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The Clinton News Record, 1939-11-23, Page 6PAGE 6 YOUR WORL'ID AND. MINE (Copyright) by JOHN C. KIRKWOOD YefeeeeS■'senene esu ede( 5inesee "■'dY■Y■YN'S■V°.V'hVSYdePANW ■Se■ The durable and Worthwhile thin ,of life are won ..by conquering re sistance-resistance both inside an outside ourselves. Heaven in its` m'er has decreed that it is only by toil and effort that men make sure of advent ing from low levels of living to life' highest levels, from low `intellectu planes to high intellectual planes. Me who love softness and ease will not and cannot reach the'heights' of lif things pertaining to the min and in business enterprise: In this contribution to the News Record I mean to speak of Business- with a big B. And' first of all want to lay down this proposition namely, Civilization's astounding de velopment through the ages is a dir eet consequence of Business — that evler-widening, enterprise of exchang- ing the fruits of the toil of the men and women` of every country. This sort of enterprise is the mainspring of all human activity. It is the sup- reme employer of men and women. Business—exchange—is the ladder by which men are enabled to climb to the highest levels of human exper- ience. gs leges and universities, Pine theatres and palaces of music, fine art galley - d res, fine newspapers and magazines, mere and fine ideals. If the business of the world today - is sick, because production exceeds s consumption, it is because the billion a1. illiterate' people of the world have few wants and: wants simply sates, fied. If Business Wants to increase im-- fe its • volue and its blessings — it d must set about educating the illiter- ate people 4f both hemispheres. Let it be granted that Business I has sinned.against men and women and that it continues to sin against them. Yet above its sinning it has been and remains the supreme bles- ser of humanity—the supreme civil- izer. Its perpetual endeavor is to Every one of us is a creature of 'many desires. We are not like the beasts of the field or the birds of the air whose only desires relate to food, shelter and safety. They have no aspirations. Man is distinguished from the -ower creatures by the infin- ity and character of his desires and by his ability to satisfy them. Man's desires go far beyond those of beasts and birds. Man's desires are for ever - better Homes, for new experiences and adventures obtainable by travel; for learning and culture. Being relig- ious, man wants to worship, and so he builds temples and cathedrals. Man wants luxuries and easements from drudgery and discomfort, and so man becomes inventive. And the way that men and women in all lands are able to gratify and satisfy their infinite wants is the trading way—the ex- change way—the way of Business. Business is the major actieity of .the world, and is a competitive ac- tivity. Without compeitition—with out the purpose and effort to excel— there would be stagnation of human endeavour. The competitive instinct in all of us gives us our leaders in every field of human endeavour. It is competition which is the mother of betterment in all things—in things physical, in things intellectual and cultural, in things spiritual. It is competition in Business which has given the world everything fine and good which it possesses, Business is always trying to give the world something better thanit has, and it is, strange to say, always meeting with resistance from those whom iti is trying to bless. Man's natural tendency is to be slothful to settle down in ignoble content. The natural man is a lazy man, disliking toil, disliking to be disturbed from his contentment. The natural man resists the pressure put on him to exert himself, to improve his lot. He wants to be Ieft alone -free to indulge his grosser nature. Left to himself man would not work, would be devoid of ambition and pur- pose — would live contentedly on levels not much higher than those' of beasts. But Business has as its everlasting task the arousing of man from his sloth and contentment with low-level living and thinking. Business is for- ever trying to increase man's wants. Business is pressure. Business is putting before men and women things of desire and of inciting desire to the. point where pogiession be- comes one's purpose. When the will to have it is aroused acutely, then be- gins a process of exchange, The labour of the seller is exchanged for the labour of the wanter. give the world what will make life for all happier, richer, pleasanter,: larger, more comfortable, and freer from anxieties and insecurity, from pain and ill health, from discomfort; and drudgery, from hopelessness. Business prospers only when it is giving men and women what will en- able them to live more abundantly, with a minimum of pain and anxiety and. discomfort, Business wants us to live in better homes, better fur- nished homes, home where the labour is performed .largely by machine.' Business wants us to dress better„: more attractively, more colourfully,] more satisfying having regard for our aesthetic natures. Business wants; us to travel more, to have more en- joyments, a greater variety of en- joyments. Business wants us to have more leisure, and more capacity to I enjoy the potentialities of leisure. Business wants us to have, the high - lest culture. Business wants us to he 'spiritual in the highest degree. Busi- ness wants us to have financial security untlll the day of death. Business wants peace on earth and. goodwill among men. Business wants all barriers between nations removed. Business wants to give us a happi- ness to which most of us axe strang- ers. We who are in the service of Busi- ness are in a high calling, .FARMS CHANGE HANDS Mr. Kenneth Jackson of Cayuga, Haldimand County, has purchased the farm of Mr. J. W Mills, of Blyth, containing 120 acres of land, and sit- uated on the Boundary Line between Blyth and Walton. At one time thts , farm was rated as one of the best properties in Mullett. Mr. Mills also has disposed of his farm in McKillop township, near Sea- lforth, containing 150 acres of land, to Mr. Howe of Saskatchewan. — Blyth Standard. Yet Business can be and is some- thing more than the exchange of the fruits of labour for the fruits of labour. It can be—and is—an activ- ity calculated to multiply human wants. Business is not content with merely satisfying existing wants. The job of Business is to uncover in men and women their unperceived and unfelt wants. The job of Busi- ness is to liberate in men and women a multitude of new wants—and it does this by the processes .of educa- tion and suggestion. The illiterate peoples of the world have few wants and those which they •havp are satisfied with simple things with plain food quickly obtained and prepared; with crude and quick- ly -made shelters; with simple and crude apparel fon their bodies. Illit- erate people have no aspirations far finer things; and so Business - the activities of exehange is stifled or baffled when it encounters illiterate people. It int only when individuals and people become literate that their higher natures become assertive and their desires widen and burn. So part of the task of Business is to educate illiterate people — the peoples of China and India, of Africa, of Russia, of South America, and of every other country whose common people cannot read and write and are unexposed to the finer things of social life -fine homes, fine buildings, fine cities and towns, fine highways, fine ships and 'railway trains, fine schools and col - MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS ARE NO IMPEDIMENT TO WAR EFFORT Speaking at Caledonia, Hon. Eric Cross, Minister of Municipal Affairs, has said, "The Municipal Act could be amended to provide that elections should be held twice a year—or four time a year—or even that councils shall hold office for life,” This is undoubtedly so, but even Mr. Cross would agree that any member of the Legislature who voted for any such changes would vote himself back into private Iife. The Legislature has unlimited pow- er to deal with municipal affairs, but if it uses this great power in a tyrannous manner it must expect to meet, at the polls, the fate of tyrants. The municipal elector, who is also a provincial elector, will not submit to being deprived of his municipal rights. It may be, as Mr. Cross said, that an election for two years is as demo- cratic as an election for one year. But it is essentially undemocratic to deprive the people of the right to say whether the election shall be for one or two years, and to provide that an unrepresentative body shall have full authority to deny the right to election for the duration of the war, whether that be, two years or ten. It 1s absurd to contend that there is any war emergency which neces- sitates the abolition of municipal' elections. These civic contests do not create .such an upheaval that they) interfere with the prosecution of the war. In most municipalities the fin- ancial saving will be infinitesimal. In large cities, where the cost of con- ducting an election is large—perhaps ten cents per head of the population —the saving may be more than wiped out by loss of control over unwise spending. Weighed against the loss of reasonable control of municipal af- fairs, the financial saving is fictitious. Mr. Cross has ,said that the ex- tension of the terms of municipal councils will not interfere with voting on money by-laws. When. necessary these will bevoted on "as usual' This is good. The Legislature has already shown its readiness to elimi- nate almost to the vanishing point the necessity of referring money by- laws to the voters. And, perhaps Mr. Cress would be good enough to ex- plain how there could be a vote on a bylaw except at a cost practically equivalent -to that incurred in the election of a council, .Toronto Tele- gram. THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD THUR,S., NOV. 23, 1939 before we sold a drop of Tested, not against ordinary gasolines, but against premium -priced motor fuels by 1475 motorists in 14 cities. They voted 9 to 1 that Nu Blue Sunoco equalled or excelledprem iumpriced gasolines in road performace! HERE'S HOW THEY VOTED QUESTIONNAIRE Comparing this new gasoline to the premium -priced gasoline you have been using: In knockless performance As good? Better? Not as good? On pick-up, acceleration As good? Better? Not es good? For power, especially on bills As good? Better? Not as good? For all-around performance As good? Better? Not os good? 91,2 % Said As Good or Better 93.7 % Said As Good or Better 94.9 % Said As Good or Better 90.3% Said As Good or Better During September and October, 1475 critical users of premium -priced gasolines were asked to test an unidentified, colorless gasoline which was in reality Nu -Blue Sunoco with the coloring left out. From Florida to Canada, these tests were con- ducted, not by us, but by independent, unbiased research authorities, and when the returns were summarized, it was found that these motorists voted 9 to 1 in favor of Nu -Blue Sunoco! 9 out of 10 pro- claimed it equal or superior to premium - priced gasolines they had used previously. To make a fair test, don't dilute Nu -Blue Sunoco with other gasoline. Let your tank run practically empty. Then put in Nu -Blue Sunoco. Cotnpare it par- ticularly with premium -priced gasolines. We'll rest our case on your findings. The quicker you start using Nu -Blue Sunoco Watkins' Service Station CLINTON Blyth Service Station BLYTH. C. H. SCOTCHMER BAYFIELD. A. BUCHANAN VARNA. The Saar Territory The Saar Territory, entered by French troops, is an industrial and mining region on the Franco-German Frontier, north of Lorraine. It has an area of 737 square miles and a population of over 800,000. The basic industry is coal, good for industrial purposes and gas production, and moderately good for coke, with 31 mines employing 67,000 men. At the restoration of the Saar Basin to Germany in 1935 the pro- duction of coal was over 11 million metric tons, coke nearly two million metric tons, pig iron nearly two mil- lion metric tons, steel 2,127,000 metric tons, rolled steel 1,446,000 metric tons. Since that time the statistical figures, separate from the rest of Germany, have not been available. Next in importance came ceramic, glass and chemical products. The Saar is largely dependent on imports for certain commodities, including food supplies. Two of the towns prominently mentioned in the war despatches are Saarbrucken and Saarlauis. Saar- brucken owes its name to a bridge which existed in, Roman times. It was in the possession of France from 1801 to 1815, when by the Peace of Paris it was ceded' to the Allies and made over to Prussia. Saarbrucicen has a population of about 130,0,00, Saarlouis which has a population of over 16,000, was founded in 1681 by Louis XIV of France. It also, by the Peace of Paris in: 1815, was ceded to the Allies and by them was made over to Prus- sia. The treaty of Versailles gave France absolute possession of the mines as compensation for destruc- tion of her northern mines during the World War and as part payment to- ward German reparations. Districts containing these mines Were detahced from Germany and formed into the Saar Territory. To assure the wel- fare of the inhabitants and enable France to exploit the mines, an in- ternational governing commissian,re- sponsible to the. League of Nations Rev. A. 3. Bruce of St. John's Ang- as trustee, and exercising all powers lican Church, Copper Cliff, who has of government formerly held by the been a student of astronomy since German Empire, Prussia and Bavaria, boyhood, said winter will settle in the was instituted for 15 years. Thts' north in about four weeks. There commission had Prole members, one will be a mild spell about the middle French, one native non French in- . of this month, and then winter will habitant of the Saar, ^- n_' Qzecho-Slovak and one Finnish. At in its grip. the end of the 15 -year period in 19351 The clergyman's forecast will be the League of Nations instituted a amplified about the end' of the month, SEES HEAVY SNOW BUT NOT VERY COLD Ontario's best-known amateur wea- ther "oreaster, whose predictions over the past 45 years have .shown a re- markable degree of accuracy, says the canning winter will be notable for heavy snowfalls but only moderate cold spells. clamp dowin 'and hold moat of Canada plebiscite by the inhabitants of the when he will issue his detailed pre- Saas as to whether of not they would diction covering each winter month. prefer to return to Germany. The 'But his study of the sun and the at - Tote was largely in favour of a re- gtendant planets tells him theee will be turn and the Saar Territory was ac- cordingly restored to Germany. lots of snow, more than in preceding winters of the past few years, pre- vailing winds will be from the north and theee will be many storms, MR. AND MRS. G. A. McCAGIIE "There will be cold snaps and up MOVING FROM HANOVER here in the north we will get the usual 40 -below temperatures," says. Mr. .and -Mrs. George McCague and the "Sage of Copper Cliff." "But two children are moving from town my study of astronomical conditions: on the 1st' of December and will take tells me that the feature of the next over a farm on the outskirts of Har- four or five months will be exception- riston, which Mr. McC'ague purchased ally heavly snowfalls." recently. They have been living here Last winter the reverend gentle - for over a year, and made many mean's forecast was almost 100 per friends who will be sorry to see them cent. right and he sees no reason why go. Mr. McC'ague was a member of the percentage should not be as near - the Kinsmen and was also a tap -notch ly perfect this year. insurance agent, giving', up this! Although well into the sixties, he agency to take up farming. He is is active in the pulpit and is also a graduate of the Ontario Agricultur- Anglican chaplain at Burwash re al College, Guelph.—Hanover Post. I.farmatoSy. - King's Flax for the War More Royal Acres to Help the Irish Linen Makers Special orders from the King mean that more flax is to be grown on the Royal estates to meet new demands arising out of the war. More and more flax is needed to- day to make linen for tent clothes and for medical supplies and it is of importance, at the same time, to maintain the peace -time export of it to the linen weavers of Belfast, In the United States especially, the market for damask table cloths, towels, sheets and other linen goods of quality is now strongly establish- ed. Britain's export trade has been named her fourth line of defence; and apart from that, the linen trade of Northern Ireland does not want to start from scratch when the war is avier. Sandrin.gham's flax is an important item in Belfast's annual supply and it is the -King's father whom the linen weavers Lf Northern, Ireland have to thank in the first place for thus making them, at least in part, independent of foreign supplies. Four years ago Ring George the Fifth first planted flax seeds in a small corner of the Sandringham farm lands. Though there were those who doubted, success attended the Royal experiment and the first year's crop encouraged a further trial. Ploughing up the. Queen's Flower Gardens It was found that both the climate and the soil of Norfolk are very sin- iter to those in certain parts of Bel- gium, where, up to now, the best flax in the world has been produced. Linen experts in Ulster maintain, in- deed, that Norfolk flax is at least equal to the Belgian product, and may, within a short time, surpass it. King George has been enthusiastic in developing this enterprise of his father. In peace time he used hie influence among the Norfolk farmers to persuade them to grow the new crop, and, in spite of the conservative prejudices of men whose fathers had never grown flax, succeeded in ob- taining a number of converts. When war came he determined to put the many thousands of acres in the Royal estates to the best possible use of the nation and sent far his. Sandringham agent, Captain Fellows,, to discuss with him -the planning of, the Royal farm lands. As a result, several score more acres are at once to be put under cultivation far flax, while other parts. of the King's land, including what were formerly the Queen's flower gardens, are being ploughed up for Wheat and oats. To -day the King and Queen each, posess a handkerchief of fine Ulster. linen woven from their own Sandring- ham flax, gifts presented to them,. during their ,Visit to Northern Ireland; after the Coronation. REGIMENTAL BUTTONS Members of "C" Co., Middlesex - Huron Regiment, have had issued to them celluloid buttons, with white background, centred with green maple leaf anl, bearing the inscription "Mid- dlesex -Huron Regiment." They are the gift of Tweedsmuir Branch, Can- adian Legion, London. The buttons are to be worn with civilian clothes to signify that the wearer has en- listed for home service.