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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1941-06-19, Page 6• PAGE 6 TDE e T ON NEWS -RECORD' THURS., JUNE 19, 1941 I Read - And Write For You (Copyright) By John C. Kirkwood ti MAINLY PERSONAL when sick but the same old devil when well, by the strongest of virtuous re- solutionsI steeled myself against inss t an Y possible repetition of my late folly". This same friend had much the Mame . experience last Christmas. Friends sent him rich cake and a 2 Ib. box of candy, and half a dozen cheese- ee, and he devoured them without any prolongation of the pleasure, and then sneered sadly in the days fol- lowing. Quite truly, we dig our grave with our teeth- ' A friend of mine, now in his 80th lives in cabin all byhim year, who a self in North Carolina, in a hamlet, had his 79th birthday recently, and went to nearby Asheville to celebrate it, on the invitation of several friends. Here's his story of the event and of his pains after he returned to his cabin and to simple life: "I had a glorious time diming ev- ery waking hour of the iiva days and nights I spent there. Two birthday. dinners were prepared for me, each with its huge and rich and ornate cake. Oh, how rich they were, and, oh, how irresistibly tempting! Be- own for several years as a business sides these dinners I was guest at a counsellor. This is what he said: number of dinners and luncheon and "Although 1940 was my most profit - snacks at cafes. 1 seemed to be eat- able year since I started in business ing for the larger part of my Wile. Ifor myself, I have a growing convic- The rest of the time I •spent in sin- tere and thoughtful repentance. But are we not taught that repentance is of itself a virtue, far outweighing the sin repented of? I speak feelingly, for the trip was but little short of a xdisaster. Dining too well, eating of strange dishes, sitting ung to late o' I have had a letter from a man in his 30's —a man who hasbeen on his nights, and tossing about in hitherto unheard of beds—not one of them was restful—nearly wrecked me. I scarcely knew how I could undertake the return journey home. Two or three times en the way I was quite sick and could scarcely resist stopping the bus to get off and sit down by the road side. In the quiet of my cabin completely recovered in a week, and then, unlike the devil who was a saint tion that it might be wiser for me to become connected with a large nat- ional organization. Why, you ask? For two main reasons: greater scope for my efforts; more stability and with it peace of mind." This man has been paid good fees for his service—as much as $200 for a week's work. I wrote him approl. ing of his idea. Today it is very hard for a man on his own, rendering per- soneI service, to keep himself steadily in well-paid employment. From a money point of veiw he is likely to do better in the employ of a large organization, and also to get fuller self-expression. I lmow that in my own case my best successes and my largest income were attained when I was attached to large and aggressive firma. They "sold" me, over and over again. My forte was ideas de- signed to persuade industrial firms W advertise. My ideas were taken to. good prospects by good salesmen. 1 did not have to give my time and thought to selling. My time and thought were given mainly to the creation of ideas and plans. It was the sales work of others that put me on the tatio What map map. re pu n I aehieved eame to me from the sue- cessful selling of me to advertisers by good salesmen, In these present times, because of advancing years and marred health, I have to depend wholly on myself. I must produce and sell; and I am not greatly or strikingly succeeding either at production er finding buy- ers for what I produce. So my in- come today is a mere fraction of what it once was. It is this experi- ence of mine which has led me to ap- prove of my correspondent's pur- pose to join up with a large indus- trial organization. Just before hhe eft me to go off on a short holiday, a man aged 60 or so, took from his pocket a small book, and said, "I always carry this book with me." It was a pocket New Testament, bound in red cloth and containing colored pictures. I was rather surprised, because this man had not previously impressed me as being what is called religious. It is true that be goes to church every Sunday, but outside this practice and outside what may be called clean Iiving, this man is very worldly. Probably there are many, many men like him—men who aro faithful read- ers of the Scriptures—not necessar- ily intelligent or devout readers of the Bible. Doubtelss they have an enviable comfort oil mind as a rem sequence of this practice of theirs. I know that it pleased me when this man of whom I write showed me the book—and it was not in the best condition—which he carries about With him wherever he goes. One of my neighbours iso -•-or was -a dentist. We walked side by side the other day and I learned that this neighbour had recently given up his profession, after 45 years of practis- ing it. He said, "I never want to Iook in anybody's mouth again as long as I live", and he said this con- vincingly. I asked him what he was doing in his new-found leisure, "I have never been so busy or so happy," he said, adding that he found everyday too short for his program of activities. He le a bachelor and does most of his own housework and house. He is a high-up Mason and is writing a history of his lodge. He reads a good deal, and has other pleasure -giving employments. We were passing a small tree, about 8 feet high, a tree planted about two years ago. A. piece of rope was on this tree, hidden by the foliage. Yet it had been annoyingly visible to this man for two years, in both summer and winter. Ile had let it fret him --chafe him—for two years! He said that often he had an impluse to pull it off the tree—wliieh he could easily have done. Seeing the son of the owner of the property on which the tree stood—the youth was mowing the lawn the fretted man stepped, pointed to the dangling rope, told of his two years' irritation, and asked the youth to remove it, which he did willingly. Probably this youth had, like me, never seen the offending rope until it was point- ed out to hint. The Least We ALL Should Do is Our Utmost BUY VICTORY BONDS Dominion Textile Company limited Montreal Toronto isn't it the truth that most of us can let ourselves get all wrought up by a very small 'matter—one which can be cured almost in a minute, if we are willed to cure it? Jim has married, at the age of 19 and his wife is, I suppose, about the same age. Jim is a salesman, and is earning about $80 a week. His wife, before the marriage, worked in a factory, and she will continue to work there until jointly she and her hus- pand have paid off the indebtedness on their funiture. Jini and his wife will live in the house where Jim's mother lives. I see -Jim frequently, He calls on me to sell me his kind of merchandise and t6 use my telephone. I •have known him for about three years. He is a fine youth, good-looking, and sensible—a good worker. 1 -le has stuck to his kind of business ever since he left high school, and always he has worked on a commission basis -which shows courage. In the case of most young persons I would be against their marrying in their teen years, but in Jim's case I feel that he has done the right thing. He has been going with his girl friend for about four years, se they can be trusted to get along happily in the years ahead. Jim's earnings are pretty certain to increase — as they will need to. I am thinkingof two young people who have been engaged fon several years. They are now in their 30's. They have not married because the man cannot—so he says and so she believes—afford to marry. I .do not expect them to marry each other, and the girl may, say at age 40 or so, be still unwelded, and her fiance may drift away from her. It does not seem to me to be right for a man to tie a girl up to him for years—her beat years -always putting' off the marriage day. And so I dike much better what Jim did— he married at age 19, in the confidence that he mar- ried the right girl. He and she may have to practise severe economies— years, but the chances are good that which can be wholesome --far several they will have a happy married life, which is the main thing. LET'S ALL DO OUR PART to HASTEN VICTORY and PEA Huron County Victory Loan, 1941``--- Organization CHAIRMAN James Leiper, Warden VICE-CHAIRMAN Judge T. M. Costello MEMBERS: Mayor E, D. Brown Mayor J. IL Crawford' Mayor A. J. McMurray Mayor J, J. Cluff Reeve B. W. Tuckey Reeve R. J. Bowman Reeve W. 11. Merritt Reeve R. E. Shaddiek Reeve A. F. McDonald Honorary Committee Reeve William Thom Reeve B. RathweIl Reeve T. C. Wilson Reeve 0 Armstrong Reeve J. W. Gamble Reeve James Leiper Reeve N. R. Dorrance Reeve F. Duncan Reeve F.• Watson Reeve A, McCann Reeve S. H. Whitmore Reeve R. Grain Reeve P. Passmore Reeve R. Redmond Reeve Thos. Webster R. E. Feeley L. E, Cardiff, M,P. W. H. Golding, M.P. Jas. Ballantyne, M,P.P, The Clergy of Huron County. 1 CHAIRMAN J. D. Thomas VICE-CHAIRMEN H. C. Campbell Phomas Pryde J. C. Shearer W. L. Whyte ORGANIZERS Major G. C, Knowles Peter Jeffrey SECRETARY George W. Schaefer ASST. SECRETARY H. C. Williams SALES Herbert Campbell (Chairman) Thomas Pryde J. C. Shearer W. L. Whyte ADMINISTRATION AND FINANCE A. H. Erskine (Chairman) D. H. Downie Alex Smith R, C. Wihately Executive Committee MEMBERS: A. Y. McLean R. S. Hetherington, LC. R, K. Wurtele D, D, Mooney Mrs, D. J. Lane A, H. Erskine D. E. Campbell Harry Fear J. G. Mullen Benson Crulksbanks Alex Hackett Herbert Silber J. W. McKibbon Unit Committees PUBLICITY A. Y. McLean (Chairman) A. Wilkes W. T. Cruikshank N. W. Miller Fred Ford J, A, Stewart W. S. Hall Roy Stonehouse Albert Traquair Roy Kennedy M. E. Southeott W. W. Armstrong Kenneth Whitmore G, E. Hall Oswald Snowden Chester Smith K. J, Hueston F. Fingland, K,C, Gordon Bisset Ross Scott George Martin R. N. Creech Ross McGregor A. R. Tasker 1 SPECIAL NAMES R. K. Wurtele' (Chairman) W. C. Attridge Dr. M. Graham Owen Combe D. A. Smith Dr. J, W. Shaw WOMEN'S Mrs. D. J. Lane (Chairman) Mrs. Ida Sanders Mrs. Al. Close Mrs. J.W. Mcliibben Jack Eckert Monies Webster Fred Dawson Robert Bowman W. Haacke Dr. A. R. Campbell E. Chesney Alex Porterfield f EMPLOYEES R. S. Hetherington, K.C. (Chairman) J. B. Reynolds Del Maltby TRANSPORTATION D. D. Mooney (Chairman) Harper Rivers H. 0. McLean Dr. P. J. Becbely R. W. Rowed DISTRICT A ASHFIELD Township t CHAIRMAN • Alex Hackett VICE-CHAIRMAN Murdock Matheson MEMBERS Duncan McKay Frank Hamilton Jacob Reid Bert Martin DISTRICT B W. WAWANOSH I' Township • N%_ CHAIRMAN " `1 Thomas Webster MEMBERS • N: Durnin Phillips I Mrs, C. W. Alton DISTRICT C E, WAWANOSH Township CHAIRMAN Alex Porterfield 1VIEMBERS George M. Taylor John Buchanan. Mrs. J. D. Beecroft ?� 9 DISTRICT D COLBORNE Township CPHAIRMAN. Gordon Bisset MEMBERS V. R, Gladbill William Sallows Mrs. A. M. Straughan DISTRICT E Town of GODERICH O3IAIRMAN D, E. Campbell VICE-CHAIRMAN R. C. Hays, K.C. MEMBERS Harry Watson 3?. C, Whatley Oswald Ginn 77. Groves ,Q, ,.e rl H. Ford' - H. R. Long Mrs, Mb. Brown DISTRICT F GODERICI Township CHAIRMAN W. Ilaacke MEMBERS Charles Whitely George Ginn W. II. Lobb Mrs, Albert Bond. DISTRICT -G GREY Township CHAIRMAN Harry fear VICE-CHAIRMAN Alex Alexander MEMBERS Rev. Harold Snell William Spence Wm, Speirman Mrs. Leonard Sinclair DISTRICT H TURNBERRY Township CIPAIRMAN Benson Cruiksbanks MEMBERS Frank Powell Wm. Cruickshanks David Fortune DISTRICT 1 Town of WINGHAM CHAIRMAN J. W, Meliibbon VICE-CHAIRMAN Duncan Kennedy MEMBERS W. W. Armstrong A. E. Cosens W. T. Booth Roy Hudson H. Pym A, Forbes Mrs, A. E, V'ansiose Canvassing Districts DISTRICT J HOWICK Township CHAIRMAN K. J. Hudston VICE-CHAIRMAN E. W. Carson MEMBERS Norman Wade A, Al, Harris ,I. H. Wylie • E. A. Corbett 3, A. Roberts Mrs. Robert Ney DISTRICT K MORRIS Township CHAIRMAN George Martin VICE-CHAIRMAN Cecil Wheeler MEMBERS Robert Shortreed Richard Johnson DISTRICT L Village of BRUSSELS CHAIRMAN Robert Bowman VICE-CHAIRMAN Albert Woods MEMBERS Robert Warwick Roy Cousins Miss E. Downing DISTRICT M HULLETT Township DISTRICT P Town of SEAFORTH CHAIRMAN CHAIRMAN Ross McGregor J. 0, Mullen . MEMBERS VICE-CHAIRMAN Walter Scott David II, Wilson W. J. Dale DISTRICT N McKILLOP Township CHAIRMAN Jack Eckert MEMBERS Hugh Alexander Calvin Hillen James McQuaid DISTRICT O Town of CLINTON CHAIRMAN F. Fingland, K.C. VICE-CHAIRMAN Dr. J. W, Shaw MEMBERS 3. C. Radford E. L. Douglas II, C. Rorke G. S. Elliott Mrs. A. J, McMurray MEMBERS M. A. Reid Ed. C. Chamberlain A. Y. McLean W. A. Wright James A. Stewart Mrs. E, H. Close DISTRICT Q STANLEY Township CHAIRMAN Ross Scott .� MEMBERS •• John McAsh Duncan Ailtenhead Arthur Keyes DISTRICT R Village of BLYTH CHAIRMAN A. R. Tasker DISTRICT S HAY Township CHAIRMAN Dr. A. R. Campbell VICE-CHAIRMAN Arthur Edighoffer MEMBERS Wm. Edighoffer Elmer. Klapp Dr. W. Bryce Ed. Gesell') DISTRICT T Village of HENSALL CHAIRMAN Dr. A, R. Campbell VICE.CHAIRMAN Robert Paterson MEMBERS Don McKinnon Peter McNaughton Robert Middleton E. L. 'Mettle DISTRICT U TUCKERSMITH Township CHAIRMAN E. Chesney MEMBERS Wellington Crteh Arthur Nicholson W. J. Finnigan Harold Jackson DISTRICT V STEPHEN Township CHAIRMAN I3. Silber MEMBERS D. B. Field E. Beaver Charles Anderson R. A. Goetz .Arthur G. Webb Thomas Webb DISTRICT W USBORNE Township CHAIRMAN Fred Dawson VICE-CHAIRMAN Archie Morgan MEMBERS Newton Clarke Arnold Wiseman Mrs, Rufus Keenle DISTRICT X Village of EXETER CHAIRMAN R. N. Creech MEMBERS B, M, Francis J. P. Dewey G. S. Howard Rev. A. Page J. M. Southeott J. A. Traquair Mrs. Ida Sanders The Huron Expositor is pleased to donate this space in the interests of the Victory Loan Campaign in Huron County,