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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1937-02-25, Page 3THURS., FEB. 25, 1937. THE - CLINTON NEWS -RECORD PAGE 3 ca WHAT CLINTON WAS DOING IN THE GAY NINETIES Do You Remember What Happened During The Last Decade Of The Old Century? From The New Era, Feb. 26, 1897: Miss Ethel Ramsay, of Toronto, is visiting her aunt, Mrs; T. C. Bruce. Mr. John Medd of Hullett, will take up residence in town, in the house owned by Mr. Geo. Lyon. Dr. Duncan McCallum and wife left on Tuesday for New Washington, Ohio, where they purpose residing in future. Messrs. John Smith and Richard Horsley represent the C.O.F. at the meeting of the 'Grand Court now hi session at Niagara Falls. A Narrow Escape:—At about 2.80 a.m. on Tuesday morning the fire al- arm announced that fire had broken out in the old Royal Hotel property on Ontario street, occupied by Mr. John Shepherd and Suey Wah. Mes- srs. J. Shepherd and T. Beacom had on Monday opened a grocery store in the western end of the building and the fire, was in_the hall partition of this part. The fire had not made much headway and was soon extin- guished. Froin The News -Record, Feb. 24th, 1897: Mrs. Wiseman was visiting in Sea - forth last week. Miss Elizabeth Wheatley, daughter of Mr. Joseph : Wheatley, left for Flint, Michigan, where she intends to reside in the future. Miss Kate McDonald of Detroit, who has been visiting Miss Flossie Pattison, left last Thursday for Pres- ton. Miss 'Pattison left the same day for Toronto. Curling—The result of a visit to Seaforth I ast Thursday of the Clin- ton Bowling Club was a match be- tween J. C. Miller, who issued the challenge, and a rink skipped by W. Jackson, with the result that ethe lat- ter was victorious by a score of 16-8. The following men composed the rinks—Jas. Fair, J. W. Rattenbury, W. Sperling and W. Jackson, skip; D. A. Forrester, 3. Johnson, J. Laid- law and J. C. Miller, skip. When The Present Century Was Young From The Clinton New Era, Feb. 29, 1912:' Mr. Wes. Newcombe of Fort Wil- liam was in town during the past week. Mr. James Livermore has been con- fined to the house with an attack of lumbago. Reeve Glen of Stanley is in Toron- to, representing the county at a meeting of the Association for the betterment of Consumptives. lie will r also attend the Good Roads meeting which is also taking place this week. Mr. James Fair took in the Auto Show in Toronto last week. Mr. Percy Towne, cutter for Tozer and Brown, arrived back today from New York, where he has been looking up the new spring styles. Mr. Ben Cole disposed of his house and lot to Mr. Charles Baker, who recently moved in from Goderich township. Nolmesviile:—Homer Cantelon has purchased a new driver. Mr. Andrew Pfrimmer and sister Clara, of Myrtle, Manitoba, spent a few days with Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Proctor. Stanley:—Mr. J. H. Pentland and his son, Lorne, of the Nile, were vis- itors for a few days last week with Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Baird. Londesboro:—Mr. and Mrs. John Nott spent the week -end with Edward Lear of Blyth. Ephraim Snell of Westfield is spending a few weeks with Moses Brown. Brucefield:-Dan Ross has return- ed from Drayton where he has been working on the flax mills. Mrs. Hugh Aikenhead entertained a number of her friends to an oyster supper on Monday night. From The News -Record, Feb. 29th, 1912: Miss Gladys Cantelon visited. in Seaforth for a few days this week. Miss Mabel Routledge of West Wa- wanosh was the guest of her cousin, Miss Janet Routledge, last week. Miss E. Louise Holmes, daughter of R. Holmes, formerly of Clinton, has moved to Edmonton to take a position with a real estate company of which Mr. Geo. F. Emerson, former- ly of Clinton, is the manager. Mr. Frank O'Neil left on Tuesday for Moose Jaw, Sask., to look after his business interests. Shipping Horses:—Mr. C. J. Wal- lis; who is one of the most extensive buyers of horses in the province, op- ens the season's shipments next week with two carloads, and during the month will ship two more carloads. The heaviest pair of horses were bought from Mr. Elias Ball of the Base Line. Another Big Year:—The financial year of the Doherty Piano and Or- gan Company will close on March 31st. The most up-to-date machinery and methods are used in the factory. Here the life-long experience in manufac- turing establishments and travel gained by the General Manager, Mr. David S. Chuff, is being turned to good account. The Mystery of the Vanishing Lady ALEXANDER WOOLLCOTT ., There was the " story'— told me some years ago as a true copy of a leaf from the secret archives of the Paris police—of the woman who dis- appeared suddenly and completely during the, World Exposition in Paris. It happened in this way: An Eng- lishwoman and ng-lishwoman'and her young, inexperi- enced daughter, a girl of 17 or there- abouts, had stopped off in Paris tem- porarily. The mother was the frail, pretty widow of an English officer who had been stationed in India, and the two had just come from Bombay, bound for home. Paris was so tumultuously crowded for the Exposition that they counted, themselves fortunate to get a room at the Crillon. The girl was the more re- lieved that there would be no need of house-to-house search for rooms, for the mother hadseemed unendurably exhausted from the long train ride and was now of such a color that the girl's first idea was to call the house physician, hoping fervently that he spoke English, for neither she nor her mother spoke any. French at all. The doctor when he came — a dusty smelly little man with a wrinkled face lost in a thicket of whiskers, and a reassuring Legion of Honor ribbon of his lapel—did speak a little Eng- fish, After a long, grave look and a few questions put to the tired woman on the bed, . he called the girl into the sitting -room and told her frankly that her mother's condition was ser- ious' that er-ious'that it was out of the question for them to think of going on to Eng- land next day; that on the morrow, she might better be moved to an hos- pital, etc. All these things he would attend to. In the meantime he wanted' the girl to go at once to his home and fetch hint a bottle of medicine that his wife would give her. It' could not he had quickly in any chemist's. Un. fortunately he lived on the other side of Paris, and had no telephone, and with all Paris en fete it would be a perilous thing to rely on any mes- senger. Indeed, it would, be a saving of time and worry if she would go, armed with a note from him. In the lobby below, the manager of the hotel after an excited colloguy with the doctor took charge of her most sym- pathetically, himself putting her into a sapin and volubly directing the dri- ver. It was then that the girl's agony began, for : the ramshackle victoria crawled through the restive streets. The house seemed to stand at the -oth- er end of the world, when the carriage, came at last to a halt in front of it. The doctor's wife after reading the note again and again, stationed the girl in an airless waiting room and deft her there so long that , shewas weeping for very : desperation before the medicine was found, • wrapped and turned over to her. A hundred times during that wait she rose and started for the door, de- termined tostay no longer.' A thou- sand times in the wretched ;weeks that followed she loathed herself for not having obeyed the impulse. Then the snail's pace trip back to the Right Bank was another night- mare and it ended only when at the cocher's mulish determination to de- liver her to some hotel in the Place Vendome, she leaped to the street and in sheer terror appealed for help to a passing young man whose alien tweeds and boots told her he was a compatriot of hers. He was still standing guard beside her five minutes later when, at last, she arrived at the destc of the Crillon and called' for her key, only to have the very clerk who had handed her a pen to register with that morning, look at her without recognition and To'Talk on National Defence What promises to be a brilliant series of lectures is that planned' for Sunday nights at 10:00 p.m. EST, when the CBG will present' to national network listeners round table discussions on "Canadian De- fence." The series will run for six weeks and will bring to the .mic- rophone seven distinguished speakers under the chairmanship of Mr. Justice A.K. Dysart. The first talk, scheduled for February 28, will be given by Dr. J. W. Defoe,editor of the Winnipeg Free Press, who' will discuss "Canada, Country and Conditions' Peculiar to It." Each of the speakers will present one particular approach to Canadian de- fence problems and foreign policy. He then wilf be followed in the same broadcast by other speakers who will submit questions on the other points of view. In this way varied shades of opinion in Can- ada may be expressed during the broadcast. Noted Art Critic to Speak Another interesting talk has been arranged by the CBC for pre- sentation March 2, at 8.30 p.m. EST, over the national network. The speaker will be Eric Newton, distinguished mosaic artist, decora- tive painter and art critic of the Manchester Guardian, who is at pre- sent engaged in,a Canadian lecture tour. Subject will be "Can Can- ada Paint?" Bowman From Saint John Harbour Bob Bowman's "Night Shift" series swings to Saint John, N.B., harbour for a broadcast February 25, at 9.30 p.m. EST. The brilliant commentator, who won his radio spurs with the BBC in England, and who has been making such a remarkable success of his new job as CBC special events man, plans to go down into the bowels of a South American freighter unloading fruit from the West Indies. That he will have an interesting story to tell is as certain as to -mor- row's weather. Incidentally, listeners are saying a lot of nice things about the way in which he handled the line break during the broad- cast from Chebucto Head Lighthouse, off Halifax. Bob was under terrific handicap at the time but was able to pull through without damaging effects. The Voice of British Columbia Well, My Lords, Ladies, Gentlemen. and Children of all Ages, CBC's new transmitter and studios at CRCV, Vancouver, at last has been officially declared open. February 16's inaugural ceremonies of two and a half hours' duration brought greetings from all the provinces, from England and the United States, as well as from dis- tinguished citizens, and CRCV was wished the best in radio and Godspeed in the service it is to offer British Columbia and the rest of Canada. The renovated western link is away to a good start. Good luck to you, CRCV! The Bey From Agincourt Jean Haig, the gifted young Canadian radio soprano, whose in- terest brought Alexander Morgan to the attention of CBC program officials, will he co-starred on `Strike Up The Band" withthe new tenor find on Monday, March 1. Geoffrey- Waddington gave Morgan a national network debut on this presentation several weeks ago and he is o.k.-ing Jean Haig as a talent scout by featuring the boy from. Agincourt, Ontario, on the same program with his "discoverer." Miss Haig, one of the top-ranking radio artists in Canada, remembers her own lucky break when Edward Johnson, now Metropolitan Opera head, selected her to sing with him in Toronto just a few winters ago. She first became interested in Morgan when he was a boy so- prano in the church choir at Agincourt, a pretty little villaee a few miles from Toronto. Alexander, twenty-one, is a natural and a comer. Home Again Canada's most restless radio star, Frances James, is back from her west coast tour, which by the way, had one sad note. The hand- some brunette soprano ducked out of the final rehearsal for her ap- pearance with the Vancouver Symphony and made straight for bed where "flu" held her prisoner for nearly a week. Frances, who is an enthusiastic winter sports fan. was doubly peaked over this turn of fate for she encountered the first real snow of the year at Van- couver and could not stay up to enjoy it. CORPORATION FEATURES DAY BY DAY All Times Eastern Standard Thursday, February 25: 9.30 p,.m. "Night Shift" R. T. Bowman will describe a visit to the seaport of Saint John. From Saint John. 10.00 p.m. "By the Sea" Orchestra, soloist, male quartet and the "Smile Sleuth." Friday, February 26: 9.30- p.m. "Pirouettes." Orchestra and soloists. From Montreal. 10.00 p.m. "Music for Music's Sake." Ralph Judge, tenor, with orchestra d irection Isaac Mamott. From Winnipeg. Saturday, February 27: 8.00 p.m. "Cotters' Saturday Night." The Aiken family at home. Prom Sydney. 8.03 p.m. CBC Little Symphony. From Quebec. Sunday, February 28: 7.00 p.m, "Professor Quizz and his Brainbusters" International exchange feature from New York. 9.00 p.m. Dramatic production. From Toronto. Monday, March 1: 9.00 p.m. "Melodic Strings." Orchestra. From Toronto. 10.30 p.m. Gilbert Darisse and his Chateau Frontenac Orchestra_ From Quebec. Tuesday, March 2: 8.30 ,pm., "Musical Tapestry. MRN -CRC exchange. From De- troit. 9.00 p.m. To be announced. Wednesday, March 3: 9.00 p.m. "Canadian Concert. Hall of the Air." 10.30 p.m. Lloyd Huntley and his Mount Royal Hotel Dance Or- chestra. From Montreal. blandly asked "Whom does Made- moiselle wish to see?" At . that a cold fear clutched her heart, a sud- den surrender to a panic that she fought back as preposterous when it had visited her in the doctor's waiting room—panic born, amen, after the doctor had casually told her he bad no telephone, she had heard its fretful ringing on the other side of his wal- nut door. And now,here was this clerk looking at her as if she were some slightly demented creature de - mending admission to someone else's apartment. But, no, Mam-zelle mustbe mista- ken! Did Mam'zelle say her room was No. 362? Ah, but 362 was occupied by 3x. Quelauechose. He had been occupying it those past two weeks and more. She demanded the regis- tration slips 'only to find that the one she had herself filled out was not a- mong them. And even as the clerk shuffled the papers .before her eyes the stupifying bloodstone which she had noticed on his ring -finger when he handed her the pen that morning winked at her in confirmation. From then on she came only upon' closed doors. The same house physi- clan who had hustled her off on her tragic wild-goose chase across ,Paris, protested now with all the shrugs and gestures of his people that he had never so much as seen her before in his life. , Thesame hotel manager who had helped her to the carriage' flatly denied her now, though he courteously offered to, provide her with another chamber' where she might repose herself until such time as she could recollect at what hotel she really belonged if -- For always there' was in his ever polite 'voice the unspoken reservation that the whole mystery might be a thing of her own disordered invention. Then,, and the destroying days that followed she was only too keenly a- ware that these evasive people—the personnel` of the hotel, the ;attaehees of the embassy, the reporters of the Paris Herald, the officials at the Sur- etc:—were each and every one behav- ing as if she had lost her wits. In- deecl there were tines when she felt that all Paris was rolling its eyes be- hind her back and significantly tap- ping its forehead. Her only aid and comfort was the aforesaid Englishman who elected to believe her against all the evidence which so impressed the rest of Paris. He proved a -pillar of stubborn strength. His faith in her needed to be unreasoning because he began to reason all these people were part of a p lot to conceal the means whereby the missing woman's disappearance, had been effected." This suspicion dee- pened When, after a day's delay he succeeded in forcing an inspection of Room 362 and found that there was'. ho detail of its furnishing which had not been altered from the one etched in the girl's memory. It remained for him to prove the mechanism of that plot and to guess at its invisible motive—a motive ,strong enough to enlist all Paris in the silent obliteration of a woman of no importance, moreover a woman' who had not an enemy in the world. It was the purchased confession of one of the paperhangers who had worked all night in hurriedly trans- formed Room 362 that started the un- ravelling of the mystery. Perhaps you yourself have already surmised that the doctor had recog- nized the woman's ailment as a case of the black plague smuggled in from India; that his first instinctive step designed only to give time for spirit- ing her out of the threatened hotel, had, when she died that afternoon, widened into a conspiracy on the part of the police to suppress, at all costs to this one girl, an obituary notice, which, had it ever leaked out would have emptied Paris overnight and spread ruin across a city that had gambled heavily on the great Exposi- tion for which its gates were even then thrown wide. Back To The Town We are in receipt of an article from the pen of Mr. R. J. Deachman, M.P. for North Huron. In "Back to the Town," Mr."Deachman deals with the problem of unemployment, relief costs and the cost of productions in the city as compared to the cost of pro- duction in towns. "The factory must move back to the town in order to bring about lower costs of goods and services." Clinton has three large manufac- turing establishments, The Clinton Knitting Co., The Richmond Hosiery, and the Sherlock -Manning Piano Company. We know that the work provided by these companies has helped the citizens in many ways, be- sides financially. Busy people are happy people. If all towns were as well equipped with factories as Clinton, prosperity would be more evenly distributed and the need for relief would be lessened to a very great extent, might even be eliminated. This does not mean that Clinton is satisfied with things as they are. New industries would be welcomed and they would find an ideal location in "The Hub of Huron." We reproduce a portion of Mr. Deachman's 'article:— "Huron County is one of the finest counties in the province of Ontario. In soil, in capacity to produce, there is nothing in the province of Ontario which surpasses it. The decline in the population of Huron County, typ- ical of the other counties of Ontario, reveals the paralysis of agriculture. In 1901 the rural population of Huron 44,877; thirty years later, in 1931 it stood at 31,464—a decline of 13,413. Huron County in these years from its agricultural population alone lost what would constitute the population of a fair-sized city. Meanwhile, the urban population declined from 16,- 943 to 13,716—a decline of 3,227. The story of Huron County represents the. tragedy which has happened in every rural county of the province of On- tario. Are we to sit still and see this go on forever, or are we to face the problem and seek a solution? These men left the farm beeause the farm ceased to be profitable. The farm ceased to be profitable because the rate of exchange between rural products and urban products became adverse—that is, the farmer had to give more of the products ha produc- ed for the things he had to buy than he formerly ga ve. The standard of living in the city went up—the stan- dard of living in the country remain- ed stationary. Right there is the fundamental ad- justment which must be made. The producerof manufactured goods must find a means of lowering prices. The man who provides serviees ,must help to adjust to a changed condition which will permit a higher standard of liv- ing at a lower cost. Costs of production in the city are too high because of:. (1) high land values; (2) high taxes; (3) costly methods of distribution; (4) high wages. In every one of these factors the town offers advantages over the city. Wages in the city are high because the cost of living is high. The cost of Iiving in the town is decidedly low- er and the worker in the town can have a much higher standard of liv- ing and greater comfort in every way on a lower nominal wage level. The towns, in the past, have suf- fered certain disadvantages from in Sure you "get along", Mr. Brown, ante you could get along without a lot of other thing,, too. Your car, for lstsure, and that shiny tractor over there. And lots of others. Bur your idea isn't just to gat n'.ong", now is it, Mr. Brown? You invested money in those other things because they give yarn !s,00d return, either ris money, comfort or enjoyment. And to, Mr. Brown, &nce yo': haven't a tele- phone, you're miesing a bet! It will give you maximum return in money, comfort and enjoyment, Drop into our nearest office. 'They'll tell you more about it! Nothing yields so mach For what It c s•zs as the TELEPHONE ability to compete with the cities for the establishment of industries. 'Fuel and power costs are high, but there is no reason why in a -public service such as the Ontario Hydro there should not be an equalization of pow- er rates. In the old days transporta- tion services gave an advantage, to the city but with the modern truck this need no longer be the case. The building up of the towns would pro- vide markets and save costs of trans -I portation. There is new life for the nation in this policy if it can only be brought about. It will not be done by the methods we are following to-, day—we must turn our faces in an-' other direction. There must be a new outlook to- wards business—a new outlook on part of business men to their own tasks. They must now realize that there has to be a determined effort to lower costs of production and distri- bution. Governments on their part must cease to interfere with business. The tax rate must be lowered. We have come to regard the growth of expenditures as an indication of pro- gress—it is a mistaken conception. There must be no codes for industry but freedom of the competitive forces which are a powerful factor in lower- ing prices—bringing them within the range of buying power. It may be contended that this will lower the standards of living. It will have precisely the opposite effect. If prices can be brought down, demand will increase. There is : far more power in the force of competition to increase demand and improve working conditions than all the power of regu- lation which governments can apply. We have insisted upon more and more regulation of business—regulation and restriction have famed. If we go on (continued on page 6) SNAPSI-1OT CUIL WHAT PRICE LENS? You don't need an expensive camera for a picture like this. f IIfE owning a high-powered de. luxe. automobile, there is pleas- ure in owning a de luxe camera with an ultra -fast lens. Whatever one's skill as a photographer, one points with pride to the f.2 or the 1.3.5 on the diaphragm scale and properly boasts of the camera's great capa- bility and of the variety of pictures. which it can take. No question but that these expen- sive cameras with lenses allowing a maximum aperture of 1.2, 1.3.5 or f.4.5 have range and versatility that greatly increase opportunities in picture -taking and are a source of mhch satisfaction. And there is no doubt that in the hands of an ad vanbed enthusiast seeking technical perfection they are a superior tool. But if you are unable to boast.of owning such a fine camera, don't get an inferiority complex.' You can boast, and justifiably so, of the fine pictures you can get with the ordi- nary camera at 1.6.3, or even with a simple Meniscus lens box camera with but one stop at around 1.11. You may regret that you are not able to take action shots at night of a theater performance or in a night club or stop a diving beauty in mid- air. But do not forgot that many aro the ,prize-winning photographs that have been made with ordinary cam- eras, box cameras not excepted, You must concede that favorable light conditions are required for your picture -taking, but remember that favorable lightconditions are not uncommon phenomena, And dull, cloudy days, the diminished light of early morning and later afternoon and deep shade are not, in these days of fast film, by any means unfavor- able light conditions for an 1.6.3 lens. Beautiful photographs are taken with no lens at all—with a spin -hole camera. Again the owner of a camera with an 1.2 lens more frequently, uses apertures equivalent to those in ordinary cameras because, for most of his picture.taking, he does not need the f.2 aperture. As with a high-powered automobile, he has the speed when needed. Remember that very poor pictures can be takenwithcostly cameras and very fine pictures With inexpen- sive cameras. If you know what your, camera will do and how to use it, whatever the speed of the lens may be, you will always have plenty of good pictures to boast about(' its JOHN VAN GUILDER,: