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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1932-08-18, Page 3WHIRS>, 'AUGUST 18, 1932 ogrourammengemamasanmemaa Y THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD, PAGE 3 A Los Angeles inventor has patent- ed a device- which registers the: speed of a vehicle at " the time • a a crash. The very fellows who ought to have such a device will tale care not to have one. A man advertises a product which he says is as good as asbestos. It may as good as, but it is not asbestos. of An Ottawa dispatch says: that dele- gates ask for many things, but the most uneoinnson request came from one who asked for an ear trumpet. Which recalls a story told of Lord Salisbury when he was prime minis- terpeer ter• of Great Britain. An old wa s droning away in a long winded speech. Salisbury, seeing another peer using an ear trumpet, said "Look at that damfool throwing away his nat- . ural advantages." Keeping ever]astingly at it brings success, and no tone knows it better than the comic strip artist. Medical science is entitled to grati- tude if for nothing else than the dis- covery that smoking does not cause cancer, <=7C -J Gandhi is one man favored by De Valera as an arbitrator of the dispute between Britain and the Free State, We understand also that in future fights Sharkey favors Gunboat Smith as one of the judges. oic= e. General Smedley D. Butler says he always•prayed the Lord to ensure that he said the right thing. It'would be interesting to have his explanation as to why he was defeated in the pri- maries. ' Did a daily newspaper ever re- ceive a letter saying: "Stop my pap- er. In to -day's issue, half -way down the first page you say `continued an page 1'7. col. 6' After 10 minutes' search I found the rest of the article on page 23, col. 5?" If. not, why not? Mussolini is a great man and has done great things for Italy, but Ins glorification of war shows that he has failed to learn -the onlylesson of any value taught by the titanic. struggles that ended! 14 year's ago What he says about war is not even original. It can be found in Bernarxl- hi's "Germanyand the next War." He, too, thought that peace is en- feebling and.' that "war brings hu. roan energies to their full force, ' plat. ing the seal of nobility on people who have the courage to face it," Von Bernarclbi is dead, and the Germany he incited to violence is broken and disillusioned, but Mussolini still pine his faith to the rattling sabre, for- getful- that it is the aggressor who generally loses. e==:11:=.0, An English sergeant -swore in court that the war started the day aftet he was married. W'e wish to assure him that that had nothing whatever to do' with it. The war was inevitable. It is going to cost the United States a lot of money next November to find out whether the Literary Digest's straw vote is dependable or not. •fit American visitors to Canada can- not understand why our money should be at a discount. They say our banks are more secure and we carie as near balancing the national budget as the United .States. The main reason however, is that we buy more from then than they do from us and the balance has to be adjusted in cash. Dollars, like any other com- modity, are subject to fluctuations in price according to the demand. I£ they I' bought more goods from us than we from then, they would have to buy Canadian dollars to redress the bal- ancerand, the demand would increase the price of the Canadian dollar. An adverse balance of trade, along with the decline in the value of sterling, accents for the discount on Canadian money, but that discount will of itself help to right the exchange situation by discouraging Canadian purchaser from the United States. IS The Truth Stranger Than Fiction? Tohh Ransford,Thinks That It Is and Tells This Story to Prove It. Seated one day in my office a knock, and subsequent opening door admitted, cap in hand, a man whom i knew well whom we shall call John Smith. He, Smith, came up -to my desk and handing me a letter said "I'd like you to read that, Boss, and tellme what you think of it." I took it from him, read it, and found it was a letter stating that the writer one evening after dark had been given by a cabman in change for a half sov ereign some silver coins, among which was a two shilling piece that had "John Smith, Clinton, Ontario" en- graved on it. The writer concluded by saying that h presumed Smith would like to recover the coin on which he had engraved his name and address, so if Smith would send him a P. 0. 0, for two shillings he would snail hint the coin it being thus defaced be could not pass it into circulation. The letter was written on best qual- ity paper and dated from a fashion- able street in West end of London, The handwriting evidently being that 0f an educated gentleman. I then told Smith -that in nry opin- ion the letter was just what it par- roted to be, no more and no less, "Well, Boss," he said, "I don's think so. It is a plant to get two shillings out of rue" 'Why do you think that?" I asked. "Because," he quickly answered, "I never engraved my name .on any coin in my life'" Ile was very firm on this point, and I could not make him alter it in any way. So finally I said "Well, what will you do about it?" "Do nothing," he answered. "Do you want the letter any more?" I said. "No," he replied, "You can do what you like with it." And he bowed him-. self eat, r•ecauiting all that had ]sassed be- tween myself and ;Smith, and stating -that as the coin was no good to hini, if he would send it on to me 1 would see if I ciould''obtain any fcn•ther light upon the mystery. In course°of mail I received a letter politely thanking 'me for the trouble I had .taken, enclosing me -the defao .ed tom; and saying I' could, do what Diked with it—hilt he would be glad to know the result of my research.,, I -looked at the coin. No doubt at all about it. There was "Jahn Smith,. Clinton. Ontario"' engraved' on it as plainly as possible. So 'I sent for ray roan and asked him "Are you sure you never engraved your name on any' coin?" "Yes," he said emphatically "very stare." I replied, "You are wrong, for you did. - I have it here," And holding up the coin I said, "Will you believe your own eyes ?" I never saw a more astonished man in any life. Taking it, in his hand he ex- amined it carefully and then said "That is a coin that my brother used to carry at the end of his wateh- ehain. was a blachsmith by trade, but a ne'er-do-well, Went to the tate• and d final] drifted on to S d �d t Y Western Missouri, got into a barrom scuffle and was shot, Somebody stale this Cain -from hini, and putting it into circulation, it has found its way,out again to mte."'I then 'asked hint if he would value it, because Mr: Lyte, the gentleman who hacl,sent it out had given 'me leave to do what I liked with it. On his telling.me he certainly would very. highly value it, I gave him the coin. I then wrote Mr. Lyte telling hitt of the fate of his de- faced • two shilling piece and promptly received a reply thank- ing ane.. He however, went on to say that for years he had made a study of hand writing and felt sure that he and I had many characteristics in common and would proceed to tell me sonic of there, and I in return could tell hiin if they corresponded to mine. For instance, he told me that he was musical, smoked, cigarettes, Ioved exercise, and was a fairly good speaker. I told hini in my reply that I too was musical, played the piano a little, and if I could not get cigaret- tes would never smoke at all. I•Iis answer duly arrived telling me he felt sure we resembles] one another and enclosed me his photograph. Put- ting a card ever the lower part of the face, both my wife and my brother declared it was my photograph, So I took it to a photographer and told hire to place me in a precisely sim- ilar position es regards light and shade, and photograph me; which he ciid with the result that when Ma.. Lyte received it, his friends were firmly •af the opinion it was his photograph. Isis answer sent the lois family gen- ealogy, which to my surprise was similar to my own on my mother's side. Vie both were descended from the Bolton family of Bolton Abbey in common to the 15th, Century, when a Chlonel Bolton went over to 'Ireland, fought there for Cromwell, and cap- tured the Castle 01 Faith Legge, which Cromwell confirmed hint in possession of and 800 acres of sur- rounding Iand. This Coionel Bolton trust have been a prince among dip - meats, for on Charles 2nd restoration ho left Colonel Balton ori his estate and added 1900 acres to it. I read the Teter carefully again. I knew the address, the street being close to where my father had lived for years—and it was absurd to think that a petty swindler; to obtain the sum of two shillings =- would go to the trouble of such provisions, So I wrote a reply From this Colonel Bolton was des- cended a*very illustrious Irish family, which in- course of time consisted of a Miss Bolton, residing in Waterford, who married Rev. Francis Lyte, the author of that incomparable hymn "Abide with me," They had one son, Cecil Maxwell Lyte, my correspond- ent, When this Colonel l3olton went to Ireland, another member of the fam. ily ' emigrated to Virginia, U. S. A. and from him was descended a well- known family who finally settled in Savannah, Georgia, Robert Bolton of Savannah being my mother's grand- father. So as Mr. Lyte triumphantly show - The two 8 -week old Eastern Canadian black bear cubs seen above were born on the Wedgewood Hunting and Fishing Club grounds at Bissett, P.Q. They arrived in Montreal accompanied by Arthur Beauvais, well known guide. They've been called Michael and Mary, As shown by the photograph; and photographs cannot lie, these two babies took early advantage of their first introduction to civilization to telephone Mother, though a little late for Mother's Day, to assure her they were being well looked after, Michael is listening in while Mary is doing the telephoning. They have been fed on tinned milk' since their capture, but sugar is also a favorite article of diet. The cubs were brought to Montreal by Canadian Pacific Express and' went on to New York from the Windsor Station, THE NEW WE L'A D CANAL n Ill , tr'1'-1 f -�.1'",:+T(a s �`'�- ..try..G?):�s�trsJ•'':R._1f 7:l^'i�:'.� ra�'lL,.. The above will give seine idea of the importance of the new Welland Canal. The Lemoyne was the first'' boat to go through the new Canal. Capt• .Robinson, iby, the: way, is an old Goder.•ich boy, 'Tis hard to get anything ref any importance done without the aid of some one from the old county of Iiuron. NEW CANAL IN_ CANADA ONE OF THE BE 1'ORLD' � S GREATEST The new Weland Canal, which was officially opened early this month, is, the first link in the Great Lakes -5t, Lawrence deep waterway, and is the fourth canal to be built in the last ane hundred years connecting lakes Erie and Ontario. The new 'Welland ranks with the Panama as one tof the world's great- ' est canals, indeed in some respects exceed the Panama. While the locks of the latter are a little longer and wider, the total lift tip and down be- tween the two oceans is only 85 feet, covered by three locks each away, ' whereas the lift in the new Welland Canal is 325 feet, covered .by seven locks of 46 1-2 feet each,' and an eighth grand lock 1,380 feet long or i 300 feet longer than the longest Pan- ama lock. These replace twenty-five locks in the old canal. S. . S i The Lemoyne was the first boat to pass through the canal at 1 its official opening, and a statistician present reckoned that she carried the world's greatest cargo of`grain. "She - has already carried 571,885bushels of wheat at. one load," he said, ',and the cargo would make 12,350,000 two pound loaves of bread. If you laid these loaves enc] to end, they Would :reach 2,350 utiles, or the distance from the spot where the' wheat was produced to the Atlantic- It would' take 210 farm 0 1 s f 50 acres togrow- the I n I care t g and ..86 80 ton railway cars' or a train 2 1-2 miles long to carry - it. Seven average canal -sire freigir tors world he needed to carry the• cargo, which is enough to supply Canadian requirements for a day and, a half, It would take 50 Hien work- ing with shovels 10 hours a day, 12. days to unload the ship " ed, he and I were very distant cousins, but still cousins. He gave me his latest London address and be- sought me to never come to England without calling an him, which of course I promised to do. So on my next visit I called at his house, only to be told by his footman that Mr. and Mrs. Lyte were staying in Broadstairs and would I kindly go to the address he gave me. Down to Broadstairs I went, it only being a few utiles from London. The door was opened by a pretty Kentish gin' who at once said "Please go down to the esplanade, where you will find Master and Missus." "How do you know who I ant," "Blaster has your photo on his mantelpiece and I would know you anywhere." "But .how shall I know your master for I have never seen him?" "Master said you would be sure to find him." So there was nothing for it, and down to the es- planade I went. It was a small semi- circular asphalted walk filled with ladies and gentlemen, doing fancy work and reading their papers. I made the circuit twice and was just about decided to go back to their house and wait for them, when I was attracted by a man and women sit- ting not far from me. I walked straight up to them and looking at hint said "You are Cecil Maxwell Lyte," Ile answered promptly "You are John Ransfarti" and at mice in- trodaced-tae to his wife. She then said they Were. going up to lunch and invited tare to accompany them. I found thein most charming people. She was the oldest daughter of Lord Mowbray and newton, representat- ive Of the oldest Catholic family in England. They trade me very we - come and my visit was a great pleas- ure. So it is now for your readers to decide whether or not "Truth is stranger than fiction." There is no doubt in' my own mind that in many cases it is. JOHN RANSFORD. Clinton, Ontario, August 0, 1931. SHOULD NOT IGNORE THESE EFFORTS, THE LEAGUE MEANS BUSINESS A document containing just one short of a score of "whereases," and ending with a modest request to Premier Henry to "investigate free- ly to establish the truth or falsity of these statements," has - been issued by the Moderation League of Ontario and copies have been sent to a num- ber of Crillians for signature, one of which has found its way to the ed- itorial desk. The burden of long pre- amble is that this Province is suffer- ing seriously from Iack of facilities for the sale and consumptibn.of beer. and wine, coupled with allegations that if these refreshments were plac- ed or permitted to be drunk in hotels and restuarants it would improve bus- iness, increase the "amount" of tour- ists, alleviate taxation and promote "truer temperance'" The last phrase is a degree beyond the "true tem- perance" which the present system was to usher in. The superlative "Truest temperance" will, presumably be attained in the view :of the mod- eration League when the sale of liq- uor is once more as free and untram- melled as that of ice cream, To many an effort to lift the country by its bootstraps may seem less absurd and futile than the proposal to cure the depression by increasing the waste oh products -whose use, and long experience has shown to be aceom-- panied by evils proportionate to the quantity consumed, -which in turn is largely determined by the facilities lrovided for their sale. But those who hold this view would perhaps do well not to ignore the.vigorous pro, paganda of the Moderation League in favour of beer and wine, lest later they find that. a movement which they despised has become formidable.--Orillia Packet -Times. ' ( HOW WOULD TORONTO DO JF IT HAD TO DEPEND UPON ITSELF? From the Toronto Star we quote; The Stratford Beacon -Herald, which sometimes says unkind things about Toronto, notes that more people re- gistered, at the Stratford Centenary from Toronto than from any other place. The fact is that Toronto is, for the most part, a city of transplanted Stratfords and Kitcheners and Peter - boroughs and all the Lather Ontario communities, and therefore not such a terrible city as its critics elsewhere in Ontario sometimes like to think, The Star got the right idea first time. It frankly states it is the folk front outside boundaries who have kept Toronto On something resemb- ling an even keel, 'What the Star says is so when it comes to the newspaper business. Joe Clark, who Probably wrote the para- graph, came from Flesherton and got his first job sticking type on a paper in Durham, where one of his duties was to go and bring the editor bacic to the taffies from the quarry, where digging for fossils was his chief de- light. 'George Maitland, who lives in the pert next to that occupied by Mr. Claris at the Star, is a native of Stratford, a - graduate of the Herald. On The Globe H. W. Anderson, the managing editor, names Chatham as the old home town, and we believe he even mastered the intricacies of a type -setting machine there in his early days. Hugh Ferguson, editorial writer on the Globe; cane from Kin- cardine, P.,, D. L. Smith, chief editor of the Mail and Empire was ,born near Listowel, and . C. 0. Knowles, managing editor of the Telegram, made a start in journalism by push- ing a mail cart. along the street on behalf of the Guelph Mercury. It can he recalled too that the late John R. Robinson, for years editor of tate 1 Telegram learned his trade in the sante Guelph Mercury. Going outside the daily newspaper field there is Col.. J. B. MacLean, probably the most outstanding publisher in the Domin- ion.' He came front a manse in Pus- linch, in Wellington county. And so, applying the Star's logic, we reach the conclusion that Toronto newspap- ers have attained their present excel- lence by reason of having Hien from outside Toronto go in and develop them.—Stratford Beacon -Herald, WHY Two friends were having an indig- nation meeting of their own. Both had suffered domestic strife and now they were comparing notes. "Aren't women the limit?" growled the first. "We husbands don't know anything at all and our wives know everything" ",Nell," said -Itis companion in mis- ery, reluctantly, "there's one thing my wife admits she doesn't know." "What on earth is that?" 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