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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1940-05-09, Page 4THURS., MAY 9, 1940 THI CLINTON NEWS -RECORD WHAT CLINTON WAS DOING IN THE GAY NINETIES Do You Remember What H appened During The Last Decade .Of The Old Century? THE CLINTON N]i S-RE',CORD MAY 10th, 1900 Negotiations have been on foot for some time with the Grand Trunk au- that of Mr. and•Mrs. U. Conteh Ion thorities re the present cattle yards home, town. Cants - which .are altogether to small. Mr. Carl Schuh who with his wife Messrs Jones and Ferguson, general road master and superintendent came and babe have been visiting in town up in their private car on 'Thursday for some weeks, left last week for night last and on Friday had .a con- Port, Arthur where he has resumed ferenee with members of the towns his, work as civil engineer ,in con - council Clerk Coats and Chief nelson with the laying of new rail Wheatley. The company may yet ways in that part of the province. Swallow's property and see- Mr. Arthur Bean, who has been buy morer. S s P p home for a fortnight, leaves the end Mlire spade iny hasst way. , of the week to finish his exams in y, to beEkCnown got his Cent-- connection. with the Faculty of Med- cry, known as the Hugon Cont- -ra1, in operation. Mr. Crealy collects ieine, Toronto: This is his final year. the cream over a considerable area Mr.. Will Morrish of, Oxbow, Sas., L. Patterson, a Goderich township has been visiting his grandmother young man, is his assistant. Mr. D. A. Forrester made a ship- ment of twenty head of fine export cattle yesterday which he sold to S. H. Smith. This makes eighty head he has fitted for export within a few months and on June 10th. he will have fifty more ready. Mr. D. Prior has secured the con- tract for building Mr. James Mair's Harry Ray Canteion,l who. is in training at Montreal with the McGill Overseas Company, having volunteer- ed from the University of Saskat- chewan was a visitor at the parental athas and uncle, Mrs. W. Robb and Mr. A. J. Morrish during the past week. 'Corporal Britton was up from Lon- don spending the week -end. with his family in town. Mr. R. J. Irwin of Victoria Col- lege is spending a week at his home in town. He leaves next week to engage in field work for the Tem- perance and Moral Reform depart - Germany -Free the German Press Slowly but steadily, the .economic squeeze on Germany tightens as the native press sometimes unconsciously shows. In numberless unintended ways,—in evergrowing ,regulations to ration food, in higher fixed maximum prices, in strenuous propaganda ef- forts to prove that the Germ.an house wife has only to economize a little longer, and all will be well with the Nazi world. The effect of the block- ade is to be seen. The "Ostdeutseher Boebachter", a Nazi organ published in Posen, tells exultantly how metal scrap collected in German-occupied Poland has yield- ed 56,640 kilograms of cast-iron, 7500 of iron wire, 1000 of lead, 340 of antimony, 680 of brass and all the way down the metallic list to 4070 kilos of brass cartridge eases. The same paper incidentally carries' the advertisement of a popular cafe in Posen, "Only Germans are admit- ted," In the days of the armament race, the Nazisheavily imported nickel. Much of the nickel was issued hi Germany in nickel coins. -As the nickel coinage had no value outside Germany, it formed a sort of nickel reserve for war. Hitler is now with- drawing. his nickel coins from circula- tion, and using the nickel for arma- ments, a new decree calls in more nickel coins. And as metals and foodstuffs be- come scarcer, propaganda fills up the serried columns of the Daily Press. Dr. Goebbels solves the mystery of the Queen Elizabeth by telling how she was destroyed in flames. An. alleged item from Buenos Aires re- lates with joyous gusts, how a British freighter met a French freighter off the Argentine coast. They mistook each other for Germans, had a merry old battle and fourteen sailors were killed, "Every effort is being made in London and Paris to keep the in- cident quiet," the German reader is told. "But it shows how the French ,are adopting the piratical methods of the British by arming their merchant ships." The Leipsig Fair tried to comfort car -owners who can't get gas by pro- ducing the family bicycle. It's a bicycle made for four. A caption to the illustrating photograph explains how the strange device really will replace the automobile for family ex- cursions into the country. A. number of papers carry advertisements of a preparation to stake even substitute coffee endurable. Evidently worried over the future, special Nazi instruct- ors are making the rounds of the school to check up on any school -boy tendency to break away from the Nazi fold. But the most touching propaganda. effort comes among the Sudeten Ger- mans. Before Munich, the Sudetens were the German minority in Czeeho- Slovakia. Almost with a sob, the story relates how hubby and wife were talking over all the food things they were to eat. One has a vision of limitless delicacies. Than the wife goes out to buy. A little later, hubby meets her on the market square. She is loaded down with parcels, but she is worried and sad, and her coat is stained with a queer mixture drip- ping from the parcels. She explains• with a sigh, that the shopkeeper did not wrap the things up properly. The saurkraut had run into the marma- • lade, the marmalade had run into the margarine, and altogether it was not a pleasing prospect for Sunday. "But", says hubby reproachfully, "haven't you a basket at home, and couldn't you have taken jars? Then the shop -keeper would not have had to use wrapping paper. Germany needs paper." And that was the aim and purpose of the story: Germany is Running Short of Paper. England CKNX amTUESDAY p.m. — FINE EXAMPLE, GIVEN I VEN ARCHDEACON PERKINS 61� war Taxes 7f Fo War Rw OF COMMUNITY EFFORT DIES IN HOSPITAL. I. An excellent example of what can be done towards' the beautification of community buildings and grounds is found at School Section No. 14 ago,school,Arborto REVE Venerable Archdeacon R. J. M. 1 Perkins, rector of Christ Church, Chatham, died. in Sarnia General Hospital last Thursday. : He entered the 'hospital, April 19. Archdeacon. Perkins, who was 64, esigned just before theHeofappointedand PAYS TAXES ON HOUSE TORONTO—Fishworms pay Mrs. Ruth Houghan's; taxes. For six months. of the year Mrs. Roughen, her mother, and her daugh- ter, grow fishworms to sell to fish ermen. Last year they sold 50,000 worms. The worm ranch yields no rich flow of money, but it provided a fair liv- ing for the three and enables them to pay taxes on their home. ST. PAUL'S CHURCH Rev. A. H. A'Nel, B.A., B.A. 10.00 a.m.—Sunday School. 11 a.ni. Morning Prayer.. 7 p.m.—Evening Prayer. THE SALVATION ARMY Capt. McDowell 11 a.m.—Worship Service 3 p.m.—Sunday School 7 p.m.—Evening Worship ONTARIO STREET UNITED Rev. G. G. Burton, M.A., B.D. 10.00 a.m.—Sunday School, 11 a.m.—Divine Worship 9.30 a.m. Turner's Church Sen vice and Sunday School 7 p.m. Evening Worship WESLEY-WILLIS UNITED Rev. .Andrew Lane, 'B.A., B.D. 11 a.m.—Divine Worship 7 p.m.—Fvening Worship. Sunday School at conclusion of morning service. PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Rev. Gordon Peddle, B.A. Sunday School 10 a.nn. Worship Service 11 a.m. 3 p.m. Worship Service at Bayfield 2 p.m,—Sunday School, Bayfield, CLINTON MISSION W. J. Cowherd, Supt. Services: Monday 8 p.m. Young People Thursday 8 p.m. Prayer Meeting Sundays 11 a.m. Prophetic Studies 2 pm. Sunday School. 3 pan. Fellowship Meeting 8 pan. Evangelistic Service. hospit- The 275,000 Or more citizens who lave finished the laborious task of filling out income : tax forms and handed something like $160,000,000` to the Federal Treasury may have sena ed that the income tax came of age last year and now is hi the full flush of maturity. The twenty-first birth- day passed without celebration, but should have been marlced by a plaque, at the entry to the Revenue Depart- ment. It was the end of twenty-one years of collection of this tax as "war revenue," to help pay for the 1914-18 war. No doubt the intention was honest, but the costof that war has not been paid. "War revenue became a term only for new :imposts. The actual cost of participating in the conflict was less than $1,700,0000,000, and. "war taxes" collected up to this year have aggregated $3,500,000,000. All have vanished and the war expense stands. Now another war, likely to be more costly in money, Was to be paid for. Will collection of "war taxes" be a repetition of the old gag or will the term become real? It is evident that if the "war re- venue" gathered since 1919.had been used as expected, the Government and. the people would be in batter finaneial shape for this struggle. It would have meant smaller pork barrels at ' election time and less vote -buying all the year round, fewer bureaus to in- terfere with individual liberty, sinnp- ler government machinery. The peo- ple would have to do less belt -tight- ening to make up for bloated Gov- ernments. War -tax revenue in 1938 amounted to $303,000,000, of receipts totalling $516,692,000 — so false have the ap- plication of the term and the use of the money become. It has just been so many milion dollars added to what is called the ,consolidated fund, but more pertinently is the consolidated front fund. This time war taxes should be war taxes. If the Govern - London, in 1900, he returned to Canada and after two years service in a London church became curate of St. Paul's Church, Lindsay. The fol- owing year he went to Exeter as rector of Trivett Memorial Church. and in 1906 to St. James Church, Ingersoll. He went to Chatham in 1919. °' Surviving are his widow; two sons Rev. Handley Perkins, of Windsor and Russell, of Sarnia; a brother, John, in Meriden, Conn., and a sister, Mrs. J. Williams, Toronto. Bishop C. A. Seager, of Huron, conducted the funeral service in Christ Church, Chatham, Saturday. IT HISSES BUT I'T DOESN'T FALL The press of the United States re- presents the public opinion of that mighty democracy. And clearly does that press utter the opinion of mil- lions of United States people. Every considerable paper under the stars and stripes exhausts the vocabulary of scorn as it deals with the abomin- able conduct of Germany in its ruth- less treatment of nations with but one desire—the desire to pursue their day's work of peaceful life. Yet that hissing lash of public opinion does not fall upon German soldiers or states- men or business Wren. The menace is there in stinging word and biting phrase, but the public opinion of the United States does not provide a single dollar, a single soldier, a single gun to defend the liberties and the highest spiritual ideals of the race, We welcome the words of the United States citizens. But Hitler is not kill- ed or restrained by words.—Exeter THE HOUSE-CLEANING BACKFIRED House-cleaning—that Spring sport which is so popular with women and so unpopular with the opposite sex --1 — is with us again, and if you, Mr. Man, go bang into the kitchen table semporarily parked in the parlor or find the radio perched on the cellar steps, just put it down to the "house- cleaning bug" and go warily on your way, for arguing and remonstrating will do you no good. House-cleaning, which is looked up- on by the male sex as something of a tragedy, can also be classed as a com- edy at times. For example, in a local home last week, a housewife under- took to varnish the bathroom floor. The floor looked so nmuch improved after one coat bad been applied that she decided to make it look even bet- ter by putting on a second one. The young lady assistant in the home graciously offered to apply this one and everything went well, except that the belly stuff refused to dry. Ex- pert opinion was sought and the dis- covery was made that in the second instance the wrong can had been brought forth and the "second coat" was found to consist, not of varnish, but of Mazola, a vegetable oil used in cooking. Needless to say, it was quite a muss to clean up and extreme caution was exercised before the next application was •made. — Dundalk Herald. A NARROW ESCAPE Leslie, the three-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Glanville, of Crediton, had a thrilling experience, and a narrow escape from a serious accident Friday last. The little fel- low had climbed onto a car between the fender and the engine and an older brother and his father drove off in the car not knowing that he was there. They had gone some distance before the lad fell off. Some of the neighbors noticed the boy on the car and notified the mother who started off in pursuit fearful that the lad would fall off and be seriously hurt. He did fall off somewhere near the bridge and started to walk horse. He' received a nasty bump on his head and scratches on his arms and his legs, but luckily escaped without ser- ious injury. The father and brother were unaware of the incident until they returned home. LATE C. A. ROBERTSON LEFT ESTATE OF $9,446— The late. C. A. Robertson, who. re- presented Huron -Bruce in the Legis- lature from 1926-34, ]eft an estate of $9,446.08, it is revealed in his will just filed for probate at Goderich, His farm in Colborne township, where he was born and where he died, is valued at $3,500. Insurance amounted to $2,000 and cash in bank $2,034. The balance is personal. Two daughters, Mrs. Dorothy Julia Reid, of Goderich, and Miss Ella Christina Robertson, of Toronto, are the only beneficiaries, they sharing the estate equally. merit cannot get back to a living standard outside of war costs which required revenue of only $163,000,000 at the beginning of the last war, it must trim ruthlessly to do what it can. The highest contributor to "war re- venue" for twenty-one years has been the sales tax, which with other excise taxes her brought in more than $1,- 900,000,000. The income tax is next, individuals paying approximately one-third and corporations th e bal- ance. Of the individual tax one-third was paid by 382 persons in 1938.f Perhaps calling it a war tax tirade the sacrifices easier, but it was not l true. 'We don't know whether beginnin" with the 1940 collections, the Govern- ment will play fairer with the public or not We hope it will. We be- WHERE PAGE 3 e Now is the time to think about the fancy prices you're going to get for eggs next Fall— make up your mind to take no chances with your 1940 chicks! Follow the farm -proven Roe feeding method and watch them grow fast and strong full -fleshed and full of the pep and vigor that means greater egg -laying ability. The safe start is Roe Vitafood Chick Starter—the palatable feed that gives them a "head start" in life. At 7 weeks. feed them Roe Complete Growing Mash—the feed that has all the vita- mins, minerals and proteins your chicks need' to ensure steady profit- able egg production later on. When you order Roe Vitafood and Roe Complete Growing Mash, ask your Roe Feeds dealer for the valu- able free booklet: Let's Grow Better Chicks and Pullets. Sold by H. CHARLESWORTH Clinton 44 Advocate. lieve Colonel Ralston, Finance Min-! - isten•, would like to earmark for war purposes what contributions he cant PILOT IS PRISONER and adhere rigidly to the platy. What IN GERMAN. CASTLE Ministers are going to curtail their unwieldy and extravagant depart - A prisoner of war in a German stents and make it possible? If the castle, Pilot Officer Alfred Burke present Government carries on like its Thompson, who left Penetang in 1937 predecessors with "war revenue" to join the R.A.F., looks out on an there is likely to be an uncomfort- ancient moat filled, not with water, able day of reckoning,—Globe & Mail, but with wild boars. A few weeks after war broken out Thompson was engaged in leaflet raids over Germ- any. He was forced down, taken a prisoner and sent to an old castle at Oflag. "The castle is huge, built of stone, and is surrounded by a moat," he writes. "There isn't any water in the moat now, but there are other things—wild boars. During the winter patience must have been spent in we spent part of our time tossing putting all these pieces together.— snowballs at them." Listowel Standard. An Unusual Quilt Miss Jennie Gray's Circle of Knox Presbyterian Church this week quilt- ed a quilt that had 70,052 blocks, each block one inch square. The quilt was pieced by an elderly lady. What a great amount of time and JAY WALKERS PAY 50 -CENT FINE You can "jay -walk" in Edmonton, just like pedestrians in other Canad- ian cities — but there you run the risk of paying a fine of 50 cents. Edmonton, believed to be the only city in the Dominion enforcing a jay- walking ban, put a by-law into effect Dcc. 1 last after 11 persons, mostly pedestrians had been fatally injured in city traffic accidents in less than a year. Sergeant-Major Alex Riddell, Chief of the Edmonton Police traffic squall, said the by-law has resulted in "trem- endous improvement" in walking habits in the downtown district. His department and the city council were jointly responsible for the anti -jay- walking by-law. Ns'v� ways��a_ea BUT A �Q�=� �''Los os� �o�a� :o !+t n 1 AUrtt ' pis "A lot of people look at Pontiac's "Friends see me in my new Pontiac. size and quality—figure the price out INext afford aitwe meet, they ask how can of their reach." "I tell them Pontiac prices start with the lowest—to check up and see. And they dot" "You won't find a smoother, quieter engine than Pontiac's, and I get more miles per gallon." IT'S human nature to let your friends in on a good thing. That's why 1940 Pontiac owners are advising so many of their friends to buy a Pontiac. Pontiac deserves this kind of friendship. To- day, there's a Pontiac for everyone -27 models in 5 new series of Sixes and Eights—and prices start with the lowest! They're great big cars with long wheelbases—wide-seated and roomy—with power -packed engines that challenge the gaso- line economy of'thesmallest cars. And Pontiac is engineered' to cut repair and service bills almost to a vanishing point. Visit your Pontiac dealer. P.4125 FOR PRIDE AND PERFORMANCE Special Six 4 -Door Towing Sedan LL,