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The Clinton News Record, 1932-01-14, Page 3T.IIU1tS.,, JAN 14, 1932 THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD - 1 Alfred Percival Graves is dead., Tt is well that he lived, for he created Father O'Flynn, the witty, genial, • benevolent despot " who had a way wid him. One difference between men and women, says ,ria writer, is that when men want to de a thing' hey don't talk about it --they go and eio it. That's correct. When winter comes, men don't say: "Let's go and get crazy about hockey. " . They seemed tlo it. There was a 10 per cent. decrease in marriages last year. We shall watch eagerly for the . figures for 3932, which is a e cap year. If there is no improvement, what doth it pro- fit that the year is exactly divisible by four? In his younger days the late Sir George Foster was a delight to his partisans and a terror to his oppon- ents. He was too rigid to be popular even with his partisans, but they would sit back . and watch with ad- miration while he sprayed the front benches opposite with liquid fire, .The occupants of those benches fair ly hated hien and used whatever am- munition they thought- most devast- ing. Some time during the war, he changed. He mellowed. Perhaps it was age. Perhaps it was the war. Perhaps both. His opponents chang- ed, too; They came to like him. They listened to his speeches with respectful attention. But they were- n't the speeches he used to make. They lacked fire. They provoked no interruptions. They did not -make anyone angry. They did not make anyone' cheer. The politician was gone, and by popular- acclaim the statesman had emerged. With all his experiouee--and he probably made mole speeches than any other man in Canada -•rhe in- formed us, not many years ago, that he had never overcome that feeling of nervousness which most men have when they that attempt a public speech. Not to mention anyone now e living, our judgment is that the three best public speakers we had in Can- p al 1i CO as suggested in the United Stakes. He's' taxed lehere'or his business 'is He's taxed' wherever I e lodges, He sometimes tried to-. dodge the tax, Now' they will tax the Dodges. Hoboes are getting out a magazine of, their own - in New York. They saw the others, Clara Bow' has teff Hollywood for good. That is all right as far as it goes, but what can one person alone do to uplift a large city'? I'K dshed him .a prosperous year, But he said: "You son of a gun, You wished ine the same for twenty- • nine And thirty and thirty-one." An orthopaedic surgeon in London is authority for the statement that high heels are harmless. Although they profit by it, you never hear lawyers say that quarrelsomeness is harmless. • ' ,Gandhi declares be is willing to sacrifice a million lives to secure in. dependence for India. If he should chance to lose. his own in the struggle, that will make it exactly one million and one. A. motorist complains that some of the highway signs are very mislead-_ ing. The only one we have run across that was misleading was the sign. "Men at Work," but the lady in the front seat with a driver wear- ing a frieze coat has her doubts "Soft Soft Shoulders," If you should wonder why the United States are in such a har- assed posture, think of these round figures: The public debt is nearly seventeen billion dollars. They were in the war for nineteen months and have already paid to ex -service melt and women nearly six billion dollars. The expenditure. last year for vet- rans of the great war ran up to ver five hundred millions. The ex- enditure last year for veterans of 1 wars was •over• seven hundred mil - ens. The American Legion has be- omne as pawereful a political factor the Grand Army of the Republic was for generations after the civil. war. Senate and Congress are afraid to resist its wildest demands, back- ing thein even over the veto of the president. The war did not make the world safe for demoeritest, but it as- suredly did make it expensive. ad during the past quarter-century were Sir 'George Foster, Sir George Ross and Dr, Michael Clark. They studied their speeches thoroughly, they practised the art of speaking assiduously, yet with all their ex- perience they were all nervous until they got well under way. A. direct tax en motor cars is How to Manage a House "in resolving to do our work well is the :only sound foundation of any religion whatsoever." —Ruskin "He who intermits The appointed task and duties of the day--, YJntunes foil oft the pleasures of the • day; Cheeking the finer spirits that refuse To flow when purposes are lightly changed." -•-Wordsworth. The management of the house is a most important occupation, The farm, the factory, the market, the store, the.schooI, and other occupations ex- is to setae and help, the home. The hatne does not exist for them„ They exist for it. Respect and magnify your work, oh, ye housekeepers, Managing the house is not a Somme thing .to be hurried through so as to get on to something else. It is yonir life -work' and your profession, and is it soiurce.of joy, comfort, use- fulness, and income, as all good work should be, Mother's house is her eaatle, where all she loves are safe and happy. The Preacher has his Pulpit and the King his throne, but Mother does not envy them. Ir, her own Kingdom she is all-powerful. Neither Church noir State enact stand without the kind of home that Mother makes and man- ages. The Time Table A time -table is quite a help. .Make' ' a list of your work and the time need- ed for each thing. 'Usually about seventy per cent of our time is spent in or about the kitchen, Isn't that taro much? Let us study to lessen it by using better methods. Arrange in 1 ceder by hone, including everyday I work, special work, rest, Leisure and ' recreation, ,M,arketing, for example, niay need to be done every other day. This helps as to do our work without getting boo tired, to have everything on time, to leave out things thab are not really necessary, and to divide our time wisely. It also helps to pro- tect us against feeling hurried and pressed, and to keep us frons, being tempted to steal fermi ,ourselves th.a little time for fresh air, rest, reading, and leisure. It is net only it. wise but a neecssary thing that a woman tnairaging the work •of the house should have her rest and recreation time. But do not be a slave to your time- table. There is a. best time for cer- tain things. Do them when that times comes, if yon can. Clean As Yon Go Keeping things clean in the house has a technique of its rostra, Pre- vention in this, as in other things, is better than cure. Keep things clean as you go along. Learn the tech, nique—the way to do it. Weining, intelligence and modern method's in niranaging which prevent waste and save labour and strength are of great use in keeping the house clean and sanitary. Be the hone ever so hum- ble, the bright fire, the clean flolor, the pretty wales, one .or two flowers showing against the clean window pane, a few cents words of scrim or muslin for a curtain, skilfully. ar- aarged and adjusted, make a pieture that more than one artist has placed among the ideals of humanity. What Does .Management Mean? Geed management secures good health, saves strength andptevents fatigue. The manager knows what to ole, and, the. best way to do it, which fs ,also the cheapest. She uses her strepgth and skill where they will do the most good. She never . puts her feelings' before the rights of oth- ers, noel hoe sights before their feel- ings. She gets everybody to help her. ' She allows Vie' human frailty. She does her 'best .:Con• everybody and gives everybody fair play, giving. • each ,the work than he or she can do best. She has a place where she can but thing, till site .can "get round to them." This matins, among other things, saving time, work, and mater- ials siol that there ie no waste, and arcing• things by Iaw,.order, system and principle, not by guess and haphazard. It means thinking out everything beforehand' and having a plan to work by. It means abolish- ing . unnecessaries. It means) not working too long or tog hard without rest. 'It means "promptness and punc- tuality, and short cats and easy. ways- and labour-saving devices, , for these;oa.ve time ,and strength, It.. means . that we always . have things right. It means that we work with other people and let them help. The twentieth-eentuny; husband is doing more ftor his wife than the nineteenth century husband did, also the sons • of the: home. Unless a growing boy has 'other work he ahlould be trained to help- in the Home.. He enjoys it's comforts; as touch as his sister. He shioniid have some share in creating therm It would be the salvation of Many a growing 'boy if he weir given definite tasks and was obliged tic per- forin them. 01=0 011:20 (on o . Play in Nursery 0 Took to Learning p O• 000=-0=0) 400 =0 If you have ever watched children at play, you realize that it is a ,Ser_ nous business, writes "H. M. R•." in The Christian Science Monitor. The great philosopher of ahildhood. Frederiek Fraebel, says, "The child learns by doing." He learns by playing, for play constitutes thema- jor part of his activity. Imagination plays a large partin play, but just as the worker needs things to work with," lee the child needs things to play with. His toys are the tools with which he works while he playa. The type of play is governed largely 'by the kind of tools he has at his command. The wisdom of these who supply him with his play equipment is an important fac- tor in the influences brought to bear on his forming ao(neepte of 'society. The 'custom of giving children tars at Christmas time is so common that sometimes we are in danger of for- getting :that Christmas has any other meaning. Those who realize .that the great message +off love is. at the bot-' Loan of the true Christmas spirit, can help their children to have the joy of giving as wen as receiving and a- void cultivating selfish indulgence. It is also important that adults in selecting gifts for children should have those children wisely enough to use thought and care in the selection Of their gifts. To one who takes the play of ehii'.dren seriously, knowing its relation to their future, it is am- azing that so many children are al - /dewed to own toy pistols. Arguments against this type of boy have often met with ridicule, but 'the pncof is so evidenced by boy bandits and :mei, dents with Teal guns that there is no need for further argumeht. A recent visit to the boy depart- ment in •a large department store re - waled the largest display of war toys the writer has ever seen. There were three long cases containing miniature soldiers• and .sailors sof very nation- ality, even African warrtocs with raised spears in hand. All the apparatus for tarrying on modern warfare is available in miniature. A child fully equipped with this type 431 p;?ay -material could .stage a world war .Involving every race on the globe. Per many hours his thought would be given over to war mairoeuvers and killing. While some sources are busy work- ing among the youth in our colleges and universities to break down pro- hibltioui, others are at work propa- gating war in .the minds of our child-' ren. Our children are our responsibility either directly -or indirectly. They are future citizens of our nation, the heirs to the prosperity or adversity resulting from".our• achievements, Do We want them to grow up with the idea that war is the only worthwhile achievement in t16fe? Rather let us strive to emphasize the peace and joy and. satisfaction of useful living as exemplified by the farmer, the store- keeper, the shoemaker, and all the busy people who help to make Iiving more pleasant, Tlibre are toys to be had whieh encourage the child to re- ,produoe in play the interesting activi- ties of eonununity Iifs. Froebel says, "what a child imitates he tries t'e un- d'erstand" • Through a better under+ standing of the interdependence of community life will coxae a greater appreciation of the serviees of oth- ers, and a, hearting for ;hard times- and war. In 1981 a drought almost halved the Barbados harvest of sugar. It would seem that Dame Fortune in smiling sweetly on "Little England". through the dissipating clouds of de- pression. The tropical colony lies along the "eastern group" route of Canadian National steamers that unite Canada with the vilest Indies. Eaxiy History of the Village of Bayfield (Contributed by a 'Citizen) Pew may know that the mane giv- en to the Village of Bayfield was given it by a celebrated' English Engineer named .• Layfield, -whose professional services the Baron De Voile enlisted to come to Canada and select a peacewhereon to found and build a town. The arrangement was made in the year 1828. During the ensuing year, Mr. Mayfield tame to Canada and sel- eoted the site of the village which has ever since born his name The location being .once decided upon- Baron De Folie purchased in 1828 from the Canada;Company at as 9d per acre, 1500 acres of .land on arch side of the mouth of the beautiful stream hese emptying into Lake Huron, which as well as the "town" received the name "Bayfield." The land was surveyed into a town plot hi 1832. In 1833 a email clearing was made and a log cabin built • which was gecupied by Mr. Riley who kept a boarding house for the Baron's men, who were employed getting out tim- ber, etc. The only house in the place up -to 1835 was Riley's, pre- viously mentioned, and that of John Morgan, who kept a store as ,early as the year 1834. In the spring of 1835 three more -lag buildings were erected, one .by W. W. Connor. Dur- ing this summer the timber on the "Market Square" and main street was chopped down and logged off Try the Baron's Hien. In 1837 there were about seventy- five men in the settlement. But they were mostly transients, when the call came to Military service in the Rebellion, only fifteen able-bod- ied men were to be found (the names of those being available.) The meat and indeed the whole of Stan- ley Township, was Edward. Temple- ton, who're father was an early set- tier on the Huron Road: The Rev. Ma. Cooper, (Episcopalt held the first religions services, and preached in the ho -use of 1Vlr, Con- nor. The English• and Methodist churches, were the - first churches built, both the same season, butnot for some years later than the above, John 'Bolton's son John was the first white child bean in the village. The first municipal elections held resulted in the return of the follow- ing to the Council: Reeve, W. Wel- lington Connor; Councillors, John Esser, John Keys, J. C. McIntosh, Andrew Rutledge, and the following officials were appointed by that body: ,Clerk, John A. Rutledge; treas- urer, James 'Thompson; assessor, Frederick Wood; collector, John Wil. son; constable, Robert Baxter. Bayfield was incorporated on Jan- uary 10th, 1876. We cannot. give the correct date but sometime later there were six general stores, one tin and stove store, two harness shops, three tail" ors, two boot and shoe shops, two cabinet maker's, three wagon and three blacksmith shops, one vesting and flour nrill, one saw -mill, planing and shingle mill, two cooperages, a eider mill, one brewery, three chur- ches, one school with three teach- ers, telegraph office, and daily mail, three licensed and three temperance hotels, an Orange Hall and "Bai- lcer's Hall" ever the store now 'own- ed by G. W. Elliott. A. surveyor named Smith with a surveying partly, laid out lots and' streets. Wie seldom hear the streets first school teacher In this settle- given their proper names, Blain, Wil- IINNW .sw✓ ham, Elizabeth and Sanford streets; Keith" •Creseent, 1C. Howard "street, 1•Iilt Terrace; Louisa street, Emma treet, Anne street, Victoria Plane; I Main street; Celina street,. Bayfield Terrace, Chiaiquy street, Delevan, froward, Dow, Jane, Glass, Christy, Victoria, Cameron, Margaret, Liddel- dale, John, Burgess Fay, Agnes, Tuyle street or Bruce Crescent,' On whieh street is your property situat- ed? There have been a numbers of schemes to : give Bayfield railway communication, but now with .motor transportation and Motor busses, a, railroad is not thought of as one of Bayfield's necessities. Thebarber was built by the Dominion Govern, inert at a dost of $50,000. Bayfield'. `never became a great shipping cen- tre, as was hoped in the early days, nevertheless it possesses attrtbutes which none •oan deny, those of 'a pleasant, quiet, healthy little town, enjoying .all the benefits which may be reaped from a fertile country sur- rounding it, making it indeed a pop - filar summer resort., Accidents and Compensation The ,summary of figures for The .Workmen's Compensation Board of Ontario for the year 1931 shows' a total of 62,894 accidents reported during the year, a decrease of 16,373 from the number during the prior year. The fatal accidents numbered 839, as compared with 620 during 1930. -- The total benefits awarded during the year amounted to 86,021,392.10, as compared with 87,423,.018.52 during 1930, the 1931 figures being made up of 84,900,629.09 compensation and 81,060,763.01 medical aid. Taking a basis of 300 working days g this would show average dailybene- fits awarded of $20,071, requiring an average •of 772 cheques per day. There was a decrease in the average • number of new claims reported daily from -231 in 1930 to 176 in 1981. b The accidents reported during De- cember numbered 4,088, as compared J with 4,094 in December the prior 0 year. d A Day for Prayer and Meditation In Behalf of THE DISARtL4M NT CONFER-. ENCU SUNDAY, JANUARY 31st, 1932. IThe announcement has been made that ' the World Con f erenee .nt Dis armament, to which the principal Nations have appointed Official. Re presentatives, will open its Sessions. at Geneva, Switzerland, on Tuesday,: February 3rd, 1992. "The Polyglot Petition liar W;arld' Disarmament," which is being sign- ed bya great number of citizens• in many countries, has received hun- dreds, of thousands of signatures o£ members .of the Christian Contemn, fops in Canada. Believing it would advantage the cause of International Good Will and strengthen the 'growing conviction in favor of Disarmament, the under- signed unite in this Call to the Chris- tian Congregations in Canada, to set•. apart Sunday, January 31st, 1932 (the, Sunday immediately preceding the, Conference) as a day for Special' Prayer, Sermon and Meditation in be- half Leif the purpose +cf The Disarm- ament Conference. The people are requested to gather en that 'Sunday- in their-- regular places of worship, in the spir- it of Peace on Earth, Good WilIl te woad Men, and the Ministers who conduct worship in alt Congregations are requested to offer special prayers• and preach, sermons appropriate to this subject. We earnestly invite the cordial cooperation of the Min- isters, the Office Bearers, and the Members lel all Congregations in our respective Communions, in the effec- tive tarrying out of this purpose: "Now the Lord' of Peace himself ive you peace always by all- means. The Lord be with you all." Clare L. Worrell, Primate, The Ohurch of England. Edmund H. (M- yer, Moderator, The United Church, W. G. Brown, Moderator, The Pres- yterian Church, John MacNeill, President, Baptist World Alliance. . P. Hauch, Chairman, Evangelical hutch Committee. J. Roble, Presl- ent, Evangelical Lutheran Church- Ifi you Really warn a small usiness s nothing about it! Retailers who don't want a bigger business Melia say nothing about it, for, if they began talking about it in the form of advertisements, they would get new customers whdse requirements would just distribute thein —+ would e0111- pel them to buy more, deliver more, work more. There's a story told abonri a retail- er who certanly didn't want a big business. . He was playing checkers with a crony in some place of hiding in the rear portion of his store. A customer enkered. The crony said, "There's Mrs. illack." "Hush", Said the retailer, "If we don't make a noise, perhaps, she'll go away!'. Some retailers .can never hope to have a big business even if they wanted one—they lack the ability, the energy, the ambition, the under- standing needed to make a big business. 'They are content with a small business, and would be really unhappy if their business was growing rapidly as a consequence of eircumstnaces out- side their control. They would feel like a roan in a wagon whose horses were running away with it! Sonia retailers, however, have an urge to matte their business larger. They dream of the time when they will have one big store, or a flock of "chain" stores. They want a much big. ger income than their present one. Perhaps they dream of a time wh.eni they won't have to work, • The way to a bigger- business is as plain as the nose on one's face; it is eustomer multiplica- tion. A retailer with an urge toward bigger things should give his main thought and ef- fort to =stonier multiplica- tion. when, they will •have much leisure to be spent pitching horseshoes, or in bowling or in trav- elling, or with books, er in a coentry home. 'Customer attraction can be accomplished vat- iously, but there is one essential means -press advertising. Advertisments go where personal salesmen and even letters can't hope to go, and they have a profound influenee on readers of them—they soften resistance, dissolve apathy, create confidence and: goodwill, and direct the steps of buyers. And they are cheap! And buyers—not sellers—pay for them, and are glad to pay for them! Buyers always go, in largest 'numbers, and of their own free will, tothose stores :which spend n lot of money on advertis- Why should any ambitious retailer hesitate to contract for adver- tising which his customers will pay for gladly?