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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1932-08-25, Page 3THURS., AUGUST 25, 1932 timinisamos THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD Slayer of Over 500 Panthers IIEAP 1310 CHIEF In South India the average age at death is 17, but Mohan Narayan, shown here, is 62 and has killed the "chillcar" or professional hunter, more than 500 panthers (we call them leopards), 132 tigers and three elephants, not to mention hundreds of pouncing cobras. That looked 'pole in his right- hand is used for pinning cobras, vipers and other poisonous snakes down while he eat cbes them alive and yanks out their poison fang's. The skin around Nar- ayan's neck came off 'the only Leo- pard-panthi.r who got in the first bite. o • Lit's � ?G.U1 RING AT THE EWS 8Klai Is a doctor justified in exceeding the speed limit, asks a newspaper correspondent. Sure lie is—on oc- eaeions. But I've never thought there was any excuse for the under- taker. Many people think President Hoov- er is a wealthier man than he really is, says a writer to the New York newspaper. We gather from this that he isn't. CL • One hundred years after the ter- mination of the war of 1812-15 there were over three hundred per"suns in the United States drawing pensions for that war. They were women who as young girls had married aged veterans and thus qualified for pen- sion. A year or two ago, there were eight of thee. still living. Your Un- cle, Samuel is by no means niggardly in his treatment of war veterans ire their dependents although the army of bonuseers has disbanded with the contrary opinion. But excessive gen- erosity breeds cupidity, and cupidity unsatisfied breeds ingratitude and hostility. bf Mayor Walker of New York' was given shares for which he paid noth- ing but out of which he made a greet deal of money. It'turned out after-+ wards that the .donors were interest- 1 ed in civic contracts or franchises.' He admits this himself, yet denies that he was in any way to blame and alleges he is 'the victim of a frame- up on the part of prosecuting attor- i neys. When he went to Albany to answer the charges he was the re- cipient of a great ovation. When he returned . to New 'York, ditto. 01 'course, these ' demonstrar:ions are organized, but what is to become oil a;, great city whose chief magistrate remains a hero and an idol after such disclosures? If the police made an error in arresting Dan. Malone they can be accused of no greater offence than excessive zeal in the discharge of duty and that is better than taking chances on a visiting statesman be- ; ing assassinated. Their information was that a Sinn Feiner named Dan Malone intended tokill lion. J.` H. Thomas at or on the way to Welland, so they arrested a Sinn Feiner of that name on a nominal charge of vagrancy. They are now apparently unable to prove that he conterePlat- `ed any sueh crime and are wondering whether they got the right Dan Malone. Was it not Mark Twain who • wrote an article on the Bacon; Shakespeare controversyand reach- ed the , conclusion that William Shakespeare's works were not writ- 1 ten by William Shakespeare at all but by another man of the same name? ee=eleeeeee Von Paper's ministry is called the "monocle cabinetT' perhaps because each one is wonting . with an eye single to the return of the monarchy. Ct It must make Alfred E. Smith boil to sec Hoover trying to be c.'eeted with a ponder very notch like that upon which he, Smith, was defeated four years ago. Caeeet:e=e0 For a Sunday band concert it is announced that "only sacred music will be played;" Now, will someone tell us what that means? Is there such a thing as profane music? Where is the line drawn? Is aertair nuisic sacred 1ne:Asly haulm the words to which it set are from a hymnal or hymnary? Someone with a passion for stat- istics might give us figures showing to what extent dieting ha,e _contribut- ed toward agricultural over-produe- tion. d When President Hoover chooses to go further against the Volstead Act than was expected, it may be as- sunied that he thinks public opinion is ripe for a change. He is aro mean judge of public opinion and no nov- ice in strategy. Fie showed that four years ago 'when he. managed to garner Democratic drys while holding Republican wets., This year he was threatened' with the loss Of many Re- publican wets who objected to the party's, stand on this puestion and favored that taken by the Dem, crats. In his acceptance speed. 'he removes their objections and hopes at teh same time to hold the drys be- cause of his past attitude toward the act and because, too, el the more drastic resolution adapted by the Democrats in convention. At' this distance from the elections, we should think he hay vastly improved his chances. And sorely in need of im- provement they were. e=eics. 'Where does this place the Anti, Saloon League whichewas so forntid aisle for the past ten years? • It is now a spent political force? Mr. Hoover apparently thinks it is, or that •he has put it in such a position that, without a candidate of its own, it must continue to support him, how' ever unwillingly, as the lesser of two. evils. No matter who is elected; it Iooks as if the Volstead act is doomed, ,onclon treets It:Description of -the Streets of London One Who Was There ,'The following description of the streets of- London, the most wonder- ful city.' 'in the world, portray; things as 'they were':' several years ago. NO doubt many changes would be seen now for, motor -vehicles have to a large; extent replaced horse-drawn conveyances. Brat we do not .doubt that no matter what changes London would supply to the visitor unending olcua1n%s of inter!, est: . THa streets of London, and I sup- pose- in this . feature, they diffotl from no other city, vary greatly dur- ing the different' hours of the 21aye in the appearance they present to the beholder. By the visitor•' they should be studied -under the'ae dif- ferent aspects. I will begin with the early dawn, even before sunrise.' fn. order to remove any suspicion existing in anybo.dy''s mind, I will explain. that my experience at this 'tour,was caused by my having tak- en a midnight, train from Liverpool ribieh put me down at Euston Square, station at 4.30 a.m. My destination was Brighton, so I determined tq take- advantage of the opportunity, and walk across London at this hour,. a perfectly novel experience to me, I was simply amazed. I passed through etreet atter street, and nev- er set eyes upon anything animate. An occasional policeman, with that tired look, betokening -a nightttt watch, to say nothing of a measured, slow, heavy tread indicative of weariness, here and there a tont cat, with furtive tread, suspicious, quick glance on all side„ who the moment he saw me, would dart into an ,area, and by three quick jumps, first on the water butt, next on the lid of the dust bin, and thirdly to the flags with which the area was pav- ed, with a rapidity showing be de- sired adt Ieast to siive his shred; sof reputation, by, concealment of, iden- tity; were abput all I sats' of life. Here and there lights in upper win- dows revealed the watching by the sick bed, or the tossing to •and fro in sickly weariness unwatched and unattended. It was amazing the death -like stillness. I could hardly realize that there were the thorough- fares, that but a few hotrrs before teemed with tiaffic, pedestrians, and were filled with the glare of lights, the busy hum of talkers, -the noisy shout of revelry, the moan of des- pair, the Laughter of inneaence, the ribald oath, the curse of revenge, and the shriek of the fool. I arrived at last at Victoria Station, and to give rot/ a feature of London life, I will say it being 7 aan. Sunday morn ing, i searched in vain for a counter at the station, to get a 'cup of coffee and a sandwich. Noticing a person of decidedly dissenter cut costume, I asked him if he could direct me to a counter. He answered with, -smug satisfateion, and a general demean- our indicating his ,own belly was full, that it being the Lord's day, these places were all shut at that hour. Knowing there was a pub on the oth- er ,side of the street, probably kept by a sinner who would feed a hun- gry man on any day or at any hour, I got back at the parson by pointing to the pub,and saying in my most crushing tones, its then like your who drive men like me to the bar, and instantly strode across to the puib, hoping I had given him a text for e sermon. on some future occasion. The next stage in street life, is the preparation for. feeding 'the city of London, and•here it is 'we first see life. With the very early morning,• at all the principal stations, trains are arriving, bringing in milk, meat, fish, vegetables, and all- that goes to fill up the English, to say nothing of a few stray, hungry Canadian's, A long line of horse vehicles, donkey drawn drays, man propelled wheel- barrows, come in from the outlying districts, and soon the markets are in full blast. These are chiefly known as Smithfield and Islington for meat, Billinsgate for fish, and Covent Garden for fruit and vege- tables. In a rapidly short time all is disposed of. The various hotels, eating' places, shops have procured' their supplies, and . the itinerant huckster has ladened his donkey dray or wheelbarrow, and started roff into the suburbs, shouting his peou-. liar dainty. The next ecene that shifts on to our canvas is the shops being opened. Sleepy looking boys are .taking down the shutters from the front , r' reindevese isw,eeping the paveanent'in front, windows are be- ing dressed, but quickly- on the heele of this is the enormous „swarm of work people, of all kinds, who noW begin their entry into the vast city: Workmen with their dinner pails, young .clerks Ella- With the gaiety arising from the yet undisappointed ; hopes of youth, older men who have lived to reach the dull and hopeless routine of middle age, . from which they have now; learned, that onteids of a miracle there is no escape, the i work girls, typists, shop girls,. of ten the ;worst used, worst paid of all; hurry by, while train, busses, and the undergrnounld tubes pour it their eonntless thousands. This :secne !the antipodes of 'the pieeture I show- ed you- at 4.30 a.ni. and all accent- plished inside' of 3 to 31-2 houru. Comparative sedateness now be gins to settle over the streets, fairly filled however, but with these on pleasure or ibisinees. We have now bii'rived'•at noon hour, ;which :doe' not bring in its wake the Bedlam seen in, a ' big , Ame-ican city. We thank the goodness that has hither•/ to kept far from us, the modern en- ormity known as the• sky' scrapett which at a moment vomits forth on one spot, the population of a small city. Tlto shops, offices, factories are spread over atnueh larger area and the congestion is avoided. The afternoon is the hour for the lounge er _and the fashionable. Expensive motors, carriages, drawn by superb 'horses, groomed to a silkiness, it is a delight to feast - one's eyes upon driven. by a pompous booking, well fed, richly liveried coachman, flank, ed at side or rear by an equally int- presaive, well fed. Iiveried footman, occupied frequently by a solitary formidable looking dame, of mature years, pass rapidly by'. The whole scene is peculiar to the hour. Hyde Park, with its celebrated Rotbcn Row, is alone worth a visit from this side of the Atlantic. Take a chair at the entrance at 5 a.m. any day dur- ing the -season, the month of May, and you will see more invested cap- ital in the shape of horses, carriages and women's attire, in one hour, than any where else in the world. It is a kalie I e o , e co s� f o beauty.The streets are however now beginning to fill up with the outwartl exit of the crowd we saw coming in between 7.30 and 0 aan. theonly n y difference being the jaded, worn look, compar- ed to'tlte freshness and vitality of the early morning. The gloom of night now begins to settle down ov- er the streets. As quickly the ar- tificial lights appear, and the street rapidly fill up with a new crowd, the pleasure ..seekers, bound to the pri- vate house entertainment of dinners 'lance, Carel party and what not; to the opera, the theatre, the music hall, dance hall, leteure, they throng in countless thousands. It is at this time that the painted woman snakes her appearance. This feature de- serves a passing notice: What there are now, I know not, but over ten years ago, I read in the London papers, there were over 100,000 pros- titutes known to the police, who nightly plyed their trade on the streets. Their principal hunting grounds are feone Hyde Paris ,corner along Piccadilly to Piccadilly Circus. up Regent Quadrant, along Oxford street, or ,past the Criterion, rdown the FIayntarket or St. d'ame's street, through ,Trafalgar Square, and a- long the Strand to about the begin- Hing of Fleet street, down Northum- berland Avenue to the houses, of Parliament. They are also found in such resorts as the Empire music hall,' the Alhambra, the. Tivoli, etc. I don't mean to infer that you will not find loose women elsewhere in London. I an now refering to up- per circles, known as "real Lydies." Among them will be found •all na., tionalities, British, • French, Germane Italian, Spanish, and many, if not for the most part, well dressed, most n.1,0 trective women. Without they make themselves conspicuous by solicita- tion, or unruly ,conduct, the polies leave then alone, We are now near or at 0 p.m. anld in the -poorer -resi- dential streets this is an hourlooked for with much longing. For it is at this hour, that time honoured bles- sing known as the Pot Boy, sallies forth with. his rack of pint pewters filled with beer, porter, or the cele- brated. London stout. The lady 04 the little redbrick house, usually 'Meets -the boy'on the pavement and. holding at a' convenient angle her small brown jug; the potboy pours 'therein the contents of" •a pint pew- ter of whatever particular beverage her Lord and Master has previously to her exit designated as his favour- ite 'tipple .for that evening. Time goes on, an11 the hour aeeives.when the places of amusement begin 'Co empty. Once more is there a scene of rush and bewilderment, and taxis, cabs,' busses, trams, tubes are in ,great, demand, and so the streets gradually thin out. It 'is now that you come across, the tragedy of Lon- don life. Listen to the feeble voice of that poor,. ragged, emaciated form of a woman, 'trying to get a few stray' coppers from the passers •Iby, singing or .attempting to' sing some Music Hall ditty. A white, thin, staarved, shivering: baby,• held to her flattened breast .by an old thread bare shawl is her usual accompani- ment, Someone or two charitably disposed- may drop a copper, which PAGE '3 elicits a fervent (God bless "you ]cine 1 ne of .. r Whop Will T: i 1, T . 1 Daddy Sit Qv Lac1Y," bill 11101'0 frequently ddb~ is she the, recipient of the brutal re- mark, or even • the oath or shove, winch bring forth the groan oif.des pain,. Equally hot'rilile or., more Gc:,. is the belated, consumptive, -'time ravaged, drink' destroyed whore, who. .accosts you with a "For the love of G'awd kind Sit; give a poor woman the price of a meal, I ain't 'ad one morsel of food pars my blessed Pips, -. this bloomin' dy." 'Yen give her a` coin,either' out o•£.pity, or to get rid of her for if you don't, ,she will dog your footste;pc• until the sight'- of a policeman° sends bei scurrying away like some flout thing afraid to he. seen: but oncein possession of the feverishly clutched. coin, .she ruslir to the nearest, gin palace, and burst- ing through to the bar, throw's it down ;yelling her order of "three o' gin 'et, .and d -d 'quick too. "One snore. stay, to the consuming fever of thirst, that sooner ' .or later brings her to- the early drunkard's So much :for a brief sketch of the streets in their' various. aspects. I will 'conclude by a few' remarks about Some notable characters that will bei found on them. First and foremost comes that unique individual known all ovey the world as the London Bobby. 'You will not find his equal in any 'other city in the world. This is universally 'admitted. Courteous, well trained, capable, brave in the discharge of his arduous duties, .he stands alone. He knows and thor- oughly understands the, London crowd, and therein lies his chief ef- ficacy. The joking, banter, Chaff that is exchanged- between the pol- iceman and the crowid, has to he heard, to be realized, much less ap- preciated. FIe is always good nate used; ready to give instruction, and even kindly advice. For instance, on; one occasion passing through Tra- falgar Square I saw people placing I wreaths at the base of an equestrain statue. In passing, I might say there are people to day who so re -j vete the memory of one they call King Charles the Martyr, that they deposit wreaths at the base of his , statue, each anniversary of his death. Being ignorant of all this, I askedbystander a whose statue it was. "Its Richard the lion 'earted" , was the.. answer. The policeman on band hearing this, s instantly put in his spoke. "Beg pardon, Sir, I think the gent his hin herror. IS aint One of the Richards at hall. Hits the A BRAVE LASSIE Lionel Piceard, age seven; one of the daughters of Prof, Auguste.. Piceard, with a model of the F.N.R. S., in which her father will agaile ascend to the atmosphere. king whose bloomin ead they out ltorf, ]rand then pitched inn hout through a vinder." There was a modicum of truth in the Bobby's history, although he got tangled up somewhat. Ring Charles was led through a window, out :down on pur- pose unpose to the floor, thus forming a door, on to the scaffold, erected just outside adjoining the Palace -cf Whitehall, on which he wan. execut- ed. But the Bobby was more correct than the bystander. Another illus- tration of the Bobby's fund of gener- al information may be illustrated by the following, An American, asked a bobby the way to Herring Cross. "Beg parson, Sir, I never eard tell of such aplace." "Oh, You must have," said the American, It's well known, only I don't knew the way to it." "Beg pardon Sir, but would you mind spelling of it. Sonie of` hour henglish words is a little ard. for a forriner. i Charing Cross, spelt the Yanlc. "Ah, there you ave it Sir." replied the bobby, "Bits has I that, a mistake in pronunciation_ Wecalm hit Charing Sir. The OH is soft has in champagne or sugar, not arc' has hincabbage or cauli- flower." One surprising thing to a foreigner, is that although the pol- ice in London, have a tough criminal. 'class to handle, yet you never see a policeman - with his club in his hand, except he is using it. They are a c tiled in a leather , r heath fastened to their belt, and only drawn on great, provocation. The spectacle of a red faced, pot bellied, brutal look- ing man, swinging a long heavy elub- in his hand, as the' he were on the (Continued on page 7) r Our Commercial equipped from a thousand Couter We are We will be Calling Printing Department is. to handle printing of all kinds box of Calling Cards to ten Statements or Letter Heads Give us Your Order for Check rooks prepared to .supply you in any quantity Pleased -to receive your order for Letter Heads Bill Heads Statements Envelopes - Cards, Private Stationery or. Correspondence Cards THE • CLINTON NEWS -RECORD A FINE MEDIUM FOR ADVERTISING --READ ADS. IN Tins ISSUE PHONE 4 .