HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1933-01-05, Page 3To tell the United States it would
pay them to cancel war debts is in-
effectual. The only nation that re-
cognized the logic of the thing and
acted upon it is Great Britain.
The latest -machine is one which
shuffles and deals cards. The claim
is made that it saves time and elimi-
inates misdeals. • Now, who wants a
machine 'of that sort? Speed and
efficiency are :surely not desirable
in a game intended for pleasure and
relaxation: Some ' ' little discussion
after each game, commonly called
an inquest, is not, unprofitable, nor
is the slight manual exercise of
shuffling and dealing. In poker,
perhaps, this -mechanical contrivance
may • have its place, for did not the
' late President Taft once tell at a
banquet in London of two men (kib-
itzers) watching a poker game in a
western town, when one whispered
to the other, ,'Did you see that 'fel-
low deal himself five aces?" . And
the other replied, "Well, what of it
it was his deaf?"
One effect of the depression is
that' it has removed some of that
prejudice that used to exist against
tainted money.
'
The last thing we want, says De
Valera, is to stir up old hatreds.
Still he finds it hard to forgive the
Sassenach for what . Cromwell did
three hundred Years ago. ,t
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When on a lecture tour in the Uni- c
ted States Miss MaePhail, M.P., de- v
Blared prohibition in that country to v
be an utter and complete hypocrisy, ti
abut we have no doubt that we could
get an utter and complete denial of
the charge from hundreds of people
who never were. in the United States. in
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The lady M.P., by the way, has al- so
lowed her name to appear as a di- co
rector of an oil company•,whie'h
trying 'to sell 'Rs' stock. in the .usual.
flambuo
ytint style .which we ';thought
had gene out of fashion in 1929.
Members of parliament should not
allow their names to be used in any
such capacity, but. the public should
also 'avoid being influenced by it An
M.P. is ' quite as likely as anyone
else to be taken'in by promoters
and there are reasons why they
should: endeavour to' have an M. P.
on the Board, one reason being ' of
course, that it will help .the sale of.
sleek to the public and especially to
the constituents of the member -di-
rector. It would not have that of
feet, however, if the public only knew
what `easy marks' members of par-
liament often 'are. We doubt if any
'other body of men was 'SO hard hit by
the slump in' the stock market?
is
A woman writes a New York news,
paper asking. why debts retain' their
full value while bonds and - ether se-
curities shrink. There axe editors,
and debtors' too, all''c over the world
who can tell her that she is in luck
if debts owing er retain their full
value, and her creditors are in luck
if debts owing by her are' of the
'same quality. !erhaps the U. S.
treasury could give her information
that even where debts are owed by
nations their; value depends upon
ability and willingness to pay.
o~1GG=
There is a movement, on foot in
he interest of economy to unite the
three prairie provinces. That looks
ell on the face of it, but how ac•,
ount for the fact that, Prince Ed-
uard Island the smallest of the pro-
inces, is in a better 'financial Post-
on than any other?
C~1�
1e
A Standard Oil official recent -
ends a change in the make-up of
nancial statements. He surely
vould not suggest that they be made
plain that the average shareholder
uld understand them?
What Clinton was Doing in The Gay Nineties
DO YOU REMEMBER WHAT HAP PENED DURING THE LAST DE-
CADE OF THE OLD CENTURY?
Prom The •News -Record, Jan. 4th, council this year in Clinton will be
129S; composed of considerable new 'Flood,
Mr. Geo. D. McTaggart is probably
the youngest mayor -Clinton has ev-
er had. Born 'and reared in Clinton,
a,private banker by profession, he is
a very desirable man to fill the chief
position of the town. Reeve Mc -
Murchie has filled the position for
several bygone years and' is a gen-
tleman of sound judgment, Deputy
TO ADVERTISERS: Our adver-
tisers will please bear in mind that
copy for changes must be handed in
not later than Saturday noon each
week. We cannot premise a change
when copy is banded in later.
• Last Thursday evening the mem-
hers of the "25" Club held in their
rooms a very enjoyable smoking
Kennedy is a
concert. popular gentleman
''rind has heretofore filled the position
THE EDITOR CANED: As a rule! with honour to himself and credit to
editors are caned with a black the town. St. Andrew's ward will be
thorn or a murderous weapon of represented by Mr. Armstrong, an
some kind that means business from old councilman, end Mr. Jacob Tay -
a determined opposition standpoint' ler, a new one. While we would
But in this ease the caning mousel have liked to have seen an old and
was not that way.... On Christmas an experienced councilman like John/
morning the editor of the News -Re-
cord was presented with a handsome
and costly gold -headed cane . , , .
Here is what the note from Mr. Ben
Johnston at' the board, we predict
that Messrs. Armstrong and Taylor
will at least endeavor to serve the
town faithfully. In St. George's
Sheppardof the "Soo" to his slater Ward there has been a change. Mr.
in Clinton says: "I send you a cane Plummer, a faithful servant, has
by express addressed to you which been re-elected, and Mr. Searle, an
• you will kindly present from me to old councillor, takes the place of Mr,
'Mr. Todd on Cluietmas morning, Andretivs,' Mr. Andrews has been
arduous and worked faithfully for
St, George's Ward and we believe
saved the town many' dollars, .
In St. John's Ward Jones and Over-
bury are new men. St. James' Ward.
will be represented by McKenzie'
and McMurray,• both old and faithful
councillors.
•
It is a hind of .a relic. • The wood
(oak) was taken from a Canadian'
boat evhich was stink by American
war sailors during' the war of 1812,
• supposed to be the St. Lawrence. I
got the piece of wood from a light-
house keeper and had it rnanufacter-
ed into a cane. It is possible that
it is one hundred years since the
wood was cut. It wee under the
water for 80 Years" We received
the cane on Christmas morning as
requested.' On the head is engraved
"A. M. Todd, Xmas '92",• We prize
the relic very highly and shall pass
it on to future generations as - a
memento to the heroic deeds of out
ancestors, the British and Canadians
• of 1912. F
THE WIIIEAT + PROBLEM It
seems ,strange that it should be so,
with roads breaking up and delivery
from farmers much more 'difficult
to 'make, yet all advices 'point to the
fact that stocks in sight have in-
creased until they,are nearly double
'what they' were this time last year,
an examination. of English and Am -
VOLUME FIFTEEN:' Today is
the first issue of The News -Record
for 1898, The paper has already en-
tered'upon its fifteenth year. The
present owner has • been connected
with the paper, nearly 'all that time,
first as foreman, then as a partner
of the tate form of ' Whitely and
Todd, and now as sole owner, '
The Collegiate staff at this time
was composed' as follows; John Hous-
ton, :M,A., A. P. Gundry, A. O. Mc-
Kee, W. E. Rands, B.A., and Miss
N. A. Hume:
"Happy" John Tewsley is in
town. He is 'as plump and robust..
looking as ever.
Mr. J, 'A, Brownlee of , London,
formerly of Clinton and ,Blyth, was
cures -estimates seems to show that a visitor in town last Wednesday.
never before si' a oraThe Bt'ttssels Post says D.t•ll Shaw
p year was I 'of Clinton ate his Christmas dinner,
there the bullt of wheat pouring, out with his parents, in 'Brussels.
to find consumers.
M'CDONALD FINCII Tn Clin-
ton, en Thursday, December 29th, at
the residence of the bride's father',
by the Rev. ,A,, Stewart, Mr: J. J. Mc-
Donald to Miss Ellen Finch.
CLINTON'S PUBLIC MEN: The pieta and all the early
Mr. A. Bridge,' a Toronto student~'
preached in the Presbyterian church
last Sunday.
•rree
(The New Era files are not cora-
1893' are missing.. We • shalt have to
depend 'upon The News -Record until
the 27th,)
WHEN THE PRESENT' ENTURY
WAS YOUNG
Frain The News -Record, fan, 2nd
1908: •
Rave n re we
Yea e'
Y 1 dY ou
r subscri'p -
n for
do 1908?
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High Mass was celebrated in St.
Joseph's church en New Year's Day.
Mr, -Lorep Tyndall has the thanks
of The N'e'ws -Record for a heaping
prng
basket of choice apples. (Editors
had nice times twenty-five years ago,
hadn't they?)
Three Hours Late: It has all a-
long been taken for granted. that Mr.
David Cantelon 'would • again be :aa
candidate for the reeveship. FIe has
filled the position ''conscientiously
and was worthy of a cordial support,.
which he would undoubtedly have
received. On Monday night he was
placed in nomination though he had
not then returned from , a 'business
trip to' the west. Unfortunately,
however, he was delayed,'at several
places on the homeward journey and
did halt arrive until twelve o'clock
on Tuesday night, three hours too
late to' . qualify and so was shut
out. The genial D. C. for the time
being felt sore about the matter for
in the event of his re-election these
*as every probability that he would
have been warden for 1908.
A JANUARY WEDDING: Ontar-
io street church was crowded on
Wednesday at high noon to Witness'
the wedding of May Rodaway, eldest
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. W.
Rodaway of 'Stapleton, to Dr. Ed-
ward W. Jackson of Chicae°. Pre-
cisely at twelve o'clock the bride,
leaning on the arm of her father,
marched up the aisle to the strains
of the wedding march played by Miss
Sybil Courtice, The ceremony was
performed by the Rev. W. E. Kerr,
Mrs. T. Adair, an aunt of the bride.
acted as bridesmaid while Mr. Adair
assisted the groom. The bride look-
ed handsome in a pretty green taiI-
or made suit with hat to match and
carried a large, bouquet of white
roses.. After the ceremony the bridal'
party drove to the home of the
bride's parents at Stapleton; where
a lovely luncheon ,was served, after
which the happy couple left on the
4.15 train for their new home in
Chicago. The best wishes of a large
circle of friends go with the bride
to her new home.
THE NOMINATIONS: The rams
Mations in town passed off very
quietly. There was no onuosition
to Mayor Wiltse, the prevailing op-
inion being that he had well-earned
re-election and by acclamation, too.
There were four nominees for the
reeveshia, Cantelon, Paeley. thelmn-
eon and Gibbings, Mr. Cantelon was
not present, not having been able to
fret 'back from the west in time,
Messrs. Paisley and Gibbings are
the candidates. Pm the council the
following are candidates: A. T. Coon-
ey, W. Graham. J. A. Ford. J. L.
Hearn, T. Jackson. Jr., C. Overbury,
W. G Smyth, W. C. Searle, J. Tay-
lor. T. Jackson only consented to
.stand at the earnest solistication
of a large number of warm sup-
porters.
The following were elected school
trustees by acclamation: St. Domes'
Ward, L, E. Doherty; St. John's, H.
E. Rorke; St. George's, Dr. Evans;
St. Andrew's, J. W, Moore,
From The New Era, Jan. 3rd, 1908:
Sid Jackson and wife of Leth-
bridge, are home on a visit.
Mi'. C. J, Wallis has returned from
a businee3 trip to the west.
BENEFIT CONCERT: The town
hall was well filled on Wednesday
evening and the audience enjoyed an
excellent entertainment, Mr. P.
Jackson, Jr„ was musical 'director of
the evening. The program embrac-
ed a quartette 'by Messrs. Weir,
Downs, Harland and Gibbings; viol-
in solo, Mrd. Ashcroft; solos, Nor -
:man, Jolliffe, Miss Katie Scott, ,Stew-
art Jackson, Miss Lily Coats, Mr,
Calder, Toronto; Miss I-tonston, R.
Downs; duet, 1Vlessre. Calder and
Stewart Jackson; piano solos, Mise
Gunn, Miss Hooves, Mrs. 'Smith,.
bliss L. Jackson. The accompanists
were: Illl's, McHardy-Smith, Miss L.
Jackson • anti Miss S. Courtice.
Mr. H. W. Watts has been appoint-
ed caretaker: of the 'Collegiate at a
Salary of 8250. He's a good man for,
the position. •
There were recorded with the
town clerk for the half year ending
Dec.- 81st, 44 births, 14 marriages
and 44.deaths. •
A nice' shoot was. , held on the
Clinton' Gun Club grounds on New
Year's Day, a fairly good turnout of
members taking part. The' scores
were: Walter Holmes out of 40-33; J
E� ',C'antelori out of' 40-32; R Gra-
ham out of 25-17; Dr. Pewter, out of
20-15; W. Foster; 'out of 20-11; ' J,
Lawson .out of 2019; Ed, Foster out
of 20 -to. "
A trophy shoot is to be started
soon, to beshot every Friday, A
good handicap system will give am- g
a fair show and . should in- t
flood list'of contestants, 8
Message From ' Premier To People,
of Ontario
(This message, from Hon..Geo. S. Henry,° Premier of Ontario,
came 'through on Thursday night, last, too late for inclusion in the'
last issue''Of 1932.-.E'd.)
Toronto, Ont., 233 N L, Dec.' 29th, 1932:
,Editor News-.
R,ecoid
Clinton:
May I through your news columns, be permitted to thank the
people of 'your district for: the way they have "played "
under the trying conditions of the past twelve the .acme
sincerely,to invite them on . . months, and frankly,
behalf government throughout the
difficult year 'head ' of us, an even greater measure of , confiden e
and cooperation. This,is no time for lain 4
playing g polities,. Governments
are far . too busy endeavouring to save the country to concern them-
selves with petty pai•tiaisnf, problem's unprecedented in magnitude.
and characteristics, confront us ,in, Ontario. ' With a er citizen
"pulling an oar" we should feel confident ourship' "v `t ill
weather' the difficult sea with which it i cot stateingonly
through cooperation not the coop s now o political
part on n
cooperation of any political' party in,'
Particular, but the patience and tolerance'and "fair play" of al
right-minded people regardless of 'creed, whether they be urban
dwellers or aggiculturalists, can ours;hip ride out the storms and h
brought: safely. and securely into Port again, Wltile we cannot e
mand.'that eooepration, as the government at the' helm we can at
1east appeal unreservedly and unashasmedly, for this contribution
from our people.
—,---IGII iORGE
Prime Minister of Ontario.
Municipal Elections in Huron County
Goderich
After a stiff battle at th
on Monday John W. Craigie d
Robert Turner for the reeves
Goderieh by a majority of 118
The figures are:
Craigie, 858; Turner, 740.
This will be Mr'. Craigie's
year as reeve and tenth year
council. Keen interest was m
in the result and a compar
heavy vote was polled. Mr. T
also is a former reeve and a
cilor of bong experience. He
the solid support of his folio
ployees of the Western Canada
Mills and the result was in
almost to the last. Reeve
announced a week ago that he
by a candidata for warden of Huron
county for 1933 if elected.
flees 'in Exeter and' in the townships
e polls of Usborne, Stephen and Hay were.
efeated filled by acclamation.
hip.. of '
• Howick Township
Elected in Howick Township are:
Reeve, William, Gamble; deputy
'third reeve, L. Demmer -ling; council, J.
in the Bryans, T. Lovell, D. Weir.
anifest -
atively Tuckersmith Township
sumer Reeve, W. M. Archibald; council-
coon- ors) John A. McGregor, S. H. Whit -
had snore, M. Clarke, Charles Mackay.
w em -
Flour
T lour McKillop Township
doubt Reeve, John C. Eckert,
Craigia (acct. -
councillors, H, Alexander, R. N. Dor-
would sane, J. O'Rourke, Elmer Heckwell.
Clinton
Reeve George Elliott was return-
ed to office for another term Mon-
day, defeating his opponent, Dav-
id Churchill by a vote of 416 to 170,
Thomas Churchill, present school
trustee, was defeated by James Mangy
Hing, whose majority was 20.
Elected by acclamation last week
were: Mayor: N. W. Trewartha and
three councillors. Another nomina-
tion will be herd to fill the council,
Seaforth
Following are municipal election
results: Mayor, A. D. Sutherland;
reeve, Robert Smith; eouncilors, W.
Crozier, G. D. Ferguson, .Tohrr H.
Scott, Fred S. Savauge, Ross J,
Sproat, J. W. Beattie; public uttili-
ties commission, E, L. Box (accl.);
public school trustees, F. W. Wigg,
north ward; M. lIcKellar', south
ward; W. A. Wright, east ward.
Grey Township
John McNabb was .tie -elected reeve
of Grey Township Monday over
Harry Keyes. The vote was: Mei
Nabb 436; Keyes, 526,
C. Hemingway defeated T, Do-
herty for the deputy reeveship, the
vote being 515 and 462.
Elected councilors are: W. Broad -
foot, 449; S. Johnston 427; Pf Wil-
son 525; defeated, J. Savage, 379;
F. Harrison, 350; E. Collins, 168.
Heusali
William. Consitt was elected reeve
of Hansell, defeating Owen Geiger
by a vote of 230 to 176. Mr. Geiger
was reeve last year.
When Walter' Spencer and Robert
Cameron tied for fourth piece on the
council with 109 votes each, Mr.
Cameron withdrew and gave the
seat to Mr. Spencer. Consequently
the four ecuncilbors are the same as
in 1932. They are E. L. Niolcle, 275
votes; W. J. Jones. 245 votes; George
C. Petty, 231 votes, and Walter Spen-
cer, 199 votes.
Colborne Township.
Colborne township, Huvon County,
elected Albert Goldthorpe its reeve
fora third time. His majority wag
'74 over W. L. Young, who sought
election on a platform of placing the''
Canadian dollar on' parity with the
pound sterling. The figures ' are: .•
GOldthorp0 32G; Young 246.
The four 1982 councillor's also were ."
re-elected as follows: George ,Fac -
Ran, 371; J. Pitblado, 859;' Melvii§•`'
Tyndall 336; H. McCreath 808; The-
nuts Wilson, 170.
• 'Exeter
By a majority of 15' B. M. Francis-,
reeve of Exeter 'for' the past three
years, defeated W. D. Sanders; reeve
from 1924 to 1927 and formerly reeve.
of Stephen. The vote this year is
larger than that 'of 1932 when.: the,
ame two men were candidates;' 382'
o 367 being the vote this ,roar• 'anti.
45 to 329 1 t •
ateues
weeks of .' Snre a
Township of Stephen
Reeve, William H. Sweitzer; Des
poly Reeve: Henry C. Beaver; Coun-
cillors, Edmund Shapton, Edward ce
Lamport, Roy Holt.
Radium'1Refiery Opened This Week
Plant "'at Port hope to Refine , ! the various types of 9re that may
Ca nadiae. Ore ''found,
Will, Use New Process "Fortunately for the new field '• a
' I:kortuntitel f h
Expected to Lower Cost of Produci
Mineral
I!' The opening at Port Rope 'th
week of what is the. only' radiu
refinery in',the British mere
marks the beginning of: 'Canada
challenge 'to the Belgian syndic
Which ,now controls the world's sup
ply .of radium, •
The ore lei.-
beim
s"
shinned g nod b
air
i
;,plane from huge. veins diseoveyed
few months ago at 'Great Bear Lail
to the new factory at Port Hope.
If' recently devised productio
fulfill promises made it
tests it is expected the radium wil
be so cheaply and efficiently peodtte
• ad that its price will he 1pwered
Even the. poorest cancer patient wil
ultimately be able to afford the
radium treatments. • .
Fifty-six tons of pitchblende, of a
' 'richness almost unbelievable, lis
stacked at the Port Hope .plant, Ac-
cording to Canadian Government
geologists it averages " between 40
and 50 per cent, uranium. oxide and
will produce about 125 milligramines
of refined radium a ton. The present
price of radium is about $7,000 a
iniiligramme. '
Far up on the shore of Great
Bear Lake Gilbert Labine, veteran
prospector, stumbled across the
pitcheblende veins which are regard-
ed as Canada's greatest mineral dis,
eovery and contribution to medicine,
Scientists the world over are
watching this little factory. The
closely -guarded` ' secrets of a new
radium processing, discovered by
Canadian scientists and expected to
revolutionize the industry have a-
roused intense interest, for under
the Canadian process the fullest
possible recovery of radium from
pitchblende is' expected. •
y orhumanity the Can
ng ; than process will permit as gees
if not greater percentage Of e
covery,' involving a shorter time al
is less complicated methods, than ar
m' of•the less known operations, , p4
melee
have every • confidence Canada' n,
only will be able to supply our ow
a, needs for therapeutic scientific an
p- commercial purposes, -
bet 'we will b
r , able to enter the world market i
competition with any existing, mon
epely."
Ce After• being mined at Great
ea
Lake the pitchblende was ba B ee
°n Airplanes carried the bags over. He
} nearly trackless wilds safely to junc
tion. points, where they were trans
forred and shipped by' water and rat
1 to the south. The cost was some
where around $400 a ton. But the
ore will bring even after the expert
sive processing a price Which wiI
provide tremendous profits, TM'
Canadian Government is expected tc
prevent undue, exploitation of the
country's great mineral find.
A gram of radium is now wort]
$70,000 and there Is only about
pound of it available for all th
world's- hospitals. New York ha
about 81,000,000 'worth, or 14 gram:
At present prices more than $200
000,000 worth is urgently needed i
the wor'ld's hospitals for the war o
cancer.
Long Process;-
-
It required long, arduous toil this
new processing'iiiacovery, Hon, W,
A. Gordon, federal minister of mines,
announced its completition and said
that production now could Proceed at
the Port Hope plant.
"Chemists of the department, un-
der time direction of W. B. Theme,
have been working for more than a
year on a process of taking radium
from Great Bear Lake ores," Mr,
Gordon said. "They have now sue-
eded in developing a method which
they believe will be applicable t i
CODE REVISED FOR RADIO
SHIP CASES
Montreal, Jan. 1st, 1933—The id
of Dr. Raeul Bernard of Bruss
Belgium, by which an internatio
multilingual medical code would
used on all ships, large and small
sponsored by the Canadian Natio
Steamships here,
Though large ships carry t
own doctors and have their own h
pita], freighters and other en
ships carry no qualified Physics
The code would enable the offie
of any ship, whatever the langur
spoken aboard, to communicate
wireless with the doctor of any
er ship and secure medical adv
Thus the handicap of not being
to comprehend the description
symptoms or the medical advice
en, would be overcome and m
lives would be saved annually. It
reported that the new code will
n use early in the year.
tie
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Y 2a. a.
e ?
What could be a more appropriate or a
more appreciated Gift than a Year's
Suhscriptian to
The 'ews-Rerbord.
And where could you get more value for
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