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The Clinton News Record, 1938-05-19, Page 2.'AGE 2 THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD THURS., MAY 19, 1938 By Agnes Louise Provost Synopsis on a shelf ` which served as a mantel. Two of them were snapshots of ,Lee, " Lee Hollister, returning from a trip both of them on horseback; the others abroad to the. Circle V ranch, owned were all of one girl, a lovely, dell - by Matt Blair, who for twenty years Gately ` modeled ; eneatm}mo Virginia :had been like a father to Lee, de- Blair, Matt's precious jewel for whom aides to surprise the family. He nothing was too good nor any sacri- aen�s' them no word of<his coming fice too great. Pictures of Virginia in. and rides over the hills to the ranch childhood, small and big -eyed,' with "ort Imoi•seoack. R}men he finally sees a cloud of hair; later and larger ones, -the wide ranchland beforehim, he is � Virginia in riding clothes, an eugag- astonished' at the unusual aspect of yug' young 'ihitmg, Virginia :in a -the place. He is troubled, too, when he sleeveless tennis frock, in something meets Slanty Gallo on Matt's. land. light and gleaming, in bridesmaid's :And when Joey—old prospector 'be" frippery with a picture hat; a camera :friended by Matt—tells him Matt is study, cool and faintly mysterious, dead by his own hand, Lee is puzzled with the cloud of hair sleeked to a and 'unhappy. proud little head. Vir in a, P rg' gay and !petted, smoothly turned out, exquisite Zee dropped the reins over the,w`th expensive care. 'buckskin's head and left him' to stand'ly "Was she Ramer' he asked abrupt - there and crop at young grass. They Joey shook his head. Lee's fade turned and went up the slope to darkened. Joey's cabin. Neither spoke. "Pity she couldn't have spared a Inside the cabin there was a rough d If his little time for her own father," he Joey pridehimseon, r said moodily. "It might have cheered housekeeping. There was decoration, lmint up a little." woo, six or eight photographs ranged + Now, Lee, you mustn't tails tha; way. Matt wanted her to have all that schoo'.in' and travrlin', He'd The Clinton News -Record 'promised her ma to see that she got with which is Incorporated it. Honey was on firer way home, Lee THE NEW ERA 'for good, And that's what met her. I—they druv me in to Saunders when TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION her train come in. I had to tell her," $1.50 per year in advance, to Can- • Joey's voice betrayed him again adieu. addresses; $2,00 to the U,S. or Never had Lee seen the old man so ,other foreign countries. No paper broken. He made quick amends. discontinued until all arrears are "All right, Joey, we won't quarrel :paid unless at the option of the pub- about that. Tell me how it happened." Usher. The date to which every sub -i Joey told. Stripped to its naked es- scription is paid is denoted on the sentials it resolved itself into the label. story of a man who bad gone down .ADVERTISING RATES — Transient under accumulating troubles. A lay - advertising 12c per count line for ish father and an open-handed friend, first insertion, 80. for each subse- to whom no one in trouble ever ap quest insertion, Heading counts 2 pealed in vain, Matt had been under lines, Small advertisements not to heavy expense for years. Formerly exceed one inch, such as "Wanted", the Circle V had been solidly able to "'Lost, "Strayed", etc„ inserted once meet all reasonable demands, but for 35e., each subsequent insertion raising beef cattle was not what it 15c. Rates for display advertising had been, and of late there had been /made known on application. lean years. Hard times had hit Matt Communications intended for pub- heavily, and one disaster after an- lication must, as a guarantee of good other had piled on shoulders already faith, be accompanied by the nam" burdened. Cattle had stampeded over of the writer. a cliff, grazing privileges which he G. E. HALL - - Proprietor had rented for years from old Don Luis Cabelios had been refused by a II. T. RANCE new owner; there were notes in bank Notary Pehlke Conveyancer and the bank had unexpectedly,press- 0inancial, Real Estate and Fire In- ed for payment; Juniors also of dis- •nurance Agent. Representing 14 Fire estrous speculations. 'Insurance Companies. Division Court Office, Clinton "He must have been figgerin' oro some deal that didn't pan out," said Frank Fingland, B.A., LL.B. Joey. "He hinted at souethin' to me; vl3arrister, Solicitor, Notary Pebee Come down here one night for a pipe Successor to W. Bryd�o te, K.i. ,with me --ye know how he did—and Sloan Block — Climitcmn, Ont, said that things was goin' to come through big fer him pretty soon, and A. E. COOK to remember that he always had two Piano and 'Voice pardners—you and me, Lee. That's "Studio -E. C. Nickle, Phone 23w. the last talk we had. Three days later 80-tf, he was dead, with a letter from the Assay Office teilin' him th some D. II. McINNES ore samples he'd sent 'em didn't as- say high enough to be with what if CHIROPRACTOR would cost to get it out." Electro Therapist, Massage Not the old Bonanza?" Office: Huron 'Street. (Few MoraI west of Royal Bank) "No, they ain't nothin' there but Hours—Wed, and Sat. and by cave-ins. We found a place down in appointment, one of the old cleims where they'd FOOT CORRECTION been some fresh 4y manipulation sun4 ay Treatmentdiggin', but the ore Phone 207 wasn't with anything, not fer real I could of told him that." GEORGE ELLIOTT "limn. Did anybody hear the shot?" Licensed Auctioneer for the County "No. He was all alone. Looks like of Huron Correspondence promptly answered he'd fixed it up that way. He'd let Iiccmediatearrangements can be made the boys go off to a barbecue, and for'Sales Date at The Netys-Record, they didn't get back till near mornin'. Clinton, or by Balling phone 203. Even Lingwas down to Saunders, Charges Mbderate end Satisfaction Gual•anteed. visitin' with another Chink. It was Ling that found him, fust about sun - THE McKILLOP MUTUAL up, sagged down iii his chair like .I told ye, with his gun on the floor, Fire Insurance Company where it had slipped out of his flu - Bead Office, Seaforth, Ont. Officers: gerxJ' President, Thomas Moylan, Sea "I suppose," said Lee sharply, forth; Vice .'resident, William Knox, "that the whole outfit had pawed the Londesboro; Secretary -Treasurer, M. gun over before anybody thought of A. 'Reid, Seaforth, Directors, Alex. fingerprints?" 73roadfoot, Seaforth; James Sholdice,1 "1 dessay they hid handle it, but 'Walton; James Connolly, Goderich; they ain't any use in tryin' to figger "W. R. Archibald, Seaforth; Chris. it out that way. It was Matt's own 'Leonhardt, Dublin; Alex. McEwing, gun, and they was powder marks on Telyth; Frank McGregor, Clinton. him .where it had been fired close. List of Agents: E. A, Yeo, R.R. 1, D'ye s'pose. Matt Blair would of let 'Oaderich, Phone 6031.31, Clinton; anybody get that near him with a -jams Watt, Blyth; John E. Pepper, 'Reeeefield, R. R. No. 1; R. ie. McKey- gun? Anyways, he's gone. We buried •chert' Dublin, R. R. No. 1; Chas. P. him up by Monument Rock, like he Hewitt, Kincardine; R. G. Jarmuth, always wanted to be, where ho can ',Bornholm, R. R. No. L look dews on the valley and out Any money to be paid may be paid through the notch.' •to the Royal Bank, Clinton; Bank of g Commerce, Seaforth, or at Calvin Silence fell heavily between therm. d✓iitt's Grocery; God'erich. Lee- broke it presently. Parties desiring to effeet incur- "Is Virginia up at the house?" 'ince -or transact other business will be promptly attended to en appliea- "No, she only stayed for a little Ioy: to any ,of the above officers ad -while. She said the place was so full dressed to their respective. pest aff'i- of memories she couldn't stand it. sea. Losses inspepted by the director Honey took it hard, Lee. And her who lives nearest the scene. aunt ltep' coaxin' her to come back East and live with them, and so she _ went. They's a manager here now, flM•t TABLE Lawler, his name is, no more'n an origin will arrive at and depart front ordinary foreman, if you ask me; and Clinton as follows: not such a smart one, at that. Things , Buffalo and GederiCM nig, is kinda'•unpin' down: It ain't the old(Going East, depart 7:03 a.m. Circle V anymore. Theys' nobody left ;ANAOIAN T ONA AILWAYS Going East, depart 8.p.m• of the old crowd but Curly and Dar- rGoin, g West, depart 11.45 p.m. Going West, depart 10.00 p.m. reit, and I guess they'd be gone if London, Reran & Bruce Honey hadn't said definite that they Going. North, ar, 11.25 Ive. 11.47 p.m. was to be kep' on. I was horin' she'd Going 'South ar. 2.50, leave 3.08 p.m.,come bank, but Curly told nit yes - tidily he'd heard somebody was goin• ' to buy it and turn it into one of these here gentleman's fancy ranches. I'i'i not blamin' Honey; can't rightly expect her to try to swing the load when Matt went.,down under it." Q'n the ` edge of Joey's bunk Lee sat very still. He had long, rather fine hands. They tensed, and eased again. His face was expressionless: Joey had hurried along with his nar- rative, getting the worst of his bad. news out. He paused and fumbled with his next words, looking embar- rassed and a little anxious. "Ye don't s'pose Honey would let anybody jump my claim, do ye, Lee?" your claim as long as you want to. "No," said Lee - flatly. "This is your claim as long as you want to. keep it. You'll not be disturbed." As far back as his memory of the Circle V went, that ravine had been Joey's. No cattle were ever driven through( Ibherc, no timber was cut save for Joey's use. Years ago, so small a thing as a gopher hole had left Matt Blair in the middle of the lesert with a badly wrenched ankle and two broken ribs, a horse that had to be shot and a water_supply whose last drop trickled into the sand as he reached for it. It was not until late the next afternoon that Joe Kirby, a weather-beaten little desert -at who even then looked almost any age, had caught sight of something far ahead of him, erawling erratically on all fours, rising and hobbling, -rmwling again, without aim or di- rection. He had hurried on to find an exhausted, thirst -crazed man who tried to fight him as he gave him water front. his , own slender store. They were long miles from` the near- est water;• hole, and Matt was twice Joey's ,size and unconscious part of the way, but somehow, coaxing, curs- ing, urs-i mg, pulling, dragging, with grudg- ing help from a. small and'' resentful burro, the wiry little prospector had staggered through' with hili -to Water and safety. And from that day what was Matt Blairs was Joeys. Matt, with the constitution of a grizzly, had pulled through, but Joey had never been matte the same man. since: There was no longer the same zest in battling sandstorms and bliz- zards and desert'grillinge, in blazing' days and sharp night endured for the sake of the strike that was always !just over the next'ridge or down in the canyon beyond. And so, drifting Ione time to the Valley . of the Sun, Joey had stayed. Inveterate old pros- pector that he was, he had at once j begun puttering• around for gold. All of the hills that crowded around the valley' were highly mineralized, and the promise of gold had bean there, although, save for the brief flurry lover the old Bonanza, it had never been found in paying quantities. Joey had located a fairly promising streak in the ravine, "It's yours," said Matt Blair, "You stake your claim anywhere around here that you want." 1 So Joey had staked his claim, care- fully and conscientiously, giving Mat' a painstaking diagram of its limits. but the whole ravine had been Joeys' from that day. The claim had not proved very rich, giving little more than the wages for a days work. But now for years he had puttered around here contentedly, washing out just enough "dust" for his simple- needs, smoking a friendly pipe with Matt of an evening, and always promising himself that some day he would start out again and find the magic lode. And if in the meantime it was sus- peeted that now and then Matt can- nily salted a strip to give Joey a cheering day, nobody ever hinted it Ito the old man. s•Wile/W,' .'%Wil.•.`.'.Y.rr'.Y1'hesW.11S.'.W.`.Y.•.e.0.%Weaefew• S� } YOUR WORLD NI) MINE (copyright) by JOHN C. KIRKWOOD '."i OW'hi LS`aS`,r`d4ti'.i'ti". ANSE".'.`.`a`1'.4Y.'L"i'.'.`+1'L'WaYY.`iJ' NV A, few days ago I pawed on the street a man who was paid $12,000 a year for his services, for several years, a few years ago. His was a big job, selling his municipality to industrialists. He was successful in inducing a goodly number of U.S.A. industrial companies and corporations ie establish Canadian branches in his city. So, presumably, he earned his income. Then he joined a large merchandis- ing organization, again at a $12,000 1salary, according to report, but for some other reason he slid not remain long with this company. My own idea is that he was not fitted by either training or experience for his new job, and I am quite sure that he did not earn his salary, Then he went to a new job, still at $12,000 salary, according to rumour. I do not know much about his present•work. I think that he has slipped in his esteem and value, andthat his present employers are not paying him $1000 a month for his services. I would consider ban overpaid at 3500 a month. I am thinking of another man who for years was paid a salary of $6000 a year. Then came a lucky break for him, and his salary was raised to $10,000 a year; but everybody who knows his work feels that he is large ly overpaid. 1 think that he himself perceives that he is overpaid. He is by no moans a young man, he is well past 60; and so if someday soon he is replaced by another man, it will not be a very great surprise to those who are watching his work, and his work or performance is visible daily to perhaps 200,000 persons. The mayor of Toronto t'eceives a salary of $10,000—or it may be near- er 312,000; but even if it were 31000 a month, it is not enough. Administ-. ering the affairs of a city of 800,000 constitutes a job calling for a man worth more than $12,000 a year. Ad- ministering the affairs of a large life insurance company or of a chartered bank es a job woth more than 312,000 a year, The head of a gigantic bus- iness like the Ford Motor Car Comp- any should be paid much more than $12,000 a year. A salary of 3100,000 is not too mneh for some men, men at the helm' of business enterprises employing millions upon millions of capital. I am.not soured when I hear of men who receive large salaries. I believe that a man should be paid the income which he earns—whether it be 31000 a year, or $12,000, or 3120,000. In saying this I know that I ani saying something Iikely to offend some of my readers. Always, in every com- munity, are persons who say that no man is worth a salary of $100,000 a year., Always in every community, are artisans and labourers and clerical workers who measure their worth al- ong side the salariee paid to high-up executives, and who come to the easy and quick conclusion that they are just about as good as are the men whose incomes are 20 to 100 times larger than theirs. These soli -mead= urers measure their moral worth, their character worth, their intellect - tial attainments against the money- making ability of those far beyond then in request of income. That is to say, they are not making the right kind of comparison. If some of these artisans, labourers and intellectuals were offered a job tomorrow with a 350,000 income attached to it, they would refuse it, admitting quite read- ily— and honestly—that they could never earn the 350,000. Many a great corporation has been mismanaged, with the result that its losses each year have been colossal. Then a new man is nut into the saddle and his genius and sales energy and ability to effect economies change losses of hundreds of thousands o'' dollars per annum into hundreds of thousands of dollars profit, Who shall say that this man is hot worth $1.00,- 000 a year? Many of us can earn far more than we now earn. This is what I want to impress, in this contribution to the News -Record. Most of us under -em- ploy our talents, our opportunities, our assets of education and ability and experience. Many a farmer is earning less than it is possible for him to earn. I know a man who gets about $2500 cash each year, from Iess than 3 acres of his 100 -acre farm. He says that he could make his income $10,000 per year from these same three acres, He grows dahlia tubers, He himself does little physical work. He hires two Wren to prepare the soil for his dahlias and to look after them while they are growing. The owner's genius and ability are expressed in the caring for the tubers after they are taken from the earth, and in marketing them, If he' sought more customers and gave himself more dil- igently to selling tubers, he could quadruple his sales. But this man's health is none too good, and he is well east his Goth year. An income of 32500 suffices for his needs and pleasures. Some farmers specialize—in milk - production, in the breeding of pure- bred cattle, sheep, hogs, horses. Some go in for seed -growing- clover, wheat, oats. Some become fruit far- mers, In Britain some farmers in Lincolnshire—in the Fenlands country have incomes of 350,000 a year. They specialize in celery and some other vegetable crops. Sonte families in France and in Britain make from 34000 to 35000 a year from the in- tensive cultivation of vegetables in advance of their normal seasons— from a single acre. They grown ubdrr glass bells. They own the soil which produces the vegetables, and if and when they move away, they take their soil with them in their baskets: In a certain town known to me were numerous retailers. All had an equal opportunity to forge ahead. Each had the same trading area, and the same number of families—indeed, the identieal families --able to give him custom; yet several of these retailers far surpassed their less aggressive brethern in volumn of business done per annum, and in prosperity. It was not the possession " Of more capital GET A DANDY HAMCO COKE SHOVEL at a fraction of regular cost. See your dealer. Ask hint, too, about the new HAMCO AUTOMATIC DRAFT CONROL and HAMCO HOT WATER HEATER NOW is the time to fill your bin with HAMCO — Canada's famous dustless, smokeless, wasteless Coke. Save dollars throughout the next heating season by taking advantage of the new reduced price. Ask your local HAMCO Dealer for particulars. i HAMILTON BY-PRODUCT COKE OVENS, LIMITED HAMILTON, CANADA HAMCO COKE sold in Clinton by: VICTOR FALCONER W. J. MILLER & SON A. D. McCARTNEY J'. B. MUSTARD COAL CO. (ALSO BRUCEFIELD) which made some go forward; it was course of the years, will be made their enterprise—their vision. general manager. In this town was a young bank I could speak of some newspaper clerk, on the same level as all other men known to me—snen who have bank clerks. But this clerk of whom' grown rich and influential. About I speak was studious. He was not' 30 years ago one of these 01011 had a much of a play boy: He wrote essays' capital of less than $400. With this set by the bank, and in this way drew he bought a newspaper, meaning that attention to himself. He was marked he acquired ownership of the news - out for advancement. Today he is the : paper for $3500, paying cash down third ranking officer in his bank,' 3500. In 10 years he was able to buys Soon he will be made assistant gen-I a 325,000 newspaper property. Today' eral manager; and presumably, in the' Ire is half owner of a prosperous daily newspaper. Some millionaire news- paper owners began as compositors, without any capital whatsoever. Most of us alas, are perfectly will- ing to do low -calibre work. We are ambitionless. We Iack the quality of daring. We are doing nothing to ac- quire more knowledge and lability. We could easily earn, in the course of a few years, twice or thrice the wage -we are now receiving. Nothing but our ownselves is holding us down and back. News Items Wanted By The NEWS -RECORD You May Telephone CLINTON 4 If Anyone =Dies . —Gets Married —Has Guests —Goes Away —Has a Party —Has a Baby —Has a Fire —Is Ill —Has an Operation —Has au Accident —Buys a Home —Wins a Prize —Receives an Award —Builds a House —Makes a Speech " —Holds a Meeting —Or Takes Part in Any Other Event. 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