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The Clinton News Record, 1934-10-25, Page 2PAGE 2 Clinton ' News -Record Whip which is Inconparated THE NEW ERA Terms of Subscription — $1.50 per year in advance, to Canadian ad- dresses $2:00 to the U.S. •or -oth- er foreign countries. No paper discontinued until all arrears are paid unless at the caption of the publisher. The date towhich every subscription is paid is denoted on the label. tdvertising Rates -Transient adver- tising 12c per count line for first insertion. 8e for each subsequent insertion. Heading counts 2 linea. Small advertisements, not to ex- Beed one inch, such as "Wanted", ' "Lost," "Strayed," ete., inserted once for 35c, each subsequent in- ' tertian 15e. Rates for display ads vertising made known on applies - data Communications intended for pub - ideation must, as a guarantee of good faith, be accompanied by the name •ef the writer. '51. H. HALL, M. R. CLARK, Proprietor. Editor. A. T. RANCE Notary Public, Conveyancer financial, Real Estate and Fire In- ,anrance Agent. Representing 14 Fire 'Insurance Companies. •Division Court Office, Clinton. Frank Fingland, B.A., LL.B. 'Barrister, Solicitor, Notary Pabile Successor to W. Brydone, S.C. 'Sloan Block Clinton, Oat, DR. FRED G. THIOMPSON' Office and Residence: •Ontario Street Clinton. Ont. One door west of Anglican Church. Phone 172 area Examined and Glasses Fitted DR. H. A. McINTYRE DENTIST Office over Canadian National Express, Clinton, Ont. Phone, Office, 21; House, SC DR. F. A. AXON Dentist 'Graduate of C.C,D.S., Chicago and R.C.D.S., Toronto, Crown and plate work a specialty. Phone 185, Clinton, Ont. 19-4-34. D. IL McINNES CHIROPRACTOR FJectro Therapist, Massage Office: Huron Street. (Few Doone west of Royal Bank) Hours—Wed. and Sat. and by appointment. FOOT CORRECTION ,b manipulation Sun -Ray Treatment Phone 207 GEORGE ELLIOTT Acensed Auctioneer for the County of Huron Correspondence promptly answered. Immediate arrangements can be made for Sales Date at The News -Record, Clinton, or by calling phone 203. Charges Moderate , and Satisfaction Guaranteed. DOUGLAS R. NAIRN 'Barrister, ' Solicitor and Notary Public ISAAC STREET, . CLINTON Office Hours:, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays -10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Phone 115 3-.34. THE McKILLOP MUTUAL Fire. Insurance Company Head Office, Seaforth, Ont. Officers: President, Alex. Broadfoot, Sea - 'forth; Vice -President, James Con nolly,: Goderich; secretary-treasur- et, M. A. Reid, Seaforth. Directors; Alex. Broadfoot, Seaforth; R. R. No. 3,; James ,Sholdice, Walton; Wm. Knox, Londesboro; Geo. Leonhardt, Bornholm, R. R. No. 1; John Pepper, Brucefield; James. Connolly, Gode- rich; Robert Ferris, Blyth; Thomas Moylan, Seaforth, R. R. No. 5; Wm, I$R. Archibald, Seaforth, R. R. No. 4. Agents: W. J. Yeo, R.R. No. 3, Clinton; John Murray, Seaforth} James Watt, Blyth; Finley McKee- •cher, Seabosth. Any money to be paid may be paid lo the Royal' Bank, Clinton; Bank of Commerce,, Seaforth, cg at Calvin 'Cutt's Grocery, Goderich. Parties desiring to effect insur- -ance or transact other business will 'be promptly attended' to on applica- •'tign to any of the above officers .addressed to their respective post of - 'lees. Losses inspected by the direo- Ner who lives nearest the scene. '' ANADtAN N' TION" , nduwAXs The lue By Rolf Bennett "This," said Aunt Emma, indicat- ing a blue porcelain bowl in her china cupboard, "is my wedding present, to you and Elsie, John. I've been told it's very valuable,' she added, "so when you've got your own home, you must keep it safely locked up." A little .later, as they were on their way home in a bus, John expressed a doubt as to whether the 'bowl was really as valuable as his aunt had made out. "But it must be if she says so," protested Elsie. "In that case," said John, "I wish she'd let us sell it. The 'money would be more useful than an old china bowl. I'd sooner have a pudding ba- sin myself." "John!" "Well, one could make some use of it, said John, "I suppose we'll have to buy a china cabinet to . keep the wretched thing in when we have our own home." It was decided that, as Elsie lived at home with her parents, it would be safe for her to keep the bowl for the present. John was in lodgings, and it was quite probable that his landlady, when tidying up, might break it. Not that he would have oared very much ist It hadbeen. smashed, for secretly he was rather disappointed at his Aunt Esnma's "measly" 'wedding present. On his way back from the office on the following evening, he chanced to pass an antique dealer's shop, and acting on the spur of the moment, went in. The dealer, a young man in horn -rimmed glasses, looked up front a sale catalogue as John entered. "I've just had a china bowl given me, and I'm told it's very valuable," explained John. "I don't want to sell,I it—not just yet anyway—but I'd rather like to know what it's worth." "What sort of bowl is it?" inquir- ed the other. John described it as minutely as he could, and then the dealer took down a book from a shelf and turned over the pages. "From your description," he said after consulting the book, "it rather sounds as if it might be a .Chinese bowl of the Ming Dynasty." "Ohl" ncurinured John, none the wiser. "In which ease," went on the oth- er, ther, "it niiglit be worth £500 or even a great deal more, according to its condition and the quality of the col- or." "Worth 1500." echoed John in am- azement. "Supposing, of course, it's a gen- uine Ming." "Would you—if it is genuine, give 1500 for it?" asked John. "I might find a buyer if you decid- ed to sell," replied the other, cau- tiously. "Thanks," said John as he turned to leave the shop. "I,-T'li think it over." He felt quite dizzy as he stepped into the street. To think that the seemingly commonplace bit of crock- eey which Aunt Emma had given him might be worth 1500, or even more! That evening, when he met Elsie, he told her about his interview with the antique dealer. To his surprise, she didn't share his excitement. "Oh, John, it's an awful responsi- bility," she said. "I was wandering," said John, "if we wouldn't sell it. Think what 1500 would mean to us, dear. We could pay half the money down for our house, or we could—" "No, no, we can't sell it, John,". broke in Elsie, "It would be an un- pardonable insult to your.aunt. Fan- cy selling a. wedding present before the wedding." "Still, it does seem ridiculous," Sighed' John, "keeping an old pot worth 1500 when we could so well do with the money." "It does, but I don't see how we can help it," said BAG. Together they looked at the bowl in the cabinet where Elsie had plac- ed it. It looked very ordinary, snar- cely worth five shillings, let alone 1500. "I wish your Aunt Emma hadn't given it to usl" exclaimed Elsie, sud- denly. "Why?" asked John in surprise. "I feel somehow that it's unlucky," answered the girl. "Ever since' she gave it to us, I've been worried in case it should get cracked or broken. Now I know that it's ,worth .1500-, I shan't have a moment's peace." "I almost wish she hadn't too," said John. "It's like having a gold nug- get that you mustn't sell, no matter how much you need the money," The thought of the bowl and all the money it represented haunted him. It came between him and his. work, and he found himself wander- ing at odd moments how he could sell it without offending his aunt. Indeed, there were times when he found 'him. self almost wishing that Aunt Entine would "pop ofr" so that he might sell the bowl and use the money. "I don't think we'll waste money on buying a china cabinet," he told Elsie the next evening. when they met. "We'll just shove the bowl a- wae somewhere in a safe place and forget'. we've got Elsie, however, did not agree. "If we have a thing worth £500, I TIME' TABLE Trisha will arrive'at and depart from Clinton as follows: Buffalo and Goderich Div. Going East, depart 7.98 a.ts.. Seine East depart 3.00 p.m.` "Sting West, depart 11.50 a.m. i slag West, depart 0.63 p.m. London. Hamm & Brace ;dieing North, ar. 11.34. Ive.11.54 a.m. 'eine RRYth SAS 1� THE CLINTON • NEWS -RECORD don't see why we shouldn't make: the most of it," she said. "We might as well not have it at all if we're going to hide it away." "But a cabinet will cost about ten' guineas. We could furnish a room on that," John pointed out. "You mustn't forget that when your aunt ,comes to see us after we're mar- ried, she'll expect to see the bowl," argued Elsie. "We can bring it out and stick it on the nrantlepiece for her benefit," said John "As soon as she's gone, we can put it away agaiic." But Elsie again disagreed. "She'd think us frightfully careless if she thought we kept it on the man- tlepiece'where it could easily get bro- ken. No, we'll have .to buy a cabi- net." "Well, I'm not going to, and that's all about it!" exclaimed John with a sudden bunt of ill -temper. "We'll need the ten guineas, or whatever it costs for other things." "Then I won't have the bowl in the house at all!" cried Elsie crossly. "I'm not going to be responsible for it if I'm not to have a proper place to, keep it in." "Then what are we to do with it?" demanded John belligerently. "Give it back to your aunt—'any- thing you like! I don't ears!" return- ed Elsie, now on the verge of tears. "I must say you're not very grate- ful!" "Why should I be I didnt' want the wretched bowl," exclaimed Elsie. "Neither did I, for that matter, said John, now white with anger. "Then you should have told her so. It only needed a little tact." "It's a. pity you didn't do it your- self then," snapped John. "After all, it was Aunt Emma's gift to you as much as to me.» "It wasn't, and anyway she's your aunt, not mine. Howelould I refuse rt" "Just as well as 1 could, especially as you, know such a lot about tact," sneered John. "Anyhow, I'm not go- ing to buy a cabinet for it." "And I'm not going to be respon- sible for it any longer," Elsie told him. "You can take It back with, you toyour room tonight" "But it may get broken!" cried John in dismay, "Mrs. Smithers is death on crockery." "Then send it back to your aunt!" "I shall •certainly do no such a thing!" The ;quarrel, like most quarrels, grew more bitter with every word ut; tared. John refused to take the bowl back with him, and they parted, for the first time since they had become lovers, without even wishing each oth- er good night. It was their first real quarrel, and to each of them it seem- ed as if nothing could ever heal it. Elsie's pillow that night was damp with tears. while John lay awake for hours wondering miserably if things would ever come right. It almost seemed, he reflected, that what Elsie had said weout the Bowl being unlucky was true. It was be- cause of the -ivretched thing they hstd quarrelled, said bitter, wounding things to each other that neither w uld have thought possible. 1 On the following evening, when John went round to try to make his peace with Elsie, he had decided that she, should have the cabinet if she wanted it. After aII, what was ten guineas compared with their future happiness? Elsie, too, had been asking herself much the same thing and had spent a miserable day wondering, whether John -would conte round' that evening as usual. She had been to blame, she told herself, for insisting on having that silly cabinet. She confessed as much. to John after they had asked each other's forgiveness. "No, you shall have the cabinet,' dearest," said John. "But, I don't'. want it, John dear," she protested. "Wiell, let's have a look at the old bowl and see if it really would look. well in one of those glass contrap- tions," he said. Elsie went and fetched it, and -to- gether they gazed at the five hundred pounds' worth of crockery with ming- led awe and resentment. "Personally," said John, picking up the .bowl and examining it minutely,, "I woudln't give----" The bowl slipped fromhishand and, falling to the floor, broke into frag- ments. "Ohl" breathed Elsie in utter dis- may. "Well, we needn't worry about what we'll do, with it now," remarked John grimly as he started to collect the bits. "And it was worth £500!" moaned Elsie. And then, to her amazement, John suddenly began to laugh. He laughed so much that she was afraid he had become' hysterical. "John! Wihat is it? What: are you laughing at?" she demanded anxious - "This," replied .replied John, handing her. a fragment of what had once been the•bottom of the pot, Elsie took it, and then she, too, be- gan to laugh. For stamped on it were the words, "Made in Austria." London "Tit -Bits." DOINGS IN THE SCOUT WORLD Lost, A Cartoonist! When •Baden-Powell turned all his attention to Scouting the world lost a potential comic strip artist of uni- que possibilities. He draws clever cartoons with either hand. Two Best World -Known Words "Perhaps the two best known Eng- lish words the world round, including amongst non-English speaking races are 'Boy Scout.'"—The Earl of Bees - borough, Chief Scout for Canada. *a%'* Germans in Kilts? A group of German youths hiking. through Scotland this summer, and. calling themselves Boy Scouts, arous- ed criticism, Not as Scouts, but he - cause they wore kilts. Somehow a German in kilts didn't look right. A $100 Apple The Golden Apples of the Hesperi- des May not have been a myth after all. A, "Canadian Scout Apple," was sold at Windsor, Ont., for $100. An- other brought $50, and ten a total of $260. They were auctioned by Scout Commissioner Wigle during a "Scout Apple Day." oiC A Robinson Crusoe Test To prove whether Scottish Boy Scouts are developing the resources- fulness expected of Scout training, a number of Glasgow Scouts were 'shipwrecked" on an island of Lake Lomond, and left with odds and ends of wreckage over the week -end. They improvised pots and pans, fishlines and hooks, fashioned candles of fat dripping and shoelace wicks, and oth- erwise met the Crusoe test. * 511* The Throne and Scouting Few organizations of the Empire have closer personal links with the Throne than the Boy Scout Move- ment. The King is a Patron, the Duke of Connaught is President, the Prince of Wales is Chief Scout for Wales, the Duke of York is President of the London and Yorkshire asso- ciations, the Duke of Glouseter is President for Goucestershire and Nor- folk, and Prince George is Commodore of Sea Stouts. ALL IS WELL, I think the gentle soul of him Goes softly in some garden place, With the old smile time may not dine Upon his face. He who was lover of the Spring, With love that never quite forgets, Surely sees roses :blossoming And violets. Now that his day of toil is through, I love to think he sits at ease, With some old volumes that he knew Upon his knees. Watching, perhaps, with quiet eyes, The white clouds' drifting argosy; Or twilight opening flower -wise On land and sea. DIONNE SISTERS NOW PROGRES- SING WELL Expectancy Of Life Normal Dr, A 1Z. Dafoe, physician to the amazing Dionne quintuplets sisters, is authority for the statement that his tiny charges, just •21 weeks old, could now be considered to have the life expectancy of normal children born Singly. babie The s stayed indoors for the second day in succession, squalling lustily as the time for their outing passed without any sign of a move on the part of their attendants tto'talte them onto the verandah. Cold cream spread on their faces, remedied a slight tendency to sunburn suffered Saturday during a four-hour outing and the babies showed smooth breeze - colored countenances, De. Dafoe said he considered im- provement in the health and strength of the children; particularly. Marie and Emelie, due to' facilities '.of the new modern hospital. Continued heavy rains have render- ed the winding road from Callander, to the hospital a virtual quaginire, "but it still passable," the doctor said. He' doubted, however, if he could have now reached the hospital without the repair work done on the road by the government. The doctor said he had received a letter from a woman in Germany suggesting a remedy Inc intestinal toxaemia from which the babies suf- fered late in the summer. He said he had received the letter some time ago but had to send it to Toronto for translation as it was written in Ger- man script which he cannot read, The writer, was the mother of chil- dren who had suffered from the same complaint that endangered the lives of the quintuplets. CONSCIENCE MONEY SENT FROM INDIA Conscience would seem to have a long arm A woman away off in In- dia, evidently, was not feeling com- fortable about the misuse of; a Grand Trunk Pacific Railway ticket, so the other day Canadian National Railways officials, in Vancouver, B. C., received a draft on a bank in Madras, India, for $34.00. Ne ex- planation of the circumstances ac- companied the draft. The Grand Trunk Pacific has been incorporated into the National System since 1923 and the Canadian National officials credited the money to "conscience ac- count" In Montreal, Que., the Sleep- ing and Dining Car Department of the railway recently received six af- tee dinner coffee spoons and two soup spoons. They arrived in the mail in a package bearing a Montreal post- mark, He who so loved companionship I inay not think walks quite alone, Failing some friendly hand to slip Within his own. Those whom he loved aforetime, still, I doubt not, bear him company; Yea, even laughter yet may thrill Where he may be. A thought, a fancy—Who may tell? Yet I who ever pray it so, Feel through my tears thatallis well And this. I know— That God is gentle to His guest, And, therefore, may I gladly say, "Surely the things he loved the best Are his to -day." —Theodosia Garrison. NATIONAL DISH OF SCOTLAND SUFFERS Are Scotsmen Going Back on Oatmeal? The national dish of Scotland, oat- meal porridge, will probably suffer from a shortage of the native pro- duct. Ehtimates of the yield indicate the .crap will be below the average in bulk. This is a serious affair as many generations' of brawny High- landers have been brought up on oat- meal porridge. Oats is theprincipal. cereal grown in Scotland and there•, has been a reduction in acreage sown M oats this year of 35,900. Barley. is a satisfactory crop with an in- crease in acreage of 59 per cent. The total acreage planted to wheat this year was 93,000, an increase of 18 per cent over 1933:.largest pre -War average was 79,500. In almost every district all available agricultural workei.s were engaged at harvest time and there was practically no un- employment among them. In some parts the demand was in excess of the supply. READ ALL THE) ADS.. IN THE NEWS -RECORD ST WILT.. PAY YOU-- THURS., OCT. 25, 1934 vounwarmaarammomorraar Scott and Black Modest Pair Tell Of Hazards Both Famous Flyers Before Latest Flight 1' By Albert W, Wilson in Free Press LONDON, Oat, 23 -Two typical young pioneers of the empire: on which the sunnever sets are "Charley Scott and Torn Campbell Black, her- oes in one of the history's greatest flying feats. Extreme modesty and bulldog ten- acity are characteristic of ,this pair, as. of many other Englishmen who re- .:fused to be tied down to the narrow confines of this little island. The six-foot fair-haired Scott, who is 31, was born in London buthas been making pioneer flights over Australia for most of the past eight years. Apparently he Comes to Eng- land just for the purpose of setting. records over the route, for this is the fourth time he has set a new anark. Trim, moustached, Black, who , is 35, was born in Brighton and made his reputation as a flyer in East Af- rica over territory much more dan- gerous than any he experienced in his latest flight. No two men. were more modest be- fore the 'Australia air derby, despite the fame they had already wan.'. Scott madenoboasts or promises as he, told A. O. Edwards, their backer, of the difficulties and hazards. When Black viewed a news -reel with his mother of the christening of their plane he insisted that she re- frain from clapping her. hands. "Sh-sh, mother, you will attract at- tention," he whispered in alarm. Father is Alderman The fathers of both Scott and Black achieved reputations in much more restricted circles. The elder Scott conducted the Philharmonic Choir of the Bach Cantata Club and other mus- ciai societies here. Black's father is an alderman and former mayor of Brighton. A cousin, Norman Black, is a leading racing motorist. Young Scott joined the Royal Air Force in 1922 and when he was trans- ferred into the reserves in 1926 he went to Australia. There he made many flights into the difficult north- ern territory. He achieved fame in 1931 by a 9'rV2 day flight to England and got an air force cross when he returned in 101x: days. The following year he lowered the record to Australia to eight days and 20 hours, Carries Revolver Scott once disclosed that he always carried a revolver over the Timor Sea so that if he crashed he could kill himself before being torn to pieces by sharks, He also kept a list of names of all the men who had flown the dangerous sea safely, which reassured him. After serving in the Royal Naval Air ".once during the Great War, $lack interested himself in coffee planting in Kenya, but flying remain- ed his chief occupation. He made 14 transport flights between Kenya and England. • Black rescued the Germanwar ace, Ernst Udet, who was forced down in • the Sudd Region of Central Africa in 1931, He also flew to the relief of many other pilots lost in the impene- trable forests of this region, where, wild game of all descriptions is found and carried sick and injured persons' to hospitals "frons•{ -:isolated outposts. While in Africa he flew out rich car- goes of gold, precious stones and' spices. For three consecutive years thedapper pilot won , the Robinson Gold Trophy for the most meritorious flight in East Africa. Recently he was the'personal pilot for Lord Furness and was the best man in the latter's wedding in 1933, (Lord Fumes was divorced from Miss Thelma Morgan Converse, a sister of Mrs. Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt, of New York, in 1933, and later that year wed Mrs. Enid Cavendish). Tone's admiration of Scott's ability to handle airplanes on long flights and the latter's interest in Black's ability to make clever landings, learn- ed in mountainous Kenya, drew them together. This friendship developed into their present partnership. MAIL ORDER HOUSE DISCLOS- URE Any "home merchant" who neg- lects to tell the public about his wares should read this startling statement, made by a manager of a big Toronto nail order house recently: "We have a bureau whose duty it is to read each week the country newspaper. There is nota paper of any eonsequence in our trade territory we do not get. The bureau looks over these papers and when we find a town where the merchants do not advertise in the lo- cal paper, or where advertisers do not change their advertisements regularly we immediately flood that section with our literature. It always brings results far in excess of the same ef- fort put forth in the territory where the local merchants use their local paper." HERE'S A GLOBE STORY "You promised me a job, sir?" "But there are no jobs open," "Well, you said you'd give me one." "Tell you what I'll do: "I'll appoint a commission to investigate why there are no jobs, and you can work on that." An Intense Story of Modern Youth In A Modern City POOR FALLEN . . poor Ellen Church, ... Her oddly distorted phil-, osophy was built from the ashes of her mother's disillusionment.. , "It's better," her mother said, "to sit on the window -ledge and see the world pass by than to be a part of the crowd. , .. You're less like- ly to be bunt." ... Ellen had seen in her mother's broken life, the agony that may cone from loving too deeply. , But love came to Men. , . . came swiftly and; desperately . . and her philosophy went crashing clown all about her... , She couldn't help loving Anthony • but §h.e could, she would , and she did, keep him, from knowing that she loved him, even though they were man and wife.... It isan intense story, neither, over -sophisticated nor hardboiled. , It's a story all will enjoy. , .. LOVE LIGHTLY. STARTING NEXT WEEK 1