HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1933-09-07, Page 3THURS., 'SEPT. 7, 1933
llit1 CLINTON. NEWS -RECORD.
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This debunking business is being
carried pretty far. A food specialist
now says it is not because they make
a balanced ration that ham and eggs
go together. Apparently/ they start-
ed keeping company when cooks dis-
eovered that harp gravy is a handy
thing in which to fry eggs,
ormenserio
That reminds us of a roll -call of
historical affinities we read once, It
included,
Anthony and Cleopatra
Hans and eggs
Damon and Pythias
Lamb and mint sauce
Hero and Leander
Pretzels and beer
Romeo and Juliet
Pork and apple -sauce
David and Jonathan
Corned beef and cabbage.
A Iawyer told us the other day
that the men and women for whom
be has most sympathy are those
whose all consists hi farm mort-
gages. They have been unable to
collect interest in the past three •or
four years and in many cases have
had to pay, taxes and fire insurance
premiums to protect their claims.
He says that clients of his who are
in that unfortunate position are not
rich by any means, but they did ex-
pect to have enough from the inter-
est on their investments to live com-
fortably. Many of them are them-
selves farmers or retired farmers'
or farmers' widows. They do not
like to take legal action and their
lawyer has to advise them that it is
of doubtful value anyway.
eeraaMera
Third parties have never made any
progress in Quebec and the Mari-
time provinces. In no other provincr
is political partisanship so strong as
in Nova Scotia. And so the result of
the elections there is not surprising,
-the province being basically Liberal.
One of the great achievements of
the government which was over-
thrown is the elimination of the Leg-
i§lative Council. The late Hon. W. S.
Fielding, when he was Premier tried
in vain to abolish the second chamber
but it was accomplished when Hon.
E. N. Rhodes became Premier. Que-
bec still has a Legislative Council.
Though Liberal in polities, Quebec is
tempermentally conservative.
Stock exchanges were closed on
Saturdays all thissummer and no
one appears to have been injured
thereby. Indeed there are some who
believe it would be an advantage if
they were closed all the • other days.
of the week as well. If they were
there are a lot of people who would
greatly miss a couple of pages in
their daily newspaper.
Twenty-three states have already
declared for repeal of the 18th
Amendment and not one has declared.
against repeal. Thirteen more states
supporting repeal will put Thiele Sam
definitely off the water -wagon and
automatically remove Canada's ban
on clearances of liquor to his country.
Evidently this country was trying to
help him enforce a law that he did
not want.
Russia is tottering under the ex-
actness of the Stalin regime -- Uable
despatch.
0, to what a sorry pass
The Bolshevists have brought. her!
For they it is who are. to blame
They taught her how to totter.
• We owe a great deal to the men
who developed wheat that ripens
quickly and therefore can be grown
in latitudes that were impossible be-
fore, but the man who will gain undy-
ing fame is he who produces grains
that will thrive in dry weather as in
moist --/the same as weeds do.
oetZ71C
The correct word is autumn, not
fall says a philologist. Still
Shakespeare did not say "0 what an
autumn was there, my countrymen."
We have said that we know no such
thing in Canada as Iaw for the rich
and one for the poor, but that is
subjdet to qualification.. There is
one law which makes a rich man sub-
ject to income and super -taxes and
another Iaw which makes his estate
subjedt to succession duties. These
laws do not aply to the poor, but
there is a law which applies only to
the poor and that is the old age pen.
sions act. A rich man cannot take
advantage of this law without first
losing his money, and he would be a
fool to lose his money merely to
qualify for a pension,
What Clinton was Doing in The Gay Nineties
DO YOU REMEMBER WILAT HAPPENED DURING TIM LAST DE-
CADE OF THE OLD CENTURY?
Prom The News -Record, Sept. 7th,
1892:
The Clinton race course is now
under the control of Messrs. An-
drews' and is in splendid shape.
Messrs. J. Copp, J. Rattenbury and
L. Kennedy are making good use of
it and putting in shape several fut-
ure flyers.
A fine photo cut of Hanlon, the
great oarsman, which appeared in
the Buffalo Express the other day,
bears a close resemblance to Jos,
Rattenbury of Clinton, In feet some
contend that the latter's photo trust
have been smuggled across the lines
and the Express has got the two mix-
ed. Mr, Rattenbury has a fondness
for the gun, fishing tackle and a
good horse but we have yet to learn
of him as a champion oarsman.
The Exeter Times is twenty Years
old and improves with age. The
Times is a good local paper and wor-
thy of the generous support it re.
ceives,
Mr, R. Burchell has retired from
every reason to feel gratified at the
pertinent of the Doherty Organ
works but the position will be effic-
iently filled by R. Moore and R.
otter.
The editor of the Hensall Observer
is going into the hog business .and is
advertising fora couple of porkers.
On Wednesday. Messrs. Bell anti
Lasham of Londesboro delivered the
last of fifty head of cattle, at Clin-
ton, to Watson of Blyth. They real-
ized for the total number something
like $2,500, or an average of $50 per
cad.
In several sections in the country
farmers are complaining of the hard-
ness of the soil, many being unable
to proceed with the preparation or -
the ground for fall wheat. But the
heavy rains of the last week have
assistedmaterially in getting' over
the difficulty.
The promoters of the Presbyterian
choir concert, which took place it
the town hall on Friday night, have
the foremanship of the varnishing de -
great success attained. They hopd
to have the hail filled to its utmost
capacity and were not disappointed.
(These taking part were as follows:)
Master R. Beattie, soloist; Miss
Mountcastle, reader; Mr. Foster, sol-
oist; quartette, Messrs. Kay, Har-
land, Poster and Miss Walker; gui-
tar quartette, Messrs. Emmer►on,
Kerr, Cole and Wheeler; Mr. Spauld-
ing, soloist; Miss Sibley, reader;
Messrs. Eminerton, Innes, club-
swinging; chorus of ten male vole -
es, K.L.C.; Mi. J. Chidley, Jr., had
12 trained boys, corked, with peaked
chokers and silk ties, in a fancy drill
and song. Mr. Brewer, reader; Miss
Jackson, solo, with Miss Donaugh as
violin and obligate accompanist to
piano Messrs. Sibley, Holloway and
Mrs. Marcy and Miss Sadie Sibley
quartette; Miss Hariett May Sibley,
reader; Mn Sibley, soloist; and sel-
ections by choir. The proceeds, $115
will be applied to the purchase of a
splendid new pipe organ for Willis
church.
A large number of the Dauntless
Lacrosse Club met at Lack Ken-
nedy's hotel on Wednesday evening
last and tendered a farewell supper
to Ben. Gibbings. James Fair, Jr.
occupied the chair and Dr. Shaw the
vice.` Toasting, song, speech and
merrymaking were indulged in till a
late hour, Many were the expres,
sions . of good will to "Bunker" for
futuro success.
Mr. Roberts was in Goderich Mon-
day with a view to fitting up a bowl-
ing . alley here,
On Saturday as Rev. •S. Acheson,
accompanied by his wife and little
daughter, was driving on the London
road, about a mile south of Kippen,
his horse shied at a bicyclist and
turning sharply upset the buggy and
occupants into the ditch and freeing
himself made good time back to
Kippen. Mn Acheson and daughter i
escaped injury. Mrs. Acheson re-
ceiveil a severe s hock, The bug-
py was a complete wreck. Wit
W. J. Crooks, son of Mr. h
Crooks, Goderich township, has taken
a position in the Palace drygoods
store. Being a model 'young' mail he
will no doubt get along.
Messrs. B. Hodgens and A. T, Coo-
per left Monday for Toronto, Mon-
treal and other business centres in
the interests of their respective
stores.
Mr. James Stavely has"returned
from a trip around the world.
Lieut. Hugh Barry Combo, who
has been enjoying himself hugely"in
a tour of the New 'England states,
is now on his way.to Ottawa and is
expected home the' latter part of this
`week. or the early part of next.,
WHEN THE PRESENT CENTURY
WAS• YOUNG
From The News -Record, Sept. ard,
1908:
Mr., Jas. Stevens ran his mower
this week over his clover field which
he sowed in the spring and got a
good yield. This is his first exper,
fence of the kind and he has lived on
a farm all his life.
The directors of. the Horticultural
Society have decided to cancel the
flower show for this year. They
reluctantly arrived at this decision
owing to the shortness of time for
preparation and the dry weather les-
sening the supply of cut flowers.
On Monday Mr. James Snell of
Hullett shipped fifteen of Ms that-
oughbred Liecester sheep to Toronto
to be placed in exhibition at the Fair.
This is the first time since 1892
that Mr. Snell has exhibited at To-
ronto.
Misses E. Torrance, R. Pickett and
M. East, who won the competition
carried on by Tozer and Brown a
short time ago, are the guests of the
firm at the Toronto Exhibition this
week.
Mrs. W. D. Fair returned home
Monday evening after several weeks'
camping down by the St. Clair Riv-
er with her sister, Mrs, (Rev.) Pet-
terson.
Mr. Roy Plunisteel has gone to
Stratford where he will take a course
in the Central Business College.
When the Premier of the Devlin,
ion or Province visits a constituency
with no election impending he should
be received in a manner befitting his
exalted office.
But when he starts :out to cam-
paign on a series of vote -hunting
tours, he is a politician, no more, no
less, and is entitled to just the same
consideration as any other holder of
a high office who wishes to hang on
to his honours and emoluments.. ,
The council of Clinton, or any other
town similarily situated, cannot ex-
tend a civic welcome to campaigning
politicians without playing into the
hands of wirepullers.
When Are Girls Homely? (The
Khan in Toronto Star)
There are no such things as home-
ly girls, but some of them are not so
beautiful as their lovely sisters.
I have often wondered how they
felt—sitting, perhaps, in some seclud-
ed corner, or looking through a
crack in the door, as they watched
their beautiful sisters, saw them per-
haps with lovers a -.plenty; saw them
in a throng of joy; saw them fling
eager, handsome Ievers kisses oven
their shoulder, and she, ' the homely
girl, had never been kissed,
After all the world is well-balanc-
ed. I remember a girl who was the
belle of a big township not a thous-
and millions of miles away from
here. Icer sister was homely enough
to be safe in any sort of company at
any hour.
I saw them again last night. One
of them -was a pitiful spectacle, the
other had become beautiful,
The good, pure, sweet life she had
led beautified her by slow degrees.
Her reward had come. 1 have no
doubt every girl prays to be made
beautiful. And she will become
beautiful if she has faith.
God never made a homely woman!
You tray think that she is homely;
she is only a diamond in the rough.
From The New Era, .Sept. 3rd, 1908:
On Thursday evening of last week
a number of the young people of
Wesley church gavd a surprise party
to M. and Mrs, E. E. Ball. On be-
half of the Sunday school the sup-
erintendent, M. A. T. Cooper, pre-
sented them with a cut glass bowl.
Mmsay McEvean is taping an en-
forced holiday—a broken thumb.
Mr. S. Andrews of W'etaskiwin,
eldest son of Police Magistrate And-
rews, is expected home shortly, he
will, require two tickets when going
back.
Mr. T. Jackson leaves this week
for the Pacific Coast and Mr, C. C.
Rance leaves next week for. the Marl -
time Provinces, both in the interests
of Lion Brand Clothing.
Sir Wilfrid Laurier( is to speak in
Clinton on the 23rd.
Mr. and Mrs. Ogle Cooper return-
ed home to Collingwood on Saturday,
Miss Louise Holmes returned to
Orangeville on Friday to take charge
of the Stenography Department of
the Business College.
Harvey Colclough, son of Mr. Jos-
eph Colelough, who has been supply
ng in an.Anglican church near p(rin-
nipeg during the summer, returns to
his studies in Wycliffe College, Tog
onto, in a few days.
John Crooks, who has been west
in the interest of the firm of Mor-
rish Ss Ceoolcs,, returned hone. Mon-
day. Although" there has been a
slight depression in trade John has
hada most successful trip. He says
there will be a fair•crop in the west,
but nothing like reported in the pa-
pers. '
WHAT .OTHER NEWS PAPERS ARE SAYING
WHAT IT'ME N
When firms announce in the news-
papers that they have increased
wages, it might be closer to the mark
to say that have partially restored
wages,- Ooderich Star.
NOT DISHONEST, PERHAPS
•An exchange hits the nail on the
head when it says: "We'd like to
have a dollar for every mean cuss
who is well able to pay but who uses
the depression as an excuse not to
meet his debts. Such people are ut-
terly dishonest and shouldn't get a
bit of credit. Some men are mean,
cussedly mean and stingy, but we
would not say dishonest. Our sub-
scription list convinces us that there
are a lot of men who are more negli,
gent than mean. And we have talk-
ed with a number of them w.ho are
manly enough to apologize for then:
negligence. And those men, while
able to pay, are not dishonest.
--,Listowel Banner.
MUST DO HIS PART
"The world owes a man a living"
sounds all right --'but you will notice
that while nature places the berries
on the raspberry bushes, the people
have to do the picking if they want
any berries.—Shelburne Free Press.
IMPORTANT CHANGES IN
HOMES WILL INCREASE
HEALTH OF PEOPLE
We were informed the other day
that it is now possible to have a heat-
ing and cooling system in every
home which will automatically keep
the temperature at the same Ievel
winter or summer. In the winter
there is an oil burner and all one
needs to do is set the temperature
at a certain point and it will not
vary three degrees either way from
that level, In the summer the air is
run through water, or, if necessary,
connected with the refrigerator to
keep it also at a uniform degree. In
fact, we were assured that, with
such modern equipment in a home,
it would be easily accomplished to
not have a greater .difference than
three degrees either way from a see
temperature in the hottest day ,of
July or the coldest, day in January.
--Hanover Post.
oessewori
MORE POWER TO IT
Not long ago we were shown some
ladies' dresses which were purchased
in Detroit at a price that was aston-
ishingly low. They were such gar-
ments as would probably cost at least
twice as much in Canada, In the
current number of, the Good House-
keeping magazine there is an article
telling of the conditions under which
such garments are produced in cer-
tain parts of the United States. It
is hard to conceive of such conditions
•in an age wherein we boast of high
standards of living. The girls and
women making dresses and other
garments for women, these cheaper
garments at any rate, are in a con-
dition little short of slavery. Indeed
straight slavery would probably be
preferrable. As a general indication,
think of working in a semi -dark loft
with little or no ventilation, for 54
hours a week and receiving et the
end of the week a sum of $1.43, with
the added privilege of working three
or four evenings overtime without
pay as the price of holding the job.
If this is what the Washington gov-
ernment has in mind in its effort to
`eliminate unfair competition,' more
power to it!—•'Ridgetown Dominion.
cretemeeet
HIS WORDS MAY LOSE WEIGHT
Liberal Leader Hepburn has finally
drawn the fire of the Ontario Hydro
Commission which in the course of a
scathing indictment, backed by offi-
cial figures, condemns ills allegations
as to a power surplus in Ontario as
"so absurd that it cannot be seriously.
supposed that/ they were intended to.
be believed." After reading the
Commission's outline of its case in
justification orpowerpurchases and
in refutation of Mr• Hepburn's plat-
form assertions, one would conclude'
that the. Liberal Leader either diel not
take the trouble to investigate the
official figures as to available power
or that he was extremely careless,.
nay reckless, in making the state;
rents attributed to him. A political
leader these days must maintain at
least the semblance of a reputation
for veracity and accuracy or his
words will lose weight with intelli-
gent electors.—iSiincoe Reformer.
INDIGENOUS, RAW MATERIAL
NOT ESSENTIAL
The old-fashioned economist
thought that all the finished products
should be made where the raw pro-
ducts eriginate; but a brief review of
actual facts will suffice to explode
that t',.eory.
England was until recently the
greatest cotton manufacturer in the
world, but grows no cotton; the
greatest woollen manufacturer, but
imports most of her weal.
Ireland is a great linen manufac-
turing country, but imparts most of
her flax.
The United States . manufacturers
seventy-five per cent. of all the silk
in the world, but grows no raw silk;
the greatest rubber manufacturer,
but grows no rubber; is now the
greatest woollen manufacturer, but
imports wool; the greatest manufac-
turer of nickel, asbestos, and sugar,
but all the nickel and asbestos comes
from Canada, and most of -the sugar
cones from Cuba. The_United States
lets the raw material in free and
places a high duty on the finished
article.
The United States can dictate their
own wages and conditions because
they do so behind a high tariff wall.
United States cotton, and all raw
materials produced in the United
States, as well as Japanese raw silk,
are as available to Canadian factor-
ies and consumers as our own. All
we have to do' is let them in free and'
protect the finished product. Those
who 'live an, political' bias claim we
have not the'raw-products, the coun-
try is too large, the population tom
small—anything and everything to
damn protection. But the truth is we
have no obstacles beyond those we
imagine and We have the most won-
derful country in the world, ,
iKincardine Newer.
LOGICAL
"I suppose this rain will do a lot
of good?" remarked the vicar to an
Irish gardener he found at work.
"Ye're roight, sort," he replied,.
"Shure, an hour ov it will do more.
good in foive minutes than a month
av it would do in a week at any oth-
er tohne."—Calgary Herald.
PAYS RENTAL WITH BERRY Ol?'
A PLANT
Masonic Lodge, Number 200, sit-.
uated at St. Georges' Bermuda, re--
cently paid its rent for the month,:
The building it occupies was origin--
ally
rigin.ally -State House and still belongs to
the British •Crown. The monthly ren-
tal is ,one peppercorn, the berry o5"
a plant,
This particular lodge is believed to
be the oldest Scottish Masonic lodge-
in
odgein any British colony. A new tourist
booklet tells the story, showing tho•
glories of the town, once the capital'
of Bermuda, whose capital is now'
Hamilton.
LESS DANGEROUS
Henderson: "Why are you in the -
air force now? I thought you were
in the cavalry."
Peterson: "I get transferred."
Henderson: "Why was that?"
Peterson: "Well, after •an airplane
throws you out, it doesn't generally
walk over and bite you."
--Montreal Star..
Little Betty, watching the farm-
hands
armhands spreading out a stack sof hay
to dry, could not contain her curios-
ity any longer, so she politely asked:
,'Is it a needle you're looking for?'"
—Washington Star:.
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Adver-
tising
Raise
Prices?
An Advertisement
Addressed to the
Public of this
Community
When you hear of a manufacturer who spends $100,000 or snore
each year on advertising, you may feel like saying—"Terrible! What
wastel and it is we -the public—who have to pay for it all!"
But stops Before you make judgments, look at facts,
Manufacturers who advertise spend from 2 to 5 per cent, of
their sales on advertising. Let us put it at 3 per cent. of the pries
which you pay for their article of sale. Soo if you pay 25 cents for an
advertised article, you are paying three-fourths of one cent to pay for
making it known to and wanted by you. The price would not be less
indeed, it might easily be more—if the article had no money spent
on it to make it known to and wanted by you.
It is economy, so far as you are concerned, to have manufac-
turers develop a huge demand for their product, by the agency of
press advertising. You pay for the advertising, of course, but you
pay a smaller price for the advertised article than would be necessary
if the manufacturer's output were smaller/
Advertised articles have to be better than non -advertised ar•,
titles, and since they are made in larger quantities, they can be made
and sold at least as cheaply as imitative non -advertised articles.
If you are a thrifty and wise buyer, you will buy the article
made known to you by faithfully -maintained press advertising. The
stranger product should be shunned.
Be very friendly, therefore, to nationally -advertised products-•-
foods, toilet aids, motor ears, radio sets, and all else r-- which
are also locally advertised -an this newspaper.
The °.` limoNews., f. _,eco
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