early to be controlled by' cutting hay. 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