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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1938-12-29, Page 2AGE 2 THE CLINTON NEWSRECORD — THURS., DEC. 29, 1938 lehristine -who has been a Tee Line '.stewardess for some time, is suddenly transferred to the "Hay Tor," bound for Shanghai. Her pretty selfish, half- sister, Pay Lind just secured a post in a beauty salon in Shanghai, and her passage is booked in the Hay Tor. Since Fay is bitterly ashamed of the 'fact that Christine is a stewardess, Christine promises not to let anyone ,en board know that they are related. Irhe Clinton News -Record with ‘Vhieh M incorporated THE NEW ERA TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION 1 • By KAYE FOX Fay's cabin is not hi ,Christine'e sec- tion of the ship. On signing -on day, Christine dis- covers that the Chief Steward of the Hay Tor is Mi. Perrin, who has a grudge against her mother formerly a stewardess cin the same line. Per- rin warns Christine before she sins on that if she puts on airs with him she will find life difficult. I Frain the very first, Christine's fel- low stewardesses, Mrs. Palm and Miss Crane, shows 'a dislike of her for no !reason and the only person who is at all friendly is Arthur Grant, a cheer- ful yeemo bedroom Steward with whom she works. Grant warns her to be careful, because many of the stewards ,are Perrin's toadies and ' everything is reported to him. Among the passengers in Grant's section is a wealthy man called Mart- in Royde, who has oftexr sailed he Tor 'Lines before and is well-known to the , staff. He is notorious for giving wild parties and splashing money about, One of his friends, Pieria Smythe, a 'sophisticated woman of thirty, is one I of Christine's passengers, -and Royde hiinself oceupies the cabin de luxe in Grant's section. • CHAPTER III CHRISTINE MEETS FAY It. was Mrs. Carlyle, the dear old lady in number ten, who made it pos- sible for Christine to visit Fay, She rang for Christine soon after dinner, explained that she was a very poor sleeper, and .asked Whether it would be possible for her to have a glass of hot milk brought to her room at ten, o'clock every night • As a Tule, this was the sort of re- quest which Clexistine hated, since it meant that she would never be able to go to bed until after that glass of milk was carried up — and she would have to get up. at five -thirty, for number four wanted her morning teaat six. But she jumped at the excuse for being out of her cabin at ten, an hour when there were few people about, and only two bedroom stewards "on watch" on the two pas- senger decks. Mrs, Parr and Miss Crane began to get ready for bed at about nine, for it happened that none of ,their passengers wanted anything after that tine "Aren't you finished yet, Miss Jordan?" Miss Crane asked, as Christine settled down on the settee With 41 book. "I've got milk to take up at ten," Christine explained. "Take it up at half -past nine, Miss Jordan." , "She'd better take it up at the hour it's asked for," Mrs. Parr said, grudg- ingly. "It's Mr. Perrin's rule that the passenger id always right and if there's a complaint about the milk e, being cold, Mt Perrin will have some. a thing to say about it." ` Christine simply rushed down the companion te, the pantry at ten o'- clock, got the milk, previously order- ed front the pantry -man, and hurried up to number four with it, Cater, and a steward whom he did not know were on watch,and they evete both at the bar, talking to the bar steward: there seemed no one elsa about ex- cept for a few passengers, and of course passengers did not matter. It was absurd, really, to feel so guilty as she walked along the star- board alley -way, lookieg ear Fay's room,' but of all the unwritten laws which ruled the ship, that one which forbade poaching in another steward- essM section was perhaps the most stringent. Of course, if this has 'been ihe Brent Tor, Christine could have explained that Fay Was a friend of hers—she need net even say she was her sister—hut she knew already that on the Hay Tor tha worst , possible construction would .be put upon any- thing that she did. ' "Oh, Christine, I thought Yhted for- gotten all about me," Fay exclaimed, as Christine opened the door. • "I couldn't get away before, Fay," ,h Christine said, closing the door very carefully behind her, "and I can only stay foe a few mint:tee now." She sat down on Fay's bed—there was no settee ib„ these little single - berth • rooms, --and Fay snuggled up n against her,. more like a rather scared r child than 'the very self-confident girl r 41.50 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 melees at the option of the pub- disher. 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Jarmuth, Goenhohn, R. R. No. 1. m Any money to be paid may be pais to the 'loyal Bank, Clinton; Bank o - •Commerce, Seaforth, or at Calvii ,Chtt's Grocery, Goderich. Parties desiring to effect insur ante or transact other business wil he promptly attended te on applica Age. to any ,of the above officers ad Adressed to their respective peat offi eras. Lenses inspected by the direetoi • Who lives nearest the scene. iCANADIAN,NATIONA*',RAILWAYS TIME ;TABLE Canine will arrive at and depart from Clinton as follows: Buffalo and Godericb Div, Moing East, depart. 6 58 nom Going East, depart 3,00 p.m t Going West, depart 11.45, p.m, (Going West, depart 10,00 p.m. London, Huron & Bruce ding ar, 11.25 We. 11.47 p.m. Going •Soutil ,ar. 2.50, leave 3.08 p.m. ,and I don't think I shall ever get to know anyone on board.' yes, you will," Christine as- sured her. "They all get friendly in a few days. There's always someone on board who starts organizing deck ganees and things on the very first day, and there'll be dancing on the promenade deck as soon as it's warm enough—you won't be lonely for long, Fay." "And my clothes are all right," Pay said, cheering up a little. "Christine, I must show you the frock I bought "I'm afraid so—the Old Man hardly ever drops inspection, except in real- ly bad weather." We'll never •manage this room in time," Christine said desperately, but, at that moment Mrs. Smythe and Mrs. Collins siRdled out into the alley-wey and Christine and' Grant set to work They were both quick workers, and in a very few minutes Christine had made the bottom bunk and. Grant the olo one, Grant had emptied the slops and swept the carpet, and Christine had opened the "clock" and polished .the basin and soap dish. But the dressing table, covered with •bottles and jars and eoated with spilt powd- er, would really have taken half an hour to do properly,ancl Christine only had time to dust it hastily. "Inspection started," Edwards call- ed out to them, as he ran past the open door. "The Old Man came down from the bridge five minutes ago." Christine ,shook out her apron and set her cap straight, and went to the end of the alleY-way, near the main companion. , Almost as soon as she had taken her plade, the Captain, followed clos- ely by Perrin, came through the door from the smoke room, and started their inspection of the port side state rooms. Number eighteen was the room nearest to the smoke -room and Chris- tine's heart sank when they disappear- ed into that room, and stayed for what seemed to her a good five min- utes. Inspection, on the Brent Tor had as a sort of last minute inspiration never been such a lengthy business this morning. I hadn't time to try it as this they lingered almost as long on, except in the shop, and I want in two other rooms, and by the time you to tell me whether it ought to that they reached Christine she was feeling thoroughly strung and nerv- "Geod-morning, Sir." she answered the Captain's muttered "Good -morn- ing" to her—the only time that a stewardess ever spoke to the Captain, from beginning to end of the voyage, was when he passed her on inspec- tion. Perrin, his face like a thunder- cloud, paused before going down the main companion to begin inspection of the deck below. 'Miss Jordan," he said, "go back and do five, eighteen and four prop- erly. I will have no slackness on this ship, and the sooner you learn it the better." (to be continued) be shortened, just an inch or so." "Hurry up, then". "But you've only just come Chris- tine," ray protested, "and I'm, sure you can't have anything else to do to -night."' "I share a cabin with two others, Fay, and they are probably counting the minutes till my return—rm not suppoeed to wander round the ship at night, you know." But Fay, rummaging through the wardrobe for the new frock, took no notice—she wanted Christine's comp- any, and she didn't care in the least for the rules and regulations of the ship. Christine stayed for a good ten minutes longer, admiring the apple - green frock which suited Fay's fair beauty so exactly. Cator came round the corner of the alley -way when she was on her wee from Fay's room to her own. Ile gave her a rather shrewd glance, but though this was not the shortest way from the upper deck to the steward- esses' cabin, there was no real reason why she should not have come down the main companion and along the lower starboard alley -way, instead of down, the narrow companion amid- ships. As a rule, the stewardesses did not use the main companion, but they sometimes did so at night. She said good -night to Pater, and hoped that her voice sounded natural. Mrs. Parr and Miss Crane were al- ready asleep, and Christine went to bed in the dark, making as little noise as she could. , She had no time even to think of Fay the next • day, for the ship was pitching just enough to send all the bad sailors to bed. No one in Cheis- tine's section was 'really ill, but half - a -dozen of them stayed in bed for breakfast as a precaution, though they were able to eat quite substantial meals, which Christine had to carry. up on trnirs from the pantry. • UNDER THE LASH OF THE BULLY It was in the pantry that morning that Christine had her first encounter with Perrin since coming on board. He was standing at the hot press, nd in all the rush and eurmoil of the pantry at breakfast time he seem - to miss nothing. Christine heard him swearing at Grant liecauee a tray - cloth was crooked, and at the second pantry -man for burning a slice of toast on the electric toaster. "Fish, please," Christine said to the chef, puttieg down the tray which she had ready for Mrs. darlyle. The white -capped chef, standing beside Perrin, was serving- reortions of fish with a perfectly blank expression, as If ho wanted to emphasise his com- plete lack of interest in anything which the Chief Steward might sey to the staff—Chtietine made a ment- al note that the chef wasn't one of. Perrin'S toadies, "HeY you—Miss Jordan," Perrin shouted suddenly. "Did they teach you on the Brent to take trays up without salt?" "Mrs. Carlyle doesnit take *hit," Christine said einetly. "Pathe salt cm at once, and dont • with inc." hands were shaking a little cm she•picked up the tray. Perrires bully- ing tone took some getting used to— and Mrs. Carlyle had definitely told er not to bother to bring salt. She hoped against hope that there would not be any inspection that morning, for she'd have to hurry is get finished before eleven, with five trays to carry up, and the baby ir umber four to look after while his a other was at breakfast. Of course here would be no inspection of the owns in which passengers were still in bed, but they would have to be made reasonably tidy, and Christine had several other rooms as well "Is there going to be inspection 0 -day?" she asked Grant, as he join ✓ her outside the door of eighteen. whom Christine had seen at home, only the night before, "I've never felt se lonely in my life, Christine," Fay said. "They've put me at a table with a whole lot '. 1 of stuffy people, who looked down t their noses at me all through' dinner e THE CHRISTMAS TREE' Mingling with the great company of folk singing Christmas Carols around the glittering community tree shedding its radiance over tha wide open space of the park on Christmas Eve one instinctively recalls the legendary story of the first Christ- mas tree. It Was an eventful Yule- tide nighb hi the dim past of A.D. 724 that Boniface, a missionaey from England, reaching Central Europe, came upon a group of worshippers gathered around an'altar erected be- neath a magnificent oak tree to Thor, he god of thunder and of war. The worshippers were assembled to witness not only the. sacrifice of the most beautiful horse in the commun- ity, but a human sacrifice as well. A lad of twelve years was selected and fearlessly went forward to the altar. Then as the mallet of the priest was raised to descend upon the head a the boy, Boniface inter- cepted the blow with his staff, sur- mounted by the Croas of Christ. As the priesd's mallet broke in many fragments on the altar, Boniface step- ped before the altar end pleaded for the boy and for the Christ he served. SO impassioned was his plea that the worshippers of Thor became worship. pees of the true God, and abandoned their pagan ceremonies. Recognized as a symbol of the true religion, the greet oak under whose spreading branches the altar had been erected was recognized as the first Christmas tree. CHRISTMAS TREE IS NUTS Apples grow on apple trees, peaches on the peach; you know, among a thousand' trees, the graft you'll pick from each, All except the Christmas tree; dodging all the nuts, from that come dolls and drums and eings and ties and pipes and scores of things—the Christmas tree is nuts.—Ex. WISDOM IS 'PHIS , A Boy on holiday after fishing off the pier for three hoers at last gO't a, bite. An old, lady near by loudly stated that it was a shame to catch such dear little fish. The boy was quick with his retort: "Well, he wouldn't have got into trouble if he had kept his mouth Aut." "We have been born to associate with our fellowmen, and to joie in community with the hutnan Cicero. 'eltetetteletteele r aloaieleeeeleeneeeelete HENS X Always scratch hardest *hen the worms are scarce. The hens have nothing on us: We're cer- thinly digging our toes in to * catch up on the arrears on our :ye subscription list. If you are in arrears will you oblige with a remittance? The News -Record ..4,440-44+telefteeeeteW444-44 `106WWWWWVAN'AVANVAIWIAMMANYValoVAIWWWW.".1.%" This lack of individual stre»gth--of indiViclual initiative - seen when one YOUR'WORLD AND MINE finds himself unemployed. 1„ The un- employed printers, carpenters, elect- • i::: ricians, machinist, labourers -,-all tend 0 to congregate daily. They hang about „,,, employment bureaus. It is uncommon ,'0....N0V.00.,W000002'00:%'0000000000,00000000.000.00000000.,! himself nowadays—to go out, all by ,17. for an tmemploy-ed man to rely on Some social reformer,s have advo- it is a system which has tended to himself, to find work—this by mak- catecl that when men die, their pos- the world's advantage. ing work. . session's, in the form of money, and I am quite ready te sanction legis- I land, and securities, should, pass to lately which curbs the geeed and the' the. state; in other words,, that wealth cruelty of individuals mid coepoe '- should not be inherited. This is an tions,, and which takes. from theam M°st (4 us Most of u want to live seftly. intriguingeiclea. Probably, if it: were much of their wealth via taxation and physical work. Most ,of us want to turn. our backs cm hard an idea. in operation, it would prevent inheritance duties. If enterprises ,seeI live in, cities—to be near crowds of great fot•tunes. It would tend to de- the expedient of taariffs, then it is ee viec people, to be near to movies and to many men. from trying to build 'up state. assistance and protection eager to accumulate millions of to the state a goodly portion of their eel riinfySto_irves, to be near factopies, WhiCh A e us soft --and precarious— stroy initiative: Men would not be quite just that they should return money if they lamer ehat when theY gaits. Also, it is quite right filet ,.eapvlioiyment. Most of us went eo lean V an stronger and more enter - died, their accumulationa would pass, the' state should insist on all em l'ising Persgr's. 1%"st a US Me" . An idea occurs, ta me—whether or- Time was, in Gomat Britain and in. 13'' employees juPelisiY; marry women who want to live soft-. to the state. , ., iers treating their iginal or not, I do not know, yet I other einurtries, when the state per- and when times of distress come, hardly think that it can be original. mitted employers to hire young child- it is our wives .and our •children who Indeed, I feel very sure that it is an Tem at age of 6 or 7, to work in mills I bind attraetions, . US tightly to cities and theie idea vrhich has often bean put forward and factories, and te keep' them at! All the while Mather Earth is beck by men acutely conceened with human week for 12 to 14 holu•s a day; butl onin to' us, sa in , "Come u to me-, welfare. I seem. to remember th,at the developing conscience of the pub- all ge who are wYorrcless 'in greaut 't' the idea was put into. operation by lie led to the enactment Of laws for' andYtowns. Let my bounty feed yelottl Utopian enterprises -- tee utopian the prevention of child employment Most of us are very foelish and bliacii scheme of Brook Farm, by way of , The cam a istic system, does not we want to earn our free(' and t,uh, exanm e. The idea is that the wages neeessatily mean unrestrained lib i ter out of otn- own bodies, despite the of all werkers should be nooled--eurn- 'to exploit human beings.. el Y readiness of Nature to, assist us with ed over to the state,‘ with the state Speaking for myself I like that see- he)! fertilitY' her rains and winds. . distributing to,' each worker a due por- tion of the pooled money. The ells. I am not urging all unemployed to ial system which allows individuals. tribution would not be equal; it would a very tie immure et. persona, tree. become farmers, trying to farm my 100 acres. Farining 100 •acres 're - however be equitable. Labour would dam, and which encourages individuals be graded --...Class A, Class B, and so quires capital and homes, and be- te express themselves as individuals —to be assertive of their individual, Piements' BillS it is Pussible t°' make' on. Those in the A. category would receive each -week se mueh money; ism" as few as five or ten acres eustain it family, by intensive cultivation. 1 those in 13 category, so much money; I am opposed to persons losing their do not say that the farmer of 6 or and sa on. By this arrangement, the individualism in masses. The present- ,10 acres will have much to sell— high-grade workers would be able to day trend is in. -the direction 9f mas- tho-ugh in European countries many live more abundantly than the low- sism. Most 9f us tend to become 'eultivators of 5 acres de produce a grade workers. Provisien could be like those about us, in our ways of large quantity of products which axe made for \ advancement from one Being grade to another, according to a man's and thinking and playing and sold. The main hmnediate problem !behaving We dress alike; we eat Der rilanY Persona is subsiStenue- desserts. . !identical foods - adveztised foods; we I ...., - Out of the pooled -wages of all furnish our homes according. to pat -I -.mere is another reason why mom workers, pensions would be paid td 1 'teens established for us by adver- should respond to the beckoning. of the aged and feeble and incapacitat- . ed. It would be an obligation of the resorts and other places of interest; Illiviouther Earth: Mother Earth can and give sustenance to many whom tisers; we go in crowds to the same ,we listen, in our millions, to the same industry rejects as being toa old at state to provide work for all able to ' work. 'radio programmes we are mode to 50. To these rejected' ones there will I do not put female this idea with think alike by what is printed in our remain many years of life -20 to 25, probably. Why should not these years. any seriousness. I have not tried to newspapers and maga,zines-magazines think the idea through. rt is just be spent in the country, on a holding a with circulation of three millions or et, a, few ems.? • fancy. It could form the •subject of mere, and whose circulations widen a debate fee• those vile like dehatingi by copies being passed from hand to I ant convinced that in the Years and who belong to debating societies. heed, eme ,ins i u n .--....-- . 1' t't tio s offer us employment, for el big factat'ies, stores and ahead' in Canada, many of tlie. unene- loyed and unemployable will accept Deep down in my heart I like best the doing of work almeet the same as Mother Nature's invitation ---to go to, the present system oe rewarding that being done by our neighbour, her and live on her bounty. Our schools turn out millions of 1 workers and of carrying on business; students every year all having the' or to put it differently, I lil e the t - selfsame education, capitalistic snstem—the systein which' ! permits individuals to earn as much I suppose that all this is inevitable. lieE I knew you and you• lemew me; if both of us could clearly see, as they are able and willing to earn, yet it is destructive of individualism lArramenwinithe an inner sight divine the and to stazt selfish enterprises—ent- 'which means that it is destructive of g of your heart and mine, erprises devised to rneke them profit, individual strength. Our present-d'ay rt. sure that we would differ less and I am fully aware that the capitalistic independent of others; on the contrary 1 which profit they are free to retain. social system does not teach' us to be clasp our hands in friendliness, Our thoughts would pleasantly agree if r knew you and you knew me, system permits men to exploit men, lit makes us woefelly dependent on, and that it breecls avaricious men; yet others. I —Nixon Waterman:. (Copyright) by 'ACTIN C. KIRKWOOD G ne Ind Are you a "Gone with the Wind" Avertiser? Does your advertising get as far as the front porch only to be caught by a gust of wind and gone to clutter up your yard or your neighbor's. This "Gone with the Wind" advertising fails in its purpose te get into the home, to be interesting enough to be read, to be convincing etough to sell the mechandise you offer. 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