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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1938-03-31, Page 3THURSDAY, 'MARCH. 31, 1938 Seeing Pictures "Portrait of a Young Lady," by the :Scottish painter, Allan !Ramsay, pro- vides Graham McInnes with a de- ligthtfu•1 sulbject ,for his next CBC n'a- ti'onal network 'balk in the series "See- ing Picture$." 'M:r. MoI!nnes will be heard from Toronto. Tuesday, April 5, 4:45 to 5 p.m., EST and on that dote 'will describe this attractive por- trait painted: in 11171418 and another, "Landscape with Waggon," 'hy the English landscape painter, Richard Parks Bonington. who was born just six years after Ramsay's death. Both. canvasses are owned in 'Canada. Ram - Say's portrait, which is very 'beauti- ful with its 000l tonalities and silvery grey background, hangs in the Van- couver Art 'Gallery. Bonington's land- scape, which hangs in the National Gallery of Canada, at Ottawa, is characteristic of the 'brilliant work achieved by this gifted young ,artist. He died in -his twenty-eighth year and yet won a place 'among the half dozen immortal's in the history of English painting. In fact, the .great Renoir said of him that he was the only Eng- lish painter for whom he cared a whit, 'only Renoir expressed 'himself in less elegant language in paying the tribute, Third "Dancing Strings" Programme At Time on Friday 'Dancing Strings," violin and piano ensemble under the direction of 'Sam- uel H'ersenhoren, 'with Allan Wilson, tenor, as soloist, will be (heard Friday. 'April 0, 'between '6:d0 and 7 p, m. EST, in the third programnme at this new time. The strings will open the pro- gramme with the well-known "Hejre Kati," by the Hungarian , composer IJ•enoe Hubay. The second ,election 'by the string group will be Leo De- libes' "Passepied," from She incident- al music to "Le Rol s'•Amuuse," writ- ten in '1442. The court balls , of that time always opened with the 'Passe - pied, The use which Delibes made of this for the opening of the 'ball in Victor Hugo''s drama is therefore quite appropriate. IFranr, S'hu'bert's "Serenade" will follow. The group whioh opens the second hall of the produotion consists of a waltz from Gounod's opera "Faust," and the beautiful Scotch legendary song, "Loch Lomond," in string arrange- ment by Russ 'Gerow of the CBC's Toronto staff. The closing vgronp con- sists of Ru'binstein's familiar "Rom- ance" and the "Dance of the Jacks" by the Viennese pianist -,composer, !Edward Poldini, Three popular songs will 'be rend- 4ered by Allan Wilson, the tenor solo- ist: "The World •is Waiting for the Sunrise," by Seitz; O'iHara's "Give a Man a Horse He Can Ride," and "Your Eyes (Have. Told Me So." the popular 'song by the NBC staff conductor in Chicago,, Walter Bleu - fuss. Beavers On Diet The idea of the Canadian beaver counting 'his •cal'lories is •a little un- usual and would hardly occur to the staunchest devotee of a 'balan'ced diet. But the beaver and all the other in- teresting members of the an'inaal king- dom who make their 'hones in Can- ada, or in any other pant of the world, for that m'a'tter, proceed] very much as the human race does in an enlight- ened civilization when it coarses to the daily menu, Professor A. F. Coventry will explain how this ,branch of ani- mal economics works out, ,how 'food in .ab•und'ance and variety is scoured from the streams, the forest and the soil; how jaded palates are 'enlivened and how 'supply keeps pace with de- mand, when he presents his next talk on ',Conservation" to the national network audience of the CDC. This discussion, continuing the series on the 'balance in nature, will 'be ,heard Wednesday, April 6, 71415 to 8 p.m. Corporation Features Day by Day (All Times (Eastern Standard) Thursday, March 311: 5130 p, m. Alice in Wonder=land dramatized serial Of Lewis 'Carroll's story. 'Produced 'by 'C'hristopher 'Ellis, with Junior 'League cast. From Mon- treal. Friday, April 111: 6:30 •p,m. Golden 'Jrou'rneyseedirec- tion Roland Todd; organ and piano duo with (Jean Haig, :soprano, From Toronto. 8:130 p.m. 'Topic of the 'Day—conn, mentary on current event's is 'Great Britain, Rebroadcast of BBC 'Empire Transmission. CBC - MBS interna- tional ex'chan'ge 'programme. From Ottawa. Saturday, April 2: 7 p.m. Saturday 1N'ight Swing Club —CBS -CBC international exchange programme. From New York. '8 p. rn, Let's All Go to the Music Nall—direction George Young, with orchestra, dramatic cast and soloists. From 'Toronto. 1116310 pen. !NBC Symphony .Orth- estra—guest conductor, I.A'rthtu- Rod- zinski, NB'C-'CB'C international ex- cht'ngc programme. 'From New isork,, Sunday, April 3: 2 mill:Romance Romance iof Sacred Song'— dramatic interpretations of famous hymns and their origins, written 'hey Eetelle Fox. From Vancouver. 3 p. m. New York ,Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra. John Barbir- nlli, conductor. CBS -40110 interna- tional exchange programme. 'From New York. Monday. April 4: 10113.0 p.na. Sport in Canada—talk by Stuart Boa on shoaling in Canada, From Montreal. Tuesday, April 5: 1110 p.m, "Front the Heart of Em- pire,"—commentary by Beverley Bax- ter. 'From London. Wednesday, April 6: 7:1'5 pan, Major Bill—chidren's pro- gramme. From Montreal. THE SEAFORTH NEWS R. E. JACKSON TOOK ACTIVE PART IN ATHLETICS 'Robert E: (Bob) 'Jackson, .who starred for Seaforth lacrosse and football' teams 'bask before the turn elf the 'centtrry, can remeneber the time when athletes who held out their hand for money were ostracized, They were looked upon ss virtual outcasts. "In those days we played the game for the love of .i't and not for money," Mr. Jackson. recalled, "and 1 dare say fellows put more into sport then than they do today. The fact none of us got any motley did not stop sus from patting everything we had ipto the game and we always played to win. I never 'knew 'of a lacrosse nor a football game 'being :fined." Mr. Jackson 'began playing lacrosse and 'football when he was 114 ancl' al- thongla he modestly claims he was never very good at either, he does confess that he could make it "darned inconvenient for those who were." He played his 'first organized lacrosse and football in 1886, when he was 1115 years of age, and his active sports career continued until he collapsed' on the field 'during a lacrosse game at Clinton: one day. Carried off the field he 'never again played a ?game of la- crosse or ,foo'tiball. (Over-exertion :had told on hint; the 'doctor warned hint what would happen if 'he continued', and he tests quite ready to listen to the medico, says the Stratford Bea- con -Herald. The :game that 'stands out in Mr. Jackson's memory above . all others was the one in which the olcl Sea forth Beavers defeated Toronto Te- onnise'hs'for the senior lacrosse cham- pionship of the 'province. "What brings it hack to nae to well," he related, "is that it was ,play- ed on Dominion Day in 1596. 'I1'hap- pened to be on a 'Monday and was scheduled to be played in the after- noon, but as +there were horse races slated 'for the same afternoon we ,got in touch with the Tecutnsehs and asked them to play in the morning. It meant they had to come here Sector - day night and stay over Sunday, but they were quite agreeable when we guaranteed them the extra expenses that would he incurred. Perhaps not nanny people knew it at the time, hut the Tecuntsehs 'were well •entertained over the .week -end and some of them may not have been in the 'hest condi- tion when 'game time arrived on Monday morning, 1Deapite that it was a close, hard !game and I think we beat them out by abort one goal. 'That sahie 'season wtwe Went to St. Catharines nod in those days 'the game was over as soon as one team scored four :goals. It meant the game now of Goderich; the late Dr, Charles ,Campbell the late Tom Stevens; the late Bdb McDonald the late Jack Strath; Bill Briariey, now of Cale- donia; H. M. !Jackson, now of Toron- to; [jack "Cotton" Bell, also of To- ronto; Bob 'Jackson, of Seaforth; Fired Beattie, of Toronto; 'Jimmy Dick of 'Seaforth; the late W. Mc- Deugaal;. and 'Peal !Freeman of To- ronto. "We used to have some great la- crosse :games with Stratford Inter- mediates that were always nip and tuck affairs," 3vfr. Jackson related'. "'We played against such fellows as Jint llcFadgen, M•cCutcheon and Bvs'hfield, IJi'm McFadgen was always my chock in those games and we used to go at it 'hammer and tong. Almost anything went and if we could jump on one another's toes we never pass- ed up the chance. Off the field, though .Dian. M'dFadgen and I were "earl fast friends and we remained' so for years." hIr. ef'aokson, who is a former dir- ector and 'viceepresident of the Cana- dian Lacrosse Association, helieves that lacrosse was the !best ',game ever played and if played properly was not too rough. He thinks it required more skill, too, than any other sport, but continued roughness 'finally killed it; 'One of Mr. !Jackson's teamt mates on the old Seaforth Huron's football team was 'ju'dige'James L. Killoran ,of Stratford; 'Jima Killoran played right forward for the 'Hurons for some years and. he was a member on the team that won the Western 'Ontario champion- ship in 111890," 14r. 'Jackson said, "He and the late IGconge Dewar played the nicest combination of any pair of eight forwards that I ever saw. The members Of the old Hurons et that time were the cleanest ,bunch of 'boys I ever 'knew." IOt'her mem'b'ers of the champion- slai'p Herons of 1890 included W. Mc- Donald, right back; 'J. ;1, 'Clennan, goal; W. Willis, left back; J. Living- stone, right 'half back; Bob Jackson, left half back; 'George Dewar, captain and right forward; 13. B. Henderson, centre forward; 'J'. Smith, 'left for- ward; and 14. J. Crawford, left far - ward. The president of the club in 1090 was W. W. 'Meredith and 'G, R. Anderson was vice-president. Mr. Jackson was born in Egnaond- eille on April 48, 118619, and next trends will celebrate his 69th birth- day. His lather, the late George E. Jackson, for many years ran the w'ool p•ullery and a general store in iF,;q- nlon ville, Bob was the second eldest .of a fancily of six boys and one girl. Those still living are' George A. ffi elc- son of Egnonclvilie, •naw an a Sant'h Amerieen oruise; 01. 31 'Tackson of might not lash any longer than five 'Toronto; Judge tlolua A. Jackson, of minutes if a team pumped in the •Lethbridge; T. T. Jackson, of E.g- naondville; and Miss 'Margaret J'ack- son, of tE.gnondville, who is spending trite winter in California, One 'brother, F. C. Jackson, of Montreal, died about five years ago. ,Bob Jackson got his .schooling in the 'Rgmond'ville Public School under the principalship of the late Richard Hicks, but he liked school as well as he liked castor oil. And lie hated cas- tor ail. Billy Hill, o'E Seaforth, is the only one still around Here now, he thinks, who went to school with hint goals fast enough. Well, whatever happened to the Beavers that day I don't know, but St. Catharines trim- med us •4.10 within half an hour. I don't think we !to'nohed the !ball haat a dozen tithes during the game. It was just an off day, and yet this same team licked Toronto Tectunsehs For the championship later in the season. Toronto in turn had defeated St. Ca- tharines." Members of the .championship Bea - vera that year included the late Pat Mulcahy; William "Crow" Blackford in 'Egmondvalle. Counter hee o ks • We Are Selling Quality Books Books are Well Made, Carbon is Clean and Copies Readily. All styles, Carbon Leaf and Black Back, Prices as Low as You Can Get Anywhere. Get our Quotation on Your Next Order. • The Seaforth News SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, When he passed his entrance at the age of 14 Mr. Jackson had bad en- ough of school, and he went to ,his father and advised him to that effect, although not in such a few words. "Very well," said 'the elder Jadkso "if you won't go to 'school you wi go to work, then." That suited Mr, Jackson fine. He had already been down to Mitchell and had arranged to start as an ap- prentice in a machine shop there. But his father promptly .put his Soot down on that idea. "You're too young to leave home for the present," he said. "You'll go to work in the sullery." ' And so Bob Jackson started to work in his 'lather's wool pullery. 11T'he man who managed the pull- ery for my father didn't like me," Mr. Jackson volunteered, "and my dad had instructed him to make things so unpleasant far me I would soon be glad to go !back to school. He certain- ly did his best to carry oast my fa- ther's orders. There were lots of nas- ty, dirty jobs to be done in the pull- ery and he 'saw to it that 1 had most of then to do, .but there was nothing too bad to do that would make me go back to school. '"Eventually the manager left and although I was still a young fellow in trey teens my father puff me in Change of the plaice. There were about a dozen working in the 'pullery at the time. The peculiar thing about the peliery 'business wars that we bought sheep skins by the piece •instead of 'by the pound or by the yard. You had to have ,a pretty good idea of a skin and be able to estimate the amount of wool you oould get from each of then, I was on the road a great deal of the time and 'did my buying from butchers and dealers in London, Stratford and a lot of other places. Sosns sof those fellows didn't hesitate to put it over a boy 1116 years old, but I. managed 4o get aloing. Eventually I was able to estimate within 50 Pounds how much wool we could get from a thousand skins," In 31895, at the age of 216, Mr. Jack- son left Seaforth and obtained a job as foreman in a wool pnlIery at Grand Rapids, Mich. He remained there for 'five years and then went to Regina as a ,buyer for the C. S. Hy- man Company of London. He moved later to.Calgary and far twenty years covered Western Canada, front Win- nipe., to 'Vancouver, for the 'Hyman company. Returning to Seaforth in 1912a he was associated as a buyer with his brother, H. 11, 'Jackson, a Toronto hide broker, batt in 1922 he retired, llr, Jackson is a :past master of Britannia 1lason lc Lodge of Seaforth, and is a member of Malloch Chapter, Royal Arch ala mts, He is a member of St. Thomas' Church and belong. to the Seaforth Lions' C'hth, Mr. 'Jackson was married on March 38, 119114, to 11 ise Marian Catharine Campbell, daughter of the late 3lr. and Mrs. Alexander 'Campbell of Sea - forth, n,' .11 MOTOR VEHICLE MARKERS (Continued from Page Two) 141611 to 313'L09 341L11 to 'SOLIS]) 5i2L.d'1 to 661LIB0 661:511 to &U99 83LI11 to 669L9 6711rJ1 to 8691:9 ..... 870Ld to 999L9 ,1111 to 411730 4M.7411 to 46M99 47314 to 11641199 1661111 to 1991.10 6801111 to 999149 I1NI to 71NI100 7N'101 to 25N99 39N11. to 4BN199 4;