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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1937-04-01, Page 3THURS., APRIL 1,1937 THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD. PAGE 3 WHAT CLINTON WAS DOING IN THE i5, ,1; GAY NINETIES Do You Remember What Happened During The Last Decade Of Ther Old Century? From The Huron News -Record, April 7th, 1897: Mr. Ed. Jervis left on Saturday for Assinaboia, N.W.T., where he expects to engage in school teaching. Rev. Smith and Miss' Kathleen. Smith of Bayfield'weiie guests of Dr. and Mrs. Freeborn last Monday. Miss Lillie Hunt is .spending a few days in Kippen, the guest of Miss Katie Acheson. Mr. and -Mrs. Henry Cole of Mary Street, have decided to take up resi- dence in Rapid River•,Mich.. They will leave about May lst. Mr. Ed. Routledge has rented the premises vacated by Mr. Cole. Lacrosse -A large and enthusiastic'. meeting was held in' the Rattenbury House for the purpose of organizing a Lacrosse club for 1897 -The offi- cars will be: President, Capt. Morrish; Sec. -Treasurer, h R. Read; Captain, Larry J. Hanlon; Executive Commit -1 tee, Shorty Cantelon, B. Potts and G. Hexby. It was decided to enter a 1 team in the C.L.A. There was considerable excitement at a game of checkers between Blyth and Clinton last Thursday evening, over the telephone, this town being represented by Messrs. Bruce, Hoo- ver, h Taylor, J. Cook and S. Davies. The first game was in favour of Clin- ton, and the second a draw. Owing to the continued illness of. Rev. Stewart, Rev. W. Muir of Bruce - field preached in Willis Church last Sabbath morning and Rev. Mr. Saw- yer of Tuckersmith in the evening. When The Present Century Was Young From The News -Record, April 4th, 1912: Mrs, (Rev.)Deihl of Paisley has been visiting her mother, Mrs. Me - 1 Garva. Miss Dorothy Cantelon went to Orillia last week to visit her sister, Mrs. Weatherwax. Mrs. Andrew Porter of Goderich spent a few' days last week with her sister, Mrs. A. J. Tyndall. Mr. Will L. Johnson has returned from a visit with friends in London. Dr. Garrett of Toronto was a week- end visitor in town. On his return he was accompanied by Mrs. Garrett, who has been. visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Cook. Mr. Albert Turner left yesterday for Rosetown, Sask., where he expects to spend the summer months. Board of Trade -A well attended meeting of the Board of Trade was held in the Council Chamber on Tues- day evening. The following officers were appointed - President, John, Ransford; Vice, W. Jackson; Sec.- Treasurer, ec:Treasurer, C. E. Dowding. The Board of Trade has become rejuvenated and results may be expected during the coming season. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Hellyar and family leave this afternoon for Bow- anville. Mr. Hellyar's parents cele- brate their Diamond Wedding tomor- row. John Hellyar and Catharine Brenton were born in Cornwall, Eng- land, and carne to Canada in 1850. They are 83 and 84 respectively and are enjoying fair health, especially Mr. Hellyar, who is still in business. From The New Era, April 4th, 1912: Miss Della Taylor of Alma College, St. Thomas is home for the Easter holidays. Rev. T. W. Blatchford of Centralia, who attended the Huron County Tem- perance Convention, was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Hawke, during his stay in town. Miss Edith Dower is the guest of =SNAPSHOT I LUIL Printing and Enlarging Your Own Principle), of an en- larger: the farther the lens is from the paper the greater the enlarge- ment. Enlargements bring out interesting detail. Light and shadow tones may be Improved in the process. ALTHOUGH relatively few cam era owners develop and print their own negatives, a greater num- ber now do their own printing and enlarging. They find that in this part of picture -making there is a wide range of opportunity to exer- cise their artistic talents and pro- duce prints -suiting their own tastes and fancies. Developing negatives -what with daylight developing in film tanks and dependable formulae in dark- rooms -has in these days become largely a "time and temperature" process practically certain, if the exposure' was correct, to produce good negatives. Printing a negative, developing a print and making an enlargement are very much "some- thing else again," not that they are formidabletasks, but decidedly more choosy. Skill and judgment play a large part,• ThererM oonaiderable choice, for one thing, in the kind of photo- graphic paper on which the nega- tive may be printed, depending upon the degree of contrast the Taper will .give to the dark and light por- tions of the negative, or whether or not soft effects are desired. Some negatives show extreme contrast in lights and shadows; some have average contrast; Some, because of faulty exposure, are weak, thin and fiat; some, extremely' so. The selec- tion of paper best suited to the type of negative and the kind of picture, plus proper exposure in printing, often makes the difference between a good and a bad picture. Again, there is a choice of sur- faces in paper, such as velvet, glossy, semi -gloss, according to taste, The highly glossy paper, for - example, is best suited for a nega- tive filled with detail. Again,' re•de- velopment solutions are available, for giving a print a different tone, such as sepia for an autumn scene. The amateur who does his own printing has the opportunity, too, of masking portions of the negative to suit his own artistic judgment. He may give a picture a,more .balanced composition or eliminate undesir- able details on the sides, top, or bot- tom. In a cloudless picture he may insert clouds by 'printing in" from another negative, and lie gray amuse himself by producing trick pictures .by printing from two or snore negatives. Equipped with an enlarger, the amateur has still greater opportu- nity to improve his pictures and sat- isfy his own tastes. This is an ap- paratus with which a large positive Image is obtained by permitting rays of light to pass through the negative, then through a lens and focus on a sheet of sensitive bro- mide paper. With an enlarger the amateur may "blow up" a picture to several times the area of the negative. This may result in the transformation of a very ordinary looking picture into an extraordinarily impressive one, because the enlarging often reveals details of interest or beauty not vis- ible in the small "contact" print. He may select only portions of a nega- tive to enlarge -any portion - bY masking light from the remaining area; he may even make two or three pictures from one negative. There are ways, too, of controlling the shadow tones of different\parts of a picture, thereby greatly en- hancing its artistic value. All these possibilities aro worth knowing, even if ypu clo leave their execution to your photo finisher, be- cause you can give him intelligent instructions as to what you prefer in the finishing of your snapshots. 125 JOI3N VAN C tIILDR1Z., her sister, Mrs. 'Percy Couch. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Twitchell of Edmonton, who have been attending the funeral of the Iatter'sifather, Mr. Young of Woodstock, also spent a week with the former's parents in town before returning to the West. Mr, Wilbur Wallin left last '°•Fri- day for the West with another car of horses. Clinton Travel Club Those who were invited to attend the lecture de- livered by Rev. Mr. MacMillan, , of Mimico, in the hall over the Library, on Monday night, had a treat. The speaker took as his subject, "Robert L. Stephenson," and gave a short sketch of his life and works: A hear- ty vote of thanks was moved by Rev. D. K. Grant and seconded by Rev. C. E. Jenkins. Mr. W. Brydone was ,chairman. Hullett - Mrs. Humphrey Snell visited her sister, Mrs. Henderson of Seaforth recently. Miss Susan Hunking is visiting her sister, Mrs. McLeod, of Clinton. Auburn -Mr, and Mrs. Jas. Scott of 'Colborne have retired and settled in Mr. Wm. Anderson's house. Miss Minnie Dobie left on Tuesday for Lethbridge, where she will visit her brother. Mr. and. Mrs. Oliver Clark, after visiting friends in the neighbourhood during the winter, have returned to their home in Saskatchewan. What Other Newspapers are Saying (Continued from page 2) knew him. Went to school with him," or "Yes, he is an old friend of mine." Every week dozens of papers are mailed from this office to those who wish to keep in touch with the old home town. They like to read about you and what you are doing. You would like to read about them, too. You wonder how they are getting a- long. That is why every newspaper office appreciates learning about the activities of those who have gone a- way from their town -to tell the folks who are still around. From time to time, we hear of these things, from one source or another. This is just made possible by the kindness of friends of the paper, who hear of these things. We would like more of them. If you are away, and have something of interest to tell the hone folks drop us a line about it. If you are at home, come in and tell us . Cooperate with us in this way and make your paper of more inter- est to yourself and the other fellow. -Mitchell Advocate. COMMON MAN CARRIES ON Just now, when the words "super" and "stupendous" are being so heavily overworked, the importance of the common man in the general scheme of things is sometimes forgotten. The big figures who strut about impor- tantly on the national and interna- tional stages absorb so much atten- tion that the public and the leaders alike forget that without the efforts of the ordinary people the so-called great men would suddenly collapse. Recently Anne O'Hare McCormick, talented feature writer of The New York Times, returned from Europe where she had observed the great national figures in the leading coun- tries. But she was not so much im- pressed by the key -men as by the toughness and elasticity of their na- tions. She pays high tribute to the capacity of ordinary people to adapt themselves to the whims of their rul- ers, and finds this quality more -re- markable than the capacity exhibited by any government. Under the pressure of dictatorships, she finds, as under the uncertainties of democracies the common people "go quietly about their daily business, scheming for profit, seeking for pleas- ure, eluding, evading, or humoring, their masters, by their normal habits preserving the effect of normal life in abnormal times" The result is that life 'breaks through the artificial bonds and car- ries on, and there is more light and cheer in the encircling gloom than might be imagined. This is very cheering.' It vindicates the democratic attitude, which insists that it is the common sense of the majority which will triumph eventu- ally. It also indicates that there may have been something in what old Ad- am Smith said about enlightened self- interest, and the wisdom of .allowing the individual to go his own gait as far as possible. Apparently he will find a method of doing so anyway, regardless of dictators or any other trifling and temporary inconvenien- ces. -London Free Press. WASHINGTON GETS FROM UNDER The views of the public toward the sit-down strike have just begun to crystalize : in the 'United States. If the General Motors. tie -up -'did not make clear the dangers of mass defi- ance of law and authority, the spread of the sit-down tactics to more than a score of industrial, centres and the belligerent attitude of the strikers have. What was at first sympathetic and good-natured tolerance has chang- ed to disgust, annoyance and a grow- ing sense of alarm. The people have suddenly come to realize that Gov- ernment by elected majority or by mob -rule, and not hours and wages, is the major issue. Last week the most outspoken de- mand fdr Federal intervention and effective action was pressed on Wash- quemummP ,,,fifur y/ meri / High Commissioner to Speak April 1 The CBC program department announces that April 1 has been definitely set for a'fifteen-minute broadcast talk by Hon. Vincent 1VIassey, Canadian High Commisisoner to London. The talk, which will be heard over the national network at 8.45 p.m. EST and' which will be brought to Canada by the trans-Atlantic Marconi beam sys- tem, will be based on the coming Coronation. The High Commission- er will deal with preparations that are being made to receive Cana- dians who plan to be in London for the event. It is expected he also will outline the plans that are being made for the housing and re- cognition of citizens from this country. Bowman en the "Continental Limited" Bob Bowman has an exciting "Night Shift" assignment for Ap- ril 1 at 9.30 p.m. On that date he will greet CBC rational network listeners from the famous "Continental Limited" during its run from Montreal to Ottawa. He plans to board the train at Montreal and during the 112 -mile trip will describe the coaches, sleepers, baggage car, and mail car. Present arrangements call for a, peek at things from the driver's seat as the huge engine roars through the night on its trans -Canada journey. There also will be interviews with pas- sengers and train crew. Suggest you put an extra red dot on your radio calendar for that night: Looks like real entertainment. Something About Past Coronations. The second in the series of special Coronation dramatizations be- ing presented weekly over the national network of the CBC is sched- uled for April 6 when Rupert Lucas will produce "Ancedotes of Past Coronations." The play calls for special music and a large cast of actors. These broadcasts which 'will run until May 11 have been designed to cover the cavalcade of'.Kingship since early days in Bri- tain, when men and manners created scenes vastly different from the orderr of to -day, scenes which, however, included an appreciation of th solemn covenant between a monarch and his people. Time will be 8.30 p.m. EST. Random Jottings .. Pat Terry, of "I Cover the Waterfront" fame (CBC national net- work, Fridays at 10.30 p.m. EST from Vancouver) will tell some more interesting tales of risen and the sea on April 2. Pat, you will be interested to learn, is a noted newspaperman and was for some years a scribbler on Fleet Street with Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express. Harriet M. Bali, CBC's "Guess What"'lady, tells us that she has a bag full of surprises for her April 8 program at 7.30 pan. EST. Miss Ball and Alexander Phare, her collaborator, have unearthed some unusual facts. In the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love -but such is not the case with several members of the CBC staff at Windsor. .Art. Holmes, for instance, is anxiously awaiting for old King Sol to turn on a few more kilowatts and warm up the De- troit River Peter Aylen, CRCW stationmanager, is feeling the urge to mount a fiery steed: and gaily canter along the bridle paths. Dick Glums is persistently fingering his tennis racquet and golf clubs, determined to trim some of the Windsor musicians at one game or another this summer.... Max Gilbert is' living in hopes of a new car. In the meantime he is tirelessly studying road maps for an ex- tended vacation. You were Asking .... R.E.S.: Short wave stations in Canada carrying CBC programs ' are: CBCX, Toronto, 6090 kilocycles, 49.23 metres; CJRO, Winnipeg, 6150 kilocycles, 48.75 metres, and CJRX, Winnipeg, 11720 kilocycles, 25.58 'metres. M,L.K.: The Corporation's Blattnerphone recording machine is in the Ottawa studios. CORPORATION FEATURES DAY BY DAY (All Times Eastern Standard) Thursday, April 1: 9.00 p.m. "This is Paris." Musical variety. From Montreal. 9.30 p.nr. "Night Shift." R. T. Bowman will describe a trip a- board the Continental Limited during the run from Montreal to Ot- tawa. Friday, April 2: 9.00 p.m. "Music for Music's Sake." Ralph Judge, tenor, with orchestra direction Isaac Mamott. From Winnipeg. 9.30 p.m. "Pirouettes." Orchestra and soloists. From Montreal. Saturday, April 3: 8.30 p.m. CBC Little Symphony Orchestra. From Quebec. 10.30 p.m. George Sims and his dance orchestra. From Mon- treal. Sunday, April 4: 3.00 p.m. New York Philharmonic Orchestra, From New York. 7.30 p.m. "And It ' Came to Pass". Biblical dramatization. From Montreal. 9.00 p.m. 'Rayon Black." Dramatic presentation with soloists and orchestra. From Toronto. 11.00 p.m. "Sweet and Low." Orchestra and tenor soloist. From Vancouver. • Monday; April 5: 9.00 p.m. "Melodic Strings." Orchestra direction Alexander Chu- haldin. From Toronto. 9.30 pan. "Strike Up the Band." Orchestra and soloists. From Toronto. Tuesday, April 6: 9.00 p.m. "Anecdotes of Past Coronations". Narration, drama and music. From Toronto. 10.00 p.m. "National Sing Song" -community singing under di- rection of George Young. From Saskatoon. Wednesday, April 7s 8,30 p.m. "Band Box Revue" -MRN -CBC international exchange program, From Detroit. 10.30 p.m. Lloyd Huntley and his Mount Royal Hotel Orchestra. From Montreal ington by a group of civic leaders led by Dr. A. Lawrence Lowell, Pre- sident Emeritus of Harvard Univer- sty. Protesting the rapid spread of "armed insurrection," it described the situation as, the most vital issue in the public mind, and demanded the ef- fective action which would, end sum- marily the mockery of government, and which should have been taken weeks ago. There is slight chance of any such action. Having abandoned the ag- gressive tactics by which Secretary of Labor Perkins muddled the nego- tiations in the General Motors strike, the Administration has retreated be- hind a "hands-off" policy. On Sat- urday President Roosevelt pushed a- side any attempt to thrust responsi- bility on his doorstep. Emerging from a' White House conference, Sen- ate Leader Robinson fortified the hands-off policy with a declaration that action could come only inin- stances where Federal laws are viol- ated and where State authorities, un- der. Federal law, ask assistance in the preservation of law and order. The conclusion, therefore, is that the State Governors are on their own in settling a situation which, if she did not encourage, Secetary Perkins diel much to aggravate, It means that Governor Murphy of Michigan, if he is to enforce the law, must accept the responsibility of the aggressor in what could be nothing less than a revolution. Settling the strike does not solve his problem. A peaceful truce cannot efface the fact that a small majority successfully ignored the law, defied authority and held a Government under its heel until it was satisfied to let it up. There is nothing in Europe more undemocratic than that. -Globe and Mail. Holstein Calf Was Rare Freak A Holstein calf with two headsand two tails was born at the dairy farm of William Long, near Goderich. I1 lived but a short time. Calves with two perfectly formed heads are rare - about one in 2,500 -but this is the first instance of a calf with two tails of equal size' and length to come to. the notice of the attending veterinar- ian. The calf was otherwise normal in nearly every respect with four legs,. one body and one set' of organs, but 'it had two spinal columns. One of the calf's heads showed signs of life for some minutes. The Argentine Ministry of Agricul- ture place the first official estimate of the area planted to corn at 16,308,- 600 acres, a decrease of 13.5 per cent from 1935.86 which was a record. The estimate is also 0.3 below the five- year average, but 14.7 above the last ten-year average of 14,205,394 acres, Farmers enef t N, ost from �f Tele . h�� ate , it te i1 :e du(o-�lippi �� �l e i 'V. Farmers will benefit by over $100,000 yearly throug,h reductions in rural tele- phone rates, effective April 1st. In this district' rural telephone rates are reduced 25 cents per month --$3.00 yearly. thee reductions are-- Hand rs-Hand (cradle) telephones- , elephones-•, reduced from 30 cents to 15 cents per month over Desk type (effective with May bills). Installation charge - Business telephones reduced from $2.25 to, $200, Service connection �.. (where instrument is in place) on Business telephones, reduced from $1.15 to $1.00 ; in- side move charges reduced from $2.00 to $1.00 (effective April 1st). Short banal Long Distance Coils - 20 -cent person-to-person calls reduced to 15 cents. The extra cost for reversing charges on calls to nearby places is cancelled (effec- tive April lst). Deaf Sets - The special type of equipment available for the hard -of -hearing is reduced from $230 to $1.50 per month. These reductions, especially those affecting farmers' telephones, will tend to increase the general use of telephone service, making it of greater value to every user. DUST Dust may be defined as a finely divided form of homogeneous or het- erogeneous solid substances; but what is frequently overlooked is that only a small portion of dust is ever seen. This, of course, makes its classifica- tion difficult; still it is a fact that all materials, in greater or lesser de- gree, form dusts. It is equally a fact that certain of these dusts are injur- ious to the health. A particle of dust of about 11500 of an inch may be regarded as the di- viding line between visible and invis- ible particles of dust. The dust that can be seen is the least important part of the dust -cloud or "staubosphere" that surrounds us, but, in general, it is the only part of which we take no- tice and make complaints. So-called "very clear" air in a city may con- tain many' million particles per cubic foot, and most people would call visi- bility, under such conditions, good and believe no dust to be present. The usual unitfor indicating dust particle size is the micron, which is one -thousandth part of a millimetre, or 1125000 of an inch. Among indus- trial dust, particles of a size capable of being inhaled are generally less than ten microns, or 12500 of an inch. Where a cloud of dust can be seen, fine particles will undoubtedly be pre- sent; but, where due to the nature of the process, dust is likely to be pro- duced and yet cannot be seen by the ordinary light, fine particles may still be 'present and constitute i haz- ard to az-ard'to health. Particles of thin size settle out of the atmosphere very slowly so that a dust -cloud created by a workman in shovelling of sand will spread through the shop and pol- lute the atmosphere for hours. According to the Report . of the Special Barley Committee, develop- ments of the past few years suggest the wisdom of providing encourage -1 ment in the use of barley as live-) stock feed at or near its origin of production, and of improving the qualityand exerting efforts towards levelling out the annual variation of yield. Barley production has varied during' the past five years by above 70,000,000' bushels. Live stock shippers will be inter- ested to learn that the Railway Asso- ciation of Canada has notified that it will furnish partitions for stock cars at any point in Canada at a charge of fifty cents per gate per trip, when the shippers make re- quest for them. 1 • NEWS OF HAPPENINGS IN THE COUNTY AND DISTRICT CARLOW -Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Cook, of Leeburn, have just recently celebrated the 66th anniversary of their wedding. They were married in Clinton by Rev. Roach in 1871, at- tended by Mrs. R. Gleddon and James Rye. Mr. Cook was born in Goderich Township, and is in his 87th year. Mrs. Cook, formerly Olive Potter,. is 84. She was born in Goderich Town- ship. For a number of years after their marriage they lived in Goderich Township. Since then they have lived in the Township of McKillop, in Lee - burn on the Point Farm road. Now they are living on the main road. They have been residents in this dis- trict for 54 years. The union was bles- sed with 11 children, eight of whom are still living. There are 70 grand- children and 17 great grandchildren. BLYTH: The funeral of William Charles Grasby was held from his home in Blyth to Union Cemetery. Rev. R. A. Brook, of Blyth United Church, officiated. Mr. Grasby was. in his 78th year and was born in Hal- lett Township. Later he lived on the highway and then on a farm near Belgrave where his nephew, Martin Grasby, now lives. He married Miss Marian Kade, of Hullett, who sur- vives. The last remaining member of his family, Thomas Grasby, was buried from his home a week ago. GODERICH: Four persons, includ- ing principals and attendants of . a wedding party, escaped serious injury when their car left the highway and crashed head on into a hydro pole, on Saturday, while en route to the min- ister's at Seaforth. The groom -to -be, Roy McWhinney, suffered a gashed. hand and the "best man', Robert Turner, of Auburn, a cut knee. The bride-to-be and the bridesmaid, Mrs. Turner,; escaped with a shaking. The party returned to Goderich for medi- cal treatment and started out in a borrowed car, making the trip safely. Canada will be fittingly represent- ed at Glasgow in 1938 at the largest Empire Exhibition to be held in Great Britain since Wembley (1924- 25) where the Canadian Pavilion was one of the outstanding features. Be- cause .the attendance at the Iast great exhibition in Glasgow in 1901 totalled 11,000,000 visitors, it is ex- pected that, with the infinitely better transportation facilities: of today, ait attendance of several million more at the 1938 Exhibitiont will not be an unreasonable expectation,