HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1933-10-05, Page 3?MURK, OCTOBER 5,1933
A critic of President Roosevelt
writes that while he may .be all right
himself some of his close advisers
are "nothing .but economic asses.'
We 'gather that his reference is to
some members of the brayin' trust.
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When De Valera has to make a
union, with Labor to maintain power
it means that the Free State must
pay the cost' of the wedding . and
maintenance so long as the union
[lasts. Mr. 'Norton, the Labor leader,
admits « much when he declares
that Da' Valera had agreed to meet
Laboff's`'=demands. In the long run,
however; Labor will be the loser as
the Liberal party was the loser
througlii its support of the Labor -
Socialist party in England. A small
minority in the meantime will goy,
ern to the extent of making the
government do what it had no in-
tention of doing and what it would
not do were it not for the political
exigencies of the moment. It is a
coalition of De Valera and Norton to
meet the coalition of `Cosgrave and
O'Duffy.
There are tunes when coalitions
are necessary and desirable because
certain drastic measures have to be
put through for the good of the
state which however are so unpopul-
ar that no one party can do it and
survive. A case in point, and the
most recent, is that of Labor -Social-
ists under Ramsay •McDonald and
Conservatives under Stanley Baldwin
with certain elements of the Liberal
party under Sir John Simon and for
a time, Sir Herbert Samuel, Their
task was the unpopular one of cut-
ting down expenses so as to make
ends conte near each. other if not
meet. One would think this was not
a serious problem since it is one
which every individual has to meet
but unfortunately the public will nev-
er believe that governments have
to meet it in the same way as indi-
viduals, . The belief persists that
governments have a reservoir of
wealth which is inexhaustible and
can be drawn upon at will and no
U{io know the difference. We have
said this before but it cannot be
over -stressed.
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The Irish coalition is formed for
tactical purposes only. The Labor
party, a minority group, gets what
it wants and what it otherwise would
not get and the price it pays is its
support of De Valera in the Dail. In
all such coalitions formed for party
purposes only the country itself is
the loser.
The Trades and Labor Congress
has declared in favor of a six -hour
day with no reduction in wages, after
modestly shelving a motion in favor
of a dollar an hour for men and sev-
enty-five cents for women, The re,
' solution points out, that the way to
recover prosperity is to increase the
purchasing power of the masses.4
It is a pity, however, that the -prob-
lem is not so easily solved and it is
hardly necessary to go into the rea-
sons why the resolution is not a
solution. Perhaps when we .have so-
cialization of industry, it'^may be
tested out but if agriculture is not
to be socialized like all other indus-
tries, farmers will have to buy goods
made on the six -hour, day plan with,
ars arbitrary wage scale while they
go on working ten hours a day and
take what• they can get for their
products. In such case it were bet-
ter for the farriers if they were not
exempt from the operation of a soc-
ialistic programme.
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Once a man becomes a chief among
the labor unions it is hard to dislodge
him. 'Sang Dampers was President
of the A, F. L. until his death, and
Frank 'Morrison is still secretary.
Tom Moore and P. M. Draper were
re-eleeted President and Secretary
respectively of the Canadian body,
having occupied these positions for
many years. These offices carry
with them auxiliary offices and op-
portunities. Tom Moore has been a
director of the Canadian National
Railways, and on several occasions
has been a delegate to Geneva con-
ventions. The A.F.L. and the T. dM
L. C. are more of a monarchy than a
republic..
In the horse age, the hitchhiker
Was in luck. If there was room in
the buggy or wagon he got a lift. In
these days, however, of horseless
carriages he does not fair so well
and he has only his own fellows to
blame. A. few of therm, very few,
made it risky to offer him a ride.
It is not that the milk of human
kindness has curdled by coming in
contact with gas. It is just that men
react newspapers or hear stories of
some kind-hearted soul who gave, a
stranger a ride and the stranger
took his money and perhaps his car.
Ninety-nine out of a hundred hitch-
hikers would not do that, but they
sometimes have to walk because. the
hundredth was a scamp.
In spite of that the hitch biker
gets many a lift. He travels thous-
ands of miles in a few months and
walks but little. He. goes to the
outskirts of a town or city and waits
for some one who will take the risk.
He has no place in particular to go
to, so he takes the first chance that
is offered. There are motorists who
never think of passing like the Le-
vite and they get pleasure, amuse-
ment and information from his com-
pany. But is it not too bad that the
sins of. a fete hikers should prevent
many motorists from doing what
they otherwise Would be very glad
to do?
What Clinton was Doing in The Gay Nineties
DO YOU REMEMBER WHAT HAPPENED DURING TOR LAST DE-
CADE OP THE OLD CENTURY?
From The News -Record, Oct. 5th,
1892:
Mr. Robert Coats, Jr., left Tuesday
for Toronto, where he enters upon a
course at the University
Prof. Holloway has organized a
splendid ]*ass band, comprised of
20 members, for the Huron Central.
The Huron Central Fair will take
place tomorrow and Friday.
The Rev. Dr. Potts,' of Toronto,
will preach in Rattenbury street
Methodist church on Sunday next.
Banker G. D. McTaggart took in
the Northwestern show at Goderich
and brought to the "Hub" the red.
ticket for his beautiful and spotless
carriage team..
Mr. Ike Rattenbury witnessed the
Brantford race meet this week.
Mr. Harry Gould received a bad
sprain in one of his propellers the
other day through a bicycle accident.
Mr. W. Doherty took in the Tor-
onto Fair at which he met agents of
the Doherty Company from all parts
of the Dominion and various parts
of the outside world. He took orders
to the extent of $5000 while there,
The great majority of wood con-
s finers are very firmly of the opinion
that,all wood offered for sale on the
market should be measured and
marked by an authorized officer. ,.
Monday of this week .a party in
Seaforth sent an order by the 10
am. train to the Jackson Bros„ of
Clinton for a full suit of clothes and
'an overcoat. The goods were spong-
ed, out and made up and forwarded
Iv the 4.50 train the same day and
the pleased recipient, as he took
train for his American home tele,
prayhed: "OIL, Never was better fit-
ted or pleased in my life."
Mr. Geo, A. Cooper of Goderich
township placed on the counter of
The News -Record on Saturday morn-
ing a half dozen beautiful fresh
eggs. We *ere almost led to pro-
nounce the monsters goose eggs. Mr.
Cooper assured ye editor that they
were the product of a -white Leghorn
hen. They weighed exactly 1 Ib. 41,i
oz., worth at Saturday's market in
Clinton, 11c, 22c per dozen.
cConseience Money—Last week Mr.
N. Robson had mailed to him'
through the 'Clinton postoffice
conscience ,money. It would appear,
that someone had been wrongly ac-
cused and the conseience of the guil,
ty party was pricked. The party re-
ferred to worked' for Mr: Robison a-
bout fifteen years ago. _ Here is the
note accompanying the $10; "When
Jesse Wild was in your store he did-
n't do this. You have it naw." There
was no signature or date; but the
Money leiter was posted in Clinton
postoffice with =a one cent stamp on
the envelope.
His Honor, Judge Toms held a
court( in Clinton lest Friday to hear
the appeals against the voters' list;
R. Holmes was the appellant for the
Reformers and A. M. Todd for the
Conservatives.' The ,Conservatives'
applied • to have 20 names added and
16 were allowei. The. Reformers an,
plied to have 33 added and 4 struck
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off, two of whom were dead. 4 were
struck off and 12 added, so that
both pamties stand about ;even.
On Tuesday evening last a meet-
ing was held at the home of Mr. H.
Foster for time purpose of commenc-
ing the second' of the four terms of
the O'hautauqua course, the officers
re-elected being: Pres., J. C. Steven-
son; Vice -Pres, Mrs. Shilton; Sec;
Treas., W. N. 1Vfanning. Tuesday ev-
ening was the night on which itwas
decided to meet.
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From The New Era„ Oct. 6th, 1893;
There was -a heavy frost on Thurs-
day night last. We cannot expect to
enjoy much more warm weather.
• Mr. T.' M. Carling effected a sale
of the house end lot owned by'Mrs.
Goodrich to Mr. John Derry for the
sum of $300.
The Gun Club has the honor of be-
ing the first .to erect a building on
the Bawden Annex, having this week
moved its club house from the Re-
creation Park to its own land,
Although apples are a scarce crop
several. car loads have been shipped
from here.
Those who have had business at
the station when the late trains are
arriving have often experienced
much inconvenience owing to the
poor way; the platform is lighted,
and it is time the Company intro-
duced something more in keeping
with a place that does the business
this station does.
World's Fair Excursion: Last
week's excursion took W. Warren
and wife, W. Mair, W. Grant, W.
Shipley, J. Turner and brother and
Rev. A. Stewart. This week W.
Jackson has arranged for a Wagner
Palace sleeping car through to Obi•
cago and the following will foram the
party, which will leave today at
4.45 p.m.: W., W. Farren and wife,
Miss Ferran, Mrs. Hovey, Miss Hine,
D. F. Macpherson and wife, Mayor
McTaggart, D. A. Forrester, I; Rat-
tenbury, S. Doan, W. Jackson and
wife, John Middleton and wife, T.
Marks and wife, Dr. Stanbury, J.
Stanbury, J. Britton, Hullett; H.
Grieve, Seaforth; D. Weissmiller,
Hensel]; Rev. Mr, Smythe, Rev. Mr.
Fear, Holmesville. -
Tuckersmith; Messrs. George and
Alblert Turner left Friday for the
Chicago Fair.
Holmesville:—Joe Jervis is mak-.
ing a record for himself and his
hound that few can boast of, around
here. He has been out only a few
hours each day and has bagged six
good sized foxes.
We heard it remarked the other
day that, Mr. McRoberts was engag-
ed and the question asked was, tv
whom? Not hearing the reply en-
quiries were made and it was found
that he was only engaged for an-
other year at an increased salary.
The subject: "Resolved, That
Country Life has More Advantages
Than City Life," was fully discussed
at the Tenmpler's Councii on Monday
night. The sides were Affirmative:
Ed. Jervis, E. C. Potter, H. Elford,
D. A. Holmes and W. Pickard. Neg-
ative: W. McRoberts, F. C. Elford,
G. Phipps, J. Marquis and J. H. Low,
ery. The speaking was pretty live-
ly on both sides, and was a good
beginning in spite of the fact that
sone of the debaters had never
heard of a debate before. It result-
ed in a victory for the negative side.
Liberals Meet: A meeting of the
Liberals of West Huron for both
the local and Dominion houses was
held in ,Clinton on Monday, Presi-
dent Manning in the chair. The fol-
lowing were the Clinton delegates:
A. McAllister, D. A. Forrester, R.
Holmes, W. Coats, J. Smith, J. Bell,
D, Monroe, T. Storey, D. F. Mac-
pherson, A. MacMurchie, J. Wise-
man, J. H, Beesley, D. L. 3Vfac,
pherson, H. E. Hodgens, J. W. Irwin,
Dr. Shaw, F. R. Hodgens, A. Hollo-
way, H. B. Combe. The following
officers were elected:
President, H. A. Manning, Clinton.
First Vice -President: D. A. For-
rester, Clinton.
Second Vice President: J. A. Mor-
ton, Wingham.
Third Vice -President: Jos. Griffin,
Ashfield.
Treasurer: W. Coats, Clinton.
In addition to the officers already
elected the following persons were
added to,the executive committee: H.
Girvin, Nile; P. J. and Thomas Brown
Auburn;' John Neelands, Wingham,
N• H. Young, Myth; James Snell,
Hullett; Robert Holmes, Clinton;
K'. Young,'' Carlow; W. Proudfoot,
Goderich; S. Ferris, Goderich town-
ship.
Mr, Manning after organizing of
the riding had been completed stated
that the principal object of the con-
vention was to select candidates for
both Houses of Parliament . , and
he paid a tribute to Mr. Garrow in
nominating him. The_nomination
was made unanimous and ratified by
a standing vote. Mr. Garrow was
unable to be present being absent
at the Stratford assizes, but sent a
lengthy letter explaining his stand.
. , M'r. Proudfoot then nominated
Mr. M. C. Cameron for the Dominion
Parliament, seconded by Hugh Gir,
vin of Ashfield.. . Mr. •Cameron
said he had had no intention of be-
ing a candidate,' owing to infirmity
of years, and for other reasons, but
the reception of his name had been
so warm and cordial and generous
, . , if his health and private affairs
permitted he world accept the nom-
ination when the election carte a-
round, 1' •
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WHEN THE PRESENT CENTURY
WAS YOUNG
From The News -Record, Get. 8th,
1908:
Mr. John Johnson, harness -maker
had his household affects moved on.
Tuesday to Dungannon, where, he
will make his home.
The G.T.R. is making such repairs
about the local station as would not
indicate that the Company intends
building a new station at at early
date... , The work of resteeling the
Iine frons Stratford to Holmesville
was completed on Monday.
Mr. W. Jackson and Dr. Shaw,
accompanied i iy their wives, took in
the tieket agent's convention at De,
'trait .this week.
The play entitled "Scenes at the
Union Depot," given in the town hall
on Tuesday evening drew an appre-
ciative audience. It was well pre-
sented, reflecting much credit upon
those who toolc part and upon the
talented little lady, Miss Dreke, un-
der whose management it was given.
The caste of characters was as fol-
lows:
Train caller --'Bert Kerr,
Ticket Agent—,Amos Castle.
Bootblack—Lawrence Grigg.
Mrs. Brown—Miss Daisy Copp.
Johnny—George Scott,
Mr, Jones—George Roberton,
Mrs. Larkin—Miss Jennie Shan -
rum.
Miss Piper --.Miss Deveiall.
Mrs. Snyder -Miss Grace Cluff.
1Vfiranda--Miss Jessie O'Neil.
Uncle John—.John Crooks.
Mrs. Smith—Miss Stella Copp.
Josiah Potter—R. A. Downs.
Nancy Potter—Miss Gertte Chant.
Mr. Armstrong --Dr. Axon.
Thomas—Harold Kilty.
Peter—Harvey Harland.
lBettyM'iss Mamie Hall.
Sarah—Miss Lena Holmes.
Dot=lvriss Eileen Hoover.
Bess—iMiss Jean Scott.
• Trix—Miss Hazel O'Neil.
Dude—Edgar East.
Deacon Longface—R. C. Belcher.
Mrs. Martindale — Miss Mabel
Cliff.,
112r, Martindale—Bert Hill
Mrs. Needy ---Miss Mary 'Holmes:
Bride ---Mrs. Bert Hill,'
Groom-W1alter :Smith:
Bob Bilb Joimson.
Dick --Dodds Holloway.
Rosy --Miss Nell Cluff.
iM,oily—Miss Jean Ohidley,
Cassy+Miss Ruby Kilty.
Jupiva—'Earl O'Neil.
Mrs. Hamniner--Miss Drake.
Harold—+W. A. McConnell.
Flossie—Miss Marjorie Lapine:
Mr. Linton—B. F. Grigg,
Mrs. Linton—Miss Sadie T•Iolmes.
Miss Drake and Mr. Pearson in
"My Merry Oldsmobile,"
Miss Mamie Hall, ,,Mr. Lawrence
Grigg, Miss Marion Gunn, 1VIr. Geo,
Scott, Miss Bessie Walker, Mr. Earl
O'Neil, Miss Lena Holmes, Mr, Geo,
McTaggart, Miss Belle Draper, Mr,
McCullough in "Goodbye Sweet Old
Manhattan Isle;" with chorus. Miss
Gladys Herman in "So -Long Mary,"
with -chorus.
o:�ers
From The )'l'ew Era, Get. 8th, 1908s
Any of our readers wishing a
beautiful picture of Sir Wilfrid
Laurier may have it for the asking
at the New Era office.
The Conservative committee Toomn
is in the store recently occupied by
by W. Smith.
A skunk on Wednesday evening
entered the poultry house of Mr.
Frank Hall and deprived two vain,
able birds of Iife. Mr. Hall partially
retaliated by killing the skunk.
Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Andrews en-
tertained a number of their friends
one evening last week in honor of
their nephew and his bride, Mr. and
Mrs. S. C. Andrews.
Miss Madelon Shaw, little daugh-
ter; of Dr. and Mrs Shaw, returned
last week from a few days' visit in
Toronto. It was her first exper-
ience away from home and she en-
joyed it immensely.
Mr. and Mrs. Silas C. Andrews
(formerly Miss Mabel Sheppard) left
Monday for their future home at
Wetaskiwin. A number of their
friends were at the depot to 10
them farewell.
Mr. John Moon, well known in
A TEST FOR PICIING MATUItiTY
OF APPLES
(Experimental Farms Note)
During••the course of investigations
by the Laboratory • o1 plant Pathol-
ogy, Ifentville, N. •S., conducted on
the :storage quality of apples from
various spray plots it has been ne-
cessary to try to define the stage of
maturity of the apples, both at har-
vest and at intervals during storage.
A' few years ago a mechanical pres-
sure tester was used.. This instru-
ment registered the pound pressure
necessary to force a plunger into the
flesh of the apple a fraction of an
inch. It was in reality the "thumb
test" reduced to a mechanical basis.
But like a good many machines, its
accuracy depended on the operator's
skill. Several 'types of these instru-
meats have been tried and may still
have a limited use but as a test for
piekina maturity they leave much to
be desired.
Chemical analyses of apples have
shown that certain' changes are going
on in the apple as it approaches ma-
turity. One of these is the gradual
disappearance jof the starch which
has accumulated in the fruit during
the preceding two or three months
on the tree. It has been. found in.
Australia and New Zealand and con-
firmed by the Laboratory at Kent-
vi1le that the starch content at har-
vest of some varieties of apples has
Clinton, who is now in Toronto, has
just returned from Denver, Col.,
where he attended the annual session
Sovereign Grand Lodge I.O.O.F.
Messrs. Walker and Ross sold a
beautiful Doherty piano today to
Mr. Malcolm McTaggart.
Goderich:--'B. C. Edwards, pro-
prietor of the Eye Opener, Calgary,
'Wednesday laid information against
Dan. McGillicuddy, of the Calgary
News, charging criminal libel. Mc-
Gillicuddy was arrested and later
released on 31,000 bail. The action
arises out of an article which appear-
ed in the front page of the News
which Mr. Edwards charges reflects
upon his personality and his morals.
Mr. McGillicuddy, who was for-
merly of Goderich, has still many
warm friends here.
a decided influence on thedevelop-
nment of storage pit as well as :their
general quality.
The, two variet}es Gravenstein and
Cox Orange have responded excel),
tionally well to the iodine test for
starch as an indication of picking
maturity, The test is simple to per-
form and worthy of trial by growers•
who wish to market these varieties.
in their best condit'ion.
To conduct the test a representa-
tiye sample of 25 or More apples are
Ipicked. The fruit is cut in half and'
dipped for about half a minute in a•
!potassium iodine—iodine solution.
This solution is made up of 1 gram•
of potassium iodine, one-quarter
gram of metallic iodine in 100 cubic
centimeters of water. After dipping
the out surface of the fruit in the•
solution it is removed and placed with
the treated surface up to let the col-
our develop. The iodine solution
turns starch a blue -black. For the
best picking maturity there should
be no starch in the core area and
one-halff or more of the fest of the•
flesh of the apple should contain no,
starch. In, other words, one-half or.
less of the flesh outside the•core area
should turn blue -black, but if there•
is no blue colour the apple is over
mature,
This method of testing is not of-
fered as a cure-all for our storage
troubles of fall varieties of apples.
In our experience, however, the fruit
harvested ata time when the starela
was present only in a part of the
flesh; as suggested above, was sup-
erior in storage life and quality and'
freer from storage pit to the earlier -
harvested fruit. Seed colour is not
a reliable index of fruit maturity.
WHERE HE FAILED
For the good of the farmer man,
J. J. Morrison has done a lot. One
thing he wanted to do and didn't
was keep the United Farmers out of
polities. How much more effective
the movement might have been , had
he succeeded in doing that!
—Listowel Standard..
Now that the truck eliminates dis-
tance the township is not acting in
the interests of its own community
when the competition is thrown open
to the world.—Farmer's Advocate,
The Road to
RECOVERY
A Statement by the Prime Minister of Canada
ITHIN a few days the Dominion of
Canada will offer for public subscrip-
tion the 1933 Refunding Loan, the pur-
poses and terms of which will be announced in
detail by the Minister of Finance on Tuesday,
October 10. In this national undertaking an
opportunity will be afforded both for sound
investment and for public service, and I have no
doubts as to the readiness with which Canadian
investors will respond.
I feel, however, that the 1933 Loan sparks a
point in Canadian affairs to which it is only
proper that public attention should be drawn as
a means of extending j ustifiable encouragement to
many thousands of men and women who have en-
dured adversity with such admirable fortitude.
With due precaution against unwarranted op-
timism I think I may say that in Canada we are
now on the road to recovery. The road may be
long and progress may be slow, but the events of
the past six months appear to demonstrate with
increasing clarity that the downward trend has
come to a definite stop and that an upward trend
is now in progress.
The evidence of improvement is written in the
statistical facts of our industry and trade. These
records show that our general economic condi-
tion reached its•lowest point during the month of
February last and that today we are definitely
above that level following a recovery which' has
been gradual but persistent and unmistakable.
The most significant of these figures are probably
those dealing with the physical volume of busi-
ness, wholesale prices and employment, and I give
here briefly the record of recovery in each case as
shown by the reports of the Dominion Bureau of
Statistics.
The index of our physical volume of business,
which represents virtually the ecoromic pulse of
the nation, stood last February at 67.1. For
August, the most recent month for which the
index is available, the figure was 89.9, an im-
provement of approximately 34%.
Wholesale prices, in which even minor changes
are highly significant, have risen over 9%, or
from an index of 63.6 last February to one of
69.4 in August.
Employment, although still at a regrettably low
level, has, nevertheless, been gaining steadily for
the past five months. On the basis of partial
reports from industrial employers some 116,000
persons have been added to pay -rolls since last
April. An estimate by the Bureau on a more
comprehensive basis places the total increase in
employment at 246,000 during the same period.
Our external trade figures are equally encourag-
ing. Both exports and imports have risen, with
the former showing the more rapid increase. As
a result, Canada had a favourable trade balance of
over $114,000,000 in the twelve months ended
August 31st this year. For the corresponding
period last year the favourable balance was only
$88,000,000, and in the two previous twelve
months' periods instead of favourable figures we
had unfavourable balances of $45,000,000 and of
$103,000,000 respectively.
All these facts and figures I think we may quite
safely take as sign -posts on the road to recovery.
In our further progress, no single factor will have
more significance than the success of our national
loan operations. The recent 4% loan in London
was a notable tribute to Canada's credit stand-
ing. It was immediately oversubscribed many
times and now commands a substantial premium.
I feel satisfied that our own people will be quick
to perceive that the 1933 Refunding Loan in
Canada is at once a challenge and an opportunity
—a challenge to aid in the restoration of business
recovery and an opportunity to serve thereby
their own and their country's best interests.
PRIME MINISTER OP CANADA
DOMINION OF CANADA
1933 REFUNDING LOAN