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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1932-03-10, Page 3THURS., MARCH ; 10, 1932 THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD PAGE 3 An American j.ourual thinks it 'ab- surd that President Hoover draws a smaller salary than Jackie Coogan. But Jackie can de .•itis stuff better than, Hoover could da it, .so why should ire net be better paid? • A prominent lumberman notes a tendency toward smaller mills. Tax notices, however, indicate a tendency toward larger mills -on the ;dollar. Sean O'Kelly, one of De V'alera's lieutenants, declares that what Ire- land demands is complete freedom. He talks as if he were still in ep position. This is a war to resume war after it had been ended for all time by the great' war, which. saved humanity and • civilization, made the world safe for democracy and secure from the ag- gressione of militaristie autocraties. War correspondents are as they always were and they are all alike. They tell of commanders "throwing" whole divisions into battle and of their being "hurled" back, All sorts of guns are vomiting destruction. There is a veritable ram of bullets and a hurricane of shells. All the enginery _of war is employed in deal- ing out death and devastation. After telling up what is going, on behind the Japanese lines he tells what it going on at the sante tint° behind the Chinese lines, He himself was almost caught while traversing the zone of fire. The dispatch closes with the casualty Iist, three dead and seventeen wounded. American Sportsmen • Plan to Visit Canada's Opera Spaces Districts of the North lerjest Terrot- cries, Yukoe, Northern Ontario and Quebec Will Be Visited on • Bunting and Fishing Trips isnot it at all, but we. do like to 'have • the casualty, list bear some relation to the ferocity and intensity -of the struggle as depicted by the corres- pondent. In other .words, we don't like anti -climaxes. If they don't wish to ,increase the butcher's bill, they have the option of reducing the intensity of fire, Some pacifists ,purpose stopiting the war by walking in between the belligerents aiid haranguing thein. Martin Dooley's scheme was better... Wjhen be read, that John L. ;Sullivan was beating his wife he called him by long distance telephone and gave lt'tm a piece rof his mind. • The champion hog -caller of the United. States, explaining his success, says "the voice mustcarryan appeal which will convince the hog that yob have something goad for it. 'Can- didates in the autumn elections do not need to be told this. The professor of Oriental languag-, es at M;eGlll, urging the study of Chinese, declares that the language is not difficult to learn because it has no :alphabet, no punctuation and no grammar. This information which would have been so welcome in school days stirs up nothing but useless re- grets. The Chinese have not been guilty of such atrcoities as the Japanese have, says a U.S. newspaper. There's an editor who has not felt the saw - edge of a laundered collar. "Sorry, Miss, you can't see them— they're in conference," as the dear- . Wellington thought that the pub-, keeper at Geneva said to the Angel a lit liked "a big butcher's bill," That of Peace. A RESURRECTION There are few of us who in aur younger days at least have not heard of the four -and -twenty blackbirds which were baked in a pie and which upon the pie being 'opened hem to sing lustily, but few of us have given the .matter much consideration. How- ever, something just about as strange occurred in West Nissouri the past week according to Mr. Fred Fairhall, who gets his mail on It. R. 3, Thorn- dale. Mr. Fairhall, with two neigh- bors it seems was paying a visit to a bush lot in his neighborhood the other day and as they walked Fred happened to notice an unusual object frozen into a small sheet of ice which covered a small pond. Upon closer scrutiny the object was found to be a small garter snake which to all in- tents and purposes had been refrig- erated, However, us opinions among the trio varied it was decided to 'break the ice and release the reptile which to the astonishment ;gf the finder after a few.minutes exposure to the sun, began to wriggle and finally sunnnvoned enough energy to crawl away into a nearby clump of grass. Cate are not the only living creatures 'apparently which enjoy several lives.—St, Marys Journal - Argus. "He should be home by this time" Mrs. Bowler was worried. Her husband had gone to town for the day but he was to be back iii plenty of tune to feed the stock. And now it was getting. dark. Then the telephone rang: "Sorry,Mary", name hertliusband's voice, "I"can't get home till late. Better telephone George Bothwell and ask him to .help us out." So tie stock was ;`ed and Mrs. Bowler's worry was ended. No wonder she said: 1 "It's lucky we have a telephone' Montreal, Idarch ' 8—The annual trek of American sportsmen to Can, ada's "great open sp'a'ces". will this year be ivarked ,Ihy a pronounced. movement to the -lesser known dis- tricts of the North West Territor- les' and the ' Yukon and the tangled waterways which lie north of the Canadian National Railways' in On- taria and Quebec. Mn E. G. Poole, representative of the Canadian •Na- tional Railways Tourist and ;Conven- tion Bureau, who has returned front the Neth' England Sportsmen's Show in Boston, states that many of the more aubitious sportsuen are plan- ning bunting 'and fishing trips this summer Which will take them to parts •of Canada hitherto known only tothe trapper and wandering Indian. -"One man I ;net is malting 'active preparations far a trip from Edmon- ton to Q.klavilc at the month of the Mackenzie. IIe is determined to get a polar bear, .Several others will follow the same rou-te, probably mak- ing the Edmonton to Alcla:vik ,joui•- •ney by air •and travelling thence by the Rat and Porcupine Rivers to the Yukon, and the cost;, Another party is planning to follow the route of Alex- ander :Mackenzie by canoe, ,travelling by way of Waterways, the Athabas- lea River, Slave River and the Mac- kenzie to the sea. "'There is also much interest fn the big game possibilities of the more westerly.,dis'tricts, particularly northern, British Colujnbia and the 'Peace River country and the moan- tainoue. areas adjoining Jasper Na- tional Park. Algonquin park eon- tinues to attract much interest be cause of its 'speckled trout fishing` and it remains. the great ambition of. Countless Americans • to visit the "Muslcie" fishing areas of the Lake of the Woods. It is remarkable .bow wen known these localities have be- come among American outdoor en- thusiasts during the past few years and there is little .doubt that this year will see a larger number eros, sing the border with •rifles and fish- ing gear than ever before." Return to Caribou Hunting in Western Quebec Welcomed Montreal, March 7 -After a. closed season of five years, caribou hunting in the counties of Matane, Gaspe and Bonaventure in the province of Que- bec will again be permitted this year, according to official informa- tion'reaching C. IC, Howard, Mana- ger of the Tourist and. Convention Bureau, Canadian National Railways. Caribou have increased rapidly dur- ing the dosed season en Gaspe Peninsula' and adjoining sections of Quebec and this increase has result- ed in the decision to permit hunting this year 'between September 20 and December 31st. The principal points of entry to the caribou hunt- ing areas are Gaspe, Casaapedia and New Carlisle, The return of caribou hunting in Quebec is being hailed with considerable en- thusiasm. Ontario has prohibited the 'hunting of these animals for some years past. In Manitoba and Saskatchewan, caribou hunting is permitted but 'the season in those provinces is very late. Alberta and British Columbia permit caribou hunting and excellent territories for the mountain caribou are found on the borders of Jasper National Park in the heart of the Canadian Rookies and also at other locations in the Northern Rockies and in the Moun- tains of British Columbia. Clinton Chautauqua Elwood T. Bailey is intensely hu- man. Re is a business man and a twentieth century philosopher. The title of his leistuee, which will be given Thursday evening, March 24th, in the town ball, is "MI Aboard," and will prove an inspiration to all. It is difficult to describe a lecture by Bailey, his delivery is exceedingly fluent; he has a charm of personal- ity which is more than attractive.. IIe believes in the individual and in the nation. His lecture will be alto- gether inetructive, with flashes of the humorous and the dramatic. All of us are vitally interested in thel questions he discusses. As an orator he is without peer on the Chautauqua platform. Hugo Brandt This distinguished Polish pianist and composer will also appear on the third night March 24th, with a programme of just the right balance and variety of piano selections to arouse some sympathetic vibration from every type ca. audience. Hugo Brandt has a 'finished tech- nique, but—most important of all is his intelligent rendering"of the com- positions he presents, reaching the hearts' of his audiences by the depth of his interpretaticin. There is at- mosphere, not mere piano paying, when this creative artist touches the keys. 14Lr. Brandt will include in his Pro- gramme some of his own composi- tions, which have been rendered both in Europe and North America. bIcICILLOP FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY HAD FINE YEAR The MelCillop Mutual Fire Inst r- ante Company held its adjourned generalmeeting in the Town hall, Seafarth, with a large attendance of interested members. The financial report was presented and ,other int- portant business transacted. Thomas 1Vxoylan was elected a director in the place of the lateJames Evans. John Bennewies was re-elected president, as was Jaines Connelly, vice=presi- d'ent, and Alex, Broadfoot, James Sholdiee, William , Knox, John Pep- per, Robert Ferris and 'George R. McCartney, directors. D. F. 1VgsGre gar was re -.appointed secretary -treas- urer, and James Kerr and Jahn Mal- one were appointed auditors. The Company have 2,482 policies in force and insu anee amounting to $3,071,457.00, The receipts during the year came to $36, 437.09, while expenditures were $12,345.90. T'lle company was fortunate in having losses •only to the amount of $7,636.- 81 during the past year. The 'com- pang is in a strong financial condi, tion with assets of $210,61'l.96 and liabilities ;of $8,43.1.27. HENSALL The C.G.I.T. Club held a delightful social evening at the home of,'Miss Margaret Johnston on Friday even- ing. After the opening exercises a pleasing solo was given by Miss Ol- ive Biotic, with Miss Grace at the Piano; piano duet the Misses Gladys Passmore, and Grace Brock; reading, Miss Olive Lemon. Following this, games and contests were indulged in, after which a dainty lunch was serv- ed by Miss Johnston. Miss Ruby 11faeLaren, Who has been a very efficient clerk for A. W. E. Flemphill, in the drug store, has resigned her position, and her place is (being taken by Miss Jean Stone. The evening serviee in the United Church on Sunday was largely at- tended despite the inclement weath- er. A well rendered vocal duet, "In the Garden," was sting by the Misses LITTLE QUTBS OF NEWS IN GENERAL A milk tear is on in London and the price has been cut to five cents the quart. As usual, the farmer takes the cut, Men employed on construction work in the north are being released by degrees and the ,working day hag. been cut from eight to six hours. Aristide Boland, several tines premier of France and a statesman of world-wide fame, died suddenly in his apartments in Paris on Monday. Re was sixty-nine years of age and had been in the thick of political life for forty years. Ile was a strong advocate of • peace and his loss will be felt by the international peace party. The Ford Plant at Dearborn was stormed by a snob of three thousand jobless workers, led by a woman on lVLonday. Waterbose was used first by police to scatter theta, then tear - gas and finally they ware fired into and four men were killed, over twenty seriously injured and many mare slightly injured, , --4 Mayor Stewart .of Toronto was threatened with bombing and poison- ing if he .dfd net do something about reducing civie salaries and a police guard has been surrounding his resi- dence. The storm wvhiuh visited this section over the week -end was• by •no means local. It blocked roads in the 'Belle- Ville district, also up in the' Barrie district, the sterni; reached blizzard proportions. Busses were stalled in many places and ears were for the most part, laid up for a day or so, It was the severest 'storm of the season. THIS MODEST CORNER IS DEDICATED TO THE POETS Here They Will Sing You Their Songs—Sometimes Gay, Sometimes Sad- But Always Helpful and Itis piling. w•soa:�a.swa.es.d SAUL - (Continued from last week)' (For awhile there was trouble with -- in me,) what next should I urge To sustain 'hint where .song had re stored 'him.? ---Song filled to th verg e His cup. with. the wine of this life pressing all that it yields Of mere fruitage, the strengbh an the beauty: beyond, on what Glean a vintage more potent and per feet to brighten the eye, And bring blood to the lip, and cem- mend them the cup they put by? He saith, "it is goody'; .still he drinks not: he lets ire :e a:se life, gives assent, yet would; die for his own part, Then fancies. grew rife Which had come long ago on the pasture, when round _ me, the sheep. Fed in silence -above, the one eagle wheeled slow as in sleep; And I lay in my hollow and roused on the world that might lie 'Heath his . ken, though 1 saw but the strip 'twixt the hill and the sky: d And I laughe"Since my days are • ordained to be passed with my • `flocks, Let me peaple at least, with myfan- cies, the plains and the rocks, Dream the life I tun never to mix with, and image the . show 01 mankind as they live in those fashions I hardly shall know! Schemes of life, its best rules and right uses, the cour-aage that gains, And the prudence that keeps what men sti)ive for." And now these old trains Of vague thought came again; I grew surer; so, once more the string Of my harp made response to my spirit, as thus— by. the populace chid,- For not half, •they'll'affirm, is corn - prised there! Which •fault to' amend, In the grove with his kind grows the cedar,: whereon they shall spend (See, in tablets '•t is level before them,) their praise, and record ' With the gold of the graver, Saul's cl story,—the stateman's great ward Side by side with the poet's sweet comment. The river's a -wave With smooth paper -reeds •grazing each other when prophet -winds rave: So the pen gives unborn generations their due and their part In thy being! Then, first of the mighty, thank God that thou art!" "Yea, my King," I ;began•—"thou dost well in rejecting mere comforts that spring Front the mere mortal life held in common by man and by brute: In our flesh, grows the branch of this life, in our soul it bears fruit. Thou hast marked the slow rise of the tree,—'how its sten•, trembled first Till it passed the kid's lip, the stag's antler; then safely outburst The fan -branches all -meal; tied thou mindest when these too, in turn, Broke a -bloom and the palm -tree seemed perfect; yet more was tc learn, E'en the good that conies in with the palm -fruit. Our dates shall we slight, • When their juice brings a cure for all sorrow? or care for the plight Of the palm's self whose slow growths 1produced them? Not so stern and branch Shall decay, nor be sinown in their place, while the palm -wine shall stanch Every wound of man's spirit in win- ter, I pour thee such wine, Leave the flesh to the fate it was fit • for! the spirit be thine! By the spirit, when age shall o'er - wane thee, thou stilt shalt enjoy ;Vlore ind, hrpen conscioeedus,tthean life atfio£st a tvl boy. in - Crush that life, and beheld its wine running! Edell Gleed thou hast done Dies, revives, goes to work in the world: until e'en as the sin Looking down on the earth, though clouds spoil him, though tem- pests efface, Can find nothing his own deed pro- duced not, must everywhere. tram The results of Itis past summer- prinle,—so, each ray o£ thy will. Every flash of thy passion and prowess, long over, shall thrill Thy whole people, the countless, with ardor, till they too give forth A like cheer to their sons, who, in turn fill. the South and the North With the radiance thy deed was the germ of. Carouse in the past! Ent the license of age has its limit; thou diest at last: As the lion when age hints his eye- ball, the rose at her height, So with man—so his power and his beauty forever take flight. No! Again a long .draught of my soul -wine! Look forth o'er the •years! Thou hast done now with eyes for the actual; begin with the seer's•! Is Saul dead? In the depth of the vale make his tomb -•bid arise A gray mountain •of marble heaped four-square, till', built to the tholes, Let it mark where the great First King slumbers: Whose fame would yo know? Up albove -sec the rock's naked face, where the 'record shall g•o;, In great`charaeters cut by the scribe —Such -was Saul, so he did; With the sages' directing the work, • And behold while I sang ... but 0 Thou who didst grant me that ' day. And before it not seldom has granted thy' help to essay, Carry on and complete an adventure, —my shield and my sword In that act where my soul was thy servant, try word was my word, Still be with me, who then at the summit of human endeavor And sealing the highest, man's front you, the same, God did choose, To receive what a Wren may waste,' desecrate, never ratite lose. So sank he along by the tent•prop•, till, stayed by the pile 01` Itis armor and war -cloak and gar- ments, he leaned there: awhile,• And sat out my singing, --ons arta' round the tent -prop to raise I•Iis' bent head, and the other hung' ,,slack—till I touched on the praise I foresaw from all men in all tl e ni, to the man patient there; And thus ended, the harp falling :for- ward. Then first I was 'ware That he sat, as I sag, with my head: just: above his vast knees Which were thrust out on each side around me, like oak roots which •please. - 1 To encircle a lamb when it slumbers. I ldoked up to know J;f the best I could do 'hast brought solace: he spoke not, but slow Lifted up the hand slack at his side, till he laid it with care Soft and grave, but in mild settled will, on my :brow: through my hair ' 'Phe large fingers were pushed, and he bent back my head, with kind power-, All my face (back, intent to peruse it, as men do a' flower. Thus hold he me there with his great eyes that scrutiinized mine And oh, all my heart how it loved himn but where was the sign? T yearned—"Could I help thee, my father, inventing a bliss, 1 amulet add to that life of the past, both the future and this; I would give thee new life altogeth- er. as gond. ages hence, thought could, gazed hopeless as As this moment,—had love but the ever. mwarrant, love's heat -t to clis- On the new stretch of heaven above pense!" me—till, mighty to save, •Then the truth cane upon rte. No Just one lift of thy hand cleared that hate snore—no song more; out- distance - God's throne from brake— man's grave! "I have gone the whole round of Let me tell out my tale to its end- creation: I envy and I spoke: --ing my voice to my heart I' a work of God's band for that pur- Which can scarce dare believe in pose, received in niy brain what marvels last night I took And pronounced on the rest of 'his part,, handwork—returned him again As this morning I gather the frag- His creation's approval or censure: 1 ments, alone with my sheep, spoke as I saw: And still fear lest the terrible glory 1 report. as 0 ratan may of God's wer]c estill t like sleep! —all s love, yet all's law. New 1: lay clown the judgeship he lent Far I wake in the ;;ray dewy covert, rte. Each faculty tasked while Hebron upheaves To perceive him, has seined an abyss' The dawn struggling with night on where a dewdrop was netted. his shoulder, and Kidron re, • have I knowledge? Confounded it trievet shrivels at Wisdom laid bare. Slow the damage of yesterday's sun- • Iiave I forethought? hew purblind, shine. how blank to the 'infinite Carel Do I task any faculty highest, to I say then,—my song imago success? While I sang thus, assuring the mon- T but cp en my eyes,—and perfoctiort arch, and ever :tore strong Made a coffer of f no ere and no less; p geed to console 1 In the Icing, I imagined full -front m°,. him—he slowly resumed 100.1• God, is seen Gcd His oid motions and habitudes Icing- 1 In tate star, in the stone, in the flesh, ly. The right hand r°plumed in the soul 01111 the clod. I3is black locks to their wonted coin- ; And thus looking within and around pasure, adjusted the swathes I i uta, I ever renew Of his tuti&an, and see --the ]tuge r t sweat that his countenance t (With that stoop of the anal nal which in betiding upraises it too) bathes, i The submission of man's nothing -- we wipes off with the robe; and he perfect to God's all-ccmplrte, girds new his loins as of yore, And feels slaw for the armlets of ; ke by each new fern. rue in spirit, r price, with the clasp set before climb to ]tis feet. He is Saul, ye remember in glory, i et w...1 all this abounding expo- -ere error had bent Mame. this deity known. The broad brow front daily conimun- I shall dare to discover some pro - ion;: and still, though much spent 1 vine, some gift of my own. Be the life and the bearing that (To he continued) HAWAIIANS. .vie 'Swinging into a romantic South Sea setting conies a soft -voiced grout of IIawaian singers in native costume who play Hawaiian music - as it is meant to be played. Steel guitars, ukuleles and rich voices blend naturally into the pungent melodies of this island torritory. CLINTON TOWN HALL, MARCH 22nd, 23rd, 24tH and 28