HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1932-10-27, Page 3THURS., OCT. 27, 1932
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`But then, on the. ;other hand, you
have the case of the Scotchman who
intended to provide' himself with bag-
pipes, but abandoned the notion when
he found they had been placed on
the fee list.
• Political prodigals who 'wander a-
way from home, ' do not receive, an
returning, the ovation the one in the
parable did, The Labor party will
not fattier Snowden now. Their atti-
tude toward him, is that of the elder
brother, If Lloyd George has his
way, there will be no dressed veal
for 'Samuel, Sinclair, et al, Ire slays
they are not entitled to any consider-
ation because he had warned them
of their"criminal stupidity" in enter-
ing the National government, Sir
Wilfrid Laurier said onoe that there
was no room for resentments in
political We, but it is not every
leader who can divest himself of
them,
One would think that Lloyd George
would find it easy to forgive the
wanderers. They only did what he
himself did. He ousted Asquith and
formed a National government of
his own and then conducted an elec-
tion in which he routed the Liberals;
When he went ,back to the party, af-
ter being ousted from the leadership
of the coalition government, he was
treated for a while just as he is now
treating Samuel, Sinclair, et al. Time
and the exigencies of politics, •es-
pecially his control of a campaign
fund, raised by and for the coalition-
ists, made it possible for him to gain
the leadership of the Liberal Party.
From this vantage point, he is able
and willing to remove the light from
the windows when he sees the prodi-
gal returning.
mit
He can argue, of course, that the
eases are different; that his course
in joining and leading a National
government was proper and patriotic.
Most of his countrymen would agree
with him on that, But it is also true
that most of his countrymen agreed
.!that Samuel's course was proper and
patriotic. That opinion was se
strongly held, that when the elections
were over Lloyd George's following
in the House of Commons was con-
fined largely to his own household.
But this reflection would only irritate
him. It is curious how intolerant we
can be toward others who exercise
the right to do something that we'
ourselves have don
occasion.
t
The Literary Digest'sstraw vote
shows Roswell: still leading, and it
will help him to lead, It is question-
able whether such a ,nation-wide vote
should be permitted. Undoubtedly;
it will 'have an influence on election
day with many voters, who wish to
be on the winning side, but Hoover
cannot object. He had the advant-
age of a similar vote by .the same
magazine, over .Smith, in 1928. Sen-
ate and Congress are •almost certain
to be Democraticand if Hoover were
re-elected he would be the captain
of a• ship. with a mutinous crew. If
defeated, he would- do well to resign
at once rather than wait until the
expiry of his term in March. No
defeated president has ever done this,
but Wilson intended to da it if de-
feated in 1916. When the constitu-
tion was enacted, a century and a
half ago, there were no railways
no telegraph, no telephone, no motor
cars and the four months' delay be-
tween election and inauguration was
necessary. But not now.
on sone other
Depression must have loved poor
people. 'It made so many of us.
c_ -7l:=0.
The truth about Russia is that we
don't know much about it.
The mayor 'of Vancouver insists
upon the National Railways com-
pleting the new hotel in that city,
threatening, if it is not done, to bring\
the matter into court, and adding
that he is interested in providing
jobs for the jobless. Millions have
been spent 'on it already and a few
more will be required to complete it
and then our troubles will begin, for
we shall have to run it, or tear it
down, or turn it into something else.
The mayor cannot have Toad, what
the Duff commission reported about
raihvay hotels. In London, they show
tourists a large, long stone wall,
built after the Napoleonic wars
merely to give employment. No
matter how useless it may be, it is a
better way of spending money to re-
lieve unemployment than the building
of an unnecessary hotel. The stone
wall needs no upkeep.
Reduced to baseball terms, banks
must make some hits and few errors
if they would avoid runs.
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THE 'UNDE'RGROUND RAILWAY'
A subscriber to The ,Dawn of To-
morrow has written asking; what is
the actual meaning of the. words
."Underground Railway," se often
used in describing the, means by
which slaves made their way to free-
dom.
The underground railroad has been
described as the "most x'oenantie high-
way that America has known" and
yet, it was not '•a'highway in the ord-
inary ,sense of the word; it was more
a route, or rather many router,. It
was natural that slaves should run
away and that they should seek to
findsecurity from their owners. As
there developed in the .earlier years
of the nineteenth century a feeling
that there was wrong in human slav-
ery there came also u feeling that to
aid a slave to freedom was no wrong]
even though it alight. deprive the
owner of his property. It will be;
seen that there was really a conflict
between legal right; and moral right,
At an early date Sonne people be-
gan to help slaves to get to places
where they would be free. • Then
laws were passed making the, giving
of such aid a crime. The result was
that the work became secret, so se;
cret that one slave -owner ie said to
have .exclaimed that ene of his run-
aways disappearing at one point and
reappearing at another must have
travelled by an underground rail-
road. Some such use of the words
became common and the term "un-
derground railroad"eventually cane
to mean the system by which friends
of the slaves aided them in their
flight. Many of those who gave
such assistance were Quakers.
A slave, having got across the
Ohio Rivet, would be taken in charge
by some friendly hand and either
secreted for a time or inmmediately.
passed on to some other friend at a
distance. From worker to worker
the slave was passed, sometimes
weeks passing before .he reached the
place where he felt free. Many could
not feel safe until they were in Can-
ada, and Canada was really the ter,
minus of most of the underground
routes. The routes being determin-
ed by the presence along the way of
people who were ready to give help.
Through the years before the Civ-
it War there grew up a sort of jar-
gon of the business. The runaways
were called passengers or freight and
those who helped them along were
called conductors. Those who gave
shelter were called station agents.
Sometimes a curious message would
be sent along, warning some worker
to be prepared to receive hardware
or dry -goods. These terns would:
have reference to fugitives, hard-
ware denoting men and drygoods in-
dicating women.
There were some noted figures in
the work at the undergromnd rail-
road, John Brown took part in it and
in the early months of 1859 landed
more than a dozen fugitives at
Windsor, These Ise had brought all
the way from Missouri, Harrier
Tubmnn, a Negro woman, was also
remarkably successful in aiding ter kudos will be gained Iby;,dwelling o
Dr, Alexander thee
people. Alexarde Milton Ross, � result of bargains to which'th
of Toronto, has left a reoord in hire Canadian, people look hopefully. 01
autobiography1 til
of his share in the y n° Will tell .whether their hop
work. There are a number of book;' is justified, but for the present i
dealing with the subject, the best exists to an extent which takes muc
being l
e the work entitle "TheUnder-,
r-
$ dUce ,
ground Railroad" by Professor W.
II, Siebert of Ohio State University,
Ibis book will be :round in many
public Iibraries and is a most inter-
esting volume.
litany Negroes in Canada today
are descendants of former slaves who
made their way to Canada and were
"passengers" on the underground.
I There is a large literature on the
] subject and not a 'few of those who
made their' way to freedom have left
accounts of their experiences. The
part that Canada and Canadians
played in it was important and it is
a chapter of our history of which we
may be proud. Tho refuge that was,
given to the fugitives helped weaker
the hold of slavery upon the United
States and even though a slig+ht fac-
tor . in emancipation, cannot be en-
tirely ignored.—fThe. Dawn of Tomo -
row.
n gers on a Canadian railroad, thanks
e to the modern equipment etnpl'oyed
n n to'.I
and 1 he eternal vigilance ilauce of C.lna-
e dian railwaymen and others charged
t with the safe operation of trains.
h( -
According to Canadian National
Railways statisticians, the odds are
8,850,185 to 1 against being killed
t while a passenger on 'a Canadian
et railroad train and 71,453 to 1 a-
e. gainst being the victim of an aceident
which will cause' injury while a pas-
senger. seng'or, As compared with railway
et . fatalities and accidents, there were
11,369 automobile accident fatalities
" 1 and an estimated 25,190 automobile
+'accident injuries in Canada during
1931,
The marked success . of the rail-
(roads
ail-(roads in reducing the number '• of
accidental deaths and injuries among
both passengers and employees did
not result from chance but from syes-
tesnatie plans and an intensive drive
made by the safety organibations of
' the railroads of Canada designed to
bring about a reduction in all kinds
of accidents on the railroads.
THE DANGER OF MANY WORDS
As an independent newspaper, con-
cerned first with the welfare of the
country and the British Empire, The
Globe had hoped the Ottawa'agree-
menta would be accepted by all par,
ties in Parliament es the result of a
conference at which the various dele-
gations did their best, sincerely and
honestly, to promote national and
Empire prosperity. It would have
expressed the seine hope had the
Liberal Party represented Canada in
the negotiations and made and sign-
ed agreements with the other delega-
tions that promised prog ee. and es-
tablished a basis for closer Empire
relations.
Since the Liberal Opposition has
seen fit to challenge the agreements,
without hope 'er expectation of de-
feating them, The 'Globe submits it
would have shown a bigger and
broader attitude toward public af-
fairs by simply gtating its case, at
vigorously as it desired, and letting
it go at that. Apparently it intends
-going the limit. Speakers are lined
up to keep the debate alive, and they
will be followed by spencers from
'other groups, the aggregate effect
of which will be to magnify the im-
pression in other Dominions whet° it
is not understood fully that the
whole business is politics. So far as
this country is concerned it is doubt-
ful politics. Notwithstanding any-
thing said by way of criticism, the
people realize that there were two
parties to every agreement, that the
Canadian delegation did not sign for
both, that criticism of one must ap-
ply to the other, and that the Oppo.
sition at Ottawa, has no. business ter-
ling the delegates from the United
Kingdom, South Africa, Southern
Rhodesia. or any other outside Do-
minion, that they were wrong. It is
doubtful, moreover, that political
WEST WAWANOSH: Last Thurs-
day morning William Carr, a well
known farmer in this township, and
a former township councillor, was
found dead or a couch ih his home,
He had been in apparent good health
and his death was a great shock to
his friends,
SEAFORTII: A Young Liberals
Club has been organized in this town
for the town and vicinity, President
R. R. McKay; vice: A. Y. McLean;
secretary, E. C. Chamberlain; trees-
user, J. C. Crich. The organization
is to Ise called the "Thomas McMillan
Young Liberals' Club" in honour of
the late member
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EXETER: Upwards of 700 peo-
ple patronized the fowl supper held
Friday night in the shed of Zion
Lutheran Church, Dashwood. The
Dashwood brass band, under the
leadership of T. Wolper, entertained
the diners and in the evening Wee-
den Louis Rader presided at a con-
cert, which included the''following
on the program: Dialogue, Mrs.
Wildfong, Edward Henschel: and
Kathleen Mesmer; monologue, Mar-
tin Lamb; cornet solo, Alvin Wal -
per; quartet, E. Waiper, Clayton
?bile, Arnold Kuntz, Edward Kraft,
Harry Hoffman, Jr., sang tho "Flor-
al Dance."
WINGHAM: A meeting of the
war veterans was held in the Council
Chamber on Thursday evening for the
purpose of electing officers to form
a branch of the Legion in Wingham,
The officers elected to look after the
forming of the Legion are: President,
H. C. McLean; 1st vice-president,
Kenneth Weaver; End vice-president,
Frank Sturdy; secretry, C�'r. W. How-
son; treasurer, G. H. Ross. The exe,
cutive will arrange a meeting' in the
near future to shrike their own com-
mittees.
Wingham: The official visit of Rt.
Ex. Comp, J. E'mpy, Mitchell, Grand
Superintendent of Huron District
No. 6 was made to Lebanon •Chapter,
No. 84, A. M., on Thursday evening.
There was a fair representation of
the Companions out to welcome their
honored guest. The first degree
was exemplified by the officers, and
on which the Grand Superintendent
passed some gratifying remarks.
After the heapter was closed, the
members retired to the Brunswick
Hotel, where a luncheon was served.
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GODERICH: At the conclusion of
the testimony of A. M. Judd, crown
attorney of Middlesex County, Capt.
Oliver Goldthorpe, Bayfield, was
committed for trial by Magistrate
Reid at an adjourned preliminary
hearing on a charge of possessing
offensive weapons, dangerous to the
public peace on Monday. Arms val-
ued at $2,000 are under seizure and
the crown seeks to confiscate them,
Accused was allowed his liberty
on $1,000 bail. Mr. Judd, a summer
resident of Bayfield, told of an in-
cident last July which ocaurreci in
front of one of the Bayfield hotels,
in which Capt, Goldthorpe is alleged
to have pointed either a rifle or.
shotgun in the direction of a young
man and woman with whom he was
engaged in an argument. Mr. Judd
said he had pulled his car up along-
side of Goldthorpe while the argu-
ment was in progress. "I saw Gold-
•thorpe run to his car, pull out a gun
of some sort and point it in the di-
rection of the couple. I intervened.'
saying, 'Don't be a fool, •Goldthorpe,'
and he put the gun back in the car
and came over and spoke to me. He
told me they' had annoyed him and 1
replied he would find himself in dif-
ficulty if he used a gun in that man-
ner."
WALTON: A Ford coupe in which
two gentlemen from London were
riding overturned just as it rounded
the corner in front of the hotel at
about 8 a.m. Sunday morning. The
driver was blinded by the strong
lights of the car coming in the oppo-
site direction and did not realize the
corner was so near.. Lawrence Cum-
mings, the garage man, was called
and sem had elle car righted. Little'
damage was dome and.the men' es -
caned uninjured.
of the edge oft the criticism.
g c It crsm.
neaiues crags, me Llperals 'inns
realize that they are liable to.g
into deep water by prolonging
debate. Mr'. Ring found fault with
Mr. Bennett for' dictatine to (ref
Britain. Now Hon. Fernand Rinfr
declares that Canada has allowed "an
outside Government, the United King
dont, to dictate its internal affairs
and in this regard," says,the report
"it didn't make any difference wheth
er "it was the United Kingdom, France
or Germany; the principle was . the
sante, Canada's tariffs and customs
regulations were dictated by the
incited Kingdom." It requires no
elucidation to show hew this argu-
ment may react to the disadvantage
of the Liberal Party, both as to Em-
pire relations and in its application
to any trade agreements a Liberal
Government may make in the future,
Mr. Pouliot quoted figures to show
that trade within the Empire isre-
latively light compared with world
trade, from which the obvious de-
duction is that trade within the Em-
pire should be increased, although it
would appear that Mr. Pouliot took
the opposite view.
Neither sof these arguments will
strengthen opinion in the country
that the Liberal Party is interested
in Empire trade or Empire solidarity.
They do the Liberal Party no good.
As a matter of fact everything ne-
cessary has been said to show that
the party does not like the agree-
ments, and would net stand for then
if it could do anything ease. With
this Mr. King should be satisfied.
He should call off the debate, for the
party's welfare, before much too
Hauch is said,—The Toronto Globe.
FEW ACCIDENTS ON CANADIAN
RAILWAYS
Toronto, October 19—Railway tra-
vel continue; to be the safest method
of getting from 'one point to another
in Canada, according to accident
statistics which have been worked
out by the various transportation
authorities. Canadian railways
which last year carried almost three
tunes as many people on their pas-
senger trains at comprise the total
population of the Dominion establish-
ed a remarkable safety record. On-
ly three persons out of 26,550,556
passengers were killed while passen-
WOULD SEND PEOPLE TO
BIBLE
Senator Huey Long of Louisiana is
a wonderful Political Campaigner, a
wonderful bull shooter. The Satur-
day Evening. Post, of October 15th,
wrote up his style of electioneering.
He is great an quoting the Bible to
prove his points. In blaming the Re-
publican party for the present hard
times, he says:
"You don't have to look far es to.
hone you can correct this condition.
Herbert Hoover is calling together
boards and commissions to find out
what he should do about it. The only
dad -blamed thing on the living face
of the earth that he needs to do is
to read 'his Bible. The Lord tells us
in chapters 24, 26 and 27 of Leviti-
cus, in Chapter 5 of Nehemiah and
Chapter 5 of James not only what to
do but how to do it. He tells you
that unless you redistribute health
of the country into the hands of all
the 'people every fifty years, your
country's got to go to ruination. The
trouble is we've got too many men
running things in this country that
think they're smarter than the
Lord.,"
Now, you yourself should just turn
un your Bible and see what these
charoters have to say. It is just as
applicable in Canada es in the Un-
ited States.—Wiarton Echo.
There's something in the adver-
tisements today to interest you, Read
them.
DOINGSSCOUT
TRE
WORLD
A Boy Scout publicity beeth was
maintained in
the Ontario e Govera-
m.ent Building at the Canadian Na-
tion Exhibition.
During a review of Roumanian' ..
Scouts by King Carol, Crown Prince
Michael marched past as a Patrol'
Leader at the head of his patrol.
1
The Boy Scout Melting Pot
A new Hoy Scout Troop. at Depot
Harbour, Ont,, comprises boys of In-
dian, Italian, Czech, English, and
French-Canadian and English -Cana-
dian parentage.
A Wooden ShoeTrophy
A Dutch wooden shoe was the tro-
phy awarded the 4th Winnipeg "A"
Rover 'Scout team as winners of a
24-hour hike contest. Ten. teams
participated, including a Sea Scout
team from Fargo, North Dakota.
Swimming Pool Built by Soeuts
A Scout Troop of Warlingham,
Surrey, built and are now operating
a well patronized public swimming
pool. It is 66 by 30 ft., and the ex-
cavating and conrcete work took the -
boys three years.
B. -P. To Retire When 115 Years
Lord Baden-Powell has finally an-
nounced the date of his retirement
from the leadership of the Boy
Scouts. we will retire when 115 years
old. Today he is "just a lad of 74."
The statement was made when twit-
ting Sir Edward Elies for quitting at
85.
A Boys' Hospital
Rosemary Home, a hospital for
Boy Scouts, but which receives other
boys, is maintained in London under
the auspices of the Boy Scouts Asso-
ciation. During 1981, 114 Cubs and
Scouts and 88 other boys were admit-
ted. The cheerful Scout atmosphere
of the Home has made it probably
the most popular hospital in Britain.
and doctors frequently recommend it
for special eases. Boys from outside
London aro met at the stations by
Scouts. It is financed by collections
at Scouts' Owns, and Group or in-
dividual subscriptions,
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