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WHAT CLINTON WAS DOING IN THE
GAY NINTIES
OO YOU REMEMBER WHAT HAP PENED DURING TJfR LAST DE-
CADE OF THE OLD CENTURY?
From The Newe Record, 'Oct. 23rd,
1S95:'
Rev, and Mrs. Parke were on a
brief visit to Mrs. Bele of : W;ingham
last week.
Mr. James Steep's sale last Wed-
nesday, was a decided success, cows
bringing from $36 to nearly $45. T.
M. Carling was the auctioneer.
Mrs. R. M, Leonard and children
of B. C. are en a, visit with. the
Iady's brothers ,the Messrs. An-
drews, and will probably spend the
winter here.
Mr. S, L. Scott, who purposes
moving to Clinton, will have a sale
of his farm stock and implements
on the Maitland• Concession on Tues-
day.
Last Friday Messrs. Harland
Bros., placed the sixth plate glass
window in J. Twitchell's store. The
first was broken by a nail being
driven into it, the next two by fire
and last by a lad throwing a stone,
There was about an inch of snow
Saturday morning.
A man who gets mad at what the
newspapers say about him should
give thanks three times a day for
what they know about him but
don't say.
The Horticultural Society's -An-
other meeting was held , in the coun-
cil chamber Tuesday evening and the
organization starts off with a good
membership, nearly one hundred
having given in their names.
One of the most remarkable jud-
ges and exhibitors at the various fall
shows this year was Mr. Joseph Al.
lanson of Clinton, He won a good
sum of money for his vegetables
and his all around collection was the
subject of favorable comment far
and near ... He has been awarded
by the county council the contract
for supplying vegetables to , the
House of Refuge,
From The New Era, Oct. 25th, 1895:
When Conductor Paztker's train
got here from the north . Monday
morning it looked •as if it had passed
through a winter's storm, being cov-
ered with iciclesa foot long and hea.
vy snow. le explained the appear-
ance of the train by saying that
"there was a foot of snow in Wing-
ham."
The other evening while Mr. Jas,
Flynn was shoeing a horse it got
mixed up with the electric light
wire in the shop and fora minute
or two things looked dangerous, but
beyond the ,breaking of the lamp .no,
harm ensued.
On Tuesday Mr. Miller of the
Clarenden and Mr. Geo. Cooper who
is employed in E,merton's barbel
shop, went out for a day's shooting.
Along towards evening a bad acci-
dent happened to 'Mas, Cooper. ' He
was walking about ten feet ahead of
Mr. Miller, who in passing under a
log it is supposed, had the hammer
of his gun caught and the charge
landed in Cooper's hip . . He was
carried to the house of Mr. J. Woods
about three quarters of a mile away
and some shot removed and the
wound dressed. Mr. Miller also met
with a painful accident at the same
time by falling on the hammer of his
gun which went into his knee cap,
penetrating his hunting boots and
clothing.
Cooper's planing mill and factory
burned down. Wednesday evening, a.
bout ten -thirty, fire was discovered
and by eleven it was a heap of ruins.
The origin is unknown.
WHEN THE PRESENT CENTURY
WAS YOUNG
From The New Era, Oct. 27th, 1910:
No more deserving County insti-
tution was ever erected in Huron
than the House of Refuge and the
County has been unusually fortunate
in securing so competent and satis-
factory officials to manage and ov-
ersee so important and responsible
and undertaking.
The 37th annual convetion of the
East Huron Teachers' Association
met in Clinton on Thursday and Fri-
day, Oct. 20th and 21st.. , After the
president, Mr. C. Holland, had con-
ducted the devotional exercises the
following committees were appoint-
ed: programme: Mr. Joynt and Mis-
ses Roadhouse and Stevens; Resolu-
tions: Messrs. Stalker and Curtis.
and Miss .Reynolds; Reporters, Mes-
srs. Hartley and Higgins; Nominat-
ing: Inspector Robb and Messrs.
Treleaven, Curtis and Stalker and
Misses Harding and Courtice.
The inquest into the death of Liz-
zie Anderson of Goderich was being
held at this time, with Mr. Black.
stock conducting it, The papers give
detailed reports of the inquiry and
the web of circumstantial evidence is
being woven around Edward Jardine.
Dr. Crippen is also on trial and
these quiet weeklies seem full of
crime and trouble of different kinds.
WHAT OTHER NEWSPAPERS AIB SAYING
PERHAPS , a time when the country is well start-
ed on the Way to recovery and ev-
erything is in his favor. It is up to
him to make good.
--Ridgetown Dominion.
The chief supporter of the Empire
trade pacts when they were passed
was The 'Toronto 'Ceiba. It almost
went hysterical on the subject. Per-
haps The Globe will use its influence
at Ottawa to prevent the abrogation
of the pacts. -London Free Press,
HE PLANTED AN ORCHARD
W e have just come in front looking
over an orchard owned by a farmer.
who is doing some quiet chuckling
,as nimble doodads pop delightedly
into his cash box. This old chap 20
years ago, chose a locality where a
hill shelters his trees from the pre-
vailing winds. The soil is naturally
well drained.. The field is somewhat
difficult to work for ordinary farm
production. Well, the trees are just
coming into bearing. Spraying has
been kept up and good pruning has
been done. The early fall and the
harvest apples have paid the farm
taxes and insurance, A neat three
figure sum will come in for the win-
ter apples.. .Exeter Times -Advocate.
JUST LUCKY
Some peopel are lucky. For in-
etanre there is the local lady who
visited Woodstock last week. Pas-
sing one of; the stores in the city,
she noticed a very fine set of dishes,.
whi h appealed to her. Going into
the store she inquired the price, but.
found that they were not for sale
but were being offered as a prize in
a lucky number contest, She made
a small purchase and east her name
in, the ballot. box. On Wednesday of
thisweek she receivedword that her
name had been drawn as the winner.
.Now she, has the dishes for nothing.
-Kincardine News.
CANNOT COMPLAIN
Mfr. King , cannot complain of any
lack of • majority. He has a clear
field to go ahead and do his stuff. Al-
so' he is coming into power under
much better conditions than those
facing Mr, Bennett five years ago.
At that time the country and the
world were starting down into the
depths of the greatest depression in
history. Mr. King is taking bold at
SIX GENERATIONS ON SAME
FARM
At Hackettstown, near Lueknow,
one family, the Haeketts, have lived
on the same 100 acres of land for
six generations. It is believed that
this s almost a record in English-
speaking Canada and can be matched
only in Quebec. One member of
the family was barn on the fain. 88
years ago and has lived, there con-
tinuously ever since. The land was
taken up in 1845 by Andrew Hack-
ett. :The Hacketts are real farmers,
as is evidenced by the feet that
members of the family own thirteen
farms within a radius of three miles
of the original homestead,
Southampton Beacon.
A CLOSED MIND
"I pledge myself to discontinue'
to listen in any way, shape or form
to propaganda, radio or newspaper,
which is poisoning our minds and is
opposed to Social Credit." So declares
Premier Aberhart of Alberta. A
man with•a closed mind will fail. If
the people of Alberta had adopted a
similar policy, Mr. Aberliartwould
not be premier.-dtanover Post,
DISCOVERED INDIAN SKELETON
"Loa's got an Indian)" This is the
statement with which several small
boys startled their mothers .on . Sat-
urday evening as they clashed home
to relate the gruesome news. It
seems our budding archaeologist, Al-
onzo Burl whil • "exc v ti "
Burly, e a a ng in
the sand pit back of Ferguson's cot-
tage, felt his :Shovel crashthrough
something that was, not gravel. Up-
on investigating he discovered that
it was a human sicuh. Horrors,
Thereupon he began to, dig very care,.
fully, and uncovered more bones
which orismbled when he touched
them s he wasunable, to assemble
o e enols
the skeleton, The shattered skull
,was quite solid' •howelv'er, and has
proven an interesting exhibit, along
THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD
Mai IMEMONIONA
DOINGS
by JOHN C. KIRKWOOD
(Copyright)
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In thiscontribution to The News- ed by the physician or surgeon. And
YOUR WORLD &.NI➢ MINE
Record I am going to say something
about wages and salaries and earn-
ings -something which, • I trust, will
provoke thought, And per taps I
shall mix in with what.. I. may say
something about prices.
Sometimes you hear it said that
prices are determined by the law of
supply and demand -including the
prices paid for human labour. in a
broad way this statement may be
true, but it is not rigidly true. Take
the ease of Dr. 'Defoe, far example -
the world-fe noun ",quintsil doctor.
His fees for his services in and. a-
bout Callender are, supposedly, very,
very small. If another doctor enter-
ed his community and thus increased
the 'supply of the special kind of la-
bour which Dr. Defoe gives, it would
not alter Dr. Defoe's, fees. That is
to say, the supply would be increas-
ed, 'whereas the demand wench not,
for it earl be assumed that Callen-
dar's population remains fairly sta-
tionary. The economist's theory is
that the charge for Dr. Defoe's ser-
vices should fall if and when another
doctor becomes his competitor.
Let us suppose that Dr. Defoe
went to New York. City to practise.
Now, there is no lack of doctors in
New York City, and if Dr. Defoe
went to New York, to practise, it is
easy to believe that he would, be.
cause of his enormous reputation, be
overwhelmed by the demand for hie
eiervilces - and(1 ,that ,this demand.
would come, largely, from the mil-
lionaire class.. It can be assumed
that Dr. Defoe would wish to serve
the wealthy. In such case, he would.
have to take very expensive offices,
and he would have to charge fees
many times Iarger than his Callen-
der fees for the identical kind and
amount of service. Indeed, million-
aires would hold him in contempt un
less his fees had some relation to
their wealth, It would not be a case
of supply and demand, but of Dr.
Dafoe's reputation and of the ability
of his patients to pay.
That is to say, reputation becomes
a factor in determining what shall be
charged for a professional man's
services, or far a mechanically -made
product. Also, the costs of living.
There are those in this world who
believe and teach that wages for all
classes and grades of workers should
be flat -meaning, the same. This is
the communal view. Holders of this
view do not discriminate between
kinds of labour. They regard the
milkman as being worth per hour as
much as the surgeon. 'Usually those
who teach that all wages should be
equal are those who cannot earn
much -those who are essentially lazy
mentally and physically. Of course,
they want to get as much as those
of greater ability and effort. it's a
sweet gospel in the eyes or ears at
tine lowgrade element; it is an un
welcome and a resisted teaching on
the part of those who attempt more
and who work with their might.
I hold the view that a man's wage
or salary should have some close re-
lation to the cost of his preparation
for his elect kind of work. Take the
Physician or the surgeon, for exam-
ple. His course of preparation re-
quired, probably, quite seven years
after he left high-sehool, and the
money cost, at say $700 a year,
would total in the neighborhood of
$6,000. " This cost of preparation
should be received from those sere -
with several tomahawks, a. skinning
knife, a number of copper heads, and
another peculiar crescent-shaped
copper ornament found among the
bones. These articles were what led;
the excavator to believe that he had
uncovered the bones of an Indian, be-
cause it was the custom of this race
to bury the personal belongings of
the dead in their grave, beside the
body. -Wharton Canadian -Echo.
COURAGEOUS TRIO OF WOMEN,
GIVEN FRIGHT
Three of the fair sex, members of
•
the Listowel Golf and Country Club,
took a walk to the golf course to
have a picnic supper in the club
house. It was the first time they ,had
walked over no one was there but
they three.
They were enjoying' themselves
and everything was going along
pleasantly but it was getting a little
darker. Presently one of the party
'thought she heard e noise and on
going to, the Window they saw a ,man
acting strangely and muttering to
himself.
The three marched out and were
not frightened of the big bad wolf.
They told, the man to get out or they
would call the police, . but the man
only muttered sounds and when he
staggered forward sent them into
the club` house to phone a brother of
one of the party as well as police.
After muoh excitement the man • in
question, in a swee feminine voice,
, t
asked for something to eat; and was
!identified as a sister of one ofthe
party;--,Li:skowel. Standard,
similarly, in the case of the dentist,
the lawyer, the preacher, the high-
school teacher, the architect, the
grand opera singer.
It can be granted that the supply
of doctors, dentists, lawyers, teach-
ers, architects, engineers isfar in
excess of the number economically
needed; yet it would never do at all
if the fees or wages or salaries of
these expensively -prepared men and
women should fall to the levels of
the earnings of those whose prepara-
tion for their individual vocations
called for no, or small investment of
either money or time. Thus, many,
classes of artisans or manual work-
ers began earning money the moment
they went into employment.
Commonly wages and salaries are
dehermined by the market price for
the particular kind of labour which
an employer is buying. Thus, there
is a market price -it local or com-
munity price for the labour of car-
penters, masons, bookkeepers, typ-
ists, teachers, preachers, teachers
of singing, labourers. This market
price is governed in part by the law
of supply and demand for the kind
of labour employed. But it is deter.
mined,, in addition, by the ,market
price for the finished product of
what the employer has to sell. Take
the case, far example, at a manufac-
turer of leadpencils. Leadpencils as
made in some Ontario city or town
have their price, to both the trade
and the public determined by compe-
tition -the competition of the mak-
ers of pencils of comparable quality
and size as made by rival makers, It
is conceivable that this competition
may become deadly -that leadpencils
have to be sold-lif they are to' be
sold at all - at uneconomic prices.
And so this price war would affect
the ability of pencil makers to pay
wages -to pay fair wages -, wages
which they would like to pay and
Which, from a humane point of view,
ought to be paid. A manufacturer's
ability to carry on -to give employ-
ment to workers -is related to his
ability to sell his product and to the
price which he obtains for his pro-
duct. Yet there are some who think
that the wages paid workers by
manufacturers are arbitrarily deter-
mined-by
eter-
mined by the manufacturer him.
self; and when the wages paid are
below what the worlcers think is just,
there is apt to be an outcry against
the manufacturer: he is likely to be.
called a thief and a robber, and an
exploiter of the helpless and the un-
protected.
Employers ought to earn more
than those whom they employ. Em-
ployers use capital -probably capital
of their own accumulation. This capi-
tal of their's is an employee, the
same as are human beings, and so
should be paid a proper wage. Thus,
too, the employer risks more than do
those whom he employs, and so he
has to get paid an amount every
year for risking his capital. Again,
he has to be very bold and venture-
some if he is to make his business a
success --this by selling his product
and keeping it sold, In short, the
employer performs a variety of lab-
ours not similarly performed by his
employees, and he has anxieties not
similarly possessed by his employees.
For all his superior investments of
money, genius, enterprise and ven-
turing, the employer is entitled to
larger wages than are those whom he
employs.
Quite recently I talked with a
manufacturer in a good -size town in
Ontario. He employed many per-
sons. Hus product wa'a said to Brit-
ish buyers. He was doing a trade of
half -a -million dollars a year, and was
making a very comfortable profit.
Then his 'British customers began
making the class of product which
this Ontario manufacturer had been
selling them, and rather swiftly this
Ontario manufacturer lost his cus-
tomers,' and therefore his business
became insolvent and he lost all his
savings.
What is in my' mind is this; em-
ployees should be very willing that
their employers should make enough
money to enable them to remain in
,business • and to provide continuous
employment for their workers. Yet
there are employees who seem tc' be
aggrieved when 'thley perceive that
their employers are prosperous,
The nsost I can hope for, in cele.
tion to this; contribution to The
News -Record is that it will cause
'some of my readers to give this sub-
ject of wages and prices more
thought -than it may have bad be.
fore. There are two sides to most
questions; and sometimes I think
that enuplyees do not look sufficient-
ly at the side of the employer.
TICKETS, PLEASE
Burly ticked 4o ketor: ''Tickets,
please."
Pompous 'business man: "My face
is my ticket"
,Collector (rolling up his slemvb) .
"My orders ere to punch ail tickets.'`
PAGE 3
[N THE SCOUT
WORLD
Friendship Captured These "Plage
Fallowing an international Boy
Scout camp fire at the Niagara Falls,
Ont,, Scout camp this summer. a
party of Connecticut Scouts took
home a Union Jack and the Canadian'
boys the Stars and Stripes,
Scouts To Be Keepers of. the Swans
Row swans spend .the winter in
Canada will, be discovered' by Moose
Jaw Boy Scouts, who asked for and
received from the parks boards the
task of looking after these regal,
favourites of the eity park's bird
Iife.
. The Kind Huck 1?lnn Would Have
Chosen
Bay Scout resoureefulne,ss turns
many strange structures into satis-
factorymeeting places. An ancient,
retired C. N.'12. box car, on a vacant
lot, has made an ideal home, accord -
Ing to the boys of the let North Re-
gina Troop. A fire place will make
it the coziest place in town, in the
winter.,
A Hurricane First Aid Test
A. miniature hurricane sweeping ov-
er the Ridgetown, Ontario, fair
grounds, unroofing buildings and lev-
elling race track bleaehers and con-
cession tents, brought the Boy Scouts
on fair duty an unexpected job. This
was the administering of first aid to
a considerable number of persons,
several of them injured seriously.
,Scouts Become Real Adventurers
Turning Boy Scout "adventure"
into the real thing, three Philade,-
phia Scouts, Nature Directors of a
large New Jersey permanent Scout
camp, are planning to explore un-
known areas of the 700 square mile
Okefenokee swamp, on the Georgia•
Florida .border. The boys will seek
specimens of rare fish and small
mammals for the Academy of Nat-
ural Sciences.
Leaders of Crippled Boys to Conten
The first conference of leaders of
physically and mentally handicapped
Wlolf Cub and Boy Scout units in
children's hospitals and sanitariums
cliesNnPsuor CU1L
iT'S FOOTBALL TIME
Enlargements of long distance shots will often bring out the "action"'
- detail of a football play '(left). A shot from the side lines (right).
HOLD that line! Hold that line!
. Yes, football season is with us
again with its excited, . yelling
crowds, raccoon coats and joyous
celebrations by supporters of the
winning team.
What a paradise for the snap -
shooter! Ile who goes to the game
without his camera is missing a
golden opportunity. Pictures of the
game, the crowds in the grandstands
and informal shots of his classmates
and friends will furnish him many
hours of pleasure year after year as
he looks back through his snapshot
album.
There are countless opportunities
for interesting, story -telling pictures
at football games. Ail you have to do
is use a little imagination. When
you are blocked in the traffic and
remark to the girl friend, "Gee, look
at that line-up of cars and the crowd
at the gate," don't stop with that-
take a snapshot. Don't be satisfied
with stepping out of the car and just
snapping a straight line of cars.
Stand on the bumper and shoot
down on the traffic and crowds. The
results will be much more pleasing:
than the ordinary, conventional.
view.
The period before the start of the
game offers further opportunities fore
unusual snapshots, For . instance,.
take a picture from the top of the:
grandstand steps showing the crowds
Coming up the steps to their seats.
A shutter speed of 1/50 of a second
will stop the motion of the people as
they walk directly toward your
camera,
Stand on your seat and take a full
view picture of the crowds in the•
grandstand and as you do this you
may see some of your friends seated.
nearby. Attract their attention and
as they wave with a cheery, "Hey,
Bill," you can snap another interest-
ing, story -telling picture. Even a
chance, "blind" shot over your shoul-
der may bring unusual and pleasing
results.
See today that your camera is
ready for action, load it with film
and leave for the game determined
to get the kind of pictures you will.
be proud to show your friends,
JOHN VAN GUILD10R;
will be held at Queen Mdry's Hospi-
tal, Carshalton, Surrey, in Novem-
ber. The remarkable 'success of
Scout training for handicapped boys
has caused a rapid development at
this branch of the Scout Miorrement,
notably throughout the British Em-
pire, •
SIGNING QFF SIGNS
Conductor -"Can't you see the sigre
IN Smoking?"
Sailor -`Sure, .mate, that's plain'
enough. But there are so many dippy
signs here. One says, 'Wlear Nemo
Corsets', So I ain't payin' attention:
to any ,of them."
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