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Home My WebLink AboutThe Clinton News Record, 1943-06-03, Page 2PAGE 2 THE CLINTON NEWS°RECORD "Pfhe . Clinton News -Record si with which is Incorporated THE NEW ERA TERMS! OF SUBSCRIPTION 41.50 per year in advance, to Can- :radian -addresses; $2.00 to the U.S. or •other foreign countries. No paper -discontinued until all arrears are tipai&unless at the option of the pub - Esher. The date to which every sub- acription is paid is denoted on the label. ADVERTISING RATES — Transient ,advertising 12c per count, line for first insertion." 8c for each subse- .quent insertion. Heading counts 2 'lines. Small advertisements not to .exceed one inch, such as • "Wanted," '"Lost", "Strayed", etc., inserted once for 35e, eaich subsequent insertion 15e. Rates for display advertising Meade known on application. Communications intended for pub- =lieation 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, BA., LL.B. tBarristor, Solicitor, Notary Public Successor to W. Brydone, K.C. Moan Block .. , . -- ..... Clinton, Ont. DR. G. S. ELLIOTT Veterinary Surgeon :Phone 203 Clinton, Ont. H. C. MEIR Barrister -at -Law :Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Ontario Proctor in Admiralty. Notary Public and Conunissioner :Offices in Bank of Montreal Building Hours: 100 to 5.00 Tuesdays ' and Fridays. D. 11. McINNES CHIROPRACTOR Electro Therapist, Massage ,Office: Huron Street, (Few Doors west of Royal Bank) Hours—Wed. and Sat., and by appointment FOOT CORRECTION fly Manipulation: Sun -Ray ,Treatment: Phone 207 • HAROLD. JACKSON Licensed Auctioneer Specialist in Farm and Household Sales. Licensed in Huron and Perth Counties. Prices reasonable; satis- faction guaranteed. For information etc. write or phone Harold Jackson, R•IL. No. 4 Seaforth, Phone 14-661, 06-012 ERNEST W. HUNTER CHARTERED ACCOUNTANT 57 Blow Str. W. Toronto Ont. 'HlE McKILLOP MUTUAL Fixe Insurance Company }lead Office, Seaforth, Ont. Officers: President A. W. Mewing, -Siyth; Vice -President, W. R. Arehi bald, Seafortb; Manager and Sec. Treas., M. A. Reid, Seaforth. Directors: Wm, Knox, Londesboro; ".Alex. Broad!foot, Seaforth; Chris, Lepnhardt, Dublin; E. J. Trewa. tha, Clinton; Thos Moylan, Seaforth; W. R. Archibald, Seaforth; Alex MEw-' ing, Blyth; Frank McGregor, Olintofi; Hugh Alexander, Walton. List of Agents: 1 J. Watt, Blyth; J X. Pepper, Bruce- dield, R.R. No. 1; R 3'.:idc1 srcher, �lublin; R R. No. 1; J. F. Prenter, :Brodhagen. .Any money to be paid may be paid :to the Royal Bank, Clinton; Bank of :commerce, Seaforth, or at Calvin tautt's Grocery, Goderich. Parties desiring to effect insur. ance or transact other business will ibe promptly attended to on appliea- tion to any of' the above officers ad - tressed to their respective post off i- ,ces. Losses inspected by the director. 8r1 ROM TIME TABLE Trains will arrive at and depart ra v p from Clinton as follows: Toronto and. Goderich Division Going East, depart 6,43 a.m. 'Going East, 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 pat. THURS., JUNE, 3, 1943 on that of the man who watched her. Seasoned T wife, .?".Susan's startl- faltered self-consciously over the word, was struck into silence by it She put a hand up to her -flare- d. byDorothy Canfield ing cheek, and hung do h J Dorothy 1 Timothy was at the: door. He flung it open. Till he could see her alone: . W. N. 11. FEATURES till he could see her . CHAPTER VI SYNOPSIS Timothy HIuline, principal of a good but imp;overithed Vermont academy lives a studious bachelor's existence with only his aunt Lavinia for com- pany. Timothy makes friend's with a new teacher, Susan Barney, and :her younger sister, Delia. Now Timothy has received a letter from a disagree- able trustee of the academy, Mr. Wheaton, calling him to New York. While Timothy is, in New York le meets a Mrs. Bernstein, who proposes her son Jules for a student. Although Jules flunked in all Itis ,examinations, Timothy decpd'es to..give him -a trial. When he keeps his appointment' with Mr. Wheaton he is• told- that he has made a big mistake in admitting a Jewish boy as a student, Timothy said, though his teeth, "There is nothing we offer our coon - try young people more valuable to them than those two courses. I'd rather cut out Latin and.higher Alge- bra," Mr. Wheaton brought his wrinkled old hand down on the ttable. "You're' crazy man! You couldn't prepare for college with those gone." "As good many of our Clifford young people don't go to college." "That's just the point, T. C., that is—just-the—point I'm always mak- ing. There's a layout there that no new school could duplicate. Why, I love that school!' It's got atmosphere, genuine atmosphere! It's got history! could make it into one of the places with a waiting list years long', every name on it from a good family. Cut out the girls, of course. You'll never get gentlemen's sons to go to the same school with girls. Make your curriculum over -cut out everything but athletics and what's needed for college entrance—tighten up on the entrance requirements, exclude for- eigners, raise the fees, make it hard as the dickens to get into. Exclusive- ness'! That's the secret of prestige. T. C., exclusiveness! Keep people out •and _everybody wants to get in! If the Aeadamy could just'erash in on its assets—its got wonderful assets— old-American ssets--•oldAmerican New England tradition, a hundred and forty years of expert- crave.. , had come to know several of the mechanics in various garages, One of them was Bill Peek, a rough•spoken older workingman employed' in a gar- age in Ashley. Peck hada brother working in St. Johnsbury who hap- pened to write to him:thatthe old bits line there .was about to replace its two battered ancient buses with new ones. When Eli heard this now he was awed to feel, blowing from it as from the Delphian pit, the authentic wind of inspiration. Dizzy, but agoni- zingly in earnest, he told Peck that if those two old cars could be had as a bargain he was sure something could be made out of theist at the Academy, Peek was a pool -playing old bachelor with no wife to restrain him from follies; he withdrew a few hundred dollars from his savings account, bor- rowed oarowed a little more for insurance, and went into the bus business, he driving one and Eli the other. The engines were still in fair shape, but the bodies and seats were dis- reputable; The older man was willing to put the first profits into paint and denim, and Eli got up eagerly at dawn day after day, to scrape, mend, paint and patch, Even at their worst, the two rickety buses were more comfort- able, enclosed as they were, than the open pulpwood trucks in which, stand- ing up on zero nights, the teams and a few hardy backers had formerly zid- den to out of town games. With Pro- fessor Hulme to help him Eli worked out a season ticket plan, It.,wae just before the beginning of the midwinter vacation, which that year was the first week in March. Susan was to spend it with Delia who had come on from Boston to join her. They were to visit some of their father's over -the -mountain kinsfolk. Aunt Lavinia had asked: the .girls to spend the evening' before they left at the principal'shouse and had stayed downstairs till they arrived, warming her knees before the fire. Timothy had waited in the hall corner for the callers, his day-old New York newspaper in his hand, but at the sound of the knocker on the front door he had flung his pap- er to the floor, "Come on .in Here by, the fire Delia," cabled Aunt Lavinia. Timothy hastened to draw near hint a chair for Susan, "Do you know I positively hate to go away—even for a week! I've had such a wonder- ful winter—you can't imagine what you've done for rise." Frain the room beyond them, "Susan:"! called Aunt Lavinia im- periously. "Come here a minute." She went when Aunt Lavinia call- ed—what else could anyone do? But, sheltered from other eyes in the angle of the hall corner, she gave Timothy, with shrugging shoulders and a fond smiling grimace, the as- surance she left him 'unwilling, that here with him was where she fain would be, Timothy closedhis lips over the correcting "hundred and seventeen" —and let it go. The :interview was over. The secretary acolyte, her skirts wafting incense, showed him out. • The Gothic elevator dropped hint twenty-four stories to the entran- ce hall. Not till the June trustee meeting would he need to hear Mr. Wheaton's voice again. After the right number of street crossings he mechanically made the turn at the right corner, but striding gloomily ahead, hypnotized by the dark chaos around hint, he passed the entrance to his hotel without seeing it. When he saw his mistake he turn- ed back in a temper, pushed open the swinging door and stepped into the small dingy lobby. A girl was •sitting there. She was rather pale and looked a little anx- bous, and she wore a last year's hat. She sat nervously far forward, and kept her eyes fixedon the door. When she saw him, she sprang up and went quickly to meet him, saying his name in a deep, shaken note, "Olt Mr. Hulme!" she cried, as she were astonished to know that he still lived. He took both her hands in his, look- ing down at her in relief and aston- ishment as great as hers. ""Susan!" ,Glowing and confident, Timothy held up his newspaper to hide the broadness of his answering smile-- and mile-and felt a chilling inner wind blowing, as from Arctic ice fields. He saw that he was a fatuous fool to assume that the frankly loving ardor in the gray eyes meant ,that Susan was a woman opening her heart to the inan with whom she was falling in love. Although his pulse was still ham- mering in the after effects of shock, his face was composed enough to 'make it safe for him to lay down the 'shield of his newspaper, light a cigar- Tette and sit listening to the dialogue in the next room, once in a while 'glancing up at the mirror. 1tshowed be cried. "Why, Susan!" a reflected Delia, absorbed in a book Delia, short, broad -shouldered, sand Aunt Lavinia sitting weightily sturdy -legged, appeared from a door before the five, her skirts folded baelt at the side, her hat in her hand, her to expose her knobby wool -stockinged curly dark hair freshly combed, her knees to the beat, occasionally an brown ,eyes snapping. "Hello there, meting over her shoulder a question Mr. Hulme. Are you as nearly dead asked by Susan, who was wandering with tiredness as Susan? Not mei I'm here, and there in the room. crazy about this town.Here's s where The girl he saw in the mirror, turn - I'm going ,,to live, you - watch mel ed to one side, lifted her head and What are you going to clo -this even- glanced at a faded photograph in an ing? oval frame. Titnothyhad forgotten .They went to a restaurant and ate that photograph.' hung there. He fish ina white: gravy with oysters, started. Good heavens! Suppose she and for dessert had thin, thin pan- : asked about that! What a" way for cakes but not with maple syrup; with ,her to learn -how could he not 'have another kind of syrup' that the waiter told her himself long ago about Ellie touched a match to and it -actually!--'the Iittle there was to tell? If she burned for a while. After a movie, !asked now what careless wounding Timothy took them up. Broadway, its bluntness might Aunt Lavinia put 10 - myriad electriclights resonant as to her answer, which lie could not bugles. (spring to correct, separated from Su - The most unexpected' event of the .sae as he was by those alien preaen- winter was the solving of the old 'cc in the room. problem of how to get the basketball Light, casual, airy, the young teams and their supporters transport -,voice asked,' "Who's the invalid -look- ed to the towns up and down the val- ing girl in the oval frame?" ley where their out of Clifford mat- I "That's Ellie. She was aninvalid. ehes were played. Selling that gad- She was Timothy's, wife." get for carburetors, Eli Kemp had: Wild scarlet flooded the girl's face learned :a good deal about ears and "he —a burning reflection of it instantly The sword thrust of the zero night made him reach mechanically for a coat, a cap. Aunt Lavinia was saying, "E7lie was a connection on her father's side. An orphan, she ivas brought up by one of the clerical cousins. Very frail in health, I'niyself always thought the Hulmes didn't.. " • The door to the Principal's house fell shut behind •ayoung man who plunged down the steps and off at random, anywhere his feet took him.' He had Tushed .out of the house and gone- tearing: off, not knowing where because the prosy presence of those others suffocated him. He _had been stopped by wooden bars across the road in a country lane, just beyond' a .small low stone house. His house now, her house their house. His faithful knowing feet had brought him home. He felt for a match found that iiis,•hands, bare to the Arctic cold, were almost too stiff to bend, struck a match looked at his watch and saw that it was long past ten. He could not believe his eyes. It was not possible! - A. car stood on the curve of the driveway, he saw now. The license was a Wisconsin one. Wisconsin! He stood gaping.' The car was small and battered. • The door of the house was flung open, a man's figure stood in the oblong of light, a voice cried, "Well, Uncle Tim, welcome to our city," Timothy started stiffly up the steps A. tall, loose-jointed pian ran down to meet him. His cold hand was tak- en into warns flexible muscular fin- gers, a gay voice began facetiously, "Aunt Lavinia' and I were thinking of starting the fire department and the sheriff out after you. . ." The gs'ip of his fingers tightened, the light •voice deepened to affection—in- credulous, astonished at itself -"You haven't changed a hair: Why, gosh, Uncle Tim! You look just the same!" "Oanl" lie cried', 'his eyes search- ing the ugly, attractive, bulldog' face. "Why, Canby Hunter, stow in the Lord's world did you ever, get here!" "Well, Uncle Tint,' where in heck have you been?' Here, let me take your coat." "Oh, I. . wiry "I}.,.. just stepped out for a walk. But see here, you can't leave your car out all night with the thermometer where it is. You take it right around to the --put your coat on! —back of the Academy next to the furnace room, there's a " "What the heck, Uncle Tim! You don't need to tell me where to put a car for the night here. -Pal be back in a jiff.". Bent over the fire, Titnothy lis- tened to an explanation of Canby's appearance from Aunt Lavinia. "I'd gone to bed—well not to bed, my light was still on. That was why .he knocked. 1f he hadn't seen a .light he'd have gone down to the tavern at the depot. He says he's left Wis- eonsin and the bank—for good—be- cause of the girl he was engaged to, And he said it . was by an accident that he carte here at all He just hap- pened to think of tis• on' his way to New York .to take hie ship. "His ship.! "For one of those round -±he -world cruises. I asked him if he had money enough for anythingso expensive and he laughed and said he certainly had not. But if he hasn't how can lie?" (TO BE 'CONTINUED V ' NOW I HAVE SUN (Upon Visiting •Cambridge and Grantchester) It is too sweet; surely it cannot bet That here, a last, I walk beside the stream Where Brooke once to the ripples tun- ed his dream And lived, in those years, Eternity! As Great St. Mary's tolled the (late, he strode. Tossing his fair young tresses in: the breeze A. singinggod, bareheaded,in the wood, Loving this' soft, sweet rain, these saline oltl'trees! - "These I have loved," Ah, now I un- derstand! • Long I had wondered why that laugh- ing' boy, Had savoured Death, with: such exul- tant joy. . I had not seen his England—this dear Land! His glorious shade is walking at my side, And every flag -stone tells me why he died! • Alexandria, Got., Dorothy Dumbrille Give Pasture.Crop a Chance It is our Cheapest Food Crop Despite wet conditions and back- ward season, pastures and meadows throughout 'the Province have been making good growth. With the ex- ception ,of high hand, ;most pasture fields are very wet, although the growth in many oases is well as- vanced. Due to urgent demands for dairy products, coupled with shortage of labour, many farrfiers are anxious to make the best possible use of all available pasture. While grass furnishes our cheapest food crop, farmers would be well ad- vised to keep their cattle off wet fields in order toavoid damage from tramping. Close grazing is also de- trimental. 3b cessive use of .pasture early in -the season, under.unfavour- able conditions, may be compared to "killing the goose that lays the golden egg."• Grass should be allowed to establish good root development in order withstand the extra strain during the hot, and often dry summer months. A good supply of food nutrients for the growing plants is necessary, which may be supplied by applications of suitable fertilizer. A system' of pasture rotation is also advisable. This year, it is important that we "make the most of what we have". Pasture is one of our most :impor- tant crops, arra should not be neglect- ed. It is -our cheapest and most de- sirable raw material to be turned in- to cheese, butter, milk, beef, bacon and eggs for our fighting forces and civilian population. V No Charge for Potato Certification Services Experience of the past few weeks is ample proof that it pays to grow certified seed potatoes. Although certified seed growers have been ob- taining benefits by way of increased yield per acre for many years, the premium for good seed was higher this year than ever. before. In P. E. I. about 50% of the total potato acreage is annually inspected for certification: in N. B. about 20%, but in Ontario less than 1% of the total cropreceives official inspection during the growing season. Soil and climate conditions in many Ontario localities are web adapted to the potato •crop, and more particular- ly to seed production. There are ex- cellent -opportunities for growers to specialize in the potato, crop, Duringa past years, Ontario growers have on- ly produced a very small percentage of the total requirements :.for plant- ing, and there are excellent export markets available for Iarge quantities. Maximum efficient potato produc- tion is -of urgent importance this year. Seed potato certification officials will be glad' to check your field for disease and give helpful, timely suggestions, provided certified seed has been used for. planting of one acre or more. Send your application, giving par- ticulars as to acreage, varieties and certification number at once to Dis- trict Inspector, Dominion Seed Potato Certification Service, 0. A, C., Guelph Ontario. It is important that all applications be received by June 16th "MOPPING UP" ' MUSSOLINI'S .EMPIRE Having taken possession of Tripoli, of ewanip lakes 'whiehseparate Tripo- last strongholdof Mussolini's roue"). Titania from Tunisia, and the town of i vaunted African Ennpime, the 8th Army,Ben-Gardane, 20 miles s inside the bor- continued its victogious advance over!der, fell without a blow being struck the border into Tunisia. Sappers lin its defence. Picture Shows: • 8th built wooden .'bridges to help Army I Array tanks chugging into . Ben -Gar- vehicles and armour over the series Idane on the afternoon of 15.2.43. V --•--- THE CANADIAN DITTY BAG The ditty bag brings to the sailor's mind. Midst the roll of ship and the whist- ling. wind: A farmhouse nestling beside a wood, Cr purling brook with killdeer's cry, Or busy street where with friends he stood, A field of grain that meets the sky; A shimmering •lake with the paddle's ship, Snow -laden trees raid tate trackless white, Stot'm clouds that banner the moun- tains tip, A Christmas feast and the oandle light. He hears the carols, the merry jest, Laughter and voices of those so dear,. He hears his name when the food is blest, Sees his mother's eye and the trete- bling tear. H acheswith wr h longing to see again Scenes ofhis hone hiskin . i home,i hs friends But knows for them it is not in vain That he fight on till the fightnrg ends. —3. R. Davison, it Horses and cattle avoid eating' butterfly weed but sheep ,have ,some- times been poisoned by eating it when driven over dry districts where other herbage was scarce. Butterfly weed is a species of the milkweed family and is known under several names, such as pleurisy -root, orange' root, Canada root, orange swallow -wort, yellow milkweed, Indian posy, and silk -weed. Women Keep Check.on Price meagre amount which they are now allowed," - Calling for increased attention to v retail prices, Mrs. J. D. Detwiler of Lifting Restrictions London points out to women of West- To Help Busy Bees ern Ontario that "the whole price The bee comes Help on the Blist s ceiling structure can be readily un- essentialbeco wsrkegs and, for that f dermined if we relax our vigilance on price checking." a ' reason, he is going to have 'the best Mrs. Detwiler is chairman of the accommodation possible. The War- Women's Regional Advisory Com- time Prices and Trade Board, has mittee of the Consumer Branch, War- turned its attention to this insect time. Prices and, Trade Board and is who is working ,overtime to offset sending out her information_ through Canada's need for sugar. In the fat - 1,700 letters to members of the ure, say officials, 'restrictions on the organization in the district. The let- manufacture and sale of wooden bee- ters are being posted from head- hives and other • equipment will be quarter in London, this week. lifted. The Consumer Branch has the self- THD MERCHANT SEAMAN .. appointed task of keeping an eye ,on prices to defeat any move in the You have seen him in the street, direction of inflation, Housewives Rolling round on groggy feet. keep track of prices in specially por- You've despised' him when he's been vided "little blue books" and report out on a "spree". any increases. But you didn't see the trip To these women backing the fight, Oh a dark and lonely ship Mrs. Detwiler points out "where Through a submarine and mine -infest - there is n price ceiling en :a commod- ed sea. ity, it is as much against the law for us to pay more than the price ceiling You have mourned about the cost, es it is for the merchant to charge Of every vessel lost; more. Is it askingtoo much for the It puts you in a pessimistic mood; •women to do without a desired article But you've never said "Well done"! Or congratulated one Who helps to bring your wife and kiddies food. • He has fought the lurking Hun With an ancient four -inch gun, And does ,his bit to get them on the run. Yet you've never heard him boast To the folks who need hire most. In fact, he's sort of reticent and' glum His social standing's nil; You regard him as an "ill." But you've got to hand it to him— "He's im"He's a Man.!" —.T. Arthur and G. Vandierendonel. • V - First introduced into Canada among garden seeds, the thorn apple, a poi- sonous narcotic plant of the night- shade or -potato family is found seat- tered throughout waste land. Among the various names given -this .weed, bhe best known are Jamestown or Jimson weed stramonium, devil's ap- ple, mad apple and stinkwort. The Indians speak of it as "the white man's plant" rather than break the price ceiling law?" she asked. "If women could be made realize that, if everyone refused to buy an article priced higher than the price ceiling, the -merchants would very soon bring their prices back in line when their produce found no sale. So you sae, again we have it in our own hands—the control of prices." Turning to rumors of shortage in the Dominion, the letter states "I cannot - y too emphatieally that there are no actual shortages in Can- ada. Our production in ali lines is higher than it has ever been, but our demands have been greatly increased. For example, it would not be neves-, sary to have meat rationing except for the fact of our commitments to Great Britain. At the present time we are not • meeting these commit- ments and, in order to meet them, Canadians must be willing to do with a little lass; not, you understand, to in- crease the amount sof meat per per- son for the people in the British Isles, but simply to maintain the very Axis Shp� ig Losses Up to December 1941 losses inflicted on German, Italian and Japanese merchant shipping were equal to half their combined total pre-war strength. EACH sada EOUALS 200,400 TONS Of SHIPPING i:k; '; •: o -a. ii:°'� '';i iii;{'.. . Ei:i. :•i+ �i2:i� ii ':i i;(ipi.•• "1:o-•:: +i'i ..� • lei,... `e? .4..•:, !ii ilii:;"e is •. .... ... 444 atirtai