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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1934-01-04, Page 3ThURis., JAN. 4, 1934 THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD DK1NGTENEWS 1J1u: liC'ar Writing of his experiences abroad, a travellene remail s that the English knew what and how to ,at and drink. Why shouldn't they? They've been doing it for a thousand years, While other countries are ,striving to depreciate their curzency, Canada ie pleased to see ite dollar rise to a hundred cents in the United States. As a borrower from that country this appreciation is a 'distinct advan- tage. Any disadvantage arising from' the depreciation. of American amen cy is being niet by our anti-dumping legislation, Alfixad E, Smith criticized the President for monopolizing the alph, 'abet in designating the boards func tinning under the N.R.A. It really is not a monopoly, while broadcast, ing stations have so large a quota and universities shower letters a- round in honorary degrees. There are only twenty-six all told, but there is no limit to the turnover and letters are as illuminating as any other designation. Government boards by any other name would be just as offensive and officious in their interference with private busi nesees. teeeeetece A statician calculates that under the new laws every person in the United States will dr ink sixty-nine glasses of liquor per year. He has taken into consideration of course that there will be slackers and con- scientious objectors who will drink Tittle or nothing, but he estimates correctly that others will take up the white man's burden so . as to main- iain that .average and thus swell the :national revenues, for it is with a 'view to arriving at the precise a - 'mount of revenue which the federal and state governments will receive that he estimates how much each per- son is going to drink. His calcula- tions may be all wet if he has not •onsidered prices, which are a neigh= ty factor in regulating consumption, toemetigmee We knew a man once who claimed that he would have been a teetotal- ler were it not for statistics. He read from official statistics that the annual consumption per head was so eriany gallons. Being a native of Scotland, he said, he would not stand for anyone else drinking his, share or any portion of it. • Aimee Semple McPherson Hutton in h er application for divorce charg- es her husband with cruelty and with causing her mental anguish. Hutton in his application makes sim- ilar charges against his wife. We eincerely trust that both charges are true, but doubt it, I1 was a marriage for publicity which they both grave. Only its absence could create mental anguish for them and be regarded by each as cruelty. • Pope Revised Vice is a monster of such frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen, Yet seen too oft, our virtues grow- ing lax, We license it and make it pay a tax. If Mr. Roosevelt's program 'does not prevail it will not be through lack of public applause. Political opposition has been all but suppress. end and the agencies of the air, the press, the platform and pulpit have been enlisted toward its support and glorification Any opposition that has so far put up its head has been met with a barrage of abuse, Even Al Smith, a Democratic idol, was not spared when he ventured to criticize the brain trust. Since Roosevelt became President there has been a large reduction in the index of unemployment but most of it is due to the work that is being farmed out by the government, An army is employed in 'organizing, boosting and supervising the admin- istration of the N.R.A. and other armies are engaged in the construc- tion of public works. It is a tem- porary extension of the 'civil service, They are on the taxpayers' pay -roll. teolosee The only thing that is certain a- bout it is that it will end. The paos cannot be maintained. Clacquers, voluntary or paid, can beat the tone - toms, arouse enthusiasm and bear down opposition for a while, but the greater the action the greater the re- action. That reaction will start when he has to pry a few million people off the public pay -roll It would not be surprising if the Democratic lease of power expires in 1937. What Clinton was Doing in The Gay Nineties DO YOU REMEMBER WHAT HAPPENED DURING TIfl LAST DE- CADE OF THE OLD CENTURY? From The News -Record, Jan. 3, 1894: The Clinton elections resulted in Magor--, Robert Holmes; Reeve—A, McMurchie; Deputy Reeve: D. B.: Kennedy; Councillors—St. Andrew's Ward: A. Armstrong and 3. 'Taylor; St. James': A. McKenzie and J. Mc, Murray; .St. John's: C. Overbury and S. S. Cooper; St. George's: S. G, Plummer and W. Young. Miss Maggie E. Cash• of Orange- ville was the guest of her cousin, Eva Sperling, Iast week. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hartley who have been visiting friends in this vicinity for some time left for Oree gon on Wednesday last. Proof of Honesty—On .Saturday evening Messrs. McMurray and Wile tse unintentionally left a• nice piece of pork hanging outside the store. The neat was undisturbed Monday morning. It is a proof of honesty or oversight on :the part of some people, Mr. A. H. Plummer of Eiyth was a 'Clinton visitor last week. Rev. W. Holmes, Rattenbury street, Methodist Church is recovering from a severe attack of influenza. Mr. Ben Spindler of London was in town last week attending thefun- eral of his father. Presentation--4The. ladies of the W. M.A., St. John's church, Holmesville, presented their pastor, Rev. Mr. Diehl, with a library lamp on Decem- ber 23rd. Tuckersmith—Mr. John Crich. ,,Jr•' leaves this week for Pennsylvania. He intends to drive all the way and, dispose of his horse when he gets there. Mr. Geo. White had his right hand cut off while crushing grain Monday afternoon, He will have the sym- pathy of a host of friends. Landeeboro—Messrs. J. Tamblyn, Andrew Taylor and Wm. Lannon reg turned from Manitoba last week. Those who had built en a sleigh ride on Christmas day were disap- pointed as the snow had all disap- peared. 'Mr, and Mrs. Wilkin spent Christ- mas in HenselI. WHEN THE PRESENT CENTURY WAS YOUNG From The New Era, Jan. 7th, 1909: We understand that a permanent position has been offered to Mr. John Houston in connection with the Uni- versity of Winnipeg, Mrs, J. J. Allen, Ottawa, who has• been visiting relatives here, has re- turned to her home. A Successful Concert --?The Big Benefit Concert held last Friday ev- ening was the biggest and best ever held. It was a good entertainmen' from beginning to end. The Rev, Gunne made an excellent chairman and knows what to say and when and how to say it. All our localperform- ers did themselves justice, while the Gramophone and moving pictures, with local hits was a good success. Hockey—Mild weather was decid- edly unfavourable for skating but the change on Wednesday made good ice. Hockey snatch for Thursday iNew Hamburg versus Clinton, The line, up for Clinton will be: Goal, Wt Johnston; point, S. McKenzie; cover point, C. Copp; left wing, H. White; right wing, B. Johnson; centre, F. Forrester; rover, E. Sheppard. Handsome Residence Burned—The commodious residence of, Mr. D. A. Forrester was completely destroyed by fire' on. Thursday of last weak. The cause of the fixe was an explos- ion of acetylene gas. esseagweer From The News -Record, - January 7th, 1909: Much interest is being taken in :the play Richard the Third; which will be Mr: Clarence Sheppard of the Mob- presented in the town hall on the evenings of Thursday and Friday next. The salt block is now worked to capacity, fire having been placed un- der another pan last week. There are now twenty or more men employ ed under Mr. F. W, Pickett, superin- tendent. Miss Annabelle McEwen has re - sours Bank has been transferred to the branch at Iroquois. Clarence will be missed in sports circles. Mr. E A. McClure '01 Iroquois succeeds hien. Mr. J. A. Cooper, of the Courier,' Toronto, spent the week -end with his mother, Mrs, W. Cooper, and his bro- ther, Mr. A. T. Cooper. • I Mr. J. B. Kennedy has returned to Detroit after a visit with his father, turned to her studies at the Univer- Mr. D. B. Kennedy, w ho has been sity of Toronto. - _ . seriously ill. PAGE 3 as great importance to the total ec- onomy of Canada as it is to the Unie ted. States, yet the comparison be- tween the two curves is of interest, It is only Fait to add, however, that the situation in agriculture in Can- ada is far better than it is in the United States and that the same may be said of Lumbering. Since agri- culture is of relatively great iiupor- tance in Canada and 15 In a 'better condition hi this country than in the United States, the chart is not quite as favourable to Canada as would '1x an actual comparison of the relative general business situation in the twc countries, but there are no statistics with which to make an accurate com- parison of this type. Comparative Indurtrial Trends Canada, Great Britain and the United States In Great Britain, Canada and the United States industrial aetivity is between 77 and 90 per cent as large as it was in the years whieh were selected as normal by the statistic, fans of these countries. The up. ward trend is now well established and is shown clearly in the chart which accompanies this article. For those who are unaccustomed to read statistical charts, the -stories indicated on the attached- chart may not be quickly revealed, hut they are sufficiently interesting to be worth something more than a passing glance. The_ three lines are a re- cord of the index of industrial pro- duction in the three countries men- tioned; that for Great Britain be- ginning in 1924 was compiled by the Cambridge Economic Service, than for Canada by the Dominion 'Bureau of Statistics, and that for the United States by the Federal Reserve Board, The British index is on a quarterly, the othere on a monthly basis. The first fact to note is that the last point shown on the chart for each curve is 88, 87 and 77 respectively. Perhaps the most striking features of the chart are the high peak reached by Canada in January 1929, and the very low points reached by Great Britain in 1920 (the year of the general strike), and by the Uni- ted States in 1932 and ,at the be- ginning of 1933. Let us observe the course of busie Hess in Canada. It is quite clean that the upward movement did not gain headway in. Canada until much later than in the United States, but Ithat from 1926 to 1929 the expansion in Canada was much 'more rapid and that it reached a far higher peak than it did in the other two countries. In 1929 and early in 1930 the decline was correspondingly abrupt, Throughout the remainder of the downward trend the rate of 'decline was about the same in the two coun- tries, but the volume of business in Canada remained relatively larger than in the United States until the end of 1932. This differential in favour of Canada must be attributed to the departure from gold. Prices ' remained at a slightly higher level in Canada during this interval and i the volume of business was icorres. pondingly better. The chart . shows ,quits clearly that there is close cor- , respondence between the volume • of industrial activity in the two come - 1 tries, but ordinarily there is a slight ly greater fluctuation in business in t Canada thanin that in the United States. In recent months, ' however, Canada made a slower and somewhat more consistent recovery, with the result that although the improve- Ment during the summer was not quite so rapid as in the United States, there was no such marked reaction as that which oeetred in the Iatter country during the early winter months, and the proportionate volume of business is now better in Canada than in the United States. Although the objection may be rais- ed that industrial activity is not of The year 1926 was that of the gen- eral strike in Great Britain business: was almost completely paralyzed. It is of interest to see how close was the level reached in the United State$ in July 1932, and in Manch 1933, to that of Great Britain in 1926. It is plainly evident how quick • was the recovery in Great Britain after the strike, but it did not reach a fever- ishly high 1ewel in 1929, The decline in Great Britain did' not get under way until several months after it had become puite evident in Canada and the United States.. For a few months the rate of decline in all three countries was about the same,' but in Great Britain it was halted almost immediately after the depart- ure from gold. From the chart and from evidence -from other sources, it is quite clear that there was a tendency toward g reversal of the downward trend in these countries and in other parts of the world in 1931. Again in 1982, ai tendency toward an upward move- ment asserted itself and it was at that time that the real upward move- ment began to snake headway in Great Britain, but the shock of the financial crisis in the United States again reversed the trend in that country and in 'Canada, and produc- tion in these two countries fell to a low level in March. The extreme rap- idity of the upward movement of last summer in the United States is clearly indicated. Evidently the pace of improvement was too fast. Now all three countries appear to be at about the sane stage of reeoveryl Although no later Index number is (Continued on, page '7) r.. Greetings from the Premier' n, ,, " To the Editor: A new year is here, It Iles, Iarge and problematical, before us. What we in Ontario shall make of it de- pends primarily on our resourceful- ness, our courage, and our pride. With four years of depression past —the worst of it is over, I believe- the Province finds itself in a rather favored position. Though many dif- ficulties loom ahead• --arid I, for one, do not minimize their complexities— our Ship of State is once more rid ing on even keel, with 'colors flying, Our people are being fed,, clothed and sheltered. None starves, • Our credit is unimpaired. Our institutions, sound. There is no disorder. Little lawlessness. Throughout all our Male the people have manifested their adherence to ,British tradition and to British sane thinking. By patience, perserveranoa, and general co-operation with those: entrusted with the reins of administration, they have proven that the welfare of a country, in times of stress, comes properly before things political and matters purely partisan, This attitude of mind must prevail: throughout 1934—if ` we are to come - safely and'. securely t hrough, There - should be no place in our calculations as a Province for quack tonics .and' cure-alls concocted by impractical' preachers and prophets. Experience is an 'excellent teacher; and exper- ienco, so far, hastaught us that our recovery must he slow and orderly.. Moving along such lines the goal we all have • long evisioned is assured..' One hasty, over -reached step, howev- er, might spoil all. In wishing our people a happier, e • brighter, and a more prosperous New Year, let Inc again commend their fora the manner in which they have' played the gauze during the trying - twelve months that have just ended. Sincerely yours, GEORGE S. HENRY, Prime Minister. SHAKING HANDS ' Addressing a political gathering! the other day, a speaker gave his hearers a touch of the pathetic. "I miss," he said, brushing away a not unmanly tear, "I miss many of the old faces I used to shake hands with." JUNIOR'S FOREBODING Tommy—I'd like to go to bed now, please, mummy, 'cos I'nn afraid daddy is going to be cross." Mother -.Going to be cross? Why, whatever do you mean, child? Tommy -I've just broken his now - pipe Local Retailers They Owe You Sales Assistance You know thoroughly well that you have power, in your store, to influence the decision 01 your customers in regard to what they buy from you, Your customers rely on you to give them products which, in use or consumption, will give them complete satisfaction. You know and your customers know that, in regard to nearly every class of product, there are several brands of equal merit. Thus, A's soup is the equal of 'B's or C's soup; D's shoes are the equal of E's or F's shoes; G's radio Sets are the equal of B's or I's sets; J's hosiery is the equal of K's or L's hosiery; M's electric washing machine or refrigerator is the equal of N's or O's washing machine or refrigerator; and so on and so on. Makersof advertised products recognize that you have access to the attention and favor of several hundred buyers—your regular and irre- gular customers, and they want to use your dis- tribution facilities for their advantage. But are they willing, in every instance, to assist you to sell their product if you stock it --•assist you with "series of local advertisements, to be Pub- lished in this newspaper? They say that they will provide you with plenty of window and counter display material, and printed matter; but quite often they de- cline to use local advertising, in this newspaper, over your name! They tell you that they ale spending a whale of a lot of money in big -city dailies and in na- tionally -circulated magazies;'bub you know -- or can get to know—,that in the territory served by this newspaper upwards of 90 per cent of the families Iiving in it do not subscribe to national magazines and big city dailies. This means that the job of promoting local sales rs to be put on your shoulders. If it is right to use big city dailies and nation. ally -circulated magazines then, by the same tok, en, it is right to use local weekly newspapers? It is no compliment to you as a retailer or to the buyers of this town and territory for a na- tional advertiser to decline to advertise his pro• duct in this newspaper. You can get much more advertising for your store and stock than you are how getting, if you insist, as a condition of stockin/ a parti- cular product, that it lice locally advertised in this newspaper. N.B.: Show this advertisement to men who urge you to stock and push the sale of their goods, yet who tell • you that their firm cannot assist their local sale -by advertising. The Clinton News -Record $1.50 a year. Worth More l