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WHAT SHALL IT PROFIT
A MAN
11'believe that there are. three major
fa.axperiences 'for Hien, that only in the
enjoyment of all three can Rife be-
come full. One is love; one is the act
of doin'g'well, of achievement among
men; one is contemplation of forms
and the contemplation or memory of
acts. A man' whose life is occupied
with one of these to th,e exclusion of
the others, or with two to the exclu-
sion of one, is deprives( of a portion
•oi what is due hint, as a man. I .fired
myself in early maturity questioning
my way of living.
For ten years I have been a lawyer
al a large New Yorklawoffice. For
ten years 'I have had time for action,
1 have. stolen a little time for love, I
bave neglected contemplation. Now
[ look back upon the. last ten years
and try to meditate, 'What in retro-
spect tends to exalt and bring a glow
of permanent pleasure The fact that
i have °worked unceasingly and in-
dustriously -•-upon legal probl'ems for
• others does not stir me in the mem-
ery of it; that I have fought my way
from obscurity among lawyers in the
largest city of the United States'to a
place beside triose of growing reputa-
tion, is an achievement that pleases
and entitles me to a measure 'of
pride—but in reality it gives only a
mild satisfaction; and tI take but
pa1e delight in that I bave kept ab-
reast of my generation and college
classmates 'financially and `socially.
'Somehow there is a zest heating in
the contemplation of these deeds.
There are deeper; sensations 1 dctiow
T 'have loved and 'I have suffered
with a friend. 01 course there has
peen this daily joy—or pain—of work
sometimes jay, sometimes pain. As 'I
look beads- the pairs seem to 'balance
the joys in my trigntphs and failures
,*long tate way. Lf ,there had been one
mai effort to strangle an itljustice,
one trial to overcome wrong at some
personal sacrifice, a :trying attention
to :banish some error—baht I recall
..one.
)As to the exaltations which accom-
pany a sympathetic absorption in the
.:o rtctnpdation of 'artistic forams and
the beauties of nature—these tI know
nothing o:F, There has 'been no Mane
to watch the play of shadows and
tights on mountains alit!• seas, or to
live intimately 'with the great crea-
tions df 'men, with the masterpieces
of art and ,music. IA's to love; my ex-
periences in it will ,appear. as- I' de-
scribe my last ten years,
My a,ino, upon 'leaving law school
'vas to make myself' an excellent
•
lawyer and thereby take a prominent
place among the outstanding lawyers
df the country. The accomplishment
of this 'I knew would bring me a
good living and an opportunity to ac-
quire and envoy the many things
which seemed desirable: a home and
children, travel, a library, and poss-
ible friendships with the "aest" of
the land. There was no aim in my
mind except a vague: desire for fame,
although I hoped to be able to see
justice done when a chane presented
itself. Already at law se (Har -
Pard) impractical idealisn and en-
thusiasms had, succumbed die ri-
gorous exercises of "le the
law-." There, there was. 1 ng to
keep alive a dwindling determination
to expand fully and test o diversity
el aclaptabilities.
I descended from Caet ge to
New York to ,begin the ice of
the law well.prepared .to t the
conditions that greeted n I was
used to hard trental application for
extended periods atttl ren o give
all my energies and timet cork; I
was anxious to see in practice my
theories I had lived with for three
strenuous years and wilding to bot
shown how to apply -them; I wanted
to learn the "game"; and I carried in
my' heart a reverence for an ability
to accomplish practical ends and to
think clearly.
'The excitements, of the first year
remain vividly in my mind; how
tretttblitig in my anxiety to please I
presented myself before a senior
partner to be told to "search the
books" for decisions aiding the solu-
tions of actual legal problems; the
following days of search- in hundreds
of •volumes, now and then joyfully
finding .a case 'bearing directly upon
the points at issue; the preparation of
"memoranda of law to be read by
the partners and possibly used e
in its most strenuous development, in
the' 'solutions of tate most complicat-
ed pro'blenfs of a- complex legal. sys-
tem,or upon ,the equally knotty in-
tricacies which keep in smooth run-
ning order the financial structure ..of
the country. I observed how, keenly
trained some of then were. It seem-
ed that every obscure legal principle'
which 1 had located in the dicta of
judges had been considered before I
brought it to their attention. -
Al-
though the older amen were seldom
seen in the library where :I spent my
entire days and many, many even-
ingsuntil twelve or one o'clock, it
was infrequently that I discovered a
line of cases or a` principle which 'had
not been thought of.
Their skilfulness was itnpressed ep-
on me in a hundred other ways: in
drafting legal papers phrases full of
meaning and closely packed thought.
seemed to spring spontaneously ,and
endlessly from 'a bottomless well of
knowledge; every possible legal and
'busioess contingency was thought
out; letters were masterpieces of
sound advice and legal acumen; a
steady stream of excellent judgments
'Rowed for eight or nine or ten or
more hours every day of the year.
To acquire the knowledge and skill
necessary to 'become as proficient as
my superiors=this seemed to ins an
entirely' laudable and worthy ambi-
tion, To ^become one who wastes no
seconds ea a business day, whose
mind thinks clearly all day, •every
day, and ,who is able to form goad'
judgments speedily, to become one sof
these experts of mental discipline-
that was my immediate task and I
threw myself into it with youthful
determination.
It was three years before 'I thought
of myself; of anything except ,the of-
fice. For three years ,1` gave myself
without stint to each day's "job", no
matter how small or insignificant it
appeared to be. 'That'.was the way
the older men had won ihheir places.
4t began to prove a fascinating occu-
pation—this getting things done.
Days and trays were full of life in the
mere doing of tasks, sofbeing able ,to
do things that others wanted done,
and of doing ,them well, (This can
.become almost a disease—this satis-
faction in activity for its own sake.)
Soon I was no longer only 'looking
up the law and placing legal dicta
before my "plasters," I was assigned
to a department which happened to
need help at that particular time, the
corporation department, where lI be-
gan, under the tutelage of an older
clerk, to write letters and draft mort-
gages. 'bonds and other papers. Ev-
erything was done with meticulous
care, every letter was re -read by a
partner, every` legal agreement was
gone over by an older Baan. The
watchword was: The best men are
made in tale hardest schools,
I had wanted •a groove or rut, a
safe place. That I was finding it be-
gan to be certain. I had started
working in the sitnitner and had
pushed any energy and mind to the
limit of capacity all through the first
winter and summer, the next winter
and summer and the third winter.
Consistent night work T had done
uncomplainingly. My seniors had
done that too in the earlier years—
all of thele. Vacations 'I was willing-
to
illingto give up, for by such willingness 1
thought' I would step ahead of my
colleagues. And I did! By, the third
spring I had chiselled a little niche
for tnyself—and I was tired. I com-
ntencedto seek diversion, eve.
though I felt it to be stolen from
some forbidden, store of sin, \fy de-
sired ends were so definite that play
along the way -I looked uponas
wasteful.
Now gin anct, whisky to ease the
May evenings—cigarettes an hourly' was willing to accept . as pantners
habit of the day. Then there came a of my background and abilities,
summer dance—a red dress—another provided they woriced steadily en -
summer dance. "We" planted' an au-
tumn. vacation. -
I remember the day before our
marriage .with peculiar vividness; a
particularly .busy day at the •office
and an unusually hot one. Instead of
lunch T bought the wedding ring.. At
two o'clock a corporation for whom
I had been acting as secretary decid-
ed to have a board of directors' meet -
hog at four thiry an important meet-
ing _to argue out differences among-
the members. I Was called on the
telephone and asked to be there
without 'fail. 11 sought our office utan
ager, explained my desire to be, ex-
cused from the meeting owing to a
large dinner party preceding may liar•
uagc and pointed out that some one
else from the office coauld attend the
meeting as well as I. "No," he said.
"I -want you to go you are the only
one in• the office who can do it pro-
perly (he said this because o.f, my in-
tttnate, familiarity with the past ole
cessions Of that board 'of directors);
I want an uninterrupted service given
Empire Trux, iInc., the nteetiiig wily
pro'habiy he over in time for you 1
go to the dinner party."
1 recall my emotions of that alter -
!mon dis•tinctly. I went to the meet-
ing at .which I had to be in posses•
sion of nimbleness of wit and clarity
of niitrd, I ,wrote the corporation's
minutes of that meeting as well as 1.
could have written them under any
e
hoof
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drawing...-up,of at brie[, or in foaming
a course of action for "a mammoth
and famous corporation. For many
months the awe and reverence of a
neophyte kept my mind taut and my
spirit active. An occasioual'conversa-
tion with an older lawyer in the of -
lice aroused my wonder:and acbmira-
tlon at the 'possibilities of the analyt-
ical power of the human mind- And I.
respected the close attention to' work
and the earnestness with which nay
'superiors dedicated their lives alto the
affairs of their clients. '
an the :first enthusiasm of these ob-
servations I labelled the hard work:
"high endeavor;" /Here were -Wrest en-
gaged through tireless Clays, growing
into months and years, in exerting
•the highest human faculty, the mind
circumstances. Yelthe three hours•!fice gossip at Lunch and in the even
closeted with that board stand out I ings, I 'studied how to .please the
as one of the few emotionally intense! powerful partners; I studied their.
c'ircu stetnces. Yet the 3 hours dos! habits, their whims, how to ,converse
eted with that board stand out as with them: I never let an opportun-
one of the few' emotionally intense ity go by to bring myself by subtle
experiences of fhe past ten years. -.tl and :delicate means to the attention
wild tumult and goawing surged up of a partner or of an important client.
a ltd clown my thorax—a sensation so This care cost me week -ends, even,
violent that I distrusted it, called it nags, Sundays—but my . work must
Fear, tried to banish it, determined to be excellent as well as abundant. And
live it down, ,At eight o'clock that it Was, I pleased the partners, I
night T began dictating- the minutes- pleased the clients, '
of the three-hour stormy session, my !Alia I won a partnership!
wedding exactly thirteen hours away, I .had learned to conserve time, I
At nine forty -lave I was 00 my way had acduired some oaf the wizardy
uptown in a subway. 1 had left a that so colored any first impression
clear slate at the office; I. could sec of a busy late office.
no possibility of criticism during my Now I am well established and the
absence, our honeymoon: We were work goes on and on.
married at nine o'clock the following There are always some evenings
morning at (Trinity Church at the speipt at home, But whether at 'ionic
ienction of Wald street and Broad or at a friend's, they are very much
way, within eight 01 my office. alike. They begin about set en.fi(teen•
Our wedding trip Well, 'I discov- We used to max the cocktails our-
ered that love was a matter that selves. Lately we have trained a maid
could not be solved in four and one. to,do so. Slue brings into the living -
half weeks, .and 'blindly turning from room a tray on which is a large
it looked upon my career as of far shaker cotvtainiatg a half -quart of
more inportance than lave. We re- codktails and four or six glasses, 'de
turned to ,N'ew York. II sax anxious peudin:g on- our num'ber, and same
to be relieved by the narcotic effect canape ,of anchovies, sardines, olives,
of the office rocitine from the per- crackers. The host then gives a final
pleating 'questions arising in the ad- motion to the gin mixture while
justments to married life, and 1 ner- those present watch him and make
vously' wanted to continue my path facetious remarks about the way he
to success in exactly the manner I does in or about the size of •the shalt -
had begun it. I plunged into work or, -or about the 'baseball scores or
harder than ever, leaving entirely un- the Irish sweepstakes. 'O'cca'sionally
solved a !hundred complexities. The some one tells a good story or 'brings
solutions that have come since have international topics into the discus -
been worked out tby my wife; our sion,
home now rains a's smoothly and ev- At this moment of the day 'I nearly
enly as .the office. Love seems to be always feel fatigued and hopelessly
adljustable, like golf and bridge. inadequate; my humor seems' 'feeble
Now months of world Through and strained, and Il,find it best usual -
illnesses of my wife; through weelcs ly to retire behind an inscru'ta'ble sil-
ent' days preceding the birth of ottr ecce' and a half -worried face. There
child, even on the day of that birth; is. no resiliency: •Zf !I am started upon
through my periods of physical de- any discussion my 'mind will 'fuooc-
bility; despite everything and every w0v(ll reeatl :fao'ts learned,
one'I tn'ent to any office at nine -thirty Frobioltm neell;wspaperIs call a few maga-
each meaning and worked at the piles tines and from the far past and I
of papers and problems that came to will 'co'nie.at length to a reason'a'ble!
the thnougli the channels of efficiently answer. I will prolb'ably see all sides
specialized office routine. '.And 'I of a disputed matter and gladly ag-I
scarcely noticed what was happening ree with any one or disagree with
to me. Weeks passed, months passed, any one and remain entirely reason
-
the steady stream of duties never les- able. At times, to bear my share of
sened. They never lessened because T respo esabil•ities, 'I •w -n,' begin aasub-
was
was greedy For work, greedy to train lett myself. Il have had enthusiasms
myself to be able to 'do . more than but lately I have looked upon 'thenal
those around ane; knowing that only with an ,ever -declining intensity. tI
in that way could I hope to outdis- buy a. few first editions, a 'few etch-
tante them. "If I can just get through ings. I used to talk a good deal about
the first ten years," I thought, "all the Elizabethan age. But what' do ^I
will be accointplisited." There was . a really 'know or care of it? I used to
secret joy within as various younger carry books tinder 013 ; arm for sub -
men of the 'office from time to time ways, For half-hours at noon time, I
told me of their intentions to leave, used to set myself to definite hotel -
One by one those ahead el me were loathe] tasks at home—of reading or
eliminating themselves from a part- waiting.. Some evening S would .find
nership. One resigned to go to a two hors to'refres'h old )iteanories of
smaller city where he thought he poetry and +history; then it would be
might be able to dive "!pore fully" as nine days later before' office duties;
he expressed it; one accepted an of. racial duties and extreme fatigue
far of another law 'firm in tNew York would allow me another hour, What
City with an increased salary; aaolh_ do I really 'clow or care about the
er became a' broker; another a bank- Elizabethan Age?
er, hoping that . monetary rewards 'I sometimes dream; for I some-
might be higher for a similar expen- times read a paean or visit an art
diture of effort; another left in dis- gallery. I am moved by the tapestry
gust at tite brutal facts of city cont. of autumn colors when 11 drive rapid -
petition, seeking salvation of soul in ly to Canada in. October; . when I
the country; it became evident that play golf ie Pennsylvania I am stirr-
another would never be made a past- ed by the vividness of green' grass
ncr because of habits ■f thought and and the beauty of wild Rowers. ,.But
of 'life 'which interfered with duanti- tonight as I write this 'I feel as eF
tative results -3: marched on and on: fete as Europe. I will go on like nay
At times it was hard,very hard, mind, turning out 'excellent legal
Malty and many a morning I wanted work, gathering legal reputation,
to lie in bed; often I wanted to come gathering wealth, gathering efficien-
home early and read, or—do nothing, cy, S will train young nen to 'be-
0fany. long week -ends in the country come as S am. 0 am now negotiating
my, wife and 'I dreamed of and talk- the purchase of a' country house anti
ed of and gave up. ten acres of land in Connecticut; I
lin' one sense life was incomparably feel of some Importance by reason of
simple, I .had 'fixed an attainable goal the mere size of my growing' bank
—a partnership in an office which account.
lPerhaps—perhaps tI shall wear off
my exhaustion. Perhaps I shall once
again see the earth as a bright jewel-
led boat and go out under the heav-
ens and cry to the stars:
"Travellers in beauty, haill. from
boon Earth!"
And 'hear %the reply:
"Hail! travellers in beauty, hail!
hail; ,hail."
ough and jealously demanded the re-
cognition due them as careful and in•
dttstrioes lawyers. And it was not
difficult to see the way to gain ree-
ogni•tion: I saw that I must have
first—ael f-aasnranee, which can on-
ly be acquired in the legitimate sense
by an inner realization of ability and
power, By ability I mean an ,ability
to do well a large amount of work:
by power I mean the power to int-
-press others with this ability. 1
found that power follows. ability
when that ability is coni'bined with
rapid and intense adtivity, for in the
sweat, hustle and flurry of excessive
industry there is no 'tithe for nor'ten
dency toward modesty or hesitation
I 'learned to do a few things well; 1
learned to clo-theist so well that 1
was called upon to d•o them whenev.
er an occasion to leave such matters
dome ,arose in tthe office. I did them
readily and s•peeclily and authorita-
tively. Out of this ability grew a
small ani:otttat of power. 'And as my
abilities and power ittcr'eased . 1
grasped at 'tate edges of partnership
and began to 'trem'ble with joyous
anticipation.
Now there came an almost com-
plate absorption in the office, To
learn to do well, to keep learning,
and doing—this required a close-
ansl closer attention and a more de-
'felte exclusion of all other interests
I read alt the office mail, I talked of
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by
.manipulation—Sun-ray treat-
ment
Phone Z37,
The proper depth 'of seeding has
been influenced .quite cosiderably by
the ahuount of moisture present, In
an extremely dry season most crops
will germ.itoate more satisfactorily if
planted deeper than in a 'normal- sea-
son clue to the greater amount of
'moisture at the lower depth: Tate op-
posite is true in .a very: wet season
+when very shallow seeding produces
'better result, The 'above 'figures are
'based on a normal •season and rep-
resent 'conditions in alt average sea-
son in !Eastern 'Canada,
Catnpaigning in tihe state of his -
opponent, Mr. Taft load difficulty in
speaking because of interruptions and
constant' 'heckling 'frons .the gallery,
IFinally 'a cabbage was thrown 041
the stage and .rolled rout near where'
Mr. Taft stood. He looked'' at the
vegetable' intently and then said to
the audience:
ILad'ies and gentlemen, I see that
one of my adversaries an -lost his,
Here` and There
HOW DEEP SHOULD VARI-
OUS CROPS .BE SEEDED ?
,(Experimental Farms IN't'n),
Wheat, oatsand barley shoulcl be
seeded at a depth of about two
inches. IBuckw.heat gives' better re-
sults at one melt. 'Peas and vetches
do well at two inches, corn at one to
two inches and suntlo'w•ers at two
inches. Potatoes should be planted
deeper and do best 'between two and
fear inches. The smaller seeds such
as grasses and clovers must be plant-
ed shallow and give best results at
,about one-haif inche deep.
1These figures are presented, based
on the results of experittten'ts con-
ducted for the past fours by the '1 ield
'Husbandry ID'ivisioit at the Central
'Exipenianental ;Farm, !Ottawa. In this
experiment titddteen different crops
have been used. Wheat, oats, barley.
'bu'ckwheat, peas, vetches, sunflowers
and corn have been seeded at depths
of one, two, three, four. .five and six.
indhes. 'Timothy, alsidce, red clover
and alfalfa were seeded one,;(w-o and
three inches deep and potatoes at,
tub, four six and eight inch 'depths.
The British Columbia Chapter
of the I. O. D. D. held its "corn-
ing of age" meeting at the Eau -
press Hotel, Victoria, recently, at
Its twenty-first annual convention.
Premier Patullo welcomed dele-
gates from all over the province,
and many distinguished" guests
were present.
The annual reduction in cost
of summer railway travel under
the heading of low summer fares,
will be put into effect by the
Canadian. Pacific Railway on May
15th next, according to official
announcement. The reduced fares
will have extensive limits and
stopovers.
Port Hope, on the south bank
of the Fraser River, ninety miles
from Vancouver by the Canadian
Pacific, is a place where the
Almighty has most lavishly set
down in a land of wonderful •
beauty rivers and lakes abounding
in game. fish, writes B. Stone
Kennedy, editor of Western Fish-
eries.
Dr. Frank N. D. Buchman, lead-
er' of the Oxford Group move-
ment, is expected to launch an- .
other campaign in western Can-
ada this Spring, commencing at
Winnipeg May 1, taking in Re-
gina, Saskatoon, Calgary, Edmon-
ton, Vancouver and Victoria, and
culminating with a selective
"h o u s e party" at the Banff
Springs Ilotel early in June,
The success of low cost all -ex-
pense tours in the CanadianRook-
ies instituted by Canadian Pacific
Railway last summer has prompt-
ed the company to repeat these
four, five and six-day trips dur-
ing the coming summer. Hach
trip affords 126 miles, of motor-
ing, and can be made either east-
bound from Field, B,C., or west-
bound from Banff, Alberta, at
the convenience of passengers.
A. C. Leighton, R.B.A., presi-
dent of the government art col-
lege at Calgary, who will again
this summer hold his summer art
school for selected students from
the Province of Alberta at the
Ka.nanaskis Dude Ranch, near
Banff,has picked a location sur-
rounded by the most magnificent
of Rocky Mountain scenery.
The skunk ,is not the lying of
the woods, said George Conan,
naturalist, addressing the Ktwunis
Club at the Royal Yorlt Flotel re-
cently. "Hold him up by his •
tail," said Mr. Corson, "and he
will become innocuous." 110
didn't tell the Ktwanis it he had
actually accomplished this feat.
Toronto got its full measure of.
music -makers lately when the .
most famous bandmasters of the..
continentassembled at the Royal.
York Hotel tortheirannual con-
vention. Captain Charles O'Neill
was the president and they came
from all parts of the United States
and Canada.