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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1941-06-26, Page 7'THURS., JUNE 26, 1941 THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD The Noise Question "PEG" "For the drove of Peter I wish you, would keep quiet Bob. A person can- not get any quietness in ,this house at all now" so ,said Ian, the oldest of a family of seven. "I didn't mean any haam Ian" replied Bob. "Am sorry if I apeared arose but somehow my nerves seem to be worn to a fraz- zle. Between you yelling and jump- ing around and the radio going, and the telephone, it just does seem that one cannot get any quietness at all," ,continued Ian, Mother and Dad Graham had been The Clinton N ews-Record with THEhNEW is CERA oraced TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION $1.60 per year in 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- lisher. The date to which every sub- scription is paid is denoted on the label. 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Grant, Goderich, Ont. taking in the conversation. It was indeed a happy homes and as a usual thing they tried to work for the in- terest of one another, Dad looked at mother with an expression' which implied that an opportunity for Which they had long been looking had come. "You know Bays" said Dad "We are living in an age when it is very hard indeed to keep from letting things get on our nerves. Through anxiety many of us are not getting the proper -amount of sleep and rest. How would it he if we just thought this thing over daring the afternoon and tonight at the tea table let us devise ways and means which each one of us can do to help ,ourselves and others as far es this noise quest- ion is concerned. - "All right now Ian we will start with you" said Dad that evening "Well, on -my way to school I call for three or four boys who are going to College. It has been my custom when they db not come out as soon as I toot the horn the first time to keep pressing the button till they do come. Also as we drive along we at times becomes 'quite noisy shouting and yelling and blowing the horn. I talked to the boys coming home to- night, They are going to be ready when I call if at all possible, and if not then I will just quietly wait af- ter pressing the horn once. It is a wonder the neighbours have not put nails in the way of my tires. It must have been a great annoyance once to them. Bob was next . He volunteered the information that he had been alto- gether too noisy around the house, but he was goingto do less loud sing- ing and shouting. He had `tried it out during the afternoon and he real- ly felt he might keep in the tune more often if he did not shout so loud and he could have just as good a time. Timid Mary, whom the family thought did not make noise enough said that while she was practising she would do less pounding and would close the door of the room while she was at the piano. Frank •said, "I have been taking the dog out into the yard and while playing with him have teased him. Consequently he has been doing a great deal of barking. Several times I have noticed Mother with a worried look on her face, and have also seen the neighbors looking out. Guess they wish I would not tease Rex. Well I am going to do better along that line." 'THE McKILLOP MUTUAL Fire Insurance Company Head 'Office,: Seaforth, Ont. Officers: President. Wm. Knox Londesboro; Vice -President, W. R. Archibald, Seaforth; Manager and Sec. Treas., M. A. Reid, Seaforth. Directors: Win. Knox, Londesboro; Alex. Broadfoot, Seaforth; Chris. Leonhardt, Dublin; E. J. Trewartha, Clinton; Thos, Moylan, Seaforth; W. R. Archibald, Seaforth; Alex.lefeEw- ing. Blyth; Frank McGregor, Clinton; Hugh Alexander, Walton, List of Agents: E. A. Yeo, R.R. 1, •Goderich, Phone 603r31. Clinton; Jas. Watt, Blyth; John E. Pepper, .Bruce - field, R.R. No. 1; IL F. McKercher. Dublin, R.R. No, 1; J. F. Preuter, Brodhagen; A. G. Jarmuth, Bornholm, R.R. No. 1. Any moneyto be paid may be paid to the. Royal Bank, Clinton; Bank of Commerce, Seaforth, or at Calvin Cutts Grocery, Goderich. Parties desiring to effect insur- ance or transact other business will be promptly attended to on applica- tion to any of the above officers a4- %dressed to their respective post offs- cee. Losses inspected by the director CANADIAN NATIONAL RAILWAYS of houses and explain about it. I mast' think more of others. None of us need make as much noise as we do." "Now Mother and Dad what about, you." asid Ian, "We know you do not make any unnecessary noise but per- haps you have some suggestions for us. We all feel that we have had very little consideration for you, our best friend's." - "Well" said Dad, "Mother an I have talked this thing over many times. You know we want you to feel that thisi is your home and we wish everything to be just as pleas- ant for you as we can possibly make it. All these things you have men- tioned have been 'bothersome at times. We have often talked id spealdng to you about them, but we concluded it might make you feel we were hard on you. We pleased indeed, that you have .brought the, matter up yourselves. Someday we will have ,a similar talk in "What would Jesus do?" "There is one. thing Mother and I would like to speak about. You know we eneourage you to bring your friends here. We want to meet them and we like to see you happy with your company. Furthermore we do not care how often they :foregather here. Now, our home is detached, and when you are inside you can make as much noise as you care to but when they are going away there is usually quite a lot of noise. We fear we do not think of the neigh- bors. Usually it is twelve or one o'clock before your gatherings break up. Your friends are light hearted and naturally they want to carry their good times down the street. We are going to ask you, just in a dip- lomatic way, to talk this over with your various "Gangs" as you call them. Am sure they will ase your view point. This is an age of noise, but it does not necessarily need to be so. Mother and 1? do so much apprec- iate your thoughfulness. We will try to do all we can for you and we hope your efforts to make less noise will not in anyway, curtail your happin- ess." Does it ever occur to us that there is a great deal too much noise in this age? Probably there is not such a vast difference on the farm, unless that farm happens to be on the high- way. In the warns months Sundays and holidays are times to be dreaded, even by those who are in isolated places. If the world goes in and science and invention increases as they have done in the past, what fifty years from now will be we can in no way forsee, May God grant that those who are living at that time will be much nearer to Him than we are today. How is that going to be accomplish- ed? ccomplished? Simply by those of today ac- cepting Him and living in such a' way that the coming generations will want to have in their lives the Christ, who is ours today, Then Jane, Mother's main help, spoke up "When I am washing dish- es I am not nearly so quiet as I might be. It Is a wonder I do not break more thah I do, banging them ao. Then too when I am mopping I have a habit o'f letting the broom and map handles bang against the wail. It not only is bothersome to those who have to listen to it but it is apt to mark the wall. "I feel that I can im- prove along this line" "Guess I have the worst habit of all" chimed in Stewart "I am going to be more considerate about the rad- io. Am not often out at night so when I comehome ho a from delivering my papers 1 turn the radio on and park right in front of it, Half the time I am reading and am not think= ing of it and it goes on and on from one program to another regardless of whether it is intereating to any one else or not. I have got so used to it that I'do not really hear it ant ase sure it has many times been a trial to you all. Now I am going to make a mental note of the programs I want to hear and when they are finished I will turn it off. I wonder that you have stood the thing bang- ing away all these months." "Now it is my turn" said ten year old Ted, "I do enjoy my wagon and roller skates so much and until I was thinking of this today I did not fig- ure out how much the noise of them on the streets must bother some ; peo- ple especially those who are not well, Now instead of racing up and drown one street I am going to take longer trips, within reasonable distance so I will not ,pass the same places so often. Am ashamed to say it, but I have been asked several times to do that but have been stubborn about it. Now I am going to call at a couple TIME TABLE Treits wilharrive at and depart from Clinton as follows: Buffalo and Goderich Div. Going" Beast, depart 6.43 a.m. Going East, depart 3.00 p.m. Going' West, depart t 11.4,5' a.m. Qoing West, depart 9.50 p.m. London—Clinton . '43gitlg % filouth ar, 2.90, Weave 3.08 p•.in. Our booklet "Where :there's No ,Will" briefly outlines the changes recently made in the law of the Province of Ont- ario ntario as it affects persons dy, ing without Wilis.. n • Changing financial conditions.. • Changing laws, • Changing family, business and social relationships— NecessitateChangesin One'sWill. Our experience in the administra- tion of Estates may of value' Ito you today, THE �� E INC T RUSTS CORPORATION 372 DAY ST. ` . TORONTO "PEG" GRAIN MIXTURES AID MILK FLOW IN DRY SEASON Cows must be kept in full production if Canada to meet cheese output promised Britain. With a threatened decrease in sum- mer milk production owing to acute pasture conditions in many counties of Ontario due to near drought con- ditions, The Feed Board of the Ont- ario Department of Agriculture is advising farmers to resort to heav- ier grain feeding to keep up the milk flow. This is deemed absolutely nec- essary if Ontario is to do its 70 per cent share in providing 112,000,000 pounds of Canadian cheese for Brit- ain. Statistics show that , Ontario is down . 330,000 pounds of cheese this year as compared with last year's production for the first five months. Officials have been hoping the fig- ures for June will show this deficit wiped' out. Reports received by the Ont. Dept. of Agriculture horn the heavy cheese -producing counties of Eastern Ontario state that many cheese fac- tory patrons have materially increas- ed production per cow by judicious grain feeding. While farmers can- not control pastures owing to weathe er conditions, they can control supr piemental grain feeding, Feed Board officials point out. Grain mixtures for cows on good pasture are recommeded by the Board as follows: (1) oats 200 pdunds and barley 100 pounds; (2) oats 200 pounds barley 100. pounds and wheat100 ounds (3) oats 100 pounds, barley 100 pounds, wheat 100 pounds, and soybean oilmeal 50 pounds. Grain mixtures` for cows on poor to medium pasture: (1) oats 200 pounds, barley 100 pounds, wheat 100 pounds, soybean oilmeal 100 pounds; (2) oats 200 pounds, wheat 100 poun- ds, dried brewers' grains 100 pounds and'' linseed oilmeal 60 . pounds. The above mixtures are consider- ed ideal but if these grains are not available, it is better to usewhat are available than none at all. Thecondition of pasture, condit- ion of sow\ and milk flow should be taken' into `•eonsidieration when kW - aiding the amount of grain mixture to be fed. PAGE 7 1 for ACTIVE SERVICE RATES OF PAY IN THE RANKS $1.30 per Day with Board, Lodg- ing, Clothing, Medical and Dental care provided. 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See just where you'll fit in. See where any particular skill you possess can best be utilized. Then join up for ACTION. Apply to nearest District Recruiting Office or any local Armoury DEPARTMENT OF NATIONAL DEFENCE CANADA a�. ".01.A,".:VW.*rY1`er'.'r°L'i.'.'.P.'l,J'e n5t'rSP.°d'r d'd'.rr.1Pr W.Wr•,': 1 .W I Read - And Write = For You (Copyright) By John C. Kirkwood W,F L"d'StTw'L'L'n'iS,"s".i'A". V LaiYs'LL'r1p1L'1.r.F.°r'ii'r'USS"iirrN."J'1'rYeWViar� MAINLY PERSONAL of the giver. The name was Mackie! Last week there came to our home a letter from Greenland. By a later post, on same day came a post card from a friend in Malaya! The letter from Greeland was written on May 13th. Perhaps a few extracts from it may be interesting to my readers: "The winter is breaking up with mild thawing winds from the north- west that bring melting snow or warm delving rain that has beaten away the winter snowdrifts, •set many rivulets in motion and is gradually eroding away the snow and leaving mare muddy patches of ground. The breakup of winter means also the breakup of one's routine: a restless and unsettled, mood that prevents sol- id, delaxed reading at length. Short stories, old magazines olds and ends of poetry or essays, occupy the hours in between visits, letters or random writing. My life here during the past six months has been uneventful. One vegetates more or less, or hibernates during these months, in a very quiet little village. Only when a ship comes in does life pick up a little more animation and freshness". My Malayan correspondent left London for the Far East, as a Flying Officer in the R.A!.F., about last Dec- ember.a greet- ing post card was H gr' ing and a request for a vivacious Ietter. A week later I saw a letter from a young Canadian woman, written from Malaya, or near it—a long letter containing ;very vivid pic- tures of her visits to Bangok, Sing- apore, Thailand, and other places which are today more or less in the news. This young Canadian woman is a_graduate of Toronto University, where she specialized in child psy-• --'x--- • ehology. About two years ago she Very rich men, when they acquire riches, want to build a big and cost- ly house -far bigger than they need to house them, and they spare not ex- pense. I heard the other day about a man who built himself, on the out- skirts of Toronto, a million -dollar house. Indeed, I was told that his property, of 250 acres of land, most- Iy woods, cost him, with the house built on it over 11/s 'millions. This man is in his middle 80's! He made his fortune out of a much advertised food product. He canna be far from death. A month ago he was in a hospital because of an accident—'he had fallen down stairs. He has no son, and his daughter, who. lives in the United States, has no desire— s() it was said to me—to return to Canada. to make her home. So what sense was there in building a ntillion- dollar house? And when this man has .been garnered by the Man with the Scythe, who, in these present times, of fierce taxation, can afford to live in a'million-dollar house? This bringa up the question, what is the economic house for a man earning, say, $3000 a year? I found an answer to this question in a book just published "How to Buy or Build - Your Home Wisely," y isel " b Roland. K. Abercrombie (Macmillan)+ This man says that most persons can af- ford a house worth front 1 2-3 to 21 Times their annual income—say two times. And so a man earning $3000 cionafford a $6000 house. Approx imatelr one-fifth of the total invest rent in ,one's house is the economic ratio for the land on which the house is built or to be built. "Mackie" is not, a very common went with her friends on a ' sailing Canadian name. One day there ship to make a journey round the came to our home from Scotland a world—to 'look after their young box of shortbread, bearing the name children. She has been back in Tor- Mackie as maker. The same day was onto a few months and it has taken delivered to :our home if gift box of, modthsto recover her ability to wear °hotplates, and inside was the card heeled -shoes with comfort and -to sleep in a bed. For a year and a half her bed was the flat deck of the ship and her shoes were heelless. My friend who wrote me from Ma- laya had before the war a very un- usual kind of occupation: he was an organizer of exhibitions. He got in- to this kind of work, for the first time, in 1908. He and I were assoc- iated in London in bringing into be- ing an Ideal Home Exhibition, or- ganized by the London Daily Mail. This exhibition has been ,almost an annual affair ever since -- omitting the war years, and has been a phen- omenal success. It grew out of an idea of mine, namely, the ,London Daily Mail should offer a prize of £250 for the best planned house to cost not more than £1000, It was another Daily Mail associate who blew up this idea to the dimension of an exhibition. In the course of the years my friend Bellasis •— now in the Far East —organized an exhibition of British Industries in Athens in 1919—im2ned- lately following the first World War —an exhibition promoted by the great and important body known as the Federation of British Industries. 'It' fell to me to have produced the.. cat- alogue for thus exhibition---jpxdntect in both French and Greek—a dread- ful experience! In 1931.Bellasis or- ganized an exhibition in Buenos Air- es under the auspices of the British Chamber of Commerce in the Argen- tine. Then, in 1936-37, he organized the exhibition in Johannesbeurg to commemorate the jubilee el that at citY Just before the outbreak of the cur- rent war Bcllasis had written an en- trancing book about his experiences as an exhibition organizer, but pub- lication of the book had to be deferr- ed because of the war. I do hope that when peace comes, • this book will be published, not alone for its values as a book on exhibitions but also for its delightfulness. • My friendsBellasis has a. brilliant daughter --a professed journalist, but now a war worker in Britain.' We had a letter from her May. Here are portions of it: "I have now been fivemonths iu the R.A.F., liking it immensely. I was prepared to find -the life very un• congenial, and to rough it a good deal, but actually I took to the King' Coat from the first; and as fo roughing it I am only ashamed think how much better we fare tha the people in civvy street. Of course to live in an aerodrome, particular' a bomber station, is to live on Iarge-size target; but our own death carrying kites constantly taking o have been almost the only thing remind me that there is a war on. I seems odd to think when I go sous again on leave, I shall be heari again the clamour of the sirens, th baying of the barrage, the usua whistles and crumps. "My comrades -in -arms are gran people. There can be nobody bran than these bombi{r boys—the "b driver?' who may "fail to return" an busy night. They get several time, the danger and only half the publicit of the flight -bays. And how imus we owe them! And how young the are to die! "The Waafs are a good bunch, th majority being mess and kitche good-hearted lassies, who work her and enjoy themselves thorough' There are, however, all kinds—clerk and drivers and teleprinters, and s forth. I am lucky to have a room o my own. Our food is amazingly go and as for our uniforms, I think i looks wizard, and I've never been s warm and comfortable through winter. On the whole I am by n means browned off with the R.A.E yet awhile, and sin inclined bo take poor view of all eny civvy preocou atone, particularly. clothes, frillie and fella's, in which Pve never fe so little interest! -"This letter is full of trifles, b ono cannot spill any' gem, of pours And what can one say of the gr subjects always present in o minds? We must write of trifled'. I am sure that my readers will we come this picture of a phase of en's work and life in the Old La during these times. You Roll Them Be+fer With EINE. OGDEN'SCUT CIGARETTE TOBACCO