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The Clinton News Record, 1943-04-29, Page 2PAGE 2 TIE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD The Clinton IN ews-Itecor i with which is Incorporated THE NEW ERA TERIVIS OF SUBSCRIPTION $1,50 per year ii advance, to Can- adian:`addresses; $2.00 to the U.S. or other foreign Countries. No paper discontinued until all arrears are paid unless at the option of the pub? CHAPTER I lusher. The date to which every sub- seriptien is paid is denoted[ on the label. Somebody was knocking at the ADVERTISING RATES -- Transient door of the Principal's house.Cl seasoned Tiinbe by Dorothy Canfield advertising 12e per count line for first insertion. 8c for each subse- quent insertion. Beading counts 2 lines. Small advertisements not to exceed one inch, such as "Wanted," "Lott", "Strayed", etc., inserted once for 35e, eaIch subsequent insertion 15c. Rates for display advertising made known on application. Communications, intended for pub- lication must, as a guarantee of good faith, be accompanied by the name of the writer. G. E. HALL - - Proprietor H. T. RANCE NOTARY PUBLIC Fire Insurance Agent Representing 14 Fire Insurance Companies Division Court Office, Clinton Frank Fingland, B.A., LL.B. Banister, Solicitor, Notary Public Successor to W. Brydone, K;C, Sloan Block Clinton, Ont. DR. G. S. ELLIOTT Veterinary Surgeon Phone 203 — Clinton, Ont. Ii. C. MEIR Barrister -at -Law Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Ontario Proctor in Admiralty. Notary Public and Cwm iissioner Offices in Bank of Montreal Building Hours: 2.00 to 5.00 Tuesdays and Fridays. D. H. MeINNES CHIROPRACTOR Electro Therapist, Massage Office: Huron Street, (Few Doors west of Royal Bank) Hours—Wed. and Sat., and by appointor nt FOOT CORRECTION by • Manipulation Sun -Ray Treatment Phone 207 HAROLD JACKSON Licensed Auctioneer Specialist in Farm and Household Sales, Lieensed in Huron and Perth Counties. Prices reasonable; satis- faction guaranteed. For information etc, write or phone Harold Jackson, R.R. No. 4 Seaforth, phone 14-681. 06.012 ERNEST W. HUNTER iCHARTERED ACCOUNTANT 57 Moor Str. W. Toronto Ont. THE MCKILLOP MUTUAL Fire Insurance Company . Head Office, Seaforth, Ont. Officers: President A. W. McEwing, Blyth; Vice -President, W. R. Archi- bald, Seaforth; Manager and See. Treas., M. A. Reid, Seaforth. Directors: Wm. Knox, Londesbero; Alex. Broadlfoot, Seaforth; Chris. Leonhardt, Dublin; E. J. Trewartha, Clinton; Thos Moylan, Seaforth; W. R. Archibald, Seaforth; Alex McEw- ing, Blyth; Frank McGregor, Clinton; Hugh Alexander, Walton. List of Agents: J. Watt, Blyth; J .E. Pepper, Bruce - field, R.R. No. 1; R .F. Mellercher, Dublin, R.R. No. 1; J. F. Preuter, Brodhagen. Any money: to be paid may be paid to the Royal Bank, Clinton; Bank of Clnnmerce, Seaforth, or ; at Calvin Cutt's Grocery, Goderich. Parties desiring to .effect. insur- ance or transact other business will be promptly attended to on applies - don to any'of the above officers ad.+ dressed to their respective post offi- ees: Losses inspected by the director. W. N. U. FEATURES destination. Miss Peck,lie saw, had changed the sentence on her bulletin board. This board was such a one as. thumps to churches use to announce the name passed in waves Froin the of: their minister and the hours of well seasoned oak 'to the stones of' the walls and to the quiet air inside the hall. The stones took the sound in and gave none of it out putting in secret- ively away into the silence where they kept the other sounds which throbbed againstthem fou' the last hundred years. The impressionable au passed the knocks on up• the stairs to the second floor, and were borne aloft to the 'third story 'where they poured ,through the open door of a large slant-ceilinged room in which Mr. T. C. Hulme sat at his desk. He was the Principal. The knocks on the door two stories below were for him, and he- easily distinguished them through the much louder mu- sic throbbing from the room under his study. He laid ,the magazine aside and. ran all the way down' the two flights of stairs to the front door. Yet there was no need for haste. Everybody in Clifford knew that old Lottie An- derson, the only hired hells ever .in the Principal's house, did herwin's:- between breakfast and lunch and was never there in the afternoon,. that Mrs. Henry, the Professor's aunt, heard nothing—except music —that the Professor himself was the only one who came vihen you knocked and that he was usually in his study on the third floor. Nobody thought of going away if the door was not op- ened at once. When he reached the lower hall and saw young Eli Xenip through the leaded glass panes at the side of•the door, he stopped short. Mr. Hulme lifted the latch, opened the door. "Hello, Eli, what can I do for you?" Eli transferred his attentive gaze to the principal's face and asked "Have you found out yet whether that thing 1 sold you saves gas?" ,Mr. Hahne cleaned his throat, leaned forward a little towards the boy in the threadbare suit—he was taller than Eli, who was not short- and explained, softening his rather harsh voice to. a propitiating tone, "Well, to. tell the troth,- I haven't got around to prating it on the car 3,et,„ The boy stood silent for a Monica and then said, "Professor, if that thing's no good I' want to take it away and give you your money beck" "Oh, no, Eli, that's not the trouble at all, I'ye just been too darned busy ever since I got back, gettings things ready for school to open. I've been. sunt: in work! The accounts -- the church service. She nut on it all sorts of odd phrases: Today the movable alphabet had been arranged to read, "We count them happy who endure. St. James 5, 11" Mr. Hulme held the door open for his crumpled old lady to go in. Look- ing. at her as she passed, he thought somewhat wearily he should have found .a eleaner collar for herr • There' were not many at the table that evening. It was a .circle now, just large enough for the•four over whom Miss Peck was this week pre- siding— Professor Hulme and: his aunt, Mrs. Sherwin Dewey and the perennial Mrs. Washburn. As Mr. Hulme and 'old Mrs. Henry came into the diningroom, Mrs. Washburn wash pouring the tea and Miss Peck held her broad silver serving knife sus- pended above a well -browned . meat pie. A heavenly aroma of savoriness filled the air. Mrs. Hulme hastily seated his aunt, sat down himself, and snatched his napkin out of its ring: Mr. Dewey was. the oldest of the three Trustees, the only resident one. Mr. Hulme drew out of his pocket, the letter of resignation from the un- expectedly married Domestic Science teacher, and while 32r. Dewey g•Ianeed at it, he confessed that he had not; as he supposed he should, Ieaped to tele, graph a ,teachers'. agency to find some one to replace her. Mrs. Washburn remembered with an exclamation that she had some news to tell, real news. Miss Peck had decided which girl she would take in this winter to work for her board— not, as usual, an Academy student, but one of the teachers in the primary school. Susan Barney, her name was, Mr. Hulme would cer- tainly remember her, she had gone through the Normal School at Bur- lington, and since, her return had been teaching up on Churchman's Road, that forlorn District School where the Searles Shelf children go. In Clifford, during the last, century as in many Vermont towns with old seminasie and academies, a tangled web of inconsistent relations had grown up between the privately en- dowed independent secondary school and the tax -supported primary schools which were part of the state system. By the articles of Incorpor- ation of the Academy, its three Trus- tees were elected by the voters of the town. Yt the town officials had no authority over them once they were elected. The Academy was run on the merest from its small endowment ad its tuition fees.; yet by a state aw the town was obliged to pay a arge part (but not all) of the' tuition ees, and by tradition Was bound to ppropriate money at town meeting or the upkeep of the roofs, walls and oundation of ,the Academy, but not for repairs on the inside of the build - ng. iudget! Why, this very afternoon the 1 Domestic Science teacher telegraph- a ed that she's married and won't be 1 coining back to teach. You must know 1 there's a Iot for me to do at this time f of year." ? a "Do you know what your milage f is now?" inquired the boy searching 2 ly ."Because if you don't how can you tell whither this'll . give you more?" • "I get fifteen to the gallon," Mr, Hulme affirmed roundly. f The grave young face before him f relaxed. "Well' then I know it'll save o ye something." said Eli, relieved and without any formalities of leave-tak- ing, 'went away. The -Principal shut the door, but did not at once go back up the stairs. His memory crammed, as it was al- ways forced to be, with the details of, other people's lives, set glootnily be- fore him Eli's worthless, drunken, 'bee -hunting and muskrat trapping father, his dullwitted,, geebie• mother.the foredoomed, futility of Eli's poor efforts . to educate the brains he did not have. The tall clock behind hire struck' six, It was time to begin to get Aunt Lavinia started to make herself pre.' sentable enough to go.ont to supper;. Aunt Lavinia was poring overtheb music, her room silent for once, gale-' b scent around her in its usual dust and disorders. Her head bent so low e over the tattered copy • of the Mass! on her knee that a straggling white,a lock brushed the page, She was not t at all ready to go out. I t "It`s just Tim," he .assured her. Recognition and relief flashed into . her fine, deeply sunken dark eyes, w She relaxed, passed .her hand over hi her eyes. "Oh, Oh, yes, Tim. Of course sa Supper tone? I'll be ready in ' a m wink." She pronounced it "s-r-raydy" with a Scotch burr. , to They made slow work of .the de- fe cent, .getting both her feet on each' si step before going down to the next,s one, becanse of that right knee that st now scarcely bend stun. They were now approach']ng their ha The result, in fact, of this per- ect]y, natural division in authority as, of course, that. Mr, Hulme, as er as the primary school went was bliged to do what he could with teachers he had not chosen and knew nothing about. This girl would. proba- bly be no worse as a teacher of read- ing than any other. His lack of en- thusiasm 'over Mrs. Washburn's news cane from Isis; dislike of having tea- chers work for their board. Local tradition, he knew, saw nothing amiss in it. But he did. He told people he disapproved because housework took time and energy needed' by teachers' in 'their classrooms, The truth was that he had.for various reasons cath-; er a sore sense of the dignity of his profession and did not like to see members of it waiting on tables and washing dishes. "Why does ,she work for her card?" he asked "The sanot ad. Why should she?" "Orphan, Smart younger sister to dncate,"' she explained. • He took thought and selecting. from mong :the accents Ander his ' control he one of pleasant compliment, said o Miss Peck as he rose from the table, "My nightly' prayer is that God will have a good kitchen' range tilting for you in heaven," and to s -aunt, "Well, Lavvie, m'lass, come ddle your horses and call'out your en. It's time for 'us to be off." He had however, but a few steps go before a summons from his pro ssiou called him back to' the Mo- on of safety, power and 'success. A tranger was mounting the front tranger an embarrassed middle-aged workingman. He came to an uneasy ha CANADIAN ATiON;t. 8 t WAYS° TIME TABLE Trains will arrive at and depart from. 'Clinton as follows: Toronto and Godericb Division Going East, depart .: 6.43 a.m. Going Nast, depart . . ; ..3.05 p.m. Going West, depart . 11.50 a.m. Going West, depart . 10.35 p.m. London and Clinton Div. Coming North, arrive ... 11.15 a.m. Going South, leave 3.10 p.m. You Roll Them BelterWith EINE. halfway up and wanted to know THURS., APRIL, 29, 1943 ! professir '. m, �h K elift a have faith in (Inaba %e have faint in her pastf aith the p .nb.the thatch¢ courageo of a p spirit which achi'eveb C(onfeaeration and 'tinheb a continent with the shining steel of railwa,'s have laib strong fouttba- tions formational greatness anb unity. 6 have faith in her present in the part she is playing to save the worlb from tyranny...in her young men anb women who serve on lamb anb sea ana in the air...in her workers who la- bour for more Than wages...in every mar► anb woman anb rhilb striving forVictoty. 'have faith in her future$bdliev ing that she is bestineb to exert an ever-increasing influence in worlb af- fairs, ffairs, anb in tlee shaping of tomorrow, when many will turn to her with nese hope. 'sera "`..}e 6 have faith in more than the sta- tistics of Qanaba'S banli clearings anb her car-loabings, the vastness of - her her untoppeb resources, or even the glorious war resorb' of a people �ni;il - 5ering less than twelve ntiiltons tt11_, faith is a faith in a tank we roue, whose soul speaks to us from every free acre of Gandhian sail... in the splenbour'of the Iocliie5 atsun- 5et,the blue mystery of a I-aun niian bourn, the qui et of an Ontario wooblot, the far call of prairie horizons, the s ounb of surf on the ,Mantic 5ltore anb the wash of the Pacific fic tines. It spears to u5 from churchyarbs where Qcinablan Scab lie beneath the tribute of ( new, vlossoms from the poppieb fielbs of France anb Ambers ...from the wigeb 6).0 sea- faring altb tnecltanifeb epics of a new war. au faith is a faith in her people... people, noteb anb obscure, with whim we bailp nib shoulbers .. ,anb by whose uititeb effort; sacrifice anb creative vapour the greater Q�auaba of tomorrow will be milt G have faith in cohoba at crtATictorus'8onb sou Buts is an Oct of Faith in Qanaba CANADIAN PACIFIC -- CANADIAN NATIONAL would it be alright to ask professor Hulme was it true about last year's Domestic Science teacher at the Ac- ademy not cowling back, because his sister, she had graduated from Sins - mons and had been teaching for ten years in a Massachusetts high school only she'd had appendicitis this .sum- mer and her doctor wouldn't let her work where the classes were big— "My name's Lane. Johnny Lane. I work in the chair factory in Ashley." "My sister's out here in the car," his i,tterlocutor now said dubiously, as'if apologizing . for being pushing. "Ah . . " said Mr, Hulmeg, more alertly. "Just wait a moment Aunt t n. Lavinia" As he walked towards the car he set his mind rigorously to the prosaic work' of using his profession- al experience to read personality through the camouflage of looks. It was easy reading. There was no Camouflage. Stoutish, forty, plain, tailored, eyegiassed, seifrespeeting — successful experience had written its not -to -be imitated symbols all over her. Seeing the Principal approach, she got out of the ear without hurry, .and composedly introdifeed herself' by: name to him, with the manner of one speaking to an equal. By' the time he had shaken her hand, he was ready to lead her into the Domestic' Science. room, give her an apron to tie around her comfortable middle and begin to expand his ideas about the import- ance of teaching Clifford girls how to make better use of the raw material to be found around them. She looked as if the idea wouli] n(it be as sur- prising to her as to some of the tea- chers he had trained. It was late and the neglected work on /VII'. Hulme's desk cried aloud. He called his mina to him fitted on its everyday harness, and cracked his (ers into the collar, it tugged away a what there was to do beginning with the familiar short and uncomplicated statement of resources -1255 students at $90 tuition, $11,250; income from 60,000 endowment which used to be steadily $3,000 had shrunk to $2,300 and still shrinking -- total income, $18,550. The more or less fixed sal- aries were 'set down tentatively— Principal $2,100. Dryden, who taught Manual Training and A.gridulture,, $1,600. The new teacher for Physics and Chemstry $},00. Bowen, just, out of Yale, evidently a clever ambitious fellow, would never stay on for that after' he had acquired a year or so of the professional experience without which'•he could not get a position in a more prosperous school. Mr, Hul- me's pencil hung in the air an instant as he considered Bowen. There was .something about him an aura, that was perhaps it was no more than the normal' to -be -expected cocksureness of the recent college graduate, out- fitted with the latest thing in ideas, 11;e uplifted pencil dropped to the paper again and ran agilely ahead into the smaller salaries— French and Latin, $900; Domestic Science — account -keeping and typewriting -- poor old Miss Benson "-- the janitor —the piano tuner (one tuning, $2.50) t disagreeable, cover the deficit with a i check. Timothy was to tired to lie awake cursing all over again the day that Clifford voters made Mr, Whea- ton a Trustee. He worked :till midnight, when his mind dropped in its tracks, and ne hung up his whip and went to bed. As he undressed mechanically, ` his mind was darkened with its usual foreboding conviction that this year the Academy budget simply could not be balanced. His mind,' always jealous of mere vitaiity soured this assur- ance by suggesting that it was no more than a hope that old Mr. Whea- ton the 1e one rich Trtee • us might, af- ter , i;- to i hav]ng ma de himself suffici ent1 l (TO BE CONTINUED) V' Conservation' in the National Parks In time of war all efforts are, pro- perly concentrated upon victory. There is a possibility, however, that this concentration may lead' to neglect 02 other values. To save a house from burning it not always necessary to destroy the lawns and gardens sur- rounding' it, The demands of war have enorm- mously accelerated exploitation of many of our natural resources: It is well that along with this acceleration there should, whenever possible, be the practice of conservation. Indeed, M : view of the ruthless destruction of life and property now going on in the world, conservation takes on a new vital significance. Among the institutions in Canada which tend toward conservation none is more important than our national parks. The purpose behind national parks in conservation; conservation of scenery, of forests, of wildlife, of the wilderness as nature made it. The tourist industry associated with the national parks, important as it is, is merely a by-product of this conserva- tion. Canadians: are fortunate in having one of the finest systems of national parks in the world. Although the sys- tem had its birth in the Rockies it has been extended into the other provin- ces; Manitoba and Saskatchewan would be definitely peered without their Riding Mountain and Prince Al- bert National Parks. These are areas which must compel every visitor to revise his conception of the prairie provinces. It is well that we have these pla- ces, reserved for all time for public use, where men, women, and children can, if only for a few days each year renew their aquaintances with Nature in her kindest and most beautiful moods. The exigencies of war, while they may interrupt the development and extension of our national parks, should not be permitted to interfere with their necessary maintenence and protection, so that they may be en- joyed by his generation and passed on to its successors as part of the national heritage, MRS. F. WILLiAMSON feels like a girl again, A sick liver made her always tired, nervous and irregular. Fruit -a -lives brought relief promptly. 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