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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1939-11-16, Page 6PACE 6 THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD THEY ARE FOUND EVERYWHERE Editors find out about ;people. Th editor of "Shining Lines" pictures the characteristics of some. people ;teary truly. He pictures a reds -faced 'ma entering a itewspap�er office in a hurry. "Conditions in this city,' shouts he "are a scandal. Your paper ought to expose this. man, I will give you all the facts. You ought to come cut with a blistering editorial against him. It is your civic duty." The editor hears him through, then speaks. "I tell you what we will do," he says calmly. "You write our paper a letter exposing the scandal, and we will be glad' to publish it over your signature." A period of silence follows, dur- ing which the visitor cols down rapidly.' He is'eems to shrink in size until he looks like a collapsed balloon. When he speaks again, it is in a different tone, lower and more apolo- getic: ca "Why," he says, somewhat fluster- ed, "you mama expect me to de that. It would get ere into trouble. It bugloss." hurt me in my buess." After this speech the visitor begins to realize there is little more he can say. The editor watches him move toward the exit and smiles.' " it is ever thus," he says, and goes to work. NO FEES FOR' TRACTOR LICENSES TIT'S YEAR e Farmers using rubber -tired tractors on the highways to pull their wagons or other farm vehicles will not be an penalized for not having a license as permits are being issued far the bat- ' once of the year to authorize theop- eration of these tractors by farmers I without fee. This information was given out over the weekend by Hon. N. O. Hipel, provincial minister of labor. Mr. Hipel has been in. negotiation , with the department of highways for some months in search of a solution to the problem. I Arrangements have been made with the provincial, police to recognize these permits and they will be issued to those making application' in writ- ing to J. P. Bickell, registrar of motor vehicles: Farmers making application must give a description of the tractor, such as the trade name and the type of tires and the same information with reference to the wagons or trailers to be used. -Tavistock Gazette. FORMER LISTOWEL BOY ON PAPER BOMBARDMENTS The "Pamphlet Bombardment" of Germany, by the British Royal Air Forces, was brought close home to Listowel when it was learned this week that Flying Officer Elmer Richards, son of Mr. and Mrs. 0. R. Richards, who, until this summer, was principal of the Point Edward Public School, had participated in these daring flights. Ina letter to friends in Point Ed - Ward, Flying Officer Richards spoke of piloting a plane in the "paper bar- rage" without mishap;. Mr. Richards evidently has been on reconnaissance duty also, for he mentioned having flown as far south as the Mediterran- ean. A recent Ietter from the district representative in the R.A.F. disclos- ed his expeotation of early command of a large bombing plane. FIRST ATLANTIC CABLE IN 1866 The steamship Great Eastern laid the first successful Atlantic cable in July, 1866, following two unsuccess- ful attempts in 1857 and 1858 by H.M.S. Agamemnon, and the U.S. frigate Niagara, according to officials of the Canadian National Telegraphs. Since then the science of the ocean cable has steadily improved, and in the oozy depths of the Atlantic lie Many of the slender armor -plated strands of copper wire which tie the two continents together, YOUR E STATE if you want a prompt, economical, business- like administration of your estate, name as your EXECUTOR - THE STERLING' TRUSTS CORPORATI011 372 BAY ST., TORONTO OVER 28 YEARS EXPERIENCE GOVERNMENT HAS NO MANDATE TO FLOUT PUBLIC OPINION Where Premier Hepburn has given his' brainstorms ,free rein and has refused to listen to -the voice of public opinion, he has generally been wrong, More than once, in such cases, he has been compelled. to- retrace his steps, In his latest brainstorm, according to Which. he ,would extend the terms of i municipal councils for two years or for the duration of, the war, he has had to face widespread and strong disapproval, but there are intimations that he intends to disregard public !opinion and go wrong once more. - Toronto Telegram. EXPRESS 100 YEARS OLD This year is the cenetenary of ex- press service on the American cont- inent. It was in 1839 that Frederick William Hornd'en operated the first express service between Boston and New York, carrying express matter In a carpet bag. Then followed the pony express, the pony with his picturesque rider being superseded when railways were extended to the West. The finar development of the fast express was exemplified when the first plane of Trans -Canada Air Lines, inaugurat- ing regular daily survey flights be- tween Moncton and Montreal. GODERICH NATIVE WINS ENGINEERING AWARD The council of the Engineering Alumni Association of the University of Toronto yesterday announced the names of the first two graduates to be awarded engineering alumni med- als for outstanding achievements in the field of engineering. The men to be honored by their fellows are Clarence R. Young, pro- fessor of civil engineering, University of Toronto, and Arthur S. Runciman, superintendent of transmission lines with the Shawinigan Water and Pow- er Company. Prof. Young is a native of Picton, Ont., and Mr. Runciman is a native of Goderich. Selection of the men was made by a special committee of the council, following receipt of a Large number of recommendations from various en- gineering' organizations throughout the Dominion. The medals will be presented at a dinner, the conclud- ing function of the two-day trienn reunion ' of the Engineerig Alumni Association. Strawberries In Victoria While chilly blasts and leaf - shedding trees mark the approach of winter in Eastern Canada, horticultural minded British Columbiana on the west coast are picking fine, fat, full- flavored strawberries from thick beds. This picture taken recently in the garden of Mrs, Rudolph Olsen, Victoria, shows Miss Mu-, rieT Laurence With some of the luscious berries the garden has been producing. Golf, tennis, swimming and riding are among the recreations available to visit- ors all winter long, and inquiries at Canadian Pacific offices and reservations at the Empress Hotel indicate that Canadians in large numbers are turning to the West Coast evergreen playground for their winter holidays, Facts About Finland THURS.,NOV. ` 16,' 1939 ' A Lovely Land That Is Once Again in the News There are many remarkable things about Finland, which are little known, to the outside world. The first of these, which may have a wider ap- preciation abroad than some others, is the high level of her culture. Sue has her individual great, or famous men, but her claim to recognition as a cultivated and highly civilized country mainly rests on the univlersas appreciation of fine things, on tno importance everywhere attached to education, and the insatiable appetite of the Finns for learning. The sights of every town, large or small, which are first shown the visitor are the schools, the hospitals and the libraries. Finland has an area comparable to that of the state of California, but its population is some 2,000,000 less.. These 3,700,000 people, hospitable, cultured and liberty -loving, are also among the most industrious workers in the world. Her trade with Eng- land is considerable, and she sells' that country just about double iii' value what she buys. English is taught in all Finnish schools as well as the native tongue and Swedish. The native language is a very distinct one, allied to no other, although one of the Inde-Eurepean family, with a very faint resemb- lance to Hungarian. It is now re- placing Swedish Id the universities. The names of the towns hath, been changed - Helsingfors to Helsingi, Tammerfors to Tampere and Abo, once the capital, and always an im- portant port, to Turku. The official and very musical name of the country itself is Suomi (Swaine) Tasavalte. FILLING THE SHELLS British Gas Industry's Colossal War Effort The preductiile capacity of Bri- tain's £250,000,000 gas industry has naw reached in increase of 50 per cent. over that of the war period bei tween 1914 and 1918. "In all parts of the country gas undertakings are better equipped than ever before to meet the de- mands now being made upon them," said an expert of the British Gas Association. "Because of its extreme flexibility 4,000 different trades use it for an average of seven processes apiece - gas is increasingly the fuel used in the production of armaments where accurate temperature control is essential. `Equally important is the fact that in the carbonisation of coal to make gas, chemists win as by- products many essential sinews of war. Among these are TNT, lyddite and other high explosives; benzole motor spirit, sulphate of ammonia, a powerful fertilizer; and many drugs and ant- iseptics. "How much of all this the industry can now -provide is indicated by the fact that during the last war one gas undertaking alone supplied TNT and other 'explosives ;to fill 160,000,000 shells, 70,000,000 gallons of oil, 13,- 000 tons of disinfectants, and enough tar to treat all the military roads on the Western Front. "Britain is fortunate in using more gas per head of the population than any other country in the world, for no other method of utilising coal carptures so many by-products vital to a nation at war." SWEDEN'S WATERWAYS Because Sweden's rivers have many rapids and shallow stretches, water- ways, called timber flumes, are built, down which logs are floated from wood to mill. There are generally built of wood, but lately they have been made of concrete, and the other day Sweden's longest timber flume was finished. This concrete channel is about nine mules long, and was constructed by the Swedish State Forestry Depart- ment. It has taken two years to build, and over 50 bridges have had to be made over it. ADMIRAL BYRD'S SNOW BUGGY If anyone feels himself impelled to sing "Jingle Bells" when Rear Ad- miral Richard E. Byrd's 35 -ton snow cruises rolls insight on its way from Chicago to Boston for embarkation to the Antarctic, he must have imagina- tion indeed-anda memory of New England sleigh rides. No "one-horse open sleigh" is this, but a home on wheels for fifteen men in a sixty -foot cabin as wide as both lanes of an ordinary road. And it is sufficiently removed from the dog sleds pulled by Malernutes and Huskies so that no driver will yell "Mush" as. its big Diesel engines. If this be taking romance out of the snowy wastes it will doubtless bring a new kind of romance in. The try -out of the enclosed meter - driven sled with ten -foot rubber - tired wheels is another triumph, or at least opportunity, for the internal combustion motor. Burning gasoline, distillate or other petroleum products„ this type of motor has become a means of propulsion on land, sea, and air. It powers the airplane; it drives motorships and motorboats, and even submarines, ; whose electric motors when submerged expend energy first generated by Diesel power. It carries passengers and freight on the paved highways in pleasure cars and on buses and trucks it rides the steel rails in streamliners and Diesel switching engines, and it goes where there are no. roads, in tractors pull- ing plows or - alasl - in military tanks. _ mvtJmn\11VNi}IilpmmwmiiLli' ,t N!!9//1/U/1 G"/L'%/////////////iGui�i�// Y •s�✓ r There's thrilling drama in the, ardson, Woodstock who wen th story of Canada's famous. regiments.' Many, of them havie a baekgrorund of achievement in the. Dominion's, history that goes back to the days' when French and British, and New England Colonials fought for the mastery of a continent. "Canada Marches", the dramatized story of our oldest and best known regiments, will be featured over the CBC National Network early in the New Year. The important task of producing this. series has been as- signed to King Whyte, a young ,Can- adian who has been writing, produc- ing and commentating in United' States radio studiosfor the past ten years. Backed by an unusually varied radio experience in dozen large Am- erican cities, M•r.',Whyte brings both versatility and imagination to his -C B work with the Winnipeg studio. When Thomas Craig, likeable head of the Craig family whose daily ad- ventures are .a feature of the CBC Ontario Farm Broadcast, had some trouble with his teeth a short while ago, it was not all fiction, Here's the story behind Thomas' dental worries: the part is played by Frank Peddie, and Frank was faced with a bout with his dentist, and the loss of a couple of teeth. It looked as if the part of Craig Sr. would be missed from the family serial for a few days while the Peddie gums were in process of healing. Don Fairbairn, the Ontario Farm broadcaster, sen- sibly suggested that the visit to the dentist should be incorporated in the serial so that Thomas could stay on the air and listeners would overlook any tendencies to mumble. Ontario has many lovely farm homes; many, too, that are bare and unattracth a in their surroundings. Trees and flower gardens, and green lawns add beauty and distinctions to any home -and to quicken the inter- est of Ontario farm people in the possibilities of their own homes, a "Farre 'and Homes Improvonment Competition" was held during the past summer. What was achieved, by the 1000 On- tario fanners who took part in the competition, will be told during the regular Ontario Farm Broadcast on Thursday, November 30, at 12.30 pan. from CBL, by G. H. Hodge, editor of the Farmers' Magazine. Lorne Rich- e com- petition, will, it is hoped, take part in the same interview. With football fiinals5 looming ahead, fans, coaches' and players are all aquiver with excitement. They'll en- joy getting behind the scenes of 'big- time rugby football with Ted Reeve, who has been persuaded by the CBC Special Events Department libgivea preview of the Big Four Champion,' ship on Friday, Nongem'ber 24, 9.00 to 9.30 pan. EST. All of the unexpected things that can jinx a game, and which give coaches the .jitters. for. weeks before a championship is play- ed off, will be aired by this ace sporte writer in his, broadcast. "YOUlt HOME STATION" CHNX 11100 ha. WINGHAM 250 Metre, WEEKLY PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS FRIDAY, NOV. 17th: 11.30 a,m. "Peter MacGregor" 11.45 a.m. "P. T. Barnum" 12.45 p.m. The Bell Boys 7.00 pan. Four Showmen SATURDAY, NOV. 18th: 9.80 a.m. Kiddies' Party 7.00 p.m. Wes. McKnight 7.45 p.m. Barn Dance. SUNDAY, NOV 19th: 11.00 a.m. Rev. J. F. Anderson 1.00 p.m. Guy Lombardo Orth. 1.30 p.m. Melody Time 6.00 p.m, Kay Kyser MONDAY, NOV. 20th: 11.45 a.m. "P. T. Barnum" 12.45 p.m. The Bell Boys 1.00 pm. Gene Autry 7.00 Harry Breuer Orch. TUESDAY, NOV. 21st: 8.80 a.m. Breakfast Club 11.45 a.m. Dick Todd 1.30 p.m. Glad Tidings 6.45 pan. Sunset Skyriders WEDNESDAY, NOV. 22nd: 11.45 a.m. "P. T. Barnum" 12.45 p.m. The Bell Boys 7.00 pan. The Norsemen 8.00 p.m. OKNX Little Band THURSDAY, NOV. 23rd: 10.00 a.m. Harry J. Boyle 5.30 pan. Kiddies' Carnival 7.00 p.m. Hildegarde. NEW ARCHDEACON OF PERTH CONGRATULATED T. A ATED ON MOVE Moving' words of congratulations are being forwarded thisweek to Ven, W. H. Hartley, rector of Kin- cardine and newly -appointed arch- deacon of Perth, by the Laymen's Association of the Deanery of Essex which, held an enthusiasticrally at All Saints Anglican Church. The 'notion of congratulation followed addresses by Rev. Canon Quintin Warner, rector of Cronyn Memorial Church, Lon.d'on, the guest speaker; ]Lev. Canon Townshend, diocesan com- missioner, and Rev. Handley Perkins, rector of the newly -created parish of St. Andrew, Windsor, where construe - tion; of a $10,000 church building is now well begun. The resolution of congratulation was sponsored by S. B. Iligg, presi- dent, .and E. J. Bramwell, secretary, of the Essex laymen. Mr. Bramwell recalled that Archdeacon Hartley had spent the earlier years of his pastoral service in Essex County parishes. NOT THE RIGHT TANG We do not like this thing of at- tempting to deprive municipalities of the right to elect their representatives annually by any government, provin- cial or federal or by any means what- soever save the voice of the, people themselves. There is in the whole thing the tang of encroaching dictat-4 orship. Those intimately associated with municipal life know the wisdom of giving any set of men a Long ten- ure of office. Scores and ,stores of instances can be cited where untold harm has been wrought by such a procedure. Further, who is to say how long the present war is to last. Every sane man hopes that war will end speedily, but who is so bald as to tell how long the strife will last? Electors of the province will do well to go cautiously in'the matter of giv- ing up their right to freely choose their representatives. Better to endure the ills we have than to fly to those we know not of." -Exeter Advocate. Don't Miss `SALADA' STAMP'CLUB "DRAMA of STAMPS WEDNESDAYS p.m. A'll SP HEAD MAN -NO FOOLIN` A travelling salesman visited a small town, and sold the proprietor: of its general store an order 01 jewelry. When the jewelry arrived it was not as represented, and the merchant returned it. But the whole -:- sale house nevertheless attempted collect the bill, and drew a •sight.. draft os the merchant through the. 'bank which returned the draft 'un.- honored.. un,honorred. • The wholesale then wrote to the Postmaster inquiring about the finan- cial standing of the merchant, and the pastinaster replied laconically - that it was "o.k." By return mail the wholesaler re- quested him' to "hand the enclosed account to the leading lawyer" of the place for collection. This is the reply they received "The undersigned is the merchant on whom you attempted to palm off your worthless goods. 'The undersigned is president and' owner of the bank to which you sent. your sight draft. "The undersigned is the postmaster to whom you wrote, and whose ser- vices you sought to obtain for your - nefarious business. "If the undersigned were not also. the pastor of the church at this place he would tell you to go to Hell". ROUND TRIP BARGAIN FARES NOV. 24-25 Front CLINTON TO Statiois Oshawa and east to Cornwall inclusive, Osbert" Lindsay, Teterboro, Campbellford, Newmarket, Csllingwood, Medord, Midland, North Bay, Parry Sound, Sudbury, Capreol and West to Beardmore. P.M. Trains NOV. 24. All Trains NOV. 25 To TORONTO Alas to Brantford, Chatham, Goderich, Guelph, Hamilton, i,ondo%, Niagara Falls, Owen Sound, St. Catharines, St. Marys, Sarnia. Stratford, Strathroy, Woodstock. See handbills for complete liet of destinations For fares, return limits, train information, tickets, eta Consult nearest agent CANADIAN NATIONAL. flow VEuch Would You Pay For A Dollar i11? 1 his is a True Story IT STARTED WITH A HALF -SERIOUS WAGER, AND IT TEACHES A LESSON Two business men were visiting a famous resort. One offered to bet the other that he couldn't sell real dollar bills far 50c apiece. The other accepted the challenge and went to work. "flow do you do," he said to a passing stranger. "Will you give me 50e for this dollar bill?" The stranger paid no attention. The salesman tried again, and again. But nobody bought and finally he had to admit that he'd lost his bet. All of which suggests that people like to know who the seller is before they buy. You can trust the merchants who advertise their products in this newspaper. The ad- vertisements offer useful, dependable information about thinige you need and want. Read and heed the advertise- ments carefully and you will reap savings and satisfaction. Advertising in the Columns of The Clinton News -Record Brings Results 1