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The Clinton News Record, 1934-05-31, Page 3THURS., MAY 31, 1934 Tire anrroN NEWS -> 3 Elections are taking place in On-, tario and Saskatchewan in June and there promises to be no dearth of candidates Men who deplore the de. gradation of politics are' willing to enter into it. Premier Patello tells "eastern crit- ics" that B, C. is not going to be "high -hatted or bludgeoned", by them. Why "eastern critics? The strong- est criticism of his policy carie from a mass meeting in Vancouver, attend- ed bey many of his own political friends. 'Smokers are usually benign and complacent, else the machinations of the tobacco companies would make them so gol-darned mad they would swear off and give up the weed for ever. And it would serve the com.. panies right if they did. It is quite possible that Roosevelt would like a show -down on the was debts question. He knows there is no reason or utility in demand for full payment, but politically he cannot af- ford to affront the opinion of masses of people in the central states who demand the debt, the whole debt and nothing else but. If Britain is told that she will be declared in default if she makes only a token payment, she may take the stand that there is no use in making a token payment. That will open the eyes of the whole- hoggers and they will recognize the necessity for debt revision based up- on present day values and payment in goods and services, in the same way as the debts were contracted. There are people in this world who don't want war but they want Britain or the United States to interfere with Japan to prevent Japan interfering with China, "Roosevelt opens attack on crime" is the headline announcing that he has signed six new bills dealing with crime, none of which solves the real difficulty which is that some legal and police officers are in league with criminals. In no other way can we account for failure to arrest crimin- als and failure to keep them in cus- ntody after arrest. In a daily newspaper we read a criticism of chain stores that adver- tise and sell ane article at a loss so as to attract customers, If such a practice were to be prohibited, our daily newspaper would cost us ten or tvielve dollars a year instead of five or six. The, Prime Minister took occasion recently to rebuke those who publish false rumors that not only embarras the government but add materially to the work of the Ministers. Some one had started a story that the, sugar i duty was to be removed entirely, thi s letting loose a flood of telegrams and letters of protest, congratulation or suggestion, all of which have to be answered. The denial never catches up to the story. The man who says "You can't believe what you see in the papers" is often the man who says "I saw it in the papers." A Socialist clergyman writes that many clergymen ' opposed to each other in questions of religion are uni- ted on economie questions. It may be noted that they received more education on religious than on econo- mic subjects. If sweepstakes, vulgarily called lotteries, were to be allowed at all the provinces should not be permitted to operate them because there are too many provinces. The proceeds should not be ear, marked for hospitals. Wirth easy money coming in, the tendency would be to extravagant administration. I5 we were to have sweepstakes at all, the proceeds should be earmarked for that worthy institution, the Nationat debt. The proposal is made that banks be compelled to close on civic holiday, but as it is a moveable feast, it is proposed to set a date for it all over Canada. The banks observe ,some holidays the rest of us do not, but we imagine that if civic holiday were made a general legal holiday the bank staffs would bow to the decision with becoming resignation, and that nice regard for the law which has always characterized them. The rest of us, too, would accept with equanimity another day in the year upon 'which our notes and drafts could not fall clue. It has always 'been difficult to celebrate a 'holiday with the banks staring wide open at us. A correspondent writes to a daily paper protesting against the rates charged for meals on railway dining cars. He ought to remember that a railway has to haul that car, with a cook, waiter and porter, to feed the few people who eat in it, and there: fore has good cause to charge high prices. He can make a better ease against the charges made for meals in the big railway hotels and even there he could be told that some one has to pay for the magnificence of the build. ing, the costly fittings and furniture and the mural decorations upon which he gazes as he eats his two dollar meal. It is not correct to say that Com- munists are against all laws. They observe the Stop and Go signs just as well as others do. What Clinton was Doing in The Gay Nineties DO YOU REMEMBER WHAT HAPPENED, DURING THU ,LAST DE- CADE OF THE OLD CENTURY? From The News -Record, May 30th, 1894: Snow fell in Wingham on Saturday week. Mason's new hotel is now under way. There were 300 tickets sold at the station on the 24th for various paints. Cantelon Bros. shipped 3000 pounds of butter last week to Eastern mar- kets. Sheffield Lodge S. O. E. No. 83, Clinton, having arranged to :cele- trate B e r Majesty's birthday `s by attending church on ` May 27th, a cordial invitation was ex- tended to the sister lodges in 'Huron district to join them on this occasion. Following the severe thunder storm last Sunday a cold wave set in and snow was flying Monday morning with. severe frost at night. Fruit, potatoes and general garden stuff suffered. Last ,Wednesday, Peter Bart of Stratford, a Grand Trunk employees swat working at the Stapleton bridge and while in the act of removing a plank overbalanced and fell a dis- tance of eighteen feet to the earth. . , . While still unconscious he was re- moved to Pike's hotel. The man's limbs are in a paralyzed state and recovery is doubtful. One of the most successful and us- We are very sorry to announce reality, because he carried the Purse, teresting entertainments ever held la the death of Miss Eila Jessie Hous- and was (unknown to the rest, at Clinton in 'connection with our pub- lic school was held on Friday evening last in the town hall. Upwards of 500 children and young people, be- sides an audience that filled the hall to ,overflowing, probably twelve hurls dred people, were present. A. very large number could not gain admis- sion. The opening chorus was "Dear Canada To Thee," by the pupils led by Mr. G. F. Oakes, who had been training the children for some weeks. Four of the trustees ' sang a quartette, "Come Where the Lilies Grow," T. Jackson, T. C. Bruce, J. B. Hoover, and J. C. Stevenson. From The New Era, June 1st, 1894: Messrs. Wilson and Howe last -week supplied a wedding cake for a Toron- to wedding. In addition to Constable Wheatiey Constable Paisley and Welsh pat- rolled the streets all Wednesday night to guard against the possibility of violence or robbery by any of the crowd which was in town. The elee- tric lights were also run all night. The Mechanics institute has been closed for :several days as houses cleaning has been in progress, the t interior has been painted and other- wise improved. ton, eldest' daughter of Mr,' John Houston, principal %of the Clinton Collegiate, who died on Friday at the age of fifteen. Liberal candidates in the .impend- ing'provincial election: East Huron, Thomas Gibson; South Huron,:` M. Y. McLean; North Huron, J. T. Garrow. Huron has honored itself b✓y return- ing three supporters of ,Mr. Mowat and we see no reason or prospect. that it will not do so again. Goderich Township: Mr. John Col- elough of the 10th concession has fall wheat that measures three feet six inches in length. Stanley Township: During the re- cent severe thunderstorm the house, of Mr. Alex, Innes was struck by lightning, there was little damage done, except the tearing off of a few shingles and a small hole in the sheeting. A large number of tele- graph posts were struck along the Bayfield road a mile and a half west of. Bruceaeld. , WHEN THE PRESENT CENTURY WAS YOUNG From The News -Record, June 3rd, 1909: Big Chief Wheatley was in Toron- to on business on Friday. Revs. Jolliffe, Greene and Kerr are attending Conference in London this Week. Mr. John Ransford conducted ser- vice in the Anglican church, Mitchel! on Sunday. Prank 11leCaughey, son of Mr. John' McCaughey' of Blyth, had his •shoul- der blade fractured in the Blyth.'. Mitchell ball match at Mitchell on Monday. The following left for the west this. week: John R. Sheppard, Goderich township, to Saskatoon Sask.; Frank Grant, pend Ike Weir, London Road to Seattle, Wash. •Mr, B, R. Dewart, local manager of the Royal Bank, is - being trans- ferred to Montreal ... His successor, will be Mr. Russell. Manning, who has had several yeast' experience in Tis- dell's- private bank and as manager of the Sterling Bank, Dungannon. His many old friends here are glad to see him located in their midst a- gain. On Monday Mr, Norman Kennedy caught a 26 -inch trout in the Bays field river just south of town. It weighed 6n/4 pounds and differing in some points from the regular speck- led trout, Mr. A. McGarva, who sail- ed several years ago on the Pacific Ocean, pronounced it a salt water salmom Mr. W. Jackson thought otherwise, however, and his classifi- cation proved to be correct. Bayfield: A large number came over from Clinton last Sunday to spend the afternoon by the lakeside "THE LIFE OF OUR LORD" by Charles Dickens CHAPTER THE EIGHTH There was a certain man named Lazarus of Bethany, who was taken very 111; and as he was the Brother of that Mary who had anointed Christ with ointment, and wiped His feet with her hair, She and her sis- ter Martha sent to him in great trou- ble, saying, Lord, Lazarus whom you love, is sick, and like to die. Jesus did not/ go to them for two days after receiving this message; but when that time was past, he said to his Disciples, "Lazarus is dead. Let us go to Bethany." When they arrived there (it was a place very near to Jerusalem) they found, as Jesus had foretold, that Lazarus was dead, and had been dead and buried, four days. When Martha heard that Jesus Was coning, she rose up from among the people who had come to condole with her on her poor brother's death and ran to meet him; leaving her sister Mary weeping, in the house. When Martha saw him she burst in- to tears, and said "Oh Lord if Thom hads't been here, my brother would riot have died."—,"Thy brother shall rise again," returned our Saviour. "I know he will, and I believe he will. Lord, at the Resurrection on the Last Day," said Martha. Jesus said to her, "I am the Resur- rection and the Life. Dost Thou be- lieve this ?" She answered "yea Lord"; and running back to her sit. ter Mary, told her that Christ was come. Mary hearing this, ran out followed by all those who had been grieving with her in the house, and coming to the plane where he was, fell down at his feet upon the ground and wept; and so did all the rest, Je- sus was so full of compassion for their sorrow, that He wept too, as he said; "where have you laid him?" —They said, "Lord, come and see!" Ile was buried in a cave; and there was a great stone laid upon it — when they all came to the Grave, Je- sus •ordered the stone to be rolled a' way, which was done. Then, after casting up His eyes, and thanking God, He said, in a loud and solemn voice, "Lazarus, come forth!" and the dead man, Lazarus, restored to life, came out among the people, and went home with his sisters. At this sight, so awful and affecting, many of the people there, believed that Christ was indeed the Son of God, come to instruct and save mankind. But others ran to tell the Pharisees; and from that day the Pharisees re- solved among themselves --Ito pre. vent more people from believing in him, that Jesus should be killed. And they agreed among themselves— meeting in the Temple for that purl pose—that if he came into Jeusalem before the Feast of the Passover, which was then approaching, he should ble seized, It was six days before the Pass- over, when Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead; and at night, when they all sat at supper together with Lazarus among them, Mary rose up. and took a pound of ointxalent (which was very precious and costly, and was called ointment of spikenard) and anointed the feet of Jesus Christ with it, and, once again, wiped them on her Naar; and the whole house was filled with the pleasant smell of. the ointment. Judas Iseariot, one of the Disciples, pretended to be angry a this, and said that the ointment might have been sold for Three• Hutu; Bred fence, and the money given to he poor. But he only said so, In that time) a Thief, and wished to get all the money he could, He now began to plot for betraying Christ into the hands of the chief Priests. The Feast of the Passover now drawing very near, Jesus Christ, with his disciples, moved forward to- wards Jerusalem. When they were come near to that city, he pointed to a village and told two of his disciples to go there, and they would find an ass, with a colt, tied to a tree, which they were to bring to Him. Finding these animals exactly as Jesus had described, they brought them away, and Jesus, riding on the ass, entered Jerusalem. An immense crowd of people collected round him, as He went along, and throwing their robes on the ground, and cutting down green branches from the trees and spreading them in His path, they shouted, and cried "Hosanna to the Son of David!" (David had been a great King there) "He comes in the name of the Lord! This is Jesus, the Prophet of Nazareth!" And when Jesus went into the Temple and cast out the tables of the money -chang- ers who wrongfully sat there, to- gether with people who sold Doves; saying, "My father's house is a house of prayer, but ye have made it a den of Thieves!"—and when the people and children cried in the Temple "This is Jesus the Prophet of Naz- areth," and would not be silenced — and when the blind and lame came flocking there in crowds, and were healed by his hands—the chief Priests, and Scribes, and Pharisees were filled with fear and hatred of Him, But Jesus continued to heal the sick, and to do good and went and lodged at Bethany; a place that was very near the City of Jerusalem, but not within the walls. One night, at that place, he rose from supper at which he was seated with his Disciples, and taking a cloth and a basin of water, washed their feet. Simon Peter, one of the Disciples, would have prevented Him from washing his feet; blit our Saviour told Him that he did this, in order that they, remembering it, might be always kind and gentle to one another, and might know no pride or ill -will among themselves. Then, he became sad, and grieved, and looking round on the Disciples, said, "There is one here, who will be- tray me." They cried out, one after another, "Is it I Lord!—Is it I!" But he only answered, "It is one of the Twelve that dippeth with me in the dish." One of the disciples, whom Jesus loved, happening to be leaning on His 'breast at that moment listen- ing to his words, Simon Peter beck- oned to him that he should ask the name of this false man. Jesus ans.' wered "It is he to whom I shall give a sop when I have dipped . in the dish." and when he had dipped it He gave it to Judas Iscariot, saying "what thou doest, do quickly." which the other disciples did not under- stand, but which Judas knew to mean that Christ had read his bad thoughts. So. Judas, taking the sop, went out immediately. It was night, and,he went straight to the chief Prists, and said, "what will you give nit, if I deliver him to you?" They agreed to give him thirty pieces of. Silver; and for this, he undertook soon to' betray into their hands, his Lord and Master, Jesus Christ.. (Continued Next Week). (Copywright for North and South America, 1934, by 'united Feature Syndicate, Inc.; all rigltbs reserved.) Among the number were: Ike Rat- tenbury, Percy Town, Newt. Davis and •Bert McErven, Prom The New Eta, June 3rd, 1909; Friday of next week is the date of the - West Huron Farmers' ,Institute excursion to the Model Farm at Guelph. Sealed tenders are being asked by Clinton town council for a Targe num= her of contracts in connection with the proposed' waterworks system. In the first draft of stations from London Conference the -name of Rev. T, Wesley Cosens, now at Wallace - burg, is associated with Ontario street church, Clinton, as successor to Rev. W. E. Kerr. The best baseball player is the man PAGE who sits on the grandstand and pays his money to see the game. Its wonderful how, much ho knows about the game—to hear 'hip tell it. Last Friday evening at the park. while, Principal Bartley was eatehing behind the bat without a mask, he was hit in the eye with: a ball.' County Council is meeting in Gode- rich this week, Reeve Gibbings is in attendance, Monday morning Mr. W. B. Taylor, son of Mr. Jacob Taylor, left for St, Isadore De Bellevue, Sask., where he will spend the - summer in training the French lads and lassies in good English. Mr. Taylor was in the same locality last year and will re- turn in time to resume his university course in the fall. Report of Mother's Allrowance Board Meeting Tho Huron County Mothers' A11ows ance Board met inClinton on the 15th inst. and the meeting was at- tended by 'Chief -Inspector Ii. Bentley of the Department at Toronto, The Department heads have been visiting the several local boards for consultation regarding the work of each county or city organization. Mr. Bentley gave valuable informa- tion with reference to the work in the Province, and •aommend'ed very highly the splendid work done by the local boards, which had beea. largely responsible for placing the mothers' allowance system of giving aid to needy mothers practically he yond criticism, With reference to investigators employed, it was noted that ladies were better fitted for this work, as much of their duty was . to advise mothers, not alone on the necessity of economy and in methods of busi- ness, but in the proper treatment of the children entrusted to their care, who are virtually, under the Act; wards of the Province. More recently, especially since the depression has made its inroads an the financial arrangements of people, much has been heard regarding a demand that the qualification of a mother to receive the allowance be reduced from two children to ono. This, however, would involve such a large increase in the expenditure •that it would needs be made up by de- creasing the number or the allowance of others much more in need of as- sistance, In the majority of cases one child is not a great detriment to mothers receiving employment, nor a great burden to maintain; besides, the mother of one child is a young woman able to work and capable, in the majority of cases, of 'obtaining employment, while in the case of larger, families the mothers are not eligible for employment and their earning capacity is gone. Loss Sustained During the year the local board sustained a very great loss in the death of the late Mrs, W. A. McKim of Goderich, whose services were greatly in demand and much appre- ciated, where advice was necessary and adjustments to be recommended. In recognition of Mrs. McKim's val- uable services the board passed the following resolution: Moved by Col. R. S. Hays, seconded by Mrs. (Dr.) Fowler, and resolved "That we, the members of the Mothers' Allowance Board of the county of Huron, wish to place on record our deep sense of the loss we have sustained in the death of Mrs. W. A. McKim of Gode- rich, a valued member of this Board, 1%frs. McKim was a woman of splen- did Christian character and energetic in all social work of her town and church. Active, firm, and sympath- etic, she did much to lighten the bur- dens of those in distress, particularly those receiving aid under the Moth- ers' Allowance Act" Mrs. II. Palmer of Goderich was recommended to fill out the unexpired term of Mrs. MCI inl's appointment,. which would and the last of October - next. We take pleasure in including in. this report the following figures re- garding the work in the Province a'ndr county during the past fiscal year,, ending the 31st of October, 1933: In the Province Number of beneficiaries assisted' during the fiseal year (in Province of - Ontario), 7,658; number of children•. in these families, 22,068; aliowaneen• to beneficiaries during year, $2,800,- 239.20. The following shows the cause of (Continued on page 6) LL - IN' E A T E TRE,"yD • First choice of Cana— dian motorists. • Traction in the centre of the tread. ® Supertwist Cord --ex- clusively Goodyear. O Ask us for mileage. records. Cole & Robinson PHONE 173, CLINTON- ONTARIO DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS MOTOR VEHICLES BRANCH AN OPEN LETTER T PEDH;STRIANS: Are motorists right when they say you are more than half to blame? While figures cannot be depended upon to tell the whole truth, last year's accident records leave no room for doubt that there are reckless walkers as well as reckless drivers. Last year 2,821 pedestrians were killed or injured in Ontario in automotive accidents. Many of these persons came to grief while violating a simple rule of safety .. , crossing a street between inter- sections ... crossing diagonally at intersections ... crossing against traffic signals - .. "hitching" ... or coming from behind parked.. vehicles. Of the total number, 1,107 were children playing in the street. Records show that in many of these cases the driver never had a chance. Accidents happened while he was doing his best to drive safely! This department is more deeply interested in making the streets and highways of Ontario safe, especially for children, than in any other public duty. The conscientious motorist has been appealed to in many ways; several of his privileges have been restricted in an effort to make life safe in traffic for all. I know that this appeal to the pedestrian will find ready response among those who walk more often than they drive, and especially in the hearts of fathers and mothers of little children. Will you co-operate? Will you help to steal the tide of needless bereavement and suffering by observing the simple rules of safe walk- ing that make all the difference between safety and the jeopardy of life and limb? And you parents -will you not give your children a chance by teaching them the need of care for their own safety? Toronto, May 7th, 1934.