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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1929-04-19, Page 6sag talsco?, 1J4j oq::Pt3tle 2e f 35 c V" ViOST men and VC- " mess need a tunic at alb season off the yesrs. Their noir bllood has been thinned, their vitality low- ered by the long winter. Dr. Whhuiamrns' Pink Pills definitely enrich tine blood and increase the body's ostygers supply. Mrs. Elizabeth (Clarke, IL LL No. fl, Hastings, Ont., nays : "II use Dr. Williams' Punk IPi l qn the Spring, when one naturally feels run-down after our long Winter. Last ts1¢m'ing I was feeling weak and easily tired, and again used the pills, with the result that II have had splendid health rmhs,e." An your druggist's or any dsmL r in medicine, or post- paid, by mail, at 50 cents a boss, from The Dr. Williams Medicine C o., Brockville, Ontario. 5-28 INV "A,9OU95HOLO WAS8 U4V 94 COUNT21a9•• IIRCEp'4J ,1, ArirMIMS ],acl)k rCe t A ] '1 usr ', su `ill Dr= -IP. 3Aw. Pr. Ernest Grantees adventure in- to newspaper 'publishing has entailed consequences which he probably did not expect and which are making his experiment in Portland of interest to editors and publishers everywhere. In shoat, Dr. Gruening has found him- self in a tough spot as proprietor of The Evening News of Portland, Maine, because sonde of the more im- portant advertisers in the city decline to contribute to his support. This, of course, is the privilege of adver- tisers everywhere, and a right they are especially prompt to exercise when a newspaper appears. Speak- ing generally, advertisers do not want new papers, because if they can cov- er a certain field by advertising in three or four papers, they are just so much more out of pocket if another paper appears and they are obliged to advertise in five or six. That is the reason why a new paper in a community already reasonably pro- vided with newspapers often finds it extremely difficult to get the large advertisers to use its columns. Of course. once it has become establish- ed and has its own important body of readers the advertisers are bound to succumb. But, by and large, they do not encourage the enterprise. Few Americans are better fitted by training and temperament to edit a liberal American newspaper than Dr. Gruening. He has had a long experi- ence as reporter, writer of special articles, foreign correspondent and editor for Massachusetts and New York papers. He is also an author, and generally a man of unusual cul- ture and public spirit. His political leanings are to be inferred from the fact that he was campaign manager for the late Senator LaFollette when he ran for the presidency in 1924. One would naturally expect that a man of his enterprise and broad- mindedness would create something of a stir in a rather placid New Eng- land city like Portland, with its ven- erable traditions and firmly establish- ed social rankings and usages. Port- land, in fact, would hardly seem to be the ideal city in which to estab- lish a daily newspaper whose views would be acceptable to such publica- tions as The Nation and The New Re- public. In short Gruening is progres- sive and the tone of Portland is de- cidedly conservative. Less than two years ago Dr. Gruen- ing began printing the News, and one of his first considerable efforts was to make an analysis of the profits and distribution of dividends of some local power companies, an analysis which was extremely disagreeable to them. He was also very active in advocating that these companies should be brought under more con- trol by the Maine public utilities com- mission. His paper strongly opposed the movement to permit electrical power to be exported across state lines, believing that if this were done the Maine users would be charged more for their electric current. The Samuel Insuli interests, which control most of the Maine power companies, was naturally offended at the course of the News, and it happens that the Insull company through its business affiliations is very influential in Port- land. Among Mr. Insull's friends and associates in Portland is Mr. Guy P. Gannett, owner of all the other Port- land papers, except that owned by Dr. Gruening. Any advertiser who takes space in Mr. Gannett's morning paper is required to take space also in his evening paper, an arrangement which hitherto has suited all concern- ed. But the large department stores have refused to patronize the liberal News, and Dr. Gruening complains that he is being boycotted because of his views on the power companies of the state, and particularly because of his hostility to Insull. He says fur- ther thatadvertisers who do not use the News are given preferred posi- tions in the Gannett papers, a charge which the Gannett papers do not de- ny. He alleges that a certain merch- ant who had been advertising with him found to his dismay that the Fidelity Trust Company had called his notes. Now Mr. Gannett is vice- presideat of this trust and Walter S. Wyman, Insull's representative in the state, is its president. Silas Bent, the well-known journalist, who has been looking into the case for the New Republic, reports that -the opin- ion of the man in the street in Port- land is that the News is being boy- cotted because of the views of its editor. All the business houses in- terviewed insisted that the refusal of advertising is strictly economic. The editor and publisher says it is "the ugliest situation we have noted on the newspaper man of the United States for a long time." Another curiosity is that the ad- vent of the News has not injured the circulation of the Gannett papers, which have, in fact, improved since the competition has arisen. Yet the News has a circulation of about fif- teen thousand, presumably made up of people who did not read a local newspaper before, or who have add- ed the News without dropping either the Press Herald od the Express. The Gannett policy is never to mention the News, no matter whether it is praised or denounced. So far as the Gannett papers are concerned there is no such paper as the News. But Mr. Bent noted a single exception to this rule. 'In a hotel in Augusta which Mr. Gannett controls, the Eve- ning News is barred from the lobby. The result is that people who want it go outside and wonder what it con- tains that Gannett does not want the world to know. .a The public may be an ass, but it is mot made up of asses.—Mr. Norman Angell. I have always regarded the film in- dustry as the greatest menace that has ever risen to literature, art and civilization.—Mr. Justice MacKiinon. Probably the most futile thing in the world is a radio listener sassing the broadcaster.—Arkansas Gazette. tinily:sit F'., F1 s '�`li1 k tom $h StoE lag ©Wig 717iud chip Caalllegher's Tonic erre Systema /: aah:Ederr All the goodness and hesling virtues off herbs, Nature's own medicine, are in this tonic. No minerahl drugs. Sets emery organ working 1420%. ]Brings 17=k the old joy of living. Good for the starves. Clears up skin troubles—even Eczema. Builds you up. Sold, as .sr Gallagher's Herbal Household Remedies are, by 2S 3. IL ISPeATINGe, �1tdC]1ll'®�L1fLl BABY CHIICtt (FOOD ]Peed your baby chicks with PRATTS BABY CHICK FOOD and prevent the scourge of White Diarrhoea. It not only oaven chicks' Bonn, but makes them strong and sturdy and is them to become heavy layers. Be sure you get PRATTS. Pratt iFopd Co. of Canada, Ltd., Toronto alt i c it cup , 2 car 434 collo minty Meer; 2 eggs; 2 tea - ono baking powder ftf.a -. _ ; I cu arc and arsine , ; >ed cup rialto fee ldttco von e lo atrestaloot amabed plata, �o r and TvoPto in n ate. IVE aye one Make your own ]hard or soft- soap by using waste fats and Opt costs less to maks soap than to busy ii FULL DORECTOGRIS V9U'r0.0 [EVERY GAM status of the wife of a vice-president has been long established and no question could arise concerning it any more than a similar question could arise about the ranking of the presi- dent's wife. Vice -President Curtis insists that as he has nominated her, she should take the same position as though she were his wife. This seems to be a common-sense view, but we gather that social usages, espec- ially in Washington, are not dictated solely by common-sense views. The result is a nasty squabble which has given Mr. Curtis more publicity than even the most infatuated vice-presi- dent could reasonably expect for his first term of office. At ordinary dinners, of course, the hostess can pay especial honor to any guest she chooses, old or young. If she so desires she can invite Aimee Semple MacPherson to meet Jackie Coogan. But in Washington this is impossible if representatives of for- eign nations, cabinet members, judg- es of the supreme court or army and navy officers are to be invited. Strict laws are laid down for such affairs, and an ambassador would feel that he was dishonoring his country if he were willing to accept a lower seat at table than that to which interna- tional etiquette entitled him. The question of seniority is as rigidly ob- served as it was in the world war when a lieutenant commissioned an hour before another lieutenant would insist that his superior rank should be recognized. Washington even had to determine whether the army or the navy was the senior service and decided in favor of the army, revers- ing the practice that obtains in Great Britain. The trouble began in Jefferson's ad- ministration. The president himself was indifferent to social distinctions and so far as he was concerned would have none of them. But he had to reckon with foreign opinion, and eventually, in order that European na- tions might not consider the Ameri- cans a race of barbarians a social code had to be framed. At one of the Jefferson dinners he took in to dinner Dolly Madison, wife? of his secretary of state, instead of Mrs. Merry, wife of the British minister, who was dean of the diplomatic corps. The British minister under- stood the act as an official insult and so reported to London. Such in- cidents happened so frequently that until an acceptable order of preced- ence had been drawn up the British ministers to the United States were chosen from among the bachelors. It was in the Monroe administration that the code was established. But it is as much subject to change as the public highways act of the On- tario legislature. There is never e season when a special ruling upon some point is not required. In one season when Roosevelt was president ten times the number of questions were asked of the state department as was usual. There have been times when the American state department has been busier with matters of so- cial precedence than with all other affairs entrusted to it. There have been rows between sen- ators and cabinet ministers, the for- mer claiming precedence on the ground that they have to approve the appointment of the latter. The dispute was finally decided in favor of the cabinet ministers. For many years the vice-president and the chief justice of the supreme court battled for recognition. The senior judge claimed pride of place, since his was a life appointment while the vice- president was only in office for four years. For many years Chief Jus- tice White would not accept an invi- tation if he knew the vice-president was to be present, for the custom of a baa tuq t(4, tlti vlaa- Ls?re&tdral t ere at oft honor. When tai wpeaak/41 house was in line for the vaeoidential succession he claimed .. nd place, and demanded rams above she secretary of state. In Roosevelt'?; administration this gt3es- tion beea?ee so awkward that people refused to invite the clamorous speaker anyrtriere. To save him from, starving to death, the president had to arrange epecial dippers for him. Orval Sbe continues to show en- ough initiative and ingenuity to have made hilar a,. most successful man had he chosen the better way.—Brantford Expositor. MUCIEI SPORTING SLANG A HUNDRED YEARS OLD That the present day sports section of the American newspaper, as well as much of the slang which sports writers have inserted into the langu- age, is due to an Irishman who flour- ished in London more than a hundred years ago, is the interesting discovery made by William Henry Nugent and confided to the readers of the Ameri- can Mercury. The fountain head was Pierce Egan's "Life in London and Sporting Guide," published in 1824, and a year earlier the same author had produced his "Francis Grose's Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, as Revised and Corrected by Pierce Egan." In the latter there occurs the definition, "The Fancy: One of the fancy is a sporting character that is either attached to _pigeons, dog -fight- ing, boxing, etc. Also any particular article universally admired for its beauty; or which the owners set par- ticular store by, is termed a fancy article, as a fancy clout, a favorite handkerchief, etc., also a woman who is the particular favorite of any man is termed his fancy woman, and vice versa." Commenting on this, Mr. Nu- gent says the term fancy was long a class name in England and America for boxing. Baseball borrowed it and shortened it to the fence, fans and fan. This derivation seems to us as far- fetched and improbable as another explanation that the word, as applied to baseball, came into use because of the habit of bleacherites using fans when the weather was particularly hot. The more reasonable explana- tion is that the word fan is an abbre- viation of fanatic. Ted Sullivan, the author of "Stories from the Diamond," claims to have been the author. This, too, we doubt, since it strikes us as being precicely that sort of word that would naturally develop and whose idea might well occur independently to thousands of people. The word fancy in its old sense remains in both England and the United States un- changed. We speak of fanciers of live stock, and we divide poultry, for instance, into fancy and utility breeds, the former denoting breeds that are produced for various fancy qualities which appeal to the particular fancies of those who breed them. We doubt if people in England speak of a cricket fan, the plain reason being that Eng- lishmen never were fanatical about cricket in the half -crazed sense that Americans go wild over the first nat- ional game they developed, which also turned into an extraordinary example of big business. Pierce Egan got his early know- ledge of London sporting life through the circumstance that he was a com- positor on the Weekly Despatch. He sought recreation on his days off at popular hangings, dog fights, cock fights and horse races. He used to write what he saw and modestly lay his stories on the editor's desk, until at length he was invited to join the staff, thus becoming, perhaps, the earliest all-round sporting reporter having a regular connection -with a newspaper. In a short time he start- ed his own journal which he ran for four years. Then he sold it and it was renamed "Bell's Life in London." Under this title it had a long, prosper- ous and honorable career. Before Egan's time the men who wrote the sporting events for newspapers while they were familiar enough with the cant and slang terms of the various debauching exercises which they re- corded did not think of using such language in their reports. They wrote about a prize fight in much the same terms that they might write about a parliamentary debate. It was Egan who first wrote and had printed the speech as he heard it a- mong his sporting and perhaps semi - criminal friends. Some of the slang which he chron- icled or coined has long since gone oat of fashion, and would be meaning- less or artificial to the modern ear. WASHINGTON SHAKEN BY POINT OF ETIQUETTE Official Washington is somewhat ex- cited over the social ranking of Mrs. Edward E. Gants, sister of Vice -Presi- dent Curtis. She has been nominated by her brother as his official hostess, and the question arises as to whether she shall take precedence at official dinners and similar functions to the wives of certain members of the diploiiiatic core'.- If Tigre. Gann had pp heened to 'b the wife and not the sister o1 the vice-president no prob- lem wank lave arisen. The social Etat a atirprarlr tutgly h1474 amn, ta=rs „,u' it survives, someof the words same sense that they werea wars used, and others with a nodi ?dor eetteaadec4 meaning. For eztamaplpa,here are sonle slang words that the sports of England a hundred years ago used in precisely the same sense that the sports of to -day use then: Kid, fake, stall, cut it, hike, crab, cheese it, and where do you get that stuff? A racket or rig was a particular kind of fraud or robbery. To cheat was to trim or sting. An honest man was a square cove, a flat, while a crook was a sharp. Even stephen was even money, and stephen was money. Pony wan another slang term for money, hence the expression pony up. Youkel, stiff, booby, squeaker and sucker had the same meaning a hundred years ago that they have to -day, and we even find cake or cakey used to de- scribe a foolish fellow, undoubtedly a fore -runner of our longer cake -eater. Lobster was a red -coat and a fish was a seaman. eosoe t VIX102,12RES E,CLEC ' " l MOST V E 4 C3�p" E POULCOLDS V L S SAM) PRO -IUP. SMALL1 ego These words have survived for they are more or less pungent, but such ungainly synonyms for head as know- ledge box and tea canister have van- ished while block has lived. We re- tain beak and bugle for nose, but have discarded snuffer tray, snorer and smeller. We no longer speak of a black eye as "a touch of the blue bag under the peeper" which reeks of the rap. Here is a specimen of the kind of reporting which appeared In Bell's Life in 1857, when Tom Sayers de- feated the Tit Tipton Slasher for the championship of England: "Sayers danced lightly cwt of harm's way, and then stepping in, popped a tidy smack on the spectacle beam and got away laughing. After dancing rouapd his man and easily avoiding several more lunges, Tom again got home on the snuffer tray, removing a piece of the japan and drawing a fresh supply the ruby. 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