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THURS., AUG. 9, 1.934
THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD
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WHAT' " OTHER
NEWS PAPERS ARE
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF POLITICS
Hon. Howard Ferguson says that
all politics is psychology, Some uni-
versity ought to offer him a position
as a professor of psychology. If be-
ing a good politician means being al
good psychologist then he ought to be
a` find for some institution of learning.
—London Free Press.
D OAF CAIVIOUFLA CE '.
The new beer and wine law is de-
scribed as a temperance measure,
designed, also, to curb the bootlegger.
Why not call it a measure for sale of
beer and wine by the glass and let it
go' at that?
—Port Arthur News -Chronicler
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HUMAN QUALITIES REMAINED
The quality' of one's putlook- is
judged. by many things. When Pre-
sident Paul Von Hindenburg was near
death he left a message. It was
this: "Tell them not to give me flow-
ers but to give the money to the
poor." The family has passed along
that simple request, , asking that
friends ea -ay it into effect. Pictures
of Hindenburg always made him look
stern, and austere, a man of discipline.
That simple- request is sufficient to
put a kindly light in what seemed to
be hard eyes and to soften the line a-
round what always looked like a grim
and determined mouth.
It has been found that in Marie
Dressler's will $35,000 has been set
apart for Mamie Cox, a negro maid
who had been in her employ for 25
years, and the maid is also to receive
all of Marie Dressler's clothing.
Jerry Cox, the maid's husband, who
was chauffeur for Miss Dressler, is
left $15,000 and he also comes into
possession of the automobiles. So
these faithful folk, occupying what
might be termed menial positions,
have been well remembered. And
such things confirm the opinion which
people in general had of Marie Dress-
ler. She was very real and free of
snobbery.
It is well that the worldhasoppor-
tunity now and then to have revealed
to it the human side of personages
who have achieved fame or gained
distinction. When all the artificial
glamor with which they- are sur-
, rounded is shoved to one side they are
found to be. folk in whom fine septi-
ment has never been smothered.
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CAN' CARRY . ONE IN HIS
.,NO NEE
"OTHER" PANTS POCKET
Picked up without his driver's per-
mit by the traffic officer on the Dur-
ham Road, 'Goldie Carter appeared in
Walkerton on Thursday, before Mag-
istrate McCartney and was fined $10
and costs of $3.25. Goldie had pur-
chased a permit on July lst, but had
lost it. After being "stopped by the
officerGoldiemade the purchase of
a second permit and since paying the
fine, has found his first permit. Mis-
laying this little doeument proved
costly for Goldie, but now he will .b`e
well armed with a pair of permits
and is not likely to be so unfortun-
ately caught again.
-Lucknow Sentinel.
WHAT A COMBINATION
Meaford has the fish but Hanover
has the beer. Now, if we could get
the two to-wns closer together.
—Hanover Post.
SAYING death :a few years ago was .the sup-
erintendent. The 'memory of him is
still fresh to a large number of the
electric utility ':men in Ontario, yet
few will be familiar with the growth
of the plant of which he was in
charge for many years.
Late in 1888 Mr, Graham of Clin-
ton decided to install electric genera-
tors in the engine -room of his wood-
en mill, purchased p urchased, a 60 h.p. boiler
and a 35 e.p. engine, together`' with
two reliance system," direct current,
arc lighting dynamos of 25 light ca-
pacity each.
a-pacity.'each. On the 12th of January,
1889, the electric are lights were
turned on for the first time. These
were in a number of business places
of Clinton, with one street light at
the main corners. The people were
greatly enthused over the brightness
at compared evith the coal oil lamps
Me to be obtained aronr growing the
vegetables and garden produce.
—llamilton Spectator.
RACKING THE BOAT
Once more when enc reads of
drownings by capsizing' of canoes, by
the going to pieces of rotten boats,
by the "rocking the boat" idiocy . or
getting caught in a squall with his
sheet made fast and all that sort of
thing, one is reminded of the remark
of an old sea 'eaptain, who, when ask-,
ed if a boat was. safe, replied: "No
boat is safe, madam, unless it is in
charge of a safe man."
—North Hastings Review.
THE DARKEST HOUR
The darkest hour in any man's life
is when he sits down to plan how to
get money without earning .it.
—St. Mary's Journal -Argus.
HAVE WE LEARNED HOW TO
PLAY?
John Bull certainly Irnows how to
revel in his playthne.
When the great and historic der-
by was run, the English press devot-
ed pages to all angles of the race.
Derbys Long past were re-examin-
ed. The scene at Epsom on the Sun-
day before the race was described by
special writers. The horses were writ-
ten up" as though they possessed
personality. Jockeys were described.
This was not because the people
of Great Britain are so deeply con-
cerned With horse -racing or with the
result of the Derby.
It was because the Derby was a
national play festival, a symbol of
the Englishman's appreciation of
the value of playtime he takes off:'
from business with an air of almost
indifference.
That is what makes him sanely
balanced and his country an abode of
level -headedness. ---Vancouver Sun.
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APPLY FOR NATURALIZATION .
Several Canadian residents of for-
eign birth are applying for natural-
ization papers at the fall courts in
Huron County, Eleven men all told
have signified their intention of be-
coming Canadians in the full sense,
most, of whom have resided in the
United States prior to coming here.
The number is likely to be increas-
ed before the fall but those who have
put in their applications to the county
court clerk are Louis, and Charles
Rinker and Fred Messer of Dashwood,
Fred J. Genttner and Adolph Kibler
of Goderieh, ' Won. Leder of Exeter;
John Ha)lcsicask of Centralia; John
Neilson of Exeter and his namesake,
John Neilson of Seaforth. The lat-
ter comes :from Denmark and the
former from Austria.
Others come from Germariv and
Poland mainly, the immedeete'reason
for their applying for Canadian nat-
uralization being, it is said, because
of the unsettled state of the Central
European countries. None of them
appear to wish to be called over to
Europe for military service in some
fight in which they are not interest-
ed.—Goderich Star.
SWIMMING POOL
The meeting called for Friday ev-
ening, July 27th, for the purpose of
discussing' the advisability of im-
proving the creek flowing through
the village to allow of its being used
by the young people for a bathing
and a small recreation grounds. The
property west of the Queen Street
bridge was selected as being the
most suitable and the following com-
mittee appointed to secure further
information: -Messrs. Russel Shaw,
Elwin Munro, W. N. Watson, John
Ferguson, V. 112. Bray, J. IL R. El-
liott, Wen. Thuell.--Blyth Standard.
In all the talk of government liquor
control we have seen no indication
that the government is to supply
liekers for those half -sheet posters
that are doing ' duty for postage
stamps these days.
Ridgetown Dominion.
IN THE GARDEN
There is nothing like -working the
soil for the health of both body and
mind. Philosophers are agreed upon
the necessity of man cultivating his
garden" and this may be taken in
a. literal as well as figurative sense.
Then there is the direct practical vs
During the sununer of the same
,year' the Town -contracted for ten
street lights of 2000 candle power
each to be in use 300 nights' of the
year, the lights to be in order: by the
15th of September. The contract
was for five years, at a cost of y$60,000.
per year, or 22c per light per
night, It was subject to rescission
on one month's notice if the company
failed to furnish the proper light.
The lights were to be on until 11
o'clock each night, and ley special
order of the Mayor, until 12 o'clock,
In October, Mr. Graham leased the
woolen mill to the Oakes Organ Co.,
"afterwards the Clinton Organ Co.,
He still held his right in the engine
room which was a separate building.
In February, 1892, the Edison In-
candescent Electric Light Co. of New
York had representatives in Clinton
to introduce that system. They rre-
ceived enough encouragement to ego
ahead with plans for a new plant in
opposition to that of Mr. Graham.
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ORILLIA'S PREMIER PLACE
CHALLENGED BUT STILL
HOLDS ALL ROUND
RECORD
The annual e,eport of the Ontario
Hydro -Electric Commission, received
last week, reveals that Orillia can no
longer claim to have the lowest aver-
age Late for domestic current in the
Province. According' to the report,
that honour , goes. to Fort William,
with 0.8 cents a kilowatt hour. ' But
as the rates quoted for that city run 1,
from 24. cents to one cent a kilowatt
houre in addition to the service charge
it is hard to see Trow the average falls'
below one cent. Ottawa has as an
average domestic rate of 0.9' cents.
This, as has been explained, is due to
a "cooking rate" of half a cent -in
that city, where the Hydro has to
meet private competition, ` For the
smaller houses and more moderate
users of current, the Millie rates are
still lower, since :the charge in Ot-
tawa for the fleet 64 hours is two
cents, whereas in Orillia there is no
charge higher than one cent. In Ot-
tawa Commercial light pays as high
as five ,cents a kilowatt hour, without
a standby, and an average of 1.7
cents, Taken all round, Orillia's
rates are still the lowest in the Pro-
vince. There seems no logical reason
why current forcooking should be
sold at less than cost—at much 1ese,
for instance, than the rate of power
in these same cities. '
Orillia Packet-Tjmes,
Clinton's First Electric Lighting Plant -
BY J. E. RANDS,
(This article is copied from The
Bulletin, the monthly organ of The
Hydro -Electric Power Commission.
Mr. Rands probably did not know
this, but The News -Record was the
first business plant in Clinton to
The Clinton Organ Co.,' and Mr.
Graham then decided to enter into e
contract with the Edison Company
and by March 22, 1892, an Edison
dynamo of 250-16 candle power lamp-
capacity had been installed and in-
candescent electric lights were turn-
ed, on. The demand forthe incandes-
cent lighting increased ' so rapidly
that during the summer of the same
year the Electric: Light Company had
to enlarge the plant, and in October
installed a new 80 h.p. Wheelock en-
gine and another 250 lamp Edison dy-
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namo. This dynamo was connected
in series with the one already in
operation, and the Edison three -wire,
system used.
In August, 1893, the Clinton Organ
Factory eves burned, leaving the en,
gine and boiler -room, which after
this, was used entirely for the gener-
ation of electricity.
In the summer of 1595 the Electric
Light Plant was again enlarged, 'a
neW 80 h.p. boiler and a new Cana-
dian General Electric 133 cycle, 1100 -
volt generator of 1000-16 candle pow-
er lamp capacity being installed. This
was put in operation in October.
During this same month the Town
made a new four year contract for
street lighting at 20c per light per
night, the lights to be left on until
12 o'clock midnight. About this
time the Iluron County Home was be
-
Nig built about a half mile south of
Clinton, and the County contracted
for electric lighting.
In the year 1900 the Electric Light
Co., installed a '70 h.p. Leonard Ball
high speed engine to help the Whee-
lock engine.
!Mr. Graham sold the plant in 1903
to Messrs. Stevenson and Nediger,
and in 1904 the new company in-
stalled another 60 kw. Canadian Gen-
eral Electric a.c. generator, the same
as the one already in use.
The Clinton Knitting Company in
1906, built its present factory on the
ground -formerly occupied by the
Clinton Organ Factory. This com-
pany contracted with the Plant for
electricity for power and light, steam
for heating and dying, and for water,
The ,Electric Light Company then in-
stalled a Canadian General . Electric
30 kw. 250 -volt direct current gener-
ator for power supply.
The arc light system (which by
this time served 18 street lights) was
discarded in 1910 and an 8 k.w., CG.
E., 4.4 ampere, constant current
transformer and 121 incandescent,
series street' lights were installed to
take its place.
The Town bought the electric plant
and took it over on the 1st of June,
1913, having entered into a contract
for Hydro power during April of that
year. At this time there were 5. pow-
er customers, 104 commercial con-
sumers and 146 domestic consumers.
There were:195 a.c. 110 -volt meters
and 1 direct current meter, 250 volts.
In the spring of 1916 the Townclosed
down the steam plant as the contract
with the Knitting Company had ex-
pired and had built its own boiler
room and installed Hydro for power.
haat.. Hydro turned on.—Ed.
Clinton Public Utilities Commission.
The story of the use of electricity
during the early days in the town of
Clinton, Ontario, is closely related to
the late H, B. Chant, who until his.
voice that the child forgets her shy-
ness and bursts into gleeful giggles.
Or it inay he a know' -looking
monkey that emerges scratching his
conical head and gibbering monkey-
talk that completely .captivities a re
beilihus little boy who until then was
determined not to do anything as
sissy as have his picture taken!
That's the object of the magical
blue bag, of course --to get the boys
and girls rote a pi'cture-taking frame.
of mind. So says 'a, famous ,photo-
grapher.
phewgrapher. -
Tricks Up His Sleeve
To fit himself for, a job that re-
quires more diplomacy than a prime
ministership. this man has become
ventriloquist, conjurer, juggler,- am-
ateur psychologist 'and authority on
airplanes, stamp collecting, Methane
les; radio, wild flowers, birds, the i
habits of'.dolls and dozens of other
subjects dear to the hearts of the
very young.
"I like kids," he confides earnestly:
—as if any womanwouldn't know.
that the minute she sees him with
them! "They're mighty interesting
you know it? .They keep me jump,
ing, too. It wouldn't do for me to
get to be a back number, you know.
I have to learn something new every
day to keep: up with them I make
them learn,too.
Wanted to be an Artist
"How did 1 start it? Well, I was
a farmer boy and dame from New
Jersey to the big city to study de-
sign. I thought I wanted to be an
artist, but after I had seen a few ar-
tists .with their shoe soles out, mak-
Mg' a meal off half a box of crackers
and a third of a bottle of milk, I de-
cided I couldn't afford to starve for
art and se I took up photography be-
cause it interested rue. Children dict,
too, and I got on well with them—so
I just combined the two and here I
am!"
Here the reporter broke the lead in
the pencil with which she was taking
notes. With an innocent look, the
photographer offered her another.
She thanked him and tried to write
a word. The pencil point collapsed—
the "lead" was rubber. The joker
chuckled.
"There was a serious little girl In
here the other day," he related, "and
while I was getting acquainted with
her, I asked her if she could write.
She said 'some' so I gave her that
pencil to write her name. She set
about the task with great earnest -
Tells Secrets
Famous Photographer Reveals Many'
Tricks of Profession
For a number of years photograph -
'ere who specialize in studies of child-
ren have been reaching into bags and
pulling out tricks that make children
their admiring friends for life. Some-
times from the bag .comes a fuzzy dog
that cocks perky ears and wriggles a
friendly paw at a timid- little girl,
yipping so musingly in tiny shril
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noes, her little fingers all beret up—
and suddenly she looked at ine, her
eyes wide: "There's something ter-
rible the matter• with that pencil' she
almost whispered.
Breaking Down Resistance
I had a sullen big boy the other
day—be didn't want his picture tak-
en and he didn't want to talk to me
or anybody else --but something made'
fire call him over to where 1 keep niy
stamp collection. 'Look here,' I said
to him, `I wish you'd look at this
stamp and tell me if it's any good,'
Well,s ir, it was the right note all
right. The kid was crazy about
stamps. He talked for fifteen min-
ices about'my stamps. We got a swell
Picture and I've had a couple of let-
ters from him,"
The artist often photographed the
°late Mrs. J, P. Morgan with her
'grandchildren and tells about a time
when one of the children was on the
warpath and Mr's. Morgan promised
the little girl that if she would behave'
and do what she was told she might
pick out a new toy at the toy shop
next day. The little girl promised
and next day her grandmother tele-
phoned to tell me in an amused voice
what the little girl had picked out of
all the expensive choice offered her
-just a cheap little tin pail and
shovel for digging in the. sand!
"That's typical of young ones,"
says the man who knows them.
"They like simple things best. Most
people give them too much, and think
too much for them. It stunts their
minds.. Though I don't know where
I get off to be offering advice to
mothers`— I haven't even got. •any
children of my own!
Child. Psychology
"You see, kids are both simple and
complex. They lave dirt and love to
dig in le-.4elly, I took a boy to my
place in the "country that everybody
called the worst boy in the world. I
let him get himself good and tired
digging in my garden every day he
' was there and he was as good a boy
as you'd wish to see. But he was
I constantly scolded at home for his
natural instincts. He was too full of
energy and had no legitimate way to
. expend it. One thing is, children
don't aggravate me as they do some
I grown-ups. If they ask too many
'foolish questions, I make them keep
quiet, but I think a reasonable a-
t mount ought to be answered."
The late President Theodore hoose -
Normal School Courses
The Minister of Education sakes
the following announcement with re-
gard to (1- the second year Normae
School course, and (2) ,thevalidation
of certificates.
1. The' Second Year Course
1. The Second Year Course will not
be offered at any Normal:School dur-
ing the school year 1934-1935; and all
regulations set forth in Circulars 23
and 230 for 19341935 will be ineffec—
tive in iso far ,as they apply to this
course for 1934-1933.
2. Those, teachers -en -training who
have secured Interim First and Se-
cond Class certificates after haying
attended an Ontario Normal School
for one year in any of the years 1927
-1923 to 1933--1934, 'inclusive, and
who have not completed the second
year course in an Ontario Normal
School, will have their Interim cert..
ficates extended for the school ,year
1934-1935. The conditions uponwhich
these Interim First and Second Class
certificates may be made permanent
will be announced by the Minister of
Education at some time before June
let, 1935.
2. At the end of each of the four
school years 1934-1985; 1935-1936;
1936-1937; and 1937-1938, the Depart-
ment of Education will pay a grant
of twenty-five dollars (325.00) d irect-
ly to each teacher who has completed
volt was one of the camera man's
earliest customers. He photographed
the elder Roosevelt with all his
grandchildren around him many
times, but perhaps the most famous
picture is the one he took of the
grandfather and Theodore Roosevelt
III1 Roosevelt especially liked the
woolly dog from the blue bag. Re
thought it was alive until be touch-,
ed it, and then he laughed and said,
"Bully, bully!"
This successful photographer -says
the worst fault of amateurs, when
they start to take pictures at home
is that they take all just the same
way no natter what the light, and
then whet they're developed, some
are over -exposed and some under-
exposed. He advises parents who
want to go get good pictures of their
children to treat them like Truman
beings and snap them when they're
acting natural, not posing.
an acro A int '
ormal ' School, N S ,and' who
has been engaged as a teacher in an
Ontario Public, Separate, or Contin-
uation School during the year.
4. It will not be necessary for tea-
ehees holding Interim 'First and Se-
cond Class certificates, as noted above
to apply to. the Department of Edu-
cation for the extension and valid°
tion of their certificates for the
school year 1934-1935. The Minister
of Education will instruct all Public
and Separajte School Inspeotors to
the effect that these certificates -will
be valid for that year.
II. Permanent First Class Certifi-,
cotes
The Department of Education will
continue to offer to. those teachers
who graduated from: an Ontario Nor-
mal School before the school' year
1927-1928, who have completed the
required academie courses, and who
hold Permanent Second Clase certifi-
cates valid in the. Province of Ontario,
the privilege of writing upon a final
examination for a Permanent First
Class certificate without further at-
tendance at a Normal School. The
subjects for this examination will be
those mentioned in Circular 23 for the.
1934.1985 session, page 23, section
29 (4); and the content of the re-
quired subjects, mentioned as second
year subjects, will be fomrd in Cir-
cular 230 for 1934-1035. Copies of
this circular, which is now withdrawn,
may be obtained on application to
the Department of ,Education.
Two SMALL GOPHERS MADE
TRAIN RIDE
Officials in charge of the Lost and
Found Department of the Canadian
National Railways have many inter-
esting problems to settle in their re-
gular routine of work. Articles left
on trains cover a wide variety of ma-
terials and subjects. None, however,
seemed further from a satisfactory
solution than two small boxes left in
the day coach of a train, at Winni-
peg. There appeared to be a moving
object within the boxes and when two
punched airholes in the top were in-
spected, tiny noses could be seen.
Upon investigation it was disclosed
that two small, prairie gophers had
either been forgotten, or abandoned.
The officers of the department are
now endeavoring to locate the owners
but so far without success.
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"CAVEAT EMPTOR," meaning, "Let the buyer be-
ware." This wasn't used as a bit of bahn to ease
the ancient conscience nor, yet, was it placarded in
the booths and stalls of the market -place. It was a
piece of every -day knowledge, born of dear -bought
experience.
A shopkeeper knew little about the source of his
merchandise. This tunic he bought from a trader,
who said it carne from Byzantium. So he sold it as
the latest Byzantian style. The trader told him the
dye was pure Tyrian—it wouldn't fade. So he sold
it as Tyrian dyed. But the buyer knew the respon-
sibility was his own. If he guessed wrongly, or his
judgment was poo; it was his hard luck.
Today, fortunately, there are safer guides than
the blanket -warning to "let your eyes be your mar-
ket,"
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These guides are the newspaper advertise-
ments. In this newspaper, they area catalogue of
the best values in town—signed by responsible
firms. If the goods are not all that is claimed for
them, their sponsors would need to "beware." For
no business can thrive on a one-time sale, or on dis-
satisfied customers.
A signed advertisement is, in a way, like a pro-
misory note. The advertiser has made a statement,
and affixed his signature as a sign of good faith.
So,, read the advertisements before you start
out on a buying -trip. Make this a daily habit, and
see how much you save—in time, in temper, in mon-
ey, in shoe -leather.
The Clinton News -Record
$1.5O a year. Worth More
DON'T FAIL TO READ' TO DAY THE ADVERTISEMENTS IN
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