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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1937-11-25, Page 2PAGE 2 THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD THURS., NOV. 25, 1937. "AMan Must Eat' (BY DONOVAN BAYLEY) Frank Bond came home with new lights behind his horn-rimmed'glas- ses, for he had been;seeing visions, and listening to a prophet. Frank was one of those tall, fair young men who make you think of Viking adventures. Being born, how - .ever, all these years too late for that he plodded along, equally cheerfully, in a large estate agent's office in the, semi -West End. He hurried up the crazy -paved path to his front door in the suburb of. New Orpingstead, let, himself in, and :uttered his usual ringing shout.' "Mary, I'm back. Where are You?" '"t'nr'here, darling, -with uncle," she 'answered' from the kitchen. "When you've washed, dinner'Il be on the ta- ble" . "Fine) Great!" lie was so hearty Mary thought, that this time, hewas not so pleased uncle. was here again. She was not, to, know that Frank had leen seeing visions. Neglecting to go into the kitchen to hug Mary—.the presence of Mr. Geo. 'Shane, her uncle, made him shy -- 'Frank 'Frank hurried un to the basin in the 'bath -room, and the way the house shook would have told a builder a lot. 'He ran down again. now of antiseptic soap, shook hands with Mr. 'Shann, gave his pretty wife a coin - 'he Clinton News -Record With which is Incorporated THE NEW ERA TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION '41.50 per year in advance, to Cana- dian addresses. $2.00 to the U.S. or ither foreign countries. No paper discontinued until all arrears are pard unless at the option of the publish- er. 'The date to which every sub- ecrintion is paid is -denoted on the label. ADVERTISING RATES — Tran •eient advertising 12c per count line for first insertion. 8c for each sub- sequent insertion. Heading counts 2 lines. Small advertisements not to exceed one inch, such as "Wanted," "Lost," "Strayed," etc., inserted once .for 35c, each subsequent insertion 15c. 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NICI{LE, Phone 23w. 11-11-x. '1'HE McKILLOP MUTUAL Fire Insurance Coif -many Head Office. Seaforth, Ont. Officers: President, Alex, Broadfoot, Sea - 'forth; Vice -President, Thomas Moy- lan, Seaforth; Secretary -Treasurer, M. A. Reid, Seaforth. Directors — Alex. Broadfoot, Sea - forth; James Sholdice, Walton; Wil- liam Knox, Londesboro- Chris. Leon bardt,, Dublin; James Connolly, God- erich; Thomas Moylan,- Seaforth; W. R. Archibald, Seaforth; Alex. McEw- Ing, Blyth; Frank McGregor, Clinton. List of Agents: W. J. 'Yeo, Clin- ton, R. R. No. 3; James Watt, Blyth; John E. Pepper, B'rucefield. R. R. No. 1; R. F. McKercher, Dublin. R. R. No. 1; Chas. F. Hewitt, Kincardine; IR. G. Jarmuth, Bornholm, R. R. No. 1. Any money to be paid may be paid .to the Royal Bank, Clinton; Bank !of 'Commerce, Seaforth, or at Calvin 'Ciitt's Grocery, God'erich. Parties desiring to effect insur- `ance or transact other business will 'he promptlyattended to en applica- ion to any of the above officers ad- dressed to their respective poet offi- ces,, Losses inspected by the director who lives nearest the Beene. CANADIAN 'TI u A %AILWAYS ITV, TABLE iTrains will arrive at and depart from Clinton as follows: ,Buffalo and Gederieh Div. Going East, depart, 7.03 a.m. Going East, depart le00 p.m `Going West, depart 11.45 p.m. Going West, depart 10.00 "p.m. London, Huron Re Bruce 'Going North, ar. 11.25 lve. 11.47 p.m. "Going South ar. 2.50, leave 3.08 pm. t t•adely smack and sat clown at the head of his draw -leaf oak 'table. "We want rain, my boy," Uncle Shann said. "You ought to know," Frank ad- mitted. Mr. Shann was a market gar- dener in '0., largish way, though 'get- ting old and inelastic.' "Nice show of blooms you've got here, all the same, the old roan ad- mitted. "Blooms!" Frank said. "That's just where I've gone wrong, ' That's just where, with a small income like ours, I've been inefficient." "Inefficient?" Mavy echoed. This was new to her. The polyanthuses, especially, were remarkably fine this year. Frank ,Was good at them, as well as being clever with roses. In- deed, he had managed, , by .budding, to have twee separate sorts flowering one standard, a rather neat idea in a rather, small garden. "I said inefficient And 2 know just what I'm talking about. The firm has called inan efficiency expert, and I have been listening to him." "That's bad," Mary said. She had been in business' before Frank took her out of it. "Means the sack for someone." "Sure!" Frank was unworried. The firm would certainly not want the bo- ther of training someone else to do Ms careful work, which was, pivotal. "He's a pian called Devannion, a swarthy bloke„ forceful, intent, a hu- man dynamo." "Shoot him," Mary said, "if you' can do it without being noticed." "I don't like to hear that sort of talk, even in joke," Mr. Shann, reprov- ed her, uneasily. "If anything did happen to him after that you'd be bound to be blamed, Mary. You know what the police are. They'll hang somebody or know why." "What did you mean by saying you had been inefficient, Frank?" Mary asked. "Oh, not at the office! In the gar- den. I'm getting four quid a week, and I'm behaving like a country gen- tleman with large grounds." "Never noticed it, darling." "No, but I have. It's not efficient with an income like ours, to grow flowers. We ought to grow things to eat. It was Devannion pointed that out to me. when we had a chat." "Did he?" Mary said, thoughtfully, "Orpingstead's growing fast," Un- cle Shann said. "You can get quite a good, price for cut blooms. I wisle 1 was younger." "We buy lettuces and radishes, and (spring. onions, turnips, carrots, spin- , ach, and all sorts of stuff, when we 'could raise then{ ourselves," Frank said. "You can't say that's efficient, can you?" "I can't say that I like it," Mary answered, thinking of the efficiency expert. "I bought seeds on the way home," Frank said: "I'll have a bed cleared for thein before dark." "Lettuces are fetching a wonderful price," Shann said. "But the flowers?" Mary said. "They're corning out of it. You can fillevery' vase you have got, and then'oodb a to 'em.Think of what g Y you wend at the greengrocer's." "I've a nice cold -frame you can have for the fetching," Mr. Shann of- feted. "You bring: some of 'em along in that and you'll be in time yet.", That evening and at the week -end Frank converted the herbaceous bor- ders and most of the lawn, into a min- iature market -garden, The neighbors began to, say that he was no Credit to the road. Scarlet runners, climbing up strings, were no substitute for the crimson ramblers; ranks of immature lettuces were not as 'nice to look on from their back bed -room windows as the sacrificed lawn, and the tender fo- liage of young radishes was not as pleasing as had been the masses of violas. But that late spring was wet and warm, which is just what young vege- tables and salad plants want. With the help of Uncle Shann's discarded cold frame, the change was made Qv- er efficiently. Frank's thirty by eighty foot garden was producing food and saving money. As the house looked south, the asters coming up in the front, garden gave place to a row of tomato' plants. , "It's sordid," Mary objected. "It's money -grabbing." "You can buy yourself a new dress with the money you"11 save," "No, thank you, I'd feel unhappy all the time I had it on." "And you won't need make-up when the salads get to work on your 'com- plexion." "You' r e certainly a n efficient chump;" Mary retorted. But Uncle Shann was delighted. He had made all his money out of just just the soft of thing that Frank was growing. He often came over to see how everything was going on, even though he was getting old "You're doing fine, my boy," he said. "And I'll tell you why; you're not afraid to, thin them out. ' Most amateurs crowd their. stuff." "That isn't efficient. It doesn't matter what you're' doing, you've got to get down to it, and do it as it ought to be done." I•Ie was -quoting- efficiency expert Devannion. That intense man had gouged a deep impression into Frank's. healthy mind. It was a ,good honest hero-worship, and a "credit to Frank. He talked a great deal about Devan- nion to Uncle Shann. "Ay, Prank, you don't mind being told, what you dont' know," the old man answered. "You like to learn things, you do." .. "Don't we all?" "No, that we don't. ,The fools I've inet you wouldn't hardly believe. ,The, olcler I grow the More fools get in niy way. I can't explain it." Mary was lzegiinning to 'eat the thinnings of the lettuces ,and the en - wanted of the young radishes at her solitary lunches, when the edict broke loose to Frank. One half of his mind was plodding. along at his ctry job, and the other, more vivid half was, won- dering if he had been. wrong not to try a 'celery trench, however small, when the bell rang for him to go into the; junior partner's .private room. "Sit down Bond," he said tb Frank "I want to talk to you." Frank's heart' sang at this opening. "I hope there's nothing' wrong?" he asked. "I've been learning, Bond. We all can learn something from those who know better than ourselves. The thing is this. Mr. Devannion says you're a fine, steady worker" "I'm very glad." "He says no one could do your job bettor than you do. Only he's proved that, if we spend thirteen guineas on a special sort of filing cabinet, there will be no need 'at all that your job should be done." "But -,r "It's not a bit of use arguing I could prove' it to you in four minutes if 'you were still interested. You are not a round peg in a square hole, or anything like that. You are a peg without any hole at all here. See what I mean?" "You mean I'm sacked." "We thought of inviting you to re- sign. Best we can do for you. Looks better when applying for a new situa- tion, you see." "Yes, I see. When must I leave?" "The filing cabinet's coming to -day some time. It ought to have been here by now." "Sudden death?" "Oh,'you'll get a better job!" "But not here?" "Quite. I'm sorry. March of pro- gress and all that. In these hard times we can"t afford to carry pas- sengers." That news had been exactly what Mary had been waiting for. She was, therefore, perfectly prepared to be cheerful when Frank told' her. "Anyhow we shan't starve while there's a radish in the garden," she said. "It is a good thing you did get rid of all those plants and plant food instead." "Yes, those flowers were only pas- sengers. It's a pretty grim world lovey." "I dunno. We'll stick together somehow." "OIs, we'll do that! The point is, I have just got about next quarter's rent in the bank, and no more. Do we live on it, and `get turned out; or do we save it, and turn vegetarian?" "So; you get a. better job." "Sez you." He looked sideways at her. "My season ticket's nearly out too. Are we in a mess?"' "We are that., Watch us get out of ft" Mary made him take two or three ' i nerveic lays' holiday to get his bas He spent them in the garden contriv- ing a snake -like celery trench, wind- ing among the crops, and the neigh- bors knew then what they more than suspected that het was a crank. But "That's right—never waste an inch of ground," Shann said, when he saw it. "What are you doing at home? Got a holiday for being so efficient?" He did not wait for an answer, but went up and down the garden, looking at everything.. He liked what he saw. "Frank, when n gardener dies, and his body's iut in the earth, he goes home.. That's how I feel about it. A good thing I do, too, at my age," said Shann presently. "I wonder you can be content to work at things that do. not natter a damn. Where would you office fellows be without pie? No- Where. Why? you ask. Because you can't eat money; you .can only eat the food, and I grow it." "That's right" "You admit it? I'll tell jou what teases the life out of pie. For longer than you've' been on, earth, I've work- ed at my freehold acres, getting the soil better and better, with loving care, And what'll happen. when I die? They will sell the ground ' to build horrible 'little boxes like this one of yours on it. . "I suppose you're' too set on all this 'efficiency' you talk so much about to come in with ine, learn the art of growing things to be ready just when most needed, and live hard till you're in good enough shape to carry .on af- ter me? What you people forget is' that you're as dependent on the land as if you had actual roots. All you want to do is to cover it up with bricks and mortar, as if it were some- thing indecent bare "' "Hasn't Mary told you?" "Told me what?" "That I'm sacked, chucked out, not wanted, no good?" "And some People say there's no such thing as Providence. The older DOINGS IN: THE SCOUT WORLD Boy Scouts from distant points at the year's international Scout Jain boree in Holland included 8 from Venezuela, 0 from Siam, 12 from Ja- pan, 25 from China, 5 from Iran, 30 from Mexico and 30 from Iceland. Boy Scout Artists in Flowers Three brilliant beds of autumn flowers before the headquarters hut of the, 1st Peery Sound. Scout Troop, on the local fair grounds, was one of the exhibits which attracted the attention of flower lovers at the an- nual fall fair. The Scouts are snaking plans for a more extensive display next year. A Scout Stretcher of Coats and Poles An opportunity for practising ap- proved Bay Scout -style first aid 'was provided unintentionally by one of their number during a Saturday hike of the 1st Sudbury, Ont., Scout Troop, when Scout Fergus Ducharme frac- tured a, leg. Splints were improvised and a stretcher made of coats and poles, and the patient carried out to the highway, Another Scout Cliff Rescue Latest in the list of cliff rescues by English Boy Scouts was the finding and Saving of three London girls who found themselves trapped by the in- coming tide and had taken refuge in a cave up the face of the cliff. When they failed to return at nightfall, searchers were sent out, and were joined by camping Scouts of the 161st North London Troop. Two of the boys located the girls, and after jump- ing a four -foot crevice, reached them, and got them• up the cliff to safety. A Flood Service Award for All London Scouts A Certificate of Merit for the Boy Scouts and leaders of an entire dis- trict was the unique award by His Excellency the Lord Tweedsmuir, Chief Scout for Canada. The award was made to London, Ont., Scoots and Scouters in recognition of valuable services rendered during the serious. Thames valley flood of last spring. The citation reads: "This Certificate is granted to the Boy Scouts of Lon- don, Ontario, for strenuous and commendable work rendered during the disastrous floods in the spring of 1937." RAINFALL VARIATIONS IN PRAIRIE PROVINCES Severe droughts have been experi- enced in recent years' in the southern parts of the Prairie Provinces,—Mani- toba, rovinces,Mani-toba, Saskatchewan and Alberta — with very adverse effects on crop yields. These conditions have arous- ed considerable interest in the clima- tic history of the prairies, especially as regards the amount of rainfall re- ceived in different years. On the basis of rainfall variations in the past, it is possible to estimate ' the likelihood of good years in the future, and of the recurrence of droughts. Records of rainfall in the present drought areas do not extend further back than about 1885. For informa- tion on earlier rainfall conditions re- ference roust be made to historical records and to the evidence supplied by tree ring measurements and other similar observations. From such limited evidence as is available, it would seem that inter- mittent periods of drought were ex- perienced throughout the Great Plains regions of the United States and Canada from about 1825 to 1865. It was during the latter part of this period that Cal'tain Palliser made his explorations of the Canadian prair- ies, which led hien to designate the southern areas as semi -arid desert, a description undoubtedly influenced by the prevailing climatic conditions. Frain 1865 to about 1885, rainfall conditions on the Great Plains seem to nage been relatively good, a fact which had a favourable effect on'the westward penetration of agriculture in the United States. Another period of dry years, of which evidence may be found in early precipitation records, occurred throughout the Canadian prairies be- tween 1885 and 1894; but as the acre- age of land under cultivation on the prairies was much less in this period we get, the more fools I meet. You come' in with 'are, Frank, be content to learn and you won't have so long to wait till it's e11 yours " "No, 'I won't do that: I'll leave it in trust to your gfeatgrandson.I'11 maybe have other things to think of by the time he's twenty-one than wor- rying whether' it is built over. Mary watching through the kitchen window saw their hands shoot out and clasp over the dwarf peas.—Lon- don eas: Lon- don "Answers." •FOR. A MILD,COOL:SWOKE, ee No fumes worry you when you heat with HAMCO. You'll be delighted • with this safer, cleaner, money -saving Coke. Lasts so long — easy to regulate. And so light on the shovel, it's a pleasure to handle. Leaves much less ash than other hard fuels. Try a ton of HAMCO, the dust- less, smokeless, wasteless Coke. Order from your local HAMCO dealer -- he deserves your fuel business. SCARE ,AMILTON' BY-ER•QDUCT COKE OVENS, LIMITED HAMILTQN, CANADA ; IIAMCO COKE sold in Clinton by: A. D. McCARTNEY VICTOR FALCONER J. B. MUSTARD COAL CO. W. J. MILLER & SON NSIST ON HAMCO-CANADA'S . FINEST' COKE than at present, the adverse effects of drought were not nearly so not -1 Moreover, as a vastly great. er percentage of the land was under native ,grasses, soil drifting did not present a serious problem. Between 1895 and 1928 precipita-, tion in the Prairie Provinces was usu- ally sufficient for grain production. Variations in rainfall occurred in dif- ferent districts, with occasional local droughts. Wide -spread droughts were experienced in 1912, and in the years 1917 to 1919, inclusive. The latter dry period caused considerable toil drifting in southern Alberta. On the whole, however, it will be seen that the period of greatest agricultur- al expansion in the Canadian praires coincided with a period of favourable rainfall conditions. The present sequence of dry years in the southern parts of the Prairie Provinces commenced with abnormal- ly low rainfall in 1928, but the full effect of drought was not felt until 1929 when sub -normal rainfall was again received. Since 1929, rainfall .11111111M•1114•111t has been inadequate for crop produc- tion in almost every year, except lit 1935, with resulting low yields and soil drifting. From the foregoing outline of rainfall variations, it is evident that periodicaldroughts may be expected in the Canadian prairies, with inter- vening ntervening periods of better rainfall. For this reason, the adoption of all pre- cautionary measures against drought, even during years of good rainfall, should be a fundamental practice of , Western agriculture. PRIVATE GREETING CAL:DS Cluistmas Cards Printed with Your Own Message are More Popular This Year. COME .IN AND SEE THE NICE SAMPLES TO CHOOSE FROM. The Cards are Boxed -25 in each box. They Range in Price from $1.75 Up ThoClilltoll ews-Record ire PO 40316S0-itig' Si0311011031M13104165.1%5AVA514,5310SC,